どうゆ意味これ? (What is the meaning of this?)

*Any names used in this post is pure coincidence. No offence to the chai dians and chee dans! - @ Jun Wei

So yesterday I did something really silly in Edison, wanting to get my grouping early.

I held a sign up in Edison that says:

Looking for a GAM100 Project Partner? Talk to me!

Desperado-do-do-WHUUUT?

The reason for this is really simple. They have many weeks to complete GAM100, but we're leaving two weeks before the end of the semester. That means whoever partners with us needs to be on his own (or at least without overseas support for two~three days).

It's a little hard now because everyone's still trying to find their footing in this, so actually I can fully understand if people are still not in the mood to get into making games yet (as in, their students, not ours, we should be ever-ready I guess? Just guessing).

Luckily, that sign hanging got me a single name - Austin Kruckmeyer. ^o^

I find that DigiPen actually does this: through ProjectFUN, they teach you how you can rapidly prototype games without actually going to very deep levels of coding (although deepest I've seen so far is if/else conditional C++ coding), whereas in DET we're made to go through C++ codes FIRST before going onto making actual games out of it.

So is it our cue to maybe use an entry-level game prototyping software, something like Game Maker? Because the general sentiment now is that those in DET(G) VERY QUICKLY sees how programming is dull/bunch of maths stuff being thrown about/yada (yet while they do understand the hard of C++, they don't know FIRST how to make games fun as a base).

I find that a little disheartening, seeing people wading in a sea of lost codes. >_>;

Our course is, comparatively speaking, a pressure-cooker course for those who really know what they want, I find, because I know for SURE I wanted to program games all the way (unless something in life throws me a spanner/Jun Wei(???)/lemon) and many of the better programmers in our course (that is, better than ME programmers) are self-motivated to succeed in one way or the other through making games, but neither us nor the rest of the course sees first-hand how to make it fun first.

Principle of Game Design doesn't really count ^____^;;;;;; (sorry Mr Wee!)

[but PoGD IS fun, yes it is! But it's Year 2... a little late >.<]

Anyway,  I got to know three other guys from our classes through table tennis (since someone *ahem ahem* is too focused on his Alienware to care about a poor, poor friend, hmph).

Garrett, Steven, Blake.

[remind me to sneak a picture of them three all at once]

Yea. I'll try to remember their names by their hair and body shape, but it's going to be a little hard. I see Asians all the time back in Singapore, so of course it gets harder trying to identify Americans! >.<

The Departed (Jun Wei) and Infernally Electrical Business!

Ah yes, I've completely forgotten about that dinner picture from two posts ago so I'll do that later.

But first!

I've thought about it again, so today I posted on GAM100 about finding for a new partner. o_o; hope it works out yet again, but it's a risk!

Jun Wei is on tenterhooks today; after ditching him at home habitually now because of my sudden love for going to school early, I'd expect him to chase after my tail or at least get to school on time; today he's nearly late for lessons, and he was huffing his way to class.

On top of that he's kept checking his low-bat phone (how it got low is a mystery) for the delivery schedule (receiving a few smashes to the face from my ping-pong ball in the process, lol!), because his new laptop is coming and he cannot wait at all.

Well, at least it saves me a few hours on my audiospace away from "cheedan", "chai dian" and "is that true"... >_>

As if to help him settle back at apartment to wait for the laptop, Professor Schafer reported in sick on Moodle, so we have no more lessons after MAT140 (yay).

But while he skips back to the Ridge happily, I am determined to practice more on the circuits I'm so confused about, so I'm checking in at Archimedes for more practice.

I can't be defeated by a breadboard and so many wires! -_-+

Edit: And so I managed to get some gates working here and there ^^;;;

You'll notice a few familiars like the crocodile clip, resistors and LEDs. The one you probably don't know would be the fuse (black crocodile clip connecting it), a switch (blue thing) and relays (in white).

