I'm starting to get sick of my deteriorating pool skills. Sure, i can break and run out more often now, but somehow, I'm losing the feel and confidence of my younger days. Perhaps its the year long cancer break, or maybe pool is a young man's game. But I'm afraid right now, I'm no longer a master.
Today i got beaten at icez pool by someone who was lousier than me. Giving your opponent to win 3 racks in a row to win the match when you're on the hill stings like a bitch. But more importantly, I'm gravely upset by the fact that I do not have the confidence to win even someone who doesn't really know the game well. I think I'm becoming too trained, too cautious, too scared of losing.
Well like theres only one thing left for me to do now, train, go back in a month, and thrash the fuck outta him.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
My name is Joey
Went to Icez pool at Kovan on Wednesday to meet up with soomin and darren to play a bit of pool. No actually my main reason was to sign up for the pool competition that is going to be held tomorrow. Wish me luck.
Part of me actually wants to go to SJC cause a lot of my friends are there and its near my house, not to mention near the bowling and pool centre too. If i go to SR i think i would have a comfortable time. Not neccesarily a good time, but a comfortable one.
For the most part though, i want to go to CJC. Change of environment, get to know some new people, get a new life. Sick of the old life, sick of the old Weizhou, tired of Darren and SM.. No hard feelings here, just a thought that distance would make us better friends.
A fresh start, a new beginning, a better life.
Please call me Joey from now on.
Part of me actually wants to go to SJC cause a lot of my friends are there and its near my house, not to mention near the bowling and pool centre too. If i go to SR i think i would have a comfortable time. Not neccesarily a good time, but a comfortable one.
For the most part though, i want to go to CJC. Change of environment, get to know some new people, get a new life. Sick of the old life, sick of the old Weizhou, tired of Darren and SM.. No hard feelings here, just a thought that distance would make us better friends.
A fresh start, a new beginning, a better life.
Please call me Joey from now on.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
new year
Its been two weeks since new year already so i know this is late.
reflections:
2008. What more can i say, I was in and out of hospital, suffered under chemotherapy, operations, injections, but amidst all the suffering and pain I could still be happy at times, because of the people who supported and stayed beside me, and i thank them from the bottom of my heart.
Now I have officially finished chemotherapy treatment, done the last lumbar puncture last Thursday. Hopefully after all that is done, I can win this battle. With cancer however, nothing is sure, but I am glad that I will have a chance to step foot in college next month. Thank you professor Tan at KK for bearing, and treating me.
Looking back, I'm really surprised at how brave I am. The bravest experience was when they cut open my chest to insert a port into my chest that connects to the heart. It was all done when I was awake okay! I could feel the surgeon cutting open my chest and the tube going deeper and deeper till it reached my heart, which was like beating at lightspeed! It wasn't really painful, but it was bloody and traumatizing. Okay just kidding it wasn't, actually at that time, i even found it quite an interesting experience.
Then came chemo. Which was unbearable. Many people ask me what it feels like.. I used to say it was undescribable, but i found a nice analogy. If you have ever sat in one of those sampans, and got seasick, multiply that by about 4, plus the worst headache you have ever felt, multiply that by 10, and then play golf for 2 days nonstop, that would roughly be it.. There was even a point where you could feel you brain ratllling inside your head due to the lack of cerebrospinal fluid.
Of course in 2008 i learnt how to cook too, play pool better, and advanced my mathematical knowledge a little... I got closer to some friends, distanced from most, and played a hell lot of games.
2008 i saw how strong i was, how nice some people can be, how mean other people can be. It was not a good year for sure, but nonetheless it had its rewards, more of like lessons actually.
My new year resolutions.
To be happy.
To get into cjc.
To play pool every week.
To master abstract algebra.
To slim down 10kg.
To learn how to cook sambal kangkong.
To complete all my rpg's
To learn driving.
Not to let JC work take over my life like many other people.
To expand the TPA
To be a master.
hahahaha
One more year to grow, to mature, to reach out to the stars and chase our dreams.
reflections:
2008. What more can i say, I was in and out of hospital, suffered under chemotherapy, operations, injections, but amidst all the suffering and pain I could still be happy at times, because of the people who supported and stayed beside me, and i thank them from the bottom of my heart.
Now I have officially finished chemotherapy treatment, done the last lumbar puncture last Thursday. Hopefully after all that is done, I can win this battle. With cancer however, nothing is sure, but I am glad that I will have a chance to step foot in college next month. Thank you professor Tan at KK for bearing, and treating me.
Looking back, I'm really surprised at how brave I am. The bravest experience was when they cut open my chest to insert a port into my chest that connects to the heart. It was all done when I was awake okay! I could feel the surgeon cutting open my chest and the tube going deeper and deeper till it reached my heart, which was like beating at lightspeed! It wasn't really painful, but it was bloody and traumatizing. Okay just kidding it wasn't, actually at that time, i even found it quite an interesting experience.
Then came chemo. Which was unbearable. Many people ask me what it feels like.. I used to say it was undescribable, but i found a nice analogy. If you have ever sat in one of those sampans, and got seasick, multiply that by about 4, plus the worst headache you have ever felt, multiply that by 10, and then play golf for 2 days nonstop, that would roughly be it.. There was even a point where you could feel you brain ratllling inside your head due to the lack of cerebrospinal fluid.
Of course in 2008 i learnt how to cook too, play pool better, and advanced my mathematical knowledge a little... I got closer to some friends, distanced from most, and played a hell lot of games.
2008 i saw how strong i was, how nice some people can be, how mean other people can be. It was not a good year for sure, but nonetheless it had its rewards, more of like lessons actually.
My new year resolutions.
To be happy.
To get into cjc.
To play pool every week.
To master abstract algebra.
To slim down 10kg.
To learn how to cook sambal kangkong.
To complete all my rpg's
To learn driving.
Not to let JC work take over my life like many other people.
To expand the TPA
To be a master.
hahahaha
One more year to grow, to mature, to reach out to the stars and chase our dreams.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Aftermathe
Christmas is over. Thanks to everyone who came. I hope you had a good time.
Finally completed the game the legend of Zelda : twilight princess after 60 hours of gameplay.
Fantastic game even though its a gamecube port. rating : 9.5/10
I realized it has been a very long time since i did some proper maths... Today lets talk about one of the most important aspects of modern mathematics, and indeed all of mathematics, isomorphism.
The concept of isomorphism is simple. When we add up 30 oranges with 20 oranges, we do not really add up all the oranges, rather we assign the number 20 to the 20 oranges and the number 30 to the 30 oranges and add up 20 and 30 to get 50 and thus our result would be 50 oranges.
It applies internally in mathematics as well.
consider the pair of numbers (x,y)
where x is the integers (mod 2), and
where y is the integers (mod 3).
if we list out all (x,y), they will look like this.
notice that the elements repeat themselves after the sixth one.
If we assign each element to a number like this, where the right hand side is the integers (mod 6),
note that (1,2) is assigned to 5 and (1,0) is assigned to 3. If we know that the two columms are isomorphic, we can just add 3 to 5 to get 8, which is simply 2 under mod 6. and the element assigned to 2 is just the answer, (0,2).
Using the concept of isomorphism, areas of mathematics that are new can be "mapped" into areas of mathematics that are well known and mathematicians can use all the developed tools of this familiar area of mathematics to attack the new ones.
Think about geometry and algebra, in algebra it is a fairly tedious thing to solve a cubic equation, however if we port the problem over to geometry, we can find the roots simply by plotting the graph of the cubic and measuring the distance from the origin. Admittedly when we draw it the answer is never perfect, but in the ideal world of mathematics, that distance is exactly the root.
Finally completed the game the legend of Zelda : twilight princess after 60 hours of gameplay.
