Looking through the blogs of other 22/08-ians, I've come to the conclusion that mine is the least read. I think 60% of the tags on my tagboard were posted by me lol. Now, I'm not complaining about the low readership, its just an observation made by me. I guess the lack of pictures could be one factor as I'm not the kind to take photos. Anyway, tmr is christmas and it sure is going to be one fun day going to church and singing carols and exchnging presents =D Today was quite boring though, all I did was go to grandpa's house for dinner and caroling.

Since its coming to the end of the year, maybe a brief recap of what happened this year may be a good idea.

January: Posting to MJC

The sakae sushi store they had (its gone now)


February: Transfer to TJC, Start of PW


March to June: Nothing much happened. Went for Youth Entrepreneurship Symposium


My group members. They were quite cool, all from diff JCs, although I lost contact with them alrdy =(


August to December: Some E-club stuff, Promos, Visit to Singapore Biennale, Youth camp


What we had to do for a bio prac lesson. Count the diff no. of kernels =.=


An interesting piece of art. Look at the moon in the tree!


Some of the organising committee of the YF church camp


The YF camp organising committee on a dinner outing 26 Dec



Jermain being lame and holding Li Hui's present during the class CIP haha

Well, I think thats it for now, merry christmas and a happy new year to everyone!!

My first post after coming back from taiwan on 6 Dec. Taiwan is a fun place with quite nice ppl and good food. Only bad thing is its quite cold this time of the year. I brought back quite a bit of stuff including fruit jelly, cake, shoes and germs. (I've got a bad cold with sneezing and coughing) But anyway, Im so behind on my holiday hw now..... and this week and next week are so jampacked with stuff! Class cip on next mon and tues means dam lots of preparations to do and have to go sch for maths stuff today. Then next wed to fri is church camp. Where am I going to find time to finish my hw????? Ironically I seem to be the freest member of 2208. While others have jobs/attachments/internships/CIP/CCA to do, Im languishing at home. What does this bode for my portfolio? Im so screwed........ What a nice way to end a blog post haix.
guess I'll upload my taiwan pics some other time.

This holidays are turning out to be super boring... I have nothing to do besides hw, school work and CIP work argh!!!! Everyone is busy so I have nobody to go out with and when I do, Im outta ca$h so I cant do much either. I need a job but there's like none! (that can fit my schedule) so I've been staying home a lot with two whining and noisy toddlers at home which makes it nigh impossible to get anything done. Someone rescue me please!!!! Anyway, I went to Bugis today (by myself) to escape my cr@p life. Ran into Lavina there and (I think) Samuel(22/08) although he didn't see me. Didn't spend much, jus on some nibbles. And oh my, RAM prices are dirt cheap now. For about $65 you can get 4GB of DDR II RAM. Feel like upgrading my desktop RAM and graphics card. Then I can play Red Alert 3 without so much lag. Really bored now, that's why Im blogging this........ anyway, going to Taiwan next week and I'm not sure what to buy back. Suggestions?

Holidays are here and by right, I should be celebrating. But noooooooooooo someone had to come up with holiday hw and I absolutely hate it. I hate it like a vegetarian hates meat. I hate it like how the world hates Osama. I hate it like how one feels about a dish which gives one diarrhoea. I hate it like how ants feel about anteaters. ARGH! The friggin maths hw is like killing me! Bio is ok and so is chem. But math sux to the core. Screw holiday hw! Next year is 'A' level year alrdy, its feeling like sec 3, where nex year is some major national exam. Crud! And some hardcore ppl are even counting down to prelims as of now! THX A LOT MAN! (wth sia!) Hopefully I can kiss chinese goodbye for good next year. Gotta get my head into the A level game now. Random thought: I feel like watching Madagascar 2. But im broke and have no time. I like to move it move it!

Another random thought: Can I put down in my portfolio that I survived PW and JC 1 as one of my top 3 achievements?

