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魔随心生

2012-01-29T07:20:00.000+08:00

有时候想到，魔随心生，我觉得这种说法依然有着不对之处。

依据“人之初，性本善”的想法，一个人第一次有贪嗔痴的感觉，都是受外界的影响而发生的。但是一经过深入了解及锻炼，我们知道了这些心魔都是不好的，应该尽量避免及去除。

那么，如果一个人一生都没有感受过贪嗔痴，怎会了解“魔随心生”的道理？换句话说，如果一个人在一个很完美的外界生活，他终究都不会有任何“心魔”。

因为外界给不了他负面影响，他根本就不会有着任何的“心魔”，比如说想要发泄、骂人、使用粗话等。

终究，当我们开始生气时，是我们自己的心魔在促使着，还是外界在引导？

我觉得是外界。

Arsenal Jersey

2012-01-28T09:59:00.001+08:00

Long live Arsenal!

Water Cooler

2012-01-28T09:55:00.006+08:00

今天我们谈了一个问题：为什么water cooler一直都处于靠近厕所的地方。

其实我们不是没有想过，只是我们或许都选择不去想。

因为知道了真相，只会有两个结果：

(i) 永远不会再食用water cooler的水。

(ii)继续食用water cooler的水。

我们谈了好久，突然有人说，很明显地，那些水都是厕所的水，而且还共用同一条pipe。至于为什么会冷，肯定是加工过后而导致冷却。

这是我们得到其中一个最有可能的解释。

还有一个也是很有道理的解释：

因为我们从厕所出来，第一个就想喝水。

心理准备

2012-01-27T06:41:00.001+08:00

Wait.

Before I click send, I need to have some mental preparations.

无论是得到怎样的comment，或是要我重新写过全部，我都不能动摇。

因为她是supervisor，因为她是给我分数的老师，因为她是expert。

我必须一直一直地忍住，一定要坚强，这是我人生的磨练、磨练。

准备好了，然后就click send.

Fuji

2012-01-27T05:04:00.004+08:00

Actually I don't really like to rush things.

Actually I don't think it is necessary to finish my project fast.

那天dissertation的meeting，其他的angmor好像做了很多东西，好像准备很多。我不知道她做了多少，但是她肯定是不凡人物。

Jeremy和xiaotian很大胆，直接告诉supervisor他们下一个星期不会来meeting。

可能是不怕死，直接当面告诉老师，就好象把铁钉直接吞进肚子里。

所以他们会什么都没有做到。

但是我已经做了不少。

所以我想在下一个星期直接双倍超越他们。

And actually I like to see people suffer even more.

初二

2012-01-24T21:50:00.002+08:00

年初二。

看到人人都post自己初二去拜年的照片在facebook，自己今年好像没有什么可以post，觉得有点凄凉。

所以我就post在这里。

初二还要上课，sad。

Marine Insurance Assignment 2

2012-01-24T08:14:00.002+08:00

So, new year comes with new assignments. As per usual with my usual habit, I will write down whatever my ideas in my blog. I just have to start writing.

This assignment is about marine insurance again. It was about the perils of the seas. I still haven't figured out what did Gauci want us to write about it as the question given was, well confusing, maybe just for me.

Coursework Number 2
Critically assess the relevance of The Popi M and The Marel cases in relation to the risk of 'perils of the seas'.

It seems clearer for me now after I actually wrote down the whole question. What I saw at first was the Popi M and the Marel, and the perils of the seas. It seems I missed out the 'risk' word. I will figure out the significance about that word later.

Anyway, I asked myself after reading and understanding completely the two cases, what do the question really asking, or what do our beloved lecturer expect us to write. (Gauci is my favorite lecturer.)

Does he want us to write about how should we proof a perils of the seas? Does he want the issues involved the perils of the seas? How should the court look at the cases by balance of probabilities? Or the definition of the perils of the seas?

Here I listed down some facts that I found from the cases.
- Popi and Marel, cases about both vessel sunk in extremely improbable way.
- Shipowners claimed it as part of the perils of the seas.
- Underwriters claimed it as unseaworthiness, which is virtually impossible.
- Both cases were won by the underwriters, but it did not mean that the defences used by underwriters were correct. It just simply meant that the shipowners failed to discharge themselves from the burden of proof.
- Both cases are full with rebuttable presumptions, which was assumptions made by the courts unless another party contest it.
- However, the critical part was back to how did the aperture on the ship hull happen. Both of the ships were found in a seaworthy condition on their respective voyage.

Ok now back from the past. It is like, I accuse you for stealing something, and you ask me to prove it that you steal it. If I cannot proof that you steal, you don't have to defence yourself at all.

Same for these cases, the shipowners said their ship were sunk due to the perils of the seas. And so the underwriters will have the right to ask them to show evidences of their ships were sunk by perils of the seas, not just by telling them about it and wanted to claim insurance.

In Popi M, the judge of commercial court actually did some mistakes in judging the case. It actually brought me some insights that the court, instead of choosing which party should be the right one, should actually be deciding on how should they judge the cases.

The commercial court was compelled to decide on which explanation was the correct one. Was it that shipowner said it was due to hitting something unknown? Probably a submarine? Or the underwriter who said the ship was unseaworthiness?

And the Sherlock Holmes philosophy came in, saying that when we take out those unlikely one, we will find the right one, apart for the right one being improbable.

The court decided to go for shipowner's idea, which said the ship was collided with a submarine, which in my opinion was extremely impossible and improbable. And the House of Lord changed the decision. But they were not saying that the underwriter's idea was then right one.

The Sherlock Holmes' idea was not a wrong one. It could be correct if we apply it onto something reasonable and with evidences. It just could not be applied into this case as we did not know anything about how the ship actually had an aperture on its hull.

So the case were back to square one. The underwriter, once received the claims from the owner, will say: show me the proof that the whole incident was fortuitous and accidentally happened.

If the owner failed to prove it, who will bother about his claim?

PS: I guess my dad will be happy for my progression in this case.

Good Luck

2012-01-24T07:44:00.001+08:00

It is alright, and in fact good, to mix some emotions into everything that I did. I never feel this way before, but today I felt it.

I was lying for 5 seconds ago to say I have never feel it before. I did, but maybe I did not realised it.

And it is good to have emotion in doing something, for example when I took a picture, it reflected how did I feel on that moment.

Today's homework, not as satisfy as I wanted it to be. I did my best, trying to dig out whatever idea my lecturer wants us to write.

And of course I came to a dead end. So I went out for a little walk, and right after I had a glance of the night sky, I had a stomachache and was forced to come up again.

My emo ended just like that. Still have no idea.

And again, I don't really have an idea on what am I writing right now. I will just let my brain to bring me to wherever I wanted.

It does not mean I gave up on everything, at least let me have my time to rest.

I am literally blank. And the night sky wished me with a smile.

Good luck, it said.

新年新希望

2012-01-23T10:17:00.002+08:00

刚才听见朋友的project的resources已经compile好了，我的心突然缩了一下。

一直以来都是我的project做得最快，比人快一等的速度永远是我的自信来源。

现在因为一直认为自己已经做得很快，而被别人追上的感觉，真的很不好受。

这个是我对新年的新希望：我要做得更快、更好！

Complain

2012-01-21T02:36:00.002+08:00

Sorry mum and dad, I got to hide this from you, at least until the celebration is over.

When I am searching for the meaning of living, people have already started to move on.

So no slacking, hold on the track, and start doing your work!

And no complain.

Cut Down Calories - Subway

2012-01-15T05:00:00.001+08:00

Different subs will have different calories.
(I am saying like I knew it all along but actually I just know it.)

So here I am sharing some of the information, interesting things to do when you got even a little addicted to subway's sandwiches. (and bored as well)

I will state them in a list to make it easier to read.

6 inch subs without cheese

turkey breast - 280 calories
ham - 290 calories
meetball - 540 calories
spicy italian - 480 calories
BMT - 450 calories
tuna - 450 calories

Extras:

cheese (2 triangles) - between 40-60 calories
mayo - 110 calories

So today I ate two footlong subs with BMT and turkey breast. The adding up should be:

BMT + 4 triangle cheeses
900 calories + 100 calories = 1000 calories

turkey breast + 4 triangle cheeses
560 calories + 100 calories = 660 calories

Plus some of the salads and sauces, I will take it as another 500 calories. So my total calories I got was 2150 calories.

Resources from weightlossresources.co.uk, a men daily intake of calories should be 2550 calories. Well it is interesting to know that you are actually dieting while enjoying your favorite food. Isn't it a happy news?

And lastly lets emphasis something, it is totally not enough to have only a 6 inch sub as your meal. Can't understand? Do the math.

resources: http://tombeni.hubpages.com/hub/Subway-Calories

The Subway Winner

2012-01-14T23:30:00.000+08:00

Does anyone know who is going to win a free foot-long sub?

A sub shot from different angles. Sub's combination: Foot-long with Italian herb and chesse, Italian BMT, salad with lettuce, cucumber, tomato, green pepper and onion.

PS: I don't think tomato really suit into the sub, I should avoid them next time.

Cases that I need to read through

2012-01-14T12:30:00.000+08:00

These are the cases I need to read through. I still cannot understand how those law people study their things. Maybe I need to grasp their thoughts before starting to understand the whole concept of law.

Chapter 2: Charterparties as contracts

Paterson Steamships Ltd v Canadian Co-Operative Wheat Producers Ltd [1934]
Smith, Hogg v Black Sea and Baltic General Insurance [1940]
Glynn v Margetson [1893]
Thoresen & Co (Bangkok) Ltd v Fathom Marine Co [2004]
Scammell v Ouston [1941]
May & Butcher v R [1934]
Foley v Classique Coaches [1934]
Laura Prima [1982]

Chapter 3: Market fluctuations: conditions, warranties and innominate terms

The Elena D'Amico [1980]
Hong Kong Fir Shipping Co Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd [1962]
Bunge Corpn, New York v Tradax Export SA, Panama [1981]
Hansa Nord [1976]
Mihalis Angelos [1971]
The Luxmar
Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [1980]
Heyman v Darwins [1942]
Universal Cargo Carriers v Citati [1957]
The Afovos [1983]
White & Carter (Councils) v MacGregor [1962]
Simona

Chapter 4: Express and implied terms in carriage contracts

The Reborn [2009]
L Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd [1974]
Hong Kong Fir
The Apollonius
Bentsen v Taylor
The Mihalis Angelos
Johanna Oldendorff
The Eastern City [1958]
Athanasia Comninos
Island Archon [1994]
Attorney General of Belize v Belize Telecom Ltd [2009]

Chapter 5: Seaworthiness

Paterson Steamships Ltd v Canadian Co-Operative Wheat Producers Ltd [1934]
Smith, Hogg v Black Sea and Baltic General Insurance [1940]
Europa [1908]
Kopitoff v Wilson [1876]
McFadden v Blue Star Line [1905]
Vortigern [1899]
Madeleine [1967]
Stanton v Richardson [1874]
Elder Dempster v Paterson Zochonis [1924]
Hongkong Fir [1962]
Eurasian Dream [2002]
Madeleine [1967]
Kapetan Sakharov [2000]
Elli and Frixos [2008]
Derby [1984]
Kish v Taylor [1912]

