Nlzz Times

2012-01-28T01:29:00.002+08:00

Chapter 301:

Went to Rivervale Plaza to apply for an ATM card for my savings acc, with my sis, before heading to the bus stop to wait for the bus. (duh) Took the bus and went down to Downtown East. Went to Fish & Co. and waited for my cousins to come.
When they finally do, we ordered 4 sets of Student's meal, which is fish and chips. And yes, I'm eating fish again, giving my sis face this time. haha.

We then went for bowling. Its my first time attempting bowling. What a great honour my cousins (and sis) is receiving. So, one of my cousins and my sis went to gather the 6 and 7 kg bowling balls to our side lol.. And we started playing. I started by feeding the ball to the gutters. My second try came..and again gutters. Somehow my ball refuses to travel straight...
I tried again for the third time. My score remains as 0. Epic Fail. Seriously.
Fourth try- I decided to heck it and attempt to follow the style that people normally used to bowl. The nice nice style!! 8 pins. And the follow up drew blank.
So everyone else was havin a double digit score at that time, while I stuck at 8 -.-

And so, I ended up last during the first round... with 39 points, what a disgrace ><
And we cont playing a second round, bringing forward the previous round scores with us. Despite the nice nice style that I found, I still couldnt manage to let the ball travel straight at times.. I even drew blanks or scored a mere 2 points (1 pin from each extreme side.) Damn fail ...
And so, I ended the second round with 53 points.. and the grand total is merely 92.. which is not even a 100... whats more it is from 2 rounds...

We then felt like playing pool. But the tables were scarce and the people were plenty. We went to eat something light before attempting to rent bikes to cycle. It was around 7, and the shop closes at 6. So, they decided to go for dinner.
I then decided to abandon them and rush all the way down to Bishan to meet my JC friends for a visit to Chengmei's(CM) house. I was already late at that time..

And so I took a bus to Pasir Ris, MRT to Paya Lebar (EW Line), MRT to Bishan (Circle line). Reached at around 8.. really sorry to make them wait for me..
We then took a bus to CM's house. We celebrated her bdae with a bdae cake and we played Monopoly Deal and daidi, before going home.

Before I end this post, ADULT FARE SUCKS. Draining my money like never before... Approx 1 dollar plus plus plus plus plus for each trip... zzz.

2012-01-27T01:02:00.002+08:00

Chapter 300: Basketball

After much persuasion, much voice and saliva wasted, I had finally agreed to play Basketball with yian. That made yian the happiest person on the world for that few seconds.

So, we set to meet at 1.30pm at Woodlands MRT. At around 1230, I called, messaged Bing Hui (bh) but to no avail. So I set off on my own, walking down the streets (similar to walking to the bus stop during sec sch days.) Before the traffic lights turn green, I saw 161 at the traffic lights too... and the lights did not turn red.. So I cannot cross while the bus could after awhile... and there goes the bus.

Waited awhile (Iris says its 4 mins, but Iris cannot be trusted, it had scammed me and bh multiple times, to the extent we run for our bus at AJC last time.) Boarded the bus. And the bus actually reached Woodlands Regional Interchange in 20 minutes... Simply Stunning... and that made me reach at 1.20pm... Time to search for the MRT station.. Looked around, wandered around, jumped around, rolled around, and saw a sign that says "lift to MRT". Oh, so the MRT is on top of me. Now to hunt for an escalator.
After some tiring hunting, I found the escalator and went up. And now.. where is the gantry -.- So the hunt continues... Anyways, I am still early.. so I waited and waited. Then, one guy came to me and asked me if I know where "888 clinic was?". The first thought that came to my mind was "Don't ask me, I'm lost too."
So I told him, "I don't know."

Yian came shortly after, quite punctual. So we went to buy some H-TWO-O drinks. There is an offer, 2 going for $1.95. We bought 4. At the cashier, the monitor displayed around 4.90, which is the non-discounted price. The monitor later showed the discounted price of 3.90. Yian paid the cashier $4. The cashier waited. I waited. Yian waited. Everybody behind us waited. The whole world is waiting and nothing happens...
I then realised that the cashier might be waiting for more cash as she thought it is 4.90... so I pointed to the monitor and said "3.90 what." to yian. A beam of light struck on the cashier's head. Realisation. She apologised and gave yian the change.

We then went to seek out the location of the basketball court. We followed the MRT tracks, walked to Marsiling instead of Admiralty.. so we walked back.. early warmup I guess.

So we reached the bball court and TC has already reached. So we started playing "bullet". I dont really get it too. So we'll skip that.
Nwe came and we played match. I forgot who won or who lost. But that isnt that important. Bh then came later and we played match as well.
We also played "horse" and "ABC" etc etc.

And yian invented a game, which is to dribble to each of the basketball net and score a goal each. There were 5 of them. Timing was taken.
Yian completed around 1 minute.
I didnt know bh's timing.
I completed at 1:30:09. (mins/sec/msec?)
My second attempt was better at 1 min 17 secs.
So we played bball until 6 plus?

We then went to eat dinner at a foodcourt at Causeway Point. The place is familiar.. this was when I realised I'd been here several times when I was younger. (not that I'm very old now.) We then went home respectively.

2012-01-25T22:28:00.004+08:00

Chapter 299: Cooking

Woke up early at 8.15am, got myself ready and set off for the LRT. It's another round of adult fare. Suddenly, I become more conscientious when travelling... should have toured around the whole MRT system before 31st Dec 2010.

Took LRT, then MRT to Hougang. I reached earlier than the stipulated timing of 9am. So I waited for Nich Khaw (nk) to appear. He did so around 9.05am.
We took the bus (forgot which number) to Darren (Leong)'s house.
But we didnt know his block number and thus couldnt locate it. Nk called Darren up, only to find him bathing. So, nk went to retrieve $ from ATM first.
We then called darren up again and he came to fetch us after awhile. We went to the Sheng Siong Supermarket nearby to shop for ingredients. Bought some stuffs. Got the lucky draw ticket/coupon/receipt (whatever u call it.) The draw will be made during the show.

We went to Darren's house shortly after. It was my first time cooking (excluding Home Economics lessons), so I require alot of pointers/tips/guidance.*
(*Delete where applicable)
My first lesson was on cutting open the package of Sausages... And it took some time, because it was hard to cut. According to nk, there is a lack of tension in the packaging..making cutting difficult.
Second lesson was on frying the sausage. Need to add oil... (I rmb adding too much oil during Home Econs last time by accident. I thought the teacher wont find out... but the first thing she said was "too oily".)
So I added oil and then I fried my sausage.
(detailed steps are not listed to prevent plagarism of the secret recipe.)
Third lesson was on how to beat an egg. Out of 8 (I think?) eggs, I only have 2 eggs with intact egg yolk after breaking the egg shell... the others were distorted egg yolks.. But it works well anyways... not as if I was making sunny side up. Or Darren would have killed me for wasting eggs haha.
I then beat the egg, fry it, and TADA! The scrambled eggs were the result.

While cooking, Darren kept reminding me and nk not to blow up his kitchen. I told him to buy some insurance so that gives us the right to blow his kitchen up.

NK did baked potato using the microwave and fried the fish.
He did the potato by wrapping it with aluminium foil before putting it into the oven. Frying fish requires alot of time.. so Darren and I went to watch TV programme while he continue frying his fish LOL.
After a long long while, nk was done and darren started preparing the dessert, which is some jelly with almond and peach (I think that is how to describe it..)

So, the end product is a fish, scrambled egg, sausage, baked potato, the dessert as described above, and Fanta Orange.
And in case u are wondering, no, we didnt brew the Fanta Orange drink. We just poured it out from a 1.5 litres bottle.

Main Course:

Dessert:

We made 3 portions of course, the picture only showed 1. And yes, that is our lunch!

Still have a lingering thought?

Yes, I ate the fish.
I gave nk alot alot alot of face. What a good friend I am, ain't I?

2012-01-24T22:19:00.002+08:00

Chapter 298: Chinese New Year

Wishing everyone a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year!
Have a wonderful/great dragon year ahead!

On the eve of CNY, it is time to 守岁! Before that, its time for EPL!
It is a good start to the New Year where the Red Devils (Man Utd) beat Arsenal away 2-1, from goals from Valencia and Welbeck.
I slept at 5am due to 守岁, while waiting for my dad's download to complete. What a filial son I am I know, now my parents will live longer! Muhahahaha.

On the first day of CNY, I woke up quite late... around 1230 hrs.. thanks to the 守岁 process last night haha. Reached maternal grandparents hse at around 2?
Red Packets flow in of course. Went to eat lunch then.
We then went to play Monopoly Deal. And I cant remember what happen... but we left for paternal grandparents place after a rich time collecting Hongbaos :)

Reached paternal grandparents place shortly after and more hongbaos!!!
My grandfather dotes me, knowing that I'm going to NS this year, he gave me a really fat red packet... much fatter than my sis's one :)
He knew that I need $2 for haircut in the army and so I got 5 $2 notes in that red packet... plus some $10 in there (which I will not reveal how many.)
My sis is filled with envy, wow, I'm surprised and happy for having a great grandfather.

One of my cousins then went out with me and my family to Changi Airport T3.
Second time there FYI.
so, my cousin fetched me in his car (so I can entertain him), while my sis and mum rode on my dad's car there.
Went to T1 through the skytrain (I love to ride on it when I'm young. Well, that doesnt mean I'm old now, I'm still relatively young :D )
Went to dine at Astons.. and the most funny thing we're being told is that the Coffee machine just broke down.... epic.
My cousin is very knowledgeable about planes.. until he could name me each respective planes we saw...
We deliberately spent more than 50 dollars, so that my cousin could get the Angry Bird for his mum (or my aunt, or my dad's sister)

We then headed to Junction 8 for movie. We watched the show "The Viral Factor" a.k.a. "逆战". A show which starred Nicholas................
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Tse
and Jay Chou!!!
An interesting action film. Nice to watch. The movie set at Malaysia, and they spoke several tongues like English, Chinese, Cantonese, Malay.

We then went back to grandparents hse as my mum forgot to take her phone charger with her while leaving... So, I went up to retrieve the charger and her phone before going home with parents.

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The next day CNY day 2. We went to maternal grandparents hse and we played lots of games together ("we" refers to cousins.)
We played games like "Monopoly Deal","Daidi","Bridge","Ah Zhap","Cheat".
It's really alot of fun together.

My grandmother spoke to me in Hokkien, and I could barely understand/speak. So I did my best in answering. She asked me if I wanted fish... I told her that fish is not nice LOL.
Then I don't know what she is saying already ... Hokkien too chim for my tiny brain to understand.

We spent majority of the day at grandparents hse basically.
Of course, the other relatives gambled.. but I somehow quitted gambling since a few years back. Gambling is bad as losing money is easier than winning. And thus it is not a wise choice.

9 more days to NS... sian...

Got a rather packed schedule this week... so expect more updates I guess?

2012-01-22T20:18:00.002+08:00

Chapter 297:

Experienced the single beep sound on the EZ-link reader for the first time since 18+ years, and on the way to AMK Hub. It costs around 1.40 for the first time.. a more than 100% price hike due to the loss of the student status.
Reached way earlier than the stipulated time, went up to the level 4 Cinema and waited. Called Jeff up and found out that he'll be late, and I'm to meet Liang Xing (lx) and Junyong (jy) first. So I waited and waited for around 15 mins before they turned up.
We discussed awhile before deciding to watch the movie "Contraband" A M18 movie.
We went down to find a place to eat. After some discussion, we settled for Mos Burger.
And we waited for Jeff to come. We then proceeded to play pool first before the movie.
It's the first time we got checked by the police, who took down our NRIC, name and address as a routine check, at the pool place.
Pool was quite fun.. with some wins and losses of course.

We then went to queue up for popcorns at around 3.30pm.
Entered at around 4, though the movie starts at 3.50pm.
The show was ok to me, and I was impressed by the imbalanced world class smuggling in there, lol.

We then went to eat dinner at New York, before heading to a shop selling games. We didnt buy anything though, and we went home after that... to experience another adult fare...

The next day, I went to Far East with my family, as my sis needs to purchase clothing. We ate at Graffiti Cafe.. where vandalism is legal? Ate Wanton noodles.
Went back home to watch some movies via starhub cable TV.
Then went for dinner at KFC. CNY is great as it is the only time where parents want to eat fast food without complaints. :)

Anyways, CNY is up tomorrow, wishing everyone a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year 2012, have a great Dragon Year ahead! Watch out for the next post on CNY :D

2012-01-20T23:23:00.003+08:00

Chapter 296: Genting Highlands

I forgot to SMS my friends before the Genting trip that I will be overseas and not to pop my phone with SMS... So for those who really did pop up with a SMS, rest assured, your SMS had travelled successfully across the causeway, across the customs, and more importantly, all the way up ... high up... until Genting Highlands, in other words, your SMS have travelled miles after miles, gone through a horrendous and tiring journey before reaching me at Malaysia from Singapore.
I apologise as that is considered as an overseas SMS... your phone bill will remind you of it...

And I forgot to tell my sis to help me mousehunt... gosh...

The night before the Genting trip, Jac, Yian and I went over to Binghui's house for sleepover.
Nothing much as we headed for Compasspoint the next morning. At 5 plus...
And reached Compasspoint around the same time.

Really glad the pickup point is close and convenient for bh and me.
As for the rest, they had to go through a tough morning journey to Compasspoint. And that means catching the earliest bus rides, mrt rides, or cabbing.

We were given white cards by the "Five Star Tour Bus" staff, and we filled it in inside the bus. Before we finished filling in, the bus started moving and the lights have changed from white lights to blue lights... This makes everything looks blue... In scientific terms, we call this the "pseudo-colour blindness". Thanks to the blue lights and shaking bus (from travelling), the difficulty of filling in the white card has been raised tremendously (in more exaggerating terms, exponentially).I helped yian to fill his, orelse his white card will be unreadable due to his handwriting (which is already bad normally).
Initially, Yian wrote some particulars wrongly. So I had to ask Teck Chuan (tc) for another white card. I said, "TC, Yian wrote wrongly for his white card, so we need 1 more. Normally, he can cancel but now cannot." (He cancels messily normally which drew anger from our GP tutor.)

So, we travelled across the Singapore Customs. Electronic powered machines make the passing fast and convenient. However, yian's passport is the old kind and he has to rely on the manual one. We then passed Malaysia's custom and got a chop each on our passports.
We then headed back for the bus. This bus is the best I have ever come across. The ability to watch TV/play games, adjust seats, wide space.. just like the advertisement long time ago about "Five star tours". Very nice.
The only concern is that not all of them are in perfect working order. Some earphones don't work, some only have 1 side working, etc.

After a long journey, we finally arrived at Genting Highlands at around 1pm.
We then proceeded to check in.. which took 1 million light years and it is still pending...
In the end, they just gave us a temporary room to hold the 10 of us.
(Btw, this Genting trip is a 17/10 outing which 10 people attended.)
So we camped at the temporary room, playing cards, while waiting for our "real" rooms to be prepared. We waited long hours, calling to check in between, and it takes eternity, before we finally got our finalised rooms at late afternoon.

We didnt do much on the first day. Just ate lunch, ate dinner, played pool and went K.
Pool was ok for me, only that luck seems abit down on me, and bh was very unlucky.
I can sense that bh is a pro in it but his luck is going against him.
Went to sing K after pool. My voice suck alot over the microphone...

We then went to sleep.

NOTE: Some details might be missed out/ vague/wrong, as I cannot remember everything perfectly. One thing to be sure is that we played cards alot during the trip.

Second day.
Ate Mcdonalds for breakfast (I hope I dont remember the fast food restaurant wrongly.) Then, we went to queue up, waiting for the ticket counter to the Theme Park to open.. before purchasing tickets.
The pass/ticket cost(s) RM66 for 1 day, all rides (including both indoor and outdoor theme parks, but excluding cyberworld items)

Our first ride was a ride around something like the "haunted house" and with sharp turns before about-to-bang-into-the-walls-situation.
I also made a breakthrough in my life history as I embarked on the Viking Ship/Pirate Ship.
The ship has been my fear since young... and I finally completed a Viking Ship ride :)
Further breakthroughs are made as I rode the "Flying Coaster" (a ride that turns 360 degrees... something I cant imagine I would ride one day.) and the Roller Coaster.
Also rode in some other rides like bumper boat, bumper car, flying dragon, etc etc.
The only thing that I didnt want to try was the Space Shot... which is a ride that brings you 185 feet above ground... and then it will drop down.. like a lift that is freefalling at 67kmh... which deters me as I don't want my heart to drop out.

Basically, we spent most of the day in the Theme Park (outdoors in morning-afternoon, indoors in night)
Bumper Car was funny as bh, yian and I all ganged up to attack Jac's car.
We just went in one after another or together.

There is also a 4D movie for the indoor ride. It requires wearing of the 3D glasses. The seats will also move during the ride, in order to make the movie more realistic.. quite real I must say.

Third Day. We went down to KL (Kuala Lumpur). Went to Titiwanga station by bus, before changing to take the KL Monorail to Bukit Bintang for shopping.
We went to eat lunch at a store which allow you to choose your own dishes (like the mixed vegetable rice) The only weird thing is that you serve yourself, you choose the amount to take for each dish.. and like how we know how much constitutes one serving...
If we take too much, we get charged higher...
If we take too little, we feel scammed.

We then went round shopping. I went around looking for a shirt for CNY. After much viewing, I bought a shirt which bh recommended me to. And through this, they have learnt that I don't like stripes on my clothing.. and checkered is worse.

Well, I shall skip some/most eating and playing card details as they are difficult to remember and are of high frequency.
We then went to eat at A&W. The staff gave me a root beer that is almost to the brim... the worst thing is that I have to balance it on my tray and go up a flight of stairs.... In the end, my serviette changed colour from white to brown... (from root beer).
We then took photo inside.. which is weird.. if u imagine taking group photo inside a fast food restaurant ...
We then went back to Genting Highlands. How we go back is opposite of how we came.

I then tried on bh's clothing as he said they might look good on me.. so I did and...

Looks good.

We planned to not sleep as it is the last day.. but we failed as we were too tired...

On the last day, we packed and left the hotel at 12 noon. Ate pizza and went to take bus back at 2.10pm. At the resting station of Yong Peng, we ate a Vegetarian meal for 10 pax, as we have 3 vegetarians amongst us. It was quite ok to me.
We then left for Singapore.

And reaching home is of walking distance for bh and me. Sad for the rest who didnt choose to live on the best place on Earth.

And that concludes the Genting Trip. Great time spent with 17/10 :)
Photos are on Facebook if necessary.

2012-01-05T14:41:00.002+08:00

Chapter 295: Luck

I always believed that everyone possess equal amounts of luck, and the bad luck will always be balanced by an equivalent amount of good luck.

Whenever I receive some bad luck, I will tell myself that good luck is coming my way.
An old saying goes: "雨过天晴" which supports my above argument.

But the olden day scholars did not realise that "晴过天雨" is true too.
After receiving good luck, I am very very very very very worried that bad luck is coming my way ...

That explains why Man Utd suffered 2 consecutive defeats.
The first defeat was after imbalanced and overpowering luck I received during my pool game in the afternoon...
The second defeat was after me getting first in Mousehunt Tournament...

Well, this is a good way to console myself lol.

Haiz, they still said that they will definitely bounce back from their defeat to Blackburn.
The defeat to Blackburn is where they are at the ground, and they wanted to bounce up.
And they forgot.
What comes up must go down.
So they bounced back to the ground, to rock bottom, when they meet Newcastle, and suffer another 3-0 defeat.

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Sometimes when I finished my meal outdoors, the staff will come and ask "Do you still want it?"
It sounds weird ... cause there is nothing left on the plate. If I still wanted it, do I have to eat the plate as well... or the cutleries.
Shouldnt the correct thing to say be "Can I clear your plate?"

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TIP OF THE DAY

The proverb "You cannot make a crab walk straight" is actually wrong.
It can, if you intoxicate it.

2012-01-01T01:46:00.004+08:00

Chapter 294: Happy New Year

Initially, I thought of another name for the title of this chapter. But the "End of the World Year" sounds terribly negative thinking and pessimistic for an amazing site like this. So I decided to go for the positive thinking. Always look on the bright side of life.

I just realised that I forgot to put something into my previous chapter, it was a mistake on my part. I forgot to say that please do not think that dhl is the one for delivers items... and it does not stand for "deliver halfway lost".

Woke up early in the morning and is unable to fall asleep again... argh.
Went out around morning time.
Sitting at the bus stop, waiting for my bus (duh).
Suddenly, a car drove past me. Looks familiar, havent I seen that car before? Looks at the carplate. Even more familiar... oh! It's my dad's car. Silly me.

After awhile, the bus came. Went to AMK. Darren Tan (DT) and Jeff(erson) came shortly after. We decided to have lunch while waiting for Zhenglin (EZL). So we dined at the Kopitiam at AMK Hub. Unlike other Singaporeans, we did not use tissue paper to "chope" seats, we utilised human resource for this purpose.

It was then I realised that the supposedly 402 guys class outing turned out to be a failure... 4 people -.- Best.
So EZL came shortly after. After lunch, we headed to purchase movie tickets. We wanted to catch the show "Turning Point, Laughing Gor Returns." at 5pm. DT flashed his passion card and it costs us 7 each for the tickets, and we get 2 free popcorns (which is terribly small when we collected later on...)

So we went to play pool first at AMK. I was unusually lucky as I played quite well (unlike the norm). EZL left at some point to collect cheque for his merit bursary award thing. The 3 of us continued, then went on to play lan using the remaining time. We played "Left 4 Dead 2". A game that I do not have on my home comp and exclusively for lan to me. At around 4.30pm, a call from EZL came to DT.

It was then we realised... we've been tricked! The movie tickets are for 2.55pm and NOT 5pm... We then checked the movie title, thankfully it is correct. So we headed down to Cathay (AMK) to ask if we could get a refund or exchange for the 5pm one. EZL came, and we managed to get an exchange for the 5pm movie. There was still some bit of time to spare.
So, we went down to Old Chang Kee. I bought Curry Puff.
Then EZL and DT bought some herbal tea from another store.

We then went back to AMK Hub for the movie. The concept and the plot of the show was good. The ending is abit weird. And its NC16 for the violence content.

We then went to continue our "Left 4 dead 2" game with EZL too. We then headed for Macdonalds for dinner. So, our last dinner in 2011 is at Macs, with one another. lol.
We chatted awhile. Jeff left first. We then watched abit of the Man Utd vs Blackburn game. When we left, it was 0-0. On the way home, I checked soccernet through my iphone and saw 0-1 via penalty -.-

And now the EZ-link card will only beep once and adult fares ...

I then went home and further watched Man Utd lose 2-3 to Blackburn. What the .... (the preceding word is censored for vulgar content)
Unbelievable. De Gea sucks, he should have picked Lindegaard...
Shocking is an understatement.
What a spoiler for the New Year...

Then proceeded to watch the Taipei Countdown Event on TV (starhub). Then, I went to the windows to look at the fireworks. To look at the fruits of my dad's labour.

I then went back to finish the rest of the show before going to bathe lol.

And in case your mind is still pondering over the end of the world, fear not. It only happens on the 21st December 2012... You still have around 354 days more to live, eh no, its 355 since 2012 is a leap year. Oh, speaking of leap year... its bad.. need to serve army for 1 more day!!! Unfair! Protest!

Ok just kidding, you should not fear because...

Jay Chou says so.

Enjoy!

NLZZ Co. Pte. Ltd. hereby wishes all viewers of this site a Happy New Year 2012! May the World survive!

2011-12-29T00:21:00.004+08:00

Chapter 293: Post Xmas

First, I will reveal the answer to the question that I posted at Chapter 291. (please read that before this chapter.)
So, you have spent your entire Christmas and holidays thinking of what dhl means.
In order to save the remaining of your brain cells, I shall provide the answer.

If you hit the "Give up" button at chapter 291, you are given a prompt.
It says "That is for me and my 2 friends to know, and for you to find out."

You must have thought that I'm just fooling around with you. Then it is here, where you are terribly wrong! Cause that is actually the hint !! Didn't you realise that?
Well, now you do. That is actually a hint disguised within a sentence that (irritates?) you.

Now I will explain the hint.
It lies within "me and my 2 friends"
Now, try and connect that with dhl. Do you realise a similarity?

The magic number 3.
dhl has 3 letters.
"me and my 2 friends" has/have 3 persons involved.

Can you guess now?
If not, here is another hint:

And to get the answer to what dhl stands for, please tuned in for the next chapter of NLZZ Times, bye!

Ok, just kidding. Here you go:

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In neopets, I have created an Neopian Adventure (as mentioned in chapter 291).
Now, I have 2 people who completed the game (or was it the same person doing it twice...)
and 32 other people who attempted it, and it has a rating of 5 stars!!

Thank you for your support (if you really played it.)

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This weekend (or should I say the previous) was a joy for me!
Man Utd 5-0 Wigan
And that is accompanied by City 0-0 draw with WBA, Liverpool 1-1 draw with Blackburn, Chelsea 1-1 draw with Fulham, and Arsenal 1-1 draw with Wolves. What a great weekend as Man Utd goes to second place, levelling on points with leaders City, only losing out in goal difference of 5 :)
The goal diff initially was alot, now they closed it down to 5.

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Went to NEX during boxing day. NEX has poor internet connection, forcing me to rely on Wireless@SG (which dont work at times too...) for mousehunt...
Ate fishball noodles with my parents before shopping around.
Bought swimming goggles in preparation for the NS.
Bought pants in preparation for CNY.
Then, we went to Swensens to have ice-cream. I ate my favourite ice-cream there: The Cookie Summit.

So, what is boxing day?

I have always thought that this was boxing day:

Picture taken from: The Tardio Times

Disclaimer: The Tardio Times and NLZZ Times are not whatsoever related at all. We are complete separate entities.
P.S. I am not advertising the Tardio Times, so please do not google search it.
NLZZ times will remain as your best Times in your entire lifetime.

It was till when I became more knowledgeable that I know boxing day refers to this:

Picture taken from: webdesignfan.com

Disclaimer: Similarly, I'm not advertising for them, but there is still the need to credit the sources.

2011-12-25T00:06:00.001+08:00

Chapter 292: Merry Christmas

I hereby wishes everyone Merry Christmas!!! :)

2011-12-24T01:28:00.002+08:00

Chapter 291: Xmas Eve

At press time, it is Christmas Eve at 1:28 AM.

I don't know why but I've been dreaming alot nowadays...
And they are of all the most ridiculous thing that you can ever imagine...

I dreamt of going to University already -.- (and to think I have yet to pass the NS level...)
Don't ask me what course or what university... cause that just doesnt seem to come to play in the dream...
After lesson with the new classmates (I don't know how my mind conjured up random people faces that I have never seen before...), I took a bus home.. to my previous home at Bedok Reservoir.... (and to think I have moved house 6 years ago ...)

That is not the most absurd thing.

On the way home, I witnessed a gang chasing a guy... they're holding knives. I avoided them. And again... I met another gang stabbing another guy... After that, one of the gang member looked at me. Immediately, I said "我什么都没有看到." and raised my hands in the surrender style. I walked away hurriedly. Strangely, they didn't pursue the matter and did not chase after me. LOL.
And I woke up around this time.

