tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-309787152011-10-19T09:20:30.852-07:00Just be honest with yourself. <br> And have some fun while you're at it.Su, Sichenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056859853480817676noreply@blogger.comBlogger1521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30978715.post-74093448838165969262011-10-18T16:58:00.000-07:002011-10-18T17:37:20.482-07:00

I lost a bag with my camera inside over this past weekend. I left it on the seat in the train as Clar and I were getting off it with all our luggage and fumbling to get to the airport on time. Thank God my passport wasn't inside! But sadly I lost my camera with tons of awesome photos (and a couple of videos) in it. The moment I realised I didn't have it I ran back to the light rail at full

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Folks talk all the time about looking after your health. Sometimes they talk about looking after your sanity. As Christians, there is a clear call from Jesus to watch out for our own souls... and yet I find that taking care of your soul comes up far less often in conversation amongst Christians than taking care of your computer. And I think that's mainly because we have no idea what the heck it

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I see it with my eyes andI smell it in my noseHaze is all around meAnd so my sinus flowsIt came in on the windIt's everywhere we goSo join your hands and pray nowFor a different wind to blowOh Indo farmers, your haze does killWhy do you burn your trees each year without fail?Don't recall the beginning; just wish for an endPlease take your haze away from our land...

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Salvation is the close of the old chapter of trying to earn God's acceptance. Baptism in the Holy Spirit is the opening of a new chapter of living out His authority and the authority He's given you. You can't get to chapter 2 without closing chapter 1. But wouldn't it be a shame to stop at chapter 1, or even halfway through chapter 2, without seeing what the ending He has in store is like? No eye

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You will never stop struggling to stay above the water until the realization of His love and faithfulness towards you quiets the deepest intuition to try to save yourself. It is such faith in God that lets you rest and just float when you know you can’t swim.Lead me to faith, God. Lead me to Your perfect place of rest. Lead me to those green pastures You talked about; to the place where I will

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How is it that in verse 12 it says "if we deny Him, He will deny us" and the verse after that then says, "if we are unfaithful, He remains faithful"? Isn't that a contradiction? And yet there must br a level on which it is not. -small explosion in Sicheng's brain- there might be something to be unearthed here...Ok verse 13 actually says, "if we are unfaithful, He remains faithful, since He cannot

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I've recently discovered the joys of Charlie Chan quotes. :DSome of my favorites:"Man who fights law always loses; same as grasshopper is always wrong in argument with chicken.""If strength were all, tiger would not fear scorpion.""Impossible to prepare defense until direction of attack is known.""Innocent act without thinking; guilty always make plans.""It is unasked question which prevent sleep

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After all, they don't really have any other word to call them besides 'church', do they?But just because you say you're Christian doesn't mean you're actually one, and just because you call yourself a church doesn't mean you're part of THE Church - the body of Christ, the kingdom of God. It pisses me off that a tiny group of people in some corner of this massive country could do something that so

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The fullness of the God of the universe. Think about what that means for a second. How vast is God? How deep and high is God? Who is He? What is He? He is infinitely wide, infinitely big, infinitely deep, infinitely wise in infinite dimensioned. He has no limits, no boundaries, no lack in the slightest. He is absolute substance, so vast that anything you can even remotely imagine is merely

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I was sad to leave... :/The flooded road that led me to accuse my GPS (Clar's GPS actually) of telling me to drive into a riverThe view from the top of the arch!When I finally got there: Kozey, his mom and one of his Golden Retriever puppies!

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We met Natalia's friends Shaina and Logan there (they're engaged to be married!). I stayed with Logan. They had a kitten called Tails. I felt it was strange and rude to video Shaina and Logan, but not to video Tails. I literally saw him fall asleep while sitting up! Too bad I didn't catch THAT on camera...

