If you've ever seen Pulp Fiction, you'd say it's an awesome show. Here are a few funny quotes from the movie.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee - Jules
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions - Jules
That's how you're gonna beat them, Butch, they keep underestimating you - Butch
Monday, April 24, 2006
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Jeeez... Am I that good??
Just a few minutes ago, some girl asked me about crystallization of salt. How many moles of water is in the crystallized form of CaSO4? I mean, I haven't done chemistry for 5 years. But why was I able to solve it? It's all thinking. People NEED TO THINK! She told me that she read the formula in the book and didn't understand what to do. Man, that just pisses me off. Why do we need formulas in the books. We live in this ridiculous culture of education. The teachers teach you something, show you the example, then you follow the exact same way to solve the problems that they assign you. What have you learnt in the end? TO FOLLOW EXAMPLES!! I am not saying that's a bad thing, but people should really think about how to solve the problem before reading the example. In real life, usually, when you face a problem, there isn't going to be a textbook for you to look at the examples, and by following steps 1,2,3 and 4, problem solved! That's just absurd. There's no handbook to life. You've gotta figure everything out for yourself.
So how do you solve the abovementioned question? Think mols. I mean someone who asked that question should at least know what a mole is. So guess what, I asked her what a mole is, and she gave me all that crap definition about the Avogadro number and all that crap. Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. What is your idea of a mole? Most people's mind just jump to, Avogadro number... Avogadro number... NO, YOU FREAKING ZOMBIES!! A mole is THE AMOUNT OF SUBSTANCE... gosh... My dad always told me that the most important part of the definition of something is always after the word "IS". So there you go, AMOUNT OF SUBSTANCE. So in order to solve that previous question, you figure out the amount of moles of CaSO4 you have, and that's precisely the amount of crystallized CaSO4 you have. Why? Because the amount of CaSO4 in CaSO4 did not change, since of course, we assume there is sufficient water to crystallize all of the calcium sulphate. So by figuring out the amount of moles of CaSO4.xH20, we can easily figure out what x is via the ever famous ratio of mass and molecular mass. Despite not doing chemistry for 5 years, I was still able to solve this problem, all through deduction, that the amount of moles of CaSO4 cannot change.
My critical thinking skills amaze myself sometimes... If you want to survive in this world, stop depending on your textbooks, coz you ain't getting any help in the real world.
So how do you solve the abovementioned question? Think mols. I mean someone who asked that question should at least know what a mole is. So guess what, I asked her what a mole is, and she gave me all that crap definition about the Avogadro number and all that crap. Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. What is your idea of a mole? Most people's mind just jump to, Avogadro number... Avogadro number... NO, YOU FREAKING ZOMBIES!! A mole is THE AMOUNT OF SUBSTANCE... gosh... My dad always told me that the most important part of the definition of something is always after the word "IS". So there you go, AMOUNT OF SUBSTANCE. So in order to solve that previous question, you figure out the amount of moles of CaSO4 you have, and that's precisely the amount of crystallized CaSO4 you have. Why? Because the amount of CaSO4 in CaSO4 did not change, since of course, we assume there is sufficient water to crystallize all of the calcium sulphate. So by figuring out the amount of moles of CaSO4.xH20, we can easily figure out what x is via the ever famous ratio of mass and molecular mass. Despite not doing chemistry for 5 years, I was still able to solve this problem, all through deduction, that the amount of moles of CaSO4 cannot change.
My critical thinking skills amaze myself sometimes... If you want to survive in this world, stop depending on your textbooks, coz you ain't getting any help in the real world.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
House MD
I know I am crazy. I just watched 17 episodes of house in less than 48 hours while attending classes and the like. But it's just so addictive. I find House's sarcasm interesting and highly entertaining. I kinda have a feeling that I might actually grow up like him. Anyways, here is a quote I would like to share that I picked up from the show:
"If you're a jerk, you're either great or unemployed"
This is my new inspiration. I know I have been a jerk to many people in my life. I AM a jerk. I can't help it. So within a few years time, if someone does employ me, you know what that means. No, it doesn't mean you have to bow down to me. All I ask is, just accept the fact that I am a jerk.
"If you're a jerk, you're either great or unemployed"
This is my new inspiration. I know I have been a jerk to many people in my life. I AM a jerk. I can't help it. So within a few years time, if someone does employ me, you know what that means. No, it doesn't mean you have to bow down to me. All I ask is, just accept the fact that I am a jerk.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Quotable Quotes Part 2
If you love something, and you let it go, you're fucking stupid
Effort is not about how much you speak for your work, it's how much your work speaks for you
These are actually 2 original quotes from me. I give you people full rights to quote me. Cheers!
Effort is not about how much you speak for your work, it's how much your work speaks for you
These are actually 2 original quotes from me. I give you people full rights to quote me. Cheers!
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Quotable Quotes
Most people panic, those who don't are those who fail - Ern
The trouble with trouble is that it always starts out as fun
You can't lose what you never put on the table, but you can't win a lot either
Against overwhelming odds, you will lose
Never test depth of water with both feet
These are just a few of my life's principles. Something that I thought would be interesting for you chuckers to ponder about. I know barely anyone reads my blog, but at least I get shit off my mind. Someday, this (my blog) could be worth a lot of money. The insights to MY mind.
