11:26:00 PM
Double Double;
Ok I posted once today, but here's another one. Can't help but muse about how amusing it is to see how a seemingly uncontroversial, but nevertheless heartfelt piece of poetry entitled "The Hate List" has spurred much conversation and contemplation over whether they make it on my personal hate list. Well, keep guessing, because you won't get any names from me. Not at the moment, that is.
2:03:00 PM
Trypanophobia!
Argh! I think I have it. Google it if you would really like to know, but it's a subject which is as scary as it sounds. Doesn't have to do with any Tyranosaurus, though. Ugh. Ok let me put it this way. Fact 1. Doctors who administer injections are some sick, perverted people. I mean, look at it this way. It's like these people actually have the guts to impale people with sharp, thick, metal rods, and hold it there and still have the mental strength to push the syringe thingie. Disgusting. Of course, as Singapore is how we know it, I have to balance the bolded fact with a more policically appropriate phrase of praise (oOo. pop is a new acronym now!) Fact 2. Without doctors we would die. But of course, argh. Aiyah whatever. Scary. And worse still, I've heard loads of stories that during ns, you have to draw blood for some blood test, and they um, take this really thick needle and like impale your finger argh! Worst still, Mr Vetuz said during his ns the guy couldnt even aim properly and had to do it a few times. Ahh.
Bleah. Going to play badminton with Norman, Leon, Blow, Byap, Ruici, James and one more of Norman's friends. Same time same place as the last time with Shikaye and urm. Shazam's brother. Oh, and James. But whatever. It's always fun to play social badminton. Especially if you're good at badminton to start with. I mean, if you're some klutz with a racket, then sorry la, you can have your fun on the sidelines, but haha. Anyway, I should find a list of phobias and tick those that I seem to have. Some are really, really retarded, like phobia of sudden movements or something like that. Those are stupid. But trypanophobia is scary ><" argh.
28.4.07
11:18:00 AM
Sleepster
Yay, we have a 4 day holiday. That rocks, it gives us a chance to stone. ><" Went down to play tennis with some bayley people at the bayley tennis trials. I'm surprisingly quite good at tennis, considering the fact that I have played like. very very little. But still, I guess squash skills help abit. You just have to remember that the footwork is the wrong way, ie forehand ure right foot goes first instead of your left. Poor Zhongren had a rough time trying to get the cute bouncy yellow ball to cooperate though. But anyway. Heres a picture that's long overdue.
Taken during Learning Journey Day by future handphone photographer in the making, Geoffrey (applause please). Being the elitist segregationists we are, we refused to sit anywhere near the idiotic 3R people, (well, with the exception of guowei, and well.. guowei, the rest suck) so we took this 4 seater table and I think it was too small and/or too awkward to put any trays on the table, so we took lots of napkins and poured all the fries there. :D Yayyy. Notice I have 2 cokes. Jon Shin gave me his =.=" cos he was health conscious apparently. His degree of health consiousness came into question when he decided McNuggets were nice. But nvm, we scared him with the true story of the production of processed "chicken". :)
Can't seem to stand how some people are so multi-personality. I mean, they seem to take Phil Ho's chamelon thing a little too far. I mean like one moment they're talking to you all nicely, but then the next moment when they're with other people, they're like all annoying and gangster. Yucks, disgusting. Once again, shan't name names, but I really hate this kind of people. I mean, acting like what ure not to get attention is totally sickening. And trying to change yourself for the sake of being cool is equally sickening. I mean, what's with the perpetually tucked out shirt. Some people need to know when they look cool and when they look like retards.
Haix. Updated my sidebar, updated my links list in particular. Added Clinton, Michael and Brian Ho, and changed the songs there, not that anyone listens, but it still makes a statement. You can usually tell a person's personality from the songs he listens to. Like those that love heavy metal for the sake of it (no Daniel, not you, unless u want to) are just trying to act cool and act emo. Bleah. Forcing yourself to like music is #2 on the sickening list. I mean, who cares if you like Hilary Duff cos u like her With Love perfume ><", or who cares if you like Backstreet Boys (they are so 1999, by the way), what's important is that you, well, like the music. Compare that to exhibit A, who forces himself to like A7X. Like, whattt? Get a life, will you. I mean your own life, not what other people dictate.
Z.
26.4.07
8:10:00 PM
Do It With Love
No post yesterday, thanks to maths cct. After spending the whole night and a bit of morning redoing worksheets and assignments, I've breezed through the test and today is officially SLACK NIGHT. Make peace, don't fight. Haha. Anyway, I've still kind of irritated with some people I know, but still here's some random crap;
Blood red balls of fire in a dark wave
Engulf, drown, no one can save;
Merciless, Malicious, Vicious.