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I didn't record any videos from days 3-6 because I was with friends and I thought videoing myself would be a little weird. :PDay 3: I sleep in (yay) at Tal's house. We have leftovers from her fridge for lunch, go for a short hike in this place that's only 5 minutes from her house (story of everyone's life in Colorado I imagine), and go meet Dan & Kayla. They're starting a Chi Alpha at the

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Wendover, UT to Colorado Springs, CO753 milesApprox 12-13 hours drive

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On Monday (Jul 5) I began a road trip across the country. My first leg: Mountain View, CA to Wendover, UT. Drove 659 miles, left Mountain View at about 8:40am and arrived in Wendover UT around 7:30pm. Except I had changed time zone, so it was actually 8:30pm.Here's my video logs from the first day. :)

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I set off at 8:40am this morning. Left my sunglasses in Clar's car and discovered last night didn't bring my toothbrush. But I had another pair and Clar had an extra one. 11 hours, 657 miles, about 25 wheat thins and 4 full bottles of mineral water / apple juice later, I arrived in Wendover, Utah at around 7:40pm or so. Except Utah is on Mountain time so it was actually 8:40pm.The scenery was

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Is about to begin. Tomorrow I start my cross-country trek in this very fully packed car:And that's only the trunk. The backseats are filled to the brim, with just enough space left for me to see out my rear window. I'm delivering this car to New York for my friend Will, and taking the chance to meet up with a few people on the way. The first leg tomorrow: Mountain View, California to (hopefully)

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http://comics.com/peanuts/2010-05-08/

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Solomon (another ex-Mendicant) got a few of us to sing the background to Michael Buble's Everything, one guy per part, while he sang to his sister at her wedding yesterday.It's not super in tune, but it has its good stretches. =) And THANK GOD we started in tune (our soundcheck start was pretty darn disastrous).

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I'm working on a consulting-style research paper on Tesla Motors, and briefly on some of their competitors in the electric vehicle market.All these acronyms of electric vehicles are driving me CRAZY. There's EVs (electric vehicles), BEVs (battery electric vehicles), HEVs (Hybrid electric vehicles), PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles), and E-REV (extended-range electric vehicles, which is

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I am a fan of Apple. I was merely curious about Macs before I came to Stanford, then realized that MAS was giving me money to buy a laptop and, for the first time ever, Apple laptops were approaching the prices of PC laptops (the Macbook). I've loved them ever since.I admire Apple and their products because I think they stand in stark contrast to many of the other computer companies out there.

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http://comics.com/peanuts/2010-01-25/

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From a few months ago. One of the guys made this very cryptic flow chart of cars NOT to buy. I thought it was hilarious.(source: http://middleclassmotoring.com/past-crush/2009/10/9/something-slightly-different-for-the-weekend.html)The article from one day before's pretty good toohttp://middleclassmotoring.com/past-crush/2009/10/8/19k-for-a-honda-fit.htmlIf you like cars, keep watching the car

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10:30am today: Wonder why Shaowei hasn't called me. I later figure out he forgot I asked him to.10:50am: I leave for Stanford to check my mail hoping the Budak CD has arrived. It hasn't. I also decide not to get Philz. It's a long drive and I should space out my caffeine intake.12noon: Arrive at Gilroy. Super packed. Camped out for parking at 2 different spots (Holland-Village-style!) before

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I was in Christmas service yesterday (Christmas Eve), and it dawned on me: God's most precious gift to us isn't that He gave Himself for us. It's that He gave Himself TO us.geez. Talk about big revelation. I feel like I'm waking up, like I've been semi-conscious all of Fall Quarter and the hunger is just starting to resurface. It's always been there, but kind of like hidden under the ice, and the

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(courtesy of xkcd.com)

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Oh man. This is so cool. Always thought of being a car journalist. Never imagined I'd be doing it now. middleclassmotoring.com. Scroll down till you see "Scion xB review and our new contributing writer." Bookmark the site if you like it! And spread the word if you know anyone who might like it - it's a pretty new site. =)If you can't find the article for some reason, here's a direct link.

