Happy Birthday Singapore!

well. i'm not very patriotic when i'm normal. haha but when was i normal

anyway today was a good rest, initially wanted to go wang's house and play comp games but too lazy. woke up, first thing to do was the CORS system.

yeah i know watching the cors like a hawk isn't gonna be very useful, after all it's during close bidding when everyone's blind to the "next successful minimum bid" then the action gets heated up. yeah. but i still feel an urge to see.

i have two modules to bid this semester, both using my general account which has 400 pts.

one of them maybe a gem - gem2900, understanding uncertainity and statistical thinking. it's scary - today morning it was 26 (minimum bid), afternoon it shot up to 34-35, then now it's 41. it had started at 2.

the thing is, the people who wanted this module aren't increasing very much either - it's 360 people taking out of a quota of 300. this leaves me to reckon, that those "Latecomers" or so to speak, just dump as many points as they want. or existing people just up their bid like i do.

it's scary - tomorrow, when bidding closes, it might shoot up to 100 points if i'm lucky, and 300 if i'm not. which will present another problem in itself - where to find another gem module. or maybe not to take at all. i'm considering constance's suggestion of samurai, geisha and yakuza as self or another, a totally sucky module.

the other dilemma i have is between bsp1005 (managerial economics) and it1001 (introduction to computing). the former is business-related, and it's applicable (hopefully). mainly it levies on the knowledge i gained from mkt1003, and choon han, jason and jevin are taking it. and it's one point.

the latter is currently 21 points, relatively easier, well sorta applicable... and i've got jw, cuiqin, and ??? taking it. yeah.

sigh.

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watched The Rock in the afternoon - a patriotic movie. (well it's shown on local tv network channel 5.) basically about a mutiny of US soldiers threatening to launch biological weapons at civilians, holding hostages unless the US administration gives $100 mil to them. stars nicholas cage and sean connery.

well any guy will love a movie with guns blazing, this is one of them. prob reminds them of army days. the acting was perfect. one of their lines - as epitomised by my good friend yanzhang when the movie was just launched:

(when the president decided to send in the air strike and blow the island where the soldiers were hiding to bits)

President:
These past few hours have been the longest, darkest of my life.
This is when you wish the buck did not stop here.
A balance between two tragedies.
On one hand the fate of a million civilians.
On the other, 81 hostages.
That American boys have paid the price of that neglect in blood, is equally real, and equally tragic.
We are at war with terror.
Fighting a war means casualties.
This is the= worst call I've ever had to make.
Air strike approved.

So that's where he got that from.. haha