Love is in the Air

UPDATED! Now, EVERYONE can watch this romantic episode here.
Scroll to the 57th minute!
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Got this from Agagooga.

Some kind of a romantic declaration of love....

Only NUS students and staff are allowed to view this love drama, so Agagooga narrated the whole incidence for the benefits of non-NUS readers.
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Lecturer: Okay, the next example, I think we will do it after the break. Alright, but before you go for your break, the surprise is not here yet, alright, so let me do something first.

Lecturer: Okay, what happen is that there's a guy... who liked a girl very much. And this girl, is in this class. *stirrings from audience*

Lecturer: Okay, but she doesn't know about it. *laughs from audience and chuckles from lecturer* So it can be any, any one of you alright. Okay, don't, don't be too worried. The guy is not me. *riotous laughter from audience*

Lecturer: Okay, this guy is quite shy, so he want me to show this Powerpoint to the girl. *flashes Powerpoint slide* Where is ***? Maybe he's too shy to come out. Ah, okay anyway actually the guy is not that shy after all. He's going to, he's going to come out and present a prower (Ed: flower) to the girl. *cheers and claps from audience*

*guy gives flowers and audience claps*

Lecturer: Okay, you should go for your break. Leave them alone. *laughs from audience*
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NUS students and staff, you can view the drama here. (at the 57th minute)

who said Singaporeans are not romantic?

Go out and romance your bf/gf now! Being engineer nerd is no excuse!
he/she deserves an extra kiss today.

the PAP would be so proud of you. (did i just ruin the atmosphere or wad...)

And so the rush is there.

They have B.C. (Before Christ) [meaning before birth of jesus christ]

They have A.D. (Anno Domini) [Latin for "in the year of Our Lord"]



I have A.T. (After Thesis)

Oh boy, so looking forward to it.

The thing I learnt from anti-AIDS campaigns

Regulation Pays Off

Many have pointed their fingers at Geylang Road, where there is a health-regulated sex industry. But the incidence of HIV among sex workers in the regulated sex trade in the years 2003 and 2004 was zero

Speech by Dr Balaji Sadasivan, Senior Minister of State for Health & Information, Communication and the Arts. (extracted from Straits Times, March 29' 2005)


NABEI, how come Minster for so many things, did the minstries merge or acquire one another or wad? Cost cutting is it?
Synergies from merging operations in HEALTH and ARTS is it? Got link meh?


Yup, synergy is my favourite word currently, no thanks to thesis 2005.
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There is this current bus-stop poster and she is hot!

The model wearing a sexy lingerie and looking deeply, and intellectually (really! I swear) at you. ( i will post picture next week, AT [after thesis])

And oh boy, I have been driving past a particular bus stop, and for ages, I have been, ahem, forced to slow down during this stretch.
Wondering what ad it is....until I, ahem, decided to do advance research on it.

"想跟我上床" she whispers.......(then a whole paragraph about AIDS stuff)

Anti-AIDS poster.


Damn ironic, if you ask me.
if the geylang chicks are that pretty, i'd be the first to go.


oooooooonnnnly kidding.
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I have been hearing this for a while. Its safer to visit the regulated chicks in geylang (those in the regulated brothels, not the china streetwalkers) than to have one night stand with pick-ups from clubs and discos.

Oh man, zero incidence of HIV in geylang.
this is so surprising.

Not that I'm encouraging anyone to go geylang. i think u can do better things with ur S$50.

Research and Thesis

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
- Wilson Mizner


Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Werner von Braun


Medical Research

A Stanford Medical research group advertised for participants in a study of obsessive-compulsive disorder. They were looking for therapy clients who had been diagnosed with this disorder. The response was gratifying; they got 300 responses the day after the ad came out. All from the same person.

Research Paper Glossary

They Write	They Mean
It has long been known that...	I haven't bothered to look up the original reference
...of great theoretical and practical importance	...interesting to me
While it has not been possible to provide definite answers to these questions.	The experiments didn't work out, but I figured I could at least get a publication out of it.
The W-Pb system was chosen as especially suitable to show the predicted behavior...	The fellow in the next lab had some already made up
High purity... Very high purity... Extremely high purity... Super-purity... Spectroscopically pure...	Composition unknown except for the exaggerated claims of the supplier
A fiducial reference line...	A scratch
Three of the samples were chosen for detailed study...	The results of the others didn't make sense and were ignored..
...handled with extreme care during the experiments	...not dropped on the floor
Typical results are shown...	The best results are shown...
Although some detail has been lost in reproduction, it is clear from the original micrograph that...	It is impossible to tell from the micrograph
Presumably at longer times...	I didn't take the time to find out
The agreement with the predicted curve is excellent	fair
good	poor
satisfactory	doubtful
fair	imaginary
...as good as could be expected	non-existent
These results will be reported at a later date	I might get around to this sometime
The most reliable values are those of Jones	He was a student of mine
It is suggested that... It is believed that... It may be that...	I think...
It is generally believed that....	I have such a good objection to this answer that I shall
It is clear that much additional work will be required before a complete understanding...	I don't understand it
Unfortunately, a quantitative theory to account for these effects has not been formulated	Neither does anybody else
Correct within an order of magnitude	Wrong
It is to be hoped that this work will stimulate further work in the field	This paper isn't very good but neither are any of the others on this miserable subject
Thanks are due to Joe Glotz for assistance with the experiments and to John Doe for valuable discussions.	Glotz did the work and Doe explained what it meant.

