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Reminiscence and nostalgia

2010-02-26T21:06:00.005+08:00

Thanks to all in Merry room, i started reading my entire blog again (haha, in case u all find more things to suan me). Right from the start. Quite an interesting read i must say. It feels so...third-person.

Hmm, some posts seem to be missing, maybe i deleted them during some emo stages of my life.

But looking back, i never regretted the few choices i've made in my life
-never regretted joining vj
-never regretted joining odac
-never regretted being in 06s34
-never regretted being an OGL

I cant really explain it, but i felt very happy reading my blog. It's like walking down a gallery, with pictures of happy moments hanging on it's walls.

That's why i always say blogs are meant for happy stuffs.

To all who read this, stay merry=)

First post after so long

2010-02-13T22:48:00.002+08:00

Sigh, this blog is so dead. Even my tagboard also kena so many spam.

Anyways, happy CNY and valentines to all. Too lazy to type more stuffs...

BMTC Posting

2008-03-21T10:46:00.001+08:00

NRIC: S8934960E Name: LEE SZE HAN

Comd SAF BMTC wishes you all the best in your future posting.

Your Posting Order is listed below:

1. You are posted to 2 PDF TRG CEN.
2. Your vocation is REGIMENTAL POLICEMAN.
3. Your are to report to: Clementi Camp, 2 PDF Training Centre, Blk 26, RM #02-01.
Reporting Date/Time: 24/03/2008 at 0800 hrs.
Person to report to: Chief Clerk
Contact Number: 6559-7734/7780
You are required to report in smart no.4 uniform (PES E recruits to be in No 3 uniform), except for those assigned to Police Force.
4. Special Instruction:

No Camera Handphone is allowed. You are required to report in Smart No. 4 Uniform with your writing materials. You are not required to bring along the SAF issued items given during BMT. This is a stay-out course.

=)

NS life so far

2008-02-28T19:32:00.003+08:00

ah, finally got some time to blog, thanks to high fever (38.6C) yesterday which allowed me to book out and rest. Nice=)

Hmm, anyway, let me just recall everything i've done so far

Life in BMT
Life in BMT had actually been better than what i imagine, or maybe because i have 4 very nice sergeant that don tekan us a lot=) (not including a very nice PS which ORD already). Other platoon don get it too well though, including platoon 2 where our Mr. Big White Horse is at. (tag and ask if you don know who, haha)

Anyway, i'm from Hawk company, platoon 3, section 4. I must say the welfare is not too bad. We usually book out on fri nights, unlike some other company (coys) i heard from my friends (*cough*ninja*cough*).

Food
Hehe, my favourite topic. Unfortunately, cookhouse is just average. Furthermore, I don really like it when they compare this to the olden days cookhouse food (which supposedly tasted horrible). i mean, everything bound to be of a higher standard as compared to older days (for example, prices). And, we don really get enough time to eat. We're only given 20 min to queue, scan card, queue, eat, return utensils, than fall in. Barely sufficient to eat, definitely not enough to enjoy.

Perhaps the only good thing is the night snacks given to us once in a while. i rmb one night when we had chicken pie (the best night snack in sch 1). so oily, but at the same time so irresistible. on other days we may have chocolate swiss rolls, butter cakes, etc

Bunk
13 people in a bunk seem quite squeezed, but it's actually not as bad. There's even a table (with chairs of course) in the middle of the room. The beds are comfortable, and right beside your cupboard. The only complain is all the dust that magically appear everyday (even though you just clean them yesterday), which is a problem when your sergeant ask for a "stand by bed". And when you aren't in the bunk, you better make sure that the windows are locked. Once i saw a bird inside when i was walking into the bunk. It shitted here and there while it was frantically trying to fly out. bird brains...

IPPT
The physical test every recuit has to pass to order to pass BMT. It basically NAPFA without sit-and-reach. hiya, i manage to pull off only 7 pull-up (needed 8 to get silver), so got just a pass.

SOC
The Standard Obstacles Course is a run-down of 50m, followed by 200m of 11 obstacles, followed by a further 600m run in standard battle order (long 4, LBV, and rifle, weighing about 5 kg in total). i got a fail in this one, thanks to "low wall", "swing trainer" and "low rope". sad. fortunatety it is not a requirement to pass BMT. heng ah

Field camp
Field camp isn't too bad, maybe because it didn't rain throughout the entire 6 days. For me, it was just like another ODAC overseas trip. We slept for 2 days in a basha (just a ground sheet as a roof), and 3 days in a shell scrape (just a grave-like hole in the ground which takes 1-2 days to dig). In case you're wondering, no wet bath, only powder bath (your sergeant would ask the platoon in the night to powder themselves in front of the sergeants until you're white lo, a bit stupid and waste of time). The combat rations were also better than expected. While most of them are gooey (you practically squeeze them out of the packet), they taste pretty nice. Just warm them up, and they're as nice as cookhouse food. One thing i learnt: in the wild, anything that's either cold or warm, is nice.

Book outs
No matter how good NS life may be (i'm not saying it's good), nothing beats the freedom and easiness at home. No more rushing from places to places, no more ordering from your sergeants, no more boring cookhouse food, no more need to meet timing, etc. Too bad it's only two days a week. And you don even get it if your field camp cuts right across your weekend, like mine=(

Seeing Medical Officer (MO)
I believe that MOs are loved by all recuits, but hated by all other NSFs. Being NSFs themselves, MOs have the rank of a Captain, probably higher than most people you see in tekong. They are also the ones that give you "status", literally. After visiting the MO, you're be classfied att A, att B, att C, or Excused, for 1 day to a week. What do they mean?

att A- MO confirms that you are "chao keng" case. You're in deep shit when you return to the company line
att B- MO determines that you are only fit for light duties. This means that you'll just be sitting around while the rest do PT, leopard crawl, march, etc
att C- MO determines that you are unfit for duties, usually due to high fever. This means book out for 1 to 3 days!
excused-MO determines that you are unfit for certain actvities, such as running, marching, jumping, carrying heavy load, etc

woah, when you're on status, it's really really slack for you. So slack, it's boring. smarter ones would have a book ready to read. Others like me would just stone (hey, i wouldn't bring a book unless i know that i'll be falling sick right..)

Confinement
The feared word. You'll rather do 100 push-up than this. Basically your sergeant will punish you by having you stay for a saturday (or sunday) to do some cleaning of the company lines. weekend burned. Thankfully, i haven't done anything wrong enough to kena this...

Guard duties
Another feared word. you have to guard the island you're been living on for 2 months. Thankfully, i haven't done anything wrong enough to kena this... However, there's the regimental kind that i may kena too. hope i'm not that "lucky"...

long entry indeed. for now, let's all pray for our A levels results to be outstanding. pray hard...

New template!

2007-12-18T00:20:00.000+08:00

Found this new template of D.Gray Man, so decided to use it lo

updates will have to wait though, haha

Mind over body

2007-04-20T22:59:00.000+08:00

This was the phenomenon that sparked this interest in psychology in me

I could still remember, many years ago, i read this article somewhere. It was the story of a grandmother trying to save her grandson stuck underneath a car. Under any circumstance, no adult will be able to do a thing about the car. But through sheer mind power, the desperate grandmother managed to lift the car up, enough for the child to recover himself. The grandmother did suffer some physical injury, but she believed it was worth even her life.

This is clearly an example of the manifestation of this phenomenon. This concept was also applied in games like FF 7, as "limit breaks", a condition, whereby a character breaks his/her own physical limits, in desperation to save/defeat others.

So desperation is the only way to bring out your true best?

But then again, when you run a distance of 2.4km for NAPFA, many would have agreed that fitness is important, but you'll need mentality to bring out your best. It's not really desperation as well.

So what is it that make you break your current limits, and achieve your best?

Influence

2007-04-08T10:17:00.000+08:00

The 100th post

i did alright in my CTs, amazingly. Just that now i need to go for Econs Remedial...

I just happen to wonder about something called influence...
In this society, as many of us have agreed upon, it's the good-looking and the extroverts that stands to shine. I myself observed numerous examples, though i shall not name them. The complete opposite of this personality, are often neglected. The truth hurts, eh? And it's generally these people that easily influence others, in terms of actions, speech and manners.

Here comes a difficult question. Given that you could change yourself (and your personality), should you model yourself to become this personality type that's favored by the community? Not doing so will make it more difficult for you to stand out. Doing so would mean that you have such low level of influence that you need to "copy" others to achieve that. Besides, remodeling your personality is not as easy as it sounds, is it worthwhile for you to do that?

-shadow

Randomness again

2007-03-05T14:01:00.000+08:00

Haha, i bought the last two beef ramly burger in school today

Woah, i wasted a roll of toilet paper into the toilet bowl today

...random...

Tml's GP, and i haven even done any revision or read-up yet. I'm so in for it. This is the 99th post already. i hope the 100th will be on a high note

Screwed

2007-03-01T20:53:00.000+08:00

I'm in trauma

I think i just screwed up my H3 NAV as a "A" level subject

I'm at a loss

I don't know what to do

I've got a feeling that SSEF wouldn't go so smooth

Neither would the common tests

I realised how foolish i were

Thinking that everything would go just fine

I need to wake up

I need to rethink

Who i really am

What should i really do

How should i control my life

When should i start?

"A" level, sneak preview

2007-02-23T20:14:00.000+08:00

Will be having 3 "A" levels papers next week,

Chem SPA CD
Bio SPA A
H3 NAV

But things are still pretty much screwed right now

The pre-camp briefing and vertical marathon this weekend only intensify matters

OLC day zero

2007-02-10T01:02:00.000+08:00

woah, staying over at amanda's house now, and spending the night awake watching movies

OLC day one sure die, but haha, i'm no longer a trainee le=)

JTS

2007-02-04T10:30:00.000+08:00

Woah, my very first post after a very very long time

This time, it's about JTS at fish and co.!

Actually they offered us two choices: thaipan or fish and co., so the choice was kind of obvious. And indeed, it wasn't a bad choice. The four late ODACer (me, huihui, wilson and monster) all ate new york fish and chips. Before it came, i asked monster whether it was filling anot, and monster replied, "Definitely!". When it came, i was amazed at the size of the fish! It was like a big as my lower arm! Wicked sick. And it was nice, with the lemon and the tar tar sauce=)

But everything comes at a cost. The total cost amounted to $500 plus! Suddenly all of us were stunned at the cost, juniors and seniors alike. While the juniors were pooling money to pay, we were feeling so guilty that we decided to chip in a bit. Amazingly, the juniors managed to pay the entire sum of money.

I feel bad. We must have a nice STJ as well.

After eating at fish and co., we went over to the small playground at the back of parkway. Reminiscence man, this is the exact spot where 06s34 had our first (and last) class outing. The purple triceratops, the playground, the mrt station game...... How i wish 06s34 can be like that again. Anyways, we gathered in a circle, and started playing lame fun games like polar bear and murderer.Nonetheless, it was fun, with "vengeful spirits" flying around, huihui been the polar bear. Boy, i love my junior class=)

Haha, plus i know who my angel is le. Yeah!

Updated

2007-02-03T13:26:00.000+08:00

Changed the blog skin!

To get a kind of refreshing feeling

Hope this will make me continue the momentum of blogging

creons rocks

2007-01-07T15:40:00.000+08:00

no time to talk

but this deserves mentioning

CREONS ROCKS

Preparations

2006-12-31T18:08:00.000+08:00

Thought i must at least put a post above the previous to raise the mood of this blog. Thx for those who tried to cheer me up, but i'm feeling better now le. thx a lot

This week had been a busy week for me. We've 3 consecutive days of ogl preparations, of sea regatta, of OPAC packing, of cheer brain storming, of lecture-like orientation briefing, of OG outings, of taking about scandals in the OG, of playing lame games in the OG. From hours to days to weeks of hanging out together, Creons had felt closer to one another. And that feeling is great! Compared to the other OG, we are definitely more united and stronger (kind of reflective from fri's attendance). Creon rocks=)

Oh, almost forgot. Happy New Year to everyone!

Update

2006-12-24T21:16:00.000+08:00

I haven blog for so long, when so many things have been happening

many things, big and small

went to NSC for treatment

ppl start commenting about my face

went for OGL training and met new friends

i became an OG head

went for 4/7 chalet

i saw my old classmate from 4/7

and had so much fun watching movie, playing cards,

laughing at young hen's psychology elective programme

playing captain's ball at a dark corridor

then got scolded by aloha chalet personnel

and even approach by some random adult wanteding charcoal from us

now the chalet is over le

and i'm at home retracing my path so far

only to realise what a mess i'm in.
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4/7 chalet could be more fun if more people can stay for more days

The first day was quite disappointing for the organisers. Only 4 ppl met at the interchange and stayed over at the chalet. The second day was better, maybe because there's catered dinner, haha. Even ppl like BoonSing and Seela came, though we soon ran out of options to play. There's only cards, and majong lo. So ppl cant help but feel bored. Thankfully, desmond brought dvds and a dvd player, and that basically occupy us for the rest of the night. We watched open season (then tot that it's so boring), then casino royale (then tot that we dunno what's going on), then deathnote (then couldn't understand the poorly translated subtitles at all). Sigh, played more cards next morning, then left the chalet with shiyun, evvone, char, shuyi and ying chern.
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Science Research isn't fun anymore when you have to write report, and fill up those damn ssef forms, and delicate 6 weeks of holidays to it

i'll looked at the path i've walked, and i think that i've walked down a wrong path. I've spent like so much time on this that i neglected so many other commitments, but only to achieve this much? After spending 6 weeks doing experimentation, i just wanna throw everything back to them... But that's not a choice. I've to continue on this path, to take part in ssef, and to be judge by NUS h3 commitee. it's not a loss of interest. i'm just tired to doing all these.
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Creons could be more happy if they didn't change their OG head

I understand how terence feels. The feeling of been pulled from all four sides, only to be unable to commit at all, is terrible to himself and to the others. But this isn't any better an arrangement either. The new OG head hasn't been very spontaneous, efficient, nor effective. He hasn't been able to rally his fellow OGLs at all. He wants to change, he's trying, but has no direction as to how. He is lost. I just hope he can find his way before orientation starts. Sorry
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ITC

2006-12-07T13:07:00.000+08:00

Instructors Training Camp

a.k.a Self "Tekan" Camp

Woah, the past 3 days has been like a replay of OLC 2006. Other things aside, i'll just highlight the main events of ITC. The land, sea, and air component.

First Day
Urban Ex! But unlike OLC, the checkpoints this time was wicked sick. For my team (actually me and monster only la), we went from VJC, to Mt Faber, to Botanical Garden, to Chinese Garden, to Sungei Buloh, to Green Circle, to Zoo, to Orchid Garden, and to west cost, then back to VJC again. In the end, we made it to all 8, but was 19 mins late. Sigh, end up, we were told it's not even meant to be completed at all.

Nonetheless, i found this running around somewhat enriching. When we took a bus to Sungei Buloh, we were approached by an "ang moh", who asked us whether we're going to Sungei Buloh, in perfect chinese. I doubt some of my classmate can even speak as well as him lo. And as a foreigner, he knows more about that place than us! Amazing!

Walking to the next checkpoint (green circle), was sian, because we don even know where it is. While we were intending to walk out of the place then think later, a truck from behind honk at us. At first i thought he was just making sure we stayed clear of the road, but i thought wrong! He actually offered to ferry us to the next checkpoint! On the way, he told us about the time when he was young, when he stopped education at primary 3, to the time he was rich (earning like 20k to 30k per month), going to china and malaysia for business trip, to the time now, when he is bankrupt, driving a truck around. His life story is indeed full of successes and failures. Hmm, business is not easy at all. Anyway, when we reached green circle, we saw wilson and eugene, stuck at that checkpoint. Lucky for us, the same uncle who fetch us here waited for us, and drove us out to the mrt station! lucky us!

