due to the boring nature of the study log, it will no longer appear under the 'spirit' tab.
instead it will be shifted to the new study log tab
training contents will be shifted to ironwilled.blogspot.com instead =)

Study log day 1

After 3 months and 3 weeks of fooling around and getting nothing done, today is the first day i buckled down and did some study.
I never know the extent the trouble i'm in until i started studying.
Day 1 20th march
woke up at 3pm. was stuck at the tv for several hours, watching unsolved history: ninjas, myth busters, and storm chasers
Only managed to start getting a bit of studying momentum at 6pm
I decided to start with marketing since my uol revision is this coming monday and tuesday.
Today I took out my brand new marketing notes chapter 7: Branding and product development.
134 pages. -_- Brand new because I AWOL-ed from the lecture.
ok i tried my best, i read through almost everything, power point slides, notes, study guide and textbook.

I brought everything together and figured out there are 8 main parts to the topic. did some mind mapping. As I mindmapped, i did a bit of memorisation (I hope)
1. What is a product /
Product classification/
2. Quality in marketing study guide
3. Individual product decision– attribute, support, branding0, packaging, labelling/
4. Product mix decision/
Product line decisions/
5. Brand
Brand equity + study guide
6. brand decision + study guide
7. Product development + study guide
8. services marketing + study guide

Progress was great untill 1am when my brother challenged me to winning 11. played till 4am, something i never should have done in the first place.
continue a bit later from 4+am to 6am
today i stopped at number 5 branding. hope to finish my mind map tomorrow. Anything from finishing the mind map to reading the tutorial will be good considering that i'm going to the gym and attend my friend's wedding dinner.

ok it has been quite a while since i last blogged.
all my creative juice have been used up on www.2swanskiss.blogspot.com
be sure to visit it when u're free :D

another thing that has kept from blogging is my psp
i still love my fat psp
recently i've seen lots of ppl with the slim psp! seems like everyone owns 1
oh well it doesn't matter if it's the fat or slim version, what's important is what's inside.

windows vista on my psp :P






then i downloaded some psp themes,

check out my iphone theme


my favourite radio station 977fm

and now my all time favourite game - Football manager
I love football managerial games! I played USM, CM1, CM2, CM3, first edition FM then i sort of lost interest.
I have the football manager 07 on psp but somehow it isn't as fun as FM 08
FM 2008 is great :D rekindled my passion for football managerial games again

and of course I used blackburn rovers. Currently I'm in the 2nd season already.
During the first season, I played 4132 tatic and i won the uefa cup, epl by 1 point and also the FA cup easily :)
initially i only have a 1.6m budget, so i picked up quite a few average players from free transfer.
the problem is that after my uefa cup matches on thurs, i have to play an epl game on saturday instead of sunday. so i only have 2 days of rest, but luckily i have quite a bit of squad depth after picking up some free transfers.




now i'm in the 2nd season, and i changed to a 3-5-2 formation recommended in the sigames forum.
this formation is really damn good, and i can win relatively easily on the first few games i tried.
oh yah the board gave me a transfer budget of 23million :D
still 23 million is not a lot considering my squad is ageing. decided spend it on a few players instead of buying 1 big name

i bought craig gordon as a direct replacement for 37 year old brad friedel, and transfer listed ashley young to booster up the midfield since i'm going to play a 3-5-2.
then i bought this nigerian striker Edu as back up for the very injury proned santa cruz. he is quite good, scoring a few goals already.
i'm quite lucky to be able to pick up schmeichel, flamini, and senderos on a bosman rule.

this is my fomation, not sure if this can be considered my first team.
I'm quite the tinkerman like rafa benitez, and i only pick players who are 100% fit.
considering i played 66 games in the first season, i guess i need 22 players in the 2nd season to compete on all 4 fronts.

my squad sorted by value

that's all for the FM update :)

check out my new blog
http://www.ironwilled.blogspot.com

In love with my psp again

today i was searching for psp homebrew software that can allow me to stream shoutcast stations. then I learnt that version 3.80 has this internet radio which does exactly that!
immediately i opened up my psp and fix that faulty wifi switch.

first time opening up my psp. i ended up dismantling more than i should, including removing the lcd etc. actually i just need to flick the switch at the bottom left.
i learnt that my psp's LCD is by sharp.
later after assembling everything back, i update my psp version to 3.90
I installed the internet radio and now i am able to listen to my favourite shoutcast stations - technobase and 977fm. :)

soooo happpy


check out my winning 11 team.
It's the 3rd season already, and i'm trying to build team with an english core.
Carson, baines, kompany, curtis davis, micah richards, reyes, fabregas, dunn, aaron lennon, darren bent and agbonlahor.
subs: walcott, nugent, adebayor, lehmann, oshea, michael johnson, and lots of other young players with damn high potential :)
I'm so in love with my psp again!

My first biathlon

Yesterday morning I took part in the singapore biathlon.
Knowing ecp is damn big, I decided to go to bedok interchange and take the free shuttle bus straight to the area. This way I will never be lost. To my surprise, the whole shuttle bus inside only has 4 person! maybe it is not a popular option. lol.I took the 7.45 bus since my flag off was at 8.30.
Everything was quite smooth. I went to the registration counter, took the race chip and number tag, after that I went to the body marking area where they wrote the number on my arms and legs.

Then I went to the transition area to put my stuff.
Basically my towel, shoes, socks, ankle guard, towel, ipod and powerbar gel.

After I deposited my bag, i went to the holding area waiting for the swim to begin.

This's the first time I'm swimming in the open sea. the swimming leg was quite chaotic. Dunno y everybody so kan cheong, starting chiong so fast! I swam head-up front crawl initially, but then the wave was so big that even with my head up, i swallowed a mouthfull of salt water.
Totally disgusted. Saltier than the saltiest macdonalds fries. later i swam head-up breast stroke, because I was unwilling to put my head down. only after around 5 mins then i gain some momentum and swam normally. Everybody was saying that front crawl is the best for open water, but i disagree. the water is so dirty that I can't even see my arms. When i swim front crawl, I must keep checking every few strokes to make sure I'm going straight.
so i swam breast stroke for most of the swimming leg. Only after the U turn, the wave was against me, and I had no choice but to use front crawl.
I completed the swimming leg in a dismal 40 minutes. Christal fong, national swimmer completed the swimming leg in 18+ minutes! @.@

Then I went back to my transition area. My towel was totally wet! dunno which fucker used my towel! took a while to change into my running attire, and started running.

I didn't push myself when i swam, so I wasn't at all tired. I was very fresh for the 10km run and with my new weapon - ipod shuffle loaded with songs by jay the gay, I was able to run quite fast without exerting myself. at 6km, it started raining and it became quite cold, but still it was better than running in the hot sun. I finished everything in 1hr 30 mins. roughly 40 mins for swimming and 50 mins for running.

After that I collected my stuff and I left my medal at the transition area! DAMN. luckily I'm thick skin and I went to ask for another 1.


I must say it's quite fun compared to AHM. I will be back next year with sub 20 timing for swimming.

Oh yah forget to add in wat's in the goodie bag! There's a speedo water bottle, 1 biathlon finisher t-shirt, lots of other useless stuff and a 30% discount voucher for speedo items!

all ready for tomorrow :D

my shoes, singlet, towel and powerbar gel :)