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Recently, I went back to Neopets, thanks to Nich Khaw...
And I created a Neopian Adventure...
So I am appealing to you, yes you, to play it :)

So by any crook or any hook if you're into neopets too, play it.
Or, if you are willing to give me face, create a neopet acc and play it.
If you happen to manage to dig out your old neopet account from the grave/rubbish chute/incinerator/internet junk/recycle bin/parallel universe/parallel world, play it.

The link: Click here

And yeah, my username is dhl_lammy
It is up to you to guess what dhl means.
If you give up, click the button below.

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Today, I went to People's Park Complex, went to the Five Stars Tour Agency to confirm our visit to Genting.
It is required of us to pay 940 dollars.
Which is an astronomical figure for poor kids like us.
So, I spoke to Teck Chuan (TC).

Below is a simplified version of the conversation (I forgot the exact words lol)

Me: TC, do you happen to have 940 dollars on you? The trip needs 940 dollars.
TC: No. I don't have so much...
Me: Oh, nevermind. 900 dollars also can. :)
TC: Eh, who are you ah?
Me: ... Nicholas. Anyway, if you can come up with 900 dollars, we can settle the rest.
TC: Ah where to find so much money.. nevermind, I will try and get 900 dollars.

Later...

TC SMS: Anyone have tissue (paper)? My blocked-runny nose is bad
My reply: Will paper do?
TC reply: Haha. Very funny. Nicholas! Dx

LOL.

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That's all for now! Wishing you a Merry Christmas!
Santa Claus is coming to town.

2011-12-19T20:53:00.001+08:00

Chapter 290: In search for ways to spend time

During school days, we complain that there are too many things to study and too little time.
During holidays, we complain about too little things to do and too much time.

Due to this, I will tell myself to think of the sufferings during sch days... in order to enjoy having too much time. I rather have nothing to do, than have alot of things to do. (lol, lazy character ah?)

Moreover, I better enjoy life before suffering in the army ...
That's why I somehow dropped the idea of working... anyways, the office jobs that I enquire requires long-term job committments, which I am unable to comply due to NS reasons and I need time for a break (and to have a kit kat.)

So one fine day, I decided to go out with Nich Khaw (nk), we went to hougang to have lunch at KFC. We then went to Dhoby Ghaut and found out that Zhenglin is unable to join us due to internship.. So we walked around Plaza Singapura. We stormed into "Marks and Spencers" and tested every tester we could found.. spraying the perfume tester, etc etc and smell.. and looked around. We looked at everything (almost), from sports items to Daiso items. At Daiso, we even played with the bread roller, treating it as a sword haha.
We went around looking for the "Rockband" game for xbox. But to no avail. They stopped production already. And we even looked at guns and swords.
We went into arcade too, to watch people play. To hold the gun and pretend we're playing... (at the "Time Crisis 2/3/4", etc )
We then watched people playing Street Fighter lol.

Then, Darren Leong joined us after bowling with his classmates. He asked us for our purpose of coming out.

And we told him...

To waste time.

Indeed. We then shopped around Carrefour and then went home.

The next day, I went out with my cousins and aunts (including sis and mum) to Vivo City. Been long since we went out together. Shopped around alot of stores (mainly selling clothes..)
We then went up the "Logo Hope" Ship in hope to see something awesome and it ended up they are selling books -.-
We then left that place asap as books are our weaknesses.

My sis then wanted to eat at around 4-5 pm ... when we already had lunch at around 1 plus? And its nowhere near dinner time. So we searched high and low for Long John Silvers. After that, shopping commences.
We then went for dinner at Kopitiam. We then headed home.

Long hours of shopping rendering my legs very tired.

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Man Utd beat QPR 2-0 to top the table for few hours...
until Arsenal just have to lose to Man City 0-1...
Why cant City just lose... seriously lol.

Nevertheless, Man Utd should be back on track to their winning ways.. and hopefully is consistent till the end. As long as they win all of their remaining games, the title is theirs :D

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Oh, and I finished reading the book 那些年,我们一起追的女孩 in 2 days :)
What an achievement for me for a 270 pages book in CHINESE.

2011-12-12T21:09:00.002+08:00

Chapter 289: Dreams

Recently, I've been dreaming about all kinds of things.. including weird things...
I've dreamt about getting into a drug trafficking job... and they were hidden (camouflaged) among some other stuffs in a grocery store.. When I went there, the police arrived shortly after... They arrested me of course.
But I did not get into the police car. I was asked to go on top (on the roof) of the van and I'm supposed to keep my balance there...I was lying flat down on the van, face facing the van. And they drove into the KPE (oh gosh, of all places an underground tunnel ><) And the worst thing is that the underground tunnel has its ceiling lowered (for whatever the reason...) So I barely fit and scrap through...

What a crazy dream. I woke up then.

Going back to sleep, a second dream appeared...
I was in the classroom where my teacher gave out the A level results for Biology. (only Biology, strange... and why did it happen in the classroom instead of the hall? Beats me.)
The funny thing is that u actually get to see your marks instead of the grade... and freaking hell... I got 47/100 -.- An supposedly E grade. Nevertheless, I still prayed to that the bell curve will push my grade up... I was sad, so sad and the dream continues... (haiz)
I walked to a coffee shop and went up to the Mixed Vegetable Rice Stall. After finishing my order, I delayed awhile before heading forward to collect the food (for some unknown reason...) Then, the uncle told me that I took too long and they had thrown the food away already... (what?! They waste the food just like this... ) So I had to queue up again... and in the end, the queue was too long and I gave up.
I headed for Macdonalds and my dad appeared out of the blue (dreams are just so weird...) I looked at the menu displayed at the cashier... Macdonalds sell all the weird kind of food with Italian names -.- and I dont know what they are.. and I'm pretty sure I dont eat them either.. Dejected, I walked back to my seat. Surprisingly, my dad managed to purchase McChicken Meal for me... when that wasnt in the menu at all... I was really touched then LOL.

And I woke up from my dream.

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Soccer News.
Glad that Man Utd recovered and beat Wolves 4-1. Glad that Tottenham suffered 1-2 defeat to Stoke. Hopeful that Chelsea will beat Man City tonight. Supporting Chelsea at least for once... but I'm not watching it as it is 4am... and I dont normally watch soccer matches that dont involve Man Utd.

2011-12-09T22:27:00.002+08:00

Chapter 288: Disappointment

I shouldnt have woken up at 3.45am to watch Man Utd play the Champions League... They crashed out of it at 1-2 defeat to Basel... like what on earth are they doing..
Its saddening to see them qualifying for Europa League... but I will not watch those games anymore to avoid more disappointment... I hope they really can win the Europa League at least...
Haiz... and the Premier League of course... they need to buy, no, they seriously need to, buy a world class midfielder in the January transfer window... or they are gone...
They are a real disappointment...

Hope Saturday's EPL match against Wolves will be a good match where they bounce back..
It's hard to switch support to another team... so I guess I'll have to stick with Man U and hope they wake up and win their games...

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Great Winter Hunt 2011 @ Mousehunt!
Nice way to celebrate an early Christmas.

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As of press time, Itunes showed that I have listened to the song 那些年 257 times. That's the power of the repeat function lol.
It's a nice song that should have won the Golden Horse Awards 2011, unfortunately, the judges think otherwise.

2011-12-07T15:12:00.002+08:00

Chapter 287: The lunch

Some of the 402 guys had lunch yesterday at 12.45pm, the organiser is Randolph. If you are not invited and feels bad about it, go find him. lol, just kidding, he lost most people's number i think, so is unable to contact many people.
With my time planning skills, I reached the designated place at 12.30 -.- It's overly early... so my planning skills can be considered as ridiculous. Well, its been long since I returned to my sec sch... so I forgot the time required to go there and it is also affected by the time that I travel (i.e. peak and non-peak hours)

On the journey there, I keep telling myself not to be blur and travel to AJC instead. Thankfully it paid off well.

So, I reached there and camped there. Weiming and Randolph came along around 1245.We walked down the path to the coffee shop and saw a well-dressed James (who went for an interview earlier on). Off to the coffee shop we headed for lunch. Soon after, Dabo, Darren Leong, Nic Khaw, Jefferson joined us.
We ordered food respectively.
We chatted while eating too.
Later, James left while the rest of us went for a game of basketball.

The 2 courts are occupied. So, nk, darren and I went to sit around at the playground, while the rest attempted to steal the court.
And they succeeded!

So the 7 of us played. Initially, darren didnt play as he is tired from prom the previous day. So we 3v3.
Weiming, Dabo and I
VS
Randolph, Nic Khaw, Jeff

Thankfully, Randolph didnt play seriously, NK is still tired after returning home at 8am (due to prom), and Jeff first time playing Basketball. So, we won.

We then managed to force darren to play with us and we played 4v3.
Me, Randolph, Jeff
VS
Weiming, Dabo, Nic Khaw, Darren

It was insisted that Randolph be on the 3 man team as he is a pro in bball. So we played and jeff had to leave halfway after an (urgent?) phone call.
We then continued the game at 2v4.
Thanks to the extremely pro Randolph, and the luck I have, we won the game.

We then headed to a nearby minimart for drinks before heading home respectively.

Its been long since I last played basketball, it was a good game indeed. And really, I was terribly lucky on that day. I managed to score alot of balls that will normally be a total failure... and a good laughing stock.. really.

And now... my foot is suffering from the blisters!! Had a bit of trouble walking back home after the bus ride lol.

Oh anyways, the lunch was meant for Dabo, who is leaving for China on thursday.

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Champions league match tonight. Man Utd MUST win to seal the round of 16 in the Champions League... do not let 2005 repeat itself... please... I'm hopeful. I think I will watch the game 3.45am tonight.

2011-12-02T21:38:00.003+08:00

Chapter 286: Post-A's

After struggling for 9001 years, A levels is finally OVER!
And lets not talk about exams anymore, lets forget the past and look forward to the future...

After Bio MCQ paper, I went to Marina Barrage with my classmates to fly kite, lol. And of course we chatted. Then we went to Pizza Hut @Plaza Singapura for dinner! Binghui and I slipped home while the rest planned to pay Esplanade a visit.

bh wanted to get ear piercing, so we went to compass point. But horrors of horrors! The 77th street is closed by the time we reached.. so we just set off for home sweet home.

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The next day, which is friday the 2nd, which is today, I woke up early and left home for YCK mrt station to meet Desmond and Dabo. It was a surprise birthday celebration for Darren L.
I never expect 86 to be packed at this hour... When I reached, Desmond was there and he said that Dabo will be late. So we waited for him. Time was of essence - It was 10am, and Dabo hasnt reached yet. Thankfully, Desmond decided to take safety measures, and he sent a SMS asking darren if he is going to school (he wanted to track his location and whether he is leaving house, in case we reach his empty house to talk to his four walls.) Darren said that he got a lunch reservation with his family at 11am... So theoretically, he needs to leave home before 11... and its 10 now...
AND THEN!
Our bus came... and Dabo is nowhere in sight.
Luckily,
there was a handicapped person in wheelchair, who required assistance from the bus driver. He saved us. The bus is delayed until Dabo finally came and we boarded the bus.
On the way there, my sec sch chinese teacher boarded the bus, and we smiled to each other.
He came to us and asked us about the A levels and whether we will be interested in local or overseas university.
We alighted one stop after my teacher and realised we have alighted one stop later... which means we should alight together -.-
And did I mention that it was raining...
So we ran all the way, braving through the rain, protecting darren's gift at all costs! (He better be touched for our efforts.)

We settled to meet him at a void deck near his house. It was not much of a surprise as we need to tell him to not leave for his lunch so early.. we need to give him his gift... The only surprise that was left was what actually was the gift.
So our plan to surprise him at the doorstep failed...
So we gave him the gift when he came.

And the gift was ...

Note: Shirt and person sold separately.

He was happy of the gift of course. It's 1000000 times better than his previous gifts of G-string and condom during the sec sch years (Note: I did not buy those for him. I'm not that bad haha)

We wanted him to wear that shirt into the hotel (where he is having lunch later.), regardless of whether he will be thrown out by securities or not.
The second alternative we gave him was to wear that for prom night.
Imagine if he walk into Starbucks with that outfit, what priceless expressions will it draw?

So we left him for his celebrations with his family.

We then left to AMK Hub for lunch, before heading to the library to wait for Randolph.
Dabo is studying for his SAT, while I'm meddling with my phone, together with Desmond and Randolph who joined us later. We are all laughing at Dabo for having to study while we can relax LOL.
We then chatted awhile before leaving.

2011-11-30T00:48:00.002+08:00

Chapter 285

Glad that my wounds from hand abrasions are healing already...
Sad that A levels is still undergoing while the non-bio students are partying already.
Happy that its just Bio MCQ left.

One fine day when I was eating at a coffee shop at Ang Mo Kio. I decided to order carrot cake and I did. After receiving the food, I looked around for metal spoon and fork.. but to no avail. There were only plastic spoons.. As far as I know, plastic spoons are for people having takeaway, people eating in use the metal edition. So I asked if they have the spoon, and the cook gave me the extremely-shocked-face-as-if-he-doesnt-know-what-a-spoon-is. So I just picked up a plastic spoon and asked if I need to use this.. He just said "ah, 用这个啦"
Seriously, what a fail stall which does not offer metal cutleries... I tell myself not to buy carrot cake from there anymore until they discover the existence of metal spoon and until the day they find it normal for people eating in to have metal spoons.

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Moving on to Soccer. Man Utd should have won. The linesman should have been sent off for wrongly awarding a penalty which costed United the game...
Sad that I'm unable to watch the Carling Cup as I do not have the channel ...

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This year is the first time that I watched the 金马奖 (Golden Horse Awards) because of the show "那些年, 我们一起追的女孩" . In the end, only 柯震东 won the award of the best Newcomer award, out of possible 4. Sad that the song "那些年" didnt win as I really like that song. I've been putting that song on repeat for many times lol.
Nevertheless, its still good to hear 胡夏 sing that song live on that day.

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After Chem MCQ, I went to AMK Hub with my friends. We wanted to catch a movie, and wanted to let Yian take the tickets so that he could lose them and buy again LOL. But that didnt happen cause I kept the ticket.
We watched the show "一泡而红" . In my opinion, its not a nice movie...
After watching "那些年, 我们一起追的女孩", this show ("一泡而红") seems boring and not worthy of watching...

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2011-11-22T11:55:00.001+08:00

Chapter 284: Unofficial Post A

I should have posted the following before the A levels.. but since everyone is too busy to read this page anyways, I will post it now.

You got to give it your best
When you are put to the test
Make sure you don't write all the trash
Before the test
Have a good rest
Put your worries down the desk
Rid of all the stress
And mind how you dress

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Person A : 我的脸这么可爱, 人见人爱
Person B : 不会啊, 我一点都不觉得可爱
Person A ：因为你不是人

－－－

One fine day, my mum bought Sarpino Pizza for me to eat. After eating, my mum asked me if Sarpino's pizza or Pizza hut's pizza is nicer.
I replied: "我不知道，我很久没有吃　pizza hut 的　pizza　了. 不然你明天买 Pizza Hut 的　pizza给我吃,那我就可以跟你讲哪一个 pizza 比较好吃.

Sadly, my plan to eat Pizza for the next day failed terribly. She saw through my trick :(

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On another fine day, my cousin came to my house. After he finished eating his dinner, he said: "三姨吃饱了.＂ Immediately, I turned back to my mother and said:　＂妈咪，你吃饱了＂

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When studying at the benches outside the Multi Purpose Hall, I saw this drawing on the table:

This just seems so true.

Disclaimer: I did not draw on the tables. I did not know who drew that. The above diagram is a replica created by me through replica plating.
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A bread is bought from the confectionery, priced $1.50.
After I ate half of the bread, I felt full and did not wish to continue eating it.
So I told my mum that I didnt want it anymore.
Then my mum scolded me for being wasteful, and that I wasted the money.
So, I asked my mum how much was the bread, and she said 1.50.
I asked my mum how much is the bread worth NOW? She said 0.75 cause I ate half of it.
I replied: "No, it is worthless now cause its half-eaten. And to think you want me to eat something that is worthless, why not throw it away?"

(above dialogue translated from Chinese to English.)

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While reading Bio spa planning notes, I saw the planning question on bacteria transformation. When I saw the risk assessment section, all that came to my mind was "please do not eat the bacteria to avoid health problems."

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Everytime when studying for an exam, I will start to imagine one question in the paper. The question will go like:

1. Spam everything that you know about the Biology Topics under the Syllabus. [100marks]

And that one question concludes the whole paper. How nice.

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And now for the day of 21st November.
After the Bio paper 3, we went to White Sand shopping mall (I think), and we went for Manhattan Fish Market to eat lunch (cause Pepperlunch was full and seriously, it sucks.)
I ordered fish and chips and that is the around 7th or 8th time I ate fish in my entire lifetime of 18 years++.
It was ok, not much fishyness taste.

Set off to E-hub to catch a movie. The movie was entitled ＂那些年,我们一起追的女孩＂ (a.k.a. You are the Apple of my eyes.) It was rated NC16, the first NC16 movie that I had ever watched.
The movie was nice, one of the best movies I had ever watched in my entire life too. And the best part of the movie is the fact that there are 2 Jay Chou songs inside, "双截棍"　and "三年二班".
Lol, just kidding.
It was a very entertaining movie and it was touching. A nice movie that I would recommend (of course to people above or at age 16).

We later set off to cycle. It's been long since I last cycled, nice feeling, nice scenery, nice breeze.
And the day was almost perfect, close to perfect, until ...

I rode past a bus stop and the left handlebar of my bike knocked against the stand which displays the buses available at that stop. I fell forward.... When my hands brushed against the ground, I knew that it will surely bleed. And it did... My palms are suffering from abrasions now... and so does my right knee... but thankfully, my long pants saved me from further abrasions to my right knee too...
That night, I have problems bathing... it was intense painful when water come into contact with the palm abrasions... and of course the right knee's one too.

Since I injured my palms, does it mean I get extra time for my MCQ paper on 29th Nov and 1st Dec? LOL.
Or do I get further down-PES for NS? haha.

And it really feels like the end of A levels now...
　

2011-10-14T21:56:00.002+08:00

Chapter 283: Farewell

Farewell, is actually a blessing, a good omen for A levels... fare well for the A's it seems to imply.
Farewell is something sad, but 天无不散之宴席. It is just a part and parcel of life we must bear with.
All the bad things (especially in terms of bad results) must come to an end and the good things (especially good results in A's) must come your way.

Although it seems cruel, really cruel, but with intense competition, what I'm going to hope for MUST come true. Hope that alot of people (excluding my friends for sure) screw up their A levels big time, left down up right center. So that they will be able to help us tank the bottom of the bell-shaped curve.

Went to the hall straight away for Farewell Assembly. Performances as per usual. Then come the videos. Interesting ones. The science dept made a vid that resembles a movie trailer. The maths dept were a vid that showed the teachers dancing. I never knew my form teacher can dance!!! GP made a video demonstrating the importance of GP ... which seems over-exaggerating. My Gp tutor was funny when it showed her doing christmas caroling in the vid.
Our principal then addressed us. She's leaving soon to TJC.

We then went to class for our result slips and entry proof. Ms Tan then gave us "Kinder Bueno" (the importance of the inverted commas as highlighted by my GP teacher.) and a pen. A pen that will get us the A's. If we didnt get an A, it just means that the pen is non-functional and we have the rights to demand an exchange, just that its all too late by then.
The class then gave out some "fun awards" to everybody.

We then went to the canteen to grab some snacks from Mr Poh.
Mrs Chng then came to give us snacks she bought for us.

The guys headed to play basketball for awhile, before playing capt's ball with the class. Tired after playing. Ate the "Kinder Bueno" before leaving to Nex with some classmates to have dinner, before heading home.

Anyways, I'm hopeful that Man Utd will win tomorrow :D

And today is probably my last day online, apart from mousehunting and email checking through my phone... So dont bother to check back here frequently. A levels will be over before I even know it! Meanwhile, let me enjoy my precious last moments with this comp before its hibernation.

Wishing all straight A's for A levels!

2011-10-07T22:52:00.002+08:00

Chapter 282: Countdown to A's

1 more week of school and its study break for the A levels... time seems to be passing really fast now. Just 1 more week to studybreak, kind of hard to imagine.

Recently, my form teacher has asked us to make a fan (which makes me think of Korean fan.) during civics lesson. We are to make around 20 folds and our classmates are to write something for one another. The first thing that come to my mind was Korean fan, then savage blow (maplestory). It was the thing that get me excited over maplestory (the savage blow move.) So we just wrote and fold and passed around. The passing process was sophiscated... so I apologise if I missed out writing for anyone, it is definitely not intentional.
And I dont really know some people, so I just got to apply my template fully. For those closer friends, I can have semi-personalised message plus some of the template at times. And to make things more interesting, I tried my best to vary my template a little here and there.
After reading what was written, I can finally understand what my classmates think about me lol.

The school bookshop photocopying system is flawed... After asking the uncle to photocopy the Maths TYS for years 2007 - 2010. We just left happily with the photocopied TYS.
Only to realise later (or very late to be exact) that there are truncated versions for some papers... (that means some paper are incomplete and have pages missing...) What a scam.

Played basketball today. Nothing special except that there was a special appearance by one star player in the game. He is non other than the "Travelator." He is fond of travelling as his name suggests, just that it is used in the figurative manner, and it is used for basketball context. No wonder he can "perform" 9001 patterns during his lay-ups and finishing, he did it with excessive (or even obsessive amounts) or travel... Pure imbalancedness in basketball.

Yian then sprained his leg (again)... The last time was also when the "Travelator" was present. So we concluded that the "Travelator" was a jinx to yian - for spraining his leg.

Teck Chuan, Nwe, me and Binghui then went to join class 12/10 in playing tchoukball.
It was then that I realised that it was a fun game. I used to see Sports Club people playing it and think that it is a stupid game. Guess I was wrong. It is actually very fun, no wonder their passion and drive for it.

We (the above-mentioned people) then went for dinner with Jacquelyn, Jasmine, Rebecca at a coffee shop nearby AJC. We then went home after that.

Binghui and I were crossing the overhead bridge when we saw our bus 86 reaching the bus stop... and the best thing was that it is a double decker bus!
And we sprinted for it. Bh was already suffering from a blister on his foot earlier on.. nevertheless, he managed to reach the bus stop, when the bus was leaving the bus stop. He flagged the bus. The bus driver simply shook his hands, to shake us off, and refused to allow us entry... What terrible service standard.
We then waited very very very long for the next bus to come before taking it home. To make matters worse, this bus is packed and it is only a freaking single decker bus...

Anyways, I shall tell myself there is still 1 month to A levels and not the 30 + days which the latter will put ourselves to more stressful levels... 1 month seems longer than 30 days... although they are the same ..

2011-10-03T20:43:00.002+08:00

Chapter 281: Transition Period

After prelims, and before the A levels, came the transitional period. And the worst thing about this is the results and the "no-feel" for studies...
Results for me were better as compared to mid years but not there yet.

Life is kind of interesting this week (or should i say last week...) Firstly, we went to NYP to eat (well, nothing special about this). Then there was this people conducting an interview regarding horoscopes. Binghui offered to give them the interview as he wanted to appear on TV... And that's not the worst yet. He gets to pull a friend along, and guess what...

So, Bh and I stood infront of the camera and we gave our inputs regarding horoscopes... whether we believe it or not, why, why not, do we pay attention to it, do we think it will come true etc etc...
It was soon over before I even knew it. And bh said he should have chosen yian instead so that everyone can see how far the height contrast was.

Another day, we went to Jacquelyn's house for the Bukit Timah Experience.
It was a very nice place with expensive and grand houses all around. There was this house that looked like the White House. Another house looks big and with a huge swimming pool. Another house has security cameras around its compound. Another house has 兵马俑 standing outside on guard.

On another day, we went to Burger Shack to eat burgers (obviously). Nice ambience there. And then had to endure the long bus ride home lol. And the worst of all is that both of us (bh and me) fell asleep on the bus ride... and we ended up in Hougang interchange instead of the bus stop (at xinmin to change bus)... So we ended up taking an alternate bus to the usual stop and I walked home. And it's long since I walked down that road. It was the road that I used to walk during my sec sch time.

On friday, we went to Jac's house again, but to play mahjong instead of studying this time. And it is worth a mention that during the last round, Jac found herself short of one tile and she doesnt want to continue the game anymore. So the 3 of us went on to finish the game in a three-way-battle. And horrors of horrors, when the 红中 came out from Binghui's hands on to the mahjong table... Yian has won the game by doing the legendary 十三幺. And it ended up that both of them are doing the 十三幺...

Moving on to soccer news. It is a very big relief for me to watch Man U score the first goal and eventually went on to win their game after drawing alot recently...
And I'm unhappy with Mio getting the rights to EPL coverage... Starhub is much better... Mio takes a longer time to startup as compared to Starhub's... and last saturday, when I wanted to watch their game against Stoke, Mio just gave me and my dad the purple screen of death... and we missed the match. (and luckily, it ended up a 1-1 draw.)

Oh, and probably getting economics result tmr... I wish I could pass...

2011-09-23T15:53:00.003+08:00

Chapter 280: Prelim Review

The first day of Prelims kicked off with GP papers 1 & 2. The essay - I'm unsure if my work is okay and appreciated.. in the end of the day, the results will tell it all... The compre was abit difficult too... (I cant really recall already)
Bio P2 was also on that day...and it was a tough paper with alot of diagrams... It was real bad as the GP papers before it were really mentally draining... really depends on stamina.

The second day was Econs paper. After so much mental draining, what's left is spent studying econs...and of course the tired factor kicks in and ... Econs was ok (i hope), but the essay was tough. I think I chose the wrong question for essay... haiz.

The third day was Maths Paper 2 (if I am not wrong). It was horrifying. The legendary Maths paper by the AJ Dept again... the last and final battle against them... and they just didnt give us hope...

Fourth day was Chemistry Paper 3. Relatively tough in my opinion...

Fifth day was Biology paper 3, which was easier than the paper 2, but the planning was ... bad (after hearing from a teacher that a Benedict's test must be done...)

The following Monday was Chemistry paper 2. Not that bad considering there is a weekend break and paper 3 was already over. It was easier than paper 3, but that does not mean a sure score...

Tuesday was Maths Paper 1, having already slaughtered left right center, the hopes of this paper pulling paper 2 marks up is dim.

Wednesday was Biology paper 1, go to sch for a 1hr 15 mins MCQ and thats it... Results for this paper was disappointing...

Thursday was the final paper Chem paper 1. And I dont understand how does this deserve only an hour when phy and bio can receive 1hr 15 mins... this is just... racing against time.

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After exams on Thursday, the class went for a game of captain's ball. We played among ourselves first before going against another class. It seemed like we scored more, thanks to the imbalanced efforts of the class.

Then we went to AMK for lunch before watching "Johnny English Reborn"* there. It was indeed entertaining, funny and worth it for just $6.

We then headed to Pamelyn's house to continue our movie fest. We watched the show "Death at a funeral"* and "Facing the Giants"* , before heading home for dinner.

*NLZZ Co. Pte. Ltd. shall not be held responsible for any mis-spellings of the names of the movies. It shall also not be held responsible if the movies are of little (or no) entertaining value at all. Watch the movies at your own risk.*

2011-09-17T00:47:00.002+08:00

Chapter 279: The Long Journey

Its been awhile, don't mistaken, prelims are not over yet. I am utilising this weekend break to bring you the latest news possible.