Second Day
Dragonboating! This was a new experience for many of us. Though all of us got 2 star kayaking already, we are still mountain tortoise when it comes to dragon boating. When we reached SDBA (Singapore Dragonboating Association), we felt so......small. The guys from ACJC were all so muscular than even Weiqin look small. But thankfully, dragonboating is not just about strength (though it' a large component, sad to say), but coordination as well. After several attempts, our boat was gliding gracefully on top of the water. Besides going forward, we also played "Viking". We would all sit by the sides and rock the boat sideways. Surprisely, the boat is so heavy that it's impossible to capsize. But as compared to kayaking, the things you can do with a dragonboat is so limited, making it not as enjoyable as kayaking.

Third Day
High elements! Acutally not really, it's just a 25m and 18m rock wall. Comparing this wall to the school's wall, the school's wall looks so small. Many people managed to reach the top, including eric, dennis, liwen, etc, while others are so tired (and bored) that they just throw stones at one another.

After this, we had lunch at northpoint! ITC's seriousness taken a 180 degree turn. The few of us ate ban mian, which was so filling that i couldn't finish it. Not to mention ice kachang! Ahhhh....

Back at Home
Now, back at home. It's nice to be at home. I'm gonna eat all the nice food and play, while i still can. Next week will be full of activities again

Over!

2006-12-02T00:23:00.000+08:00

After spending about 4-5 weeks at biopolis, i finally finished my project! (not really actually, i still need to write report and collect my last set of results) Finally, i don have to take the stupid 50min trip for SengKang to Buona Vista. Damn tiring la

Went back to ODAC room today. Realised that i missed it so much. Afterall, i haven been in there for like 2-3 weeks? Talked to Eugene and Alvin, then just realised all our different priorities.

For me, i just keep doing my project at biopolis, after feeling all stressed and tired, i'll just play and play. IF i do get tired from playing, then i study.

For Alvin, he's basically a lv 5 mugger now. I don blame him though, he got like 3 R papers to take. Walao, that's like another promos for him lo. I feel kind of sad for him. Jia you hor

For Eugene, apparently he's so bored that he cycle from home to school (ODACer will know how far he lives), swim when he's free, change the odac webbie background, and even study! bored to the extent that you'll rather study. omg lo

I wonder how are other people doing now...tml need to visit my small aunt, so cannot join odacers for dinner again. sigh

Missed opportunity

2006-11-27T18:06:00.000+08:00

Omg, i am damn sad...

looking through all the blogs and pictures of OT2

realised that i missed out so much fun and adventure

the only "part" of me that was there, was my backpack

saddening......

This tues ODAC's going escape! Wed's playing floorball

But i'm stuck in a stupid lab. Sucking and putting fluid in and out of eppendorf tubes...

Have i made a right decision?
Did i regret my choice?

How good will it be, if life's like a game?

You can save, and reload.

You can die, and reload.

You can make a wrong decision, and reload yet again

How good it'll be......

Chalet!

2006-11-17T22:47:00.000+08:00

Woah, looks like this blog is dying yet again. no worries, today got stuffs to blog. 06s34 chalet!!

THE MEETING PLACE
When i meet the "rest" at the interchange at like 130, i was dam disappointed lo. Why? Because "rest" is just wan yoong only. i ordered food for like 15 ppl, and daniel even asked me to x2 to sotong, stingray and satay. If no one came, i die. haha, anyway, both of we started calling everyone else. Fortunately, everyone's reply was

"i'll come for bbq"

"will come tonight"

heng. meantime, me and wanyoong started shopping for bbq stuffs. Debated over what butter to buy, charcoal, starters, etc. haha, i usually try to get the cheapest one=) After that, monster came along, and we went to the chalet on monster's mom' car=) (big 7 seater car)

Fast forward...............

THE BBQ
BBQ! We attempt starting the fire at 6, and woo woo! Fire successfully started in 20 min. Record breaking. Monster set a target, to have the first chicken wing cooked by 630, but only made it at 645. And then, we ate!

Then after that, Bryan, 1-0 (yeelin) , joanne, huiting, verna came over! woo, ppl at chalet reached 15! Haha, still rmb them surrounding the pit cooking marshmallow. For the lazy old me, i just gobble the cold marshmallow down my throat=)

THE FOOD
Chicken wing
Prepared by Daniel's mom. Very the nice, very sweet! I assume his mom's marination is the reason for his size=)

Sambal Stingray
Best food at the BBQ! Everyone taking revenge for Steve Irwin

Sambal Sotong
Hmm, apparent all sambal food taste nice. When it's hot and sizzling, ahhh~~oh my......

Satay
The standard type. Average. Maybe the consumption of this food over the years at various BBQ has affected it's taste negatively.....

Cheese sausage
Sinful!! You have any idea how much cheese it contains? You practically bbq until it split sideway, then all the cheese would OOZE out. Ah, nice for ppl like monster and hui hui, but too much for ppl like me and daniel le

Otah (premium)
WTF! Kena conned by BBQwholesale! The otahs are soft, wet and soggy even after cooking over the pit. Experiment repeated using microwave oven yield the same result. bleh! Premium some more. Pui Yee, help us complain! And denise ah, you wanted premium de, then still nv come=(

THE GAMES
Of course, when boredom sets in, sick games result. Zara introduced to us the water-drinking game. Whoever who breaks a certain rule drink up. Woah, you'll feel bloated like dunno what. Special sympathy goes to daniel who kena sabo and diao up to 8 cups of water

Not forgeting, PLAYSTATION. Costa sand apparant ban console in their chalet...Dam the rules man. We played metal slug, winning eleven, marvel vs capcom, gt racing, silent hill 2 (unexpectedly boring and senseless), etc

THE MOVIES
Of course, resources must be maximised! Since we have a DVD player staring right at us, why not use it! We watched movies like the italian job, hot chick, dodgeball. Survival at Costa Sand! as we go deeper and deeper into the night, more and more of us surrendered to the dark dimensions of our mind: dreams. by 4 plus, everyone was asleep le. maybe because many of us still got to go to school or workplaces. sad

THE COMPETITION
Sadly, i'm one of those who need to go away from the chalet on the second night. Sad. I got bio olimpiad comp at NIE at BOON LAY! And i'm at PASIR RIS. Happiness.... But thanks to Qiyan (and her mom), i sat in her car from kembangan to boon lay.

At NIE, we received the "best" greeting we can ever get man: a busload of HCI ppl. What a coincidence, i met belicia and her mom too! Singapore's so small. After much waiting and repeated reminders from the I/C, we started the gruelling 200 MCQs, 3.5 hrs of shading on the optical ans sheet (OAS). While there's a break in between, the sleep-deprived me kept losing concentration. sigh, i cannot make it

Guess what, after the comp, i had to took 58min from boon lay, to pasir ris. KPKB. A test of patience.

THE CONCLUSION

Never order premium otah from BBQwholesale
Never allow schoolwork or other work to clash with chalets
Cheap stuffs do exist. The 3D2N chalet costs only $5.25

Kiwi

2006-11-13T19:52:00.000+08:00

This is really sad. How far one can go, just to fulfil his dream.

chao bad luck, chao bad mood

2006-11-10T20:25:00.000+08:00

arhh

today was bad luck day

Left my phone and wallet at the basketball court while it's raining.
Put $1.50 into the Snapple vending machine, only to press the wrong slot with no snapple bottle at all.
Nearly got hit by a mop falling from a HDB flat, only 2 metres away.

chao bad mood now

20/20

2006-11-04T10:43:00.000+08:00

Hey, project recovery, to revive my blog. thx kit yeng!

One. Think of 15 short bits of interesting stuff about yourself. And they've gotta be true.

Two. Come up with 5 false statements regarding yourself, but for fun's sake keep them in the threshold of believability.

Three. Jumble them all up together and list them in any order.

Four. Post them on your blog and let people guess which the five false ones are!

Five. Get 5 others to do the same.

1. i've got pets at home
2. I'm using a wireless optical mouse
3. My weight is above 50 kg
4. i love eating
5. i play DOTA
6. i play GTA: SA
7. i wear asics shoes
8. i got typhus, and stayed in hospital for 2 weeks
9. Deathnote rocks!
10. My home's windows are coloured
11. I have never ran away from home
12. The wooden door in my room is made of wood
13. I'm an OGL
14. I'm 70% underweight
15. There's food in my room
16. I have a gameboy advance
17. I got C for Econs
18. I got a pooh which sings when it's tail is plugged into a mp3 player
19. I hate KFC
20. My PW group got 4 people

woo done!

Dying, Dead, NEVER!

2006-10-25T19:13:00.000+08:00

dying, dying, dead

NEVER! I cannot let this blog die! NEVER!

Phew, it almost did. Went over to ODAC webbie and bloggie tagboard, it's considered active le lo. Why? Check out my class blog tag and you'll know why lo. For me, i was too busy doing OP stuffs, or having the PMS (Post-Mugging Sydrome). Been inactive for so long, i think i'll have to blog a lot.

First up, 2 star kayaking
We finally reach the standard of monster chee weiqin! (but fanzhe still remain as 3 stars). HAHAHA. The most interesting skill is probably the eskimo bow rescue. Still could remember dennis helplessly trying to paddle (with his hands) towards the boat after realising that he's supposed to do capsize drill instead of eskimo bow rescue. Nearly got struck by lighning too on the last day. And of course, the most significant thing is stella liang's arm dislocation! Chris (the coach) said this is the first time in history that someone dislocated his/her shoulder while doing capsize drill. Our liang, now has to walk around with a triangular bandage. Aiyo, tc hor

Then, 06s34 went to watch deathnote!
which i didn't go cos i need to do pw. SAD. Heard from huihui and denise that L looks so cool la. And his level of inference and deduction is way off the chart! Watching the anime now, and borrowing the manga from shiyun. Oh man, i'm addicted to another anime series le. With deathnote, bleach suddenly appear so draggy and boring, though it's never to boring to see captains going into Bankai=)

OP workshop was lame and stupid
Firstly, the lecturer isn't a good speaker herself. Secondly, the workshop itself is just a run-thru/rehearsal for our presentation. Come on man, our VJ teachers can do the same too what. $12 wasted. Btw, heard that someone who didn't pay for this also must go. It's like people asking you to free-rid. Ironic

Change

2006-10-09T22:35:00.000+08:00

Change

Wilson always tell that i've changed a lot after coming out of hospital

the fact is, i haven't changed much at all

But that will happen soon

i'm gonna take full control of my life, and not let it take control of me!

Hmm, anyway had these strong feelings in my mind since long time ago. But either i don't have the courage to do something, or i fail not to do something. After the talk with Terence and Alvin on 55, i just realised where the answer to my answer lies. It's just that i couldn't post some of the things on this blog, so i'll just jot them on my diary instead.

promos ended!

2006-10-05T15:16:00.000+08:00

song ah! promos ended!

now i just wan to play and relax

feel lazy to blog, haha

later then

Promos

2006-09-14T22:18:00.000+08:00

Ah, i realised that i'm not that good at self control

2 wks from promos le, i still playing game. wau lau

Desperate, i hid the game cd in the cupboard, so that it's at least physically less accessible to me

hopefully it works

ah!!!

Anyway

very busy these days

either playing or mugging, haha

in fact doing eom now

and pw wr

woah

i'm randoming

hmm

shouldn't waste anymore time le

gtg

bb

=P

Ah, tio burn again, again

2006-09-02T21:04:00.000+08:00

Adapted from the loongman dictionary

Secondary sunburn: a state whereby a person kena a second sunburn while still peeling and recovering form the first sunburn

-_-"

Family tree was cool today, as compared to NJC kayak event, this is really more like a carnival. We've got uncle ringo themepark rides, food, rock climbing, flying fox, foot massaging, lycky draw, etc.

And of course, ODAC is in charge of flying fox! i awas given the task of "unpegging"people from the steel cable when they come down. It was rather cool, seeing people scream, petrified, stunned, twisting in the air, but it's also dam hot! I got the sun shinning down on my neck, my arms, everywhere! that's how i got the second sunburn lo. sigh

After that, mr seet treat us to the theme ride! from below, it doesn't look very intimidating. But when you're on it, you feel like you're flying off. For only a short 5 mins, we were all thrown around in a circular motion, and i was trying hard to keep myself to my seat lo. Aiya, while we're up there, the rest of the school was dancing whiney whiney lo, and we missed it totally. sigh, heng still got i wan u and tribal dance.

After SK-ing around, and replenishing ourselves with water and food, we were actually lame enough to play pepsi cola! haha, that's like so primary school. We were so excited and "into" the game that we even broke the ODAC room window! opps, i didn't say anything=)

Teachers Day

2006-08-31T22:08:00.000+08:00

Ah, today's bus booking is so screwed up! in the end, we pay like $2 per person, which is so ex. Sorry everyone, cos some ppl last minute couldn't make it to the bus in time. sigh, sorry sorry.

When we go back to anderson, some of the njcians are already there. It's great to see everyone else again, but our ultimate objective to to see the teachers! Not until we finish all the cards though, so we practically spent about 1hr trying to wait for the rest, and to read the teachers' day cards. Then, we saw Mrs Chong and Mdm Tey, who were going out for lunch. haha, ex nygs. Mrs Chong was again commenting on ppl like jia hao, guo jie and hansel=)

And of course, we saw our forn teacher Mrs Allison Lim! Still as pretty as ever, haha. Apparently, she met up with some accident on mon. Scary. While travelling along ECP, she said the car in front brake suddenly (and the ABS was good, and so...) and her car bang into it. Then the card behind couldn't brake in time and smash into Mrs Lim's car. Worse to come, any taxi banged into the car behind. So she got whiplash injury on her neck...

freaky, and her car didn't even have air bag...

But fortunately nothing ahppened to her, as she was stil joking to us, haha. We were talking about 47'05 been a legend of Anderson history, and no one class can ever hope to achieve our level of academic excellence, class spirit and school involvement=) 4/7 rocks man!

After cheering to go for lunch ("When you're hungry and you know it raise your hand"), we finally went opp sch to eat. Aiya, the chicken rice uncle know me, so i cant run away, haha. In the end, ate his chicken rice, which was not very filling. Sigh, but i didn't want to spend more money on food, so decided to "fast" instead (*hehe). The lack of sleep last night and a half-filled stomach summated to fatigue, so i basically fell asleep in my chair after eating=(

Gettting bored and restless, the guys decided to go ken's house to play! ya, at least got something to do le. At ken han's house, woah, it's like super messy. But the amazing thing is that he got majong, lots of dvds and vcds, and a DIY pool table! sugoii! We played both and watch "Freddy vs Jason". Violent sick show...

Ohh, Hellsing ova 2 is out, gotta watch le, bb

Woah, tio burned again

2006-08-26T21:23:00.000+08:00

ah, kena burned by the sun again. Now i look like a burn lobster lo

Went for the FuZion Challenge organised by the NJCian for the last 2 days. It's supposed to be a youngster-elderly camp, but out of 20 participants, only 3 are elderly lo. And there was not much interaction between the young and old lo. Most of the time we were playing among ourselves, while they were just around alone at the beach... haha

anyway, we basically kayak (double kayak) from Changi Sea Sports club all the way to Pasir Ris, then to some island called Coney island. Me and vincent were quite bad at paddling lo, cos we kept going in a zip-zag pattern. But later, we became more and more pro liao. haha. The trick is just to paddle with complete strokes, instead of paddling hard. Apparently, we grew so complacent we started knocking into other boats as well, opps.

