Crunching the Numbers

5 a.m. and Cadrian and I just finished working our FIRST Signals and Systems homework. Barely a week since classes started and I'm doing an all-nighter just to crunch not-so-nice numbers. I think I might form a homework group for the ones to follow. We're even answering questions on topics not taught in class and by the speed the professor is going at, he can finish the course by Spring Break.

Uma Thurman is so hot in Prime.

A week since Max went back to Chicago. Pretty sunyi but don't take this in any gay way like Brokeback Mountain. Now, have to cook for one person only. My DA job ended last Friday morning with an 8-hour shift. Weather was cold and snowed a little over the weekend but getting warmer again. Forecast tells this coming week will be be in the single digit celcius. Last week of winter break and I hope to be able to go out and enjoy the sun.

My brother is starting A Levels at Taylor's. He's staying at the exact same place where I stayed for my internship last summer. He might be roommates with my ex roommate who has the exact same birthday as his.

I've been reading autobiographies to kill time. Lee Kuan Yew's From Third World to First, his sequel to A Singapore Story, is well-written. Gives a different perspective on our country's history that are not taught in secondary school history books. Kuan Yew talks about Malaysia, how he wanted it to be a Malaysian Malaysia but it was shattered by the Malay nationalists. It seems to be a scar for him. He even cried when giving an interview on the day of the separation. The book is also an interesting read on how he built the island nation, how important Economic Development Board (EDB) is, staffed with the brightest scholars unlike the Malaysian Government. There are a few chapters dedicated on his experience in dealing with Asean countries, Japan, China, Taiwan, Britain and the U.S. making it a book partly on discussing foreign relations. To no surprise that top American diplomat Henry Kissinger wrote the foreword. I wouldn't mind saying that his book is a cookbook on how to run a country.

Currently reading Bill Clinton's My Life. I am not sure whether I'll enjoy the politics part of the book as I might find it to be rather dull. So far, reading about childhood experience has been pretty interesting.

I am already dreaming on what to do for spring break. I WISH I have a fatter bank account so that I jump onto a plane to London and backpacked the entire British Isles for a week. I don't care if I am doing this alone but it'll be a nice if a girl is willing to be my travel companion. =)

If scenery turns out to be not good, at least she'll be inside to enhance it. jk.