Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 1:04 PM

Work, Work, Work ...


This is crunch time. Hopefully,
in 3 mths, everything will
finish.


At least for the tuition side,
I will take a break after
November when
their exam is
over.


New student, Bryan, is rather
smart. I expect to see
improvement soon.
Bryan might be
my swansong
for tuition unless
I decide to switch
to full time tuition.


My thesis writing has not
progress as much. At the
moment it's 70% done. There
are still a lot of other stuff
that I need to do. Experimental
work, paper writing and preparation
for PQE took quite a big chump
of my time.


Experimental work, I hope I can
wrap up in 3 weeks time. I think
its achievable this time round.


1.5 month of pure writing should finish
things up. Tt work up to be 1.33 page/day.
I think it achievable. However, tt need
to be shared with paper writing.


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was out shopping with Kian Leng last Sat.
The retail industry is doing rather badly.


Clothes are better buy than 2 years ago.
The local designer I reckon is
still not strong enough to
compete. They lose

in terms of pricing &
their design is
still nt quite there.


With the internet, retail is no longer
as attractive. It's doesn't make much
sense tt with internet getting a
share of the pie, rental is
still as expensive or rather
has gone up.

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read that a pomeranian was beaten
to death by a 'mad man'
http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/08/20/dog-brutally-beaten-to-death-in-sengkang/


a very pitiful end to the dog. Pomeranian
is so lovable that it is v hard
to be evil to it.


Among the small dogs, I think
Pomeranian and Papillion are
among the cutest.


If I could keep two dogs I
will keep a papillion and
rottweiller. Can papillion live
happily with a rottweiller ... guess not


Papillion vs rottweiller...
I think it quite obvious
who will emerge victorious.

But I think dogs are out of my
reach at the moment. Most pple
close to me think
tt eventually I will
ditch the dog to my mum!
Such faith in a frenz!
I think I won't ditch a dog
& I believe I have some
of the quality of being a good dog
owner, chief among them
playfulness!

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Watched "Air doll" at the Japanese film
festival with Kian Leng last Sat.
The movie is very good. A primary
school essay title for the movie
would be "An autobiography
of an air doll"

As a child, I enjoy
autobiography
essay although the ending
is always the same.


Air doll is aesthetically very pleasing.
Midway through the movie, I wonder
how the story is going to end. The
ending is definitely nt gg to
be good, this I was
somewhat certain.


The final scene of the air doll deflating and
slowly losing life is rather poetic
yet heart-wrenching at the
same time. Love &
life can be
v fleeting, such
is the story of
the air doll.

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Smartphone is the future of mobile.
In the past ten years, IT has
made massive progress. 10
years ago, we have Alta Vista
& non-colour phone.


10 years is all it takes for Apple
to re-write the script, for
Google to be a serious
threat to Microsoft.


Google Android is expanding at
a fast pace. I think Blackberry
will yield to Android pretty soon.


As for Apple, is it deja vu again?
They tried to be exclusive
during the early PC era.
They are trying to be
exclusive again. iPhone
is an interesting device
but the ongoing competition
between the super giants
is even more interesting.
The winners are the consumers!


Personally, I think a Blackberry
phone is too expensive. Iphone
with contract is manageable
but the future will
be cheaper, just
like how internet
connection gets cheaper
with better infrastructure
& healthy competition.