Free pie face mini pie and coffee

Taken from http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1061663787330_2003/08/26/pieface.jpg

With a free coffee and free mini pie, i begin week 7 of the last semester of schooling [of possibly my life]... it's weird to think that in a few months time, i'd have graduated [hopefully] and entering the workforce. :( i'm not looking forward to ending my schooling life i'll be dead honest with u and i'm more looking forward to a new change in life but not looking forward to the need to self sustain myself. :(

Talking about self sustaining, this marks my 3rd week working at Vict Market Comm. I'm glad that i've got a good patient boss and i've been working enuf hours to pay for expenditure and even rental if i wanted to... i got $275 last week and will prob be averaging $260 a week with taxes and all. that still leaves me bout $80 per week extra after paying rent for expenditure and that's more than enuf. :) so right now, i technically can afford to stay in melbourne.

which brings me to my next point. I am considering the idea of getting a PR here. i know i've been throwing the idea back and forth but i suppose there IS an option of working part time while i wait for my PR and seek full time employment. considering how i'm only working 3 weekdays a week now and i have enuf to survive, i could work a 2nd job and have MORE than enuf to survive... so that's a real possibility now... and that's considering rental in the city itself where rent is about $200/wk. :) so it's not a closed door to stay here.

I just want to take this time once again to thank God for the blessings He's given me the past few weeks... with this job and all... i really am glad for it coz it's weekdays and it's mornings. so that still gives me time at night to do work and spend time at home... and the weekends to go to church and spend time with friends and hannah. I think it's just awesome how God has blessed me with this 'relatively' easy job and yet allow me the foresight to consider this option for my future plans... and of course for a good boss that is willing to employ me now and after dec.

School work has been good too. with the added time i have on the weekends [coz i try to go church on sat evenings so i have the whole of sunday to do work] i've been keeping up on the workload and making sure i complete weekly assignments and deliverables earlier than necessary so i have more time to do anything i might have forgotten or came up last minute. :)

Had a moment yesterday that I really did miss the YF and the youth... i went thru some photos on FB and it made my heart long to fellowship with everyone again. It pained me and disappointed me a bit too about how my future plans might no longer include ministry in Singapore [at least for the near future] and that kinda made me re-think whether i wanna be here or back in Singapore where i can continue the ministry for the shalom youth who always have a HUGE place in my heart and mind... but i guess i'm glad that the YF is currently in good hands and God is always providing for them. :) sets my heart at ease.

Also, lastly, thank God for 29 solid years of ministry that Shalom has enjoyed. they celebrated their 29th anniversary yesterday and i was just glad to see how God is continually giving them/us blessings and providence. :) i miss my church. :( haha.

with that, i should stop coz i dun normally like to think too much about singapore lest i start missing everyone. :)

Take care peeps.

Dot Point Digression

Wow... it's been ages since i last blogged. I go to my blog every day to check the tagboard and stuff and always get reminded that i haven't blogged in ages... :) i guess everytime i think of blogging, i dun really know wad to say... but i guess i should at least jus shoot out a dot point thing then i'll elaborate when i'm free-er...

Things that have happened since...

1. My 24th birthday.

Close frens surprised me after i came back from OCF, they toilet papered my whole room. pics are on facebook... but that was shocking. :) and yet really warm... it made me so thankful to God that i've got a close bunch of frens here...

2. Hannah and My one year anniversary.

God has given us a brilliant 1 year of many Ups and a few Downs... and I'm just amazed to see how God has helped us thru many things and I believe with all my heart that if we weren't both Christians, we would have had a very different outcome. I think God is moulding BOTH of us to become more Christ-like and more loving to each other as we also juggle that with our own individuality and other commitments.

3. Completed a 21 day fast with my church. I picked Secular music and FACEBOOK to fast from. I'm glad to say that I didn't break my facebook fast except Once... to confirm my attendance to some Employment Workshop that was publicised through facebook. Thankfully Davin alerted me to the rsvp and i signed on to click "Am Attending" and logged off straight away. :)

4. Went to a few career things this few weeks and have a better idea of the immense stress it is to get a job either here or in Singapore. It's really scary coz this IS my last semester of uni life as I know it.