Chapter 6: Frustration

Krell v Henry [1903]
Tsakiroglou & Co Ltd v Noblee Thorl GmbH [1962]
The Hannah Blumenthal [1983]
The Julia [1949]
Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd [1943]
Dovis Contractors Ltd v Rareham Urban District Council [1956]
Joseph Constantine Steamship Line Ltd v Imperial Smelting Corporation Ltd [1942]
Ocean Tramp Tankers Corp v V/O Sovfracht (The Eugenia) [1964]
The Captain George K [1970]
Maritime National Fish Ltd v Ocean Trawlers Ltd [1935]
Super Servant Two [1990]
The Mary Nour [2008]

Chapter 7: Approach voyage

North Anglia [1956]
Smith v Dart & Son [1884]
Samuel Sanday & Co v Keighley, Maxted & Co [1922]
The Mihalis Angelos [1971]
The Myrtos [1984]
Behn v Buyrness [1863]
Bentson v Taylor, Sons & Co [1893]
North Anglia [1956]

Chapter 8: Voyage Charter Freight

Dakin v Oxley [1864]
The Brede [1974]
Hopper v Burness [1876]
Asfar & Co v Blundell [1896]
Caspian Sea [1980]
The Brede
The Aries [1977]
Lorna I [1983]
Karin Vatis [1988]
Dominique [1989]

Chapter 9: Laytime and Demurrage (1)

The Johanna Oldendorff [1974]
Mexico 1 [1990]
Inverkip SS Co v Bunge & Co [1917]
Compania Naviera Aeolus SA v Union of India [1964]
Dias Companis Naviera SA v Louis Dreyfus Corporation [1978]
Aktieselskabet Reidar v Arcos [1927]
The Saturnia [1987]
The Kyzikos [1989]

Chapter 10: Arrival and NOR

Stag Line Ltd v Board of Trade [1950]
The Aello [1961]
The Timna [1971]
The Johanna Oldendorff [1974]
Mexico 1 [1990]
The Happy Day [2002]

Chapter 11: Reachable on Arrival

The Radnor [1956]
Angelos Lusis
President Brand
Delian Spirit
Johanna Oldendorff
Laura Prima
The Johs Stove [1984]
The Fjordaas [1988]

Chapter 12: Getting out of demurrage limit

Inverkip v Bunge [1917]
Compania Naviera Aeolus SA v Union of India [1964]
Dais Compania Naviera SA v Louis Dreyfus Corporation [1978]
chandris v Isbrandsen-Mollen Co. Inc [1951]
The Delian Spirit [1972]
Timna
President Brand
The Boral Gas [1988]
Akt Reidas v Arcos [1927]
Universal Cargo Carriers v Citati [1957]
Suisse Atlantique Societe D'Armement Maritime SA v NV Rotterdamsche Kolen Centrale [1965]
Kalliopi A [1988]
The Lefthero [1992]

PS: For those who think I am showing off here, you suck!

Six C's of Credit Analysis, by Costas Th. Grammenos

2012-01-14T08:00:00.002+08:00

This is a part of my exam I guess. Mr. Jonathan Challacombe explained these for about over 45 minutes when everyone was half asleep that time. No choice, as the day before this lesson was the birthdays, remember? I went to their house and become a photographer, and took lots of awesome photos.

PS: Of course, they are awesome. I am tired being humble, but I still plan to continue. But in anyway,
just let me be flashy on this issue ok?

The Six C's of Credit Analysis. This 6 C's are what the banks will look and evaluate before deciding to borrow a company money. Many students should have no information about these, yet they don't own the book that Jonathan used to dig these out. Actually I tried to ask if Jonathan still has any copy left with him and I would like to buy one since I got extra money left for quite a long time already, but no luck, he said he does not keep any copy.

Nevermind.

So, now for me to have these notes, those people who go online and search for these will be linked to my blog, a good way to earn viewers huh? And yes, now I am studying things about investment, but basically on shipping side.

The first and second one is Character, or also known as Capacity. The bank will look at who is the head of the company, how is the team in the company, does it involved enough people to operate, and the integrity of the company. The company's mission and goals, their strategic plan and how will they try to achieve the. In particular, the details involved their investment and finance, the chartering operation, insurance, technical things, the company's cost management and risk management, their creditors and also the human resources, which means their workers. And lastly the coherent, which I don't really know what it means, but basically is the things that stick to the company, like what the company does other than just shipping.

The third will be the Capital. It involved the shipowner's capital situation, the company's head which is the directors' financial condition, and also the shareholders stake. The company's financial structure and statements will be analysis, by using those financial ratio analysis probably. For example the gearing ratio, current ratio etc. The bank will want to know about the cash flow condition of the company, do they have a cash cushion or other sources of fund. And also the company's relationships with banks, do the company has good reputation along with other banks etc. And lastly their accounting method.

The Company itself will be the fourth factor. The bank will look at the structure of company. The inflows of company include the form of employment, their choice and quality of the charterers, the contracts with charterers and also the effectiveness to utilise their fleet etc. And the outflows of finance of the company such as the administration fees, technical cost, insurance and the crew wages. Also the voyage costs of the company, its' capital costs. And lastly the company's operation position in the market, which the bank will assess by looking at the market the company operates in and their market share.#

Fifth will be the Conditions. It refers to the external factors of the market. For instance the financial markets, interest rate, world economy, political condition, seaborne trade, specific condition, manufactured goods, the shipping markets, present and future demand and supply analysis, shipping investment cycle, fragmentation of markets, and the barriers of entry to certain market. Also included the regulatory framework in the market like IMO, flag states, port authorities, ISM code and OPA 90. And other organisation requirement, for example the classification societies, insurance companies and P&I club. And one more factors which affecting the oil trade, the monopoly of oil market the major oil companies.

Sixth, the Collateral, which refers to the bank benefits, how much the rewards they get from lending money. Usually in the range of 120%. The bank will look at the company's fleet information, does their fleet is earning enough money to pay the interest, their fleet's condition, and the vessel economic life, which should be lesser than 12 years. Also, the bank will want mortgages, assignments of income, assignment of underwriters and the personal and corporate guarantee that they will be able to pay back the money they owe the bank, plus the interest.

So these are some of my elaborations. For all the sources from the book "The Handbook of Maritime Economy and Business", by Costas Th. Grammenos.

Referencing:
1) Grammenos C. Th (2010), 'The Handbook of Maritime Economics & Business', ed. 2nd Revised, Informa Law

Weekend Special

2012-01-14T07:19:00.003+08:00

This blog is not going to become a photo blog, although I had posted a few photo-based posts in the last few days.

But this blog is not going to become a photo blog, not at all. I just need more and more materials to write more posts. Not everyday the world will give me some sort of ideas to write things.

Anyway, today is the "Black Friday". I don't recalled anything bad happen today, I was just sober probably.

And so, now I will be starting the weekend special on this blog. I will update it frequently, and I am aiming for
10 posts for the next two days. There will be photos, posts, my school notes, and varieties of things. Just stay tune.

Congragulation

2012-01-12T07:47:00.000+08:00

I just finished watching the Korea Open badminton final. It was interesting, and full with emotions as well.

(emotions...?)

Here is some presentation I made.

Anyway, CONGRATULATION to Lee Chong Wei once again.

PS: This is the right way to spell CONGRATULATION, not your congragulation"£$%^&*(....

Guidelines to Live Until 200 Years Old

2012-01-11T06:41:00.004+08:00

I paste this here because I want to get rid of the picture on my facebook wall.

1、常吃宵夜。会得胃癌。因为胃得不到休息。
2、一个星期只能吃四颗蛋。吃太多。对身体不好。
3、鸡的臀部含有致癌物，不要吃较好。
4、饭后吃水果是错误的观念。应是饭前吃水果。
6、喝豆浆时不要加鸡蛋及糖。也不要喝太多。
7、空腹时不要吃蕃茄，最好饭后吃。
8、早上醒来。先喝一杯水。预防结石。
9、睡前三小时不要吃东西。会胖。
10、少喝奶茶。因为高热量。高油。没有营养价值可言。长期饮用。易罹患高血压。糖尿病。等疾病。
11、刚出炉的面包不宜马上食用。
12、远离充电座。人体应远离30公分以上。切忌放在床边。
13、天天喝水八大杯。
14、每天十杯水。膀胱癌不会来。
15、白天多喝水。晚上少喝水。
16、一天不要喝两杯以上的咖啡。喝太多易导致失眠，胃痛
17、多油脂的食物少吃。因为得花5~7小时去消化，并使脑中血液集中到肠胃。易昏昏欲睡。
18、下午五点后。大餐少少吃，因为五点后身体不需那么多能量。
19、10种吃了会快乐的食物：深海鱼，香蕉，葡萄柚，全麦面包，菠菜，大蒜，南瓜，低脂牛奶，鸡肉，樱桃。
20、睡眠不足会变笨，一天须八小时睡眠，有午睡习惯较不会老。
21、最佳睡眠时间是在晚上10点.清晨6点。
22、每天喝酒不要超过一杯，因为酒精会抑制制造抗体的B细胞，增加细菌感染的机会。
23、服用胶囊应以冷水吞服(可以第一个吃)，睡前30分先服药。忌立即躺下。
24、酸梅具防止老化作用，青春永驻；肝火有毛病者宜多食用。
25、掉发因素：熬夜，压力，烟酒，香鸡排。麻辣锅。油腻食物。调味过重的料理。
26、帮助头发生长：多食用包心菜，蛋。豆类；少吃甜食(尤其是果糖)。
27、每天一杯柠檬汁，柳橙汁。不但可以美白还可以淡化黑斑。
28、苹果是机车族、瘾君子、家庭主妇的常备良药，一天一颗，才能让自己有个干干净净的肺。
29、抽烟又吃维他命(B胡萝卜素-A维他命的一种)，会致癌，尽早戒烟。才是最健康的做法。
30、女性不宜喝茶的五个时期：月经来时，孕妇，临产前。生产完后，更年期。
31、抽烟，关系最大的是肺癌，唇癌，舌癌，喉癌，食道癌，也与膀胱癌有关。
32、饮酒导致肝硬化。引发肝癌。
33、吃槟榔会导致口腔纤维化，口腔癌。
34、食物过于精细，缺乏纤维；含大量脂肪，尤其是胆固醇会引发胃癌。
35、食物过于粗糙，营养不足时导致食道癌，胃癌。
36、食品中的黄曲毒素。亚硝酸类物皆具有致癌性。
37、不抽烟。拒吸二手烟。
38、适量饮酒，不拚久。不醉酒。
39、减少食用盐腌。烟熏，烧烤的食物。
40、每天摄取新鲜的蔬菜与水果。
41、每天摄取富含高纤维的五谷类及豆类。
42、每天摄取均衡的饮食，不过量。
43、维持理想体重。不过胖。
44、保持规律的生活与运动。
45、保持轻松愉快的心情。
46、正确饮食习惯：早上吃的像皇帝，中午吃的像平民，晚上吃的像乞丐。

Birthdays

2012-01-10T12:00:00.000+08:00

This is my first time to be a photographer in certain event, its a little awkward. The room is too dark for fast shutter and people were walking around. But anyway, I managed to take some good pictures.

