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2012-01-15T19:46:00.002+08:00

I want to be a great dancer.

I want to be a great swimmer.

I want to be fluent in reading, speaking and understanding Korean.

I want to be able to do 20 pullups.

I want to be at 75kg.

I want to be a legend in 2012!

2011-09-18T00:00:00.002+08:00

Now that I'm at it, I just want to post some random things I will do right away when I ORD.

1) Learn how to dance WOOTS

2) Ensure I can read, speak and write Korean fluently and complete my Self-Learn Korean book.

3) Find some friends to backpack to Korea DUH

4) Stay fit!

5) Swimming...

2011-08-22T17:01:00.002+08:00

I'm simply frustrated over NS, over the inefficiency of SCS and the flow of command and stuff like that. Seriously NS not only saps your life away, it also makes you stupider and more impatient as a person. Reason simply being you can't expect everyone to think exactly like you. You can't expect everyone to have the same "brilliant" idea of how things can be done faster and how more admin time can be squeezed out in between.

Admittingly, I myself am more or less someone who follow through motion all the way. Back in the days of BMT I had always wanted to become an officer, hold the prestige and plan for activities in the SAF. However I just ain't good enough, I guess, such that I ended up in SCS. Oh well. The first few weeks can definitely be considered a "chalet", with everybody totally taking things easy and enjoying life. As soon as the hi-key events kick in, the efficiency and discipline starts to drop drastically.

I can say that SCS has changed me for the worst. Looking at how people act and behave generally, the regimentation just ain't enough. I am actually "encouraged" to follow through the motion and taking things easy rather than ensure everything is properly done and in place. As far as possible I try to share with random cadets that actually bothered to listen, but their similar helplessness of how things are done in SCS can also be felt.

Since I'm on the subject, I might as well discuss one particular issue which I just couldn't get it: How the cadets are generally carrying themselves.

My close friends and acquaintances will probably know that I dislike the word "Fuck", or any other commonly used vulgarities such as "Chee Bye" and " Lan Jiao". My argument is actually... hmm... pretty simple. Does scolding "WTF" improve the current situation you are in in anyway? Does scolding "Walao eh Chee Bye" change the fact that you still have 2 more cm to get Gold for IPPT? The arguments and questions can go on and on, I know a lot of individuals only scold these stuff when they really "could not take" the situation at that point in time, I just don't understand some of us who scold them like, habitually.

I know I can go on and on and on about this topic for everyone who actually bothers to listen. One last thing I wish to share is that some of these people who scold vulgarities habitually actually have girlfriends.

I know, of course, that I have never had a girlfriend, so I definitely don't understand "how it feels" to not have one. However, from the point of view of a bystander, I can actually observe people around me who talk like all lovey-dovey on the phone but scolds "Fuck" at me regularly. Again, I have unexplained questions: Why the split personality? Does scolding "Fuck" at your friends in your bunk for NSFs and maintain a lovey-dovey relationship with your girlfriend outside the norm of the freaking society? Can't you just treat everyone around you equally as polite and with respect?

I think in days to come, I will start a new series: The unexplained mysteries of NS. I know I oughta be more optimistic and receptive to new people, but they ain't getting the respect they deserve from me, I guess. Until then, back to learning Korean, an attempt to distract myself from this heavily flawed system.

2011-07-31T02:18:00.001+08:00

I finally decided to blog again. It has been almost a year as the last post I made was in September 2010. Come to think of it now my last post was laughable.

A quick update of myself all the way from then would be the completion of A levels with 85 rank points, a 5 month vacation and NS. Currently I'm accepted to NUS Business School at 2013 and an SCT waiting to become a 3SG in NS.

Today is 31st July, the date where the fictional character Harry Potter was born. 31st July 2011 is the day I watched the final movie: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, leaving me totally disappointed. The last 30 minutes of the movie is more or less rubbish.

Maybe it's because I have not blogged for SO long that I have lost my feel as to what to type next. Shall blog again another time in more detail how I have survived after my A levels for the past 7 months and more.

2010-09-10T18:46:00.003+08:00

Things to do after 2nd December 2010:

1) Attain a Six Pack (highest priority)

2) Dancing

3) Swimming (Up till butterfly!)
4) Plyometrics

5) Work

6) Basketball

Skipping goals:

#1: Endurance

a) Skip 1000 times in a row

b) Skip 1500 times in a row

c) Skip 2000 times in a row

d) Skip 2500 times in a row

e) Skip 3000 times in a row

#2: Intervals

a) 100 150 200 250 300 250 200 150 100

b) 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 350 300 250 200 150 100

c) 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100

d) 100 200 300 400 500 600 500 400 300 200 100

e) 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100

f) 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 (Ultimate goal)

Fitness Goals:

#1: Running

a) 2.4 km run

i) 12 minutes

ii) 11 minutes 30 seconds

iii) 11 minutes

iv) 10 minutes 30 seconds
v) 10 minutes 15 seconds

vi) 10 minutes

vii) 9 minutes 50 seconds

viii) 9 minutes 40 seconds

ix) 9 minutes 30 seconds

b) Endurance

i) 4 km

ii) 5.2 km

iii) 6 km

iv) 7.2 km

v) 8 km

vi) 9.2 km

vii) 10 km

viii) 12 km

#2: Pullups

i) 7 pullups

ii) 8 pullups

iii) 9 pullups

iv) 11 pullups

v) 14 pullups

vi) 16 pullups

vii) 20 pullups

viii) 24 pullups

ix) 27 pullups

x) 30 pullups (Ultimate goal)

#3: Fat loss and Muscle gain

Weight taken in the morning before breakfast:

i) 79kg

ii) 77.7kg

iii) 76.5kg

iv) 75.4kg

v) 74.7kg

vi) 74kg

Ultimate goal: 72 - 74 kg

2010-07-13T17:32:00.007+08:00

Youtube Channels

Fitness:

moricestreet909
ScottHermanFitness

JDCav24

SNSD:

ssfclassics

ssfsubs2

ssfsubs3

ssfsubs4

wawarookie

xAmoled (Run Devil Run)

NeiMindfreak (Gee)

xCutiePie13x (Tell me Your Wish)

SuperInfectedmushroo*** (Oh!) and a lot other kpop songs haha

Sofy1411 (Into the New World 1st part only =( )

AFTER A LEVELS IMA LEARN ALL OF THE DANCES!!!

SNSD shows

Invisible youth

Family outing

Night star

Champagne

I Hate You

Mystery

Unstoppable Marriage

Hello Baby

SNSD Wallpapers

http://snsdwallpaper.blogspot.com/

http://www.showwallpaper.com/creator.php?memid=20377&album=1125

2010-05-27T21:37:00.002+08:00

What a girl wants to hear

Girl: Thanks for the fun day!
Boy: No problem
Girl: Can I ask you a few questions?
Boy: Sure!
Girl: And... Be honest

Girl: Have I ever crossed your mind?
Boy: No
Girl: Do you like me?
Boy: No
Girl: Do you want me?
Boy: No
Girl: Would you cry if I left?
Boy: No
Girl: Would you live for me?
Boy: No
Girl: Would you do anything for me?
Boy: No
Girl: Choose me or your life
Boy: My life

The girl ran away with shock and depression. The boy immediately chased after her and told her...

The reason why you never crossed my mind...

Is because you are always in my mind.

The reason why I don't like you...

Is because I love you.

The reason why I don't want you...

Is because I need you.

The reason why I wouldn't cry if you left...

Is because I'll die if you left.

The reason why I wouldn't live for you...

Is because I'll die for you.

The reason why I'm not willing to do anything for you...

Is because I will do everything for you.

The reason why I chose my life...

Is because you are my life.

AISEH! By the way I just died for GP. Hoping I would do well for my 4H2s for BT2 to pull up my rank points... =/

2010-04-10T23:12:00.003+08:00

More than one month has passed since I last blogged properly. One thing is for sure that I've lost the edge and feel to blog at all, but I guess I'll give an update of my life.

Today's date is 10th April 2010. This could probably be the saddest day I've ever lived in so far this year. Everything is just bad and stuff. I think since almost nobody reads this page I can give you "readers" a good summary of what happened today.

April 10th 2010: Saddest day ever

I woke up at 6:30am earlier today, my mind still paralyzed by the fact that I only managed to score an E for Bio BT1. Nevertheless I had this thought that today will be a good day as I would be contributing back to society by doing CIP. The CIP's meeting place was at YMCA Orchard at 8:30am, and I arrived there promptly at around 8:25am.

After waiting for awhile, my good friend Putt arrived. We joined the group that we were allocated to and waited patiently for the introduction and instructions. I realised that my OG mate last year that is currently in 09S01 was in my group as well, and it sure was heartening to see that we are still on talking terms.

The instructions didn't came for a long time, so everybody in the waiting hall were basically chatting away. At one point in time, I asked my OG mate whether there was a guy in 09S18 who dropped Econs and went to his class. Just then Putt, beside me, suddenly shouted: Hey I'm from 09S18 what why you don't ask me ask him! Walao bastard le!

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This was when my heart took its first plunge down a long flight of stairs covered with spikes. You may think that I'm overreacting, but at that very moment when the b-word came out I was totally offended and extremely upset. It actually took awhile before the full effect took its toll on me. I suddenly became very subdued when almost every other people in the waiting hall are chatting animatedly with each other.

A J1 junior of mine, by the name of Calvin, was already there and we were chatting before this incident happened. Putt still had no idea that she just offended me with a very "light" scolding. After awhile, I said to Putt: "You know, I am really upset by what happened just now."

Putt's face changed totally, she was actually smiling and suddenly she looked extremely worried. She claimed that she HAD NO IDEA WHAT BASTARD MEANT and thought that it is not really that hurtful when used casually. At that point in time I was thinking: If it is like between 4 close guy friends playing lan and one of them made a stupid mistake, it should be ok that one guy suddenly shout, "Walao, basket case la!/bastard!", but the fact that Putt scolded me that, obviously unintentionally, still kind of upsetted me, owing to the fact that I'm already abit upset over my Bio results.

C for Calvin, A for myself, P for Putt

C: What's wrong
A: (in chinese so that P won't understand, repeated what just happened)
C to P: Waa this guy is angry
P: Whaaaat. Sorry la Anselm I didn't mean to say that to you
A: (quiet)

And so, you can roughly guess the rest. Putt placed her head into her thighs and didn't look up for like 4 minutes. I whispered to Calvin whether I had gone overboard, and he slowly nodded his head. So I told Putt that I'm no longer angry with her, and her face was still filled with that sense of guilt and unhappiness when she looked up.

P: It wasn't intentional. Now I'm sad cause I offended you...
A: It's ok I'm not angry anymore
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And the usual stuff

So the CIP thing continues and so on and obviously I am not really that enthusiastic about the whole thing anymore. One probable reason was what happened in the morning, or the fact that I'm sweating like crazy. (Punggol is such a hot and humid place!)The overall good thing is I get to make friends with the team leaders Michelle and Stephen, and their friendliness really cheered me up abit. Putt managed to make me laugh totally by letting me listen to "Hot and Cold" when we were on our way to Punggol. Her nicely timed action made me laugh and laugh when I'm listening to the funny tune at the beginning of the song. Pretty soon, it was time to go home and the time was about 4:45pm.

I alighted with Putt at Boon Keng and she sent me off at the bus stop. She timidly mentioned about what happened in the morning again and once again apologised about her action.

P: I am really sorry. Today I didn't dare to talk to you because you look like you don't want to talk to me, and I know why... Basically you react just the same as Kevin when you get lousy results and I go and do that. You should know me ma, sometimes I just don't know what I'm saying and whether it's hurtful or not...

Already feeling like crap during that time, I once again assured Putt that I'm no longer angry anymore. I just need to get back home, change, jog and try to forget about today's incident. I went, and I reached home to slack at around 7:10pm

I remembered the fact that today is SYF Central Judging for Display Bands 2010 and my school, namely BPGHS, is participating. Due to my CIP I could not make it to the indoor stadium to support the band. Anyway I wanted to meet up with the band in school when they returned to keep the instruments so that we can have supper together and catch up. So I called my Section Leader during my batch and he didn't answer. So I smsed him to sms me once they are on the way back from the indoor stadium.

No news whatsoever from him all the way until around 10:30pm. Beginning to lose hope I tried calling him again, since during 2006 and 2008 we never really ended that late. My first call was a no answer, and by the second time the phone was off. I went onto facebook and pictures of band members eating supper at Lot 1 McDonalds are already uploaded via iPhone.

That's what it's all about! Today is simply the worst I've experienced this far. Had I not gone for a jog to let out my feelings, I would have felt like shit. Well, guess I need to listen to songs like Bad Romance and Where'd You Go to pick myself up again.

It's getting late. Next week would be PW results. Hopefully it will cheer me up greatly, come as expected, or cast me even deeper into my already worsening emo-ness. I think I shall update again next week when my full set of BT1 results are out. I need some serious self-reflection. Seeya!

2010-03-09T17:17:00.002+08:00

BEST SONG EVER!!!

2010-02-10T13:50:00.002+08:00

Currently in school blogging in Computer Lab 4. Just feel like ranting about the new batch of J1s.

If I were to use one word to sum up their behaviour over the past few days, the word will be "retarded". Let me share with all of you what the J1s did earlier today:

1) They are doing Chemistry tutorial IN THE CAFE! I mean, papers and pencil boxes and foolscap paper scattered all over the tables that are supposed to be used for us Saints to consume food. They are all over the place! If you are hardworking, you don't have to let the whole world know by purposely doing your stupid tutorial in the Cafe!? Scram to the library!

2) When us J2s are proceeding out of the CC after our Maths Lecture, the J1s are already coming in to attend their Chemistry Lecture, disrupting the flow of traffic at the door. I mean, come on!? It is common courtesy to allow us J2s to vacate the CC first before you narbs come in?

I can even guarantee that the current batch of J2s in SAJC has NEVER had such a lousy behaviour when we were J1s. Wake up, J1s!! Damn!

I realised that in JC2, there is no such thing as a 'break' from exams. It is only 3 mere weeks after MSA1 and the pressure from Block Test 1 is already getting the better of me. What's more, BT1 wil contain a lot more topics for us to mug, mug and mug... Hope I survive!

Seeya readers!

2010-02-04T23:22:00.002+08:00

JC2 MSA 1 Results:

Chem: A
Maths: A
Bio: B
Econs: B
GP: D

Rank Points: 73

At long last the result confirmation slip is given out. Turns out I'm 4th place in class. Keep up the 'good' work! =)

2010-01-03T17:41:00.003+08:00

Hi people! Long time no blog again. I've been putting off that damned Chemistry and Mathematics Holiday homework package or whatever since last week, and there are only 8 days left to the start of J2. Oh no!!!

Ok for the sake of Hello from my tagboard, whoever he or she is, I am going to recall rather briefly what happened during the year of 2009 in this first post of 2010!!!

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Let's recall the collection of the 'O' levels results. One of my good friends Tan Wee Kiat was the first to go up on stage with a score of 5A1s, followed by Eugene Chew and so on. I hate to admit it, but actually I was expecting myself to go up on stage LOL. Then I figured that I myself didn't work hard enough during the preparation for 'O' levels, so a consolation prize of 3A1s is worth it? Still, the fact remains that all of us born in 1992s is the best batch of students ever! Well, when the 'O' level results 2009 is released in about a few weeks time we shall find out whether the 1993 batch is able to prove me wrong.

Then it comes the JAE whatever thing where we choose where we wanted to go after collecting that slip of paper we have been waiting for 4 years since the start of secondary school. I got 9 points raw and I'm proud to say that it is a single digit raw score. The nice part is that there are only 4 possible single digit raw scores : A perfect score of 6, 1 A2 which gives you 7, 8 and 9... Well whatever. After deducting 2 points from my CCA, I got 7 points, which qualifies me for at most Anderson Junior College, followed by St Andrews, but I still went to St Andrews anyway.

Frankly speaking, I was crazy back in the Sec 3 Sec 4 times, everything is so relaxing as you can get away from not handing in homework with such ease. Let me present to you all a scenario:

Teacher: Hand up your homework
Me: Keep quiet
Teacher: Who else hasn't handed it in?
Me: (Obviously I didn't) Keep quiet

By the next day, if the teacher didn't chase after you for that piece of homework, you would have escaped it totally.

Therefore I sort of dedicated my life in Sec 3 and 4 to be as crazy as possible, doing the stupidest and most unexpected stuff if possible, giving my class some form of crude entertainment for the entire two years of upper secondary. In JC however, there is never such time for such nonsense and fooling around. This is because you only have two years to cramp in all the syllabus into your head and sit for the much killer 'A' levels at the end of year 2. There is hardly time to play around unless you have an IQ above 140 and a photographic memory. Sadly to say, the pressure from the expectations I had set for myself and the abrupt change in environment has forced me to switch from an extreme end of the spectrum to the other extreme end, from being crazy to being quiet and an introvert in JC.

In 2009, what I've certainly lost out is the ability to communicate with new peers in a new environment. Hence I am basically not popular, but I am not unpopular luckily. You know, there's a big difference.

Let's talk about examinations in JC. Somehow when I entered JC, there is this unexplainable kind of feeling that one must do well in every exam and maintain the standard. Back in secondary school, I'm pretty much a last minute person. So I find it very hard to switch, or rather, transform into a hardworking student. Anybody would know that a person who is both intellectually there and hardworking is able to secure the best alphabet there is to represent your progress in a particular subject. For me, getting that coveted 'A' grade is always a challenge for both Biology and Chemistry. The simple reason would be that I am not hardworking enough, and am unwilling or lack the motivation to change for the better even when I am moving on to JC. Sigh...

MSAs, otherwise known as Milestone Assessments are the only tests that I am able to do reasonably well, obtaining above 70 rank points, but for tests like Common Tests and obviously the Final Year Examinations, I wasn't able to meet the 70 rank points mark, reason being that these tests are more of Semestral Tests, summarising what you've learnt into a series of nerve-wrecking questions for you to answer. After a gruelling J1 year, which does not even stand a chance to be compared side-by-side to the year ahead, I got an overall 69 rank points UNREGULATED. Damn it! Why don't SAJC bring me up to 70? Then I would have gotten a free cookie and a more satisfied feeling...

Whatever it is, this is not the time to complain. As this is the first year after we've graduated from our secondary schools, us back in 4L1 are still able to maintain contact among each other. 2009 witnesses the warmest meetings that the guys in 4L1 have went to yet. I can recall the moments where Wee Kiat, Samuel, Eugene Chew and myself sit down on the sofa at my house and discuss miscellaneous stuff like Project Work and random grades gotten from tests. Those are the memories that we should hold dear to ourselves.

Then there are SCS, which stands for Soul Calibur sessions during June and December last month. This is whereby the guys in L1, well some of us, together with Xin Hao and Maliki, come together to play a PS2 game that we can miraculously draw much fun from. During these sessions, when the number of people permits, we also play card games such as daitee and Cheat, the Neopets version, which similarly is very fun to play for all of us. The thing is, we are suffocating from the pressure of JC life so much that even such little things and games are able to relieve the pressure and make us more relaxed to tackle on the workload the next day. And that's 2009 for me.

What do I look forward in 2010, or rather this upcoming year of hell for my batch, it is basically the same old list.

1) Solve a Rubik's Cube in less than 50 seconds

2) Get good results

3) Try to put yourself into the shoes of other people more... not literally

4) Get in shape

5) Work hard, play hard, Own people hard as well

And that's all...

8 more days!!!

2009-12-21T23:31:00.004+08:00

Yo people I am back!

Watched Avatar with Wayne, Shao Hua, Xin Hao and Jia Qi today. We went all the way to the Golden Village at Marina Centre to watch this epic movie. Since I have nothing better to do right now - ok in fact I'm supposed to be revising - I shall blog about the movie "Avatar"

Warning: If you have not watched this movie and are planning to watch, please do not read on!

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Ah, whatever. You guys are going to read on anyway if you are actually interested. Ok so let me give you the ratings for this movie:

Graphics: 9 / 10

Storyline: 5 / 10

Overall effectiveness : 7 / 10

So the storyline is about this guy who have exactly the same genome as his brother, who is a top scientist if I remember it correctly. His name is Jake Sully and he is unable to walk like a normal human. He was selected for this avatar project at planet Pandora. Within Pandora and the people indigenous to it, there is this greyish element worth 20 million dollars per kilogram hidden underneath one huge ass tree that all the selfish scientists who have already set foot on this planet want to devour. Jake's goal, together with minor characters Grace and Norman, are supposed to get close to this population in the planet so as to persuade them to leave their habitat and leave the place clear for the scientists to grab the element. In the end, Jake fell in love with the daughter of the Tribe leader guarding that huge ass tree and he crossed the line by helping her defend against the human race, simply referred to as "Sky people" by the indigenous in Pandora. The leader of the tribe got furious and forbid Jake from ever sinking into his avatar ever again. He then attempted to get to the element by force. Jake told his crush the truth and the girl asked him to leave after wailing like a bitch, but he didn't give up and soon he was betraying the human race by running away with his "minions" and continuing to help the indigenous. Soon all the army was deployed and there was one huge war among the Earthlings and the indigenous of Pandora, specifically Aircrafts and Technology Vs Giant Pterodactyls and Rhino-like creatures. After an intense struggle, Jake and the indigenous won and the movie ends when Jake's entire soul is transferred from his disabled body into the avatar, and living with his girlfriend there forever.

So let's talk about the graphics. The graphics overall are excellent as there is this nuance that creators of the movie have used to make the creatures on Pandora so lifelike and natural, not to forget the epic battle between the human race and the people on Pandora. Every such scene is able to keep your eyes glued to the screen. The creators of the movie have indeed spent the past 13 years effectively by making this movie a success.

The storyline however is pretty much cliche. Obviously the plan to let Jake persuade the indigenous to leave their habitat is going to be flawed by Jake falling in love with one of them. The communication and the actors' lines and even the plot towards the end are very predictable. Overall a good movie though! Watch it!

After the movie, the 5 of us were walking towards the bus stop to take 960 home and it is all the way at the end of the building. As I was walking at the front I turned around to talk to Wayne and Xin Hao and so on and of course I do not realise there was this couple walking right in front of me. To let you visualize better I made a lousy drawing on it.

In the end, when I turn back to face the front, usually my hand will involuntarily be raised up and, you guessed it, I literally hit the girl's breasts. They are pretty firm too. O.o

(As you can see the drawings do not match... Ah who cares? XD)

Of course my first reaction was to apologise and hope that I wouldn't have to receive a wallop from her boyfriend, but as I walked away from the scene I couldn't help but think of 3 things.

1) Why must that lame woman walk so close to me to allow her chest to be smacked by a complete stranger?

2) If you know that I am not looking your way, at least GET OUT of the way?

3) The boyfriend would be so pissed that he would not be the only one to enjoy his girlfriend's boobs.

Nah... Before you all start talking behind my back about my "luckiness", the girlfriend is not even sexy in the first place. So... if you mean lucky as in not getting a wallop from her boyfriend... then yeah.

Ok, only 20 days left for me to study and consolidate my J1 work and I still have a Leon's JC class chalet to crash. Hopefully I pulled through and embrace next year with gusto! LOL! Seeya guys!

2009-12-07T22:30:00.002+08:00

Long time no blog people!!! I am pretty sure you missed me like crazy after 3 weeks of chilling wind blowing past my blog... No? It's just me?

Anyway let me update on my life right now. One word:

Average

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Nah, just kidding. Recently I've been holding a lot of Soul Calibur sessions with L1 guys, namely Samuel, Wayne, Leon, Wee Kiat and Nixon. They have also invited guests like Maliki and Xin Hao to join the fun, but so far no full attendance has been recorded, sigh. Besides Soul Calibur, we also played card games like Big 2.5 (daitee) and Cheat. All of us are pleasantly surprised that we are able to draw so much fun out of a game produced in 2005 and some lame card games. I believe the reason lies in the fact that all of us are JC students. We are so exhausted due to the pressure from studying that sessions like that during holidays are actually much appreciated by all of us.

Seriously there's been nothing much to update. I do not have any work attachments or any "kang tao"s in Hokkien if you know what I mean, so it's just sitting at home and rotting for my holidays. So this is just a short update and I will TRY not to be that lazy anymore. I admit that sometimes I just got the inspiration but normally during those period of times my parents are using the computer. Ah excuses again.

Rest now, embrace JC2 later, much later...

2009-11-20T23:24:00.002+08:00

Adapted from Priest Xing Yun's words of intelligence series 12, The Daily News, (LOL DIRECT TRANSLATION!)

Once there was a very rich man who had a wife suffering from a terminal disease. Her days were numbered and she would soon leave the world. Her husband hired an experienced artist to help him draw a portrait of his wife as a form of remembrance.

After knowing his husband's thoughts, the wife ordered the artist to draw her a crown lined with diamonds and also fill her clothes with beautiful jewels as well. The artist was puzzled.

"Mam, why would you want that? Your original crown would look silly with diamonds and your clothes are already so beautiful. Why diamonds out of the blue?"

The wife grimaced and answered flatly, "My dear Mr Artist, when I leave, my husband is going to remarry isn't it? All my contributions to my family would be passed over to her and my commitments would all be forgotten. That would be too cheap for her, you see. I want that woman to be miserable all her life by letting you draw diamonds and accessories all over my clothes. Like that, the woman would most likely quarrel frequently with my husband and saying, 'Why is it that your ex-wife had so many jewels and I had none?' They would fight all day and all night and it will never cease..."

Things come by and go most of the time. Some things are just beyond our reach and all we can do is to strive towards those goals or targets. When one is unable to grant other people's means when the individual himself could not get to enjoy those means, he or she is deemed to be selfish. If one is unable to feel happy seeing other people being happy, they would be the ultimate miserable beings in this world. Take the wife above for example. If she really loves her husband, she should graciously leave behind all her past contributions and wish for all the best for her husband, and pray that her husband would be able to get over her death quickly. Despite the inevitable fact that the husband would most likely remarry, she should be happy for them and not hold grudges which ultimately makes most parties involved miserable...

So, how can we spread the love and happiness?

Respect each other. Feel happy when other people feel happy. Open up your heart and be more sensitive to the surroundings. Give other people a chance to love what you love as well.

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Yeah, inspiring...

The first week of lectures is finally over. Basically I have reverted back to the "mug-with-moderation" mode and what Mr Gabriel calls it - transcendental (LOL). Nevertheless, I look forward to the following two days of weekend as they would provide me a time to rest as well as catching-up with fellow L1 guys.

Don't know if I should update more regularly or on every Friday. Well, I shall decide when holidays officially start. Even then it would be time to mug again. Sigh...

Never mind. See and approach things with a positive mindset, people! Seeya!

2009-11-14T21:57:00.007+08:00

It is 9:59pm, 14 November 2009, and my 4H2 time-table will commence in 2 days time and end in 12 days time. Hopefully in this time period I will strengthen my foundation on my 4H2s so that I can concentrate on improving my English Vocabulary to tackle GP the next year, and of course, sadly, I have to study "a little" during the December holidays.

Just went to watch 2012 with my family, and I think that you guys should know you are in for a 'treat'. Ok maybe not treat, who would want to listen to my opinions anyway, especially our favourite passer-by who still resides in my tagboard. Nevertheless I shall post some of my reflections after I've watched the movie.