Fantastic game even though its a gamecube port. rating : 9.5/10
I realized it has been a very long time since i did some proper maths... Today lets talk about one of the most important aspects of modern mathematics, and indeed all of mathematics, isomorphism.
The concept of isomorphism is simple. When we add up 30 oranges with 20 oranges, we do not really add up all the oranges, rather we assign the number 20 to the 20 oranges and the number 30 to the 30 oranges and add up 20 and 30 to get 50 and thus our result would be 50 oranges.
It applies internally in mathematics as well.
consider the pair of numbers (x,y)
where x is the integers (mod 2), and
where y is the integers (mod 3).
if we list out all (x,y), they will look like this.
- (0,0)
- (1,1)
- (0,2)
- (1,0)
- (0,1)
- (1,2) ............. and so on.
notice that the elements repeat themselves after the sixth one.
If we assign each element to a number like this, where the right hand side is the integers (mod 6),
- (0,0) -> 0
- (1,1) -> 1
- (0,2) -> 2
- (1,0) -> 3
- (0,1) -> 4
- (1,2) -> 5
note that (1,2) is assigned to 5 and (1,0) is assigned to 3. If we know that the two columms are isomorphic, we can just add 3 to 5 to get 8, which is simply 2 under mod 6. and the element assigned to 2 is just the answer, (0,2).
Using the concept of isomorphism, areas of mathematics that are new can be "mapped" into areas of mathematics that are well known and mathematicians can use all the developed tools of this familiar area of mathematics to attack the new ones.
Think about geometry and algebra, in algebra it is a fairly tedious thing to solve a cubic equation, however if we port the problem over to geometry, we can find the roots simply by plotting the graph of the cubic and measuring the distance from the origin. Admittedly when we draw it the answer is never perfect, but in the ideal world of mathematics, that distance is exactly the root.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Retrospect
KK this christmas thursday at my house. 3pm onwards.
Present exchanging ceremony
1) 10 bucks and above
2) cannot be something that can be eaten
3) cannot be a book.. magazine.. etc..
4) cannot be a decoration item
haha i think it'll be fun
Damm i was watching this video of me playing pool bout two years ago... Din realise i was so cool back then. and shuai also k.
Present exchanging ceremony
1) 10 bucks and above
2) cannot be something that can be eaten
3) cannot be a book.. magazine.. etc..
4) cannot be a decoration item
haha i think it'll be fun
Damm i was watching this video of me playing pool bout two years ago... Din realise i was so cool back then. and shuai also k.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Mathematique
Running out of blog content. I assure you that I'll have something to write about by this weekend..
For the time being, I've decided to try my hand at poem writing.. Seems like a good idea cause Shermin always does it and I am a literature student after all :)
And i decided that the theme shall be mathematics since its challenging..
History of mathematics (part I)
Early thinkers seemed to know
that two from two would make zero
regardless of what they were
They used this knowledge to run their fields
To keep track of what was in the mill
They realized it was a useful skill
To know the numbers from nil
Then came the famous brotherhood
Who said that all numbers were good
But when they found irrationality
They threw a member into the sea
This anti-number number
Made all of them astounded
It destroyed the simple ideals
In which the sect was founded.
The world thus turned from number
Afraid of the irrational monster
And a thousand years thereafter
there were to be no maths on paper
Instead they focused all their minds
On points and squares, circles and lines
And it all seemed to work just fine
Till people started to repine
Then came descartes' x and y's
That linked numbers with points and lines
And showed all of the other guys
That Algebra is Geometry
Thus from then they knew the world
Was simply never rational
And any form of b/c
Is simply not to be
But that was only the beginning
Theorems and formulas were awaiting
For mathematicians to spend the evening
To discover, and to invent
Fine fine i know my poem lacks emotion and atmosphere. So what its factual (I hope)
and simple and easy to understand. I will continue this part I... better write it down..
To be continued.....
For the time being, I've decided to try my hand at poem writing.. Seems like a good idea cause Shermin always does it and I am a literature student after all :)
And i decided that the theme shall be mathematics since its challenging..
History of mathematics (part I)
Early thinkers seemed to know
that two from two would make zero
regardless of what they were
They used this knowledge to run their fields
To keep track of what was in the mill
They realized it was a useful skill
To know the numbers from nil
Then came the famous brotherhood
Who said that all numbers were good
But when they found irrationality
They threw a member into the sea
This anti-number number
Made all of them astounded
It destroyed the simple ideals
In which the sect was founded.
The world thus turned from number
Afraid of the irrational monster
And a thousand years thereafter
there were to be no maths on paper
Instead they focused all their minds
On points and squares, circles and lines
And it all seemed to work just fine
Till people started to repine
Then came descartes' x and y's
That linked numbers with points and lines
And showed all of the other guys
That Algebra is Geometry
Thus from then they knew the world
Was simply never rational
And any form of b/c
Is simply not to be
But that was only the beginning
Theorems and formulas were awaiting
For mathematicians to spend the evening
To discover, and to invent
Fine fine i know my poem lacks emotion and atmosphere. So what its factual (I hope)
and simple and easy to understand. I will continue this part I... better write it down..
To be continued.....
Monday, December 15, 2008
Xmas
Friday:
Teck Siang was supposed to come to HQ to play pool. In the end never come. So I stayed at home and watched tv and played pool the whole day.
Saturday:
Kenneth came over and played Zelda again. Very fun. Collected all the tears and gained a new suit. Also defeated a water bug with the help of a walkthrough. People who snigger at this have never played zelda before. After that about 8 went to pool fusion to play pool with daniel and kenneth. Played until like 5am..
Total bill : $73
Each pax pays : ~$24
Total games of nine ball played : 80+
Crazy pool night.
Sunday(which was yesterday)
Went to the esplanade with sm darren and daniel and yunhui to watch some chinese orchestra concert which sucked.
Lack of impact, lack of harmony and lack of memorable pieces. Anyway i took a cab there in order not to be late, but in the end they came like half and hour late and didn't even bother to call me when they reached, which pissed me off a lot.
Daniel kept refusing to pay me the six bucks he owed me and was very sore bout losing to me the night before, calling it beginners luck and that he could thrash me and stuff. I would love to see him beat me someday in pool, but the day is not today.
Afterwards they decided to go watch twilight which i refused. And i didn't want to waste my money and time watching a movie which i knew wouldn't interest me, pluss i was feeling pissed, so i deserted them and called my cousin out to watch the movie TDTESS, which was nice. Keanu Reaves is dam cool.
But it was quite an unhappy day for me.
Face it Daniel, you can't beat me yet.
Teck Siang was supposed to come to HQ to play pool. In the end never come. So I stayed at home and watched tv and played pool the whole day.
Saturday:
Kenneth came over and played Zelda again. Very fun. Collected all the tears and gained a new suit. Also defeated a water bug with the help of a walkthrough. People who snigger at this have never played zelda before. After that about 8 went to pool fusion to play pool with daniel and kenneth. Played until like 5am..
Total bill : $73
Each pax pays : ~$24
Total games of nine ball played : 80+
Crazy pool night.
Sunday(which was yesterday)
Went to the esplanade with sm darren and daniel and yunhui to watch some chinese orchestra concert which sucked.
Lack of impact, lack of harmony and lack of memorable pieces. Anyway i took a cab there in order not to be late, but in the end they came like half and hour late and didn't even bother to call me when they reached, which pissed me off a lot.
Daniel kept refusing to pay me the six bucks he owed me and was very sore bout losing to me the night before, calling it beginners luck and that he could thrash me and stuff. I would love to see him beat me someday in pool, but the day is not today.
Afterwards they decided to go watch twilight which i refused. And i didn't want to waste my money and time watching a movie which i knew wouldn't interest me, pluss i was feeling pissed, so i deserted them and called my cousin out to watch the movie TDTESS, which was nice. Keanu Reaves is dam cool.