Then at about 3 plus, we reach coney island! WTF, that's coney. It's basically a sand-flies-infected beach, a rubbish bin, a table, bushes, trees, monkeys, and nothing else! This is more "ubin" than pulau ubin lo. At least ubin got cheap seafood, this one only got clams you find on the beach lo. We played captain's ball, with some comical moves from Jia Wei and Aline.

This's also where we spent the night over there in tents. The tents there are damn big lo (6 man tent), compared to the 4 man tents from VJ ODAC lo. For the night, me, GuoJie, Vincent, Stef, Wee Keong, JiaWei, and HuiMin even manage to play bridge lo (And Wee Keong kept losing in DaiDi, haha). Imagine how big those tents lo. After that i was still quite hyper active lo, but guojie and vincent damn tired le, so we had a early night at 12 pm plus.

Then in the early morning, we play bridge again, haha. Big time gambler=)

And it's the trip back to pasir ris. It was a short one, but when you kena strong sunlight on your already-burnt skins, things don seem to fine. All of most became as red as lobsters la, some with weird ugly tan lines as well. The kayak back was quite slack, cos most of us were already saturated with fatigue and insomnia le. Vincent was trying to catch up with aline and yisong, but too tired to paddle harder le, haha.

Then we reach the carnival at pasir ris. Zhirong was expecting a crowd of 100, but from what i can see, only got around 50 lo. It's really a very small event with only 7 stalls, seling food and drinks at a rather expensive price, which was why me, Vincent, WeeKeong, WuanKuan and HuiMin went to Mc at whitesand instead. After eating can food and half-cooked noodle last night, Mc taste like heaven! haha, leant from WeiQin that day, i order 2 double cheeseburger instead of a EVM, haha.

When i reach home, i just throw down the things and jump onto my bed, where i slept for 3 to 4 hrs. Woah, dam nice and comfortable=)

Then back to Paris Ris again.

Tired la

2006-08-22T18:04:00.000+08:00

Fatigue is accumulating these few days. Most of the morning i just sleep upon reaching the Anderson table.

Today slept on the bus and missed my stop, den have to walk all the way back. Sigh

Anyway, today's Wilson's birthday! initially me and WeiQin wanted to dunk him into the water de, then in the end kena caught my the ang moh teacher before we even managed to do so. So suay, haha. What he said was rather funny...

"Are you all doing what i think you are going to do"

then he ended off by saying

"Happy Birthday to you" (shaking Wilson's hand)

haha

Land "ex"! But the food is "cheap"

2006-08-20T11:47:00.000+08:00

Haha, some play of words there in the title. As you know la, lame people have have lame comments=)

Now are you "shocked" (trying to be the bonding lecturer), that i can be blogging on Sunday when i'm supposed to be on Ubin? haha, cos all the odacers managed to finish all 20 checkpoints in pulau ubin in one day!

Well, not really all. Me and huihui, as well as Eric and stella were left with 4 checkpoints at the end of the day. But most people want leave for the mainland earlier (some ppl got mock chem spa, lecture assessment, bio spa, etc), so the land chiefs decided to bring us to the remaining 4 checkpoints on bikes. Biking is cool, but damn dangerous when you are going down the gradient of like 40-50 degree on a rocky path. Not to mention that there's upslope as well...

haha, anyway, the highlight of today's entry is FOOD

after coming back from the 4 checkpoints, we finally reached the seafood restaurant, and everyone can start to eat! Over at our table, everyone "whack" the food like some hungry ghost like that. Me, Wilson, Eric, Jonathan, Eugene, Dennis, Liwen, Yuanli, Xiaoyun, KI, and WeiQin! haha, all hungry ghosts. The funny thing is, we like rice so much that we order 5 large plate of rice consecutively, because we have ppl like WeiQin who ate 4 plates of rice (2 plates were plain, with only the salty fish sauce as a seasoning). Damn nice, never ate like that since a very long time=) (Wilson kept saying i eat a lot lo, maybe next time i must control the monster within me, haha)

Then of course, we also celebrated wilson's birthday (an early one, since his birthday is on tues. dunking, anyone?) We have KI to lure him away, while we prepare all the sparklers and the cake ready at the jetty. Then when Wilson march towards the jetty, we unleash "fire" onto the jetty. As all the sparkers were lighted, we have wilson to walk through all the smoke (haha), and sang happy birthday. haha, on to dunking on tuesday le=)

Pulau ubin

2006-08-19T00:27:00.000+08:00

Ya, going to pulau ubin this weekend! (by right, i should say today, because it's already 12.23 now...). I'll make sure i'll have fun man, since i cant go for the end-of-year OT, sigh. Some of the checkpoints look familar, since they are the same ones during OLC, but the rest will going to be hard to find. hmm...

Just some random stuffs, palau ubin means granite island! haha, interesting right?

Oh ya, someone got the same skin as me! (alvin say de) Check it out man
http://www.fierychief.blogspot.com/

PS: Thx for treating me KFC today hor. Next time i treat you to popcorn chicken! Must eat more also hor...fatter better=)

Sinful!

2006-08-17T21:54:00.000+08:00

Ah! i just did something sinful!

no, not that i ate chocolate, cheese, or KFC(though i may be eating tml, haha)

I just have my brother print out more than 50 pages worth of notes on proteomics! imagine 30 pages on enzymes kinematics (H2 notes only 2 pages?), another 20 plus from a medical report, another 10 on a Nature news article. woah lao, god knows how many trees have died in the name of education. sad...

Now i understand how i can owe my bio rep $100 plus for the class's bio notes...

hmm, obviously Biology is not equal to Environmental-friendiless...

Honesty

2006-08-13T16:03:00.000+08:00

Hope over to many blogs today, and would like to tell everyone

BLOGS ARE MEANT FOR HAPPY THINGS TOO!

All bloggers would know what i mean...

Hmm, thought about myself for a moment, then realised that i'm not very truthful to even myself. I don confide my thoughts with my family, with my friends, not even my blog! Maybe i just dunno how too...

I don think i'll implode, but neither will i feel very well either...

hmm, and i just violated what i said in the second line...

Contradiction and irony...

4/7 '05 fireworks outing!

2006-08-13T14:14:00.000+08:00

Woo, 4/7 had another outing yesterday, and most people managed to make it. got to see many famillar faces again, like... shuai ge jia hao, chuabi jia hao, love sick vincent, photot wai kuan, wabiangz shuyi, lame zhirong, nubby hun kiat, stick evonne, birthday boy alvin, mugger shiyun, snow white ying chien, "ken "ken han, brothers zhao cong zhao liang, sprouting ziyuan, pretty simone, joker louis, "er" zhi kai, funny desmond, fatiged guojie, and others too!

What a long list, haha. Then still got people like seela and boon sing nv come, wa lao, so disappointed.

Anyway, i was doing some cip thingy organised by the Njcian. Lame nonsense, apparently SAGE approached VJC, and NJC too. The Njcians are selling magnetic cards to publicise their kayaking event on the 26th of August. Cool, a youth and a elderly will be on a double kayak and kayak to ubin i think. So, me shiyun, jun haur, terence decided to go to toa payoh instead because somerset is so full of SJAB ppl (annual flag day, i experienced it b4...). So we just walked around toa payoh interchange asking ppl for money. The cards are so difficult to sell lo ($2 each). most ppl just drop small change into the can. For me (lucky me), 2 people dropped a $5 note into my can. One small kid even said, "Err, you wait ah. i got no small change now. later i'll give it to you. Where can put this money ah?". After circling around, i saw him again. "Err, you wait first. i haven buy anything yet. i'll find you later."

haha, very comical...

After that, we met up with all the 4/7 people doing this cip thingy at somerset, then took a train to city hall. Woah, apparently SingTel was transmitting SMSes such as "Today fireworks meet at city hall at 6 ah?" for the past few days, so many people gathered in and outside and station. Scary. There was even a public anouncement to chase ppl out of the station. Deciding that we couldn't find anyone else in the station, we decided to split up, some go to buy dinner, others go and "chop" some area at esplanande.

haha, and we did precisely that. We drew a boundary with MyPaper (good free newspaper, haha), and successfully "chop" the area. A bit of the selfish Singaporean spirit, but bo bian la. we really need the space for the rest of the class. After talking nonsense and eating and waiting for 2 hrs, the much-awaited fireworks stared. Sugoii! the 10 min show was really worth the wait

We then took a train back to AMK again (yea, very long nv go amk le), and talk more nonsense at BigMac. By then it was very late le lo, so me and louis had to leave earlier(The sad truth when you live in a place a far as sengkang...).

Never had such fun since dunno when...;)

Class outing

2006-08-09T14:23:00.000+08:00

Ya, 06s34 finally had it's first class outing to East Coast Park!

And...as usual...as much as i don like to say it...only the few of us came lo
me, daniel, pui yee, robin, wilson, wei qin, zara. Can easily count with two hands...

Aiya, i dunno what to do with the class. i have this impression that everyone is so individualistic. Out of all the class outing, none of them we have more than 50% of the ppl coming lo. I don even call this a class... Maybe the standard of 4/7 '05 is too high to be obtainable with 06s34 le...

anyway, we played like little children in absence of the rest of the class. We climbed monkey bar, built sand castle, played soccer and softball, ate mcdonald, etc It was really a nice outing. Not one where we play like crazy, but one where we just let ourselves free and do whatever we want. I find that people stop doing a lot of things because we find them so childish, but it's really these "childish" stuffs that really cheer us up.

It's no wonder we smile less and less often as we grow up. Most of the time, it's no because of stress, but because we stop doing the things we enjoyed best...

aiya, wanted to post some pictures of us at the outing, but i don have the cd software for my panasonic VS 2. sian.

New skin!

2006-07-30T11:57:00.000+08:00

Haha, came across this cute skin, then tot that i must use it. haha

i spent like 1 min playing around with those creatures, dunno whether it's the same for you=P

anyway, no time to blog much. got peoteomics assignment, research paper and EoM to hand in on monday! Crazy lo, all the deadlines always overlap each other. sianz

nvm, that's just my troubles. Enjoy your stay in this serene and cute environment, haha!

Out of the hospital, finally

2006-07-20T10:48:00.000+08:00

Walau, after 9 stupid days of sleeping, slacking, eating, blood testing, X-raying, CT scanning, ultrasounding, needle-poking, been treated by others like an uncle, been asked for cigarettes and many many more, i'm finally out of Changi General Hospital!

ya, after 9 days, finally......

Would be an long entry, so i guess i have to section them ba...

THE DAYS
The days were damn boring in the hospital lo. Every morning, 7 wake up, 8 eat breakfast, 12 lunch, 6 dinner, then sleep at 9. In between i basically got nothing to do lo...

I know what you all are thinking la. I did brought my notes along, and tried to read them on the first day. Woah, i see, i sian. P and C, integration, sigh. Shoved them back to the drawer again, and i never touched them again. Haha, since i'm here, might as well take a nice break from all these work?

So what have i done during those free time? Believe it or not, i'm actually lame enough to bring out a GameBoyAdvance to play. The pathetic thing was that i'm playing Pokemon Yellow on it (cos i don have any GBA titles). Dots, but beating trainers and gym trainers seemed a better idea than staring into the fan above you...

Then sometimes i listen to my mp3 or radio. Not enough to occupy time too...

I'm not good at stoning...But when you have that much time, time will make sure that you stone. At times, i just stared into space. Don feel like eating, or resting, or sleeping. Just feel like spacing out. haha

I'm not good at shopping too. I mean what's there to shop in a hospital? i come down occasionally, but the only place that you can the least 'shop' is the 7 eleven lo, which is only that small...

But thankfully got many friends to keep me company lo. Thanks to you all, i feel less isolated from the rest of the world. My beloved Andersonians, Shiyun, agnes wong, nub hun kiat, liting, calli, zhi kai, zhi wen, wai kuan, evonne, vincent, jia hao4, and alvin.
My beloved Victorians, Terry!, Zara mok, and monster WeiQin! (hehe, i like the food a lot, thx zara)

Must thank my parents as well (though they won be reading this blog), for coming to see me everyday. Thank heaven for not landing my brother in a hospital too when he 'tripped' the fuse while using the comm. haha

Special thanks to you for coming to see me for like 3 times? thx a lot!

THE FOOD
The food was generally ok la. Actually, it was above my expectations, haha. I've always tot that hospital was the plain, dull, tasteless type of food lo. apparently it's not...

Breakfast got like porridge, suei kueh, bee hoon, marcoroni soup (reminds me of OT lo, hehe), yam cake
Lunch got fried rice with nuggets! once only though, so sad.
Dinner got the usual one 'cai', one 'rou', one fruit and rice lo.

The serving was quite small lo, so they'll give you milo and bread in between lunch and dinner, and after dinner. Apparently it wasn't enough lo, i still dropped from 49kg to 45 kg. Even the doctor said i looked like a stick, sigh

THE NURSE
The nurse here were quite helpful and caring la. One even offered me a second serving for breakfast (which of course i accept la! haha). Some chio ones around, but that's about all.

Some of them were training nurse from NYP, while the rest were full-time staff nurse. Sometimes i feel quite bad seeing them hurrying up and down the corridor doing various SK, while i slack on the bed, haha.

THE DOCTORS
Every morning you'll always see this group of doctors walking from patients to patients. But then, you'll soon realise that only one of them do the talking, while the rest just listen and follow. Emm, the typical boss and employee situation lo.

The stupid thing is that at the end of five days the team, the doctors still dunno what's wrong with me. Blood tests negative, dengue negative, malaria negative, yet the fever is still there. Even the 'bigger' doctor said to me, 'You are becoming a mistery'.

So they suspect viral infection...

BUT, when the viral specialist Dr Helen Oh came to see me, redo all the tests, she diagnosed typhus instead, which btw isn't a virus at all...

One of the stupid doctor (Dr Teo i think, the 'boss'), saw my lone fingers, and bended my thumb to my arm. Then he suspected heart infection(!?!), and asked for a heart echo scan. I just couldn't see the link between the 'finger', and the 'heart'...

dotz

THE STUDENTS
Other than the small doctors, there's these 3rd year medical students walking around looking for patients to touch and experiment. In my opinion, they look very free, always walking to and fro like got nothing to do like that. Apparently, i got an enlarged spleen, and soon i because a highlight of their stay here. I think from the first to ninth days, more than 5 students had felt my abdomen lo.

They would press and press to check for any hard or protruding organs. Then they world tap to listen for hollow sounds. sounds quite interesting eh, but not when you are the one been pressed and tapped...

i feel like some lab mouse or guinea pig...

But on a sidenote, one of the final year medical student looks very chio. other than that, not much la...

THE PATIENTS
The other five patients in my room on day 9 were bascially different from the five on day 1. So basically, i saw all 5 of them discharge. Most of them are quite friendly la. But it's damn sad to see everyone going off, while you are still locked to your bed.

Plus for the first 5 days, there's this patient that kept screaming and groaning and shieking throughout the day and night. It' both depressing and irritating at the same time. I myself also dunno whether i should feel angry, or sad for him. He's some 80 plus year old man, and wanted to go home instead of staying there. So he just kept making all those sounds lo...

