dear doctor

morbidity fascinates you
nothing is scary anymore
as you pull apart the body
to fix it
you know you can put it back
stitch it up
close the wound

transactions

a poet
buys time
with rhyme
buys space
with his face
buys love
with a dove

Dental Floss

I have a pretty twisted relationship with dental floss.

It's quite a painful affair. I have scars on my fingers from where the floss cut my skin.

Like an addict, I'm forced to shift the position of the floss on my finger towards fresh, virgin skin. Forced to endure the protestations of tender flesh as the floss tightens its grip to squeeze in between a wall of teeth.

Firefox Upgrade

I now use (Debian) IceWeasel.

IVP Floorball 2006/2007

NTU didn't have a very successful IVP season this year. We won our first game against SMU 3-0, then had a terrible game against ITE. We lost 12-3 in that game.

SMU managed to hold ITE to a goalless draw, and NUS had beaten ITE 3-1, so we just needed to get a win over NUS to qualify for the semifinals.

We scored the first goal to lead 1-0 in the NUS game, but the final score was 3-1 in favour of NUS.

We have one last match, to play for 5th/6th. So that's that. My first and last IVP tournament. It's been a good run.

Goal!

In our first league game of Skools Floorball vs NTU Hurricane, we drew 2-2 at the final whistle. SF was up 2-0 when I scored the first goal for Hurricane.

Back to School

The tennis courts at NIE have all been resurfaced, according to schedule. NUS has still to get its act together regarding the tennis courts.

The school term has begun again, and there's less tennis for me this time around. I'm on the NTU floorball team, and our first IVP game is this Wednesday night against SMU.

At least, with floorball, the rain can't stop us!

Also playing for NTU Hurricane in the Singapore Floorball League (Division One). There's a match practically every weekend.

I guess this also means that the holidays have ended, and I have to confront the fact that I have done almost no programming over the holidays. All I did was write a Bash script to rename files in a folder (e.g. DSCN0045.JPG becomes DSCN1045.JPG if I want an "offset" of 1000).

Now to write a lesson plan to teach the multiplication rule for probability (for independent events).

By the way, I bought a floorball stick. The picture there is pretty small, but that was the only one I could find online. Feeling a little too lazy to take a picture of my stick. I had it shortened by about 4cm because the 101cm shaft was too unwieldy.

For these five weeks before the teaching practicum, I have classes at 8:30am for four days a week, except Thursday, which starts at 10:30am. But classes all end by 12:30pm every day!

New Year's Resolutions

To be less procrastinative.