Jolly Jim

2008-12-31T13:14:00.002+08:00

Mother Nature is just Chemistry, Biology and Physics. Everything she does is the sum of those three things. She's completely amoral. She doesn't care about poetry or art or whether you go to church. You can't negotiate with her, and you can't spin her and you can't evade her rules. All you can do is fit in as a species. And when a species doesn't learn to fit in with Mother Nature, it gets kicked out.

- quote from "Hot, Flat and Crowded"

2008-06-18T17:54:00.003+08:00

Okay, so I went to NTU with scott my bro and roommate for NTU Hall. We did our medical, submitted the tuition grant thing, and explored a bit if NTU and had a nice lunch. Then I proceeded for my interview.
I was sitting at the chairs outside the interview room. Then there was this ah-pek looking middle-ages man spotting a pot belly, walking around the room. He wore the typical uncle dress, white short-sleeve collared shirt and black pants with a weird-looking towel hanging on his trousers. I assumed he was a cleaner who just cleaned the room. So while I was waiting for my turn, I took up the CN Yang brochure, as till then I still didn’t know exactly what the scholarship’s objective was. Ah, I saw the director for the program face, Aye looks so familiar. OH GOSH, it was the AH-PEK. OPPS!!!! He’s a Harvard Grad for goodness sake! Many apologies to him first.
And so it was my turn, I went in.
And the first thing I saw the director, I tried to suppress my laughter. He’s too funny looking. Another professor started asking me why I didn’t go for the first interview. And I said I was in NZ on working holiday trip. The 3 professors started to get interested in what I did in NZ. So I explained. That took about 5min. Then the director asked the other 2 whether they wanted coffee. And he left. I said, what the hell, you’re interviewing me halfway and you left to get a coffee!!
Ok, the aerospace professor started asking me, what is my interest? So I told him I like planes. That sparked off a strong discussion on planes, on how they fly, how it maintained its flight, the rudder, tail plane, flaps. Then he kept insisting in asking me what the material for planes making initially was. Isn’t it Aluminum?! Then I refused to answer his question. By this time the discussion got a bit hot with him which somehow evolved into a mini debate. The director with his piping hot coffee came in. I tried to impress them by saying the new composite materials which are used in current new planes design. Okay, they all got impressed. Then, the irritating aerospace professor went back to the initial materials question. I said I don’t know! He just said wood. Oh yar!
after which I thought planes were over, the third prof started blabbering, how does a helicopter works? TOOT to myself. Wa shit, I gotten myself into deeper mess. I tried to smoke, and answer to my best ability cause I didn’t really know.
Then after it, the director pointed to a white board and asked me to find out the angle. I said which angle. He said that’s a triangle, there’s only 3 angles, of which 2 are useless to find out. Okay, that made me real stupid. So I guess it must be the right angle. Haha, this is a secondary maths ques. OMG! I seemed to have seen it somewhere but I cant recall the proving steps. I held onto the marker, stunned a bit, draw some random lines and angle then EUREKA! I solved it.

When I sat down again, they asked me, what questions I have for them?I said, I don’t really know the objective of this scholarship. Then the third prof asked me back, what do I expect myself of getting from this scholarship? ERM. Blank! I want to learn more of Aerospace?! Then the 3 of them unanimously said NO! you think a plane can just fly on aero?! What about fuel, fluid dynamics, seat comfort, materials, environment……? Like a barrage of jargons thrown into my face. Ok I officially just jacked myself again! I tried to salvage myself by saying ok sorry, I think aerospace is just a small part of the bigger picture of science and technology and I hope to learn and research more about it. They seem satisfied. That was the end. Haiz. The moment I reached home, I wanted to download the episode 14 of fated to love you. Then came an email. Dear Yida, we are delighted to offer you the CN Yang Scholarship. OMG!!! Hooray! Haha it’s so shocking la, I tot I screwed it up big time. Oh wells, called my dad and mom, and my poor sis who was on a mission to conquer alkenes in her notes were greatly disrupted by me. Just then babe who just gotten her break sms me, so I called her to share the good news. Oh man it’s a nice happy day today!!!!!!!

Thanks scott for the luck it worked! And Mimi who guided me out of NTU from the pouring rain. And not to forget, National Geographic Channel's Air Crash Investigation which provided all the facts for me to smoke.

And thanks babe, the waffles helped! With added ability comes greater responsibility.

my silver v3i is playing, "我的快乐 - 命中注定我爱你OST"

2008-05-30T12:16:00.001+08:00

After a grueling yet satisfying 3 and half months, I have finally made my way back to my long missed bed and bolster. The long WorkHol trip has given me an interesting insight of life. Travelling around NZ is a cool experience literally, and it has definitely trained me to be a more independent man.
Friends are an immense important part of travelling. I couldn’t imagine myself doing it alone so I’m really glad that Jiahua is with me. I won’t deny it’s not easy for 2 people to live, eat and sleep together as there are bound to be differences and conflicts. However I’m proud that we did not let those small things ruin our friendship and importantly the trip. The working part was tough. Sometimes we worked till midnight and the next day wake up at 7 to start work again. But such hard times were short lived.
I also met and made friends along the way in NZ. These are the people who will make your day and make my trip in NZ a more fulfilling one. One such guy is JON. He’s a Brazilian whom we met when we were picking apples. During that part which was our lowest point in NZ, he helped us a lot like giving us advices in work. When we went Auckland, he was there to help us all the way, selling our car and bringing us explore Auckland. Too bad he could not extend his stay in NZ if not we could have more fun.

After friends, the experience is the second most important thing I felt. This is sort of the longest time I have been away from home. This is the time which my true independence and self-survival skills are tested. After this trip, I sort of felt the last time when I came to NZ with the tour was a waste of time. It was so rushed through and I didn’t learn much of the culture here. So, it’s a point to try backpacking and exploring the country rather than going on a tour package. Europe is definitely a must-go destination.
Of course not to mention is the adventures that I have “risked” through. The highlights will be the skydive, bungy.
SKYDIVE - It was like dangling my life on the cord of a parachute.Tandem skydiving is easy, you’re just strapped to the instructor and being told to bend like a banana (head up, hips forward, legs back).While the plane was taxiing to the start of runway, it felt almost like a normal plane ride. There was no sense of queasy or nervous. But when the plane reached the altitude, butterflies seemed to start occupying my stomach. It was too scary to sit out of the plane and looked down at the clouds not stepping onto anything. The best moment was tumbling out of the plane feeling completely befuddled. Not knowing up from down is priceless. At 12,000 feet, you get a 45s of freefall which was without doubt the shortest 45s of my life. The rush that you get is difficult to explain.Luckily I did buy the DVD which cost a lot more, cause I get to convince my unborn children that I kicked some ass back in the day.
BUNGY – It is a different ball game from skydive. You sit down and a towel is placed in between your ankles. A tight Velcro binds it and with some tying, a karabiner connected to the Bungy cord is attached to you at the ankles. The whole trick about Bungy is DO NOT look down before you jump. You will just be scared off your balls/whatever and knees will start buckling. I looked down, I got scared, my balls dropped, and the countdown from the back says “YIDA, don’t be a loser and not jump!” Hopping onto the platform and after a 3-2-1, I took the leapt of faith. The bungy cord went taut and snapped me back upwards. On my face was a ridiculous half fear half euphoria look.
The ground rush you get from a bungy is something you don’t get from skydiving, accelerating towards nature at a pace only matched by your heart rate.
The journey down was crazy, with my arms flailed about and irrational thoughts raced through my mind. But saving my life, my freefall slowed as the cord became taut and sprung back upwards for the second part of my ride.

Whao, it’s a long entry, a short summary of over the 3 plus months. Time to feast on some kiwis and chocolates. That’s what NZ is full of too other than sheep and cows.

I miss the turquoise blue lakes, the lushy green hills, the snow-capped mountains, the noisy sheep bahs and cow moos, and the warmth of Kiwis. But there’s one thing I hate here and in every cold country, a cold toilet seat. It will just kill your urge to shit.

oh ya, i lost of mighty pink ipod in NZ. for now i will survive on my tough V3i for music entertainment until the ultra cool iphone is in singapore.

my silver V3i is playing, "I'm yours - Jason Mraz (We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things)"

2008-02-04T12:36:00.000+08:00

To pray: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy
This is such a harsh statement, taken from The God Delusion. Been cleaning up my computer and saw this phrase which I don’t know why I saved this phrase. However, is the statement realish? Pondering time…

It has been a meeting-up week. Since the 41 officers gathering, there’s Maldives, JC class, Sec class and even Pri class. Oh my…
It was a guy’s 21 birthday form Primary school. Lost contact for near 8 years and from some connections here and there a small group of us met up and went to his party. Since all of us live near to his house so might as well but I am truly glad that I went. It was such a stunning, memories-evoking and wonderful party. Stunning, because I didn’t expect her to be there to. When she came and poked me “again”, I was shocked, just minus the exclaiming part. Babe, we must meet up on the V-day week yar!! Memories-evoking, with the small group of primary school classmates, I guess 8 years of catching up with all was great. Never-ending, laughter about the naïve young days, certainly sweet. The rule of the closer you live the less contact you have sometime works. Wonderful, from all the food, cake, and talks with one another made it well (esp still the shocking part from babe)

JC class was Yum Cha-ing. Sec class was steamboating. Attendances for both were great, maybe it’s 2008, maybe it’s the organizers, maybe it’s just this year is a special year for all of 1987, maybe it’s just we all miss one another. Friends will last a lifetime.

2 more weeks to New Zealand. A bit of regrets – will miss a scholarship interview (but I think NTU got chance to get it again, and maybe they will reschedule another one for me if they really want me), will miss Singapore Aeroshow 2008 (Well, I can catch the 2010 one again!), will miss babe’s 21st birthday (Very sorry about that, but I will definitely call you and sing a song in NZ), and so many more, BUT, the 4 months in NZ will I hope be a life-changing experience for me. For me to try out be independent truly.

Then this blog will remain dormant for 4 months while another one will be active.
http://www.theadventuresof2kiwipluckers.blogspot.com

wish all a happy Chinese New Year!

My pink Ipod is playing, "New Soul -Yael Naim"

2008-01-29T22:12:00.000+08:00

It’s a long ding-dong since I’ve last updated. Right now I’m now working at NTUC learning hub as a telephone survey dude. Quite slack, just calling and jiacheng intro this job one. He has been the one slacking all along in this job Dog. Haha

Since I’ve come back from Taiwan, weekends are active. The sat, I met up with quek, jose and swee sen. Had a dinner and a movie, Cloverfield. OMG, this movie sucks BIG TIME. I mean, don’t ever watch it after a heavy meal (which was what we’ve done). The whole movie is shot by a handheld camera and was jerking and running all the way, then the movie plot is so CHUI. A Godzilla-look-a-like invaded NY and the protagonist was running away from it. the trailer was so captivating and looked nothing like what was shown. Gosh, felt so sick throughout the movie. I was like closing my eyes halfway and declined to watch. The rest all could take it sia… I was waiting to smell some puke in the cinema but there was none. Amazed. Only like now, cinemas are putting up signs of motion sickness warning outside for Cloverfield. You could get a refund too u noe!?

Sunday was great, meeting up with the Maldives people at minds café. So fun especially the telepathy game, laugh till my abs pain like hell. People are always doing stupid things. It’s important to go minds café with the correct bunch of people.

Then work started last week n today. My last day at work. Imagine I typed this entry during work. Been slackin all along.

Last sat was fun too. A bbq at my house with the 41 officers. It’s great reminiscing about the 1 year at unit and KB of each other, slutting and dogging each day, watching tv in my bunk aka common area. Those were the times that pulled me through NS. Anyway thanks to mr chew, mr sim and mr chua for coming. They made our lives better. Fitz’s BBQ express was delicious. There were too many alcohol bottles and little soft drinks. This is wrong sia. In the end to waste some alcohol, we lit the alcohol up and created little candle, but I was playing with it, accidentally spilt it onto myself and the alcohol was burning on me. wao! Hot! And burnt leg hairs. Ahah that reminded us of weiming burning jiahua’s hair with a lighter. That was totally hilarious. In case you didn’t know, Hair is easily flammable. Talk and talk, drink and drink, it lasted till early morning. Think we shld organise such gathering often, making it a tradition annually.

My pink ipod is playing "Mr. Pitiful - Matt Costa"

2008-01-04T22:49:00.000+08:00

I did not know, playing golf is so tormenting on my body. Do not underestimate those swings, after about 100 times of swinging, my whole body aches like hell the next day. One, my physical fitness is damn bad. Two, I’m still too noob in playing golf. But ya, gonna train more and at least do a decent shot. In case you didn’t know, I’ve just started learning golf. It’s really a thinking, psychomotor, patient game, something which I’m not good at so treat it also as training my mind.

Finally I’ve made my new passport. Cos to apply for new Zealand work holiday visa, my passport expiry date must be quite long so my old passport can’t make it. Anyway the new biometric thing is quite cool, but other than that, nothing much. Jiahua got his visa approved le, so left mine, and hopefully before I leave for Taiwan next week, the NZ side can approve mine too and we can confirm our air tickets to NZ le. At first we are planning to leave after CNY and come back end May, but apparently, the whole of March to May is HOT season for kiwi plucking (which was the intended jobs we are looking for) so he was thinking of extending the stay to mid june meaning we will be touring after May. Hmm… 4 months out of Singapore, first time gone for so long… And we are booking air tickets to Auckland then back from Christchurch. Can’t do that on Qantas webby so hafta find agents to buy. And yar, dunno why, Air New Zealand does not operate out of Changi Airport anymore. So the only direct flight to NZ is by SIA which is too ex for us, so we have to settle for Qantas, which have to transit in Aus. Another of planes taking. I guess I will have enough of plane taking this year haha… actually I’ve always wanted to be a jet-setting worker, not sure whether in the future my job will allow me to do that, can see more of the world. Hee… I’ve decided to bring my Lappy to NZ so I can keep in touch wif family and friends and updates you guys of situation in NZ.

So I’m gonna start something soon ---- The Adventures of 2 Kiwi Pluckers. Stay tuned to more updates gonna start chapter 1 soon haha.

YAY, Babe’s back!

Looking forward to the bbq that I organize for 41 officers.

Taiwan, here I go…

My pink Ipod is playing, "When Will I See Your Face Again - Jamie Scott"

2007-12-22T21:44:00.000+08:00

YES! Man U won Liverpool! Was watching the match at song’s house. What a great feeling to win it at Anfield haah!!

Ok, the plan to Taiwan is confirmed. Leaving for Taipei on 11jan and coming back from HK on 16Jan. Hopefully I can meet my Taiwan friends.

Met up with the class on haji at huang lao shi mum house. Wondering why, that’s cos she has just given birth and we went to visit the little life. So cute sia… and the first thing all will ask is her name, Rui Ning. But I think we all guessed wrongly her Chinese characters, or ashamedly to say, we dunno how to write the character having returning our Chinese knowledge to lao shi haha.. but it was great catching up with the class and just understanding how’s everyone doing. Then it was National Treasure hunting. This is a damn nice movie to catch so go go watch it! SPOILERS revealed. A sequel might be happening, something to do with page 47 in the President’s Secret Book. So we were waiting for the credits to roll on anticipating something will be played at the end giving us an insight on the part 3, but to our dismay there was nothing! Seems like a bunch of idiots waiting haha.

Town is just too crowded, don’t like to drive in there.

Oh ya, pls do visit my friend’s newly created blog. An identity for those living in our area. http://www.bukitpanjangblog.blogspot.com

do hope to meet up with you soon babe! get well soon kay.

my pink ipod is playing, "Let's Start From Here - 王若琳" a real nice soothing song.

2007-12-09T21:36:00.000+08:00

I am past my teens years! Thx to all who remembered my birthday. And congrats to my batch officers, first year into officership and 1 year after commissioning, keep up whatever good work.

Started on sat, bros came by and we had a small gathering. Thinking of it, it has been a little but long we never had gathering le ah. Thx for the cake guys!
At night, I went out with a friend. A good close fren. I’m sorry if maybe the timing was bad, you had a little bad situation going on. But we still went on, with me driving, to Clarke quay. The dinner from her was good, and the chocolate drink and cake after was too full le. Had to go on a stroll along the river to digest. We roamed about the crowded place and were quite bored le. Then we saw the Gmax. I was quite intrigued and said why don’t we try it? When we went there, there were a lot of tourists and queue was pretty long. So a bit disappointed, then came a friendly guy who asked us whether we wanna try the ultimate swing which was just opened. Somehow, I dunno wad happen, we agreed. At a promotional price he gave, since we were among the first 10 in Singapore to try, he ushered us up the platform. Took out everything from our pockets, we sat on the capsule tingy. Real scary, I guess I freaked out when the capsule was dragged up to the release height which I tink is about 6 storey high. And I get to release the catch and we will be subjected to Simple Harmonic Motion into Singapore river. I guess I went a bit hysterical up there but she’s so calm. Gosh. By the time we were up there, we were literally facing the ground, so when the catch was released, we flew down and up then down and up. Somewhere in the middle, we held each others’ hand cause there’s nothing to hold on except each other. I must have screamed a bit loud and sure I’m the more timid one. There were about few hundred of ppl down there watching us. Shucks I have looked stupid. When we were released from the capsule, my knees were shacking. And the friendly guy kept teasing us, asking whether we are together or maybe we will get together after the ride. Well Thanks but nope. But all you guys out there must go try the Gmax at Clarke Quay (they gave us promotional price so we could create publicity for them, thinking we might be the first “couple” on the swing.haha ;P)

A drink over till midnight concluded the day and it was sending her home. I am glad to provide the listening ear, it’s just I have no answers to your questions. Sorry that if I made you cry.

Today was great too, lest the heavy rains all day. K-boxing was fun with haoz, xl and shiwei. Hope seng is alright from his accident. Then dinner with family was great.

Ok, I’m tired but happy. This last year as a teen was normal, maybe because I’m way matured from teens. Haha. Time to start making new year resolutions.

My pink Ipod is playing, "Don't Shoot Me Santa - The Killers"

2007-12-03T11:30:00.000+08:00

Teardrops of joy and pain hit my shoes when I crossed the finishing line along Saint Andrews Road. 42.195 of torture pushed me to my physical limit. and I am prou to say I completed it in 5h37min!

Yesterday together with the usual guys from army, we ran the StandChart Full Marathon. At an eerie time of 530am we started the arduous journey from esplanade, passing by shenton way into marina south. By the time we made it back to esplanade again, the sun was up and we were reaching national stadium. By this time, we saw the Freaking fast Kenyans coming back. That’s a bit demoralizing for us. Then came the never-ending East Coast portion. (I am not going to East Coast for a long long time!!) the 26km mark was the u-turn point and then came my nightmare. Cramps started to form at my left quad. As I kept on running, it shifted to left calf, then right quad, then right calf then a cycle formed. Shucks!!! So it was walking, running, jogging, walking all the way back to the start of east coast. Enough of it, by the time I exited east coast the big 30 mark rang in my head, Just 10 more to go!! The 36km mark near national stadium was terrible too, with the sun blasting its heat on us.

Everything in my mind was just to go on, never give up, once in a lifetime thing, for you babe, heck the cramps, put lots of deep heat, hang on, for the finisher shirt. Slowly, I came to esplanade for the last stretch of 1km. turning into saint Andrews road was heartening cause you know it’s the end. With many supporters along the way cheering, I just sprinted till the end but in a very awkward position. When I crossed the line, I cried, so much pain and I could bear it through!

The aftermath was terrible. All my legs muscles were sore. I had difficulty walking, not to say sitting and standing. Exchanging for the finisher shirt and medal, I was a hot shower at SRC. It was the best feeling you can get after a strenuous activity. The 5 of us have completed the marathon and I am glad we all made it. And yes choon kai, no more marathons. I just want to prove that I can do it! The drive back home was a little bit dangerous that’s all.

And presenting to you…

Now, my whole body is aching so much, I’m asking myself why did I torture myself in the first place?

