Vestige of the forgotten ones

ITS ALIVE! ITS ALIVE!!!

2009-12-21T20:53:00.002+08:00

Doctor, we couldn't resuscitate it. It's been unconscious for too long. Not too long 6 months only...

Try harder!!! A sudden passion of light passed through the room and shone on the little boy who was playing with his comp. The day this blog revived and started breathing again. December 21...

YAY! enough with the dramatic entrance. Happy to announce that my dead blog has finally taken its first breathing today again.

A LOT, A LOT of things have happened within these past 6 months! Let me recap abit... Hmm...

Teacher's day execution, going back to my sec school, the tough days before Final exams, final exams!, the day our results came out, chinese+PW week, the day chinese ended, the day PW ended!, several outings with my fav clique!, chalet, friend's bday party, reunion with shuqun ppl, lect week, grad night execution, sc orientation dry run camp, SC WEEK!, going BACK TO BATAM!, meeting up with indo sec sch friends and lots lots more!!!

OMG... Can't believe I missed telling of these important checkpoints in my life.
Anyway, I will try my best to update this blog as frequently as possible. Hohoho

Now that the "holiday" is here, its time to enjoy myself! (shouting with the background>>> piles of unfinished revisions and homeworks)

Next things up, lunch at barelang tomorrow and Desy's bday party at Hotel Utama... Can't wait for the christmas party at Cheryl's house on the 25th XD

Signing off...

NIGHT CYCLING

2009-06-10T18:41:00.002+08:00

The 3d2n SC camp has finally ended and only one word can describe my feelings, "fulfilled". Though I don't feel that I have quite fulfilled my objective yet because I know that I still have a long way to go, I know that other aspects of my life have been fulfilled in this game. I gain enough fun, insights and inspirations to start new chapter in my life. Not exactly new lah. haha

Alright, first day of the camp was the playing of Exco games and then Faith's and Trust's games. It was quite fun and I actually wanted to play our own game! :)

The highlight of the day was the one at night, the screening of the movie "Facing the giants". It was a reaaaalyy touching and insightful movie. I think the main character, Grant Taylor really taught me a lot in this movie. This movie is highly recommended especially if you are feeling that everything just don't feel right and your life journey just don't feel smooth. Don't give up. Look from another side. You may actually find a way out cos NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!

The 2nd day was the playing of the Lead and Serve games. :( no more wet games but overall, I think their games are okay. The lead game's story line was quite funny. HAHA
In the afternoon, we went to East Coast Park! Woohoo. We did a farewell piece for Ms Huang. I think this is supposed to be quite touching but somehow, we made the atmosphere, umm, Funny... I think that was why she kept giggling. GG for Anthony's "You are like a flower, that will never whither..."
Here's a clip of the song that we sang for Ms Huang. It's a nice song!

If we hold on together

Evening time, BBQ Time! We started our BBQ party along with the 31st and the teachers. It was a really fun gathering and I really enjoyed it where everyone just gather at one place, one big group and just chat about the silliest thing on earth. LOL.

Somehow, the lepak gang had changed one BBQ pit to the Malay stall. HAHA. We became MAT. The efficient MATs will barbecue satays, chicken wings and honey bacons for the others and some were uncooked? U gotta be kidding right? *smoke* puff...

We also made some funny accents and HAHA, there was no words that could describe the atmosphere of that night. Let me see, chaotic? Nah, more than that!

We stuffed food into ourselves like nobody's business and soon, it was 10. We had to depart for our night cycling activity, the highlight of this camp!

We cycled from ECP to Changi then cyle back to ECP. This is my first time and my first time riding tandem bike as well. Though the tandem bike was nothing much cause Timothy did all the maneuvering. I just need to provide him with some force when he needs it sometime. HAHA... And it was quite slacking. I cycled 2/3 of the journey with single bike!
Now, my buttocks feel damn pain! I don't want to figure out what will happen tomorrow. Gleg.

While resting at our 2nd check point, Changi village, Junhe and I saw a "BAPOK"! LOL. It was funny when Jing Lu said that he wanted to go to the toilet but then dropped his idea when we said that a BAPOK might just appear out of nowhere and attack him from behind. Wakaka...

It was really tiring but it was fun. We initially planned to catch the sunrise but the clouds just have to be a wetblanket, blocked the sun and spoiled our fun!
Nevertheless we had our meal at Mac's and chilled out. Everyone was already dead when we're outside the bike rental place and the whole area seemed like a refugee camp. We bussed back to school and was finally released from our camp! Thank you so much Excos for going through great lengths to plan this special expedition for us. It was really not an easy feat and thus, I think they really deserved a great round of applause.

Alright, think that's all. I am finally home and it was time I got rid of all the stickiness in my body. Ughh... Smelly sweaty body. Napped immediately after I bathed and ate. Slept till 6 30 and started blogging about the day. Ughh... No mood to study. Well, guess one piece is the only alternative then, to fill my night. :)

Also, Happy birthday to my friends, Jeffery and Philip!

ONE-NIL

2009-06-04T13:59:00.001+08:00

Today, there's a soccer match between the Student Council and Table Tennis. Cool! Our very first official match. As we do not have enough players, we recruited some of the 31st. LOL, a powerful bunch.

They were pressing against us at the first half but we managed to score 1 against them, thanks to Jermaine! You rock, man of the match.

The second half, we managed to defend against them. What was unpleasant was that they swore against our players. Thought I will be seeing the end of this after my Secondary school life. I was simply appalled that I can see this at JC. -.-''

No matter what the outcome, how we play, there should be no hard feelings. We have to be harmonious even though we are competing. It is challenging with and not challenging against. Keep that in mind. :D

Alright, short post for today cos I am damn tired... ZzzZzz

REASONS

2009-06-01T19:14:00.003+08:00

Reasons why I decided to post today after the oh-so-long break, cos its June 1 today and the previous post was during May 1. OHOHO Funny? And yeah, it's finally June holiday, free and all, slacking... Slacking is bad but sleeping is good, like this comforting phrase! Woohoo
Those two words used to give me the sense of euphoria, like how a glue sniffer is addicted to glue sniffing, duh...

No No no... The holiday mood was totally gone since yesterday's bad news... TT NO! The outing to Turi beach's gonna be cancelled. Sniffs... I have been looking forward to it, finally a "Holiday" in my damn screwed up schedule for June and poof, it's gone. But I know Kathy should save for her trip to Sri Lanka, so yeah, maybe some other time. :( still sad... Gotta find some interesting thing to do during the 2 vacant weeks, remember you still have to study for common test. RAWR

The story's like this, holiday's here, extra lectures, revisions, tutorials and most importantly, PW!
Shit, I HATE PW!!! So disgusted by it. Argh... It's on the verge of falling now, without the pillars to support it. Got to consult Ms Seow soon but so far, she said it's doable. Well, let us pray hard and pray pray pray that God will lend us a helping hand. Amitabha...

Yesterday, yesterday! Ughh. Can't believe I did one stupid thing. At about 7 30, I bussed to Kat's place! AHH... From Clementi to Potong Pasir just to eat pizza. -.-''
Yeah, I don't want to come actually but she managed to convince me.
Overshot and cabbed there instead. Damn unlucky. Waited for her till 8 40 and pizza...
We did our PW and I finally decided to carry on with our previous target group. So much for, planning... -.-'' Anyway, stayed at her place till 11 and bussed home. Woots. Miss her cos she's so dear to me.

Owh, let me tell you about today.
Went to school with Irene, so glad that lesson started at 10! ROCKS!
She's late, as usual... But nevermind, I forgive her... Cos she's so dear to me.

At Potong pasir, saw Joel limping and he was very pale. He told me he fainted a while ago. Oh no! Accompanied him to school, glad that he didn't faint halfway but he was really in a bad shape. Hoped he's ok now...

Maths lecture! I didn't understand some of the parts and neither did Irene. LOL. Guess we have lots of work to do.

Econs, Econs, Econs. LOL. There was this hillarious thing during Econs lecture. Ms Yap asked in an anrgy tone: "You want to talk is it?" and a guy replied, "YEAH". ROFL
She immediately banged her mike and told that guy to meet her after lecture. LOL. HAHA Made my day. Rest of the econs lecture was utter boredom. Ughh...

Physics lecture. 2 hours of madness with the Coke-fanatic lecturer. Haha... "If I have a glass of coke with some ice and sitting in an air-conditioned room, I might give you marks for this". LOL What??!!

LAST! Chinese tutorial. Leslie and some of the Higher Chinese students don't need to take Chinese! So unfair. Grrr... But we did nothing anyway. Spent the 1 hour reading some stupid passage for our Oral test and Mervyn asked me to help him complete his mission in DJ Max Black square. o.0 Rusty... Can't pass it. Cheryl took out her PSP and OMG, Dissidia! I played a while and its damn thrilling... YAY gotta get it from her tomorrow. >_<

Went home with deary Irene!!! She's a klutz, lost her Ez Link card. No choice but to stick with her standard ticket. Haha... After we're about to walk into the MRT station, she's suddenly Yakult thirsty. So we went back to 7-11 to buy yakult. HAHA, green's best okay! :P

And we went home... Got to reach school early tomorrow, for flagraising practice... TT It's my duty and no matter how much I abhor of it, I have to do it. Yeah, so feel pride in doing whatever I do now. It's for Council! Got lots of work to catch up but yeah, there's the holiday for it. And PW. UGH... BYE...

P.S: Meanwhile, let me enjoy some of the one piece first... LOL

09S04 - SULPHATES HALF OUTING

2009-05-01T22:55:00.004+08:00

Hello, a post for this week! I had been itching to blog about some funny matters that happened every day! But yeah, seems like I don't have the luxury of time to do that... :(

Today, we have our very own S04 outing!!! Woohoo... I was looking forward to it last night. And I really hoped that everyone could go. In the end, only about 13 turned up (Adeline, Ashley, Brenda, Cheryl, Jiaying, Zoey, Aloysius, Darren, Hanming, Haoming, Mervyn, Thianshin and me). Sadly to say, less than half turned up but still, it's our first official class outing and to get this kind of respond is quite good already! :D

We went to botanical garden to have picnic. Speaking of which, it is my first time having picnic with friends actually... LOL. I was worried that we will have little things to do there and we will feel like, "Sian.." Luckily, everything was in store for us there the moment we reached :D

After buying the ingredients for our picnic, we mass sent birthday messages to Joshua. O yeah, speaking of which, JOSHUA! Happy birthday! :D

It was seriously a damn hot day. Luckily, the place where we decided to have picnic at was quite breezy, otherwise we would be roasted. The dogs there, omg, they are damn cute and clever! Haiz... Wish I have a dog as well...

We played soccer, volleyball (using soccer ball, my hands were damn painful!), frisbee, cards (not gambling though... haha), a bit of cross country (the baton's Brenda's bag! LOL nice job haoming!), and ate some bread. LOL... The whole thing in this picnic is not about eating, its more of playing... HAHA... a pity that the honey baked chicken is not eaten. :(

After the picnic, most went home already. I went out with Adeline and Darren and we went to Orchard to play pool at Cine! Haha... o.0 the midget's actually quite pro! Never judge a book by its cover they say... LOL. Afterwards, we ate dinner at KFC and home sweet home after that!

YAY! The day ended! NO! It has not! I have to do at least 1 hw... Time for me to chiong....

AN IDLE'S PROGRAM OF THE DAY

2009-04-19T16:59:00.003+08:00

Yesterday's supposed to be a wonderful OG outing day!!! Argh... Who knows that not many people turn up and as a result, the outing is postponed. Hiks hiks... TT
So sad...

With the primary plan failed, I stick to the 2nd plan which is to study with Kathy and Irene. Seemed like it will be a rather slacking Saturday for me. Played comp and meddled with MP3 cutting software for a while before I left. And goodness, this thing sucks. It can only cut MP3 for 30 seconds worth of play. Anything exceeding that time limit will not be played. Rawr, and to extend the time, I have to purchase the software. -.-''

That's free online download for you...

Upon noticing that it was already 2 p.m, I rushed to take a quick shower and left the house. By the time I reached Dhoby Ghaut to meet up with Kathy, it was already 2 45! So sorry that I was late :P. We proceeded to Cathay then to Star Bucks but who knows that it was so crowded and thus, we moved on to Delifrance. We had lunch there(loved the Strawberry Diabolo! Thanks for the recommendation :) )and then started studying. Did nothing productive though, only managed to copy some of the lecture notes for Maths... Argh...

After a while, Irene finally arrived. She was drenched wet with perspiration. LOL. She must have it tough finding the way here. HAHA... (Woops, not in any position to laugh at her as I am also bad with directions myself). We then continue to study. It must have been the effect of the food as I was feeling quite sleepy. Shucks... After I was done with Maths, I immediately proceed to my GP reading assignment. It was getting no where! Soon, the clock hit 6 30 and Kathy had to leave as she had to go for something with her friend. :(

Irene and I stayed to study (I wonder if it is studying or idling, LOL) longer. After a while, she suggested that we eat dinner here as well. o.0 and so, we ordered our food. This time, I ordered Passion Fruit diabolo as my drink but it didn't taste as nice as the former. Haiz. One hour spent on eating, we continued to do our work.

Time passed by so quickly that the restaurant's almost closing. Irene said she needed the toilet and so she left to relieve herself. Meanwhile, one of the staffs approached me.

"Sorry sir, we are closing soon, can you please settle the payment?"
"Oh, sure... NETS?"
"Oh, no we don't accept NETS. VISA or Mastercard?"

Cold sweat begin to form little rivulets on my forehead. What am I supposed to do now?

"Err... I don't have any of that... Are you sure NETS cannot be accepted here?"
"Is your NETS gold card or?"

I showed her my normal POSB ATM card and indeed, it cannot be used. Now I am dead. Adding on to this afternoon's payment, it costed about $71. However, I only had $55 with me. Adding on to Irene's $10, it would not be enough! I asked the people whether there's any ATM drawing machine nearby and the people pointed to us that there's one but it is quite far. I ran to my destination and at the same time, thinking that what if i failed to find it.

After a while of walk and run, I stoppe and asked the passerby for the ATM machine. They pointed to just in front of me. LOL. How am I so glad!!!
I quickly drew sufficient money to get me out of this shit and ran back to Delifrance. After the payment's settled, I left with Irene, feeling embarassed about it. It was my first time! -.-''

On our way home, we met some people from SA too! Bobby and Vincent. LOL. What a coincidence...

Afterwards, it is home sweet home... Also, dad came to Aunt's place today but he has to leave early the next day to catch his plane for another business trip. Before leaving, he gave me some money... HEHE... I wonder how I should spend it but I think I should spend it wisely...

Alright, that's all for yesterday. As for today, it was just another boring day... I completed my PW! The toughest part was the cutting down on words. Darn it, at first it was 900+ words (rolling eyes) and I managed to cut it to 744!!! (roll my eyes back). HAHA... But I still have Maths revision and Phy revision to do... Not to mention Chemistry revision too. >_<>

LETS GO CHOMP CHOMP

2009-04-17T23:33:00.003+08:00

Thank God it's Friday! I spent last night finishing the survey thing and polishing up my PI draft for PW. And who would know that, I still had an econs homework that will be due on the next day. God! Luckily, I managed to finish it and look at the time, it's already 2 am. 4 hours left to 6... I slept for within that time period and woke up punctually as usual.

Took the usual morning train journey from Clementi to Potong Pasir. Nothing new. I am thankful that my 1 hour journey to school every day is not wasted and lonely as I had my wonderful companion, Irene! But soon, she will move house and that means, we won't be able to train to school together... :( Sad...

Morning assembly was quite okay with the performance of the European folk music. What's worrying is that I have to hand up my PI draft before 9 am and I haven't printed the copy yet! Assembly ends at 9, how am I supposed to have the time to go to the library and print out my PI draft? As so, I decided to skip the precious maths lecture (GOD, this is the first time I had ever skipped any lecture!!! GOD, let this be the first and last time... :(( ) and go to the library to print out my PW work as well as the survey forms. Huff... Now, the burden had been lifted. However, I am still faced with lots of problems>>> I am lagging too far behind Maths and Chem lecture!!! This cannot go on for I have adopted the mentality of postponing my revision period. As such, the problems will keep snowballing with the introduction of every new chapters.

This weekend may be the only chance for me to catch up with everything, Econs, Maths, Chem... Not to mention HW for GP and upcoming tests next week. Will I be able to handle it? I hope so... From now onwards, I will put in my all to study well.

Alright, enough about my resolutions as talking on it won't help. If i didn't carry it out, sooner or later, I will end up doing the revolution. LOL.

Today's lessons ended at a quite reasonable time. I went to the library after lessons to study which ended up to be talking sessions with Kathy and Joshua. Later, I saw Guoguang, Jocelyn and Yangqi there too. o.0 There goes my mugging period. The time passed by so fast and in the blink of an eye, it was already 5 30. YAY! We will have our own Council dinner at Chomp Chomp...

It was actually my first time there. Leslie, Junhe and Jermaine had been talking about the nice food that can be found at Chomp Chomp however I have yet to taste any of them. This time, I shall see how wonderful it is. It does live up to its reputation. The food there was shioking man! Especially the sting ray, chicken wings, fried oyster, hokkien mee... The sugar cane juice is nice too! To add excitement and nurture competitive spirits in us, we played a little game called chucky chucky... Boy sure it was fun! The last 4 contender get to enjoy a treat from the losers. No, I lost! But it was a good game. We played this game for quite some time at Chomp Chomp and even though we had finished our food, we were still hogging onto the place. I felt kind of bad. Eventually, we left Chomp Chomp and went to Esmond's house!
He got a cool and warm house with some European style and touch, which is what I felt upon stepping into his house. We played polar bear there... LOL

Little games can make us enjoy ourselves. I think the main factor is not how fun the game is, it is whom you play with. With the 32nd, even boring games can also be fun... :D

Thank you Julius for sending us home! His mother is very nice and friendly too, thank you auntie. Alright, shall end here... There's an OG outing tomorrow... XD
Hope that everyone turns up. I had messaged them but so far, none replied. Darn it... Hope everything turns out well tomorrow. Alright then, see you all there OG 15... Good night... (luckily I remembered to send Weiling and Yiying the good night message otherwise I will get it from them... HAHA... Just kidding, they are actually quite friendly...)

AFTER EVERYTHING, I AM FINALLY A COUNCILOR

2009-04-16T22:30:00.003+08:00

After a long hiatus, I am back again! And I am very happy to say that I am finally commended as a full-fledged student councilor! Which means that starting today, I have to live up to a student councilor's expectations! o.0 though no more silly acts (have to present myself well in front of the student body and set a good example), I can still be myself at the SC(our nest!).

I am so glad that I am in Student council. Before coming to SA, the thought of being a councilor was never brought up to my mind. I was not sure what is a councilor at all! Who inspired me? It was none other than my lovely OGL, Huiying!!! I really wanted to thank you so much for being my inspirational OGL. Without you, I may not have the courage to take up the nomination form, as well as taking the initiative to ask you to fill it in as well as asking another friend to help me complete it(thanks Aqilah! :D). Without you, I wouldn't have gone through the tough yet funny interview... ROFL... Trials after trials, including the Selection Camp(which I thought would be the greatest hurdle in my life but it was actually just a walk in my life), and Leadership Training Camp(the worst camp>>>the best camp). I would have never imagined that I would be able to do such crazy thing like waking up at 2 am in order to move tables and chairs and play some tiring games as well as walking to Sentosa, not to mention doing 1000+ pumpings. It seemed impossible but now, I think that its all in the mind. I would also like to thank the 31st Excos for giving me spiritual support during the camps. Though they are fierce, I think its all just a facade. Their bark is worse than their bite.

And lastly, I would like to thank my dear 32nd council whom I loved so much!!! Without all of you here, I think we would not be able to pass through all the trials. It was the support everyone gave and the support everyone received. Thank you so much! I hope that the next one year during our council term will be a fruitful one! Let's bond better than the 31st okay! As they said 32>31, so... U know... HAHA (no offence to 31st councilor).

Finally, after LTC, it was our commendation practice. Going through late night practices made me feel so desperate as I was really behind studies. I was sleepy most of the times. But nevertheless we gave it our all and our reward is our best commendation. I would not say its perfect but it's considered the best one we had in our lives. The proudest moment in my life...

Also, thank you Huiying, for putting on the badge for me though it was taken off again in order to officially let the seniors put on the badge. Thank you Yiying, for putting on the badge for me! :D

And lastly, I have to thank myself for the effort I put in! Muahahaha...
Starting from today, I am only going to put on what I learn for the day or what I find is worth saying, no more laments and stuffs. ( cause I notice that a GP teacher had managed to get my blog address, certain laments may be subjective to them...)

Alright... A blog is meant to be this way, colourful and not stained with erratic colours.

And today, I had the best day of my school life. For once, I paid full attention to lessons, not stealing even a minute of sleep during lessons. Due to my energy bar(council badge)! Woohoo... Hope that I can be like this everyday... God bless. Alright, shall end my post here.

By the way, I also liked that quote Kathy, so I am going to steal it from you :P
(The only way to preserve a relationship is for the wife to be blind and for the husband to be dead).

Kay, see ya... Long post...

PEEL IT OFF!

2009-03-24T22:04:00.002+08:00

MSA results are released! Luckily it's not that bad but its not very good either. Haha... Hate it when things stuck in midway. Anyway, I am freaking glad that this MSA thing is only 2.5%!!! Hahaha... I ensure that history won't repeat itself anymore, for chem!

Back to school life. Yesterday, S04 got scolded by an in-saint(insane)!

She's none other than the infamous Ms Kay a.k.a Kal.... Kousikan. o.0

She is damn psychotic. OMG. I think she's the fiercest teacher at SA.
And my poor class got scolded. I am sorry S04 if I had implicated all of you in this indirectly.
This happened when we were about to walk up to our next class, Econs. While we were walking up the stairs, some of us made a little bit of noise and it kind of like disrupted some classes a bit. Suddenly, that Ms Kay stormed out of the class and stopped us!

Unfortunately, she caught me drinking fruit juice which is not allowed outside the yellow line(which was drawn surrounding the canteen; in other words, not outside the canteen)

Ms Kay: This is a science class right? Do you know that this path acts as an amplifier of sound and that those noises you make will

She ranted non stop about how inconsiderate we are by talking so loudly, disrupting other classes and how we had broken the school rules by not changing back to our uniform after PE class and that I was holding on to the drinks! This was not the end of her menace. She barbarously ordered us to change back into our uniform and told me to gather the whole S04 here and meet her.

We gave in to her tyranny. After about 10 minutes, we went to see her as told. Telling us to line up like primary school kids, she checked our attires! Who does she think she is? She is not even the discipline committee! And so, many of us got caught unguarded, including me(long hair).

It was like everything we did are not to her likings. The funny part came when Hanming waved to his friend from her class and she shouted, why did u wave to my class. And Hanming replied apologetically, I am sorry ma'm. LOL!

The most hillarious part was when she commented on Darren's mohawk hairstyle.
What's with that hairstyle? You think it's cool, you look like a fool! HAHAHA. It rhymes so much that I can't hold my laughter(but in the end I managed to anyway) but stupid Colin did not!
He sniggered and that tyrannosaur caught him and shouted: Do you think this is funny?

Later, she went on to comment Darren's hair that it looked like a cockroach's nest. LOL! I was really struggling to not laugh.

