Random, Really Random
Apr 17I found a really random quote by ex US President Harry S. Truman while trying to read up on the reactor design chapter in Fogler's Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering. Random random random.
Here goes:
Anyway I submitted the homework on "Why I want to be a chemical engineer", partly bluffed my way to make up 2 pages (I'm actually honest in the first few paragraphs) and there's now a new essay due with the question which I don't have to lie to finish it. *A heavy sigh of relief*
On the other hand, I love my music class. I am mapping it to NUS GEM (Arts). It's called Introduction to Music Literature and it is supposedly for those not taking Music as their major. We went through the middle ages and renaissance last week and this week the timeline is on Baroque with Bach and Handel as the focus. I can't wait for next week's Classical Period and explore the richness of all these high quality music. Thank God for them.
birthdays and more
Mar 139th March 09: One year less to live on earth, one year less to live a meaningful life, one year closer to meet my Maker.
Birthdays have always, always been frustrating. I don't really know why, I guess it's just my personal tradition over the years.
It has nothing to do with the people around me, those working so hard, striving out to reach me though I'm unreachable.
I thank those who still stuck by me, though I know I have been a stupid people-repeller all this while.
This year I celebrate my birthday in Davis, CA. A few of the NUS SEP friends asked me out for dinner on Friday, a few days before my birthday as we know we're all gonna be busy around this period, with projects, presentations and finals going on and coming up. We ate at Taqueria Guadalajara, free flow of tortilla chips and many different sauces with any order. I love chips!
On D-day, two of my SEP friends and my housemate surprised me by coming in for dinner while I was cooking cauliflower. Hey, I can cook nice cauliflower, apparently. I also took out the Indonesian curry that I have cooked a few days before and kept in fridge. I cooked tomato-sauced pasta as our meal. Haha, I felt like a housewife already. We baked brownies too, and ate that with 2 tubs of Haagen Dasz caramel-flavoured icecream. It was very very good.
Oh ya, while cooking, my owner came in with our mails and I received a yellow colored envelope with a birthday card inside. Hoho, it's actually from Chuifen, Cindy and the rest of NUS Chem eng gang as well as some other Indonesians. Thanks guys!
I'm gonna skip the part where I had a very bad headache, yes, yet again, and go on to the main purpose of this post.
I bought myself a birthday gift, a domain called patriciapetr.us. I haven't done much with it cos finals are coming up, but I promise I'll make it good. It will contain my lifestreams as well as portfolio. I know one day I had to re-organize all of 'em somewhere somehow and I'm making a commitment that day by buying that domain for USD$0.99 from Webfusion. Cheap but useful 
But webfusion's support really sucks, I couldn't change the DNS nameservers somehow and I asked them to help me do it. Such a simple thing took them like, 1 day to reply after I sent 2 messages, one last one showing my impatience. The reply was to confirm the nameservers that I want to change to. Alright, so I replied ASAP and asked them to go ahead and do it. They took SO LONG that I ran out of patience, I emailed them asking them why such a simple thing took so long and after that email they helped me do it.
I can't believe they're gonna destroy the reputation by overlooking small stuff. Just because it's 0.99, it doesn't mean that I will not consider their webhosting in the future. Oh well, for this I am pretty sure I will not go for it. I'll stick to dreamhost cos their support, not only is it fast, but also very very helpful. I got a reply in less than a minute after I submitted my suppor ticket!
Okay, I should be done with this post, getting too overwhelmed 
Before I forget, this is the only e-card I received, and I am really thankful for it. It sums up what I was and probably am going through, actually. I hope for an even deeper faith in God and His plan.
Of Chickens and Bike
Jan 22
Sometimes...
Life's like that...
in california... LOL
Google Maps
Nov 28Since I will be going on exchange to UC Davis next semester, this semester has been quite hell-ish, juggling studies with this and that, and even preparing for the exchange seems to take forever. One of the most important ones was to find a place to live for the 6 months I'm there. Since UC Davis doesn't really provide us with any housing, or even help us (they just gave us the address which most Davis locals use to find housings), it's kinda annoying times. There are a few people who joined in my stress and helped me a big deal, like Erlin's childhood friend Elli, Indra's Sweden church friend Aileen, and also Indra for just being there to comment. haha.
This house-hunting will not be as successful without the existence of Google Maps. How else am I gonna check the location of my house-to-be, and have it compute the exact distance from the house to campus, and how long it takes for me to walk from there to there.
Google Maps Direction
and the details
Not to mention the feature Streetview, which unfortunately doesn't work in Singapore, but still cool enough to show how the actual place looks like there 
This makes online housing scams even more difficult, doesn't it. Well, streetview does more than just show you where it is, you can even trace the path, as if you're walking there in person. It's simply cool.
the streetview
