A Message Written In The Clouds

2012-02-09T20:06:00.003+08:00

So today, I shall be recounting my experiences for the past week. I hope to be able to blog twice a week because I feel the urge to record this really unique stage of my life. hah

Everyday brings a host of new surprises.

Monday:

Felt like Garfield. I went to work grumpy because I slept late. I had enjoyed the weekends immensely, watched Journey 2 with my friends and even slept away most of my Sundays.

Still recoiling from 'weekend withdrawal' I stepped into the usual crowded train and sped off to Bishan.

I got to the office exactly 5 minutes early and settled down comfortably in the chair in the meeting room where I always do my tasks. Then Boss walks in out of the blue and tells me that there was free nasi lemak in the upper unit and told all of us to help ourselves! I really really like nasi lemak :D and that was all i could remember about that Monday. I even ate it for lunch because there was so much leftover.

The tasks that day was as usual, mundane. 'Office work is like that', says my cousin, aunties as well as my Mom.

Nasi lemak Monday~

Tuesday:

I often board the train at peak hour. I understand that there will be inevitable contact of skin between commuters. That's why I always try to minimise the space I occupy, as much as possible, by folding my arms. Apparently, the train was so crowded I could not even fold my arms but lay them pressed, hard, against my sides.

I tucked my shirt out that day, because I want to look a little more casual. My butt does not help me because it puffs up the back of my shirt.

I went to work, i got a surprise, actually the element of surprise has already worn off a bit because I was kind off expecting such things to happen already. Free breakfast at the upper unit :D once again~

Me and my happy co-workers bounced to the lift lobby and made our way to the 5th floor.

I am seriously considering to work here. Good food makes me happy. But this lifestyle is not doing me any good.

eat sit eat sit EAT SIT EAT SIT, it makes you put on the kilos... I planned to go running today, but not before eating a plateful of spaghetti with spiced sausages and curry puff.

My female malay co-workers ate lunch in the same meeting room as me, so while i worked, they chatted. Today their conversation drifted to how older women experience less sensitivity at their g-spot and how this greatly decreases their ability to orgasm. They spoke a mix of English and Malay language so I could understand parts of their conversation... but i tried to be as blur as possible and be really REALLY NAIVE.

Then one of them attempted to simulate the sounds produced by an old woman having an orgasm.

They laughed.

I LAUGHED.

They stared at me...

WHY DID I LAUGH!!! WHY DID I HAVE TO LAUGH!!!

Then they came to a conclusion that all guys my age are sexperts and already know such things...

THE THINGS I SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE....

I had to supervise the printer maintenance guy for over an hour today, seems that the printer is working fine but the problem lies with the printer driver in the office computers.

That night, I ran along the connector from Punggol park to the red bridge at Lorong Halus and back again. Seems that my stamina has increased a bit because I didn't become as fatigued as before. A distance of 7km in under an hour is not bad for a starter like me, I hope to run a marathon in future and i hope to be able to blog this down too!

Reached home feeling fatigued and played dota as usual with buddies.

Wednesday(which was yesterday):

No free food today! But i bought roast chicken rice from S11, a nearby food court. It was simply divine. Was BUSY that morning because I got overwhelmed with requests from agents asking to collect their pay-cheque. I was still arranging the cheques in alphabetical order when they rushed into the meeting room in a horde. Okay... maybe i was exaggerating a bit but you get the point.

I supervised the maintenance guy today, a co-worker of the one that came the previous day. Both had to use the toilet for 15mins when they reached the upper floor. So I waited, patiently.

This guy did his work well and downloaded the driver, installed it and solved the problem. Tried to strike up a conversation with him about the networking problem and he proceeded to correct me on my use of lingo. oops...

Went back to my tasks later and day ended as usual.

I took the train back like every other day. It was an awkward ride. My emphasis on the word awkward because that was how i felt throughout the whole journey. Reason: A guy around my age is staring at my chest. I'm a straight 18 going 19 years old guy wearing a polo shirt. Having another guy occasionally glance sideways and look at my upper front body makes me feel uneasy. No offense.

Told my meimei when I got home and she laughed at me.

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Thursday(today):

Tried saying Good morning! to the 'Very much unsociable towards me and talks seldom' co-worker but she seemed to ignore it so my greeting drifted off and became inaudible.

Like: GOOD Morning!!...

I collected my 303 stamps today to paste on 303 envelopes to mail out 303 cheques for 303 agents. Remember the ones where the address was written in the wrong format? Yes, all 303 of them. Went to buy tom yum beehoon for lunch and saw big big Big Biggest Boss eating the same thing I was ordering. I ate in the meeting room with my co-workers and sweated a lot because the tom yum was so spicy but oh so really yummy. I did filing all day after lunch.

Auntie Joy was so nice to buy me milk tea for tea break! It was a joy to sip on this quenching beverage while doing filing which is so monotonous.

end work, walk home. AND HEY! I met Mrs Nathan, my former Sec 4 Math teacher and said Hello! She gave a surprised look and siad hello back, but we couldn't say much since we were crossing the road. I wore work clothes so she may not have recognised me...

so there, that's my week so far...

I'm looking forward to Friday!!!

signing off.

2012-01-30T19:25:00.002+08:00

Ever since I started work, my days have gone past in a flash.

Hours fly by and minutes vanish, but the tasks never-ending.

Sometimes I feel that work is a bore, other times, I feel that it is actually quite fun.

Take today as an example. I just arranged pieces of paper in order and filed them...the whole day.

It was, in my opinion, the plainest and most boring task.

Then, because my co-worker was on MC. Thus i took over the task of being a receptionist.

And as soon as i sat down, i was aurally assaulted by the torrent of ringing.

Surprisingly, that was the most exciting part of the day, not enjoyable but certainly the least boring.

It was certainly better than sitting in the meeting room alone, mumbling to myself and remembering all the embarrassing stuff I did in the past.

The hustle and bustle was what kept me going for the rest of the afternoon. Despite reminding myself not to look at the time, I soon did, and frankly, I was astonished how fast time passes by.

I often lament that I needed more time in the past. After packing up all my notes and tutorials in cardboard boxes, I soon found that time slowed to a crawl. There's simply so little to do with so much time.

I could only conclude that being busy or being kept occupied with an activity makes you less sensitive to time, or perhaps change the way you perceive time to be passing. I still had the same amount of time each day, everyone does, 24 hours, nothing more, nothing less.

I was so busy that i COULDN'T care less about the time.

I still wonder why im so obsessed with time.

signing off.

2012-01-19T00:14:00.003+08:00

Hope my colleagues enjoy their D & D night out :)

Today, I realised that I wrote addresses in the wrong format on 307 letters! My supervisor said that it was okay, since i already wrote them. So a shout out to those property agents receiving this letter, you know its a letter i wrote since the address format is wrong. Not to sound egotistic... but its a special letter from the one and only ME!

Sorry, i will write them correctly the next time.

I was released at 3pm today (huh...captive in the Office) because my company is having a Dinner & Dance event tonight at MBS. I had to go to granny's house to fetch Auntie Tree back to our home.

It was awkward, it was an awful awkward journey with people staring at me. (or was it just my imagination) Maybe they're thinking " Why is such a young boy wearing work clothes?"

My work wardrobe consists mainly 60% of common office men's wear such as black long cotton pants and "uniform-like" cotton shirts. The 40% are polo shirts.

Ok, so i got to granny's house and she was watching Chinese dramas. It's good to see her once in a while :) She will then pester me to eat my meals or take an ice cream from the fridge.

I ate my dinner at 4pm, left for home with Auntie tree at 5, but not before hugging my granny!

She treats me so well, oh, we're having her birthday celebration on the 2nd day of CNY so I'll make sure to get her some extra nice mandarin oranges for new year.

Reached home by bus and paid the full fare...no more concessions any more... so my card runs out of money pretty fast! I pay an average of $2.60 everyday instead of the usual $0.95 when i was a student.

I changed my clothes then left at 6pm to meet up with Eddy, Veron and FZ for prawning.

Met up with Eddy and Veron in the bus and we chat a lot, mainly teasing Eddy haha.

FZ met up with us later at the place, some where in AMK.

It was fun learning how to catch a prawn. I missed quite a few catches but eventually caught my first. We had to pull off their pincers after we catch them, the reason which i learnt of after one of them nipped my finger and wouldn't let go. Oww...

We played tai tee as we waited for the prawn of bite our baits. Seems that i have a bad hand at tai tee today, but i was glad everyone seemed to have fun.

It was fun to get a catch! Got initially let a few slip away because i didn't know the correct technique to hook them. We took turns, sharing the 2 rods and laughed at FZ and Veron when they seem so disgusted by the crustaceans. They seemed okay with fishing them out instead haha.

We had otah and chicken wings in between some sessions, a little expensive but it tasted good.

After 3 hours, (i didn't realise how time passed by so quickly o.o) we took our catch to the grill

and ate them with satay and coconut juice. mmm...yum

Also, it seems that everyone is doing part-time jobs and such, but it seems that i started earliest ( since i started work Mid December last year -.- ) BUSY AS A BEE! while my friends going NS in January are enjoying themselves, trying to fill their remaining days before NS with as much leisurely activities as possible!

We took a cab home since we felt that paying some extra money for more comfort was a reward our tired bodies deserved.

It was shocking to witness the scene of a motor accident along the way. As we drove past, i noticed the shattered glass of the motorist's helmet, along with shrapnel from the badly damaged motorbike which looks more like twisted scrap metal together with a figure laid on the ground with a white cloth drapped over it. It is so unfortunate that a person's life has to end this way. CNY is around the corner, the person may be hoping to spend some memorable times with family; but it seems highly unlikely now...

Chatted with the driver for a while after my 3 buddies have alighted then thanked the driver as i gave him the fare. ( he lives in Jurong and reaches home at 1-2am everyday o.o) This old man is still going strong!

so here i am typing my day out. I'm going to sleep now because my eyelids are half closed.

so... good night!

signing off.

2012-01-14T12:07:00.002+08:00

I just received a postcard from my tuition buddy! It was in the letterbox one day after i got back home from work. It had curious letters on it which i realised were Thai. No wonder you asked for my address, haha. You sent it via airmail!

I haven't got the chance to give you a gift from Taiwan yet :/

Thanks for the card by the way, I love receiving cards and letters in a age where simple one liner text messages and long distance communication via phone are so prevalent. It makes you feel that the person has gone through the effort to actually contact you, and...it kind of makes me feel special. laugh*

Plus, messages by technology display generic fonts and not actual handwriting which are unique to every individual, which can actually convey actual feeling through writing.

Ok, on to my past week in The Office:

-I actually saved two-thirds of my weekly allowance because i ate free lunch which are leftover from buffets for seminars.

-I have become more confident at handling phone calls and even make my tone less monotonous and sound more pleasant.

-I have come to appreciate agents who are polite over the phone and abhor those who are impatient and rude.

-It is hard for me to converse with people i know very little about, especially those who are really quiet.

-I should try to learn some Malay phrases to chat with my colleagues :)

-You can get fat from working at such a place. Simply from the amount of food have waiting to be eaten.

-My Shifu is very patient and meticulous in teaching me how to do tasks.

-I like working here :) although the work is a tad monotonous.

-I pondered a lot about my past because the work is monotonous. A lot about my past. I seem to always remember the funniest, most embarrassing or happiest moments though.

Ok, mainly the embarrassing moments...Oh God Why...

signing off.

2012-01-05T19:13:00.003+08:00

I just wolfed down my dinner, yes, I don't mean that I turned into one and ate my meal but yes, I ate it without savouring every bite, just gulping action throughout.

I was that hungry. You see, what happened was that I tried to be miserly to my own stomach and tried to diet today. Usually I don't because I like to eat and actively exercise.

The true motive of dieting was to save some pocket money.

With the weekends looming near, I knew that some extra cash would be handy for my outings with my friends.

I started my day by going to work. As usual for the past 2-3 weeks, I took the train to Bishan, arrive at 9am, registered my IC at the security guard booth at my work building, then spend at least 3 minutes waiting outside the office because the lock requires the thumbprint of full time employees.

Despite the doors being made out of glass, people inside usually have their eyeballs glued to their computer screens and being as busy as a bee.

I wait for the next colleague to arrive, greet them cheerfully (oh joy! I can finally enter), then go in.

I seat myself in the meeting room, prepare my laptop for work then eat my breakfast.

Today's breakfast consisted of a mamee noodle snack and a square of chocolate.

Yes im being miserly today stomach! you better handle it!

So there i was, being a busy bee with work: data entry, filing, checking.

THEN the hunger kicked in at 11am. Hunger kicked in fast and when you least expect it, like a ninja. It kicked my stomach pretty good too.

I drank some water to alleviate it, after all, it was just another hour to lunch, I could last this out...

Yes im being miserly today stomach! you better handle it! No rich with assorted dishes today! No hokkien mee! No indonesian fried chicken set lunch with spicy soup! NO DEEP FRIED SWEET POTATO FRITTERS!

For lunch: Jam sandwich with a fresh apple and a gingerbread cookie in the shape of a pine tree.

I ate them and then sheepishly took quick glances at my colleague's lunch: Tom Yum fish soup with rice and spicy pickles.

you can pretty much picture this in your head, that i am in fact a silly boy. Sadly yes... But for more pocket money to spend during the weekends! Hmmph! thats enough reason to be that foolish!

Then you ask, since I'm working, why am I so short of money?

Well, i haven't gotten my wages yet, that's all. :)

Eh, not everyone is lucky enough to receive so much pocket money from your parents.

then i continued work after 1pm

I left work at 6pm, reached home ravenous.

so that was how my day pretty much was.

pretty interesting right? no?

aw...

i had a really weird but happy dream last night. Everything took place in a school that was non-existent in reality. The best part was that person X appeared and hugged me. I have not seen person X in more than 2 months, who proceeded to hugged me from behind and wouldn't let go. In that moment, i felt so surprised and happy. We both smiled at each other... then i forgot the rest of the dream.

I woke up to find my blanket hugging me instead. Laughs

what a weird dream, i had plenty of deja vus before, so will this happen one day too?

signing off.

2011-12-23T20:24:00.003+08:00

I'm not going to upload my Taiwan trip pictures onto blogger, its too much of a hassle if you can only upload 5 each time!

Past week:

YA went to work :)

I'm doing temp at an accounts department of a real estate company.

So far i've worked 7 days. I must say it was one of the best experiences of my life.

The bore of the work, the stress of answering phone calls, pacifying irate callers and the sheer amount of paperwork to be done menially.

And of course, the generosity and kindness of both the office staff and the property agents alike, the camaraderie between them is also amazing, the humor that goes on in the office, the joy of having meals with your colleagues and sharing wonderful food. (we love food so much)

It was my first job in an office environment, so it was an eye-opener for me.

I rather enjoyed it! i really did overall...

people compliment you when you do a good job, people don't compliment you when you do a good job and only people become rude to you over the phone. (that's why i dislike answering phone calls!)

For the first few days, i was taken under the wings of teacher Joy who patiently and meticulously taught me how to do tasks around the office, most importantly how to do paperwork and navigate the company's server.

I learnt how to deal with calls asking for inquiries about commission, it was a rather nerve wrecking task at first especially if they asked for their project status, many steps had to be undertaken to obtain the information. I slowly grew accustomed to this. I like people that are so polite over the phone. I learnt to process receipts and do checking, process checks as well as file them.

I also made a few new friends. Also, i was the youngest in the office, haha.

For the past few days, i did work in the meeting room, away from the phones :D

I must admit that office work is monotonous. What spices it up are the various events that take place in it!

Treats are common in my workplace, agents do treat us quite well.

Well... im gaining weight already. eerrgghhh

we have bubble tea sessions at least once per week and KOI is conveniently located next to our work building.

Christmas was coming soon and everyone was in a festive mood. I shamefully admit that I experienced the joy of receiving much more than that of giving.

Reflection of times past and plans for the future

2011-12-02T00:47:00.003+08:00

A lvls finally ENDED!

im still busy though.

I'm so excited! I want to see the tops of clouds again and glide past the spires of cloud castles!

Travelling by air is so awesome!

Maybe when I return, i've got to start holiday jobs, just to use my time "wisely" and not slack at home like my Mom says. There goes my time to play skyrim and actually do nothing other than recreational activities.

For now, im just excited about tomorrow. It's quite a rush actually, one event after another.

I haven't even played online games with my classmates tonight. Oh!It's close to 1am already...

better get some shut-eye for my journey tomorrow!