My pink ipod is playing "Hurray - 林俊杰 (S Pop)"

2007-11-26T17:00:00.000+08:00

Updatessss…
I just completed a 5D4N Sin-Indo camp that was part of the MOE effort in organizing bilateral camps between neighboring countries. I have enjoyed immensely in that camp for I made new friends. Being a facilitator, I applied my skills as a leader, the sensitivity, the motivation, etc. it felt like another outfield again, except this time, no scolding, no xiongness, all fun.

Actually, I want to highlight an important news. 5 national dragon boaters just died in Cambodia due to a freak accident as their boat capsized in the river. The strong current in the river proved no mean feat to all the strong swimmers for all 5 of them drowned. As of yesterday, the bodies were recovered, some few kilometers away from the accident site. I had been following the news, and have been reading newspaper on it. Today, on HOME in straits times, it featured 4 persons life story, except for one, one that was the youngest, one that was same age as me, one that I did not even notice he was an acquaintance of mine till Kenny pointed out. I read back and discovered, oh gosh, he looked familiar. Straits times says, “he was serving national service, as of yesterday, little else was known of him.” Even the NJC PE teacher Stephen low, whom I did not know for I have graduated from there le, was given a positive acknowledgement by our principal, nothing was said of Chee Wei Cheng. He was in my neighbor class back in secondary school, and the only time that we interacted was during Sec 3 adventure camp where we were part of the camp leaders. The camp was one of my most enjoyable times in secondary so I had great memories of it. It is certainly saddening to hear the demise of his, and more sadly, nothing else was known of such a nice guy. God bless you…

Saturday, I went to collect my Stand-Chart Race pack. Actually I was tremendously happy that you asked me out for a movie, for even though it was during ur exams. I guess you needed a break and some happiness injected and you thought of me, so I grateful to that.
Enchanted by the happy movie, I’m just glad that you are happy. Just do your best for ur exams Babe!!

My pink Ipod is playing "Ever Ever After - Carrie Underwood (Enchanted OST)"

2007-11-16T01:04:00.000+08:00

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, iPaq etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool…

01 - OPENING CREDITS: Five Minutes to Midnight – Boys Like Girls (Boys Like Girls)
02 - WAKING UP: Ocean Travel – Tearliner (Coffee Prince OST)
03 - FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL: 外婆 - 周杰伦 (七里香)
04 - FALLING IN LOVE: 喜欢你 - 庭竹 (雨声)
05 - FIGHT SONG: These Streets – Paolo Nutini (These Streets)
06 - BREAKING UP: Poison Kiss – The Last Goodnight (Poison Kiss)
07 - PROM: The Pretender – Foo Fighters (Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace)
08 - LIFE: 宠上天 - 五月天 (为爱而生)
09 - MENTAL BREAKDOWN: Teardrops On My Guitar – Taylor Swift (Taylor Swift)
10 - DRIVING: Make You Feel Better – Red Hot Chilli Peppers (Stadium Arcadium)
11 - FLASHBACK: 我不想忘记你 – 郭静 (我不想忘记你)
12 - WEDDING: Pictures Of You – The Last Goodnight (Poison Kiss)
13 - BIRTH OF CHILD: New Shoes – Paolo Nutini (These Streets)
14 - FINAL BATTLE: 我不配 -周杰伦 (我很忙)
15 - DEATH SCENE: 旋律 - 林宇中 (淋雨中)
16 - FUNERAL SONG: Kings Horses – Jet (Shine On)
17 - END CREDITS: 寂寞的季节 – 陶喆 (Ultrasound)

This is such an interesting thing to play.. hahah

My pink ipod is playing, "Goodbye - Melody (Coffee Prince OST)"

2007-11-15T13:51:00.000+08:00

OK just little quick updates..
Last Friday, I officially passed my driving test. WOOHOO! I’m a qualified driver now. HAH. It’s pure luck that my warm-up route is the same as my test route. And it’s even more luck when my tester is the same as my first test one. He’s cynical and intimidating. Even I thought I did quite well but he still had to give some much comments at the end but still pass me. Phew lucky me! Driving is fun la but my parking need to be better to achieve the one time slot in effect.
Got a job too. Working as some camp facilitator for adventure camps. Have always been inspired after the sec 3 adventure camp. This time it’s me to impact on the youngsters life. Also I need a part time and flexible job, seems like the new Zealand backpacking trip is gonna be real. Well should be going after CNY next year for abt 1 month plus.
Am watching a new Korean drama coffee prince. Quite hilarious. It’s a must watch for all!! Explore your new sexuality. Haha
Oh yep, and I visited T3 yesterday. Very big, very spacious, and bright due to the natural lighting. But I just do not understand why they must put small stickers of flies in the urinals. Go take a look, it’s very real and good for guys to zero into the urinal too haha…

i dunno wad to say to you... just all the best for exams!

my little pink ipod is playing "Romeo and Juliet - The Killers (Sawdust) "

2007-11-02T19:16:00.000+08:00

Ex Wallaby has ended for me and provided me a short trip prior to my ord. what a nice ending to my 1 year and 10 months of national service.

Rockhampton looks like a nice place to stay, a cosy little town at the north-eastern side of the Australia. The weather there is very erratic. Freaking COLD at night and Ultra Hot in the day. And imagine we were told to have a morning 5am run in like 13 degrees in pure PT Kit. Trembling like a dog… after which, the following days of run, my body seemed numb to the coldness le.

Back to the training, it was ok. At least I had a better understanding of what my missions are and how I am part of my company effort. The last day was memorable though. It was my last night with my men, looking back they have spent about 7months with me. I was just laying back on the hull on my vehicle, gazing at the stars-filled sky and talking with them. A feeling of sadness and emptiness filled me suddenly. The feeling stood out so much that it felt like the stars so brightly lit against the black canvas sky. That sort of soothe me a bit and my men told me they understood why the unit fly us up for a week plus just to fight the last mission with them. It was a feeling of resent at first but that transformed to gratitude for I’m truly glad I am able to spend my last days in NS fighting a good one. That morning, the 9 junior officers of us were presented out full lieutenant rank in the field. All the dissent towards the unit became appreciation. We then transported back to camp and further on to Rockhampton for a free-n-easy tour of a day.

Basically, there’s just this big mall in the town and it has 3 “NTUC-like” supermarkets plus a handful number of shops. The mall wasn’t far from our motel and the lunch and dinner place was just a stone’s throw away. The eventful day was spent shopping and watching DVDs we rented from the motel. It was definitely great to travel with the other 8 officers. We had fun and loads of time to bull around for day.

The next day, we left Rockhampton for Brisbane via the domestic flight.

There was no chartered flight of direct flight back to Singapore for us as we were sort of like inserted into the exercise in the first place. At Brisbane, we had to take a train from the domestic airport to the international. Once we arrived at the station. We stood up, proceeded to the doors waiting to alight as the train had stopped. The PA system announced, “International Airport. This is where you should alight for international airport. Please alight at this station for international flights out of Brisbane.” And for 10 seconds, we stood by the door, listening to the PA thinking that only after the announcement then the doors will slide open. However, there were passengers walking in front of us and we were thinking something is wrong. Then, at the corner of my eyes, there was a blinking light by the door and it says, ”Press here to open the door”. Gosh!!! I pressed it quick, we all quickly exited the carriage for the rest of the passengers were mocking at us. It was a great laugh later. Haha

Then it was just a long flight back to sin via Quantas.

And guys, Presenting to you my Pink IC today. Haha.. ORD LO…

I miss all of you, esp you babe.

My Pink Ipod is soothingly playing, "彩虹 - 周杰伦 <我很忙>"

2007-10-22T09:22:00.000+08:00

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you’ll wait for me
Hold me like you’ll never let me go
cause I’m leaving on a jet plane
I know I’ll be back on 1 Nov
Oh babe, I hate to go
(Inspired from Armageddon)

Anyway, in abt 4 hours time, I’ll be boarding the flight to down under and go for an exercise. Partly sianz, partly excited. Been always excited abt planes and airport, but tinking abt the trg, yew.
Yesterday, I went to the guan yin temple near sim lim square. It has always been a tradition for me to visit the temple whenever I leaving for overseas. To pray for my safety. But yesterday, I went with babe!
Okay, basically I enjoyed yesterday, it’s been quite long since we’ve met up and me sending you home. These little sweet times will remain etched in my memory. Be missing you babe.

My Pink Ipod is blasting, "Leaving On a Jet Plane - Chantal Kreviazuk , Armageddon OST"

2007-10-19T16:27:00.000+08:00

Alright guys, I’m back again. Recently back from langkawi trip with Quek Quek, Bear Bear, Jiahua and Ronnie. Pretty interesting journey, despite all the minor setbacks, we still managed to enjoy and the main thing get out of the unit to relac one corner and slack. At least it has been a relaxing trip other than the average 5 calls from office per day and average 5 sms from OC or whoever. Sucks!
Will upload photos from langkawi soon I hope.
Next up, Wallaby trip. I’ll be leaving Sin next mon noon. Pretty perplexed by the fact that officers have to wear long sleeve shirt and pants and ties. Yucky. Think is just my RSM wanna wayang again. Going down under for a week plus, fight some missions and come back before all the live firings. Be back on 1 Nov morning, and I will be using passport to fly rather than 11B so can buy all the good stuff in DFS. Must make full use of it. But come to think of it, my coffer is running low. Yew…
One more thing, Dec 2 is coming soon which is Stand Chart Marathon. And my physical condition doesn’t seem fully tuned to the torturous run. Must chiong after I’m back if not I cannot finish the run and cannot get my Adidas Finisher shirt (which is the whole aim of the race heh).
Hope to meet up with you babe before I fly off…

My pink ipod is playing “牛仔很忙 - 周杰伦我很忙" (quite a pretty weird song from him!!)

2007-10-09T00:41:00.000+08:00

Today was my leave. I had a dinner and chill-out session with my previous OC and all the other PCs less fitz.
From all the conversation, there’s one thing I learnt.
NSF experience, Positive NS experience. Different people will have encountered many things, and to me, how you want yours to be is up to you. One may have encountered a rosy time in NS, some real shitty stuff happening. However among all the rosy time, you may learn some things about yourself, among shitty times, there are positive attributes and shortcomings of yourself to be learnt too. It all depends how you want to see it.
To me, during rosy times, low-key period, strong friendship can be forged. We have the time to go out, go mess, go enjoy and fool around like JC days. During tough times, tension arises, unhappiness built, but you learn to be a better person for I know when I’m stressed, I will snap. It is such instances that I learn to be more calm, and how to lead others better and more importantly, how to carry myself out.
I feel ex-boss is a great person, in terms of how he treat others. Maybe because he learnt philosophy so has a better insight of people and the world. I’m truly impressed by him, his morals, his attitude.
Congrats Sir for gonna becoming a Father in 6 months time. The way he break this news to us was quite subtle. He said, “my house gonna have a new Hi-Fi set coming in 6 months’ time. The decibel and power output quite high one.” Then I thought about it, how come this Hi-Fi set needs so long to deliver. Then I looked at his smiling face, and I immediately got it. But poor ming still a little bit Huh, need more hints. LoL. Anyway, ORD coming soon, Wallaby coming soon, Langkawi coming soon. Till then will continue to update all. Ciao…

Babe, I’ve learnt to take things slow, for being together with you is bliss.

My Pink Ipod is blasting: "三个心愿 - F.I.R. 爱·歌姬"

2007-09-18T22:03:00.000+08:00

I'm here to introduce you guys to a new term that i've recently coined about it.

"CHRONOSPHERE"

For most gamers, the first thought will be Red Alert2 where GDI got this Chronosphere function.

In my context, it is my CSM, Whom we call him encik dearly. he is the most ultimate, extreme, cold jokeer that sometimes when he finished saying, there will be a sphere created around us and time seemed to stop for a while before all of us are hit by the Cold, freezing comment. Then shoutings of "Encik!!!" will echo thruout.

so chronosphere will replace terms lik "CROW flying across, Snowing" for me. haha.

ok i'm bored.

2007-09-02T00:25:00.000+08:00

Wao it's real real long i've updated this space.

Basically a lot of things has once again happened in this period of time, from NDP, AHM, Trgs, change of Bosses, ARR, Babe meet ups and so many more.. *phew one shot spill it out*

well, i'm just sianz now, of NS, of army. seen through the whole issue, now just will do my own job and say bye. i've decided not to extend, but my Operation Officer (aka 2+1) very cleverly used his trump card and make all the not-extending-officers fly. u see, my unit is gg over to wallaby this yr end on the 21oct to 24nov. my ord date is 2nov!! so i hav to extend if i want to follow my men and company over to down under. however, i hav no will and muscle to go on, hoping to get an early rest, but since someone can muscle his way thru n secure air tickets back to singapore on 1 nov then i hav nothin to say but to enjoy business class seats and some dfs shopping n some short stint over at the sandy terrain.

oh well. i am just hoping 2 nov can come quick, still have so many things to do.
think it's time to start planning of post-ord things to do.
1. Starting Trg for StandChart Marathon on 2Dec. (actually is start trg now, my boss says by now shld be running 20km at least once a week. he's mad la.. not the mad that we noe.. oh right luckily i hav many ppl to join me in the run in camp so we shall train together.)
2. Get my driving license quick. (on 9 nov)
3. Learn how to play golf properly. (i've been jus anyhow whacking balls)
4. Find some job with decent pay. (hoping for maybe a stint in T3 or SIA as some sai-gang)
5. Plan for the backpacking trip to New Zealand with Jiahua. (he better dun pang-seh me)
6. Start gearing up for Uni at NTU. (maybe shld start applying for all de scholarship again)

that's about all the major things... more to add on.. hah

ok i'm reading this book call the god delusion. wa.. very amazed with the stuff inside. quite interesting, but ppl wif religion are highly nt encouraged to read.

2007-05-20T23:34:00.000+08:00

Months in the army has led me been thinking about weird things.
I still remember watching Pokemon anime years back when one episode is on the ultra cute Charmander (yes, pokemon was one of my favorite cartoons). In that episode, it almost died due to its weak burning flame at its tail. But ash did something to make it better.

What I’m trying to say, like the flame at the tail likens to Charmander’s life, the fire/flame represents my passion and “power” to continue in my work. Yes, all the aspirations, passion that we’ve discussed in OCS, in OTW are weaning. Self-motivation is the key but the most common excuse that we will give is “I’m just a poor NSF!”
My flame is not dying jus weak, I will not let it die. Weak comes from other factors like secondary tasking and what other shits that I never thought of before commissioning. Life is not as simple as you see. This is one thing I’ve learnt.

My fellow PCs are likened to the other starting Pokemon. When I told Daniel about me being a Charmander, he told me he’s a water animal, long ago no flame le. So he’s squirtle. Weiming, being the cockster, and according to joel, looks like Bulbasaur. And khoon, like a pikachu, POOF and he’s gone like a lightning.

Well, happy coy! (for now)

And I’m still deciding, extend or not to extend, maybe hear from babe whether I should go aus and take a look. For wallaby or not?

2007-05-11T21:10:00.000+08:00

Just saw the news just now and i called joash immediately.
HUkou camp, Taiwan, held great memories for me when i was there last yeary oct for training. the weather's there great, armour training was splendid too.
but, today, one fighter jet from taiwan crashed into the camp killing 2 Singaporeans and injuring 7 others, of which 2 seriously injured. Those people include NSFs. i can't imagine cause the people killed are most prob storemen or support personnels stationed there wan. Those people most prob have supported us when we were training there last year.
i called ash and found out OTW just came back last week. and the plane crashed into some stores which are just beside the bunks that we slept. gosh, i can't imagine if it just crashed into bunks and OTW was still there. now i heard one infantry unit is there training so i wish all the best for them.
haiz, so saddening to hear such news...

but a good news here, F1 will be here next YEar!!! (poor malaysia, dun be jealous)
2nd street race after Monaco, and potential 1st night race, much better than a normal circuit sepang.. haha

2007-05-10T21:35:00.000+08:00

Finally, I’ve got the time (or I should say I feel like) to blog. Not saying blogging’s boring, except that my NS experience has nothing much to talk about.

I’m gonna start blabbering again.
Coming to 41 has got so many pros and cons.
I start with the cons first:
The camp smell of chicken’s Shit!! Literally, sometimes when you wake up and the morning “fresh” air welcomes you like a train hit your head. Gosh!

Actually that’s about it.. for cons, now pros:
The people posted with me to 41 are great people. As in to me are the better guys back in OTW, sincere guys and straight forward, nothing of the back-stabbing and evil plots types. Lucky!
The camp is so near my house, 10min car ride away (but I seemed to spend more time in camp than at home)

Till now, it has been 5 months as an officer, working as one, operating as one. Gain a small insight of what work life outside is really like. I would say SAF is operating something like a commercial organization. But I’ve been stuck in between friendships and work-relationships. Yes I can be friends to a lot of people, but I feel that sometimes when it comes to work, I demand a lot from myself and of course the people who are working with me, and I would neglect of the feelings and strain the relationship. I would only realize that I’ve hurt people until someone tells me, but in my mind, I am still good friend to the person. It’s just that to me, work is work, private affairs should not be brought inside. But L is correct, now what we are doing is low-key stuff, so as friends, we still can work along well, but when the tough comes, it might be back to cadet days where we KB each other, but once work’s off, in bunks, jokes and laughter come back. Some people may be put off by my attitude when I’m in work mode, but in friends mode, you guys know I treat all my friends great one. So if I might have offended people in work, just forgive me, stress transforms people temporarily.

So now, I’m trying hard to bond further the group of us that are posted in together. We are 02/06, we must like what joel said, make a mark and show that we can make a difference.

Babe, you’re leaving me and Singapore for 18 days! Wa that’s a long time, starting to miss you le lor!! I’m sorry when sending you off like didn’t care for you. (Stupid caveman called me for work matters) but really hope you come back fast and we can go watch the concert together : ) you enjoys down under yeah!!
Airport is really a nice place…

Imagine

2007-03-28T22:56:00.000+08:00

Imagine, Felicia Chin in Smart 4.
Imagine rui en and Felicia chin in sungei gedong.
Imagine chief talking to Felicia for half an hour.
Imagine I’ve got friends sitting next to Felicia chin at the cookhouse eating lunch.
Imagine I heard about them in camp.
Imagine when I got there no one is there.
Imagine how sad I was.
Imagine how boring my life is now.

Driving

2007-03-23T02:17:00.000+08:00

I’m getting more pro at driving… Muahaha
This week was my battalion block leave so I basically cramped a lot of driving lessons to occupy the time and also to clear it. most prob I can pass my FTT on apr and book a test date somewhere in AUG and probably a qualified driver then. HAHA
And who shall be my first passenger?? Hmmm…

Driving’s fun, when you enjoyed it. :)

Way back into love!

2007-03-19T23:06:00.000+08:00

Way back into love. What a wonderful and nice song. I totally love it, really summarises the wonderful and sweet things that could happen.
Gosh the movie “Music and Lyrics” is great. Especially when I’m watching it with you babe. Splendid. The real funny parts are tickling funny.

We are still in this stage where I dunno how to move on, how to improve, but I do really enjoy the sweet moments together.
I’m willing to let you kick my Birkenstocks. I’m willing to drink teh-bing and kill cockroaches. I’m willing to jaywalk. All I want is to hold your hands.
I’m willing to get fragged.

