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2008-05-03T19:25:00.002+08:00

I think i want to move to wordpress.

unwordiness.wordpress.com

you see, i am not a very wordy person, so i chose the name 'unwordy', but that was taken, so 'unwordiness' was the fallback option, yea.

cya

bb.

ttyl.

2008 update:

2008-02-03T08:13:00.000+08:00

Done a fair bit of reading recently, will continue to read for the next few weeks. Nice.

A month into 2008, and already I have no idea where I am going... just waiting for God to open and close the doors.

Have spent a lot of time missing school.

Spend most nights fearing that it may be camou party night....

Yep. Roll on February please.

School.

2008-01-04T19:45:00.000+08:00

I miss it. Though I have been back for the past three days.

As the Dezster once said,"Ethan, you have no life".

My Life, His Way

2007-12-07T23:19:00.000+08:00

Church camp was fun and I think I have begun to embark on a proper relationship with God. Understanding only truly comes after a relationship is built through proper quiet time and prayer, not the head knowledge.

Also, Manasseh (is that spelt right?), was a brilliant group to be in, and the talks were apt.

However, I still feel this feeling of purposelessness setting in, and i guess total freedom might only be best as a dream. I need to do something!

Prom

2007-11-29T10:35:00.000+08:00

When the school anthem was sung, memories from the past 12 years flashed by.

Playing table tennis with the $2 bats from the bookshop.
Playing freezer and pondan.
Singing the school anthem at the quadrangle with my power rangers school bag in the front.
Playing football for the school.

Singing hymns at chapel.
Singing the school anthem after chapel.
Football at the parade square.
Getting busted by Mr. See for bringing kickapoo out of the SAC.
Playing waterpolo for the school.
BB camps.
BB parades.
BB Bible Study.
Making films with BLT Productions.
Wrecking classes.
OEP.

I know mother tells me that I will feel the same way about the army when I leave, but I doubt so.

Scratch that. I shouldn't be so negative about the future, because after 12 years I have learnt to live believing that the best is truly yet to be.

And now iTunes shuffling has decided I have to listen to "If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time" by R. Kelly. My mac is wicked.

OST

2007-11-19T17:17:00.000+08:00

Life of Ethan, in music:

01 - OPENING CREDITS: Kenny G, I'm In The Mood For Love
02 - WAKING UP: Bon Jovi, Woman In Love
03 - FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL: Natalie Cole, This Will Be
04 - FALLING IN LOVE: Nat King Cole, You're My Everything
05 - FIGHT SONG: Avril Lavigne, Complicated (simple actually, just punch the other guy)
06 - BREAKING UP: Sweet Hitch-Hiker, Creedence Clearwater Revival
07 - PROM: Queen, Is This The World We Created
08- LIFE: Heol Telwen, Mor Braz
09 - MENTAL BREAKDOWN: The Who, Join Together
10 - DRIVING: Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan, Like A Rolling Stone
11 - FLASHBACK: Prince, Let's Go Crazy
12 - WEDDING: Diana Ross, If We Hold On Together
13 - BIRTH OF CHILD: Bon Jovi, Always
14 - FINAL BATTLE: Rolling Stones, Shattered (does this mean I lost?)
15 - DEATH SCENE: Dido, Here With Me
16 - FUNERAL SONG: Dire Straits, Sultans Of Swing
17 - END CREDITS: Howard Shore, King Of The Golden Hall

The End...

2007-11-15T19:08:00.000+08:00

seems more like rounding off like opening out now, doesn't it?

but it is, in fact, BOTH!!!

Time flies, like a stray arrow shot by archers in Beowulf. I think I might just miss the daily annoucements to:

1. Look under your desk to check that you have no unauthorized material.
2. Check to see if the paper has the correct number of pages. But remember, DON'T read the questions!
3. Remember that colour pencils can only be used for graphs, diagrams, and charts.

Can't remember the others at the moment.

Life will not be purposeless these next few weeks (hopefully), even though this is just about the first time ever we all have had nothing to do, really.

Little Britain...

2007-11-07T22:53:00.000+08:00

... tis a silly place, as King Arthur said in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Well actually, he said Camelot was a silly place, but they all mean the same thing in the end.

Anyway, Yahoo! news have excellently managed to verify this claim, by shedding light on some of the intricate laws which govern the land of Britain, including:

1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament
2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down
3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store
4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day
5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter
6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet
7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen
8. It is illegal to avoid telling the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing
9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour
10. In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow
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gee, compared to Britain, Singapore seems like a fine city, doesn't it?

U2...

2007-11-01T22:49:00.000+08:00

make a lot of sense sometimes.

And the IB exams are about to begin.

Carpe Diem! (Whatever that means!)

WOW

2007-10-23T12:22:00.000+08:00

the cashier looked at me quizically, laughed, mumbled something, and asked for the money.

I could have done this ages ago!

Oh, and I have finally reached 100 posts after 4 years, yay.

11th Day of the Study Leave Period

2007-10-23T08:55:00.000+08:00

I'm going to buy alcohol and see whether the cashier gives me a quizzical look, before asking for my ic.

Hmm, it has been about a year since I was not allowed into Little Miss Sunshine because there was not enough evidence that I was above 16 years age. Standing next to Ben Soh didn't help either. haha.

Stuck in a Moment

2007-10-12T16:09:00.000+08:00

Listening to Stuck in a Moment by U2 now, and am reminiscing, in a very emo way, the past 12 years of school, as 9th January 2008, 1400h draws ever closer.

I remember the last day of primary 6, and the sadness which came with it. I remember emo-ing on the way to thanksgiving dinner at my aunt's place, telling my mom 6.9 was the greatest primary school class ever.

Today was the last day of year 6, and the feelings swirling through my head are similar to those 6 years ago. Curiously, I am also going to my aunt's house tonight, albeit this time for her birthday dinner. However, I believe that the experience today will not be replicated ever again, except maybe during prom. Firstly, we sang the school anthem for the last time in school. I thought I was the only kid to nearly shed a tear, but later I found out that quite a number of us boys nearly cried. 12 years of singing 'our ACS forever!' and now we won't be singing it anymore, except during those rare reunions in time to come.
Also, 4.16 Enoch made a pilgrimmage back to our old class, now 1.15 Silas. Argh, the nostalgia!!!

Besides 4.16 Enoch '05, my other class of 2 years has been 6.8 Galatia. While different from .16, .8 has become a comfortable place, made up of an honest bunch of people (as exemplified by madam, who would never let us off 5 minutes early), whom I have warmed towards over the past 2 years.

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Well, now as the IB exams draw near, I guess it is finally time for us to run the race with perseverance (prefably run with others, as iron sharpens iron), as we are the light of the world, the salt of the earth, and time to soar on wings like eagles, while leaving everything in God's hands.

2007-09-29T19:36:00.000+08:00

Bought 'kill to get crimson' by Mark Knopfler today.

Knopfler is ace.

post-prelim

2007-09-28T21:30:00.000+08:00

the prelim over,
break also over.

results (thursday), dang.

just tidied my room.
back to routine. soon.

wah. failed poem. hope it doesn't sum up my prelims, and more importantly, my ib exams. haha.

Reflections on a Tropical Evening

2007-08-16T01:10:00.000+08:00

Hello blog. I haven't posted here for 8 months.

Today Jeff came back to school, and I realized that IB is ending imminently. I've decided that despite this being a week to IOC, I am going to blog. This was catalysed by nickel, causing a hydrogenation reaction. hah.

Actually, I read my old blog posts 20 minutes ago, and apart from learning what an utter moron I was in sec 3, I also learnt that I was very wrong on alot of things in the past...

Firstly, I predicted that 4.16's spirit would die by 'ib year 2'. haha. its year 6, fool! and somehow or another, 4.16's spirit still remains strong, though it has since evolved into slightly.

Next, i believed 5.8 Kings was a mugger class. HAHAHAHAHA.

There are more examples, just too lazy (some things never change) to find them.

I think this blog's history of entries just goes to show how retarded i was (and still am).

Finally, due to the need to practice IOC, i shall conclude by saying that the main themes inherent in this post are those of reflection and sentimentality. The consequence of this is that i am 'grimly gay' about the future, and wish i could repeat my time in acs (i), although it must be said, i don't wish to repeat sec 3, i was a 'vile miscreant' back then. haha. ib jokes.

P.S. Will come by here the next time i feel sentimental (which is probably soon)...

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year...SCHOOL!

2007-01-02T22:37:00.000+08:00

ahoy mateys! we're halfway thru our ib programme, and the sea appears to be getting stormier. argh. at least we've had relative sunshine in nov and dec (oh really?), playing around the beach during drama camp, going home and doing CPR on ur dying dog...

OMFG, your dog died?!?

yes, dear reader, my dog died. unforunately it's ass was on my lap when it passed on, hence dark matter passed out of him and onto my favourite shirt and my mom's car as well. this led to a period of mourning in the family household (my sisters, parents and maids all felt sad for the loss of this canine companion...i felt guilty for not feeling compassionate to the creature that used to bark at me whenever i got home).

moving on, i spent 2 weeks on a CAS blitz, painting a mural at NUH and running 100km with slow, zy, and melvin. the former was a lot of fun, centred mainly on climbing scaffholding without any harness or safety equipment. the latter too, was a unique experience. basically, the route was: sembawang, kranji, woodlands, upper bukit timah, bukit batok, jurong, clementi, pasir panjang, alexandra, tanglin, orchard, kallang, east coast, bedok, serengoon, hougang, seletar, lentor, yishun, sembawang. or something to that effect... one goes slightly mad when walking for 23:45 hours. finished 2nd though, which was cool, cos we were actually underaged and had to appeal to be able to enter.

next up was my quest to finish history ia, ee, and tok. i failed at tok. but i did manage to kind of finish both history and ee. i still feel both were sloppily done, but oh well... i was in a rush! really!!!

2-5 Dec was church camp. as usual i learnt quite a bit. learnt that flybar is an imba band, and attempted to care more for my group. personally, i felt really blessed my rev. malcolm tan's message and his attitude towards Christianity. i don't know, but i wholeheartedly agreed when he said something along the lines of,'to those of you who want to accept Christ, you don't have to raise your hand...' i'm a cynic by nature, and i must confess i always look at those people who raise their hands with cynism. eg. that guy is only raising his hands cos his friends are... the act kinda gives off this feeling that if you don't raise your hand, you are either a) not Christian, or b) not a good one. anyway, learnt that asking for material stuff in prayer is dumb. asking for wisdom is so much... wiser?

14-24 Dec was my family holiday to england and italy. went to london, venice, florence, siena, and milan.... in short london was the same as always, while italy was picturesque and extremely beautiful. i don't have time now, so i'll elaborate another day.

My uncle needs to use the com now. time is running out!!!! ah, screw the rest of this summary of my holidays. look to the future! school starts in 8 hours!!!

2006 is over and 2007 begins... out of the frying pan and into the fire... time to roll up socks... hit the books... i'm running out of phrases already, so ciao!

Return of the Chicken

2006-11-29T21:07:00.000+08:00

First and foremost, i'm a technological dinosaur according to the ever-complementary kentay. so what led him to come to such a damning conclusion?
1. I only just realised blogger has been updated to a beta version...whatever that is.
2. I use a mac but blog on blogger... even the most hardcore windows users out there are switching to mac's wordpress!

anyway, on to the return of the chicken...

background: i was on a runner's high after cycling and running for 2 hours. so i ended up making bad jokes at the dinner table, pissing everyone off, before proceeding to damn everyone for eating chicken.

anyway, this is my theory on why we shouldn't eat chicken:

picture this. a chicken, eating chicken feed on a rural farm in choa chu kang, living gaily like any other normal chicken. one day, farmer brown decides to slaughter it to make ends meet, and he sells the poor chicken to the supermarket, where we consume it. what does this mean?

That the chicken lived to die? To be consumed by us humans?

Yes, indeed it did. For the poor creature is being abused, a victim of the vicious society we live in. The chicken has a right to live, like anyone of us. If the chicken was bred to die, surely we too should be living to die. which means we might as well die now and save ourselves the trouble of finishing ib, thinking about TOK stuff, and other things which will be useless in the end.

But we don't do we? We don't want to kill ourselves now (unless ur emo of course). Therefore, we should stop eating chicken, stop the hypocrisy, and stop the injustice!

Well, after this (slightly) logical argument. ok, maybe not, i'm still high anyway, what can i do about it (bb nyaa logging does this to you)? nothing. why? cos i'm too chicken!!! ahhhhhhh!!! the argument comes full circle!

WE ARE CHICKENS! upon inhumane slaughter, they return as humans!!!

damn.

what cracks me up? coke.
what seafood tastes bad? crab (crap. -.-)
which sea animal is the best singer? seal.
which is the father of all fruits? papa-ya.
which is the most high-tech of all fruits? apple.
what do you call a windows user who longs for a mac? pine-apple (-.-)
which is the fruit salmon fear? pears (bears. -.-)
what do you call a gray monkey? gr-ape.

as you can see, cycling 25km then running 3.5km then doing pushups and sit ups isn't good for one's sanity.
neither, i hear, is listening to your ipod on full volume.

COUNTDOWN!!!

2006-10-31T15:04:00.000+08:00

blt asks for a review of his new show, countdown. well, i think it can be summed up in three words (i'm a concise, sciency person, really!): funny, confusing, and admirable.

funny because some scenes are really hilarious, like when the triad walks in and 20 people wearing identical suits storm the office.

confusing as i don't get the plot even though i get it....nevermind, haha.

admirable cos i doubt most of us would have the inititative, and the skill to direct, produce, edit, and do whatever else he did to get the film done.

in short, great job blt!

oh, and boss asks me to put up a link as well: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3477108537208786893
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in other news, coast pwned the esperanza concert on saturday, though acs (international) ran them close.
later i had nice beef for dinner. mmmm.

Hunt For Red October

2006-10-24T23:41:00.000+08:00

this shall be the name of the game for drama night games. only problem is that it is in november. dammit.

since the end of the exams, i have told myself i would do many things, but obviously haven't.

fortunately, i am now 17 years of age which means this is THE age in which i will grow to 1.7m, cos last year i was 16 and was 1.6m.

on a side note i have achieved a decent score... 34/42 with an average of about 70, my highest since 2005. this was higher than my expected target of 33, so i am happy. or should be. all the closet muggers in ac hid in the closet and mugged, such that methinks the average ib score is 36/42.

also, monday was 23 october, my birthday! i spent it stoning,finding my perpetually stolen guitar,going to bbhq to talk about sharity gift box,and watching ed tv on hbo. what an exciting day!

in all seriousness, at least i am not hard-pressed to hand anything up. oh wait! ah, now i have cunningly crafted a things-to-do-in-the-holidays list into my blog entry, muahahahaha!

CAS
EE
TOK
English Assignments
Chinese B Exam
History IA
BB Sharity Gift Box Planning
Drama Camp Night Games Planning
BB-MCYC Camp
Church Camp

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Saturday the 14th

2006-10-14T22:13:00.000+08:00

0.o.......never did get the big deal about friday the 13th. went to chor yuan's house after drama and tennis to play abit of football with the cosmopolitan community there. i learnt that the french were the most hated community amongst the kids cos they're apparently arrogant twits who can't speak english. i also learnt that uwc kids are a superstitious lot... this pakistani kid told me that his teacher's mom died on friday the 13th, the day their new car arrived, with 666 on the car plate. ooooooohhh...

today i learnt that i had no life, as i turned down going to a party so that i could watch man utd play wigan.

BUT IT WAS WORTH IT!

cos solksjaer kicks ass. he's so going to win the golden boot this year.

although many footballers do wear golden boots these days, dang.

Exams! OVER!

2006-10-10T23:41:00.000+08:00

today i learnt that nuclear missiles aren't catapulted up into the air by a bunch of angry north koreans jumping on a platform.

i also learnt that i don't look 16, hence am not allowed into an nc-16 movie, despite me being all of 16 years and 11 months.

ticket guy: sorry, i can't let you in?
me: why?
ticket guy: to be honest ah, you don't look 16. sorry.

noooooooooooooooo!!!!

maybe they'll let me pay kid's fare on the bus next time.

Exams!

2006-10-02T11:45:00.000+08:00

Apparently this blog is dead. oh well, the exams are here and if u are really bored, you could sign up to this website:

http://www.undergroundhypnosis.com/site/

bye! i'm off to hypnotise my chinese teacher.

A Really Long Expose On My Week

2006-08-05T17:32:00.000+08:00

Well, what a week. I think it really only kicked off on Wednesday cos that's when I kicked (or at least attempted to) chor yuan.

Basically, everyone was having a free period during chinese, so i was wandering the corridors wearing a bandana and listening to my ipod when i saw chor yuan passing a ball inside his class, and he was about 2 feet from the door. SO, i decided to open the door and kick him, but i failed to realise that I had stepped on the class welcome mat and ended up sprawled on the cold, hard ground of 5.13, much to the laughter of chor yuan and friends. damn!

After this incident, the anglolympics took place. ok, so i made 3 assists, which led to all 3 goals my class scored. BUT! the point is that against 5.14, i somehow contrived to miss not 1, but 2 penalties!!! wtfffffffffff!!!

Thursday was the day of rest, as in the only thing which happened was me practising and missing more penalties and blaming it on the effects of waterpolo.

Friday was cross followed by haven. However, prior to that i took 10 penalties in school to practise, of which i scored 1, yay! anyway, my target for the run was the milo van at the end, and it seemed to work, cos i managed a top 10 finish. oh, and GHK won 1st for i think the 1st time ever, props to leon for running like speedy gonzalez on pot, and to the rest of the dudes from GHK whom i see once a year.

Another achievement came when sean,stan,aizat, and i were stuck in a traffic jam for one and a half hours, and hence we managed to listen thru the 2 CD rhcp live in hyde park, a feat i have never been able to achieve. Anyway, haven was quite good. props to nick yeo, who did the erm, props. and the costume designer, cos costumes were nice.

Because of this relentless amount of punishing phyiscal activity, i am now going to retire to my bed and not wake up till september ends. -.-actually i'm off to do tok... i don't have much time left, and time is ticking, tick TOK!