Before that, some reflection for the past 2 years.

I am thankful for all the support everyone has given me in this crucial moment of my life.

Especially times where anyone has studied together with me or given me words of encouragement. This will be a little mushy but I don't regret one bit of the experience I have gone through in these 2 years of JC. We may all have different backgrounds and perspectives, different dreams and goals. I am glad and honored to be part of your memories (hopefully good and funny).

I will remember that you, my friends and everyone I've met in these 2 years, have been part of my life. We have forged bonds stronger than cold steel, braved gales stronger than those on High Hrothgar, slayed gargantuan frost dragons and emerged barely alive. (sorry, i got influenced by Skyrim, its just that awesome)

My journey would not be complete and never will be without you buddies. haha.

We should plan outings and meet up some day :D

These memories, from the awkward; disgusting; hilarious; serious; boring; sexy o.o...etc

Maybe I'll remember them on some day where I'll be doing nothing. I always remember such stuff on these kind of days, im weird that way hah!

Ok, end of mushy reflection time. tried to make it less mushy...

But i really am thankful.

(Gives buddies an imaginary hug)

I have not forgotten anyone from before those 2 years too, free imaginary hug for you all too!

signing off.

Pilot Tanya; Requesting for takeoff.

2011-11-22T18:59:00.003+08:00

Some thoughts from me for the past month or so :

"I wished I could do nothing for a day"

That was what I thought during study break on a day in October.

"Be careful what you wish for."

My brain warned me.

"Anyway, stop day-dreaming and study for your A's."

"It feels weird not having tuition any more..."

A few days before A's.

"I wished there were more breaks between the papers!"

That was what I thought during the first hectic week of A levels.

"I think everyone is as nervous as me"

"I'm scared..."

"oH HEY... I totally expected this topic!/ totally did not see this coming"

"Oh crap! That paper! I really hope I pass it!"

"SH*T!! I made a careless mistake"

"how was that possible, maybe my friend was right, no wait, maybe he's wrong..."

"IT'S OVER MATHS IS FINALLY OVER WHOOPEE DOOPY DOO"

"Slaughterfest, it was a bloodbath"

"Oh...welp. what can I do, I tried my best...but times up...oh well"

"weep silently..."

"I should have eaten breakfast"

"(HUMS A SONG)"

"I HATE YOUUU EXAMS!"

"urghh nggghhhh no, but...hmm...but my workings...correct? nope...nnnggghhh.....shoooot 5 minutes left....nnnggghhh"

"imdoomedimdoomed 5 4 3 2 1 imdoomedimdoomed"

What I was thinking before, during and after the exams.

"I have a full week before the next paper! I'm going to take a break tomorrow!"

That was what I thought last night.

"I'm bored and restless."

That was what I thought this afternoon.

"Sigh, see how bored I am?"

My thoughts exactly.

I seem to remember all the embarassing stuff I've done when I'm bored. excuse me, while i go and wallow in some shame.

ok.

maybe i'm so restless because I was so busy before?

signing off.

2011-11-13T17:22:00.002+08:00

Keep holding on.....

haha

A levels are half gone, i'm looking forward to the end of it!

The so called hellish week is over, so now the will be a few days before the next paper to revise as well as take a breather.

2011-10-29T19:56:00.005+08:00

Stay positive YA

but i feel so sad for myself...

I bet they're enjoying themselves now.

unknown to all, the cause of my misery and happiness is the same.

stay positive! :/

sigh...

I spread my sails in the middle of the wide Sargasso Sea, hoping to catch a zephyr. Why did I travel so far only to be stranded. Running out of life's currency, i hope to catch the second wind and reach safety. I watched the greenish depths, hoping to catch a glimpse of a silvery scale of the elusive mermaid I ventured out for.

2011-10-08T22:59:00.002+08:00

Dear YA:

You typed out a full post about how frustrated you were, about self doubt, anger, disappointment, creepy people, people who don't reply to text messages and your worries.

oh, i just deleted it.

You see, morale gives you the advantage in every battle you fight.

No matter how easy the climb, if one does not have the will to achieve it, they never will.

You don't need to be reminded of those stuff you just typed out a moment ago...

THATS SOME DEMORALIZING STUFF YOU GOT THERE

but there's no need to brood over them.

They are transient, almost insignificant. Well, except for er..hrmm that big test.

Yes, that's rather important but don't let the others pull you down.

You feel blue...yes, it's human to do so. But it's important to emerge as a radiant as a Sun, otherwise, the rest of your life will be cloudy and gloomy with no chance of clear skies.

The metaphor was strong in that one

Think about the times you spent with important people in your life and be glad that you've spent good times with them.

Who THE CRAP checks their mobile device every second? YA seriously, don't give a $%&:D

Just let it be.

Haven't bought the present for a certain someone? Don't fret! Give them random stuff!(oops)

just pretend you didn't read this

Everyone's busy busy bee, so just do this another day!

We used to like Pandas didn't we YA? Yeah... Now we love them. heh

Just look at the one on your desk and cheer up.

See? Your previous rant seems insignificant now doesn't it? Like some bitchy whiny attention whore type comment on Facebook, amiright?

About that creepster guy, just forgive and forget about him, (although he attends the same lesson with you every week). We both know he's a little loopy since you have repeated refuted his advances. He doesn't give up does he? Probably because of morale.

Life's sometimes a bitch you know? Bitches love belly rubs, treats and evening walks. Don't doggone hating on Life! Love Life and Life shall return that love unto you. You HAVE TO APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE.

and...wallah! Life is no longer a disappointment, but something you treasure.

So... how you feeling now? Better? I do hope so. Keep it high, don't lose hope, keep holding on!

Sincerely,

Your Brain, high on adrenaline; High thinker and master of reason.

PS: my reward? oh, just a bottle of fruit juice will do :D

2011-08-31T18:46:00.001+08:00

Feeling blue...

2011-08-19T22:42:00.002+08:00

YA trying to phase out all types of distractions as well as focus more on studies.

short run vs long run

to sacrifice these temptations for now... to buy me more choices in life

hope this trade off is fruitful.

trying to stay true to my promises to others as well as secret promises i made for myself.

as well as typing this post to remind myself of the predicament i'm in.

to dig my way out of this landfill which i have caved myself in. then dig out of the concrete pavement that is built onto the landfill.

to remind YA that he has to work harder than many people. as well as remind himself that material things in these world are but mere enjoyment for oneself in that moment;

and that bonds between people have to be treasured and nurtured creates wonderful memories that last a lifetime.

YA shall once again nag himself to strive hard for his goals, as well as treasure his loved ones.

YA nags, he shall remind himself of this blog post.

signing off.

2011-07-19T21:00:00.002+08:00

怎么去拥有一道彩虹
怎么去拥抱一夏天的风
天上的星星笑地上的人
总是不能懂不能觉得足够

2011-07-11T01:52:00.002+08:00

Miss Cheng sent an awesome note to her classes.

By the way, she's our GP tutor. Thought I'll like to share.

It goes:

Dear 1003, 1014 & 1017,

Hello dear padawans (oh google it if you don’t know what that is)!

It’s term 3 now! We’re ¾ into the battle; the final stand is near! (The final stand being your A levels, of course. What, did you think of Harry Potter?)

I hope that as much as you have studied, you have also rested during the June holidays.

This term, I kid you not, will be a tough one. (Does that sound like déjà vu?)

I can guarantee you that lessons will be tougher and less entertaining—if they even were, in the first place—but we must focus on the big picture, so when the going gets tough, the tough...keep going. And sometimes they eat chocolate to de-stress.

Here’s a quote for you:

No longer forward nor behind

I look in hope and fear;

But grateful take the good I find,

The best of now and here.

--John G. Whittier

I hope that even though the journey may be difficult (5 hrs of sleep, anyone?) you won’t forget to live the process. (I can hear you now: "What live the process, Ms Cheng?? I’m dying here!" )

But let me remind you that you only have once to live through each year, each day, each hour, and each minute. For example, because all good GP essays have examples, you will only ever live 2011, 9th July, 10.50pm once. It will never come back again. So I hope you make each moment—that one moment—count.

Once your NYJC journey has ended, you will never sit in NYJC with the exact combination of friends ever again. You will not sit, half-dozing, in a lecture with 300+ others, or your class, or even the clique that you hang out with, again. You will never enjoy your CCA the same way again. Things will never be the same as this very moment. Make it count.

You may have done badly for your mid years. Or you might have aced it. Either way, it’s no longer important: nothing can change it. The only thing you can change is the future, by doing something now. NOW! I don’t know when you will get your A level results in 2012, but the reality for that very day is yours to create now.

That’s also why you need to watch that Harry Potter show with your friends. Harry Potter’s Final Stand is Final. It will not be shown in the theatres again after its time has passed. And then when it is time to study, you study. Time and Tide waits for no NYJC student.

Most of all, be happy. You only have it once. ;)

See you soon!

Cheers,

Ms. Cheng

Your words have inspired me to work harder. Much needed encouragement is much needed, and received. Thank you!

and yes... i want to watch HP too!

signing off.

2011-06-30T23:16:00.003+08:00

To mug= to study, hard.

Tip ??#: put mint toothpaste onto lower eyelids to study late into the night. For long lasting effect, don't wipe them off.

Remind me never to do that again, i just tried it and almost rubbed toothpaste into my eyes!

I feel miserable... i can't seem to finish revising the topics of organic chemistry. If i only had a photographic memory... I bet that'll solve most of my grade related problems.

On, the other hand, i'll remember every embarrassing stuff i've done.

but, i'll still choose to have such an ability. it seems so useful right now.

signing off.

2011-06-30T11:29:00.002+08:00

Its raining outside now.

It's pretty refreshing to feel the moist cool wind on the back of your neck every now and then.

(my table's facing the wall and the window is behind me)

I smell the dampness of the ground outside, something which i like about rainy days.

i wish i could go back to sleep right now.

2011-06-19T23:17:00.004+08:00

Found this by chance.

By Croatian author/illustrator Darko Macan and Tihomir Celanovic

link: http://paolody.multiply.com/journal/item/554/All_The_Books_In_The_World..._Except_One

if you can't see the comic below :)

signing out

2011-05-30T01:08:00.003+08:00

A quote: We can't choose whom we love or fall in love with.

Hols just started 2 days ago.. but i'm still kind of inactive despite reminding myself to do some hardcore, rigorous revision for Mid-Years.

Oh no, i'm not going to fall for that pleasant trap Procrastination has laid for me. I'm going to start writing down plenty of notes, I got to concentrate so hard that the table starts to vibrate. Grumble rumble 4 more subjects to go. A-level Doomsday approaching soon...oh woe! sigh...

On the lighter side, I watched Pirates of the Caribbean; on stranger tides, last Saturday.

( Kungfu Panda was sold out :C )

it's been so long since i saw Noel, kinda awkward, dunno how to start a conversation with him. But i think it worked out in the end. Laughter is the remedy for awkward-ness, because it makes a joke out of anything...

The movie was enjoyable (not gonna spoil). Munch munch munching on salty popcorn while furiously digging for the sweeter ones, eating those Potato chips and seaweed strips we smuggled in. Just...oh well.... about the seating arrangement :/

Dinner was crazily funny because of Mel's disgusting response and Rach's innocent blur-ness.

Rach thought that the name Tanya sounded like what you would call a fish. Ok, i was in stitches from laughing that hard there. Mich's glass of lime juice turned into a conversation about pee. Mel said that pee is milky... Hilarity ensured. I can't stop SMILING!

it had been such a long time since i've hung out, like casually. But, good night out, as always! Enjoyed it immensely.

Masai's planning 4hum bbq next week...hmm...

what a pleasant trap you've laid out for me...Procrastination.

I wonder what else you have in store for me...

can't choose, cannot choose

mind's a mess, is this a test?

to say you look nice, is like throwing a dice

can't be written or else get beaten

getting hurt internally = living with the scar eternally.

signing out

2011-05-14T23:26:00.002+08:00

1)study hard

2)fails test

3) (exasperation)

4) teacher berates, annoys by spaming doomsday theories of me in the future.

5) (depressed)

6) tries to put in more effort

7) rewarded with ability to answer most of the questions in tutorials

8) get distracted by laptop sometimes [like right now]

9) repeat step 1

10) passes test

11) short-lived happiness

12) study for the next test

13) repeat step 2 to 12

future) profit?

maybe i should just ~~8) get distracted by laptop sometimes~~

~~trying to sign out~~

2011-05-09T21:05:00.002+08:00

Yesterday was a hot day

so was today.

in fact it got even hotter this evening.

After that indirect thingy that occurred and somethingthatwillmakemeblushbutyoucan'tseebecausei'mtootanned

I'm not talking about the weather. But you could say it is because it only occurs within me. I'm experiencing a light drizzle within with a bright glorious sunny summer sky.

I've got to be a meteorologist, to predict the weather. But i'm not going to be a weatherman, forecasts shall be kept secret and privy only to me.

But oops, i just told you the weather. Oh well... only this once, if you get what I mean.

There is only one cause of this.

I tried cloud-seeding to create rain clouds. But that zephyr slowly but persistently dispersed them and the Sun shone upon the land once more. What am I to do, my temperature's rising but there's nothing i can do. The weather cannot be controlled by me, but by someone.

okay, enough of creative writing about the weather.

you know you can never see things from that same point of view.

stop using weather to explain yourself you big wuss.

Life changing moment evident. You can't un-think! accept these changes.

enough of the ...... zzz Im such a wuss.

...

The weather was indeed hot today

signing off.

2011-04-22T21:46:00.001+08:00

(Elphaba):
Im limited
Just look at me - Im limited
And just look at you
You can do all I couldn't do, Glinda
So now it's up to you
For both of us - now it's up to you...

(Glinda):
I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you...

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good

(Elphaba):
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...

Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you

(Glinda):
Because I knew you

(Both):
I have been changed for good

(Elphaba):
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for

(Glinda):
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share

(Both):
And none of it seems to matter anymore

(Glinda):
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood

(Elphaba):
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a bird in the wood

(Both):
Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better?
I do believe I have been
Changed for the better

(Glinda):
And because I knew you...

(Elphaba):
Because I knew you...

(Both):
Because I knew you...
I have been changed for good...

from
WICKED the musical- FOR GOOD lyrics

signing off.

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

I'll keep this post really short because I have math to do... ergh, after a week of block tests and

homework just floods in again.

ok, i finished fairy tail over the weekend, now on the latest chapter.

I enjoyed it thoroughly, awesome read, although i feel that most mangas of that sort follow a similar storyline.

Thanks Auntie Jac! for the two books you have given us! i remember one was Chicken Soup for the Soul, brothers & sisters version.

I finally got my Pre-U sem certification after almost a year! hurray... will never forget my pre-u sem buddies and will try to meet up with them. Thx HL for organising studying sessions :)jiayou matchmaker. may your dreams come true soon!

currently listening to MJ songs. Thx Audiophile Chew. continue protecting little kids lol!

I will like to wish the Japanese a speedy recovery from the recent disasters. i really admire them for their stay so strong in the face of adversity.

Doing chapter 14 complex numbers currently.... out of fear that Mr Tan will call my name in a weird manner again: "ANNN~! why didn't you do your tutorial?~"

shivers*

haha I've got such an interesting teacher...

ok, better start work now

signing off.

2011-03-14T23:04:00.002+08:00

ODAC orientation camp 2011

just a few pics:

block test in a week's time :C

jiayou YA

you're built to last...

YA signing off.

2011-02-24T20:44:00.002+08:00

hEY yay yay yay yeaaaah

I finally got time to blog ;D

i spend too much time on facebook sometimes. Oh, I had a good week, maybe because my birthday was during this week and well... i had lots of fun.