Attributed to Gabe Wiener of Columbia University

I used some of the lines above. Excellent.

A little extra information

kAren: who does the laundry at home?

cherub: mum

kAren: ooh. what if your mum goes on a holiday?

cherub: then i'll use what i have

kARen: how many pairs of underwear do you own?

cherub: 7 in all - 3 whites, 2 blues, 1 red, 1 pink

kAren: so what if she goes away for 8 days?

cherub: then i'll flip it over and reuse

kAren: what if she goes away for 15 days?

cherub: then no choice... have to use panty liners.

kAren: eewwwww

Quotes and Tyres

kAren says:
but late work is good and efficient. min effort max result.

bk:
thats the thing about data-collection. you'll find it just when you are least expecting it
miss kong:
isn't that love? thats e whole beauty of love: u find it when u least expect it.

WaRpEd:
I hope ur pc get damaged and u lose ur thesis.
cherub:
i just spilled cold water on my desk and CPU 30mins ago. but i think its safe.
WaRpEd:
it takes a while for the water to seep in
cherub:
don't worry, already emailed my supervisor my draft. sent it to my 3 email accounts.
btw, u're a bastard.

hell. if gmail, hotmail, and NUS webserver all burn down at the same time, i think NUS would forgive me.
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try not to be *that near* the kerb when you're making a right turn.
if u pierce ur tyre, its not so bad. tyre shop can repair the damange for roughly $10.

if u made a tear at the side....

thats a $95 tyre, thank you very much.

Who said the rubber industry is in a recession?
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4 nights hidding in my room.
i think even my mum is stunned, 4 mornings in a row to see me typing at 530am in the morning.
but then again, she probably got used to it some time ago, seeing me MSN-ing typing at the wee hours of the morning.

i love it when i can disguise chatting as work/project discussion. :)
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oh yah, a diet of green tea, instant noodles and Mamee is not good for your health.
Mamee, the golden crunchy noodles that we used to eat it as kids.


ahh....now MAMEE, next week Kaka and Xiao-Ding-Dang chocolate balls. (old pple of my age would understand)

Refining Data

Yes, I have finally started writing the 1st draft of my thesis this morning.

And thats after I learnt that my friends already submitted their drafts.
@#^%#@%#@

That's how ridiculously last minute I am.
14 more days.
how last minute. how exciting. how challenging.
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its not that I'm lazy and refuses to work. okok, i'd admit that I'm lazy, but the main culprit is "procrastination".
I done an essay in JC about "why do people procrastinate". (needless to say, I finished it on the spot) and i remember one of the reason from the numerous readings the GP teacher handed out was....

"quality"

yup, u procrastinate because u want the best.

I think I'm an extreme example.
There was this essay once that I badly wanted to submit 1 day in advance, so that I will have the day off & stay at home rather than in my hostel. So I started doing 2 days in advance.
It was a torture, I spent hours reading and churning out, a ridiculous 1 page introduction.

In the end, on the last night, I threw out the original introduction and done an entire essay in those hours. and a mighty impressive one, i have to boast.

I need the last minute adrenaline. the last minute excitement. the last minute stress.
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nope, i did not see him at the library.


neither did i see Meg there....

there are lots of babes in the library it seems!!
i spent more time at the library in the past few weeks than the entire 4yrs of my NUS life.
and lots & lots of babes.

makes me damn pissed why I haven't been studying much for the past 4 yrs...
purely for research, of course.
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The past few weeks have been spent in libraries, with each day lasting longer and longer. At a certain stretch, its library till 10pm and back to library 9am the next day.

and as much as i hate work......

i am actually enjoying this data-collection task. (either that or the numerous library babes..)

there are instances when I could make do with a particular set of statistics, but something in me bugs me, and i would be running off everywhere (literally) to verify different sources and refine the data.
not mere online research, but lots of offline sourcing (3 main libraries so far).
I would spent an entire morning just to adjust the data such that a more fair comparison can be assessed on the 30 years of data.
spent 2 days just to get some simple statistic correct for a REGRESSION.
and we know how much i absolutely hate regression.

this is so not me.

there is this huge sense of achievement when you managed to overcome the bureaucracies, the different accounting methodology over the years (oh how much i love singapore department of statistics), the different technical terms used by different government departments, even WITHIN in some department (oh how much I love singapore department of statistics) and of course, the super slow response of some organisations (oh how much i love singapore department of statistics; is it me or is this getting too frequent?) or even lack of response.

yes, i almost jumped in joy when i figured out a particular data.

tats how nerd i am.
tats how accomplished my life is.