ARGHS

2006-07-11T15:36:00.000+08:00

this is the story my exams so far:
bio,math,english- all either 5 or 6. WHY CAN'T I OWN AN EXAM FOR ONCE!!!
chinese- 4 or 5. the usual.
chem- should/ hope i pass.
history- tomorrow. and i'm not mugging for it now.

in short: i'm quite screwed. so much for 33 points out of 42.gg.

world cup fever

2006-06-21T11:48:00.000+08:00

i slept at five-thirty after England vs Sweden. i have a headache. seems like i've finally gotten world cup fever. whoa.

in other news, school is starting soon, and to be honest i dont think i've had a holiday as of yet. oh well, nehmine la, at least school=football.
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Just watched RHCP Live at Slane Castle. It's a damn good show. Makes me want to start a band soon...the GDC (Greatly Daring Cowards)...ok, maybe not.

Holiday Term (is that oxymoronic?)

2006-06-09T13:58:00.000+08:00

well, i'm off to bali soon. but more importantly,

IT'S THE START OF THE WORLD CUP!!!!

...and i'm in bali!!! oh well, i intend to visit the poolside bar where there will probably be loads of grumpy english expats complaining about the current state of football, while of course, watching football.

englishman: aye, that david beckham, he's crap ah!
me: but he is the top passer in la liga, he pwned ronaldinho...
englishman: nooooooo! i played football in england before coming to southeast asia la! i know what i'm talking about!

all englishman are like that. most of them anyway. stubborn folk, they are, much like the king of some random land in monty python and the holy grail, who was trying to get his son to, oh never mind, not that anyone cares about monty python anyway.

oh, and i've just realised. hmmm. when i imagine englishmen speaking, i imagine... carragher speaking wif 'is thick mersey accent, erm, yea.

one final note: this post is titled Holiday Term, and it owes much to the fact that i have 1 history essay and 9, NINE NINE OMISON NINE!!! lwts to complete. that's like more than i have ever written in my entire life. this is besides studying for the mid-years, which happen to be in the second and third weeks of school, COINCIDING with the world cup!

life doesn't get any better.

w00ts.

Beijing

2006-05-01T13:37:00.001+08:00

twas an interesting experience. certainly not as fun as if kentay,kiat,anjan, and i had been placed in group one, but interesting nonetheless. mealtimes with sam chan, kah ming, shiv, and the above 4 were fun, especially cos of the comic genius of anjan and shiv, the gayness between kah ming and shiv, the munchkins advice given by sam and shiv... hmm, shiv seems to be everywhere, :. i can conclude that this oep was basically a chance for all of us to live the shivas life.

intriguingly, it is possible for boys to find shopping addictive, prefably if wades of bs used to bargain stuff down is used.

anyway, i managed to keep sane during oep, despite random bouts of insanity (like shooting waitresses with bb guns, for instance).

kentay meets the peking man.

shiv and kah.

a shocked sam.

comrade blt hath joined the commies.

bloke ownz you!

and lastly...

shivana. the tamil tiger.

Beijing

2006-05-01T13:37:00.000+08:00

interesting experience. certainly not as fun as if kentay,kiat,anjan, and i had been placed in group one, but interesting nonetheless. mealtimes with sam chan, kah ming, shiv, and the above 4 were fun, especially cos of the comic genius of anjan and shiv, the gayness between kah ming and shiv, the munchkins advice given by sam and shiv... hmm, shiv seems to be everywhere, :. i can conclude that this oep was basically a chance for all of us to live the shivas life.

intriguingly, it is possible for boys to find shopping addictive, prefably if wades of bs used to bargain stuff down is used.

anyway, i managed to keep sane during oep, despite random bouts of insanity (like shooting waitresses with bb guns, for instance).

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6 Nights In Beijing!

2006-04-22T13:36:00.000+08:00

Going to the airport soon.
Wow. time flies and now, the final leg of slacking is about to be run.
Run the race with perseverance!!!

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After we return from prancing around tianamen square, running around the great wall and such, common tests are upon us! arghs. IOP,IOC,TOK...WTH!!! LOL.

I think the curse of the new millenia has something to do with the astounding avalanche of acronyms which have befallen society.

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yay. my 5th cd has been burnt. that means that i have 5 cds worth of songs, and my cds have not literally been burnt. Language really does have something to do with assumptions!
in the past if i'd said,"oh, i've just burnt my cd", one would've thought that i'd placed it over a bunsen burner or something.
arghs. TOK ownz me.

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this incoherent post is a result of sleep deprivation over the past few days in my attempts to complete my LWT and TOK. at least i completed LWT...

oh look, it's 1.44pm. I'm supposed to be at the airport at around 2.40pm. I guess i better bathe now.

6 nights in beijing!!!!!!!!

sports practical.

2006-04-12T22:47:00.000+08:00

so we won aq and finished 5th for as. praise God.

but my studies have sorta managed to hit a new low this year and i feel a sudden jolt which makes me want to study hard.
but i cant. oh well. i will start studying soon. *mental note to self: okayyyyyyyyyy*

anyway, we lost rugby b div for the 3rd successive year. noooooooooooo!!!

something needs to be done. NOW.

hence i have taken it upon myself to think of areas for/of improvement for the rugby team:

1. We can play more matches, and take the average of the best team and use that as our finals team next year.
2. We can use better equipment, such as a modern gym and newer cones and a new field to train.
3. We can change our method of playing. More cheap penalties instead of trying to score (haha, TRY..doh).

hmmm, i can't think of anymore areas for/of improvement. no wonder i only got a partial for my conclusion and evaluation section for my chem prac.

< and in other news, kentay and i got shifted to 22-28 april group for beijing trip. arghs, no, erm, i meant to say, errrr...WOW!>

my deviantart account, serious!

2006-03-28T19:22:00.000+08:00

you shall go there NOW!!!

littleming.deviantart.com

seriously.

lol.

no, really serious.

the importance of being impulsive

2006-03-22T23:24:00.000+08:00

or rather, the lack of it. impulsivity is bad. this is why:

why impulsivity is bad situation 1:

you rashly decide to break your xiao ji eating record of 9 in one day and go ahead and eat 10. thats on top of eating a plate of chicken rice + a hash brown + an egg + 2 drinks.

if i don't come to school tomorrow morning i'll know why. -justin seah.

i'll probably come to school tomorrow mourning the sudden gain in kg. darn.

why impulsivity is bad situation 2:

don't ever succumb to the impulse of trying to scare your teacher by hiding in a cupboard waiting for him to open the door and then booing him. cos if you have the balls to do it that time you may not have them if you are dumb enough to do it a second time.

*takes mental note to himself*

Journey to the West...wait, HK's north, arghs

2006-03-15T23:08:00.000+08:00

leaving for hk in a few hours, arghs! cant see ronin at the esplanade tomorrow... noooooooooooooo!!! nehmine, at least i'll be able to watch jay chou in concert (erm, ok?).

anyway, aq camp was held over the weekend, and supposedly i was the camp chairman. muahaha. so i devised this uber cool night hike route which would take us from shenton way to orchard to newton to king albert park to clementi to nus to south buona vista to ulu pandan and then back to acs. but my plans were foiled by my fellow aq mates, who insisted on going back to acs after the king albert park stop. damn.

another stupid thing we did was when we entered a military restricted zone on sat afternoon for our afternoon hike. without a compass. doh. so we got lost and wandered the place, contemplating life and how we managed to succeed in wasting away our time at aq camp. oh well. at least the really cool thumb game kept us awake. and singing songs as well.

event 2 of the march hols so far was vios. no, i didn't get a car, as in the party vios. lol. got ivan 2 cds and co-bought a card with tp and melvin before heading towards the arts house, which coincidentally is also the old parliament house. i was under the impression that most of the old ministers were science students, and at the time art students were looked down upon, but obviously arts house sounded cooler than science house.

the party itself was quite cool. free flow of pepsi and 7-up, and well, darren trying his best to be a rapper. personally, i thought the lights were really cool. seriously! at 10.30 darren,melvin,tp,jj,shannon,blt, and i trudged off to adam road hawker centre for supper, and this is where we met the most le pak polis officers ever!!! so much for catching decadent yooth out at night... they were sitting at a table drinking kopi. thats the way man, thats the way...

somewhere in between this mad rush of happenings, i was at yishun trying out rock climbing,abseiling, and rope ascending. i also teleported to school for centrestage rehearsal and time turned back home for some tuition.

speaking of time turning, i just watched back to the future. it makes you wonder, what could i do if i could turn back time.
here's my list:

1. prevent hitler from taking power cos he was too dumb. i'll just take power instead. don't believe me? well, captain planet does! 'the power is in your hands!'

2. invent and patent the mobile phone as well as start up the company mobil. then i'll make ALL mobiles run on mobil oil, which is of course, owned by yours truly. muahahahha.

3. discover singapore before raffles and start my own school in bishan.

4. capture 2 of the last passenger pigeons before they become extinct so i won't have to waste money by buying a mobile next time.

5. bring a boombox and tons of cds back to the past and play kaiser chiefs. this will cause ppl to become really angry that they're being subjected to weird sonic energy waves, hence starting a riot. of course, i would've predicted this riot. ha.

jokes of the day:
what do u call a shirt-wearing tyrannosaurous rex? a t-shirt!!!
romeo and juliet were found dead on the floor with nothing but a puddle of water a broken glass bowl found at the crime scene. how did they die? they were pushed off the table, cos they're fish!

arghs.

slac-KING.

2006-03-08T17:12:00.000+08:00

The class of kings, 5.8, is a really mugger class. seriously.

Fortunately for me, and unfortunately for others in the class, the past week has been one of slackness which will probably never be repeated again. monday was slack, tuesday slacker, and today, wednesday week b, the most HORRIBLE day on my timetable, evolved into the bestest day ever.

First, bio. the prac was cool, pretending to be Yan from Yan Can Cook while chopping beetroot. Then, mrs tay gave us a break for the first time this year. this was good cos it was fried food day, and going for an early break meant no queues!

Then, recess and chem. chem was like, 2hrs 20mins but shortened to 1hr 20mins thanks to mr tan.

Finally, chinese period. relief teacher walks in 15 mins late. no one has brought their books. lots of ppl gone for track.

muahahaha.

-sudden random thought-

we lost to ri in the tennis finals. arghs. never mind, there's always next year.

-random thought disappears-

i've become so slack that i'm even beginning to procrastinate at doing things i want to do. such as learning new songs on the guitar, going running, cycling, etc. the only thing i can do without much trouble is head down to the kitchen. i can tell that this is not good. perhaps i should see a doctor?

hmm...let me think about it...

the asdewrtavfawsfcra post

2006-03-04T23:21:00.000+08:00

this is the asdewrtdasfvvdad post.

apt title, cos it sums up week 9 of school real nicely.

1. Got kicked while playing soccer on monday, ruling me out from playing on tuesday. cold turkey treatment sucks...big time.
2. Founder's Day was crazy. centrestage,class party, and then shopping from 8-9.30 at taka for ur sunday school teacher's wedding takes a lot out of you.
3. Friday. JAE results day=more tears shed than ever seen before at the acsi campus. felt sorry for those who underwent severe stress cos i know how it feels like...(memories of psle results come flooding back)... anyway, one funny bit was when chris got 2 decks confiscated, but made one disappear, hence ms luah only managed to confiscate 1 deck. i commented that it was practical magic and next time someone wanted to confiscate my phone, i would use that trick. guess what. got caught usnig handphone in the audi and it got confiscated. fortunately, pleading and begging works as well, lol.
4. Alex's wedding. jokingly told him i'd play the triangle...and he seriously thought i would! kwee san handed my an ang bao saying that it was alex's way of saying thank you for playing... but i wasn't. dang. jack. oopster. so when alex on stage thanking ppl, he got to the musicians and asked aloud,"where is our triangle man? ethan where are you???''

the shock. the maluness. oh well. at the reception later, alex decreed that i must atone for my sin by playing the triangle at all the other sunday school teacher's weddings when they get married. nooooooo!!! lol. i'd much rather play the circle. haha.

if this post seems disjointed.
it
is.
crazy as it seems, i'm actually feeling rather stressed that term is ending.
school seems so much more tiring this year.
i long for 2005, where life was simpler. where there was less pain. less responsibility. less...

oh damn. i'm becoming emo.

warning gentlemen, this is a nuclear device...

when emoness hits you, it contaminates and spreads throughout you, then u listen to simple plan and contemplate complex things such as suicide and running away. ironic isn't it? simple plan + emo= complexity.

damn them. much better.

in order to prevent the spread of emo-ness. hide in a great glass elevator, prefably somewhere in the sky, and observe the world through the glass. then press a button and head for your space station where you zone out into space.

i wonder if anyone got that?

error!

2006-02-12T22:55:00.000+08:00

i hate that word.

firstly, u get that if u type something wrongly into the GDC. dangit.

secondly, we've started learning error analysis for chem. arghs.

anyway, man utd have closed the gap on chelsea!!! i can feel the balance of power shifting back to the north!!! muahahahha.

week 7. tests coming.
screwed. math means mourning.
then dawns 8, oh dear.
with God, never fear.

^ shows that i'm going crazy already. too much wilfred owen!!!!! arghs!!! screw war poetry!!!

saboed!!!

2006-02-08T23:56:00.000+08:00

darghs, kena saboed.

Seven qualities I want in a potential boyfriend/girlfriend
1.kena saboed
2.kena saboed
3.kena saboed
4.kena saboed
5.must be short! (nah)
6.must be a nice person.
7.must play SOCCER (being sporty also kan la).

Seven things that scare me:
1. my sisters.
2. changing times.
3. my running gets slow.
4. no more soccer.
5. bad results.
6. horror movies.
7. going to hell.

Seven random songs at the moment:
1. Voodoo Chile- Stevie Ray Vaughan.
2. Wonderwall- Oasis.
3. Tribute- Tenacious D.
4. Knocking On Heaven's Door- Guns n Roses.
5. Layla (acoustic)- Eric Clapton.
6. If You Want Blood (You've Got It)- AC/DC
7. Bring It On Home- Led Zeppelin.

Seven things I like the most:
1. SOCCER!
2. xiao ji.
3. guitar.
4. 4.16 enoch.
5. tennis.
6. running.
7. music.

Seven random facts about me:
1. I am not tall.
2. I play lots of football.
3. I try to study but my ipod/guitar/com always manages to foil my evil plans.
4. I run quite a bit.
5. I am not confident taking bus by myself.
6. I don't like talking to people i don't know... every time there's a party or i get put in a new class, i end up stoning alot.
7. I've been in ACS for 10+ years.
Seven things I plan to do before I die:
1. Visit South America and the savannas of Africa.
2. Go on a cruise from South America to the Antarctic.
3. Master the guitar.
4. Play and manage Man Ut.d
5. Play in a band.
6. Learn not to judge people.
7. Love God.

Seven things I say the most
1. asswipe.
2. wtf!!!!!
3. screw you!!!
4. omison.
5. darghs.
6. dangit.
7. what the hell man!

Seven celebrity crushes:
1. i'm a tv n00b. so can i say none?
2. fine! kylie minogue (cos she's shorter than me!)

Seven people I want to do this too
1.beng.
2.ken tay.
3. charlotte.
4. tessa.
5. dale ( i know u have a blog somewhere in that lair of yours dale!!!)
6. ivan.
7. luke.

ahahahaha. updated at last!!!

oh, inter-class tomorrow and i have my second sprained ankle in a month... well... neh mind ah!

jordan river fc pwnz joo.

boo.

2006-01-29T15:21:00.000+08:00

ok, so i havent blogged in quite a while. well, basically i went with s.low and mat to watch queen, its a kinda magic at the esplanade last week. it was damn cool la. how many times do you get to see middle aged folk, probably ur parents age, jumping up and down, shaking their butts, headbanging, dancing, singing, and even air-guitaring? not many times right? which is why this was so kool. the 3 of us were like the youngest folk there, mixing up with the ex-decadent yooth... fantastic experience. the band itself was good, so good in fact that at times i kinda forgot that this was only a tribute band... or maybe i'm just blur.

then i was sick the rest of the week... spent my school hours stoning, before going home to sleep for 12 hours at a time. intriguingly, there is a theory that growth is linked with getting sufficient rest. curious, i decided to check my height. to be truthful, i think i seriously grew a bit, a tiny bit.

anyway, friday was the lunar new year celebrations. i thought it was the cheesiest celebration EVER! damnit, why on earth did they get a guy with an accent to speak in ENGLISH during the celebrations. we're not SUPPOSED to understand anything and hence end up talking among ourselves! wait, actually...

45 more minutes...

2006-01-22T23:17:00.000+08:00

before man utd take on liverpool.

i honestly think we're going to win 3-0, so ya, we will!

anyway, there goes my new years resolution out the window. i've successfully managed to slack, feel guilty, but continue procrastinating for one whole day. well, actually i did do math, but that was easy... stupid chem. told myself yesterday i'd read it thoroughly today but nooooooooooooo, i skim through it and then go off kicking the football.

seriously, i think the football in my room is destructive both physically and psychologically. physically cos its made me sprain my ankle AND break the blinds before, and psychologically cos it gives me reason to slack.

thankfully, i've thought of the perfect antidote to end my troubles with procrastination. basically, i procrastinate by playing football cos i tell myself i should be studying. so if i just reverse my priorities, problem solved! simple eh? aim to play football and slack instead of study, and automatically my mind will procrastinate on the matter at hand by urging me to study.

i think i could write an entire thesis on this.
but then in order to procrastinate enough so as to finish it i would have to tell myself that i want to play a real 90 minute game of football...

damn.

A Bridging Week

2006-01-17T18:30:00.000+08:00

Last week was a bridging week (haha, abridging)... basically means that it was slack. we spent our time playing soccer, playing more soccer, and ponning a lecture, lol. besides that, it was quite uneventful. the real highlight was on monday, where 4.16 2005 set up shop in a corner and had a sing a long session, led by zh and darren on guitars. here was the playlist:
i dont wanna miss a thing, aerosmith.
wish you were here, pink floyd.
november rain, guns n roses.

AND

CRAZY SON, ronin.

then we decided to troop around the school carolling to various ppl and also to the new ib students who were probably dying of boredom in the audi. and so, being the shameless twats that we are, around half of .16 05 dared the deed.

fortunately, we didnt get into trouble, as most teachers found it quite amusing.

my old class pwnz joo!!!

This Orientated Week...

2006-01-08T18:06:00.000+08:00

Once I got back from England, basically i was freakin' jet-lagged, had lots of new year parties and functions to attend, and was really grumpy and tired. then before i knew it school came and i was back in the routine which i follow for 9 months of my life every year. Or so i thought. this week has been a real funny experience, cos despite returning to acsi, it really wasn't the acs i knew. haha (re-read the sentence again dangit!). and so it was weird for me to see girls walking around in school and i guess lots of ppl from 4.16 felt the same way, considering that we stayed together for the talks, breaks, etc.

