a very vivid nightmare...

watched the anime "Monster" not too long ago [the main point was that this fellow can play with the minds of people and can manipulate others, esp children to do his bidding] *don't spoil the story too much, esp for those who haven't watched it before or haven't even heard about it* =P

been studying (somewhat studiously and religiously) lately,
been listening to kwame's webcasts almost everyday

and last night...

something happened.

crime case in the news: bodies without their heads have been discovered all aorund Singapore. i played detective with my good fren and the clues and evidence led us to this kid, from Bedok Primary School (my god i even dreamt of an actual school, and my fren does exist okay, she's studying real estate in NUS now, also taught by "km" before, no prizes for guessing who it is)

we decided to share our views with km, and we became more convicted that the killer was actually the little kid.

one night i actually saw the kid dragging a man under a car, he was holding a knife with blood stains and there was blood all over the ground... i caught sight of the kid's face, and saw that he had this maniacal expression.. i was so freaked out i quickly ran away and called up my fren and we went to km's office the very same night

upon leaving km's office, i spotted a book lying on his bookshelf - "Bedok Primary Realty Layout"

i told my fren about it when we got into a cab and then it struck us that it might be km who is the mastermind (why else would he have a book about Bedok Primary?)

we talked about the case in the cab and headed to our own homes.
after which, i found out that i was bugged. i called up my fren and she realised she was bugged too. we confirmed that the only place we were together that day was at km's office, and only there could he have bugged us. which means he knows our exact location right now, and possible heard our entire conversation.

we decided to meet up and go for drinks. upon stepping in we realise we were getting stares from alot of people. two huge men made their way towards us. we ran and got into a cab, asking the driver to drive off... we threw the bugs out of the cab window halfway through the ride...

but too late, the driver was km himself!!!!

and this very moment... my alarm clock rang and i JUMPED out of bed.

it was 10am when i was awakened and now its 6.30pm and i still remember the nightmare VERY VIVIDLY.

=(

inherent biases...

#1 - I (apparently) have slight preference towards African-Americans than European-Americans! [it came as quite a shock to me too! oops! =P]

#2 - I have strong preference towards Fat People than Thin People.

try this out for yourself and find out your inherent biases (you may not even be conscious of such biases!)

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/

they have many other tests...so have fun!

freaky numbers...

jus watched the number 23 in the cinema...
had a little fun with my own name and birthdate

TAN CHINN YUN
35 + 48 + 60 = 143
143 = 1x4x3 = 12

28 June 1985
28 + 6 + 1985 = 2019
2+1+9 = 12

2 + 8 + 6 + 1 + 9 + 8 + 5 = 39
3 + 9 = 12

so apparently, all my details either add up to 12, or 3.
up to u to choose.

hahhahaa.
this is fun.

had proj meeting on thursday,
not one of my favourite modules - environmental econs =/
still, that was one of the last meetings, so decided to show up.
was consolidating the final report, inadvertently commented on everyone's part, everyone did generally okay, did their part did their research and everything...
but there was one guy whose report was a little too theoretical.
my group leader felt the same way and told him to do somemore research on the spot to see if he can find more stuff...
so he did...stayed quiet for abt an hour or so while the rest of us continued our consolidating...

finally, i think he couldnt stand it anymore...
stev: "why are u asking me to research more and not others?"
sel: "because it is not enough..."
stev: "i've already done alot of research on the internet and this is the best that i can come up with"
sel: "i know, but i managed to find out one company which publishes everything abt what they are going to do and how they are going to do it."
stev: "do u wan me to search books from libraries? but my part cannot be found from books"
[this part i agree, coz his was on pressure groups from the US, so i dont think books will be a good reference]
stev: "sometimes its not that i don't wan to do things, but sometimes some things just cannot be done"
[man... another team member and i were jus staring at each other and giving that o.O expression...]
and then he went on to say things like "i've no time, im very tired, i've already read alot of reports and done alot of readings online, im just an exchange student, i jus wan to tranfer the units back to my home country, im not interested in this at all..." (-_-" right, i know)
[like hello, who's not tired, who has unlimited time at his/her disposal, and hello im also an exchange student, but even though u're on exchange, it shouldnt be a total slackoff should it? and furthemore, this is a GROUP project. it is supposed to be a GROUP effort, and this canada guy and i are also exchange students, but we doing our best to help with the proj report, and I'VE even done the powerpoint slides when no one else has... so whats the damn problem. next time when u go out to work u'll also have to do projects in GROUPS what, dont tell me he intends to give the same reasons (or are they excuses?) sigh.... i dont know... am i jus too naive?]

the conversation ended with,
sel: "okok, i'll do your part alright."

-_____________________-

i think i will try to help her with his part too.

sigh... this is one of my worst experiences in projects.

haha.