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Update

2006-12-06T01:37:00.000+08:00

Gosh. It has been so long since I updated.

Had a superb holiday with family at Genting and Kuantan. Lots of photos taken. Went to Lake Chini in Kuantan, ate SUPERB bak kut teh in Kuantan, sat on Space Shot 5 times (damn, should have sat on it 15 times to make it memorable) and ALMOST sat on the Flying Coaster. And also came to my own reasoning why Genting won't win the Sentosa IR bid, in my humble opinion.

That's that. Just had a great time relaxing and re-energizing after this year's whole load of projects. From the sucky (won't name) to the great (Grad Nite and Closure Day).

Now at my cousin's house. Staying here since FRIDAY night. Goodness, this is even longer than my Malaysia vacation. Main purpose is to help my aunt update her website, but appears that most of my time is just rotting my life away. Like now. Haha.

Seriously, I've been living a no-lifer's life by auditioning non-stop until 6am. From 11pm. Non stop. Just to experiment. And I hated it. Yuck. :P Should go out more often. Then my cousin's apprently addicted to Maplesea's Delph server. Eeeek. MAPLE IS SO BORING. :x

Going home tomorrow and will start to have a proper life. Like doing Maths homework (cue laugh track).

And guess what we are doing as part of our no-life project? MSN conversation with people in the same room.

Grad Nite 2006!

2006-11-24T15:09:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was GRAD NITE! Finally my most-close-to-the-heart event has arrived! Been lookin' forward to this day for quite some time, especially since Pracomp (company) gave us the invitation cards.

It was rather great on the overall, and many remarks commented that this year's grad nite is better than 2005. (heh, too bad Grad Nite 2005 comm). Besides the person using the mic most of the time, the rest of the event is quite great. Also ignoring those minor minor cock ups that made me rather frantic (including the thought that I had LOST my laptop!)

[And in case you are so evil to think that I really lost my laptop, I'm using it now. Heh. Too bad.]

It has been an exhausting day yesterday. From 9am to around 11.45pm, it was all grad nite, grad nite, and more grad nite. Met Shu Xuan, Hui Shan, Felice and Yao Zhong at school and lugged everything from school to The Pines. It was really amazing - we only forgot to bring the glue! =)

We reached the Pines and found out that the Sec 2s, with Russ, are already there. Then time flew as Russ and I test printed on his DAMN cool (though slow) portable PictBridge printer. However we didn't use PictBridge technology as we edited the photos in Photoshop before printing them out.

When the Sec 4s start to stream in, we are just getting ready for everything. So when they did come, it was quite smooth going and all. Except for the fact that my photo booth "instant print" thing was not so popular.

It was indeed a memorable night. =D

Hope next year's comm will live up to this year's standards! Hahaha.

Mr and Ms NH 06 - Michelle and Leonard! Ignore that Ms Nan Hua 06 there. Haha.

GRAD NITE 2006 COMMITTEE! WHOO!!

P.S: Going off to family vacation tomorrow! YAY! Hope Open House would be a huge success for those involved (especially Council)! :)

Free Vista

2006-11-17T17:44:00.000+08:00

Received an email from Microsoft this morning, and it generated the same buzz and excitement as the original invitation to join the Longhorn (now Vista) beta programme. Read the excerpt and you'll know why:

We would like to take a moment to thank you for your contribution to Microsoft Windows Vista. Quite simply, it would not be the product it is today without your time, dedication and thoughtful feedback. You should be proud to have helped us develop the highest quality, most secure and most reliable Windows to date. To say "thank you" we would like to provide you with a complimentary copy of Windows Vista for your use.

Oh my gosh? And the best part is it's NOT any ol' cheapskate Windows version ala Windows Vista Home Basic.

We would like to offer you a copy of the software and a product key for Windows Vista Business Edition or, if you are eligible Ultimate Edition. You are eligible to choose Ultimate Edition if the machine on which you intend to install Windows Vista already has a DVD drive and is currently licensed for DVD playback, i.e., you have already licensed one or more pieces of software for playing back DVDs

Well, I DO have a DVD-ROM drive, so I picked Ultimate. That's it. A product key worth US$399 will be sent my way in a week's time.

Boom. Boom. Wow.

Will be using the key on my future computer. Cuz my current one's outdated.
:)

Blangah Rise

2006-11-10T21:31:00.000+08:00

The past 2 days have been really special, as part of an attachment thingie with the people at Synergy, those coaches who brought the NH Intl Summer Camp. So obviously Hui Shan was ecstatic (no surprise).

The attachment was quite fun and enriching into seeing how the trainer handles a primary 3 class effectively and we had our try too (Hann Qian, Yueli and I took a primary 3 class). The kids kinda like us and we like them too. Haha.

Had maths lesson today about permutations and combinations. Found that it's an interesting topic (compared to the other A Maths topics). Kinda liked it as it was more LOGIC than MATHS. (aka Sudoku)

Delighted to see my grad nite card design come out today. I felt that it was very pretty on paper. It has a dual function too, to be announced on grad nite itself (it's a pretty simple idea; yet I feel it's superb)

Tomorrow is Saturday. Haha. Have nothing to do. Lookin forward to seeing the kids from Blangah Rise on Monday. ;)

Waiting

2006-11-08T18:27:00.000+08:00

Waiting is the most ridiculous thing that you can do on a Wednesday evening.

It's stupid.

It's dumb.

When Sony has a software for its Handycam camcorder that "features automatic music video creation" but does not have basic import functionality. What do we have? WMM! Yay!

Liwen: And also that we waited 2 hours for YOUR PRESENCE, Kah Swee. WHATEVER.

Back to Kah Swee.

That is seriously lame. Anything there is a stupid thing at Blangah Rise Primary tomorrow. We're going to be faciliators for something stupid for little kiddies. And 19 suay councillors will be with me.

And Liwen has snatched to type that lame phrase from me. Really.

Vista Boxshot

2006-11-02T07:32:00.000+08:00

One word.

WOW.

Hopefully Microsoft will be nice and send free copies to its beta testers (those who are "official" and can download builds from Microsoft Connect). ;)

Eventful.

2006-10-31T21:44:00.000+08:00

Super eventful since Closure Day.

So eventful I don't know where to start.

Let's start from Friday.

Friday
Went to Pines with Yao Zhong on the good ol' 170 for food tasting for Grad Nite. There, with Ms Wassan, Mrs Lip, Shu Xuan, Hui Shan, Yao Zhong, Russell and me, we ate the 8 courses that were supposed to be served on Grad Nite itself. Rather satisfactory, no major complaints.

After food tasting we surveyed the (small) Grand Ballroom and talked about "plans" with the teachers (and we almost threw away our grad nite identity thanks to someone - won't mention who). After the "discussion", YZ, Hui Shan, Shu Xuan and me went to Vivo (thankfully) to watch Death Note. Guess what? All the times suck so I have to go home.

Since it was HS's first time at Vivo we walked around Vivo's "harbourfront" and HS and I suddenly had the urge to eat Swensen's. Hahaha. Yeah, so we wasted Russell's $30 treat for us to watch movies on a Regular Earthquake (my first!).

After which, Hui Shan and I shared a chocolate fondue while Yao Zhong and Shu Xuan had their Banana Split (and were obviously jealous as our fondue looked SO much better).

On the trip home felt damn happy. Must be the chocolate.

Saturday
Cousin came over to my house and stayed overnight. Rather slacky day. Went to Newton to eat BBQ chicken wings and cheng tng.

Sunday
Woke up in a particularly hungry and tired state. Was so hungry that I had to take those (yucky-tasting) lemon flavoured biscuits. Even so, the biscuits didn't make me less hungry and I still felt especially tired.

Something was wrong.

Went with family + cousin to Ghim Moh hawker centre where I felt really unwell and uneasy (too tired). Didn't join family for breakfast as I went out of hawker centre and into some block's void deck and rested on the cooling marble bench. Wanted to puke but can't force myself to puke.

After reaching home, slept for around one hour (had to wait for clinic to open). Soon I felt a fever arising and again, felt so sick I was so weak (can't support the weight of my body; dunno why).

Went to doctor, on way home vomitted everything out (including that yucky tasting lemon flavoured biscuits). Since it has been a damn long time since I vommitted, the cramp of the stomach when one vomits seemed to fade off from my memory and suddenly came back due to this illness (virus).

Went home, ate medicine, slept for 3 more hours while family went out for tuition and other stuff. Woke up, felt much better, but pathetically tired still. But I insisted on going out with my family for dinner outside.

The trip outside improved my spirits and I felt real better but again, was super tired. Never felt so tired before. Felt like sleeping everywhere we go. But I did met Ji Peng and some others at JE library where I borrowed some books.

Once I reached home I SLEPT, but did study some O level Chinese. And slept. And hoped that I will feel better tomorrow.

Monday
GCE O Levels Chinese exam. Thankfully I felt alright (although a bit tired) when I woke up. Was relieved. Exam was okay. In fact, the period from morning to night is okay. Hahaha.

After O levels, Yi Yang and Yan Wei came to my house to eat lunch and play Xbox. Was funny when I kena squashed by YW in Halo 2 (I had NO idea that that would happen). Went back to school with them for Physics remedial where we had some fun. =)

Tuesday
Woke up feeling 100% okay. But mother still worried for me so I didn't go out for sheeshers' movie outing. Slacky day. Went to play TSR Sims 2 Challenges and was rather addicted to it. Yeah. Did some A Maths and physics homework.

:)

Closure 2006

2006-10-25T18:21:00.000+08:00

today was the second last day of school and there's a closure assembly. seems that most people have enjoyed it, especially watching the videos.

- From a sheesher's blog :)

It's over.

It's my first school event that I'm overall i/c in... and I personally felt that today's closure assembly was a smashing hit (read the quote above).

All my effort and hard work (including the painful waiting for the video to render) have paid off with a thunderous applause at the end of the last (the 5th) video. Thanks to the applause from the audience, I felt that my hard work for the school has paid off. And I could sense that the school enjoyed the videos that I've made. Thank you so much! :)

[And in case you think that subtitling is a simple job, please think again.]

Would like to thank the various members of the Nan Hua family who were agreeable on being recorded using my digital camera. The video won't be there without your contribution and help. Thank you!

Would like to thank the Council as well, for dancing so superbly today during the closure assembly. It was a great job, and the 3 cheers were simply deafening. May the Council Spirit last until Orientation Camp (by then, the spirit would be higher. Haha)

I would like to thank ITMC (my dearest CCA, haha) for the PA assistance and the instantenous (really) response of volume requests. Thanks for putting up with me for these two days... especially the Computer Audio! Thanks to Cheng Yi and Jonathan especially.

Lastly, but MOST importantly, I would like to thank my fellow EXCO, especially Enna (my 2nd i/c) for making those beautiful hearts that we gave to the teachers and support staff. Would like to thank Ji Wei (and Enna) for accompanying me in taking the different videos, and helping me in the persuading process. I would like to thank Shu Xuan (tho' you're not in EXCO, you are much treasured in Council), Yi Hui and Si Ian for helping out with the dance. Thanks a lot.

Thank you so much. I really hoped that I have set a high standard for next year's closure, which should be taken over by the 15th Council EXCO. ;)

Closure Madness

2006-10-20T21:30:00.000+08:00

There's this cool little thing called School Closure Day, and it is on Wednesday. Our favourite Council in charge told the Council EXCO about this wonderful and exciting event just a few days ago.

And the thing is like... a few more days away?

The basic idea is to ask everyone to thank everyone, and to share their gratitude. Like thanksgiving, only on a way bigger extent. (The bigger the extent, the more tired the council will be)

Told on Wednesday. The real thing is on next Wednesday.

Isn't that superb? We just LOVE last minute challeges. Makes us awake (literally).

Anyway I've been so focused on this supposedly easy and small project until I have been losing sleep (thus I'm awake, haha) and me getting the nice little flu virus going around, supposedly in some secondary school AVA room where I started to sneeze real badly.

Going around the whole school the whole day to get people to be recorded for Closure Day. Tiring experience, definitely, and THANKFULLY most of the people we approached are great (special special thanks go out to canteen aunties, Mdm Atun from G.O, and the security guard auntie. Thanks so much!)

Now that the day's over (thank god), the year's toughest deadline project lies in the next 2 days. I'm taking this night off to properly REST (I'm seriously sick) and be energetic for next day's "work".

Also went to Commonwealth Sec yesterday for a Cyber Wellness presentation in their AVA room (hmm, why is the phrase AVA room so familiar? Oh yeah, read above). Met Shun Jie and horror of horrors, SJ totally changed 180 degrees compared to primary school. Just like me.

Even though we went seperate ways, we were still very great friends and nothing beats seeing him on a tiring day. And yet, even as he changed, I changed as well. So now we are rather similar again.

Just like in primary school.

Awww.

Anyway, got to go and sleep soon. Must get rest! :)

The Shock

2006-10-16T21:39:00.000+08:00

First off, the shocky web-thing. I'm considering moving this Blogger database to a WordPress one. Yes, yes, you may be asking - why in the world do I love to change so much? It wasn't so long ago since I regretted using WP and went back to Blogger. Still thinking about this... but main thing is that the address won't be changed and no crap bookmarks will have to be re-bookmarked (or favorites, whatever - I prefer using Firefox terms)

Next, I receieved a shocking result for English. So shocking that I have NEVER thought of getting such a score for English overall. Of course was happy with the result. Brought a nice ending to the HORRENDOUS results I've gotten during EOYs.

