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2008-06-07T15:07:00.001+08:00

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2008-04-24T19:18:00.002+08:00

In line with everything that has been happening in school over these few weeks, and what alot of people are doing with their blogs these days, i am officially going on a mini-hiatus.

ok maybe i'm sort of in one already, but you get the drift.

there's really no point in me blogging now. unless of course anything superbly interesting happens in school or whatever. coz apart from that, I think you guys REALLY would not want to witness my constant emo breakouts about how many projects deadlines and tests we have coming up in the next 1 or 2 months.

i mean, you clearly will have no interest in hearing me rant about how all this is absolutely killing all of us, or about how there are like 8 projects due by Term 3 Week 1, many of which, like biography project, forms of comedy and of course the colossal SS Social Docu have a weightage so high it makes me emo.

you probably wouldn't give a shit about the fact that i'm probably gonna screw up chem and physics CCTs next week, so i really won't bother telling you about the freakishly intense levels of stress that we are all facing at the moment.

so, as you my dear reader can clearly see, there's really nothing interesting about my life until the june holz (or lack thereof) that I have to share with you.

so, until then.

2008-04-09T23:09:00.002+08:00

today was quite a scary day.

two succesive injuries in the multi-purpose hall. a judo guy who seemed to have injured his leg or something, who suddenly started screaming super freakily and just scared the shorts off everyone in the MPH

and of course jeremy pang, our gym sec 1, who decided to stick his hands out when he got stuck halfway in front somer on the tramp, and supposedly fractured his wrist quite badly. ernie is feeling all emo about it. awww =(

watching all the injuries happen around me recently - lian, shanzhi and the 2 new victims from the multipurpose hall - really makes me think back on my own in sec 2. and trust me, the only thing i feel is relief, relief that my injury wasn't serious enough to make me scream in such horrible pain, relief that i never had to go under the knife and relief that I have actually managed to recover almost a 100%, both physically and psychologically.

so to all the poor dudes out there with fractured wrists, broken collarbones and torn anterior cruciate ligaments,

get well soon :D

2008-04-08T18:49:00.002+08:00

i'm seriously morphing into some sort of a pure humanities freak.

getting 59% for chinese PR1, yet getting 15/15 for the SS class test. Getting a decent 16/20 for a history essay which I knew I screwed up, yet getting a pathetic 61% (TIMES TWOOOOO) for Maths. Not to mention a really tyco 70% for physics.

it really can't get any more evident. i AM meant to be a humans student. although i frankly don't write poems in maths class like Jacob Sam-la Rose.

oh and im seriously DAMN pissed right now.

4K gets all excited, decides to play soccer at 445 after school as training for friday's game.
4K realises that it begins to rain at around 430. 4K is really pissed at 445, for the rain turns into a thunderstorm. 4K's plans have been washed down the drain by mother nature yet again. 4K goes home.

And 4K is emo.

2008-04-03T21:17:00.013+08:00

omg mooty got flamed! (in case u're abit blur, this IS a link.) =O

quote from a guy called ACSI ROX:

"eh fuck u lah u tink u ri good ah. At least my friend knows how 2 joke rite, not like some stupidly serious ri people. Only noe how 2 MUG. So stupid ask all the chim chim questions want 2 act smart ah? u suck man, anyhow flame people." i think the guy has an unbelievably poor understanding of the word "flame".

i love this.

seriously i've nothing personal against the school as a whole. it's just deluded people like him who are out to make a fool of themselves and their school whom i can't bloody stand.

he must really think that all the ACS(I) dudes who read that will be REALLY proud of what he's doing, standing up for the name of his school and all.

really thankful for the fact we don't have any one like that running around throwing the name of our school down the drain.

i feel sad for the rest of the ACS(I) population.
i really do.

edit: come to think of it you ACS guys shld actually just laugh at that guy. i don't think anyone would actually bother about some random troubled teen having a random burst of angst on someone else's blog. haha.

let's do like a "RI+ACS(I) versus Random Crazy Guy" thing. roflmao.

2008-04-02T20:47:00.005+08:00

pillowman was absolutely fantastic

it was truly "a viciously funny psychological thriller" in every possible sense. the chilling murder stories made my hair stand on end, the sudden gunshots and outbursts of violence made me jump (literally) in my seat, the dark, morbid and unimaginably disturbing plot sent chills down my spine, and yet the amazing wit of veterans like Adrian Pang and Michael Corbidge made me laugh till my stomach hurt.

there's really nothing like black comedy. the fusion of laughter and fear causes nothing short of an emotional rollercoaster, and i'm nothing but proud to say I walked out of the theater with trembling legs, shaking hands and a violently-beating heart. Who gave a shit if it was 1150pm? I wasn't tired. I had the best 3-hour ride of my life, and till now, have not recovered from it.

you really have to go watch it for yourself. personally it's the best THING, let alone play I have ever watched in my entire life, so kudos to the writer, director and all of the amazing talented cast, that really blew our minds with their amazing talent. All in all I had a great night, and no deluded, offensive ACS guy who can't even think before saying something like "sorry all angmohs look alike" to the cast, WHILE asking an unbelievably heartless question about why Corbidge was speaking properly and not blabbering nonsense like the ACS guy "thought all retards did" is gonna change that.

who's the retard, really?

2008-03-29T14:45:00.002+08:00

interclass over the past few days has been fine.
even if 9 points out of 5 games isn't that impressive, I think we're really beginning to find our touch, and have found the perfect formation from the last game against 4G.

On thursday we played 2 decent games against 4T and 4P, which ended 1-1 and 2-0 respectively, but ended off the day with a half-baked and simply dismal performance against 4B.
Glad to say I managed to score a goal! Even if it was pretty tyco, and i might, MIGHT have ksed seen almost as blatantly as shoujian did. haha.

then on friday, seen came up with a tactical masterplan, and placed himself in front alongside shoujian, which safe to say worked wonders. We played our best game so far, only to be disappointed by our finishing and a few decent saves by the opposition keeper. 0-0 it ended.

now seen is gone, and by the time he's back, people like timo and thom would be ready for games too. so till then, let's see what 4K can do with an even weaker squad than our already half-strength team.

let's keep our hopes up.

2008-03-26T14:25:00.003+08:00

yesterday was surely an eventful day.

interclass soccer in the morning, shanzhi visiting right after interclass, 3rd lang, tennis with hernwei at junliang's hse, dinner at swensen's and finally pool with 4K at dhoby for Kieran's
bdae.

interclass was great. 2-1 whoooo! even though I can't say I did much, you can't believe how ecstatic i am that we won. i mean when we celebrated our first goal, everyone was like "why the hell are you celebrating so much? it's just a goal" and what they don't realise is that it's the first ever goal 3K/4K has scored during interclass!! not to bring up last yr's completely miserable competition, but yeah.

and it was great fooling around with the dudes. from singing kieran's birthday song just when everyone was ready to start the game, to all the teamtalks and dedication of our goals and the match to shanzhi, (whom, in case you've been living in a hole, is NOT dead.) i think we really enjoyed ourselves ytd. and of course the fact that we had the most supporters and substitutes down was really telling of how great 4K is =D

so yea it was great. even if I didn't get a single shot, and even if we didn't exactly play our best. =)

and onto shanzhi. BY GOD!! HE'S ALIVE!!!
haha. =D
we sent an army down to crash his place yesterday. an army which sort of ended up squeezing in front of his TV to play winning eleven. lol.
so congrats on a successful op pai kah. at least u're finally on the road to recovery.

and finally, after 3rd lang and junliang's hse, which I won't bother talking about, was of course dinner with 4K.

fantastic, needless to say. a really generous birthday boy decided to pay for our meal at swensen's (thanks kieran!) and to top the night off I had a fantastic game of pool with sean kie and shoij at my table. i actually had a 4 or 5-ball streak on one turn. wheee!

got home at 0030 last night. quite a relief to have this afternoon at home to rush some e-learning work and take a breather before thursday's spam of interclass matches.

for 4K!

2008-03-21T10:50:00.005+08:00

fish & co. with 4K yesterday was simply fantastic.
i had new york fish and chips for 17 bucks. the cheese stuffing is really heavenly, although the portion was sooo big that I was full about halfway through. haha.

the glass house is a really magnificent place. the dim lights make for a fantastic ambience, even if they force you to rely on your handphone lights in order to read the menu clearly. and it was really great that shanzhi and aaron goh got the band to let them make a dedication and sing a birthday song for shoujian. that boy must be really touched =D

soccer in school with 4K once again at 2 later. looking forward to it even though i feel kinda tired after staying up late the past few nights.

i absolutely love this class.

2008-03-18T21:49:00.002+08:00

i sincerely wish i was down there.

really.

but either way, congrats RI tennis.

and congrats Shoujian =D

we're for, we're for Raffles yeah!!

2008-03-17T21:16:00.005+08:00

i know this may sound a little deranged and all, but i'm actually really glad that school has started again. March Holz are the most meaningless shit anyway, and I was exceptionally put off that the supposedly 2 most fun days, namely thursday and friday playing soccer and settling class decor with 4K, were sort of ruined by MOTHER !@*(*!(@* nature and people who didn't even bother turning up on any of the 2 days with no valid reason whatsoever. And Zoo CIP on Saturday was honestly a huge disappointment, considering I had to miss DOH lunch for it, and had to sit there for an entire day half painting little kids' faces with frogs and half falling asleep, while being completely helpless about the huge amount of work that was waiting for me once I got home.

of course, one of the things i missed most about school was chong han guang's nonsense, and boy was today's chem lesson a welcome relief.

4K is playing the p*nis game in class:
Ram Chandra: SIR! Can you ask them to stop talking about P*nises?!?!
*Han Guang stares at him, starts laughing, raises his hands to the sky and prays for help while smirking his head off*

4K is throwing paper balls in class:
Chong HG: Guys, you all have paper balls, you know what I have? A duster. so the next one who throws a paper ball, i will throw the duster at you.
*Paper ball lands in front of him while he's writing on the board*
Chong HG: WHO DID IT?!?!?!
*i promptly stand up and point to seen*
*Chong HG REALLY REALLY throws the duster straight at him, but misses* Aww.
*Kieran picks up duster*
Chong HG: Throw it back in front!
*Kieran throws too high, and it hits the wall above the whiteboard*
Chong HG: Oh my god! That is a historic mark on RI!

he's godly beyond compare i swear.

oh and on a side note,

Au Revoir Arsenal!

oh and watching lian today was really...nostalgic.
good times, good times...
sob sob. =D

2008-03-13T20:37:00.002+08:00

YAY! First night at my own home, sleeping on my own bed in 4 whole days! WHEEE!!

Gym camp was fun. all i can say is hanging out with the guys all over again was quite meaningful. and of course all the soccer, slacking, gaming in the classroom etc. haha.

had to go to mooty's house and stay over AGAIN for SS this time. Following which Mooty Junyong and I went on to school today morning to play soccer with the 4K peeps and take the class decor pictures. My picture looks so retarded. i was dribbling past shoij, but kie took it to make it seem like a shot, so it looks as if im some idiot who has no idea how to shoot properly. sigh.

oh yea i got my first pair of soccer boots! 53 bucks from queensway. exactly the same ones that shoij just bought recently. we were spending so long arguing whether i shld have bought the same pair as him. hilarious. about 10 of us from 4k went down to queensway today to look at a sample of our sewn-on class crest, get the photos printed and basically just hang out. I really love how we are all ever-willing to dedicate our precious holiday time to working on our class decoration and all. Great job 4K!!!

one last thing. this probably ain't news no more, but Jon Lian snapped his collarbone trying to do a handstand. gonna go under the knife 2moro, so we may go visit him or something. who knows. so pray for him or something. haha =)

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what i need is milk says:
if u guys are coming tmr

what i need is milk says:
can bring fun stuff to play
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what i need is milk says:
bring a board game

what i need is milk says:
matthew wanted to bring ds

what i need is milk says:
den he realise i only got left hand
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jon lian will always be jon lian. =D

2008-03-09T14:02:00.004+08:00

let's admit it. anyone and everyone who's a football fan. we miss the hell out of this guy.

so it kind of rocks that he's recently getting himself back into the news, sparring with people like Wenger and Grant, and making his now famous statement that he wants to get back into English football and "Kill Chelsea".

mourinho is seriously, the most talented, charismatic and unique personality that has ever entered football, sports or even the news as a whole. no one can deny that. and that kind of causes me to question, what kind of horrible replacement is this guy?!?!

