Of dose of caffein and doze of sleep

Time to blog, hand itchy, although I'm supposed to do presentation slides, hee hee hee

Had a lot of serious thoughts the past few days, wanna blog about it but I forgot le, so nair mind, I blog it when I remember. My memory selectively choose to remember useless things as usual, like why ku ku is call ku ku.

These few days damn busy with tech comm report, finally its over! Submitted last friday at 5.30pm, thought can finallly concnetrate on study, shit, I still have 2 more reports, lab and astronomy. Die die die... hope today can clear, one more quiz before exams, have to study hard for that loh....

Dr. Chan came to my school to give an astro talk on "Dark Matter" last tuesday, it was so nice to see him after so long. He looks more tired than he was during poly. But the few of us had a good chat with him, and it nice to hear him chat about "going against the norm". June Astro retreat again, anyone going? My school's astro club is organizing one too, not too sure if I can make it. Will try and ask for more details... Oh, passport expiring soon, I better renew it after exams.

Okie, I remembered what I wanna blog le.

Since P2, dozing off is class is my forte. It was this one "accident" that I dozed off, and since on, I purposely get myself to doze off, coz I tot "Wah! I dozed off teacher also dunno, then I continue sleep lor". Even after I was kanna smacked on the head for dozing off, it was too late for me to kick this habit, I will still doze off. When I go to secondary school, it got worse, I was already addicted to coffee. Even with a daily dose, I will still sleep, without coffee, I'm a zombie. Serious! I can't think without coffee! Together with heavily involvement in military bandand and the hectic study sechdule (I was a lousy student, I had remedial class almost everyday), I almost breakdown, or so I thought at that time.

Then I went to poly, determined to work hard and not to doze off again, but it was kinda hard, I would only try to keep awake during those strict lecturers' lesson, but it was a mild doze, not heavy doze. Then my friends around me knew this trait of mine, and I would always say I went fishing with Grandpa Zhou. I kicked my caffein addict during my last half year in poly, but actually I slept more coz I was on a supplement diet at that time, I was to drink a cup of milkshake every morning, thus no coffee. So when I go to school to do project, I sleep. I would sleep at almost every 2 hours or so, its a miracle I managed to finish my project. The miracle was I had a chin-chai supervisor and project mate. The project mate actually let me copy and paste, but of course, my integrity was not so low I copied and submitted, I copied with understanding.

After graduation, I went to work, somewhere near my school now, so it's damn far and working time damn early . I had breakfast time at 9am, and usually, I had either coffee, tea or milo. By this time, I was not addicted to caffein totally,that is I can think without caffein. So, more or less, it was good but I was addicted to afternoon nap. Luckily for me, I worked alone, and I could easily find a place to sleep, and the staffs there thought I'm busy. :P It was pretty sian-lang, but I did have my busy time. There was one period I worked so hard that my weight dropped to 72kg, the lightest I ever been since 13 years old (this age coz I offically stopped growing upwards)

Anyway, then I came to Uni full of hopes and dreams, and to my horror, it was so hard to realise my dreams. I have to work ten time harder than I was in poly, so it was much a nightmare for me. Last year, my 1st semester, I still went fishing occassionally with Grandpa Zhou, thus I did not grasp the content in lectures and I didn't do self revision. However, this semester,I feel like a whole new person, not only do I stopped fishing, I even managed to stay awake throughout the whole 3 hours of lecture. Of coz, by noon time, I CMI and would doze off again. So now, I will get some short nap, around 15 minutes before a lesson. It helps wondefully, especially during tutorial class, I will not miss any answers to the tutorial. There are times when I am super tired also lah, but so far, this semester, I felt more energectic. Now Roomie and I came up with secret terms for sleeping in class: Big fish (heavy doze ) or small fish (light doze).

Thus, when Dr. Chan came to give a talk, not only did I managed to stay awake, I even bloodyhell understand what he was teaching. This is no doubt something I am most proud of, coz being an avid fan of astro, this is the first time I understand something that I would think its CHEEM during poly. I actually understand the formula leh! (Plus the fact I am in engineering course, and the equations are the same as what I learnt for this semester)

I only learnt how to manage my sleep pattern to help me study effectively at the age of 22, which is pretty late. Sometimes, I wonder, if I had know how to manage my sleep, would I have done better? Would I have a better understanding of everything? I was flipping my cousin's physic textbook the other day and I was thinking how trivial it was, just like how Profs think Uni stuffs are trivial, it's the same logic. I would not have this thought if I'm in poly. During poly where working part-time was a norm, people always asked why don't I be a tuition teacher, it pays well, especially secondary school. I told them because I don't like to teach kids, actually, I was not confident enough to teach them well, let alone primary school. However, giving tution has been crossing my mind lately, coz I think I can teach already.

No matter what addiction to kick, coffee and sleep, the addiction that I won't kick is chocolate! It's a food from heaven.

SOTD1: I was having breakfast with my family earlier, and Jamie asked what I want to drink. I answered, "Kopi lor". She marvellously retorted, "Why you always drink Kopi one, no wonder you are so short!" -_-" (Jia had told me a few months ago that caffein will suck the calcium, thus hindering bone growth in children, and therefore concluded why I am shorter than her, since I started daily caffein addiction when I was 9 years old.)

SOTD2: MSN conversation with Diyumi just now

diyumi: siqi
me: yomeinu
diyumi: why do u think learnign mandarin is important?
diyumi: haha
me: for a chinese, u dunno mandarin, u are not chinese
diyumi: haha
diyumi: ok
diyumi: that a good one!
me: for ang mo, it's always good tolearn something sobeautiful
me: from mandarin, u can learn the chinese culture
me: and chinese culture is fabulous,fanstatic, elegant,
diyumi: haah
diyumi: errr
diyumi: i though any language also can learn abt their culture
me: no, like when u learn chinese indoms,u learn the story behiund
me: english indioms is mostly from daily things....
me: tat's the diff
diyumi: ohhh
diyumi: icic
diyumi: wow
diyumi: thanks gal
diyumi: as usual
diyumi: juicy quotes from u
diyumi: haha
me: yeah?
diyumi: lol...
me: why? my quotes always so damn nice meh? ah ha ha ha
diyumi: haha
diyumi: ya
diyumi: very controversial
diyumi: i like
me: is it? if its so controversialuntil ur class dabate, then its controversial
me: eh,my keyboard spoilt,so the spacebar ku ku
diyumi: hahaha
diyumi: its ok
diyumi: no..bec it let people ponder
diyumi: from what u said
diyumi: so i like lor
me: chey, i tot ur class debate,
diyumi: HAAHHAA
diyumi: no lah
me: but quite true mah, englosh idioms ios from their everyday life,chinese idoms got story,like kong rong rang li
diyumi: ya
diyumi: true lor
me: still got su yu, xie hou yu
diyumi: i like those like san guo yan yi
diyumi: wan
me: dunno she me yu, a lot lah....
diyumi: haha
diyumi: ya
diyumi: agreed!
diyumi: i raise my hands and legs
diyumi: haha
me: ha~~~

I think she suffered fingers-must-hit-enter syndrome, cannot finish her sentence at one go de leh. Looks like she stammering with her keyboard, but she does not stammers in real-life, she talks like a machine gun! Really!