After school had EXCO meeting. First half was Orientation Camp meeting with Mr Ng and Mrs Lip (also working with both for Grad Nite - gosh), and second half was just loads of talking and updating on the various different things coming up real soon. Had a nice time in the SAC discussing with the rest of the EXCO about many stuff.

READ MORE CHINESE, people. I may be considering to change my posts to all chinese so that we can practise ~~typing~~ writing Chinese and reading Chinese for the O levels in 2 weeks.

VivoCity

2006-10-15T19:04:00.000+08:00

Firstly, I'm not going to the Thailand Service Learning Trip anymore, if anyone would still be asking me. Reason is due to poor results (of course, there are many other reasons behind the decision). So yeah. Those who are going, have fun =D

So... my family and I went to VivoCity today and just spent around 2 hours there. Not that we intended to spend such a long time there (time is a subjective matter; for me, 2 hours is quite long), but the deals at Giant were too good to resist.

So we did some unexpected grocery shopping. Best thing yet: Spend $20 and get free loaf of bread. Real good deal, IMHO. Yeah. But the mall is real huge and real cool. I like those groovy curves going all around the place.

Curvy...

As I've said, it's huge, and it's also buzzing with people. ESPECIALLY the food court (oh, why wasn't that a major surprise?), which was split into the halal (Banquet) and non-halal (Kopitiam) areas.

And the Kopitiam card is a novel idea... in fact it's rather genius. Cash-free and all, and stallholders don't have to find any change. AND you get a 10% discount with the card (the blue one). But if you have a huge family, or a huge crowd or group of people, one card will not be enough (we found that out today). But it will be rather stupid to have 2 cards and waste some extra money just for convinence.

So it's a good and bad thing, if you look at it with a larger group. But then again, it will be the path to the future food court... and the future world, where there's only contactless cash cards and such.

And the haze is getting bad again. Up and down. Up and down.

Just like life.

Up and down.

Jun He's B'day

2006-10-09T19:24:00.000+08:00

Jun He's birthday today. Went to Jurong East KBox in the morning with Jun He (duh), Yi Yang and Yi Hui. Had a great fun time. So funny and excited. Saw some Sec 2 councillors at JEC having ice skating. Good to see them bonding during our school's marking day. Hehe.

After the KBox thing, which I have found out that their meals have improved tremendously (even got mango pudding!), went to Jun He's house to play Maple, Audi, and Winning Eleven (THE PENGUINS ARE SO CUTE!)

By the way, last Saturday, had Mid Autumn Festival at Nan Hua and also had a Hanyu Shui Ping thing at River Valley. Got Writing, Listening, Speaking and Reading tests. The more interesting one is the oral one. Since they can't afford to slowly have oral tests with every single person. So they are "smart", kind of.

Everybody gets a tape recorder. They play a pre-recorded tape asking the questions, and you just answer straight into the tape recorder. Simple, but it feels odd at first. Very odd. Speaking into a recorder in the presence of many people was real odd. But it was rather okay in the end.

Oh, and Mid Autumn was great.

Results back tomorrow. Sigh.

No Haze

2006-10-08T21:47:00.000+08:00

Yesterday night. PSI was 150. Now: 35. Also known as the haze just flown away from Singapore overnight. And I don't know why NEA is still insisting that the air quality is unhealthy. I feel that the air is fresh now!

Normal day... cousins came to overnight and they have made so much noise until I'm positively irritated. Shout here shout there... at least DON'T shout in the lift "I'M DROPPING I'M DROPPING!". But they just went back and our house is so quiet and peaceful.

At Jiang today, got 2 boys mistaken me as a Sec 1 kiddo. Goodness! I so boy face is it? Never mind lah, take that as compliment. :)

Marking day tomorrow.

Hazy

2006-10-07T07:50:00.000+08:00

101. That's how bad it is. Can smell the burning smell in the air.

Anyway, didnt' realise that it was Mid Autumn Festival yesterday until dinner time. Took some photos of the event. ;)

Haze

2006-10-06T18:33:00.000+08:00

Gawd, it's so hazy.

PSI of 80, can you believe it?

Highest so far this year in Singapore.

Super hazy at my area. Bleah.

Lazing

2006-10-06T10:43:00.000+08:00

Lazing around on a lazy Friday morning.

The first day after EOYs. And seriously have NOTHING to do.

Playing AuditionSEA, watching Steve Jobs keynote, worrying about Green Camp in this cool but hazy day.

Will update later if something interesting crops up.

EOY Day 6

2006-10-05T21:11:00.000+08:00

Last day of EOY.

It's over.

It's freaking over. (And thank god A Maths is not a SUPER killer)

I'm am so FREAKING over happy. Felt really great to finally have the END OF EXAMS! What's next to look out for is 'O' levels chinese AND MY FAMILY VACATION! Woohoo. I'm dying for a trip outside Singapore with my family, man. So dying to do so.

Not that I want to pangseh my dear sheeshers lah, but I miss having fun with my family during holidays. Haha. So excited and looking forward to it already.

Shortlisted for Thailand trip. I want to go but parents are kinda not willing. Never mind, don't care about that first. See how things fold out.

Wah a whole weekend lies before me. So relaxed and 'have-nothing-to-do' kind of feeling.

It's FREAKING OVER!

EOY Day 5

2006-10-04T12:36:00.000+08:00

It's Bio paper today.

Was a rather simple paper today, thankfully. Because that bloody Physics paper is really darn DARN DARN hard. Don't really like the setter of the Physics paper now, haha. (Kidding) The whole class did the paper really quite fast compared to the past papers.

Even the teacher felt very sian. Can see how relieved she was with the ending of the paper. Haha. So delighted with Bio paper, but still got some questions that I'm not very sure however.

LAST paper tomorrow! But it's going ot be toughest one of all. So not relaly looking forward to it... Sigh...

EOY Day 3

2006-10-02T15:53:00.000+08:00

Long time never update hor?

Also nothing much to update, lah, frankly. Life's been going on rather stupidly as EOY exams are ongoing. Never mind, fellas, few more days and we can play until we die (before we get our results back, that is)!

Pity this year's Primary 6 kids. Can't enjoy their last Children's Day today as it's the start of the PSLE. Why liddat? Seriously, let them enjoy their Children's Day. Donno how much I cherished my Children's Day when I was in P6.

Today's EOY is stupid. Chinese is extraordinarily hard, and E Maths was ok, albeit tedious abit. Chinese made me so freakin' angry. My good compo is now faced with a BAD Paper 2 and the results may not be so good in the end. And during E Maths, my nose kept sniffing and sniffing until I felt so uncomfortable, can?

It MUST be that haze around the school.

Dah Dah Dah

2006-09-26T21:47:00.000+08:00

Life's been hummingly going by nicely, despite EOYs in 2 days.

Which is freaking freaky as I haven't memorised the Chemical Analysis thingy. Taking a break now from studying Maths, Geog and Chem. Rah. Very worried about Chemistry. Seemed like there are a million topics on Chemistry and I only know clearly those few few things.

Everything is going swimmingly well. Vista's latest RTM build looks awesome (had no time to install AS MY COMPUTER JUST WOKE UP TODAY. HURRAY), and sheeshers had birthday celebrations today. And English teacher didn't come today. Ultimate good news.

EOYs are coming soon.

Good luck to EVERYONE! <3 :)

The Last Weekend

2006-09-24T09:52:00.000+08:00

Yep, yep.

Last weekend before the dreaded End of Year exams.

Still on my way studying, but not there yet. So a bit stressed up as I'm not studying at a good pace yet.

Sigh.

Weekends are good for relaxing and staring into blank space, but when stupid exams come, you have to study and stare into blank space.

Seriously CAN'T wait for EOYs to be over and done with.

Super shitty. But at least I wrote a nice English essay AND a touching Chinese essay for my paper 1. But I screwed up my Chem O level SPA. Many people seemed to screw up too.

Sigh.

EOY

2006-09-21T21:38:00.000+08:00

Kinda starts tomorrow.

So my blog will be one of the most boring-est of all in the WHOLE cybernet until October 5.

Good luck for your EOY!

The Bitter Road

2006-09-17T19:36:00.000+08:00

Bitter road to studying.

I am now on the road to great results. Walking, not running.

Will be tough, but at least I'm making progress.

So it feels great.

Slacky Thursday

2006-09-14T19:38:00.000+08:00

Has been a long time since there's no meeting for ITMC for such a long timeframe, and so, today was rather slacky.

But it was great. Shall focus on the things I did after school today, while forgetting the assembly talk on Planning Day, and the ever-so-fun captain's ball with my class, as well as the breakdown of Mr Chow's tablet PC.

After school, me rushed to Media Hub to join Liwen to make the powerpoint for Cyber Wellness. Something like a post-mortem, like what was done, and what could be improved on. Come to think of it, we had not done the Teachers' Day post-mortem yet. Yikes.

So, after that, JH, YY, Charmaine, Christina and me went to carry the rice from the canteen vendors to Bukit Batok Home of Aged. The rice packs were heavy, one 25kg each, but thanks to our efficient work, we carried them to Mr Chow and Ms Ong's cars quickly.

The guys sat in Mr Chowy's Toyota Wish and basically just talked crap and played Jay Chou's OLD songs which JH hated so much. The more JH hates it, the more we like. Hahaha. :p

Once we reached there, we carried the 25kg/pack rice into the home. Mr Chowy took photos of us with his Cybershot phone (Sony Erricsson k800i). After our job was done, Mr Chow dropped us at West Mall.

At West Mall, we went to Burger King to eat the student's meal and to basically talk. We talked about everything. So fun. Talked crap for more than 1 hour. Hehehe. Perfect way to waste time, something which I didn't want to do during EOY. But heck care, don't be wet blanket. It was great, anyhoo.
Went home with Charmaine after that. Then now blogging loh.

Computer spoiled again. Forever freakin like that one.

So stupid.

Wonders of Science Finals

2006-09-12T21:17:00.000+08:00

My goodness... so many people thought that I'm sick.

Today I went to Ngee Ann for Wonders of Science finals. Ya know, the one where we went for the heats and we got through (if you have been reading my posts)?

So the finals are on from 8 to 1 today and therefore I didn't attend lessons. Hahaha. How can a person like me fall sick? (Kidding. Of course, people get sick sooner or later)

The finals was much more relaxed than the heats and I was so proud of the fact that I wasn't super jittery before our presentation (thanks to Mrs Chang's lucky hands, we were the 9th out of 13 teams to present).

However, on stage, I'm like super stoned, compared to my heats presentation. Abit ironic, but at least we pushed our demo to higher standards - by putting a demo. We were rather ticked off that our presentation did not have a demo in the heats, and so... we brought Mrs Chang's sentimental large wineglass.

And so, we didn't win anything much today.

Got my best speaker award ($20 voucher), and the Merit award ($100 voucher). Other teams, like MGS who had trained speakers who got Best Speaker for Finals, got nicer prices like the top 3 and most entertaining presentation.

Got one feedback is that the most entertaining presentation is stupid. Viewers' vote. Most retarded. Why? NH did not send any supporters. MGS sent a whole bunch. Therefore MGS won most entertaining.

Not that NH should win lah, but then abit the wrong what. If I bring the whole Sec 3 cohort, means I can get most entertaining? Abit crap right?

Cut the crap lah. Haha. So after the WOS finals, me went to meet Boon Yang, Yan Wei, Funky, and Mei Ying at Queenstown to meet the rice supplier. Things went rather smoothly there and I'm proud to say that we have passed the deposit for $2500 to them! Woohoo!

So happy and relieved that Operation Rice is a success and is about to end soon.

Why?

EOY coming very soon.

Sigh.

WLM

2006-09-12T20:04:00.000+08:00

Windows Live Messenger sucks.

Literally.

It sucked away all my contacts.

What the hell.

First Day of Term 4

2006-09-11T19:48:00.000+08:00

It's the last term of the year already. Time really speeds up when you're having fun, and so far, 2006 has been a great year.

First 4 periods of today rather slacky as teachers are not here. Teachers are also rather laid back somewhat on their teaching. So nothing much happening today.

During lunch, class mass-played Captain's Ball again. Woohoo. Then Mr Chowy came and joined us for a while before pushing us back to class for his Physics lesson.

Only 2 weeks left to End Of Year. Better push on.

End of holidays

2006-09-10T22:11:00.000+08:00

Time flies.

I have been quite busy nowadays - either studying, doing homework, or at Newton MRT station.

So just break down the 7 (never enough) days...

Monday - Financial Literacy course. Some firm which is located very near my house came to our school to teach us how to save money - and plan money usage. They used their own board game - Praxis - to teach us and I felt that it was damn bloody effective. Must also thank our trainer Mr Chua (Is it Alex Chua? Forgot) for having those ever so irritating SARS and bird flu outbreaks.

In between, we had captain's ball as a class. Hey, got 2 hours of break do something as a class lah! Hahaha.

But really enjoyed it. Oh, and Monday's over just like that. As that course took up the bulk of it.

