Thursday, October 28, 2004

oopsie...4 days since i blogged. paiseh la... so bz these days lor. for the past 4 days, i had to stay home to study for practicals lor, and when i came online for a short time, i'll only check my mail and the emb.

so the past 2 practicals which i survived, was the physics and bio prac. whoa... physics was quite a breeze... not much hiccups. got 1.2N for the weight for the block... and then got 9.00 ohms for the internal resistance of the battery. when i asked my frens, none got 9... haha... but many got 8.6-8.7. so i guess i'll shld have only 1-2 marks deducted for that bah... not too bad...

and bio! haha... i cant stop laughing. so interesting! so cool! prawnz!!! prawnz!!!! and all of us were expecting just fruits la... flowers la... [clitoria especially] or maybe leaves or stems. but PRAWNZ?!?! gosh haha... so we stepped into the lab and ms koe was grinning from ear to ear, armed with a pair of tongs, and placing the raw grey prawns on our table. i just stood there dumbfounded. prawnz? which chapter does that belong to? none! so it relies on our observation skills. guess wat... 8 marks for drawing the prawn... and another 3 marks for drawing a magnified version of its tail. and there were also 2 extended qns lor. one that plays with bile salts and the other, shld be about ecology chapter bah... it talks about maintaining an aquarium for the prawn. hmmm... i think this practical must be one of the most unusual bio prac ever bah!

and now, dicky's calling me again. sigh... asking me maths from the session 1 ws. so ANNOYING... sigh...

wont write much today... cos dickson spoil my blogging mood. shall end off here.

Sunday, October 24, 2004

haha... i now having this habit of blogging in the day. now's it's almost noon. just came online to download some class photos from haotian and also print out some SS notes for intense revision later. since i have some free time now, i shall blog...

yep, so yesterday was graduation day! left home at almost 2pm, and took 67 with j tay from 4J. reached the bus stop at abt 2:25pm and when i was walking up the stairs, i met gwenlyn! haha, coincidentally, both NY and chinese high have their graduation day today! but the only difference is that, the ny gals need not wear anything special, just their uniform, whereas we chinese high boys are made to wear long-sleeve white shirt la... long black pants la... leather shoes la... so formal for wat??

so after much briefing in the auditorium, we made our way into KKH, and sat in front of the parents. wha, immediately, hordes of parents, armed with cameras, flooded around us, as if we were animals in the zoo. snap here, snap there. and rui xue's father was like so enthu lor, kept taking videos and photos of him, and unlucky me was sitting beside him all the while. i bet every photo has my face in it haha. my mum didnt want to come tho, cos i warned her that it can get really boring. really, the parents resembled the paparazzi lol.

then there were the speeches, that lasted for hours. i was already struggling to breathe with the tie strapped tightly around my neck. then finally, 4A began to go on stage to receive their testimonials and stuff la. their class presentation was damn cool lor. and apparently, it was directed, written, done, by teo di kai. weird egoistic guy lor...

class by class, the graduating S4 classes went on stage. my class, 4I, was halfway in between the 15 classes. eventually, it was our turn. i started to get the creeps when we walked behind the parents and queued up at the side of the stage. the queue got shorter and shorter and before i knew it, the emcees boomed "Seng Wai PEng Alfred". PENG?!?! PENG?!?!? i was like so disgusted. it's ping lor... cant they even pronounce it correctly? so difficult meh? so anyway, i went to shake hands with that VIP guy, posed for a photo wif him, saw mdm ang give a thumbs up, then shook hands with mr png, walked to the front of the stage, took a bow and left the stage hurriedly. phew... it was all over in a flash.

i went back to my seat and flipped open the folder i just received. inside was our class photo [how nice of mr png to get it for us] my year report, my ep3 report and testimonial. at first, i thought the testimonial was written by every teacher but apparently, there was only 1 looooong testimonial. wha... i bet ms loh wrote it lor, cos the english so cheem. what good natured la... vivacious la hahah... sounds so vicious.

so finally when all the classes have gone up the stage and all the boring speeches were over, we finally went out for the refreshments. i ate some food... didnt have much appetite and wondered. i'm finally graduating le. and it's definitely quite sad, since it marked the beginning of the O's, and the end of lessons with the teachers. not that i love lessons, it's just that for the next 3 wks or so, it'll be revision revision and revision. there will be no more chit chattering with frens during recess la, laughing with the class during english lesson la, etc. sigh... indeed it was rather saddening.

guess wat, after the refreshments, i actually went to play pool wif some frens. yux, we ended up plasying snooker which we noe nothing about. so only played forr 40 mins, finally went home.

by the time i reached home, it was almost 10 le, cos i ate at bp plaza. then remembered that i left my folder with qukui! at 11pm, i actually walked to qk's home to get it back lor. of cos mah... my folder leh... with pics and everything le. i wanted to spend the nite browsing thru it lor, reminscing the good times we had 2gether...

haha... i'm such a sentimental person. hahah... so by 12 midnite, i grew really weary... and lay on my bed... and slept...

