Shane's Blog

US 2007

2007-12-11T13:42:00.000+08:00

Here I am again, after a year. Writing this for nobody but myself, just so I won't forget where I've been and what I've seen.

So I got up at around 8.30 on 11th Dec, Tuesday morning. Arrived in Singapore at 1.30am local time. Hate the long flights. Horrible. The plane back was a 777-300, and it's great cos its more spacious than the other Boeing jet plus it has this nice big LCD screen but still sleeping on board sucks and having to sit for 20 hours is just...

So anyway I hope I can last long enough and not conk out from my jet lag.

Somehow, I don't feel jet lagged any more today.

Ok here we go.

Flying there was pretty fast. In fact I was disappointed cos I wanted a long flight there. It was on the contrary on the way back, though. So on SQ watched so many more movies than I already have, and played games and did everything until sian.

The first day was a rest day. So we zuo bo. Walked around some shops near our hotel, ate at KFC, then went to bed. Slept at 6pm LA time, but I was knocked out anyway cos very very tired from the flight. And there goes the first day.

shit la sian already. continue another time.

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lol. up damn early this morning. trying to fight the jet lag but i guess i gave in. slept at 8.30 last night and couldnt continue sleeping at 6.30am this morning. zzz. shall i continue blogging about my us trip lalala...

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i am bored to death so i shall continue. lol.

the next day was disneyland. my sis and i couldnt get out of bed in time, so we missed breakfast and had a couple of pancakes my mom took for us.

i have to say, im old. i found disneyland pretty boring. the rides were mild. the most exciting one was the indiana jones ride, which wasnt... very scary. and after that the rest of the rides just bored me. in my whole tour group i was the eldest, followed by my sister. the rest of them were kids, and excluding the two of us the oldest there was 15. i hate being old. i even felt that there was an age gap. boo. oh right and there were 47 of us altogether in the tour. a big group, definitely. half of which were kids.

there's this california adventure park right next to disneyland. its newer, and it promises more thrills. i'm not the daring type, but my sister, apparently, is. she wanted to try all the crazy stuff, like this dead lift drop and roller coaster rides and stuff. we went on this ride called California Screamin'. i was nervous like mad while in the line. it's the first time i went on such a madness roller coaster ride. but i didn't regret it.

from the start of the ride it was adrenaline rush all the way. there was no slowing down, not even climbing upslope. usually the past rides i've taken when u go up, u go slowly. like... clack-clack-clack-clack and then the car slowly climbs. but this one is just POOM and then you're speeding up the ramp and the next minute your heart's caught in your throat as you plunge downwards at a breakneck speed. that's what happened to me at the start of the ride. i wanted to scream but i couldnt. it was a... fascinating feeling, shall i say, now that i think about it. my legs turned jelly instantly, of course. and then there was the loop-de-loop (360 deg) but i didn't feel really scared its just the force pushing you forward so not much feeling of falling. and surprisingly until midway i felt good. a sensation of euphoria. i felt high. then i enjoyed the ride totally. i loved the feeling of falling. it's crazy. it was like i was on drugs. from this ride on, nothing else scared me. not big thunder mountain, nothing. california screamin' was one hell of a ride. wa i write so much on this one ride...

for our tour we went to disneyland, then to california adventure park, after that it was free time. so we did go back to disneyland to get more pictures and stuff, and go to It's A Small World. so sad that they'll be closing it due to its high maintenance costs. its a really pretty ride that you can never grow old of. all the lights and colours... just beautiful. and there was this other ride me and my sis queued for an hour for. finding nemo. some submarine ride. quite bullshit la. the highlight was the night performance. parade on boats. all the disney characters. didnt get to see much fireworks because of the wind. oh well.

haha hello aaron u just told me u read my previous post so i expect you to see this line.

rar... the photos aren't being uploaded... lagging like crap.

ok finally. lol it's like im having a real-time convo.

Big Christmas tree!
I like I like haha

this. is. california screamin'.
my sis looks so calm and pleased.
i'm like ... *gulp*

here's a nice view of the roller coaster ride behind. and you can see the ferris wheel too! the gondola shakes *ooo*

It's A Small World!

Isn't it pretty???

One of the Disney ships on parade cruising down the water with all their stars on board

the next day we have... Universal Studios! (and Hollywood)

this was our first sighting of Hollywood from afar in our coach.

the words are really tiny.
but so exciting to first see it!

then we were at Kodak Theatre... the place where many stars have walked on red carpet on grand events...

i love this photo.
Unhand her, Jack Sparrow!

ok shall continue this again later lol.

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garrr it's 5.29am now and i'm up continuing to blog. sucks to be up so early. i should endure the jet lag tonight otherwise its really zao shui zao qi. tooo early for me.

there was quite a lot to see at universal studios. i enjoyed the day there a lot. plenty of fun! it's so cool being there, someplace which u only see on tv, in person.

The trademark globe of Universal Studios.

*gosh i look retarded

Outside the gate of Universal Studios

This is actually a facade of streets for shooting purposes. Pretty cool.

Korea Vacation 2006

2006-12-17T16:50:00.000+08:00

I’m back from Korea… and I hate it! It’s the worst kind of feeling to have. The thought of holidays ending and school reopening… Nooo… How I wish I could turn back time.

Anyways, I’ve decided to blog ALL about my trip. I’ve got so much to say, so much to share! One can always learn lots of interesting things from tours, especially with a knowledgeable tour guide.

But first things first, the timing of the flights were horrible. Flight to Seoul was in the middle of the night at 2 AM and the flight back was in the evening at 7.30. When I reached home this morning slept at around 3 AM plus and woke up at 11.30. But thankfully I’m still fine and healthy, didn’t fall sick along the trip.

There were 28 people on this trip, including us. Not too big a group, but fact is, there were soooo many Singaporeans traveling to Korea! Saw so many other Singaporean groups there, and even saw 2 friends of mine! What a small world, you may think, but I think it’s because every Singaporean is choosing Korea as their holiday spot.

We had a Singaporean tour guide, her name’s Corny, but she kinda 作废, cos she didn’t really help much. When we arrived at Incheon Int’l Airport there was another local tour guide there, Ken, and he was the one who brought us around and explained things. So in the end I don’t think Corny got tipped much haha. There was also this Korean 小弟 around, Austin, who was supposed to make sure Ken is doing his job well, take photographs with his digital SLR, and help out. He’s the kind of typical Korean youngster. Though he looks a bit toad and daft, which he really is, after getting used to him you’ll find him kinda cute (not that I’m gay). He has the standard Korean hair length – long enough to cover your ears and reach your shoulder. It’s useful, come to think, cos your ears won’t suffer from chills in this cold weather. Looking at the Koreans, I find my hair too short.

Our first stop after landing at Incheon was Yongin Everland theme park.

Not the biggest bestest theme park, but just go there to have fun. We sat cable car, took a water ride, slid down ice slope (small one like the one in Snow City), sat through a 4-D simulator, and went through a safari (similar to the African one, where you sit in a coach and have animals come close-up to the window – bears, tigers, lions, ligers etc. the bears can perform, like walk on two feet, bow and greet, dance). My sister kept bugging to try the roller coaster, but my parents didn’t want to, and neither did I. Then later she looked really sad and disappointed, and we all just ok la let’s just go. Sat this suspended roller coaster where the carriage swings around freely as you drop. I just screamed all the way, cos I realised that’s the best way to relieve your fear. Felt good to actually get through it (never have thought I’d have taken a roller coaster), but end up my mother was giddy and having a headache haha. We also bought snacks like candy floss (which was devoured very quickly), Churros (this sugar-sprinkled stick of waffle) and hot dog. The staff at the theme park are very nice and friendly one. They’re not like just standing there and punching tickets, but also chattering a lot, singing, dancing, entertaining the people. They also have this hand gesture where you shake both your hands, which is supposed to wish you well.

We didn’t spend the whole day there. In the afternoon we had to fly to Jeju, this island in the south. Jeju is a very popular place for Korean newly-weds. Before I say why, you need to know that Korea is a very 重男轻女 place. Now, I didn’t think that Korea would be like that either, but that’s the way it is. Due to it’s history of farmers and agriculture, the people prefer boys over girls. And now the problem with Korea is that the ratio of males to females is 65 to 35. That isn’t really a very good thing. But up till today, most of the Korean newly-weds fly to Jeju island for their honeymoon. There are the statues of 土地公 and 土地婆, of whom they want to stroke the 土地公’s nose. It is said that by rubbing his nose, you can have a baby boy. Also, there wasn’t really a 土地婆 from the start, but when women started fighting for their rights, they insisted that there was to be a 土地婆 too. You recognize the difference by seeing where their hands are positioned. Left hand higher than the right is 公, vice versa is 婆. Well, all this is just superstition, but the Koreans still take it very seriously. We went to visit this place too, and we stroked the nose too (the nose was black and dirty, probably because millions of hands have been touching it). Ken was saying that when a couple gives birth to a boy, relatives and friends would happily enter the house and congratulate, “恭喜啊，生了个儿子！”. However, if it were a girl, they would enter the house and put a hand on the mother’s shoulder, saying, “辛苦啦，下次再来！”. Hahaha.

The Korean society is really like that. It’s the typical male-dominant society, where men go out to work and women stay home. Ken told us that many foreigners think Korean women are suffering, but he insisted that they are the most fortunate women in the world. Many people think that Korean wives are very poor thing because they have to wake up early in the morning to prepare breakfast for the family. There is no restaurant or MacDonald’s breakfast meal in Korea. None at all. Every Korean has their breakfast at home, prepared by their wives. And the thing Korean men hate most is to eat bread, so they would never be out grabbing a sandwich or burger. Then, wives have to clean the house, take care of the children, and prepare meals. Sounds like they’re having a hard time as housewives. Boring, too. But it’s not true. You know, many Korean shopping malls open at around 11 plus and close by 7. Why is this so? Because they cater to the wives of Korean men. After the husband leaves for work and the children go to school, the Korean women do a bit of cleaning and leave the house at 11. And then, they go shopping shopping shopping. The husband is out there slogging while the wife is spending. As the husband returns from work at around 8 plus (quite late, all working very hard), the wife would have to be home and have dinner prepared, therefore shops mostly close at 7. Worst thing is, husbands now cannot do anything if their wives are angry with them. In the past, they could hit their wives and nobody would say anything. Passers-by would even scold the wife for making the husband angry. But it’s not the case now. So, if the wife gets pissed with her husband and refuses to cook for him, then he’d have to eat miserable bread while still slogging hard at work. Hahaha so poor thing.

Ok after seeing the 土地公婆, we also saw this rock which is supposed to look like a dragon in the sea. Nothing much about it la. Climbed a mountain too (Songsan Mountain), but the scenery atop was so -so. That was where I saw a French classmate.

After that went to visit the Folk Village. 大长今was shot there, when she was exiled there and learning medicine. It’s very interesting, and learnt a lot about their traditional culture. Most funny was about the 黑猪. The previous night, we ate bulgogi (barbecue) and it was barbecued pork from this pig. Only this next day did Ken tell us that 黑猪 had another name called 粪猪, because they fed on human shit. We were all like “Hah where got pigs eat shit one” but it’s true. Lol many were disgusted that they were actually enjoying the pig which fed on human shit. So we saw these pigs which were reared in the backyards of folk houses. There was also a toilet in the backyard, for the men to 大便. It’s like a hole but you squat atop a rock. We were all wondering why the toilet had to be situated up so high, then wouldn’t everyone see that the man is pooping. But Ken explained that in the past, the men doing “business” were very busy. While they were passing motion, they had to look out for signs of enemy (because every time there’s a war, Jeju is most vulnerable as it is an isolated island), thus the high “seat”. The men also have to 赶猪 while pooping, otherwise something bad will happen. Now, these pigs are very useful because they eat snakes, so they can protect the household from snakes. But, when the man is doing his business, the pigs may mistake the ahem for a snake, so if the man 不留神, and the pig comes from underneath… There goes.

*see the black pig behind?

After that, we went to ride ATV. It’s this four-wheeler and it’s very fun to ride. The horsepower is supposedly very powerful one, but they tuned it down so we can't blast off. A pity the ride was very short. I thought it'd be much longer la! Then suddenly eh it ended. Some of the others are comic man, dunno how come can end up off the road, lol.

*took off the helmet liao
*that's Corny behind, the woman in red

Then went to visit the Green Tea Museum. Ate green tea ice-cream. It’s Ken recommend one, to have ice-cream in the cold winter. He said it was a different kind of experience, to be cold outside and cold inside too. The ice-cream wasn’t bad, but the museum was boring. Didn’t bother taking a good look anyway.

Finally in the evening we went to this 鬼路. When the coach had its engine turned off, it could still move up slope. It’s very cool. Then, we tried walking too. When walking down the slope, it felt harder than walking up the slope. If you let a bottle roll, it will roll up slope. If you pour water onto the ground, the water will spill upwards! There’s physics behind this phenomenon. Ken said that in the world there are only a few places like this, and Korea's one is most obvious.

The next day, we flew to Daegu, a bowl-shaped place, so when its summer it’s the hottest and when it’s winter it’s the coldest. Visited this temple, not very interesting. It's not as impressive as the Guanyin I saw at Hainan, but just go there look-see lor. Oh and Koreans don't really pray to guanyin, only Buddha. In the past most of them were Buddhists, but now majority are Christians and Catholics le.

Afterward we went shopping at this street called Jung Angro. Didn't buy anything, but tried food like the spicy 年糕 and this nice soup.

*that's the stall we ate at

Later, we went to a Spa Valley to 泡 spa. The spa in Korea is different from others. It doesn’t have sulphur (like those in Japan). Instead, it’s a mineral spa, so it will have different effects on the body. I think those in our tour group don’t dare, cos go spa have to 脱光光. My father and I did, and there was only one other old man who came into the spa. The rest went swimming downstairs. It’s their loss. 泡 what mulberry bath, red pine bath, fatigue relieving bath, bamboo bath. There was also the bath outside. Quite shuang. While your face is cold, your body is warm underwater. Then can see outside scenery too. Haiz, I should’ve went for the scrub (this guy will help you bathe), because my mother and my sister went for their scrub and they felt really good and clean. Sorry hor, 要看裸照, 想得美hor.

We visited 马耳山, where there are two peaks resembling horse ears. There were many rock formations at the mountain too, built by this man who just stacked them. People who tried to do the same thing would have their pile collapsed after a year or so, but this man’s stack lasted over hundred years. So it’s quite fascinating. Had to be careful not to pull out a rock and cause the whole thing to collapse, haha, otherwise have to spend the rest of the trip stacking it back.

I didn't really talk about lunch or dinner much, but happened to have a picture of us sitting down and eating. The floor was nice and warm, but there wasn't any Japanese tatami. A lot of ppl sit already then leg cramp and get pins and needles haha.

Later we went to Jeonju to see the traditional wine museum. Tasted some and my father bought a bottle of rice wine back too (but I don’t find it very nice). We visited the some craftwork exhibition too. Korean paper (韩纸) is supposedly very very good quality paper, just second to the Greek papier mache, because it wouldn’t spoil even after a very long time. The traditional Korean carriage for the bride was built using this paper as one of the materials too, and the carriage is awfully small. I wonder if there are any fat brides who can't fit inside.

The following day we went to Sangsoo Herb Land to know more about lavenders and other varieties of 香草. Smelt them and even ate one too (but yucks even though it tasted sweet but I’m still not used to eating leaves). There was this rock there which looked like the shape of a penis and we took a group photo in front of it haha. For lunch, we ate the special bibimbap lunch (flower lunch). We ate rice with flowers! Of course, had to add 豆瓣酱 and other spices to cover the taste. In the end I couldn’t taste much of the flower, just knew I was chewing it in my mouth, so it wasn’t so bad. The service was very good. They take pictures for you and upload it online so you can download it for free! A pity our pictures haven’t been uploaded yet.

*can you see the flowers in our bowls?

*this is a pine tree which grew at the herbland

We traveled to Chuncheon afterward to take a boat to Nami island. Nami island was originally a private, unknown island where nobody visited. But now it is a tourism hotspot. There are hordes of people flooding the island every few minutes taking the boat from Chuncheon to visit this island. And why? Because of the very famous Korean drama Winter Sonata (冬季恋歌). Can you imagine how powerful just one hit drama is? It boosts tourism by so much! It has been five years after the show was aired, but there are still millions of people flooding this island just to see the place where Bae Yong Jun acted. Of course, the trademark scene where there is a long row of pine trees was very photogenic, but other than that, it was just a normal island. Now why can’t Singapore achieve something like that, and have millions flooding say, Pulau Ubin.

At the end of the day, we traveled back to Seoul and shopped at Dong Dae Mun (东大门). It has a lot a lot of shops. Ken said that if one were to browse every single shop, one would need a whole month 24 hours a day to see them all. Dong Dae Mun isn’t the kind of Orchard Road kind. Instead, it is a huge place selling pirated goods! Yes, just like China, except the quality is much better. There were huge buildings like doota!, and Migliore.

We went to Migliore because Ken told us the stuff at Migliore were cheaper. I bought two pairs of sneakers there. Haha. Actually I had nothing much to buy, but see nice, and cheap, so just buy. Very funny, cos, I was like choosing, trying, then afterward can’t really make up my mind, so I wanted to see others first. So me and my father were like “We go look around, we come back later”. The Koreans can’t really understand English, but they could understand that. The words “come back” is like spelling the end of the world to them. Suddenly the guy’s face turned solemn and went like “No come back!”. Then he started cutting the price for us lol! And so we just bought. As we walked on, I saw another pair which looked interesting. Then the sales guy pulled me aside and brought me to this secret cupboard where he kept all the fake Nike, Adidas, Puma etc. Lol! Damn funny I wanted to laugh. In the end I bought another pair of Nike shoes, again with the price cut because we used the words “come back”. When I said come back, this second man’s face turned sooo sad and he was like frowning, going “No come baaack….” Lol yay yay saved about 20 000 won. And it’s not like I said “Discount”. I just wanted to walk away but you cut the price for me, so, kamsa hamnida.