Post PW

Its a funny feeling. PW is over, we should be celebrating but after my OP, we just...........went home. No celebrations no parties,...........just plain relief. I guess thats TJ 104. We slack a lot, but we get things done. Wanted to go out with the group but as usual, Qi min and debbie had their own stuff to attend to. While i saw TJ 107 lavina, rong sheng etc (I hope I gt the no. correct) go to Seoul garden to celebrate. Felt like joining them, but I had no $$$$..... Well, I guess its on to the final hurdle, the dreaded "A" levels. I feel like I'm in sec 3 again, with next year being some major exam and telling myself I cannot slack. We'll have to see about that. Today was boring, was supposed to go out with SY but he ps me and CL to go out with his class. How irritating! I'm not sure how to feel now... really empty and headachy. Ah well off to another round of dota. ciao!



p.s Obama won the US presidential election. Not sure if this will affect me at all.

The last lap

Yes!! The school year is coming to a close but there's like 2 hurdles to cross/duck under: chinese A lvls and PW! I feel so stressed up jus toking about this two topics. Our group's written report is like 3.8k words. yes, 3 thousand 8 hundred over words. How am I supposed to cut out 700+ words?! By this friday! Oh man....... the last lap is always the most gruelling one, you just want to drop dead but its like so not worth it.... I need motivation!!!!! jyjyjyjyjyjy to all who are in the same boat as me, we're all in this together!

Post promos

Finally at long last i got back my results. obviously they sux...I gt pwned in maths chem chinese. and thats like half the subjects I take. seriously demoralising when compared to other ppl having 60s-70s in like most subjects. its possible for me too! but dang, I had to screw up the subject which I bothered to actually study and mug. I seem to do better when I DON'T study. which is like weird. murphy's law again? the bright side is that I didnt do as badly as some other ppl. which is a gd thing for me probably (showing my evil side here) but obviously bad for those concerned. feeling super sick with flu but still forced myself to school. argh....now doing pw presentation slides. i hope it doesnt end up like this:

Post-promos PW piah-ing

Dang it. today was Evaluation of materials submission day and our group leader clarabel had to choose this day not to come.... first thing in morning get sms ask me print her EoM for her. (I wasn't the only one to get it)I mean, if you want others to do you a favour you should at least give them some notice and not just plonk it in front of them and expect them to oblige. Even though I know that she has a tendency to fall ill but still does some work, Im sick of being so dam unappreciated!!!! everytime im expected to do something but no one seems to care about what I say. even in the group groundrules it states that everyone must respect others opinion and NOT BE LATE for meetings, it seems that the only one adhering it to it seems to be yours truly. every group meeting at least 1 person is late. gt 1 time i had to wait 30 minutes for everyone to arrive! dam freaking annoying! super sick of doing stuff that others dun appreciate.

hmm... after hari raya, its back to school and back to pw. great combination.... today spent like 5+ hours doing NOTHING but pw! utterly sianded and boreded. yes im coming with new terms to describe stuff. so I couldn't take it anymore and decided to go to parkway to blow off some steam. man I havn't been there for ages despite having some ten million meetings at the nearby marine parade library. too bad i had only very limited funds to spend since I stupidly spent money on lame stuff in marina square on tuesday when there wasn't any school. and I still owe $10 to rong sheng for the movie tickets (pls dun remind him lol) to watch disaster movie. o well, so i popped over to the apple store in parkway and had fun with the display iphone and ipod touch. they're so fun to play with! and they could go with my macbook real well. *hint* *hint* and I just watched "I survived a Japanese Gameshow" super funny! oh well, tmr its back to pw again..../facepalm

Promos

Promos are over woot. This explains my return to blogging. Anyway, I'm writing this while in a PW meeting...... i think i've contracted PPP or post-promos psychosis, otherwise known as going kee-siao. Must enjoy as much as I can before the results come back =S Wish me luck =_=

Wall.E

I've always been a big fan of Pixar's movies since they are always interesting and while they may be "cartoony" i think its great. When wall.e was announced, I was very interested in the movie as watching the trailer piqued my curiosity. After watching it i was totally moved.

Since I don't want to spoil the movie for others who may not have watched it yet (ITS A MUST WATCH), i shall just give my evaluation here. The movie's theme of environmental damage, TNCs, and overdependence on technology was woven together very well. It really pushes the message of how we should reduce the amount of waste produced. (which totally goes together with my group's PW topic) Its funny bits were really laugh-inducing, with the robot MO totally my fav character.

