A Happy Teachers' Day

Normally I don't blog on consecutive days. Reason One: so that i avoid getting overly attached to the feeling of blogging so much so that i neglect my studies. Reason Two: so that whoever actually bothers reading my blog doesnt hv to dig out unread entries from underneath piles of newer entries..

Nevertheless, i'd have to make an exception to that rule - law if u must - and i'm going to blog today despite having blogged yesterday as well..

In fact, in a way, today's entry is sort of a continuation of yesterday's. i shall divide it into two parts, aptly named, of course, as part I and part II. hurhur..

PART I - Visit to Anderson Secondary

Lest you don't know yet, my study break has started. Hence, i was released of the burden of making that hour-long trip down south east as of monday. But my desire to go to school had not been quenched...

all right, you can stop laughing now, n let me continue with my story...

Anyway, i was up early, early to crash anderson n try to make it into 4.1 class room to surprise mamachong. see, this was the surprise. jus to make a weird surprise for mamachong (mrs chong) on her goodness-knows-howmanyeth teachers' day celebrations, i decide to re-become her student for a short period. joy and i conspired to give mamachong a shock, my adding an additional member to mamachong's class (ME), and allowing her to be pleasantly surprised.

With a few hiccups, i managed to ultimately make my way to 4.1 classroom. hiccup no.1 - security guard. hiccup no.2 - major chong decided to be funny n pretend i was late for schoold. hiccup no.3 - and most importantly, the anderson sec that i knew n loved has fallen apart. literally. i cant even recognise the place anymore.

ANYWAY, i manage to get to 4.1.. n here comes the biggest hiccup of all. the teachers didnt need to see their class. diaongz~!.. so mamachong was never coming.. =X..

So me n joy joy and i go to the "amphitheatre" (which is actually just the quadrangle which i knew n loved). and i sat with 4.1!!!
my posterity.
my descendents.
those great pple who carry on the great priveledge of ever donning an anderson secondary four-one class teeshirt..

yes, the four-one of 2005. (i.e. joy's class)

the concert, well, in some aspects left a lot to be desired. perhaps jus a better sound system? or definitely a better emcee.. some performances exposed the PA crew's lack of effifacy, while others jus masked it with their pure raw talent.

by this i refer to the indon scholars of sec 4 '05. there was one dude, whom joy introduced as amos... he was good with the guitar. n i told him that he was good minus one 'o'. man... i wish i could play the guitar like that. VJ guitar ensemble, ur good. but lo n behold when somebody manages to get the allocade good minus one 'o'.

he made a flawless, n picture-perfect rendition of playing the melody of a few songs... perfect with the rhythm n all.. wat the fish.... anw i went over n congratulated him on the fine perfomance. yes, yes.. bo liao.. but he deserved.. too bad he's going to NJ.. but at least not RJ... tut tut..

anw, tts just the concert lah.. the main motive of the visit was the see teachers right? n so i did.. first of course, since i was sitting with mamachong's class i managed to get her.. n she said "wah ben, finally after soo long you come back n see me right?" weird.. i come back so often~ especially last year. but well.. putting things into perspective, i nvr managed to see her when i came back. she always disappears so fast..

anw i saw mrs lim too, n had a nice long chat with her too.. she's damn high powered in the school or so it seems.. 3rd most powerful in school.. haha.. but she's a damn nice lady. i'd say its worth being blood traitor to st gabs brothers n joining andss for her.. haha..

ANW, she said if i got free time next year or whenever i can come back to relief teacher. *beams here*... how i'd love that.. hopefully can teach maths. or geog. or chem. or physics. wooohooo endless possibilities. but then... NS beckons, dammit.. haha..

but go in faster means come out faster too right? hehe..

anw, after tt i joined the RJ 4.5 '05 contingent - colin (4/4) rais, adrianus, aditya (all from RJ) and vijay n haukim from AJ. they were crapping wid mrs lawrence, who missed crapping with them.. the rest of the gang, unforunately, were overseas. ekavit, voraphan, james soekwanto.. germany, thailand, us respectively. how times change..

anw, rais was hving the time of his life being a complete bstrd, as he's professionally acclaimed to be in both RJ and andss.. n Vijay was on the verge of whacking him.. yeah, some things nvr ever change..

then we had to see cikgu asnah with the company of the indons. or else we'd look spastic attempting to converse in bahasa melayu. so we went with the indons, and hence we were allowed to just nod our heads spastically. we dont mind.

but then i had to rush off to complete my part TWO of the day - St Gab's Visit.