Saturday, October 23, 2004

haha... blogging even earlier today at about 11+am. woke up at abt 9 am today, then ate fan choy, then read the newspapers. i dun really like the new Straits Times. thot it looks tooo serious and the different sections are all jumbled up. forum has been changed to other parts la... and Tech & Science section is GONE. wha... and those what mini papers - Urban etc i thot was quite useless lor. i breezed thru it in 2 minutes, within stopping even to read an article in it.

and yes, i got aluminium. this is just soooooo weird. the whole lab gets aluminium, practicall the whole sch gets aluminium too. NYGH opposite also got aluminium too. but this is not the case for other schools. sodium sodium and more Na. and aluminium's virtually impossible lor. oh wadeva...

and went to HCJC open house yesterday. wha... it's so chaotic, so many students clad in different sch uniforms were milling around the bottom floor and canteen. met corwin, who pleaded wif me again to join band next yr. a part of me told me to join, but another part of me was already sick and tired of band. sigh... and i'll really like to join badminton. but then, my skills kinda suck lor... and it definitely doesnt help me to get into badminton. maybe badminton club... but would one like to get stuck in the small world of badminton club?

after some meaningless wandering in the bottom floor, i went up to the 2nd floor to know more abt the subjects offered in the school. and gosh, it kinda sucked lor. not that the subjects sucked, but it is how they showcased the subjects. imagine 3 sciences squeezed into a classroom, each corner in the room devoted to each science. as if one can know anything abt the subject offered lor.

then i went to the hall and actually played table tennis and badminton lor haha. for abt 2 hrs i think whoops. guess wat, i actually stepped on a puddle of water and fell while playing badminton. ouch...

then i left at abt 2pm. went to the canteen and it was still packed wif ppl. just as i was abt to leave, i met isaac. he told me he saw many old pri sch frens... pearlyn la... hui zhong la... wan xin la... and alvin la... ALVIN?! wha... i was like so shocked lor...4 yrs nv seen him le. and just then, alvin walked passed us! i immediately called out to him and he turned back. wha... he's so dark lor hahah... but he didnt really change much. resembled much like the P6 alvin i noe. haha, apparently, he's a charmer in RV, esp. since he's got sooooooo many gals glued to him. haha... good luck alvin.

so i went home... reached home at abt 3pm. slept again... woke up. read a couple of chaps for SS, bei some zhao ju...

and thats just abt it. there's grad day 3 hrs later... so i guess i betta stop now...

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

i'm now blogging at 6+pm. wow... wat a feat. i usually blog at nite. shall blog earlier today cos i dun feel like coming online again later tonite. will spend tonite studying chem titration. i feel like starting to REVISE tonite. yes... u heard me rite... revise. other than memorising those zhao jus, i havent touched sciences yet. shall touch a couple of Chem chaps tonite, followed by maybe.... Bio? physics leave till tml la, since physics require the most concentration i think haha. after chem prac, i will feel much relaxed to incorporate physics concepts into my brain haha. today kinda tensed la. after all, it's the FIRST O lvl exam rite? first written exam lor. practical... :S... i'm a little scared that they'll come up with something out of the ordinary...

so today went to sch for a last minute revision with mrs chua on chem prac. really, i must say she's extremelly hardworking, especially since she prepared all that notes for us. a 10-pg document with almost everything you need to noe on QA and titration. wha... mrs chua really rocks. wonder what mrs ng and ms koe would do to prepare us for Physics and Bio prac respectively?

then the lesson ended at abt 11. then mr honyp suddenly wanted us to pose for photos around some marble table which the S4 cohort will be giving the school as a present. haha... but in the end it was cancelled, cos there was no camera... and no table hahah.

after that, i left sch with jh, qk, shaeng, weeloon and took a bus to Beauty World to try out the delicious char kway teow there. weeloon's recommendation la... and it's really quite good la. but i thought it's a little tooooo oily. whoops... another kg for me.

took bus 75 home after that and reached home rather early, at about 1.45pm. i bathed, lay on the sofa and read thru the chem notes. halfway thru, my eyelids got rrreeeeeeeallly heavy, and i decided to catch a quick nap.

