I handed in my FYP last week. So that's like a major win already. Just when i thought that i could finally wash my hands off this project, Jimmy (the medical professor that was collaborating with me) emailed to say that my project abstract was accepted for some medical convention. Which means i had to get involved again.

The main reason i'm holding back is because during my presentation my project was like totally shot down by the examiner. And he really had very valid points and pointed out some fundamental flaws in my work, as well as the work that i'm referencing. So essentially, when a full prof says ur work is bullshit, it should be bullshit. But nice try anyways.

So i don't quite get where this is going. Essentially some judging panel thinks that bullshit is good enough to warrant a poster presentation in the convention. So that makes the panel bullshit too. Shit is swirling around man.

I got a set of ankle weights to umm, help increase the intensity of my workouts. I tried to run with it, but realised that it's very very bad for your knees. Ya interesting right, most people would think it will affect the ankles. But no, trust me, it will kill the knees cos u will tend to land differently with the weights on and ur knees will be unable to get used to it. To circumvent this problem, i would recommend that the weights be tied around the wrists or arms and run. It's much better. When it comes to this aspect of working out, girls got it right. Bring ur small pink dumb bells to run. It works wonders. And u can throw it at thugs when they try something funny. 1 kg on the balls is no joke.


Some exercise u can work with using ankle weights. Shin exercises!


Something to think about when u are shooting.

This is precisely the point why the other countries are playing at such a high level, whereas Singapore sports in general will never make it far. You need the correct instruction from a very young age. That's why we only made it in ping pong, cos the china-born players already knew the hot tips in ping pong since a very young age. They are just working on fine-tuning these seemingly unimportant bits in their game.

Everything is important, you are just as strong as your weakest link.

Caught Burn After Reading. Essentially it's a waste of time, cos the movie plot's essence is about a pointless, waste of time CIA case that has no meaning and totally confuses the characters. So yea, dun watch unless you are very free.

On the other hand, Good Luck Chuck is a perfectly fine movie to catch! Jessica Alba is one reason, lotsa boobs another. What's not to love? The story is typical love story, so it's good for couples too. There's penguins for the kids too. Wholesome family movie for everybody. Sans boobs.

I realise i dun quite embrace the concept of rest. I dun sleep enough. I like to sleep late but i dun like to wake up late, so technically tt's abt 6-7 hrs of rest. Like weekends Shirui comes over early (cos she is a normal human being) and i would have to wake up early, thus missing more sleep. I like to workout, so much so that i feel uncomfortable if i dun workout for a day. And that's not good either.

Rest is important. I should rest more to keep my body in top shape.

This could be the hardest game ever. Impossible shit.

Like andy put it:
"If you think life is hard, think of mushihimesama. If you think mushihimesama is hard, think of Chuck Norris' roundhouse kick"

Finished my universe term paper. Finally done with my FYP. It's almost the end.

Hooray.

Btw Botak Jones black pepper chicken is promisingly good. I can't wait to try it.

And please no more caesars' already. If want caesars, no slaw.

Good night. I have a bumpy girlfriend who knocks into me a million times a day. I hope i dun die before 30.

:D

My mouthguard saved my teeth yday. I probably looked pretty retarded when wearing it, but i don't have to look cool when i play basketball. Just D up and get the job done.

More flac acquired. And i finally finished incorporating all the Dream Theater flac into my collection. Getting Dragonforce flac now. Should be pretty awesome, considering how messed up they sound.


Kid plays a very imba version of "Get Out Of My Yard" by Paul Gilbert. If I'm not mistaken, it was originally written this way by PG, but he deemed it too troublesome to play it so complicatedly so he came up with the human capo idea for most performance purposes. Kid just pretty much nails the original version perfectly...live.

Slow night. Dun really feel sleepy but there's nothing to do. Suppering is kinda taxing on the wallet as well. And my reader is empty. Gah. I'm having information withdrawal symptoms.

Oh well. Night.

Apologies if anyone is actively following this blog, but i've been feeling extremely lazy lately. Yea, everything is quite last minute this sem, and i'm not very proud to say something like this. And my insistence to start my day after class has forced me to sleep very late, so that i can just wake up and go for my afternoon class straight, and then start my day. If i had morning classes then i'd probably have a more normal life.

I realise blogging is the only avenue which i can tell Shirui all the things that I would like her to know but that she would probably not be interested at all because it's A) not her interest, B) too technical or C) pure crap. But either ways, this is like the rest of the unsaid junk.

Maybe she actually wants to know some stuff, but due to that i can't explain very well via spoken words so at least i have the chance to sit down and think over how i can explain it properly, and she can reread at her own pace if she fails to understand anything.

I've been "digitally acquiring" lotsa FLAC (free lossless audio codec) music lately. For the uninformed, FLAC is lossless, so it's equivalent to CD quality. But CDs in digital form occupies lotsa space, so it has to be ripped into mp3s. And its only meaningful if u rip mp3s from CDs, cos garbage in = garbage out.

And i've realised that it's only meaningful if u rip into VBR (variable bitrate), because constant bitrates like 192kbps means that you will overconvert on parts of the song that doesnt require such a high bitrate (=waste disk space) and you will underconvert on parts of the song that require a higher bitrate (= loss of audio quality). So only VBR will account for such variations, and we shld all rip into VBR, even though it sounds very scary.

And after much research, here's how to do it in a simple and painless way:
1) download ur FLAC via.... Bukit Timah.
2) Convert ur FLAC files into wav files using FLAC Frontend (google)
3) Convert ur wav files into VBR MP3 using Lame Frontend (google)
4) Enjoy high quality music

In the rare event that the FLAC is actually one giant single CD instead of separate songs:
1) Download and convert into wav as usual
2) Split wav using Exact Audio Copy (google)
3) Enjoy high quality music

The main reason im doing all this is because i've been listening to more metal music lately, and some of it really sound too mashed up. I can't hear the guitars, i can't hear the bass, i can't hear anything clearly. Of course this is partly due to the fuckedupness of the music i listen to, but i'd still like some clarity amidst the mess. So yea, FLAC to the rescue.

I'm starting to touch alittle bit of guitar partly due to this song:


The intro riff caught my ear the first time i heard it from andy's phone. And it's very challenging to play on the guitar as well due to the arpeggios. I wonder how someone can write such a lick, cos it's really weird to play, and the notes are all over the place on the fretboard. Unless it came from the keyboards, which is then translated to the guitar, but i doubt so. So moral of the story, the guitarist from Nightwish is very zai.

I have a nagging deltoid strain, and probably some tendonitis in my left heel. Both will probably go away with sufficient rest, but i just can't stop working out. I really love the feeling of my feet inside the ice tub after every intense game, but my mom keeps nagging at me and says that i will get rheumatism. I mean, if Ray Allen does it after every game, i should be fine right?

This is the reason why Jordan is the greatest player ever:

It's scary to play against such defenses. It's like playing against 5 YWs. And that's not a compliment to you YW. You injure people and you don't care. That's very fucked up.

Ok gotta go. Presentation's tml. Wish me luck