I’ve been living with a shadow overhead
I’ve been sleeping with a cloud above my bed
I’ve been lonely for so long
Trapped in the past, I just can’t seem to move on

I’ve been hiding all my hopes and dreams away
Just in case I ever need em again someday
I’ve been setting aside time
To clear a little space in the corners of my mind
All I want to do is find a way back into love
I can’t make it through without a way back into love
Oh oh oh

I’ve been watching but the stars refuse to shine
I’ve been searching but I just don’t see the signs
I know that it’s out there
There’s got to be something for my soul somewhere
I’ve been looking for someone to shed some light
Not just somebody just to get me throught the night
I could use some direction
And I’m open to your suggestions

All I want to do is find a way back into love
I can’t make it through without a way back into love
And if I open my heart again
I guess I’m hoping you’ll be there for me in the end
There are moments when I don’t know if it’s real
Or if anybody feels the way I feel
I need inspiration Not just another negotiation

All I want to do is find a way back into love
I can’t make it through without a way back into love
And if I open my heart to you
I’m hoping you’ll show me what to do
And if you help me to start again
You know that I’ll be there for you in the end

beer

2007-01-27T13:04:00.000+08:00

Wa.. this week is really I pleasant week.
ARR training has started and is getting more intense. ARR is my armour road relay and is one of the important events of my unit life. got a specialist team and officer team. Jam shack even tho the trg is jus one hour. But we will get to a stage which after the trg, the rest of the day will jus nua in office.
Now I’m still helping out in s3 branch then after that gg back to my hawk coy.
At first I was tasked to conduct a live firing for some big shots but lucky they decided to let some other ppl conduct. But I prepared all the lessons plan and stuff then they say no need.. so waste my time.
Yesterday was the best time la… my unit initiation!!
Very xiong… 8km fast march followed by reverse soc. I have to admit my co is a garang man.. almost chui towards the end but at least all the new officers hanged on and we cleared everything together. At nite was a dinner followed by the mess initiation.
And of cos beer-drinking time. the familiar armour toast..
They switched off all the lights in the mess and 3 officers at a time from each coy jus entered and get ready to be shot from our seniors. They asked a lot of questions and each wrong ans will get a reaction from the crowd “Give the man a Tiger!” so 3 hours of mess time, I ta a total of 10 cans of beer, plus puking 4 times and getting real drunk at the end. I really can’t drink beer for nuts and I will abstain from beer for a long long time.. wine and liquor still can la but beer is really too gassy le.. can’t still the hangover too.. but at least I pass the initiation into the mess too. Too shack now..

2007-01-20T00:12:00.000+08:00

new life

2007-01-09T23:33:00.000+08:00

OM course finally finished.
Tml I’m finally reporting officially into my new unit. Actually went there quite a few times. I’ll be expecting lots from my stint there. And my OC “stunt” me.. let me be dy S3 for a few months before letting me go take over as PC in Hawk coy. Well at least I tink I might hav a 8-5 job for a few months, considering maybe can book out every night? (since I live so close camp) ha ha… the other PCs dun be jealous lor. So happy fri is battalion’s off so I’ll be slackin again! But havin basic theory test so jus do well lor, I really wan to get my driving license real soon!!

So many nice songs out now like mayday, take that, aaron kwok, gigi and I’ve been like an aunty, watching all the TV dramas like nobody’s business. Prison break 1 and 2, My girl (strongly recommended to watch) all damn nice… maybe unit life got more time to watch more dramas haha

Till then… take care ya all!!
‘Do let me stand by you, loving you in secret’ 花样少年少女

2006-12-07T21:21:00.000+08:00

Bloody swines, maggots, sea flying cockroaches, sea horses, cicada...
all sorts of weird "refined" statements are common phrases that could be heard everyday by SSM - the impt person in charge of my comms parade on 9DEC.

in case u didn't noe, 9 dec is my comms parade and oso the birthday of a very special person!! heh..

feelings are mixed now. euphoria in becoming an officer, apprehensive cos i will be on my own leadin my men. a little happy cos i'm posted to somewhere nearer my house and life's there pretty not bad. well all these tough trgs shld hav prepared me to be competent so i shall jus hav a little bit more confidence in myself!!

anyway, time really flies... so fast year end le..
many years ago, i imagined myself of achieving the same feat in commisioning, imagining the comms parade, comms ball and blah... now it's all happening to me. eek

my comms ball is on 15dec a friday at shangri-la. paid more a lot than other formations, but can't grumble much, except to hope that it will be a much more grand event than prom nite. speaking of which, someone in my course is bringing the nj prom queen 05 to the ball. all the buying stuff, and some "weird" theme of Black Christmas was chosen!! we have to buy presents for exchange.
i'm just real glad u agreed to come, remember i said i've neber seen u in a dress, this time i will be de lucky man.. hhaha.. tink i shld pay for ur dress even tho u declined.. jus looking really forward to it!! yipeee
One black bar, here i come!!

shld i confess???

taiwan trip again

2006-10-09T21:02:00.000+08:00

Sorry.. it’s really looong I’ve updated this blog.. plain too busy, and tired.
Life in armour is really shag, after all the tiring field camps, finally I got to book out on a Friday which is once in a blue moon. Anyway, I’m going to Taiwan for my last phase of training and after it, it will be mainly some slack moments.
Taiwan training will be xiong, and I am bracing myself for it. leaving for the airport in abt 2 hours’ times so yeah. Gotta go there and spend a lotta of money on clothes and stuff. Hopefully my bag is big enuff. Remembered last time I went Taiwan, it was TIP, Taiwan immersion prog, now is training in progress. Oh well, still hope to go there and meet up with my frens there. Not forgetting the must-buy list I’ve gotten, dun worry I will definitely find the stuff for you.
Yesterday was really one of the best day I’ve spent in this year. Really like ages I’ve met you, and so many farnie things happen. You never fail to brighten my day and I hope I made yours too. And nice mooncakes your mom made!

Alright, cya all 3 weeks later, and I hope “land warning” will be called upon a little frequently Opps! Heard COAs will be coming to visit us.. chief of amour and army.. scary ah…

2006-08-13T11:44:00.000+08:00

Once again, I get to spend my precious book out time at home. Sometimes I was tinking, I should not take book out for granted, maybe if I treat it with respect, work hard for book out in the week, then time spent outside will be much more meaningful cos I noe, I’ve worked for it!
Wednesday, national day, morning went to visit an OCS fren who was hospitalized. I met up wif some other OCS frens and visited him, poor peng, his lungs burst. It’s really not life and death thing but it’s making him having difficulties in breathin. Poor him, not sure whether he will be OOC in signals, Prays for him! Hang in there dude

Watched national day parade on TV, while I noe you babe is at stadium.too bad I couldn’t go wif u. Armour want us to book in by 10pm, while signals 2359 hrs, (becos got him as he wants to accompany his papa on NDP) nvm, next time should have chance. Actually I’m onli interested in the parade segment. this year, it’s the first time the guards-of-honor used SAR21 rifle for the drills and they executed the fire-of-joy in a fan-out formation which was very nice! This made me think whether on our commissioning parade, will we be using SAR21 as the rifle? But a fren of mine says, OCS do not have enough SAR21 wif bayonets studs fitted, thus might not be implementing it, so it’s still M16s. however, as most prob PM and President are the guests, and to impress them, OCS might chiong the fitting of studs or borrow from other units. But still, I dun tink I wan to use SAR21 cos if you noticed, when senang-diri position, the GOHs are still “hugging” the rifle and unlike M16s, we get to rest it on the floor. Quite xiong for SAR21 drills.

President and safos scholars are out. Ms chai, the first wan, was in Sierra wing in OCS. It’s a pity she gav up Army but it’s a gain for the public sector. And Jianmin, bmt sect mates! congrats again. He’s jus too powerful, smart, likable, everything. You left for cornell le too bad can’t send you off, cos I still haben book out. You will make it big, maybe CODF! jiayou

Maybe I’m giving you a wrong impression. But I dun noe your actual feelings. My principle is that if I can’t commit 100%, I won’t go into it. the times spent together wif you are definitely enjoyable. Hope you will wait. Oh, sorry for prayin too much sun for you, caused you to be so burnt. Opps. Take care and rest well babe!

9.01

2006-08-06T01:04:00.000+08:00

Well I’m back again, booked out successfully again on Friday night. It’s not easy, we have to run well for our 2.4km run ippt to garner this privilege. I set an aim for myself to run below 9min but on Friday I ran a 9:01min and I am damn geck with myself! arrgh… well I think you are right, still hav another chance so shall train harder for it!
This week is again quite slack.. more guns to learn, and more heavier too.. nothing much except that our discipline is getting slacker and instructors were not happy. Guess we have to buck up a little.

Yesterday, sat, I went out with my OCS section mates. Actually there’s 5 of us in armour so it’s quite lame too ha ha… but it’s great meeting them and catch up with stuff we have done. Infantry sounds so xiong lar and they going for Brunei on national day… their lancer will be very xiong! After that jus laze around in orchard, roam about with them and caught the movie Click! At first I tot I would be a lame movie but apparently it’s quite nice, with some good philosophical meaning behind. At least I will cherish my loved ones more! The jokes pretty lame and got one or 2 scenes that really tickles me…

Next week got national day so can book out again on Tuesday. Now I’m in a dilemma, to listen national day rally or watch fireworks? But all these could happen if I can get to book out earlier… haiz! Well then enjoy everyone… WEAR RED on 9 Aug!

I think fireworks are romantic…

"Will you still love me tomorrow morning?"
"Forever and ever, Babe!"

2006-07-30T18:55:00.000+08:00

it has been a hectic life this week in armour. we have begun our gunnery phase meaning we will be learning all the weapons and systems we will be handling. can you imgaine a barrel of the gun weighing lik a GPMG? what will be the total gun weighs like, and that gun is described as lightweight!!! but there will be many tests, theory and practical, more stripping and assembling. ok more info into my brain...

thur and fri was rehearsals for our parade. the sch of armour is under armour trg institude and there will be a new logo and it will be commissioned on the parade on monday, and COA is the guest of honour. the parade is quite cool, quite big and provides us a little trg for the 9dec big one!!

weekend was very good too! enjoyed myself totally.. bought the man u home jersey and it's damn nice!!! good investment.. can wear on national day too but too bad.. may not be able to watch de parade.
watched the lake house with her.. such a romantic and nice movie and it's really nice. i was discussing to my bunk mates watchin it wif guys will be a little weird. luckily she's free.. remembered that time when we watched de trailer, i was so amused by it and decided would watch it... well enjoyed myself.. so hard for us to find a time and meet up... sorrryy..
well yest we almost met up.. unknowingly we were in de same place haiya... haha take care and dun eat too much junk.. well i'm eatin a lot of junk food in my bunk tho! opps :p

This Never Happened Before -
i'm very sure this never happened to me before
i met you and now i'm sure this never happened before
now i see this is the way it's supposed to be
i met you and now i see
this is the way it should be
this is the way it should be for lovers
they shouldn't go it alone
it's not so good when you're on your own
so come to me
now we can be what we wanna be
i love you and now i see
this is the way it should be
this is the way it should be
this is the way it should be for lovers
they shouldn't go it alone
it's not so good when you're on your own
i'm very sure this never happened to me before
i met you and now i'm sure
this never happened before (this never happened before)
this never happened before (this never happened)
this never happened before (this never happened before)

this song was part of the soundtrack of lake house and i think it's damn nice, very fit de story and maybe sometin that might happen to everyone..

Last week was really

2006-07-21T23:47:00.000+08:00

Last week was really so rushed for armour that I rushed out of camp and back in.
The first Monday which was the world cup final, we had our initiation, which we were presented the COOL BLACK BERET --- a symbol of Armour cadets and I’s so proud of it. there are onli the commando and armour cadets wearin berets to commissioning parade.
Later in the day was a mess night and we each chiong down a can of iced cold tiger beer in the armour tradition and could see a lot of strawberry faces. I was a little high and I was blabbering a lot of nonsense on the way back… ah haa

Basically last week and this week is so rushed. We armour have to learn so many new things and I’m in the bionix platoon meaning I’ll be working in the very expensive armour vehicle called bionix. And this week we learnt how to drive in it le.. and think most prob my class 3 license will be easily attained. Haha..

Last sat went to watch Pirate of Caribbean. Shall say the endin is freaking anti-climax! But mr depp’s acting is totally own everyone else… his eccentric acting is so good lar… so we waited with half of the cinema ppl, hoping that after the credits maybe will show the third installment trailer. BUT we kena pawned by it, yep there was a short lame clip on the dog being the chief of the tribe… at least we got to see Spiderman 3 trailer and it was very good, anticipating to watch it.

Hopefully I can always book out on Friday nightz!!

tagged

2006-07-09T17:25:00.000+08:00

Arrgh lame Christine made me do this thing… but oh well nuthin to do… sheet did I jus complain?

INSTRUCTIONS:1. Do the following without complaining.2. Choose 5 people to do this after you've completed yours.3. Leave a tag on the person's tagboard to say that he/she has been tagged.4. Start your post with "I have been tagged!" then do this.FAVOURITES:color: no specific wan… depends on mood now is green (not because I’m in the army okay!!)food: hainanese chicken rice, signature dish of Singapore (not hainan meh??)movie: ice age 2… cold and corny…sport: SWIM!!! But seriously it has been a long time I went swimming le…day of the week: it was Friday at first, but since going into School of Armour, it’s Saturday cos they are operating on a 5 and half day week… sianzseason: Summer, when I can become real tanned…ice-cream: Mint choco… jus like it..
CURRENT:mood: moody… guess all my Sundays would be like that cos it’s book in day… hahataste: some bitter tonic that me mum made… yuckyclothes: jus a simple white shirt and arena shorts, was sleeping jus nowdesktop: my desktop pic is an A380 SIA plane and the table is full of cablestoenail colour: pinkish white…??time: 1701surroundings: lightning and thunder and music playin in my itunes. annoyance: I jus spent my whole month of allowance… and my parents r scolding me.. opps buy too many things and watch too many moviesthoughts: thinking of my CLG… Firsts:best friends: my brotherhood!
crush: this primary school gal but we lost contact le…
movie: anna and the king…lie: forgot le…music: ABC song… hah LASTS:cigarette: I have sworn with my bros we will not smoke!drink: red wine plus vodka… a weird and knock-out concoction
ride: my parents’ car///crush: erm my CLG.. hopefully things can work out.. but seriously nsf has no time :( movie: Superman Returns quite lengthy and boring at the starting but overall not bad esp who you r watchin wif.. Heez :)phonecall: papa.. he was rushin me to go CD: pan wei bo newest album..HAVE YOU EVER:dated one of ur best friends: well I guess lovers start off from friends first rite… broken the law: I admit I did steal a sweet when I was in primary 5 from the mama shop.. felt real guilty…been arrested: NO!!!skinny-dipped: feel like trying tho heebeen on tv: nope…kissed someone that you dont know: erm yea.. but that was way long time ago when innocent kids dunno anything
4 things you did today: sleep, bought some army stuff, sms her, drank wine and read newspaper3 things you can hear right now: music, tv playing outside and thunder again!5 people to do this: I shall decide to stop this menace from continuing! I shall sacrifice myself!!!

Yep I’m back from SOCJOT on Thursday morning and I jus chionged home to catch a rest before going out in the afternoon. Well time is limited outside as I’m gonna book in on Friday morn. Watch superman returns with her and I enjoyed it! guess the time that we can meet up will be reduced greatly so I hoping for all the best…

Entering school of Armour, was excited at first but now scared. A little bit of things will get confinement and the passing mark of all the tests is at least 80/100!!! Gosh! Brace myself for another 19 weeks before going back to the heaven of military schools SAFTI! As the warrant officer says, we mus all work towards the special day 9 DEC! it’s that motivation that will be pushin me on! And 15 dec will be another special occasion tink so…
Getting ready to be turned out tml morning when we will be receiving our black beret. Instructors will most prolly watch finish the final before turning us out… oh well I hope italy will win!!
Ciao and miss ya all…

for you

2006-06-26T18:45:00.000+08:00

The Mini block leave from last Thursday till today has ended…
Soon in about 8 hours, I will be aboard a SQ flight to Brunei for SOCJOT (Support Officer Cadet Jungle Orientation Training) wao.. time really passes too fast..
During this leave, I tink I really spent too much money le.. shall save some but later going into DFS.. I’m really tempted to get something… haha
this will be the first time i'm going to changi airport and exiting the country without bringing my expired passport! cool and apparantly we may be entering the custom through a back door like those celebrities... ha ha... and most prob SAF booked an entire SQ flight... (so rich...)

This 10 day trip will end on 6 july and for armour, we will be booking in on 7july… really hope to book out on 7july nite so we can have the weekend to watch world cup final.. ha ha…

Recently heard pan wei bo new album, quite nice.. got 2 very nice songs
One is track 2 著迷 and track 6 我想更懂你

每次我想更懂你我们却更有距离
是不是都用错言语也用错了表情
其实我想更懂你不是为了抓紧你
我只是怕你会忘记有人永远爱着你

Really hope I will get to enjoy this first overseas trip of my OCS term…

Best of lucks to you guys having common tests! Jiayou

I will slow things down… we still needa know more of each other… and instructor said it’s not advisable to you-know…
But I will miss ya when I’m there. I will brace myself for it…when I come back we must meet up kay!

2006-06-24T17:36:00.000+08:00

Well.. OCS service term has jus ended and I am glad I have pulled through and survived it. Though it was not as tough as I have imagined, I must really thank a lot of people for accompanying me through de tough times. Firstly it would be my section in Sierra wing. We are a great bunch of people, we are all jus above average people, with no individualistic mindset and we strive together to achieve success, jus short of 0.5 points to be the best section. However, I still think my section is the best.
Joanne – the best planner, she makes sure our route when navigating is well planned, and she controls the pace of our team, good moderator
Ernie – food supplier haha… nah.. her knowledge of tactics, weapons and stuff are much better than others
Chun xiang (buddy) – platoon best wad can u expect… he gives his all out all the time resulting to once when he got some really bad groin abrasions
Kun rong – the artist of de section, his personality is great and always helps others
Willard – the joker lar… he never fails to brighten our days
Navin – chindian.. his skills and knowledge are oso very good. Even tho his physical is not that good, he always put in his best
Woon howe – best PT of Sierra wing, no need to say, main force behind our high IPPT scores
Yida – neither here nor there jus good at everything… hee

To my instructor mr bong.. he’s de best, too bad when our term is ending, he left liaoz ORD.. sir, we must make it a point to meet up as a section some time soon…

Sierra wing will remain a special place in OCS to me it’s where the core values of a Leader is taught and displayed.

Thursday was a special day, morning went to do cip with my wing at cck. After that we went to lot 1 and ate and jus mingled around.. our cip was done at a children’s home and basically the kids there are heavenly playful. Tink it was a mistake to buy them whistles, cos the whole place was loud screeching noises. If like that, a football match just couldn’t continue…anyway had a great time there…

Afternoon, I went out with some of my platoon mates to watch movie “cars”.

At night, I met up with a close friend and had dinner. Every time when we met up, there would be funny things happening. Jus wanna say I enjoy myself a lot every time when we are together. And yep the distance from the bus stop to ur house is not long.. so dun worry and u mus take good care of urself, dun fall sick so easily.. will miss ya when i go for SOCJOT on next mon

oh yep, i'm posted to the knights of valour
Swift and Decisive, ARMOUR!

updates

2006-06-14T09:32:00.000+08:00

I know it has been REALLY long since I’ve updated this place. Thousand apologies to all… no excuses, jus feel that don’t feel like updating cos I dun wanna bore people with OCS stuff again… so now, jus an update…
I am CWSM, cadet wing sergeant major, aka cadet wing saikang master, aka cadet wing store man. Basically in charge on my wing discipline, and stores (which is freaking lot) nvm, I shall jus hang on with my job till the end of next week which is the end of service term.
Many things have happened in camp, dunno where to start…
Anyway, I have met this group of close frens in my platoon and we called ourselves the X-men… 5 of us, cos we usually become Cyclops (eye power) ha ha… nah.. of cos we will help out with anything, but now that I’m cwsm, I’m really eye power, only directing others… but we are quite close in terms of friendship, always had food together whenever there’s free time and the other 4 of them are really good people. There are really some f-up people in the platoon whose attitude is lousy. Hope they change if not they might jus out-of-course nearing the end of OCS.