A relay is like a switch changer, pass electricity through the relay on the electromagnetic side  (far left edge) and the switch would change. In the first picture, it's a NOR (i.e. A=0,B=0,result=1) gate because it works such that if either switch is turned on, the circuit would break and the light won't turn on because the actual electrical connection (rightmost bottom, coil of red wire), which originally connected to the yellow line, now connects to nothing.


The next two pictures are the OR gate (notice where the yellow line is now on the first relay? And the bottom black line?) and the NAND gate (notice how the circuit will break if BOTH switches are turned on? Remember that NAND is such that only A=1,B=1 will produce result=0)


I know the OR gate is unnecessarily complicatedm but I needed to have a base in making the gates work. The pictures were uploaded in reverse manner. >.<


The AND gate is too stupidly simple to show. Put two wires together, disconnect either and you don't get jack. TADA. LOL.


The one gate I don't really get is XOR, because XOR is such that it MUST be either A or B but not both.

Trippy Days

So yesterday, after making that post with the flowers and the alternate route, I drank a can of Budweiser.


Oh, do you still call this a can by the way? It looks really long to me. The can says one pint and 8 fl. oz, whatever that means o_o;

Lesson learnt: Never drink beer unless you know enough of what you're getting yourself into.

I can be considered a teetotaler because I drink booze like, what, no more than five times a year? That can send me drunk, which was what I expected, but for the first time ever I found myself vomiting empty two hours after downing booze. The last time I boozed I just slept through to the next morning, so needless to say this is an unexpectedly unpleasant surprise.

The girls dropped by our apartment to cook again, which was nice, but just hours ago this wouldn't have been possible. The whole of Samammish just blacked out; thankfully when it happened it was around noon, so nothing adverse happened.


So I remembered someone in school had a zombie film to make at 2pm, and we (i.e. me and Faiz) were about to leave when one of the guys suggested Munchkins (specifically, the Vampires and Werewolves variant I bought at Barnes & Noble during the trip to Downtown Seattle). So we played it, and we left home... at 2pm.


By the time we got to Gibran, expecting a little crowd, we saw what was instead... a single person inside the classroom.


The closest parallel? Imagine it's a Sunday, and Rudi's inside spouting one-liners like "is that true?!" So yea.


Since that was the case, we left (after Faiz collected his newsprint for the DMDG guys) and we split ways at 90th; he said he needed to grab more stuff from QFC.


Dinner was fantastic - once again, rice and soup reminded me of home. The only thing that didn't quite match was tofu and beef (normally, it would be tofu and something else), but everything else was just good.


Yet despite all the good today, I'm increasingly feeling this strange, digging-at-me sense of unease.


Hopefully it's just me.


P.S.: Just a little update. Lauren Gold emailed me to inform me that she has found the original person she had wanted to partner, so I am out of a partner. Luckily, Kate had told me that it would be worth a shot to ask Mr Doug Schilling about a third wild-card on team, considering our status as sort-of-like-journeymen-students.

How to Get Lost without being Lost

I don't consider myself the most adventurous person around, but I've always told myself to maximise what I see, especially if I have control over going to places.


So today, I started by exploring an alternate route from the Redmond Way QFC back to Sammamish Ridge Apartments.


Oh wait, I went too fast, I'll start by mentioning what I did first.


(the tldr cat tells you that this could be a boring rant)

I went to Redmond Town Center alone to get a new pair of long pants (doesn't really matter if it's jeans or otherwise), as well as some new undies (well, what? It's normal!)


To be honest, I risked it because I never, ever got my own clothing, except for a few tees and whatnot. I am lazy and not confident back in Singapore, so coming to the US devoid of this kind of clothing support, I was determined to learn how to.


But that's all I'll say here because I'm sure this will bore you, so moving on...

(end boring rant)

So I deviated from the normal path. Here's how it roughly looks like.

The green path is the normal path we normally take to walk back from Redmond Way QFC to our apartment. The red path is the route I took.

From first glance alone you probably can tell it's a long way around.

But look what I found!

Pretty flowers! Yes, I am a guy who does stop to look at flowers.

These ones are just too pretty to pass up.

One of those information signs. It's interesting to note that here in America, they take everything green seriously.