woke up abt an hr later at 3:45pm... then went on to read chem. only completed the QA portion. decided to leave the titration part for tonite. then i proceeded on the 50 chen yu zhao jus. dickson called me again, asking me a variety of qns from Phys to Bio.

he asked 1: Which is responsible for the transportation of food from leaf cells to phleom? active transport or diffusion?

answer was diffusion, which was also quite rite, since there's a higher conc. of sucrose in the leaves. but then, we were taught that food is transported by mass flow hypothesis mah... the leaf cells sort of 'force' food molecules into the phloem by active transport, so the phloem then absorbs water from surrounding cells, creating high pressure which then pushes the food and everything else down the phloem tube. hmmm..................... any answers?

6:30pm le. guess i'll stop here. go and flip thru the titration notes while watching the news... and btw, interesting thingy u can try here. got this from kevin's blog.
go to google.com, and type weapons of mass destruction. click on button I'm feeling lucky and PRESTO! hahaha... haf a good laugh...

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

whoops... havent blogged for the past 2 days. actually, i wanted to blog last nite de... but i was glued to the TV set at 10:30 - 11:30pm ---- America's Next Top Model. haha... no la, i wasn't ogling at the galz, but in fact, i was admiring the professionalism shown by the photographers and the amateurish models. yesterdays's episode was interesting in a sense that each participant had to impersonate a famous hollywood star. some underwent a huge transformation after a lot of make up and u can see nicole kidman, angelina jolie... selma hayek... blah blah. but poor 'salma hayek', she was booted out due to her height ... [at least i'm taller than her ritex?!]

ok... went to sch today... and stayed all the way till 6:30pm!!! oh gosh... actually had lessons until about 4:30pm de. then went to look for ms koe but she was nowhere to be found. then went to join huanghao, qk, junhao to play table tennis at the table tennis room! wha... and huanghao's the hero lor... got so many bats for us. thx man! so we had a hell of a time smacking the ping pong balls on the table. so SHIOK! really lor, when u start, u cant stop. initially, i made up my mind to leave by 6 pm de... but then, excitement overwhelmed me and i played all the way till 6:40pm!! gosh... by then the sky had darkened to a blue hue... and we immediately sneaked off.

then took 171 home wif qk. i was lame, playing around wif the bus ticket... asking him wat it resembles. a pair of trousers, pac-man... etc... lamezzzzz

so got home le. mum cooked some noodles today... not that instant packet type hor. she actually went thru all the trouble to cook the noodles in soup etc... u noe how they prepare noodles in hawker centres? yea... just like that... mum rox! haha...

i thot i had a lot to write just now. suddenly i sort of forgot what else there is to write. junhao called me just now and i 4got haha...

so i'll just end off here... yawnz. what a tiring day...

and there's chem prac GRAND revision tmr with mrs chua. and chem prac just 2 days away...

Sunday, October 17, 2004

whoops almost 3 days nv blog le... now must quickly bu chang...

now listening to an old song - Fly Away by Fish Leong. and that dickson is ANNOYING me on the phone while i'm blogging and listening to the mp3 -_-''...

not sure what to write today... lemme recollect what i've been doing these past few days...

played mahjong last nite. haha... too sianx le wat... study this... doing that... also need to de-stress using mahjong tiles. hmm... not bad sia... won 3/7 games. sis is the big winner, with 4 wins, and mum, oops... 0

oh yes, ms koe gave me that needy fund form hor, then i showed to my mummy. i told her we need to photocopy some tax refund papers or something. instantly, her face turned sullen and she said "Aiya, so ma fan, then dun wan le la. " haha... actually, i think it's quite ma fan too. initially i told ms koe that perhaps the sch can delay payment for my sch fees. but i guess ms koe thought it'll be better if the fees were subsidised, so she got me this form. now my mum doesnt want, how can i just go right up to ms koe and say "Sorry ms koe, i dun wan le." rite? then again, it's just $400... actually i can pay de... just maybe during Dec? and it's quite weird that the sch subsidise only the last 2 mths for me. sigh... dunno wat to do...

and i['m slacking really quite alot! oops... bio nv do.. chem didnt touch le... hist still left 1 SBQ. gosh... how can?! just abt 14 days away lor.

so far, yet so near...