The clock turns and tickers,
Dark and gore bereft,
The dust settles,
The storm is over,
There is nothing left.
Well. Now that that's out of my head. Yesterday was not slack night, but Learning Journey Day: Learn Stuff Through Play :) (Ok I shall stop thinking of retarded slogans for days of the week, but who cares.) For learning journey, we were split up once again, and my half of 3L went along with 3R. R, in my opinion, stands for either rubbish, or ridiculous or something. That class is one stuck-up, stupid, brainless gangster class; the worst the world has ever seen. I mean, what're their problems, for a 3S Lit class, they can blabber on about catharsis, but can't even experience it for themselves. They have some huge hamartia, man. :P
Ok anyway, enough about those losers. Lunch was great. At Harbourfront Center McDonalds. Mr CJ, as the guide calls him, gave me an extra filet o fish :) Maybe because Matthias and I helped to carry lots of food to all the ingrates from 3R or maybe because there was an extra. But it tasted nice. Our table (geoffrey, jon shin and bryan choong) had lots of fun, especially with our french fry campfire. We even wiped the table out of goodwill. I doubt the Mcs people noticed, but who cares :) It was fun. Labrador battery was quite cool too, but Kranji War Memorial is as ghostly as always. One word, catharsis.
Couldn't think of anything except random crap on the way home from training, so thought I'd just post it here.
Am I a fortune teller?
Or a story seller;
I conned that little fella,
Talked crap and charged a dollar.
My crystal ball turned blue,
Said I, this will come true.
Some girl will marry you.
His dad said "I will sue".
Well, whatever. Read my horoscope, astrology work your magic. What am i going to do next.
The answer: press the orange button that says PUBLISH. Guess astrology has no effect on me.
24.4.07
8:08:00 PM
RFLP
Really Frustratingly Loser Perspective; n: The ideologies and mindsets of certain individuals in modern society which invoke(s) frustration and/or incites the receiving party to think that the party with RFLP is a loser. So far, a few rare species have been found to have been accused with the genotype RR, a homozygous dominant RFLP gene combination. All beware. This disease may be contagious. Combat RFLP early, before it's too late.
Nothing to do with restriction enzymes, soaking dna in sodium hydroxide to lower ph or anything to do with radioactivity. I'm just feeling bored. Just felt that it's time to update and not let my blog die :) Haha. Random Information of the Day: Biopolis is a very nice place. Went for some Digital Modelling seminar which was not boring as expected. The first speaker (some guy from Swansea) was super cool with lots of 3D models of aeroplanes and even of some supersonic car which was supercool. No seriously, they designed this car that goes at 770 mph, now tell me is that cool or what. Ok with the friction and all, no, but still? And there were some other speakers who were responsible for human pacman and other cool stuff.
To top it off, I met Mr Mustafa there, or rather, Mr Mustafa saw me and tapped me before the seminar which was strange: I didn't know he could recognise me. Maybe it was because I was failing maths last year. :P But anyway, he was with some other school, couldn't see what, but yeah. Wonder why he's there; this isn't maths. Oh yeah, they mentioned a lot of physics stuff. Was a bit lost, but lightened up when I saw f=ma. That's the one equation I can still hang on to. F = your mother. Not bad right? Oh yes and gpe = bookstore :D Yesyes, it's
Oh yes, got new earphones. $8 Panasonic silver earphones, which are really good value for money. The sound quality is good, it's $8, compared to outrageous $50 dollar SONY earphones, and best of all, it's even cheaper than the "unbranded" korean and japanese models which cost around $12. It's panasonic summore, not some strange sounding brand that gives the impression of inferiority and vulnerability. Like the kind of earphones with a crap brand precisely because they ARE crap?
Tmr is an utterly rubbish day. A visit to Bukit Chandu, Changi Museum and Kranji War Memorial. STOP SHOWING US FREAKY, SAD, MISERABLE WAR MEMORIALS. I hate going to war memorials, cos you get so bored, and you feel that if you feel bored, you're being mean to the dead people, but you can't help but be bored. I also hate guides who think they know all, but actually memorised some script, so if tmr's guides are like that, I will be honestly IRRITATED. Like, how "astute" is that (quote parliament house guide on that astute bit). Like those guides that actually know stuff like Raj :) are nice.
