slagoon, not the shark =)

post or no post?

2008-02-10T00:15:00.000+08:00

srry people.. haven't been updating as regularly as i would have liked.. cos i'm either busy, out or jua plain lazy.. owell.. mayb i'll do a proper one soon.. n since POP is in bout one month's time.. mayb it'll come then.. haha

new year, almost new life

2008-01-12T15:05:00.000+08:00

alright.. my first post of the new year.. nothing much has been going on.. sadly, juz going out with frens during book out weekends and well, most of the time i'm in camp anyway. book outs are always so short. about 24 hrs out of tekong and we're ordered back in again... well, this is better than nothing i guess...

the new batch of intakes are at tekong now :P while we're booked out.. but next week getting confined with them since we need to prepare of field camp.. sigh.. sadness lah.. another 2 weeks in tekong...

life's been pretty much the same, waking up early, doin routine stuff, exercising.. well.. title is self explanatory, now we juz need to wait for end feb/early march to arrive b4 anything more interesting happens.. LOL

book out

2007-12-24T22:59:00.000+08:00

hey, i'm booking in tmr again.. LOL.. been out for bout 5 days (6 including the book out night).. managed a movie mania of sorts with 3 movies in 5 days.. n timing resulted in tix being ex.. but well, wad to do..

booked out once on the 10th (if i remember correctly), due to high fever of 38.3. so my confinement period was disrupted but not by much.. booked out officially with the company on the 16th again and as mentioned above, booking in tmr.

watched 3 movies, first was national treasure 2, which i would say is the best out of the 3 movies >.<. not much of a movie critic, i'm sure u people can visit ming sing's blog when he does comment on it. other 2 were golden compass and I am legend. both rather bland, though i am legend impressed at the start only to finish off in a lacklustre note with too abrupt an ending.

golden compass i would say is a downgraded LOTR. since both are trilogies, you can tell the difference in quality of movie and acting from just the first installment. i still remember that i was waiting for lotr to finish only for the movie to b cut.. that's what movies should b doin. make ur audience craving for more. golden compass on the other hand was quite obvious when the movie was ending and well, the battle scenes and plot juz cannot compare.

alright, so hopefully i'll b out again on the 30th, den i'll catch AVP2.. haha.. book out days seem to b juz reserved for movies, movies and more movies...

be back soon

2007-12-05T22:30:00.000+08:00

hi all.. as most people know, i'm enlisting tmr.. so this blog will b like dead for a time (not that it hasn't been for the past 1/2 a month) but i'll post when i get back from army.. haha.. when i book out that is.. to giv a glimpse :P CYALL!!!

almost over

2007-11-19T19:16:00.000+08:00

a bit more than 48 hrs left before its all over... for the physics people without h3/math h3, it ends tmr.. gah.. why muz they always have like 2 day siesta before an mcq paper? wad are we gonna do for those two days!! argh!!

can't wait for post As stuff..i have a full 2 weeks to enjoy before i start running for like 4 months.. LOL..

whee

2007-11-14T16:51:00.000+08:00

omg.. lol.. why's there such a big diff btw case study and essays.. -.- i think now like every1 is much happier.. yay, can slack more or less already.. only hav bio paper 3 left which involves much writing... two mcqs and its all over by next thursday.. whee...

...

2007-11-13T17:03:00.000+08:00

wth.. wad type of weird qns are those for econs man.. totally weird n not typical.. gah.. concepts were generally there, but that's always the case for econs isn't it? most of it is there but yet u dun get the marks for it.. well, this is one clear cut case.. lol.. one more major paper tmr for econs case study, hope its like much better than this today.. cos i think every1 needs it to pull the marks up..

can't wait for next thursday.. or monday for that matter....

bah

2007-11-09T08:50:00.000+08:00

dam... i've got sense of deja vu.. i think i might hav injured my right ankle yesterday while climbing the fence to get out of sch.. so loser right.. haiz.. dammit lah.. why does this always happen when the exams are gonna be over/are over already.. think i've told people b4, i dislocated my ankle that time after PSLE was over.. by jumping and landing wrongly.. zzz.. why why why.. sigh.. now the ankle change side some more.. bah

2 more weeks...

2007-11-07T22:15:00.000+08:00

hi all! i'm back for today... haven't blogged for quite a while, but hope there's no high hopes bout this one.. juz tot i shouldn't b like ernest... hahah

today's my mum's birthday! went to 'no signboard' seafood to have dinner.. crab was yummy, but otherthan that its rather normal... lol.. since i was at vivo, spent like 20 bucks at candy empire >.<

anyway, past many weeks have been rather routine.. go to sch early, mug, eat lunch, mug, go home, eat dinner, slack and sleep.. lol.. boring.. nothing much to talk bout really... lol..

it ends in 2 weeks time. can't wait for 22 of nov.. heh.. and for those who don't already noe, i'll b disappearing 2 days after prom is over... call of duty... hahaha

beginning of the end

2007-10-12T21:30:00.000+08:00

sigh. Yesterday was the last official day of school for the class of 2007 and it was such a bittersweet day. Bitter as this signals the end of the 2 year journey that started so suddenly last year after we left the comfort zone of secondary school to venture into a new system. Sweet as on this day alone, memories just flow through you and you feel that the past 2 years have been the best time of your lives.

For me, the s03lovelies has been a much better experience than expected. From the start of last year, we started as a group of strangers (most of us anyway) and finally today, we finish as one well bonded group of people who have gone through thick and thin, hardships and conflicts, fun and games. This class has exceeded expectations and I'm quite sure that at the start of last year, we would never have expected that we would end up as a bonded entity. For this reason alone, i feel very lucky and blessed. :)

Yesterday was a day of reminiscence, with people like kel and azu passing out letters while the rest of us receive and read them :P took pictures here and there, had a class photo to conclude the day similar to how we had our first civics lesson during orientation. Throughout the two years, the class has been through a lot, especially in the aspect of class outings. Personally, i think this class has gone for more outings than any other class in the school. In 2 years, we've managed to do almost all possible things that a class can do together. Stayovers, chalets, movies, ECP, Sentosa, Esplanade and many others. We've even celebrated holidays together like the turkey eating at yi rui's house last christmas and chinese new year at xin wei's.

Now, here's something that quite a few people have done before, so i won't say that its an original idea. Here are the people in my class and some comments from me to them :) (In alphabetical order)

Amanda - thanks for always being such a good friend. First met you when you went for the RI French lesson under Madame Tse, though I didn't know you at all then. Most amazingly was how we actually mentioned that it could be possible to end up in the same class at Tianni's house :D Don't be disheartened by Bio, just work towards it and everything will turn out fine :)

Andrea - I know that I honestly didn't like you when you first appeared in our class in March last year, but as time passed, you warmed up to us and vice versa. Though conflicts did happen over the years, I'm sure that we managed to iron it out somehow

Azimah - YOU are so totally psycho. haha… but well, you bring about laughter in almost everyone’s life in class, with your weird antics as well as your amazingly childish yet mature attitude… that’s why I say that you’ll never grow up :P though u claim that you will, only time will tell

Azura - Our wonderful CT rep that can be so random yet so funny at the same time. Only started getting to know you well this year (don’t know when) but like you said, it doesn’t matter. As long as the result is such, the when and how are irrelevant :D Your randomness is usually attributed to two things, first sugar (includes sweets, chocos and other stuff with glucose) and second people. Your degree of randomness seems to vary from person to person, from the very little (Thomas) to the very much (azi). But that’s the aspect of you that the class has learnt to love and enjoy :) So I guess that allows you to be more random (or is it your limit already :P) around us as you know that we usually juz accept it the way it is.. haha

Bernard - You are one intelligent dude. With your quotes and all during GP, where we learn random stuff, also pseudo-malaysian that manages to bluff ms uma for like the first term at least. haha… managed to learn loads of things from you over the course of the 2 years, one thing I’ve learnt especially is to never let u draw!! (Your drawing of the shark on the back of the picture is just ugly lah >.<)

Daniel - Thanks for teaching me who my real friends are, and also that trust should never be given out too easily as this would just be made use of by certain people

Ernest - For the past 4 years, we’ve been classmates. Wasn’t exactly very close to you in RI, so I’m glad to have had the chance to actually know you a lot better than I had 2 years ago. Most important fact that the most of us learnt from you is that, you’ll be rich in the future :P remember us when you get richer!!! Also, I think its about time you actually said something on you blog no?

Hee Xun – You’re another smart GEPer, knew you were one since the first time I saw u last year. Reinforced by the fact that you got straight As in the certs that you plan to use for your uni apps. With your studious specs and the funky look, impossible to be a special/express student. You know how it goes in RI, most GEPers are crappy, but I know that that particular view has been debunked several times over the two years and you’ve certainly become an essential part of the class (since you organise the outings)

Hui Yi - One person in class that can actually memorise the lines found in Disney movies, and being able to imitate the way the characters talk. This new revelation came from class chalet where we sat as a group and you sportingly demonstrated it to us :) Also, a person with the weirdest dreams EVER. I have not met another person who has had such vivid memories of the weird dreams that they have had. You usually have different views on stuff (cos of KI), though you refuse to accept the fact that its cos I take GP n you take KI :P

Jing Wen - Fun-loving guy that can range from being very serious to super crappy and from very hardworking to super slack, though its more of the former in both cases now that the As are coming. Heard about you in RI, but never actually got to see who you are, since the RI Moor House batch was so small (2 classes, 1express 1 GEP), but since knowing you, its been a real fun experience

Julia - I wonder whether you’ve realised that the person that wrote ‘great faith’ on your small coloured sheet of paper is me :P I was quite o.O when you suddenly asked aloud that day whose signature looked like an 8, and all I could do would be to act ignorant and act normal.. haha… Over the past 2 years, I’m really thankful for all the help you’ve given me in math and all, and I sincerely hope that your outlook of the class has changed since we first talked (can’t remember whether this year or last) and know that we’ll always be here supporting and encouraging you in whatever you do :)

Kelvin - Classmate of four years as well. I was totally amazed by you sneezing ability in sec 4. What was your record, can you remember? And thought that it was gonna occur again since RJ decided to install air-con. Sadly it never happened and u deprived 3L of a wonderful experience (for us, not for you :P) Also, a greatly responsible CT rep, though might be indecisive at times, you know that we all really appreciate the effort that you’ve put in for the class and hopefully, as a class, we’ve not let you down in anyway. One ironic case, no matter how you tried to separate the four of us 4E people through your random seating arrangement, we somehow managed to come back together again in the end (yiding was the outsider.. haha)

Kun Man - I would dare say that you’re one of, if not, the funniest girl in class. Ranging from your incredible life stories that are read from your blog, to the way you and ernest try to own each other through suaning even though he usually wins in the end anyway, also the way you look at everyone of us whenever we say something bout ‘you know who’, its just what makes you, YOU. From your fetish of cats to your incredible ability of only being able to sprain your ankle while walking has defined you and your personality. From the times I’ve talked to you (via msn, though you claim that you don’t like it very much), I’ve learnt a great deal, especially in instances where you provide a ‘Switzerland’ point of view that allows me to see the whole picture as well as a whole new perspective.

Melissa - woohoo, die hard KI person whom I seem to always manage to find something to comment about that relates it to KI somehow, and almost always without fail, you’ll say that I’m closed minded or something to that extent. I don’t know why sometimes I bother to argue with you and hui yi cos I lose most of the time anyway, but I guess its fun to see the views of 2 people who have a different way in which they interpret things and that’s what makes those arguments interesting (for me at least). hehe… one more thing, dun b so stressed!

