La vida en los textos

Insane CNY Eve

2009-01-26T20:08:00.008+08:00

After spending half a day at my grandma's house eating snacks and catching up with cousins, I finally manage to reach home for a good rest...

Yesterday night while I was still dota-ing with the usual swiss gang, my parents asked me whether I wanted to make a trip to the temple at pandan road with them and my uncle and aunt. Though it was already quite late, I decided to follow them as I was hoping for that tinge of festive atmosphere where everybody counts down together in the temple to celebrate CNY, but I was so damn wrong.

After a 15 minutes car ride, we finally reached our destination at about 11.30p.m. Very little people were there at that time so we brought the incense without queuing, unlike chinatown trip 2 years ago. A while later, more people streamed into the place, followed by the lion/dragon dance troupe. We saw a pair of kids leading the troupe in front, quite cute and funny.

At around 11.45p.m., there was this priest carrying out the rituals (hokkien: key dang) with a lot of people praying behind him and there was also an indian guy in the crowd, even though he looked like he was clueless about the situation.

Some time right before midnight, people started to stick their incense into the large urn outside the temple door, so we joined in too, since we arrived early and were lucky to be standing beside the urn. Weird thing is, we had to HOLD onto our incense (extra big ones), even though its already sticking in the urn while waiting for the clock to strike twelve.

I felt semi-conscious during that time as the smoke was very thick and I couldn't even open my eyes because once I did, my eyes would start tearing. But we still held on to our incense while waiting for midnight, everyone was freaking despo.

Suddenly, the priest behind shouted 'HUAT AH' and people around him also shouted the same thing, then the door to the temple opened, and there was a mad rush into the temple. People in the front line literally SPRINTED in to get their incense into the urn so that they can be first.

Graphic representation:

Taken in Waterloo Street, and my situation was as bad as theirs

Can't find any video of people running into temples to place their incense into the urns, even though I saw it in channel 8 news...

Anyways, before we entered the temple my parents gave me a set of instructions:
1. Must place 3 small incense into each urn (total of ~10 small urns)
2. Must pray for good health and studies before putting the incense in
3. Remember to burn the incense paper after all that

And so, we entered the urn. The smoke was even thicker inside since it was enclosed, and there were even some idi*ts holding their candles right infront instead of above them, and I could feel hot wax dripping on my arms, painful like crap. Since it was so smoky, I quickly walked to each urn, and placed the incense inside, all done with eyes closed.

Finally, I threw the stack of incense paper into the furnace and waited for everyone else outside the temple.

Another weird thing was that, all those who had worshipped had to bring 1 extra large incense home. So while we were in the car, my mum and aunt had to stick the incense outside the windows, and you can also get to see many cars with incense sticking out in the expressway.

Lastly, I hope everyone will have a fun CNY this year, and here's a video to start the festive season.

Spring Festival Greetings 2009 by Made-in-China.com

The people look like they are forced to do this, especially the guys, quite funny.

23/08 Chalet

2009-01-09T21:42:00.002+08:00

Went to class chalet on wednesday, and I had to rush there after cca, which means 50 minutes train ride from YCK to CCK to Jelapang, and then another 50 minutes from Jelapang to CCK to JW and then finally to Pasir Ris... Extremely long ride, fell asleep like twice during the trip.

I hate it when those aunties keep staring at people when they want seats in the train, makes me feel so guilty that I din't give them the seats even though they were carrying nothing, so irritating.

Anyways, the chalet was well-planned with good food and games. Actually most of the games were from orientation and they were fun. The dress code was supposedly black and white but not many of us sticked to it but the party was still very successful.

Stayed till 10pm and there were no feeder buses available at that time but Ms Raudah gave me a ride to the mrt station (thanks). Reached home quite late and still had to wake up early for cca the following day...

Reunion party

2009-01-05T22:03:00.006+08:00

Hmm.... it's been some time since i last made a post, about 3 months? (looking at the last post I made) Due to my outstanding degree of laziness, I missed writing up on many enjoyable events during the holidays, e.g. project work presentation, sis coming back to Singapore, tennis at ngee aan, cycling trip with gang from bukit panjang to botanic gardens (will never forget the downhill slope to hell), and regular meetups with swiss peeps.

