NCC_rox

2004-07-21T21:50:00.000+08:00

Such a lousy day. stood in the rain for more than 2 half hrs in no 4 and gloves. wah. until those stupid WSSS busses came. argh. my poor legs got no more blood circulation lor. almost couldnt walk after that.
and patrolling the school is stupid. we were supposed to look out for stealing from classrooms, pickpokets, rowdy behavior and do crowd control. so lame. so i jus walked around and pretended to be useful for 1 half hrs.
NCOs said we should be proud cos Jeffery Lim trust NCC so he always entrust the big events to us. hrm... the price of trust.
did irs after school although i was completely exhausted. I shall now list the things we did so that we can make a logbook next time.
plucking of 7 branches of 10 leaves each
taking of flourescence and labelling of leaves
scraping of leaves and innoculation of bacteria suspension/pitcher plant extract

2004-07-20T20:45:00.000+08:00

can u believe it. we learnt our second song in 4 lessons. oh, and throw in 4 chords too.

"If you take a little trip around Singapore town, in a Singapore city bus,

to see Collayer Quay and Raffles Place, and the Esplanade and all of us."

lalala.

Thrashed poor jose during weiqi, then went around to be kapo. guan yu almost lost to abman lor. he had a better overall strategy and better planning (not to mention more experience). so his ju shi was good. But germy gong sha neng li qiang (or at least more qiang than guan) so he managed to po guan yu de fang shou. but guan still won in the end.

am currently deciding between slacking and leaving hw for tml or doing hw now. hmmm. its so tempting to slack. think i'll jus do a little work.

2004-07-19T21:58:00.000+08:00

yq was rushing to finish his lunch today so taht he wouldnt be late for his meeting with jo. i think edward told him to pass something to her. said he had tuition (which i dont ectirely believe). more likely he was trying to engineer some chances for them to spend some quality time together. haha. how evil of me. i would hav thought edward might get jealous or something cos she was his ex, but apparently he now only has eyes for a certain nice person... muahahahaha. dont ask me who.

fell asleep during break today. as in, really fell asleep. until xuan chen poked me n I woke up to see the sensei staring at me. dont noe whats wrong with me recently... keep falling asleep all over the place. even when im reading the papers. such a bliss to jus lie down, and close my eyes, and slip into a dreamless sleep. ahhh... not like i get to do much of that now anyway.

2004-07-18T21:43:00.000+08:00

What the hell? I was doing my work on the com and my brother wanted to use it to play. but since work always takes piriority over play, i refused to let him use the com. so when my parents went downstairs for a short walk, he started crying n screeching so bloody loudly and in such a high pitched voice that my ear-drums almost exploded. And as if that wasnt enough, he started banging the furniture. slamming the doors, kicking over chairs etc. And he started writing "I hate you" on perfectly good pieces of blank white paper and threw them at me. hell man. I mean, whats his fucking prob? So being a nice guy (or so I say) I picked up all the paper and put them neatly on his table. And what do I get for my efforts? he tears the papers into shreds and stuffs them into my bag. brilliant. who else other than a complete moron could come up with such ingeniousity. and admist all the din, I was trying to complete my mrp. if it turns out like shit, well... what can I say.

Then after my parents came home, he continued screaming until I really couldnt stand it and I blew up. Normally, I hardly ever lose my temper. Very few of my friends have actually seen me lose my temper. But he was really behaving like a fucking son of a bitch and I jus lost control. so I screamed at him. and my father was so damn unreasonable. after all the hell Ive been though. jus a few loud words and he scolds me. if my mom didnt interfere, i think he would have hit me lor. what the fucking hell.

Anyway, I managed to cool down. drank some water. continued doing mrp. then another incident took place.

That asshole Gabriel Lim. refused to answer me when I asked him on msn for the publishers for the books i used in mrp. a thousand curses on him. its supposed SUPPOSED to be a pair work. and now, when the dateline is tml, he refuses to help. what a loser. bet he doesnt even noe the title of OUR mrp. fuck.

so I must relax. relax. Im trying. u dont hav to tell me.

Im sorry if any readers are shocked / offended at the vulgarities used in this post. Please accept my sincere apologies.

2004-07-17T20:27:00.000+08:00

PTG was another waste of my time. Basically, we arranged the chairs, brought the drinks from leefy's table to class and slacked around until 5.30 when all the parents had gone home. then arranged the tables.

Howie's getting very gay. I was at the standing at the staircase minding my own business when he suddenly pounced on me and wrapped his short frame around me. *gasp* dont be fooled by his height. he happens to be 30 kg ok. what the... and this indian / bangaldesh (?) cleaner looked down from upstairs and said "u two want to have sex go somewhere else and do can? dont do it here" argh.

Then after that he grabbed my wrist with both hands and refused to let go. so I had to walk around with him attached to me. hope the parents didnt notice. After some time I got kind of irritated and told Jia Guang to hold Howie still so that I could jerk my hand away, but Howie was holding so tightly that when I pulled, both of them tripped and almost fell on each other. argh.

I finally met the word limit for mrp. still havent finished though. better go do it now.

2004-07-17T10:34:00.000+08:00

Sad. Sec 4s passed out yesterday after ORD. They were such good NCOs. sec 3s will be taking over. they look muc fiercer. hmmm...

there was a stupid mass jog this morning. so wuliao lor. jog round the track, up the slope, past the swimming pool, past SIM, pass boarding sch, past chs, round the track again and finish. what a waste of time. finished third in class behind pigsie n jiaguang. crappy. my long-distance sux. will train up. after exams, mrp, ace, homework etc. In other words, never. sigh.

And blogger has improved a lot.

2004-07-15T22:11:00.000+08:00

so pissed off. havent touched mrp today. got thrashed by 1C 5-2 cos of our fantastic goalkeepers (jia guang n joel). if hiippy hadnt got red-carded after he insulted the kayu referee in the last match we might hav won. but well.

then now chic is sick. jon lee is sick. so i hav to organize classroom cleaning. and hav to collect all the consent forms for PTG tml. n giv them to letchmi. n i hav ncc at 2.00. n hav to change into no 4.

crap.

and theres still the $2. crap.

better go post a reminder on yahoo groups. and do a bit of mrp.

2004-07-14T20:24:00.000+08:00

awww...

didnt get into finals for irs. but at least we got a B, so 5 ace points for sci (not like thats much use since i already maxed out) and 2 for everything else! whoop!

eto mihoko sux big time. almost fell asleep again. and she teaches so slowly and spends so much time for revision. so boring. no wonder we are so behind all the other classes.

resolution : I will not fall asleep in jap class.

2004-07-13T20:13:00.000+08:00

IRS semi finals was better than i thought it would be. suppose the judges went easy on us cos we were one of the only sec 1 grps in the category. even suresh was suprisingly quiet. one of the judges jus asked us something like "did u identify the bacteria?", so we said something like, "ya, we used the gram staining technique." and she was like "so what groups did u seperate the bacteria into?", and we said "gram positive and gram negative". That was about all they said lor. phew.

had to sit through he rest of the groups presenting. so boring. but anyway, pigsie got quite a few sms-es during the judging. no prizes for guessing who from... muhahahaha

2004-07-12T22:39:00.000+08:00

dont feel like blogging today. stupid headache has been bugging me all day. ouch. still got irs to do. shit. bb.

2004-07-11T21:22:00.000+08:00

irs rox. but i'd rather not do it now. ace sux. mrp sux. truman's handwriting sux more than thee previous 2 put together. I cant make out a word of it. he should hvae typed out his diary or something. ugh. argh. splat.

anyway, time for a quick post before going to rush irs.

GEP open house was quite ok. pasted some signs directing the guests to the auditorium. slacked around a bit in space. did some other stuff i cant remember. ate some leftovers from the buffet. whatever. i think i'll sign up for iCouncil next yr. seems quite fun.

nothing worth mentioning today. sayounara.

2004-07-09T20:52:00.000+08:00

oh horros. the small leaves for our irs hav all died. the florescent machine said some thing like "warning, low flourescence". anyways, was almost late for ncc. changed into pt kit n green socks in about 2 min n rushed down.

pt was quite light today. 100 push-ups followed by a short run that couldnt hav exceeded 3 km. i think. then... SOCCER!

used one of the side fields. my team beat both the other teams 1-0 and 2-1. haha. then during the third match in which the two losers played each other two CLTs came and asked if they could join our game.

and it so happened that jus at that moment three chio bu from hcjc came over and engaged them in a lively conversation. it wasnt long before the 5 NCOs present started joining in. and it looked like they were having a good time. haha.

but the two girls went off after a while (thank godness) and we resumed with the game.

gotta be off to do work...

2004-07-08T21:53:00.000+08:00

i still feel like shit. stupid art hw not done. presentation for gep p6 open house supposed to be due tonite, but since the pics hang jeremys com n the pics r with him in a cd, well, looks like theres not much we can do about it. and the open house is this sat. crap.

jon lee n pigsie tried taking a pic of ms ong n mr tan eating lunch together, but ms ong happened to turn around jus at that moment and waved them away.

And cao made us do a compo during her lesson. really felt like sleeping cos we jus came back from double cheng in air con room. yawn. but i managed to scribble some stuff onto the paper.

howie was busy measuring his biceps for some weird (I finally remembered to spell it correctly) reason. self-consciousness. hmmm... he claims he has big biceps. hmmm...

anyway, spent 2 hrs doing some florescence thing to test the health status of the leaf. according to mdm lim, the machine costs a few thousand dollars. so ex. anyway, the leaves with Rust or some red bacteria innoculated seem to be less healthy than those without, and those with pitcher plant extracts seem to be the healthiest, so our experiment might work after all after the invivo failed horribly (the paper discs were overun with bacteria).

reached home in a record time of 40 min. ate a slice of bread n a mini chicken pie n drank a cup of milk. *pats stomach* my mom told me not to eat so much, but well *shrugs*, I always seem to be hungry.

2004-07-07T22:41:00.000+08:00

crap! Im so confused. can synthetic division be used for dividing polynomials by binomials in the form of (x+c)? All the websites I found only mention (x-c), but I used (x+c) in my example for tml's presentation. crap. hope its ok.

spent a total of more than 3 hrs working on it. argh. and howie said he's doing the clicking tml. wtf man.i mean i spent so much more time on it than him lor, and he gets the easy job. argh.

too late to complain anyway. still got lit ws to do. and hav to read up on some sci stuff, but I might postphone it to tml cos im not sure when we hav to do it by.

crappy.

2004-07-06T20:14:00.000+08:00

Today we learnt the D major chord and G major chord. how fascinating... And we started on our first song, namely Hwa Chong will shine. such a difficult song! I mean, u hav to use 3 chords! C major, D major and G major. and since we couldnt change fast enough, mr goh had to split us into 3 groups with each group playing one chord.

ok, ignore the sacarsm up there.

Played weiqi against abman today. Hes a tougher opponent than edward. Probably could be better if he had not not been playing for the past 3 yrs.

Discussed ORD with Kang Wen, Pao Pao and Jonathan Heng. This gameshow idea of ours is getting a bit wild. I seriously cant imagine our NCOs dressing up in female clothes. with makeup. WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

hmmm... anybody knows where to buy lipstick and how much does each stick cost? we need to get 5 sticks. the cheaper the better.

2004-07-05T16:45:00.000+08:00

Fun Run yesterday was soooooooo fun. I stupidly wore knee-length shorts. argh. everybody wore shorts that ended at mid-thigh, so i was the only one who couldnt run properly. and there was only Large size left for the fun run t-shirts, so my shirt was almost touching my knee. argh.

anyway, we squeed with a few hundred ppl at the starting line. when the horn blew, li jian rui started so fast. sprinted like siao to catch him. lost him after almost 2km. but when i reached the 2.5k checkpoint, i found that i only used around 10 min or so. and to think i ran 12 min plus for 2.4. hmmm...

paced this bald indian guy all the way. finished in a pretty good time. i think around 22 min :P got a cooling pad or something for my efforts! And there was a free flow of H2O and mineral water, both ice cold :P took a bottle of mineral awter and emptied it on my head. so shuang ^.^ then drank a can of H2O.

after it ended i walked around looking for my parents. found them at one of the carparks. went to Lemongrass for dinner. yum!

home sweet home.

watched the finals of euro. greece so bloody violent lor. jus like against czech. one of the players slide and tripped miguel. then he lifted his knee into miguel's stomach. ouch. they had to spray him with painkillers after that.

but greece's "veteran goalkey" (or so i call him cos of his grey hair) was quite good. a couple of spectacular saves during the match. Ricardo was good also, pity he couldnt stop the diving header created from greece's only corner.

Deco was off form. played like shit. or you can say he played like becks. sent the penalties high into the standards. aiya. his personal slogan can be "up up and away".

Figo played a fantastic game, but with no backup, he couldnt really do much. it was such a pity that christiano ronaldo was ruled offside. he was in such a good position to score.

Oh, and the best part of the match was when this portugal fan ran onto the pitch waving a banner. he threw it at figo and ran towards the other end of the pitch. all those fat officials couldnt catch him... until he ran into the net and fell that is. wahahahaha! and when they carried him off the pitch he was still laughing and cheering. wierd.