Warning: If you have not watched 2012 and plan to watch it soon, PLEASE STOP HERE AND CLICK THE RED X AND GET OUT OF HERE. What I'm about to say will totally be no fun if you have not watched the movie. So please, I did warned you guys!

Still here? Have you really watched 2012? Please, there is still chance. Get out of here if you have not watched.

Anyway if you don't plan to watch it at all, you can still continue. It is really up to you...

Hope I didn't make any grammar mistakes... O_o

Ok, 2012. The movie lasted for 2 hours and 40 minutes and basically I was holding my bladder throughout the movie and at the same time trying to piece all the information together. First let me give my ratings:

Effectiveness: 8 / 10
Computer effects: 10 / 10 (You gotta believe it)
Overall acting: 9 / 10

Overall rating: 9 / 10

Yeah so if you have reached till this point I assume that you already know the contents of the movie, and wish to find out what I thought so here it is.

I believe that the whole movie is designed such that it is able to invoke some form of reflection within each individual about life as a human being. Well the movie was basically about this guy named Jackson, who divorced with his wife and lived as an artist writing stories. He is unable to get on to this ship together with his loved ones because he hasn't enough money to buy a pass. For some reason(probably the script of the show), luck is always in his way and he is able to ensure safety among his loved ones and eventually survive the disaster. In between friends were removed from them, but their sacrifices are obviously worth it. Add the computer effects in and the whole movie was able to grab everyone's attention back in the cinema.

Overall the movie is quite sad and rather meaningful as it is able to depict 3 ideas that are occurring to us right now, which may soon get the better of us if you know what I mean. Let me list them down first and slowly elaborate on each of them.

1. Selfishness
2. Globalisation
3. Trust

... and then I shall give a summary.

1. Selfishness

I mean, this is basically the general thing that was portrayed effectively throughout the entire movie. The world is coming to an end at 2012, and the rich and the abled are the ones that care primarily about themselves first and cease to put themselves in the shoes of other people, namely the poor and "lousier, insignificant" people. In the movie, there are these ginormous ships that will hold every "abled" people safe while those that fail to get their tickets can say goodbye to their lives. Throughout the movie there are certain scenes which I shall name which would be kind of realistic in real life.

Scene A:

The part whereby the huge guy, I think by the name of Bentley, has the green ticket and is able to get on the helicopter to get to the ship. The way he disregards the rest of the main characters and proceed onto the helicopter with his twin sons was quite aggravating to say the least. I mean the point is that he has the ticket which can "guarantee" him safety, which he realised later that it does not. The situation whereby Bentley sees himself as superior and leaving the Jackson family in the lurch is quite realistic if put to real life. Well, best put yourself in a better position and dump potential obstacles and competitors, yeah?

Scene B:

The part whereby the black guy announces to the whole ship that they should let the other people in, claiming that if we don't care for each other, what's the point of escaping the disaster anyway? His white colleague barged in and claimed that the "rest of the people" are not allowed in and their resources are pretty much limited and therefore they should continue carrying out their operations and forget about them.

Black guy: So you're leaving them behind. Won't it pain you to see them left behind, helpless?

White guy: There is no time to lose! The point of us escaping is to save our SPECIES!

And the argument goes on and on, with the verdict in the end that the people would be allowed in. This is the point whereby Bentley died by the way. He kind of made up for what he did previously, but it was still sad nonetheless.

That argument in the ship was one of the more controversial mini-debates in the show. People are getting killed, innocent people specifically, but in times of crisis, sacrifices have to be made no matter how cruel and ruthless they are and the important people should stay and try to survive no matter what their ways of thinking are. In the movie, the white guy's overall stand is that they should make plans to escape as soon as possible, disregarding all other innocent lives in the way as during that time, the tsunami was raging. The black guy challenged him that if the ship can afford it, why not let the workers at the port as well as those who "got the green tickets" in as well? There is basically nothing to lose, just some precious time.

The idea of selfishness is clearly portrayed here and I know that I've emphasised it alot of times. This is definitely the most realistic part of the movie as I believe anybody would react like the white guy in that time of crisis. The black guy is perhaps the cliched good guy that tries to save everybody. Just a thought.

There are other smaller scenes which depict this point but I guess they are not really important to the show as it flows along. Well lets see how things go on when the real Armageddon strikes.

2. Globalisation

This is just one short insight that I thought of after the movie is over with a little help(discussion) with my mum. Notice that one year after the disaster had occurred, the only continent left visible and ready to be set up is the continent Africa. Europe, Asia and North & South America are nowhere to be seen. Perhaps other people would think that it is just some random land left for the people to begin their lives proper again, but I think not.

Right now, the world is basically divided into the developed, developing, not so developing and non-developing countries, developed countries namely the USA and China and Japan, and the non-developing namely Africa. The situation now is that trees are being uprooted to be replaced by new infrastructure as the demand goes up. While building the infrastructure, notice the strong and deep foundation that has to be laid within the Earth's crust in order for the building to stand. Notice also that in Africa, none of these are happening as resources are merely extracted from them in the form of labour and the land remains as natural as possible. This is exactly my explanation of why the writers of this film choose Africa as the final place for human beings to start over again.

You may disagree, but I think that on the whole this could be true. Why would the land that buildings sat on be the first to crumble and give way. It is obviously due to the alterations of the land through the setting up of wires and pipes, foundation setting and so on. This further encourages the "Earth Plates Displacement" or something like that as it happens in the film.

3. Trust

This still remains as the strongest force that keeps us alive. I mean, when Jackson rushed to save his loved ones, they don't believe him at first until the Earthquakes strike. They totally reacted in the way that all people would in times of an emergency, but luckily they trusted Jackson enough to follow him in the Limo, then it was just luck that favoured them throughout their entire journey to the ship or ark, whatever you call it.

Here's actually something that is based solely on my opinion. Religion does not help in times of crisis. I mean just look at the scene whereby the entire population holds a candle and pray and the building still caves in and kills all of them. Prayers have absolutely no effect. I totally disagree with Christianity.com. Praying to that "superior being" is no different from praying to ice, or your handphone and so on.

Still, the idea of trust within the family of 4 was really quite moving to say the least. The boy helping his father solve the problem in the hydraulics, the girl insisting in following her father to give him moral support, all excellent portrayals of trust. Religious praying... nah...

When the End of the World is really nearing, there will be pandemoniums and uproars and so on. In this case, it is the eruption of volcanoes and earthquakes resulting in massive tsunamis which ultimately owns everything. There is this scene which shows the American president staying behind with the citizens. Perhaps the point of this scene is to show that when the world is really coming to an end, people are equal beings no matter what their statuses are. When the tsunamis strike, there is basically no hope for survival for those unprepared.

Well, that's it. I really must give credits once again to the computer effects - they kept my eyes glued to the screen all the time! =)

Haix. Tomorrow I may need to go to the Salvation Army and ask them if they want donations. Well obviously they would but I must write up this proposal for my CCA. Dang it.

Well best of luck to myself to make the best out of the next 12 days. Seeya readers. Case Study coming up!

2009-11-11T20:42:00.002+08:00

It's 11 November 2009, 8:59pm, and I am finally back to post!

Well it's been 22 days since my last post, whereby I managed to achieve 1000 flags for Plants Vs Zombies: Survival Endless. Well just say that I have been quite busy and therefore lazy to post a nice update. Now I shall just give a quick update of what had been going on.

1. Kiat Ni's birthday.

The forgetful me already forgot the exact date of Kiat Ni's birthday, but it was fun nevertheless! It was the first time I get to see Shi Min and Po Kai face to face! The sad thing is that I was quite in a bad mood that day and therefore I didn't really interacted with them that much haix...

2. PW and CL

H1 Chinese was over on 2nd November. Well Paper 1 is quite ok, but the last two passages of Paper 2 were quite a killer. Hopefully I did well overall.

Our class had our OP last Monday, and overall my class did well I think. It is just that my Q & A was one of the dumbest thing that had ever occurred to me. Here's what happened:

Examiner: If you were to conserve the Hokkien language, what changes would you make to your strategies to apply them in the conservation?

Anselm: Err, firstly Hokkien language was one of the Case Studies our group considered, but in the end we chose the Potawatomi language because Hokkien was actually discouraged rather than conserved in Singapore. Well, I would say that for Hokkien to be conserved successfully, Hokkien stories can be designed and smses made in Hokkien.

WHAT THE F**K!?!?

At that time, the examiners' faces were like

O_o o_O T_T

They then proceeded to ask me a second question, and according to consolations from my classmates that day I did ok for the second question, and I was the only person in 09S20 that had to answer 2 questions...

Whatever PW and CL are over with a FINALITY!!!

Ok from now on is just 4H2 and GP all the way. I seriously hope that I am able to do well in all my subjects and overall be a better person. I am still playing Neopets though, don't know if that will overall affect my performance...

Oh ya before I go, a quick shoutout to Yin Shuen: Aiyo why you comment until like that? You comment like that later no more haters come my blog and post such funny comments. At least now I know that an RJC J2 guy has a smaller penis than me, I want to know more of such people leh. What's more he is in the midst of having his 'A' levels, can still come my blog to comment. God should really give him a larger penis lor.

Ok, for my next post maybe I will do a Case Study. Seeya guys!!!

2009-10-20T00:49:00.001+08:00

Plants Vs Zombies 997th to 1000th flag!!!

2009-10-17T00:08:00.002+08:00

Alright guys! I'm just going to skip the date part and intro and stuff even though it is now Saturday. Going to evaluate my results now.

H2 Biology:

This is really an interesting H2 subject. For Bao Bao, it means random thrashing of papers. For me, it is more of sustaining the 'B' grade. When I receive back the Bio paper, I was greeted with 58.5% for both Finals and overall promos score. Yup, it is that coincidental that my Common Test marks = My Finals marks = my promos marks = 58.5%. So I was like thinking: 'C'? It can't be, I'm not worth that standard.

So I set on to try and redeem as many marks as possible. There is one question that Mr Chan immediately marked me 0 marks, the one where you have to cross between the dogs IIa and IIb to prove whether a disease is X-linked or autosomal recessive. I was like wondering: Hey! Shouldn't I deserve the marks? I immediately went to Mr Chan and he awarded me an additional 1.5 marks.

Subsequently I claimed another 2 marks, increasing my overall score for my Finals. I immediately keyed in my results into my calculator to calculate my promos mark again, and voila, I jumped from 58.5% to 60.08%, which is a B!

So overall, I managed to get a B for Bio. My only evaluation is that if I just dedicate more time into studying Bio, I would have gotten an A. I mean seriously, readers who take H2 Biology, it is not that difficult to just plant your buttocks onto your chair and revise Bio for like, at least half an hour? I hope I learned my lesson, because I don't really want Bao Bao and Tricia to have such little competition in class for H2 Biology.

H2 Chemistry:

Hmm, another interesting subject that occurred to me. I finally got a decent grade for Chemistry, which is a B after my horrendous performance in the Common Test. I actually did well for Section C, achieving 36/60 for the structured questions. Although this may seem a joke to Tan Wee Kiat, I still think I've done well! It is just MCQ which pulled me down severely, but whatever I am more or less satisfied.

I've talked to alot of people about Chem outside of SAJC, and they all came to a rationale: Understand Physical Chemistry and memorise Organic Chemistry. The reason why you fail Organic Chem is because you question why this reagent/condition is required and so on. The reason why you did not perform as well as you have expected yourself to do so for Physical Chem is due to lack of practice. Apparently the next test coming up would be the MSAs in Year 2, so why not adopt this simple strategy and grab the coveted 'A' grade for Chem, which is just within your reach?

H2 Mathematics:

I almost scolded our favourite F-word out loud when I open my paper to see my marks for Finals: 71.5/100. Are you kidding me? 71.5 out of 100 marks ONLY? Ok I think the reason why I scored so pathetically is because I basically dumped Maths aside and played Plants Vs Zombies during the weekend before the Maths Finals which is on a Monday, but what else do you expect me to do for Maths? It is all about practising and practising for Maths and this Finals paper does not include any integration, which could possibly be my newest forte. ( =P ) Well, I was imagining what if I had made even more careless mistake: wouldn't I have scored 6X / 100, which will render me a fucked up B grade for Maths? What a huge sigh of relief!

As usual, Bao Bao and Tricia pwned me in Maths again. This is particularly because both of them did exceptionally well for CTs. Never mind, I just need to sustain my momentum for Maths and maybe really settle Graphing Techniques and Functions once and for all, which are still my 2 worst topics for Maths. Until then, I would not make life that easy for both of them for Maths, muahaha!

H2 Economics:

Well, I admit I was a little disappointed. Having received Econs tuition from a teacher who had taught the HOD of Econs department in Pioneer Junior College, I only managed to get yet another C for H2 Econs Finals, but achieved a B for the overall promos grade. This is primarily due to the lack of practices SAJC gave us. I mean, a direct comparison between PJC and SAJC for H2 Econs would have labelled us SAJC H2 Econs people as "lazy", due to the extreme amount of workload for the PJCians for Econs. Anyway the point is, I am still far away from my desired level of knowledge for Econs.

What I can do, or rather the only thing I can do now for Econs is to practice and practice, but still I can't find the motivation to do so. Maybe SAJC is partly to blame for inducing a "can afford to slack and do well for Econs" mood, which I clearly cannot do so. Well, the most important thing that I need to do is still to master Macroeconomics, which I still know nuts about. Haix

H1 General Paper:

I know you sadistic people out there and waiting eagerly for the evaluation of the paper I've done the worst for for Finals. Yes I got an S overall for Finals due to my record breaking score for Paper 2. My close friends who have consistently excelled for GP would be laughing their asses off at me right now, but due to my ability to shut out all these irrelevant disturbance I'm basically unaffected. Ok enough of nonsense. After going emo for about 5 minutes about my hideous results, I went to consult Mr Gabriel for a while.

He told me that I have the so-called train of thoughts for GP, it is just that my language still does not allow me to pen them down nicely. Right now I just have to concentrate on two things:

- Read more The Straits Times to widen your knowledge to increase your content for Paper 1.

- As for Paper 2, try to understand what the question is asking?

As an overall evaluation, never compare with other people's performance too much. Using yourself as a benchmark for improvement would be a much more appropriate strategy. Well, time for PLANTS VS ZOMBIES!

2009-10-16T15:19:00.004+08:00

It is Friday, 16th October 2009, 3:19pm. Today is the day where SAJC JC1 students receive their Finals results and the news of whether or not they will promoted to Year 2. I myself have received back my papers and went through them to check the correct addition of marks. Here are both my Finals results and Promotional Grades:

Finals:

H2 Biology: B
H2 Chemistry: B
H2 Mathematics: A
H2 Economics: C
H1 General Paper: S
H1 Chinese: B

Promotional Grade

H2 Biology: B
H2 Chemistry: B
H2 Mathematics: A
H2 Economics: B
H1 General Paper: E
H1 Chinese: B

Rank points for Finals: 65
Rank points for Promos: 69

Ratings for Finals: Barely acceptable
Ratings for Promos: Acceptable...

Actually I slept at 4am today and woke up at 5:15am, so basically I'm like half-dozing off right now as I am typing this post. I don't think I will evaluate my results as critically as I promised you guys, (sorry about that) I will just bring in key points and say goodbye.

- General Paper ruined me. Really need to think about it.

- Put your ass down in front of your table and start memorising Chemistry and Biology notes and 'A' is within your reach.

- Practice, practice and practice more Case Studies and Essays for Econs.

- Don't get complacent for Maths, your 'A' is not an outstanding 'A' at all.

- Chinese... Just do your best.

Sorry guys, perhaps I will modify this post by tomorrow. Really tired now. Seeya!

2009-10-14T21:55:00.008+08:00

It's Wednesday 14th October, 2009, 9.59pm. In just two days time, SAJC JC1 Finals results would be released, or rather our papers would be distributed back to us.

Ok to get you better prepared to see my uber-critical post on Friday, I'm going to let you guys know what is my "standard" that I've been using all along. Here it is:

80 rank points: Spiritual Entity
75 - 79 rank points: Amazing!
70 - 74 rank points: Decent
65 - 69 rank points: Acceptable
60 - 64 rank points: Pathetic
<60 rank points: Fucked

Now let me explain why this is important. If you ever achieved below 60 rank points, it means that your subject grade average would be lower than C, in other words D, which stands for dreadful. My raw score for CT is actually 63, in other words a downright pathetic score, but due to my Chinese which luckily got an A, it pulled me up to 66, making my CT results barely acceptable.

I think it is crucial for me to constantly remind myself of this gauge I'm using. It is not difficult to achieve the Spiritual Entity status, but I'm not saying it will be easy either. The point of choosing JC is to do well isn't it, so why not push yourself harder to get the good results?

I was discussing with some of my friends back in the afternoon. I have realised a pattern which can be seen in almost all the JCs. As I am from the Science faculty, I will not bother to talk about the Arts Faculty. What I'm going to be talking about is the general trend going on in every JC1 cohort within JCs, and it can be more commonly seen in the more average JCs out there.(My analysis is never going to work for RJC and HCJC)

Firstly: In every single JC1 cohort there will always be two distinct groups observed prior to the release of their Finals results.

Group 1: The students who constantly prayed that they would not get retained, or at least are able to sit for the LUT.(Level-up Test if I'm not wrong)

Group 2: The students who keep on dreading that they fall into the "Pathetic" level or below as stated above by my analysis.

It is important to note that if one is able to consolidate their JC1 work well in Year 1, he or she would be more able to concentrate on their Year 2 stuff. JC is a 2-year course, which you will go through and eventually sit for your A-levels, nothing else. For the students in group 2, it can be assumed that they take this note very seriously. They are more or less very anxious to know of their results as they want to see their academic progress over their first year. There is basically no time to waste at all. The group 1 students however may think that as long as they promote and mug harder in their Year 2, they would still be able to catch up with the workload and achieve decent results. Although opinions about this are often subjective, the rationale is that more time and effort must be channeled into revising your Year 1 work, which should be spent on consolidating more information as the syllabus draws to an end. It is not that I'm being a total asshole, but if someone chooses the JC path, wouldn't that someone had promised himself that he will do well for his A-levels and proceed to university with flying colours? If he was to get retained or transfer to a Poly, wouldn't he just waste away one year of his life? Even if he proceeds to do well in Poly after his wasted year in JC, he could have prevented the wasted year by making his choice over JC and Poly more carefully in the first place!

Let me share with you guys something before I moved on to the second point. I admit that my mum always wanted me to go to a Poly. She wanted me to study some Contemporary "Stuff" (LOL I forgot) and get a diploma. However I still chose the JC path. I also admit that after orientation in SAJC, during the subject talks, I was still more or less in my Sec 4 mood, ready to just scrape through everything, but after the subject talks, my mindset changed. This is because there is no way that one can just scrape through everything in their Year 1 and 2 and get straight 'A's in A-levels. It will only take a miracle for that to happen. Despite being lazy, I do make an effort to know what is currently going on for my 4H2s, which is not a difficult thing to do. Quote from Bao Bao: "Aiya, Anselm! Everyone has their own different style la, stop asking already!", it is indeed true. Ultimately we just want our good results in A-levels, I'm just saying.

Alright moving on to the second point: Scholars. Ok I admit that I don't have much knowledge of the difference between ASEAN scholars and MOE direct scholars, so I'm just going to refer to them as scholars.

Just a few hours back, I sort of complained to my mum about getting back my Finals results on Friday. As our class had already gone through the 4H2 papers in school, we more or less have an idea of what results to expect two days later. I'm almost already expecting that I am unable to achieve "Decent" results for my Finals. We then talked about scholars, and she said something quite insightful. She said,

"The reason why scholars do so well is because they worked very hard to get the chance to study overseas in the first place. Their primary motive here is to study and proceed on to university level. What's more their parents, knowing their intentions, are the ones who encouraged them all the way, paying for their school fees, allowance, travel fares etc. It becomes more of an obligation for them to constantly do well and it also serves as a personal satisfaction that they have done their parents proud."

in chinese of course.

OK, my point is that in most JCs, scholars can always be seen dominating the list of top performers of particular tests. I believe the above explanation clearly summarises why. Scholars generally have the discipline to monitor their academic performance closely and try their best to score to their maximum potential. Once again, the idea, or should I say the argument of personal brilliance comes into place. Maybe it is due to their inborn talent? Their photographic memory? Their kiasu-ness? The answer is no to a large extent. They may have the talent, but they know that self-discipline is very important in maintaining their momentum throughout their high school life. Their ability to absorb knowledge and compartmentalize concepts must also be trained regularly, or else they just wouldn't be achieving such amazing results constantly.

Once again, I know what you guys are thinking:

Scholars are human beings after all, why are you(Anselm) describing them as though they are robots?

Ok sorry for going all fullhouse on you guys, but by posting posts of such nature I hope to be able to slowly diminish my problem of laziness and start afresh in my Year 2.(If I get to promote) Well, that's basically all I have for you guys today.

Two more days to getting back the papers!

Alright seeya guys!

2009-10-12T19:00:00.003+08:00

Inspired by Eugene Chew to do this post:

Before I give a quick review on this article, let me show you the question:

Anselm bought some chocolates and stupidly gave half of it to Wee Kiat. Wee Kiat bought some sweets and reluctantly gave half of it to Anselm. Anselm ate 12 sweets like a glutton and Wee Kiat ate 18 chocolates for the sake of it. The ratio of Anselm’s sweets to chocolates became 1:7 and the ratio of Wee Kiat’s sweets to chocolates became 1:4. How many sweets did Wee Kiat buy?

This is the question that apparently stumped both primary school leavers and Mathematics teachers. The article above even mentioned that a teacher took 3 days to figure this question out. Fear not my friends, for Anselm will work out the question right now for you in just a day, after eating those disgusting sweets from Wee Kiat.

Of course, our favourite method would be to use algebra:

Alright as you can see I solved this question with relative ease, so I suppose there is NO WAY that a Mathematics teacher in primary school is unable to do so. Although I admit that I am already at JC Maths level and that this question can indeed be too hard for primry 6 kids, there is only one explanation: the Maths teachers teaching them are retards.

Another thing is that parents have called in to say that the questions, especially this sweets and chocolates question, present in this year's PSLE Maths paper are too hard for their children to handle. This makes me think in shame of the Maths standard of these parents, seriously. It is the wrong mindset seriously, as addressed by Nanyang Primary School's Principal.

She said that the PSLE is a phase whereby a primary school student's true ability is being measured, and is used as a means of ranking these students to prepare them for secondary school. When parents blame the school for the exceedingly hard questions set, they are instiling a wrong mindset for their own children. They may grow up and always shift the blame to others for their own mistakes instead of reflecting and evaluating them on their own.

However, if NYPS's principal is smart enough to say all these, how can we explain her craziness of hiring totally incapable Maths teachers? Ok I know I'm being a total asshole over here, but seriously if this is the Maths standard of current primary school students... I don't know what to say...

Just say that current JC or maybe secondary 4 students should consider themselves lucky that they have already gotten such a stronghold of algebra, to see these primary 6 noobs emerging from the examination hall after the PSLE Maths Paper with their faces filled with tears, mucus, snot...

OK fine! Haha I'm just saying.

Ok that's all for now. Looking forward to Friday to get back all my results. Will post them here and do some self-reflections. Hopefully I achieved AT LEAST 65 rank points, that's the minimum I will set for myself.

2009-10-08T23:56:00.003+08:00

It is Thursday, 8th October 2009, 11:56pm, and in about 4 minutes time it will be Friday and yet another weekend.

Finals results will be released on the 16th of October, which is next Friday. According to my observations, I think I am the ONLY person in my class who is like totally wanting to find out how well I did. I mean, I already can't guarantee myself above 70 rank points, so I just want to find out how "well" I did for Finals? Hopefully it wouldn't be that bad...

Alot of things' happened today, I mean, it is one of those days that I have those random 'mood swings'. I basically went from being pissed off for no reason, to being extremely quiet, to being assertive towards my group members, to being totally nice again, to being totally stunned by a certain fact and yea, you get the picture. Basically these past few days have been hell for me.

Tomorrow would be the last day for PW week. Have I pulled through successfully? To say the very least, this week is officially the worst week I've ever had in my entire life, with only myself to blame. As most of you should know, (I mean, you come to my blog, so you must know me in person duh!) I have a sensitive nose from birth. Due to the stupid haze from the forest fires in Indonesia that has already travelled to Singapore, I'm one of those victim who truly suffered the most this week. What's more, they are putting 2 of the most irritating subjects, namely Project Work and Chinese, into this week, as if all of us are robots and are able to carry out our group discussion without any problem at all. Yes, you all have guessed it, I am not really fine with my group right now...

Here's the thing about PW, basically the whole thing for PW: You have to con-tri-bute. If you don't contribute, you are more or less trash in your group. It is weird that I am currently the 'trash' in my group and have just stated it and feel nothing about it. Maybe it is because I have sort of thought about it with some thoughtful help from Leon. If you don't want a D for your PW, go ahead and carry out research to boost your Written Report! Go ahead and take the initiative and just make your Written Report as amazing as possible. The only thing is - can I do it? Well we'll see by next Monday. I will most probably blog about it before the ultimate Finals results post next Friday.

The next thing I'm going to talk about is relationships. It is surprising and kind of disturbing that I've been in lots of talks about relationships between guys and girls, sexually transmitted infections, BGR, and still know nuts about the topic, despite acting as if I'm some love expert in front of my friends. Ultimately, I'm just a random overweight boy who has not experienced any relationships, so I basically can only listen and tell other people what I think about this and that, pretty sad much?

In my honest opinion, I think that it is really a tough time when you sort of started liking a girl. What I meant is a period of time when everything seems to go well with a particular girl, then you feel that "Hmm this girl may be for me!". After awhile, either you've found out that she just gets along very well with boys, or you wake up from your stupor just in time. It is really a horrible feeling really. It goes to show that you have a weak mental strength. When a regular guy like me chose JC without any girlfriend, I'm supposed to concentrate primarily on studies, namely Biology and Chemistry and so on. He could do very well in his studies but ultimately lack he EQ to even get along well with his own class, without even considering getting himself "the other half" at this stage of life. What I'm trying to stress here is that relationships can wait, no matter how sad it sounds. I mean that I myself have seen couples here and there, some even telling me that they have kissed their other half passionately on the lips before, but damn, this kind of thing just come naturally, don't they. Rather than becoming 'desperate' and try to get a random girlfriend to show off, why not channel the effort into your studies which will ultimately decide your future? I mean, come on, I'm already 17 years old, I do hope that I can stop ranting about this random nonsense anymore and just... be myself???

If you don't understand the above paragraph, it's perfectly normal.

Right now I'm under the medication of Chinese medicine and my nose is feeling much much better. Seriously I should have listened to my mum and go for the Chinese doctor earlier instead of having to suffer for like 4 extra days. Well, that's just yours truly beng stubborn, isn't it?

Let's move on to talk about the past few days, after ranting meaninglessly on relationships as if I am going to find a girlfriend lying on the floor the next morning. As you can tell from before, my PW group isn't doing fine right now. Our Written Report is only like 14% done, and that we're are not united enough to have any synergy for us to practice our Oral Presentation together. I think that the Oral Presentation is the component where it really tests my group's total understanding of the project, or rather, each member's understanding. Looking at myself, I can say that I am 2% prepared for Oral Presentation. I've only read my Written Report once and know nuts about the details of my group's strategies, screwed much? Well I just have to sort everything out by the end of Friday(today), which then I will get help from Leon to familiarise on how to do the Written Report effectively.

