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2008-06-24T08:07:00.001-07:00

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2008-06-04T05:58:00.000-07:00

Sabbaticals

2008-05-17T02:27:00.000-07:00

My final high school sabbat - 電影文學的花花世界

31/3/08

2008-03-31T05:18:00.000-07:00

Our classroom has recently shifted from the clocktower to Blk A, but think on the bright side, at least we got to experience both types of classrooms. Though today wasn't that used to the new studying environment, lessons were still fine and everything's alright. Just hope that our teacher get well soon, it must be stressful for her to walk so far given the medical condition.

Tomorrow's the prelims, happy April's fools, meet up with the mentors but can't seem to figure out what my project is about, there are still doubts here and there. Still cant believe that the judging commences tmr, its like so fast, or maybe everyone's procrastinating and not doing their work (including me), but there are a few really hardworking ones out there. Maybe its time management.

Singapore's getting hotter, everyday we'll just start sweating and swearing after recess, now maybe just hoping for some rain to cool us down occasionally.

I still can't understand much of the IHE history lessons so far, does anyone else have the same problem? xD.

update

2008-03-21T01:09:00.000-07:00

whee~ got 18 for chemistry test. I feel that I really shouldn't have slacked that much during the holidays.

Thinking back, I was free for most of the holidays. I have totally nothing to do during the hols but instead chose to slack instead of doing my homework.
Should have spent my Computer Gaming Time on Chemistry
Should have spent my Slacking Time doing homework!!
Should have mugged Chemistry instead of Sleeping Whole Day Without other commitments.

I'll work harder next time.

Holidays

2008-03-07T06:11:00.001-08:00

Holidays are coming, yet there's so much more to do. I am counting on the Sabbaticals Week to catch up on the ACE projects, but so far, its day 5 and I haven't even started yet. Maybe i'll just post up my list of homeworks in this blog.

Chemistry:

“A” Levels Ten Year Series (17 pages)

Revision for Chemistry Test – refer to effective guides etc
Chemistry File

Biology:

ACE Projects

Worksheets on Homeostasis

English:

Philosophy of Art Essay

English CD Journal Entries

华文:

综合填空 (Ex 1-12)

作文 x 3

公函
私函
zuo wen

Worksheet
Chinese File

Mathematics:

AS 10 – rate of change
Math Festival (ACE) – Discuss
Maths File

IHC:

1. IHC File (Due Monday of Sabbat Week)

IHE:

1. LESSON @ LT2 go IVLE CHECK

2. History File

Others:

Projects Day
Holistic Development Form
Theory exam 15 March (arghh)

Looks like its going to be a holiday. Anyway, school life is getting more frustrating, teachers giving u hmwrk, assignments online without clear instructions etc. And there's hardly anyone that I can refer/relate to nowadays. haiz. Am i becoming antisocial?

Update

2008-02-20T06:09:00.000-08:00

When I was little, my dad used to recite this poem to make me fall asleep. It still rings in my head:

月牙儿，高空照

兔宝宝，睡不着

呱，呱。。。

“妈妈，那时什么声音？”

“别怕，那只是青蛙的声音”

月牙儿，西边挂

兔宝宝，睡着了

你看，它脸上还微微笑呢！

Time is cruel. It doesn't turn back.

Valentines' Day

2008-02-13T23:52:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentines Day !!!!~~~~~~~~!!!!!

Almost all was well. Left for school as usual in the morning but overslept, earning 1 demerit point for being late for flag raising. Forgetting to bring an oral digital thermometer earned me another.

Lessons.

Decided to stop by Coronation Shopping Plaza for a drink on the way home.

"Coffee milk tea pls"
She started scooping the coffee powder hesitantly into the cup.
"Coffee milk tea nice meh? I dun find it nice. u find coffee milk tea nice?"
"Huh? how i know? Ok lor. change to some other drink. what u recommend?"
"Got lah. Almond, apple, yam, peach, strawberry flavour."

I chose mango.

Update

2008-02-12T02:41:00.000-08:00

I can't just keep failing. =X

To all those whom I unknowingly niaoed or daoed, please don't take it to heart. =D

Chinese New Year

2008-02-10T05:30:00.000-08:00

The CNY celebrations on Wednesday screwed up a bit. Nevertheless, students were still eager to go back to their primary schools to visit their teachers.

Especially the Sec 1s. Older batches seem less enthusiastic.

Boyan, Ivan and I walked to Nanyang Pri after the concert. lol this year NYPS allowed ex-pupils to enter the school compound before 1.30pm, which was good news. There were many other ex-students there le. Anyway we just camped outside the staff room and met up with many others. Yeh, it was quite crowded. Some of my very junior juniors recognized me LOL. Saw lim goaty and Zhi Kan, chatted for a while. Haiz, this time round we didnt manage to meet up with any of our former teachers.

"Hi Mr Ting, we're looking for Ms Jung"
"Hey , she's not in the staff room but still in the school lah. Why don't you all wait outside lor?" =S

除夕was quite fun actually. Played games to destress in the afternoon, and my foster sister from China (and her family) came for reunion dinner that night. The grown-ups talked abt this, abt that for some time then went to walk in the park nearby.

Went to relatives house to 拜年 these few days. Ate lots of CNY goodies.

Maybe I'll attempt to bake the pineapple tarts next year.LOL

Sch starting tmr, I must thank the sec 2 for posting up the PSB message to postpone tests.
I think i slacked too much during CNY lol, left hmwrk till 2nd last day then chiong.

Happy CNY everyone~~
新年快乐~~!!!!!!!!!!!!

New Year

2008-01-17T01:49:00.001-08:00

Got back from Beijing few days ago.

The weather there is cold and dry, hence I'll need to apply moisturizer for my dry skin. Now trying to get used to the hot and humid Singapore weather.

Oh ya, the BSC ppl and me returned to class the next day. Lots of things to catch up, considering that we have been missing lessons with the rest of my classmates for 2 weeks. Luckily for us some of the topics are covered in our stay in China, though i still have to complete the huge pile of homework waiting for me.

Today's the 2nd Day, and things have been going well. School life is back to normal, with the exception of new teachers (for us). Maths is taught by LeeTK, whom I find is a fine teacher. Chemistry, ChuaCheeLC, and she's quite fierce. Had the first practicals' of the year for Chemistry today, just after lunch, and we did titration. wth? I almost threw everything i learnt last year back at the teacher le. Lesson was fast-paced, leaving us no time for a break.

Maybe this was to let us get used to the hasty and hectic Sec 4 year.

New timetable is weird. For today we have recess after the first period in the morning, at 0840, and lunch break at 12pm. I really felt blur in school today, duno what to do, when and where our next lesson is. I'll need some time to adjust.

IHC, by Viviensim. She's fine. taught me in Sec 1 before, hope that she remembers me. for IHE history, we have TeoCM. Her lessons are loud. we covered the Cold War, causes, etc. First day of school I found out that I have missed out on a lot of stuff covered, so I managed to go through the history textbook and did some reading up. Ok la, quite manageable, though honestly speaking, History is my favourite subject, and the best History lessons I had was with slim last year.

We went through double period of biology, taught by OonHL. Cool, she taught me before too, last year. So basically we covered respiration, and next up will be excretion. English was Joyce Lim, and i feel that she's fine too.

Went to collect NRIC in the afternoon. Wow, time really flies, and we're already the most senior batch in HCI (high school). What will JC be like next year?

Feeling a bit tired, and emo, after returning from Beijing. Maybe its the "Beijing Blues". Missed everyone there, and while im there I missed everyone in Singapore.

That's all for now, cya!

Most Hated Things

2007-12-04T04:45:00.000-08:00

Homework on tables and projects on paper
Obnoxious compos right from our teachers
Stacks of newspaper all tied up with strings
These are a few of my most hated things

Plain heavy textbooks and real boring lectures
Presenters who talk with unusual gestures
Negative comments and red-coloured rings
These are a few of my most hated things

Numerous dots and confusing dashes
I wish this homework will all burn to ashes
Rock-heavy schoolbags and more random things
These are a few of my most hated things

When the teacher bites, when the bee stings, when I am feeling sad...
I remember my most hated things, and then I don't feel so bad.

Credits go to: The sound of Music (my favourite things)
n everyone else

Update

2007-11-23T06:53:00.000-08:00

Taiwan trip: 21-31 Oct 2007

lester n daniel in geography classroom

typical classroom of taiwan. table a bit short though XD

lovely view around the street

淡水河

Me, looking in the correct direction

Lester by the sea

Lol quite cool

Mark Tern

Memories

2007-09-01T18:19:00.000-07:00

The holidays are here... found a few emails that i received/ sent in sec 1 and then.. posted it here.

Sigh...

Our IRS group is trying to think up of a idea. Maybe Ms Foo can help, oh Ms Foo can you think up of any topic, I don't mind even if its not parallel to what our group's interest. At least some idea is needed. Let's hope we come up with a really good idea, or rather a topic for our group. Let's look at our progress...

1) We decided to do something for SPCA.
2) Changed to Legal Warcraft.
3) Then we went for the Prelims.
4) Change of plans...
5) At IRS meeting, we decided to overwrite the whole thing.
6) Current Idea: A suitable and affordable mouse trap, with a one way door, and we also thought up of a backup idea (actually still thinking)
7) Pending acceptance......

Sai Meng
p.s. Pls try to stick to this group even though the name is weird currently. And more stuff on the blog pls, cause it records our progress.

1Leans,

Hongnan, you have to pay $10.40 tmr for CDS. Don't forget.

Now, people keep asking me why I keep collecting money. If you have read my previous messages - or bothered to read at all - you should have known that I merely collect once a month for CDS and class fund unless absolutely necessary.

Please take a look at the financial report. It is good to know the economical status of your own class.

I am suggesting a special package. If you pay $120 straight away, you do not have to pay any more money again. If you work out the monthly $15, you will say "Not fair. $120 exceeds the amount." However, note that sometimes the CDS might be seriously negative and also our own class EOYA (chalet) If interested, please come to me.
- 13th April, 2005

Dear new CsITs,

Please do note that you all would need to follow basic email
protocols in this egroup.

In short, always start your emails with a proper address "e.g. Dear
Mr Tan" and end of with a polite signing off "e.g. Yours sincerely,
Sua Yu".

Moreover, if you are sending an email intended to a few person only,
please send a PRIVATE EMAIL and avoid spamming the egroups with
unnecessary emails.

Also, please use proper english in all emails.

All these are basic courtesy and should be abided by everyone in the
egroups.

Feedbacks and suggestions are always welcomed in the egroup,
provided one maintains proper decorum and does not launch any
personal attacks.

Your cooperation is greatly seeked. Thank you!

