A walk in the rain...

iziz90 @ 2009-04-26T19:07:00

2009-04-26T11:07:50Z

Thanks, everyone - you know all of you mean a lot to me.

iziz90 @ 2008-12-25T22:17:00

2008-12-25T14:18:12Z

People made my Christmas.
I hope to give it all back to them someday (:

System Error.

2008-12-14T16:23:16Z

This message cannot be sent to (turkeygirl) because the recipient has enabled the privacy options for their messages.

iziz90 @ 2008-12-13T00:02:00

2008-12-12T16:06:40Z

It's odd...or maybe not...how the only choir I think I would ever truly belong to is Raffles Chorale.

Ah yes Turkey girl if you are reading this...95% of my posts are locked, actually =x you might wanna mail me. Drop me an LJ message k (:

iziz90 @ 2008-12-08T04:51:00

2008-12-07T20:52:11Z

What to do with 20 minutes at Istanbul airport?

http://folkflocksflowers.blogspot.com/2008/11/lux-arumque.html

iziz90 @ 2008-10-22T12:09:00

2008-10-22T04:09:33Z

http://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/axis.shtml

iziz90 @ 2008-07-28T22:49:00

2008-07-28T15:06:14Z

-amusing-
tuition classmate: "isaac should grow a beard!"

-introspective- (or perhaps, a placeholder for emoxz+frustration+poetry of dubious quality and etc. =D )

-A Daytime Moon-
It eats the warmth
the hand-drawn stars
The frozen tears
the chocolate bars
It eats up differently
you and I
But still I miss
Our December sky.

Fresh air
The lifeblood of the chained.
Silent warmth
The battery of the depleted.

-random-
"It is better to have a bigger heart than a bigger brain." says I

iziz90 @ 2008-05-27T15:54:00

2008-05-27T07:58:48Z

While my heart is a shield and I won't let it down
While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try
Well how can I say I'm alive

If my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

Quite inspiring, and more so is this:

I will not boast in anything: no gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ; his death and resurrection
Why should I gain from his reward? I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart: his wounds have paid my ransom

Thank God for trip.

iziz90 @ 2008-05-04T23:12:00

2008-05-04T15:36:30Z

I suppose I am obliged to post so-

I am okay! Perfectly alright!
Off painkillers, greatly reduced swelling. I can move up and down stairs and faster than walking and carry bags like normal and thank you for the kind offers!

Mom panicked and called everyone including grandaunt and grandmother, who are all gonna pray for me yay <3 she also asked to borrow cantonese drama serials and whatnot. Helped to alleviate boredom in hospital alternating btwn listening to her and watching HBO and reading H3 Econs notes and Arena which is some mag focused on fashion and celebs and all the stuff you'd like to buy (not celebs) but can never afford like the Lamborghini Reventon which is on many many guys' dreamlists but not mine cause it's terribly illiquid, you know, and there's no need to drive at 200+mph on Singapore's roads (not to mention that you'd get all 12 demerit points in a day)(what a sentence). It costs about as much as 2 decent bungalows in SG's strengthened dollar market. That'd be.... 1/5 of Chris's house? xD

Thanks for all the SMSes, I couldn't keep up, so sorry if responses were slow!

Hospital staff are mostly welfare types (so I suppose Ave and Gen'd be fine nurses) and they're very nice specially this guy from the Phillipines, who was warmly friendly, and not awkward. I was trying to joke with the doctors and nurses but they were probably too bored of their jobs or worried about potential undetected damage or something.

Mm looked at my XRay. It's not a grade III and I highly doubt it's a grade II la so it should be minor! Anw ankle ligament tearing is one of the most common sprain-type injuries around.

The only things I can't do are walk and cross my legs -.- so no more fussing and worrying okay? OKAY! =D

Since Ivan said it'd be appropriate:
Great and marvelous, marvelous are your deeds
Lord God, Almighty.

iziz90 @ 2008-04-29T21:45:00

2008-04-29T13:56:47Z

A little late but thankyou to everyone who celebrated my birthday with me! Not least of all churchies and chorale people (: Thanks for the bottle to replace my lost one, bag to replace my burst one, jacket to replace my embarrassing one and file to cram everything else into! And cake and long bread and birthday messages and smiles and a full day of music <3 jazz and singing wooh.
A year ago, I'd never have expected that I'd value the less practical gifts just as much (if not more), though.