Thursday, October 14, 2004

shall make this short and sweet cos my mum's sleeping just behind me. don't wanna let my loud typing wake her up.

my poor mum, has to wake up earlier than me to work every morning for my dad. and he's so unappreciative.

so today i dropped by school for a couple of hours for double physics. didnt accomplish much lor, only went thru RI Prelimz P1 for 2 periods. how horribly slow.

then obtained the 5 schs prelimz answers from mrs ng. wha... then i got surrounded by soooooo many ppl asking for the prelim answers. then i went to photocopy the answers for up to 14 ppl! oh gosh.. mrs ng's gonna crush me if she knows this...

then playeda little of table tennis later on. thought i improved a LITTLE bit cos i've started to smack a LITTLE...

then my mum fetched me qk and shaeng home...

then i slept in the afternn and was jolted awake at 6pm...

then i chatted wif junhao while watching sgidol...

then i came online to do some hist and SS seq. shall complete as many chapters as possible b4 the O's arrive...

then i think i'm going to end off here...

then zzzzzzzzzzz...

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

ah... finally i stayed home today. woke up at abt 9:30am, if not for my mum, or else i'll wake up when the clock strikes twelve.

spent the morning reading the papers, eating fan choy for breakfast and did housework. then shaeng dropped by at almost 1pm, bringing me the wrkshts the teachers gave out today. apparently, many ppl didnt go sch today too. and guess mrs chua isnt unhappy, according to shaeng, which is considered quite a miracle. then i spent almost the whole afternn chatting wif shaeng while doing a mixture of Chem, maths and physics. realised that i've been neglecting my humanities and languages... oh well...

today is considered a rather 'normal' day. nothing out of the blue happened. i'll rather it like this lor. and i hope it'll always be like this after the O's. is it going to happen anyway? honestly, i doubt i'll be badly affected if it does. afterall, i kinda hope it would happen.

weird.. there are ants in almost every corner of my house. and 3 different species too. one crawling on my wall now, but i shant be ruthless and crush it. cos firstly, it'll leave an unsightly bloody mark on my wall, and secondly, i'm typing =P. lame?

and thx to mrs giam for marking my SEQ. but sadly, it's full of pencil markings here and there, indicating missing links la... lacking details la... poor L5 la... sigh. i put in my heart and soul to do de lor... dunno why still like tat.

that annoying dickson is calling me again. still confirm with me chem answers... for wat??? might as well ask answers from students in that sch rite?...

k le... me go do SS work...

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

actually i think i can sort things out la. wun let it affect my studies much. i shall look forward to the dayz after the O's... to the day when we 'let out hair down' at the Grad Dinner at hilton, to the days we spend in the chalet, to the days i go for industrial attachment, and finally, the december hols...

all shld be over in a flash i hope. i dun wan the whole thing to drag for so long le. just so tired. it drains me mentally and physically, and i dun want to put up with such nonsense again. i certainly hope my mum will always be strong, wateva obstacles lie ahead. afterall, i'll be following her...

i've bottled up my feelings in school today. it's so difficult. occasionally, it slips out of my mind while i talk and laugh with my friends, but every once in a while, it just keeps coming back.

anyway, back to school life. there isnt much interesting today, just an ultra short chinese lesson, a speedy bio lesson when we get to try a couple of qns from other school's prelimz. last 2 SS lessons were slightly different and actually, i thought i enjoyed it. cos i preferred the way mrs giam went thru SBQ with class today. interesting to see answers from other frens, and how mrs giam marks on the spot. thot i could learn the mistakes and strengths of my fren's answers.

i've also been doing hoomework these days. just now i spent abt an hr in KAP with shaeng and junhao doing physics and chem. then my nice mum came to fetch me. alighted junhao at a nearby bustop and shaeng got off near his house.

guess i'll start my share of SS work now. every second counts. i've decided to use the com in the afternn, evening.

Monday, October 11, 2004

while i sit in my own room, they are quarreling outside. he just keeps hurling vulgarities. i hate this. he kept saying that he made the decision tonite. i dun care lor. wateva.

too much to take la. just so happens my com is on. i decided to cry over here. haix...

Sunday, October 10, 2004

Mood: still grieving over my cards...

whoa... almost do finish physics le. still left essay qns here and there undone. wanna emphasize again: NY P2 is crazily diff. today i 'tasted' it. somethings are just out of syllabus la. double reflection crap?? swinging girl? already stuck at first qns lor. anyway...

i got ACSI answers from my ACS fren ALex. Thx alex! =P but i won't put down the answers here. it's still considered copyright property lor. and bleh.... i got 7 wrong. that's horrible.

and some ppl are just sooo rich. take kevin aka richie as an example. go to his blog, [click on the link at the left] and read his entry today. wha... buying some cool headphones for 60-70 bucks la. gosh... i wonder how much i could do wif those money....