But it was quite an unhappy day for me.
Face it Daniel, you can't beat me yet.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Fun
Decided to do something on Shermin's blog cause must make up for the long absence.
Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 57.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence along with these instructions in a note to your wall, and post your sentence in a comment here as well. Include the title of book and author.
"4.24. When a,b,c are elements of Z, prove a*(b - c) = a*b - a*c."
Abstract Algebra - Lloyd R. Jaisingh, Ph.D. & Frank Ayres, JR., Ph.D.
-.-'' Lemme try another book..
"Hey- he licked me!" Kermit exclaimed. "I think he licked me."
Goosebumps-Monster Blood IV
R.L. Stine
Lol...
Abstract Algebra - Lloyd R. Jaisingh, Ph.D. & Frank Ayres, JR., Ph.D.
-.-'' Lemme try another book..
"Hey- he licked me!" Kermit exclaimed. "I think he licked me."
Goosebumps-Monster Blood IV
R.L. Stine
Lol...
closed
Kay lets see what happened...
Friday:
Went with soomin, darren, huimin and shixuan and yuan hong and suyi to east coast to cycle. Finally fulfilled my year-long wish haha. And no I'm not saying whats that. After cycling for bout two hours went to parkway parade to do nothing for a while then when to [the pool spot] to play pool. Quite an okay day. Oh yeah met jiayan at east coast too.
Sunday:
Went to Sam house for the 4E1,07 gathering to get my O level cert from Sin. Really a big failure. Thought there would be some activities but in the end we were just locked in a empty room with nothing except chairs and tables.. And nothing to eat but pizza and drumsticks.. And we had to pay ten bucks! Fuck it. A single pizza doesn't cost ten bucks. Good to know theres a worse organiser than me XD. Oh well but still, thanks for letting us go to your house anyway.
Imran came, expected a lot, disapointed in 10 minutes and had to go home in like half an hour. Feel damm sad for him. Fuck the fuckers who decided to desert him! And yes that includes me as well. I dam regret la, had the urge to alight the bus to go meet back and meet him.
Idris looks better than before. Wonder how her maths is?
Then after the gathering followed darren to tpy central to do nothing. Then dam bu gan yuan that the day will end so eventfuless, called kenneth to go Safra and play pool. Which he readily agreed haha.. So we played pool till like 2.30am I think i played quite well. developed a new stroke.
Monday:
Kenneth came to my house to play Zelda. Damm fun. Gordon mines. Leaping onto precarious sections of rock. Solving crazy puzzles. Collecting keys from wrestling elders. And battling FYRUS. After that it was jumping off burning bridges and flying dark dragons. Day well spent.
Tuesday:
Vincent and Soomin came to my house to play pool for a while. Then played a bit of big two and taught Vincent how to play mahjong. Then after that was GTA 4 and Super mario galaxy. Vincents dam good managed to defeat the boss in like a few tries. Not bad for someone new to the game. Then i follwed them to TPY to eat late dinner and asked my dad to fetch me home after. Quite a senseless detour....
And thats it. See so many things to do where got time to write.
And the set N of natural numbers and the set pZ of positive numbers are isomorphic. I dun get it.. always thought they were equal.. lol... apparently the natural numbers are defined as like {1,1*,(1*)*,....} where n* means the succesor of n defined by n+1... I guess the elements are different... hmm...
Friday:
Went with soomin, darren, huimin and shixuan and yuan hong and suyi to east coast to cycle. Finally fulfilled my year-long wish haha. And no I'm not saying whats that. After cycling for bout two hours went to parkway parade to do nothing for a while then when to [the pool spot] to play pool. Quite an okay day. Oh yeah met jiayan at east coast too.
Sunday:
Went to Sam house for the 4E1,07 gathering to get my O level cert from Sin. Really a big failure. Thought there would be some activities but in the end we were just locked in a empty room with nothing except chairs and tables.. And nothing to eat but pizza and drumsticks.. And we had to pay ten bucks! Fuck it. A single pizza doesn't cost ten bucks. Good to know theres a worse organiser than me XD. Oh well but still, thanks for letting us go to your house anyway.
Imran came, expected a lot, disapointed in 10 minutes and had to go home in like half an hour. Feel damm sad for him. Fuck the fuckers who decided to desert him! And yes that includes me as well. I dam regret la, had the urge to alight the bus to go meet back and meet him.
Idris looks better than before. Wonder how her maths is?
Then after the gathering followed darren to tpy central to do nothing. Then dam bu gan yuan that the day will end so eventfuless, called kenneth to go Safra and play pool. Which he readily agreed haha.. So we played pool till like 2.30am I think i played quite well. developed a new stroke.
Monday:
Kenneth came to my house to play Zelda. Damm fun. Gordon mines. Leaping onto precarious sections of rock. Solving crazy puzzles. Collecting keys from wrestling elders. And battling FYRUS. After that it was jumping off burning bridges and flying dark dragons. Day well spent.
Tuesday:
Vincent and Soomin came to my house to play pool for a while. Then played a bit of big two and taught Vincent how to play mahjong. Then after that was GTA 4 and Super mario galaxy. Vincents dam good managed to defeat the boss in like a few tries. Not bad for someone new to the game. Then i follwed them to TPY to eat late dinner and asked my dad to fetch me home after. Quite a senseless detour....
And thats it. See so many things to do where got time to write.
And the set N of natural numbers and the set pZ of positive numbers are isomorphic. I dun get it.. always thought they were equal.. lol... apparently the natural numbers are defined as like {1,1*,(1*)*,....} where n* means the succesor of n defined by n+1... I guess the elements are different... hmm...
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Pooling..
Tuesday:
Went to Kovan to meet Darren and Yong Siong. Yuan Hong was there too.. Played some pool, the pool parlour has changed hands, the tables are very good now. A far cry from when Supercue managed it. As usual I thrashed everyone. Boring.. But nice to just hang out la..
Went to Kovan to meet Darren and Yong Siong. Yuan Hong was there too.. Played some pool, the pool parlour has changed hands, the tables are very good now. A far cry from when Supercue managed it. As usual I thrashed everyone. Boring.. But nice to just hang out la..
Here is Darren missing all his shots. And me clearing the rest of course.
But his stroke and stance looks good.. Remember- he's from TPA.
So we decided to play bowling after that since it was only downstairs. In the second game I decided to make a bet with Darren, the winner would get a free drink. So we bowled and I scored something like 130+ but Darren the god scored 170. But the third round came and i felt slightly more on form, So I decided to hustle Darren and up the bet. If he won, I would have to buy him a bowl of noodles and if I won there would be no free drink for him.
In the end i scored 140 and Darren losered at 123 hahahahaha.. No drink. Actually i knew he would lose cause i could see that he had no form after this chiobu came and played next to us. XD maybe i should have really gone for it and bet that if i won he would have to treat me instead... Ah well.. Hustle another day.
A shot of YH after a thousand dodges.
Yong Siong's hair looks like Chameleon. He looks even more yong-siongy than before lol... See that was the chiobu who came to play next to us. I swear I didn't purposely take.. She just happened to be in the pic :)
Him playing DJ max Classsic just now.
Just look at that man. Just carrying the burger up and the Chicken oil spills out onto the box. Eat this every other day and you'll get to die young. Monstrous piece of unhelathy junk. I swear I didn't finish it XD
So we decided to play bowling after that since it was only downstairs. In the second game I decided to make a bet with Darren, the winner would get a free drink. So we bowled and I scored something like 130+ but Darren the god scored 170. But the third round came and i felt slightly more on form, So I decided to hustle Darren and up the bet. If he won, I would have to buy him a bowl of noodles and if I won there would be no free drink for him.