Hmm can't wait for trip >< have to catch up on things... hang out in European mall barber shops...stuff.

The mini-Singapore Flyer and shining stars shall be on my piano, as is appropriate (: but I really can't bear to use the new stuff in case I lose them like just about everything else x_X

Tools of the Trade: Manipulator

2008-04-19T14:38:52Z

~Random moments~

Bag burst at S-Eleven. Fortunately had Gen's plastic bag which came conveniently with vegetable buffet container... dragged the fat deadweight thing through Bennett's neighbourhood... staring down neighbourhood dogs. You know they tend to refrain from barking when you feel hostile, think cause you release some kind of scent my D-grade Bio doesn't certify me to qualify. Maybe Julian knows

Am really looking forward to spending more time with basses that can't wait to progress, Readon, Yisheng, Tai Boon, even if I'm 13 days behind my revision schedule. Aiya whatever manzz. Nvr worked with Gerald or Louis yet! Comecome

Went singing with a rather raw throat again. Got a pretty clean high F blasting in the 8 min. break which is probably (Mr Toh:" only achievable when you are going to fall sick") but I'm fine, I woke up later.

Shall sleep earlier before I get more death threats and much worse from various people. Aiyo it was for you pls >< Deb Quan Suet etc. And damage my voice or something like that. Maybe get some wit back

(-)Ungraded H3 Econs Essay
(-)AAADDE NAPFA brrrrronze.
(+)High E sometimes
(+ for now)ABCDE CTs
(-/+)Somewhat botched audition

That's life, man. Pot of ice and fire.

Loving it. (:

iziz90 @ 2008-04-15T21:51:00

2008-04-15T14:03:51Z

One mess
Two tutorials
Three failures
Four headaches

And a whole lot more than five blessings.

Link from Weiren

iziz90 @ 2008-03-15T22:57:00

2008-03-15T14:57:47Z

Mugging in school, despite attempts to stay perfectly focused, ended up being tempered with joy, and yet also remained productive at the same time...

Cat and fangirling
Fried and lights, and locks
Gen and incomprehensible KI discussions
Geof and prawn juice, and slurping
Ivan and Seasons
Joelle and apple pies and one oreo
Kia and everything lame. and packed food
Quan and fries, and associated eating habits
Royce and cheeriness
Suet and simply complex vectors
Val and (I still have your chem answers oops!)
Wen Yi and latemuggingness
Yong Feng and pretty colours.

Felt tired at 930 so went to locker. Met Zhou Mi behind lt4 - talked with her abit about the future and other stuff. Smiley as usual, even after mugging bio and at 9pm. Amazing..

God's plan is surprising, and as usual,

amazing.

iziz90 @ 2008-03-12T23:07:00

2008-03-12T15:29:59Z

Adversity is the best teacher, really, if a little inflexible.

De-virused the PC! (De-virused myself, too.) Had to install a second instance of Windows, though. Most annoying; iTunes library destroyed, drivers not detected, etc, etc.

But hey, the net and LJ work, so (:

Have a feeling I won't be able to finish mugging Only past Econs and 3/4 of Chem. Aw well. Trying not to panic or stuff like my mom says.

It serves no purpose, really...even stoning for an hour spent panicking listening to stuff (okay guilty ^^) is more efficient... but I really really need them grades to average a C or so, first. My avg was D and half a plus for promos, bleh.

Anyway, it sets the picture well for term 2. Heh. Though the mugging comes after <3 chorale stuff, as usual.

Modifying my retainer; hope it doesn't affect sound/pitch. Wanna fool around with the ever-elusive high E =D

Mm yeah and Julian's foodcourt musical YouTube video is worth watching. During a 55-minute-per-hour break, of course.

iziz90 @ 2008-03-09T15:43:00

2008-03-09T08:12:59Z

If I could get another chance
Another walk, another dance with him
I’d play a song that would never, ever end
How I’d love, love, love to dance with my father again

We have the weirdest family moments.

Like when we try to determine if we can cut in between a lorry and a car

They're not much, but

they're special when they come. =D

There's only now
There's only here
Give in to love
Or live in fear

No other path
No other way
No way but today...

No way but today.