5. Secured/Was given a part time job by the Lord working at a SHOP at Victoria Market that deals with telecommunications... Handphones, handphone accessories and computer stuff. My title is "Telecommunications Officer" and i basically just clean up, clear up, price tag stuff... I wanna thank God coz the ad said $13-$17 per hour based on age grp and after going through a 1hr trial period with the boss [which he paid me for too] I'm getting $20 an hour working 3 mornings of the week. That's just WONDERFUL coz it gets me jus shy of $300 a week. that's wonderful. :) Thank God and i've got this job [if nothing goes wrong] till Dec. :) Praise the Lord.

6. Semester is going good. thankfully coz i was originally worried that with Industry Project and with a real client and all, i might not enjoy it... but it's turning out quite interesting. :) Struggling through my core module [which i was supposed to take in year 1] Quantitative Methods... sigh. :)

Recently, an old friend of mine popped me a hi and it's been great catching up with her. From my SingTel days... interesting to see how God puts different people in your life unexpectedly to remind you to count your blessings and see what an impact u've made in others and what impact u can make in others in the future. :)

Thanks be to God, He's been really my strength and provider this past few weeks.

Spose - I'm Awesome

Think this song is really cute. haha a bit rude.. but hey, i think it's funny! the lyrics are so down to earth hahaha. :) enjoy!

Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome...
I don't necessarily need to be here for this...
I'm gonna keep the headphones though...
Mother ****** I'm awesome!
No you're not, dude don't lie
I'm awesome!
I'm drivin around in my mom's ride
I'm awesome!
A quarter of my life gone by
And I met all my friends online
Mother ****** I'm awesome!
I will run away from a brawl
I'm awesome!
There's no voicemail, nobody called
I'm awesome!
I can't afford to buy eight balls
And I talk to myself on my Facebook wall
I'm awesome

You know my pants sag low (low)
Even though (though) that went out of style
Like ten years ago (go)
Spose, I got the swagger of a cripple
I got little biceps,
Getting fatter in the middle

And lyrically I'm not the best :)
Physically the opposite of Randy Moss and yet
So preposterous
Feel the awesomeness, the most obnoxious
Guest up at the sausage fest
Oh yes!
The girls are repulsed
So I hide in my hood like i'm joining a cult
Uh Uhh
I'm as nervous as my cattle dirty curtis
All my writtens are bitten and
All my verses are purchased
Me? I'll never date an actress
Got too many back zits
Plus my whole home aroma is cat piss
Every show i do is poorly promoted and if you like this,
It's cuz my little sister wrote it

I'm awesome!
No you're not, dude don't lie
I'm awesome!
I'm drivin around in my mom's ride
I'm awesome!
A quarter of my life gone by
And I met all my friends online
Mother ****** I'm awesome!
I will run away from a brawl
I'm awesome!
There's no voicemail, nobody called
I'm awesome!
I can't afford to buy eight balls
And I talk to myself on my Facebook wall
I'm awesome

Check it out

I'm from Maine and I don't hunt, nope
And I can't ski
Smoke weed but I can't roll blunts
*Find me* whipped by my wifey
My neck not icy
Eatin at McDonalds because Subway's pricey

Uh, and my unibrow is plucked
Just asked my mom if I could borrow ten bucks
She's like "For what?
Blunt wraps and some Heineken?
You skinny prick, go get a gym membership and vitamins!"
I'm like, Mom please, don't blame it on me
I got my bad habits from you, Dad, and Aunt Steve
My attitude's sour but my futon's sweet,
And the hair on my ***, it is Jumanji

Suit untailored, ringtone Taylor Swift
Can't tweet up on my Twitter
Cuz I haven't done shit
Bank account red, body ungroomed
The only thing good about me is I'm off stage soon

