Marc's

marc_jin @ 2009-09-06T18:39:00

2009-09-06T10:54:49Z

Shall just blog while waiting for dinner time. Hardly had the mood to blog lately due to the high activity levels on twitter. haha. Twitter has certainly made blogging quite troublesome. Twittering just makes things convenient no doubt having to summarise everything in 140 characters.

OK enough of that. Am having a really busy week ahead due to one submission on thursday and a test on saturday. Haven't studied due to the assignment. So dead. 8 chapters and 1 freaking case study to settle. Toughness. Just have to make it thru this week before I can take a breather before preping for exams.

I wanted to blog also cos I've suddenly increased my wants again but no money as usual to fund for it. Anyways here goes the updated list of wants.

Guitar amp - Need a new and higher wattage one cos the practice amp at home is not doing justice to my pedals. They make them sound like they cost 5 bucks each. ok maybe 20 bucks. Currently eyeing at a Marshall Ministack. Saw a few 2nd hand ones on soft, super tempting I tell you.
New acoustic guitar - I need a new acoustic guitar. The current one's a tad old and its showing signs of giving up. heart pain. Am looking at the Ibanez Montage. If I happen to be richer, I'll settle for either a Taylor T series or one of the hollow electric guitars from say Ibanez, Epiphone or even Gibson so to speak.
DSLR Camera Body - After spending 72 bucks to develop my films, I've been thinking that I need to look beyond it. It's quite costly to upkeep this running cost. After gaining some advice from Kail, I should get an adaptor for my lenses so that I could reuse my manual lenses. Therefore just buying a body would be essential for me to get cracking.
New phone - I dunno whether to get a berry or i-phone. The omnia's starting to give me shit.
New Clothes - I realised that I haven't been shopping lately for clothes. Must get me some clothes already!

Yup currently this is all for now. The next thing I need for all of the above would be vitamin M. Loads.

marc_jin @ 2009-07-31T10:31:00

2009-07-31T02:41:10Z

OK I'm just here to say that I twit more than I blog.

Anyways some updates to my life after like a month or so since I updated this page.

The overloading request was denied as I did not achieve a credit average, so I'm stuck in school for another year before I grad. Damn sian but I cannot do anything about it cos RMIT screwed me up by delaying WIL2 and it's super annoying that my plans are being disrupted by screwed up management. But I realised that all these things that are happening are all in due course of God's plans for me. Sometimes it's not me wanting to be positive about my predicament but it just seems right to feel this way and believe. So I guess I'm at the renewal stage of trust in the Lord again. Anyways I do hope that I'm able to secure an internship for the end of the year. So that I do not waste anymore time. Marketing or management's fine with me, but I'm still not sure as to which industry to head into. Every industry has it's perks and nonsense to deal with. Seems like this is a pre-grad crossroad to me now. I have to decide and send out resumes soon(ASAP). Where to go and what to engage in? Please offer me your advice if any.

26

2009-06-18T11:03:49Z

That's a number I had to come to terms with from now on until at least next year. Haha. Nevertheless I wanna thank the good ol folks for the gd time and all those who wished me. I had a blast. =)

Moving On

2009-06-10T08:22:36Z

Finally I received the remaining result from RMIT. In a nutshell I passed all my modules this semester and I thank the good Lord for it. It's been a rough semester and I'm so glad that I cleared it. Next semester is going to be tough as I'm taking 5 modules (well that's still pending) which is quite a challenge I must say. Nevertheless I will persevere on and graduate by this year. Woo. Time to move on!

Rest In Peace Ah Mah

2009-05-18T15:08:27Z

Got a shock this afternoon when my mum called to tell me that Ah Mah passed away this morning. I suddenly spaced out for awhile before deciding what to do. Was jamming at Sam's place today when the call came. Decided to head down awhile later when I got more news from my mom. Thank God for Evan who drove me down to CGH. If not I also dunno how long I will take to get there from Bukit Panjang. Damn far.

Anyway I feel that her passing was a blessing to her as she need not suffer anymore from whatever shit people throw at her. Gotta brace myself for the wake and the funeral. The only person I'm worried about now is my mom. No doubt she seems rather ok still, but I reckon the worst will come on the last day of the wake. That will be the most emotional day for everyone I guess, not just my mom. Sigh. Just pray for strength and comfort to be upon my whole family including the extended ones. Let me know if you wanna attend the wake. Details are below

Wake Details:
Block 522 Jurong West St. 52

Funeral's gonna be held this friday. So if you all wanna come, please contact me first as I might be resting at home.