2004-07-04T11:04:00.000+08:00

WAHAHAHAHA! Han Chang's girlfriend's msn nic is "Im so bloody confused... Who should i go out with???"

Oh well anyway, yesterday's humantities nite was not bad. voices was quite gd, esp the singing, but i dont really think much of the story line. The policeman one and the jap occupation one were more "deep" if you understand what I mean. more related to this idea of humanity. The "I must think" act was kind of wierd. esp that guy in black, he looks a bit deranged, but its probably cos hes a good actor.

And there were REFRESHMENTS! whee! but i didnt eat much cos i ate too much for dinner and wasnt hungry. but i did drink a lot of the lemon barley.

Oh and i forgot to mention that pigsie and charlton were trying to strip me outside the drama centre. argh. so many wierdos in my class. *shudders*

Oh well, theres a fun run for charity later. supposed to be very FUN. After all, how else would you describe a 5 km route. *sacarsm*

2004-07-02T20:09:00.000+08:00

Did gym for PE today. so boring. forward rolls and cartwheels. haha.

Changed at the gym toilets. Jon Lee n samuel lee were being pevertic and kept staring at me. gah.

Then played soccer (as usual). Some stupid teacher came n scolded us cos she said we werent allowed to play at the parade square. Even though all the seniors play there and we were told that it was allowed and theres nothing there that can be damaged by a ball and we werent making a lot of noise, she scolded us anyway. then confiscated our ball and told us to redeem it from jeffery lim.

so we went to see jeffery lim. got scolded another time. then he told us to take the ball from him on tue. and the teacher who caught us was purposely standing around and giving us this smug look. i really felt like going up and slapping her. but of course, that would hav been as good as digging my own grave.

gave consent form for fun run to sergent song kai and sergent ron after sch. went home. did a little work. read "a swiftly tilting planet" (sequel to "a wrinkle in time"). bathed. ate dinner. pissed off.

2004-07-01T20:56:00.000+08:00

Yay! finished studying my ting xie, at least to some extent...

Forgot to talk bout NCC day today jus now. the parade in the morning was quite cool, cept it rained for the second yr in a row, so we did it in the Kah Kee hall with nobody to see. The Mr Sung read the NCC day speech for nobody to hear (cept the 120 or so NCC cadets) and we took the NCC pledge.

couldnt play soccer :'( in boots, would have been very difficult to play in boots anyway.

And chris kept snickering and saying that I had no "stripes, stars or circles" yet. not that there are such things as circles of course, but its so bloody irritating. since we cant get any badges or stripes in sec 1, looks like i'll just hav to put up with him for another 5 months.

2004-07-01T16:55:00.000+08:00

Grrr... cao lao shi is MAD. 12 ke to study for ting xie tml. Then still got that stupid chi ws. argh. gotta get started.

byez...

2004-06-30T21:12:00.000+08:00

CRAP! CRaP ass due tml. And I still have to polish my boots, fold my sleeves, dig out animal farm from my brother's cupboard, do at least a little bit of the lit ws, chi filing (y did cao hav to chose me?), Jap hw, and lots of other small and insignificant stuff. argh.

If only I had some liquid polish. It would save me so much time. If only I was as smart as pigsie. Then my hw would be finished in no time. IF ONLY IT WAS STILL HOLIDAYS I WOULDNT HAV TO DO ALL THESE STUFF!

oh well. too bad. hols are gone.

2004-06-29T19:59:00.000+08:00

Guitar lesson was so VERY interesting today, and Im sure Jeremy agrees with me. We learnt how to hold the guitar! And how to hold a C major chord. Wow! *sacarsm*

Weiqi was just as gd. We learnt that u can only put the seeds on the intersections of the lines and not in the squares! wow! had a shao pan with edward.

1.30 immediately went to discuss ORD perfomance with my platoon mates ---> no lunch :'( Discussed for an hour then "borrowed" an Ortus classroom to change.

Training was shit. 2 hours under that freaking sun. I can almost smell my hair roasting. argh. And doing what? Read on to find out.

NCO : Dahat sedia, sedia!
Timer : Check up.
And we all lift up our hands to the chest.
NCO : Sedia!
And our hands go down.

So this goes on...
again
and again
and again
and again
and again
and again
and again
...

for 2 hours.

havent done any homework yet since I got home quite late. gotta go do now... byez

2004-06-28T22:00:00.000+08:00

The first day of school after a month long break. I suppose it was ok... not much different from school before the holidays. A few interesting changes though...

Cao lao shi permed her hair! omg... last time it was so straight and short, but now, its like, her head got blown up or something, and there are these "spikes" sticking out on both sides. To sum it up : She looks WIERD.

And Im quite sure mr cheng dyed his hair. nothing very drastic though.

And today's assembly was, um, special. cos there was some, erm, *ahhem* education. Discussing puberty and, erm, whatever. Wont discuss it here.

Hope the salt centre gets completed soon. Bet its construction will finish behind schedule. only 6 months assigned to piling works. bah. The stupid park their trying to build behind my flat has been piling for a yr and a half already...

Jap class was booooooooooooring. And u noe y? cos eto sensei came back. dammit. I prefer aoi sensei. This old sensei talks so freaking softly. I can barely hear her man. And she teach is like, so slow paced lor. We learnt so little in that 2 hrs compared to when aoi sensei was teaching. And she talk like si si one lor, no "life" in her. But then, shes very old.

Waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I want aoi sensei back.

ORD rehearsal tml. Dammit. That means I've gotta bring my uniform in that BIG blue bag.

2004-06-27T20:11:00.000+08:00

evil Jeremy. evil pigsie. when we were at Jeremy's house they used my msn acc to say "I luv u" to Sharon, Ker Sheng and somebody else that I cant remember. argh. So pai seh lor. Sharon was like "u must hav gotten the wrong person". eargh. *strangles pigsie n Jeremy*

Guitar lesson as usual. Then went home and had this BEEEEG pot of chicken soup for tea.

Lots of hw left to do. *rushes off*

2004-06-26T21:48:00.000+08:00

Dad repaired the VCR, so I watched the tape today. At least, most of it.

All in all a boring day. Pesky brother trying to see what I'm doing again. grrr...

2004-06-25T22:32:00.000+08:00

Aiyah, holiday still make us go back for NCC training. I thought the camp and trainfire was enough already. But anyway, we started off with some drills. Staff let us wear half-u! *whoops* Much cooler. Im almost positive our drills improved cos of it.

Then we played a "fun and interesting game with great prizes". Pumping competition! suprise!

Split into 3 grps of 6. My grp came in second with 900+ points. First grp got slightly more than a 1000 and last grp got around 600. haha. such a wide gap.

I came in individual second! *whoops* got 255 points (with 85 push-ups). The first guy got 311 (he did some "double diamond", which are worth 10 points each, so his points damn high), which is way more than me. Third guy got 245.

So the prizes... MORE PUMPING! 30 more push-ups for rewards. grrr... Then some "pep talk", and dismiss. Went to Orchard for lunch with my mom and brother (ate at Jack's place). Ate half my brother's desert and a quarter of my mom's main course cos they couldnt finish.

Slept the afternoon away. Ate dinner. took a bus to sch. The play was great. The trees ones were extremely touching, and Jerry's was hilarious. "Hello mrs lee, repotting your plants for the sixth this wk ah?" HAHAHA!

Took a bus home. The empress rd bus-stop was suprisingly crowded for some reason. And now I cant fall asleep cos I slept in the afternoon and I dont feel sleepy now.

2004-06-24T15:32:00.002+08:00

Today's been boring so far. My bro hogged the com the whole morning so I couldnt get anything done. Now I get to use it, but I cant think of what to do for dom studies ace. Jeremy, pigsie, jean ellie (and all other ppl gd at com studies) pls HELP! Im desperate.

Stupid tape. Sooooo hard to find sources for my MRP topic, and I finally come up with this really fantastic and very relevant tape, but. but. my VCR is SPOILED. spoiledspoiledspoiled. grrrrrr. *growls at TV*

And to cap it up, I can feel a headache coming up.

AAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH.

And the hols are ending so fast. only a few more days left. in nyps i always got bored to death during the hols cos there was nothing to do, but now I wish it could go on longer. In fact, it would be nice if it could go on until i left chs. *dream dream dream*

Oh well, one gd thing to blog about. I found the chords for "Not me not I" at ultimateguitar.com. Its quite nice.

2004-06-24T15:32:00.001+08:00

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2004-06-23T20:21:00.000+08:00

Today's my father's day off, so he took my brother n I to watch HP3 at Tiong Bahru Plaza. The show was good, better than the first two, but they cut out too much stuff. Yup, I agree that cutting the quidditch matches was a bad idea.

Now for some "character analysis"...

Radcliffe : Acting is not bad I suppose. Not much to say bout him.

Grint : Acts pretty well too I guess.

Watson : She is rather pretty, so I suppose jean ellie's crush on her is understandable considering he IS a teenage boy. "beauty and brains" HAHAHAHAHA *points at jean ellie and laughs hysterically*

Felton : Looks like a jerk. dont argue. He looked cuter as a small kid.

Gambon : Doesnt act well as Dumbledore, but gives a lifely feel to the character, which actually doesnt fit my image of Dumbledore.

Oldman : He does look pretty crazy.

Thewlis : Fatherly character.

Thats all for the movie. Went bowling after that. My father loves bowling, but I happen to suk big time. After all, with scores falling short of 70, what else can you say? But at least Im no worse than my brother, who turned in a record score of 5.

Then home. I've jus realised that I havent kept the promise us sec 1 cadets made to our NCO to train our physical fitness. There hasnt been a single day that I exercised vigourously for more than 1 hr. *major guilt pang*

2004-06-22T20:30:00.000+08:00

MRP day. or so I thought. Went to gabriel's house, but he didnt get the books he said he would, so we spent an hour and a half at the library to get (some of) them.

Improved the intro chap a little bit and tried to use his TV to watch a tape that we borrowed. Stupid TV could detect the stupider VCR for some reason, so it was another waste of time.

Then had lunch.

Thats all we did. And on a side note, Gabriel doesnt get along well with his maid. And hes very rude to her. And shes very fed up with him. And she made me drink so much water that I felt lke bursting. haha.

As usual, I slacked at home. Will watch the tape tml. hopefully.

2004-06-21T21:05:00.000+08:00

News flash :

Jian Le's display pic this afternoon was a pic of Emme Watson (Hermoine) with the words "Beauty and Brains" on it. And when Jeremy questioned him about it, he said something like "buts its true what... shes pretty and smart".

HAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

At my suggestion, Jeremy followed up with "what bout rachel chen?" Upon which Jian Le replied " *blush* "

HAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

What. A. Joke.

Ok, sorry Jian Le if I embarassed u.

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Feeling very guilty. Ate chocolate in the morning, chips in the afternoon, and curry for dinner. All the calories *quakes* Im almost positive I've grown (slightly) fatter this hols. Not that it matters of course...

tml irs cancelled. dunno when we will b free to do it. all very busy these days.

2004-06-20T20:32:00.000+08:00

My memory must be failing. Completely forgot that today's guitar lesson was cancelled cos of the Singapore Guitar Festival 2004 finals yesterday. Went all the way to Clementi for nothing, and now my Dad is damned pissed off.

Accomplishment of the Day : Completed Jap compo.

Spent about 1hr on it, which is quite ok... considering I spent bout 5 times of that on the first one. hee hee.

Still addicted to David Gammell. Just cant stop reading is books, and when I feel I read them, I get so engrossed that I seem to "detach" myself from reality. hmmm... that cant be gd. Besides, I feel kinda sad when any of the characters die (bad guys included). Must be getting over-emotional. *shakes head*

Anyway, my toe still hurts. No thanks to my brother for stepping on it. *glares* But at least the swelling has gone down a little.

Ya well, thats bout it. Will hav to surrender the com now to my brother cos he wants to play.

2004-06-19T10:41:00.000+08:00

Ouchie! My poor toe. Dunno what I did to it yesterday playing soccer with my cousin. Its swollen and bruised and hurts. My grandma said it must be twisted, and to rectify that, it needed to be "pulled", so she starte yanking my toe in all directions until I was gritting my teeth.

Ouch.

So anyway, its my grandfather's bdae today. Will be having a buffet for dinner to celebrate it. Wheeeeee!

By the way, if u r interested in fantasy stories, read David Gammell AND Terry Brooks. They rock.

2004-06-16T21:59:00.000+08:00

IRS again. Rushing to complete it before leefy leaves S'pore. Re-doing the project now with some real diseased leaves leefy personally got from Bukit Timah yesterday.

Lunch was an interesting affair. Cos after lunch, YQ was trying to pull Jeremy out of his seat so that we could go back to Bio-LRC to do IRS, and this little kid walked past and called them "gay" very loudly. Then after that, they were hauling me back to the bio-LRC and a cleaner who saw us remarked to another cleaner "ta men shi gay ah?"

Hrumph. I'm insulted. gay indeed.

Oh well, went to the library after that to get a book from the CRP list. Its very short, but very meaningful. Unfortunately, I came home and realised that I need 2 bks to compare. damn. Hav to go library again tml. haiz...

