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For people who are feeling disgruntled about life giving you lemons despite the hard work you have put in, next up I have a personal experience and some words of wisdom. Now I have to get back to studying. erhm.. similarity transform.. oh.. transpose of the adjunct of a matrix.. and.. servo control..

I can now flip matrices as well as those prata enciks can flip their pratas.

the day before market opens

Lately, I have been preoccupied with a lot of miscellaneous activities. Take this weekend for example. Amidst preparing for exams, I found myself going out for short runs, reading research papers on portfolio selection and optimization, reading The World is Flat (i know i am taking damn long to finish this book), reading analysis on the effects of Dubai World's announcement, wondering if i should sell my stocks, watching youtube videos 天龙八部，coding sensitivity analysis test on Matlab, playing on my forex platform, googling on the history of Malacca for my Dec weekend trip, reading up on estimation of distribution algorithms, looking for chalets in January and begging eunice to let me take some pictures at the studio she rented, editing my fyp technical paper and going for super long dinners. You can figure out for yourself how much time I have left to study for my exams. Hey that large cup of Coffee Bean coffee which was suppose to keep me up all night studying didn't work man. I reached home and I slept like a pig.

come monday. my trading friends will be having a very busy day. bonne chance.

saddened

Mindanao Island massacre was something so brutal that I cannot imagine it happening in our civilized world. Among the 57 victims were women and journalists who were covering the Philippines election. Some of the victims were even innocent passers by who witnessed the abduction and murders. Apparently more than 50 people participated in this appalling barbaric killing. According to AFP, a 'Philippine politician has been charged with mass murder on Friday after authorities accused him of ordering soldiers, police and other gunmen to kill in an organized slaughter'. What were they thinking, such disregard for human lives. sigh. I am at a loss for words.

I pray for the victims and the family of the victims.

21

Finally a photo and it's not taken by me. There. A photo for my birthday.

"25 on 21"-cj

Thanks peihao!

mystery of the dead rat

"I saw a dead rat on my way home; lying in the front of the letter boxes with its tongue sticking out. I remembered myself having the same expression after the marathon. It swiftly led to a series of questions. How did the rat die? Was it killed? if so who's the killer? how did it end up in front of the letter boxes? Is the tongue a sign that that it was suffocated? I surveyed the surroundings for signs of a struggle. There were no obvious blood stains; not even a piece of advertisement strewn in front of the letter boxes. Someone must have cleaned up the crime scene.

The carcass laid normal. There were no obvious bruising, no awkwardly shaped skeletal deformity and no signs of foul play. Though after preliminary examination I was not able to rule out an unnatural death, i was sure that no decent rat with any pride or dignity will crawl all the way to the letter boxes just to die there. There must be something that I was not seeing. Was it there a movement in the shadow at the stairwell? Was the killer lurking in the dark and observing?

I smell a rat. a dead rat."

I mused at how these scenarios that flowed out out my mind was actually triggered by a dead rat. Maybe I have an inner melodramatist. Or maybe it reminded me of a book : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

I shall call this imaginative story telling - deviant writing.

to all

with love..

25

Looking at present. Je suis en pleine forme. I have never feel better about myself than right now. I am getting somewhere in my life and have reached a level of sophistication in my attitude and my thinking. I found purpose and motivation. Family and friends are all doing well. I can never thank you enough for your support, kinship and friendship. I thank all of you for the week of gastronomical delights and the time we shared. Everyone of you; even those whom I haven't been keeping in contact. I remember every conversation..

"Sergeant Choo if you cannot do your duty I will ask Medic Chia to become your guard commander." siaz..

"You are too short to be my tango partner. In Argentina Tango, we are suppose to lean on each other to form an 'A' shape, but together we form a right angle triangle.." oops

"Mr KhooKY is psycho." no comments

"Does Dalai Lama live in Dubai?" ahem..

"Will Singapore float away from Malaysia if we destroy the causeway?" No, honey. we have a second link now, we need to break both.

"You are so fa****rked up, that if I were your father. That night with your mother, I should have gotten drunk and j*rk off into the toilet bowl. For all the shit you are giving me, you deserve a swim with the sh*t. Fa****rking hell. Chia don't fa***rking laugh when I am fa****rking Moses." yes RSM, but you are so funny.

"Ronaldinho looks so cute." no comments.

"Guan you talking to your runner or your bookie?" oh that's your father. =d

"I want you to take a photo of the Pisa tower like this. it will look more tilted." But your horizon is also tilted..

"MacRitchie run next week?" sure thing.

"Boy, who are you going out with until so late at night?" hussssh mum. secret. 不能说的秘密。

"You sent him a x'mas card and you never send me any x'mas card lo." (a year later) be patient honey, its on its way.

"If you like her, go after her. Doesn't matter that she is attached." I know I have a morally grey area, but this is just wrong.

"Junyong don't study so much." I can't help it, I'm just good at it.

"It is not going to happen." sigh..

"Do not hold your stick flat to the ground!"

"Eh do you know hj is attached." tell me more gossip girl.

"Her voice is so high pitch.. only the dogs can hear her cry." nickel.

"Rendezvous in Berlin?" how bout on x'mas eve?

"dari kiri cepat jalan!" left, left, left... right.

"Don't worry mum, if I get a french gf. I will make sure she knows how to speak Hokkien." can do?

my life's like wine, gets better with age and intoxicates everyone around me. hope I had made a difference in your lives too. off to my last rdv before exams.