I’ve nothing more to say le… today is free cos last nite was my social nite which was erm not that good… shan’t say more…

Finally you r coming back today to Singapore, really miss ya lots so mus try to meet up this weekend kay… I might be booking out early on fri nite!! i mus really make it a point to bring jacket or wear extra clothing when watchin movie wif you le… can’t bear to see you sniffing away during the show…

Man u vs arsenal

2006-04-09T13:57:00.000+08:00

Strong bonding takes place when people go through tough and challenging times together. They form a special relationship that can only be expressed in the context of those experiences.
When these deep experiences suddenly end, it will cause a sense of loss, much grief or a wish to prolong these encounters together.

Think of life as a continuous journey, where each event is a milestone responsible for shaping a person's character and destiny.
Doing this will provide us with the resilience to weather the storms in life.

Tonight is Man U VS Arsenal! What a great match, yet I have to book in back into OCS at 9pm! Sianz… can’t watch, gotta count on you ppl to provide me live updates. This match is pivotal, high profile. Must WIN!! Prays hard.

Blue and red. We are blue land, but a red dot.

2006-04-08T23:56:00.000+08:00

Finally I am back from ocs!
The past 3 weeks have been so fast-paced for me that I experienced a sudden change of lifestyle and a lot of new things. The first day upon reaching ocs, I know I am posted to Sierra wing, the so-called slack wing(but that’s not the case). Maybe is the common misconception that my wing has wocc (women officer cadet course) and so they assume we are treated better. But those girls are in OCS longer than us so they are lao jiao.
Ok back to ocs, first week was full of lectures, full of leadership, motivational speech and more. Life seems fun rite.. no man! It’s like the whole day is lectures, and we end like around 9 finish last parade will be 10pm then rush to shower and clean up de bunk a little 1030pm we lights out le…
2nd week Monday and Tuesday were our wing leadership field camp. Mainly teachings us skills of navigation and map reading. Then the main event was casualty evacuation. 4 men to a stretcher, plus an “injured” man on it, and each man is FBO. Basically, it’s fast march for about 4km when we carried de stretcher all the way on our shoulders. To me, the whole evacuation was extremely tiring, towards the last part, everyone was totally shagged out, but mentally we must be strong. The will to carry on must be there. I kept telling myself, to go on, think of the good shower we can enjoy later. But after this physically tough mission, my section bonded really well. Along the way, if not for the motivations, we might not have survived through de mission together.
But jus when we are bonded really well, the wing has to split. Many of us are leaving for air and navy, leaving de platoon to be very small. So I have to be re-located and meeting a new group of ppl.
Within this short period of time, I have got to know many ppl, many are my friends now. One thing that I’ve learnt much is adaptation and it’s greatly required in ocs.

For now, 3 weeks have passed, leaving about 35 more weeks to commissioning parade. (the parade seems to be on 9th Dec, go figure out wad’s so special about this day!!!) I will preserve on!

To lead, To excel, To overcome! Sierra!!

OCS-prelude

2006-03-19T13:19:00.000+08:00

Too many things happen during the short block leave in NS. Block leave is ending soon.
Let me start…
Monday, yup Monday blues. Had to wake up real early to go boon lay and meet up for an air force tour. Toured 2 camps (hidden in secrecy so I can’t tell you where are they) we were introduced to UAV and air defense of air force. Cool. Considering the free lunch and dinner, the whole day was pretty informative and fulfilling. At the dinner, I was selected to the same table as the Brigadier-general. (one star onli mah) had a hearty talk with him and the others on the table. Air force is definitely a career choice of my mind…

Tuesday, met up with my section mates and we went east coast and played. Work out to be exact. Pool, bowling, soccer, nite cycling, dinner, supper and breakfast.
Exciting! This may be one of the last few times we meet up and gather and enjoy, but I told them, we must make it a point to gather occasionally after NS, even when we are working. I only start to have this feeling of sadness when we are separated, it’s like during bmt, we bonded really good and jus felt a little melancholic. Whiskey 4 section 4!!

Wednesday, reached home lik ard 10 in the morning, from all the cycling, butt pained. Slept a little before haoz, xl and shiwei came for mahjong.

Thursday, coped myself up in house to complete uni application, a few essays to write and mentally taxing. Haiz…

Friday, morning went to CMPB for interview for pilot. That morning was a nervous morning for me. Postings for us after bmtc were out, and we had to log into webby to check. My heart was thumping when the webby was loading, freaking slow, slow until my heartbeat is normal then the page was loaded. Phew, or Fortunately, or My prayers were answered, or My efforts paid off, I am going to OCS. Thanks to all the commanders in whiskey, my platoon mates and everyone who made my Bmt an enjoyable and memorable experience. To srg ariffian, if you are reading, I am not going to pasir laba! Ha ha…
Back to the interview, quite ok lar, except when I told them something, the panel will try to shoot me down, and I guessed I showed them my sincerity and confidence, I have cleared the interview. But to being a pilot, it’s still a long way to go!

Saturday, class lunch, not bad for a number of 9 ha ha… back to the place of Breeks. After that I met up with my brothers, and we went to visit clement. Tomorrow is his 3rd death anniversary, jus wanna say to you, you will always be in our hearts forever.
A zhu chao dinner on my treat + song, and we went home. 3 weeks later we can meet up again, and maybe Manhattan fish market.

Today, packing and sleeping is my main agenda. Tml, I am venturing into an unknown territory, and OCS here I come! I love challenges, to lead, to excel, to overcome!!

To those having common tests tml onwards, Jiayou! Do your best and you may get a treat from me!! Ha ha… opps
Ps: the allowances in ocs is really not high…

reading!

2006-03-10T23:25:00.000+08:00

I’m back into my reading story books days. Thursday I went to borrow books. I didn’t noe that we can use 11b to borrow books quite cool. Borrowed this book my army buddy intro to me – the rule of four. (veri nice, something better than da vinci code, less religious. On history too…)

a good friend stands in the harm's way for you the second you ask. a great friend does it without being asked at all.

Happy Maldives anniversary. Exactly one year ago on this date, at about 9pm we were gathered at changi airport, waiting to embark on this special journey. A journey that was enjoyable, memorable and leaves a deep impact on my life. just wanna say, thanks for all the people that have made it possible.

It’s open houses hopping tml…

POP

2006-03-09T23:23:00.000+08:00

Post POP life is not boring. I have been trying to pack my block leave with activities, making full use of it, cos it’s not like you get a long break that often.
Let me talk abt POP first. It stands for passing out parade, and our reviewing officer is Ms Indranee MP for tanjong pagar grc (nt too sure abt how to spell her name) I just knows she very multi-lingual, even Cantonese she oso noes. Anyway, she’s not the main highlight, the thing is prime minister is in the VIP stands as his son is also POPing. Everyone has to take out the bolt carrier group from their rifle (infer yourselves why we have to do this), but it’s good, make the rifle lighter.
As one of my platoon mates said, once we pop, we dunno when we will meet up again, will the friendships we forged last. Definitely within my section, we are closer, and this block leave, we have set a date to go out and play (cycling lar) very enthusiastic, but as we progress on, those going command schools, units, after ns, university, then work, family (I’m tinkin so far) it’s like, time we can spent together are quite limited, but we must make it a point to meet up (like there’s Maldives outing tml! YEAh… so looking forward to it)
Yesterday went back to sch with xl and Melvin. We went to get our documents certified. One comment by ms aw was, “chao ta chao ta, round round” she was describing us! Met up with a few people, jiali and ruth. Then talked to ms ng, which she in the end helped us sign the documents. And yes mr Kevin sim was saying, we are not allowed to go back again… he’s weird lar ha ha… somehow, I’m starting to miss sch life…
Today I went to post office to settle my applications, and finally I’m done with it. now, I hope for the best, hopefully can get through and go for interview. Met up with some of my platoon mates to play soccer later and it’s quite fun, a lot of funny actions. I love working out and especially it’s a team game.

Keep having this feeling, so many things to do, but so little time.

Anyway, all the best to those who are having GP exams tml! Dun worry too much, it’s just common test and it’s the last day of school TML! Whee…(just dun remind yourselves after hols, it’s common tests again.. ha ha)

A lvl

2006-03-01T17:52:00.000+08:00

Well. Well D Day is over. All the build up and excitement and anxiousness are gone. Now what’s left is a lot of applications.
A little disappointment is what I am feeling now. My A grades are entirely opposite from my prelims grades. SIANZ! And I screwed up my S papers which I think is quite hard to get the scholarship. Maybe they see I like Man U so much that my S papers grades are M and U. (a U is very Ugly in the cert lor shit!) But at least I have 4 As and a B3 in GP for consolation.
I hope for the best to everything and leave it to fate whether I can go Imperial.
Now there’s only 24km route march and POP in my mind. After that hopefully is command schools……..

Thanks for all the encouragements you guys gave.. now I’m passing it back to you all and hope you guys will do well for common tests!! Surely can do well want!

book-out

2006-02-19T12:02:00.000+08:00

Yo, Jim’s back in the house.
This book-out is the penultimate for my BMT. Next weekend, I cannot book-out cause there’s range over the weekend and so we are “confined”. Oh SHIT lar! That means that I cannot go to visit Asian Aerospace and I am so pissed! The only consolation that I have is that I can observe the planes. My PC said, 2 years ago, he was also a recruit and from his company line, he saw the fighter jets flying. So I do hope that we can get to see and please let us be at the coy line every week day from 1330 to 1530!!!
If a levels result is out next Friday, then I think we will book out in the morning and book-in in the evening! (remember there’s range on Saturday morning) ARRGH! So I Pray now, let the A level results be released on the first week of MARCH. That will be good cause my POP is pretty soon on 7th March.

After 7 weeks in Army, i think the food in there is not very nice. They say, to capture a man’s heart, the best way is true the stomach. So if whoever-up-there wants NS to be more attractive to men, cook better food, I guess AWOL cases will be lesser.

And I’m a little stunt when I did a perfect score for my IPPT diagnostic, didn’t expect it and my commanders didn’t too! Next week will be the actual IPPT test so I must repeat the prowess I displayed.

Yesterday night I went to Fish & Co at the glasshouse to eat dinner with Kenny. (no it’s not a date or what shit Songlip) we went there to watch the match Liverpool VS Man U. the food there is very nice and filling and plus got match, quite worthwhile but Man U displayed some no-good actions which they just gave away FA cup. I’m quite disappointed. And poor alan smith broke his foot terribly. Haiz… we need to BUCK UP!

oh gosh i just read The Sunday Times and i saw Mr yong under the Hot Bods section. up to your own viewing discretion.

3 more weeks to end of BMT!

FIELD CAMP

2006-02-11T22:05:00.000+08:00

FIELD CAMP has officially ended for me! I’m so glad that I made it through and survived it. but there were really extreme high and low points during the camp and our platoon really gel well during the whole course of it. Out of 7 days, it rained 4 days and rain plus sand and soil in your clothings really made me very uncomfortable and cold. Even the very expensive goretex raincoat is not able to keep one warm. But if there’s no rain, it’s not memorable, no tekan session, it won’t be called field camp.
In the past, we think that our bunks is pale in comparison to our house beds, cook house food sucks, but once you go outfield, all those are like heaven. When it rains at night, we will be shivering and sleeping. The true spirit of field camp is to do self-reflection during the course of it and learn more about myself, my mental willpower and how I accomplish objectives in stressed situations and more, I see my friends showing their true abilities.

I see a lot of similarities in both field camp and the Maldives trip.
There are a lot of digging. Field camp, we dig soil, using entrenchment tool (chunkcoal, I dunno how to spell) in Maldives too, dig sand. Now my digging skills has improved tremendously and next time if I get to go back Maldives again, I can help them dig faster.
(heard that they are not going to kudafari this year le.. I so miss that place!!!)
Like what my sir said, he saluted the Bangladeshi workers for their fast digging skills.
Lunch time and dinner times were the best times of the day, where the platoon sat and munch combat rations. I dunno what to say about combat rations except that when you are hungry, even the lousiest food tastes nice.

After this field camp, it made me cherish more things which I took for granted.

today was book-out day, all my frens get to book out at 830, but the selected us had to leave at 645 to go aeromedical centre for medical check up. and that check up will take abt 4 hrs... hell! when i reached there, my first feeling was to shit, cause after 7 days of field camp, all the stool are not properly released, so a toliet bowl will be helpful. then when i finished, the guy told me, go to blood/urine test station. SHIT! i jus peeeeeed. how, squeeze out the last juices from my bladder. and i tell u it's really pathetic.. blood test was even worst. they filled up 2 test tubes hhalf-full of my blood! but generally the whole trip was quite fun, except quite time-wasting...

take a look at this, quite funny.. but i totally agree wif it . http://www.nikefootball.com/takeover/index.jsp?languageid=en&returnurl=..%2fsiteshell%2findex.jsp%23%2cen%2c1%3bfrontpage&sitename=NIKEFOOTBALL.COM

I discovered A level results may not be known that soon, 17 feb is the earliest. Nevertheless, the situation is set, and I can’t change anything, I just hope for the best!
I really want to go for the Asian aerospace exhibition.

CNY

2006-01-28T22:16:00.000+08:00

Yipee, it’s Chinese New Year very soon!
Yar, my coy just booked out this afternoon, and I just had my reunion dinner at my grandmama and grandpapa house. All my aunts and uncles looked the same, cousins too, but I am different. My hair is much shorter.
I am very sleepy now and I am afraid I can’t hold on till 12 midnight. There’s this practice which we have to do, called shou ye. And the reason why I am so sleepy was I only had 4 hours of sleep last night cause I was serving my regimental guard duty. My platoon had 6 people and we volunteered to guard the ammo dump. (that freaking place is so eerie and scary and a lot of stories about there are heard) my partner and I were damn scared but we just don’t care lar, we concentrated on talking to each other and share our life stories and experiences. My partner happens to be my bunk mate and I think after this duty, we know each other better! We did the 10-12 and 4-6 slot which is okay, cause apparently the “strongest” period is 12-2am.

My coy booked out today and will be booking in on Thursday night (which is later as compared to most coys ha ha) but we will be starting our field camp on sat. I must not get sick during this CNY period so will be abstaining some munchy nice food. And I have to report to CMPB on Thursday morning for the wso-fighter interview. Some time ago I took a pilot test and I thought I screwed it up, surprisingly, I might have passed it and there’s a follow-up. But still, my Thursday is burnt!

Arrgh, nvm this festive season we must be happy. An early happy CNY and may all you ppl
wishes come true. 红包拿来!

most probably, A lvl results will be out before 17Feb (that's is freaking early)... I'm getting the creeps now...

hoho

2006-01-21T13:18:00.000+08:00

Whee, I’m back from NS temporarily and will be going back in soon.
Let me assure you all that NS is really quite an enjoyable place to be in if you possess the correct attitude. Now, I’m in W company and W stands for Warriors and Welfare too! That’s why, our company is the only one that got to book out yesterday night and we have one more night of rest at home!!!!! SHIOK!
But with great benefits come heavy responsibilities, our commanders will definitely want more from us, and not forgetting the adjustment period has just ended for us, so next week onwards, it’s punishing time if we do things wrong. However I think my platoon is quite united and my section is the best. Yesterday night once we booked out, we are the only section which gathered to have swensons ice-cream Yummy! (actually there’s a reason, and because our section is the only one that all 12 of us have no girlfriends so we are pretty free. Lonely hearts club..)
NS life is good I think, everyday we sleep early and wake up early, do a lot of physical stuff, get fit and going through thick and thin with my section is definitely a wonderful experience for me. Other than the simultaneous jabbing for me, I’m alright with all the other things. And I have just gotten my new IC. (my picture sucks! I look so weird)
Anyway, anything that you do wrong in army is chargeable offence. I am looking forward to my field camp which is directly after Chinese New Year.
Just checked my bank account, I have just gotten my pay for this month!
Right, can’t say much things about what we do, cause apparently it’s chargeable if I say the wrong things.

and yar, singapore blood bank is facing a shortage of blood units, and i heard the army, having so many men, will want all NSmen to volunteer donating their blood! ARRGH... no! the needle that they use is the biggest and it's quite pain. shit, i should be braver rite...

Ciao and happy Chinese New Year Soon!!

nS

2006-01-10T13:49:00.000+08:00

Yo, I am back from NS. 2 weeks of confinement was cut halfway cos of the public hol Haji. Pretty enjoying myself there, but maybe because the sergeant haben start punishing us. Tonight booking in again so.
And I looked really different now, and I won’t show anyone my 11B.
All the best to orientation and people who are working!
Take care, while I go sleep somemore, quite tiring lor…

Happy 2006

2006-01-04T12:55:00.000+08:00

It’s been really a long time since I’ve blogged. Dunno why I don’t feel like doing it, maybe because I’ve no time, or I’m just plain lazy in typing it. Application for scholarship is boring, need to type so many things (actually I’ve only done one and that organization is not responding to it) heck! I shall just wait till after results are out then I shall start sending out applications (that’s the case if my results are good enough) and although all the applications to UCAS have came back, I still need scholarship before I reply to them. Bleah…

Reflecting back, it’s really a fun-filled and fast holidays since the last paper of As. It’s like almost every other day, I’m out, playing, eating, shopping, and holidaying. I think I’ve done a great job in packing activities in my holidays. Right about 24 hours later, I will be in the place where all boys go in and come out as men island. Now I get the jitters that I will be entering NS soon, after hearing from Jason about the simultaneous jabbing of tetanus and Hep B. that’s scary!! Nonetheless, I actually don’t mind army life.

Oh yar, by the way, Happy 2006, new year, new hopes and new things to come. Hope everyone stay happy in this new year, forget all those unhappy past. I think watching fireworks to usher the new year is a great way to kick off. And the fireworks are really nice, especially at esplanade. Right?
Best wishes for this spanky new 2006!

Goodbye Civilization, Welcome to Tekong!! Haha…

2005-12-19T19:17:00.000+08:00

hmm, i must be feeling rich, fancy goin in to internet in the hotel. actually, is to use the computer to transfer pictures from my camera to my mp3 player, so i can take more pictures feeling at ease.
yar i'm now in Jeju, Korea. itching for a go at the casino later, but my parents seem reluctant leh.. haha...
weather in jeju is much better than seoul, but jeju is an island, so the winds are pretty strong. when snowing without wind, it's okay, but if the winds are strong, it may get unbearable.
before i went to jeju, we visited seoul first, and went to everland, the veri big amusement park owned by Samsung. and so qiao, it snowed heavily on that day. it's actually quite hard to see snowing so we were pretty lucky.

sneak preview, so cold n snowing that me n my sis were wrapped lik dumplings.

time's running out, hotel ppl are stingy lor. hah..

rite ppl, i'm enjoying myself in korea, so dun miss me! haha... la la la...

I'm really enjoying a white christmas. so hope you are here to see the snow!!

Saga

2005-12-16T11:18:00.000+08:00

Sir Risap, a young knight from France in the medieval age, was walking along a path near the town of Down. Down was a prosperous city of France at that time, and many things were traded. One of the most expensive foods that were traded was jelly pudding. Sir Risap wore pink chainmail armor. He held a big silver broadsword, always on alert for enemies that might attack the town of Down.
When the sun rises, the food jelly pudding will melt and turn into the liquid form. Back then jelly puddings were made from animals insides with stabilizers derived from plants.
On the outskirts of the town of Down, a fortress was built on a hill named tabok. Sir Risap was stationed there, manning the fortress. Inside the fortress lived two beautiful ladies, and both of them laugh at anything that were funny. Sir Risap was entranced by their looks and was attracted to them. He neglected his post, and one day, the enemies took over the town of Down by force and massacred all the villagers.

I’m really just being bo liaoz and wrote this short story. Ha ha… it’s has no link wan, just that there are hidden riddles in it. so bleh.. don’t bother solving them, cause, the answers are pretty bo liaoz too. Ha ha…

Right, I’m gonna fly soon… yippee

pre-korea

2005-12-16T00:08:00.000+08:00

Wao, it has been quite some time I neber update my blog le…
Y? because there’s no mood for me and I’m pretty busy with my holidays. Wao issit that great? NO, cos NS is coming soon so I have to pack my holidays with all the activities.