2004-06-15T14:43:00.000+08:00

Trainfire was very fun. Reached sch at 7.30 am to learn some theory before going to Amoy Kwee camp for the real thing. The chartered bus ran out of petrol during the trip there, so we had to stop at a petrol station to refuel. haha. reached there on time anyway.

At the camp, we learnt how to strip, assemble, load, unload and shoot an M16. Oh yea, we also learnt what the various parts of the rifle were called.

Then there was a "test" of holding the rifle steady in prone position, which is something like sprawling on the floor. The NCOs will put a 10 cent coin on the barrel (the long thing in front) and you must flick the very tight switch to "semi", cock the rifle, and squeeze the trigger without the coin falling off. not an easy feat I might add. suprisingly, about 1/3 the CHS ppl could do it on the first try. yay!

The cadets from Teck Whye who were there didnt take take the test cos they took too long to learn how to strip n assemble the rifle. lol...

After that we took the same bus back to sch.

Went to MacDonalds with 5 of my platoon mates for lunch. Their ez-link card machine didnt work, so I had to pay by cash. Almost went bankrupt, so I borrowed 75 cents from my friend.

Finished lunch at around 12.30, but stayed for another 1/2 hr to talk cock. oops. I mean to chit-chat. But Pao Pao's eyes kept straying to some NY ppl sitting behind us. hee hee. naughty boy.

Then took a bus home and endured 1hr of having ppl stare at me. (I was wearing No 4) Oh well, at least there wasnt any old aunties saying things like "Ah boy ah, ni zhe me xiao jiu qu dang bing ah".

2004-06-14T21:08:00.000+08:00

IRS... IRS... IRS... *sings happily to myself*

oh dear, I must be going crazy. Anyway, went to sch at 9 a.m. for IRS. worked all the way until around 4. did Gram staining, paper discs, pitcher plant extract, measuring health status. at least, thats all I can remember at the moment. not bad huh? quite a lot of work done. *ego*

Nothing really interesting happened thought, cept that I accidently barbecued my finger by picking up a glass spreader heated up by Sam Chia. There was this hissing sound followed by intense pain, which I tried to alleviate by putting ethanol then blowing on it. hee hee...

Now its quite ok cept for a little white scar which hampers my playing of the guitar. Hopefully it'll heal soon.

At 4, went to Jeremy's house to do C++. Didnt really do much cos the com goes bersek when an alphabet is entered for a response declared as an int. well, too bad i guess.

Now the really bad news is : there's NCC tml.

boo hoo hoo BOOOOOO HOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO *breaks down*

Just after we got back from camp some more. And to think I thought we could get some rest. *curses*

Oh well, too bad.

2004-06-13T09:30:00.000+08:00

NCC camp. The ultimate experience. Dont hesitate. Go now.

Got back from camp day before yesterday. Unpacked my bag (or rather, 2 bags) then went straight to bed n slept until dinner time, which is not suprising considering what I've been through in the past 4 days at NCC camp.

Best of all, there's bunk check. First, we cleaned up the classroom (bunk) in 45 min or so, then we fall in. In walks a sadistic seargent. goes to the window. pokes his finger in all the small unreachable corners which cant b cleaned. then bellows...

"i/c"
"yes, seargent"
"did u clean the windows"
"yes, seargent"
"then whats this?" *gestures at the barest trace of dust on his finger*
"dust, seargent"
"then still say u got clean! count how many windows there are n add that to the no. of mistakes"

After this, the i/c (me) falls back in with the rest of the section while the seargent moves over to the neatly stacked tables n chairs n uses his amazing strength to hurl them across the classroom. swipes the surfaces of ALL the tables / chairs n ALL the table / chair legs and ALL the possible places that contain dust.

---repeat of above scence---

continues by checking all corners of the classroom, door frames, behind the clock, under the computer table n teacher's table, inside the dustbin, on top of the cupboard, above the notice board n whiteboards, Singapore flag, under the fan, floor etc.

Oh wait, the floor is worth mentioning. The seargent sweeps his hand across the floor (and again and again and again) until there is this little bit of dust on his fingers. Then he looks for broom hairs (which keep falling out of the lousy broom provided. Then he shouts stuff like “Whats this piece of shit I see” while pointing to a piece of mud that just fell out of his boot.

Oh well, in the end, we end up with around 63 mistakes, n he was going to pump us 5 per mistake, but we only got through to around 50 cos there wasn’t enuff time.

Solo nite is great too. Put u in a dark, haunted place in CHS n u stay there for 3 hrs. How absolutely BORING! Some coward screamed like, 10 min after it started. Asked him bout it later n he said he heard a droning sound. -.-“ I heard it too… it was an aeroplane.

Was absolutely melting after 3 hrs in my no. 4. When the sec 3 came to get me I almost couldn’t stand up after sitting cross legged for so long.

Oh, I soooooooooooo luv drills. Day 2 was shiok man. 3 hrs of drills in the shade (thank goodness) after breakfast n 4 n a half more hrs in the rain after lunch. Staff was bloody pissed off cos some slackers didn’t put in the effort n our banging was unco-ordinated, so he marched us the the 3rd floor of the car park n into the rain.

4 n a half hrs in the rain marching. I hate hantakaki (if that’s how u spell it). Its something like marching on the spot but u hav to raise ur legs 90 degrees. In No 4 n boots, that’s pure torture.

Lunch is a nice time also, cos we get a packet of maggee mee, an egg and a mess tin each. In addition, 2 ppl will share a camping stove, a piece of solid fuel n a few matches. We hav around 40 mins to cook, eat, and clean up. Cleaning up means that each mess tin cant hav even one speck of soot or one miniature stain on it. The floor cant have one piece of litter or one grain of magee mee seasoning.

And that accursed estate manager saw n opportunity to hav the sch toilets cleaned to military standards. He complained to master that the toilets were very dirty cos of us n threatened to coplained to Mr Hon (principal). So we were scolded, pumped n given 10 mins to clean the toiletes to perfection.

Breakfast was slightly better cos each section got 2 packs of bread. Then we line up n hold a piece of bread in each hand so that the RPs can distrubute the jam n planta. Each jar of jam is shared between >50 ppl btw, so don’t expect too much…

Dinner was canteen catering. Yum yum!

All in all, an enriching experience which will be repeated in Dec. Oh well, at least we're all Privates instead of recruits...

2004-06-07T22:00:00.000+08:00

Went to sch this morning for IRS. Thought it was at 10 so I left my house at 9 am. Was crossing the overhead bridge when I saw 186 reaching the bus stop, so I ran all the way there n jus managed to jump onto the bus. Then changed over to 961 very quickly so I reached sch in a record time of 25 min!

Went to the library to read newspapers. Some interesting news of the day :

1. A large percentage of parents do not acknowledge their childrens' unhealthy weight. Many fat / obese kids are termed as "just rite" by their parents. A quote from a senior nurse : "When the weight known to us physicians as hazardously overweight is considered normal weight by the public, serious health problems are on the horizon"

2. Jolin Tsai thinks shes a reincarnation of a Hawaiian fire goddess cos she "feels rite" when visitting Hawaii and a chair once caught on fire when she sat on it. This fire goddess also happens to enjoy singing and dancing, and Tsai's spiritual guru agrees with her idea.

There was more, but I forgot.

Went to bio-LRC at around 10.25 but there wasnt anybody outside, so I called Jeremy on his hp n he said he was just inside. lol... Went in n pigsie came in not long after. Looked at Jeremy's new C++ book that was actually a "7-in-1" C++ guide for Dummies fully equipped with a CD and an outrageous price tag of $51.40 if I'm not wrong...

Waited. And waited. And waited. For like, half n hr before Jeremy went to find the evil leefy at the staff rm. He said Mr Lee was occupied and would "be there in 5 min", so we slacked around and inspected Jeremy's new hp, which has a built in mini keyboard... *turns green with envy* evil pigsie tried to take a photo of me cos Jeremy helped me delete the existing one from his hp, but he failed. So he took a pic of Jeremy's *ahhem* instead.

Then chic (private joke) came, n not long later, leefy came.

Discussed our schedule, then went to get more diseased leaves cos our sub-cultures didnt look very promising cept for the rust one and another red one which has yet to be identified.

Pigsie went off soon cos he had ED n Chic went off cos of something else.

So leefy, Jeremy n I walked through Hwa Chong JC n out through a small gate. Walked all the way to the CHS main gate without finding a single diseased leaf despite the keen, sharp and experienced eyes of the great leaf himself. oops, I mean leefy.

Yup, then ate (an outrageously expensive) lunch at poolside cafe with the 2 of them. After which Jeremy received a call from Mr Cheng, who asked him to contact Edward as the latter had left his MRP in sch. However, when his hp was dialled, there was only the voicemail. Upon hearing this disastrous piece of news, Mr Cheng was MOST upset.

Then went to com lab to do C++, but it was "Closed for maintainance", so I went home.

Packed my camp bag. Or rather, bags (there r 2 of them).

Watched Harry Pot n the s.s. part 2 after dinner.

Took a look at my camp schedule, n got a big shock.

1. Everyday there's a 45 min bunk cleaning, which is Ok... cept for the 1 hr 15 min "Administrative time" following it. *shudders* admin time = pumping time.

2. There's a THREE AND A HALF HOUR rd march to look forward to tml... and the total length is likely to be near 30 km. eek. Oh, and we're also having war games... at... 10.15 lasting for an hr n a half! gosh...

3. On the third day of camp, there's a 3 hr solonite, during which I run a high risk of falling asleep. But better still, there's muster parade after it. hmmm... there's n interesting thought, having some 120 NCC cadets marching in the sch at 1.30 am.

Oh well, with the "bonus" that this camp is 4 days n 3 nites, I suppose it gonna be really enjoyable

2004-06-07T18:02:00.000+08:00

Well well well. havent blogged for a couple of days cos my dad took the com apart to um... install something.

so anyway, heres what happened :

Friday

Went to the LOTR exhibition at nite. Was wayyyyyyy cool. Lots of stuff bout how they did the special effects n stuff like that. Got a picture taken in which I was taller than my dad (even though he's 170something cm tall) lol...

According to the display bout the guy who acted as Aragon, it said that when they were filming one of the fighting scenes his tooth dropped out, and he requested that it be stuck back on using superglue so that no time would be wasted. hee hee...

Apparently, the One Ring is made from 9 carat gold.

Oh, and the armour + weapons were really cool...

Spent bout two and a half hrs there. Didnt buy anything cos the prices were outrageous. VERY.

Saturday

Went to Sci Centre cos yesterday's tickets allowed us free entry into there for 1 wk, so my mum didnt want to "waste the money".

Walked around for almost 4 hrs. Liked the part bout illusions.

Oh, n I'm starting to like Pythagoras more n more. Apart from his very nice theorem of a² + b² = c², he thought of some theory the combines music n maths on which the invention of the guitar was based.

All hail Pythagoras...

Sunday

Nth much today... Went to guitar class, then bought 3 big durians on the way home. Since my mom (as usual) didnt want to eat and my brother (suprisingly) didnt either, me n my dad ate all of it.

(cant get rid of the durian smell on my fingers now)

watched harry potter n the stone part 1 at nite.

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Will blog bout today later. mom bugging me to go bathe cos she says I stink (sweat too much)

2004-05-31T20:16:00.000+08:00

Went to sch this morning to see ms ong for MRP. She passed me! Whoo hoo! Thought I was gonna fail cos I followed Mr Cheng's format and she said she would fail those who did. Found out that I added some extra stuff that helped me gain marks.

Then went to EP3 blk to give Staff Zi Lun the camp consent form.

After that I talked with Jian Le for a while before going to the library to read The Straits Times. Read for about 1 hr before going to eat lunch at sch canteen. Then took a bus to Edward's house for his early bdae celebration.

Jeremy, Jose n Wei Xiong were already there playing Game Cube. So I jus joined in. Then we went to play table tennis (for me n Jose) and pool (for ed, Jeremy n Wei Xiong). Lost to Jose in the first set cos I underestimated him, but later won him in the next few sets. As usual, Jeremy won in pool.

Then guess what? I went for my second lunch of Pizza Hut... WAHAHAHAHA!

Then we went to play game cube again until Jeremy insisted on playing bball. 4 of us against Edward. haha... evil rite?

Then went for more pool n table tennis. Jeremy claims he's not gd at table tennis, but he almost beat Jose. Anyway, Edward's brother's friends came in n there was this fat guy who was damn gd in table tennis. My heart rate must hav increased by like, 50 times while playing with him?

Yup, thats bout it. After that I went home...

2004-05-29T20:27:00.000+08:00

Went to sch this morning to see ms ong for mrp, but she said she didnt receive my email (with the mrp attached), so I waited for Jeremy to finish consulting then went with him to com lab.

We were supposed to complete our C++ proj, which is almost completed actually, cept for the fact that it only works on my home com. I think I noe y, must b cos my com's compiler is C++ version 5.0, but sch com is version 6.0 (the latest version). Damn it... After my many hrs of hard work, it jus doesnt work. Now Im paying the price for not keeping up with technology. But the idea is correct what... I suspect its the libraries that hav changed. Its so diff lor... even the layout for the help software has changed completely. eek... cant find what i need to noe bout the libraries.

