We were chatting about durians this afternoon on MSN while he was at work, and he drew me a durian tree:


O.o I didn't think it was possible to draw something that nice on MSN. Lol... Maybe the only other person I know who can do something like this is my dear Juliana, but she's already a professional! :P Who know Ming had a hidden talent? Oh he drew me a hand flipping "the bird" on my PDA before, but I didn't get to save it and lost it when my PDA ran out of battery (I didn't buy backup battery bleah). The hand looked damn real and good la! And useful in situations when I'm unhappy with people too haha.

I finally took a big step and went to my hairdresser! Told him to chop off all the curly ends of my hair, so here's the result:
( Click if you dare )
Everyone keeps telling me it looks nice, pretty, better etc. Haha I don't know about it. But I sure do not regret cutting my long boring hair! I have also received more than 1 comment saying that I look like a secondary school girl now. Thanks to Ming (old man) also, tell my mum I'm in sec. 2 (= 14 years old = 11 years younger than he is hahaha).

Hey I'm thinking of applying to teach this semester, and I already submitted my preferences hehe. So see who suay suay (unlucky) or heng heng (lucky) get my class lor! :P Hope to get CS2105, which is networking, but hmm we'll see.

Meeting with Ben went well today. Sigh I feel really blessed at times to have such a good advisor, but really, I haven't been exactly a very diligent student. I'm doing better now though. Less excuses + more work done. But I still think I need to try harder. Lack of motivation.

To Do List (Until next Wed)
2nd round of paper review (more readings + detailed reading of that "crappy paper" - quoted from Ben)
Experiments and more experiments + see what the hell is wrong!
Read programming code -.-

Registration of module on Monday. Raise your hand if you're taking the same as me! :P Taking advanced networks, CS5229. Stupid SoC has to move to Law faculty, so now my lessons will be there. So much more inconvenient to go to school now. Plus my lab is still in current SoC location. Means I'll have to travel to and fro by shuttle bus. What on earth?!

I see that this has been such a geeky entry. Let's change topic a little.

Remember how I sprained my foot? It still hasn't healed yet! Grrr!!! I hate having painful feet. Would definitely need to see a doctor or a tie2 da3 (chinese physician). Anyone knows of good feet healers? Stupid feet! :(

Bubblene showed me some super old pictures from when I was still a freshman! Oh my! That was in 2003. Lol... I think I look pretty different then. It's in the computing club website: http://compclub.nus.edu.sg/gallery... Go figure out which ones to click la. I've given enough clues here haha. That was helluva fun, with the camp and knowing new people.

Need sleep need sleep need sleep. Miss the boyfriend, haven't said this here in so long. Meeting him later. Starving myself now... :(

So I left in a hurry in the previous post. I got more photos of myself (haha cam-whore I hear?) taken in the bathroom. Just want to show off my outfit for today. :P
( click for the peektures )

Paper writing is so so so boring. It's a real big task for me because I hate writing. But at least it's a technical paper, and not some argumentative essay that requires "fluffy" language. Anyway I'm writing this paper for submission to next year's NSDI conference, to be held in San Francisco. If our experiments are done on time and the paper gets accepted, I get to go to SF next year. So exciting!
( click to see me! )
My daddy's coming to fetch me soon. Packing up now... ;)

Hmm it seems like many people are confused about my graduation and what I'm doing right now. So let me clear this up once and for all. I entered uni in August 2003 to do my bachelors in computing (computer engineering), and was due to graduate in July 2007. But I accelerated my course and finished my degree in December 2006, and started my PhD course 1 semester early in January 2007. My graduation ceremony was held in July 2007, since I'm still graduating with my cohort and commencements are only held once a year. So the graduation pictures you saw were for my bachelors degree. PhD one still so far away. :(

Ming was so moody today. Sigh... I don't know if I helped much anyway. He didn't even have the appetite to eat. Played with his PSP for awhile; he had Grand Theft Auto Vice City. Lol... Apparently I can't drive in virtual life. But the whole idea is to run people over anyway. :P

I so so so desperately need a big huge break. I wanna vacation somewhere. Aussie or Europe or the US. Stupid Ming tempted me with Bellagio offers previously, and then told me that he doesn't want to go. -.-

Nostalgia... I still remember how we drove through the freaking snow storm from Tahoe to Vegas. I was the navigator, 'cos I trusted Ming more to drive anyway, and I was better with maps. Haha. The journey through time... December 2005...

Everything looked like this most of the journey (Hooray to 4WDs):

So dark and dreary... Even though it was freaking daytime.

Don't think I ever posted these pics before. Oh well, guess it's better late than never. Babe! When you taking me overseas again?!
( Bring me back to Vegas, baby! )

Gathered some more pictures from the others... Sharing them here. :D

Guys, send me more if you got k?

Before the graduation ceremony with the biggish NUS lion.

( More pics here! )
Aren't we all an attractive bunch?

Today was so tiring. Fatigue or whatever. Didn't even workout yesterday and today! Arghh freaking out! So damn fat... Can feel my muscles disintegrating and fats growing. But anyway, met up with my loverboy at Far East 'cos he wants to buy a PSP to play while journeying to work everyday. Don't know why he don't wanna buy the pink colour one. :(

We then went for dinner. Sigh everytime meet him can only spend a few hours with him. Sucks to have no money and no time.

I'm trying to be funny. I've got one of him trying to be funny too, but don't know if he'll like it if I put it up haha. =P


Finally!


I seldom tie my hair like this. Ming says it's nice haha. Aww...

I still feel a little blue though. Probably need more sleep or a liposuction or something. Ming has gone to bed. I'm probably going to do a little work then sleep.

Ben wants me to take over the other 2 experiments on PlanetLab. Boo! More work for me! I'm quite sick and tired really. Wish I got a car though. Or at least more cash so that I can cab around. Bleah... Then I wouldn't always make excuses not to go back to school.

6 July 2007
3pm
University Cultural Centre, NUS

Go me!


( More grad pics here! )