Day One was boring due to the long hours of talk and few hours of action. even then the action was not really action as it consisted of ice-breakers and flag drawing. oh well. anyway, i thought the there was really acs and i liked the way the order of the cereal defeated the opposing faction, french toast, hands down. (ok, it was a draw, but in our hearts we won!)

Day Two was slightly more fun. Being cameraman was a privilege as i got to pon the mass dance. muahahahaha. I cant remember what else happened cos i spent my time slacking with the camera.

Day Three was the acsiting race. now THIS was fun. running around singapore, getting chased out of the esplanade, getting caught in the rain, scouring holland v for the hottest guy around (lol), having a 90min lunch break, and getting lost and muddy at marina bay all managed to both tire and excite us. oh yea, then there was the stupid game, 'honey, smile if you love me' game where i had no idea what to do and ended up jacking myself quite badly. arghs, stoopid decadent yooth game is not what i like.

Day Four was the last day of orientation and can best be summed up by a screwed up telematch where everyone cheated, and skits. our groups skit consisted of the girls and jeremy wearing funny hats and singing a whole new world, while the rest of us danced at the back...with male partners. that is the ghey. tsk. then there were the cool jokes made by ashvin such as," we're going to build an ib campus......on uranus", darren acting french,"u are so hot that when i'm near you, i become french toast", and jordan singing.

Saturday was bb practice. 0.o. being a primer is quite cool as u dont really get scolded by anyone apart from mr. sim.

Sunday is today. went to church, TOOK A BUS AND CAB to kwee sans house for class party, hung around and watched fawlty towers until 5, then WALKED AND TOOK A BUS AND THEN WALKED AGAIN to reach home, all the while being pelted with raindrops. yay, i feel sick now.

Cough.

whats this?

2005-12-26T00:27:00.000+08:00

an update!!!

incredibly enough, i've managed to get hold of a com while on hol. yay. anyway, the journey to gamish in germany was an expensive and tiring one. basically, we took an extremely long-cut from the munich airport to the place and we ended up handing 200 euros to the cab driver who very generously gave a discount. went skiing for the next 2 days, and found out i hadn't forgotten how to ski, yay again. Oh, also went to Innsbruck, Austria, for the day. omgeeeeeeeeeee, tis a pretty place, austria. the christmas market is the extremely charming and coupled with snow falling, is really lovely. the food so far has been quite good... the hash browns at the extremely large and sprawling munich christmas market stand out, as well as the crepe at the gamish market...and the doughnuts at the innsbruck market...ok fine, the food HAS been good.

currently in my aunts house, but we had to book a hotel toom for the night as the plumbing system is screwed, lol, so we need the hotel room to bathe,etc. going to watch chelsea vs fulham tomorrow, lol, i'm still a man utd fan though! hoping for a high scoring draw!

if this entry seems a bit disjointed, well, it is. i'm currently helping my uncle to rip cds onto his com, and am having short term memory loss regarding the events which have conspired these past few days.

jokes of the day:

what sits in a pram and wobbles? a jellybaby.
what sort of man has balls which go 'ding'? a man whos bal-ding.
what sort of people are afraid of santa? claustrophobic people.
what is rudolph's favourite type of weather? rain, cos he's a reindeer.

oh, and continuing with the disjointed-ness of todays post, i would just like to say that german yooths are a decadent bunch. when they grow older they become nice folks who help to carry stuff off trains etc, but when they're young they dye their hair green, smoke in non-smoking cabins only to get thrown out later onto a cold random station for not having a ticket, and are also quite noisy. oh well.

merry christmas.

and a happy new year!

2005-12-20T16:43:00.000+08:00

time is running out, this is a... anywayyyyyyy, i think this will be my last post of 2005, unless i somehow find a free com at the airport or i use my uncle's com in london or i manage to use the com before heading for new years eve dinner. well, i'd just like to say that 2005 has got to be about the fastest year i've ever lived. its been cool hanging around in the class of enoch, slacking and laughing everyday from 7.40-2.40, lol, and towards the end of the year bb and church also aided in accelerating time as well. sadly, enoch is no longer, save for s10.invisionfree.com/acxis (someone challenge me, the one who sits on the ozone throne!!!), but bb and church remain. more importantly, God has remained with me throughout the year; looking back, He helped me pass my chinese o's, and helped give me the strength to wake up at around 8.30am every sunday to go to church, where i think i've learnt a bit more stuff than i did in the past (which basically means stoning at main service).

next year though, i PROMISE to everyone that i will study harder and have more faith than i did this year, and pray God does the rest. this year i did ok at first and did even better in term 3, with a 73% average. i studied harder, but did crap at the end... i guess i relied on my own strength too much. the new year beckons, a whole new world of challenges await you (lol, stole that from the beginning of the pokemon game)...

but before that, a long-awaited journey to germany and england must be undertaken. hopefully, i will go skiing, which will aid me in my quest to become singapore's number one skiier. there's also a football match between chelsea and fulham to watch! muahahaha... *suddenly realises that the flight to england will take around 13 hours, and then the flight to germany will take another 2 hours* ...nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

lol. merry christmas, and a happy new year.

we wish you a merry christmas

2005-12-18T11:53:00.000+08:00

went carolling yesterday. first stop was a children's home where i met a kid named beckham, lol. then went to 2 old folks homes. the first one was called cheshire home and i managed to get to know a woman who has studied grade 4 piano theory but has never played a piano, while also meeting a former gangster who has a lot of funny stories about his life. now he turns away if u call him by his gang name cos he's afraid that u are about to extort money from him or kill him, so u must call him frankie. then he's got some stupid jokes like this:

there was man who went to a restaurant and ordered meat balls. when the balls came they were huge, and he couldn't finish them. next time he came, the meat balls were tiny. so he asked the waiter, "why are the meat balls so small today?"
the waiter replied, "cos the bulls today only got small balls!"

wtf man.

the last home, was quite sad la. the old ppl there had to be tied to their beds, they pee-ed everywhere, even on the floor, and they were all quite mad. there was even this gay man who touched me la! damn scary. anyway, the carolling itself was ok, considering i only went for the last practice, missing out on a whole month's worth of practice sessions. the bus ride was fun as well...weasley,zhi guang, chris yan, and i got involved in a conversation regarding who is the most ownage; king kong,godzilla,the megazord,ultraman, and captain planet. then there was the scandal abaout brian quek and the christmas cards, lol.

anyways, i'm going on holiday soon, yay. haven't packed though, crud. oh, and did i mention school's starting in about 2 weeks? cheers, and merry christmas (this is in case i do not feel inclined to blog again while i'm still here)!!!

3hrs later....

2005-12-15T00:08:00.000+08:00

my neck is severed, limbs numb, and brain washed. haha. i admit i exaggerated a bit. but still, king kong was a really loooonnnnnnggggggggg show. a bit too long in fact. there were so many out of points scenes that by the end of the show, you've forgotten half of them. there were jokes, funny ones, but they all seem so long ago, thanks to countless, pointless fights.

*spoilers here, so don't continue if you dont want to*

the scenes are also hardly believable... kong tries to kill puny adrien brody but is foiled when swathes of bats come to get him. this is the same kong who knocked the lights out 2 t-rexes and literally made one's jaw drop. then when he's about to get brody and watts, they fall and SOMEHOW manage to grab onto a bat! then they manage to time their fall in such a way that they land in a river, from which they manage to navigate the island and head back to the camp without a map and prior experience in the terrain. tsk.

oh, and the planes somehow kept missing king kong, who, as a pretty big fella, should've been an easy target. i suspect peter jackson wanted to hit the 3hr mark just to stamp his mark (heh) on the film.

jackson: i'll turn this lame plot into a classic! that means it has to be long! titanic and LOTR won and they clocked 3 hrs!!! must mean king kong will win if it clocks in at 3hrs. ok pilots, i want you all to miss a lot of shots so the scene can drag on for 15minutes!

anyway, the graphics aren't that much to bawl about either. i think they sorta ran out of time. some scenes were ownage, but others were, erm, not so good.

well, besides those slight problems i had with the show, i think it was ok. acting was good... jack black ownz again as usual, adrien brody is good at being himself (broody, geddit?), and naomi watts really lights up the screen (watts, geddit?).

on a different note, i think man utd will bounce back tonight and beat wigan 2-0.

FINALLY!

2005-12-10T14:08:00.000+08:00

the run of camps and sgb dates are over. the sgb dates were sian, but the 2 camps were probably the most fun camps i've ever attended.

firstly, the bb camp. it seems like such a long time ago now, 1-3 dec, when i was at bbhq with the other bb boys and some ppl from mcyc. as my wrist was still injured from the sentosa incident, i was appointed photographer and had to sit out canoeing, rock-climbing, and some other activities. however, i still managed to play soccer...it was fun watching eggy score after many tries, and even more fun watching some 10 yr old kids run rings around us at times. also went running with zy, melvin, nathan and david (an mcyc kid whos in pri 5) to SUNTEC CITY from zion rd. omg, that kid's super fit la, kept up despite being like, 5 years younger. anyway, there was also this movie marathon were we watched hot chick, the longest yard, and other stuff until 4.30am. the others stayed on to watch pirate of the carribean, crazy buggers. the camp also allowed us to realise how fortunate most of us are, u know, coming from good families and such.

well, after that was the church camp. ok, last yr's church camp was damn sian outside of the worship sessions, cos i didnt click with the group, so i ended up spending group time and quiet time stoning. however, this camp was the polar opposite; everything was fun, including my group, although we were a bit quiet at times. the games were cool, though they did border on sick at times, eg., pass water from cup to cup where some one is holding the cup in his/her mouth, and the water is passed on by an unfortunate fella biting a straw... transfering water from pail to pail using girl's hair or boy's shirts, etc. some games seemed a tall order (we had to build a tower consisting of straws and place an egg at the top, doh), but we OWNED them. ok la, owned is an overstatement, but we did reasonably well. winning 4/9 games.

the group also decided that losing was not part of our vocab, so it became not winning instead, lol.

person 1:"arghs! we lost!!"
person 2:"no! we just didn't win!"

then there was the massive war game. OMG, our team consisting of 2 groups totally owned. we captured 5 flags, but had to return one cos it was our allies. haha, friendly fire on. anyway, we built this real cool base with masking tape traps to peel off unsuspecting victims leg hair. in fact, my group was uber obsessed with using duct tape to de-hair ppl la, lol. the women's platoon did well, as they captured the flags, while the brave men formed static defence, lol. the only time i left my post i got hit down there and was left rolling around for five minutes in excruciating agony.

i also spent a lot of time fooling around with weasley, zun you, jerome, kenchin...from taopoking ppl in the hall with ken to making stupid jokes with jerome and weasley's group at mealtimes. which reminds me, their group was SUPER fun la. everybody was retarded in his or her own way. i think they spent every single group discussion time playing heart attack and doing forefeits, eg, jerome singing sandra's mom and writing a letter to the acjc prom queen who was his group leader, LOL. muahaha, i never lost at heart attack, and hence did not have to do any forefeit, unlike poor matthias, who had to stand and get hit down there by a ball.

and finally, i enjoyed this camp cos i heard God's voice. i'm still not very sure sometimes whether it is Him or another voice telling me to do something, but i know that what was told to me at camp was DEFINITELY His voice. learnt many other things, which i never knew, and i really believe that this camp did wonders for me. hopefully, i will keep the faith and stay an 'on' Christian.

there are many more things that happened at camp, but then the tale would be too long to tell. all i know is that i can't wait for next year's camp!

bb for the rest of the week

2005-11-29T22:24:00.000+08:00

haha. do u get it? bb for the rest of the week? bye-bye/boys brigade? lol. anyway, from tomorrow onwards i will be spending my time at the bb hq in zion road serving my obligations with the bb.

tomorrow, i have to go there for the sharity gift box from 7.30am-9pm. basically, we will be sorting out gifts as part of our sharity gift box duty. hopefully, we will also get to play football, listen to music, and play cards during our spare time. it always happens every year... :)

then, from thursday to saturday, the bb boys will be busy conducting a camp. i have been handed the task of being the bb's photographer as a result of my (still!) injured hand. no canoeing or rock wall climbing for me then. darn. i'm hoping that the camp will be fun and we'll be able to get along with the youths, partly because mr. ng has ingrained it into me that we have to make friends with them, and also because it would be weird if there was an awkward atmosphere in the camp for 3 days. i don't mind stoning and taoing ppl for a couple of hours (such as whenever i have dinner with strangers), but i cannot explain how incredibly weird it can get when u don't make friends with ppl, especially if ur stuck at camp with them for 3 days. it happened to me last year at church camp, as i decided to try stoning in my group for the whole 3 days.

oh well, somehow or other i'm again going for church camp next week. hopefully i'll find God there and manage to keep the fire ignited at camp going till the next camp. it's like every time i go for a camp or a bb bible study, i leave with a determination and conviction that my life will change, and i will become an agent of God, serving him with all my strength. 1 week later and i stop being 'on'. then i wait for the next camp to revive my flagging spirit. shows how weak we humans are, really.

RECORD:

2005-11-23T22:40:00.000+08:00

i'm bloggin twice in 15 minutes.

this is all ken tay's fault.

he said daniel radcliffe has amassed 23 million pounds as a result of the harry potter movies. WTF!!!

this leads to the next question. how do u become harry potter instead of him?
i believe that there are 3 ways.

the first way is to ask. yes. ask. ask politely, and sincerely.
me: is this the radcliffe residence? may i speak to master daniel radcliffe?
dan: this is daniel, speaking.
me: oh, hi. could i PLEASE take up your role as harry potter? pretty please?
dan: ok!

there, it's simple.

the second way is to psycho him into giving the role to you. this can be done by many means, namely telepathy (but he may not have a telepathy connection, so that may not work), blackmail, or scaring him (like going boo!). There are of course other ways, but i have yet to think of them.

the final way is quite extreme. basically, it's physical harm. you could try poisoning him like snape, or beating him up like a rogue bludger, or you could try killing poor daniel, like you-know-who. however, be warned. the last example may result in you becoming a ghastly creature for about 13 years before you can get your pet rat to help save you.

personally, i'd try the first method. hopefully he'll say yes.

what a dumb nickname.

2005-11-23T22:20:00.000+08:00

it seems as if dumbdumb has become my new nickname, if u bother to read the tags. oh well. anyway, due to immense boredom i decided to become a deviant the other day. i found out that the secret to getting alot of comments is to comment o other ppl's work first. just say,"what a lovely pic!", etc, and you are more often than not going to get a nice response. muahaha.

on a different note, i also discovered that the omnimax theatre at the science centre can cause dizziness, especially when the camera decides to move around here, there, and everywhere. i went there to watch harry potter with ivan, ali, and ts, and we learnt loads from that movie. once we got used to the screen, our eyes widened in disbelief upon witnessing wayne rooney further his career and make his mark as an actor. seamus finnigan, to be precise. incredible talent, that young fellow. he's only 20 but has already managed to star in both a film and in football.

finally, i must say that i am extremely amused concerning the incident on monday regarding zheng yang. it really was quite hilarious. tomorrow he's going to get a lot of stick from everyone during nyaa logging.

oh shit.

that reminds me, nyaa logging. i haven't done a sketch of my project yet. ah fish, i guess i'll do it later then.

Sentosa...

2005-11-20T19:13:00.000+08:00

was the start of a really eventful week. played beach soccer and managed to cause "extensive soft tissue damage" to my left wrist. i'm never playing keeper again. and if that was not enough, i had to do a fair number of tracks for blt's movie BESIDES going for a BB excursion to Bukit Timah and the Botanic Gardens. also got my birthday+christmas present...a new bike! yay. leon came over to help add the frills to the bike, so that it would "look cool". doh.

watched harry potter yesterday. nice movie, but it was too fast!!! i wanted to see the damn quidditch world cup!!!! it was also quite wtf, if u know what i mean. so many corny moments....even voldermort had to say "nooooo!!" ala darth vader who copied yao wen. today i went to pass blt some more songs by cycling to his house....i should've listened to my aching wrist, but oh well, what's done is done. it hurts pretty badly now, dang!

ANYWAY, keane's gone. nooooooo!!!! (arghs, just copied voldermort, who copied darth vader, who copied yao wen). we need duscher, not ballack folks. ballacks a freakin' ATTACKING midfielder. i can't believe the number of dufus's following the newspapers and saying he should replace keane. he replaces SCHOLES, not keane, dammit. i believe that the only way to solve this problem of knowing ballack's position would be to play championship (alright, its now football) manager. only in that way will the bloody blind press realise that ballack's AM, not DM, for goodness sake. actually, the game states that he is CM, as in central mid, so that only confuses the matter more. doh.

the doh! entry

2005-11-11T00:16:00.000+08:00

whoa, i can see my future already. went to holland v after blt's filming at 11. there were clubs, there were pubs...but jordan,sean,aizat,roobs, and i went to the kopi tiam! how glam man! i thot it was nice just sitting there having a cup of horlicks/milo/lemon tea/aloe vera...although it is not everyone's cup of tea, doh!

oh and justin hawkins from the darkness has bought his own cd on ebay for 350 pounds! some random dude in aussieland (probably a reviewer), decided to put his free copy of the darkness's new album on ebay, in an attempt to leak the album out on the net b4 its release date. well, mr. hawkins, like a hawk, successfully fowled up the plan. doh!

*i must be going crazy*

while doing my daily blog surfing, i came across dt's blog and i saw that he had put up a section of the infamous (actually not famous) msn conversation between enoch soccer players. so here's another section (i think everyone saved that memorable conversation):

from dust to dust, from life to afterlife. says: (11:35:09 PM)
SEOW. THOU OF LITTLE FAITH.
etaaan! wearing my rooney shirt now. come on man utd!!! hey joe! says: (11:35:25 PM)
seow's hiding in his tent now la
from dust to dust, from life to afterlife. says: (11:35:34 PM)
he's daoing me.
etaaan! wearing my rooney shirt now. come on man utd!!! hey joe! says: (11:35:34 PM)
cannot use com
Jordan ~忠伟~ says: (11:35:36 PM)
hes the guy in the ad lah
etaaan! wearing my rooney shirt now. come on man utd!!! hey joe! says: (11:35:38 PM)
ya
Jordan ~忠伟~ says: (11:35:41 PM)
the wife come home
from dust to dust, from life to afterlife. says: (11:35:45 PM)
lol
Jordan ~忠伟~ says: (11:35:46 PM)
he turn off tv
from dust to dust, from life to afterlife. says: (11:35:48 PM)
that ad is retarded
Jordan ~忠伟~ says: (11:35:50 PM)
den hide in tent
Jordan ~忠伟~ says: (11:35:54 PM)
den take out tiger
-theLordmypeace- and soccer is our game. huang rong! -Ping's Teochew lvl 0.3 says: (11:36:02 PM)
/kick/dohhbaangidiottkickass

i don't think anyone read that.

doh!

this is the doh! entry, in case u didn't know.