So we ended up slacking n enjoying the aircon. Then I got bored n went to the place beside the canteen. Did some sit-ups on the inclined sit-up station (as in inclined backwards, so ur head is lower than ur legs). The stupid thing was made up of 5 wooden planks with gaps in the middle, so my butt hurt like hell after I was done. Same for Jeremy.

Watched the volleyball sec 1 train. omg... their pt is like, shit? they jus run 10m, do 10 sit-ups on the floor, run another 10m, do 10 push-ups, then run back (20m). Thats it.

Oh man...

1. When doing sit-ups, their hands come up before their heads, so most of the force comes from the momentum and NOT their stomachs. note : when doing sit-ups, hands should be behind the ears at ALL TIMES.

2. When doing pumping, some of them were "f***ing the floor" as our seniors call it. Others were barely bending their arms. Oh man... note : Whole body must be kept straight during pumping, and elbows must be bent until chest almost touches the floor.

I thought it was that they had low standards, but Jeremy said it was us uniform groups that had high standards. lol...

Then I went to the bkshop to buy another PE T-shirt n shorts, but the kind auntie told me that some sec 4's mom passed her a PE T-shirt n shorts that were quite new but her son had outgrown them, and asked me if I wanted them (for free). Naturally I said yes.

Then went home. While walking on the drive way, I saw that the area around the field was raining, but the area I was in wasnt, and I was marvelling that we had sucha large sch that part of it could rain while the other part wasnt.

Jus then my mom called me, and I was talking to her when a big gale (haha) blew the rain over, so I ran into the building.

Went home and slacked the afternoon away, cos I planned to hav a well deserved weekend break. Was sooo bored that I read the newspapers. Did a few push-ups, but didnt feel like it cos of the 100 I did yesterday, so I stopped.

nth else intersting today...

2004-05-28T21:45:00.000+08:00

YES! YES! YES!

todayislastdayofschoolforsemester1
iamsohappyboutitiamsohappyboutitiamsohappyboutit
icantbelievethejuneholsarefinallyhere.

But this is gonna be a REALLY BUSY holiday. *sulks* So much work *sniffs* so many projects *sobs* SO MUCH TO DOOOOOOOOOO *breaks down*

Refer to the list of things to do on Jeremy's blog.

Well anyway, today's NCC ended at 5 cos it was "Eat dinner with ur family" day. The PT wasnt that bad. Pumped 50, then did 60 sit-ups, then did 80 (counts of 8) jumping jacks. Then we were supposed to end, but my section finished really fast, so we thought we would get to slack, but sadly no...

*bold words were spoken by seargent Ron

"Today is family day rite? Who here luvs ur family?

So we were like, "me..."

"OK, lets do 20 push-ups to celebrate Family Day!"

So the long suffering us did another 20 push-ups. Then he said...

"U all luv ur father rite? Lets do another 5 for ur fathers."

Then it was...

"U all luv ur mothers rite? Lets do another 5 for ur mothers."

"U all gonna start up families of ur own in future rite? Do 5 for ur future wife and 5 more for ur future children."

"Lets do another 10 to celebrate family day."

Then the other sections finished, and we were given some "pep talk" bout NCC spirit, endurance etc.

Then DISMISSAL! *whooops* *remembers the huge workload* *loses gd mood immediately*

Well, who cares bout work. I shall slack the whole of tonite. haha.

2004-05-27T20:57:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was um... freaky.

Jon Lee tried to take off my shirt at MOELC for some wierd reason. He sort of like pounced on me and tried unbuttoning my shirt. eep! Dunno whats gotten into him. Mebbe its a pre-hols craze.

Fortunately, Charlton (who can be ferocious despite his size) attacked Jon Lee so Jon Lee stopped.

But then he started squirting me with pigsie's water bottle to "make my shirt stick to my body" according to him. argh... My uniform was so wet after that. And bcos there was a big gale *wink wink* blowing at us, I was freezing. Gd thing the water dried quite quickly.

Today there was quadruple-Cheng, as termed by us 1O ppl. The class was pretty restless, and I really cant blame them. The stressful CHS life must be taking its toll on them.

My brain seems to hav frozen up these 2 wks. Whenever there's lit discussion, I jus cant think of any ideas. haiz...

After that was the soccer match against 1C.

All I can say is : REFEREE KAYU

Oh yah, and the 1C team really deserves an Oscar. So pro at faking injuries. And that stupid referee kept giving them free kicks and us yellow cards. Stupid biased referee. I wonder whats the cause of all these prejudice against GEPpers. Izzit jealousy? I mean, we're jus humans what...

Lost 2-1 in the end. Marcus scored the goal for us. His arm was in a cast after he fractured his wrist last wk, but he still insisted on playing, and gd thing he did too.

Those 1C f***ers were taunting him n laughing at him lor... Wah lao. But then they underestimated him and didnt get anybody to mark him, so when he got the ball, he dribbled past the defenders n scored through the goalkeeper's leg. *whoops* All hail marcus.

After that I went for the movie screening. The movie was called "chicken rice wars" or sth like that. Only caught the last 45 mins, but in this time there were like, over 20 uses of the word "fuck" and 4 kissing scenes. Cant believe they didnt censor those parts out. After all, arent we supposed to be "young innocent and carefree kids"?

Then I took a bus home carrying that HUGE poster (2 mounting boards stuck together). Edward refused to take it home even though he had a chaffuer to pick him up. hrumph.

Well anyway, ate 2 biscuits n drank a cup of milk after I got home. Did evil leefy's O-level sci ws for 1 hr then tried doing krunches. But every time I did one, I would hear the milk sloshing around inside my stomach, so I desisted.

Yup, thats about it. Now I'll jus add some side issues.

Tml is last day of sch! *dances around in joy*
And do NOT listen to pigsie when he says touching my head is nice.
And do NOT listen to Edward if he tells u I hav abs.
COS THEY ARE ALL NOT TRUE.

2004-05-25T17:42:00.000+08:00

There was Australasian English competition for schools after school, so I had to stay until 3.00.

Then staggered to the bus stop carrying my maths arch lever file n art folder in one hand and 2 mounting boards in the other. Managed to make it the the NYGH bus stop without dropping anything.

Then on the bus, I didnt hav any free hands to hold on to the hand holds, so I desperately tried to keep my balance. Was doing quite well until those 20 or so St Margaret Girls came on. They were like, kicking my mounting boards when they squeezed past.

Then I kept being pushed around as ppl tried to alight. Bumped into a CHS guy n stepped onto some NY person's shoe. If I caused any other injuries, I dont noe about them.

When I reached the bus stop where I could alight, I got off thankfully.

Waited for 186 to come then boarded. Was much less crowded, so I got a seat all to myself. Managed to get home safely.

2004-05-24T20:53:00.000+08:00

It so happened that jus half an hour ago, my father, who is watching his weight (but not his diet), weighed himself on the weighing machine jus now. Jus for fun, I stepped on after he was done and…

*looks at weighing scale*

*clutches at heart*

*feels a little giddy*

*steps on again to make sure*

*hesitates a while before glancing at the scale*

*gets a bad shock*

*sits down looking dazed*

omg… I gained 5 kg in the past 6 months. Omg… I mean, I gained like, 1.5 kg from P4 to P6? Then now I suddenly gain 5 kg in 6 months? Gosh…

Well nvm, that’s not important. After all, Im still underweight, so I don’t hav to worry bout gaining weight.

Gotta go do chi calligraphy now. Don’t noe how to do, but I’ll try anyway.

2004-05-23T22:18:00.000+08:00

The Big Walk today was more like a Big Squeeze. There were so many ppl that I couldnt even really control where I wanted to walk, cos I was being jostled by the crowd. The only plus point bout that is that my family n I couldnt get lost.

Got this McDonald's brochure that said walking burns calories, evn though I probably gained more than I burned by eating that large chicken cutlet that I ate after the walk.

Went home, bathed, then fell asleep. Was shaken up by my mother at 2.35 cos I had to go for guitar class. Changed in record time n jus managed to reach Yamaha (Clementi) in time.

Fees will be raised from $68.25 to $73.50 per term starting from next term cos we progressed to the next textbook.

Then went home. Ate dinner while watching TV.

And not 20 min ago, I received a phone call from my I/C telling me to wear no 4 to sch tml to collect donations. Frantically preparing my uniform now.

Hope I survive tml. Gonna hav to lug my uniform, boots n Jap stuff around. Not sth I'm looking forward too. Haiz... those that see me in my No 4, pls dont laugh, its uncomfortable enough as it is.

2004-05-22T21:46:00.000+08:00

Was at Guan Yu's house the whole afternoon doing our su yuan poster.

Ate lunch before we started work. It's amazing how much he eats considering his size. Anyway, I ate the same amount as him, so I was feling quite full after lunch.

Worked for 3 hrs straight then ate tea break. Ate a lot (again) n felt really full. Then worked for 2 more hrs n went home.

I thought I would eat less for dinner, but since I got home late n it's a "family tradition" for the last person to eat to finish all the leftovers, I ended up forcing all the remaining food down my throat. Bleah.

Im feeling really full now, kinda like a stuffed pig.

Oh yah. Saw Guan Yu's sis for the first time today. I must say, Edward's fear of her is not exactly unfounded (even though he has never met her before). She really is kinda fierce.

Heard Guan Yu's mom scolding his sis. She said his sis was a tomboy or sth cos she insisted on wearing jeans instead of a skirt. lol... She also mentioned that normal girls only wear skirts n not jeans. haha...

Yah. Thats bout it.

2004-05-22T09:41:00.000+08:00

Ok. I've cooled down. Didnt get to play games yesterday during NCC cos my I/C didnt inform me to bring my No 4. Damn it. After 6 months of gruelling training, we finally have a "games session". N I didnt get to play.

Well anyway, I'll jus describe the games.

Feebo :
The cadets will be split into 2 teams. One will have Mark 4 Rifles n the other will hav M16 rifles. The objective of the game is either to kill all of the other teams members or to find the harversack hidden within the sch compound. To kill somebody, you hav to shout his name then shout "Bang". Shooting range set to 50 metres.

Haiz. Didnt hav No 4 so couldnt play. I can understand why. Imagine somebody in your schoold uniform running around your sch shouting. U're likely to get a heart-atack or sth.

Lizard :
The cadets will be split into two teams, even though 1 on 1 is possible. They will get down on their hands and feet (pumping position) n crawl around. If u manage to pull somebody else's hand n make him fall (knee / stomach / chest touch floor) then he's out of the game.

Heard a senior broke his arm before. Anyway, they didnt let me play cos without No 4 (long sleeves) I might get injured if I fall.

Game ended with the 7 NCOs against 18 cadets. Soon, there were 3 NCOs n only 1 Sec 1 left. He was crawling frantically away, but he wasnt fast enuff. 2 NCOs caught up with him n pulled one hand each. Naturally, he ended up on his face. Poor boy.

After that was soccer, which I could play cos I had my PE attire cos there was PE on Fri. But I had such a terrible headache that I couldnt even stop the ball. argh. Yesterday was such a bad day.

Came home, bathed, ate dinner n went to sleep.

Woke up this morning feeling much better. Completed all my homework (excluding projects) already. Still cant figure out how to put applications in a webpage. Jian Le, Jeremy can help?

Ok. Hope Jeremy logs on before I leave for Guan Yu's house in 1 hr. Need to discuss Chi Ace with him cos Cao wants it by Mon. Argh.

2004-05-20T21:52:00.000+08:00

Today was pretty OK. Gobbled down my lunch during the 10 min break cos I didnt want to get a stitch during the soccer match which was only 20 min after the lunch break.

Then... we got there a little early, so did warm-ups n such. At 2.00 (when it was supposed to start) only like, 4 players from the other team were there. And the referee wasn't even there.

So we waited...

And waited...

And waited, waited...

And waited.

But after 2 hrs, 2 FUCKING HOURS AND THE STUPID REFEREE STILL WASNT THERE.

STUPID 1K, STUPID REFEREE, STUPID ORGANIZER

WASTED TWO PRECIOUS HOURS OF MY TIME.

GODDAMIT

2004-05-19T22:48:00.000+08:00

Argh. What a traumatizing day for me.

First, Edward told Jeremy that I had a 4-pac. Then Jeremy told Charlton n Samuel Lee. Then Samuel Lee broadcasted it to the whole class. Upon hearing it, Ben n Charlton tried to remove my shirt. Yipes. When Jon Lee saw what they were doing, he joined in the fun by raping me. Well, sort of…

And all the while Jeremy was standing at one side laughing his head off. Gah.

After that, it became an obsession for them to poke me. Ouch. Poor me ended up sitting with my hands folded across my stomach.

Then at MOELC my class was split into a few grps. I joined Charlton, Jon Lee n Pigsie’s class. Yay! The period after recess was held at the library. Did some Jap revision online. So boring. I think I’d rather hav the remedial classes.