What are you all waiting for? Go watch it now!

and here's my fav scene:

argh. yesterday was totally wasted. woke up feeling horrible with a splitting headache. my dad bought prata for breakfast, after eating it, i felt worse. then came the waves of nausea, felt so weak and wanted to vomit so badly. had to lie in bed the whole day and ate a tiny bowl of noodles for lunch. then slept for like 2 hours before bathing, and thats when it began.....

it was so sudden. the vomit just came out and i could see everything i ate being regurgitated. ewww. i thought i was all right already since i felt better. then came dinner. after finishing like half a plate (which is miniscule by normal standards) and a slice of fruit, i had to rush to the toilet and once again, i was examining the contents of my stomach. so i had to go to the doctor and he said i had gastritis. then i got an injection to stop the vomiting! argh! (i havnt had an injection since P6) nw feeling mich better =) but having to take 3 diff kinds of medication. today ended up going to NLB with tedric and sy to mug tgt. managed to revise chem and some maths. dang i better get started on my geog hw, i totally forgot about it until reading andrea's blog. thats all for now.


=D

Today was the day that mrs lim is leaving for CA, USA. woke up at 5.40am in the morning with only 3.5 hrs of sleep. Upon reaching the airport at T2, saw nobody and the only flight at 8.00am was to phnom penh in vietnam zz. then i got a call to go to T1. Im sorry ppl that i didnt wear the class tee as it was still being "processed"

it was really sad as mrs lim was entering the restricted area, a few ppl cried. i was also on the verge of crying but i forced myself to keep on smiling and laughing. ='( WE WILL MISS YOU MRS LIM! after that, ........we wont see her for 2 years.... after that i had to go to TJ to take some pics for pw but couldnt get access cos i wasnt in uniform... went to sleep the rest of the day to forget all the unhapiness. nw doing some chem work but really in no mood to study...

update: finally updated with pic

last week of term3

Term 3 is ending this week. should we be celebrating? noooo..... cos of? promos duh. im really in a dilemma. my whole class seems to be mugging yet im still relaxing. I've always managed to get through school till now without mugging much, yet now im not sure i still can. Now studying like a mad dog for chem SPA which is like tmr!!! End of term is like a bittersweet kinda feeling. On one hand you want to celebrate but can't cos of wat the next term's gonna bring.

And of course, there's another lovely 'P' word called PW designed to inject so much fun and excitement into our sad lives. Yes...... as if we didnt have enough to do. Srsly, why didnt i go to poly????? *bangs head now and regrets* wish i could vent my frustrations!

ok, was too tired to blog ytd as i just finished learning the basics of blading. it took a hectic 4 hrs before i could figure out how to move forward and stop on wheels that are only 4 cm thick...

jermain and kheh yang have been pressing me for the photos so here they are. taken after we finished the whole course at 7.30. we were also the last class to leave =P

sorry for the bad quality... my phone camera is mediocre and this is the best i could do with photoshop.

although the pic is bad i think you can roughly make out who's who.

from left, si hui, shawn, samuel, rong sheng, jermain, andrea
front row, kheh yang and me

an analysis of.....STOMP

sigh, all there is to do is work. but you don't want to hear about that do ya? since i dun really want to make another blog post ranting about my sad life and work. therefore, today i shall blog about STOMP, yes the straits times online multimedia platform.....

i think most ppl there are either retards or have maggots for brains..... judging by the quality of articles sent in. here's a superfluous one.

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=31525

Army serviceman eats curry puff in train

like...who cares?! like that must take pic put on STOMP and feel happy one follows the rules? please lor, whats wrong with eating the occasional snack on the train. not like hes eating roti prata or smthing. im sure everyone does that even though the rules say otherwise. totally lame.

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=31539

HDB block antennas, safe or not?




wat a retarded post!!!!! tv antennas have been around for like 40 years and now she/he is asking whether they are safe. come on....and about putting them in a safer place, like where is safe? do you know you are being bombarded every second by countless electromagnetic waves like wi-fi, FM radio and cosmic radiation? guess this guy never learn science at all or didnt pay attention during lessons.

argh sometimes reading these kind of posts makes me wanna laugh out loud, or just bang my head in frustration. people there are almost on the verge of voyeurs, go everywhere see something interesting take pic and post on STOMP without any concern for others privacy. cant't stand this kind of ppl!!


http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=32419

Wife's appeal: Don't change SAF uniform as my hubby won't be sexy anymore

from the title can tell that its totally retarded already. nuff said

1 week has passed and so many events has elapsed since then.