In the end he did managed to get out, though i think he had to sign some indemity form... good for him lo

THE X-RAY
Not much to say, other than it's very efficient and fast! You just have to hug a cold metal plate, and the x ray would shoot you from the back. It's the simplest scan of all lo, compared to the following...

THE ULTRASOUND
Make me felt like some pregnant woman lo. They'll put this goo-like thing on the reader, and press it hard on your abdomen.

THE HEART ECHO
This is actually like ultrasound too. Just that instead of still pictures, the echo records videos of your pumping heart! it's quite disturbing actually, because halfway through the scan, you can hear your heart beating through the comm's speaker. and it isn't the usual 'lup dup, lup dup'. It goes 'brup, brup' instead, like water flowing through a valve. hmm, interesting

THE CT SCAN
This is the worst la. Before the scan, i had to drink 2L of some red fluid, within 2hrs. Right after that, they wheelchaired me all the way to the Computed Tomography place. Then a nurse warned me that the injection later during the scan may be painful. WTH, i wasn't prepared for this. Then right before the scan, the doctor 'comforted' me by saying that the injection won't have any side effects. Some people have rashes, some pain, that's all (!?!). Comforting, eh?

Then the scan begins. They push me through a dough-nut shape machine, and started injecting some weird dye into my hand (thru the plug). Initially it was painful la, cos they forced too much fluid into my plug. After lowering that, my body soon zoom in and out of the dough-nut thingy, then after 20 min, it's over.

NOW, AT HOME
Feels so good to be at home lo, free and away from all these weird scans and tests. Now, i can start my weight-gain programme le, KFC fiesta!

I Dont Want To Miss A Thing

2006-07-08T17:06:00.000+08:00

Just 4 days of absence from school, and i'm starting to miss all the guys in VJ already...

my classmates from 06s34...

the 23th ODACers...

my fellow andersonians...

Sigh, and i guess i missing a lot of other things in school. All the "fun" and "not to fun" moments when teachers go thru the papers. Wilson told me that i got 82 for chem and an A for bio, and that's the highest in class and odac. Some of my old friends in anderson would say "ba tai", hehe. Actually, i personally didn't expect myself to do so well lo, especially for bio, haha. But for GP ah, haha, i'll probably be the first from behind...

Afterall, i am from the "GP pro club" ma=)

Light at the end of the tunnel

2006-07-07T08:43:00.000+08:00

Yea, I can finally see some light at the end of the tunnel!

Yesterday night was one of the first night that I sleep through without any fever at all! Unlike the previous nights, woa dam difficult for me... Would wake up in the middle of the night with a 38 plus degree, and a excruciating headache. heng ah!

Anyway, i got a rather weird dream last night...

It was set at home. I was walking around, until i saw rashes on my body. Then suddenly, my brother walked out of his room, his body full of rashes too. Then my parents said both of us got dengue. I was shocked, because the blood test didn't show anything wrong at all. Somehow i got into my brother's room, and saw this picture of my brother and his twin brother. -_-" my brother didn't have a twin brother. Then my parents said this particular twin brother died of dengue too! Strange enough, i didn't ask anymore questions, and pick up my phone to msg my classmate that i'll not be in sch cos of dengue...
Next thing i know i was on the bed, sweating all over...

Really strange, don even know how i got these memories. Blogging about dreams, i had even more dreams a few days ago, cos most of the time i just sleep and sleep like a pig;)

There was one where me and 4 other people (forgot who) were running and running away from something. Strangely enough, the landscape warped to that of a MRT station, and we were running deeper and deeper. Then Guo Jie and some of his friends came from behind and say, "Here!". He press this particular block on the wall, and right below it opened a small hole. I was thinking of how to squeeze in. Then he said,"Head first". So i just stuff my head into the hole. Amazing that i managed to squeeze through, but what was even amazing is that inside the hole was a limestone cave (similar, if not the same one as the OT trip). I climbed out of this cave, then i reached some office, and met some office lady whose skin is blue (!?). Then the landscape changed to that of the food court, and on a table, was 5 rows of watermelon, a drink, a pandan cake, and two other thing. Suddenly this guy reading a newspaper came up to us and said,"Welcome to the checkpoint. Your objective is to finish 1 set of these food!" I said,"What the...", and then i woke up...

Must have played too much amazing races. The next one is similar...

It was set in a shopping centre. I was running and running, except that this time i was alone. Then suddenly some monster zoomed past me. Guess who, WeiQin lo. I tried to run faster, but obviously he's way to fast for me. In the end, we went into the centre's food court, and WeiQin was eating sliced watermelon, with WenHui standing behind him. Then WenHui said, "追没有 hor?" And then i woke up.

Hmm, i agree totally man. haha. But this dream had the "feel" of the orienteering run thingy, the feeling of de javu...

Hmm, got more things to blog about. Thought it's better to start another entry...

Phew...

2006-07-04T17:10:00.000+08:00

Woah lau, the stupid fever still have not subside, and today is the 7th day. All is well when the paracetamol's effect is still present. But when it wears off, all the fever, sheer cold, headache will all come. Taught me one lesson:

"Drugs can give you temporary relieve, but immunity gives you lifetime coverage"

Anyway, just came back from the second hospital visit today to have my blood checked. The result was kind of expected. Low but normal platelets count of 144 (normal is 140 - 400). Had a X ray taken too, but nothing was wrong with my lungs. The first time i got here, my platelet's count was even lower (139), which is why the doctor suspected dengue. While i can't really say i'm unhappy with the results (fortunately not dengue), SO WTH IS GIVING ME THIS STUPID FEVER FOR SEVEN DAYS!?!

This is dam irritating, to be ignorant of my own condition. It feels like i'm been shot by sniper out of nowhere, and is nowhere in sight too. Now i know what it means by "People always fear what they don't know..."

If i ever recover (which i hope is the case), it would be probably not due to drugs or immunity, it would be pure frustration of been trapped and "chained" to the bed.

I hate my entries to be so negative, full of depression, anger, frustration. But it's not that i can help it. I need a channel of release. Maybe when i get better, things would be better

Weak and sick

2006-06-30T17:42:00.000+08:00

All the guys from ODAC are all wicked sick

I am just plain weak and sick

Since 2 days ago, my fever had been fluctuating between 38.0 and 38.9, together with this pulsing headache that felt as if someone has been forging a sword in my head...Because of this, i couldn't even sleep properly, and instead had several weird dreams that kept me awake...

This is almost deja vu to the fever i got during OT, except that this just refuse to go off...

This condition is so dam irritating. With this fever, i feel imprisoned at home. I couldn't make it for an important SRS meeting, nor 06s34 class outing, nor ODAC night cycling. I feel weak, and defeated. Defeated by something i can't even see, nor hear. Defeated my something inside me. All my past experiences are coming back...I could still remember myself as a sickly boy, always down with fever, cough or flu. In my secondary school years, i thought i had already abandoned all these unpleasant past, and developed strong immunity and willpower. Apparently not...

I still remember what Mr Seet said after OT

"In the past, we wouldn't even admit people who fail their NAPFA to enter ODAC..."

With my level of fitness, I shouldn't even be in ODAC......

What am i doing?

2006-06-23T01:49:00.000+08:00

What am i doing?

1:46am, and i'm watching bleach

4 days left, and i haven't even started econs

i feel lost

Personality

2006-06-23T01:20:00.000+08:00

I don't like my own personality, there's just something missing

When i was in Sec 3, i was able to change it once, all because someone told me that it could be changed consiously...

Now, i find it hard to do the same

The problem is, i don't even know what's best for me

I don't like my own personality, there's just something missing

Gunung Korbu, the summarized, but still long-winded factual part

2006-06-22T23:55:00.000+08:00

Hiya, very disappointed in myself. Should have blog about this long time ago, but things' been going around in my mind for a while, so wasn't able to pen these down until now......

Anyways, the climb to the peak of Korbu was sugoii!!! (watched too many anime le). The peak is only 2183m, but the difficult part was really the terrain. Unlike the Kota Tinggi, most the journey was just walking and walking. Kao, because of that i got myself injured toenails.

The 2 days up climb were the slowest part. We bascially walk and walk. Me and JingYi just continue to put our feet forward and walk on lo. In fact, most of the time i was just looking at the ground, and didn't even look around to admire the surroundings (not that there's a lot to look at actually. Just foilage after foilage). Most of us just wish to reach the resting point, so that we can just rest. Haha.

The first day......in my own most honest opinion......was the worst day. All of us encountered this little creature, that was so small, yet so "destructive", annoying and irritating. Long and slimy, the look of us alone gives you the disgust. They basically climb up your shoes (with a mouth at each end) to your angle and suck your blood, along with your vitality. What's worse? When you pluck (yes, pluck) them off, they leave you a tiny wound that won't stop bleeding for hours, if not days. Even a first aid's direct pressure, nor a plaster would work lo. For JingYi's case, all the bleeding leech wounds made her look like she just had an car accident lo. Freaking ****

And all those leaves and twigs cut your legs like free like tat......

But all was well when we reach the summit! We got to see the beautiful towns of Ipoh from the top, and even the dramatic shadow of Gunung Korbu (cos the sun was behind us ma). All was well eh? Not really. The temperature up there was around 13 degree celsius, and me and Eric had a really difficult time sleeping. We could feel the cold seeping into the tent from below, and both of us basically crouch and sleep...

And the "weak" me kena fever the next day. I didn't really realise that i've got a fever, until i took my temperature. A 38.0. I just feel very cold throughout the rest of the day. Bo bian lo. Can't really stay at the summit forever, so we just continue the descend, with me in my trusty windbreaker at all times. I kept eating panadol, 2 at a time, and the fever finally went away the next day...

I felt very bad actually. Because of this fever thingy, i couldn't help out in cooking (i'm a cooking ic afterall), as well as first aid. At the tentage area, i just curled up like a ball, while people like Eric, Eugene and WeiQin got food for me...

Heng ah. I thought i'm gonna collapse halfway or something. Somehow eating the panadol gave me some new-found strength, like some Placebo effect...

But finally, at the end of the 4th day, we reached the river where we reached on day one. Happiness was an understatement. No ordinary word could describe that kind of feeling. It feels like you've went to fight a monster, got yourselves injured, but still managed to came back alive. Feelings of satisfaction and disbelief.

We went over to a shallow pool, and started splashing water at each other like little kids. It's here that Mr Seet began to show his "bian tai" side... haha, i shan't reveal any details...

We sat on the "initial d" style 4wd (as describe by WeiQin), and say good bye to Gunung Korbu, good bye to all our little patches of urine, good bye to liwen's erm erm, and so on...

On the 5th day, we got to sleep in a hotel room! It was heavenly, even though it's only 2 stars. So? It had air-con, bed, toilet, what more can we ask for? haha. This was also the day we got to watch one match of the world cup: Argentina vs Serbia. Dio trash 6 - nil. haha

The 6th day was truly the highlight of the OT: White Water Rafting! At first, the river doesn't look very fierce, mostly the lower course of the river. But while on the raft itself, that's where the fun begins. 6 per raft, but all we have are only our legs to clip onto the raft, while our butts were all on the edge of the raft. Despite that, none from our raft dropped into the water, to the extent that Eric said it wasn't fun enough. haha.

After what seems like minutes (even though we spent 2 whole hours), rafting was over, and we were off for caving. We went to this really big linestone cave, and let our creativity take over. The guide would pass comment like "Tiger, Tiger" (and other animals) whilst flashing his torch at some oddly shaped stalagmites and stalactites (eh, my geog not rusty at all=P). At the end, we even have to walk in a 1km river out of the cave. Really fun, though it was a bit too commercialized.

Then we went shopping for 3 hours at this really big shopping centre called Ipoh Parade i think. Ate Mary Brown, and almost lost my appetite (i'll appreciate McDonald's next time)...

We got onto the bus and before we know it, reach Singapore liao. i think the bus driver sped his way down the highway lo, cos we reach singapore at around 4 plus, 2 hours ahead of time.

Did some cleaning up, debriefing, then most of us went for home sweet home le...yea! And that sum up the 23rd PI's june OT.

One down, three to go

2006-06-06T22:49:00.000+08:00

Hmm, 1 week down, 3 more to go......

Very tired now, so i won't go into details ba...

Watching Bleach now (very lagging, still at ep 1, haha. Cos someone recommend de lo)

Hmm, i skipped lunch without knowing on that day, so perhaps that's why i'm still as thin as i am now......

Wa lau, i actually been paying the adult fare for my EZ-link since March. KPKB! Like $0.80 and $2.17 from SengKang to Bouna Vista. Big difference lo. HeartPain......

"Randomness is a form of beauty", as quoted from MOK. haha, hence the few lines above. But many times, randomness itself is really the very thing that's in your mind at that point of time. And been random, is been truthful. At least that's why i feel.

The next thing i'm looking forward to, is ODAC very first OT by the 23rd batch! Woah, just realised that there's a lot of things to pack. Towels, money, clothes, knife, matchsticks, etc. Hmm, that bag gonna weigh a ton on me again. sigh......But all these must be worth it!

Still watching bleach......

Stuck at home

2006-05-31T14:24:00.000+08:00

Sigh, StUCK at home now, and it SUCKS.

Today is supposedly the Temasek Seminar trip to Changi Naval Base, on the new frigate that Singapore just bought! This is a much long-awaited day lo. I mean, how many times do you have the opportunity to get onto a military frigate in a lifetime?

I even missed one day (today) for my science attachment at Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), just for this day.

Then i have to fall sick. Not before, nor after, but on this day i've been waiting for. Sigh...

37.6 degree, coupled with the usual blocked nose and a sleep-deprived night rolling around on the bed......

Now, while i am recovering, i'm slapped with the sight of piles of mid-year papers on the desk, waiting for me to scribble on them. And doubt i can finish all of them within this june holiday, when i have 9 to 6 science attachment on the first two weeks, and a 7-days ODAC outdoor trip on the third week. Been optimistic is one thing, been realistic is another......

Like everyone else, i wish i could have more than 24 hrs a day. But then again, even if i have 48hrs a day, all 48hrs will be occupied with something, and i'll only be more tired and fatiged......hmm, guess i'll take back my wish......

Arghh, the tendency to work is there, but i just realised that i haven't touch my driving wheel for a very long time. Perhaps i should put a bit of sweat on it now......

Class outing

2006-05-26T21:21:00.000+08:00

Yea, just had our 06s34 outing again. And again, the guys outnumber the girls. But since there are only 9 guya in the class, the total strength is obviously **** small. Out of a class of 26, only Daniel, Jonathan, Wilson, Robin, Me, WanYoong, Zara, and HuiHui went for this. (Come on la, compared to STJ, this is considered good already)

And so we watched the much awaited X-men III! Wanted to watch "Over the Hedge" de (you know, lame people like to watch lame shows), but since Jonathan actually miss his band practice to come with us, we should watch X-men 3 with him instead!

And so, we knew about DarkPhoenix, stupid Jugganaut, etc......

In the late afternoon, i still gotta go back to Anderson for SJAB ROD lo. Reach sch at about 3 30, then realized that i was very early. haha, so went to collect my O levels cert first. Looking at my results, again, i got the feeling that i "dui bu qi" my chinese teacher lo. sigh...

Anyway, other than this, something dramatic happened too. Just at the start of the parade, a sec 1 just collapsed, land vertically on his knees, before hitting his chin on the parade ground, and had a deep cut into his chin. The whole thing happen so fast that even Ms Zaleha and Xinyu were shocked. We brought him to the shade and even had the doctor opposite to come see him. In the end, it wasn't a really serious injury, though his dad came and brought him to the hospital for stiching...