In the end i scored 140 and Darren losered at 123 hahahahaha.. No drink. Actually i knew he would lose cause i could see that he had no form after this chiobu came and played next to us. XD maybe i should have really gone for it and bet that if i won he would have to treat me instead... Ah well.. Hustle another day.
A shot of YH after a thousand dodges.
Yong Siong's hair looks like Chameleon. He looks even more yong-siongy than before lol... See that was the chiobu who came to play next to us. I swear I didn't purposely take.. She just happened to be in the pic :)Wednesday:
Went out with tzeyon, my cousin to parklane to play pool... He was late for a fucking 3 hours! Dammit... I was praticing pool all alone and ate a plate of chicken rice. Luckily, he made up for it by bringing some not-too-bad looking girls along. He then decided to stay overnight at my house.. We played rollercoaster tycoon 3.. haha... fun game.
Went out with tzeyon, my cousin to parklane to play pool... He was late for a fucking 3 hours! Dammit... I was praticing pool all alone and ate a plate of chicken rice. Luckily, he made up for it by bringing some not-too-bad looking girls along. He then decided to stay overnight at my house.. We played rollercoaster tycoon 3.. haha... fun game.
Him playing DJ max Classsic just now.After the pool on wednesday, we went to mac... Yes I know how much i said i hated mac but... They all decided to go mac so i had no choice. Anyway I was curios and ordered the mega mcspicy cause tzeyong said he was going to treat me as an apology for being late. So i just chose the most ex one!
Just look at that man. Just carrying the burger up and the Chicken oil spills out onto the box. Eat this every other day and you'll get to die young. Monstrous piece of unhelathy junk. I swear I didn't finish it XDEmo time:
Theres something I realized after playing pool for so many days. Back when i was in school it was always about being the best. I wanted to be richest, smartest, best in pool, bowling, drawing, even academics... But when playing pool outside these few days, seeing all the other tables and how other people all seemed to be having so much fun even though their pool skill sucked, and how they had pretty girls playing with them, even with my godly pool skills, I felt like the world's biggest loser. And maybe in a way, I am.
Life's not about being the richest or the strongest all the best cause when staring death in the face, all these things become trivial. Instead, when you feel you're at your last breath, all you have are memories. Are your memories happy? Or sad? Is it full of people having fun, or about you and your selfishness?
In the end, Life's about having a good time.
Theres something I realized after playing pool for so many days. Back when i was in school it was always about being the best. I wanted to be richest, smartest, best in pool, bowling, drawing, even academics... But when playing pool outside these few days, seeing all the other tables and how other people all seemed to be having so much fun even though their pool skill sucked, and how they had pretty girls playing with them, even with my godly pool skills, I felt like the world's biggest loser. And maybe in a way, I am.
Life's not about being the richest or the strongest all the best cause when staring death in the face, all these things become trivial. Instead, when you feel you're at your last breath, all you have are memories. Are your memories happy? Or sad? Is it full of people having fun, or about you and your selfishness?
In the end, Life's about having a good time.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Mahjong and pool
Yesterday night Leeyen and Kenenth and Darren came to HQ to play mahjong... It was a really fun night. It would be nice to have more of these kinds of gatherings in the future.. Damm this sounds like something we would give our english teachers for the journal homework.. Just some mono comments... Ahh i've got nothing much to say... For a fuller account of the night go to www.leeyen.blogspot.com.. She's got some nice pictures as well.. Sm would say darren looks cute sucking on a chicken bone.
And by the way, i know how to clean and wash too okay leeyen. And theres no difference between sewing and knitting :P
I lost horribly in mahjong as usual.. Just dun understand why i can't play mahjong..
And Kenneth and I went for our investment after midnight... Go all the way to amk to play money pool. But in the end i lost to this guy in snooker, lost about 10 bucks total.. He was too good.. Four blacks in one visit.. forget it man...
There are many pretty girls at amk kpool...
And by the way, i know how to clean and wash too okay leeyen. And theres no difference between sewing and knitting :P
I lost horribly in mahjong as usual.. Just dun understand why i can't play mahjong..
And Kenneth and I went for our investment after midnight... Go all the way to amk to play money pool. But in the end i lost to this guy in snooker, lost about 10 bucks total.. He was too good.. Four blacks in one visit.. forget it man...
There are many pretty girls at amk kpool...
Monday, November 3, 2008
busy
Totally surprising.. Why am i so busy that i don't seem to have time for myself? There are the library books to read.. Food to cook.. Balls to shoot.. Videogames to play... TV to watch... A week passes like a day..
Nothing much to blog about. Lets talk a bit about the universe.. Hahaha..
Did you know that the universe can actually be finite in volume?
If we accept the fact that the universe does not have to be restricted by three dimensions, then it is certainly probable that the universe can be finite in volume.. To show how this can happen, think of the earth as an analogy. From the ground, Earth looks like a plane (flat), that will stretch forever and ever. However, we know that the earth is finite in area, because it warps around itself in 3 dimensions. Similarly, if the universe exists in 4 dimensions or more, then mathematics permits the universe to wrap upon itself, in 4 or more dimensions. But because the universe is so huge, the fourth dimension is barely detectable by our equipment.. Of course, the human mind is only limited by 3 dimensions, no one can actually "see" a hypercube, but that doesn't mean it does not exist.
In maths, n-dimensional vectors are abstract arrays of numbers. for eg (2 , 3 , 4) is a 3 dimensional point which can be represented on a 3d graph (xyz). There is no way however to represent the point (2 , 5 , -5 , 10), which is a 4 dimensional vector, using an wxyz graph such that it is intuitively intepretable by the human mind.
Nothing much to blog about. Lets talk a bit about the universe.. Hahaha..
Did you know that the universe can actually be finite in volume?
If we accept the fact that the universe does not have to be restricted by three dimensions, then it is certainly probable that the universe can be finite in volume.. To show how this can happen, think of the earth as an analogy. From the ground, Earth looks like a plane (flat), that will stretch forever and ever. However, we know that the earth is finite in area, because it warps around itself in 3 dimensions. Similarly, if the universe exists in 4 dimensions or more, then mathematics permits the universe to wrap upon itself, in 4 or more dimensions. But because the universe is so huge, the fourth dimension is barely detectable by our equipment.. Of course, the human mind is only limited by 3 dimensions, no one can actually "see" a hypercube, but that doesn't mean it does not exist.
In maths, n-dimensional vectors are abstract arrays of numbers. for eg (2 , 3 , 4) is a 3 dimensional point which can be represented on a 3d graph (xyz). There is no way however to represent the point (2 , 5 , -5 , 10), which is a 4 dimensional vector, using an wxyz graph such that it is intuitively intepretable by the human mind.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Legend of Zelda
Worlds most pek chek game. Only played it for 8 hours, needed to refer to an online walkthrough 3 times. But although its angrifying, it is also surprisingly addictive. *swing swing stab swing*( with the wiimote.)
Got hustled on friday at Kpool. Actually i knew i would be hustled but i still go and let them hustle me.. For me, its about enjoying a good game of pool with an expert. Realized that my pool skills have deteriorated.. Must train from now on.. I shall go into seclusion for 2 months to practice the secret shooting arts of Tian.
THE SECRET SHOOTING ARTS OF TIAN:
- ART ONE
The Aimingless Technique; practice to a level that you can shoot intuitively without even aiming. Reverse cut shots, dun even have to look, your mind will tell you where the pocket is. A shot executed with this skill takes less than 2 seconds.
-ART TWO
Spirit Breaks; Meditate and release mental and physical energy when breaking. The Qi released will be converted into sound energy that can be detected by a human a hundred metres away. The total sum distance covered by all the balls will cover a length of a swimming pool. Beware of this dangerous technique, as the shockwaves can result in permanent tissue damage.
