the emmy post

hello world!!!

Time to make karl's blog a little bit more interesting... :)
erm.. alrighty... I honestly don't know what to write...

oh okay, I just wanna say that karl and I really don't have a life.. (if you don't already know.. lol)
both of us are staying in uni until 11pm tonight..

WHY???????

Karl's reason: some project which he didn't bother to finish up earlier ;) .. so now he has to be a bit more rajin to finish it up since the project is due TOMORROW!!!!

My reason: I have a "plan".. A timetable to help with the revision... but since I'm so easily distracted at home.. I've decided to study in uni... Apparently I get more things done here.. APPARENTLY being the key word!

okay, time to get back to my book.. cellular metabolism to be precise... karl is bugging me for the com... I have no idea why he's bugging me.. since there are like SOOOOO many coms in the COM LAB... sheesh...

oh and btw, I would like to take this opportunity to thank karl for allowing me to crap on his blog! THANK YOU VERY MUCH KARL!!!

see ya folks!

Emmy

p/s: I will NEVER blog again!

the limit of proportionality

Any simple minded first year engineering student would immediately recognise this as a typical ENGINEERING STRESS STRAIN curve

yes, that's right, it's got to do with the tensile stresses applied to an object and the corresponding strain that it produces

if my emotional state were a specimen test subject, i'd be somewhere near POINT no2. why? cocs point no 2 is called the limit of proportionality, and it is very closely related to the YIELD STRESS!!
that's where an object begins to undergo plastic deformation after reaching it's limit of proportionality..

why the analogy? cos finally i've said yes, i've agreed, on certain terms to playing for the dinner, only the most necessary parts. i thought i was gonna stand my ground... oh well, yielding point came first. i decided it's the only way lest i end up at point no 3.. know what THAT IS???

the ultimate tensile stress....

that's where a material breaks.... or

in my case

i drop dead...

and i've decided i will survive these next three weeks... God's there. and boy am i glad HE is.




i've yielded

pressure

The 4oth anniversary dinner is coming up


And i've been asked to play for the opening number which i arranged. And i can't, i just can't. there's just too many things for me to handle and if i were to take this on, it would probably the last straw to signing me out with a burnout. I mean, i've said no so many times and it's so hard. the problem is, i understand how difficult it is what with everyone so busy and caught up at this time of the year.

I thought it was over the first time i said no. but they managed to come up with some very workable solutions, but still it was too risky and seemingly volatile a decision to make, and not wanting to sacrifice the time i needed for my studies i said no again. Then this time it was a change in rehearsal time to accommodate me.. and yet for some reason i couldn't see light at the end of the tunnel so i've said no again.

And by this point on monday night i was beginning to feel really rotten. I mean there's help needed, why is it i can't just go and give it? quite simple really, because my exam starts the very next morning after the dinner.

then Mabel (best friend) called.. "eh Karl, i heard the recording of the opening number you orchestrated. Cannot understand lah.. quite complicated. we REALLY need you to come play... you're gonna have to tell them what to do and all".

sigh.. i'm at a loss now..

hari raya

before i talk about anything else, it is unavoidable that i have to thank God for a wonderful time like Hari Raya, (some like to call it Harry reyer). SImply because of the AWESOME traffic in klang valley during this festive period. GOSH bliss!! imagine this, cruising at 110 for a straight 10 km along the federal highway, yes guys, the phreaking FEDERAL highway! how lovely is that.. LOVE HARI RAYA!!


So, yesterday the life groups of kota kemuning decided to get together for a barbecue evening at my house.. brian chong came along and my parents invited ruth too..

Jasmine's dad, James and my dad and myself, three of us got the fire started. and by 7 pm
this was one of the two pits that we had, and one of the ladies brought a funny hot plate thingie for frying stuff. quite cool. and here they were cooking the shrimps
it was still early, so there weren't relly that many peeps yet.. here's a shot taken from behind the pond. :)
brian and i.. and the lamb.. oh gosh.. it was awesome lamb!!
the piece that i was about to devour.. with a little bit of improvisation by ruth..
to give it some.. what should we say, character!!
there's this kid.. his name's eu wayne, and he just loves to bully me.. seriously.. so he wanted to take a photo and asked me to make a face, so i pulled all the stops for this.. after that, he just said "eh karl, looks like you lah.. are you sure you even made a face??" (ARRGGH!! the urge to strangle. but he's cute.)
here's his sister.. lovely violinist.. eu nise.. you're too shy though.. heh..
they took out the dining table.. and the kids were having makan there.. here they are.. mouths full of barbecue..
another two who couldn't get off me.. literally.. gosh.. i am seriously quite impatient with kids.. but i fail miserably when i try to get angry.. and they think it's all a joke.. Here's a photo i took with ruth

And denise.. :)


these two again.. couldn't keep them off the piano.. ("eh eh.. i can play THIS!!" "hah!! i'm better than you!") pheww.. asian kids.. kiasu... =P they are cousins btw..

whacky band

I should've posted this on wednesday night after practice.. but i was busy. so yeah.

