Saturday, June 11

Remember the boys who got lost in Mount Fraser, Malaysia recently? The following is an excerpt from the article.

"I kept telling the two small ones, do you want to live or die, whenever they were too afraid to walk to a river or when they started crying," he told The Straits Times from his hospital bed in Raub, where the boys were warded for observation.

Raub is sort of my hometown and also where my grandparent's house is situated in. Over 400km from Singapore, that's where I spent my first few years of life there. I learned how to walk there too! The Raub hospital is roughly 2km from my house. Wow thinking about this year's CNY, the fireworks in the town were awesome. There's fireworks of difference scale... every night some rich family will bring some up into the dark sky :)

Another even more recent newspaper article.

When he began his studies at Tanglin Secondary, he was 1.5m tall, and weighed close to 60kg. That qualified the chubby introvert for the TAF club.

The boy who belonged to the Chinese Chess Club while in Tanglin Secondary moved on to the Outdoor Activities Club in Jurong Junior College in 1998.

Hey! I was enrolled in the 2 schs he went! Mr Teo Yen Kai was one of the NUS team who attempted to scale Mount Everest. And he did it! From overweighting in school to conquering Mount Everest, that's a big achievement I supposed.

More significantly, these two articles tugged my heartstrings as both had something related to me.

I had PW meeting in JP Mac... It was a energy-drainer. There were so many aspects to consider that my concentration was hanging on the edge. Our project is very technical in the proposal. All the measurements and calculations must be realistic and acceptable...I guessed we couldn't put ourselves to handling up a poor piece of work to Ms Lang's table.

The FFX-2 game. So girlish and messy. The battle mode interface is hastened up so much. The dress sphere system is so complicated. But the area of the game remained largely unchanged. Most of the locations are still the same as in FFX. Tonight shall play some more if I can go through 10 qns from physics tut. 6