PART II - Visit to St Gabs

I am a blood traitor. Traitor to the name of St Gabriels. I, like so many of there other "top" students, fled the school with the marks that the school 'gave' us. i was thinking this as i walked along seeing st gabs secondary boys inundating serangoon central (tts a road btw)..

then i saw mat n beng st gabs sec boys. n it suddenly hit me. THATS the reason i nvr went there. and i saw a group getting chided by sum1 who looked like a complete stranger. (it turned out ultimately that this "stranger" happened to teach at st gabs, n had a fabulous (sarcasm) reputation in the school)

anw, enough abt st gabs sec...

i'm talking abt st gabs primary here.. my beloved school of six years, whom i hv neglected for abt that same period..

i went for two stories seeing teacher whom i noe by face. but not personally. mr tan tiong soon - the music teacher. u noe, music teachers are always known by many many pple, but they do not tend to rmb u. duh.. haha...

anw, my two targets were ms rebecca lee, n mr glenn batchelor..

i climbed floors to reach them. finally at the third (mb fourth, i cant rmb exactly) story. i see ms lee! n she practically comes out to see me n colin while her students wonder on perplexed.. but it was soo fun, (for both of us), to see her after 5 long years. i mean.. 6 yrs after u leave her class, u come back and talk with her. i gave her my phone no. but forgot to get hers back. ms lee if u read this!! wat is it?? haha.. (by some reli odd chance of fate)

then i saw mr batchelor. some ways that he talked were soo different. but then i heard his "ya" n his laugh. n yes. tts definitely mr batchelor boy.. hahaha.. n i suddenly flashed back to the time me n sarabanana were at the flagpole singing "glenn, u'll be a batchelor boy, untill the day u die..... (old song)" n he walked by. i dont think he heard me.... hahaha...

and ms lee said i was much more noisy than before. technically she said i'm less shy. same thing innit? haha..

then after that i went to play badminton again. at marine parade cc (serangoon branch) with xavier xavier n colin. yeah but i'm so tired now.. think i'll jus nod off to sleep soon.. so ciao..

cheers~ n peace.

OH yeah! HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY, TEACHERS!!!

Considerations...

For so long today blogger was refusing to let me log in. and finally i'm in now, hoping that what i write now would actually BE published. okay..

now the news that i just heard was this glaring headline that left me disturbed

"Magpies Steal Owen"

this is quite a development. bcos this means that the shearer-owen partnership is very promising. and i think i might actually end up supporting newcastle united more. Lately, i m losing my loyalty to liverpool. after all, the team that i grew up watching is practically dispatched all over other clubs throughout europe. Last remaining few, of course, are sami hyypia n jon arne riise n jamie carragher n stevie gerrard. the rest, sad to say are as foreign as any other player from any other team.

maybe i hv to adapt myself.

okay on to other stuff...

today is my first day of HOLIDAY.........

morning breaks and i am so happy cos the time is so late. i wake up late on a tuesday. damn, my watch has stopped again. i hv to get the batteries changed.. thankfully it didnt stop during yesterday's GP exam, or else i'd hv wondered where all my time went..

anw, i open up my complex book. realise that there are so many things that i do not noe abt. i read on.. chapter one. introduction. easy lah.. chapter two. graphical representation. easy also lah. chapter three. de moivre's theorem. first of the f-maths topics.. interesting. chapter four. euler's formula. erm... okayy... chapter five. roots. here i start pulling out my hair. chapter six. locus. the hardest of the maths C topics. that i think is reli fun. haha.. okay i'm done with it.

n so concludes my complex day. day after tmr plus tmr is vectors day. i want to go out n watch a movie with bobbie. i wonder if i can manage to find the time. its hard, bcos time is a precious quAntity. and tmr i'm going visiting teachers.

plus there's a lack of nice movies to watch.

anw, its going to be a bit weird gracing the steps of parry st gab's pri school after an absence of five long years. i'm running a very high bet (with myself) that none of the teachers wld remember me. its a weird feeling of foreboding or smthg.. wow..

and so i think i practically wasted a whole day away.

and last night. except last night was on the phone. no prizes for guessing who with. but i'm delighted. and i reli hv no considerations on what the future holds.

was reading my archives just now.. n i relise that i ultimately got one of my wishes. well two actually. i wanted to be free of my sense of practicallity. and voila. i am. see? i've lost all my considerations for the future. the seeds of the disappearance of my practical self was sown a few weeks (mb months) back, when i did smthg reli reli considered unpractical. oughtnt disclose this here, but yeah.

and now, i've lost all considerations for what might be considered as a bleak future. but sumhow this time i've just got faith in how it'll turn out.

=). main tujhse pyaar karta hu

haha.. okay whatever..

throughout this week i had undying temptation to blog abt some issues. but i think ultimately the fear of being persecuted for blasting powerful pple kept me from it. i jus could get into super huge trouble. anw, i might drop hints of dissatisfaction repeatedly over numerous entries. jus to satisfy myself. but dont read into it. haha..

okay.

finally, after ten hours of waiting, there are pple online to talk to
haha..

okay meaning..

cheerios~ n peace! =)

n GP sux. but its over.. haha.. =P

Variety Finally?