The following day we visited Changdukgung Palace. It was kinda stupid cos we were late for the guided tour, and Austin ran around trying to catch up to the group. By the time we caught up, the guide just walked right to the end of the tour without saying anything. What the hell we all felt shitted. Run around for nothing. Could’ve joined the English tour, my father said, no need to catch up to the Chinese-speaking one. And by this time, my sister was already unwell. She had stomach flu and was suffering in pain. Up till today she is still unwell. Very very unlucky, couldn’t get to enjoy the last few days.

We also went to a Ginseng farm. There is no such thing as 百年人参. If you can find one like that, you will become a multi-millionaire immediately. The most is usually up to 6 years, because after 6 years the immunity of the ginseng will become too weak to sustain life and so it will just die. Good ginseng is divided into two kinds, below 4 years and above 4 years. Of course the longer the better. The younger it is, there is more 火气. My father bought a box of Ginseng pills (616 USD so ex). We had a ginseng chicken dinner too!

Ok I can’t really remember the exact order of when I visited these places, cos I didn’t bother taking down notes or writing a diary while I was there. But doesn’t really matter does it.

We learnt to make kimchi. What we did for hands-on wasn’t difficult at all, because most of the work was done beforehand and we just had to apply the sauce and fold and wrap the cabbage.

Talk about kimchi, we ate it every day, every meal. It is a must-have for Korean meals. And kimchi is very very good for health too, as found out by dunnowhat research and is said to be one of the ten must-eat food. Maybe that’s why during SARS not a single Korean was afflicted with this epidemic. Seaweed is secondary. It was also there, but not as important. Anyway when we had the chance we also koped tons of seaweed to eat la.

After we made kimchi, we could try on traditional Korean costumes. Male costumes weren’t very nice, just plain. Female costumes looked much better! Nonetheless, very fun to try them on.

I can’t remember when we shopped at where, but I know besides Dong Dae Mun, we went to Itaewon too. Itaewon is this place where there are a lot of shops catered to the needs of the Americans. Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Starbucks coffee, Outback Steakhouse etc. There are still American troops in Korea, about 80 000 of them. And if people think that the Americans are protecting the Koreans, it’s the other way around. The Americans are a burden to the Korean, because the Korean government has to pay for all of their needs and expenses. The Americans also drink and fight and can’t get caught. The security in Itaewon is poorer as compared to other places. Then there’s the Coex Mall, this huge underground mall where there were lots of youngsters shopping there. There’s even an aquarium there! Very big. Besides these, we went to Myeungdong, located in the richer area of Seoul and the more expensive place to shop at. There were a lot of street stalls, but also a huge complex like Takashimaya called Shisaege. I went in to take a look, and it was very very similar. At first I thought hey the stuff here are damn cheap as compared to Taka! But I stupidly realized after that when I converted the currency I forgot a zero behind, so ended up everything was darned expensive. Also shopped at this 女人街, this street outside a women’s university, so naturally a lot of shops selling goods catered to females. There was a fair amount of shopping, during this trip.

My sister and mother went to the hospital because it was really bad, so they missed quite a bit, while me and my father went by ourselves.

We went to Lotte World, the largest indoor theme park in Korea. It is built by the company Lotte, and it is an enormous dome. We took a machine hot air balloon to tour around the theme park, and the view was very nice, high up above and overlooking all the activities down below. We also sat in 4-D simulators again, but those are not the best. The highlight of this experience is the Merry-Go-Round, or the Carousel. No, I am not some lame shit who cannot act my age. I was hesitant whether to try it or not, but decided I should. Again, the power of Korean drama. Stairway to Heaven (天国的阶梯), the very touching drama featuring Kwon Sang Woo, was shot at this very carousel. This was a show which I watched, and it was so nice riding the same carousel that those Korean stars did in the show. Ahh… A pity my sister missed this ride. I’m sure she would’ve loved it very much too. And another pity is that there was no photograph!!! Otherwise it would've been much more meaningful. After that, we had dinner and watched a parade. The parade was nice (for the little kids), but I enjoyed it too. At the end they sprayed soap suds as snow, and that was fun too.

The last day we went to see the Presidential Blue House (青瓦台). We could only take photographs from a designated place, somewhere far away, because of security reasons. We could see the office while passing by in the coach, but we weren’t allowed to take pictures while passing by. Ken had a China group once who he told the same thing, but there was one Chinese who act smart and snapped a shot, and even gleefully showed Ken that he had taken this photo too. Ken was like Oh no and felt very uneasy. And sure enough, when they returned to the hotel, there were two black cars parked outside with several big men dressed in black suits. They approached fiercely and demanded for a man whom they had a photo of. Lol the China guy was caught on the CCTV and he was tracked down! In the end his memory card was confiscated and he was fined 400 USD. It is damn bloody strict, probably because of the political situation and the threat of North Korea. Ken said that there are about 100 hidden cameras around this presidential estate, and the people inside can see everything.

Later on we went to an amethyst factory. Not interesting, cos I went to one before many times, even in China. There were a lot of Chinese there, aggressively trying to sell. They damn 缠, but luckily my father didn’t buy, otherwise waste money.

Oh yes we went to a strawberry farm at a point of time too, couldn’t remember when. The strawberries were very sweet, and they were organic.

Oh and also, we went to see this Korean Tourism Office, where they feature all the stars of Korea and their information. They even have this high-tech thing where you just hang your hand in mid-air and move your hand and click without a mouse. You know, like the thing Tom Cruise did in Minority Report. Very cool.

Ok I think I covered all the places I went to haha. I know it’s kinda messy, couldn’t organize them cos I just wanted to blurt it all out! Ahh… I hate it that I’m sitting here typing about it. I wanna just stay there… Not that I love Korea, but I hate it back here.

Sigh…

And there are a lot of other interesting facts about Korea I haven’t talked about yet. Like, how Koreans are very loyal in a sense that, if there are two similar products, one manufactured locally and one foreign, Koreans would always buy the ones made in Korea, so foreign products would have to be products that cannot be locally manufactured, otherwise they will go bust in Korea.

Furthermore, the biggest companies in Korea – Samsung, LG, Hyundai – are damned damned rich. Even richer than the government. In the 1997 financial crisis these companies forked out money and gave to the government. Ken says it’s because there are too many social and welfare benefits that the government gives out, so it is very poor, but it’s nice to have these big companies backing the country financially. Oh and almost all the Korean presidents/prime ministers 贪污. Everytime they step down they will be arrested and put to jail / death penalty (not sure if it applies). Also, if you can graduate and get into a company like Samsung, you must be somebody, because it is awfully hard to. You are probably someone who tops the class since primary school. Once you enter a large company like this, in two years your pay would be about 4000 USD. But the montly salary is not the best part, it is the yearly bonus. They give up to 50 000 USD as bonus, which is more than the sum of a year’s monthly salary! No wonder everyone is competing to get into Samsung.

Like I said before, women stay home and take care of the house. When they go out to work, they are kinda discriminated against, earning half the pay of men for the same job. Actually it’s not unreasonable, because women will quit the job after they get married and settle down, so no point giving them high salary and giving them high posts. Also, for men to have wives who go out to work, their friends will criticize the guy, thinking that he 养不起老婆.

The cars in Korea are mostly either black or white, recently silver is in fashion. It’s quite strange why they don’t go for other colours. Probably cos they 黑白分得很清. Ken said if you make a Korean friend, he will be your friend forever and he will sacrifice for your sake, but if you make a Korean enemy, you will have a hard time for the rest of your life.

Oh yes, and the Koreans hate the Japanese. The older generation especially so, the younger generation maybe not as much. But nationally, they still detest the Japanese. Take for example in sports, Korea can lose to any country without feeling bad, EXCEPT Japan. Like in soccer, Korea has never lost to Japan once before. Ken said if the Korean team lost, they would have to 偷偷摸摸地搭飞机回国. It was because of the war lor, that the Koreans suffered under the Japanese since 1910. A lot of things were messed up by the Japanese, such as the address in Korea. You cannot find a place in Korea unless you know some landmarks beforehand. Taking an address and asking the taxi driver is impossible, because when the Japanese controlled Korea, the first house to be built in this area was 1, second house was 2, so it wasn’t in order of their position, but of when they were built. So the numbers are all over the place and it’s impossible to find with just the address alone. The Japanese also placed 2 ton nails in Korea’s 风水 places to kill their fengshui. Recently the Korean president removed the nails (900 plus), but 30 plus remain yet to be found. The best fengshui in Korea is where the palace and presidential house is located. There was a river which was buried too, and they re-made it. Korea doesn’t have many museums or exhibitions showcasing national treasures, because the Japanese looted them during the war, and every year Korea tries to get them back but Japan refuses, so what can they do.

Protests in Seoul are very common. They happen almost every day, less on weekends. Most of the protests happen in this street called 中街, and luckily while we were there we didn’t run into any, otherwise will traffic jam for 2 hours. Ken told us that last year there was a very funny protest. The shop-owners of 中街 protested for the people not to protest because they were affecting their businesses. Hahaha. But all protests in Korea are permitted by the government, of course, so they are 合法. Though they start off peacefully, sometimes because of Korean’s hot temper, fighting and violence would erupt and the riot police standing by would have to step in.

Heh I’m just jotting down every single thing that comes to mind which I can remember! But these are all fun facts which I find very interesting and can share.

Ooh, and Koreans are famous for their cosmetic surgery. But one thing that Ken wanted to clarify was that not all Koreans go for plastic surgery. He said that this was a false impression created by the Japanese news, which was always out to 损 Korea (and Korean news do the same too). The Koreans are generally very healthy, and Ken has never seen a doctor before. So there are practically no GPs around, and surgeons like 内科外科 are usually out of business. Since they don’t fall sick, the Koreans delve into plastic surgery and make money out of that instead. Many people go to Korea for plastic surgery because it’s very good there and it’s cheap too. Ken has brought 整容 groups before.

Haiya, I didn’t get a chance to visit the Hankook Kiwon or buy any weiqi books. Actually I expected that all along. But I did see weiqi played on TV, haha, and though I don’t understand anything, just find it cool to watch it in the country where weiqi is number one.

Oh and the relations between North and South Korea are not too bad. Korea is very nice to 朝鲜, always giving food and money to them when they were in need. There was once a flood in the 1980s which devastated North Korea, and South donated lots of money to help out. The people of South Korea complained, feeling that there is no need to help them, and the money would only be used for the North to buy more weapons, but the government thought that after all, they were one country. North Korea reciprocated by giving South 泥土, which South didn’t really need, but just accepted the 好意. So they used this soil to build highways which are very useful today. Every year, North Korea would make noise around the time of August. As we all know, technically North and South are still at war, so war can erupt any moment. During this period every year, the North would mobilize troops to the border and initiate a hoo-ha, and the South would start giving them food and money. Why August, because this is the time when the North harvests their crops and finds that there isn’t enough food. So they make noise and the South will pacify them by giving them food. This year, they fired missiles into the sea instead, annoying Japan and the US a lot.

The city of Seoul has a very very very very high cost of living, even higher than Tokyo now. Last year when I went to Japan I thought things were expensive, but here in Seoul, it’s more! In all the cities, Seoul is second in terms of cost of living, just behind a city in Russia. The worst problem is property prices in Seoul. Seoul is as big as Singapore, but while Singapore has 4 million people (which we find very dense and congested already), Seoul has 14 million people (there are 48 million in Korea). I don’t see any HDBs there, and I seriously cannot figure out how the people squeeze into this city. Of course no HDBs, cos the govt is poor, and there are mostly condos built by private companies. Koreans have a system inherited from the Japanese. They don’t go buy monthly rent, but yearly rent. And the yearly rent is very affordable! In the past, when bank interests were high (like 15%), they would rent out their apartments for a sum of money. Then every month the tenant just has to pay for his utilities bill and no need to pay rent. The landlord just takes the money and deposits into the bank and earns interest. So it’s a win-win for all. Right now don’t have such high interests liao, maybe the best is 4%, but still they’re higher than other countries.

I don’t know if I’ve forgotten anything… As you can tell, there’s so much for me to say… Hai it’s so awesome over there…I just want to fly back!!! Doesn’t it sound interesting? I’m going to do more reminiscing on my own now, and transfer the pictures.

Ahhh the pictures are not so good! Esp one most impt one with Ken and Austin, bloody hell got blurred!!!

*Ken's the big guy on the left, Austin's on the right
**i dunno why but they had to dress nicely in suits while working, especially so in Seoul
***see the previous picture of kimchi, Ken was dressed in his suit

Noo... I knew we should've gotten a proper digital camera. We brought a sucky film one which spoilt after it dropped (right at the beginning of the trip), then had to rely on my mom's N70 and Austin's photos. Austin sucked as a photographer. Damn lousy pictures la... But still just buy to 捧场 and cos we need them since we didn't have.

The rest of the pictures are printed, if I wanted to upload them I'd have to scan them in then upload, so quite mafan. Whew spent a whole day doing this! But fun! And I'm still reminiscing as I devote my time to this. Oh I love Korea.

Back from Shenyang

2006-11-10T22:05:00.000+08:00

Didn't actually feel like blogging, haha. That was how I stopped blogging last year too. Just, too much to talk about, then don't know how to start, so didn't blog altogether.

Now, I wouldn't talk about everything that went on in Shenyang, otherwise that would just irritate me too much and I'll just give up blogging like I did last year.

Shenyang was nice. Cold, definitely. Waaay colder than I expected. I know I always complained and joked how cold it would be, but in my mind I had no actual idea. This time I really experienced how it was like to be in a place where temperature was below 0 degrees celsius. In two words, SF. At the start first few days still not too bad. Cold, but not below 0. Then one day a huge gust of wind just blew (suddenly) and from then on it was freezing. But I was very happy when I saw tiny specks of snow (formed from falling rain). There was nothing to shield my nose (didn't use the scarf) so my nose just froze. Subsequently my nose started dripping like a tap. Now I'm down with the cold because of the cold (chao tong gave me this pun). Still got runny nose and I almost lost my voice.

I saw more than Shenyang on this trip, cos my buddy lived in a city next to Shenyang called Fushun. Yea, learnt quite a lot about China history. My buddy was nice, his family was nice too.

Ack I cannot say all in my blog, so talk to me if you wanna know more ok haha.

Went out to dinner to eat with my grandparents and relatives. A few of us. Ate at a chaozhou restaurant. It's to bring my grandfather (who is very frail and body system not so good now) to eat as often as possible. He's quite old already, and is very thin (because of constant diarrhea). Ah well. Oh and my sister still in Shanghai enjoying herself say she don't wanna come back hahaha. I wouldn't have wanted to, if not for the bloody weather.

This holidays I'll still be going to Korea too. Just found out that it was confirmed. My father booked while I was away. Cool cool.

Tomorrow going Aaron's house. Supposed to stayover, but I don't think can, given that I'm still sick. Last time we'll be seeing Ye Wei (for another month) cos he'll be flying off to Taiwan.

Unlucky to be sick. My mom keeps scolding me it's because I didn't take my vitamin C (she pack for me to bring to China but I just dao lol).

Nonetheless, it's good to be home.

Higher Chinese O Levels... And off to Shenyang

2006-10-30T17:07:00.000+08:00

Couldn't post yesterday dunno why blogger down, so saved it and post it today.

I think we must be the only batch who slight O levels to such an extent. I don't know for sure about others, but I sure am like that. It's the national exams! O Levels! How important is that to every secondary four student since history. But now, with IP and the new D7 criteria, can't help but make me treat it with less priority. In fact, with no priority.

Played badminton as usual, then had lunch, went to cut my hair (again?! but trim short only... parents say too long not good for going china after that then leave long can). Then, Ye Wei came over and we watched District 13! (ou Banlieue 13 en francais). He rented it from Serene Centre, as per my request. Ok la, not spectacular, but action-packed. And all the parkour action can be viewed from Youtube already, the rest of the movie is just the exciting storyline. But not bad, give it say 3 stars. After that play Metal Slug play play play, then eat dinner, and watch Johnny English. He just left a few minutes ago.

What can I say, I hope for an A1 (as usual), but anything less than that I probably deserve it too.

Good luck everyone for your Higher Chinese O Levels. After tomorrow, we'll be truly free for the rest of the year.

And now for today.

Higher Chinese O Levels!!! It wasn't very difficult, especially paper 2, but the paper 1 come out funny guailan questions. I fail to correct my mistake, writing too short for my essay again. Can somebody console me by finding another person who wrote 2 and a half pages for compo. Wrote questions 1 and 4. 5 the bao zhang bao dao was quite leng men, like wtf do we know about old people?? So didn't attempt that. I think my compo missing one big chunk is because I forgot to write jian yi. No wonder lol. Then paper 2 ok ok ... Nothing much to say. Some answers I wrote super short, cannot find anything else to copy paste or smoke already. On the overall, feel so-so. Hope for an A. But heck, it's all over. O level results will only be released some time long long long later. So now, enjoy!

Or not.

Flying off to Shenyang. Getting up early at 6 to go to airport at 7. Flight at 9.30. Hope I don't freeze to death.

Can't find a title

2006-10-28T21:51:00.000+08:00

This was how I woke up today.

The doorbell rang. I barely heard it. Wtf who can it be at this unearthly hour?

The doorbell sounded again. Shit can't somebody go get it already?

Again. Ok crap no one's getting it. And why!? Grrr stumbled out of bed and went to open the door, my eyes haven't even focused. Then see the part-time maid and the supervisor standing outside. Why they come so early...

Had to make phone calls, then teach the auntie how to do the things. Haiz haiz gimme back my maid... I tried convincing my parents that this was more expensive. My father said he knew. He did the math long ago but he insisted on his reasons. Then I said if ever we want to re-hire a maid again, better do it in the holidays, so that when school reopens and all won't have to take time out to teach the maid whatever. More convenient in the holidays. Hahahaha my mother was like agreeing with it but still they didn't sway.