I'm awesome!
No you're not, dude don't lie
I'm awesome!
I'm drivin around in my mom's ride
I'm awesome!
A quarter of my life gone by
And I met all my friends online
Mother ****** I'm awesome!
I will run away from a brawl
I'm awesome!
There's no voicemail, nobody called
I'm awesome!
I can't afford to buy eight balls
And I talk to myself on my Facebook wall
I'm awesome

Futhermore I'm cornier than Ethynol
Cheesier than Provolone
I spent ages eight to ten living in a motor home
With a ego the size of Tim Duncan
Even though I got shit for brains like a blumpkin
I'm twenty four, serving lobster rolls
Because I spent a decade filling optimos
And I'm not even the bomb in Maine
On my game I'm only about as sexy as John McCain
Now put your hands up,
If you have nightmares
If you wouldn't man up if there was a fight here
If you got dandruff, if you drink light beer
I'm outta breath...

But I'm awesome!
No you're not, dude don't lie
I'm awesome!
I'm drivin around in my mom's ride
I'm awesome!
A quarter of my life gone by
And I met all my friends online
Mother ****** I'm awesome!
I will run away from a brawl
I'm awesome!
There's no voicemail, nobody called
I'm awesome!
I can't afford to buy eight balls
And I talk to myself on my Facebook wall
I'm awesome

He Opened their Minds

Play this video and let it load before you read this entry... i think it helps u put yourself into a position to read this Spirit inspired entry... i love the bridge from 5:40 onwards... amazing feeling if u just close your eyes and imagine God.

On the third day after Jesus was crucified, Mary Magdalene and her friends saw the empty tomb and immediately ran to tell the disciples; "But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense" (Luke 24:11). Even after Peter saw the empty tomb for himself, he was perplexed; "He went away, wondering to himself what had happened" (Luke 24:12).

The disciples had walked with Jesus and listened to Him teach about this day but they still did not understand. It wasn't until Jesus personally appeared to the disciples that the events began to make sense; "Then He opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures" (Luke 24:45).

I was reading my devotional today and this part really hit me... it talks about Jesus' resurrection and how even the disciples who walked with Him didn't believe or understand what the empty grave meant... until Jesus appeared to them and opened their minds so they could understand... isn't it amazing?

Often times we walk on by in our life and spiritual walk and want to be closer to Jesus... we want to spend more time with Him, we want to live with Him... So we go to church more, we serve more and we read the bible more... but those are just actions... we can do all that outwardly and feel no connection to Him internally. We could walk beside Him literally and still not understand...

Only when He allows us to, when He chooses to open our minds, when we put our heart into our service, our walk and our fellowship with Jesus... then will He choose to open our minds and we will see, we will taste and we will understand. Amazing glory that would be... wonderful truths that would spring to mind... magnificent experiences we will feel and touch God... that is when we will understand Scripture, that is when we will see Him for not a God or person... but OUR God and our Lord...

It's like an epiphany... knowing how the Scripture relates to that spiritual body standing in front of them... imagine what the disciples felt at that point in time... i think it's not beyond what we can experience... i don't think God limits that to that time and place... i think we can feel that too. i think we can strive to grasp hold of God and feel Him... and then, we will understand. if only we reach out.

p.s. only did i realize how linked the song is to the text i typed out... and i didn't choose the song.. it was jus playing in the background. :) amazing. heh... and i love how i type entries without editing.. i jus let the words flow and at the end i just click "publish post" :) Amen to the Holy Spirit...

Happy news of exco

I know rite? 3 posts in such succession... what is rui doing to be so free to blog? haha... jus that i found stuff to blog bout. :)

anyways, heard from ht today that shannon, junyew and herself are standing for exco and thus are getting baptised... woahhhh! :) that made my heart skip a beat... so happy. haha.

it's really glad to see the next generation take up the baton in service for the Lord... it's even greater to see someone of the FOLLOWING generation step up and live up to your personal expectations of her. :) it's amazing... to think the age gap between her and me is the same gap between kenneth and i. :S hahah... i now can jus feel a GLIMPSE of what he must have felt when we stepped up. :)

The Lord sends when the need is present... thank the Lord for sending yet more labourers for the harvest is plenteous. :) Amen.