And i din't manage to post merry xmas and happy 2009 12a.m. shoutouts too, aw sad. Anyways, have a happy year ahead, gong xi fa cai!(even though it might be a wrong time to say it now...)

Went for the 4E5 guy's reunion party yesterday, it was quite fun and all thanks to joel for organising the reunion, cheers.

Me and Benghow arrived late due to Zhihong's jam... but he has made quite an improvement, from 1hour last time to half an hour, and with our extremely HIGH spirits, we finally stepped into joel's condo and we were greeted with cold hash browns...

Some photos taken by mr. cameraman JK while we were playing basketball in the afternoon.

Featuring Jiasheng... the ever-so-happy boy

Jiasheng looking like hes ganna pull out some 720 degrees slam dunk any time

Perfect basketballing stance by JS again

JS with signature smile

Okay this guy looks darn happy all the time but hes cool now cause he plays hockey in school, hah.

Weixian smiling to the floor (how awkward)

Another picture taken while the others were playing soccer, while i was playing cards and basketballing with weixian, binghan and kahwai in the condo cause i forgot to wear shoes... damn.

Joseph owning

And we finally had out potluck dinner in the function room. The food was cold but at least it was enough for everybody. Finally, zhihong brought out his *ahem* IP man exclusively from some secret vault in malaysia and everybody watched it together.

Even though the quality was alright, we saw some funny stuff while watching the movie with english subtitles.

Movie: 改天再打可以吗？
Meaning: Can we fight another day?
Malaysian subtitles: Another day. Can or not? (REALLY)

Movie: 叶问
Meaning: Ip Man
Malaysian subtitles: Leaf Master

Everyone was like rolling on the floor when we saw the epic subtitles, totally funny. Then we finally switched it to chinese which was much more accurate.

The show was great even though I've already watched it once with my brother a few weeks ago. The fights were awesome, with some humour added at parts of the show.

Final group photo

Meet up again soon!!

"Massacre"

2008-09-20T19:44:00.001+08:00

Promos schedule

Monday - General Paper

Tuesday - Economics

Wednesday - Mathematics and Chinese

Thursday - Chemistry

Friday - Physics

Nike+ Human Race 10km

2008-09-02T20:08:00.000+08:00

Last Sunday was the Nike+ human race.

While I was taking 700 to esplanade to meet up with BengHow and JunHao, there were more than 10 people in the bus wearing the same shirt as me... felt like I was taking some nike school bus to the race.

There was a heavy jam in Orchard when the bus reached there and most of the participants got impatient and alighted before the esplanade station and I did so too. Initially, I had no idea how to get to the race venue since I was pretty far from the esplanade but I just followed the crowd and eventually reached there. It was amazing to see the town packed with people wearing the same shirt.

After some searching around, I managed to find junhao and benghow waiting for me at the baggage area and we moved to the starting point since it was almost time to start the race.

It started to dizzle when the emcees wanted to start the race, but luckily the race started as planned. We were at least 200-300m away from the starting line cause there were too many people participating so we had to walk all the way till the starting point with our fellow "considerate" Singaporeans shoving us from behind.

The race was quite cool, but not really competitive since there was literally no space for us to run at the first half of the route. The 3 of us ran in a straight row throughout the race and literally blocked the lane when we were overtaking people. There were also bands performing along the route but I don't think anybody paid attention to them (sad).

We met Wenjing after the race and he and junhao went to esplanade to do what they did best during NP days: 'bombing' toilets. After that, we took some photos outside the place.

Random photo of the esplanade

Was that usain bolt behind us when we took the picture :o

Junhao's super rare SEOUL wrist tag container in the middle.

There was free-flow of 100 plus and a concert after the race too.

Hosts MTV VJs Utt and Taya with WWF panda mascot which actually ran the race in the suit

Some local band

Some videos I uploaded on Youtube (Warning: Bad quality!). Boys like girls performed live!

DJ Inquisitive(2006,2007,2008 DMC national champ) scratching

BLG - Hero/Heroine

BLG - Dance Hall Drug

BLG - Thunder

BLG - The Great Escape

Crazy atmosphere =D

Last photo before we left the place

and not forgetting Benghow's large-ass superstar burger from carl's jr.