Bobbie told my blog is onli about two things - badminton, n studies. haha.. perhaps.. guess my life, or rather, my life that i'm showing to the world (more likely my friends) is boringggg... haha.. its interesting enough for me actually.. haha..

nevertheless, i shall follow that piece of invaluable advice, and blog abt smthg different - rugby!

u noe, i can almost hear that groan from you guys...

i onli watch rugby for the allblacks. cos i think they're cool. Any more dumb questions? especially their captain. he's HOT quite cool, his hairdo n all.. haha... anw that last game was at Carisbrook Stadium - Dunedin.

imagine my shock. DUNEDIN is finally on the map! wow... i rmb the first time i heard the name dunedin/otago. (otago is a uni in dunedin, i think, where jen goes to. yeah, hi jen.)

anw, i was like otawhat? in dunewhere? you mean these places actually exist? and now.. wow.. so cool. they're world famous!! haha.. n jen was like bragging for her getting tics to watch!! i think i'm the reason if she doesnt come back here. i'll strangle her if she does... hahaha... =).. so jealous.. haha.. anw i guess tt might hv been what some dunedin pple thought when they heard that the IOC meeting was at Singapore. (singa-where?) i dont reckon they wld ever hv watched the tiger cup, which the singapore LIONS hv won twice. (onli thailand hv won more times).

anw, back to the topic of rugby, i saw a sign that read "tana for pm". n it jus so happens that tana umaga is the captain of nz whom is so cool (read above). anw i'm going to get hair like his. haha..

n rugby is such a fun game to watch. cos its like a blend of soccer and erm.. (rugby fanatics dont kill me here) wrestling.. i mean.. haha.. seriously its quite funny. i saw pple jus getting into a punch up from a scrum. and they werent sent off??!!?!?!?!

well at least they WERE chided, unlike in some other sports i've heard off from keegan.. =D.

anw, the carisbrook curse lives on. south africa are STILL yet to win at dunedin after 84 yrs of trying. and this is bcos of a last minute (sumwhere there lah) try by nz.. woohoo! i guess the allblacks are now my adopted rugby team, as england is in soccer.

~.~

Anw, moving on.. i went for my first choir practice yesterday. yeah i'm such a newbie i dont even know the name of the choir.. haha.. all i noe its a saint smthg of smthg choir. oh well, lets call it the sunday 7am choir.!Wait!. 7am! omg.. i hv to wake up so early on sundays now.. oh wells.. a small sacrifice for the Lord..

oh i'm in bass.. n its like so confusing to be singing smthg completely different from what the others are singing =X.. but i guess i'll soon get very used to it.. haha.. at least i'm not a lone voice singing a different tune.. haha.. and colin joined tenor.. but i think we can jus switch depending on who got the sore throat.. haha.. (well, he was in bass as of last week, till i came in)

~.~

okay on to a more common topic of my blabbering, badminton. i finally feel the power. its back. (or mb its jus the racquet that says "extra power") haha. noo. racquets bullsh*t. once the racquet price goes above $80, they're all the same.. haha.. unless ur super pro lah.. haha..

-but anyone can tell the difference between a 3-for-ten-dollar and a $80 racquet-

anw, i'm looking forward to playing badminton tmr, even though its probably a case of 'after playing tmr, i'll lose all the motivation of playing badminton for another few months'... hmm. okay lets not be so negative.

pple, be positive. GP prelims are still 36 hours away. i shant bother my overworked brain-that-wants-to-go-on-strike with the calculations i minutes and seconds.. do the math yourself.

36 hrs are is a long time. four and a half nights of sleep. 24 trips to and from VJ. 39 billion kilometers travelled by light. (so much for resting my brain)...

so ultimately i still speak of the taboo badminton and GP prelims. its fate.

cheers~ n peace.

General (Paper) Rants

I'm reminded of my need to speak/blog with proficient engrish English by the countdown that keeps reminding me that there are five days to the GP prelim exam. pardon this interjection. SHIT!. five whole days?? meaning a hundred and twenty hours? (actually less) meaning 720 minutes? meaning 43200 seconds? wait let me check the last one... yep its correct... now that we've gotten that settled, lets actively criticise GP.

firstly, GP sux. agreed? agreed. its not the fact that one I cant score in it. its the fact that its so dull? isn't it? it cant be just my teacher... urf.. maybe its just the monotonous drone that drives me to sleep? but he doesnt hv a monotonous drone! not that he has the liveliest voice on the planet... but maybe i just cant muster up enough motivation to even try to do well for GP. or maybe there's some part of me that thinks its already too late. "lets jus settle for that C5 you were condemned to get right from the start" n then take the verbal SATs and laugh at the system, hopefully..