Milord - Like how Song Jie described you, you make everyone around you laugh, no matter what the situation, how long the duration, who you are talking to or where you are. Started the milk tea drink in class which was later named ‘Milord Tea’ cos you drink it all the time and in the end, at least half the class was drinking it. Also, what amazes me is how you can play till like 5 or 6am and still manage to go to school and survive the day. (Maybe it has something to do with the tea.. haha)

Ming Sing - reflective person that loves cate blanchett for nuts. Like to critique people’s pronunciation (till I owned you at class chalet :P) and knows nuts about soccer. I thought I saw you before around in RI but couldn’t really remember. But through the long talks that we have with Thomas, ernest and heex, I’m sure that we’ve learnt more about each other and understand each other better. Though our views may conflict at times, especially about movies and the like, we’ll usually be able to compromise and agree on something to a certain extent.

Mun Hay - coolio hocker who I seldom get to talk to, except during random sessions when I see you at the floorball court and in class. Though conversations are short and rare, still managed to interact with you, especially during GP at the start of the year when I was still sitting at the back of the class. Its been fun having you in class especially for your comments and the things you say. Most memorable quote? ‘Zhenghong is my idol’ for one of the civics lessons we had.. haha

Reuben - Emo drama queen of a guy. Really voices out his opinions when he wants to be heard and it usually succeeds. Though for some strange reason he has mood swings o.O could be real gloomy n down one day and happy and cheery the next. He can be really mean to selected people at times, but usually he’s just joking. Used to keep hanging out with his sec4 chums till recently and always got suaned by me when I say that ‘he’s not part of the class’, but of course I’m only joking.

Ruth - One of the few people in class who is really artistic, making jewellery and also taking nice photos of the people around her. In addition, though I won’t say that anyone in our class is ugly, cos no one is, I could say that she’s the prettiest of us all.. guys and girls included.. haha… even though the conversations have been rare and far apart, whenever we do have one, you’re always friendly and approachable. Also, we depend on you for most of our class photos :P

Song Jie - This is one guy that can never lose his temper. Since I’ve known him in sec 1, I have never once seen him lose his temper in any way. Always seem to be smiling, only time seen unsmiling is when he’s bickering with Kelvin, which has toned down quite a bit since the last year when they were doin it every other hour for no apparent reason that the rest of us can see. If I remember correctly, he’s like the most scandalous in class, though most of it is unverifiable and he even has a nickname (which I will not write here)

Thomas - being one of the quietest boys in class, it is easy to assume that Thomas would not be able to gel with the class in general. He provides to-the-point comments on things and is usually ready to help, even under the weirdest conditions. He’s very serious about the things that happen around him, but it is this quality that makes us laugh, especially when he tries to control his laughter and at the same time try to be serious. This conflict of emotion never fails to put a smile on everyone’s faces.

Xiaoyu - bubbly personality that can be really infectious sometimes. Having gone through pw as well as the EDB challenge, found her to be real hardworking person as well as a really determined one. As long as she has her eyes on her goal, she’ll work towards it no matter how much effort it’ll take and usually she’ll manage to accomplish her goal. Everyone says that she’ll be a tai tai when she grows up, though it might be true, but I’m sure that she would have accomplished something before degenerating to that state :P

Xin Wei - blurrest girl in class and the only person I know that can say stuff that suans herself… She tries to do it to other people, but most of the time it just backfires and she gets it anyway.. Alo, during the class chalet, we found out that her brain sort of stops working properly when it gets late and she gets sleepy.. wrong stuff kept coming from her and we just had to take the chance to suan her, since it was presented to us on a silver platter :P

Yi Ding – powerful person that manages to confuse the easiest of concepts as he thinks too much. Very inquisitive, and bombarding people with questions every other day, he has a great desire to improve and learn. His questions have helped me to understand certain concepts much better as I would have to dissect the whole concept before I can successfully explain to him so that he’ll be convinced. I dare say he’s the most hardworking guy in class, but maybe cos of his inherent nature of self-confusion, he has not seen the result of his hard work… YET.. I’m sure that he’ll be able to rise up to the challenges ahead and conquer them with such determination and confidence. Also, he’s a funny man, who for some weird reason supports Chinese players in soccer (though they really cmi). Cos of that, he continually gets bombed by ernest and I but his nature and character usually takes this in his stride and tries unsuccessfullyto suan us back somehow..

Yi Rui - fellow 163 bus taker, super smart and yea, super smart. He may seem quiet on the outside, but internally, he has strong opinions and views but he usually keeps them to himself. Though he may be small in stature, you sure can’t look down on him, his attitude towards work is just excellent, camping in the library from 8am-9pm almost everyday (I think) and he’s just the studying role model that everyone should be following, he has the results to show for it too :)

Zhang Rui - this guy is just a bag of laughs and information. He can talk about anything under the sun and you might not know whether he’s lying through his teeth or speaking the truth. Also, his ability to imitate south park characters and also remember the stories with such completion that its amazing, just like how one remembers the times tables or something, it seems to come naturally to him. Although there was one incident where I felt like whacking him, (cos he was moping bout his econs grade which was already better than mine), he’s a good friend to have around and with his antics, you’ll be laughing your head off.

Zheng Hong - here’s the comedian of the class. He manages to make the whole class laugh with his witty jokes as well as lame jokes and a good mix of them results in much laughter for everyone else. More importantly, it how he can talk crap with such a straight face that ms lio sometimes even looks as though she believes him >.< most recently it was bout Robert frost being gay and that’s how the poem written by him and given to us was supposed to signify.

All in all, i would really like to thank the class as a whole for these 2 wonderful years that have been shared. Now, i'm really sleepy, typed till like 4-5am and still wasn't done.. so continued this morning and here it is.. my longest post so far and should be the longest for a long time.

comments

2007-10-10T19:29:00.000+08:00

wow..i think that stephen king is a really good writer. One would find it especially so if you read more of his books. While i was reading 'Dreamcatcher' today, i realised that he had references to another of his books, 'IT'. There a mild sense of acomplishment when i read the paragraph and i think to myself, 'OMG! i know what happened that led up to this event!' Its like you're journeying together with the writer as he writes his stories. I don't know how many other people have had this feeling when they read books, but i think that's what makes it all worth it.

on another note, i want to watch david copperfield!!! Any1 willing to watch? (Its like 2 days after Gp paper.. LOL)

get lost

2007-10-04T12:52:00.000+08:00

some people just don't learn. One tries to give another chance for gaining back of trust and confidence but instead this chance is not only wasted, but made use of. I feel sad for such a person, who refuses to admit to one's mistakes and at the same time tries to justify his own point of view. i have explained before that its not cos of the actions, but more of the attitude. since the advice is not heeded, there's nothing i can do about it. i feel sorry for the people who can only hope to insult and hurt those that seem not to be able to fight back. Till now, up one is up to a stage where what is done doesn't really matter any more, but if its conflict that comes beggin to be fought, one would ensure that it would be a conflict well fought.

Chance given chance gone, too bad

life as it is...

2007-09-29T12:16:00.000+08:00

well, here's the weekly update bulletin of life.

after that long cycle at ecp and where kmli slightly dislocated her ankle (while crossing the overhead bridge), the next outing happened on tuesday! 3 outings in 5 days.. woots!

Met Julia in the morning at the Immigration and Checkpoint Authority to make our ICs.. mine took a maximum of 10 mins while Julia had to go in for some interview o.O Initially worried, she came out of the iterview room much more cheerful especially with an interviewer who thought the system was rigid (so one can imagine how she griped about it :P). Decided to walk from lavender to clarke quay since we had so much time on our hands (it was 11 then and we had to meet the class at 2). the only difficulty of that would b choosing the correct direction of which to walk form the ICa but with the help of the DHL balloon, we made the right choice :) took a pit stop at the national library to get some air-con, degen a bit, borrow books and try to use the internet. both of us spent at least 5-10 mins trying to hack into our own accounts -.-" couldn't remember the password OR username for nuts. Even so, after i managed to figure out mine, realised that the account was empty so it could not be used.. LOL.. Stayed there till like 140 or so before walking down the road towards Clarke Quay

On the way, we were guessing how many people would already b there, since our EST was about 1345. Julia guessed 3 while i guessed 5, and disappointingly (if there's such a word), only heex and yi rui were there -.- the rest of the class soon followed and we went to settlers' cafe. On the way, we passed the famous Speaker's Corner which is filled with ugly pandas with a large concert stage opposite it.. haha.. at settlers', we played random card and board games like saboteur and pit, even finding a game that was very much alike what we did for civics. Spent 4 hrs there from 2-6 but it sure was a fun-filled 4 hrs. After that, azu left us to head home to break fast while the rest of us headed to serangoon for dinner

Hui yi left us after dinner and we all walked form serangoon to heex's house where jia hua and jw were waiting in ambush to scare azi and it worked spectacularly. There, we enjoyed mooncakes, lanterns, sparklers and a very smelly dog >.< we were basically sitting around, walking around, lighting sparklers doing and talking bout random stuff.. haha.. amanda and xinwei joined us later but left the earliest cos they weren't staying over. people started streaming home after like 11+ but the rest of us - Bernard, Kelvin, Yi rui, Zhang Rui, Thomas, Reuben and myself. Entertained ourselves with cards till it was time to watch soccer - Reading vs Liverpool. Match was quite boring at the start, with both teams rather lacklustre performances. Liverpool opened the scoring and yr, homa and myself started cheering!! (its obvious now who are the liverpool supporters). Reading equalised soon after and the 3 of us were like -.-. After half time was when things got exciting.. Liverpool went up again through torres only for reading to equalise yet again through another shambled goalmouth scramble. torres put in another to make it 3-2 and after that we realised that reading's fight was juz squashed. with 5 mins to go, torres rounded the keeper to complete his hat-trick :D zhang rui went home at half time while some others ko-ed round there too.. the 3 of us ended up being banished to the floor and chair on lvl 1.. haha..

the next day, as usual my body clock woke me up at 7+ but tried to sleep, to no avail. went to have muffins and read the papers.. imagine wad's the first news i saw in the Life section..... Lack of sleep can lead to at least twice the probability of getting heart disease and all that.. i was like o.O.... met up with ernest and a few others like azu n milord for lanning the next day. Finally, reached home and ko-ed with sch looming the next day...

Results came streaming in for us on thursday where we got back chem, math, bio paper 3(which was crappy) and gp.. friday couldn't come sooner as we got back econs and bio paper 1. Results so far are AABB, but can't compare to the likes of heex, thomas and yr who hav juz totally imba marks...