Will things turn out fine and that my group leaves the examination hall of the Oral Presentation with smiling and confident faces? Only this crucial period of time will tell. 4H2 timetable resumes next week prior to getting back the results for my Finals. Good luck to myself for everything!

Oh yes, I may have a bowling session with Eugene Chew this coming Saturday. Wow, I've not bowled for like 2 months speaking of which...

Well, my rant is over for now. I promised myself and Tam that I would improve our group's Written Report and I genuinely hope I can accomplish that. It is ironic that we are always looking forward to a particular day to arrive, yet we complain all the time that time is passing way too fast. That's all I've got to say for now, seeya guys!!!

2009-09-28T13:24:00.003+08:00

It is Monday, September 28 2009, 1:24pm in the afternoon. This exact same date is printed on the timetable for my Finals, which says that there is H2 Maths. Since Bio, Chem, Econs, GP and Chinese were all before Maths, there is only meaning:

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FINALS ARE OVER FOR ME!!!

Well, yeah basically that's it. After being gone for 12 days and leaving you readers lingering at my blog to anticipate new posts, I'm back to post again. As usual I will wait for my results for Finals and I will post it here as soon as I got them all and evaluate my performance. There's actually Physics and Geography and some other lame H1 subjects Finals taking place over the next two days, and since my Finals are over I AM FREE ON THIS TWO DAYS!!! Hint hint*

Well just for a short evaluation to myself, I think that I really should be given a hard beating on the area between my waist and thigh behind my back, simply because I totally screwed up Econs and Bio, according to the standard that I've set myself. Here are my confidence level for each subject that I will do well:

H2 Biology: 10 - 20%
H2 Chemistry: 60 - 70%
H2 Economics: 40 - 50%
H2 Mathematics: 80 - 99.9%
H1 General Paper: Unsure, General Paper is still a very subjective subject, lol?
H1 Chinese: LOL 100%?

Anyway, there's a lot going on over the past few days, in my mind at least. I can say that I've finally sorted out my way of thinking after my amazing "stunt" during Bio and Econs - Minimal Study. Basically I have to sacrifice my December Holidays doing more Case Studies, Essays as well as MEMORISE the 3 lecture booklets for Bio. I don't know, but that seems to be the best way. Of course I will still go out and play someday haha!!

Oh yeah some updates about my life - I finally got a new phone - Sony Ericsson W995. Yayness, but still it is quite a common phone nowadays. I've finally decided to spend some big money, now it's time to save again LOL!

K seeya guys, good luck for my Finals' results, and to all the JCs out there currently having their Finals. JC life is tough, Project Work is everyone's cockroach egg case, but we still have to endure even how tough it may seem. Haix...

2009-09-16T00:33:00.003+08:00

It is 16th September, 12:33am in the morning. After playing about 2 hours of Plants Vs Zombies, I suddenly feel like blogging.

Finals examinations commence on 23rd October, which is exactly one week from now. Of course, the first paper would be General Paper followed by Chinese. As usual, Biology and Economics are scheduled on the same day again. Chemistry and Mathematics will end finals in just 4 gruelling days.

Tomorrow, or should I say today, there is going to be a Biology lecture test on the topic "Organisation and Control of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Genome". I'm glad to say that I am only prepared about 40%?

I had a Chemistry class test yesterday on Organic Chemistry, and I am pleased to say that I screwed up big time. I cannot get an A or B or even C for it, I'm sure...

So the question would be: WHAT THE F**K AM I DOING?!

PVZ and FE, which one will affect your overall results for JC1? If you get anything less than 66 rank points like you did so nicely for Common Test, you can go fuck yourself.

One more week, 6 papers over the course of 4 days. With a finality in bitching for no reason, good luck to myself.

The next post will be on 28th or 29th of September, whereby I will confidently/pathetically reveal and evaluate my performance for the FE. I should stop playing Plants Vs Zombies already Damn it...

2009-09-09T00:15:00.002+08:00

It is Spetember 9th, 12.15am. Surprisingly I slept from around 3pm until 9pm. WOAW!!! Yeah, so I'm like, not feeling sleepy at all right now. Maybe I will play Yuri's Revenge later?

So if you guys had not known, particularly the Saints, Finals start on 23rd of September, and as you have guessed - GP.

Argh, I just don't know how to write interesting essays. After attending so many GP tutorials, I realised that an essay can either be argumentative or full of insights to an issue. At the same time, you can also make the essay interesting depending on your vocabulary. Sadly, I am not apt in all 3 of them...

Paper 2, Paper 2, I really think that I have finally gotten the hang of Paper 2, it is just time management. After having alot of history about submitting English Comprehension practices late in Secondary Schools, I decided to do the Nov 2008 GP paper early. Guessed how much time I took? Yup you guessed it. 3 hours. Even though I totally took my own sweet time, it defeats the purpose of the practice...

Haiz maybe I will practice more on my own and read more?

Let's talk about Maths. I HAVEN'T ELEARNED MACLAURIN'S SERIES. Seriously Maclaurin is a faggot. Why don't you come up with something more interesting than the formula that we need to use for every Maclaurin's expansion? Your name sucks somemore... Tomorrow there is make-up Maths tutorial and Miss Tay is going through that. GG

Other than that, I believe I only need to concentrate more on Functions and Graphing. Perhaps a little Inequalities as my speed in doing them is quite fail. As for Applications of Differentiation, the so-called hardest topic tested for Finals, I just need to practice more... It's hard to get the hang of it, but yeah, I have to, especially Equations of Tangent and Normal. You totally have to visualize it in your head in order to do the questions fast and accurately...

I think I can vent my anger out here fairly safely: WAKA-WAKA! ARGH DAMN YOU! WHY AM I SCORING 130+K ALL THE TIME!!! I WANT TO BE AN ALIEN, NOT A ROBOT!!! HAIX......

Although I already hit Alien for Typing Maniac, I just can't improve anymore. Partly because I never bothered to master Touch Typing in Primary School so I only typed with my 2 Index Fingers. LOL the screen whereby I need to send the Monkey across to get the Bananas and the man in the boat is now coming back to my mind haha!

Studies and Facebook aside, today I'm supposed to go to Kenny's house to show off my Waka-Waka skills, yea but I slept so I missed it. Next time bah.

Alright, with that I shall end this post and worry about my 4H2s.

2009-09-01T21:46:00.000+08:00

It's 9.43pm and I still have not:

1) done my EoM draft 3, and there is Project Work tutorial tomorrow

2) E-learn Maclaurin's Series, haix tomorrow ba, since Maths tutorial is on Thursday, and not guaranteed to go through that

3) Revised Bio and Chem

Quite screwed, I want to play Yuri's Revenge as soon as possible!!!

2009-08-27T15:45:00.004+08:00

Hello I'm back people! As promised I am going to blog about my MSA2(Milestone Assessment 2) results, but first let me tell you guys what happened yesterday.

Yesterday, which is a Wednesday, I skipped school. Yup, basically I woke up at 6.40am and just didn't feel like coming to school. Actually I'm glad I didn't go as I have a heavy runny nose throughout yesterday. The only sad thing is that I missed the post-mortem for Biology MSA2, some Econs Macroeconomics theory and ALOT of alkenes stuff for Chem.

Speaking of Biology MSA2, I feel that it is relatively safe to skip school yesterday as there are no tutorials and I won't be getting back my Econs and Bio very soon, but it turns out that Bio and Econs are both given out first thing yesterday. So yeah, I got to know my results, grades and rank points only today. As I'm now in the SAJC library, might as well post it now and reflect on my results...

Without further ado(LOL), my results:

H2 Biology : B (21/32)
H2 Chemistry: B (17/25) T__T
H2 Mathematics: A (18.5/25) =/
H2 Economics: A (16/20) =D

H1 General Paper: C (28/50) =)
H1 Chinese: B (60/100) =(

Let's reflect/rant:

H2 Biology:

I only got the paper this morning, and I am QUITE satisfied with my results. I highlight the word QUITE because as I compare it with Bao Bao's paper, I realise that I made alot of lame mistakes which can be avoided. Although I convinced myself that I am more or less ready to attempt any Chi-Squared question, I only managed to get 4/7 for the structured question, which kinda suck. Well, a B is a B...

H2 Chemistry:

You know what's coming do you?

FUCK!

Yeah didn't bother to censor that. I mean this paper is truly the easiest paper I have ever attempted in SAJC, yet I scored such a pathetic mark. I misunderstood the question requirement when they tell me to draw the displayed formula for propanone, which is essentially drawing out the whole thing with all the C-H and the C=O bonds. Instead I decide to act clever and write out CH2-C(O)-CH2 with the double bond shown.

One word: Noob

What's more, all the questions are looking out for points such as alkanes being a simple covalent molecule and ketones being a polar covalent molecule, more energy needed to break bonds of A as compared to B and so on. I basically missed all these obvious points. In conclusion, I would have gotten 22/25, haix...

H2 Mathematics:

I essentially got a U for this paper, U for Unforgivable. I mean, come on, only 3 mere topics and I get such an Atrocious A??? Even Reuben got 20/25! Nevertheless, after Miss Tay has gone through the MSA2, I think I have truly gotten the hang of doing Functions and Inequalities questions. Hopefully I can sustain this feeling of confidence until my Finals, or should I say until my 'A' Level Maths is over.

H2 Economics:

HURRAY! HURRAY! This is the paper that I am the most proud of! 8/8 for the heavy-weight question!! The only problem is that I lost 3 marks for a 4 mark question whereby I was told to access how reliable a Figure/Table is with respect to the Extracts. Well I definitely must drill in the ways to tackle such questions effectively. Generally speaking, I really need to read up my Market Failure notes and familiarise myself with all sorts of policies described. That way, I would be able to constantly do well for the heavy-weight questions in the long run and evaluate this and evaluate that nicely. =)

16/20 FTW!!!

H1 General Paper:

Now there is this funny scenario. My previous grade for GP is a D, but I manage to get a C in the end. This is because I managed to convince Mr Gabriel to accept "follow after" for the word "emulate" for Vocabulary. Just now, Mr Gabriel explained to the whole class what are the key factors to look out for in an AQ question, on how to evaluate, explain and reiterate your stand. I think after today's GP tutorial my whole class would be geared up to tackle any AQ question, provided it is not very difficult.

I really should try and get a B for GP, it is difficult for my command of English but within my reach. I've been getting C for MSA1, CT and MSA2 thrice in a row. Well, good luck to myself.

H1 Chinese:

Even though I mentioned in my CT results "Who cares about Chinese?!", I'm actually kind of sad that I got a B. On the day of Chinese MSA2, I basically "anyhow do", resulting in a grade not up to my standard. Anyways, I've learnt how to be more critical in doing the 8 mark question, whereby you need to give your own opinion + examples in your society according to the passage.

Rank Points: 74

The usual 6 words: I could have done much better, especially in my Chemistry and Biology, resulting in 78 rank points, but meh, I'm contented with 74 rank points. Even though it is like 6th or 7th place in my class, at least I learnt alot from this MSA2 and get to have the cookie!

Mr Gabriel mentioned in today's GP tutorial that MSA2 is a gauge for you to evaluate your progress and readiness for the Finals. I admit that I really am too over-obsessive with grades, I just hope that Finals work out for me, especially for Chemistry and Biology, which scored a D and C for Common Test respectively, which indicated my inadequate level of preparedness and my grasp on the subjects. Hopefully for Finals, I can do even better than before, and achieve a higher class position!

It is already 4.15pm, and I'm having Econs tuition later at 7.30pm as usual. Miss Tee is going to go through more Case Study Questions, which would definitely be a great help for me for my Finals Econs!!!

Hopefully the next time I blog, it would be about Teacher's Celebration or something fun and not related to studies. In this way you readers won't have to endure my "study tips" and "extremely disgusting rant on mediocre results" kind of stuff. On a side note, I have not updated my slimming centre at all, and my weight is currently stagnant...

Well that's about all for now. I am not a mugger, but I think I will turn into one just for Finals, but wait, do I have the discipline to do so and follow all the ideal behaviour I have just typed out? We will see...

2009-08-20T22:48:00.001+08:00

Happy Birthday to me,
Happy Birthday to me,
Happy BIRTHDAY to Anselm,
Happy Birthday to me!

It's Thursday, 20th August 2009. 17 years ago, give or take a few hours, a doctor took me out of my mother's womb using his bare hands, because my head was too big to squeeze out the normal way. Anyway, today is my birthday!

I'm finally 17 years old, and what a weird feeling it is. It is like being 17 is neither here nor there that kind of feeling, or is it because of my pathetic Maths MSA 2 results?

Speaking of MSA 2, H2 Biology MSA2 was today and the paper was fairly manageable, hope my results show! =) With that MSA 2 is over, and I shall post my results as usual when I receive all my papers back, I got my Maths back though, it SUCKS!

Let me briefly blog about today: I went to school as per usual with the thought of today being my birthday aside, who in my class would know that today is my birthday anyway? What surprises me the most is that Bao Bao actually knew that today is my birthday and asked the whole class to sing me a birthday song! I feel slightly touched! I wanted to go home with Tricia before Chinese Tutorial as I feel like skipping the rest of the day, but in the end I decided not to, which is kind of a mistake. I got to know my pathetic Maths MSA 2 grade and wasted alot of time I would have spent sleeping at home.

I realised that I've been asking a lot of questions during tutorial sessions to constantly refresh my memory of my 4H2 syllabus, and I think that it is a good thing! For someone who doesn't give a damn about Biology tutorials, Chemistry tutorials, Maths tutorials AND Econs tutorials, it is actually good that I bother to raise questions to clear my doubts. I think having the initiative to attempt my tutorials would be the next step I should aim towards in order to score As for every single subject, Haix...

Let me share with you guys something disgusting. Ok, not disgusting, just very amazing. My Chinese tutor, Ji Wen, is apparently a VERY VERY smart teacher. His country of origin is China and he is educated there. During Chinese today I asked him about his days at high school, and his academic results. He claimed that he scored 1st place in Chinese, English, History and Politics and Economics. He claimed that his worst subject grade is a D, which he had gotten for Physics. He then told us that he scored 96% for that particular test, and because the competition in China is so damn heavy and that Physics is as easy as "Primary School Maths" to the China students, 100%(full marks) would only be considered for an A, 99% as a B grade, 97% as a C grade and 96% as a D grade.

WHAT THE DUCKING HELL!!!

In Junior Colleges in Singapore, we obtain an A grade for 70% and above and so on according to the grading system. I think my chinese tutor is seriously flabbergasted that there is actually a grade for 50 to 59%, as 59% for a particular subject is considered FAIL in China High Schools. Oh My God!

Would this particular story constantly serve as a reminder for me to strive for excellence? Should I be contented with aiming the 70% mark? Should I aim higher? The question is, I am not a typical Hwa Chong or Raffles Student who gets A grades like flipping a page of a book. I can't guarantee that all my subjects are able to be maintained at the A grade, except perhaps Maths of course. I feel that one would be a true genius if their GP can be maintained at 80% and above. Wow...

Anyways, the lack of self-discipline to complete my tutorials will always be my impediment to excellent grades. I hope I can change that when school reopens after September holidays, where I have to mug and do homework at a hardcore rate to prepare for my Finals. I'm excited about my MSA 2 grades already, but the feeling when you get anything other than A will always get to you, somehow.

LOL I know that I don't sound like I'm blogging about my birthday, but the fact is it is just another regular day for me. Ok let's talk about something happier, my favourite PE sport now would clearly be Captain's Ball, whereby I am the Catcher/Captain trying to catch the ball my teammates throw to me! Just a week ago(I know it is way overdued), we played Captain's Ball against 09S28 if I'm not wrong. The final score was 35 - 24 to 09S28. Anyway the reason we lost would probably be the fact that my class just sucked at sports except the touch ruggers and Petras and Jun Jie. I'm so bloody lazy that I would rather be the Catcher and just catch the ball when teammates throw to me, but my height turned out to be a large bonus. I, to say something good for myself, am a not bad catcher hahaha!!!

Other than that, Junior College Life is basically packed with lessons to torture your brain and hardly anytime to socialize with your friends, for me it is a different story as I'm mostly anti-social.

Tomorrow is yet another day to look forward to(except Chapel whereby I have to stand and listen to lame music again). There is learning festival tomorrow and Pilot Test for one of our strategies for PW. I hope that I don't screw up my acting. I haven't called Tam yet to confirm the details and plans for tomorrow, haix... After that I may go and have dinner with Leon and Yin Shuen and catch up again. Hopefully it will be a much better day tomorrow as I finally take a short break from all those texts in my notes.

Oh yes I have to update my slimming centre in 3 days time. HAIXXXXXXX... my weight is not improving...

A reminder to myself:

After tomorrow, there is still a Chinese essay, a GP essay, SAJC GP Block Test 2002 as well as my EoM to complete. Well I guess my first test to whether I can gain that self-discipline in due course would be after tomorrow...

Another small tidbit: I wonder what is going on in the minds of girls in 09S19...

Anyway thanks Yin Shuen for wishing me Happy Birthday THRICE! You rock always! Let's jog soon!

Seeya guys!!!

2009-08-13T22:47:00.002+08:00

It's Thursday 13th August 2009 and in just 7 days, it will be yet another regular day?

Today is a relatively bad day for me. Today is the day that I truly realize that I give myself TOO MUCH STRESS, AS IN, OVERWHELMING STRESS!

I can still remember how slack I was and contented when I got 9 points as my raw score for my "O" levels even though it is considered mediocre in my school. Now that I'm in SAJC, I just constantly stress myself to be at a "high standard" in terms of studies and compromise basically everything that follows. Just taking a look at myself and I realise that I suck with my classmates, and I'm indifferent about it.

I got invited to this Talent Management Talk next Tuesday and I realised that it was our class' top 10 who got invited. I mean it was so obvious, Bao Bao followed by Grace followed by Tricia and so on. Now I know I was ranked number 9 out of 21 in my class for Common Test. I had a little chat with my mum a few minutes back and she finally broke it to me that I am indeed "going crazy" with this competition system. I mean, even I have to admit than my less stressful, regular studying back before MSA 1 was more efficient that my way of operating right now. Common Test is a different story, as I went to Bugis Junction thrice a week to play the arcade and neglect my studies, therefore achieving a mediocre 66 rank points, but now as I am in the midst of MSA 2, I just simply give myself enough stress to spur myself to study to achieve the best alphabet in the world. Given the mounting pressure of my 4H2s and Project Work Commitment and my slack nature, ALOT OF STRESS MUST BE INDUCED UPON MYSELF. Am I really that stupid?

I mean, who doesn't want to have photographic memory for Biology? The only way to achieve that is to revise everyday, and if I want to accomplish the feat of scoring A for Finals Biology I have to do so. Do I have enough self-discipline to do that?

I am going to say it here and never mention it again: It sucks to be the guy that has currently done the best so far for studies in 09S20. I need the competition to spur me on within my class itself as it will reduce the stress I need to induce upon myself. Look at Benjamin from 09S19, he totally owned his class with 78 rank points. Call me an asshole, but that's how I operate.

Posting this up has seriously made me feel better. Maths and Chinese MSA2 tomorrow, may go see a Chinese doctor after school as well. Seeya guys!

2009-08-09T23:58:00.003+08:00

It is 11:57pm, 9th August 2009, Singapore's birthday. If I decided to post 3 minutes later I would have been late in wishing Singapore HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Well today was as slack as ever. I woke up when the clock strikes eleven times in the morning and Leon asked me to go to his house. SO I brought my laptop and hope to elearn Maths Chapter 9 and do some Written Report there, but failed miserably.

Wee Kiat went as well, but he appeared bored as he did not have his own laptop to use. He left before me, then I had dinner with Leon. We talked about the usual stuff and I went home after watching News 5.

Basically Singapore turns 44 this year, and that meant alot of things:

1) Singapore grows a year older in the midst of an economic recession. Will the situation change for the better?

2) It has been 6 months since my JC life. I still remember how ignorant I was when I first stepped into SAJC, whereby I have no idea that I need to endure Chapel and Scripture readings and will run into a worthless PW tutor.

3) I have remained overweight for a total of 16 years 355 days(Yes I know I looked like I am emphasising the fact that it will be my birthday 10 days later but I'm not... Whoops!!!), and I should really do something about it.

So I really did something about it. I have created a new blog that will keep track of my weight and my route to slimming down. I believe that by doing this, I will actually go and do some cardio and REALLY slim down for good. I hate it when people around me keep going in a circle about me being fat, I mean ok fine I eat alot, I just need to change that. Kevin Wong Jian Fai, that's an example.

Want the link of the blog? Nah, ask me if you are really, or actually interested.

I'm totally not looking forward to Tuesday. Mock SPA and Academic planning and ending at 6:30pm. Gosh. Hope I survive.

I actually wanted to blog more stuff, but given my short term memory...

Seeya guys!

2009-08-04T20:28:00.000+08:00

It is 8:30pm, Tuesday 4 August 2009 and I have not done my GP paper 2 yet.

The Econs Essay Test that me and Sharan missed will take place this coming Thursday, need to spam Oligopoly sufficiently before that. Ugh...

Had Chem test on Chemical Energetics I & II yesterday. Hopefully >14 out of 20???

After this need to go do GP and then elearn "Systems of Linear Equations" for Maths... Ugh...

PW sucks...

2009-07-31T22:43:00.001+08:00

Now would be a good time to post a detailed post about a day! =D

It's 31st July 2009 10.42pm. In 20 days time exactly(09S20!), it will be my birthday!

Someone from far away: Who cares!

Well today my emotions were pretty 'extreme' to say the least. I went from very quiet to very subdued to very talkative now and then. It is overall a very fun day for me today.

Well, we had Assembly in the morning.(about time too) Chapel was a waste of time as usual, I seriously hope that they come up with a new rule - non-Christians can choose to sit down if they want, but I think that's impossible...

After a gruelling Chapel singing session to endure, we had another life reflection from the same dude. Well I really made sense of it - how we behave when we fail or succeed and so on. After the talk I saw Mr Ho walking around the speaker's area, and a vague idea sort of want to squeeze into me, but I just can't figure out why he is there.

When the slideshow is ready, it read "JC1 CT Results" and my heart sank past its usual spot right past my navel. (=D=D familiar description anyone) Of course, how would I forget that we've long received our CT results. The usual happened when Mr Ho showed us statistics of performance in comparison with past year JC1 (current JC2) and our MSA 2, a great deviation indeed.

The part we've all been waiting for is the announcing of the top performers of CT from the Arts and Science stream. Musfirah from Arts scored 67! Congrats congrats! It appears that it is harder to score 70 and above for Arts due to the fact that you need to train yourself to write nothing but essays...

As for Science, a random Vietnam Scholar topped with 79 rank points.(Holy Shit) At that point of time, alot of very twisted thoughts formed in my brain. Sigh I will just answer anyone who would bother to ask me after they read this, if they actually know this blog exist.

63, or is it 64 rank points. Should I be satisfied? Absolutely not. It may sound a bit condescending, but if you get anything worse than 70, in my opinion, you fail. There is seriously absolutely no reason for you NOT to get the 3H2 As, the 3H2s I have used turned out to be ACC, Maths, Econs and Biology respectively. I mean, it is simply PATHETIC! If people in my class can do it, why can't I do it? It may sound a little obsessive, but yeah who cares?

Other than this depressing session, the rest of the day got on quite fine. During Econs lecture, Mr Liang has managed to make the whole lecture a little light-hearted by demonstrating how freaking easy it is to score for Case Study Questions. The 30 minute break after that is torture as I was stuck in my own pool of random but violent thoughts about assembly, but meh I got over that after awhile.

Chemistry lecture, for the first time, is tedious. I have long thrown away my Organic Chem notes from Sec 4 to a lonely corner in my room and all the functional groups are raping my brain cells. I really need to buck up for Chemistry, it is the subject that I got a disgusting D grade for...

Econs tutorial next, utter waste of time. I would have skipped Chinese if I can help it, but I thought I would just go home with Hui Lin. So I smsed her and she said her day ends at 5pm. WOAW, 5pm! Never mind, I might as well go for Chinese and study a little in the Library. 09S20 just don't feel like 09S20 without Petras, Sharan, Tam and Ariena...

So yeah, after Chinese I suddenly feel like doing finish my Composition. I did when Kevin came in to chat with Tricia and JunJie, and my oh my I completed it in 1 hour 15 minutes, yup, and the 3 of them were chatting non-stop. Sure enough, we do need to get stuff off our chests sometimes. I joined in for awhile and left for the library at around 3.40pm.

Kevin joined me shortly after I gave up on Chemistry tutorial and just started on Econs. We talked about Rank Points, Carey(LOL), the scholars, 09S20, life and so on. Yeah that was the point in time of the day that I finally revert slightly back to normal, although I was a little slow and blur when I got up to leave at 5pm.

I was a little shaky when walking home with Hui Lin, that sucked. Yeah, we discussed about MSA 2 approaching in less than 10 days and that w must study and study and so on. My primary worry is about GP, I seriously need to improve on that subject in order to balance out my subjects.

Subjects that need improvement:(in order of importance)

GP
Chem
Econs
Bio
Maths
Chinese

As usual the 2 of us talked random stuff on the bus home. After we've said goodbye, I chatted with Wei Zhen, who was on the same bus as me. Apparently, I deproved from 77 to 63 RP and she deproved from 76 to 62 RP, aka we deproved EQUALLY! LOL I was finally laughing after we've realised that. She mentioned that I am the only person she can actually complain to in terms of studying inefficiency and 'poor' results. This is because she is actually TOP 5 in Band, and people were regarding her as a Mugger... Hmmm... I kind of agree of her situation, yeah...

Oh and I saw her mother and brother. A funny sight. They are both very friendly =D

Right after saying goodbye to Wei Zhen, I took 190 bus to CCK Lot 1 to have dinner with Leon and Yin Shuen. A pretty fun session we must say, but sadly due to our extremely JCish behaviour me and Leon didnt managed to catch up much with YS. We then walked around buying random snacks and I took a bus home with YS.

Yeah, a pretty long and fun day for me at least. Oh yes I found out from Hui Lin that I am actually giving myself TOO MUCH stress such that it interferes on my mood/will to study. The idea of getting good results and literally pwning people are starting to overwhelm me, should I stress myself to study or should I sit back and relax for the weekend? The answer is NO WAY! There is Chemical Energetics I & II lecture test on Monday and I haven't revised yet! Oh No!

After my talk with Kevin, I finally realised how fortunate I am to have Tam as my Project Work leader. She never got angry with me even if I sometimes refused to do my part in PW and kept complaining. I seriously need to change my attitude for PW... for the better. Tam, I love you!

Well as for tomorrow I think I'm going to Wayne's house and play Super Puzzle Fighter and catch up with the gang again. Then I will probably jog with YS and hand Kenny his shirt for $9. XD

And possibly to my draft 2 for EoM??? O_o o_O

Ok Seeya guys!

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(Wow you actually read my entire post! I'm surprised too!)

2009-07-29T21:07:00.000+08:00

Hi people! Long time since I last posted.