周杰倫 - 超人不会飞

周杰倫 - 超人不会飞

妈妈说很多事别太计较
只是使命感找到了我 我睡不着
如果说 骂人要有点技窍
我会加点旋律 你会觉得超屌

我的枪 不会装弹药(弹药)
所以放心 不会有人倒(人倒)
我拍青锋侠 不需要替身
因为自信是我绘画的颜料

我做很多事背后的意义远比你们想象
拍个电视剧为了友情与十年前的梦想
收视率再高也难抗衡我的伟大理想
因为我的人生无需再多一笔那奖项

我不知道何时变成了社会的那榜样
被狗仔拍不能比中指要大器的模样（怎样）

我唱的歌词要有点文化
因为随时会被当教材
CNN能不能等英文好一点再访
时代杂志封面能不能重拍
随时随地注意形象
要控制饮食
不然就跟杜莎夫人蜡像的我不像(本来就不像)
好莱坞的中国戏院地上有很多手印脚印
何时才能看见我的掌

喔 如果超人会飞 那就让我在空中停一停歇
再次俯瞰这个世界 会让我觉得好一些
拯救地球好累 虽然有些疲惫但我还是会
不要问我哭过了没 因为超人不能流眼泪

唱歌要拿最佳男歌手
拍电影也不能只拿个最佳新人
你不参加颁奖典礼就是没礼貌
你去参加就是代表你很在乎

得奖时你感动落泪（落泪）
人家就会觉得你夸张做作（做作）
你没表情别人就会说太嚣张
如果你天生这表情 那些人甚至会怪你妈妈（妈妈）

结果最后是别人在得奖
你也要给予充分的掌声与微笑
开的车不能太好 住的楼不能太高
我到底是一个创作歌手 还是好人好事代表

专辑一出就必须是冠军
拍了电影就必须要大卖
只能说当超人真的好难

如果超人会飞(超人会飞)
那就让我在空中停一停歇(停一停歇)
再次俯瞰这个世界 会让我觉得好一些
拯救地球好累(地球好累)
虽然有些疲惫但我还是会(我还是会)
不要问我哭过了没 因为超人不能流眼泪

Cold... difficult... mmmm

It was quite hard getting out of bed today. I've experienced worse days where i just refuse to get up but today was cold and tiring and all rolled into one. Willing myself out of bed was HARD as hell! ahhaa knowing that i've only got icy water waiting for me.

see the problem is my toilet sink tap only has cold water and it is COLD... sigh. haha but yeh, told myself u've got class at 9, get your butt out of bed now.

the normal bargaining with self started... okok.. when it's 8.15am...

then 8.15 comes... okok when it's 8.20am...

then 8.20 comes... okokokok!!! when the second hand goes to 12...

then the.. yeh u get the point.

till finally i pull myself out of bed at 8.20 and 30secs.. haha.

but yeh, thus begins week 12. the last week of school. so... bloody... fast. where did it all go?

10 Degrees

Wow. today before deciding what to wear, i checked my weather widget in my ipod touch...

10 Degrees?!?! woah! hello Winter! :) Awesome.. i love the cold.

Walking out, the blast of cold air just wakes u up and slaps u in the face... so refreshing... :)

Cooking Lunch in the morning

Today when i woke, i knew i had my work cut out for me before school started. Here's the low down. I have class at 10am and i needed to wake up early enuf to make lunch. Last night, i already deboned my chicken drumsticks and marinated it. Chucking it into the fridge knowing the flavours would jus lock in after a night in the fridge.

So i woke, and dragged myself into a sitting up position [yeh, that was hard enuf]... and then willed myself to get out of bed and go cook. So time is 8.15... managed to get out of bed by 8.30... I pop my pot onto the stove and start slicing onions.

I know rice will take me 14mins to cook and steaming chicken takes 15 so i wash my rice, set it inside the microwave waiting for my water to bowl.