I'm currently doing up my bio tutorial on eukaryotic genome out of fear that Mrs Ng will go through them tomorrow. If she catches me with unanswered questions, she'll probably chide me about how i lack discipline and me being lazy...bleh bleh. I'm apparently being targeted because i often stare blankly into space sometimes during lessons. Come'on, got to rest the eyes sometime too right? Eating sweets during class do help but you got to burn off that sugar if you want to stay fit. I don't know how Bryan does that... he doesn't even let the sweet dissolve in his mouth; he chews them O_O

(the rest of this blog post was not saved and I can't recall what I typed out.. lousy phone wires)

2011-02-05T23:34:00.002+08:00

Super short summary of today

Woke up early with family to go temple for blessing. turn s out it was closed and will only open tomorrow....zzz

had wonderful vegetarian noodle breakfast with char kueh after that.

went grocery shopping with parents at 12pm. as usual i had to carry the groceries.

ate porridge and yusheng for lunch with family at home.

did part of chem hw....oh shit oh shit oh shit, no time to finish by monday. gonna chiong tmr.

tried to confirm how many ppl from IFC going for gathering, will be disappointed later...

went plaza sing and reached at 4.30pm, revised part of chem topic buffer solutions in train and while waiting.

aaarrrrrrhhhhhhhh \(>_< )/

Unfortunate that none of the ppl from IFC turned up, guess it's not good to ask ppl out during CNY weekend!!! OH well...

so Belle, Karitka and I just had fun together. Ate ramen, then went Swensen's to eat their sinful chocolate fondue, which is lousy because the ice cream melted before the chocolate fondue melted. then ordered fries to munch on while playing Monopoly deal while chatting about camp stuff, the ppl and anything funny.

snorted, laughed like crazy, breathless, gossiping, got tired, said goodbye and went home.

end

going to sleep now...

signing off.

2011-02-05T23:27:00.003+08:00

ODAC CCA BAZAAR DAY!

come join ODAC!!
special dance
put your hands up, put your put your hands up..

OKAY lolz

signing off.

2011-02-04T09:45:00.000+08:00

Pics from IFC

hehehheeee
wild boar! wow boar!
Chek Jawa boardwalk

mangroves

we had steamboat on the first night!

Kayaking at RP Quarry in Ubin
the super hard puzzle!
telematch games!
Paint and marker on canvas. IFC 2011 by Tomaten! My group!

btw, Tomaten is German for tomato.
the queue for food.

performance by schools on the last night.

eat lunch at lau pa sat during the downtown rendezvous
BBQ night during the 2nd night
hehehe...

bumboat ride

Pulau Ubin trek :)

2011-01-27T23:57:00.002+08:00

oh hey!

I just realised my last post was the 400th one :D woot.

life so far, for me, has been busy busy busy.

another word to describe it: hectic.

sure, it may be a good experience, to know how its like to cope under lots of tasks and assignments.

well, the past 2 weeks since school started this year has been filled with overdue work, extended deadlines, late after school CCA meetings, lots of planning for upcoming events which includes Int camp, cca bazaar, math week, OCC camp, future night cycling, lifeskills workshop.(yes thats just for cca alone)

add in fiercely sarcastic teachers, tuition, a messy table and you got what i call the life of a JC2 called TanYA.

i've just packed all my stuff for Int camp, have triple checked my list equip list! Hoping to take some pictures to post after the camp is over. I'm going off tomorrow, coming back only on Monday.

Bry Bry and Headphones guy is so going to be bored, haha kidding. But it will be less lively without me, HouseA**hole, Blackguy and YK in the group during lessons. Bear with it guys:)

so im going to sleep now, because i will have to report early next morning! I'm so going to have fun being a co-facillitator to these students :D

hope to make some new friends, have fun together.

so good night.

gonna be a busy month, a busy term, a busy year~

signing off.

2011-01-16T23:08:00.003+08:00

open house day pictures, continued:

today's a horrid day for me, because i simply had to stay home to finish my homework assignments. I'm not even finished with Chem yet. plus, i need to hand them in tomorrow. there's a Bio test tomorrow too. GG

dead meat

-.-

i haven't even revised for it yet. ergh....

at least i borrowed Foxtrot and Pearls before Swine comics from the library today :/

they cheer me up any day. Funny comics help too.

goodluck for me tmr, my chances at evasion are high, my lucky meter in the lucky zone and the tutors are somewhat more pleasant.

oh, almost forgot about that get well card, haha, silly me.

okay, signing off.

2011-01-15T19:59:00.002+08:00

You're just ignorant that someone cares about you and the person is much closer than you think.

I'll be there, I'll be there, I'll be there~

Don't think so badly of yourself, walk confidently because someone here thinks you're a star.

So the new school term starts and i'm already lagging behind in my work assignments.

blehhh

yea, so i'm using the weekend to print them out and finish them all.

I'm not supposed to use my laptop for games anymore, that's okay, i understand that the games are time consuming. An hour can flash past quite quickly when you're occupied with the games, same goes for facebook, although im allowed to facebook ;D

i must work doubly if not super hard this year. revision of JC1 topics are gonna be tough because i have been slacking throughout the holidays (that i must admit.) which results in the homework pileup now. well, at least i finished math homework and the next assignment is due next Tuesday.

I'm printing Chem assignment meanwhile. Blogging, listening to music at the same time.

remembering my sec 2 class slogan= Deal With It. I'm determined to finish my assignments this weekend.

Tutors have been telling the class to work hard and be dilligent. They say this year is hard, if not gruelling. That's because the national exams are coming in 9 months. kind of scary if you see how limited time is.

I have decided, to plan more sports activities for myself and more revision. I plan to revise while i have time, to consult tutors more, as well as ask questions during tutorials. start right and you'll achieve a good result if you maintain it that way.

okay, about my day:

Went running with ZW, Brandon & Mich. We ran from ZW's house to the old cemetery at Potong Pasir, then back again, with the last 1km or so travelling in a bus as we thought it might rain.

In total, we ran 5+ KM. I felt quite refreshed after that, hehheh.

we then went back to ZW's house, showered, played Monopoly deal then went home.

(oooh, my notes have been printed! i just realised i take really long to do a blog post)

anyway, this someone fell sick after the run (which i found out 5 minutes ago)

and i'm going to make a get well card. Haha, so get well soon.

signing off.

2011-01-12T00:06:00.002+08:00

Open house 2011 :D

pictures to be continued

2011-01-06T23:27:00.003+08:00

i really regret not finishing my holiday assignments ASAP

because im up to neck in work. damn last minute, damn stupid way to finish the holidays.

to make it worse, the deadline's the first day of school.

stupid econs project, stupid because i feel that no one cares about finishing it.

someone told me to meet at school today at 1.30pm, but kept me waiting an hour. after 1 hour, i received a message saying that the person overslept. wth...

i dont mean to scold that someone but isn't that behaviour irresponsible? i mean, you set the time you know?

that's why i dislike people to be more than 5 mins late for any sort of meeting, 10mins the max, but for special people up to 20mins.

so while waiting, i just did my part of the project. Then i found out something interesting.

the school's wifi IS better than my home's. a youtube video lasting 5 mins just takes 1 minute to fully load, compared to the my home which constantly displays "error with video", "webpage not available" or even take up to 8mins for the same video to load.

beyond doubt the home wifi sucks sometimes.

so what's up people? are you in the same predicament as me, drowning in assignments as well?

a voice in my mind tells me: "HAH! told you so! YOU SHOULD HAVE finished your work in the first 3 weeks! HAH! eat **** hahahaha!

then another voice tells me: " but holidays are meant to be enjoyed, you can't expect a person to enjoy doing questions that ask you to explain why poikotherms have higher proportions of unsaturated fatty acids than homeotherms or suggest a method by which electrical effects of paramyotonia congenita can be induced on the sodium channel or do integrations of trigonometry.

Unless you're a scientist of course. Or a jc kid who enjoys reading lecture notes.

serves me right. i agree with the first voice, but not to a large extent as the second voice voices( pun not intended) a more favourable reason.

but i soon ignored both voices, instead listening to a third one which suggest that i should snuggle up in my cosy bed in this cooling night

signing off.

2011-01-05T07:57:00.001+08:00

its hard to suppress this feeling but i'll try.

spinning myself a web of lies.

signing off.

2011-01-02T11:23:00.003+08:00

resolutions:

Year of the A's, so i have to work really hard,

as well as try to be more enthusiastic in econs :)

I'll try to spend less and save more, because i know that money is hard earned.

To maintain a positive attitude in life, tough people will get eyebags, as well as the goals they want to achieve.

To get my work done as soon as possible, will take note of what my godfather said.

To remember loved ones, even those who are gone and to make sure no one close to me is forgotten.

I'll try to do everything with the best of my abilities; whether in runs during training or doing assignments, because half-hearted work is a waste of effort and time.

To be as quiet as I can be past 11pm because Pa is a light sleeper.

reflections of 2010:

I can't say its a bad year, because every experience I had, good or bad, is essential in a life like mine.

good and fun times i enjoyed. distressing and stupid situations i encountered. I remember them all. I do not regret anything, except for the time when i farted in class, maybe Veron knows that, maybe she forgot, i shall not rake up that incident because its awfully embarassing.

...

aaanywhays, i liked 2010. first year in jc is a memorable experience. talking about memorable, here are some things that i can remember currently on a personal level:

jc1 orientation

first friends i made in jc

odac training

my classmates of course

horrendous tests as well as their results

the classroom in jc with an intricately carved picture on the corkboard

pre-u sem, and the friends i made there, have not been in touch since august. felicia has to organise something soon...hinthint*

my friend and his incredibly expensive ear speakers

those long runs during trainings

night cycling!

seeing Brandon Yeo, slimmed down version

seeing Stanley, even...err... more plump and ...

taking that class photo

sitting at my fave place in school which is the grandstand, because its so windy.

flinging tennis balls as hard as i could

doing 10 vertical pullups for the first time

chatting and laughing with guy friends

Melvin Tan singing Glee! songs.... shivers*

harry potter!

plenty of eye candies

super dog and carls junior, for the funny times i spent there

any time spent with friends

inspirational books i've read

parent teacher meeting

holiday jobs

sweaty uniforms

bald headed teachers

see though shirts and pants on both guys and girls

Chawin and his incrediblyshortpantz and hairyskinnylegs

look at bimbo do silly stuff, then everybody just laughs

get frustrated by silly teacher who delay work for weeks

the times i've said hello to someone i know but got ignored

the times i got ignored -.-

the times i got too much attention and got fed up

friend who lost his iphone 3.5 and $10

chicken soup cooked by grandma

all the class outings and bbqs and chalets

strangely enough...Valerian and Masai

and the countdown before 2011

plus the rush for the train at 1.55a.m. through Raffles place.

goodbye 2010, hello 2011

you know what... i won't wish for anything for 2011

2011, surprise me please.

signing off.

2010-12-23T22:45:00.001+08:00

I thought I'd share my GP tutor's message to our class:

Dear 1017, 1014 and 1003,

Although it is only 3rd Dec, I would like to wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS, because I'll be away soon. I would have loved to send all of you christmas cards, but that might bankrupt me.

Well 2010 has been a hectic year for you, and I honestly I don't remember what went on in my JC1 year. I mostly remember my JC2 life and it was good! Ahh, what I’d give to be young again...

So in 2011 you will be in JC2, and it's going to be a rough (and tough) ride towards the university of your dreams. If you have not done as well as you’d like in 2010, then you can put in more effort in 2011. It’s a (relatively) new start!

I hope you will enjoy this December break, but please don't let what I've taught you fly out of the window! Brace yourselves by stocking up on essence of chicken, ginseng, gingko bilobia, bubble tea, etc. And even though JC2 will be tough, the end rewards are great (looooooooong holiday, university, army, what's not to like? ha) and I promise that I'll be there if you need a tissue or hanky or listening ear when the going gets tough. 'Cos when the going gets tough, the tough get eyebags. And then go to Miss Cheng.

I’ll be away from the 16th Dec 2010 to 5th January 2011 so if you email me, I can only reply if/when I get the chance to use the internet in some random dodgy internet cafe in Hong Kong. In case you have forgotten/lost my email address, be ashamed of yourself, and then email me at askmisscheng@gmail.com.

Till then, take care! See you next year.

Hint: Will be seeing you almost every day.

Cheers,

Miss Cheng

Cool as ever, you are awesome as ever Ms Cheng! :DD

signing off.

2010-12-17T23:07:00.002+08:00

It was rare times like these that I enjoy.

instead of training today, our club had a recreational activity day instead :D

that day: friday 17/12/10

i reached pasir ris mrt at 9.30am but thought they weren't there yet. I sat at a bench till 10am, listening to music from my phone.

gathered later together, only to find out that some had reached before 10 too.

so we went to buy snacks and drinks after that, followed by a 10min walk to pasir ris park.

we found a place near the sandy beach, placed a plastic sheet on the short grass underneath a coconut tree. Then Edi found out that he lost his iphone!

we spent the next hour or so, doing a hunt for his iphone, retracing his route and going all the way back to the bus interchange to look for it in case he dropped it along the way. However, our efforts were kind of futile as there were clues that it had been taken by another person, a cantonese speaking middle age guy? So, we gave up searching and Edi, i felt, was feeling kind of downhearted even though we all had put in our utmost effort to find it.

I tried to fly my kites after that. My first attempt failed as one of my kites got tangled in the leaves of a coconut tree. I had to cut the kite string T.T

my second attempt was initially a success! the kite flew high into the azure blue sky, unfortunately, the string ran out and i hadn't tied the end of the string to the reel. I think the kite may have flown to the dense forest or somewhere beyond, like wild wild wet. good luck kite. i imagined it drifting off, yelling "freedom~"

so 2nd attempt failed...

as i walked back, i found my first kite drifting down the coconut tree! i eventually retrieved my first kite, awesome! although i was still sad at losing the 2nd one.

after that incident, we settled down on that plastic sheet and played card games. i could say that everybody's mood was lightened up after that. haha

the soft beach sand beckoned us to play on it. we played frisbee on the beach afterwards. then followed by a little sand castle building by shawn and I.

volleyball was played, not really volleyball, but just passing it around. we had to deal with soft sticky mud! shoes beware!

we had lunch at Just Acia at E!hub. i ate till my stomach ached. their teriyaki chicken set was good ^^

drank lots of root beer topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

the day came to a close with a game of bowling. honestly, this was my first attempt at bowling. although i didnt know what to do, i knew i had to knock all the pins down. got a lot of gutter balls but it was fun! i got a strike at the last attempt which came as a surprise, haha. but i have to admit, it was quite exhilarating.

when i returned home, i found i had a distinct tan line around my arms... nnnoooooo..

there, i had a great day and i hope more people will come for the next recreational activity :D

signing off.

My thoughts while researching for Econs project.

2010-12-15T22:36:00.001+08:00

Start; 8.15pm

Flow of idea:

Define basics, state definitions=>

the implication of an under valued yuan on global economies

implication= meaning or consequence

undervalued= underappreciated, below its estimated value

global economies= economic system of world: the interdependent economies of the world's nations, regarded as a single economic system

what do you understand of this topic?

Im clueless, okay...

Rephrased= what is the consequence of an underappreciated Yuan on economies of other countries.

Getting an idea?

Slightly...

We are supposed to explore” meaningful links” between economic theory and “real life issues”

So we have to copy some stuff out of that thick thick econs book too? Huhu

Here, real life issue = our topic

Theory= depreciation of a currency, how this affects other countries. Export/import affected? Exchange rate, trade competitiveness...etc

So you getting a better idea?

And so we need to explain this in our project.

Thus, devaluing the yuan leads to what consequence? That we have to find out.

Process: researching~

Pretty important topic here, so many websites... cant find newspaper articles, all sold to karang guni man the night before... LOL

Process: reading materials...

Thoughts: hmm... it seems that people have different views on its consequence.

To summarise, this can be classified under 3 broad groups.

Good consequence. Bad consequence. And Goad (good+bad)

BUT! Important thing to note. We do not want any info on the consequence on china’s economy. Rather, its the world’s we’re concerned about.

In this case, the countries most repeatedly mentioned in my research are US(mainly US, must find out why), Japan, Eurozone and occasionally India, south america and SE Asia.

(pause) stoning... i feel sleepy...

Awakes from stoned state, 2 minutes have past.

So what consequence are there? Explain the would-be consequences, also taking care not to drag too much about why china does not want its Yuan to appreciate rapidly.

Ahhh... its 10.30pm

(stops research)

Take break, drinks cup of milk.

Continue the next day. goodnight sleepyhead.

Knockout!

signing off.

2010-12-11T23:39:00.002+08:00

my current state:

legs: aching, itchy

inner butt: aching

lower back: aching

why?

training too hard, grass makes skin itch

eyes: panda eyes

why? lack of sleep, reading manga all night

what am i doing everyday?

: sleep

->facebook

->play computer games

->read newspaper

->eat

->play computer games

->facebook

->eat

->read books

->watch tv

->sleep

how i spent my previous week:

1)worked at Turf Club for 5 days, at least 4 hours each, woke up each working day at 4am.