and junhao told me he blog le. later i go tag :P

i realise i'm so lame in my blog nowadays. i should talk more abt myself. furthermore, it's MY blog, rite?

so today at noon, i went with my mum to hougang to pay respects to my late grandmother. thought we were going to be late, so had to rush to fajar to buy those incense papers. also didnt have time to eat lunch, so i dapao-ed chao sao-sao rou fan. as my mum drove on the expressway, i was busy at the back writing the names of my late grandmother and late uncle on the incense papers. my mum said we gotta write the names so they'll be able to receive those stuff in... u noe la! then after writing the names on the papers... the shirts... the shoes... i actually ate the rice on the van. i spread out the packet on the sofa and sat on the floor haha.

we finally reached the temple in hougang. after burning some joss sticks and getting constantly choked by the dense smoke in the temple, i had to come out of the temple for a breather. finally, my other uncles and aunties came... and we all burnt the incense papers. i had a fun time spinning the papers on my finger to spread them out like a fan. not that i'm bragging or wat, i think i have a natural talent for spreading out those incense papers hahaha :P. i think some of u dun understand what i'm toking about, esp kevin and edmund.

so went home quickly after that and only reached home at 4+pm. whoops... a little too late, spent 4 hrs outside. so i quickly went to bathe [i smell like burnt incense papers] and went to continue on my physics.

physics physics physics... do damn long and getting a little tired of it. i'll rather do mcq from chem or bio. but i realised there's ALOT of potential in coming up with innovative, never-seen-b4 qns for physics. chem and bio ar... mostly the same old ones lor.

tmr going sch for geog, SSH, and chem. guess i'll skip english, cos there isnt much to do i think. will be spending that 2 periods in library doing my SS :>

Mood: Still grieving over my cards. At least not to the extent where i'll slit my wrists haha

anyway, i'm feeling a little less depressed now. just that while i'm doing physics today, my mind kept replaying the scene when mr tan appeared and grabbed my cards away... it just keeps coming back again and again. i told my mum le... and wondered if i can get them back. my mum too says i shld be able to. if not, she'll interfere. whee hee haha. and thx guys, i'm feeling much better now.

been doing physics and physics... yea! and only physics today! haha... i devised a strategy to do physics, ok? got 5 papers mah, so i decided to do all the mcqs first... then proceed on to the Section A... B... essay...

apparently, RGS's mcq were the most difficult. then NYGH paper 2 most difficult. haha... so if u combine them 2gether, u get a killer physics paper. wha... girl power sia!

and dickson's been calling me several times a day, as usual. but gosh, he's soooo piah. do so much SSH la... chem la... physics la... maths la... make me feel so zi bei when he calls me.

but during this weekend, must quickly finish most work mah. haf to leave the wk for studying and also gotta meet the pediatrician.

i realise i'm writing in small paragraphs... dunno why haha.

ok i guess i'll stop here now. eyelids getting reaally... heavy...

and i still miss my cards. i wonder where it is... in the drawer of mr tan's desk in PE staff rm? at his home, piled in a corner? or... he has given them to his child or relatives playing magic cards?!!?! oh my... nightmare...

Saturday, October 09, 2004

wat an unfortunate day... very... very...

i started the day by jolting awake at my sofa, with my half-nibbled bread on the floor. i see the sun rays entering the living room, basking me in its warmth. only then did i realise that............ I OVERSLEPT!!!! oh gosh... i stared in horror outside the window, only to realise that the sky is no more blue, but WHITe?! i took a quick glance at the clock and realised that it's almost 8!!! oh my... the latest i ever had become in my life in chinese high. so immediately changed into my uniform and sped out of the house.

finally reached school at about 8:50am. 1st lesson - english has ended, and i didnt hand up summary. i guess ms loh would haf thought i'm absent. haha... so i scrambled into the class and flung the door open to see..... .ms koe! she stood there, staring bewildered at me. i just uttered something that was a mix of 'Good morning' & 'Sorry' & 'I'm late'. haha... so i quickly went back to my seat.

then during recess, i fished out my 2 magic card decks from my bag and played with dunxiang and haotian. ouch, dunxiang's deck packed a punch cos he destroyed almost all of my huge creatures like thorn elemental la... molimo la...

