I am putting up this post because I feel very sad over how other people in the world are starving. Sounds weird huh. Anyway, this person: Robert Mugabe disgusts me absolutely to the core. Read about it here. Its sickening the way such dictators put their own interests before the citizens. All I can say is: poor Zimbabweans . Their country is in poverty with an annual inflation rate of 89.1X10^21 % and all he can think about is his birthday. In fact Zimbabwe was a country that was prospering before this *censored* came to power. I just feel so sorry for the innocent people suffering under this tyrant and his government. Really opens your eyes to what is happening around the world. Well, I hope he gets his just desserts.

Shall try to keep this short, since I don't feel very well. Anyway, one of the days I was walking back home, I saw this scene:

it doesn't look very clear, but its some workers destroying the playground I used to play in when I was in kindergarten, like around 4-7 years old. Im sorta amazed it was there for like 10+ years, and I recall the happy and carefree times when I just climbed over without a care in the world. Now, that part of my childhood is gone =( Its like when you were young you wanted to grow up fast. Then when you're older, you realize how much more innocent and carefree being a child was. Oh no, I'm getting sorta emotional here =X I guess its because of all the work and responsibilities that never end and it sometimes makes me just want to break down and forget about everything. Ah well, some positive news, I got my new phone today yay! Although I won't get to use it next year cos it has a camera zz. One accident, I forgot to include the charger in the box when trading it in. Oh no! I hope they dun charge me for that =.= Ok thats it 4 nw. Gotta sleep soon.

Can school get anymore boring? Now chem and maths are on the insanely dull topics of vectors and chemical energetics respectively. I so feel like sleeping in lectures now. Z and theres like chem test on the WHOLE of organic chem this wed. haix Anyway, I had this weird urge to type the remaining part of this post in lolspeak. haha Hai 2 4ll tht ish reading dis post! dis look v.weird but me tinks iff u ebber wan 2, u can learn teh language from http://speaklolspeak.com/?t=anon and u will be teh pr0z! Aniway, meh is sick of moah and moah work tht nebber seems 2 end. Ah well, time to revert to english. Now revising carboxylic acid derivatives. Can't talk too much now.


I can has cheezburger!!!

I am feeling so exhausted and tired as sch ended at 6.30 today @#$@#%@%$@%!!!! Im so annoyed!!!!! that we have a test this week and I don't understand like 99.99.....% of photosynthesis. (maybe I'm exaggerating here) I so don't want to fail! Or I'll dream of these images:

I feel dumb. Just because TJC is one of the "traditional top 5 jcs" that everyone thinks all those who make it in are smart. Then the pressure comes to perform. Ok, I admit I'm not the model student type of person. I would rather sleep then read notes about [insert subject here]. So I guess I'm somewhat at fault too. Anyway, enough of negative talk, time to get inspirational. I believe no one is born stupid, even those so-called "mentally retarded" people. Surely everyone has a talent, although I'm still not sure what mine is. Like this:




oh well. JC 1s have started coming into school this week, and I kinda miss the times when there were no JC 1s. Imagine the whole canteen without so many people and the lack of a queue at the bus stop. But orientation seems to be pretty hectic and exciting, from my viewpoint. (anything beats homework and lectures right?) Being a stationmaster for the mass games has got to be one of the most tiring things to do. I'm aching all over now and somewhat partially deaf. (due to all the cheering) The worst thing today was having to run the stupid practice for the roadrun next week. I seriously don't care if I don't get the stupid certificate.

Feeling so sian that sch has started alrdy... well I guess this week wasn't too bad (it could have been worse) as there isn't much work given out yet. But it'll be a different story one to two weeks from now. This week seems to be 'inspirational' talk week, with so many warnings of dire consequences if we dun work hard for the 'A's. Well, they could be right, at least I intend to work hard, and hopefully hope for something comparable to my 'O' level results. Anyway, I have no idea why I had this sudden urge to blog about something that I found really cool. Look at this : http://news.sg.msn.com/topstories/article.aspx?cp-documentid=2081761 I wish I had such a job! Doesn't look too hard right? Just laze around and get paid! Although you have to be sort of a cam-whore and let everyone look at what you are doing. Bliss......... Oh ya, about my blog..... I think its at least more interesting than the dullest blog in the world at http://dullestblog.com The author must be very bo-liao and yet ppl still comment on his lame posts..... *wonders what is wrong with the world* while my blog is slightly more interesting yet I get next to no visitors. What a strange world this is.... anyway I think i better get back to the oxidation and reduction of organic molecules.



Yawn

I've not been posting for a while and suddenly felt like doing so. Anyway, what have I been doing since the start of 2009? Nothing much to be honest, although I just finished 3 days of volunteering at the Radiotherapy Centre of NUH. It was quite fun actually as there was also a girl from NJC- Edlyn who was there as well. She's quite funny haha and really made my time there more interesting. We did stuff like decorating the place for CNY, some filing and paperwork, delivery of items from department to department, and data entry. Of course, I dint really do it for altruistic reasons - I wanted to get CIP hours to be honest =P . Anyway school starts on Monday 12 Jan and I'm really not looking forward to it. The reality of A' levels still hasn't sunk into me although I can bet that when it does, I'll probably panic =X Oh well, I shall post some pics of my time there.


The place I volunteered at.


The secretary there, Suzana (she's an Obama fanatic). The girl is Edlyn.


The manager, Michelle. (She's really nice, treated Edlyn and me to lunch - twice)


The treatment area (The two doors in front).


The waiting area for patients.

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