Yeah... I was sick for two days in a row. Sore throat and green mucus from my nose. The doctor told me it is due to mucus backflow. (O_o) But yeah I will be going back to SAJC tomorrow, all in all I have missed 1 Bio, 1 Chem and 1 Maths lecture. Oh yeah I missed my Econs test too, found out it was about Oligopoly, time to study Oligopoly!

There's going to be Econs tuition tomorrow and we are starting on Market Structure, but I bet it is going to be Perfect Competition first and Oligopoly last... Haix...

Facts 41 - 60 that guys should know about girls:

41. Be careful when you roughhouse with us. We might act like we want you to really try, but we know you are stronger than us.

You mean Sex? Sorry, never tried it before...

42. Not all girls are afraid to feel inferior to their man, just don't be condescending.

Orh.

43. Tell us your fantasies. we want to fulfill them.

My fantasy would be to reach 75 kg. Please fulfill it. =D

44. We probably like the same things you do in bed, you just haven't given us time to get comfortable with you. We aren't all freaks from the get-go. Give us a chance.

Now then I realise that the facts after fact 40 are all to do with Sex. Sex comes naturally, so yea we'll see!

45. Just because we don't have sex with you when you offer it doesn't mean we don't want to or we are trying to tease you. Our mothers taught us wisely. Be patient: if you can't, move on.

I think I'm just going to wait for you to ask me...

46. We aren't porn stars. Do not hold such high standards.

I'm perfectly amateur!

47. Unless you want us to treat you like you don't matter around OUR friends, don't treat US that way.

Well... Ok...

48. We're nice to your family because we want them to like us, so we can be closer to you. It does not always mean we like them.

Pardon me, but isn't it the same???

49. Just because we say we love you doesn't mean we want to get married. You don't have to get scared and run away. We'll understand if you don't feel that way too. Remember that we are emotional. We just need to know where we stand with you.

Ok I got it. Next time I have a girlfriend I will just say "I love you too..."

50. We're not trying to betray you when we ask your guy friends advice on our relationship with you. They know you best, and we're probably only saying good things about you anyway.

Errr... Try not to ask my close guy friends please... =D

51. We don't expect you to be like the guys in the movies that romance the girl. We know life isn't like that. Don't worry so much about doing amazing things, just thoughtful things. For instance; cleaning dishes, spending the night alone, making the bed, or remembering something that she might forget. We appreciate that so much more.

Ugh, cleaning dishes... Ok I will try, of course.

52. Don't freak out about Valentine's day or anniversaries. If the girl is mad that you forgot your three month anniversary, she needs to grow up (move on, it's ok). Kisses, cards, and/or just a Happy Valentine's day hug are absolutely acceptable. We understand that you can't buy or do outrageous things.

Yea, I'm a sucker at creativity.

53. Tell us what you want in bed. You are not as easy to figure out by reactions. If you want it, just ask.
Don't push it if she won't do it. She probably has good reason, and it will just make her feel terrible if she can't or isn't comfortable with doing it. We never want to deprive you.

Aww Come on! I'm sick of sex already! (No pun intended)

54. It's ok to confide in us, even if you cry. We will not tell the world of your weaknesses or make you feel less masculine because of it.

Yeah... No comments.

55. We don't expect you to have 6 pack abs, nor do we really want you to. Like huge boobs and perfect asses, they are just nice to look at.

But it does make you more confident isn't it? My tummy is currently a goner...

56. We don't want to hear about your past sexual endeavors. We really don't care how many people you've been with, just that you are with us now. However, we are naturally curious, and will ask questions. Don't EVER answer them. EVER. No matter what we say.

Really? REALLY? Ok I will shut up.

57. Hide your porn properly. We don't want to know that you have it or use it. It hurts to know that we may not be providing you with something that you need.

Err... I thought nowadays girls are all career-minded? LOL

58. Girls snoop. Especially when we just meet you. We're sorry, but we automatically have no trust in you, and must find out for ourselves what you are like. A lot of us won't admit it, and may never tell you that we have. It's a terrible habit of which we are ashamed. Remember this when you have old photos or other things you do not want us to see in your room.

You said it...

59. Most girls will just want you to be honest with them, even if it hurts. If you just want sex, make it clear. Not all girls need to be lied to to get them in bed. We like to have fun too. If the one you are going after is not interested, I'm sure there's another at the bar more than willing.

LOL! OK I get it already!

60. Do not sleep with a girl if she is drunk unless you are prepared for the worst drama of your life. She may deny it, she may own up to it, she may make you look like a schmuck to the entire town. Either way, know the consequences.

I don't think I will even go clubbing. Waste of money.

Yeah, boring I know. School tomorrow. Seeya!

2009-07-23T00:15:00.007+08:00

Yo people I'm back.

As promised I shall post my Mid-Year Common Test grades and do some reflections about it. (I've finally gotten back my Math)

H2 Biology: C
H2 Chemistry: D
H2 Mathematics: A
H2 Economics: C
H1 General Paper: C
H1 Chinese: Who cares?

Rank Points: 63 =(=(

H2 Biology:

Yeah... Didn't study hard enough and stuff. I was crazy enough to stay up all the way until 3am during the day for Biology. What's more, Econs CT was scheduled after Bio... Anyway, I just didn't study hard enough for Biology... Could have done much better, just realised that regurgitating skills are a must too.

H2 Chemistry:

Epic fail on my part. D! Come on! D! D = disgusting, dogbreath and stuff. No evaluation here, just my reasons/excuses for you guys. Firstly, overconfidence. I only studied for 1-2 hours for Chemistry, in my head thinking "Ahh... I know everything already, just read through and get it over with!" and I didn't bother to practice the tutorial. I could have gotten C though, because I epic failed for my stoichiometry question.

X2CO3 + HCl --> 2XCl + H2O + CO2

Epic failness: 1001249832 / 1001249832

H2 Mathematics:

The last paper I got back, and I was like "Ooooh at last! An A!" Yeah, I left the graphing question blank and I screwed up for functions and the Xn+1 question, but everything else was OK. It looks like I need to look back at Chapters 5, 6 and 7(especially the latter two) to maintain my progress in Math. Oops I have not done my Inequalities Tutorial yet...

H2 Economics:

Nothing much to say. Owned by Case Study, did exceptionally well for Essay. However, I do need to get the hang of writing essays on Market Structure soon, I'm kind of weak at that topic... I can only do well for Elasticities Concept, reason being they are SO EASY, honestly.

H1 General Paper:

Improvement!!! E for normal essay assignments to a C for both Paper 1 and Paper 2. Congrats! Keep it up!

H1 Chinese:

My Chinese tutor marked one question wrongly and I think I got a B instead of an A. But who cares? Chinese won't affect my rank points of 63 anyway?

Yeah I feel a bit monotonous now due to the fact that Market Structure Essay Test is this coming Monday and Project Work commitment is due way too long.(Sorry Tam!!!) I shall post about the next 20 facts guys should know about girls, maybe, with a lighter tone. =)

21. We are not all materialistic. Back rubs and making us dinner (even if its a sandwich because you can't cook!) are plenty sweet enough.

Great. I shall do that more often, as I can cook extremely salty noodles!

22. We like to pamper you, just don't take advantage.

Nah I don't take advantage of girls. Why not wait for the girl to take advantage of me? I mean, ok it doesn't make sense but yea go ahead! Let the love blossom firstly...

23. Don't expect us to cook for you all the time. If we do, appreciate it, and let us know you do.

I'm so used to DABAO that I don't know how to reply for this. Well I usually don't lie about my Mum's cooking, which is always delicious!

24. We don't really want a fairytale romance. You have your fantasy girls, we have our fantasy love. It's meant to stay that way. We want what's real, too.

Sorry, this is too stereotyping(Did I use stereotype correctly). I mean I choose to be with a girl because I want to know her better, to build up the relationship overtime, not just thinking about spiritual fantasies and stuff. I don't think I'm THAT A SUCKER with girls. XD

25. We think you are the hottest guy in the world, no matter what anyone says, or what you do.

This will apply to me if only I'm slimmer. Look at my belly and you will need my support back on your feet a second later.

26. If you are a friend, do not ever agree with a girl when she calls her boyfriend anything along the lines of an asshole. Stand up for him and try to be positive. She may get mad initially, but she will later appreciate it and probably realize she was just overreacting. If she loves him, even if he really is a jerk, she will not take your advice to leave him. She will only do that when she feels she is ready to. If you try to convince her she will question your motives and may not want to speak to you.

Wow I have never encountered such situations before. I mean, I don't have any close female friends in the first place who would confide such nonsense to me. If I do get such cases, obviously she is going to tell me everything, and hopefully but positively I would give her back constructive advices. So what if she may not want to speak to me? I'm my own man! (Fat man)

27. Don't expect us to always come to you. We want you to come see us too.

LOL sadly I'm a sucker at this. I don't know how to approach a girl and engage her in a conversation freely... Haix...

28. We don't like to be nagged about where we are going or what we are doing either, but we usually hear you out.

Uh oh. I'm this type of person. Whoops. I tend to ask "Where are we going next" alot so thanks for informing me? =D Maybe next time I have a girlfriend I will leave it to her to decide what to do on our first date? And keep my mouth shut about destinations...

29. We might let you go, but we are never "cool" wih you going to strip clubs. We are being very understanding by letting you go. It is advised that you be just as understanding about our feelings towards it. Please do not come home and tell us about it. We'll like to pretend it never happened.

This can be said assuming ceteris paribus. What if YOU are the one who is going out with other "close guy friends"? I can't possibly say to you "Oh go ahead but you must kiss me first Ok?" OR "Do go home early!" or stuff like that... Yeah but to be fair I don't think I will fancy strip clubs...

30. Do not call us crazy. We are emotional and act in mysterious ways, but you are pushing a huge button when you call us crazy.

Agreed. Mysterious... Oooooh... Come to think of it, I've never ever used the word "crazy" directly to a girl before. I've only used it to describe Bao Bao's studies LOL! So I should be relatively safe?

31. We go to the club to dance with our GIRL friends, not other guys. No, it is not the same if you go. We all know you are not dancing by yourself or with your guy friends. Be reasonable with your comparisons.

These facts are slowly becoming claims... What if some random guy choose to ask you out to dance, and you are just drunk enough to accept and want to have some fun! I think for a relationship to be successful, pubs and clubs should be avoided all the time? Just saying it.

32. No, PMS is not an excuse, but we do not mean to be shitty to you. It IS a biological fact. Expect an apology, but you do not have the ability to sympathize with dealing with cramps or unstable emotions, so try to be understanding.

Unless other forms of stress and pressure is getting to you, PMS shouldn't be used to explain whatever form of arguments I guess. I mean, being such a warm creature, I wouldn't get girls into a fit if I can help it! XD Unless it's those type of girls that I feel like vomitting when they get near me(and their attitute and stuff)...

33. It is a general rule: Do not speak about other women in front of us. Women are apt to be much more insecure than men, and while we should not be talking about men in front of you either, you are setting yourself up for more of those "searching for compliment" questions. That, and its plain disrespectful. Just do it when we aren't around.

What about my mum? XD I thought you said earlier in one fact that when we mention our Exs, it just goes to show how much better you are? Dang it never works both ways, this kind of thing...

34. We will always get annoyed when you act cocky. We know who you really are and we love you. We will deal with it, but we absolutely detest it.

Why would I act cocky in front of a girl I'm interested in? Come on...

35. If you are a friend, respect your fellow man and do not attempt to woo her or try to get her to participate in questionable things. She will try to ignore it, but she HATES it.

Sorry, but I don't care about such things =)

36. We dress sexy because we want YOUR sexual attention, no one elses.

Cool! So can I say that it's finally ok for me to keep glancing there, eh?

37. We don't put on makeup to impress anyone but ourselves. Do not worry if we put it on just to go to the store.

Ugh... Please... A little make-up will do. I have had a bad time with Jesmine Cheung back when I was in Secondary School.

38. We may hang out all day with friends, and not call or talk to you, but at night, we just want to be next to you.

Oh really? Prove it. (Tom Riddle Style)

39. We like to have clean fun. What you may think is ridiculous and boring, we may actually find exciting, especially when we do it with closest friends. Don't try to understand. Just accept it.

Yeah. This explains the fact why girls like to jump up and down at little stuff that guys will normally consider insignificant.

40. When we cry, just listen. Even if you have no idea what we are talking about or saying. All we need is to feel heard.

Again, being a total noob, I have not had any case whereby I need to deal with crying girls, sad isn't it? Anyway of course I will listen to your ramblings. =)

Yeah that's about it. It's 1:04am in the morning, I'd better pack my bag and get some rest. Chinese Listening Comprehension and PW commitment LATER ON.

Damn... Seeya!

2009-07-18T23:59:00.011+08:00

I am back to post again!

It is 11:59pm, Saturday 18 July 2009, and it just turned 12.00am when I cast my eyes at the time lol! I spent YESTERDAY's afternoon at Wayne's house with Leon and Wee Kiat, playing some Puzzle Fighter and Soul Calibur, ok I admit Soul Calibur is very fun!

Afterwards we went to CCK Lot 1 to watch Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince. As you all know I'm totally into watching the movie according to my previous posts, and I still was 4 hours ago(Btw I watched the 8.15pm show). After 2 hours and 20 minutes, my mood changed totally... (about the movie)

Warning: Spoilers ahead for HPATHBP, if you have not watched the movie and planned to watch it and don't want any spoilers, please do not continue to read. I am not responsible for any harm done. =)

The movie is RIDICULOUS!

Overall movie - 3.5 / 10
Epic failness - 10 / 10

Ok, I know the movie is purely for entertainment sake, but for a pure Harry Potter fan it is a whole lot different. I have outlined not 1, not 2, but TEN FLAWS and one MAJOR EPIC FLAW in the movie. They are in no particular order, just in the order of how I remember them.

Flaw #1 - Chapter: Flight of the Prince

Remember Snape killed Dumbledore? After he killed him and Dumbledore was blasted over the battlements, like a giant ragdoll and out of sight and so on? In the book series it was supposed to be a great fight going on under the Astronomy Tower, and how Snape and Malfoy are escaping from the castle to Hogsmeade to Disapparate. BUT, in the movie they are like walking as if they are taking a stroll in the park SLOWLY down the castle and Harry was the only student apart from Draco Malfoy that know what was going on. Like, WTH??? There is supposed to be a fight going on!!!

Flaw #2 - The 4 Death-eaters that entered the Astronomy Tower to join Draco

I mean, ok being a HP fan, the 4 Death-eaters are clearly Amycus and Alecto Carrow, one burly one and Fenrir Greyback. BUT, in the movie it was Bellatrix Lestrange, Fenrir Greyback and 2 other lame Death-eaters that were not even introduced! What the hell man!

Flaw #2.5 - I thought the Astronomy Tower was supposed to be in open-air?? I mean without any ceiling or whatsoever?

Flaw #2.75 - Dumbledore and Harry Disapparate to the Cave from the Astronomy Tower!?!? I thought it was from Hogsmeade??? And for convenience sake Dumbledore said that he has the privilege of being able to Disapparate from inside the castle. Later on he, along with Harry, Apparated DIRECTLY ONTO THE ASTRONOMY TOWER! Speechless...

Flaw #3 - The Hogwarts Express

Not only does the Hogwarts Express gone shorter, but the scenes inside were just as epic fail. Ok I assume all the people that have read until this point know the book very well.

a) Harry Potter shared a compartment with Hermione and Ron right from the start. I mean, weren't Ron and Hermione prefects!?!?

b) Where is the Slughorn meeting in the Hogwarts Express with Ginny, Zabini and so on?

c) Harry used the Peruvian's Instant Darkness Powder to get into Malfoy's compartment???

d) Luna Lovegood found Harry Potter lying with his invisibility cloak hiding him after getting stamped on the nose by Malfoy. The scene was whereby Luna was wearing a pair of Epic fail glasses and happen to see 'flies' hovering over the spot Harry was, and saved him. 3 words - WASN'T IT TONKS?!?!

e) Following d), wasn't it Snape that escorted Harry back into the castle?

Flaw #4 - Opening

Ok the bridge collapsing and stuff was quite nicely done, but the Other Minister was conveniently ignored. They are simply revolving around Fenrir Greyback and Bellatrix like nobody's business. OH I KNOW! THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO INTRODUCE THE OTHER DEATH-EATERS!!!

After that Harry was seen at a pub flirting with a random girl, and Dumbledore interrupted him sadly. Wasn't Harry back home at Privet Drive, Dumbledore coming to take him to find Slughorn?

Flaw #4.5 - Horace Slughorn

They have clearly found the wrong man to play Slughorn. Where's the famous belly that J.K Rowling had so often described in the book?

Flaw #5 - Ginny and Dean scenes

Epic fail to say the least. They were caught kissing at the Three Broomsticks. Weren't they caught kissing FIERCELY in some tapestry by Ron and Harry after Quidditch practice/match? The two of them were like kissing nicely, shyly, unlike the FIERCE one that the director should have them do?

Overall, too little was emphasised on Ginny and Dean. At Slughorn's first meeting with the students, Ginny was late. Hermione pointed out that she must have quarreled with Dean, and Dean was NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN!

Flaw #6 - Aragog

I could have sworn that Aragog was as big as Hagrid. Wow, the director has assumed that our memories from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were long forgotten. I mean, Aragog was thrice as big as Hagrid back in the second film!!

Flaw #7 - Sectumsempra Scene

Fail. Harry casted Sectumsempra on Malfoy and he started bleeding and stuff. Moaning Myrtle was nowhere to be seen, no doubt about that. In the movie, Malfoy was seen to be bleeding SLIGHTLY from his whole body, his FACE INTACT. His face was only grimacing as his body was bleeding, lying down. Allow me to type out what the book said:

Blood spurted from Malfoy's FACE and CHEST as though he has been slashed with an invisible sword.

See the SLIGHT difference?

Flaw #7.5 - Snape's reaction when he found out that Harry has done this kind of act to Draco.

In the movie, he conveniently ignored Harry after staring at him fiercely for awhile, then he attended to Draco, leaving Harry free to leave. Damn I really must say this. Didn't Snape bring Draco to the hospital wing and told Harry to wait for him in the bathroom? When he came back he wanted Harry to show him his schoolbag and give him detention? This part is cleverly skimmed through, I must say...

Flaw #8 - Lavender and Ron

The part where they kiss, snog and stuff was quite nicely done, but how they broke up is epic fail. They broke up in the hospital wing? Come on!

Flaw #9 - Potions

Seamus Finnigan, Neville Longbottom, Dean Thomas and Lavender Brown were doing NEWTs Potions?!?!

Flaw #10 - Alas, the crucial memories of Tom Riddle wanting to seek immortality

The movie producer aren't going to like the fact that they have skipped this. I shall explain why. If they had conveniently skipped the introduction of Hufflepuff's cup and Ravenclaw's diadem, how the hell can they shoot Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in the first place?! The part where they introduce the Ring as a Horcrux was also not enough. How are we supposed to know how did Dumbledore come across it, and how he destroyed it? Marvolo, Morfin and Merope were also not introduced at all...

READY FOR THE MAJOR EPIC FLAW? I have totally saved the worst for the last. Get Ready... for the scene that makes no sense at all.

MAJOR EPIC FLAW - Dumbledore after he was dead

Epic Fail Award Winning scene. After Snape has escaped, Hagrid appeared OUT OF NOWHERE. What's more, Hagrid's Hut was not even put out of the fire. The director simply placed Hagrid there on the screen right after Snape escaped, his hut totally forgotten. I mean, Hagrid is supposed to be helping to distract the Death-eaters, not suddenly appear!?!? If you think this scene is bad enough, read on and you are totally wrong.

The scene whereby Dumbledore lay dead was fail. Almost the entire school was surrounding him. What's more, they suddenly point their wands into the sky, with a spell similar to Lumos, and then the Dark Mark cast by Bellatrix right after Dumbledore was hit by the killing curse was slowly disintegrating into normal clouds. For a second I honestly thought that they look like Michael Jackson fans about to sway their arms left and right when MJ is about to sing "Heal the World". Oh yes, wasn't the Dark Mark supposed to be there all along?!?!

Lastly, The Phoenix Lament and The White Tomb were 100% deleted from the movie...

If you had watched the movie, you should agree with me - This deletion sucks! =D

Ok, I was just complaining about the movie as I clearly expected more, but the movie does have its good points.

1) Funny. The humorous parts are really nice!
2) Graphics. I love the part where Dumbledore fights off the Inferi!
3) The 16-year-old Tom Riddle is really handsome! Even more handsome than me!

That's all.

LOL OKOK to prevent lots of other Harry Potter fans who would really sought to kill me after seeing me criticise the 6th Harry Potter film so heavily, I must say one thing: The movie would be awesome if you had not read the book in such detail. =)

Since I was totally put off by Harry Potter and the Half-blood prince, I shall do the next 40 facts that guys should know about girls another time...

Really tired now. I don't know if I shall do some work and 'administrative stuff' or simply go to bed. Oh yes! Project Work! I believe I should do PW now(insert "opportunity cost" explanation here).

Seeya people. Stay happy.

2009-07-16T23:24:00.006+08:00

I finally feel like posting!
I finally have a new Econs tuition buddy.
I finally have the chance to rant on some random stuff.
I finally got reprimanded by my mother of my poor results.

Find this familiar, Leon? LOL rhetorics!

It is 16 July, 11:29pm. In perhaps 15 more hours a new weekend will come again. It shocks me truly that time is passing by as quick as a 100metre Sprinter(at least I sound less cliche now). Suppose that time continues to pass by like this, JC1, even though largely occupied by Project Work, will pass by "pretty soon".

Speaking of 100m Sprinters, Mr Gabriel shared with us something interesting during GP lesson today. We got back our papers firstly and went through Paper 2(I shall post my results, my 'humble' results when I got back Econs and Maths) when Mr Gabriel suddenly mentioned his experience in NUS.

There was this group of guys in his cohort called the "Hidders". It means that they are famous for hiding things. As my class got even more puzzled, he went on to explain. After every lecture, the lecturer of NUS would give some recommended readings to assist you in completing your tutorials and assignments following it. This group of "Hidders" will copy down every single one of the books and position themselves at the far back of the lecture theatre. When the lecture is over, this group of people will RUSH out of the LT with the speed of a 100m Sprinter to, you guessed it, the library. They will search the ENTIRE library for the books and borrow them home. More "desperate" ones will actually hide the book at random places in the library, one extreme case being tearing off the library code off the book and bringing it home, stealing...

Well, I was quite speechless when I heard that. What's more, Mr Gabriel was LIKE THAT BEFORE. Luckily he changed for the better as time passes. It makes me wonder the depth of one can actually go to prevent out competition. Yeah we were discussing that.

I think that the whole "Competition" idea applies greatly to our current thoughts now that we've gotten back half of our papers. Just look at those who have done abysmally bad for Common Test, too much competition will indeed lead to students having a lower self-confidence, I think. Well, I won't go to that extent. I think the most important thing after a major exam is to review your performance, even though I hardly practice that. It is no use moping over it for so long, it is best to put it aside and use it as a reminder to spur yourself and do better.

Ah, whatever. Project Work is really like an annoying fly, it's just that the current JC1 students can't be like cows and conveniently swat them dead. Group discussions are now more serious instead of the light-hearted ones we've had in April. Well, MY GROUP CERTAINLY NEED PERVEEN BACK!!!

Haix, I realise I do sigh alot when I post. Haix(lol). Well I shall post again when I get back all my results for Common Test. No matter how appalling I think I've done, I will evaluate it. I find it a paradox(something learnt earlier today =D) that I'm more keen to evaluate my grades instead of my mistakes, even though my character is like that.

Paradox - A self-contradictory statement that can nonetheless be true.

Must memorise this word. It would be useful in GP essays.

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Anyway I will do something fun before I sign off, due to the fact that I'm determined not to start doing EoM today. Here are 60 facts that guys should know about girls, taken from Wei Xin's note on Facebook, and I AM GOING TO ANALYSE AND EVALUATE THEM!!!

Lame stuff ahead!

1. We only talk about our ex boyfriends to explain how much better YOU are than they were, no other reason.

If only that is true 100% a time, it all depends on how much we know about the body language of girls I guess...

2. IT'S THE TRUTH! We need a little challenge too. It's OK to act a little uninterested sometimes (don't go screwing some other chick or extreme behavior of the sort), we like to have to work to keep you by our side too. If you are too sweet, too fast, a girl could possibly lose interest.

True enough, a fair explanation. Just go with the flow man! I believe it is always better to be good friends first. If both parties are having that "feeling", then they could proceed from good friends to boyfriend and girlfriend, not because of raging hormones.

3. We don't buy things because we expect gifts back, we are being genuinely nice.

Some girls, according to my experience, ARE TERRIBLE AT THIS!

4. Girls don't always want to hang out with girls. Just because we have guy friends does not mean that we want to be with them. We probably already had the chance and didn't take it.

LIKE REAL! Some girls are holding their heads high up in the air when they walk past guys they know when they are in a large group, sometimes not even greeting them, unless the guy is "enthu" enough to greet first. Although I must say, some shy girls behave this way, but being Asian and a sucker with girls, I can't tell...

5. If you mess up, we will almost always get angry before we actually calmly explain everything.

Not for me. I don't normally go into fights, and if you get angry you are shortening your lifetime, according to hundreds of philosophers. MUAHAHA

6. We do not all like dollies and pink. Do not treat us like we are fragile.

I don't think girls are fragile... In fact, I read about a GP essay saying that woman will dominate the world in time and are more significant than men are. Hmm...

7. If we complain to you, it is because we confide in you, not because we want to torture you.

Because of the usage of words - Quite true

8. Don't expect us to make the same mistakes your ex did. If we do, it is not because there is some huge conspiracy against you. Maybe you are making a mistake, not us. Do not compare our mistakes to hers.

Haha I'm in no position to say anything. I don't have like 5 exs like some Secondary School guy I knew had.

9. Girls get jealous too, usually worse than guys. We always feel like we have to fight for you, and will say anything mean about any girl you were speaking to, even if we never met her. Don't take offense, be glad we care so much about it.

OH.MY.GOD. Girls do DEADLY things when they are jealous... The face of pure contorted evil that can only be seen on their faces for a split second when they suddenly thought of an idea of slitting another girl's throat....

10. Do not make promises or tell us you'll call when you know you'll forget or fall asleep. We will wait hours for that call. Just tell us you'll talk to us tomorrow.

Well... Sorry?

11. if there's another girl, tell us. You might be surprised at our reaction. We don't all want to be serious either. It beats sneaking around.

Nah don't worry. I WILL NEVER TWO-TIME! Even though it is too early to say that, but given my evaluation in Number 2, I guess I will dedicate to one girl at a time?

12. We really do feel unattractive or overweight. There is a lot of competition out there. We need to be assured, even if its 600 times.

Way of thinking I guess...
"You're not fat!"
"I'm fat!"
"No you're not!"
"I am!"
Forget it

13. We don't search for compliments in the way you think. We are helping you by telling you exactly what we need to hear. Do not get annoyed, it will most likely cause an argument.

I have to rely on myself then... I mean to judge what are your intentions, what do you want to hear etc.

14. We want to hear we are prettier than the girl in the magazine, even if its not true. We don't think its cheesy. Stick to it, no matter how hard we push you.