Anyways I did most of the remaining packing in the morning, then went to get my braces tightened. Had lunch outside with my sister (shufu man one of my brackets fell out while chewing). But lucky never affect the whole braces, so heck care.

Then as usual, went to Leslie's house to train wushu. Watched some videos of the wushu in China. China national team a bit noob. Cream of the crop, damn ownage skills. They don't participate one, otherwise international competitors don't stand a chance. I bet some China national team person who trains in sword can take part in the pole competition and still own. Haha. And then heard about some cheating in competition, like this Iran guy who couldn't even get his posture right was awarded 7 dan. Leslie's father damn pro, got 5 dan, though he was supposed to get 6. But he said it was very political over there.

Trained quite a bit today, haha, obviously more than the previous week. Didn't spar, though. And we all get gloves! But a pity it takes one month to be shipped over.

Played bridge for a while before I had to go.

Chinese O Levels... I don't care much about it. BSP scholars like Leslie are under stress to score at least an A2, lol, otherwise they'd have to take up Chinese lit. Thank god, i mean Allah, there's some good in not being a non-scholar after all. Dropping BSP next year anyway. The experience was enough.

Grad Night Photos

2006-10-27T22:42:00.000+08:00

Oh yes, promised that I'll share with everyone the photos from Grad Night. Enjoy!

Omg cannot. The photos take sibei long to upload (45 mins for 3)... Mass upload then connection with internet will reset, so have to one by one. Sigh. Haha nvm next time upload more.

A Boring Day

2006-10-27T22:00:00.000+08:00

Didn't do much, just got about packing (after procrastinating for damn long... and it's still not done!), stoning in front of the com, and living life without a maid. My maid was not renewed but went to work under another employer. She kept hiding secrets, even when given thousands of opportunities and even pleadings to come clean. End up found what, 2 handphones, also chanced upon her chatting with handphone on loudspeaker while washing the car. It's not that we cannot accept this, but we just want her to do it openly and tell us. She didn't. My mother say like, cannot trust her, not scared of these, but scared of what else she can do. So bye bye lor. But sucks, I have to wash clothes, collect, fold, keep, do the dishes... Boring chores that most of the teenagers my age don't have to and have no experience of. I am super afraid of my parents thinking more and more that this has been a damn good idea -- training us (me and my sis) to be independent and knowing some basic life skills. I want a maid back!!!

Oh and my BSP trip noob screwed. Thursday the teacher-in-charge Hon called me on the phone and told me that my plane tickets were all screwed. Misprint. My name was printed as Sim Xuan Yu Shane. And it was my fault. Why? Because I failed to check the list passed around properly. Shufu man. Then he say I may not be able to go, unless... In the end have to pay $75 to get the new tickets re-issued. Kena sai my parents noob pissed. And supposed to take the flu jab, but doctor says it will take one week to take effect, so end up never go. All these show my zhai responsibility...

Also, now kinda interested in parkour. Not that I'm new to it. Watched Yamakasi long ago and found it really cool already back then. Leslie was also talking about it some time back. But then now Ye Wei also very interested, and that day he come my house we just watched Parkour videos online. And so my interest is piqued. It's so cool that nothing can stand in your way. You can overcome all obstacles, and smoothly! Fluidity is the word they used. A new sport created by two guys David Belle and Sebastien. French. Noob man feels so much like ang moh qing gong. Want to watch this recent movie Banlieue Treize (District Thirteen) but damn, no time to. As in, would have to get Ye Wei to rent it and watch together, but no chance to. Oh wells.

Tmr going for dental appt in the morning then go Leslie's house for wushu. Heard that his father is now 5 duan. Highest in Singapore. That's pretty noob huh.

The End of Sec 4

2006-10-26T21:14:00.000+08:00

First I'd like to talk about HIC on Wednesday night. Watched it with Junyu and Ye Wei.

The rest of the plays kinda sucked more or less, but Sec 4 ProEd one rocked. Ping Kan's impersonation of Samuel Lim was seriously a bit NOOB. It was spot-on. Totally alike. Even Samuel Lim watching it was laughing along. Simply hilarious. Then Louis was really funny too. He acted well. Jerry did a good job. He sang Untitled (part of it) and his voice was a bit noob!!! Haha supposed to watch Yong Hao, but end up he only appeared for 3 seconds.

Ok and now...

Feeling inferior. Like wtf, more than half the class got 1.00. I got 1.12 and I'm 22nd in class... Ok, what can I say, I'm damn proud of my class. Our MSG is 1.1, thrashing all other classes (since the start of the year already like that). But crap, why can't I be one of the 1.0s... Boohoo... Why I screw my IH... I grade diff is 20 ranks diff... Nooo...

Sian. Nothing more to say.

Graduation Dinner

2006-10-24T13:52:00.000+08:00

It was too late to post last night. Came home then want to sleep already.

Grad night was so cool! Everyone looked fantastic. So smart, so adult! Took lotsa pictures (though not on my cam) and had lots of fun. Got Harapan's magic show etc etc. The dinner itself wasn't bad, but there was this stupid waiter who spilt orange juice over me and just mumbled a sorry (that's poor service for you!). Ended with singing Peng You, and saw many who cried. It was very emotional, I guess. I didn't. For me, if we're good friends, we'll definitely stay together and will be seeing each other very often. If we're not very close, then even if we don't see each other that much, it won't be very sad.

I dunno what else to say. I'd rather put up all the pictures and let everyone see for themselves. Can't wait to receive pictures.

Death Note

2006-10-22T17:41:00.000+08:00

Death Note was very very good. It was not below my expectations. Contrary to what many commented after watching the movie (like Ye Wei, Yonghao, Jinx), I found it nice! Totally enjoyed it, wishing every moment that please don't let it end now, please continue..! The movie did alter the story a little, but the standard was not lowered. Probably made it all the more exciting. My mother and sister watched with me, and they both agreed that this was a great movie. Kira looked better than I expected, haha, and L just behaved like a retard (reminds me of someone I know...). I can't wait for the second part of Death Note, coming out this December I presume. I give Death Note 4 stars.

Oh and it was funny before watching the movie. A disappointment that I couldn't watch it in Gold Class (that's why I didn't want to go with Jinx to watch), cos Death Note did not show in Gold Class. So end up have to watch in normal cinema. We went to GV Marina. Since Death Note was not under any distributor, my mother could only redeem 2 complimentary tickets. Then she thought of a plan for herself. She would redeem a ticket to another movie, and sneak into our hall after getting through. Sounds great, except that she realised later her movie was in a hall on a different level from ours! Lol! Still tried anyway, but the usher pointed her the direction, so she no choice. Suddenly while me and my sister were sitting in the cinema for awhile, me wondering what my mother was doing, she came and sat down beside us. Double lol! She went to redeem another ticket, this time from a different staff, and apparently they didn't keep proper records so that staff didn't see that my mother already redeemed 2 for Death Note, then she just gave her another ticket. And lucky there was a different usher so my mother managed to get in without any hindrance!!! Hahaha a bit nooob.

Wanted to go and see see if got any nice clothes to buy for the graduation dinner, but end up too lazy to, so we came home. I borrow a pair of long pants from my father (sticking strictly to the rule of no jeans), and I'll probably find a suitable top to go with it tomorrow.

Sian I should probably get started on my testimonial... But damn, Metal Slug is just sitting there, waiting for my to play it.

Carl's Junior at Vivocity

2006-10-21T22:29:00.000+08:00

Played badminton with Junyu, Jinx and Jun Jie at Keppel Club. Forgot to bring a 4th racket, so we had to take turns playing. After that took a short taxi ride to Vivocity.

It was super crowded there. Now is still not a good time to go. Probably wait another month or so. New shopping mall, like that one. Jam and congested until like mad. Then Junyu brought us to Carl's Junior, this fast food restaurant which sells huge burgers. Can get damn full. Free flow of drinks too. It's nice, but quite ex.

Then we carried our heavy stomachs and went to Leslie's house. Late again, because stopped by at this XBOX360 section and played the games for a while.

At Leslie there, didn't do much. All of us were damn lethargic because the food was settling in and all we wanted to do was sleep. Did some stretching, practised the lama pattern a few times, and that was it. Went up to his house, play cards for a while, play Metal Slug, and go down eat ice kachang. Jun Jie very poor thing, cos we told him aiya can play bridge at Leslie's house one, then he come. More the merrier mah. Then end up he nothing to do just sit one side and stone.

Borrowed Metal Slug from Leslie. A bit bu hao wan man. But I very noob, die ten thousand times lol. Nvm gonna play more!

My initial plan of watching Death Note in Gold Class is dashed! There is no DN showing in Gold Class. Damn. Gonna watch it tmr (quite late considering how many have watched already).

Friday Afternoon Slack

2006-10-20T22:39:00.000+08:00

Chinese lessons are getting worser. The number of people attending lessons are dropping, and people like Ben Wu and Yuxuan go play basketball until very late then sneak into class. LeeSP can't control us anyway. We hardly get any work done, except a few more 综合填空. Even then, the bulk of the time was spent playing Chinese chess, 三国Chinese chess (learn from Jun Jie) and even Bingo. End up dismiss at 12 cos nothing more to do.

Went to KKH to play badminton for a while. Before leaving at 1.30, managed to get owned by Alvin Tan and this junior badminton player while teaming up with Jia Haur. I noob suck man. Totally no match for them.

Come back, Ye Wei and Yonghao came over. Ye Wei wanted to swim. So we did. Then played water guns and throw ball around also. He left earlier cos he was going out with his friends. Then me and Yonghao just talk, and he watch his West Wing while I read my comic (up till now!!!). Oh and Yonghao showed me this really funny video that was shown in 4G and it is super hilarious omg too bad tmr don't have lessons otherwise I'll play it for 4H as well. It can be found on Youtube, it's this 吴宗宪 show. I totally exploded while watching it.

I think my eyesight decreasing like crap. Read comic see the words quite blurry. I think play too much Solitaire Showdown staring at the screen or something. Bao. Gotta send YH down now.

Weiqi Lesson

2006-10-19T16:05:00.000+08:00

Yes I just signed up for this all-new weiqi lesson conducted during school cirricular time, free of charge. It allows you to play weiqi throughout the whole day, as much as you like, while the teacher supervises and does his own things.

Oh please! It's fricking Chinese lessons under LeeSP.

We did abundant work man. A cheng yu worksheet, then listen to him go through zuo wen and ying yong wen, then copy down this worksheet of commonly mistaken words. And because he had to run between BSP and 4G, each time he ran out, we were like "Zao dian hui lai o!" Then the class erupted into chaos. Basketbottle, newspaper fight, PSP gaming, cards, chess, weiqi, babbling and making a hell lot of noise. Lol and it was like until after noon when he stepped in his hair looked dishevelled and he looked shagged. Oh man these kind of lessons can just pon and it won't harm us in any way. Maybe we'll flunk the Chinese Os, I dunno, but it seems no one cares.

Oh and the NE quiz today? I got Master Builder! A bit noob... MOE's propaganda, test us on National Education, with this lame game that I am so addicted to and wish that I could play it on LAN with my friends. Yea right. But I had to do it twice to achieve Master. And there was such a huge crowd behind me! Chao Tong, Jia Jun, Shi Xian... and a lot, cannot remember, Scott, Tian Yu etc etc. So noob own. Besides, if you don't know the questions, can just google them, most likely the answers can be found.

I really wanna pon sch... Can barely lift myself out of bed...

Slacking from all work

2006-10-18T20:38:00.000+08:00

Don't even wanna do my testimonial, even though it's for my own good. Anyway the final final deadline to hand in to Janey is 25th... So till then. And I'll just wait for ppl to send me theirs so I can use theirs as reference. Lol.

Woke up at 12. Really fatigued. Should be due to waking up early and playing badminton for four hours. Spent the day reading my comic, playing the com, watching tv.

From tmr onwards, Chinese lessons the whole day, the whole week! Woo I wonder how Leesp can take it.

There goes 1.00

2006-10-17T19:03:00.000+08:00

Sad, depressed, dejected. Why can't I be one of those who get the nicest, highest MSG of 1.00. Came close, but just not enough. I'm sure a lot of others would get 1.00 ... Boohoohoo.

All subjects A1, left Humans abit zhai... I should've mugged more. Like Branden. He worked strategically. Forgo studying Math because he knew his Math overall could still score A1, then went to mug IH. Me... I do math a little bit, do Humans a little bit... Not good enough. Then now, baooo. History 19/30 cos didn't cross-reference for one side!!! Social Studies 22/30... Not good enough. Branden noob. Ms Teo announced that for the first time in her teaching life she gave him the highest score: 29/30 for IHC. Ahh... How I envy Branden.

The rest of my subjects did ok. All went well, but the day had to end on a sad note.

Then in the afternoon from 2 to 6 plus played badminton in the hall. Jia Haur sneaked in (he did a Wei Zheng) and opened the hall. Lol then Me Jinx Jia Haur and Junyu played. Leslie and Jun Jie came to join us later. Long time never exercise this much. It's good.

My Shenyang trip cut short. Barely 8 days spent in Shenyang. Leaving on the 1st, coming back on the 9th. Whee. The teacher-in-charge said something like we won't be able to tahan it there, especially when the cold gets colder.

Ok, trying not to think about my grades now.

Disappointed about results

2006-10-16T17:45:00.000+08:00

Ok, so for all three sciences, 混过去, got bare A1s... None were done well, just... average, or even below average.

Bio 83.5
Chem 75
Physics 78

Getting scores like these don't make me feel so proud of myself. Especially for Chem. I feel so 对不起 Mrs. Sow... I was like super overflowing confidence when doing the paper and felt so darned good about myself after the paper. Then realised ten thousand mistakes everywhere. So end up minus minus minus until leave me with just that scraping A1. Bio, could've done better too. Blame myself for not studying enough (sickle-cell anaemia), and also filling in blanks can get order wrong, bright to dark I read as dark to bright. Ah but no mistakes as comparable to Chem... Chem is ultimate screwed-up. Then Physics. My Physics was never strong, so 78... Isn't pleasing, but I should be contented with that. Wei Zheng a bit noob, 94 or something.

I left early, along with some others, cos we went to ask Mr. Su earlier. Then Leslie and Junjie came my house. Leslie practised the piano, of course, then me and Junjie play cards, then we all played CTR and MVSC. Very fun, but got tired out at around 5 plus and they left.

Hoohoo heard news from Junyu that Jinxiang bao his IHC test!!! I dunno why, but I am 幸灾乐祸 -ing now. Who ask him always show off and haolian. Good la, now somebody up there punish him.
But I'm also damn worried about my IH also... And my English... Wonder if can get 1.00. I think more than 50 can get. It's not very hard.

Maths haven't collect back yet, but again, Junyu told me that our class MSG for Math 2.0. I'm really shocked. That means we didn't do too well... Average A2... Ahh...

The rest of the results would be out tomorrow. Hope I don't die from getting them.

Day before getting results

2006-10-15T22:06:00.000+08:00

Went out to watch World Trade Center with Yong Hao, Jinxiang and Kevin today. Could claim tickets for all four. The movie was... not as great as I was expecting it would be. It was ok ok, talking about 2 policemen trapped under the rubble and how their families are affected and how they pulled through. 3 stars.

Then we crapped around, ate at Kobanyashi. I could actually finish a bowl of udon even after I already had lunch. All of them came back to my house and we just played cards and KOF.

Haha Yong Hao and Jinx left together but Kevin's still here watching me blog! Lol. Play games online and chat online.

Tmr gonna collect paper. Sian... The news have to come so early. Why don't they just let us enjoy ourselves more...

Badminton and Wushu

2006-10-14T19:50:00.000+08:00

Went to play badminton at Keppel Club with Jinx, Junyu and Kevin today. Quite fun. Then went to play an hour of pool and then mess around at the gym for awhile.

Had lunch at Toa Payoh Central. Took our time, even Keef joined us. We played arcade (Junyu owned at Daytona as usual), walked around, stopped at Comics Convention, then stopped at 7-Elevens, and by the time we reached we were late. But all blame Jinxiang hahaha.

Lotsa sparring, very little practising of pattern. I sparred thrice, once with Jinx, once with Kevin, once with Leslie. I think Jinx and Leslie did a fine nose job for me. Flattened it a bit. Lol. But still quite fun. Still suck at fighting, but fun. The most uber baoli one was Junyu VS Shuliang (yes shuliang went). Sane man. Shuliang kept hitting Junyu and Junyu was like cannot get Shuliang, then he just went meng and charged at Shuliang and grabbed him. The two of them were entangled and just kept whacking each other. Shuliang was groaning but I think Junyu bao more. Shufu man.

Played basketball, then went to have ice-kachang. Whee the auntie very nice, gave me extra strawberry sauce without charging me. Told me to keep it hush-hush. Then as I ate I found a third atachi (supposed to only have 2!). Zhuan dao liao. And poor Jinxiang get daoed cos the table could only seat 6, then Jinxiang get left out. Even his order also get left out. Sad sad.

Father came to pick me up and so I'm home. It was fun today, especially with more people around.

Enjoying the holidays

2006-10-13T19:11:00.000+08:00

Slept to the fullest, around 12 hours. Sleeping is addictive, that's for sure. If you don't have any motivation to get up and you just indulge in sleeping, you can sleep forever.

Yay finally I opened up my comics that I bought quite some time ago. Was contemplating whether to open it on Tues already, but no, had to wait till exams were officially over then reward myself (though not much of a reward I didn't deserve much of a reward whatsoever). So today I opened and read. Read one so far, while still playing games on com.

Went to get my hair cut. The hairdresser I always go to Uncle Symon had his new shop opened two weeks ago, and saw it for the first time today. Ok ok, roughly same size as before. Quite sad for him. He and his other two partners were working together for 20 years plus, and suddenly one of his partners just bushuang and wanted to split. End up now that bushuang partner opened another shop downstairs and they're competing.