2)night cycling activity organised by me

3)ODAC training

4)the usual twice per week H2 Maths tuition by Ms Chee

5)spend at least half the day each weekday at Grandma's house

6)buying groceries, once per week

7)homework, still laying stagnant on table

8)borrowed 6 books from Cheng San Community Library, read 2 books thrice

9)planning to buy Christmas gifts for family with money earned from job

10)tolerated Mel's version of Somebody to Love (Glee version)

11)blog today :)

signing off.

2010-11-26T21:46:00.002+08:00

Watched Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows (part 1) yesterday.

and I feel like watching it again. I say this because I have never seen the same movie more than once. (Except on TVs of course)

The grim mood was set from the start, I found myself more drawn into the movie. Like an observer, but somehow immersed in it.

Creepy parts and exciting parts both set my hair standing and heart racing. Maybe I should watch it in 3D next time.

Meant to be a class movie outing but somehow only 9 people made it, zzzz. Nevertheless, still had fun.

Yong Kee, you went to India yesterday, so have an awesome trip :D Bring back lotsa lotsa curry or any souvenir you can get hold of! Have a fulfilling trip helping the needy too.

My family was hoping to go Taiwan this year for a trip, but my Mum couldn't apply for leave. Oh well.... maybe next year.

To SH: sorry for late replies. Thank you so much for that beautiful letter! I like the paper too.

I would like to write a letter back too, but my hand writing is horrendous, ok, I think it looks scrawny. I will type this on blog instead K?

Here goes:

"There is no such thing as 'too late' in life." - Mitch Albom

Don't be disappointed if I were to forget sometimes, you know I'm a bit muddleheaded sometimes. But I'll still remember eventually :) Being the best of friends means that such days are important to me. You don't need to thank me for friendship silly, its a gift, given free and shared among others. A joy shared is a joy made double!

Its touching that to know you still remembered the water chestnut cupcakes O.o and the cardboard pig ...haha. I know you crave more cupcakes.... XD kidding kidding... eat too much and you'll turn into piggy too.

We are in different JCs, so hope you have adapted well! I still need more time with mine though, haha. It's also good that you've made many friends, fun ones too in fact( I can see from your Facebook pics)! Do introduce them to me next time :)

You seem really busy these days though, could hardly meet up with you to give you your present. Same could be said for me. Btw, how's the book? Good read?

Although we are in different JCs, you know I'll be there to give you support right? :) Just do your best. Anytime you need to chat, feel free to call or message, or write a letter!

It's never too late to do so.

Hope you have a fruitful holiday, work hard next year and hope we see each other in the same school again. Promise?

signing off.

2010-11-22T23:56:00.002+08:00

I finally gave SH her present :)

EVil stare at her....(you delayed for so long, i was starting to think you didn't want it)

well, the part where Mel said I carried it in my bag may not be true.

But I hope you'll enjoy reading that book, in time to come, do lend it to me :D I want to read it too!

Hmm... as for ZW's present... where can I find a fresh organic cabbage for him... Cold Storage?

ahaha.

Well, today is HIHS prom night. I attended it last year and is now a wonderfully happy memory. Hope the juniors have fun. My next prom will be next year, but after the A level though ...

work hard, play hard... true...true, but if I might add: 30% play and 60% work, the other 10% is stress, or boredom, or relationships, or craptastic stuff, or WTF facts you discover in life, or good luck, or insanity, or hunger, or childishness, or redundant stuff, or SMSes... or random stuff like the above ....etc

all in that 10%.

random much.

tomorrow's lesson is just 1hour long. and im going home after that.

signing off.

2010-11-13T20:48:00.004+08:00

Today, we carried an old drawer out of our house, placing it at the place where old furniture is to be taken away to be dumped or recycled.

This drawer is beige-brownish in colour, turning a little yellow. With a door with a spoilt hinge which makes its right door jar out a little.

This drawer, is older than me; being made from a tree that once existed before I was born.

This drawer is a piece of furniture that was bought before my parents brought me into this world.

It's not my drawer. It's been in my sister's room ever since we moved here. This drawer is a drawer that the maid uses to keep her clothes and stuff.

So why am I so attached to it?

Humans have a strange attachment to the things that are familiar to them.

I am attached to it... perhaps because it was part of the memories of my childhood.

Back when i was a baby. Baby powder, lotion, my rattle toy and such were stored in it. Heck, even my pacifier was stored there. It was the drawer on the right side of my crib.

Even though I was probably too young to notice it, I eventually grew to recognise my surroundings.

I often tried to reach stuff that were on the drawer, being small then, of course i couldn't reach high enough. I might have even wondered what was on top of the drawer, further fueling the drive for curiosity then.

I grew to become a toddler. I grew to like the woody smell of the drawer. Being able to open the lower drawer doors, I was always greeted by the sweet, pungent comforting smell of baby powder and lotion.

The taller I grew, the easier it was for me to climb onto the top of the drawer.

eventually, i was able to lift myself and sit on top (with much effort). I believed I was at the top of the world (or at least the room).

Then i got older, other thoughts kept me pre-occupied and I forgot about the drawer. I just regarded it as "another piece of furniture" for years...

Until today that is...

I opened the empty drawer, there still lingers the phantom woody, sweet and pungent smell.

We left it at the void deck, near the dumping area. It's still there, it will be gone a few hours or days later.

The space once occupied by the old drawer in our home stands a new cherry coloured wooden drawer.

signing off.

2010-11-11T21:42:00.002+08:00

My Q&A question refuses to leave my mind.

Somehow it etched itself onto my brain, I'm unable to forget it.

I keep worrying that I have not answered it correctly, or failed to answer it wholesomely.

But OP is already over I told myself. What's the use of worrying?

"But...But... ", my mind stutters, I don't know, I just don't know...

"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live" -Mitch Albom

this phrase strikes a chord within me. (i have reread a book just recently)

Life is filled with worries.

But what if life is ending, where do the worries go?

Would we worry even more if we are dying; to worry about loved ones, about their futures and such.

Or do we let go of everything?

I've always wondered what goes on in the mind of a dying human. What do they feel?

I once saw my paternal grandma on the hospital bed, a few weeks before she succumbed to cancer. She looked frail, weak, skinny, wrinkled. Tubes were inserted into her wrists. That time, I was sensible enough to know what cancer does. But I knew i was shocked when I saw her in that plight.

However, ahma did not cry, she never got sad. That day, she just held onto my hands and told me that she loves me. Her grip was soft, gentle even. Her eyes just gazed at me. I wondered if she was worried about her condition and such...

that night, i prayed to the goddess of mercy for ahma to be better once more. I was worried about her. even though i'm an atheist, i just prayed.

I visited her several more times after that, each time I just hoped she was better, or my presence will make her happier.

on that final visit, she told me: " ahma's time is near"

i was sad, but i did not cry, it took effort.

I wondered if she was worried about us, her family.

but she, was as though, had left everything behind when she said that.

no worries, no nothing. how? What if? If this? no nothing.

maybe she knew that we would survive without her in our lives somehow, maybe she knew we will eventually bury that sadness and carry on.

definition of worry:

Worrying is a lasting preoccupation with past or future bad events. It is a type of thinking that makes you feel as if you were reliving a past event or living out a future one, and you cannot stop those thoughts from occurring. Such thoughts are often characterized by the phrases "If only..." and "What if..."

do dying people eventually rid themselves of all worries in life? Maybe they think that there is no point in doing so. Maybe they have become enlightened.

I still remember my ahma, in my heart.

I still don't feel how the dying feels. Even if you put it in words.

I ask my mind.

But.. but... my mind stutters,

I don't know, I just don't know...

Maybe it will someday.

signing off.

2010-11-09T21:09:00.006+08:00

Class outing today was dinner at Aston's at The Cathay.

Well, if you consider 6 people a class that is... makes me feel that our class has no spirit.

Grilled chicken was kinda chewy but I liked the salad and fries :D

Veron Cow doesn't want to trade her beef steak or anything else for my salad. Look at the tangy juicy crunchy salad she is missing out on man...You should not eat your own kind!

anyways, the 6 of us had fun... a laughingly fun time.

after dinner, went to Plaza Sing and bought yogurt & bubble tea, roamed Carrefour, played with all kinds of stuff, including the fans on display... sat on chairs... pretended we were at the beach and the sea breeze was blowing at us, but was actually the fans. Or pretended that it was Veron's home lol =.=

then we stared at baby swimsuits, played with children's toys, whacked toy kittens, poked toy babies and laughed like maniacs.

I've also bought a gift. not at Carrefour of course :)

Did I mention that I got lost at Bugis just trying to find the store?!

signing off.

2010-11-06T23:41:00.004+08:00

I stood alone.

Looking out my window now.

The sky is a murky orange, with swirls of vanilla

the brick red HDB flats seem dark brown in the darkness

puddles of water collect on the pathways of the park surrounded by the buildings

a thousand drops crashing into them, ripples in frenzy

as i watched, i reached my arms through the window grille, feeling the cold still air

a tiny zephyr passes by, i felt hair on the back of my palm bristle

i placed my forehead against the grille, skin turning numb from coldness

streetlights, they look like tiny illuminating balls hovering in the still air.

bursts of laughter could be heard from the nearby apartments, probably people celebrating Deepavali.

The sound of the droplets are getting lighter, softer and gentler. It's nothing more than a drizzle now.

The illuminating balls make the ground shimmer as though they were polished.

As i moved away from the window, the grille gives a metallic creak.

My head hurts. I laid on my bed, hoping that I may hop onto a dreamboat and drift off.

But I just laid there, I stared at the murky orange sky again, I realised that it had turned milky orange, I stared at the ceiling.

all this while, thoughts in a whirlwind, clashing, bombarding each other. Eye of the hurricane this is not.

This storm could last the whole night.

signing off.

2010-11-05T11:07:00.003+08:00

I'm muscle achin' all over.

still achin' from Wednesday's training.

Night cycling plans are still underway, I can't really focus on them till OP is over and by the way; is next Monday (>.<)

When OP is over, I going to watch a movie. No, I must watch one. You know what? I'm so in the Harry Potter mood right now. I think class president planning something of a class movie outing, must watch Harry Potter! I wonder why it's just The Deathly Hallows part 1... zzz.

Part 1??! i was hoping they would release the whole thing-.- omg...

Maybe they wanted to earn more movie ticket sales that's all.

On the plus side, the Deathly Hallows should have a longer movie time :DD. It's spread out on 2 movies?

So excited now.. eeeeeheehee

then I suddenly think of PW... then I feel nervous. Well, success is dependent on effort, I am going to rehearse repeatedly tomorrow to get the gist of my part. Wonder how the rest of you are doing now..

Making my way downtown
Walking fast
Faces passed
And I'm home bound

Staring blankly ahead
Just making my way
Making my way
Through the crowd

And I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder....

If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
Tonight

It's always times like these
When I think of you
And I wonder
If you ever
Think of me

'Cause everything's so wrong
And I don't belong
Living in your
Precious memories

'Cause I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder....

If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
Tonight

And I, I
Don't want to let you know
I, I
Drown in your memory
I, I
Don't want to let this go
I, I
Don't....

Making my way downtown
Walking fast
Faces passed
And I'm home bound

Staring blankly ahead
Just making my way
Making my way
Through the crowd

And I still need you
And I still miss you
And now I wonder....

If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass us by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you...

If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
If I could
Just hold you
Tonight

signing off.

2010-10-30T17:53:00.005+08:00

I felt like blogging about my Service Learning experience today,

here goes:

We set off from school at 8.30am and reached Telok Blanga crescent.

There was a little community centre at the void deck which was our base camp and we gathered there.

we went to our groups, for me, it was group C.

Members:

LiHong

Mavis

Sabrina

and me :D

Lihong and I were from class 1003 while Mavis and Sabrina were from 1008.

well, we listened to the instructions...etc, how to conduct door to door visits and such. since we will be together for almost the nest 5-6 hours, we broke the ice, introducing ourselves.

Mavis is from judo, i asked her if she knew Melvin Chew and she said not very well... haha

Sabrina is from choir. She seemed surprised when i told her I'm in ODAC. I asked her :"why?"

Her reply:" no wonder i see you run rounds around school" XD

Thats what we do every week, run run run... :D

ok, on to what we did during SL.

Paired up with 2 adults, an uncle and an auntie, both really kind and approachable people, but my poor memory allowed their names to slip away and i can't remember the names, which is a pity...

We were in charge of covering part of the 10th floor, the whole 9th floor and part of the 8th floor of block 3. Our objective was to go from door to door and offer free blood pressure check, waist, height and weight measurement as well as let residents answer a questionaire.

Floor 10.

we reached it via the elevator... of course (rolls eyes) >:]

we reached our first unit and pressed the doorbell. there was no ringing sound

...

(we will eventually find out that most doorbells do not work at all and are for show. some units even have 2 doorbells outside the house, both of which do not ring)

so we knocked the door

knock knock knock*

(still no answer)

looks at peephole at door for any indication of people inside.(if light is suddenly blocked and the peephole becomes dark, you know someone is looking into it)

disappointed by the first unit, we continued doing this for the next unit

same result for the rest of our units on floor 10

Floor 9

pressed doorbell. IT RANG!!!

a woman opened the door, YES!

She was a eurasian, but she looks of malay origin. She's a christian and likes oriental art. She eats fresh fruits and vegetables everyday and exercises by walking everyday. She looks overweight but is actually very healthy. She also knows how to speak chinese, malay, tamil, hokkien, cantonese in addition to english. You may wonder why i remember so much about her, well.... i was kind of excited then. yet I forgot the name of the 2 adults that accompanied us =.=

after doing all the necessary stuff, we offered her a free packet of rice. BUT she kindly declined! she told us to give her's to the more needy people on this block and that she has enough rice for herself. She was the only person we visited to decline this gift and ask it to be offered to someone else instead.

I was touched, not in physical but in emotional. Her motto was to forget about yesterday and live for tomorrow, which i felt was very optimistic.

The second person we successfully took measurements of was a malay woman. Her house was the only one we visited which was in disarray. She lived with her husband and her 30 year old son. Then we found out from her that her son became mentally damaged 3 years ago. Her other son was married and lived away from them. I felt that the married son should do more to help his parents...

I felt so sad at that moment...

However, her husband has brought their son for a checkup and were not present.

Sweeping my view across the room, looking at the piles of clothing, plastic bags and adult diapers, i feel thankful for the life i am leading.

we gave her 2 packets of rice when we left.

the 3rd person we visited was another malay woman. She has two children, who are quite young and cute, one was sleeping on a mattress on the floor while the other was reading from a tiny picture book. We cooed and gaga-ed over the little guy. i admit i did give in to his adorable-ness for a while... but it was a while.

while Mavis and Lihong helped with the questionaire, we told the little guy reading to study hard and love reading, giving him some subconscious message to do well in future and escape the poverty cycle.

Then the shock came, we were told that he has a hole in his heart.. but..but he seemed so lively!! and the other child sleeping has some problem although i forgot what...

I silently prayed that they will lead a happier life and gave them 2 packets of rice when we left.

the 4th person we visited was an old 82 year old cantonese woman who only knew how to speak in her dialect. Thus i only understood 1% of all her ramblings. she was hospitable, even arranging chairs with her weak body to let her guests sit. The uncle and auntie had to be our translator.

It was indeed a lot of rambling, even though the woman needed a hearing aid.

it was close to lunchtime, we gave her a packet of rice and we left for base camp, still hearing her talk as we slowly walked to the lift lobby.

LUNCH at 12.00pm:

just gathered in our class, talked about what we experienced so far.

after lunch, we set off again.

5th person we visited was a chinese man of probably 58 years old.

He looks like a really active sporty guy because we saw a gym bench, a mountain bike, bowling ball and several running shoes in his home.

I did the questionaire with him this time and i had to ask all the questions in Chinese!

he was friendly, has low blood pressure and may have high blood glucose sometimes. Whenever we suggested something related to his health, he kept saying that he could treat it with Zhong Yao or chinese medicine. Oh, another thing, he cannot live without coffee, he drinks it at the kopitiam every morning.

6th person, was more of a surprise. we were knocking and waiting at this door for quite a while. we were about to leave, then the door opened. a man on a wheelchair opened it, i saw that his right leg was missing.

well then, at first he was hesitant... but we eventually persuaded him to measure his blood pressure.

