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20 Years

… is the measure of men’s time since I appeared out from my mom’s womb.

Thank God, I am still alive this day. More what I can remember, is the numerous occasions that I could have met death, or suffer, if I was not preserved through near death situations.

A “Thank you” to those who remembers my birthday, and the well wishes and gifts you have gave me.

Why I am called �明(xiao3ming2)

[warning, content below requires some chinese knowledge]
xiao ming walks suddenly and his legs suddenly becomes “suan”. Why?
xiao ming stays on the 20 floor, but takes the life to the 18 floor to walk up. Why?
xiao ming “pa” stairs. Why?
xiao ming’s caught a mostiqutoe on his hand but didnt want to kill it because it was its birthday, but it died, why?
xiao ming’s father has 3 children, yi mao, er mao, and whose the 3rd?
[xiao ming's jokes extends to his family members, da ming, xiao bai, da bai, xiao pei... and the list could go on..]

Something like that happened in my ATT classroom.

Sensing I should should liven the admosphere of the class, I decided to ask what you might call, jokes, riddles, å?ƒé??é—®ç­?题(Qian Bian Wen Da Ti meaning “bashing” or lame questions).

As usual, there are already some jokers (which every group of people should have), and soon it became a verbal (jokes) warzone.

Like the last line of defense of an aircraft carrier, firing 60,000 rounds per second, questions were pounded continously by me until others couldnt take it, dying of laughter or enemy lameless I don’t know.

I have categorised many jokes into themes (like tagging) eg. sound fxs, words, logical, mockary and truly lame types. One category which had a high number of questions involved the imaginary character called �明 (xiao ming).

Those are reasons why I earned that title of mine. (In this short time of NS, alone I am nicknamed [in BMT] “mini toon”, “transformer”, [in ATT] “violin player”, “MSD”, “xiao ming”. It would be a collection I could recall those other wacky nicknames i had).

Thinking back to where I have learn the new vocab, from the primary school english text book, that could describe me is the word “Riddler”.

More Graduation Pics

BMT Graduation

Kindergarten Graduaton (Sembawang Community Center Kindergarten)

Polytechnic Graduation

Primary 4E

Secondary 2G

Secondary 4E4

NYP Graduation

28 July 2005, Thursday

At NYP for receiving my graduation certification and attending the ceremony.

I booked out the night before, missed the 8pm fastcraft, missed the shuttle to interchange, missed the next SBS bus to pasi ris, alighted not at the idea bus stop, took a bus to Yishun, took a wrong bus again, landing me up at woodlands, took the MRT back and reached home 12 midnight.

I wished I had more time to talk to others and take photos but I had to rush back to book in 4.30pm (The company booked out to visit the NDP carnival and fired some SAR21 blanks). No matter how bad the day could be, I still manage to get some photos here ;-)

My "classmates". Lots of people were and werent there so it was hard to find everyone to take picture together.

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Visit to the National Library

Today I took a trip to visit the new National Library. Although its seems to be the biggest building for libraries in Singapore, you might be a little disappointed there. The main library is like the size of NTUC supermarkets found in shopping center basement.

Aligned at Doby dought, this the first time I noticed a number of photos of historic buildings on the walls underground. There I learnt some historic importance of Plaza Singapura, MPH, YMCA, National Library…

Thinking about it, Libraries and Reading was one my pastimes. My interest in programming spawn when I was 10 due to some programming books I stumbled at the then AMK Community Library.

After I moved to a new house in Yishun, the Linear distance between my home and library was no more than 50m.

From secondary days, I spent large amount of time (canteen breaks and after school time) in the library. In sec 2 to 4, I became a librarian there.

After secondary school, I must have made some effort visiting almost all NLB branches in Singapore at least once.

Some interesting books I stumped upon.

Some WWII books with photos.

Think Naked: Childlike Brilliance in the Rough Adult World (Paperback)
by Marco Marsan, Peter Lloyd
158872042X

Organizing from the Right Side of the Brain : A Creative Approach to Getting Organized

IRC Hacks
059600687X
100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools

Find the Bug : A Book of Incorrect Programs