Watched Rent and SiCkO. Good tests of your emotional spectrum.

iziz90 @ 2008-02-29T22:57:00

2008-02-29T15:41:47Z

For those interested (if any) -

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1) Free bread! The catch is that you have to buy something, of course. They expect peer pressure and embarrassment to compel you to order something, I suppose. So actually there -is- a free lunch. o_0

I suppose they also figure that their customers' PED isn't that elastic, and they won't be climbing all over the bread/tomato/butter.

2) Comfortable ambience, to distinguish it from Mac's and KFC and etc. however next door is Thai Express providing fierce competition (Cartel wins, anyhow. They have softer seats)

3) The menu is displayed proudly outside, at the desserts page! According to Undercover Economist that's cause people who stay longer, eg. those who order appetizer and/or dessert, do pay for the increased amount of time spent hanging around, and this is reflected in the higher costs of the appetizer/dessert dishes. (So it's not just for the decoration and presentation after all.)

The largest picture splashed across the menu is one of a $6.80 mango slice sundae. It's a scoop of supermarket-brand ice-cream and an array of preserved peach. I'd guess it would be the item with the highest profit margin in percentage terms.

And displayed only slightly smaller is Lovers' Delight at $12.80, the most expensive dessert! No surprises there. Probably the dessert with the highest real profit margin.

4) The availability of toppings acts like product differentiation (a form of price discrimination)! Consider:

Sundae --> $X
Sundae + Chocolate -->$X + 50c
Sundae + Chocolate + Fruit --> $X + $1

And so on. Then consumers willing (and able) to add toppings would do so! The difference in product quality allows higher choice; also splits the demand curve for the original product so that more consumer surplus can be absorbed. (Despite higher CoP, which is insignificant compared to the increase in retail price)

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Nothing really meaningful happening in school, except getting to know (some of) my classmates a bit better.

Dr Chan made a really lame impromptu joke today .-. like something I would do hoho.

Can't find the time to sleep, even given my inelastic sleep requirements >_<
But nobody has time anyway. =x

~
From Canadian news, though:

According to the report, each hour short of eight hours of sleep a night could knock one point off a person's IQ. It would be easy to lose fifteen points in a week, resulting in a person with an IQ of 100 becoming "borderline retarded."

Perhaps it might not be prudent to stay up and lose 4% IQ for the rest of the week.
~

iziz90 @ 2008-02-25T23:24:00

2008-02-25T15:52:29Z

1) If you ever read this, sorry to have made you cry x_X your immediate superiors are great people, I really do treasure them.

2) I have more self-control than you suspect;
I will not yield.

3) If it's true that guys have egos over their IQ, then shouldn't we increase ego to give IQ room to grow?
I think I just proved the statement =.= and what a fallacy!

4) If you love physical activity, you'd better start to like fatigue. If you love music, you should gear your mind positively towards long pracs. If you like As and Bs, well...

5) Why hasn't that express delivery order for five hours of time arrived yet.

6) Tired of being sick. I want my Extremely Elusive E back again, sheesh. It comes packaged with a decent falsetto G for Boston. #_X

7)Econs Zone!

Econs TOTD: Are consumers really irrational as people say? Maybe everything is justified by a certain utility. Even if I voluntarily choose to pay $2 extra for a cup of coffee for example, isn't the additional utility of the satisfaction of being stubborn a justifiable reason for such a choice? What if it happened to be your best alternative for the day?

In this vein, you cannot argue that anyone is irrational at any point, given that the lost utility of making a 'rational' decision instead of the 'irrational', impulse-driven one as defined by our standards is too costly to the decision maker. Perhaps the concepts of rationalism and utility are subjective after all.

Also! stall 2 really could increase it's profit margins with a simple advertisement (like this one). D'you know tehbing and kopibing is much thicker nearer to the end of the day cause they have to clear the machines anyway (credit to Ivan.). So it's a much better deal for 70c at off-peak hours like 430pm. Assuming your demand for the beverage is relatively price elastic, anyway.

Ooh how fun is Economics (: without the stifling mathematics, for the larger part. I might take that back...

Eventually.

After the chaos...

2008-02-24T16:05:47Z

Instead of worrying about all those things, I shall worry about

how my jokes aren't funny enough,
how my friends aren't sleeping enough
and how my homework isn't completed enough.