Friday was also my bday!! YAY!! haha.. finally can drink legally (though i don't anyway), watch M18 movies, etc.. received smses from people from 10+ to 12+, but i was asleep by 9+ so i only saw all the msgs when i woke up the next day.. haha.. also got cards from the class, including a small red car from kmli, and wu lei. headed to dhoby ghaut from sch and only at 6+ did i get informed that the meeting time and place were changed from dhoby at 7 to somerset at 8.. i was like o.O once again. met my 2 aunts and 4 cousins finally at cathay and had dinner with loads of fun and laughter. So that ends the week on a high note and today, i'm having dinner with my family again :P hahahah

distance travelled

2007-09-23T22:00:00.000+08:00

for those who went cycling, a very very rough estimate would b around 25km in total.. 12.5 km for the one-way trip.. but this is using quite an inaccurate map on streetdirectory.com (since i can't google earth for reasons u people noe of)

hope there's a sense of achievement.. haha.. :D

post prelims

2007-09-22T19:58:00.000+08:00

heya all! Its post prelims already, for most of us that is.. those taking H3 math good luck and you can still enjoy 2 days after that.. :P

The past 2 days have been totally wacko... friday, right after chem mcq was over, we all adjourned to Dhoby Ghaut for a mass lanning session. Reuben joined us!!! Its like a miracle, lol.. (juz joking reub if ur reading this). So anyway most of us lanned for 7.75 hours and it cost us a total of $15.50, which is like o.O

Then we went to some ulu eatery shophouse at outram where yi ding somhow got lost and conveniently his phone ran out of batt... (why do stuff like that always happen to u man?) The food there i would say is not too bad, but somehow our table under-ordered but we didn't care anyway. Class dinner invloved Amanda, Andrea, Azura, Hui Yi, Julia, Ruth and Xinwei who represented the girls (7/11.. not bad!!) Also Bernard, Ernest, Heex, Milord, Kelvin, Reuben, Myself, Song Jie, Yi Ding, Yi Rui, Zhang Rui and Zhenghong (12/17 not too bad either!).

After contemplating what to do after dinner, we finally decided on the esplanade and we waited for the stupid bus for like 30 mins -.- (buses NOT to take include 162 and 196). So finally we ended up at the place where we had our first class outing of sorts if i'm not wrong. Series or 'Truth or Dare' qns showed how much our class has evolved in a way compared to like one year ago and at least every1 was quite open with wad they said, less of the covering up type of stuff that usually happens and the only dare of the night came from reub how did cartwheels from where we were sitting to the wall and came back topsy turvy.. haha.. (mayb he did it so that he didn't need to answer truth o.O) Finally, we got chased off the roof terrace of the esplanade and every1 went their separate ways.

Today was the BOMB day. after much deliberation like everything else we do, we finally managed to carve out an outing of sorts. People around were Bernard, Kun Man, Heex, Kelvin, Song Jie, Azura, Reub (who came like super late, but at least he made the effort to go :) ) and myself. cycled from my uncle's house and it took me mlonger than expected - 35 mins - to reach the Macs at ECP. Jingwen appeared briefly with Robia (is this the right spelling) and their newly adopted kitten, but after that they left to study (o.O). We cycled for nearly 4 hours from Macnonald's all the way to Changi Airport!!! (we actually cycled the WHOLE length of the runway and more, being able to see the passenger terminal) After that, we decided for the sake of every1, we should turn back. On the way to the 'end point', cramps started to set in but they were still controllable due to availability of water, but on the reverse trip, it almost became unbearable, but pushed on anyway. Finally reaching the hawker centre where every1 juz sort of dropped their bikes and went to buy drinks (i think since i wasn't there). the worst part of they day when i was on my way home after buying dinner, i cycled towards the seafood centre and due to fatigue, i decided to take a short break. BAD MISTAKE!! my whole right quadracept (or however you spell it) just seized up. OMG, i thought i was gonna like stay there forever, though it only lasted at most 1 minute. pushed on back to Macs where my other muscles were also acting up, and decided to juz take a taxi instead of risking cycling back. If my leg cramped again when i'm cycling on the raod, i would feel super GG >.<

So now back safe and sound at my uncle's house, i foresee a bedridden tomorrow :( but well, to think we actually wanted to try to cycle all the way to changi village, i would give it to us tht we were ambitious :) haha... mayb we can do it next time :P I'll find out the approximate distance that we've travelled today from Macs to where we were soon. Hopefully, it can give us a sense of achievement :)

end of week 1

2007-09-14T13:41:00.000+08:00

first time i'm posting in almost a week. this week's been a busy one, with prelims alomst everyday cept on tuesday where we had a one day break before we continued with all the rest. 4 down and 6 more to go. just one more week before the prelims end and we have a break of a few days and after that, its full steam ahead with about a month to A levels.

so far, life's been kinda boring with nothing mich interesting happening expect the constant mugging sessions that occur everyday. Although there have always been time to relax and have fun to daidee though up to 2-3 hrs can b wasted that way. but its a good way to destress if we're feeling any.

this is crappy, i can't connect my phone to my com =/ cos the specs are too lousy.. gah! i need a new com!!! sigh.. back to the books i guess...

unusual sight

2007-09-06T18:35:00.000+08:00

hmm.. was walking my dog juz now i saw this group (or wadeva thing they're called) of sparrows.. so weird.. there were at least 20+ 30 of them juz hopping around on the ground.. is it a SIGN?? o.O or is my headache juz acting up?

september vacation - 1st 4 days

2007-09-06T18:04:00.000+08:00

well, as julia mentioned, the irony of having a vacation (when the school is supposed to be vacated) is that everyone goes back anyway! (well almost everyone) Anyway the past week has been rather dull... studying almost everyday (ok EVERYDAY), together with various people like heex, azu, ernest, julia and wu lei.. its been tiring as expected, but with prelims coming up next week, its inevitable, we can only hope that prelims turn out with results that reflect how much effort we have put in (though this hardly happens cos life's unfair)

Today was Chem mock prelims and first time we saw the class (or most of it) in like a week, since teacher's day, which seems so long ago now.. mock prelims was alright, though a few careless mistakes here and there made the paper seem difficult but overall it was alright :D

Today is also Julia's bday!! haha.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIA!! anyway i wanted to sms her at like 12 last night but unfortunately i fell asleep at 10+ against my will >.< was watching tv halfway too! :( owell.. better late than never :P

well, i'll stick with a short post today, having a headache which refuses to go away since the chem paper ended at 11.. so i'm off.. mug mug mug...

teachers' day 2007

2007-09-01T19:42:00.000+08:00

Today's teachers' day, the actual one, though all the stuff that's emo and all happened yesterday (for obvious reasons). I would concur with every one's view that we're really lucky to have the bunch of teachers that we have. Looking at some of the other tutors, I sometimes wonder how they actually survive their lessons.

A fun-loving and caring econs tutor, who's also our civics tutor, Ms Lio lets us run free most of the time, cancelling Civics so that we can have a break in the morning and replenish out energy through class breakfast and occasional games. On the econs side, though we don't usually meet up to expectations for tests and exams, she never fails to push us on and encourage us, never giving up on us no matter what the situation. Cos she's so fun-loving, the lovelies decided to add on to her growing LARGE soft toy collection by giving another marine animal to accompany the turtle given last year :P

Another fun-loving tutor, Mr Chan, who watches Bleach but refuse to admit it during lessons (for reasons i don't know of) and is easily provoked into an uncontrollably fit of laughter which in turn brightens up the class to sometimes very boring bio lessons/topics. With his trademark finger to temple movement whenever someone bombs him with a question, it is no wonder the lovelies bought him a massager (though why a back one I have yet to find out)

Our math tutor who has loads of brain and is full of jokes that cmi, presenting Ms. Chua! Her intelligence is just overflowing from her brain, having gone to both Cambridge AND Harvard for her undergrad and post grad studies. In addition to that, she makes us all envious in 2 ways. First, the ability to remember handphone numbers of almost everyone in class (and i'm quite sure its not only our class that she remembers). Second is that she has visited almost EVERY SINGLE country there is in Europe and also the cooler places in US.. woah.. though she got a calculator from the lovelies, i'm quite sure she'll spend more time thinking of jokes bout it than using it.. :P

Our favourite Winnie the Pooh tutor, Ms Lee, is famous (or infamous but i still think its famous) for her Pooh bear slides and antics. Anytime someone sees a chem presentation with Pooh bear, its definitely Ms Lee. Even the people who don't know her will ask, 'Are you referring to the Winnie the Pooh one?', showing how she has made an impression on us impressionable kids. The lovelies gave her a Winnie the Pooh head rest (or is it a bolster) together with a mini Pooh tied to it, perhaps it may be overdone since Ms Le even uses Winnie the Pooh custom made ALPHABETS!!

Last but not least (cliche intended), we have our GP tutor, Ms Uma, who made it known to us recently that if she gets reincarnated, she would like to be a cat, especially a Persian cat cos those have very good lives. Thus the cat theme of presents which included a cat beanie and a whacker with the shape of a cat. Lovelies tried unsuccessfully to fool Ms Uma that hitting the beanie with the whacker would create a Bernard-like 'ek' sound since she found out it was bernard all along in the end, but it was worth the try, especially her first expression of cluelessness when bernard's 'EK' was too soft -.- haha..

so sums up a fruitful teachers day (mayb we should have just given them each an apple like in Snoopy and other cartoons with teachers). Finally, i would like to thank all of them for all the work they have put in so far to help us to mature and grow as people as well as supporting us all the way (at least i hope so).

new revelation

2007-08-30T20:44:00.000+08:00

Today, was a day of reflection. With almost everyone writing their personal messages to all our tutors for the past 2 years (with some teaching us for less than that), but most of us seem to have loads to write anyway. Me, i never knew i could be so long-winded while i saw myself writing super long messages to teachers (especially for ms lio cos kelvin told me to juz fill up the space) sometimes i'm juz crapping, but what to do, these messages are supposed to b part fun part serious anyway :P

Nest, the revelation. I don't know why this revelation though important seemed so unimportant in my life now. I felt weird when the information was released and i just took it as it was, not feeling particularly sad or anything, makes me feel kinda weird especially since this person was an integral part of my life for quite some time :/ Rather confused now, don't understand why i took it so calmly and composedly, perhaps I've already gotten over it? Or perhaps I just accepted the fact that some things in life are not meant to be.

Once again, for the second time in 3 days, I ended up in the movie theatre, together with wu lei, heex, kun man, bernard, kelvin, ming sing, azu and thomas. This time, we watched the second 5-star rated movie by The Straits Times - Ratatouille. I would dare say that it is EXCELLENT!! Full of laughs and humour, while the short film before the movie - Lifted is just totally hilarious!! Watching a trainee alien trying to abduct a human, but having him smacked around the house and finally crashing the spaceship into the ground was so totally classic, it seems that the trainee could do NOTHING RIGHT, which made it all the more hilarious. Haha.. Furthermore, the person that was on the verge of being abducted looked like the main character in ratatouille (mayb that's why he couldn't cook!). Remy is so totally soft toy material, as I have said countless of times. I wouldn't mind getting a soft toy looking like that :P Overall, i would say the movie did deserve its 5-star rating. many laughs in the movie ensured that the audience was constantly entertained by the antics of both mouse and human, the plot was good with a few twists and turns made to leave the audience either having a deeper understanding of the plot OR leaving them with another bout of uncontrollable laughter, especially with BOTH bernard and kelvin sitting side by side, imagine the volume of laughter. The food in the movie looked good enough to eat, so much so that most of the people left for S11 right after that to satisfy their hunger. Kun Man being the funny person that she is wanted to catch a rat when she saw one scampering around on their way to S11 (How can u be so evil?? Didn't you see how the rat looked when it got caught in a trap? Later u get tied up and thrown into the refrigerator then you know :P)

Well, now in real time, someone is messing around with nationstates and i think that its totally nonsensical. So much for keeping promises, or repaying debt, or being united with the class. Some people just don't get it that the way that they are treated is mainly due to their own actions and behavior AND they should reflect on it before they start confronting people claiming to be ostracised and backstabbed and blowing situations up for no good reason, but they seem to fail to realise that everything started from them AND there's something known as cause and effect in this world and since they caused something, they have to face the effects of it.

post prelim activities

2007-08-29T05:52:00.000+08:00

2 down n 10 to go.. that's the number of prelim papers we have left, but who cares if we still have 10 papers left? the post-promo activities have already started! the most activity in which has had the highest participation so far would be that of having mass muggin sessions in the library where one could find at least 6 lovelies around and about ddep in thought and busy cramming information into their brains..

other than that, there's also the movie watching activity which was attended by heex, thomas, wu lei n i.. watched bourne ultimatum and personally, i felt that the movie was a blast! though i didn't finish reading the book, i seem to know what happened throughout the story, it flowed so well that it made understanding easy as well.. wu lei who didn't like violence would have rated the show one-star due to the numerous hand-to-hand combat scenes as well as the car chases, furthermore, the action seems to go too fast sometimes that it has a giddying effect. Thomas felt that movie was ok, not deserving of 5 stars, but not bad nonetheless, and also commeneted that people who didn't like violence will have a hard time finding good movies to watch.. heex was unavailable for comment..

number 50!!