He claims to be a singer in the 1960s to 1970s. earning a really good income of $600 to $1000 which in today's value is 6000 to 10 000 dollars. The sepia coloured photo of his younger self seemed so handsome, yet now, he is wheelchair bound, naked from waist up, living in a a one room apartment. He said that if he had a family and had children, he wouldn't be here at this state today.

then he gave us a lengthy somewhat of a lecture for almost 45mins, of his history. By the way, he was 80 over years old, i doubt he will even finish. He said that he was a construction labourer after his singing career and even helped to build some of the institutes of learning in Singapore, even Nanyang JC ! :D

other than that, he gave lots of wisdom... consisting of being thrifty.... do not spend money on pop stars... women have equal rights to men.... our generation determines the future...

we left........ yea, eventually.... it was interesting to hear what he has to say.

that was our last visit and we returned to base camp... returned the surveys and questionaires and left for school at 3.45pm.

we checked 32 units, of which 6 were visited. I must admit, i have much to learn from these 6 very special people. I am thankful to be able to experience this. I realised that the family is one of the the most important thing to be able to have and we cannot afford to lose our family.

I hope to do another SL project again. It was meaningful, a meaningful 5-6 hours.

Random: Sabrina is very very interested in the wooden woodpecker door knocker. we kept teasing that she was a kid... haha. Now she can't say I'm weird when i wobbled a little to that "nursery rhyme" sounding doorbell ring XD

signing off.

2010-10-26T20:23:00.004+08:00

while wrapping up Mich's present today, i realised something terrible.

I have done something terrible, wait, rather it would be, I have not done something important.

5th October..... =.=

SO SORRY!

Oh no...

SO SORRY!

will make it up to you someday..

currently

majors exams over, A level pw and chinese heading my way, life of a jc student no brakes at all.

im doing pw all week. sigh.. presentations are hard.

2010-10-22T18:49:00.002+08:00

I got sick.

yes, really.

a really leaky nose and a fever to boot, with achy joints and a cough.

Blame it on the haze, this all started with that sneeze!

Every time i breathe, i feel like coughing.

My throat feels like sandpaper and I felt that i was breathing in fine powder.

.................

that was 3 days ago, i didn't post this because i went to sleep immediately after typing this out.

2010-10-04T16:11:00.002+08:00

Had my GP Promo test today. Fingers crossed. Hope it scores well. I certainly finished my AQ question, but my summary was half done :(

Tomorrow's the Econ test. Just a week more to go, and it'll be over.

Just worried about Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Bio, Chem and Math exam respectively.

Have not thought of doing anything or planned anything after promos, im just focusing on doing revision now.

busy busy

2010-09-30T02:33:00.000+08:00

so touching right?

2010-09-12T18:37:00.007+08:00

Feeling kind of depressed today.

Maybe depressed is too strong a word, maybe I'll use a word that best describes what I've been doing the whole day: sigh

as always, this day always comes; the last day of the holiday and the day before a great new term of education starts. I sigh, not because I detest going to JC. No, not really... I just feel that I have so much revision to catch up with.

I don't want to give up trying to absorb knowledge from that thick pile of biology/chemistry/math notes that seem like a tome if I bind them together. But I feel that I'm just dangling a bait on a string into a river of knowledge. There's just so much to memorise, maybe I'll ask for more consultations the next 2 weeks.

there's just 2 weeks left to promos, it might be sufficient to many, I'm not confident it's enough for me.

To add on, my Dad just doesn't play table tennis with me anymore. He just makes excuses that he wants to watch TV or he's got work to do. that, is a big part of my sigh.

I've lost touch with something I really like to do.I used to play table tennis every weekend.

This year, for the past 9 months, I have not even played a game of table tennis.

Sorry, I'm just in a really weird mood. Somehow, motivation is sapped out of me today and I think of such depressing and helpless stuff.

Just deleted spam on the chatbox, i don't like people with an insurance website or a website selling skateboards for their blog to be posting on my cbox and telling me that my blog is special or something. Or people with names such as Sarasexy or VideoGirl to ask me to stay cool. Sucks to be you to be born with such names.

Sigh...my blog isn't special to you, my blog is special to me. I don't need fake comments and spam to be cluttering up cbox space for my friends to post on. So go spam somewhere else, don't pollute my chatbox with fake comments.

My blog is just a pool of water, where I can see my own reflection.

To add on, my Thursday tuition lesson last week was ruined totally because of two arrogant girls behind me. Hearing their conversation made me wish I sat 4 seats ahead of them so that Ms Chee's voice can overlap their's. Plus, Mich wasn't there to chat with me or doodle on my paper, so I sat there listening to both Ms Chee and the dreaded conversation between the two girls for the whole lesson.

whereby Ms Chee's voice was 1000X better than hearing what they said. Just sickening.

The topic of their conversation: Ridiculing a fellow friend of their's who does not know how to solve a math problem and insulting their "fellow" friend as dumb.

It was like feeling an aura of trolling behind me the whole lesson. I didn't even turn around until the end of the lesson to get out of the chair. It's just sad to see them insult a friend because he or she does not know how to solve a math problem. Those two are just not being understanding enough, they should have offered their friend help. And you know what? Both of them looked so ordinary you wouldn't even think they would've spouted stuff like that. Looks are so deceiving.

crap that ruined my day. sigh.

Once again, sorry for the serious mood, if what you've read seems angry in tone or something like that.

maybe I'll just look out my window at the nice sunset

but half my window view is blocked by some shade structure that obstructs half my window.

I had to bend down at such an angle that the shade will not be included in my sky photos.

nice sunset huh.. it always sets behind that skyline of HDB flats.

one day, if i have enough time.... I'll take photos of the sky

signing off.

(edit)

felt better. played tt with dad just now.

its been almost 9 months since i went down to the park for a stroll too.

2010-09-07T22:20:00.004+08:00

It's never enough

THERE'S NEVER ENOUGH TIME... sigh

never enough time during the holidays....gossshhhh

i have so much revision to catch up with. but the only good thing about holidays; using your 12am to 2am part of the day to watch movies. just awesome.

its just you, the lappy and a mug of Ribena to keep you awake.

ok, so i only managed to watch one movie, so whut *=* Evangelion 2.22 is awesome!

good movie, liked the graphics and hope the next movie comes out in a few months/years time. it really takes a lot of work to create a 1 to 2hr+ masterpiece.

and i got the end theme stuck in my head...lol

did i mention that tunes always get stuck in my head? i end up repeating it to myself almost all day O.O

YES! its true.

but i do have a preference of what gets stuck up there though.

ok, watching another movie tonight.

let me tell me about today:

i went NSC, to hopefully find some serious medication for my serious serious acne which may have subsided seriously but may become serious again in the future, seriously.

most memorable part:

friendly, in fact very friendly staff and people. i like the standard of service there! i had to say thank you so many times because i felt so ps.

and a nurse who jabbed both my arms in a bid to collect some blood for a blood test.

haha, painful! yes, it was like reliving another blood donation drive experience, although this time round, the needle wasn't that thick and less blood was drawn from my veins, maybe a test tube sized amount instead.

The strange thing was, i felt that it was hilarious. When the nurse inserted the needle, i tried not to look. but aaaahhhh, i looked at it! and she probably did not insert it into a vein, because no blood was drawn.

then she apologized, then tried my left arm.

I looked again! aaahhhh the needle!! and the test tube was slowly filled up.

i went out with a bandaid on each arm. must have looked silly.

weird... i thought that was funny, i must be going mad ಠ_ಠ

well, at least it's not that giant needle....

shivers

interesting experience for a day huh...

then i spent the rest of the day doing revision, sleeping, eating, surfing net and repeating that song in my head. lol, even now:

It's only love..... It's only love....

ok, enough,

movie time~

signing off.

2010-09-04T23:41:00.003+08:00

Promos arrving, hope i can do well.

just feel so helpless.
it's been ages since i blogged. But i managed to find some time today.
found this really cool tool on the internet for creating art. So i said to myself, "why not?"

so i created this.
haha, hyperactive imagination.

did it out of sheer boredom and reluctance to continue mugging for the whole day.
a phrase kept repeating in my mind.
its just worrying.
...

better go back to mugging

signing off.

2010-08-18T23:02:00.002+08:00

life's simple moments of happiness; completing a run and feeling that sense of achievement.

or a friend giving you free ice lemon tea

or allowing you to use his completed tutorial as a reference despite meaning that both will be deemed as late submission.

or sharing his new iphone 4 with you

or just be willing to hear your story and laugh

or sharing inside jokes

yes, one way or another, there's a simplistic happy moment each day.

2010-08-14T23:41:00.003+08:00

Isn't it amusing that human nature, something intangible, could be described using objects?

An example would be a chain, an iron chain..

what would you think of? Restriction? Lack of freedom? or maybe something like a bond? a bond like friendship?

A few weeks ago, i met up with Mich and ZW at Plaza Sing. ZW, whom i have never contacted or had any interaction for the past few months. Put us together... and an awkward silence descended upon us. Perhaps its simply not knowing how to start the conversation, maybe its the lack of confidence. But i felt like I trying to converse with a stranger. ZW, whom i knew since about 4 years ago.

We were both shy. We just stared occasionally at each other.

I browsed through my mind, it took some warming up, both of us, but we eventually chatted. Throw in a funny sarcastic comment or two, plus a little element of surprise and a third party (Mich) and its a conversation.

so let the chain signify the bond between us and some oil represent a conversation.

An iron chain without a layer of oil as protection easily oxidizes and corrodes.

The relationship between two parties must be maintained with interactions.

So i told myself, i should at least try to make some form of interaction, be it an SMS or MSN or by blog or by a note, so that such a bond will last.

you might say that a bond of friendship is everlasting, or at least, built to withstand the weather.

You just might not notice how fragile it is.

It's been 4 and a half years since i spoke to my best friend of primary school. I still fondly remember the times we used to queue up in the school library after school just to use the computers to play, or run around the school blocks, pretending to be omnipotent superheroes, laughing at each other's jokes, trying to act mature..

he stood up for me, many times when i was bullied. we were punished for our antics and stood along the school corridor together.

we feared disciplinary teachers, we made fun of girls and tried to tease them and ended up punished by teachers again.

It was only during the last day of school, the day where we had our choice of secondary school confirmed did i feel like my stomach turned itself inside out, i felt sad that we were leaving.

I wrote his number on a note, i wrote it in the traditional blue ink pen. We left the school gate, we said goodbye.

Over the next few months after that, i was reluctant to call him. Feeling that doing so was foolish and embarassing. I called eventually, but only once and not anymore. I eventually lost the note, but i was too busy with my new life to even care. New stuff just patched over the old.

I lost the note, I lost contact and the chain just rusted over and disintegrated.

"He went to a secondary school in Pasir Ris and we had fun times together", thats all i remember.

sometimes i wished i had done more to keep in contact. have since tried to look for his email, facebook or anything related. But there is no lead.

hope he's living well.

Anyways, I just sent SMSes to ZW a few days ago. Seems that ZW is stalked by girls. WOOt haha. He asks if I'm jealous, haha. Of course larr..... enjoy the attention while you still can. Seems that we'll meet up soon again, with Mich and anyone who joins in for a gathering.

so don't let that iron chain rust, pour oil on to it. 加油哦

Oh, you want to now the name of my primary school best friend?

His name is Tan Zhen Wei.

signing off.

2010-08-14T20:37:00.001+08:00

im supposed to be revising econs now, but here i am, reading some stuff, download any new notes from the school's elearn portal.

maybe, i'll post something tonight, just because i feel like it.

2010-08-06T20:51:00.004+08:00

Well, I was typing out the soft copy of the theory bike test and somehow decided to blog.

So here I am.

the bikes me & Mel have been tasked to order have finally arrived, and safely stored in ODAC store. Bike practice is next week too, first practice on tarmac. just hope no one gets scrapped by the rough ground. and (evil grin~) the theory bike test... nyahaha

as such, YA's life is revolving round bikes and cycling, just like a bike wheel going round n round.

:/ hmm....

ok, I'll talk about today.

its been about 10-11 months since i last played floorball and I'm glad that i have the chance to play today. I did not have the chance to take part in the handball competition in school today because of time issues.

Ivan.... why did you set such a short time interval between each game... whyyy....

But, its also because of this that made me choose to play that floorball match in the first place.

the exhilaration and intensity of the game was so similar to those matches in my Secondary school days.

You see, my class had some kind of PE floorball module during Sec 4. So we played floorball whenever we used the hall. Even though our skills were kind of mediocre as we only received basic training, our class's team put in every effort to win every game and we prided ourselves for doing so. yea, we never lost a game :)

I remember back then, i used to play defender and side positions. I still do so even today, even in handball or soccer. haha :D

the important thing was, we were one team. even those in our class who chose to be spectators cheered for us when we played. we were a team.

That was how i felt during that match. those who have never tried floorball and played in the match today, i know everyone gave their best. even those who cheered us on.

i felt team spirit. It made me remember some of my fondest memories

haha (awkwardness), so... thanks Ivan...haha

Did you know that a bike can never travel in a straight line forever? Sooner or later, we'll have to balance the bike by turning the handle bars just a bit.

Maybe that's how I'll describe my life. I'm just doing some realigning to make it go smooth and straight again.

The cycling track is never smooth. The bike needs friction to travel. But every mile it goes wears out its tires bit by bit.

Neither is the track even, there are always bumps and potholes along the way.

Like all the work and assignments i have, the revision i have to do, the stress to endure, the PW! all the sai kang work!! its wearing me out. but life's like that, its something to endure, its something challenging that makes life all the more interesting. Imagine a straight road with no obstacles. Well! sure you can zip across it feel the wind in your face. But its a short and easy ride.

You can't ask Life to stop throwing lemons in your face!

The cyclist also rarely talks during the bike journey. He communicates, but not chat. Most of his attention is focused in the surroundings.

Truth be told, im sort of like that too. The cyclist only enjoys his chat with other cyclists during a break. Its nothing negative though :)

the only disadvantage we have is that we have no brakes. life goes on and on.....

The cyclists only guidance on the road are road signs, signals, traffic and his sense of direction.

We have our beloved parents, teachers, friends, laws in society and our common sense, haha :D

The cyclist changes gear to deal with slopes.

We make changes, we have the ability to choose and decide what we want.

I'm probably under some sort of influence after reading all those notes on the theory test.

So you see, YA's life is revolving round bikes and cycling, just like a cyclist, pushing and turning the pedals round and round...

signing off.

2010-07-30T21:55:00.004+08:00

On request of Veron:

ALEOCA PADELLA ZK 26"

Frame:
Hi-Ten Steel Painted
Components:
Steel ED, Alloy rim
Speed:
18-speed friction
Shifter:
Grip-shifter non index system

Full suspension (front and back)

Price: now on promotion, promotion ends this sunday, limited stock, $139

may cost up to $188 after sunday, go to suntec city to self order

2010-07-30T21:29:00.005+08:00

Odac members, here are the alternative bikes to choose from.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

ALEOCA SCANTEC XP 26"

Frame:
Hi-Ten Steel Painted
Components:
Steel ED, Alloy rim, Alloy V-brake and lever
Speed:
Shimano TZ-50 18-speed
Shifter:
Grip-shifter with index system

Price: $98

AB2618-ST

Aleoca Econ Pro 26" AB2618-CM

Frame:
Hi-Ten Steel Painted
Components:
Steel ED, Alloy V-brake and lever
Speed:
Shimano TZ-50 12-speed

Shifter:

Grip-shifter with index system
colour: blue/red/black
Price: $79.90

both bikes do not have suspension systems. because the promotional date is over, bikes with suspension systems cost more than $139
so I would recommend the Aleoca Econ Pro for those who want to buy the bikes.
do give me your colour preference :)

26/6/2010

2010-06-26T16:46:00.004+08:00

I have this dream of taking a photo of the sky from my window at a certain time everyday of a year.

I got this goal in mind when i first created my sky albums. But never did i have the time to have every day of a year free to do so. Maybe when this tumultuous period in my life is over, I shall complete a third sky album.

It's a personal secret, but let me tell you this, I have a certain fascination with the sky and wide open spaces. Ok, it's no longer a secret! But keep this between me and you :)

It's hard to describe the feeling, it's somewhat "amazement & awe" as well as a certain "exhilaration", "enjoyment", "sereneness" and "comfort", it somehow touches the soul.

When I space out, it just means that I'm feeling at ease. I still remember that i keep spacing out in high school! Sometimes i just stare out of the window and space out, or stare trance-like at the whiteboard.

I've got another secret to reveal,yeah, well, i feel in the mood to reveal something now and then, if I don't mind sharing...