That reminds me about how they deal with the trash back at DigiPen.

They have four receptacles in the cafeteria - two for general trash and two for recyclables.

A plaque for the mayor who made Sammamish possible. Yay! \o/

It occurred to me fairly quickly why this shrub is called Hens and Chicks. They're roughly the same shape, but of two distinct sizes. LOL.

To end off - the route is as long as it looked. I took three times the time (that is, close to half an hour) to get back to the apartment.

OTL...

Thank goodness for long baths.

Rice is Nice!

Finally, some rice.

[insert dinner picture here when I feel like it 24 hours later?]

Well yea, we just had a rice-based dinner with cooked food that vaguely resembles the quintessential Singaporean meal - one rice pot, 2 meat dish, one veggie.

With a strange hiccup or two - veggie not really cooked to done, and fish fillet actually having bones within (!!!)

Even so, for some reason, for the whole day I felt a strange attack of don't-belong-ism.

I mean, well, we all know we are not Americans, not by a long shot, but I get this strange feeling I'm probably the only one trying, and even so, I'm actually trying too hard to fit in.

I probably should keep trying though, despite how flat-out futile it seems to be.

Why?

Because if I do not make any attempt to Americanize my accent (which of course isn't anywhere close) my raw Singaporean accent will definitely make anyone give me that ?_? look, as Kate just showed me when I accidentally pulled it off on her yesterday.

This pretty much sums it up.

I don't foresee doing anything on Saturday, but for Sunday I am thinking seriously about that zombie film thing someone's trying to film.

Seems like a good chance to network in a casual environment, which I prefer over sterile school shop-talk >_>

Getting stood up in the US of A

So, following yesterday's failure to get Lauren's response, I wrote arbitrarily that I'll be waiting for her in Edison (the computer lab area) if she's still keen on the grouping.

I've been waiting here for the past hour and I don't get anybody asking me, "hey are you Joel? I'm Lauren."

I'm tempted to make this face...

 

Then I remember that we already had a picture in Edison like this:

Joy.

On the other hand, it's ArenaNet Day, and Faiz and the other artists are there. Faiz in particular, I think, because it's the company that developed Guild Wars 2 and he's going fanboy all over it XD

"I must recognise the faces in this video," says Faiz as he watches this Manifesto Trailer on Guild Wars 2 this morning.

Almost like cramming for exams, but the question is all about matching faces to name i think? lol

 

Sometimes the students and staff here gets really funky with what they do.

 

Case in point - A technical staff with curly hair walked around with a shirt that, on his back, said this:

"Got a question?

Ask me!!"

 

I'll be sure to wear a shirt like that next time... in another capacity altogether. XD

And the winner is...

Results day!


Okay, generally, I knew what I had been doing so I was quite happy to learn that my scores were "expected".


Not to say I'm absolutely satisfied with my results, but I can live with it. >_>


Anyway:


Didn't get to see Lauren today, there were some short breakage of communications somewhere that led to her not showing up (or me not showing up?).


Let's see about tomorrow!


In the meantime, Faiz said he'll do honey cubed chicken today. Hmm.

Another short before lessons

So I'm going to meet my prospective GAM100 partner, Lauren Gold today.


From what my new friend Kate said, she probably looks a little old. Uh... what?


The way she pitched her offer on Moodle is like a businesswoman, though. o_o so I just took it.


I hope my blind stab works out eventually.


Also, [Singaporean Found!]


A guy called Yap Junhuii messaged on that same post and mentioned that he knew of us from Doug. o_o;;; I should take up his offer and probably try to chance into him at Edison. ^^;

Dinner for two

The day was okay, though a little weird. The night before, I slept at 5pm so my sleep cycle is completely messed for that night. Strangely, I was able to keep awake for most of CS and (yet another) ping-pong session with Jun Wei, and I still had enough going for me to finish up MAT140 Assignment 2 (which is actually due next week!)

However, that wasn't the kicker YET.

Tonight, me and Jun Wei were presented with a most unique situation.