2007-08-22T20:42:00.000+08:00

50th post of my blog.. haha.. dunno why i'm here bloggin when prelims are like next week.. but since i'm here, i'll do a short post..

Well, one of the occupations that i really have respect for are the comic strip illustrators.. thus the comic strip segment of my blog on the left. I really admire them as they have to think of a new strip for everydya of they year, meaning at least 365 comics.. and furthermore, there are the Sunday comics which are longer than the usual dailies that consist of 3-4 frames, while Sunday comics are usually at least 5 panels or juz one gigantic one.. the prospect of having to think of something new everyday is really daunting.. We all have trouble juz thinking of the same stuff everyday what more make life more complicated by thinking of a new issue to not only talk about but address through drawings?

Sadly, like most other things, good things come to an end. For example, Bill Amend now only draws Sunday comics for Foxtrot which is like one of the all-time best comics (at least for me). So although the characters in the comic strips do not grow old as the years go by, the creator of these comics do and this is undeniable. Imagine a life without the fun and colour of comic strips (although dailies are black and white) which are able to make you laugh or think of an issue that was raised in it. It makes you think bout stuff u dun normally think about and even allows you to relate to the characters (most of the time).. many other comics are relatively new like Pearls Before Swine which addresses daily questions and brings out the humour in everyday mundane occurances.

All in all, i feel that comics are an integral part of our (or my) lives and i so want to be a comic illustrator (since i already have a comic character named after me AND YES I came first) but sadly, my drawing skills just cannot make it :( owellz, i'll leave it up to the professionals for now :)

yay!!

2007-08-16T21:14:00.000+08:00

YAY!! got my specs back at last :P can see properly again.. no more having to squint at the screen and still b unable to see the words/numbers (as azu would know since she was there while i was like half-blind) and no more blurry vision (that's why i was trying to wear my specs less today cos i was starting to have a headache).

Anyway, i saw my friend, Shuting, on tv juz now for like 5 secs.. she was answering some random qn for some channel 8 food show.. was stunned for like a while before i got sane enough to pick up my phone and ask her bout it.. after recollecting, her first qn to me was.. 'did i look ugly?' once again i got stunned.. haha.. was thinking that that's such a 'girl' thing to ask but answered her anyway.. haha.

In addition, Tim Chow as well.. wad's with RJ people and prata? watching the show juz now made me hungry, so i went to eat prata!! (no i'm juz kidding -.- went to eat like fruits.. haha..)

sigh...

2007-08-15T14:07:00.000+08:00

Week's coming to an end.. prelims are just 1.5 weeks away.. n my specs lens cracked!! sheesh.. n it is like plastice some more.. haiz.. now wearing my old pair where everthing's a bit blurry.. having a slight headache (dunno cos of the specs or i'm juz sleepy) and the weather is just gloomy (but cooling)..

To all you hardworking people out there..have fun studying! while i go study some inorg chem.. heh..

hahaah

2007-08-13T21:09:00.001+08:00

Put The Big Red Button on your site

alone

2007-08-10T21:17:00.000+08:00

well.. this has two meanings.. as most people know, i'm home alone once again.. third time this year.. lol.. parents are somewhere on a bintan/batam (dunno which one) resort relaxing with my relatives while i'm stuck in singapore muggin till my brains rot.. i believe that's the case for most people with the increasing number of mini-tests that need us to mug for each and every one of themif not we'll feel like totally screwed if you know wad i mean.. prelims are in like 2/3 weeks time and stress is juz slowly but surely piling up.. sigh..

other meaning... this afternoon, watched 'alone' with wu lei and its this thai horror film that has the same producers as 'shutter', this other horror movie AND both are GOOD!! anyway back to 'alone', its a reasonable horror movie with a seamless plot. Never expected the twist that followed as the movie went on, though the horror parts were mostly predictable... the usual coming out of the mirror, alone in the lift, turning in bed when u hear a noise behind you scenes. MANY minor details that can be remembered now make sense after the movie like a puzzle, you slowly gather the pieces and finally see the whole picture after everything is laid out.. its difficult to express in words how the whole movie just fit together nicely. only after re-thinking bout the movie do you realise that the director actually made subtle hints bout the impending twist. Overall, very good movie =)

Think this is my 6th(or more) movie of the year.. with The Bourne Ultimatum and Ratatouille coming up, they'll juz add on to my list.. haha

childhood shows

2007-08-08T11:49:00.001+08:00

I've been contemplating on writing this for a long long time. At last i decided to juz sit down for a while and do it.. hope you people like it..

First up, we have out favourite purple dinosaur aka Barney!!

Who doesn't remember this firendly purple dinosaur that can turn from a soft toy a to a talking moving dinosaur that towers over every1? I know that i really enjoy the shows when i was young. Up till now, i'm sure that this is for most people who actually watched the show, the ending song is still stuck in my head...
I love you. You love me. We're best friends like friends should be. With a great, big hug and a kiss from me to you. Won't you say you love me too... darn catchy song.. haha.. here are some youtube videos that feature the opening and ending songs of each episode.. ENJOY!!
barney opening song

I love you, you love me..

Next, we have our two yellows friends and their bear buddies aka The Bananas in Pyjamas!!!

These two bananas juz rock! They are like so perfectly twins that they know what the other is thinking, especially when they come up with an idea.. haha.. Who doesn't love them when they go 'boing' and says
B2: Are you thinking what i'm thinking B1?
B1: I think I am B2!
B1 & B2: Its party time!!!
then they go off doing some random stuff to the teddies or to Rat.. haha.. totally loved this show.. Look at them! Don't you think they're like cute and all? haha.. sadly, there are no more merchandise based on the two of them that can be found in Singapore anymore.. like.. so sad lor.. they look like soft toy material!!
Bananas in Pyjamas opening song

Last one for now is everyone's favourtie. Its been around since my uncles, aunts and parents were children. The classic children's show: Sesame Street!!

To me at least, the 2 characters above are the cutest of the lot!! Elmo is this red fuzz ball who has this cute high pitched voice and understands goldfish language!! all i've got to say that elmo's cute!! Lala Lala, lala lala. Elmo's World! Lala lala, lala lala. Elmo's World!
Elmo's Song!
As for ernie, he's hilarious!! he lives with his roommate bert and ernie manages to tick him off everytime. The way he does it is so innocently funny that you love him straight away. Also, he has his favourite rubber ducky!
Ernie's Rubber Ducky!
Ernie's attempt to fix a TV
Not to say that the other characters are not cute or anything, but these 2 are my favourites =) sesame street i believe would have evolved over the years and up till now, from what i've heard, the fun parts of the show are slowly being corroded away to remove negative connotations.. for example, cookie monster is now unable to eat cookies as it would breed i sense of gluttony in children, but that juz removed the fun from the show, to me. Well, this is all for now =)
Sesame Street Theme Song

P.S. You can click on the links to view youtube videos related to the various shows =)

shocking fact

2007-07-27T17:41:00.000+08:00

i wanted to post this since monday or tuesday but forgot and became lazy.. but anyway here's a shocking fact...

the bishan gay is in the ORA!!! heex, mingsing, ernest, thomas and myself saw that he was wearing an ORA shirt that was given a few years back and we were juz stunned and stared wide-eyed at each other... how could the school make such a mistake??? a theory that thomas proposed and we accepted with open arms was that he forcefully took it from some small RI boy and wore it as his own... which is scary.. imagine him at the ORA jogathon o.O totally freaky man...

amazing

2007-07-23T19:09:00.000+08:00

i wanted to talk bout this on friday, but harry potter was juz too tempting to pass up.. anyway most of you know i lost my wallet(which i believe is gone forever now) so i had to go replace all my cards.. on my way to Hougang Central via NEL, i saw this muslim woman doing something that's like o.O

Not to be racist or anything, i juz found the scene quite amusing.. she took out her flip phone(i think it was a Samsung), dialled a number, den stuffed the listening part of the phone beside her ear in her tudung.. sounds normal? den she juz left it there, like she was lazy to hold it for that few seconds that it was ringing >.< i think her call wasn't successful, so she dialled another number and did it AGAIN... seriously.. when i saw it i wanted to take a picture but decided not to.. it was so totally LOL... you had to b there to know how hilarious it looked.. or mayb azu or azi can demo for us sometime =p

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

2007-07-21T21:11:00.000+08:00

Today was finally the release of the final installment of Harry Potter. I, unlike some other crazy people did not queue up overnight or whatever and juz went like 2 hrs later to collect my book when there was no queue at all.. So i started reading at 9+ am and finally ended at 7+ pm.. though i was travelling from sengkang to woodlands to sengkang again =p haha.. well.. think the book's a real good way to end the series and i personally am looking forward to the movie that would come from this book...

=====SPOLIER ALERT!!=====
For those who want to read the spoilers, you can highlight the following parts to view them
-There are 7 horcruxes. Namely Hufflepuff's Cup, Gaunt's Ring, Ravenclaw's Diadum, Riddle's Diary, Slytherin's Locket, Nagini and Harry Potter

-More than 2 characters died in the process of the book. Starting with Mad-eye Moody, Rufus Scrimgeour, Dobby, Fred, Lupin, Tonks, Snape, 'Harry', Bellatrix and finally Voldemort. Other minor characters were also harmed along the way like Ted Tonks(tonk's dad), Bathilda Bagshot, Gellert Grindelwald and Gregorovitch

-King's Cross is a place and concept that is similar to that of the matrix where the dead go to death or return to the real world. It is triggered when the 3 Deathly Hallows are present at the time of death. They are the 'Elder Wand', 'Ressurection Stone' and 'Invisibility Cloak'

-Snape has had a crush on Lily Potter since he met here during childhood. Up till the time of death, his purpose was to protect Harry. He has the patronus of a doe that helped Harry find the sword of Griffindor. Also, Snape was always on dumbledore's side, even dumbledore's death was planned!!

-Xenophilius Lovegood plays a somewhat important role in telling Harry and gang the story of the Hallows

-Kreacher tells us of the story behind the fake locket and his previous master Regulus Arcturus Black aka R.A.B.