Tuesday - Environmental Champion Motivational Workshop. Yes, another green workshop. Held at the 25th floor of Environment Building - and that meant another trip to Newton and up that scary, looks-very-old lift. The talk was mostly activity-based and on how to communicate to our peers about green environmental education WITHOUT using green terms (aka we played Taboo). Also played a city planning game with my 2 team mates.

There were very few people, and the bulk of the (noise) came from the SJI Sec Ones. Wah seh, very attitude the trainers. Could see that the trainers were rather pissed off as well. The other groups of 3 were quite quiet and attentive. Yayi and Jane were also quite attentive, even though they joined the SJI table.

Surprise. Then went home with another yellow (Go Green) reusable goodie bag. And that makes four in our house.

Wednesday - Remedial from 8 to 12! Extremely freaky and tiring. But must thank Mr Nicholas Liu for letting us off slightly early. Have to rush for Council Meeting.

First time 14th EXCO planning a meeting, so was rather jumpy during Chemistry (you can ask YH for that), but guess what? It all went rather smooth. Was very delighted about the meeting. And the 13th EXCO didn't comment or anything, so it must be quite good already.

Too bad all left and didn't eat the Lay's. Haha.

Thursday - Another GREEN event. Rendimento. Guess what? It's at NEWTON, again. Yeah, Environment Building. But this one more informal. Planned by four Sec 4 students from NUSHS, HCI and NJC. Like a one day camp, but only 25 people attended this.

The day before, Yayi fell sick and didn't come. The suckiest and most nerve-wrecking part comes when Kenny told me in the morning that he couldn't make it. Then my mind told me that Jane will pangseh me as well. So I went there feeling that I will be alone. Sigh. No Nanhuarian to makan with.

And the SJI kids will be there. Horror.

You don't know how happy I was when I saw Jane walk into the level 4 conference room. Her phone kena missing and thus I could not contact her. Was so relieved, I told you. Then the rest of the 'camp' went passed great - with something like Treasure Hunt, looking for clues on stupid places which were rather obvious. Kenna pissed by a security guard who have no idea why 25 kids are running about.

After that, lots of discussion and games. After those activities, went to Novena with Jane, and 3 of the planning comm to makan my dinner and also had some Ben's and Jerry's ice cream (sponsored by Jane!). First time eating it, so quite nice. Then rushed off to Jiang Edu at Bugis for the boring 3 hour lesson.

I must give credit, however, to NEA for the delicious lunch. Super duper nice. Especially the fish (I'm still thinking of it now... Hahah). Oh, and I was rather shocked by SJI's ever-so-popular, featured-on-ST taupok group action. Yeah, stack themselves on top of each another. Thing is, only a few SJI people are there, so abit de lau kui when only 4 people are having taupok.

Also made lots of friends there, esp. from Commonwealth and Dunearn.

Friday - Botanic Gardens visit with my class! Go my class blog and see photos. Had a great time, as always, with my class. Very interesting, especially the SUPER COOL COOLHOUSE. Nicer than an air con room. Jun He goofed around, as usual.

After that we had Maths remedial (what a bummer I know) in school (obviously not in Botanic Gardens). Ms Ong ended the lesson looking at our sian looks. After Maths, we had captain's ball again, which dragged all the way from 1.30 to around 3. (Yeah, we're mad.)

At 3, finally sat down to do SS project and finished it as well. YH ordered food from McDonalds. Stupid idiot CSO (customer service officer), can't hear a crap she's talking about - speak like ang moh for what? This is Singapore leh.

Anyway, after the food, we played captains' ball from 3.45 to 5.15. By then I was having a severe headache, but was still able to walk around. Play so much - my body not suited for so long physical fun! Hahaha.

JH and YY then came my house and did the OpRice powerpoint. YY and I goofed around with my sis's tablet. Hahaha. We had fun with Windows Journal. Then accompanied the two of them to eat Five Star Chicken Rice.

Saturday - Yao Zhong goes to the same Maths tuition as me! Goodness! So shocked. It was his first lesson there, and we were doing revision, so he catch no ball. Heh.

Then we went to Pines together. Met Russ at NEWTON (3rd time in 6 days) MRT where we met Mr Ng at Pines. Was rather impressed with the quality of the ballroom. Had some great ideas for banners and all these already.

Felice should be there to start preparing the decorations, man.

Sunday - Went with my family to Orchard area to see what our gahmen has done to make Singapore more colourful. All the plants there were New Year plants - chrysanthmum and such. Look from far very colourful, look from near, some quite dead.

But Suntec area was freaking impressive. Even the floor got print "S2006 label" for those BMW cars and other dua pai cars.

ECP area was not so nice - some parts nice some parts average, like normal. But the deco is seriously too much - what will happen to the plants, esp. at Suntec, after the WB/IMF meetings? Throw away?

Sigh.

And now posting this post.

School reopens tomorrow.

Time really, really, really flies man.

September Holidays

2006-09-03T20:27:00.000+08:00

September Holidays are here already!
Lots of things to do. Whole week booked up already.

Monday: The world's most retarded Financial Course. Hmm. Maybe it's good? Dunno lah. And Council EXCO Meeting (yay!)

Tuesday: Green Seminar

Wednesday: RoboNight (not confirmed), Council Meeting (yay!)

Thursday: Green thingy again, but more informal. Jiang remedial (boring)

Friday: Sheeshers visit to Botanic Gardens! We're gonna rock the flowers, yeah! x) And SS project day.

Saturday: Grad Nite Location (The Pines) visit

The whole week's been lined up nicely for me. Hmm. Love busy-ness sometimes. Keeps you occupied.

Other things:

Asiasoft FINALLY finished the Audition patch. Yay! After 60 hours. They better get some sleep.

Vista Release Candidate 1 is released. Mainly using Vista as main OS already - it's that good. App compatiblity is not there yet, so XP is still in my HD, but for other things, Vista's really shaping up beautifully.

Boohoo. Financial stuff tomorrow. Don't know if can wear half-U? x)

Teacher's Day

2006-08-31T21:04:00.000+08:00

Tho' cher's day was rather screwed up,
I'm sure Council did their very best.
Don't be so upset,
as it's only the first project 14th EXCO handling.
Life goes on.
So only can learn from mistakes.

(I'm sure everyone from NH knew what happened, so won't elaborate)

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After every teacher's day stuff has been settled, including an enlightening talk with 13th EXCO, went to canteen to see if sheeshers still there. Can't believe it. So late already, and sheeshers still there. At that point of time had no intention to go back to BTPS as it was so late already.

They were playing hai dai, and what made my day was that YY and JH were still there (rather shocking, I know). It was raining, budden HECK CARE, went to play Captain's Ball in the rain. Too bad teachers left already. Party was rather over. But some people still stay there. OUR SHEESHERS SPIRIT ROCK.

Play until damn fun and tired. Guess who came to spoil our happiness in the game? Won't say who as it won't be nice, but we moved to the court near 198 bus stop to play abit more (we're addicted to captain's ball) and we went home.

Learnt lots of stuff today. Will be a day in 2006 to remember.

A new tablet in the house

2006-08-29T19:50:00.000+08:00

My sister got her Tablet. She's from Crescent, and it's virtually complusory to have a tablet unless you really no money until your three meals are a problem. So the tablet arrived today.

It's quite new, with the new Intel logos here and there. It uses a Intel Centrino Duo chip, which is supposed to give some good performance, but guess what? The disappointing thing is that the bloody preloaded software slows the whole PC down until it's very, very, VERY jialat.

There is one thing that caught my eye though:

No, no, it's not that Intel Centrino chip thingy, it's the WINDOWS VISTA CAPABLE proclaimation. My goodness, this "capable and recommended for Vista" thing is coming so fast. Haha. But it's really quite cool.

Before that, we went to Bt Timah Hill for a hike, which was planned by the school. It was quite fun generally, as the sheeshers went up the hill together. On the bus, very chaotic. People playing hai dai and cai quan. Hehe. Lots of laughter and crap, on bus and on hill. Go see class blog for photos. Then Gina like never go to Bt Timah Hill before and she is so scared about things dropping from the sky! She is like damn funny lo. Stella also. Love to make fun of the teachers. The BEST part is that I went home STRAIGHT from there. Just has that shiok feeling, y' know? In the end reached home at only 5.15pm.

BEFORE that, classes had the CyberWellness CD period today. Crap. Mrs Tan WS koped me and then I had to teach 311. Chaotic experience at best. But rather unforgettable.

Will be doing the mascot badges tomorrow! x)

WOS

2006-08-28T21:59:00.000+08:00

What is WOS? Who the hell would know what is WOS? To tell you the truth, I didn't know until today. Haha.

Skip the crap about those boring lesson. But I did get a nice mark of (15-1) for Geog, thanks to the lack of paragraphing. Sometimes teachers could be so crap and minus marks because they don't see nice organisation. But heck care, getting a 14 is way way too good for me. Finally I get an A1 for Cmn Test 2.

So I also ponned lesson during Chinese and SS as I had to rush tomorrow's lesson during CD. Didn't realise many teachers were not so IT-savvy and so Aaron, Liwen and I made lots of notes for the PPT slides so that the teachers would not cockup halfway.

Skip skip skip to the end of day. Had no idea about the name of the science experiment presentatoin thingy at Ngee Ann Poly. Daniel and his 3/7 group was also there. Then I had the thinking that, ok lor, go there talk crap in front of the 4 judges, then go MAKAN, and go home.

Wrong wrong wrong. I only knew what was going on once I'm in the lecture room. This wonderful thing is actually called World of Science or something like that. Instead of the 4 judges, we had to present to 4 judges + the whole crowd of around 50+ (they had to present as well). Unlucky hand of mine got us third, and the room was damn cold. Making us even more nervous. Can ask Huishan. She was so freaked out by me.

And my cold hands.

So nervous me just went up and tried to present well. My posture wasn't good, and I make some bloopers that people laughed damn hard at, and the mic was making my voice so LOOOUD. And the judge was kinda disappointed we didnt' have a real-life live experiment. I thought that affected our chances on going into the finals.

Cut the crap. Many groups did a nice presentation, and one interesting one was whether blood type determines personality. It showed that people of blood type O (me) are very extrovert and outgoing. I guess that's right. ;)

Then got makan after dunno how long in the cold cold COLD lecture room. Enjoyed the food as it was really quite good. Yeah. Then stayed for results.

Our group, which had the weakest and stupidest concept, got into the finals.

Unbelievable.

And I got best speaker award.

Even more unbelievable. But seriously, I felt that there were many speakers way better than me. Like the MGS girls. Damn confident. Think their school had trained them or something.

Guess my blooopers helped.

Vista 5536

2006-08-27T20:34:00.000+08:00

Ya lah, I know people want to read about my life. Ok loh, in today's post I shall read to you... my life as a beta tester so far for Microsoft. Yeah. Official beta tester for Microsoft, one of the companies I hate the most.

But hey, it's quite fun, seeing how Vista is getting along poorly, and suddenly, this cool 5536 pre-release candidate build just makes my day. It is just so, so, so, so much better. I am actually amazed - this is the only build that my freakingly slow computer can run quite nicely in terms of performance.

Vista 5536 - featuring Grad Nite 2006, Paint, Sidebar, Windoze Internet Explorer 7 AND a start menu that says 'Kah Swee' proudly. Vista :)

And you know what's the BEST part? Microsoft has ACTUALLY put 2 of my suggestions into reality: aka Sidebar settings icon has changed from a "tick" to something more obvious - a tool icon. AND I have asked MS to autoselect Address Bar once new tab is opened. Ironically, MS has told me that these 2 will be not be implemented on its Connect website.

For the past few days, nothing much. Went for the ecard prize presentation and got 3rd. Our school got damn lot of prizes. I will upload next time, cause Vista doesn't support my Bluetooth adapter. Yeah. Damn cool.

Tomorrow will be going to Ngee Ann for the tissue in water experiment thing. Then on Tues got the world's most retarded hike ever - to Bt Timah Hill. Hopefully they can allow me to go home straight from there AS i just live across the road from BT Hill.

Hope they have brains.

And NO playing in parade square thanks to Prelims - gawd! 3/4 can't show the sheesher spirit! Sheesh!

What's that dog?

2006-08-23T20:19:00.000+08:00

Blogger has gone mad.

Their logo has become a fugly silhouette of a dog with a party hat. It's really ugly. Blogger design disaster. And it does not immediately give any impression that something major that might have happened at Blogger. Was a stray dog found on Blogger HQ? Huh? Huh? Even Blogger Buzz has no mention about it.

Silhouette that went wrong.

Anyway, got back Bio, Physics and E Maths results. So far I have improved in those subjects which I have failed in MYE, but my Bio is always getting weaker and weaker. Better do something about it.

Crap apart, after school today, went to the Tcher's Day audition AVA room and went nuts there with the sec 2 councillors and Joyce [Chee]. Hahaha. Then went down to SAC and had a mini "Council-EXCO" chat-chat - with me, YH, Nick, Yao Zhong and Joyce. It was real enjoyable and I actually knew what the other councillors are feeling.

Nicholas has passed me his huge file for me to photocopy some important stuff. Just realised that Council Welfare not slacky at all. And the best part of the job: CLEANING UP THE SAC! Wah siao.

Then we went bored later and played Twister. Teamed up with Yao Zhong against YH and Nick. Damn funny as the stupid game put us into really obscene positions. Then Joyce, who was turning the thing, laughed like shit.