What's up this week, do you think?

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...flying, huh...

Men weren't made to ride
With clouds between their knees.

Sigh.

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Anyway!

It starts in my toes
Makes me crinkle my nose

You do fall sick easier if you don't cover your feet while you sleep, apparently. x)

iziz90 @ 2008-02-20T21:57:00

2008-02-20T14:10:27Z

Handling life is like drawing a vector - you need a magnitude and a direction.
Learn to navigate and captain it yourself; and enjoy it, or hate it.
Choose (:

Can you tell when you're wrong?
Can you admit it when you're wrong?
Can you change when you're wrong?
Aren't these pretty colours?

When did we change? Were we wrong?

iziz90 @ 2008-02-16T23:42:00

2008-02-16T15:52:48Z

(Anyway as a counterbalance.)

Wiped all my reminders on phone! >< Including things to blog about. So this'll do~

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Super Long Guide To my less used smileys!
Version 1.0 Final

Chapter I - Smileys!

-_^ amused raised eyebrow smiley

@_^ amazed amused raised eyebrow smiley

~_^ amused raised eyebrow smiley with wink

#_^ patched up but very pleased smiley

Chapter II - Acknowledgements!

Me!

-End-

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I'm always at LT2 on Saturday mornings, 7.30, when it's open. If you visit me,

My heart is full and my door's always open
You can come anytime you want.

I'll attempt to play you something hurrhurr.

Life is good; even pain and frustration have a rather perverse form of affirmation.

Happy days to you. :)

iziz90 @ 2008-02-15T16:38:00

2008-02-15T13:29:49Z

It's something unpredictable
But it the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life.

Can't bear to eat the VDay presents >_< feel like stashing away all of them (especially the handmade ones (one)!) and keep them till they expire ^_^

Grr no time. Time, so important and sometimes so bitter and thieving as it passes.

Thank God time is sometimes pink and sweet! (:

Hmm ever consider what the price on an hour of time would be, if it could be bought and sold? I suppose it'd be in the tens of thousands, given the amount of cash one could throw out with additional work time (vicious cycle; buying time to work money). Not a very pleasant way to live a 1000 years though, I suppose...

At least it's time to sing soon =D

'Time is mana!'
-Nortrom, Silencer (DotA)

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PS. Ivan's magic cream rocks, btw :D Virgin Cocunut Oil or something.

iziz90 @ 2008-02-09T22:29:00

2008-02-09T15:09:21Z

YAY post! ^^ ^^ ^^

Things are rarely as good or bad as you expect them to be, so don't get too disappointed if they don't turn out right.
If they do, though, make sure you treasure them (: cause it's not everyday you get such a pleasant//nightmarish experience.

It's really hard to sleep early -.- I really like the night. And everybody's on MSN at night. Haiya.

"The night beckons." - Balanar, Night Stalker

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Okay today was a good day:
830 Went swimming!
930 Murtabak breakfast
1030 Cleaned study room. More like a mess hall, if you know what I mean. (There's food, too hoho ^^)
1230 MSN
115 Lunch
200 Visiting
400 H3 Econs Half-of-an-outline (this was absolutely productive =.=)
530 (or thereabouts) Nap
700 Dinner
730 Dishes
815 Read Halo graphic novel (ie. comic)
930 Bio Notes
1000 H2 Econs
1040 Blog

Where green's productive or compulsory, and the rest isn't... so much so.
But maybe too much idle time in between. Like music sampling... can't really work with music. Get caught up in the nuances, the rhythm, or something else. Sigh...

Time really flies, you know :( when you're being productive...

It'd be nice if I could make everyday like this, anyway... nice balance.
But no, school eats up 8 hours or more. =x Then again, I'm not sorry to go back.

Passed it last night after visiting grandparents. No matter how much RI guys complain about the same old J8... there's an emotional attachment. More so now we garrison the food court corner.

And of course, school.... passing it at 9 feels like missing being dropped off at 630. Haha...
I know I'll miss RJ, when it's time.

Anyway, missing people a lot, currently. Not seen Chorale people for 6 days rarrgh.

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PS. I think page 8 of Econs lecture is wrong... doesn't OP1 show insufficient demand instead of excess? I must've not been paying attention during lecture, if it was changed. Also, Wiki doesn't state that investment has to increase faster than growth, for multiplier effect to take place... a * change NY = change I from accelerator effect.