-Dumbledore didn't have a totally 'speck-free' childhood, his brother Aberfroth manages the Hog's Head and his sister Ariana had an accident that involved Dumbledore and Grindelwald that caused her to lose her mind

-Hogwarts is used as a fortress against the forces of Voldemort which was defended by professors and students alike

-Of all people, Harry and McGonagall use the Forbidden Curses Imperio and Crucio

-Harry has a similar form of a Horcrux when Voldemort uses his blood for revival back in 'The Goblet of Fire'. The effects of this had resulted in another miscalculation on Voldemort's part that eventually resulted in his downfall

-In the end, Harry marries Ginny and has 3 children, Albus Severus, Lily and James and godson Teddy Lupin. While Ron marries Hermione and has 2 children, Rose and Hugo

12.5 hrs more

2007-07-20T18:21:00.000+08:00

12.5 hours more to the official release of the final installment of harry potter. Can't wait for it.. wondering whether i should b a bit crazy n queue up early or juz go a bit later to collect it when there's less people.. haha

Today was quite a good day, with me being on-form at last for bball during pe. First time i've been able to shoot properly in a long time.. day passed quite quickly as well so its all good.. bad news -> 3 tests next week... Econs something and bio mcq on GMO and bio something on viruses... but for the weekend, HPATDH takes precidence..

Thanks goes out to all the people who inquired bout my wallet which i deem to be gone for now.. unless by some miracle it appears again... lol... managed to replace my ez link, atm card, house keys and soon my library card and uncle's condo access card.. as for IC, not so important yet so shall wait b4 i spend the $$ to make a new one.. haiz.. think i lost bout $160 worth of stuff in that wallet (including the price of ic, ez link etc.).. =/

CRAP CRAP CRAP

2007-07-19T21:49:00.000+08:00

oh man.. this week is so totally not good =/ lost my wallet today, dunno how i did... Did it drop out of my bag? Did someone take it? I have NO IDEA. and i also thought i tapped my EZ-Link card to board the bus, but found out i didn't have my wallet when trying to take out my mp3... Like super weird..

Anyway the moral of the story, DO NOT LOSE UR WALLET!! I had to make reports at the bus interchange, police station(cos i lost my IC), library(cos i had my IC, EZ link and 2 library cards in it), popular(cos i had my harry potter deposit reciept in it). AND tmr i hav to go cancel my previous EZ link and make a new one plus cancel my ATM card and get a new one... further down the road, i need to get a replacement card for my uncle's condo from him... so inconvenient... haiz.. On a lighter note, luckily i didn't have a lot of cash in it.. so its not that bad.. though it is bad enough.. =/

no particular subject

2007-07-16T21:02:00.000+08:00

thnx kun man for that mini Yan-yan thing u gave me today for my ankle :) made my day (really! couldn't keep the box thingy though, if not would have had ants all over my bag >.<).. haha.. been wondering whether i should stop playing floorball since like 3rd time since dec that i sprained it.. like once per holiday -.- only the distribution seems to be increasing in frequency and less random =/

today was a rather boring one in contrast, mayb its juz the muggin mood has got to every1 (or most of us at least). spent the whole day in the library today doin tuts and stuff, nothing much happening cept for the sudden downpour together with bright sunshine. Mayb i'll post something more meaningful soon rather than these short entries.. also, juz told my parents my results so not in much mood to do anything other than study cos of the not too great grades(especially for econs.. sigh)

tmr, we got selected for some random stuff to do for civics and we're all attributing it to the fact that Ms Lio fought for us to play Bingo, so now we're like the target for all these stuff... OR maybe we're juz too 'goody-two-shoes' compared to the other classes *shrugs*

injuries

2007-07-14T18:35:00.000+08:00

I don't know whether its me or do i keep getting recurring injuries. This sucks, for the third time i injured my left ankle, twisted it during the second match of floorball played today at Floorplay, some disorganised thing organised by some unknown J1s that didn't involve the cca at all. But well, at leat my team managed to qualify for the quarter finals after the group stage (unluckily we met the strongest team of the lot n lost anyway). Its a first for me in a long time.. haha.. usually out by the end of group phase so i guess it shows improvement =) (always look on the birghter side of life, if possible)

no hw done today. Not planning to do any tonight either, so i guess i'll b doing more tmr.. juz 1 week left to the final installment of harry potter...

harry potter

2007-07-11T19:37:00.001+08:00

we watched the sneak preview of harry potter and the order of the phoenix today!! i dunno why they call it sneak peeks when they have like so many timings for the movie today.. *shrugs*

Anyway, on to the movie. As usual, i feel that the harry potter movies tend to leave out loads of details from the books, or mayb its juz movie adaptations of books as usual.. i somehow felt this movie was a bit below standard, sad to say. They zoomed past a lot of events which would have been interesting to watch and also they seemed to want to focus on too many events that resulted in it being unfocused in the end. the ending was also a bit too abrupt for my liking..

That's for the overall movie anyway, if you're planning to watch an action packed movie, i would suggest die hard 4.0 rather than harry potter, especially since this movie is more to set up the last two movies which are said to be the action packed ones. As for the characters, i wun comment on the acting but i would like to say that honestly, luna lovegood looks prettier than cho chang (seriously, this girl is ugly >.< and i'm not the only one that thinks so) though in the book its supposed to be the clear opposite.. Mayb the director misinterpreted the book in some way? i dun believe that there aren't any prettier asian american girls out there.. haha..

10 more days to the last installment of the harry potter series... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows... can't wait for it... 10 days of anticipation is like torture.. gah...

7 new wonders of the world

2007-07-08T21:21:00.000+08:00

Looks like every1 is playing with the triple 7 date.. The new seven wonders of the world were named on 07/07/07 as well, and here's the list..

1. The Great Wall of China

2. Petra of Jordan

3. Brazil's statue of Chirst the Redeemer

4. Peru's Machu Picchu

5. Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid

6. The Colosseum in Rome

7. India's Taj Mahal

sad to say, i've only visited one of these 7 places so far.. even sadder to say, the 7 ancient wonders of the world are like gone from the face of the earth, with the Great Pyramids of Giza the exception, which i have visited before (though it was when i was pri 3 or 4 or something) :P

07/07/07

2007-07-07T20:28:00.001+08:00

First and foremost, lets wish kun man a happy birthday!! (think this is like the third time or something.. *shrugs*) when will my birthday ever have like a cool way to write... 28/09/2809... looks like i ONLY hav to wait another 802 years.. haiz

Friday started off pretty well, with the standard fire drill where no one really gives a crap bout it, and where the students are always the first ones to get a heat stroke, and why do we actually assemble on the field?? During a real emergency, i'm quite sure that no one would go according to the procedure, especially for the classes at the END of block A, where the main gate is juz a 5 min walk away..

Day carried on quite normally, with the only good news is that my bio improved =) though i still have no idea how many nmarks i missed my A by.. owellz.. i'm guessing quite a few people would wanna whack me if i continue down that road of comments..

A rather drab medicine talk followed at the end of an already long day, where the information given to us is what i think would b classified under standard knowledge, like how medicine would take 10+ years in order for you to actually start leading a good life, how you have to make sacrifices for other people and how selfless you need to be in order to enjoy the profession. (omg.. this is one long sentence >.<)

We then made our way to city hall to celebrate kun man's birthday in advance and we ate kenny rogers at marina square, which i though was quite worth it and it was like the first time i'm eating there for like dunno how many years. We juz sat there and talked bout all sorts of random stuff and doing random stuff till 8+ when we adjourned to raffles city for the birthday girl's treat of ben & jerry's (wad i mean is that the people who went got treated to ice cream :P in case my pharsing is too lousy). 3 tubs of ice cream, 11 people spread across 4 or 5 table in Food Junction, such that a conveyor belt-like system was set in place with the first table making the calls.. haha..

Well, as many people knew, i went after the birthday dinner yesterday to go babysit my cousins who are pri 5 and k2 respectively. Got various comments from people.. the most common one being.. "so cute!!", but that's before i told them the age of my cousins before it changes to "so noisy!!" hahaha.. but they're my cousins afterall, so wad can i say? =) arrived at my uncle's house at payar lebar at round 10 plus with myself all tired n disgusting (cos i took a 15 min walk from the mrt, when i could hav taken a straight bus from city hall -.-) Spent the rest of the night in front of the com slack and playing around.. the younger one went to sleep quite early, so i didn't need to do much while there was a 'curfew' of 1230am, it was more of a 'stop playin and try to start sleeping' thing.. haha..

cos i started watching wimbledon.. and it was only during then did i realise why the matches were all delayed. all the courts were just lawns, with nothing around them.. nothing much, unlike in Roland Garros (French Open) where it was like a village. I also had the 'honour' of watching the women's world number one, Justine Henin, lose in the first ever match of Wimbledon i watched this year. haha.. the match ended at a deathly time of 2am, by which i was already half asleep and by charges were already on cloud nine =p

So in total, i slept around 3 hours... from 3+ when my uncle n aunt came back from watching diehard 4.0, which they claim is a very good action movie, and i tried unsuccessfully to watch Roddick's match but i juz couldn't take it.. but i woke up at 6 >.< darn my body clock!! too bad live earth didn't start yesterday..

let's do a time warp to the present, where i was like struck by how ironic the situation was... Walking my dog as usual, though a bit later cos i was tired... Then i saw this taxi reversing in the middle of the road.. first though that came to my mind: 'WHAT in the world is the driver thinking???' Then it stuck me as completely laughable... You know that taxis usually have those type of advertisements and captions on them right? the one on that taxi was: "RECKLESSNESS KILLS" if you were there, wad would you have thought? haha..

outing?

2007-07-02T21:43:00.000+08:00

youth day today! though its already ending, what can i say? the hols are officially over =/

an outing was planned like last night for us to go catch tranformers today, but as luck would have it, a handful of people turned up and the movies were all sold out.. zzz.. why does every1 think of the same things that we do? so we (azu, heex, mingsing and myself) ended up at ben and jerry's at The Cathay and sat there for the duration of the show while sharing a Merlionster (6 scoops of icecream with brownie bits, bananas, whipped cream and rainbow sprinkles =P). managed to talk till it was like 6.. haha spent nearly 2 hrs in that shop talking bout random stuff before we all had to go off.. One would say that this outing was kinda sad, and i dun dispute that, but who says it wasn't better than a movie?

class chalet and the end of the common tests

2007-06-30T17:55:00.000+08:00

YAY! as every1 would noe, by now, the common tests have been over for a day (2 days for the bio people)!! Time to get a well deserved break from mugging and enjoy this long weekend that was strategically placed so that we have a long weekend this week!! Youth Day for FTW!!

The usual post-CT or major examination activity went underway right after the bio paper where we went to dhoby gauht for a lanning session, though we did waste like more than 1 hour first trying at thompson plus the time taken to travel there, but who cares?? haha.. as long as we had fun right? AFter dinner and all, we met up again online to settle some logistics for the chalet that would happen over the next 2 days, cos 0 details were done then, cept for the fact that we HAVE a chalet.. haha.. this was the biggest mass convo i've seen over the past 2 years? or mayb less (16 participants)

Next day started off 'pretty well' especially when it started to rain when we were going to book in for the chalet.. mayb we didn't like believe enuf or wad, but the rain never did let up till around 12am.. haha.. but i digress, so we basically spent the time waiting for the rain to stop by watching movies in this room that was like totally cramped with people.. First movie was 'Snakes on the plane' which was juz totally painful to like almost every part of ur body as u watch the snakes strike at the most prominant of places >.< OUCH!! I think you would need to watch the movie to really understand.. Next movie was underworld evolution which was a cool movie, cept people like hee xun and reuben kept pointing out inconsistencies in the movie, like how a person who is immortal can b killed, and why hybrids of lycans and vamps have their strengths but not their weaknesses (unlike in pokemon)... HAHA

After a while, every1 looked a but gloomy here and there, and after a few unsuccessful attempt to actually get the fire for the bbq started, few of us namely myself, yi rui, zhang rui, julia and kelvin (and whoever else i missed out) went to start the fire at around 9, and since the rain didn't seem to want to stop at all.. after taking a miserably long time (half an hour or so), we finally got the fire going strong and we managed to start cooking!!! YAY!! we felt so accomplished or at least i did.. haha.. cooking went on till 1am where as i said above it finally decided to stop raining and also cos the bbq heat was sort of spent already since we used up our bag a charcoal.. after like 3 hrs of cooking, and after u feel ur insides seem to have been bbq-ed as well, you know its time to stop.. haha..

