Life of An Ordinary Guy

2009-01-27T20:58:00.002+08:00

Woot. 50th post on this blog. Such a wonderful achievement. The Chinese New Year holiday passes really quickly and by tmr this time, I will be at the miserable island named Pulau Tekong. However, I am quite lucky as I know that many of my friends are already on that miserable island while I am still at home blogging and doing all kind of random stuff, like playing dota.

Anyway, this CNY had been really boring. There was nothing to do except playing dota or watching some nonsense TV shows. I must really say that MediaCorp is really stingy enough to show those same movie it has been showing in the past 10 years. This makes me want to puke every time when I watch those old movies again. Thus, I resorted to wasting most of my time away by playing dota.

Furthermore, the fact that my mother is overseas makes CNY even more boring as there is a shortage of players now to play dai dee or any other card game. It is virtually impossible for 2 people to play card games as I would know what cards the other guy has. Thus, the conclusion is that I played dota for CNY

Well, the only fun thing during the CNY holiday was when LZ, RB, Hyrum, Shida, Jord and I went out on sat. We wanted to watch Red Cliff 2 but unfortunately, the tickets were sold out (WTF, Red Cliff 2 came out on 9th Jan and it was 24 Jan already and still can sold out). So we went to lan and guess what we played. Yes, we played dota (and some CS too). What can I say, we are just a bunch of nerds. Lol

The bright side of life is that I have already completed most of my military tests for BMT and only left with SIT test which is next week, SOC, IPPT and some route marches. I hope I will be able to survive all these stuffs.

Just as a concluding note, happy CNY everyone.

2008-12-25T10:24:00.003+08:00

Merry Christmas to all of you out there. Hope that you all have received some nice Christmas presents. Lol.

It has been 3 weeks since I entered army. Getting accustomed to the life in army, especially waking up at those unearthly hours and having an extremely loooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnggggg day. However, I am still not adjusted to the frequent shoutings and vulgarities everywhere.

Currently, the PT is still quite slack since we are obese and supposedly, if we over-exert ourselves, we will injure every part of our body. This must be the reason for the lack of change in my physique. The weighing balance even say that I gained 0.5kg. Lol

I got some very interesting bunkmates from various places. They are bunch of jokers, like me. Lol. Presently, we got quite some free time and we play a lot of chess. The Chess God in my bunk owns everyone who dare to enter our bunk to challenge him.

Too bad I can't write anything interesting about army due to the various rules and regulations, nor post any pictures. So for those who are going to enter NS in a few weeks' time, just experience it yourself and you will realise that some experiences are unable to be expressed in plain words.

2008-12-02T21:23:00.002+08:00

It's the night before NS. In about 12 hours time, I will be on some bus to Pulau Tekong. I guess it will be the end of freedom for me. Lol. I heard all kinds of stories about NS and in 3 weeks time, I can testify whether these stories are indeed true.

I am feeling this sense of dread right now. NS is bound to be some kind of hardcore PT and I hate all forms of PT, be it slack or hardcore. Anyway, due to this stupid day of enlistment, I can't go for Prom Night. Sad. Should have deferred like others.

Wondering who I will meet tmr. Sry for my incoherent rantings.

2008-11-28T10:02:00.002+08:00

Changed my template as I found the old one to black and morose-looking. At least the new one sorts of brightens up the blog. And the picture of Fabregas is really nice. Too bad I couldn't find a nice Arsenal blogskin.

Anyway, the "stayover" at Gabriel's house was really fun, although only Rongbing, Yedi and I actually stayed over. Gab is some rich kid, but we must thank him for being so rich. I was really fun to play rock band when u have the guitars, the drum set and the microphone although no one wanted to be the singer. We played rock band for like 8 hours straight, with only dinner in between to ensure a time of repose. Others were happily gambling away while a few were trying to gain a monopoly in the game of ,duh, "Monopoly".

After everyone else left, Rongbing challenged me to some Fifa and he cheated by using a greatly overrated Rooney to run through all my Arsenal defenders. However, after switching to Tottenham, Rongbing got rather owned instead by the also-as-overrated Berbatov. However, he still managed to shoot some wonder goals past my keeper.

Army is in less than 1 week's time. I guess I will get owned when I go in, having not exercised for more than 2 months. Still have the various applications for the universities to write and how come my Secondary School Report disappeared?

2008-11-19T15:35:00.002+08:00

It has become a routine to post after an exam. So, I decided to post today. A lvls are finally over and although i didnt screw up, I guess I didn't do fantastically well either. Econs and GP are up to the hands of God (I don't mean Maradona) to decide. The sciences should be well enough to get an A.

Piano exam today was a failure right from the first note. Cant believe I got owned by some scales. Lol. Somehow mixed up some fingerings and died. The first piece was pretty bad. Didn't heed Lingzhang's advice and started too fast. The consequence is that my left went into an uncontrollable frenzy and flew off the keyboard (don't ask me how that happens). Aural awareness was just as bad as I identified the time signature wrongly. Lol. Hack, with some luck I might just pass.

At least for now, the sense of dread has left me and I can enjoy some peace, rest and fun. Looking forward to all those stayovers and movies etc.

2008-09-23T17:02:00.002+08:00

Watched Man U v Chelsea last Sunday and I must comment on how lousy Man U is this season.

If the Liverpool match wasn't enough to demonstrate Man U lack of ball control, this match against Chelsea is an epitome of how noob Man U midfielders are.

Basically, man u decided to learn from teams such as stoke city and play hardcore defence after they scored a rather tyco goal by park ji sung (of all people, this idiot who dunno how to shoot). There were like 10 man u players at the man u half all the time and berbatov must had a really depressing time at the front, with only john terry to accompany him. This proves the statement that man u should really change its name to C.Ronaldo instead. Of course, the premise is that man city won't buy c.ron for 135 million pounds during the winter transfer period.

Finally at the 2nd half, man u's saviour appeared. C.Ronaldo, a.k.a Guo Jingjing the 2nd, was subbed on and he certainly did not disappoint his fans. In less than 5 mins, he did his most trademark move. He tumbled onto the ground before lampard even touches him-- a blatant dive worthy of a Olympic Gold Medal. But of course, the referee wasn't wearing his specs and gave man u a free kick. This portrays exactly how a likely-to-be FIFA player of the year should behave.

Talking about the referee Mike Riley (all long-time stalwarts of EPL should know him by now as the pro-man u dude), he was damn lousy during the match. He started the 2nd half when Chelsea didn't even have 11 players on the field, forcing Chelsea to kick the ball out of play just after they started. And being european champions and english champions, man u obviously had the sportsmanship to attack instead to returning the ball to Chelsea. Also, the referee didn't award an obvious penalty to Chelsea when Malouda was brought down by Van Der Sar. Interestingly enough, Ferguson still had the cheek to say that the referee was biased towards Chelsea. Fair enough, man u was awarded 7 yellow cards while chelsea was awarded only 1, but watching the match, you realise that man u deserves much more cards then they got. For example, after scholes got his first yellow card, he blatantly handballed at least one time and the referee didn't give him a 2nd yellow.

Anyway, if man u wants to retain its titles, it better buck up now and get some midfielders. Its current ones really sucks, with no one being able to pass properly and initiate an attack. This accounts for why man u were getting owned pretty badly in the recent 2 matches. It will be interesting to see how they will fare against a hardcore ball control team, like arsenal or barcelona, with current form.

Wow, I actually wrote such a long sports commentary! Mmm, have some potential to be a ESPN journalist.

P.S I am not a Chelsea fan, I am an Arsenal fan

Finally, a new post!

2008-09-21T18:13:00.002+08:00

Its been a freaking 3 months since I last posted and I only have one thing to say: YAY, PRELIMS ARE OVER!

Ok, actually I have more than one thing to say. Now, we have moved on to a rather oxymoronic epoque. It is actually post prelim times. One thing that I haven't understand is whether it is post- or pre- lim. Lol. This is a rather difficult decision to make. But as Wentao suggested that we are merely some Boltzmann brains living in an non-existent world (think about the philosophical argument on the brain in the vat), I guess I does not matter whether it is post- or pre- lim.

Anyway, prelims had been one of the worst thing ever to have happened. It was a disaster, a catastrophe, an apocalypse! I got owned by almost every single paper, with the exception of maybe maths. The teachers, as always, devised confusing and confounding question that ensured sure failures. The chem departments, consisting of a bunch of extremely N2 teachers, set a exam paper that only a Olympiad Gold Medalist can answer finish. This is unreasonable!

But at least, we can have a transient period of bliss now before what all the teachers term as the "final lap". So for now, just enjoy life!

IT'S OVER!!

2008-06-01T11:21:00.003+08:00

After a storm, comes a calm. This proverb can't be more straight to the point. As H3 final examination and A Tempo XIX come to an end, I should feel a sense of relief. However, the most significant feeling that I have now is that of emptiness, as if there is a void somewhere deep in my heart.

Perhaps it is the realisation that I do not have to travel to TJC/VJC twice a week or attend band prac twice a week anymore. Or perhaps it is the cruel truth that there is no more distractions to hinder my hardcore mugging schedule (no more excuses).

Anyway, both events are sort of successful. A Tempo was quite good although we made certain minor slips and mistake (like Huan Bin tripping over), and the fact that all these mishappenings are recorded in HD. But everyone went high towards the end, especially at Takarajima. Ziluo actually got so high that he hit his finger against the bell and cracked his fingernail. Most people praised us which made us quite happy. In my own opinion, I think we sounded better than CO. Haha. No offense to CO people.

H3 was easier than I thought. Although somehow my eyes managed to miss an important equation that was printed in the notes known as the Nerst equation. That one equation cost me 5 marks. GG! But I think I should be able to pass, and hopefully a distinction. The only problem with the test is that it's too long. It was freaking 3 hours long. I was foaming by the 3rd hour and had to entertain myself using the old tactic -- play with G.C. And it is not like GC is very fun to play with.

And yesterday was class BBQ. Darren produced so much food that it was an insurmontable task for us to finish it. There were chicken wings, sotong, prawns, satays, fishballs, fried dumplings, rice cakes and not to forget 2 gigantic bowls of bee hoon. However, with the help of Jabez, we managed to devour most of the food. Then we played all kinds of games such as carom, bridge chess, uno etc. And of course, we watch Goals of the Season. I was rather disappointed that most of the best goals are far range shots, and there were only a few nice build-ups and pro dribbling (most of those nice ones come from Torres). Went to at 11.30 to catch the last bus. Poor Jabez could never catch his train home to Tampines. Luckily there was the always helpful Sai Meng to send him home by car.