Anyway, happy birthday to Aliff and Xuan En!

Poo Cake

2012-01-10T10:43:00.002+08:00

ACake colour and shape like poo, be in my belly!

Subway

2012-01-08T03:24:00.004+08:00

Eat fresh!

Last Minute

2012-01-07T21:09:00.003+08:00

某日，中午二时正。

我在机场等着你，飞机还有一个半时辰就要起飞了。

而你，从热呼呼的炉里拿出你制的松饼，还冒着烟，我想象得到。

那匆匆忙忙的行为，我们都称它为“last minute”，有些滑稽，有些缺乏华丽。

从你家到机场需要一个时辰，很快很快十五分钟就这样过了，我看了看手机，现在还有谁会戴着手表到处炫耀？

只剩下十五分钟啊，我对自己说。

即使你及时赶来，把松饼送到，我们也只剩下十五分钟的“last minute”。

然后我的飞机就要起飞，不知道要到哪里去了。

啊……这场面有些似曾相识，就像那一次我出国读书的那时。

还记得那晚，天还下着雨，把行程给延迟了。

还剩下十五分钟，我拨了电告诉你不用再来了，你只回答一声“哦”，我心碎了。

就这样在梦里，我的心情任由梦境摆布。

还好我起来的时候，发现自己其实已经在国外。

我突然好想你。

Home Sick

2012-01-06T21:02:00.001+08:00

Again, a disturbing vision in my dream prevent me from waking up. I want to know what will happen next, in my other world, where the subconscious is reflecting my inner self in my dream.

These days my self esteem grew smaller and smaller, this world isn't mine anymore. I lost confident, I lost motivation, my result was lower than my classmates.

Well not that low, I mean I am satisfied with it, but the little me still isn't that happy with it.

So what's next? Chinese New Year. I missed my home so much. I imagined about how I will react when I go home, and got an insomnia last night. And when I woke up, my head ache like hell. My hallmates continuously banging the door, the sound of the seagulls keep waking me up, telling me that it is morning already.

Where will my life bring me to?

Dear Cocoa Girls - Miku Hatsune

2012-01-05T21:59:00.000+08:00

Ok it is not about her panties or anything related to the animation. I like the song very much, and some funny youtube responses, such as:

PS: No offence ok? Just for fun. Lets truly enjoy the song.

Late New Year

2012-01-05T08:58:00.002+08:00

Tonight was not that wasted.

It was a night of some self-realisation about my life, where was it heading to, did I make any mistake on it.

I would not say it was a great start for year 2012, I got to stop using those flatter words.

I am not awesome, but it does not mean that everything that I did was wasted either.

And I figured out some sections of life that I could clearly define: my interests, my hobby, and my necessities.

Credits for my dear for giving me advises in searching for the meaning of life.

My interests are those what I will keep on doing everyday; my hobby will be the things that I will do when I feel to; and my necessities are my relationships to the people in my life.

One will not live alone, if there is someone that you want to see.

It was a night for me to realise who am I, although I am not proud of it.

As I realised the past me was such a loser.

And lastly for the late one, happy new year for all my necessities, although I am not around often.

Moons

2012-01-03T05:14:00.002+08:00

My dear think that the picture of moon that I took was so amazing. So I plan to take more, tonight.

Anyway, I just realised that actually moon is so bright at night. It is like a sun at night. And so if I need to take a clear picture of the details on the moon surface, I can't use the setting which takes bright thing. For example low aperture, high ISO, and slow shutter speed.

If you need to take clear pictures of bright thing, you need high aperture, low ISO, and fast shutter speed. Of course, different people like different flavors. So which moon is the best for you?

This was around 3pm. The moon looks just like another planet. Isn't it nice?

At first I thought shooting a moon need slow shutter speed to take the fine details on its' surface, but I was wrong.

Nope, not good enough. I used lower shutter speed and got the idea which I can't use bright settings.

Ok this is nice, the color is nice, almost perfect. At this time I got another idea.

And why not take a blue moon? Sadly the dark cloud was blocking the way.

Eventually I forgot how I managed to take this picture. Anyway this is my best shot. Saved the best for the last. High aperture, low shutter speed, ISO 125, make sure the moon isn't over exposed, nice.

PS: A blogger tip, click on the image to see it from one to another.

Corruption

2012-01-03T04:43:00.001+08:00

Today I came across some moments of live and dead. My laptop, I thought I was going to say good bye to it. was so sad, but eventually we came through it. It is fine now, just need some warm up, and some simple configuration.

Mario helped me through it. Having a disk check actually saved the corrupted laptop. The corruption was so serious, I never imagine the condition was so bad. And the corruptions will spread to the whole laptop, if it is not being cured asap.

It was like a banana, getting rotten from day to day.

Life Not Quite Figured Out

2012-01-02T08:15:00.000+08:00

Guys, if you are now over 20 years old and found out that you still have life not quite figured out, don't worry, you are not alone.

So tell me which is better, to live with a healthy life full with dignity, or to live a life that you can have so many fun of course included doing those crazy stuffs?

I still haven't found out what kind of life I want to go through with. I am playful, I like to play, do things that I want, but for certain extend I limit myself from stuffs that looks like it may ruin my life, for instant alcohol, drugs, night clubs, and waste money on useless things.

So what kind of life I want? The future had blinded our vision for reaching for things that we should have reached. Well for example, if you know your future is to become a lawyer, would you train yourself so hard to be an athlete?

But things in life aren't work like that. We know what will we be eventually in the future, we had our major. The question is not about if we made the right choice to go for our major, it is about how focus you want to be onto the major?

You won't try to be a professional photographer, for which you don't need to have a professional camera; you won't be a tennis player who plays in wimbeldon, for which you don't need to buy a professional tennis racquet; you know you won't be a professional blogger, for which you can stop blogging now; you know you won't be able to be thin, for which you don't have to be on diet and start eating now.

No.

Life does not work in this way. But what is the life you are talking about? Graduate from plymouth? Back to home and had your holiday period as long as possible? Start jobs searching and beg people to take you? Find a room to stay? Start earning money and pay for the tuition fee loan? Buy your first car and house? After a few years marry your girl and have a family?

Life being planned out without any doubts, and at the same time, without any objections allowed to be made. If this is the route that eventually you will take, what will you choose to do? Living your life following the path? Or try to stop or move in circle to stay at one place without moving to any place? Or deny the way that you must follow and try to make a change?

New Year

2011-12-31T21:35:00.002+08:00

I don't really like new year, new year suck!

Anyway, happy new year to everybody. This blog had been continuously kept alive for more than 4 years. And for the 5th year, I don't think I will wish for anything to happen, just stay calm and stay cool.

This blog had become a documentary for me, or rather like what Ted had for the future him: for my biographer.

New year suck for me, this is the reason. Because everyday is just the same as me. Nothing special, nothing unusual.

And for my new year resolution, I can't imagine how easy for people to voice out how they wanted to change for the new year, as they will eventually forget about it.

So for the easiest way to say it, I will stay as awesomely awesome as I am now without changing anything. Let the new year be as awesome as this past year, that's it. Nothing more nothing less.

And if the world is to come to an end in this new year, the easiest thing to do it to live my life to the fullest, without worrying what the others will think of you. Do what you want, but within a certain degree that will not affect any people. Live the dream that I dream of, until the moment when the world turn into ashes, then I will know if my life worth the value or not.

And if the world end is a fake one, I shall watch the movie 2012 directed by Roland Emmerich and laugh about his imagination. Well, I am not the only one who think that this movie suck, at least the North Korean thought so too.

Anyway, happy new year, may the new year is as awesomely awesome as per usual.

Miss Won

2011-12-31T02:17:00.002+08:00

看你的车牌就赢了咯！

Moon

2011-12-30T02:13:00.002+08:00

So I noticed people are looking at the things that I did from time to time. Its really great you know, I don't have to brag about my own things anymore, someone will brag them for me.

So I will attach another picture that I took last night. Just nice. I love it.

Numb

2011-12-28T23:10:00.002+08:00

The best word to describe this feeling is "numb". I feel nothing, emotionless. Just numb.

I am not angry, I am just disappointed. How many times will this happen again?

Well I shall just continue to be numb. Speechless, what can I do with this anger?

Feeling is so extra right now, unnecessary. I do not want to yell at anyone, as once I yell I will lose everything and be the wrong one.

What do I want here? Just stay numb.

Fake

2011-12-28T06:04:00.000+08:00

PS: for those who think I am childish, for those who think I speak the wrong thing, for those who broke my heart, I will never say sorry if I am the innocent one. Or if I did, that was a fake one for sure.

Nissin Yakisoba

2011-12-23T05:14:00.001+08:00

Everyone in this planet, please avoid this noodle. It sucks!

Like

2011-12-22T20:52:00.002+08:00

I actually like this.

Mozart

2011-12-22T00:57:00.002+08:00

The last symphony composed by Mozart before his death was the Symphony 41. It was a strong piece, comes in a strong way, reflecting his life as the legendary musician of the era.

So I am here, living like a dead person, expecting nothing but sympathy. I am pathetic, a total idiot who failed in monitoring his own's health. Overweighted, eating junk food, having fever, cold, sore throat, earache, and had to see the doctor which will cost me a lot of money.

So I decided to stay up during my down period. I am the man who will stand up firmly until the moment I really passed out. Nothing could stop me, except for those people who purposely caused my life to suffer.

Because Mozart did awesome things when he was sick, so do I. I need to stand up firmly, this is not my last post to the blog. This isn't, at least. I need to survive.

More stories to come after this. I will just stop here, and be awesome instead.

Sore Throat

2011-12-21T17:14:00.000+08:00

So, I do not know if I am lazy or tired right now.

I woke up on 7am this morning. Feeling the sore throat still there, I was completely bored and frustrated. I need to do something, easy enough unless I need some pain killer which only target the throat.

Anyway, I need to do something. I am just tired right now. I want to sleep, but not now, because once I sleep, my throat will become pain again. I am scared.

Home Cooked Food

2011-12-21T03:40:00.000+08:00

Somehow I missed home cooked food. T.T

These was what I cooked for my family lunch before I departed to Plymouth. Somehow I seriously missed them.

One had to step out from the comfort zone to realise that you were at the comfort zone all the time.

I need to Recover!

2011-12-21T03:17:00.000+08:00

Last year christmas, it was way more awesome than this year.

The story started from the moment when I decided not to be sick, but be awesome instead. On the past Saturday, standing by the beach, taking pictures of the sunset, and making myself sick. But it did not matter, I was happy to be able to took some nice pictures.

Unfortunately, the Saturday night turned out to be super cold. I was at the girl's place (the place we called it where 6 of the girls are staying), playing PS2, excited, without noticing the body alarm had reached the perk. I had to rest, but I didn't. I stayed up till 4am, trying to figure out what should I do for this vacation.

Sunday morning, my throat was sore. I felt terrible. My head burned like hell. I was seriously tired, but eventually had to walk to the nearby tesco to buy some paracetamol. Good thing was, I recovered slightly after some rest, but I unknowingly had rice for dinner. One should not have rice when sick, remembered that.