After a nice COLD bath, and a few round of cards, went to join zhang rui(who pang sei us), amanda, huiyi and xin wei at the stone tables to juz talk crap.. it was only during this that i realised that xin wei was so easy to suan.. hahaha.. so we talked from like 2+ to 6+ while the people in the room continued to watch movie after movie.

Now, for the qn of the day... 'Does the moon set???'

haha.. so after more random topics like dreams and sleep walking, and how when u r dreaming, and you imagine u have a digital watch, u look at it and remember the time, then juz look away for like 1 sec and look back at the watch again, it'll NEVER show the same time.. haha.. interesting? too bad, you weren't there.. =p

the day sort of degenerated as once breakfast was over, almost every1 juz left.. LOL.. and of the people that left, it is possible that one of those accidentally packed kelvin's wallet into their bags and didn't know bout it.. SO, for the people that left in such a hurry, PLEASE check your bags for kelvin's wallet.. Do ur CT rep a favor and return it to him like asap..

as for now, i'll b awake for 36 hours when the clock reaches 7pm, and i'm juz totally sleepy.. yawns.. to S03lovelies, its kinda sad that the second day of the chalet sort of juz disappeared, we should have one last outing like at ecp or something to round it all off b4 we start the intensive mugging for As and prelims which is like in 2 months time... AAAARRRGGGGHHHHHH... >.<

P.S. BEFORE i forget, this is the first class outinf that daniel has actually came for voluntarily!!! *cheers for him*

-.-

2007-06-24T20:54:00.001+08:00

I'm sure most of you have heard the lame excuse 'oh! the dog ate my homework..' well, now i've got a better one.. 'oh! the dog ate my lunch -.-' and i'm not joking here.. sheesh..

P.S. wad in the world am i doing online? i should off cramming the last bits of econs i can into my brain..

P.S. To all those taking their tests this week, its only gonna last 1 week, one miserably week.. i'm sure it'll b over soon... juz so that we can continue muggin our lives away till the end of november.. lol..

wow.. new discovery..

2007-06-21T20:39:00.001+08:00

guess wad people? went for my 2D-echogram today to check out my heart, and they found that my heart has an extra vein o.O much like a person has one extra finger.. LOL... and anyway my heart is centralised, not on the right =p.. heh.. shall blog bout more interesting stuff when we get the common tests out of the way.

guitar

2007-06-17T16:08:00.001+08:00

this guy is imba.. music players should noe this tune...

AMAZING trick shot

2007-06-17T15:57:00.001+08:00

i think trick shots r cool.. haha..

Britain's Got Talent- Conny

2007-06-16T15:09:00.001+08:00

ahhhhhhh!!!

home alone

2007-06-15T20:51:00.000+08:00

well.. the title speaks all.. haha.. to make it more elaborate, my WHOLE family, including my relatives, grandparents etc. (from my mum's side of the family) is overseas.. lol.. so i'm practically in Singapore by myself for the next few days.. wonder wonder.. to study or take the opportunity to slack.. haiz..

next week is one busy week.. mock bio test on tues, mock math test on wed and med check-up for heart on thurs.. that's like 3/7 days gone =/ den CTs are like the week after.. OMG.. too fast.. too fast...

long long day...

2007-06-08T22:18:00.000+08:00

well.. today actually started yesterday, when we all gathered at YiRui's house for our first (right?) stay over for the year. People started to come in trickles (like one or two at a time), but at least the number turned out decent - myself, ernest, mingsing, heex, bernard, thomas, kelvin, zhenghong, kun man, huiyi, julia (11 out of an expected 17 or so).

Dinner arrived at round 6+ and we juz sat around talking bout random stuff and we all ended up watching 200-pound beauty which i thought was a bit cliche but what to do? Most of these shows are... i ended up in the room playing random warcraft 3 maps while the rest were downstairs pokering their lives away. This started at like 11+ near 12, after the people who were going home already did..

At 3, Kel and i swapped places and he took the position in front of the com while i joined yr, ms and heex at the mahjongg table where we lasted 11 games (each person only had the chance to b the dealer once, cept of heex who broke the cycle in the last game we played). Played for 2 hrs till 5, while thomas and bernard were trying to sleep on the couch beside us, with things like 'chi!', 'pong!', 'yau zi', 'da bing' and all the random assortment of names that were picked up form yiding when we played with him last year. Juz a random note, NEVER play with yiding mahjongg unless u plan to sleep while playing it =p (hahahah.. no offense yd!)

All of us decided that we all cmi already at 5 went to various places to sleep - bed, floor, couch. however, it took the couch people juz 3 hours of sleep b4 they went up to the com room to re-start their day.. haha.. with the other people still degen-ed in it. every1 started waking up at random times with kel waking up and falling back to sleep at least 3 times and yirui's youngest bro attempting to kick mingsing's head as it was in the way (for some reason, thomas and i seemed to urge him on, muz b the lack of sleep).. haha..

As the morning grew older, i took up residence in another room and started to warcraft again >.< (think i've played like more than my fair share of games this hols already) and the whole stayover ended with heex and i fighting it out in 2 1v1 matches in which i came out top both times (though second one could have gone either way, so was kinda lucky =p)

We den all decided to travel to the far far away place of bishan to watch Ocean's Thirteen. Which i would honestly say is the BEST out of the 3 movies. Much more action, much more complicated stuff, much more fun.. HAHA.. that's one movie down and a million more to go.. Those who are contemplating whether to watch, STOP PROCRASTINATING!!! Watch it!

that's all from me for now.. studying tomorrow, should have been sleeping like a few hours ago esp with only 3 hrs of sleep for the last 48hrs. yawns...

dextrocardia

2007-06-05T21:18:00.001+08:00

well.. juz found out i have this abnormality through my NS medical letter.. lol.. wonder if its a good or bad thing.. owells...

Dextrocardia is a peculiar condition in which the heart is positioned on the right side of the chest while it is normally on the left (mirror-image). The name is derived from dexter in Latin meaning "on the right" and cardio meaning "of the heart". (Source: Wikipedia)

Choices

2007-06-03T21:35:00.001+08:00

1 week of the hols are gone. 1/4, 25%, 0.25 of our 'holidays' are gone.. wad's left on our schedules? Cept for the occasional(RARE) enjoyable outing with ur groups of friends/class, its all bout muggin. AND this is only the beginning... of the end...

Choices we have to make during this hols...
1)mug(ideal scenario) OR play(what in the world do i play anyway, with my com -.-) OR sleep(worse case scenario, or mayb playin is the worse case.. hmm)
2)WHAT to mug (chem, bio, math, econs, physics(not for me =p))
3)WHAT to do while NOT muggin (sleep, com, tv, comics)
4)WHERE to mug (at home, library(woodlands or sengkang), uncle's condo study room)
5)WHO to mug with (myself, friend(s))

Many choices which we usually do not care about suddenly arise. AND these would usually start to pile up as the days go by, and ur wondering 'what have i actually done so far? Have i done enough?' So many choices, so little time.

What's more? many many many movies are coming out OR are alreayd out. I wanna watch like all of them, but there're so many constraints here and there.. haiz.. darn it, stupid common tests couldn't come at a worse time. But to think of it, there isn't any good time for there to be any tests of any sort.. =/ what to do? we juz have to strive on i guess.

Good luck to those who have or have not started their revisions for the upcoming common test 2 and have fun while doing it(right -.-" like any1 has fun studying... if u do pls tell me =) I'll b interested to find out how you do it)

Movies i wanna watch:
1)Pirates 3
2)Shrek 3
3)Harry Potter 5
4)Transformers
5)Ocean's Thirteen DONE!!
6)fantastic four 2
7)the Simpsons Movie
8)i'm sure there's more i juz can't remember for now =/
9)and the list goes on....

probability and life

2007-05-27T11:21:00.000+08:00

Remember the videos that were shown during math lectures? well.. here's a real life application for it...

What's the probability of sustaining an injury when you're doing sports? -(1)
What's the probability of aggravating an old injury during sports? -(2)
What's the probability of both of the above occurring on the same day? -(3)
What's the probability of (2) and (3) happening two days in a row? -(4)
What's the probability of (2) happening at the exact same place AND time (holidays)where you last had the injury? -(5)
What's the probability of (4) AND (5) happening?????

sigh.. that's basically what happened to me over the course of the past 2 days.. the 'catalyst' of the events would hav to be PE -.-" heard a crack in my left knee during the last kick of the game, and without heeding advice and 'warnings' being thrown to me bout not going for floorball, i went n aggravated my injury and had to rest for the rest of the day.. haiz..

Floorball comp the next day, can't say it was a total waste, since we managed 2 draws and 2 losses, not a very good result but the first match i believe was the most exciting of the lot.. hehe.. was a repeat of the liverpool-ac milan final in 2005 where Bennett's team went up 3-0 before we fought back till the last hit to draw 3-3 (courtesy of me!!!). Next match was a disappointment, should have won especially since i scored the first goal, only to lose the lead and go down 2-1 through laggy goalkeeping.. sigh. got trashed 5-1 in the next match to the eventual group winners and drew the last match 2-2 after leading twice.. total goals conceded-12, total goals scored-7. Not bad i would say for a 3-man team that hasn't exactly been training. sickening thing of the day was the injury during the second match that sort of decapitated me for the rest of the matches. With compunded injuries and without subs, wad was i to do? owell...

Slacked for the whole of yesterday, and plan to slack the whole of today. it would be a good time to start sorting out my stuff for studying tmr and at least get started b4 wasting my time going to the SRP congress where i wun b doing anything at all.. -.-"

ups and downs of friday

2007-05-19T18:50:00.000+08:00

well.. there's good news and there's the not-so-good(BAD) news.

As always, lets start with the BAD news. EDB challenge was screwed up! not being sour grapes or anything cos we didn't get in(of course we're disappointed), but it was the way the challenge was conducted that pissed off the whole group.

First, one of our judges came in after 80% of our presentation was complete, furthermore, acted as though it was our fault that she came late OR that we were scums that actually dared to start presenting without her. The SHOCK came later during the Q&A session when the same judge DIDN'T, i repeat, DIDN'T know the criteria for the challenge -.- DIDN'T know bout the 10k budget that we had.. was like WTH!!!

Second, results were released yesterday and wonderfully, they ONLY inform the groups that managed to get into the finals, the rest were left to wonder whether they got in or not.. talk bout responsibility. If i had't enquired, think many groups now would still be wondering.. Also, they selected only 3 groups(excluding the 'special' group) instead of the mentioned 6 groups. WHAT A RIPOFF!!!

Third, as i enquired further, realised that out report was judged based on the opinion of students!!! It was a revealation that made me change my attitude from resigned, to FREAKIN PISSED!!! To rub salt onto the wound, i found out that it was the opinion of the guy that wasn't there for the starting part of our presentation where our foundation was laid, and because of that, our project was written off -.- WTH!!