I mean he does have some sort of wit too; (really loved his response to mourinho doubting his abilities as a manager, saying that fish end up on dinner tables only because they open their mouths), but seriously, can you even see a hint of charisma in that neck-less head of his? -.-

to get knocked out of the carling and FA cups by Tottenham and BARNSLEY respectively is just horrid. and yet, I'm really happy that teams like spurs, barnsley and portsmouth are doing what they are doing to the Big 4. Someone needs to whack those clubs square in their heads and remind them that they aren't as big as they always think themselves to be. The mid-table clubs are rising, and they are rising fast.

you know what I see happening in the near future? mourinho taking over a mid-table team like Spurs or Portsmouth, and bringing all these clubs to the top of the table, flinging the ever-egoistical big four off their feet.

it's time to herald the English Football Revolution

2008-03-08T17:02:00.006+08:00

after reading mooty's blog post, i kind of wanted to say my piece too.

so ms kuang scolded our class for not including the three-people-who-sit-in-front-of-mooty, and for picking our friends to join our ERP group instead of those whom we shared our reading interests with. and my first reaction is like, what? i think what ms kuang and alot of teachers never realise is that, when we stick to the same group of people all the time, it's not because we are unwilling to work with everyone else and are "elitist", "exclusive" or whatever, but simply because we have better rapport and dynamics with these people, and thus would feel much more comfortable working with them, since past experiences have proven that we work effectively and harmoniously as a group. personally there are alot of people in this class I haven't worked with, whom no one can deny that I consider great friends as well.

i mean, who can blame us for trying to snatch up those people we are sure of working well with right? personally, whenever a teacher asks us to look for a group to work in I would immediately turn to people like mooty, theodore, lian etc. not only because they're my good friends, but because I know that I can work extremely well with these people. that doesn't mean that everyone else I don't turn to, I don't consider a good friend as well right?

and about the three in front. they are, no matter how you look at it, the most exclusive and rigid clique there is in the entire class. like mooty has said, they really do not make an effort to go out and look for groups, and rather turn to each other whenever any group task pops up. people might say that it's our fault that they have ended up like that, that they feel so discriminated by us that they don't feel attached to the class any more or something. i know. but then I think to myself, have i ever gone up to spencer or ryan or even beng's face and told them something like "I WILL NEVER WORK WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU SUCK" or something? of course not. and i'm pretty sure no one in class has actually done such a thing.

instead of blaming the majority all the time, people really have to look at the 3 of them and think whether it's really 4K's fault for discriminating against them, or their own fault for not wanting to integrate themselves into the class. for ryan and spencer, i have no idea how they ended up like that in the first place. no freaking idea. seriously.

of course we all know what happened between 4K and beng. but seriously, is it our fault? we're all objective people, and definitely have not treated beng like that without any rhyme or reason. personally my impression of him took a turn for the worse when he made his English Reading Blog post on the little boy who died cycling (can't remember his name), and said that it was "god opening his eyes and punishing inconsiderate cyclists". I mean, how can anyone with half a heart even bear to say something that horrible? and as time went by, as beng continued to miss things like class-gatherings just because he felt "anti-social", he naturally became more and more detached from the class, and 4K felt as if he was less and less a true member of our united class.

and it's not like we don't give a damn about him. when he got injured in a fight with ryan, we showed a hell lot of concern. people running all the way to the canteen to get him a hot drink, asking him every few minutes whether he was feeling better; we definitely didn't do it just because "the teacher told us to", but because a member of our class was in distress we naturally tried our best to help. a few weeks ago, when beng came back after suddenly crying after PE and not coming to school for the next few days, ms kek and 4K tried to apologise to him and ask him about what happened, but all he chose to do was dao us completely. if you're not even willing to say your piece and try to come to a resolution with the class, what can you even expect us to do about it? in fact. i think he's even bearing a grudge against us now, supremely evident from the way he showed off after getting top in class for the chinese paper.

truly, and most unfortunately, our class has already reached that stage with beng. honestly there's already nothing we can do at this stage, except try our best to integrate him back into the class. and yet, even if he gets through this 1 more year with this supposedly "evil" class of his, who's gonna help him when he goes out into the real world? If he already feels like that in 4K, which honestly has already been as accomodating as possible to him, how is he possibly gonna survive in that harsh and cruel world out there?

if anyone thinks we're in the least bit happy that someone in our class has gotten detached to such an unfortunate stage, that person must be some deluded fool. think of our situation too.

and if you think that we're not doing enough to remedy the situation, let me ask you:

what can we possibly do?

2008-03-07T21:41:00.002+08:00

yay! it's the march holz! the time where we all have nothing to do and can slack our heads off! I mean, just look at my holiday schedule xD

monday. gym camp
tuesday. gym camp
wednesday. gym camp till 2, probably trying to organise a project meeting after
thurs. soccer and class decor with 4K at school (although that's gonna be fun =D)
friday. class decor with 4K at school again
saturday. cip helpout at zoo from like 8am-5pm

i am so damn free this march.

p.s. something weird happened today. during physics, while filling up hot water in the polystyene cup, a huge drop flew out, shocked me and caused me to jerk my hand, which made half of the water spill all over my hand. 80 degrees celsius water. I was almost ready to scream in pain and shock, when i realised the pain wasn't that bad. hmm weird. I managed to fill up the rest of the cup, walk slowly back to my desk, setup the experiment before turning on the tap for some cold water on my hand.

it wasn't burning at all. as in like, at all. heck my skin barely even turned red.

they should put me on Heroes or something.

2008-03-04T21:03:00.005+08:00

3 down. 1 to go.

Maths TA was nothing out of the ordinary. The usual tricky questions, lack of time to do anything proper. About 90% sure that I'm already gonna fail. As I said, nothing special really. Chem Prac was so WEIRD. there were a hell lot of reactions where the colour wasnt distinct, and where we couldn't really tell whether it was like a solution or a precipitate. whatever. luckily we had a relief teacher, which allowed for a little bit of "interaction".

Today's HistRA test was depressing really. "How far do the above sources agree with George Lefebvre's classical interpretation of the French Revolution?" I actually read it as how far do YOU agree, and was getting really excited since it was the question I prepared for, and so you can imagine how suicidal I felt when I read the question again after seeing shanzhi underline the word "sources" in his essay. I mean. IT'S SO RESTRICTIVE!!! It was nothing more than a source analysis skill test really. I would've rather had a question like, "What is your theory of the French Revolution?" or something. I actually spent like 4-5hours over the weekend typing out my own theory of the revolution, which was eventually rendered completely useless by the test question. sigh.
I quote myself, "That was an evil question Mrs Neoh. Evil"

to which she appropriately replied with an evil, evil smirk.

2008-03-02T13:20:00.008+08:00

So it has come down to this.

I really can't believe we're already nearing the end of term 1. Mooty's right. Grad night's just up ahead, and my only worry is that I wouldn't even realize it when my last year in this school draws to a (spectacular?) close. Sigh.

Had another overnight meeting with the ERP guys on friday, only this time it was at mooty's much smaller yet equally cosy HDB flat. Needless to say, we had a much more fruitful session this time, both in terms of how productive we were at the task we actually had to complete, and the nice, long talks we had late at night, about school, work, girlfriends etc. Really made us realise that our entire lives really just revolved around school and each other. Set me thinking about where all of us will be after we leave RI, 5, 10 or even 20 years down the road.

And so, we're only a mere week away from freedom, and all we have to do now is to brave past all the obstacles that the teachers and the school have set out to kill us, like our Maths Test, History Test, Physics Prac, Chem Prac, ERP, CRP, SS UNSC debate, Philo, PE!! (no typo here, in case you were looking for one.) etc.

Sounds really easy doesnt it? ;)

So here's to the upcoming March Holz.
And here's to us.

2008-02-27T22:00:00.002+08:00

there are really only 3 interesting things that have happened to me so far this week.

Firstly, Miserable Monday. From staying up till 2am just to watch Chelsea perish at the hands of those hotspurs, to getting a horribly disappointing 21/30 for the superbly and unbelievably easy Maths CCT, and the English CCT at the end of the day, which was quite fine I guess, except for that inevitable feeling of misery that sort of comes about with any test we take, and which kind of summed up that "eventful" day for me.

Secondly, the escapades of our ERP group, meeting up at Shanzhi and Mooty's houses from like 8-11pm, all thanks to PI which forced LitRA to push their class back to 4pm. (PI was quite funny by the way. especially that song which was just SO DAMN shanzhi.) Even though they live 2 mere blocks away from each other, and probably equal each other in terms of retardness etc., I would say that their living styles are extremely contrasting. All-in-all, from all the free tours that we got in each of their houses, I had three main takeaways.

firstly, mooty has a wonderfully lovely living room. secondly, mooty's computer sucks. and thirdly, shanzhi's wardrobe is, without a shadow of a doubt...*vijay-esque stare* doubtable. =P

which leads me nicely to what happened in class today. chem class of course.

I assure you Mr Chong is getting godlier by the day. Ok so as usual, he walked into class with that huge grin on his face, greeted us in that melodic nasal voice of his, and before doing anything else, started dancing like an idiot, stepping from side-to-side and snapping his fingers.

"Nice one man shanzhi!"

That just set the tone for the rest of his lesson, seriously. From jokes about the titanic to ridiculous suggestions about how we should go about memorising chem stuff, Mr Mercury Chong (I asked him what was Hg, and he said "my name"), was as usual, carried out his hidden agenda of helping the whole of 4K develop abs by the end of the year.

Chong: Ok so who has CCA on monday? *whole class raises hands except ahem*
Chong: Tuesday? *3/4 of class raises hands* Wednesday? *whole class*...Thursday? *half class*
Chong: Ok never mind. FRIDAY? *whole class raises hands and laughs*

At this juncture, Chong HG raises his arms, looks up in the air and still unable to wipe that trademark smirk off his face, goes "HELP ME!!!!"

Maybe it's coz he's getting married in a few days' time.

pre-marital hyperactiveness.

Oh I later noticed an EXTREMELY interesting juxtaposition between Chong's godly jokes, and Ryan as usual trying to be funny in class.

Chong: What's slag?
Ryan: SLACK! HAHA! *retarded laughter*
Chong: the formula of slag is CaSiO3, like Casio.
Ryan: Haha so the CaSio watches are all damn slack! *more retarded laughter*

He made many other lame jokes during other classes as well, but I would much rather store Chong's godly ones in this limited memory of mine. All I can remember is we were wtf-ing him all day.
And it was really interesting how he got pissed with spencer later and actually screamed f**k at him. (censored so JON LIAN can continue reading my blog, even though I know he doesn't)

mood swings much?

2008-02-24T14:26:00.000+08:00

you REALLY have to watch this video.

roflmao.