A few days ago (or weeks), my friend posted on facebook that ‎"you tricked an innocent guy". And the reply?

In this statement, only the "an" is true.

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A supervisor brought a group of workers to a forest. He said to the workers "I want you all to cut half of the trees here." The supervisor then left the vicinity.
Upon returning after 3 hours, only 1 tree is cut down and the workers are nowhere in sight. Why?

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Exams were not so friendly, especially with teachers who set papers with the motto of set to kill, and leave as little survivors as possible. This is especially so in the Maths paper. It is plain sick. To bring out the extent of its sickness, I shall quote from some of what my friends said.

Quote: "The CIA should include the AJ Math paper as one of the options in their CIA torture book. I'm sure we can defeat Al Qaeda with it."

Another quote: "Parents should not resort to corporate punishment and punish their kids with canes. They should be equipped with AJ Math paper."

These are quoted from my friends and are thus not my works.

You might ask, what are my views on it? This shall be my answer:

"Doing AJC Maths paper is like 明知山有虎,偏向虎山行"

Despite all this, there will still be (I believe) imbalanced people (or simply sick) who still manage excellent results in these papers... They are infamously well-known as the people who spoil the market. Thus, there is a strong need to correct them with market failure policies.'

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Now to move on to the happier aspects. Went to eat lunch at Long John Silvers today with Darren and Desmond. The counter-staff was very nice and friendly, and he goes by the name of Webster. Funny name I know, but good service, strongly recommended to visit. (Rivervale Mall Outlet by the way.)

We then went to Daiso to play around, although that isnt recommended at all and it's a negative example for kids, haha.

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At the later part of the day, we went to Kovan to see Darren off for tuition. Then, Nich khaw and I had the craziest of the craziest idea (ok, maybe not to crazy people.) We decided to walk home from Kovan. Nk decided to accompany me till Rivervale Plaza before taking bus home (LOL, what a waste of energy I know and the same bus fare haha) Nevertheless, it was good exercise and chat between us. And the journey home from Kovan was indeed superbly long and crazy... I was perspiring all over when I reached home and then....

My parents decided that we shall go to Kovan today... And if you read the earlier part close enough and clearly... you would have known why this idea just owned me totally...

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4 more papers to go, and 2 being the MCQ papers (which the primary concern is time for chem MCQ...)
Anyways, the next post shall be after prelims and about the papers... more extensive review and coverage.

2011-09-04T22:19:00.002+08:00

Chapter 278: And it comes again...

Person A peeks at the phone of Person B.
Person B withdrew his phone and said "Hey, do you know what is privacy?"
Person A replied "Oh, I left privacy in the toilet."
Person B goes ...
Person A added "What? Are you telling me that you dont have privacy in the toilet?"

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This is supposedly the last post... till the end of Prelims 2011... Haiz, it's coming at me again... I'm starting to hate exams more and more... forces me to study (which I dislike), and eats up all my leisure time (esp. computer time). Exams after exams... its a endless cycle.

And after that comes the Legendary A levels... and then a small break before isolation from the world for 2 years (or 22 months to be exact.)

Anyways, specialist review comin on thursday, hoping for a miracle to ease my 22 months period...

This is probably the last post till the end of Prelims, so I would advise you against checking back in the mean time. For your info, Prelims end at 23 Sept at around 9am (I think).

And then, there will be a comprehensive (if the mood doesnt kill it) review on the Prelim Exams.

Meanwhile, its time to start studying on Monday... after the chem planning lecture... Till then.

2011-09-02T23:49:00.004+08:00

Chapter 277: Teachers Day

I just came over to post after viewing Nich Khaw's blog, my eyes hurt because of the colour contrast.. suddenly all white after a sea of orange among the black.
To start off, I went to school as per normal to AJC. We started off by dancing... cause its ACES (All Children Exercise Simultaneously) Day. When my primary sch cousin got to know of this, he exclaimed in wonder that "You all still have ACES day ah? I thought for pri sch only."
Lol, this reminds me of last yr's ACES day - a complete failure - where only a negligible minority danced... and this year the situation is a little better..
After the boring stuff, here comes the ... less boring stuff...
The celebrations.
At the hall.

First up we have a performance by 3 guys, 1 of them is from my class, 1 of them is from my Orientation Group and the last guy is from... I dont know him.
They sang the song "听老师的话", which is an edited version of "听妈妈的话" by the best singer on Earth, Jay Chou. No, there are no sweeping statements at all here, everything here are the facts.
The lyrics were not bad.

Then come several performances, etc etc, and the last part was the dance category. A group of random people started dancing and then come De Imprea (the winner of dance category for AJ Idol) and then another group of randomers.

Finally it was over. Cards were written during the performances btw. So its time to distribute them. Strangely, they wanted to give PE teachers too.. so, Yian, Binghui and I went to the PE Dept to hand the card over to Mr. Tay, who looked stunned to receive the card.
Then, we gave the card to our GP tutor, Mrs Chng. There, we met Darren, who was giving his self-baked cupcakes to the teachers, including Mrs Chng. She was very impressed with Darren for the self-baked-cupcakes-that-made-him-sleep-at-5am. How thoughtful of him, Mrs Chng seemed to say/imply. When taking photo, Darren helped us took the class photo, and he asked Yian to stand closer. Mrs Chng immediately added that yian is Mr. Untidy (due to his infamous handwriting, an art piece worthy of the museum)

Then I ran off to join my friends to return back to Xinmin.
We went to find the teachers (obviously). We started off with bumping into Mr. Tan Boon Hai (my History teacher who relieved Mr. Pah when he went to the States). He was a great teacher too, that time he was a trainee teacher with a meagre pay, yet he still chose to treat the whole History class to Burger King. That time, we were still grumbling about how that would have been impossible with our then E Maths Teacher (we nicknamed him Mr Utterly Hopeless).
Mr Tan seemed to forget our names.. he took a few moments to start recalling Darren, then Desmond and he pointed to me. Stop. Think. Think. Think (Jimmy Neutron makes a special appearance here.) Luckily he remembered Nicholas. And so on.

Next we met Mr Pah, another awesome history teacher. He is still proud of my class, and he called us "Heroes who have made 100% A1 in Pure History."

Next, we went to see our E/A Maths Teacher, Ms Yeo. Ms Yeo claimed that she is getting old, her memory is failing her. Need I say more about it?
So, Darren re-introduced us one-by-one, and refreshed her memory.

Oh, we were, at that instance, looking at a class sitting at the parade square (getting punished for dont know what reason. Under the hot sun... It must be... animal cruelty)

Then we went to see our sec 3 physics teacher, Mr. Chan, and we chatted for awhile. It was then we come to know that our sec 4 physics teacher, Ms Tan, had went to Pei Hwa Sec Sch.. HEY! Isn't that my sister's school? I got to ask her when I get back, I thought.

Then we went to see our form teacher -aka- chemistry teacher, Mr Chew.
Nich Khaw (nk) and I then decided to tour the school to relieve some memories.
We went to our sec 4 classroom.. and that made me think of the "402 Blockade" that we built at that time. haha. It looks like this (see below):

Isn't that a great fortified defense? haha, good old memories that time.
Then we went to check out our sec 3 classroom.
The good old spray paint at the back of the class was gone... the bright pink colour was gone... it was repainted and it became 409 classroom.

Oh, and we realised that alot of the teachers received promotions. Mr. Wong, my elective geog teacher, has become the HOD of Humanities. Mr. Tang, my Chinese teacher, had become the HOD of Mother Tongue. etc

And then we went to the canteen. Nk, Desmond and I tried out Darren's self-made-cupcakes (which he deemed unpresentable to teachers anymore). It was nice, really.
As time passes, we went out to Hougang Point (not mall, not plaza) for lunch, with Ms Yeo and Mr Chew.
And so we had lunch at the Kopitiam. Mr Chew then treated us desserts. Then we went on separate ways.

I went home with Desmond. Took 161... its been long since I last took this bus... memories after memories...

Reached the bus stop and I, for once, dont mind walking the long stretch of road home. It just brings back more memories.

And then I went home and rested.
At around 6.30, I called Binghui (bh) and I went out to meet him. Then we went to the bus stop to wait for the arrival of Yian and Jacquelyn (jac). Apparently, they alighted at the wrong stop (1 stop earlier I think). So we walked and we met halfway. Yian is still living in denial, he still refuses to believe that trees are all around him in Sengkang and Sengkang is NOT A DESERT.

We went to bh's house to deposit our bags before heading to Rivervale Mall to eat dinner. We went for braised duck rice ($3 each). We then went back to his house, sit around, chat awhile then we studied over the night. I shall avoid all education details to avoid boredom.

And his dog is really crazy, his dog enjoys running round and round and round and round till the cows come home...
It seldom barks too.
The only thing I dislike about it is its licking... the dog licked my finger, my hand, my leg at some point, some instance, some time, some where, some how.

Let me re-enact this interesting scene.
Bh asked his mum "他（Yi An）像不像马来人？“
His mum replied ”他不是马来人meh?"

We studied till like 1am before going to sleep.
Jac complained about bh and yian's hand hitting her face in the middle of the night.
yian and I complained about bh's pulling and stealing of the blanket and hugging it... (I will elaborate on this later.)
And there is stiff and intense competition between yian and bh in the snoring contest.

One instance: Binghui was snoring, nothing from yian.
One instance: Yian was snoring, binghui nothing
One instance: BOTH of them were snoring, just that one is louder than the other. (It's all up to you to guess who snored louder.) [This is not rhetorical.]

Elaboration on the blanket stealing:
When I was sleeping next to bh, he stole the blanket from me as usual..
Then he woke up and realised he has been hogging the blanket... so he covered me with the blanket.
All is fine till like less than 5 minutes later.
He fell asleep and stole the blanket from me again...
And the worse thing is that he KEEPS REPEATING THIS CYCLE...

Ok, we were supposed to wake up at 3am to study... but obviously we failed to the maximum, to the infinity and beyond! Alarm clocks (or should I say phone alarms) ring and ring, one after another, from diff phones.. only to be snoozed by us LOL. And we didnt wake up after cancelling the alarm.

So we ended up waking at 8am. We then headed to Long John Silvers to eat breakfast. I ordered Double Turkey Bacon - which was nice, really nice. And it comes with a hashbrown :) and a drink (which I changed to Iced Milo). It's long since I drank iced milo...
After the meal, we went back to bh house to stone, sleep, watch tv, etc and headed home at 1.30pm.

I went home to watch TV awhile before sleeping till around 6. Went out with family to Suntec City via MRT.
Went to the Comex. Haiz, people mountain, people sea, water no entry. [to be read in Chinese]
Went home after that via Mrt... it was crowded.. but not that bad as compared to the EastWest and NorthSouth lines.

And thats about it. Prelims coming... damn sian... maybe no time to post in between...

2011-08-30T00:39:00.003+08:00

Chapter 276: Weekend Review

Presidential Elections on Saturday. How I wish I could vote too...
Waited with my sis for my parents to return from voting. Coincidentally, my neighbour next door came to chat with us, dispelling some boredom. When my parents returned, we went to grandparents place. My dad fetched my grandparents for their voting duties. My grandmother commented that she will vote for the most goodlooking one as she doesnt know anything abt them LOL. (anyway, I will not reveal who as voting is secret.)
And back to the focus of that day - The Elections.
So I camped till late night and sources shown that TT is leading TCB by 8000 votes and a recount was asked for. So I immediately reacted ...... by going to sleep as it might take hours.
The next morning, news came that TT was the president elected, winning over a razor thin margin.... maybe they really should have elimination rounds, where candidates are eliminated one by one, so as to gain majority votes. Now we have a president where 65% of the Singaporeans did not want. (and not to mention his command of Chinese, his preferential treatment of his sons NS obligations [if true], and most importantly his Colonel Sanders look-alike-face)

If only...
The rejected votes gone to TCB, then he would become president instead.

Moving on to Sunday. We have a clash between Manchester United and Arsenal.
And they just thrashed Arsenal left right center 8-2.
The goals from Ashley Young were superb, and so was the free-kicks by Rooney.
But it was bad for Arsenal, having lost Nasri and Fabregas to Man City and Barca respectively... and they were compounded by a series of injuries and suspensions...
Nevertheless, the goals were necessary to overtake Man City at the top of the table :D
The youngsters at Man Utd were great... they must be looking forward to their first Premier League title this season!

Before the match, my family went out to Bugis. A place where there are people than the cars travelling in Singapore at any moment in time. We went to eat before the usual shopping stuffs with family. Nothing much.

Anyways, at press time, its Hari Raya! So Selamat Hari Raya!

2011-08-26T22:36:00.002+08:00

Chapter 275: School Life

My Form teacher told my classmate, Yian, that he is very funny. This is because his SGC (Singapore Graduation Certificate) draft has the name "Nicholas" repeated a few times... you should know the reason why...

The detriments of copy and paste function.

The word of the day is "Titillating"
In case you wonder what the word means: Click here
When my GP teacher asked my friend what titillates him? He answered GP. Then we burst out laughing and my GP teacher asked him not to bluff and wanted him to show that by scoring A in the GP essay test...

Speaking of the GP essay test... its very difficult..haiz I think I'm gonna fail it again..

Thursday night - my friends and I went to eat 煮炒. We ordered BBQ stingray, kangkung and prawn egg. Trying to eat new food orelse it will/might be difficult for me in the near or far future.

Friday after school - Had a great time playing captain's ball with the class, though it's very tiring and sore for legs...

And prelims are coming... damn sian again... really dislike examinations.

Presidential elections tmr... too bad I am not old enough to vote. Voting seems fun LOL.

2011-08-23T22:06:00.002+08:00

Chapter 274: The unlucky day

The day started off with the best and everything just go downhill.
Man Utd had beaten Tottenham 3-0. Finally a clean sheet for David De Gea. Too bad I cant watch the match as it is shown at 3am -.- But there is always repeat on Mio LOL.

First thing is that the alarm clock failed to ring. Luckily, my sis woke half an hr later to find out that WE WERE ALL LATE. And so... we rushed and I got a ride from my father to school instead of taking the public transport. Was early nonetheless, orelse I will break my clean record of 0 times late since 1993.

During PE, we played softball (similar to baseball). The first round of fielding was terrible for us as we let 4 home runs... Our batting was similarly (as bad) as the teacher pitched too low for us to bat properly....
Our second round of batting was not very good too, though better. The second round of fielding was better. The first batter hit the ball and I caught it after it bounced a few times. He had reached the first base by then. Suddenly, I realised he was beside me (Yes, he continued to run... greed.) So I threw the ball to the second base and Yi An sent the first runner out.
The second batter sent the ball near me, I picked it up and threw it to the first base. Binghui caught it with ease and send the second batter OUT. The third batter was much more decent, alot of flop ups with our fielding, and he managed it to the third base. Nevertheless, the fourth batter let the ball near the pitcher and it went back to first base, sending the third batter out.
3 strikes and its over.

Played soccer after that, and it was terrible. We were seemingly "short of defenders". And 2-0 down thats it.

Basketball after that and I sprained my thumb... now its swollen and I cant apply force using the thumb (I cannot write properly too...)

Then we went back to class for economics lesson. And this was when I realised I lost my wallet... I remembered picking it up at the basketball court before leaving... So Binghui and I traced back our movements in an attempt to search for the wallet... but to no avail. Then, my econs teacher advised me to report to the General Office immediately. So, I left the class and went to the General Office.
On the way there, I ran into James and Darren (both sold separately) and I gathered them together in the hunt for my wallet. We went to check the basketball court once again and even the toilet that I went to. When all was fruitless, the General Office was the last solution. The receptionist (or whatever u call it) said "There are no items found today." I opened the lost and found book and saw another person also lost smth.. he's from 17/11. Abit of coincidence, but nvm. Then, I went back to class...

Haiz I thought I would never lose things because of my heavy paranoia for losing things... and yet I did... I would always check for my wallet and phone in my pockets... somehow I didnt do so when I walked from reading room to class...

After the lesson, Joey told me that her friend had found my wallet. So, I got it back from her after she got it from her friend. Thankfully, the wallet was fully intact. The 27 dollars, the IC, the EZ-link and most importantly my Jay Chou photo (just kidding), and other miscellaneous stuffs.

Just some points to ponder, which remains a mystery (to me at least.) Firstly, how did my wallet ended up being found at room 1311 when I didnt even go there...
Secondly, how did the person who found my wallet know which class I am in...

Ah, all that doesnt matter now since I got my wallet back with nothing lost :D Really lucky for me...

And that marks the end of the unlucky day... more stuffs will just really plunge me into the great depression.

2011-08-18T22:24:00.002+08:00

Chapter 273: Life

As expected and hoped for, Man Utd beat West Brom 2-1.. Young keeper De Gea blunders again... hopefully he will improve...

Things at home are not so good. The heater spoilt a few days ago.. in order not to bear with the cold bath, my mum had to boil water and mix them with large amounts of cold water to prepare our baths... its like water rationing. One pail of bucket for bathing. Quite an interesting and different bathing experience to me nonetheless... and I'm glad the heater is fixed today and had a nice bath.

And tmr marks the last day of the normal school timetable. From next week onwards, the truncated timetable will kickstart and dismissal time is really very early, so that we have time to study after sch.

As the A levels come closer, the prelims come even closer, and not to forget, the End of A Levels (a.k.a the beginning of the freedom) comes closer too. All at the same rate. Soon next year, I will begin 2 year course on "Suffering" unless the specialist review on the Sept Holidays proved otherwise.

PE was rather fun, a switch from softball to soccer. Soccer was my favourite sport, though I suck at it (really suck). My team was 2-0 up in the beginning and ended up 3-5 in defeat after the sudden shift of defenders to attackers role.
Everyone in the team knew their roles (defender, midfield, striker) initially until we were 2-0 up. We then push too many people forward and ended up with 2 defenders and a poor goalkeeper to withstand the menace strike force of the opposing team... only to concede time and over to make the score 3-5.
The PE teacher said that we are allowed to slide, provided we dont injure anyone. And that made me think of my sec sch friend, who is arguably a sliding-enthusiast, he likes sliding so much that he even slided in a hockey match at AJC Openhouse LOL.

Recently, I am enticed by the song "爸，我回来了" by Jay Chou. It was a rather old song by him. But it is nice to the extent that I repeatedly play this song from youtube. (To add on, there is a hassle of keep pressing replay and there is no such function in youtube... And mixpod doesnt allow most of Jay Chou's songs to be placed into the playlist on my blog... So that explains the absence of his songs here...)

2011-08-14T22:25:00.001+08:00

Chapter 272: Homework

Alot of homework, thus less time for posting here. Anyways I will not let this site fade away until further notice...

Anyways, EPL is back! Man Utd match coming up later at 11pm.

Hopeful they will win :D

Ok nothing much left to say...

2011-08-08T22:51:00.002+08:00

Chapter 271: National Day Eve

And... Man U beat Man City 3-2 :D Dramatic and amazing comeback from 2-0 down, thanks to goals from Smalling and Nani (2) :) Yay, community shield is lifted by Man Utd!!

National day celebrations as per normal. Nick Shen came to my school. In case u dont know who that is, simply copy paste his name onto google and do an image search.
Went home after that before heading out to meet my friend (whose identity is concealed due to request. The only clue I can give is that he is a male.)

He was already eating lunch wif his friends, so I went opposite to Rivervale Mall to eat. Wanted to eat at Long John initially but it was kindof expensive.. Macdonalds was flooded... not with water, but people. KFC was the next alternative, somewhat full but tried nevertheless... It was when I discovered the pain of eating alone... no one to help chope seats!!! And I FORGOT TO BRING MY TISSUE TO CHOPE SEATS!!!

As I queued for KFC, I kept looking out for potential available seats... and the need to ask for takeaway in case all seats are occupied. Bought lunch and sat down and eat. Went to Nex.

My friend was at Starbucks (he had lunch at Sushi Tei just now) with his other friends (who also cannot be revealed to conceal his identity in case he get assassinated or any other possible forms of danger.) Upon knowing that seats were selling fast for our movie (that we wanted to catch... it dropped from 2 rows of free seats to SIX SEATS!!!), we dashed to Shaw Theatres...

Horrors of horrors ... the queue.. Got over with it in around 10 mins and asked if we could get hold of the tix to the 3 of the remaining 6 seats... (luckily, 3 of them are next to each other/adjacent to each other)

So we caught the movie: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
It was quite ok except that the fighting scene (or should i say magical fighting scene) was abit too uninteresting.. we expected much more exciting magical battle! LOL. (must be too much of those fiction games that relate to magic, war, etc.)

My friend and I then went to eat macs as he had a voucher. It's regarding Pepper chicken Mcgrill, a new food in macs I suppose. Buy it and get something free. It costs 4.80. So we split costs and 2.40, a burger each.

Went home after that.

And of course not to forget, Happy National Day! Happy Birthday Singapore!

2011-08-07T01:00:00.003+08:00

Chapter 270:

And finally, here comes the "long" weekend. Saturday and Sunday are the normal weekends, and Monday is half-day (celebrations), following by Tuesday and Wednesday for National Day and day off respectively! So its a 2 days + half day + 2 days off!
How nice if weekends were 5 days and weekdays were 2 days instead.

This week's GP lecture is conducted by my own GP teacher. Luckily, she didnt call me to answer any questions, or it would be my 3rd consecutive time getting called during GP lecture...

There's soccer match (community shield) tmr, hope Man Utd can beat Man City :)
It will happen!

Well, actually there is nothing much left for me to say... so I guess we'll just end here.

2011-07-29T22:56:00.002+08:00

Chapter 269: Week 5

Friday, as I packed my bag yesterday, I took out my Bio TYS by mistake, and ended up forgetting to bring it to sch today... During bio lecture, I was hoping I dont get called to answer questions. Thankfully, we started off with some random questions. Then the teacher asked for the role of mesosome. We were allowed to google it (or you can choose to yian it.) with our phones that are smart.
So we did and my friend and I got called to answer that question. I said a correct explanation for mesosome, and the teacher said that I was a good student.. (little did he know that I forgot to bring Bio TYS to college.)

GP lecture must be a conspiracy. I got called to answer a question last week and I got called today again... According to Teck Chuan, they must have highlighted my name in the paper of attendance list...
Or maybe because its a rather (common?) christian name? and (easy?) to call?

During Bio remedial, my teacher told us a phrase that will make happy people sad, and sad people happy.
What do you think it is?

And I'm happy that Singapore made it to the 3rd round of World Cup qualifiers for 2014 by winning Malaysia 6-4 on aggregate.

2011-07-27T22:18:00.002+08:00

Chapter 268: Compound Discovery

The school system finally records the CIP hours for famine camp!
BUT they gave us 24 hours CIP for 30 hours Famine Camp, what irony.

Had a one-to-one tuition yesterday with my GP teacher. It was rather scary lol. She gave me 2 pieces of newspapers from "Today" to read. She requests that I photocopy it and return them to her pigeon hole. The problem is that the photocopy services at bookshop is terrible, they suck at photocopying newspapers bigger than A4 size....
The problem at block 11 is that you need a photocopying card to photocopy stuff -.-

So I decided to try my luck with the block 11 aunty. Thankfully, she is willing to make an exception and help me photocopy the newspapers... That was nice, something not to be expected from the bookshop.

Today, we had Chemistry mock paper. It was last year's A Level Chemistry paper, with the ultramost difficult questions, that make people sweat like never before, that made it into the newspapers last year for its notoriousity in toughness.
And today, we finally got a taste of it and finally comprehended the feelings of the seniors...
There was this question where I learnt about a new compound. I cant remember the name of the compound, so I decided to name it myself. I call the group (-OMgBr) in the compound, the "Bromo-ohmygod group"
By the way the question is about Grignard's reaction.

2011-07-24T00:22:00.002+08:00

Chapter 267: PTM & Polyclinic

In case you are wondering, PTM stands for Parent-Teacher Meeting.

In case you are wondering (again), PTM and Polyclinic are 2 separate entities which are of no correlation at all... They're linked at the title as these 2 issues shall be the main focus of this post.

PTM is a legendary affair in every school. Parents and students react very differently to this. Some children turn into an angel overnight (for one day and only one day, which is before PTM), some simply do not bother, etc etc... As for me, I just hope that the teachers wont badmouth about me.

Well, after meeting the teachers, the general consensus from the teachers are that I am too quiet in class... and I lack self confidence.
Well, being quiet? Cause I dont really like to answer questions and I fear answering questions wrongly... well that brings me to the point of lacking self-confidence. But sometimes I really not sure whether the answer is correct or not, and 60% of the time, my answer will be wrong.. When I am confident of an answer to that particular question, teachers just dont ask me that question. They'll wait till a question that is 50-50 or clueless to me... then they'll choose to ask me ...

And Mrs Ong really told my parents about me staring blankly at her when she asked me a question in which I am unsure of...

Since there need to be a balance to every essay to pass GP, I will attempt to balance my points here. The positive sides. The teachers have faith in me, they believe I can do well. They told my parents not to worry and I could do well in the A levels... They are stressing me and worrying me by saying this... But I hope I dont disappoint...

Now to move on to the Polyclinic part. I visited it for my pimples problem on my back. But thats not the main point.
The point is that there is a long waiting time... probably (or should i say definitely?) due to the cheap cost of it.

In the polyclinic, I can hear people speaking on the phone. 95% of the time, they will lament the long waiting time... (Well, what my GP teacher said was right. Polyclinics have long waiting time and they're cheap. If you want a shorter waiting time, private clinics are the right paths to take.)
There are also people complaining that the "numbers anyhow jump"... and in one instance, someone said that the "numbers go gostan (reverse)" (Obviously, a puzzled look appeared on my face at that instance.) Like since when the numbers go reversed....

I think that polyclinics function in a way that they assign (queue) numbers to each room. Like there is room A,B,C for consultations and 12 people visitng.
Room A will get person 1,4,7,10
Room B will get person 2,5,8,11
Room C will get person 3,6,9,12
But the doctors operate at different speeds (also factoring in the conditions of the patients of course.)
So lets say if the doc from room C is fast, the numbers will go like: 1,2,3,6,9,12
Ppl complain that the number jumped, in actual fact, it is going in the sequence of 3,6,9,12 for the doc in room C...

Hopefully, you got enlightened about the functions of the polyclinic. Rest assured this question will not appear in your exam paper and neither am I going to test you about it.

So I got antibiotics for my pimples problem. Hopefully it will go milder and milder, so the itch dont kill me.

2011-07-21T21:14:00.002+08:00

Chapter 266: School Life

Travelling home from sch with bh, and he suddenly pointed to a private jet in the sky.
Bh said that that plane must be yian's one. He must be inside that plane. Rich kid.
Then I told him that yian had finally discovered that the East side of Singapore is the best place to be (in comparison to the West.) So he took this plane to find us and discover our wonderful place (Sengkang) :)
However, our place doesnt have much empty land for plane to land. It can only take off and land in his area, where there are lots of barren land (a.k.a. desert).

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Economics mock test was difficult, hopes are almost 0.

And finally, there is no more cca sessions for me.
And finally, afternoon PE has come to an end, leaving morning PE for softball!
It's quite a nice game, really.

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And there is Parent Teacher Meeting (PTM) tomorrow, I wish the teacher dont badmouth about me (not that I have any bad things to talk about besides being quiet in class, or is that even considered a bad thing?)