I agree. I am infatuated before, like who doesn't? I seriously think that if you decide to go out with a girl, she should be the most attractive SO FAR. LOL

15. We DO want to be called hot by you, just not all the time. Change it up.

I prefer the word "beautiful". It sounds like it's from the 1960s, but I like the word. =)

16. We know you don't care about what happened in our day, but listen. It hurts us a lot when you don't pay attention.

If I ever had a chance to go on a date with the girl I like, I WILL listen!

17. We watch plenty of movies with you where girls remove clothing and do outrageously abnormal sexual things. When we ask you to watch a love story with us, we only want to spend time with you. It will not kill you, and it doesn't make you less of a man.

Don't worry, I know this before you even tell me about it, not because of experience, it's too obvious.

18. We don't mean to embarrass you. Don't get so angry with us when we do. We already feel terrible. We'll try not to next time.

Ok... Sounds like those type of girls that need affirmation from our(guys') mouths.

19. Flowers and chocolate don't make everything better. You do.

Well, I thank you for that. =)
I prefer quality time instead of gifts actually. ><

20. We don't want to change you. We met you the way you are, and we love you. The suggestions are just that. We are used to changing a lot about our appearance, and mean not to offend you.

I CARED ABOUT YOUR INNER SELF! We can feel it! Please =D

OMG only 20 facts and I'm so tired already. I shall do the next 40 facts over the next two posts or the next post if I feel like it...

Until then, seeya guys!

2009-07-12T03:11:00.006+08:00

People it is 3.11am, 12th July and I have just decided to blog about...
Let's see...

I just sort of want to change my lifestyle, but I simply lack the determination.

At the same time, I am totally looking forward to Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince! Although the movie is definitely going to be lousier than expected, I'm still a Harry Potter fan!

Lots of work to do LATER, as I will be going Wayne's house perhaps.

H2 Chemistry
H2 Mathematics
H2 Economics
H2 Biology

H1 Chinese
H1 General Paper
H1 Project Work

It's no use hating them, mastering them in the shortest time possible is not impossible, but it needs alot of determination, I guess.

Chinese Orals at this coming Wednesday. Mock Oral Exams on Tuesday and Wednesday's morning. Nice timing.

2009-07-08T21:25:00.002+08:00

210th post lol.

It is 9.25 pm, 8th July 2009 and I have just replied Shao Hua on the tagboard LOL.

The second day of Term 3 has passed by just like that, even more faster than yesterday. We had PE two consecutive days, playing Tchoukball and wow, it really was fun! We divide ourselves into 2 groups, which are further subdivided into Team A and Team B in each group. The two teams will play against each other of the same alphabet and yeah, basically we have lots of fun. It is definitely more action-packed than Captain's Ball, when I conveniently assume the position of Catcher and just slack. =)

Still can't do a single pull-up... =(

Maths lecture after the PE session was the most gayest lecture I've ever been to. The whole place smelt of sweat and stuff as a lot of classes simply streamed in to the Cultural Centre in half-uniform after their PE lessons, and I just happen to sit behind a group of boys... Urgh.

What's more, our Functions lecturer is getting more boring and boring. I mean, even though it is a lecture, at least make the lesson appear interesting. The way he is going through the question is enough to make a 3-year-old fall asleep in minutes, and I managed to survive through, for the sake of copying down what he has written.

GP today was quite... amazing. Our new GP tutor is Mr Gabriel Chin, and he is very determined to show 09S20 how professional his English is. He is the HOD of English Language in some strange Secondary School in the East after all, like wow? He went through some administrative stuff and surprisingly, he is able to catch our attention all the time. Well I do look forward to his future GP lessons with us!

Just realised that I've gone back to the days when I would look forward to Fridays all the time. I need to get back my momentum of studying and practising questions for my subjects fast, so as to do promisingly well in my MSA 2! O_o

2009-07-07T23:07:00.003+08:00

It's 11.07pm, 7th July(Nice), the first day of term 3 of SAJC is (long) over.

I feel like an urge to blog about today, it is just too difficult not to.

I got to school early today and went to sit in the canteen, taking out my fiction to read. An unfamiliar girl approached me and sit down at my 2 o' clock. I find her unfamiliar particularly because of her hairstyle - It was shaven... Wait is that a girl at all, that girl know me?

It was then when I realise that it was Yan Yu, and SHE HAS SHAVEN HER HEAD OFF FOR CHARITY! WOW! I mean, it is just too good for words. I asked/interviewed her why would she do so, she say, well I've wanted to do this for a long time... O_o

We then proceeded to the LT for our daily temperature taking, me cooking up a lame temperature as usual. We received our new timetables and when I stared down at it, a moment later I literally gaped at it. I mean, WHAT THE HELL? Any SAJCian who compares my timetable with my previous one for Term 1 and Term 2 will say that 09S20's timetable is absurd. Other than Tuesday, which is a standard 2.30pm release due to Project Work lectures, we are released after 3pm EVERYDAY! Oh gosh...

After the Scripture Reading, there are a few announcements. I shall summarise it as follows:

1) Every lecture and tutorial in future, due to H1N1, we are supposed to sit according to Register Number order, clustered together. Reason being to 'achieve' social distancing.

2) Due to H1N1, College Day aka Service Learning(is it?) Day is postponed. Lessons continue as per normal. People who missed exams or have not completed their exams still need to go through them.

3) Jacob Ballas Bridge entrance will only be opened from 6.30am to 7.30am DUE TO H1N1... As a result, students can only exit from the main gate or the side gate towards Potong Pasir MRT station.

Oh... the frustration for 1 and 3...

Let me talk about number 1 first. In past Biology and Chemistry lectures, I will always sit alone. Call me anti-social, but I prefer very much to have both seats beside me empty so that I can have lots of space to put my bags, water bottle, notes and so on. Now the stupid new sitting arrangement is up, I have to sit with 2 people, namely Petras and Angeline, side by side in such a cramped space. Oh the horror. Is this really to prevent the spreading and worsening of H1N1??? I mean, let's say Chemistry lecture sitting plan is still the previous one, when I sneeze, at most 3 people are in direct contact with me. In the new sitting arrangement, one sneeze would be able to 'cover' 7, 8 people. Damn!

Number 3 is just as bad. I think the Jacob Ballas Bridge should be the pathway to be least considered to be closed down. I mean, more than 1/4 of the students use this bridge to come to school/go home. If you can open it for us to come to school, why not just open it for us to leave as well? If you are scared of visitors carrying the virus into SAJC, why not position a lame security guard there, then benefitting all the students using the Jacob Ballas Bridge.

Tsk.

Nevertheless, today's Tchoukball is fun LOL! There is more tomorrow!

As usual I can't wait to get back my results...

2009-07-07T02:03:00.002+08:00

2am in the morning, Tuesday 7 July 2009

In 6 hours time, normal lessons will resume in SAJC.

ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!

Even if exams are over, the fact that I still can't grasp certain topics for certain subjects still remains the same. Even I'm desperate to get my results back, even though I may not have done as well as I did in MSA 1, Ariena and Bao Bao have not taken every 4H2 paper yet...

Instead of wasting lots of time facebooking during schooling period, I shall try a new lifestyle - Reading. Yup, I have borrowed 3 random fictions from the library along with the "Singapore Children's Favourite Stories" Crap for Project Work. I have until 24th July to read them all. My Thursday evenings will still be taken up by Econs tuition, and I need to find time to exercise.

My "nocturnalism" seems to uncurable. According to Eugene Chew, he sleep at around 10-11 pm every night. Damn him! I also want this kind of lifestyle, but it is easier said than done.

I think that I'm posting nonsense nowadays, will look at how to make interesting posts after this...

How I wish I have photographic memory... again...

2009-07-03T01:50:00.002+08:00

I'm here to post again!

Well Common Test is FINALLY over! It is quite shocking really. I haven't really recovered from the fact that holidays have long ended, I'm now facing with a new shock that Common Test is over just like that. To put it directly:

Monday: Biology and Economics
Tuesday: Chemistry
Thursday: Mathematics and that's it

Let me review on my performance. Not going to talk rubbish, just giving you the possibilities I have cooked up.

Biology: 33% A, 60% B, 7% C
Economics: 20% A, 75% B, 5% C
Chemistry: 30% A, 70% B
Mathematics: 90% A, 10% B
General Paper: 10% A, 20% B, 30% C, 40% D

It's funny that now Common Test is over, I'm DYING to get back all the results; I'm even speculating it already! Hopefully, yeah you guessed it, I get all A! A feat hard to accomplish, aka 80 rank points!!!

I'm still a little bit pissed off for Maths though... I lost marks because I left the Graphing Techniques question blank. =P

Now that Common Test is over, normal lessons resume for us 'Saints' on Tuesday onwards. Just been to facebook not long ago, and people are talking about the first day of the second half of 2009 just passed, and I was quite affected by it.

Even though it is repeated by all sorts of people, it is undoubtly the truth - We are now at the second half of 2009 ALREADY! For JC 1 people, it means 3 things, ok fine a lot of things, let's see how many I can come up with.

1) If you are still slacking, it's best to get a move on. If you are struggling with certain topics, skills, techniques for any subject, it's best to practice it over and over again and achieve perfection. This is because the second half of JC1 would mean the FINALS! The ever so bloody important exam that contributes 70% of your promotion criteria!

2) Project Work intensive half of the year, duh! Notice how I've been complaining about Project Work? Damn it! November 20-something and I swear I will scold fark right at Project Work and burn the notes up!

3) Self-discipline. I still remember posting for the 12 choices after receiving my O level results, Leon not making it to SAJC, ended up in PJC and all sorts of happenings. I have chosen the JC life, aka very tiring, very fast-paced life. JC life puts a teenager immediately as a full-time student, trying to understand all the nonsense the syllabus offer and in the end achieve the 'A's. I'm sure for every JC student, a B or a C is like, "Are you kidding me?" sort of feeling. I'm not saying anything about myself, but nobody would want to get anything BUT an A! The solution/strategy to getting your 'A's is nothing but self-discipline!

4) Don't let anything else affect your way. This is my non-Christian way of thinking - Do everything at your best so that when you slack, it is a form of rewarding yourself.

5) CCA commitment. CULINARY CLUB FOR THE WIN!

6) Cherish your friends. Studies as priority, friends to guide you and share your weals and woes.

7) Don't get into unneccessary 'emoness'. Can't find the correct word to illustrate this, but time shouldn't be wasted on thinking about what other people think of you.

8) Just try to sleep more...

Tomorrow, I mean today, 10am, Potong Pasir MRT station... PROJECT WORK

2009-07-02T02:42:00.002+08:00

I'M BACK!!!

That was an epic start of a post wasn't it!

It is currently 2.40pm, so in exactly 9 hours 20 minutes time I will sit for my H2 Mathematics Common Test, and in exactly 11 hours 20 minutes Common Test will be over and I'll be free... NOT

Project Work!!! Damn it! I have Project Work stuff on Thursday, Friday and Saturday! Arghhhh I want to go bowling with Eugene Chew...

I seem very confident for H2 Maths...

Shall post a proper post after my freaking Project Work COMMITMENT!... Grr...

2009-06-29T23:37:00.001+08:00

Overconfidence in Chemistry, anyone?

It's 11.37pm and around 12 hours later I will be sitting for my H2 Chemistry Common Test. My Chemical Energetics notes is still untouched! O_o

Well I shall touch them now, shall sleep at 1 plus, as I do not have to wake up early tomorrow. =)

Project Work back on track! Consulting Mr Wee with Tam and Reuben on Thurs.

2009-06-25T13:47:00.002+08:00

Long time no post!

Let me post about what happened today so far: I survived through the midnight today, doing nothing but reading Harry Potter and playing Typing Maniac on Facebook - I regret it totally. As I am typing this post, my mind is forcing me to off the laptop, rest your head on your beloved bolster, and bloody get to sleep! You have tuition later!

Ok so this morning, WeeKiat, Leon, Wayne and I arranged for a Left 4 Dead session at the Lan near 10 Mile Junction at around 9am. When we got there, there was already alot of people playing games like Maple Story, Audition, DotA and Battleon(Yes, I repeat - BATTLEON). I have to wait for 1 hour and 15 minutes before I can actually get a computer and play.

My opinions of the Left 4 Dead - It is an utterly bad game. Sorry Left 4 Dead fans, but I just don't get the appeal of playing Left 4 Dead, as I only played it for the first time, shall not rant too much about it, CounterStrike is still way better...

It is currently 25th of June. On the 29th of June I will be sitting for Biology and Economics, 30th June Chemistry and 2nd July Mathematics 4H2 Common Test. As you have guessed, I shall take this "free time" to talk about my revision so far and my plans for the following 3 days of holidays left, in order of the Common Test.

H2 Biology:

Well I studied Biological Molecules hastily. I can manage to recollect some DNA replication stuff but only vaguely. Haven't revised through Cell Structures, Mitosis & Meiosis and Enzymes yet, which I deem the easy but tedious chapters to cram into your head. Judging of my current situation, I guess that DNA replication, Transcription & Translation needs to be read through AGAIN, I just hope that the chapter that I studied the hardest for come up for the Essay Question. =D

H2 Economics:

By far my most dreaded Common Test Paper. The only chapter that I've not touched is Market Structure(Perfect Competition, productive efficiency and so on), and it seems that I need at least 2 hours for that. My essay and case study writing skills is, to say the very least, rubbish. I have not practiced at all this holidays on the revision package and that is really worrying. The various cost advantages and disadvantages when a firm expands, demand and supply factors of why a firm would want to remain small, and finally my first lecture booklet all need to be read through once again...

I hope Econs tuition later on in the evening will help me get through the Economies of Scale efficiently...

I think that Economics is simply common sense made hard. When one read widely enough, one can be able to think of all those revenue advantages, cost advantages that a firm can gain by just brainstorming and analysing the situation. As for me, I need to read the suggested answer first, get a hold of what I am expected to write, and start practising from there, all for the sake of my 'A' Levels. Yeah, it's quite pathetic for me...

H2 Chemistry:

I am just too lazy to go through every single one of the tutorials I have done. I am just going to do my revision package after revising the important topics(Atomic Structure, Chemical Bonding and Chemical Energetics), and hopefully I am able to finish them without problems and fast. Then again, I'm quite weak in Chemistry...

H2 Mathematics:

I realise that there is quite a number of Summation Qns that are really tough and challenging. The good thing about Maths is I can understand immediately by looking at the answer scheme, but currently I still need to revise back my Functions and Graphing Techniques, Functions being the worst as I have no idea about it currently. Luckily I have a break during Wednesday(1st July 2009) that I can settle this. I will probably do the understanding of Functions and Graphing Techniques before school reopens, and practice questions from every single topic during Wednesday.

Hopefully by taking the trouble to type all this out, I will complete everything I've set by myself before the actual Common Test commences. Good luck!

For those of you that are worried about your Project Work, no worries. My project work leader has not come back, or has just recently arrived back in Singapore. Hence my group has done NOTHING related to Project Work this June Holidays!!! GG for us? I just want at least a B for Project Work, that's all...

2009-06-16T02:49:00.004+08:00

This is a post all about Maple Story, and my view on this game.

First and foremost this post is written based on my knowledge of Maple Story, and unlike you hardcore Maplers out there I know nothing much about Maple.

Maple Story is a game whereby you play as a job ranging from an archer to a magician. The goal of the game is simply to gain as much experience as possible, followed by as much gold as possible, so that you can afford those crazy-ass bitch items that can deal 50000 damage in one hit.

According to my experience, there's this one particular scenario whereby my friend created a new character. I think it is a bowman or something like that.(I don't know) Then there comes a scene whereby your starting stats are shown.(There are 4 if I'm not wrong)

You have to click on this stupid dice and the stats will shuffle around. Even as you start the game with a new character, you have to busy yourself clicking away on that dice so that one particular stat is the value 8, according to the job that you took. My friend even told me to help him click on the dice, while he went to the toilet... He told me that one of his other friend who also plays Maple Story had once clicked for 2 hours straight before getting his ideal stats...

The training right from the start is very tedious. You are immediately allowed access to the noobest place of all of Maple Story where you need to fight snails to gain experience slowly. Once you reached certain levels, you are slowly allowed access to greater things such as weapons, events, new spells, new abilities, quests and so on.

I remembered that some weapons can be hunted. When one mean 'hunted', one mean that he/she had to kill off a particular monster that keeps 'spawning' out numerous times until it dropped a weapon. Some legendary weapons can only be bought in shops, which may cost up to 200 million mesos? I don't know.

Events are probably the most anticipated 'thing' in Maple Story. Though I know nothing about any single event, I know that events are what that cause ex-maplers to go back to mapling for a while. When I mean a while, I mean 4 hours a day, which lasts for maybe 3 weeks?

Quests are possibly something that you spend your entire playing time in Maple Story doing them. You have to go from place to place, kill off monsters and collect 100 or 200 of a particular item, and walk all the way back to the person who gave you the quest. The reward? One stat up, some experience and maybe a few ten thousand mesos? Yet while one is busy gathering experience from fighting monsters, he or she has to bother to do the SIGNIFICANT, COMPULSORY quests that are EXTREMELY WORTH IT.

Now Maple Story is a game that allows you to see other characters/players inside the game, and that brings us to the part about fame. I believe fame is probably an insignificant part of your status, but there IS such thing as increasing and decreasing your fame. I mean, you play Maple Story to get that virtual satisfaction I can tell, but you also need to pay attention to the numerical value that represents how 'famous' are you on Maple? It just doesn't make sense.

And there's this place in Maple Story called the Market Place if I'm not wrong. Once I saw my friend getting there to 'look for people that wants his item' and negotiate a trade, and the screen is literally filled with characters jumping around with notices about their offers. They make their notices really high and noticeable by spamming @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ behind their notice. With about 50 characters doing it at the same time, that's something.

I don't think I know anything further about the game. All I know is that there is now a Maple Season 2, whereby things are getting much more interesting, unique, fun and basically revolve around killing new monsters and getting new 'classes'.

Oh yes, I nearly forgot about mentioning two more things!

#1.

Double experience.
I think I remember there's this event/thing that you need to buy which allows you 24 hours of getting double the normal amount of experience. I mean, OK you need to pay for that double experience and obviously you are very happy that you can level up much faster and accomplish more quests for the day, but is it really worth it? After the time has run out, there is tendency for a particular player to go back and buy that thing again, leading to a waste of money.

#2.

Hacks.
A majority of ex-maplers have a unique talent of creating new hacks and codes to modify the current game, creating all sorts of ridiculous 'mods' and enticing people to come and play in their server. Examples of hacks may include killing a green coloured snail and levelling up 40 times, or a gold coin you picked from the ground that's worth 10 million mesos. Isn't it ironic that people actually do bother to hack? It simply beats the purpose of the game to try and reach the Level 200 mark slowly, in about 5 years?

I believe people who play Maple Story only gets the satisfaction when they managed to level up to their ideal level for the day. The time and experience needed to go to the next level, obviously, increases at an increasing rate. It is able to drain you of the remaining energy that you might have reserved to revise your homework. What's more, if supposedly you managed to get to level 45 in 1 hour 45 minutes and you gave yourself 2 hours of gameplay, one would definitely feel like doing a quest since he/she has enough time. The problem is, the quest USUALLY lasts about 45 minutes, and USUALLY have other MINOR things to accomplish alongside it, you get what I mean.

There are also people who play Maple Story as a JOB. They train accounts to level 50+ in a relatively short time, probably with the help of doubling their experience, and sell the accounts off. There has also been a case whereby a level 134 account was offering approximately S$6000 over on ebay, and there's actually a deal. I honestly believe that a level 134 account would need 2 years to be achievable? Would you rather spend 2 years rotting away on your chair playing Maple Story and perhaps earning S$6000 after selling off that character, when you can be working and earning definitely more than S$6000 annually? If you are a student, sure there could be some extra income for you, but Maple Story is very likely to jeopardise your studies if you put it as a priority over your studies. Nevertheless, this group of people is a minority.

To put it altogether, I think that Maple Story is a game created simply for recreational fun and nothing else. I simply don't get the appeal of wasting time doing all the quests and so on, when you can get better satisfaction doing other things. In the end, when you are finally sick of Maple Story, imagine the time you have wasted downloading the entire server, giving your soul to Maple Story, and taking note of the 'major upcoming events' within the game. The opportunity cost of playing Maple Story, in my opinion, is simply too high. One could have used the time to get some sleep, get some assignment or work done, or even do housework! I'm not going to say Maple Story sucks anymore, I'm going to say that it is just a total waste of time and too much concentration is needed to play this game, much more than you may have expected when you are playing it.

Phew I felt much better after this so-called rant. It's 3.35 in the morning and I should probably be going. =) Seeya guys!

2009-06-08T01:05:00.010+08:00

201st post! =)

Let me start off this post(going to be a long one) with a story...

It was a very warm midnight(I think I am the first person to use this introduction). Anselm was feeling terribly thirsty as he drank drinks of all sorts of colours (Orange juice, Mirinda Grape, Milk, Soya Bean, Coca Cola) and ate a lot of oily food the previous day.

So he decided to grab a quick drink. He went into his kitchen and took a cup.

He then filled it with water... (Duh)

gulped it down... (Ignore my eyebags and not-very-nice facial features)

and placed it back beside his water bottle.

He then went back to using his computer. Little did he know that while he was blogging, his water bottle and the cup he has just used were engaging in a conversation.

W: Water Bottle
C: Cup

W: Hey, you! Tell you something, man. Anselm always uses me when he goes to school. He fills me right up to my brim and hugs me when he's on the bus on the way to school. By the end of school I would be empty and he hugs me all the way back again!

C: What's your point?

W: My point is Anselm loves to drink from me, unlike you when he only needs to satisfy a moment of thirst.

C: Well, obviously he needs a lot of water given his huge size. He just uses you because you give him just the right amount of water he wants, not because he Luurrrvvves to drink from you.

W: Hey shut up man! I don't see him bringing you to school at all!

C: He would look stupid holding me on the bus, you fool. Nobody ever brings a cup to school just to use it to drink water! Besides I need to satisfy thirsts from his parents as well!

W: Huh! Every morning when he wakes up and gets ready for school, he will fill me up and occassionally drinks from me!

C: For convenience, duh!

C: Please man, you are already leaking at the top and can't be overturned freely. You are big and therefore just right for him to bring to school. He doesn't 'love' to drink from you or anything, just finding you convenient, so YOU shut up already!

W: ...

When Lee Xiao Long first joined his sect, he was still a rookie. Like most rookies he was very anxious of quick results. He kept urging his teacher to tell him all sorts of secrets as to how to improve his strength and become better than his seniors.

His teacher replied slowly: "Still the same thing no matter how many times you asked. Practice your basics and foundations daily and master them. Engage yourself with combat practices with other members of the sect to increase your skills' level. Do not crave for instantaneous results, they will never work."

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No matter how smart you are, when you choose the JC life, you start out as a fresh rookie, a greenhorn. It is no use expecting great results if you yourself did not bother to study and memorise all your fundamental concepts in learning particular subjects. When you urge your tutors/seniors/peers for help, ask constructive questions whereby both parties can learn from, not stupid questions whereby the person you asked can just simply give you a statement and dismiss you.

Knowledge, or should I say the syllabus required for the 'A' level, must be built up gradually. Even if you do some last-minute memorisation and do well for a test, you may not necessarily do well for another test. The next test will definitely test you on more topics, including those that you have been tested on. By choosing last-minute memorisation, you may not understand the concepts well when you study, causing you to waste extra time memorising them again. Instead, one can learn back all his concepts, understand them and apply them to exam questions easily. In this way he or she could have the extra time practising more questions instead of going back to previous topics and try to cramp everything in just for the examinations again.

It may sound very long-winded, but I find what I've typed above as a form of self-reflection. I guess I roughly know how to spend the rest of my June Holidays.

I think I need to read the entire Project Work 'A' Level 2009 Paper again. I still don't quite get how Project Work works... =( By tomorrow, or technically today since it's now 1:59am, I must be fully aware of what I am going to do, and START CONTRIBUTING to my team. !!!

Grade A is achievable
Grade B is simply being there

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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/434433/1/.html

Something that may help your Economics. =D

Seeya people!

2009-06-02T23:43:00.004+08:00

This is my 200th post! Wow! =D

EDIT:// (below)

Tomorrow will be the last day of holiday lessons, finally. It has been a very tiring week nonetheless, I have a PW strategy to do by this Friday... =(

Basically my life now has gone topsy-turvy. For example, I came home today and slept from 3pm to 9pm, and I probably won't sleep all the way until 2am?

I am going to go Bugis maybe this coming Saturday(after I finish that STUPID PW thing) and play my heart out! =) then study for common test. =/

I watched a video on Youtube, whereby a guy gave an analogy of the grading system:

For a White:

A means AWESOME, it means you did great.

B is still pretty good as it means you're doing BETTER than many other students.

C means you are slipping a little bit but you are still doing ok.

D means you are not doing too good, which means you are now below average.

F(E, S and U grades for JC) just means you fail.

For an Asian:

A does not stand for AWESOME anymore, it stands for AVERAGE!

B stands for BAD, because when you get a B, you are already below average, all the other students are making As.

C stands for CRAP, you are doing totally terribly. Your parents are most likely going to lecture you, yell at you and so on.

D stands for DEATH, your parents may threaten to kill you.

F(E, S and U grades) stands for FUCKED, because your parents are probably going to abandon you... terrible things...

I totally agree...

Hence, using the above analogy, I did AVERAGE for Chemistry. =D

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and FUCKED for Econs... =/ D8!

Seeya!

2009-05-26T19:48:00.005+08:00

EDIT:

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LOL Today's GP lesson is one of the funniest but saddest period. Miss Lee is leaving us for good, according to her...

Miss Lee: Today will be officially my last lesson with you...

Angeline: Why?

Miss Lee: Well, I'm resigning...

Angeline, Sharan, Ziying: WHYYYYYYYYY!?!?!?!?

Miss Lee(laughing): Huh? Why? I'm not teaching anymore

Angeline, Sharan, Ziying: WHYYYYYYYYY!?!?!?!?

and so on...

Yeah, it's funny, but we will be missing our GP teacher who has made our learning of GP so enjoyable! =D

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Well I'm back.

Been having mixed feelings about my relationship with the class and my academics. Things are just irreversible, Singaporeans are just selfish...

Sad things aside... Let me post about my results for the past week:

Muahaha!

Sigh, a B...

Well... E!!! And I am supposed to have improved! So you can get just how bad my GP is...

Results:
Maths Lecture Test: 100%
Chem Atomic Bonding Class Test: 70%
Bio Lecture Test: 68%
GP Essay Assignmen: 48% (!@#$%^&*)

A
A(Just made it)
B
E

Oh well... GP Common Test this Friday, and after Chinese Common Test on Thursday I have to go for Econs tuition, haix...

Some random pictures I took:

Empty Service C LRT at night LOL!

Pollution of the Kallang River

Seeya guys!

2009-05-22T00:37:00.004+08:00

Woohoo! I'm back people, and screw that Supermen and Superwomen post, I've totally cast it aside. Today, I mean yesterday since it is now 12:37am, Friday, is such a great day!

I've told Tricia that Thursday is going to be my second gayest day in SAJC, that is, I've got no break all the way until my day ends. It turns out that I've managed today quite well!

Right after Econs lecture, I've got to rush to the Bio lab 1 to take my Biology test. It is much less stressful than I thought it will be. Hopefully I can do well.