Water starts to boil, i grab my chicken out of the fridge and dump it nicely into a steaming pan. In goes the pan. And i lean over to press start on the microwave. 'All working like clockwork' i think to myself... I grab my pan out of the cupboard and place it onto the already hot stove top that was waiting... Crack Crack... two eggs in a bowl... Beating them is a whizz.

Wonderful, the pan's heated up. Oiled and ready for onions, i can't disappoint it so on goes the onions. They hit the pan with a sizzle of delight as they slowly brown and take in the flavour of the oil. I cut up a slice of ham to give the soon-to-be omelette jus that small tinge of saltiness.

The ham gets a nice crisp looking browness around the edges. That's my cue... I pour over the egg and the sizzle ceases to a silent hiss of the egg being cooked.

Everything's ticking away. Great, that leaves me enuf time to start washing up. I wash the dishes while the egg slowly cooks and the chicken steams, not forgetting the rice becoming fluffy and delicious in the microwave.

I flip the egg and it's got a beautiful brown hint on the flat side down... awesome. this is going perfectly. I wait a while and flip it one more time to check whether the other side has matched this. It looks delicious with the onions and ham slices just peeking above the sea of yellowish brown egg. I cut it in half, half for lunch and half for dinner.

*ding* goes the microwave. Pop the rice cooker out of the microwave and pop the lid off. Steam rises out of the cooker like it's breathing fresh air for the first time. Fluff the rice and set it aside to await the chicken. 1minute till it's done... i stop the pot of water boiling and take it out of the pan using the crocodile kiap-kiap thing... Pop a small piece into my mouth and knew that was not a great idea coz it just made me want to eat the whole pan up now. :( but alas, i'll have to wait till lunch... so i take it out and pop it into my tupperware box. All segmented so that it won't mix up until i want it mixed with the rice and egg.

As i pour the hot water out of the pot and refill it with cold water, i start washing everything else while the pot cools off.

There, all done. now i'm going to have a delicious meal in school while i work on my projects and type a blog entry [apparently]... :) it's 11.25am now.. but i know that in half an hour, i'll be treating myself to a delicious meal of Ham-Onion Omelette, Steamed Rice and Sesame oil and soya sauce marinated steamed chicken. :)

For everyone who can't enjoy this with me... here's for your visual appetite.

Ahead of Time

I'm glad that this semester has been pretty merciful. I would say that it's more project driven this sem round instead of essays and tutorials and stuff... but this time around, it's like mostly just doing projects thru the semester...

and becoz of that, i've been doing pretty well... most, if not all, of my subjects are scoring pretty good marks so far and i'm very very on top of my projects... for example, for Project Management, my project manager has been going around asking his other project manager frens their progress and my grp is really really quite far ahead of everyone else...

For ICT based inter organisational processes, our assignment handed in, presented and the only thing left is the essay that's due in week 12 [we're in week 8 now]... coming up with the skeleton of that by tomorrow and i wanna finish off that essay by next week to just leave it till week 12 to tweak.

For ISA, basically the lecturer is asking us to stat thinking bout assignment 2 and start planning the interface... my group has already finished the assignment.

For HCI, the idea is already there and we're a week ahead of schedule...

So everything's going good for now. just dun wanna end up slacking too much and stop keeping ahead of my subjects. :)

but yeh, OCF has been good too. leading BS always helps me get on check with Bible Study and ontop of things so i dun end up just going to OCF and soaking up but also giving :) so yeh.

Beloved - Tenth Avenue North

Current Favourite song... i really enjoy their songs and the album is filled with GREAT lyrics and music. :) enjoy this... i think everyone needs a little reminder of God's love from time to time. :)

Grey clouds loom

Taken from here.

When i signed on to NetSpace, we made 2 appointments for a Telstra guy to come and twiddle with the phone line box and an Optus guy to come down today to come into my house and test the socket.

Yesterday, I manned the phone and waited for the Telstra guy to call but no one did and thus I assumed he already twiddled with the phone box.