Argh. I'm irritated. Insects have a magnetic attraction to me. Rar
21.4.07
1:08:00 PM
I Wanna Talk To You.
The last time we talked,
I promise you it won't happen again. :)
Can't get Mika tunes out of my head for the moment. Can't really decide what my favourite song is at the moment, but I think it's My Interpretation. Anyway, I shall not post about anything related to major flaws in the education system ala 3L, because this blog is turning into a war zone T_T. Forget everything in the past, I'm going to stick with the friends that I already have an I'm not going to revise any more policies. Once you're out you're out. For the moment.
Well. Here's a random fact of the day. Did you know that sqrt 8000 is about 89.4? Now, isnt that cool.
Haha, still reeling from the aftershock of a Maths Performance Task. Why you would want to plot a quadratic graph for a Javelin thrower isn't clicking in my head yet. I mean, why would you want to know the turning point, initial angle and all that, when all you care about is how far you throw the javelin and what happens to your arm after that. No need to y = a(x-b)(x-c). The javelin thrower probably won't understand when you try and explain quadratic roots to him, and he'll probably wonder why the hell you're mentioning roots when there are no trees nearby. But anyway, I finished the Maths Perf Task, so I'm happy. The javelin dude can find someone else to pester.
All right. Where were we. Catharsis. Pilgrim. Benvolio. Juliet. Argh! I'm dying here. Some one throw me a line.
20.4.07
9:14:00 PM
The Best Damn Thing
Free periods are SO useful :) Finished half of the performance task during today's free period, and other free periods in the past spent so MEANINGFULLY! I mean, as opposed to just stoning, or like that time when we had our 3L free-period mass rejuvination session, where we went to the black sofas at the library and overslept happily into the next period. (5 minutes only!! Don't kill us for that lo) Oh yes, I remember, Geoffrey, Leon and I finished the Maths Assignment easily during our free period, and while everyone was struggling to do it, we felt like geniuses. Ok, in a bunch of monkeys, the lion is the most prominent one duh. Needless to say, people were flocking to us to copy our answers, but quoting Mr Dennis Au on cheating "I found out that MATHS YOU COPY YOU WILL DIEEEEEEEEEEE" Hear that, (insert certain people's names here)?
Anyway, got the maths Ta back today: got 12/13, a personal best this year! But you know what SUCKS? Some people who don't know how to bloody do the last question, and or leave it blank or whatever get FULL MARKS, while the rest of use WHO BOTHER TO STUDY don't. What a screwed up waste of time. The only thing is that in the long term we (those who got 3 OF OUR OWN MERIT) will know how to do such questions, whereas stupid people such as ( ) // in c++ this is like.. no parameters, lol. the // is comment tag. who don't bloody give a damn about maths in one way or another, and left the question blank will delude themselves by thinking they can do such questions since the fact that they got 3 marks for crap, so they don't need to study anymore. Well, too bad, suckers.
That wasn't targeted at Eng Han, by the way. He's a nice guy actually. Just that some really dependant people are really irritating me with their overdependence on me. =.=" Like, go ask the banyan tree outside the canteen to help you, because I am so NOT. I only help nice friends. I don't help manipulative ones.
17.4.07
7:51:00 PM
Life In Cartoon Motion!
I HAVE MIKA'S LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION ALBUM! YAY. Went down, or rather, went up to the top floor of J8 to Sembawang to get it. Cost a bomb though, at $19 for 10 tracks, I'm feeling a little short. To make matters worse, my earphones are NOT WORKING PROPERLY. Despite all this, I can now enjoy the whole Mika album comprising really, really nice songs like Lollipop, Grace Kelly, Love Today and Big Girl in either my left or right ear (non-simultaneously)! And I won't run the risk of being charged with illegal downloads, because I bought it! Haha. Anyway, for those people out there who are like.. totally clueless, Mika is some Lebanese-English guy, and this, if I'm not wrong, is his debut album.
Anyway. At sembawang, there were LOADS of other albums that I wanted to buy, but I decided against it. I'd rather have them later then to see myself rationing on a pau a day to make up lost $$ :) But still, I am hoping to save up more to cover costs for Good Morning Revival, Undiscovered and goodness knows what else there is in that shop. Haha.
Lala. Got the progress report back today. Not much to say except screw it.