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"You are My friends if you do whatever I command you." Jn 15:14We so often get tripped up on the 'whatever I command you' part. Read the whole passage, the whole chapter. It's not an invitation to obey His commands. It's an invitation to know Him. To be a friend of Jesus. Read it for yourself - the entire chapter talks about abiding in Jesus, about knowing Him, being with Him. It trips us up

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I just started reading Francis Chan's book Crazy Love. Don't know why I didn't like it the first time I picked it up a year ago when De Wen had it. Now I can't even get past the first few pages of the first chapter.Nothing earthshakingly new. Just this:"Solomon warned us not to rush into God's presence with words. That's what fools do... The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands

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After talking with Pa about the good and bad about Singapore last night, I thought this quote by Goethe I just spied from a bumper sticker parked in front of me was particularly apt:"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

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At Lisa & Daniel's place in SF. My first thought when I entered: where's the remote for the air con? And then I realized there isn't one. Feels weird not to have air-conditioning again. It also feels weird to just be here in the Bay Area again. The air is so nice and fresh and cool, the sky is bright, everything looks familiar... and yet it feels, once again, like I'm a little out of place. This

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Warning: Not funny like David Letterman's List10. This hostel we're staying at (Dragon Hostel) is awesome. Friendly helpful staff, good wireless internet in the common area, clean room, good location, good air-conditioning in the room, tv, free local calls... and the best part: I prayed for a room with a window (not all the rooms in hostels have windows), and not only did we get a room with a

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My car's on google maps!View Larger MapIt's the white station wagon in the middle. And the building to the right of the picture was my dorm in Sophomore (2nd) year. :)

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We often stick to prayers like "God, please move in this person's life." That's good. But I think it's helpful to also start praying prayers like "God, would you show me what you're already doing in his/her life?" God cares about their salvation even more than we do, and often He's already working in their hearts regardless of whether we're aware of it. Our calling is simply to partner with Him.

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Show me Your face, LordShow me Your faceAnd gird up my legsThat I might stand in this holy placeShow me Your face, LordYour power and graceI could make it to the endIf I could justJust see Your face

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Here’s a pretty basic fundamental principle we tend to follow: If our motivation for doing something comes from the hope of attaining something, then our motivation stops when we’ve attained it, at least until we find we want that thing again. (The Economics version of this is the good ol’ fundamental principle, ‘People respond to incentives.’ But I digress.)For instance, when I bought my car,

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Examples of apps you can download from the apple iPhone application store:-- iFart: Makes farting sounds -- Hold On: Hold a button for as long as you can -- MyVibe: Vibrating iPhone -- FatBurner2K: Burn fat by putting a shaking iPhone on your stomach -- Nothing: Does nothing -- iGouge: Poke an eye until it's red -- Annoy-A-Teen: Emit a high pitch noise for teens -- iFlush: Flush down a picture of

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I am at this moment in a parking lot outside Best Buy in Mountain View, using the free wireless that Google provides to its home city (i.e. Mountain View). Alan and I are trying to fix my car (the trunk light permanently stays on - we've taken out the entire locking mechanism and figured out that something in the trunk got bent so that the locking mechanism doesn't shut all the way) and the last

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If doing well is part of my sense of identity, then the better I do, the more independent from God I become.

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The cast got upgraded a little. ;) Thanks Kozey.A video I did together with Wenqi for our Cantonese final. Starring Bertram and Cecilia. Translation:M: Hello, is A-Cheui around? - Sorry, A-cheui just went out. May I ask who's speaking please?M: This is A-Mahn, I'm his classmate. Could you please tell me when he'll be back? - I think he should be back in an hour.M: Great. I'll call back

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http://www.stanforddaily.com/cgi-bin/?p=1031438

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“You only have power over the storm you have peace in.” - Bill JohnsonDon’t be afraid of the fear. It can’t harm me. Don’t be afraid of falling. God can catch me. Don’t be afraid of hurting people. God can heal them. Don’t be afraid of being hurt. God can heal me. Don't be afraid of who I really am. God made me. Don’t be afraid. Be bold. Be yourself. (sounds like some kind of Nike commercial

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I honestly never thought I'd be doing something like this. :P Translation:N: Hey, Simon, hello!S: Nancy! Hi! Wah, the weather today is really warm.N: Yes it is. Yesterday I thought it'd be dristling today, but the weather today turned out really nice. Did you go out today?S: No, I had to go to work today.N: Oh, where do you work?S: I work at a noodle shop (wanted to say dim sum restaurant but

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Some say I am one of many good ways to live;The preference of many, but not true for all.Some say I'm a philosophy;A way of livingA moral code.Some seek Me for the benefits of My kingdom;The healings, the provision,The assurance of moral character for their children.Some say My Son was a prophet;That He pointed to Godbut that He is no more.Yet some others say I still Am, but that I no longer

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SEE THEM HERE!!

