Man Utd - The Worthy Champions

Yesterday marked the end of the English Premier League and my last second season watching soccer. Why? Because I refuse to go get the singtel cable TV and watch champions league and I dont want to watch EPL alone. That's all

Back to the 2007/2008 season. I must now stress that I am no Man Utd fan and I am a Liverpool fan. However, I think Man Utd really deserves to win this season. With their well balanced team, and players who really play their hearts out in every game and their never say die attitude. They just refuse to say that they lost the game. They will just run and chase every single ball they until they get the winner. Wow That's what i call passionate footballers and hunger to win. I really enjoyed watching them play matches. And oh, their players stick together even though they have lost a game. *Respect*

*note: I was an anti-Man Utd fan until this season.

On the contrary, I have lost respect for Arsenal as a team. Although they are playing very good football - passing in style. They have proved to be too flashy and inefficient. Can see cannot eat type. Moreover, their captain really make me sick to the gut. As proven in the Birmingham game, he just refused to stick with his teammates and left for the tunnel after they conceded a last min penalty. Hai.. And on the surface, they seem to have very good teamwork but that is just when they win. But when they go on a drawing streak you can see the fracture in the team. and now the team is in tatters and torns.

ok that's it for now i shall go on and have a run bye

Strange Music

I was listening to my mp3. I find something very interesting. As I listen to one of Mozart's famous composition, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, I gives me a very special feeling. I dont know how to describe it but it's very soothing. What's more is that the music sounds like it has a 3D surround sound on the the ear piece while others (I changed to pieces by other composers) don't have. Hmmm.. I wonder is it his talent or is it the recording. And somemore the no. of instruments he use for that piece is very little - Chamber Orchestra.

I am so bored doing something that is redundant that I decided to blog and update a little bit of the happenings. So there..

Graduation

As times passes by weeks, I am also inching towards my graduation and also marking the end of my schooling days. At least for now... I shall summarize some of the highlights, my thoughts and complains about this 3 years as an undergraduate in Nanyang Technological University.

I had some mixed feelings about the school because i think the course never teach enough about environmental engineering - They were too focused on the water and the other things like air and solid waste blah blah were almost non existent. However, the subject that the school made us take took me by surprise and provides me with valuable knowledge about the 'real world'. The subject is economics and it's totally irrelevant to engineering but at the end of the day i find it very useful. More on that later.

In the university, i have made quite a number of wonderful friends also and there are always bad sides for every good side, i also met some not that wonderful ones. Wonderful ones like people from my Orientation group, Moogles and of course MY DEAR (she'll skin me alive if i dont say this) and some of the random people I get to know when I joined committees and friends of friends'. Not so wonderful ones are, ironically, some of the people I am for most of the time throughout my 3 years in NTU - some calafare b*****do who doubted me when i stepped into NTU and these guys are those who did well academically *shrugz*.

During my 2nd yr, I struggled for life literally. With getting good results in mind, I strained my brain by studying for long hrs and not knowing that i cannot absorb while my ever so wonderful roomie plays games and sleeps in front of me. Bleah! In the end, i didn't get the results i wanted, hence, staying very low profile in front of my classmates. I even said to my friend ' I am here to get the grades and not anything else' and my that friend happen to be a dean lister of NBS later on in his academic life. What grave mistake i made and feels like a slap in the face wahaha! but really must respect this moogie friend of mine as he really enjoy to the max and work damn hard.

My year 3 was the best year of my NTU life, I began to relax and enjoyed more of my university life. The year also introduced me to the versatility of my course (rather than just water, water and more water). And as i was the only yr 3 in the lecture room of yr 4s, I was worried that I might be left out of the grp. Surprisingly, the yr 4s were very open and we ended up enjoying doing project together. These bunch of seniors ended up as one of my closest friends in NTU (psst.. one of the peeps is my sunday soccer teammate since poly days and got quite a number are my poly junior and classmates haha). That subject is basically a summary of what an environmental engineer can do from technology to management and ISO. It also touches on things like economics (see it's useful ok?!) and environmental economics was being taught briefly. It's a shame that i didn't get to take it. But taking economics really helps to understand the importance of cost and benefit. It was also during this time that i discovered my dream and decided pursue it even though it is not the most glamourous of jobs but i dont care. What people dont want, I take.. haha

Then comes yr 4, Stressful, hectic were some of the adjectives to describe it. But all in all, it's quite a good one as i get to know more people through MF committee and get to meet impt pple like MM Lee. But the process in between was disastrous. I have to juggle between FYP, Integrated design project, MF. And June was a very low period as my dad was admitted to hospital and that got us all too worried. It was followed by the passing of my grandmother. However, I have a group of friends who somehow or rather listened me whining all these time that made time easier for me. My FYP PhD student was also very nice too. Though he is abit of a workaholic but he let me have my off days to be with my dad and friends. Phew... Thanks peeps.

The 3 years in NTU was somehow fruitful for me even though i didn't get what i set out to achieve but i got something more valuable from there - friendship, dream and vision. The only thing i feel a pity is that i dont get a gf here wahaha!(damn i am starting to talk nonsense again! haha but it's true. well. I will have to look harder in years to come and conc on my dream then). I thought that the course of environmental engineering should be more diverse and touch abit more things like air pollution and management, soil pollution and solid waste. It's a shame that we as environmental engineers have only knowledge on water resources and treatment and when people ask us on other things we just give a blank look. From here I would like to wish the new batch of graduating environmental engineers good luck and urge them to read more about our work. It has lots of potential. And finally, thank you my friends for making an otherwise unbearable place so fun.