Yours sincerely,
Sua Yu
Chairman
iCouncil
- 23th April, 2005

Mr Lee,

I have 2 questions. What is "active transport" in plant cells? And what happens to a potato cell when it is boiled? Please explain thanks (I really couldn't find the info in the notes)

Regards,
Sai Meng
- 21th April 2005

2) Just to let you know,
Macdonald's 25 cents Ice Cream is now 50 cents. Last time it was 50 cents , then 25 cents, now back to 50 cents. In other words, the price dropped 50% but raised 100%. What is the Macdonald people trying to do? Groan... no more cheap Ice Cream.
- april 27th, 2005

lol last time i was talking crap in egroups.
~~~

random stuff

2007-08-11T07:21:00.000-07:00

Lol! hi everyone.

Recently i took a few pictures of my neighbourhood and some other random objects. wanted to upload it to photobucket, but there's a file size limit so i'll upload to our dearest hci server. =))

blogthings

2007-07-15T22:32:00.000-07:00

Lol.

Racial harmoy day was fun! The food fair was quite crowded though. Lol. Ms Sally Lim sold me a packet of Nasi lemak. Quite nice leh. Now in library slacking till the Mr. Brown talk in audi at 2pm.

THe computer here fast bus, so maybe i thought i just post some blogthings. =D

You Should Have Been Born Under:

No worries, you're not really pig-like in your personality.

(Though you have been known to have a healthy appetite!)

You are highly intelligent - forever studying and gaining knowledge.

You have a heart of gold and you are appreciated by many.

You are most compatible with a Rabbit or Goat.

What Year Should You Have Been Born Under?

Some are quite interesting yeh.

You Are the Ace of Diamonds

You are a lucky person, and you always seem to find yourself surrounds by pretty, shiny things.

You have a knack for success and money - though your skills can't really be learned or taught.

You shine in a room, and you a have a truly sparkling personality.

A true extrovert, you always are able to share a witty joke or the latest scandalous gossip.

While you do have an eye for bling, you are also quite generous.

A lot of wealth and luck comes your way. And you're not afraid to pass it on.

A gamble you should take: Sports betting

Your friends would describe you as: Captivating

Your enemies would describe you as: Greedy

If you lived in Vegas, you would be: A trophy wife or husband

What Playing Card Are You?

15 more minutes to Mr Brown show... few more.

You Are Destined to Struggle With Your Weight

Like most people, you find it a little difficult to stay at at weight you're comfortable with.

If you change a few habits and make food less important, you may find the struggle hardly exists anymore.

Are You Destined To Be Overweight?

Ok, that's all for today, cya!

blogtings

2007-06-18T03:45:00.001-07:00

You Are a Good Friend Because You're Fun

You are energetic, amusing, and always up for a good time.

Optimistic and genuinely happy, you help people see the sunny side of life.

And you're always up for a party... no matter how big or small.

You're usually the first one to celebrate a friend's success.

Anyone who's interesting or fun is welcome in you circle of friends.

You're not the type of person to exclude or make fun of someone who's a little different.

Your friends need you most when: They're down or depressed

You really can't be friends with: Anyone who's stuck up or chronically unhappy

Your friendship quote: "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

What Makes You a Good Friend?

Homework

2007-06-18T03:00:00.000-07:00

We are into the last week of the holidays and I am abit worried about my homework status. Let's see...

Physics

Worksheet (done)

WS x 3 (done)

ACE (given by ChiaK)

Chinese

ACE (Presentation on Sun Zi Bing Fa)

Newspaper cutting x 2

O’Level Book (almost done, left with 7 zuo wen since i finished 1)

English

Essay from term test (currently daoing, duno what to do)

ACE (Logical Fallacy, catch up with YeoKG)

Chemistry

Online Lesson (Redox Equations WS) (know how to do sia, currently deciphering it)

Study for Test (uhoh, sure gg, duno what's tested, im never too good in chemistry)

ACE (Plastics) (just a simple researh on the history of plastics, giving their chem forumlae etc)

Maths

Study for Test (studied sia)

Online Lesson (Graded Quiz) (done sia)

(ACE) Linear Law (uh oh. ms sally lim is chasing us for it)

(ACE) Modulus with KuanHN (started researching)

Biology

ACE (Cell Model, with KuanHN) (oh yea, we just finished this and the cell looks like a lemon sliced into half with a gigantic cherry planted in the middle for the nucleus. The nucleus pores made it look somewhat inedible

Revision on previous topics (MUGGING), curious enough, i still havent recovered the confidence i had in maths a few months ago)

IHC

L5 WS (hmmm.) havent started, hopefully it wont screw

PROJECTS DAY havent started, hopefully it wont screw

From a SMB message posted up by our dearest Ms Tey of iSpark, looks like we're going to have a new math teacher in T3. Hopefully he (Mr Rong) will help push up my Mathematics next term though, in T2 maths pulled me down for the first time. xD )

That's all for now. Wishing to see everyone back after the holidays =D.

Happy holidays everyone!

p.s the music at www.orisinal.com is great.

Photography

2007-06-11T06:31:00.000-07:00

Recently, I took an interest in photography.
Some of the pictures can be really lovely, with shading and proper camera light exposure. The pictures below are taken from a website, http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/, and I'll love to acknowledge Max Lyons for these amazing photographs.

New post

2007-06-10T08:34:00.000-07:00

Can't believe my bicycle's front tyre punctured while im on the road. Yup, it went flat in about 11.23 seconds (given to 4sf, of course) and I had to wheel it back home. u know, that wasn't the perfect thing to happen while ur cycling for a few kilometres exploring ur neighbourhood, but i guess that will have to do.

Perhaps i'll bring my bike to the repair shop nearby.

Nanyang Primary Official Opening Ceremony

2007-06-01T22:52:00.000-07:00

The holidays crept in slowly. Recently I was searching the old cupboard for any random stuff when I found this CD. It is about Nanyang Pri's official opening of the new campus on 6th September 2004. So i watched it on my com. The video featured all aspects, such as the arrival of the GOH PM Lee, who was an old boy of Nanyang Pri, and the lion dance, and nanyang kindergarten cheerleaders using pompom. Too bad they didnt feature the Chinese orchestra in the courtyard. XD I was playing yangqin btw. so cant see my self being two and a half years younger. I managed to spot some of my old primary school friends though.

Actually the CO was featured. there was a live telecast of the CO performance =D. to the hall. lucky it didnt rain.
It does bring back fond memories.

Blogthings

2007-05-21T03:04:00.000-07:00

This post is mainly about things koped from blogthings. =D

You Are a Little Messy

You aren't the cleanest person in the world, but you're definitely not a slob.

You clean up when you have the time, but you're realistic about what you can get done.

Generally, you're pretty organized and tidy - though you may have a few hidden messes.

You eventually get around to making things spotless, but you do it on your own schedule!

Are You Messy?

You Are 2: The Helper

You always put on a happy face and try to help those around you.

You're incredibly empathetic and care about everyone you know.

Able to see the good in others, you're thoughtful, warm, and sincere.

You connect with people who are charming and charismatic.

At Your Best: You are deeply giving, altruistic, and humble. You devote your life to others while caring for yourself too.

At Your Worst: You are manipulative and enjoy making other people guilty.

What Number Are You?

Update

2007-05-01T00:23:00.000-07:00

Results came out for some of the subjects.
Pro results.

I got C5 for Mathematics. Its not good news, though I hope that the next 2 terms can somewhat help pull up this subject for exemption. Mdm Tham left for her maternity leave, and hope she's well. There's a teacher to replace her, and she is Ms Sally Lim. Friendly and also eager to teach, but sometimes I don't understand what she is saying even after she explained the concepts. Ok, so our Maths test will be in week 10, so next term 3 AU, probably more stress.

Chemistry was not bad, a B4, though no improvement from the previous term, but the pop quiz pulled it down to a C5. A1 for Chinese.

I think I am more chiang in humanities for this term, duno why, though i got A2 for physics fortunately.

Update

2007-03-13T07:16:00.000-07:00

Yay! Holidays le!

Hmm. Well, today there's the council assembly. Reached school at around 1130hrs, together with pnghy, and went to LT2. Quite a formal yet informal session. there were reviews of past events which occured this year, and the various OSes gave a summary of the pros and cons of the events. First up was Han Yong, the OS for EOTA Term 1. Ok let's see... EOTA for T1 was a little screwed up at first, everyone was confused about what to do, and there was a mix up, but we did enjoy ourselves. Next was CNY 07, but unfortunately the OS Jia Kun wasnt present so AOS Yi Yong went up. General comments by Mr. Ben Lee: last minute work, rushed proposals and planning was disorganised. perhaps more things to arouse the audience. peel the orange wasnt audible.

After the council assembly, which is also the 3rd council assembly of the year, as clearly stated on the Powerpoint slide presentation given on the council assembly itself, we left for lunch @ Coronation Plaza, the Golden Rooster. Food there is great thus/but the queue is always very long. Some mix up here and there. The bus ride to ECP (East Coast Park) was long, we had to switch buses. We also had to walk for quite a distance before assembling outside an auspicious looking Burger King Restaurant, which unfortunately stirred up my appetite.

Well, HY, Taylor and I went into Virtual World, which is an arcade. I was wearing the council shirt, and fortunately I brought along a Tintin shirt. Played Time Crisis 3 for a little while. It soon began to rain, and it was no ordinary drizzle; rather a huge downpour. Took a bus back home soon after that.

Oh btw there's going to be this Sec3 Hwa Chong Institution Boarding School Experience. We're scheduled to check-in on a Sunday night. Come to think of it, maybe I do have to pack all the textbooks and subject files in, which is going to fill up at least 2 mega size luggages that is, i believe strongly, going to be very light. argh.

Update

2007-03-03T06:57:00.000-08:00

Its a Saturday night. Rained about a few hours ago, and theres a thick stack of books on my table.

Im blogging late at night. Well, not exactly late. There's a birthday party upstairs (i live on the 2nd floor). I can hear the bday song.

Sec 3 life is tough. everything's in a mad rush now.

Update

2007-02-23T05:03:00.000-08:00

Ok, so its another 147 days before the official release of the Harry potter and the Deathly Hallows. Recently I browsed through several fansites of HP and managed to dig out quite a lot of information. Now im wondering whether Harry is a horcrux. Oh btw, I went to dumbledoreisnotdead.com and it redirected me to beyondhogwarts.com. lolz. looks like the fans managed to believe that the headmaster is dead.

Anyway, school wasn't that bad today. There's a temp taking exercise but i forgot to bring my thermometer. =( Then there was PE after English. But i think i will get A1 for English. xD confirm de. This term screwed up results le. I think my current MSG stands at 3.6, counting in 8 subjects.

Haiz, I will have to work hard for Biology and some other subjects. Looks like its going to be a tough year ahead.

Happy Belated CNY all!

Update

2007-01-18T00:20:00.000-08:00

Having IHE in the morning was fun. I signed up for History elective for IHE, so we gathered in the classroom of 3J and Mr. Slim (Samuel Lim) discussed about why Shang Dynasty was regarded by Historians as a civilization. It was both interesting and boring. I was told that:

- I must have a good command of English Language