Chem tutorial is next, and I've managed to get an A for my Atomic Structure Class Test!!! 17.5/25. At the end of the tutorial, I realised that Miss Tan did not write down an additional mark that is supposed to be there, so technically I scored 18.5/25! Third place!!! :D

We are supposed to go for the hockey match today, but obviously 09S20 is forever 09S20: less than one quarter of my class went I think... I wanted to go home and sleep, but Tam called us back for a PW meeting. Screw that...

Finally, Econs tuition. I'm very happy today overall because today is my most productive Econs tuition ever. I really hope I do well for Econs in Common Test. Honestly speaking, that is the subject I really wanted to ace.

Econs
Maths
Chem
Bio
GP
Chinese

And that's it, oh yeah by the way the SAJC T-shirts that we've ordered 3 months ago have finally arrived. I wish there is a size between XL and XXL, XXL is seriously a bit too large for me... =/

Ok bye!

2009-05-21T01:03:00.002+08:00

Hi people I'm back! Let's see, It's 1:06 am in the morning. Wow...

My mind is just not right for blogging now. I shall post the topic that I will be posting on my next post:

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Supermen & Superwomen

Right now... Back to the organelles...

2009-05-15T00:39:00.004+08:00

I'm supposed to burn the midnight oil tonight and study for TODAY's Chem test on Chemical Bonding I & II,(Yup today - It's already 12:50am) but I doubt I will last...

It's only halfway through May that a lot of people are complaining here and there about JC life. Let me summarise it simply for myself:

1) STUDY LIKE CRAZY!

Now that Common Test is approaching, even if it is held after the June holidays, I guess even people like Wee Kiat will really take some time off to study at home. I think I have mentioned this about the seventeenth time - I simply cannot stick to my Sec 4 attitude in JC life, on top of that the process of integrating it to JC attitude is totally tedious, or should I say, out of the question?

I have quitted band and joined a pathetic CCA named Culinary Club for a reason - To slack as far as possible even if, as Derrick pointed out, it will totally make my SGC suck. But still the mounting pressure from by studies is beyond me...

2) H1 General Paper and Project Work

These two subjects are the most Affed up A level subjects ever. Firstly, 863/890 of my school's J1 population are required to take this SHIT subject(17 are taking KI) and do a lot of homework and assignments and suffer. By right, I should have completed my GP assignment by TODAY as there is a GP tutorial today in the afternoon. But in the end I've decided not to do it... We have an entire week to do our assignment, even though 1 week may seem to be enough time for us to complete our assignment, we are just too TOO busy!!!

I have known my PW group members. They are:

Perveen
Anselm
Reuben
Tam

PART! LOL!

Yup I kind of like my new PW group. One thing, we are very fast paced and keen to complete our task ahead of every other group in our class! :) Another thing is that our group has a doable PI, although it may not be the best in our class.

After GPP is done, it is on to hell for PW all the way until November. Combined with the 4H2 I've discussed in my previous post, I have thus confirm the fact that my subject combination is the most tedious subject combination EVER!

JC life is just the TOUGHEST 2 years in every JCian's life. Do give your best and just force the Cambridge people to print straight 'A's for your report card!

On the bright side, the reason why I can take my Chem test TODAY is because I need to go to NUS on Monday to attend this workshop for the Business thing. I do hope I'm selected, I would like to try something new. This means that I get to forget the idea of taking two tests simultaneously! Phew... The bad thing now is that I haven't revised my Chemistry fully yet. Yup you guessed it, my Chemical Bonding tutorials are not even 25% completed!

It is 1:06am in the morning. Hope that I can read through Chemical Bonding II by 2am? I doubt so...

Tomorrow will be one of the gayest day in my JC life...

0745 to 0900 - Assembly
0900 to 1000 - H2 Maths lecture
1000 to 1130 - H2 Chem lecture
1130 to 1300 - H1 Chinese tutorial
1300 to 1400 - Chem test on Chemical Bonding...
1400 to 1530 - H1 GP tutorial
1530 to don't know when - Could have a PW meeting again...

1300 to 1400 is supposedly our ONLY break for the day...

Don't know when to Saturday morning - SLEEP!!!
Saturday morning - Look forward to two more tests next week.

After next week - H1 Chinese and General Paper Common Test. I'm sooooo looking forward to it...

It is 1:14am in the morning when I finally decided to click "Publish Post"

2009-05-12T11:20:00.002+08:00

Ok, so I'm in SAJC's library right now and I have just finished what I was supposed to do. So I think I shall blog.

Suddenly, I feel like ranting about my H2 subjects again...

Seriously, H2 Biology, Chemistry and Economics are all content heavy subjects, and H2 Mathematics require you to understand a topic quickly and efficiently. Right now I'm at Graphing Techniques, and I assure you I'm lagging behind... All the topics before Graphing Techniques such as Summation and A.P.G.P are all easily understandable, but Graphing Techniques is something new, common sense made hard!

H2 Biology is seriously a killer. DNA replication, transcription and translation is more tedious to study than the first lecture booklet combined. Oh ya, there is Bio tutorial later on this topic... I obviously have not done the tutorial, because I can sort of understand the questions only after Mr Chan has explained it...

H2 Chemistry requires you to study and study and study... At first the mole calculations are manageable, but now we are learning trigonal planar and square linear structures, bond angles and lone pair-lone pair repulsion nonsense... Haiz

H2 Bio and Chem Test both on this coming Monday, 18 May...

I don't think I am going to talk about H2 Economics, it is self-explanatory. I obviously do not have photographic memory which everybody craves and I cannot understand the market structures right after the lectures. My laziness from Sec 4 has not changed at all, I guess. I just cannot find the time to settle down, study and understand it once and for all for all my H2 subjects.

SAJC is really slow on Project Work. I heard that other JCs have known their groups and are already coming up with their GPP, whereas over here I still do not know my groups yet... Hopefully it is one which I can work very well with?

Yeah... 25 more minutes to Biology tutorial. I shall slack and blog-hop in the mean time. Seeya guys!

2009-05-09T17:14:00.002+08:00

Yesterday was such a nice day. After school at 3:30pm, I immediately went home to use a little computer. At 6:30, my dad, sis and I set off to East Coast Park for a dinner treated by my dad's boss. According to my dad, he is a Korean dude that is totally rich. Let me just tell you the dishes on the table last night:

Cereal Prawn
Pork Ribs
Scallop with Asparagus
Chilli Crab
"KanKong"
Shark Fin

O_O

After I have sort of eaten enough I wanted to go, while my dad obviously have to stay on with my sis. I wanted to go Bugis Junction again to play the AMAZING arcade over there. =) So I told my dad's boss, Mr Bai if I'm not wrong that I'm leaving.

"Where are you going?"

"Going to play, haha"

"Oh I see. Here, a little token from me..."

And I got a $50 note stuck into my hand. OMG!!!

I obviously rejected the note, but Mr Bai was actually wanting me to accept it.

"Nonono, take it. Just take it. I thought you want to go and play?"

Wow...

After playing into the night at Bugis, I went home and discussed with my father about this. He of course had also witnessed his boss giving me $50.

"Well, my boss is someone that is very careful of his face.(directly translated from ai4 mian4 zi3) Anyway he is just giving his friend's son $50, so just accept lor."

"But I don't even know him le!"

"But he knows your dad! Aiya Korean people hen3 ai4 mian4 zi3 de la. So consider yourself lucky!"

And I slept at 0456 in the morning today and woke up at 1616 just now. I actually slept till late in the afternoon, but my mum is abit angry because of that.

Right now I'm going to do my PI... ARGH

Let's see the homework for this 3 day break:

1) GP wetpaint. The task is due a week later, but there's alot to do! =(
2) Econs essay 3 & 6, Market Structure
3) Revise abit on Bio and Chem...

Maths transformation of graph is kind of hard!!!

Ok after I've finished my PI, I may consider going back to Bugis to play again!

Seeya!

2009-05-06T18:08:00.002+08:00

Everyone has a dream. With dreams, comes hope. Everyone needs a dream. With dreams, there's strength. Dreams brighten your heart like the Sun, it lights up your whole world. Dreams steer you in the right direction, fills you up with courage to explore what lies ahead.

When we were young, there was plenty of encouragement and praises to help us overcome our obstacles. We never realized how lucky we were then. Somewhere along the way, the praises and encouragement changed as we grew up. Everyone gradually shuts themselves out. Is it that difficult to give others more encouragement and compliments and see one's virtues? Everyone needs encouragement, but why do we often hesitate to shower compliments? In every child, there's an angel and a devil. Seek out the angel, and their best qualities will surface.

Not bad right? Haha

H2 Econs and Chem test tomorrow. Better go and bathe and eat and study! =(

Randomness: My foot stinks!!!

2009-05-02T01:40:00.003+08:00

I full stop just full stop can't full stop believe full stop IT FULL STOP

Am I really that bad? Am I really those people that freaks people out easily? Oh my god...

Just don't get it... Just don't freaking get it...

Is saying Hi! to someone on msn something weird? Is saying Hi! just to talk to someone on msn really that disgusting?

This is simply the worst case scenario I've ever experienced.

This is just sad!

2009-04-30T23:03:00.002+08:00

Finally, the end of the week!

Hopefully I can spend half of the weekend studying and the rest going out? Haix, ever since I'm in JC I have been worrying about my studies here and there...

Nothing to post about... It is kind of sad for me today... So yeah.

2009-04-29T22:43:00.007+08:00

I ended up slacking again...

It's been a long time since I came up with a story for fun. Let's see... The story of Jim and Kathy. (pardon my disgusting grammar)

Jim met Kathy through a friend when he was in college. The two of them quickly became friends. Every morning before assembly they would sit together with other friends and chit-chat till assembly began. Jim added Kathy's facebook account and Kathy in turn gave him her email address. Whenever Jim sees Kathy online, he will talk to her without fail and ask her about school and stuff. Kathy feels that Jim is behaving unusually as they had only knew each other for less than a month, and they were not even close. Jim did not realise that his 'over-friendliness' has resulted in Kathy feeling otherwise weird.

One day the friend that introduced Kathy to Jim talked to him on msn. She asked immediately if Jim has been talking to Kathy. Jim answered that he did say 'hi' but she didn't reply him. The friend went on to mention what Kathy had told her just now, that she hadn't knew him very well but he just talked to her again and again, making her uncomfortable...

To be continued...

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I must use the Friday holiday to catch up with my H2s! On a brighter note, class outing is this coming Saturday!

2009-04-27T22:34:00.005+08:00

Met up with some L1s just now to have dinner at some place called Sumo whatever(house?). Haix, can't they just have it at Lot 1? I suddenly just feel like reflecting on my life now.

I can finally tell that JC life has indeed affected me in a lot of ways. Firstly, the 'kampong' Bukit Panjang Government High life when I was Sec 3 & 4 was basically much much better than the environment of SAJC. I mean, in SAJC, you can see benches and chairs everywhere on EVERY FLOOR! They are obviously designed for you to study and study and study. Whereas looking back at that kampong campus, these kind of facilities can never be found, not counting that moth-eaten one just outside the so-called band room.

I'm just so used to be greeted by a more green, less "Let's sit down and study!" scene back in Sec 4 that I am not sure whether I can call SAJC a 'home' yet. Right now I just want to concentrate in managing my 4H2s well and buck up on that stupid GP!

Also, I noticed that in Sec 4, I used to joke around more frequently, but in JC I just can't get used to the people around me. The way they react to my 'lame jokes' are either a blank face or a raised eyebrow... Haix... Never mind, studies are more important.

Another irritating thing is that I'm still blogging like a secondary school student... Professional JC student bloggers are already using bombastic words, lol.

Well, this is life!

Reflection on my subjects:

H2

Biology: Just revise and revise and revise and do tutorials!

Chemistry: Just revise through and make sure you can do and UNDERSTAND the tutorials.

Maths: If you get anything less than an A, you can go F**K yourself!

Econs: Haix, content heavy, common sense made hard, you can do it!

H1

General Paper: I will really try harder next time...(Getting like Ds and Es)

Project Work: Hope for the best

Chinese: ...

That's all man, It's only Monday and I'm already anticipating the next weekend. I wish the SYF people good luck and may the best win!

2009-04-24T20:38:00.003+08:00

Thanks SAJC! Haha I'd never expected all of us who have done exceptionally well for MSA to receive a certificate like that. What's more we have our names flashed on the screen during Assembly today. Cool!

I must say that I'm really settling down in SAJC. Other than GP and Project Work(and maybe a little Economics), I'm more or less ok with my subjects. It's just that I don't have the motivation to work harder and revise more...

I feel that weekdays simply pass by too quickly. Before you know it, the much anticipated weekends will simply be over in a flash and you have to go to school on Monday again. I'm only in JC1 and I already get to experience such a fast paced life in school!

Got a disgusting 24/50 for my GP Common Test 2006...

My weight is still not "responding"... =/

I MUST complete PI by Sunday night... ARGH!

2009-04-22T22:22:00.002+08:00

UGH! PI! WTH!

PI is just screwed. I'm prepared to get a lousy grade for Project Work...

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Have you ever thought about the future? What will happen to this world if humans continue to breed? Don't you see? Humans have set themselves upon the path to inevitable destruction.

Increasing wars and famines, diseases of unknown origin, increasingly frequent natural disasters. Don't you find it odd? A bit coincidental? Has anyone even noticed? Must we simply sit and wait for it all to end?

At some point in time, humans broke the natural harmony of the world. They came to know greed like no other species. They gave no thought to what their rampant breeding would do to the world.

Earth has evolved in a way so that it naturally regulates the population of any given species. Humans were once subject to this system, regardless of whether or not they knew it!

O_o!

=)

2009-04-11T01:23:00.002+08:00

Got my own laptop!!!

Instead of constantly updating myself of studies so far, why don't I concentrate on how to slim down as much as possible before NAPFA, which is around end of April... O_o

1) Eat an apple for a snack!
2) Skip dinner if possible
3) Sleep earlier

It's surprising that sleeping early actually can help you to slim down much faster. Apparently sleeping uses up more energy than sitting in front of your computer/laptop throughout the night...

Random post... I really wished that I have photographic memory... Wishful thinking...

2009-03-26T21:04:00.008+08:00

Time to blog! I'm here to post my MileStone Assessment Results(MSA) and my reflections...

H2
Biology . . . . . . A (35/50 --> 70%!) xD
Chemistry . . . . B (19.5/30 --> 65%)
Mathematics . . A (21/25 --> 84%)
Economics . . . A (14/20 --> 70%!) xD

H1
Chinese . . . . . . A (77.8%)
General Paper . C (20.5/35 --> 58.5%)

Total Rank Points: 76.25/80 =)
(77 stated on Teacher's report! xD)

Yeah... the thing is my Biology and Economics just made it! A! I aimed B grade for both for a start and yup, I manage to make it. As for Chemistry, I failed to get A despite my target at obtaining at least a B for it... Never mind, I must ACE Chemistry in Common Test!!! Oh yeah, do better in GP as well...

Very... VERY tired...

Back to studying...

Well, this is JC life. Study, study, study and study!

2009-03-21T14:23:00.001+08:00

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2009-03-17T22:38:00.003+08:00

Time to blog!

Today I went to school and had an Economics lecture on Price Elasticities of Demand, which luckily was fairly easy to understand, and I went home at 9am in the morning... What I think about Econs is simply the drilling of the examples needed to be quoted that is hard and challenging. The theory and stuff went through during lectures can basically be revised over and over again at home, whereas the examples needed for 12/13 mark questions need to be used and applied correctly in the right context, which is hard if you are taking Econs as a whole new subject.

There is simply no use complaining that one's subject combination is very hard to cope and stuff. I must agree that 4H2 BCME is seriously the most tedious combination in the entire JC1 subect combination offering, maybe unless you are taking 4H2 Arts Faculty with H2 Biology. Reasons being:

1) Biology lectures are elimating 0.06125 mol of my brain cells everytime (LOL)

2) Chemistry(so far) is quite a worry as I am not confident whether my style of doing Redox is correct. I MUST sort out my Redox queries before moving on to the KILLER Organic Chem section...

3) Yup, Econs to add further worries...

I have not researched for GP and PW yet, why can't knowledge just flow into me? Why can't I have photographic memory? Haix... I wouldn't mind for Biology and Economics as these two subjects are QUITE interesting and I love to learn them as I go on. If I can just have photographic memory for GP and PW, that would be heaven...

Well they are H1 subjects after all, there to irritate you...

Oh yeah... I quitted band, because of certain health problems. The good thing is now I can sign up for A2 programme back in BPGHS!!!

Another quick refresh on my progress in JC so far: (Figures imput as of March 17th)

Biology: 59%
Chemistry: 70%
Maths: 89%
Economics: 78%
General Paper: 20%
Project Work: 1 x 10^-99 %
Chinese: 50%

Time for a break... I mean sleep...

2009-02-26T23:09:00.002+08:00

Well! I found another chance to blog!

Yeah, instead of complaining all over again about my 4H2 subjects combined with my CCA SAJC Concert Band, let me just take a look on how I'm coping with the subjects so far...

Biology would be the most problematic for me so far. As we've come to the end of the Biological Molecules topic, Proteins is just TOO HARD to memorise or at least get the point. There are like 4 different kinds of structures, 5 different bonds present within a protein molecule,(peptide bond[covalent], hydrogen bonds, disulfide bonds, hydrophobic interactions and ionic bonds...) as well as 2 examples of quarternary protein structures(haemoglobin and collagen) to memorise... What's more, there's still the tutorials on Proteins that are yet to be done... and we're already starting on enzymes. Sigh, hopefully my revision for Carbohydrates and Lipids would be much easier than that of Proteins...

Next would be Economics. I am coping QUITE WELL with it so far, but as my mind tend to shut down by the time I came home from band practice(which is about 8 plus plus), I can't make use of the night to go through what I've learnt for that day. I REALLY need to adopt the various skills in writing those crazy essay questions, or else I would end up getting grades similar to those I've gotten for Geography in Sec 3 & 4... =D Nevertheless, I need to watch more News 5 Tonight to expand my knowledge on more examples as to how the government can create more opportunities for those unemployed or retrenched workers so that they can have their skill sets upgraded and able to contribute to their economy. This would be a form of better utilisation of resources and can move the economy from a point within the PPC onto a point on the PPC... (LOL!)

Luckily, I'm able to cope with Chemistry and Mathematics fairly easily so far. Binomial Theorem for Maths is a bit tricky and tedious for now but it should be ok if I had more practice, provided that I've got the time to do so in my tutorials(for both Chemistry and Maths)... As for Chemistry, we are starting on Redox Reactions and subsequently Empirical formula. Gosh, that dreaded Organic Chemistry topic is drawing nearer... O_O

Nah, don't worry guys. I WILL post some 'fun' stuff once in awhile, it's just that there's not much of a chance to do so right now, so I post on studies lor... Yeah, I still have my cyber needs, lol!

MSA is coming up... o.o

I SO SOOOO WANT OUR SAJC BAND CONCERT TO END QUICKLY!!!

2009-02-17T22:09:00.003+08:00

I just suddenly want to talk about JC life so far in St Andrew's. The demands of JC, especially the pressure of taking 4H2, are starting to act on me.

First, let me talk about my greatest loathing in JC, General Paper. I know that people who have a great foundation in English will probably laugh at me now, but I seriously think that GP is very hard!

Just yesterday's and today's lecture is enough to intimidate me. In just a total of 3 hours, Globalisation and Arts & Culture were skimmed through and 2 assignments were thrown at us.

Assignment 1 (Globalisation)

"In your opinion, has globalisation been more of a boon or a bane in Singapore?" Discuss within aspects of Singapore and word-count must exceed 300.

Assignment 2 (Arts & Culture)

"...Mayor Guiliani of New York and many others who protested the exhibition assert that tax funded cultural institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art should be made to conform to decency standards set by commissions overseeing any institution which receives public funds."

Do you agree? Why or why not? Word-count must exceed 300

3 words...

HOW . I . KNOW?!?!?

Maybe it is a totally bad start for me in GP, to totally hate the subject after only two lectures on two topics that I obviously had came across before. I even felt that each of my 4H2 subjects are easier to cope than GP!

Maths: No time to check answers thoroughly

Chemistry: I do not know how to do Example 5 in my Volumetric Analysis notes, other than that I'm starting to get the hang in Chem. =)

Biology: Revise after every single lecture and I should be OK. Again, no time, or should I say, lazy to do the tutorials.

Economics: I shall attempt the tutorials(Essay questions) after Supply is covered.(Hopefully)

Some of my friends in other JCs mentioned that Project Work sucks and it is gay and so on. For us in SAJC, I think our Project Work officially starts at around March, perhaps after the March Holidays. I wonder if I shall look forward to PW or not...

Back to forcing myself to do assignment 1 of GP. Both are due this Friday, Damn!

2009-02-13T17:15:00.002+08:00

Week 6 of Term 1 is over, and what a week it has been...

Right now all I have to do is to revise on Lipids(Biology), Chapters 1 & 2 of Economics,(OMG!) and do abit of Chemistry to sum up this week's lecture content. Tomorrow will be my first band practice in SAJC, from 9am to 3pm in the afternoon. It will be a stressful 2 years ahead, but we must press on!

P.S. On the first day of Week 7, there will be General Paper and my 4H2 subjects lecture! 5 lectures a day!! O_o

2009-02-09T16:57:00.002+08:00

The results are out: I got posted into 4H2 BCME, class 09S20.

Subjects combination ONCE AGAIN:

H2 Mathematics
H2 Chemistry
H2 Biology
H2 Economics
H1 General Paper
H1 Project Work
H1 Mother Tongue Language

Today marks the official start of JC life. In my opinion, I find that the lectures are more or less the same as normal lessons in secondary school. It's just that we only know of our classes today, or else the entire JC1 cohort wouldn't have to squeeze into the Cultural Centre for the lecture.(There are 4 Lecture Theatres I think)

As our Economics lecturer has said, Economics is an entirely new subject to me. The introduction today itself has already intimidated me as I realised I need to be able to think and write essays fast. Our first Chemistry lecture is tomorrow, and I do hope that I can catch up on all the Mole questions, despite the fact that I have not done any Chemistry calculations and stuff for 4 entire months.

I also realised that in order to do well for my 4H2 subjects,(BCME) I basically have to listen attentively during lectures. Before that, I must read up on my notes first,(especially Economics) and approach my tutor armed with questions to clear my doubts during tutorials. Well I hope I can do that, my only worry now is the ability to catch up in H2 Chemistry.

As for Maths, we are basically revising our favourite Amaths topic of Indices, Surds and Logarithms. (EASY!! :P)

Wednesday will be our CCA sign-up day after all the important lectures from 3pm. Now here's the question - Band? Or Strategy Club? LOL! Go BCME!

2009-02-08T02:30:00.004+08:00

SAJC's orientation is over, and man what a BLAST! OG 21 ROCKS!

The last day of the orientation, the Finale, was really enjoyable! It rained during our preparations for it, and in the end the councillors had to shift to the Cultural Centre for the event to be held. Everything was pretty last minute, but our spirits were never doused by the rain. In the end everybody got really high and enjoyed themselves, Haha!

Now that orientation is over, serious business shall be next. We are going to attend mass lectures and decide on our CCA on Wednesday. I've been contemplating whether to join band or just join a slack CCA. Taking 4H2 is serious stuff, and if I get through it will mean studying like hell for Biology, Chemistry and Economics. Economics is a totally new subject to me and I really hope that I can cope. I've forgotten most of the Chemistry stuff and that is really a little worrying as well. As for Biology, it is not going to be easy memorising stuff at an extremely fast pace. Even Maths can be worrying when it comes to the amount of homework that could be given.

Nevertheless, JC life is officially starting on Monday and it is time to STUDY STUDY STUDY!

SAJC 2009 Orientation Group 21, Neriah!!!

2009-02-04T17:56:00.004+08:00

I FINALLY got home from SAJC before 6pm!

The first two days of orientation was good, but the thing is we got dismissed SO LATE, at 6:30pm and 5:25pm for Monday and Tuesday respectively. It is so nice to be dismissed at 4:02pm and reaching home at around 5:10pm as I can finally find the time to blog.

Today we went out of school to play the amazing race. I guess today's the day that my Orientation group(OG) really bonded much closer together. We were the only group to finish all 5 stations, regardless of whether it's because of kiasuism or not. =) I must say that Daniel and Yan Deng really leaded our OG well, and Neriah will most definitely be the champion this year! Haha, and even the President of the Student Council commented that Neriah is hot today!

Pictures taken during the Amazing Race:

On the Mrt

We were making alot of noise over here as we scrambled into our positions in this picture, but it is nice anyway! (I look lame)

OG 21!!! (Dhoby Ghaut Station)

OG 21 with our OG tutor. Honestly I do not know what's her name... =)

Well I'm feeling totally tired right now as we ran alot during the amazing race, and I still have the mini-Neriah shield and the Coca-Cola Can Shakles to make later.

I am still pondering whether to take 3H2(Maths, Bio, Chem) and 1 H1(Econs or Geog?) or 4H2. I know that the stress level is really high if I do not learn how to manage my time well. But, you know, it's worth a try!

My ideal subject combination:

H1 General Paper
H1 Project Work
H1 Mother Tongue Language
H2 Mathematics
H2 Chemistry
H2 Biology
H2 Economics

I can drop H2 Economics if I am not coping well and I shall put my main focus on science since my science is not outstanding in the first place. H2 Econs can be replaced with H1 Econs from the start or H1 Geog. Well seeya guys next time, and good luck on your JC lifes ahead!

2009-01-30T21:26:00.005+08:00

I got into St. Andrew's Junior College, another big step ahead in life.

I woke to a start when my sms ringtone rang out at 6:14am. I reached out to my handphone lying about two feet away from my face and looked directly into the 3 letters - MOE. I pressed the message and immediately saw the school in my first choice. My first thought then was "Hmm, nice...", and went back to sleep.

A few hours later, I received a message from Leon: He is going to Catholic Junior College.

At first I thought he was joking, but from his tone from the sms and the seriousness I finally believed that he IS going to CJC.

It turns out that alot of disappointments came from St. Andrews and National. Alot of 9-pointers could not get into St. Andrews for their first choice, and similarly alot of 5-pointers are unable to get into National for their first choice.

Our 3 male scholars in 4L1 - Wee Kiat, Jia Qi and Eugene Chew all got 5 points after deductions from their CCA bonus points. They all put National as their first choice and Anderson in their 2nd choice. It turns out that ALL THREE OF THEM got into Anderson... According to Eugene, Chze Kian and Woon Yeow experienced the exact same thing, only that Chze Kian went to Anglo-Chinese, which is his 3rd choice.

Ok then, I definitely must work hard in St. Andrews. JC life apparently is no joke, this is definitely 2 years that you don't want to waste...

Not looking forward to Monday, I have to wake up at 5:30am in the morning!!! ><

2009-01-26T23:29:00.003+08:00

Yo people! I'm finally back and it's the first day of Chinese New Year. Is it me or is it that this year's Chinese New Year began at 26th January, when last year began at around the 2nd week of February. I wonder if that has to do with O levels being pushed further and further forward.