GP Common Test

2008-05-21T21:53:00.002+08:00

This GP CT has compelled me to rant about on this blog.

It is definitely set by some sadistic teachers who have the very intention of slicing, dicing, cutting, smashing, roasting, toasting us and destroy us that even our cells will cease to exist. I think that the teachers must have spents years squeezing their brain juice just to see us getting tortured by this completely killer GP CT.

At the first glance, the 12 essay qns seemed undo-able. Upon further examination, I was completely off the mark. The qns are not meant for mere mortals to do. Maybe only those immortals like Juanhe can find a way to write a decent logical essay out of those illlogical and absurd philo-sounding qns. Mere mortals like us can only moan and groan at the sight of that hideous piece of paper which sealed our fate.

However, the most odious thing is still not the essay, but the compre. 99.99% of us fainted at the sight of the first qn. The % of those who survived the whole compre must have followed a Poisson distribution.

I can already hear the evil grins and sinister laughters emitted from those GP teachers, who feel more like a grim reaper to me. They carry their scythe in the shape of CT papers and reap us of our soul.

Save us from those reapers!!!

A Slew of Tiresome Stuffs

2008-05-19T17:50:00.002+08:00

Time to wipe off the dust on my blog after nearly 2 months of indolence. Not to say that I am really slacking off since there is so much happenings.

Of course, 2 big events looming around the corner are the H3 final exam and A Tempo. Now, the ticket sales for A Tempo is really quite dismal. We still have more than a thousand unsold tickets. I feel this sense of guilt because I only bothered to sell the 5 tickets assigned to be and didn't ask more people to buy tickets, unlike some hardcore pimp Ziluo who sold uncountable no. of tickets to his bevy of girlfriends. Maybe I will try to sell more tickets soon.

On the other hand, I feel that this year's A Tempo songs are really quite interesting, although I would prefer to play more contemporary songs, like Pirates of the Carribean. But nevertheless, the songs are really nice, especially Saga Maligna. At first, I thought it would just another one of those long, boring-sounding pieces but I 've got it all wrong. Every part of Saga Maligna sounds nice (except maybe the ending which sound a bit abrupt, but since this is the second suite of the play Zaad Van Satan, I can't really complain). The few jazz and samba pieces also provided a different facade of band music, apart from the normal marches. I guess this year's A Tempo should be rather entertaining, as long as we don't screw up.

Talking about concerts, I just went for the RJCO one last week and no offence, but I find their pieces a bit boring a too long. This is especially true for their showcase piece, Odyssey. There was like 30 bars of the same music which nearly drove me to sleep (and many others to sleep already). But I guess it is the way Chinese music sounds, they like to have many repeats. Their Pirates of the Carribean does not sound as majestic as the band version, I guess due to having no brass instruments, and hence lacked impact. However, the soloists are super imba, like Shida who captivated us with his flute. I have to admit that he sounds better than Chester with his imba tonguing skills and dexterity of his fingers. But the highlight of the night is still when Rongbing gave his 20 red rose to *ahem*. The crowd surrounding him went crazy.

Anyway, life sucks now. Practices for A Tempo is really quite overwhelming now and although H3 lessons are over, there is always the final exam which I can already forsee that I am going to flunk it. I still don't understand how a bipolar junction transistor and a field-effect transistor works. Perhaps someone can enlighten me on this blog. Anyway, the books I borrowed from library are extremely overdue already and I think you all can find my name on the list of outstanding library fines soon. The books are not very useful anyway. They are either phrased in some chim language or are so outdated that they are older than me (the intro to semiconductors that I am reading now is published in 1985).

Then there is always the GP common test this wednesday. I think I am supposed to be studying now but from past experience, I have decided that mugging for GP will probably only cause my grade to be worse. I guess I will just depend on luck that the essay topics are do-able and that the compre is some free frag.

I am really starting to regret uninstalling my Warcraft III and all those other games. Now, during holidays, I have nothing to play and also no motivation to mug. So I spend majority of the time roaming around the house and reading random story books (like those you read in primary schools). They provide minimal entertainment. I don't know how I am supposed to survive the whole June holidays like this.

That's all folks. Stay tuned for the next update, which will be god-knows-when.

Aargh...

2008-03-20T18:44:00.002+08:00

"Gone like the wind". That is how u describe this CT. I got completed owned, pwned, raped, smashed, squashed in every way possible, be it physical or mentally.

I think RJ teachers have this perverted interest in seeing the students fail miserably. Maybe it feels like munching into a gigantic scoop of strawberry ice-cream (Mmm..) for every gigantic cross they put on ur test paper.

Econs paper was some hand-trembling experience. After the test, I couldn't even write properly. It is the same problem you get when you play 1 day of PS non-stop. Ideas was bursting out of my mind like a fountain during the econs essay, but I just do not have such strong hand muscles to be able to pen down all my ideas. The qn was like "Explain what kind of market structure is likely to be functioning in?" The answer is obviously oligopoly and there are 20+ pages of notes on oligopoly. Do they expect us to be able to write a 10^n no. of words essay in 45 mins?

Chem was the most tedious paper I have ever taken. At the first sight, the paper seemed short with 23 qns only out of which 15 are mcqs. BUT, and here is a BIG BUT(t), each of the qns is separated into part (a)(i) (a)(ii) (b)(i)... So in the end, you do around 50+ qns. Somemore they allocate extremely little amt. of mark of a lot of effort. For example, all 3 mechanisms were tested and for drawing innumerable benzene rings, they only allocate 3 marks each. That is so stingy.

The other test are like..... Haiz, don't want to talk about it. It's all over. Like what the Warcraft III character says "What's done is done." I shall try to enjoy this temporary tranquility.

OMFG

2008-03-14T11:59:00.002+08:00

Never expected the March hols to pass so fast. Time flies like an arrow is such an understatement. It flies more like a rocket. How I wish that I can suddenly obtain the power of Hiro Nakamura and freeze time so that I can forever live in this moment of sanctity.

Even though I managed to uninstall my Warcraft II (actually the com screwed up and I had to format it), I does not motivate me to mug for CT at all. Instead, I spent most of my time watching NBA (darn the NBA, everyday last for so long) and reading random storybooks which I have already read n number of times. Can't stand it, I am such a gigantic slacker (both metaphorically and physically).

Hmm, OMFG!%%!#%#$! Today is Friday already!!! I still have that thick stack of maths march hol qns lying in front of my face. There is still physics, econs and half of maths that I havent touch! Even if I mug from now until Monday, I won't be able to finish it. I guess i will just have to see my results plummet like a shooting star, even though it didn't start from a high altitude to begin with.

Ok, maybe I will try to mug later and salvage something before doomsday arrives. Lol, this is what you call "Hugging the Buddha's Feet". Who can find me a Buddha??

Rather Lot of Happenings

2008-02-24T19:10:00.002+08:00

There really seems to be a lot of stuff happening lately. I am of course not talking about those small stuff such as a school exam, but rather national or even international scale events. This compels me to rant about some of it in this personal yet public place.

Of course, I must first congratulate Singapore for winning the bid to host the Youth Olympics Game 2010. But, I guess it is quite evident that Singapore will win the bid. It was clear that one of the aims of the YOG is to allow countries that are not able to host the real Olympics to have a chance to hold one of a smaller scale. The other competitor, Moscow, held Olympics before and there is no reason for it to host this YOG when countries like Singapore is contesting for it. I thought that Malaysia should have entered the last round instead of Moscow. Maybe Malaysia didn't present a good enough report for its bid.

Another event, of a smaller scale and also one that is rather sad is the death of Lydia Sum. Her departure is really another sign of the departure of the older generation of actors and singers. Many others around her generation have either also died or left the entertainment circle. But I guess it is mostly those aunties in their 40s who watch actors like Lydia Sum when they grow up, teenagers like us only watch those young actors like Edison Chen.

And of course, this brings us to the next topic which is Edison Chen. Edison Chen is announced that he will leave the entertainment zone for good, and this news had obviously broken many of his supporters' hearts. I personally know that there are avid Edison supporters in my class and they would be devastated to hear such news. I guess Edison Chen is really unlucky enough to have some busy-body computer repairman to extract his all his information from his computer and find those porn pictures, but I think he is really quite stupid to put those pictures of himself and those celebrities in the computer when he know the prowess of those notorious paparazzi of Hong Kong. This shows us 1 simple rule: If you want to have fun, don't take pictures; If you want to take pictures, don't upload onto the computer; If you want to upload it onto the computer, don't send it for repair.

I recall a similar incident of the girl from NYP who also use handphone to take videos of her boyfriend and she having sex and the videos were found by her friend who uploaded it onto the internet if I am not wrong. It caused quite a bit of commotion. Hence, the best thing to do is just don't take pictures/videos.

Ok, I saved the biggest event for the last. This last event might not affect us, but it definitely might cause some ricochets in other parts of the world. That is, of course, the independence of Kosovo. Some might never even have heard of such country, but this event might have some serious repercussions in countries like Sri Lanka, Russia, China etc. Basically, places such as Taiwan can use this event as a excuse that they should be granted independence too. Also, only half of the world acknowledged the independence of Kosovo, which of course included the ubiquitous USA and its European allies. Countries that have problems with its ethnic/religious groups that have always wanted independence obviously denied the presence of such a country named Kosovo. Also, the Balkan region has always been the trigger of a war, such as the Kosovo War in 1999 (can't remember the year). Hope that this don't turn into another huge conflict.

Ok, let's end of with a more optimistic note. Obama has been pwning Hillary for a long time. 10 victories in a row? Lol. Obama rox. Sorry for those Hillary supporters

Chinese New Year

2008-02-07T11:26:00.000+08:00

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

The festive season has arrived again. It is probably the most important festival for the Chinese. As Wentao put it, "You can basically stretch out your hand and find food." Most likely, he will gain 10kg by the time school starts again.

For me, CNY is more of a break from the hectic schedule this year. Finally, I get some time to catch up on my sleep and maybe watch some nice movies that I missed. However, I will not get a lot of time to slack since there is still a pile of holiday homework.

