today...although haven end yet but the more important things have already more or less been settled.

THANKS to leslie lau for his interference. ended up i have to give the present personally to her...

yesterday night, messaged her to find out wat time can she slot in for me to pass her the present. i was thinking about maybe around lunch. then she changed it to breakfast, and will message me when she leavin her house. so as usual i when to bed. however, the thing is that i couldnt exactly get into deep slumber or my usual sleep mode. SLEEPY alan was missing, kidnapped!

the usual sleep mode : since my bed has a window view, so i peek out the window quite often. lucky for me, its the view of industrial Jurong and not someone else's room. so usually before i sleep, its all dark outside. when i wake, it would be all bright and sunny around 0700 or 0800 in the morning.

last night : sudden awakening in the nights. to check whether it was daybreak. consistent tossing and turning. from the left side of the bed i flipped to the right, and back again. the whole bed was slowly but steadily warmed up. i didnt sleep very soundly or more accurately i slept a wink. then when eventual daybreak. i kept checking the clock for time. i was checking the clock on my cell phone and double up checking whether she messaged. i was checking so consistently that i eventually got so fed up about it and decided to wake up and get some washing up done. i keep getting the feeling that i didnt not have enough sleep last night. although i theortically slept at around 0000+ and woke up at around 0700+. 7 whole hours.

after waking up, i hung around my room for a while, still waiting very patiently for that message. wait, wait and more waiting. eventually, i messaged her at around 0900+, near 1000, to ask her if our appointment was still on. then she said yea and would be here pretty soon. both of us actually met at around 1000+, near 1100, at JE Mac. so i jus had my lunch there instead, without breakfast. we talked...actually she blabbed and i listened. :)

another thing that happened yesterday. ms serene chan was like very difficult to handle. erm...meaning, somehow somewhere it seems that i have had stepped onto her tail some part. serene, joyce, leslie and me together with some of joyce's secondary school frens had dinner at newton circus. after that, joyce still wanted to roam around. thus, the 4 of us went to orchard to roam and wander till around 2200++.

the problem is serene was that she was kinda of like picking on me. i can understand that maybe she was in a foul or PMSing mood. however, she seems to have all her arrows targetted to shoot me. NOT fair. she was kinda of finding me unbearable, which jus leaves me totally clueless...guess i better stay away for a while. otherwise, might incur more of her wrath.

anyhow, wasnt very fruitful yesterday in finding the perfect battery for the Final Year Project(sumo-robot). guess have to stick to the choice 1, so far the best discharge and most lightweight for that capacity. didnt look for any magnets for the robot yet, although i had planned to start searching. mainly because i am still quite unsure with the designs of the robot.

i dun like/approve the popular wedge design. because its an 'evil' cycle. its like this year i create a low wedge to wedge you out of the dohyo. then next year you create an even lower wedge. wats the point? besides, there must be a certain flaw that everyone has overlooked or underestimated about the wedge. i MUST find it, to create the un-wedge robot and eliminate all wedge robots. personally, i also do like the idea of a 'winning formula'. i know that the wedge have a higher chance to secure a win. however, its MY wrestle, and even in defeat, i will lose in MY way. stubborn? most probbably. non-conformin? think so. winning? 50/50 do i care? (walk off)

i have been thinkin recently that the probbable reason why the Japanese have been topping the charts with their robots, maybe due to the fact of exposure. the bare fact that they have been quite exposed to the sumo sports. sumo wrestling, if i am not wrong, is in fact a national sports. thus all they have to do is to translate it to the robots.

however, due to the lackof exposure to sumo sports. we can only very superficially grasp the concepts and ideas behind this form of wrestling. thus, losing a certain edge over the japanese. so the current mission i have set for myself to to understand and grasp the concepts and ideas behind this sports. after which, i would have to leviate at least one level higher to be on par with them.