nothing much for the rest of the day... then after school, went for that physics survey thingy mrs ng wanted us to do. whoa... i thot it was quite diff lor. stumped at several qns, and then that spatial thingy... also need to figure out the shapes for a loooong time, so much so that i cant finish it haha. not even half lor =P

after that, went to play magic and table-tennis. now, here's the MOST depressing part lor... SO SADDENING... i wanted to die. arthur, dun xiang and me went to play magic at the table tennis tables there. while we were into our 2nd game, PE teacher mr tan appeared !!!!!!!! omg... and that spells the end for my cards lor. he saw everything le... and CONFISCATED everything. ok that sux... my blizzard elemental... thorn elemental... molimo... everything... 120 cards in total... all vanished... devoured...

like what dun xiang said, i feel like SHIT now. mr tan said that we go claim the cards back from him after O's. but then hor... u think i'll get it back? in 1 piece, everything intact? in the first place, how's he gonna identify which belongs to who?? not even a name or watsoever stated on my cards lor. i feel like shit,... watery stools now... watever.

after my heart bled for what seems like hours, i went to play table tennis to try get my mind of that heartbreaking incident. several of my frenz consoled me, saying that i shldn't worry and i'll certainly get them back. oh well... i do really hope so. i invested so much money and time in it... and now it's gone... gone...

guess wat? i actually continued playing table tennis till 6:30pm lor. and john lee from 4J still doesnt want to go home haha. by then, i was still sulking... but then i thought... there are just cards... shen1 wai4 wu4 haha. guess i shall 'convert' this feeling of anger and resentment to motivation to study for my O's. i swear man, that on the day of the LAST O' lvl paper... 19 Nov, i'll march up to mr tan and ask for my cards back. i really dunno how he'll return my cards lor... certainly he wouldn't be so nice as to bundle them up and note the date he confiscated them ritex? oh well...

so i got home at 8+pm after having dinner alone at bt panjang plaza. dickson called me again and asked me abt physics... then i came online to blogggggggg....

sigh... magic cards gone le... wat a heartache. but 19 Nov isnt that far away rite?...

for my cards... i'll do anything... :<....

Friday, October 08, 2004

What a day...

sometimes i just dread thursdays. lessons drag all the way till 4:40pm and that certainly doesn't help to lift my mood. been going through papers and papers almost every lesson. we spent almost 2 periods going thru the essay qns of June04 papers and Nov 03P2. hmm... i had searched every file i have but i just cant seem to locate the missing P2. i sense that someone, like biondi, has taken my paper to copy [aka referencing] but then forgot to return it. in any case, it's lost. haha... nvm, just have to borrow the paper from edmund then. edmund, i'll help u mark it =)

and there's just so much disgusting homework. if it's a couple of science papers, that's ok. but it's mostly languages and humanities lor. how horrid can that get. an english summary + NY Chinese paper + 2 SEQs. YUCK YUCK YUCK. i barely survived the ordeal... and i'm still struggling with my pathetic L5s for the SEQ. oh well, i guess i'll stop at L4 for now. shall print it out first, then write out the L5 tml. doubt mrs giam will mark it anyway...

hmm... guess tml will be a slightly different day. other than it being the last day of the week, i'm 'scheduled' to play Magic: The Gathering with hao tian and arthur in the early morning. i was initially hesitant about bringing the cards at first, cos i'm afraid gopal comes in again and shriek, "Cannot play CARDS!!!!!!!" weird lor, mr gopal has been going around card-hunting and whenever he spots us playing cards, he'll go into a frenzy. -_-''... can u believe it? he actually flared up today and swore to tell mr jeffrey lim. dickson still argued "Where got cards? Only got EZ-link cards, u want?!" haha, so funni... and then mr gopal actually wrote down in bold letters 4I on a piece of paper before walking away, fuming.

oh yes one last thing. guess i'll be going for industrial attachment in december. wha... quite excited cos it's my first time lor. heard from so many frenz around me, esp. aphelions, abt their experience working with firms and companies. i think mine's slightly different cos i actually follow a pediatrician around. i'm not exactly sure what he or she will be doing with me and weeloon, but in any case, i thought it was a rare opportunity not to be missed. at least the attachment can tide me over those free december hols.

ok, shall go print out SEQ le. shld go arrange my Magic decks too. anyone playing Magic cards too? pls tag =P

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

whoops, didnt blog yesterday due to unforeseen circumstances. but since it's such a looooong story, i shant write it down here. but in short, it was a terrible ordeal, that made me study at Mac the whole nite, and could only sleep fitfully since it was so warm at night -_-''....