After the scolding, we went back to Econs class and since Ms Yap was not here, we had free period. We saw the school magazine and spotted Ms Kay there! OMG. She was wearing shades. She thinks this is cool? She looked like a fool! XD

Alright, enough about her
During PW tutorial, we received our PW task for A level. o.0 The paper looked like the one given to us during O level. Haha... Missed my O level paper! Conservation or Emergency? Hmm...

Today, something big happened! While I was on my way to school, the train service was terminated at Clementi MRT station due to an accident that happened there. OMG. From what I heard, it seemed like there was someone who committed suicide! Sick!

I had no choice but to rush to the bus stop and switch to bus instead. Luckily, the bus 145 came after a while. However, I am still not in the comfort zone. This is my first time taking bus to SAJC! I don't know how long it will take. I only know that it will bring me to SAJS. Furthermore, I didn't see any SAJC students boarding this bus. Shit, am I on the wrong bus afterall?

After about 50 minutes of journey, I safely reached SAJS. Luckily, I saw some SAJC students near the bus stop there and it seemed that they are making their way to SAJC! So, I followed them. Time was almost up, 2 minutes left before I was declared late. I sprinted my way to go to the other end of the Jacob Ballas bridge and I made it! Holy...

The moral of the story is don't depend too much on one thing, just like how heavily i depended on the MRT as my sole way of transport to school. Haha... For it will bring you much inconvenience.

I also received my GP paper today. I speculated that I will get around C-D and I got B! Whahaha... So happy... Really thankful to Ms Seow. I think she is a very good teacher. If she is heaven, Ms Kay will be hell. Hahaha... Now i feel really evilish!

When I got back from home, I noticed that my back's skin which suffered from sunburn is starting to peel off! OMG. I feel like a snake changing its skin. Scratch2x and then some of the skin just flakes off. Eeyewr...

Now, i feel like peeling off the whole section as it looked really disgusting now. Haha...

RUSH RUSH

2009-03-22T21:58:00.003+08:00

OMG! I am in deep shit now... I have a Chinese homework to rush! NO!!!

The worst ever!

What should I do???

救救救命命命啊啊啊啊啊~~!!!!!!

RECOUNT

2009-03-21T18:04:00.003+08:00

OOOO... it has been so long since i last updated my blog!

So we shall do a bit of recount today!

Hmm... we shall go back to the day where I had just been accepted to Council! Woohoo!!!
Hurray, I am a councilor now! :)

Afterwards was the beginning of yet another camp. LTC!

On last Saturday morning, we went to school for LTC. The camp lasted for 4 days 2 nights which ended at Tuesday night 11 pm! Of course it was tiring yeah, we did 1035 pumpings, broke countless eggs (which explained why the supply curve shifted left and the demand curve too! Weird phenomenon...).
We also walked to Sentosa!!! Haha...

After LTC, here comes outings!

First was Shuqun alumnis outing on Wednesday... Glad that we still have this kind of get together... MORE! :)

This guy thinks he is cute... Hahaha

The next day, we had our very own CG outing! Too bad it is only a mini outing as less than half of the class went for the outing, mainly: Me, Darren, Thian Shin, Mervyn, Joshua, Zoey, Cheryl, Hanming and Rachel (who left after a while). It was fun!!!

Sad case... But still we had fun playing under the sun at Palawan beach! Next outing, we have to get the whole class to participate :)

A Ghost behind me!

Monster's hand!!!

We Love Thian Shin

Our Mini Outing!

Last but not the least, end product after LTC...

Lastly, Friday morning, the 32nd went back to SAJC for Blazer size measurement! We had our 'Trust' breakfast at Mac! Hahaha, can be considered as mini trust outing. 2nd time I stepped into SC! It was really cosy, gives u the kind of home feeling. Played soccer with some of the 32nd for a while. And we saw the 31st soccer formation. hie hie hie... We came up with our own formation and declared a challenge to the 31st... 32:31, this is the results! :P

Afterwards, I went to ICA with Caleb, me to renew my student pass and him to make a new IC.
At 6 pm, we had our OG 15 outing! Failure! Only a few people turned up! -.-''
We had dinner at Waraku at Heeren and then went to watch "Coming Soon"!!! haha... Didn't know that Huiying is so afraid of horror movies. Anyway, "DO YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE ME DIE?" Loved that part the best!

Kay then, cya! End of recounts

FINALLY OVER

2009-03-08T00:39:00.002+08:00

Huff... Finally, those campaigning stuffs are done with... And this Friday's the election! Gosh... Hope i performed well and hoped that I can get elected into the 32nd Student Council... Good luck to my friends who went for the elections too! :)

Today, our original plan was to go to Sentosa to support Kathy for her Milo race thingy... But in the end, when Irene and I were on our way, she had already finished the race. LOL.

Meanwhile, Kathy told us to walk around first while she took a shower. And so, Irene and I went to Vivo city. We window shopped for quite a while. The funniest thing was when we went to this gifts store and I saw a care bear soft toy! Reminds me of Haoming! Godness, really look alike... hahaha.
So, I wanted to take a picture of it and show it to him. However, at this very moment, the lady saw me and stopped me from taking picture. LOL! It was so embarassing...

Later, we went to cellphone shops and viewed some of the phones. Sony Ericsson xperia is cool, but I spotted something cooler... LG prada Kf900. Hmm... I am thinking of buying a new phone. Which one...

As we walked and walked, time passed by very quickly and so, we decided to take a rest and sit on the bench. Kathy arrived and so we went to Secret Recipe to have lunch.

The people actually allowed us to do homework there... Haha... Cool. And so, I began to do my Maths homeworks, God... So slow...

We studied till 5 plus before Irene left for a while to accompany her Aunt. After a few minutes, Kathy and I left the place and went to harbour front too. She met up with Irene and I left for Orchard.... End of study session? Anyway, thank you Kathy! For the Maths revision paper... :)

Dinner with Bull, Giv and Dic at Sushi Tei... Thanks a lot Dic, for the treat. Mwahaha...

Okay then, guess that's all for today... See ya... And damn, I think I am stuck... What about the PW??? o.0

VOTE FOR ME!

2009-03-02T21:54:00.002+08:00

Woo! Update my blog! hahaha... otherwise it will really rot.

Hmm... I got nothing much to say, except college life which takes up most of my time now! So sad. But happy at the same time! What's with this paradox?

Well, currently I am running for Student Council and whether I should say it's luck or some other things, I got in through all the rounds! haha... only two rounds actually, the interview and the selection camp... Now, the last hurdle is the election! GOd.. I have to plan for the campaigning and stuffs, other students are already advertising themselves. Now, I feel damn kiasu.

Anyway, to those who are out there and from Venn house in SAJC, please VOTE FOR ME! I will appreciate your votes, really! And may God bless us JC1s and SC nominees, to pass through safely through all hurdles, especially this upcoming MSA. NOO!!!

GUITAR CAMP REALLY ROCKS!

2009-02-22T15:18:00.002+08:00

Hello, despite my tight schedule, I decided to spend some of my time to this blog post. The reason is, I want to put all the fun I had this weekend into words! Though I doubt the fun can be expressed in words... LOL

We had a guitar ensemble camp during Friday. I was really anticipating it at first but when I realised I have to carry so much things, it's like half the fun is gone. Argh. Carrying the heavy bag (which was supposed to be luggage for some but well, I didn't bring so many things), and also the guitar(the one I loaned from school), I walked to the MRT station. Crowded during the morning, it was really difficult to find a standing place, let alone a seat! Haiz.

Upon reaching school, I immediately went to the guitar room to let them safekeep it. Huff, finally, half the burden's gone. And it's lectures and lectures next. Boring... Luckily there was no Econs lecture, otherwise I am bound to sleep. And yay! We got our new schedule. There will be tutorials starting next week and it seemed that we will be quite busy starting next week. No more relaxing and breaks in between lectures. No... :( furthermore, MSA's coming! AHH!!!

During break time, when the class's having their meals, something funny happened. Actually, it's not just something, it's quite a lot of things actually (mucus, feces, and all sorts of gross things). This rendered some of them unable to eat their food. Zoey's burger took her 30 minutes! And we were kind of late for the PW lecture (not her fault nor Darren's>>> because of the GP!). The reason we thought of was, Zoey's mouth is too small for the burger! ROFL.

And here comes the main event of the day. There was a health talk, only for girls. Haha... And guess what, they were given tampons. o.0 And we sort of played with those things. Kind of disgusting right? haaha. But seriously, they really looked like those white rabbit candies.

As the school day ended, the guitar camp was just about to begin. I went to the innovation room and was placed into a group that consisted of strangers! I don't know any of them. But after some time of interaction, we got to know each other better. The first day was all about practice and with some icebreakers. We also played some Basketball during breaks. And after supper (cool, milo and biscuits!) and some washing up, we went to bed. And holy! The thing I hated about camp is the sleeping place. Why does it have to always be on the hard floor! Sad!

Next morning, we did some morning exercise(it's really morning, we were supposed to wake up at 6 30 on Sat! OMG).
With that, we proceed on to our breakfast-milo and biscuits again. There's also this funny trend. We get to play basketball during breaks. Haha...

After breakfast, it's practice time again. Our guitar 2 group was really slow. The others have finished practising 4 bars and we were still on the first bar! Haiz... By the way, we were practising this song, Pavan of the welburn or sth... Hmm... It's my first time playing a guitar piece actually.

And after the boring practice, its lunch! Woohooo...

It's game time after that. We played lots of games. There was this game similar to the table soccer that most of us played by turning the stick attached with men? Weird description but as long as you can understand it. Yeah, we played that but we played by using ourselves as the stickmen. We were supposed to chain ourselves together in groups of 3-4 ppl per stick. Initially, it was easy as they used the standard soccerball size. But then, they changed it to tennis ball. OMG, it's so damn small. But luckily, we won! COOL!

Next game's the chair bridge thing. We were supposed to bring the chairs with us and place them from one end to the other end. But the chairs are limited and we can only move the chair to the front when everybody's standing on the chair. No one's supposed to touch the floor. Well, I shall leave the imagining part to you guys, the readers. :)

There was also this helium loop thing. Believe it or not, it really looks as if it was filled with helium!

The water bag delivery game was one funny game. We broke the first bag during our first try. If we didn't break it, I am sure we will be the top scorer. Haha...

After all those "appetisers", here comes the main course! This is the grossiest game that I had ever played in my whole life.
The game we played is captain's chicken!

Ever heard of this game? Well, it is basically captain's ball but the ball's not really a normal ball! It is a chicken! A dead and skinned chicken. Gross! Imagine us passing the chicken around to our team mates. And I was the captain too! NO! And there was a time that when I caught the chicken, it was almost torn to shreds, the lungs and the stomach were out and I caught them! Cool right? :)

The 2nd grossiest game. It actually sounded cute. The marshmallow biting game. But behind this cute name, there lies a rough survival game. We were supposed to steal the other group's marshmallow with our mouth. And guess where were they put the marshmallow? Inside a pail filled with flour! OMG. We were given newspaper armour and attacked with water bombs. Once the armour was torn, we will lose. And the loser, which was our group, Dan dan, have to bear the consequences. :( They poured toothpaste onto our body. And as for our group leader Danial, his face was all covered with toothpaste. Oh, it must be damn burning.

We went to wash up after the wet game and while waiting for dinner, we played basketball again... LOL...

After our dinner (yay! Pattaya rice!), we went to the AVA theatrette to watch the movie - The Rocker. LOL, it was a really hillarious one! Can't stop laughing and I think I like the movie! :)

Finally, the last event of the day, it was a murder case! This game looks like detective conan where we have to find clues leading to the suspect and interrogate them. Haha... It was quite fun actually. If only we were not so sleepy at that time, we would be able to churn our brain juices and find the real culprit.

Sunday... It's the last day of our camp! There were some performances and shows and well, it was quite interesting too. Guitar got talent... Haha... Yeah, I think so too. We are not too bad afterall...

And look at what I am doing now... Gosh... Gotta do my tutorials now, see ya!

THAT'S SAJC LIFE

2009-02-16T18:56:00.004+08:00

Woohoo! Time to post again... Though I should say that I really have little time left (speaking as if I am down with some terminal disease and is about to die, touch wood!). I can't believe there are so many tutorials left for us to do!!! A majority of them came from Chem. Darn it.

Let me kind of summarize today's JC life into a single post...

After the morning assembly, I was en tasked by Mr Ji to collect the money for the photo taking thingy. Luckily, I had Kimberly and (the girl with the loud voice, sorry I forgot your name TT, I will fill it in ASAP if I got your name) to help me with the stuffs. And since they were doing my job, I had to take over some of the other tasks such as buying Chem and Maths lecture notes from the photocopy shop. As usual, the queue was hellish! With patience and determination, nothing's impossible. And so, after queueing for around 20 minutes, I finally bought all the lecture notes... Huff... And I distributed them to all my classmates and some of my OG mates. I am really sorry that some of you didn't receive your ordered notes for eg Maths notes. TT Cause the ordering thing was really disorganised.

The next thing coming up was the photo taking session. We went up as a class to the 2nd floor above the canteen to have our photos taken. Finally, I sensed that the class's starting to bond as one. Hope that L-Earn-Trepreneurship course, our class project can proceed on well. Who suggested Muay Thai anyway? It's not feasible o.0... We have to think of some other ways that are more practical and down-to-earth. Most importantly, we have to be able to make lots of money from it. ($_$)

Being late for Chem lecture, we still made the grand entrance to the CC. Haha. Luckily, we didn't miss some important lectures, it's just the reviewing thing.

After Chem, it was the long long break! from 10 till 1. Godness.
I waited at the balcony on the 2nd floor for Huiying to collect my Nomination form for student council. Greatest thanks to Aqilah for writing such sweet comments on the nomination form! :) I will do my job well as a councillor(If I were selected :P)

Afterwards, it's mugging time at the library. Lots of muggers. I like SA. They don't only have fun, they also mug. Basically, there's time for everything. But don't overstretch the boundary, or you will end up as a retainee! (LOL, it kinds of rhymed)

Long continuous lectures after that! From 1 to 3. Got to revise the Econs notes as I caught no balls during the lecture, fell asleep :(
It was also the first time that I had lectures at LT1. Haha... It's smaller but it's definitely more comfortable. CC was too big and echoey.

Finally, the last lecture of the day, GP lecture. o.0 The lecturer was humorous too, now I begin to like my Physics and GP lecturers! Hahaha...
Well, to end the day, we were given a plethora of assignments. Damn it. Well, I have to sign off now. Hoped that the mugging session is worthwhile. Ready, set... GO!

p.s. And here's the list of the people I had known in my class! Haha
Darren - the first guy i spoke to in my class, known as the maths geek wanna be
Thian Shin - The plump guy... haha.
Kimberly - the 'vice' class rep. haha... the helpful girl
Zoey - Econs rep, Darren's side geek? haha
Mervyn - the PE rep! I am immune to tickles
Joshua - someone I knew who knows Malay, speaks teochew too :) half indo
Rachel - someone that I had mistaken to as someone else
Han Ming - the guy with the councillor look... haha
Brenda - the girl who's always sticking with Han Ming
Jeffrey - Chem rep
Yuan bin - the geeky guy
(the girl with the loud voice) - the girl who helped me with the shouting?lol

As for the rest, I will get to know you guys in the upcoming days. :)

THE FEELING OF BEING HOME ONCE AGAIN

2009-02-14T02:21:00.003+08:00

Yesterday, which was Friday, I was almost late as I had to wait for Irene at the MRT station... LOL. Why? Because she woke up late! Haha... Maybe the Friday the 13th thingy is not only a rumor. No! That was the beginning of our Black Friday.

And why am I still blogging at this Ungodly hour? o.0

Aside from the normal lectures yesterday, there were also balloons as a company. The funniest thing was that Yukai's prophecy came true man! Except that the colour's not pink. Yukai told us before long ago, to look up at the ceiling of the lecture hall as there are 5 pink balloons. Indeed, the balloons really flew up! hahaha... I could see the lecturer's angry face. o.0

After Chem lecture's done, I had no other left for the rest of the day. Still I couldn't go home yet. We went to the 2nd floor outside the Staff room to wait for Huiying. We have something for her!
When she arrived, we gave her the balloons and flower. Sure she was touched, she was only holding back her tears. Hehe... And she also gave us a card. How sweet... And finally, she handed the Student Council nominating form. o.0 Guess this is for real.

After the photo taking and all, everyone dispersed. I went to the library with Matthew, Nicholas and Adam. Revised Chem, Physics and chatted a lot with them. I also cracked a few jokes and they were laughing non-stop. Hahaha

Soon, it was already 4. Adam and I went to attend the Guitar Ensemble orientation programme. It was kind of fun and we got to know some of the other people. The orientation ended at 7! Noo... I rushed as fast as I could to Harborfront. In the end, I had to wait till 9 PM before departure time. Damn it! But it was all worthy for I am now back at home. Home sweet home! :)

160TH POST

2009-02-12T20:19:00.002+08:00

This is my 160th post! Hahaha... What an achievement.

I can finally see the real school life at SAJC now. Especially after reading the speech done by the President of the 31st Student Council yesterday. The theme is "No one's here by Chance". Well, I supposed you can look at it that way. At first, I thought I was there by chance but surely and eventually, we would leave a foot print at SAJC. All of us are unique in our own ways. Somehow, all of us here in SAJC was arranged by something called fate. Yeah it must be, "quoted from Mr Ji".

This morning, when I was just about to leave from my house. Irene sent me a message. What the? On her way to Clementi already? Duh! I ran as quickly as possible. The usual 5-10 minutes walk from my house to the MRT station became a 2 minutes run. Luckily I made it! Actually, every morning of running can perk you up. Then you won't be that sleepy. :)

There was a spot check today and luckily I had rectified my hair! It was the first time in my school life that I cut my hair this short. Damn it! But here's an advice, learn to be smart. Avoid getting caught for the first day. If you were caught during the first spot check, they will look out for you more in the future. So, yeah, gotta be smart.

We had our first Civics lesson today which somehow kind of reminded me of form teacher periods at secondary school. I can't believe I actually volunteered myself as a class rep. o.0

But since I volunteered, I had to do a good job. This may be a chance to learn how to be more responsible.

And today, I got to know more of my CG mates! They are Darren, Thian Shin(sorry if I misspelt your name), Joshua, Collin and some others which I can't remember anymore! Sorry, I am quite bad with names... :(

It seemed like the choice to volunteer myself as a class rep is right! I got to interact more with the rest of my CG mates... Kind of a good idea. So I guess the opportunity cost this time is zero! (applying what I had learnt in Econs lecture) Cool! I am a genius! ROFL

After civics class, we had a short break and it's Chem lecture next! Cool, I forgot most of the O level basic stuffs... o.0 And worse is during PW lecture... Kind of boring... Haiz... And so I fell asleep... Nicholas was damn unlucky can! (I don't know why most people always use this "can" to end their sentence when complaining, can someone tell me why? Anyway, just trying to put it and it kinds of fit!).

The last lecture of the day was Economics and during the lecture, I didn't sleep! Wow. Didn't get some of the ideas during the lecture... Got to revise.

And after that, I guess I can go home, right?
NO, you had to register your thumb print for the biometric system thingy. LOL. This is for students who are late. They cannot mark their attendance manually and have to register their thumb print as an indication that they come to school but are late. o.0

I can't believe people are even queuing up for this thing. So, I went to eat at the cafetaria first, while waiting for the crowd to lessen. I wanted to try the pattaya rice at the Muslim stall but I had to wait for 10 minutes! In the orientation booklet on the topic of "what's delicious", they commented that Saints are willing to queue up for this. LOL. But here I am, getting impatient. Maybe I am not a saint. :( An impatient saint...

I also went to the Popular book store of our school. Kind of small. Bought another set of PE attire. Should I buy the House T-shirt of HOSE instead? Hmm...

Some of my friends cannot go home yet as they had to attend the Geography lecture. Pity them. Even though I can leave, I am staying put. Not for my friend's sake. Haha...

So, I decided to study at the library.
It's my first time visiting SAJC's library and it's quite spacious and well furnitured! It gives you that very comfortable feeling. Hmm.. Maybe next time when I want to catch a nap, I should come here...

I revised Chem and Econs for the next 2 hours and without realising it, it was already 4. o.0
Well, the revision session's not wasted. I got the general picture of the Econs lecture already... Feeling kind of relieved.

On my way home, I met Irene at the MRT station. What a coincidence! It seemed that her Ez link card's not working... HAHA...
We also met Pebrianti, an ex Shuqunite and our senior too. I heard that she got 76 points for her promo exams. o.0 Cool! Got to aim higher than her. I can do it! Consistency is still the key.

Finally, I reached Orchard and passed the Maths text books to Xiaoling. Another task done. I planned to revise Physics at home but now, it seemed that my plan failed. Otherwise, how can I still be blogging now? HAhaa...

THE BEGINNING OF LECTURES

2009-02-09T20:54:00.003+08:00

Today's a Monday which means, it's a whole new week!

School resumed today, the end of our orientation, the beginning of lectures... o.0

Last night, I went out with OG 15 for dinner. The dinner lasted for about 4 hours, inclusive of waiting for Huiying our OGL. HAHA

After our dinner+talks, we went to play pool. JJ invented the new way of playing pool so that all of us can play. Kind of fun... Minus 10! LOL

There were only Maths and Econs lectures for me today. Kinda relaxing at first... Should get tougher as time passes by. And OMG, whole A maths syllabus for our MSA1??? o.0

The queuing up for the lecture notes was hellish! Argh! Luckily Matthew helped us to buy the notes. Thanks dude! I will nominate you as the world's best friend! haha

I finally got my class today! C.G. 09S04

All of you must be wondering what the hell is this coding? What's this C.G. anyway, computer graphics? Or center of gravity? LOL

It's civics group and I don't know why they put it that way. As for the 09 in front, I had no idea too. Wait, 2009? Class of 2009?

In a nutshell, I ended up in class S04. None of the people from my OG ended up there. Adam's is S02 while Matthew's is S03!

As for Irene, she's at S05. Solo...

Hope I can make new friends with my new class... After all, most of us are taking the same subject combination, PCM H2. But there are some that took weird subject combinations such as H2 music, maths and chem! LOL... And last thing to comment, I really pity the class with 2 boys and the rest girls or 2 girls and the rest boys. Luckily my class consists of 13 girls and 16 boys... Huff...

Nicholas and some other students skipped Geo lecture today! LOL. So brazen. Irene skipped it too. First day... We don't have to worry.

And so, that's the end of my first real school day at SAJC. Went to Shuqun with Irene and Kathy to collect the CCA records. I wondered what do they need it for? But well, the trip's worthwhile too... Met Mr Soh and Mr Chan and we had a long talk about JC life and subjects...
Thanks for the precious advices. :)

LOITERING CAN BE FUN TOO

2009-02-08T14:58:00.003+08:00

This posting is dedicated for yesterday's outing. Yesterday, I went out with IG 29! WOO!!