More slacking now... trying not to think about getting back results (esp IH).

End of the Exams

2006-10-12T20:17:00.000+08:00

Woohoo, the last day of the exams. Chinese paper 1 today, and nothing to study for. Got through it just fine, but I believe I wrote a tad too few words... Lol nvm. I couldn't help but grin to myself when the invigilator was collecting the papers. Even though mentally I'm already halfway into the holiday mood, there's nothing better than the official ending.

We didn't exactly perform the Cheers beer... Only some of us. Was looking to grab Wei Zheng, but then he was looking a little stony cos haha, he tomorrow still got Malay exam!! So sad.

Then Leslie came over to practise the piano. It's my piano but it seems like Leslie has been playing it more often than I have. Lol. Then we watched Wu Jian Dao. I noob promote the show man. Last time Junyu and Jinx came over we also watched. This time thought of it cos The Departed is coming out. Well, still as nice as hell, and I'm quite sure Leslie enjoyed it too. It's like the best Hong Kong police movie. And then he practised more piano and we left the house together cos I had to go to my piano lesson as usual.

Bao, I really am sick. Nose dripping again!!! My parents sure get damn pissed with me. Lucky they haven't find out yet... They tell me ten gazillion times NOT to fall sick, drink ten gazillion gallons of water and rest well. Cos they damn worried about me going to travel to Shenyang for BSP trip (so far, so cold... especially so cold), then if never stay healthy will suffer over there. Sorry that I disappointed them. Wonder why I fall sick so easily nowadays.

Tomorrow's open house... Don't feel like going leh...

And hello, can anybody tell me why Blogger requires us to key in this word verification recently.

Math Paper 2

2006-10-10T20:12:00.000+08:00

It was hard... Everyone thought it'd be an easier paper today, but no...

Ok, still doable. A1 still within reach (even though I made careless mistakes which I can barely afford!!). I thought I'd feel hugely relieved when this was over, but I felt kinda weird. Like, even though it was over, I wasn't exactly overjoyed. I guess it's because I've been consistently slacking. Even if the exams were over it hardly meant anything much.

The whole of today felt quite crappy. Nothing to do! I went to shop for groceries with my grandmother and aunt, had lunch at their place, watched some tv, then came home and slacked. But it was boring! My mother don't let me go out, say exams haven't over, and I'll be travelling abroad soon so don't want me to go out and catch an illness or something. End up bored to death at home.

Yay tomorrow is a holiday. Big deal. I'll probably be bored again.

Math Paper 1 and History

2006-10-09T13:50:00.000+08:00

I feel greatly relieved now. I won't say I'll ace the test, but I think I'll do fine. Even if I screwed them up, the thought of actually going through them makes me glad.

Math was less difficult than I expected. I was expecting gay ownage questions and I'll be stumped at half of them. End up only stumped at 1 or 2. Won't minus that many marks, so feel ok. Dunno if got mistakes along the way, but I believe I can get A1.

History was... not easy. I knew a lot about 1940s onward, including the Civil Rights Movement, but end up I did the question which I didn't study a lot about. It's like I switch places with Branden last minute. Branden was the total opposite of me, but he did the Civil Rights question, and I did the New Deal question. PSI levels may have risen thanks to me (or Keef and Scott, taking Lit in front of me). But WHAT THE HECK! They're over!!!

Left 1 Math paper and 1 Chinese paper. OMG I can't wait!!! I don't think anyone can.

Oh no...

2006-10-08T20:37:00.000+08:00

I'm just really really lethargic now. But there's still so much to study for History and so much more practice to go for Math. Super unconfident for Math... And then this year is a hard paper some more, sigh.

Wei Zheng came over to mug today. Shocked lor the past 2 days he busy slacking. Watch anime and play LAN. I never thought WZ would do that. Haha. But I suppose he's just normal.

I studied sooo little!!! And Math I spend ten thousand years just to do one simple question. Abit zhai preparation for tomorrow man. This sucks.

Feel like sleeping now...

Haze

2006-10-07T22:59:00.000+08:00

I just realised that my Math still sucks ass. Like totally. Doing a practice paper Wun gave, having difficulty already. Simple things I cannot even grasp properly.

Anyway Yong Hao and Ye Wei came over to mug. Didn't get much done. More like we were slacking. Efficiency level chao low, like 2 hours for 3 questions.

The haze is getting really bad, especially tonight, woo hit 150. Come on let it hit 300 so that we can all pon school.

As if the exams were over

2006-10-06T21:55:00.000+08:00

Just came back from Aaron's house. Lol was supposed to go there to mug? But end up it was so fun there couldn't help but play. Played a game of weiqi (i won), then play ten thousand games of RA2 (before and after dinner; AND i'm no longer getting owned... winning him back now), and even pingpong. Did only 2 questions of math!!! No mood to study already, though my math is pretty weak. And still gotta read through history.

Talk about the papers today. Chinese was ok la. Got experience earlier in Term 4, so could roughly manage my time, though still rather tight. Then IHC... Omg man. Really need to study. First question was de-contextualised, asking about Israel-Lebanon. Second question, a bit difficult. Do on Singapore, whether having a powerful defence industry is sufficient to ensure national security. And can you imagine it -- Paul Ho LEAKED the questions to 4E. They KNEW what to study. They knew Sri Lanka would come out, and they all mugged it. This is... pretty fair.

Anw gonna eat some supper (leftovers of dinner) and then sleep.

Physics Paper

2006-10-05T19:40:00.000+08:00

First thing when I got to school this morning was to get more demoralised about my Chem marks. Already Wei Zheng exposed tons of my mistakes while discussing it yesterday afternoon, and today, Chao Tong exposed more. I still think, and do hope, that I can still score an A1. Crap lor really underestimated the paper. From free frag... Now becomes...

Anw, physics was quite hard. My mcq... Got several mistakes. I don't think more than 10? But around there. Then section B also. Like, when did Mr. Su ever teach us what momentum was?? And plus plus. End up Chem and Physics have to hope for the best, but expect the worst.

Even though Physics was more or less screwed, getting past the triple sciences felt good. Tomorrow is Chinese Paper 2 and IHC. Slacking already. This whole week's been really tiring and monotonous. Can't wait, can't wait. A mere 16 hours more and the weekend is here!

Chem Paper

2006-10-04T19:35:00.000+08:00

Last night I was suddenly super paranoid about Chem. Stuck at the same old question! Suddenly just cannot "tong1". Then bao, kept pestering Chao Tong and my mind still refused to accept the answer. Very freaky. Felt like all my self-confidence was shattered.

But omg, today's paper... I have to say Mrs. Sow set this paper don't get A1 also difficult la. Not that I scored full marks or something. Got a handful of mistakes here and there. But definitely won't deduct until no A1. Whew.

Tomorrow Physics! Wei Zheng, as usual, came over and we were supposed to mug. A little here and there lor. Then his eyes bao, too tired, so he just napped for like 45 mins on the sofa. Sian tomorrow's physics is a sure-killer (as everyone says)... Can get A1... Can't be more happy already.

And at first, I was kinda into mugging. Felt it was fun! Hardly ever done that before, to be so totally immersed in mugging. But after a while, like on Tuesday, when you come home in the morning and have to mug the whole day day after day, what the hell? It became too monotonous to be fun. And this whole week? All I can say is it felt really long just getting past it. Though I'm really happy today is the third day down already, and every night I cheer at getting past one day... But man... It's quite a lot more to go.

Must look ahead... Mustn't stop now... So why am I slacking...

Bio Paper

2006-10-03T20:40:00.000+08:00

It was... ok. I wouldn't say I'm screwed, because I won't fail or do super badly. But I may not get a high score. A1 is still possible, though.

MCQ damn tyco I got those I don't know correct (at least I think they're correct). But got careless mistakes, and Ron pointed out some like I forgot that protein was also digested in the small intestine. Damn.

The open-ended it's like, there are a couple of questions which are discriminating, and I got discriminated. Like the cyanide question, I dunno how to answer. Then last part essay questions, bao! Got sickle cell anaemia worth 7 marks, and I totally neglected it. Never ever ever thought it would've come out. End up must smoke through it. But probably still can get a couple of marks (i hope). Other than that... Not very much. Even though I'd need maybe a B4 to get A1 overall, still, if the paper scores an A1, it feels good cos I won't have wasted my efforts.

Tomorrow is Chem paper. Quite worried for it. In fact, more worried for Chem than Bio. Somehow my Chem totally sucks ass now. But today Wei Zheng and Yong Hao came over. Didn't mug that much. A lot of time spent stoning because we thought there was nothing more to study, and chatting, and eating snacks and mooncakes, and playing KOF2003. Hope Mrs. Sow doesn't come up with something as guailan as Mrs. Goh today. Who knows.

Two Down, Nine To Go

2006-10-02T19:23:00.000+08:00

English today was... Not so good. Felt very unsure, for both papers. Compo feels out of point, SRQ was total crap (repetition and rephrasing of what the writer wrote)... Then compre not any better... Doesn't feel as bao, but still... Not confident.

After the exam Wei Zheng came to my house to mug. We were supposed to mug Bio, end up split between the three sciences. Did Physics online and then I did this Chem paper that I haven't done last time. I am so much more worried for Chem and Physics than Bio. Doing this Chem paper now I realise how bao my Chem is. My Chem SUCKS. Seriously. Physics at least now practised a little bit, but still sucks.

Now taking a break. Well haha actually just now also quite slack already.

Need luck to do well.......

Welcome the EOYs

2006-10-01T21:36:00.000+08:00

Oh man the dread and pressure is building up now that I think of how close tomorrow and the EOYs are.

Yong Hao and Ye Wei came over to mug again. Today we did more Physics... Just went online to do Mr. Su's quizzes. Still very unconfident about my Physics... Sigh. Some more ppl say it's set by this teacher which is definitely gonna be very difficult.

Need all the luck I can get for the exams.

EOYs kick off with English tomorrow.

Mugging Day

2006-09-30T22:00:00.000+08:00

I tried to mug as much as possible today, though I still played a bit :P couldn't help it.

Studied Bio... Yong Hao came over in the afternoon and we just sat at the table and studied. Spent about 3 hours. And then Ye Wei came, and after that it was mostly crapping. I think we ran out of mood to study haha. But I'm rather satisfied. I studied more than I have ever done so. So yea. And I probably need to study for other things soon. Not all just about Bio because we think of Bio as the ultimate mugging subject. Things like Physics Math and IH... I'd say even Chem (cos I realised it wasn't so easy after doing the practice paper) would need more work. Also, I sorta calculated my Bio marks I need for EOY (I didn't want to do so earlier so I can target higher and don't be lazy or complacent)... I'd roughly need a B4 or better to get an A1... Hmm thinking this way does relieve some pressure, as Yong Hao does so.

Now I'm gonna take a break. Hopefully I can mug the same way tomorrow.

Our Class 4H

2006-09-29T18:33:00.000+08:00

Today was just great. There was so much fun! And I didn't even realise it was the last day of school, the last day that teachers would be officially teaching us...

For some comic relief, we were trying to screw around during recess and trying to initiate a taupok. But that didn't interest ppl. Then I said "Let's all try to confine Scott in a corner!" and then there were 20 ppl pushing and squeezing one another's bodies so that Scott can't get out. Guess what, in the end Scott still made his way out.

Then there was Yuan Guang's taupok. Dunno what he did but some ppl were messing around with him then he got onto the floor and we just decided to taupok him. Lol I was supposed to be on the second level but I hesitated and Shi Xian took it instead. But end up it was still super uncomfortable being on the third. I dunno who were up above, but it was super heavy. The heaviest taupok because there were most ppl this time. I kinda felt immune after Harapan got on. Like no weight had an effect anymore. Even when Louis made short runs and jumped on, I hardly felt anything. It was hard breathing, with Yi Xin's leg smothering my face and Shi Xian's hair caught in my mouth. But poor Yuan Guang was the worst. He was pale and breathless at the end of it all.

Math lesson was as usual, OTOT (Own Time Own Target). That indirectly meant Please try not to slack during this free period. Lol towards the end of the Math lesson the whole class was drawing on the board. What started out as a cartoon drawing of a frog of Yuan Guang became representative of our class. Everyone had a picture up there, mostly animals. Let's see if I can name them all... Jia Jun was an ant, Branden was a tiny speck on the board, Ming Fui was the sun because he "guang mang si she" (his head), then the quiet ones like Zhi Yong Yik Hang Jonathan Zhi Xing were left out because what is there to say about them? Omg got soo many to name... Harapan was a hippo, Leslie was a chess piece, Wei Xiang a Gugu bird, Glenn an epithelial cell (something he doesnt have at his ahem), Moses was a goldfish, Ian was a Spongebob Squarepants character Patrick, Junjie was a bulldog, Ron was a bull, Chao Tong a cat, Louis a gorilla, Wei Liang a squirrel, Wen Wei a monkey, Scott a fat buddha, Wei Zheng a stickman with a soccer ball (our famous soccer coach)... So many... Jun Heng was the most representative, a big thick book lying on the tree! Almost the whole class was up there. And even I! Shocked. Guess what they put for me... An oil barrel lol. In class I always use that blue oil paper and soak up the whole sheet and leave them lying around so I suppose everyone knows it... Lol this is so cool. Our class is not just mugger, but so closely bonded too. Had so much fun. And then later many of us (well not me) busy snapping away with their camera phones. P.S. I want them!!!

And that wasn't all. When the 1.30 bell rang, Louis looked up and said "Tomorrow is a holiday!!!" Spontaneously we burst into joy and exhilaration and cheered and roared and shook our fists in the air and hugged each other tightly and went on our knees in tears. Lol. For some background knowledge, Keef showed the class this Cheers Beer commercial on Youtube and it was really funny, and so we just followed it.

To every small thing in life, CHEERS! 4H ROCKS.

Life tries to be nice

2006-09-28T20:59:00.000+08:00

It's weird how I recall that today wasn't the first time I experienced something bad earlier, and later on something else somehow just makes up for it. It's as if someone up there is making sure that I won't get too depressed, and somehow making my life more comforting.

Mr. Su walked in today and gave his test. Another section of it. To be counted. At the end of it, we were cross-marking our own papers. Sure, we could all cheat. Leslie did, because he cared a lot for his marks and it was really important to him. I wanted to too, but somehow struggled and in the end decided not to. Not saying that I'm a really morally upright person, but... Well, there, I was put through the test and I came out of it with my integrity still preserved. My marks didn't come out nice though. 11/20. In fact, that seriously sucks. And it goes to show how poor my understanding of Physics is. So yea, after the test, was feeling a tad uncomfortable. Naturally right? I mean, you don't screw up a test and feel good about yourself do you.

But later on English perioud Mrs. Sim gave out stuff that was good news to me. Like, for the New South Wales English Competition I got High Distinction! Few got it, I think. And not that I needed the ACE points. But wow, whee, shows something about my English huh. Lol ok maybe I just tyco one la. So after receiving that, didn't feel so bad. Can't remember my previous incidents where similar happenings occurred.

Also, today already got a handful of people pon sch. Zhijie. And the teachers know it but do nothing because it's kinda the norm to them. Like Weiliang, who in the end got punished because he came up with some lame stomachache excuse in the morning but came after assembly at 12. Punished how. Not legitimately, I would say. Once he stepped into the class I think it was Yixin who shouted "Bond". And with Louis and Keef doing the job, especially Keef, his clothes came undone pretty fast. He was squirming in his undone shirt and pants on the floor at the end of it. But everyone's expecting more people to pon tmr. In fact I think I'd probably only see half the class tomorrow. Or even half the cohort. All just stay at home to mug because they think coming to school is a waste of their time. But its truancy!!!

Countdown to exams: 4 days. Hmm maybe 3. Screw it.

The usual bore

2006-09-27T21:28:00.000+08:00

I can just imagine myself cheering at the end of the last paper the Friday after next... Sigh. Just a daydream to console myself.

A lot of my classmates just need to score a passing mark to get an overall A1. No, not Jun Heng, Stanley and Chao Tong they all. And I still have to study for IH... Sob sob...

Oh man and now my mother wants me to do Chinese assessment? Wtf want to do man.

Nothing much...

2006-09-26T19:49:00.000+08:00

I WOULD have forgotten to blog today, if not for the amount of free time I have.

Basically it was just getting through today, not much. But got some consolation in Physics lesson. Noob ah, the physics SPA 4 i thought I screwed turned out to be L6 WTF? And so I got 5 ACE max for it. Physics OP Mr. Su suddenly fancied being Santa Claus and gave a lot of people full (including me!). So Physics very shuang now, I know that 25% is achieved in my Physics grade for EOY.

I played basketbottle today. Noob violent arh. A guy like me should NOT be playing with Scott, Keef, Louis, Ian and Junjie. Well, Leslie and Jeremy played too. It was the GENTLEST sport ever. Noob body contact and zhijie rugby. Scott is seriously unstoppable. He insisted on one man show so he kept owning. Nobody could do jump shots with Keef around. Well, fun and all, but got boring after a while.

BSP lesson went there super late. Then Ting Feng told LSP that Leslie was sick and wouldn't be coming. 20 minutes into the lesson me and Leslie strolled in. When asked, Leslie said we were held back by the teacher. AHHH credible. I should've taken more notice of LSP. I bet he was thinking "You little liar think I'm blur just because I look blur right".

Haven't got any work done up till now except English corrections. Better do!

Counting down the days

2006-09-25T16:09:00.000+08:00

Aw man forgot to blog yesterday! Somehow I hope I won't forget to blog for good.

Yesterday went to Aaron's house for a short while in the afternoon. Postponed it off for very long already, due to many circumstances we couldn't meet at his house. Ytd finally could. Go there of course is to play, not to mug. Started off with a game of weiqi (which I won), then played RA2. Played quite a number of games (3-4) can't remember, but result always the same, Aaron owned. I stood no chance. Dunno why I suck so much at it. Then his com bao. Like my com in the past, press the On button then it will rev up for a bit and go off again. So we stoned around a little, then played another game of weiqi. This time Aaron won because I left too many weaknesses behind for him to exploit. Still got much to learn, I do. Then we just sat down and chatted. My father came to pick me up at 7.