So 7-9 dec was sulphate chalet. Damn fun, and I’m so grateful to sock, ruifen and grace who planned the birthday “party” which was very dirty. Whipped cream is something that I hate, don’t like to eat, don’t like the smell, jus sucks. And they smacked cream on me! Arrgh, luckily we went to swimming pool and soak a while, and washing ourselves there hee hee…
Once again thanks for the bash too! (ouch my balls)

13-15 dec was Maldives chalet! It was so fun too! You know, you learn new things in chalet and I learnt German Bridge, which was very intellectual and funny. Also the jiali-is-not-good-with-it game. From that game, we can conclude personality of the person, jiacheng is cool and composed. Ha ha… ah. Ah.. ah… ______ (depending on the theme)
BBQ was not bad and the 3 chicken littles, I think we marinated some really tasty chickens! Butter girl was leaking her butter everywhere ha ha (opps, sounds real bad)
And a good way to clear food is Zhong Ji Mi Ma. And pink condominium reigns the game with 4 hits, me 3 hits but neber got the chance of eating potatoes. LoL..

Feeling really sleepy here cos first night, most of us only clocked about 3 hours of sleep. And I shall go sleep le.. shan’t fall sick! Tonight, I’m gonna fly to korea with my family for holiday le! Yay… and I hope nothing goes wrong… Korean air just ended its strike on Monday and korea is having some snowstorms. But good lar cos.. I’m dreaming of a white Christmas!
Yup, till then enjoy your hols!

Summary

2005-12-06T01:06:00.000+08:00

Just a quick summary of my holidays up till now. Haven’t really gotten the time to write down.

Let me start from last Thursday, it was out Grad Night! I must say it’s very well-done! I lost my ticket and they gladly replaced it and I’ve got a chance to go for the lucky draw. (but yeah, still didn’t win anything) the food was good, show was great, people look gorgeous especially when they put on make-up and some looked pregnant, some look really old (haha.. opps :p) the prom queen deserved it! RV lor.. ha ha

Friday, the brotherhood gathering was on. This might be the first time and last time all 7 of us gathered in my house and stay over. Soon, everyone will be going into army so the gathering was memorable. We played again, chit chat, drink wine and get high!
Saturday was the second day, and continued playin even though we slept quite late that night before. Saturday night was my sis choir’s concert and since all of us are from RV, we all went for it. the concert was just ok, except there was some unhappiness all because of me. Shan’t talk about it. but then after the concert, we went to lau pat sat for dinner cum supper and everything was fine again. I guess food does the job!

Then continued stay over till sun. quite happy when everything was over, cause I enjoyed very much. Might not have the chance to do it again. But I was tiring though, so slept all the way then..

Today, went to watch chicken little with the gang but mad was replaced by grace’s sister. Chicken little was not bad! The fish and pig(cute) were the characters that were most funny though, just watch out for them. And guys, thanks for the early birthday present!!

Right chalets to come and I still haben started packing for my Korea trip luggage. Korea is now having snowstorm and pretty bad, planes are not to take off or land… and it’s very very cold there now. Hope things will get better when I go there!

laze

2005-11-30T12:30:00.000+08:00

Here, I’m lazing in MacDonald’s eating breakfast with my sister. Feeling great cause life seems to be very carefree now, very slacking, relaxing, and it’s good to slow down the pace of my life and reflect back on the almost 18 years of my lifetime. For now, As are over, and one more month, NS will start. I’m going to pack my holidays with activities, and don’t make it look boring.
Right now, I think there’s this song that fits my feeling now. It’s Vitamin C – Graduation (friends forever).

And as I was eating, the chicken little started dancing to the umpteen-times-repeated dragostea din tei tune. And the little kid at the table beside me started dancing too on the chair. And the next moment, he fell off from the seat and pop! He landed on the floor with his head first!!! Shucks, I was still shocked by his actions. His mom immediately carried him up and 5 seconds later, a loud wailed pierced through the whole mac. I could see a little bump and blue-black on the 3-year-old’s forehead. The crying dimmed down as the family walked out. What a scary moment.

Yesterday, I spent a bomb on clothe. (not for grad night though) it’s a MAN U jersey with the name J.S. PARK printed at the back with the number 13! Very nice! And no more meeting in orchard mrt! (somerset is alright)

Haha.. tomorrow’s grad night le! Wohoo…

Hope your holidays are not boring!!! And I got another conditional offer from the university. Haha….

tired

2005-11-26T21:28:00.000+08:00

Erm, NO more As le! Somehow, I’m numb to the feeling. When I was about to get use to having exams almost everyday, it just came to an end. Ha ha.. weird right? After our physics s yesterday, the class guys went to kiliney kopitium for later-breakfast. Then seng, haoz shiwei and I decided to come my house for mahjong.
What a great way to end our As!

Today, I met up with xianlun, haoz and shiwei at orchard to look see for grad night clothes. And along the way, we see many other schoolmates with their parents shopping for apparently grad night clothes too! At around 2pm, we were walking down the road from paragon to heerens. At the singtel area there, we were stopped by a charismatic malay guy. He told us about a competition that was going on. There was a multi-purpose vehicle parked there and we were supposed to gather as many people and stuff ourselves inside the car! The catch: winner team can get cash $10,000 and each members will receive a free brand new Samsung handphone. So I don’t know why we agreed to join them. Waited for about 1 hour, before our team get to take part. So when the GO was given, people just chionged in. and we were the last few at the back. The car looked as though it’s almost full, but they just kept squeezing in more. When I went in, my head was at the bottom of a seat and I huddled myself up like a baby to create space for others. Then the doors were closed. I was in total darkness and breathing space was little. 2 guys were on top of me, made me feel a little suffocated. Then when people can leave, apparently only 2 could come out, the rest were stuck. And I was panicking, quick leave! Slowly, the rest could move out and we gain freedom. Our team has got 41 people in the car, but we were third overall, the top team had 44! Too bad, no prizes to be won. It was 4 when everything ended and we sort of wasted the whole time down there.
It was more shopping later but we did not see nice-looking clothes. I only bought a pair of pants. Nevermind, tomorrow, I would go complete it, with all the things I mind.

Enjoy holidays everyone!

ASS

2005-11-21T22:09:00.000+08:00

YEAH MAN!!! A’s are finally over for me! (a little lag as compared to others)

Feeling not good now, 2 days of weekend spent at home led to me contracting the flu virus from me sister. Just started today, but no effect on my FM paper 2. I’m sure it will be the best paper I did. Luckily my nose didn’t run too fast, can still control with occasional sneezing. People, please take good care of yourselves cause you don’t want to celebrate the holidays feeling ill! Moreover, it’s the flu season! Eat more vitamin C!

A’s are over, BUT not ASS! No, no slacking for me! My dad paid extra 100 bucks for me to take the 2 papers, so shan’t waste his money! I really hope to repeat the feat I’ve accomplished for prelims (just for the S papers part only, not my 4 A subjects!).
Right then, shall go study more and it potter time tomorrow. And we will be doing something funky tomorrow!

*achoo*

Exams

2005-11-15T22:05:00.000+08:00

考试i n g

陪你熬夜读书到爆肝也没关系
陪你mug书mug成扁平足也没关系
超感谢你让我得到整个 GCE
让我重新复习CHEM
(MATH! PHYS!)
考试i n g happy i n g
心情就像是坐上一台喷射机
考试i n g改变 i n g
当考试完了,讨论
答案对,心跳到不行

你是冷气但是好闻胜过了热气
你是半夜油,能烧上整个半夜里
水能载舟也能覆舟提醒着我们
你就是维他命A B C D
A A A A! A A A A!

未来某年某月某日某时某分某秒
某人某地某种永远的心情
不会忘记此刻A L V L
A A A A! A A A A!

黄昏黎明整个到考试i n g
(play the song if u want and sing along!!)

I guess I’m really bored here. So I decided to change the lyrics of Mayday’s 恋爱ing to the mood that we are undergoing. Just purely entertainment and for fun! Ha ha…

2005-11-11T23:10:00.000+08:00

Right, as seen above, that's the mega bird that arrived in Singapore Changi airport straight from Toulouse, France, Airbus factory base. This Jumbo jet, an Airbus A380 plane, is the largest commercial jet at the moment, and it's registeration name is F-WWOW, which is basically the expression one would exclaim upon seeing it! It was crossing the bridge that connects terminal one and two together, and you can really compare that it's so so much bigger than a car!! Can you imagine that gravity-defying beast is about 7 storeys high, and wingspan of about the length of a football pitch! I'm really so excited about seeing it on TV, and too bad my parents don't allow me go to the airport and look at it, as the plane's leaving later at around midnight for Australia. I really thought of going to the airport and mug, maybe send someone off to Thailand and admire this beautiful work of art! I've got relatives leaving tomorrow for Korea and I was thinking, why can't they leave a day earlier, so I can send them off! Ha ha... But nevermind, next year, when the plane's back for Asian Aerospace Exhibition, I will definitely go take a look! And i really hope to sit in that plane when SIA, being the first airline to fly the A380s. they said the planes will be used in the Kangaroo route, meaning Australia-Singapore-London. maybe jus go Australia lor... ha ha..

GP today, I'm hoping for the best! Sports is something that's close to my heart, and i hope to be the student that Mrs Nair once described! 2012 London Olympics!!! (hopefully the markers in Cambridge will appreciate that fact that i praised London for doing such a great job in securing the hosting rights for 2012 Olympics, they can even go check the database of the London2012 team, I supported them by signing!!)

Really Crappy down here, bleah, I'm just too excited about the big bird (not the sesame street character nor anything dirty!!)
Ciao and all the best for next week's more A level Exams!!

Why is the sky blue?

2005-11-10T18:21:00.000+08:00

Why is the sky blue?

1. The sky is blue because of the wavelength dependence of Rayleigh-scattering.

2.The sky is blue because blue is the color God wants it to be.
(In a sense, both answers are correct)

3 Papers down and a lot more to go. Tomorrow is general paper. Feeling a little slack here, but I know this should not be the attitude. Right, shall go surf some websites on topics that GP might set.
Setting up a fire to burn my food chemistry notes le… ha ha

Also tomorrow, world’s biggest plane A380 will be touching down in changi airport at around 10am (which we will do attempting our comprehension) I so want to go and take a look but how to? But the plane will be leaving tomorrow night, so camp there and see it taxi off and take off? Ha ha… don’t think my parents will allow.

Really crapping off here. Alright then, wishing everyone taking As all the best for GP tomorrow! Hope the topics that I familiar with will come out tomorrow!! And people taking pw oral, jiayou!

MAN U ROCKS!

2005-11-07T16:40:00.000+08:00

Staying up last night to watch live scores of the match Man U vs Chelsea was a good move by me, even though it ended quite late and I got “scolded” by ms khoo. The first half was great, where man u showed passion, commitment, and great work-rate and we scored the only goal of the match. Reading new paper now is so happy, course you read all the reports that praise man u to the sky! Being a man u supporter, I proud to be one! Fortunately on second-half, BBC international decided to live audiocast the match from theatre of Dreams, Old Trafford. I told xianlun about it and he was so happy too! the audiocast was as though you are watching the match but of course it will be best to watch the match live on a TV. (which u could *envy*)
We could hear the atmosphere of the crowd, the booings when referee yellow-carded ronaldo, cheers when makelele was yellow-carded. And the commentators were building up the tempo by their bullet-shooting mouths, “and Van der Sar was magnificent in the brilliant save!” we played really well as a team this time and we clearly showed we are back in the title race. 2 years back, we ended Arsenal’s unbeaten recorded at the grounds of Old Trafford and we won the title that season. Today, we ended Chelsea’s 40-games unbeaten record, can we repeat the feat and win the Barclay’s English Premiership? Of course, definitely! I have Faith in Man U!!! we must keep on playing like this way, and back to the winning old days!

I’ve made up my mind in buying a man u jersey after the As le.

“A” levels will start officially for me tomorrow! (and a lot more people) Best of Lucks and all the best to me and all you taking As out there! Together we can make it and do our best rite!!! And once it starts, it will be over soon in no time…

Pre-As

2005-11-06T16:29:00.000+08:00

Can’t believe it, As are really coming soon!!!
First paper is Maths paper 1 on Tuesday, and afternoon somemore, so people, please remember it starts at 2pm, so don’t go school for morning assembly and be the only one there. Ha ha…
Right then, watched a movie on channel 5 yesterday, “Behind Enemy Lines”. The first 20 minutes were totally cool and explosive. F-18 fighter jet zooming about, being chased by 2 SAM missiles, doing quick turns and sophisticated maneuvers. That scene just blasted me off my seat. Then Owen Wilson, an aviation navigator, went against all odds, surviving behind the enemy lines. His determination and will power ensured his safety out of that place. The strategy to As is almost similar, go behind the enemy’s lines and backstab them! Of course your survival skills must be good! Do not be daunted by them!!

Haha… once As starts, everything will just zoom past really fast. So, we must start thinking of what to do after As, and not be playing computer games at home. Right, planning time…

Our match later is another uphill task. Of course we have the ability to beat Chelsea! Prove to everyone that Chelsea is just an one-time Champion! All the way man!!

Best of lucks to you too tomorrow! Be cool and composed in front of the teachers, you know your stuff really well!

DeepaRaya

2005-11-01T14:26:00.000+08:00

It would not be a great idea to go out and mug these few days. Firstly, holidays for the secondary and JC students just started, everyone’s free and would roam about, making havoc in the once quiet and secluded fast food restaurants. Even the airport will be more crowded as more people jet their way out of Singapore for holiday.
Secondly, there are 2 public holidays in this week, just a day apart. Here, I would like to wish everyone a Happy Deepavali and Hari Raya Puasa!!(opps) What can a non-indian and non-malay me do in these holidays and with my As coming real soon?? The answer’s pretty obvious. MUG!
This morning, I went to BP plaza Mac for breakfast with my family. There are already people there mugging, but more families with little kids eating. And the queues were long, with more people coming in. Parents towing their children along and big breakfast in hands just stared at the muggers, and in no time, all the muggers are either “chased” out or they left in humiliation. And I was thinking, who in the first place will want to mug in a noisy, and not classy place? I guess this week, to mug, the best place will be at home, where your parents are free and can keep an eye on you. Sometimes, they make tonics to ensure you are all set for the As!!

Right then, I also bought Jay’s November’s Chopin. Not bad I would say, but not the best… black wool sweater and malt candy very nice!
Wooden wind = maple? Ha ha…

Dude, stop acting like a bimbo.

Lucks for me and you! We both can do it!!

blabber again

2005-10-24T00:32:00.000+08:00

Somehow, I felt that I am not at my best form, in terms of physically and mentally.
There will be slight headaches when I wake up, but I know that I slept more than 8 hours which is more than enough for a youngster like me! And in the afternoon, will still feel sleepy, where the only activities that I did were watching TV, reading newspaper and mugging. It just feels weird. Something’s getting wrong…
(Especially when As are really looming ahead…)

Just a Chinese phrase to summarize:
祸不单行, 福无双至.
Meaning, a lot of bad things happen to you, but lucky thing only occurs once.
(hoping that it better not be true and continue to happen!) *crossing fingers*

HALO

2005-10-22T21:36:00.000+08:00

Shucks, I spent the whole of yesterday out.
But it was all meaningful work. Morning, I met up with the bros, but too bad sida couldn’t come. We went to visit our dearest brother. It was not a solemn thing, enjoyable trip, we chatted with him quite a while, and that also provided a chance for us to meet together and share with each other what have we done. How are we preparing for our upcoming As. Come to think of it, I really cherished the times we had back then in secondary schools. Haiz, shan’t think too much of these as it will only make me feel emotional again. God bless you there, clement!

After that, we went for a movie, one that I’m attracted to, “flightplan”. It was about something bad that happened in a big plane. And anything that has to do with planes, I’m absolutely very interested. Anyway, the movie build-up was good, but as usual the ending was anti-climax.
I guess the next time we met together will be after As, so wish you all, all the best for As and let’s do well! Play hard after As, my house will be available for overnight stays le… Yeah!

Then I went to school to mug a while, before HALO (horror after lights out) started. Slept the whole way from JP to school, which was still not enough, so when I alighted, I felt grumpy, I guess I always felt like that when I did not have enough sleep. I will take me a short while for the jolly me to come back. So I walked into the school, and I saw Bern at the track, under the hot sun. Chatted with her a while, and found out she’s going for HC open house. Sorry for giving you the I-have-got-something-to-tell-you-but-dunno-what-to-say-look, cause I was still a little “out of sorts”. Ha ha…

A lot of cheeky things happened when I was mugging, shan’t talk about it. then halo started, which was much better than last years one. Great job lar council. Ghosts started appearing in broad daylight, which one shook hands with me?!
Took some pictures in total darkness, and it felt really great to flash people with me dual flashes. You might get blind after a few more times. Ha ha…
It’s in the webby http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=2118693433 go check it out!

I must tell myself strictly no more playing and serious time now. I try to bet with myself, no internet for 2 weeks? How about that? Or tell my mum to take away the RAM? Nah… self-discipline is in me!

Setbacks are part and parcel of life, what matters most is you learn from mistakes and pick yourself up again. Welcome challenges and defeat them! I really don’t know what to say or console, but only to cheer you up! Smiles =)

Later is Man U vs Tottenham! Let’s win in old Trafford (which I managed to locate it in google earth le xianlun!) and I really hope we win (which is easy)! If Park Ji-sung played really well and scored later, I will surely buy his jersey after As!! The other one which I’m considering is Rooney 8, now, I’m slightly towards Park, but his number 13 is a little unlucky? Ha ha… superstitious me! Let’s see who’s better… but Asians support Asians more!! All the way!

School mugging

2005-10-19T19:24:00.000+08:00

School mugging is so productive.
Library is such a conducive place to study and of course your companion must also be a serious mugger.
I went to school library to mug, hoping to arrange for a consultation for GP but apparently her slots are pretty fully booked. And I saw guan, aaron, xianlun mugging, guan was having his consultation with ms aw. So I joined them a while, attempting a comprehension paper. Then they all went down for lunch, so I tagged along, having eaten my brunch at home. Yup there are some new additions to the canteen, some new round tables are place in the extension part and they seemed nice being placed down there. But there’s this smelly smell on the table top. So while they were eating, I continued doing. Yar and we saw Bern, and xianlun’s forever that noisy (opps) ha ha… had a chat with her… she got a B for German la! Hope that my curse of 4Bs doesn’t fall upon you! It seems that all promos results will be known by tomorrow so I wish them all the best here. If you need maths tuition, Jim’s available on weekends next year, while I’m having NS… haha!
So guan left with someone to mug, while aaron had a date, leaving me and xianlun to go mug in the library. I think I’m so productive in the library, completing a comprehension and FM paper 1 in 4 hours. Feeling great, we left for a break. I bought M&Ms to eat but I failed thrice into getting the chocolate into my mouth by throwing it up. My skills are deteriorating. And we went to I&E hub to check something, and saw google earth application. So we found xianlun house, NJC, changi airport and we decided to search for Old Trafford stadium but for about 20min, couldn’t find it… Manchester is just too Big! Left and decided to go home, and xianlun did something illegal in school which I shan’t say here. (ha ha, I got your ba bing)
As we were leaving, I saw ruth and Christine! Yeah, they 2 forever so funny and sometimes incoherent. Ruth was again acting weird and she doesn’t want to tell me something which Christine wanted to say! But it’s great seeing all of them in school and do a little catching up! After the chat, I felt energized cause all the mugging drained my brain… hope to see you people everyday!
sorry jolynn for not hearing u calling me! but i saw u again rite.. haha.. and dot was painting some halo thing, and when she knew i'm going, she was like, yeah!! ha ha... beri farnie... catchin up is so fun, have a tablespoon of ketchup!!
And I slept quite late last night and woke up so early to watch Man You vs Lille. Although we didn’t win, I think we played great. Should have introduced Park long time ago, but giggs is injured so I think Park will get his chance to prove that he’s great! Yeah, Asians! and you should hav seen the scene when park substituted giggs, the fans were giving a standin ovation, and giggs took off his captain band. park composedly received the band and wore it on, assuming the role of the mighty man u team captain!! that's so cool of him and he did really well in that short time of 8 min! i'm really so tempted to buy the man u jersey of J S PARK, number 13!!