1. national day
2. 2008 beijing olympics opening ceromony
3. house function
4. maths/chem/bio tests

Yawn man! Promos coming but im still slacking.... today i missed contact time...it sounded like there was a smex talk today cos they separated the guys and gals. really curious what happened =P also, the F1 simulator came to TJ today...felt dam let down...just a com with 3 screens and fancy steering wheel with rocking seat....

anyway i missed contact time 2day cos i had to rush off with e-club to MJC to learn about their cafe which is so much cooler than the dingy one in TJ's library. Feels really dam weird to go back to the place which i appealed to get out of.. MJ has really changed, they have a new rock wall and those swingy chairs that you can relax on in the centre of the sch... but i dun regret leaving, i cant imagine spending 45 mins on travelling everyday =.=

here you can see what MJ's cafe called Perkafe is like.... (dam cool! compared to TJ)



they even have a pool table...cool?

Life

Reread my old posts. Woah all of them seem so sad and emo-ish. Thats the thing about studying..... i totally forget what i like to do. In any case, i dont want to blog about work anymore cos its always going along the lines of tired, bored and sian. (although there are 3 lecture tests coming up. OH NO!) time for a lighthearted change. reading through posts on STOMP can be kinda fun, cos i always get the satisfaction that im not the stupidest person around from the mostly retarded articles posted. this site is dam cool... STOMPers should visit it man.

I'm so tired

Oh man... had 2.4km run today. I think i passed....barely. What a mistake to put it as the first event of the day. I was so tired that it totally killed the rest of the day for me. In the end fell asleep during the latter part of bio lecture and the first period of chem. Then i didn't go for chinese as i was having a mega-headache and slept in the library in that period.....the day should have ended there but i had a PW meeting later zz. In the end could only go back at 6pm....fantastic man. And tmr got PW again! im so going to sleep early today.

I'm so dead

Great! Im having NAPFA (Not Another Physical Fitness Assessment!) this fri and im going to screw it up. i cant do 3 pull ups! then theres pw. our blue file was crap. missing alot of stuff and the minutes aren't done properly. seriously life doesnt get any worse, unless maybe you count NS. i will put up a schedule too when i get to that stage, although it'll prob look very simple.


5.00am: Wake up
Rest of the day: training


yawn and maths sux. i cant do integration properly and differentiation is no better. in fact, i totally sux at maths. =( how m i going to finish my tutorials like that???!!!!111


anyway, bored now so i'll update with a pic of my PAE class in MJC. yaya im a 3rd intaker at TJC (appeals - so unglam...)



and this was a pic of a bbq we had (girls shown here):

Typical sch day

I remember that the first posts in this blog were about a typical day in sec. sch. I'm going to repeat this for what its like to be a jc student.

6.30: Wakey wakey
7.10 ± 5-10 min : Arrive in sch
7.30: Flag raising + pledge taking + announcements = recipe for boredom.
7.50: First lesson. You're so tired..can't....concentrate..zzzz
8.40: Break, finally. Time to get smthing to eat. But the queues are so long! Forget it...
9.10: Take your pick from a lecture or tutorial. After 50 min of torture, you can finally leave.
10.00: Skipping breakfast didnt sound like a gd idea did it? Now you're starving...
10.50: You wish its lunchtime, tough luck. another 50 mins of brain juice sapping happens, unless its a double period lesson. good luck have fun!
11.40: If its your lucky day, its lunch now, if not, too bad.
12.30: Lunch/Tutorials
1.20: Same as above
2.10 Tutorial. Nuff said
3.00 More tutorials
3.50 Yet another tutorial. If its tues, its PE a.k.a Physical torturE
4.40 Day ends, unless its wed then u end earlier but have cca.

Note: All times increased by 20 min on Wed. Day starts at 8.20

Further note: Tutorials are interchangeable with lectures and practicals.