-ART THREE
Heaven's draw; Also known as Tian's screw, This involves keeping your cue at the perfect angle, then using a wavy technique to exert the most bottom spin on the cueball using the least momentum. In a dead on shot, the cueball should spin back with the speed of a motorcycle and traverse at least 27 feet, 3 times the distance of the table, before coming to a stop.
-ART FOUR
Railway Masse; Hone the skills of a curve so accurately that the cueball can travel down the length of the table, and just when it is outside the pocket, curve away towards the oposite pocket and pot any hanging balls. This skill can be trained to the degree that the player can discard the use of jump shots, kick shots and even bank shots. The curve is controlled so well by the player that it seems to be travelling on a virtual railway in the player's mind, hence the name.
-ART FIVE
Infinite Patterns; Train the player such that his knowledge and calculation of the angles are perfect. A branch of trickshot theory, this ultimate skill allows the player to spot and execute shots that would normally not be seen by another player. This can be advanced to the level where an impossible combination shot would be regarded as a straight pot for the user. A player with this skill can end the entire game of nine ball in less than 3 shots, thus eschewing the need for positioning and safety.
These are thus the five secret art of Tian that i have decided to practice. Wish me luck XD.
Random maths
" Now, i is a very proud number. It is aloof and doesn't care to mix much with the other numbers. If I add 3 to 4 I get 7; the 3-ness of the 3 and the 4-ness of the 4 disappear, absorbed into the 7-ness of the 7. If, by contrast, you add 3 to i, you get ... 3+i. It's the same with mutiplication. When you multiply 5 by 2 the 5-ness and 2-ness are swallowed up by the 10-ness of the result, and vanish without trace. Multiply 5 by i, and you get ... 5i. It's as if the i can't let go of its identity; or perhaps the real numbers know that i just isn't the same kind of thing they are."
-John Derbyshire; Prime Obsession-
Cutest way to put it.
Got hustled on friday at Kpool. Actually i knew i would be hustled but i still go and let them hustle me.. For me, its about enjoying a good game of pool with an expert. Realized that my pool skills have deteriorated.. Must train from now on.. I shall go into seclusion for 2 months to practice the secret shooting arts of Tian.
THE SECRET SHOOTING ARTS OF TIAN:
- ART ONE
The Aimingless Technique; practice to a level that you can shoot intuitively without even aiming. Reverse cut shots, dun even have to look, your mind will tell you where the pocket is. A shot executed with this skill takes less than 2 seconds.
-ART TWO
Spirit Breaks; Meditate and release mental and physical energy when breaking. The Qi released will be converted into sound energy that can be detected by a human a hundred metres away. The total sum distance covered by all the balls will cover a length of a swimming pool. Beware of this dangerous technique, as the shockwaves can result in permanent tissue damage.
-ART THREE
Heaven's draw; Also known as Tian's screw, This involves keeping your cue at the perfect angle, then using a wavy technique to exert the most bottom spin on the cueball using the least momentum. In a dead on shot, the cueball should spin back with the speed of a motorcycle and traverse at least 27 feet, 3 times the distance of the table, before coming to a stop.
-ART FOUR
Railway Masse; Hone the skills of a curve so accurately that the cueball can travel down the length of the table, and just when it is outside the pocket, curve away towards the oposite pocket and pot any hanging balls. This skill can be trained to the degree that the player can discard the use of jump shots, kick shots and even bank shots. The curve is controlled so well by the player that it seems to be travelling on a virtual railway in the player's mind, hence the name.
-ART FIVE
Infinite Patterns; Train the player such that his knowledge and calculation of the angles are perfect. A branch of trickshot theory, this ultimate skill allows the player to spot and execute shots that would normally not be seen by another player. This can be advanced to the level where an impossible combination shot would be regarded as a straight pot for the user. A player with this skill can end the entire game of nine ball in less than 3 shots, thus eschewing the need for positioning and safety.
These are thus the five secret art of Tian that i have decided to practice. Wish me luck XD.
Random maths
" Now, i is a very proud number. It is aloof and doesn't care to mix much with the other numbers. If I add 3 to 4 I get 7; the 3-ness of the 3 and the 4-ness of the 4 disappear, absorbed into the 7-ness of the 7. If, by contrast, you add 3 to i, you get ... 3+i. It's the same with mutiplication. When you multiply 5 by 2 the 5-ness and 2-ness are swallowed up by the 10-ness of the result, and vanish without trace. Multiply 5 by i, and you get ... 5i. It's as if the i can't let go of its identity; or perhaps the real numbers know that i just isn't the same kind of thing they are."
-John Derbyshire; Prime Obsession-
Cutest way to put it.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Cooking master boy!
Been watching this anime lately. Very cool. "The goal of a chef is to spread happiness through food" Which i really agree with cause good food can really make people happy and satisfied XD.
Culinary is really an amazing art. When you eat something, you not only sense the flavour and the smell or the texture, but you can actually feel the emotions behind the dish. (If you put your heart into it, and not just eat to survive.) Which is why I think that fast food sucks cause all they do is dip everything into oil, and use crazy amounts of seasoning whithout a single good intention. Any Motherfucker of a cook can do something like that.
But when you eat for example home-cooked food or even food from a good hawker, you can feel the effort and heart poured into the food and it warms you up from within, leaving you with a sense of satisfaction and happiness.
Many people think that food is all about the taste and the smell, but the thought and spirit of the dish are equally important. Think about Ba Kut Teh, Pork bones boiled till the fats and juices in the bones degenerate into the soup and spiced up with pepper and garlic to whip up your appetite. Chicken rice, steamed rice first stir fried in chicken fats to soak in the aroma of the chicken, then boiled in chicken stock, coupled with fresh naturally-tenderized chicken with an amazingly tangy chilli sauce. How about prawn noodles, yellow noodles soaked in that otherworldy chicken-beef broth served with chilli oil.
Of course thats not to say that deep frying is not a respectable form of cooking. Deep frying in fact takes a lot of skill and experience. But when you look at that light and crisp breading of a good tempura prawn, or the flavourful, golden covering of a fresh red snapper in an expensive chinese restaurant, and then you look at the thick, starchy flour that mcspicy is covered with, and the fat filled oil is seeping out from the chicken itself, you will know that there was absolutely no skill involved. Food that is well deep fried is actually surprisingly light and NOT oily.
Thus I'm going to lead a mac revolution! Please vot on whether mac is good or not. I'll be the first to vote, mac suck my C#(K!
Culinary is really an amazing art. When you eat something, you not only sense the flavour and the smell or the texture, but you can actually feel the emotions behind the dish. (If you put your heart into it, and not just eat to survive.) Which is why I think that fast food sucks cause all they do is dip everything into oil, and use crazy amounts of seasoning whithout a single good intention. Any Motherfucker of a cook can do something like that.
But when you eat for example home-cooked food or even food from a good hawker, you can feel the effort and heart poured into the food and it warms you up from within, leaving you with a sense of satisfaction and happiness.
Many people think that food is all about the taste and the smell, but the thought and spirit of the dish are equally important. Think about Ba Kut Teh, Pork bones boiled till the fats and juices in the bones degenerate into the soup and spiced up with pepper and garlic to whip up your appetite. Chicken rice, steamed rice first stir fried in chicken fats to soak in the aroma of the chicken, then boiled in chicken stock, coupled with fresh naturally-tenderized chicken with an amazingly tangy chilli sauce. How about prawn noodles, yellow noodles soaked in that otherworldy chicken-beef broth served with chilli oil.
Of course thats not to say that deep frying is not a respectable form of cooking. Deep frying in fact takes a lot of skill and experience. But when you look at that light and crisp breading of a good tempura prawn, or the flavourful, golden covering of a fresh red snapper in an expensive chinese restaurant, and then you look at the thick, starchy flour that mcspicy is covered with, and the fat filled oil is seeping out from the chicken itself, you will know that there was absolutely no skill involved. Food that is well deep fried is actually surprisingly light and NOT oily.
