today, woke up at around 0800 in the morning. got to laze around in bed. no time limits to keep, no appointments to meet...arghhh...good. when i woke up this morning, i still cannot believe that today is goin to be my free day. no work, no appointments, no schedule to follow, no obligations and no repsonsiblities. life is good.

most importantly, hell is goin to freeze over soon. my work at the factory is ending soon. the last day would be at 3rd May. my concentration is goin to be fully pumped at the endorsement module. because i will not disappoint the Gundam that will be waiting at the end of this tunnel...:) as work is comin to an end soon, i am also startin to pick up pace and momentum at the endorsement module. thinking hard and good lately about the designs of the sumo robots.

oh..jus to sidetrack. i will be doin my final year project at alpha centre. AND my final year project is to create a sumo robot. NOT the sumo wrestler, but robots who will engage in the sumo sport. there are actually 2 events that the sumo robot creaters are supposed to enter. one event is the ROBOlympics in US, San Fransico. the other is the Singapore Robotics Games(SRG) in Obviously singapore. hehe...Mr Lim the overall supervisor called us the sumo ppl, hence i shall coin that term too. so 4 sumo ppl will be selected to join the ROBOlypmics and all sumo ppl will be required to join the SRG.

out of my relatively short contact with Mr Lim, compared to other sumo ppl, i feel that he is always tryin to innovate us and set our standards. he always have his referrence of stories from past battles. however, that is jus to bring us up to his level and hopes that we will bring him higher. i can remember this phrase of his. "the competition level is always rising, this year its here, the next year it will be there." his motto, to think of a winning formula this year for the games and thinking of how to counter that winning formula for the next year. hectic. right now, mr Lim jus want us to keep thinkin of the designs of our bot. through alot of past referrence and videos. now i working on the selection of some of the components, like batteries and magnets. i have already set my eyes on a certain battery, hush hush. maybe this wkend i will looking at the different magnets.

erm...maybe not total concentration at the endorsement module. recently, i met Vincent on MSN. hmmm...maybe i should start my story from the top. before my entry into Ngee Ann Poly, i was actually quite actively involved with a startup venture. Charles, a ex-campmate, was setting up a startup venture and somehow he roped me in. actually, i still have no idea why in the first place he roped me in. anyhow, i was with the venture through its painful start till its first clinched deal. Vincent and Matthew were 2 of the people i got accquainted to while working on this venture. Thomas, another ex-campmate, was actually working on this venture too.

reason of leaving? i haven exactly told Charles or anyone mentioned above yet. maybe i will jus keep it to myself for this current moment. anyhow, met Vincent on MSN, heard from him that the venture is not goin too well. quite a 180 from the description that Charles recently gave me. he told me that the venture is goin well and soon clinchin multi-million deals. hmmm...somehow i bought Vincent's story and chose to dis-believe Charles, despite the length of accquaintanship. that venture was kinda of my baby as well, even though Charles was the orginator of the venture idea. furthermore, i heard that both Vincent and Matthew have dedicated ALL their time on this venture. while Charles are movin on to one of his many other ventures.

somehow i felt very responsible to not let the venture, Vincent and Matthew down. so i have decided to join them and bring the venture up. sounds big and noble but believe me, i have seriously no idea how. jus that i cannot bear to see a sinking ship and jus remain while i stay afloat. somehow i feel obligated to return to a ship i had previously abandoned, to clear my consicence and responsiblity. even if it means goin down with it. i jus hope i live up to expectation for once.

today is also her birthday. got her a present. hmmm...wonder if she liked it. shld be celebrating with family today. then with close frens tomorrow. the presents can hopefully get to her by tomorrow. a promise made by leslie. oei, i holdin u to it. why am i not givin it to her myself? no need...i think. she will be spending time with her family and close frens, no need to invade into that. anyhow...???...