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http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2009-03-29/

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Click on it for the full thinghee hee

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It's 3:05pm. I'm 10 minutes early, and I've finished my last final. Well, it's only 10 minutes. I'll do a last flip through my answers to make sure I answered everything.3:15pm. The TA still isn't here yet. What gives?3:18pm. About 4 other people around me are packing up and leaving. I figure I'm not going to wait any more, just turn it in and leave. We enter the elevator, about 4 other people

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From straitstimes.com:"SINGAPORE may have cut its corporate income tax rate to a relatively low 17 per cent, but it is not a tax haven, Senior Minister of State for Finance and Transport Lim Hwee Hua said yesterday.That is because the Republic has a strong rule of law, and companies based here have concrete business activities. This is unlike other tax havens..." (emphasis added)I know I'm being

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From the San Francisco Chronicle, on London's largest snowfall in 18 years which fell in London Sunday night and Monday:"In the southwestern city of Bristol, zookeepers said a group of lion-tailed macaque monkeys were spotted making and eating snowballs. Police in Wales scolded children after officers fielded double the usual number of complaint calls — most from adults complaining about young

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A lot of us in church have heard someone refer to God as a doctor. Often it's in reference to His power and willingness to do miracles of physical healing, and many times it's to do with emotional healing too. But I just had this revelation today as I was sitting in Jack In The Box with Shaowei and De Wen. The mental picture many of us (like me) get when we think of the kind of doctor God is is a

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Yeah! It's been an amazing finals week. Since last Thursday, I've had one thing due/happening every day (excluding the weekend) so I'm really glad that my finals are only ending tomorrow. Most people usually complain that their finals don't end earlier, but if mine ended any earlier I would've been much more pressed for time. So it's really a blessing that everything's so evenly spread

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Here's a link to a .wav file that I made for my computer-generated sound class. The task was to record everyday sounds and turn it into music - I decided that limiting myself to a theme was a good way to help me keep my focus and so I ended up recording sound clips of various parts of my car. Everything you hear here is either a pure sound clip, or a sound clip that has been processed through a

Su, Sichenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056859853480817676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30978715.post-80640420473353475312008-10-19T16:35:00.000-07:002008-10-19T16:46:11.634-07:00

National Day always passes by with songs and messages of nationalism, national pride, family values and all that. Want to sing about the greatness of a nation? Try this.Singapore, Singapore,Don't you know your own beauty?Singapore, Lion's Roar,You were made in His glorySo open your heartsAnd open your eyes'Cos the Father loves you soLion arise,Arise and find your songI wrote that over the summer

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Went camping on Friday with Chi Alpha. It was really fun. I slept in my car! Haha. See the pictures!And our epic campfire that got really big and pretty:

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"Little kids don't get Holy Spirit Jr. They get the full blessing of real thing!" The Holy Spirit isn't something you grow into or only receive when you become mature. He's freely given to everyone who will receive Him! :)

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Love isn't the excuse for what we do. Love is what we do. Many of us think that receiving God's love and loving Him back is the starting point of our Christian walk. But it's not the starting point; it's the journey itself. This isn't a principle, or a nice saying (although if it is a nice saying I'd be happy since I came up with it). Love is the deepest truth anyone of us can ever understand,

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Got two nuggets of understanding that I wrote down during service today. The best part (as I've mentioned to several people several times, including mike) is that the speaker (Rev. Casey Treat) probably barely touched on these at all. In fact maybe he didn't even talk about them. But I guess God did, to me at least. Haha.The first one has to do with our authority on earth vs. Satan's reign on

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Last week (Mon to Fri) was spent at a supernatural worship conference called Transformation, held at Church Of Our Saviour. The speakers were all from the USA and were either part of or affiliated with the ministry of Bethel Church, a church in Redding, California that I've been to quite a few times and whose ministry I've been so blessed by. It's been an amazing week, and God just met me and

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*shiny!*It was a birthday present, from a bunch of friends who've come to form an unexpected second Singaporean spiritual family to me (after my cell group in City Harvest), and from myself - they gave me a really generous voucher to an Electronics store and I decided to pay a bit more myself to get something a little better than the average compact-sized ridiculously-megapixeled digicam. Have

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I like this article from the Bethel Church (Redding, California) website:http://www.ibethel.org/features/journal/index.php?f=journal.php&id=40"...at its core, stewardship is not really about money. The foundation of true biblical stewardship is renewing our hearts and minds. If we guard our hearts and minds, the other stuff will take care of itself."In particular, I like how it ends."A great

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A revelation about 1 Cor 13:In God's world, love isn't the excuse. It's the reason, the main point. Love isn't the precondition to everything; it is everything.