Anyways, big thank yous to all who expressed their condolences. They are appreciated.

End of Exams

2009-05-11T18:19:47Z

Finally it's the summer vacation period again. Exams are finally over and this has been a long awaited break. Exams were ok except for the BB paper. I'm super worried for that one. Sigh I hope and pray that my results will be well and I just wanna graduate by this year.

Anyway its the summer break and I've been catching up on sleep and loads of me time. Got quite a lot of activities lined up and I guess it's gonna be really fun. I hope.

Post Assignment, Pre Exams

2009-04-06T16:36:57Z

OK it's really been awhile since this page was updated. Been really busy especially the past 2 weeks trying to deal with all those deadlines. It's really quite a mad run. Dealing with 3 different assignments in a day isn't really something you'd want. But well it all goes down to "gd" time management.

Anyways at least all assignments have been cleared and it's now time to start studying and putting in effort to clear the exams once again. Shitty but what to do. sigh. But at least I had a good post exam day out with my jam mates (Kevin, Melvyn & Darrell) today. Went jamming in the afternoon and seriously, it's been a long while since I picked up my guitar. Hand is aching but it feels good.

Today's jam consisted of the following songs. (not in order)

Welcome to the jungle
Enter Sandman (Need more work)
Sweet Child of Mine
Don't Cry
All the small things
Dare you to move
Smoke on the water
I'll be there for you
Chasing cars
With or without you
Where the streets have no name
EMO song (Just some emo shit that we came up with)
Techno song (Melvyn's techno effect on the bass just gave birth to this song)
I don't love you
High and Dry
Creep
Foxey Lady

Ok that's all I can remember. Ok seriously I am quite impressed with the list of songs that we played. Can ask Mr Tan to compile CD already. So who's Mr Tan? Tan Ku Ku (wait long long) understand!? OK some of you might have heard this shit from me before, but whatever.

Right so after jam session we headed over to the new Bugis shopping mall for dinner and an impromptu movie. Caught Shinjuku Incident starring Jackie Chan. In my opinion, it's good and tix @ $6 made it even better. The cinema company Filmgarde (same as Kallang Leisure Park), offers movies at $6 all day, everyday. It beats having to identify yourself as a student and pick those hours or days to catch a movie at student rates. Really big screen and I think the seats are damn spacious with ample leg room. Mind you I still had room to stretch my legs after putting my guitar and my pedaltrain in front of me. It's that spacious and it made it so convenient for cinema goers like me who have so much stuff to carry. Shiok. Headed over to the prata place opposite Parco for prata and teh. The aircon was so cold in the new shopping mall that I didn't even take notice of the mall's name. I just wanted to get out and have a hot drink. So overall it was a good day out with the mates. Can't wait for the next jam and movie outing with them again.

marc_jin @ 2009-02-08T01:46:00

2009-02-07T17:57:52Z

Just a thanksgiving I wanna share. I finally got deferred from my ICT. When I submitted my deferment for the first time, it was quite a big hooha. My flight warrant called me to check how is he able to plan out my ICT so that it would not clash with my school life. So I thought it was going to be successful, but alas it got rejected. Reason being that fulltime students are not allowed to be deferred from ICT due to us making up the strength for the squadron which is kinda bullshit cos you know, obviously they do not recognise SIM students as students; who actually get to use their matriculation cards to get student meals at McDonalds and all the student privileges.

Anyways I made an appeal against that overly biased and prespostrous decision. And by God's grace it got through and I have been deferred. 2 weeks of ICT is really damaging for me this semester as I have like 7 assignments to churn out. So glad that it's deferred. The months leading up to exams are just too filled with deadlines. I just pray for discipline.

Rock List

2009-02-01T08:25:33Z

Music Playlist at MixPod.com

marc_jin @ 2009-01-15T17:52:00

2009-01-15T10:31:27Z

Warning! Boring post.

This is the most slack week of the new year. Still adjusting back to school life after a long and not so fulfilling break. Thank God I managed to find group mates for my HR module this week and it really shows the goodness of God's providence. Everyone stays in Simei except for 1, who stays in Katong. Super blessed for this arrangement.