- I'll get the polar bear roar from slim if I didnt analyse enough.

I find IHE lessons interesting. Probably because of how the lesson is carried out. But next comes Chinese.

Ok, so Mr. YangWZ came to Singapore many years ago. And he has a good command of the Chinese Language. Zhenghao shared a news story about some hmm... issues. I forgot liao -.-
Anyway, we have to finish a zuo wen by tmr. YangWZ sure has high expectations.

Recess ate at poolside as usual. Meet Bowie there who was drinking coffee.

Physics practicals. A bit fun. We watched a ball of metal swinging to and fro for about 240 oscillations. Some ppl miscounted. some ppl lost count. lolz.
During Mathz, there was nth much except the usual going through of WS. Sometimes its a little boring. Hmm...
Its English! ok. Ms Yong came in and we started to discuss serious stuff.

Lunch.

Back to lessons. I even got the Imperial thingy.
Leefy came in abt 5 mins after his period. Lolz. many things happened. i shall nt eleborate. but i would just like to say...

that 3O 2007 is quite a good class after all to be in.

Eventful Weekend

2007-01-13T05:59:00.000-08:00

Let's see...

I finished the Physics WS, Maths WS (left a little bit), bought my test tubes and the Chinese assignment.

Went to badminton training on Friday and a few things happened:

1) My racquet string broke, so I passed my racquet to coach for re-stringing
2) Saw Cavin having track training outside KKH
3) Slacked a little
4) Went home..

Boring.

I think im screwed. I only wrote 500+ words for the English Commonwealth Essay, which was supposed to be 1000+. I havent touch on the History Essay yet. =(

Downloaded a un - errorful pokemon leaf green rom and spammed it till I deleted it. Yeesh.

Go Figure.

Year 2007

2006-12-31T06:28:00.000-08:00

Hiya everyone!! Im back! :P ................... o.o?

Haven't been updating for a while. O wells. Let's see.

3O '07.

Form teacher for next year: Leefy! =)
A Bio teacher.

English teacher >> Ms Lina Yong.
Another great teacher.

Let's see... Chinese teacher >> Mr. Yang WZ

Next's year Maths teacher is Mdm. Tham. yay =)
nice. I hope next next year (2008) she will be teaching 4O --- current time 10.40pm December 31 2006.

IH teachers are Mr. Melvin and Mr. Samuel. :P
Physics will be Mr. Chiak
Chem will be Loh.

Whee.

Looking forward to year 07.

I can't save this post till 12am so I shall just wish everyone a happy new year in this blogpost at 10.43pm December 31th 2006.

Update

2006-12-16T06:24:00.000-08:00

Guess who's back? Boo. Me.

Well, hadn't been updating for a while. Still kind of missing Korea and all of the people there. Maybe that's what people call 'in a trance'. I didn't take back much.

Just memories. o.O ?

Update

2006-12-03T04:15:00.000-08:00

Updating so here I am :P. Today, I woke up early at about 7.30am and went to the HSBC Treetop walk. Its quite near to where I am staying so that wasn't a problem. Went with my mum and sister. The trail was kind of muddy after some weird drizzle. That wasn't much of a problem either. We walked uphill till it was really getting quite tiring. Stopped at the nearby ranger station to take a rest. :Þ I was suprised at the number of people who woke up so early in the morning -- the range station was crowded and there were lots of chattering.

After a short rest, we continued uphill and finally reached the treetop work :P . More of a suspension bridge though. The bridge swayed a little when I walked on it. The scenery was brilliant and I can even see the Upper Pierce Reservoir (is it the correct spelling? o.o). Well, we had to walk back to the car parked somewhere near civilisation and again we took the same route. It was terrible... The drizzle came on and stuff. Oh wells.

Went for a cup of Milo and some roti prata at the Kopitiam somewhere further before returning home. Whee.

Update

2006-12-01T04:35:00.000-08:00

I'll be leaving for Korea after a few days..

That reminds me...Christmas is coming.
Its on the news, on the streets, everywhere..
Recently I went to orchard road and the city was rather crowded. There were lots of decorations and everyone's prepared for this festive season. Luckily this year I will not be missing Christmas :P

(I hope that the image above appears. This is the first time i tried putting images on the blog =.=)

I made a brochure using Photoshop and submitted it for Term 3 PS assessment xD.
Wonder what it will be like this year... Christmas Tree? Great food? Huge family gathering?

xD xD xD xD xD xD xD

Trip to SSC

2006-11-29T01:45:00.001-08:00

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Met up with Ivan and we left for the Singapore Science Centre. Long time never go there liao. But I still can remember the main structures and shapes of the buildings. There was this water play park and it looked like fun. Ivan had some Omnitheatre vouchers so we exchanged them for tickets. After catching lunch at McDonalds (which was un-crowded wad) and drumming around, we went in the theatre for the show. It hadnt changed =.= still 5 stories tall, which made me feel that I was about to fall everytime i look down. There were 2 movies showing --- one abt the deep sea creatures and the other about Mars. It was titled Roving Mars actually. So we chose that one. It looked more interesting anyway. There wasnt much people, and the show tooked about 40 minutes. Roving Mars was cool, featuring how the NASA scientists managed to get a rover vehicle on Mars. It was mentioned that the process took 7 months. They overcame the various difficulties, and eventually managed to send 2 rovers on Mars, named Spirit and Opportunity. These vehicles did their job well and discovered that there was water on Mars billions of years ago, a sign that lifeform could exist.

After the show, we strolled around and then Ivan's dad came to pick us up. I caught a lift XD.

Well, for more information, there's this webby, presented by Walt Disney Pictures.

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/rovingmars/

update

2006-11-25T05:11:00.000-08:00

PSLE RESULTS OUT!!!

Anyways, a few days ago, on 23/24 November I forgot which, PSLE results came out. Every year sure got ppl get abv 280 one. Well, perhaps they're muggers. Ok, this year the highest was 281, scored by someone from Raffles Girls Primary. Gratzzz. My sister's results came out too. It wasnt that bad -- she scored 262. I have a feeling she wants to enroll in NYGH next year. :S The students who got sick in the exams also achieved reasonable scores, and some of them scored hgiher than their expectations.

***Happy Birthday Kia Wee***

*beep*

On 24 Nov my sister went to watch movie with her friend, which is also our neighbour, for her birthday. It turned out to be Happy Feet. =.= There were a lot of advertisements and most of them are advertising for Happy Feet. Even received some kind of a piggy bank for free popcorn gift. My dad and I went to Bukit Timah Plaza to pay for the overseas trip in December. (more abt this later. stay tuned.) We walked around and found a store selling Malay Food, so I bought a bowl of noodles. Crapping XD. After that we went back to the GV Theatre, then after that, back home.

Today need to wake up early to practice piano. Oh yes, and Zacko informed me abt the class outing. So tt's another reason to wake up early. Haiz. So i practiced piano till it was time for my lesson, @ Coronation Shopping Plaza. Anyway I live near so I usually cycle there. 1215 hrs and it was over. Fun. :P My piano teacher gave me extra lessons. :::::

It was noon. Argh. Had lunch at home and slacked around. Then... time for class outing!!! Left house for Vivo City. When I arrived there were some communication problem, and I couldnt find where the rest were. So I just walked around keeping a lookout for them. Oh ya, I noticed a few things abt Vivo City that kinda changed since my last visit. First of all, there were weird people doing stuff like dancing on a elevated platform, dressed up in green uniforms. There were also people in yellow suits riding on some random scooters scooting around. Should be a promotion of some kind. Green and blue mesorangers were also juggling stuff and putting on quite a good performance which attracted many. Managed to find the class eventually, but one thing was that only abt 5-6 people turned up. There were ppl like zack, lkh, kai, shawn and cavin and me. So we proceeded to the cinema, but the Happy Feet shows are all fully booked till 6pm, so we had to switch to a cool 3D movie. It was not bad. The thing about 3D is that sometimes it make me flinches. Like for example a guy in the screen punches u. Presented by Walt Disney Pictures. btw, the show didnt start till abt 4 so we went and watch some random Hello Kitty show. There were some kids who volunteered. The contestants are supposed to follow the actions of the Hello Kitty and other characters', and the last person was supposed to win something. But there were a few contestants left on stage. So there was a vote and in the end, if im not wrong, a boy named Zack won. ... The others were also given prises.

Movie was great, shall nt eleborate further. Went home after the movie and reached home @ abt 6.40. Then I started spamming gb till 8.30 and blogged till now. Time flies.

This year I am going overseas to South Korea for the holidays. Will be leaving on 7/12 most likely and it will be spanning a week or so. Recently there were outbreaks of bird flu in Korea though. Hope the trip will not be affected, though there will still be the risk of having to go for an injection before departure to immune oneself against this virus.

That's all for now. BBB. going to watch I not stupid tooooooooooo le. BBB. :P

TeH hOls

2006-11-21T03:11:00.000-08:00

Holidays are seemingly cramped with lots of stuff and activities.

Just a few days ago, I met up with the council mentors, Mr. Ben Lee and Mrs Koh. Haiz. Almost overslept and stuff. Waited for a while though. It was rather sunny, especially in the morning. I just found out that I hadn't bought my books for next year. Arhg.. Haiz. So I went and purchase the books... =.= Ok, the books aren't that heavy as I thought. Let's see.... Advance Physics for you, Biology Matters. Chemistry Insights, and Additional Mathematics. Yeesh. All the cheem books. Hmm. The crucible is kinda out of stock so it wasn't purchased. All the books look super uber* thick. It seems that Sec 3 is going to be a uber tough year.. lalala. Come to think of it, we musn't judge a year by its books.

On the other hand, first impressions matters a lot too. Ok im crapping.

Sigh. Ms Foo will be leaving us after 2 years of dinofication. :( wonder who willl be our next year' FT.

Go Figure.

ToO QuiEt?

2006-11-20T01:25:00.000-08:00

Communication.Interaction.

It is in the school holidays that I realize that I hadn't been interacting much with my classmates. Haiz. I guess I am a little too quiet in class. Guess its a little too late now. Recently I read a couple of blog entries and I often wondered what I was doing for the past 2 years. Two years of academic studies. Two years of opportunities, and I let every opportunity go by. It is this aspect that I wish to work upon. In the future, I am going to be more outspoken. Hmm. Something like that. This is going to be one of my goals for the upcoming year 2007, which is also an improvement that I will have to make.

That's all for now. Currently drafting out the class testimonial. G'day everyone :P.

Holidays

2006-11-10T21:43:00.000-08:00

I am back to blogging after some time. This post will cover mainly what happened during the school holidays, and what I am going to blog about soon.

Firstly, I realised that holidays are meaningless without company, excluding my bed. So I checked the EMB for something I could indeed doodle about. Ok, i chose SMRP (science) for the special programmes next year. It wasn't the best choice around, but I am quite happy with it. Second choice was EP. Entrepeu-thingy programme. Perhaps I wanted to try something that's new. Actually everything is new to me. Nevermind. I duno why I put that either. What I know is that Taylor chose EP, and Pnghy chose BSP, which is exactly what brings me to the next topic.