point to note: i can do verbal SATs.. not fantastically well like 1600/2400, but definitely better than i do GP.

and another thing... i keep hearing this phrase - "GP-specific topics". now take note that GP stands for GENERAL paper. so let me say that phrase again in full: GENERAL paper- SPECIFIC. maybe one needs to consider the context of where i hear this phrase. "link the question to GENERAL paper SPECIFIC topics."

maybe its just a misconception on my part that i believed General Paper tested General Knowledge, or rather, the General Application of knowledge. oh well...

another point to note: General X Specific.

overall, no matter how much i drone on and on about it, i think there's no preventing the fact that i'm ultimately going to take the GP prelims very soon. without any clue on how the teachers want an essay to be presented. is it supposed to be convincing? perhaps a debate-style essay that shows balance? or perhaps a speech-style essay that attempts to persuade the masses to believe what you say? how about the PM's National Day Rally quoted verbatim?

its bad enough not knowing how to study a subject (if need arises), but not even knowing what the markers WANT to hear is.. well.. plain sad.

and are we allowed to think away from the norm? can we suggest that communism might have SOME good points? or that hitler might have had SOME good characteristics?

and what is balance? suggesting the alternate views? (only to get them refuted for being biased or provocative?) "the Cambridge markers wont want to see that you're expressing your own views such a tone in your writing"

of course i understand. dont say "white pple this, white pple that.." thats jus plain dumb. if u want to say that, write it in chinese or malay or tamil or smthg... arf..

i know how to score now. i'm going to rattle of kancy's views.. not mine. mine fail, n he's the knowledgable one. knowledgeable since he noes what the cambridge VJ markers want to see... all the same, He said to mug up kaleidoscope, (and/or k-online), so i shall. may not go school tmr for that sake. GP is of utmost importance... after monday, i'm going to mug all the other four subjects.

and to continue my study plan, after i'm done with screwing up my prelims, i'll cheong my s-papers. i noe prelims got s-papers, but i guess its a bit late to cheong for them now.. haha.. esp maths, which i hvnt done at all. must rely on my *cough*cough* maths 'o' background.. haha.. lets just see how far it pulls me through. i think my mentality's changed loads since the past... i wonder why.

i'm jus not as relaxed when i'm taking my papers. hv to work on that. i will survive. n score.

anw, i'm so sleepy today that i *cough*cough* - mb i'm getting sick a bit - may not be going to sch tmr lah.. lazy sick lah...

okay.. cheers~ n peace...

Of the Badminton-Court n Eraser-Ring

For those who dont already know, i.e. the majority of you, the world badminton championships are going on right now... and there's been some interesting happenings, that lead to reli enticing prospects for the final tmr morning (this evening, american time)...

First, Ladies Singles.

once more, old rivalries resume between the China No.1 and the China No.2 (i.e. world no. 1 and 2). XieXinfang (MrsLin) vs. ZhangNing. lets see if the couple that makes two of china's best players can sweep this year's championships.. haha.. But MrsLin has to play much better than she did today... struggled against the world junior champion, hicupping greatly in the first set... oh well, i noe who i'm supporting.. can u tell? hahaha...

Next. Ladies Doubles.

oh wait, this has already been played, so the winner is known. oh well.. haha... i think its china. again. hehe.. don reli watch ladies doubles honestly, nor do i try to pick the winner.. hehe.. always some dynamic duo from the PRC... oh well.. hehe..

Next. Mixed Doubles...

the first of indonesia-china battles.. natsir v. some chinese pair i've nvr seen before.. shld be interesting if mixed doubles actually goes to indonesia... boleh!

now the reli interesting battles...

Mens singles is a repeat of the singapore open semi-final n jarum open semi-final, n its a dream final between the two pple many pple wld consider to be the best in the world.. LinDan vs. Taufik Hidayat (i.e. the next indon-china battle). Part Two. or rather three if u want to be fussy lah... reli enticing prospect. the Dragon (LinDan) will be hoping to leap well clear of the chasing pack in the world rankings with this victory at the World C'ships.. all the way dragon-up... haha... (see, i'm not biased against china in anyway, in case u got that impression)

ahh the climax - the men's doubles...

its like smthg straight out of WWE... except in this case, it wasnt fixed to happen..

this whole event is being held in USA, n USA hasnt seen a great badminton player in a very long time, perhaps even since the great dave freeman... and, at this year's championships, held at Anaheim, L.A., they've got a mens doubles team into the finals.. fairytale? haha.. u decide..

here's where the twist lies.. one of the 'americans' was once an indonesian doubles pair, partnering candra wijaya... n now, lo-n-behold, their opponents on finals day is, who else, but candra wijaya and sigit budiarto... haha... old partners. clash again..