Well for the first day my family and I went to my mother's side and we are one of those that arrived the earliest. Only at 3:30pm that everyone has arrived, and we arrived at 11am... Played Big 2.5(name suggested by Viwawa) and Blackjack, and I won $4. (Not bad (: )

Somehow the economic recession has caused all my relatives at my mother's side to be slightly less happier than last year that it is Chinese New Year. Hopefully tomorrow during the Second Day when I go to my father's side, the mood will still be the same as last year. Haven't opened my hongbaos yet though, as I got a habit of not opening them until I really needed them. :)

Took a picture of Li Ping, here you go(I can't smile...)

Ok let's look forward to more card games, hongbaos and fun tomorrow on the second day. See you guys maybe tomorrow!

2009-01-12T17:11:00.004+08:00

Yo people! I am back after 15 days of silence on this very fateful day, 12th January. You guessed it, I am here to post my O level results!!

English: A2
Chinese: A2
EMaths: A1
AMaths: A1
Chemistry: B3
Biology: B3
Geography: A2
Combined Humanities: A1

Subjects used: English, EMaths, Amaths, Chemistry or Biology, Combined Humanities, Chinese or Geography

A total L1R5 of 10
Minus 2 bonus points of CCA: 8

L1R4: 7

Yup. I was talking just yesterday to Leon and Wee Kiat about how I expect myself to get at least B3 or both English and Humanities. It turned out that I got an A2 for English and Geography and a freaking A1 for Combined Humanities!!! The only disappointing thing is that both my sciences turned out to be B3. Mrs Joseph pointed out that it could be my SPA grades that affected me, the one that we have to wear that stupid black vest and mess around with solutions. Damn!

My choices right now include St Andrew's Junior College and Catholic Junior College as my first 2 choices, which is the same as Leon. Finally, I can heave a sigh of relief for my humble results. =)

2008-12-26T23:49:00.002+08:00

First time I saw an anti-hacker on Serebii wifi chats:

Story: There is this guy who was offering a Machamp with Bullet Punch and I thought I might be interested. I decided to trade him my Venomoth. I went into the trade with Pokemon like Weavile, Weezing and Salamence who were obviously all hacked. Then this guy, after the trade, kind of overreacted because of the fact that I am a hacker:

Nah, I only scold vulgarities within myself. I was keeping my cool when he was clearly telling me the fact that his testicles are not matured yet.

A picture I took for fun at the Supreme Court!

Looking forward to L1 chalet...

2008-12-15T12:00:00.008+08:00

LOL my absolute favourite Pokemon is now Breloom! Oh my god, I firstly thought that Breloom is just a regular Pokemon with some interesting comboes, but it is actually an Overused MONSTER!

Just yesterday evening, I thought that I would like to hack out a Breloom to see how it would fare at the Battle Tower. This is my hacked Breloom's particulars and summary:

Breloom
Nickname: TheRApist
Held item: Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal (one god damn ass amazing ability!)

Moveset:

Spore
Substitute
Seed Bomb
Focus Punch

Maybe it is because the Pokemon in the Battle Tower are not EV trained in speed, but my Breloom managed to go first almost every single time. I am also particularly surprised that my Breloom went first when facing off Pokemon like SLaking and Weavile! O_o

Ok so here's the combo. I would use Spore on whatever Pokemon I face and it guarantees a Trip to Slumberland for my opponent. After I spored, the Toxic Orb would kick in, allowing my Breloom to recover 1/8 of its maximum HP every turn after that. That's a lot! I would then Substitute to put myself in a safer spot.(Immune to stat-decreasing moves and confusion) The cost of making a Substitute would be simply restored by Poison Heal!!!

Now with Substitute set up, I can proceed to use my Breloom's monstrous Focus Punch to annihilate every single non-ghost Pokemon I see. Psychic Pokemon would fall under my Seed Bomb, and those Pokemon which resists both attacks are eventually brought down as they are still struggling to wake up.

Breloom, Kingdra and Yanmega managed to allow me to defeat the Tower Tycoon at my 49th winstreak FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME!

Heatran annihilated by Focus Punch after my set-up.(Substitute with Posion Heal as Heatran was asleep)

Cresselia drifted off to sleep from my Kingdra's Yawn. I set up 4 Dragon Dances and dealt half of Cresselia's HP away with a single Waterfall. Outrage KOes it after that.

Regigigas totally obliterated by the second Outrage!

Haha yeah enough of Pokemon related stuff. My daily routines are basically too boring to talk about. Youtube, Hacking Pokemon(=D), Eat and Sleep are basically what I do everyday, not counting work.

I went to Wayne's house yesterday and it has been quite awhile since I last went to his house. The reason being Mahjong! I kind of find it interesting as you get to play with 3 people on the spot(Aloysius, Wayne and Nixon), but as usual it was kind of boring if you would lose.

Now I have the law firm to worry about. Haiz finally up to this point, I truly realised how tough it is to work, work and work... Can't wait to go back to the days when I will be going to school to study. =D

2008-12-11T00:34:00.002+08:00

Hmm let me see. I totally chanced upon an unoriginal quiz that certainly looks interesting despite its simplicity(I have no idea what I meant either). So I thought I may want to do it...

The Rules as well as the Regulations:

1) Each so-called player of this quiz must list down 10 facts about yourself, be it a swift statement or a long rant.

2) After which, people who get tagged "need" to write a blog of 10 facts about himself or herself as well, stating Rule #1 very clearly.

3) List down 10 of your friends to do this quiz.

Before I start this quiz, you may have noticed I placed inverted commas on either side of the word 'need'. Even if I tag Barack Obama, I don't think that he really has the time to even notice this compiled words of no meaning.

Fact #1:

I used to be a horrific crybaby. I would cry because I was told to stand up due to the fact that I had forgotten to do my homework.(I think)

Fact #2:

I hate the holidays. As I am not that kind of people that initiates dates, I was often alone at home for the whole afternoon.

Fact #3:

I played Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. My Friend Code for wifi connection is 3910 1342 9140. I wish to experience how competitive battling of Pokemon would feel like, as I have never ever connected with someone at other parts of the world.

Fact #4:

I constantly experience the "3-minute urge". I would really want something to be rectified immediately should anything went wrong. It usually leads to reckless behaviour but otherwise it is OK. I should forget about that matter in a day's time.

Fact #5:

I like to listen to what someone has got to say, but in the end I do not know how to reply him/her.

Fact #6:

I have a bad habit of fiddling with my hair just above my forehead. It can be cured instantly once I go and have my hair cut shorter.

Fact #7:

I hate staying up late, but I always end up staying up late.

Fact #8:

When I am literally bored to tears at night, I would look up into the night sky and breathe in fresh air.

Fact #9:

I prefer school life more than anything else.

Fact #10, last fact:

I love to youtube. It's the best place to past time...

People to tag:

Jing Yu

Haiz next time then post bah. I am feeling lacklustre and I also don't have any ideas right now, besides it is already so late. Back to hacking my Pokemon Diamond. =D

2008-11-20T22:55:00.004+08:00

WOW! I AM BORED!

YES BORED!

BORED!

Yeah finally came back after the one month hiatus(I learned this word from Geelyn obviously). Prom night is over, and it means you are on your OWN!

Since I am SOOOOOOO BORED right now, I will post random things.

**Warning: The following are all thoughts of Anselm at the time he posted this post due to boredom. It will all be in present tense for you to see the message clearer. You may need to read a little faster to understand.

Why do people get bored and what views do I have of boredom?

Let me put you guys in a scenario(pardon me for my severely limited vocabulary of English):

It was a regular day. Anselm woke up at 6:30 am in the morning. 10 minutes later, his father woke up, got dressed and go to work. All the while Anselm was lying on his bed with his eyes wide open, looking towards the window to see the light blue morning sky. 20 minutes later, his mother woke up and told him to fetch his sister to the The Students' Place(TSP) at around 11am. He did what he was told and went to buy lunch for himself. From 11:30am to 6pm Anselm had been in front of the computer multitasking, playing the DS and Viwawa at the same time. At 6:45pm, his mother came back with dinner. He watched "The Ten Brothers" as he ate his dinner up. At around 11:30pm, he went to sleep.

Have you read this fast enough? If you do, you would have noticed that in this particular scenario, Anselm(aka myself, ME!) was living a BORING BORING day!

Why do people feel bored? I can't deny that when I was living this particular day, I felt potentially bored. Now I am asking myself: Why do people feel bored? It is actually because at that time when we thought that we had nothing to do and was bored, we actually did not take the initiative to find something to do and bure the boredom.

Yeah yeah it may sound easy to do, but it is actually a difficult feat. Let me explain ALL the reasons I can think of.

1) A regular teenage BOY's post O levels time table would be EAT, PLAY and SLEEP. Nothing else. He may claim that he went out occasionally to his friends' house or with his parents, but actually he did so because he had to(most of the time). When we(boys) finally had the time to sit on a random armchair and rest, this is the time when we will feel BORED. For myself, I would most probably switch on the computer that I had just off 10 minutes ago, go to www.youtube.com, lean down on my chair slightly and watch random videos. This whole cycle continues on and on and eventually when we sort of summarise what happened during that particular day, it would be a BORED day for SURE.(continued at 3) )

2) A regular teenage GIRL's post O levels time table would be WAKE UP, EAT and SLEEP. As I am obviously not a girl, I do not know how their lifestyles were, but I can guarantee that they organise their daily activities into these 4 categories:

1. Watch a drama
2. Shopping
3. Going out with friends most of the time
4. Prepare to sleep(Yeah abit lol I know)

Honestly nobody in their right mind would want to study now that O levels are over? So I can assume that these 4 categories that I predicted would be correct for a girl's daily activities(except Jia Qi). Now it is pretty much the same, once the girl can finally put time aside and rest her body, she will feel BORED! She may probably find someone to sms or she would just sit there and think otherwise. (continued at 3) as well)

3) Now comes the most tricky reason that I have invented. You may have noticed that I have literally screamed that I am bored right at the start of the post. In my opinion, we should never have done so. The reason is simple: There is no such thing as "nothing to do" as we so often use it on our parents. Let's say Jing Yu woke up like 6:45am in the morning. She did not plan to wake up that early and she thought to herself, "Aiyerr, what should I do ah?", while still lying in the bed. You will probably say: "DUH! Get up and brush your teeth etc!"

Ok you might be wondering, let's say Jing Yu has brushed her teeth, cleaned her hair, wiped her face, looked in the mirror for ten minutes and had taken her breakfast. Assuming it is still early in the morning and she does not play any games, she would probably have nothing else left to do. That's when she would probably say, "Aiyerr, what should I do ah?"... again.

At this point I think I better move on to the last and final point.

4) Most of us now are simply too contented with life, and we tend to ask for more, usually impossible stuff. It is ironic, but it is true. To say it in a very serious tone, we are so happy(xing4 fu2) right now that whenever we think that we have "nothing to do", we INDEED have "nothing to do". THAT is the sad issue. Let me list like 10 random things that you can do to help out the family.

1) Mop the floor
2) Clean the toilet(YES! Not joking)
3) Wipe the windows
4) Dry the laundry out in the sun
5) Wash dishes
6) Cook rice for the family
7) Arrange your own room
8) Go to the library(Improve your knowledge)
9) Exercise
10) Change the bedsheets

Or you can simply do whatever you want, or at least plan before hand.

I know it is indeed a boring post about boredom, but let me just finish for a second. What views do I have for boredom? Erm boredom should never be present in a person's daily life routines. We most frequently end up wasting time when we could be doing something far more useful and meaningful, which could also benefit us in one or alot of ways.

Another in depth explanation of another scenario:

On a particular Saturday, Wayne woke up at 9am in the morning. Although feeling entirely energetic, he simply wanted to snooze in bed since it was a weekend and he felt that he had "nothing to do" even if he got up. He dozes off at around 9:30am after staring at his bedroom ceiling for 30 minutes and thinking about stuff. He finally got up at 11:10am.

At that same day, Noxin(not Nixon) woke up at 9am as well. Since he was feeling totally energetic, he got up straight away, dressed up and took his breakfast. This took him only 25 minutes. At around 10:00am, Noxin decided that he should go jogging since the weather is welcoming. By the time he had jogged finish and cooled down, it was 10:45am. Along his way home, Noxin decided to buy himself lunch to eat at home later. By the time he got back home, bathed and settled down to enjoy his lunch, it was approximately 11:10am.

Notice that on a regular Saturday morning from 9am to 11am, two different people have spent this period of time differently. Running out of ideas, I think this probably summarises what I have said earlier on. Only a meaningful life does not contain any signs of boredom. Those who choose to waste time off doing nothing but sleep(in this case Wayne) are not enjoying life as much as people that have a better lifestyle(in this case Noxin).

After saying all these, I myself must admit that I am not even doing 25% of what I have just said. Well, let's just say I am trying to adopt a better lifestyle yeah. Ok a boring post of boredom for all of you... Probably next time I will post again should I have the urge to do so.

(Inform me if you spotted any grammar mistakes, I am not sharp enough)

Prom night was not very worthwhile, probably because the entire area to our dear emcee's left did not win anything amazing. As for the food, only the warm food which had a bit of taste in them were nice. The bread and butter pudding was VERY NICE by the way. Didn't take much photos in the end, got back home by 190 bus at around 11:45pm.

On a last note: Names used in this post have been modified to avoid misunderstandings. Should the names correspond to any one of you readers, it is a total coincidence. No one's lives were used as an example in this post. They were all made up by The Author of this post and it is also a coincidence should they match any one of yours. Ok Toodles!(learned from Geelyn as well)

2008-10-15T19:24:00.008+08:00

Yay! Get to use back my own computer for one day. The reason?...

To type out the testimonial for Mrs Wong...

Well the good thing is I still get to use the computer for some other recreation stuff such as updating my blog for fun, and what's more I can FINALLY post the pictures taken during Graduation Day!

Note: I can't smile!!!

Me and Mrs Jesmine Cheung!!!

Me and Mr Anthony Shen!!!

Me and MISS RASHIDAH!!!!!!

Let's see...

Me and our principal, Mr Lee Seng Hai! I would like to take your attention to the right hand side of the picture, although I can guess that you are already looking at it. Oh my god! You've guessed it, Jing Yu is in the picture!

*Beethoven's Theme...*

Now it fills me with an insatiable curiosity as to how did she get into the picture in the first place? Although it is inevident from this picture, I am sure that a furtive grimace has swept past Jing Yu's face at this very moment. Come to think of it, the camera man for this picture is none other than our favourite Wayne Boon!

*Speechless*

I certainly had not noticed her in this particular picture until THIS VERY DAY! How appalling! How melodramatic and theatrical it is!! When you make eye contact with this picture, your eyes will WITHOUT fail zoom to the right, register the fact that Jing Yu has apparently fit in to a miserable corner of the picture with her bag at her back, and move on to the text underneath it. Ah never mind, it is taken on Graduation Day after all! Anyway I am attending the Law Firm Attachment after her LOL!

It is arguable that another girl is fitted into the very same miserable corner in the picture of me and Jesmine Cheung, but, I can guarantee the fact that most of you readers would fail to notice her as you sweep down the pictures. In conclusion, Jing Yu simply CATCHES your eye with that elegant QUICKness, a skill that most people will kill to have... in a good way.

Jing Yu, I... I... I... I...
I wanted to say...
I...
I...
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Nothing

Me and Wee Kiat
Speechless...
I can't smile and I look gay
Wee Kiat's face is ...

And lastly, this is how the battlefield looks like when I played with my little sister. XD

Yup, according to my calender, ONLY 4 MORE DAYS to the first paper. Ok good luck everyone, got to go finish my testimonial...

Problematic subjects:

English: Simply not confident of my atrocious grammar and long-winded style

Geography: Lazy

Biology: Tedious... -_

2008-10-11T17:46:00.003+08:00

Hello! I am back, well not exactly back. I am in the lan shop! Yes, the one where Wee Kiat and Samuel still frequent even as the O levels neared.

Well, if you ask how well I have prepared, hmm let me estimate for myself:

English: 40%
Chinese: 50%
Biology: 30%
Chemistry: 75%
Amaths: 90%
Emaths: 70%
Geography: 20%
Social Studies: 30%
Literature: 10%

Seriously I have been doing only Amaths and Chemistry right after Graduation Day, and sadly I can't post some of the pictures I took during Graduation Day, of course, as I am in the lan shop.

Right now I need to worry about Biology and Physical Geography, as these two are within the first week of the O level Examinations. Haiz, sadly I still did not achieve 100% for BOTH my maths and Chem even though I did nothing but them for a week! Well, maybe only 5 days. =/

Yeah, so now I am looking forward to when the O levels are finally over. Some things to look forward to:

Play some PS2(It is put away for 8 months!!!)

Attend the Law Firm Attachment in December(JingYu the serial killer is attending before me! O_O)

Last but not least... CHALETS! GATHERINGS!!

As my computer wires are now confiscated, I can only stone in my room or study. Hope that my self-discipline will always make me do the latter. This post is completely random and I know that there are a lot of grammar mistakes, owing to the fact that in 11 days time, I will be sitting for the English O levels exam...

Ok, so Monday there is a Chemistry remedial lesson. Everyone, good luck for the upcoming O levels!!

2008-09-27T23:40:00.002+08:00

GOD DAMMIT MAN! I GOT STUCK IN AN INTEGRATION QUESTION FOR 30 MINUTES! ZOMGWTFBBQLICIOUS! WTF LA! I SUBSTITUTE THE VALUE FOR THE BASE OF A TRIANGLE WRONGLY, AND ENDED UP STONING IN FRONT OF THE QUESTION WONDERING WHY IS MY ANSWER WRONG. ALAMAK! A WASTE OF 20+ MINUTES OF MY LIFE ON A LIFELESS ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS QUESTION!!!

Haiz, O levels... studying... Wishing it to end quickly, so that I can sit back and finally SLACK to my fullest, and maybe I will go after...

Sian... Now is not the time to think about what I can do after O levels. Now is the time to study like hell and make sure I do well for the O levels!!! Maybe...

2008-09-27T19:49:00.004+08:00

YO people. Haiz the urgency that the O lvls are approaching is still not within me yet... Been playing abit of o2jam and I got an excellent screenshot!

Red Sign 2K combo!!!!!!

On Friday we got back our New South Wales English certificate. Sadly to say I got a "Participation" only...

Will blog properly once I have the ideas... Haiz another week wasted... Lol

2008-09-16T19:31:00.003+08:00

Hi! People! Yeah I am back after like, 2 weeks of hibernation perhaps. I know that you all missed, or should I say kinda missed my couple story and have been anticipating the second couple that I mentioned.(Lol) Sadly to say it is not up yet, it is seriously hard to continue the story although the plot is already set. Yeah, but then I assure you that this post will be a very promising post to you guys.

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Yup you guessed it!!! This post is about PROMISES

Let me first define what is the word "Promises", and why it deserves to be an interesting and sometimes serious issue. A promise is kind of like a statement that, once you have made it, you will definitely do it. Let's say:

Anselm said, "I promise myself that I will perform during Teachers' Day even though it is not necessary."

This is an example of a promise.(LOL I already use the word in the sentence)

You may be asking the question that I myself is asking: Ya what's the big deal about these kind of statements? Or what's the whole issue? Yup I am coming to that. It happens when you made a promise TO SOMEONE.

If you promised someone you are going to do something, you are definitely going to do it. The result usually affect both parties.

What's the great big deal about it? Well, once you have did that, no matter when is the promise going to be fulfilled, the next day, ten days later, 5 years later or whatever, you have INSTILLED that someone a HOPE that the thing is going to happen.

Example:

Wayne: I promised that I will say "I love you" to Benedict later.

Anselm: Ok

Later, he did say I love you to him.

Ok this is an example of a VERY SMIPLE promise fulfilled. It is kind of an insignificant thing that we usually do not bother about it. There are even more important promises though, like... :

Professor Katherine: Deja Vu! I said that for fun anyway. Mr Hujimakasohumanolopojakuara, the funds for the Uygnij project will reach you in about 10 minutes. I have carefully made sure that all systems are well in place for the transfer. Please stand by.

Mr Hujimakasohumanolopojakuara: ...

Notice that the phrase "I promise that..." is not in this sentence, but this is actually a kind of promise. Ah, you get what I mean.

Here comes the interesting part: What if after someone has made a promise to someone, HE/SHE FAILS TO FULFIL IT?

Well, well, well, let me give you ANOTHER example, which in my opinion is bad enough when you look at it as a whole.

Pythagoras: Hey Alexander, during the first Thursday of the September holidays, I am meeting Sine, Cosine and Tangent up for a buffet at Additional Mathematics Hotel. You are invited to join us!

Alexander: Really? I don't really know Cosine, are you sure it is ok?

Pythagoras: Absolutely!

This obviously will be great as long as it is fulfilled, both Alexander and Pythagoras will meet up and have a sumptuous buffet on that day planned. However let me give you 2 scenarios, which are quite similar but have different impacts on the party that a promise is made to.

Scenario 1(according to the situation above)

On Tuesday, two days directly before the buffet, Pythagoras texted Alexander: Sorry but the meeting is cancelled. Probably next time I will invite you again.

The result can be further sub-divided into two types of ending:

Ending 1: The group of friends really could not make it on that day, and that they are willing to try and get themselves free so that the buffet can be "postponed" to another time.

Ending 2: Pythagoras REGRETTED ASKING YOU! HE LIED TO YOU THAT THE MEETING IS CANCELLED, PROBABLY BECAUSE HE THINKS THAT YOU ARE A NUISANCE AND SIMPLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH, OR EVEN NOT WORTHY OF BEING TREATED SO WELL. THEREFORE HE WENT TO THE BUFFET ALONG WITH THE FRIENDS HIMSELF AND YOU ARE TOTALLY LEFT OUT.

Ok Scenario 2:

Alexander is the one that texted Pythagoras about the buffet. Once again, Pythagoras mentioned that the meeting is cancelled, maybe next time if we are free after a period of time. The results are exactly the same two as the ones above.

The above is basically called An Empty Promise, and I am telling that they are hell of something that really get to you. Ok you are LOOKING FORWARD to that particular thing that someone promised you, but now he/she has just dismissed the issue with a snap of finger. No one except an idiot would like to be treated like that.

Haiz another random post... By the way this post is not 'dedicated' or hinting on anybody. It is just a post about "Promises" =). I am not aiming at any particular person. Hahas, Ok this is the last time I am posting... THIS MONTH! LOL seeya readers.

2008-09-04T14:09:00.005+08:00

Hello, I am back... (monotonous)

Sigh today is thursday, I need to report to school at around 8am for the band promotion ceremony. It is lame, not all sec 4s turn up anyway. You are basically sitting on a hard plastic chair rotting away for 1 and a half hour. When I turned to go home after the ceremony, it started to rain heavily, delaying my go-home-time for more than half an hour. I came home at about 12 and basically stoned until 2. Finally decided to do a bit of blogging.

Ignorance is bliss...

Today I am going to talk about another couple, namely Couple 2. This time, I am going to introduce the two characters directly involved.

Male character: Brandon
Age: 16
Hobbies: Swimming, Gaming
Appearance: Untidy hair, Bright eyes, bespectacled, tall at around 178, good-looking
Love history: None

Female character: Beverly
Age: 15
Hobbies: Chatting on the telephone, Shopping
Appearance: Ravishing, long hair, 160, perfect body
Love history: 3 ex

Ok here's something. Leon and I came up with a couple the other time. I ADMIT that I was abit lazy to continue that story. =) So I am just going to make up another couple and call it Couple 2 all the same. Ok hope you will enjoy it. It is sometimes narrative and sometimes freestyle so bear with it.

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Brandon is a normal schooling boy in Cataclysmic Secondary School. This was what happened when he was in Secondary two. During that time, he was a boy that is hard to please, causing him to develop problems in his attitude. For instance, his parents were barking rich and he is able to get what he wanted. He did considerably well in his EOY exams and he was rewarded with a PSP and $500. He was not really loved by his parents alot as they were all busy working, as the only child, the lack of attention soon got over him.

He began to play truant and steal from departmental stores. He succeeded in stealing all of the insignificant things such as Mentos the Freshmaker, and deep down he felt satisfied of what he is doing. Little did he know that one day while he is attempting to snatch a whole box of Ferrero Rocher and stuff it into his bag, he was caught on CCTV. He was let off by the police whom the shop owner alerted but referred to his school for disciplinary action. His parents were disappointed in him. However, this changed Brandon's life completely. He repented his ways and start his life afresh as one of the best Sec 3 students of all. Things around him started to affect him in various ways.

In Cataclysmic Secondary School, the Sec 2s and 3s had their recesses first, followed by the Sec 1s and 4s. Although Brandon had changed from a problematic child into a arguably model student, time is still the key to acceptance. Nevertheless he is used to sitting alone while eating during recess. He started to notice a group of girls that sit together everytime, in fact, one particular girl. No words in Brandon's opinion can describe just how good, or even perfect the girl is. Her hair is tied into a cute ponytail, she has perfect complexion and blinks thoughtfully at all her friends' chats. That girl who is in Sec 2 that year is Beverly. Her beauty had managed to attract a few boys when she was in Sec 1. She had gone through a few hasty relationships which didnt last long. Recently, she had broken up with another guy who claimed that "a girl like you is impossible to find", followed by a repetition of the verse. Nevertheless, Beverly is single.

Brandon is determined to grab Beverly's heart as he continued to notice her. He is often bullied by his friends. As he is willing to change for good, his friends took him for granted and wanted to test his tolerance by calling him names and etc. Of course, Beverly is the most noticed girl in the entire school and even Brandon must admit that she has rejected a lot of boys in Sec 3 ever since her latest break.

"Dinner is ready, Brandon!" Brandon, poring over this prickly matter, awoke from his stupor. He blamed himself for sinking into thought of 'her' again. One moment he was thinking that studies is still the priority, the other he was thinking of the idea of having a relationship with Beverly, how nice it would be and maybe he could help her out in her studies and so on. He stood up, his mind is now set on capturing her heart.

The real problem with Brandon is that he has no close friends, neither is he willing to communicate with his parents. He started to visit websites such as "The Modern Man" as well as "3 steps to get what you really want." The thing about these websites is that the examples given were totally based on luck and coincidence, but Brandon neither knew nor cared. He can't wait for the weekend to end so that he could put his plan into action.

Armed with his so-called knowledge, Brandon suddenly realised the difficulty of immediately going into a relationship with Beverly. Firstly, they do not know each other in the first place. Secondly, if Brandon were to try and get her attention on purpose, it would be a signal that he is trying to get close to Beverly. Lastly, he was in a different class, not to mention a different level from her. Following the "Golden Website"'s advice, he first added Beverly's friendster and msn, after much effort in searching for it.

Beverly responded almost instantly on Friendster by commenting on his profile.

Hello! I know you from school! Your profile is so plain uhhs

Excited, Brandon proceeded on with his plan and in just a week's time they are online friends.

Right now in school, whenever Brandon sees Beverly with her group of friends, he would try to look in the other direction, to look as if he is much 'cooler'. He does not realise that the girls do not even pay the slightest attention that he just walked past. Also, Brandon is always praying that Beverly is alone, and since they sort of know each other they can really engage in a nice chat as well.

I have to socialize. I have to! Or else nothing would happen... Brandon thought to himself one recess as he is eating his chicken rice alone. All of a sudden, 3 plates settled down in front of him. He looked up, it was Beverly and two of her friends whose names are Dorsaline and Gasoline, from what Brandon can see on their name tags.