After we were dismissed, I happened to be walking down the steps outside the library with Jon Lee, Charlton n Pigsie. And Jon Lee was announcing at the top of his voice, “Jia Jun has abs”. Argh. So embarrassing. Then to make it even better, Abby was walking in front of us, n Charlton was saying’ “Jia Jun, go down n join her lah. We won’t deprive you of such a good opportunity to meet her” or sth like that. Grrr… that idiotic idea that I like her is COMPLETELY based on the fact that I happen to b in her Jap class. Stupid, rite?

Jon Lee, if I find out who Li Ann (probably wrong spelling) is, u r so dead.
Charlton, if I find out who Naomi / Omi is u r so dead.

Argh. That’s all I hav to say. Argh (again).

2004-05-18T20:45:00.000+08:00

Wah... phew. I thought I got the whole of section B wrong for geog test. Cos all the questions were linked to each other, n I thought the answer to the first question was divergent instead of convergent cos almost everybody put divergent. But it turned out to b convergent. *beams at all* Got 23, which is a deprovement from last term by 1 mark, but at least I beat Jeremy n Pigsie. *beams again*

Walked around the school waiting for Edward to do his 1.5 hrs of weights so that I could go to his house to do the ACE bilingual proj. Laughed at Ben cos almost all the NYPS P5s were taller than him. haha.

After that Edward's chaffeur picked us up.

Worked for 2hrs straight doing the English n Chinese versions of the powerpoint presentations. Edward was taking pics of his grandpa n trying transfer the pics to his com, but it didnt work. He helped with the powerpoint too.

Then went to the table tennis room to play table tennis. Thrashed Edward in all 7 matches (of 11 games each). In the first game, he was jus standing there n I suddenly served very fast (as I normally do). So he was was like "huh?" n the ball went sailing past him. But he improved a lot by the time we reached the last match.

Then we did a little PT. pumping, sit-ups, krunches, leg lifts etc.
Now Im trying to think of what to do for the com studies proj that Im doing with Jeremy...

2004-05-17T21:06:00.000+08:00

First period of the day was music, which wasnt very interesting as usual cos we're learning history of music. Never mind, it’s the second last lesson of History of music, so got guitar to look forward to in term 3. Anyway, the lesson ended with Mr Goh teaching us how to dance the Waltz. It was very gay cos we had to put one hand on the other guy’s shoulder / around his waist n hold his hand with the other hand. Me n En Yi ended up doing it without any physical contact. But he kept forgetting to step back, so I stepped on his foot lots of times.

After that was Geog. Didn’t get back our test papers today, which is a relief for me.

Then recess, but I went to the Space to help out with the preparations for the Consortium assembly, so I didn’t have any recess.

Basically, we arranged the chairs n set up the com. Thanx to Mr Lee who helped us make the audio system work.

Started off by singing the sch song n a community sing (Lets take a little trip around Singapore Town). Then there was a performance by Pigsie n Phang. They sang 2 “friendship songs”. It was pretty obvious that Phang didn’t noe the lyrics, cos he was jus opening n closing his mouth without singing. But it took courage to stand in front of the consortium, so a round of applause for pigsie n Phang *clap clap clap*

After that was an origami performance by Jian Le. This was in accordance with the “Share Your Craft” programme which was jointly organised by me, leefy n Jeremy. He folded stuff like page corners, photo frames n Lazy Susans. The performance was a great success n greatly praised by all the teachers. In fact, it was so popular that Jian Le was asked to fold Lazy Susans for all the teachers present. Haha… poor JL.

Then we had a panel discussion about some discipline issues.

Finally, there was PCME. Bad news is, leefy announced that the re-voting for CMC will be postphoned to next wk. Oh yah, he also asked Slacker Chia n Jon Lee to prepare an evaluation form for the class to evaluate the performance of the current CMC. Bad idea man.

First, Jon Lee n Slacker Chia do not get along with each other at all.
Second, Slacker Chia will not fail to live up to his name. There is a high possibility that he will jus let Jon Lee to do the whole thing, then get Jon Lee to email him the soft copy so that he can add his name n pass it up.

Haiz… then had our 10 min break followed by Chi n Maths, which passed quite normally.

OK. Went to MOELC like I always do on Mon (der…). Those Tao Nan ppl ah… *shakes head in wonder at their naivety* U see, Zheng Ning asked be to pass 2 CDs to her cousin, so I said OK. Then Charlton, Jon Lee n Ben started making up stories bout me. Grrr…

Later, some of the J1K ppl came over to join our Jap class. Pao Pao, one of my fellow NCC cadets, was sitting by himself at the back. Our sensei told him to move up front n sit in the only available sti, which was beside abby.

He looked absolutely horrified at the idea. Then throughout the lesson, he kept making excuses to go back to his seat to retrieve stuff like his eraser n such. When we had to work in pairs to practise our "shopping dialogue", they finished in record time, after which he scrambled back to his seat, n had to b forced to seat beside abby by our sensei. (Abby, what did u do to him?)

The way he behaved, well, you might hav thought he was sitting beside a tiger, albeit one who studies Jap. Actually, I cant say theres much difference between abby n a tiger, considering how ferocious she is (I remember the donation card incident), so I suppose Pao Pao's behavious can be excused... lol...

All in all a very entertaining Jap lesson.

2004-05-16T15:17:00.000+08:00

Went to the Heats for the Guitar Festival 2004 today. Arrived 45 min early, so I resorted to reading a novel by David Gammel, the master of Heroic fantasies.

Then went into the auditorium at around 9.45. It started with the ensemble category. First group sucked like hell, but the following ones were OK.

There was this trio, which was actually quite gd... ok, very gd. Except for the fact that their lead guitarist sort-of freaked out and didnt play. The other two didnt though, and the result was kinda funny. Imagine say... SHE going up on stage, then the band starts to play, and selena opens her mouth to sing, but she suddenly lost her voice, and the audience r left listening to the band play without any singing. But fortunately, the lead guitarist recovered halfway and the rest of the piece was quite gd.

VJC sent in 2 grps, with 10 in each grp. Didnt see any HCJC ppl though... argh... top JC leh, never send anyone to participate in such a prestigous competition, so diu lian.

Oh yah, and I couldnt really concentrate during the perfomance cos these 4 irritating girls a few seats to my left kept whispering and giggling. Grrr... whats so funny bout the heats? Dunno how to appreciate pro guitar music... *shakes head in disgust*

Well, all in all a very satisfying experience nevertheless.

2004-05-15T09:08:00.000+08:00

Just had breakfast. I'm in a hell of a bad mood, so watch out.

It happened when I asked politely why my father bought cold soya bean milk instead of the hot one that he usually buys. He jus blew up and shouted at me. Said "dont complain" or sth like that.

Wah lao. I was jus asking for goodness sake. goddammit. Now my morning is ruined by my bad mood. Still seething...

2004-05-14T22:29:00.000+08:00

Hmmm... JAF 1 today was super boring. Spent the first 2 hrs learning how to use the microscope n trying to look at different specimens with it. Lame... like we dont already noe how.

Then during the first break, leefy came in. He quite liked the idea of pigsie singing for consortiuma asssembly next Mon. Said he wanted pigsie to sing with no accompanyment from any instrument, but pigsie flatly refused, so looks like my guitar will be taking its first trip to CHS next Mon.

After sch there was NCC. Although the sec 4s r at camp, the sec 2s decided that they would hav an "informal training". It was cao slack. Mostly they talked bout the camp that is in June and taught us the "rituals" of a master parade. Then we did a little pumping (25) before going to play soccer.

Hmmm... almost forgot that I was supposed to meet my mother n brother at the library. Fortunately, I remembered while waiting for a 186 to come.

Had char kway teao at the hawker centre for dinner. Queued for half an hour jus to get it. argh.

Then went home. Realised that Im faced with a crazy wkend. I hav to

1. Finish billingual proj with Guan
2. Do some survey thing for leefy
3. practice until I can play re dai yu lin on Mon.
4. Complete my personal portfolio (which is half done, thank goodness)

Hmmm... dunno if I still got time to go watch the heats for the Singapore Guitar Festival 2004 on Sun. Mebbe not... haiz...

Well anyway, on to some lighter topics. According to the typelogic quiz, I am Jeremy's companion and find Kellie a novelty. Oh yah, and Abigail is my dull and boring teacher. lol...

Haiz, gotta go face reality now, so gd luck to me...

2004-05-13T16:38:00.000+08:00

Before I start today's entry, I will provide a report on Samuel Chia, better known as Slacker Chia's activities in the past few days. It would be obvious, even to the most casual observer, how this particular individual keeps stalking Jeremy. He has also been seen making eyes at Jeremy. Besides being gay, this person is also a slacker, and evidence of this can be found in some of my earlier entries as well as Jeremy's blog.

So anyway, Photonics (including Holography) today. Rox man.

Went to the photonics LRC. Listened to bout 1 hr of theory regarding light, then went for break. After that, we listened to more theory, but this time about holography.

Finally, it was the practical.

*Sorry pigsie for indirectly getting you get scolded* For those that dont noe : we were doing the experiment in a completely dark rm, n most of the time was waiting time, so it was very boring. Jus for fun, I stood on my hands. Pigsie saw n tried to follow, n for some reason he took off his shoes. The instructor saw, n confiscated his shoes before giving him a scolding or sth.

Well anyway, we were supposed to make a hologram on a piece of emulated glass, but my group's product turned out to be a dismal failure. The image was barely visible.

After the practical, we looked at some gd samples and did two worksheets before going for another break.

Finally, the workshop ended with us watching some laser shows done by CHS students n some other companies.

After sch, we (1O CMC + 1M n N chairman n monitor) went to see Ms Ong at her table, but she wasnt there yet. So leefy pulled the 1O CMC outside to talk to us. He said that he would be implementing a survey next week to get the class's feedback on the perfomance of the CMC members, then get them to vote on whether each member should stay or be sacked. Of course, he was looking pointedly at Samuel, ho seemed not to hav noticeed.

Then Ms Ong came n we went to see her. Actually, she jus wanted to see us about the format of next week's Consortium Assembly. Unfortunately, my class is organizing, n we hav to prepare the proposal for the agenda by TOMORROW! ARGH! Samuel is SUPPOSED to b in charge of that, but I hav this feeling that Jon Lee, Howie n will be doing all the work.

Oh, n theres supposed to be a perfomance before the panel discussion for the assembly. Jerome jus had to tell Ms Ong that I could play the guitar. Very unfortunately, she seemed to like the idea of me performing. ARGH! another worry to add to my ever-growing list...

Oh, n I jus took a personality test. According to the results, I'm supposed to be Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking n Judging. Now jus some quotes from the report :

"can be quite ruthless in implementing effective ideas, seldom counting personal cost in terms of time and energy"
"as INTJs can be unsparing of both themselves and the others on the project"
So those working with me had better watch out... I can put u through hell...

"Anyone considered to be "slacking," including superiors, will lose their respect -- and will generally be made aware of this"Very relevant in the case of Slacker Chia...

And the most apalling of all...
"Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles heel. While they are capable of caring deeply for others (usually a select few), and are willing to spend a great deal of time and effort on a relationship, the knowledge and self-confidence that make them so successful in other areas can suddenly abandon or mislead them in interpersonal situations.

This happens in part because many INTJs do not readily grasp the social rituals; for instance, they tend to have little patience and less understanding of such things as small talk and flirtation (which most types consider half the fun of a relationship). To complicate matters, INTJs are usually extremely private people, and can often be naturally impassive as well, which makes them easy to misread and misunderstand. Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that INTJs really want people to make sense. :-) This sometimes results in a peculiar naivete', paralleling that of many Fs -- only instead of expecting inexhaustible affection and empathy from a romantic relationship, the INTJ will expect inexhaustible reasonability and directness. "

2004-05-12T16:37:00.000+08:00

Thus ends the third day of our HC Sabbaticals.

Went to the Environmental Science LRC today. The teacher looked very fierce, but she turned out to be ok. taught us how to make soap, but our soap was very oily, jus like the oil we used to make it. n it was super-alkaline. It had a pH of bout 12-13, which is corrosive n really bad for ur skin.

Then did TLC, which is Thin Layer Chromatography. It was actually normal paper chromatography with the exception that we used plastic coated with silica to replace the paper. (The silica looks like correction tape)

Finished up the ws, checked answers, then went home. Went to the library on my way home to borrow two novels. ended up walking the 1.5 km back to my house cos I was very restless n didnt feel like waiting for a bus.

2004-05-11T16:31:00.000+08:00

Day two of sabbaticals.

Had today's session at the bio-LRC. Leefy n Mr. Suresh taught us. Much more interesting than yesterday. Did some practicals... Listened to a bit of lessons... OK, thats crap.

Well anyway, there was one experiment where we had to measure the effects of different substances on the heartbeat of a Daphnia. Leefy put a small plastic container containing water and daphnia on the table, and we were supposed to use a dropper to take one daphnia and put it on a slide. Then cover it with a cover slip n blablabla...

When my grp (Me, Pigsie, Eddy n Luey Chun) kept missing the daphnia when we tried to suck them up with the dropper, cos they were sooo small that they looked like a dot in the water.

