I woke up this morning and got blinded by a ray of light shining straight into my eyes. Ok that's exaggerating but you would too because..... Oh Yes the SUN is out!! Woot! It's been god-knows-how-long since the mighty light shone upon us and seriously there weren't alot of occasions when I've been happier to see it. The crazy rain has finally taken a break and a clear blue sky is in for now.

Don't know when it's going to end, but I'm definitely gonna have a dip in the pool later (if I'm not lazy) and do some laundry! So come on people, enjoy this glorious brightness and dryness while, as my friend just said, stocks last!

On a side note, doesn't my hall look a little like some sort of holiday resort in this picture? I'm actually quite surprised. Haha!

My god. The rain. Take a look outside and someone please tell me why the heavens won't stop opening up. It's been raining for like the past 7 days I think. As in not 24/7 but we haven't really seen the sun coming out all week.

The same batch of laundry has gone through 2 rewashes because of the rain. Let me tell you the stories. First wash, I hanged them out through the night. Next day just before lunch I thought to myself, 'I'm only going down to the neighbouring hall's canteen to eat. Surely my luck can't be that bad?' But it is. I started eating and it started pouring outside. Like what the hell.
Then last night I went out at night to drink kopi with a friend. Before I got back to hall, rain was upon us again. Seriously, at this rate I'm gonna have to stop wearing anything to class.

And as all of you know I've been wanting to start a 'live healthy' plan. Thanks to the weather I've only ran once instead of 3 times in the past 7 days. Gross. Gonna die fat.

It's still raining outside as I type this, and according to the news 113.4mm of rainfall was measured across the island today, which is equivalent to 60% of March's total average rainfall. What the hell man. Sky, please stop being so gloomy anymore and let us get out of the rooms. I don't want to go to class naked.

2 photos linked to NTU is the topic of today.

No. 1: NTU should not be accused of being boring people. Evidence:

Yes this Alfa Romeo 159 was spotted at one of the carparks and frankly I was quite surprised that anyone in school actually drove this. Because this car costs a little more than RX8 money, and you don't even get all the novelty value (nor reliability) an RX8 provides. Its looks sure looks like a million bucks though. Anyway, proof that NTU folks are not a totally boring bunch, at least when it comes to choice of wheels.

No. 2: We have a bona-fide celebrity in CEE. Evidence:

In case you were living on Mars, you'd have known that the NTU Open House is on this coming Saturday. Ads in newspapers, online and huge posters like this one outside Heeren have seen to the promoting part of it. While I'm at it, those of you who want to come down and take a look at NTU and how cool it really is, take a shuttle bus from Boon Lay, Jurong East or Dhoby Ghaut. Experience the wonderful people in NTU (of course me included). And also, stand a chance to take a photo with CEE poster girl Lita! (Ok this is fake, but you can request a photo with Me. Hahaha!)

National Vertical Marathon was held last Sunday at Republic Plaza and it was the first time I took part in NVM. Yes ME! Can you believe it, the king of gluttony and sloth climbs 60 storeys of Singapore's tallest building. Woo hoo! Team Bucky Rox! Tag number 9033 (me) finishes the climb in an unknown amount of time (all I know is it's 10+ minutes).


To be completely honest though, it's not really that huge a challenge to conquer. One probably wouldn't feel much in their leg muscles but the killer is catching breaths while climbing. So if you count the registration fee to be solely on the climbing itself, it costs about $1 per minute, or more if you climb fast enough. A slight disappointment was when I realized that at the end of 1380 steps we wouldn't be coming out of the rooftop of the building or even somewhere to get an aerial view of what's around. Next time the organisers should just make us climb all the way up (it's just a few more storeys anyway. what difference does it make when you've already climbed 60 right?).

So one thing that I wanted to try completed. Next up, 128km-long round island Bike Rally on 1 June. Somebody go with me! PS it's not competitive so don't get stunned by the distance. Hahah!

So yes, everyone knows there's a nationwide comb for a particular Mas Selama bin Kastari. But I can't help but find too many question marks regarding his escape.

Firstly, as some kind of JI leader in the Detention Centre, shouldn't his every step be monitored, including when he goes to answer the call of nature?
He limps. Or as revealed now, only when he tries to run or something like that. Which still means he can't move fast. I don't think the toilet is so close to the gate of the Centre that he can walk out before anyone realized anything was wrong.
I suppose a detainee would look quite different from the guards. How did he pass the whole grounds, including security?
Does this mean that security loophole in the Detention Centre is so terrible that it actually allowed a highly dangerous terrorist a chance to escape?

I don't know. This incident really doesn't seem as simple or on-the-surface as it seems.