Belief@HazelCafe

Hmm.. I guess, it's quite sianz when you send out messages in Friendster, and they never got replied to.

So what to do? Don't ever use Friendster as a messaging medium. You never know if your message is actually been taken seriously. Actually, it is the same for all other messaging methods.

It is better to talk face to face. Talking face to face will allow you to actually look at the person, talk in different tones, listen in different ways, and observe verbally and non-verbally. That will actually enables you to know roughly what kind of person the other party is.

So, therefore, start talking!!!! Wahahaha!!

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Went to school for a discussion with sup. After the discussion, while I was walking towards the direction of the ECE office, I saw Prof Lee talking to someone whom I have seen before somewhere (I don't know who's that, but he looked really familiar). And then, Prof Lee saw me, and he went "LIANG KWANG!!! HOW ARE U!?!"

Yeah… he got a good memory, I must say. Lol…

Met emmanuel at the PC cluster, and we went for lunch together at the engin canteen. Yummy ginseng chicken again.. Heh..

Stoned in audi with jh for a while, trying to teach her a bit on vc++. Went for a short HR discussion at Olive Cove at around 12.30pm. At around 2pm, we ended the discussion, and I went to Mac to look for cjho, and we set off for Suntec.

Not a lot of people around today. Did not see Kanny (awww). But then, there were quite a few chio babes around as usual. Did not really complete the whole walk-around though. Bought 2 portable hard disks, or rather, 2 Seagate 2.5" 120gb, 8mb hdds, and 2 external casings. Tried to connect it, and realised that the hdds have not been formatted yet (via cjho and rf). Duhz… And so, I managed to format them with the help from a help page to assemble a portable hard drive. Named the 2 hdds the way I wanted the name to be.

Other Interesting (or not-so-interesting, depending on the reader) Happenings:

– I installed the 2 hdds into their boxes while on 97 back to JE.
– 1 of the portable drives does not belong to me.
– saw Mr Chan Lay Kock. He was on his way up the escalator at suntec, with someone else. Just waved to him. Lol. I have been meeting teachers at every big show…
– I met kangming, my primary school friend, on 97. He got up at science park 2. Lol. Long time no talk.
– I met jr twice today. Once at E1, another at Mac.
– ben was around school carrying a pink tennis racquet with him (marie's).
– saw joan "floating" into olive cove.
– did not have any chance to sleep during the bus trips.

Yeah… *yawns*

Went for the first GEK "tutorial". Lol. It's the very first gathering, I say. Heh…

Quite a nice balance of guys and girls. Now I am thinking if CORS take gender into consideration while doing the balloting. Lol…

And… how about having a ex-Team Singapore Gymnast in the class?

Hmm… got to be interesting…

Ok, this is a blog spot with photos. Wahaha… nothing new.

Event 1: I love my racquet!

Went to get a new tennis racquet at Queensway with advisor ben. Tested it out this morning. Ooo it felt good! I can see the ball dip down more this time. I still need some time to hit correctly though.

Racquet Information:

Model: nPro Open
Maker: Wilson
Weight: 300g
Balance: 7 pts HL
Length: 27"
Headsize: 100
Price: ????

It's a fun racquet to play with. Lol. And… I think I may be able to handle a more heavier racquet. Lol. Current string is Gamma Synthetic Gut, at 58 pounds tension. I wrapped a H2grip over the original grip to protect it. Lol.

Players this morning are: Me, ben, lionel, and keow koon (quite cute girl from ME1). kk's pro ar……. ball so fast! TJC school team last time… wahliew… lol

I beginner level still. Duhz.

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Event 2: Lk Pizza!

Made a pizza for lunch a week ago!

Erm… didn't look yummy, but in fact, it was. I put…. honey baked ham, crab stick, pineapples. Lazy to cut the onions, and so… yeah…

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Event 3: Coins?

Nice coins eh… I bought 3, but one decided to run away, so left 2 in this photo. Hmm…

Ok, I am going to do a really simple script, that will extract 1 paragraph each from random posts, and put them together, and see what's the outcome…

Ok here goes… Wahahaa…. 20 RANDOM PARAGRAPHS!!!

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Entry #459:::

So what have I done the whole day? Been looking at my Outlook Express. Full of rubbish. I have looked through almost every single email in my accounts. In total, the deleted items folder has around 1200 mails…

See how long I have not been tidying things? How many email accounts am I monitoring… hmm.. 4?

Results out, and I think overall, all did alright. Those who did extremely well (ie, Cap 5.0), keep it up. Those who did not that well (the normal people), work harder, as there's always room for improvement. Don't give up. Fight on. Fight together!

Sorting out emails is good. Found lots of goodies. Included one of them here. Will make it into ELove Thoughts later.