2008-02-23T20:25:00.003+08:00

just survived two tiring project meetings back-to-back. yay me.

shoij's house was pretty interesting. i love how it's right next to thomson plaza. haha. and OMG we got to work and sleep in his elder brother's little study room in the attic of sorts, which was just SOOO beautiful and comfy. Had such a homey feeling to it. oh and the sound system was gay. haha. working through the night was definitely unproductive. we sort of only did 8 powerpoint slides through the whole night, drifting in and out of sleep. I collapsed at 2am+, woke up at 630am and by 8am, finished 22 slides for the ppt. haha. just goes to show how useless I am at night. -.-

Ray Charles is quite an inspiration. How a pitiful black boy who lost his father, brother, mother and sight all before the age of 16 could become one of the most talented musicians of all time is simply amazing. Even if he did drugs and seemed like some kind of sex maniac, having illegitimate children with 5 "wives", you can never deny that people like us have a lot to learn from the sheer grit and determination Ray approached his life with.

"I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in the ass I've gotten over the years for being black and everything else, without actually saying a word about it." -Ray Charles

So after leaving shoij's house I met lian at tamp and we came to my house to do SS. fairly productive I would say, amidst lian's usual hyper-ness and stuff. and we played quite abit of Fifa. fun.

So ends another boringly long post about my boringly boring life. I wouldn't be surprised if you were pissed at how boring my recent posts have been, so please, feel free to take your leave for the more interesting blogs of people who actually HAVE a life. like mooty's or shanzhi's.

even if the "life" part is abit debatable =P

Quote of the week:
"Michael Jackson's good what. I mean, he won all those platinums and billboard charts right?"

Who said it?

Go figure.

2008-02-21T20:44:00.003+08:00

i really pity nigel, shanzhi and seen for having their birthdays in a week such as this.

they probably couldn't even go out at night to celebrate with anyone. or even stay at home and celebrate, for that matter, considering how many CCTs, tests, assignments and projects we've had due AND dumped on us this week. And if this week killed us, week 9 is just gonna take us to hell and back again.

rants aside, today was the last lesson of our soccer PE module. Noooooo!!!!! It was really fun while it lasted, and I can say that i've improved significantly from the start of the module, especially in terms of my ball control, even though I still suck like shit at it. At least I ended it on a good note today, scoring a goal and managing to link up with shoij and seen FAIRLY well.
and omg some of them played soccer with Vijay after school! But I had mentoring at daqiao till 5. which by the way was interesting... damn. =.= hopefully him and mr azmy can join us the next time 4K goes to the cage. haha.

loooonnnngggg day ahead 2moro. staying over at shoij's house to chiong our ERP through the night. I really can't imagine how hyper people like mooty shoij and shanzhi will get at like 3am. It's gonna be so damn bloody unproductive.

yet entertaining.

p.s. congrats to singapore for winning the right to host the 2010 youth olympics. let's work towards hosting the world cup by the year (insert random year at least 50 years after my grandchildren have died) ok? =D

but seriously, well done singapore.

2008-02-18T21:39:00.005+08:00

had a great monday today. oxymoronic, but yeah. =D

firstly, HAPPY SACRED 16TH BIRTHDAY TO NIGEL CHUA! WOOO!!!!

oh yea and master thia shanzhi too. "chey..."

ok nvm before he gets me expelled or something, *begins pretentious act* HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY MASTER THIA! *ends pretentious act*
ok in all seriousness, happy birthday to the both of them. coolest birthday pair i've ever come across haha =D

on a sidenote, OMG CHONG HAN GUANG SERIOUSLY CRACKS ME UP! lol. he's seriously the most hilarious joker-teacher I have ever and will probably ever come across man. I swear by the end of the year every single 4ker, and I mean EVERYONE, will get abs as deadly as daniel's. DEADLY!

4K: Sir help us with maths!
Mr Chong: My Maths ah, without a shadow of a doubt (does a vijay-style stare into space), is doubtable.
Mr Chong: Then again, you know what was my poorest subject in secondary school?
*silence*
Mr Chong: Chem.

(Thomas' handphone is on top of his bottle, lens exposed, pointing straight at CHG - have no idea what he was doing)
Mr Chong: THOMAS! Are you taking videos of ME?!
Thomas: No Sir! My phone's spoilt so I must put it on top of my bottle (don't ask. It's thom. -.-)
Mr Chong: Nvm. I shall have to confiscate and investigate.
Mr Chong: YAY! Now I have a new sony ericsson. You know If I want to keep the phone I can just take videos of myself and get you in trouble. Wait nevermind. Teachers are not supposed to have evil thoughts.

4K: Sir are you gonna further your studies?
Mr Chong: STUDIES?! Please!!! No more studies for me! Damn tiring!

and all in one lesson wtf. there was SO much more, but I laughed so much I think it damaged my brain. seriously ultimate sia he.

oh yea. so shanzhi was like honoured in school today by isaac chay and biquan, but I kinda wondered why no one cheered when they announced that it was MASTER THIA'S BIRTHDAY! Woah! =O. Ok who am I kidding? Lol =P. A few teachers remembered to wish him happy b'day, like Ms Goh and Ms Kek, even if Ms Kek somehow managed to think that "today" meant tomorrow.

4K was planning to dao him, until Rich intelligently asked us in front of his face:

"Hey! Are we still supposed to dao shanzhi?"
to which we laughed for almost an hour.

at the end of the day we sang a birthday song for him, which of course was followed by a colossal taupok. Ms Kek just stood and watched for a few seconds, then ran for her life. haha. Why do I say it was colossal? Just look at the people involved:

look at shanzhi's face man.
such a great squeal of delight.

2008-02-15T22:46:00.002+08:00

had a talk by Aaron Maniam today, on career prospects in the Humanities. fantastic really. loved how he took everything very casually, and gave us very honest opinions on the issues brought up, ranging from the relevance of Mathematics to what he thought of working in the government. haha. he's seriously every bit the perfect example of what people in the Humanities are all about. Eloquent, good-humoured, witty and inspirational.

really looking forward to when our parents are invited for the exact same talk by him. time to crush all those traditional stereotypes of people in the Humanities man. Whooooo.

oh and we got to try some of junyong's tiramisu today. it was really nice, even if i only had like one mouthful of it. haha. it's soooo much more meaningful than spending loads of money on flowers and nothing else. good job junyong. lol.

Random person: It looks like shit! (commenting on the soggy leftover bits of tiramisu)
Jon Lian: But it's heavenly shit!
*everyone laughs*
Jon Lian: *scoops up all the leftovers and eats them*
Jon Lian: Damn if shit tasted like that I'd eat my own shit.

Classic Jon Lian man. Classic.

2008-02-14T22:22:00.003+08:00

today was interesting, to say the least.

greeting teachers with "Happy Valentine's Day (insert teacher name here)" was fun. especially when shanzhi jacked lian by telling him to greet Ms Kuang that way, when the whole class ended up just saying good morning. haha.

so, to all those privileged ones. happy valentine's day. enjoy your roses, balloons, tiramisu and all.

and for the rest of us (losers) out there, happy singles' awareness day! =D

oh and on a sidenote,
i really can't belive how freaking IMBA Mrs Neoh is.
godly in fact.

2008-02-13T21:14:00.004+08:00

finally.

i've gotten my conscience off my back; gotten rid of the issue that has been really bugging me for the past year or so. yes, for the first time in god knows when, i've actually stepped back into gym. Even if my role is as insignificant as that of just someone helping the sec 1s in their familiarisation year, it's something feasible that I can work with, something I can actually focus on and something that actually allows me to make that little bit of contribution to the CCA before I leave at the end of the year.

really made me reflect on what has happened to me over the past 4 years. getting injured in sec 2, being completely emo (seriously) for the next half a year or so, teaching some random young kids outside of school basic gym, and ending up back where I started, only to train the sec 1s who im pretty sure will be way better than me in the blink of an eye. an eventful four years, to say the least.

hopefully i'll settle down soon, completely get rid of this huge problem such that i may truly focus on whatever I hope to accomplish in my last year in this institution.

had a nice talk with my dad today. about the things i've done over the past four years, things that i've loved, things that i've regretted. If there is one thing i've realised as of late, it's that four years isnt really much time. I really hate myself for not grabbing at certain opportunities i've had in this school, just because I was unwilling, afraid or just plain lazy to commit myself, constantly shrugging it off with the excuse that I still had "many" more years to go. can't believe how bloody stupid I was.

one more year. you can only imagine how much I wish to accomplish in just that.

2008-02-10T18:30:00.000+08:00

class dinner was great fun. what kieran said was really true. doesn't matter what we eat, since the talking cock is what makes the whole thing really fun anyway. haha.

ended up eating at Central, the Hong Kong 茶餐厅 we ate at the previous time. Food's good and the price is fairly reasonable I guess. Only that I made a HUGE mistake by ordering this horrific almond milk tea which made me cringe every time I had a sip of it. You really can't imagine how strong the almond was. lol. was begging zhixuan to mix his normal milk tea with mine, but he was sensible enough to refuse, so I ended up wasting like a quarter of the milk tea, which is like, 75 cents or something. Ouch.

went to meridien as usual to play pool till like 1120. quite proud of myself. getting better by the game haha =D. But Seen was unusually off-colour last night, and ended up emo-ing under the pool table, afterwhich he soon became a camwhore for people like zhixuan and koonz. haha.

of course there was the special guest. have to say I'm kinda surprised she didn't feel completely awkward having dinner with her bf and 8 of his classmates (all male btw, lol) but yea that gave an added dimension of interesting-ness to the whole thing.

so every thing good about CNY is now past. time for us to face the rest of term 1 in the next few weeks, which i can assure you, is gonna be nothing short of hell.

Ah well. Here's hoping everyone makes it to the March Holz in one piece. or at the very most two.

Cheers.

2008-02-08T21:52:00.000+08:00

CNY's finally over! (it is in my books, so none of you come and give me the crap about how it's supposed to last for 15 days, unless of course you wanna persuade the govt. to give us a 15-day holiday)

honestly, my CNY really hasn't been much of a blast this year. I was having a cough, so none of that bak gua or any other chinese new year goodies, since all of them will probably kill you if you have them while you are unwell. On top of that, I find myself growing more and more distant from my cousins as the years go by. It's really quite sad, thinking of how close we were when we were younger, only to let our different paths in future life build this huge barrier between us. I guess the only good thing about this Chinese New Year was the surprising increase in angbao money profits. My relatives are suddenly like, investing in me or something -.- There actually wasn't a SINGLE miser this year for me to get absolutely pissed with, so it was really quite a pleasant surprise.

Of course, the best part of Chinese New Year this year was the time spent with the 4K peeps, shopping together for clothes and what not. It really does not take much for me to get really happy spending time with this bunch of great people, and I'm starting to assure myself that, after my parents, it's them who come next, not any relatives or whatnot. I mean, we're all already coming up with ideas how we should spend the next reunion dinner with each other instead of our relatives, and honestly, I would absolutely love being able to do that, even if our parents would probably murder us and then ground us for like, 99 years.

I know how my parents constantly remind me of how important it is to be close to my relatives and especially my cousins, since I don't have any siblings, and once my parents are gone, they will be the only forms of kin that I would have. Yet, whatever crisis I forsee myself going through in 10, 20 years to come, I find it much more logical, and way more comforting to think that it would be someone I've met over these past years - someone who I have come to call a friend - who would be there to help me, instead of one of these cousins whom I feel really aren't that close to me anymore

Some of you will probably think that I'm some emotionless freak who can't even bother getting close to my very own cousins and relatives, but what can I say? It's Raffles which I've learnt to call my home, and all the friends I've met whom I've come to treat as my true family out of home.

And I dare say I'm proud as hell of such a fact.

quote from shanzhi's blog(since it really tells the story of my CNY this yr): i hope theres going to be the class reunion dinner on saturday. at least theres something to look forward to.