Phew...OT like that, and i bet most wouldn't have the appetite to eat for the rest of the day. And i'm glad that the casualty's father didn't look particularly angry, or scold any of my juniors. If it's my dad ah, haha.......

Anyway, help to put together the puzzle (for WaiChing's present) together with GuoJie, Dean, WeeKeong, WeiTing, and JiaQing after that commotion. All of us made a lot of suggestive comments like GuoJie's glue thingy, etc. Haha, i myself made some comments that i myself didn't believe i'll say lor but i shan't list it here. Hehe=P

Spring cleaning tml! Sure hope it's fun, cos that will most probably be my last ODAC meetup before the OT......

PW GPP

2006-05-25T16:41:00.000+08:00

Ah, really very sorry to PuiYee. Had to make her spent the whole night (morning actually, when u consider the time after 12pm...) on the group's GPP. But at least it's taking shape now. Still far from the Bryan's standard GPP, but if we take small steps at a time, "It's can de" (quoted from J-wei)

Yeah, tml is a half-day! Mrs Chan rocks totally lo. But today during morning assembly, she actually reprimanded Victorians for misbehaviour at Parkway's KFC, which details i don't want to reveal...
The weirdest thing is that Mrs Chan can take a 180 degree turn immediately after scolding us, to allow happy news (Vj won Girls soccer and hockey!) to be made. Freaky mood swings......

Anyway, it's soccer guys today. Sure hope they can win, then VJ will become one of the strongest JC in sports le. Hahahahaha! Sounds a little bit like la bi xiao xin...
Unfortunately, i couldn't make it for the match. Got to get home to ensure that the SCV unit is properly installed at home. sigh...

PW? sigh

2006-05-23T21:20:00.000+08:00

She's very nice to us during PW lesson. Kind of ironic, contradicting, oppositional, and paradoxical (trying to be Mr Kan here, haha), especially after all that yesterday. Or perhaps she like our group? But that's quite impossible, when our GGP is as sucky as the others, if not worse. Hmm, ironic, contradicting, oppositional, and paradoxical indeed......

Sigh, and we are not exactly going anywhere with our GPP. The same thing just kept recurring in my group......Next time, i'll learn not to bring a deck of cards to group meetings......

Went for a run after Alvin, Wenhui, Wilson and Yongsheng today late afternoon. Just realised that Yongsheng's group is also doing something about Ez-link card, too. Sigh, that means our idea isn't very original and novel afterall. Actually, to be frank i don expect my group's idea to be very unique.

Saw Wilson's blog on 06s34 today. Realised that he's also like me, drawning a lot of apparently lame analogy from lectures and tutorials. But this is really what learning is about. Getting insights deeper than any other people. Instead of just the usual content-based texts and paragraphs.

Mrs Teo said something about students asking the functions of the Kreb's cycle, and about them losing sight of the ultimate aim of repiration......

I am one of them, not that i don't know the function of the Kreb's cycle, but because i myself have lost sight of my aim, my target, and my purpose in life......

Off to do PW le=(

MMW, yet again

2006-05-22T19:56:00.000+08:00

Woah, today we kena scolded by MMW again. Kind of ridiculous lo, because the whole incident happened because we didn't bring our Chem TYS. Out of a class of 26, only QiYan, Wilson and WeiQin brought their books. Sounds like our fault right? It's not! She didn't even tell us to bring our TYS the days before, yet she still rattle and rattle on about our irresponsiblity and nonsense.

I wanted to say, "Why you say you say you told us to bring our TYS when you didn't tell us to bring our TYS?"......

And she made us stand for the rest of the tutorial and continue with all the "Not taking your work seriously......PW.......Chem tutorial......Chem TYS......Chem Lectures......" It's obvious that she's deviating from the original topic, Chem TYS. Yet she's making use of the chance to unleash all her impatience upon us. Please la, if you really want us to take our work seriously, the last thing you want to do is to scold or punish us......it'll only deepen the valley between both parties.

Irritating, annoying, and frustrating to have such a teacher. KPKB......

ANYWAY, let's not let such an incident spoil the mood of the this entry.

After chionging the H3 science research paper, i finally got attached to a research institute. It's about stem cell & developmental biology, that require us to screen the genome of zebrafish. I couldn't be happier actually. This is actually my very first real attachment to a PRO Institute lo.

There's only one small problem: clashes with ODAC activities in the first 2 weeks of june hols.
I won't be able to make it for
Pioneering course
Mugging sessions
Cooking sessions
Packing Day
etc

basically everything except the june OT itself. But looking on the bright side of life, at least i can make it for the overseas trip lo, otherwise i'll be dam sad...

Big Walk 2006

2006-05-21T21:21:00.000+08:00

Hey, just came back from the big walk thingy. Ben la i wanted to go with the ODAC people one lo, but 47 people so long never meet le, for join 47 instead=) It was quite fun today, despite having only so few people......

A lot of people never come lo, like most of the NJ people like Zhirong, Vincent, Nub, ......all didn't want to come after te funtasia carnival. Wa lau. Because of them, we didn't even complete the 10 km walk. We just cross the nicoll highway bridge then went to suntec to eat morning. (then all the 30 plus goodie bag never take, haha)

While waiting for Lihui and Evonne to join us for Da Vinci code, some of us ate at the food court. I was in a dilemma for a while to think of what to eat lo, before settling on some japanese teriyaki chicken. Cost me $4 lo, but not filling at all. Waste my money=p

Then went all the way up the way to watch the movie...$9.50 lo, burn another hole in my pocket. But worth it la. The storyline itself is kinda intriguing, but the way Dan Brown assume some of the events are quite ridiculous......

Anyway, went to lunch at Pizza Hut with the 47 people, where we talked alot about every thing from every JC. Zhi Kai, as usual, very quiet lo, or maybe he don't want to reveal any impt things from NJ=) Yang Han got a lot to say from RJ lo, of ShuYi, RJ girls, RJ scholars and many more. Laugh like dunno wat lo, haha. Gonna miss him when he leave for Australia......

Then after we decided to leave, then we realised that YangHan paid for everything le lo. Felt quite bad making him pay lo. Must really get a big big present for him b4 he leaves...

Then in the late afternoon, evonne don feel like going home, and shiyun wanted to go "plushie picking". Haha, those machines where boyfriends would put a coin in and try to pick a plushie from inside the machine for their girlfriend lo. The machines play cheat de lo, the slightest shock and the toy would just drop out of the robotic arm...spent a few dollars there, but with no return. Then Shiyun was saying, "better hope that your girlfriend would not come to this place" haha, but actually the place quite a nice place for dating la...=)

Woah, at this point of time, we just realised that we spent the whole day already le. At about 5 plus, we took the train back lo. Took the train to marina bay instead, so we got more time to talk...But very sian la, me and BoonSing live in SengKang, so must change to the NEL. Otherwise can talk a bit longer...

Wanted to include something else here de, but i think it'll be a bit sensitive. So nvm la, haha. Interested to know, talk to me lo=)

PS: Oh no, 10 pm already and i haven't start studying skill c and d. Need to rush le, bb

ODAC wicked sick PT

2006-05-19T22:41:00.000+08:00

Just came back from WeiQin's sick PT today. The original plan was to run all the way from VJ to NSC, which is 12km!!! Luckily we went to support the bball final today, then do some slack SK, so no time to run 12km... so we ran 8 km instead lo

The bball match today was simply amazing. VJ girls are doing a very good job at the start, but then RJ ppl started to catch up and end with a score 57(RJ)-47(VJ). Dam sad lo. The stupid thing is that the umpire was not impartial at all. Gave the ball to RJ when they hit it out, not blowing the whistle when the ppl were trying to snatch the ball. Kayu lo!

Then came back to sch on a 31, where everyone was sleeping lo. Yixiong, YongSheng, Dennis, WenHui, and many other victorians. Only me, Alvin and Wilson were talking and talking lo. I myself was quite tired too, but think that that's a bit diao...

Reached Vj lo, then approached by Mr Seet to do some SK for tml's PD5. The girls (who supposedly have the brains) helped to put up the banners, while the guys cleaned the floor. I guessed we must have done a pretty bad job, cos the cleaners came and took over the job instead (i guess we doing a bad job cleaning is an eye sore to them ba)

Then it's PT! WeiQin lead us in some warm-ups, then the guys separate from the girls and head towards bedok jetty (again, i ran there yesterday and got myself a blister). Feel quite proud of myself actually, cos i got no stich (spelled like this?), and i didn't stop running at all. Maybe Daniel is right. I am the sort who can ran at a constant pace without anyone to pace with

actually, i am always thinking of something when i'm running lo....

If there's someone in front of me (anyone), i will visually draw a rectangle around the person, and imagine that i'm a fighter pilot trying to gun that thing down....

If i am tired, i tell myself that i'm a machine, and i run on and on......

If i'm bored, i'll play a sound in my mind, like Vestige, or Muzzle, following the songs' beat with my footsteps

Haha, sounds so weird right? That's how i pace myself lo...

Anyway,

Went home with J-wei and XinHui on 55 later at 7 plus. Talked about much stuffs like JiaMin, OLC, and ODAC. Also found out some things, which i don think i should put on the blog though......

Anyway, watching anime le, will prob blog tml ba

Mr brown's blog

2006-05-16T20:30:00.000+08:00

Hey, check this out man

the persistently non-political podcasts

www.mrbrown.com

Emotions

2006-05-13T11:30:00.000+08:00

i'm alone, sad and disappointed with myself

i dun even want to blog about it...

Random

2006-05-10T20:39:00.000+08:00

Learnt from wilson one thing today: random

Btw, i'm a bit hungry right now....

Now, that's random

Today in odac room, wilson and wei qin were both writing random stuffs to their angels lo (like "i'm eating ice jelly right now")

Perhaps i should learn that too...haha

FA lesson was also ok today. Haha, i think i "suan" Alvin quite badly, hehe. Managed to keep the thing b4 5. Aiya, if the PIs don want to know the CPR thingy then won be so long le lo. Then kind li wei waited for us in case we need to put anything (or take anything) from the odac room, ending up late for tuition. Felt so bad

Found out a scandal about jonathan also, haha, but quite a small one la...

The May You Be Blessed

2006-05-07T13:33:00.000+08:00

"The May You Be Blessed" Movie

Found this on XiaoMing's blog, posted by clar

Thought more people should see this

http://www.mayyoubeblessedmovie.com

Fed up teachers

2006-05-05T17:23:00.000+08:00

Mr Thomas Teo just gave us the "attitute" today. During Math tutorial, he was trying to tell us how to memorise the trigo factor formula. Apparently, the class wasn't paying full attention, and he became quite fed up. Pissed, he said:

"After mid-year, i am sure that S61 can score better than you all by 20 x 5 marks as a class, because they know something you don't know..."

I never like this kind of attitute. I just cannot stand that particular tone, as well as that look on his face, telling us that we will not perform, telling us that we regret this, looking down on us.

I will prove him wrong. I will, or rather i must. This is not just for him, but for me as well. It's my personal fight, one that i never lose, and i'm not intending to make an exception...

But what's the use if the class as a whole cannot perform?

Despite all that i've said, it's not really Mr Teo's fault. Mr Teo is not the only one losing confidence in us, the other tutors too...

Just months ago, Ms Wong just got so fed up that she screamed at us. And now, she appears so indifferent when she says,"go face the wall." She is like teaching
for the sake of teaching only.

Mrs Teo, our bio tutor, is also losing faith in us. She, in my opinion, is the best bio tutor in the school. Yet, we just don't appreciate her. Every tutorials, she doesn't even want to check our tutorials le. Why? She wouldn't be able to continue the lesson, because most of us didn't do the tutorials at all. You can even sense the sarcacism when she said, "Ok, so all of you all just come for extra lessons to read my answers? Then you all just treat this as a reading lesson..."

If our attitute doesn't change, then we can't really expect them to change as well.

VJ rox

2006-05-04T20:16:00.000+08:00

I mean, the above title is quite obvious lo, and needs no justification=P But just to achieve a L3 answer, must include explanation as well, haha.

Due to the loss of many fridays (elections, vesak day and so on...), next thursday will be a friday instead! Haha, why am i so glad? Cos i''' be released at 11am. Shiok ah!

And Mrs Chan actually award us one more free day (forgot what for:P) on the 11/8, which mean that we basically have no school on the week of National Day! Woohoo.

Actually i just crapping this entry to keep the blog alive. Would include more stuffs about myself in the next entry.

Mood swing

2006-05-02T20:13:00.000+08:00

In quite a bad mood today, although i don really know why... You know, i don really have these sort of mood swings, but today is an exception...

Perhaps it's influence by peers around me

But something else today made me very satisfied=P Something that i cannot blog about, otherwise i'll get whacked by Daniel the next morning...haha

School life is starting to squeeze out all the energy in me. I realised that i'm getting more and more tired everyday. I very wonder how Shiyun manage to sleep like 4 hrs everyday.

All the tutorials, lectures, project work, science research...

I know i'll burn out, like a candle wick.
I know i'll fall, like boulder down a mountain.
I just don wish it to be now, or in the near future.
But it's not up to me to determine that...

Overnight cycling

2006-04-30T19:43:00.000+08:00

yea, to the fun stuff. Overnight cycling!

Until now, i still dunno whether i'm doing the right thing. My parent kept thinking that i'm still "young" (!) and that i still don know how to take care of myself. This has always been the case since primary school. I thought that it's time for a change lo. Then my parent had to ask, "Some other people not going too right?". I returned the volley, "Some people choose not to vote too right?"

And he gave me the "sigh" look again. He then said, "If you want to go...ok lo..." Soft tactics...prefect against me. But i still choose to go

And yesterday, the thunderstorm nearly wasted my efforts in convincing my Dad. Fortunately, i managed to convince him, again, and went for the cycling in the end...

I'm glad my dad is not like Wilson's, who said said he will pull Wilson out of ODAC if he chooses to go for the overnight cycling.

But i still question myself, did i make a wrong decision? Afterall, i wouldn't "encourage", if not disallow, my son is going for this overnight thingy too...

Anyways.......

At around 8 plus, reached VJ le. Bus 55 was exceptionally fast today, maybe because it skipped most of the stops (so late le lo, only got a few night owls...). Then i was walking through the dark pavement outside Vj. Damn scary lo. Luckily, J-wei intercepted me (his dad fetch him lo, so good), and we walk together to East Coast. (J-wei was up to his nonsense, about girls kena ---- in the dark.... typical J-wei).

At East Coast, only Eugene and Dennis were there, the others, late. Haha. In the end, we rented our bikes and set off for Chomp Chomp at around 1030. While cycling, i almost got into some sort of accident lo. Dennis in front of me press his brake. In order not to bang into him, i jammed both my brakes, and my rear swing outwards. I lost my balance and fell off my bike. So suay, a big SBS bus (i nv realised that buses are so big) was right next to me. According to J-wei behind me, the bus driver jammed his brakes too. The whole commotion was too frightening to recall. Luckily no injury so anything...

After that, not much dangerous things le, though there's a few "interesting" stuffs le.