Most likely 2L will be split up next year. OK, there's no banquet that never cease. end. Whatever you call it. And no worries ever end too. But forget that. I must say I treasured the time in 2L. With all of the 2Leans. Whee. Time flies faster than a brick. Come to think of it, I hadnt been in touch with many people since the holidays stared. Only ppl like lkh, andric and taylor. Sigh. Diwi perhaps. (gaming spree...)

Since I forgot the next topic that I wanted to blog about, I will automatically skip to the next one -- about the iCouncil 'n iCMG retreat to Cameron Highlands. Most people didn't go for the retreat though. About 4 people from 2L went. Sigh. Anyways it was great. We stayed in Strawberry Park Hotel. My room-mates were Lester and Benjy. Cool combination. We spent 2 nights in the hotel. I slept at 10pm on the first night and 2.30am on the second night. Ok u can call it morning.

For this week, there will be nothing to look forward to, probably except playing com games and staring at the poker cards I bought from Cameron Highlands. Argh. Anyways I realised that friendships improve somewhat in the hols. lol gaming spree o.o I have become better friends with several people in 2L. Whee. That's a good thing.

That's all for now. I doubt the readership of this blog but anyway its a personal diary. Oh dear. That reminds me of the NYAA booklet that I have stashed randomly in the blue coloured bag I always bring to piano lessons, for my teacher to sign and give comments. Which is like early time to hand up NYAA. oh wells. I will be writing a class testimonial soon, probably around this week or so, and also blog about the retreat at Cameron Highlands in detail.

I wish everyone a happy and fruitful holidays. =)

EOYA

2006-10-22T23:01:00.000-07:00

Today's EOYA, short for End of Year Activities. We went to watch the movies, and have a choice between either Singapore Dreaming or Inconvinent Truth (I think). I bought a mega-size popcorn combo and finished it all up, with the help of some others. The movie was nice, except some parts which made the movie (SD) seem as if its a TV drama. Anyway I had a great time watching it. Its located at Vivocity, and its newly built. Some stores are still under construction. The environment there was fine, with a hole-ly ceiling at the drop off point. Later on I discovered that there's a glass or plastic layer that covers the part that is not covered by the concrete, making the shelter a creative design without compromising its usefulness. There were some mix up during the course of the event, but overall its a great job. Keep it up Wei Jing, and the OT.

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2006-10-15T02:49:00.000-07:00

Ok, today is a Sunday. I slack every Sunday. So I slacked today.

Woke up late today (about 10am). Went to read some books about some random stuff. Then I switched on my computer.

Gunbounded with Kah Hong. Lalala. I was using nak then switched to other vehicles. But I feel that I am still the best at nak. Did some lucky shots and 400-500+ damage. zzzz most of the time kh won. whee

Somewhat addicted to gb till about 3pm, where my relatives came. We chatted a while then I went down to the playground. playground? o.O
Tried some pull-ups but failed.

Came upstairs to blog. Come to think of it, we'll check our exam papers tmr. Hope I can get at least A2 for Chinese. Well that's the only subject that im confident in. And good luck everyone too for their results!

Exams

2006-10-07T20:39:00.000-07:00

Whew. For now, onedownfourtogo. hope i can pull through geog and history. not really worried about chinese.

gd luck everyone!

btw. happy bday ivan. whee

3 October '06

2006-10-03T07:06:00.000-07:00

Woke up at 6.30am today, and was late for school. It was quite rush.

Science was the first period. We went to the library for Chemistry and found out that Physics was also at the library too. cool. Fooled around with the library catalogue.

Watched MOV video during Lit, and its quite nice. The video time extended to a little pass 9.40am but it was ok.

Assembly was about the panel discussion, and when it came to Dah Wei's satire there were many responses. Some of them were quite emotional about the whole issue and felt strongly against the satire. I felt that the satire did pointed out some facts that we could improve on. nvm.

Double period by Mdm. Shieh. Chinese was great except that I spent most of the time slacking around. Then she told us to memorize about 5 sentences for the mo4 xie3. *shock*

Hanged around in the sch library for no particular reason. Read some books and doodled around. Went back home at 5pm. That's all for today now.

Revision Craze

2006-09-26T01:29:00.000-07:00

Today was fun. Though it was like Sc, then Lit, then 3 Ap then double shiehls.
In the assembly we went through the different special programmes that are offered to us at Sec 3 next year.

Maybe Sec 2 is indeed a year of making choices. We are given options and eventually everyone ends up in different classes. I think I will join either SMRP or EP. Still debating over which one is "better". All I know is that Pnghy has his mind set on either BSP and LEP. Taylor wants to go for EP I think. Sigh...

Now for the upcoming exams. I duno what to do nowadays except erm.. mugging. shud be. Now the revision season has begun. or is it began? nvm. So I just came back home today and decided to do a little makeover. Changed the skin to a boring and old theme. At least its btr than the default one. lol the barchomee man.

In order to prepare for the History mock test tmr, I will stop writing. gd luck everyone for their exams. =)

Sec 2 Camp

2006-09-11T00:07:00.000-07:00

I know its a little late, but nvm.

Secondary 2 Annual Camp 2006

Actually I am not looking forward to the camp. =.= Anyway, on 23th of August, we set off towards the camp site in a bus, called 'Saribum Scouts Camp' if im not wrong. Im sure im wrong though. Our class got separated for the bus trip there (but fortunately not for the entire camp activities), and I went with Class 2C. When I arrive there, I find teh entire place enormous. Ok, somewhat large. It looked like a jungle for me, because everywhere I looked there were grass and trees.

We began setting up our tents after the long briefing by the camp instructors. The type of tent we set up was ridge tents. The group Lollipop were supposed to set up 4 tents. 2 people have to hold the sides of the unfolded canvas, put a pole underneath for support, and wait for the rest to finish hitting the pegs deep into the ground. Guess its a little hard for the ground =S. We tied strings to the pegs and went for lunch when we finished everything.

I find the camp food plain but quite ok. There were about 3-4 dishes, followed by a random fruit of teh day. Sometimes it was bananas. Sometimes it was apples. We have to wash our own plates after the meal, and the nearest toilet was very crowded indeed. I couldn't squeeze through the crowd to get to the tap. zzzzzz.

After lunch was the hike. We have to go around searching for answers or checkpoints, and they are located around the district, but still, the distance was quite long. Some people picked up suitable brances lying on the ground to aid them in walking the long distance. For me I picked up a twig o.O. Then I kind of decided that the twig was no use so I threw it away. The value of water rose throughout the hike, due to the inavailability of water. There was a water parade to hydrate all the Lolliporeans. I figured out that we were one of the few groups that went all the way to the final checkpoint, near to Sungei Beloh. The camp instructor gave us the answers for erm... im nt sure, but I think its courage and strength. Towards the end of the hike we were singing a song about bottles falling off the wall. It went like this:

Let x be a random number.
(x) bottles hanging on the wall
(x) bottles hanging on the wall
if 1 (random colour) bottle should accidentally fall
there will be (x-1) bottles hanging on the wall

At the end we ate dinner first because we impressed Kala.

There were some night time activities, and on of them got something to do with blind men. We blindfolded ourselves and walked in a chain, which means holding the shoulders of the person in front of u. I remembered going up and down. zzzz. Whee. fun . After that we discussed a little about the item we were supposed to present on campfire night. It was getting late as we washed up, and the washroom was again, very crowded. And a little stinky.

When I woke up the next morning (in the tent) , people were already rushing off to eat breakfast. So I was a bit late. Oh, there was this morning exercise thingy. I still remembered Bobby's (camp instructor) quote "Hands on your waist, Feet apart, exercise ready!", and we were supposed to call out "ready".

I think the first activity of the day was River Challenge. It was definitely wet, so I wore the extra shoe which I brought. It goes like this: someone jump in the pond (milo?) and swim accross to tie a string round the tree, so that there would be a line stretching accross the river. Then people will start sitting on the raft and pull themselves accross the river. We made the raft, and all the Lolliporeans got accross safely. At the end only Bowie was left on the starting shore, so we all sang the Bonnie song.

Oh bring back my Bowie to me . Lalalalala.

Next wass nature rumble. Many people shudder at the name of the activity but I do not know why, till that day. Stuart (our instructor) led us to some random door at the back of the campsite, and we were out at the open. That place was really a jungle, with some lake and tall trees. We followed the small and narrow trail, and it went fine till there was a descend into a little pit filled with mud. It didn't smell nice. o.O The tricky part was to climb up the stone ledge, as it was very slippery. It required teamwork, and all were fine except someone who had to rest due to a cut. The conditions got worser, and the mud got higher, till about up to the knee, or maybe much higher.

Lunch was about the same, then it was time for teambuilding activities. I am nt sure of the order, but there was this spider webby which is full of holes. Big holes and small holes. Cavin went first to the other side and helped other people through the holes. lol. I don't think I could even squeeze through the biggest one. There was the electric fence too. The idea was to carry people safely accross the electrical barriers, made of strings. We went to this big see-saw, and tried to balance ourselves. We almost made it. Just then Benjy came.

There was also a Standard Obstacle Course. I may miss out some.

1) Low Wall.
The low wall is easier than it seems. I climbed up the wall and did some victory dance(err.. forgot what exactly it was, involve swinging the arms). There was a high wall in the army camp too.

2) Handle bar
Not sure what it's called. Anyway it involves a lot of strength. As it is slippery, we skipped this section. Kah Hong sustained an injury though =(. There was a cut and he had to go to the hospital to stitch it up.

3) Suicide Window (or is it swiss window?)
The aim is to swing over the metal thingy using your hands. At first I thought it was quite scary, but in the end it was quite fun. Ppl like Nel and me were doing it over and over again.

There were still others like Jacob's Ladder. Reminded me of Jacob's biscuits. It was under maintainence i think.

We had dinner afterwards, and washed up before the campfire event. So when it came, I guess that all of us were ready. We sat at the place overlooking the Milo Pond. The campfire was good, and most of the groups' items were nice. For the Lollipop, we sang the bottle song and some other stuff. It was quite late when the event ended.

Finally, the last day of the camp. We packed up the tent and went for breakfast. Afterwards, we took the bus back to school. It was certainly a memorable experience.

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2006-09-03T06:21:00.001-07:00

Today was Sunday. Sunday marks the end of Term 3 and start of the September holidays.

Woke up at 8am today, ate breakfast and read books till noon. Took about half hr to finish my second entry of the NYAA.