2008-02-04T19:47:00.000+08:00

had PSGM with the sec 1s today. the topic was humility, so I think I used that *ahem* article from the amazing paper published in 两个语言 to really good effect. thanks daniel. haha :D . The Sec 1s are getting harder and harder to handle by the session. they just seem bent on making me lose my voice before CNY. -.-

went shopping for clothes at J8 with Koonz and Theo after that. none of us bought anything though. I've never actually tried shopping at J8 before. and after today i only have one word to describe the "shoppableness" of J8. pathetic.

had quite a meaningful discussion with Ms Goh during CLE today. about the meaning of life. What is life exactly? The more "square" people would say that it's the transitition between your existence as a zygote to being a pile of ashes, while the more well-versed, poetic and articulate literary people (like 4K :D) would call it things like a box of chocolates, a vacuum cleaner (lol) and for the more Freudian people (yay rich i used your fav word! :O), a sperm - either you swim the length or die infertile. Well, here's my take:

Public service message: If you don't have time on your hands, please do NOT allow me to bore you for the next few paragraphs, and feel free to skip all the way to the last few lines of my post.
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Life's like a journey through a treacherous jungle. There are times when the trees will block out the light, making the path dark and gloomy, and yet there are times when the trees will clear, allowing the warmth of the sun to set on your skin, lighting the path ahead for you. On the way, one will have to make choices between different paths in the jungle. Make all the right choices, and one is blessed with a smooth journey through the jungle and out into the light. Yet, no one can ever make the right choice all the time. Once you take a wrong turn, you will have to brave through whatever obstacles may face you on that path, for there is never any turning back. Whether it be deadly vines, or ferocious animals, one must give all he can to survive the obstacles, such that he may have a chance to continue on his journey. After all, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger doesn't it?

Along the way, you will also meet many other people who like you, are lost in the jungle, trying to find the best way through this journey of life. Some, the nicer ones, will offer you a drink of water , strike up a conversation, and after spending some meaningful time with you on the way, will become your friend for life, and stick with you all the way till the end. Most of the others however, would either just give you a wave and walk by, or even completely ignore you. These people of course, will have no impact on you whatsoever. And yet, one must also never forget the group of people who will be out to harm you, kill you for your supplies, or set wild animals on you just because they think you have "offended" them. These people are of course, your enemies. At the end of the day, everyone you meet along the way will make a difference in your life, and whether you learn how to treasure these people, will have an impact on your chances of making it out at the end of it all.

The unfortunate ones on this journey of life either make too many wrong choices, or are too weak to overcome the obstacles they face. These people will sadly die off along the way, and at the end of the day, the people who can make it to the green pastures at the other end of the jungle, those who, despite all the blood, sweat and tears they have shed along the way, have still braved through to the very end, can deservedly call themselves the victors, and enjoy all the wonderful things the rest of life has to offer them.
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Yet, if you refuse to be bored by such a lengthy, philosophical theory, I have something else to offer you, equally if not more meaningful if i should say so myself.

Life is what you want it to be.

2008-02-03T16:47:00.000+08:00

did some CNY shopping today. as of late the "CNY" part has just become an excuse for an extravagant wardrobe makeover. haha.

Here's a thought. Don't you find it extremely ~~wonderful~~ tragic that our generation no longer ~~needs~~ gets to wear those absolutely ~~horrific~~ delightful traditional costumes for visiting during Chinese New Year?

I do. =/

2008-02-02T17:10:00.000+08:00

did a personality test earlier today: http://www.quizbox.com/personality/test82.aspx
as usual, not everything they made of me was true, but I was still kinda surprised at how much of it actually made good sense. you should seriously go try it out.

my results:-

Your view on yourself:
You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend you are looking for:
You are a true romantic. When you are in love, you will do anything and everything to keep your love true. (don't see how this actually answers the question. lol)

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person.

The seriousness of your love:
You like to flirt and behave seductively. The opposite sex finds this very attractive, and that's why you'll always have admirers hanging off your arms. But how serious are you about choosing someone to be in a relationship with? (this is the only point that is completely untrue, and seriously contradicts the 2nd point. wtf)

Your views on education
You may not like to study but you have many practical ideas. You listen to your own instincts and tend to follow your heart, so you will probably end up with an unusual job.

The right job for you:
You have many goals and want to achieve as much as you can. The jobs you enjoy are those that let you burn off your considerable excess energy.

How do you view success:
You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of:
You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It's time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear.

Who is your true self:
You are full of energy and confidence. You are unpredictable, with moods changing as quickly as an ocean. You might occasionally be calm and still, but never for long.

So personality tests aren't a complete scam after all.

p.s: imeem player's up, so go ahead and comment on my music taste if you want to, unless you have nothing good to say about it, in which case you should just hold your peace. ;)

2008-02-01T22:19:00.003+08:00

had a discussion with Mr Azmy about the mypaper article today. i think he's a fantastic form teacher. really like how he tries his best to interact with us and keep things as informal as possible.

to say that i'm suprised that such an article was written would be a hell of a lie. we get this kind of flak alot anyway. yet there was something about this particular one that made it the talk of the school over the past few days. to say that it was prejudiced and severely taken out of context would be an understatement (I mean, yea ok we get the point, but you don't need to print an oversized version of our school crest coupled with obese font size 72 text and smack it on your cover page do you), but i wouldn't want any one stumbling upon what i've written here such that he or she may dedicate an entire edition of the paper to "honouring" the name of Raffles, so yea i'm not gonna go on. All I can say is that I finally understand why I hardly ever pick up this amazing paper, even though it's completely FREE, and is published in 2 LANGUAGES!!! Woah! 好酷喔！ :O

on a lighter note, it was hilariously awkward for every single one of us on wednesday. I personally was standing in the MRT train, seeing close to 10 people holding up the papers with the article staring straight in my face, and thanking god that i hadn't chosen to wear my RI PE Kit to the Cage that day. haha

merit cca raffles trail with sec 1s today. as time goes by im beginning to wonder whether we should continue being so nice to them. pretty obvious that some of them are beginning to climb atop our heads.

went for dinner after with sean, zhixuan, rich and shanzhi. after which the four of us pangseh-ed shanzhi and actually went back to school to play tennis. at 7pm. i guess the best part of the whole thing was when we played at the start without lights. became more of a test of who had the more powderful eyesight and concentration than who had better tennis skills. haha.

i think what was mentioned in class today was true. no matter what we do, people will always have something to say about us. it's part of the contract we signed when we entered this school.

it's just too bad we didn't read the fineprint.

2008-01-31T20:56:00.000+08:00

i know. you guys are probably getting sick and tired of me reviving and killing my blog over and over again. this is probably like the 3rd or 4th time now isn't it?

Well. I thought I had better document my last year in - quotes head(insert random sexuality here): the "hallowed halls" of Raffles Institution, so yea, i'm back for the rest of the year.

Sure is gonna be hell of a year ahead. Curating with National Museum, Future Problem Solving and a possible Undergraduate History course around July with NUS are just some of the things that I've already gotten myself into over the 1st month of school, so i'm pretty sure that there's much, much more coming my way. But, like how I keep telling my sec 1s to make full use of every single second they have in this sacred institution, I'm gonna force myself to do as much as I can in this school before I graduate.

To think that just awhile ago I was a clueless little kid from St Hildas, stepping into the sacred halls of Raffles, wondering where the next four years of my life would take me.

Time flies. Which freaks me out.
Really bad.

p.s. the new skin is just so wonderfully singaporean. don't you just love it?

2007-04-07T12:08:00.000+08:00

Linkin Park's newly released single: "What I've done" from their latest album Minutes to Midnight

Enjoy.

2007-04-06T11:03:00.000+08:00

3-day long weekend.

Only Maths TA next week.

That rox, doesn't it? Beats the March Holz. So I'm gonna slack my head off now. Byebye.

Oh yea, on a side note, this is to all the loyal, dedicated, die-hard blah blah blah Man U fans out there:

2-1! AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Actually Chelsea screwed up too, but who cares? That's why I'm a fan ;)

2007-04-01T10:58:00.000+08:00

April Fool's Day.

Yet we're at home, with no one to prank, no one's face to laugh at.

I still remember April Fool's last year. Jonny kept trying to prank people, but the joke always ended up on him. Lol.

Yet we're at home, no chance to see Jonny self-jack again.
We could do it 2moro, but it'll never be as fun as doing it on April the 1st.
The only people we have for company now are our texts for CRP, and if we don't complete them, we'll be the butt of our Lit teachers' jokes.

Yet we have a glimmer of hope. Eyong told us to hand in CRP on friday, but friday is good friday. So if those 3A people and BenG shut up, we can pull off a super useful "prank" on eyong and get 1 more weekend for our CRPs. But how to make the 3A people and BenG shut up?

"We tape up his mouth before Lit class and throw him into the cabinet." - Burger

2007-03-26T19:46:00.000+08:00

New class blog and class forums, of which I am one of the moderators. Yay!
(Looking for the links? Hint: Look in the "links" column you doofus)

Physics test was not as bad as I had expected it to be. But 45 mins is short, so I messed up abit.
Oh yea, on a "side" note,

3L got 1 hour for their physics test! Teacher was blur! Some of them knew but kept mum! THEY CANNOT DENY IT. (emos)

*clears throat, regains sanity*
Goodbye

2007-03-24T19:01:00.000+08:00

What a week of chionging last minute holz homework it has been. Yet, our misery is not over, as there are 4 tests next week, namely Physics, Physics Prac, Chem and Maths. That really sucks. And I am really tired. Have to chiong RE by 2nd April, CRP by week 3, and there are already 2 tests in week 3 which I know of. Sian.

Ok. Ranted all I needed to rant. Now, brace yourselves for the joke of the century:

We were discussing about Act I Scene I of R&J in Lit class not too long ago. One guy mentioned that there were alot of sexual puns in that scene, so Edel Yong decided to get someone to explain some of these sexual puns.

"Hmm, let's find someone who should be well-versed in sexual puns!" said Edel Yong, thinking.

"...Benjamin!"

Edelweiss Yong almost murdered 30 people that day.
Death by laughter.

2007-03-19T19:41:00.000+08:00

Survived week-long study camp.

Vijay (oops I mean Mr Vijay) told us today about how some student emailed the entire teacher population expressing concern towards the integrity of RI students, talking about how pple copied homework from others and cheated in tests. Really wonder who the hell would do that. Gutsy man. Then Vijay once again suanned the entire class by "joking" that he doesn't see how the class could have copied anyone with the results we got for the test. He is evil man. and he's a liverpool supporter, makes it so much worse =/(still, he's not a Man U supporter like SOME people. lol)

Then the funny thing is, in Chinese class, Zhang Laoshi told us about how she hated english when she was young, and hated her teacher who had apparently called her "hopeless". Now THAT'S an evil teacher. Then she told us about how she cheated on most of her homework by copying from her friends! Of course she added on the usual part about how she regretted ignoring english when she was young la, but it's just damn cool that a teacher is honest enough to confess that she copied homework as a student. I bet if we ask mr vijay he would deny it.

Haiz. Holz were really damn miserable, and tiring.

Doesn't help that there is a chinese book test this week and 3 tests next week.
And I haven't read R&J. Crappish.

I still don't believe you haven't finished reading it Ben Ng. Who could? =/

2007-03-13T11:06:00.000+08:00

Puta!

An expression Mourinho claims that he uses "10 times in 15 words". It means "bitch" in Portuguese, and apparently the special one used it on the referee in the tunnel at half-time. Now FA is waiting for Riley's complaint, and Mourinho is insisting he wasn't offending the referee. According to him, he uses it when his players go down, uses it when his players miss a shot, uses it on the ball when it goes out of play etc. etc. etc. How interesting. Puta. Lol.