2011-07-16T22:56:00.002+08:00

Chapter 265: Hectic

Just realised I hadnt been posting for quite a long time due to hectic school schedules..the remedials, studies, tests, homework etc etc...

Results are not good.. worse than my expectations..
Many occasions you just wish you have yian's brain. Natural intelligence and smartness.. with abit more hardwork put in, perfection is within reach.

Since I'm flooded by studies recently this whole week, I dont really have any things much to report about ...

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Google maps is hilarious seriously... when you try to travel from some country to Taiwan, one of their directions is ...

"Swim across the Pacific Ocean".

2011-07-10T22:07:00.002+08:00

Chapter 264: Fun Pack

Oooooooooooh~

Ok, joking, this isnt about the fun pack song. Its about NLZZ Times!

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My chem teacher went thru the chem answers for mcq. And as I didnt write down the options on my qn paper... i didnt know how much i got...
But that is not the main focus, the main focus is at one of the questions..
There were this option that says "16g Methanol"
And I wrote there "CH2OH"

Obviously, the panic has made me wrote the formula wrongly, it should be "CH3OH" Due to this, I thought that this option was wrong. So I chose the option that says the other 2 options are correct and this is wrong.
And it turned out that my careless mistake became a blessing in disguise :)
The answer was ACTUALLY WRONG AS METHANOL IS NOT A GAS! But I thought it was wrong because of the miscalculated Molecular mass from my above formula LOL.

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During PE lesson, my teacher said that in running, the true enemy is yourself.
So I thought that if we killed ourselves, we would have won cause we're killing the enemy.
Oh, and I lent the teacher my watch, but he didnt give me any bonuses (like giving me extra 30 secs to complete the run..)
Bh was insisting that the teacher let us play basketball during PE.
So the teacher said "You want play 5 on 5 on 5 on 5 ah?"
Bh replied "ya"
The teacher replied "If I'm not a teacher, I would have shown u the finger."
LOL

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My GP teacher was talking about the reasons why longevity could be a blessing, and why it could be a concern.
I have the perfect answer to how longevity could be a blessing!
So as to achieve the Guinness Book of Records for the longest age!

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Do you know that prostate cancer is racist?
Newspaper reports say that Chinese are twice as likely to be affected as compared to others...

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FICTION STORY
A waiter took orders from 2 men at a restaurant.
Both of them ordered steak.
The waiter asked "How well do you want your steak to be cooked?"
The first man replied "medium well"
The second man, wanting to be different, replied "uncooked"

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My friend, wm, accidentally burnt a small portion of the menu at Jack's Place. I told him to raise up his hand and tell the waiter that there is something wrong with his menu and he should demand a replacement of the menu.
Isn't this a great plan to shift the blame out totally? LOL.

2011-07-05T22:27:00.002+08:00

Chapter 263: Career Guidance

I think my school offers a nice deal, $65/day for a student to come back to mark Maths MYCT paper. Mr Ong told us he got to mark the question on Mathematical Induction, and of course he did mention about Yian's terrible handwriting LOL.

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Basically, today yian is supposed to be "sick". So he dint come to sch.
So we started off the event with sharing and Q&A with ex-AJ students who are "successful". The location? Oh, we had it in the oven. Or was it the furnace?
Basically, the place is devoid of aircon...

Then came the Cohort in Conversation where we shared opinions about certain career-related questions before reflections.

Then we had bio. We went thru the MYCT MCQ for Bio... the marking was fast but our progress was slow. We are "disappointing" to the teachers... haiz, shall spare elaboration. Demoralising. And that made me miss the chance to attend the Festival of Life and that means one less thing to write for my SGC :(

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And we are gonna have Bio test on Diversity and Evolution and Nervous control tmr...
sianz ttm, just after exams man...

2011-07-02T23:32:00.002+08:00

Chapter 262: Mid Year Exams Review

Today, while shopping at Kovan, I saw this advert "1+1=1, buy 2 for the price of 1."
It is a flawed advert cause 1+1 isnt 1, and by using that given equation, I can pay less.
Lets say I want to purchase something that costs $8
$8 = $(1+1)+(1+1)+(1+1)+(1+1)
Since 1+1 = 1,
$(1+1)+(1+1)+(1+1)+(1+1) = $ 1+1+1+1
= $ (1+1) + (1+1)
Using the same formula above,
$ (1+1) + (1+1) = $1+1
= $ (1+1)
= $ 1
Therefore, I can buy something that costs $8 in that shop for $1 based on the above given formula of 1+1=1.

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Ok back to Mid Years.
It started off with GP.
GP Paper 1 - I did the question on religion. As it is a sensitive issue, I shall not elaborate anything here.
GP Paper 2 - It was about doing good things like donations? It was quite ok I thought.

Hope to pass GP.

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Next day came the Econs paper. The first case study was on Water resources and it seems very unlinked with the econs concepts that we learned... so I think its hard.
Second case study is on case study, should do much better, though not very good.

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Third day was the toughest and "killer" day. Maths paper plus Bio paper 2.
Maths was a killer paper... one of the toughest paper in many years. And once again, the Legendary AJC Maths Paper set by Legendary Teachers have pawned up straight in our face, left right center up down center.
Moderation is much needed here i suppose... and I think a moderation by multiplication of 2 of the marks would be logical since passing is a tedious affair.
For those imbalanced talents who scores imbalanced A grades for that paper should have their marks divided by 2 during moderation as they are expected to do better.

Bio was average i suppose... with some hard questions of course..

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4th day came the Chemistry paper. Paper 1 of MCQ was a guessing game and adrenaline rush test (like always). Paper 2 was abit difficult i suppose?

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Last day was the best. Bio MCQ - strangely 1 hr 15 mins for bio mcq and only 1 hr for chem, when chem has many calculations-heavy questions... I just dont get the logic behind it, maybe it defies logic.

Maths stats paper was quite ok i suppose. Strange to throw in one random differentiation question from nowhere...

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And after that paper, we went to watch a movie, details are at the previous chapter below...

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The introduction song from the Cartoon "Phineas and Ferb" goes like this...
"There's a 104 days in summer vacation, when school comes around just to end there, and the annual problem for our generation is finding a good way to spend.."
My reaction to this was "What the hell, are you freaking serious?!"

And then... I wondered why doesnt Phineas and Ferb have any homework or CCA stuffs -.-

2011-07-01T22:38:00.003+08:00

Chapter 261: Yian's most expensive movie

Yian, me and matthew went to the movies at AMK today. We reached there early to purchase 3 tickets for the show "Transformers" in 3D. Yian happily offered to keep the tickets so I shall just leave it and trust him for once.
We then went to the coffee shop to eat lunch. I ordered chicken cutlet, it was a piece of chicken with soup and rice. $3.90 only.
Then, Darren called me and asked me to hang out with him, but I got to reject him sadly cause the tickets were bought already.
After the movie tickets, yian was broke and he needed $. So we went around AMK hunting for an ATM for POSB. We found it at last and he withdrew money.
We then bought drinks at Cheers. Thanks to yian for the treat.
We then hurried up to the cinema at 1.40pm sharp. And guess what?

Yian lost the tickets.

With the sian-est face ever and the temptation to swear, he queued again (with us). He passed me the $42 for the tickets and didn't dare to touch the tickets or money anymore LOL. So at the end of the day, he spent $56 watching transformers in 3D. It's the most expensive movie he had ever watched, so we asked him to savour every moment and he die die MUST enjoy the movie or he might cry and kill matt for suggesting to watch it in 3D LOL.
We were also joking what if he found the tickets later at home LOL.

Oh, and Matt says he likes to see the advertisements before the movie, so if we missed it, we will ask yian to treat us to the movie a second time. And at this time, after watching the advertisements, we will leave before the show starts LOL.

Overall, it was a very nice show, one of the best i have watched.

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Update: I have eaten my 3rd meal of fish after eating fish in a relative's wedding dinner.

P.S. Update on examinations review will be on the next chapter. Meanwhile, its time to party tonight!

2011-06-19T22:39:00.002+08:00

Chapter 260: Famine Camp, hungry for a better world

How do you get more than 1 vote in the General Elections?

Friday marks the start of the famine camp. Woke up early and my dad drove me, bh and sam to Ngee Ann Poly. Went in to the Convention Centre and waited for the registration to open. Registration opens shortly after and we went to queue separately due to separate countries. Got my log book, bag tag, etc etc and set off to collect the shirts. Went to change and deposited the bags. Went to the Makan Place.

Yian came and we discovered that his shirt size is oversized for him LOL. We also noticed that we had a role assigned in our "Identity Card". Yian got adult while bh got child, ironies in life. We wanted to wait till the eleventh hour (literally) before buying food, as camp kickstarts at 12 noon and from then on, no food for 30 WHOOPING hours!!!
So we queued, and I bought some rice with chicken and egg (which isn't chicken rice but some Jap food.)
Bought drinks, went to toilet before heading for the camp.

Went into Convention Centre for the Opening Ceremony. We then sorted into our groups. My group is Laos - Worra.
The first activity is called "Welcome to the REAL world". This is where we simulate the real life in third world countries. Some of us went to seek education level 1, but the crowd was overwhelming... we waited and waited and waited... till the cows come home. We were almost there before the school "collapsed", phase 1 ended and our efforts have gone down the drain as we did nothing practically... 1 of my group mate, Bryson was smart enough to get a tailoring job to get $2.

Phase 2 then begun and we decided to forgo the rubbish education system where cutting queues is needed to gain an education... So we went to work instead. We went for fishing for money!!
We get a rod with a hook and we are to hook plastic bags... and my hook just cannot connect to the plastic bag damn... I'm not born a fisherman, neither do I have the talent for it at alll.... so I went off empty-handed, efforts to vain, 3 less energy.. Moyra was good at this and got 2 plastic bags.. but she didnt know how to impart her fishing skills... so we went off with $10.

We then crossed the overhead bridge to a field where we got 3 energy for $2. We tried gambling and we won initially before losing and going back to square one. We queued for farming, only to realise that my group members are unable to take part due to injuries gotten at (fishing?) We then went to work at the Work Site instead... but by the time we reached our turn.. the game was over.. got paid anyways....

Ok, let me explain more about this game, there is education, working (gambling, prostitution,fishing, etc), hospital, AIDS, injuries, drug trafficking, etc ... and there are random people throwing (and giving) free money around ...

If random people giving free money are around in 3rd world countries, there wouldnt be so much problems there... so that part is failed simulation...

So, phase 2 ended and we proceed on to the next item, Group reflection and sharing.. went to the hall and they placed pictures of tombstones (or graves?) around.. simulating people (few group members) dying from hunger... We are then supposed to share our thoughts with one another... but luckily for me, I got chosen for the Dialogue in the Dark event along with 4 other group mates.

So we went for it, and ended up going there too early. We ended up playing games like ..( I dont know how to spell the name.. so just forget it.) For Dialogue in the Dark event, I belonged to India, and I went into the dark room.

Walking in with cane (for blind people, but I dont know how to use..) It was pure darkness, u cant see your hands infront of u... I was holding on to bh's shoulder then ( he somehow managed to sneak into here...) We are supposed to pick up materials from the ground and build a shelter.. but it was pitch darkness... how do we build... For this part, bh and I just sat there rooted... not searching for anything.. no one knows anyways as its PURE DARKNESS HAHA! In the end, we got a cardboard from someone and we just held it above our heads... no way to build without vision seriously... and that marks the end of that event.

Went back to the group for "A Day in a Child's Life". Due to the Dialogue in the Dark Event, we missed out on the part where we are simulating shoe polishing. So safe from the awkwardness lol. We are then "human trafficked." We are blindfolded, and asked to hold each other's shoulder. We are then ordered to squat down and we are taped around to secure more than 1 person tgt... it was very straining on the ankle...

We then played games like 老鹰抓小鸡, Chapteh.
We then did penmanship and origami.

For chapteh, one of my group mate, Stephane, tends to kick with excessive force and it was fly into someone's face LOL. For penmanship, we are asked to write with our non-dominant hand... at this moment I was wondering what Yi An's one will look like... (true enough..later someone [forgot who] told me that his handwriting for left and right hand has no distinction.
For origami, we folded a paper boat using an A4 paper... they keep repeating the steps of square and triangle.. it was easier to use a square paper instead!

We then went back to the Convention Centre for "Reality Bites" It was a talk by Nicole Gan, 15-year-old Singaporean child sponsor.
Some more events occured before we went for the day debrief.

Went to collect our bags and went to the sleeping area. It was rumoured to be haunted, so join me in this journey of the haunted! The lift was said to display that first. Whenever it reaches its destination floor, it will have a sound of the lift going off, before the door opens.. Went to the 5th floor. Went around exploring the rooms... for unlocked rooms to sleep in.. and then! Bryson went to the last classroom and he pushed a door. The lights went off immediately.. it was spooky.
We thought it was better not to go into that room...
Settled for another room.. we then went to seek out a toilet ( the closest toilet was near the last classroom, so we didnt dare to go in). We went down to the 4th floor, darkness reigns... So we gave up and went all the way down to the first floor in seek of a toilet LOL.
Found one and did whatever we're supposed to do before heading back to sleep.

Sleeping was a difficult ordeal for me... the floor was hard.. different sleeping positions didnt work as diff parts of the body have to endure tha pain... plus the coldness from the aircon was unbearable.. So I just lay down there from 12 to 3.45am before sleeping (i think, as i had a dream, which i cant rmb what it is.) Woke at around 7 when someone's alarm went off... and the best thing is that majority of the people still managed to continue sleeping away when the alarm is screaming at the top of its voice till it almost lost its voice...

First event was "Fish to Infinity" . It was an event where we must do planning. We have to plan on at least $2000 worth of things to give to third world countries (that ranges from building wells to providing education kits to giving them cows.) We also had to plan an event to raise funds.. (like concerts or etc etc.)

Next event was "ROMAS" (Reach Out and Make A Stand!) In this event, we are going to town! (Orchard) to take photos with members of the public, to raise awareness for our cause. There are prizes for the most creative shot, most number of shots with the public, best jump shot, etc.)
We did our jump shot and hoped to win as we thought it was quite creative.. but the judges think otherwise apparently..
We did our creative shot in the DRAIN! But were defeated by a photo that showed the word "30!" using people... like what...

Went back to Ngee Ann Poly, waited for the closing Ceremony. Went to find other classmates. We played some random games and the last game was to pass a coin around ( we're sitting in a circle) and the person in the centre was supposed to guess where the coin was... the last one was damn hilarious as random and numerous guesses are all wrong...
The mystery?
THERE WASNT EVEN A COIN PASSED AROUND TO BEGIN WITH LOL~!~!~~ APPARENTLY yian didnt pick up the coin from the floor when game starts..

Went back to the group, sat in Convention Centre and awaited the closing ceremony. Some random games by DJs, singings from some people that I dont know before the BREAK FAST! Had Nasi Lemak (ingredients: Rice, chicken wing, egg). It was marvellous! Everything there is something that I actually eat.. so it was jackpot for me and I finished it, first meal since famine camp started LOL. Somehow, I didnt really feel hungry throughout the camp.. and all of us survived on only liquid... (plain water, soya bean drink, etc) It does work well anyways...

And that marks the end of the 30 hour Famine Camp! We are hungry for a better world!

2011-06-14T00:21:00.002+08:00

Chapter 259: NS Checkup

7am wake up in the morning (not singing Rebecca Black's Friday here... but...)
and I went to prepare myself.

Set off to pay a visit to CMPB.
Went to the canteen to take a drink of soya bean, while my dad ate something (which i could not recall)
I then entered the building and presented my completed questionnaire and IC.
I was redirected to the area where phototaking occurs.

To my alarm, the guy there says that the fringe shouldn't cover the forehead at all...and we are to comb it... it seems... (beyond the point where words can explain.)
Quickly took the photo and left for the next station.

The next station up was urine test. That was faster than I expected... thankfully, I had heed my cousin's advice and not urine before the whole test. Time to put the pee to good use. Took up a small bottle, when into the toilet and .. (shall not elaborate due to the fact that this page should be available to General Viewing.)
Did the urine test, showed the person the strip of paper and it was fine.

Went inner for a blood test. The first thing that the person asked me kinda surprised me a little. He asked "Do you play computer games?"
Me: "Yes"
Him: "What computer games do you play?"
Me: "Erm... warcraft 3"
Him: "Do you play counter strike?"
Me: "Erm.. last time I played it."
Him: "Not now anymore?"
Me: "Ya."
Him: "So you played counter strike 1.6?"
Me: "No, condition zero."
Him: "Oh, condition zero."
--- The rest of the conversation are blood test related.---
Before the injection of the needle, I could see my whole vein already lol.
Then he inserted the needle... it was more painful than I expected..
And he drew a syringe of blood.

Then there is this survey asking about their services.... Maybe that is why the guy chated with me LOL - to get imbalanced survey response... haha or maybe he wants to find people to play counter strike with him LOL. I played along and gave the best responses possible.. something I dont really do often..

--- The following tests to come are not in order (because I had forgotten the order...)---

Hearing Test: Went into an enclosed room, headphones on, supposed to raise hand upon hearing the sound... while everybody else outside stares on at you... The worse thing is that you keep raising your hand inside, and everyone seemed as if they are looking at a fool (who keeps raising up his hands...) ...

Eye Test: The staff scanned my spectacles.. and I was to read one line of alphabets as if I'm at the optician lol.. very quick process. Nothing much.

Teeth Test: You sit on a dental-type-of-chair and the "dentist" checks upon your teeth for any decay/missing/normal tooth..
The person infront of me didnt fare too well with some "missing teeth" and abit "decay"
As for me, the person keeps saying the same thing "undecay" over and over until the whole check is over. And here we go all over again.

X-ray Test: Take off shirt and lie in front of smth to scan the top part of the body and thats it.

--- I can't remember any more tests except the medical screening at the last part---

Medical screening station requires us to take off the shirt again and our socks and shoes...

Speaking of this... many people did not follow the instructions and they didnt really bother...
first of all, the hair was supposed to be neat and clean ... and then you see people with hair that can be used to mop the floor when inverted.
Next, they said NO SLIPPERS ARE ALLOWED. Guess what?
Next, isnt there supposed to be no camera phones... and I saw one guy playing away with the iphone -.-

Ok, back to the screening. 1st of all, height and weight. Then blood pressure. Then came this PCG thing which I dont know what that is... and is too lazy to google it.
They just use alot of clip-like-things to clip your legs, hands, chest.. and dont knw what they checking. Then went to see the Medical Officer (MO).

First thing he said was "please move to the corner over there." And then.... "please take off your pants and underwear to the knee-level." After looking for 1-2 seconds, he asked me to wear my pants back. Ok.. nothing much to elaborate here.

The last station was the Vocational Assessment, which is a series of 11 modules of testing via computer. It is said to take the longest time.. around 2-3 hours.
Went in straightaway as no one was waiting outside :)

Did the 11 modules which comprises of:
1. Patterns for symbols... the triangles, circles, squares confuse me.
2. Number patterns... some numbers dont even seem to have a pattern :X
3. Algebra ... and no calculators?! Calculating quadratic equations with fractional coefficients proved to be the worst hit to me :X
4. Linking related words together... this is damn hard la. Guessing game -.-
5. Physics ... wth I don't take this anymore...
6-8. etc
9/10. Agree/Disagree with a series of leadership questions.
11. Survey

This whole series of test is mind-boggling and is seriously damn difficult... it probably takes a genius like yian to do it and pawn them up down left right center. Haiz.

Left the premises.

And thats about it.

If you are wondering where is the random joke of the post, here it is!

Disclaimer: I got this from somewhere else, I did not think of or create this.

一人做事
一人当
小叮做事
小叮当

Note: If you don't understand Chinese, forget it, a translator would NOT help.

2011-06-11T01:01:00.002+08:00

Chapter 258:

A boy walked into a shop, looking everywhere. The shopkeeper approaches and asked him, "Hi, may I help you? What are you looking for?"
The boy replied, "I am looking for my mother."

I hate to repeat this 1 million times but I'm still gonna do so.. I really hate the MYCT that is coming up... its destroying my holidays!!!

I will try my best to blog about the coming NS checkup, the coming famine camp during the holidays... cause I will be using less or even not at all of the computer.. so might need to employ my phone to do it ... All thanks to MYCT.

And without the EPL matches, there wont be weekend reviews most likely...

Ok it seems I am running out of ideas of what to write.. so farewell.

2011-06-08T01:19:00.002+08:00

Chapter 257: 2nd week of Holidays

In a marriage proposal, a man said to the woman, "Let fate decide whether we should get married. Here is a coin, I will toss it up, Heads, you shall marry me, Tails, I will marry you." *Tosses the coin*

And here we are into the second week of the holidays...
Coming up are the NS Check up (for me), Famine Camp and the LEGENDARY AJC MYCT 2011 for JC2s.

I guess I will start studying in the last 2 weeks and spend my time doing hmwk and playing this week LOL. I hope this strategy works out fine...

All the 3 events coming up are scary..

NS Checkup: I'm afraid of getting PES A seriously...
Famine Camp: I'm afraid of the need to make friends... I'm just too shy to.. I need ppl to speak to me first.. argh. 1 more thing! I hope I dont faint :/
MYCT: Exams. Need I say more?

2011-06-04T23:47:00.002+08:00

Chapter 256: Siansation

There was this Maths Question about Bears living in an area and eating bamboo shoots. The question expected us to calculate things regarding the population of the bears. The last part of the question asked: "What assumption is needed to be made?"
One of my friends just wrote: "All the bears are pandas."

Went out on Friday to Long John Silvers @ Rivervale Mall to do Maths with Binghui. I ate 3 pcs chicken. So we ventured out to do maths. We completed 8 questions in a very long span of time.. which was unacceptable during exams... the AJC mid year paper is just that tough. :X In the exams, when no answers are provided, the situation is likely to be much worse :X

And seriously, I just hate it when holidays are supposed to be for studying and homework... holidays seriously needs to be taken as rest period...
Thinking of exams, thinking of studying, I just feel sian, sian and sian every single day, every single time, every single place, anytime, anywhere.

NS Checkup coming up in week 3 of the holidays... In exams, we strive for the best, in this checkup, we strive for the worst... the mentality is that PES A is the worst.. lots of physical? tiresome.

Somehow some weird feeling tells u everybody is studying.. and that increases ur stress levels..

2011-06-01T16:56:00.005+08:00

Chapter 255: The battle against Inertia

Before we begin, lets roll the questionnaire!

Question: How does a driver drives at very fast speeds everytime without getting caught by the traffic police?

Once again, its the time to fight against the inertia for studying.. it seems difficult. Very hard to switch back to study mode... I'm now into holiday mode damn..

And finally no more of going to sch during the June Holidays!

Ok there isn't really anything left for me to post about... so bye.

2011-05-28T20:34:00.003+08:00

Chapter 254: The Comprehensive Cross Country Review

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Lessons as usual, usual boring stuffs, so no need for elaboration.

Last lesson was economics tutorial. Went to change and set off with yian and some girls from the class. Took the mrt, all of us came to an agreement to come in a circle around a pole and all of us holding it. The greatest and best usage of the mrt pole ever possible in history. Oh, speaking about that... must record.. in Guiness Book of Records.

We alighted at Dhoby Ghaut Station. Walked around, looking for places to eat. But it was difficult to find many seats available.. Pizza Hut has the long waiting time that we could not afford to spend, so we settled for Mos Burger in the end. So the 8 of us, me, yian, joey, jasmine, jacquelyn, chengmei, charmaine, pamelyn, went to order. I ate chicken burger meal. Then halfway through, I received a call from Josh, asking for our location. But too bad I did not have any coordinates to give him.

Anyways, it was then that I realised that place was Plaza Singapura, I had went there few weeks ago.. forgot on which occasion or which day.. no wonder the familiarity.

We then set off back to the station and travelled to Nicoll Highway Station before following the crowd to the F1 pit.

Then came the cross country.. the meal of Mos Burger proved too much for me to take.. I felt uneasy running after the meal, but thankfully, the feeling was not very strong and I could push on the run. The run was done for charity, a dollar for a kilometre. The distance is freestyle, min 3 for females, 4 for males, GENDER DISCRIMINATION!
After the run, everyone had the freewill to continue the run to clock more distances. All these, however, need to be done in 30 mins?

Yian by right shuldnt be running, but he says he feels ok, so he accompanied us for the run. So, Teck Chuan (tc), yian and I ran together initially during the Cross Country.

Someway through, we saw Mr. Wee (former Maths teacher) and Mr. Ong (Head of GP) running infront of us.
I turned to tc and said "If we overtake them, we can get A for our GP and Maths."
After a short while, Mr Wee actually spoke... "You all must really work hard to get that A for your Maths." (oops I think he heard me :X Its hard to control your volume when running I suppose...)

Then came the first turning point where (dy/dx) = 0.
Collected the rubber band, turned back and ran.

By the way, before we reached the turn, I already saw Matthew running back :X Pure imbalanced. (FYI: He finished second in the run for the ENTIRE cohort of J1 and J2 Boys.)

So we headed back to the finishing point, get the first chop on our hands and tc asked me to do 1 more km. I agreed and we went for it. Surprisingly, this 5km run seemed better than the one last year (where the distance we ran is LESS than 5km). This is weird.. the run this year seemed easier and better than last year.. I dont understand why.

After our second chop, we went to take a cup of plain water drink, before collecting H-TWO-O drink with our coupons. Yian and I then went for 3 cups of milo :D
Bing Hui (bh) was spared the run as he was dancing that day.

Then there was this part where questions were asked and prizes were to be given away. bh had sneakily seen the answer to 1 of the questions. He went up close to the front, in order to storm to the front to answer that question when it was being asked to receive the prize. When that question was really asked, things went haywire, it didnt go his way. Earlier on, he told Jacquelyn the answer already and thats it, he was beaten to it LOL. He said she betrayed him and called her a traitor.

Btw, the question was how high is the Singapore Flyer, measured in terms of giraffes.
31 giraffes was the answer.

In the end, due to "corruption", both of them got the prize.

Matthew, bh, yian and I then went to eat dinner at Popeye's.
We ordered a meal that costs 29.90 and its meant for 4 people, eh just nice!
We went home after that.

And that marks the end of the Cross Country 2011.

2011-05-26T21:15:00.002+08:00

Chapter 253: Pre Cross Country

Tomorrow is the day where a huge cross will erupt on the lands of Singapore, as AJC is going to do a Cross Country. It is also a day where we go across our country! And the best thing is that we can do it by running merely 3-6 km. What an achievement, what a feat, must record! in the Guiness Book of Records.

I hope I can be as resilient as last year. Last year cross country, I had the benefit of Junfeng (jf) running with me, who keeps on encouraging me not to give up despite chronic stitches at the early minutes of the run... Thanks to that, I am able to persevere and complete my run. This year, all those become a fantasy that will not come true. He has left the college, and Yian is on doubt for running as he has sprained his leg weeks ago and had grabbed a 6-week PE excuse...
I wish I can complete the run within the stipulated time of 30 mins.

I have thought of a wonderful excuse for people to listen to songs using their earpieces when travelling. It will alert you when someone steals your phone/musicplayer/etc as it will effectively detach the player from your earpiece and cutting off the song. Nice tip, isn't it? Lets work towards anti-theft today!