A Marvellous Idea

2005-11-08T21:57:00.000+08:00

we should start a comedy club next year. honest. if boredom knocks on your door this holidays, sit down and think of a really funny situation. write it down and that will eventually evolve into a sketch like the one's monty python do. basically, this is essential for the welfare of the student population in acsi as next year mr. chirnside and mdm dharma are supposedly no longer in drama. this could mean more sober and serious performances which few appreciate. a comedy club which produces funny skits which can be seen for cheap prices could really take off in school. if the skits are good enough, we can tour homes and all that next year to bring joy to many a heart as well as gain cas hours... ke shou shi yi ju liang de.

damn my chinese sucks.

PURGE THOSE OF LITTLE FAITH...and psychologists

2005-11-06T22:37:00.000+08:00

so ken tay is not watching man utd vs chelsea? arghs, curse the glory hunter fan! the fan of little faith! purge them with sticks and stones!!!! anyway, man utd will win cos no one is expecting them to win. and they will win 1-0 with paul scholes scoring. unlikely eh?

HOWEVER...

after a conversation with tim seow, i realised a lot of ppl feel the same way. everyone thinks that everyone else believes chelsea must win, hence they think that man utd will win simply because no one thinks it will happen. what these ppl don't know, is that everyone else thinks the same way as them, hence soccernet's poll on the outcome of the game resulted in majority favouring a man utd win. this means that ppl expect them to win, meaning that chelsea will win. confused? well, try being a psychologist. they deal with these sorta things everyday right? ok, maybe only from mon-fri cos of the 5-day work week, but you get the picture.

on a completely different note, a C sounds different from a D. doh.

BOYCOTT!!!

2005-11-05T22:46:00.000+08:00

You know how all movies somehow or other all have the same plots? it's like u can predict whats doing to happen. for example, i was watching sky captain just now, and predicted that the camera was of some significance in the show, etc. this is just a random thought, but i feel the sneaky coniving ppl up there in hollywood are re-using scripts over and over again, just with different actors who portray the scripts to varying degrees of success. we've been conned! time to boycott movies which we will end up not boycotting anyway...but at least the idea was there.

Oh, and is it just me or should jude law have been the new james bond. now we got some guy who's going to turn james bond into james blond, jeez. Another reason to boycott the cinemas. but everyone will probably also be interested in seeing him fail, and hence will fill up the theatres. This will lead producers to think he's doing a good job and the new james blond will get to continue in his role. doh.

We should also boycott the epl. no other league has a team so far ahead of everyone else. If Asia is such a lucrative gold mine for these brits, that means we've got power. everyone stop watching epl for a month and demand changes to the transfer and wage system, or we'll continue spending sat/sun nights watching hbo or something.

Finally! i can't wait for tomorrow's match between man utd and chelsea. it'll be a real cracker. i just love espn. oops.
boycott failed.
doh.
what a stupid ending.

Happy Haloween!!!

2005-10-31T23:48:00.000+08:00

today was an extremely tiring day, not helped by the fact that i'm going to the airport in a couple hours time. anyway, played tennis for 3 hours, the last hour of which was utter crap, and in between the tennis was a bb meeting where i realised how sneaky mr. ng can be.

went home, and honestly had no idea what to do. feeling sian, i decided to re-invent my traditional darth maul costume. i got an england bandanna, cut 2 holes in it, and used face paint to paint it black-that was my mask. then i found a bowler hat and stuffed the mask part of the darth maul costume into my shirt. after wearing the mask and the hat, i got my costume! how cool. used zh's bday present as a weapon to scare ppl (i don't think it worked though). later, i cycled to tuition knowing that the tutor has a hell lot of sweets at her desk. along the way, i got alot of stares, including one from imran, and a random chinese high guy who said,"whoa na shi zorro eh!" to his friend. after ransacking the place, i made my way to beng's house where i koped an energy bar, which i guess i should be grateful for as beng looked like he was about to chase me out until his mom came to rescue me. after these 2 stops, i went to my cousins place to wait for them to change as i was to go trick-or-treating with them at night.

my cousin shaun was an ipod ad person (u noe, the black shadow holding the ipod?), lala was a witch, my sis a clown, my other sis a witch, and we were joined by their 2 german-swiss neighbours. omg, one was 10 and the other 8, but the 10 yr old was nearly my height and her sister was nearly my 14 yr old sister's height. what do they eat in switzerland and germany???????? learnt some vulgar swiss-german words (like e heiste, or something like that, means i hate you. thats vulgar ok!) to say when friendly greetings didn't succeed in getting candy. after walking for like 1.5hrs, we went back to my cousins house. upon reflection the best candy-givers were from leon tan's family. so yea, i guess i'll have to thank him one day.

look! its 12 already, i'm going to wake up at 4.50 to change and go to the airport. *i know that's pointless information, but so is this whole blog anyway*. goodnite!

stupid joke of the day:
on what day are pokemon born?

MONday! *ha, hahaha, haha...*

emo post part 2

2005-10-27T22:13:00.000+08:00

ok, so this is emo post part 2.

i'd like to thank these ppl today:

Sean- elf friend of the gnome. he sat next to me in p6 and together with ben siow, we made life hell for li-jie (aka poh chu). this yr we have continued with our silliness, although to not as large an extent as p6 as we sit pretty far away from each other.

Ken Tay- in sec 1 he was known as the p6 kid, 4 yrs on and now he's the mat. well, his tennis is pro, he's freakin smart, and he pretends to slack when he's actually a mugger. hats off to ken tay, the sneakiest mat u will ever meet.

Darren- evil, he is. currently i have a bad back ache and i blame it on the bloody 90kg of flesh which frequently lies on top of me in classroom melees. nice guy though, his daylight robberies of my pencil case will never be forgotten.

Roobs- been with me since sec 2. best goalie in the school...fun to bully him with other random buff guys like dale, ken tay and melvin.

there are quite a number of other ppl whom i have had the fortune of getting to know in the realm of 4.16 enoch, but i'll leave that for emo post part 3. well, this post was not really emo, right? so there may be no emo post part 3 at all! it could be titled as emu post part 1 or something like that, or i may give up and not do anything at all. hmmm.

emo post part 1

2005-10-26T21:21:00.000+08:00

and so the tale of habakkuk and enoch will soon end. the past 2 years have been crazy; from pillow-bashing to 'mason' the pet rock to lizard catching...the list goes on. right now we will probably tell ourselves that the class will remain united as enoch of 2005, and the spirit will live on for some time, but eventually, it will die out, we will make new friends, and enoch will be nothing but fond memories.

in primary 6, i felt so upset that i was leaving js and 6.9, for it had been the most wacky class i had been in. now, i don't even say 'hi' to ppl like joseph goh, joel boey, and chris sim when i see them in school. i'm not saying this will happen in 2 years when we're all in ib year 2, but its still a possibility. this may be a cynical point of view, but i don't think we'll be close forever, like we hope it will be. eg. the class forum has died yet again, despite our efforts to keep it revived. oh well, maybe i'm just sentimental and emo but i really hope that this class sticks together, maybe through movies, cos it would be a shame if our endevours to bond over the past 2 years come to naught and we end up ignoring each other in future.

one guy whom i hope i keep in touch (not that way!) with is ivan. in sec 3 when i found out i was in his class i was like,' shit, the gay godspell fag is in my class'. well, 2 years and many close encounters later, and my opinion of him has changed somewhat to,'dang, that gay friend of mine will probably not be in my class next year'. oh well, he's been a good friend over the past 2 years, someone who has been real close to me. crud, that sounds wrong, but anyway, we have gotten along pretty well, except for that little incident in november last year.

another guy whom i would loathe to be separated from is zheng hao. that jackass has sat next to me for 2 years, copied from me, stolen my notes, vandalised my books, but i'll miss that. i'll also miss his accelerated guitar-teaching methods... taught me chords in 5mins. i've never had a fight with him, except minor wars here and there over stolen pencils, crap drawings, and stuff like that. next year, he said that we'll sit next to each other again if we're in the same class. jeez, another 2 more years of putting up with his crap...i don't mind actually!

well, there are more ppl i would like to mention like mat tay, darren, and friends, but i'm tired, so stay tuned for emo post part 2!

Ole!

2005-10-15T19:14:00.000+08:00

the past week has been spent playing tennis, doing blt's trailer music, and watching movies and other random stuff at mat tay's house. basically, on thursday afternoon, blt, mat, and i were the only ones online and we were sitting next to each other at mat's house. incredible. blt spent the afternoon teaching us how to operate a video camera, which was enlightening, and it captured our imagination for about 5mins. (geddit?captured? ah, oh well...) watched random spooky shows and spooky games after that, all in the name of procrastination, cos it didnt seem very appealing to do the music.

anyway, today was tiring. went running and found that i slowed down by about 1.5minutes (shit), before playing soccer at the uwc with imran and kani. omg, those 17yr olds were TALL!!!!!!!! so naturally i ended up playing keeper, cos the shortest=the lousiest. screw the random cricket player who couldnt kick a freakin' ball but didnt want to play in goal. FINALLY i was allowed to play outfield, and being the only local on the team (kani and imran were on the other side), i thought i was screwed. fortunately, the ppl there werent racist and passed to me, and thankfully i didnt screw up like i did while playing keeper.

somewhere along the way, the highlight of my day came. random 17yr old french dude corners me, and the idiot that i am decided to try and back heel my way past him. well, it worked and i got away, much to the amazement of the big ang moh fellas. here's what i think was going thru their brain:

random big ang moh guy: that midget singaporean is stuck, he's gone.
*one flick and a clean escape later*
random big ang moh guy: wtf.

well, i had a couple of nice touches and passes, before scoring a goal, so i thought i was doing well. then the cricket guy decided he couldn't stand playing keeper anymore and i was back in goal. dangit. the game also showed that there are other ppl like peter crouch in this world. there was this huge guy named vishnu who owned all. seriously, his name is super apt, he's like a freakin' soccer master...the ball STICKS to his feet, and he's like 2m tall, dwarfing the other ppl. oh well, monday its soccer on home turf again, hope i learnt some stuff today which will come in handy then...

random joke of the day:
why shouldn't u mess with ppl with a fever?
cos they're hot-headed. arghs!!!!

WHATS A BOMBER JACKET??

2005-10-11T22:55:00.000+08:00

ohmison, i'm blogging! this could only mean that i have finished my exams, which is true, to a large extent. erm, if its totally true, that would mean there are no opposing factors, hence its is only logical that the probability of the last statement being true is 0 as the statement that i have finished my exams is true, hence is 1. darn this random fusion of core math and history.

anyway, today was rather interesting...during assembly we were told that it will be compulsory for all ib/ip yr5 students to buy a 'bomber' jacket. initially i thought that my ears had failed me....i thought mrs cho said formal, but oh well, its a bomber jacket. now, could anyone tell me what is a bomber jacket? i have no idea. the next part.....it will ONLY cost $65.....CURSES!!!! why do we have to spend that much money on something we're probably not going to wear often anyway? oh well, thats what happens when u get 2 vice-principals who wear 15-inch heels and spend 2hours putting on make-up. i suppose it must be fun shopping around finding the best brand from which to buy from, so u can't blame them for being so enthusiatic about the whole thing really.

went to watch 4 brothers, and it was the most vulgar show i've seen. oh well, i've never seen any othe NC-16 show, cos i'm not yet 16, but oh well, i look 16. ya, I DO!!!!! ok i don't. but thats besides the point. the point is that the show had a nice plot, nice characters, but was a big long for me. i dunno, but i thought it seemed draggy at times. tomorrow going to play tennis, muahaha, in school....can't wait to meet the ad math ppl... :)

Bio Prac

2005-08-01T20:28:00.000+08:00

I have been told that i think of well, lame and fantastic ideas. so i have decided to revive this blog by starting a series called Ethan's Lame Idea Of The Week. Of course, this need not be a once weekly event, cos i think of lame ideas quite frequently. this week, my topic is bio prac.

Abstract:
There are no more bio practicals this year, and the sec 4 bio students are terrified of hearing mr. see talk chim for 1hr20mins every week. However, mr. see himself dreads talking to what he describes as a wall for 1hr20mins. Therefore, today I shall propose a viable solution to all of this, as mr. see has kindly explained that we can conduct more practicals if we wish.

Intro:
In the wake of recent government enthusiasm in 'experiential' learning, and emphasize on an 'out-of-class' environment, I have thought of a radical new practical which would be fun and educational for all involved. Instead of using the Simpson's Biodiversity Index in a small hula hoop in a school field, why not go outdoors, to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, for example, and find out the biodiversity there? Now, to the aim.

Aim:
To calculate the biodiversity of bukit timah nature reserve.

Apparatus:
Eyes
Hide
Scent-masking lotion

Procedure:
1. Go to BTNR, and apply lotion to prevent being smelt.
2. Hide in the hide, in order to be hidden from sight.
3. Observe the surroundings, and count the number of animals passing through the place.
4. Do this for the entire practical, and at the end use the Index to calculate the results and submit a report by monday.
5. If needed, a make-up can be done on Thursdays after school, but the Reserve must be left by 4.15 so the Rangers can go home.

WARNING: DO NOT FEED THE MONKEYS. THEY BITE. PYTHONS ARE DANGEROUS, DON'T GO NEAR ONE AND POKE IT WITH A STICK.

Conclusion:
I believe that this would be a viable and fun practical to carry out. mr.see has already said he can provide the lotion, while we can provide the eyes. If the park ranges cannot provide a hide, an army style, digging of holes and wearing of helmets and face paints, method can be used instead. This will enable us to blend in with the environment.

perth-ect holidays eh?

2005-06-13T20:33:00.001+08:00

no not really. the holiday was marred by the bloody rain. no, the rain wasn't bloody, it was just bloody, as in, bloody. argh! bloody crap, forget about the word bloody then. anyway, pretty fun holiday it was, staying in the countryside with no street lamps at night, nearly running over a kangaroo, being on top of a peeing horse, being tailed by a couple of other singapore families,going to a dog farm to see my dog's relatives... yea, thats about all i've got to say besides saying that i've not played proper football in a LONG time. HELP!!! oh yeah, and i just realised half the hols are gone and i haven't started on anything yet. oh well... always look on the bright side of life *whistles*

2 jokes of the day:
1. why did the detective go to the sea?
cos he smelt something fishy.

2. which is the sourest pokemon?
le-mon.

ARGH!!!!

Dazed and Confused

2005-05-16T20:53:00.000+08:00

lol, lol. is it just me or is this 'lol' thing becoming a bit of a brainwashy-kinda-thingy. i mean, lol, lol, whenever someone says lol on msn, ur initial response is to type lol back, even though ur pretty sure neither party is laughing, weird huh?lol. anyway, i haven't posted in eons, and to tell u the truth nothing much has happened, except that the exams have ended and now the chinese o's loom.

And it is this darned thing that is really pissing me off. Every single time i want to do something, eg. to play soccer at someone's house after school or watch a movie, there's ALWAYS chinese tuition. to cap things off, the days in which i have don't want to go out and have tuition instead are the days the tutor cant give tuition. WTH!?! and so now im in the process of trying to plead the tutor into changing tuition times or else my entire last 2 weeks of school will be screwed.

whoopee, i posted.haha, i dont think anyone's gonna read this though.

Faith In Perseverence and Perseverence In Faith

2005-04-04T21:10:00.000+08:00

Well, AQ is over. What an experience it was too, the stayover at yao qun's house where ben siow and i slept in a 'dungeon' and were woken up at 1.30 to be briefed was just the start of a really long day. After the briefing, and kayaking tips from mr ivan sim and mr andre foo, we filled our hydration packs and left for ntu. screwed around on the bus there by giving rubbish answers to ben siow's interview questions for his founders badge. At 5.30 am, one's senses are not fully functional and ben siow and i both went into the girl's toilet to poop by accident. anyway, our race started at 6.45am and immediately, the pressure was on. It felt like the amazing race as hordes of teams rushed off trying to get out of the campus. As we were in the open category, the commando dude was in our team, and his navigation skills were FLAWLESS...except maybe once. After a lot of walking and jogging, we managed to reach the first few checkpoints which were located on the top of HILLS, yes, we all were taught that bukit timah hill is the only sizeable hill in singapore, well, for all the guys out there, just wait till ns, SURE DIE!!! the hills ranged from steep but short, to gentle but long, and it took a lot out of us, but the sources of energy, energy bars, glucose water, God, and seeing other teams cramped up on the ground, kept the team going. Later, there was an obstacle course, in which we were inspired to do well by our ever helpful commando and the volunteers there. I did my part by doing the monkey bars and rappeling.
After that 10km+ of jogging, it was time for the worst part of the race-cycling. I haven't touched a bike since primary 4, and had bought the cheapest bike in the shop for AQ, and now i had this sense of dread that i couldn't cylce. Lo and behold, i experienced tremendous problems with my bike, but by the grace of God, i managed to re-learn how to cycle in around 10mins. After that we went into the vast jungles of choa chu kang, were no roads are seen except for paths with rocks and boulders littered across the sand strewn floor. I was so afraid, especially when ben siow, a pro cyclist, was felled right at the start. But we made it through the 5km and the rest of the cycling in the first leg was on an open path. However, this was a reciepe for disaster. Me feeling confident again, and an empty stretch of road. Off I went, and i failed to see a pot hole and it sent my bike and i crashing, with it landing on top of me. Thank God there was a medical team nearby who attended to my pretty deep cuts. After that, 10km of cycling, we reached the pit stop, where we had to first kayak 5km before returning with 2 ice-cream sticks. We downed the free 100 plus and I realised that we had stopped at the place were the js p5 camp was held, jalan bathera!!!
The next leg started ominously when the commando's seat fell off. That made it 2 screwed up bikes (my gear had broken and my chain was screwed up after my fall). After fixing it, we headed for Kranji dam via sungei buloh nature reserve. I HATED that narrow path were i crashed into the bushes countless times. After reaching the dam, we went to a horrid 2.4km stretch of muddy, narrow, one-wheel sized pathways along a canal, which frustrated the whole team, especially me, as i was lagging. my bike skills were too poor, and i was constantly the last, despite not feeling very tired. After that was another stretch of cycling by a pavement to mundai, where i again kept falling into the bushes. I learnt my lesson that i suck at cycling along narrow paths, so i cycled the rest of the way to the shooting range on the main road, despite my father warning me prior to the race not to do it .after ben siow aced the archery, we went into some army bike track where I got left behind. my crappy bike and my crappy skills combined to get me so far behind the team that by the time i reached a junction, they were no where to be seen. i got off my bike, and kicked it, swore once, and started trying to figure out which path they took. In the end, another deserted fella came along and helped me find the correct path. I didn't say it then, but God bless him, cos i ran into the commando and he led me back to the team. After that lay a perilous obstacle of around 8 hills in a row, with narrow paths and rocks all over, but we pulled through. In the end we reached bukit panjang, the end of the 2nd leg, and found out that the race had been stopped. Only 2 teams had met the qualifying mark to progress to the 3rd leg, and it was already 4.30pm. Having sat on a bike for 6hrs, and woken up at 1.30am, it was heartening to know that we completed the race, finishing 8th overall. Ben Chan's team also finished 8th in their category, but sadly Melvin's was disqualifyed. Oh well, 2 top 10 teams ain't bad when u consider that there were over 200 teams taking part.
AQ was certainly an incredible experience; everyone in the team, the commando, jon pang, ben siow, and me, we all had to work together and try our best for bb, and for God. 55km was tough, even the commando said his rangers course was easier, but when you have a team which doesn't blame each other, and encourages one another, it's alright.

oh dear...