Slacked at home till 6pm, doing mostly nothing. Includes sleeping, playing table tennis, reading etc.

Went with my family for an evening swim at the nearby swimming pool. It wasn't very crowded. By the time we went up it was 7+, thus we were feeling a little hungry. So I was like walking along the road when I spotted this nice-looking prata cafe named "Mr. Prata". We went in, and I bought 4 roti pratas.

On the car, we realised that there were about 3 pratas in the takeaway bag. zzzzzz...
Scammed of a prata.

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2006-08-22T06:31:00.000-07:00

Today we had this fun trip to Sungei Buloh. We visited some walkways, and it was really muddy. I spotted the mudskippes, the crabs and some other organisms living there. Also, from one of the pavillion whom Andre had assiociated with civilisation, we can see Malaysia, and it was a fine sight; the skyscrapers and the sultan palace.

They said there are crocodiles in the river but unfortunately I did not manage to spot any. =( Nvm. We went to a small shelter (im nt sure of the correct wrd) and tried to spot the birds flying about. Taylor claimed to have seen a blue bird. =.= It was nearing noon so we went back to the entrance. I bought a double scoope ice cream for $2.50. Nelson and Jia Jie shared a dish called "Golden Fries", which is actually...fries, sold for $3. I guess it was a bit expensive and not really worth the money. Ok nvm. In the end everyone tried to kope a bit of the fries. Also, on the way back to the front entrance, we started to pick up the big rocks and threw them in the river. I don
t think we're supposed to do that, but it was fun. =.= Hmmm.. Cavin threw the furthest.

Ate lunch in school and went back shortly. Sigh. Many many stuff to pack for tmr's 3 day 2 night camp. Shall be missing my wonderful bed. So far I have cramped almost everything i need for the camp. Hope its going to be fun.

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2006-08-12T23:39:00.000-07:00

I figured out that I should update more often. =)

Nothing is happening much at home during the test days. Hmm, 2 more test to go. I must study hard or else it will pull my MSG down.

Recently my sister's friend gave her a present for i duno what reason. I came back home after some activities in school and guess what I saw - a big seashell, roughly about the size of your palm. More of a conch I think. Its rumoured that when you place the conch near to your ear, you can hear the sound of the sea and the waves. The thing is I can't. My sister saw me fiddling with her precious shell and took it back. zzzzz...

I think I will continue the class testimonial now.

#12 -- Zachary

Quite a popular person in class. He always get good grades as well, and the soccer fan in 2L. A sociable person too. I guess he is committed to the iCouncil as he is in the ExCo. Last year he was in my IRS group and I find that he works well in a group. He used to initiate a soccer match at the back of the class last time. Hangs around with Kah Hong and some other people. Went to korea for IVP and got a distinction =).

As I have to revise for tomorrow's test, I shall stop typing. :P

Update

2006-07-12T07:09:00.000-07:00

I will be sleepin' now. bye

btw i just got my new specs

Update

2006-07-11T05:33:00.000-07:00

Actually i blogged in school today, but my post was deleted for no reason, probably of the internet connection - it suddenly went bonkers. In this post, i shall continue the class testimonial...

#6 -- Jerrold

He is part of the class CMC. As the class treasurer, he collects money. WHEEE!!. Quite responsible but i can't really judge him yet. I duno why also. Often hangs out with Cavin and Nel and Swee Kiat, if im not wrong. Cheerful all the time.

#7 -- Xuan Cheng

The Wu Shu guy. Skilled in both studies and martial arts, he wields the sacred dagger and strikes randomly. Ok, I duno whether he learn dagger or not. Getting along quite well with the shark recently, and from shark's blog I get to know that they are quite good friends. A nice person to talk to, especially if you don't talk crap (which i do all the time). Friendly and responsible too.

#8 -- Hong Nan

I must agree with shark that he has evolved into a walking encyclopedia... Randomly mutters some science facts of interesting stuff that he has encountered in the day. If you can initiate a conversation, you'll find him quite nice to talk to actually. Although being known as the science nerd in class, he is also friendly and takes responsible in his work. Known as the Science Rep.

#9 -- Kai Li

My IRS member. I find that he has improved in his speech. He improved a lot from last year, when sengwp asked us to introduce ourselfs for 3 min (omg i still remembered). Kiwi, as he is now commonly known, improved greatly and is more outspoken now. Well, he has evolved into a more confident person definitely. I guess about 1 and a half year of shaping really helps. Quite responsible in doing work too, from what I know during IRS sessions. One thing I noticed about him is that everytime school ends at 1.30pm he will rush back home o.O. I guess that's his preference.

#10 -- Dah Wei

Widely known as bigtail. Assiociated with a squirrel. He is cheerful and do quite well acadamically too. Very sociable and friendly, but much of a spammer nowadays. If im not wrong, he spammed me about twice on msn. Also, he's from my former school (Nanyang Primany School) which is nearby. Maybe that's why I know him quite well ever since start of school. He looks familiar at first, but I noticed that he's also from nanyang pri when i went back and looked at the P6 photos. zzz. A soccer pro also.

#11 -- Kah Hong

I visit his blog everyday. Some of my classmates have nicknames. Just like shark. chairshark. That's him. Quite a humourous and cheerful person, about the same as Jay's entertainment level. As our class chairman, i guess that he has many responsibility to play. Also the first classmate that I met when i came HCI. He is generally active in any class activities and enjoys blogging. Gets along well with people.

update

2006-07-04T05:43:00.000-07:00

I have no inspiration to continue writing the class testimonial now, so I will blog about what happened today. I will continue another day.

Ok, I admit that this is rather late, but WELCOME BACK Bowie. Hmmm. never see him for quite a while, for about 1 year. And he's back! Looks about the same as I remembered him though, except that he grew a little taller.

In the morning there was Science. To be precise, Physics. Personally I find Mr. Tan's lessons a little boring. He always speaks in the same tone and there are no exciting parts in his lessons. Also, he never jokes, and looks just as serious as a ladybug. The concepts are quite easy to grasp too, well but so far we only studied the Brownian motion and the movement of particles in solids, liquids and gases, so im not encountering any difficulty yet. Though I have a sense of foreboding, but nvm.

After a period of Physics there was Mathematics. Im ok with maths =). We have covered the algebraic equations and the identities. They are interesting. The only setback during maths lessons is that I can't really see the board well. To be precise, the writings on the board. Some people's handwriting are tiny and so small that it looks like a mess of scribbles from where im seating. Guess I have to change my glasses soon. Today we have to go through the tedious "crossnomial" puzzle. It is a bit hard to understand at first though.

Recess I went down to the canteen and bought a plate of spagetti. (is this how we spell it?)

Anyway, during assembly, we have with us a distinguished guest, His Excellency, Pro. Duong. Well, he has a weird accent, probably as he is from Vietnam, but very knowledgable. I guess that Mr. Hon had went through a lot of trouble to bring a Vietnam professor to talk to us. His speech is a little lengthy, with a few pauses in between, but overall it went well. Being a GOH must be a tough job. Well, after the GOH left of refreshments in the library, we watched a drama by the Singapore Playhouse. The title was "am i in love". I find that the actors are well organised and they have put up a good play. The content is enriching and humourous at times.

Next was 2 periods of Chinese. I was looking forward to it actually. Mdm. Shieh went through the term 2 paper with us.

That's about all for today.

Class Rating

2006-06-10T23:22:00.000-07:00

Hmm. I am going to rate the class in this post. To be precise, just 5 ppl. I can't stand typing for long.. =.=

#1 -- Andric Aw Wen Hao

Quite a nice person to get along with. Almost got into the exco for iCouncil with the pink shirt campaign. Always hanging out with the goat and sometimes shark. Overall he is good in his studies. One change I noticed is that I seldom see him goes online on MSN nowadays..

#2 -- Benjy

A very enthu person who is both rather short and small sized. Can get quite violent sometimes like the other day in class. Assiociated with a little rabbit. Get along quite well with him too :). Responsible and cheerful. When he goes mad he have a weird accent though.

#3 -- Bowie

Away in the USA, thus we dont hear much of him nowadays. However he came back and will be joining us in school when the school reopens after the June holidays. He will have to work extra hard to catch up with what we're taught in school I think, catching up with the ACE and everything. I hope he've enjoyed his stay in the states.

#4 -- Lester

Everyone calls him big sized but i dunno why. QUite a cheerful and responsible person. Did some projects with him last time. Well, he is efficient in getting work done and doing ACE, but the bad side is that he insist to do his own way and do not listen to others. Which is...erm. not so good. An accurate air rifle guy.

#5 -- Jay

A cheerful person. Ever heard of the curse of the Seetow family? If u nvr just ask Mr Kevin Cheng. I think he will be the first teacher to teach all 3 brothers of the Seetow family. Somehow Mr Cheng finds it horrific. o.O Not responsible sometimes, and likes to crack jokes in class. The entertainer in well, especially Malay classes. Good side: always tell jokes and cheer ppl up. Bad side: always tell jokes and becomes a little irrating.

Update

2006-06-09T05:10:00.000-07:00

There's almost nothing to blog about in the holidays.

If you count badminton trainings, I have them 3 times a week (Mon, Wed Fri) same time same place.

If you count playing Maple Story, I play them.

If you count slacking at home, I slack quite a lot at home

If you count reading storybooks from the library, I read quite a lot. (Yesterday I went to the nearest library - Queenstown Library near my house and read the whole afternoon)

If you count staring into space, I stone quite a lot.

If you count doing homework, I don't do homework.

M0ral of the st0ry?????

- Holidays boring (i sort of look forward to school)
- Do homework.
- play maple.

To prepare for tomorrow's test, I have to ge bi.
That's all for now... Bye!

Update

2006-06-01T07:12:00.000-07:00

I am sure that SLC was an enriching experience for all of us.

We made new friends ( i actually added everyone of them on MSN - except 1 whose msn address i coudn't read due to my horrible handwriting). We learned from each other. Well, in my group there is someone from China I learned loads from her =). Hmm, stuff like China is big o.O

The first day was orientation day. We had some talks in the morning and in the afternoon it was the amazing race. My group went to City Hall and I had lunch at a kopitiam. Actually ate chicken rice =). Then still hungry and bought an apple pie. After lunch, our group met up and the amazing race offically begun. The first clue was "the march in of the British". Answer was the city hall. We went up there and saw Terence with a hula hoop. Found out that we are supposed to put the hoop down without lifting our finger off. Our group took 10 minutes o.O