She got her payback later when her hands were taped with masking tape. Laugh lah! Haha.

Tomorrow will be PIE and Operation Rice presentation. Whoo.

Visit to Home of Aged Sick

2006-08-22T23:47:00.000+08:00

I. Am. So. Tired.

People who know me will wonder: Why would I ever post at 11+, nearing midnight, on a weekday with school tomorrow?

I'm damned bored.

Adobe Premiere Elements' weak point is its WMV rendering. It's real friggin slow at it. So. Let me post about today's exciting activities.

During school, we got back 3 subjects results. All 3 I lose to JH by 1-3 marks. Hmmph. Not fun. Hope I can win him back some subjects so as to stop his yayaness. But as usual, school is boring, and nothing too fun.

Fast forward to after school. Planned home visit to Home of Aged Sick for publicity for ~~Project~~ Operation (see what tiredness can do for you?) Rice. Tick Meng and Yi Hui can't make it. So only me, YY, JH and YW went. The time spent at the home is wwaaaaaay lesser than the time we took getting there.

Why?

Hougang. That's damn far.
StreetDirectory.com has a big bug which bluffed me the route.
We nearly got on the wrong bus.
We have no friggin' idea where the home was - and for good reason. After we found out where it was, it was in a damn ulu place.

So what? So we were damn late. Damn frustrating, man.

We walked in and out, left and right, looked there for bus stop, looked another direction for the bus which StreetDirectory.com showed me. Sia lah! In the end we were so fooking fed up that we hired a cab.

What a genius way hor?

After the visit of the home which was uneventful and so brief it was as if the receptionist didn't want to see us at all, we tried to get home.

The thing is, we have no idea where we are. We live in Clementi, not in Hougang. Goodness. So we walked until the closest bus stop which was quite far away. Walk lor. That's when I felt real grateful for the bus guides on the bus stops all around S'pore. We decided on what bus to take to bring us to Kovan MRT.

Superb eyes of mine has bluffed me that we only had to take 3 stops to reach Kovan, which in reality, is 5. Superb hor? We stopped 2 stops earlier, and we had no idea where we were. We just walked in what-we-thought-was-the-bus-route. On the way, we stopped by Mac, got McChicken, and also watched a football match (under-15 I guess) between 2 S-League football clubs.

Walked and walked. We saw many surprising things along the way.

And hold and behold, by some luck or some way, WE FOUND KOVAN MRT!

[Time check: 12midnight.]

Clever JH forgot to buy some water and then on the way back to Clementi he was damn thirsty. So YY and me purposely rubbed it in. For the sake of fun.

After reach home, me started to work on Op Rice video which is being uploaded to my server. 4 hours for a 2 min video. What a waste of time.

Freeeee Periods

2006-08-21T17:10:00.000+08:00

Yay yay yay!

One last bloody day to the end of CMN TESTS! Wahahaha. So lovin' it! I'm also quite hyped up about tomorrow's visit to the Home of Aged Sick. I'm going nuts. Hahahhaha.

So we are like damn free today. SS and Maths were all free periods = 2 hours of free periods! Wah shiok man. Chinese was okay, then I do abit faster then people start to complain liao. What's wrong with fast writing? Hahaha. x) But I'll falter in tomorrow's paper, so you all will finish faster than me tomorrow. Hehehe.

Yeah, then during PE we went to play captain's ball, as usual. Then Gina got abit upset over the 3/9 thingy. Aiyo, Gina, waste my saliva and voice to tell you it's over. Hope you will take it easy. :)

During Geog, Mr Yeo spent a great deal of time telling us about the different car brands in the world. Can tell that Mr Yeo got great passion and interest into the world of cars. Didn't know Proton was a ripoff from Mitsubishi though. Now I know. And I also know that the Chevrolet in Singapore is totally different than the Chevvy in USA.

AND I know McDonald's main income source - NOT fast food. No wonder they have to buy so many outlets lah. Yuck. I'm disgusted, but it's business what.

After Geog, Yan Wei got severe stomach cramp, so jialat until virtually can't walk. Very ke lian. YH and I helped him to sick bay, me try to cheer him up, budden he really looks in pain. :( He went home during lunch. Rest well, buddy!

After lunch is Maths free period. 3 periods - how to waste? Me, JH and YY recorded some stuff, talked some stuff and that's it. Time flies. Hahaha.

Rumour has it that Christina Liew got TOP for level. My goodness! Can't believe it. Yeah. Hope I do get a nice mark for Chem too... it has been such a long time since I got a B3 and above.

Tomorrow's Physics. I'm worried.

A new phone

2006-08-20T20:43:00.000+08:00

Yep, people!

I have a new phone!

Ok, not really.

My ever-so-trusty Nokia 6670, which I sent in for repair on 7 Aug, finally came back to me, after a 10-day delay. But the thing is... it's really not my ol' little N6670.

Why?

Lovely Nokia has changed the PC Board for me. AKA New Phone without SIM, case, MMC, keypad. Wow. It has a new IMEI even. Hahaha. Love it so much. The best part? I didn't give a single cent for it, as it was still under the 60day warranty.

So, by right, as a new phone, it shouldn't give me problems like its predecessors for 2 times (aka the 0 key problem). But this kind of things damn hard to say.

Hope to get a nice lil' phone when my contract expires in November, around my birthday. Hehe. But hope only. Must study first. Heh.

Yeah.

2 more days to the end of Common Tests.

Go nuts.

Boredness

2006-08-16T18:16:00.000+08:00

I'm super bored.

I hate Common Tests.

So yeah.

E Maths tomorrow. Hopefully my current tuition is good enough to make me pass. Long time no pass ya know?! Hahaha.

Today's tests were okay, but abit difficulty in Chem, but should do better than Chem MYE. Cause I really screwed up my MYE. Hehe.

Yeah. So I have no idea what to do. Study more E Maths? :)

Fireworks

2006-08-15T18:09:00.000+08:00

First of all, whaddahell? There's a new version of Blogger coming. Woohoo! Finally instant publishing. Finally.

No more spinner and "Publishing... 98%"

Yeah, so I made a fun fun blogger beta test at http://xpdude.blogspot.com, aka my old blogspace. It's damn friggin' easy to use, but tell those blogskin creators first. New Blogger is using a BRAND new template thing, so your current template may not be up and running for Blogger New.

Blogger New is not the official name though. Hehe.

So. On Saturday. Went to Marina area to go watch fireworks by France. Damn crowded. You wont' see this kind of crowds on National Day. Damn bloody crowded. Just like New Year Countdown. At least at the area where me and my family was stuck at. But the fireworks are great.

Below are the world's shakiest shots on earth.

(Waiting for the Blogger thing to do its stuff. Damn slow)

They were damn good.

But it was damn squeezy.

So not good.

And thanks to the ever-so-slow Blogger, I'm hungry waiting for them to upload.

So I go and eat.

(I hate Cmn tests)

Kiam Siap

2006-08-11T21:24:00.000+08:00

This post will show you how kiam siap a postal company in Singapore is.

Damn kiam siap man.

Today, Ji Wei and I asked Mr Foo about our proposal for our class s***ts. Then guess what? Mr Foo thought it was a council-initiated project. My goodness! Just because we in Council Exco, then he think it's a council project. Goodness.

Then he's out for the whole day.

Lessons are a huge bore. As usual. During the combined chem lesson with 3/4 and 3/9, JH and I sat in front. Very extra. But we loved it! Muhahahaha.

We are going to have council chalet. Oh yeah. x)

So far hor, council welfare is quite fun. Go to every councillor, ask them if they're happy, if not, make them happy.

Welfare mah! Hahaha. I know it's lame. But lame will make people laugh. Muhahahah.

Kiam siap part.

After getting our *gorgeous* letters for the beneficiaries done today, me have to go and send them. How superb.

I didn't know that this postal company in Singapore has this stamp dispenser thing. So not bad. But what was bad was how kiam siap the machine was.

Can't read? "Please insert exact amount of coins into the coin sloton the right, otherwise change will be given in labels. Maximum of 30 coins can be accepted per transaction.

Total amount payable: $0.01"

Wah. This postal company damn big one leh. Can't believe they even wanted 1 cent. Like S'pore Mint never make 1cent le ma? Retarded sia. Damn kiam siap.

Don't know how stupid I felt when I put in 10 cents and the machine hanged.

Ok lo.

I put in 20 cents. Some donation.

Then many, many, and many many many more stamps of weird amounts (like 2 cents. Sheesh) came out.

My goodness.

I feel like slapping them.

Anyway, me and Teng Teng were going to Mrs Chang's house to do the Science project. Then while Mrs Chang buys the things, I go and buy chicken rice.
Guess how much this thing costs?

$2? $2.50? $3?

NO! IT'S ONLY $1.50! WOOHOO!

By the way, Steve Ballmer's good at advertising Windows 1.0.

So my complains about the postal company is lost. *are lost.

Also saw Mrs Chang's kids. DAMN cute. I think they like me. Muahhahah. I'm so likable. ;)

And goodness me, I didn't know that MOE actually has a childcare centre. That's like, so cool? I'm rather amazed about it. A childcare centre in MOE HEADQUARTERS! This world is getting really fantastic.

Who knows? Next time the childcare may go to secondary schools. Wah. Hell will break loose sia.

"Eh, want to go home?"
"Dun wan lah, I want to go see little baby from childcare centre"
"Crazy ar, pedophile ar?"
"They cute mah! YOU GO HOME YOURSELF lah. Don't friend you. Don't love children. Whatever lorh!"

As if that's going to happen.

Nokia

2006-08-10T16:12:00.000+08:00

I so miss my 6670.

Supposed to get it back today.

But thanks to Nokia, and their ever-so-efficient-repair-team-which-is-so-damn-patriotic-and-took-a-break-yesterday (to watch Nan Hua's superb performance), I can't get my phone back today.

Sigh.

Our Nation of Hopes and Dreams

2006-08-09T20:53:00.000+08:00

Well done, Sec 1s, Sec 2s and Sec 3 dancers.

Me saw some of my friends on teevee. Wahahahaha. But a real stunning performance. Seriously. Well done.

Happy National Day

2006-08-09T10:16:00.000+08:00

Happy National Day to Singapore! :)

For the rest of us, study hard. And then harder.

More importantly, good luck to all Sec 1s, 2s and Sec 3 dancers for their performance at NDP later! Woohoo! Our City of Hopes and Dreams...

Must catch Nan Hua's performance ar! x)

ND Celebrations

2006-08-08T20:46:00.000+08:00

Woohoo!

Wore red to school today, although my adidas tee abit the big (it's my dad's one) but at least I wore red! Yay!

So we had the ND celebrations in our school today. Was on camera duty. Also knew who's in the Council EXCO already. But I don't wanna spoil the surprise for those non-council and those who haven't known. You'll know on Friday who the EXCO will be. And no, I'm not vice-pres. Hahaha.

After the ND celebrations, which the crowd liked, I supposed, me and others went to meet Mrs Wong for CIP. Wah, the whole thing damn tight. I just wanna get CIP over and done with! Arghhh!

After that went to Central to look for Junhe. He eating with Dixon. Also met Chu Harn and Chunkiat. Hahaha. They left 2 pieces of orange for me. So sweet.

Went to Dix's house to play some basketball for the sake of playing, and then went to Queensway with JH to survey survey prices for our class s***ts. Yeah. Got prices liao. So what's left is the approval part. Which wont' be easy.

Sigh sigh.

Tomorrow's National Day!

I <3 My Island Home~~~!

Swimming!

2006-08-06T21:18:00.000+08:00

Actually this post meant for yesterday, but too lazy to update. Yeah.

Now I'm getting rid of my laziness to post!

Firstly, thanks for the nice nice remarks about the logo. Really appreciate it. :)

So. On Saturday, went tuition as usual. But at least I was rather awake. And Ms Ong kept saying that A Maths Trigo is confusing. (Si Aun tone)Please loh! My tuition teacher never confuse me leh!(end Si Aun tone)

After my tuition, went swimming at the new Ngee Ann Alumni pool. Very pathetic size. Really damn small. But what I do like about the place is that it's very quiet, not crowded at all (YAY!), and it has a real, real, really nice view.

Shall take a photo one day and post it here.

After that went to Jin Tai Primary to have a National Day dinner with school. Then Yayi and I were like so mad. Could tell that Ms (Joy) Koh and Mrs (Serene) Lew were freaked out by us.

"They are drunk, man, drunk by orange juice!" - comment by Ms Koh. So you can tell how crazy we were. But the thing was great, food was not bad.

But one shocker was that for one of the courses, they served achar, the spicy thing in Malay food? Or sometimes can see in Chicken Rice? My goodness, I was like extremely |||-.- when I saw that dish.

Seriously. Haha.

And we wore school uniform. FULL School U. We damn striking. Only white on white. Even the MP not white on white. Hahahaha.

Grad Nite Logo! New!

2006-08-04T21:39:00.000+08:00

Bonus for those who visit my blog.

Muahahha.

The new grad nite (should be final, final, no more changes) logo unleashed:

Those who like the old one better, sorry lah, the person remove the font from the website. So too bad. But this font nicer hor? Hahaha.

More hip-hoppish too.

Oh yeah, grad nite this year should be centered around hiphop. No guarantees. But dress code is still Freestyle, but we recommend you wear Hip Hop.