After they had their finale night, we went out together to Taka. There were Samantha, Jun Da, Gordon, LJ, Zong Yang, Selva, Ernest and Lenard(my apologies if I accidentally left anyone out! :)

We dined at the food court. Initially we wanted to eat at Pastamania but someone objected and so, we went there instead... LOL

After having our dinner, it's about 9 pm. We waited for the facils to come, Michelle and the others...
While waiting for them, we played lots of games. At first, we played the number guessing game. The forfeits are all really embarassing! For eg>>> asking for chicken porridge at the chicken rice stall, dancing chicken dance at the public, saying hi to an uncle at the oriental noodle stall. ROFL! It was really embarassing... HAHA

After a few rounds, we changed the game. This time, it's the hand tapping game. LOL. The forfeits were also the embarassing kind. Goodness, all of you are representing CJC! o.0

Next, we went outside Taka to find an open space for us to play our new game. This game is called I never did (bla bla bla).
If you had done the things that the people said never, you add a number. Those with the higher numbers will do forfeit at the end of the game. I never knew Samantha is a jack of all trade! She had tried almost everything! And so, she ended up doing the forfeit which was hugging a big tree and shout out, I am a tree hugger! LOL
hahaha

I really had fun yesterday...

Today, there's another outing but with a different group. OG 15! haha...

Hope I can have fun too. :)

JUST, BEAT IT! BEAT IT!

2009-02-06T23:32:00.004+08:00

Due to some reasons, I am no longer at CJC... TT sorry guys! And thank you for the best time of my life! IG 29 rocks!

And so, I transferred to SAJC yesterday and joined their orientation, OG 15... Thank God they are friendly and Hi Hi Hi to my friendly OGL too! :)

Today's our finale night which was supposed to be the best day of the orientation!
ILIO will win this war! HEHE
Before the main event, we were entertained by the school's performing arts group. There's the concert band, chinese society(ROFL), Choir(can't hold my laughter), malay society, drama club and last but not the least, Guitar ensemble!
During the finale night, it was really damn high, I hollered till I lost my voice... But most importantly, I really had fun! Despite that the orientation programme had already ended, my OG friends were still very high! Taken too much red bull? no no!

The cheers were really funny, especially the sequia one! Sequia, lau kui ah, ka pui ah! hahaha

I also need to lose some enthusiasm. After the finale night, we have an OG debrief... We gave Huiying, our OGL, a flower! Haha... She was touched! Then, all of us yam seng together with, RIBENA??? cos its purple and purple is ILIO! Yeah, Wo shi ilio, yeah, wo shi ilio, yeah NI SHI LOSER! o.0

Some of our friends went home after the yam seng and the rest went to eat their sunner(supper+dinner?) at KFC and Mac, LOL, and they are still shaking it... Shake shake shake shake, shake it.

Thanks for the best Friday I had this week. Wait, there's only a Friday in a week! LOL
Next week, lectures start. Gotta turn up the engine! Don't slack and last reminder to all:

Don't join the student council, otherwise you'll all end up staying at the school till late at night just like Huiying! hahaha. Just kidding :P

DRAGON BOAT

2009-02-04T20:36:00.002+08:00

Yesterday was fun but today's certainly a blast! I haven't had so much fun with so many group of people for a long time already.

Today we went out of the campus for orientation programme and guess what, today totally thrilled me!

Upon reaching our destination, Kallang, IG 29 gathered and played some games (yuuhuu, games again! :)). We played the bottle naming? HAha... The rule's simple, pass down water bottle and you have to give a name to the bottle. Each time the bottle's passed to the next person, the next perso has to shout out the bottle's name. Of course, to increase the game difficulty, we increased the number of bottles. My bottle's name is Charles! Hi Charles!

This game's too easy for us and so, no one got the forfeit. Next one's the challenging one. This game's called feet stacko. It's like uno stacko but u have to build a tower, tall enough to outdo the other groups with only your FEET! HOLY!

Our opponent was IG 35, we had lots of matches with them! And so, the first 2 people, placed both their foot on the floor, one on top of the other. Next one had to stand up to put their single feet. I came 5th but by then, the feet stacko was already too high for anyone to place their feet on top! So how? Here's what IG 29 came up with. Actually, other groups also came up with this method... LOL

The stronger guys will hold the lighter girls and then they will be able to place their feet higher! This method helps to build 4 other foot onto our feet stacko! And at the last minute, we managed to beat the other group! Woohoo... But it's not over yet, we have to hold on at that position. Man, the game masters are damn sick! haha
They made us to sing Majulah Singapura before letting us down. LOL
In the end, we sang and finally, we could let go... WOO!!! We Won!

The next game started the water war. The guy had to piggy back the girl and the girl had to hold onto a cup of water that are poked with holes(so, you can see the water dripping out, :))
The team had to go to the other side and fill the cup of water onto a pail. LOL
35 won... It's now a tie.

Another game to our victory was the crab walk with spaghetti. A pair of boy and girl had to carry over a stick of spaghetti to the other side by squatting side ways to there. The last few pairs did great man! 2 pairs outraced one... Haha... great job guys!

At the next game, we have to cover the holes of the pillar with our hands and fill it full. The other teams will attack us by pouring water. LOL. It kind off ended up in a draw but at least its damn fun!

It's lunch next! And IG 35 also wanted to compete with us even during lunch. HAHA
so competitive. After lunch, we played the spiderweb, another team work game.

Team work means no integrity, let's help each other to cheat man! haha

Let's get to our main event of the day, Dragon boat!

This turned out to be the best. Thank you to those seniors or you can call them uncles, from Ngee Ann poly! Haha... We got first place for the first race and 2nd for the second race... Cool!
Our first try, not bad lah... IG 29's the best man!

Haha... The event's fun... but the washing up can be pretty tiring and argh...
After the washing up, there's a CCA briefing and afterwards, it's CCA bazaar! Cool! So many CCAs... Which one should I join? Hmm...

CAN'T GET ANY DIRTIER?

2009-02-03T19:54:00.003+08:00

2nd day at CJC... Only a word to describe this morning's mood, listless! God! During the morning briefings and all, I dozed off. LOL. Finally, after about an hour of briefing, there's something to perk me up. My IG is really so dead, what my facil said was true... haha

During the practice for cheers, our voices were even softer than the few facils. o.0
But it gets better after a while. After kind of getting the hang of those cheerings, we went to play some games next. First was the photo hunt. o.0
I remember playing this game once, at sec 3 camp.
There's also the hand tapping game(dunno what's the real name) and it's really fun man! hahaha
Don't be selfish guys... We played the game for a while only as we have to go to register for our subjects. To be continued later...

After all the activities, we went to the auditorium to practice the mass dance again! LOL. Today, we finished 3/4 of the dance... Huff!

And finally we got ourselves a break. Lunch time! The food at the canteen was not so bad... At least the queue was not so mad like when I was at Shuqun! haha

40 minutes after that, we entered a whole different world. It's time to get dirty.
The first game was the scissor paper stone game + sitting on dirty painted chair. The loser has to get out of the chair and the winner gets to shift to the other side. It was interesting and this involves many team work too. Haha but in the end, luck dominates all. :) The J2 students kept on pouring all those dirty water onto us. I will remember this!

We moved onto the next game which was dodge ball! The ball's soaked with water which makes it heavy and the rules are all about the same. So, it's time to rumble! The last game was the grossiest one. We played twister on top of the painted dirty mat. AH! I became a blue nose rein deer!
Since we still have some time left, we continued our previous game, the hand tapping game. This time, those who forfeit will have to do something gross. The game lasted for a while as we are quite pro you know! haha
In the end, 7 people from IG 29 have to forfeit. Our facil's included too... Hahaha. Good luck.
They did the caterpillar train movement on the mud. It looked like they just pooped on their pants. Poor thing! BUT, IT'S REALLY EXCITING. This game perked up our mood and I think, it made us even more bonded. Time to wash up. The paint didn't get off, have to scrub harder when I reach home.

Argh... So tiring... Tomorrow, there's dragon boating too. WOOO! Say good bye to my skin!

THERE'S ALWAYS A FIRST TIME

2009-02-02T19:33:00.002+08:00

Thank you for celebrating my birthday for me last night my friends... It was really quite a wonderful memory, gobbling up at Sakae Sushi, afraid that the time for the last order might come soon. LOL... Had a tiring night. But, I had to wake up early in the morning today!!!

Cos today's the first day that JC finally starts. GODNESS GRIEF! Took the bus 105 from clementi to opposite of CJC. It took around 40 minutes and there are no seats for me too. Sad...
Well, first day at CJC. I felt like I am one of a kind. A rare species. There's no one that I know there! All different uniforms too! I was kind of alienated. Really uncomfortable.

After a while, there's this talk that was damn boring... I almost fell asleep. -.-''
Luckily, the ice breakers spiced up the mood. It was quite fun engaging in games and activities with people that you are not familiar with. Through these games, we became acquainted with each other. Generally... :)

After the fun filled activities, here comes the main part of the orientation. The J2 students taught us how to do the mass dance! Gosh... it was so embarassing. But who cares, I don't even know you, you don't know me too! :)

We did the mass dance terribly but I believe after practicing for a few days, we'd be expert too... HAHA

Well, that's all for today, though they are kind of summarised and some details of the day were skipped too.
Kay then... Gotta love tomorrow's orientation. J1 CJC students, remember to bring extra pairs for everything and by "everything" I mean everything... Wkaka(eventhough I doubt that any J1 CJCians would read this). :P Ciao

BLUE???

2009-01-30T22:10:00.002+08:00

Chinese new year had not ended but it seemed that most of the excitement was gone already...
No more going out to visit other relatives, no more ang paos given.

My parents have also resumed their business after their 4 days break.
Hmm...

It can be said that today was one of my big day as well. January 30th, the day JAE posting is out.
I slept late last night, playing Crisis core and who would have thought that 4 hours after that, which was 7 am, I received a text message.

It was from MOE. And how ironical, I was posted to CJC. Soon after that, I began texting others to ask where were they posted to.

It really is ironic, from ACJC, I aimed to AJC(no C) and I ended up at CJC(no A).

LOL!

But, CJC's uniform is pale blue! God, I don't like the colour! Nooo... Am I gonna have to stay blue for the rest of my two years. Not to include all the mugging and all... Haiz...

Is JC really the correct choice? None of my classmates ended up at CJC. I am alone in a new environment. Can I do it?

I can do it last two years so I believe I can do it now too. Let's work hard everyone. Don't regret the choice you make. Don't look back. The future's still long...

CHINESE NEW YEAR

2009-01-26T23:42:00.006+08:00

This is the epic! Simply fantastic!

Yesterday's sumptuos reunion dinner, together with the gathering of relatives for the meal was simply a feat. No amount of words could describe the happiness within the house!
I could burst my stomach if I didn't control my appetite. Boy, I was simply bloated from all those delicious food. Lobsters, Steam boat, Shark Fin's soup and lots more (which I couldn't remember the names). 0.0

After dinner, we relaxed ourselves and had our dessert, longan drink, while watching Television show. Man, it was starring a gambling show, just like the previous years. It was about mah jong! What a coincidence, I had just learned how to play mah jong and there's this show starring during the Chinese New Year Eve. And the show was really funny... LOL. It was a nice way to enjoy life.

At 12 a.m. we went to the temple to pray. LOL
It was finally Chinese New Year! woohoo...
And dang, it was drizzling! This made the praying session really uncomfortable. Plus it was crowded too. God!
However, the weather's justabsolutely perfect... Not hot! The cool breeze made it easier. Maybe next year we should pray at midnight too. Yeah... Yawn...

After praying, we went home and Mom ordered us to burn some incense papers! Noo!!! I want to sleep... We ended all the chores at about 3 a.m. which then I immediately take a quick bath and fall to my deep slumber...

The next morning, a bright day awaits me! I woke up and took a bath>>> Yay! New clothes! Veggies for meal... Boo... Well, it is chinese custom to be vegetarian for half day during the first day of each month and the middle of each month.(according to lunar calendar).

Next, I wished my parents happy chinese new year and I earned myself ang paos... Mwahaha...
Simple money. I also went to my maternal grand parents house to pay them a visit and wish them happy chinese new year. It's ang pao collecting time!

After the harvest, we went back home and next, it was my relatives who came to visit us. Gosh! The house was almost crowded. My room! It was a pandemonium. But, this is really fun! =D

Took some pics of my cousins. Though I only posted some of them... :D

Angel together with Doraemon! That stuffed doll is my Bro's! AHaaha

Angel and her brother, should I say, the devil? haha

And last but not the least, Angel together with Me!

Soon after that, it's ang pao collecting time again. Wkk... LOOK AT MY ANGPAOS!

The cow's cute right?

All my angpaos...

The house returned to its normal quiet state after all my relatives had left. Next thing that comes up is dinner and then, we had to go to granny's house to pay her a visit.

Had nothing to do... Waiting for my parents to prepare themselves was simply too long!

Meanwhile at granny's place, some of my other relatives who turned up at my house today were also there. We played fire crackers together... Woo... It sure was exciting. I hadn't had much fun for a long time.

Chinese new year is really the peak of my excitement... Please, let everyday be like chinese new year! But my Dad's sure gonna be bankrupt if everyday's like today. Cos, he had to give countless angpaos to other children and receive none in return! Poor adult! =P

SO MANY DAYS HAD PASSED, IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY

2009-01-24T22:33:00.002+08:00

Didn't post for these few days as I went for a 3 days 2 night chalet, for the graduates of Shuqun sec... Boy sure it was fun, there were quite many activities.

And I finally learned how to play Mahjong thanks to Soon Huat! Hahaha...
The card games, night time ghost stories and the BBQ was really satisfying... Thanks guys!
The only thing I regretted was not going for the night cycling! Argh!

Now I am at my own home, at Batam! Chinese New Year's around the corner too! Cool!!! Angpaos! Time to fill my pocket with money. Hwahaha

Yesterday, I also went for my class reunion(my previous school at Batam). Unfortunately, not many turned up so the outing kind off lacked the element of excitement. But still, it was nice, gathering together again after a long time. Hope that our next outing will be merrier and there will be more activities.

Today, my family celebrated my birthday for me as today's 29 december(according to Lunar calendar, which is my birthday if I calculate using the lunar calendar system). Usually, I celebrated my birthday according to the International calendar system but since during that day, I will not be at Batam, so they used today to celebrate it! Haha... Cheers man!
My granny was also here to cook curry chicken and so she also gave me angpao for my birthday... Woo... Soon, I am going to get richer.

Kay then, gotta stop here... Ciao! Have a nice day everyone!

MALFUNCTIONING

2009-01-18T15:45:00.004+08:00

Is my body malfunctioning? Argh... It aches all over!

It must have been yesterday's basketball game. My body will experience severe pain if I had not done sports for a long time and suddenly did one. -.0'

Nonetheless, I still go to Brad's house and played basketball with Philip, Melvern and Brad.

After playing Basketball, we rested for a while at his house before finally changing to our swimming attire! Brrr... The water's damn cold. We slowly dipped our feet into the pool before finally immersing our whole body. Melvern jumped into the water and quickly swam to heat up his body. Haha... It was really a funny scene!

Swimming made us even more tired, especially after playing basketball. Therefore we didn't swim for a long time.

We bathed at Brad's house and went out to have lunch. Brad didn't go with us as he had to send his parents off. Filial.

Initially, we just wanted to eat something. Anything nearby will do. In the end, we ended up at the crowd-filled food court inside Jurong Point. Gosh! I made a wrong choice. I bought the food before finding a seat!So I had to look for a seat while holding my food. -.-'' Luckily I managed to find a seat for the three of us. Thank god for the food as well as for the seat! :)

Right now, the only thing I want to do is to get myself some rest as we might have a tough day tomorrow. Tough fun-filled day! And maybe after that I will dive into the fantasy world of FF7 Crisis Core, being Zack, running around, slaying monsters and protecting my beloved Aerith! :)

BON VOYAGE

2009-01-17T16:02:00.003+08:00

Today was really tiring! I didn't sleep much last night and have to wake up early in the morning to meet up with the rest at Toa Pa Yoh. LOL. Everytime we wanted to play basketball, TPY had to be the place...

Most people turned up! Usually Henry, Stanley and William didn't join but today they did. Haha... We had a large group.

We played from 9 till 11 plus before going back to Trellis. That's right, we had to send Alyssa off.

We quickly hailed a cab as soon as we changed into another pair of fresh clothings (even though my body is still sticky from the perspiration... LOL)

Luckily, we were able to make it in time to send her off... Good bye! Bon Voyage!

After sending her off, we went to Ajisen ramen to fill up our empty stomachs. Darn, they just couldn't stop grumbling...

In the evening, I went out again! Argh... Keep going out these days. My wallet had a big hole burnt on it.

We went to marina square and had our dinner at Cafe Cartel. The next one was a dilemma. We couldn't decide what to do next. Bowling? Pool? Or Arcade?

In the end, we played pool for an hour and used the rest of the time to play at the Arcade. -.-''

It was tiring today... Thinking that I have to wake up early tomorrow morning to play basketball with Brad and the others made me sleepy... I have to get some sleep.

TO BUGIS

2009-01-15T22:11:00.002+08:00

Actually, I didn't have any plans for today as I had initially planned to sing K with some school mates (wait, should be ex-school mates). Last night, I asked Hansi out first as he was the most problematic one. LOL. As I thought, he said he had something on.

So I asked him to return the tee that he borrowed from me last time. We planned to meet at raffles place initially but as he was late, I went to Bugis to meet up with him. And so, we shopped together instead... LOL. I thought he said he had something on?

After shopping for a while at Bugis street, we suddenly decided to sing K. It was a rather impromptu decision and so we asked the others out as well. Brad, Quanyi, Zhuohong and Yujie. Some others could not make it as they had to work. What workaholics.

We sang at top one from 3 to 7. The drinks are free flow and it costs $16 per person... Hmm, quite reasonable I think as we have 4 hours to sing. At first, our sound seemed weird. LOL. Especially Quanyi's. He also said it was like the voice he had when he woke up.

After some couple of songs, it became better. Poor yujie, she was the only girl in our group. haha

It was a good time and things were quite frenzy. Hansi left after singing with us and the rest of us went to have dinner at food court.

The rest of us went to shop for a while. I wanted to buy a bag so the rest accompanied me. Well, after looking for a while, I finally found one that I quite like. But after I bought it now, I felt that I shouldn't have bought it as it is white in colour which means that it can get dirty easily! Argh... What should I do know?

ALL O'ERS STANDBY

2009-01-14T22:52:00.003+08:00

What a tiring day I had today...

Went out with my HUA tuition group gang (Alyssa, Wileen, Givanna, Dicky, Ian).

At first, I wandered around Orchard to search for Alyssa and Wileen. Boy it sure was difficult to meet up with them. First Kinokuniya, then Art-Friend... LOL

Afterwards, Givanna and Ian arrived too. To the arcade! We played some basketball shooting and suddenly, Dicky turned up too.

Waltzed around there for a quite while. We window shopped at some shops selling action figures. Wow... There's also a shop selling swords from animes and movies. There are blades and katanas from Bleach. So cool! But the sword from LOTR is the coolest. There's a mini excalibur too... 0.0

We also went into a shop selling action figures from movies basically, star wars and harry potter. There's something damn interesting as well. Look at this!

Cool right? The actual model size of Chucky from Child's play! Hahaha it does look horrific. Ade due dambala... Give me the power i beg of you... Haha the chants.

After visiting those shops, we went to grab a bite at Fish market. LOL. It was really embarrassing as we made quite a din there by dropping the spoons and forks. But the other diners were talking out loud as well. There's also the birthday song. Haha :)

It's too bad that Givanna could not ask for an extension for her curfew from her guardian otherwise we'd be pooling for a while before heading home. And so, she went home first and Ian too.

Finally after walking around for a little while, we also headed home...

YESTERDAY'S MISSING

2009-01-13T18:26:00.002+08:00

Ok, huff, finally I got myself some time to update my blog. LOL. Speaking like I am a damn real busy man, actually I am not.

Let's start with yesterday>>> 12th Jan

Today's a big day for all students taking the 2008 O level exams as their results will be out today!
So was mine. After 45 minutes, I arrived at Singapore via the Ferry. With the little time left(I wonder...), I managed to make it back home and put on the school uniform. This is it. Today's the last day I will be wearing this! How touching... -.-''

After getting myself ready, I took the bus and arrived at my secondary school. However, something unexpected happened. I wasn't allowed to enter the school because my hair is too long. What the... And so, I had to wait outside the school gate. After a while, Hansi arrived. Owh, here's another guy with long hair. Yuhuu! Hansi, you can't enter too. However, I don't know why in the end, the teacher allowed him to enter even though his hair's long! Nooo!!!

And so he went in... After a while, Brad arrived too and was prohibited from entering. Same case with me... Haha

It was finally 2 which means that the briefing had started. Our group grew larger consisting of Brad, Quanyi, Zhuohong, Laihock and me. Haha! Trust us to be so proud of it.

Outside the school gate, I could hear the loud cheers and applauses. No, I want to see as well. Curious, I called Hansi and asked what's going on. It seemed that our school had made some improvement. Wow! Not bad... But what I wanted to know was not only that! I want to know my score!

And so, Ms Fun came out and told us that we can only get our results back at 4 pm after everyone have left. No choice left except to wait. The five of us went to the nearest coffee shop and chatted till around 3. From Hansi's info, we knew that everyone had left. Luckily we won't have to wait till 4. Mr Sami escorted us to a nice room with the label "Technological whatever". Inside were some other students who were prohibited from entering too. LOL.

And so we waited again. Hansi and Philip came to the room to accompany us. From those who have already taken the results, it seemed that most passed their English(the nemesis of O level). Finally, the long awaited moment came, though I have already lost all the enthusiasm in this. Mr Chan looked at my cert and said not bad. But it seemed that he was not so satisfied.

Hmm... Overall, it's not that bad! But not as good as I had expected.
The first thing I looked at is English. Wow! An A2... Sure I was happy since I had never got distinctions for my English during my sec 4 year... And I was relieved too at my A maths since I was able to get A1 for it. Here comes the disappointment. I got A2 for my sciences and CH. Argh... In school exams and such, I had always got A1 for these 3 subjects. However, I am only awarded A2 for these 3 during O level. Of course there is the element of shock as well.

And what got me irritated was my MT as it remained stagnant! Still a B3! TT Sorry Mdm Tan!

And so, my L1R5's 10 and with the bonus point, I got 9. I really must congratulate Irene as she became our top student! Congrats... Felt proud of her as we are both indonesians and are from Batam too... HAHA

I was quite happy about my results too because, most of my friends got around the same! Haha... evil me... Except Arsianne. Damn it! She actually got 6! Haiz... But I am also happy for her and proud as well because she is also from Batam and we used to go to the same school together(nothing got to do with her being a prodigy).

It seemed that the big rock pressurising on my heart had been let gone. It is finally right to officially declare our secondary life is over. To celebrate it, Hansi and Philip both went to my house. At night, we asked Shufen and Xiaoling out for dinner at New York. Cheers to the last day of our secondary school life! And the last day that I will be wearing this uniform.

After dinner, Xiaoling went home as she said she's too tired. The rest of us went to play pool. Fancy meeting Laihock over there! What a coincidence. And Shufen do enjoy being bullied by Laihock... Haha...

And so, we went home after an eventful day. Yet, I still feel weird... It seemed like a dream. I pinched myself to wake myself up. It did hurt. Which means, its reality... -.-''

Back to today>>> 13th Jan

After yesterday's eventful day, we also had another programme today. In the morning, I went to Philip's house and submitted the JAE registration via online. We were supposed to meet Hansi at Buona Vista at 12 to have lunch then to ACJC open house (though we can't make it there anymore... Huhu... it forever remains a dream).