I should probably not have ponned third lang today. I ponned it under the pretext of studying, but what the hell am I doing now. After getting stuck at a math question I'm on the com slacking again. Sigh. I bet so many others out there are fully utilising every second to study for the EOYs. Ok let me promise myself I'll start work half an hour later.

Mug Day

2006-09-23T13:49:00.000+08:00

Didn't get to blog yesterday because by the time we got home it was already 12. Went to watch the premiere of Jackie Chan's new movie, BB Ji Hua (or Bob-B-Hood). I thought it would suck, cos it's a stupid comedy about babies? And what, Jackie Chan is supposed to excel in these genres, I don't think so. But turned out it surprised me. It wasn't bad. There was comedy, there was action and there was drama. Action wouldn't be as hardcore as the other Jackie films, but there were plenty in this movie too. It was really entertaining, the baby was really cute, and there was a nice happy ending. This movie only proves that Jackie Chan can succeed not only in action-packed films but in others as well. The selection of cast were good too, and they used this very famous old comedian. Overall I give it 3 and a half stars.

Today I'll be going over to Yonghao's house to mug. Wushu is cancelled.

Skipped school

2006-09-21T21:27:00.000+08:00

I was actually awaken when my sister was going to school today. Deliberated whether to get up and go, but finally decided not to and fell back to sleep later.

Woke up at 9.30. Still giddy and muscle aching, but much better. The fever subsided pretty much. And so I spent my whole day mugging. Hopefully I can catch up with schoolwork. There's already so little time left to the exams...

Fever

2006-09-20T21:59:00.000+08:00

Damn unwell today. Whole day super lethargic and uncomfortable. Came home just slept from 2 to 7. Then went to see a doctor. Dunno why will suddenly fever.

Rat Dissection

2006-09-19T22:50:00.000+08:00

Almost forgot to blog today. Just finished an IHC worksheet.

Highlight of today -- rat dissection during Bio practical. At first it felt really really sick and disgusting, and I was thinking how Mrs. Goh would be so inhumane. But end up I also did it. Pin the mouse face up (as in really stretch and pin its four limbs) and then start cutting it up. After all the gooey insides came out, we had to spot what they were, and then we even did horrible things like cutting up the tail, decapitating it, cracking open the skull so the brain paste would come out, not to mention many of us busily snapping away with their camera phones. Poor thing, and to think I once had hamsters. Hopefully I'll never be reincarnated as a lab rat.

Then taking bus home, finally saw the 156 pervert whom everyone knows of. Saw him, and yes he does indeed look like a freaking pervert. All weird smiles and stuff.

Nothing more to say. Better go sleep earlier.

The Worst Monday Ever

2006-09-18T21:38:00.000+08:00

Today was seriously the worst Monday ever. I want to cut my blog post short, because still have to do homework.

But it's just, BSP test, Bio SPA, Chem extra lessons and French back to back! No time for taking a leak or even lunch in between. I had to eat in my aunt's car while she was fetching me to MOELC. It was horrible.

BSP test was ok. Zhijie copy paste most of the content. Not that hard. I finished earlier than others, then still see others busy writing. I didn't write as much. But should be sufficient.

Then Bio SPA... Didn't really study for it, and was hoping it would be easy. Look at the question, was stunned for quite some time before starting to write. In the end I finished earlier than the rest again. Hopefully nothing is wrong. I just want an L4.

French we got back to watching movie. It's the Asterix movie continuing. Learning lots of vocab from it.

And now, I shall try and do as much work as I can before I sleep...

So sick of Mondays...

2006-09-17T20:29:00.000+08:00

Dreading tomorrow like shit again. Gonna have severe monday blues. Just like the previous monday.

There's BSP test and Bio SPA tomorrow. BSP test is open book, so all I did was to print out notes. Haven't read them, don't intend to. Tmr just impromptu and smoke. Then Bio SPA... Nvm la... Can't wait to get past tomorrow.

Running out of time...

2006-09-16T23:59:00.000+08:00

Stayed up till so late again... Trying to do a piece of Chinese ACE, which until now is still not finished. Took me about 3 hours so far, and yet still incomplete.

Went to Leslie's house for wushu as per normal today. Only me and Jin Xiang went. Same as previously, nothing much, and no sparring at all. None of us wanted to spar. We just practised pattern, some scenarios, spear etc.

I realised I am running out of time. I was so busy catching up with homework that I forgot I still had to do revision. I haven't actually revised for any subject at all. This really sucks. I only have one day left tomorrow, and I still need to prepare for Bio SPA, BSP test, finish an English compre, finish this piece of Chinese ACE, and finish up my homework (which is like a million tons). Sigh...

Mugging at MacDonalds

2006-09-16T00:08:00.000+08:00

Just finished a game of weiqi with Aaron. Second time I've played with him recently over the Net. Surprisingly, I won, even though he ate me quite a bit and got a huge center territory, but ended up the center wasn't as big as my sides (which are actually very low and seemingly small). I feel confused about winning. Don't understand why. I think my estimation is really bad.

Just now in the afternoon the four of us, me yewei yonghao and aaron went to macs at serene centre to mug. I thought I'd get a lot of work done, end up only doing just one page of math and a few pages of chemistry. What the hell. And I had to keep asking yh math questions. And he was like saying at my pace the math test I will fail. I kinda agree. This was my longest stay at macdonalds. 6 hours plus. From 4 till 10 plus. I don't understand why people like to study at macs. It's not conducive at all. Besides the food service, the whole environment... is incomparable to the comfort and convenience of home. Anything you need or want, you can grab at home. Out in public place at macdonalds, you forget to bring something, you can't do anything about it. And then another thing is it was so goddamn noisy at times how the bloody hell do you concentrate. Sad to say there was this bunch of HCJC guys who made the most noise today. Sons of bitches shaming our school. Aaron left early because he had to have dinner with his grandparents. Yonghao left before me at 10, and I left a little after that.

There's Bio SPA and BSP test next week. I don't understand the arrangement. BSP test clashes with Bio SPA, so what the hell do we do, clone ourselves over the weekend? BSP zhai man. And still have to study for both, esp BSP... Have to search and print out tons of notes so that during exam can refer and use (open-book). Also have to do Chinese ACE because my ACE for Chinese isn't full yet. Sian...

Premiere of The Banquet

2006-09-14T22:32:00.000+08:00

Whew was out the whole day, just returned from watching the premiere of The Banquet. Before I go on to that, I have to announce, today I'm screwed! Physics test and Chem SPA 1. Both were supposed to be easy free frag, but physics I got a lot unsure because I hadn't studied. Even had stupid mistakes. Then Chem SPA, something that I didn't worry about, ended up screwed. I did titration, then I was so happy I was the first to finish, even called Sow over and ask her to see. Then only after the SPA ended did I realise that red colour as end point was bad. Very very bad. Orange is the fricking end point. Red means I exceeded it. Noooooo!!!

The Banquet was quite nice... A little bit like those other Chinese historical-cum-martial-arts epic. Artistic, but better than (in my opinion) Hero. It had a good plot, awfully complex of scheming and politics in the palace. On the overall, the movie progressed at a slow pace. Artistically slow, perhaps one may argue. And this movie is NC16 I think because of violence. When they slash and kill, blood will splatter around, heads get chopped off etc. The ending was nice, but left a bit of puzzlement in my mind. Nvm it's up to one's interpretation. I give it 3 and a half stars.

Dumb Me

2006-09-13T21:15:00.000+08:00

I was a dumb shit today. Went to third lang centre, then saw how come nobody I know there. I went there, stone around, sit down, after a while realised nobody was coming, then remembered something about today being Sec 1's exams so no lesson. Goddamn. Waste time.

Found out that for BSP trip I'd be going to Shenyang from 1/11 to 14/11. SHUFU. Shenyang leh. Not cold ah. Especially skinny person like me... How to tahan...

Physics and Chem SPA

2006-09-12T20:10:00.000+08:00

Today the two SPA tests shufu. Ok actually, honestly, they weren't difficult at all. But my physics screwed up because I wrote to let the toy oscillate till it came to rest, then it's not correct, must have timing one. I cancelled out my timing cos I thought it was wrong. Damn. Hope Mr. Su marks leniently and gives me an L4. Then Chem... Look at it want to laugh. Test 3 acids which one most concentrated. I just add magnesium strips lor. But I didn't say time how fast the magnesium strip took to react completely, I wrote add and count the maximum number... I think can la huh? Lol self-reassurance.

So after these two were over, whew I could finally catch my breath back again. Came home played Go on the net for a while then caught up on my physics homework. Now feel like slacking again, though there are tons more revision work to do (esp for Math, Physics and Bio). As for English and IHC files, everyone trying to get everyone else to dao them. Lol I am. Since we haven't had these 2 lessons at all yet (due to the tests), so we have an excuse to forget. I hope?

Chinese Common Test Term 4

2006-09-11T21:33:00.000+08:00

Today's Chinese common test bao small. I was hoping it could help pull up my Chinese marks for this term, but no. Super gay. Leesp never trained us for this. Then I didn't expect so much. Actually stupid of me not to look thru the paper, so at the next hour I was like blitzing. Damn pressurised by time. Only managed to finish just in the nick of time, at the very last second. But not done well. How I wish there was more time.

Tomorrow Physics and Chem SPA. Yonghao was like trying to relieve the pressure by saying its only 3%. One can live without 3% and still get A1 in the eoy right. Maybe, but that's what I'm doing. Study a bit duo ah. Esp physics. Mr. Su himself prepare us duo ah. But just needa get L4 to get 3 Ace. Hopefully can get.

Last Day of September Holidays

2006-09-10T17:25:00.000+08:00

Better blog now, going out with family later. We're gonna watch this Shinhwa concert, some Korean boy band which my sister is very keen on watching. Actually I don't want to watch one lor, like, gonna start school liao, but nvm since everyone's going just go.

Went to play badminton (now my badminton sucks as hell) and then ate at Chinatown (because my mom was collecting her medicine nearby there) then went to cut my hair. Hehe. I couldn't resist... Yesterday hesitated like shit. Today my father gave me money and after I got my hair cut went over to Kino and bought my Hikaru no Go books! Whee!!! Wonder if I have time to read them though.

I can't find any of my files. I think tomorrow need to hand in both English and IHC files. Shufu man. Then hw also haven't complete. A lot of things la, sigh. I can't wait to survive the first week of school. Filled with Chinese test and SPA tests.

Celebrate Junyu's Birthday

2006-09-09T23:17:00.000+08:00

Junyu and Jia Haur just left. Quite a day.

Jin Xiang, Junyu, Jia Haur and Swee Kheng came to my house today. We stoned in the house for a while, then set off to Cine to catch The Host. Managed to claim 4 tickets, and since Junyu was the birthday boy, the three of them shared the price of 1. The movie was not bad. About this mutated tadpole because of toxic waste dumped indiscriminately into the Han river of Korea. And there wasn't really a happy ending. Horror, yes, but also about a family. I would say 3 and a half out of 5 stars. Been a long time since I watched a movie too.

After the movie went to Taka and ate. We were deciding from so many different places, then end up ate at Mos Burger lol. Junyu treated us. My mother told me I should've tried the rice burger there because it's nice, but nvm, I ate the chicken teriyaki. And I was in a dilemma whether to go upstairs to Kinokuniya to buy the 6 HnG comic books. Damn in the end didn't, and still felt confused. Read online feel bushuang, but Jinx was saying maybe his sister could help me buy...

Then we went to shoot pool at Bukit Timah Shopping Center there. It was downstairs, like in the basement. Appeared slightly sleazy, I guess, but maybe I'm just not used to it. And damn jian, the shop there won't kena raid by police because they claim itself to be a clubhouse, not merely a LAN or pool shop. So we are all members. Even in sch u also can just go in. Noob exploit loophole ah. Played pool until sian diao. Played sooo many games. Ok ok la. Swee Kheng supposed to be the most pro, but he today off form so didn't get to see his ownage. Won some, lost some.

After we finished, Swee Kheng decided to go back to boarding school because he was concerned about his studies. Oh well. So the four of us returned home. And there was too much dinner!!! Lol. Cos Leslie and SK were supposed to eat too. Then I forgot to tell.

At night was quite fun. Me and Jin Xiang played a short game of weiqi. Kena owned by him. Blind mistake, as usual. Then we played cards, they played PS for a short while, then ate ice cream, drank the vodka (actually in the morning already drank a bit), and played cards. Jin Xiang left early because his father came to fetch him earlier. Junyu and Jia Haur stayed till 11 liddat then left. They taking taxi home.

Ohh noo tomorrow is the last day of the holidays. Seriously can't imagine what will happen when school reopens. I am NOT prepared to take this... Not school, not the end of year exams... Somebody save me... Just thinking about it makes me severely depressed.

Dental Appt + Lawry's

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

Almost forgot to blog today.

Ok la, woken up by my mom to go to dental. Went there to tighten my braces. Now already starting to feel a bit of discomfort. The dentist scold me say I never brush my teeth properly, it's very dirty. Say I better heighten my hygiene level otherwise I'd have straight but decaying teeth. Shufu I never anyhow brush lor... Aiya from now on everyday spend half an hour brushing lar.

After that went to eat at Lawry's at Paragon. It's famous for its steak. Remember I said that Singapore had a few places famous for its steak. Actually Hilton hotel not very nowadays. And then this place today is another one. And yes it was good. The ambience and service were great too. Cheaper than Hilton, though it tasted nicer. As usual it was my sister's idea. Always like to eat steak, she.

Then went to shop for books. I see all my authors up there feel like grabbing them all. And it's funny to see one recommended by the other, like their all friends. But end up I only bought one, cos I haven't even finished the book Ye Wei gave me for my birthday present. Not that I don't like it. I do. But the thing is I'm so not in the mood for reading right now, and there's so much work to do. So I think this new novel that I bought would remain untouched for months to come. Wanted to buy Hikaru no Go comics because the anime did not finish the whole story. Finally found it, then my mother refused to buy for me. Said it was a waste of money. Wa lao. I don't care I still want to buy. Although can read online, but bushuang. And it feels better to possess the books myself.

Still continuing a bit of Maths. And after checking the EMB, the prospect of school reopening this coming Monday just makes me suicidal. Chinese common test on Monday, Tuesday Chem SPA tests... And whatnot... WTF. I can't take this seriously I need MORE TIME. End of year revision haven't even start. Busy just doing homework.

Tmr a whole group of us gonna celebrate Junyu's birthday. Me, Junyu, Jia Haur, Swee Kheng, Jin Xiang and Leslie.

Poor Ye Wei

2006-09-07T22:38:00.000+08:00

This time he left in anxiety.

Came over to play Condemned again, but end up forgot to bring the disc. So we took a taxi to go to his house and get it.

Play play play until around 10, he wanted to call his father to fetch him home. Couldn't find his phone. Searched around my house. Not there. Then realised it may be missing. Called Comfort Lost and Found and they said they'll call him back if his phone was there. Very unfortunate. Dunno his number what hp gone missing again. And its a Razr V3 this time. Poor thing.

I tried to do some work today. Completed a few worksheets of Maths. Not past year papers (which are a lot and hard to do because rusty with past concepts), but like P and C and Binomial Theorem. Just a few. Barely the tip of the iceberg. But what the heck, it's still 1% progress.

Good luck with recovering your phone, Ye Wei.

Chem Test

2006-09-06T19:28:00.000+08:00

The test was doable. Not too bad. Then Bio ws everyone forgot to bring, meng photocopy and copy.

After that took my CME interview. My interviewer, this new teacher Miss Ting, take short time with each student man. Really not almost half an hour. Then ask shao things, and some really weird and unanswerable questions. First she asked about me, and asked about my family. Then she asked the school values (I only had to memorise what JTIGER represented). And then I said I had integrity, and she started giving damn difficult situations, like got different levels. Your best friend sitting next to you asks you for answers during a test. I say I'll reject him. Your girlfriend who you love very much? I say I'll still reject. Then next situation. Your father is guilty for something he didn't do. He is going to be hung. Will you hide him or hand him over to the police? I say hand him over and then try to find out the truth. He's still going to be hung because all evidence points towards him. I say I will appeal and justice will prevail. Still gonna be hung. Erps... Dunno... Then all the guai lan questions, like, say, this time not your father, but your neighbour, will you help as much? When you become a government leader, will you use your power to do certain things to help your father? Will you go to the same extent for a neighbour? Sane man. Basically its just really a long session, and the aforementioned parts were the hardest.

Leslie came my house. We played a game of weiqi. I bought the set from school. Now all three of us (me jinxiang and leslie) have the same school weiqi set. Kena owned by Leslie. Bleagh. Then he practised piano. Until around 3 he left to go home and mug. And what did I do after that? I just sat in front of my laptop and played weiqi. Sane man. Everyone mugging for eoy and I am here just wasting my time... Not really wasting my time, but not prioritising my time. Playing weiqi when I shouldn't be. The Sep hols are halfway gone and I still have NOT touched a SINGLE piece of HOMEWORK or REVISION.
Even though I know I am doing the wrong thing, I still persist. Omg I better start tomorrow.

Slack...

2006-09-05T23:01:00.000+08:00

Ye Wei just left. At least today wasn't as boring as I would've expected it to be.

I revised Chem, then in the afternoon Shi Hao happened to talk to me because I was listening to HnG songs and he wanted them (long time never chat with him) and he even played a game of weiqi with me and taught me by reviewing the game. After that Ye Wei came and we installed this game called Condemned to play. We played together, him controlling the keyboard and me the mouse. Quite fun, its about solving murder and then you get to have first person shooting. This game was borrowed from the library. I got sick of it after a while, but Ye Wei was like addicted. Finally stopped to watch Prison Break.

