First post of 2007!

Yippie! 2007 is here! Happy new year everyone~

Lots of things looking good. Kinda hard to not think positive... dunno why also. Maybe it's because the year started with this huge rainbow in the sky one evening:

Wouldn't have seen it if Ge Yao didn't sms me (She says this is the first rainbow she has seen in her life!). It's definitely one of the larger rainbows I've seen in my life; or maybe I don't remember the size of a typical rainbow. Anyhow, it was a pleasant sight, and I looked out to see if it was a double rainbow (I usually do), and it was! My photo-taking skills aren't very good, but you should still be able to see another rainbow above the bright rainbow. Learnt from a book last time that the colours of the rainbow twin is a mirror image of the bright main rainbow.

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And the KLSE (Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange) rose to 1117.09 yesterday, up 20.85 points! I know I don't play stocks (not yet at least, no money), but it's still kinda exciting to see it go higher and higher. : )

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Didn't go to see the fireworks this year coz I didn't want to squeeze amongst the huge huge crowd. I had a Billy Bombers meal for dinner (freakin' ex! Don't wanna talk about it). Then me, KV and Tang Ning (lonesome threesome) watched movies in KV's room--Curse of the Golden Flower and Blood Diamond. Curse of the Golden Flower is just a movie that shows the glamour and riches of Tang Dynasty (as well as boobs), but Blood Diamond is an interesting movie so go watch it if you can. Leonardo DiCaprio is a lead in the movie. His acting is really good! Not surprised that he is nominated for an award. I used to think he was a once-off, one-movie-wonder (Titanic), but my impression of him has changed since The Departed. ET (Eng Tee) joined us while we were watching the second half of Blood Diamond.

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As per every new year, I have made new year resolutions, but there are a few newer ones this year:

* Don't procrastinate
* Be punctual
* Sleep earlier
* Do all tutorials, don't skip classes

Let's see how I fare when I review my new year resolutions on April 1st.

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Met up with my JC classmates on Tuesday. My class, or as the school calls it, "civics group" , is 02/03 (三年二班). Haven't met them for a long long time! Most of them haven't changed much, even though they've ORD already. Too bad the whole class couldn't come; the attendance was quite good though... 15 people if I'm not mistakened. Had lunch at a Hawker Centre at Marine Parade, then went to play board/card games at Settler's Cafe. Didn't know they had a branch here! It's a concept store--it's a place where people play board or card games (a lot of rare ones or less common ones) and they can buy food and drinks if they want to at the same time. Spent most of my time playing "Munchkin" with Yi Cheng, Daniel, Kai Leong and Selina. It's like an RPG, only that it's on cards. Some of them said it was like Magic (as in the card game) too. Had Katong Laksa for dinner. All in all, had a great time. It was great to see old friends, even those that weren't very close to me.

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Just discovered from her MSN nick that Sihan has a blog (and from there, that Tim, Vic, Lin Sui have blogs). Anyway, I was reading one entry where she had this image of the world and which countries she has visited highlighted in red. So I decided to go to the same website to get my own:


create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands

So pathetic! The only reason Japan, Taiwan and Thailand are in red is because I had transfer flights from there. If I don't even count those... *sigh*. And Indonesia I've only been to one small island. China I've only been to one place! And only 8/50 states in US! And I haven't visited my uncle in Australia! Gotta go on a backpacking trip before I enter the workforce. Just gotta go.

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Finally starting my URECA work! Didn't make full use of my holidays to do experiments etc. so gotta catch up on the lost time. Gonna claim money for the first time after so long too. Hopefully that'll encourage me to do more work.

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I'm organising a Karaoke trip to JB this Friday. Just can't stand the expensive karaoke fares here anymore! Seriously, I wonder how they calculate the price; KBox S$6+++ usually ends up >S$15! So better off going JB RedBox RM7++ only (so says Yu Chii).

Realised I've just flunked one new year resolution--sleep early *sigh*. I'm outta here.