Overall, as xiaoyu said, it was a learning experience of sorts and we know that we've done a great job. out of the 5 of us, i would say that xiaoyu was the most affected, but we can't blame her. We were all expecting to get in but the result was unexpected. After talking briefly to her, she said she's ok, but hope she really is

Now, for the GOOD news. Del Fuego 07!! GE concert ROCKED!!! was like the turning point of the day (though it was at the end of the day =p) Many many performances put up by the GE people, NEVER did i expect there to b so many solos and group performances and only 2 ensemble pieces.. lol.. too many good things to describe bout it that i'm not going to do it.. haha.. i'll leave that to the GE people. many many imba groups of people, eg Chin Heng + Ben Low + Yu Zhuo (3 of the fastest players in our batch), solos (Hyqel, Yu Zhuo, Lingting, Khartik and Edmund) and many others... haha.. you have to be there to understand.

days past and present

2007-05-14T22:30:00.000+08:00

well.. up till now, i still think saturday was the best day of the week. First was KBox to celebrate mingsing's bday, in which most people sang like once or twice into the mike, but other than that, it was basically the same people who did the song choosing as well as singing, but who cares? as long as it was fun and enjoyable. Enabled us to think of something else other than sch work or edb or anything else for that matter, it was juz... FUN!

Had to rush to Junction 8 to buy flowers for Kun Man and Wu Lei, and also cos we left KBox at the bare latest of 630pm, when dancenite starts at 730. mayb we shouldn't have left so late, but well, as mentioned above, it was fun! for Kun Man, we pooled money to buy a Sunflower, which was almost as big as Xiaoyu's face (haha XD) and for me, bought lei a rose (cos i had no idea wad she wanted anyways). Rushed all the way to sch, with Xiaoyu clinging onto Xinwei for dear life as she brisked walked on heels (haha, darn i feel evil). Finally, after the hour of mad rushing, we managed to reach the PAC on time.

After all that speculation about dancenite, i can't say that i was disappointed with the performances put up at all. =) the chinese dance SYF piece was beautiful and i think i can say it was the best piece of the night, followed closely by grafletti and the chinese dance j2 piece (forgot wad's the name of it >.<). Think almost every1 enjoyed it throughly, especially the dancers.. Its kinda a mixed reaction when u've performed ur last concert for ur cca, like half nostalgia and half sadness, but i think nostalgia won in the end.. (heh, at least that was wad i felt when i was in guitar in RI). Post-concert activites had my name totally striked out of them. Couldn't go for supper with class or wu lei cos my doggy at home was starving (but so was I!!), so i didn't have much of a choice but to head home. After everything was settled, talked till 1am over the phone, with it auto-offing like twice btw the conversation (dam irritating -.- i shold change phone soon. BAH). oh! and NADAL OWNZ!!

Sunday was drab. spent almost the entire day, from 930am-615pm at heex's house doing edb. almost 9 hrs worth -.- brain very nearly died after that. ernest, mingsing and xiaoyu arrived at heex's house after me in that order, with each person being even later than the first. at the end of the day, at least we were productive and managed to figure out most of wad we wanted in our report to call it a day by 6 (ernest left at 4 for some personal reasons =p) Isn't this fitting? a short summary of a drab day

Today, yet another drab day of edb, with ns checkup in the morning. Killer bus ride of number 57 from depot road to bishan took 2 freaking hours!!! sat on the seat till my butt felt like it was rotting or something. the best news when i stepped into RI and called mingsing? he said i didn't have to be there -.-" grrr.. anyway spent the rest of the day in the com lab doing random stuff, typing, editing, playing, etc. finally left at 6+ after work was allocated for people to complete by tonight (which somehow ernest got everything under his name, LOL).

Today, must be a hell day for bus rides. as if the 2hr ride in the morning wasn't enough, i needed to take another 45 mins to get home from sch, which is normal! but add in 3 hyperactive kids who keep talking at the top if their voices when u have a splitting headache is NOT COOL! i tried to tolerate one kid threatening the other two to cut them using a comb she was holding, and tolerate how the 2 boys were threatening to call her parents or something like that. and it carried on for 15mins NON-STOP!! pissed me off.. even the two guys sitting behind me tried to make 'shhhh' sounds to passively inform them that they were talking too loudly, but to no avail. so i asked them to shut-up, personally, in a nice way, "Please lower your volumes" and they finally quietened down for the rest of my journey to be in peace, with the occasional squabbling still carrying on, but at a much lower volume.

So here i m now, dunno why i'm blogging, supposed to be doing edb, but waiting for every1 to finish wad they're supposed to do, and i'm feeling dam sleepy, and there's a gigantic load of things due tmr, with bio spa tmr, edb presentation and report due wed, 3 best achievements AND math assignment due on thurs, i feel like i'm being bogged down. >.< ZzZzZzZzZzZzZz... did i mention i'm having a headache now? ZzZzZzZzZzZz...

life

2007-05-11T23:31:00.000+08:00

what can i say, today was a really productive day, discussing bout EDB from 330 to 9 >.< brain dead now, can't think straight, tired, sleepy, zzz...

as the days go on

2007-05-08T19:05:00.000+08:00

things have started to be concluded as time wears on and we draw nearer and nearer to the final exams.. CCAs have their seasons, or already had, subjects pending completion, enrichment activities have dropped to the bare minimum, etc. However, it juz denotes a start of a different phase in life, the phase where which university u go to would determine ur future, whether its NUS, SMU or Havard, Yale, Priceton or Cambridge, Oxford.

Things have been happening around me that i dun really comprehend... WHY would someone bad mouth you when u have done nothing to agitate that person? WHY is it so easy for a person to be swayed just through a small revealation?

Life isn't as simple as we think it is...

final showdown - May 23rd

2007-05-03T17:19:00.000+08:00

The grudge match of these 2 clubs has finally arrived. Just two years after these two clubs have played out the greatest ever Champions League final in Istanbul, they will meet again in Athens on May 23. Will Liverpool edge out AC Milan again, with their heroics? Or would AC Milan exact their revenge on the bitter defeat that Liverpool put them through in the 2005 finals? We'll have to wait and see.

spidey 3

2007-05-02T20:02:00.000+08:00

well.. watched spidey 3 today at bishan GV(didn't go for the one yesterday cos i wasn't free). overall, i can't say it was a bad show. in fact, it rocked(doesn't matter what other people think)! the effects were super! characters were cool(though i tot venom should have played a more significant role in the film cos its like dam cool) and action was almost non-stop.. almost.. cept for the few scenes of peter parker's life. If you have not watched it yet, go do it like soon.. black spidey was cool looking, and he acted really kok but venom still looks better than he does with the tadpole shaped eyes and rows of sharp pointy teeth.. hehe =p

The other thing, LIVERPOOL WON!!! woohoo!!! Jose Reina!! woots! bring the other teams on!!

life goes on

2007-05-01T22:11:00.000+08:00

darn it, its May. 4 months have past and its another 6 months to the As, which is like half a year only =/ I better start studying properly, especially like CT2 arriving in 1.5 months time(excluding GP), which means technically, <2 weeks per subject.. haiz.. with an upcoming SRP presentation(yes, there still is a presentation, juz that i hav NO idea when or where it'll b taking place) looming in the horizon, things threaten to pill up again by the end of the term. One lucky thing, we managed to settle on an idea for our EDB project(at last!!!), i hope. We have technically <2 weeks to complete a full report on it abnd go on to win the challenge :P think we need all the luck we can get.. haha

Today was great. Today was a day of fun, food and more fun. Anime kicked off the day and met up with a group of 4 friends to play cards(even though almost every1 was late, including the host, so in the end played atmost 1.5 hrs), followed by a trip to Jumbo seafood for dinner. My uncle who works in China is back!!(that's why we went to Jumbo =P) Haven't seen him since like CNY, which was a few months back, wonder when he'll b coming back permanently... He has been coming back to s'pore once every 2-3 months and dun get to see him much, though he takes loads of interest in my studies >.< haha..

well.. 3 day week coming up. Dunno whether to hope the week passes faster or slower. The slower the week passes, the more agonising it is. The faster it does, the nearer we get to the exams.. haiz.. owell.. life goes on.

just one day

2007-04-29T21:38:00.000+08:00

Five little ducks went swimming one day
Over the hills and far, far away.
Mother duck said, "quack, quack, quack, quack"
And all five little ducks came back

OMG.. this mini-song is like stuck in my head thanks to my 2 year old cousin >.< She kept repeating the song over n over again and continuosly forgetting how to say the last line and changing to another song.. lol..

Parents are home.. which equates to no more 2-3am late nights(cept mayb on saturday when i'm watching soccer), no more slacking in front of com the whole day watching anime(crap, since i started on bleach, i'm kinda addicted to it liao =/) and no more time to play com games openly and carefreely.. sigh.. the good times.. lol..

Juz one sch day b4 its a public holiday.. wonder what plans i have for that day.. hmm.. spiderman 3 is being shown on that day(heard its a brilliant show) and dun think i'll b able to catch it =/ owell.. some other time..

My, erm, OG =)

2007-04-28T13:02:00.000+08:00

front row(from left): Phoebe, Tiffany
Back row(from left): Derrick, Bennett, Song Jie, ME!

did yesterday already pass?

2007-04-28T03:19:00.000+08:00

wow.. yesterday(juz 3 hrs ago) was a wonderful day. Day started with a good morning nap during pe, since i'm still slightly injured(should b BIA by next week, i hope). GP was the bomb! Zhang Rui made this funny weird sound to copy Ms. Uma that stunned the whole class b4 we erupted in laughter!! haha!! was some comment bout the caption/summaries on a certain webpage being too tiny.. hahaha.. hilarious.. Rest of the day past by rather normally..

oh! GP rechargables were going for super cheap, 4AA + 4AAA + charger = $15.90.. How much better an offer would you want?(managed to get the last pack juz after heex =P, reuben was like complaining bout how the rest of the packs were rip offs.. lol..)Last and final Chem SPA for the year, which was super easy as well.. so ended up stoning/sleeping/fidgeting/staring into the rain/squirting water/playing with chemical & GC/things that you do when u hav nothing better to do >.<

Went to library to catch Ocean's Twelve after that, since i had to wait for like 2 hrs for h3 chem to end b4 can head to VJ with OG mates. Its not a bad show at all, well, at least not as bad as the reviews were like years ago. Its good enough for another sequel, Ocean's Thirteen, to be released sometime this year. Since h3 chem wasn't exactly 2hrs long, didn't manage to complete the movie, but the last few minutes can be easily guessed.

Met up with Tiffany and Bennett in the canteen after that and took a super long time to get to parkway parade for dinner.. lol.. mostly held back by delays here n there, indecisiveness, slow to leave the bus and other weird stuff. Well, in the end we made it =) had dinner, met up with Derrick and adjourned to VJ asap since we were already late. Met Felicia at VJ and den the highlight of the day started - VJC dramanight!!! Of course, Song Jie came late -.- but guess he managed to get the rough idea of the first play...