My dream job is to be a pilot.

I think you know why, haha!

It has been a childhood dream. But my first kite-flying experience, at 16, just last year, made me feel that this dream may be possible. But I'm still doubtful. Can I still be a pilot without perfect eyesight? Will I ever have the opportunity to be one. How can I be one?

It's a high flying dream, literally.

But for now, maybe i shall stay down to earth. Focus on some short term important goals first before I aim for the long term ones.

Because for a dream to take flight, the dream has to be built from scratch first, just like a plane.

I'll start from the ground and aim for the sky!

When the gust of opportunity arises, I'll be a kite to catch it.

well, keep this between you and I, ok?

signing off.

2010-06-24T07:21:00.002+08:00

I had this dream last night where I was back in HIHS.

Me and YX were queueing up at our favourite chicken rice stall and for some reason, the stall vendor was Kayyin. lmao.. We ordered some sort of soya sauce chicken drumstick but Kayyin kept refusing to give us what we wanted! for some reason he even prepared a plate of soya sauce chicken rice for himself! Then YX got annoyed and argued with Kayyin in his squeaky voice.. Then he climbed over the countertop and chaos ensued in the stall. Then both went out of the stall, I (again for no apparent reason... dreams are like that) teleported into the stall behind the counter, I was stoning at a plate of chicken rice...WTH~

reminds me of my days in HIHS... hahahaha

what a weird but comical dream.

im awake now, stuck on reading Yozakura Quartet because I heard it's main opening song on Youtube.

At the same time, mugging for Math.... & for some reason, my school's questions are tough, so tough. im going to take a longer time than expected to complete revision.... sigh

JC life is tough... I'm still trying to survive without my fave chicken rice stall. even though NYJC has a really good one too, i like HIHS's better...

Chicken soup for the soul, Chicken rice for my memories.

signing off

2010-06-20T16:22:00.002+08:00

Do you get the irritated & disappointed feeling when a friend ignores or cuts your conversation midway most of the time? I emphasize on irritated & disappointed. I just feel this way when that happens. Irritated because the person does not have the courtesy to at least let me finish what i'm saying and disappointment because i feel that the person treats you as if you're someone you can just brush off/ insignificant. It makes me feel that the person is both arrogant and...and....i don't know what to say. I mean, do you have something so important that shaving a few seconds off a speech is of such high priority. Conversations are meant to be enjoyed.

Never mind that, let's change the mood.

Just thought that I'll mention that Michelle has also started attending the same Maths tuition as me! Yes! Now I'll have another friend to accompany me :D

Life is always interesting with someone like her around haha XD

just wonder why she doesn't like so much stuff in her school, or why she said that i was so easily contented. lol... contented with what ? :X

With her around, maybe I'll be more attentive during lessons, or get distracted by her. haha

anyway, last week of holidays.

i even cancelled bike training for this week because i felt that we all should have the time to study.

i mean, i don't think there are people as crazy as to mug as soon as holidays start?.... or are there....(shrugs shoulders)

anyway, last training was held in school. unfortunately, there was a great downpour, so great that Orchard Road flooded that day.

Backup plan kicked into action and i devised a last minute road markings game to teach Odacians on road markings/ hand signals & blind spots. although Melvin says its kind of like.... boring, haha, i'm afraid i have to agree. But for some reason it turned into a chasing/catching game. so everyone got to workout and be a little happy & excited.

Life is so unpredictable, that day, i learnt that i must have a backup plan, for whatever situations ready. Not that i learnt that i must have a backup plan on that day, but that day's weather condition causing this to happen reinforces the fact that a backup must always be ready.

Luckily, i thought of that the night before...

So the past week, i ate 2 lunch buffets. Seemingly gained 4kg, so i'll guess i'm doing a little dieting from now on. i know looks does not make a person, personality does, but looks does help to raise confidence, in turn improving self esteem and eventually changing some outward personality.

I heard this from a friend that smart people do not reveal everything, true... true, but that makes us all smart people! i mean come'on we all have secrets!

I don't believe that friends should divulge all their secrets to their closest friends, i mean, we should all have that shred of dignity and preserve that little piece of privacy for ourselves, that's my penny's worth of thoughts.

It's some feeling of personal security to me.

Ok, i veered away from the weight gain topic. As I said, i gained 4kg, but i know it's temporary. yes, i'm weight conscious, but that's not a bad thing: I use it to gauge how much i can eat. I also add in factors like gain of muscle mass and stuff like that or water retention or water loss.

Mostly, my gain of weight is either water gain or muscle gain. i can't possibly gain 4kg worth of fats in a week. taking into account the metabolism rate of a healthy teenager and how much i exercise, it's not even possible i gain 4kg worth of fats.

rant rant rant...

haha, did that bore you? Stop! No need to finish what you're thinking, i just ignored your thoughts.

Just kidding XD

signing off.

2010-06-19T10:25:00.001+08:00

NooOOoo...

its the last week of holidays.

sigh....

i have no choice but to confine myself within the house and mug till exams...

1 week till school reopens...

ergh......

2010-06-13T21:54:00.002+08:00

Yayness (quoted from Myla)

all major events in my holidays are over ^^

Yayness(Y)

particularly yesterday.

i delivered the cake in one piece for Odac investiture

i got my Odac badge ^^

i conducted my first bike training activity,

i attended and completed my first ever night cycling activity,

Saturday12/6/2010:

arrived in school.

passed bike and cake to Chawin. we found out that the icing flowers on the cake have melted...oops. otherwise, it looks erm... presentable.

went to help my group with pw survey at j8 after that. i distributed survey forms to anyone willing to do them. happened that some students from secondary schools are there for flag day. so we gave them survey forms to do and we donated some money to their coin tins. lol its like paying them to do our survey.

went back to school after about 1 hour.

rehearsal for Odac investiture.

then we gathered and conducted investiture in one of the school's LTs

a farewell video made by me and melissa was shown first, then followed by speeches from the 7th batch president and Vp, then the current batch president.

after investiture, we played games.

there were about 4 taupoks, the 7th batch president first kenna. lol, taupok till his whole face red. there was some cake fight too XD

following that was bike training. i set up the course, waited for almost an hour because the rest are still playing games. only the j1s attend this training. so i used the time to test out the bikes,one was from the storeroom, another was mine and another was Christabelle's.

rode bike down the parade square steps. that was exhilarating, there was a tinge of danger to it, but you felt real good overcoming the fear of falling.

training went well, haha, it was fun too, for all of us. especially going down those steps XD, it was the first for everyone.

then a bunch of us went to Manhattan fish market to eat dinner after the training.

night:

woodlands cc.

NIGHT CYCLING!

this was awesome....

shall not describe it.

you EXPERIENCE IT yourself.

signing off.

2010-06-12T01:00:00.002+08:00

Just back from attending Huixin Korkor and Julie Jiejie's wedding banquet :D

I want to wish them a lifetime of happiness and bliss.

Just felt so happy for them, there was once where they posed for photos and i felt like crying, but no tears came out, probably because i've conditioned myself to stop crying since donkey ages ago.

anyway, congrats to them.

Huixin Korkor is my cousin but he is so much older than me, haha.

then sis reminded me that i was next in the family to get married...lol, that'll be a long time away.

signing off.

Pre U Seminar 2010 One People - Living The Pledge

2010-06-05T17:41:00.012+08:00

Day 1

before 1.30pm

i remembered packing stuff and doing final check on my stuff. got a ride on car to school. it seemed as though that i was the first from my school group to reach. well, in fact a few have already put their bags in the SC room and went out for Mac.

2.00pm-4.00pm

registration and check in.

boarded bus to PGPR. (Prince George's Park residences)

i was feeling quite enthusiastic, a bit bored from the bus journey and i was staring in awe at the large campus. my school group gathered at entrance, which i felt looked quite grand. teacher in charge Mr Ducro explained procedures, provided us with our tags.

the tag came with a transponder which is a device quite alike a remote control, only smaller, round and with one button. we had to aim that at a panel in the lift, then only can we press our floor buttons. the gate to our dorms also had to be opened by this transponder. i was met by a SLO (student liaison officer) when i stepped out of the lift. well, i feel bad to have forgotten his name...

he taught me to open my room door with the transponder. i was dripping wet with seat, carrying my luggage in one hand and my school blazer in the other and this photographer came into my room and took pics of the room and me... lol, i must've looked real exhausted.

had to fill up a check in form too. i no longer felt uncertain once i ventured out of my room and explored the common kitchen and bathroom.

it was a guys only bunk. reason: raging hormones. haha

met some guys on my floor, chatted and found out only guys from group 9 & 10 stay on floor 7 which im staying on. before i forget, my room is B. (see im so detailed XD)

4.00pm-4.30pm

tea

yup tea, not the drink but a meal. met my group 9. a few new faces i've never met before. and yes, i felt shy... at first.

4.30pm-5.30pm

team building activities

sat around in a circle and introduced ourselves once again

GROUP 9

Natalie(tall girl!)

Vaishnavi

Wanda

Wen Cong

Clifford(frodo)

Hui Ling(HL)

Jamie

Liying(ah ma)

Nicholas(muscle addict)

Jing Wen(squirrel)

Ivan

Hariz( The Mat)

Wei Kiat(the weirdest guy who can make you laugh, because of the weirdness)

Ye Shen(smeagol/ET/gollum)

Chishty

Amanda

Judy

YA(me)

played team bonding games... although i forgot what games were played, haha.

5.30pm-7.00pm

wash up & dinner

dinner was in an air-conditioned "hawker centre" called the Foodgle. used food coupons to buy food.

discussed our team's video project, which was to create 2 videos based on alphabets I & V. we had to base it on a theme too.

Wei Kiat, first impression of him was that he was the weirdest guy( next to the weirdest guy i know, Val) i have ever encountered. should intro the 2 of them to each other one day, both do weird hand actions.

7.00pm-9.30pm

briefing for Singapore ID

went to Multi Purpose Hall. was briefed on the video project. sat there later as a group and discussed further, submitted our draft.

9.30pm-10.00pm

washup & supper

was given raisin bun? and a Spritzer Pop drink. and we will receive something similar for the rest of the suppers too.

we were briefed on what to do to prepare for tomorrow and stuff pertaining to the guest of honour, behaviour, attire...etc.

10.30pm

lights out, but of course....

i did not go to sleep.

we went back to hostel rooms and I was busy connecting to internet. and... i had access! haha... the user id and pass that Nic provided was helpful :D

busy surfing web. a total of 4 guys from my group stayed on my floor. Ivan, Nic, Hariz & me. bed was hard, there was only one pillow. tossed and tumbled and itched most of the night.

Day 2

woke up at 5.50am

looked at Nic's room window... no lights.

i went to wash up wear formal attire. thanks to Melvin,i still remember how to make a proper tie X)

6.30am

lol... Nic's room still has no lights... went to his room, door was unlocked, he was still sleeping. i switched the lights on and woke him. that's the start of me being his alarm clock for the rest of our stay at PGP.

7.00am-7.30am

breakfast

7.30-8.30am

all took bus from PGP to UCC

8.30-9.30am

took lots of photos, instead of looking at the exhibitions...lol.
i didn't even know there were exhibitions.

9.30-10.30am

seated in the hall. was bored, read through info booklet. chatted with jamie & liying. took more pics...

watched performances by choir, dance groups and guzheng. squirrel fell alseep very often.. XD

10.30-11.45am

arrival of guest of honour. PM Mr Lee Hsien Loong, followed by keynote address. i felt that his speech was quite interesting and engaging. i will like to make speeches in that manner too. Pm Lee was humorous. his speech was followed by a Q&A session where members of the floor could direct questions to him. i must say that some of his answers were quite witty.

11.45-12pm

after the Q&A, we had to leave the hall and board the bus to LT26. lol some of us got lost including me. this 15mins was spent finding the rest of our group.

12-1pm

boarded coach to LT26, awfully crowded.

1-3pm

the 1st parallel presentation. teams from institutions showcased their months of hard work.

3.00-4.00pm

the showcase/presentation finally ended. took coach back to PGP. was awfully crowded too.

4.00-5pm

went back to dorm and it was quite stuffy. changed into PE attire then went down to Foodgle for tea. let me tell you what tea is: fried mifen and some fried spice roll. and milo... ultra sweet milo...

5pm-6.30pm

Games a la mode:

we played traditional games together :)

we found the gym after playing the games and worked out.

6.30-7.30pm

washed up, went down to Foodgle for dinner, USING COUPONS woohoo! we bought food.

7.30-9.30pm

this was time for us to do our video shoots.

9.30-10pm

went to mph for supper. guess what... Spritzer pops and bread again XD. the spritzer pop was a different flavour :)

10-10.30pm

briefing for the next day, was given goodie bag for learning journey the next day.

10.30pm

lights out,but i facebooked for 1 hour before sleeping.

Day 3

5.50am

woke up. thank you ...phone alarm

6.00am

prepared stuff, packed stuff, carried stuff.

6.00-6.30am

LOL... Nic overslept again. woke him up.

reached Foodgle at 6.45am

ate breakfast. bread

7.00-8.00am

squeezed into coach to get to LT 26

8.00-10.30am

parallel presentations II, tried to listen attentively, some presentations were quite interesting. learnt that a speaker has to engage an audiences' attention in order to make a presentation successful.

the Q&A session also requires the team representative to answer with tact and confidence. of course one must know howto answer the question. some representatives, in a bid to answer the question, spew incoherent, draggy, repetitive answers. that made me sleepy.

while most answered confidently, stressed their main points and inject humour and politeness into their answers.

10.30-11.00am

tea! reception style again. long queue for food... -.-

11.00-12.30pm

panel discussion by important guests, followed by Q&A

12.30-1.00pm

Finally! got to have a seat in the coach. ate lunch(mainly Uncle Toby breakfast bars) and some Twisties that Natalie bought.

1.00-4.30pm

alighted at a bus stop. took a bus to Buona Vista MRT, then travelled via MRT to City Hall.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

walked to National Archives of Singapore, our venue of visit for the Learning Journey!

4.30-6.30pm

returned to PGP the same way we travelled there. we gathered at Foodgle, ate some tea, then did our reflection. with haste, we went back to dorms to wash up.

6.30-9.00pm

instead of doing the video making, which we almost finished, most of the guys went gym...mwahaha muscle addict converts... all because of Nic leong lar! anyway, worked out.

then went basketball court to taupok ppl, guys only of course.

then ate dinner together. later we gathered at meeting room to do I video.

dinner at the Golden Spoon, a non-air conditioned food centre.

9.30-10.00pm

wash up & supper

went hall, haven't wash up though... smelly~

10.30pm

tried to watch movie together as a group in meeting room, but teacher chased us out. watched half of How To Train Your Dragon on laptop in my own dorm.

then went to sleep.

Day 4

5.50am

woke up... felt really tired because of the gym workouts.

i need more rest!

as usual, Nic has not woken up. so i went to his room and turned the lights on. then i went to wash up.

6.30am-7.00am

breakfast at Foodgle, ate bread... too bad we could only take one each.

chatted with cliff.

7.00-8.00am

boarded coach(this has become routine), reached Lt 26... we, the guys tried to squeeze ourselves into one seating aisle XD

8.00-10.30am

parallel presentation III, Ivan busy taking pics of girls:

Nic busy taking pics of squirrel, im busy doodling.

10.30-11am

tea..... :)

at last, to stretch the cramped legs.

11-12.30pm

Panel Discussion II, liked this one. topic was a Happy Youth.

12.30pm-1.30pm

went back to dorms, changed out of stuffy sweaty clothes. i am ashamed to say that i have reused my uniform more than once.

thank god for body powder :)

1.30pm-2pm

lunch at Golden Spoon.

2pm-7pm

group 9 gathered at cafe. disaster, Jamie's laptop kaput! with all the vids inside, almost all.

could not resurrect her laptop, all efforts futile... so we pieced our vids taken from the camcorder

again. i ordered fries, took a nap there.

woke up, video almost done. lol

its a miracle... managed create video again. a lot of us slacked there. must thank HL really much, she's really hardworking! took laptop to play there for a while.

went to gym to workout after that, did some planks, somehow we guys bonded together doing gym workouts. guys and girls really, are from 2 different worlds. taupok ppl again!

went basketball court to play basketball, even though i suck at it. the only thing i did was to intercept the passes. got a really bad abrasion on the elbow because i slipped and fell while dribbling the ball. i was like one moment dribbling then next i felt this rough sensation on my elbow... and i was like %&$#, this is going to hurt.

and yes, it hurt a while later. i sat on the stone steps and took care of the valuables. opened laptop and found that HL had used my laptop till 20% battery left. noo.... then i facebooked till 8% battery left.

washed wound, went hall.