Saturday Swim

2008-08-30T21:16:00.007+08:00

All photos courtesy of Joseph's new extremely cool olympus waterproof and shockproof PINK camera!

Stylo

Me, Yongxiang, Junhao, Joseph, Binghan, JK

Underwater- Yongxiang, Junhao, MONSTER JK (eek)

Joseph piggybacking 3 people!

JTG with his "MUGAN PALM STRIKE"(as quoted from his blog)
-.-

Other pictures and videos of us doing random and fun stuff can be found at Joseph's blog.
Any modelling agencies desperate to hire J.K a.k.a Singapore's Top 'Model', can approach me anytime... wahaha. :D

Speech day @ Swiss

2008-08-07T23:03:00.022+08:00

Today was Swiss' speech day.

I headed home from aj at around 2.30p.m. I was the only swiss ajcian who didn't bring the blazer and shoes to school so I couldn't go back to swiss with the others.

Reached home at 3.30p.m and I had to pack everything into my back fast. After getting everything ready, I left my home and rushed to the Bukit Panjang bus stop but when I reached the void deck, I suddenly realised I still owe Ms. Tan the comprehension book I had borrowed from her last time. Feeling A LITTLE guilty since the book has been with me for about 9 months already, i decided to go back home and get the book even thought I was already running late.

When I was in the bus, I started receiving smses from junhao and yongbin, saying my name will be striked off if I don't reach the school by 4.45p.m... Luckily, I managed to be on time for the LAST batch of briefing (I think the 4th batch already).

The ceremony was very boring. The new principal keep talking about lame stories which are suppose to motivate us and vincent and junhao were like dozing off throughout the ceremony... reminds me of Mr. Ravi's and Mrs. Koh's lessons last time, and the sad thing is that both of them have left Swiss already.

First highlight of the day: PHOTO TAKING SESSION

Get ready for photo-spamming...

4E5 Class Photo

4E5 Guys (WHY ARE ACJC'S AND ACSI'S BLAZERS SO DAMN NICE?!, i.e. WHY DO OUR BLAZERS SUCK?!)

Me, Weixian, Junyang(Master!), Xuanhan, Sokheng

Kahwai and BengHow (giants) with Huiying in the middle and me (People with average height!! wahaha)

Fiona and Kahwai

Huiying and Junhao

Junda and Huiying

Yuping and me

PJ, AJ, SA councillors

Swiss Ajcians

Extra feature: 4E5 Guy's Pull-up session!

76 pull-ups in total, next time we meet must reach 100 okay!!

Second highlight of the day: POST-SPEECH DAY BUFFET!

Food was good, and SOMEBODY (Hint: Name starts with Edward, ends with See) ate a hell lot that day. :D

ACSI student in action.
Potential winner of Singapore's Major League Eating competition! Support local talent!

Joseph arrived after that and we started doing what 4E5 does best... sharing FRIENDLY rac-*cough*-ist-*cough* jokes. Xuanhan most 'productive' joker that night... but we still support racial harmony in Singapore okayyy!!

Third highlight of the day: Jiamin's Birthday Celebration

Everybody left for West Mall after that to celebrate Jiamin's birthday. It was raining quite heavily that time and we had a hard time finding a place for all of us to sit down at. Finally, we went to the top floor of the MacDonalds' beside West Mall and Swiss dominated like half the place there.

Jiamin making a wish

I took the train with weixian, kahwai, junyoong, edward and yongbin after the celebration. Must say that chatting with edward is actually quite good after 8 months(?) cause he talks a lot!(in a good way)

4E5 spirit and classmates still as nice as ever, much better than what I think I'm getting now. Hope that we can still meet up often as a class and keep the friendship strong amidst our busy lifestyles (awww).

*All photos koped from huiying's blog and video from junhao's blog. Thanks a lot!!

Touch Run: My First 10km

2008-08-03T21:28:00.001+08:00

Had to wake up at 5a.m. to pack up for the run and breakfast. The flu was gone but my body still felt a little 'soft' due to the cold in the morning.

Car ride took about 1 hour from Bukit Panjang to East Coast Park and I reached there at about 6.30a.m. I told my father to drop me off at car park E2 since that was the closest one to the starting point but when we reached there, I din't see anybody and thought I had remembered the wrong carpark, then my father drove me all the way to car park F3 where i saw a lot of those guys in the orange touchrun t-shirt. I alighted there but soon realised that it was no where near Sand Castle Beach.

