Its been eons!

Hey...its been eons since the last update...don't let the blog die so easily!

Anyway, lotsa things have come to pass these few months. After returning from Norway, it took quite a long time for me to settle down back in Singapore. I kept having the holiday feeling the first few weeks, kept wanting to sleep, kept wanting to slack...

It almost got to the point of depression lol, with nothing to do and nothing to look forward to. Luckily, a few things pulled me over that edge (my definition of depression is just total "sian-ness", don't take it as clinical depression and seek help from a professional for me lol). One thing, I'm still attached to Let haha, quite a sweet and thick skinned thing to say lol, but I'm gonna say it nonetheless, cause its true. Her companionship has proved to be invaluable, although she does complain we don't do anything new or novel nowadays...

Secondly, going to gym and rebuilding my poor body helped tremendously too. All my mass and muscle built over the past year's of pumping iron and cheerleading has degenerated and atrophied. Coming home after almost 6 months and seeing the hulk of a brother at home spurred me to play catch up, and thus I've been regularly going for twice to thrice weekly sessions till now. I hope I have the perserverence to carry on as long as possible.

Thirdly, catching up with my friends over new games like Knights of Valour and most notably, Left 4 Dead, which was actually introduced by my brother, gave me something to play and chill out over. I was almost addicted to it at one point lol, thinking of new ways and new weapons to experiement with. It's hard to believe that I was totally sickened by my first session of L4D, as I wasn't used to the motion sickness effect, and after that session, my head throbbed so bad it took a day and a half to recover. That goes for Letitia too, after her first session she felt damn nauseous :D But glad she took the effort to play with us, though you kept going in circles...:)

I'm glad of all these things, and now I've bought a new gaming rig at the recent IT show at Suntec, and getting to play my favourite 3D games at top notch settings and smooth framerates made me wonder what I've been missiong out on these few years lol. Also, there was the issue of Industrial Immersion for NTU Maritime Studies. I flunked Phase 1, by digging my own grave haha. I applied for two companies, but the second application for M3 Marine had a server error and it never got through, leaving me with one option, though I didn't know. The other was for Teekay, which I actually got an interview with. After the interview, I emailed the company directly telling them I'm waiting for M3's reply, which is a stupid thing to do on hindsight. NTU then emailed me saying I shouldn't do that, and naturally got a rejection :) What is disappointing is Teekay's HR manager herself asked me to email her directly on my decision whether to accept, and also the damn error with M3 Marine's processing. Ah well, was disappointed at first, but now can't be bothered, even with all my course mates getting shortlisted here and there lol. There were even arrogant ones, which I shall not name, getting 2 shortlistings and then posting on MSN nick, saying "Company A or Company B...?" Watch out ya, karma will get you...hope you go to the company to run errands for the floor sweeper...

This semester is also full of projects...it gets seriously annoying when every week you are involved in projects. Art elective, 3-4 projects in total, one core module, a project every 2 weeks, another core module, 2 major projects...ARGH. Luckily it's ending soon :) After the exams I'm gonna take a break, before being attached to a company. That's it for now, ciao!