CandraWijaya/SigitBudiarto vs. TonyGunawan/HowardBach

mouth-watering. two great matches.. tmr morning singapore time...

~.~

now i'm getting a scolding for forfeiting my studies.. dammit.. haha.. okay i better embrace this admonishing as a guidance to the path of my dream. haha.. thankyou bobbie.. haaha..

wait a while..

colin's (my brother) confirmation party was yesterday, n its the first party we hv hosted at our place since.. erm.. since erm... mb it a christmas party? but it was definitely last millenium.. haha.. tt sounds so long ago doesnt it? haha...

n as usual, the younger cousins, yes me included, joined in a game of bridge. we hv definitely upgraded to bridge from toy cars n action figures, i think.. haha.. definitely.. then the two reli younger cousins, timothy n anthony, came in, n of course, they're too little to play bridge. so we changed to twenty-eight (tts smthg like indian bridge if u want to call it that). the younger ones cld play this game, so we played one round of it..

but of course it got boring after a while, so we played.... ERASER-BATTLES!!! woohooo!!! brings me back to St. Gabs where we used to play like everyday! Can u guys rmb eraser battles? u noe, the one with country erasers? shld revitalise the game in JCs... haha.. could last for some time.. hehe.. mb the m'sian scholars donno abt it? i doubt though.. haha.. i wanna bring my erasers to school! haha.. but no gambling. strictly.. haha...

will be quite loony to see a bunch of JC 2 students flicking erasers arnd to try to get ontop of the other.. haha.. loony.. think abt it.. haha..

and of course, due to my vast experience in the game, i emerged as champion! yeah-yeah.. who da man? haha... my Pakistan-eraser! haha...

p.s. eraser battles is the game where u flick erasers on top of each other to win. yes. THAT game..

okay. cheers~ n peace.

Lies N Deceit

how to lie?

its such a powerful tool, yet i hvnt mastered it. i can act, granted (not too well of course). but i cant lie. it isnt a "dark art" is it? so to speak.. definitely not, when it can do so much good...

nvr believed in lying. but the tide of circumstance has changed. probably a lie wld be the last resort. as always... when the truth has such dire consequences. but well, i think it'll work. a wellplaced lie is often more believable than the truth. case study: hitler. well placed lies much more believable than truths.

note: i do not condone what he did, or how he went abt doing it. i'm jus saying he was a liar. an effective one at that too...

but in all senses, let's hv faith in the will of God. sumhow, everythings already predetermined by Him, n He noes wat we'll choose to do before we even choose to do it. some sort of a collapse of the four known dimensions, perhaps? we'll nvr noe till we die anw...

~.~

In any case, i think prelims are like..

NINE

days away.

help!. i hate GP. SIHATEGPIHATEGPIHATEGPIHATEGP....

no.

SIHATEGPIHATEGPIHATEGPIHATEGP....

we have to get that preconceived notion out of our heads before we can score. i mean I. i donno if u all hv that kind of inbuilt sentiments. but i jus cant score for GP! :'(. sadd... then i'll look like i'll get a mugger's score - AAAAC5? n tts assuming i get 4As lah.. haiiiiiiii...

arf...

okay lemme go do some GP work. haha..

cheers~ n peace.

n keep praying....

not a mugger but not yet a slacker...

I stardie too much until my eyes is paining. haiii...

technically, i dont study THAT much. but some pple still INSIST on calling me muggerish. man... but i dont mind that stereotype. guess those pple who call me muggerish dont read this blog (where i mindlessly waste my life away) or chat with me online. hurhur..

so let me give thee a (startling) revelation - most of my studying is done in school. at home is sleep, eat, perhapssss a biiiiittt of work, go online, blog, chat, so on n so forth..

anw, i hv interesting news. here goes...

i hv FINALLY, after 10 long years, drunk a cup of ambition. i finally hv a life goal to work towards. n i wld thank this to the inspiration offered by a maths professor at nus, profhelmeraslaksen.. ok.. dont laugh - i want to be a maths professor. hahaha... not the mad sort. i want to teach maths to interested pple. but then, come to think of it, i onli noe one local maths prof, n he's erm... haha... no comment. hehe.. i forgot his name.. hurhur...

he's damn smart though..

n i hv been pondering over stupid De's blardy summation 1/r^2 = pi-square/6 question. yucks... but it seems to be a great way to noe how much you know. or rather, how little. yikes..

anybody can prove it? repeat question.

prove: summation(1/r^2) = (pi^2)/6

tag it!

bah.. he was being an idiot posing it to me during maths lecture - i missed paying attention completely, being too engrossed in that blardy question. bahbah....

