The Penguin Downunder

Hey everyone. Wow.... it's been hack of a long time since i've placed up any posts or anything with regards to myself. Be it pictures... or the video of joshua "man handling" lay kiat in Glenn's apartment that i have yet to post up. I will do so soon. Hopefully within the coming week.

Currently still in Sydney doing mech engin, will be done in 1.5 years. That's if nothing goes wrong and I hopefully do not fail anything. Our dear Mr. Wong Ju Cheng has arrived too. So the number of chaps here have raised up to 3. Great to see another one of us in Sydney. That's prolly just the general update in a nutshell. By the way, who will be coming down for a holiday?

Standard Chartered Full Marathon! hope that none of you guys who said they were gonna run is gonna back out now... hahaha. Ding! are you gonna come up with a shirt? That'll be really cool. And I better start training now. Or i'm gonna be screwed big time like last time round. haahaha.. and running with an injured ankle isn't fun. Don't try it. Unless you're a sadist. like... joshua!

I'll be back on the 24th of November. Just a few days shy of the full marathon. And 18 days after the marathon will be Jason's wedding. Hope by then all the kinks will be ironed out of sorts. Well Wishes to Jason and Shi'en again. =). I may or may not be doing internship at the end of the year. But if i'm not, i'll be able to help out abit more if need be.

That's the update for the moment from me.

Dr Ching Boon Chye

This is the place where he's working Waiz. I know him personally, so if there's anything i can do......

man and machine

gi joe transformers

this done by dream wave.

pretty cool series.

too bad it only made the 1st arc, then went flop on the 2nd arc, which judging by this cover looks pretty promising. but in the end.

the company (dream wave) went bankrupt and now is taken over by idw.

we can see some faces from the movie itself yeah, and some old gi joe friends. yo joe!

we got visual

arial view of where most of us came from in terms of national service.

pulau tekong

remember the days troopers!

State of Mine

So I've recently read that the Chacaltaya glaciers in Bolivia are melting away like ice cubes on hot tarmac. The perpetrator is a current political key phrase, Global you-know-what. The consequence other than the lost of a winter ski getaway for some may result in the lost of a freshwater reserve and hydroelectric power source that is potentially catastrophic to the people living in the valleys below. Bolivia is South America’s poorest nation, landlocked with its people generally surviving with less than USD$1 a day. How then could it be possibly fair for these people to be the unknowing and unfortunate whipping boy for the industrial nations? Its like waking up one morning to the sound of a wrecking ball plough through your apartment because the landlord couldn’t pay his bills, because that amounts to the same thing here. That then brings us nicely to the current state of affairs.

The current world we live in is a much more dynamic place than the one that our fathers and their father’s father inherited. A big bowl of possibilities and consequences consisting of many parallel worlds that would in some magnificent way be made to blend or collide into coherency or obliteration if we so choose. And therein lies the catch 22, as WC pointed out, no matter what we choose to do or not, time marches on. Can we really change the future that is already happening? Can we really put a finger or figure wherein the point of no return lies? Can we in some way make a real difference? All are hard questions with no easy answers. Or are we asking the wrong questions?

So having come full circle and ending up nowhere. I congratulate you for coming thus far.

Update: Wai-Chung

hey fellas..

i know this was probably due waaaaaaaay long ago, but i thought i'd update everyone about the going-ons in land of Wai(kiki).. i just thought it'd be great to hear from everyone again, like what's happening blah blah.. maybe this'll kickstart a few more posts from some of us MIA-ers.. or maybe it won't. Or hey, if those of u in Sg who have been meeting up often wanna post an update of yerself, feel free.. even if it's blatently obvious and last year's news.. stuff that some of us foreign correspondents maybe don't hear about immediately... like jason getting married (?!)...

so, here goes.

ok, first off.. sorry for not being in touch that much these past 4 years.. yep, it's been that long. still remember the circumstances that i left singapore.. and i recall how blatently misguided my perspectives were then. not to say i'm all that wiser now (altho i've just joined the 1/4 century club), but that's another story for another time. point is, when i left for perth back then, i had this really infantile (read: stupid) idea of a life experiment to test assumptions about friendships and relationships i've made in my life. it was quite retarded, and 'damn egotistical' too (thanks Joshua for that verbal punch in the arm, i still have that email). in short, i realised how much of an ass i've been and now i'm going to put aside all attempts to be macho or whatever and say 'sorry'.

sorry.

i guess we all were young, idealistic and clueless at least once in our life. for some like me, more than once. i can't say i'm out of that stage, but i've had time to think. yep, reality is, life moves on and we can't expect things to remain in utopia forever. just gotta take life as it goes and adapt. so here i am.

right, basically, my life in uni these 4 years has been great.. met lots of people from all over the world.. studied stuff that i never imagined i'd sink my teeth into.. travelled to places and saw sights. i actually enjoyed studying back then.. i say 'back then' cos this last honours year for me has been hell.. i'm currently fighting to complete my thesis due end of August.. not that my topic isn't interesting or do-able.. it's just that things often happen in your life that distract you from what you're supposed to be doing and the trick is to be disciplined to keep focussed. stuff like, oh, managing people-to-people ties, relationships or near-relationships etc.. and so, i'm having a hard time now catching up on lost time and getting this last piece of academic writing outta my life.

and yeah, for those of you who didn't know, my mum was diagnosed with 3rd stage breast cancer in february last year. i thank God cos even after going through all the therapy, her health has been remarkably good considering the severity of the cancer. currently, she's still able to go to work and is still very much active in church. but obviously, this episode has changed my family's as well as my own perspective of life and how we treat each other. so i'm looking forward to heading home for good after i complete this final few weeks of studying.. i've been away from family and friends for too long.. so you can look at this as my 'homecoming' rant..

alright, that's all from me right now.. hear from any one of you soon.

Wai-Chung

Heh heh...

Damn I love youtube...

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Stupid Men

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