During CCA yesterday, we did a survey on the CCA. There was this question: "If you are part of the EXCO, what will you do to bring up the image of Cxtreme?"
My cca-mate wrote this: "I would contact the MAE (Mediacorp Advertising Enquiries) and ask them to promote Cxtreme to let everyone in Singapore know about it."

One fine day, I was asking my mum where something was. She answered "橱的第三格". I searched awhile before answering "huh? 什么？我只知道藏经阁"

2011-05-23T20:37:00.002+08:00

Chapter 252: Epic Bio Lecture

Today I went through yet another epic bio lecture by Mr. Poh.
He went through the lecture normally, with his usual jokes, and suddenly came the big surprise.
He asked the whole lecture to look at the bottom of their chairs as he has planted something there... I thought it was a joke. But he really did plant on some 3-4 random unlucky people's chair.
After they found the paper, as if they had found treasure, Mr Poh asked them to read it.

One went something like "Hey, Mr. Poh, I love answering your questions"
Another went "Choose me, choose me, I want to answer your questions."
(and the other 2 with some pemutations and combinations of that similar sense and fashion.)
[Disclaimer: NLZZ Co. Pte. Ltd. shall not be held responsible for remembering the words on the paper wrongly.]

The scene was just damn epic and funny.

After the end of the lecture, he said that another teacher is going to continue with the lecture the next lesson as he needs to prepare for his marriage LOL.

After sch, my classmates and I went to eat Long John Silvers. I ordered the 1 pc chicken and 1 pc fish. Technically, its my second time finishing eating fish, after 18 years of lifetime.

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And so... Man U has clinched the 19th EPL title successfully :)
Birmingham, Blackpool and West Ham have to face the relegation.

Champions League next, and then break for the EPL.

2011-05-22T00:02:00.002+08:00

Chapter 251: The Manhattan Experience

Once in a while, while eating out with my parents, my dad will ask me to shift the table. Careful not to fall for the trick, I will always look down first. The million dollar question is what am I looking for?

Walking inside Tampines Mall, into a shop called "Aussino". My mum and I came across the word "bedskirt". My mum asked me what that was.
I answered: "bedskirt 就是床的裙子。 bed 是床， skirt 是裙子， bedskirt 就是床的裙子！哦，原来床也要穿裙子。那个床就是女的，如果你的床是男的就不可以买。"

My dad told me that Singaporeans are fond of 2 things. The first being complaining, the second being joining in long queues for offers/free stuffs/etc. This spells trouble for me, I might lose my Singaporean status as I do not possess both attributes.

When I was eating at a food court, I saw a man daringly leaving his key on the table... He didnt use that to chope the place.. his friend had already left a bag there on the chairs.. So idk for what purpose the key serves.. Infering from what I had known from the show "国际交易所“, the key would have disappeared if the same situation happened in other countries... but thank goodness Sg's safe.

And there was this epic scene in class on Friday. It has got nothing to do with Rebecca Black, so you can stop your search for ear plugs. During economics tutorial, a group was tasked with a question. After writing the points on the board, the whole group went back to their seats to sit down. Then Mr Lim asked "Am I supposed to present?"

And today is College Day.
It has drained our afternoon time. A time where could have been utilised for homework... much opportunity costs here. For these, the school should compensate us with "excuse homework". But obviously thats too good to be true.
So we just had to bear through the whole thing. The principal address, the Guest of Honour address, the award ceremony, the performances..

Went to Bishan after the College Day Event with Yian and Bh. It is a historical moment for me, its a breakthrough. This is known as the Finale! This is also known as the Manhattan Experience.
So the 3 of us walked in and sat down. And the order? 3 Fish and Chips.
First came a soup. Its a type of sotong/squid soup.. the taste is fine and after much persuasion, I ate down the "meat". Thankfully, its seemingly tasteless.
Then come the main dish. The fish.. something I've been struggling with for consumption all my 18 years of life. And today finally, we have seen a breakthrough. Thus, today is a day that is branded more important than anything else (including the death of Osama, the GRC breakthrough by Worker's Party and the reshuffling of the Cabinet.) And I don't feel any sense of vomitting, which is a good sign considering my natural psychological barrier.
Yes! Finally I have finished an entire piece of fish meat. :)
The best thing is that bh and I got a $10 waiver each from yian as he owed us a treat worth $10 for passing his Chinese A levels exam. So the amount payable was reduced to 7. bh offered to pay for me as my belated birthday gift.
And that concludes the Manhattan experience.
Oh, if you're wondering what is Manhattan experience, Manhattan Fish Market is the outlet we ate in. Imbalanced coined word? Maybe.

Thats all folks!

2011-05-17T00:18:00.002+08:00

Chapter 250: Weekend Review

It's official. It's confirmed, the Guangzhou people have just signed it.
(This was a phrase from a TV advertisement very long time ago.. during my pri sch era.)

Officially, Man Utd head on for their 19th EPL title! :)
They have beaten Liverpool's record of 18.
Meanwhile,
Liverpool suffered 2-0 defeat to Tottenham
Arsenal taste defeat as well and Chelsea are held to a draw at Newcastle.
If only they had known Chelsea will draw their match.. there is no need for Man U to even draw that match, they could jolly well afford to lose it LOL.
But anyways Man Utd crowned EPL 2010/2011 champions with 77 points and one game to go and 6 points ahead of runnersup Chelsea.

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I wasted my Sunday studying for a Bio Test on Respiration and Photosynthesis.. when the test is on Wednesday and not Monday...
Why did Mr Poh said it will be either Monday or Wednesday...
Studying on Sunday was thus the best plan, but now it is proven otherwise..

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Anyways I spent my Saturday out with my parents to Parkway Parade and then Bugis. Bought new earpiece, while my sis got 2, its 3 for 10 dollars. And I concluded my day after watching Man U match and doing Chemistry Class Assessment worksheet.. I slept at a record timing of 2.30am. Don't be mistaken, I dont mean that is the latest time I slept.. I mean that is the latest time I will do homework until..
I can sleep later than that..

The most classical and favourite example I would like to showcase is the class chalet 2 years ago. It was when I took the word "sleep" out of my dictionary. Some of us braved thru the night and to the morning without sleeping AT ALL, and went cycling at 2am with Jefferson and Daniel Yeap LOL. In the morning, we set off early to bring our foreign classmates to the airport, where they wait for their flights (obviously) back to their hometowns. In simple words, we're sending them off.
Then, we went to eat breakfast at macs before going back at noon and to do nothing but SLEEP! So that was technically the latest time I slept.

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Vesak Day tomorrow. Nice short break there lol.
Happy Vesak Day to all Buddhists.

2011-05-14T00:38:00.003+08:00

Chapter 248, 249: Errors, Errors and Errors

Error found to be corrected. As of 16 May 9pm.

Apparently the chapter 248 that I posted few days ago disappeared mysteriously..
So I have to retype that chapter :X

However, I dont feel like doing so, so I'm just gonna retype the first 2 parts.

A teacher walked into an empty classroom, no one was inside, the lights and fans were still on. Furious, the teacher gathered the whole class and scolded, "Who did not switch off the lights and the fans?" One brave boy stood up, not to apologise or own up, but said "Everyone didnt off the lights nor the fans, thats why they are still on."

In another scenario, a mother was asking her daughter, "did daddy and brother went to the toilet?" The girl pondered a while and replied "maybe they did". She paused a while more before adding "maybe they didnt"

It is probably the doing of Friday the 13th.
It started off with the mysteriously disappearing act of chapter 248, coupled with blogger error.
The 2nd error came when the bus timings this morning was screwed up... I went to my usual bus stop at the usual time and usual place.. but the bus was late (typical reason for being late, but its true.) And then it came around 10 mins past the normal time... and it was a single decker bus .. sianz. Thank goodness I was not late for school
The 3rd error came during CCA .. for the past few fri sessions we are dismissed at around 6. But today, the teacher just got to come in and talk to us.. and later, we still need to stay back to wait for announcement.. and it lasts till around 6.20++

Errors after errors, must be the doing of Friday the 13th!

2011-05-12T21:28:00.000+08:00

Chapter 248:

A teacher walks into an empty classroom and finds out that the fans and lights were not switched off. Furious, the teacher went to assemble the whole class and asked "who did not switch off the lights and fans?" A brave student stood up, not to admit it was him nor was he apologetic for it, he merely said "Everybody didnt switch it off, thats why its still on."

In another scenario, a mother asked her daughter, "Did daddy and brother went in to the gents?" The daughter thought for awhile and replied "maybe they did." She paused for a moment before adding "maybe they didnt."

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Today, I have finally managed to score through lay-ups in basketball and I did it thrice. Its an amazing feat for me.
Its also an amazing discovery! Maybe I should record it in the Book of Records.

Recently, I took Bio and Chem SPA. Finally no more labs :) How I hated practical work lol. Bio SPA was ok, quite similar to prespa. Chem was not as good as time is the major issue... had to rush, had to be "fast and furious".

2011-05-09T15:01:00.002+08:00

Chapter 247: Weekend Review

I made an astonishing achievement by not touching my comp for 2 consecutive days and its not due to exams..
I spent my Saturday in my grandparents house in the afternoon and watching 少年四大名捕 before watching the General Elections 2011. [to be elaborated later]
I spent my Sunday out at Plaza Singapura with my family, celebrating Mother's　Day. At night, I caught the last episode of 少年四大名捕. Then, I went to finish up my Vectors Tutorial before watching the clash between Manchester United and Chelsea. This match was arguably the title decider and its of utmost importance. By the time I watched, Javier Hernandez had already put Man U 1-0 up. Then I witnessed Vidic's header which made it 2-0. And of course, the saddening goal by Frank Lampard. Thankfully it ended 2-1. And it is time to party!
I went to bed after watching some reviews, and that is why I spent 2 days without my computer. Anyways its most probably Man U for the 19th title!!! :D

To add on to the joy, Arsenal was defeated 1-3 to stoke :D

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General Elections 2011 Review

As you might know, its PAP 81, WP 6, NSP 0,SDP 0, SDA 0, RP 0, SPP 0

Its a historic moment for the opposition as its the first time they have secured a GRC. But there are implications to consider as well... PAP has lost Aljunied GRC to the Worker's Party... not only that, we have lost George Yeo as the Foreign Minister.. we have lost Zainul as the probable Speaker of the Parliament before the election results... From what I have seen from the newspapers, ASEAN members are disappointed and saddened to hear that Mr George Yeo has lost in the GE as he is great in their eyes.. So.. it's just saddening to lose a great foreign minister..

I live in the Punggol East SMC area, where Michael Palmer defeated his challengers (Lee Li Lian and Desmond Lim). Its quite a pity that Desmond Lim lost his deposit for the Elections due to a mere 1000+ votes... but thats the cruelty of a 3 way fight. Anyways, I'm glad that Mr Michael Palmer won. I got a shock when I heard that Lee Li Lian from WP has 12000+ votes... (thinking there are only 20k voters..) But it was overcomed within seconds when Mr Palmer secured 16000+ votes.

Anyways whats over is over. I can't wait to vote in GE 2016 LOL.

2011-05-03T22:29:00.002+08:00

Chapter 246: The Tuesday Times

Let's start the ball rolling with a question.

什么动物最有正义感？

(Adapted from a show)

And yet another question...
How many alphabets are there in English?

(Adapted from the popular Taiwan drama series 爱）

I got a very bad birthday present from Manchester United...
Anyways, I spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday slacking.. so I ended up chionging all my hmwk on Monday (yesterday)... which proved to be quite a bad plan...

Class today as per normal. I can see that my shooting (basketball) has improved a little, thankfully :)
Mass civics on University Talk Discussion with some of the deans. Seems like psychology is quite a popular course, second to medicine. Actually psychology seems like an easy job.. Earning through pure talking. Maybe it isnt that simple after all considering the need for further studies after uni to ensure a psychology job.

Anyways the plan to eat fish today has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. Till then, I will make a breakthrough in my dieting history!

Thats all folks!

2011-04-30T22:16:00.014+08:00

Chapter 245: The Great Day

Within around an hr and 45 mins (at press time), the big day is going to arrive...
Let's unveil the big day now!

This significant day is probably the most important day on Earth and Earth will cease to exist if this day disappear...
In this day, someone of significant importance will land on the Earth to ensure that life continues on Earth.. well, that was what happened way back in the year 1993.
The same day this year will see the release of this person as mentioned above!

This day will ensure that the purchase of alcohol, cigarette, driving, M18 movies, etc etc will be legalised (but that does not mean the person will do them even though its legal)

Now its time to put on your thinking caps (both literally and figuratively) and pour in your brain juices and start thinking about who the person is.
Note: Some amounts of stress is good, but too much is bad for health. So manage it well.
Disclaimer: NLZZ Co. Pte. Ltd. shall not be held responsible for any damage that occur to one, both physically and mentally, by thinking and guessing who the person mentioned could be.

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Special Thanks to people who wished me Happy Birthday:
They are (in order and constantly updated.):

Sheryl Tan (sms)
Toh Yi An (msn)
Vanessa Lam (real life, fb)
Tay Yu Xiang (fb)
Daddy (real life)
Mummy (real life)
Valeen Tan (fb)
Percy (fb)
BUN (fb)
Wen Bin (fb)
Jiesheng (msn)
Eunice (fb)
Valerie Tan (fb)
Ejai (fb)
Nwe Nwe (fb)
Darren Leong (msn, fb)
AYC (fb)
Junhao (fb)
Gasper (fb)
Sharon (fb)
Shiyang (fb)
Shi Ming (sms)
James Mah (sms)
Shirley (fb)
Moyra (fb)
Nicholas Lim (fb)
Dawn(fb)
Shili(fb)
Desmond Ser(fb)
Weide(fb)
Chor Sheng ( fb)
Zheng Fong (fb)
Belverlin (fb)
Mr Tang (fb)
Lay Teng (fb)
Augustine ( fb)
Jefferson (SMS)
Arthus (fb)
Qiuwen (fb)
Teck Chuan (fb)
Li wei (fb)
Hui ting(fb)
Josh (fb)
Suman (fb)
Pranay (fb)
Teng Yong(fb)
Alvin Lai(fb)
Joseph(fb)
Wendy(fb)
Axel(fb)
Priscilla Too(fb)
Robin Wong(fb)
Louis Teo(fb)
Keith(fb)
Joyce(fb)
Jacquelyn(fb)
Matthew(fb)
Seemin(fb)
Huicheng(fb)
You Liang(fb)
Qi Xuan(fb)
Eileen(fb)
Zi Xuan(fb)
Wen Ny(fb)
Tuck Heng(fb)
Dabo(fb)
Tingen(fb)
Chengmei(fb)
Samson (fb)
Marcus(fb)
Kelvin Chua (fb)

I apologise for any mix-up of orders or leftouts in the hall of fame above. The management shall not be held responsible for that too. Anyways, I want to thank both my aunts for their red packets and wishes as well.. (i forgot to record them in the hall of fame.)
Also, I want to thank my father, my mother and my sister for their red packets (not applicable for sister.) and the present.
And also, I thank everyone that wished me happy birthday today :)
P.S. Those who don't, better watch out.
(just kidding)

2011-04-28T22:46:00.002+08:00

Chapter 244: Basketball Frenzy

Let's start rolling with school. Chem re-pre-SPA wasn't as bad as I thought.. since we're repeating what we have done for pre-spa, every result, every observation was kind of expected. So time was not an issue this time.

Today, Bh, Yian, Josh and I played alot of basketball today to train for tmr's match against another class.
Training was intense and we "sparred" with other people as well..
During one of the sparrings, I got injured and so did Josh. Josh was jumping up and reaching to snatch the ball. As my eyes were fixed on the ball, I didnt lose sight of the ball. As a result, I dashed for the ball and collided with him -.- He landed on one of his elbow, thankfully it wasnt really that serious (as in fracture or dislocation). As for me, I landed on my knee on one leg and ankle on the other. The ankle one was nothing, but the flesh peeled out from my knee on the other leg... it was bleeding.

We also practiced shooting and the lay-ups. My shooting (under no pressure) has improved slightly, previously I can only put the ball into the net once every 20 tries. Currently, should be better, but hard to say. When there is pressure, I am back to the 1 in 20 tries statistics ... but lay-ups were terrible for me, I just cant find the net through layups as I am not used to that at all -.-

Last 3 days to the big day.. counting down...

2011-04-26T21:15:00.002+08:00

Chapter 243: Pre-Nomination Day

Tomorrow is nomination day, but that's not important, neither is it the focus of this chapter.

I was chatting with my friend, he asked me "do u know what to do as a first aider if u see someone get impaled?"
My answer was "ask him to get bkb."

(bkb is Black King Bar, a dota item that confers magic immunity. In dota, impale is a magical spell that evokes spikes out in a straight line from the ground, damaging and stunning opponents along its path.)

Prison Break.
Its a show, but I dont watch it.
Here is a case of a real life prison break!!!
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afghan-govt-reports-massive-jailbreak-kandahar-035651750.html

5 more days to the big day! Coming your way.

2011-04-25T20:52:00.002+08:00

Chapter 242: Monday Report

Glad that Arsenal slipped to a 2-1 defeat by Bolton.
But there's still Chelsea to worry about in the EPL chase...

And for once, my post has nothing to do with schooling activities lol.

Let's start off with after-school time. Bh, yian and me went to NYP to have our lunch today. The question is Macs or Koufu. As both of them are having sore throats, I suggested having Koufu instead of Macs... well the most ironical thing is that they ended up having fries as one of their side dishes -.-
Bh went for Chicken Chop, yian went for fish & chips with nuggets and fries, I went for chicken cutlet with nuggets and fries too. So we ate and ate and poof!

Yian had a stomachache and needed the toilet, but he claims that "he doesn't want to waste time" and so he persevered, ignored the pain, carry on eating. But it didnt last long before he rushed off to the restroom.
When he was back, we're almost finishing our meals, or should I say, bh finished long ago and I was left with a few more mouthfuls. Disaster struck!
Both of them wanted me to learn to eat fish and they shoved a piece of fish onto my plate. I struggled for around quite some time to eat one piece that is mainly made up of crust lol.. damn fail -.- Then I ate the one with the meat (ah fish meat), then they ask me to eat one spoon of 5 small pieces of fish. This was when I struggled more and took around 3-5 mins before picking up the courage from "Courage the Cowardly Dog" and ate it. Thankfully and strangefully (if this word exists, if not, this is my coined word), it didnt really have the fish taste and that spared me from the psychological barrier that will lead to vomiting. It was fine just for now..
Anyways, this might be the first step to master the art of eating fish for me -.-

When the clouds clear, you'll find that I am at Sengkang MRT station. When I was walking to the escalator, I saw 2 young children walking towards the stairs and they wanted to walk up the stairs. However, their mum said "Don't take the stairs, you go up halfway u tired already."
I didnt know how to react to this -.- Seems like laziness is a habit started since young.

And when the clouds come back, you will realise that the ground is trembling, the clouds are clearing, the light is shining from the sky, and you sense a strange phenomenon. It seems like something big is going to happen in 6 more days. Keep your eyes wide and hearts ready to witness the biggest and grandest event of all time!!! It's coming your way. Better get your shields ready and your tranquilisers ready! Now sit back and await that major day.

Oh and I saw a strange sight yesterday. Fret not, no ghost stories.
Yesterday night, my sis and I were walking home after having dinner. When we're about to walk to our block, I noticed 2 people standing in the dark. Nothing strange. When I walked closer, I saw a guy and a girl. I assume they were just chatting in the dark. When I walked even closer, I realised they were just staring at each other, motionless. Ok, this is getting weird, I thought and quickly walked past and away from them. After going up the lift, I turned to my sis and said "eh 刚才那两个人很怪leh, 他们不知道在那里做什么。“ As I was telling this to my sis, I thought that maybe they wanted to get the staring award or the outstanding award. OR MAYBE ITS A FLASHMOB! (ok just kidding)
Then my sis replied "你看不到他们在吵架meh?"
"可是他们都没有讲话，吵架不是有声音的meh?"
"你知道什么是冷战吗？“
lol ok, for some reason, this sounds funny to me.. but the last line I asked was for fun only, I already realised the cold war LOL. (just bored and wanted to find something to talk about.)

2011-04-23T22:26:00.002+08:00

Chapter 241: Good Friday

Woke up early in the morning and set off to my grandparents place to pick them up for lunch. So off we go~~~
My cousin and my dad drove their cars respectively to an eatery at Chinatown. The shop name is 台灣縦貫線美食. It is located directly opposite a building with the big glaring words "Subordinate Courts" (I only had alot of glances on the news on TV, but 1st time on real life.)
So we sat down and started ordering.
I went for 盐苏鸡饭 with my sis and went with the $7 one. To my horror, the plate ended up having alot of funny food (I define funny food as food not to my liking)
I ate the egg, rice, meat and chicken and hmmm....
Then my sis and I had one milo drink each. My sis's milo is diluted to the maximum (but still better than the 7 times dilution for orange juice from my chemistry expt)
It is due to the rapid melting of the ice.. as for mine, the taste is there, the ice are present, nobody's absent.
So, I showed the attributes of a good brother and offered to exchange drinks with my sis.

Then I realised that the owner of the eatery is my cousin's friend.. no wonder he speaks so unusually rude to her LOL
Then my cousin keeps insisting that we watch movie with him at night, including the owner of the eatery. To quote him "I'm telling you all to go, not asking you." (although it sounds rude, it's actually not if u hear it.)
[This part about the movie will be elaborated later on]

Then we set off to offer our prayers to our ancestors for Qing Ming (i think)
Went to "add oil" with $2 note. (a.k.a. 添油)
Then went to offer joss sticks and prayed to my ancestors.
Then we went to my grandparents house.

Dinner time, another cousin of mine, my sis and I went to a nearby KFC to have dinner while the cousin as mentioned above wants to eat later..
So I ate Zinger Burger, whipped potato, fries with cheese and (drank) pepsi.

My cousin drove 2 of my cousins, me and my sis to the chinatown place as mentioned above. He went to fetch his friend. Waited around half an hr inside the car.
Then off we go to Vivo City.

Went to The Soup Spoon (funny if u pronounce it in chinese...) and practice our staring skills. We stared at my cousin and his friend eating there... (as we had KFC just now as mentioned) Then we aborted the mission staring and began chating about everything under the sun (note: We didnt chat about things above the sun)
Walked around, looked around, waitin for time to pass...

Moments before the movie. Went toilet. Came out after awhile and you should be able to guess what happened.. girls take very long in the toilet due to long queues (as always...)
We waited and waited and waited 1 min... 2 mins ... 3 mins ... 4 mins ... 5 mins ... it ended up that they went to an alternate toilet before coming back, thus the long waiting time.
Head off to the Golden Village. Found our seats and sat down.
The movie: 倩女幽魂
And the temperature: freezing cold...
Damn I hate being jacketless in the cinema but oh well...
I had to "hide" my hands under my thighs to prevent the freezing of the hands, while my legs and arms had to endure the blizzard..
Overall, I thought that it was quite a nice show to watch.

Went home after that.

By the way, Man U beat Everton 1-0!!! 7 more points from 4 more games to clinch the EPL Title! But that is one game against Chelsea and one against Arsenal... ahhh.

2011-04-21T22:48:00.002+08:00

Chapter 240: Long and tiring day

The day started off with GP tutorial followed by a short break before Chemistry SPA. Chem SPA turned out to be worse than I expected... so hereby I shall give you a meaningful quote "Prepare for the worst, hope for the best."

Chem SPA has 3 freaking Qualitative Analysis experiments.... and we are supposed to finish all those PLUS questions in a freaking 1 hr 15 mins... Obviously, I failed to do so, thus the rant.
Why must there be so many experiments in one practical... I don't get it.
Things are worse than these as most experiments resulted in something that differs from theory... some of them just refuse to wield the supposed results... very defiant chemicals.. (wait till i subdue them with the legendary chemical X)
To add on to my woes, I accidentally burnt my finger a little. :X
As i was panicking (due to severe time constraints), I did not realise that I was holding a test tube that I boiled seconds before... When I first held it, I felt a strange feeling to my hand... its painful.. and then I realised.. it was burning my hand... thankfully, there weren't any burn marks.. just abit of pain that recovered after a few moments.
Oh, and my fingers are stained with iodine (i guess).. which i only manage to get rid of after bathing at night..

To finish the sufferings on a high note with great impact, I forgot to bring goggles to school and my watch too -.-

Maths lecture about complex numbers.

Then came the Bio SPA. Bio SPA is the exact opposite of chem spa.. it was (way) better than i expected. It's relatively easy and fast to do.. everyone can finish way ahead of the stipulated time. Isn't this great? You happy, he happy, she happy, everybody happy.

If I was a pokemon, you will see: "Weakness: Basketball"

Basketball is a sport that i dislike since young and thus I didnt try it, nor did i try to play it at all.. until JC where my classmates are fanatics of that sport...
So JC is the time i start picking up basketball and also the time i start screwing up in it.
To sum up, I suck in basketball.
Everytime when we play basketball, I am seemingly the spectator.. or the free-rider.. there is a suitable phrase in Chinese to describe this: 滥竽充数
I never seem to play it well seriously..
Everytime when we're playing with people from another class, a seemingly balanced team of 4v4 is actually lopsided... they are actually playing 4v3 -.- (inference skills required here.)

I hope they dont blame me for my noobness lol. Anyways, I have more interest in soccer, although I cant play it well too :/

2011-04-20T21:40:00.002+08:00

Chapter 239: Mini Edition

It's rather disappointing that Man Utd failed to claim a win over Newcastle ytd night as they're held to a goaless draw... the point gap btw them and Arsenal are now 7 points ( max 9 if they won the Newcastle game...). There are 5 more games to go for the leaders.. and that includes the game against Arsenal and Chelsea... the journey is tough for them.

There is pre-SPA tmr.. 2 of them to be exact... haiz i really dislike practicals... thursday is the worse day of the week i have to suffer through...

During cca, my cca-mates and I were having a lesson on Flash. There was nothing left to learn, but there is still alot of time before cca can end officially... so some of my cca mates went to play the game where u have to type the name of countries in a particular continent or the world... Ryan seems to know all the countries in the world... he needs help... (oops, i think i used the wrong word here. He needs a life instead.)

Qixuan was wanting to play his monopoly deal as there is nothing left to do as mentioned before... but he could not do so as he is afraid that a teacher will catch him. So I asked him to seek permission from the cca teacher. After that I added "later u ask Mr. Steve then he confiscate your cards and go back to the staff room and find teachers to play with him."

2011-04-18T21:08:00.002+08:00

Chapter 238: Weekend Review

Yet another delayed weekend review thanks to the bio test on Plant Tissue Culture..

Actually, I don't feel like posting this because of disappointment... but oh well, I got over it: Man U crashed out of the FA Cup 0-1 defeat. Shall not elaborate further..
Hope they make the best out of their game today with Newcastle.

On Saturday, I went out with Jeff and lx to play pool. Lx shocked the both of us by reaching early.. kinda unexpected. He already started the game by himself while waiting for us, and that brings me to one dying question to ask. How can someone play pool alone?!?!?! It's just that damn freaking boring seriously... and playing solo makes u look weird... lol.. ok, so Jeff reached the mrt station at Kovan and we went to buy some food from Old Chang Kee before heading for the pool game.