in any case... i'm back! first thing that i'm going to blog about is table tennis! been playing table tennis recently. dunno why, but i'm addicted to it. i was never that sporty the past 3 yrs, dunno why this year i'm suddenly taken by the sports fever! i'm crazy about badminton, and now starting to be crazy about table tennis. but badminton will always be my fav =P. i vow that in JC, i'll quit band and join badminton le. so tired of band, and i think it's time that i should start my sporting engines soon =) haha.
so dickson lent me 2 bats of his [i dun really care abt the quality] and junhao, weeloon, qk, yanzhi, huanghao and shaeng would play 2gether, taking turns. of cos la, the qiang ppl like qk, weeloon and huanghao dominate lor. so we had to implement some nasty rules --> they will be 'OUT' after 3 consecutive wins heheh. fair ritex ;) cannot help it mahz, me so lanz. always hit with the back of the bat, and i'm so defensive too. dunno how to smack, spin or watever they call it. but i'm still learning... still learning...

these dayz really boring la. always have that feeling of guilt whenever i'm slacking and not studying. c'mon lor, it's like just a couple of wks away from the O's, and i'm still slumped on my computer chair? no way man... cannot let complacency get the better of me. but ermz... wat to start with? i'm lost... can teachers give us some golden advice? or just call us up everyday and INSTRUCT us what to revise? hmm... excellent suggestion, but absolutely not feasible.

oh well... -_-''...

Monday, October 04, 2004

oh wow, i think i'm getting accustomed to bloggin le. practically making an effort to blog everyday. hehez... mus congratulate myself for that =).

sianx... today really so sianx. did so much work, work and more work. so boring lor, had to quickly complete the 3 science papers, followed by the A.Maths paper mr png gave.

i went to cut hair in the morning, and i actually waited for more than an hour before i finally got my hair cut. dunno how they do business one lor, only got 1 barber manning the shop. no one else... and how is he able to service 40 ppl in the queue? yes, i'm not exaggerating, cos we'll have to take a queue number and by 12pm, the queue number was already at 40+ le. i got number 23 cos i went to get the queue number at 11am. but still, only got my hair cut at 1pm -_-'''...

so got home and quickly started doing hw. started with montford sec prelimz AM. oh gosh, i must say that this paper is crazily difficult lor. at least 2X more difficult than chinese high's papers. dickson was like calling my 4-5 times today, pestering my for the answers but i havent got any. after completing paper 1, which took hours, i decided to move on to my sciences first.

so did physics and bio lor. heng chem finish on sat morning le, or else tonite no need to slp liaox. also got stumped at some qns on physics and bio... bio decided to leave out the essay qns first. so disgusting to see at 10m qns...

then went back to montford P2. still stumbling at many qns, and i actually left 4-5 sub qns blank lor. that sux... i wonder how the students at montford survive???

yawnz... just watched da ge da. haha... quite funni and guess wat, Maksim was on the show! wow... yea, he quite shuai, so freaking tall, and wha... even more impressive was the speed of his fingers, moving across the piano keys. he played flight of the bumblebee and i was glued to the tv screen. wha... so qiang...

k le... dun wanna write so much, or else i'll be labelled as a talkative person. i'm actually writing this blog at 12:48am, almost 1 am le! whoa... sleeping a little late tonite. i'm looking forward to tmr, oops, sorry, 5 hrs later, cos i wanna play badminton during PE lesson!!!! really sceptical as to whether there is PE or not. mr toh told us no, but ms koe told us Yes. hmmz... i guess con. head's words are more reliable bah, since it's ms koe who organises our schedule. haha, i even got dickson and biondi to bring 2 table tennis bats each, cos i have this sudden urge to hit some ping pong balls. go blame hao quan lor, since i saw him play table tennis that day and even played wif him.

yawnz... go slp le la.... or else 5 hrs later, cant wake up. i dun wanna see blue sky...

Saturday, October 02, 2004

whoops, apparently, i didnt blog yesterday. initially wanted to, but when i called daniel asking about booking badminton courts, we went on to talk crap and just plain chatting for the next 3 hrs or so... until 1+am. hence, i didnt blog in the end, though the com was on all the while.

ok then, shall write a long blog today, since these past 2 days were rather eventful... here goes:

yesterday got back all prelim results le. overall, i was glad that i managed to enter HCJC, but was also slightly disappointed with my performance in some subjects such as Chinese and SSH. at least 80% of the class got A1 for chinese lor, and i'm one of the bottom ones to get an A2. sigh... still didnt do well enough for P1. SSH was even more disappointing - 18 students in class got an A1! when mrs giam said that, i have this 'bu4 xiang2 de yu4 gan3' that i'm not getting an A1. thought that my SBQ would flunk. then when i got back the paper, indeed, an A2. and by right, i should be getting a B3, if not for the 1 mark that mrs giam deliberately gave. instead, my SEQ was quite poorly done. none reached L5, all were at a low L4. mrs giam was practically writing "No Links!!!" in red over my whole paper. SBQ was just slightly better, but still, none were above 20/25. disappointing... really...