When we finally did manage to get one, it turned out that we had accidently squashed it under the cover slip. :'(

So 1 hr and many tries later, we managed to get a slide with TWO daphnia inside!

Counted the heartbeat, which turned out to be exactly 300 per min. Then we added aspirin, and it fell to around 110. Leefy said that was correct :P

We also did DNA extraction (again), exploring the amazing effects of enzymes, and a tour of the bio-LRC, during which leefy told me, Jeremy n Pisie to act like we didn't noe anything, so we went "wow" at every single thing. lolz...

After the thing ended, we were each given a file sponsered by some company. It was quite nice...

Today we were dismissed on time, so I could go home at around 1.40 :P Had lunch at sch, then took a bus home as usual.

2004-05-10T21:45:00.000+08:00

Bored like hell, so posting again today.

Accidentally fell asleep just now. Went to my bed to do sit-ups, but when I lay down, it was sooo comfy that I jus wanted to lie there... n the next thing I knew, I was being shaken up by my mother.

Oh, n I hav been taking quizilla quizes to ease my boredom. The results are at the bottom of this blog.

Heard from Pigsie that Jerome has a heart of stone. lol...

Heard 6L wants a class gathering. Wonder if they noe how hard it is to organise one. Unless, of course, they just arrange to turn up at somebody's house and crap around. But then they would hav to find somebody with a BIG house.

haiz... bored...

2004-05-10T16:28:00.000+08:00

Wow, blogspot has a new layout. Much brighter now. My tagboard has a prob. I think edward's one too. Lots of the recent posts were deleted. Dunno y.

Well anyway, first day of sabbaticals today. We were split into 5 grps according to classes. My grp was assigned to go for JAF session 2 today. Did some experiments, like extracting DNA n taking pH readings with the probe.

Edward kept SMSing abigail under the desk. Didn't really help me n Wee Keat during the exeriments. It was really distracting too cos he took his hp out of his pocket every 5 mins or so to check for msgs.

Apparently, her friend Naomi was there too. She denied being Charlton's girlfriend and stated her reason as "I do not date short guys". lol...

Oh, n Edward was commenting bout one of the instructors. He kept saying she must hav gone for transplants cos she had unnaturally large um... lets see... how should I put it. Aha! The word for it is assets.

So cleaned up after it ended n went home.

2004-05-09T21:57:00.001+08:00

Yawn... What a slack weekend for me.

Did hist corrections in the morning. Then put the buttons on my uniform.

Then played table tennis on this really small makeshift table with my brother. He takes it as his CCA, but I still thrashed him anyway. *ego*

Then my father brought my brother to his Weiqi class n my mother went shopping.

Listened to FM 91.3 while doing push-ups. Read somewhere that exercising while listening to music is beneficial to ur health. Dunno if it's true, but I like the songs they (91.3) play anyway. Ended up doing bout 10 sets of 15. Was really hungry after that, but couldn't find any food in the house. Poor me...

Had lunch when my parents n brother came back, which was bout 2 pm. Gobbled down my food, changed, and left the house at 2.30 pm for my guitar class. Finished the song that we did last wk. Was more used to the pull-offs and hammers this time, so I did ok.

Theres the heats for Singapore Guitar festival next Sunday. I'm gonna go watch. My instructor said that he forgot to tell us (me n the other 2 ppl in my class) to participate. Don't really care, we'll never b able to get into the finals anyway. Oh yah, the top few participants get a Hand-made Guitar.

Wow...

That rox man. According to our instructor, the hand-made guitar sounds so nice that if we had one, we would never want to play a factory-made one again. But its damn ex, bout $5000 each, plus minus 1-2 thousand for diff models and brands.

Then went home (der...) n thrashed my brother in table tennis again. Bathed, had dinner (spaghetti n yoghurt), then blogged. My tagboard still has that "temporary error". haiz.

Oh. I forgot to mention. On the bus back from CHS yesterday, the seat in front of me had the following line :

"too many rules
fuck those rules"

For once, a meaningful msg in an act of vandalism.

Yup, thats it for now.

2004-05-09T21:57:00.000+08:00

Yawn... What a slack weekend for me.

Did hist corrections in the morning. Then put the buttons on my uniform.

Then played table tennis on this really small makeshift table with my brother. He takes it as his CCA, but I still thrashed him anyway. *ego*

Then my father brought my brother to his Weiqi class n my mother went shopping.

Listened to FM 91.3 while doing push-ups. Read somewhere that exercising while listening to music is beneficial to ur health. Dunno if it's true, but I like the songs they (91.3) play anyway. Ended up doing bout 10 sets of 15. Was really hungry after that, but couldn't find any food in the house. Poor me...

Had lunch when my parents n brother came back, which was bout 2 pm. Gobbled down my food, changed, and left the house at 2.30 pm for my guitar class. Finished the song that we did last wk. Was more used to the pull-offs and hammers this time, so I did ok.

Theres the heats for Singapore Guitar festival next Sunday. I'm gonna go watch. My instructor said that he forgot to tell us (me n the other 2 ppl in my class) to participate. Don't really care, we'll never b able to get into the finals anyway. Oh yah, the top few participants get a Hand-made Guitar.

Wow...

That rox man. According to our instructor, the hand-made guitar sounds so nice that if we had one, we would never want to play a factory-made one again. But its damn ex, bout $5000 each, plus minus 1-2 thousand for diff models and brands.

Then went home (der...) n thrashed my brother in table tennis again. Bathed, had dinner (spaghetti n yoghurt), then blogged. My tagboard still has that "temporary error". haiz.

Well, sabbaticals next week. Yay! HRP rulez. Thats it for now.

2004-05-08T23:18:00.000+08:00

Didn’t blog yesterday cos my brother was hogging the com playing Neopets. Then my Dad wanted to burn a CD this afternoon, so I didn’t blog. Finally hav time now.

Yesterday, I suffered from extreme mood swings, which are extremely detrimental to my emotional well-being. First, we got back our hist paper, in which I deproved by 9 marks. Was very, very depressed about that. Then we got back our Maths paper, in which I improved by 8 marks. My mood lightened considerably after that.

Well anyway, I shall move away from such depressing topics (studies) and move on to some more interesting topics. Here are some interesting pieces of info that Ms Ong told us :

1. Most of the teachers lost their virginity in JC.
2. The teachers hav to wear a very ugly yellow T-shirt for CSM, so shes gonna hav a change of clothes to look sluty for her date later.
3. Mr Warren Liew is sexually insecure in the sense that he likes to show of his sexual exploits, such as boasting who he slept with.

Well anyway, there was NCC after school. No drills. Instead, we did this 7 km run. (didn’t scare any P1s cos it was at Namly, which is really deserted) 7 might seem like a small number, but it’s actually like, 18 rounds of the track? And you have to take into account the 100+ calf exercises I did the day before.

Then there was one part where we had to run up a very steep and bumpy hill. Went up in twos, and I went up last. Then the guy in front of me had a 50m head start, but staff told me to try to catch up with him, so I forced my already aching legs to run… and I finished the same time as that guy.

So anyway, there was this fat boy who almost collapsed, but he kept walking, and did manage to complete the run although we had to jog on the spot a lot of times to wait for him to catch up.

After the run, my poor calves were aching like crazy. We were given a 10 min break, which I used to drain my water bottle and then lie flat on the floor of the EP3 blk.

We played soccer after that. I played my most familiar position (defender). Irritated the scorers from the other team by “sticking” to them when they approached the goal and causing them to miss a couple of shots.

There was a time when one of my fellow defenders got the ball, and he executed a beautiful 90 degree left turn to face me, and he rammed the ball…

It was a great shot…
A hard shot…
An accurate shot…

So accurate in fact, that it hit my, um, well… whatever. Let it suffice for me to say that it hit an extremely vulnerable part of my anatomy. Was rolling on the floor for 10 mins after that.

Then went home…
Today, there was CSM with NYGH and HCJC in the morning. We were told to go at 7.20, but I thought I would go a little early just in case, so I reached sch at 7.00. The stupid sports meet started at 8+. It was soooooooooooooooooo boring.

The only consolation was that there was free milo for all.

Oh, and btw, NYGH’s cheering sux.

And some person, whose seven-lettered name starts with ‘J’, stole my hp and SMSed Kellie saying “I luv u” Grrr… J***** u’d better watch out.

Went home after that. Mainly slacked around and massaged my aching calves. Played a little guitar. Ate some aloe vera my mother cooked.

Then in the evening, I went out with my family for dinner. After dinner, we went shopping for a new bed quilt for my parents and a walking stick for my grandma.

Arrived home at around 10.30. So here I am blogging.

Oh yah, forgot to mention. I met Mr Lee at the bus-stop. He asked me bout some class issues, but my bus came n I went off.

Ok, that’s it for now.

2004-05-06T22:34:00.000+08:00

YES! Had our last exam of the term today, namely maths.

Polished my boots for almost 1 hr jus now. One is quite shiny, but the other one isn’t. Think I forgot to spread the polish evenly before starting the brushing. Well, nvm bout that. NCOs usually check for sleeves, socks, loose threads, garters, beret and buttons.

And our bacteria’s growing fine. Took some pics of the petri dishes with Jeremy’s digi cam during recess today. Turned out pretty ok. One of the petri dishes had two different types of bacteria though. Mebbe we didn’t ethanol the leaf properly and there was still some surface bacteria left. Or mebbe that particular leaf was infected with two diseases. Who noes?

Then that evil Jeremy ah… *haiz*… No wonder wasn’t able to concentrate during our msn discussion yesterday. He was actually on the phone with Jose’s RGPS girlfriend. Grrr…

And Edward said that Abby said that I had a “smug look on my face” after the Jap Mid Year. What rubbish. More like a tired look, or a resigned look, or a worried look, or a “dead” look. The last one seems to be a very common one these days. Even Edward says I look like a zombie… Well… *shrugs*

2004-05-05T21:05:00.000+08:00

Well, Jap Mid-Year today. Dun really ha anything to say about it, so… *shrugs* Saw some of my NYPS friends, talked a little, whatever.

Played a little table tennis with howie during recess. Took advantage of his short arms (no insult here) by hitting the ball to the opposite sides of the table. Lol, made him run left and right, left and right, left and right…

And now my head is buzzing with all the jumbled up info in our 5 ppl lit convo.

Still haven't done maths filing yet. bleah

2004-05-03T21:16:00.000+08:00

Couldn't blog yesterday cos I got this really mind-cracking, skull-numbing headache. ARGH!

Better now. This morning's music lesson was hilarious. Learnt bout some interesting instruments like the bladder pipe, then it ended with us dancing. lol...

Oh yah, music reminds me of yesterday's guitar lesson. Those glissandos and pull-offs almost took the skin off my fingers.

Ok, back to today. Assembly was boring as usual, chi too, maths n geog were ok.

And I blew the word limit for Jap compo. I mean, 200 words is ridiculous. HOw can u expect us to compress all the stuff bout our sch into 200 words? Absolutely ridiculous.

Oh well, theres letter writing for Eng hw, and its bout IRS (muhahahaha) might do it later or tml, depending on whether I manage to finish revising for Geog n draw that Art thing. I'm so dead, forgetting about it till now. Gd thing Samuel Lee reminded me.

Better go do it now...

2004-05-02T09:19:00.000+08:00

Finished most of my homework yesterday afternoon. Managed to complete my Lit essay amidst the *boing boing* sounds of my brother playing Neopets. Gah, what a lame game.

Then at night, watched Passion of Christ (my mom borrowed the VCD from her friend) It actually played for 2 hrs... omg, I can summarise it in like, a 100 words.

Oh well, theres still Jap Mid-Year to revise for. sayounara

2004-04-30T22:34:00.000+08:00

Haven't had time to blog in the past 3 days, what with IRS and stuff.

That Samuel Chia ah... haiz... really obsessed with Jeremy. Visit his (Jeremy's) blog for details.

Then that Jose ah... never even inform anybody jiu say he has quitted NCC. Staff said "I will talk to him". Well, then he also go crap that he already joined EDS, when he hasn't even auditioned for it.

So back to Samuel Chia. He's a loser, a slacker, and a (the contents of this sentence have been censored due to the prescence of vulgarities not suitable for you young readers out there).

Well anyway, stayed back to do IRS yesterday. YQ n Jeremy had some Maths hingy, so they had to go at 4.30. I stayed another 45 min or so to finish grinding the leaves and put them into eppandol tubes.

Did IRS again today, but had to leave early for NCC. SUPRISINGLY, Samuel Chia came. I have a feeling that it's bcos he found out bout our new, logbook system. He was like, wowing at everything Jeremy did. *bleah* so gay... Then he was like "Jeremy, you will have to teach me all the things that you learned yesterday," then, "Jia Jun you will have to teach me all the things that you learned yesterday,". Wah lao, if I didn't hav my level of self-control, I would hav given him a dressing down and more. f him.

Todays NCC wasn't too bad. Played soccer for the 2nd time this yr. There was his guy called Derrick or sth, was a damn gd player, but a little blur. He got the ball, and he was facing the goal but he couldn't seem to find the goal, and turned 360 degrees before he noticed it. Then he shot the ball in. lol

After training, I gobbled down so much water that the water cooler water wasn't cold any more, then took 154 to my grandma's house.