7.30pm-10pm

briefing for submission of vids.

and a showcase of the games created by groups 14 to 28.

followed by a voting session to vote for the best 3 games.

Wei kiat chee ko pek made my laptop run out of juice.

then the news came that our vid was not the right format and have to convert. and... my laptop just ran out of battery & i did not have a charger with me.... nice one.

The vice-principal then let loose a few spooky rumours.... wth... why did he have to do that -.-

that scared so many people, so many that almost everyone took this opportunity to sleep with someone(no kinky stuff)

10.30pm

after debrief, went up to get charger, then met at meeting room. sweating like.... something that sweats a lot.

anyway, managed to convert the vids into the right format.

packed up, went back to dorms. felt uncomfortable... stupid rumour!!!!

so i went down, met Ivan and cliff on the way. Ivan went to wash his clothes.

11pm+

then we went to the function room to sleep, a bunch of guys were there too(around 20). see how effective the rumour was?

we did not bring pillows or blankets... nice one..

we slept on the cold hard dirty floor while the 20 or so guys slept in padded sleeping bags with their soft fluffy pillows.

Ivan could not stand it and went out.

me and cliff endured the worse night of our stay at PGP.

for some reason, the lights were switched on, apparently someone too scared to turn it off. and i was too fatigued to wake myself up. AND This particular guy snored so loudly!!! even though we snored, our roars dulled in comparison with this one. the floor was the kind of floors you could find in libraries. i could only rest my head on my arms, don't forget this, i had a nasty wound on my elbow.

Day 5

4.30am-5.00am

someone set this alarm.... this *%#$&*$& annoying alarm. it did not switch off until half an hour later.

morning came, but i was suffering, with aches all over the body from my plank-like sleeping position.

6.00am

went back to dorms. felt stupid sleeping in that function room when there was a softer(but still hard) bed in my dorm. want to face-palm myself for not bringing the pillow along.

6.30am-7.30am

met for breakfast, was too sleepy to chat lively. found out that Ivan went to join the bunch of ppl from my group and sneaked around PGP, avoiding detection by teachers and having a ball of a time. now i want to face-palm myself for not joining.

went back to dorms.... i haven't brushed my teeth yet >.<

7.30-8am

pack up belongings.

8am-9am

briefing for participants, so we gathered in hall.

9am-10am

Closing Ceremony

presentation of top 3 games

as well as the videos group 1 to13 have made. all the videos were great, but our video made me feel a sense of satisfaction.

presentation of token of appreciation

10am-11am

took photos, camwhored,

did taupok on cliff.

bid goodbye to some people.... sigh..

ate some tea, then went back to dorms. the 4 of us from our group staying on that level met in Nic's room. then we checked out. went down to level 5, camwhored and took pics with our group.

11.30am

went to PGP entrance, met up with fellow schoolmates.

lol, my eyes were closed again... they are not too small to be seen, they are just closed!

12.00pm

final farewells to those leaving

1pm

depart

this is probably the longest post I've ever posted in my blog. took a lot of time to collate the photos too. but the memories and joy, friendship and everlasting bonds built, will be stored in my heart & this blog.

although it spanned a tiny period of 4 days, out of the many years of my life, it was life changing. its significance cannot be written in words or spoken with language but only expressed through feelings.

you can sail the seven seas and never encounter the same experience twice, that, i think, is very true.

signing off

~YA~

2010-05-26T20:45:00.004+08:00

6 things on my mind now:

1)Chinese oral exam tmr

2) GP MYE paper tmr

3)Pre-U sem rehearsal this Saturday

4)Meet up with Melissa to do ODAC video on friday

5) planning of cake decorating

6) how to plan ODAC recreational activities!!!? picnic? hike? kie flying? aahhhhhhh....

and to add on a 7th thought:

7) my life is going to become a lot more busy from now on....

and i thought hell started, actually.... it's just starting.

signing off

2010-05-26T20:45:00.001+08:00

Lesson Learnt.

2010-05-19T22:25:00.002+08:00

today was like almost the official start of Pre-U seminar.

months of work have started unraveling.

Today was the official briefing.

thus we gathered in the canteen at 12pm and we had pizza!

we boarded the bus at 12.51pm, traveled to YJC.

a tea reception awaited us in the hall. there were plenty of other students from various polys and jcs present.

strange it may sound, we only mingled amongst ourselves.

we enjoyed the refreshments, collected our Pre-U Sem T-shirts! and a thick file with all information of the whole event inside.

headed to hall at 2pm where briefing started. was feeling enthusiastic all this while:)

briefing, well, i can say, it wasn't brief. Various teacher-in-charge explained the event and the contents of the file.

i was assigned group 9. when i flipped to near the end of the file contents. there it was, i saw myself in group 9. I was the only NYJCian in it. I took another glance, then scrutinized the list. all my assigned group members were from different Jcs and polys too.

Similar for all groups too.

we were gathered in our groups in a classroom later to work on the brainstorming of ideas for our video which has to be based on 3 values stated which i will elaborate on next time.

we had to use a theme based on the letters I & V. we came up with Innovation & Variety after much voting.

our grouped seemed really shy, hope I can make more friends the next meeting. took the bus then the train home with Nicholas, a new friend. well, actually, the first friend i made during that one hour in the classroom. He's from NUS high school of maths & science. chatted on the way home.

oh, i found out that Tan Zhi Xian is also in this event. Yay, looking

forward to meeting you Kenneth:D

signing off. gotta, gotta study, for bio.....

2010-05-19T20:45:00.002+08:00

ODAC exco elections was a bittersweet experience i must say

interview puts a lot of obstacles in my way

it lasted till late at night

many of us had to fight

the tough questions that bombarded us

yet some of us managed to pass

congrats to those elected

we are all feeling elated

that you have assumed the role

and you are on a ROLL!

lead us to become a better, stronger, next batch of ODACians!

for the rest of us

it is a must

we give our utmost support

and build a better rapport.

so thats my poem for odac exco 2010.

and yea, i had a bittersweet day, but don't ask why, because.....

im.... too......

secretive hehe...

lol, no la.... it's just that the day ended late, time to rush homework...

signing off.

2010-05-13T07:55:00.002+08:00

Its been a week since i last blogged XD

yea, im lazy to blog. with so much stuff to do.

GPP's one reason...

the, my pre-u sem project's another...

plus a plethora of random class tests...

ok,enough of that.

im here to blog today, so i'll shall stop whining.

k, ODAC's presidential elections was held yesterday.

and so the president is: Su Fern and the vice-president is: Melvin :D

i was quite happy with this outcome. because they seemed to be the best choice for the positions.

hopefully i can get the role of PTI, but if someone can do this role better then me, i don't mind.

been training todo pull-ups almost everyday. from only managing 2 before NAPFA, i can now do 5 or 6. i think its good improvement.

my goal is to do 10 by year end.

i can't seem to do well in any test... it's so dampening for me. i mean, it's just sad to keep receiving fail grades.

maybe i should put more effort, Mom says i have the potential, its just that i do too much last minute work. well, true to some extent. but i've lost much confidence, so have my class, seeing that we received almost the same grades.

Bio used to be my best subject, i hope it will be again, it's interesting to learn, but the memorising part is hard, its just content heavy...

well, maybe i should sign off now.

its lucky school starts at 9am today:D that's how i have time to blog!

i just hate the morning rush hour train crowd.... damn...

signing off.

2010-05-05T06:15:00.002+08:00

its hard to believe that PI was handed in yesterday. months of hardwork put into our final draft and submitted. it really lifted a large burden off us, but that time also marked the start of doing GPP.

man.... can't JC people have a break... its like one task after another with no pause in between.

i haven't been sleeping well for the past few weeks, often sleeping past 12am just to finish assignments on time. well, its not that i don't have the time, i do, but i often use them to catch up on sleep.

heck, i feel so sleepy now i may go back to sleep another hour before leaving for school since classes start at 9am today.

some significant stuff that happened this week, well, maybe not much since its only 2-3 days into the week.

PE lessons are mainly on handball now, i remembered playing it with 4hum buddies in Sec4. now alot of emphasis is placed on the rules.

GPP work has started, im the group leader and members are Myla, Mega and JunCheng, including me:) scheduled several meetings. we reached the meetings objectives even though we got distracted and go off topic sometimes. we could be discussing our work and we would talk about eating cheese fries the next moment XD

Trying to meet up with Mich to pay her money for concert ticket, seems like she's busier then me. well, don't stress out too much k, Mich? i miss the days where we all went out as a group, so much fun...

My card expired, thus causing much inconvenience for me. i thought i had renewed it on the top-up machine, but i was supposed to go to the ticketing office instead. so i was given a number to call, which i called, provided details and was told to await reply.... and im still waiting.

meanwhile, im using dad's card.

sigh.... finally feels what its like to have no concession.

btw, i just slept at 3am this morning and woke up at 6am. how's this for a day's worth of sleep...omg...

and you ask why, well, im had to spent so much time adding subtitles to my Pre-U seminar video, which is to be presented at YJC today.

im predicting that today, shall be a crazy tiring energy sapping day. notice i didn't use comma when i described the day. that's because the day will be fast paced, without any pauses or a breather.

reason:

interhouse games during common lunch break

presentation at YJC, i'll just have to be in charge of IT stuff.

ODAC water PT

the day will approximately end at 7-8pm and i'll reach home to start work on tutorials again.

meanwhile, the time's 7.45am, maybe i shall catch a quick nap then wake up at 8.15am

signing off

yaawwnnnn......

2010-04-29T07:46:00.003+08:00

its rare to see me blog at this time huh, usually im either off to school or sleeping soundly.

i just completed my 4th draft of PI, hope its good enough, i don't want anymore sleepless nights.

school starts at 9am today :D

im so busy these days, i can't even spend time with my Secondary school buddies.... its just so cruel, sigh

long road ahead of you, YA, long road, just visualize it.

i feel like im just starting to take my first steps out into the real world. life in a secondary school was so sheltered. teachers always made sure you submitted work on time, made sure you absorbed the right knowledge, made sure that you took the right step and always picked you up when you fall.

in jc, teachers manage so many classes that they don't really have much time for you at all. so much stuff is shoved up our ***** and expected to be completed the following week.

its either you accomplish your own goals or just wilt and die. the teachers don't really push you, its actually oneself that does the pushing, because the environment is so competitive.

is this the real world?

i think i need a good rest.

yesterday night's interview was.... how should i describe it... scary.

basically, it was just an interview for an exco position in ODAC.

for me, it felt awkward. i was hesitant, took long pauses, stuttered a bit, embarassed myself, felt embarassed, and spammed alot and my seniors kept giggling at me, why!?

why did they giggle at me, was my posture wrong?

did they think my suggestion is funny?

did they think i bullcrapped that out?

did my face turn red while i spoke?

was my voice funny?

OMGness this worried me so much last night after i left the interview room. it was so overwhelming that i had to call Mel just to pour out my worries. thanks Mel.

anyways, its over, shouldn't dwell on that too much.

gonna head over to school now, so cya.

signing off.

2010-04-24T18:33:00.003+08:00

nope i won't complain about the amount of homework i have due next week, the type of homework that always mysteriously piles up on Fridays.

for CCA today, i was taught to make fire in a pit in the ground using natural materials like dry twigs and branches.

we used up 2 matchboxes worth of matchsticks because the kinder(dried grass/ fire starter) was not dry enough XD

blowing on the glowing hot twigs to spread the fire was worse than cutting up onions! the smoke makes my eye water and i accidentally inhaled the smoke a few times, deeply! and when i did, there was this burning sensation down my nostrils and windpipe. eergghhh...cough cough.

also, i had to watch out as when i stopped blowing, the flames my just burst out a second later.luckily, my hair is short.

well, other than a grease fire, which started accidentally, nothing else was dangerous. cut myself a bit on the fingers while dicing veggies to boil in the pot over our group's fire, but its ok as the cut is not deep. haha, no one knew though :D also got a burn on the arm....

cooking is such a hazard~ a fun one.

anyway, feeling tired now so im just going to sleep, maybe wake up later to do some homework. i dunno when i'll be able to complete that pile of homework, let alone finish it by Monday.

my Mom just recently found out about the song ''I Believe I Can Fly''

unbelievable O.o

signing off.

YA is unable to write much because his life is so hectic. no time to rest, no sleep, lots of work. killer stress.may not post anything next week because of upcoming bio lecture test!

gambate! jia you!

ooo..... i smell like burnt wood now. got that ''chao ta'' smell all over my hands.

2010-04-19T07:41:00.002+08:00

oh a post finally in many days...

haven't really been updating my blog for the past week.

so here's some ''significant'' events that happened:

chem result sucked

our class bio ranking fell to the bottom, rock bottom... so we have to work really hard from now on..

school work is piling up

despite being the maths rep,i feel a bit lazy to hand up maths tutorials.

im suffering from the lack of sleep

im just 2 pull-ups away from getting silver for napfa

my papers are in a mess

interviews for cca position are around the corner

Jo said that he's not going to attend Ms Chee's tuition.

on the brighter side:

video clip for pre-u sem is almost done.

4 Hum bbq party on Saturday was great fun

i've managed to buy a good pen(finally!)

everyone in my class is in some kind of mess too.

same could be said for the rest of the college

i like my pw group

i managed to print out all my notes from that lousy printer!

i've completed most of my tutorials, except maths

Wesley is still in tuition, i hope...

i have renewed hope for the week.

oops, i have to leave for school now...

my eyesight is getting worse. when i take off my specs and look at a street lamp, it looks like a dandelion instead. pretty... i know. but not really good news.

signing off.

2010-04-11T18:18:00.002+08:00

Love doesn't make the world go round, it spins you around and make you see life from a different perspective.

like a mother's love for her child, this love transforms and shapes the child's perspective of the world. this interaction, be it a simple pat on the back, a compliment, a giggle, a scolding; they are all acts of love. the same can be applied to friends and family, or even strangers. i dare say that love is the single most important factor in shaping a child's future.

that's because love is a kind of care and vice versa.

the new-born child, like freshly whipped batter, is without any lumps and fluffy.

it must not be left in the open for too long, or else the minute air bubbles will fuse and float to the surface, or the butter and dough start to clump together and form lumps. like a child abandoned, it has no shape; it requires someone to shape it.

thus the batter must be distributed into cups and baked.

then let love be the heat in the oven.

this love, must never be too much nor too little. just like baking muffins, too much heat will cause the dough to expand too much, with the top of the muffin charred black and its middle uncooked. just like a grown-up child, but with too much dependence on others; undeveloped and feeble in the mind and heart.

too little heat will cause the batter to become a muffin eventually, but it takes a lot of time.

Like a child, too little love makes the child develop slowly.

just the right amount of heat/love will allow the batter to form a muffin with an even crisp brown top and a fluffy inside.

like a child, their heart and mind is developed, mature.

but then others say, life's obstacles, friends and even the environment of the society affects the way an individual grows.

yes, i'll agree, but only to the extend that this will only affect the individual greatly if that person does not have strong bonds with their family or friends. because no matter what affects you, if a person possesses the right mindset, has good role models to look up to and has upright moral values, they can never sway too much from the right path in life.

and love, not only maternal but also from others, are like the oven that separates that still cooking muffin and the external environment. the oven shields the muffin from wind, humidity, dust and even from the reach of hungry/greedy people. it is a safe haven for the still cooking muffin.

but it does not last forever. the oven has a timer. like love, there will always be a time when the supply of love runs out, usually when the person passes on into afterlife.

could a deceased ever give you care and concern?

therefore, we should not take this love for granted, even now, our parents shower us with unconditional love. i must admit, i take this for granted sometimes. but to make it up to them, i try to be the well behaved and meet their expectations of me.

i don't know when it will ever be, but when the timer stops and the bell rings, the oven will gradually become colder.

time never stops. even though the feelings never cease, their hearts will stop beating.

so till then, cherish the love.

simple acts like a simple pat on the back, a compliment, a giggle, a scolding; they are all acts of love.

share it, spread it,so that the love becomes never ending for those who are living.

and this i've learnt when my paternal grandparents died many years ago. i do regret it even now, because i had so little interaction with them.

i've too, relearnt this important lesson, whilst baking muffins with my Mom, one Sunday afternoon a year ago.

signing off.