No guarantees lah, but of course, logo should be good to go. Unless shoot down by our favourite educator with a surname Ng.

Rice!

2006-08-04T20:35:00.000+08:00

Yay. I <3 Operation Rice 2006! Woohoo!

It's so damn great, I tell you. It's finally moving on at a comfortable rate. We have a really, really, great supplier, and we have our beneficiaries list! Oh my goodness. Letter should be out soon... and then common tests. Bummer.

After common tests, go and take photos, take orders, take money, order from rice supplier uncle (he is damn humourous and friendly, man), deliever to homes, hand-over ceremony, home visit, then DONE!

Woohoo!

How amazing is that! I just love this year's operation rice. It's gonna be a blast, I tell you.

So today, me, Melissa, BY, and Yan Wei went to Redhill to look for that rice supplier. Very bian pi place, thank goodness for Mei Ying! Hahahaha. It's great though. The rice supplier didn't look down on us because we were students. He was also really great and generous. His prices are rather shiok! Hahaha.

After the visit, we went to KFC and I ate damn lot. Don't know why, for this whole week, me have been craving for food, food, and more food.

Dunno why. Then Boon Yang was like making calls in a damn angmoh tone. It's so damn funny. Melissa and I kept laughing and laughing. Wahahahahha. YW went home by the way. Then it was my turn to make the calls. Then they laughed louder.

Hahaha.

Yeah.

Tomorrow maybe going for Physix remedial AND a national day dinner! Yay!

Feeling contented with life

2006-08-03T20:52:00.000+08:00

Should one be contented with life?

Yes.

Definitely.

Why? Because you have the chance to be alive. Make the full use of it.

Why waste your time complaining to some station DJ and say that "Oh my goodness my life shucks, I have this thing, I have this that relationship problem!" And then they waste their money and dedicate a song.

Not that I hate this kind of behaviour, but seriously, don't you think you have more things to do than to complain, complain, complain all day? Some complain is okay, it's a form of relaxation or destress, but don't keep doing it. People will get sick of your complaining.

So live life. Everyone will say "Live life to the fullest". So what if you have lived life to the fullest, keeping yourself super occupied? What really matters that is that you are happy and contented about the time you have.

That, in my personal opinion, is the most beautiful thing one could ever have.

Sec 1 Interview Day 3

2006-08-02T20:23:00.000+08:00

Today was really great.

All of the interviewees did great. Really. Well done, all interviewees! Hahaha.

Nothing much on today.

Only funny thing about today was during Maths. Ms Ong, who happened to be, under foreseen cirumstances, taking us for remedial. We didn't know that. Then Mr Liu came in and told us that due to unforeseen cirucumstances, Chem test postponed to tomorrow.

Then Ms Ong came and then gave us a bow.

IMAGINE MS ONG GIVING US A BOW.

It was damn funny.

Really.

Just imagine Ms Ong giving us those act cute bow.

Muhahah. It made my day.

Mama Card

2006-08-01T20:03:00.000+08:00

Nothing much on today.

After petrolling downstairs for the teacher's day card making and poster making, I went back to class and check check on our class's progress with the card. Was rather amazed about it. Yeah. Mama, Erica and you getting one whole piece of paper leh! Other teachers get portions according to our standards. Highly confidential. :)

See mama, how much we love you!

Oh yeah, and another trip to Mrs Tan's house is possible... but if I'm not wrong, after Cmn tests. Yeah lah, study first mah :)

After lessons today, went to have Sec 1 council interview at Ideation Room. Must say that I'm quite impressed by today's standard, compared to yesterday's one. Maybe it's the aircon... haha.
Hope to see some great Sec 1s interviewing tomorrow. Good luck to those kena interview tomorrow. You may see me. I won't kill you though. I'm good and nice! Haha.

Off to file Chinese file, do some Bio and study for tomorrow's Chem test.

Sec 1 Interview Day 1

2006-07-31T21:05:00.000+08:00

Whoo. Today after school is the sec one council interview. Was rather excited about it, and when the real thing came, it wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be. So far today's performance left nothing much to be desired, except for some candidates. Some even say "I come here because kena sarbo". My goodness! Fancy that coming out of your mouth.

This year's Sec Ones ar... *sigh*

Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

After interview, went to Mrs Lim LS to do the Racial Harmony feedback form, and also show her the blogging presentation. Hopefully she was amazed at what blogs can do. Yeah.

Very stressed up over cyber wellness and CIP at the moment. Cyber wellness - had to redo the website as there's green. CIP - very slow moving. Very scary. Haha.

Magic of contacts

2006-07-30T17:08:00.000+08:00

Now we know.

How contacts can make one's eyes go so much bigger.

Like sooooooooooome teaaaaaaacher.

Wonder if contacts make people drag their voices as weeeeeeeeelllll?

Mama's back

2006-07-28T21:41:00.000+08:00

I think all the sheeshers have been waiting for this day in anticipation. Mrs Tan will be back! Although only for one month, at least it's better than nothing!

Today was Mr Liu's birthday! If only we'd known! Grrr... otherwise he could have joined us in the bday celebrations today! Photos at the uniquely sheeshy class blog. Wah, I tell you, whole canteen can hear the loud cheers we gave Mrs Tan when she arrived downstairs. We are really relieved that she's back. Sheeshers know why.

Mrs Wong came down too. Actually, truth be told, I feel that Mrs Wong is a great form teacher. She obviously cares for the class AND she really, really cares for the class CIP project. Yeah. :) Sheeshers should start accepting Mrs Wong... she's really great. That neat trend is over. She never say anymore. Now it's initiative, low EQ, $300 mass balance and this is not a dumping ground.

Didn't you realise our dear teeeeeeeeacher said the initiative word today during one of our lessons? She loves that word. So do we.

After school, we went to Mrs Tan's house. Those who went (those that I remember, may not be full list) are:

Yi Yang
Yan Wei
Yi Hui
Me
Wanyu
Wanqing
Josephine
Li Feng
Clarissa
Da Jie
Hui Wen
Si Hui
Lixuan
Charmaine
Shu Ning
Ji Wei
Sally
Hui Ting
Stella
Gina
Christina
Jocelyn
Yi En
Ivy Tan
Xiu Ying

Me initially got abit bu hao yi si lah, because got so many people [25+1(Mrs Tan) in one HDB flat. Go figure] going at one time. But show the sheeshers' spirit!

And that's only one-third of those going.

Hope Mrs Tan didn't mind!

At her house, we chatted, played with the really, really, really cute baby that we kinda watched from conception to delievery (during school time, we saw the belly from small to big!). She's so, so, so, so, so, cute.

The closeup (which I took) says it all.

One of my best closeups ever!

Babies are really so cute.

I LOVE BABIES. Maybe I'll retract that statement when my own cries during midnight, or needs a nappy change, but wait until I get my child mah! I LOVE BABIES!

When it was my turn to carry the baby, I was so scared Erica (baby's name) will cry. Thank goodness she didn't. She didn't cry! She's so cute. Then my hand started to ma bi. If pillows have a voice, now I know how they feel. :P

After the baby's tired and needed some water and rest (got alot of people!), we went to gossip for around an hour in her house. Mrs Tan also joined in. We talked alot of topics, so many until virtually uncountable.

At 5, we left Mrs Tan's house. Mama and baby need rest.

The whole crowd went seperate ways. Some of us (really forgot who) went to KFC to makan abit. The girls abit the shocked that I eat the large mashed potato. IT'S NICE WHAT! :x

Took 184 with Charmaine and Hui Ting and chatted on the way. Really need company for the ride. Or else 100% confirm fall asleep. The mysterious air-con of SMRT Buses can do things to you.

It's the weekends. Time to hit the books or notes already.

CIP moving along...

2006-07-27T20:22:00.000+08:00

It's Thursday.

Today was quite okay. During chem today, Mr Nicholas Liu told us how much he tried to take the lab sessions from soooooome---aaaaarther----teeeaaacher, so he spent some time taking about it. His analogy is really amazing. "Other people care about the electronic scale balance, I care about your burns and blisters." Isn't that just sweet? And he also told us how much our new Bio teacher adores us... Actually, it's very very obvious. When she first walked in the class, she don't know how cold to our class, but now, the difference is real obvious. Awww, now our new Chemistry and Bio teachers are adoring us, just like the old Chem and Bio (MAMABIO!) teachers. Hehe.

During PE, we played volleyball as usual. Budden after the volleyball, our group of 11 still continued to play. Don't care. Then we changed to captain's ball. Quite fun. Hehehe. :) Played until end of recess. Then kinda regretted it, cause I was hungry until lunch.

During maths, still quite hohum lah. Then during Assembly, which was cancelled, thhhhhheeeee-aaaaaarrtther--teeeeeeeacccher came in and took us. Thank god Mrs Wong wanted to see me, Boon Yang, Yi Hui, Yan Wei and Melissa for the CIP thing, which was changed to Project Rice.

Then I was a lil' worried. Because BY and her group of people abit like bu shuang about the change of plans. Really quite relieved when they actually co operated!

And we did cover some ground, talking and making some progress. After lunch today we have da gai finalised some abstract plan. Will be busy planning this project, but at least it's looking up.

During Physix, me didn't bring green book so had to join CHOWy's group and kenna shunned by JH and YY. (in Si Aun's tone) WHATEVER LORH! (end Si Aun's tone) English teacher never come, so CHOWy relief.

After school got ITMC, after doing nothing but reading Blogger's editorials, me went downstairs with Liwen to walk walk. Kena approached by Boon Yang, ask me want to take photos for NCC (Girls) group photo. I say yes, anyway upstairs also nothing to do.

Take take liao, dunno delay how long. Nick Tan very pek chek with me... haha, too bad. :p And their fun shot also not very fun. Like stone de. Our class photo more fun! SHEESH! Although got two relatively unknnnnnnnnnnnnnnnown teachers, which really spoiled the mood.

After taking and looking a look around, me went up, back to Lab 3. Things more lively now. Mrs Chiang did not approve of the cyber wellness web! Because of the colour. So have to make changes to the colour scheme. Won't look as nice, that's for sure. Too bad loh.

Tomorrow's FRIDAY.

MAMA'S COMING BACK!

5 hours

2006-07-26T16:50:00.000+08:00

And that's how long we had our lessons without a proper break.

Damn idiotic leh.

After recess we had Maths. Great to hear that Ms Ong will be teaching us for the rest of the term, as the other teacher had to relief for another teacher. Yayness. Then I almost fell asleep. Don't know why, this' the first time Maths made me feel so damn bored.

Then we had Bio lab session. SPA. Burn peanut. Then the whole lab become real stinky. What's the worst part? The bloody safety goggles. It's so damn tight until your ears area become painful. Want to take out? Can. Barely pass your SPA loh.

After that we had Time Practice for SS. Do until can die. Quite difficult. Forgot to mention about tone and purpose. So die loh. Sigh. Hope me can do better for next SS test.

Dismiss liao? Wait long. LBK walked in with Chinese HOD and some other guy. Try to engage the sheeshers. But I must say, he did a nice job compared to other lessons. At least more interactive. Otherwise Chinese really can sleep.

THEN, we still had to go for Chem practical. Wah lao, after the magnesium burning then we got a break. Oh yeah, and Tracy damn scared of the magnesium thing. Aiyo, got safety goggles liao, so when you kena burn, confirm won't blind you de! Scared what? Scared your eyes kena burn then as big as someone else ar? Haha.

Big eyes remind me of the podcast. Yay.

Slack

2006-07-25T18:31:00.000+08:00

Finally some slack in 2 months.

Yeah, people! I'm slacking!

I promise that I will study later. But now, let me blog. Yay. I'm blogging for your entertainment, ya know? Haha, kidding.

First off, YH's blog kenna spammed damn lot. Aiya can't do anything much for him also, only can say "good luck have fun". Since got so many people dislike him. So yeah. Good luck have fun. Any help can ask me, but I doubt I can help much. Cause it's your problem (as in, the whole problem is with you). Yeah. So, good luck have fun.

Recorded podcast episode 5 during lunch today. That JH loh, love to do Chinese homework so much until delay in recording. Whatever. (saying in JH tone) Hahaha. Still waiting for him to send the files for editing. Rah. But it'll be short this time. No more 14 minutes. :)

Lessons were rather rapid today. Enjoying the whole day today, except Bio. Can see everybody dozing off. Most slack is English, with all the presentations. But now all the presentations have been presented. So no more slacky English.

And for Chemistry, we are using Problem Based Learning to learn the new topic. To me, it sounds like teacher lazy to teach. Dunno leh. See how. Hopefully it'll be useful, because ever since Mr Nicholas Liu start to teach us, my results for Chem quite good leh. At least better compared to the time when Princess was teaching. Of course lah, not as funny but results more important.

I just cut my hair. I look funny.

Common Tests 2

2006-07-24T17:33:00.000+08:00

Coming soon.

Better not slack.

Ok.

Besides taking announcements for the first time today, there's nothing much. Oh yah, and Mr Chia YL taught us Maths. Shocking.

Ok.

Better not slack.

As Common Tests 2 are coming soon.

Racial Harmony - The Finish Point

2006-07-22T17:22:00.000+08:00

Racial. Harmony. was. really. really. great.

We woke up damn early today as we were required to. Although the Guest-of-Honour missed our booth, we still got quite a number of attention, despite some distractions all around us. It really was a good day for us.