My group ate quite a lot. Ate satay and dessert at chomp chomp, then a few of us went over to 7-11 to buy some things. Audrey keep pushing mentos for J-wei to eat, in order to kill his descendents=P

then we ate baby squid and stingray at Newton circus. The toilet there is damn funny. There's the window right above the urinator. Which means that you can have a nice view while urinating. But due to the reversibility of light, that means that people can also see you. In the end, only J-wei used that poorly positioned toilet. haha

then we went lau pa sat. We were the last group, and was struggling to catch up with the front two groups along orchard road.But fate removed them from our line of sight, and none of us know how to go lau pa sat. Waihan said, "the straight way is the right way", so we just move on lo. Luckily Kai Xiang came to our rescue and showed us the right way (which was to the right, not front=P), and we reached lau pa sat. The few of us watch Alvin eat siew mai, and the girls falling asleep (haha, liwen lo). Went to the toilet which costed $0.20 (!), and continue cycling again, this time back to east coast.

The few of us (Fanzhe, Liwen, Dennis, Alvin, WeiQin) was chionging the whole way lo, once we reach east coast park. I must say i'm impress with the rented bike. The brakes are good, the gears are good, the tyres are good, all for $6. In the end, we reached Bedok jetty, and waited for the sunrise. Me and Jonathan were standing beside Bryan and Cherli (where Bryan was explaining all the different functions of their cameras to Cherli, which sounds so blur, haha)

Watched the anti-climax sunrise (as expected, everytime like that de), then some went home while other ate at Mac. I ate a double fillet-o-fish (pushing on pounds again le:(), then went home, bathe and slept for 8 hrs. Siok ah, haha.

ODAC rocks

ODAC orienteering

2006-04-30T19:28:00.001+08:00

Sorry for the late entry, i had to sleep for 10hrs over the night cycling before i even have the energy to move...

Got up in the morning yesterday myself (aiya, dad not fetching me to school). So sian, so i need to wake up at 845, prepare some stuffs and reach sch at 1030. On the way across the bridge, saw Hui Hui, Yuanli and Liwen. So strange lo, Hui Hui should be on the 55 before me, yet i can catch with her. I must be walking very fast...

The orienteering session in the morning was quite relaxing actually. We don't even have a map. Got compass only. Alvin briefed us on how to use them, only to be corrected several times by the pro Liwen. Haha, land chief ah*shake head*.

The first clue was easy to find lo, but not the rest of the clues. All so vague de. In the end, i met up with J-wei, Yuanli and Fan Zhe and walk to the checkpoints together. Haha, then this Hui Hui nv fails to amaze me lo. Supposed to be in front of all of us here, she actually skipped ALL the checkpoints. In the end, realised that she drink sugarcane drink at the lagoon-_-"

Anyway, reached the end point in the end (not the titration one hor=P), then started playing bridge with Fanzhe, Dennis and J-wei. The stupid thing is that we have to join the group (hui hui lo) at the lagoon, so we played mobile bridge! (Victorians really obssessed over bridge...) We have Jasmine to be the "table", then we put cards onto her palm, while walking. Haha. In the end, me and Fan zhe won. Yea

Anyway, reached the food centre finally, where we ordered sugarcane drinks, duck rice and dessert. J-wei just had to order durian ice kachang, without the fillings. Then in the end, the ice kachang got so much syrup that none of us can "tahan" lo.

"Ask for less syrup" now got a whole new meaning to me=P

SRS ex-co!

2006-04-27T22:37:00.000+08:00

Ah, i like this song ao much!

杨乃文我给的爱
[风] 词曲：张震岳
[之]
[轩] 深夜的风冷冷无情
[音] 觉得夜昏暗
[乐] 脚边烟蒂散落一地
[站] 像是我的心
[ｗ] 被风吹起吹到那里
[ｗ] 我在那里没有目的
[ｗ] 我给的爱要不回来
[．] 你说过的话我不曾忘记
[７] 你却离开
[７] 我给的爱我给的爱不回来
[６] 我给的爱我给的我给的我给的爱
[５] 我给的爱我给的爱

Anyway, i got into SRS ex-co today! Dots, hope don't have much sai kang to do, otherwise very sian lo. haha. This word "Sai kang" seems to be frequently used in VJ lo, in CT, SC, House comm, ODAC, etc. Sigh, i guess every school also like that de la, haha.

Sigh, i also need to do this science research proposal lo, due in 2 weeks time. Just like another PW. But i'll have to write a good one to get into the H3 science research course, so no choice la. Sigh, i just have to jia you le

My teacher mentor is this lady called mrs cheng. Quite friendly actually, and i'm in the same group as Randell and Qi Yan. So the 3 of us can get along quite well=P

Over at the ODAC side, a lot of fun things happening. J-wei showed a few guys this very sick video of VS guys doign *ahem*ahem*. Sick VS guys. And many people are "suaning" Stella as a FAI lo. Actually my first aid skill only so-so. Tml PT and the overnight cycling better not have any thing wrong, haha.

Good luck to myself for 1000 squats, 8 km, 120 pushups, and 120 situps. Phew....

New Blogskin!

2006-04-25T19:38:00.000+08:00

Woah, the new blogskin finally up. The theme is......

Isolation......

I am alone......

Hmm, don't think i'm talking much sense to you all, but i guess it doesn't really matter...

But anyway, that's not the focus of today's entry!

Sia la, i haven't been blogging for a week! Gosh! It really goes to show how busy JC life is. Especially now, when mid-years are coming, and everyone is flooded with tutorials, assignments, mock SPAs, etc. Sometimes i really wonder if a working life is better than this. I guess i will never know until i'm working......

Anyway (ah, keep digressing), quite a lot happened in 06s34. I remembered yesterday i was like chionging my PI like dunno what. Today, we finally submited our PI, and know our groupings. Haha, i was grouped with the bridge-addicted Clarence, the "girl who was stepped on" Qi Yan, and the hamster-like Pui Yee. Funny nicknames...... Then Daniel was so disappointed as Bryan was not in his group, so he couldn't be a free-rider:)

And of course, we have to mention 06s34 most unique "feature"...MMW! I dunno what she's thinking, chionging all the way through all the Chem tutorial. Funny enough, we finish our bonding tutorial before the lecture ended-_-"

In addition, we got scandals like Wei Qin liking a particular girl in a particular lecture. He actually wrote this on his blog lo, but just doesn't want to admit. During one GP tutorial, we even pester him so much that he just walk out of the classroom. Haha, we are evil:P

Quite a lot is happening in ODAC too. Taught Stella quite a bit on bandaging. Sigh, tml still need to pack First Aid kits for Friday's PT (sure kena tekan again), as well as the overnight cycling.

SRS ex-co interview tml. Gosh, clashes with the pulau tekong trip. Sigh, i want to go for the interview de lo, but i'll feel very bad for "ponning" the trip. Sigh, i wanted to msg the SRS ppl that i cannot go, but i don have their number-_-" Dunno why i still so blur

That's all, got things to do le. bb. If i lucky, will be able to squeeze out some more time to blog this week:P

ODAC initiation ceremony

2006-04-15T19:42:00.000+08:00

Woah, went for the ODAC initiation ceremony today. Reached school with a new clean college U, went home with a dirty pe kit. sigh

The ceremony part of the day was stupid. We just nominate and vote for different posts for the current provisional instructors. Why stupid? Bcos we have to force ourselves to nominate 4 people, then choose two. Poor J-wei became the "dummy variable", just to keep the whole thing going by nominating himself, wait for others to get voted, then came back again. Haha.

In the end i got First Aid i/c post, together with Stella. Hmm, that's mean next week will need to have some meeting with the current First Aid i/c. Cannot slack le!

Obviously, the highlight of the day isn't the ceremony, but the sick, wicked, games we played.
For the first game, we have to use our mouths to pass apples (and later grapes) to pass from one bucket to another.
For the second game, we have to drink a mass tin full of concentrated sodium chloride solution(eee, yucks), while memorising some stuffs.
The 3rd game is even sicker. We have to dunk ourselves into the algae filled fountain (god, now i know how my classmates feel when they get dunked during birthdays....). After that, we ran all the way to the grassy area, then leopard crawl our way through the grass, while been bombarded with watermelon, talcum powder, air wick lavander air freshener (they must have "kop" it from the ODAC room), then roll on the muddy, marshy area, then played captain's ball with a chicken egg(!), then apply the egg white on our faces!!!! Woah, wicked sick......

If you think that's the worst......haha......haha......haha......wait long long ah. Instructors aren't that kind. We played the final gross game. Milo mixing. Given water, straws, milo powder, suger, milk powder, you got to suck each stuff up and eject it out into cups.

After having sticky milo all over your body, you need to transfer the milo from the cups filled earlier to a pail 10m away. Sounds easy? You have to transfer the milo using straws from mouth to mouth to mouth to mouth to........ until the pail. Wicked, straws are never meant for these kind of stuffs. At the end, you can even observe the state of the milo: sticky, viscous, gooy. OMG lo. Then i just have to "kena" diahorrea, so suay. Must have been the seafood i ate 2 days ago. Went to the toilet, and became a running tap.
But despite all that, it's kind of fun la. Especially when you know that you can do the same thing to the next batch of JC1 next year. Hehe (evil grin...)

Sick of my template

2006-04-12T17:41:00.000+08:00

Sigh, i guess i am really a noob

Reminds me of today. I saw Eugene like 3 to 4 times today, and he'll go "yo noob!"

Been reading up how to change my blog template. see until tat i also very sian le. But i am a true noob at html coding, so will need to take more time (i not like shiyun so pro lo, sigh)

anyway, can't really end a blog entry like that, so i might as well write some other thing. I was called a mugger, but today i am officially a "MUG".

You know, like this, as drawn by Robin-->

Then we have Daniel as butter, Robin as an arrow, etc. Some others were labelled as animals (Dunno who say one!) Like Wan Yoong looks like a hippo, Shan Yan a cow, Bryan a rabbit, Wilson a penguin. Haha, so i guess a mug is better than an animal=P

Humans as cancerous cells

2006-04-04T21:24:00.000+08:00

Weird title isn't it, let me explain...

Actually i got this idea around 1 year back, while pondering about cancerous cells in general... For the benefits of doubt for everyone, let's go into what's the characteristic of cancerous cells

1)Evading Apoptosis, which means that the cell refuses to die

2)Self-sufficient in growth signals, which means that the cell does not require any signal in order for it to grow.

3)Insensitive to anti-growth signals, which means that the cell refuses to stop growing, indifferent to anti-growth signals.

4)Sustained Angiogenesis, which means that the cell induces blood vessels to "wrap" around it to give it nutrients and oxygen

5)Limitless replicating potential, which means that the cell keeps dividing and cloning itself.

6)Tissue invasion & metastasis, which means that the cell spreads and invades other tissues.

Metaphorically, if we see ourselves (human beings) as cancerous cells, we observe shocking and striking similarities.

Firstly, while a cancerous evades apoptosis, humans ourselves have found ways and ways to avoid death. Vaccines, medicines, surgeries, from a species with a lifetime of approximately 30 years, we now have people that can out grow a century! Human refuses to die early.

Secondly, like a cancerous cell is self-sufficient in growth signals, insensitive to anti-growth signals, and has limitless replicating potential. The same goes for humans. We have learnt to cultivate crops, rear animals, resulting in much food supply. This allows us to grow (reproduce) and spread. Just in the last century, the world population had exploded (look here for the tickering statitics http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop). And we are incapable of stopping that growth. Reducing that growth would mean that the country is not producing economically at it's fullest potential, something politicians would never want.

Thirdly, angiogenesis, tissue invasion and metastasis. We humans, have exploit Earth's resources to their maximum. From massive deforestation, to overusage of fossil fuels, to overconsumption of fresh water, to degradation of fertile land. We humans have evolved into a kind of alien, that invades our own resources to the extent that we are destroying ourselves. Once our resources run out, humanity would come to an end...

So what's the solution? Same solution to that of cancer: radiation, chemotherapy, etc, all killing the cancerous cells, directly or indirectly. But clearly, this is not a solution for mankind at all...It is not possible to wipe out half the world's population, and let the other half continue it's existence...

So many parallels can be drawn between totally unrelated issues in the world today. It's when you found one, then can you better appreciate the things we have today...

School life thus far

2006-03-28T20:28:00.000+08:00

Thought i just summarise most of the things that happened since the start of school, since i don have much of other things to talk about.......haha

GP was just as bad. No improvement, not at all. Every GP period would be just "Ok, everyone please take out your eassy resource package". The only change is "Ok, everyone please take out your comprehension resource package". I didn't score too well for my GP essay too, got a 22/50. Surprisely, this is considered high already. Even when i received this particular script from Mr Kan, he said," Not too bad, you just need to...."
22/50, a "not too bad?" It's obvious he's been too strict lo...

PW also started. Sigh, this is particularly annoying. Every PW period, we just think of something in situ (remember weathering?), then wait for half and hour, then the teacher just walk around to check our progress. Freaking boring. I don see the need for PW period, now that we cannot even form our groups. To make things worse, it has to be Chemistry...

Chemistry nowadays seems very slack. Not many people done their homework, and MMW would just ask them to
"FACE THE WALL"
Kind of primary school right? Just today, poor Jie Ying had to sit at the back of the room to do her work. Because of this, 06s34 even have a cheer for this......

All you guys go face the wall, go face the wall
(Chem prac's tomorrow)
All you guys go face the wall, go face the wall
(Ah, you dunno?)
All you guys go face the wall, go face the wall
(Stop taking my photo)
All you guys go face the wall, ohhh s34!
Go face the wall.

Kind of crappy, but it's quite meaningful for us. But it really shows the relationship between her and 06s34. Actually i feel a bit bad too. Just yesterday, she lost her temper and just screamed at us. This is the first teacher who screamed at us since we started school this year. I think at that point of time she just simply lost it. As a class, we are also at a loss on how to help her to help us to help her. I guess we just wait and see how time will heal everything ba (or just how time add salt to the wound...)

Yea, won't be going to school tomorrow, and both days after. Attending some science research attachment at the Biopolis, by IMCB (Institute of Molecular Cell Biology). Very sad, no one i know going with me. So it's going to be out of my confort zone tomorrow again. Just as well, can skip GP lessons tomorrow:)

Sitting on the chair blogging, i wonder how the band people are doing now at Hawaii. So song la, band performance can go Hawaii. You know, my impression of Hawaii is that with.....

......a nice sandy beach with a lot of coconut trees, a volcano resting in the background, girls with two coconut shells dancing around. And when you are thristy, can just walk into one of those open-concept bar, and have some tropical fruit juices...

boy, i must be daydreaming...

hmm, i guess this is sufficient for an entry le ba. Hmm, i should post more stuffs on psychology and mindset, afterall that is what this blog is for... The template of this blog is also crappy, so will be changing it as soon as i know how to. you know, i am a noob at this kind of thing de...

NTU H3 biological sciences

2006-03-25T15:25:00.000+08:00

Yea, just came back from the NTU H3 talk. Quite enriching actually, though i was more interested in the food.

Met both Evonne and Teck Beng from HCI and TJ respectively. Both of them haven't changed much la (Evonne looks as thin as ever). Other than that, didn't see other Andersonians from other school. Strange enough, NJ wasn't here for the occasion at all, otherwise i should be able to see more familar faces.

Aiyo, i've been making fun of Denise of her eating habit, but just realised that i not anywhere far also lo. During the brunch, i just ate and ate. Haha, the food is nice ma. Somehow i feel hungry more often, that's why like that lo. Anyway, i won't get fat one de, so might as well eat as much as i want:P

As for the H3 talk itself, i am still not very convinced about taking it up. Anyway, i couldn't even if i want to. The NUS-A*star-VJC Science Research thingy is enough to keep me busy le.

