Three Main Problems February 13, 2004

::Originally posted on LJ::

1. If a friendship is dying off, do you prefer to be cruel and end it quickly, or do you prefer to let it die a natural death? And why is it that when you’ve decided on the former, then only do you start reminiscing about glory days of long ago? Why doesn’t ending the friendship seem as enticing, when you’re in the sticky process of getting rid of her?

2. What do you say to a friend who seems to be cutting herself? I don’t know whether she meant to show me the scars deliberately or otherwise? The scars are not horribly deep, but are definitely not superficial ones either. They are long, extending from wrist to elbow, deep enough to draw blood. When she saw me looking, she drew her arm away. I didn’t dare to say anything because there were other people around us at that time. I hope she’ll tell me why, after all she has been declaring me her veryclosefriend for the past few days. I know she has been depressed lately, but I didn’t know that she was the type who would cut herself. *anguished*

3. Why does he think that I’m so free to help him do his assignments for him? He even tried pawning off D’s work onto me. Thankfully, by now I had sprouted enough backbone to ask them both to f*ck off. But still – I hate the way people assume that I’m lying around doing nothing at home. I have the degree year project, possible part time work, work for my parents, applications for postgraduate programs and that sticky MCSE thing as well.

And if you’re free, you might help me solve the following (hah!):
~ WHY I am unable to log onto my broadband account. My computer crashed, and I’m unable to go online again. WTF?
~ My acne problems. Nixoderm helps, but doesn’t get rid of it totally.
~ My degree year project. If you’re a linguistics major, I’d like to interview you. Any .Net specialists? Any Prolog enthusiasts? I’ll like to have a discussion with you on the *ehem* joys of the language.

What’s Worse Than Copycats? Kiasu Copycats! April 28, 2003

::Originally posted on LJ::

A few things have happened since I last blogged. Okay, so in the past few posts I had been deliriously happy at the supposed ‘success’ of our moral presentation, and I had been (admittedly) pretty curious to see how The Blonde’s group presentation would go. One reason would be because Mr Moey (our moral lecturer) seems to like him very much, The Blonde and his friend Sv gives pretty cool and thoughtful answers during the lectures. The second reason would be that The Blonde is from my school. He used to be good friends with Sze Ee and he went to my crappy first website before (according to Sze Ee – not that The Blonde would remember, of course). Anyway, the point is – was very curious to see their presentation – they had told Moey that they would be doing a play as part of the presentation!

And I am sooooo disappointed and angry with their group. It is so obvious that they had been very… er… “inspired” by what we had done and had done their best to “one-up” us in every way. Last Tuesday, when they were supposed to present – they didn’t bring a guitar, but on that day, they bought a guitar and set up the mic stand so that they could sing. WTF. Couldn’t they think of anything more original to do? I just hate people who openly jack ideas like this.

The most telling point that they had tried to “one up” us was when The Blonde said, “We will be doing a forum, but unlike others, it will be a real one, and not a fake one”. That was such an open poke at our group, since our group was the only one that did a forum, and yes, ours was “fake”. He added that his group’s “real” forum would be “spontaneous” and not “pre-rehearsed”. WTF. And in the end, that was such a lie because all members of the “forum” were holding scripts and openly reading from them. The entire presentation took about 50 minutes, and by the time they had finished the “forum”, The Blonde looked upset because his group members were bored of their own presentation and talking among themselves. Open plea to Mr Moey: “Sir, do you have any questions? I know you have lots of questions.” At this point, Mr Moey was already walking out of the class and said that they were very “well covered” and left. Hahaha. So they didn’t have a chance to sing after all.

Damn copycats.

And talking about copycats, the bloody Heart – she so openly stands around when other people are asking questions so that she can take a peep at other people’s assignments. It’s so irritating. She looked hurt when I told her to get lost (of course, I used less harsh words… hehe). Stupid NF said that I was kiasu. BTW, did you notice this, Kim? When NS is around, NF doesn’t dare talk to me at all, but yesterday (we had a Saturday class), he not only talked to me, but he sat behind me for Weng’s class. Usually he sits at the back with NS. Not that I think he likes me lah – he and NS has very open affection for each other. More like, he wants to talk to me but he usually doesn’t dare because NS hates me? I don’t know.