Anyway Chelsea showed exactly why they are the champions of England, fighting back from a 3-1 deficit at half time to bring Spurs back to White Hart Lane for a replay. 3-3 it finished, Kalou scoring a wonderful volley in the 86th minute which probably sent chills down that Ferguson's spine. They are never gonna lose at home are they. It's gonna be a bloody interesting final stretch in the EPL, in which Man U is gonna crash out the losers, of course.

So it's the second day of March Holidays, a.k.a study week. Even a fool could see that the huge amount of work we are getting is driving each and every one of us to our graves. Well, that's the price of being in RI, and if we don't work hard we'll be the ones left behind on the racetrack, faces flat on the ground in a bloody mess. So as I get ready to drown myself in assignments, assignments and more assignments, here's wishing that none of us be left behind in that pool of blood. (After all, the extra 4 hours of sleep we are getting for this week really really rocks doesn't it)

In the words of the Special One, Life's a Puta.

2007-03-06T18:39:00.000+08:00

This post is probably gonna be one of the shortest posts you will ever find in my blog, for I only have one thing to say.

Ben Ng is completely heartless.

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Taken from icyking-darkshadow.blogspot.com (Ben Ng's GRADED english blog...) As he decided to delete the post on his blog after being FLAMED like crap, I have copied and pasted his article here.
Portions in bold are what I found ridiculous and portions in red are simply shit.
Truth is I found the whole thing absolutely ridiculous, but heck.
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I QUOTE BENJAMIN NG:

Today, I am commenting on an article listed below in a more cyncial way as I attempt to throw off my mugger turncoat. So sit back, relax and enjoy.

http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,123785-1172527140,00.html

After reading this newspaper article who crashed with a taxi at a juncture where a motorist hit his dad eight years ago, I just had to laugh. Why laugh? It is because heaven had finally opened its eyes and punished those irritating bicyclists. Do you know how many times I had cursed those bicyclists under my breath, as they cycled leisurely along the sidewalks meant for the walking public. They are so irritating and act as if they own the sidewalks. "Ring-a-ling-a-ding" comes their warning bell, to imply "Hey, loser, get out of the way or I will crash you with my bike". Seriously, have they cared about the sense of comfort by the general public?

Ok, after reading up to this, you think that I am ranting about bicyclists. You know what? You are right. I am really very angry with them. Firstly, I do not how to ride a bicycle, so when I see them, I feel inferior. Secondly, I was hit by them like many times when I was drifting off to my own world. It is so annoying and scary as who knows when a bicyclist would just decide to crash me into the neither world. Once, I was told off by an auntie for being careless, not noticing her bicycle. Seriously, Ms. "I don't know who you are" , there is a reason why sidewalks are called sidewalks, as it is meant for the public to walk on. Somehow, I do not feel bicyclists are in that category.

Ok fine, then let's get the bicycles out of the sidewalks and onto the street. However, as shown by this example, if a bicycle and any other vehicle crash, the bicyclist will suffer the most damage due to the structure of the bicycle. (See, I can still sympathize with the bicyclists). Ok, even though I hate bicyclists to the core, I still would not want them to be thrown out of their seats and suffer injuries and all or even death as I am too kind a guy.

Then how? Actually, I also do not know how. However the "kiasu" Singapore government seemed to have an answer for everything and the solution would be to build special sidewalks for these bicyclists. yes, such a great idea, even a ten-year-old could think of it. However, I seriously think it costs too much, just for pompous fools who would "ring-a-ling-a-ding" to scare off pedestrians. (What do they think they are, ghost exorcists who would ring a bell to scare off ghosts?) This money could be used for other pressing matters.

However, the government-suggested solution seems to be the best we could find, so let us be typical Singaporeans and follow the government.

Better yet, let us ban bicycles (Couldn't these bicyclists take a bus or something to get to their destination?) and wish Jiao Jie all the best. Auspicium Melioris Aevi.

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Unquote.

After reading that I was absolutely disgusted.
After all, anyone with even half a heart would be too.

2007-02-28T19:11:00.002+08:00

These 2 days have been quite eventful. For different reasons of course.

I think I can sum yesterday up in 4 simple words: Maths, is, absolutely, CRAZY! No one finished the paper. I mean. 45 mins for so many qns. damn siao. The funny thing is, the 1st page looks damn innocent. Questions are like ok, straightforward, and do-able. Then flip to the next page, and proceed to scream OH ****(Fill in word that suits how vulgar you really are) at the top of your voice. Everyone is gonna do badly man, except maybe shoujian. lolx.

Thankfully today was eventful for the right reasons. Had swimming for PE. Initially thought that swimming would be super boring, albeit relaxing. Yet Mr Kwan let us play water polo in the 1st lesson! And no crazy 10-20 laps of boring, non-stop swimming. Teams were organised into ur typical even vs odd reg.no, and even nos. got thrashed. And I noticed something man. Sean has these super freakishly long arms. It's like you have the ball in front of you, then suddenly this long hand extends from dunno where and scoops it away from you. Damn funny. Still, could not beat the moment when Spencer, who had been camping in goal for the whole thing wall-hugging, threw the ball like 3 metres to shoujian even when he had galaxies of space and eternities of time to pick the ball up and throw it out. It's like pple caming at the other end were screaming non-stop for the ball, yet it just plonked into the water like 20 metres away from them, inviting the other team to pick it up and score.

Then came History. Library Activites room as usual, but this time had some dialogue session with this rep from MOE about the way singapore history was written. Now I'm not gonna bore you with a review of that dialogue itself, although it was quite intriguing. The funny thing that happened here, was that halfway through the thing, there was a blackout, and the whole library activities room was pitch black. Then there are 2 doors at the back of the room leading to this narrow, quiet hallway. Then the doors had these tiny windows which let dim, almost moody light from the hallway to come in, so it was really quite eerie man. Made everyone rush to pull out their handphones and turn on their camera lights. haha. And we continued the discussion in that eerie setting for like 5mins. quite an experience.

After History came maths, miserable as usual, so nothing to talk about.

Prefects' Investiture was quite cool I guess. Shoujian opened the show driving the remote controlled car like some drunkard, turning all over the place and crashing into chairs. Haha. Then someone who was desperate for attention somehow thought he'd steal the show by reaching out and sticking a finger on the car to stop it for like 1-2 seconds. Shoujian must have felt like picking up a random solid item within his reach and just throwing it at guy lor. Nothing better to do. lol.

They invited another random old rafflesian back to be Guest of Honour. I bet they have this long list of old rafflesians, then they call all of them till they find someone actually interested in returning back to RI. lol. When the teachers walked in someone stopped his clapping at certain intervals when certain teachers walked past us, so that was damn hilarious. Paul Lim came back to grace the occasion. Shld have made him the GoH, instead of some random guy no one in the hall knew, whom HM and the emcee had to pretend to know so well and have complete respect for all his acheivements and blah. I like how the prefects walked in at the start. Exco from behind, then the 2 lines of members coming in from the side and merging in the middle. Quite cool. And their timing was almost perfect. dunno how bloody long they spent rehearsing. Then at the end they sang and danced(although it wasnt much of dance) to Lighthouse family's High. Nice song. I think the PB sounded better than the original singers. Who sound quite weird somehow.

Once again. MATHS IS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY!!! X_X

2007-02-26T21:18:00.000+08:00

Violent young players.

The better team won last night all right, but at the same time they nearly got ran over by a bunch of raving teenagers. Can't blame them for feeling frustrated. They are a damn talented team that Arsenal youth squad, and I guess they didnt deserve the title any less than Chelsea did, but man they went stark raving mad last night. Actually so did a retarded portion the Chelsea fans, throwing celery sticks at players for I dunno what reason. Terry nearly got murdered man. People reportedly believe he swallowed his tounge after getting a thunderous kick in the head, but that doesn't make any sense does it. It was quite freaky man. He just lay on the field like he was dead or something. Freaky.

Young players are getting more talented, yet a hell lot more violent somehow. Maybe it's just too much energy, or better still, teenage angst. I mean just look at Rooney man. Totally Uncontrollable. *shakes head*

It's the beautiful game alright, but not in this sense, no. Chelsea were lucky they didnt have to lift a trophy with blood all over it.

2007-02-25T13:59:00.000+08:00

Going crazy. So much homework and so many tests to hand in next week that I don't even have the time to breathe. And thanks to the History RA NUS Seminar crap i'm gonna miss important revision on monday. Ok maybe Maths revision won't help us anymore than all his lessons so far have, but English revision is quite impt man. I can't think of any damn stories for personal narrative. grrr.

In other news, Fergie's little minions got damn tyco again. Won 2-1 after practically getting owned by Fulham throughout the whole game. Fulham deserved the point lor, until Ronaldo, the greatest enemy of English football, gave Man U a super super undeserved win in the 88th minute. Damn.

As Mourinho always says, the better team lost. Still, the better team is definitely gonna win the Carling Cup tonight, and there's nothing that Frenchman can do about it.

2007-02-21T17:37:00.000+08:00

So CNY is over.

It was meaningful, yet tiring, but hey the 200 odd bucks i got from angpao money was really worth it after all. =)

Back to school, gearing up for the post-CNY mad rush. About 6-7 tests and dunno how many bloody assignments coming our way in the next 2 weeks, so it's gonna drive anyone with a half a soul completely insane. Ah well. I survived the pre-CNY rush by looking forward to angpao money, so I guess I can make it to the March Holz without having to go through intensive therapy or worse, ending up in IMH.

And here's hoping you can too. Or therapy is gonna cost you way more than the 200 bucks you earned during CNY.

2007-02-16T20:44:00.000+08:00

Celebrated Chinese New Year in school today. Usual monotonous address by headmaster, then they asked him to drop this big gold coin into this fat gold pig, supposed to signify the welcoming of a new year or something. weird.

They had the usual Talentime thingy. Lower sec was quite funny. Some of their dance moves just threw everyone into a laughing fit, but the effort was quite good, especially Micheal who showed off a few moves on stage and completely owned the show for Morrison. Hahaz. They got last though. Judges must have been completely confused by the start of their performance, which was really messy;intentional or not no one knows. Hullett got 2nd. awww.

Upper Sec. I liked Moor's one. The part where they fought with 年, going back and forth across the stage while showing off some nice moves. Of course, I am completely biased, so I think Hullett should have won. Yet they got 3rd. Booooooooo. Their dancing was the most solid among all the houses, and they had cool outfits. Zongyi sang and Yingjie rapped in the usual interesting accent we saw when he went up on stage for prefect speech. Then Yingjie did this super zai Wushu move on stage. Haha. And Zaki was one of the dancers. Go 3K! lol. I think they didnt win coz they barely had any reference to CNY, unlike the other houses. So Moor won, and they cheered while the Emcee was talking, so everyone was like looking at them at ignoring da poor emcee. He must be damn pissed. Unless he's from moor. lol

After school 5 of us went back to St Hildas, which is damn sad compared to past years. I didnt really feel like going back either, but heck. Some guys had cca, some were going out with classmates, cca mates etc. Saw our chinese teachers(who commented on Jie Liang's hair like they always did), Mr Tan, and Mrs Yee who somehow seems to have completely forgotten us. Made Guowei real sad. lol. Worse. We didn't manage to see Mr Ang. He went home by the time we went to look for him. See la, whose idea was it to have lunch first ah. lol. So that was sad. Left St Hildas early, but GW asked us to follow him to Meridian JC to send some RIPB investiture invitation. Why the heck would they wanna attend our school's investiture. Beats me.

Anyway tye gw and jie liang came to my house, got owned by me at halo, and ya.

Oops. Just bored u with a meaningless review of my day. Must change writing style. Must. Anyway, gratz to everyone for surviving the ever so damn mad CNY rush, and enjoy collecting angpaos! Of which the money we most likely have to spend on therapy after the upcoming POST CNY rush drives us coommmmpletely out of our minds.