That's it. Wish for an easy paper tomorrow. CME interview tomorrow as well.

Triple Bio Chem History & Magic Show

2006-09-04T20:53:00.000+08:00

Sucks I don't know why the whole of last night could not sleep at all! I literally stood awake. My eyes shut, but conscious. Opened now and then, until it was time for me to get up to go to school. Looked in the mirror and they were like bloodshot. I felt tired but not sleepy. It was an uncomfortable feeling.

Then have to go school to endure... Bio 8 to 10... Chem 11 to 1... History 1 to 3... Usual school Mondays are even slacker than this, cos of double Chinese period. Sucks man.

After that went to Leslie's house for magic act. I won't describe too much. The thing is, we did prepare, and bought stuff and had music etc. But after we got there, nursing home AAHHH. So like Econ. Performing to hundred over elderly and their families and the staff.

Only did Dlite on stage, the rest never do. Dlite did twice, because the man asked us to repeat again. Heh did with Kim Sam Soon music. It was good. Not perfect, but good. The audience liked it (at least those who were sane) and came up to us to thank us, commend us, and show their appreciation. Never bao. Leslie did table hopping afterward and I made balloons to give out.

We were worrying like hell, or in fact, Leslie was. And at some point of time, really hated it there and just wanted to get the hell out of there home. But afterward, later, when people came to talk to us, I suppose it was a nice thing to get out of this. Though if you ask me, I'd kindly reject offers to perform anymore.

Cold

2006-09-03T16:51:00.000+08:00

Didn't blog yesterday. Went Leslie's house early so that can rehearse. End up running around to his dental, then went to buy flash paper. Lol it was crazy. Leslie lit a small piece, and scared burn his hand, so dropped it, which caught fire on a bigger piece below. We tried to put it out, TRIED. More like scared of it and just watching it burn. Then the packet beside it caught the fire and a huge flame exploded in front of us. I couldn't help but shout fuck as I turned away. Crazy.

Wushu... Punched Junyu in the face again. And this time it was bad because the glove didn't cover my thumb, so my nail hit his eye. He wasn't feeling well the whole day. Sigh.

Very bored today. Went to see doctor in the morning. Gave up fighting the cold by myself. Can't do it. Almost a week now and it hasn't recovered. Doctor didn't give me antibiotics. Not a bad thing, still trying to rely on my own antibodies.

Downloaded HnG music from torrent, but some songs not complete, so I'm gonna have to wait for the previous site I visited to come up again.

Tomorrow... Chem Bio and IH holiday lessons, followed by magic performance. What a day!

Start of the holidays

2006-09-01T22:40:00.000+08:00

Ye Wei and Yonghao just left. They came in the evening, and we just spent our time chatting and watching Hellsing. It was nice, though very violent and gory.

In the morning all I did was practise piano (learning HIkaru no Go songs) and then later my sister was itching to play mahjong. My mahjong fanatism is over, but she wanted to play, so me, her and my grandmother (mother's) went to my grandmother's house (father's) to play. Played for about 3 hours. Everyone of us won our fair share.

Still sick, in fact, sicker than the past few days. Not recovering, but not seeing a doctor. Maybe tomorrow? Sigh still got wushu and rehearsing for magic act.

Teachers' Day Celebrations

2006-08-31T21:46:00.000+08:00

Don't feel like blogging much. Performance was just lame. Oh but before that, a funny incident happened. Ron and some others were like playing basketball in the class, and it was making a hell lot of noise. Some time later someone came in and told us that Jeffrey Lim wanted all of us to go down. We were damn scared, even hiding in one corner downstairs to discuss. Finally when we walked up to meet him, he asked about how we got into the classroom. CHEY! It was a matter with the security guards, who claimed they have locked the door, but they didn't, and Jeffrey getting us as witnesses to prove the guard's negligence. LOL.

The performance was... boring... There was even this super cold show spoofing Romeo and Juliet by the new teachers, including my CME interviewer!!! Ahhh. But can niao her when she interviews me.

After that went home, didn't go back primary school. Pretext of french exam mah. But my sis met my teacher and she gave her present on my behalf. Whew. Ye Wei came over and we just slacked. Ate lunch, played with these really strong magnets (so cool!!!) and he even napped while I played weiqi. Now that I think of it, it's really hilarious. Two of us, taking the French exam in an hour, haven't studied at all, and still wasting our time away. Lol.

Ok the exam was HARD. O levels are nothing compared to this. Damn it. Can pass, but won't have high marks... (as usual).

I finished watching Hikaru no Go today! Just! Omg it's sooo nice. I loved the ending. The closure was wonderful. Left me savouring that nice feeling. Actually I found it really crappy towards the end, cos something bad happened, and then the whole mood was dead. Suddenly revived! And it's not some stupid crap storyline. I found it a nice comeback. And wow, rocks. Love it.

Wish to play weiqi with real stones and set, but I doubt I'd have that chance. Tmr... gonna be slacking at home, Ye Wei probably coming to swim. Maybe even Yong Hao to do dunnowhat. Saturday have to go Leslie's house early to practise and rehearse for Monday's magic performance. Leslie's really uptight. Well, that's the way he is.

Still got my little cold bug, but I suppose a good night's rest with no early waking up would do the trick.

Term 3 MSG

2006-08-30T20:32:00.000+08:00

Just showed my father my term progress report. Ok ok la, he asked about those which are below average (as usual!!) and I just explained...

All A1s, Integrated Humans B4. I screwed that up really bad, otherwise this term's MSG would be even more imba. Remember the mental diarrhea? Yea, that one made me do badly. But anyway, really surprised with this term's results. Because my English and Chinese didn't do that well! My English test got B3, Chinese common test got B4 and below. But thank goodness, my English assignments pulled me up all the way to A1, and Chinese common test is counted next term. Happy now, but next term I'm off to a bad start. Ranked 10th in class for MSG of 1.375. Sane class. Actually not really THAT happy, just ok... Cos I know I'm gonna slack, and this tyconess won't happen again, but I can't control myself from not slacking, so it means end of year... I don't know.

I had no intention to get anything for the teachers tomorrow, but since my sister did, I just bought a bar of Kit-kat to give each of the teacher. Seems so lame, I mean, they're teachers. If teachers distributing bars of chocolate to kids, yea maybe, but vice versa? Anyway it's the thought that counts right. Oh but for TeoCM bought her coffee powder, because she blatantly told us she wanted coffee.

Yay Teachers' Day celebrations tomorrow, no lessons! Boo there's still French prelims and piano lesson.

French Prelims

2006-08-29T20:06:00.000+08:00

Yay got to leave school early today because of French prelims. Some of us only left at 12, while others left at 11.20. Miss shao lessons, double Physics and double Maths.

It wasn't that hard. Had to write two compos, one picture, one question. Word limit 150. Man, I was writing the first one so shuang, then oh deek, count that time 200. Then it became very messy because I cancelled everywhere. Rubrics say cannot be untidy otherwise will be penalised. Cham. Second one I didn't know whether to choose a dialogue or a narrative. In the end took the dialogue. Not very confident of doing well in the second one.

Need to study for Bio, but it sounded damn easy. There's so little things to study. Oh well.

And in the evening played on Yahoo Go. One game. Got owned very very bad. Final score was 210 to 42. The opponent was a Korean (a bit noob!!!) and he's 41. Been playing Go for very long now. Go is so difficult...

Exhaustion...

2006-08-28T20:46:00.000+08:00

Woke up today not feeling right. And end up having a little bit of runny nose. Must be not enough sleep, or perhaps got the bug from my sister and mother.

Nothing much to say about today. I had a lot of fun playing weiqi with Leslie today. At least, I can feel that I've improved! No longer getting owned like some easy cake, I was winning the game with an advantage, until I made a bad mistake, lost a huge patch, huge territory, and resigned. Ahhh but it was so cool. Didn't mind losing. I'll just work on getting better. Starting to get the "feel" of the game better now. But still in the early stages.

Continuing Hikaru no Go! The mood is quite sad now. But I continue to draw my inspiration from this anime. Or rather, this anime inundates me with inspiration! I want to be like Hikaru, to improve, to catch up with the pros, to be a good player!! Though seriously, this is hindering my studies and revision. And I can't bear for it to end when I've finished Episode 75... Already at 60 now... Even Junjie is watching! Lol, even though he knows nothing about weiqi, and keeps asking me to teach. But no time, no opportunity to, otherwise sure will.

This is a busy yet short week. Busy because of French prelims (Tues and Thurs afternoons) and Bio test. Short because of Teachers' Day celebrations and Teachers' Day itself.

Will sleep earlier tonight.

Hating work

2006-08-27T17:35:00.000+08:00

Yea just finished my English essay so now I can continue to watch Hikaru no Go.

Saw Auntie Marlyn at my grandparents' house today. My previous maid who worked for 14 years. She came back. She looks slightly unfamiliar, and talking to her did not feel as close. I guess this is natural.

Nothing else. Bio test, study tmr. French prelims, never mind.

BSP Culture Night

2006-08-26T22:58:00.000+08:00

A bit zhai. So stupid waste of time. I KNEW I should've ponned. Go there, duo ren. Even Jonathan, the guai guy who told me to go, DIDN'T. Only me, Leslie, Harapan, and I heard Ting Feng. That's all. Wa lao, yuan wang another time. Previous time was the stupid debate. BSP zhai. Go there watch crap. Dancing, singing... Actually didn't even pay much attention.

Oh yes great news my project actually goes to Chinese! Jinxiang filled in that time was Chinese!!! Woohoo!!! Saves me sooo much trouble to change.

Wushu was quiet. Just three of us. I sparred with Jinx but still sucked like shit. He came at me, tried to side step, but cannot. His father say we're not well-trained enough yet. Oh well. I did give him some punches, but he gave me more. It ended when he knocked the wind out of my stomach.

Sigh, still obsessed and watching the weiqi anime. It's so gonna affect my work. Haven't started on my English essay nor study for Bio test.

Last Day of Sabbats

2006-08-25T23:31:00.000+08:00

Man had such a hard time logging in to Blogger because they have their new beta version now and changed some stuff. Anyways Ye Wei just left. Came in the afternoon to swim and then watched North Country together. It was a good movie worth watching (talking about sexual discrimination and harassment).

Our performance today was kinda lame. In fact, it kinda sucked. But the rest kinda sucked too. It was my idea, make it a game show, then lame questions, cannot answer, DIE (balloon gets popped). Haha ok ok la, entertainment value there. The best was of course Ben Wu's group, acting out Pirates of the Carribean. Noob man. Noob chaos and hilarious. Most of us just bao.

In the end most of us got 5 ACE. Then I didn't even need to worry about not getting full, so wasted that afternoon for the crash course.

Talk about ACE, I have to worry about changing main subject for PD to Chinese... It's such a troublesome affair. Plus, there's so much work this weekend. English essay and Bio test. Damn. Alas, weekend is here. Will sleep in.

French Oral

2006-08-24T15:38:00.000+08:00

Just came back from that. Didn't mug for it, but it was ok. My examiner is some fat black teacher. I thought my reading wasn't bad! Lol. And the conversation was about sports. Not really difficult, but some questions were really dumb, like "What do you think of sportsmen who earn a lot of money, like David Beckham?" What, this kind of question ren. But the others were ok, and quite simple to answer. I'm not saying I gave superb answers, I'm just saying the difficulty level wasn't high. Met Ye Wei there, though it's a little crazy cos his timeslot was 2 hours away and he's just gonna get himself really pressurised.

It was the last time Mr. Lightning Finger would teach us. We are really progressing well. We made a pelican and a roadrunner today, both a bit easy. But we did it! At least, I did it, and I brought it home with me. Tomorrow is our performance. I wonder what we can do. A performance really isn't easy. Sin Yuan performed for us today and it was like... Bleagh, please, you call this entertainment? When all we're doing is get hypnotised by some slow music while he tries to make a coyote.

Damn Youtube having maintenance now.

Mr. Lightning Finger

2006-08-23T20:47:00.000+08:00

Sabbaticals were getting almost boring, but thank goodness for Mr. Lightning Finger. He has about 14 years of experience performing, Mr. Chia does his shows with a whistle (because he is not very eloquent). He is damn fast, and quite humorous also. Taught us difficult cartoon characters like the Pink Panther and a cute penguin. Too bad we didn't have time for more, had to go to Phyics lab to present to Ng Siew Hoon. Harapan did the whole ppt, and he presented most of it. I didn't even get a chance to speak. So silly, so stupid lame presentations, but we still have to show that it ties to Physics somehow.

Tomorrow is French oral exam shufu. I think I'm the first one to be tested out of my class. Oh what the heck. Maybe I'll even employ the sob story tactic Yong Hao told me about lol.

Still watching Hikaru no Go.

Hikaru no Go

2006-08-22T17:20:00.000+08:00

Earlier this morning got scolded by Mrs. Sow for ponning flag-raising. Ten of us stayed in the classroom, a big hole at our row in the terraces, NOT obvious. Threaten to give us all conduct grade C, but give chance, will monitor us from now.

Balloon sculpture progressed to a much harder level today. The worm, laser gun and aeroplane were ok, but when it came to Tweety, it was just crazy. Super hard to make. But made it in the end, and gave it to my cousin.

Sian tmr have to present on what, the mechanism of a two-way pump. Difficult man. 4 people have to present. Really not just read 5 minutes on the Internet.

Came home in the afternoon and watched Hikaru no Go, a Go anime (not new) that I heard from Jinx. It does make one feel like playing the game very much. And then there's the premiere of Prison Break Season 2, which is still downloading.

Balloon Sculpture & Wushu Sparring

2006-08-21T22:34:00.000+08:00

Still exhausted, I am. Returned home from watching wushu sparring at Toa Payoh at around 9.30 plus. Sparring is nice to watch, even though it isn't as fascinating as those you see in Jackie Chan or Jet Li movies. Some mild, some violent, some get KO. As in seriously get punched until he cannot stand properly, so referee just declared him unfit for further sparring and he was sent off. Not much of wushu integrated, but it's never easy. How I wish Leslie's father could go up on the arena to kick some ass. Junjie joined us to watch tonight. It was fun.

So this morning sabbats. Balloon sculpture. Quite easy, and seeing the timetable, we were meant to progress as though learning wasn't a problem at all. Tomorrow we'll be tackling all the difficult sculptures, including Tweety, which is a bit sane. Learnt enough, had fun, and came back and made some for my sister. I think balloon sculpting is a great entertainment -- for little kids, of course. So besides the Physics ace, it's something worthwhile to learn.

After that had to check IH test results. A bit shufu. IHC mental diarrhea I got 12/20, which is pretty high... Then IHE not very good CK, I got 17/25, while the average AND highest were 18. Damn, this term all the artistic and linguistic side of me bao. English didn't do well, neither did Chinese, and both IH these kind of grades... Bleagh not a good way to move forward to face EOYs.

French lesson practised for oral test this Thursday. I think I'm gonna fail, cos when we were testing each other, I could barely answer the questions...

Still feeling bushed and ready to fall asleep anytime, so I will do just that.

Exhausted

2006-08-20T22:29:00.000+08:00

Woke up weird today. It was my buddy who woke me up. He wakes damn early one, then at 8.30 he talked to me and woke me up.

Went to East Coast park biking with Leslie and Junjie and their buddies. Quite fun. But then we were late when we returned them to boarding school, like really late.

After that Ye Wei and Yonghao, who were already at my house, just played. Actually a little boring, but me and Ye Wei went to shoot water guns and we ended up swimming cos I pushed him into the pool while he was refilling water.

Play around until now they just left.

Tmr sabbats. Thank god tonight I can sleep on my own bed again.

Wenzhou Buddying

2006-08-19T21:18:00.000+08:00

Have to blog very short. Cos my buddy is now bathing.

Aiya had quite a lot of fun. Started off by playing pingpong with WZ, then a whole lot of us went out together. Ate local dishes like nasi lemak at Adam's Food Centre, carrot cake, ice kachang, bubble tea, even durian (they first time eating). We were a huge group, with me, Leslie, Jin Xiang, Junyu, Keef, Kaishan (who came only for wushu), Jeremy, Jun Jie, plus the four buddies attached to the four of us who were in BSP. Then we practised wushu in the afternoon, plus sparring ( i zhammed junyu's face damn hard la damn bao) and basketball. Very fun, but a lot of times keep daoing the Chinese.

And the whole day sane, so much nipple-pinching, towel-whipping, Keef even pulled down Jun jie's shorts in public!!!

Ok I think it's my turn to shower now. And I'll be sleeping early, cos he sleeps early and wakes early.

4H the Hooligans

2006-08-18T23:19:00.000+08:00

Before the highlight of today, let me just say that the English presentation went well today. I was so anxious about having to impersonate Mr Samuel Lim, and I was worried that I wouldn't get a good response, but contrary to that, I received the best response I could wish for. The class exploded in laughter and it felt great. There was also Leslie as Gill Bates, multigillionaire of MicroHard technology, fanning his dollar notes casually; Jun Heng as Sharman Thamugaratnam, and he spoke with his Indian accent; Weiliang as Nietzhe Wei Lian, where he put on a very messy wig. Entertainment value was superb. Our group scored well. It was very very fun.

Ok so now about the greatest thing I've ever experienced. While I was walking back to class after recess, as I turned the corner, I ran smack-dab into a massive riot. All my classmates were streaming out of the door, gesturing like uncouth gangsters, shouting "Oi oi oi!" "Give the ball back lar" "Bu shuang ah" "Want to fight is it?!". I instantly burst into laughter, and started asking what it was about, naturally. Apparently some 4G people snatched our tennis ball away, and I saw Junyu and Qing Sheng tossing the ball around. Due to the commotion, lots of curious 4G people walked out as well, and seeing the chaos, they added to it. So imagine 2 roaring classes out at the corridors. Especially after the recess bell has rung. The noise went on for a while until Mdm Loke came out of the other class on our level, face damn black and looking furious. We quickly scrambled back to class. I thought she was gonna come in and scold us, but no. Instead, she went into 4G and gave them a hell of a dressing down. Lol. See, typical stereotype sometimes help. Nobody would believe that us 4H, the top students of the school, the super muggers and nerdy guai kias, would do such a thing. Even when she complained to our form teacher (because Mdm Loke definitely could not miss us being present out there), Mrs. Sow denied and declared that it could never be 4H, and went to scold 4G lol. I think the reason why we acted so, I THINK, was because of 15 we watched yesterday, and class spirit. 15 is kinda influential, know.