However, due to some circumstances, Hansi had to make it to the place where we played pool last night to collect Philip's IC. LOL.

And so, the three of us met at Jurong East instead. At about 1 plus, we finally reached ACJC! Wow... It's really a good school. The first performance we caught was the singing performance. Wow, those singers really had good vocals. I still remembered the song "Sway" because Hansi continued to sway after hearing that song... -.-''

Next on the stage were the AC dancers. I must really hand it up to them. That was no simple feat! The coordination was really great. Simple moves can be carried out so well... They really deserve the loud applause.

I could see Hansi's awestruck face. Doenk..

We went to ask for the subject combinations afterwards to understand more about the subjects that we will be taught at JC. And so, here marks the end of our JC tour...

We were thinking of where to go next and Brad's house immediately came to our mind. We went to his house and played Basketball. Damn that Melvern, when his cousin's here, he completely neglects us... Is our friendship worth that less? Just kidding...

ONE DAY

2009-01-11T21:59:00.002+08:00

Tomorrow, is the day that destiny mends rift...

The day that man etches fate anew...

Life is like fireworks, the excitement can shine in bright sparks and roar in loud thunderous sound.
However, it may only be for a moment.

Cheh... How poetic.

Anyway, I do hope that everything will go on well tomorrow... Please! These two years of anticipation, let it be worthwhile!

Good luck to everyone for tomorrow! May God bless all of us! All the best!

I MISS...

2009-01-08T21:49:00.004+08:00

I miss my secondary school.
I miss those that are there, teachers, students, staffs as well as the trees(LOL).
I miss the alarm clock that rings when it is 6 30, signaling that it is time for school.
I miss the weekday blues that I face whenever there's school.
I miss the morning shower that brings me back from the drowsy world to reality.
I miss the bus that brings me to my school.
I miss the path that I have to walk to reach my school from the bus stop.
I miss jaywalking from the opposite street to the school.
Most of all, I miss getting caught by Ms Fun while jaywalking. (just kidding)

I miss the morning assembly, not to mention the pledge takings and the singing of the national anthem.

I miss the first lesson of every school day where I felt really energetic.

I miss form teacher periods with Mr Chan as he is a really wonderful teacher. I really missed his funny expressions and his sermons(not really much though).

I miss Ms Fun's English lesson that is a mixture of excitement and fear(don't really emphasis on this).

I miss Mr Jeffrey Chan's English lesson too for he never fails to ridicule each of us with his sarcastic statements. Not to mention some feeder jokes during the lesson, they really enliven the atmosphere.

I miss Mr Ong's SS lesson as he is the only teacher that sits on the table while teaching us. Together with his humor, the boring SS lessons that are filled with historical and present facts seemed to come alive.

I miss Mr Soh's Maths lesson as he made us into such a workaholic. His combo of 4 papers a week, I miss them, together with his countdown to O level and his favorite phrases.
(1.time and tide wait for no men. 2.your physiology affects your psychology)

I miss Mr Chan's Physics lesson as it was always rowdy and sometimes, quite sleep-enticing too(the reason for this was because, I was really too sleepy and was trying to steal a few minutes of sleep :P). However, it was also through his lesson along with Mr Liu's that I began to like Physics.

I miss Mrs Wee's Chemistry lesson as she had always demanded for a greeting before lesson starts. I miss the scoldings that I got from Mrs Wee when I was talking to Philip(darn you Philip, haha).

I miss Ms Sunarti's Geography lesson where she had always scolded the people from the back row due to the rowdiness. I also miss the Geographic facts that I try so hard to squeeze into my already-so-limited-brain-capacity.

I miss Ms Siti's PE lesson for its the only time where we can release our strains. I also missed Ms Siti's big tummy that used to hold her baby. I wonder how big is her baby now...

I miss Mdm Tan's interesting Chinese lesson and her friendliness with us young students. Her lessons are always so exciting that the boring chinese characters were easily etched to my mind. I really don't know what to do if she isn't our Chinese teacher.

I miss the bell that rings whenever it is recess time (stomach grumbles).
I miss the rushing towards the canteen.
I miss the Wednesday Fried Chicken that Chicken Revolution sells. Ironically, I also missed the sickening serpentine queue that was really common.
I miss the gathering together with classmates during recess time.
I miss getting caught for hair too.
I miss being late for school(though I had only done this twice... :P)
I miss going home from school with friends.
I miss the walk to the MRT station when going home as it was always filled with chatters.
I miss the Bubble Tea stall that Melvern and I used to buy bubble tea from whenever we go home.
I miss the Green Apple Milkshake! I know that Melvern will miss his Strawberry Milk Shake too.

I miss the PA for the MRT train (Please stand behind the yellow line. Though that lady's voice is not so melodious.)
I miss the 5-10 minute walk from MRT station to Aunt's house.
I miss topping up the value for my Ez Link card.

Finally to summarise the whole thing, I miss my school life...

IT'S FINALLY THE END

2008-12-31T12:27:00.002+08:00

Today's December 31 which means that it is the last day of 2008. This year had been a good year for all of us. Lots of fun-filled experiences and adventures (is there any? Hmmm...). Most of all, those outdoor outings with my friends have been a great source of happiness for me (hope it did to you all as well).

After today, you won't hear any of 2008 anymore. So let's enjoy the last day of 2008 to its fullest.

As the Old Chinese Adage says, "Jiu De Bu Qu, Xin De Bu Lai". Let us welcome 2009 now that 2008 is gone. This year will be even more exciting and thrilling (that's for sure! The release of the results... Gleg) than last year. Not to mention new expectations, wishes and paths to our future life as we had just ended our secondary life this year.

Thank you for the great year I had. Thank you 2008 and most importantly, thank you to my families and friends for making this 2008 even possible. Keep on working hard for another great year, the 2009! Woohooo...

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE

2008-12-25T18:45:00.003+08:00

It's finally Christmas! This calls for some celebration. Wait a minute, lemme prepare some fireworks to spice up the night's ambience. Oh, that was last night... Hehe... I am so muddle headed.

Christmas is always associated with wishes and gifts. (And don't forget me too, for I am the samaritan who will make good kids happy and bad kids sad. Yes, I am Santa Claus!)

Don't worry Santa, we won't forget you... :)

My wish for this Christmas is still associated with the word 'O'. Everyone knows what I am talking about, I wished that my O level results will turn out nicely... For me, that's already my best gift this Christmas.

Okay then, I wish that everyone gets to enjoy your Christmas! Merry Christmas!!!

JUST WANNA SAY IT'S DECEMBER ALREADY...

2008-12-01T22:19:00.001+08:00

Yep that's right, welcome December! Today, I shall stay at home and not go out in order to celebrate the first day of December. Kay, that's lame. Anyway, I really did that, staying at home for the whole day. Today, Edi came to my house too and we played some chess and video games. After my Bro's back from school, we played Risk together. And OMG, the game ended in about an hour with my Bro being the victor of the game! Darn, if only he didn't conquer Australia in his first step. Anyway, things don't look too promising for me since the start of the game, might as well end fast. Hehe...

Ok then, short post for today. I will try my best to make my December worthwhile. Happy 1st December!!!

BYE BYE NOVEMBER

2008-11-30T23:19:00.002+08:00

Soon, November will be over. Time passes really fast! It's no longer the era of the November's chopin. What's coming next? Santa? LOL. Yeah, it's time you wake up and start distributing presents for obedient kids!

Went to Grandma's house today. When I arrived, Olive jumped onto me and licked me incessantly. LOL. Too excited perhaps. And later, more dogs surround us. It seems they do react well to strangers, wait... I am not a stranger. Haha.

Initially, I wanted to play basketball with my cousins but something had to just ruin it. The weather's just nice too, not too bright and not too dark. Darn it, the irresponsible owner of that car, why did he park that car below the ring? We could do nothing else but wait for the owner of the car to move away that vehicle. Haiz...

Meanwhile, we watched Eragon. Honestly, I hadn't watched that movie before. LOL. It was quite nice. Fantasies are love...

After the shade had been killed by Eragon, I glanced outside to see whether the car had moved away. To my surprise, another car was parked at the sideway of the basketball court. Darn!!!

Luckily, we still had some space to shoot the ball into the ring. -.-'' And so, we moved into our little game. 10 minutes of play and the wind started to brew. Give the sky another 10 minutes, perhaps it will change. Who would have thought, rain started to pour and it gets bigger! No!!! There goes our little game.

Well, in the end, played PSP indoor and read some comics. Had dinner at granny's place and went home at about 9. Speaking of this, my hand still stinks after being licked by Olive. Had to clean it with dettol tomorrow. Night... Goodbye November...

SONY ERICSSON XPERIA X1... X2?

2008-11-23T22:39:00.004+08:00

Samsung Omnia, Nokia N96, Iphone 3G, HTC touch diamond... Hmm... These are all kind of cool. My current phone is on the brink of destruction. My siblings have bought new phone. It's time I pamper myself with a brand new one! Haha... Wonder my parents will allow it... :(

And I spotted one! It really suited my needs, sony ericsson xperia x1!

Catchy isn't it? Argh... I wanna buy one!!! Wonder if they have released it in Singapore or not...

However, there's also a rumor that sony ericsson xperia x2 is going to be released! If that's the case, better wait till x2 comes out. Wait, who says the bigger the number, the better the item?
Things like class position, L1R5 aggregates are better with smaller numbers. Haha... Time shall tell.

ACHING ALL OVER

2008-11-18T22:33:00.002+08:00

Argh... When I woke up this morning, I was aching all over. Don't know what caused this. Could it be my new stiff bed? Anyway, I could hardly make it to the bathroom to have a shower... Darn it... The day's not so beautiful either. These days, the sky seemed dark and it kept on raining. I don't like this... It's as if the whole world is a crybaby (copy from Naruto) and it just made my mood sour.

Today, went out with Mom to BCS then to Top 100. Went to the former to repair my laptop. Huhu... It seemed that my laptop is sick! Have to format it and reinstall all the things. Hopefully, the datas I kept in my comp won't be deleted along. Well, I told the staffs to save the datas in a flash disk before formatting it. So it should be fine.

Afterwards, we went to have lunch.Yay, I like nasi kuning(yellow rice) and pempek. It's been so long since I last ate Indonesian food. Love them... Eat to my heart's content.

At Top 100, Mom met up with Aunt and both shopped together... That means I had to wait for a long long time. You know, ladies shopping... -.-''
Bored, I went upstairs to check out the game corners. Initially I wanted to play pool to beef up my skills but later dropped the idea as I saw that there is a doll catching machine (or whatever you call it, an ufo catcher, that's what it is named).

Wow, it's damn cheap here, 1 coin for Rp 1000 (around 1/8 of a SG dollar). And for each tries, I only needed 1 coin. However, the machine's damn lousy. The catcher was too fragile. I could not catch a single doll. Darn it... Wasted Rp 20000 just on that.

Reached home, still aching all over. Moreover, my body's temperature was quite high too. It seemed that I had fallen sick. Groan... Hoped I can get well soon.
Right now, I am still aching will typing this blog... Ouch...

1ST DAY AT BATAM

2008-11-16T23:03:00.004+08:00

Waking up at my own room was really a nice sensation. Ah... Finally back to my own nest. After I woke up, I saw my Bro watching Doraemon and watched with him together. Haha... Doraemon is still a nice show after all these years. Reminds me of Jay Chou's MV of "Shi Guang Ji"(Time machine).

At the afternoon, Mom asked us out for shopping. Yay! Finally, I could have the chance to drive! I asked my mom to let me steer the wheel but she said NO as I had not drove for 3 months! After several pleas, she finally agreed. Yet, I made a blunder. While driving, a car suddenly intercepted in front of me and upon seeing the car in front of me, I quickly stepped the brake. But, my foot slipped the brake pedal and the car continued to accelerate. My mom shouted for me to stop the car and in a panic, I swerved the car to the side and stepped the brake pedal in time. Huff... Luckily, I didn't bang against the car. For a second, Mom's face was as pale as a piece of paper. LOL. She told me to go down afterwards and let her drive instead. However, I refused and pleaded her to let me continue driving as just now was only a moment's folly. Nevertheless, she let me drive again... I didn't made any mistakes again after that. See, I told you, it's only an accident just now! LOL :P

We reached the mall safely and I bought 2 shirts, 1 baggy shorts and a jeans. While testing for the clothes, I found an attractive jacket that kind of fitted the formal atmosphere(the one like prom night). However, it seemed that I had no use for it now. Anyway, took a picture of the jacket while I was testing for it... Haha...

After shopping for clothes, I went to play pool with my Bro. Cheap man, rp 18000(less than 3 SG dollars) for an hour!

At night when Dad's home, we dined outside. Bought a pair of shoes again. Haha... Seemed like I am on shopping spree. Anyway, the dinner's sumptuous too. Liked the black pepper crab the best! It's been so long I had not have crabs! I have a score to settle with those crustaceans. It's finger lickin good :)

HOME SWEET HOME

2008-11-15T23:07:00.001+08:00

Woohoo... After those continuous fun for 3 days, today is finally the last day this year that I will be in Singapore. Yep, I am going back to my hometown, Batam!!! Haha... After 2 months of being away from home, my homesickness is at its last stage. Batam, here I come!

Today when I was just about to pack up my belongings, I found out that the luggage that I usually used was broken. My aunt did not have a spare one either. Gosh, what am I going to do with all my belongings? Last resort was to pack up some of my clothings in my bags and leave some of them here in Singapore. Nevermind, they won't go missing. And so, I tried to squeeze as much of my possessions into my bags and only managed to fit in more than half. I underestimated the weight of the two bags, plus my laptop bag. Argh... While carrying those, I almost lost balance while walking. Taking train to Harborfront becomes a difficult task. In the end, I decided to cab there instead.

Meet up with Alyssa there at around 1 and we went to have lunch. Luckily she was there to help ease my burden of carrying my things. But, I didn't call her there with the intention of helping me to carry my things. Haha... Don't worry! :)

After having lunch, I went to book for the ferry but when I reached the place, there was only an empty shell. Where are the people that used to be at the counters that administered our booking procedure? They were no where to be found! I looked around and found out that they had moved to the third floor. LOL. It had just been months and everything changed so quickly. Wow...

And so, off we go to the 3rd floor. In the end, I managed to book the ferry for the time 3 25. Darn, I had to wait for 1 and a half hour! Since I had some time left, I went to buy an infant formula and tom yam noodle. To my surprise, the infant formula costed $54.80! o.0

I didn't have enough cash with me. Luckily, I could use NETS to pay for my purchase... Huff...
I never knew that infant formula is so expensive! Really, having a child is damn costly. Don't have child just because of the little gimmicks given to you by the government. I am not discouraging you all from giving birth to more children, but just think twice before doing that. You need a thorough plan to do this, otherwise, you will really suffer.

After 2 30, I could finally go to the waiting area and Alyssa left. Thanks for the company! :) And have a good holiday.

And so, I reached home safely(dozed for a while on the ferry)! My mom cooked lots of delicious food to welcome me home. Haha... Guess I am going to gain some weight during my stay there. Who cares, just exercise to get rid of the fats. Ahh... The feeling of being home is soooo nice...
I just love my new bed, missed the old one though - the smell.

ITS FINALLY GRADUATION

2008-11-14T23:23:00.004+08:00

After 4 years at this school (well for me, it had been only about two years), we are finally leaving this nest and are ready to unravel those difficult paths in front of us. We are no longer in our comfort zone after today. We lost something really precious, our shelter, our guardians. However, we had not completely lost them yet. It is up to us to determine whether we can still keep in touch with them or not. After today, we are no longer students. We are alumnus now.

Holy crap with all the rantings... Sorry2 haha... Well, that's what speeches of farewell are. Exactly the Mr Adrian Tan kind of speech. Today, many of the teachers gave their speeches. The principal's speech was really funny(the fish pond part) and about looking into inner beauty rather than outer beauty, i beg to differ his point of view. Initially when we get to know someone, we would of course see for their outer looks since we won't get to know their inner beauty before getting to know them well. We can't see kindness with our eyes, that's for sure. :)

After all those enlightening speeches, it was finally the time to the next event, the giving out of graduation CDs by form teachers. We hugged Mr Chan tightly as he passed the graduation CDs to us. Mr Chan told me that he will hug me even tighter when I come back to receive my O level results. Haha... You bet we will Mr Chan. We will give you a big big bear hug. The funniest one was Mr Ong's class. They gave Mr Ong a really big hug. Mr Ong, he's really such a joker. Yeah, I find it hard to forget him too. Before ending the graduation ceremony, the principal told us all to sing the school song. Since this was the last time, each of us sang really loudly as this was the last chance we got to do so. Kinda touching wasn't it?

Afterwards, we went to have our all-you-can-eat breakfast. Well, though its all-you-can-eat, I only nibbed a bit. And then, its picture taking session. We took pictures with our classmates and teachers as well. Too bad, Ms Fun didn't turn up! I really wanted to thank her for all the guidance these years.

The teacher shared with us their experience and well, I think the gathering was really nice. Well, good things have to come to an end eventually. It was finally time to part. Each of us bade goodbye. Kathy and Irene came up with the funny idea of people signing at their school uniform. LOL. Well, I think i had seen it somewhere before, yeah, during a birthday party.

The graduation ceremony came to its end. Each of us went home but it was not the end yet. We got another activity to lift our spirits up tonight! I went to Brad's house to watch the movie "Get Smart". The actress (agent 99) was a ravishing beauty! Wow... And the main actor was also damn funny! Haha... This movie's really good! Argh... Wanna watch it again.

At 5 30, I went to the MRT station to meet up with Brad, Chaolong, Laihock, Siyu, Gloria and Yujie. And off we go to K-box at Cineleisure. After settling down for a while there, Quanyi, Zhuohong and Hansi arrived. The party begun. We were really high, especially Chaolong when singing 'Xi shua shua'. LOL. During Hansi and Zhuohong's turn to sing the song 'King Kong' it was also hillarious... Haha... But I preferred the song 'Gu er zai' that they sung (though its in cantonese and I don't quite understand it) :)

Besides singing, we also ate a lot as this singing session was also accompanied by a buffet! Haha... Another all-you-can-eat! Gosh I have had these for more than 5 times this month. Burp...

When singing our last song 'Shi Jie Wei Yi De Ni', the staffs kept coming to us to remind us that it was the last song. LOL. Funny... And so, our party ended.

We went to the MRT station and boarded the train. Goodbye my friends, see you next year. Or maybe, we will see each other again sometime during this year. This was what Quanyi said... Haha...

THE END OF SOMETHING OLD

2008-11-13T23:37:00.005+08:00

Ehem... O level had finally ended... That was officially today, but for mine, it had ended yesterday. Cheers everyone. Alright, let's rewind the time a bit...

November 12th

I liked this day most because, it was the day I finished my last O level paper, Chemistry Paper 1!!! I could almost scream in excitement, but somehow I could not bring myself to that... Though everything's over, I felt that something was just missing... I felt lost. I don't know what to do next now that O level's over. In the past few days, my life revolved around studying for exam and coping with pressure by pampering myself to some de-stressors. But now, I really lost the directions. What to do next? Burn all my notes? Well, that's one alternative. I would like to do that but wouldn't that add to the air pollution? I don't wanna be like Borneo burning forest and bringing haze to her neighbour...

Alright, let's go directly to the main event. Right after our Chemistry paper 1 was over, well all of you should know what's our next reaction>>> check our classmates' answers!

Afterwards, we went home... The next good thing waiting for us was our BBQ party tonight! Look forward to it! At about 12 noon, I could only find Hansi at Brad's house. As usual, they were both dotaing. Since I am out of this line, I could only indulge myself in the falling-blocks-accompanied with-music-tempo game.

Meanwhile, things began to get boring. Philip was still hitting the shuttle cock and running with his racket. That lazy Melvern was still dozing probably. Initially, we had planned to swim and play basketball at noon but well, seemed like it was not possible anymore. To kill my boredom, Brad let me see the movie he downloaded on the net, "Ironman". It's a pity I didn't catch that movie last time. But yeah, I could watch it now. The movie was really hillarious and good. It was worth spending my 2 hours resting my ass on Brad's wooden chair and staring at his computer screen. After watching it for about an hour, Shufen and Xiaoling arrived.

Thinking back, it was kind of funny that both of them were tricked by me over the phone. I think I should be worthy of the title, the trickster... But I doubt any other people other than them will be tricked by me again... Woops... :) Peace! I like the peace sign>>> V

Later, Quanyi, Chaolong, Philip and Melvern arrived too. And so had my movie ended. Brad's house was at its fullest when Yujie's group turned up and we went out to purchase the drinks for our BBQ after a while of crazy moments there. I sent Shufen off to the MRT station since she didn't know how to get there(stupid right? :P) Meanwhile, the rest went to NTUC to settle their business and I was told to meet up with them at there to help carry the beverages. I had to rush back and meet up with them over there again! I think it was really unnecessary for me to go there since they already had enough manpower. Who said Singapore lacked manpower???

The sky was turning dark and it seemed that a heavy downpour was imminent. By the time we reached Brad's place, it had started pouring. Soon, phonecalls became a common thing as many more turned up at this time. By the way this was also the first time I saw Salai in casual clothing and he was wearing really formal! Haha... Got to see his other side. :)

Next, our greatest obstacle for our BBQ was the heavy downpour. We couldn't start the fire if it continued to rain. Finally, thanks to the umbrella, we could stop the rainwater from entering the fire pit. I wanted to thank the inventor of umbrella!(not the song umbrella by Rihanna).

Also, thanks to our An, we managed to start the fire! Bottoms to that. We could finally start our BBQ party. Boy, I was famished. Let's grill something to eat.

However, to our much anticipation, the food didn't turn out as nicely as we expected. Apart from some overcooked part, the inner part of the food was not yet cooked. -.-'' And most of the food was wasted... It seemed that our BBQ party this time was quite a failure just like Xiaoling said. First the rain, then the overcooked food. And finally, the food was not enough, instead we bought too much drinks. But who cares, we enjoyed ourselves that night.

As we didn't enjoy enough food, we decided to go for supper. The food hunt led us to >>>>

music background(drum hitting)(Guitar strings playing)(soft piano sound flowing)(the choir singing their chorus)(a shout of encore) and finally the (clown's laughter)>>> Macdonald's at Jurong Point!!! (the crowd booed)

LOL. After having our fill, we finally decided to go home... Home at last.

13th November

After the tedious night yesterday, I had to wake up early today at around 8 30 as I need to meet up with Chaolong, Brad and Melvern at 9 at the MRT. Yeah, we had a plan coming up again today to celebrate our ending of O level, that was to Wild Wild Wet(WWW). That damn Philip promised to go with us yesterday but went back on his words today... LOL. Nevermind, since I am a good guy, I forgave him... HAHA

We took the MRT from West to East. For Brad, it was almost true... Lakeside>>>Pasir Ris.

However to our surprise, WWW was not yet open! Who told us that WWW is open at 10???

In the end, we settled down at the food court and waited till 1 pm before we could go in... Damn, should have slept at home for a while...

After the long wait, we could finally enjoy ourselves by splashing ourselves with water! Wait, anyone with water phobia here? :D

Basically, WWW was much better than its neighbour, Escape Theme Park(ETP). It was really more worthwhile to go to WWW. "Escape" Theme Park... No wonder all the people who went there escaped after their first visit... Haha...