Gong Xi Fa Cai! (In 8888 different languages)

2007-02-11T20:49:00.000+08:00

Just read an article in Gen Y of Sunday Times, concerning this crazy kid who used to be so addicted to online gaming that he spent up to 24 hours a day staring at the comp till his eyeballs popped out. What's more ironic is, the game he went all goo goo ga ga over was Maple! Like wtf. Still, the guy did manage to gain control over his own soul at the end, and is now restricting himself to like 2 hours a day or something, which is still alot more than most of us get, but is a mark improvement from his berserk 24 hours a day. Oh ya im actually doing on that article for the English blog, so if you want a politically correct version of this post go to rantsofwisdom.blogspot.com yea?

Anyway, I had read another 2 articles about online gaming not too long ago too, the first of which was by Edwin Yeo. Apparently he thinks that teens gaming addiction cannot be blamed on online gaming itself, instead should be blamed on the environment around the kid or the stress that he faces, and also the fact that their parents dunno how to well, parent. In other words, he is saying that online gaming: good, parents who don't know how to control their kid: no good. And damn I can't agree with him more. Hahaha. When the kids go bad, blame it on the parents! the teachers! Although sometimes the kids are really damn horrible and even someone like SuperNanny cannot do anything about them -.-

Proof that some parents really need therapy: 2nd article I read. About a girl who actually dropped out of school for 1 year to play CS. Non-stop. Crazy right? She even said she wanted to like join international gaming competitions or something. And when asked why they let her do so, the parents simply said, "She doesn't want to go to school anymore, so since she insisted on dropping out to play for a year, there's nothing we can do." (Not the exact quote though, just something in that essence) I mean like wtf? I understand that leaving her in school to feel miserable for a whole year is useless, but it's like the parents don't worry about what it would do to their kids' future. As parents they couldn't possibly let their kid do something so ridiculous. And yet they did. -.- Simply shocking.

Damn. Edwin Yeo is just abbbsolutely spot on.

2007-02-10T21:29:00.000+08:00

New skin. And much nicer one at that. Disregard earlier Death Note post.

2007-02-10T11:33:00.001+08:00

Once again we're in the period right before CNY. The period where teachers rush everything, dealing out homework and test papers in large amounts in view of the 3 or 4 lessons they would miss because of our long weekend. Well, like they always say, it's for our own good; if we fall behind the other classes we would be at a serious disadvantage when it comes to grades.

Still, the mad rush is really a hell lot to handle. In the coming week we are gonna have 3 tests in the space of 4 days, one of which is the topic we all LOVE the most. That means no time for new year shopping, no time for relaxation, no time for nothing.

What's worse is, we aren't even spared in the week or 2 after CNY, with another 3-4 tests snowballing our way. That probably means that during CNY, after we do all our visiting and stuff, we still have to sit at our tables, strain our eyes and mug, mug, mug.

Now don't get me wrong, CNY is still a joyous occasion, and I am certainly looking forward to the long weekend ahead, which will definitely serve as a nice break from our fast-paced school life as we hang out with friends and welcome the new year with family.

As I now return to my desk to join the pre-CNY mad rush, here's wishing everyone good luck as we strive to reach the light (and the angpaos) at the end of this tunnel.

2007-02-07T20:50:00.000+08:00

Rise blog! Rise from the very depths of hell!

So, finally decided to revive my blog after I let it rot for the entire dec holz. After all, school life is alot more eventful than the dec holz. With the coming of a new year, new teachers, new friends and a rocking new class, the burning urge inside me to rant, rant and rant some more has once again been reignited. And what better way to express our true feelings, honour our comrades and smack our foes silly than on the ever powerful and influential Internet?

Why Death Note? you may ask. Well, the movie rocked, with one of the most suspensful and twisty plots I have ever come across. More importantly though, I really, really wish I had one of those handy black notebooks, or even just a page out of them.

Don't you?

2006-10-29T10:08:00.000+08:00

Well. So I was in a post CT craze for the past week i haven't bothered to update. And since this is a long weekend i decided to well, post, on well, CTs. Hmm. Let's start with Science. Jiahui pwned all butts as usual. 39.5/40. NERF NERF NERF. IMBA. Daniel, Wenjie and Kenneth Goh got offered R(A) for Science, but Jiahui didn't! Omg. Conspiracy!
My Science EOY: 81 or 82, 4.0

Hmm. English. Matthew pwned all as usual. 45.5/50! And it was marked by a certain higher authority some more. I bet Matthew will get offered Academy for Lit. He's damn pwn, and he's in RT some more. Lol. Imba. I got owned. 33/50 -.-. Al did his usual emo crap in class, coz he got like 28/50. And the guy who got owned the most by (certain higher authority) was Jon. (Certain higher authority) scribbled red ink all over his paper. You know why? Our dear director put one pound of STEEL in his essay. Haha. What dedication =D. But (certain higher authority) is quite evil. Jon said that Portia used the same method of manipulating the law as Shylock, and she wrote a huge "RUBBISH?!" on his paper. Made Jon emo, but still not al-like.
My English EOY: not sure of score, but lower 3.6 -.-

History. Kenneth Goh pwned this paper. 23/25. Must have gotten help from a certain (quotes diao: Jacked Imba Assassin Yet Inaffected Nearly God-like.) Most of us got pwned by the (certain essay question1 marker), who was really damn strict. Grr... I think like no one got full marks lor. And we got tricked by the question. MALAYA not SINGAPORE! Percival that bum was in Singapore, not Malaya, so we got pwned by that. Mr Shahrom told us we should either write Japs as Pro and British as o.k or British as noobs and Japs as ok. Lolz. I got 21/25. got owned by SEQ marker. zzz. I got offered R(A) for History. Seriously considering applying for it. Although I had wanted to take Lit.
History EOY Score and GPA: 90, 4.0

Geog. For such a controversial paper everyone's marks were very good. Coniferous forests having temperatures over 0C and rainfall of up to 2500mm was still highly controversial and RETARTED (reference) but I guess no one complained coz our marks were fine.
My Geog EOY: 77, 3.6. Grr.
Oh ya got offered R(A) for Geog. Laughs. No chance in hell am i taking up geog next year. Too bad Y____

Maths. Super hard paper in my opinion, although pple like that huge but insignificant someone said the paper was "so easy" and he got 44.5. Pui. oh ya! Jon got 45.5/50! Damn ownage. Jon you imba freak, now then show your true colours right? *Claps* DL got 38, but who gives a damn, he only needed NEGATIVE 7% to get 4.0. Lol. I got pwned. 36.5/50.
My Maths EOY: 85, 4.0

So that's it. It's down to Chinese now. I heard everyone did super badly for the paper, so no high hopes. My Predicted Chinese EOY: Higher 3.2 - Lower 3.6. Wish me luck? Lol.

So, EOY GPA: 3.83 (if chinese 3.2) or 3.88 (if chinese 3.6). Fine I guess.
OH YAH! JIAHUI EOY GPA IS 4.0. IMBA
Time to enjoy the holidays. YEAH!

2006-10-18T18:15:00.000+08:00

Yay. Science CTs weren't as hard as I thought they would be. Apart from a few stupid mistakes on my part, like 1175+400 = 1675 (Yes. stupid. horribly stupid. i know), i guess the paper was fine, with your usual simple picture inference bonus question, this time with a fat globe-head pointing a nuke at himself like a gun. Ah well.

Maths tomorrow. Last paper. Yay! *goes into a series of "one more" chants* Rumours say that the paper will be very hard, but we're all up for a challenge aren't we =D.

Quotes of the day:

"Eloctrons" - Jon

"When you bombard the nucleus with neutrons it fizzes (fissions) right?" - Jon again!

"So, to make plutonium-239 you bombard uranium-235 with neutrons right?" - Who else? Jon! =D

2006-10-17T18:06:00.000+08:00

Ok. I just found out a most interesting thing about this blog skin. I can't post more than one post in one day, or the rest of the posts for that day can't be seen. Why? Don't ask me. So from now on if i make more posts I will just add on and put the time at the end. I can live with it, but please mourn the loss of my initial posts from september 30th to October 7th. Boohoo. Ah well. 400 hits in less than 20 days of existence. thanks guys! =D - 7.10 pm

Short post. Just to tell you that I think we all got punk'd. History CTs. Mug so much just to get asked a question similar to a revision question Mr. Shahrom went through with us in class. The irony. Lol. But hey we should all be happy that it was an easy paper! =D

Science! ahh! Science! Physics! AHH! So hard! Ahhh...

P.s. If you would notice there is now a mini stat counter at the bottom. for matthew's sake. haha. but yeah it's useful =)

2006-10-16T20:54:00.001+08:00

I vow. Never to vote or give a damn about the Prefectorial Elections in this school for the rest of my life in RI. Never.

Why? Coz of all the wrong people who get in to the PB. Yes, so everyone I voted got in. Biquan, Nigel Fong, Yingjie, Guo Wei. Yep. Responsible (not to mention un-retarded) people who deserve the right to lead our school to greater heights. However, all the people I would have voted against if I was given the chance to, got in too.

Arrogance. Sheer arrogance. That's why I did not vote for you. That's why I don't understand how the heck you got into PB. You know who you are. With a disgusting sense of arrogance and blind confidence, you just make a fool of yourself when you put your stuck-up face on posters and up on the podium.

If you are reading this, I am telling this to you straight in your bloody stuck-up face, and you better listen up and get this into that smallish brain and gargantuan ego of yours. Listing your acheivements one by one in BIG BOLD letters does not garner votes. It garners discontent, laughter and pure irritation. You go up on stage without any substance at all, and instead you make a fool of yourself and poison the image of one of my favourite bands.

Where's the substance? Why the heck should we vote for you? How did you get into the PB? Most of all, when in hell are you gonna get rid of that huge ego which sticks out like a bloody sore thumb? If you keep going on like that, people will just hate you more, your ego will outgrow even that big head of yours. Apres-ça, tu explosera, et tout le monde sera ravi.

So, for as long as the above-mentioned remains in the PB, and until they allow me to cast negative votes for people I do not want into the PB, I will clean my hands of the Prefectorial Elections of 2007 and 2008.

"Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools." - Alexander Pope

Get THAT into that huge head of yours.

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The irony (No references to Abel, although it is clearly a nick slapped on him by a certain higher authority)

The cruel, cruel irony *Proceeds to argue about the controversy of Geog CTs*. No seriously. Sec 2 Geog CT Paper 2006 must be the greatest conspiracy in the history of mankind. Questions taken out (wholesale) of "O" level books, careless mistakes by teachers who practically give you a 50:50 for MCQ question 1 (although that was no doubt helpful for all of us), and weird graphs (which account for 10marks) which were ALSO copied out of 'O' level books, and which make no sense. Seriously. The 'O' level book says that the area with 500-1200mm of rainfall and temperature ranging from like 0-15C is coniferous.

Completely different from what we have studied, and completely, completely wrong. Coniferous forests have a mean temerature of around NEGATIVE 5C. NEGATIVE. And I am so damn sure they have 500-1200mm of rainfall lor. Crazy paper. Crazy 'O' level book. I just hope that they don't mark blindly according to that screwed up book. Our CA marks are already screwed up thanks to a certain human being(although everything points to the fact that his/her existence as a true human being is highly unlikely) who must not be named. (eeks. Voldermort. Come to think of it this person is not far off, only that Voldermort must be like 999........... times smarter than him/her. But fugly this person indeed is. Without a bloody doubt.)

Save the forests? Damn. Save our geog marks first.

2006-10-15T17:40:00.000+08:00

Suicide Videos.
Once again a stroke of genius on the part of Nigel

Hope you had a good laugh. Coz the videos rock, and there's not a damn thing u can do about it.

2006-10-13T19:30:00.000+08:00

Friday the 13th.