Haha… more mugging tomorrow and tomorrow and…

Imgaine

2005-10-18T16:00:00.000+08:00

On your planet, you have an animal called a bear. It is a large animal, sometimes larger than you, and it is clever and has ingenuity, and it has a brain as large as yours. But the bears differ from you in one important way. It cannot perform the activity you call imagining. It cannot make mental images of how reality might be. It cannot envision what you call the past and what you call the future. This special ability of imagination is what has made your species as great as it is. Nothing else. It is not your ape-nature, not your tool-using nature, not language or your violence or your caring for young or your social groupings. It is none of these things, which are all found in other animals. Your greatness lies in imagination.
The ability to imagine is the largest part of what you call intelligence. You think the ability to imagine is merely a useful step on the way to solving a problem or making something happen. But imagining it is what makes it happen.
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things, and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you --- the ability to imagine.

-Extracted from the book “Sphere” by Michael Crichton.

This piece of information is really inspiring. Always be optimistic and do not be limited by barriers! (Sounds familiar right)
Be inspired! Dare to dream and imagine!
人因梦想而伟大!

Sulphates!

2005-10-16T23:01:00.000+08:00

About 1 year and 10 months ago, 6th Jan 2004 marks the initial formation of class of NJ 04S04. First 3 months of the JC life is the most carefree in the whole JC life. The happy class of sulphate enjoyed totally in orientation games, making fun of our OGLs (Justin, Michelle and YY). When 3 months were almost over, there was a sense of gloom and sadness. The 3 months was the most joyous period I had, playing almost everyday and discovering new scandals. Big 2 dominated the card games, bridge came one and of course the teaching of hearts was running on in the background.
When our O level results were released, almost all girls remained, but the guys section had a major “renovation”. About half the class left, filled up by strangers from other classes and schools. 2nd term of school started promptly with only a day of orientation, which sadly most people ponned. The buildup of the new sulphate spirit was lukewarm at first, initial rate of attraction was slow, with gradient close to zero as the class was sort of divided into the newbie and oldies.
But as time passes on, approaching term 3, things started picking up. The trusty old class of TC26 was sort of the best place in NJ campus. We put in quite a lot of effort into making the College day food fest a success. Everyone played a part in cooking, selling, sneaking into some corner of the TC block and made pancakes, decorating the booth. That episode sort of summarized how the gradient improved a lot.
Start of term 3 was the first common test. After that, the spirit remained unchanged as people start to mug for the promos. As soon as promos were over, PW crept in and all of us were busy preparing our oral presentation and written report (this period of time marks what the J1s are doing now, so I wish them all the best here!)
When PW was over, everyone just left, enjoying their well-deserved holidays, but there was no activity planned. No chalet, no BBQ, no meeting-ups.

Year 2005 gloomed in due to the aftermath of the Dec26 Tsunami. But apparently that incident didn’t dampen our spirits. I don’t know why suddenly, the spirit of the sulphates started picking up, and fast. I guess into term 2 of school, people start to pass on their leadership duties to their juniors, and time was there for us to gather as a class. Class outings were organized, PE lessons were greatly enjoyed. We just spent time together mugging and playing. When we start to realize time of being as a class is slowly getting lesser, the spirit just improved inversely proportional. Major highlight was the sentosa outing, almost all turned up, and you could see the happy faces and euphoria that prelims were over. Sun burnt marks on our skins are part of the wonderful memories we had for this totally cool class!
Now as we count down to the start of “A”, as we count down to the start of 2006, as we counts down to the farewell assembly tomorrow, a melancholic feeling surged up my heart. Although we will have different paths in our life after on, we must meet up regularly and relieve the Sulphate spirit! Till that, I wish all Sulpahtes all the best for our As, and hopefully a chalet coming on!

There are just too many things to write, for the class has spent numerous good times together, which I can’t write all down. Let all these amazing memories be part of you, part of the better person you will be when you leave NJC…
Don’t cry tomorrow my friends! Sulphates ROX! (repeat after me)

open houses

2005-10-16T13:36:00.000+08:00

It was a fun-filled day yesterday!
In the morning, NJ had its open day. Actually I was quite sad about the number of people attending it cause it seemed to be not very packed. First thing that I saw in school was Christine. She was sun-burnt under the sun, and her hair looks a little weird, a little like lion’s hair. Then I went to the swimming booth, and as usual everyone slacking. Ha ha… no business theses days. I went up to canteen and saw the fried ice cream stall. Oh man… it reminds me of the times that we were selling it, and jiali was there manning it. bought 2 from her. But she looked a little stressed. Cheers kay!
Oso met xianlun and Melvin, the 2 guys who will be going into army the same day as me but I’m 1hr 15min earlier than them. Ha ha…
Oh yes, also saw Bernie and her sister. Made some observation, they look the same, but apparently her younger sister a little taller than her. Opps! (don’t worry too much about height) and Bernie always acting as though she’s not wearing shorts or just that her shirt too big. Then I suddenly have this thought, isn’t it great to be going to the same school with your sibling together? When I was in RV, i was in sec 4 when my sister entered rv, so we only got to be together for 1 year. (and my father fetches us to school saving on fuel) hope your sister can come to NJ too! All the best for her Os!
After that, a little sian le… and Melvin was complaining there’s nothing much to do. Got free packet drinks, and we roamed about. Saw some performances, walked around and we ended up in the library, discussing on the new curriculum. What’s all the hell about H1, H2, H3… so confusing, but Melvin was scared what if interview, they started asking about changes in education system. And ms ng was there to explain to us, but we were still confused. Ha ha…. But it seemed the new system is a little easier than ours, learning much lesser things, no mechanics, so Melvin concluded, we were born 2 years earlier le…
After that, I walked out of school, meeting ruth in the ice cream booth selling! And thanks Christine for treating Melvin and I candy floss, but we also dunno why the candy floss is black.
Oh yar, and I saw the mass dance on the track. The councilors were there dancing, but the highlight was not on them, but the 2 lions that were dancing. They were jam cute, and of course they couldn’t execute the hard moves so they did some waving in the air, and when they forget the moves, they blushed but covering their mouths with the paws. Ha ha!!

And I rushed out of school to RV open house. Met shiwei on the bus. I was meeting Kenny and marco joined us later. Once in school, Kenny and I met huang lao shi, mr suria! Had a great time talking to them on the school matters and they wish us lucks for the upcoming As. And I so wish to be a relief teacher cause you earn $65 a day and the meal is very cheap and you slacked most of the time. but I’m going into NS on 5th jan! arrgh… also I will be missing out on the 50th anniversary performances. Shucks!
Saw my sister performing for her choir in one of the performances.

And then song and sk met us in my house for the last gathering before the As. Mahjong was a must, and some card games.

As are really coming and all recreational exercises will be stopping. Tomorrow is the last day. I shall be transforming into a professional examination-taker. *poof*

catching up

2005-10-14T21:14:00.000+08:00

There’s just too many things happening today!
Let me slowly analyze what happened cause I’m still a little in a dazed!
First thing in the morning, I went to school for GP extra lessons. Went a little early hoping to find teacher for consultation but she not available. So I slacked out in canteen, and saw jiali. She was as usual laughing around, fretting over this and that, and telling me something new. (something to do with sweet stuff) then ruth came along!! Met many more Maldives people, mainly Ips cause they just had their tests! Tin tin, Dot, Michael… and ya ruth just had her pe, something which I have been missing for quite a long time le… anyway, it’s so great talking to them and do some catching up. Ruth doesn’t look stressful from her PW which is a good sign. Just something to tell you all, dun worry too much about your promos results! At least you 2 did well for econs mcq rite..!!! I’m sure S papers are within grasp.

Then GP lessons started, which was as usual boring, same things repeated. Haiz.. so sianz

After gp, I went to town to meet up with song, kenny and marco!! We went to catch a movie and of course do some catching up again! For the first time, song was early and I was late. We watch the movie which all football fanatics will watch --- GOAL! Wao, it’s really a great show, telling you a lot of the culture of football in England!! More importantly, is how they can perfectly piece acted scenes and real scenes from real soccer action in real matches together. Also, the sound system was jam good, make you feel like really in the Newcastle stadium! I tink the feeling of watching football actions in a cinema is jam cool, so hope to do that next time for world cup next year!! And the jokes in the movie are not bad too… some cheeky scenes which I want to point out. So the male lead, munez was being taken his blood pressure by a very good-looking nurse roz. Then he said, “my blood pressure might be a little high!” wa kao… that part so farnie la.. in the end, his blood pressure was normal.
What I learnt from this movie is that you must have determination and perseverance to make your dream come true! It’s not an offence to dream!!
And I must say, the cameo appearance by david beckham, raul and zidane are really calefair!!! So extra la… suddenly you see david pop out and say, nice to meet you, I see you’re good!
Nonetheless, I’m really looking forward to the 2 sequels of this movie!

And yep, I just received the enlistment letter from Mindef. My enlistment date is SO early lar!! 5th of Jan!! that’s like slightly less than 3 more months. And I can’t imagine I have so little time to play and enjoy and meet up with friends and train up… so many things to do in such a short period. I’m going korea for a tour from 16th to 23th dec, then celebrate Christmas, count down to 2006, and then I bidding goodbye to the modern world for some time to tekong. Well… at least xianlun and I are going in on the 5th, a Thursday… ha ha… kind of excited… but sad cause I will miss so many people… nvm, just hope bmt will be over quick, and I regain my freedom!!

paparazzi

2005-10-10T18:28:00.000+08:00

Let’s name today be-a-paparazzi day!
Three tremendous shots were taken using a sony ericssion K750i phone equipped with a 2 megapixels camera and silent shutter sound, with zooming capabilities.
The first shot was in school, capturing some action.
The other 2 shots are then more of talking point. So seng, shiwei, haoz, xianlun and I went out after school for lunch. We decided serene’s centre Mac which was a great choice. Ha ha… upon entering the Mac, seng spotted a guy outside sitting down surfing internet via his laptop. He said he seems to be Jack neo. So I went out and walked back in, on my way took great notice of his looks and confirmed it’s really Jack neo. Ha ha… we were wondering why is he not filming movies but slacking there in the mac, koping free internet. Never mind, we had our lunch and jack neo entered the outlet, apparently wanting to enjoy the free aircon so he sat 3 tables away from us. He bought a small drink and fries. And the store manager serving was like grinning from ear to ear, looked so happy. And the junior attendant shouted animatedly, as if attracting his attention, hoping him to offer a role for him in his upcoming film, “Good afternoon Sir! Welcome to MacDonald’s!”
And at that point of time, xian lun was exclaiming in his seats, oh that guy must be darn happy to serve him. Lol… we continued eating, and then a woman in her late-thirties, a little on the plump side, tugging a child in her hand. Xianlun who was facing the enterance, was quick to notice that she is chen liping, even though she was wearing a pair of sunglass. Again, he exclaimed, “hey, Chen Liping leh..!” then about 2 seconds later, we heard jack neo saying, “aye, liping!” ha ha… and we started making fun of ourselves with all the jokes. Aiyoyoyo, went wenhao! Good morning teacher! And all sorts of terms went on that you could link to her… and her child is very cute. Ha ha, and shiwei was saying, can I take a picture with your child?
Today is just a paparazzi day cause we took 2 pictures of them and having to be real discrete.

The voice-over today is heavenly… haha… counting down to the end of official last day of school… but I’ll be missing all of you…

scared!

2005-10-09T22:09:00.000+08:00

Saturday was really not a very fruitful day. Woke up early in the morning, not having my breakfast, I went to the FIREfly seminar with tammy, sock, mad, sixun and seng. Once we were in the auditorium, they had 5 organizations giving us talk about them one shot and non-stop. The EDB was not bad, then the following ones began to drop in standard but the last one STB perked us up again with that commercial video they shot. It showed some latin woman dancing and she was wearing a spiky bra. Then her partner swooshed her down and the camera focused on her chest and the next scene was Singapore’s very own esplanade. Damn lame but I think it would attract the curiosity of foreigners. And also most probably I’m hungry and cold, I’m quite shutting off halfway through and mad was nodding her head away (sleeping). The place was like 50% NJ people.
And there was one speaker who looked a little like ruifen and another one like fish leong. Mad was saying if the ruifen-lookalike had some white hair, she would look very much like an old granny (which you might infer that if ruifen had some white hair, she would look like one too).
Anyway, after the talk, everyone sort of like rushed out for food and I finally got to eat. Basically, the 5 organizations were good, offering dynamic work place, exciting job prospects and etc. might consider it!

And since I woke up early on sat and I slept late on Friday cause I was watching crazy first love, I’m pretty much dead. Slept all the way till 5pm and did some homework.

Today was fairly ok too…

From hurricanes in America, to flash floods and landslides in china, to typhoons in Taiwan, to earthquakes in south Asia. Are these signs of the end of world, or just a backlash of the cruel things that we have done to our delicate Mother Nature? She has taken her revenge on us, ringing an alarm in our heads telling us it’s enough. Let’s stop pollution before something worse happen. We can blame the terrorists for Bali bombings, but who else can we blame for the destructions by natural disasters?
We are all just in this state of fear.

It’s a work out day tomorrow again… play the games!

surprise

2005-10-07T23:20:00.000+08:00

Well, you know, a week has just passed so fast. I seemed like not revising enough for my As. It’s is not good ah…
So happy for all the J1s that their promos are over, just wanna tell them results are not everything so don’t worry too much about not doing well. What matters most is that you know you have done your best! I’ll be here wishing all the best for your results and I have this gut feeling that you all will do pretty well. Next up for you all is the PW oral presentation and report ah… ha ha that process is the most “fun” of all!! Jia you!
And next week is the IPs exams le… hope you people will also do well too!

Yep, today went back to school to collect my physics S papers. Surprisingly and anomalously, I topped my class results winning boss by a mere one mark and was awarded Another Distinction. (notice the use of another) my maths s also got distinction la.. haha but what is the use of getting 2 Distinction when my four A lvl sub is 4Bs… haiz… nvm, I really need to buck up more!! If I can do well for my S papers, by right I should be able to do well for A papers right? (it’s a rhetorical question and the answer is obviously YES)

After the collection of phy s results, me send and haoz went to haoz hse and met xianlun, we had this mahjong game. (how to buck up if I keep on playing? Haha) nvm, had a fun time cause it’s a long time I played le, since prelims. And xian lun is the big winner. Shiwei came later and we proceeded to lau pat sat for dinner. We were going to Party world, shenton way to support lao shi. I think she did pretty well and I hope she will enter the finals which is held at genting!

Lala… let’s enjoy life now… the feeling’s still there… yeah

skins

2005-10-04T20:58:00.000+08:00

Pretty much enjoy the life now. It’s doing papers, sleeping, eating, slacking, going school for only 3 days a week, and sometimes working out and playing games after school. So today, the sulphate guys played soccer and later some girls joined so we changed to captain’s ball. It’s very fun to play under the hot sun and see people getting more burnt. But fatigue will slowly creep in so, we stopped and had drinks. Well, these are the only few times left that the class can spend times together and meet up, when As arrives, I believe all of us will be on full blast for mugging mode. So we shall make full use of the times and shall set another slacking day. Friday, lao shi will be having a competition for singing, so maybe we can do something before, like “swimming”?

Ha ha, got back my maths s, quite satisfied with it. Hopefully it’s a D on my result slip, and I really can’t bear to see 4Bs on it, really hope my maths can be moderated to A (which is kind of hard)! And I didn’t know “kind of” is colloquial.

And the aftermath of Thursday’s sentosa trip is that many people are peeling. A lot of the guys are peeling especially the back. And it’s pretty scary and yucky to see one flap of dried skin peeled off from the back. I think we can award the sickest back skin peeling to shiwei and second in contend will be haoz. They really need moisturizer to reduce the effect and hope they can shed their skin faster.

Alright, I shall go off and do some papers le…
I’m so glad for you people that promos are Almost over. (the last paper is can don’t study wan rite) don’t worry and fret over the results of the papers. I’m sure you all will do pretty well for them, so now go out and chill and enjoy! And also replenish your long-awaited sleep. Best of lucks!! Cya…

boo!

2005-10-02T18:19:00.000+08:00

A lot of things happened.
The NTU 168km marathon is over and mr yong has completed it. he sure has displayed great willpower and god-like endurance.
Bali is bombed again!! What the hell!! Can’t the freaking terrorists stop bombing for once, why are there extremists around? Stop be a scoundrel and kill the innocents, be a man and face everyone.
And as I was reading the book “state of fear”, I’m so impressed with all the facts. Do you know that the world is actually colder than some hundred years before, meaning there’s actually no true claim that Global warming is occurring. Yes, some ice shelves are breaking off in the Antarctica, but the depth of ice in the continent is actually increasing, meaning there is more ice!! And it’s jam hard to measure sea levels cause of many factors so the claim of global warming might not be true. (I haben finished reading though, must piah finished it)

Some people just like to keep harping on things… so naggy and boring! It’s too Over le!! Know the limits duh…

Hoping for the best for J1s tomorrow!! Yeah!!

seminars

2005-10-01T19:25:00.000+08:00

Well today is Children’s Day, I would like to wish everyone a Happy Children’s Day!! Bring out the Children in you!! My gosh! I’m so old le, 6 years neber celebrate children’s day le.. haha

Yep, also went to DSTA open house with xianlun, seng, haoz and sixun. Met boss Melvin and sock there!! At DSO, we met this young-looking guy and he was a researcher on aerofoil. He introduced to us this aerofoil shape with dimples on it like golf balls. He said in his preliminary findings, dimples can actually reduce drag forces. And just by reducing 1% of drag forces, airlines can save more than $1billion dollars just on fuel. Wao, makes me very interested on aerospace engineering, but I so dislike physics SPA skill A!!
And he gave me his namecard, tall us we can contact with him on any enquiries that we have on DSTA scholarships. And he said they are some things which he could not say there so we can contact by e-mail… haha hmmm…. The dark side..

I just saw the channel U news and saw the NTU 168km run marathon. And people, Mr Yong, the canoe teacher, is running now and he was say he’s confident of finishing the whole 168km route!! I’m so impressed by him and u could see all the canoeists supporting him as he runs. (he’s still running now, maybe in the sengkang area le) let’s support him!! ALL the WAY mr yong. And I still saw him in school yesterday as some people were having consultations with him. He’s so good la.. so responsible and strong!! He was saying he’s afraid that he could not feel his body’s reaction after long hours of running, afraid that he got the mind power to continue but his body could not take it. But knowing mr yong, he’s one guy who does not give up! Jiayou!!

Just bought myself a book by Michael Crichton “state of fear” very interesting and it talks about global warming (hopefully it will aid n my gp haha)
Hope that tonite’s match, I’m able to win some money to recover the cost of my book.. haha!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIALI

2005-09-30T23:54:00.000+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIALI!!