Emm...but i feel a bit bad going there just to eat. Better say a polite "thanks" for the food:)

Post OLC syndrome

2006-03-23T22:41:00.000+08:00

Ahh, still recovering from Post OLC Syndrone.

My poor sunburnt legs are peeling really badly (like removing the skin of a grape), so much that i don dare to wear shorts anymore lo. There's really 2 distinct colour, namely white and brown! What's worse? When i exercise, sweat gets trapped under the dead brown skin, causing blister-like pox on my legs. Gross lo, makes me feels like i have leprosy...

And i am still suffering from a minor, but nevertheless, annoying cough-cum-blocked nose. The dificulty in breathing is also depriving me of good night sleeps everyday. Sia la, even more tired during lectures le...

Well, i did not regret going for OLC. Can only blame my poor immune system lo. Sigh

Outdoor Leadership Camp

2006-03-18T19:40:00.000+08:00

Woah, just came back from Outdoor Leadership Camp (OLC). After facing numerous obstacles, both phychological and physical, team Blizzard (my team) finally emerged as the Champion of OLC 2006!

It was quite a shocking victory. We knew that we screw up our field cooking (crappy "guan yin" buffet) as well as our Amazing Race (didn't finish the last 2 checkpoints). But what we didn't know was how good our night recreation was (10/10!). Summing everything up, we manage to be inch ourselves away from Tonardo, the runner up.
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Let me just type down the winning cheer in case i forget in the future:P

Calling cheer
Blizzard!
What?
Blizzard!
Wah Lau!
Blizzard!
Fine Lah!
4,3,2,1
Blizzard…… (Hold)
Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh

Win the War
Blizzard, Blizzard number one (echo)
Blizzard gotta own everyone (echo)
Blizzard, Blizzard start the war (echo)
Blizzard, Blizzard win the war (echo)

We will win the war (x3)
Tia Bo lah
We will win the war (x3)yea!

Actually this is adapted from the NJC cheer one de lo. While brainstorming for ideas, the images of Alan, Desmond, Louis and a few others came in, with them doing the "We will win the war, we will win the war" thingy. Haha, got to thank them in some way or another.
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Now, for the really long entry: recollection of the 5-day camp.

Pre-camp
I was kind of prepared to be "tekan" by the instructors. The first impression was that of the usual uniform group kind of training camp. Do something wrong, and you hear "knock it down!". But heng ah, nothing of that sort. We learnt how to tie a basha, start fire, tie knots, casualty transportation, first aid, etc. Also seen how "diao" and AP some instructors can be (not going to mention names). Nothing else interesting.

Day 1
Haha, things start to get more interesting. Got to Palau Ubin for our land orientoring. This is the start of the torture camp! We are basically given a compass and a poorly photocopied map (with no scale, no legend or whatever. Try using this for your Geography map reading component and see how much can you score......). For this day alone, i believed we trek more than 10km. Damn tiring. The most irritating part is when we are at the right location, but cannot find the well-camouflaged green bag containing the clue. But in the end, Blizzard cleared 11 checkpoints, the highest among the rest:P

Then night falls, and we prepare for night walk and solo night. We trek through a forest, alone. Scarely it may sound, the route is dotted with instructors, so it's practically impossible to get lost. The climax of the day was only the unexpected shuffling of a few wild boars. At about 10 plus, we spread ourselves in the forest, find 2 small trees, tie a "ba sha" and sleep underneath.

Day 2
Agh, didn't have enough sleep yesterday. So i was quite fatigued today. To make matters worse, we got to run around Singapore today, because it's the Amazing Race! We went to places like Fort Canning, Bukit Timah hill, Turf City and so on. We were so close to being first, then we have to meet "him" and play the memory game.

The game is logically simple, but intellectually difficult. We have to guess 52 poker cards on a carom board in order, and with every wrong guess, the cards will be flipped anbd the board rotated. We spent like 1 stupid hour doing this, losing a great lead to the rest. sigh

Day 3
Yea, kayaking! We got onto our 2-person kayak and paddle from East Coast to god-knows-where to have lunch. I paired up with esther, who was sea-sick. So throughout the journey i kept motivating her to push on, but the sea got rougher anmd rougher, crossing her limits. So halfway, an instructor paired with me instead and we paddled to the god-knows-where to have lunch. The return trip was even more tiring. Esther tired to kayak again, but the sea was not in her favour. Mr Wee drove the rubber boat to fetch her, but this time no instructor came onto my boat! Bo bian la, i "solo" and paddle along. Damn tiring, but i forced myself to push on. Fortunately, Wei Qing was also alone on his kayak, so i got onto his kayak and continued paddling together to East Coast

Night time was ok, other than annoying sand flies biting me. We pitched tents on the beach and slept there. quite confortable actually, relative to a "ba sha"

Day 4
Kao, woke up to see my legs like charred "ba gua". Emm, would'nt be wearing any short pants next week, i thought. Anyway, we are climbing Mt Kota Tinggi today!

I must say that i underestimated Kota Tinggi. i thought it would be just like a trek to the summit of Bukit Timah. haha, its more like rock climbing, really and literally. Most of the time we are stepping on natural rock formation, and grabbing on tree roots. Many of us suffered abrasion too, because of the damaged, sunburnt skin.

Then we reached the summit of the mountain. Strangely enough, the summit is a plateau, covered by beach-like sand and grass. I wondered how these sand remained here, given the windy and erosive conditions. Anyway, we pitched our tents and start our field cooking. Eugene started crapping about what "guan yin" food, making us laughing hesterically. haha.

And later in the night, we have our campfire. Blizzard gave an outstanding performance:P This is probably the climax of the entire camp. We can really be at ease, talk nonsense and stuff, laughing together with instructors as well.

Day 5
Woah, climbing up the mountain was difficult, coming down was worse. There was a part where the wall was vertical, and you need to hold on to small cracks in the rock to lower yourself.

But all was well, we ate a "up-sized everything" EVM at the Mac in City Square, then return to VJC, home sweet home.
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Woah, very tired still, even more after blogging so much. Hope i didn't sound too bored (too tired to add interesting comments le).

But let me say something before i post this......

OLC rocks!

OGL cheer

2006-03-05T20:00:00.000+08:00

yea, finally know exactly the cheer le

MOVING IN AND MOVING OUT
OGL LET'S HEAR YOU SHOUT
CATCH THE SPIRIT WE CREATE
TODAY'S THE DAY WE DOMINATE
SAY IT LOUD, SAY IT PROUD
OGL, OGL
OHHHH, OGL!

kao, so chim. i would nv create this kind of lyrics. i prefer the one i made with Daniel.

(shortforms used whenever not very nice to hear....:P)

PUT IT IN, AND TAKE IT OUT
SHOVE IT IN, AND DIG IT OUT
KAN NI NA, KAN NI NA
CJB, CJB
WTF, WTF
WTH, WTH
OHHH, OGL!

Aiya, no meaning, but much simpler right? Haha, things made easy with Sze Han and Daniel.

PS: would be funny if you could shout it out loud:P

OGLing

2006-03-03T21:02:00.000+08:00

Yea, OGLing rocks, though the way you try to pronounce this word may seem a bit wrong. (ogling, eee.....)

Anyway, learnt the Whiney Whiney, and another mass dance today (forgot name le). It was quite fun, but quite tiring if you do it repeatedly.

Also learnt the OGL cheer, though i still cant make heads and tails of the thing. Everyone will just start to wave their fists in a circular motion, then the next thing you hear is:

OOGGLL AH OOGGL
MOOVING IN MOOVING OUT
RAWW RAWW RAWW RAWW
RAWW RAWW RAWW RAWW
RAWW RAWW RAWW RAWW
OH OOGGLL!

This was what i heard during 01. now still like that, sigh. i will need to ask around for the exact lyrics le.

The games were also nice. The most memorable one was the "wash hair" one. They basically put shampoo on your head, and your team mates would wash your hair, at the same time collecting as much foam as possible. The feeling of been "washed" is simply.......cooling.......ya, enough said. haha:p

Emm, go play games le, probably posting something different tml

Class outing

2006-03-02T14:57:00.000+08:00

Yea, 3 cheers to VJC, and another 3 to Mrs Chan! Due to outstanding "A" level results from the year 3s, she actually gave us a day off today! A "bye bye" to Miss Monica Wong's (henceforth known as MMW) chemistry test too, haha:P

And so, we have our class outing today!

At first, it was kind of stupid. We was like sitting in a circle in the middle of the road in VJC (like our grandpa road like that...), discussing where to go for class outing. Then some got to go for OGL briefing, some to find MMW for appealing matters, and others stayed in the band room (you know who lo). As a result, our class became very much fragmented. During the waiting, we even discussed interesting rumors about Mr Teo's wife been Dong Su Hua (the news broadcaster on channel 8). Very interesting indeed.

In the end, the class of 06S34 finally found its way to Takashimaya, where we have our lunch. While eating we also shared lame jokes, some giving us the "-_-" look on our faces, while others making us roll in laughter. In the class, i think Wan Yoong and Xavier laughed the most (really not trying to make any connections here....).

After that meal, we have a TC (talk c--k) session just outside Taka. Although some people had left earlier, we still got to know each of our personality better.

For example, we have Kit Yeng, the stalker. She took so many photographs of MMW, all from different angles. Some were closed up, some were far blurry shots, and one was even shot through a punch hole of a worksheet! Pro sia, Kit Yeng can go join photography as a CCA.

Then we even have Jonathan sharing his worst, most embarrassing moments, which details i cannot reveal..... :P

In the afternoon, we wanted to watch movies, but none of us were in a good mood to do so, so everyone left separate ways. Anti-climax, but nevermind, we can always have a class outing again!

Wish everyone luck again in their postings! Jia You!

Aerospace 2006

2006-02-26T16:02:00.000+08:00

Yea, just came back from the Asian Aerospace 2006. Here are some pictures taken, mostly from static display(resize so as to reduce loading time, at the cost of quality). The air show was quite magnificant, with planes flying about a few hundred metres away from us only, doing crazy moves like 720 degrees barrel roll, loops, sharp banking, etc. Too bad i cant shoot them with the Powershot A70, too small le.

There are more photo, but it's just not possible to post all of them. Another than planes, there are also other exhibition on National Defence, like rifles, vehicles, etc.

As usual, for more info, visit the link on the heading:p

The long-bow version of the Apache helicopter

The new rival to the Boeing 747, the Airbus A380

Singapore's F16 fighting falcon, with it's weapon arsenal

F18 Hornet

F16 again, this time the bird is smiling at you :D

Realistic paper models

2006-02-24T18:22:00.000+08:00

Feel very bad not blogging for so long, so decide to blog today again!

Something which i thought you guys may like: Paper models

Warning: This is for patient people only. My brother give up on a paper bike after constructing the front. i continued, to give up again after 2 pages.
The bike above looks so real, don't you agree? But the one in the picture was made using 110 to 135kg Kent paper stock (0.16 to 0.18mm thick), so you may not be able to replicate an exact model.

Other than bikes, the site also has models of rare animals of the world, rare animals of Japan, the seasons, and so on. For the latter few, it's not really that realistic, due to the fact that animals aren't simple polygonal. So, my opinion is that if you want to try, make the bikes instead. Many of the models are also rather limited, mostly Japanese-related.

A picture tells a thousand words, so do check out the site. For more info, visit above (the heading la).

Hellsing

2006-02-24T17:44:00.000+08:00

God, i haven't update for like 1 month le. My blog is as dead as the dead sea....... kk, that's a bit too lame...

anyway, today i will be blogging about something that is quite different: Japanese Anime

For Hellsing lovers out there, the Hellsing OVA is out. For the bittorrent link, i'm not going to give it to you, you have to find it yourself!

For those who do not know what's Hellsing, it's actually a anime with cool animation, gore (bloody scenes), violence and horror, with a wierd twist of comedy as well. Those who cannot take this kind of violence, please don't watch the anime. In fact, the TV version was shown in Japan and 2am to prevent any emm...emm...

In short, this OVA is just a redrawn version of the 13-episode Hellsing series (shown on Arts Central last year i think). The first OVA contain the first few episodes from the old Hellsing, with practically the same plot.

The difference is in the clarity of the plot. In this Hellsing OVA, it's obvious who are the good guys, who are the bad guys, as well as their objectives. The characters are also drawn differently now. Alucard looks more "shuai", and all the characters are traced with think lines, just a bit thinner than the Powerpuff Girls (a weird comparison though). The music is also different. Instead of the stylish background music from the old Hellsing, this OVA have the typical japanese anime music, quite disappointing actually. The comedy part of the OVA is also like fish out of water, and spoils the stylish nature of the anime.

But, the good thing is that the 50 minutes OVA allows tons of ass-kicking scenes (mostly alucard firing his 13-mm calibre pistol). The cartoonists have also drawn every details of the guns and weapons in the show (mostly with the aid of computer animation). Basically, with all these, Hellsing scores a 10/10 in terms of "cool-ness" in their fight sences.

Overall, i give this OVA an 8/10 (A1 liao le). This is recommend to all Hellsing lovers out there, as well as those who like cool graphics and an element of violence and gore. Just like an double-edged sword, this also prove to be a "turn away" for those who hate blood and gore, as well as those who watched Hellsing before and hate plot repetition.

PS: hehe, i belong to the former type of people...

Sense of Satisfaction!

2006-01-27T20:50:00.000+08:00

SOS!
sigh, spent almost the whole evening today to try and install pokemon red (all-time pokemon fan:P)onto my ti-84 graphics calculator. KPKB la, it kept telling me that either: "err: variable" or "memory" or "archived". I was on the verge of calling "Save Our Soul" or throwing the calculator on the floor (of course i not stupid enough to do the latter, cost me $172 la!)

But in the end it doesn't even matter. Because i managed to get to working! (after much try-and-error, that's why i got so much errors......). From, "save our soul", i got much "sense of satisfaction" instead. The final was kind of expected. Ash looked like some kind of stick man, you see a hp bar fighting another hp bar, but the pokemon concept is still there la. but i am glad, because i won a fight against the electronics in the calculator

It's sounds kind of corny, i know, but hte moral of the story stays simple. Preseverance is key. If you press on, the results will be yours. Many times we do simple things (like this) without realising how much values it can give you.

anyway, yeah, won sleep in lectures le:P.......

Oh ya, i will need to sign up for the nus science research thing on the web today. Mrs Choo wanted me to go for this so that more people can go the vjc-nus-a*star science research. sigh......no choice lo.

hope everyone who read this entry can start to take note of things big and small, simple and complicated around you, and you will realised how much nature have to say to you....

wrong place, wrong time

2006-01-23T20:42:00.000+08:00

Sigh, this is my first post since dunno when. i realised that like many blogs, my always have a lot of negative things. i guess it's natural that people respond this way: keep the nice events in our hearts, and pour all your frustration into your blog/diary.

Emm......i will need to research on this human psychology......

anyway, just the first econs tutorial, i sort of said some bad things about Qi Yan and Bryan. Actually i don intend to make them embarrassed or anything (i was just cracking a joke)......but wrong place, wrong time......

just today, i (don know by fate destiny or whatever u call it) sort of made things complicated again for Bryan, Qi Yan and their group members, again...... You see, they were presenting during GP tutorial about mass communication. When it comes to the Q & A section, i just asked more about media censorship. I was only trying to respond, seeing how dead and cold the class was, then people started to point fingers at me (thinking "why u make things difficult for them"). Now i feel very guilty now lo. sigh. wrong place, wrong time.

If there is a course teaching people how to
please others, i would definitely go for it...... if u can teach me that, please do.......