Yet another further note: Some periods are designated free periods depending on the day.

Some more further notes: Sch ends earliest on Thurs, at 1.30

Lists

Is it true only girls make lists? Well im gonna make 1 now: Things that bother/irritate/anger/bore me

1. Snobs (like that girl called Wee Shu Min in 2006)
   
2. Maths (not really but i hate it when i don't understand something)
   
3. Unreasonable people
   
4. People who try to take advantage of others for personal reasons
   
5. People who act all the time
   
6. Bimbos (like the two "popular" SG female bloggers who are arguing over stupid issues and wasting money that could be better used)
   

That should be all for now i guess.

Yay nearly finished with elearning. But now got to deal with all the written assignments. Crud! What a nice way to spoil a near-perfect weekend. Next week a lot of things coming up, Bio mock SPA and 2.4km (drat) . Anyway, was trying hard to learn XHTML and CSS. Things aren't going too well. There's so much to learn. Was wondering why matrix2 (the e-learning platform) looks diff in diff browsers.


In IE 7:












In firefox 3:




weird huh. Guess its something to do with the coding of the page. It definitely is not W3C-standards compliant as they claim.

E-learning week

Oh great. e-learning is just a big headache. everytime i do the maths lectures quiz on definite integrals i get it wrong and i navigate away to do something else. NOW i got to start all over again!!!! STUPID SYSTEM! this is like the 3rd time i have to listen to Mr Wong again! its enough to drive anyone mad. haix leaving for pw meeting soon. guess i'll try to do the chinese by today or tmr.

In my last post i was ranting about pw. I guess i was just feelin down cos our GPP still has kinks to iron out and im like dam tired. My group may not be the best but at least they have the willingness to work together now. E-learning next week but we sceduled tons of pw meetings. Sianx. and Mrs Lim (my bio tchr and CT) is leaving for CA, USA. she said that I know what I want in life. actually i still don't. That time I told her I wanted to become a radiotherapist. i revised that to either doctor or police officer (ironic since i cant run and not physically fit) now. My JCT's sux though, even though I suppose it isnt that bad compared to others. got few D's and E's but luckily no fails. But im still disappointed in myself since I thought I could get at least a B for Bio. nvm gonna study more but this term really hectic. And im still trying to learn HTML and CSS, which isnt easy when you have so many other things to do. yawn going to slp nw. Cya

feeling very emo and upset now

Alright, i did say that PW sux. well actually i think there's an issue with my group. Im always the one who ends up doing most of the things and im feeling mad(very). Ppl dun read the gpp, in the end they don't even know whats our project title. Whenever I call for a meeting (why am I even doing this? Im not the group leader!) i get responses such as: don't talk to me about pw. talk to group member x; i dun feel like going for meeting leh. Honestly! Im so not going to bother about pw if this continues, they can do the WR themselves. Just my luck....

crud. just checked my blog, its not valid XHTML 1.0. booo............ haiz fixing it would take too long anyway. sian i got EoM to do now and im kinda stuck. also have geog and maths. that's me....procrastinate too much =( this week gonna be busy, tons of stuff to do including WR. and my maths... really cmi. I so do not understand differentiation and integration. better start chionging now =.=

lol, like no one will ever stumble upon this blog. anyway i got a class blog now at twentytwoOeight.blogspot.com u guys can go there to read up on my class at TJ. haix i nvr update for dunno hw many months. JC is that hectic.... anyway just collected my School grad Cert or SGC, nw dunno what to do.......... JC life sux.... with PW and promos. anyway just had JCTs or june common tests and they sux.

well, at least i managed to scrape a 'D' average. but got an S or sucky-pass for maths =( but i passed chinese. - miracle of the year.


stuff to confess:

i didnt study for the bio test where i gt 33/38
i studied the hardest for maths and i still didnt get what i wanted
im going to fail NAPFA
PW sux sux sux SUX!

TJC

HIHI. O levels are over and i got 8 points RAW for my L1R5!! After PAE and JAE, I got posted to MJC both times =X For JAE I appealed and yay!!!!! appeal successful. BYE MJC, HI TJC!!! Feeling real high now =D TJCians are a bunch of over enthu ppl............looking forward to studying =)