Overall the amazing race was tiring and my group did not complete all 15 stations, returning to Farrer Park with only 10 stations completed. Next was waterbombs. Already quite tired out so I only prepared 3 water bombs. When the game started, I threw the first water bomb up high and landed on some random grass patch. Ok, time for the second one. For the 2nd one I threw it and hit someone accidentally =S. Ouch. For teh 3rd I forgot what i did with it, probably using it to wet Terence.

The third day was a formal day. We are supposed to wear council uniform and I bought it last minute from the shop in Beauty World Center. The shop owner (a middle-aged man) told me that a lot of people came that night to buy the same thing - white long sleeve shirt and long pants. Erps. I came to school a little late unfortunately. In the afternoon it was the conglomerate meeting. It was reallly formal. some random quote... "All in favour of this, please say i. All not in favour of this, please say neh....". It started to get quite boring so someone sitting beside me (right) started to shock people with static electricity. I got shocked for duno how many times then another person sitting beside me (left) got it and....

Update

2006-05-28T00:27:00.000-07:00

this post will cover 2 things
- EOTA
- Holidays

(Idea taken from Xuan Cheng a.k.a DarkDementor)

----EOTA----

EOTA was a success, though it was sometime back, my computer crashed because I deleted something from C: so Im using my sister's computer to blog now. Back to EOTA. Early in the morning (actually not very early) we left in a luxurious coach and headed towards the wonderful Kallang Water Sports Centre. The trip there took sometime time, and by the time we reached there, it is around 11am (If im not wrong of course). We had to wait for teh SJI people to clear off and finish with their prise giving session. Instead of just stoning around, we (sailor pnghy) managed to catch some games on taylor's mobile. Now it is time...

Excited as a brick, we queued up and realised that the boat can only take 20 people at the most. So Lester had to go to the other boat. Hmm.... Took our life jackets and the paddle. Then climbed in the boat. Then we're off!!!

Lalala. I must admit that my muscle ached so much within the first few minutes that I slacked a little =). Sat next to Taylor (he took the left side since he was a left hander). I remembered someone splashed water on everyone behind him, thought it was Jay. Well, we rowed on.

Row row row the boat. No, not down the stream. Its up (sigh). Halfway the instructors saw that we were generally scared that the boat was going to capsize that he decided to rock the boat. He assured us that the boat is not going to capsize and asked for someone to volunteer himself to test the lifejackets. lol. Jay volunteered (did he?).

Splash! Down Jay goes. The instuctors showed us how to assist someone to climb back into the boat. the method was qutie simple - just wait for him to hook his legs to the edge of the boat and then 2 people pull hard on the life jacket. In the end, we all jumped into the salty water. :S It was quite fun actually. Like a swimming pool, expect that it was much deeper and saltier. I floated around, waiting to be 'rescued' by someone on the boat. Ok, im quite heavy, but 2 people (i forgotten who) managed to pull me up.

There was a race between the 3 dragon boats and we won.

----Holidays----

The long awaited June holidays started badly. Found that I will be quite busy in the holidays, not enough time to do ACE, not enough time to study, not enough time to play, not enough time to slack, not enough time to go for EP3, not enough time to do almost anything....

On Friday I played pokemon crystal for about 6 hours till my computer went bonkers and crashed (unfortunately). So there was nothing else to do, just banging on the piano and going to sleep about 2 hours later. Saturday I woke up early and drummed on the piano, then ate lunch and went to my piano lesson, then bought some bread from Delifrance in NTUC in Coronation Plaza, then went to my grandmother's house. Sounds boring. I guess on Sunday i have to finish the zuo wen that I was supposed to hand in on Friday but didn't. Oh no...

Dreaded Assessments

2006-05-21T01:23:00.000-07:00

Next week there will be 2 tests.

Science and Mathematics seems easier this year compared to last year. Maybe its only Science? Last year I failed Bio but this year I passed =). Ok, I guess Maths is harder, but Mdm Tham made it easier by focusing on quadratic equations for the coming Maths test.

Today there is nothing much. From morning till now I have been revising the two subjects and its starting to get a little boring. I think my MSG for this term is going to go up again as usual. Hmmm... A bad sign.

Bad day

2006-05-17T04:13:00.000-07:00

Today is a bad day, so that's why I blog to destress.

Firstly the day started badly. We (sailorp pnghy) chatted a while before flag raising (ok I admit I wasn't usually that early and today I did not reach school that early). Then HY went for his sabbatical and me and Taylor went for our sabbatical, which is the Mage, the Prophet and the Nuclear B0mb. Hmmmm. Now I shall give comments about this sabbatical.

The sabbatical IS fun. Though intellectually taxing as Mr Quek has said, I find that I am able to cope with what the co-trainers taught me. It deals with Literature and the fun part is that everyday we're going to watch a movie, then analyse it. So part of it u can slack. The co-trainers are Jerrold, Benjy, Andre and Yi Yong. They learnt the topic very well and their speech during the sabbatical was good. Overall I think the others enjoyed it too. Today we watched "Contact". Tmr according to Andre it will be Terminator 3000 or Terminator 300 or Terminator 3. Something like that.

During the 40 min break I went to the library. To my suprise (well actually not really) I realised that HY wanted to interview taylor and me. For his sabbaticals perhaps. HY asked us about some racial harmony stuff and we answered, with taylor going first. He filmed it down. lol. :S

After the sabbatical (we're dismiised at 1.30) I went to eat lunch, then rushed back up to the library for the IRS which I later found that HY cancelled the IRS session. So I stayed in the library for a while more before HY went and eat his lunch. I went for badminton training.

Went back home at 6.30 after a looong and tirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring training (especially physical training, u know the usual - pumping, running, blah blah).

2006-05-08T19:46:00.000-07:00

Wah! I heard we all now got big big debate. They say future of proper English is at stake.

All because stupid singlish spoil the market, want to change now dunno whether too late.

Aiyoh! Ang mo hear us talk like that oso want to faint. Even our 'U' graduates speak like ah beng, ah seng.

Singlish is like rojak, everything throw inside anyhow mix. Got Malay, Idian, Chinese and English, can give and take.

When you dunno something is under the table or chair, you ask loud loud," Oi! Under where? Under where?"

When you see somebody behave very bad, you scold him," Aiyah! Why you so like that?"

When you ended up in a traffic jam, and got stuck, you complain," Today I Èû³µ kana very jia lat."

When you warn your kids to be careful all the way, you tell them," Careful har, you better dun pray-pray!"

When you see mooncakes with many egg yolks, you say," Wah! This type good to eat, very shiok!!

When your friend mistook your mother for your aunt, you disturb him," Alamak! Why you so blur one?"

You write like that in exam you sure die liao. Teacher mark your paper oso kee siao.

I dunno whether you agree with me or not. I just simply sharing with you my thoughts.

Singlish is like the garden weeds. You pull like mad still would not quit.

Sure got some ppl like and some ppl dun like. Singlish and English, they'll still live side by side.

Sekali our Singaporean identity oso lost until dunno go where. Even orang-utan ah meng start thinking like a polar bear.

But still muz go I.T.otherwise become swa koo, only smarter than Ah Meng at the Mandai Zoo.

Wait the whole world go I.T., we still blur as sotong, next time we all only qualified to sell laksa in Chai Chee.

( Adapted from "Megabest jokes Singapore")

(Carin's blog)

Update

2006-04-30T00:09:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was a very hot day. It also happened to be the GEP open house that the iCouncil and the iCMG first organised together. The OSes were Yong Quan (iCouncil side) and Jia Wei (iCMG side, also happens to be my badminton senior o.O ).

I soon found out that I was an usher stationed at Blk B from Taylor after coming late for the briefing at 7.40 (I came to school at 7.20 and took several turns to find the ops room). So I positioned myself there with a never ending smile =). I must admit that it was quite early in the morning and no one came, so it was boring. Then after a while parents started filling in and I guess we all had a whale of our time trying to usher the parents.

Some of the parents were quite friendly, while a rare minority were quite unfriendly. However, it still went well and I even shook the hands of a parent. My role is to usher the parents to the clock tower then pass the time to Jay who is sort of stationed there.

After some time most of the parents came, so I returned to the Ops room to slack. Then someone suggested playing cards and so we started several games of Big 2. It was bad though - we are not supposed to be playing cards and returning to the Ops room at all. I found HY and we went to the poolside restaurant to grab some snacks, erm actually ice cream. Seems pointless to eleborate more, but I bought a cookie crumble flavoured ice cream and ate on the way up. We met Lester and he was busy spamming the vending machine, at the same time carrying many packets of Mamee noodles. He was actually buying for other people in the Ops room.

Nearing the end of the event Ushers were needed at the refreshments area - food =) . Taylor and I were the only ushers left in the Ops room. Our role is to inform the parents who are queueing at the students section to proceed to the adults section, and to inform the students who are queueing at the parents section to proceed to the students' section. It went well.

Soon, there were a shortage of parents to attend the Students' Sharing Session or the Parents' Tours. Everyone went to inform the parents of the events. Then I went back to the globe area and found a family of 3 looking lost. I approached them and ... they asked me where was the registration place and was there a talk in the Auditorium. Obviously they just came.

Oh no...

I duno what to tell them. So instead I just went back to the Ops room and rest.

After the debrief I ate with Ivan at poolside and went home shortly.

Update

2006-04-29T05:25:00.000-07:00

I do not know what to blog about today.

Update

2006-04-17T05:51:00.000-07:00

Today was quite good. I came to school early to sweep the floor? Ok, ok, I reached school at about 6.50 or 6.55 I forgot which, then I started SWEEPING. Why? To make up for Thursday - I forgot to do duty. Afraid to be fined. Ahh, Jay is getting more serious.

Lessons. We were taught about ionic bonds. Confusing, lucky to have a pro sitting beside me (Taylor) who clears my doubt. End of Science, next comes Mr Krison's period, wheee. We - oh crap I forgot what we did. Let's move on.

During recess I bought the usual chicken pie from the usual store in the usual canteen where we usually buy our food.

We went to LT3 during Chinese. Found out that there were students from nan shan sec school. Yay. I was sitting beside a nan shan sec school student o.O. I said hi. He also said hi. The students got ready some presentations and I was suprised that they did not have much of a special chinese slang for chinese students, just like Singaporeans. Their Chinese was good, speaking fluently and occasionally peering around.

Hmmm. Maths time! Think of Mdm Tham. Ok, today I think the rest of the ILP groups presented. Some were confusing like the Standard Deviation, guess I have to consult Mdm Tham or Benjy.

I rushed down to the canteen and bought a curry pie then quickly rushed up for Geography lesson. Ms Foo covered the water resources topic today. It was good and I followed her till someone cracked a joke somewhere. Then Ms Foo asked me what she said previously. Guess I will have to pay more attention in future. :(