Monday morning is the same. I felt terrible as well. Wanting to recover fast, I took more and more paracetamol, hoping that I could recover immediately. I missed a farewell dinner of my friend since she is planning to defer her school until next year due to some nerve problems. And I had rice again. That night, the fever raged throughout the night, made me feel so sick. I only barely able to sleep around 2am, and woke up on 5am. The night was just torturing. I seriously feel down. And I drank lots of water, which caused me to wake up and went to toilet every 15 minutes.

This morning, Tuesday, I woke up on 5am. Feeling extremely sick, I walked to the Superdrug store to buy more paracetamol and also glycerin. One was to stop the heat, another one was to clear up my stomach. I seriously ate too little fiber in Plymouth. And the food was all junk food. I gained weight. I felt terrible to myself. Most importantly, I really think that I need to do something meaningful to fill up my vacation. So here is the plan, I seriously need to recover by tomorrow. I don't want to feel that I did nothing after 1 week past. I need to recover fast. At least tomorrow. Please please please!

An Exchange

2011-12-18T22:57:00.000+08:00

If I could exchange tiredness with these, would they worth it?

Dinner with friends and seniors.

Some views around Plymouth Hoe.

Twilight - Eclipse

2011-12-16T11:42:00.000+08:00

Vacation's Plan

2011-12-16T03:38:00.000+08:00

So what should I eat for tonight's dinner?

a) fried rice from chinese restaurant
b) kebab
c) cook noodle

I suddenly realised something that always happen when my mood goes up and down. I will simple go overboard and do something I will not do when I am conscious.

Feeling overwhelmed, this vacation is starting. I do not want to get caught doing nothing either.

But not like the fire drills for my hall which are always so sudden and irritating. So I posted on facebook: if you plan a fire drill, plan a real one, call the fire engine, call the fireman, make it big, make it big and flashy, and entertain us.

They really did.

Just fuck it. Lets make a crazy plan, and follow it strictly. That's all.

Seigaku Uniform

2011-12-13T07:05:00.000+08:00

The two me-s in seigaku uniform, which one is better?

Either way, both are me. I won.

Arrogant

2011-12-12T04:28:00.001+08:00

PS. I've wanted to say this for a long time ago. (Just joking)

True Facts About Girls

2011-12-07T10:36:00.000+08:00

Seriously what am I thinking?

If I have anything that I wanted to say out, should I say it, or I should keep it?

I should keep it.

Tiny as 曹操

2011-12-07T07:52:00.002+08:00

有时候觉得，玩game就要玩些新的花样。

我现在一闷起来，不是CS就是Dota。

一定有人会讲我很无聊，还在CS还在Dota。

我觉得除了这两个game，其他的都给不到我刺激感。

可能我太认真了，比方说我喜欢在CS tactical 的 feeling，我喜欢在Dota 的临危不乱。

然后有空时去看一些gameplay，其实我最想玩的还是SD Gundam，只是学校的line block住。

看了gameplay就会学到东西，有时候不一定需要一直练习，向别人学习也是一种进步。

比方说，其实Dota不一定要打3个lane，如果可以把up lane和down lane (right lane 和 left lane) 封起来，酱场上其他4个hero就可以专注在一个middle lane上。

当然每一个strategy都需要有人在support啦。

现在开始看图说故事。

First attempt, 成功把right lane给封住，花了近20分钟。（现在我只需要四分钟）

我丞相曹操，率领天子之兵，有谁敢来挑战？

就算死了我一个，也还有千千万万个我！

First Instinct

2011-12-07T07:36:00.000+08:00

Ahh...... Nothing better than a beer and sit down writing my blog, after a whole day of business.

Well the word "business" does come from "busy", business people is always busy, but why would we read business without the sound of "y"? I better check with someone else.

So what happened today? I woke up in the morning, around 7:00am. Talked with my dear, at the same time walked to Mac Donald to buy breakfast, to Tesco to buy mushrooms, had breakfast and lunch after 3 hours, and to school after that. Came home on 7, had my dinner, watched running man and himym, burned an amulet, started to focus on my project and that's it. I reached to this moment.

Australian beer, it did not taste nice at first, but it got better when I reached the last can. The amber nectar, I liked how they describe it.

So basically I finished 2/3 of the project, more or less. I am that kind of person who sought for assurance more than anything in doing assignment. I will tend to create a "prototype" of the essay first, before I start to edit. However, after I finished with the "prototype", I will become lazy in editing, thus ended up hand in the "prototype".

The "prototype" is good too of course. It is my work, although it could be better after the second time I look at it. But basically I will not see if there is any place I should change. I don't like to change my first instinct, as I believed my first instinct is always correct. The instinct that appear when you feel you need it.

Just like how I will think of you my dear as my first instinct.

FI. >U Pandian

Nothing is Wrong

2011-12-05T08:22:00.000+08:00

Burning feeling on my chicks, because I slapped myself so hard, at least 10 for each sides.

So now I roughly have a structure for Pandian's project. The past two days could be described as wasted, because I should have done more. But who cares whatever, I will only have 9 more days to finish this project.

I should have pretend that I was not in panic mode, at least it would not affect her. Nothing is wrong, nothing is wrong.

Of course I will do it, I will have to do it no matter what.

Mess Up

2011-12-05T03:55:00.000+08:00

You call this cool, I call this is totally messed up. Tsk tsk tsk.

Life Screwed Me Up

2011-12-04T07:59:00.000+08:00

And so I was working on Pandian's project. A hard one. I am really sober now, being intoxicated. Saturday night, being in my room is what I usually do these days. Pretty usual.

Except now, lying on my bed, with my lovely dorm room in my style, watching Yesman. Whats wrong with that? Nothing wrong, I am just sober thats all.

Tomorrow there will be a santa run event happening around, my friend registered my name in his group, made me paid 10 pound, got a santa suit. I really don't feel to go, I don't want to say no too. It is just when you focus on only one thing in your life, your life screw you up.

Like just now I asked my girlfriend to go do her thing first until I finish my thing, well, at least this part. I turned her down just because I want to finish this part. I called her a few times, but guess she didn't want to talk with me.

I don't know what to do now. Just want to lie down, carrying my laptop on my lap, watching YesMan. No mood, tonight is just dead.

I just hope this movie could motivate me a bit more.

Pandian's Project

2011-12-02T09:04:00.000+08:00

Oil industry is one of the least industry that is affected by global economy crisis. FAIL.

Internet industry, especially Social Networking industry is boasted rapidly because of the global economy crisis. FAIL again.

Those are two industries that I was interested to look at for this last project of the term. It requires us to identify an industry that was affected by global turmoil and discuss the various strategic options the industry pursued to deal with the current economic situation.

While citing the industry, describe its characteristics. Discuss the impact of global economic turmoil on the industry. Identify and discuss various strategic options discussed/adopted to deal with current economic situation in the industry. Analyse the effectiveness of strategies adopted to conclude the work.

I am almost downed by the seaworthiness project after squeezing the ideas on that project. And here comes the last and the one that I fear the most. And now I am stucked at the first part in choosing an industry. I have shortlisted the construction industry as it was the most affected industry found on net. But it seems that the automobile industry has a lot of things to say too. The only problem is, a lot of students will use it as their topic.

God................ Should I take the risk to do construction industry? Or should I just take a safer path instead? Since the industries I preferred to do have already been eliminated....

Suddenly realised that, those industries that I preferred are so invulnerable.

Seaworthiness: Predominant Cause

2011-11-29T03:53:00.001+08:00

So, here is another case that I just finish looking on it, Smith, Hogg v Black Sea and Baltic General Insurance. The ship called Lilburn carrying timber was listed for some degree after the cargoes was loaded. Along the journey, the ship had to stop by at some port to take in bunker coal. After taking in bunker, the ship listed to the other side. Worrying the listing, the master decided to beach the ship for the safety. Cargoes was damaged, and claimants happened.

I only read from the House of Lord side, so I am not very sure about the Court of Appeal story. As I suspect, in Court of Appeal, the ship was held unseaworthy due to the listing after timbers were loaded. The insurance claimed that since the ship was already unseaworthy on the start of the voyage, the institutional warranty was discharged. But unfortunately, this was not the case. In the House of Load, there was a statement from the marine superintendent of appellants said that it was quite common for the ships carrying timber in which he sailed with a list of 12 to 15 degree. So the ship was not unseaworthy in this case.

However, after the master take in the bunker coal, the ship was listed to the other side. The master decision to take beach the vessel to avoid sinking became the point of argument. Did the master choose the right choice to beach the ship? Well, whatever, the cargo was damaged, the ship was beached. So what was the real reason to push the master until he decided to beach the ship?

If the vessel was unseaworthy at the first place, it will no be a matter if the vessel was beached as the shipowner had lost the guarantee from insurer. But the listing was perfectly common for a timber ships. However, due to the negligence of master in taking in bunker coal and failed make the ship upright, the master was forced to beached the ship instead.

Mr. Justice Branson stated that seaworthiness is a causa sine qua non, which means it was an indispensable cause or condition. The listing of the ship contributed to the negligence of the master. Some argued that the negligence of the Master was a new act intervention to this case and the ship was not unseaworthiness because of the listing. But, held by the House of Lord, the master will not make a decision to beach the ship if the ship was seaworthy from the start, therefore the shipowners were liable.

One obvious reason for unseaworthiness which was mentioned by Lord Wright was the ship did not have sufficient bunker onboard from the start of voyage. The master's action about he did not discharge some cargoes before taking in bunker and caused over-stowed of the ship was some evidences about him being negligence. But regardless the master's decision in taking in bunker to make the vessel to list to the other side, there will be no harm to the ship if it was not unseaworthy.

Marlin v Trout

2011-11-29T02:27:00.000+08:00

I meant to capture a Marlin instead of 14 Trouts.

Seaworthiness: "Implied" "Warranty"

2011-11-29T02:13:00.001+08:00

Kindly noted, the words implied and warranty carry different meaning. But when they are placed together, it sounded like an adjective with a subject. I strongly believe that we should not take the word "implied" as an adjective, instead, take both of them as subject.

The origin of implied warranty for seaworthiness was explained in the case Lyon v Mells. In the case, the lighter which carried the yarn owned by plaintiff was leaked and partly capsized. The yarn was damaged, and shipowner sought for limitation of liability for only 10 percent of compensation, according to the public notice for the lighterman in the Humber area.

Back then, before carrying the yarn, the lighter was promised and implied to be strong and staunch to carry the yarn. However, the lighter leaked on the way of carriage, wetting some of the yarn. The shipowner was paying the 10 percent compensation, but the question lied on whether the innocent party was liable for compensation more than 10 percent?

Under the common law, Merchant Shipping Act 1995 stated in section 42:

Obligation of shipowners as to seaworthiness:

(1) In every contract of employment between the owner of a United Kingdom ship and the master of or any seaman employed in the ship there shall be implied an obligation on the owner of the ship that -

(a) the owner of the ship,

(b) the master of the ship, and

(i) the loading of the ship,

(ii) the preparing of the ship for sea, or

(iii) the sending of the ship to sea,

shall use all reasonable means to ensure the SEAWORTHINESS of the ship for the voyage at the time when the voyage commences and to keep the ship in a SEAWORTHY condition for the voyage during the voyage.

