Today after tuition we went to the Science Centre at jurong to view the Da Vinci exhibition. It was quite interesting really to see all his inventions and artwork, especially to see the Mona Lisa as Da Vinci intended and not the faded colours of the painting hanging in the Louvre today. Also watched a IMAX show about Vincent Van Gogh's life although honestly I did not find it that interesting. The new maths exhibition in the main building was also sort of interesting. I find that applying what you learn in class to the real world definitely gives it relevance instead of just poring through the subject for its sake. But I do sort of wish that I could solve one of the Milennium Prize Problems. Such as the Riemann Hypothesis, mainly because its like a challenge that no one else has been able to tackle. But of course, I must first work on my H2 maths syllabus now. Really in a dilemma as to what my real interests really are and what course to take in future. Guess I'll take it slow and easy first.

Went for TJCSB band concert on the 23rd of May. It was a blast. The pieces were played nicely and excellently and the theater cum performance part was really funny. Made me roflol when I saw it. No wonder ppl said that the band deserved a gold and not silver during the SYF judging. I so agree.

Owww now my legs are aching cos NAPFA was just over. Im so #@$%$#^% angry that I missed silver by 3cm for SBJ and 2 pull ups and like 40s for the run. Is so can make it one lor! ARGH

Decided to update this post with the bacterial transformation pictures which were done during bio prac period. They look so cute glowing.

Ok. I dunno who this person is or why he/she is being such a jerk, but one thing is for sure, spamming my blog is the lamest thing anyone can do. Anyway, since the posts are obviously flame bait and are entirely false they are so laughable, I shall not bother to respond to such acts of extreme stupidity. As such, I decided to lock the tagboard for a little while. You can still leave any feedback you have via the comments link on each blog post. Today marks some important events. Mas Selamat Bin Kastari has finally been caught after 13 months. He was still planning attacks on Singapore! And the H1N1 threat is finally subsiding, we're moving to code yellow which means the cessation of daily temperature taking. Phew. I totally hate having the thermometer in my mouth twice a day.

Plus X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not a bad watch, although some reviews said that the ending was rushed which I sort of agree to. Looking forward to Terminator: Salvation which will be sort of the last in the Terminator series. Man, the first movie came out like 2 decades ago and now its finally coming to an end!


EDIT: tagboard has been unlocked

Been reading the news recently and I think its time for an update. "Swine" flu has been spreading round the world. I hope its not a repeat of the 2003 SARS incident. Although Singapore is not affected YET, it has the potential to spread here cos we are always trying to be a "hub" for everything. I just hope its not flu. And I dont know why such diseases take place in years where I have major national exams. SARS happened during my PSLE year and 2007, 'O' lvl year had bird flu scares. Looks like what the bible predicted about epidemics and earthquakes in the end days are becoming more frequent. Mexico the source of "swine" flu also had an earthquake. Coincidence? Maybe. And some moronic no life loser decided to spam my tagboard with spam messages. Irritating. Why can't some people get a life?

You can say that yesterday wasn't a very good day for me. The reason? PW results. Yea. It was quite an experience knowing that hardwork sometimes doesn't always guarantee success as contrary to common thinking. It bewilders me that I got a B when the rest of my group got an A. Not to be bitter about it, but I just don't know why despite putting in so much hard work, thinking of the idea, typing the WR and GPP (5 times), staying back till dunno wad time binding the WR and doing last minute editing as well as myriad other stuff I still ended up the only one in the group that got a B. It really is sort of unfair when I think about it now, but I have accepted it (mostly). T_T Well at least the comments that our groups idea was interesting, feasible and well thought-out made me feel slightly better that the topic I thought off was good. Well SY told me that PW isn't really that important. I could have done worse. And there are still my H2s that can make the difference. I shall use that for my motivation and prove that I can make it to uni. Furthermore, remembering my goal to be always happy no matter what, and considering that today, on Good Friday commemorating what Jesus did for me by dying on the cross, I find that none of this matters. So yeah, eat my dust!


Nothing you say today is gonna bring me down....

Finally! MCTs are O-V-E-R. But does that call for celebration. Yes - and no. My birthday was just over and I was mulling over life in general. What does it mean to be 18? An age that many people in Africa and elsewhere would be lucky to reach? I guess I'm still searching for my purpose in life, although I really want to do biomed research and hopefully discover the mechanisms behind many diseases. I also think teaching is a good idea, I do like teaching somewhat and also because teachers have a lot of 'power' over students lives. Yea it would be really cool to produce students that turn out to be Nobel prize laureates or something. In the mean time however I gotta work hard. I thought I did well for MCTs. I thought wrong =( Oh well, off to do some work.

Sch holidays are over. Just like that. And tmr is my GP paper. Yay! Honestly, I could do with another week of holidays. But well, life isn't a bed of roses. Problems are cropping up left right and centre and I'm starting to feel the heat. But why? Everytime I do something, there is always someone who is better. Does that mean I should not bother? Why can't life have simple answers to complex questions? Nothing is yes or no, it always depends on the circumstances. I hate uncertainty. Why cant yes be yes and no be no? Whatever, I'll just live this life with God's guidance.

I guess its time to bid Chinese good bye. No more studying chinese, but will still continue to use it if needed. Anyway, MCTs are coming soon and I dunno wad to do. All the mugging done seems to have evaporated already. Seriously in need of help and something to confide in. All right, this post is not making sense. Time to put a stop to it.

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.