Anyway. Went for Interhouse Dota Trials for BB last friday. Interestingly, we rather owned the J1 team even though eveyone keep on saying that the heroes that we drafted sux. However, it was obvious that our mass AOE spam killed the opponent team's mass stunners before they can even react. Yay. An unstoppable streak for my viper, even though I was not very important in battles and my only purpose was early game lane control and slowing those fortunate survivors of our mass AOE spells so that our team can chase him and put him out of his misery. But I don't really care if I can play for interhouse Dota, since I just wanted to quench my thirst for Dota since I havent touch it for 1 month+.

The Japan trip is also finalised. I love RJC. They magnanimously decided to sponsor EACH OF US $3000 for the Japan trip. That is like $ 150 000 for the whole band. Lol. Hope I can still catch up with my studies and own CT 2 even though I will not be able to mug for 2 weeks.

Random Babblerings

2008-01-24T16:52:00.000+08:00

Much have happened since I last blogged.

First, there was the band orientation, which was exceedingly well-planned compared to the one the year before. At least, I guess the J1s managed to catch some of their batchmates names. I finally have a junior. Yay. Don't need to solo during concert already. But the sad part is that bassoons also have juniors and I cant play my interesting bassoon 3 cue for American Salute anyway.

Then, there was the start of H3 physics, although I am rather unsure if I entered the right course. I opted for contemporary physics yet the lecturer is always teaching chemistry and biology. For example, for half of the 1st lecture, we were doing chemical bonding and I nearly fell asleep. Bad choice of mine to go to VJC. It is unbearably boring there and the lecturer has a soporific voice. I can't believe that there are people who can pay full attention under such sleep-inducing situations.

Our class is also taking part in frisbee Take 5. Not bad, we actually have a chance of winning considering that we have the Dynamic Duo (Sai Meng and Gabriel). Rong Bing even suggested a 1 day intensive training in school as a preparation and that he can be our coach although I sincerely distrust Rong Bing's aptitude in frisbee, taking into account that he actually throw the frisbee in such a queer spin that it hit the PE teacher. LOL!

New Year, New Resolutions

2008-01-07T21:30:00.000+08:00

I havent blog for a long time, but that was not really my fault. My harddisk screwed up again and I spent days trying to fix it. Lol. Now, its finally fixed but I lost my WARCRAFT III. That means NO DOTA for a long, lo........ng time. Ok, after the cruel reality sink into me, I should look on the bright side. No dota means more time to mug. After all, dota used to take up too much of my time. Now, I have time to finish all my homework + watch some anime (there is still YouTube haha).

New year started rather boringly. I really didnt feel like going school on the first day. Shld have followed the scholars example and just pon it. Lol. But school was surprising slack. I expected every teacher to be like red alert mode and spam us with notes and homework on the first day, but it went rather peacfully and I had quite some free time at home. But I guess the pace will soon increase with CT 1 coming up.

Anyway, here's some of my new year resolutions:

1) MUG!!!

2) Pass NAPFA (hardcore gym??)

3) Don't play computer game until A-levels is over (most likely cant keep it for more than 1 month)

4) Don't pon so much band (means still can pon a bit. Lol)

Quote Wench: My new year resolution is to resolve all my resolutions.

Lingzhang: I will be more sexy

Jeremy: I will not ....................... lag

Merry X'mas

2007-12-25T00:14:00.000+08:00

What a nice time to post. Early in morning (or late in the night) on 25th December. I assume that everyone knows what a special day this is, although it doesnt really matter much to me since its a holiday whether it is X'mas or not. But I would still like to say: Merry X'mas.

Ironically, my house is as un-X'masish as possible. There is no pine trees decorated with ornaments, no socks filled with wishes, no log cakes, no grilled turkeys (and barely a proper dinner since both of my parents are working) and definitely no one dressed in red clothes and a gigantic white beard. Of course, this got much to do with the fact that my family are not Christians and thus, doesnt really care about X'mas.

However, I did receive some X'mas smses but I did not send them out to others as my handphone has ran out of money (I use pre-paid card). But pardon me not sending any of those interesting or corny X'mas smses out.

On a last note: buckle buckley blog is up. the address is bucklebuckley.blogspot.com. BBians go visit it!!

The Golden Compass

2007-12-12T11:34:00.000+08:00

Watched The Golden Compass with Wen Di and Lingzhang yesterday. I have to admit that The Golden Compass is a bit disappointing, mainly because the movie is short. It is only about 1hr and 45mins long. They could have expanded the storyline much further as some parts seemed a bit rushed.

The movie felt like Chronicles of Narnia remade as the storyline is a bit similar. Also, both movies had lots of animals roaming around and fearsome creatures such as ice bears pwnzing each other. But I have to say that the animation of Golden Compass is superb, as good as Narnia.

Anyway, it seemed quite weird that all of the characters in Golden Compass got weird names that are rather tongue-twisting such as Lyra Balaqua. It seems to have follow the tradition of Terry Brooks to have a lot of weird names for people.

The movie on the overall is worth watching but I hope that the sequels will be better than this (like LoTR).

Holidays are boring

2007-11-30T09:13:00.000+08:00

As Jordan was kind enough to remind me, my blog is rather dead. I havent posted anything more than 3 weeks. But I must say it is not exactly my fault, everyday seems to be the same to be that I cant seem to see a spark or a motive for me to blog anything.

Holidays are basically separated into 3 major parts: eat, sleep and play (and a bit of mugging for SAT to keep my conscience clear). Play mainly refers to the innumerable games of DotA that I've played.

Oh ya, I also watched Stardust under the influence of Lingzhang's blog. I have to say that Stardust is a really nice movie, one of the best movies I have watched since LOTR and POC. I think it is better than Narnia. The storyline is quite nice, the fighting scene are not bad and there is small injections of humour every now and then in the movie.

My SAT preparation on the other hand is completely in a mess. I just simply couldn't tell which one of the edited sentence is the best way to edit it. Haiz. My grammar really sucks (evident in my blog). I should really spend less time on computer and more time on SAT but I simply cant control my temptations. Sad, I am going to die tomorrow.

Post-OP Era

2007-11-05T11:27:00.000+08:00

Blissful is not the right word to describe the feeling after OP ended. It was certainly not blissful, since we were still fresh from the outrageous stumbles that we made during the OP and our lack of vocabulary and ideas during the Q&A. I guess, burden-less would be a better word to describe it.

Anyway, the past few days had really been bad for me. Probably because I forgot to turn of the fan in the night which caused me to freeze into hypothermia, I caught a fever and had to lie on the bed for 18 hrs a day. That feeling was simply horrendous, one that I have not felt for a very long time. The worst thing is that I have to go for piano theory exam the day after.

But lucky for me, the fever somehow got conquered the night before the exam thx to my imba white blood cells like those macrophages and also my antibodies (Hmm, I can still remember some biology).

Piano exam was relatively free frag like it always was, just that I got owned by that German expression "Lebhaft aber Zart" which I completely don't understand at all. So, based on the music, I guessed it to be soft and sweet which was quite off from the original meaning of lively but tender. I wished I had learnt some German from LZ or RB. Why? Why don't they provide some French stuff for me to translate??

But the good thing for me was that I got to play computer almost anytime I want since that was my privilege from getting sick (as long as I can get up from my bed to the computer). So I hardcored some DOTA during this period. The anti-maphack version is quite good and it also caused some funny things to happen. For example,

Random guy dling the version: What is AMH?

Host: Anti-maphack version

Random guy: What does that do?

Host: If u mh, u get a fatal error.

Random guy instantly left the room.

Rest of us: MHER!!!

Lol.

Anyway. Thx to all those who message me or call me to wish me to get well soon!!!

DOOM has befallen on ME

2007-10-22T22:10:00.000+08:00

30 post on this blog, but regretfully, this will be a rather melancholic and emo post. WHY? Of course it was due to the long dreaded return of promos paper.

The day before the return of promos paper, I wished and prayed to every single saviour, immortal being or other kinds of deity that the stack of promo paper will simply miraculously disappear and thus, free us from the trauma due to the atrocity of our results. However, I know that it will just be a dream and we must face the doom that is brought in front of us.

I just did not think that I would have died so miserably, simply shell-shocked (as Mrs. Lim says) at my results. Even my highest subject maths, was not something to be proud of. Although 94 marks is relatively high, I have already met numerous people who got either the same marks as me or higher. ( like some asshole by the initials of lz who had 3As for promos)

Another notable thing that happened was OP dry run, which as expected I screwed up. I didn't even bother to read my script before the dry run and was literally reading off it. But I must say the Mrs. Lim was really strict, she hardly gave any positive comment to anyone. She also denounced everyone's as childish and inane. thus causing all the groups to either scrape the whole thing or crack their heads to think of a new one.

"Life is sad!" quotes from Rong Bing whos says it 10 times a day.

Open House

2007-10-07T15:31:00.000+08:00

There is only one word to describe Open House --- Hectic.

Befriending and performing really does not go along with each other. There is a performance almost every hour and due to that, I had to run around almost never-endingly from the main gate where I was being assigned to the MEP room where the band is supposed to meet before the performance.

Anyway, I think our performance was laudable. Even Zackary who was renowned for his rather cynical comments said that it was quite good. Although the amphitheatre was not exactly the most suitable place for band performance due to it being large and empty, thus causing the band to sound echo-ey. However, by playing the notes short and sharp, we managed to overcome this little setback and our "ABBA gold" sounded rather nice.

Our brass quintet was a bit screwed up, especially for Rondeau. Ziluo made the fatal mistake of playing his crotchets into quavers and got lost. In the end, he just resorted to playing at ad libitum and only joined back at the last bar. Also, I somehow could not raise until the 1 octave higher B-flat and mispitched into a F. But other than that, the whole thing was ok.

Befriending, on the other hand, was extremely boring for me. There were hordes of befrienders stationing at the main gate waiting to snatch customers when they come in, but the problem is there weren't any until 10+ am. Hence for the first 1hr plus, most of us were just simply sleeping and doing some nonsensical stuff. Indeed, I found that everything about the Open House was not bad, just that there were not enough visitors, at least in the morning. Most of us who were school tour befrienders at most did only 1 school tour and for me, I did none. So basically, the only duty I did not befrienders was too carry some goodie bags.