Kendrick and Faiz had to go to the Town Center to illustrate stuff for their lessons. Chong Foong, after hearing that from Jun Wei (who in turn took my phone call for me because I was in the middle of a very difficult dungeon raid) he went outside to settle his meal.

So cue dustball, me and Jun Wei and a kitchen.

We started cooking. I dealt with the pasta and he does the brocolli-carrot-ham combo.

Funny things we realised we missed out in the midst of cooking his combo:

1. No preheat on oil pan.

2. No oil! (lol) That was later resolved.

3. No onions. I picked out a small peck from the fridge at random, peeled it with the speed of a slug, and threw that peck into the pan.

Not to mention that stuff began to flew off the chopping board when he started chopping, and we had to repeatedly make use of the three-second rule to reassure ourselves. >_>

Wait, aren't the problems exclusively his? o.o;

Anyway, we got down to dinner, which looked like this:

I assure you this is COMPLETELY EDIBLE. >_>;

Short

Today I bought a DigiMug!

Basically, the DigiMug allows me to refill at their coffee machines at a quarter dollar off the paper cup cost. Yay for energy savings (?).

Oh yea, that's MY locker by the way. $5 for a personal space in DigiPen is well worth the money. Not like the over 80 plus dollars we have to pay back at NYP, now THAT was, comparatively speaking, horribly exorbitant.


I guess there's always a difference in-house versus outsource, eh?


Following last week's mad last-minute rush, I'm determined to get the MAT140 homework done this week, if not by today. And maybe clear the GAM100 project tutorials ahead of schedule so I can fully focus on the meat.

I wonder if I should go Downtown Seattle or Redmond Town Center to shop for more clothing. Macy's at the Town Center seems to be a much more convenient solution, but I wonder if I should just leave the buying to the weekend so I could just bus ride to Seattle instead.

=/

My apartment's conversation is now full of ninjas, GG, and chee dan.
My audiospace is messed up yo -_-

And then there were random musings

After I posted that post and ended off with Dragon Nest the boys went straight to Dragonesting for two straight weekends.


Rather unfortunate, but I do think we're all generally kind of lazy to keep going out after the spate of going-outs the past week. I'll probably travel downtown over this weekend or the next to shop, depending on whether the money comes in this week or the next (or even next-next week).


Shinpai suru na! I'm not starving yet! But that said there's still a need not to splurge whenever.


So two days ago we stopped DN for a while and went shopping at Shalimar's again (this is a South Asian [read - Indian] mama shop kind of establishment), as in, me and Faiz. Mainly because the meats and spices there reminds us of home. I'll probably take a few pics to show the estab next time.


On the way there we were screamed at by wild and drunken girls on a vehicle. Faiz waved back, but I don't know what on earth happened until he told me about it. I know I'm wols but that just takes the cake.


o_o;


This morning... uhh, kind of sad to say but I literally ditched Jun Wei to walk to school alone after failing to drag him out of bed by 8.20am.
I don't feel TOO sad though, because uh... at the very least I don't have to face him uttering "gg" like, every three lines. LOL. He's been doing that so much it got to borderline annoying xP


(Note: Now he changed that uttering to Faiz's "chee dan", which is Chinese for egg. OTL I'm going to take this for another 10 weeks desu ka?!)


I kind of feel guilty for not feeling homesick for now, but like jet lag I supposed it hits much slower.


I'm going to end off this blog post here now. Why?
Because Kendrick say I spoil market. xP xP xP


Later!

Big post NOW.

By popular request (aka one-man-asking) here's the BIG POST.


That is pretty much late by one whole week OTL


But no matter, I'll start with what I should have posted yesterday.


About MAT140 - I did a rather stupid thing on it. Instead of progressing forward fast, I essentially wrote my own homework twice at the midway point because I wanted to make it nicer to look at. Instead, I didn't manage to complete question 17 and bungled question 15 on a simple mistake.


I keep forgetting this thing about not doing double work. -_-


Yesterday I got onto Dragon Nest too, against my better judgment. Ergh.