Only jus got back from there. Ate 3 plates of spaghetti + esert + fruits. Feel really stuffed. Gotta go do my Jap compo. Promised myself that I would finish at least another paragraph before going to sleep.

2004-04-27T20:46:00.000+08:00

Had Australian SCience Competition after sch today. Wans't too hard...

Then went to Bio-LRC to prepare the stuff that need to be auto-claved tml. As usual, Samuel Chia the Slacker didn't come. Jerome pretended to be Samuel so that he could come in and see what we were doing.

Well, IRS prelim tml. Must prepare well for it.

2004-04-26T21:56:00.000+08:00

Haha.

Heard lots of rumours about ben xie, charlton and that omi person flying about. Ben said that she's Charlton's girlfriend and vice versa. Ki En sort of hinted that shes a... um... *hesitates* two timer.

Ok, ppl like Edward who do not wish to see my class chairman being insulted, pls do not read on.

Well anyway, I shall now devote some of my time to our beloved chairman. After his humble act of announcing to the whole class via email that he stayed back to help clean the classroom, he mentioned to the same group of people that he intended to draft up the agenda for the next CMC meeting on the pretext that only the knowledgeable he, and not the monitor, knew what needed to be discussed. After which he put up a great act of consoling the monitor on his lost of that particular task. He also reiterated several times that several issues which had to be discussed by the CMC had not been done so, but neglected to bring up the fact that he, as the chairman, carried the responsibility of organizing the CMC.

Class matters aside, I would also like to bring up the point that despite saying that Saturday afternoon would be the best time for him to go on our trip to MacRitchie Reservoir, he failed to turn up.

Another interesting incident was when he promised to do a certain portion of our group's Maths Statistics Module written report. Although he confirmed that he would send it to Jeremy by 10.30 pm, it turned out that this was nothing but an empty promise. I contacted him by means of the fantastic invention known as the telephone at 10 pm, only to have his mother tell me that he had retired (to bed).

YET he appears to take great care to improve his own academic results. Apart from borrowing model essays (such as pigsie's and/or Jeremy's), he also consults geniuses in the class (such as pigsie and Jeremy) regularly regarding academic matters.

This appears to be in sharp contrast with the attitude brought up in the front half of this article. We can only wonder why...

2004-04-25T10:57:00.000+08:00

Went to MacRitchie yesterday with YQ , Jeremy and his parents. Picked lots of diseased leaves for IRS. Suprisingly, it took quite a short time.

Then went home to slack. Well, not really... OK, actually I did. Just wasn't in the mood to study. Did a little exercise to make up for the cancelled NCC training.

Did part of a sci ws at nite then watched the news. Here's an interesting piece of info :

A scientist bred lots of male mosquitoes and released them ino the open. If any females mate with these GM males, they would not be able to reproduce! And since mosquitoes only mate once in their lifetime, that would decrease the no. of mosquitoes. Cool rite?

Well anyway, studied for sci this morning. Found 2 contradictions in the notes. Will stop blogging now to consult leefy.

Oh yah, I also cut my hair this morning.

2004-04-24T10:19:00.000+08:00

Com hanged yesterday nite, so I rebooted it. And all was fine until the whole screen was wiped clean, leaving a blank, green screen facing me. haiz...

Well anyway, lots of things happened yesterday. Went for a dental check-up. The dentist gave me a referral letter to some place to fit braces. He said it was necessary bcos:

1. My teeth were 'overcrowded' in such a way that if I bit down too hard, they would drop out.
2. It's very hard to brush my teeth when they r not aligned

lolz...

Had NCC after sch as usual. Can change into No.4 much faster now. Half the ppl didn't come cos they had to go for ushering rehearsal for SMOPS. Our drills suked at first. Dunno y. But later was ok.

My recently recovered shoulder is rather sore now after the NCOs 'knocked us down' for lousy drills.

Well anyway, staff came up with the novel idea of letting us march from multi-story carpark back to EP3 block with the Part Bs and Cs after drills. They were marching real fast and doing some army cheers. Didn't noe the cheers and couldnt really march that fast, so I faltered a few times. Must say, it was very stressful.

Had a company PT later. This was a really 'creative' idea of our CLTs. It wasn't very tough though. Did 20 pumping, then 30 sit-ups, then 20 (counts of 8) jumping jacks. Then half push-ups.

haha. don't be misled by the name. first, go to pumping position. Then cross one leg over the other. Then go down until your chest almost touches the ground. Then hold for a count of 15. Then come up. Thats one. Ok. So we did 10.

After that was a short (2km) jog. Oh yah, and we were doing more army cheers while running. Went past the bus-stop opposite HCJC. There were a few little girls from RGPS walking to the bus-stop. Think they were probably P1 since they r like, half my height.

Anyway, they looked terrified of us. lol... Mebbe we were cheering a little loudly.

The jog ended with a 200m sprint.

2004-04-22T21:30:00.000+08:00

Yay! My shoulder is well on the way to recovery. Can pump bout 10-15 times with only a dull ache in it. Hope it’s ok by tomorrow. Dun want to do leg-lifts again.

And now, that samuel chia deserves a special mention in this blog. He has NOT done anything yet for our Maths Statistics Module report. I will find a day to kill him, but not yet. Mebbe after we hav found a new chairman.

Extra Eng lessons will start next week. Every Mon after sch. Will be rushing to Jap after it.

2004-04-21T22:44:00.000+08:00

"Politics is not a career. It is about serving the people. Everyday when I enter my office, I remind myself that this is not my office. So if one day, PM Goh gives me a call, I can just leave and close the door without any diffficulty.

Politics is about serving the people. You take on the post at the right time, you give it up at the right time. That is how it should be." - Dr. Bala

That was a short excerpt from tonight's iContact.

Now lets backtrack a little...

7.30 am in the morning

(Mr Lee stomps into the classroom)

"Benjamin, you are one of the laziest in the whole cohort."
"Edward, your academic is horrible."
"Han Chang, you are also one of those that doesn't hand up work on time."
etc.

Later during English lesson

Mr Cheng was scolding Joel like mad. His voice was like, DAMN LOUD man. And he kept asking Joel the same questions cos Joel didn't answer.

"Why didn't you do your composition?"
"Do you know how long it has been due?"
"What punishment do you think you deserve?"
etc.

Anyway, got back Jap CA2 today. Did badly. Then my dad said he would come fetch me after Jap, so I went to the bus-stop to wait. Waited for more than half an hour, so I was kinda impatient.

Well, that's about it. Will go finish my half-completed Maths ws now.

2004-04-20T22:54:00.000+08:00

Yawn...

Feeling real tired these days. Wish the June hols would come quickly. Haiz...

Signed up for HC sabbaticals at com lab just now. Going to go for HRP, which is jointly organised by JAF (whatever that is) and the CHS bio, environmental sci and photonics LRCs. There's supposed to be some holography included. Will cost my parents $35.

What else happened today? Hmmm...

Oh yah. Went to attend the MRP talk by Mr. Warren Liew after school. Don't know if it was much use since the ppt slides have been uploaded on the EMB.

My shoulder still isn't fully recovered yet. Hurts like hell when I do pumping. Have to resort to sit-ups for the time being. I'm starting to wonder whether the zhen gu shui my mom asked me to apply is effective.

Well, thats all. Gotta go do my music ws.

2004-04-18T23:21:00.001+08:00

Haha

There was the NCC Affirmation Ceremony today. The boot polish dried up and dropped off in flakes. Grrr… waste of my precious 1 hour.

It was super boring. Mostly speeches and stuff. There was a short prize giving though, and singing of the NCC song and National Anthem.

For our $10 registration fee, we got a plastic bag containing an NCC watch, 2 pens, and 2 booklets about NCC events and some background info. Oh yah, there was an NCC T-shirt too.

And its so unfair that us boys have to report in No. 4. The girls were in No. 3, which is much more comfortable and cooling. We don’t even have a No. 3 *indignation*

But at least there was air-con in the indoor stadium.

Parents went to fetch me after it finished. Had an egg-tart on the car and some really bitter herbal-tea.

Gonna die tml. Eng test at 3 pm. Should last for bout 45 min or so. Meaning that I shall have to fly to MOELC. Will get the mightly pigsie to teach me.

2004-04-18T23:21:00.000+08:00

2004-04-18T00:13:00.000+08:00

Spent bout 1hr polishing my boots just now. They're very black now but not exactly shiny. U either polish for a few yrs or burn it to make it shiny. Those RGS SLACKERS go burn their boots (n spoil them that way). Not like us.

Did sit-ups on my bed, then fell asleep without meaning to. Must be the stress of the past few days.

But after I woke up, my productivity increased by leaps and bounds, so maybe it wasn't a waste of time after all.

Lets see... beret seasoned... holes made... No. 4 ironed... collar starched... amphlet starched... sleeves folded tightly... boots polished... cap badge pinned on... beret put in left trousers pocket... invitation card brought... pair of green socks n garters ready... location looked up in street directory...

Yup, that should be all. I'm all set for the Affirmation Ceremony tml.

2004-04-16T22:37:00.000+08:00

Wah, finally got time to blog..

Lots of stuff happened this week (like duh...)

Can't be bothered to talk about it.

Ok, there was NCC today. But since I injured my right shoulder last weekend, I couldn't do pumping. Did leg-lift instead. It sux man. Almost died. Drills was OK today. Think our section did quite well.

Had PT with the Part Bs. How evil... They were so gd, or at least some of them. Raced with them. Some were damn slow, but that person running with me was a different case. Wah lao, he was damn pro man. Beat me although he was wearing boots n I was wearing normal shoes.

Oh yah, forgot to mention bout 2.4 today. Got 12.59, which is a C. Sux like hell, I noe, so pls dun tease me bout it.

But the good news is that I got GOLD! Yippee! Can't wait for NCC Affirmation Ceremony this Saturday.

2004-04-12T23:23:00.000+08:00

I'm busy

2004-04-10T19:55:00.000+08:00

Hmmm... helped out at the HSSRP Symposium today. Got some of the participants to sign then went to guard the food. Final task was to eat as much as possible of the the remaining food.

Then went to Jeremy's house to do the Maths Statistics Project :P slacked a little at first, then got serious. YQ n Saamuel Chia worked on the data analysis n Jeremy and I did the website. It looks pretty good now. Then we were testing the auto-refresh in our webbie, and had some time to spare.

So we did a little exercise. I did 3 sit-ups for every push-up that Jeremy did. He did 35, so I had to do 105 sit-ups, lol... Also tried out the calf-training thingy that I learnt from Edward.

Went home for dinner after that. We ordered Japanese pizza cos my mom wasn't at home and my dad couldn't be bothered to cook. Wasn't very nice though...

And talking about Japanese, I haven't studied for Jap CA2 yet. Damn

2004-04-09T15:38:00.000+08:00

The rehearsal for HSSRP ushering took so long that I barely made it to the Esplanade in time. Apparently, I'm the food usher, so that means I'll have to guard the food a a couple of hours before unwrapping them at the right time. What a boring job...

Anyway the perfomance was damn GOOD. The band's pieces were mostly very lifely and kept me on the edge of my seat (physically). Then there was a 20 min break.

String Orchestra was good too. Some of the pieces were very soothing, in fact, so soothing that I almost drifted off. But there were some very lifely ones too.

All points considered, it was a fantastic perfomance. Now I can see y some ppl go to watch these sort of perfomances regularly despite the high price.

Jeremy was dressed in his long sleeved shirt, long pants and black leather shoes again. (same as the LKC drama) lol... but a lot of the adults were dressed like that anyway.

Should be working now, so I'll end off here.

2004-04-07T22:08:00.000+08:00

I'm feeling tired, depressed, restless, lost, confused...

Library book still with Ki En (or however u spell his name). So interesting that he was reading under his table during Jap class. I'll get it back from him tml.

Running short of money. Just paid $2 for Howie's present, and now need to pay another $3 for YQ's. Gosh, my $15/week allowance seems to be getting more and more inadequate. Must discuss this with my parents.

And abigail actually dared to ask me and Jeremy for donations to the Old Rafflesians club or some crap like that. No way, man... donating money to let some old ex-rafflesians enjoy themselves? Not a chance.

Got so many projects to do. Jeremy's working hard on the website for the statistics module, and I feel so guilty that I can't help...

Gotta see Ms. Ong tml for MRP. Very confused bout what to do. And it's due in exactly 1 week's time.

To top that up, the CMC is in a VERY bad state. Never thought that my role as a treasurer would include "interrogating" people in the class. It seems that our class is splitting, falling apart... All the responsibilities, no wonder Mr. Lee didn't want CMC members to become CITs.

Now all the teachers are complaining about our class. Classroom not clean... some disruptive members... not focused... lack team spirit... blablabla

Seem's like all these have resulted in my mood becoming more and more "dead". Have also developed an urge to use vulgarities, but supressing it...