We can argue that the MSA 1995 may not applicable around that time, because this case was in 1804, but common law was of course implied the series of duties, and stand alongside the carrier's express promise to carry and deliver. The plaintiff was successful in their claim for more than 10 percent.

So back to what I said at the first place, the judge explained the "implied" obligation of the shipowner, or lighterman, whatever, in making their ship fit and tight for the purpose of employment for which he offered and held it forth to the public. And people hired their service and put their goods on board because the shipowners warranted their ship was fit to carry their cargoes. Shipowner was the insurer to the cargo owners to carry their cargo, that is he was absolutely responsible for delivering in like order and condition at the destination the goods bailed to him for carriage. It was his "implied warranty".

Seaworthiness Assignment Part 1

2011-11-28T04:51:00.001+08:00

Back to the same spot. Last night I stated the part which bugged me the most: the exception of perils of the sea does not qualify the duty to furnish a seaworthy ship. I will use a case to explain about this concept.

This may be part of my essay perhaps.

Back in the age when contract of carriage was not there yet, there was no bill of lading and charter party. People use some sort of document called the bailment to transport their goods. The bailment contained some exception of obligation to the shipowner, whenever any incident occur during the transportation of goods, no matter the lost is totally lost or partial lost, the shipowner was exempted to be liable to the loss if the loss was caused by the act of God, the King's enemies, and the perils of the sea.

Examples for perils of the sea are like mist, fog, unexpected wave, ice cubes on the sea and so on. Due to the increment of trading activities, more and more exceptions were added into the list of exemption. This caused the shipowner often seek for such exception as protection against his liability.

In the case of Paterson Steamships, the vessel which did not equiped with shifting board, was ran aground. The wheat carried by the ship was damaged, and leaded to the claim from the cargo owner. However, the shipowner claimed that the incident was wholly because of the perils of the sea.

During the whole incident, the master was navigating the vessel under his good seamanship. Due to the snowy weather and the defective bearing on board, the master could not accurately navigate through, instead seeking for protection at some place near the ground. Back then, the master was a competent one, and his decision was fully based on the condition that he was facing, with bearing in his mind, the loaded wheat was not full in the cargo hold due to the draft limitation. Also, the master admitted that he did not actually know the unseaworthy condition of the ship.

With the absence of the shifting board, the bulky wheat was easily shifted, causing the vessel to be unstable. Eventually, the vessel was run aground. The shipowner said it was due to the perils of the sea, as during that time, the wave was rough and the weather was blocking the vision of the master.

This case was held by the judge that the ship was unseaworthy since the start of the voyage. First thing to came into our mind will be the absence of shifting board which the shipowner failed to prevent the wheat from shifting. Next, the stowage of wheat which was not full due to the draft limited rendered the vessel unseaworthy too. Third, the master did not clear about the condition of the vessel before navigating it, we could assume he was not competent, even though it was not the point we are arguing. Fourth, the ship did not have sufficient navigation equipment which caused the master failed to monitor the position of the ship without a bearing or any sounding equipment. Finally, even though the vessel was registered under the British flag, where the English law did not required the ship to have a shifting board to be seaworthy, but the ship was fully operated under the Canadian water, where Canada law applied instead. Regardless which law applied, the thing was, the vessel was not seaworthy to carry such a half loaded wheat without shifting board.

In this sense, however unfortunately, left us a loophole. Did a ship will only be unseaworthiness when it caused damage? We will see further explanation from the case Europa.

There is a line by Martin Dockray which I find very interesting: In principle, a cargo claimant who alleges that loss or damage has been caused by failure to deliver in accordance with the contract or failure to provide a seaworthy ship may succeed on either ground but bears the burden of proof on both. But a carrier who resists a claim under the first head may find himself providing evidence that establishes liability under the second.

One may be failed to delivery the cargo in accordance to bailment because of the perils that he met on the sea, but at the same time, he provided the plaintiff the proof to which his ship was unseaworthy.

The expected perils on the sea does no longer quality the duty for the shipowner to furnish a seaworthy ship. It was the fundamental undertaking of the shipowner, and also an implied obligation. The breach of this implied undertaking will render the shipowner unable to limit his liability under the Hague rules or Hague Visby rules. And for these implied obligations, included some certain criteria that we will discuss further in the following assignment.

书的疤

2011-11-27T22:31:00.001+08:00

你伤得越深，就代表了你的名气，和你的用途。

你的疤，日久了，越来越多、越来越深。

但这就是你必须经历的事，伤得越多、伤得越破，就代表了你的价值。

也难怪人们都不会喜欢破破烂烂的你，在架子上破烂着。

回想那些年，你还一直嫌着想要呆在架子上久一些。

那天我看见了你，孤孤单单地呆着，伸手把你取下，发现你身上的疤满满地，里边却全都是精华。

好一本旧书，已经被人们给遗弃的旧书，一个被时代给取代的旧书，却是我做project的关键！

Seaworthiness Assignment

2011-11-27T13:19:00.000+08:00

So the topic of the assignment is about the seaworthiness of a vessel. For the whole question, it sounds like this: The obligation to provide a seaworthy vessel: what is special about the term, and what it comprises.

From my point of view, this question contains three things which needs me to consider. The first part the obligation to provide seaworthy vessel, why do we have this obligation? Since when we have this obligation? And why should we have it? From what case can we see this statement? Is it from the ancient origin of bailment? Or is it because of the Hague Rules which says so? Is that a fundamental obligation for all the contracts? Is there any contract which will say nevermind your ship do not have to be seaworthy?

The case Paterson Steamships stated a line which bugs me a lot: An exception of perils of sea does not qualify the duty to furnish a seaworthy ship. I guess this is the key point of mine to go for the first part perhaps?

The second part will be the what is special about the term. Which term does he mean? Obligation? Or seaworthy vessel? If it means obligation, does it mean what I said above, the fundamental obligation? Or the seaworthy vessel, does it mean the conditions that proof a ship is seaworthy? Or it is just a term? Do I have to explain everything? Do I have to include the article from Hague Rules or Hague Visby Rules?

And what is so special about these terms? Obligation, does it mean the ship must be seaworthy all the time? What is so special about the obligation? Obligation to prepare a ship that is fit and staunch to go through all the expected perils on the sea? Or obligation to provide a perfect ship that is never ever involve in accident before? Is the obligation an implied term? Or express term? Some even say is an innominate term. And seaworthy ship, is anything special about it? Do I have to bring in something like it has to be seaworthy in terms of certain criterias?

I can only say the last part would be the part we know the most. Seaworthiness comprises not only the hull and machinery of the vessel, it also includes the documentation of the vessel, the competency of the crews, and also the cargoworthiness.

But the problem here is, for cargoworthiness, non-cargoworthiness is not the same as bad stowage. Bad stowage is when the stowage plan is made mistaken, and non-cargoworthiness means the ship is totally not fit to carry such cargo. We have to proof that.

And so, the only things that I can conclude in theory are unseaworthiness isn't the cause for a contract to "go". Other than this, seaworthiness can be so complex, that it definitely won't be a condition, and it can be warranty or innominate term. In the case Hongkong Fir, the lord suggested to cancel the use of condition or warranty by replacing them with innominate term. But this idea was dropped by other cases, and so we still have condition and warranty, along with innominate term.

Seaworthiness, the term is so special that it doesn't really stated the breach of the term would cause any consequences. It depends on the degree of breach, does it "hurted" the contract, breached the fundamental obligation of the contract, and go until the root of contract? Or does it just only a stupid excuse given by the charterer to get out from the contract?

That's what I analyse about the assignment. I guess the frame work is here now.

PS. I should have done this long long time ago! Shit...

How to Start your Assignment

2011-11-27T12:51:00.000+08:00

First is organise, then find the resources. I know the steps, it is just so difficult to start this assignment from zero.

Then why should I start from the first part, the introduction?

Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe.................. (fooling around)

Yea, I am not that kind of person who will follow the rules. Basically I just want to say and present my opinion in some ways that are so unique that would even make my lecturer reconsider his idea, but how?

He is probably the best law lecturer in school, just wonder why isn't him being in harvard or oxford?

Maybe he is not that good afterall.

Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe.................. (fooling around)

Blank. I can't even start something. Or maybe I should just start writing, like what I did for my research proposal.

Or I can start to talk about something bullshit here?

*wink wink* sparks of light

那些年……

2011-11-27T09:16:00.000+08:00

那些年，我们永远的目标。

Maybe Later

2011-11-26T02:25:00.000+08:00

The blog isn't dead yet. It is just I was too busy on my course works, and not really focus on things that I should write.

Last night before I slept, I actually thought to write something here, but I ended up fall asleep instead.

And so, my big 21 had reached. Happy birthday to me. Fortunately I wasn't celebrating alone, I had 17 good friends over here having buffet with me.

Well, count one out, of course, long story.

Although the buffet was suck, I still planned to go again some time. At least it was a buffet, somehow I just enjoyed the taste of liberty.

Since my dear like to write about school stuffs in her blog, I will write too. Maybe I will not be lazy in this way.

There is one COGSA coursework to be finished. My coursework on salvage still haven't past up yet, yet two more are to come.

At least I know I wasn't lazy, I just not yet have the kick to start right now.

Maybe after I finish my dinner. Porridge with corn, mushroom, and egg. Maybe later.

Steve Jobs vs Michael Roe

2011-11-18T00:27:00.000+08:00

Could they be the same person?

20 Harvard Library Motto

2011-11-09T06:53:00.000+08:00

People say there is no such things as 20 Harvard library mottos, but I do believe they are useful.

This is my own translation. I googled to find an english version of the mottos, and seems they really do not exist. They are only some prank by China people, and so I am not interested with the details. And their translations sound different in english.

Let's ignore it. These are some of the motto that I actually like, or you know, understand:

1) If you take a nap now, you will have a dream; if you study now, your dream will come true.

3) When you feel that its late at night, it is still early in the morning.

4) Do not drag anything from today to tomorrow.

5) Study is a temporary pain, but not knowing is a life-long pain.

6) Study isn't about the matter of time, its about the effort.

8) Study isn't everything in your life. What can you do in your life if you can't even study?

9) Please enjoy this inevitable pain.

10) The true taste of success is to be faster, to be earlier, and to be a more hardworker than others.

11) There is no easy path to success, one much comes from the inner self-discipline and determination.

12) Time is running-up.

13) The drool of your nap will be the tears for tomorrow.

14) Learn like a dog, play like a gentlemen.

15) Stop today, run tomorrow.

16) A realistic person is those who invest in current.

17) The degree of education represent the amount of income.

18) There will be no second today.

19) Your opponents are flipping their books, even now.

20) No pain, no gain.

Tezuka

2011-11-07T08:32:00.000+08:00

To my brother,

The time had come, regardless you like it or not. It was my insist to stop you for going to JPA, instead insisting on Junior College. It was not a smooth route to take, yet you made it through. I am proud of you, you had gone through something that I avoided, you deserved a happy ending of this stage of your life.

Your turn is now to face something that is so important, probably the most important in your life. You learned the hard way, you made it through somehow, and you grew with fantastic improvements. We used to study together, we had a lot of great time being together at that stage. You had my encouragement, you had my support, and I knew you can nail this with another brilliance result.