We enjoyed a lots of waterworks there. All the sliding, running and floating made us go gaga googoo.

The most enjoyable thing for me was the Tsunami. Initially, we tried to float there at the deeper region with the waves twisting around but we found that we could not endure the waves for 10 minutes! I swam back with Melvern and Brad to take the life jacket so that we could float. After the wave calmed down, I told Melvern that this was a Tsunami survival practice for us and we had finally survived the Tsunami... Haha... Till now when I was typing this, I could still feel that I am swirling(or was it just me and my imagination?)

The 3 hours of workout drained a large portion of our energy. We went to KFC to have Buddy Meals, yeah just nice for the four of us. As we still have some time left to dinner, we played pool till 7 and headed out to Kallang to have our dinner with Shiyu's group. We had steamboat again... Argh... I was getting tired of steamboat as I had just had it a few days ago... Anyway, just eat! :-)

To help digestion, Chaolong and the others cracked some jokes and there was also this burping contest(ok, that's gross, anyway, I did that too) There was one that was damn hillarious though it was not a joke. Initially, Chaolong told his friend Eric that he would force him to wake up tomorrow to join the graduation tomorrow. If he couldn't wake up, he will go to his house and pull his 'diao' (meaning penis in Taiwanese slang). And then, Hou zi replied, no don't worry, his handphone is in my hand. But Chaolong misheard it and heard "don't worry, his 'diao' is in my hand" and said, what's Eric's 'diao' doing in ur hand? What are both of you doing? LOL.

After stuffing myself till I could not stuff anymore, we left the place and headed home. I was so tired but it was really fun... Hope tomorrow's boring speech will be a good lullaby... Zzzz...

PRINCIPLES OF GOOD GOVERNANCE

2008-10-31T15:06:00.002+08:00

The first principle of good governance is 'leadership is key'.
This means that in order to achieve good governance, the selection of good, capable and honest leaders is very important as only with good leadership can the stability of the country be maintained and good decisions be made by the government. By choosing good leaders, then we ensure that our leaders will be pragmatic enough to ensure that they lead Singapore to taking the right decision rather than what is just popular.
An example of this would be our Government's policies towards traffic control in Singapore as many of these decisions, such as the quota system, Road pricing and COE are extremely unpopular decisions. Yet our leaders, if chosen wisely, will be willing to take these pragmatic actions because they are necessary to deal with the road usage limitations in our country.

LINK - link to the question

The second principle of good governance is for the Government to anticipate change and stay relevant.
This means that in order to ensure good governance, the government must not be afraid of change in order to stay current and useful. The government must be forward looking enough to try and anticipate the problems that Singapore might face in the future.
An example of this would be our Government's policies towards Singapore's water needs in the future. Currently, Singapore's water supply comes from our own reservoirs and from the purchase with Malaysia. What our Government fears is that we are over dependent on Malaysia for water. And if one day our relationship with Malaysia should ever worsen, it could become a national security issue for Singapore. In order to find alternative sources of water, our Government has invested heavily in technology like desalination and NEWater filtration so as to deal with this potential future problem.

LINK - link back to question

The third principle of good governance is 'decision making by all'.
This means that everyone in the country gets to have a say in the making of all important decisions in the country. This does not necessarily mean that all citizens get to decide on the decisions or actions taken by the country, but that all feedback and suggestions to the govt are definitely welcome and studied before the govt takes any action.
An example of this would be the govt increasingly accepting the suggestions and criticism of the people as part of the decision making process in Singapore, especially with regards to the recent debate over the construction of Integrated Resorts (IR) in Singapore. The debate was about whether we should build a casino in it, as well as the possible effect on the economy, morality and society of Singapore. Many Singaporeans gave their feedback on this issue, which the govt openly called for before making any decision on this.

LINK- link back to the question.

The last principle of good governance is 'to work for reward and reward for work'.
This means that in order to ensure good governance, the govt has to practice meritocracy, which is to reward people based on their hard work, not according to any other factors like race or religion. By doing this, the govt encourages every individual to develop their potential to its fullest with incentives, thus motivating others to work harder and help Singapore achieve greater economic success. An example of this would be the education system in Singapore which awards EDUSAVE scholarship and merit bursaries to Singaporean students, of any race, who perform well.

LINK - link back to the question

Weighing part based on the importance of each point by referring to the question.

Good luck for SS test. LOL.

Include only 3 points for every essay, 3 from the 4 points to choose from.

QUIZ?

2008-10-30T21:45:00.002+08:00

I am tagged by Yosephine.

1. The 1st person who tag/pass you is?
Yosephine

2. What is your relationship with him/her?
A friend

3. Your five impression of him/her?
klutz, comical, friendly, cheerful, easy going

4. The most memorable thing he/she had done for you?
Memorable as in easily remembered, that is asking me to do this quiz... LOL

5. The most memorable thing he/she has said to you?
Wad?? So long?? Since she had just said it seconds ago...

6. If he/she become your lover, you will?
No comments

7. If he/she became your lover, he/she has to improve on?
No comments

8. If he/she became my enemy, you will?
Never think of that... A friend is better than a foe don't you think?

9. If he/she became your enemy, the reason will be?
As long as it's not something unreasonable.

10. The most desired thing you want to do for him/her is?
Wishing good luck for O level

11. Your overall impression of him/her is?
Neutral

12. How you think people around you will feel about you?
They think I am myself.

13. The characters you love of yourself are?
Carefree

14. On the contrary, the characters you hate yourself are?
Lack of responsibility

15. The most ideal person you want to be is?
Mr Nice Guy (From Jackie Chan's movie) LOL

16. For people who care and like you, say something to them.
You won't regret caring and liking me! Pfft...

17. Pass this quiz to 10 person that you wish to know how they feel about you.

1. Chuckz
2. Yosephine
3. Raine
4. Silverberg
5. Philip
6. Melvern
7. Jiahui
8. Hazry
9. Weiting
10. Aldrick

18. Who is no.6 having a relationship with?
Umm... I think I know... Haha!

19. Is no.9 a male or female?
She's a girl.
20. If no. 7 and 10 are together, will it be a good thing?
GOSH! Never thought of that.

21. What is no. 2 studying about?
Studying what students must study, revise would be more appropriate.

22. When was the last time you had a chat?
Chatting while typing this.

23. What kind of music band does no.8 like.
Hmm... I am not so sure... I just know he likes music! Haha

24. Does no. 1 has any siblings?
Yeah, 1 elder sis, 2 younger bros...

25. Will you woo no.3?
O.O! Gleg.

26. How abt no.7? Valentine:
I am not sure...

27. Is no.4 Single?
Itching for a partner.

28. What is the surname of no.5?
Limantara/ Lim hahaha

29. What is the hobby of no.10?
Collecting Robots and drawing

30. Does no. 5 and 9 get along well?
They don't even know each other!

31. Where is no.2 studying at?
MPSS

32. Talk something casually about no. 1.
Getting stronger... Still the usual self...

33. Where does no.9 live at?
Ang Mo Kio or Bishan? Gosh!

34. What colour does no. 4 like?..
The greatest clue>> Silver!

35. Are no.5 and no.1 best friend?
Again, not acquainted.

36. Does no.1 have any pets?
No pets.

37. Is no.7 the sexiest person in the world?
Haha... You'd have to ask her yourself...

38. What is no. 6 doing now?
Praying for the release of Naruto manga tomorrow! Haha...

TIME IS RUNNING THIN

2008-10-04T12:39:00.002+08:00

As seen from the title of my blog. Time is really running thin, there are 16 days left to our first paper for O level! This is the only chance given to us to work extra hard. So don't give up, keep on putting in efforts. These efforts shall bear fruit eventually. We will reap what we sow. So, I have decided that today is the last day I am going to blog. I will resume after O level is OVER!

Well, time is running thin. Every precious seconds mean the world to me. I hope all of you share the same sentiments. Time is really a scary thing. It will not rewind, it will only move forward. So, hope that all of you are well prepared to make the best use of time. Remember, your destiny is in your hands. Goodbye, good luck...

Guess this post's too tensing... -.-''

CAPRICORN = MO JIE ZUO???

2008-09-30T18:42:00.003+08:00

What a daring day today! Tiny weeny time I got here to update my blog. Today at school, not exactly a big thing happened... LOL. It started first with Maths period. Well, all of you expected it, we have got lots of practice papers to do everyday. Mr Soh, the culprit.

But now, without his commands, we are rather automatic. The moment we stepped into the class, most of the students had taken out their Maths practice paper and started doing them. Gosh... What a disciplined class! I am rather proud... ^^ But unfortunately, I am afraid it is only for Maths. Since Mr Soh's previous disciplining methods really worked well and now that it had been going on for a while, without Mr Soh telling on us, we started doing them on our own accord. And to think, Ms Fun actually scolded us for doing too much Maths and Science and had neglected our Humanities and English. This somehow sounds similar to the population control scheme, Maths being the 'stop at two scheme' and English and humanities being the 'three or more' scheme. It's too late!

After Maths, it's Chinese lesson. Oh, I don't know why I always dreaded chinese lessons! Every time I heard that it's chinese lesson next, I would feel sleepy. Despite the spur I have got from my prelim 2, I still lack motivation. Anyway, today's Chinese lesson was kind of slow. I was getting listless... After that long hour, we finally ended our lesson!!! It was Geography next. Ms Sunarti did not come. Or rather, she came but went back at 10 due to some Moslem practice. No wonder I didn't see Ashraf after this. And without our teacher, we were almost out of control. Some even suggested that we went for our recess 30 minutes earlier than usual. LOL Just when we were about to make our move, Mdm Tan, our Chinese teacher, suddenly appeared! Gosh. We quickly went back to our classroom, in fear that she might punish us for leaving the classroom. Actually, she came to present to us our Children's day present!!! Whoaa... It's my first time receiving presents for Children's day from a teacher. Thank you Mdm Tan! Thank you for your kinder bueno. Hang on I am buenoing! :)

Alright, during recess, the stalls that we frequented did not open and thus, we have no choice but to queue at the noodle stall. To our surprise, a bunch of students suddenly sneaked into the queue, equipping themselves with the excuse of 'their friends helping them to buy'. People who were queueing up were frustrated and some even left the queue to go to other stalls. This problem still persisted in our school! Haiz...

And today, I finally found out that I actually got B4 for English as the teacher rounded it off to 60! Wakaka!!! Damn happy man!

Alright, guess that's all for today. Thank you again Mdm Tan for your gift. I will really work hard to get A1 in the actual O level for Mother Tongue. So far, for prelim 2, I managed to maintain the L1R5 B4. Hoped that in O level, it won't be any more than this... Well, let's just hope so...

Another thing to rejoice after school today. I asked raine to send me Jay Chou and S.H.E's new songs. Hehe... Well, I shall enjoy it first then... ^^

THE CORNERS, THE EDGES

2008-09-25T15:16:00.002+08:00

It's been a long time since I last updated my blog... Too preoccupied with gaming lately. Gosh, where's the mugging spirit? Haiz... I failed to muster enough enthusiasm to brace up myself for the upcoming O level.

Well, finally, our prelim results are all out! I think, this prelim 2 is quite badly done... Please reflect author... Yes, I will... TT

English: C5(59.8) I am so so terribly sad...
Chinese: A1(75) Wakaka... I can't believe this... I am so damn happy!
Combined Humans: A1(78.5) Lucky... huff...
E maths: A1(93.3) Need to work harder.
A maths: A1(88.9) Terribly sad
Physics: A1(87.9) Finally, something worth cheering! ^^
Chemistry: A1(78.8) Urgh... Hope I can do better in O level

Well, overall, I have retrogressed in prelim 2 compared to prelim 1. It should be improved and reflected upon, especially English! This prelim awoke me. From now on, I shall devote myself to improve my English(Hope it's not all talk). Alright... That's all for today's post I guess. It seemed that the subjects I fare badly are linked to Ms Fun. EL>>> taught by Ms Fun. SS>>> marked by Ms Fun. LOL! Anyway, after figuring it out, it's not her fault at all. For EL, it's Mr Chan who marked anyway, and I did not have much confidence in the tough paper he set either...
For SS, Ms Fun marked it very strictly. Glad that she did, since this is what we will be expecting in O level. Gotta work harder. Everyone, good luck for O level! Ciao!

DIN DIN...

2008-09-20T23:19:00.002+08:00

After our Prelim's over, we will be receiving our prelim papers, am I right?

But it's not that case... For this week, we had only received our E maths, Physics, Chemistry and Mother Tongue paper. Well shall not talk about them yet. I will only talk about them after I have received ALL the papers.

Okay... A lot happened this week, so much that I didn't have enough time to update my blog... Actually, want to let it rot till O level's over... Haha... Too lazy to blog.

I started gaming. Harvest Moon back to nature was the first game. I played it in PSP and it was quite fun, farming life. I indulged myself in the game so much that I think i had begun neglecting my school work. However, the greatest obstacle had just begun. Today, I downloaded Nintendo DS emulator. Gosh! We can play Nintendo DS game in computer now! So, I downloaded Pokemon Diamond. Hahaha... It's another obstacle for me. As I said, temptation is a dangerous thing when u succumbed to it. Hoped I won't succumb to my temptation starting from next week as I will begin mugging!

Today, I went out to have dinner with my Hua friends, Alyssa, Bull, Wileen and Givanna. We went to Orchard and have our dinner at Din Tai Fung. Gosh, it was so packed. The serpentine queue demoralised me, especially when my stomach's already grumbling. The queue number we hold is 201. -.-'' luckily, we had to only wait for around 40 minutes and we can have our seat! We ordered Xiao Long Bao and noodle. The xiao long baos were so small but it was really delicious. The soup inside the Bao was really good. I broke some of the bao when I was using my chopstick to pick it. LOL. What a waste. After having our sumptuous dinner, we decided to find a place to have dessert. And so, we walked, searching for a 'suitable' place to have our dessert. First, Alyssa suggested Anderson but as we walked, we eventually ended up at Macdonald's. Haha

Mcflurry for dessert. We were feeling kind of thirsty after the dessert and so, we were wondering whether mineral water is offered free in Mac or not. However, no one mustered enough courage to ask for free drinking water. ROFL... In the end, Alyssa gathered enough courage and asked for free drinking water! Yet, she was given a tiny plastic cup filled with drinkable water. -.-'' They were kind of petty huh... In the end, Bull and I bought evian and had our fill of mineral water.

Today's dinner was quite pleasant. However, I had burnt a hole in my pocket... Well, worthwhile... I doubt I will be able to splurge like that again. Afterall, O level's coming! I won't get much chance to go and hang out with my friends. After O level that is...

IT'S OVER! POSTPONED LONGER...

2008-09-15T18:44:00.002+08:00

It's over! Wait, if you think like that, postpone the sentence to November 12 (for myself) the date varies but should be around that time.
Yeap, Prelim 2 is finally over! Huff... However, I am really not satisfied with my performance, especially for A maths and Geography... TT
Really sad...
Hoped that I won't make such grave mistakes in the actual O level exams...

Alright, today our Prelim 2 is officially over. It ended with our A maths paper 2 which I would like to say was satisfactory... Hoped that I can get the marks that I wanted... hehe...

Today, a terrible thing happened. I was actually late for the paper! Argh... I woke up at 7 am and arrived at the bus stop at 7 15. I waited for so long that it seemed like forever and the bus finally came at 7 30! -.-''
To top it off, it was raining drastically huge! The rain caused lots of inconveniences like traffic jam and all sorts. I hate rain during the morning school days! Argh... It gave the the Monday blues.

After thinking that I was safe inside this colossal vehicle, the next thing I knew was the traffic jam ahead of me. The bus moved like a snail and would only move a meter or so within 10 minutes! (exaggerated).

And to my horror, I arrived at the school's bus stop(3 minutes walk to school, 1 minute run) at about 8 a.m, which was the time the exam began. I ran as quickly as I could and reached the school panting. Not wasting a single precious second, I rushed towards the 4th floor (combo after running) -.-''

I was almost out of breath by the time I reached the classroom and of course, they had already started the paper 10 minutes earlier or so.
Hence, I still took the Chemistry paper 1 with them... TT sad thing...

Anyway, I am grateful to God that I was able to finish the whole paper... Huff... 'cept 1 question which I was hesitant to answer at first! In the end, I decided to answer it but I didn't have the time to shade the answer in the OTAS paper!!! Really exasperating...

Today ended quite well except that I was ruined due to the big rain. I even lost my umbrella when I was eating with An and Philip. If Aunt found out about it, I am a goner for sure... Better find a replacement as quickly as possible. Anyone knows where to buy an umbrella? LOL just kidding...

During the weekend, I watched this Japanese drama '1 litre of tears'. Some of you must have heard about it right? Yeah, it was serialised long long ago and I was way beyond time cause it was actually my first time seeing this drama! LOL.
It was really a touching drama... I was on the verge of tears but in the end, I did not cry. Even if I cried, there's nothing wrong right? (who wouldn't anyway?)

If you hadn't seen this drama, go and take a look... It's really good. Don't see the movie, there's a movie for it. The main actress in the main movie is not as cute as the main actress in the drama. (speaking in the point of view of a healthy young boy).

Here's the MV
1 Litre Of Tears MV -

Enjoy! Yay! There won't be school tomorrow! Haha... One day break... -.-''

THE FALL OF VENICE

2008-09-07T15:18:00.003+08:00

What? Venice just rose and now it fell? LOL... Here's the reason for the fall of Venice.

One of them was due to foreign threats. Venetian Government faced lots of foreign threats that were not present during the rise of Venice, but came to prominence later such as the Ottoman Empire and the League of Cambrai. In the 15th Century, Venice fought several wars with the Ottoman to gain control over the Adriatic sea. Venice sought alliance with the European powers like France and Spain to fight with Ottoman. However, Venice kept shifting alliance for best advantage and this made the European Nation to lose their trust in Venice and caused hostility towards her. This led to the formation of the League of Cambrai which was an alliance between European powers that sought to remove Venice of her power over the region and Italy. Although they did not manage to defeat Venice, the wars with the league drained and weakened Venice's army and resources. This means that Venice was weakened as the constant competition and wars with European powers had drained her wealth and resources. Venice had to pay for the great cost of the wars, increase her weapon supplies, as well as the hiring and paying of mercenary armies. These all took Venice's attention away from her trade and made her suffer in trade. Also as Venice was only a sea power, she couldn't defend the land forces of European power and overland trade routes became unsafe for merchants.

The 2nd reason was due to the maritime competition. Venice began to decline because of new European powers that competed with Venice for business and removed her monopoly of the trade in the region. In the 15th century, the portuguese found a new route to India. Though longer, it was considered safer. This removed Venice's monopoly as they can now directly buy the spices from India and sell it to other European Nations. Hence, Venice no longer enjoyed the same profits as before. In the 17th century, new European companies like the British and Dutch East India Company emerged. They created better and faster ships that bypassed Venice trade route and were able to buy spice directly from India too, hence, seizing Venice's profits. This means that the great trade that Venice enjoyed was slowly being eroded by the competition from these trading empires. Venice's monopoly was also broken due to the discovery of the new trade route and faster ships. Hence, Venice was no longer able to enjoy the same profits before to sustain her large army and government.

Another reason was due to the poor political system. Venice started to fall because Venetian government was not responsive to changes in society and political world around them. These poor political systems are as follows:
The system of choosing leaders that Venice used was weakened by the lack of talented man due to plagues and diseases that struck Venice in the 17th century, as such, the quality of leadership was affected by the shrinking population.
The rotation of duties in the government meant that no one was able to dominate the government. However, it also meant that a good official will be removed from his post after one term. So in an attempt to end nepotism/ corruption, the government ended up removing good officials from the government.
Due to the great cost of the wars with the Ottomans and the league, the government suspended the salaries of its civil servants. This meant that nobles and officials working for the government now began to take bribes and sell posts to make money, hence corruption in the government.
Venice also suffered military weakness as the rotation of duties would mean that most of the military commanders were untrained for the job. Most were either scholars or had held skilled diplomats and ambassadors posts. Venice also depended heavily on mercenary armies as Venice had small population that majored in trades and industrialisations. They were not reliable as they can switch sides easily when offered higher money.
This means that Venice was weakened by the lack of change in the political system which had remained the same since the 12th century. What was considered modern was now outdated and had led to much corruption.

The last reason was due to the lacklustre attitude of the people. Venice began to fall when the attitude of the people began to change as Venice became wealthier. Venetians were no longer concerned about the military and defence of the nation as the country grew richer and was able to sustain larger and larger mercenary armies. Later when Venice was no longer as rich, they were not able to sustain large mercenary armies and the attitude of the people make it harder for Venice to recruit soldiers from the people. As the gap between the rich and the poor increased, the society became more divided. This worsened when they saw corruption becoming more common in the government. Lastly, the attitude of the people changed as they were no longer so hardworking as Venice became wealthier. They began to pursue entertainment often and this affected the industry development of Venice. This means that the change in the attitude of Venetians began to erode the basis of the success of Venice. As a place without resources, Venice depended heavily on the people. With the change in attitude, Venice's trade slowly began to suffer and eventually collapse.

THE END... Quite a sad story...

THE RISE OF VENICE

2008-09-07T14:34:00.002+08:00

There are many reasons to the rise of Venice.

One of them was due to the capable and farsighted leaders. The capable leaders greatly contributed to the rise of Venice. Various Doges through time used diplomacy to ensure peace around Venice's trading region in the Adriatic sea, then started an aggressive military policy to deter powerful neighbours, and started expanding Venice as a trading empire. For example, Doge Pietro Ziani expanded Venice through conquest, and set up military outposts all along important trade routes to Venice to protect the merchants. This means that it was due to the capable and farsighted leaders elected by the Venetians that were responsible for implementing the policies that changed Venice from a weak trading nation that was eager to maintain friendships with her powerful neighbours into a military and trading empire that controlled the trade of the whole region.

The other reason was due to the effective and modernised government. The government did not remain stagnant but expanded and modernised constantly to meet the growing needs of Venice. Membership on the government was added by creating the Great council to assist the Ducal council in running civil service. As Venice grew, more committees were added to handle government affairs, such as the Council of 40, which handled laws and finances, and the Senate was created to handle foreign affairs and business. The government also modernised to prevent corruption and nepotism in the government by creating the Council of 10, whose job was to monitor the Government. They were empowered to arrest anyone, even the Doge, as no one was above the law in Venice, so as to prevent anyone on the government from becoming too powerful. To prevent corruption in the election, the Nominating Committee was created to select election candidates through ballotting, so that no family could dominate the government. Once elected, no one could select/reject the post given on the government. So, nepotism or corruption was impossible. This means that the Venetian government was constantly changing as she became a powerful trading empire. She expanded constantly and added membership where needed, as well as created efficient committees to prevent corruption on the government.

Another reason was due to industrial development. Venice also became an industrial centre for Shipbuilding and as the industry grew bigger, the government moved the shipbuilding to a centralised location called the Arsenal, so as to not take up space and pollute the main trading port areas of Venice. The Arsenal produced and sold so many ships that it was largely responsible for Venice's economic success and large and powerful Navy. The industry also produced consumer goods like glassware products. These were easily sold as Venice was a trading center and created many jobs for the locals, as well as attracted many skilled workers to Venice. This means that Venice's success was partly due to the industrial development that made Venice a manufacturing center. Therefore, Venice not only depended on her traded goods, but also on her own products for sale. This increased her trade profits and improved her overall economy.