but all in all, all other subjects were promising, but i still worry for my languages. finally, i chalked up 7 for my L1R5, no thanks to my languages which were both A2. phew, guess i can still enter HCJC...

the most pleasant surprise was Geography. mdm chan was saying that No. 23 scored the highest, which was Ruixue. but he didnt take geog!! then we were all laughing, cos indeed, if one did not take a certain subject, 100 marks would be awarded to him. then she checked again, and then said it was me! :O wha... sia dao lor... cos i was expecting a borderline A1 at most. got back my paper... then was really glad to find that every qns i did was 20 and above =). haha, but happiness was short-lived when i realised that my marks were calculated wrongly, and 2 marks were deducted. in the end, the geography crown belonged to timothy, who scored 86. was a little disappointed, but who cares anyway... 80 and above for geog is considered a remarkable feat! for me, that is...

okok, enough for prelims. sound as if i'm showing off. but really, thought the class did quite well as a whole. i guess most scored 8 and below for L1R5, which i thought is worth applauding. c'mon, let's all give ourselves a pat on our back! for those who didnt perform as well, pls don't be disheartened. remember, this is only the beginning of the last leg of the race! in just another 2 wks or so is the O's!! prelims are all but just an instrument to gauge ur performance. the final goal is the O's. so make full use of this 2 wks to polish up on what u've learnt these past 4 yrs. strive hard for that elusive A1s ahead!!

ok... shall stop talking about prelimz le. now i'll move on to what i've done today...

woke up early today at 9am... cos i wanted to book some badminton courts and play badminton with biondi, jiaqi, singnan and yinchu. but alas, the courts at Bt panjang & CCK CC were all fully booked. didnt want to play at those courts in the neighbourhood, cos the wind would wreak havoc haha. in the end, had to reluctantly forgo that idea. then, remembered that kevin wanted to watch resident evil today with ryan 4K. so i quickly called him and asked if i could join him. then, bernard and i went with them to plaza singapura at 2+pm to watch the movie...

bought the 3:40 pm show, so we ate first, then walked around. entered the arcade and stood by some game stations, staring in awe at some pro kias beating the drumz la, and dancing para para la. gosh, there was this guy [gal?] dancing so er xin at para para. chao ah gua lor... his feminate hands were waving in accordance to the song, and his skinny body twirled and swayed to the music. it was so er xin, until we had no choice but to leave to save ourselves from puking.

stepped into the cinema on time and the movie soon started. thought that the beginning wasnt really good, cos within minutes, u see zombies all over the city. there wasnt much introduction and stuff. but all in all, it was really tense at times. the sound effects are so startling, and sometimes, u see everyone in the cinema jerk in their seats in unison haha. i preferred resident evil 1 better lor... cos it's much more contained, in the sense that everything happened in the hive. apocalypse was much messier, moving from scene to scene in the city and the fighting scenes were all a blur. but still, apocalypse was scarier, cos there were many shocking scenes. oh my, how can i forget the scene when 2 FULLY naked female zombies walked out onto the streets? horrible lor... first time i see a naked body of the opposite sex. whoops... NC 16 movies were s'posed to have those?

after the movie ended at about 6, we still didnt feel like going home so early. so, we went to play pool. it was more or less my first time. i had touched the cue before, and had hit some balls b4, but have nv actually played a real game. partnered with bernard since both of us are first-timers. gosh, we were practically thrashed by kevin and ryan. apparently, they were rather proficient in playing pool lor. could hit the balls into the holes so easily. hahah, but occasionally, i could still pull off a great shot or two, which was by pure luck lor haha. eh, my physics A1 ok? playing pool requires alot of judgment and accuracy... and many a times, u need to apply the principle of reflection. haha... angle of incidence = angle of reflection la... haha. actually, i'm crapping.

ended our pool at 7:15 pm... then went back to plaza singapura to makan dinner at KFC. ate the ultimate chicken meal which costs just $4.95. we ate, talked, niao-ed and laughed. poor richie kevin, got niao-ed by us for being a high-class guy. his etiquette and everything else are really different from us commoners lor. he eats slowly la, sips his drink leisurely la, and wipes his mouth nonchalently la... wha... the makings of a young gentleman.

and home we go! took 190 home and woke up just in time at my stop. i bathed, ate 4 slices of dragonfruit and began blogging now. whoa...this is one loooooong one. do they have world records for the longest blog?