I won't talk more, but the whole thing turned out to be really great, so yeah. Took hundreds of photos, but will only show the 2 or 3 that I feel is nice here.

And to those people who think that I'm upset because I luo xuan le, I'm not upset... just a bit disappointed. But at this point I'm okay with it already.

Ok, so now the photos.

2 Chinese girls helping a fellow malay girl. Racial harmony!

My favourite photo which I've taken today. One Malay and one Indian girl having fun with a mock dragon dance.
These little SIA girls really, really, really damn cute! They are also not camera shy. So even better.
And it all ends with smiles all over. :)
And not forgetting the colourful ExCEL Day windmills. How to relate the windmills to racial harmony? Don't worry. I can handle that question ;)

That's it!

I'll do my homework tonight, take a break tomorrow and continue my now-slightly-relaxed-when-compared-to-this-week life.

Racial Harmony - To The Finish Point Day 3

2006-07-21T20:43:00.000+08:00

First off, me not president. Good for Yi Hui! So life goes on. Quite okay about it. At least got 3rd in number behind Si Ian. But Lynette's blog post cheered me so, so, so damn much!

Assembly was FUNNAYE. Cause Kahswee and Nick went up to dance! But some teacher spoiled the mood by scolding the protem members saying that they were not taking the initiative -.- Shuttarp la. Then was Amath. Studied a little of chem and taught Michelle abit. Then I fell asleep O_O

Anw, Kahswee kept saying "NETTErocks" :D:D:D So I replied him with "Kahswee rocks." Yeaman, we rock. x) Kahswee WILL be president! Hahaha, I hope. x) My little kahchua. Join the COCKROACH fanclub! Now there's only like Michelle and me? HAHAHA. There'll be more! The whole council! xD

from http://--lynette.blogspot.com

This post was posted... yesterday. Then today the results kena known. Ah well. The 2nd paragraph really cheered me up. Thanks, nette!

Moving along. Yah. Racial Harmony. Day 3.

During recess, PRESIDENT, me, nette[ROCKS], Teng Teng[can rock harder], Ji Wei [who also rocks], Michelle [literally rocks] (fine i'll stop with the rocking thing) went to G.O to finish up cutting the slides and laminating the stuff. Had a nice time there.

During lunch, JH and me went down early (oh yah, thanks to INITATIVE, we didn't have any practical) to makan roti prata (special food for Racial Harmony!), budden out of stock. REQUEST to newly-elected president: Ask them prepare more lah!

Then we went all the way to Innova JC. Long story. Michelle and Nick know the behind-the-scenes story. All about falling down with the BIG ExCEL Fest sign, passing on the windmills, Mdm Sung, AND Mr Phua helping me up with that bloody fall. (Very diu lian leh). Not forgetting a really angry bus driver.

Really long story about that fall. You don't wanna know (just like that assembly thing yesterday).

So went to Innova JC (love it so much!), set up the thing in >3 hours. Really long. Long until cannot long. Very tired. But in the end we did it! The Steps to HARMONY game was really awesome. After rolls and rolls of masking tape, here it is... a sneak preview!

Woohoo! Mrs Lim LS, Mrs Chiang, Mr Raymond Ya, Nick, Michelle and I rock! Ji Wei also!

The snakes and ladders haven't do yet, but at least the framework is sturdy and done!

Feeling quite relieved now, seriously. As 2 of the many many projects I have can be considered over: Council Election [ah well, whatever], and Racial Harmony [the fastest-paced project ever. the whole thing in 1 week!].

And I shall write this... as I kinda promised to do.

Life goes on.

Racial Harmony - To The Finish Point Day 2

2006-07-20T21:20:00.000+08:00

Even more jialat than yesterday. Extremely tired.

Today was the day when the Council voted for their 14th SC President. Oh yeah, we will be knowing the results like... tomorrow?! So fast! But also good lah, get it over and done with.

Just read someone's blog (won't say who) who claimed that Yao Zhong actually still wore a PE tee after recess (which was a bad example for that someone). Hmmm... *raises eyebrows*

Did whole lot of stuff today. Laminated the floor tiles - damn, it's so cool. No electricity, no heat, nothing. Just some filmsy lamination that is damn instant and fast... and cheap too. After that, Ji Wei and I went to get our Guzheng costumes (we're not from Guzheng... only lending for the Racial Harmony).

Yeah.

After school, I marked ITMC's attendance for the first time! (Must take into consideration: The more important people away on summer camp. Ok, enough justification) Did make some mistakes (I didn't have a ruler - that's my excuse AND I'm sticking by that excuse) though. After attendance taking, listened to the White Wall project presentation and truth be told, they're really quite good. Just take away the script and they'll pull it off. (As in, be so confident till they don't need any script)

After ITMC, Mrs Chiang and I tried to print some stuff with that really expensive printer in the Printing Room. Even got A1 size! I have never ever heard of that size till today. And it's huge.

Experimented with the software for several times before I was kicked out by Ms Ban in fear of any test paper leak. But at least the thing was done nicely.

Then met up with Mrs Lim LS and the other team members + Yi Hui (at this rate, YH has changed from just a stick-around to a full fledged member) EXCEPT Nick. (Oh yeah, I want to kill Nick for sarbo-ing me up to the blardy stage today)

Discussed with Mdm Sung (OMG she still remembered my name from the previous SMC meeting) and then Mr Phua said hi to me (EVEN OMG He actually knew my name from the previous SMC meeting!!!!). In fact, when Mr Phua said hi to me I was really speechless... didn't know what to say (and that's very lau kui).

After deciding to use the ExCEL Fest fans in our booth and testin' them out, I had to rush to my tuition (which coincided with my Racial Harmony actual event this Saturday). Was late around 30 minutes (but my mum told the teacher). Dunno how damn tired I was. After that first half, Jonathan came in, and then we went to Mac to eat (god, I didn't eat lunch or recess or whatsoever from 7am to 7.30pm). Then met 3 ex-schoolmates (primary school) in the tuition. Yeah. Really forgot them, except for one.

Oh well. Tomorrow's the day.

Dunno if I will kena or not.

IF got, I guess my secondary school life would be changed dramatically. If not, life goes on.

Racial Harmony - To The Finish Point Day 1

2006-07-19T20:30:00.000+08:00

These few days I should be really damn focused on the Racial Harmony exhibition at Innova JC this Saturday. It's only 3 more days to the actual event... and 2 more days to the day when we have to set up the booth.

Very last minute work, very, very, very rush.

During Reading Period today, all the teachers went to the Conference Room to listen to our ever-so-impromptu speeches for them to make their vote for the 14th SC President. So impromptu, we're practically told to prepare a speech 5 minutes before the whole thing.

After school today, I went to Media Hub to do some stuff and contribute somewhat to the new Nan Hua High website. However, there is some problem with the animation and I have to redo tomorrow. Ah well. Golly golly golly.

After that one hour of work (which made me really stressed up at some mistakes that I shouldn't have done), I rushed to The Two Blue Sofas @ HOD Room (tm) to rush the Racial Harmony thing.

And what huge progress we've made! We have finished every single tile for our Steps To Harmony game (aka Snakes and Ladders) and now ready for lamination tomorrow (supposed to be today, but damn rushed). We have also done the dice and we have also made arrangements for our special ethnic costume (Thank YOU Guzheng!). What is left is the selection and printing of slides. Thanks a million to Yi Hui for helping or else we would have never reached what we have done today. Thanks!

When we were about to leave, the Summer Camp (FAKE) campfire is about to start. Yeah, it's FAKE. So no biggie. And it's in the parade square. Very small campfire.

And it's bloody fake.

Very depressed over class CIP project. Rice or car? Car or rice? Very sigh sigh sigh.

14th Student Council President Election

2006-07-18T17:32:00.000+08:00

Rah.

This day dunno delay how many times liao. But I'm so damn glad it's really over.

The first Council President Election (for the 14th Student Council) happened today, where the Protem members made a short 'rally' speech (if you would think that way) and then the pupils will vote for their desired president. Now it seems that popularity would count more, as the results will be more important and significant on the student population side (60% of results will be on students)

I was third in row, and I felt that everybody did a good job. Me I'm okay, but I was quite nervous I guess. Hopefully I can be next President, but that's only a hope. Still got long way to go. Ah well.

At least today got a day in 2 weeks where I can come back to school slightly earlier. Other days all do project. Project until die ar! I like projects though.

Now busy rushing off the Racial Harmony thing. My blardy computer really spoiled liao. Reformat le still got "virus". Donno if it's a Trojan. Sigh.

Give me my computer back!

A break

2006-07-15T22:26:00.000+08:00

Finally.

One day with a *BREAK*. This week has been really really tiring for me and I have been lookin' forward to this day like hell. Extremely happy and slept extremely late today... until 8.30am. For some of you, that's early, but for me, if you take into account the time which I wake up normally during the holidays (which is 7am sharp), AND the time which I slept at yesterday night, it's real late.

Went for the Maths tuition and learnt the Binomial Theorem. Initally I didn't understand anything, but after 2 sums, I found it to be rather interesting and straightforward. One big shock once I reached home was the removal of the cow grass from my house.

I would have never thought of growing carpet grass in my home since I was around 2 or 3. It's going to be back! Woohoo! (Actually also no biggie lah)

Work in progress.

Really finally getting to use the computer today and I feel so damned relaxed and happy. As in relieved-from-any-stress type of happy. One thing to celebrate about is the final completion of the Nan Hua Experience video! Woohoo! Oh yeah, and I have learnt some simple editing tips using Adobe Premiere Pro in like 10 mins thanks to this damn project. Which is still a long way till completion (the whole experience, not only the video)

One good thing, too, is that the school is finally, finally, FINALLY, getting an iMac! Yayness. Finally some decent computer to edit video on.

Better cherish today and tomorrow before the stress kicks in this Monday. (But stress is fun)

Rea! Talk recording

2006-07-14T20:19:00.000+08:00

On Wednesday, some NHrians and I went to Toa Payoh HDB Hub to join in the recording of the Rea! Talk show thing. I never watched the show before, so I have no friggin' idea of what's going to happen, except of course, that Diana Ser would be there.

It was really quite special, with quite a number of special guests, like Mr Colin Goh, Kit Chan, Dolly from Under One Roof (or is it Phua Chu Kang? Hmmm....) and some other people. Quite interesting.

The topic was about Singaporean Identity and it was really quite fun to watch how the panelists talk their way out to prove their points. Of course lah, I sat on the aisle so camera confirm kena me de. Or is it me confirm kena camera?

After the shoot which delayed so, so, long, I got a chance to take a picture with Diana Ser with Daphne and her friend. :)

GRIN

2006-07-11T21:52:00.000+08:00

Project GRIN... coming to a bin near you (at Nan Hua).

Oh yeah, provided can pass through all the red tape. And more red tape.

Then see if it will come true. :)

(It's a green project)

NDP Family Day

2006-07-09T16:13:00.000+08:00

Now posting this post using Microsoft Word 2007. Wah, quite cool. It actually supports BLOGGER! You know… it’s Google. And you did thought that Microsoft not very happy with Google. And now MS supports Google’s Blogger in Word! Amazing!

Went to watch NDP yesterday with friends (Cas and Teng Teng). Loved it. Went very crazy and I think Teng’s family got freaked out by me. Cas’s mum also. But who cares? Haha.

Off to do English project liao. :)

Busy until can cry

2006-07-07T19:53:00.000+08:00

How do I feel right now?

Very, very, very stressed and upset. I got so many things going on... let me state those things I'm involved in as of... now!

Nan Hua Grad Nite 2006 "Breakaway" [my most enthu-ed project now! Whoo!]
Yeah! Council
304 CIP project
Chiron's Special Media Club (aka The Nan Hua Experience. More later)
Racial Harmony @ Innova JC
Green stuff... all things green
SMC presentation on IT every Wednesday (regularly)
Homework. Loads of them
Green, council, some english interview. May appear on the CNA Get Rea! show. May.
Council Protem - the president thing. Yeah. The orbituaries.

See lah? How stressed am I?

The worst, and most Stressful-listic project is the Chiron's Special Media Club. What is it about?

4 weeks. Have to produce MAJOR Nan Hua publicity material. MAJOR. Including...

A 2 minute video of a day in Nan Hua. Due next Thursday. EVERYTHING.
A website called The Nan Hua Experience. Obviously, must do in 1 week
Flash thing. Should be a virtual tour. 1 week
Something like a audio podcast I guess. 1 week.

Like what the hell? Of course, if me and my other 2 teammates are free on everyday of course I will do finish. My next week packed 100% liao.

Sunday - Take Pines video for Grad nite
Monday - Council and English interview, and after that try to do video
Tuesday - Green Interview. Until 4 I think. After that try to do video
Wednesday - If kena selected, go to Toa Payoh and record the Get Rea! show.
Thursday - Let's see. Oh right. DEADLINE.

How? How? How? Not forgetting the other 7 stuff I am actively involved in! Including the ever-so-pressing helping-Singapore Children Society-CIP thing! WAH!

Anyway, enough complaining.

Today is MOE Excel Fest at our school (day 1). Yeah. Usher people, blah, blah, blah. Eat nice food, be Mr Ng's runner, blah, blah, blah.

Oh yeah. I SAW SHUN JIE! OH MY GOD! I was so damn excited when I saw him. He changed alot since primary school... more outgoing and outspoken. Just like me. Hah!