A day of bad luck, darkness, misery. Upon this day all who are mortal shalt enter a frightening realm of darkness. Crows fly past my window as I am typing this in blood stained hands, cursing me with their haunting, defeaning cry. Bad luck dawns upon me, as though I had walked under a thousand towering ladders, which dwarf even the largest of mankind. You are not spared either. Friday the 13th haunts everyone, curses everyone and kills everyone, including you. Pray hard that you survive this terrible day, and if you don't, may the lord have mercy on your soul... As the spirits around you watch your every move, prepare to meet your maker.

Don't look behind you.

Of Mr Shahrom and beatboxing

2006-10-12T20:14:00.001+08:00

First, of Mr Shahrom. Possibly the most humorous teacher we have ever had. Definitely not as boring as your average history teacher. After today's lesson I thought I took the time to reflect on this. Packed with his infamous quotes like "I'll kill you until you die", he really never hesitates to let his cool and satirical humour stand out. One more thing, he is damn pro at jacking his pupils who misbehave, which common offenders like Abel should know pretty well by now.

First offender. Mark. In class quite long ago, Mark made a stupid and distracting joke, saying the Japanese had "ZERO(0)" Fighters. Haha, very punny mark -.- so you think the rest of the class would just go "lame" or something, but guess what. Mr Shahrom walked up to him, then went like "Haha so funny. I cant stop laughing.." in a comical way, then after suanning Mark repeatedly, got the support of the rest of the class, then went up to mark and said, "Damn jacked right?". Hilarious. Mark was damn pissed and gave his innocent look, but i'm sure he had a good laugh after that.

Second case. Wei Rong and Abel. They forgot to bring their worksheets, so Mr Shahrom made them sit beside him, and address him as emperor! (In accordance with our study on Jap Militarism. How fitting.) Then after they address him as emperor, they had to scream "BANZAI!". So let say Mr Shahrom went, "Abel can you switch of the lights please?", then Abel had to go, "Yes my emperor, BANZAI!" and raise his fists in the air. Damn Damn hilarious. We all had a really good laugh, Mr Shahrom, the rest of the class, Abel and Weirong alike.

Third case. Humans Room. Chester and Ken Tang, following that other members of the class. Chester and Kenneth Tang had laughed when Mr Shahrom said Mao (as in chairman mao), coz of a really sick reason you dont wanna know. So Mr Shahrom made Ken Tang stand up, turn around to face the class, and say Mao ZeDong to the class 10 times. Every time anyone laughed, that person would take over. It was damn funny. One by one pple in class continued the little chain thing, while I stayed away by burying my face and hiding my laughter. haha =D. Damn funny.

Fourth and most recent case. Abel and Yu Hsuen. Ultraman! basically mr shahrom was talking to us about seperation, and the Malay Ultras, so Abel and Yu Hsuen kept laughing about ultraman and stuff, so when Mr Shahrom got pissed, he made Abel and Yu Hsuen stand up and do an Ultraman sign, you know the one where u cross ur hands like a retard, for the rest of the lesson. Again, we all had a good laugh.

I think what's special about Mr Shahrom's scolding methods is, everyone has a good laugh, including the punished students themselves, and the students still learn from their mistakes. When other teachers scold they just get damn pissed, then the whole class is like quiet and moody and in no mood for the lesson.

Conclusion. Satirical humour is good in any class. Any setting. Yay for humour. lol.

Of Beatboxing. Today for assembly we had a performance by the Beats Society(something like that). No, it's not some charity organisation, but a hip-hop group kind of thing. It was damn fun(ny). Definitely audience participation wasn't lacking, with people going up there, dancing and making weird, sick sounds. Lol. and CHESTER went up! He was asked to do a rap along with a group of "beatboxers", including NIGEL FONG! Lol. He amused the audience with his usual cool stuff, but when he started rapping the whole 2P flipped in laughter. He was rapping our MOV script! Damn pro and damn funny. =D

But I must say the highlight of the show was their beatboxer, Zul Maestro or something like that. They say he is the numero uno beatboxer in S'pore, and boy did he live up to his name. The whole audience was completely taken aback by his performance lor. Damn pro! Really really really uber shockingly proded. What a gift that guy has. Even the teachers were enjoying themselves, especially Mr Shahrom who was like laughing, clapping and nearly falling off his seat in amazement. He still gots the teen in him. Lol.

Really really amazing performance. Really.

2006-10-11T17:47:00.000+08:00

CTs in 2 days. Great... Ah well. Mugging mode initialised.
No one likes CTs. We all know that. The stress, the long tiring hours straining your eyes trying to read your history and geography textbooks, the restrictions from watching TV, playing blah blah blah, and of course, the paper itself.

Mdm Kwek said she had one student whose sister LOVED exams coz she was damn pro and was happy that during the exams she could prove how good she was and then make herself happy by showing off her capabilities to everyone else. How freakishly crazy and ego -.-

Anyway, to me one of the biggest problems of CTs, is actually trying to dig through the mountains of junk at home to find the important notes/books we need for mugging. I mean, it's trying the impossible. Half of the time you can't find anything, instead you have the daunting pile of notes in a bigger mess than it ever was in before. I personally have lost my entire physics file and interactive geog 3 textbook. Now isn't that brilliant -.- With CTs around the corner liao, i better find those stuff fast, or i will be on my way to destruction.

So, as we fight bravely to get through these torrid times, good luck to everyone for the CTs!
And may the lord have mercy on your souls...

2006-10-09T19:20:00.000+08:00

Miss Hanna flamed us today. really really flamed us. First, a bunch of us came back really late from recess coz we went to RJ. The queues at RJ are long, and somehow the service is just damn slow compared to ours at RI. Maybe it's coz ours is packet food, and it's alot easier for the vendors to deal out food. Ya I guess so. People like Ken only got his food at like 1125. So when we ran back to class frantically at like 1130, Miss Hanna was standing there, clearly damn pissed. So after a minor telling off, the lesson started. Somehow I just noticed Miss Hanna wasn't in her usual mood today. She was alot less intolerant of our noise today, and I knew that soon enough she would blow her top. And guess what? She did. About 45 mins through the lesson, she just threw her marker down and screamed at us.

She was really pissed at how distracted we were, and our short attention span. She told Isaac to go into the Project Room and then scolded Abel and told him to like stand at the corner of the class and face the wall. Then she came back to the rest of us, and started telling us about how 2P was the worst class in the whole GE batch academically, and how in every meeting among the teachers our class was always a problem brought up, how we have bad work attitude etc.

It just made me reflect quite abit, about our class as a whole. I mean ya, so maybe our academic sux. Still, what makes 1/2P special is our class spirit, something which a few classes, although academically proficient, lack. The Drama Production was full proof of how well our class can do when we put in our best into something and work together towards a common goal. Many teachers who have taught us have said that our class has the strongest class spirit they've seen. There is simply no doubt about that. Even when we get badly scolded by a teacher because of a few particular people, we do not go around blaming/hating those people, or desperately trying to prove our innocence and giving a retarded I am innocent how can you blame me face, except for one or two people, whose names i shall not mention. This spirit to me is far more important than being academically proficient. What makes a class special is how they bond together and the spirit they share with each other. Honestly I take away alot more from being in a class with maginificent spirit than with a class of cold inhuman beings with wonderful results.

We have been through ups and downs together, and we have had our problems, but no matter what, 2P will always rock. Always.

2006-10-07T13:23:00.000+08:00

A Human Cloned in RI

Don't ask me why I feature in that. Just don't. But it's funny so have a good laugh!

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Damn. Due to quite a dumb technical error, all the posts for September are now under the october archives.

Don't ask why. It's really really quite a stupid error on my part, and I don't know how to correct it. Lol.

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Well cheers to Jon for being our constantly going crazy director who brought us to this success. I think we owe it to the scriptwriters. Somehow I think the rhyming scheme in your script really impressed the judges! Of course the actors were damn pwnage. Chester was like damn pro, Yu Hsuen, Ben and Wei Rong were really really good, and Joel and Matthew were a great Portia and Nerissa. Not forgetting Zeb and ZM, and Ken's little cameo. lolz. Later in the day even better news came. Chester said that he found out our class was actually better than 2K. That means we put up the best show among all the Sec 2 GE classes. Woot! Also, we were told that our class had been picked to perform in some literature event thingy! (at HCI, but nvm it's good anyway) Time for the actors to get back into character and memorise their lines. Time for the artists to repair and(in Mr Law tone) BEEAAUTIFY their props. For me and Jiahui, time to get used to a new lighting system, and work hard to dazzle the crowd with amazing, flashy lights. Lol.

All in all...It's time for 2P to move back...onto center stage.

2006-10-07T13:01:00.000+08:00

Damn. Due to quite a dumb technical error, all the posts for September are now under the october archives. Don't ask why. It's really really quite a stupid error on my part, and I don't know how to correct it. Lol.

2006-10-07T12:47:00.000+08:00

Yay! Our class won a GOLD for the Drama Challenge!!! Mrs Smith annouced the results yesterday during morning assembly. We were all like damn nervous as she announced the classes who got silver. "The classes receiving silver are: 2L, 2J, 2M and 2Q (the order i forgot liao)" When we heard that we were all damn happy, and when she announced: "The classes winning gold are: 2K and 2P", we were completely elated. Biquan went up to the front faced his class and did a little cheer thing haha. Congratulations to 2K too! See Jon? What did we tell you. There's no point worrying. At the start you keep saying others damn pro la, we will kena owned la and in the end, we owned all of their butts. Well cheers to Jon for being our constantly going crazy director who brought us to this success. I think we owe it to the scriptwriters. Somehow I think the rhyming scheme in your script really impressed the judges! Of course the actors were damn pwnage. Chester was like damn pro, Yu Hsuen, Ben and Wei Rong were really really good, and Joel and Matthew were a great Portia and Nerissa. Not forgetting Zeb and ZM, and Ken's little cameo. lolz.

Later in the day even better news came. Chester said that he found out our class was actually better than 2K. That means we put up the best show among all the Sec 2 GE classes. Woot! Also, we were told that our class had been picked to perform in some literature event thingy! (at HCI, but nvm it's good anyway) Time for the actors to get back into character and memorise their lines. Time for the artists to repair and(in Mr Law tone) BEEAAUTIFY their props. For me and Jiahui, time to get used to a new lighting system, and work hard to dazzle the crowd with amazing, flashy lights. Lol.

All in all...It's time for 2P to move back...onto center stage.

2006-10-07T12:46:00.000+08:00

Thursday, October 05, 2006

I am 2 things right now. Happy about our move into our new classroom and disappointed about the dialogue session after school.

First, more about our new classroom. It rocks! After morning assembly everyone loaded all their stuff and moved towards the new block. Wah major major human traffic jam. Still, when we got up to our classrooms we were greeted with our amazing new classrooms. Everything looks stylish and modern, but best of all, the aircon is damn shiok, and the room is super wide. We are on the 5th floor, so it's a long and tiring climb up the stairs every morning. Luckily we have the lift! (but only can be used from next week haiz..) So after that there was this opening ceremony thing, where everyone on all 6 floors went to their corridors to greet a tiny little Mr Mag at the bottom with a group of prefects. After a short speech by him the entire block did a spirit cheer and a unite cheer which tested the foundations of the new building (which thankfully stood) From our classroom we can look at what 2M, the class beside us is doing.

There's this project area thing in between both classes with glass windows we can look through. lol. We thought we could change in those rooms but god, there are windows all over the damn place. I must say one more unfortunate thing is the HUGE corridor windows thorugh which the teachers can now see everything we are doing in class, so people will get screwed more for like playing in class etc.