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To My Friends Who Are………..SINGLE
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Love is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you just let it fly, it will come to you when you least expect it. Love can make you happy but often it hurts, but love's only special when you give it to someone who is really worth it. So take your time and choose the best.
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To My Friends Who Are…………NOT SO SINGLE
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Love isn't about becoming somebody else's "perfect person." It's about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.
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To My Friends Who Are…………PLAYBOY/GIRL TYPE
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Never say "I love you" if you don't care. Never talk about feelings if they aren't there. Never touch a life if you mean to break a heart. Never look in the eye when all you do is lie. The cruelest thing a guy can do to a girl is to let her fall in love when he doesn't intend to catch her fall and it works both ways…
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To My Friends Who Are…………MARRIED
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Love is not about "it's your fault", but "I'm sorry." Not "where are you", but "I'm right here." Not "how could you", but "I understand." Not "I wish you were", but "I'm thankful you are."
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To My Friends Who Are…………ENGAGED
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The true measure of compatibility is not the years spent together but how good you are for each other.
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To My Friends Who Are…………HEARTBROKEN
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Heartbreaks last as long as you want and cut as deep as you allow them to go. The challenge is not how to survive heartbreaks but to learn from them.
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To My Friends Who Are…………NAIVE
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How to be in love: Fall but don't stumble, be consistent but not too persistent, share and never be unfair, understand and try not to demand, and get hurt but never keep the pain.
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To My Friends Who Are…………POSSESSIVE
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It breaks your heart to see the one you love happy with someone else but it's more painful to know that the one you love is unhappy with you.
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To My Friends Who Are…………AFRAID TO CONFESS
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Love hurts when you break up with someone. It hurts even more when someone breaks up with you. But love hurts the most when the person you love has no idea how you feel.
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To My Friends Who Are…………STILL HOLDING ON
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A sad thing about life is when you meet someone and fall in love, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and that you have wasted years on someone who wasn't worth it. If he isn't worth it now he's not going to be worth it a year or 10 years from now. Let go…..
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TO ALL MY FRIENDS…….
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My wish for you is a man/women whose love is honest, strong, mature, never-changing, uplifting, protective, encouraging, rewarding and unselfish.
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What a silent night…

Entry #44:::

Ok! Fulfilled one of my New Year Resolution! Got myself a bicycle!

Entry #75:::

I do not know why, but I suddenly have this urge to change this webpage. Maybe it's because I am disappointed, or I felt left out, and want to find something to do in order to prevent my brain from thinking too much.

Entry #1011:::

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Entry #944:::

Ok, currently testing out if xhtml works here… heh…

Entry #1104:::

Yeah. Nothing. Out of range.

Entry #396:::

Currently reading and doing Maths. Quite comfortable with the pace. Enjoying the aircon, ofcourse.

Did a simple wallpaper for my laptop. Looks ok I think, and I think I will be using that for my new theme for this homepage. I will make that change over the weekend, when I am really tired of reading notes and doing examples.

Ok, back to mugging…

Entry #1327:::

So, people like us, studying in SG all the way, how? Cannot S/U breadths and depths, how? Only limited to 12MCs of S/U, how? No life, how? Suck thumb la…

Entry #327:::

Well, did I present this song here before? Anyway, here's it.

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Look into the words. Wow… something that I've tried to write last time. This's better. Maybe, one has to go through it before he has the feeling there. I am not suggesting anything about Jay, and I am not suggesting anything about me also.

What a sad song. About a guy liking a girl, but the girl don't like him. Or maybe that guy has done something that has disappointed the girl. That guy wants to be given another chance, but it looks like he does not have much hope. The guy is sorry for himself, for the sadness that he has caused for both parties. The last phrase… 'if it hurts, forget me…' wow…

I am always attracted to sad songs. Maybe it's because they are usually slow and have nice melodies, even though they often go on a sad tune.

This songs leads me to think about some things…… never mind…

Entry #163:::

Got a last-minute detail to AFS yesterday. Drove a V200 TRV to that place in the afternoon. It was drizzling, but just when we were about to park the vehicle into the hangar, it rained heavily! Luckily we were allowed to stay out, and we brought our clothes along…

Entry #1078:::

Don't know why, but this stupid EE2007 error is forever in my head!!!

Entry #1332:::

It's been 18 days, and I never got a reply from my academic advisor. And they talk about contacting them, to talk, for advice, for whatever… Now, I don't even know how he looks like. Well done.

Entry #185:::

I really want to go some place that I have never been. I just want to leave this place for a short time. Can I?

Entry #229:::

Some things just managed to break my heart today. I think it's stupid that this kind of thing can actually bring me near to tears… But then, I don't have any reason to cry. No. That is not a good reason. I am quite used to that actually. It hurts for sure, but I can't do much. It's beyond me. Beyond what I can correct. Beyond my limits…

Entry #1110:::

hmm.. did I forget to do some Maths here? Why all my times are in GMT leh?