Urm, I guess I shall post my crappy results here.. Notice how it deteriorates severely as I go down =.=
English:
Test: 82, Percentile: 90-100
CA: 85, Percentile: 90-100
Chinese:
Test: 62, Percentile: 30-39
CA: 64, Percentile: 50-59
Social Studies:
Test: N/A
CA: 94, Percentile: 90-100
Lit:
Test: 76, Percentile: 80-89
CA: 72, Percentile: 70-79
Maths:
Test: 62, Percentile: 60-69
CA: 62, Percentile: 50-59
Chem:
Test: 72, Percentile: 50-59
CA: 68, Percentile: 30-39
Bio:
Test: 67, Percentile: 50-59
CA: 70, Percentile: 30-39
CEP:
Test: 68, Percentile: 50-59
CA: 69, Percentile: 30-39
All I can say is that the new system is totally, totally screwed up. My gpa is only 3.38. Which totally sucks. But compared to the rest of the class its quite good, but whatever.
Oh yes. Today was a GREAT DAY. Besides getting the Mika album, here was the lesson periods I had today in order.
CL, Free, Bio, Recess, Free, RE, RE.
2 lessons + a super slack re.
:D
5:41:00 PM
Am I On Belay
No I'm not.
I'm dead tired.
More later.
15.4.07
1:18:00 PM
A Better Sight Than The Previous One
Ok, I shall forget about the previous post for now, but I still can't get it out of my head. It infuriates me; brainless people who take me for their answer script/teacher. I DONT EVEN BLOODY DO WELL IN MOST OF THOSE SUBJECTS, AND IN MOST CASES, THESE RETARDS GET HIGHER THAN ME. Where's the logic? It's sending me a really huge signal that you're making use of me for your own betterment, and my detriment. As a Bio guy in our double science class, I say DOWN WITH PARASITISM.
Anyway, that aside, Mr Vetuz got me interested in reading up on Universities :) Apparently, he's flying off to St Andrew's University this september. No, it's not the one at Potong Pasir, it is, in fact "founded in 1413, the oldest university in Scotland" Oooo. Rich. Anyway, he's taking some medicine thing in the hope of becoming a pediatrician, so I guess that's why he's stocking up on lame jokes T_T to tell his young kiddy patients :) Lol, it's fun to talk to him on msn. glennyvz@hotmail.com if you were wondering.
Anyway, found out that I have to take "maths, one science and english at one sitting" of O levels or the equivalent, if I'm not wrong, to even apply for the SIA cadet pilot scholarship :P, so that means I will probably become like, some rojak science/arts student. Like lets see.. I don't really get the H1 H2 H3 crap, and I still don't get it, but I'll probably take something like what I'm taking now, like Bio, Chem, Lit, MTL, Econs, PW, KI or something like that. Maybe I'll swap Bio for TSD, cos Bio is like.. useless; Why you would consider metabolic rates on airplanes still deludes me, but chem makes sense. Like you would know what gases are coming out of your engine :) I'm not taking physics, though, so I'll have to like.. mug really really hard in RJ or even next year to get gd marks in Maths. Physics is basically maths with more formulas haha.
Anyway, I was wondering, why do you even need physics. Most of the stuff can and is thought during flight school. And flying airplanes is a mostly theoratical job. Looks like Mark Tan of 3Q, my kayak rudder, shares the same ambition as me, although he wants to go to the Air Force first. =.= Fighter jets are so freaky. Everything is relative, of course, so going at 3000km/h wouldn't seem too fast. But all those turns and formations are quite scary. If you bash your colleagues plane you are so dead. And so is your collegue, and your planes. =.=" You'll probably be dishounourably dead unless they decide to take it as a freak accident.
I hope I can get the scholarship :) It's a "hot job", says the SIA website, and there will probably be hundreds of applicants, unless 3/4 of the potential candidates were too stupid to click the link that brings you to the scholarships and employment page. Like, probably half of them were wondering why they kept getting airfares to KL and Phuket and the US, and wondering where else they could click. Maybe in their desperate attempts, they clicked the X button and said "To hell, I'm becoming a bus driver" That's what a pilot is, anyway. A bus driver that flies. Just that flying a plane is so much more exciting, so much more scenic too. Well.
Oh yes, if I really cannot get the scholarship, I'll probably try and get into UNSW aviation flying stream course, but that's in sydney. This one's in Singapore; it's home. Not to mention, the currency is NOT a few times of Singapore dollars. Dots. If you were wondering, knowing Mark, he's probably going to apply for all the best schools in the world, like maybe MIT where he can even build planes of his own, or even ERADB which is short for Embry Riddle Aeronautical dunno what in Daytona Beach in Florida. Supposed to be the best in the world. Hmm.