oh well... aniwaez i wanted to go blog yesterday, but due to some unforeseen circumstances, i reached home late (20mins late for church, but tts bcos of that huge traffic jam along s'gardens way) damn..

but fernando was later - 40mins late. but excusable - he thought it started at 8.30.

anw, yesterday was the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary to heaven. the BVM was assumed body n soul into heaven cos the Lord wouldnt allow decay to touch her.

wonder if its ever possible for any human like u or i to enjoy such a priveledge.

oh, and if anybody has any rebuttals, or negative comments tt u'd like to share here abt the above two paragraphs,... dont. u hv ur own blogs... any questions, i'd entertain personally, though.

n i hv jus realised that marine parade- amber road region is saturated with indians. man... soo many of them... shocker. n these arent the yishun-type indians (no offense meant to any). though i still dont know which type i prefer....

okay i better stop. guess i hv to do SOME work before that usual sopophoric feeling overwhelms me. n there's GP tmr. i will score for GP. i will do kancy proud. i will do 34 proud. i will do anderson proud.

yeah right...

okay.

cheers~ n peace.

Op Amp

Wahh soo much has transpired during the past few days. i think i cant put it all down in a blog. haha.. in any case sum stuff shld be considered too personal to be put in a blog - i think i'll start keeping a diary. haha...

s00 where shld i starT? lets jus say thursday (yet again) wld be a day i wont forget for some time.. haha.. nvr had soo many mood swings or violent ones like that. anw, the ultimate swing was an upward one. a very violent upward one.. =) so me stuck on this high note for some time.. wait till it abate then i can start studying reali seriously. haha.. muz thank mia n joy, n of course bobby. hehex~

or vibha, whichever. i think bobby is cuter a name anw..

okay today (friday) was four-one class gathering. man.. almost the WHOLE class (except the usual absentees n a few more who had unavoidable circumstances) were there. act quite surprising, the turn out. and i almost forgot how bhayi tauhid nizar used to be. well suitable reminder. haha.. n jasdeep's beard i covet. hhaha.. just how he can avoid MJ's TanYH still puzzles me.. oh well. VJ's version is upgraded, n very difficult to run from. haha..

n playing bridge again after such a long time.. well sorta- college day was my last time i think.. haha.. long enough.

den too late to go coffeeshop drink coffee n whaever else (haha.. no mention of what). but well so it was back to home. at 1130 which is actually quite early. but damn i'm hungry lah.. n i hv no food at home except jelly. =X..

aiyoh i think i shld sleep on the empty stomache of mine, n then wake up to a sumtious (hopefully) breakfast. oh crap. i just relised - i'm veg tmr. (cos today i wasnt). at least partially veg lah.. hehe.. hope i rmb. haha..

aiyah so much work to do. n i think my mind is slowly but steadily coming back. though every now n then it goes bouncing up n down.

i vow to complete my tutorials this weekend. all of them. yup. lets go..

haha..

cheers~ n peace. n goodnight...

from red to blue

first, i hv to apologise to bobby for causing her to lose out on studying time despite her having a test tmr. sorry!. den i hv to apologise to myself for wasting this whole holiday away wid gps, gg out, n sleep. it was SUPPOSED to be the-holiday-where-i-finish-all-my-tutorials. man... still got loads more. perhaps i'll try to finish as much as possible here on.. n then leave the rest for sunday.

hurhur...

GPs was like.. ermmm... okayyyy.. woke up way too late.. n then slacked over to school. wonder why actually. oh well.. anw, i've got some reli good/cute/interesting ideas for advertisement. haha.. i'll put up some ads on this site perhaps.. hehex...

mebbe...

den after the meeting went out to swensens! yippee.. $4 deal! woohooo!! yummie cookie summit. i miss swensens. i must come back again. i must i must i must!! s34 want outing??

haha who'm i kidding.. hehex.. how abt badminton guys? hurhur...

later arrange..

but i had fun roaming parkway wid bobby.. haha..

oh but smthg was reli disturbing tt i saw today.

to all associated dubiousness, the da vinci code IS a work of fiction. it says so on the fine print at the side of the book - go check. n fiction = untruths tt u read for the fun of it. Christ did NOT have a wife. nor a daughter.. urgh.. after A level's i'll publish a blog, for whoever is curious, detailing church history from as far as my dad reached. (its my dad's work).

note: technically this is not evangelising, jus clarifying untruths that some might tend to believe.

aside from that, i think the day was quite great. hehe... pity i had to leave to study. but of course. studying is impt too. we wonder why, but yea.. i hv to focus on work right now.. though i think my mind is as far as possible away from studying now.

HELLO MR PRACTICAL?? where are u??

darn...