Phillip was talking to me about the cross-product, so I gave him an idea of how the cross-product can be used in programming terms and how to get it.


No use hoarding this knowledge for myself =/

===VVV BIG POST BELOW VVV===

This is a skytrain at SEATAC (short for Seattle Tacoma International Airport) that connected our luggage collecting area with the main terminal (or something like that). According to what I know, no matter how you enter SEATAC by flight, you can always only exit it through the main terminal.

So essentially this thing brings us to the main terminal.

But get this - this is AFTER a conveyor belt right after customs, throws us our luggage. And before leaving this satellite building we were in, we have to throw our luggage onto ANOTHER belt that leads to the main terminal.

Annoying to say the least. But I guess this is unavoidable given the extenuating circumstances surrounding the US of A generally.

Korean text!!!

I was more expecting Japanese text because I'd heard (and since it's been so long after I landed in Seattle, saw for myself) that there's a fairly large Japanese community in Seattle.

But it wasn't obvious to me until I realised that the airport's decision to use Korean text could really have been influenced by DigiPen. I'll speak on that later.

More skytrain pictures. I don't like cameras over glass for this reason, but it wasn't like I could have gotten out of the train to snap any further.


It does kind of remind me how the Circle Line looked like with the frontal lights on. LOL.

Oh, short story here: We only got onto the skytrain I mentioned earlier nearly 1 and a half hours after we landed, because our dear Faiz was taken aside for some interrogation after he ALMOST cleared customs.


We couldn't contact him for nearly 2 hours because whoever had been interrogating him (I didn't ask!) had the policy that no cell phones be on them during the process.


In the meanwhile, that I show you above was what the group ate while we were waiting for him, at a nearby shop that sells A LOT OF BOOKS (I had to mention this - nearly half that shop is just mags and books!)


The cherry coke tasted more cherry (read: SICKENINGLY SWEET cherry) than coke, and as with any very soda-focused drinks, I hiccup the heck out of it. Now that I think of it, I wonder why I even drank that in the first place, but it wasn't like I wanted to drink what I knew as "cheap-ass Dasani mineral water made two times expensive in USA".


Like, we all know an average 1.5L Dasani is approximately less than one SGD, right? Here it sells for nearly 2 USD, and it wasn't later that I found out that it's NOT an airport-exclusive price, much to my horror.


-_-;

Our apartment, basically, before we royally messed it up now.

As was mentioned by Mr Lam on his blog (http://programmingpeon.blogspot.com/), this apartment is basically located at the base of a ridge.

What does this mean?

This means if we were trying to get to anywhere from our place, we either run downhill or face a long, STEEP climb up to the main intersection.

FML.

The fireplace... I wonder when we'll start to use it. I am speculating maybe 3 weeks, because right now my feet is freezing as I type (although when we came in the weather is Singaporean hot, yea).

I didn't take any pictures of DigiPen or our favorite supermarket chain, QFC. Basically here's how it is.

DigiPen is a relatively friendly community. By "relatively" I don't mean like it's SUPER-OH-HI-WELCOME friendly, but at the very least, the people here are approachable and are very, very good at basic manners, which I - SHOOT ME FOR THIS - find very lacking back in Singapore.

I am shy and so is Jun Wei, so the only thing we did to show that we're around is either by eating or by playing table tennis.

...we can both tell you most of the rackets suck. LOL!

We also got to meet up with a guy called Cong Fu, who was apparently one of Mr Lam's charges in his first year teaching at NYP. He's ultra-friendly, maybe because we're NYPians like him, but his accent isn't Singaporean. (I later realised that he was from China, but when I say this I don't mean I am anti-PRC.) So it was a little hard to listen, but he generally dispenses good advice the few times we saw him over the week.

QFC...

Uh, well, it's basically NTUC privatised, or Carrefour. So a lot of times it's anything-goes, and when I mean that, I mean ANYTHING goes. We later realised that approximately seven blocks down the same area is ANOTHER QFC, and that one is strange for several reasons:

1. It is located in a very remote part of the town... as far as I can see.

2. It is bigger than the one along Redmond Way.

3. It has Chinese food and Starbucks.

The crazy thing is, there are two Starbucks along Redmond Way too!