Yep, it’s still Jiali’s birthday and I glad so many Maldives people turned up for the gathering at the as-usual Black Canyon. (I think they have blacklisted us cause we are always making so much noise!) she's the eye-candy of the day..
Every time when we meet up, the laughters, the smiles, the jokes, the happiness are always there. And no more talking about Jim buying something cause it will most probably be the last time I do such things le. And although the brownie is a little hard, the taste is there so I guess next time jus bake a little shorter.
Jiali, the birthday girl, was happily enjoying the day. And maeyue will sometimes give off shrieks of laughters which are jam hilarious. Weiling and mel did a darn great job of preparing the brownie, they bought some ice-cream and top it up! Jiacheng was telling everyone how big his chicken (chop) is.. (pun intended) keefe and Richard are so funny when they bought Jiali this big tub of Chin chow aka grass JELLY (notice the similar pronunciation of jelly and jiali)
as usual melvin was giving his weird indian head dances.. haoz with his guitar actions.
ruth was carryin the guitar acting pro tho.. haha she had her run of the day
richard and melvin bluffed the whole group of us with their britainica joke (so not funny lor haha)
Bernie was late but she was in time for the cake-eating ceremony, when we used knife to cut it, spoons to hit it, some throwings and punching and scraping, then some crumbs fell off... haha but it was nice to eat and so fun!!
after the dinner in black canyon, we went out, under the sky and sat near ronald macdonald. sang songs and talked...

i'm sure everyone enjoyed much and hope the Kudafarian spirit burns forever. let's go back to maldives again as a group and relive those memories. spread the happiness and enjoy the times we had!!
next week is the start of J1 promos le so Jiayou all of you all and all the best!!! i'm sure S papers are within reach!! and my muggin for As has started le... whee...
well, it's a happy day!!!!!! lalalala

Sentosa

2005-09-29T21:18:00.000+08:00

Yep, Class outing to sentosa is so fun!!
we bought food and most importantly sun-TAN lotion...
at tanjong beach, everyone's instincts to play were unleashed. we started with volleyball which i brought along.

about an hour, people started to get tired, so we rested and entered the sea. at this point of time, some men borrowed the ball from us. while we were slacking in the sea, they came along and told us the volleyball burst. we were playing for so long and nuthin happened, but when they played, they burst the ball! feeling guilty, they paid me the money, and so we used the money to buy another ball and a frisbee!! ha ha...
we had some lunch and continued with the games...
i put on quite a lot of sun-tan lotion so gettin a little burnt... not that other b-word
after the beach games, we went on to try the luge, the new attraction in sentosa... it is basically a cart game n u sit on it, and control it, no fuel no nuthing, pure gravitational forces... it was so so fun but not challenging at all... that time i played the luge in new zealand, they had 2 courses, beginner and advanced... the beginner is like the sentosa wan... then the advanced wan was hardcore... they had really sharp turns... there was like this sign showin a trapezium, and it took me a while to find out that i'm approachin a steep slope, so the next instant i was acceleratin down and even had air time.... that was really scary... but the sentosa luge is really good la, and i really hope they build a more challenging course soon!

reflections:
i'm really glad almost the whole class came for the outing, our class spirit is so strong now, and that xianlun, haoz and my suggestion to sentosa turned out well!! we shld do this more often...
after this veri fun day, we shld buck up for As le... we can do it rite!!
the weather is really good too... sunny all the way, altho some parts of singapore rained today!

the sun sand sea really made me relieve the experiences i had in maldives... really brought me back a lot of great memories. altho promos are reaching veri soon, 8 days later, it will all be over!! so Jiayou!!

if u are feeling a tingling and ticklish sensation on your skin, u are sweating even tho you r in a cool environment, you might have been like me, SUN-BURNT!
i really hope this tan will last a little longer more.... haha

did something "cool"! nt awkward at all.... haha

right now i'm really tired and burnt and shack.... the aches will probably come tomorrow!
and kayu referee neber see the SO obvious hand ball by gallas and awarded liverpool a penalty, if not i would be $17 richer!!

SUN!

2005-09-28T21:42:00.000+08:00

Hmm yes the weather was so no good today, disrupted our class Get Fit Day. Never mind, tomorrow we will be going to sentosa, hopefully the weather will be great tomorrow.

Yup, today I got back all my papers le. Not very satisfied with my results cause it’s the curse xianlun had for his common tests. I’ve got 4 Bs lar… wa lao… I guess I have to buck up more, a lot more to get my As for A!! but I shall start from this Sunday.
Well, 4 Bs is not bad, considering it’s four of Bern? Ha ha… no it means 4 Best results. And I know you surely will do well for promos!!

Another late-night soccer action! Yep, enjoys people and all the best. Although fuel prices are high now, I’m willing to buy some more for you all to JIAYOU!!

blog

2005-09-27T21:28:00.000+08:00

Hmm… today was fun with the one and half hour of soccer with my class guys, jam fun la… tomorrow will be the whole class playing floorball. And Thursday, we will be going to sentosa and enjoy the sun sea and sand! It was a little anti-climax when we ended the soccer with a penalty shoot-out and aaron proves to be a tyco kia again… that time he did a turkey for bowling la…
I will wait for all my results to come before I make my comments…
And ya, well done NJ for getting so many achievements in the moe awards, and that lead us to a half-day.

Now, there’s this issue that’s bothering me. A lot of students are scolded for making offensive comments and idiotic remarks of their teachers and principals. I mean if you want to do that, do it discretely, make it ambiguous such that you understand and the person understand but nothing can be done to you. (But I’m not encouraging people to start offending their teachers!) I have great respect for all my teachers, cause maybe I’m a good student and they like me too. Ha ha… i mean the blogging scene is getting dark and scary, and there are so many unknown eyes watching over it. the blogger web search thing can easily locate your blog. Try to google your name to see whether if you are insulted by someone, then maybe you can sue him/her for it! (I’m getting freaked out but angry with such things happening)
Blog is supposed to be a personal thing, not as a tool to attract attention or what. It’s to jot down my happy and sad times and maybe serve as a place where your friends can pop by and say HI! Well, apparently all things change and evolve.

All the way MAN UNITED!!! (hope to win some money… heez)
While you are doing late-night mugging, I will be doing late-night watching of soccer!! Haha OPPs!

Fly

2005-09-26T21:24:00.000+08:00

Well, the previous post on TV makes me think back on a lot of things. Manly my childhood times, I’m gonna give you a sneak on it. The TV was the only luxury item that my house had when I was small. It might have sort of summarized the financial condition of my family at that time. And this TV seems to be the only item that we brought over from our old house to my new house. Although I had lived in my present house for about 4 years, I just couldn’t forget the times I had in the old house, the place where I lived when I first reached this world. Well, the TV definitely brought me many happy times but there was one incident which I still clearly remembered.
That fateful day was a weekday, and my parents were on leave, bringing my new-born sister to the doctor. As usual the four-year-old me was slacking and watching some TV. And on came Batman (it was one of my favourites). After the exciting flying actions, I’m so tempted. You see, I lived in a HDB 2-storey house and there’s this staircase. So I tied a towel around my neck, like his cape, and climbed up the stairs. Off I jumped, hoping to fly, but Newton the smart guy said there’s such thing as gravity so I came tumbling down the stairs. To break my fall, I stretched out my left hand and stop myself, but that impact was too big that I fractured my collar bone. I was moaning in pain and luckily my maid was there. The next moment, I was with my parents and sister wearing a sling. 3 weeks in a sling wasn’t that fun, and I definitely learnt my lesson.
Well old times are fun right, but there’s always new stuff that captures you on.

Yep, prelims are officially over for me, but I don’t feel a thing. Maybe, I’m on relaxed mode for the past few days le… haha.. hopefully tomorrow goes well for me! Ciao..

Bye TV...

2005-09-25T21:35:00.000+08:00

Finally, I can say bye bye to my old TV. It has served my family and I for the past 10 years, clocking up to 3 to 4 hours of TV time per day. Sometimes when it’s in good mood, both of its speakers will be working, if it’s having PMS(assuming the TV to be female), then it will switch on only one of it. The best thing is we have to switch on it about half and hour ahead to warm up the cathode ray tube, before the blue screen flickers out images. When the show was about to reach the climax parts, the TV will be naughty and show us the blue screen again. Then I will miss out the best parts of the shows. I will “abuse” it by beating its buttocks and sides, to force the images come out.

There will be only one more week of torture when a new TV arrives my house next weekend. We went to Courts (BT) to choose a new TV as they were offering some great offers. And we get to trade-in our spoilt TV at some price (like free disposal of it). Yeah… and the new TV takes up much less space than the old TV cause it’s smaller. I will mis the TV, for it provided me much entertainment throughout my childhood years. It saw my family and I sitting together in the living room enjoying a show. It witnessed the growing up process of me, and contained the memories of my family.
(i'm so giving my TV a life to it, i'm a murderer... arrgh... haha)

As we count down to the end of prelims, we are welcoming the arrival of As.

Even though we lost, we won’t give up! Chances are aplenty, but we just can’t convert them to success. I believe setbacks will only make us grow stronger, to emerge as victors at the end.

The Arrow and The Song

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a poem on hope and friendship...

bleh

2005-09-24T22:06:00.000+08:00

Another random ramblings…
A day of slacking and studying in balance is great.
There are some levels in godtower which I can’t explain why the password is that.
I want to have a work-out soon to sweat the hell out, physical condition is bad now.
Sentosa luge ride is $8(inclusive of the one-way trip chairlift).
I want to go airport again for OBA and visit the renovated T2 viewing gallery.
Next Saturday is seminars-day again, which xianlun has laid the plans. Morning is DSTA then afternoon we go suntec area for the Air-force. (government agencies are rich lar)
It’s my aim to visit Old Trafford one day in my life, to visit the grounds and watch a live match there. (hopefully with a gal I love)

Here’s a cheer I self-made:
Jimmibo-oi is a red, is a red, is a red.
Jimmibo-oi is a red, is a red, is a red.
He hate scrousers!
(sing along to the tune of London bridge is falling down)

Haha, gosh, I’m really bored. And I saw a show on channel 5 just now on some renovation, then the family walked in to see their new house and they were like “My god!” “Oh my god!!” “Holy shit” all the way, to express their amazements. Ha ha…. Hmmm

while, we are here not fretting over food and clothings, some people elsewhere are starving due to poverty. while we are enjoying the sunshine due to Autumnal equinox, others contract cataracts due to over-exposure of UV-rays. while we are playing with the waves up till 1.2m, others are struggling for their lives when tidal waves hit the shores.
Although the world is black at times, with the company and concern of friends and families, life is still great. so Enjoy life while you can, and try to look at the brighter part of it.

hoho!!

2005-09-23T21:09:00.000+08:00

Hey hey, I can really countdown to the end of prelims. (while some people start on their promos journey haha!!) I’m now left with next Monday’s physics s paper, which I dun think will be easy. Shall go do some practice papers. Maths s today was a little ok. A theory for maths s is valid. If you know how to do, you know how to do, if you don’t know, don’t bother wasting your time. It all depends on your foresight to see the answer and some perseverance to get the answers. I’m just hoping for the best.

After maths s, went to have lunch outside then went to back. Played a little soccer and xianlun the chem S student, seng shiwei and I went to I&E hub and slack. As usual, I won the showdown of Rubik’s cubes with shiwei, haha!! Then xianlun left for his exam, so we three a little bored. Then shiwei suggested to us go play godtower! Instantly seng and I were addicted to the game. With a little hint from shiwei and mad, we went all the way to level 23. and I learnt quite a lot of things from the research while I’m doing to solve the puzzle. The motto of US1 dollar bill is In God We Trust. And that’s also the answer to another level which seng ee professionally found out. And I can only say a lot of things and clues to guide others to solve but I can’t link the clue to the answer by myself. Ha ha! The game’s really cool, but if you are stuck, request help!

Ruth tudi, don’t worry so much about GP, it’s over le! Do not let that deter you, jus do your best for promos!!

And the theory of acquaintance and friends, it’s up to you to strike a balance between the 2 states, and of course the best situation is a small close group of good friends and a large group of acquaintances, right?

Tags service:
weiling: you are not slow la, do u noe the hedgehog can roll... so cute rite!! haha
Jolynn: thx for ur lucks!! if u want i can show u my test paper some day... YEEDA!! haha
maisha: i don;t like unlucky things to keep happening, haiz but too bad, hope US can pull thru!
haoz: it's always not easy mixing 2 tings together...(pun intended) haha
leech: well no joke la, it's just me pushing a living-thing and a non-living thing around.... haha
ruth: U MUS GET A for PROMOS!!

Omens?

2005-09-22T10:15:00.000+08:00

On a Thursday morning, I’m here slacking, preparing to mug for maths tomorrow. When I switched on my television, I was “treated” to 2 breaking news.
First, hurricane Rita is reaching Texas soon and it is upgrading itself to a more powerful storm. The destructing effect will be almost the same as Katrina. It’s like 一波未平,一波又起. Really hope when Rita reaches land during the weekend, the destruction would be minimum. At least most people are evacuated and the American government has learnt its lesson from Katrina, they are making the necessary arrangements. May god bless them…

Second, CNA was showing a live footage of an Airbus 320 plane landing. I was thinking of why are they showing, and thought along the line of hijackers. Fortunately, it was only the plane having some technical difficulties and had to make an emergency landing. The plane was carrying 145 passengers and crew members and bound for New York. Then they discovered something horrible when air-borne, their nose landing gear was screwed up. The front wheel was not properly aligned. It was aligned perpendicularly to the flight direction. So as I was watching, the big “live” words at the corner of the screen scared me. Cause I saw the plane slowly descend, clearly showing the screwed wheel, and it slowy touched down. Then the back wheels made contact with the tarmac of the runway, and the nose came down too. And the screwed wheel touched down too. The wheel can’t rotate and the friction due to the movement created smoke. The wheel started to disintegrate as the plane “glided” along the runway. At last the plane came to a halt with the nose wheel fully deflated and the plane was displaced downwards. Luckily nothing very bad happened, no casualties, and importantly no explosions or whatsoever, like those in the movies.

Are these bad omens? Too many unlucky things have been happening to America… hmmm…

Once again, lucks to everyone!! No more late-sleeping for you soon… haha!!

YES!!

2005-09-21T16:14:00.000+08:00

YES! Finally the A lvl papers are over le.... (that means i'm left with S papers!)
no, it's not over for me, still have maths s on fri and phy s on next mon... and yup the J1s will be having their GP promos on fri too! haha.. all the best to them! (ruth and jiali u 2 surely can do well want! ur english more powerful than mine) ok all of u will surely do well wan la!!

phy paper 3 was great, i tink. (but i shall try not to be too confident with my papers, if not haiz...) and the chem dept on form, marked and reuturned us our chem paper 3 today... i'm again disappointed with my result, looks like there will be no A for me in chem... :( (but at least a B i tink) i dunno y the questions the teachers set have problems, then they will onli announce halfway thru the papers... and i can onli think the way which was wrong at first... shucks...

nvm, dun talk abt sad tings, lunchie at NYDC at heeren with the class was nice... went to PS after that to collect some goodies that i've won... black eyed peas stuff, and the person said all that was left was posters so i could onli settle with an A3 size BEP poster... haha
(not BEG, too bad she's attached ah... xianlun... cheerio, the forest is big out there.. hahahaha)

just having a break today, then tml shall piah hard for maths s!!

i'm quite addicted to the jap show on channel u "PRIDE".. very nice, esp the ice-hockey scenes, jam violent but fun!! (of cos the good-looking aki)... thinking back, it has been more than a year i've ice-skate le... at the fuji ice palace in je... i missed ice-skating la, even tho i dun skate well... ok then i shall start asking ppl to go with me after prelims or A lvls... if u r interested tell me lor...

after prelims activities are well laid out, so lokking forward to it!! till then...

All the best to all candidates who are taking any form of exams!! =D

Blabber

2005-09-19T14:53:00.000+08:00

IF calling myself Pang YeeDa Jim can get full marks for F Maths paper 2, I would gladly do so!
Ha ha. Once again, our funny, creative, lovable Ms Ng set a killer paper. So for the first question, I saw my name, Yeeda. Apparently Ms Ng included “me” in her question, about my pushing P to the wall and blah blah. Gosh, if I’m not wrong, my “name” has been used twice, the other time in the notes. *Shudders* Yeeda, sounds a little bad right, and the spelling a little weird, you have to drag the ee sound (that makes me sound like yee…… arrgh!!!) Anyway, yar, the paper was bad but manageable, if a little more time was given to me. Well, another subject down, it’s left to Maths and Physics which have to be done well. So better buck up and study now, Yeeda!!!!

(Paiseh, banged into you, didn’t mean it tho. Haha, but you whacked me back… *ouch*)

Revenge of the crabs!

2005-09-18T16:58:00.000+08:00

Something lame and funny happened just now in my house. My mother just bought 3 crabs in the morning, preparing to whip up something nice for dinner. She put the crabs in a shallow pail, in the kitchen. The crabs were tied with raffia strings, so they couldn’t pretty much move around. My sister and I used a chopstick and poked their extendable eyes, sometimes they bubble, so funny la! (haha, so cruel right?) Then I went back to mug more. Suddenly, my sister screamed, she said, there’s only 2 crabs in the pail. My mom and papa came along and gasped too! They were all frantically searching for the missing crab. My kitchen is connected to the storeroom so the area of search is pretty big. And who knows where the crab was, it might just pop out and use its pincers and crab hammer you (pokemon haha). So up and down, left and right, my mother finally found it under the book shelf, in a dark corner of the storeroom. Wao, tremendous display of horizontal walking action and the fact that it’s tied up!!! Guess the uncle did not tie it up properly or that the crab is too hyper!
Never mind, as I’m writing this, my mother is preparing the slaughtering of the CRABS. (polishing of knife sounds) Lol.

Saw this statement in someone’s blog.
“Put a modulus sign to everything, and you will see things more positively!”
So mathematical and philosophical!

2 more hours and the showdown between Man U and Liverpool will be battled out! I really want to go somewhere and watch the live telecast, but my parents do not allow la!!
Really hope to have parents who loved football, then my house will have cableTV and can watch football matches… but, after As, I will be going to places where booze and soccer are available! Yep, haha…
We must win the match, and I believe we can do it!!!!

2005-09-18T00:07:00.000+08:00

Whee, it's Mid-Autumn Festival, 中秋节!!! you should be eating mooncakes, drinking some chinese tea, seating around with your family and enjoy the big round bright moon high above your head.
it has been quite a long time i had enjoyed seeing the moon le... enjoyin means taking off some time and enjoy the sight of it, and the fact that singapore is quite light polluted and cloudy, sometimes it's very hard to see the moon, and only at the fifteenth day of the lunar month then u can enjoy seeing the full moon.
the last time was.. (let me recall...) oh ya, in maldives, when we were night fishing.. basically no fish to catch so just lay back n admire the dark sky...
last last time was in OBS, palau ubin, before i fell asleep, oso stared at the moon... haha
and i think i hadn't celebrating the festival for quite some years. my celebrating means goin somewhere and carry my lantern around, lighting up candles, made a mess everywhere with my cousins... all these activities are meant to be enjoyed as kids when exams are not in their dictinary. i still remembered once when my paper lantern got burnt cause the candle inside fell out, and i was laughin at it instead of moanin at the loss of my lantern. the highlight was still to be playing with candles, sparkles... built a mini-campfire and add anything that could be found, like papers, dried leaves, twigs and my cousins' lanterns haha....

thinking back, those times were so enjoyable and fun la... as we grow older, the exams seem to always be around the corner of mid-autumn festival, so can't really enjoy playing much.... haiz.. but good memories tho.... lol...

anyway, the true meaning behind mid-autumn festival is for family to gather and see the moon... now, we are like always around our parents, but when we are older, this is the best time to 聚一聚...but apparently the chinese in singapore just see the day as eating mooncakes...

so u can treat this day and express your love and gratitude to your loved ones! (it's chinese valentine's day for all festivals la... cause that's when family and loved ones gather...)

I love my family and friends and you and her and him and they!!!!!!!

LOL

2005-09-17T12:15:00.000+08:00

Hmm. I see a cloudless, sunny sky, occasionally some breeze (not sea breeze, like what Christine experienced).Maybe some insecticide smell, cause the contractors are spraying insecticide and fumigating everywhere to kill the stupid aedes mosquitoes. Something to rejoice about is that the number of people contracting dengue fever is declining, but it’s still above hundred each day.
So, with all our might,
Let’s put up a good fight!
The mosquitoes shall die,
Then we can enjoy a pie! (ha ha BOO!)