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I just watched Get Smart yesterday. Love that movie. It's funny, witty and the humour isn't just slapstick. There's actually some substance to the plot and the characterization.A really good line from the movie prompted me to make a post on a few quotes that stuck in my mind lately:"That's what they do, not who they are."- when Maxwell Smart is talking about the bad guys being, well, bad

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For some reason or other, whenever I'm awake when others are awake, I have this subconscious urge to do stuff, to be productive, or at the very least active, even when I want to take time to myself, so that even if I decide to sit back and watch some TV or something like that, I still feel crappy for not doing much. But once everyone else is asleep, I finally feel like it's my own time. For some

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Check out the trailer to my a cappella group's Spring Show happening next week...

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It's finals week this week. Where did my whole quarter go? Was Pi day (March 14, a.k.a. 3.14 in American notation) really an entire year ago, when John Sillcox demonstrated his Mathematical prowess by reciting Pi to a HUNDRED decimal places unprepared in front of a captive Chi Alpha audience? Has it really been more than an entire month since my last blog post? Am I really 2/3 way through my

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SABA = Singaporean-American Business Association. We sang for their gala dinner about 3 months ago in San Francisco. Here's the smooth voice of Patrick Kozey of the Mendicants singing Hooked On A Feeling. The video's a bit jerky, sorry about that.

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Yes, believe it or not. They've apparently found a way to grow durian trees here in California.I'm kidding of course. They freeze durian and import it to the Chinese supermarket here. I was at the supermarket (Ranch 99) the other day and saw durian in boxes. It was two pieces for 5 bucks which i thought was quite ex but decided to try anyway. Turns out they're seedless! Or at least someone took

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Went with the Singaporean association at Stanford to Lake Tahoe this weekend to ski. Was quite fun, Saturday had really fantastic weather, and from the mountain you can see the lake and on the other side you can see the plains of Nevada surrounded by mountains. Great stuff. :) Sunday morning we awoke to find it snowing, and it didn't stop snowing the entire day. Apparently the snow was from a

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It's been stormy today. Wind and rain, fallen tree branches etc. The main storm was supposedly yesterday - apparently it came out in Singapore papers. Winds of up to 70mph on the Golden Gate Bridge, gusts of wind topping over 100mph in Los Gatos (somewhere not tooooo far from Stanford) but somehow Stanford wasn't too bad. Which is good. But also makes me feel a bit like I'm missing out on the

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I just checked my grades. It's funny. I took 3 classes - Econ 50, Econ 102A (stats) and Intro to Judaism. I really don't like stats, couldn't bring myself to study really all that hard for it. I really tried, but I know I didn't do all that much. The Judaism class was interesting but I started losing interest halfway through, especially with that weekly 2-3 page paper that we had to do plus a

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Finished one final and one final paper, one more to go!Unfortunately that final is stats. And I really don't understand a lot of the stats stuff ever since the midterm. I just find it really hard to grasp the intuition behind a lot of the stats stuff. Plus the lecture's at 9am and lasts for 1h 50 mins, which pretty much guarantees that I either will wake up late for the lecture, skip it entirely

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It's finals this week... yes one quarter's already finishing. Weirrd. I just turned in a paper for my Judaism class. If I do well, it's really by grace, cos I didn't feel that I wrote all that fantastically but I also didn't feel like I could've done much better. I ALSO didn't know that the paper was due at 5pm, so I happily decided to take my time before realizing that the paper was due at

Su, Sichenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056859853480817676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30978715.post-83356804416948745372007-11-28T10:55:00.000-08:002007-11-28T10:57:56.101-08:00

I have two problem sets due on Friday, one for Econ 50 and one for Econ 102A. I took a quick look at the former yesterday and started doing the problems, did 4 out of 11 of the problems before getting stuck. Now (in Econ 50 lecture) i just took another look at the problem set and realized questions 8-11 are just for practice. So I don't have to do them. So I've done 4 out of 7 questions, and it's

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"If only one printer queue exits and this queue was created via Bonjour, it will be automatically recreated as part of the Mac OS X 10.5 installation process. Products using device drivers with VISE Installer v2.x will currently not run on Mac OS X Leopard. This includes HP Scanjets and HP Photosmart digital cameras... HP plans to release software updates in 30 to 60 days."http://h41140.www4.