2005-03-06T19:14:00.000+08:00

Your Brain is 60.00% Female, 40.00% Male

Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female

You are both sensitive and savvy

Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed

But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve

What Gender Is Your Brain?

Man Utd To Win The Treble

2005-02-14T22:30:00.000+08:00

I don't have much to blog about today, except that I read on planetfootball.com that there are whispers along the corridors at OT that Man Utd may win the treble. I truly believe this is possible, as in the league chelsea could slip up against man utd and arsenal and some random team, as they aren't in the best of form, this would leave them on equal points with man utd. I think man utd could go and win the remaining games this season while besides 3 losses, they will draw one match and end up losing by 2 points. In the FA Cup, Man Utd will get revenge on Chelsea and reclaim the darn thing. In the CL...Milan aren't in the best of form and are there for the taking as long as Shevchenko is injured and Kaka is off form, while Barcelona may not have the determination to outbattle man utd. Real Madrid are not a good team, while Bayer, Bayern, Liverpool, Arsenal, Monaco, Porto, PSV all do not have the all-roundedness to overcome a resurgent United. Only Chelsea can stand in their way, ,but I believe that they will be so distraught having screwed up their season, they will lose this match. Glory Glory Man Utd!!!

Constantinople...

2005-02-10T22:23:00.000+08:00

I have no idea what constantinople means, although i think its the longest word in the dictionary. anyway, watched constantine today (so that's how i thought of the word!), and it wasn't scary, it wasn't funny, it wasn't super cool (besides keanu reeves), but it managed to be entertaining. The storyline was a bit blasphemous, and since when was Gabriel a baddie? After that ate at my fav. Indian restaurant at raffles city before sleeping the rest of the afternoon away. Woke up and did a bit of la-i read the book's summary on the net, cos i can't be bothered to read it. went jogging around holland road to ghim moh to the buona vista mrt to oei tiong ham park to 6 avenue before going home. i feel so fulfilled having burnt a small portion of the calories gained during the past 2 days. at nite had ANOTHER dinner... my father started asking me why dale was doing so well, and i wasn't, i really want to get out of this situation, u know? everyone says i should be doing at least as well as him, but i am so much busier, and so much more well, lazy than him. Last yr was a slack year ok?!?! anyway, they're right, and i promise to stop procrastinating and start studying, starting with physics, watch out y'all the hardworking Ethan is back!!!!muahahahahaahahahahahaha

The Rooster

2005-02-09T16:17:00.000+08:00

What is wayne rooney's favourite animal? the roo-ster. haha. haven't blogged in ages cos it takes too long to blog, and my time is really limited now. anyway, the year of the rooster is upon us, and after the hong baos have been collected and counted, what else have i done? visiting, yay... sometimes i find it xian going to someone's house juz to eat a bit and say hi. i mean, the only funny thing i did was to say the gong xi fa chai, hong bao na lai, mei yo hong bao qing ni zhou kai nonsense. otherwise i have juz spent time talking to my cousins and sisters. my cousin seriously should have been at chapel on monday, cos she needs stress management lessons. so today was quite boring, although yesterday was fun. i mean, 1h of lessons where the teachers went AWOL, was so fun! listening to music, getting tau poked, playing football in class...then an extremely funny concert...i think it was the best CNY concert ever. Later played soccer with last yr's sec 4's, and chor yuan and ronnie scored, final score 2-1 to us, although they outnumbered us and dominated the match. Went for tuition to finish bio homework, and spent the rest of the day playing fm, warcraft, and going visiting. its amazing to think that in a few days, there will be school again, and there will be no more long breaks to look forward to until march, although there is the ta 1 camp for sec one's in bb. i think this yr's sec one's rock. and us sec 4's rock too...except certain ppl, like zheng yang, who is damn screwed up about his aq crap. screw aq, i'd rather spend my time with the sec 1's instead of running 7km with a commando. well, besides that, i think the yr of the rooster is gonna be a good one, but i think i should start studying seriously soon.

u think malaysia damn big issit?

2005-01-22T15:32:00.000+08:00

Kluang was fun and xian. Sounds contradictory? Well, that's what I felt about Kluang, so i have no idea whether i liked it or not. Anyway, on day one did nothing in particular except pitch tents for 1.5 hrs, while in BB we take 6mins, and went for a totally pointless nightwalk. Of course there were fun parts; our class cheers and taking the mickey out of ken tay, the sec 3 malaysian who told us to watch out cos he was on 'home turf'. Anyway, there were 5 people in an 8-man tent so it was pretty comfortable. For supper we got ramly burgers, and most people were excited cos they had tasted ramly burgers before, unfortunately, i hadn't. It was pretty good for a plain burger, and the food in Kluang was the best camp food i ever had.
The next day was the hike up some mountain. Got used to the rocks, branches, and steepness of the slope after a while, and thought it was fun! I was in the middle with Ali, and we had to keep tracking back to make sure the front didn't lose the back. Made lots of dumb jokes and comments while climbing down, such as, "don't stone over there, otherwise you will blend in!". After lunch, team courageous had to find pendants using a crap map. Jarvin was a superb map-reader, and TP also found loads of pendants. Ivan was busy trying to motivate us to find the pendants, while ZH and friends were using sticks and branches as swords... We ended finding the most pendants, lol, and the other half of our class spent the afternoon throwing stones into the pond.
The next main activity was canoeing, where i partnered darren. Quite fun, except the SOS part, cos we didn't start a fire, didn't make a SOS sign, and the mosquitoes were bothering me to the core. After lunch, we got to get into the shit water which was also a pond. We had to build a raft and get across to the other side, which of course didn't work out, despite our group using me as a propellar to help drive it forward. Everyone ended up in the water with me though, touching a slimy pond floor, with snail shells and spiders on the water surface. After rebuilding our raft, I got to paddle this time, and it worked! I got off at the other side and decided to swim back to help out. In the end, I ended up playing with seah and co. by somersaulting in the water from the bank. That night was campfire, and our skit was in shambles. In the end the whole campfire was a failure anyway, cos the long grass had thorny mimosa and other sorts of plants which cut our butt, the fire lasted about 10 minutes before dying into an ember, and most of the groups didn't do a good job anyway. So we decided to sing our 'Chairman Seow' anthem. There were a few laughs though; the geps parodying the ymca song, the instructors pronouncing 'encore' in a totally singlish way, etc.
Last day was a waste of time. We could have struck our tents, had breakfast, and gone, but no, they made us wait a lot, have lunch 2hrs after breakfast, and go to Giant for sightseeing and a spot of shopping...wth. I also burnt a small hole in the tent as i was fed up with the countless mosquitoes attacking me. Since everybody had fun burning grass and ants, I decided to have fun burning up a mosquito which had landed on the tent. I killed the darn thing, but also burnt a small hole. Luckily we struck our tents down before any teacher saw the little burn mark around the hole.
Well, this is my summarised rundown on this year's oep. Hope there's a real one to a place like Australia or China or Thailand again next year, not to a place 1.5 hrs away by bus, not aeroplane.

Tiger Cup "fever"

2005-01-16T23:29:00.000+08:00

Haha, haven't updated in ages. Anyway, holidays, was ok, the football matches, shopping, watching musicals,etc. Had a nice new year, and begun the school year by playing warcraft at 3 am with my bored sisters as we were all jet-lagged. School's damn xian...damn timetable sucks, but the teachers are ok...physics is the new c math, c math teacher rocks (as in he compels us to study math properly, on top of having a calculator-like brain and a thick accent), see teck hock is not the evil macho teacher my seniors made him out to be, in fact, he's a really good pct and bio teacher! stevie is as sarcastic as ever, dharma is teaching us, ali chew is really full of pointless but interesting facts, while judy ho is sort of like siva ( as in she finds it tough to control us). Grey level rocks, as its near the SAC, and the teachers dont pop by to scold us, and the chinese teacher...she's some anoerexic person who looks like a skeleton, is damn naggy, and is a pretty good teacher as well, so i dont hate her but dont like her either. Oh how i miss chin hawr and mun sung...
Anyway, yesterday 'ran' 12 km for AQ training, did 140 push ups, 120 sit ups, and some football. At night when to Ali's house to watch Man U vs Liverpool. Yi Yang and Ali supported Pool, Seow and I supported Man U. Well, WE WON!!!! Today went to 8.30 am service, its ok lah, before packing for Kluang. Watched the Tiger Cup final with Seow and a bunch of other Enoch ppl. The stadium was full, and Singapore outnumbered Indonesia by a huge margin, but the atmosphere sucked. The EPL stadiums which I went to were miles louder than the crap atmosphere which was dished out by fans. We tried making up some chants and were generally enthusiatic but besides a couple of fanatics and patches of loud fans (like us), the atmosphere was flat. Well, we were jumping up and down when we scored, and shouting together when things happened, but the atmosphere wasnt good enough. Anyway, I'd like to congratulate Singapore for winning the tiger cup, and drong as well cos the ACS brand of education rocks, as we discovered today. We didnt follow the dumb crowd when getting into the stadium, as we had eyes to see that there was a shortcut. In fact, there were shortcuts all over the place which people didnt take cos they probably didnt have the initiative or were simply too ignorant of their surroundings to notice these not-so-subtle pathways. Geez, Singaporeans love to flock together...even if it means taking a long way, thank goodness for ACS. I can't believe I'm saying that. Well, tomorrow we're off to Kluang, Malaysia for LDP camp. I hope its fun, goodnight and good bye, until I next find a computer, or have inspiration to write down rubbish on this blog.

Christmas Eve Overseas

2004-12-24T19:32:00.000+08:00

Bonjour, here I am in Lyon, France, and its christmas eve. well, hols been ok so far, barcelona was nice, and i visited the nou camp to buy stuff for chor yuan. while u folks have christmas eve dinner in sinagpore, im gonna be on a plane to london, where i will be for christmas. punctuation sucks in this blog cos the french com at the hotel is frenchy, so the keyboards a bit screwed. i will write a more detailed blog next time, bye.

See Ya Late Alligator!

2004-12-17T20:58:00.000+08:00

I'll be going to the airport in 1 hr to head for London. I'm a bit nervous, cos the last time I went on an aeroplane, it was to India, hold on, it was only last month! Anyways, I'm nervous cos of the pressure in my ears when the plane starts to land, I didn't have it for quite some time, not since primary 4, but suddenly it came back on the trip to India (or maybe it's just cos it was Malaysia Airlines :)). From London I'll catch a flight to Barcelona, yay! I'll also be going to Lyon and I'll be back in time for my grandfather's New Year's party on the 31 December, so I'll not be in Singapore for Christmas :(. In other news, Man Utd have been drawn with AC Milan while Chelsea with Barcelona, and BOTH Fergie and Morn-inho predicted they would face those teams...hmmm, I wonder... and I would like to congratulate Jarvin for converting to Christianity, thank God you've been saved, now Christmas will have more meaning to you than presents. Well, I gotta go now, goodbye, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Smith or Rooney

2004-12-14T18:04:00.000+08:00

Wayne Rooney is overrated. Yes, as a Man Utd fan, I confess into having little confidence in Europe's young player-of-the-year. Why? I believe that is down to consistency. I am compelled to write this on my blog having witnessed Man Utd draw Fulham, a side which we really, should have stuffed. The problem with Rooney is that at times his passing is wayward, and his shooting as well. After a couple of years he will probably justify his huge transfer fee, but at the present, he should really work on the training ground and not start so many matches. Alan Smith, on the other hand, is a perfect partner to van Nistelrooy,bringing more grit and useful work-rate than the fiery Rooney. Ok, both are short-tempered, but would you prefer Smith, who can tackle, or Rooney, who can't? Would you prefer a consistent performer or someone who has a great game and is quiet for the next three games? Rooney has the potential to be an Eric Cantona, but not yet, come on Sir Alex, bring on Smith!!!

Sharity Gift Box + BRYC Camp, Rrrr!!!

2004-12-09T13:21:00.000+08:00

Upon touching down, I had to immediately go for SGB, so I went and realised there was nothing much we could do, so Ben Siow, Arthur, Joel, me, and a few others spent the day until 9 pm listening to music, playing cards and playing hours of football. Went again the next day for half a day before going out for lunch with my grandparents, and had tuition after lunch. Discovered that I lost my handphone, but I found it later on. On Thursday went for youth camp and was surprised that all my parent's friends children were in my group. That changed my perspective of the camp completely as it would make it similar to a dinner at my parent's friend's house where I would just stone and completely not talk to their children. Well I did just that whenever there were group meetings (I told them I missed playing football, in which caes I'd be quiet for the whole holiday!), but made friends with people outside the group, with my own friends other friends, and people whom I didn't even know, like Bryce. Well I learnt alot about God in the camp and was really touched on the last night. Beng was surprisingly quiet, and he seriously jacked himself during the indoor games, being caught and made the pole for the pole dancing, lol, super funny. Anyway, I was nearly spy-of-the-year in the underground church game, cos I managed to trick like, everyone that I was a Christian when I was a spy, and together with Sherson, we rounded up 2 huge groups of Christians and waited for the secret police to catch them, but I was tricked by my cousin, Tessa, who told me she was a secret police but was actually Christian, but she only managed to get 2 people to escape. However, I was also tricked by my group leader who said that she was a Christian, but she was a spy, and I was a spy but I couldn't trick her, damn. So I guess I'm spy-of-the-year runner-up. But I am waterbomb catcher of the year, catching like, over 10 waterbombs to help our 5-man group to victory over an 8-man group, who only caught- ZERO waterbombs. It's like this, your group throws waterbombs and you are supposed to catch them with a bucket tied to ur back. The worship was nice, and I re-learnt bridge from this Chinese High guy and his RI bro. But I guess in those four days, besides severe lack of sleep due to playing cards, listening to music, wandering around with my friends trying to prank people at 2am, and playing games, I learnt more about living like Christ, living in Christ, and living for Christ, not to mention learning how to do QT properly too! Oh, and regarding the lost handphone which I found, I didn't lose it throughout camp only to lose it when I returned as I left it in a taxi after playing football (just had to be football) at Chor Yuan's house, now hoping desperately my phone is found cos I made 2 reports to citycab and comfort...otherwise my less than one month phone will be gone, and my mom is gonna screw me when I tell her...

Jesu Vin Namum

2004-12-09T11:46:00.000+08:00

Oops, haven't blogged in ages, been very very busy lately, I can't believe they call this a holiday! Anyway, in a nutshell, my India trip was eye-opening even from the very beginning. As I stepped on board the plane, I saw the whole plane was crowded with Indians, when normally I see ang mohs, or Singaporeans. The smell was distinctive, and Malaysia Airlines sucked big time. The earphones didnt work, and everything was fuzzy. We stayed at a Catholic hostel on the first night, and as there wasn't enough beds, I slept on the couch with no blanket, and the air con was FREEZING. That would be the last time I slept in an air con room in days, but I didn't mind. Next day we went to Vellore where the Shalom(means peace) Home for orphans was located. Had a wonderful breakfast and we nearly lost the $6000 cheque but I found it. Anyway, stopped halfway at a Ghandi memorial to take photos, and saw many temples, shrines, churches-one with a red cross and was slightly inverted, before reaching the Home. It was extrememly clean and was a nice place to stay in, except that we had to bathe by using buckets of water. The food was great, and the next day we headed for our first camp, in some ulu village, where houses were made of mud, and the main mode of transport was bullock-cart. There was one guy with elephantitis, it was damn sick, and my cousin, another kid who was in primary 5 ACS(P), by the name of Joshua, and I went to explore as we couldn't do much in there. So we took shots of the place and wandered around, before going off early. By then I was discovering life without my ipod was tough, and my cousin, Shaun, likened it to a drug and this 10 day mission trip without my ipod was like cold turkey treatment. The next few days were spent teaching the little kids in the home how to play games, do action songs I used to hate in primary school, and visit important landmarks in Vellore. I was so in need of music I even called home and told my sister to play don't look back in anger by oasis from her speakers and place her phone near enough so i could record it with Shaun's PDA, lol, it didn't turn out well. Anyway, a few days later we departed for the Shalom home in the Yeligiri Hills, where there was no reception at all, so it was no impossible to call home as well. However, I managed to play football and badminton with the people there and went to the school to preach as well as help dispense medicine to hordes of people waving prescriptions at me. I also attended a youth camp in the Shalom Home in Yeligiri, and witnessed alot of crying, and had to teach the action songs to these 18 yr old "A" Level kids, how crazy is that? I felt touched there, but not to my maximum potential as I couldn't understand the Tamil worship before the sermon which was given in English and translated so the ppl could understand. However, I did learn that Jesu Vin Namum meant "In the name of Jesus". Went back to Vellore a few days later and visited a rural hospital on the way there. The gloves and syringes were reused, the machines 35 years outdated, dogs with rabies were walking freely, and new mothers had to be checked out immediately as there was no space. Oh, and spiders, flies and lizards formed mini eco-systems in the hospital wards. In Vellore, we visited a night school were we saw children of all ages studying, and they loved my adidas hat, constantly pointing at it. In the end, mobs of kids were clambering for my autograph, and I don't even have a fixed one! Oh well, I guess it made them happy. So India was a real eye-opening experience with so many stories to tell, I wrote things in my bio journal and told people stories I haven't written here as it would be too long a blog. One last experience was going to a Catholic-owned hill where Saint Thomas died, you know, the Thomas in the Bible? He went to India and was lanced there, and I saw his bone and the cross he had carved just before he died. I was asked to go again next year, I think I will, but as Jesus said," Yet not what I will, but what You will", so I put it in the hands of God, Shalom to you all.