The only thing that you reminded me about is the phrase "Hyakuren Jitoku no Kiwami", which means the Pinnacle of Hard Work. You are truly fitted to this, you are like Tezuka, you worked harder than any of us, you had more potentials that any of us, and so this route belongs to you. Never underestimate your ability, you are good, you never realise it but we did. And so, you shall walk into the examination hall with the line:

"Don't let your guard down and move on!"

November

2011-11-05T23:33:00.000+08:00

First of all, I would like to apologise to my dear for telling her that I will sleep at this time. I tried to sleep, but I just couldn't ignore the pain from my stomach. It is gastric, but more on stomachache I guess, at least I am being optimistic.

Bearing the pain, the first idea to end this once and for all is to get yogurt for now. Yogurt had been a good aid in resolving diarrhea and stomach flu problem of mine (only me). Every once I will want to have a bucket of yogurt as my meal to clear of my stomach, since the things I ate here are mostly rubbish, I presumed.

Start from the best kebab section: lamb doner kebab, chicken kebab, krish kebab (yes there is such thing).
Bab section (kebab and bab is totally different thing): bacon with mushroom bab, sausage with mushroom bab, crab salad bab, sweet chilli bab, and many more but these are my favorite.
Jake's Place Selection: bacon melt, jacket spub with cheese and butter, chips.
Iceland: seafood admiral pie, and mostly all sorts of pizzas.
UPSU Food: pasta, chicken mushroom pie.
My own cooking: rice, porridge, instant noodles, sausage from iceland (40 for 2 pound), sea stick (28 for 1.50 pound), Hongkong black vege, and egg.

I probably ate these rubbish too much that one of them is hurting my stomach now, or maybe more than one of them. It is just bad for me to walk to the nearest Tesco Express and found it closed on 11pm. WTF!!! Its not even 12 and it is closed! I guess the angmor working inside need to attend any party in town too.

But luckily there was one Korean shop still opening, sometimes I wondered what time exactly they close. Carelessly, I stormed in and bought three yogurts. I ran out of idea how should I describe the quantity, and also a digestive biscuit as well. I had been worried my digestive ability since all the oily and high calories food that I stuffed into my stomach. And the yogurts were unexpectedly nice! Banana, cherry and vanilla flavours, damn nice.

So I finished three of them at once, the hurting stomach still not doing its work. There was nothing I could do about it. Tired, sickness, hungry, exhausted, with all the mixed feelings, cravings, desiring, and the greed to have more. It is a November for me, what a November, and what am I doing with my life right now.

Birthday

2011-10-24T22:07:00.000+08:00

I used to wish for birthday very much when I was a kid, why? Because you can get free stuffs on birthday; you can get a lot of food on birthday; and its the day only belongs to you.

But everything changed back then. Well it shouldn't be changed, it never started at all. I had memories about the kindergarden birthday, but mostly the celebration was on a uniform date instead. And moreover, the celebration is mostly for those who scored 100 in the exam, instead of real birthday party.

Back on 7 years old when tamaguchi was so popular, every kids has one in their pockets, including my elder and younger brother. During the days, I longed for a pet very much, any puppy or kitten will do. But when this tamaguchi came out, I knew I just got to have one.

But since it was so expensive, and my primary school pocket money was only 40cents per day, how could I buy one myself with my own money? 40cents was only worth a plate of noodle, nothing I could do other than watching my brothers playing with theirs.

And about them having those, it was from my aunt who visited us when I wasn't around. She presented my brothers those because she only bought two. So me being the mid-child who wasn't at home that time, didn't get anything.

So I longed for a tamaguchi for a whole year, primary one. When my birthday was around the corner, I asked my mum if I could have a birthday party. I wanted cakes and presents, and attention probably. But what I got was there is no birthday celebration in our family, not at all.

I recalled my sis and my bro did had their birthday celebration when I was a baby, I saw it in photo. But I didn't get to have even one. Birthday for me was something but nothing, special but meaningless, and happy but despair.

So don't blame me for not being cool for that, I didn't protest to have celebration, its just a scar from my childhood that I will not forget.

Ika

2011-10-24T00:04:00.000+08:00

And so I finished the first part of my marine insurance assignment. Tired, exhausted. Its not easy to do something with this little hint, I will have to find everything from zero. But somehow I managed to produce something, even though I don't know if I did it correctly.

Today's theme is Ika - squid. My desire onto my favorite food grew stronger it seems. Even though it is only an anime drawing, it suddenly reminds me about squid.

The picture was taken from the anime drama called Summer Wars. I am so tempted to have some squid now. Perhaps tonight I will get one for dinner.

However, worse to worse, I spent quite a lot these days, on food of course. The more I focus on academic, I got to eat more. Perhaps the moment I focus more the more I became hungry, and started to crave more. Someone help me please.

University Life

2011-10-23T08:59:00.000+08:00

Laws are there because of some people like to screw things up, I always believe that. There are actually two views of law contradicting to each other:

1. Law is there as a nature of human kind to be fair and justice.

2. Law is there to restrict human to do things and protect the innocent.

Of course I am putting up easier explanations in case no one understand what I mean. I really am belonging to the second explanation, because I like to screw things up.

Rather than screw things up, I prefer to spice things up, find the openings from the law and comment on it. Well this is kind of unhealthy, but it leads to better life, I am sure of it.

Anyway, a lot of assignments are coming up. First come the proposal of my Notice of Readiness, which I find not slight easier to do even after I read up a lot of sources.

Second will be the marine insurance asking us to assess the changes made to LOF of Salvage Agreement between year 1980 and 2011. This may be the one to screw us up as it is one tough question. I will be trying to find the things that I could write for this assignment.

Third assignment is still an unknown, guess the lecturer is expecting us to be busy for that whole week. Follow by the fourth assignment which is the seawortiness of ship.

I don't plan to screw any of these up either. But I will not stop blogging, probably will write things related to my assignment. And well, as usual, university life is truly a busy and serious one.

Blog to Facebook

2011-10-22T02:18:00.001+08:00

Is it ok to treat the blog as facebook wall that we post every our thoughts on it in a shorter manner?

Well you see, for blog, if I post every single post like what I wrote in facebook, it will be super short and super wasted.

Fine, I will drop my idea to start writing short post instead.

But if I could do that, I would write: Need someone to talk with right now.

猪

2011-10-22T00:17:00.000+08:00

心情好一阵，坏一阵；肚子太饿一阵，太饱一阵。

昨晚又睡不好，一整天就这样浪费了；听见女友被别人试图周旋，心情能好到哪里？

一整天好像在被浪费那样。

今晚又不想迟睡，很怕又再有不能入睡的情况。

昨晚真的是四点了，脑子还一直在想idea。好是好在有很多东西写了，坏是坏在今早根本不能起床。

感觉自己很像猪。

2011-10-21T20:56:00.000+08:00

Dream shall always be only dream.

Back to the reality, we don't have much choices either.

I am just sober.

惭愧

2011-10-19T18:25:00.000+08:00

今早的天气有点冷得过分。也许是因为昨晚有下雨，所以变得冷冰冰的。

冬天到了啊……

今天的appointment，我的老师好像不是很在乎那样。多亏我昨晚写essay到一点凌晨，还跑去图书馆print。

或许是我过于期望，原本还打算要录音，当成是第一个interview。今天还特地带了两本书，想要问他这些书可以用吗。

但这只是短短五分钟的交谈。

他问我，已经想好要做哪个部分吗？

哦，就好像你上次建议的，就做commencement of laytime。

他说，这样很general，应该做更仔细、更深入的。不如focus在Notice of Readiness，这个方面还没有人做过，而且有很多东西写。

我的反应只有一个，wow。

哦，我知道Notice of Readiness，如果要深入调查的话，肯定是有东西写的。只是现在时间过短了，我不想……

其实，不是我不能。或许是我的性格吧！我还是那种很冲忙的，横冲直撞，往一个目标就是一个目标。

但如果要这么做的话，现在我的目标更仔细了，更专注了。

要么就听他的，把他当成是神那样崇拜，任何事情都听他的；要么就连这个appointment都不必做，这个meeting都不需要存在。

原来我当初想要问他不是因为我想要更多idea和指导，我只是想要得到精神上的assurance。

那以后我是不是什么都不必问他了？我已经和他同level了？我不需要任何指导了？

突然之间我有了我要的答案。

我现在能够做的，在他眼里，连shit都不如。

Maybe

2011-10-17T01:04:00.001+08:00

Maybe I am just trying to see the situation in a different way that will favour you more, maybe I was wrong back then.

As if I could apply these in my life, what would I become today?

I asked myself, which talking to her, thinking what was I thinking on that time when I ordered and even helped her to reject the chairman.

Maybe I was just being selfish, although I will not care how people will look at me.

So what else? By the mean time, what do I have to know about treating this world?

Maybe at least, this way of doing doesn't apply on you. Maybe I should use the other way to talk to you, maybe I shouldn't be like this to you.

I don't know, but it feels like I gained a new insight now.

话

2011-10-15T05:04:00.000+08:00

有些话讲了，感觉很多余，但是不讲又不能。

就好像今天我终于买了人生中的第一双adidas跑步鞋。

因为超便宜嘛，然后今天又要跑步，经过看到，就进去试了、买了。

然后说真的，穿好鞋跑步真的有所不一样。

想起今早学的Strategic Management and Governance，那个Havard Business School Director， Michael Porter的theory，Differentiation Strategy讲述一个产品在竞争中寻找自己的uniqueness。And only those customers who go for better product will go for these product，instead of go for Cost Leadership Strategy applied products。

读不懂的人没有关系，反正在不同地方，人们对一个产品的看法也是不一样的。

就好像这个adidas鞋，在Malaysia或许是一个很名贵的鞋，但在UK是每个人都会穿的鞋。

回来主题，试了鞋后，我告诉他：I will take both。鞋子是一双的嘛，应该是both。但是倒过来想，反正买鞋都是一双的，为什么还要声明both？

才发现原来有些话说了多余，不说或是换个方式来说，反而很奇怪。

那为什么人的脑要让我们可以倒过来说话，还是用其他的方式来表达，不会直接说明就可以了？

如果你喜欢

2011-10-13T08:40:00.000+08:00

如果你喜欢

我可以这样写

其实不是不可以

把你喜欢的

欣赏的

变成我生活的一部分

其实很想说

我只是想要

写我的风格

讲我的话

但是我停下来

不要这么执着于自我

那该多好

我可以过你要我过的日子

因为你要我变成更好的人

我不会珍惜

但现在我学会了

有你的味道

一个人过着也可以很好

没你的思念

比深夜还长

因为我可以熬夜等你online

就今晚

等不到也要

自少想要让你知道

你是我生活中的需要

SUAY

2011-10-13T06:36:00.006+08:00

如果要换题目，不会干脆换个完全和之前的不一样的，不用考虑这里可以留，那里可以拿走。反正凑足300个字，然后反派一点故意多出几十个字，看那个改我proposal的会给我哪一只手指看。

今晚真的很倒霉。除了做不好我新的proposal的background，我惹气了老婆，自己一个人熬夜。本来以为还有人可以讲话，现在我已经有五个小时没有人和我说话了。

心情不好，一回家就看到她的埋怨。我其实是一客观的角度来看待事情，事情都发生了，比我想象中的严重。我还能怎么样？除了这次知错了下次不敢了，还有其他的吗？

一路上走去买晚餐，都不懂有多少次差点哭了、差点掉头走了、不想吃了。走到半路，坐在巴士车站，想了好久自己做错在哪里。心情很差，其实我都不想吃了。

拿着晚餐，走到马路旁，我有着不平凡的念头。都不知道那辆车在这样的速度走向我，我会被撞到多远，晚餐是不是会落到满地？还是我倒地后另一辆车又会来撞我。等到我想完了，红灯绿了，突然好想哭。

我真的不懂她会这么气，或许换着是我，我还会只是不开心而已，不会闹到一整个晚上都不见人影。即使气也好，也不要对我说要我去找别人等等难听的话可以吗？

肚子饿了，终于过了五个小时，我说过我会等到她回复为止。睡觉不是重点，顶多发烧头疼，明天只有一堂课。

下一个和我交谈的人会是韩国店的店主或店员，自少我可以停下来问问他，这盒pizza需要烘多久。

我似乎已经和寂寞成为了好朋友。

Vital Part

2011-10-10T01:12:00.000+08:00

Now I am going to start doing the most vital part of my proposal, the literature review. To do this, I will require to read sources from various books and provide at least 10 references for this part. This is the most vital part as the examiner will judge if I fully understand what I am doing now.