1:05:00 PM
Not A Good Sight
I am not an answer script. I repeat, I am not an answer script. To whoever is concerned, please bloody stop taking me for your lesson dispenser and copy every bloody thing that I write down on any bloody thing that resembles note paper. Screw you people. I find a few of people in 3L which I don't like to study with or study near to. I don't mean they're not nice people. I just think some of them have more social skills than they have intellectual skills. And that includes copying everything off my notes, off my worksheets, off whatever shit I write. And the bloody loser thing about that is that you still have the guts to call me selfish when I want to draw the line and say "No I'm not lending it to you". Go listen to the teacher, copy your own notes, do your own worksheets, what's your problems. Not like I'm some genius. It's not even a one off thing. Even I am guilty of copying answers, especially last year, but not any more :) I only do that when I really don't know, and it's NOT A DAILY AFFAIR.
If every lesson is taught by ME, quit RI, since you can't bloody understand the teachers. If you hate them, then leave.
14.4.07
10:28:00 PM
Ironies
I spent the whole of yesterday night looking out for ironies in life; while still reeling over the indescribably stupid debates loss to SCGS, who totally did not deserve to win. I thought the best proposition case to the ridiculous motion of
"THW ban all interschool debate compettions" would be to not turn up, but in the spirit of debates, the debaters came to the debate and debated that they should ban the debate. Huge irony number one.
The speakers' scores were incredibly close, said the judge/adjudicator or whatever you call them. They didn't do their jobs right, that's for sure. I mean, the comments that they made at the end to the debaters; the motion we should have for the JG final should be "THW will ban lousy adjudicators". I mean, what the hell la. It was a TOTAL IRONY that the First Speaker of SCGS was stammering and stuttering and going in this really tiny voice "One of the aims of debates is to build confidence". I mean, if I were an RI debater, I would have said to hell with all the rules of gentlemanliness, you, madam, are showing no signs of confidence yourself, and after so many years of interschool competitive debating, YOU are the very evidence that ISCD (intersch comp debating) is NOT FULFILLING its aims and should be abolished.
Go to Nigel Fong's blog for his analysis of the debate; I mean: look. If our debaters did a crap job, and we deserve to be out, then fine, but the ironic thing is that our debates did well, and the SCGS debaters did a lousy job by ignoring some issues brought up by our side and putting them down in one or two sentences and moving on to their own points. Retarded. Anyway, more ironies are that Sengkang Square is NOT a square or even a square-resembling road. I thought of loads of ironies, but the most poignant one is really controversial, and I won't even post it here.
It's just stupid.
Lol enough about debates. Went for another training at safra, which was tiring. My backhand seems to be improving and together with my back to back victories on thursday, I'm feeling quite confident abt squash now. Just need to cut down on all those errors that I make all the time. Zz.
13.4.07
11:43:00 PM
A Case Of Mistaken Identity and All That Crap
Mrs Yak Sheau Yang, who doesn't even teach me came up to me and asked "Matthew, have you handed in your poster". I don't even take geog, and she's referring to my brother, by the way. I go like "HUH?", and she suddenly experiences anagnorisis and goes "Eh, you're not Matthew ah."
Some random lady in a white shirt came up to me and said "Bye, see you on MSN ah". I gave her a quizzical look and was like "ummm.... right..?" and she went like "OOPS, i was looking for Matthias".
WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE THESE DAYS. They have problems identifying people, yet they can tell a calculator from a watermelon. We need to find the source of this potetially nation-threatening problem and FAST, before one day, as we stroll through East Coast Park collecting rubbish, we go up to the President and, taking him for a cleaner, ask "Uncle, qing3 wen4, ce4 suo3 zai4 na2 li3 (where is the toilet, in chinese)". I don't even think Mr SR Nathan is Chinese, haha.
What we need is a technologically advanced solution. What we need is an effective, well-enforced system of immediate identification. What we need is something or someone to solve this problem of misidentification, or before you know it, we, the future leaders of Singapore are going to go up to George Bush and talk about how the Iraq War was a stupid waste of life and life's time.
Unless you're in some really lax dialogue with him, you're like - so dead. So anyway. Here are a few solutions that I have thought of.
Number One, kill everyone so there's nobody to mistake for anybody else. A variation of this would be to kill yourself so you will never commit the taboo of mistaking one for another. Or maybe you could kill everybody else, excluding yourself. Unfortunately, besides the possibility of being associated with some Satanic cult, your identification prowess would probably be so bad that you would probably be trying to shoot people with an umbrella like Douglas does in class.
