Vivian or Kazuma-- Who is Vivian?

Vivian or Kazuma- first heard for their single, Moment, 2nd OP for Gundam Seed.

"Vivian" is actually Vivian Hsu, who is also well-versed in Korean, and of course Mandarin

Disorganised!

It has been a long time since someone criticised me- in a manner that makes sense i mean. And expectedly, it came from someone who simply cares.

No more complex stories, but just a simple case of being fickle-minded. CO chalet last night, and my batch was deciding whether to stay overnight. Well, i said no then, thinking that just like the previous year, the group of us would just share cab home. Yet on the night itself, I simply found the bed so comfortable that i changed tack, and decided to sleep overnight instead. =) Oops... Ya, I'm such a disorganised person.

Perhaps the person who commented didn't know that it was, actually, an accurate comment on my current state of mind. Fickle-minded and indecisive. My course of study hasn't been firmed up yet, and some other stuff as well. Perhaps it's due time that I start to mount a sustained offensive, lest I screwed the next 5 years of my life...

Frankly speaking, I'm not even sure I can do it. Anyway, divine intervention is much appreciated =)

Surprising week

A bicycle crash. One week no mopp c. One night in Lentor. Two surprise messages.

9 Dec. On leave. Was travelling towards TM. Century Square walkway, barriers erected to prevent motorcycles from entering, but just nice for bicycles. I reckoned that it's difficult to aim my bicycle through those barriers, unless i walk my bicycle through them. Hence, i decided to detour, travelling by the road before re-entering the walkway by the next pedestrain crossing. Yet, this proved to be a bad decision.

I thought that moving from the road onto the walkway was just like changing lanes on the road. Move smoothly across the lanes; try to be parallel in movement, don't poke your vehicle's head out into the next lane. This was exactly how i approached the walkway with my bike. Bang! The walkway seemingly rejected my bike's advance and pushed it aside. Somehow, my bicycle flipped onto its side and my left patella was dragged along the walkway, which eventually brought my bike to a halt.

Luckily, my bicycle was thrown onto the walkway, not the road. There wasn't speeding on my part as well. Phew........Blood of course flowed slowly down towards my left foot. Looks serious, but being the elite of the Medical Corps, I know that I'm fine overall, and this is just, at most, a 0.1% 3rd degree burn (the doctor simply called it "abrasion"). Shortly after making sure my bike suffered no damage, I pushed the bike along and continued to complete the objectives of my trip. Along the way, I bought Melolin and gauze to apply first aid myself. $5 for 5 pieces of Melolin? I didn't know my store was worth so much.

This is my first crash after buying my first bicycle. I was prepared. Got to happen one of these days. I'm not a skilled, or trained cyclist after all. Got one week's excuse blahblah from MO (my longest so far)...... In the end, had to stand in for my MT spec to go on spec II field camp, so the excuse didn't allow me to relax as much as I wanted....Sometimes, or must i say, most of the times, life doesn't happen the way you want it to.

Surprises are what makes life interesting, but it's whether you enjoy it or not. First surprise was a reply from my friend, who's currently in UK; takes ages to reply, always. Usually 2-3 weeks, longer than that means "forget it". It was one of those "Forget it" times, but this time there was a reply. Funny ah, shldn't bother with this kinda friend ya?? Haha we were "tablemates" and I'm just very happy to receive a reply i guess ya.......

Second surprise was today. I had earlier typed in on MSN, 'omg how did i crash......so embarassing...." I had another friend in the States. I hadn't heard anything from this friend for 4 years i guess. Bang! Suddenly this friend msg me on MSN, on what i crashed. Thought i crashed my tank or what.......!@#$%^ We chatted for a while, then "user offline".. I know i'm boring =P but there are better ways to end a chat ya? We haven't been on talking terms for some time, but we had been classmates so i can chat anytime with thee. But this encounter has set me thinking, "Is this person gonna talk to me only when i'm seriously hurt, injured, dead?" I just can't figure some people out........ Maybe this person thought i had been exaggerating in my MSN headline, and was greatly disgusted? Nv my intention.......... Friends shld know better i guess.

What have i been up to?

Xmas is approaching and this can only mean that 2005 is coming to an end very soon. Unusually fast! You mean the Asian tsunami disaster has reached its first anniversary? I can't believe it!

Time is racing ahead of me. Piled on my table are six copies of Newsweek, which means that somehow I've not been reading them for 1.5 months. There's always so many things that i wanna do on weekends. This is the umpteenth time i've been making this same comment, though i'm just 5.5 mths away from ORD. No point ranting off the stuff i wanna do again ya?

I took 3 days' leave! A much-needed rest, away from M*F. Even though the program in camp was not tough, I really wanted to have a break from that environment after some hectic months. Furthurmore, there may not even be any year-end off this year. Rather than wait for some saviour to bestow off on us, I might as well apply for leave myself instead of depending on others..And the leave was memorable, more so since i fell off my bicycle for the first time =(

Was attempting to re-enter the pedestrian walkway from the road. The pedestrain walkway was a mere 5 cm higher than the road. Yet when my front wheel got close to the walkway, the movement of my bicycle was still very much forward, rather than banking more to the side. Somehow, when the front wheel touched the edge of the walkway, it glided past the edge, instead of climbing it. Then inertia set in, and my bicycle flipped to my left.

Using my left knee to halt the slide forward, the whole bicycle landed on my left tib/fib. Luckily, i did not fell to my right into the traffic flow. Phew. Resulting damages: Abrasions to left patella, feet; muscle strain to right shin.

My bicycle is fine lest some sand stuck in the chains. First accident since October. The usual rantings from parents of course. Haiz.......Anyway some bruises, as long as minor ones, can be tolerated. They only make you stronger in life =)



The bridge out of the east gate of the castle is slowly being lowered. Very slowly. In fact, it would take months. The next castle awaits, though yet to be firmly chosen. A choice has to be made soon. In the meantime, the Chosen One remains elusive, yet one remains hopeful not forlorn. If all were to come to naught, then that was what was meant to be all along. May the lucky stars come to shine and manifest as guiding lights in the expedition that lays ahead....