Hapless Holidays

2004-11-18T14:34:00.000+08:00

Last week went for camp and I got promoted (finally!) to corporal, so that's a positive. Been having math and physics tuition, so I guess that was productive, and went for lunch at Tony Roma's yesterday with my cousins and grandparents, so that's fulfulling (for the stomach). Besides that, I think I've wasted away my holidays so far. I even had time to change the blog template and win medals at Generals, how dumb is that. I haven't left the house for any other reason than tuition, which is once, as my math tutor comes to the house to teach. Anyway, can't wait to go on holiday, youth camp and the mission trip are also eagerly(maybe that's too strong a word) anticipated as they're good ways to spend my hols instead of playing MORE seasons of cm and more pointless games of Generals. I have also been trying to do my NYAA Silver logging but don't know how, so if someone does know, could you please tell me? Oh, and to all the BB people out there, if you happen to drop by here AND can't make the Sharity Gift Box dates, could you come with me, please? I don't wanna go alone and be with people from other schools for 1 or 2 WHOLE DAYS!!!

Quizzes

2004-11-18T11:45:00.000+08:00

When you are bored and have nothing to do, quizzes are a nice way to waste time...

Guns and Roses my ultimate band i love these guys
ang you get to share them with me, awww aren't
i kind

^^Who is your ultimate Rock Band?^^(pics+new results)
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You came from heaven. Your gole in life is to help
others and to make the world a better place.
Some call you weak, but in reality your soul is
very strong. If only more people were like
you...

Where did you come from?
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Gianluigi Buffon

Which goalkeeper are you?
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Ronny VanZandt, the late lead of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Great voice and great song-writing talent, but
you're very depressing.

Which rock vocalist are you?
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Darling, it seems that you belong in Gone with the
Wind; the proper place for a romantic. You
belong in a tumultous world of changes and
opportunities, where your independence paves
the road for your survival. It is trying being
both a cynic and a dreamer, no?

Which Classic Novel do You Belong In?
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congratulations your the almighty pokemon of the
ocean... you are lugia...you posess control the
power of whirpool and rainstorms... you are
graceful and delicate in battle and you are
truly a highly intellgent pokemon... you
rock!

which ledgendary pokemon are you
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Alanis Morisette - Precious
Illusions

You have a vivid imagination, and probably find
yourself often in your own little dream world.
Your creativity knows few bounds - you were
probably one of those kids who spent all their
time in worlds of their own making, whether it
was dressing up in

What's Your Theme Song?
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And the Queen Song of the Day is:
Bohemian Rhapsody!!!
Words and music by freddie mercury

Is this the real life-
Is this just fantasy-
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality-
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see-
I’m just a poor boy,i need no sympathy-
Because I’m easy come,easy go,
A little high,little low,
Anyway the wind blows,doesn’t really matter to me,
To me

Mama,just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger,now he’s dead,
Mama,life had just begun,
But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away-
Mama ooo,
Didn’t mean to make you cry-
If I’m not back again this time tomorrow-
Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters-

Too late,my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine-
Body’s aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody-I’ve got to go-
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth-
Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)
I don’t want to die,
I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all-

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche,scaramouche will you do the fandango-
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-
Galileo,galileo,
Galileo galileo
Galileo figaro-magnifico-
But I’m just a poor boy and nobody loves me-
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family-
Spare him his life from this monstrosity-
Easy come easy go-,will you let me go-
Bismillah! no-,we will not let you go-let him go-
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let him go
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go let me go
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me-

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye-
So you think you can love me and leave me to die-
Oh baby-can’t do this to me baby-
Just gotta get out-just gotta get right outta here-

Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters-,nothing really matters to me,

Any way the wind blows....

Real talent

2004-11-02T18:19:00.000+08:00

In the wake of all these lip-synching scandals, I have decided that as Freddie Mercury from Queen is my favourite singer and lyricist (is that a real word?), I will post some of my favourite Queen songs, one a day...

Somebody to Love:

Can anybody find me somebody to love?
Each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
Take a look in the mirror and cry
Lord what you’re doing to me
I have spent all my years in believing you
But I just can’t get no relief,
Lord!
Somebody, somebody
Can anybody find me somebody to love?

I work hard every day of my life
I work till I ache my bones
At the end I take home my hard earned pay all on my own -
I get down on my knees
And I start to pray
Till the tears run down from my eyes
Lord - somebody - somebody
Can anybody find me - somebody to love?

(he works hard)

Everyday - I try and I try and I try -
But everybody wants to put me down
They say I’m goin’ crazy
They say I got a lot of water in my brain
Got no common sense
I got nobody left to believe
Yeah - yeah yeah yeah

Oh lord
Somebody - somebody
Can anybody find me somebody to love?

Got no feel, I got no rhythm
I just keep losing my beat
I’m ok, I’m alright
Ain’t gonna face no defeat
I just gotta get out of this prison cell
Someday I’m gonna be free, lord!

Find me somebody to love
Can anybody find me somebody to love?

A boring tale of a boring work experience

2004-10-30T19:44:00.000+08:00

YAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!! We're on the grey level, near a toilet, and not the nearest class to the SAC...meaning teachers won't here us making noise cos they won't be passing by our way!!! OK, so the lockers are smaller, and Stevie is CT, and Ali Chew PCT, but that makes the class more crazy right? A dynamic, talk cock duo and a screwed up class... next year's gonna be fun(I hope and should be unless we get tons of homework and horrid teachers)! Today went for BB early cos I thought I had to take my Christian Education re-exam cos they lost my script, so I left waterpolo early and took the exam. Much later during parade, I found, to my horror, I had passed and my script had not been lost when I took the exam in March...I had taken the exam this morning for nothing!!! BB was ok, had captain's ball...zheng yang's idea again, and he's not even in activities! Anyway, this week has been nuts, I never imagined work experience would be like this, time to tell a tale of the slackest week of my life(during school term).
Monday- went to the rehab clinic with my partner, Jon Lui. To our delight, no one was there, so we wandered the hospital until 11 when we asked and were allowed to go for lunch until 1.30pm.After that did nothing until 3.30 when we went for ORIENTATION...and we had already walked around the hospital like, I can't even remember how many times,lol. Went home at 5, so spent 4 hrs slacking in total, and that's just Monday.
Tuesday- went to x-ray department, in the morning, I saw 2 MRI scans, was told how the magnet works and was then neglected, so after that 1.5hrs, I decided to read a book, and later was sort of issued an ultimatum by an irrate 60+ looking doctor, either read outside, or stop reading, I chose the former, and I hope that shows to you how boring it was sitting in a dark and cramped room watching a screen of images which I wasn't trained to be able to decipher. Went for lunch at 12.15 to Macs again, having gone on Monday. Bumped into my mom, who told the whole department that I was her son, and gave Lui and I some garlic bread. After lunch we got a proper tour of the place, so it was quite fun, and spent 0.5hrs watching the CT scan screens before reading until 4.30, when I went home.
Wednesday- most dramatic day. Had this Malay nurse, Nazri, show us around the accident and emergency place, before getting a call that a 65-yr old woman in ICU with cancer of the pancreas had a family who wanted to take her off the respirator at home so she could die on her bed. I went upstairs to the ICU, it was a depressing place, children crying and others dying, I felt kind of sad being there. Lui and I were told to take off our student attachment tags so the family wouldn't know we were just students as they might get angry, however Lui wasn't going into the ambulance. I helped carry her from her bed and into her stretcher, then along with the nurses, helped push her down to the ground level, and again helped lift her into the ambulance. In the amulance, there was a daughter, Nazri, a gay-looking Fillipino nurse, Vincent(the driver), and me. We sped along the highway at 120km/hr to her house at East Coast. The patient, who's eyes had been nearly closed the whole time, suddenly opened them fully as we got off the highway, and she teared/cried. Nazri carried out CPR, as the woman's daughter looked on worriedly. Her pulse returned, and we hurried to the house and had to take her to her room on the second floor. There, in her bedroom,still on the stretcher, she died in front of her family and us, as we made it with 20s to spare. God didn't want her to go by pulling off the respirator, he made sure she died the more moral way, dying naturally. As the family burst into tears, we left for the ambulance, as Nazri put it, "to let the family cool off". Ten minutes later, we re-entered the house, and took out the drips and put on plasters, before finally changing her into decent clothing as the hospital gown had to be taken back. We also had to take her off the stretcher and onto the bed, before tucking her in, snug beneath the blankets to warm her cold body. How do I know it was cold? I touched her with my hands! Later, I realised that most people, even medical students, faint when they witness a death, let alone touch a dead body, change its clothes, and take out drips from the body, so I guess I must have a bit of bravery, considering I just felt sad for her and the family. I prayed for her to myself, not like with closed eyes and all, but just a quick prayer for her departed soul, I know its in heaven, you'll know why later. Went back and did nothing as it was Lui's turn on the ambulance, although his was less dramatic, and did I mention the FREE nasi lemak lunch given by those super nice A and E people? Later, when Lui returned, he handed me 2 huge packs of Cadbury chocolate and a Snapple drink, he also had one and a Pringles. It turned out Nazri had bought these snacks for us, how good can it get? I took one Cadbury and a drink, but didn't want the Pringles, as I don't really like it.
Thursday- checked the Obutaries, and the patient was there, with a Christian quote beneath her picture and name, haha, that's how I found out she must be in heaven. Went to my mom's friends clinic, under her friend, Dr. Liang Te Shan. In the morning were all expats, while in the afternoon locals. We had lunch from 11.30 to 2.30, as he said no patients came during this time. With time to kill, Lui and I wandered Tanglin Mall before meeting Bryan Yeo for lunch at the food court(no more Mac's in case I become the next super size me person). Called Zheng Hao who was doing nothing at Singtel to meet us, so we went to Orchard MRT to meet him. How fun! We talked and walked all the way back to Gleneagles- good way to burn the calories eaten when one consumes a giant chicken chop with a lot of excess oil. Zheng Hao wanted to stay with us in the clinic, so we invented a story about him being our PSL (Peer Support Leader). Then stood for the rest of the day in the office, getting aching knees, and bad circulation. Left at 4 for chinese tuition where I learned how to play cards again cos I keep forgetting how to play.
Friday- went to the dreaded ward 7 West. After seeing one male patient with the nurse, we couldn't do anything cos we were told we couldn't go into female patient's rooms and all the other patients on the level were female. So we walked around the level discussing inter-class before asking whether we could be reunited with our bags in the nurse tea room. We were allowed! And were also given permission to watch TV! So spent the day slacking there, watching a bit of HBO, CNN, and Iron Chef, there were no cable channels besides HBO, BBC, and CNN. Also read, listened to music, and had an early lunch. Went off at 3 to do IC card and passport. In total we walked around the ward 25 times, and slacked for countless hours, how's that for work experience?

Last post?

2004-10-24T18:36:00.000+08:00

If my last post hurt any one in any way again, i believe that it is time to stop this damn blog, somethings are best kept to yourself or your close friends( defined as someone u know and trust, not who u hang out with), so if this is the last blog i ever write you to give a hand to my close friends from 3.16 Habakkuk, 2004: ivan, ali, melvin, zheng hao, roobs, blt, sean, tp, nick yeo, jon lui, ken tay, tim seow, jordan, darren, sarinder, aizat, luke, and dale. The rest of u, i doubt u would be reading this, but ur all friends, now to see whether this is the last post... hmmm?

Food for thought: WORLD PEACE

2004-10-24T18:02:00.000+08:00

OK fellas, this thing is getting out of hand. I'm really sorry ivan, for hurting ur feelings. But now i realise that ali had misunderstood u too, and he relayed the wrong message to me. I hope u realise that i was not the 'primary source', as it goes in history, so the fact is that my evidence (ali), was inaccurate. And my thoughts are what this blog is supposed to be about, i don't say a lot, and often am the follower, but this blog does shows some feelings i don't agree with, the socialite thought was one of those thoughts which played with my mind, and so i put it down, but i dont agree with it. If you would like to know, i have also thought that i think that shaun phoon was too solo, kenneth lim too ineffective, the defence crap, jarvin inaccurate, and i was the most effective player in 3.16 against 3.4, and like the socialite thought, i didnt say it and don't agree with it, but its a thought anyway. If I agreed that ivan was egostic and flashy kid i would not hang out with him...look how many rugger friends i've got, yea, 0, and i don't like a lot of waterpolo players either, hence I skip training cos i dont talk to them and feel bored. I'd like to say that i still trust ivan and alastair, as they are both good people who, due to miscommunication and a misunderstanding unfortunately involving me, the follower, are now at war, with ali attacking and ivan defending, and I well, the real loser as both my friends don't like each other and its assumed i'm on ali's side. I AM NOT.I don't think its nice to harrass someone via sms, and i vouch for world peace. Yes, world peace, can't we all get back to the good days of well, before friday night? Ivan and Alastair, i hope u both forgive one another, ali, i have decided that i still trust ivan and i still trust you, trust is something that the giver can give and take, i like to give. One final thought, I trust poh yee, and that's saying alot.

A paradox of emotions thanks to the EOY's

2004-10-19T21:56:00.000+08:00

OK, if this seems like a paradox to you, it is. This year has been one supersonic year, I cannot remember a year which has gone by so quickly. I guess it has something to do with the endless projects, essays, and other 'creative' stuff. In fact, all my time this year has been spent catching up on unfinished homework, racing to meet project deadlines, and I spent virtually zero time relfecting and revising what was being taught in class, and even in class, let's just say the environment isn't the most condusive for studying in. Therefore, my expectations were extremely low, at the start of today I figured I could fail a maximum 7 subjects. The build-up to the releasing of scripts was nerve-wracking, but when it finally came out, I was spared agony in most subjects by the wonderful cheating tool used by teachers called moderation, in ms dharma's words, "to look good to MOE". No more 7 A1s for me this year, instead, it was a rather alien situation in which I was happy to pass, and in the end my average of around 61% was about 14% lower than last year, sigh, it at last hammered home that my standards have decreased drastically this year. Anyway, compared to other people, I was average. Topped biology with 65%, but due to my honesty, was reduced to 63.3%, but was still top in the class of 9. 5 people passed chem without moderation, and I was part of that band of brothers, so I have to thank God for that. I finished joint 2nd top for LA, with Ivan and Jarvin on 20/25. C Math was a scramble, failed with 37/80 but moderation helped me pass. Same for chinese, from 46 tp 54/100 (and paper 1 was a record 42.5/70, beating paper 2 which was 40/110). Now, what really disappointed me was IHS, while I got 73% (34/50 x2 +5) for history, I got a real bad score of 25/50 for IHS, can you believe that? POD was also borderline, scraping through at 25/50, and I only studied for half an hour, so I can't complain. The last subject, the one I have been ok in the whole year, i flunked- physics was terrible, 23/60, after moderation 48%, I should be ashamed. However God did help me do ok DESPITE all the slacking, the talking, the playing, and the project work which distracted the academic year of 2004, so thanks God, for this blessing. Oh yeah, and another blessing in disguise, this year the exams weigh less heavily on the percentages, with the stupid projectwork, essays, and other 'creative' stuff also getting recognition in the tabulating of marks, so the marks in the report book can't be that bad! Next year will be different, I promise, this year was rushed, I had to adapt to a new class, with new people, next year, next year, I'll be back.

Shit

2004-10-16T22:26:00.000+08:00

Today was abosolute shit. Swore the f-word like, 3 times today. All during different situations. OK, the morning was ok, went for waterpolo and it was pretty bad, couldn't shoot for nuts, but in general the swimming/ passing/ handling was all fine. Then BB- Jerome and I are in the activites com., we said play football for games, then zheng yang decides to take matters into his own hands, gets his own motley crew of assholes and form their own games which although ok at first, got really horrid at the end. I liked the lame plot, and the first two games which were lame, of course... but what they had to do with dodgeball is beynod me. Then the real cock-up was the dodgeball game itself, stupid attitude sec 1 fatty pisses me off by acting like I'm his little bro, when he is shorter than me, only bigger, much bigger. So f-word one came when he couldn't hear me. Mr Foo was also pms-ing and it was vexing just listening to him talk or shout. Then before going for dinner at my grandfather's house, I was watching tv when my father told me to get him the newspapers from my room, when he was nearer and wasn't even doing anything. After getting it, he asked me to call my cousins to say we were going to pick them up on the way to dinner, when he was next to the phone. 2 lazy acts by a capitalistic adult who makes use of his slaves when he should jolly well have the independence to do these things on his own. While reaching for the phone, I dropped the remote, and he was like, "What's your problem?". No 3. After the call, he told me to call again, as he forgot to tell me to tell my cousin to get his health booklet out for a typhoid jab, cos we are all going to India for a mission trip. Again, he's nearer to the phone but just can't be bothered to move his fingers. After being disappointed when told that the booklet was kept somewhere only my cousin's mom knew, he walked out of the room. FINALLY, f-word came out, under my breath of course. Went to the dinner listening to music at a high volume, sulked at dinner, and after that went to watch van-helsing. My cousins, sisters, and I had no problems listening until those adults came in. Normally they stay downstairs to talk, but today, of all days, when I am in a volatile mood, they come in. They talk loudly, and now the dialogue is drowned by the talk of Mahathir and the Alumni which he and my grandfather are in, SGH, and other medical shi*. Finally, I go to the front of the speakers to listen, only for my mom to ask why I was there. My father (it just HAD to be him), laughed that I was afraid of the bloody show, screw him lah. I say nothing, my mood had lifted after dinner, but had reached new depths in anger, tiredness, and frustration again. I turned the volume on my iPod to max. in the car, and listened to my happy ending, numb, breaking the habit, and faint, so they could hear. Laughed at me again in the car, as they asked a question and assumed i didn't hear it. Normally I wouldn't give a damn, but tonight has been one of those nights, you know, when every little thing pisses you off. I even kicked my sandals, GENTLY kicked my sister pretending to be a dog and irritating me, but I warned her first that I was in a bad mood so yeah, I guess she deserved it to some extent. Went back to my room and f-word three came. Now I'm feeling better again by voicing my feelings on my blog, summed up by one word, one title: shit.