Here's solution Number Two. We could all attach our identification information on a nice invisiblish wire so that your name and the years you have left to live will float mysteriously over your head so everybody can scribble everybody elses name in the Death Note and this solution in fact is a double edged sword. Besides fulfilling the purpose of quick and correct identification, we can also link back to the first solution of selective/mass killings, because this is what the Death Note fulfils. However, once again, if we have to resort to such violent means, it would probably mean we have reached the stage where we can't tell a Death Note from a Death Note story book. What's worse, we might even have problems attaching our personal data to our heads; for all you know, you might walk down Orchard road and see people with wires coming out from their butts. Well, if that's where their heads are, then that's fine, but under normal circumstances, that's plain wrong.
I can go on giving lots of solutions, but everything requires some form of material apparatus to conduct the proceedings, and hence, everything solution I provide will be cancelled out on the basis that you can't get the right apparatus since you just plain suck at identification. I mean, for a person who calls a turnip a banana, maybe you should look in the mirror and find out who that person in there is. In almost every case it's your neighbour, but it's always worth trying.
Funny how we can't really remember who that guy next to you is, but we can sure remember who we are. Like, when you top up your card you don't insert your ezlink card and go like.. "EH? Why am I topping up my sister's ezlink card?"
Haix.
What was all that about.
And who's blog is this anyway. I'm not too sure. It's probably Matthias' blog, but I'll have to check. Maybe I should ask him. I have his MSN, do don't worry. It's niemileopard12@hotmail.com so if you want you can add him too.
12.4.07
10:42:00 PM
Squashy Washy
Training was fun today. It started off quite frustrating but it got really nice. After frustrating drive rallies, (no relation to racing cars, sorry), we played 3/4 for most of the time, and after that I played 2 matches, one against my squash arch rival Michael Chee, and another against Timothy. Anyway, what made it fun was that I beat Michael 15-11, and Timothy 16-14 (the lousy score was because we ran around like crazy haha.) Anyway, I think I have improved by quite a lot, especially my backhand. I can hit the ball like, really hard and really low too. :) GRAAAAAAAH. We're so going to be in the B Div finals next year. I somtimes have daydreams of us being in the final and all our classmates sitting outside court 1 supporting us. :) :) Hope I don't get disappointed. ;)
Ok anyway, besides that, another really interesting thing that happened today was that nothing really interesting happened today, which makes it hypothesis contrary to fact, and I should shut up cos theres no logical argument that can be formed. But that in itself is hypothesis contrary to fact, because by arguing that my previous argument was unable to form a logical argument would be wrong, as I have just made a logical argument. This means that a logical argument CAN be formed, and it is no longer hypothesis contrary to fact.
Like.. what??????
I'm too free.
Ok not really, I'm just waiting for Leonard to finish the bubble sort function, so we can all go and sleep.
Haha.
11.4.07
11:04:00 PM
Allright, Still
Haven't had the time to go find Mika's Life in Cartoon Motion yet. That means no Undiscovered and no Good Morning Revival as well. Hmm. Maybe I will go tomorrow or Friday. But anyway, I'm feeling quite encouraged after finishing 9 of the 10 functions in the latests C++ waste-of-time program. This time, instead of doing something useful like seeing if 3 digit numbers are armstrong numbers (note excessive sarcasm here), we are supposed to make a really useful address book which can store names, phone numbers, emails, postal codes and mailing addresses! Wow! The program can even do really amazing stuff such as giving the options to add new entries, delete existing entries, modifying existing entries, sort by alphabetical order etc! Amazing, huh?
Ok, anyway.
The progress report marks are out. I got the highest in class for english :) i think. I got 83, 85 under the English column, so that's a good sign. I also got a really high 94 for SS, which is good too. Yayayayayayayyyy.
10.4.07
6:23:00 PM
Glory Shining 4th
The Bayley house mistress is so NOT likeable! Her demeanour is intimidating, and she didn't really give me a very good impression during today's house meeting. There was one incident where she was asked for Matthias, and she asked whether we would win more golds, and Matthias shouted "YES!" :) That would be of no problem to us, except for the fact that she retorted, "Only ONE yes ah?" For goodness sake, wasn't she asking for Matthias? As far as I know, there is only one Matthias, so there. The other house mistress, a Ms Valerie Keh, is so much nicer. She's more jovial, more easy-going and the impression she gives is one of a friendly, happy teacher. Compare that to Dracula and you'd see what I mean.
