The Gal – Nicole

What a way to start Feb 29, leap day.

Before I go on and rant, first, let me say, Happy Birthday to all Leap Day Babies! *You are forever young, and to all couples getting married on this day, blessed marriage.*

Ok, you are about to read my rants and take on some issues that is too overly discussed. But nonetheless, read on if you are interested….

The day did not start right the moment I was at my usual bus stop near my place to catch a
long bus ride to Bukit Merah Interchange. And truth be told, I wasn’t really surprised when the bus was packed like sardines. But what caught me off guard was that there are so many passengers in the bus today!

The driver had to holler for them to move in. Classic behavior of almost all standing passengers…is not moving to the back of the bus. Granted, some of us may want easy access to exiting of the bus, but if everyone thinks like that, then might as well install a third door at the back right?

Thankfully I’m seated, but one can’t help but be annoyed at the pace the bus is moving, constantly hovering between slow and formula B speeds… All on the extremes of the speed bend… Argh… I did not know what happened on the highway… Because the next thing I knew, waking up from the snooze in the bus, I realized I was nowhere near Bukit Merah. I haven’t even passed through Newton!

Ok, fine… Just sit there and let the bus continue its journey… it was smooth till Zion Road, Great World City… and the first sign of something out of the norm… The driver removed the bus number plate from top… and later on, from the side… and from then on, it was only to let passengers alight, and no boarding at all.

I felt quite perplexed by this issue… I mean, can bus drivers do this? Granted that there is another number 5 approaching soon… But the passengers at that stop might have waited a long time… hmm…

Further on, there was a school girl who alighted, and to my horror, she slipped and fell. =X Before I could rush to help her, a kind passerby pulled her to safety… Her screams alerted the driver, who rushed down to see if she is ok… I think she sprained her ankle… poor thing…

And before that, I was so damn freaking annoyed with a long haired lady passenger.

*rant mode on*

I mean, please la, you want to tie up your hair, can don’t drop a lot of your hair on MY bag? I don’t wish to know what your hair color is, for I can see. I don’t wish to ask you what shampoo you use, for I can smell… and I don’t deserved to be riddled with hair!

I know I am mean to call up a friend and rant on the spot, but I seriously hate to clear quite a few strands of other people’s hair on my bag… I can tell that she is paiseh after hearing me saying verbally. That’s the best I can do methinks. Because she don’t give a freaking damn about how other passengers may be affected.

Soon enough, the bus driver asked who could be a witness of what happened to the pretty and young school girl (probably in sec sch?). And everyone just pretend nothing has happened. I am feeling quite upset that how could one just ignore helping? In the end, I volunteered my information to the driver, who merely took down my name and contact number, just in case they needed to call me. It was that simple.

But the fact that everyone did not try to help is pissing me off. The bus driver probably got into some deep trouble by being very late in reaching the bus terminal… and last thing he wants is an accident to happen to any passengers…. Will you like if if YOU are the victim and that NO ONE wants to help?

*rant mode off*

We all think in a selfish way, I don’t deny. But sometimes, being a bit more kind to help someone in need is not too much to ask for right? I think that’s just me…

Nicole

Morning~ It’s terrible to go to work with a bus packed with sardines. -.-” gosh, really very sian when that happens…

Thursday is here, and technically, it is supposedly the last day of February, but since 2008 is a Leap Year, there will be a 29th Feb. Woohoo!

The Leap Years will open on 29th Feb, and I hope to be able to catch that film… and hopefully, get the novel as well…

Enjoy the trailer

Have you made plans to celebrate leap day tomorrow? *grinz*

Nicole

Seems like this week is gonna be quite a happening week for me… haha… attending 2 performances on this coming Saturday.. Looking forward to it…

And I think I need to do some shopping soon… The IT show seems to be coming real soon… hmm… Correct me if I am wrong =P

I am tempted to take up a form of dance, but I don’t know if I am up to it… I guess, will enquire about the cost first ba… Haha… Been thinking for quite sometime already… haha..

Before I end this entry, I shall share this clip with you all

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Funny, how the days passed in a blink of an eye, and it feels so good to have an uplifting song to start the day… So here I present to you another of Celine Dion’s hits – I’m Alive…

” I can’t wait to fly… oh… I’m alive… ”

Was randomly searching for some music videos to watch, as well as to listen to them to… and so yup, got myself stuck to Celine Dion’s songs… Just realized the song struck a familiar chord in my heart…

Enjoy!

Nicole

Here’s sharing with everyone a beautiful song by Celine Dion… I’m feeling touched by an angel… It marks the start of something new, beautiful and so pure…

Have a great day!

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Had a well rested rest and sleep last night, and very thankful for having done what I should have done… Today I arrived at work feeling somewhat calm, and hoping for a good day ahead…

I guess, it’s been quite sometime since I had an enjoyable time, but I treasure everything that comes my way, and I am really thinking if I can live up to the commitment of doing volunteer work. I admit, it will be a very big challenge for myself. Let’s see what comes out of it…

Somehow, I really feel that there are some views and opinions that I have about life should be changed, along with changing times… haha… that sounds so erm… lol~

Alright, think I shall head back to my work…

Ciaoz
Nicole

Feeling damn no mood to do almost anything. Perhaps its time for me to seek solace by staring at the ceiling of my bed tonight.

May the heart be still and disciplined.

Nicole

Today’s a lazy Sunday… for me to rest and be ready for the challenges of what next week may bring… Things I’m looking forward would be to attend Sojourn 2008 with rinaz and miccheng, anyone wanna come along too?

Also, I have recovered quite well, just have to make sure I don’t take too much heaty food… Dinner will really be very yummy… deep fried prawn paste chicken as well as fai cai with abalone… haha… I so heart my daddy’s cooking…

There are some nagging issues that I will lie to lay it to rest, and that will be my main task for today… I know it would not close the issue completely, but at least, provide some badly needed respite…

Yesterday was really fun! thanks dude!

Nicole

Here I am, back again, and this time, I just finished my stint as a first time live blogger. Still have areas of improvement, and I hope to be a better live blogger next time Thanks mic for letting me have the chance to do live blogging for the bootcamp lecture today…

I had my fair share of fun, and learn a fair bit of Zend Framework… Looking forward to the next event. Its good to see some of my school mates today, as I usually don’t get to see them when I am on IA…

Feels really great after almost a full’s day rest… and am taking it quite alright and easy… hehe, it’s been a while since I last came back to NTU… so it feels good to take bus 179 and head back to campus. Crazy I know… but I guess, I miss school after all, am on IA at the moment…

Nicole

Am back… Moving on, where I’ve given a small snippet from the Zend Framework Documentation…

There is a PHP Primer document created by Chin Yong and Adrian, and this is to help other programmers of other programming languages to help assist the transition from eg: Java to PHP, or Rails to PHP…

After a short technical hiccup, we are back in business, and the data was retrieved from the database and displayed onto the page created.

A quick recap, we have covered Installation, Bootstrapping, as well as Controllers, Database Connection of the Zend Framework. Next we will move on to Actions… and Creating a Simple CMS…

It all ended too soon… and I hope everyone had a good time

Moving on, the Admin controller is created, to differentiate from the IndexController… this is to create the Admin panel (if I am not wrong)…

Rama then demostrated about QEDWiki (Quick Easy Deployment Wiki), and its built entirely on Zend Framework. Nokia Mosh Beta is also another application that makes use of Zend Framework. The slides will be handed over to Miccheng, and it will be available for download.

It all ended too soon, and the participants and speakers headed to the reception.

Cheers,
Nicole