Darn Post-Exam Activities

2004-10-15T23:19:00.000+08:00

This year's post-exam activities suck. First the life science lecture for 4 HOURS when it was supposed to be a physics workshop. The Jap/China guy was super boring, wasted my life there, ended up playing with the powerpoint pen tool during the slideshow on my com., stupid really. Then there was a spate extremely boring lectures by various teachers, including a carrer quiz. Judging by the results being a doctor (or rather, a pro, as i could end up being a teacher(horror!!!)), is only second option. My ideal job would be to be an artist, a someone skilled at arts. WHY??? Absolute nonsense, I know I did well for art last year but that doesn't mean I want to be an artist! Oh yeah, on Wednesday Dan Leong made zhi yuan, jeff, dale, and I participate in a school math quiz, and in the end only I turned up, sigh, and to think there were ad math questions and i take bio...finished the darn thing quickly and said I got tuition so I could go and play football. That's what I've been doing really, playing football after school everyday. Playing crap as well, cos I'm totally off-form and the inter-class is next week, argh! Anyway, I believe in the saying that form is temporary, class is permenant, ok maybe i'm not class, but it's still nice to comfort yourself this way. Next week will continue to be xian, I hate these darn post-exam activities.

the exam

2004-10-06T08:46:00.000+08:00

The exams are halfway over!!! Physics yesterday was tough, and everyone said it was easy, but upon consultation with friends, I realised I knew as much as them, they were just a more optamistic bunch of people. The rest of the exams have been ok, save math and chem. Chem will pass, but i want an A, which now looks beyond me. Math 1 was good, but the paper 2 was pure crap...then my tutor said that i screwed up the first question...anyway, what's done is done. Today is history, which explains why i can blog now as i dont take ad math, but that also means we end on friday, not thrusday-sigh. Everyday one paper, so frustrating, just have to hang in there. Tomorrow is chinese, noooooooo.........die, trust in God, try my best, and hope its easy. This year has passed real quick, there's no time for losers, cos we are the champions my friend...and we'll keep on fighting till the end...:) an out of point song which i'm listening to right now by Queen, guess what its called (2m). Ur ans:_______________________
Correct ans: We Are The Champions by Queen.

Stressed with Stressman

2004-09-25T09:01:00.000+08:00

I haven't blogged in ages, cos either i've been studying or just can't be bothered to blog, so sorry about that. Monday did an impromtu history skit with darren and zheng hao-super funny, but forgot about Stressman, so lost marks, damn. Tuesday was boring cos half the class was at the prelim exams, then siva made me life the dustbin and she expected me to scream over a cockroach? Anyway, Jeff brought it back to class and scared Ming Wei during Core Maths. Can't remember what happened on Wednesday except swimming with Zheng Hao and playing crap in football, as compared to tuesday when i was 'twinkletoes'.Oh yeah, then there was the ultra-funny and stupid Copacabana skit. Thursday went for math and chinese tuition, im gonna fail the mock exam, i assure u, but i think i can pass the real thing if i study harder. Friday was a slack day, samson tan didnt come again cos his wife had given birth to keegan tan, congrats to them, but more relevantly, it meant we could slack for one period-yay! I know that this is an extremely short entry but i've got no time, i cant wait till the exams end. Currently feeling stressed about studying, my tutor is coming soon, feel stressed for my friends, feel stressed about Stressman?

Why is it over?

2004-09-17T23:20:00.000+08:00

Today was the best day in school for a long time. We had a short POD lesson, Dharma wasnt here, so went off for PE early, and headed straight for the parade square where we played football from 9.00-10.00am, yay!!! Played OK today, finishing was much better, but i'm still failing to reach top form, grrr... in the end the study group meeting was cancelled, so went for tuition early, and was pleasantly surprised that my algebra is alright. Went to tutor's bathroom and lets just say that two atomic bombs hit the sea, and then two twisters failed to rid the sea of the damage and in the end the sea levels rose. Slacked the rest of the afternoon, and somehow, i actually sat down and concentrated from 8.30 to 10.40pm, studying quite a bit of chem and bio compared to other days. I seriously think Ali Chew's method works!!! OK, so i was supposed to start at 8, but i redeemed myself, so tonite my conscience is clear, i didnt slack and try to study. Oh yeah, Dr Ong also gave a holiday next next wednesday, and thursday is honours day, and shock, horror, friday is the chem and chinese paper one exam!!! I think im gonna be down with a sore throat...lol. Tomorrow is the beginning of the weekend, and really, besides waking up late, there really is no advantage, you know? During the weekends i tend to be forced to sutdy more, so its more stressful than school, where alot of time is wasted by talking, slacking, stoning,etc. Sigh, today was a great day, no more football for 2 days- i know i sound like a football fanatic, that's cos i am one, but also because its a stress reliever, quoting the dumb band Busted, "thats what i go to school for"...

Stupid Saturday...and Sunday

2004-09-12T22:59:00.000+08:00

ARGH!!! Yesterday was crap! The whole morning (from 10-11.30am), I was doing work, and then went to buy new shoes... for the first time in my life, I bought 2 pairs, one Nike one which looked like a pair of jeans, and a pair of white-ish school/running shoes from Fila. Then went to buy my sister's stuff from bata and had KFC and lasagne for lunch. Did more work in the afternoon, before going off to a church missions fund-raising dinner. Oh, in November im going to India cos my father said that I 'volunteered' to go with him. Yeah right, I didnt even know about it until he told me I was going, but never mind, should be able to get CASL hours for that. My mom's friend who was the host asked my cousin and I to man the entrance, cos people were expected to 'donate' money and we had the most wonderful job of 'asking' for money and taking their 'attendance'. We also compared the amount of donations from different people, but actually it doesn't matter, the donations should have be from the heart- and that's all that COUNTS. My other cousin turned up too cos she wanted to see her friend, but ended up not talking to her friend. What an idiot, Tessa, if u are reading this, when u go to a party to talk to ur friend, u should talk to her! What an idiot!!! Anyway, my cousins Shaun and Tessa spent the whole dinner talking to me, about how she wants a bass guitar, and how her parents won't get her one cos they want her to master the cello and piano first... sigh... life's tough when ur the middle child... but IM NOT!!! YAY!!! No lah, actually it is just ur personality, certain people just have bad tempers and need anger management *hint*. Then rushed back to watch footie. Crap, first half was ok, second was dreadful by man utd. At least it cant get worse than this... and we showed both sh** defending and a fighting spirit to salvage a draw after going behind in the 90 min. Silvestre, if by some chance u are reading this, please, ur talented and ur a good defender, but cut out the stupid, careless mistakes, PLEASE...
Today, did more work, went out to lunch with my cousins again and grandparents. Did more work. My mom's in a mess cos her New Zealand plans are in disarray- now our cousins want us to go with them to Switzerland...YIPEE!!! Then my dad wants to go somewhere else besides the usual countries, so he wants to go to Venice, our cousins want to go to Spain, and my mom wants to go to Munich. I want to go to Old Trafford..lol... matchday ticket too ex., dont think I'll go unless my ang-moh uncle, Uncle Peter, takes me. Went to church, had Indian food for dinner...YAY!!! and did more work... darn... the exams are coming... not yet prepared... noooo...

Slacking... and blogging

2004-09-09T21:19:00.000+08:00

OK, so I did all my tuition hours on Monday and Tuesday, so I should be happy, but I'm not! I can't seem to sit down and finish all my school work in one shot, why? I guess cos I've been slacking so much its sort of in-built now, to slack whenever I'm supposed to be doing work. I am sooo not prepared for the final year compared to last year.... Went to get my retainers on Thursday, and then went out for lunch at the bakers inn next to plaza singaporu with my cousins, sisters, aunt, and grandparents. Discovered that the food there is better than at paragon or the one at conrad(or somewhere in the city, i dont know the name of the building), even though its the same restaurant, hmmm, thats food for thought.... sorry. Ran from the bus stop to my house 3 times today, timing myself... and then did chin-ups and a 1.5min intensive on the treadmill. Later went to play tennis with roobs, daryl, and ben chan. Argh! I'm still not at my best, but i'm getting better again. Guess what I'm supposed to be doing now? Yes, studying, but i'm not, i'm slacking (and blogging).

What Holidays?

2004-09-05T22:50:00.000+08:00

OK, I haven't blogged for quite some time, so I'll start with Friday. MISS Chia Bee Teck proved just why she is a MISS, and MISSed the love boat. Who in their right mind would want a relationship with her? She is so absolutely bitchy about everything, no wonder nobody has given her a present for over 3years, until I gave her chocolates on teacher's day. While Siva was GIVING away chocolates as she had too much, cbt only had one box, one present, until she um, requested for her present. Apparently the whole staff room was talking about the video Ivan made, and she wanted one. So, Ivan fooled all of us into thinking he really did have one, until we were walking back to class, that is. Anyway, next up was PE and he finished her video then. So, today was the day female English teachers were bitchy. Ms Dharma says she will hand out our term reports after recess, but she doesnt show up until the end of school. She scolds the collectively scolds the class about their behaviour during AD Maths and us Bio ppl felt pissed-we weren't involved about the shit during Mr Paul Foo's period. Term report was OK, overall ppl seemed to think I could do better if I tried harder, Mdm Yong was brutally honest, as usual, but she's nice, so its ok. Ali Chew sort of complimented me in a way, saying I have the capacity to do very well when motivated, but he ended by saying that sometimes, i choose not to be, in zheng hao's words, 'withdrawing from the conversation'. Dan wrote nonsense as usual, 'Ethan is meticulous in his work', am I meticulous, even I find that hard to believe, but thanks anyway. Siva was the best, 'An expressive and charming student', I take expressive to be a nice was of saying lame, how lame is that from her man? Spent the afternoon at the dentist taking off my braces, cleaning my teeth, etc.
Saturday went to a nursing home (with lots of old folks), for BB Cares, and ended up singing with jerome, and justin on stage, with yao qun playing guitar and melvin as lead. Why Melvin? Cos the song we were singing was probably the new ACS (I) anthem, Be With You, by Mr. Big. Anyway, the old folks and us had a language barrier, as they spoke Hokkien while we spoke Mandarin. After that got back to school by bus and took a cab to my cousin's house for her 7 birthday party.
Today was brilliant, Dale's house was sooooo boring, as I was half asleep and I think he was too, so we didn't talk to each other. After that tried to do work, but couldn't so, I just managed to do 100+ words for my history thesis. Darn. Went out for dinner to some Crystal Jade Shanghai restaurant in Takashimaya, or whatever its called. Didn't go to church cos it was communion, and my sisters and I have this habit of not going on communion. I also discovered that there is a lot of school homework, and I really need to buck up and finish it soon so I can do revision during this 'break'. OK, I've blogged, and probably won't blog again for a long time, so bye!

Teachers Day

2004-09-01T00:10:00.000+08:00

HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY!!! That must have been my slogan for the day. All morning (OK, actually from 8.30 to 9.10), was spent being nice to teachers, and giving presents. If you'd like to know, before that was a totally pointless walk around the neighbourhood for ACES Day. Crap chinese period, saved by chin haw when he let us off very very early-but all the other teachers didnt even bother showing up... anyways, played football, and scored a nice goal but was otherwise crap, then went for the concert.
OK, so I was disappointed that some ppl actually donated more than me, but what really made me embarrassed was the 'john loh' band's and MR's double whammy: an extremely long and pointless solo without lyrics in which the lead guitar was cancelled out thanks to the bloody MR. Stupid ppl, then they messed up again with the mikes during the next song. Overall, Zheng Hao was actuall pro if you bothered to try and seee how fast his fingers were moving, jun jie was also good, marcus was my hero as usual, while melvin and marcus low were out of point. I felt that it was like choosing the wrong song to sing it american idol, the singer (ivan) is talented at singing pop, but has to sing a rock song... if i were simon, i would say: "that was the wrong choice of song, horrendous" if i was paula: " it sounded good, you have a very unique voice", if i was randy: "whats up dawg!!!(what else does he say?" But I'm Ethan, and I would say to ivan: "Always look on the bright side of life, your still a better singer than 99.99% of the school population cos your in choir and we are juz bathroom singers, somewhere over the rainbow, there will be something to make you feel better (vodka summer!) and just let it (the performance) be...and move on".
Anyway, went back to acjs, only to find that madam tan was talking to parents, mrs chan was on course overseas, and only mrs lee tai chin remembered me... then again that means only mr chong forgot me, so at minimum, 50% remembered me, cos im 100% sure mrs chan would remember me. I think my primary one teacher remembered me cos she said hi, but i forgot her name until she had walked away!!! Im getting old. Felt what it was like to walk into a school no longer yours, and see younglings staring at you, i remember being in their position in primary school, so small and carefree...

Tired of School

2004-08-29T18:51:00.000+08:00

Why won't school end? WHY? I'm just so tired... the last week of school is going to be one loooonnnnggg haul. But anyway, I am tired of all people taking advantage of me. A certain person pissed me off during double chinese on thursday cos it was a free period and i was listening to my ipod. OK, so he put one earphone in his ear, i was fine with that, although he didnt ask. Then he says he wants to see my songs... still fine... THEN HE STARTS CHANGING SONGS, FORGETTING HE HASNT EVEN ASKED MY PERMISSION!!! AND HE CANT SING FOR NUTS!!! No prizes for guessing who that is, listen even if you are reading this right now, there is no need to get all worked up, I have forgiven you, but I still think you were over the top. Then you listen to incredibily shit songs and when greg comes to sample the song and puts my earphone on the table after deciding he dosent like it, you put the OTHER earphone in your ear, what the hell is your problem?Is your EQ 0? No.1: You dont ask for permission... No2. you take BOTH his earphones= STEALING in front of a disgusted owner. Then you parade around the class wanting totally uninterested people to listen to your favourites.. but guess what? NO ONE LIKES IT!!! By the time at least one earphone is back in my ear, the double period is over and I have yet to listen to any song of my choice... Bloody hell... then you moan that you want an iPod... STUPID GIT... WHY ARE YOU FEELING PEER PRESSURE? I'VE GOT A $6, 3-YR OLD MOBILE PHONE AND I DON'T TELL THE WHOLE WORLD I WANT A NEW ONE!!! The worst thing is that a few days previously you asked whether you could buy my iPod.. and argued that it was an old model. Do you think I care? Besides, I got it in June for my birthday in october, i opened it in advance. If you think its old, and your so rich, why dont you buy one yourself? Anyway, the rest of Thursday was crapl, tried to study in chinese tuition and after half an hour Weasley and I gave up cos Asher and Beng were too noisy, so spent the rest of the time making jokes and laughing. I think the other student was pissed lah, feel so bad... preventing others from studying peacefully.
Friday didnt have time to watch bourne supremacy, heard it was crap anyway. 3.14 were assholes during PE, didnt want to play with us although we had no space to play anywhere and we had only 10 ppl. Real cowards, a bunch of losers who cant play football but play anyway.... reminds me of fat lip last yr, at least he was funny, unlike snobby, picky 3.14.
Saturday was OK, no waterpolo (again!) ,and BB was slack. Only 3 activities and juniors ppl, so talked to the officers in Lang room 5 about NS, school life, Charles, etc. while the others were at botanics. Then played basketball (wow), and slacked until they came back. Had dinner in my grandfather's house, talked about horror movies at dinner and got scared.
Today, brilliant, sort of finished POD, supposed to be doing EOS now, wasted time at Dale's house for lunch, I was so sleepy over there, somehow Katong (or is it just his house?), is always hot and makes me sleepy... Anyways, my 5yr old cousin from London is here now, playing, I wish I was still 5, cos there was no homework, slacked in school...

Waiting for the Weekend

2004-08-23T22:56:00.000+08:00

I know its a stupid title, but I am really waiting for the weekend-of the 10 week. All the teachers seem to be having their tests at the same time... Chua Chin Haw is screwed up, told us last week that we had 6 long and difficult chapters to study, crap. Today was bad, i think i was off point in the last question in the history test, it was a stupid question anyway. Question one was also a bit nuts, but i used a lot of contextual knowledge to pull thorugh. As far as im concerned I'll probably get average results, as only question two was properly done(or at least i think so). CRAP!!! My SBQ is getting worse, I was better in sec 2 than now, WHY??? I think that it's cos Chirnside is probably the best history teacher in the school, I was so disappointed when I found out he wasnt teaching Pre-IB history. Oh yeah, LA A was fun, I had an inspiration and sort of pontenged waterpolo to pen my thoughts. I dont think I lied outright, as I did have tuition, but it was at 6, which is actually after training, but oh well...
After tuition my mom's anniversary present of a treadmill finally came, and I used it first!!! Its quite fun, actually, better than swimming.
On Saturday, my dad got me to go for some church mission trip briefing cos he wants me to go to india at the end of the year on a medical mission with him-i'm not even sure if i am spiritually ready. He said that there would be a lot of other youths there, but it turned out only my cousin and I were the only BRMC people there, everyone else was either a ACS barker road BB Boy, or someone from some church which I have never heard of (Christalite Methodist Church, etc, and i thought it was an old age home...) What was taught in the briefing i think i already beforehand, so in hindsight, i should have remained at BB and conducted war games with jerome. Gotta go now, the treadmill's waiting...