2010-04-09T22:28:00.002+08:00

i haven't really been updating my blog regularly. due to JC life of course. its so hard to manage time when you have projects, PI, lecture tests and tutorials to do.

now, even when i try to remember what i've done during the past few days, just to type out a blog post to describe the last 5 days, all i could think of was that i slept at 12+ each night doing work work work...

ok, i'll have to admit i forgot much of what happened the past few days.

so here's a list of 'significant events' of my past few days:

got back test results for Maths= fail T~T

got back results for Bio lecture test= whole class fail -.-

bought balloon for Veron and Veron bought a balloon for me to celebrate international friendship day on Wednesday. balloon was then decorated by a myriad of 'signatures' by a dozen friends.

some classmates had fun playing with the helium gas to make their voices high pitched :D

did 5 stations and 2.4km run (again~) for the 2 sessions of PE this week.

pasted a 3 sticker on the ladies sign on the science block 2nd floor girls' toilet. that made the ladies sign 'booby' LOL... YK laughed so hard at that.

ODAC did a treasure hunt instead of the usual PT this week.

im trying to decide which jc's concert to attend...

NAPFA is this Saturday, tomorrow!!! noooo...... chin ups.... T~T

more and more people know of my nickname: TANYA.

classmates are starting to think im a super runner or something...

pre-U sem project is going well, team started filming today :DD hoping the project will turn out well, feedback from teachers were really positive!

i miss my buddies alot....on Wednesday

i managed to stone through 1/4 of a maths lecture today, even though i was sucking on a lollipop. was in a daze when i walked out of lecture hall. Jun Cheng and Ivan was laughing at me dozing off.

i've decided to put more effort to studying!

im troubled over PI essay.

bio is just overwhelming...

i became frightened when i knew of the deadlines and important dates in my JC life.

i attended a lecture with my Mom for parents in JC at 7.30pm. it lasted about 1 &1/2 hours. the principal's speech lasted 1/2 an hour.

got stressed when the promotional criteria, university entry requirement slide came out.

omg OMG...

i've managed to revive my phone on Monday.

im saving money to buy tickets. im spending about $3 a day now. the least i've ever spend in a day was $1.70 :DD

well, that's all i could remember.

oh.... my balloon deflated after one day... aw~ it costs $2 O.o!!!!

signing off.

2010-04-05T06:55:00.000+08:00

groan.... Mondays....

2010-04-04T06:44:00.002+08:00

i forgot to blog last night...

blame it on PW, because i've been brainstorming for ideas since that morning.

i also kind of got distracted by Facebook while doing my research, so blame it on my lack of focus too.

which caused me to spend the whole day to do one freakin small 500 word essay. now im trying to tackle the 500 word limit.

anyway, yesterday and Friday was kind of slack, i didn't venture out of the house much. its just those few days you feel like sleeping the whole day:)

i managed to contact XH like after so long. so i chatted with him for quite a while on MSN. turns out he's in Melbourne, and he's still as hardworking as ever. good luck in your tests XH :D

maybe we'll meet again when you come back for NS in about 2 years time.

signing off.

2010-04-02T02:01:00.003+08:00

April fool's day was a balanced sort of day.

well, it happened in the morning, the first laugh out loud situation of the day.

i reached school and went into the science block guys toilet. as i was standing under the fan trying to cool myself, Stephanie rushed into the toilet, then stared at me confused.

then came the sudden realisation that she had entered the wrong toilet by mistake came. then she said: ''Ooo.. o.. sorry.., you didn't see that !...'' then rushed off to the girl's toilet.

so hilarious.

then i came out of the toilet and some of my classmates were sitting along the corridor of the bio lab. (we had bio practical in the morning). i sat along the corridor too and just chit chat when i dragonfly suddenly collided with my shoe, overturned, and frantically fluttered its wings, trying get itself back up again. then i looked around and saw that they were like at least 2metres away from where the dragonfly was. Cindy even ran all the way to the toilet...XD

i just blew at the dragonfly to flip it over and then it flew off.

we pranked the Miss Choo by faking that we forgot to bring our rags, at the same time blaming it on Melvin (not melvin tan). so it was like double pwed~

Miss Choo even believed us and allowed each of us 3mins to go down and buy a rag. then the whole class pulled their rags out. tadaa.. April fool's!

lol, when i greeted Miss Choo today, i bowed to the back to the classroom instead of bowing to her XD April fools...

during CT period in the hall, i was kind of disappointed that my video on carbon sinks was not chosen as the top three, i really did put in alot of effort. actually i wasn't so concerned about this, but the winner of the video competition was some video that seemed really mediocre -.- oh well.... nvm

as part of Green week, there was a Green quiz among the teams of the 3 top entries for the video competition. also a guy sang some ''green song'' which made no sense whatsoever. the lyrics made no sense and the everyone just stared and giggled. we still applauded at the end.

the came chem lecture test... and i became a bit temperamental after the test because i spent so much time revising the notes yesterday and my mind became blank when i was doing the test. i felt so helpless and confused.

YK and I whined about the test.

econs lecturer pranked us today by bluffing us that there was a test today..lol

then i felt a bit happier and cheered up. i managed to survive econs lecture without falling asleep and recorded lots of notes too.

PE was just another 2.4km run....

so i just ran. ppl keep saying that im damn fast. but i just shrug it off, i like being humble:)

so i'll sum up today with a poem:

Hey! im a normal guy too!

im not acting cool

even though i run fast in shoes!

i don't go to the wrong loo

neither do i say OOoooo

LOL @ Miss Choo

and also at all of you!

because everyone's gonna rule

on this April Fools!

now allow me to snooooze.

ps: i went back to HIHS with Huixin and a couple of her friends to get our grad, cert.

all i can say is, i got a sense of satisfaction when i received it and the i sort of had many flashbacks to the past,of the fun times back then.

signing off.

2010-04-01T00:32:00.002+08:00

damn, i didn't manage to donate any blood today.

my class ended at 2.30pm and there had to be a uni-seminar meeting for 1/2 an hour after that. then my CCA started at 3pm... till 6pm+

by then, the blood donation drive had ended.

blood donors had a really cool bandage thingy around their elbow area and they even received a really awesome pin + a certificate...

its so sad for me, i missed that new experience today.

CCA was... shock, horror, faint*

training for 5 stations =.=

but we didn't do all 5 stations, instead, we did exercises that could improve our performance at the 5 stations. i can say that they are even worse than the 5 stations themselves. seriously, every sport cca is in some kind of NAPFA mode... even PE lessons, we don't have games during pe currently because its just physical training every session. what a bore...

hopefully tomorrow's pe doesn't include 5 stations again.

i was so tired when i got home, but i mustered up every ounce of willpower i had and mugged my way through the first 2 chapters of chemistry and tutorial. so here i am now, taking a break. it was seriously the first time i mugged in jc. gosh-.-

im having a chem lecture test tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

unfortunately for me and many others, chapter 3, which is on redox reactions is too confusing.

so im stuck there, which may require me about 2hours+ to extract any understanding from that pile of chem papers on my bed right now.

and because i become really untidy when i study, the papers look like a blanket covering my bed.

plus i'll have to hand up chem tutorials 1,2 & 3 tomorrow.

omg... i feel my eyelids drooping

im going to continue reading that blanket of papers tomorrow, i'll just post this and go sleep

so today's a tiring day... wts

i hope tomorrow will be a perfect day.

ps: the school cafe opened today! its called the Good News Cafe. lol

i really like their fruit tarts! although that large amount of custard filling makes me feel kind of guilty...

signing off.

2010-03-30T20:59:00.002+08:00

i keep getting distracted by my laptop.

and i've got maths lecture test tmr...

and im obsessed with wallpapers. yes! wallpapers!

so im wasting time, i have wasted so much time browsing through so many pieces of digital art.

...

PW PI first draft to be handed on Monday...omgomgomgomg.

and my seniors keep saying PW is such a waste of time.

Amalgamation...

brainstorm in process....

browsing in process....

stress in action....

under pressure....

boom. meltdown

plus i have to take part in the uni-seminar project. im to be a creative designer, video man and video editor :)

i met my group this morning, the first impression i had of them was that they were a fun and friendly group:D yay. although i don't know their names yet, im looking foward to know each member. about 10 members?

Sunday was a slack day, because i did nothing except slacking. no elaboration needed.

yesterday was a cooling day. why? you ask.

well... with the exception of PE, all our lessons were held in venues with air-conditioning.

futhermore, i think it rained after school.

coooling.

then i had tuition at night in an air-con room.

today was a sweet day. why? you ask.

well... with the exception of the fried rice with grilled chicken chop & special gravy i ate at recess today, i received sweets from my classmates.

Myla somehow turned into a candy dispenser today. she passed the doraemon candy to the back row during chem lesson. a bit too sweet for my liking, but i still took about 4 pieces. shh.... don't tell her XD

plus, Sie yuan brought this tupperware of jelly babies! tasted like orange & lime. the jelly babies looked like gorillas...

then Myla (dispensed) joking.... offered us those awesome melt in the mouth little powdery candy during Chinese lesson.

i also took my potent mint during chem lecture to stay awake. breathed deeply for the best effect of mint. im just afraid that people around me may think im hyperventilating...

if anyone noticed at all, i never take more than 1 potent mint a day, its just too potent.

btw, my uni-seminar group leader Daniel. well, he keeps saying ''Brilliant!'' once in a while, randomly after finishing a sentence.

reminds me of Eugene, who's a friend in ODAC. he does the same thing but with an ''Awesome!'' instead XD

haha, jc is full of unique people, like me :D and many others.

i wonder what day tomorrow will be.

signing off.

2010-03-27T23:19:00.007+08:00

the saying goes that: curiosity killed the cat.

isn't curiosity a driving force behind the thirst for knowledge?

so will learning too much ultimately become a setback to us?

From Wiki:

Curiosity killed the cat literally means:

Mind your own business. Being nosy and getting yourself involved in unnecessary things can lead to problems.

but that's called blind curiosity. because you seek knowledge without considering the consequences.

same goes for blind learning. if we do not have goals, how do we plan our future? are we learning unnecessary stuff? do we even apply it to reality?

randomquestions...randomthoughts

im kinda bored today. yep. seems like im always bored. but im not usually this way.

for some reason, i just felt so lazy. not doing anything while im being lazy leads to boredom.

so, let me correct myself: im kinda lazy today.

Earth hour today from 8.30pm till 9.30pm, some of my neighbour's lights were still on... more work needs to be done to spread awareness!

''5cm per second''

its so sad, yet touching at the same time. This film gives a realistic view of the struggles many face against, time, space, people, and love. The movie is named 5 Centimeters Per Second for the speed at which cherry blossom petals fall, petals being a metaphorical representation of humans, reminiscent of the slowness of life and how people often start together but slowly drift into their separate ways. It is directed by Makoto Shinkai and the film in its entirety runs for about an hour.( description from youtube) if only i could write till this standard..lol

i know i've watched it once a few years back, but i would like to watch it again.

if you have no idea what ''5cm per second'' is, go youtube it.

the animation is so realistic!! Just try not to cry or feel sad at the end of the movie... i felt like crying...

one more time..., one more chance...

tests coming up next week..... it sucks the life out of me. cant they make learning more fun and pique our curiosity?

i feel like im studying just for the purpose of those tests. its, quite meaningless for me. to quote from my econs teacher: Its like having to pay for COE. to pay for a piece of paper to buy a car!!

im going to donate blood next week :) Blood donation drive held by in school. a little nervous though, first time im doing so. but if this saves others, i'll be brave.

i really wish i knew how to play a piano. i shouldn't have rejected my parent's offer in the past. but i was about 5 or 6 years old, and all i knew was that pianos are costly, so i didn't want to waste my parent's money.

now i feel people who are able to play a tune on the piano amazing.

someone please play ''Forest Gump'' for me!

never too late to learn. but the question is when, do i start?

got to wake up early tomorrow to cook guo tie whileMum cooks bee hoon. im just like a kitchen assistant :D

signing off.

start with something random, and end with something random. so here goes:

Ohemgee? how did you come up with that? O.o

2010-03-25T23:30:00.003+08:00

i've noticed something,

class reps always fork money out of their own pocket to buy class notes first, then ask the class to refund them. i've thought of a Math fund, but it will be the same as paying taxes each month, so will be the reaction of our fellow classmates.

hmm... im still thinking of a solution.

ok,my legs are just great right now, great. they're aching because coincidentally, due to CCA and PE, i had to run the 2.4km in 2 days consecutively. i don't mind doing so really, but im just whining about my sore legs that' s all. Lol, Jun Cheng can't stretch XD must train him to stretch! we learnt a secret technique for sit & reach today. guaranteed to make you reach an extra 5cm or more!

My friend in tuition class said i look like the mugger type of student.... -.-

im so not. i only mug just before the exams.

elections for positions within ODAC is approaching soon, hope i get a position i wanted, must write a ''resume'' soon!

Maths test next week...

chem test next week...

seems like a bore,

but Bio and Chem has taken an exciting twist though, im feeling a great level of enthusiasm for Cell Biology and Atomic Structure.

Thanks to my Fisherman's Friend super strong mint, im able to keep awake throughout lectures. they last almost an hour because they are so strong, i didn't dare to suck on the mints.

Gave Veron, YK and Jun Cheng one each during bio lecture. lol, YK finished it but Veron and JC couldn't stand the potent mint and had to spit them out onto tissues.

somehow, Myla took two from me later on and just popped them into her mouth. Omg, hope she survives.

the nice effect of the mints was that the menthol will rush through your nostrils and throat and keep you awake. the awesome aftereffect was that you will be breathing freezing air afterwards. works at optimum in air-conditioned rooms. in short, you will feel like a frost dragon breathing... erm... blizzards!

mum gave me a large fishball(about 6cm in diameter)

stared at it in awe for a while.

then i wolfed it down.

thanks Mum!

i somehow got chosen for the uni seminar thing although i applied for the wrong position as a researcher. i was suppose to be applying for IT but i wrote wrongly on the form. no wonder i got interviewed by that guy who asked me questions on policies...￣∇￣

funnier still: i don't even know what the seminar was about. i babbled through the interview. and my GP tutor somehow made me sign up for this in the first place even though i was reluctant to.

lol @ the random rants.

my life's interesting huh....

signing off.

2010-03-24T23:16:00.002+08:00

lol

poor guy

aww... poor kitten

omg, hahahaha....

lol, im so bored...

signing off.

2010-03-23T00:19:00.002+08:00

im rejoicing.

because i've just finished the video on carbon sinks. and im sure i did a pretty darn good job on it.

now a burden's lifted and i feel so....light and happy.

its kind of late, so i'll keep the post short.

bio test on biomolecules is a disaster, i can't recall stuff during the test and most of us failed to fully answer the last question..... pray, just pray it comes back with a C or B...

finished Chinese and handed it up.... again another burden lifted :D

found out that i have already finished econs homework, i actually did too much econs :DD

handed up bio work by today too :DDD

almost all my work has been cleared :DDDD

maths to be handed up by end of the week... OMG thank you Mr Kooi!!! XD

lol, thats about it today, work and more work.

signing off.

2010-03-22T00:32:00.000+08:00

lol, photobucket pics are uber big. compare below.

2010-03-22T00:26:00.003+08:00

im still burning midnight oil to finish GP essay and Bio.

you can see how stressful and busy i am from the above sentence, because i rarely burn midnight oil.

thus, i rarely have time to blog, but for today's post, some pics of the odac expedition. the class bbq pics have to wait, because i have to compile them.

yawn...

face oily.... hate pimples

maybe because of the midnight oil im burning.

holidays end and school starts on Monday. darn...

Mom never ceases to amaze my tastebuds with her wonderful cooking. i really like the fried rice!

signing off.

my first ODAC expedition

2010-03-19T00:40:00.003+08:00

just pics :D

because the post is a lengthy one.

pack, stuff, squeeze, pack

nooodles

stingray marine group(above)

marlin marine group(above)

bluewhale marine group(above)

dolphin marine group(above)

signature pose!

ODAC Family!

sleepyheads~

MARLINS!

lol

class outing was yesterday, so i'll post the pics ...mayb tmr

it was fun too:)

through experience we learn, through hardships we endure, through dangers we survive and through love.... we care.time spent never wastedcompassion shared never createdsimple thoughts, simple actsthat bolster the bond between all of usmay it never end.

signing off.