I know it might sound stupid, but the cupboards are quite fun! You can squeeze 4-5 people in the bottom floor, and as such we took some random videos of CLONES(Jon that's you) and represented the cupboard as a cloning machine, in a most amusing fashion. Lol. (Warning: Claustrophobic people should not try cupboard. Will die of shock immediately. It's damn squeezy inside. lol)

Ah well back to the dialogue session. The topic? The merger of GE and SE from next year onwards. To be honest it was a silly waste of 2 hours. Not that the intentions of our DHM wasn't genuine, but she did not really answer our questions. We were there to bring out our concerns, hoping that they could reconsider their decision and listen to us, but all she did was give us a few unsatisfying answers and ask us about other unrelated topics like our CTs. In the end we arrived at nothing, nothing at all. The point is that we are not mainly concerned with the SE and GE being put together and the attitudes that would be brought forth (although the marginalisation we may face is one concern), but it is how we seem to be the guinea pigs for their new untested system. We have developed a bond, a strong sense of identity among our batch for the past 2 years, and to abruptly end this strong friendships halfway through our Secondary school life, at the MOST important phase of our life in RI, is quite saddening and unnecessary.

All they tell us is we must learn to adapt, and have "cha-me-lon" instincts (not being seditious as usual, don't arrest me) Yes we agree, but the point is that sometimes in life, you must hold onto the bonds you have for a longer period of time such that they become stronger. Having to adapt to new systems and friends frequently does develop independence, adaptability and flexibility, but such a system will only produce cold and unfeeling people.

Unfortuately, we have no room for argument, and the guy who prepared the petition should give up all his hopes and shred the petition to pieces, since we have no hope of convincing the school administration. So, I guess we must take it in a good light, and be GOOD LITTLE guinea pigs for the government's constantly abrupt changes to their education system. We must try our best to lower the degree of trouble and disadvantages we will face, and not let this affect the crucial years of our life in RI. And granted there are some really good frens I have in SE that I am probably looking forward to working with if I get the chance. I am just a little disappointed, that's all.

Remember, as a most (in)famous speaker once said, we must not let our heart rules over our head.

2006-10-07T12:45:00.000+08:00

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

The sense of relief is amazing. We have been rushing our A-bomb project for the past few days, repeatedly meeting at Chester's house till late at night. I must say the one thing in that house i am most impressed by is the dog. Ches has this huge husky, which is really really nice, really really tame and really really smart. It's like the dog doesn't bark and doesn't bite. In fact after determining you're not there to kill her, she will raise her paw to shake your hand. Damn cute. Y

Yesterday, the dog ran out of its little backyard home, and we spent a hell lot of pains trying to get it back in. When you use food to lure it back, she will follow you all the way, eating her fill, and then at the gate, she will stop, look, growl at you and run away. It's like, me, wenjie and jiahui put together couldn't outwit that dog. In the end, the master, Ches, was the only one who could control the tired dog, and with a little help from Wenjie leashed it and brought it back in. F.Y.I it bit Wenjie, and wenjie was swearing at the dog the rest of the day. Hahaha.

Today was RE congress (i.e. super slack day minus lessons minus books) Presentation after presentation came, but I must say that the Science presentations in the morning was well, boring. We didn't understand half of the cheeminology presented to us, so how the hell do we ask questions? Like someone said, when they explain their terms there would just be more terms within the explanation, and it will get worse and worse and worse.

At least the Social Sciences Final in the LT was much better, with interesting presentations (THAT WE COULD UNDERSTAND) on the freaky Urban Legends of RI, highlighters and of course, who could forget Johnny the Cockroach & Co. Well 2moro we are moving to the new classroom block(or the S. Rajaratnam teaching block), which according to Jiahui still has no computer, projector, speaker etc. Bad news, we are on the 5th floor. Good news, there is a lift~! Bad news, we don't get to use it after morning assembly. Good news, we get to use it ANY OTHER TIME!!! (except when teachers wanna use. haiz.) Still, the feeling of moving into a fresh new environment always rocks. Today after class, we happily ripped everything on our boards to shreds, although i had to salvage the important chinese results which YOU pple were inches away from tearing to shreds. -.-

Lol. Another long post.

2006-10-07T12:44:00.000+08:00

Monday, October 02, 2006

Oh ya, on a side note. Jon, (if you're reading this) why don't you accept your fate. The Island is an exact reflection of what is happening to us now Jon. We are all clones in a cruel world, where after a living a less than fulfilling life we will be subjected to being cruelly used as tools to the means of those in the real world. Jon look around you. Nothing around you is real, nothing around you is genuine Jon. We and everything around us are merely copies of reality, with the only true purpose of awaiting death so that we can keep the real world alive. It is pitiful, It is saddening, but it is fate, and we have no way of escaping, as such we should just accept it and wait for our time to come.

Every moment we don't get killed is just delaying the inevitable Jon. There's no point denying it Jon, for it is our life, our fate and our destiny.

We have all accepted our destiny. Accept yours.

2006-10-07T12:42:00.000+08:00

Philo and Phil-Ho (This is gonna be a long post so read all the way down!)

Today during Philo we watched a most interesting movie, while one by one groups of 4 were called out for dialogue observation. My group screwed up discussing on whether crossing the road when it was a red light was morally wrong. According to Mr Low we didn't use enough of the philosophical theories we had learnt. Ah well, back to the show. "The Island" is about this secret company in 2019(thanks and no thanks to wenjie for the exact year). Well what this company does is they clone human beings and keep these clones in a hi-tech world, where everyone wears like the same white outfits, and there are cool hi-tech stuff like a toilet bowl which can do a urine test on the spot and give you tips on your diet etc. which are flashed to you on a little marquee screen above your toilet. Freaky. These clones don't have a bright future though. When someone in the real world needs an organ transplant, there will be this scam lottery, and the so called "winner" will so called be sent to this island, which of course doesnt exist at all. Instead, these winners actually get themselves cut open(quite gruesome) and their organs would be removed for transplant into the body of the human in the real world.

The clones in this little futuristic world don't know that they are clones, and don't know their true purpose, until Lincoln, played by Ewan Mcgregor, witness one of these "trips" to "the island", and knowing that his friend Jordan 2 Delta, played by Scarlett Jonhansson had just won the so called lottery, he warns her of the danger and so together they try to escape, entering the real world and in the end...(Warning: No spoilers, too bad)

During CLE, we welcomed a most suprising guest back to RI. Yep Phil Ho was back, armed with his usual bow tie and bluetooth headset. This time he wasn't here to give a talk on teenage crime and how people would cry in front of him after he buys $100 toys for them. This time the self-proclaimed talented speaker Mr. Ho would give us a talk on career development. I guess he was genuine in the message he was trying to bring across, but a hint of arrogance and contradicting statements just marred the genuinity of what he was trying to impart to us. He was almost showing off to us his acheivements in life, proudly showing us his wonderful career chart, the comments other people gave about him, the people from all walks of life who engage him for talks. I mean ya, we know you are a successful man and we respect that, but there is no point going on about your acheivements. Also, he said that "contentment" is the real wealth, but as the talk went on he gave random distracting comments on how people pay him $5000 to have lunch with him and how people even pay him $25,000 just to give a talk. Accompanied with hard to read powerpoint slides and a short i don't know for what video clip, his talk on a whole didn't appeal entirely to me, although this guy does have substance and is genuine in the message he's bringing across.

This is not a personal attack, and I am not purposely insulting him or being seditious and asking him to arrest me. It's just my personal opinion on how he presented himself. Whether you agree or not, it's up to you.

Anyway aside from that Oral Comm today was quite interesting i guess. First Mr Yeo started off with how wonderful he found 2M's play, and commented that they would win. No way man our class rocked. We owned 2M and 2Q and we will win! =D Haha. Then, he gave his usual life lessons, and then we did a feedback form. I personally feel that Mr Yeo has been a very inspiring and no doubt entertaining teacher for this entire course, and is definitely a par above the other Oral Comm teachers we have had. and then for the 2nd half of the period he picked random pple out to speak on impromptu topic. I was damn suay lor, I was going like please not me please not me then, "Can I have Mr Ng, Jarrell." I was like wtf, and then i screwed up talking about what it's like being an only child. -.- However I must say Abel and Pek were very good, especially Pek, who talked about the "disturbing" side of China. Then it sparked off into a talk about the state of cleanliness in China. In China, their public toilets are sometimes just a dug out trench between two walls where the crap will pile up until the rain comes to wash it away. Then in China, the kids have these flaps on their pants, and when they wanna *coughs* let go, they just open the flap and let go wherever they are, whether in a train station, or on the streets. Also on the streets, you can have mucus splashing at you while you are going through a "dodge'em" with piles of mucus on the floor. And in the lower classes of train stations, you can have peanut shells all over the place and pple who smell bad squezzing into trains with you. Eek.

What a long post. -.-

2006-10-07T12:41:00.001+08:00

Sunday, October 01, 2006

New Skin. Found out that old one messed up on both Firefox and Opera. Note to self: "Internet Explorer only" skins are NOT to be used in the future.

Meanwhile, enjoy the new skin.

2006-10-07T12:41:00.000+08:00

Well I took this Seven Deadly Sins Quiz and...

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	Medium
Wrath:	Very High
Sloth:	High
Envy:	High
Lust:	Very Low
Pride:	High

Discover Your Sins - Click Here

2006-10-07T12:36:00.000+08:00

Saturday, September 30, 2006

As anyone would probably know, the time of CTs(Common Tests, also commonly known as Crazy Torture) has dawned. As such, everyone is slowly but surely entering mugging mode. Of course there's the handful who still misses slacking. Ok maybe I can safely say everyone misses slacking, maybe except the pros like Jiahui, Wenjie or Yu Hsuen. Then again Wenjie has the time to randomly nudge his msn contacts and act blur when pple ask him what he wants, so he must be a damn free, lifeless and slacking guy -.- For the two years I have been in RI I have always been intrigued by the CT system in our school.

From the very start they tell us how wonderful the system is for us, how we completely do not have exams, and yet how the weightage from exams will be spread out in assignments. So we go:ok...fine...So no exams. That rocks, right? And as we go past the years some of us do notice the difference in standard and difficulty between CTs and your regular exams, and we are sort of relieved we get to avoid these exams + 'O' Levels. The intriguing thing is, it's the teachers who are worried about the system THEY themselves set up. Whenever they tell us to mug hard for CTs, or return us badly done test papers, they go like: "We are worried for you guys, coz you don't have enough practice doing long exams. Your CTs are 1-1 half hours so we are worried you might not be able to handle long 3 hour test papers." Ok...So taking 3 hr long test papers is a skill? I mean it's not like just because our papers aren't half that long so we can't handle all those right? Aren't the teachers over-worrying and contradicting themselves?

Maybe.

2006-10-07T12:32:00.000+08:00

Ok let's start off on a better note. I just thought posting a highly thought provoking and retarted(note: not spelling error, not being seditious or anything) post at the start would, you know, be "interesting". This is a really old issue but I just found this and it's really amusing. Have fun! (P.s. Move around using mouse and press left click to flick Zidane's head at Materazzi Clones. Not as easy as it seems!)

Taken From: http://www.addictinggames.com/

2006-10-07T12:30:00.001+08:00

Identity... What does it mean to all of us?

Are we who we really are? Are we really who we want ourselves to be? Do WE know who we really are, what we really want and how we really want ourselves to be like? Or are we just another replicate in this world we live in?

Hypocrisy... Are we guilty of it?

In this world no one knows what the people around you are truly thinking, feeling, doing. With the expectations and responsibilities that come our way in life, people put on a different personality, and to us that serves as his identity. Are we staying true to our identity? The question is...Are YOU guilty of hypocrisy? Have YOU lost your true identity...?

Throughout this blog you will witness my thoughts, my feelings, my life. Am I being hypocritic? Am I truly who I seem to be? Have I lost my identity? You be the judge...