We started the ball rolling by playing 3-way-fight (or triple threat to call it.) My skills are depreciating like the US currency against that of SGD... (in simple words, deproving) I'm glad this blog isn't marked by my GP tutor or she will rant at me for not putting inverted commas around the word "depreciating" as it is used figuratively. Due to that, I never seem to find the hole many times... Then we headed to 1v1s. I started against Jeff and sadly I could not hold a candle to him -.- Thankfully, his black ball went in the wrong hole and I stole the game from him.
lx then took on Jeff before I took on lx. By sheer luck, I managed to win by 3 balls.
Then a few more games which the results I could not recall..

Today is Monday.
Cats and dogs fell down from the sky, humans below on the Earth moved franctically in a Mendelian fashion (ok, just kidding, I shall stop Bio-ing here.)
Basically, it was raining.
Due to that, there is umbrella galore everywhere around the school.

First period is the civics lesson, where we had to write one paragraph on our personal quality for our SGC (Singapore Graduation Certificate). It was tough as we're writing for ourselves... I always thought PW was difficult... now it has met its real competitior or should i say, nemesis. A saying goes "Self praise is international disgrace." In order for me not to be a disgrace of the nation, the country, the world, and the universe and beyond, it's a difficult task for me..
Nevertheless, I browsed through what my friends had wrote for me the previous week, brainstormed awhile, penning it down lastly..

Maths followed after that, then break, then chem, then econs lecture.

If you're lost, fret not! You're still infront of your computer.
Ok, here we are! Economics lecture. An external speaker (From Economic Development Board) has been hired to speak to us. Poor guy, has to repeat for every lecture groups...
The speaker asked what made iphone so popular? He said that it is because of the technology Steve Jobs came up with. But I beg to differ, my mind tells me its because Steve Jobs is very handsome.
Then he went on to talk about the advantage of gaining monopolistic something something.. Again, the first thought that came to my mind was "to gain monopoly money!"
--sorry, i was a bit bored here--
He also gave us a quote from Warren Buffet. "Price is what you pay, Value is what you get."
which is the only sentence I wrote down on my piece of paper because of its meaningfulness.. not to mean the other parts were not .. but... ah well, forget it.

Went on to bio lecture. Learnt about the geographical isolation where polar bears got lost from their habitats because of glaciers breaking away.. poor polar bears.. maybe they will evolve into some other types of bear or something...

Went on to hand in chem file, had lunch and then bio test. Went home after that.

2011-04-14T21:56:00.002+08:00

Chapter 237: The Brotherhood Test

Before getting onto the main topic, let us begin with Champions League. Manchester United claimed a 2-1 win over Chelsea, goals from Hernandez and Park (3-1 aggregate)! This means Man Utd will proceed to the Semi Finals!!! :)
Meanwhile, Barcelona won and will face Real Madrid, who beat Tottenham 1-0. Man Utd will face Schalke who beat Inter Milan 2-1.

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Today was a rainy day, a day everybody have been saving for (a rainy day). It's proven, it's worth saving for it.
On a serious note, rainy day serves to impede vision and mobility. It also serves as a good test for brotherhood. When it's raining, going home becomes the obstacle for us to cross, a hurdle for us to jump.
So there is only 1 umbrella and 3 people (me, yian, bh)
This is our strategy:

Yian walks first infront on the left side. Bh walks behind yian, all our valuables are held by him. I walked on the right side, holding the umbrella. Off we go ~

Yian is badly hit by the rain on almost all sides... bh was attacked from the back and his bag.. I am attacked behind and on my right side as well...
All our pants, socks, shoes are soaked with water... If you're wondering, no, hydrolysis didnt occur. Our backs and bags were wet too... I'm faced with a dilemma, to shield yian or bh more from the rain... if i chose to shield yian more, bh will get the rain hit his back more and if i chose to shield bh more, yian will get hit on the front... so its a tough decision and i had to make it in the centre, to shield bh front and yian's back...

This is the test of brotherhood as we chose to shield yian from the rain all the way to take the mrt.. instead of taking bus... see we so brother!
By taking the bus, we would have been less worse hit by the rain and yian will suffer from the full blow of the rain!
In the end, coldness is what we all felt as we entered the cooling MRT carriage.

Thus, all of us have passed the test!

2011-04-13T22:27:00.003+08:00

Chapter 236: PW and GP

And here comes part 2 of the PW rant. According to the Intelligence Department, there are cases in my sch where the slackers get A for PW and the hardworking people in the SAME group gets a B for PW... Irony, what a wonderful word created.. applies to reality.. truly..

GP lesson was interesting today. My tutor showed us 3 videos, though the resolution was terrible (due to the screwed up projector in my class). The resolution was terrible to the extent that u can see a shadow speaking and thats about it.
The 1st video was about the girl studying at UCLA, criticising Asians, for speaking too loudly in libraries, hoarding the laundries at the campus, buy 1 week supply of groceries and their family members cooking for them (in other words, she means Asians are dependent). All these, as said by my tutor, made the fallacy of hasty generalisation, which is true.

The 2nd video was pure hilarious. Its a show where someone went around interviewing people regarding current issues, like which religion is the majority in Israel. People answered Islam, and worse still.. Israeli ?!!?!
Questions also include who Bill Clinton is, who is Fidel Castro (someone answered a singer), what is the currency of the UK, etc.

Here it is:

And the last vid is about Seth Rogen on Singapore... I shall not elaborate on that.

2011-04-11T22:33:00.002+08:00

Chapter 235: Monday

Turn to the Straits Times, look at the IN Section pg 13 and u will see Nicholas Lam!!!

Too bad he's only 13... a "miniature" version of me.

Today, we are presented with an ordeal task.. to write about personal qualities of our fellow classmates. The 1st task given to me was very very difficult.. when I saw the name, my first thought was "nothing." I struggled to write one quality anyways after few moments.
One after another, it was hard to think of any personal qualities and write for my classmates... some of them I do not know well, some I just cant find the correct word to describe the person, and some I have no idea what is most suitable.
When I saw the paper with the name "yian", the first quality written there was "non-brother". Kinda obvious who wrote that lol. No, it wasn't me. But what bing hui wrote was true, the truth of the truth. Undeniable piece of fact. It definitely aint a sweeping statement as the statement cannot make the floor clean of dirt.
When yian received the paper of "Jasmine", he said that he wanted to write "initiated the Jasmine Revolution".

Moving on to Bio lecture today. The lecturer was talking about Finches flying to diff islands and their beaks grew differently due to evolution. It just reminds me of giving diff stones/conditions to try to evolve eevee in pokemon...

2011-04-10T16:10:00.002+08:00

Chapter 234: Weekend Review

This is the first ever chapter done through my phone and not the computer.

Man U is now leading arsenal by 10 points with 6 games to go!! The title is within sight and reach!!
This is after them beating fulham 2-0 yesterday. Anyways it's like they wasted their time playing the second half...

Ok nothing much left to report about as I have already covered Friday in the previous chapter and
Monday is yet to come...

2011-04-09T00:20:00.002+08:00

Chapter 233: Black Humour

不想太多
我想一定是我
聽錯弄錯搞錯
拜託我想是你的腦袋有問題
隨便說說
其實我早已經猜透看透不想多說
只是我怕眼淚撐不住

不懂你的黑色幽默
想通卻又再考倒我
當作是你開的玩笑

If you are wondering, above are song lyrics adapted from the song "Black Humour" by Jay Chou. All these lyrics will aid me in this topic about PW..

Disclaimer: anything below this line will consist of rants after rants after rants, please be mentally prepared. The management shall not be held responsible for any sort/kind of damage caused to the brain. (includes the exploding of brain to cancer etc.)
P.S. Damage cannot be claimed by insurance.

To start off, PW is a retarded subject created by some retarded person in some retarded year called year 2000. To support this claim, the marking of PW is considered subjective, it varies from person to person. Everyone have different taste and preferences.. To someone, a project can get A, but to another person, it might be a B.

Secondly, whoever says that hard work = good grades?!
Didn't my group and I put in enough effort and hardwork for our PW?
I rmb my group staying at the library doing PW until the library closes... what more is expected? Stay longer? And what if we're locked in? Use the fire extinguisher to break out of the glass window? Then? Climb out of the sch compounds via the fence? Or sleep overnight? (actually this is a good idea, so convenient and probability of getting late for sch the next day is 0.)

Moreover, we have sacrificed sleep for our pw as well... and stared long hours at the comp... I had even sacrificed my visit to my grandparents place...
Once, I even slept at around 12 or 1 and there's sch the next day..

Furthermore, there is this guy who contributed little to his group and he ended up getting an A.. which I seriously doubt he deserves... and there is another guy in the same group who is doing more than the prev guy and got a B.. what the hell is this?! The latter deserves the A more... I shall not name anyone in this case.

In another case, also nameless, during the PW intensive periods at the post-promos period, people in one of the classes can afford to play dota during the PW lesson... As for my class, we did PW... and it ended up that they can get an A and majority of our class had to settle for a B -.- How do we reap what we sow?

And I was thinking, maybe could it be due to my PW tutor being a PE teacher? Cause some classes had the better grades in comparison... if the teacher is the factor.. shouldnt PW grades be given to teachers instead of the students?

Lastly, also the least convincing point LOL, I can never seem to achieve the highest possible score in major exams which results are released before the other subjects... examples are O level MT, A level MT, A level PW...

Nevertheless, my PD tutor advices us to focus on the rest of the subjects as a B for PW would only mean a 1.25 grade point loss. There is still the 60 points from 3H2s to focus on..
During GP lecture, Mr Choo was telling us that for those that didnt do well for PW, there is always still GP!

But its GP... In my opinion, GP is even more difficult to get an A as compared to PW...

I hope this 1.25 loss will not affect my uni admission.. I hope for good rank points in the A levels...

Oh, and this year PW results are kind of weird. AJ had 60% A (30% last year) and some colleges had low %A BUT they had high %A last year... It doesnt really make sense but oh well.. PW doesnt make sense anyways.. (oh well, circular reasoning)

Ok, enough of the rant, its time to get over it and concentrate on the other subjects which still have room for doing well.

2011-04-07T20:42:00.003+08:00

Chapter 232: Thursday

Thursday is the longest and boring-est day. It starts the day with GP. My GP tutor is always complaining about yian's handwriting, to the extent that it seems somehow natural already..

Next was chem SPA. I found out that I am the only guy on class to rmb to bring the chemistry file for checking.. and the worse thing is that the teacher didnt come -.-
So I have brought my file for nothing but for physical training purposes only...
So a relief teacher came in, she was my teacher for my OG times... but apparently she had forgotten my name lol. Did Qualitative analysis experiment.

Maths lecture - nothing to mention
Bio SPA - did some expt using microscopic skills.

The good thing was that that is no PE!
Ok, the bad thing is that pw results tmr... I dont wish to think about it anymore... just hope...

Oh one more thing, Man U beat Chelsea 1-0 away!!! during Champions League Quarterfinals first round clash! This will give them an edge ahead of their 2nd round of quarterfinals clash... hopefully they will make it to the semis...

2011-04-05T21:34:00.003+08:00

Chapter 231: NAPFA

Once again, here comes the annual NAPFA test. Before that, let me begin by a meaningful sentence/quote "When you are thirsty, plain water just suddenly becomes so nice"

NAPFA!
First station is sadly a sit-up station, which aims at weakening your stomach muscles... It's one of my feared stations... and the bad thing about this is that Situp seem easy to the majority, but i just simply couldn't manage it well enough.
Nevertheless, I braved through it with a C.

The next station is one of the well-known killer station. It goes by the name of STANDING BROAD JUMP. Its a station that is just so unfair. The females can jump a distance that secure them an A, but if u are a guy and u jump that same distance or abit more, u fail... Ok anyways, after getting seriously weakened by the previous situp, I only managed a 222cm, which is a D.

Then came the sit and reach, which i deproved for some unknown reason... normally I can get an A, I only managed a B today.

Next, the most worrying station for me, which is probably the determining factor or limiting factor in my cause for a silver in NAPFA... the pull-ups. I normally can only manage a 3.. but somehow NAPFA is gonna make things difficult for me.. and requires a freaking 4 pullups for a D grade... So I just had to bear with it...
When I first jumped up to the bar, I got a weird feeling going through me that I can't do 4... my hands feel weak and powerless (literally). Nevertheless, I pulled myself up.. 1st pullup. down and up, down and up. 3 pullups. It feels weird cause i was doing at a faster pace in order to conserve strength for the 4th one.. and it proved useful, when i find myself managing to go up the 4th time, chin above the bar. "4" said Mr Chua, and that was definitely a very reassuring four to me. I decided to try to do more in case i do not have enough points for silver.. And I went up for the 5th time, but my chin just could not go above the bar... my hands do not have any more strength to lift me up further... The bar was just at my nose level and thats it. I dropped down. D.

Went down the stairs for shuttle run. This station is semi-scary. Sometimes I fail, sometimes i ace... fluctuations are plenty. I got the same examiner as last year for shuttle run, Mr. Tay. He was the examiner that enabled me to clock 9.9 seconds last year... So, he said "go". I sprinted forward and bent down to grab the bean bag. It somehow feels weird, I have a strange feeling that i was going too slowly.. but i didnt care so much in the midst of the run, and headed back to put the bean bag.. and headed for my 2nd bean bag. I decided to go down to reach for the beanbag at a more accurate time this time and turned after grabbing it. I felt as if I was too slow in the turn.. I was getting real worried this time... Nonetheless, I still sprinted the last stretch, thinking I was too slow... After the run, I got a depressed expression... I thought Mr. Tay would ask me to run again as there are 2 tries in shuttle run. To my surprise, he just wrote down the score and gave it to me. Just when I wanted to ask him if i could do a 2nd try, I looked at my score and saw "10.0" which was already an A grade -.- So much for my worries... pointless.

After all tiresome stations come the station that requires alot and alot and alot and alot of mental strength... To visualise this, the "Alot" will repeat itself until the cows come home.

So we ran.
1st round was relatively ok.
2nd round was beginning to be mental power draining
3rd round requires more perseverance...
4th round renders me half-dead
5th round makes me ask when is this ever gonna end.
6th round require pure mental strength, determination and perseverance (all combined in a package! However, the parts are sold separately.)

I finished with a C, timing 11 mins 32 seconds.

Binghui was complaining about his timing of 10 mins 32 secs.. cause the criteria for an A grade is 10 mins 20 secs... and that is the only station that deterred him from a perfect score in NAPFA. He wanted to get the award where students achieve perfect scores for J1 and J2 years. So he wants to retake.. btw, he has 29 points out of a maximum of 30 already...

Yian's case was sad too. His timing was 12 mins 1 sec, where the C grade requires 12 mins... so he was slower by that 1 second... which he could easily have gotten IF he started on the starting line exactly...
When we were starting the run, there were alot of people infront ... so that should make up for his 1 second loss... and btw, he wants to retake too.

My classmate is complaining about me only mentioning the names of binghui, matthew, yian, etc in my blog , so for this chapter, I shall grant a special guest appearance to Jac. Ok, thank you very much.

Oh, my friend was suggesting that under the NS form, under the column of medical conditions, we should fill in "Allergic to army"
So it would look like this:
Medical conditions: Allergic to army

I forgot to mention, during chem lecture today, I was listening to the lecture. However, the contents were already taught during Bio, so there was no actual need to pay attention but I still did.. in order to figure out the diff btw the answers i should give in bio and chem..
But, binghui complained by saying "nic, can u stop listening?"
I replied "Yes, I can stop listening to u."

2011-04-04T21:00:00.005+08:00

Chapter 230: Weekend Review

Welcome to yet another session of weekend review!

Its always the round thing that gets the ball rolling! Soccer!
EPL this weekend was rather great, though not 100% awesome..
Man U managed to turn the tides after a 2 goal deficit from 2 penalties committed by Evra and Vidic. Wayne Rooney delivered a superb free kick to make it 2-1, then turn the ball across the goalkeeper to level things 2 all. He then struck a penalty thanks to a handball after a pass by Fabio. 3-2. The 3 points are secured when Hernandez slides the ball in after several defenders miss the ball... 4-2 it ended.

Moreover, Arsenal and Chelsea are held to draws! The only bad thing was the Man City managed to thrash Sunderland 5-0...

Today, yian threw me 2 questions over the msn, and I will share it here.

The first question was: "Which table has no legs?"

You must have wondered what did I answer then.
I answered it correctly. Don't ask me why, thats just my first thought to my mind when i was posed with that question. What's yours?

The second question really threw me off guard totally. This is the typical kind of questions that throws people off their chairs. The question was "what has a head, a tail but does not have a body?"

If u thought I had gotten this, then u are wrong. I was stunned as mentioned earlier... (u were clearly not paying attention LOL) I turned back and asked my sis about it.. and the first answer she said was the correct answer... Shocking, isn't it?

NAPFA tmr... I really hope for the best...

2011-04-03T01:43:00.002+08:00

Chapter 229: April Fool and Family Day

And so.. one fine day. Yi An decided to play a prank on Bing Hui and he asked me to cooperate with him. And so... in another fine day, which is the April's Fool day, yian told bh that a girl asked about him the day before... the girl asked about private questions like address, likings, etc. yian told him to check with me if he doesnt believe him.. And guess what? Of course i said it did happen as I am "bribed".
Then bh started to feel uneasy and keep asking yian about what happened on the day before..

(If u didnt get it, it was an April's Fool Joke, there was no girl whatsoever asking about bh)

During Maths, we had presentation on the sampling methods.. and supposedly a test on sampling methods too... When we entered the class, the handle holding the screen is titled... so the image shown on the screen is somewhat distorted.. Nevertheless, we carried on the presentations...
The presentation dragged (with intent) all the way till it encompasses the 1 hour period and the test will be postponed to next week... a great plan indeed...

After that was family day booth setup. My class is doing the "slip away". This is a game where there is a table and u are supposed to slide the cup over the table.. And there are targets (with points stated). The place where it lands will determine the points received. Points will be accumulated to receive a prize.
And so we carried the tables, the chairs etc etc. Tried several methods of wrapping the table with plastic/wrapping paper/etc etc.

That roughly marks the end of the April Fool Day. bh didnt know he is suffering from an april fool joke till the next day..

So its FAMILY DAY!
where it refers to AJ Family and not the literal meaning of family :(
so we had to go to sch on a Saturday.
and we had duties to do for class
and I got duties for cca as well...

For CCA, we setup xbox kinect sets.. business wasnt good considering the fact that we are located at the 3rd floor at a remoted area called the block 11.

Basically there is nothing interesting except for a few parts:
Matthew and bh fought at the gladiator game. Everything was well till the last part. Both of them are just fooling around in the last round, they arent really pushing one another, they are just doing "actions" (swimming actions) .. to the extent that the blur expression of the referee then was priceless!

When the match finally ended, they dropped their sticks and did the tecktonik...LOL. that was hilarious indeed.

The other part is that one of the toys that i have contributed for our game stall is actually my gift to my mum during her (birthday or mother's day)... My mum didnt know and gave it to me and i gave it to the class.. When my friend uncovered a note inside.... it says "To: mummy, from: Nicholas Lam" I was stunned at the photo at facebook.... Ahhh.

2011-03-29T22:27:00.002+08:00

Chapter 228: Where is the weekend review?

Well, the fact that there is no weekend review is not my fault. It's the fault of the people who scheduled the soccer matches. Who asks Euro 2012 Qualifiers to kick in this weekend? Thats why I am unable to provide any weekend review this weekend as there isnt much worth mentioning about.

Rumours circulating said that the PW results will be out on 1 April. But considering the fact that 1 April is April's Fool Day... oh well... you can roughly tell the accuracy of this piece of "information".

And my friend told me that he knew 1 May is quite a significant day. All I told him was: "lol yeah, by knowing that, i can see that u gt a great future ahead". Then we went on talking about 2012 where the world is said to "end".

Moving on, sch today was without Bing Hui, who went for his NS Checkup.
I told Josh that today is a very peaceful day for him.

During PE, we did standing broad jump and the exercises. I also did pullups and the crunches, pushups, etc. The teacher told me to do 2 pullups everytime i see a pullup bar. But dont overdo it or I will be scared of pullup whenever i see a pullup bar... which is actually quite true... The last time after the teacher asks us to do 2-3 sets of 8 pullups, the no. of pullups i could do downgraded from 2 to ZERO.
It is not so bad now I can manage a minimum 3.. but I need 4 to get a silver and 2 months exemption from NS :) The worse thing is that NAPFA is next week... I cant afford to screw this or my bdae would have been over by the retest...

During Maths lecture today, Mr. Wee almost said the four letter vulgar word. Actually, I think he wanted to say "five", in the end, he said "minus five" instead.
That was funny considering everyone laughed.

Oh and elearning on monday was bad.. I rather attend school..

Mass civics today was about cyber wellness. The speaker spoke of addiction etc etc. He even mentioned the game "World of Warbluff" which is a changed name from "World of Warcraft" to avoid lawsuit issues i guess.
Its just dumb spending real life money for a dress in AuditionSEA that lasts merely 7 days.. seriously..
Disclaimer: Though I play mousehunt alot, I dont spend real life money on it...
Many laughed when the speaker talked about people spending real life money on mousehunt..
He also spoke of JC students dota-ing with friends(from poly) till late night. This reminds me of my friend, yian LOL.

Ok, I need to sleep already, bye.

2011-03-25T21:28:00.002+08:00

Chapter 227: Workout

After sch, I went for a workout with Bing Hui, Matthew and Yi An.
We started by changing to the appropriate attire before heading off to the track.
We dashed the first round at max speed... but I wasnt running at max speed as I'm afraid of "breaking down" before the lap ends...
"Breaking down" means that if u continue running, nothing serious will happen other than u will just drop down and die.
I clocked 1 min 08 sec. Then walked 100m, another 400m dash. This cycle is done 4 times and the last round clocked 1 min 58 secs.

yian is forever having his butt pain when running....
Matt is forever imbalanced in his never-dying stamina..

Then we went to the gym in sch to workout. I trained on my back muscles and did dips in order to force that 1 more pull up...

Oh, for my NAPFA, i can at least secure a D for each station with the exception of pull-ups. I did 3, while the D grade requires 4-5.... Just 1 more to silver and 2 months off NS...

We then went to play basketball.. Nothing memorable to mention as I always suck in bball. Matt was awesome btw.

Went for a drink and matt and yian left. Bh and I went back to the gym to train abit more.. before i head off for my cca at 4.30 while bh waited till 5.30 for his AJIdol Rehearsal.

My cca is Cxtreme.. and today, the C shall stand for Colouring, in other words, Colouring extreme as we merely meddle with the drawings on the tablet computer.. while the JC1s are meddling with the robots to prepare for their NJRC Competition.

Went home after that.

2011-03-22T21:05:00.002+08:00

Chapter 226: Tuesdays with NLZZTimes

This title isn't that original after all if you have realised.
I got this inspiration from a book I (was forced to) read some time back (for my book review homework). The book is titled "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom.

Chem lecture about Nitrogen Compounds, then PE.
PE required us to do pull-ups, 12 of them, in whatever set preferable, according to own preference. Then we went for a 2.4km run. I clocked 11 mins 10 secs, which was a score for B. And the range for B is 10.21 - 11.10 ... so 1 sec late and C is on its way to town...

Then come the Maths Lecture. Its Vectors Part 2.. Vectors Part 1 already is good enough to kill half of me... now they're introducing another half to finish me once and for all :( There is this "Right hand screw rule" inside vectors. However, the way the lecturer pronounced it makes it sound like "Right hand screw you." which is very funny.
GP Tutorial came after, with several people missing from class due to the Aesthetics performance coming up during mass civics. So, Mrs Chng began giving us content, updating us on the General Issues... well of course, there is the part on Gaddafi and the part on Japan.

Then came the Mass Civics period in the Hall, where we watched the Aesthetics performances as mentioned earlier. Moving on, we have the Maths peer tutoring on Vectors Part 1.
Then we have the GP Remedial which Mrs Chng went thru the intro paragraph for our essays... She told me that physically handicapped and mentally handicapped should be treated as one whole group of the handicapped, and I cannot separate them and write on them separately in my essay...
Before the session ended, she gave us an article to photocopy and do as remedial hmwk. So we went to the photocopy shop and asked for 5 copies.. it only costs us 15 cents... and here comes the trouble! And Mathematics alone is not sufficient to solve this million dollar question.

If there are 5 copies to be given each to 5 people and it costs a total of 15 cents.. how do we separate the cost!? You may say 3 cents each... but if you think about it again and put yourself in our shoes... you will realise the seriousness and the complicated-ness of this problem... HOW ON EARTH DO YOU GET 1 CENT COINS IN THIS ERA OF THE 21ST CENTURY!?!?!!?!??!?!?!
Don't be mistaken. Finding 1 cent coin isnt the real problem... the huge task sitting ahead of us is HOW DO U FIND THREE 5 cent coins EACH (15 one-cent coins?!)

So we ended up incorporating Economics in our quest to solve this problem. We have introduced the free-rider problem! So tc, rebecca and yian paid 5 cents each.

Yian absorbed the cost for me cause he was supposed to treat us to a meal as he passed his Chinese A levels, as promised. But isn't this 3 cent meal a little bit tad too cheap?!

Okay, so this shall be the question to ponder over the weekends: Is this 3 cent meal worth it?
Happy pondering and don't fall into the pond while pondering!

2011-03-21T20:51:00.003+08:00

Chapter 225: Weekend Review

Another round of weekend review! Manchester United has beaten Bolton 1-0 thanks to Dimitar Berbatov, who tapped in a parried shot from Nani in the 88th minute.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, Arsenal is held to a 2-2 draw at West Brom... but West Brom was 2-0 up at 70th minute...
Chelsea and Liverpool both won 2-0 against opponents Manchester City and Sunderland respectively.

I wasted some of my efforts on Sunday night, rushing through Chem SPA planning Exercise 4 after receiving a shock sms from the class ldr about the need to complete it... The worksheet was received 1000000 years ago... and the teacher had said that we need not do it yet. Even before the hols, the teacher did not mention about it, despite it being stored in cold storage. So the sms felt like another nuclear reactor exploding to me... cause time was ticking and its 8 plus... and what's worse is that I have yet to embark on my Maths powerpoint presentation. :/ What's worse is that the teacher said that its ok if we didnt complete that...

As for the Maths powerpoint presentation, I worked on it since 9 plus till around 11... and the teacher said that the presentation will only be done next friday.. LIKE WHAT!?! I rushed through everything when it isnt really necessary at that point of time...

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Moving on to today, Monday.

We started off with Maths lesson, followed by the civics lesson. During the civics lesson, the teacher mistakenly dismissed us just after half an hr, when the lesson was supposed to be one full solid hour. She realised the mistake and came back looking for us 15 mins from time and asked us to write our SGCs.

During Chemistry lesson, my teacher was saying "What's the use of giving the people iodine in Japan?" The first thing that came to my mind was "To test them for starch." and i told that to the guys.
Then binghui added that the people will all turn blue black upon consuming the iodine.
Well, in actual fact, it prevents thyroid cancer.

Then came the Econs lecture. And then followed by the Biology Lecture.

The topic for Bio Lecture was Diversity and Evolution. We were shown pokemon pictures. Most importantly, pikachu. The lecturer said that pikachu's evolution to raichu was not really evolution. (sounds ironic but it's true)
Then the lecturer made a misconception! He said that pikachu will keep on fighting, gain level and evolve. This is totally false! He didnt get his facts right. Pikachu evolve only through the use of the thunderstone!
After he was corrected, he said "through the use of a yellow stone" ITS THUNDERSTONE!
By the way, what happened to Pichu?