Basically I went for my favorite topic, instead of a better one. At least until the end, if I couldn't get good result from this topic, at least I tried and I did what I actually like.

I was lucky enough to receive something very special and important from one of my lecturer back then during my last year in Polytechnic. That was during the FYP presentation, I freaked out and answered a basic question asked by him. Come on, it was FYP afterall, we bet our life into it and until the end, I screwed out. He asked, in voyage charter, which party will be the one who provides the bunker?

I freaked out. I stood there thinking of the answer out of two options, the charterer or the shipowner. Well, my mind was all blanked, I couldn't do any thinking other than this: it depends on the negotiations.

My lecturer looked at me and said that I told him that I studied various type of charter parties, how can I didn't know this basic thing? The answer is shipowner. As a voyage charter is like a taxi driver. We pay for the money where he drives us from point A to point B, he is the one who is paying the petrol money; while time charter is like a chartered bus which we hired the bus along with the driver to drive us to anywhere for a period of time, which means we will pay for the petrol as well.

Back there, after we got a B for our FYP, we received this email from him, telling or giving us this very precious lines in our life:

Being excellent in academic doesn't depend on the ability of memorising; it depends on understanding the concepts and applications.

Those are the words that even I, graduated as a Director Honour Student, won't be proud of myself as all the three years examinations are depending on my memorising ability. There are still long way to go back there.

Second Thought

2011-10-08T23:48:00.000+08:00

Continue working on my research proposal from where I stopped last night, I looked back. Wait, this is not the best topic that I can do, this is my favorite topic but it is not the best.

Having second-thoughts my brain went into overdrive, where it backed to that night when our senior told us about the course works before the school starts. Our proposal better be something that we can use it for dissertation. The topic better be something extra ordinary, not very old nor very fresh, as long as it can interest our supervisor that will be fine.

So my topic will be: An In-Depth Study on Laytime and Demurrage for Oil Industry. This is my favorite topic that I did not have chance to research during my FYP in diploma level. I have knowledge about this niche, I had worked as demurrage specialist during my internship. I am confident that I can do a great job.

But wait, here comes another great and new topic to do, LNG Market In the Future. It is another good topic that I can work on, it is new, probably the hottest topic in the industry now.

So its now up to my favorite topic, or the better topic. I am having second thoughts. Too many things just came in and I am having overdrive again. Tired.

Best Kebab v. Steve Jobs

2011-10-07T04:49:00.001+08:00

I wondered how to start writing this post when I was eating kebab just now. Steve Job's death had become the main issue on my facebook page, while I was still busy chewing mutton doner kebab and swallowed them into my stomach, hmm yummy!

So how should I start this, I asked myself a few time, looking at the ceiling with sore neck. Last night was my first time to a club, yup that's right, I went for clubbing, and for the result, I gained nothing except the realization that I can actually club and dance. Well I didn't enjoy the loud music that much, just kind of enjoying the atmosphere, I wasn't that high, I was acting.

And yah by the way, RIP for Steve Job, he did well in invading the Earth with Apple. But a funny thought appeared, since Apple had become a worldwide thing, will those starving in South African right now care about it? I don't think so, they wanted an eatable apple instead.

So how to start this? Sometimes I did thought that the easiest way to start something was just start doing it regardless me myself being clueless and pointless. I will eventually find my real topic to start with after that, but once I found it, I looked back, finding that I had walked this long way.

Just like this post was about. I wasn't proud of it, because until this moment, I still couldn't find a way to start writing this post. But hey, I had written this much.

So, I had decided. What comes with quality and quantity at the same time, giving me the warmest pleasure in my mouth? I was having the best kebab again, I should have created a calender marking which date I had kebab as dinner. And Steve Job's speech during the Stanford Graduation just hit on my spot, if I woke up everyday thinking today will be my last day to live, what would I do?

Well I will happily say, one of those things will be, to have a best kebab as the warmest pleasure in this cold atmosphere.

I will find my way. This post was originally about me finding a topic for my dissertation. I will start doing something random now, and when I finally found the topic, I had already completed so much.

Singlish

2011-09-24T07:45:00.000+08:00

So, what am I doing now, in this midnight, still don't want to sleep?

This post I am going to use singlish, suddenly feel so proud about this accent, so random, so anyhow; can just use whatever word whatever vocab that comes into your mind; don't have to care about the grammar because we are usually wrong; just say whatever we can as long as it is in english. I am feeling so proud as a half singaporean now, don't jealous ok?

OK, back to the topic. Its late now, what am I doing? As I mentioned in the past post, those people who came to see my blog will know what I am thinking. I don't like to be too fake on myself, at least I didn't lie in this blog. I really don't feel to go to xiaotian's place for lunch tomorrow.

Because it is fucking far, damn far, it took me 20 minutes to walk her to her place from my hall, and another 20 minutes back to my place. Gone, 40 minutes of my life just gone. Tomorrow the family members (basically that's how we called us after we shared a family deal best kebab that night) are planning to go her place and cook lunch. So how can I avoid this invitation with my own style?

I am known with my very positive attitude, which is I am very on one. Whatever invitation, from a buffet to a soccer taster match (which I was invited to be the GK and kenna whack till my arm actually numb) I will say yes to them. So tomorrow lunch to her place, its like implied for them, I sure on one.

And how I am going to answer their implication tomorrow? I will just appear on the casino around 3pm (they are going to watch the Chelsea match over the casino) and tell them, hey sorry last night my friend jio me Dota until midnight, so I KO until noon time and I wake up. That's how I am going to answer them, and since no one actually cares about me being there or not (sometimes), I will totally nail it.

That's why I am still online in msn and facebook, trying hard to show and convince them that I am still awake. But I am not sitting here for nothing, I actually did some homework, as in brain storming my thesis topic. And I just came to a temporary conclusion (because things may change, but for the time being this is my best choice, and having a topic with me actually makes me feel comfortable and enthusiastic that I am one step ahead than others), which is good enough, I wrote them in my white board, and here is the result.

And so if you think I am so lame for doing these, I may be lame but not the lamest person in this world. At least I know that there are currently so many angmors out there friday night partying, at least I am not the worst person in this world.

Idea

2011-09-22T20:24:00.000+08:00

So I started to think of the topic that I will do for my dissertation. Senior asked us to not think of only one topic but two or three topics. We should now already have them in our minds and start doing researches about them to see which one could give us more things to play with.

Well, I already had one in my mind. I went for which niche from the my whole 3 academic years that I preferred and familiar the most. One thing came into my mind was the contract and clauses part. Back in those months where I did these things everyday, I tried to argue with lots of my colleagues about the reasoning of one clause to another, and it actually gave me lots of fun, arguing things that was fixed out of nothing.

But I need a more accurate idea, a more solid one. I need to write it on my white board. Like I said, those who read about my blog will get a grasp of what kind of person I am. And if one of my coursemates who were undergoing the same fate as me will be able to steal my idea and use it as their own.

I don't really mind if they used my idea instead, this just proved that my idea was fantastic. I am not a pathetic student who was afraid of sharing. Well, since I am disclosing my idea and thoughts, at least let me say one thing.

"I want to eat that goddamn kebab later."

UOP

2011-09-21T17:36:00.000+08:00

有时候觉得，有读我写的东西的朋友都会知道我是怎样的人。

Social networking就是这么一回事。我不会承认我在网络上是一个老实的人，但我偶尔会对网络吐属自己的感受。

前天晚上就像是一个game的转折点。你可以把我这一整年的行程比喻成survivor game，强者生存、弱者灭亡。

因为读大学，尤其是像我这样一进就是final year，真的是很压力的。一来需要适应时差环境，另外还需要配合这里的课程及教学方式。更何况是final year的dissertation，senior说我们现在就应该开始想好要做什么topic。我好想大声对他们说，我还没准备好！

前天晚上，我们约了大我们一年的senior来对我们讲解这里学校的东西（我们是第二batch direct entry学生）。那一个分享就像是在一个game开始之前的讲解，讲述这里的事情，以及我们该怎么面对。

怎么说呢，上个星期四是我的第一天，今天已经是星期三了，差不多我呆在这里已经有一个星期了。那从星期四至星期一就是我们一起认识后一起玩乐的时刻，一直到星期一，这里的每十八个人就像被套上了很大的包袱。

十八个SMA的学生，我们自少应该有个Second Upper的Degree Certificate。

这里不再是人与人之间的互相争夺，但我还是喜欢把事情看得重些。只要别人生、你死掉，你就是弱者。如今已经有人活着出去，如果你得到低过Second Upper，你就是弱者。

今天要做的东西就是，要到书店去买transparent paper，然后在墙壁上做一个white board。小学时学的手工，想不到到了大学还是那么有用。

哦，现在才肯定了，我已经是大学最后一年了。

Plymouth

2011-09-18T20:27:00.000+08:00

Third day in Plymouth (well I don't count the arriving day as the first day as I basically was travelling around UK), I finally came into decision about my objectives right here.

I only have two choices to go: 1) to earn money with my part time jobs by sacrificing my study time and devote myself into part time jobs. 2) by trashing those english people who treat me as an alien, I will show them that they are the inferior one.

I just couldn't really be friend with them. In their eyes, they see us as foreigners, aliens, or whatever you wanted to name. I just couldn't really smile at them, well not everyone of them, some of them are quite nice.

Here are some of the things I did for these three days:
- applied a bank account, which is now still on the progress
- bought a sim card
- left my contacts for those chinese restaurant nearby, more to come later
- settle down by eating plenty of their food, because they don't eat rice here (fuck them)
- got my first warning letter for failing to evacuate when the fire alarm rang
- went for soccer match at a bar and had my first Irish beer
- went to see the lighthouse which is quite old

And basically hanging out with friends from Singapore and have some awkward talks with the white people.