Thus I'm going to lead a mac revolution! Please vot on whether mac is good or not. I'll be the first to vote, mac suck my C#(K!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Wines.
Alright went to sakae sushi yesterday night at wheelock place. Wanted to go to the expensive jap restaurant upstairs, but then i suddenly saw the sushi banner and had a sushi crave :)
Seems like the prices of many hotel restaurants have gone up. We wanted to go eat buffet yesterday but everywhere was like $40++ which amounts to bout $180 after all the taxes..
The food at sakae sushi is well... Okay i guess.. Just remember that the sukiyaki is horrible.
Pics! Sorry i forgot to switch my phone camera back to normal mode after taking an mms-intended picture. Thus the quality is low.
Jap food is 40% presentation, 40% soya sauce, 20% about schoolgirls in kimonos fighting off pervertic aliens.
Damm the red plates which cost $5.59++ each!
This one is fucking worth. Chawanmushi with SHARKS FIN OMFG cost only $2.29++!!! Hiwamari sells it at $5.00++ without sharks fin. Steamed egg is the best. Soft and silky, comfortably wet and savourily sweet, its as good as a french kiss.
See the brown blob on the table right. Its damm good, rice cake. Its called Okonomiyaki and tastes exactly like the the small flour balls called takoyaki. Really good, one of the top national dishes of japan. Remember its called OKO-NO-MI-YA-KI. Remember to order it the next time you eat jap food.
And at the end right we ordered...
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Sake!
Hot somemore. Very shiok man, because its warm right it goes down your throat and sets it right on fire lol.. After drinking for a while you get a warm and fuzzy feeling. Goes well with the food but its a bit costly at $10.99++ for such a small bottle. Alcohol content is average at 12%. But i guess because its hot, it tastes much stronger than cognac. Shiok though, just swallow it!
I drank bout half of it with my mum, dad din wanna drink, just took one sip. And i became like erm.. Really high?? haha XD
So thats it. Weekend dinner at Sakae.
Seems like the prices of many hotel restaurants have gone up. We wanted to go eat buffet yesterday but everywhere was like $40++ which amounts to bout $180 after all the taxes..
The food at sakae sushi is well... Okay i guess.. Just remember that the sukiyaki is horrible.
Pics! Sorry i forgot to switch my phone camera back to normal mode after taking an mms-intended picture. Thus the quality is low.
Jap food is 40% presentation, 40% soya sauce, 20% about schoolgirls in kimonos fighting off pervertic aliens.
Damm the red plates which cost $5.59++ each!
This one is fucking worth. Chawanmushi with SHARKS FIN OMFG cost only $2.29++!!! Hiwamari sells it at $5.00++ without sharks fin. Steamed egg is the best. Soft and silky, comfortably wet and savourily sweet, its as good as a french kiss.
See the brown blob on the table right. Its damm good, rice cake. Its called Okonomiyaki and tastes exactly like the the small flour balls called takoyaki. Really good, one of the top national dishes of japan. Remember its called OKO-NO-MI-YA-KI. Remember to order it the next time you eat jap food.And at the end right we ordered...
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Sake!Hot somemore. Very shiok man, because its warm right it goes down your throat and sets it right on fire lol.. After drinking for a while you get a warm and fuzzy feeling. Goes well with the food but its a bit costly at $10.99++ for such a small bottle. Alcohol content is average at 12%. But i guess because its hot, it tastes much stronger than cognac. Shiok though, just swallow it!
I drank bout half of it with my mum, dad din wanna drink, just took one sip. And i became like erm.. Really high?? haha XD
So thats it. Weekend dinner at Sakae.
And erm, I'm not trying to be smart or anything, but can someone tell Cat she has her probabilities wrong...
The problem is actually non-elementary, The probability that in a group of N other people someone else will get the same result is actually 1-(15/16)^N . Thus if there were only another person doing the test, the odds would be 1/16. [Not 1/16 squared as claimed] But this rises quickly as shown below...
The problem is actually non-elementary, The probability that in a group of N other people someone else will get the same result is actually 1-(15/16)^N . Thus if there were only another person doing the test, the odds would be 1/16. [Not 1/16 squared as claimed] But this rises quickly as shown below...
#of other people : % of match
1 : 6.25%
1 : 6.25%
2 : 12.1%
3 : 17.6%
4 : 22.8%
5 : 27.6%
6 : 32.1%
7 : 36.3%
8 : 40.3%
9 : 44.1%
10 : 47.6%
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20 : 72.5%
30 : 85.6%
40: 92.4%
This non-intuitive result is called the birthday paradox. Not that it is mathematically unsound, but that it is extremely non-intuitive.
3 : 17.6%
4 : 22.8%
5 : 27.6%
6 : 32.1%
7 : 36.3%
8 : 40.3%
9 : 44.1%
10 : 47.6%
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20 : 72.5%
30 : 85.6%
40: 92.4%
This non-intuitive result is called the birthday paradox. Not that it is mathematically unsound, but that it is extremely non-intuitive.
Thus it was not really that "fateful" :X
Thursday, October 9, 2008
kbox
Yeah and as you know if you've been reading, i went to kbox last friday with darren. As i don't have permission (yet) to upload the audio clips, I shall upload this solo by me.. Its Jacky Cheung's Qing Shu. And you can hear Darren swearing at the front XD.
K la i know its not my best voice-.-
K la i know its not my best voice-.-
Saturday, October 4, 2008
maths...
Went to play pool with Darren and YH yesterday. After that went Karaoke with Darren alone. Darren has a better voice than me. Damn.
There was a Math problem last post.
a^x = -1
a^2x = 1
a^2x = a^0
2x = 0
x = 0
sub into first equation
a^0 = -1
1 = -1
Okay the error is really simple.
In secondary school you probably learnt that
if a^x = a^y, then x=y
this is, in general, not true.
For eq,
(-1)^6=1
(-1)^8=1
Thus (-1)^6 = (-1)^8
But that certainly does not mean that 6=8.
In general, if a^x=a^y
then y=x if you can take the logarithm of both sides and reduce the expression to x=y.
For example in the first example of this post,
a^x = -1
From this, it follows that a is negative, since a positive number to any real exponent would be positive.
then a^2x = 1
a^2x = a^0
But since a is negative, we certainly can't take the logarithm of it and thus the equation cannot reduce to 2x=0.
You might be wondering, how about the equation
1^6=1^8
In this case we can take the logarithm of both sides, since ln1 is defined, but doesn't that mean that 6=8?
Well no, lets do out the formal maths
1^6 = 1^8
ln(1^6) = ln(1^8)
bringing down the powers,
6*ln1 = 8*ln1
Realize that at this point, we cannot simply cancel out the ln1's because ln1 is zero. Doing so will mean doing a division by zero, which is simply undefined in mathematics.
In other words,
6*0=8*0
doesn't mean that 6=8.
There was a Math problem last post.
a^x = -1
a^2x = 1
a^2x = a^0
2x = 0
x = 0
sub into first equation
a^0 = -1
1 = -1
Okay the error is really simple.
In secondary school you probably learnt that
if a^x = a^y, then x=y
this is, in general, not true.
For eq,
(-1)^6=1
(-1)^8=1
Thus (-1)^6 = (-1)^8
But that certainly does not mean that 6=8.
In general, if a^x=a^y
then y=x if you can take the logarithm of both sides and reduce the expression to x=y.
For example in the first example of this post,
a^x = -1
From this, it follows that a is negative, since a positive number to any real exponent would be positive.
then a^2x = 1
a^2x = a^0
But since a is negative, we certainly can't take the logarithm of it and thus the equation cannot reduce to 2x=0.