All this idle slack time has made way for some revelations. One being that I'm getting like older this year (like in 5 months time), another would be I'm still stuck being a student, and I still need a vacation badly. Heard from Irvin about his Bali surfing cum bumming trip. Sounds damn exciting and at the same time expensive. Happen to watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall today to kill time and I thought that it wouldn't be such a bad idea to go on a holiday by myself. It could be quite an experience for some, for me at least. You could do away with all considerations and do things at your own pace. Like wake up at anytime, eat at anytime, go surfing, get a massage, drink at the bar and so on. In a nutshell, it's a me, myself and I holiday with no strings attached, sparing only a thought for myself. =)

Crap lah I just wanna go for a getaway dammit! But now's not the time due to expenditure woes and the upcoming piles of school work waiting for me in the months to come. Great with that being said, I'll only get to getaway after the closure of this semester. Praying hard not to get called up for reservist and having enough to spend. Sigh. But for now, ideal getaway options would be Bali, Fishing Kelong, Malacca, Hongkong, Bangkok, Taiwan, Desaru cycling trip, Backpacking trip to Vietnam. That'll be all for now I guess.

Been wanting to visit the museum for reasons being, I haven't been there in the longest time ever, I wanna use up my film and shoot some nice pictures. Maybe I should just stop being lazy and step out of the house to do it. Currently in search of budget and cheap activities to do, that do not require much considerations like cycling. Fishing is another activity. Too bad I ain got mates who actually fish other than on facebook. That serves as my online getaway haha. Need my Dad on this one. I think I better do it fast before the semester gets too busy.

I wanna go iceskating as well. Just that it's morbidly expensive compared to the times when I went when I was in secondary school. Kinda hard to find people who wanna go as well. Sigh I guess I'll have to pray for it or it'll never happen. It's times like this that I feel guilty treating You like a vending machine who never goes out of stock. Really wanna thank You for keeping me sane, for your providence and getting the devil out of my mind when it became a playground for that lowlife.

2008 is History, 2009 a Mystery

2009-01-03T06:55:42Z

Ok I guess this post isn't too late a post for the new year. Looking back at 2008. It's been a rather good year for me, due to passing both semesters in succession. Well besides that, there are also some of the milestones that I would like to highlight and remember.

I turned 25 last year. Meaning that I've reached my 1st quarter of life (say everyone lives to a hundred). I completed year 2 of my uni studies. I played my 1st major gig at the GoForth conference at Suntec convention centre. Was really a life changing experience. I acquired my first electric guitar and everything that came along with it (pedals etc). Debuted the guitar for church already. Took part in the National Runway Cycling event. Oh not forgetting the SIM-ODAC night cycling event. Increased my interest in photography with the re-birth of my dad's Nikon FM SLR.

These are just a few bigger things that I'd want to highlight. The rest of the small ones are equally important just that I don't wanna bore you guys with them. The main thing, that I'd hope I've achieved every year would be to continually make a difference in the lives of the people around me, through God's help. That's all. At least I've lived out a year purposefully. This new year is gonna be different; filled with changes and transitions that are always a constant. Therefore the real challenge comes when you start dealing with them in principle. Well at least that's what I think. OK new year resolutions. There won't be any again this year, cos I don't really count my eggs before they hatch unless they are golden ones. haha.

marc_jin @ 2008-12-27T23:39:00

2008-12-27T15:47:32Z

Belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. Happy anniversary to the parents today. Been sick over the festive season. But managed to get thru without much trouble. Thank God for sustaining me.

This song by Oasis is currently repeating itself in my head. This song just seem to be able to convey my current self.

Some Might Say

V1
Some might say that sunshine follows thunder
Go and tell it to the man who cannot shine
Some might say that we should never ponder
On our thoughts today cos they will sway over time

Pre-Chorus
Some might say we will find a brighter day
Some might say we will find a brighter day

Chorus
Cos I've been standing at the station
In need of education in the rain
You made no preparation for my reputation once again
The sink is full of fishes
She's got dirty dishes on the brain
It was overflowing gently but it's all elementary my friend

V2
Some might say they don't believe in heaven
Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell
Some might say you get what you've been given
If you don't get yours I won't get mine as well

Pre-Chorus
Some might say we will find a brighter day
Some might say we will find a brighter day

Chorus
Cos I've been standing at the station
In need of education in the rain
You made no preparation for my reputation once again
The sink is full of fishes
Cos she's got dirty dishes on the brain
And my dog's been itchin'
Itchin' in the kitchen once again

Ending Tag
Some might say (Some might say)
you know what some might say (you know what some might say)
you know what some might say (you know what some might say)
you know what some might say (you know what some might say)
you know what some might say (you know what some might say)
you know what some might say (you know what some might say)
you know what some might say (you know what some might say)
you know what some might say

Haha but sometimes I don't care what some might say.

marc_jin @ 2008-12-17T02:01:00

2008-12-16T18:11:28Z

Finally got to have a good jam session today with my new pedals. Bought 2 pedals on Saturday. Boss DD7 and a MXR GT-OD. I'm so broke for this month already. Just decided I had to reward/pamper myself for another semester that I had worked hard for and a christmas present for myself. (Self-funded musician so bobian ya)

Here's my current setup. Borrowed the Chorus pedal from church with compliments of my boss to experiment and get the best out of my setup.