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As promised, pictures from our drive back from LA...

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I got 101/110 for my Econ 50 midterm!! The amazing thing is half the time I don't pay attention in lectures and I didn't really put a LOT of effort into studying for the midterm. Somehow grades still do matter to me but it's not as big a deal as before, so I didn't get so stressed this time which I guess was good. Anyway praise God cos the mean was like 84 so I'm way above it (I think).Just got

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http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40204628.htmlIt wasn't very big but it's my first earthquake and definitely an interesting experience. The walls were shaking, so was my chair, but not by very much; nothing fell off any bookcases or anything like that. It lasted for about 10 seconds or so and then stopped, and I was wondering "That's it??". According to the website above it was a 5.6

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I forget if I've mentioned this already but I lost my camera-to-USB port cable, which means I can't upload photos from my digicam to my com. Kinda defeats the point of having a digicam. I don't know where the cable went; I remember unpacking it when I got to the US but I don't know where it could be now.Anyhew, De Wen and I took a trip to Fry's (a pretty big US electronics store chain) to get Wii

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Yeah I haven't updated this for a while. The first 1.5-2 weeks after getting here were pretty rough, and believe it or not, I still have half a box of books that I haven't unpacked yet. Of the negative highlights of my time here, couple of things deserve special mention. First, the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) decided over the summer to suspend my car's registration 'cos they thought I

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ROCKAPELLA IS IN SINGAPORE THIS NOVEMBER!!!! I don't know whether to laugh or cry. haha.

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After 17 hours of traveling and a whole day of zuo-bo-ing, reading, going for a walk and getting my car from Uncle Peng Huat's place (which included jump starting it), I'm finally in Boon Sim's room. Staying over at his place, he very kindly let me use his room since he's still in Singapore. Feel kinda bad though, 'cos his housemate, Choon Kiat, was apparently waiting for me to come over while I

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Again! Haha. It was a year ago that I first posted a post by the same title as this. No prizes for guessing why. Anyway my flight details are finally confirmed, finalized and not going to change by my will. :)I'm leaving Singapore from Terminal 1 on Wed, 12 Sep, at 8:30am on NH112 (All Nippon Airways), stopping over in Tokyo before going on to San Francisco. I'll be touching down in San Francisco

Su, Sichenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056859853480817676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30978715.post-45008901175773146242007-08-13T11:30:00.000-07:002007-08-13T11:49:01.124-07:00

Two reasons why I haven't updated this blog for quite some time. First reason: I don't have internet access at home. I live with my mum and she doesn't use computers at all so I canceled my internet subscription when I left for the US. Right now I'm using free wireless from a MacDonalds... it's pretty good tonight though usually the connection is pretty weak and splotchy...Second reason: Not much

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I'm back home! After 3 short and really great weeks of hanging out with De Wen and Yinshan. I'll be here until 14 Sep or so; still need to change my flight. I originally booked my return flight for 20 Sep but I need to be back by the 16th for Mendicants stuff... still trying to decide whether to go back earlier so I have more time to rest and recover from jet lag before I move in and get busy. :)

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A whole year has passed by?? Apparently. Doesn't quite feel that long and yet it does at the same time. It's pretty strange. I remember moving in not too long ago and I don't feel like I've been here very long, yet the day I moved in is also in a distant memory that's becoming more and more cloudy. Quite a strange feeling. It only began to hit me yesterday morning that this is the end of a year

Su, Sichenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056859853480817676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30978715.post-61598482224881559602007-06-08T01:36:00.000-07:002007-06-08T01:43:53.578-07:00