One inside QFC and a specialised, small building with a single Starbucks!

Guess they do play the term "laissez-faire economy" to the max here. Back home we'd have thought that was essentially a stupid move. Think of it as similar to Tampines Interchange small McDonalds against the bigger McDonalds nearer the CPF building, and (by my estimation) probably replicated so across America.

-_-

Okay, so there were very little pictures towards the end because I didn't take many other pictures during the week. I'll show you some of the miscellenous ones I took.

Borders in its death throes.


By the time we got here, the top floor had already been closed off. And everything in store is at 70% to 90% discount, which was pretty mad but understandable. Anything that cannot be liquidated is no longer of value, says Mr Lam.


Still... it's kind of sad to see it go.


Uh, wait, did I mention "everything" in store? Yea. Bookshelves were fair game too; so were the signs. The only thing that isn't seems to be the cashiers, but I wouldn't bank on it.


Oh I just let off a pun without even trying. LOL.

Turkish coffee!


According to Mr Lam it's horrible. Maybe I'll give it a taste when I go there again.

Beautiful sunset. ^^

Redmond Town Center where most of the above occurred. Yea, it's a pretty cozy place. Heard from Mr Lam it used to be a golf course o.o;

Okay, the big post is done. Now I shall Dragon Nest and then Project FUN!

Homework is always tedious!

But apparently I underestimated the tedium involved in DigiPen homework -_-+

The questions, on the surface, look innocent. By themselves they're easy.

But there's so much to do!

I pity those who're taking Calculus for the first time and are rushing last-minute, because they'll suffer like mad.

But in any case I'll be done and dusted with this homework so...

( ﾟ∀ﾟ)ｱﾊﾊ八八ﾉヽﾉヽﾉヽﾉ ＼ / ＼/ ＼

Oh and yet another post before a big post

Went to the instructor (Mr John Hanson) today to get my instructions on how to proceed.
Turns out, handing up the assignment is the same as "hand up homework" like how we do ours everyday. It turns out their "assignment" is really just our idea of "homework".

=/

Still another post before the big post

Okay so how many days was this delayed already...? That long post will never get done if I forget about it this week XD

Anyway, short post again.

I finished up the CS100 quiz with a score of 71/72. Because it was a computer marking it, I didn't get the last question right because apparently it does not accept even a minute amount of English as an answer.

The question in question?

"What are the values that a computer can recognize?"

Uh... "1 and 0"?
Of course we all know that a computer cannot recognize anything beyond 1s and 0s!

"Wrong. 'O 1'." Wrong, slash one mark.

Seriously?! -_-

Side note: Phillip responded to my mail rather late, but better late than never I guess! ^^;

Yet another post before a big post

So I'll probably get that huge-ish post up before tomorrow arrives (as well as do my best to finish all twenty questions I saw in that set for MAT140).

But before that... hmm.

Earlier just now, I walked to the larger, other Quality Food Center situated behind just about everywhere. That walk was no joke!

Mr Lam, it isn't a shorter distance either... >_>;

Even with a shortcut I developed impromptu (which led me to a Elderly Center nearby!!?) the walk was still half-an-hour or more. I daresay it's probably a shorter distance from Redmond Town Center to Sammamish ^_^;

In any case.

AND OR NAND NOR XOR. Feels like DES all over again, except this time it's not touch-and-go like we did. But I get this feeling whatever we're learning about C will come much later so... yea, it'll be a while.

And GAM 100 was a massive congregation of people handing in forms akin to "why this particular aspiration?" Feels like Mr Reghu asked us all that before, but well... priorities change maybe? =p

Got to know this guy called Phillip, surname not known (for now!). Seemed like a nice chap, would probably refer to him if I needed to?

Now to complete Set 1!

( ﾟ∀ﾟ)ｱﾊﾊ八八ﾉヽﾉヽﾉヽﾉ ＼ / ＼/ ＼

A second post before a big post

Morning, Seattle, 6am.