The trouble with trouble is that it always starts out as fun
You can't lose what you never put on the table, but you can't win a lot either
Against overwhelming odds, you will lose
Never test depth of water with both feet
These are just a few of my life's principles. Something that I thought would be interesting for you chuckers to ponder about. I know barely anyone reads my blog, but at least I get shit off my mind. Someday, this (my blog) could be worth a lot of money. The insights to MY mind.
Friday, April 14, 2006
Perseverance
per·se·ver·ance (noun)
Definition:
determined continuation with something: steady and continued action or belief, usually over a long period and especially despite difficulties or setbacks
Brooksbank (my Math 311 (Number Theory) professor, who happens to be British; all the engineering girls think he's cute, no idea why I gave that information but get on with it!) just returned our Number Theory exam today and I got a B- on that. I am resigned to getting a B- at the end of the semester, and in fact, I would be very surprised if I got anything higher. Am I disappointed? Not really. I thought I would end up doing worse. It was an insanely hard exam and to be honest, I think he was rather lenient with the marking already. I would have been killed if he had picked on my proofs very strictly. For example, I claimed that the GCD (10, n) = 1 (for you math noobs, GCD (10, n) is the greatest commond divider of 10 and n) just so that I could use Euler's Theorem to make my proof neat. But then, GCD (10,n) was not necessarily 1 and that I could have done the proof through the methods of reduced residue sets, which is one of my weakest areas. My understanding of reduced residues and primitive roots are very shakey. But after the exam, I felt like I understood them more. I had to study them, work on them, over and over again, just trying to prove the stuff that was required of me.
Upon hindsight, I saw myself giving up. The exam was due on Wednesday and on Wednesday morning itself, I woke up at 9 a.m. just to work on it. My classes start at 12 p.m. so I had 3 hours. I turned off my computer, and just sat there and focused really hard. But at 10.45 a.m. I resigned to my fate. I gave up working, turned on my computer, and started procrastinating. I played some computer games, even though I told myself that I already quit. But the essence of the situation was that, I gave up.
BUT, here comes the big BUT, as I reflect upon it, right here, right now, did I regret not working harder? I don't. I think I did my best, and that's the best a man can do. That was my vow to Ern, and I think I should stand true to it. When I looked at the solutions of those problems, there was no way I would have figured those out to that detail. I could never have escaped my fate. I had no regrets. But when I think about it right now, even though I gave up, I persevered. I tried and tried.
per·se·ver·ance (noun)
Definition:
determined continuation with something: steady and continued action or belief, usually over a long period and especially despite difficulties or setbacks
DESPITE DIFFICULTIES AND SETBACKS...
Definition:
determined continuation with something: steady and continued action or belief, usually over a long period and especially despite difficulties or setbacks
Brooksbank (my Math 311 (Number Theory) professor, who happens to be British; all the engineering girls think he's cute, no idea why I gave that information but get on with it!) just returned our Number Theory exam today and I got a B- on that. I am resigned to getting a B- at the end of the semester, and in fact, I would be very surprised if I got anything higher. Am I disappointed? Not really. I thought I would end up doing worse. It was an insanely hard exam and to be honest, I think he was rather lenient with the marking already. I would have been killed if he had picked on my proofs very strictly. For example, I claimed that the GCD (10, n) = 1 (for you math noobs, GCD (10, n) is the greatest commond divider of 10 and n) just so that I could use Euler's Theorem to make my proof neat. But then, GCD (10,n) was not necessarily 1 and that I could have done the proof through the methods of reduced residue sets, which is one of my weakest areas. My understanding of reduced residues and primitive roots are very shakey. But after the exam, I felt like I understood them more. I had to study them, work on them, over and over again, just trying to prove the stuff that was required of me.
Upon hindsight, I saw myself giving up. The exam was due on Wednesday and on Wednesday morning itself, I woke up at 9 a.m. just to work on it. My classes start at 12 p.m. so I had 3 hours. I turned off my computer, and just sat there and focused really hard. But at 10.45 a.m. I resigned to my fate. I gave up working, turned on my computer, and started procrastinating. I played some computer games, even though I told myself that I already quit. But the essence of the situation was that, I gave up.
BUT, here comes the big BUT, as I reflect upon it, right here, right now, did I regret not working harder? I don't. I think I did my best, and that's the best a man can do. That was my vow to Ern, and I think I should stand true to it. When I looked at the solutions of those problems, there was no way I would have figured those out to that detail. I could never have escaped my fate. I had no regrets. But when I think about it right now, even though I gave up, I persevered. I tried and tried.
per·se·ver·ance (noun)
Definition:
determined continuation with something: steady and continued action or belief, usually over a long period and especially despite difficulties or setbacks
DESPITE DIFFICULTIES AND SETBACKS...