"Excuse me, but could we sit down?" Gasoline asked with a crooked facial expression.

"Sure!" Brandon replied. He continued with his chicken rice, and he swore that Beverly looked at him just now. As he continue with his meal, his heart is thumping fast. Dorsaline is communicating animatedly with Beverly, how can he start out a conversation with her when he do not even know the 3 of them well in the first place?

***INTERMISSION***

This story is too hard to continue LOL! Please wait a LONG time for it to be continued...

2008-08-30T23:57:00.000+08:00

Ignorance is bliss...

Hmm I absolutely agree with this statement.

2008-08-15T21:55:00.004+08:00

Yay finally back to post. To sum it all up, it is a rather sad week for me.

Hmm let's see. I got a B3 for Chinese O lvls, screw up for Bio paper because I didn't study genetics,(Woohoo!) and some other lame stuffs that I have come up for myself to pore over about. LOL! Anyway, the papers left for Prelims are:

Emaths P2
Amaths P2
Biology P1
Chemistry P1
Last but not least, Geog Paper 2, I hope I can do well for human geog... after all the day whereby the Geog P2 is held is a special day for me!!

My so-called plans after prelims will be so GREAT, provided that everything worked out for me, which never it never does. I don't know what to say la, just that the Sciences Paper 2 is so hard!!!

Some of my two most recent o2jam screenshots! Actually, only two hehe.

Red Sign good scores! 2k combo and 1.2 mil score and low number of miss/bad =D

%E - XT HDMIX FC!!! WOOHOO! Lucky 77 goods!

And by the way, I will release Couple 2 after prelim exams ba... Stay tuned! Haha!

2008-08-09T00:38:00.003+08:00

WOOHOO! Lol!! Feeling damn good now after a bath! I am excited(O_o) because I just found an interesting topic to blog about! You will know about it in a minute.

Warning Long post ahead!!! *** XDXD

COUPLES!!!

Ok let's start with couple number one:

Morrison and Mary

Morrison and Mary are both secondary two this year. Morrison has untidy hair and an average body-built. He wears a pair of fanciful spectacles and especially has freckles on his cheeks. He wanted to have a girlfriend as soon as he stepped into secondary school life. He always told himself one thing over and over again: If I ever have a girlfriend, I will love her with all my soul, cherish our every moment together BLAH BLAH BLAH. Mary, fortunately or unfortunately, has already broken up twice with two different guys. (ZAI right?) She is a very good-looking girl with stunning long hair, almost every boy in her class has taken a liking to her, she loves to come to school partly because she can have fun rejecting the boys.

Now Morrison was in Sec 1 express and Mary in Normal. Due to Morrison's mindset disturbing him throughout his entire secondary 1 life, he gets promoted to Sec 2 Normal Academic and ends up in the same class as Mary. Mary immediately sets her eyes upon him once he had introduced himself tonelessly to his "new" class, reason being she has found another victim to hurt and reject him as far as possible. Four months passed, Mary was surprised that other than a few small conversations, Morrison did not take any other initiative to talk to her, to show any signs of him liking her. Puzzled, Mary talked to him between free periods one day.

Ma: Hey little boy! Why are you so quiet in class. Socialise!

Mo: Nah, I can't believe that I am being kicked to this class in the first place. Now my friends from my previous express class are mocking at me.

(Morrison lowered his voice)

Mo: I appreciate you to have came and speak to me. Hardly anyone wants to have anything to do with me. Thank you.

At this, a strange feeling overwhelmed Mary. Morrison has already hit puberty at his age of 14 and he sounds totally "manly" to Mary. All her intentions of sabotaging Morrison is gone. For months, Morrison and Mary talk to each other during free periods and they even request their form teacher to allow them to sit adjacent to each other during start of term 2. At a fateful date in July, Morrison pluck up the courage to ask Mary to be his girlfriend. She agreed instantly.

Their first date was perhaps the most sweetest day the two of them had ever imagined. Morrison dressed himself in a striped long-sleeved shirt, long pants while Mary dressed herself in spaghetti straps and skinnies. They spent their first date obviously in CCK Lot 1. They adopt the habit of calling each other "Baby" as they progress on with their relationship. They felt that no one in this planet will feel as sweet as they are right now with their respective "Babies"

Things around them does not seem as welcoming as they think it is. Their relationship has somehow spread across the entire sec two level. Apparently all the boys in Morrison's previous express class tried to get on good terms with him, so as to chance a glance at his new girlfriend. Alot of girls were otherwise filled with revulsion for Mary due to her proud stance. She is determined this time not to let go of Morrison and love him forever... and so on.

As Morrison and Mary do not belong in a very disciplined school, alot of students who noticed their relationship started to spread rumours about them. Mary has made alot of enemies ever since due to the way she behave towards her female classmates, irritating them to the point where they decided to "seek revenge" of Mary. There was this group of 3 girls, their names are Sine, Cosine and Tangent respectively. Despite their young ages, they are those kind of girls who spent their lives squandering off their parents' money and pubs and night clubs. It would be a surprise that none of them is yet to be deflowered.

One particular day, The SCT trio decided to show Mary how "low-level" is she. Right after school, Morrison is packing up to leave. Mary went up to him and kissed him on the cheek in front of all her classmates.

Ma: Babee! Tuhdae cannot accompany you lurhhs. I need to go ahma house eat lunch and do some chores for her!

Mo: Gudd Babee! Seeya later okaess?

There was a slight shiver from a few of their classmates as Mary floated off, followed by nervous glances at the trio as they stood up and approached Morrison.

Sine: Hey, punk? Free tonight?

Morrison was very sure that this is his FIRST TIME speaking to the 3 of them for 7 months he had stayed in this class.

Mo: Nope I gotta accompany my girlfriend later, is there something I can help you?

Cosine: Oh you mean that dirty piece of CRAP?!?!

Mo: Hey I do not want you to talk about Mary with this kind of language!

Tangent: Guys are so easily tricked these days sia... You don't even understand her la, you don't even know anything about her.

At this, Cosine stared at all the remaining students in their class. All of them immediately scampered towards the door, noting that one particular boy dropped his entire bag upon realising Cosine was staring at her. She turned back to Morrison.

Cosine: Such a fresh looking young man...
She started to feel her finger through Morrison's neck, Morrison slapped it away.

Mo: Hey I am sorry but I am abit late for my afternoon's appointment...

Sine: Your so-called GIRLFRIEND is cheating on you, you noob! She used to have two boyfriends whom she ends up in bed with!

Morrison stood there gaping into thin air upon hearing that. The blow landed hard in his chest, but he slowly became normal again.

Mo: You can't fool me, you. She has been telling me how important I am to her, and how this kind of feeling is only for me and no one else...

Tangent: She is lying like DUH! She even invite Sine over to her house to record her f**k**g her ex!!!

Tangent's triumphant look on her face is evident as Morrison was completely shocked at this.

Mo: This... can't be true...

Sine: Listen for yourself, dumbass.

She took out her phone and played a recording to Morrison. Sure enough there is a girl moaning away with a voice of TOTAL RESEMBLANCE to Mary's in the background, with a guy's voice which Morrison has distinguished "You are so f*****g sexy!"...
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Night fall came, Morrison did not sms Mary the whole day when they are supposed to meet up on another date. Mary was furious and called Morrison.

Ma: Hey why didn't you sms me earlier? I am now at home le la, can't go out with you liao leh Babee...

Mo(coldly): Oh yeah, so what?

Ma(taken aback): Babee what's wrong?

Mo: Let's break up, I am not suitable for you, I did not even LIKE YOU in the first place! So there.

Norrison hanged up and throw his phone to a corner. He became emotional for the fact that his girlfriend who had been so precious to her is not only dishonest but also had had sex with other boys. A FULL 20 minutes later, Mary smsed him.

"Morrison darling, still angry with me?"

"Stop smsing me"

"But why? Can you at least tell me what's wrong?"

"No, I dun want to be your boyfriend anymore."

Surprisingly the next day when they both come to school, days seem to have reverted back as if Morrison had just stepped into his new Normal Academic class. Ironically, their classmates, who seem to care about their relationship totally at first, did not bother to speak a word to them. Despite still sitting adjacent to each other, they hardly ever communicate. Eventually, Mary started to hate Morrison, while Morrison grieves over his moment of folly...

After school that day, the SCT trio stayed back once again to listen to the recording they had showed Morrison earlier.

Sine to Cosine: I can't believe your moaning can match that of Mary's voice. The look on their faces today look liao also SHIOK!

Tangent to Cosine: You are so brilliant on bed la, that guy dun even have time to breathe!!!

The 3 girls laugh hysterically on the spot...

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*Let me give you guys an overview of this story. Morrison and Mary became a couple after getting to know each other for only a month, and smses. They DO NOT take their relationship seriously, making it vulnerable to all kinds of sabotage. In this case, even though the sabotage from the Sine Cosine and Tangent trio seems ridiculous enough to happen in real life, it does have that kind of "blow" on Morrison. Their lack of trust for each other has encouraged both of them to end their "1-month-relationship" just like that. No remorse and sadness can be apparently felt.

LOL that's what it is all about. The main point is that you are never ready for a relationship no matter how "professional" you think you are at this age - Sec 1 to 3 or 4. The point is that most relationships for lower secondary tends to end up like the example shown above, only to have more stupider sabotages than the example given above. Some couples apparently even break up due to the male party not replying an sms from the female for 20 minutes!!!!

I don't know la, I just want to say this to readers of my blog, only go for relationships unless you are very confident of each other and trusts each other. As for now it is essential to concentrate on studies instead of wasting time indulging in these kind of activities. If you are doing well with your partner right now, I sincerely wish you all the best in everything. The two of you have managed to trust each other, therefore making you relationship more stable.

Maybe I will blog about another couple the next time LOL! It is 1:45am in the morning!!! Bye!!!

2008-08-08T21:01:00.002+08:00

Yeah! Taken at Wayne's house. I owned Aloysius in Solitaire again after he has kindly urged me to do better my beating my previous "mediocre" high score.

Let's talk about today's National Day celebration. I had this idea that today might be a fun day as it is ultimate slack. This is true of course, but today is a complete waste of time. One example is that our school always select the two songs "Five Stars Arising" and "My people, my home". The repetitive use of these two songs can basically drive the whole school crazy. What's more our school is not that "disciplined" as well. We only settled down to sing the National Anthem and take the pledge. Haiz

Following which is the cheering competition. I only noticed the few starting teams, and then my mood is falling via a negative gradient! xD I love the community singing part LOL Haziq's high note!

These two are the two pictures I kop from Wayne as it is simply beautiful...

Two of my newest screenshots!

R3 96 goods FC!!!

Red Sign 2k combo!!! FIRST TIME!!!

Hmm I wonder if I should study Geog tomorrow. Although I am quite ok in both Sciences I should at least read up abit on Biology. I also must ensure that my Emaths is good, or else I will lose face to Yin Shuen. Nevertheless... GEOG!!!....

Haha I need to do Amaths tomorrow anyway... Bye

2008-08-03T16:13:00.003+08:00

Some nice screenshots! Yay!

Earth Quake 2.3k combo... Sadded when can I FC!?!?

Phase 1 2024 combo! Aiseh! Ending totally screw up as you can see.

Red Sign 1958 combo and less than 100 goods. Not bad

SHD Eleventh Hour FC 45 goods =D

Ok I am going to study Social Studies le, wakao Deterrance and Diplomacy very hard! xD

2008-08-02T19:58:00.002+08:00

The more you hope for something, the more disappointed you will be when it didn't happen.

Aiyer! Today is so so unlucky for me la! I went out with the 2Ys and I wanted to catch a toy for Yh. I screwed up in the end and wasted $5! That's so disppointing la! Especially when I caught the penguin with the pink ribbon for YinShuen on my 3rd try out of PURE LUCK! Never mind, everyone is moody today... Hot weather, boring weekend...

And I finally cut my hair, because I cannot stand the hot, sick weather. Ok Amaths homework, probably some SS revision and chem up ahead! =D

2008-07-30T22:53:00.004+08:00

Very cute right! LOL! Today is one of my best day ever. Everything seems to be going on smoothly! Perhaps it is... aiya because of that I simply felt so happy today!

Crapped all the way through with Cordelia, Aloysius, Nixon and Wee Kiat at his noobest form just now on msn. That means I did not revise any work today... Alamak! Prelims! Prelims!

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Sometimes I agree with this statement:
Your surroundings affect you adversely.

Does the way I post remind you closely of Cordelia? Omg! Omg! Omg!

Anyway, I still have my Amaths homework, Chemistry progress and that stupid F451 essay to worry about. Yawn

2008-07-26T22:30:00.002+08:00

Yeah! Got myself a new playlist out of boredom. Sadded, Where'd You Go has a small break at the front and it is censored. =XX

Realised that I have been wasting too much time nowadays. I am either watching television, stoning on msn or meddling with my Pokemon cards. Maybe I will create a list for myself to keep track of what I need to do BEFORE PRELIMS, which is like... ONE WEEK LATER?!?!

Read Fahrenheit 451 for goodness sake
Brush up Amaths
Revise Social Studies
Absorb everything for Geog(at least try your best :D)
Revise Chem
Read through Bio and its important points
English Vocab brush up

and finally

Read more, play less!!!

Oh yeah, I need to practice my Emaths as well, Vectors and The Box-whisker thing are very hard to remember. The frequency graph and so on. Haiz, maybe stop blogging for awhile? Hopefully I will discipline myself and STUDY! National Junior College? Or Pioneer Junior College(No offence intended) YOU DECIDE!

2008-07-25T23:44:00.002+08:00

Ok another week has passed. Nothing really exciting had happened and I really do not know what to talk about today.

Ok, so it's Friday and I have just slacked for awhile after coming back home from Night Study. Today is a little moody for the rest of us, but we are still happy as today's the ultimate slack day of our time table. 4 periods of not so tiring lessons + A Friday! Finally paid Wee Kiat his $30, that stingy woobish person... The good thing is my Chem is getting better, although I still have difficulties solving so-called easy Section B questions.

And by the way, since my dearest friend Qui Nee blogged about me, I shall blog about her too!

CHOO QUI NEE is first and foremost an interesting friend to know. She lives in Malaysia, Selangor if I am not wrong, and she is currently 15 years old. I firstly get to know her through my o2jam friend Meng Choon, who have quitted o2jam since the start of this year to concentrate on his studies.(Good lad!)

Some old stuff that I remembered about her was probably that her family is loud? LOL just kidding but there was once this small coincidence that I get to hear her voice and her intonation. She was probably tired then, as we do not any common topics to talk about... Ever since I got to know her I am able to maintain this cordial relationship with her. She is someone that always responds enthusiastically to my jocular comments and share with me her opinions and thoughts occasionally. Sadly the both of us are kind of busy right now due to Prelims/PMR exams, and we hardly ever have the chance to chat with each other anymore. But nevertheless she is still a nice friend to have!

She always gives me the opinion that she is living her life to her fullest. Although she may be abit obstinate at times, she is able to deal with certain problems without any effort, sometimes she asks me for help! XD She has alot of interests, namely Melbourne Shuffling, socialising as well as reading. She also has an artistic value and a gracious heart. And there you go, my dear friend Choo Qui Nee from Malaysia! =D

That's roughly all le bah, seeya next time! There's still no interesting topic for me to post about...

2008-07-22T22:58:00.005+08:00

Ok. I just had 3 hours straight of television and right now I am sitting here, with no plans whatsoever in mind, stoning and looking at the "Publish Post" button.

Ok I am back.

2nd post of the day today. Today is quite a happy day for me, simply because the whole of today involves only slacking. I know, I shouldn't say that as well as continue to so-called slack further. Prelims are coming!!! No more slacking! No more last-minute work!

If you do not believe the last sentence I have just said, Hi-five.

Ok as you can see, right after school, I immediately went home and play o2jam, producing the screenshot earlier on. It totally contradicts what I am thinking now. No more slacking! Well I just played o2jam just now like a demon?

Really have nothing to talk about until like early evening. I played Five-word-story with Aloysius, WeeKiat and Cordelia. Blah Blah Blah Blah I am so gonna kill them!!!

Created by Someone else

This is a wasted post. I am basically crapping LOL! Will post something interesting when I got the idea. But in the meantime, TRY TO CONCENTRATE ON YOUR PRELIMS ANSELM!!!!!

2008-07-22T18:52:00.002+08:00

WALAO!

See For Yourself How CLOSE I AM to Fcing Earth Quake Lol!
Earth Quake HX4, Combo: 2084

P.S.:
By the way ignore the msn window named TanWK below.

Nothing to post nowadays...

2008-07-16T18:14:00.002+08:00

Wow guess what! We got back our SS timed practice on Northern Ireland, and I got 6/13!!! Woohoo overconfidence rocks!

Actually not that I am overconfident la. It's just that I am confident of scoring high marks because I have studied. Or at least that's what most of the students feel if they sit for an exam fully prepared.

In the end I scored 6/13 because I didn't explain the given factor properly. Miss Rashidah is like, ranting about our mistakes we made when writing about the given factor, which is divided loyalties. Tell you the truth, all the mistakes are by me!

1) Abusing the word 'ex'
2) Write about Voting Rights
3) Getting facts wrong

Yup all my mistakes! And I was telling Wee Kiat I must get L5! Haiz Miss Rashidah is like, don't even bother to read my conclusion when she simply strike a number 6 on the paper. At least... it is the highest mark available if you get L2 for the given factor. At least I studied la, try harder next time, Anselm, DON'T be a fool.

Today was pretty much a plain eventless day.(Is there such a work called eventless?) I really think I should tell my mother to buy 4D - 1166

English Comprehension: 11/25
SS Timed Prac - SEQ : 6/13
SS SBQ exercise, India and Pakistan: 6/19!!!

Haiz... what a blow...

So right now I have to buck up in Chem, Geog, and Social Studies. I am currently stable in Amaths as long as I don't make any careless mistakes. HAIZ, ok I am feeling less stressed now. Seeya!

2008-07-12T23:55:00.003+08:00

Lol I announce that Mrs Joseph is really NO Earthling! according to her...

That is random. Only 4L1/2008 people can understand this lol.

Finally found something interesting to post after thinking about it for the whole day, for fun obviously. Let me share with you a little something that happened yesterday.

I was on my way to go to sleep last night, when I saw this large cockroach right beside my black cupboard. After being frozen for one second we had a little conversation. The cockroach's name is Wayne.

Wayne: Hehe I am the evil cockroach. My nymphs are all over your room! If you kill me my minions will come and crawl all over your body!

Anselm: Erm, I don't care?

Wayne: Come on and catch me if you dare. I simply hate human beings for being such a coward. Come on I am so much smaller than you! Why do you have to go and get that wretched thing?

By now you should know that I was thinking of getting my Baygon! Insect Killer. Seriously, why are most humans afraid of shit creatures like lizards and cockroaches, or even beetles and houseflies that sometimes appear in our houses. I can't deny that I am afraid of them too, but it is simply ridiculous. For myself, I will resort to insect killers and then I will dare to pick up the cockroach only if it's dead. Oh whatever.

The thing is, after I had fetched my trustworthy Baygon!, Wayne is gone. Oh well, I went to sleep all the same in the same room while Wayne is planning a surprise attack with his minions and baby nymphs.

It didn't came all night...

The next day happened as normal, I went to play Pokemon Trading cards again with Kenny and Benjamin. Just about an hour ago, which is 3+ am, I went into my room to check something. And I saw Wayne!

Anselm: Wayne! We meet again. Finally wanted to show up do you?

Wayne: Erm I am not Wayne. My name is Nixon.

Anselm: Stop lying.

Wayne: Cockroaches do not have birth certificates. My name is now Pikachu, and how I am so tired of my previous names... Wayne... Nixon... COME ON!

Ignoring Wayne or Nixon or whatever it is completely, I went to grab my Baygon! Crawling Insect Killer in the Kitchen. This time, Wayne has no escape...

When I am back, Wayne is already sensing potential danger from this large blue creature which is carrying a green weapon...

"My name is Raichu!"

Robotic voice: This is a dangerous mission ahead, Sir! Are you sure you want to abort the Kitchen and venture into your own room?

Anselm:

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Ya...

I have no choice.

Wayne must be vanguished and destroyed.

I guess it's all up to me...

It is TIME for S H O W - D O W N!!!

I missed the first time I sprayed the insectkiller. The cockroach is like stealthily crawling all over the floor, stopping now and then to look left and right. It then crawled onto my bed! I was like ZOMGWTF at that moment. Once it reaches the floor I immediately start to spray wildly over the region. It managed to crawl all the way under my table, which is foolish. Being cornered and sprayed by holy medicine, the cockroach lay dead by me, its killer, in seconds...

Warning: The following pictures contain copious amounts of varying high qualities of dead cockroaches. Even though the sentence before may be structurely incorrect, women with heart conditions are advised not to look directly at these creepy crawlies. Viewer discretion is not at all advised.

Taken with Flash =)

Does it look alive? It was indeed scary even though it is already dead!

It is on my hand! LOL

That's roughly all bah. It is now 5:20 am in the morning. It was Saturday yesterday and I have not slept the whole night. Cool huh? XDXD

2008-07-09T21:12:00.003+08:00

"You are doing it for your brother? It is just like me and my big brother Seito when we were kids..."

Seito is Mokuba's brother. Mokuba is often bullied in the orphanage, one day it so angers Kaiba.

"You guys call yourself bullies!?! He is not EVEN BLEEDING! You are all FIRED!!! I want you out of the orphanage by tomorrow morning! YOU... MAKE... ME... SICK!!!"

Hahas that's random!

Everyday will be eventful if you just be yourself. Does this make sense? Absolutely! Nothing to post le... Have been stoning in front of the computer for like don't know how long. Ok then let me recall what happen today...

Geog period is very interesting today. We are revising coasts and poor Nixon is being bullied by Miss Rashidah again. I have this habit of looking down when answering Rashidah's question and she's like..

"Don't look at the book!" Whenever I looked down... dot in plural form... But the person who made our day is Wayne Boon!

Wayne is asked to explain the process of hydraulic action.

Wayne:
"When the water recedes, the compressed air expands within the rock cracks. This causes the rocks to be further weakened as..."

Rashidah:
"Hey hey! Your process is going too fast!"

Silence...

Wayne's golden moment: "When.. the.. water.."

"NO NOT THE SPEED OF YOUR TALKING!"

The whole class burst into fits of laughter at this minor stupidity.

Amaths is after Osgodby's period where everyone is pretending to pay attention. Owned Wei Ling a little in Trigo again. Inspired by her question, I created my very own Trigo question that thrumped even Wee Kiat! Lol but Mr Tai solved it in 2 minutes... Wow.

English, slack. Chinese, slack. The assembly was wtf at the front whereby the presenter is seriously crapping all the way. Only a few of his acting of the various masks are funny. But when our dearest Ahmad and Jia Qi went on stage, it sure sort of brighten everyone's spirits!

That's roughly all bah! This blog is so boring... Maybe I am going to study Geog. There's a River's test tomorrow...

I missed Qui Nee and Meng Choon...

2008-07-03T19:21:00.003+08:00

Social Studies Time Practice Rocks! Hope I can ace that Northern Ireland SEQ!

I finally get the reason why every single parent do not want their teenage child to have a boyfriend or girlfriend this young. I mean, what's the point if you have a boy or girl friend? Oh, you like her 1314, 3344... May I drill this to your head that all these are pure nonsense? When you quarrel with your 'so-called' other half, you see, you 99.99% will not feel the same anymore. The problem is that we are still young and could not cope with something only an adult can cope. You may think that... Waa I have a girlfriend, I am everything, 100% categorical NO! Are you sure your 'other half' is going to think of what you think? I can go on obviously, but I ran out of ideas. XD

Nah jealousy ruins. Good luck everybody, if you think that your 'laogong' or whatever really likes you, think again. Don't know what to post le, looking forward to Bpian Idol tomorrow, especially the Indian boy contestant!

2008-06-27T23:09:00.002+08:00

I am back people, and today's the BEST day I have had for the term, LOL!

And so it is the first friday of the week. It is really hard to so-called 'adapt' back to sec 4's school life. Today we had Express Chinese O level Oral Examination as well as night study, and I am so happy of today as both are considered ENJOYABLE!

First we start off wih Chinese lesson, it is quite a normal chinese lesson except that everyone is trying to listen, after all there is 'Hell' later. It kinda surprised me that Cordelia didn't borrow my Rubik's Cube at the start of the day lol, but I got to say: She has gotten better! O.o Too bad Tan Wee Kiat!

Next is Biology lesson. Do you agree that every single Biology lesson is enjoyable or at least interesting? We are moving on to Ecology, another slack chapter that however needs revising in order to understand. Halfway through the lesson, I think maybe Yin Shuen or Hazrina or Nicole is bothered by a random bee that has flown into our class. Mrs Joseph saw it.

Mrs Joseph: You know that the bee is laughing away at us you know? It is laughing at us, scared and frightened by a tiny puny insect, that can only sting you and kill itself! I think it can't wait to go back to its hive and tell all other bees the joke.

She then mentioned random things that we love like a yellow object stuck on a tree etc and it is overall a good lesson.

I forgot to bring the English Comprehension as well as the English file. The English file is like due long long ago and Mrs Wong still remembers! >< Oh well maybe I have to find time this weekend and tidy after all.

Finally, the last and most interesting lesson of today - CME! Mrs Wong let us watched a very lame video, involving some French? soldiers who did not have money to buy real horses and simply pretend to ride on one by jumping front ridiculously. Somemore, there is this man clicking two coconut shells to provide the galloping sound! LOL! At the end there was this scene where they throw down animals such as cows and ducks to fight and it was totally funny!

Then Mrs Wong asked the whole class whether you want to do Orals, while she is buffering another video. She immediately asked who do not want to watch the video, so that obviously she can have oral practice with them. She even asked me! O.o And then Aloysius stepped in...

Aloysius: You shouldn't mentioned about orals, because if you asked us who do not want to watch the video, we will know that we are going to do orals.

Mrs Wong: Ya! So I am asking now...

Aloysius: TOO LATE!

HAHAHA! Lol the class are all laughing at Mrs Wong's moment of folly.

After that is the dreaded moment for all of us, the express chinese o level examination. Haix Wayne, Yin Shuen, Wei Siong, Jun Tao and I are in P147 for yesterday, and we are also the last 5, me being first. O.o While waiting with the 4A people, we are bored stiff by waiting so long, so I asked a fellow 4A schoolmate to play Chi-Ko-Pak! LOL! There's also once when one of them passed Wayne a chair to sit when we are going to go out, I immediately seized the chair to tie my shoelaces. Lol all the 4 L1 mates laughed like hell! Hahahas!

After that is our first night study of the term. Maybe it is because of the high stress level that after 'studying' for awhile alot of my other L1 mates have no mood to study anymore. We simply crapped ALL THE WAY from 7:45pm like that to 9.

Kiat Ni
Aisyah
Wei Ling
Vanessa
Yin Shuen
Anselm
Leon
Aloysius

Crappiest group!

Actually there's still lots of things we said yesterday that managed to reduce Yin Shuen to tears of laughter, but I forgot most of them! I was too tired when I reached home and this post is continued today, which is supposed to be Saturday. Haiz... Now I have to go and study my Bio, Chem Spa and do my Amaths.

Seeya!