*cracks knuckles and stretches*
It is the December of 2010, and once more it appears to be the time for me to pen something here. It’s quite hilarious actually, considering that each time I write here, I have a tendency to whinge and gripe about how I’m the only person to write and threaten to stop writing, only to keep coming back, like some moth towards the electrifying lights of the bug killer.
But then again, if I don’t keep writing here, who is going to maintain this little corner of the web that we have managed to corral off from the rest of the world to host what is left of our cohesiveness?
Anyway, December. That’s right. Another six months (seven actually!) since I have written, and about five since Harish wrote the last entry (Harish my good man! Thanks for aiding me in creating some content for this place!). Most of the guys have already graduated by now and are somewhere in the work force, either plotting the next Google-book or collecting taxes from all of the rest of us (I’m looking at you, Sadu heheheh). Or like some of us poorer folks, we’re just selling our souls to our overlords for some paltry sum of money so that we may live yet another day to sell them even more of our soul ad nauseum.
But December! December is an awesome month! Not because there’re lots of activities to work on, but that every working person would be looking forward to one thing: bonus! That’s right! The bonus that we have all been working for… what is everyone going to do with them? Pay taxes with them (glances at Sadu again… I know it’s not quite right, but I’m still getting a kick from this), splurge on the year end food/ball, or save it away at the paltry 0.0001% interest that we can get out of the bank (ouch!). I’m probably saving it for the taxman, but hey, everyone has a different idea on what money is useful for.
So we had a nice meet up the last time, some time in November if memory serves me well (that one is kinda going downhill these days). It was nice but it could have been more kick-ass, if not for the fact that people were sort of missing overall, and some folks just cleanly forgot, or somehow managed to not be involved. Food was excellent (all you care to eat buffet on Indian food) and the company was pleasant. If you couldn’t turn up, well hopefully you should try to come to the next one that might be planned some time in the future; I’m not sure when it will be, but considering that I’m mostly the instigator for all these things, I might have a clue about this in about five months’ time.
Alright, this tirade is getting on my nerves. But I’m just rambling because I need to wait for my little experiment to conclude before I can knock-off for the day. And because of the preternatural need of all humans to procrastinate whenever they can, legitimately or not, you get a new post on this rather quiet blog.
Huzzah!
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
How my life is
Hi everyone! I just stumbled upon our class blog again and wow the new background looks great! More polished interface, nice :)
Well, I'm currently waiting for my final year in NUS to start. Pretty excited to choose my final year project, or maybe propose one. I have prepared a list of profs whom I feel would make good supervisors, and would want to work on something related to geotechnical engineering. Just for information, geotechnical engineering covers topics such as
My future plans are to start off working as an engineer. It's mainly because it does interest me and I want to learn the civil engineering trade and become good at it. But it will probably take many many years to become good, and a lot probably depends on fate as well. Is there a lot of money in civil engineering? Well, yes and no. It's a highly cyclical field, that is manipulated by governments to control the economy, so timing, luck and connections matter. It is a very diverse field, and so one could probably find a niche if one looks hard enough. And it's true, even small projects are usually in the millions of dollars, but the slices of the pie are greatly skewed, and it depends on which part of the pie you are getting.
Again, many thanks to Mun Thye for keeping this blog alive with his amusing posts. It would be nice to read anyone else's updates about their lives too!
Well, I'm currently waiting for my final year in NUS to start. Pretty excited to choose my final year project, or maybe propose one. I have prepared a list of profs whom I feel would make good supervisors, and would want to work on something related to geotechnical engineering. Just for information, geotechnical engineering covers topics such as
- Soil mechanics (how soil behaves when subjected to loads)
- Foundations for structures
- Stability of slopes
- Excavations (digging soil and preventing its collapse)
- Embankments (placing soil in mounds)
- Groundwater movement (this is very important)
- Tunneling
My future plans are to start off working as an engineer. It's mainly because it does interest me and I want to learn the civil engineering trade and become good at it. But it will probably take many many years to become good, and a lot probably depends on fate as well. Is there a lot of money in civil engineering? Well, yes and no. It's a highly cyclical field, that is manipulated by governments to control the economy, so timing, luck and connections matter. It is a very diverse field, and so one could probably find a niche if one looks hard enough. And it's true, even small projects are usually in the millions of dollars, but the slices of the pie are greatly skewed, and it depends on which part of the pie you are getting.
Again, many thanks to Mun Thye for keeping this blog alive with his amusing posts. It would be nice to read anyone else's updates about their lives too!
Monday, May 10, 2010
May 2010! An Update! Woo Wee!
Huzzah huzzah, it’s the month of May, and like always, this place is deader than a door nail. Man, each time I write anything here, I keep asking myself: is it really worth the effort to keep this place running at all? I mean, I have no idea how many people actually come here to read whatever is posted (I know how many people actually post here: try one), and this casts serious doubt to whether it is necessary for me to actually keep trying to resurrect this place once every few months just to keep things a little more fresh than the deadness and desolation that seems to have permeated through this place.
Anyway, half a year is almost gone for the year 2010, almost only since it is just the beginning of May. To be technical about it of course, at most one third of the year is gone, but I suppose by the time anyone notices this post, it would probably be June and thus the statement is justified. Okay, that’s enough rambling on the date issue—bigger fish to fry.