After calling junhao for directions, I finally managed to get to the starting point of the race. The walk from car park F3 back to E2 was quite far, and i felt like i had already done my warm-ups when i reached the place since the distance was about 1.5-2 k.m.

Saw a couple of familiar faces upon reaching there, most prominent one was junhao's physics tutor, Mr. Patrick Lim. This crazy and funny teacher always gives us some random comment whenever we're near him.

Soon, we had to gather at the starting line to wait for the signal. Some ang-mohs and other adults wearing those professional distance tracking device started to make us lose a bit of hope, and me and junhao saw Mr. Lim drinking some brown liquid from a small bottle which is suppose to be some concentrated energy drink! We knew he was no amateur(even though he may look like one) and we were determined to reach the finish line faster than him.

The 10k.m was quite satisfying, we wanted to stop at a few instances but managed to encourage each other to continue running, and still had some spare energy for a sprint when we were nearing the finishing point. Most rewarding thing was to complete the race under 50 minutes and overtake Mr. Lim, haha.

First person to complete the race was aj's soccer captain, jikky. A very amazing achievement as he managed to beat all those adults who look like professional runners. Free flow of 100 plus was so tempting that I had a stomach ache after the prize presentation...

Refreshing sea breeze and scenary at East Coast Park:

Nostalgia :[

2008-07-18T17:54:00.003+08:00

Got back report slip yesterday and felt a little disappointed of results. I wasn't expecting much achievements since i had spent the entire June holidays playing dota, but the feeling of getting owned by exams is still pretty miserable. I'm guilty for getting S grade for econs which i had spent a day studying for, right before the day of examination. Hopefully, I won't be failing it like social studies for 2 years. Now could be a good time to buck up so that I won't regret for promos.

Poor lighting

Went back to Swiss to collect SGC with weihao, zhihong and kahwai today. Sze wee came to meet us at the gate before we entered. Papaya aunties in the general office were having good moods today cause they handed me my SGC even though I din't bring my letter. Reminds me of the malay auntie who used to walk around the school with a cold face because she din't get to eat her papaya. We sat in the canteen after that to laugh at people (what swiss do best) in the 2007 year book which came along with the SGC. Somehow, looking back at secondary school life made everybody so emo amidst the laughter and teasing.

Anyways, we were chased out of the school by the security guard because weihao was attracting too much attention from the girls (just joking, the guard just wanted us to get out so that he can have an early day).

Went to the pasar malam outside the school after that to have our lunch. I managed to convince malaysians to have a taste of Singapore's Ramly burgers and zhihong got me to have my first ramly beef burger. As there wasn't any benches near the ramly store, we decided to scout for some seats to enjoy the burgers. After many unconstructive suggestions, the four of us sat outside the Bukit Gombak gym to have our burgers... and we looked like addicts because the malaysians kept poking their noses inside the plastic bags to smell the food.

Burgers were not bad, but not top quality because 'bread was too large and beef patty was tasteless' as commented by weihao and zhihong.

Went home after lunch and i'm feeling so tired now after sleeping at 12.30a.m+ to complete work for 5 consecutive days.

Class outing V2

2008-06-14T20:52:00.001+08:00

2 class outings back to back but this time round it's 4E5 soccer/ basketball/ lunch outing.

Woke up at 8.30 in the morning and thought i was going to be late so i rushed to the Fajar street soccer court right after my light breakfast only to find junda sitting there alone. Shortly after that, everybody arrived and we distributed ourselves into groups and started playing. Luckily, there were no you-know-whats at the court while we were playing, partly because its still early.

Halfway through the first game, zhihong a.k.a Msian God arrived and the first thing he did was juggling the ball past the countless defenders. In the end, it was left with vincent the goalie and zhihong one-on-one but he didn't score anyways, haha.

We played quite a few matches after that until the sun started to roast us.

Then, we proceeded to the basketball court to play bullets. JK did some magic with his dead-accurate baby balls (sounds wrong) and joseph motivated everybody to knock joel out of the game, but due to some unforeseen circumstances, zhihong was the first to be eliminated.