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explanation: practicality is seldom fun. bland, in fact. impracticality often opens your eyes to a myriad of colours n diversity that wld then be easily appreciable.

anw, i'll take things as they are - i'm content. well, anymore and i'd jeopardize my dreams... they say to live a balanced life. but... life n success are practically complement sets... u cant fulfill both at the same time...

oh wells...

anw as red fades to blue, national day fades to post national day blues... n the biochem test beckons... but i hv no intention of muggin for it. sick of mugging.

anw, g'luck to me for the test.. n to bobby for her bio test. which is kinda on the same topic, except of course, hers is in BIO. yucks.. anw she's good at bio, unlike me.. eurgh...

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but overall, i'm happie today. hehex...

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so cheers~ n peace.

Happy National Day

National

Day

Yeah Singapore turns 40 today. happy birthday... let me begin a patriotic speech. ahem ahem..

(those who want to skip this speech, n get to action, jus skip the red parts)

yep, many pple complain loads abt singapore - you cant open ur mouth without getting thrown in jail, they say. (m i risking anything jus pointing this out? i hope not). anw, there r loads of things tt singaporeans complain abt. ya true, some of these bad stuff is true. but...

they say to see the light one must first see the dark. precisely. singaporeans are born in an environment such that they experience minimal crime, racial harmony, religious freedom etc. how many countries ACTUALLY can claim to have these. even smthg as simple as religious n racial harmony? superpowers tt the world idolises often hv this problem. in just how many secular countries (perhaps even some non-secular countries), are muslims regarded by society in general as 'normal' or even perhaps 'safe'. many countries are facing the problems that indians/muslims are being looked down by society jus bcos terrorists are of tt race/religion. but in singapore, despite us not being free from terrorist attacks, muslims/indians are still regarded as brudders n friends. n no matter how long your goatee is, singaporeans r singaporeans.

Crime. i visited another country, a first world nation - i shant mention which - a few years back. i spent barely a week there. n a few blocks away someone got shot. =X. yea.. n this is actually a phenomenon quite common in many countries. so nvr take ur safe singapore for granted. its again the matter of liberty vs security. i prefer security.

even on a religious stance - though i dont reli accredit this much to the government here - singaporeans are generally religious pple. visiting a church down under, i found singapore's much more packed - n we even hv multiple masses!. wow.. n tts not even mentioning our (at least SFX's (st francis xavier's)) youth ministry.

N its not as though singapore removes all our liberties isnt it? so, so long as singapore's governance style doesnt change, i wld stick by the principle tt singapore is still a great place to grow up in. n live in...

but tt doesnt change the fact that i might consider migrating eventually. even if i acknowledge it to be for not so good a life. yep..

So tts my tribute to the nation of my birth.

Anw, today was the national day celebrations, n i finally got to dance with bobby. yay!! though i then promptly forgot all the steps of the dance. haha.. how can blame me? its been ages since i last dance that friendship dance. not for the lack of trying, but yeah...

den i mugged for 5 hrs straight n hence ended up with a huge braindead brain at the end of it. but quite appropriate la, cos i was then going for an indian cultural society party. hurhur.. anw it was soo much more disco-y n party-y than i expected - it even took place in a ballroom. =O. haha... (mb tt 'emoticon' is unclear - there may be some who might think its a phospholipid. i'm really sorry for you guys who do.. really sorry...) its a shocked face anw.

but soo noisy. oOo n they got pro deejays, n pro caterers. man... yummsie.. anw had a great time dancing - yes, cutely - n dragging bobby n mia to dance wid me.. hehex... den took photos. i'll upload it onto my fotopage (the link is at the sidebar) den u can see perhaps. hehex.. though it wasnt taken with my own cam. (forgot to bring THAT to school... dammit) haha...

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Den time to go home - 11pm already. took bus to s'goon but i was lazy last 317 had left. so i called my parents down to come fetch me from s'goon interchange.. (no, dont think the words 'spoilt brat' cos i'm not. i'm sure u already know that) and den i come home n wanted to write n email to jen to tell her to wear red n white tmr but lazy. hmm mb i'll just write a short email. hurhur.. wid stars n crescent. hurhur

okay i want to sleep already. happy national day.

cheers~ n peace. (literally)

*some parts of this issue hv been censored from public viewing. apologies for the inconvenience caused*

About General Paper

I ask a little question - who wants to read GP essays online. lets not talk about those desperately discovering that GP actually is important, or those blissfully ignorant that it is. i'm referring to the majority of us - those who recognise that it is impt, and yet dont give a shit. well, maybe its not an actual majority, but that set definitely encompasses me. n half my class. haha..

but, for those in my category (category three), u might realise theres a 'quick n easy' way (this is the cliched advertisement line for weight loss products isnt it?) to get that one more mark that u need to get that passing mark. welcome to...