Anyway, got to plan the SLV (service leadership venture) le, bye bye.

Yo VJC

2006-01-08T15:25:00.000+08:00

Yo VJC! (what's up?)

Yo VJC! (what's up?)

boy, can't take my mind off that cheer. Even now i keep humming the tunes of mass dances like "Whiney whiney" and "i want u". haha

i think i don have to describe how the life at vj is like. Vj rocks, enough said, haha.

opps, i think i overdoing it again. WC said i very "show off" or arrogant like that, so i guess i should tone down a bit.

won't be blogging for some time. I know it sounds stupid, but i've trying to complete the Harry Potter series. Still need to finish Order of the Phoenix, Half-blooded prince, Chamber of secrets and prisoner ot Askaban.

PS: Heard from SY that ZL u starting blog ah? must inform me when u do hor. missed all ur words and enlightenments:P

Onwards to VJ

2006-01-02T11:57:00.000+08:00

Hiya, my OGL (orientation group leader) finally called today! One day before school starts, to tell me my team and group. But i guess i cant blame her too(i believed she called, but i was at chalet:P).

But anyway, i am in group inferno, team inito (if i heard correctly). So, anyone in the same group?

Terry massaged me too, asking whether i will remain in VJ after first 3 months. I am glad that i can positively say, "YES!". I already made a promise: first i decide, then i follow through...

the promise's not going to be broken that easily...

47 chalet

2005-12-31T21:13:00.000+08:00

Haven't update for a very long time. Been "recharging" myself like a handphone since the chalet...finally got the energy to blog. If not, i may also forget all about the chalet...

Before the chalet, me, Zhikai, Shiyun, Jia Hao, Zhao Liang were all at school helping out the stall 8 auntie to set up and tidy her stall. The stall itself was really dirty, in fact, it was infested. We can find traces of cockroaches (dead ones) on the ground. Zhi Kai even nearly drop some plates on the.....corpses. But anyway, we wiped away all the 1 mm thick dust on the table tops, shelves, etc, until the stall itself was shiny clean (i guess a bit exaggerated ba). Then later we all waited and waited and waited for the auntie to go pay her PUB bill. Eventually, she came back at around 5pm, which means i am late for the chalet! After chionging all the way to the 88 bus stop, and riding all the way to paris ris, i was the last one to reach at 5.30. Nonetheless, we settled our dinner together at Whitesands, and went to the chalet.

Alas, it was kind of a disappointment when we reach the PA chalet: it was only the size of a 3-room flat, if not smaller. After this, i believe everyone is convinced not to book a chalet at PA again... (Hui Min, not your fault la)

Now, if i were to recollect every memories, this blog would become a 1000 word essay already, so i just keep to the highlights, haha

PS is a hot favourite choice of entertainment (Marvel VS Capcom), especially for people like Ming Zhi (who kept using Jin and strip). I played a bit too. High sense of satisfaction when i managed to pull off a 55 hit Royal Cannon using Gambit and War Machine! HAHA! Played metal slug and even childish game like puzzle bubble. But i have to admit that it's fun.

Pool rocks! Especially when u can play for 2 hours with 4 bucks only. Haha. Because the pool charges $2 per game, theorically, if you catch all the balls before they go into the holes, you can play forever! (no really, until the bar closes). Had a fun time playing. For everyone's infomation, the pool table is at pasir ris beach, at fisherman's village. Woah, if everyone do this, they'll be broke....haha

Some of the boys also went over to Tampines for Lan for CS action! As expected, Louis got the top fraq. None of us can keep up with his kills. A pro indeed... CS is fun, but after playing for too long, you can't help but feel a bit dizzy, in addition to a hole in your pocket...

Then there was BBQ! As usual, i was the fire starter...man, no the fire starters themselves la. Me, Hui Min and Wai Kuan started the fire at the second pit successfully, after 1 or 2 extinguished fire starter. I got a felling that this is one of the quickest fire i ever started, so i have that sense of satisfaction again. haha.
During the BBQ, we were also bugged by a cat who refused to move away. We tried chasing it away, but to no avail. Finally, Defeng comically (as well as cruelly) carry the cat up and drop it over the fence. Ouch! But the stupid thing is that the cat walked one big round to the gate and back again. Sigh

Sleep was a big problem. Imagine, 30 plus people squeezing into 2 rooms. It's more than been packed like sardines, it's like been packed like atoms of a solid! For the first night, me, Louis, Vincent and Zhirong even have to squeeze on a single bed. All sleeping in the same direction, Zhirong even commented that we looked very obscene.

Some people enjoyed themselves throughout the chalet, some play and sleep and play again, some just play and play and play. Some can even stone at the chalet half the time. Since it's our last chalet as a class, should enjoy ourselves to the fullest ma. Aiya, you know who you are la, haha.

This chalet also mark the the end of the year, and the class 47 '05. But the bonds we make with each other, will remain an eternity.

BBQ

2005-12-23T21:47:00.000+08:00

Woah, feel so full now. Just return from my Dad's friend's BBQ tonight.

i cant really say that i was "looking forward" to the BBQ, but i guess no one can turn down an opportunity to eat, can they? so of course, i went for it :P

The BBQ was actually held indoor, at the front of a factory unit. The good thing is, the BBQ is also accompanied by buffet, which means that we can start eating without waiting for the fire to start (yummy yummy). But nonetheless, the fire was up real quick. And they don't even have fire starters. Why? They used a bunsen burner!!! (one that i recalled Jia Wei used in school) It was so impressive relative to our low-tech fire starters in our own BBQ. At that time, i felt like saying "Ee, play cheat. Use bunsen burner one!"

At the BBQ, Mom and i were offered a can of fizzy drink each. i never liked fizzy drinks, because the gases within always seens to accumulate in my stomach, causing it to bloat. As a result, i felt so full just after drinking a can of coke. Comical am i? But still that's not the focus in today's entry...

At the BBQ, i didn't know who to talk to. Even Zhao Yan (one of Dad's friend i know) wasn't that approachable. Come on, you can't expect me to walk up to a man 30-40 years older and ask "Hello, how are you. Business been good?"? Surely not... Looking at my innocent and lost expression, one of them even comment that i look very decent (i am one, i believe:P). Anyway, i am one of the youngest there at the scene (other than a 4 year old). If i am not the innocent young one, who is?

Most of the men there also have big beer belly (makes me think of the moogie in Shiyun's blog). Haha. Hope i don't become like them in the future. But looking at my waistline now, i doubt that's likely, haha.

i guess that's all for today. Went there with an emtpy stomach, came back with a full stomach. Satisfied! ^.^

I'll be dead

2005-12-20T18:26:00.000+08:00

Been exercising throughout the holidays, but realised that i can managed to do ONE pull-up only. If it's NAPFA now, i'll be dead already.

Holidays almost over, and i have yet learn how to swim (it was initial one of my priority, but then...). Again, if you throw me into the water now, i'll be already.

i realised that physically, i am flawed. i can write down at least 5 weaknesses about me (shan't list it here). i need to do something about this, otherwise, i'll be dead!

Soccer fun

2005-12-18T17:50:00.000+08:00

yea, had soccer this morning with 4/7 ppl and Shiu Kit, Yong Biao and others. At first not bad, i managed to score one with a pass from Hun Kiat, haha. But later i kept making mistakes (even score a own goal, really stupid). Boy, maybe i am just not cut of with sports...

Then we went to Goodspeed cyber cafe for CS and Dota fun. We had so much fun, that we don even feel hungry when we played from 12 plus to 3 (i became thinner le). CS was fast and action-packed, i get backstab by Nikesh very often. It's not fair, because sitting next to me, he can see where i am lo. Bored of CS, Nub, me, Zhirong and Nikesh switched to Dota. It was nice, although a bit meaningless. You just kept attacking and attacking until the enemy base is down. Woah, we got threshed by some players called "123" and "321", even though it's 4 vs 2. Sad ah, but nevermind, it's my first time playing:P

After playing for 3 hrs, we were both hungry and "gong" ah. Went to S11 to fill our stomachs, and left after that. Quite an anti-climax finish to a day, but that because we were all too tired to say anything...

Along the way, Zhirong also said that i should have chosen HCI, because we got all get MOE scholarships that can subsidise our school fees(only have to pay $20 plus lo). At that point of time, something clicked inside me, my "shadow" wanted to go HCI. i was having regrets. Later, on the bus, i thought about the issue...

i thought about a qoute from Lacus Clyne (Gundam Seed)
"First you decide, then you follow through"

i have decided, i have chosen VJC, i should follow the path that i chose for myself. Suddenly it felt like i gained enlightment (sounds lame, i know), but the regrets have all dissolved. And i am glad. i can finally tell myself, truthfully, i love VJ

enough of philosophical stuffs, more heartening things...i found a job! I am giving tuition class to my neighbour's sons two storey above me! How good is that you asked? My workplace is just 20 steps away, pay is flexible, time is flexible, working hours is flexible, what more can i expect? Many thanks to my mom who help me find labang for me. Now, i won't be a parasite to my family le:)

Woah, this entry is really long. Those reading, pls tag to give some comments. Or you can just tag and say "HELLO"

VJC, here i come

2005-12-16T19:43:00.000+08:00

PAE resutlts are out! As expected (hehe), i got into VJC. I am glad that i will have many familar faces in the school, if not in my class. For example, Guo Jie, Pei Jun, Agnes, Jai Qing, Shiyun all got into VJ. Also expected, since all of them are "pros". To those who still find difficuties in choosing your subject combinations, here's mine as a reference...

H1 Gp
H1 PW
H2 Mathematics
H2 Biology
H2 Chemistry
H2 Economics

I am glad that i came out with this right after the VJC talk. "Why like that" you asked? Here's my reason...

Come on, Chinese is out of the picture completely. i cannot perform, nor like the subject. Enough said.

Physics? i would like triple, but i will kill myself together with science research and rock climbing as my CCA (yes, rock climbing). Let's just say that time is precious:P Besides, i want to be more a "doctor" than an engineer, so physics will become irrelavant later on...

Hope this made your choice (whoever reads this) clearer. A piece of advice: First you decide, then you follow through. Don't look back and say "ah, i should have chosen that!", because if you have chosen "the other choice", it wouldn't be you, it will be another person asking a different set of questions...

Enough said about PAE. Onto...MapleStory.

God, i am hooked on to MapleStory. Started training my noob mage all the way to lv 22. Wasted 2 days playing. This got to stop man, i feel like a parasite to my family, comsuming energy and food but not working. But today is already the 16th (half a month left), who would want to employ me? (Excuses again, Sze Han) Maybe i will give tuition classes to Wei Ting, Ping Kee and guys. At least it's something more meaningful than Maple...

PS: Thought that i may be a bit impulsive, going around asking people who went what JC. Sorry if i have hurt you emotionally. Look on the brighter side of life: JAE is 3 months from now!

2005-11-30T10:54:00.000+08:00

Never post an entry since last week. Thought I should blog every once in a while. Blogging right now with the baby (the one my mom is babysitting) sitting in my laps, so may contain more mistakes than usual. Come to think of it, I am literally "babysitting". He has a strange habit now, picking his nose and asking me to wipe his fingers clean. Haha, I guess a baby doesn't know how to be hygienic.

Thought about whether I would like my friends to see my blog. Oh well, I just let fate decides whether they get to see this site......

so addicted to MapleStory now, though it's such a boring game. Must be that I have really nothing to do in this holiday. I guess I have to find something else to do.

got over what was said in the earlier entry. Now we are back to the same relationship as before: good friends...

So sorry to Jia Hao, Zhi Kai, Shiyun and Clarrisa. Couldn't make it to the stall 8 aunty house with all of you all. The original plan was to go the the film making camp with my brother, but then realised i was not needed on the first day, so didn't go to the camp afterall. That's i can go to the camp with u all one, but,...sigh... Then stupid Jia Hao kept reminding me about Shiyun and Shiyun at MapleStory, qi si wo la. There's really nothing between me and her. All these nonsense is only preventing anything real from happening......

i guess i crap quite a lot already, time to end all these.

Love?

2005-11-25T10:48:00.000+08:00

Pondering about my previous post...

I realized what's wrong with me

It's lack of courage

with a twist of lack of initiative

with a mix of aimlessness

I looked at others, like Guojie and Jia Hao, the more a failure I've become. The fear of "no longer loving that person" is coming. I find myself hard to be commited. All I can do now is to drown myself in games, now that there is no work......only to know that it will come to haunt me again.

Disappointment

You must make the choice yourself

2005-11-25T10:35:00.000+08:00

Started playing maple story 3 days ago, glad that I am level 15 now...But well...That's not the main theme today.

she massage me yesterday...

I told her "you must make the choice yourself"

she replied "thanks..."

apparently...that's was the wrong answer. She probably expected a different answer...

I see myself as a failure, because I can't even open my feelings to myself. I am not true to myself. Deep down I am not feeling any thing, but somehow I am trying to induce feelings in myself. I thought, maybe my feelings towards her is no longer there. In that case, I should be feeling happy for her, but then history has not changed...I once liked her.

once...

To that girl: Sorry...I couldn't do a good job to make you happy. I shouldn't be with you. Hope you can really find happiness with that guy...Blessings.

So relax

2005-11-21T19:14:00.000+08:00

Haven't blog since the end of "O" levels. Not in a mood to blog actually, now that I got so much time to play. But of course, all play isn't good as well. I just realized after my exams that I am a very target-oriented person. Without targets, my life becomes aimless instantaneously. So i have started a schedue to make sure i do the things i want to do!

Tried MapleStory, or rather trying to. Couldn't get it to work. Dunno whether it's fate or destiny.

Grad ball in 2 days time. So suay, PAE also 2 days from now. Quite sian actually, cos i will have to rush back home to change into my formal wear! i look forward to other's comments as well as their fashion!

Chemistry "O" level Practical

2005-10-25T18:02:00.000+08:00

Yeah, one more "O" level subject down. I was shocked twice during the practical, once by the thunder during the storm, and twice by Jia Hao "pop" sound (test for hydrogen). it was really loud, especially when i am right next to him. i guess he was taken aback himself.
i am glad that i got all the calculations and obsvervations correct (just that i wrote pale yellowish green for silver iodide instead of pale yellow)
nonetheless, this is much easier than bio prac.
hope physics prac 2 days from now will be easy too=)

King of Seed

2005-10-24T14:42:00.000+08:00

Athrun's Laws of Romance

2005-10-24T09:10:00.000+08:00

Athrun and Meer

2005-10-24T08:40:00.000+08:00

Athrun's devotion to Cagalli

2005-10-23T18:24:00.000+08:00

more athrun moments

Athrun loves Cagalli? Maybe not?

2005-10-23T16:42:00.000+08:00

Zaft times

2005-10-23T16:06:00.000+08:00

Gundam Seed Destiny Comics

2005-10-23T15:59:00.000+08:00

This will be totally hilarious to all GSD fans out there. will be posting more of these i found from the net. kudos to all who have done these!

You only see what your eyes want to see

2005-10-23T13:14:00.000+08:00

For almost 8 full years i have been living in my home, it's only today that i found out that the fan in the dining room actually has a reverse function. This would allow it to spin clockwise instead of anticlockwise, thus creating a low pressure center and ...... , you know, physics stuff. But that's not the point i want to make here. Our brain is just so selective in seeing what it wants to see, and only very observant people can detect this kind of things. Even so, they may miss out other things that others spot.
Our psychology is indeed amazing...
I shall delicate this blog to more research done by me on people's psychology.