La vida en los textos: January 2008

Thursday 31 January 2008

TOFU MAN

After 5 minutes of struggle trying to paste the text into the picture well...

i present, my latest ms paint creation...

TOFU MAN: FRESH TOFU!

Everybody loves tofu man!!!

Haha, this post is so random, i shall post some details about the week in my next post.

Bye for now. =3

Monday 28 January 2008

Epilogue

That Day...

The weather was fine, yet i was feeling my inner self gasping for air as i rode on the bus back to swiss. The unsightly semi-broken-down 187 bus seemed to have made a nostalgic impact on me during the trip to school -- I could still remember the clear images of us groaning when this particular bus arrived to bring us back home. I thought maybe that trip also reflected the time and effort i had spent mugging through everything.

As i alighted from the bus, i saw the familiar stretch i've been walking on since the first day of secondary 1. How coincidental it is, for me to end that last day walking on that path again since the back gate was closed. Would it be a 'path of glory' just like what we had always sang along on the monday assemblies or would it just be another tiring walk? I had no answers at that moment as i rushed to make it to the hall promptly.

The first teacher whom I saw was Ms. Ee, and i can still remember what she told me.

"So how? Are you feeling nervous?"

"Ya..."

"There's a lot of top students from your class, you should be positive about it."

Next, faces of some people i expected to be top students appeared in my mind but i knew it would be senseless to picture myself beside them.

After the new principal had addressed us on the jae procedures and the statistics of 2007's results, he called upon those people's whose names are on the 'top students' list to stand up. I was definitely taken aback when i saw my name on the screen. 'Is this like some fairytale ending?' I wondered. I was happy, of course, even though i din't look like i was showing it.

Looks like all my hardwork has not gone down the drains.

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Thanks I'd like to spread:

Family -
Siblings and parents alike for giving me their supports.

Teachers -
ms. ee, ms. tan, mr. ngoh, mrs. koh, mrs. yu, mr.ravi, mdm tang, mdm. zainub, mrs. lieu, mdm. goh.

Friends -
zhihong, letting me copy his notes when i cant see the board/screen clearly.
benghow, tips on english and always giving me extra INFO before tests. *ahem*
junhao, lending me his 'Bible of Biology' which helped in my a1.
JK, letting me tease him daily. lol. Giving me the motivation to study after looking at him emo.(jking)
joseph, making class soccer a publicized extremely enjoyable activity for 4E5 by using signature shout, 'FORMMMM TEAMMMMMMM'
yongxiang, playing badminton with me even though im so noob.
jiasheng, being a chiku (randomness~)
junyang, being my teacher.
sokheng, always there to motivate and teach too.

To anybody who is not in the list but is also a friend of mine, u've been acknowledged. I will always remember every single person who has helped me along in times of difficulties.

Don't cry okay. lol.

Thursday 24 January 2008

@ Beng How's house

First and foremost,

Gurmit Singh came to PJC to support the blood donation drive, and he entertained us for ONE minute during assembly.

Stayover at beng how's place was so cool, we met at the tv lounge at about 6p.m yesterday. Played with his ps3 and wii, with surround sound in the lounge, simply the best gaming experience ever. Wii tennis was super fun, excluding the fact that i lost to benghow who wasnt even looking at the screen, lol.

(the tyra show was on channel 5 at that time)

After dinner, we went to his apartment to watch steven chow's tao xue wei long on his mac. Even though we've all watched the show before, it's still super funny. We also watched the david blaine youtube videos and they were freaking funny/lame too.

Lights offed at about 2a.m. The pillows we slept on were great. :D

We woke up at 7a.m next morning for a swim, or a 'float' for me since i do not know how to swim. (sad face) I managed to fish a pair of goggles from the bottom of the swimming pool, and zhihong brought it home.

Results will be out at about 2p.m.

All the Best.

Sunday 20 January 2008

All Wound Up

How stressful can life get?

I've spent 4 years in a secondary school, dragging myself off the bed each day just to get to school promptly, going through countless of lessons just for the sake of them, finishing the mountain-load of homework (esp. before the o levels period) and sometimes forcing myself to hang out with people i do not find comfortable with.

Of course, everything is just part and parcel of life, if given a choice, would i choose to rot at home instead? Definitely not. The people i've met, the experiences i've gone through, although not all enjoyable, make up the reasons why i look forward to Life.

In around 4 days time, we will be getting the much dreaded(or much loved for some) O levels' results. On that day, it will be the time when all of us will officially part from swiss cottage to carry on our next journey, a much more hateful one since there'll be very little time for us to chill.

Half a month ago, i thought nothing about the release of results since i already estimated the range in which my score will fall in.

But as for now, I'm already getting the jitters.

What if my score exceeds my target, will i be devastated or will i just live with the fact?
What if im the only person in my class not getting an ideal score?
Will i be one who celebrates after the announcement, or the one who seeks for solace?

Still, the o level certificate is just a milestone towards a levels and eventually college. I guess it will not heavily deter the aspirations we have and I'm certain it will only last for either a moment of bitterness or ecstasy.

Not forgetting the decision we have to make after getting the results. To stay or not to stay?

P/S: To all Scorpios reading this post, our lucky number is 6 for this week. It may also mean 6x2 or 6x3, who knows? Haha.