Hope to be able to build my pedal board soon. I am so broke now. Gotta save up again. =|

Anyways I've got a performance coming up this weekend at Wisma Atria. Christmas event. Do come and show my some love. =)

Details as follows:

Event: Celebrate Christmas In Singapore
Venue: Wisma Atria
Time: 7pm

Hope to see any of you wonderful peeps there. =)

Thank God!

2008-12-11T17:17:02Z

The main purpose of this entry is to give thanks to the Lord almighty for overseeing my results. For those of you who missed all the action and the hoo ha that I've caused, here's a gist of it.

December 4th. Results day.
Woke up the moment I received word that results were released on the RMIT website. Rushed to my laptop and started the process of retrieving my results. Gd news, credits (Leadership & Management, Marketing Research) and distinction (Work Integrated Learning 1) for all except for OT. Shock of my entire life. I failed the most agonising subject with a total of 17 marks. Insane right? If you do the math correctly, you'd be able to get a total of 28 marks out of my assignment and my test. It's definitely some horrendous mistake that made my life miserable for 1 whole week. The best part is I'm not the only person with results like that. Talk about excellence in education.

December 11th
Anyway to cut the long story of email corresspondences and phone calls with SIM and RMIT. They've gotten back to me and have ammended my results. I've finally gotten a decent pass of 53 marks for OT. Huge difference aye. It'll be torture to go through that OT shit one more time I tell you.

Nevertheless I want to thank the Most High and all those family & friends who've helped tide me through this whole week of crisis. Thank you all for your prayers and concerns. Totally appreciate it and for all those who faced the same problem as me, I totally understand and I feel you.

marc_jin @ 2008-11-30T00:32:00

2008-11-29T16:33:31Z

This is a damn sick video of golfing tricks. Sick meaning damn shen. Damn pro.

See more funny videos and Sports Videos at Today's Big Thing.

Freedom at last.

2008-11-11T10:36:01Z

Exams are finally over for me. Was quite an agonising exam period this time around. Market Research paper was alright. kinda tough I must say. Hopefully I'll be able to get through this semester smoothly.

Right so upon completion of exams, I was unleashed into the world of freedom. Soccer session last night was pretty ok plus one hot SPG soccer chick. Ok enough details. Today I played Guitar Hero World Tour with BFF, Malcolm and Junhao at The Cathay. It really rocked man. It's like a jam cum karaoke session. Damn shiok really damn shiok. Now I really really wanna purchase one to play. Argh!! Vitamin M is not on my side unless divine intervention comes in to play a part.

Right so that's some updates for now. It's gonna be an eventful week ahead. =)

marc_jin @ 2008-11-05T22:07:00

2008-11-05T14:14:01Z

2 down 1 more to go. Had OT paper today and I got back my assignment for OT. Passed only. Freaking damn stingy with the marks man. Cannot take it. Luckily crisis management team stepped in though, if not I think got a high chance to fail this assignment. Anyways OT paper was damn draining today. It literally drained all my brain juice and it made me regurgitate everything OT related. I just wanna pass this paper and not take it again ever! Next up is marketing research paper next Monday.

Damn envious of all those who've taken their last paper today. Off set 5 days of holidays to study for MR. Worth it la. Anyway I can't wait for next week when exams are over. Despite not being able to go for my BKK trip, at least I've lined up a series of activities to keep myself entertained to the max, well at least for next week. Nevertheless I seriously can't wait.

marc_jin @ 2008-10-31T16:11:00

2008-10-31T08:15:45Z

Had Leadership & Management paper today. Was alright I guess, can pass lah. Got back another assignment today. Marketing Research. Scored DI for it. Just nothing but relief. Hope now it just leaves the OT assignment. Freaking damn worried for that. Part-time students have gotten theirs back already and so far, it ain that fantastic. Hopefully can at least get a distinction for it. So that it can at least offset some marks from the test and for the exams.