And he's in his school council EXCO. Whoo!

Yeah, and the poster I did for Commonwealth Secondary was THERE! YES!

Really didn't expect to see my poster there. Also didn't see SJ so obvious. His location damn corner so didn't see him. Very happy, just talked about some stuff (he's in his council EXCO!) and also got the CSS SC president contact. Just in case got any council exchange thing. :)

After that had a huge break at Council Room. Played Taboo. Had a hugely explosively damn fun time with Taboo. Really. Really felt damn happy.
Going to school after tuition to take the vid camera for A Day in Nan Hua video.

And also help the pathetic Lynette fill in some duty.

Sigh.

O Level Oral

2006-07-05T18:34:00.000+08:00

Yikes.

Not waiting for this day.

Cause it's so scary.

'O' levels leh!

So the two teachers were quite scary and the topic was scary too. Sigh.

Sigh some more. But I'm sure I didn't do too badly.

One thing that made my day was that the SMC meeting was canned today so I don't have to present IT stuff for them. Yet.

Tomorrow is Chem Test. Many people say damn hard. Good luck lor.

Newton Food Centre

2006-07-02T20:06:00.000+08:00

Went to Newton Food Centre after Chinese tuition today to eat something for afternoon tea break. Wah, didn't know that just opened from upgrading.

Of course lah, with upgrading, the rent goes up and food prices goes up. A plate of hokkien mee costs $3, and a cup of sugarcane costs $1.50! SO DAMN EXPENSIVE!

This place surely for tourists one. They don't feel any heartbreak as of course, they on vacation mah.

Also can't find our favourite desert stall. Seemed that only got 2 or 3 stalls selling desert only. Yeah.

But surroundings quite nice lah, quite clean and so forth.

But food still very expensive leh. Don't upgrade can what! Then also very unique, got the difference in floor level what.

That's UNIQUELY Singapore what.

SYF Opening Ceremony!

2006-07-01T21:45:00.000+08:00

Thanks to Evelyn, my family and I went to the National Stadium (and probably the last time in it forever, as it is going to be torn down very soon) and watched the SYF Opening Ceremony. I enjoyed it alot.

The front part reminded me about NDP... very similar. All the contingents and whatsoever thingies very familiar. A good point about our location was that I was close to one of those big big exits. So sometimes can catch the people exiting up close, albeit from top down.

Yeah.

I enjoyed NH's performance alot. Quite flashy (literally) and exciting. The music is a giveaway that the same performance item will be used for NDP - "One People One Nation One Singapore". But it could be better. Still, there's almost 2 more months till NDP. So there's plenty of time to practise and improve. Jia you!

Following are some of the 100+ photos I have took during the SYF Opening Ceremony.

As you can see, PM Lee looked straight into my camera! Whoo!
Gregory and Zhi Yi knew that I was up there! Whoo!
Grad finale! Whoo!

Busy!

2006-06-30T21:03:00.000+08:00

Very busy for past few days.

Let's see.

Kena sarbo-ed by Mr Aurelius Yeo and Mr Adrian Tan to present to the school's School Advisory Committee on a regular basis on the latest goings-on in technology and IT. 14-year-old boy "training" 60,70 year old people. Seriously.
Grad Nite Meeting! Finally had a proper meeting... and we settled lots of stuff. Yeah, like the tagline (OMG I LOVE IT SO MUCH!) and the me-designed logo (LOVE IT TOO!). For the Sec 4s visiting this blog, not to be a spoiler... so no revealing of the tagline and logo here. But lots of things confirmed. That's good. Thanks to Yao Zhong, Yi Hui, Russ and Felice!
CIP! Very rush! Got a whole bunch of deadlines which are damned tight. Let's get the CIP done and over with to show our 5t3pMAMA.
MOE ExCEL Fest: Don't know when to help Mr Chia with his presentation. But now I also very confused. Go and help ITMC or help Mr Chia!? Sigh.

Ok lah, not a lot. But then me not very good time organiser, so very tired liao.

GERMANY VS ARGENTINA LATER! GERMANY WILL WIN! :D

Going SYF with family tomorrow. Thanks Evelyn for tix! :)

Meetin' the new teachers

2006-06-27T19:23:00.000+08:00

So all the new teachers came and intro-ed themselves to us.

Yeah.

Character Development - Mrs Wong and Ms Lim intro-ed themselves to us and through that intro we've realised how Mrs Wong is a neat-freak. I mean it. Everything must neat neat swee swee one.

No neat, no talk.

So she HATED how our class flag (which, in itself, is not neat) flying around at the back. And she also HATED how the notices were pasted on the "chalkboard" portion of the board. Sigh.

And sigh some more.

Me personally can't wait for Mrs J. Tan to come back for a few weeks. Cause I really missed how nice she was! Really!

Maybe have to adapt to changes lor.

Also found out from Ms Lim that she love to run. Wah, going to challenge half-marathon next year! Good luck!

Chemistry - We had a guy called Mr Nicholas Liu for our Chem lessons. Want to call him Prince Nicholas he don't want. Hmph. Should be quite nice... at least when seeing on initial impressions.

Ang Moh - Had a Ms Elaine Chng. Sorry! Must use black pen de.

Must also speak ang moh in class leh.

Never mind lah.

I don't think anyone will care.

But of course, the most important thing is that... we should... STAY NEAT! :)

1st day of Term 3

2006-06-26T16:04:00.000+08:00

First day of school over. Wah, rather slacking. Got 10 new teachers leh! Me dunno who as I was doing front gate duty. Oh yeah, and Ms Yvonne Lim not teaching Chem liao. Teaching Bio (!!!). Yeah. I guess we could do a podcast on the siao days we had.

Y' know. Just to hui xiang the fun Chem lessons we had. Now with some other (male) teacher, dunno if will equally fun or not.

Sigh.

Sec 1s and Sec 2s, as well as Dance members had NDP practice. So today no JH class abit quiet. And many teachers not here. So quite a number of free periods.

Ms Mdm Vidya came into the class with a real funny hairstyle. Now that some teachers have gone, I think I can appreciate our current, unchanged teachers. Let's see... 3/4 got new teachers for these subjects:

Form teacher
Co-form
Bio
Chem
English
Maths (new, extra lesson)

Alot leh. Serious. No more nice Bio and English lessons, and no more funny Chem lessons liao. And Ms Ong seemed more "not-so-talkative" (about some stuff other than Maths) with the other teacher around.

Sigh.

During the last 2 periods, Gina, Stella, Yi Yang, Yi Hui, Jolin, Jocelyn, Xin Xuan, Ji Wei, Charmaine, and me played zhong ji mi ma. Yeah. Then kena forfeit.

Some examples of the forfeits. Hah!

Yi Yang supposed to act cute de. You know, like this:

Wonder who is king?
The easiest forfeit.

After that, our relief teacher stopped us from us from taking any photos. Too bad lor. Then we kept playing and we laughed real hard. Yeah. =D

I really want to do that "thank you ms lim" podcast. Wonder if YY and JH want to do or not. Then can play some sad music or something. Like Bad Day by Daniel Powter?

That's a real nice song.

ITMC One-day Camp

2006-06-21T13:32:00.000+08:00

We had a ITMC camp thingy from 8am to 8.40pm yesterday.

Very, very, very fun.

Yah.

Nothing to post.

Cause very sian.

Will post about about tomorrow's class BBQ tomorrow.

I think.

Sian.

Ice Prawns

2006-06-19T17:10:00.000+08:00

My aunt bought these "frozen" prawns at Ikea ($3.50 I think). Tastes quite unique. Quite special, because your hands will get real cold (duh).

And my house is quiet cause my siblings go to my aunt's house to stay over. So. Very quiet.

Flowers and the sky

2006-06-16T14:42:00.000+08:00

Awwww... please tell me this is nice :D

Yellow flowers

2006-06-15T21:38:00.000+08:00

Enjoy this flowers I'd taken at Esplanade's Roof Terrace. More tomorrow.

$399 metal

2006-06-12T17:47:00.000+08:00

Duuuude... did they print the price tag wrongly?

Stupid Phone

2006-06-10T18:18:00.000+08:00

Bah. Phone screwed up again.

Press number pad 0, and the phone thinks that it's 3. Yes. Same problem as last time. What the hell!

World cup fever :D

Went to YEAH! Networking thing at JTC today. I hate the lift. Worse than aeroplane landing (blocking your ears). But quite okay lah. The food is quite nice. The icebreakers are funny. And so yeah.

(My pocket feels so odd without any phone inside.)

Ratatouille

2006-06-09T21:53:00.000+08:00

Pixar's next film: Ratatouille will be released next year during May - July. Yay. Ratatouille (the rat) is SOOOO cute! (almost cuter than Guido from Cars)

Go watch the teaser trailer: RAT-A-TOO-EE!

CARS

2006-06-09T09:34:00.000+08:00

Went to watch CARS yesterday with my siblings and cousins. Loved it.

How to use coin-operated trolley

2006-06-06T07:32:00.000+08:00

Sorry for the lag in updates. I actually intended to post this on Sunday, but I was too lazy to do so. So yeah.

On Sunday my family went to Queenstown after my first Maths tuition in 2 or 3 years? It's not so bad - got Chi Xiong and Clement there. And the teacher really animated. Thinking of him will make me laugh (as in, his actions).

Before going to Queenstown, we went to Turf City's giant. Then I saw some people racing cars. Like those Tamiya cars, but bigger. Look at the dust they're generating:

You can't see the cars, but you can see the dust.

We then went to Tiong Bahru Plaza to use the BK food vouchers to makan. Not full at all! :( But we did see Patricia Mok and one other artiste there, promoting the 'Gift Me Mall' programme. Not bad ar, spend $50 can have a chance in a sure-win lucky draw dip. There's even an iPod shuffle for grabs. But who knows, those people redeeming (whom we see) only got Yeo's drinks and instant noodles. Wow.

After borrowing 6 books + 1 CD at Queenstown, we went around the town central. My father told me how lively the area was last time. Then my family walked around Queenstown Central, and it was indeed quite dead. We walked past a FairPrice outlet and I saw this interesting thing. And it sure did bring back good memories:

Awww, the good ol' days when you didn't have to insert $1 for a trolley...

Very green, but no people leh.

We then went to the hawker centre to makan. Wah, we got a real good seat. Lots of flowers surrounding us. And I mean it seriously!

Wah, not bad ar, still got sunflower!
The view from MY seat. Not some HDB void deck.

We realised that the people there only ate stuff from 2 stalls (I think only got the 2 stalls open, others are all closed): The chicken rice and the some other stall which sold suan la tang (like tom yam soup).

So we ordered the tom yam soup and chicken rice. The chicken rice veggies rock like hell. Damn nice. The chicken also not bad.

The suan la tang never arrived. Don't ask why. The people too blur. Or maybe we sit too far away.

So next time must sit closer.

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Monday: After Maths remedial, YY and me went to JH's house to record the 3rd episode of 3/4 podcast. LOL. I think it's our best yet. I think lah. Then Gina kinda upset I think. Keep using her name.

Today: Going to JE library to meet Dix, JH. Then YY will join us and we go and record another stupid thing. =p

Dumpling

2006-06-02T11:41:00.000+08:00

Small and cute right?

Spoiled Phone

2006-06-01T19:35:00.000+08:00

My phone is spoiled.

You press 0 on the keypad, the phone shows 3.

Sent it for servicing.

80 dollars. Really expensive.

2pm tomorrow.

Cannot SMS or stay in contact now.

Bottom line: I miss my phone!

Bio Wkshop Day 2

2006-05-31T19:46:00.000+08:00

Day 2 of the Bio Workshop is definitely more interesting than yesterday's. We made perfume and moulded our soaps. Yes, making perfumes. Very fun you know?

No really. Got hands and a face. Cannot see ar?!

What was so great about perfume making is that it is a really really long and tedious process. Your nose also tends to get kind of immune to any smells after smelling too much. So yeah. So there's actually 3 perfumes in one. Really cool.

We made our own chrysanthemum scent too. Chopping the flowers up, mashing them, adding them up in ethanol and they ~~stink~~ don't smell so good.

Bathing in ethanol

They have also provided us with some essential oils. Trust me, adding them is easy, but FINDING them is not so easy:

Where is peppermint? Where is rose?

After the workshop (let's not mention the ethanol that TM sprayed on our table that smelled like shit - no, really. Smelled as if someone just lau sai. Not just lau sai. Some really sucky lau sai.)

Right. After the workshop we went to Cheese Prata Shop to makan. Damn expensive. Better not go there too often. JH actually wanted to join us but thanks to the people who insisted that he must stay (he's taking part in the Adidas tournament thing. His team won. Walkover - their competitor didn't come) to get the schedule. So... too bad lor.

Like this don't know when can record the podcast.

Oh yeah, finally getting my 6670 down to Nokia tomorrow to fix that blardy "press the zero key get 3" problem. SMS very ma fan leh.

Bio Workshop Day 1

2006-05-30T17:59:00.000+08:00

Today, we had the Bio lifescience workshop. One look at the notes cover and we thought we've revisited the past. Same cover, same design, different level. And same company. Oh, and it's $50. And complusory.