Friday, April 7, 2006
Anger Management
I think I need some form of anger management therapy. Have you people watched Anger Management? There are 2 kinds of angry people. People who vent their anger and lose their temper on almost every setback and there's the quiet angry people. These are the people that keep all their anger inside and these are precisely the people who end up bringing a 9 calibre to school and blow everyone's brains out. I am the latter.
I tell other people and myself that I do not get angry easily. In fact, I don't appear angry at all. No matter how bad things happen to me, it seems that I always remain calm. But in actual fact, when I think about it, I am an angry person. What triggered this self-reflection? This morning, the morning I was looking forward to for the past week, I was supposed to wake up at 8 a.m. and call Ern, and after calling her for 4 times, she finally picked up. To my utter disappointment, she forgot that I was going to call her and she was out for supper with her friends. I was pretty sad about the whole thing and I told her to message me when she got back to the room. At 10 a.m., which was 12 a.m. where she was, I called her again and this time, she only picked up after 15 times. I know, I know, I am desperate. It's past midnight and I was afraid she wasn't OK, since she didn't message me.
Anyways, our conversation wasn't really pretty. She was still out and she was only heading back. What can I say? She will definitely be tired when she reaches back to her apartment and she refuses to wake up early the next day. So she told me to wait till she gets back to Penang and we will talk on Sunday. Well, this seems like a minor issue, but when she hung up, I got so angry that I chucked the phone. I did not vent my anger on her. I was just pissed about the whole thing. Is it even possible for you to forget that your boyfriend/girlfriend is going to call you? Man, this pisses me off. Since I have no other avenue of venting my anger, other than almost breaking my phone, I decided to blog my piss out.
Man... I just realized I am an angry person. I need help.
I tell other people and myself that I do not get angry easily. In fact, I don't appear angry at all. No matter how bad things happen to me, it seems that I always remain calm. But in actual fact, when I think about it, I am an angry person. What triggered this self-reflection? This morning, the morning I was looking forward to for the past week, I was supposed to wake up at 8 a.m. and call Ern, and after calling her for 4 times, she finally picked up. To my utter disappointment, she forgot that I was going to call her and she was out for supper with her friends. I was pretty sad about the whole thing and I told her to message me when she got back to the room. At 10 a.m., which was 12 a.m. where she was, I called her again and this time, she only picked up after 15 times. I know, I know, I am desperate. It's past midnight and I was afraid she wasn't OK, since she didn't message me.
Anyways, our conversation wasn't really pretty. She was still out and she was only heading back. What can I say? She will definitely be tired when she reaches back to her apartment and she refuses to wake up early the next day. So she told me to wait till she gets back to Penang and we will talk on Sunday. Well, this seems like a minor issue, but when she hung up, I got so angry that I chucked the phone. I did not vent my anger on her. I was just pissed about the whole thing. Is it even possible for you to forget that your boyfriend/girlfriend is going to call you? Man, this pisses me off. Since I have no other avenue of venting my anger, other than almost breaking my phone, I decided to blog my piss out.
Man... I just realized I am an angry person. I need help.
Another Beginning
Another chapter of my life has ended and another has just begun. Quitting Warcraft was maybe the hardest decision I have made so far. I know, you think I am crazy. You will not understand if you do not take Warcraft as a religion like I did. I have been playing W3 ever since it was released in 2003. Then I moved on the Frozen Throne (TFT). We played all kinds of custom games e.g. TD, AOS, RPG, and almost everything downloadable under the sun.
For the past year, we (Kok and I) have been training hard in AT (Arranged Teams 2v2). We played almost everyday and at almost every opportunity we had. Also, throughout my W3 carreer, I have watched over 150 replays from various professional players and was inspired by great players such as Madfrog, Grubby and Satiini, all of whom have great strategy and skills.
Why all this nostalgia? Do I miss the game? Definitely. What comes as a surprise is that I did not feel or show any signs of withdrawal. I am perfectly comfortable with getting on with my life without W3. I have moved on. W3 was like a 2nd gf to me (Haha.. kidding). Why did I quit? I don't know. One day, I just felt like I wanted to quit computer games and get my act together. I quit ALL computer games; uninstalled all the games on my computer and now, I have so much space on my computer to download movies.
Well, no reason to fuss about quitting W3. It was a big decision. No regrets. Life goes on. Just felt like getting my shit together.
For the past year, we (Kok and I) have been training hard in AT (Arranged Teams 2v2). We played almost everyday and at almost every opportunity we had. Also, throughout my W3 carreer, I have watched over 150 replays from various professional players and was inspired by great players such as Madfrog, Grubby and Satiini, all of whom have great strategy and skills.
Why all this nostalgia? Do I miss the game? Definitely. What comes as a surprise is that I did not feel or show any signs of withdrawal. I am perfectly comfortable with getting on with my life without W3. I have moved on. W3 was like a 2nd gf to me (Haha.. kidding). Why did I quit? I don't know. One day, I just felt like I wanted to quit computer games and get my act together. I quit ALL computer games; uninstalled all the games on my computer and now, I have so much space on my computer to download movies.
Well, no reason to fuss about quitting W3. It was a big decision. No regrets. Life goes on. Just felt like getting my shit together.
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