Another reason for Venice's success was that the government implemented several practices that made doing business in Venice very easy and convenient, such as double-entry bookkeeping, which enabled businessmen to check their financial records more easily and accurately, and giro banking, which meant that businessmen can now conduct transactions without the need of cash payments and money changer. The payment can later be collected in Venice Banks. This means that Venice became the easiest place to do business at that time, and became a popular destination for merchants. Together with her advantageous geographical position, it enabled Venice to gain control of the trade in the whole region.

Last reason for Venice's success was due to the rapid and huge expansion in trade that Venice enjoyed. These were for several reason.
Venetians were skilled diplomats were able to negotiate favourable business terms like lowered business taxes with other foreign governments, which increased their profits.
Venetian sailors were also avid explorers and many new trade routes and foreign lands were discovered by the merchants, which expanded Venice's trade worldwide and made Venice a cosmopolitan city.
Improvements in Navy technology such as the invention of compass and nautical charts have also made travelling further distances much safer.
Venetian shipbuilders were the best in the world that time and their ships could carry more cargoes over further distances as they were both oar and wind propelled. An example is the Venetian great Galley which was larger and faster than other ships of its time.
Venetian Government also organised business voyages efficiently so as to increase trade profits. Venetian merchants ships travelled in convoys to avoid pirate attacks. Venetian merchants also agreed to hold fix prices to maximise profits. Also, Venetian government organised timing and goods brought along for business voyages.
Venetian government also fought off rival trading port cities like Genoa by attacking their ships with navy and chasing away their merchants.
Finally, as they fought off the competition so successfully, they were able to monopolise the trade. This means that the whole trade in the region was controlled by them. Thus, they were able to sell more goods further and enjoy greater profits by selling them at high price.
This means that Venice used these successful methods to expand her trade in terms of volume and distances, enabling Venice to to offer more variety in her trade goods. This made Venice to be able to monopolise the trade and European Nation had no choice but to buy from Venice or suffer loss in trade.

THE END...

PRELIM 2 STARTS

2008-09-05T21:50:00.002+08:00

It's been a long time since I last blogged! Today's our September holiday's fifth day. By the way, we never had the September holiday anyway... What am I talking about? LOL...

Today was also our EL Prelim 2. The school tried to imitate the O level schedule and so, we had our exams at 2 30 in the afternoon. This means that I get to sleep longer!

Comment about today's EL paper 1 and 2. DIFFICULT! Haiz... Things should get easier the more you do them right? For example, Maths and A Maths should get easier the more you do them. Sciences too. However, English is different. The more you do, the harder it gets! Argh... This is one tough nut to crack.

The Comprehension topic's on Trojan war and Helen. Though the I had a bit of interest in historical things, the passage did not seem any easier... The questions were even more menacing as the majority of the questions were in the form of 'in your own words'. -.-''
Of course, we don't see Mr Chan using that phrase in the questions often. He actually rephrased it>>> "Not copying any words from the passage". Clever right? -.-''

The vocabulary questions were also very difficult... I had never seen the words before. And that means, we have to depend on the contextual clues... There are clues though, but we are not sure whether it is accurate or not... Again, what a day.

Let's just hope that our actual O level won't be so difficult... And also, please, let me pass my paper 2... I am sick of thinking that I will get the same result as my Prelim 1 for English...

Today's exam ended at 6 40... We will also end at around this time when we are sitting for the actual O level exam for English.

Among all the subjects, the most important one is English. Without English, it is nothing even though we scored straight As for all subjects. So, let's just hope that everything will turn out well.

Despite today's hard day, we actually got to enjoy some entertainment. Guess what, Naruto and Bleach chapters are out today. Check them out at onemanga. Hehe... These things never failed to entertain me. That is why, I love Friday! Alright, guess that's all for today.

And one more thing. I think I am going to take a leave for a while to cope with my Prelim 2. Will be back ASAP once Prelim 2 is over. But then, O level is coming!

When will I see the true daylight again???

PAIN

2008-09-01T17:09:00.004+08:00

Sorry for not posting during Sunday. This is our weekly sharing session again!(postponed to Monday).

For today, I will be talking about Pain.
Not the character Pain in Naruto...
Picture:

What exactly is pain? Some refer to it as a feeling of discomfort, thing that causes suffering or suffering that also causes it due to certain circumstances. It is something that resides within us wickedly. In general, it is definitely not something to rejoice about.

In this world, there is 2 types of pain. The physical pain that inflicts a feeling of hurt on our physical bodies (injuries, illness) and the mental pain that seizes our mind(trauma, heart pain due to extreme sadness, grief). The former is not invisible to the naked eye and can usually be healed by consuming medicines or applying other methods to reduce the pain. It will eventually be gone. The latter is the problematic one as it takes more than that to fully eliminate the pain away. Some people say that time is the best medicine for it, however there are cases that the pain inflicted did not go away.

Once the pain is inflicted, it leaves a scar forever in our mind. Those with weaker mentality, allowed the pain to slowly take away their entirety and fully devour them. Some chose to end their lives as a way to put an end to their sufferings as they could not stand the pain. However, they had never thought that when they were gone, their closed ones will grieve upon their death and at that time, the pain inflicted on them is even more menacing.

Pain is a never ending cycle. It continues to live as long as there are humans. The reason is simple. Human creates pain. People rage wars and cause pain among themselves. Those who triumphed the war have a brief moment to enjoy their victory and yet when it ends, the pain of losing their comrades slowly came back to them again... It's never going to die.

It's unbearable.

The people who lost the war not only loses that. They loses everything, their homes, families and friends. The pain they experienced is hellish. Yet, those who overcame the pain, will learn to be strong and are able to handle pain more effectively. They embraced pain and set it as their willpower to live, to live in pain that is. Sometimes they felt that the people who did this to them must also experience the same pain as they did. And so, this gives birth to yet another war, the source of pain...

Pain is going to reign again.

Some people claimed that they never felt pain. It is actually a facade. In the process of trying to hide away their pain by putting up a brave front, they suffered even more. Sometimes, it's good to let your emotions flow, let the pain take over your body for a while, let the tears flow freely. It's not good to coop everything up inside of oneself. You may burst.

If you ask me what's the scariest thing in this world, my answer is not death. It is eternal pain...

SUPPOSED-TO-BE-HOLIDAY

2008-09-01T16:53:00.004+08:00

The supposed-to-be-holiday is now officially normal school days to us. Today, we have to go to school at around 10 15 for SS remedial. Mr Ong went through Venice essay topic with us. And we are now over with it... The essay topic seemed easy... I think that I am going to attempt this topic during the O level. Hope it comes out...

The remedial ended at 11 30 and we went out to have Brunch(Breakfast+lunch) as the school canteen is closed. The food outside is definitely tastier than our school canteen's. But still, the school canteen's food is not that bad exactly... hehe...

We had another remedial at 12! English remedial! Haiz...

We were getting sleepy, that's not an often disputed fact. Luckily Mr Chan managed to liven up the whole remedial session. LOL. He made some very funny sentences when he was discussing about the vividness of our expressions in compo.

Then he went on further and said: Well, you can write one simple sentence at testimonials too, for eg: Leslie is hard to find. (At this point in time, we thought he was praising Leslie)
Suddenly, he added: Yeah, of course Leslie is hard to find, Leslie's always not around in school. (LOL! The whole class laughed)

Next, when he was stressing the fact on similes, he said: Usually, all of you would come with this sentence: He is as fat as a pig.
Well, you might as well say, he is as pink as a pig. Haha... Funny...

And he also said: Sometimes, certain sentence can already make enough sense. For eg, I forbid this guy to breed. It can be known that we want him extinct. LOL! No offense!

Mr Chan is really sarcastic!

Well, the remedial finally ended, at around 2... Tomorrow, there will be Chemistry mock exams as our Remedial! NO!

UNTITLED

2008-08-30T22:27:00.003+08:00

Here's another weekend for us to relax ourselves before the tightening prelim and O level...

Today, I went out with some of my Hua friends (Bull, Lysa and Apang) and one of my Hua teachers, Mr Lau. Today's outing was meant to celebrate teacher's day for him, or was it for another thing? LOL...

I reached Dhoby Ghaut at around 4 30 and went to meet up with the others at Plaza Singapura. Gosh, they were actually studying! This suddenly seemed like a group study. -.-''

We studied and chatted for a while until Mr Lau came. Next, we went to check for any movies available. Starwars was on his mind. Godness grief... The time slots were unsuitable. Furthermore, the serpentine queue was even more 'fascinating'... -.-

Realising that, we decided to watch our movie at Cathay instead. Luckily, we managed to get our tickets there... Later, we found ourselves participating in this F1 quiz thing... There was an ask and answer session... We managed to win 2 books of the theme "Meet the Spartans" due to Mr Lau! Haha... But it was too bad, we did not manage to win the watches...

After everything was settled, we went to hunt for food at a nearby restaurant. It's Mr Lau's treat! hehe... Bull didn't eat a lot, a contradiction to his nick... hehe... He told us that he had a buffet for lunch at Sakae this afternoon. Grr...

Anyway, after the meal, we went to the cinema and watched Starwars, the clone wars... It was boring at first and I almost dozed off... Since I had never watched any starwars before, the whole thing seemed quite foreign... Until the middle part, the movie was getting interesting as the fight became quite intense. I watched on and found out that it was actually quite interesting. The movie was also a bit comedic, especially on the part of the droids' reactions... LOL.

Afterwards we each bade goodbye and I took the train home alone as they boarded the train on the other line. Quite sad... Just kidding, used to it anyway...

And so, my Saturday ended. How is my Sunday going to be? Well, who knows what will happen tomorrow...

NARUTO OPENING

2008-08-29T22:26:00.004+08:00

Here's another post just for entertainment... A naruto ending theme.
The title's Sunao no Niji, the ending theme of Naruto Shippuuden.
In here, we can see the more realistic sides of our Naruto characters... Enjoy!

Sunao na Niji - Naruto Shippuden

'LUCKY' TRAIL

2008-08-29T21:26:00.002+08:00

Happy Friday! Today we had no school lessons, but still, I must wake up early to prepare for the 4 km run at Bukit Batok Nature reserve today. I even woke up earlier than usual as I had to take the train to Bukit Batok to meet up with Philip and the others at around 7 am. So, I prepared myself and set off. Luckily, I made it there at around 7 06. Melvern was even later. After all of us were there, we took the bus to the venue.

Many of the students have already assembled there. I didn't see any faces that I was supposed to see. It was because they were on duties! LOL... They have volunteered to help long ago. I should have volunteered too!!! Those who volunteered to help do not need to run the 4 km. At the point in time when we were about to rush to the starting point, I felt the sudden urge to use the toilet. Melvern accompanied me to the toilet. This is 'lucky' even number 1. When I was about to lock the toilet door, I accidentally clipped my thumb nail against it. Argh!!! It turned black... What the hell... According to wikipedia, this is what you call subungual hematoma. Here's further info about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subungual_hematoma

Damn... And the pain is still unbearable now. I can't even write properly... -.-''
After that incident, 'LUCKY' event number 2 comes. By the time I got out and rush to the starting line with Melvern, the rest had already started running! They were already 20 minutes ahead of us!!! What the hell!!! We ran as fast as we could to catch up with them but it was to no avail... And so, we kept running... The 4 km seemed quite short when we were in a hurry... I ran as quickly as I could and still could manage to catch up with some of my classmates who are walking their way there... LOL. By the time I reached, almost all my classmates are there already... Sigh... Then, the people waiting at the finishing line asked me for my number tag. To my horror, I actually left it at the toilet!!! What the hell! What was to happen now? This is then my 'LUCKY' event number 3.

So far, today, I was quite 'LUCKY' and this series of unfortunate events are related with the toilet... Guess today must have been my unlucky day with the toilet... Maybe it's because I bathed at around 12 last night... LOL... I must not be this superstitious... Overall, today's event was okay with the clear weather... After the whole running event, Philip, Melvern, Brad and I went to hunt for food... It was tough to search for a food outlet early in the morning when the mall was still closed... We went to JE next after our failed attempt at the West Mall... Luckily, it was open. As Long John only served breakfast meal, we went to KFC! We had our meals and filled our empty stomach.

Melvern said that he will be leaving for Indonesia today... Bon Voyage! I had also wanted to go back... But i think this dream is only possible after our O level.

Upon reaching home, I took a bath and tried to finish all my holiday homework. Darn, it was so painful when I placed pressure on the writing I did. Miraculously, I was able to finish my geography homework, 3 pages of writing! Next, I tried to do my chinese homework and managed to finish the idioms exercise... Great, now that's left is my Chinese composition and Physics homework... Thought about resting for a while, and my way of resting is to... Play computer!!!

Today, there's Manga updates on Naruto and Bleach... It's getting interesting and the tension is building up as every chapter ended. Fairy tail has also reached the 100th chapter! Congrats! It's a great manga... Hoped that the updates will be more frequent... Alright, guess that's all for today.

THE END OF NOTHING

2008-08-28T18:42:00.002+08:00

It was raining cats and dogs in the morning. Gosh, what a way to start the day. Luckily I was able to predict that there will be a heavy downpour this morning and brought my umbrella along with me to school. I hate raining, especially during school days. I had to use the umbrella and it cannot fully prevent me from getting wet. I just hate the way that the whole country seems to be a big crybaby. Yet, sometimes, I like raining. It is like a companion! It gave me a reason to laze around in the house. It made me feel cooler in this tropical country. Enjoying a cup of hot tea and relaxing inside my house while watching the raindrops fall intermittently are also enjoyments in life.

Back to the main point. Today is the last day of our term 3... Supposedly. We were supposed to be enjoying our September holiday. I could still remember last year's September holiday. It was so much fun... Ah... How I reminisced the past...

NOW, i could no longer embrace those days. Those days were no longer available. It's like what Mr Ong had said last year. This year, we are considered slaves... -.-''

Our holiday is not considered a holiday at all!!! Monday, we had to come back for SS remedial. Tuesday. there will be a Chem mock exam on full paper. Wednesday will be Maths O level workshop. Finally, Thursday, we are free... But some of my classmates who chose to come to school for Physics remedial must still make a trip to school! Friday is our fateful day, English paper 1 and 2 Prelim 2 exam. What the hell!!! Our September break is broken! It was still not that overboard that our holiday is broken. The exasperating thing is that, despite having almost no holiday, the teachers still gave us tonnes of homework for our September holiday! Yeah, September "HOLIDAY"...

Argh... We really suffered a lot this year... Just hoped that our efforts will pay off during our finale, the O level. However, things were really unsure this year. We are like guinea pigs as this is the first year we started our new syllabus. Why did it have to be me??? Why did it have to be this year???!!!

Anyway, sorry for the complaints and all. Today, Mr Ong had really made us laugh quite a bit. His jokes were finally making their way to the Olympics... LOL.

Today, I had an hour talk with Mr Chan for the essay briefing. Hoped that the information grasped will be useful.

To end this post, tomorrow, there will be teacher's day celebration. We had to run, this is what the principal's challenge is all about... -.-''

Imagine running almost 4 km... Haiz... I should had volunteered to help Ms Siti in order to escape this running thing... Tomorrow, I will have to suffer running 4 km... Gleg...

SONGS OR MANAPOWER?

2008-08-24T18:20:00.002+08:00

Reyvateils or Alchemists? Basically, I like them both... If you don't understand the term I used, they are from the game Ar Tonelico and Atelier Iris respectively.

Reyvateils are artificial beings created by humans. They can perform magic and sing songs... I hadn't played the Ar Tonelico series and after seeing the plots and game configurations, I am actually looking forward for the 2nd sequel!

Here's the opening for Ar Tonelico 2
Ar Tonelico II OP -

The theme song's about hymns, so you may not like it... hehe

And here's alchemists... I had played the game Atelier Iris 2 and 3 before and they are awesome! Cool! These games i mentioned are all done by NIS America. I think these games are fantastic...
Alchemists are humans who have the special lineage to control what we call Mana. These mana can be in many elements and they form extraordinary power.
Basically, its about magic and stuffs...

Here's the opening for Atelier Iris 3! The game's fine, I prefer Atelier Iris 2 though as there are more characters. But for the opening, I think this is the best!

Atelier Iris 3 Opening - Gust, Altus

2nd post today... Enjoy!

EATING

2008-08-24T17:13:00.002+08:00

In the blink of eye, weekend's almost over! Argh... After weekend, comes the painful weekdays... Anyway, here's what I am going to do. For every weekend, I will try to post some informative posts... My apologies if they happen to disinterest you...

My topic for today is>>> Eating!

Yay, talking about eating what do we humans know about it? Well, we eat to survive. Eating is the process of consuming food and then the human body's digestive system will break down the food particles into nutrients that keeps our body working. So, in a nutshell, eating is to sustain our life. Now comes this question,

"Do you eat to live or live to eat?"

If you choose the former, then you fit into the aforementioned category. However, some chose the latter. Those former can certainly make fun of the latter by saying, "You live to eat? so you do nothing in life except eating..."

You can choose to think it that way but you can also choose to think it otherwise. Is life just a simple journey that we embarked on to continue living? For what purpose do we have in life?
The latter can actually have a very deep sense of meaning. We sometimes neglect the true meaning behind eating. We selfishly used it as a tool for our survival. Other than this purpose, eating can actually be a very enjoyed process. The kind of lives we led nowadays are too fast paced, too stressful. We should settle down for a bit sometimes, enjoy good food now and then and thus, enjoy life.

Food certainly tastes different, though they served for the same purpose, to destroy hunger. Some go for quality in food, the taste, rather than the quantity. If you are in the category I mentioned, then you are getting closer to the latter category that I mentioned above. By enjoying the food we eat, we continue to live in life so that we can enjoy good food and derive the pleasure from it. This kind of act is sometimes formalized and thus, you have what we know today as 'food critic'. Basically they are just like us normal human, except that they are gifted in the tasting aspect. Their jobs are simply to taste food and write some descriptions for the food taste. o.0 Doesn't that mean you live to eat? Well, kinda fit in right?

If we humans believed that we eat to live and not live to eat, then, why are there different varieties of food? What we eat eventually ended up as feces anyway.(sorry for the grossness ^^)
So what is the different of eating a plate of chicken rice and a plate of tenderloin steak? Both satisfy our hunger definitely, but certainly not taste! Of course, taste comes with price. LOL.

In the end, most humans choose to eat well and not eat full. This certainly contradicts what we meant by eat to live. If we chose eat to live, we should be contented with whatever we eat(except shit and some inedible food) and should try to eat full, not enjoy the taste. If we chose to enjoy the food and savour its taste, we should then live to eat, seize every moment in life to enjoy good food. I am not that picky about food myself. But if you ask me, do i live to eat or eat to live, I would choose live to eat. However, without eating, we certainly cannot live. So at the same time by eating and enjoying the food we eat, it is actually killing two birds with a stone. So readers, what will you choose, eat to live or live to eat? It is certainly up to you... In the end, the choice we made will not affect our live. It will however affect the money you own though...

FINALLY LATE

2008-08-22T21:25:00.002+08:00

Since the first day I started school at 2008, there was never a day that I was late for school. And today, this day finally came true.

I woke up as usual, the clock on my phone showed 6 35 am sharp. After taking my morning bath, I accidentally caught a glimpse at the clock hung on my room's wall and it showed 6 55 am. What? I spent 20 minutes bathing? This was just impossible. I took a look at the clock at my phone and it only showed 6 45 am! I was quite puzzled. After wearing my uniform and getting all ready for school, I quickly went outside and looked at the clock at the dining hall. It was the same as my room's! Goodness grief! The clock in my phone was 10 minutes late! I quickly dashed my way towards the bus stop and arrived there at 7 plus. There was still hope. I waited patiently for the bus but the wait seemed like decades!

Usually, the next bus will arrive 5 minutes later but today's exceptional. After waiting for that damn 15 minutes, the bus finally arrived! By the time I got into the bus, it was already 7 17. Holy hell!

The bus even moved like snail... I finally believed this saying. It said that when one is rushing, everything seemed so slow...
This is not an oft-disputed fact.

In the end, I finally turned up to school late. First time, I was late. As I was a first timer, I did not know what to do. Luckily, Melvern was also late. He said that it was his 13th time! LOL. Haha. Anyway, glad to have his company.

We went to Mr Soh's class 30 minutes late due to the procedures for latecomers. Maths class was like usual, each of us helping each other. Next class was more unusual, our Chemistry class. I was shocked. Today was our Chemistry test for rate of reaction! I had not revised at all. I knew I heard something about a topical test or something and it just slipped my mind yesterday. Argh, anyway, who cares...
The test came upon me as usual and luckily, I was able to handle it... Huff...

Next lesson was Physics with Mr Chan. We went through the worksheets and Mr Chan kept on distributing worksheets to us! LOL. Even though Mr Chan is environmentally friendly, I think he may had used excessive papers for us...

Recess, finally recess. Don't wanna upset my stomach. Luckily Brad was further in line and I asked help from him to help me buy food. Owe him one...

Finally, the last lesson of the day, English... Friday was quite short ain't it?
Today, Ms Fun lost her voice... o.0 Her voice was quite funny but we lacked the guts to tease her because of that (except Soon Huat). We handed in our homework and she complained about our summary again, saying that it had gotten worse... I am terribly sorry Ms Fun... We will work harder next time... English is really a tough nut to crack. Just like Mr Soh said, there is no hard and fast rule for English, unlike Maths where we can just apply the formula for every logical thing. Haiz... Hoped our English can still be salvaged and hoped that by the time O level comes, we are ready for it.

Jia Hui handed us a slip for Teacher Day's celebration message. Yeah, this is it... Teacher's day is around the corner. Talking about teachers, the teachers in Shuqun had certainly done a very great job. I think that they are very noble... Even though Shuqun is a neighborhood school and when compared to Institutes like R.I, we may look pathetic, the teacher never gave up their hope on us and they believed that we can do well. Thank you teachers.
For the teacher's day, our class had written at least a message to all our subject teachers. I wrote one to Mr Soh.

Time and tide waits for no men(His favorite phrase). Mr Soh, your 'SUPER' training had transformed us into Mathematical robots... Thank you for being a great teacher... Thank you for everything. (Forgot to add Happy teacher's day) =P

After school, I went for my one hour detention and Melvern came 30 minutes later. It was my first time serving detention! o.0
Basically, it was nothing much like 'detaining'. We just did our homework there until the time's up and we can leave. I stayed back 30 minutes in extra, despite the 15 minutes discount given by the teacher because I am a first timer. LOL.

Hope that this will be my first and last time, just like what Mr Chan had said.

MONDAY AGAIN!

2008-08-18T18:31:00.003+08:00

Argh... Had one tiring day yesterday and now, its Monday again... NO!!! I had to wake up early to get to school... Having been doing this daily routine, I was getting quite sick of it... But, what to do... Haiz...