Every week on wednesday nights calvary church DH musicians get together for our Sunday morning rehearsals. So, we had practice on wednesday. And it was totally THUMPING FUN!!!!!

under normal circumstances i wouldn't ever bother blogging about a rehearsal, i mean how boring is that? but.. this one was different man. Everyone was caught in the groove that night! what with all the head banging and "gorenging" and whatever not.. it's so rare that we're all in that very musical mood and everything just fell into place. We were like coming up with all these random ideas as we went along and it all just worked out.. AWESOME!!. but of course the main big idiots are as follows

NUTTY BASSIST : ADRIAN CHEW

WHACKED OUT DRUMMER : TAN SE KEN

DOWNRIGHT ECCENTRIC KEYBOARDIST : KARL EDWARD

of course there was daniel and jan and chern wei. But they all behaved themselves well.. :)

i had so much fun guys!! we should have more outta this world practices like this.. hopefully pastor Steven don't get a mind blowing shock when he sees our arrangements tomorrow.. which i doubt he would.. and that reminds me. i'm gonna go call him now to warn him.. heh!

But what makes me so proud is that these guys, no matter what we do with the music, realise that we're all about worshipping GOD!!

Psalm 138:1 1 I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart; before the "gods" I will sing your praise.


here's a wallpaper that i think sums it up

PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME!!!

i have "the look"

My classmates says that i have a look on my face..it is an expression that i give,very commonly..they call it "the look"..
and every time i give "the look", they would point at me and squeal "Oooo...look look look!!!ruth is giving 'the look' again!!!" and start giggling..
and i will go "what look??" i have got no idea how "the look" on my face looks like..everyone knows what "the look" is, except for me :(
Apparently i give "the look" when my lecturers ask me a question that i can't answer..or i have got no idea what is going on around me..or i don't understand what my friends are trying to tell me..or when my friend gives a crazy statement that completely blows me off..or when i saw something shocking..
Since it is a facial expression that i give unconsciously, it's hard 4 them to explain to me how i look..imitating "the look" and taking pic don't always work..cz "the look" only appears for a few sec..the best solution that they can come up with is....to draw me..

bondi: "i drew u..see???"

monic: "lol, this look exactly like u..it's 'the look' that u always give!!!" *laughs*
bondi:"i totally capture the moment.." *giggling*
ruth: "bt i don't understand, how can this be me????"

monic: "point proven"
i was laughing so hard when i saw that photo bondi took..i can't believe this is how i look..lol..
so this is "the look" my friends have been trying to tell me..

ruth: "y isit so blurr??" (referring to the pic)
monic: "what??the picture or the person??"
ruth : =.='

SO, what is "the look"??? it's ruth's blur look..

bondi - the artist..amazing isn't she??

from left: me..monic..bondi..

my crazy friends..whom i heart..unfortunately :p

roberta and tsun ye

An old school friend of mine had her wedding reception yesterday. And i was invited. Here's the couple.. and the lamp post (myself)



CONGRATS ROBERTA! :) so happy for you

It's so sad that it takes one of us to get married before the whole bunch of us actually get back together. Or maybe it's just me... "karl, you're the one who's been so hard to get!!"


Apparently everyone save myself has over these four years bothered to keep in touch. And i got myself many earfuls for "not being a good friend". But all in all it was done in good light. :) i missed all of you so much. gosh, those days... i miss school.. carefree.

Oh BTW, mabel!! there were extra seats lah.. you should've just come. and it was pretty informal. so you would'nt have like looked out of place or anything.

I learnt a lesson. It's time i started making an effort to keep in touch with these ppl i use to spend my everydays with.. laughing.. joking.. pranking.. studying. being lame.. . getting angry and irritated with.. and everything else that peeps do in school.. so guys.. i hereby promise that i'll NEVER forget you all.. and all the huge number of them who were not there last nite.

IN fact, come to think of it... there weren't very MANY of us there last nite..

anyhoos... PICTURES..

hui sing and soon seng... i actually thought they were together.. n then got laughed at

Qi guangChien yi... after so many years.. you've still got that same sweet smile.. :)

Kah Yin

They were gonna pop the champagne.. note roberta's lookStephen and mabel and ying guo..

THese next few photos. they called them the FACES of karl.. the peeps were talking random shots of me without my knowledge.. like i'm some specimen test subject.. sigh.. i was bored at times.. and they seemed to find it amusing.. and then i found all this in my camera