Then he went on to compare pokemons like pikachu, zapdos, charizard and another pokemon which is from the more advanced generation (the lecturer didnt know its name... and so did I... I think its called Cyndaquil.
He was comparing the traits of thunder and fire... and the zigzag, the tail, etc etc blah blah blah.. which was never-ending until the cows come home.

After leaving for home. I left home again to meet up with Bing Hui to go for a jog around the estate. We jogged for about 1.2km and went for some basic trainings like push-ups, etc etc (Secret training schedule cannot be revealed to the General Public! :)
Went to his house after that to get a drink of 100plus, only to be interrupted halfway through this secret mission!

His dog likes to follow me around and it likes to turn around in circles for some wierd reason that is un-explainable even by its owner. Before leaving his house, the dog made contact with my leg and I feel something wet.. I think it licked me ..

Went home after that. My hands feel power-less now...

2011-03-16T23:18:00.003+08:00

Chapter 224: Middle of Hols

We have arrived at the midpoint of holidays. If you use a sword and cut holidays into half, you can imagine what I'm talking about. If that isnt that clear to u, imagine the first day of holidays as point A, last day of holiday as point B, point C is the midpoint of AB, which is the middle point of the holidays.

First off, we have Manchester United going into the last 8 of the Champions League after defeating Marsielle 2-1 (aggregate 2-1). All thanks to both goals from Javier Hernandez.. here we have a case of own goal.

Talking about own goals, I have something to share.
Team A's player(s) scored 2 goals and Team B's player(s) scored 3 goals but Team A won, why?
Well, its quite obvious now as I have already given the preamble to this...
Its because one of the goals for Team B is an own goal, thus Team A 3-2 Team B. Thus, Team A wins.

Moving on to Economics. Don't worry, I won't give u any big theory about exchange rate, fiscal policy or whatsoever blah blah blah.
In my tutorial, there are some essay questions. Beside those questions, there wrote "Please do not attempt this on your own!"

You know what that means?

It meant u need to attempt this question with someone else!!
Now u can give the excuse to the teacher that the dog ate my homework! (cause u can claim that I did my hmwk with my dog. This is because the question asks us to not attempt on our own, therefore, i chose to attempt it with my pet... however, it ended up eating my hmwk!!!)
Brilliant plan ;) Isn't it?

Oh, and the chemistry project requires us to propose something to extract copper from bronze and brass. The method required has got to be electrochemistry! And there is the need for us to write about the safety precautions.. which is hard.. I really couldn't think of anything except for getting electric shock.. or write there "HAZARD! PLEASE REFRAIN FROM DRINKING THE COPPER SULFATE ELECTROLYTE."

I hope I have a machine to expand the holidays. 1 week seems too short.

2011-03-14T22:34:00.004+08:00

Chapter 223: Weekend Review

To begin with, Man Utd beat Arsenal 2-0!!! Thanks to goals from Fabio and Rooney. :)
This will be a big boost to their morale ahead of Marseille (or however u spell it)'s game. Hopefully, they will win the FA cup eventually.

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I miss singing... with my current voice, I'm unable to hit high pitches... and my voice is deep.. I consulted the doctor today.. hope to recover from my sore throat...
It's terrible not being able to sing songs at home..

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On Sunday, I went to NUS Open House 2011. I went to listen to the talk on computing science. Career prospects look good. No programming background necessary. BUT their 10th percentile grade from JC is ABBB... I really need to depend heavily on my Mathematics to secure the A... but i have yet to do so in any major JC exams.. I think that if i fail to get A for Maths, I can forget about getting it for the other subjects...
And whats scary is that 3B... although they are ideal for good results.. they seem difficult to obtain..
And of course, alot of goodies to take! And even stickies for free! Without the hassle to go down to Clarke Quay.. well, NUS is far too anyways..
Someone asked me to do a survey and i hate answering him with my screwed-up voice..
Anyways i got something which i forgot what it is for completing the survey.

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The long-awaited holidays are finally here! But so are the accuracy of my predictions. The homework pile. If we drop those homework into Japan again, we can create another Tsunami and 8.9 magnitude (or even higher!) earthquake.

Anyways its quite sad to hear about the Earthquake and Tsunami... and what makes things worse is the radioactive generated from the explosion of the Nuclear Plants.. Disadvantages of nuclear power...

Ok, I shall spare u the details of the disaster as that's the job of the media and not me.

2011-03-12T23:26:00.002+08:00

Chapter 222: The ruined Sports Day

If you noticed, this chapter number is 222, which is a special number! Therein brings the need for a special edition! And in this special edition, there will be 222 facts revealed!

Ok just joking. I dont have any facts to reveal.

So, lets begin this very special edition #222 with something not-so-special.
The sports day is ruined.
The efforts are going down the drain...

The refreshments people (a.k.a. refreshers)
You might ponder... why are refreshments people called the refreshers.. Now let me ask you.
What do you call a person who teach? Teacher
What do you call a person who drives? Driver
What do you call a person who kills? Killer.
What do you call a person who smokes? Smoker.
So what do you call a person who does refreshments? Refresher.

Okay, so the refreshers have wasted time cutting, arranging, stamping those refreshments coupon which are just deemed as waste papers after the sports day. Whats more is that they are not used at all... the sports day is cancelled and no one received any refreshments or should i say no one claimed the refreshments...

I guess the refreshments coupon can be used as rough paper now.. for doing anything..
Thats not all. We have also carried out packets of H2Os after packets... and put in water and ice and etc etc etc... Alot of work is done for nothing.. efficiency? 0%.
So all the water and ice goes down the drain. $ for the ice wasted.

So we retrieved the drinks out from the icy cold water... its so cold that ur hand gets numb... and we carried back all the drinks to the stores etc etc.

Ok, before we kept, some of us went to rehearse for the ceremony as we're winners of the completed 4X400m event. Anyways the rehearsal has gone to waste too.. since they just cancelled it after the rehearsal and gave us our medals...

And there is free flow of milo from the milo van. I drank 5 cups as its free LOL. Binghui tried to be funny and drank 25 cups of milo... (ehh wait, or is it 35?)

Anyways its just a waste. We carry drinks to and fro w/o distributing a single packet of drink... the coupons.. wasted. We cant get hold of the drinks too :(

Went for cca after that. My cca-mates meddled with their OrcGanic competition while I went meddling with flash and recapping the concepts of masking and motion guide.
I coughed alot still.. maybe because of the chill in the lab... and I still havent got my voice back. I have tried typing "/find voice" alot of times (like how u would find a person in maplestory.) But it always return "Unable to find voice."

Anyways, I got news that our sch won 1st for the OrcGanic Competition. Congrats to them.
And for AJ Idol, vote for De Imprea if you can. A quote from bh on this team goes: "Vote de imprea. I don't know who are they, but i heard they're awesome."

2011-03-09T22:22:00.002+08:00

Chapter 221: Mega Edition

To start off, negative things have been happening recently... and under the theory of "Life is Fair" that I presented way back in early chapters of around chapter 10-20, good things will start to surface soon... real soon...

The first negative thing that struck me was MT A Levels.. I failed to get an A, just like how I failed to get A1 for O levels... I was always one grade down for some reason that cannot be explained with science. Well, I dont think I'll be retaking, I am already living in a Chineseless-exam-life.

Moving on to the second thing. Captain's ball. It was an interhouse competition and we were defeated 1-0. This is sad to say as we have waited for the competition at 5.20 when our lessons ended much earlier at 1 plus?

Let's interrupt this with a special review about my friend's house. Before the capt ball competition, I accompanied my friend back to his house as he has forgotten to bring his house tee. My friend shall not be named to protect him from being kidnapped. His house was a whooping 1 hour journey away from school. Lets begin from where we alighted from the bus. He tapped his wallet against a reader, gate opens. Then comes the carpark area, where you have to turn here, turn there, turn everywhere, turn anywhere and you're lost. It's like a highly-sophiscated maze to the lift... The lift requires to tap the card as well... And when u walk into the lift, u need to tap the card again then press the floor number. One of the 2 lift doors will open upon reaching. And u only see one SINGLE unit there... all to themselves... to the point where u can leave any valuables whatsoever at the corridor, cause no one gets access to it! And the house is big... and there are 2 swimming pools downstairs... rich kids... And we watched him play dota until time was up and we headed back for school. It can be said that his house is an impenetrable fortress. The security systems are damn high tech and secure..

Back to the main point. The third negative thing is that Man Utd lost 3-1 to Liverpool. Things are worse as they played terribly and Nani was injured. However, some thing nice to hear is that Arsenal was defeated 3-1 at the Nou Camp to Barcelona.

The fourth negative thing is that I have contracted fever on Saturday, that explains why weekend review wasnt up this week.. It recovered on Monday, but I'm down to cough... and currently I'm starting to lose my voice ... and I did a GP Presentation today without a proper voice... (This will be further explained in the next paragraphs.)

The forecast predicted fifth negative thing has got to be hmwk during the March Holidays, under the hands of the unforgiving ruthless teachers...

During the sexuality education panel discussion, bh wrote this question: "My friend is gay. I feel awkward communicating with him, what should I do?" The Councillor said that "you should get him to set some boundaries." Bh immediately turned to josh and said "I think that we need to set some boundaries."

Moving on to today's GP Presentation, I can conclude that simple is perfect. My simple animation has successfully entertained the hearts of many. The bad thing is that I'm presenting with a screwed up voice... even myself feel weird hearing it when i was presenting... And my hands were shaking a little.. btw, I was presenting on the topic of the Crusades. My animation was about how Christopher Columbus found America.
It was this GP Presentation that made me post this chapter this late... if not it would possibly have been up by monday already... I cant post it on Sunday as I have econs test on monday..
Oh and I was required to present earlier thanks to Yian who screwed up... his powerpoint presentation file was corrupted and could not be open up at all... So he will do it the next day while I suffer the fate of early-presentation.. it hit me unprepared as I had that 8 mins barrier still in me at that point of time. (Each presentation takes 8 mins)

(Pre-Warning: Following paragraph not suitable for reading for the faint-hearted.)
Bio remedial today was conducted at LT5. It is said that that place is haunted.. they claimed that someone died there choking on fishball? Then Mr. Poh started by saying that two cold hands will touch you. Then he carried on the joke by saying "Who's that person behind you?" Actually nothing was there -.- When TC who came in later tried to sit down, my friend asked him "not to sit on Tom". (when TC was trying to sit on an empty seat.) It just goes on and on. Mr Poh still said that he is doing this illegally as a Lecture Theatre cannot be used unless at least 40 students are there. Then bh jokingly said that "Huh, why got so many people?" *looks around frantically* When class ended, someone still went to switch off the lights... leaving the place in complete darkness. Ok, enough of all this. Moving on...

A random thought came to my mind when I was bathing. Imagine if a crisis struck your school and you are allowed to save only 20 people from the school, all the others will die. Who will you save?
I pondered over it awhile and couldnt really decide... It was a tough decision.

For some strange reason, I'm excited about Track and Field Meet on Friday...
Maybe because I can have freeflow of drinks at the refreshments area :)

Oh and to end off, bh and his team were dancing today afternoon at the canteen area to publicise their AJIdol participation. Support him if u can by voting for him if you are an AJCian.

2011-03-03T22:26:00.002+08:00

Chapter 220: Last second week of Term 1

On a side note, it was sad to say but Man U was defeated by Chelsea 1-2 at Stamford Bridge again...

Lets move on to the topic.
Firstly, our class is one of the classes that is doing the Track and Field Helpers.
One bright monday and we got scolded for our punctuality issues and attendance for the track and field events... Most of us arrive late for a million reasons under the sun. And there are occasions where we cant make it. And not to mention about clashes with other schedules..

So, some of us are doing refreshments duty. And the first thing for us to do is to work on the coupons! We have to stamp the coupons using the college ink, then cut, then sort them. We completed all these within 2 days. Around 10 mins for the stamping.. 1 ++ hr for the cutting and another 1++ hr for the sorting. Btw, Yian was the IC after getting sabotage.
And the bad thing is that he gt scolded when he approached the teacher at the PE Dept. He didnt greet the teacher. Thats all.

Enough of this track and field stuffs. Let's move on to the ever-interesting-and-enticing-lessons!
During GP, my teacher shared with us how she speaks to strangers in buses... and she claimed that she prefers speaking to guys as girls can appear to be quite hostile to her.
She likes talking to foreigners.. and she even spoke to a Bangladeshi worker once...
Wow, thats considered a great deal...

Maybe she has yet to experience the bus ride I have been through all this while.. I call it the Bus Ride to School! It was rather horrible.. Almost 40% of the bus will be packed by foreign workers by some busstop.. and its crowded to the extent that i feel transformed into a sardine.
Its a pain as there is difficulty finding balance.. there are no poles to grab as they block it..

Tomorrow's gonna be a big day for alot of people.. and a worrying day for me..
I hope that the AJ hall is capable of withstanding a possible flood.
But whether a flood will occur remains a mystery till tmr... Looking on the bright side, maybe, people will be jumping in joy tmr.. once again I hope the hall can withstand the weight...
And chinese results will be out for me... It is scary, considering the event that occured back in sec 4. I hope I wont be as upset as that time when the teacher said "A2" to me -.-
Hopefully, retaking is not necessary.. it is a choice that is worth considering.. after learnin this lesson from O levels...
In the O levels, I chose to live with the A2 grade.. in the end, ppl who got B3 and retook managed to secure A2 and A1... its like what the hell?

2011-02-27T22:00:00.002+08:00

Chapter 219: Weekend Review

Man Utd beat Wigan 4-0 away!!! It was tense. Hernandez scored the 1st goal at 17th minute. Then, the opposition started to threaten the lead... requiring Van Der Sar to pull back-to-back excellent saves! The drought lasts till around 74th minute when Hernandez doubled the lead. Then, Rooney put in a 3rd goal, courteousy of a pass from Berbatov. Fabio scored his first goal to make it 4-0 and the 3 points are sealed in the plastic bag!
They'll be playing Chelsea midweek, Liverpool weekends... Tough fixtures..

Just had pizza for dinner! Like finally. I ate hawaiian pizza at my grandparents house! And that is after I did my GP Comprehension homework.

On a side note, the holidays are coming... but i foresee the pouring of homework soon... Teachers are not gonna let us off easily... they'll make it a point to make u suffer during the holidays~~

Hopefully, Chinese lessons will end... its been a pain staying back for Malay lessons... and now they're kicking in Chinese lectures... the bad thing is that Chinese A levels are already over... and hopefully that's the last time I'm doing a Chinese paper. I dont know if there's still chinese lesson tmr.. I hope not.. then i can have more time to revise my chemistry and maths.

2011-02-23T21:12:00.002+08:00

Chapter 218: IEEE Competition

So what exactly is IEEE? Same as you, I have absolutely no idea till the competition. Don't bother to google it, cause i had already done it and i will reveal it to u in no time! So stay tuned and get entertained in this version of NLZZ Times.

After morning assembly, I headed straight to the robotics room. We hanged around for awhile, packed stuffs, charged up laptops, and headed off for NUS shortly after in a bus. Yes, I missed all the lessons going on that day... I even had to do my GP test on friday instead...

So I carried the robot, Qixuan (qx) carried the lego set, Alvin carried the laptop. Well, thats for my group. There's still another 2 groups that went with us, so 9 people in total (for the benefit of those who have problems counting)

And my team members never fail to uphold the college's most-famous-feature - Mugging.
Alvin was studying Hydroxy compounds while Qx was doing his Electric Field Tutorial. After the bus ride, we finally arrived at NUS! The first thing we looked for is something that is very important to us! Guess what it is?

I bet you can never guess it, so i shall reveal the answer to u.

We went to the toilet!

Then I saw my sec sch classmate, Jiayang. I went up to say hi to him and found out that he's participating in the IEEE competition too. My initial thought was "oh dear, sure lose to him." In the end, my thought never changed.
We were desperately counting the number of people participating, the less the higher the chance of us winning LOL.
Another thing that excites my cca-mates are the vending machines, that serves sandwich! Alvin claimed that it is nice, but i didnt buy it.
Then, while sitting down and looking around, I saw that many people actually walked into the lift and tried to operate it.. but to no avail.. Awhile later, the next group of people came and they pressed the lift button. Nothing happens. They pressed again. Nothing. They pressed repeatedly this time. Nothing happens again. When they walked out, another group entered 3 secs later... Just when will people realise that the lift is not working...

Then, Ryan asked us to wait for the organisers to come and "collect" us. After a while, nothing happens. So I turned to Ryan and asked him "Ryan, where are the collectors?"

After more moments, the collectors finally arrived. Then we realised that this competition was a student-initiated-project.

We followed them to the lecture hall. This was when we realised that there are around 10 teams only. We were very happy to know this fact. We can actually write in our SGC (Singapore Graduation Certificate) that we have emerged top 10 in the NUS IEEE Competition.
Then the organisers gave us inspiration to write for our SGC! He said that we're the pioneer batch in IEEE competition. This is what he said "We hold this IEEE competition every year, and you guys are the pioneer batch." So we can write in our SGC that we are the pioneer batch in IEEE competition and we managed to achieve top 10 position! Which is actually a great deal! No simple human can achieve that.

Oh, they gave us the questionaire with one of the question: What is IEEE?
LOL thats exactly what i wanted to know, and i hope to hear it from them...
So I googled it and found out that it is "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers" Interesting...
I thought it stands for "Innovative Enterprise Entertaining Exciting"

So we hanged around, did the robots, scanned thru the competition route etc.. After all that can be done, it seemed that everything cant be done. Our programming doesnt obey us, or is it the robot... It just refuses to either follow the line or respond appropriately to the ultrasonic sensor.
So we cried. (joking)

Desperate times call for desperate measures. This was what my ex-cca-mate told me but i forgot who it is. So we have to execute the most desperate measure that we could - hardcore programming. Instead of following the line, we made the robot move straight, left, right etc according to the route we see LOL. As measurements were not taken, I did not think our plan will work though...

So we went back in to the Lecture Theatre (LT) as time is up. We sat there, waiting to be called. When we are called, we went out. The person tried to explain things about the timing, but qx told him that there is no need for timing as we will not reach the finishing line. The organiser keeps asking us to believe in ourselves, until the stage where he saw our robot running...
The first run was horrendous, the second run was out of the path within seconds! So I suppose he understood what we meant when we say we'll never reach the finishing line. I have calculated that the probability of us reaching the finishing line is exactly 0%.
When our friends asked us how we did, I said that "Our group has the maximum.. entertaining value."
We even imagined the news brining up our robot run during the entertainment news section! Cause our robot is fail to the extent that it is very entertaining, looking at it running randomly, storming out of the path etc...

Below is an artist's impression on the TV:
"We interupt this program to bring you Singapore's most entertaining news today! *Shows our robot run in the competition*

Ok, enough of the joke. We then went to the canteen to have our lunch. The food there beats AJ Canteen hands down. Alvin had a great deal at the canteen too. His food costs $4. He gave the vendor $10 and got a $7 change.

Then we headed back to the LT. Results were announced. Teams that went through are HCJC, TJC, RJC, NUS High, AJC Team 1, Republic Poly(i think)
They went into the 2nd round of the competition.

Shortly after, we were given the license to leave. The certificate of participation will be passed to us when we meet on friday thru the Team 1 people who went thru. (Team 2 and 3 didnt went thru, and i am not in team 1)

Oh, I forgot to mention that qx had been designing lots of cca tee when awaiting the results. He drew a design for each member in the robotics group. They were all hilarious.

So we left thru cab. And thankfully, claiming is allowed in all ways.
After cabbing back, my friend asked the taxi uncle if he can print a receipt showing a higher price than the stated amount, so that we can scam the claim. The uncle said that it was only possible last time where receipts are offered handwritten.. now, with the advancements of technology, receipts are computer-printed.. so no room for corruption. Well, he was just joking, relax. We're nice people that wont scam $$.

Alvin then went to find Mr Sng to claim the money and collect the key to open the robotics room, so that we can deposit the robots and legos.
He was questioned by Mr Sng about the competition. Alvin said that we have won the top 10!
Then the most-unwanted and worrying question came from Mr Sng... "How many teams were there in the competition?" He replied "10." Then Mr Sng was shocked and asked "then u tell me u came in top 10?" Alvin replied again "Ya, we came in top 10."

[P.S. Above conversation is only done through illustration by Alvin as I was not present when the conversation occured.]

Basically thats about it. Thanks for viewing.

NLZZ Reporting.

2011-02-20T22:06:00.002+08:00

Chapter 217: Weekend Review

Welcome to yet another session of our Weekend Review!

Soccer news up first.

Man Utd won 1-0 against Crawley Town. They filed second stringers, most of whom had no idea what they're doing at all... lucky they managed to scrap a victory.
Everton beat Chelsea 4-3 on penalties after a 1-1 draw. Quite a surprising result to me.

News just came that I am required to skip Wednesday lessons... because of the NUS IEEE Competition which my cca will participate.. Sian, i just hate the idea of missing out on lessons... seriously... I just hope the teachers dont do much on that day... so i wont miss out alot... :X

Weekends always seem so short, while weekdays always seem so long... And homework is haunting me all day long... Though the March holidays are coming... I dont really think there can be ample rest. The teachers will try their very best to give us as much hmwk as possible i suppose... and in no time, we will have to embark on term 2...

Oh Budget 2011! The govt is giving money to the citizens.. but sadly I dont have a share :(

Oh, and I saw from iweekly that Jay will release a new album at May. Reports from my spies suggests that the release is done at May in relation to celebrate my birthday!

2011-02-16T21:32:00.002+08:00

Chapter 216: Activities-packed-Wednesday

7853098436785912961478 things have happened today.
Removing those small/minor details like the leaves had dropped at ABC Street at XX:XX Time, we're left with approx 86184263855127618782 things to report on.
Of all those, we continue to eliminate those that do not happen in Singapore. Thus, we are down to 3147918052 events that occur locally.
Of all those, we eliminate those things that have in no way any single relation to the human species. Thus we're left with around 77620056 things to say.
Of course and fret not! I'm not gonna post all the 77620056 events that happened today. I'm just gonna report the most important parts and here it goes...

One fine day, I went to school. As usual, there'll be this bus stop where there is a high influx of foreigners onboard, decreasing the average distance of 2 people in the bus. The bus driver, as usual, keeps asking ppl to move in. Then came the ticket inspector just one stop before AJC. And we actually have to let her scan our ez-link cards and alight immediately after... it is troublesome, but the rules are there for us to follow.

Then came the first period, and it is called Economics. Did an essay practice. As many ppl didnt prepare the tutorial, my teacher said that we must have spent alot of time revising for the essay practice to the extent that we neglect our tutorials. So, he expects us to do well for that essay practice as we supposedly spent lots of time for it. Well, I thought in my mind: Since I have prepared the tutorial, I should have less time to revise for the essay practice, thus I could afford to not do well and have a valid reason to explain. How I wish the fire drill came in now... but to no avail.

Then came the Biology Tutorial where the fire drill went off... It is said that we should take all our valuables. As AJC is a supposedly mugger school, people should regard tutorials and lecture notes as valuables instead. Thus, they should take their whole bag with them and leave their wallets and phone in the class instead.
Obviously, that didnt happen lol.
So we evacuated to the Field and turned into a stone under the sun for approx 45 mins before returning to class for a 15 mins bio lesson.

Then came the favourite period of all time. Break.

Then came GP. Then it was bio remedial and then lunch.

Then I went for Maths Olympiad Selection Test with the double-olympiad boy (yian).
10 mcqs and 2 out of 4 questions that require a written answer, where working isnt needed.
The moment has finally arrived! It's time for me to flaunt my level 99 tikam-ing skills. There is a probability of 0.20 to get each MCQ question correct as there are 5 options :X But my tikam-ing skills effectively raise the chance of getting the question correct :) From the probability of 0.20 to 0.2000001.
And my maths skills have raised the probability from 0.2000001 to 0.2000005.
I think this test is a "just-go-for-fun-thing". Nothing will come out of it, I dont think i can make it to the olympiad at all lol.

Then came the Track and Field Duty. As time was pressing, I didnt change into the house tee, and head straight to the track. My job was simple, to sit down there, chant and collect CIP hours. (ok kidding)
Basically, my job is to see the runners cross the line and tell my friend the number tag that has passed, so that he could mark it (by ticking).

It was soon over and its time to get to the extreme.

CXTREME!

Went to robotics room. Nobody home. Went to room 213. No sign of humans. So i called Qixuan, who came out of room 214 and signalled me in. They're having orientation with the JC1s. They just ran around the sch while I arrange back the tables and chairs with a few CCA-mates. Well, I'm glad i missed those games LOL.
Went back to comp lab where we're dismissed. There, we have a choice to head to the robotics room to continue our preparation for the competition or head home. So I decided that we should take a gamble! We should toss a coin and let it decide our fate for the day.

"Heads we dont stay, Tails we leave" I said.

The coin resulted in a head! which meant that we dont stay, so we left.

If you didnt get the joke, go back and read what happens if tails was the result.

Oh, and Alvin forgot to give the cert to a member again.. So I volunteered to keep it for him. Then, I asked my CCA head "Do I get CIP hours for keeping this cert?"

2011-02-13T00:41:00.002+08:00

Chapter 215: Weekend Review

Here we come to another session of the weekend review here at NLZZTimes. As always, the first focus of the review is for EPL soccer. Currently, Man Utd has beaten Man City 2-1! All thanks to goals from Nani and Rooney. As of press time, Arsenal is leading Wolves 2-0.. they'll win it probably, sad to say. And Liverpool is being held to a 1-1 draw currently.

The J1s in my sch seem to be overly enthusiastic... They arrive for lectures 15 mins before time... keeps on checking in the auditorium, disrupting jc2 lectures... They seem to have a very strong thirst for learning... They seem to be overly-excited for lectures... to the extent that they camp in the audi during JC2 lecture to wait for their lecture that follows...
Not only that, they have been prompt, or maybe "overly-early" during morning assembly.. They will start massing their numbers in the parade square several mintues before the bell goes... The normal people are the ones who start movement only after the bell sound..
Such enthusiasm is devoid from my batch during the JC1 days... Maybe we only have that enthusiasm within us in the first few weeks?
It is interesting to note that we arrive 10-15 mins late for lecture, while JC1s arrive 10-15 mins earlier for lecture -.-

Anyways, time will tell if their enthusiasm can last... A chinese saying goes "Road shake know horse power, day long see people heart" (路遥知马力, 日久见人心 <=> It takes time to discover the true someone.)
Well this reminds me of one of my favourite phrase "People mountain people sea water no entry." ”人山人海水泄不通“

Well the previous phrase is suitable to describe the situation where I went to the temple to pray earlier in the morning.

2011-02-10T22:29:00.002+08:00

Chapter 214: Recent Events

Tuesday's PE was disastrous as we had to do 3 sets of 7 pullups.. And we have to follow the teacher's count and we had to extend our hands slowly at 5 counts :X
The end result of this is two aching arms, painful body and a tired mind. This is a newly derived equation by me, and it is not advisable to practice it as it causes a decrease in standard of living and quality of life.