I pity the afternoon shift people. When I left the school (around 3) , there were uncountable number to students and these poor afternoon shift people had to walking around the school and talk incessantly for 4hrs. Hope that they never develop sore throats. But for us who are the morning shift people, we just had a slack duty except getting lectured by the Teacher-in-Charge(Although I didn't hear what he said, cause I went off to prepare for performance. Haha!)

The End

2007-09-29T09:17:00.000+08:00

And so it ended. As quickly as the promos started, it ended just as abruptly. However, even though as short-lived as it was, it still left a deep impact on everyone.

Promos is meant for us to promote, and of course, I do find that the promos paper seem to be easier than the CT. However, we completely underestimated the difficulty of chemistry paper. Without a hint that we are supposed to bring curve rule, most of us resorted to using our free hand to draw the reactant/time graph which ended in disaster. At least most people managed to find the correct answer for the question. Unfortunately for me, my free hand was not very flexible and my curve was simply horrendous, rendering the question undoable.

Most people were complaining about chemistry and I can still remember the chem lecturer saying that "You will pass chem unless you try to fail" in a matter-of-fact way. Now I come to think of it, I is more correct to say that "You will fail chem and trying is of no use".

What's done is done. I shall not moan about this promos but to enjoy the short break following this!

Lack of Motivation

2007-09-14T18:52:00.000+08:00

I am rather disappointed with myself.

Promo is in 10 days time and I am still unable to force myself to revise for it. Maybe my motivational system is spoilt.

Although I always say that "can get promoted to JC2 can already. Get straight As for what?" I still want good result for promos. It will probably be a bargaining chip for me to buy a new computer.

I remember during one day during the September holidays, I asked Lingzhang whether he finished all his tutorials. He look at me weirdly and said "Of course!" When I told him that I havent do P&C tutorial and oscillations, he was astonished. At that time, he already did 20+ maths revision questions while I havent even bothered to touch them.

Also, I see multitudes of people mugging crazily in school under the module acronymed PIMP (Promo Intensive Mugging Programme). Of course, this is not counting in the industrious girls in my class who finished all the chem revision worksheets. For example, Lingxi refused to walk to RI to eat lunch because she thinks the time taken to walk to RI can be better used for mugging purposes.

Somehow for me, I just cant resist the temptation to play Dota when I am alone at home. The computer seem to be as what Adam Smith calls "an invisble hand" grabbing me and seducing me into starting the program "Warcraft III". The end result is simply a whole day wasted. I forsee that my study break will turn into a Dota break since my mother is in Australia.

To end off, quoting from Yiheng "A minute wasted a mark lost". Following this quote, I guess I have already failed promos.

Finally 17

2007-09-01T10:07:00.000+08:00

After 365 days of anticipation, I am finally 17. Yay!

This year's birthday was much more interesting than last year's. I still remember the eventful day last year when my birthday fall on the same day as 3rd language EOY. So after the Teacher's Day Celebrations, Su Jun and Nicky went to my house and played some dota. Then, we had to rush off to take our French EOY. After the test ended at 5 plus, I went home and rushed for my piano lesson which was at 7 and returned home only at 9. This cause me not to have any dinner at all. The only thing that I ate that evening was a slice of my birthday cake.

This year, I invited about 15 people for my birthday celebrations and we went pooling and lanning. The sad thing is that I got completely owned in pool. At first, I was unlucky enough to choose the table with Peng Di on the opponent team and he just simply cleared half the table with one ball. After a few rounds of complete thrashing, I decided to swap to the table with slightly lower standard. So, it was Wentao, Ling Zhang and I vs Dehui, Wen Di and Jordan. Then this Wentao go and anyhow take free balls and ended up missing the free frag completely, giving the opponent a free ball. Then, my final slice of the black ball hit the sides of the pocket and never go in. So, this Jordan just ksed my black ball. Sadness.

Lanning was fun, especially because I got quite good heros for both matches, although Ling Zhang owned me in the first game. But then, I swapped to Ling Zhang's team because Gabriel had to book a place for dinner. So we Ling Zhang, Jordan and I 3v4 against Rong Bing, Dehui, Wen Di and Wentao. Our team is too imba and we ended their misery in 40 mins, which is considered relatively short for a dota game. However, something unfortunate happened. Jordan lost his wallet at the lan centre. We searched for it for 10 mins but could not find it, so we just gave up.

We ate dinner at Cafe Cartel, which caused the girls not being able to finish their meal as Cafe Cartel serve gigantic portions of food. Rong Bing and I completed a daunting task of finishing a meal for 3 people (with some help from Yedi) and we were completely bloated, although Rong Bing still went for this serving of the salad. In the end, we had this heap of unfinished ribs as all the girls ordered ribs. So, we saw the food devourer -- Gabriel at work. He seemed to ate up all the ribs with ease when the rest of us will vomit if we eat anymore. His metabolism rate must be astonishing. Haha.

After dinner, we went to the arcade, which everyone went to tryout the drummania machine. However, even though we had 5 people to play the thing and everyone was in charge of 1 drum, we still could not survive the 2nd stage of the standard mode. Maybe too many cooks will spoil the broth? Anyway, Rong Bing whacked the drum so hard that the rubber cover came out. Lol. What inhuman strength.

Lastly, I would like to thank everyone who came for the pool, lan, dinner etc. and also for the presents. The presents really rock. However, the massager got koped by my parents because they think they need it more than me. Haha.

P.S Hope that Jordan can quickly find his wallet

Of Class Chalet and National Day

2007-08-10T21:20:00.000+08:00

BB WON INTERHOUSE CHAMPIONSHIP (although it was a tied between BB and BW)!! Haha! Who were the ones who said that no other house can possibly catch up with BW just one month ago, when the difference between the houses was still 22 points.

BB has indeed come a long way to winning the interhouse championship. I still remember the days when Buckley was always the "top 5" every year and how people laugh at Buckley. I was also one of them who believed that Buckley is a gone-case and there is no way for us to save it. But coming to RJC, I found that BB is a completely different thing. The most interesting metamorphosis must be that BB is the champion house for 2 years running already. Also, the girls from Buckle are pretty strong and so are the people from non-Raffles schools.

However, BB did not have a fantasic start. After getting owned in orientation games, everyone was jeering and saying that the negativity of Buckley guys are too strong and it is acting like a blackhole, sucking everything into its deep abyss.

But we soon proved them wrong. After owning some intellectual competitions such as Interhouse Chess Competition (which I participated in) and getting 2nd for pictionary, we soon became 2nd overall, losing only to BW, which has a gigantic lead. By July, BW had 88 points while BB only had 66 points. It was rumoured that it is impossible to catch up with BW already. However, BB owned rock-climbing, tennis, floorball etc. and completed this Herculean feat of catching up with BW. So 3 cheers for BB.

Ok. Back to the main stuff. Wed and thurs was class chalet. I went lanning before class chalet with Lingzhang's class again. However, there were some more crashers this time like Rong Bing, Jordan and Hyrum. We played CS at first and surprising, I got top score for CS having 38 kills (half of which is I ksed Wentao who was my meat shield) . After that, more people arrived and as there were 12 of us, we could only play two 3v3 dota games. Guo Nian, Kennedy, Rong Bing, Jordan, Hyrum and I was playing one match while the rest were playing another. The pattern to the dota game was that whichever team has Rong Bing will get completely owned. This shows Rong Bing's finesse in dota.

Class chalet was fun, although the space was a bit small. Played loads of cards and some FIFA 07, which involved me creating a new manager and using a Norwegian team to playing in the Norwegian league.

Rong Bing treated us to dinner on Wed. I was too lavish for me, and the bill was outrageously huge. I nearly fainted looking at the bill, and so must be Rong Bing, cause I saw his face turning pale when he looked at it. Dinner comprised of a chilli crab, and black pepper crab, cereal prawn some clam etc. It somehow reminded me of an inhouse dota game that I played with 4A, when my team comprised of chilli crab, blackpepper crab, steamed crab, holy crab and of course me, firecrab.

After dinner was pooling. It was a battle of sexes when the girls decided to take on the guys. Lufei showed off her rather skillful way of playing pool by jumping the cue ball every single hit. I really amazed me. However, I was not sufficient to save the girls from a defeat. By midnight, we returned to the chalet and they started watching "The Appartment", which was a really lame ghost movie. I went downstairs and played some Scrabble, which involved rather weird words such as "Frogo", who was a brother of Frodo from LotR and LV, acronym from Louis Vuitton and etc.

Thurs was rather wasted. Reached back home at around 1.30 pm and fell asleep upon touching the bed. Woke up at 7p.m and watched a bit of NDP. Then, I watched "Troy" which was rather interesting. The way that Achilles fight is very cool. But I remember vaguely that Achilles was supposed to be gay and loved his cousin, Patroclus, which caused him to be so angry that he killed Hector. In fact, Homer's title for this part of the poem was called "The Wrath of Achilles". But on the whole, it was a brilliant movie and the wooden horse was simply magnificent, although Priam seemed rather retarded.

It is National Day, the day to celebrate the birth of a nation. But all I hear today and yesterday is a funeral march, which is played currently downstairs. How ironical.

Injuries are Bad

2007-08-04T16:01:00.000+08:00

I must confess that basketball is a dangerous sport, especially when you are playing centre and trying to snatch rebound with another guy who is using all his force to push you away.

Recounting this year, I had been injured countless number of times while playing basketball. These injuries range from a small scratch on the hand (masterpiece by those who use the unorthodox skill of "九阴白骨爪") to twisting fingers. But none of these injuries is as bad as the one I suffered yesterday, after landing on the side of my foot. Yes, you are right. I twisted my ankle.

For those who never twist your ankle before, I will try my best to describe to you the agony of it. I feels like having a vein which keeps on popping in and out every time you try to twist your foot. However, if you don't twist your foot, you will feel this bulge at your ankle which is very uncomfortable. If you can't suppress your impulse to twist your foot and you really twist it, you will feel this sharp pain which will definitely cause you to drop on the ground and writhe in pain.

Yesterday, my foot was still not hurting that badly after applying some ice. But this morning when I woke up, my ankle was swollen. But lucky for me, it's saturday so I can slack at home.