From The Secret Files of G.L. Cheng April 25, 2003

:: Originally posted on LJ ::

College Work
My assignments are going ok. Well, not really, but at least I finally started on my ISE one. Edy, Kim – it’s not that difficult actually – I think. It’s so frustrating to re-draw diagrams again and again whenever Mr Weng tells us something that we did not realise beforehand. Er— had a class exercise (Past Year Paper) for Dragon Lady’s class. Mwahhaha, I got 22/25 and Dragon Lady said “yours is the best work I’ve seen so far”. Mwahahhaha. Excuse me while I gloat.

And I Wonder Why I’m Single
Today I lastik-ed Horny and Yang. Why? No reason. Just felt like doing it. :\ Yes, I’m sadistic. And the weird thing is, Yang taught me a new way to lastik Horny. Horny was complaining like Hell.

You Kiasu, Kiasu People
Just damn irritated at the kiasu people sitting behind me. They are not “kiasu in a good way”, more like the types who expect you to help them, but don’t offer help when you go to them. They’re so hard up for information that they won’t even tell you how much they got in a project / class assignment, because they’re afraid you might rape them for help. Oh yeah, but it’s okay for them to bug the shit out of us for help? The leader of this kiasu people gang is Heart. I’ve been dead irritated with her since last year, for Godssake, she really cannot take a hint when you ignore her, but keeps asking you questions louder and louder until her voice starts ringing in your ears. The right-hand man is Bee. A secret kiasu person, not as obvious as Heart, but only talks to me for help in assignments. The worse part is she doesn’t bother to even thank you after you’ve helped her. If you decline to give any information, she gives you hateful stares. Just for that, I hope that Sushi Guy that she likes will not reciprocate her feelings.

More Feedback on the Moral Presentation Singing!
Yup, apparently a lot of people were dead impressed (!!) by the singing. Horny asked me, “How did you get the lyrics to fit into the song so perfectly?” Er… we are great writers, that’s why. Bwahahha. They were making fun of the darn Late Show With Leech as well. The most unexpected part was that Horny said that we should’ve asked Yang and him to act in our Adultery Love Medley as well (taking the role of the husband and the hot, macho colleague). Hmm, I really can’t imagine trying to commit adultery with either Yang or Horny. Even thinking about Horny would turn people off. MWAHAHAHA.

… And I’m Gonna STAY Upset! April 9, 2003

:: Originally posted on LJ ::

Damn disappointing day lah!! Found out who the supervisor for our degree projects were. Edy got Dragon Lady, and he’s saying that he wants to jump down from the 5th floor of the Monash building, but heck, at least he knows that she chose him. She regards his project highly. Kim and I were saying that we wanted DL (*ahem*) or one of the programming-related lecturers to be our supervisor. And guess what? KIM GOT DL!!! She’s so lucky! Earlier she was saying how unlucky she was because Soe Thant pushed open the glass door at the office and the door slammed into the back of her heel – causing her to get this huge bruise. Well, heck, Soe Thant can slam glass doors into the back of my heel anyday if it would mean that I’ll have DL as my supervisor!

Instead, who did I get? A multimedia / Flash lecturer. My project has zilch to do with multimedia. It is pure programming and I got allocated with this lecturer? I feel very rejected. Like none of the lecturers wanted to supervise my project so they just simply-simply paired me up with this one. I mean, hey, I don’t know her, she doesn’t know me… what a bad way to start. Ish. Highly irritated, so I bought lots of food to drown my sorrows in.

Maybe I should’ve been like Kim – kept talking about DL so that he would really materialise as my supervisor. It was quite funny really. Both of us went to see Mr T to find out our supervisors. When T told Kim that her supervisor was DL, she let out this loud whoop, and Mr T was like, “Why? Why so happy? Because got young, handsome lecturer is it?” Kim was so embarassed and speechless she could only whimper and squeal in response. Meanwhile I looked like this : -_____- when I found out who my supervisor was. I know I’m whining on and on about this, but I can’t help it. It’s not fair, God!

Oh yeah, I got a reply from Gregoire about KLCC Photos (you’re going to strangle me aren’t you? I’m putting inane stuff up here):

Hello ,

Tq very much 4 the sweet thought … I really appreciate
Take care and hope to see you at Atmosphere on hte 25th…
God bless you leech
C ya

Gregoire

Is it just me or does “God bless you leech” sound weird? And I’m too young to go clubbing.