We had Physics first thing in the morning. Mr Chan gave us a paper 1 to complete and we go through it in the next period. The start of the day was quite relaxing. Next was mother tongue, a period which I was supposed to relax, sit back and do other things i wanted to do. However, as I had decided to retake the MT O level exam, I had to attend the lesson! Argh... Facing the papers again was certainly my nemesis... -.-''

After mother tongue, we had SS lesson with Mr Ong. As usual, SS lesson was kind of... boring... but with an interesting teacher! LOL

Recess!!! Finally recess... My stomach had been grumbling. The recess was certainly my benefactor. Today's Maths lesson was not the same as usual... Mr Soh divided us into groups, so that we can help each other with our works. I was teamed up with Jiwei, Ashraf and Chaolong... Well, happy team work! ^^

The last period of the day was English... We finally received our Prelim 1 papers back after the long wait. For my paper 1, I managed to score 43/60 but my paper 2 was only a pathetic 23/50! What the hell... Anyway, I must be thankful that my paper 1 pulled up my marks... Huff... I will devote all my time to my paper 2 and at the same time, improve my paper 1's performance. I mustn't score like this anymore, aim greater! So overall, here's what I get for Prelim 1:

-English : 63.5% (B4)
-E maths: 97.4%(A1)
-A maths: 95%(A1)
-Physics: 75.8%(A1)
-Chemistry: 85%(A1)
-Combined Humanities: 85.5%(A1)
L1R5: 9

The average mark is higher when compared to my mid year exam. But still, the L1R5 is still the same. So, I must work harder for my English and maintain the same level for my other subjects... No matter how tough the road gets, I will never give up... Let's work harder everyone! Btw, today, Mr Chan just handed out our Prelim 2 timetable... NO!!! Prelim 2 is coming after prelim 1 had just ended! -.-''

Another round to busy ourselves...

A TRIP TO SENTOSA

2008-08-17T23:31:00.011+08:00

What a beautiful peacock!

Happy 63th Birthday Indonesia! Woohoo... Today's 17th August, Indonesia's National Day. Let us wish Indonesia a prosperous year and better future development. Even though to achieve a corruption free society is still a dream, let's hope that there will be less poverty in Indonesia and that the standard of living in Indonesia will be increased. Let's hope that for this year, all Indonesians who will be taking their major Exams; O level, A level or other exams, will be able to score well and achieve their aims.

Alright, done with the wishes, I have lots of things to share with all of you. Yesterday, my uncle came from Batam to have a holiday here at Singapore. I was to tour them around Sentosa Island today. We reached there at around 3 pm. The journey took its toll with us visiting the underwater world first. These marine creatures are certainly fascinating. I have never seen some of them, for eg, the sea angels.

Here are some of the interesting pictures taken:

After visiting the underwater world, we took the red line bus and reached the dolphin lagoon. It was drizzling a bit at that time. Sure it was hard to catch the dolphin's performance when it is raining. We tried our best to shelter ourselves from the annoying drizzle and yet at the same time enjoy the show. Dolphins are certainly magnificent creatures with intelligence not unlike a human's. They seemed to be able to understand and comprehend human speeches. There were 3 pink dolphins at the performance and they were indeed very cute. Being able to do many kinds of acts ; balancing the ball with its mouth, smashing the ball with its tail, waving us goodbye with the fins and tails. I was fascinated! The best moment was when the tamer wanted to award the dolphins with a fish and they refused by shaking their heads. The tamer then took two fishes but they still shook their heads. Finally, the tamer grabbed the whole box of fishes and offered it at them. They immediately nodded their heads. LOL! Boy, are they greedy...

Here's the pictures of the pink dolphins show.

After the exciting dolphin show, we visited the tiger skytower next. It was quite refreshing when we were around 100 meters plus up above the ground.

Here's Sentosa Island's view from the skytower.
And here's the aerial view!

The last enjoyment of the day was when we visited the performance, "Songs of the Sea".
It sure was crowded. Initially, it was quite boring as there were only the performers singing. As the show proceeded, it began to get exciting with the light visual and other things. Images of some creatures were projected into the sky, formed mainly by colourful lights. These creatures even move, making the act more realistic. The climax was when a picture of a lady was projected into the sky!

Here's some of the picture of the show.

Alright, done with the sharing session, boy, today was certainly marvelous!

BUZZER

2008-08-15T15:35:00.003+08:00

Woo... Today's the end of weekdays... Yesterday, a major thing happened. It was my oral exam for English! Overall, the oral was quite manageable. The theme was about competition... I hope that I will be able to get Distinction for my Oral... Please, let it be... Yesterday's Physics SPA was also postponed to today. And today, we did our Physics SPA. o.0

It was quite okay, not too shabbily done. Luckily, it was not as difficult as the practice that Mr Chan gave us. Huff... Finally, every thing had ended quite well. Hoped that today, my classmates will have nice topics for their Oral. Hope that they can get the results they wanted too. Anyway, good luck to all of you!

Now that the week days had ended, there are finally homeworks for us to do. English paper 2, E maths and A maths full paper. I was getting quite lazy. In 3 weeks time, there will be prelim 2. Shit, I thought that Prelim 1 was just over. And now, they are beginning prelim 2. Haiz... Not to mention that. After prelim 2 is done, in a few weeks time, the actual thing will come! Gleg... Hope that every thing turns out well, really well. It seemed that I was babbling nonsense all these while... LOL. Sorry for that.

Alright, nothing to share about anymore. By the way, almost the whole class failed EL paper 2 except some... -.-'' How roughly did you mark Mr Chan???

A CALM SEA BEFORE STORM

2008-08-13T18:00:00.002+08:00

Today was really a pleasant day. Yet, some of my classmates are absent ; Hansi, Zhuohong and Philip. Some rumored that they are absent today to prepare for O level Physics SPA tomorrow o.0 LOL

Anyways, the day started with our English lesson. Ms Fun turned up a bit late due to her usual morning chores. Later, she started the lesson by briefing on the oral yesterday. The theme was on elderly, just as she had speculated for us last week. We grasped in lots of information necessary for our O level Oral preparation, these are going to come in handy.

After English, we went to our Maths class. Mr Soh was already waiting for us upstairs, holding our E maths prelim papers with him. It was really an exhilarating moment. As he distributed the papers, he began reading out the marks of those that got A1 and above. He began by distributing paper 2 first. Sure it was crazy, lots of my classmates got high marks. So far the highest was 95. I was getting quite curious with what the rest have gotten. Until my turn, he announced that I got 96/100! Yay! Sure I was excited, but the excitement suddenly turned into an abrupt astonishment as Mr Soh announced the guy after me, Quan Yi, who got 97. Argh! I was beaten. Next mentioned was Hansi with 96/100 too. LOL... Sure there are monsters at my class. Others received high marks too, such as Melvern(96) and An(97). 0.0 MAD!

The next was paper 1. I wondered whether there will be any crazy marks. Finally Mr Soh announced mine, it was 79/80! Woohoo! Shit, 1 more mark to perfection. As others clapped, Quan Yi's announcement again arouse their attention, 79/80! LOL. However, Hansi and Melvern stole the limelight away from us, for they managed to get 80/80!!! What the hell! Anyways, congrats... It was so crazy.

After Maths period, we had our PE lesson. Yay! Finally we can play basketball! Those who failed NAPFA test retake their test. For those who passed, we are allowed to play any sports we wanted to play. It had been so long since we had such a great workout. Stupendous.

Recess was quite unpleasant as the serpentine queue prevented me from buying today's delicious meal! At chinese period, we launched a surprise at Mdm Tan. Yesterday, Jia Hui collected money from each of us to buy Mdm Tan some "Winnie the Pooh" soft toys. Today, we presented her the gifts as well as our appreciation on a card. She was very happy, I knew it... And so were we. After contemplating over it last night, I had finally decided to retake the MT O level. This time, I am surely gonna aim for an A1!!!

With that, we moved on to our next period, Maths again? It was short and after the lesson ended, Mr Soh gave us a 30 minute lunch break and informed us that we must come back for A maths paper 1 mock exam afterwards... Haiz... During the mock exam, I nearly dozed off... Too tiring and sleepy... By the time we finished our mock exam, it was already 4 plus. I approached Ms Fun and asked her for an English Oral trial to prepare me for tomorrow's ORAL Examination. It's gonna be the real thing tomorrow!!! I would like to thank Ms Fun for her guidance... I hoped that I could work on the flaws that she pointed out and turn them to strengths. Hearing from what my friend had said, today's Oral topic was about hairstyling. WOW! It was quite random... Let's just hope that tomorrow's topic won't be similar to that trend... Best of luck for myself tomorrow... For Oral examination and O level Physics SPA... Please, let tomorrow be my heyday! Again, best of luck for tomorrow!

A DETOUR, A CHANCE?

2008-08-12T14:52:00.003+08:00

Will you choose to stay at your comfort zone or take the chance to expand your territory? Well, something like that... Hehe

That's a choice that everyone must make today, at least for some. Today's the day we received our O level MT results... Wooo... A maths is the beginning of the day. And worse of all, I forgot to bring my homework for the week. Gosh, I am sure to get punished by Mr Soh... TT

Never mind about that. Mr Soh distributed our A maths paper 2 during the lesson. And I managed to get 93/100! Yay! Actually, it's upon 98 (it was after I had counted the total marks that I had noticed it's actually upon 98). An and Hansi also got 93... Congrats!

After an exciting moment to start the day, Mr Soh remarked that he wanted us to submit our homework by the end of today and place it at his pigeon hole, otherwise, we would see something from him. Gleg... Guess I am done for.

After A maths lesson, it was finally the main event of the day, our Mother Tongue period. Mdm Tan came a bit late. From her facial expression, I could not guess what's she thinking. She told us about our overall percentage of distinction and passes. Shuqun have 100% passes for MT Chinese (that's the only thing I know) and 40.7% of distinction. Wow, that's almost half! Well done. And after sharing with us the news, the real intense came. She decided to tell us our results and asked us whether we wanted her to read it out or see for ourselves. As she read out the results, most people got their As! Excellent. Until it was my turn, I chose to not let the teacher blurt out my results as I was not that confident. As i stared at my results, I got a B3 and a Merit for Oral. Woohoo!!! Kinda happy about it, however, if it was an A2, I would be on cloud nine. But still, it was a satisfactory! ^^

If only I had gotten an A2, I would have treats from my friend, LOL, what a pity. And Mdm Tan was not so happy with mine. She told me to retake as she believed that I can get my A. Mdm Tan, thank you for having so much confident in me. And now, I am in a dilemma as to retake or not...

After MT period, we have our geography lesson. We received our prelim paper and it was quite well, I got 45.5/50... Fair enough... Philip got the highest though, congrats...

And during Form teacher period, Mr Chan gave us back our Skill 3 planning work sheets and our prelim papers! I got 61/80 for paper 2, barely an A1 off the edge... Huff... I promise to work harder next time...

Overall, everything was quite well today. Still, we need to work harder for this week as there will be 2 upcoming O level exams (EL ORAL and Skill 3 SPA Physics). And today, some of my friends will have their EL ORAL... Good luck!!! Do your best!

After school, there was one funny thing that happened. As I was walking with Philip to the canteen, his girlfriend suddenly ran to him and I laughed at their actions. At that time, Mr Soh walked pass by and he said something, "Get A1 already yaya ah... still smile" LOL, guessed he misinterpreted my gesture...

Well, that's all to end the day... I hope that everyone can get what they aimed. It is only then that we have this "you reap what you sow" feeling. For those who are supposed to get A1 but get A2 instead/ for those who can't get distinction/ who didn't get their aimed results, don't be too sad, you still had a chance, a detour... But this time, work harder for it... There's always hope!

Alright, sorry that today's post is all about academic stuffs... Will paint my blog red next time... ^^

Signing off...

ENDING PATH

2008-08-11T22:07:00.003+08:00

The holiday had finally ended. Today is the day that I will have to go to Singapore, end of holidays... TT

Argh... The holiday is too short. Now, the only "Holiday" for us is after our O level... We must work hard for that day to come!!!

Alright, this morning, my family and I went out for a lunch at La Cruise, a posh restaurant at Nagoya Hill. We had a sumptuous lunch there, definitely satisfying... After then, we went to Nagoya Hill to shop for a while and bought my Brother's mattress sheets. It was a decoration of some cows, the colour mix was quite pleasant to the eyes.

Time seemed to pass away so fast and by the time I realized, it's already 5 plus. I had to take a bath and prepare my things for my departure to Singapore. My mom prepared lots of delicious food for me, yay! These days, I get to taste mum's cooking, it was certainly a delicacy for me...
How i wished I could taste her cooking everyday...

Well, I will miss my hometown Batam... Now that I am here at Singapore, I had already begin to have homesick... Gosh, O level, if you want to come, come faster, but then, I guess we would all be swept away by the tidal waves due to our unpreparedness. So, give us a little time, and we will do our best to tackle that day... I must do my extreme best, no failure! Only then will I have the conscience to again enjoy the fruits of my labour and enjoy the holiday that is not far from my eyes...

Tomorrow will be our fateful day, the day our O level MT result is out... Please, let it be good! Good luck to everyone getting their O level MT results, all the best!

THE OTHER WORLD

2008-08-10T22:08:00.002+08:00

Huff... It's been a few days since I last posted a blog entry. So many things had happened these few days. Let's see one of the important things. What was that again? hmm...

Ah! It's none other than Singapore's 43th birthday! Happy Belated Birthday Singapore!

Also, August 8 was the start of Beijing Olympic. Wow... So many things happened this week. Yet, next week will also be full of many events; O level oral, O level SPA, release of O level results...

Gleg... It's quite heavy... Hope that everything will turn out nicely.
These few days, I was spending my short holiday at Batam, my homeland. It was so much fun. The feeling of homesickness had just suddenly hit me after my prelim. Now that I think about it, it's almost been 2 months since I last returned to Batam. And after this return, I guess that I can only return again after O level had finished. Haiz... Guess will miss Batam a lot... Miss my home!

Alright then, shall not scribble any further, wish Singapore another Happy Belated National Day. One people one nation one Singapore... Pfft... LOL.

CROWD AND CROWD

2008-08-06T14:36:00.002+08:00

Even though my prelim had officially ended yesterday, we still had to go to school today!!! Curses to that! However, we were still lucky that we have to go there at 11 while the others are doing their exams early in the morning. Hohoho...

Upon reaching school, we were assembled at a computer room, and thus, the QSE survey began. It was Quality of School Experience survey. Boy, we had to go to school just to do this silly thing? What the... And to top it off, the whole survey ended after 15 minutes, ROFL. We sure made a wasted trip, was happy though that it ended so quickly. We left the school as soon as the survey ended.

Thinking about refreshing ourselves after our prelim, i suggested that all of us go and watch "The Mummy The Tomb of The Dragon Emperor" at the cinema at JE. In the end, a group of us turned up; Hansi, Zhuohong, Xiaoyong, Xuhao, Philip, Brad, Melvern, Xiaoling, Shufen and myself. Boy, it turned up to be quite a crowd. The movie was quite awesome and it was comical at some certain scene, at least it is better than the Dark Knight. Though I must say that the Yetis coming to rescue them was really funny. And furthermore, I wonder if Yetis look like that... ROFL!

Overall, I think the storyline is kinda good, except that some of the things are a bit exaggerated... Hahaha... I recommend watching it.

Signing off...

NIGHT PARADE

2008-08-05T20:56:00.003+08:00

After days that seemed like centuries, our Prelim 1 had finally ended. It will officially end tomorrow for others but for a few of my friends and I, our Prelim 1 had ended! Cool! Even though it was just a week's time, the clock seemed to tick so slowly that it seemed as if weeks and months have passed. So far, prelim 1 is not so bad. Among all the subjects, I think i did the worst for English, so ain't expecting any good marks from it. Guess what, I did an argumentative essay but there's no both sides to argue. -.-''

As for the comprehension, the depending factor is now luck. 100% luck!

So far, for all the other subjects, every thing's going on quite well. Though some of the questions on the paper were of a higher level, at least I managed to attempt it. No matter what your score turned up for Prelim 1, don't gloat or despair. It is a gauge. Pat your back and say well done and continue to work harder if you score well. If you happen to unfortunately score badly, don't despair. Take this as a learning route. Don't mourn upon marks, seek improvement by turning your flaws into strength. It is better to learn now than learn in your O's. Though some said learn from mistakes. However, don't purposely make mistakes at O level to learn! Might as well learn now. Cause, it is a high price to pay if you do that.

I myself think that Prelim 1 is a really good learning experience for the upcoming O level. Well, every thing's just a facade put up for the so called almighty 'O level'. Some of the teachers said L1R5 in prelims are +/- 3. So, you can at least speculate what you will get for O's. Not really accurate though.

Today was our last paper, the heavenly 3 major papers. Chem paper 1, paper 2 and A maths paper 2. Gosh, my brain juices were really drained after completing both chem papers. And A maths paper happen to be the last. At the time when the paper land onto my table, my mind was completely blank. Gosh! Furthermore, the difficult questions seemed to make myself think irrationally. I was wondering, what the hell is this cyclic quadrilateral thing? How the heck are we supposed to prove for it if we don't even get the gist of it. Well, i skipped this 5 marks question of coordinate geometry and attempted other questions. They seemed difficult to me too. In the end, when i was driven into despair, there was a sudden surge of strength that suddenly escalates within myself. I regained my usual zealousness in doing Maths question. As I began to answer the questions that seemed hard to me a while ago, confidence jolted me back to reality. I took advantage of this moment to complete the rest of the paper and eventually, I managed to complete the cyclic quadrilateral proving question. It was really a satisfaction! That's what I like in Maths! ^^

Overall, I think the paper can be difficult and yet can be easy too. It depends on what others think. I myself would like to think of it as difficult. If it is not difficult, you will not seize the chance to concentrate more. LOL.

And another thing to rejoice today, there will be no classes tomorrow!!! hipee hurray! Yet, we have to go to school at around 11 plus to do this survey thing. We have to make a trip to school just for a 1 hour survey??? What the hell is that anyway! I guess it wouldn't be much different from the nation builder thing. LOL. It was really fun... Like hell it does... -.-''

After our Prelim today, a group of us went to have lunch at JE. The funny part was when Salai was walking with us to the mall and Philip asked him, "Salai, where are you going?"
and then he replied, "Fine, then I will go home".
His expression was like telling us that he was not welcomed in the group. LOL!!!

And as we arrived by the mall, I asked him again, "what's for tomorrow?"
He said that there was this QSE survey. And so, I asked again, what will you do after you go home? Study for the survey?
And he replied, "Yeah, I wonder what's coming up for tomorrow..."

HAHAHA you are really humorous Salai! Really!

Well, finally my first post for August. Lots of things will happen in August!
Let's see:
1) Release of O level Mother tongue results (Sends chill down my spine...)
2) English O level ORAL examinations. (We don't have to speak like a Caucasian, just avoid fillers 'LOHR')
3) Finally, Physics Skill 3 SPA. 0.0 gleg...

Hope I will be able to pass these major days happily... Please let it be.

Last thing to end this post today, Good luck to all my friends who will be having their papers tomorrow! The light illuminates the night, representing hopes for the everlasting dawn...

QUIZ

2008-07-27T20:54:00.003+08:00

RULES:
1) Put Your iTunes on Shuffle.
2) For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3) You must write that song name down no matter how silly it sounds.
4) Put any comments in brackets after the song name.

1. If someone says, "Is this okay?" You say?
Smack That, Akon Ft Eminem (Holy...)

2. How would you describe yourself?
Kanashimi Wo Yasashisa Ni(turning sadness into kindness), Little By Little

3. What do you like in a guy/girl?
Boom, S.H.E (0.0)

4. How do you feel today?
You Are The Music In Me, HSM2

5. What is your life's purpose?
Bu Xiang Zhang Da(Don't want to grow old), S.H.E

6. What is your motto?
Wu Niang(Dancing Diva), Jolin Tsai (WTF)

7. What do your friends think of you?
Wo Bu Pei(I am not worthy), Jay Chou

8. What do you think of your parents?
Li Jia Bu Yuan(Not far from home), Nan Quan Ma Ma

9. What do you think about very often?
Jia Gei Wo(Marry Me), Alex Toh (Wakaka)

10. What is 2 + 2?
Chi Bang(wings), JJ Lin

11. What do you think of your best friend(s)?
Pu Gong Ying De Yue Ding(Dandelion's promise), Jay Chou

12. What do you think of the person you like?
Dearest, Ayumi Hamasaki (Fits like a tee)

13. What is your life story?
Hui Du Shu(Can study), JJ Lin

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Love Story, Van Fan

15. What do you think of when you see the person you like?
Ignited, T.M. Revolution

16. What will you dance to at your wedding?
Antoinette Blue, Nana Kitade

17. What will they play at your funeral?
Fu Huo(Revive), Lin Yu Zhong (Zombie)

18. What is your hobby/interest?
The Day You Went Away, M2M

19. What is your biggest fear?
Wai Po(Maternal Grandmother), Jay Chou (not at all)

20. What is your biggest secret?
Ai Shang Wei Lai De Ni(Falling in love with the future you), Wilber Pan

21. What do you think of your friends?
Realize, Nami Tamaki

22. What will you post this as?
Ru Guo You Yi Tian(If there's one day), Fish Leong

Quiz taken from Alyssa's blog.

TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR NO MEN

2008-07-27T20:04:00.004+08:00

The week is ending. It's already Sunday. Is it the week's end or the week's beginning? I don't know whether Sunday is the beginning of a week or the ending of it. Anyway, it's the ending of something and also beginning of a brand new story.

Pardon me for the crap introduction. LOL.
What kind of living organism is godly? Answer: Holy Crap(Crab).

Tomorrow, school will resume. I like schooling! There are lots of exams nowadays and less lessons. LOL. Some may think that I am crazy but yeah, I think i agreed with An during the Oral discussion of the topic "Exams should be abolished, agree or disagree?(which he chose disagree)".
When Ms Rita asked him, "do you like exams?" He replied, "yes." o.0 Ms Rita was kind of shocked and she retorted, "you are mad." HAHA

Besides, our Prelim 1 will begin this Wednesday. Who had done their revision? I guessed some of my classmates must have begun already.
Today was the usual revision day. I like revising A Maths because while revising it, I can listen to song at the same time. My concentration will not be swayed even though I am doing other things. It's like killing two birds with a stone. A maths is really wondrous!

I guess this will be my last post for July as I wanted to go on full throttle for my Prelim 1. Root for me! Good luck to those who are taking Prelim 1 as well. It is O level in disguise. Don't let your guard down.

Message: Time and tide wait for no men.

INTUITION

2008-07-25T16:24:00.002+08:00

Thank God, it's finally Friday again!

However, we did not go home early today as there was an SS test at 2 p.m. We went to the Hot Bod room earlier than usual and saw Mr Ong there. Lai Hock gave Mr Ong a Chinese passage for him to read.

The funny thing comes when Mr Ong mispronounced "Hao Du" which means "Like to gamble". The way he pronounced it changed the meaning to "Good gamble". We corrected him but he didn't believe us, thinking that we might be fooling him. He said for years, he had known that word as "Hao" which means good. LOL. Chinese is really confusing right? Lots of different pronunciation. And gosh, I wondered how he passed his O level Chinese... He said that it had been so many years... -.-''

Anyway, after the test was over, we went home. Nothing was really special today, except that there are quite a lot of updates in Onemanga. Hurray! Updates for Naruto, Bleach and other mangas. Kay then, a short post for today, wanna resume my manga reading...

And tomorrow is our prelim for ORAL. Good luck to my classmates!

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

2008-07-21T19:34:00.002+08:00

Today is our yearly racial harmony day. Congrats to Singapore for having a celebration such as racial harmony day. This is the day where all races in Singapore get to
-wear traditional costumes and show it to their friends?
-or express racial harmony to all Singaporeans?

