Engineering the Future!

As mentioned above, I'll be studying Chemical Engineering at University of Capetown (same as my bro) starting this Feb. Called University of Western Cape today and was informed that my application for Dentistry was declined despite making through the provincial selection and the excruciating long wait!

Not that sad as I expect b'cos I'm prepared to take on the engineering path in the first place. Telling my dad and grandma about the decline would be the real difficult thing to do though, since they put on more hope than I do. Oh well, they'll have to accept the fact anyways. haha..

I'm sure it's gonna be a tough but enriching year ahead (Thank goodness I can enjoy Chinese New Year before school starts!)

KTVing at friend's house last weekend...great to be able to KTV again!

Reminds me of Gary's KTV house!

Hack-ED

A friend of mine came over yesterday night to show me his new speedlight he bought for his camera. We did some experiment with the speedlight and I've come to understand why speedlight is created. I used to think "why do you need a bigger flash when the camera has a built-in flash?" Light showned at different angles gives an object (e.g. person) a much different feel and projection.

As its quite a cloudless night, we decided to take some picture of the moon. It's the first time for me to take a picture of the moon. I'd thought that it's impossible without a remote control as the camera will shake when the trigger is pressed and the picture will come out blurry. But in actual fact, timer can be used and there'll be no shaking, isn't it? Stupid me.

Back into the house to check the pictures taken, I was surprised to find that email was sent while I was in the garden taking photos and my laptop off. Adding to my surprise, the email was sent to all my contacts! OMG! I suspect that my email account was hacked into...cos stupid me (again), I remembered using the same email and password for Friendster! Lesson learnt: don't use password that's so short (6 numbers) and don't be lazy and use the same password for other sites. Again, I apologise for any troubles caused from this special email.

New blog look

New blogskin again?!

Yeah..somehow the previous blogskin creator run out of Photobucket bandwidth (I wonder how...) and the account's pics became blocked or something. As a result, my blog becomes a collage of Photobucket! To my relief, I managed to find this new blogskin quite easily and look pretty relaxing (yeah yeah...i know Christmas is over...).

Invitation to 2009

Literally dreamt myself into 2009 - a transition from 2008 to 2009 in a "blink of eye"!

2009 will be a year going back to studies after 3 years of enjoyment. I'm sure a year full of challenges and the difficulty to overcome this book-phobia awaits me. Although partly nervous, I'm excited to be able to acquire some kinda profession through the studies. Having working at numerous organisations and meeting so many people, I became very envious of many outstanding people whom I admired, doing their work with so much passion professionally.

Something I observed from my high school friends who are all still studying, they have incredible amount of passion in what they're studying and internship work. One of them who inspired me the most has just completed his architecture degree and will be proceeding with his masters degree. His passion for architecture was so great that he would stay in the university's studio for weeks designing his work. He would sleep on the chair or the floor as there's no bed. One of his work was a public library meant for poor children to improve their education. I believe "passion" is a very important word whether it's studies or working. Without passion, one will not make the initiative to take that extra step and will give up easily when something goes wrong.

Compared to my peers here, I'm really lagging behind in terms of studies but I don't think I've not wasted my 3 years. I have to study hard in 2009, forget about entertainment and remember not to give up easily. So, if I forgot to study hard, think about entertainment, and give up....please smack my head on my behalf!

Hope 2009 will be a peaceful year for everyone with more smiles and laughter!