Com studies time. We were told profusely by Mr Cheong about what will be tested. Study hard, do revision often. Nothing much after that, then we went to have lunch at the canteen with pnghy and taylor. I went for badminton shortly.

Update

2006-03-31T05:45:00.000-08:00

This week is the IDS week, focusing on humanity. There were hardly any time for us to finish our project.Ahhh.

Update

2006-03-05T03:07:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the long period of totally no updates.

Well today is Sunday so there's nothing much to blog about. Now I am stuck at revision for Science, revloving around the three topics.

Ok ok, on friday I just realised that badminton training is until 8 everyday. Crazy. 2pm to 8pm, that's about 6hrs everydaY? There wasn't much people left at training from 6 onwards, only about Nigel, our captain, the coach and some really enthu people like Alfred and others.

This links back to the Sec 2 Parents Symposium. I am an usher.
Halfway during badminton training when Zack and Zong Xian pulled me to LT3, and there's a nice meal waiting for me =).
After that Zack briefed all the helpers and we went to our respective venus to start ushering. Parents were filling in already. First I was at the path between poolside and the clocktower, but there wasn't really much parents walking by there so I went to the open air carpark. Benjy was there waiting for parents. Hmmm.
Next I went to the poolside area and met Wei Jing. It was getting late.

Chinese New Year

2006-01-29T04:30:00.000-08:00

Happy Chinese Lunar New Year!

Yesterday was Chu Xi. We had a most wonderful renunion dinner, starting at 6pm. I was playing maple from 1pm onwards, fooling around, then night came so I paused for a while. Then I played again till 1am, logging off at Florina Beach, killing Torties. I managed to get several Tortie shells. Someone threw this tortie shell really high, so I asked him how he did it.

Ok, so we have to jump and dorp the item in midair while descending make the Tortie shell go really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really high.

So I tried very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very vyer vyer vyer vyer very very very very veyr very vre yvery very vrey vrer yvery ver y hard. And I succeeded.

Today was the fist day according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, so I visited many of my relatives today, got several angbaos =). Then I went home and found that my other relatives were there too, and I wished them happy new year. THen more angbaos.

Now while I am posting my relatives are watching the television; loud music of the superstar (chen weilian) singing his songs is blaring from the speakers. Oops, sry now its some dual singing by 2 pro singers, with the superstar playing teh piano. And now my cousin passes me a oreo buscuit. =). They come in packs of 1 oreo cookie each --- waste of plastic resources. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa now the TV got nice music bye bye i go watch TV so i signing off.

Btw i heard blog cannot get ACE. ?!??!#$@#$@@@

Today

2006-01-20T20:17:00.000-08:00

I took a ss with fireblare124 with cai shen in el narth today.

Science is hard with all teh DNA stuff and the RNA stuff and the amino acid stuff. Getting more confusing.
The CHinese teaher is a philosopher, according to pnhy, and she teaches us confucious or confusious sayings. gu zi yu ming ming de yu tian xia ze, xian zi qi guo, yu zi qi guo ze, xian xiu qi shen, xian xiu qi shen ze, ....
Ok today is a happy day

Updates

2006-01-05T22:26:00.000-08:00

The holidays ended so fast?

1 Major event during the holidays is the Sec 1 Orientation. We were dismissed everyday at around 8+pm, and by the time we reach home it is around 9pm. It was quite tiring. I recognised some students from my former primary school. The events ran smoothly, and as the helper I stayed in the Logs and the Ops room almost all day. THe other day I was playing cards with the other helpers in the logs room to kill the boredom.

Threre was a AAR of the whole thing afterwards. Many of the buddies gave feedback on the event, and told Alfred about some of the things that happened. Like someone losing a shoe.

I am going to work harder in the new year, and get a MSG of 2 or lower (hopefully). Some of the former teachers still came to teach 2L.

Happy New Year!

Today

2005-12-08T05:41:00.000-08:00

There's nothing much.
1L chalet was quite nice, but it was a bit tiring.

Today

2005-11-17T21:08:00.000-08:00

the holidays are here. It is so boring. I signed up for several courses so I won't feel so bored. I will be missing badminton training on Friday.

Today

2005-11-14T06:19:00.000-08:00

Today when I tried to play Maple Story the whole screen goes blank then suddenly very blury and there were weird lines here and there. Weird. Then the whole screen goes blank again. I think I will not play till the next day...

I also tried reading other people's blogs now. Some are updated almost everyday, while some are still lagging at the first day of exams. I heard that Benjy started a blog... Anybody knows what's the URL.

The badminton training was not bad. I came a hr late, and had to run three more rounds at the track. Then it was the physical training, we did the push ups. Ate Lunch at poolside, and it was fried rice with eggs.

Now killing green mushrooms is like. Whenever I kill one I glance at the screen half expecting some kind of panlid to appear. So far I killed about 2300 green mushrooms and no panlid. Think I will need to scroll stolen fence.

Today

2005-11-09T06:14:00.000-08:00

Today was a great day. I was at home the whole day with nothing much to do except reading and rereading those books found in the book shelf. They were interesting but boring. And finally it was time to look forward towards the chalet event. Hopefully I can meet most of my classmates there! And I think most of it is sponsered by Ms Foo... Yay. However, she wants us to pay some $$ for the chalet too, so if I am not wrong, we will be bringing food. Ms Foo even told us she wanted chicken wings. If I am not wrong, we are going to deposit our bags at Zack's place as we have to move out of the chalet by the next day. Then I not sure, maybe some fun bowling trips, or swimming at Wild Wild Wet.

Today

2005-10-31T04:01:00.000-08:00

The holidays are coming.

Today there is supposed to be street soccer, but there was a very slight drizzle and a gentle breeze, so the street soccer was either cancelled or delayed. We watched a movie instead, and it was qutie nice.

Had lunch at poolside today with Taylor and Kah Hong.
I ate some fried rice with a chicken wing. Nice.

Today

2005-10-26T05:06:00.000-07:00

I got A1 for Chinese. That's the first A1 since Maths. Hm... I should qualify for promotion.

I got more marks than I expected in my letter, thanks to people in my class for their good phrases. I memorised some of the very good phrases in the model compositions and used them in exam. Then in the end I was quite happy with my results.

Same thing as usual: I had lunch at poolside and ate fish with fried rice. Then I bought Maltezus (small bits of chocolote) at the vending machine. I spend the time before badminton at the library, and stayed there for 90 minutes.

Badminton was fun but tiring. We went through the physical training, and most likely I will have muscle aches again...

Today

2005-10-23T05:24:00.000-07:00

Exams are over...

Now usually I will play Runescape with Taylor, Maple Story with some of my classmates or just playing Lord of the Stars. Its quite fun.

There seem to be a pull factor of school, and that is, the fried rice. The fried rice sold at poolside restaurant is quite nice. Together with the fish fillet, its worth the money.

EP3 starts soon after the exams, and it is back to the same exercises I usually do for badminton.

We will be getting back our papers tomorrow, dunno how much I will get for each subject. To get promoted to be sec 2, we will require a MSG of 6, and I hope that it will be easy to achive.

Today

2005-10-15T05:24:00.000-07:00

Exams are visible when you peer round the corner. I am pratically staring at my files and my worksheets all day. It is quite boring.

It is the weekends. Most people don't study on weekends, but I have to because of the examinations. So far I have crossed out English, Mathematics and Geography, but there are still many more subjects to go and I only have one more day before the EOYE.

Today wasn't that fun. Despite the oncoming examinations, I relax sometimes too. Sometimes I play soccer with my neighbours. Ok, today is Saturday, but let's talk about Friday as there was not much happenings on weekends to eleborate on.

English was the first period, if I hadn't forgotten. We went through some intense philosophy training, and Mr Quek was there talking about if one travels at the speed of light, time stops. There. That is the key to living forever.

Physical Education was not bad. We played soccer, and the other team scored one goal. However, we still managed to achieve the 1st runner up. Not bad. The other team was the last when counted backwards. To be precise: my team lost. When I went back to class, the usual chaptek kicking people was there, kicking chaptek.

Today

2005-10-11T07:20:00.000-07:00

In the morning was Chinese. Ms Seng came in, and we went through the test paper. It was complicated and tough. I think I mentioned it before, but anyway I got 47 and a half. It was not bad.

After two periods of Chinese, it was finally recess, and some of the people played the chaptek while others went to buy some food and eat. Benjy was running the catering services again as usual. I went down to the canteen and bought a packet of rice. Then I came up to the classroom and played chaptek. I managed to kick the chaptek several times. I went back to my seat and found that some people are taking pictures of us playing using the visualiser. They managed to take a picture of Benjy.

The next period was supposed to be Science, but Mdm Tham took over. There were three periods of Mathematics, and we were supposed to complete a mock exam paper. Mdm Tham called out those that were exempted from the subject, and we were supposed to come up with the answer for the question paper. Quite an interesting task. So we went to the library and spent the next 2 hours there, attempting the questions. The question I was assigned to was ok, but I spent quite a while on one question. People came to help, then Wei Jing finally got it. After that most of us read comics, while few attempted the questions.

Art was nice as we watched the videos. We watched some of them. I feel that it must have taken them a lot of time to come up with something so creative. English was about the same, and we went through the Literature questions (actually answers) did by some group.

I ate at the poolside restaurant for the third time in a row. My lunch was some rice.

Today

2005-10-09T23:39:00.000-07:00

Anyway today was not bad. For chinese, Ms Seng has finally got back our Chinese papers. I got 47 and a half. Not bad.

For Mathematics we went through the revision paper. It was quite complicated.

For recess Benjy's catering service has reached it's maximum number of customers for today, so I had to buy the food myself...

For assembly I was almost late. I was quite lucky, and came in before Mr Hon. We had a interesting talk about blogs.

For English we went through the Literature questions.

After that I went to the sschool library before going home.

Why is there a pop up thing?

Today

2005-10-06T05:14:00.000-07:00

For Chinese today we performed on love's needle ways. My group also acted. I played the role of the Cannot be named person, the guy who like his ring so much he jump into the fire with it, and some guy in star wars. I did not actually know the content well. Some of the groups that came before us were quite good, and I enjoyed them.

For history Ms Sim came 10 minutes late and left 5 minutes early. So we only have around 25 minutes of History. Ms Sim told us that it was because of some oral defense thing so she will be late, in fact all our Literature, Geography and History teachers. That means Mr Quek, Ms Sim and Ms Foo. Ms Sim went through the worksheet on merger.