Bad things aside, there is 5 day break next week. WOOT! Class chalet on Wed and Thurs. Looking forward to that

Class Adventure Camp

2007-07-21T17:50:00.000+08:00

Class Adventure Camp was relatively boring. But luckily, we brought 6 decks of cards and a frisbee which partially prevented us from dying of boredom.

CAC began with the journey to Pulau Ubin, during which we played taitee. Upon reaching Pulau Ubin, we hurriedly finished our lunch and played frisbee. I found that frisbee really rox especially when you are playing monkey with it. It trains your reaction skills and it is very amusing to see people diving at frisbees.

The real adventure started when we were divided into 2 groups and went on a trek. We instantly realised that we were unforunately enough to trek right after a rain. The road has become more of a stream or a dried river bed where there is mud all over the place. Whenever you take a step, we you will feel the sickening sensation that your shoes have just sank into the mud. However, mud wasn't our biggest worry (especially after you've been through sec 1 orientation), it was the ubiquitous mosquitoes which tormented us throughout the 1 1/2 days. No matter where you are, there will always be around 10 mosquitoes surrounding you. During this period, there is a widespread of dengue fever and no one will know if the mosquito which bite you is a Ades or not. Through some means or another, we completed the trek. It was a rather short one which only took 4 hours, but the girls were exhausted at the end of it.

We pitched our tents after that and it was Gabriel, Captain Sai and Muscle Justin who did most of the job. Justin simply lifted Sai Meng off the ground so that Sai Meng could tie the rope onto the tree. After that, Justin lifted Gabriel to tie the knot on the other tree. Tent building took us 1 hr.

After dinner, it was night walk. This was the event that caused a lot of panic. This was because we had to do SOLO night walk. Somehow, Justin managed to scared the girls by saying some stuff which I didn't hear because I was the 2nd guy to go into the deep dark forest. Night walk was rather interesting, although I wish that the ground was not so wet and that there was no light sticks. Light sticks affects my night vision a lot. I could only the the bright light from the light stick and nothing around it. Being the 2nd guy, the light sticks were shining too brightly for my own good. I depended quite a bit on my 6th sense and just walked straight to the light sticks. It was rather amazing that I didn't fall of the sides when on the next day, we realised that the road was quite narrow and you will probably die if you fall off the sides as it is all river.

We played more cards in the night and I played until 2 am. When I walked back to the camp site, I realised that several of them were having a party and they were boiling water. They said it was too hot and noisy to sleep as the other class was chit-chatting. I didn't care as I was quite sleepy. After a while, I realised that they were very wrong, I was damn cold and I was freezing to death. However, I refused to use my sleeping bag as it meant that I will lose my pillow. That is how I ended up having runny nose now.

2nd day of camp is quite short. We went to this played where it is completely infested with mosquitoes. You can basically just stretch out your hand, clap and voila, you've killed a mosquito. I tried it and killed an Ades (at least that is what I think, as it has white spots on its legs). We had to blindfold ourselves and walk from 1 specified tree to another specified tree, then to the 3rd specified tree. Under the command of Captain Sai, we completed the task without any effort.

And that was the end of CAC. We returned to RJC, washed the equipments, and I played 30 mins of basketball, although I was going to fall asleep soon. I reached home and slept for 15 hours. Not bad.

P.S I would like to thank Wilson and Wendy for being great companions during the CAC

P.P.S For those who don't know, Wilson is a character from "Castaway", and "Wendy" is another coconut that we found during CAC

Ecstasy & Melancholy

2007-07-18T21:06:00.000+08:00

Celebrated Yedi's birthday last sunday. Although birthday is meant to be a day of celebration and joy, I can distinctively feel an atmosphere of depression around me while we were eating dinner. Of course, most of it came from Yedi himself, who openly declared that it was the worst birthday he ever had. He was trying to drown himself by drinking 1 bottle of red wine and 2 bottles of beer and poor Rong Bing had to accompany him in his binge on alcohol.

But, I guess for most of us, this period of time is rather filled with sadness. We just got back our first common test result and I presume that the majority of us will not be happy with our results. I failed my first test in a long time, and I was disgusted with the rest of my results too. AABDS is not exactly a score that I was hoping to get. However, like what Mr. Hodge had said today, we should treat this as a wake up call, and work harder for the rest of the tests. After all, there is still promos in 2 months time and A-levels in 14 months time. So, we must not slacken but work harder to achieve good results for A-levels.

On the other hand, I can't stop feeling a sense of anticipation for tomorrow's class adventure camp. It must be my adrenaline working again. Although I had heard many horrendous stories about the Pulau Ubin site where obviously, all the water that come out from the tap has this lemon tea colour and that you must either suffer from mosquito bites or having houseflies circling above your head, I still think that class adventure camp will be very fun. Imagine 1 night playing bridge or taitee for x number of hours continously, or throwing a frisbee around with Jabez and Gabriel. Woot. Can't wait for tomorrow! (of course, another benefit is that we can skip school for 2 days)

Feeling down

2007-07-12T21:11:00.000+08:00

What started as a rather brilliant week has turned into a horrible one. My common test result is completely disastrous. Physics which is supposed to be one of my stronger subjects only achieved the lowest B possible which is 60 marks, and that is after being thick-skinned enough to beg almost every single script-marker for a mark before adding that precious 1 mark to my previously even more disgusting 59 marks, which is a C.

An even more devastating result was GP. 54, a D. Comment on my essay was that "the points were relevent but predictable" and hence my content got 15/30. Dotz. You don't have to give a person a bare passing mark just because their points were predictable right? I think the marker would rather have someone blabbering nonsense than to have someone who think of those textbook-styled politically correct answers.

And yes, econs. Haven't get back essay yet but from the current situation, it seems that econs is doomed to get a D or a E, although with luck a B and with immensely large quantity of luck, I might even get an A, but that is almost equal to the possibility that I can do a chin-up tomorrow. So, expected result of CT: AABCD. Nice alphabets.

Live Earth

2007-07-07T21:41:00.000+08:00

7/7/07. Definitely a day worth remembering. Saw many people wearing green today. Wonder if they are all environmentalists or just coincidence. Was scolded by Chester for not wearing green when he was wearing a conspicuously bright green Buckley shirt. Went for the first band practice in dunno how many month. Played this song titled "American Salute-When Johnny comes marching home". I must admit that the title is quite corny (and who on Earth is Johnny?) But the song sounds quite nice, especially when there is a long tuba melody. Then, we got completely owned by "Extreme Make-over" which is by Tchaikovsky. Got lost after 50+ bars cos I had a 132 bars break at the start. Fell asleep halfway and it was mainly Mr. Oura singing the melody when the real melody was either lost, or non-existent in the first place.

After reading Ling Zhang's blog, I am horrified to know that my image to Zhangs is a perverted freak. Lol. This shows that one should not watch shows like 'Borat' because the only thing it does is to pollute your mind (then what is Rong Bing now? He has Borat in his handphone and that is to say, having a portable Borat around). But I must clarify that I am not that kind of person who is sick in the mind and neither did I have images of Rong Bing in action.

Anyway, I shall promote Live Earth here too. We should all do our part in helping to conserve the environment. We must remember that when we pollute the environment, we are killing ourselves too. Envisage one day when there is no more trees, animals other than human being on the Earth. It will be a very sad day indeed.

But I will end this post on a happier note. Got good results for chem and maths CT, but english was a bit disappointing (a D). Will work harder!!!

Out Of Boredom

2007-06-30T18:53:00.000+08:00

Blogging here at Su Jun's house cos I have nothing to do. Waiting for him to eat finish dinner so that we can leave and go Nicky's house for Hotmales gathering. Haiz, this Su Jun eat damn slowly leaving me to rot in front of his new computer.

Nicky's house simply rox. I think it is only place which can fit our whole class in comfortably. When I say comfortably, I mean taking up only 2 out of his 3 storey house. This is not say that there is a a pool table, mahjong room and TV projection room etc. You name it, he has it. Lol.

That is all. I think Su Jun just finished dinner.

Aftermath of CT

2007-06-29T18:54:00.000+08:00

Completely owned by physics. As most people said, when they took maths, they thought nothing can be worse than maths. When they took chem, they thought chem must be the hardest CT. And then.... when they take physics, it was a massacre. To put it plainly in Hu Ching's term, doing the physics CT paper felt like having 10 guys ****ing him. Lol. Basically, I didn't know how to do like most of the structured questions. I don't even understand some question, like the one that says using area under pressure like graph, solve the change in momentum.

But them what's done is done. We must not cry over spilt milk. And the bright side of it is that I have 4.5 days of rest after CT. Woot. Spent 1st half of the 4.5 days playing lan. Lol. After CT, Rong Bing and I was so bored that we just simply don't want to go home, but our class has dissipated into thin air, so we were thick-skinned enough to parasite along with Ling Zhang's class and managed to persuade like 1/4 of his class to go and play lan, incurring the wrath of Kennedy(aka mongster). Damn, must treat him to lunch one day to apologise cause I really didn't want to waste money to go and watch some stupid movie like "Transformer" which is plain action and no plot at all and according to Wentao, the robots only appear one hour after the show starts.

Lan was quite crappy, especially the 1st game when my team had Zhan Ming and Rong Bing and they were feeding like god-knows-what (you should ask Wentao for the answer). Although I was imba-ing with Naix, I was impossible to turn the tide. Actually, we were winning at first but we slackened and gave them time to breathe and gather a counter-attacking, ending in complete annihilation of our team. Then later, Ling Zhang imba-ed with some Lycanthrope and had a score of 21-1 (The one death being him suiciding in our fountain and the end of the game). Hence, it was a very good day for me.

After lanning, we went to play pool. Had some unlucky time again. Rong Bing, who was on my team, hit in the black ball together with the white ball, causing our defeat. And Wentao had some real tyco-ness hitting in three balls continuously by rebounding them like 3-4 times around the walls of the table...

But still, after CT is always a time to rejoice. So, I shall enjoy this 4.5 days in peace before going back to hectic school days again.

Holiday Trip

2007-06-22T12:01:00.000+08:00

Part I: Hong Kong

My first impression of Hong Kong was not a very pleasant one. This was because of the inefficiency of the Hong Kong customs. When I reached there, I saw around 100 people queueing up in front of the "Foreigners" lane. The most idiotic thing was that only 3 "Foreigners" lanes were opened which caused the queue to move at a rather slow pace. After queueing up for like 1 hr, I finally entered Hong Kong.

