The Human Instrumentality Project

Monday, March 30, 2009

Parking


Thursday, March 26, 2009

The bee hoon stall auntie knows me by sight now. She just commented that I always order the same stuff. 何とかうれしくなる。
朝起きる時、僕わ「学校へ行きたくない」と思った。けど、今日学校ではいろいろないい事があった。I bumped into W (old JC classmate) at the canteen, I got back my midterm test, and I had fun talking about Jdramas with S. So I now feel a little re-energised.

Actually, when I get very good marks from my tests, I always feel a bit embarrassed, or maybe ashamed. Because I'm not actually a smart person, as people who've talked to me enough will notice. And because smart, contrary to popular belief, cannot be learnt (not any more at my age, at least), I became the next best thing instead. Next best in the context of academic education. I became good at studying, especially last-minute studying. That's why I hide my grades from people, because it generates the misconception that I'm smart. Then people get disappointed when I open my mouth.

Yah, I got a damn good grade for my test. One of the good stuff that happened today. So I guess, for that module, as long as I keep up the effort, I'll get the A that I'm aiming for. I just hope I don't fall short in the other modules (and especially the damned FYP), because I have no leeway at all. One slip-up means that ALL the effort is for naught. I hate situations like this.

By the way (as though this is minor news), the shit has hit the fan. I'm now on emergency damage control, which means cancelling all social and familial obligations until I get things under control again. It's not as bad as it sounds lah. Deadline is 2359 tomorrow so all lambs that come in after that are safe from sacrifice. Meanwhile I've got more work than hours till the deadline, so let me get back to it.






Monday, March 23, 2009



Sunday, March 22, 2009

Some people ought to be banned from using the Internet. Heck, with their personality, they ought to be put in solitary confinement and never let out. Sometimes I wonder why I have to take it lying down, while others hide behind the anonymity of the Internet and behave absolutely horrendously. I'm upset that I'm swallowing it and keeping quiet, but I guess going out of my way to make life miserable for the bastard will be over-reacting, and will just lower me to his level. There should be some sort of selective filtering for forums, if I can't see his posts I won't get upset.


Tuesday, March 17, 2009

今日は楽しかった。友達に会って、新しい友達を作って、レクチャは面白くて、クラスも面白かった。小曽戸先生はいつも笑って、ユーモアがたくさんあるから、クラスはいつも面白い。永見先生もユーモアがたくさんあるから、レクチャもいつも面白い。そして、レクチャで可愛い女の人が会った。名前はまだ知らないけど、いい感じがあった。けど、友達だけなりたいよ。明日も日本語のクラスがあって、宿題もある。この宿題は問題だ、写真は要るけど僕は時間がない。だから、宿題のトピックは決めなくて、ちょっと心配する。明日出さないと...じゃ、晩御飯を食べたら、宿題をします。

Hehe a rare post in Japanese. I've learnt enough grammar that I can express myself pretty well. For vocabulary there's always the dictionary. Anyway, I tried translating this using Google Translate, and the results are.. wrong. I'm not sure if it's my grammar that's wrong, or the translator that sucks. So I guess, very few people will be able to understand this. ^.^


Friday, March 13, 2009

It's been a long time since I last burned midnight oil. For work, that is. Anyway there has simply been too much work this week. And it's already spilling over to the next. I've got a mock FYP presentation tomorrow and I'm preparing the slides only tonight. I've got to finish the slides before I sleep, so that even if I go half-asleep tomorrow, I can at least click through the slides and hope they're self-explanatory. Sigh.

So I hope my friends understand why I keep saying I'm not free these days, why I can't spare one full night to properly celebrate a friend's birthday, why I've had no time to plan for the grad trip, even though I really need to give DSTA some kind of notification soon. Sigh.

Well, back to work.


Thursday, March 12, 2009


R.I.P.
280706 - 120309


Dear 老公公, aka Frisky, died peacefully in his sleep today. He was already so old that he couldn't walk properly, couldn't hold things in his paws properly, and was going blind. So I'm glad that he left without further suffering. He has brought the family so much joy that it would be selfish of us to ask for any more.



With that, the house is once again silent. The rattling of the hamster wheel will no longer filter into our dreams at night. No longer will we gather at the cage to admire the hamsters' new sleeping poses. In memory of all my dear hamsters, I'm posting a family photo.


Wednesday, March 11, 2009

I'm listening to a recording of my interview of a professor for my FYP, and I think I sound funny. Does everyone think he himself sounds funny?

I'm quite a bad interviewer, I can't help but end up leading my subjects to the answers I want. I was supposed to demo my project and ask for comments, and I was sounding a little bit like a salesman. But I guess, being professors, my subjects are smart enough to avoid being led too much.

Anyway I was lucky. All the profs I interviewed are nice and helpful. I'm sure there're a few nasty ones hidden amongst the faculty. Then again, I picked from the profs who've taught me before, so can't really go wrong.

Back to work. I've got 1 hour more of recording to go through.


Tuesday, March 10, 2009

I have always been quietly confident of my 'latent' abilities, if times of crisis occur. When the shit hits the fan, I thought, I'll be there with a raincoat and an umbrella. Well the truth is that raincoats and umbrellas will not stop the shit from getting everywhere, and stinking the whole place up. What I mean is, I shouldn't wait for the shit and fan to meet, I should be doing all I can to prevent them from meeting. And anyway I might not be as strong as I imagined. After all when's the last time I even managed to simply accomplish everything that I set out to do, whether for the day, week, month or year?

Anyway, if I'm going to find a way out of this current mess, I've got to start drawing on whatever reserves I'm supposed to have, buckle down and start doing work instead of spending so much time on Facebook and Kongregate, and watching anime and Jdrama.


Monday, March 09, 2009



It's the hidden punchline that's hilarious. Hold your mouse over the image.


Thursday, March 05, 2009

You Probably have about 150 Real Friends, from Lifehacker.


Tuesday, March 03, 2009



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