You might be wondering, how about the equation
1^6=1^8
In this case we can take the logarithm of both sides, since ln1 is defined, but doesn't that mean that 6=8?
Well no, lets do out the formal maths
1^6 = 1^8
ln(1^6) = ln(1^8)
bringing down the powers,
6*ln1 = 8*ln1
Realize that at this point, we cannot simply cancel out the ln1's because ln1 is zero. Doing so will mean doing a division by zero, which is simply undefined in mathematics.
In other words,
6*0=8*0
doesn't mean that 6=8.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
MALA HOTPOT!!!
Everyone knows i like chilli. But i think this is too much, even for me.
Its the globally famous SICHUAN MALA HOTPOT !!! (麻辣火鍋)
I found it on thursday with my parents while searching for somewhere new to eat. Its actually just outside hexun's house, along the stretch of road where there are lots of eateries. Down the road from Thomson plaza, near macritchie park there.
Outside the shop theres an old signboard saying "天下第一刷" which translates loosely into "best steamboat under the heavens"
From the outside, it looks amazingly like some eatery from Beijing with the metal frame chairs and barely sufficient decorations.
Once inside, theres no doubt that this is in fact a china shop. That distintive smell of god-knows-what and flat faced, yellow skinned waiters with that recgonizable-at-once beijing curl accent reminded me instantly of the numerous restaurants I dined in at wang fujing, Beijing.
From my experience with cooking I have always heard of the mala hotpot and that it is a out-from-hell concoction of explosively hot chilli peppers and pepper seeds. One sip of the devilish soup is enough to numb your mouth instantaneously and break the ice between eaters, that i have been told is the main philosophy of the hotpot. It opens people up.
Enough of the talk, I'm sure you all want to know what the soup looks like.
Its the globally famous SICHUAN MALA HOTPOT !!! (麻辣火鍋)
I found it on thursday with my parents while searching for somewhere new to eat. Its actually just outside hexun's house, along the stretch of road where there are lots of eateries. Down the road from Thomson plaza, near macritchie park there.
Outside the shop theres an old signboard saying "天下第一刷" which translates loosely into "best steamboat under the heavens"
From the outside, it looks amazingly like some eatery from Beijing with the metal frame chairs and barely sufficient decorations.
Once inside, theres no doubt that this is in fact a china shop. That distintive smell of god-knows-what and flat faced, yellow skinned waiters with that recgonizable-at-once beijing curl accent reminded me instantly of the numerous restaurants I dined in at wang fujing, Beijing.
From my experience with cooking I have always heard of the mala hotpot and that it is a out-from-hell concoction of explosively hot chilli peppers and pepper seeds. One sip of the devilish soup is enough to numb your mouth instantaneously and break the ice between eaters, that i have been told is the main philosophy of the hotpot. It opens people up.
Enough of the talk, I'm sure you all want to know what the soup looks like.
On the left we have the traditional chicken stock that always tastes so good because of all the ingredients you cook inside it. But on the right is the real deal.
Looks like super oily curry right! I swear thats meant for you to drink.
That layer of oil is at least 3 cm thick.
My dad doesn't like spicy.
And actually i retract my statement from before, the soup isn't too much for me. In fact I LOVE it.. Oh yeah and this is supposed to be the not-so-oily version.. The waitress actually asked us whther we wanted less oil and less spice. My dad wanted both, but i heavily opposed to less spice so this was less oily only.. I bet the "normal" one would have like one litre of chilli oil on the top.
Oh yeah and if the place looks popular, thats cause it really is.. Got angmoh eating somemore, all laughing loudly with tomato red faces. Reminds me a bit of drunk people, guess the ice-breaking philosophy is really correct.
If you want to know what the soup tastes like, think bak kut teh with 3 times the pepper, add dozens of dried chilli and half a litre of chilli oil. I won't lie to ya, it is hot, but the hotness is somewhat different from the fresh chilli spice of tom yum soup, instead the hotness builds up gradually, along with the numbness.. its hard to describe la.
Haha for all of you who are looking for something special instead of your usual zichar or curry fish head, this is certainly a must try. Furthermore, its super duper extremely cheap. Only 18.80 for dinner buffet steamboat okay. The buffet menu includes super fresh beef, mutton and chicken slices, fresh prawns, cockles, soft shell crab, and your usual fishball, meatball, egg... etc etc.. got 70 different items in total.
Its really good, better than koka.
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And Hexun told me that he wanted to pick up pool again. That totally made my day. I always loved him and the way he played. It was a bit of a blow when I realized that he didn't want to play anymore. Although i did understand the logical reasons he gave, but i am, like him, an emotional person.
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Belldandy is the ideal beauty.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
suprisingly busy
i know i know.. one week no update..
found out surprisingly that even i can be busy lol.. especially when you got 30+ games to play, mythbusters to watch everyday at 5pm on discovery, chase the anime "ah my goddess", learn fourier series, train your voice and on top of that, cook dinner every night. which is the worst i think.. (people who cook would understand..) But i managed to find some time to blog.. About maths again lol..
i came up with this in secondary three.. Mr Sin incorrectly dismissed it by stating that one equation cannot have two variables for it to be solved.. can you tell whats wrong with it?
we start with the equation,
a^x = -1
squaring both sides we would get...
a^(2x) = 1
since a is not zero and anything other than zero, to the power of zero is equal to one we have;
a^2x = a^ 0
and so,
2x = 0
x = 0
substituting this result into our original equation which was a^x = -1
we would get
a^0 = -1
1 = -1
which is of course impossible, but can you see where the error lies?
found out surprisingly that even i can be busy lol.. especially when you got 30+ games to play, mythbusters to watch everyday at 5pm on discovery, chase the anime "ah my goddess", learn fourier series, train your voice and on top of that, cook dinner every night. which is the worst i think.. (people who cook would understand..) But i managed to find some time to blog.. About maths again lol..
i came up with this in secondary three.. Mr Sin incorrectly dismissed it by stating that one equation cannot have two variables for it to be solved.. can you tell whats wrong with it?
we start with the equation,
a^x = -1
squaring both sides we would get...
a^(2x) = 1
since a is not zero and anything other than zero, to the power of zero is equal to one we have;
a^2x = a^ 0
and so,
2x = 0
x = 0
substituting this result into our original equation which was a^x = -1
we would get
a^0 = -1
1 = -1
which is of course impossible, but can you see where the error lies?
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
TPA Cup 2008
THE TPA
The TPA cup has ended. (For over two weeks now) A bit on my thoughts for the competition.
Before the cup i thought that this year everyone would have a more equal chance of winning instead of the usual "Kenneth, Daniel and Master sure win one.." And as it turns out, the later generation members did indeed come very close to almost clinching it. (yes teck siang I'm looking at you) But in the end our pure experience (and luck?) turned out to be too much for them.
Major surprise of the competition was yuan hong.. First non-TPA member to get into semi-finals?!? Teaches us something, play more pool simulations. Darren was a little disappointing.. Hexun was the worst.. Quit in the middle of the cup... But lets not talk too much about them :)
And here are the long awaited medias.
Third prizegoes to Tan Yuan Hong, First non-TPA member and pool talent.
As such, he is pronounced the first honorary member of TPA.
Second prizegoes to Kenneth, Forefather and Coach of the TPA.
First prize goes to Daniel, who almost got banned for talking too much.And heres the amazing match between teck and hex.
Teck Siang is godly.
Friday, August 29, 2008
TPA Cup
Okay the answer to the question in the previous post is its more likely to be a girl.. Cause theres two ways to have one girl and one boy (girl first or boy first) but only one way toget both boys.. Thus its a 66.6 % chance that the other's a girl. That is of course ignoring all other biological factors..