Climax In Motion

2004-08-17T22:56:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was Friday. Really, the bloody school changed Monday's timetable with Friday's, and the week started off with a sleep-inducing lecture by Dr Phillip Tieh. However, I was in a happy, no, jovial, mood, and decided to make jokes and laugh at him to myself rather than sleep. DR Tieh is probably a very clever man, its just that I think teaching is not the job for him. He is the equivalent of Prof. Binns in Harry Potter, full of information which nobody cares to listen to, not because the topic is horrible, but because his facial expression, sound, and basically everything which he does, is boring. Anyway, after POD had reccess, and Joseph Lau caught me sneaking drinks out... I ended up sneaking out via another door. Rest of school was boring. Dropped Ken Tay and Ivan off at Holland V for lunch and went home, only to discover that we ran out of cooking gas and had to eat Saturday's left overs, which was basically nothing but tomato on bread, and the parts of beef which nobody ate on Saturday-the lousy parts. I left the beef alone, and ate Lay's instead, along with the bread, and said I was 'carbo-loading' for the run. Yeah right. I should have followed them to KFC. Anyway, both of them walked over to my house, and Ivan turned on the party shuffle on iTunes, and kept missing Somebody To Love, poor guy. After that went to MacRitchie, where I found out how sh** GHK was this year. In the end Beng had to run for the house. During the run, walked for the first time, got stitch in the forest for the first time, but managed to improve my run on the road and finished pretty well, probably a bit better than last year. That should have meant that we would win at least a team bronze, cos that was what we got last year. But guess what? THE GEPS WALKED!!! Matthew and Song didnt give a damn, and Leon and Marcus didnt do well as they had hoped (same goes for me), but at least we tried our best. I feel let down, cheated, of another medal, but I think I can get over that. Went for emergency chinese tuition at 7.30 cos I thought oral was on Tuesday. I feel confident of passing cos I knew the topics which my tutor was talking about. Went home, did chem worksheet, and it was night night (This blog for monday was done on tuesday).
Tuesday... absolutely sick bio show-and-tell by ryan and muthu, I mean, showing 70kg testicles filled with fluid and worms is bad enough, but showing the pics of a cat being castrated (or sterilised)? Are they sick or what? IHS was interesting for once, I have always thought that Chirnside is a superb teacher, who is CREATIVE, unlike others. Chem was OK, Chinese was slack as usual, and core maths was NONSENSE!!! I mean, I asked mun sung whether I could get my stuff from the locker, went out, upon realising that I didnt have my book, came back in, and he asked why I went out when I didnt ask for permission. WHAT THE HECK??? Tried to take notes and listen, which I did, but eventually began reading chem textbook and followed Sean's example and went to sleep for the last fifteen minutes. Went home with the conviction to study hard, I think I should stop slacking and start studying now. Whoever is reading this, listen up... I, Ethan Koh, WILL start studying HARD for the exams NOW. Did work at home, went to tuition, and finished la a. Still got loads to do, stupid teachers all collaborate and give all their darn projects and homework AND tests deadlines at the end of the term. Therefore, every term's most hectic weeks is week 10, and especially weeks 8 and 9. The exams are coming, and do you notice that the years seem to be passing by faster and faster each year?

Chaperoned here, there, and everywhere...

2004-08-13T22:35:00.001+08:00

At first, the whole class of 3.16 habakkuk was like "YAY!!!", when we found out that Wednesday was a holiday. Then came news that mr. Steven Ng and a couple of other teachers didn't want to give us homework, and we were like 'YAY,YAY!!!". And you know what? The whole 5 days were crap. Everyday I had to harm my back just to do EOS (Essay On Science) only to find out upon completing it that I had not put up an argument and some parts could lead me to be accused of plagarising. So, essay after essay has been given to us, and now I've been spending the past few night's sleeping in the early hours of the morning (12.30am) just to finish things like LA (A) and POD. Which reminds me, today (Friday), I realised that I had done the wrong POD homework and not completed the workbook and the draft is only due next week. Hence, I got screwed by ms Chia, who seems to enjoy takikng harsh action over seemingly frivolous things. Anyway, I could comfort myself in the fact that I havve done my work already and now have one less thing to do. Cross country has also been postponed to Monday. Why? Couldn't Dr. Ong just have made this a slack week and have the stupid cross in the morning on Friday, then we could skip another day's worth of lessons; sadly, they aren't on the same wavelength as me, oh well...
Went to watch a movie without my parent's or family for the first time in my life. Ivan and Darren were my 'chaperons' at Plaza Sing where Ivan tricked me that we were going to see the village at golden village. I nearly ran away, but then he showed the tickets and I realised that we were watching Ella Enchanted. OK, it may be a girl show, but it still rocks. Its a combo of Shrek, Shrek 2, and Cinderella. And the songs were addictive! I really want to watch it again, my sisters, tessa, and lala should watch it, i'm sure its better than that stupid show by mandy moore (A Walk To Remember). Anyway, couldn't finish the popcorn for the first time in my life as they all kept refilling my box with their popcorn, lol. After that went to Chor Yuan's house to play football. Played crap... total nonsense... failure... how I played so badly I have no idea. I guess I must have been a) too stuffed with popcorn and coke, b) To busy thinking of Somebody to Love and Don't Go Breaking My Heart from the movie, c) Tired, or d) All of the above. Oh yeah, stupid Darren told Zheng Hao that I cried and closed my eyes during the sad and kissing scenes respectively in Ella Enchanted... and that git told like, the whole class, and I don't know who else from other classes. OK, so I did close my eyes during the scary scenes, but I DID NOT CRY!!! GET THAT INTO YOU HEAD CHAN ZHENG HAO AND DARREN CHEW AND ANYONE WHO BELIEVES THEM!!! Friday had Charity Cafe, real fun selling stuff, until went to class to get 'reinforcements'. Cos Ali Chew told me to rest and study for a while. After chem ended, carol low told me to go to 3.15 to fetch some students to help her, yes I did that, but Siva came and forced Ali Su and me to go for IHS. Back to today, my father kept trying to help me with my LA A essay, but I'm sorry to say that they did not answer the question at all, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings, so I let him continue to talk and get me to take pointless points for half an hour. Yay, I've written about what has happened in the life of Ethan Koh in a pretty short blog article, I guess I have finally mastered the technique of summarising stuff (nearly 10months late, cos I needed that for sec 2 final year), so goodbye!!!

A typical, typical Sunday

2004-08-09T14:11:00.000+08:00

Guess what? I went to the 10.30am BRMC service for the first time in my life!!! To tell you the truth, it wasn't that much different apart from the fact that I knew a lot of people there and there was 10X the amount of people whom you would find at 5pm service. And Beng didn't meet me at church as he was at coro, what a liar, when he even promised that 8.30 would be playing 10.30 in a football match... after 3 years I finally go due to his pestering, and he isn't even there when I come, what an idiot. After church went to Dale's house. Stayed for a really short time before leaving, as if to emphasize the point that life is getting boring, I went to sleep for 1.5 hours at home upon getting back, I've never done that unless I was sick. I have no idea whether I am tired and burnt-out or just lazy. Anyway, to complete a boring day, I did homework, ate chicken rice for dinner and did more work, in between getting into a big fight with my sister who acted tough for one of the few times in her life-of course she did, I mean, she started it. But as always, my sisters start a fight but they are the ones who end up crying, in this case cos I said she was pms. Oh well, I guess its always my fault right? Its ALWAYS Ethan's fault for EVERYTHING that goes wrong. Later went to watch community shield only for Man Utd to lose, but never mind, we were missing a lot of players. The most stupid thing I did on Sunday was really putting jokes on Ivan's tagboard, he even got so pissed that he added an Ethan's Corner to his blog so that I put my jokes there, not on his precious tagboard. I realise that I should put jokes on my blog instead, but really, I can't be bothered.

Superstar? What superstar?

2004-08-07T15:11:00.000+08:00

OK, today is saturday, and i'm blogging for friday, but anyway, yesterday was supposed to be the worst day of the week, the day when every thing was to be handed up... ... then we got like, all our teachers to extend their deadlines to next thursday, cos wednesday is a holiday thanks to rugby. Oh yeah, that reminds me, the rubgy final rocked dude! I made an utter fool of my self trying to grab flying balls, and walking with sunglasses and a cap- not forgetting the drums(actually it was two water bottles and a pail). I walked to the St. Andrew's side to irritate them, and ken lim, zheng hao, got in trouble with a bunch of tamil tigers by aggravating their ringleader (although they were armed with black batons, they were shorter than us, me included, so it wasn't very scary), anyway, I caught the wayward rugby ball at their end and kicked it back to the ruggers (yay!). Back to friday, it was pretty fun, after math tuition went to my 'real world debut', quote ivan. First time I EVER went out to Orchard for movies without my parents. However, there was no movie, except the village, which I had no intention of watching, so went bowling for the first time in 3-5years(I can't even remember when I last bowled, except that it was at SSC), and my average was crap. I used to be able to hit 100 at best and 85 at worst in PRIMARY school, now I hit a record low of 53. After bowling took cab to holland v, and the cabbie was nuts, swearing in hokkein, english, and talking about prostitutes, working for his entire life and only being able to afford the car's steering wheel, and touching women. Funny old man, he is. At burger king met the 3.16 band, before going home with ivan for 30 mins to print a banner. AC Superstar was seriously a waste of money, the singing was crap, and to think someone with a sorethroat won, beating 4 other healthy contestants. During the interval I spotted my cousin from MGS and I was suspicious as to why she was there, and she even ran away when she saw me.Hmmm... So I just had to find out who she was with, but unfortunately, she was with her girlfriends and not a boy. Shawn Tan and Aizat were idiots, telling me that some girl had a crush on me (she thought I was cute, duh!!!), and she did look a bit sheepish, covering her face, anyway, ming wei was no help, taking my number from bryan loke's phone and giving it to her. I told her my number was 62353535-lol, piza hut!!! I spent a lot of time screaming at a pitch few boys can reach, much to ming wei's dismay. Oh yeah, another girl from SCGS, whom Ming Wei has had a crush on for ages but claims it is me who has a crush on her, turned up and sat on our row, prompting that dog to blush and say,''Ethan, look who's here". What a coward, if he likes her, he should just say so, right? Anyway, I loved the auditions, they were hilarious, and mr. see teck hock really saved the show with his witty, mean, comments.
Today has been boring. National Day celebrations was boring, I slept, laughed at 'lance corproal' ken tay who bought his rank, although he is not one, and had the audacity to wear it with his incomplete bb uniform, and laughed at 'station inspector' reuben. Besides that, melvin and I just had a couple of run-ins with mr leong, but that's it. How boring is that? Are you happy that I have condensed 3 days into one blog ivan? I think that you're the only person who bothers to read my blog, so I'm done for today. Back to doing my recipe, and in line with today's superstar theme, I've got a cliche( or maybe an altered cliche) ending...ready?
Seacrest, no, Ethan, OUT!!!

Saturday Night Fever

2004-07-31T23:25:00.000+08:00

OK, besides doing a bit of magic (as in magic squares) from 9 to 9.40, and I slacked during that time as well, so I only clocked about 8 mins of work, I had a fun time at waterpolo (wow, must be a first, or maybe its cos there was no swimming, I wasn't fined for going to the gym with sandals, and scored 2goals, one a solo), was amused during drill in BB, and played captain's ball with some really wierd (or as officers say, 'special') sec one's and basically thats all we did at BB. After being ill-treated by my piano-exam-stressed sister, I bathed and was off to band night with the knowledge that I was going to get free tickets=provided by Ivan from Zheng Hao.
You know what? Never trust that idiot, Zheng Hao, he gave us ticket stubbs, but thankfully managed to get in, so maybe he is trustworthy. Anyways, great concert, I loved the music, but thought that after the interval, the band seemed to screw up abit. Oh yeah, I had to reserve 9 seats for various people, and you know what? I had to reject like 10 others, I really felt bad, but whatever, I was polite, apologised, so its not my fault. During the performance, some members of the audience were super stupid/crazy/shameless, shouting things like 'kenneth foo(or whatever his name was), your girlfriend is here!" and "kenneth, I love you!", I mean how nuts can someone get. Ivan and I sneaked into class and my waterbottle was not under the desk(crap). Continued making stupid jokes, the perfect tonic after a sh** week, with teacher's scolding, frustration at football, math test, etc. Only shock-tactics in bio show-and-tell which captivated the audience was good, and now the band night. Marcus was super pro today, even though he is in percussions, unlike Zheng Hao, Darren, Milton, Kenneth Lim, Bryan Chua a.k.a world's best, Li-Jie, etc. Thank you band, for an entertaining performance (and especially for the free tickets, or is it stubbs?).

Madness in Sense

2004-07-26T23:04:00.000+08:00

5 free periods, 2 periods of slacking, and 1 period of paying attention, good football during reccess, Chinese teacher 'forgets' that there is remiedial at 2.30, sounds like a perfect school day? Wrong. Not only was I positively bored for the last four periods of school, I was conned into waiting until 2.30 for a stupid lesson which never came. Chua Chin Haw is an asshole of the most screwed up kind. Alright, so I did play loads of football until 2.30, but so what? I could have gone home at 1.40 and played computer, listened to music, and play football as well! Then had to run around for half an hour out of decency to try and locate the missing teacher. Not in the staffroom, not along sec2 or 3 corridors, where was here;probably playing championship manager in some Saddam Hussein-like hole in the messed up looking rugby pitch. Went home, had tuition, all fine. Then the fight. My sisters are gits, they irritate me and I tolerate for a while, when I retaliate they scream, cry, get pissed with me as if I am not allowed to shout back. One was glaring, the other had a startled look, as if I had just committed an unthinkable crime. Well, screw both of you. Oh yeah, before that Charlotte decided she did not know how to print out her homework in an A3 format, and I connected the com., and waited... 10 minutes, finally, I asked where she was-she was doing her homework research first and told me off, saying that she had told me she was doing research first. Bloody bitch you didn't, you came to my room and told me you needed help to print your bloody work and led me to the printer and even said you will help me carry the laptop. What a bloody liar. Anyway, back to the present. After the fight I quickly finished dinner and sought solace by playing com. but mom wanted it, fair enough. My temper cooled when she said I could start studying whenever I wanted. Doing work was fun tonight, I kept interrupting my sister when she was trying to learn her history by answering my mom's questions. After work, however, she pissed me off again by bringing up the research issue. Why the heck she was so adamant that A3 was the only possible size only she knows. She even cut up the papers beforehand to A3 size. How dumb is that? The printer naturally couldn't print the stuff and she got angry, claiming she didn't know how to use the com. Yeah right, she's just to lazy to try to learn how to use it properly, hence I have to forever do her dirty work. I had to reset the margins, edit her whole assignment to fit an A3 size paper before finally printing it on A4 paper. I told her to cut the paper up into A3 size, duh, common sense right? I forgot, she also insisted on a particular colour combo, really testing my patience to the maximum, I just wanted to write this stupid blog, why is there so much trouble? After that my dad wanted to use it, in a foul mood, I said I had no intention of using it and he could keep it. I left the room saying that I'm the only one with common sense in this house. I think they got the message on my mood, cos a few minutes later, my dad came in with the com., saying I could have it. Oh, well, so here I am now, with the laptop at last, but crap, its so late, and besides typing this, I can't be bothered to do anything else.

Maths, Magic, and Millions of words to learn

2004-07-25T22:43:00.000+08:00

Today I finished the Da Vinci code, wow, like two months after eveyone else, but I only got it on Monday. Anyway, its a good book, but is really controversial; how could Jesus be married to Mary? A bit blasphemus, that. Anyway, after all the codes and mathematics and logic, it was the perfect time to crack my own code, how to do the magic square. Crap, it was more difficult than I thought, oh well, at least nobody else seems to know how to do it. As for the third part of the title, well, chinese test is on wednesday, and I still can't seem to be able to learn all four chapters thoroughly(as in memorise how to write it, how to make sentences with every word...) and I think I'm screwed. I have no idea why I've been so consistent in writing blogs recently, I guess that that shows that I'm wasting time, terrible. Didn't go to church for the third week in a row, feel really bad, but thank God that He will forgive me. Instead was forced to watch the woman in black, some horror play which is supposedly award wining in England. Really spooky. The ghost was super scary and thank goodness I was in the front row of the balcony, had legroom to slouch whenever neccessary-which was quite often.The twist at the end was really really shocking, ala. the ring. My cousin did no favours by gripping my shoulder at opportune moments, and the lighting and sound was really real. However, the acting was good, and I will probably get nightmares about this show for a long time. The most embarrassing part for me was also the end, when the ghost suddenly appeared. She didn't scream-wo girls in the audience did. You know what? I didn't know that until my cousin told me after the show, and I thought that that was the most shocking and frightening moment! Stupid audience, they saboed me, I hope nobody finds out. Oops, did I just tell you, nooooooo! Never mind, I gotta go now, please pray that I sleep well!

BB, waterpolo, dinner, can't I just turn back time?

2004-07-24T23:39:00.000+08:00

Saturday really is the crappiest, yet most interesting day of the week. I skipped waterpolo cos it was raining, but the BB was really shocking. First, I saw the waterpolo players in school at 1.15pm, so crap, nobody had the guts to skip one training-or is it the other way around?Hmm... After 'ushering' and setting up the buffet, we started playing with Jerome's food, like spraying whipped cream onto the beginning of our digestive system. I actually meant to give the food back to Jerome but oh well... that's the price you pay for not being their and your stuff is in your friend's hands. Sorry about that...
The worship session was awesome, far better than chapel. I think the decibel level must have been 10 times higher with 15times less people. For a long time, and even right now, I have believed that people don't sing during chapel as the organisers don't seem to know how to choose songs which are well-heard of. If we don't know the lyrics and tune, how are we supposed to sing? Also, let students form a worship band, like those in EP. Why do you have a worship band EP when you don't let them play during chapel and instead let either a) Old teachers (tan see keng, et al), b) Older teachers (Grace Kwee), or c) Debaters(ok, maybe just one or two, but don't you get the feeling that its always the same old people on stage?). Oh yeah, we're admin. now, and guess what? Majority of us are still lance-corpral! Only seven on-people got promoted except one... xiang un! How the heck did he become a corpral, he couldn't even march properly! Nevermind, only seven got promoted out of 50> people, so I probably will get promoted at the year's end. Played football at last, first time in many days, wow, never would have imagined that at the start of the year, people getting lazier...
Had a family reunion with cousins from the US coming over. I babysitted them with my usual cousins(as in I see them every week), and was shocked to learn that kindergarten kids these days listen to Linkin Park, Nickelback, and movie soundtracks(shrek 2, MI2, etc). And they watch Spiderman2, Shrek2, Harry Potter... Kids these days, so naugthy, I remember when I was a kid... used to be a kindergarten and montessori celeb. Everyone chasing me in packs in kindergarten, by themselves in montessori, well as ivan said, i did look cute when i was young (xiang un said i look cute today, is that good or bad?). I used to run every time... those were the days...no homework, just going to friend's house to play, or to mine. Power Rangers, playstation, winnie the pooh, batman, spiderman, bomberman, superman, digimon... i wish i could turn back time to when i was young(er)...
Anyway, hosting them was fun, two glasses of riesling(ice wine), talking crap to parent's about how wonderful their children are(they really are cute, all have little bits of me in their personalities) and how my mom is a modern woman who listens to GNR, the darkness(its not my music, really!) Also ate like a pig, so much food, so little time...lol.
In conclusion, my life is really busy right now to the extent that today is no longer saturday, its sunday, which means its time for bed. Ciao, zai zian, goodbye, Au Revoir, Sayonara, Arreverdecci...