Just when you think SP is already full of commerical stalls, like Pizza Hut, Popular, KFC, Macdonalds, Resturants, Travel agencies, Bakeries & Print services, not to mention our 6 food courts, wait till they open a HMV branch here. It came as a surprise when some students approached me in campus asking me to help & participate in a survey they are conducting. Initially I thought is just any ol’ pesky business students regularly bugging people & such, but hey they are FROM HMV. One interesting part of the survey asks where would I want the HMV branch to be opened in SP. Without hesitation, its the Plaza, the PLAZA! I love music near my study block… It would be neato, furthermore with the possibility of having student deejays & such, spinning the discs on my regular breaks for the love of music & maybe piping music throughout school, foodcourts & such. Count me in dudes!

The schedule calls for a meeting at SP stadium at 10am today by the track commitee for a rather short brief & rehersal on the upcoming SP sport complex heats events on next week, Wednesday. I am appointed a track marshall so I am pretty much the witness or orderly of the 14+heats to take place on that day. Ahah authority. Coach Robin treated the whole bunch to drinks during lunch at foodcourt 3 thereafter, each got a cup of ice milo for slurps.

NTU X Campus Run Training
Only 4 from team 1 & 2 decided to stay to train at NTU, so Coach conveniently packed all of us into his tiny brand new blue Kia picanto headed towards NTU through the AYE. We did a drive-thru followed by a the actual runs. The route consist of 4 upslopes, the 3 upslope around block N1 being the real killer, but we are pretty much rewarded by the long 500m downslope which followed thereafter. The 1st part of the orientation jog saw us pacing 34mins on the 6.6km route with coach robin informing us of distances while pacing his car along with us. Just say hes very much a mobile water-point/pacer/distance tracker & a form of great amusement driving around chasing us with his little blue car. We ran another full 6.6km round before doing our standard striding, strengthening & cool down, by then its about 5pm already. In the changing rooms, we were quite amazed that NTU provides free lockers for users too, not to mention actually encouraging people to use them instead of leaving them prone to theft. We kinda completely dosed off in the train, shagged from all the training, luckily I didn’t miss my stop.

Site Updates
Look a new font size selector! In response to the comments I’ve got about difficulty some people have on reading the small fonts in my blog, I ve included a font size selector on the blog page. Please note that this only controls the size of the blog fonts & nothing else & its quote buggy at the moment.

This week at school, I see myself scoring 100% for Mechcanics Test 1 (yea! perfection!), 80% for the Autocad Assement one & 99% for the Autocad Practical Class test one. Though I am not the highest scorer for Autocad now, I just have to give the limelight to people who rightfully earned it by grades. Though I think I am still the overall lead student.. *grins* No turning back now, gotta keep up the standard for University…

I remembered sitting down & chatting with Jeremy over lunch at food court 3 about CCA grades, & how flexible SP’s CCA grading system is compared to other polys like NYP, Nee Ann Poly etc… Doing away with the rather restricting categories such as enrichment, participation, etc… with points ceiling for each cat. & the number of total points coresponds to the respective grades: 10-25 for a B, 26-35 for a B+, 36-45 for A & 46+ for an A+. Only the top 5% of the cohort will be selected for a distinction grade. Jeremy highlighted a senior he knows who got like 40 (A grade) after year one. An amazing feat we could only eve together. But emm does he knows that I am already on an expected 46 point count by end of the first semester? & we are not even halfway through year one! Now tell me, am I evil? haha

Caught a glimpse of the Flea market going on at the plaza today. Organised by the beezi people from the bee-siness courses. They have quite a few homemade & crafted items, quite interesting Didn’t have much time to check out the goodies as we are all too involved with tests & such.

And what other better way to end this rather busy week than to celebrate some national day cheers at the stadium? (haha yea we are bluffing ourselves again) & to enjoy the National Day Observance Ceremony. I guess the highlight are the japanese children singers who came all the way here from their home country to sing us a few choir songs, other than that the helicopter aerial display was kinda cool, didn’t know its so maneuverable. Thinking back, I almost wanted to take petrol driven remote helicopters as a hobby few years back, but turned down by the rather high costs of maintaining one.

If only I were more proficient in my electric guitar, I don’t mind performing an electric piece for the concert, at the same time chalking not only CCA points by chick points too.

Since the activation of my 1.5Mps ADSL line on wednesday, (haha yea not the fastest in the world though…) Got my free Homeportal1800HG gateway modem installed & a 40GB pocket harddisk from my ISP through the mail on Friday. Previously, I was paying like $58/mth on 512kps on like a expired contract which no longer exists (duh). The newer 1500kps plan was going like $57.50/mth (plus all the extras misc charges about $60/mth) not bad bheh? $2 more a month for 3 times the speed + $400 worth of free hardware & 3 free months of Singnet outdoor wireless surf.

For the 1st time on my home computers download speeds are actually in the few hundreds KB/s range. Gotta get used to that. Say a 100mb file normally won’t finish in 10mins previously, & when I promoted done, its like “Are you sure you are DONE?)

MMORPG to the power!
What can I got to do but discover my “new found powers” Went around downloading & tryin’ out some free MMORPG. Like PlaneShift – Crystal Blue & Fate the game. Fate the game is a very diablo II like game almost VERY identicial, only that its in 3D & all battles are in the stinky dungeon… bleach! Otherwise Planeshift is kinda neat, but the interface & controls sux big ass, not to mention the lack of players on Fragnetics. Being an avid player of Warcraft since WC II- Tides of darkness, I was very eager to try out World of Warcraft, in response to all my friends inviting me to join their little bitty various clans & such… Then when I told them that I don’t play WoW, then its like “erhhh ohhh…” Partly as I completely detest the pay-as-you-play subscription based system – just imagine how much Blizzard can make out of that? Unless if I can get sponsers… hehe

Remember, with these new powers come great responsibility - Petter Parker’s (Spiderman’s) Dad