I suppose with each passing month/year, everyone drifts ever further away from each other. This is the law of how things work, and there’s really nothing anyone can do about it. The concept of a ‘class’ back in school is in many ways an artificial grouping induced by educators with the sole purpose of allowing a better management of both material and human resources by providing a self-identifiable group for people to be involved with, thus creating the microcosms that are necessary in the maintenance of peace and the veneer of cooperation. So, in view of that highly unsubstantiated allegation, it is most natural that at the end of a decade or so, all of us have dispersed away from that artificial grouping to seek out new groups to belong to, both artificial and natural.
But enough of speculation! I know that it is a fruitless exercise to keep talking here, but I suppose as the resident noise maker, it is my duty (and perhaps even right!) to keep saying things here ever so often on the off chance that folks who drop by will have something new to feast their eyes on, thus ensuring that they will keep coming back once every bunch of months just to see if they are lucky enough to find that I have posted something new. Again, I apologise for the general digression.
So how’s life? A most standard question in the age of self-identity complications. Why do I claim self-identity complications here? Most of us are at the age that borders between the molly-coddled past of the education system and the harsh realities that make up the working life. And among the myriad of options and paths to choose from comes the entire issue of what the self is. While many believe that there is a certain permanent persona that remains at the core of all that one does, I believe that the self is an evolving concept that is wholly context and environmentally sensitive. The only consistent thing in the universe is the law of change—change is the only thing that is ever present, and any other form of permanence is either an illusion or a delusion. But of course, I digress once more. The answer to the standard question is perhaps something that is more important than the metaphysical babble that I am positing here, and so the answer is here: life is good. Hiccups along the way, and minor obstacles abound, but nothing truly lethal—as they say, what doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger, and I suppose for most people, this is how their lives are right now.
Enough of the talk from me! Dear Fellow Classmate Who Chances Upon This Post, how is your life?
Anyway, half a year is almost gone for the year 2010, almost only since it is just the beginning of May. To be technical about it of course, at most one third of the year is gone, but I suppose by the time anyone notices this post, it would probably be June and thus the statement is justified. Okay, that’s enough rambling on the date issue—bigger fish to fry.
I suppose with each passing month/year, everyone drifts ever further away from each other. This is the law of how things work, and there’s really nothing anyone can do about it. The concept of a ‘class’ back in school is in many ways an artificial grouping induced by educators with the sole purpose of allowing a better management of both material and human resources by providing a self-identifiable group for people to be involved with, thus creating the microcosms that are necessary in the maintenance of peace and the veneer of cooperation. So, in view of that highly unsubstantiated allegation, it is most natural that at the end of a decade or so, all of us have dispersed away from that artificial grouping to seek out new groups to belong to, both artificial and natural.
But enough of speculation! I know that it is a fruitless exercise to keep talking here, but I suppose as the resident noise maker, it is my duty (and perhaps even right!) to keep saying things here ever so often on the off chance that folks who drop by will have something new to feast their eyes on, thus ensuring that they will keep coming back once every bunch of months just to see if they are lucky enough to find that I have posted something new. Again, I apologise for the general digression.
So how’s life? A most standard question in the age of self-identity complications. Why do I claim self-identity complications here? Most of us are at the age that borders between the molly-coddled past of the education system and the harsh realities that make up the working life. And among the myriad of options and paths to choose from comes the entire issue of what the self is. While many believe that there is a certain permanent persona that remains at the core of all that one does, I believe that the self is an evolving concept that is wholly context and environmentally sensitive. The only consistent thing in the universe is the law of change—change is the only thing that is ever present, and any other form of permanence is either an illusion or a delusion. But of course, I digress once more. The answer to the standard question is perhaps something that is more important than the metaphysical babble that I am positing here, and so the answer is here: life is good. Hiccups along the way, and minor obstacles abound, but nothing truly lethal—as they say, what doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger, and I suppose for most people, this is how their lives are right now.
Enough of the talk from me! Dear Fellow Classmate Who Chances Upon This Post, how is your life?
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The 2010 Post
Hello 02S35, how's the silence treating you all? It has been a couple of months since anyone wrote anything here, and I suppose it is just second nature of me to just pen a few words here as and when I realise that it is sinking down my pile of blogs from the general lack of use.
I wonder how many folks are still reading this. Even activity on Facebook is not very great, but I suppose we all know that already, after all, we're known to be reticent.
Maybe some of you might realise that I am not on MSN these days. That is a partial truth, since I have been staying away from many forms of communications for the last few months. Something about wanting to be away from people for a while, while trying to recover from the various things that life throws at me.
So, how's everyone these days? Maybe ten more years from now, when some of us might be married with children, we might once again meet up and talk about the good old times when we were a part of the same class, tormenting/tormented by the same teachers that we had grown to love/hate, and about the crazy things that we did/witnessed.
And maybe in that ten years, I would be a much different person from who I was.
Here's to a good year ahead. Cheers.
I wonder how many folks are still reading this. Even activity on Facebook is not very great, but I suppose we all know that already, after all, we're known to be reticent.
Maybe some of you might realise that I am not on MSN these days. That is a partial truth, since I have been staying away from many forms of communications for the last few months. Something about wanting to be away from people for a while, while trying to recover from the various things that life throws at me.
So, how's everyone these days? Maybe ten more years from now, when some of us might be married with children, we might once again meet up and talk about the good old times when we were a part of the same class, tormenting/tormented by the same teachers that we had grown to love/hate, and about the crazy things that we did/witnessed.
And maybe in that ten years, I would be a much different person from who I was.
Here's to a good year ahead. Cheers.
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