It’s 1.10am, my flight’s at 5.30am, and I gotta leave my house at 4.15am. Which means I have to wake up at 3.30am, and if I rush, I’ll get to sleep at 1.30am, giving me 2 hours of sleep… GRAH.

Or I could think… An astronomer doesn’t need sleep.  Or much sleep, at least.

I’m flying off for Chang Mai, Thailand, tomorrow for the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics. I’m carrying the pride of 10 national-level Golds into a competition where I might fly home empty handed. I have no idea what to expect.

It’s, afterall, the 1st IOAA + celebration of Thailand’s King and Princess birthdays.

See you guys when I get back! If there’s internet at Uniserv (where I’m staying), I’ll update here.

For the small dedicated group of Singapore astronomers who made my life amazing for the past 5 years. 

So we know 377a is here to stay (along with narrow mindedness and bigotry), but…

 

I know it’s already Nov 27 but… hell, take it as Nov 26.

Yet another year has gone by. There’s quite a few anniversaries to celebrate these few days. Couldn’t find the time to do a blog entry, so here goes, all at one go.

There we are again. Derek’s getting old. Getting too old for how immature he is. Peter Pan had it easy.

So that’s right. As of 26 Nov 2007, Derek’s 17. Way old. This is the age when Rooney was already making headlines worldwide and seriously, what the hell is he doing now?

Umm… just… Thanks to everyone who remembered :D

Nothing much to blog about today. I’m getting old. The cake isn’t a lie. I’m getting old. No birthday presents as of yet. And I’m getting old.

In a few years time, when I’m out of this rigid Singapore education system, past National Service and… free. I’ll get hold of my life. Make sense of it. I mean… hey, people at my age in Portugal are being stalked by Manchester United.

Not that I’m interested to go pro in soccer but 17’s a dangerous number for a person who hopes to achieve much in life like me.

That’s right… that’s right. No birthday bashes ‘cos I didn’t meet up with anyone. Mainly because I was at home playing with my…

HTC TyTN II.

Awesome stuff. Almost a year ago I bought my Dopod D810, another awesome stuff, but it’s time to upgrade. I didn’t want to, actually. But my Dad insisted to leave the Singtel roadshow place with something. Some I’ve kept up with my trend of changing my phone once every year.

Sec 1 - Some colour display phone which got stolen. In SCHOOL.
Sec 2 - Nokia 3650
Sec 3 - Motorola E680
Sec 4 - Nokia 6680
J1 - Dopod D810
J2 - HTC TyTN II

COOL EH.

And I can’t believe my parents have already prepared a free camera-less phone for my time in NS. So that trend will continue into NS.

25 Nov marks the anniversary of my domain, helixated.com.

A year ago I decided to disprove that ‘Geeks Cannot Be Popular’.

Actually I wanted to do more than just blogging. Hosting files, photos, and my Lab rubbish. So I needed a website, not a blog.

After a year, it’s conclusive that a domain with lab experiments make you more popular. Seems like it didn’t meet the targeted crowd, though. I have mostly fanboys but girls who think I’m crazy. Damn.

Next year I may start on a Barbie Doll section to lure the intended crowd.

Through the whole of today y’all would probably have encountered this screen when visiting my blog.

Bleh. My domain was freaking PARKED.

I thought I renewed it weeks ago, but apparently, I read wrong. But it’s up and good again.

Hope everyone’s enjoying their holidays! Cheers!

We all have been playing the game wrongly all these while…

Either that or someone woke up on the wrong side of bed, possibly listening to Linkin Park.