Well, lets be optimistic and pray, tonight I will go for an indian buffet nearby, so lets be happy ok?

Attached a picture of what I had for lunch today.

价值

2011-09-13T01:02:00.000+08:00

有时候一个结束其实是另一个开始。

我没有结束什么，只是暂停而已。

而另一个开始，也只是暂时的另一个而已。

没什么好开心、没什么好伤心，虽然我还是想要很感性地写下我的感受。

不是夜深了、不是我累了、不是我舍不得。

舍不得也不过是多余的，再舍不得也都是得离开。

我不是永远地离开，我只是暂时地离开。

又或许，在这段旅途中，我会感受到，我的价值在哪里。

雨天

2011-09-08T15:14:00.002+08:00

其实不是害怕失去，我只是不喜欢分离的感觉。

其实是可以多见一次面，然后一直这样缠着不放。只是再次见面意味着会有再次的分离。

其实我真的不喜欢分离的感觉，我还是有些伤处怀在心头。

就在分离的间隔，画上了爱你的符号，多了一份不能不爱你的痛，又不得不分离的伤。

就这样，我还是比较喜欢死撑着不哭，当着是很自然地，把伞交给了她，说了拜拜，想都不想直奔走了。

那一天，天还蛮会自动地，给了我们一起雨天散步的情景，也都忘了，其实她不喜欢雨天。

突然间，我感觉到了爱情的存在。

想你的歌

2011-09-08T14:47:00.001+08:00

Water Tap

2011-09-05T10:51:00.000+08:00

我肚子很痛，可以快一点吗？

住别人家，别人家漏水了，没有水用，没得冲凉，没得用厕所。这种感觉是很难受的，为什么没有一个emergency valve呢？如果有的话，为什么没有一个emergency valve for the emergency valve呢？

ok算了，住别人家欠别人情，等下打算就买一些水果送他们，当作是礼物，谢谢他们。好，水龙头修好了，我要去冲凉了。

Drowsiness

2011-09-04T07:53:00.000+08:00

Its Sunday Sept 4, its the 5th day I ran from home, its counting down to my flight to UK, its 5 days down to our anniversary.

Why ran from home? Whats the thing that cause this? Who was the culprit behind? Why should I have to do this? Things just didn't worked in the way that I expected, everything was beyond my calculation. Well I don't like everything to be messy, if I couldn't get things right, I want to stay away from home as long as possible, to prevent more bad things happen, that's right.

So how should I call this, making other things happen to fulfill my down side of life. Face it, everything has an up and down, its a cycle. None a person could hold on some good luck so long that he doesn't want to let go, until one day, the luck betray him and beat him to the lowest part of life.

I am down, basically I am trying to search for another perspective of my life, so I won't feel this drowsiness any longer. Forgive me about my selfishness, where this may be the best for me. I need some break, as well as my life back together.

It Isn't Fair

2011-09-02T01:33:00.000+08:00

Sometimes the world isn't fair, everything is a fate from the beginning. Just like how I could only love you one person in this world. It isn't fair right? It just isn't fair at all, because it is fated.

Me and My Dearest

2011-08-28T16:00:00.000+08:00

Today is my GF birthday so I think its time for me to open out this relationship. This is our photo we took some place on Earth, and we are happy.

I did some studies on android apps maker and I created an apk for my girl, but I guess I will share it although no one will download it anyway. I will make a better one in the future.

I love you dear <3.

Iphone Problem

2011-08-28T09:00:00.002+08:00

Diagram shows that a user is complaining about his Iphone problem. So here is how to solve the problem.

You complain back to them. Until they sien, just like you did.

Barney Stinson for Xperia X10

2011-08-28T03:46:00.001+08:00

So, out of some designer senses, I created this Barney Stinson animated gif. Then out of some creativity senses, I was thinking to create a Live Barney Stinson wallpaper for my Xperia X10! And it is done! Its almost the same
as the animation.

Barney Stinson Live Wallpaper for Xperia X10

The Biggest Loser

2011-08-27T23:23:00.000+08:00

Last night I was the biggest loser on Earth.

话说曹操用兵只有一个字，“快”。我本身觉得其实这一句话很有意思，特别是“快”这个字。

自从我玩了《真三国无双5》，尝试了各种不同的策略让三国的故事变得更有趣，以及说服让自己可以和大众一样，认为刘备才是三国最正义的英雄。

可是可惜的是，打了这么多场仗，我还是认为刘备是三国鼎立时的loser。只因为他重义气，身旁才有众多猛将追随，还有孔明军师组阵。但刘备依然一生通吃败仗，到最后年老终衰。

但我要说的不是我对三国的看法，曹操依然是我心目中三国的英雄。

我要说的故事，话说昨晚大约6点，我因为收到了MOE的e-mail说我的文件没有给完，无法开始process我的deferment。这里我事先说明，MOE用了6个星期来process我的一个application，是有一点离谱。要在online给他们feedback，他们就要你留名字email。

算了，我就在短短的十分钟，拒绝出席我GF的生日会，这个MOE的做完后要怎样庆祝都可以，“快”也是我的作风，和曹操用兵一样。然后买了车票，用很短的时间pack好，到了大山脚去等bus。说时迟那时快，我姐姐的一通电话，告诉我今天Singapore President Election。

完了咯，今天SPE，Sunday is Sunday，Monday is replacement holiday so its public holiday，Tuesday is Raya，so Wednesday will just be the day I can go to MOE。

Ok end of story. I cancelled my ticket for not going to SG, and I didn't attend to my GF birthday party. Came home after enduring a long lecture by my mum, I finally realized I have to stay out from my home. I am not a home person from the start. Trying to be a home person kills me, and it has to be better for me to stay outside. I was literally the biggest loser of the night. God striked me down heavily. I told myself, not to let anything bring you down, but tonight, I was pawned. Good one, for those who don't read English.

Streamyx!

2011-08-25T17:59:00.003+08:00

Sometimes, its ironic when people thinks from a rare different perspective, which we could never be alike with them.

Just like this idea: Why moves so fast? Go slow. We Promote Patience, we are Streamyx tmnet.

Dear God, I wish I have longer life.

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Jana Sing Tan

2011-08-25T03:18:00.001+08:00

Jana in Paris! or Paul Smith in Paris...

It has been some time since I did some Photoshop projects and this is one hell of it!

Thanks Universe

2011-08-24T03:40:00.003+08:00

14th August, it was a happy evening (I am following UK time) until I received a message from Vinc.

Things got a little messed up ever since then. Believe me, no one likes their life to be changed or affected on a peaceful time like that. I was gaming, chatting with my GF, and it just appeared in my life like that. A book just arrived at the old place where I stayed during the three years studying in Singapore. And he got a call from the landlord saying about the arrival of my book.

Bad timing, the second I received this news, I wasn't as happy as I should. My mind rewinded back into the past months (I am not sensitive with dates) where my two books orders got rejected by this company named Waterstone (what the hell is this company?) and Ebay because I paid the money without passing through Paypal.

Ok, background's over, lets continue to the present. So, worse to worse, after I bought one of the book which I failed to purchase online at Kinokuniya at Takashimaya Orchard (big book store, nice place), at most the book that Vinc was holding was the same book that I had bought. Here I would have made a huge and stupid mistake for buying two similar books.

My GF asked me to sell out the other same books through Ebay or whatever methods we can think of. I even asked Vinc if his father wanted to buy it (their family are more on reading). But out of stubbornness, I decided to keep the two books together, thinking there must be some other reasons why I would own these two books.

Dear readers, sometimes instead of fighting the way things going unaccodingly, the universe somehow had arranged everything ahead of what you planned. It would be a waste of time if I tried to sell it or register it in Ebay, I decided to go along the flow. And the case ended on tonight's gathering, where me and Vinc met up to exchange our things (I was holding his spec and harddisk). It was the other book from Waterstones.

Thanks to who? Thanks to no one, thanks to the faith that believe everything will act up eventually. Even if we don't do anything, even if we scare or worry about things, the future will arrive eventually, and by the time, everything will be just fine.

Suit vs Blazer

2011-08-24T00:20:00.003+08:00

To make it simple, blazer is just the top, while suit is the whole outfit.

Ok the rest will be more on those who wants to know more.

Suit
A suit comes from the Latin word sequor, which means "I follow". This would explain the components of the garment; it's a jacket, waistcoat and the trouser that comes with it. They are following each other in terms of color, cloth and are usually worn with each other.

Blazer
Like a suit, they commonly worn with a trouser, from the inside however blazers are bought as it is, not by a set. With a blazer, one can be more playful since these are worn for smart casual events. One example that is widely used until now is reefer blazers. They are worn with variety of different other clothes, a polo or just plain shirt, some wear them with ties and, like suits, they can still perfectly go with trousers but jeans are an added option as well.

Credit for: How I Met Your Mother

Zuck and Wardo

2011-08-23T20:40:00.000+08:00

I Liked This.

How to Prevent Jetlag

2011-08-23T02:08:00.003+08:00

Microsoft vs Google

2011-08-22T18:54:00.001+08:00

Believe in Me, I offer everything you need in your computer, as in word processing I got Microsoft Word; data sheet I got Microsoft Excel; presentation I got Microsoft Power Point; mailing stuffs I got Microsoft Outlook; live chat I got Windows Live Messenger etc etc. Part of it you will have to pay, but for starter (new com) I will offer the three basic softwares for free, but the retailer may charge you according to their preferences.

I am still developing a new web based Chromium OS which you will only have to purchase our hardware, named Chromebook. But we have a full range of applications offering our customers including the word processing apps Google Docs, and lots of things more.

Which OS will you choose?

P.S. I will admit I am looking more onto the working side, which means excluding those offline gaming stuffs.

2009 - What Do You See ( Singapore National Day Theme Song )

2011-08-22T15:28:00.001+08:00

I still remember that night when three of us studied through the Saturday night in Mac Donald when examinations were around the corner. The module that I was revising that night was E-Commerce which I scored "A" after all the hard work. And I kept on staring on the plasma TV screen where every Mac Donald in Singapore would have one, showing their own pre-set program.

It was some dates of July year 2009, where this national day song was repeating on the TV screen. I couldn't move my eyes away even once from this MV. Well, take this as my every-20-minutes break time(the song will only appear once 20 minutes, there was still other things to be shown on screen like the trailer of "The Sorority Row II"). We stayed there until 4am when the breakfast was ready.

True enough but sad, I could only remember the things and details that happened, but not the dates. I am not sensitive with numbers, where I decided to let go one of my dream which involved a lot of maths. But there are always some dates I forged into my mind, like August 9th, the National Day.

P.S. Correct me if I was wrong about the dates again.

发霉

2011-08-21T21:03:00.000+08:00

每一天都重复着一样的东西，不闷都发霉了啦！

开始觉得那句话“呆在家发霉”很有意思。不是说我不认同这个事实，人的一生总是要尝试过好多很不切实际的东西，比如说呆在家浪费时间。

有人劝说，这是我一生中也许再也不会有的假期，不如好好地享受。哦，那我就明天一早在我阳台上放个躺椅，在那里日光浴。假期嘛，享受咯。

闷得要死了，我快疯了，有谁把我挖出来，给我东西做，不然我真的发霉了咯。

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