KaleidoscopeOnline. (click the space below!)

www.victoriajc.net/gps

Or perhaps you are that one kinda person, the special case who's already sitting at the pedestal watching mortals curse n swear at GP, that kind who actually gets As.. well, in that case, a more suitable website (tt wont bore you) would be...

GloPos. (click the space below!)

http://go.to/glopos

one kind la u..

anw, lets move aside from GPs work. i've practically already done my work over the past two years, n maybe its my guilt from not doing enough, or perhaps i was there longer than the teacher I/C, in any sense, i'm working to publicise glopos. n kaleidoscope online, which is my baby. haha..

glopos, of course, is jjpaulose's baby. hahaha.. i'm sure u noe HIM. if u dont, good for you. haha.. another yangtzyhhaur. except he was exceptionally talented at GP too.. imagine that..

okay, advertisements lie. its jus like the weight loss process. there's no (ethical) way of gaining those marks for GP, jus as there's no (natural) way of losing those few extra kilos. i think. if i stand corrected n whosoever thinks those remarks might cost them a few bucks might jus want to inform me, n then that sentence is easily removed.

as i was saying, theres no ethical way. of course, there's the usual change-someone-else's-paper's-to-your-name, though tts a bit hard n a bit cruel n a bit troublesome. then of course there's the teacher-want-a-cracker?-method. recommended for those who are loaded. with cash i mean. then of course, the final unethical method to score in GP is the marks-or-your-life-method. recommended for those who are loaded too. but not exactly with cash.

but pple, rmb, these methods are not encouraged. think abt your poor GP teachers. ok stop. not a good thing. hahaha..

anw, disclaimer: i think most GP teachers are quite cool n fun. i said most.

GP is just frustrating when u cant score...

N u cant score if u dont put in effort.. oh ya hor... GP's not physics. bleah.. hehex...

n even physics one must put in a certain bit of effort.

somewhat. haha.. okay i'm jus on the crapping express, n i hv to but don feel like reaching for my biochem notes n study them. blasted.. n there's a biochem test on thursday. blasted twice.

oh but consolation - happy birthday singapore. forty years old already man.. getting old arent you.. but well, difference is, u's immortal. somewhat.. haha.. okay i'm tired.

cheers~ n peace.

Solace in Science

For so long i've forgotten what a powerful tool Science is to help u lose yourself in. but today i got reminded. haha.. was doing physics, n suddenly all the tension n worry of all other matters seemed to fade away. The power of physics!.. hehex..

oh n mrkwek was soo funny... well in a way - he didnt mean it.

he was quite pissed u see, cos many pple were late for his class.. then he was impatient to start the lesson, n decided not to wait for the rest.. in a note of scarcasm n somewhat scorn, he said

"must be those that arent here must be the stronger ones tt dont need help".

at that instant, yangtzyhhaur stepped in.

how apt.

for those in blissful ignorance, lemme spoil that - yth is the guy who beat everyone for maths C, smashed everyone for physics, and massacred everyone for f-maths. yes. HIM... but he's a nice guy.. humble n all. n confirm wont come here one.. oh wait. did i type physics here? oops.. whatever it is, i just did. he might come here after all.. hahaha...

respect.

n i finished EM induction. though i still m SOO unclear abt some concepts. i'll clear them up soon.. tmr..

i found a piece of paper tt is a source of remembrance of the past. it must be destroyed. yet, i don feel like it. me's sentimental person. besides in some ways, history serves as a guide for the future. so that i'll be guided not to make the same mistakes i made once...

sumhow i think tts still not gg to stop history from repeating itself.. its jus repetitive, the pattern of this world. or rather, the patterns of my world. n its quite sad when seemingly bad things seem to jus replicate themselves like DNA.. yikes.. too much biochem.. think i'll score full marks for that test.. hurhur... tt wld be quite nice.. cos i think i noe biochem by heart ALREADY.. man... hehex.. hopefully..

though i still feel like i cant leave the education system without purposely screwing up ONE test. as in.. REALLY write rubbish. like eg if they ask

Define Lenz's Law.

i want to write:

magnetic fields are lazy. they dont like to move.

ya, essentially tts true la.. its the lay man's way - or rather more likely the kampong man's way of explaining.

yes, its also the way mrkwek summarized it for us.

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anw, i sumhow feel like i'm dangling. "held up so high by such a breakable thread - avril lavigne". n i'm not talking abt dangling in the nice way eg. where u dangle from a window upside down or anything.. tt might actually be considered relaxing.

This sort of dangling is quite stressfull.. dangling between.. erm... okay enough la. not for public viewing. hahaha... R(A).

oh well, how to find solace?

Science. Physics (Yup, Hi YTH). Chem. MATHS. GP.

nope not GP. yucks...

okay

Cheers~ n peace.