Recess was nice. We played soccer and I scored some goal, mainly due to other people, as they were kicking the ball I saw the chance and scored, not sure if its called quick reflexes or ks. There were a few injuries during the game, and Nelson's glasses were knocked off the lens by Jia Jie. It should be very painful.

Next comes English. As we finished editing the compositions done by the groups Mr Quek sorted us into, I thought we were going to do some worksheets. But they started going through our Literature answers. It was quite boring throughout. Han Yong was reading some Wu Xia Xiao Shuos, and he found several components of Defeat Dragon Eighteen Fists.

Maths was nice but complicated. We went through the revision worksheets, and Mdm Tham handed out several pages thick revision worksheets. It is due on Monday. Before Computer Studies, I went down to the canteen to buy some food (popcorn chicken). Many people saw the chance and asked me to buy food for them. So when I was heading to the computer lab later many people glanced at the packets of food (all popcorn chicken). They probably thought I was some really greedy person.

Today

2005-09-30T05:18:00.000-07:00

It was English in the morning. We had another boring round of composition editing, and my group got rejected. We will have to rewrite the setting and part of the climax, as Mr Quek said it was leaving the main point. We also went through Daniel's group's composition, and their group is quite good, with mainly good English and a wide vocabulary.

Street Soccer was nice during Physical Education Lesson, but I did not get to play due to the amount of people wanting to play and the little time we had. There were many classes wanting to play also, so 1L only managed to send in 2 teams. The first match ended with 1L leading by 1-0 (the goal was scored by Andre). For the second match, I forgot the score, but I think nobody scored a goal.

We did some group and indivisual work during Chinese lesson. We are supposed to design a poster to promote sea-dog-oil. Finally, we decided on creating a flash document, as we have a computer expert in our group. For History lesson we discussed about the merger again, and Ms Sim gave us some worksheet to complete in class. I can't remember the reasons for the merger between Singapore and Malaya.

There was nothing much during music, and when I went back to the classroom they are playing with the big ball again, this time the ball split into 2 balls when kicked, and then more... They gave up the scattering paper idea, as I think it is too troublesome to clear up after a game of soccer. Badminton was nice, but the starting was not good. I was left with 70 cents as I forgot to bring more money. I ate a very plain meal that cost 60 cents, but it was fulling. During badminton, we played erm...badminton. There was also physical exercise.

Today

2005-09-28T22:59:00.000-07:00

In the morning was Chinese. I forgot what we did.

For History, it was nothing much, and again, Jay asked Ms Sim about her opinion on blogs. I forgot what she said, but I remembered the long history lesson and the 40 minutes, talking about the Singapore's merger with Malaya that formed Malaysia. We discussed about why Malaya decided to merge with Singapore, and why Malaya had to wait 4 to 5 years before she decide to merge.

We played soccer during recess with a "soccer ball", which was actually many layers of crumpled newspaper. We played until the newspaper was to its last layer, then at that moment I was supposed to kick the ball. I kicked it, and many small bits of paper flew out, scattering on the floor. I borrowed a broom from the other class and swept the bits of paper up.

We went through the compositions during English, and some of the compositions are quite good. I felt that the compositions are well written.

Just Today

2005-09-28T03:58:00.000-07:00

I have just realised that my posts have been getting longer.

Anyway, today there was Ms Seng telling us about the blog issue which was on the Straits Time yesterday. Ms Seng told us about some bloggers (5 girls) who wear their skirts too short. Then they were scolded by their teacher, but they were those rebelious kind, and they commented on the teacher's scolding on their blog, and said all kinds of bad things towards their teacher, e.g the teacher was jealous of their beauty, jealous of them wearing their skirts that way. In the end, the 5 girls were severely punished, and suspended from school for 3 days.

There was also this boy from a certain school residing in Bishan, saying ( in his blog) bad things about his school. This was also brought to immediate attention, and disciplinary actions were taken.

Next comes Science. Recently, we have been watching videos as there are no more examinations for that subject. We watched something about building the tallest building in the world, and the longest and largest ship that is able to accomodate many people at once. The construction fee is very high, so they have trouble building it. As mentioned in the video, since the comstruction fee is so high, the price to even spend a night abord the ship will cost a bomb, so not many people can afford to live there, so there will be no profit, so... Overall, the video is interesting.

Mr Quek went through some of the compositions written by some of my classmates. Actually, we went through three, the first about Supreme Commander Kia Wee avenging his dead father, killing the king. The second is about some crummy worm in the mango. I find that hard to write, as there's not many things you can write about this topic, hence the group came up with an idea - dreaming. They wrote about the guy being a worm, then waking up to find it all a dream. Mr Quek said that it was way out of the point, and they would have to rewrite.

Kong Chian Library

2005-09-28T00:22:00.000-07:00

The library in Hwa Chong Institution is very resourceful. Equiped with a cooling air conditoining system, the library is an ideal place for everyone to study effectively. There are two very responsible librarians that look after the library, and they always greet me with a friendly smile whenever I step into the library. The view of the school from the top of the library is brillant as we can see the trees, bushes and grass, creating a very "natural" environment for study. I often go to the library to study and to use the resources, including the laptops, computers and books, including the atlas and some resource books that we can reference from. I find the books very useful and resourceful - there are a wide variety of books in the library. Students can book the computers or laptops for their personal resons. Of course, no playing of games in the library. Anyone violating the rules in the Kong Chian library sent out of the library, I think.

Marks Matter(s)

2005-09-21T00:02:00.000-07:00

I got exempted for Mathematics in the exam. That's good. At least 1 less subject to study. Benjy got exempted from IH, and that means Geography, History and Literature. That's a lot. I wished I was exempted from IH too, as I am not good in IH, and exemption gives me a A1. I also got 65 for my Physics paper. Not that good, but the highest among Chemistry, Biology and Physics. That's good.

Year End Examinations

2005-09-19T07:00:00.000-07:00

The examinations are coming soon, so I guess I have to study really hard these few days. Of course, there will be some exam pressure, but as Mr Edmund Teo said during the PCME lesson, stress come and go. It willl be over soon. Don't try anything silly... You just have to try until the boundaries of your abilities.

Projects Day Grandfinals 2005

2005-09-15T05:37:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow there will be a project day grandfinals, and only those group that are up to a certain standard can take part, and it will be held in both the auditorium and the drama centre.

My group did not make it through the Semi Finals, so...

All Secondary 1 Pupils have the chance to be at the venue to watch the whole judging, but I will miss quite a lot as I have council duty ( stationary asher). According to the OS, we will be expecting 24 parents.

An Accident

2005-09-15T05:32:00.000-07:00

Today, one of my consortium mates fell down, and injured himself. It must have hurt a lot. When he fell, Mr Toh (the PE Teacher) came to his aid immediately, and later brought him to the hospital, according to the consortium head. The iSpark Consortium head came in to our class and told us about the accident.

He obtained a swollen eye. I hope he will get well soon.

Am I allowed to say it?

2005-09-15T05:03:00.000-07:00

Chernobyl was just a sign, an indication of the crime.
Collaboration by the human race in a malodorous disgrace.
I don’t speak of the lies about how safe it was
but of the game that despised living things, the foul
infiltration of mendacity that bleated maxims,
mantras. No side was innocent, all implicated.
Patriotic sacrifices were expected. Nothing
visible leaked out until those babies in the Pacific
but that was later. Every Australian home is a fallout shelter
said Titterton and we hated him. From the Urals
to Ohio we were saved from each other. Polynesia
sacrificed for three competitors in the Pacific sea
and now the subcon, as the smart set call it,
may be the next for some nuclear fallout and babies
arrive as though no threat was down the wind ...
not yet, not yet ... we will forget, we will forget.

The Show By Act 3 International

2005-09-08T07:25:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow I will be going to a show organised by ACT 3 INTERNATIONAL. I will be taking bus no. 171 to the destination, or taking a lift by Bai Feng =). Hope I can take the lift so I don't have to wait at the bus stop for the buses... Its a 1 hour show, and food and drinks are not allowed in there. For going home, it will be taking 171 again.

Tagboard

2005-09-06T23:37:00.000-07:00

Ok...Ok...Ok...Ok...Ok...Whew...Whew....Ok...I finally found a tagboard.

Talk nonsense

2005-09-06T23:12:00.000-07:00

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Teacher's Day

2005-08-30T23:55:00.000-07:00

Today is Teacher's Day. I went with Kiat Hong, Lim Yang, Max to visit our P6 Teachers. It was enjoyable as we met all the teachers that we had not met for a very long time.
By the way, Ms Kok is now known as Mrs Tan!!! Cheers!!!

Some days ago

2005-08-23T23:47:00.000-07:00

Some days ago, I went to Li Ting's house for a class gathering. Isabel is leaving for London, and I think all 6J people are sad to see her go. At Li Ting's house, we played basketball, watched some movies and of course, bade farewell to Isabel.

Piano Exam

2005-08-14T05:53:00.000-07:00

August 17th...
Piano Exam. Hope I can get 120 and above for it.
Got to rush a bit after school to get to the venue.

History Test

2005-08-11T03:26:00.000-07:00

Today we had a History Test. It is about the Japanese Occupation and the post war years. Some of the questions were quite hard, and I took about 15 minutes per question to answer them (total time allowed 1hr). I aim to have a MSG of 3 this term... Hope I can do it.

Movie Watching

2005-08-10T03:18:00.000-07:00

Today I went to watch a movie with some friends. It was all about popcorn, and drinks. Looking like someone who had just watched a movie, we went to the nearby McDonalds and ate some fast food. After that we took a bus home.

Pulsate' 05

2005-08-07T23:14:00.000-07:00

Today is the pulsate day, on the eve of Singapore's 40th national day. Our class sold drinks and the respond was far better than we expected. I guessed that many people were thirsty, and wanted a drink. We bought: some F&N Raspberry, F&N Orange, F&N Grape, Sprite Ice, Chrysanthemun Tea, Soya Bean Drink, Coke etc. It was quite sucessful, and we collected around $260 (in coupons). Tomorrow is National Day!

Anger detected

2005-08-07T23:12:00.000-07:00

Just a few days ago my English and Literature Teacher, Mr Quek, got so angry in class that he threw a marker at Jay. Then he shouted and scolded everyone, and it was quite scary.