Later on, we went to Greenridge shopping centre to have our lunch. Talked for a short while before everybody left for their homes.

Class outing

2008-06-13T17:35:00.003+08:00

I reached orchard a bit later than the agreed time and i ranged sai up to ask where they were. Apparently, i heard him say 'meet at cine leisure' through the phone and i rushed there immediately, which was a pretty long way from orchard mrt station. So when i reached there, i couldn't find them and i called jermyn, then he said that they were all waiting for me at the mrt station. Hearing that, i almost fainted since i had to walk back to the station under the hot sun. I think i managed to burn all the calories in my breakfast during the walk.

The first person i saw at the mrt station was yongjie since his height makes him so prominent in the crowds. I walked towards him but the others called me over when i walked past them unknowingly. He was actually meeting with his OG members in front of us, how unforgivable!! (just joking) In the end, only napat, sai, jermyn, kendrick and me turned up for the outing today.

We went over to shaw centre to buy the movie tickets for The Incredible Hulk before having our lunch just outside the cinema. I ate an upsized double cheese burger meal, which i found to be rather overpriced. The double cheese burger alone is sold for 2 dollars but when u add in an upsized coke and fries, they charge you 6.95 dollars for the entire package. Damn.

Anyways, I found the movie to be quite cool, definitely much better than the original hulk. At least, there's some basic storyline in this one. The fighting scenes were quite awesome. I love it when the green beast goes 'HULK SMASH' and then the entire ground starts ripping out. There's also an appearance by the iron man guy, whatever his name is called, speaking to the general. So, there's a high chance there'll be a movie showcasing all the marvel heroes.

Tagged...

2008-05-09T22:12:00.006+08:00

Instructions: -Remove 1 question from below, and add in your personal question to make it a total of 20 questions
-Then tag 8 people in your links list them out at the end of the post.
-Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.
-Whoever does the tag will have blessings from all.

I've been tagged by jk to do this quiz... shall complete is as fast as possible.

1.What is your greatest fear?
-Not able to earn enough to support myself.

2.How many children do you want?
-Hopefully, 1 boy and 1 girl.

3.What I want the most now?
-More muscles!

4.What do you want to be when you grow up?
-A successful person

5.If you can have 1 more dream to come true, what would it be?
-My house to be flooded with cash so that i can swim in them.

6.What are you afraid to lose now?
-My life

7.Do you believe in being in love forever?
-Never.

8.If you meet someone you love, would you confess to her?
-Of course, otherwise i will end up like zixian.

9.How strong(in your heart) can you be?
-Stronger than zixian.

10.What are the requirements that you wish from the other half?
-I want both sides of my body to be well-balanced.

11.Which type of person do you hate most?
- Zixian.

12.What are the things going through your mind now?
-Blood.

13.Have you been betrayed by any of your friends?
-None presently... swiss brothers related by blood!

14.What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
-Becoming smarter and stronger

15.Roughly, how much of an age gap would you want to have between you and your Wife?
-2 years?

16.What do you want your friend to be like?
-Friendly and informative

17.What kind of friend do you hope to be in your friends' eyes?
-Even more friendly and informative

18.If you had a change, which part of your character would you like to change?
-Social interaction skills

19.If you're feeling low one day, where will you go?
-Rooftop!

20. If you had a choice to become an animal, which one would it be?
-Lim Jing Kai (JK)

Seeyaa

Swimmm

2008-04-19T17:28:00.003+08:00

Met up with joseph, yongxiang, jk and zixian today for a swim. Vincent wanted to join us but he woke up late, so we left without him.

We decided not to go to the gym because the weather was too good for tanning. All of us soon changed into our swimming attires, and we found out that zixian is indeed as pale as paper. Zx, yx and jk headed to the pool after that leaving me and joseph behind to suntan. Aside from the times when the clouds blocked the sun, we had a great time sun tanning while listening to music from my phone as it was quite windy even though the sunlight was strong.

After about 30 minutes, we joined the others in the pool... and that was when my 1 day 'learn how to swim' crash course started.

Certified instructor/lifeguard Jojo led me to the pool and asked me to start blowing bubbles. Then he taught me how to move the legs and arms. I had some problems with the leg movements in the beginning but with the encouragement and skillful teachings of joseph, i managed to grasp the basics OF basics of swimming. Soon, joseph passed me his trusty blue mini float and asked me to swim in the deeper regions of the swimming pool. It was difficult for me to breath while swimming even though i was determined to learn.