Cooked my own breakfast ahead of everyone else (because, except for Jun Wei, everyone starts classes late today).
Annoying to keep waking up at 4am after inexplicably always dozing off at 7pm these days (which I never do in Singapore!), so I kept a short log of why this is happening.

As it turns out:

A schedule of 4am to 7pm waking hours translates to 7pm - 11am waking hour back home.
If these waking hours corresponds to that back in Singapore, I'd essentially be like my Dad, with an inverted body clock to suit nighttime.
I've become a rather odd night owl whose waking hours are not quite at the right place. OTL

Got a hang of Moodle, but not quite sure how homework was supposed to be handed in o.o; Maybe I'll go around to asking Mr Ben Ellinger >_>;

A post before another post

This is a quick post that is ordered not-quite-correctly...
...because I should have posted what happened after touchdown and everything (oops!)

(´・∀・`)

But the key thing is, I would really advise against students of future batches taking MAT140, which is what me and Jun Wei did.

Reason?

To be really honest, it's actually a huge reminder of Mr Reghu's first-year mathematics classes. Which means it is really just Sem 1/2 mathematics?

(ﾟдﾟ)

Well, down with that, I guess. I'm Looking forward to the Psychology class later.

( ﾟ∀ﾟ)ｱﾊﾊ八八ﾉヽﾉヽﾉヽﾉ ＼ / ＼/ ＼

In Seattle - Day -2 and En Route

Sorry this update isn't coming in as fast as it should, but while I'm awake let's make up for lost time ^^;

Squeezing in as much content as possible with pictures interspersed.



The above has actually got nothing to do with this trip; that's Jalan Besar Stadium the night Iraq took on Singapore and won 2-0. I was there, and luckily so, bumped into my Subbuteo Club friends so we could enjoy and should "KELONG!!!!!!" together.

That was one of those nights where I wished I had seen a bit more of Singapore before I left, but it's best to look forward rather than otherwise, methinks! ^^;



Kopitiam, 5.30am, September 9 (fly-off day).
This is a general scene I took of everyone having breakfast. I imagine, sans Mr Lam, much must have gone through the other guys' families and all. I know my parents were worried that I couldn't do a lot here =/
It is 80+ days after all. Can't fault the folks.

What isn't in this picture: Jun Wei's family. A huge send-off comparatively - both parents and an uncle?



Faiz walking with Mr Lam. We were slightly rushing to the area so...



...although (inexplicably methinks!) this bugger wants to get a PC game to go, he couldn't because we were out of time to check in XD





The three images above are our meals at different times of the flight, bottom two being the same one. We had two meals per plane flight, I remember.

The plane flight was unusually torturous; I suspect it's the lack of in-flight content and stuff. I had to resort to playing Street Fighter IV on my iPhone to pass time. Thankfully, I randomly passed out sometimes during the trip so it wasn't that bad. =p



This is a picture of the DMD(G) girls while we were at Narita.

That was when things got a little prickly when Jun Wei told me he was sick.
And apparently he said so "before the flight". Erk, I must've been distracted D:
And it was apparently pretty bad too D: D: D:

We got Jun Wei a Hi-Chew (which I realise was literally written in katakana as ハイチュウ on the cover, LOL) to stave off the hunger. And at that point of time he didn't say he was suffering from gastric so ughhhhhhhhh.




Mr Lam and a clearly sick Jun Wei, then Kendrick on the other side. Yea I was pretty much snapping pics of just our people.



Me eating a sandvich. Om nom nom.



Awesome sunset over Narita. Too bad my photography skills suck so bad the glare blinded. -_-



Yet another group picture. ^^;




I forgot if this was two separate meals or one meal only. I think it's two, and I remembered the food on this flight being much better, but the in-flight entertainment was reduced to looping channel playbacks. At least I got to see Ratatouille and Kung Fu Panda 2 (aka "something best forgotten").

One conclusion: Movie makers these days suck at sequels! (sob)