So its 1 down 2 to go for me. Can't wait for the exams to be over. A well needed break from all this shit is required.

marc_jin @ 2008-10-25T19:00:00

2008-10-25T11:02:43Z

It's official, the Ibanez S Series is mine!! Woo! =)

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

2008-10-22T12:47:33Z

MyHeritage: Family tree - Genealogy - Celebrity - Collage - Morph

marc_jin @ 2008-10-20T23:58:00

2008-10-20T16:08:22Z

Alas! It's that time of the year again where mugging is the next most popular activity that everyone is doing. Well at least most of everyone. Got back some test and assignment results already. Passed that freaking OT test, got credit for LM test, distinction for LM assignment and HD for MR tutorials. Thank God for the results. hahaha.. Just wanted to put the HD in for morale purposes only. Am awaiting for OT and MR assignment results. Hope to do well for those 2. Just gonna continue to trust in Him.

Anyways let me show you my newest acquisition. Ok its not entirely new but just that it kinda belongs to me now lest the payment to make it officially mine.

Picture was taken by Ken in church yesterday before service started.

Was always one of my goals to be able to play electric guitar for service. SONG!

marc_jin @ 2008-10-07T00:32:00

2008-10-06T16:43:44Z

It's been a great weekend so far. Soccer on friday was just pure fun. Haven't played such a fun game for so long. No "world cup" players. Just friends having a good time. Right after soccer was supper at the Kembangan area. Been awhile since all the blokes were out without the WAGS.

Saturday I spent time at home to rest up from soccer. Went for icecream with the family in the evening after dinner. Was good. Been awhile since I dunno when. Felt a bit guilty for not spending time with them in such a long time despite the regular weekend dinners together.

Sunday was a long day for me. Had church in the morning. Service was alright, I thought we played well especially Dare You To Move. Just seems different and shiok at the same time. After that I had a paintball session organised by the SIM-ODAC club. Despite losing all the games and getting shot in the back, I had fun. For pictures just see facebook la. I also tampoh lazy to upload here. After paintball, dinner was at old airport road. Was a damn shiok dinner with stout and beer. Nothing tasted better. Sigh I think it's about time I get down to my revision for the exams. Damn guilty spending 1 whole week doing everything but revision. I need to start before I start having regrets all over again.

marc_jin @ 2008-09-28T17:56:00

2008-09-28T10:03:31Z

It's been a whole month of deadlines and nothing but assignments. The work that's due seems endless at that point of time. Now at least all the deadlines have been met, some in advanced. I cannot believe that it's time to start preparing for exams. Exams that either make or break. Shall work hard and get thru with this shit..

Having recovered from all that sickness the past few weeks has led to something happening to my right eye. Suddenly there's a red patch next to my pupil. I think I should see a doctor soon. Anyhow this coming week is gonna be loaded with excitement with soccer on friday and paintball on sunday. I cannot wait to unleash all that pent up frustrations accumulated over the month of September.

marc_jin @ 2008-09-14T14:39:00

2008-09-14T06:44:31Z

Wah lau eh.. I can't believe I'm sick again. Feeling like shit all over again in a week isn't any exciting. Had the runs again, fever this morning, coughing like no tomorrow.. Had to MC from church today. Thank God I'm only playing percussion today, if not it'll be quite troublesome for the band. Tsk..

marc_jin @ 2008-09-04T12:05:00

2008-09-04T04:41:39Z

Having finished reading Kite Runner makes me want to pick up A Thousand Spendid Suns right away. Kite Runner tells of a man who grew up in Kabul, a part of Afghanistan, of his troubles growing up, his love for kites and the days of growing up with his servant/friend. All was well until the countless wars that wrecked the peace in Afghanistan. Turmoil has ridden all over Afghanistan forcing its people to flee to other countries.

Sometimes we all have our personal wars that wreck the peace in our lives thus forcing us to flee from it, i.e. going to another country to work, study and await "peace" again before returning. Some might not even return so to speak. Perhaps the best thing to do during a time of crisis is to run away and live to fight another day. Some might disagree saying that you are not standing up to the "challenges" that are being put infront of u. However I see it as retreating to regroup, before charging again. I'd lose the battle but I could win the war.

Time is also of the essence. Sometimes you just don't have enough luck/karma or whatever you wanna call it, to have a right time for something. On the brightside, something better might come your way.

Now God comes into the picture. In His time, everything is perfectly planned for us. Just that we don't know Him well enough to see things His way. The bitch about it is that we all have to wait. Not that I'm being rude, but as a Singaporean, our hectic and fast paced lifestyle hasn't any room for us to take it slow. Just take the internet for example. For you to access a page, you'd want it loaded within like 2 seconds. If it takes any longer, you'll punish the keyboard by frantically hitting on the F5 button to make the page load. See what I mean.. Ok maybe it's just me.. Patience might be a virtue, but making people wait isn't. Pardon my insolence.