We entered Bio Lab 1 and our trainers, Ms Christine and Ms Narnia (I swear it's not spelled like that. I forgot the actual surname... but it just sounds like Narnia) were quite nice. Quite. We were told that we will be taking care of the orchid part of the ecogarden. That includes weeding, adding fertilizer, watering, etc. Fun right? Fun, my foot! Sorry for those sheeshers or people who love gardening. No offense, but I really have no interest in gardening. So there.

We then headed down to the ecogarden's orchid portion. OMG! Nearly all the orchids are kinda lifeless. You don't believe? Look:

Whoops!

If you can't see properly, TM is taking one totally lifeless plant up. Just because we wanted to remove a weed that is so tightly attached to the nearly dead one. Wow!

The one interesting thingy is this pitcher plant. Yan Wei found it and started to put those (uncountable) millipedes that could be found in the ecogarden into the pitcher plant. Later the plant kena constipation ah!

After the weeding and the fertilizer, we got a 10 minute break. After the break we were introduced to some fruit plants and that's when I discovered that the banana is a herb, and not a plant. The reason it is classified as a fruit is because it reproduces real quickly. Also known as damn fertile. I can use that in the next podcast. (I'm B1, your FERTILE herb banana) ;)

They also let us sample some of the fruits that are kinda more "exotic" - rambutan (wow, so exotic!), chiku and pomelo. And the pomelo rocks! Whoo! Quite cold and not bitter at all. Unfortunately Yi Hui got the bitter part. So... TOO BAD! :P (Kidding)

We then made some soap using sodium hydroxide pellets (10 moles! Damn concentrated), distilled water and oil. When mixing the NaOH with the distilled water, the container really got hot. And I thought it was cool. (It is.)

After the "soap" is made, we went downstairs and had a "tour" of the ecogarden. Did you know that peppermint makes people more intelligent? I need more peppermint! Haha. Oh, and the Kangkong in the school is really weird. Really.

Eh, teacher, teacher... what happen to the kangkong ah? Why made of metal one?

No wonder the orchids in our school also dying.

After the Bio Workshop (there's another day tomorrow), we had Chem remedial. Fast-forward the lunch parts as they were abit the boring.

At first Ms Lim postponed the remedial as some were not here (Maths olympiad). But she changed her mind and we had the remedial. Then something brilliant happened. Ms Lim divided the class into groups of 3. One clever one, and 2 not-so-clever ones (including me. Duh).

Worksheet given. Clever one help not-so-clever ones. Incidentally, Tick Meng was assigned to help Yi Yang and I. How lucky! Thanks to TM, I finally knew how to do some Chemistry. I'm really grateful to you, Tick Meng! :)

On the way home (after eating some noodles with YY at Clem Central) I fell asleep. Luckily, I woke up when the bus stopped at my bus stop. So very heng.

And the spoiled 17" BenQ LCD returned! Brand new! I love it! :)

And now, I can start to think of the scents we can make for the soap we're going to complete tomorrow. Let's see... Fart? (Fragrant, indeed)

Recording podcasts

2006-05-29T21:48:00.000+08:00

Oh my gosh, I love recording podcasts! Not that my voice sounds great, but it's just fun. Fun recording ,and equally fun mixing the sound together, looking for sound loops for the intro and stuff.

Therefore podcast 2 is available at sheeshed304.blogspot.com. It's really gettin' great. Haha.

So... after recording the podcast (which made me admit that I got really bad results), Jun He, Yi Yang and I went to JH's house... for fun. Actually I wanted to upload the .wav files from the podcast to my server. But then, since got PS2, might as well play lor.

On the way to his house, we went past a fitness corner. Then Jun He and I did chin-ups while listening to the music. Can you see the headphones connecting us together? Haha.
"Eh, Yi Yang... pai le mei you? Hen lei leh!"

After the chinup thing, we went to a nearby kopitiam and makan. JH and I not hungry so we shared a bowl of yu pian mee fen. Yeah. And I look so retarded:

"Eh, you think so easy to eat ar?"

We then went upstairs, played (lots of) PS2 and went home. We played Fifa Street 2, Winning Eleven 10 (kena owned. Expected), WWE, and ALMOST played Athens 2004. Blah.

Bio Life Science thing tomorrow. I thought we did life science in Sec 2? If it's the same as last year, the school'd better explain and refund us our $50.

Redesigning Elna.com.sg

2006-05-27T17:01:00.000+08:00

Those old, ever-so-loyal readers of my blog may know that I have designed Elna.com.sg for my aunt.

Now, I'm redesigning Elna.com.sg. The current design is so... dead. Has those dull feeling. No "fresh" feeling. So. I'm redesigning it to be more contemporary.

Oh. And I have already redesigned the whole thing. Last thing is for my aunt to confirm. And the new version will go up.

Why am I typing all these? Because I have no other stuff to post today.

(Really want to record episode 2 on Monday)

PTC

2006-05-26T11:47:00.000+08:00

Just had PTC a few hours ago. Since Mama wasn't around, Uncle BigBelly took over. What I did know that PTC was really horrible. Especially my results. Sigh.

But what I do know is that the next episode of the 304 podcast will be on PTC. Definitely.

Will post more later. ;)

Catching

2006-05-23T21:51:00.000+08:00

Geog: Mr Yeo proclaimed himself as UncleBigBellyYeo. He must be disappointed that we didn't give him a nickname like MamaBio. So bu yao lian. But if he would wear singlet with some holes and short pants (like a real uncle), then I would be damn damn damn damn happy to see him at the class BBQ. I'll then take photos of him and sell it. Hahahaha.

PE: Ms Yong's last day. So sad. Retook situp with Jun He and only did one more than last time. What the hell. Just one away from A. But Ms Yong kan wo ke lian then add for me :) Whoo. She rocks. Too bad she's leaving. Who will be our 4th PE teacher?

Physix: Mr Chowy showed AWESOME VIDEO GAMES (video podcast) from YY's iPod. Funny like siao. Those guys are so retarded. Man I want to be like them one day (kidding).

Chemistry: SPA today. JH very cute. Keep asking Ms Lim to help him check colour due to his colour definiency. Then Ms Lim almost fell asleep 5 minutes before the experiment end. Her face so funny. (As usual)

Maths: 3 periods of Maths. (So we had our lunch from 1-1.30pm) Did graphs and stuff. Pretty boring.

Lunch: No ball could be found. So we played Crocodile at Fitness Corner. Then we played catching. Yes. 5 Sec 3 boys playing catching. Siao gin na!

Bio: Mama left. So a new teacher came in (forgot her name). But I do remember I mistaken her as a MOE officer (gasp) when she invilgated our SPA. She abit the funny and abit the lame and alot the boring. (Must cut the words! See? Biology so simple) Man. I miss Mama.

Helped Yan Wei record his ITMC Chairman speech but cannot. Lots of background noise. Then went home. End of day.

Going to Bt View Sec for their investiture tomorrow. Ah well.

Poseidon

2006-05-22T19:51:00.000+08:00

After another day at school (yes, we mass-tagged 304 tagboard today! Whoo), Jun He and me went to Clementi to watch Poseidon.

(Oh yeah, in case you don't know. Clementi tickets are only $5. So since I got some extra money, might as well go watch a show. $5 only leh!!! And still can bring your own food in)

The movie was quite nice. Very tense and thrilling. But these actors can hold their breath (supposedly) for quite damn long. When they were underwater, I tried to hold my breath too. (Yeah, I know. Lame) After I gave up (and realised that this is lame), they continued to swim underwater without catching some air. Like... huh?

After the ever-so-exciting movie (I like the front part the post. The two towers ;)), Jun He took out his new Zen Vision and played with it. Like the prior part of the day. Lucky freak. That Zen Vision is so darned expensive (and big).

4 more days to that June holidays.

Crossroads 2006

2006-05-21T11:20:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, Yi Hui, Enna, Michelle, Ji Wei and I went to ACJC for Crossroads 2006. Crossroads is just like a meeting point for councillors (or prefects) from other secondary schools... and just have fun together.

I was kind of "sian" after being "chosen" for Crossroads (Russell couldn't make it, so I replaced him), as it was just... too long. 9 to 5! Bah! After meeting the others @ Bouna Vista MRT, we walked to ACJC.

We were the first ones there. And Bonnie (the overall I/C) brought us to a wrong room where we stared into blank space for five minutes. Then we were brought to another room.

After the briefing we were split into groups. I love the way they split us up: there will be at least 2 people from the same school in any one group. Ji Wei and I were in one group, while Enna, Michelle and Yi Hui were in another.

Our group name was Horror (horror, horror!) and our group was great! Sure, the icebreakers were lame, but the actual activities were great: street hockey, dog-and-bone soap style (forgot the name), blind man's soccer (I think) and the ever-so-amazing Amazing Race.

The Amazing Race was great. Except for the fact that there were prizes for 1st and 2nd only when they did say that there were 1st, 2nd, 3rd prizes. (Familiar?) And the Queen of Shiva (I think) was the best. Who has the longest pinky? :)

Crossroads was great. Really great. (Oh yeah, and we went crazy when we were walking back to Bouna Vista MRT. Felt as if we were just released from OC (Orientation Camp) all over again)

NAPFA

2006-05-18T20:41:00.000+08:00

Got back English and Chinese papers today. So relieved that I have passed my tests. So I have only 3 failures (so far). And I am sounding so happy. Yeah, I'm very strange.

Today we kept drawing funny pictures on the board. And emphasising on one's special trait (teachers). For example, for Mr Chowy, we drew a damn long body. For Mrs Tan we drew a huge belly. For Ms Lim... try your imagination ;)

Then JH gave Ms Poon a "Most Straight Hair : gradient undefined" award for her rebonded hair. Then she still say the "prize" very lousy. Aiyo.

NAPFA was okay lah. Got gold. Sit-ups... just 2 away from A. SBJ is not so good. A C. Never mind. Sit and Reach was surprisingly shocking. I got B (first time). Inclined Pull Ups... Mr Chowy will know. Shuttle Run... slow lah.

So like this lo.

Giving Mrs Tan a "farewell party" tomorrow.

Hope it will turn out well.

North East Line

2006-05-17T19:33:00.000+08:00

Long day today. School was especially boring, especially when we got back the results (and that extremely, extremely, extremely disappointing Bio) for Bio and A Maths.

During Bio, Mrs Jac Tan gave me a note from the General Office saying that I could collect my lost green homework file which I had lost on bus 151 on my way home from Hougang Interchange. Like, huh? I've filed a loss report and yet they contacted the school instead of me. But at least they found the file. So I was kinda delighted (not for long; after I got my Bio, I was so upset).

After school, we sold ice cream, and Joyce, Yi Hui, Russ and me finally had another rather productive Yeah/Grad Night meeting. Teaser to the Sec 4s: The prize for best dressed is rather Appleish. Ok, too much hint.

After the meeting, me took MRT to Hougang. This is my first time taking NEL to somewhere quite far away so I was kinda excited. (Yeah, I know. Excited over a MRT ride) But what is most intriguing is that Woodleigh Station (which is not open) is rather creepy as the train sped past through it. The walls are those mossy green and there's poor lighting. Scary.

At Hougang Interchange, the uncles are friendly and they gave me back my file in a zippy. And all of them speak Chinese! I wonder how those "act-ang-moh" Chinese will talk to them.

Hah.

Tomorrow's NAPFA. =(

Results Time

2006-05-15T17:55:00.000+08:00

Ah well.

It's that time of the year again.

Mid-year results.

Generally we'll be sitting in the hall getting our results together as a school. Personally, I hate that because we'll be sitting in single file and it will be hard to compare results or just talk. Then got so many people how to talk properly?

And then the teachers will be scolding us for talking so much and causing the results time to cut into our lunch or recess.

So I suggest we do it in class. Much better. Can talk, can compare, can run around without much penalty. Ha!

The past 4 days have been hectic for me. I've been sick on Thursday and Friday, and my computer monitor and mouse screwed up on Saturday and Sunday. Pure retarded shit. Anyway, now I'm typing this and viewing it in a 17" CRT. Does not feel so good to be viewing something so fat after viewing LCDs for at least 3 years, eh?

So. Results tomorrow.

Here we go.

Stupidity

2006-05-12T07:45:00.000+08:00

Guess what.

My old site is gone. Oh well. I'm going to miss it.

It's not as if I'm going to let it rot there and not contact IllusionFX. I tried! Their ever so "reliable" helpdesk, so called, does not work. Try registering for an account there. Everything's fine until when they don't send you the confirmation email.

What kind of host is this?! Crap!

Oh well. I guess Google is the real reliable host.

Pleased to meet you again, Blogger.

Why are you still here?

2006-02-23T21:41:00.000+08:00

Are you reading this photoblog?

Are you?

Are you?

If you are, I'm not really shocked. Heh. But it's been a long time since I've updated this.

Yeah, sure, wadevr :) Feel free to visit this photoblog occasionally.

Occasionally. (aka it will still be updated)

Step by Step...

2005-10-15T21:51:00.000+08:00

Every small step makes a big mark. (This photo taken by my Nokia 6670)

2005-09-27T15:46:00.000+08:00

Oooh, cup noodles rock. I know this photo is lame :P

2005-09-19T20:26:00.000+08:00

It was Mid-Autumn Festival yesterday. Feeling bored, I just took some quick pics using my Nokia 6670 of the lanterns that my mum put around the garden at night.