What would life be without Microsoft Excel



Arggh.. doing error analysis in comparing predicted values with experimental values is way much mind-boggling that programming. Luckily there's excel. If not, i'll be throwing objects around my room and perhaps end up in an anger management course.



Wait. If I do the calculations on paper, things would still be more visual especially in writing down the equations. Excel has only a line for the formulas and that really strain my eyes.

Two movies on a Friday night.



The Passion of The Christ is really movie that strikes deep to the core of your heart. For some who scourging might find reading about Christ's last 12 hours to be not really traumatic knowing that He's God himself, watching this movie will remind you how human he was then. I must say that I took the journey to the Cross to be just another matyr-like suffering. The movie makes us feel that we're really in the streets of Jerusalem; one of those by standers who witness the cruelest form of the Roman execution. The was in fact gruesome, so gruesome that it makes what you the priest narrates during a service of the Station of the Cross far from telling the true pain. I thought it was just the canning, but then Christ was whipped by spiked belts which ripped his bits of his flesh to the ground. And I thought it was just at his back. The torturers turned him over and did the exact the same tortune on his front side. I just covered half of my face with my jacket because I couldnt stand the scene. When your body is full of slashes, nothing is more painful when it get into contact with cloth - the red garment was thrown over him.



Maybe to some, the movie is overly gruesome. I recommend not to let children watch this film. Also, to some it is controversial. Just don't say it's controversial until you watch it. Never take another's word till you witness itself. I think the film is meant for believers. It's a striking reminder on why God is was made man and how He always remember his creations.

Again, I feel so happy today. But I wish this happiness is not overrated.



Sometimes you shouldn't sense the signals too fast. Be slightly dumb and you'll be emotionally alright.

Dumbness + Laziness + Procastination = Inefficiency



I really wish I can sleep early and be fresh for the morning lectures but just this week's Chem E homework has taken a lot of my time. Maybe I'm not smart to answer the question quickly and I'd take ages to solve them. Luckily there is no exam this week or else I'll be roasted, fried, grilled, sauteed or even charred.



Can't wait to watch the Passion of Christ tonight...

YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! note: it's not study-related joy.

The Michigan people are here. Fung Ming, Wei Heong, Elaine and Huey Fang are staying at my place tonight. Glad to meet them for the first time since we parted at KLIA. I think they r playing some game called LIFE in Kenneth's room.



Was on the phone with my brother for around an hour. I've not called home for nearly a week and he was telling me stories about the religious retreat that he attended with our parents during the 3-day long Maal-hijrah weekend. One in particular that kinda spooked him and his friends is about the room that they stayed in is actually haunted. He said he felt someone was fiddling around with his hair when he was sleeping.



In Professor Powers' lab today, we had a our first tried of the chemical boat. To produce roughly 4 atm of pressure in side our 20 ounce bottle, we used 0.1 L of the vinegar acid and 8.4g of sodium bicarbonate. Prof Powers told us to try the bottle-strapped styrofoam on the floor and it wildly jetted for around 2ft for approximately 5 seconds. Some liquid jettisoned out. Tested the spray of substance on the floor for its pH level and discovered that they were at pH 6.8. Could be the product of the reaction.

In Love Again?



Initially, I had no plans at all to watch movie tonight but Sarah wonderfully convinced me to go. So, I was off to Waterfront with her, James, Herman, Jacob and Hui Ling to watch the 9.20 show of 50 First Dates.



didn't have much expectations for this movie but in the final scene, I decided to say that it was worthwhile to spend the evening and $8.50 watching Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore fell in love in the middle of the Pacific. Part of the charm of that movie I think is by the attention given to the surrounding ie. the community in Hawaii which seems to be very laid back but close-knitted. The amount of humor the movie contains is astounding a lot. We literally burst into laughter every 5 seconds. Adam Sandler played the role of a vet by the name of Henry Roth which sounded like that the Jewish gangster in Godfather II, Hyman Roth. It was sad to see Lucy (Drew Barrymore) having that short term memory loss thing where she would forget his encounter with Sandler. Even sadder to see how her dad and steroid-addict brother kept up with the problem by reanacting the day before she got into that accident a year ago. They kept the house like it was the day before, even celebrated her dad's birthday every single day just to keep Lucy from realizing that she was actually suffering from the brain damage. Henry stood up for her by keeping daily video recordings of them together ie. how they met the day before, fell in love, made out etc. However, it seems slightly unrealistic on how quick Lucy would get over the reality of having short memory loss every morning.



The emotional part of this movie came during the part when Lucy woke up in the morning after their first love making. Seeing a naked "stranger" next to her in bed, she freaked out and hit Henry with a standing lamp I think. She then realized that how Henry had to give up on his dream of exploring Alaska just to be with her. So, she decided to end that relationship with him - ie. by destroying her journal and asking Henry to stop reminding her. That was a sad case I think... as sad as having to part with someone you love by death (A Walk to Remember for an example). Nevertheless, it has a sweet and happy ending. Henry decided not to pursue to voyage to Alaska and instead, turned his ship around and rushed to the Callhan Institute to find Lucy again. For some unknown reason, Lucy had been dreaming of him everynight and put those dreams in her paintings. It was a studio full of potraits of Henry, the mysterious guy in her dreams. Both of them were again love struck, and muuuuaahh muah mah...



Hey, it's pretty interesting to find urself falling in love with the same person every single day. Every kiss is a first, every date is a first.



We managed to get the frequent 61C back to Oakland despite it was near midnight when it ended. I had a cup of mocha from Starbucks before heading for the bus stop and the coffee is now bringing me a headache. Apparently, drinking coffee for the first time since 2 months is like seeing light after a week long of solitary confinement in prison.



Time to end this blog of this weekend. Heading back to work. Sigh... Next week will be Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ, hopefully. Lent starts this Wednesday.