Sadly to say, my opinion of Hong Kong didn't really change throughout the trip. Hong Kong is rather famed for its convenient public transport. However, I do not really feel that transport in Hong Kong is that great. For one thing, taking public transport is very expensive. For example, a bus ride from Central to Causeway Bay might cost you 8 HK dollars and that is considered cheap as it is a short ride.One thing I must comment is Hong Kong's roads. They are super narrow and twist a lot. When you are riding on a bus, you will get this feeling that the bus must topple any time to knock into another car.

Food in Hong Kong is not bad, but it is not cheap either. A bowl of porridge cost 30HK dollars but I must say that it really taste nice. There is a generous amount of vegetables and meat inside the porridge and the rice are cooked until you can't really see the grains of rice. It had become a rather thick soup.

Hong Kong Disneyland is really not worth visiting. There is only 1 rollercoaster ride inside the whole Disneyland and after riding it, I realised that it moves on exactly the same track as the one at the Tokyo Disneyland. Other stuffs are not worth riding too as it is meant for smaller kids around the age of 12.

Part II: Shenzhen

I feel that Shenzhen is much more interesting than Hong Kong. The food at Shenzhen is nicer and cheaper than in Hong Kong, especially the dim sums. There is a huge variety of dim sum in Shenzhen restaurants ranging from char siew pau to prawn dumpling. And most of these dim sum only cost 3.5RMB with the most expensive ones costing 14RMB.

Shenzhen has a amusement park too and I think this amusement park is much better than the Disneyland in Hong Kong. The rollercoaster ride is much more exciting and there are also many other heartstopping rides which will provide you with hours of fun. This might be one reason why the Hong Kong Disneyland is making a huge loss and investors do not want to invest in the HK Disneyland anymore, as reported in TIME. However, I did not manage to go to this amusement park as by the time I reach there (which was 7 pm), most of the rides were closed.

Shenzhen has many interesting places to visit too. There is the Big Plum Sand（大梅沙） and Small Plum Sand （小梅沙）which are 2 stretches of beach where one can swim and do other activities such as parachuting and surfing. The only difference between the 2 places is that Big Plum Sand is free while Small Plum Sand requires you to pay some money to enter. Thus, there are much lesser people at Small Plum Sand which makes it a favourite holiday place for those rich asses.

Another place worth visiting is the Fairy Lake （仙湖）, which is famed for granting people's wishes. Hence, many people come here to kowtow in the temple and donate money to the temple. But apart from being a place of worship, the scenery at the Fairy Lake is beautiful too. There are trees all over the place with a lake in the centre. Definitely a good place for a picnic. The Fossil Park is another attraction in the Fairy Lake. There are many tree-like fossils in the park and all of these fossils are millions of years old and they were buried underground after a volcanic eruption and fossilised.

Part III: Zhuhai

A very clean place as there are quite few inhabitant as compared to other cities. Visited the Mazu statue. I enjoyed the feeling of water beating against my feet as the bridge leading to the Mazu statue was purposely built so that it is half submerged.

I ate oyster steamboat for lunch. I think I ate my entire life's oyster in that one meal. We ordered 2 plates of raw oysters and there was at least one dozen of them in each plate. Then, we order another dozen of BBQ oyster with garlic and one plate of fresh prawns. When I say fresh, it really means fresh. When we put the prawns into the steamboat, you can see the prawns jumping around in the water trying to avoid their fate of being cooked alive. But too bad, none of them escaped their destiny. In my opinion, the BBQ oyster taste much nicer then the steamboat ones as there is that nice garlic taste in them.

Part IV: Zhaoqing

Didn't really spend a long time in Zhaoqing. Only went there to visit the famous Seven Star Rock （七星岩）. As its name suggest, the Seven Star Rock are 7 mountains with lakes in between them. A very scenic place again, somewhat similar to the Fairy Lake just that the mountains are higher are look more solid (is that the right way to describe a mountain?). There place is quite big from the top of the mountain, you can see the whole town of Zhaoqing.

Part V: Guangzhou

Guangzhou is the final destination that I visit on this trip. The food in Guangzhou really rocks and it is cheap. And the dim sum in Guangzhou is the nicest that I've ever tasted on this trip or in my whole life. However, I must comment that the service in Guangzhou is not good as they never ever wear a smile on their face and I do not know if it is because they do not understand 普通话, but we had to call them several times before they will respond.

Also, the roads in Guangzhou are built in a weird direction and there are uncountable number of bridges all over the places making it almost impossible to remember the roads in Guangzhou unless you are a local.

The clothes in Guangzhou are cheap too ranging from 20 RMB to 100 RMB for the unbranded ones. However, I suggest people who are big-sized don't bother trying to buy clothes in Guangzhou because the clothes there are damn small. A XXL in Guangzhou is around a L size in Singapore.

That's about all. Need to mug now. I feel that I will definitely die for CT.

Piano Exam

2007-06-07T19:45:00.000+08:00

Haven't update my blog for a long time cause there are so many things that I could do that I couldn't really feel bothered to write my blog. Since today I suddenly feel an urge to blog, I shall blod about my piano exam.

I was rather ok actually but I really screw up my scales. The examiner said "Plz play a D harmonic minor mf legato", then I went to play D melodic minor. After that, for the next harmonic minor, she had to repete it twice to emphasize that it was harmornic minor and not melodic minor. Also, when she ask me to play diminished 7th starting on B flat, I hesitated and played dominant 7th starting on B flat instead. Lol. I guess I died for scales.

Sight reading was screwed up too. I played almost every chord wrongly and especially my last chord was horribly wrong. Pieces was ok and there were only some minor mistakes here and there.

Haiz. I hope I can get merit for it lah. But something tells me that I won't get a merit. Anyway, now I can enjoy the rest of my holiday (or what is left of it) in peace.

Investiture

2007-05-27T09:09:00.000+08:00

Investiture was in the end, a disappointment. Zero post for me. Remained as member. But alas, I must agree that ther are people in the band who has greater capabilities then me and are more committed.

However, I must still say that some of the postings are weird. For example, Yuh Yiing got the secretary post when she didn't even run for it and this is rather unfair for those people who ran for secretary posts. Even though Yuh Yiing is very capable, but if she didn't run for the secretary post, it should be given to some other people who wants the post. Also, the battle for the SL position is quite weird too. Certain sections like clarinets, they rather given a person double posts then to give the SL position to someone else. This is unlike last year and also last time in RI where they usually spread out the positions unless the rest of the section are too lousy. But saying abtzy is too lousy is indeed a wrong statement when he is so committed, yet Yuh Yiing got double posts and abtzy got none.

Another thing I realised is that it is indeed hard to get a fun outing done with girls. This is not a statement of gender stereotyping or discrimination. It is just saying that guys and girls simply have different hobbies. For example, I would consider going lanning, pooling or playing basketball as a good form of entertainment while the girls would rather sit down and talk, cam whore or shop to entertain themselves. While I find that the latter 3 activities are a form of wasting time, the girls find that the activities that we like tends to waste money or have too much body contact. So what's the conclusion, our outings usually ends up sitting down and talk or play cards (no bridge, but some rather mindless games which require no thinking).

I really think that not all our outings require both the guys and the girls. The guys can go for some outings alone and not together with the girls. Because one should not sacrifice his own interest for the sake of other people. Just like the chinese saying "人不为己，天诛地灭". So if even Heaven and Earth will slaughter you if you don't help yourself, how can you just forsake your interest like that. Maybe next time if this kind of things happen, I will just call up some hardcore lanner and going lanning.

Exco Interview

2007-05-17T19:53:00.000+08:00

Mentally exhausting. That's the 2 perfect words to describe the band exco selection held yesterday. After going through the interview with RIMB 1 3/4 years ago, I didn't think that the exco interview can be so exhausting for the brain.

To know why the interview was so difficult, one must first know the kind of questions they ask. Give you a classic example. During the BM, ABM interview, the following question was asked.

Han Xin: "Han Xin and Qian Ye callipygian?"

Interviewee: "Yes?"

If one's vocabulary is rather limited (like mine), one will probably not know the meaning of callipygian and hence, a politically correct answer will be yes.

After knowing these kind of weird questions being asked, one will probably feel nervous before the interview. Hence, I started pacing up and down the corridor while Chester was watching an episode of bleach while Paul was imitating the voices of the bleach characters. After a while, Paul started singing "Touch my sexy back!" while Wen Chong continued the song singing "Oh, I will touch it now" in the tune of Sexyback chorus.

After a long anticipation, it was my turn for the interview. I must say that the questions weren't that bad. The only one that I had no idea of how to answer was "How many tuners are there in the band?". Randomly, I said the first number that came to my mind "Eight". Eight must have very high entropy value.

The interview with the teachers were rather relaxing as they were joking a lot while having the interview and the atmosphere was relatively relaxing. However, the chances of me getting the QM position is rather slim as there is the Cheese who sure will get the position and Charlene who is very popular. God bless me!!!

P.S Callipygian means having a shapely bottom. The perfect answer for that question was "Han Xin has but Qian Ye don't"

Post SYF Aspirations

2007-05-14T18:50:00.000+08:00

SYF is finally over. I can finally breathe normally again. Days before SYF were really tiring and I don't even have time to revise any stuff causing me to fail multiple tests continuously =( Okay, Now it's time for me go back to the right track and own all those tests again. After all, small lecture tests are not hard, aren't they? XD

There is nothing much to talk about for SYF. We played our best, although was not the best performance that we can give. But in my opinion, we played quite well for SYF, without any major screw ups. Although we only got Gold, I think none of us has any regrets for this SYF. After all, we did make history right? So, PLZ STOP ASKING ME WHY BAND DID NOT GET GOLD WITH HONOURS!

Today was a exhausting day indeed. Arriving back at school, I realise that there are so much homework that we must do and I had no idea that there were such a thing. End result: I was rushing econs during physics lecture, maths in chem lecture. But luckily for me, physics lecture was mainly recapping (I hope) and chem lecture was just going through the tutorial which I can borrow from Rongbing to copy (who in turn PHOTOCOPIED Zhang Ying's answers).