I can say, that the scripts are pro, very pro in fact, the actors and actresses are like brilliant(and the have guts as well), the general experience was wonderful. 3 comedies and 1 more 'serious' play made up their quadruple bill(as RP is having theirs soon). The hard work of the directors can be seen through the way the people present themselves on stage etc. They even emcee their own show! haha.. how cool is that?(hope this is enough flattering for you, Phoebe =P) Sadly, Felly had to leave at the concluding stages of the third play cos her dad was there already. was supposed to catch a lift home, but decided to finish watching all four.. hehe.. Met Phoebe after the whole thing, talked a bit of crap, bout how Song Jie felt disturbed bout how one of the actresses acted a 'mad' girl so well, we were joking bout how he was going to get nightmares bout her. When Bennett took out his swiss army knife, Song Jie started walking away as fast as he could.. hahaha.. hmm.. took 1 group pic(which i hope to be able to cope soon) and we went off on our ways. Basically, all i can say is that, it was worth the ticket money AND the total of 2hrs plus bus rides to and from VJ =)

Reached home at like 12+, did some stuff, blah blah.. and now here i m, lol.. haven't actually slept since like 520 am yesterday, been awake for nearly 24 hrs and mayb i think i should go sleep now.. ;)

falling sick or already is >.<

2007-04-26T17:58:00.000+08:00

i realised its not a good idea to wake up at 2am to watch champions league soccer when u feel like crap(no matter what time u sleep, 10pm for example). Though i had to learn it the hard way.. bah.. felt like crap the whole of today, with an irritating headache that refuses to go away and a continuously blocked nose. Maybe its juz cos i've a lack of sleep... or mayb its juz cos i'm sick(best time esp since my parents r like overseas now -.-)..

past 2 days weren't too bad, many jokes and laughs between classmates between and during lessons. Today, however, was like classic. Math lesson, it had something to do with odd numbers and even numbers and azimah came up with some odd thing dunno wad and some oddity and something that juz made the whole class laugh(wonder if the observer at the back of the class laughed as well, we'll never know..) =) Also, we met our co-civics tutor for the first time in.. like... 4 months? interesting eh? haha.. only the KI people in our class had no surprises =p the other 26(or was it 25 or 24) of us were stunned for a while.. haha

Can't wait for tmr... last and final chem SPA of the year and also going to VJ to meet up with an OG(or do i call it ex-OG) mate with 5 others.. My OG is like still alive! amazing.. its been like 1 year n 4 months(near 5).. wow.. time really flies.. owell.. time to destroy my eyes till they drop off... tmr's FRIDAY!!!

lousy day

2007-04-23T17:57:00.000+08:00

lousy. The ONLY word to describe today.

started off with econs essay, which was equal to 45 mins of smoking rubbish onto 2.5 pages. GGXX. followed closely by bio mock SPA skill A, which was a total disaster if you asked me. Everyone was at a total loss when they looked at the qn paper, so much so we all needed hints from Chan sensei in order to even start writing the thing. Total rubbish.

School was out after another hr of chem in class which passed by rather quickly for some reason(maybe it was juz cos i was trying to finish qn 8 of my tut in order to hand it in =P). Rest of the day flew by really really quick. Following that, was supposed to study with wu lei in the library, but ended up having EDB discussion in canteen with her sitting at another table, cos the discussion dragged from 1+ to 3+, 2 whole hours.(really sorry bout that >.<, though ys was there, so mayb not so bad =p) Its like 6 now o.O bah, and i've yet to start on any work.. dead...

What can i say, i can only hope that tmr will b better than today.

cartoons

2007-04-21T23:06:00.000+08:00

I'm sure all of you still remember the iraq war. The cartoon above sort of tells us what happens during the war, where numerous of people shoot and get shot. 'The more divided we become, the more we all end up together'

On a more recent note, the VT massacre of 33 people is a sad event. The above cartoon represents a different shooting incident not so long ago also in the US. What is the world coming to? :/

This is one for people who hate their veggies. Came out during the E. coli scare, that resulted in deaths of a few people. Happened not too long ago either. Next time u wanna skip ur veggies, juz giv the excuse that there might b harmful E. coli in it.. (just kidding)

end of the week

2007-04-20T20:11:00.000+08:00

so like i said yesterday, the week flew past us without us even knowing it did. SO many things have happened during the course of this week. Unhappy times, happy times. Its been an up and down week, with the looming work that we have to do next week, i guess its time to really shift into gear and buck up.

Ponned floorball for the 2nd time in 2 weeks cos my knee still doesn't feel very good (though i did go on monday n played like crap -.-) and gonna do it again next week to go go for an OG outing to VJ for an OG mate's play =) It had better b good =p cos its gonna b a long ride home from there.. hahaa.. mayb next week isn't so bleak after all.. hmm...

Thomas was commenting on how life doesn't suck, juz that its really stressful. Well, i guess it is stressful, especially with stuff coming in continuously like day after day, week after week, non-stop =/ haiz. Sometimes i really wonder, whether we could be as carefree as the two polar bears shown below.. They look so peaceful, especially the baby one =P sigh..

P.S. Congrats to RJCE (Chamber) on clinching Gold with Honours!

thought of the day

2007-04-19T20:00:00.000+08:00

haiz.. felt quite emo today for some reason, esp after chem lecture. the day did improve and get more interesting with a lively discussion bout how China rox n sux during GP.

Been reading bout The Google Story. Feel quite inspired by the duo who managed to set up Google to what it is now, after overcoming so many obstacles like being turned down by major firms, actually managing to spread their message without the use of any advertisements, etc. Like half way through the book now and i already feel like i admire them. Guess that's the main purpose of it..

After some thought bout the upcoming weeks, i realised that its already week 5! half the term is gone, and it feels like we haven't even started doing our term 2 stuff yet, and what more, CTs are like 9 weeks away (5 weeks considering GP), which isn't exactly a very long time especially after the past 5 weeks have flown by. Life starts to get more stressful, lectures seems to go on endlessly, work seems to be flowing in continuously, days juz pass without you knowing they did, and its the end of the week!

Time flies. We don't even know what we're aiming for now, seems like everything yet achieving nothing. Like i was telling thomas at the bus stop, the thought of the day : 'life sucks'

P.S. congrats RJGE for the Gold award in today's SYF

sherman the shark

2007-04-18T19:59:00.000+08:00

well.. now i'll talk bout my cartoon counterpart =) Most people i believe should have seem him aroudn b4, esp if they read the comics section of Lifestyle(as it is now called). Sherman the shark, sort of reminds me of, well, me >.< some times he's juz too lazy to do stuff. likes to loiter around doing stupid stuff, or juz plain eating n eating =p The amazing thing is that he was created in 1991, which was 2 years after me! so i wonder who inspired who =) (crap, that's like shameless -.-) well, that's how the nick slagoon came about. haha.. another amazing thing, he has a fish fren ernest, who is a comp geek, who is sort of a replica of guess who? Ernest of course.. hahaha.. mayb the cartoon has less of the girl-inclined fantasies than the real deal.. hmmmm....

guess it was juz appropriate to have at least one post of 'myself' heh (egoistic)

P.S. Congrats to RJ chinese dance in obtaining Gold with Hounours! I'm sure more will b coming our way

free cone day =) =)

2007-04-17T17:02:00.000+08:00

Ben and Jerry's free cone day today =) =) as most people should or would know, since the msg was passed around the sch as well as in the papers.. heh.. 3 cones in 1 hrs resulted in a happy bunch of 07S03L people. An efficient cycle ensured that they got their cones in record time, other than those who cut the queues right at where they were serving the cones, which would have taken like 30 secs.

Anyways, i was wondering why we didn't go last year =/ since its a tradition they have upheld since 1979 o.O darn it. moreover we can't get it next year cos we're stuck in camp (for the guys that is) owell.. for now, 3 cones is satisfying enough =) =) For the people who missed this great adventure, better luck next year. The choco brownie fudge rox totally =D

SYF coming up for many people around me. Chinese Dance today, guitar in 2 days and modern dance next week, etc. Only some major ccas like band, choir and chinese orchestra have their's in May, so in the mean time, those people involved, have fun practicing =P As for those with upcoming competitons, good luck for them!

Time really flies, its almost midweek now and this time next week, my parents would be off to hainan for a 4-5 day trip, so its home alone for me XD

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2007-04-15T00:30:00.000+08:00

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calm before the storm

2007-04-14T19:10:00.000+08:00

the build up to a superb EPL weekend has just begun. The first matches include that of Liverpool vs Man City and Arsenal vs Bolton. In their previous meeting, Bolton slaughtered Arsenal thanks to Anelka, can he do it again? We'll find out soon enough.

Also with the FA Cup semis coming up after that, Man U meeting Watford and Chelsea meeting Blackburn. Lets take things into perspective. Portsmouth beat Man U, Watford beat Portsmouth n therefore the OBVIOUS result is that Man U loses to watford (at least i hope so.. haha XP)

After a trying week that has been left behind, the weekend so far seems to be quite enjoyable, with just Chem tut and Math assignment to worry bout. But the prospect of CT2 looms near. It's week 5 (or issit 4) and the truth of the matter is that the next bout of tests are coming real soon =/ time to stop slacking and start studying.. sigh.. but wad more, is that this time the J1s would b joining us as well =P with their first common tests in RJ.. hehe.. How i wish i were feeling as relaxed as our junior batch now.. haiz.. owell.. they'll have their fair share of exams next year, like we're having this year..

classical day

2007-04-12T17:34:00.000+08:00

well.. the day started juz perfect. Yiding, masterfully dropped a box of sweets being passed around by Ruth, but he made it up by buying 2 boxes of chocos instead.. haha. that got passed around too but ended at Daniel who finished the last piece -.- but nvm. that's the least of stuff that happened today.

For some reason, all the main projectors in the lecture theatres were all like not working. Think its been like that since monday or something, since lei mentioned that her math lecturer actually wrote on the OHP... TWICE! LOL.. time wasted today due to technical difficulties = nearly 45 mins.. like sheesh

M&Ms rock! Have i told any1 this yet? Doesn't matter what type: crispy, milk choco, peanut, etc. all rock! :) :)

Champions League fixtures : Chelsea vs Liverpool and AC Milan vs Man U
well.. at the look at the semi-final fixtures, i would say that the first match is a confirmed result of Liverpool getting into the finals, since Liverpool seems to beat them in almost every cup match, no matter whether its European or English. As for the other match, an away loss is impending for Man U once again when they visit the San Siro. Think their Italian match tally is gonna b 2/13 from 2/12 after they lost at Roma. Hopefully AC Milan can keep their cool at Old Trafford and BEAT Man U to set up a repeat final like in 2005 =)

So that's that. what a long second post.. really long winded.. haha..

today and mayb tmr...

2007-04-11T21:23:00.000+08:00

wow.. wad a day it is today. seems to pass by so fast.. haiz. day started with econs, which was fun! cos ms lio finally decided to let us slack for one lesson n made us do an econs quiz -.- (though it was in the form of a 'competition-of-sorts'. but the amazing part was that azu, song jie and i managed to like guess our way to the win.. haha! we ownz =)

Next the sad part, NAPFA. failed as usual, but with an unhealthy twist. During shuttle run (2nd station only), i busted my knee. like wth lah.. injured it on monday due to some reckless dive which ended up in nothing n aggravating it today juz made it all worse. still had like everything else to finish up but well.. survived it, but stupid knee still hurts like crap now.. bah.. wonder if i should take kun man's advice n go see a doc.. hmm...

rest of the day was juz degen. GP, assembly, hw, anime. Nothing seems new here.. heh. tmr, with a GP essay looming, i juz wonder if there's any hope of making a dull day seem more interesting than it really is.

test test

2007-04-11T21:10:00.001+08:00

hmm.. testing?