Afternoon stayed back for crash course in balloon sculpture. Have to admit it was fun after I got the hang of it. Initially I was damn afraid of just twisting it, scared that it will pop very loudly. But I realised after I managed to do it that there was nothing to be afraid of. It was harder to break the balloon than you think. I learnt how to make a dog (in many different positions), a rabbit, a sword, and even a bear. And then later I went to step on all the balloons so that they burst very loudly. Lol everyone were running away, covering their ears for fear that their eardrums would shatter. Actually it's quite bearable. But still.

After that went to Leslie's house, then to Toa Payoh Central there the stadium to watch national wushu competition. Very boring, the contestants doing the same strokes over and over. We started off by guessing the score so we wouldn't get bored, after that we just strolled around, hung at the vending machine for damn long because of the Mystery drink button, then started to do silly things like shouting and cheering and making cat calls, kachiaoing each other, arm wrestling, and just laming around before we headed home. I'd rather catch the sparring competition next week.

Tomorrow have to wake up early to play ping-pong with Wei Zheng. Boohoo I want my sleep one... But Wei Zheng wants so badly to play ping-pong. And tmr the China guy gonna come with me... Shufu... Like them ah...

Minister For Health Lecture & 15

2006-08-17T20:28:00.000+08:00

Hwa Chong Lecture during assembly today. Minister for Health Khaw Boon Wan came to talk to us about healthcare. Nothing much, actually, in fact many parts got so boring I was almost dozing off. I think most importantly he told us about the 3 principles behind our healthcare system. Other than that he shared so much of his personal experience, about who in his family died, bleagh.

Before that, IH lessons a bit shufu. Ms Teo just announced that I will die. Because 2nd question mental diarrhea without answering the question, like what I did, did not state the objectives, merely regurgitated without using brain... Sigh... Dunno what will happen. And IHE test wasn't so good as well. Hardly had any good CK, whereas Wei Zheng was damn happy and said he owned the test. This term MSG not gonna be very good.

And Mrs Sow also returned our Chem test papers. We already knew our scores, but I was wondering why I didn't scored not so high. I thought I would do better than that. And damn, look at my paper, I really deserve it and had no complaints. Many red scrawls across my paper saying "Maths fail", "s.f.", "unit", "spell out". So in the end minus minus ... Yup, no arguments there.

Ok and now about 15. A local production by our young director Royston Tan. An R-rated movie, which I've heard and seen trailers of it since a few years back, and I wanted to watch it. I saw Royston in person when he came and held a talk in the auditorium. Today finally watched parts of it. Shi Xian brought it to class and played it. Everyone watched. It is strange, really. Imagine mugger class like us, all watching intently. It was especially dangerous during the free time we got after we were dismissed at the concourse. There was this teacher who came in, and we were watching, and nobody was fast enough to switch it off, but thank god he only cared about his business and asked for a classmate. He didn't look around to see the screen. Then Mrs. Goh had to come in earlier. This time we were prepared. The door was locked. Glenn took so damn long to fiddle with the VLC player and when Mrs. Goh walked in, she smelt something fishy but did not probe much.

15 is a nice movie. I don't know, I guess people won't appreciate it much. Because it's crude, it's vulgar, it's violent, it depicts the worst scenes of what a teenager can do to his life. But it's very real. Royston did this based on his friend's true accounts. Of course, most of us, including me, watch it for entertainment because it is funny to watch the gang fights and rubbish that they do in the film. Anyway I haven't really completed it, but I will soon when Stanley finish burning it and passes it to me.

Have to do Bio WS now.

Taxi Fare Sane

2006-08-16T19:04:00.000+08:00

Wah I not happy with the taxi fare. First time taking a taxi since the fares went up. Mom couldn't fetch me from third lang so I just took taxi. Yea ask me why I didn't take a bus or MRT but it'll probably take too long. Anw so I took the taxi, and it was 7.10 when I arrived home. I'm damn pissed cos he purposely deliberate before stopping the counter, and actually 7 bucks, let it jump 10 cents more. So cheapskate. Another thing I don't understand is he pressed another button and the 7.10 was replaced by 9.10. Wtf? Peak hour charge got 2 bucks more meh? Sane. I should've asked him why. Nvm.

Today got IHC test. Ok ok la. First question shocked a little, but second question, to quote from We Zheng, was simply mental diarrhea. Haha. I zhijie regurgitate everything. Dunno if she'll like that.

French lesson also very fun. We were debating whether Pirates of the Carribean 2 was a good movie, after going through a French critique by Le Monde. The boys vs girls. 5 v 8. I was on the side that it was a good movie. Damn dunno why but M. Levet in the end said the girls won. Bullshit maybe it's because they of that french girl, or maybe because they had more brains to think.

Now have to study for IHE. IHE is much harder than IHC. Lots more info and higher level skills required to answer. After tmr... Woohoo, like everyone else.

Physics SPA

2006-08-15T20:59:00.000+08:00

Ok actually that wasn't the highlight of today. But nothing else to put. Noob shing, only knew about it today. But heck, cheat like mad, just walk around, check answers, discuss, nvm one.

Don't feel like posting much today. Tmr got IHC test. Not that I'm very anxious about it. Haha, but not in the mood for posting today.

French Fun

2006-08-14T20:40:00.000+08:00

I really felt damn crap this morning when I had to wake up for school. Not that I'm dead beat or what, just, the thought of going to school is kena sai. Which makes no surprise that I put several disagrees during the MOE Feedback Survey when they asked if I liked my school or liked going to school.

Aside for that, I am thankful that Monday is a rather slack day. Imagine if Tuesdays were swopped with Mondays. I think everybody will feel pretty shufu on Monday mornings.

French was very fun. Because many of the students had to attend this LEP talk in the auditorium with their parents, all but a few were left, including me. So we finished watching Tais-toi (ALAS!) and even started on Asterix (movie). I love lessons like that. Can enjoy watching a movie, at the same time learning soooo much more new vocab.

Came back and quickly finished my English speech. I appear like a bloody slacker when Junheng and Weiliang were questioning me about my speech this morning. And they wanted to rehearse soon.

I think I'm gonna get sick of guitar already. What's more to learn? I realise I can't really play the Simple Plan songs I've been practising any further because they can only sound good on the electric guitar and playing on the acoustic makes no sense. But oh well, got a bitta foundation in guitar I suppose.

Sunday with Ye Wei over

2006-08-13T20:02:00.000+08:00

Ye Wei's still here, sitting in front of my computer and trying to figure out how the refractive index of iron (II) cobalt works in order to prepare for his presentation tomorrow.

Went badminton as usual, then came home and spent all of my time practising the guitar. It was fun. My father also played, and teach me some stuff. Quite a nice father-and-son thing to do.

Ye Wei reached at around 5, and I started to do my English compre. Pretty easy man. But just heck care. Quickly finished it and continued playing guitar. Not that I'm a frickin pro now, but just play cos I'm suddenly hot about it now. Lucky I didn't have to buy a guitar. This san-fen-zhong-re-du will wear off pretty soon, I'm guessing. But until then, I'm having fun getting my fingers calloused and trying to play a tune.

Two more IH tests left to go. But nvm that. Now... Continue playing.

Click

2006-08-12T22:30:00.000+08:00

Wah woke up damn late today at 11.30 plus. If not for my sister who got me up I don't think I would have. Having a sore neck till now from my sleeping posture.

Oh my mom's back and better now. Stomach's still weak and having the runs, but not in pain. So yea. I guess I sorta blew up the matter by titling the post, but oh wells, thanks for the concern ppl.

As usual, went Leslie's house for wushu with Keef, Junyu and Jin Xiang. One week passed so fast. It just seemed like a day ago that we were wushuing. But anyways, nowadays we're practising less and less of pattern. Which isn't such a good thing, because the rest of the time was spent crapping! Today we only went through the pattern ONCE. Other than that mess around, spar, and learn some sparring techniques. I didn't spar today. Maybe next time. Watch Jin Xiang is damn bao li. When he's fighting he's just damn meng, will chiong at ppl. Then Junyu and Keef sane, injuries shao.

After dessert, me and Jin Xiang headed to Cineleisure to watch Click with Ye Wei and Yonghao. Could only get 2 free tickets (I was thinking maybe couldnt even get any -- cos at night! But cathay rocks. Not only service, but the card! No time limit!!!) so the three of them shared. We ate at the food court downstairs, then came up.

I didn't think much of the movie at first. Like, just a normal comedy, for laughs. But it was more than that. It kinda left an impact on me, cos it was talking about life. It touched something which I have always thought about and will never probably do anything about -- how to spend your life. Although the storyline may seem fictional and lame, I still enjoyed it. Makes ME wanna do something about MY life. I give it 3 and a half out of 5 stars.

Me and Yonghao took bus while Ye Wei and Jin Xiang took the MRT. Waited so damn long! And when Bus 7 came, so crowded I can't even put a toe on the stairs. So I had to wait for another. The other 7 was better, could squeeze in. I wonder how long Yong Hao waited for his 77.

So now I'm back. Should I stop with my laidback life and do something about myself? I want to, but it's like words without action. I just can't realise it. I'm too much of a slacker. Declaring this and admitting this is probably the best and furthest I could go. Maybe a miracle motivation will drop by one day and get me moving. But until then... I'm too deep in a holiday mood right now. This whole week... Let's just say it's been a delusion. So many days off from school, a sleepover, Friday night out, and the whole of today out...

I don't think I'm gonna get back in gear.

Jia Haur's Birthday Celebration

2006-08-11T23:23:00.000+08:00

It was a very eventful day today. Too many things to talk about, too little time. Look at the time now. I barely reached home 5 minutes ago, with Junyu and Jia Haur scrambling for their things and rushing off. Jin Xiang left his bag here. I'll bring it to him tmr.

There was Projects day finals this afternoon. This time, I can't be sure that it will score well. A, yes, but I doubt an A*. Man I seriously wish for an A*... Like that most of my ACE will not have to worry anymore.

The four of us came back to my house after PD presentation. Quite late, around 5, cos we were the last group to present. Me and Jin Xiang played a round of weiqi on the sucky board I bought from Popular... Still get thrashed.

We set off for La Mian Xiao Long Bao at Suntec quite late (because of our weiqi game). Poor Swee Kheng was waiting for us for very long, but he was nice enough about it. Junyu and him wanted to meng eat, but end up we kept to Jia Haur's budget, and together we ate less than 50 dollars (49 something). I realised only too late that I was eating a lamian that I have eaten before. Damn.

Most of our time was spent walking around, buying more food, getting drinks. We happened to chance upon the fireworks display. It went off at the Esplanade, and we could get a decent view of it from Suntec. It was nice.

Then we headed for the arcade. Me Junyu and Jiahaur just played racing games (Daytona and Outrun). Junyu of course own. Swee Kheng was occupied by playing Time Crisis 3 on his own. Poor Jin Xiang had to stand outside the arcade and wait for us because he was in his school uniform.

Walked for damn long before reaching City Hall MRT, and finally reaching Buona Vista station, where Junyu's father fetched us back.

Home sweet home. And tired. Gonna sleep in.

Mom Hospitalised

2006-08-10T21:14:00.000+08:00

Woke up today when my mom was leaving the house to be admitted to hospital. She's better off there, on drip, rather than trying to recuperate at home. Now just came back from visiting her at 9pm.

Did nothing much today, except projects day and trying to learn guitar. Lol I was suddenly thinking about Simple Plan, and then went to find out when they're gonna release their new album (word goes that it is around fall of this year... i sure hope so), then I felt like playing their songs. So took out my father's old guitar and went online to find tabs and tried playing.

Sian, tomorrow have to go back to school. And yea, there's still a probability quiz Miss Wun will give tmr. Heck, not gonna study for it. I think I'm too deep in holiday mood that I'm probably never gonna get my engine started again.

Celebrating Jia Haur's birthday with a dinner tomorrow night, though today is his actual birthday.

Hope my project will get A*. Heh. Otherwise A. I want nothing less.

Back to reality

2006-08-09T22:05:00.000+08:00

National Day today. Just got back from Aaron's house. Had to rush cos my sis called very pissed and said my mom was sick and I'd better be back. Otherwise I think I'll just hang around there till 11 plus or something.

Slept ok. Woke at around 9. It felt quite boring today. Played more Ra2, then stoned a bit, played ping pong, then weiqi (this time still won, but only by 3), then mahjong, then a little bit of soccer, getting entangled in Twister (which was fun) and watching tv. Basically that was it. And time just flew, even though it felt boring at times. Sigh. Really hate this feeling. Like suddenly you're taken out of your nice dream and you wake up to face the hell you dread.

Don't know what else to say. Tmr I have to work on an English role-playing presentation, Projects Day Finals presentation, and god knows what.

I hate this feeling I am feeling now.

Aaron's Stayover

2006-08-08T23:25:00.000+08:00

At Aaron's house now blogging.

Today our class performance was rather cold, and I forgot to bring my coupons. Bought food to eat, and bought balloons from Janey Sim (a dog), and watched our stall collect tons of money (with xbox and pc lanning).

They set up lan and xbox in class later. Watched for a while then went to Ye Wei's house.

Wanted to watch the Lake House, but full house. Other movies like Click also cannot. In the end finally me and Ye Wei went to watch Long Hu Men, while Aaron went to walk around. Had a long discussion before reaching this decision. Oh well.

Long Hu Men very cartoon, storyline very siao one. But the action sequence and fighting were nice.

After that came to Aaron's house. Played weiqi with Aaron (bought it from Popular) and won him by 6!!! Whee.

Later also played RA2 with Aaron. Still losing. Now score, according to Aaron, is 5-2. Me 2, of course.

Aiya spent a lot of time crap talking. Now gonna play com again.

NTU Chinese Heritage Centre

2006-08-07T20:05:00.000+08:00

Go there noob waste time. Bus ride there and back add up to about 1 period. Then go there, lectureres shao cock and smoke. Learnt nothing. Came back at 2.45, so late.

Tomorrow is National Day Carnival! Hoo! And will be going to Aaron's house to play and play and play and stayover and slack and slack and did i mention play.

Let me get deluded before I'm pulled back to reality in a few days' time.

Nothing to talk about

2006-08-06T16:18:00.000+08:00

Very very short post. Badminton in morning, cut my hair, and home wasting time.

A Long Saturday...

2006-08-05T22:09:00.000+08:00

Watched The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift. Not too bad la. Watchable. Like, 3 out of 5 stars, I'd say. Still many other movies I'd like to watch.

Went to J8, and Jia Haur's birthday presents were settled very quickly. And to think Junyu kept asking and racking his brains over what to buy. In the end just this and this and call to ask what colour and done.

Had lunch at the food court, then set off for Leslie's house.

Lotsa ppl at wushu today. Leslie, Jinx, Junyu and Keef. We practised pattern a while after stretching, then practised some techniques, and sparred. For me, I sparred with Keef for the first time ever. And omg, height and strength gives you imba advantage. Luckily Keef was taking it easy. When he started spinwheeling his arms, its just crazy. Your instinct isn't to block... It's to get the hell outta his way. It was damn hard hitting Keef. He's not just physically advantageous, but he's fast too. Like one-two, he can block the two with ease. That doesn't make it any easier for me, in addition to the fact that everytime I struck the face it whisked by and I was swiping air. His face was too far for me to reach. Damn siao la. Zhong his hit also no joke. There was one part he accidentally whacked my upper arm, wa pain, he didn't even thought he was exerting strength at all. Damn hard damn hard.

Had ice kachang then played basketball. Yay with Keef around Junyu is countered! Not so imba anymore! Me and Keef won Junyu and Jinxiang. Heh. But we didn't continue after that. They got tired, and so did I, a little.

Went up and me and Jinx played weiqi. I kind of regret doing that, cos Keef and Junyu waited damn long. Keef left by himself in the end, and Junyu had to wait another half hour before we finished up. So sorry to them, neglected. Oh and Jinx owned me. Like, totally.

Had dinner downstairs at Leslie's hawker centre. Ate chicken rice. Afterwards had to go home by myself, cos parents were at Superband's Grand Finals.

Stupid SHIT. Damn damn DAMN sian. I took MRT, exited at Somerset, then couldn't find a bus stop!!! I thought it should be there, cos last time see dentist got take before, but no! End up have to walk quite a distance and cross some roads to get to the bus stop. And that wasn't it. I was like daydreaming in the goddamned crowded bus then I missed the fvcking bus stop. Found out too late and alighted at my grandmother's place. Had to walk... take another bus back to my house there... Wa felt so retarded.

RI-HCI Soccer Match

2006-08-04T22:45:00.000+08:00

Whee could dress down today. Wore red to school.

Chinese test came back. Got a bare A1 yay! Happy already. After Chinese lesson 4F pretty noob. Invented their own game called "Court Ball", if im not wrong. Basically it is rugby with a small ball, with two teams on each side, but techniques include blocking, pushing, pulling, hugging, taupoking lol etc. The team player who can get out of its "goal", a door (2 -- 1 front door 1 back door), wins. Noob violence...

Maths lesson halfway fire alarm rang. Everyone dao. Miss Wun also continue teaching. Only after about 5 minutes then we decided to start moving. Lol noob. And after we came back Miss Wun finish up a bit then gave us half an hour to slack. Noob... But I heard jc side the math bao like shit. Then they're gonna spam us with 10 mock papers to do before our EOY. Sane.