Tomorrow is econs test. I feel I am a half dead man already. Read through the econs notes again but don't understand half of it, esp. the part on market failures caused by incomes which are socially unacceptable. I mean, how do you know if the income equity is socially acceptable or not? Maybe my brain is just too slow or narrow to see these economic concepts. Sigh, I think I should get some tuition from Sai Meng.

Piano exam is 1 month's time! Must hardcore piano!!!

Class Outing on Labour Day

2007-05-04T19:18:00.000+08:00

While those MT and MR superheros went to watch Spiderman III, we the evil villains represented by HH (venom), BB (green goblin) and BW (sand man) went to find our own forms of entertainment on Labour Day. For my class, our form of entertainment was to go Darren's house and wreak havoc (typical evil villains' way of doing things).

After reaching Bishan at 1, the bunch of us consisting of Darren, Rong Bing, Gabriel, Ari, Zhang Ying, Lufei, Tianbo, Tang Liang, Qingyu, Yuemei and I took 55 from the interchange and reached Darren's house in around 20 mins. To my surprise, Darren lives relatively close to Shailesh, only around 2 bus stops away. The first thing we did when we reach Darren's house was to do what all evil villains do, gobble up all the food that we see. Even Rong Bing who had 2 meals with 3 hours managed to eat a slice of pizza, a plate of bee hoon and various fried food. Halfway through our feast, Qihui, Vivien and Miss Ong arrived and helped us to finish up everything. Sadly, Miss Ong had to leave within 30mins for her frisbee training.

After bloating ourselves, we did another thing that all evil villains like to do. Yes, you guessed it. That is to gamble. Once the pack of cards and the mahjong set is on the table, one can easily see the inner nature of a gambler within every member of 08S06M. People fought for places on the mahjong table while others formed conspiracies while playing asshole taitee. The whole place turned into a wet market with people shouting stuff like "My cards rox!! This round sure king liao!", "OMG! Revolution!" and "Wait. I want to 'peng'". For those who don't know what is 'peng', it is a special word used in mahjong and it is better that you don't know what it means so as to prevent you from turning into a gambler like me.

After hours of gambling, we finally decided to play some more civilised games. Name another thing that evil villains like to do. That is to kill people. Hence, we started playing the game of 'murderer'. Basically, each of us are given a card and if the card is a king, the person is a murderer. The murderer will wink at the poor victim and the victim will be instantly killed (represented by opening his card). There is also a chance that the person's card is ace, which means that the person is a detective who must find the murderers. Detectives can't be killed and are given 2 chances to find the right murderer. Of course, there is a 3rd job of being the healer, represented by a Queen card. That person can heal anyone back to life except murderers by simply sticking out their tongue at the person. I must say that this is a game of intense concentration because there is danger all around you and one wrong move will cause your death. Ok lar, even if you don't move you will still die.

The day ended brilliantly when Rong Bing, Gabriel and I took cab home from Darren's house and RB managed to extort 5 bucks from each of us. Lol.

Pre-Labour Day Ranting

2007-04-30T16:50:00.000+08:00

Tmr is Labour Day! No school for one day, but need to do some labour. And what is the best way to labour? Go Darren's house for a class outing. At his house, we can do all forms of labour such as labouring our mind by playing bridge, labouring our body by playing basketball, badminton, labouring our soul by simply going to his house and dozing off in the bus, etc.

I must say that the chem lecturer is extremely lame. I nearly died of lame-ness as he told his joke.

Chem lecturer: Why are we closest to a woman tomorrow?
Us: Hmm....
Chem lecturer: Because we can have labour tomorrow!! Haha!
Us: Err.......

This is just a classic example of his jokes. Another one of his jokes involved Yedi.

Chem lecturer: Why are you talking to the person beside you?
Yedi: I'm telling him I have a flu
Chem lecturer: I dunnoe if you flew(flu) but I know I can fly
All of us: Err...............

From these 2 examples, we can infer that the chem lecturer has nothing better to do. Lol

I feel rather sad today. Completely got owned by the econs test. 7/25 is not exactly very close to passing it. But I should look at the bright side. Only 4 people passed, and to no one's surprise, Sai Meng passed econs test without a sweat. Rong Bing (mention bad things about you again) was extremely traumatised as when the looked through the white patches of the correction liquid, he could see his marks dropping from 7 to 6 and finally to 5, causing him to fail by a mere 1 mark. Haiz, I dun understand how people knew what to write and where to write it. For once, I managed to get the right things to write, but I wrote the stuff in part (b) instead of (a). End result, no mark!

Rest of the day was fine. A kind Rong Bing (good things about you this time) send me to Khatib by car today although after much calculation, I realised that I didn't save any time by taking his car. Lol.

My newest desire is to change my graphics card but from chatting with people, I realised that if I want a decent graphics card that can play C&C Tiberian Wars, Call of Duty 2, Diablo 3 which is coming out soon, I will need to change my motherboard, RAM, processor etc. This means that at least like 2k will be spent on the upgrade. That's a lot of money! So, I'm having 2nd thoughts about the comp upgrading.

Of Maths Test and I-chess/Weiqi IHC

2007-04-23T21:22:00.000+08:00

Maths test owned me upside down. I was naive to believe in Naing when he said that the maths test was super simple and if I cannot do the questions, I might as well as slash myself in the stomach. I would greatly be entertained to see Naing performing the heroic Japanese act of slashing their stomachs. The test questions are tricky and I read one part of the questions wrongly. Instead of the average of x1 and x5 is 602, I thought that they wrote that the average of x1 to x5 is 602, hence not being able to solve the problem. Haiz, 6 marks gone like that. Going to get beaten by Rong Bing. Noooo, this must not happen. At least Rong Bing got his first question wrong as he trusted his graphic calculator too much and drew a wrong graph. Haha (evil and sadistic laughter).

Okay, now onto something more happening and happy. BB WON BOTH INTER-HOUSE WEIQI AND INTER-HOUSE INTERNATIONAL CHESS!!! I can't believe it as for i-chess, bucklet was always 5th in RI. Maybe it is bcos of pros like shuyi and hanyu from RGS that gave us our sweet victory. So, congrats to all those people who participated in i-chess and especially the champion team comprising of Kovan, Jun Ren and Hanyu.

Weiqi was equally exciting was we won BW marqinally by the calculation of small score. I donated a precious 9 pts to BB and in the end, we were crowned the CHAMPIONS. For me, I was rather easy to win the other 3 opponents, who were not very adroit at weiqi. However, for my match against Yong Han, I accidentally did a wrong mvoe which caused the my most important area to be eaten up. Sad. If I didn't make that wrong move, I might even be able to win a trophy. Never mind, 3 wins 1 lose is not bad for a non-weiqi club person.

Exciting Week

2007-04-20T19:14:00.001+08:00

Yup. Another exciting week full of events that will make 1 long post.
Econs test comes first. This event which happened on Tuesday caused much trauma an hysterical cries. After battling against time, i finally managed to finish my econs essay. but to my horror, I found that Rong Bing's essay were 5 pages long while mine is only 3 pages long. I just can't imagine how he can write so fast. Even if I move my hand at the speed of light, I dun think I can write so much. This is simple because I don't really have much things to write. Fortunately for me though, Mr. Ong said that those who never write CETERIS PARIBUS will DEFINITELY FAIL!!! Lucky for me, I managed to remember these 2 important words in the last 5 mins and I wrote it 3 times and wrote a whole paragraph on the limitations of ceteris paribus. Hope that I can wriggle my way through again and don't have to attend econs remedial.

Killer rating: 9.5/10

Inter-house Pictionary is the next event on the list. The rules for inter-house Pictionary is relatively different from the normal game that we play. Each house is given 3 mins. They have to roll a dice to see how many squares they can move and draw the picture according to the colour of the square that they land on which si read off from a card.Surprisingly, my team comprising of Lingzhang, Yu Jun, Hu Ching, Xian Jie, Mel Ho and I managed to own the prelim round. Even though we did not move a single square in the 3rd round, we were still first for our group which consists of 5 teams (1 from each house). I really pity Ronald Chan's group. Their first word for one of the rounds was "make" and Ronald spent 3 mins trying to draw "make" was it was quite futile.
Finals was exciting but I was rather a BW pwnage since they have 2 teams in the finals and they sent their Art Club members to go and participate in this event. However, I must still congratulate my team on beating the MR team by 2 points.

Happiness rating 8.5/10

3rd on the list is the mock chem SPA. I must profess that I completely screw this one up. First, I didn't read 1 of the instructions, which says "add 10cm^3 of dilute nitric acid into the solution before titration against FA3)." And I didn't add it, which caused me to have a slight difference in the result as compared to other people (will cost me around 6 marks for accuracy). Next, I didn't see the concentration of X as if was written right at the end of the paper where they give the Ar of different elements. In the end, I didn't even have enough time to finish calculating the stuffs. And the worst thing is that I overshot the end-point as I thought the slight colour change of yellow to orange was just a trick of the light. Hence, I added a extra drop of FA3 (which is actually potassium manganate) to make the solution turn pink. I could see the examiner write somethingon the checklist which suspicously resembles a cross.

Killer rating: 10/10

And........... (drum roll), the highlight of this week is none other than NAPFA! The sheer pronounciation of this word causes some to tremble on the ground while leave others dancing around in joy. NAPFA is indeed a time to show off for some people who can run sub-10mins for 2.4km and do 20+ pull-ups while being a torture for those people like me. But I must say that I am rather proud of myself as I ran 12.54min for 2.4km which is my personal best so far. RJ PE lessons really helps for my 2.4km as at the start of the year, my 2.4km was 14min+. However, after getting AABBD for 5 stations, I ended my dream of a bronze or even silver. It is the PULL-UPS. After struggling for 10 secs on the pull-up bar, I decided to give up. I was destined for me to fail. But the worst thing that can happen is to fail in front of the girls. Lol. They came to watch u since they finished their 5 stations already. A rather embarrasing sight but luckily, I am rather thick-skinned like and elephant (or rhino, hippo whichever one u prefer). Hence, I was still able to play soccer after that.

Killer rating: 100/10

An Update

2007-04-17T18:43:00.000+08:00

I have just gone crazy once again. This time, it's real madness (not like the crazy chinese chess moves that I invent every time I play with Lingzhang). I have signed up for too many activities that I don't even know whether I can handle.