LOL, anyway today was quite interesting. I went to school as usual, bringing along my traditional costume for me to change to it in the afternoon. At school, I saw many of our classmates that had changed to the suit; Brad, Ashraf, Hazry, Irene, Kathy and Jiahui. Xiaoling and Shufen wore them too and they were rushing to the parade square early in the morning. The scene was quite hilarious.

The morning began with a full Physics paper 2 exam. After preparing for the exam briefly last night, I managed to get through it. Hopefully that it will bring me satisfactory results. After our Physics exam, Philip and I changed into our traditional costumes, both were lent by Hazry to us, Thanks!

It was really my first time wearing a traditional Malay costume. Despite being in Indonesia for so many years, I had never worn such kinds of costumes, I am now ironically wearing it at Singapore. The suit was kinda comfy and I was thankful that it was not hot that day due to the usual monsoon weather that Singapore has.

It was Chinese lesson next. These days, when people asked, "what's your favorite subject?"
I will definitely answer, "Chinese."

For now, Chinese lessons were spent watching movies and relaxing. Recently, we are watching a Korean Drama. It was really comical and I am now yearning for it. After Chinese, Social Studies was next. Hurray for Mr Ong's absence for we could relax for another 2 periods. We seized this chance to take some photos to remember this day.

The last period of the day was our English. We had our ORAL tryouts today and so far, 4-5 people had been victimised by Ms Fun. Ms Fun also told us to help Brad by speaking to him in English. And Brad too said that if he ever speaks in Chinese to me, he will have to pay 10 cents for every word spoken. Cool!

After the lesson, we had our Physics remedial. We had our Paper 1 exam in the afternoon and it was quite manageable. Thinking that our remedial is finally over and we could went home, the rain stopped us. Shufen, Xiaoling, Melvern and I took a cab to J.E. On the other hand, Brad and Philip walked there as they both have umbrellas. We had our meals at KFC there and everyone came up with a pact that we must speak English everyday. It was really funny.

So next time when you speak, remember to only speak English... ^^

Gosh, look at the time now! I had yet to revise for my Chem exam tomorrow. Kay then, signing off for revision...

THE PLAYER'S MELODY

2008-07-20T00:28:00.001+08:00

This is a video of D Grayman, featuring Allen Walker playing the song to gain control of the ark in episode 92. The melody is beautiful. Enjoy!

HECTIC DAYS AHEAD

2008-07-19T13:09:00.004+08:00

The long and arduous weekdays had finally ended. We had lots of things happening, ranging from class tests to National exams!

First of all, the Mother Tongue O level syllabus had finally ended with our Listening Comprehension at Tuesday. The results would be out at around August (Don't wanna see that -.-'')

A lot of class tests this week, but I speculate that there will be more next week, especially when our Prelim 1 is coming.

Gosh... Anyway, after all those hectic days, it's really nice that yesterday was a great destressor for us. Yesterday, I received my CCA results and it was horrible, a D7! I don't have any bonus points at all! Argh... I decided to see Ms Siti and it turned out that it needed 1 CCA point to jump from D7 to C6. It dawned on me that there were still the 28 CIP hours that I had voluntarily done at Jurong East library last year. With this, I could gain an additional of 2 points for CCA and that would mean a C6, a bonus point!

Woohoo... Boy, I was delighted. Another thing to highlight the day. Yesterday, Raine, Aki, Brad Pitt, Tomato and I decided to go out to catch the movie, "The Dark Knight".

We arranged to meet at 3 but in the end, the rendezvous time was postponed to 3 30 and our ladies only managed to turn up at 3 40. An achievement isn't it? ^^

We went to Bugis as they said they wanted to buy a present for their friend's birthday and we gladly accompanied them. Upon reaching there, each complained that they were famished and so, we decided to grab a bite. Afterwards, we began the hunt for the gift. It definitely took a long time for the girls to spot something that pleases them (luckily, Bugis is considered a shopping paradise)

And the funny thing comes here... Umm, better leave it out... ROFL!

After buying their present, it was about 6 to 7. We rushed to Plaza Singapura in hope to catch the movie. Unfortunately, the time slots for the movie "Dark Knight" were all full house. Leaving with no choice, we decided to go to Cathay and try our luck. There, it was the same too. However, there was the timeslot for 10 45.
We tried to persuade Tomato to negotiate with his guardian about the curfew. But it didn't work and in the end, he decided to go home before 10 and we didn't manage to catch the movie. After he went home, we went to play pool. It was a hard time finding the place and on top of that, we had to wait for another 10 people to play the pool. Haiz... And so, we decided to take a taxi to Marina Square instead. There, we managed to secure a pool table. However, the table is only 8 feet! It was a lot smaller than usual. Argh...

We played till 11 plus and upon realising that if we missed the train, we would have to take cab to go home. We rushed there quickly and Aki stopped at a shop to buy a slice of cake for her boyfriend(actually, it was a fraud). Boy, it was expensive, a slice for 5.90! LOL. By lengthening our pace, we managed to reach the MRT station at about 11 30. Fortunately, the last train will be at 11 51. We still could make it.

It was a tiring day and we were all half dead when waiting for the train to come at the station. To avoid sleeping we chatted on the journey to home. Time passed by quickly and we finally reached Clementi MRT station. I was shocked that they too get out at Clementi MRT station. And to our surprise, the cake was for Brad Pitt, to celebrate his advanced birthday.
We sang birthday song to him and shared the slice of cake. It was really heartwarming. No matter how cold the night was, it was warmed by that moment. The clock ticked 12 midnight, indicating the time that a tiring day but exciting one had ended. I headed home and the rest waited for the train to come and board for their destination. It was really a pleasant day. Upon reaching home, I bathed and hit the sack and boarded for my dream world.

With yesterday ended, our supposed-to-be-lovely weekday had finally arrived. Yet, I had to spend this lovely day studying for our Physics mock exam during Monday. Furthermore, there will be English prelim Oral at Monday too and lots of tests to come next week. Let's see:
-Monday : Physics full paper 2 test.
-Tuesday: Chem full paper 2 test.
-Thursday: Geography full paper exam on Food and Rivers & Coast.
-Friday: SS essay test.
-Saturday: EL ORAL PRELIM.

Look at this stupendously, menacingly, earthshakingly, supercalifragilisticexpialidociously, hyper packed up schedule. A bright day awaits us.

QUITE A FEW

2008-07-12T14:34:00.002+08:00

It's finally weekend again. After those hectic days at school, it's finally weekend again. Oh, Saturday was actually not my favorite day in the past. I loved Friday most before. There were a couple of reasons for that...

1. We leave school early, at 12 30. Cheers!
2. I have the feeling of "thank-God-it's-Friday" every Friday morning.
3. It's the last day of school for the week. And usually, the day where I would slack most at home...

Yet, now, it no longer is.
All because of the Saturday class that was conducted for Oral lesson... NO!
Saturday became another school day. -.-''

And today was no exception. We went to school as usual for our ORAL lesson. However, I must say that today's Oral lesson sucked. It was like what Raine and Aki had said. That lecturer was no good at all. What had happened to our previous lecturer, the vibrant-voiced Ms Rita? The other lecturer said that she was involved in an accident on her way to school and was sent to the hospital.

Gosh! Hoped that she's alright... GOD BLESS YOU, speedy recovery. Otherwise, we had to spend those boring and unproductive lessons with that lecturer again.

As she didn't come today, we had to join class with the other group. It was actually fun, all being together but the main and only problem is the ruckus caused by the noises made in a BIG group. The lecturer could not control the situation at all! A voice from Ms Fun would have caused a deafening silence in the room though... HEHE

Well, at least I managed to learn something about the red hat, green hat and stuffs of a picture discussion. (GREEN HAT>>> Dai Lv Mao?>> it means being made a cuckold) ROFL...

Anyway that's all for today's morning. Left with Social Studies and Geography homework for this weekend. Guess will have to do that later in the afternoon. I always liked to do things in the afternoon, but eventually ended up computering... -.-''

Also, Prelim 1 is coming! And I had yet to prepare for it. Despite Mr Soh's favorite "countdown-to-O-LVL" activity before class, I did not feel the pressure at all! Shit... I lacked motivation. I shouldn't underestimate the whole thing. Well, guess I have to tune up my engine a little bit. For this week, we have had 3 tests. Social Studies, A maths and Physics. Nice pace currently, go further! ^^

Other things to brace up this weekend.

-There are updates for Naruto, Bleach and D Grayman mangas at www.onemanga.com
COOL! These highly anticipated updates are only limited to weekends and Fridays(another reason I liked Fridays in the past). There are other updates too, for e.g. Liar Game, Fairy Tail.
WOohoo! Mangas rock my life.

Alright then, guess that's all for the update of my life. 100 days to O level! HAHA!!! Its so cool!

ALTER EGO

2008-07-09T20:38:00.002+08:00

JaeHoey: HAHA! Second post today...

Suddenly, a flash of light emanates from my body... What's going to happen?

JaeHoey: Hey, who are you? Why did you suddenly appear in my room?

JaeHoey (alter ego, soul mode): Heck, take a closer look you dumbass. I am you!

After taking a closer look...

JaeHoey: Whoaa! Why am 'I' there? I think i am sick... Must have been playing too much computer games that I am seeing things now...

JaeHoey (alter ego, soul mode): Nope you aren't... I am your other self. The one responsible for your laziness and computering activities... HAHA!

JaeHoey: Don't mess around already... I don't believe in the existence of such beings... Are you a hologram created by someone who wanted to play prank on me? (checking the room)

JaeHoey (alter ego, soul mode): Save your effort! Haha... I am the real deal. Didn't you always say that seeing is believing? And here I am now. It's not a dream...

JaeHoey: NOOO!!! This can't be true!!!

Out of cold for 5 minutes...

JaeHoey: Okay, if you are real, then return to my body... Don't keep floating around, it's so
spooky...

JaeHoey (alter ego, soul mode): Bweekk... I don't wanna hear it... What are you going to do to me then if I don't return to your body.

JaeHoey: Oh yeah... If you don't return to my body, then I won't be lazy... Hahaha... This is a blessing in disguise... It's actually a good riddance...

JaeHoey (alter ego, soul mode): Umm... I wonder if I should be telling you this. If I don't return to your body for a day, my soul will materialize and at that time, I will really become the real deal. And the 'me' that I am seeing in front now, will cease to exist forever! Hahaha...

JaeHoey: I don't believe you...

JaeHoey (alter ego, soul mode): It's up to you... Haha... So long then! (fly out of the room)

JaeHoey: Hey wait you! I mean, 'me'! Wait 'me'!

After 3 hours of chasing...

JaeHoey: Shit, tough luck...

Suddenly, my body becomes lighter and my hand began to lose colour and turn into transparent.

JaeHoey: NO! If what he said is true, I will cease to exist... Please, 'me'! Come out! I beg of 'me'!

JaeHoey (alter ego, soul mode): Hahaha... It seems that you had finally believed me. Okay, if you post about what's happening today and the conversations into your blog, I will return to your body.

JaeHoey: You mean it?

JaeHoey (alter ego, soul mode): souls are honest...

After 30 minutes

JaeHoey: Here is the post, it's done...

JaeHoey (alter ego, soul mode): Okay, as promised, I will return to your body now... HAHA!!!

The soul made its way to the body.

JaeHoey: Huff... Everything's done. Shucks! I forgot to study for my Social Studies test tomorrow! Better study now...

JaeHoey (alter ego, mind mode): Hey you brat, don't study, play computer! Studying is worthless. If you study, I will get out of your body.

JaeHoey: Nope, I don't think you can get out now if I strengthen my will to study... HAHA!!!

JaeHoey (alter ego, mind mode): Shit, I am sure clever... Okay, here's the deal for you. If you have the excuse of me forcing you to not study, and hence, you did not study, you can skip SS test tomorrow! Wouldn't it be great!

JaeHoey: Hell yeah I am going to believe you... This thing will become a laughingstock if I tell it to others.

JaeHoey (alter ego, mind mode): No, it won't.

JaeHoey: End of the story, myself! I want to study more and torture you! HAHA...

JaeHoey (alter ego, mind mode): NO!!!

And thus, I studied for tomorrow's test. Good luck...

By the way, this story is not true, just made up... HAHA!!!

TWILIGHT AND DUSK

2008-07-09T20:04:00.005+08:00

The night seemed so malevolent,
with the stars completely out of my sight.
I could not think of someone as benevolent,
as the you that had altered me from wrong to right.

Before I met you, my life was all stained with blood.
My course of life in a river flow was like a flood.
It was until I meet you,
that my life had begun to give way for two.

Your sweet, mellifluous advice flowed through my ears.
and cleared me of all my doubts and fear.
Life was no longer filled with tears.
My heart had then been crystal clear.

I believed then that I had a talent
in finding someone benevolent and yet not complacent.
I believed in my serendipity
as I had found you, despite the extreme scarcity.

Yet, I never really treasured what I really see.
The days I spent with you.
The memories I had crafted with you,
had all gone down to the deepest sea.

I was wrong at first for showing you
my most unacceptable misdemeanor.
I regretted the fact that I had sabotaged you,
and the fact that I could not be with you anymore.

Oh will this dusk end,
together with my existence erased from your life?
Or are you willing to let me mend,
the rifts that I had once etched at your heart with this knife?

If you are willing to give me one last chance,
I am willing to brave all the impossible.
For you, I will climb the highest mountain,
I will swim the deepest sea.

Without you, I had lost my oxygen.
My life could not proceed on.
Until then, my life remains on hiatus,
without you, the pivot of my life.

Twilight and dusk you once asked,
what are their differences?
I see the light in 'twilight'
but I see only darkness in 'dusk'.
That is my answer to you...

NEW JOKES FOR THE WEEK

2008-07-06T13:54:00.002+08:00

HERE ARE THE JOKES FOR THE WEEK!

JOKE #1
5 men from Britain, the States, France, Singapore and Bangladesh were on a luxurious cruise together. At that time, the British took out a bottle of red wine and took a sip of it and threw it into the sea.
He then said, "We have everything in Britain especially Red Wine."

Next, the American saw what the British did and did not want to lose. So, he took out a cigar and smoked it once and threw it into the sea too.
He then said, "We have everything in the States especially cigars."

The French saw this and too began boasting. He took out a bottle of perfume and sprayed it once at himself and threw it into the sea.
He then said, "We have everything in France especially perfume."

Seeing what the 3 men did, the Singaporean did not want to lose out as he was Kiasu(afraid to lose). He then took the Bangladeshi and threw him into the sea.
The three men was shocked and stunned, "What did you do that for?"

The Singaporean then replied, "We have everything in Singapore especially Bangladeshi workers."

Adapted from: Liao Han Si (4B), my classmate.

JOKE # 2
Ten years after Graduation, Nick and Mike planned a reunion party for the alumnus. During the party that night, each chatted happily and tell stories of their life.
Nick: I had a wife!
Mike: So am I, furthermore my wife's very beautiful.
Nick: Nah, outer looks... My wife's a very devoted and kind wife.
Mike: To top it off, my wife had a big voluptuous breast as well...
Nick: Nah, those huge things will go saggy when she is old.
Mike: What matters is, she is an angel!
Nick: Oh... How unlucky! Mine's still alive.

JOKE #3
Four Countries attended a competition. This competition allowed answers in any language. They were representatives from USA, Singapore, Australia and Indonesia.
During the match, the questioner gave a question: What is tall and round by surface?
USA pressed the first bell and answered: Cigar!
Bzzt... Wrong

Singapore quickly pressed the second bell and tried: Pencil!
Bzzt... Wrong

Australia saw the chance and pressed the bell and answered: Rod!
Bzzt... Wrong

Indonesia kept pressing the bell since the start of the competition but the bell didn't rang as it had stopped working. The Indonesian was so pissed off and he shouted out KONTOL(Penis in Indonesia) due to anger.

The referee heard the answer and IT WAS CORRECT! Indonesia thus won the match.

JOKE #4

After his day's sightseeing, an American touring Spain stopped at a local restaurant. While sipping his wine, he noticed a sizzling, scrumptious- looking platter being served at the next table. Not only did it look good, the smell was wonderful.

He asked the waiter, "What is that you just served?"

The waiter replied, " Ah senor, you have excellent taste! Those are bull's balls from the bull fight this morning. A delicacy!"

The American, though momentarily daunted when he learned the origin of the dish said, "What the hell, I'm on vacation! Bring me an order!"

The waiter replied, "I am so sorry senor. There is only one serving a day, since there is only one bull fight each morning. If you come early tomorrow and place your order, we will be sure to serve you this delicacy!"

The next morning, the American returned and placed his order. That evening, he was served the one and only special delicacy of the day.

After a few bites, and inspecting the contents of his platter, he called to the waiter and said, "These are much, much smaller than the ones I saw you serve yesterday!"

The waiter promptly replied, "Si, senor! Sometimes the bull wins!"

JOKE #5
One day, a man was almost dying. And all these while, he had a question that he needed to clarify with his wife. On his death bed, he asked his wife: Our 4th son always looked different from the other 3 , did he have a different father ?
Wife replied: Yes.
Man: Whose is it?
Wife: Yours.

JOKE #6

On the last day of kindergarten, all the children brought presents for their teacher.
The florist's son handed the teacher a gift.
She shook it, held it up and said, "I bet it's some flowers!"
"That's right!" shouted the little boy.
Then the candy store owner's daughter handed the teacher a gift. She held it up, shook it and said, "I bet I know what it is! It's a box of candy!"
"That's right!" shouted the little girl.
The next gift was from the liquor store owner's son. The teacher held it up and saw that it was leaking. She touched a drop with her finger and tasted it.
"Is it wine?" she asked.
"No," the boy answered. The teacher touched another drop to her tongue.
"Is it champagne?" she asked.
"No," the boy answered.
"What is it?" she said.
"A puppy!"

Joke # 7

Teacher: What are the people of Turkey called?
Student: I don't know.
Teacher: They are called Turks, now What are the people of Germany called?
Student: They are called Germs.

Conversations with Mr Chan during EL class always turned out to be especially funny. Here are some of them.

Talk 1

Mr Chan: Alright class, these students are from CHIJ. Yeah of course, Chicken House In Jurong.
Students (Hilarious laughters)

Talk 2

Mr Chan: All of you have got to buck up. What is your aim? Where do you plan to go? Of course, most of you will say NUS, NTU. Yeah right, NTU, Ninja Turtle University right?
Students (Even more hilarious laughters)

Conversation 1

Mr Chan: Okay class, we will be having our lesson in Ms Fun's room.
Soon Huat: You live with Ms Fun together?
Mr Chan: And you live on Ms Fun?

Conversation 2

Me: Mr Chan, is the 'Donson' in the passage there a species of dog?
Mr Chan: Of course not, it's obviously a human's name right? It's not definitely D for Dog. If that's how it works, that means your G is for Gay?

Storytelling 1

Mr Chan: There was once when I was in a hurry to go back to submit my work, I was approached by a cult group. They said that the World is ending and told me to lend them my ears for a moment. So far as I had known, if I stopped to listen to them for a while back there, my World is the one that would end.

Adapted from 4B's English lesson with Mr Chan.

THE END

BLOG IT, CLICK IT, STAMP IT

2008-07-05T23:01:00.002+08:00

Since last week, we have to return to school every Saturday for additional Oral lesson. And so, today happens to be one of those days. The morning Oral lesson started at around 8 30 and ended at 10... Today, the lecturer taught us how to maintain our stability during Oral, such as never stopping during the conversation. She gave each of us a topic to elaborate on. Salai was the first to be picked and he developed his 'clock' topic well.

The funniest part came when the lecturer gave An the topic, 'pretty girl'. He was stunned and he could not develop that topic, hence, the baton was passed to Ashraf. Ashraf immediately stood up and this was what he said,
Ashraf: A pretty girl can be ugly too. They can be found at all classes. Pretty girls may be men who had converted their sex to the female form.

LOL... Nice try though Ashraf.

We also learned how to elaborate on the picture conversation by paying attention closely to the elements found in the picture given. One of the picture given is a picture of scotch tape. If that's so, then how can be elaborate on it? The lecturer gave us a piece of important advice. Think as if you are a salesman promoting this product. You have to be eloquent and convincing, state additional features of the thing that you are going to promote to ensure that the thing will be sold. LOL. It does make a sense. That means, most salesman must score excellence for their Oral exam? Cool...

I think this lesson is worthwhile. Hope all students can benefit from this lesson. It was 10 plus and the lesson ended. Bradigto, Philip, Melvern, An, Shufen and I decided to have our meals at the food court. We met Salai there too and so, we invited him to join us for a meal. It seemed that he was planning to go to the library after his meal. Wow... So hardworking...

After our meals, we went home. I went to Brad's house and modified my blog there. Coincidentally, Brad's blog's skin were also modified by me. Greatest credits... ^^

At about 3, Hansi and Zhuo Hong came. Thus, our Dota game began. I am really weak at Dota and for a while back there, the team almost lost. It was kinda lag and hence we restarted the game. On the second round, we almost won. At the moment when I was about to buy my best weapon, it lagged and stopped working. So we quited the game. Zhuo Hong said that when we were about to win, the computer (opponent) was unhappy and caused the game to lag. LOL.

After we quited the game, Hansi tried to find an RPG warcraft game for us to play. It was only at that time that I had known that Pokemon, Soccer, Dragon Ball Z and other games are available as Dota characters there. LOL... It was so funny. Zhuohong tried to play Pokemon and he said he caught a snorlax. I went over and took a look. The snorlax was not the snorlax we know. It was a well built man. LOL!!!

Afterwards, we played Dota RPG survival. We have to survive 28 levels. During the first try, we managed to fight it till level 15. The enemy at level 15 was really strong. Moreover, it can multiply itself (though they are only clones). We lost there and replayed the game. Our attempt was again futile and we lost at level 15 again. How exasperating! Hence, we tried another game. This time, the level can be a lot higher. I managed to play till level 21 but then, the game lagged and so, I quited. Brad played till level 45 and quited, again due to lagging. Maybe the computer did this. Left with only Hansi and Zhuohong, when Zhuohong's character died, Hansi was left to fend for his own. And so, we lost... The RPG game was really fun but it was really challenging. To say, we only played it at easy level. -.-''

We were shocked when we realized that we had been playing Dota from 4 to 8. And we hadn't had dinner. So, we went to JE and had our dinner and afterwards, went to play pool. The game ended at about 10 plus and each of us headed home.

Today, I left home at 7 50 and reached home at 10 50. 15 hours...

Good night! ^^

IT WAS A FLUKE!

2008-07-03T22:29:00.003+08:00

Oh boy... Today, was our O level exam. I was the last in the list. Yes, nervousness will always be there to accompany us. Overall, the reading part was okay. The problem is the discussion part. The topic is about the Youth Olympic... Gosh... It comes unexpectedly. I had not done any preparations on that. I bullshitted my way out of the examination room, giving some particular details about that. Yet, I knew that the details i gave were quite limited in a sense... Argh... There's no use to cry over a spilled milk. What's over is now over... Let's just hope that everything will turn out nicely...

Classmates sitting for ORAL tomorrow, GOOD LUCK!

Meanwhile, I have two videos to share with all of you.

First video, Naruto Shippuden's newest opening song, Blue Bird by Ikimo No Gakari...
ENJOY!

The second video, Bleach's 6th opening, Alones... I just love the way Kon (the soft toy) does his lip sing at the beginning of the video, its so cute...

THE END...