I actually went to check on the E.coli experiment. Thought I'd just fake results. Saw already didn't understand. Those without AP should grow, but didn't. Only + LBAP grew, which was just weird. Must ask Mrs. Goh.

Had lunch and just came up to class to crap. Yonghao came in and read his Constant Gardener and we just crapped. Until it neared 4 then we went down to the terraces to watch soccer.

I have to say it was fun. I liked it. At first atmosphere not bad, quite enthu about it. But after halftime it just got boring and I wasn't paying as much attention. Sat with YH at first, then Ye Wei came over after he finished videoing for his SS project and Chao Tong also joined us. HCI team played well, surprisingly, and kept on the offensive. Keep spamming every chance they got. RI had less of that. Then always cannot put the final touch, so no goal. All the way till full time. The game was settled by penalty shootout. Damn thrilling! The whole mass of crowd rushed down next to the field because it was the deciding factor already.

1st try: HCI missed omg. RI in.
2nd try: HCI in. RI in. (damn i was thinking we bao liao)
3rd try: HCI in. RI wide! (yonghao mumbled something about stupid nigger who'll miss and he was right!!)
4th try: HCI in, RI another wide ball! (at this point it was damn zhai)
5th try: All or nothing. HCI sank it. Woot.

4 - 2. We won! No hard feelings. It was very enjoyable. Except my butt got numb sitting on the hard floor for so long.

After that went to YH's house to crap. Crap until around 9 and came home. Gonna be busy slacking from now on. Tmr few programmes. Movie shopping wushu.

Thinking about slacking

2006-08-03T21:36:00.000+08:00

Aiya there were some crappy things that happened today. Like, getting caught by TokAL for long hair. Lol i still insist on keeping long hair but is it really that long?? Sian getting it cut this Sunday.

And then there was Chem results. Not as good as I wanted it to be. 23.5/30 for speed of reactions and 28.5/35 for the bigger test. Add together roughly 80% for this term's Chem marks. I was expecting something higher... Oh wells... And Leslie say bao bao bao, come out still own me. Noob.

Came home very late today cos after piano lesson had dinner at my grandma's house. And Wenwei lent me his kiddie weiqi book! Started reading it, but all very very basic stuff.

Now gonna try getting RA2 to work online cos Aaron wants to play with me.

Looking forward to tomorrow. Can wear casual clothing. Plus will be seeing Ye Wei and Aaron. It's gonna be fun. At least the Council accomplished something. Finally.

Chinese Common Test

2006-08-02T20:43:00.000+08:00

Ha wonder why all I'm writing about are tests after tests. Doesn't do anything but add on to the image that all those from 4H are muggers.

Well anyway, I had a piece of good news from Math lesson today. Miss Wun finally returned our first test taken three weeks ago and I got 43 / 45 !!! Woohoo! Never in my secondary school life I've scored so high for math. Seriously a morale booster. Highest was 44 noe. Muhuhahaha.

And Chinese common test was just... heck care... Anyhow write. It wasn't easy. I had a hard time thinking up what to write for the gong han. The si han seemed easier, but I never practised si han (not under lsp), so I die die also must try gong han. Then zuo wen I did bao zhang bao dao. Generally, it's just plenty of smoke. But LSP is marking. Even if he is that much stricter, it can't be worse than other teachers.

Have to complete my Bio ws (supposed to hand in today) and do my music theory homework and study for IHC mock test. I think i'm only going to do the bio ws.

Chinese and Math Test

2006-08-01T16:39:00.000+08:00

Chinese do one compre. Ppl say it was hard, but Chinese compre is just copy and paste plus smoke, so I myself don't feel that there's a standard for Chinese compre at all.

Math was lol... easy. I don't dare say it is easy (later come out bao) , but it's other ppl say one, and it's true. Ppl like Wei Zheng can finish it within 1 period and have the next period to sleep. I also finished it about 20 mins early, and luckily so, cos I think I found some careless mistakes. After the test check answer, got some miscalculations. But shouldn't be too bad la. Quite surprised, considering how we treated Wun last Friday.

Only 1 Chinese common test tmr afternoon to go.

Now... Slack.

Chem Test

2006-07-31T20:12:00.000+08:00

Played ping pong with Wei Zheng during PE today. Quite fun.

After that Chem test. Before the test, zhai morale booster written on the board: Jun Heng could not finish the test paper on time. He only got a low A2.

But come out the test, it was ok lar. Stuck at the last question about Hydrogen Iodine thingy for awhile. And I think I minused some marks for wrong calculations in enthalpy change. Sure like that one. Calculating enthalpy change is just super prone to mistakes. Leave out a certain bond la, add wrongly la...etc etc.

IHE lesson surprise mock test shufu. Noob smoke. No contextual knowledge what.

Didn't go home at 1.30 cos aunt wasn't free to pick me. So stayed back in school and I did math. Wei Zheng was very nice and stayed behind with me too... Private tuition for math. Completed the Skill Check 1 for Integration at 3.30, then left for 3rd lang.

French lessons now damn fun. We're watching Tais-toi since last lesson, and it's funny to watch, plus can learn lotsa vocab -- including vulgarities. Hehe enjoyed lessons a lot. Still haven't finished watching, will continue next lesson.

Right now... Probably mug math... Not sure how... Maybe find some worksheets to do. Integration test I got abundant practice man. Differentiation at least have. But integration I slacked like shit. Gimme A1.......

Too Much Time

2006-07-30T17:05:00.000+08:00

Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't have so much time available to myself. This whole week -- I was caught up with tests and project work so much so that I didn't have time to play. But this weekend, now that it's over... It was supposed to be kind of like a short paradise... For me to play and enjoy myself. Not today, I didn't.

Since badminton was yesterday, there was nowhere to go today. I woke up at 10, continued watching the movie Yi Tian from last night. Had lunch, and revised Chemistry. Basically I just did the revision worksheet and that was it. I didn't see much to study. 2 topics -- Energy Change and Reversible Reactions. Very conceptual, and not much to mug (unlike Bio). So I stopped at around 2 plus and played Ra2. Played till I got bored of it, and watched 2 episodes of Alias (Yonghao is still urging me to finish it asap).

And now I am sitting here, thinking of what to do with my time. Sure, I can do homework like Bio ws and the tons of Math ws that have long piled up like 4F's taupok. But I'm just plain lazy. Besides, there's still ACE I have to do for Chinese and Math etc, otherwise these two subjects will suffer at the end of the year.

I don't know. Maybe after I've posted this I'll start wasting my time again. Can't wait for Week 7, where there'll be lots of holidays and things to do. Unlike now, where there's lots of time but nothing to do.

Hopefully Mrs. Sow doesn't kill us with her harder paper tomorrow.

Oh and congrats to Ye Wei, who won the Best Actor in RI Dramafeste.

An Enjoyable Saturday

2006-07-29T20:17:00.000+08:00

Last night's Dramafeste was good. Though we missed it by 5 minutes!

Wtf I don't understand what is up with the bus service. I wasn't late. The bus took 50 minutes to come. Seriously. The waiting time was 50 minutes. So of course go there late. And go there, me and jinx dunno where to stop, stopped one after, then had to bia back.

Aaron was so nice. He came out to fetch us. And three of us sprinted together back to the theatre.

Overall, I really enjoyed it. Ye Wei's one was nice, but rather draggy, and one of the acting not so good. There was this other comedic-drama performance and the acting was good. Then the last one was something which was just wrong. Wrong morals about a depressed boy shooting a man and his father shooting the boy.

Ah but see Ye Wei after the thing, he was still happy and relieved. Finally all this is over and he can have a less stressful, suicidal-provoking life.

Today went to play badminton in the morning. For the first time in my life, I beat my father! Lol 21-19! So close. I was leading from the start and maintained my lead. Ahh well... My dad is getting old.

Later went to Leslie's house to wushu. Very good, because his father taught only me and jinxiang, then he taught in much more detail. Saw our mistakes very clearly and told us what to do. I like it. And spar with Jinx, now end up with bruises over my arm. Cos blocking his attacks very cham. And he knock me hard on the back of my head too. Now I feel like a retard... Yea, like him.

Aiya, now I just feel like playing. Tomorrow will study Chem.

Fricking frantic

2006-07-28T15:55:00.000+08:00

Jinxiang and Zixian just bolted out the door. We have 10 minutes left to submit our web report by 4.00. Fark nobody told me cover page was necessary. We pia back home and meng do. A bit zhai. Now just pray that it's on time and accepted.

Before this physics test. Feel very uncomfortable about it. Means may not score well. Sigh sigh. It wasn't killer hard, but I'm just not confident at all.

Yea thats all. Leslie playing piano in my room now. I'm gonna have lunch.

Later Jinxiang coming back. We'll go watch Ye Wei together.

Still busy....

2006-07-27T21:04:00.000+08:00

Today presented on Jazz... WITHOUT the keyboard! Ahhh! What a pity. Practise for nothing. Cannot even show the class. Wasted wasted. But it was fun, and Ms Teo brought her jazz disc and played it and it was nice to listen while she taught. How I wish all history lessons can be like this.

Afternoon AMC easy man. My math... Pretty pro. I hardly got a look at the last five questions when the bitchy invigilator declared "Time's up". Heck gimme a credit.

After that I wanted sooo much to pon BSP lesson at 4. Cos AMC ended at 3.20! Argh saw Jeremy and Ming Fui leaving... But no... Stayed on, sorta revised physics.

End up didn't go for BSP lesson after all. Unfortunate Leslie, foot collided with Jun Jie's when Jun Jie was zhamming (playing soccer in classroom). And it was awfully scary. I saw his toe, pale white because no blood flow, and it was like bent upwards. Shufu man. So the group of us carried him, accompanied him, and they took a taxi to Coro to get doctor's help. Leslie's toe was violently wrenched back into place. Oh well.

Now busy with SL project website and Physics test tmr. Thank goodness my group members are all helping now. Really thankful. So I won't die a horrible death after all.

Almost forgot about Ye Wei's dramafeste tmr. Alright! Slack time starts tmr! It's been a looong week.

Crappy

2006-07-26T22:50:00.000+08:00

Crap almost forgot to blog. Lol I think I no more interest in blogging already. Too much work, and too much stuff to play once work gets done.

Now still up doing IHE PPT on Jazz with Zhi Yong. My part's done, still waiting for ZY. He pretty fast. Hope tmr won't screw up. Actually screw up also heck care lar.

I don't think can do a fantastic website for the SL project. Zixian helped tonight. And all he did was to create a page of Reflections and copy and paste our reflections inside. That is pretty efficient.

Still got Physics test. Tomorrow I sure overload one. Can't wait till Friday.

Busy like hell

2006-07-25T18:33:00.000+08:00

No wonder something felt missing yesterday. I forgot to blog!

I think my interest in blogging is beginning to wane. Nonetheless, I'm going to talk about how much work I have to do now:

Study for Bio test
Study for English test
Complete IHE PPT and prepare jazz piece
Complete Projects' Day Website
Study for Physics test

I know this list is incomparable to what other ppl have put up (like Ye Wei and Aaron all the time), but these are serious work that cannot be daoed. All normal homework and assignments are excluded. These are the real major stuff lor.

Bio test and English test up tomorrow. Hope they're easy.

End of slack

2006-07-23T20:03:00.000+08:00

Woke at 11, then just played RA2 until we left for badminton.

Badminton 3 to 5.

After badminton went to visit my grandfather in hospital. He looks alright, and should be fine. Still under observation I think.

Had dinner at NUH. Porridge, of course. Lunch was porridge too.

Supposed to play with Aaron online, but he forgot he had to go out for dinner so now he can't play.

Don't have homework for the weekend. I probably should go and study Bio or something.

Aaron's Birthday Party

2006-07-22T23:13:00.000+08:00

Before going for that, went for braces appt. Shufu fix on lower braces is damn painful. Soft food (porridge) for this whole week, confirm. Lucky upper braces no need to tighten, cos they're moving well.

Reached his house at around 1. Zhi Yang was already there. Surprised, cos usually he's so busy and doesn't show up for gatherings and stuff.

So basically what we did was just talk, play a little bit of CTR, play ping pong (even yonghao played!), ate lunch, play mahjong, play red alert 2 (can LAN), i played guitar (claire's, and its really good! in a sense that it fits me. i can press it with so much more ease), played more ping pong, ate dinner, talked, sing song and cut cake, played bridge, and talked. And then the day was over (yonghao's auntie sent me home).

Very reluctant to leave. Would've liked very much to just stayover, but then my mother don't allow (cos its not holiday -- in the middle of school term).

Short post today.

Racial Harmony Day, Physics success and a lil shopping

2006-07-21T15:18:00.000+08:00

It's racial harmony day today! We were encouraged to wear ethnic clothing or orange shirts. I didn't have any nice orange shirts to wear out, but I did have a Fei Chang Superband shirt. So I wore that in the end.

Was damn nervous for physics presentation because I prepared so much for it and I really wanted it to be smooth and successful. So I was worried till I didn't feel like eating during recess, though I did go down to take a look at the Ethnic Market.

The presentation went very well. No problems when presenting, and afterwards though there were many questions, could more or less answer all of them (2 cannot answer ... Ron asked about refresh rate which I wasn't very sure but gave a hypothetical answer and the other one Tian Yu asked about why when you touch the LCD screen you get a ripple).

When I was done, Mr Su began shouting

"Zero?"

Nobody had any reaction.

"One?"

Everyone continued sitting still.

"Two?"

Still no response.

"Three?"

I was walking back to my seat already as the class remained quiet.

"Four?"

I turned my head, expecting to see some hands up.

"Five."

And then the hands shot up.

Woo that felt good. And what made me feel even better was what Mr. Su said later.

"You know what, he has done a damn good job. I want to give him more also cannot, capped at 5."

Wowee wowee. I like the "damn". Ahh felt great after that. My efforts paid off!

After school dismissed me and Yonghao went to serene centre. My stomach was baoing cos gastric pains. Damn cham feeling. Felt damn weak when walking. Wei Zheng came on the bus with us also. Keef spoilt his specs and he getting them repaired at Coro.

Me and Yonghao ate first before buying the game. It is a game. I think I better not write it on my blog first, in case Aaron reads it.

Yonghao's auntie sent me home (how nice) while he went off for medical appt. Now I have nothing to do. Am probably gonna O2Jam. Oh yea and maybe practise my jazz piece.

Early Dismissal

2006-07-20T19:25:00.000+08:00

Whee our school rocks. Set up what Singapore Sports School la. Track and field we still sweep all the A, B and C gold medals. Then air rifle also win, judo also win, gym also win. End up we have 10 gold medals collected in a day! So Mr. Hon spoke a few words, and declared early dismissal at 11.20.

Yes yes yes because today is such a long and tiring day! I was hoping so much that it would be today. Yay!

Came back and just played O2Jam and did my music theory homework.

Asked Ms Teo (how coincidental), my piano teacher, to get a jazz piece (easy one) for me to play. I think I'll need some time lor, like 2 weeks or something. So crap. Have to practice. And I'm not even sure if that piece is suitable. Just for one piece like it have to buy the whole book for 15.90. Qiao zha shao.

Tonight missing Xie Ting Feng's movie Long Hu Men. My mom bu shuang then don't want to bring me (cos the tickets only came last minute). I don't care la. Can stay home and play.

Second Taupok, Early Dismissal, Econ Visit

2006-07-19T21:36:00.000+08:00

I have to be brief. I was biaing my physics ppt like mad la. Sincerely pray for smooth and successful presentation tomorrow.

Today got a second taupok! So shuang! The taupok spirit is in the air!!! Ahh...

It all started when mischievous Wei Zheng bo tai ji zor, then take a rubber band, pulled it real far back, and fired it at Harapan. Harapan, who happened to be leaning over and talking to Leslie, had his butt sticking out, and I heard the rubber band slapping hard against his buttocks.

Shufu. Harapan a bit shuang. Went at Wei Zheng, all pissed and ready to screw him over. Jabbing his hands everywhere trying to poke him or something.

At this time I was thinking "Ho ho Wei Zheng you're in for it." Then the idea of taupok struck me. So I shouted "Taupok! Taupok!" and went forward to try and get Wei Zheng down.

Actually I didn't do much work (couldn't do much anyway), so it was mainly Harapan who pushed Wei Zheng down to the floor, and I just standing at the side trying to get my hands on him. In the end Wei Zheng was down on the floor, and I continued shouting "Taupok". So Harapan did. LOL!

WZ was lying face up know! He ABIT SHUFU. Harapan's whole weight went down on his stomach, and WZ (told me later) that he was desperately trying to turn on his back. I saw Harapan on top of him and of course joined Harapan. After lying on top of Harapan I continued to yell for more ppl to taupok. At this time WZ was moaning like crap down there, and he managed to push himself a little sideways. Shi Xian heard me and came after a few seconds passed. Oof omg. It is damn painful one. Being in the stack and having your body mashed between two is no joke. Then came Branden, and finally Weiliang. Ouchie ouchie uncomfortable, but I can imagine WZ, the worst down there. Harapan was the one who put it to an end. I think he himself cannot tahan. He strongly pushed us all off and so we came off. Hahahaha it was FUN. Second taupok so far. More more more!!!

There was early dismissal at 12, but we had to get camera from WZ at boarding school first. Then came home to play piano and guitar (had to tune it from computer then play... end up having so many callouses on my fingers... bleagh). Left at 3.30 to go to Econ.

Again, taking all the fake pictures of all the mind games possible: Animal Chess, International Chess, Reversi, Dumb and some numbers game etc. Yea took quite a while for that. Don't even want to describe the process.

Ok that's it. Now have to do work or something. I'm actually done with physics, but wondering whether I should prepare for the Chinese essay (since I can... first time essay can bring home and continue tmr).

Just now was playing O2Jam with Yong Hao and Peng Rong. PR a bit noob, mug the game and in 2 days jumped to Level 9.

Now I Level 17 if I'm not wrong. Still cannot play the hard songs.