Another racist blogger caught. Now, there are 3 bloggers arrested for posting racist comments on the net, and I believe that number will increase. I’m not going to talk about how the authorities can discover your true identity, how they can track down you, how they know you made a racist comment. It’s pretty scary that the authorities are keeping a close watch on the internet, this makes a freedom of speech in Singapore harder! But I do not mean making racist comments is good! That’s so stupid!!! You will surely get caught and jailed and fined! What I was thinking of is whether our national education is failing? People are still ignorant about the fact that we being a multi-racial society, cohesiveness and harmony are important. By making racist comments, you are breaking the 3D solid structure of our society. (yes, you can assume you are pectins and inter-weaved to form the big picture of our country. Though we are different, there are still strong hydrogen-bonding that hold us together. Sorry too much chemistry!)

Well haha, too much newspaper reading is bad ah… made me think so much of crab!

OBA was in action. You 2 sure enjoyed right? Ha ha… looking forward to my next OBA!

2005-09-16T21:34:00.000+08:00

first week of prelims has jus ended and it felt like it's the end.. haha
well in the morning, had this mini-gatherin at the canteen where melvin, ruth, christine, jolynn, weiling tay, haoz and i... crapping and talking before the chem paper...(wondering why are we not revising?) but it's great just seeing them and talking, receving their blessings! thx u guys n gals man!!
rite, chem paper 1 and 2.... haiz... this is the first time i get my results for chem paper 1 fastest (or rather i marked myself, the ans is on KM)... did quite badly(but barely still made the A grade)... a little disappointed with that result, gotta buck up for my paper 1 technique...

anyway the class had this mini-outing to PS to have lunchie... at pastamania (that place has fond memories la... =D) as usual a lot of funny things happened.. xianlun was waving to a lot of people, includin strangers... n we saw a she-man or he-woman... and wenhao verified it's HIM! haha and seng was pretty sure that it's HER until the name tag reads a guy name....

as usual 171 bus a great journey back home... nice sleep... and xianlun was looking out for BEG(big eyed girl) again.. haha...

reached home and switched on the tv... luckily managed to watch the survivor guatemala direct from satellite... quite nice, the surprises were not surprising after all... haha... don't know why there was a satellite delay, but jus glad can watch... (issit due to the sunspot explosion, large amount of cosmic rays will be emitted thus disabling wireless network and worse power supply, so the satellite companies shut down or move their satellites away from the region to prevent damage) but people relax, our earth's magnetic field is able to prevent us from being mutated due to over-exposure of radiation, u will not see incredile hulk appearing suddenly... jus refrain from going out tml, safety first! anyway, stay at home n mug is the best.. prelims and promos and tests are round the corner!!
tomato hornworms are disgusting!!

Heinze hit by cruciate ligament blow, will most probably miss most of 05/06 EPL season for Man U... arrghh BOO! i really hope he recover well soon... he's such a integral player in the team.. a great left back!! bless him!!

take care of ur health and love maths! ya'all da besta!!!

doodle

2005-09-15T10:44:00.000+08:00

Things are getting a little serious now. The number of people contracting dengue fever are increasing steadily everyday. We must put a stop to this! So, the government committee has planned for a weekend mass mosquitoes killing at the 4 high-risk areas. Even supermarkets now are offering insect repellents and killers at cheaper prices. I think with all the efforts put in, most importantly is still the people out there. Play a part in protecting your loved ones.

And I was watching the champions league match Villareal Vs Man U. I’m totally not disappointed with the match, and I thought we had played very well. The win was deserved to be ours until the LOUSY referee changed the pace of the game. Mr Nielson aka Kayu referee is an egoistic and arrogant guy. He gave out 6 yellow cards in the match, and had bad positioning. I saw a few times when he was in the path of players and the ball deflected off him. The first yellow card given to Rooney was so unfair, a foul would have done. And Rooney wanted to help him kill the aedes mosquito that was flying in front of him, so Rooney helpfully clapped in front of his face to kill it. Mr Nielson did not accept the good gesture and gave him another yellow card. In football terms, the addition of colours does not follow the nature’s law. Yellow plus Yellow gives You Red (not more yellow). And so bewildered Jim and Rooney and the rest of Man U fans were shocked. If preventing someone from getting bitten by mosquitoes and maybe contracting dengue fever is disrespectful, I don’t know what to say. Just see the person die of dengue and laugh at him? Hiaz, never mind, at least Man U is still unbeaten! There was almost a goal in the first half, but the defender miraculously did a bicycle kick and pumped the ball away from the goal at the goal line. Hope Heinze will recover fast from that knee injury for this weekend Liverpool Match!! (Park Ji Sung is cute, got that typical baby Asian face)
(to song, aedes mosquitoes might have invaded Spain le, hard to say... haha)

What’s the similarity between ali, m, ayou, sung?
(to keep a moron in suspense ha ha)

Well then, lucks to all for the following papers and all the best. Don’t sleep too late everyday ah!! (esp at 2am) :P

Prelims Part II

2005-09-13T21:09:00.000+08:00

There are always funny things happening during exams. Especially it’s the prelims period, things just get weirder. So today was the only day that I had 2 papers in a day. Morning was a brain-draining Maths Paper 1, and then afternoon was a brain+muscle-draining F Maths Paper 1.
So, maths paper was okay. (not in that sense that I will surely do well, just felt alright, hoping for an A, but I must take the paper 2 first right)
Then we had this 3 hrs break to eat and mug through. Feeling a little sleepy though and the afternoon heat was starting to build up. Coincidentally, haoz and I brought a bottle of chicken essence each, to drink before the exam. Ha ha, I’m not sure whether that worked.

Yep, at the F maths exam, I was sitting right in front, and had to raise my head high up to look at the clock la… right, about the best joke of they day.
Apparently someone forgot to switch his or her phone to silent mode, so it was beeping among the bags. When I first heard the beep, my “natural instinct” was to stop writing, put my right hand into my right pocket at my trousers. Yup, my phone was in my bag! Then the phone beeped again, so the teacher was staring at me, and said, “Please switch off your phone!” but I told her it was not mine, and pulled out both of my pockets, you know like that kind of broke people. And so she asked the class, whose phone was it. nobody answered, so she went back marking her Maths papers! And I couldn’t contain my laughter, took me about 5min to settle down. Gosh, 5 min is a lot!

was thinking about the short 17+ years i've led, i think i might have experienced more than others, with all the overseas trips, the friends i've made, their smiles which illuminated my life, the caring teachers, my wonderful parents and sister, the special ones in my life!
life is short saddening, but as usual, good things don't last, therefore, we must cherish the times we have. make it a point to make others' days.

Life can seem ungrateful and not always kind...
Life can pull at your heartstrings and play with your mind...
Life can be blissful and happy and free...
Life can put beauty in the things that you see...
Life can place challenges right at your feet...
Life can make good of the hardships we meet...
Life can overwhelm you and make your head spin...
Life can reward those determined to win...
Life can be hurtful and not always fair...
Life can surround you with people who care...
Life clearly does offer its Up and its Downs...
Life's days can bring you both smiles and frowns...
Life teaches us to take the good with the bad...
Life is a mixture of happy and sad...

So...

Take the Life that you have and give it your best...
Think positive, be happy let God do the rest...
Take the challenges that life has laid at your feet...
Take pride and be thankful for each one you meet...
To yourself give forgiveness if you stumble and fall...
Take each day that is dealt you and give it your all...
Take the love that you're given and return it with care...
Have faith that when needed it will always be there...
Take time to find the beauty in the things that you see...
Take life's simple pleasures let them set your heart free...
The idea here is simply to even the score...
As you are met and faced with Life's Tug of War...

PRELIMS

2005-09-12T22:51:00.000+08:00

PRELIMS are finally, long-awaited!
Ha ha, I shall not be deterred by you!
Today’s was Chemistry Paper 3. During the 2hrs and 45min paper, my stomach was giving me quite a lot of problems. Regular intervals of farting and near stomach cramps dominated for some time. I counted, there were at least 5 waves of intense near miss. Couldn’t Fat Boy just wait a little more??? Luckily the paper was manageable; some parts require more thinking, but generally alright. When the invigilator released us, I rushed down to toilet and flushed it all out like a waterfall. *arrrgghhhh* feeling was Great! But I could tell you the experience wasn’t good, so please visit the toilet before any exams, don’t have also must cake out!
2 maths papers tomorrow, wish me lucks! And all you J2s, J1s, IPs, hang on and pull through these hard times. Look forward to the eoy celebrations and Halloween’s coming! Spooky!
Tough times don’t last, tough men do!

Pre-Prelims Part 1

2005-09-11T22:14:00.000+08:00

This entry is uploaded through Microsoft Word. Just trying out here, and cause it helps me to eliminate spelling mistakes. (We are relying too much on technology now)

Yeah, so tomorrow’s P-Day. I was telling Weeping that it meant Prelims-Day. There will be one called A-Day. So, everyone, do your best and give it your better shot at it. (Leave the best for A-Day) Good lucks to all and Kampatei!
I’m sure all you will get promoted! Don’t worry!

2005-09-09T20:21:00.000+08:00

not gonna talk abt mugging today cos it's abt the same everyday...
gonna talk abt news ard us!
dis afternoon, outside orchard mrt, a package was found and it consists some a HEAD, ARMS and some body parts.
it's outside orchard mrt station la, a so public place and how the hell in the first place did the murderer place the package there... how come our people become so sadistic and he's courtin death issit... Singapore CIDs are one of the best in the world la, the case solving rate is very high la, so i'm sure the police will crack the case pretty fast..(the murderer shld hav just bury the body somewhere in the jungle or wad)

Dengue fever!! there's now a high record number of patients contracting dengue fever... so dangerous... people pls take care cos dengue fever will make u sick for weeks and in severe cases may lead to death!! so clear any stagnant water in ur hse, cos more than 50% of the aedes mosquitoes breeding sites are found in houses!!! and these bloody mosquitoes can fly up to 21st storey so it doesn't mean u live at 7th floor u r safe! (those living at ground floor worse la... haha opps!) pls be vigilant, like how we tackle the SARS prob!!

last talkin point... me beloved secondary school has announced something impt today!!! River Valley High School is officially offering a 6-years Integrated Programme! starting from dis yr, sec 1s will be able to skip the O levels and take a 6 yrs course to get the A lvl cert! i'm so proud that we are able to achieve such status and we are doing it alone unlike the present schools where they collaborate with the JCs or wad.... i mean this shows that MOE definitely hav faith in us based on our track records and the uniqueness of RV!! that's great! proud la...
but u see i foresee a prob now, the present holding school site is a little small, but nvm we are apparently re-building the west coast site... but now if we want to accomodate 6yrs then the west coast site will be too small... so by mud-2006, RV will move to another holding school.. SAJC malan rd... then a new site at jln boon lay is under construction now... we gonna need a lot more money rite? hmm.. more donation drive, but it's worth it la... if u want to noe more, pls refer to http://www.moe.gov.sg/press/2005/pr20050909.htm
so proud... la..
i jus a little sad cos i missed the opportunity to be in this prog... but that means i'm gonna be born yrs later then i'm nt able to meet all my frens ...
but NJ ip is also nt bad so u hav more choices...

3 more weeks n 3 more months... haha.. YAY!!

MAN u vs Man city tml!! derby, yeah we can win!! god bless ronaldo's dad rip...

2005-09-08T16:04:00.000+08:00

OBA
outward bound airport has ended, but i believe it's just part 1 for me.
on wed nite, i met up with my bros and we proceeded to Singapore's Best and World renowned Changi Airport (my dream working place, someone's too) reached there ard 8, so song, sk, kenny, marco and i wandered ard, finding a place to settle our dinner. i now know the eateries in airport at the back of my hand, so u all can ask me. eliminating those exceeding our budget, we were left with fast food only... ha ha (stupid staff canteens onli open till 9pm). and also little boy boy aka song wanted to hop on the sky train, so we decided to go T1.
I did someting really stupid on the train, so ashamed of myself. there are really a lot of muggers in the airport la... so we settled with T1 BK and also their study environment is better, quieter...
after munching our dinner, we started the true process at ard ten ... but u noe, as time drags, sleepiness starts to creep in, so i tot of an ingenious idea, we must give ourselves aim. to survive thru the overnight mugging, we cannot fall asleep. so set midnight to play games. with aniticipation, midnight arrived and we played a game called pictionary! ha ha... one person draw, the others guess.. and we thought of all sorts of themes, esp RV, cos i was the one to start drawing, so i just drew a circle and klever kenny guessed it correctly, it's our principal Ms Ek(egg) haha... that one was so funny that everyone was jolted and re-energised.
after more mugging, i told myself, at ard 2, i will go to the viewing gallery and see the wonderful planes.
ya i went up, had some scilence, airport at that time is really quiet, and the viewing gallery is dim, induces me to slp la...(but lucky there's u who kept me goin on till ard 3, after that was my will power le.. haha) i was looking out and saw those weird airlines planes... but nvm, at least i saw a plane taxi-ing out of its gate, and it slowly moved out... set me back thinking abt a lot of things... i even spotted an Air Emirates plane, the one that's identical that i took to maldives. (n u were saying, yar simplicity is bliss) that trip to maldives was a point-turning exp, i met so many frens, learnt so many things, saw so many things, n i would definitely want to go back there again if got the chance... soon, that emirates plane also went off le... then i went back to mug some more...

ard 4, we walked to T2 mac and settled down there, the cushion there is the best la! free-refill coffee, hashbrowns and internet access... song n i went to check Northern Ireland vs England.. we were totally devasted with the scoreline, eng lost, 1-0... (I dunno whether issit i jinxed england, i was wearing my england jersey)... i really hope that Eriksson better does a Much better job for the following matches to World cup 2006 in Germany, it would definitely be a shame for the founder of football country not to qualify!!!

so more physics for me and it was ard 8am le... we were a little in dazed mode... so ya slept all the way back... haha the whole trip reminded us of the chalet times when we went back, we would board the train at pasir ris and be knocked out.... it was definitely a fun, good and productive experience at the airport. so maybe let's go again to mug for As!!! i will set the date soon.. kay? n by that time, T2 viewing gallery will be opened, hope it will be much better than T1's...

dun tear up ur papers or notes, i noe u can surely do well for exams! Gambatte!! thx for it!!

2005-09-05T18:25:00.000+08:00

i would say today is quite productive... ha ha
went to sch at 10 n mugged.. haoz, xianlun, shiwei came later...
main ting is that i pissed the librarian off... come on la... it's onli a water bottle...
saw ruth in her "RUTH" shirt and slippers... ha ha...

when haoz lun n i went home, we discussed a lot of things...
WHAT to do after Prelims? (for the class)
we came up with this plan n see if the class is fine with it....
on the week of last paper which is the week when the restructured timetable starts...
Wed- after sch, we can go watch a movie or play floorball, depending on what time the school ends and whether pe dept allows us
THur- no need go sch! so let's go Sentosa... go try out the new attraction, the luge ride and maybe play beach volleyball..
Fri-go back sch n mug a little more... hidden agenda for haoz n i.. hmm ha ha
Sat-wake up late n watch cartoons.. later go swimming...
Sun- sleep
then the following week is mugging mode to As le...

n yup, 26nov, the day after last paper of As, we plan to shop!

well, all this planning are open to more suggestions, so feel free...
haha this is what mugging does to u!

2005-09-03T19:06:00.000+08:00

Hurricane Katrina had caused great devastation to several states in america, particularly near the gulf coast. as the states are mostly under sea level, so when the storm surged past, it destroyed the barriers and caused most part of the city to be flooded. houses and many properties are gone within one day. for survival, people looted stores to get water and food. however some black sheep of the society started looting gun shops and armed themselves, upsetting the order and law of the society. they stole recue goods, shot at helicopters, drug addicts barged into hospitals for a sniff or two. worst still, some evil people raped young girls at the superdome where most people stayed. as toilets were overflowing, people just released themselves on the floor. such scenes are just too sad to be seen.
US, a country of civillised people, how could such things happen? i think when disasters happen, at times of desperation, the evil sides of people just surfaced and dominated them.
but glimpses of sunlight can be seen. president bush had visited the area and more troops have arrived. more rescue troops and supplies have arrived. people are gettin the help and they are clearing from that place to a safer and better place.
hope is there. there are definitely help from us. singapore even sent 3 chinooks immediately when the us counterparts asked for help. such strong friendship displayed makes me proud of singapore.
may god bless those in sufferings to see light quickly. hope they can get on with their normal lives asap.

today i went to suntec with lun haoz and sixun for the psc seminar. heard a lot of scholars and their experiences overseas. well as one of them said, just whack all the scholarship applications and see if tio which one, but that's provided if my results are good enough.
suntec today is so full, got PSC, ot bridal fair, got sports sale, comex, food fair...shudders too many people le!

anyway, mugging time...

2005-09-02T20:11:00.000+08:00

Passion Your Pursuit

i'm gonna share what happens today for passion pursuit!
first and foremost, I think it's very well-done and i think it's so successful. i had certainly been inspired by the teachers and i think we should have more of such activities in schools, more chances for people to showcase their talents and passion. the day started with us walking around, can't seem to find a place that's offering nice stunts.
it started when the usual few of us slacking around the canteen waiting to see some cook show.
so i wandered ard a little and saw ms yee, and she was sharing her new zealand experiences. n since i've been to NZ before, i had an animated conversion sharing with her too. i was browsing through her photos and recalled the familiar scences i went before. (i was actually oso searching for the presence of her boyfriend but all i saw was her sister.. they look so alike.. yee..)

next i joined shiwei at the rock/pop workshop. Other than PA sucks, everything was very good. kenneth koh is a good rapper and his band was great la... i must say he really put in quite a lot of effort to dis workshop so i got myself quite high when they played some pulsating tunes in the total darkness of LT1. best! Cause it feels so good to be out of control. i admire him for his courage, his determination. though he is suffering from a skin disorder, he never gave up n continued to pursue his passion, now that's the spirit that i want!

during the short interval, another teacher ms chee was playing a game. she passed 2 water bottles ard the crowd and lik playing pass the bomb. so the band started playing. when i got hold of it, i wanted to pass it, but i was at the aisle so, i had to throw the bottle across, but it's filled with water so i thought might hurt someone, so i aimed properly first den threw, and at that timely interval, the music stopped. there was a little commotion, some said it was me, the teacher pointed at me, but i kept denying and luckily that group of ppl that i threw to, was so spontaneous at sabo-ing their fren that they just pushed him up to stage. LUCKY ME! thwey had to dance to some weird and girly moves which the teacher performed. HENGS! if not i would be embarassing myself in front of the crowd. in front of bernie...

so anyway that was great. after that was a mini-concert by various teachers. there were opera singer, diploma-pianist, talented musician who cut an album with her friends, ex-SYO cello member, great singer, excellent flute blower, and a stand-out comedian who knows how to play the piano to bring out certain emotions. just so many crouching tigers hidden dragons in our sch la!!

went to find ms ng, doin her manicure lessons there n i saw all the hot girls (bernie, jiali, ruth, christine, maeyue n their frens) there la, learnin how to paint their nails. but the room smelled too much of paraffin. dizzy..

all were great! i really must say this passion pursuit day really is successful. i want more! but dun tink there's opportunity for such events to happen le. maybe next year, the students can showcase their talents.

tml will be goin to suntec again for a seminar... lala.. life is great at the moment, but next weekend will be stressed like siao, cos PRELIMS are really close!!!

(She laughs at my dreams, but I dream about her laughters.)

2005-09-01T22:57:00.000+08:00

Superstar is out!! kelvin, he defied the odds n became our new superstar!
my mom voted for kelvin for 5 times la...
but anyway, both kelvin and kelly hav signed contract wif music companies so it's sort of win win.... congrats to both still!

When kelly was singing the beach song, the 合音 angels was mouthing papadum.. haha so funny papdum? The crunchy chips that we ate in kudafari which is surrounded by beach… good one.

but i tink JJ lin jun jie was the "star" of the show la... his screams are louder and his performance was the best. (dun u agree christine?)
i totally admired him now!
kelly poon jiali and jelly khoo jiali... sound so alike.. haha

it's a long journey out there so hang on ppl..!

pursue ur passion tml.. (avoid make-up booth)!