Edit: Read Wiki again... oh no wonder. if a is greater than 1 then Investment will rise faster than growth. And a has to be higher than one else there is not only no accelerator effect, there'll be a drag on growth cause there's less increase in fixed investment on growth. Which isn't even possible, ceteris paribus, cause fixed investment is needed for growth, unless the firm was being previously productively inefficient!

Never mind, doubt there'll be time to write until there anyway. (And doubt it'd be worth two marks.) I do like multiplier though... kinda like the way you combo 52 hit on Marvel vs Capcom... with Gambit's Royal Flush. (I finally realised why it's 52 hit heh.)

iziz90 @ 2008-02-08T19:49:00

2008-02-08T15:04:21Z

Life isn't always happy; on down days you'd tend to want to rate it on a scale from -100 to 0.
But maybe you'll see, after awhile, why 0 to 100 helps more.

It's not always good to talk about unhappy things? Maybe. But they might choke you. I guess you have to do it yourself, if you do feel like dislodging it.

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Okay, wasted three days idling about doing nothing of particular value.

There must be more than
this provincial life!
-Beauty and the Beast

It's always the same with long breaks -.- Eating nonstop and watching snacks continue to pile up =.= that's a first...
No wonder I'm bored...time to fix that. Like by sleeping by 11.

Which everyone should do (:

Hush now my baby
Be still now don't cry.
-Prince of Egypt

If I post tomorrow, I've had a productive day.
I WILL post tomorrow.

Somehow posting about myself seems selfish =.=

iziz90 @ 2008-02-04T23:21:00

2008-02-04T16:26:56Z

My CJ friends randomly asked me: is RJ Chorale good? But I don't think we we understood the same thing from my reply.

What is a good choir? Is it one that creates musical overtone? One with inspired singers? One with voices that blend well?

I think
A good choir creates overtones of love and also sorrow, of pleasure and pain, of joy and sadness.
And the music they make is always there when they're together.

So it's alright to feel sad, happy, and loved, all at the same time...
when you don't know which one to feel. <3

Thank God dad played Do You Hear the People Sing when I was five till I could sing it
Thank God my uncle introduced me to Michael Learns to Rock in P2
Thank God I was enchanted by Cascada's Truly Madly Deeply in P3
Thank God I decided the Rosyth school song sounded great in P4
   and that that year my uncle gave me a Yanni sample CD
Thank God Shenghao refused to stop playing The Entertainer in P5
                     And that the year started with Weiming playing Canon in D
Thank God my class clapped for me when I sang solo in P6
Thank God I decided to stop being a bad boy and pon RV pracs in Sec 2
                     and that Mr Leong screened Song From a Secret Garden
Thank God my brother mass-downloaded Enya in Sec 3
                     and that I climbed onto the sofa trying to hit high high something... E flat? (and I did okay! not anymore though)
Thank God Yong Feng put Return to Innocence on his thumb in Sec4 and I emoed during break on Sec 4 RV trip
                     and also Butterfly which fluttered my heart
Thank God I played so many RPGs and fell in love with all their soundtracks
Thank God for the awesome LotR soundtracks
Thank God for awesome music like Masquerade/Pseudo Yoik/Si Nanay/Pamugun/Soleram/Lonesome Road/Seasons of Love ...
Thank God for great RV-mates like Weiren, Gerald, Geoffrey, Julian, Bennett etcetc
Thank God for music, and song, and for RJ Chorale!

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PS. Speaking of overtone, alamak how come I can't get consistent (musical) overtone with anyone =.= must be swallowing too much. Nehmind let's keep going manz!

iziz90 @ 2008-01-30T23:41:00

2008-01-30T15:54:13Z

To all the tired, stressed, depressed... pressed dear kids I know (that's you Jazz chair with the tired face, you with the carpet and broom, and you with the endearing personal abbrievation, and you who's sick cause of your brother, and you who can't sing past F cause you're ill, and you who went for family movie and collected work on the sidelines, and you with the winnie the pooh tissuebox, and you juggling SYO with all else....

and you, and you, and you.

Everybody wants
to be understood
Well, I can hear you...

Everybody wants
to be loved
Don't give up,
Because you are

loved.
<3