First, there is my main CCA, band. Band falls on wednesday and saturday, and in the near future, probably thursday as well as SYF is in 1 month's time. This means on wednesdays, I can only reach home at 9.30 (piano lesson from 7.30 to 9+). For saturdays, I will reach home at around 5 pm.

Then, there is Boon Lay Youth Club which randomly calls people to join for activities such as Maths and Science trail, Amazing Race for the Disabled etc. So for every saturday, I must be mentally prepared to skip band and go for BLYC activities.

Thirdly, I signed for the Singapore Physics Olympiad training which falls on every thursday. Reach home at around 8 after 2 hrs of quantum physics, circular motion, superposition etc. I must admit, quantum physics sounds cool (although most people want to vomit blood learning it).

Fourthly, I just joined recreational badminton today. Lol. Hence, on tuesdays, I will not be able to reach home early too. Furthermore, I am deciding to sign up for CIP for AWWA. This means that I will have to tutor some children at Boon Keng on tuesdays from 6-7.30 which also means that I will probably reach home at 8.30 or 9.

Last but not the least, Chinks dragged me into some titration club which he and Marco just started. Dunnoe what happened to it. Lol. Imagine sitting in a chemistry lab doing titration for the whole afternoon. Might bore me to death.

Sigh. (continuously until I run out of breath)

Craziness

2007-04-11T21:53:00.000+08:00

Unbelievable. Simply pure insanity. Man U pwnzed AS Roma 7-1??? I watched the first half of the match and I must say that the final outcome of this match was rather unexpected. For the first 10 mins, the match was more or less even with AS Roma having more chances than Man U. But at the 11 min, this completely changed. Carrick somehow managed to kick the ball at the goalkeeper by distorting his ankle coz his first touch of the ball was lousy. I'm not sure whether it was intended or the ball simply hit the wrong part of his feet, the ball just flew in the shape of a beautiful parabola with the equation of y=(1/5)x^2 (ok lah, I know there is drag force so it can't be a parabola). The goalkeeper of Roma was simply stunned by the brilliance of this shot that he just watched the ball zooming past him into the net. Roma was shattered by this goal and went for Man U's goal at full force. However, Man U showed their superiority at speed and 1 touch soccer and took this opportunity to beat Roma flat. First half score: Man U 4-0 AS Roma.

The funny thing is that today when I was reading "Newpaper", the critic only gave Rio Ferdinand 6/10. The reason? Quote from "Newpaper", "Rio Ferdinard to the direct reason for De Rossi's goal. He should not feel too relax even when the team is leading by 6 goals." Lol. 6 goals and you should not feel relaxed??

Anyway, today is a rather fun day. Played basketball with Darren, Rong Bing, Ling Zhang, Jordan, Cheese, and 2 random guys. We, the 6M guys + 1 random guy who is Darren's friend vs Zhang, Jord, Cheese and another random guy who was the owner of the ball. I am glad to say that we owned them coz they lacked communication. One moment they were doing zone defence and the next moment, they are using man to man. End result: Cheese who was 1 head shorter than me was fighting with me for rebound. Obviously I koped a rather lot of rebounds and undernet baskets.

After the refreshing game of basketball, we went to play bridge while cooling down. Zhang and I teamed up against Rong Bing and Jordan(who didn't know how to play contract bridge). We rather bullied them until Yicong came and team with me. Jord then left for volleyball training and Zhang took over his position. Hmm, Yicong and I managed to win our first (or 2nd) match together by downing Zhang and Rong Bing 2.
Not a bad day, but I must do homework now. Sigh!

Sad weekend

2007-04-10T20:33:00.000+08:00

Since I was extremely busy during the week-end, I shall post what happened during the uber tiring weekend that left me in depression. Lol.

Good friday was the only good day in the weekend (obviously). I managed to complete all my homework for the weekend in one day, which is not saying a lot, as there was only maths assignment. I was looking forward to a rather exciting weekend of play DOTA and watching movies such A.I. Watched the ending of Ice Age and Cinderella Story on Channel 5. Cinderella story is not a bad movie, I must say. A rather boring day, but not too bad as I played one game of DOTA, but sadly, got owned.

Saturday was ultra hardcore band. It started at 9.30am and ended at 5pm. That's 7.5 hrs of band in one day, almost the same period of time that someone works in a day. I end up getting tuba-itis (an infection u get when u play too much tuba). Went home and watched a super depressing soccer game, Arsenal vs West Ham. How would u feel (talking to Man U, Liverpool & Chelsea supporters) when the team that u support lose so stupidly. Here are some statistics, Arsenal: 30+ shots, 10+ shots on target, 0 goals; West Ham: <10 shotts, <5 on target, 1 goal. This is not counting the 2 shots by Arsenal that hit the crossbar/post and a few more shots being saved by the West Ham goalkeeper's flailing arms. I guess Man U supporters must be feeling the same as Man U just lost to Portsmouth 2-1. Haha.

Sunday was supposedly a day of rest, but we had band again, to rehearse at Singapore Conference Hall. Sigh. Went to school at 12 and ended at 5. Rather slack as compared to the band prac on sat. At the end of the rehearsal, Mr Oura jokingly said, "Enjoy ur weekend! (or what's left of it)" By this, he meant 5 hrs of weekend. Went home and was just in time to watch A.I. A rather weird storyline and is typically Spielberg style. The storyline is rather sad as the robot was being thrown away by his mother and he wanted to become a real boy, like Pinocchio, to get his mother's love back. However, he was being deceived again by his creator as he was only using the robot as an experiment. Lol. I will probably go crazy if this kind of thing happens to me.

Now, I ladened with homework ranging from GP to chem to PW to maths. I will soon die under the weight of the homework. Shall go and rest now while I still can.

Xtremely Boring Day

2007-04-03T18:11:00.000+08:00

Today is the ultra unreasonably boring day that nearly make me puke blood by the end of the day. The appetitizer was the maths lecture. When I first entered the LT, I was like saying "OMG, it's that boring old woman again!!" Indeed, it was our first maths lecturer who seems to have a sleep-inducing aura around her. Luckily, I was sitting with Jabez and we talked a lot of nonsense. After 30 mins into the lecture, I turned around and found people all around me dozing off into a nice morning nap. The only person who was resisting the temptation to sleep was Meiyi sitting in front of me designing a card for Hanyu. Lol!

After the appetitizer, we had PW lesson which a relative waste of time again as most of us didn't even prepare our choice of topic and we wasted 1 hr looking through times 100 (Rain is 1 of the 100 people who change our life?) Econs lecture, which was after PW, was a killer. The new lecturer is extremely fast and I can't even catch what she was trying to say. I miss Mr. Fady (is this how you spell his name?).

Main course was the 1 and a half period of GP. Compre skills is super duper difficult and I can't seem to get even half of the qns correct. We need to infer so much that I wonder whether the author of the passage even thought about so much stuff when he/she wrote the article. But still, I must say that GP is the most interesting lesson of the day. As least I was not compelled to sleep during GP.

Econs tutorial and physics tutorial was relatively less boring than usual, due to the other lessons being extremely boring. Sigh, I wonder how am I going to get through another day like today.

Dilemma

2007-03-30T17:05:00.000+08:00

I am really in a dilemma now. Rong Bing just found out yesterday that he got into both NRP and SRP (it's kind of crazy for him to sign up for both programmes). Anyway, he can only go for one of them and hence, he ask me if I want to take his position in NRP as he want to join the more prestigious SRP.

So, should I join NRP or not? I know there are many poeple out there dying to get into NRP but I really don't know whether I should join this. On one hand, NRP is a enriching programme which means that I will be learning a lot of things not taught in school. Also, my testimonial will look nicer too and it means that it is easier more me to get into a first-class university. However, joining NRP also means that I will be working with a complete stranger (a girl from ACJC if I'm not wrong). Also, as Rong Bing and his group mate had already started on the project, it means that I will have to continue his research on a topic that is completely foreign to me (some titanium oxide covered in photochemicals used for solar panels) and that means that I will have a lot of catching up to do. I will have to travel to NTU (which is in Boon Lay) every now and then too.

Sigh, this is really a hard choice. I remember last year when I too was one of them trying to get into NRP but failed at the interview stage. Should I give up this once-in-a-life-time chance or take this chance without knowing head or tail about it?

Campaign speeches

2007-03-28T21:51:00.000+08:00

Being a councillor is a tough job, but I must say that getting into council is a even tougher task to handle. As least I should be relieved that I don't have to think of a good campaign theme and write a 30 sec speech on it.

We listened to all the campaign speeches from those future coucillors of BB house today and I must say that the 1hr spent seating in LT1 was the most boring time I've ever had (excluding the NE lunch talk held in RI last time). No offence, but I must say that I found most of the campaign speeches rather pathetic.

The problem with most of the groups is that there is a lack of coordination. As the adage goes "too many cooks will spoil the broth". Maybe working in a group for campaign is not a good thing to do. Recalling the days in RI, I don't really remember anyone's speech being able to drive me to sleep in like 2mins (of course excluding the principle's talks). That's because the campaigners in RI were all doing solo and hence, they are able to focus on the theme of the campaign speech well (such as JMX, 999, Chee Bang etc.) But as a group, it is hard for the whole team to stay focused.

I think the best 2 speeches I've heard in that 1 hr belong to Yewei's group and Kovan's group. For Yewei's group, I must say that they worked and cooperated well although I did not understand some parts of the speech (such as Junwei jumping around like a dinosaur?) Kovan's group did a nice job showing the pankémon MV and Kovan's guitar skill is really not bad (wonder where he get the guitar score for pokémon theme song).

Hai, I think I will really run out of votes as I promised so many people that I will vote for them.

Yo Yo!!!

2007-03-26T17:26:00.000+08:00

Okay. Finally, I decided that I have been enlightened and I shifted by blog from the idiotic multiply.com to here. But the truth is, multiply.com is actually quite nice and it is very simple to upload photos and music onto the blog. HOWEVER, there is one BIG problem with multiply and that is, IT USES CSS INSTEAD OF HTML. Hence, I CANNOT PUT A TAG-BOARD ON IT. Also, it does not allow people who do not have a multiply account to leave a comment. Hence, I decided to put my blog here so as to allow people who desperately need to voice out their views on the tagboard (which is currently non-existent). So, feel free to leave any commments although I have the power to delete them. Muahahaha!!!