Tuesday 15 January 2008

Line Diagrams WINDOWS PAINT Style

Finally done with the bio research for tutorial tomorrow after 1-2 hours, jc is seriously no more spoon-feeding for secondary school feeders e.g Me.

Here are some drawings i drew in Windows paint (10.5/10 for best time-killer application):

Mitochondria - Familiar right? cause mrs koh drew them on the board before... haha

Lysosome - No, it is not a muffin(at least not a chocolate flavored one...)

Ribosomes - M3 FAVOURITE , LIKE THEM YOU TOO?!!? (<- retarded)! It's the simplest thing to draw in animal cell :D

Unleash your hidden artistic talents in WINDOWS PAINT TODAY!

All the peeps in my class are suppose to do some self-research and then peer-teach tomorrow during tutorial, there might be a quiz after that, sians im dead.

Monday 14 January 2008

Tutorials

Tutorials start this week and i think its really much more benefiting than the mass lectures in the previous week. Even though we can 'mass slack' in the lecture halls, slogging through lectures makes going to school a drudgery.

My classmates are alright, not much to say since we're all new to each other, and the civics tutor is also not bad, just a BIT slack only. There's 3 swiss inside and all from 4e5(cheers), but it's the jurong and dunearn sec people who dominate the class cause they have around 4 for each school.

My maths teacher looks Gothic with her eye bags, quite scary if you ask me cause i can imagine her creating the tutorial questions through each midnight... haha. PW teacher is a joker, humorous malay women originally from hwa chong, and our first assignment is to compare a can of coke and our orientation. Wired :S

Kiwi!

This video is awesome, it shows the short tale of a kiwi which tried to pursue his dream of flying even though the cost was it's life. How can your heart not break when you see the tears welling up in it's eyes when it managed to 'fly'? Definitely a youtube favourite.

Wednesday 9 January 2008

PICTURES (work) Pt. 2

As promised in my previous previous post, i'll post the pictures i took in cold storage during the last day of work.

Fennel 01: Rock on!

Fennel 02: Message from aliens!?

Bananas, minimum weight of 18kg for each box... sure makes me wanna go bananas when carrying them.

Got Mould? (moudly organic orange)

Me exercising meat-hooking skills outside of dota... haha

Beware of the BROCCOLI GHOST! (photo taken in the F&V room when the store was closing)

School's been ending pretty early these few days, latest 1pm for almost everybody, but it's good to enjoy the honeymoon PAE period before JAE when teachers start unleashing hell on us.

H1 econs seems like its dam sucky, cause it's like 80% of the topics of H2 econs, even though lesser essays required in exams for h1, the questions are TOUGH, even the teacher said that h1 questions are very challenging. JC chinese is even more badass... we can no longer write the widely-loved newspaper reports again for a levels, sooo i seriously wonder if i can survive in JC now.

Till then.

Sunday 6 January 2008

SIGMA~

Last day of orientation was enjoyable and everybody started to let loose too.

What i liked was the solid punk'age of the january babies, still very hilarious now that im thinking of it.

While we were practicing the dance moves for D&D that night, a teacher suddenly got very serious and scolded us for our awful performance and that he'll cancel the D&D if we don't improve on our dancing, then he asked the ogls to take note of those people who danced badly in their group and report the names to him. Atmosphere was siong at that time and everyone kept quiet. Next, he read out the names of those people and led them to the stage, the curtains were closed and the dance directors went in to instruct them on the moves.

The dance director even said, "I'm sorry for not teaching u guys properly", then the teacher said, "why must you apologize?!?" Haha, dam serious.

While the curtains were closed, one of the student councilors brought a cake to the stage then we finally realized that those that were called up to the stage are those whose birthdays fall in january...

Ended the last day of orientation with the mass dances, must say many people were super HIGH.

SIGMA got the award for the most united clan!

Lessons start tomorrow, and i heard that o levels' results are released on the 28th of january, not official but very likely.

Thursday 3 January 2008

Totally Defeated

Having been an icebreaker hater since secondary school, i have only one word for pjc's orientation till now(at least): Sian.

First day in a new school was very plain. After the principle took over the mike to talk about basic responses to her questions, i was half-dead already, some people (referring to fortunate couple joseph and yongxiang) are in the same group so can still chat and keep themselves occupied during the talks but im the only swiss student in my orientation group.

There's quite a variety of schools in my group, got swiss cottage, river valley, jurong, bukit panjang govt high, and also unity sec. I also saw some raffles girls and SJI students in the school during the lunch breaks, i seriously wonder what they are doing in PJC. Speaking about lunch, i friggin' miss the food in swiss' canteen. There's a sakae@campus stall, i dont know whether it's really sakae certified or not, but i heard the prices are steep.

On the first day, we started playing icebreaker games from 1pm, and until 5 pm im still introducing my name for dont know how many times already, crazily bored man.

Tonight please think of dance steps so that tmr when u guys do the dance its easier. Yeah. - Shafina

Sian diao, want to sleep liao suddenly get this message from my ogl. I got selected for the tribal dance from my group. Apparently, all the peeps in my group say want to go for sport trials tomorrow, in the end i had to volunteer myself from those who are not going for trials. ('awwwww' please)

Played water games for today and im starting to get a slight cold already, just took 2 panadol to make sure i can still make it to school tmr.