And the misery continues... (Random: If only Mr. Chew was here to 'Chew the misery') We had to do some jumping exercise that results in weakened legs. And the best thing is the teacher actually asks us to run 3 rounds (approx 1.2km) in 6 mins after that... which is not really logical.

And the effects of the pain in my hands carry on to today's PE... which deterred me in my pullups... And my hand is still in pain now... I cant stretch my hands straight now or suffer immense pain!

Enough of PE, lets move on to GP.

My GP tutor has pictured the image that the HOD of GP is a scary fellow, that probably can be infamous for students' hatred towards him. My GP tutor said that if our files are not properly done, the HOD of GP is going to go after u. Whats worse is that she brought out the example of 2 students who are screwed up down left right center by him.
However, the reality is in huge contrast from imagination. After checking the files, he just made some comments (both bad and good things about our files), and just left without getting really pissed off with anything at all. And he said that filing is for our own good, for revision purposes in the GP subject.

To summarise the whole big chunk above: He isnt as scary as I thought and imagined.

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How many marks do you get for leaving a question blank?

Why did a student get scolded for doing nothing?

2011-02-07T21:17:00.003+08:00

Chapter 213: CNY Day 5

Today is the fifth day of CNY, but the break ends at the 4th day. Logically (and theoretically?), CNY lasts 15 days, so there should be 15 days of holidays!!!

It was a huge disappointment for me to watch Man U enter into their first loss of the campaign. To worsen the blow, they are the table toppers and they lost to a club at the rock bottom of the table (last of the table, 19 positions down for the benefit of those who work better with numbers) Quite unbelievable piece of fact. But there is a saying that the ball is round, anything can happen in football. Besides, Wolves had managed to topple big clubs this season as well... So.. maybe not that bad.

It was quite a joy to hear news of Liverpool beating Chelsea 1-0 at Stamford Bridge! This will widen the gap between Chelsea and Man U, which is beneficial for Man U's title race. The "betrayer" of Liverpool, as named by many L'pool fans, had failed to make an impact and was substituted in the 65 mins. What a laughable thing to hear.

Today during civics, we are doing on Total Defence and my group was doing Psychological Defence. It was indeed hilarious that my presentation focused all on pride and singing the national anthemn, but isnt that the truth? I said that "As a student, we're singing the national anthemn with pride. Like what we're doing every morning." Then I added, "We will serve the NS with pride and not because it is compulsory to do so." Then I continued "When we work, we will also work in Singapore and not work in other countries, cause we like Singapore!"

The part on "like what we're doing everyday" was said to create "effect" and impact for my presentation cause it isnt really true... lol, i did sing the national anthemn everyday, but whether with pride or not, I, myself, could not tell too...

The part about NS sounds exactly unlike me, but oh well... Its a presentation, I just could not ruin it.

The part about about working in Singapore and not in other countries IS ACTUALLY TRUE! Although I sounded abit sarcastic when I said it, I did it only to create the humour effect. In actual fact, I would definitely like to work in Singapore than other countries... I'm serious!!!

Econs lecture followed shortly after. There was an empty row of seats between the 1st row and 3rd row. Both are occupied by our class. Someone (i forgot who) asked why is there a gap. I replied that this is known as the social divide. When we decided to move up to the 2nd row, so that the "divide" is gone, I said that "We have bridged the social divide."

2011-02-03T22:39:00.002+08:00

Chapter 212: Chinese New Year

Woke up around 12 noon. Off to maternal grandparents house first at around 2pm.
While in the car ride, I thought of this:

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Recently, while I was browsing through my contacts with my phone, Yi An was beside me and saw: 1st Aunt, 2nd Aunt, 4th Aunt, 5th Aunt.
Now, do u have a thought going on in your mind?
Well, can u guess what question yi an asked me after seeing that?

Normal people should be able to guess the question he asked me. (or maybe not, cause he is a genius. Only genius people can guess it.)

He asked me "Then where is 3rd aunt?!?!?!"

I smiled a little and said

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Ok lets get back to the story.

So I reached my maternal grandparents house and went to eat lunch there.
Then it was eating, sitting, walking, stoning, greeting, talking, receiving, profitting!

Well, after somewhile they were gambling.
I did not join in as I did not like to gamble. Years ago when i was just a little boy, i used to like gambling. As i age, I think that gambling is stupid and a waste of money (The probability of losing money is higher than winning in gambling). Now, I will not gamble as it brings alot of harm and almost no good. Gambling is bad and can cause serious/dire social and economic consequences. So do not gamble.

And then off to paternal grandparents house.

Hongbaos again of course. And of course the snacks.. like cashew nuts, Bak Kwa, etc etc.
Then I went to KFC with my cousins to eat dinner. I ate 2 chicken. Then there was 2 mashed potatos, 1 coleslaw, 1 unknown snack that comes in the ring shape and its fish, 1 packet of cheese fries. I pushed the 2 mashed potatos and 1 coleslaw to my elder cousin who obviously refused it. I said that the rest of us can handle the fries LOL.

The coleslaw and mashed potatos come in similar containers. So, it was difficult to differentiate them. My sis mistakenly said that the one that is cold is mashed potatos and coleslaw is hot. We got a shock obviously.

And the freaking ring shaped snack as mentioned above is made of FISH. Which straight away ruled me out from consuming it.

We ended up being very full at the end.. And went back to my paternal grandparents hse. Then we go to someone else's house (not the one in maplestory)

My elder cousin drove my sis, 2 cousins, his mum there.
My dad drove my grandma, me, my mum there.
We reached there and ate again LOL.
Other than that, we PROFIT of course!

Oh and there was a little boy there who asked us to play wii with him.. The game was some super-duper-advanced-generation-style-of-mario. This game is complex to the extent that we just couldnt ... IT MUST BE GENERATION GAP. We old people cannot play this new generation kind of mario... This mario game has a combination of alot of things... there is roller-coaster-style, snake-style, penguin, ride a pet, bomberman, etc all inside...
Its basically very profound... I guess we old people can only play the ancient type of Mario games.. which is very basic... without the snake, penguin, fire, all kind of funny wuzzy wthbbq shitz.

Ok enough of mario, its time we head home and so we did and that marks the end of CNY day 1.

2011-02-02T19:01:00.002+08:00

Chapter 211: 3 Things about CNY

There are basically 3 main reasons why i like Chinese New Year. First of all, alot of food outlets are closed during that period except for FAST FOOD!!! So that means I dont have to eat slow food :)
The second reason is because of the all-time-favourite, and it is well known as holidays, which meant break from study! Only hmwk is there to spoil it however.
The third reason is simple and should be guessed by many. Free Cash! This is more efficient than cash converter or pawning gold.

Last night, I bought Jay Chou Concert DVD :)
And i slept at 11 and woke up at 4 only for one reason.
To watch 23 men chasing after the ball? No.
I woke up to see Man Utd vs Aston Villa!
I hoped that they dont lose, or i will smash up the TV set, considering the opportunity cost of waking up at 4 AM to watch the match.

While i was busy catching mouse with my iphone, Rooney scored at the 1st min. What a relief, maybe this just meant that i would not have woken up in vain. True enough, Rooney strikes again just before half time after Nani passed to him.
Then it struck me for a while when Bent scored against Man U, putting the scoreline to 2-1. Thankfully, Vidic struck at goal with his leg! (instead of head, like he usually does) 2 hours was well spent watching the 3-1 victory to Man U!

Then I stoned awhile before making preparations and off to school i GO!
Well, sch was practically a waste of time. All we do in sch is to take attendance and watch the CNY celebration concert. Thats it.

So I went home and ate KFC with my dad.

Tomorrow is the first day of CNY. So I wish all viewers a very happy Chinese New Year 2011!

2011-01-30T21:35:00.002+08:00

Chapter 210: The Green Hornet Movie

Woke up, looked at the clock, it shows 6. It seems impossible as some strange feeling is telling me it is not that early. Something must have gone wrong with that clock. So I opened the door and walked out and took a glance at the living room's clock 10.30am. More like it. Its impossible for me to wake up early by myself as i slept at 3 last night thanks to the FA Cup Match. (Man U beat Southampton 2-1) Half an hr later, my dad woke me up and I did the necessary things (the usual routine).

Then, my sis and I went down to wait for my cousin to fetch us. It was pouring heavily. The rain just doesnt seem to cease, its like an endless flow/supply of water. Water is free!!! Those people who sell water at 3 for $10 would probably go out of business because of that.

So, we boarded the car and the music player in his car was playing Jay Chou songs... then i realised that the Jay Chou Concert the Era album has been released!!! My mum and sis are pooling in to buy it for me. Thanks Mum and Sis :) And we arrived at Marina Square. We ate at Hans. I ordered Chicken chop which costs a whooping 11.80.
My sis and I kindly donated the carrots to my aunt so as to help her improve her eyesight. In return, I received some wedges from her. See, i'm so nice. Ok just joking, its because we dont eat carrots.

The story doesnt end here. My sis and I will continue extending our kindness~~ We even donated the soup to my cousin. The same reason applies here. When we finished eating, shyness deterred me from asking how much was the lunch and thus I didnt pay them back yet. I thought of paying them later.

Went back to the car and went to Cineleisure to catch the movie "THE GREEN HORNET" IN 3D! The show was awesome and funny. Jay's english is still ok to me. I like all the inventions by him in the movie. He made a coffee making machine! (ok this is not the main point, I dont drink coffee). He made a car with alot of facilities (like shooting fire, missiles, bullets, etc) This is exactly a car which i have dreamt of having all the while since my childhood days. Also, it is bulletproof! I often dreamt of having it and using it to fight crimes LOL. He also invented a gas gun that makes the guy faint for 11 days (he reduced it to one hour after Seth Rogen fired it at himself)

It was abit wasted when I am on high tide near the ending minutes of the movie. So, I decided to rush to the washroom. When I return, the show just ended LOL. Then we set off for my grandparents house. There, we watched the Jay Chou The Era Concert. My cousin has already bought the DVDs..

Looking forward to CNY now...

2011-01-29T00:53:00.002+08:00

Chapter 209: CCA Carnival

Thurs: Biology Experiment on Gel Electrophoresis is not as bad as i imagined it to be. It ended up being quite successful and relatively easy due to the little amounts of steps we have to do.

Fri: CCA Carnival. The guys left the robot outside the comp lab. When the CCA teacher walks in, he told us that he needed someone to look after it as he is afraid that someone will attempt to steal the robot. So Alvin stood up and went to look after it, while i went to accompany him.

Me: Actually, who would want to steal this robot? I think ppl would rather steal this pink dolphin bottle over here...
Alvin: No, I dont think so. The pink dolphin bottle is already drank by someone. So no one will want it.

Furthermore, our area is remote. Few (or negligible) people are passing by... So the club wanted us to give out pamphlets, which is a nightmare to me (whenever human to human interaction is neccessary)
And it all bears down to the fact that I am shy.

So i forcifully gave out some pamphlets at the lowest possible rate. I had never done this before... In the end, all still went out relatively well, with some help of Qi Xuan. Btw screw those who dont want take my pamphlets, they reject me, causing extreme sadness in me.

When all that is done, we went back to the comp lab. They were testing out the game Orc-ganic, which is a game where u cast spells by forming organic compounds... (this means organic chemistry comes into play)... and therefore, a chem expert or a chem teacher should own this game like no one's business. Playing this game is like studying organic chemistry... and the reactions all this are just damn hard to remember.
You need to click the organic compound and add it to another compound, choose the correct catalyst, choose correct temperature and select the correct mechanism... to cast 1 freaking spell... 5 clicks for 1 stupid spell .. The hell?
This is impossible even with the help of a cheatsheet with all the chem reactions displayed on the table infront of us... hard to search and key in...
Oh, i forgot to intro. This game is developed by SAJC with another organisation. It is a competition... 5v5. THE WORST PART OF THIS GAME IS THAT WHEN ONE PERSON DIES, YOUR WHOLE TEAM LOSES THE ROUND.

Btw, I'm catching the Green Hornet Movie on Sunday with my sis, aunt and cousin. :)

2011-01-25T21:45:00.002+08:00

Chapter 208: The Green Hornet

I can never imagine myself to be chasing after stars, running after them, etc. Events like the recent surge of kpop trend doesnt seem to excite me at all. I still prefer my mandopop songs :) Monday 24 Jan must be the historical moment, and only one person deserves such an honour, and that person is none other than my favourite singer Jay Chou.

The Green Hornet Event welcomes Michel Gondry, Seth Rogen and Jay Chou. But how many people actually go there to see Michel Gondry or Seth Rogen!? ;) According to artist's impression, this would be people's reactions: Michel Gondry is coming! HUH WHO? Seth Rogen! Who!? Jay Chou is coming! I'M GOING!

Actually that would be my response as well. I don't care who else goes, as long as Jay is there.

Now lets zoom in to the event in story mode. Tighten your seat belts and here we go!

4.45pm after Malay Lesson, my dad came to fetch me. We went to the Cathay. My dad went to find his colleague and they talked. Later, my dad, his 2 colleagues and I went for dinner at Popeye's. I was rather stressed as i ate the slowest (because I ate 3 pcs chicken!)

Went back to the Event Area. Saw the AETOS,auxillary police, and also people distributing something which could be used to self-fan. That "fan" has the Green Hornet Movie Cover printed on it. (i hope u know what i mean.) I also took photos with my phone of the stage, etc etc. (I will upload them to facebook one day.)

Initially my dad thought that there will be passes (so we can avoid crowding). Sadly, there isnt any... so the entry to the area that is barricaded off, a.k.a. the green carpet area, is dependant on the shirt! Only ppl wearing the crew shirt for the company that is involved in the event are permitted entry. My dad's colleagues are working so they have the shirts and can enter to set up the pyro. Sadly, my dad didnt bring his working shirt!!!! Arghhhh... and my cousin didnt too as he just came from his NS duty.

SOTA (school of the arts) is jus opposite, so students from that sch can be seen watching the event too. And so we await the arrival of the guests.
Random ppl arrived first. Then came Mark Lee, the Mediacorp Artist, who said if we came to see him or Jay Chou? Rhetorical question. LOL.
And then came the directors, etc etc tom dick and harry. When Jay Chou came, the crowd just went mad. Due to massive crowding, I could not take a photo of him walking the green carpet!!!! Argh. When he went on stage, all i could take is a side view of him.... and its damn small... !!!

When he walked down to make his exit, I tried to take a photo of him as i was near the exitway. But all i got was a blurry image... (one that is in motion.)

Oh, i forgot to mention that my cousin had initially told me to buy eggs and throw at jay chou, so that he will rmb me for life and not forget me. I told him that he will hate me for life, and im not gonna make tat bad impression.. Now, to think of it, its still a bad idea. One will never make it alive after that act, the fans will kill you LOL. And furthermore, no way I'll throw egg at my fave singer Jay Chou!

My cousin then brought me along to rush up the escalators to the lounge of the cinema to await Jay Chou LOL. Managed to shoot a video of him walking out! And finally I get to see him at close range and got a quite nice video shoot of him. I'm sweating profusely by then, despite the air conditioning... and my hands are tired from constant raising of hands to take photo/vid using phone. (to add to it, my hands are tired from basketball just now...) In front of me were some girls from China, who were holding blank paper. I guessed that they wanted his signature but failed terribly LOL.

Overall it was a tiring yet exciting night. How nice if I had the pass, i can avoid squeezing with the crowd then.. Anyways, I still feel quite happy about it.

Btw, im catching the movie soon :)

2011-01-23T22:50:00.003+08:00

Chapter 207: Weekend Review

My Saturday is lost to the reunion dinner which i ate only rice, chicken and fish ball. LOL. And I am very happy that man u beat birmingham 5-0, even though i was doing hmwk late sat night.

Tomorrow is the day I am looking forward to, when Jay Chou comes to town! Hope to catch some snapshots of him LOL. I'm very excited now, hopes it doesnt affect my sleep as theres school tmr..

School is kinda boring now with less ppl around. I hope that the long CNY break comes faster! and of course, i hope they'll never end.

Okay somehow there isnt anything much else to say... so goodbye!

2011-01-20T21:38:00.002+08:00

Chapter 206: The Chemistry Project Presentation

My group started with 5 people. But it has been sadly reduced to 3 due to unforeseen circumstances. And I have already sent the powerpoint to all members. I asked my remaining 2 members about it and both have not seen it yet. So impromptu presentation seems to be the only solution as time is not on our side.

This powerpoint presentation is created by me as I wanted to save the hassle of gathering everyone to do. I have included wonderful animations that flashes for about 5-10 mins but takes 1-2 hrs to produce.

So the presentation turned out quite well. Thankfully the slides were rather self-explanatory and straightforward. So, they could understand and present it properly. Thank goodness.

After the presentation, then i felt sad for feng. He wasted his time doing SERIAL DILUTION FOR 7 TIMES! In case u are wondering about the results of our experiment, i shall share it here. Orange juice needs to be DILUTED SEVEN TIMES before it is safe for drinking (the oral health). Tea and coffee are generally safe for the teeth!
Seriously, 7 times diluted orange juice... might as well go drink plain water.

Oh, and i would also like to thank matt for his efforts put into brainstorming the proposal with me and supplier of the various coffees LOL
And also thanks to my remaining 2 members for making it a success.

And it is about time i can upload the chem research project photos up to facebook. There is no more element of surprise left anyways lol.

Lastly, if u insist of drinking orange juice, pls dilute it 7 times! :)

2011-01-17T21:24:00.002+08:00

Chapter 205: The First and Last Civics Lesson with Mr. Sanuse

Jubilation was the word to describe our feelings when it was known that we're gonna have a change in PD Tutor this year. We knew Mr. Sanuse was going to be our PD Tutor and that sense of relief is priceless. However, good things doesnt last long, while the bad things last (like eternity...). The management has decided to take away Mr. Sanuse from his "PD Tutorship" (quoted from him) as they have other things in stall for him.. So we're getting a change in our maths teacher as well... This is because the new maths teacher is going to be our PD tutor. Thankfully, this math teacher is acceptable to us too. So not so much of a disappointment. But it is still rather sad as Mr. Sanuse conducted his first and last civics lesson with us this year...

During Econs lecture, the lecturer was probably trying to get into the Guinness World Records. The lecture was akin to a bullet train (or maybe faster), it was fast paced. We can never seem to finish copying (although they're not really needed as all blanks are already filled in.) We're copying the slides as extra notes, but we cant manage to copy everything... oh well, at least there's the completed lecture notes.

Mrs Lim had fallen sick so Mr Poh took charge of the Bio Lecture today. He was good and funny. He managed to crack jokes without laughing at all, and his expression is still normal, it just looks as if he is teaching normally without any intent on humor. This is something that is very difficult to do and i give him credit for this. This is actually something I am trying to achieve.

2011-01-16T21:10:00.002+08:00

Chapter 204: Malaysia Visit

Due to the constant persistence that my sis has shown, she got her way and we are going to Malaysia. People joining us are my cousin and his mum (my aunt).
So one fine Saturday we set off early in the morning. Took the LRT to Sengkang, Purple Line to Serangoon, Circle Line to Bishan, Red Line to Yishun. Took bus AC7. Student cards are not accepted so we need to pay $2.

The Singapore Custom is quite high tech. They can scan ur passport and let u cross. After crossing that, there is another gantry/barrier/whatever u call it. I stopped, not knowing what to do, looked around, stared at the policeman, look around and around and around. Then something caught the sight of my eye. I looked down. It says "Place your thumb here." OH! I placed my thumb, it scans and my name appears and the gate/gantry/barrier/whatever u call it opens! And I was cleared. Hurried back to the bus with my fellow travellers~~

The Malaysia Custom. Not so high tech as SG, they focus more on manpower! Queue was long. They manually required the staff to scan the passport and click on the keyboard and chat with fellow colleagues and then return the passport and u can cross! Then we sorta missed the bus .. I was thinking maybe that is already the interchange... well, it remains a mystery.

So we just shopped at the shopping centre that is found there.

Update: I just searched the web and found out that the interchange is still one stop away... so we rlly missed it :(

Anyways shopped at the CIQ there.

I bought 2 pants and a shirt i think.

And we bought other stuffs as well.

Ate icecream at only around 6-7RM. I ate cookies & cream with double chocolate.

Then we walked around, shopped around.

Then we ate at some shop (i dont know how to describe it and i cant seem to recall the name). The 6 of us were squuuueeeezzziiiinnnng. My aunt with me and my dad on one seat and my mum, sis and cousin on the opposite seat.
The food was quite nice.

Then we went back to Singapore and its the same old thing again. The customs etc etc.

Night activity time!

Went to my grandparents hse with aunt, cousin and sis. Then, sis, cousin and I set off for Orchard road in my cousin's car.
We caught a movie at Cathay Cineleisure with my cousin's friend. We watched the movie 鬼也笑. It was a comedy and ghost film. Definitely, it is hilarious and people were laughing their teeth off. Its a good film to catch in my opinion. Its a pity to miss it. There are 2 parts to the story. To prevent spoilers, I will give only a VERY brief summary. The 1st part is about National Service. The 2nd part is about marriage and borrowing luck from ghosts.

Summary ended.

When we were done. The watch shows around 1:10am. Then my cousin drove my sis and I home. Oh, btw this is the second time my iphone went 100% battery flat. :(
So I charged the phone. My dad set the alarm clock to 4am and he woke me up to switch the charger off LOL. EXTREME! Thats why I'm in CXTREME!

Btw the clothes that I bought in Malaysia are for CNY purposes. And that marks the end of the day. Goodbye!

2011-01-12T20:53:00.002+08:00

Chapter 203: AJC Openhouse

Before going into the openhouse. Let us examine some hilarious stuff from what i saw yesterday. It all happened at the lrt station's exit gantry. For simplicity sake, I shall define things first: The gantry on the left is named X. The gantry on the right is named Y.

Let the story begin:
A lady, was on the phone, walked towards gantry Y. As she was talking on the phone, she didnt notice that she actually tapped her card against the gantry that is meant for X! When that happens, the gantry at Y is not closed yet as the previous commuter just passed it a second ago.
So she walked forward gantry Y, and the gantry closed on her. So she was stuck, but was close to the gantry. As i saw that, I told myself something funny is going to happen, so i decided to stop there and not do anything, lest i become a victim.
This instance, another man walked towards gantry Y and tapped his card! So the gantry opened, the woman crossed and the gantry closed on the man.
Self-pawned. I thought.
This time, let me adopt a suitable pet phrase from nich khaw: "best brains". He actually tapped his card to let the woman, who made a mistake, exit. Double mistakes..

When the man tried to tap his card again, it returned error of course, shining the red light. I quickly went to the gantry right to Y to make my exit. He was still struggling continuously. LOL.

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Now to the focus of the chapter: openhouse. Its time to open the house, so that air can rush in!

At 10.30, I went to room 1312 and attended a briefing. At 12, I went to LT1 (Lecture Theatre 1) to play the video for the principal's dialogue. But before that, we have to do an intro and ending after the video ends. The shift lasted till 12.40. Then went back to 1312 to do my shift for promoting the robots for the cca. Qi Xuan was a great promoter. He manages to bring in people. He also did alot of unbelievable stuffs. He said that the main selling point of our cca is that we HAVE A LOT OF FREE TIME! AND WE HAVE 100% PROMOTION RATE. LOL. He showed a guy his chem booklet, saying theres alot of hmwk, thus free time is very precious in aj. Thus he shld join cxtreme LOL. He also keeps mentioning about the 1st prize we got for National Junior Robotics Competition (NJRC). In actual fact, it was an entrepreneurial award LOL. (and not really for the robots)

The day was mixed wif several fun filled things too. Like how Ryan mistaken a student for a parent, it was damn embarrassing for him. He actually said "Would your child be interested?" to a sec 4 student.
And Qi Xuan also wanted to ask people to sit on the chair so that he can roll them out, sitting on a rolling chair.
We also played with the balls (that came from the lego set.) We were trying to shoot them into the holes on the table (Dont be mistaken. AJ isnt poor to the extent that they dont replace tables with holes... The holes are intended for wires and they are made intendedly.

Other interesting stuffs to note are that nich khaw came wif his cousin, Benedict, my sister came to the openhouse too and binghui visited me at 1312.

Oh and my 2nd duty is at 3.05-3.40 at the LT1 too. This time the crowd has vanished and the theatre was empty, so we skipped the second session of the video screening. Poor Gary has suffered for around 4 hours watching the same old video of the principal's dialogue over and over again. The dialogue video last 10 mins and is shown every 15 mins interval. (e.g. 1:15, 1:30, 1:45, 2:00, etc)

At the end of the day, the visitors are almost negligible and ppl who looked in our cca is close to 0. So, we played with the balls again and developed a new game called the extreme blaster! Thats a good thing as we have found something we could do on our next cca session :)

2011-01-10T20:42:00.002+08:00

Chapter 202: School reopens

The good news is that Mr Sanuse has became our PD tutor. Here comes the first day of school. First, the bell went down... next the music went down, causing us to sing the national anthemn without the music. It was real odd. The first lesson was chemistry. We went to the class, while the rest went to await their re-test results. Somewhere through, people started coming back, they made it. Others who didnt return didnt make it. It was quite tense as I stare at yi an, giving the worried look. And yi an stared back at me, giving the weird face. I stared back and it goes on to a neverending process. The only last glimpse of hope was when we saw binghui (bh) coming in. Then we knew.

3 people from my class didnt make it. 2 are guys. 1 of them will be retained while the other was asked to leave.. This will sadly reduce the strength of the boys in class from 8 to 6... I pronounce this event of misfortune as a tragedy.

We went through the Maths lesson next. And yi an became the new maths rep. Our new teacher was Mr Wee. He's a funny guy which is good for the class.. And he epicly mistaken yi an as a malay (as how i did the first day of class when i met him).

Oh ya Mrs Ong gave us a talk about playing too much games resulting in a smaller front cortex. So we started teasing yi an about his large brain cortex. It was huge to the extent that playing games is insufficient to bring his results down at all. So we encouraged him to play more LOL. Okay, the brain cortex is said to bring about analytical skills.

Ok back to the maths lesson. After the maths lesson, it was break. We went to see the classmate who was retained. He is waiting for his parents before meeting the principal. Haiz, how i wished he could promote. Its really wasting a year of his time.. how sad.

And the guy who left simply messaged "bye bye" to yi an.. and asked which poly is the best -.-

After that, we went to the audi for econs lecture then lt 4 for bio lecture. During bio lecture, we were shown a clip which is shown to tell us to never give up. The downside is that i had already saw this video in my secondary school days... so i knew what was happening next...

After bio, we went to the library. Josh, bh, yian and me sat around, read books, played with phones, etc. We felt that something was missing. We're devoid of something. It just feels odd, weird and strange. We can't imagine to bear this feeling for the rest of the year. Demoralising. How we wish they get to promote instead... Saddening.

We then went for post chinese exam activities. And that activity is malay lesson!
The teacher was ok, maybe because she is only 2 years older lol. Well, bh was overly-enthu. He kept using the word "hantu" (malay word for ghost). He used it for the group name. He used it to complete a sentence (e.g. Selamat Petang hantu)(Malay for Good Evening Ghost) The class was full of laughter thanks to bh LOL.

And that marks the end of the day. Haiz PE tmr, maybe its just gonna be height and weight. But oh well ..

And lets end off with a quote from bio lesson. "NEVER NEVER NEVER GIVE UP."