We took this photo last night (wed night) at Chi Alpha after our weekly meeting. Last meeting of the quarter! Wait, didn't I just get here?? Sure feels like it. The shock of finishing my first year here hasn't quite hit me yet. Anyway Chi Alpha has been a great fellowship that I'm really blessed to be part of. I'm gonna miss everyone over the summer... really hope I can make it to the

Su, Sichenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056859853480817676noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30978715.post-18871127285551273322007-06-01T23:30:00.000-07:002007-06-02T00:04:28.803-07:00

Well ok. One thing that's white. :)From the rearSide viewFront viewThe front seats (hooray for manual transmission!)A nifty little thing they designed into the car - a pen-holder. You never know when you'll need one.Since getting it this afternoon I've already driven it something like 60 miles. It's been fun. Still getting used to the car though - the biting point of the clutch is a little high,

Su, Sichenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056859853480817676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30978715.post-11467404460621317342007-05-31T00:18:00.001-07:002007-05-31T00:26:18.434-07:00

I was listening to a sermon by Lou Engle (it was either him speaking or someone speaking at his meeting) a day or two ago, and the recording came to a point which caught my attention - I played it over a few times and then just stopped 'cos I couldn't go on without getting it.He said it as something really in passing, but earth-shaking to me. It went something like: "you know what a covenant is

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my Macbook laptop... the plastic shelves next to my desk... clouds... my car...My car? yeah. Feels weird saying it. But yes, I bought a car today! It's a 2007 Ford Focus 4 Dr Sedan. 5-spd manual of course. ;) I've been on the lookout for good deals on cars for a week or two, but never really considered buying a new one 'cos the depreciation is crazy high. But this weekend was Memorial Day weekend

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It's been about 10 months (maybe 11?) since I started this blog (wow time flies), and I've just discovered that my dear friends Emily and Jace, who're overseas in Poland for a few months, evidently have as good taste as I do in choosing templates: Check out their blog.So I decided I shall change my template, since I've been using it for 10-11 months anyway. :) I quite like it. Quite minimalistic

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Papers, that is. I just handed in my barely-8-pages IHUM paper today!!! YAY! It feels so good to have one of them over and done with. Now for my PWR paper. I've got materials but haven't read through much of them at all.Haven't blogged for a long time; been pretty busy lately, especially with The Mendicants' Spring Show last Friday which, I'm glad to say, went pretty well. Quite a few Chi Alpha

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The Mendicants' big Spring Concert is coming up! 18 May 2007. Check out our promo video:

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I just watched the whole range of Apple advertisements on the Apple website. They're awesome!! Hilarious. Of course some are better than others. Check them out at http://www.apple.com/getamac/ . Gotta have Quicktime to run it I think.

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I had a paper outline for my IHUM due this morning. I'm so glad it's over. Haha. Although the final version of the 8-10 page paper (double spaced) is due in 20 days. But I'm glad for this small hurdle to have passed.Some good news: I got back my first Econ midterm and I got an estimated A-! It's estimated 'cos it's really the numerical score that counts towards a final score, which will then be

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Been pretty busy lately, hence the relatively infrequent updates on this blog. But that's not what this entry's about. Check out this report:http://www.itv.com/news/britain_d47fb0994d1357c3ef7d13eed7a160ea.htmlWe Singaporeans need to relax man.

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I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It's a blessing that the library's here, but the reason for my frequent use of it is lotsa homework. Which isn't really a bad thing anyway - it's tiresome at times but it'll be interesting and I'm sure I'll learn some good stuff through the experience.First, a list of my classes for this quarter (kinda belated, it's the end of the 3rd week

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One more quarter (another 10 weeks) and I'm done with my Freshman year of school. Wow.Last quarter turned out well. I got an A- on my Econ final which gave me an overall B+, which isn't bad considering I had two B-s for the two midterms. Got an A- for IHUM, which I'm pretty happy with, and an A+ for Music 22 (Theory) which I'm also happy with of course. Overall GPA is 3.79 right now. =)This

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I went hiking again today, this time with a friend from the dorm called Daniel. The two of us left the dorm at 8:20am, brought our bikes on the Caltrain and biked along Embarcadero (a really scenic road along the SF coast) to Pier 41 where we took a ferry to Angel Island (off the San Fran coast). We reached the island at about 10:20am, hiked on a hiking trail, went all the way to the top of the

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