I guess they need some strict disciplinarian to bring the house together for glory, but bear in mind: Bayley is 95% students, 5% teachers. If 95% of Bayleyeans are NOT happy with what's happening and who's managing us, Bayley is going to tear apart from the inside. Lol, in that case, we will be definitely Glory Shining Forth, or even 5th.
8.4.07
9:47:00 PM
Playlist
Random quotations off my playlist:
If you share similar taste in music, you should try to listen to these songs, or better yet, buy their latest albums for me! Weehee!
Sucking too hard on your lollipop;
love's gonna get you down.
(Mika: Lollipop)
I get knocked down, but I get up again.
You ain't ever gonna keep me down;
(Chumbawamba: Tubthumping. )
I'm not lost, I'm not lost
Just undiscovered.
(James Morrison, Undiscovered.)
She's like, so whatever.
You could do so much better
(Avril Lavigne, Girlfriend.)
I am an arms dealer;
Fitting you with weapons in the form of words
(This Ain't a Scene, Its an Arms Race, Fallout Boy)
I've gotta testify; come up to the spot feeling extra fly.
For the day I die; I'm gonna touch the sky
(Kanye West ft Lupe Fiasco: Touch the sky.)
I must confess, I'm a real live wire;
Jimmy you and me will get along a while.
(Jimmy gets High, Daniel Powter_
Baptized in the river,
I've seen a vision of my life, and I wanna be delievered.
(The River, Good Charlotte ft M. Shadows and Synyster Gates)
We didn't start the fire.
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
(We Didn't start the Fire, Billy Joel)
On the cloud that you're sitting, theres one born every minute:
So much to discover, I've become a believer.
(1.36, Coldplay)
go find them yourself.
7.4.07
9:09:00 PM
Undecidedness
Haha. I went to Safra today for training. Some interesting things to note is that there are only about 10 people in total that I saw (in safra squash), but there are only 2 courts, so I had to wait quite long just to play a couple of matches. There was this relatively pro NUS guy called Kelvin, if I'm not wrong. Haha, I lost 9-5 10-9. Apparently safra people train for awhile then play 3 set 9 british games. Hahaha. I lost to another imba guy 9-5 9-0, due to some really painful blisters on my thumb. The 5 points was because he was playing with his left hand and was not exactly trashing me until the coach got pissed and scolded him. Haix. I won't be going down to Safra for quite a while now; not many Saturdays will be free haix. I can still join another club, since I'm not really in safra yet, but I guess I shall stay.
The only thing is I NEED COMPANY! I feel quite lonely at safra :( But I'm happy I didn't join UCSC, because I think the people there, especially Michael have this annoying arrogance about them. Well, that's a hasty generalisation, but you get what I mean. The safra people are so much nicer. Especially the Kelvin guy and this other guy, Benjamin, who says he saw me playing in C div last year, but C div is something I want to forget, so.. whatever :P
Safra says "welcome!" :) Haha.
Some Shaun guy and some other anonymous guy playing.
Nice close up shot
TP Interchange after training!
Haha more nx time.
6.4.07
3:51:00 PM
BZ as a B
There should be some new simile to replace the ever so bleah-inducing "as busy as bees". I mean, to my knowledge, the bees in Singapore do nothing much except sting people. How busy could that be? Or maybe the simile was created based on the previous statement that I just made. And I'll say it again; How busy could that bee. Argh, whatever.
Anyway, for this Good weekend, I have loads of stuff to do! Woohoo! I've got to
1. Catch up on CEP homework for Lesson 7, 8 and 9.
2. Do CRP
3. Update substation blog and make a new template.
Number 1 will potentially take me forever, so I shall probably save sunday afternoon for doing the phone directory in lesson 7, and do the rest of lesson 8 on tuesday after CEP. By then, it would be lesson 10 already, so for next weekend, I will do lesson 9, and next Tuesday, I will finish Lesson 10, and will be left for homework for lesson 11, which means I caught up :) Or, alternatively, I could let everything pile up really high and do it all during the June holidays, since it will only be used for August progress report. Hehe, suicide.
CRP will be done tmr night! Or maybe tonight.
Substation blog will be done tmr night in conjunction with CRP. Like when I get tired. Or something. And also, new template.. hmm. Will ask brent to find a temporary one hahaha. No time la sorry.
Yawn. Oh yes, tmr half of my day is chopped off by Safra squash; haha.
3.4.07
8:32:00 PM
200th Post
It's.... A PHOTO POST. Meanwhile, there is a rather boring second post below once you finish looking at these great quality images. Hehehe.
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Here's my really organised desk. Neat and tidy right?
Note: This was POSED. heh.