Today, i skipped a lecture and accidently missed a project meeting becoz i had to stay home and wait for the optus guy to come. The appointment was 8-12pm.

12.30 i called netspace and 'complained' about no one coming and they informed me [and he was pretty upset with telstra] that they came yesterday but couldn't get access to the box and prob just left. They were supposed to call me but no one did and thus, they didn't do the job. Which means the optus guy wouldn't even show today and thus had to reschedule another 2 appointments for me. That's not it, due to the easter holiday, the next available slot is 9th apr friday... which is a week and a half away. then the optus guy will have to come in on a saturday or a monday to get the stuff done.

And i'm like wth lah... of course i didn't whine to him about it over the phone coz it's not his fault but the Telstra guy's fault for not calling me to get access to the phone box... so he jotted down a note saying that they MUST call me when they are coming and that they'll re compensate me for the trouble caused. I assured him i do not blame netspace since it's not their fault and was very appreciative of the things they are doing for me coz he said he'll get my first month's bill to be waivered off which means i get my first month free... that's like $70 so i'm not complaining...

but i'm jus bummed out that becoz of this, i also missed a lecture AND i totally forgot i had a project meeting today. when my project manager called, i realized i was supposed to be in school. sent him a long sms explaining and apologizing... but then he called a bit later on and said he never got the message. so i apologized and explained over the phone [he sounded disappointed... i would be too] and said that we'll meet on facebook to chat thru the meeting. however, he hasn't popped online for facebook yet so i'm like just sitting here missing the meeting.

And i was going to cook lunch for laura but she hasn't woken up yet nor came online. and i dun have her aussie number so i can't contact her... which means i'm jus sitting here waiting for her to wake up so i can cook lunch. as per yesterday's lunch events, i'm a bit wary of cooking early and waiting for her. She jus came online and said she'll be ready by 2. that's an hour's time. sigh... late lunch i suppose.

Davin jus reminded me of my meeting tonite which i forgot AGAIN... what's wrong with me today?

i'm so bummed out... sigh...

NetSpace and Logitech X-230

Netspace just called. They're coming by tomorrow to test the internet line... and hopefully by the end of this week or within the week, we'll have Naked DSL running. :)

on other news, Laura is here! :) glad that she flew safe and can join us for our easter break.. hope that she has fun here too lah. :) managed to cook steak for her and charles last nite, along with phyllis and hannah, it was a very nice and yummy dinner. :)

Schooling week is back in... monday's halfway done for me... have one more lecture, then i'm going to fly home to cook and eat lunch. then back to school for 1 more lect and then i'm done for the day... will try to start on my ISA project today so i can at least get some work done. :)

Going to eat at No.1 Delicious today... gotta go with group mates to take photos and all. :) heh... then i shall eat good tonite coz i'm really trying to save as much money as i can due to the fact that i just bought new speakers... Logitech X-230... powerful stuff and really value for money.. well, not at the normal shops like Office Works and Big W... they were retailing for $80.. but i managed to find smaller shops with little overhead costs that sold it for much cheaper. got my set [first hand with 1 year warranty] for $49. :) so i'm pretty happy.

Alright, i'm off to lect. see u .

Sleep Cycle Alarm App day 7

Mwhaha. Nick, it's as though Sleep Cycle Alarm heard your comment... there's your deep sleep for you. :) woke up quite awake today despite sleeping at 3.36am... and yesh, project is STILL not done. :S shall keep working on it today. sighhhh

Sleep statistics for 26 - 27 Mar (Sat).

Went to bed / woke up: 3:36 AM / 7:18 AM
Total time: 3h 41m

My sleep graph for the entire night:





-- Rui/Joel --
Sent from my iPod Touch

Sleep Cycle Alarm App day 6

Woke up today and went back to sleep again. i HAVE to stop setting the alarm so early... have class at 12 but set alarm to 9.30... it woke me at 9.07 and i went back to sleep. hahaha decided i was too lazy to cook lunch. guess i'll eat a late lunch... or buy food back. haha see how la. :)

Sleep statistics for 23 - 24 Mar (Wed).