2004-04-06T21:44:00.000+08:00

Well, CMC meeting after school. Jonathan, in his capacity as a monitor, prepared the agenda. Unfortunately, he forgot to bring it, and we had to trouble his mom to e-mail it to his e-mail account. BUT of all days, today just HAD to be the day that the school internet connection had to hang on. So we wasted bout 40 mins trying many of the different comps in the school, but to no avail…

Ended up conducting a short 15-20 min briefing. After which Howard went for international chess, Jia Guang for Chinese Orchestra and Samuel Chia home. I stayed back with Jonathan and David to discuss some problems within the CMC for another 30 mins or so.

Jeremy, if you’re reading this, you happen to be a problem in our class. But we really can’t blame you for being TOO popular that some people like to harass you…

Reached home in the late afternoon and slacked around by practicing guitar and exercising a little before dinner.

Now here I am, blogging and slacking. No, actually I’m trying to download all the Geog ppt slides and print them. Can’t download one of them… Gah.

2004-04-05T20:15:00.001+08:00

Topic for today : Pocket Money among teenagers

Yes, this may sound lame, but there is nothing else worth talking about today, so...

According to the Gen Y section of the Sunday Times yesterday, the average amount of pocket money received by teenagers is $20-30 a week. However, I discovered to my suprise the Xuan Chen (the Dunman High boy siotting next to me in Jap class) receives $40 a week and is currently broke and unable to donate to the Straits Time school pocket money fund.

And that's not the worst of it either. SOMEBODY receives $80 a week and claims that's very little. This particular person only donated $2. Boo Hoo! If I received $80 a week, I could save bout $70 a week...

So I'm appealing to all you rich and affluent ppl out there to do your part for the society. Think of all those poor financially-unpriviledged children in Singapore, and maybe, just maybe, you'll feel like donating some money.

P.S. You might also want to take into consideration that I am hard-pressed to collect another $98 by the end of this month.

2004-04-05T20:15:00.000+08:00

2004-04-04T20:50:00.000+08:00

Just finished watching Robocop 3 on Channel i. The part when Seargent Green and his department dropped their badges and quit was really touching. I mean, if you take it like it's really happening...

Would you give up your job, your financial status, infact, your whole life to fight for what you believe is right? Cos that's just what they did. Even Seargent Green, who after 15 years in the force had a nice pension waiting for him, gave it up. For what? For a group of homeless people who had been unjustly evicted. I wonder if I could do it...

Nothing much happened today. Went for guitar class in the afternoon. That's bout it.

2004-04-03T20:48:00.000+08:00

Left Eddy's house at around 4.15 or so. Walked out to the bus-stop. Saw his father on the way, and he asked if I needed a ride. Didn't want to trouble him, so I said no. Then when I was waiting for the bus, Eddy's sister arrived at the bus-stop. Posting all these crap stuff bcos I feel really wu liao today.

An interesting event I forgot to post just now...

After NCC, we (Part A cadets) were on the second level of the EP3 block changing out of our No. 4s. We were in various degrees of exposure when these three NYGH girls walked up the stairs... Mad scramble for clothes ensued...

Anyway, they entered the St. John's lock room. Duno what they got up to in there, so I won't make guesses...

2004-04-03T15:52:00.000+08:00

Blogging from eddy's house now. Dun want to go home cos I'll just be disturbed by my pesky little brother.

Anyway, there was NCC today.

Some slackers were late, so we only fell in bout 20 mins after the assigned time. Had to pump like siao for it. The NCOs kept saying stuff like "Knees off the ground" and "not everybody is doing, don't count the last five".

Did 3 straight hours of drills. Started marching today, and learnt Keluar Baris, the dismissal drill and revised some old drills. Did all in No. 4, so I was melting... The Keluar Baris suked at first, but then they got us to do it one-by-one to point out our mistakes, and it improved tremendously.

Then took a bus to eddy's house.

2004-04-02T21:00:00.000+08:00

NAPFA was horrible today. I'm totally disappointed in myself. Apart from being really unlucky, as in having to wear a pair of shoes with the sole falling off, I didn't do all that well.

For the standing board jump, there was some powder at around the 220-230 mark. So when I jumped, I landed on the damn thing and slipped...(ended up getting only B) What the hell man... Anyway, lots of other bad things happened, but I'm too depressed to elaborate on them.

For some wierd reason, after the seat-and-reach, the teacher i/c (the gym instructor) asked me what EP3 I was in. I said "Ah, um, xue sheng bing (which is NCC), and he was like, sitting there with this wierd expression on his face. Hmmm... wonder why...

Now to move on to a brighter note...

NCC after school. We were told to report in No. 4, so I went early to prepare. I'll first give you some details about this wonderful uniform... It happens to be completely fire-proof as well as water-proof. It is also a fantastic insulator of heat and is available in sizes which are able to accomodate even the largest sized people.

SO

Joseph attended the briefing on what to do to the No. 4, the one I didn't attend bcos the i/c didn't inform me. HOWEVER, he did not appear to have heard anything at all. So that blur king told me that all we had to do was to sit on the beret.

Fortunately, I found out from some more attentive fellow cadets that there were actually many other things we had to do. But that came a little too late as it was bout 30 mins before training started. Good thing we didn't use the beret today, so I wasn't punished by the NCOs.

Gonna have to iron my uniform in preparation for tomorrow and find out how to polish my boots from my father later.

Oh yah, Ms. Ong told us some stuff about Mr. Lee, Mr. Cheng & herself, but I will not publish it on this blog. Partly bcos I can't be bothered to, and partly bcos I believe it will embarass at least 2 of the parties involved.

2004-04-01T21:19:00.000+08:00

Tried my NCC uniform just now. Had to get my dad to roll up the sleeves a lot to make it look a shade more decent. Pants are way too long and shirt is too wide. Also had to make my own garters bcos no time to go Beach Rd. *haiz*

Have to lug a gigantic plastic bag with all my NCC stuff to school tomorrow. Includes boots, shirt, pants, socks, hat, beret and garters. What the hell... and report in No. 4, so hot... it's supposed to be water-proof and fire-proof. In fact, it is so "proofy" that if you sweat, the sweat remains inside...

Now my MSN can't work. Like Jeremy's yesterday, they said your contact list is currently unavailable. Damn.

2004-04-01T16:45:00.000+08:00

Whole class got scolded (and again and again and again) by Mr. Cheng today because of a few trouble makers who kept fooling around. I really think our class's learning attitude is going down... Not even the top class although we supposedly have the highest ability.

I will work harder this term

NAPFA 5 stations tomorrow. My left foot still hurts and the sole of my right shoe is falling off. Don't have any other pairs that fit, so I'll just have to make do with this one. *sigh*

Got the boots after school today. Then went to bio-LRC to do the agar. Almost mixed up Phytagel and Standard Plate Growth, but referred to the bottles to clear up our doubts.

Found out from Jeremy that NPCC ppl dun have training on Friday... so slack. Not like NCC, train both Friday AND Saturday. -boosts my ego- NCC RULES

Got 10+ survey forms filled up already. Hope to have at least 20 by Monday.

Not so much homework today...

But the bad news is : Mr. Lee talked to Eddy and Joseph bout not pestering Jeremy and cause his grades to drop and let him get scolded by other teachers. Now that sounds good, but when you reflect that I'm the one next closest to them apart from Jeremy... *pales at the prospect*

2004-03-31T23:10:00.000+08:00

*Phew* Finished the Art Poster. Dunno why I offered to do all the work in the first place. Probably bcos I dislike getting scolded by teachers for late work as it is really embarassing. bla, bla, bla...

Now I'm schizophrenic, talking to myself. *haiz* the pressure of secondary school life. Now I'm relieved I didn't apply for CIT. Really wouldn't be able to cope on top of my treasurer duties and homework + projects etc.

Blogging seems to be a good way for me to release the tension copped up inside me. One of the few enjoyments I have left in my present life... so tragic... *sniff sniff*

Sorry to bore you ppl to death with my crap. Just feel like crapping today.

2004-03-31T20:44:00.000+08:00

Die, die, die... so much work. Both Eddy and Abby sick today, what a coincidence. So much work today. Completing the ART poster and thinking about how to give out 20 survey forms by Monday are just a small portion of what I have to do now...

Found out that it's damn irritating to be teased about a girl (or girls), so I shall not be so bad to Jeremy from now on. (Jeremy, rejoice!)

The Jap test was quite OK...

Oh yah, instead of Eddy and Jose toking crap today, Eddy was replaced by Benjy and Wei Xiong bcos he was absent.

2004-03-30T17:40:00.000+08:00

Had to stay back until 3.46 for English Term Test today. Dunno why they want to have it so early in the term. Anyway, the last period was Mr. Cheng's, and some slackers in the class didn't do what we were supposed to do, so he was really angry and scolded us way past the bell-ring before stomping out of class.

Dashed all the way down to canteen and found ALL the queues sooo long. Damn, no more staggered lunch. To add insult to injury, these three teachers (including cao lao shi) cut the queue I was in, and took such a long time ordering their food.Only just managed to wolf down my lunch and rush back to class.

English test wasn't too hard, but I wasn't too sure on how much to include in the summary question.

Oh yah, Ernie and Ho Jia Jun (not me) have yet to complete their assigned tasks for our Art poster. And worst of all, Samuel Chia, our "responsible" and "hardworking" chairman, has AGAIN FORGOTTEN TO DO THE RESEARCH ON FIVE PLANT DISEASES AND MALAY/INDIAN HERBS THAT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO SINCE LAST WEEK!!! Despite constant reminders, threats and many other forms of persuation, he has NOT done his part in our (with Jeremy & Pigsie) IRS project.

And I thought he looked responsible at the start of the year. *haiz* looks can be deceiving... don't judge a book by it's cover... beauty is only skin deep... etc.

Can't find the C++ compiler in my comp although my dad says there is one. I'll ask him when he gets back later.

2004-03-29T21:11:00.000+08:00

Went to Jap today (der...) spent so much time studying for the vocabulary test today, but then the teacher said it was postphoned until Wednesday. Damn...

Managed to fill in all the alphabets for Jap test. Almost got the hiragana and katakana mixed up, but remembered at the last minute.

Asked around in my Jap class for donations during break time. Two CHS boys donated $5 and $4 each. Jeremy came to seek refuge from his St. Nick's fan club. Advised me to ask donations from his xiao mei. So I did and...

"Wah lao! Come ask me for donations for what!" That was followed by a resounding crack, which was actually a badly aimed blow connecting with my back.
Boo hoo... so violent... and Jeremy was laughing at me. Grrr...

Went home and saw sw's msn nic was "I luv Jeremy and I really mean it". Thought somebody found her pw and played a prank, but apparently not... so I'll just say :

Sw luvs Jeremy!Sw luvs Jeremy!Sw luvs Jeremy!Sw luvs Jeremy!Sw luvs Jeremy!

Well, that's all for now. Still rushing to complete all those crazy projects.

2004-03-28T21:10:00.000+08:00

Hmmm... pull-offs aren't that difficult after all. Wanted to go jogging after guitar class, but it started to rain, so I had to substitute it with skipping. *haiz* So long never go jogging already.

And I still can't access the online-CHS. How are we supposed to check for important messages if the school server is always down.

First music lesson tml. Think it's history of music. What a boring topic. Can't wait for term 3 when we get to learn guitar.

*haiz* (again) such a boring day...

2004-03-27T14:37:00.000+08:00

Just got back from Orchard Road. The so-called walkathon was so short, I think barely a kilometre. We could have ran the whole thing easily. Anyway, it finished quite fast, so me, Yong Quan, Jeremy and Jerome went to watch the busking and at the same time give out survey forms.

Jeremy disappeared not long after, so I went with Yong Quan to Takashimaya to give out the surveys. There was this nice kindergarten teacher who filled in our form and even offered to ask her boyfriend to do so too. But it turned out that he was busy.

We left soon after that, bcos we were afraid that the management wouldn't like us giving out surveys in their premises. Going from street to street, shop to shop and building to building, we continued this gruelling task. After an hour, only about 15 - 20 forms had been filled. And as we emerged from Takashimaya tired and weary, what did I see but...

Jeremy surrounded by his fan club, which consisted mostly of RGS girls. They appeared to be flirting outrageously with him. LOLZ... Found out that he had not given out a single survey form, GRRR... So we saved him and dispersed the crowd.

After that, Jeremy was "touched" by an RGS girl (won't mention names here). By "touched", I mean physically, not emotionally. I will not elaborate on this sensitive issue for fear of incurring the wrath of Jeremy.

Oh yah, also saw some of the perfomances. I must say, the dancing by RGS and NYGH are rather um... funny. I mean, some of those performers looked like they were just waving their hands. But I'll give credit to them for their extremely hou lian pi.

Ended up taking bus home. The bus was moving so slowly that I drifted off, almost causing me to miss my stop. Good thing somebody else alighted there.

And now I'm back home blogging with my little brother trying to read over my shoulder. But I'm not letting him.

2004-03-26T20:08:00.000+08:00

OMG. I'm dying, drowning in the sea of projects.

Improve survey form due tomorrow

IRS research due next Wednesday

Research on Florence Nightingale due next Wednesday

Give out 200 survey forms due next week

Art poster due next Friday

MRP introductory chapters and Literature Review due in three weeks

Su yuan project due in 5 weeks.

And many other ACE stuffs which I have yet to do