And YES the TPA cup is coming! Its actually on this Monday. Its quite sad though everyone seems to be worrying so much about school. Maybe it isn't a good time? I guess I'll have a "ask me anything about calculus corner" YES I AM THE ULTIMATE PRO.
TPA CUP PRIZES
1st : A box of double yolk mooncakes
2nd : A box of single yolk mooncakes
3rd : A box of yolkless mooncakes
Sponsored by Long Fung confectionery
And Hey people who know their mooncakes will know that mooncakes are super expensive okay. A box of double yolk mooncakes can easily cost up to 30 bucks. So I think they're the best prizes for the TPA cup thus far.
Darren when he was young - taking some practice shots. ( I know totally akward stance but he can still thrash you.)
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Kenneth posing with mr singh's bike. (who's actually his father)
And YES the TPA cup is coming! Its actually on this Monday. Its quite sad though everyone seems to be worrying so much about school. Maybe it isn't a good time? I guess I'll have a "ask me anything about calculus corner" YES I AM THE ULTIMATE PRO.
TPA CUP PRIZES
1st : A box of double yolk mooncakes
2nd : A box of single yolk mooncakes
3rd : A box of yolkless mooncakes
Sponsored by Long Fung confectionery
And Hey people who know their mooncakes will know that mooncakes are super expensive okay. A box of double yolk mooncakes can easily cost up to 30 bucks. So I think they're the best prizes for the TPA cup thus far.
Here are some previous years pictures XD.jpg)
Champion Teck - Winner of the TPA cup 06 nine ball. My greatest pride.
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Champion Teck - Winner of the TPA cup 06 nine ball. My greatest pride.
Darren when he was young - taking some practice shots. ( I know totally akward stance but he can still thrash you.).jpg)
Kenneth posing with mr singh's bike. (who's actually his father)Okay the last shot is not TPA cup related but I just decided to add it in anyway.
Haiz.. The birds have flew away.
Haiz.. The birds have flew away.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Savant type questions
A guy has two children
One of them is a boy.
It is likely that the other one is a;
-girl
-boy
-both equally likely
(assume that the chances of having a boy or a girl is equal)
So what do you think is the answer? And no Vos Savant is an idiot.
One of them is a boy.
It is likely that the other one is a;
-girl
-boy
-both equally likely
(assume that the chances of having a boy or a girl is equal)
So what do you think is the answer? And no Vos Savant is an idiot.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Back
Damm everytime i do chemo i have to forfeit one weeks worth of blogging. But its okay, I'm back.
Olympics are here too ^-^ The other countries stand no chance against China this time. Yupp I'm proud to be chinese.
Olympics are here too ^-^ The other countries stand no chance against China this time. Yupp I'm proud to be chinese.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Happy Birthday Ray
Yes so Ray, Soomin.. Darren and two other Beatty people came to Hq today to celebrate Ray's birthday. With cake supplied by long fung. Here are the pics..
Yupp nice half-tucked-in shirt XD.. And he beat me in pool too!
WZ : Wah jc people all so busy, Sunday also need to go school.
WZ : Then if i Christian how ahh?
Soomin : Finish school already then go la! You might as well ask Muslim how..
WZ : Oh ya ah.. How?
Soomin : They get to end lessons earlier.
WZ: Ha next time i create one religion everyday have to pray one!
Ray : Wah then those people in your religion promos sure die one...
WZ : Won't cause God will bless you!
Yupp - Tianisticism
Yupp nice half-tucked-in shirt XD.. And he beat me in pool too!
WZ : Wah jc people all so busy, Sunday also need to go school.
WZ : Then if i Christian how ahh?
Soomin : Finish school already then go la! You might as well ask Muslim how..
WZ : Oh ya ah.. How?
Soomin : They get to end lessons earlier.
WZ: Ha next time i create one religion everyday have to pray one!
Ray : Wah then those people in your religion promos sure die one...
WZ : Won't cause God will bless you!
Yupp - Tianisticism
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Hope.
Today was a fantastic day. Went to watch (in clear defiance of the doctor's advice) the Mummy: Tomb of the dragon emperor at Balestier. The show sucked big time la.. It seemed really childish compared to the previous mummy shows.. Then again, Mummy's are childish.. But the previous ones just seemed more believable ba.. Maybe its cause I'm chinese and i know that the Qin emperor definitely couldn't transform into a fire breathing dragon lol.. Then again.. I dun know for Sure...
Okay so once i was in tpy right.. Somemore so close to Safra.. I decided to go play pool.. So i called kenneth and of course he agreed.. But Ahhh!! The place was full no tables.. And i was like super disappointed.. What to do? Never play for eight months!
I had super a lot of fun la.. felt so much like the Tpa era.. It was quite an emotional experience for me.. Eight months never go.. Somemore got to see miss tan and anthony.. And of course they got to know about my sickness.. They were very supportive and glad to see me la.. Miss tan looks older.. hahaha.. At first she like couldn't recgonise me cause i was wearing my mask and everything.. But eventually she was like weizhou ahh.. Haha of course la! Tian Weizhou is the greatest pool player Space Rhythm has ever seen!!!! How can dun recgonise me!!!?!?!?
Even though i lost alot of my skills.. And i mean like alot.. But still can beat Kenneth haha XD But i knew he was like giving me chance la.. Scratch so many times!! But okay still have bout 60% of my former skills. Still can beat any local player under eighteen.. (if i train for a week :D)
Random: Daniel super chicken la!! Dun dare to come HQ challenge me!! Scared lose only!
Okay so today i realized a lot of things.. And i know what i will be fighting for. Thanks everyone..
After the show we went to Toa Payoh to eat the Taiwanese porridge at tpy park. Not bad laa but damm expensive.. 70 bucks for some vegetables and salted eggs.. lol.. Okay there was a fish too.. But all like poor man's stuff la.. Shouldn't cost so much.. Somemore also not say very nice.. I think goodwood park hotel's teochew porridge buffet is much more worth it..
see this one is goodwood park hotel's one. DAMM fantastic spread right! Somemore Buffet leh!! Eat-all-you-can for 30 bucks. I think its damm worth it. And the bean sprouts rock.
see this one is goodwood park hotel's one. DAMM fantastic spread right! Somemore Buffet leh!! Eat-all-you-can for 30 bucks. I think its damm worth it. And the bean sprouts rock.Okay so once i was in tpy right.. Somemore so close to Safra.. I decided to go play pool.. So i called kenneth and of course he agreed.. But Ahhh!! The place was full no tables.. And i was like super disappointed.. What to do? Never play for eight months!
Then my Dad said got something to do at Long Fung so go lung fung dunno do what for some time.. Then after that i was like " I dun care i have to play today!" So they no choice call safra again.. Haha got one pool table!! So go play lor. Even though it was like 11.. Midnight pool ma..
Home is still the same
Home is still the sameI had super a lot of fun la.. felt so much like the Tpa era.. It was quite an emotional experience for me.. Eight months never go.. Somemore got to see miss tan and anthony.. And of course they got to know about my sickness.. They were very supportive and glad to see me la.. Miss tan looks older.. hahaha.. At first she like couldn't recgonise me cause i was wearing my mask and everything.. But eventually she was like weizhou ahh.. Haha of course la! Tian Weizhou is the greatest pool player Space Rhythm has ever seen!!!! How can dun recgonise me!!!?!?!?
Even though i lost alot of my skills.. And i mean like alot.. But still can beat Kenneth haha XD But i knew he was like giving me chance la.. Scratch so many times!! But okay still have bout 60% of my former skills. Still can beat any local player under eighteen.. (if i train for a week :D)
Random: Daniel super chicken la!! Dun dare to come HQ challenge me!! Scared lose only!
Okay so today i realized a lot of things.. And i know what i will be fighting for. Thanks everyone..
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