Entry #3:::

Played basketball in the morning. Looks like I have lost some skills in that sport. Today's the beginning of my break! Yeah!

Entry #1331:::

I am tired tired tired tired tired……

Entry #985:::

I want to sleep… but before that, let me crap abit here.

Entry #1270:::

Oh yes, forgot to mention about this. Yesterday, I saw a girl wearing white canvas shoes, shorts that showed off her white legs, white shirt… Wahh… even though the sky was grey, she's still very bright…

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And that will cause me to go back for more. Lol. Some criteria to pass first:

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Next time play more…. Wahhaa…

Got this from somewhere… while doing a super-duhz-search for deep dark secrets…

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Reasons why English teachers die young:

Actual(!) Analogies and Metaphors Found in High School Essays

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two
freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
17. He fell for her like his heart wa s a mob informant and she was the East River.
18. Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted
shut.
19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
23. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
26. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.
27. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
28. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

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Ok I haven't read finish yet.. post first. lol

Ok, after some time playing tennis, it's time to look into technical details. Lol…

And so, my current racquet, Yonex dunno-what-model, is made of aluminium. Due to that, and also the lower part of the racquet head, the tension on the string cannot be too high. Since the upper tension limit is only 55 pounds, it was set at 54 the last time I went to Queensway.

The string has an effect on power. The lower the tension, the more powerful the hitting force. Therefore, I do not really need a fast swinging action to send the ball over at a faster speed.

My racquet is slightly head heavy. This means that, when the racquet is balanced in between, it will tip over at the head's side. Head heavy racquets delivers more power to the ball, and also does not vibrate too much on impact. Since it's more power, control is reduced.

I do not know the stiffness of my racquet. But this it is made of aluminium, I don't think it is very stiff. Stiff racquets allows more power, while less stiff racquets are able to absorb more impact.

My racquet has an oversized head (110). This means that it has a larger hitting surface or sweetspot, making it more forgiving to errors while hitting. Since hitting surface is increased, power is also increased.

Overall? My current racquet is a damn powerful racquet. Lol. It is very suitable for beginners. I do not need a fast swing to get the ball across the net. A fast swing may just put the ball past the fence. Also, due to the lower string tension, I can do strange slicing balls to make the opponent want to die due to strange ball movements.

While people are playing with topspin, I am playing with some sidespin. Wahahah!

With that, I am thinking of getting another racquet. A racquet that is completely opposite of what I am having now. Criteria are:

– head light.
– 27 or 27.5inch length.
– head size between 95 and 105.
– around 300g.
– supports string tension of 58.

Hmmm…. Lalala… Money money… drop from sky…

Nowadays, I have been receiving similar answers to similar questions, so much that before I ask the questions, I already know the answers.

Hmm… Predict answers? Not really. It's more of a routine now. But never mind. Whatever that I am supposed to know, I will. Whatever that's not, I will not try to dig it out.

It's kind of sad to have such conclusions, but then, there's no need to go around looking for clues. Everyone has his or her own significant others. It's just that I am usually not in anyone's list. But that's ok for me.

You know what is a spare part? Yeah, I think I am one. Lol.

As I have already said sometime ago, this semester, I will be very affected by the modules that I am taking, and so, handling things will have to change accordingly. Make it even more interesting.

Spare parts are very important too.

OMG…. cjho is back!!!

Everyone! Take cover! Hide! Run for your lives!!!!!! Arhhhhh!!!!

Erm… ok… welcome home. Whahaha

Ok, what have I been doing for this week? Busy having lunch!

Monday: Lunch with ben, jh, yh.
Tuesday: Lunch with ben, joan.
Wednesday: Lunch with xinli, yingfong, jr. Teabreak with jh (tea breaks still exist after i2r.. great. lol)
Thursday: Lunch with xinli, grace.

Wahahaha…. lunch lunch lunch… I still haven't eat subway!!!! And BK!!!! AHhh!!!

Whatever.

Went to swim just now. I entered bb pool, and lj was there at the jacuzzi area. When I was out from the toilet, he must be bathing. Lol.

Ok, swim. Everything just felt wrong. Lol. Right hand still pain, and therefore, cannot exert too much. And left leg muscles felt strained somehow. Duhz. Everything not correct! And the best thing was…. the water was damn cold. Duhz.

And I was in there for half an hour, and a biiiiggggggggggg group of students came for their swimming session. Duhz… Want to nua in the pool also cannot. So I went off, and shun bian send sms to suan someone. Wahaha… bleah…

Went home after that. So sianz.

Yeah… watching… lol…