A panorama shot of one of the extremely rainy mornings, taken from the 3L, on the 5th floor of the raja block.
Our great double science low gpa class actually mugs for chemisty CCT!
Our class during recess. I particularly like the perspective. Hmm.
Ben Liu's acting stint as Tang Taizong. Some really ancient guy from the Tang Dynasty, I assume?
Amazing discovery that the Hokkien Mee stall at RJC is a major cause of deforestation! Imagine that! Providing 3 chopsticks instead of 2! Like what are we, aliens? Do we have 10 fingers on one hand?
Note: The 3rd chopstick occured naturally, and was not stuffed in the packet artificially.
Felix and Zhongren at the library during free period. Felix seems amazed at the ingredient list of Haribo Pinballs, probably looking for the accursed Aspartame, which he says it's "bad for your health". Wikipedia fails to provide an answer, so I'll probably ask Mrs Foo. Haha.
Playing with the camera settings. I managed to get this really nice effect on the inseperable trio: Eng Han, Norman Maswari Aziz and Clement!
Another photo, with normal settings.
Our class after PE. Oo, sexy.
A picture taken today during recess. I like the way I actually managed to capture the raindrops. The first picture that I took sucked. The sky looked FINE.
Leopard and Pahangpo. The latter was named by a veyr enthusiastic Mrs Lim Yoke Tong, who pronouced it Pahangpo, after our MM group name, Pahang. Apparently she thought it was a hippo, but theres sentimental value behind the name. Haha, imagine if my group name was like.. Johor. Johorpo doesn't have a nice ring to it, haha. Neither does KedahPo or Terrengganu Po.
HEH, AREN'T THEY CUTE?
more photos coming soon.
8:12:00 PM
Random Colour of the Day
Some part of Grace Kelly by Mika;
I could be brown,
I could be blue,
I could be violet sky,
I could be helpful,
I could be purple,
I could be anything that I like;
Wanna be green,
Wanna be mean,
Wanna be anything more;
So, anyway. The colour of the day is:
YELLOW!
Yellow is the colour of BAYLEY, and we just won the track and field finals for the 3rd consecutive year. Is that great or WHAT? Ever since our batch came, Bayley has been winning tnf finals like crazy! Every year!
Yellow is the colour of my new BAYLEY HOUSE SHIRT, which is a has a picture of a really cute lion on the front. It's supposed to be ferocious and intimidating, but wait till you imagine the soft toy Simba (think Lion King, if you are really, really deprived of your childhood)/ English Studio key, and imagine using it's paws to like.. paw at you. Like a blob of cotton going piak piak piak on you. :) How ferocious is THAT! But anyway, the shirt looks quite nice, esp the back. Haha.
Yellow also happens to be the colour of the shirt that I'm wearing. It's this strange shirt with biologically incorrect drawings of fish and leaves. Apparently the Thai T-shirt designers seem to think that the bones of the fish are outside the body of the fish itself. Wait I go take a picture. And upload to geocts. Wait. Wait. Wait..
Oh wait. Time is immobilised while blogging. I forgot.
Anyway.
There shall be 2 posts today. Second post will be a photo post.
here marks the end of the colour of the day segment.
1.4.07
10:23:00 PM
BREAKING NEWS
3L people! We are having a new classmate.
Apparently his name is Chua Li Young, from NUS High and from Moot Parliament Program. That's all the information Jun Sean has disclosed so far, and NO, it is not an April Fool's Joke. I'm serious.
Personally, I don't really mind, but I do not like the idea of someone just barging into our class midway through the term and proclaiming himself a 3L guy. I mean, he can't and will never be a true blue 3L person; he can come halfway and get 3/4 of our amazing 3L spirit, but he can never go the full way.. I'm supposed to be encouraging and welcoming, but our class has amazingly bonded and gelled at such a rapid speed that introducing an alien member of the class would be stupid.
However, I WANT TO ESTABLISH A CLEAR DICHOTOMY HERE. If he is really a nice guy, then fine, I cancel out the first paragraph, and may he catch up with our class bonding progress rapidly. However, if he is some total irrirating jerk who is super muggy, super arrogant about his mugginess or something to that effect; or, for that matter, if he is some guy which I can't stand, I am not going to forget how you barged into our perfect class and ruined everything. But otherwise, 3L WELCOMES YOU!!!!@#!@#!@#! yay.
BLEAH. I don't like this one bit.
If it's some highly sophiscated April Fool's trick organised by Mrs Martina Ong, she's going to hear it from me real bad. But it's probably not. So BLEAH.