Went to bed / woke up: 3:33 AM / 9:07 AM
Total time: 5h 33m

My sleep graph for the entire night:

Sleep Cycle Alarm App day 5

Success! Today, sleep cycle alarm woke me up at the appropriate time and I felt well rested.. the graph looks quite cool. Apparently, i normally hit the DEEP SLEEP periods during the half hour times... like 5:30am, 6:30am... so when i set my alarm to 8:30am, the app knew that it shouldn't wake me during that time otherwise i'd just be a grumpy fella the whole day.. so it woke me when i'm normally in my Dreaming-Awake stage... which is the start of the hours... 5am, 6am, 7am and thus it woke me at 8:02am. :)

pretty neat eh?

Sleep statistics for 22 - 23 Mar (Tue).

Went to bed / woke up: 1:37 AM / 8:02 AM
Total time: 6h 25m

My sleep graph for the entire night:

-- Rui/Joel --

Sent from my iPod Touch

Sleep Cycle Alarm App day 4

Still failing to wake up properly... I woke up today to switch off the alarm and went back to sleep. meaning it's still not working at waking me up at the right time that i dun want to fall back to sleep. lolz.

will keep... trying. :S maybe i shouldn't be setting the alarm so early. haha

Sleep Cycle Alarm App day 3

Sleep statistics for 19 - 20 Mar (Sat).

Went to bed / woke up: 3:10 AM / 7:34 AM
Total time: 4h 24m

Analysis made by Sleep Cycle.

My sleep graph for the entire night:

Hmmm.. looks like the system is slowly learning my bed and the sensitivity and stuff. :) woke today after the alarm rang quite a few times. still felt sleepy so ended up sleeping in still until it was just about nice to get up, clean up and leave home...

Guess the system needs to learn my bed and i need to learn the system coz i'm still not getting up when it tells me to. haha oops! :) onwards!

Sleep Cycle Alarm App day 2

Today thankfully, i set the alarm to the correct time.

Woke up this morning [from the alarm] sleepy and didn't feel ready to jump out of bed and face the day so ended up lazing in bed for another 20more minutes....

Here's the graph of my sleep last nite. I suppose the sleep cycle alarm is still calibrating itself to my bed and stuff coz i couldn't have been awake for the whole night. :)

Sleep statistics for 17 - 18 Mar (Thu).

Went to bed / woke up: 2:55 AM / 7:33 AM
Total time: 4h 37m

My sleep graph for the entire night:

Wonder whether i'll sleep better the next few nights but like i said, it's worth a shot. :)

Sleep Cycle Alarm App day 1

I'm documenting a week's worth of finding for using this new app i've been researching on. It's called Sleep Cycle Alarm and it uses the ipod touch's accelerometer to gauge movements when u're sleeping to tell you when your cycle [dozing off, sleeping, deep sleep, back to sleeping and waking up] is... and using that information, it'll choose an appropriate time to wake u up [during your waking up/dozing off stage]... hard to explain but it's supposedly able to make you wake up less abruptly which would naturally cause u to not feel tired through the day.

It has a 30min time period before your actual alarm is set so you can be woken up during that 30min gap... which is pretty awesome if it works. :)

nonetheless, after reading up about it, i decided to try it for myself and document my experience.

Day 1:

Set the alarm to 10.30 and went to sleep at bout 2am. Woke up naturally half way through the night coz a poster i stuck on my wall fell down and made a sound. Went back to sleep and woke up naturally at 9plus wondering how long more i had left to sleep. Woke up again at 10plus wondering why the alarm hadn't sounded yet. Woke at 10.50 and checked the app. Realized i mistakingly set the alarm to 10.30pm. :S stupid me.

Checked the statistics page and i think it's too sensitive coz it showed i was awake all the time [it takes 2 days to calibrate itself to your sleep pattern and mattress quality]

Will try again tonite and for the next week but for what it's worth, i woke up today feeling quite awake... and i can't attribute that to the sleep cycle alarm clock. hahaha :)