After some rigorous training, i still couldn't swim... and zixian was so happy because he finally can beat me in ONE aspect of life. Please kindly not forget about your half a pull-up while you laugh at me, haha, and next week is napfa test, haha again.

Later on, all of us moved to the kids pool and joseph showed us some water kung fu. He also taught us how to execute the move by harnessing our inner strength a.k.a 内功 then use our hands to skim across the water and then push out. Super painful and funny.

Showered after that and then walked back to causeway point to meet up with vincent for lunch. We headed to macdonalds and then joseph started discussing about his 'pet'. His pet's adventures always so interesting and funny for everybody.

Joseph, vincent and jk went off early for their cca thing while yongxiang accompanied me to shop for gloves and pencil box. Apparentlly, the nike gloves look like they tear easily for the $20 and $30 ones so i decided not to buy them and i can't find a decent pencil case in either causeway point or bukit panjang plaza. Damn... i think i have to stick with my plastic bag for a long time.

Second draft of p.i on monday and physics spa on wednesday... plus tons of common test the week after next, i shall try to get into a studying mood now.

WGU is life!

2008-04-05T17:31:00.005+08:00

I could still remember, me and junhao standing beside the ab-rotation machine, when we saw the 2 guys wearing that WGU shirt, talking to one another while lifting weights. Their sleeves were almost splitting every time they raised their hands. Their humongous arms almost the size of our faces. They were terrifying... so fit even '369' gang members will run home and cry to their mothers.

The bold words 'WOODLANDS GYM UNDERGROUND' printed on the back of their shirts inspired us to work even harder to get into the club. Upon that day, our passion to become fitter grew stronger every gym session.

The woodlands gym once existed inside the woodlands stadium, under the seats of the audiences, and it was a place where gym enthusiasts from all over woodlands gather to work out. After several years, they decided to close down the gym and build a new one next to the swimming pool. The legends then decided to form a private association before the closing down of the underground gym, which is also known as 'WGU: Woodlands Underground Gym' as of today.

Many of the legends have left their passion for gym-ing after the demolition of the old gym, but there are some who still pay a visit to the new gym beside the swimming pool. It is a rare sight to see people wearing the WGU shirt nowadays inside the gym, as it is occupied by youths of the new generation who visit the place to keep fit.

WGU members thought that the once, strong drive for gym-ing in woodlands must have been abandoned when the old gym was demolished... but they were wrong.

Only yesterday, me, junhao and yongxiang went through the narrow walkway inside the stadium to find ourselves in front of the old gym's door. We could almost hear the sounds of dumb-bells clinking each other when we opened the door.

Inside the underground gym, now being used as a store room

Empty reception corner

Exp-o-rama

2008-03-29T21:52:00.000+08:00

Went to the start-up@singapore seminar at nus today in the morning. It's suppose to give us a little bit of intro to how they are going to use web 2.0 to expand their businesses and stuff. There were some speakers who were invited to discuss about the topics and there were many enthusiastic people in the audience as well.

Before the seminar started

The emcee giving an introduction

One of the speakers talking to us through his web cam

Seminar ended at about 12p.m and there were some refreshments outside the hall. Zixian kept 'sampling' the food like there's no tomorrow and before the enterprise people left us there, i dragged zixian out of the reception booth. (and he was still munching on the curry puff)

Initially, me and zixian dint know where to go for lunch because we couldn't find any coffee shops nearby dhoby gauht mrt station, but when joel, the walking street directory, came and met with us later on, he led us to a kopitiam selling XO fish.

Obviously, zixian decided to get himself a bowl of XO fish beehoon not because it was their signature dish, but instead, he wanted to drown his love sorrows in the 1% of alcohol in the XO soup. His attempts to get into close relationships with some particular girls have failed, miserably, and the council of swiss brothers are left stuck(for the first time) thinking about ideas to improve his situation upon seeing his face. We can feel your pain, fellow 'brother'.

We met up with junhao, joseph, yongxiang and junyang after lunch to walk to acjc together for the fun-o-rama. Saw Weixian at the zebra-crossing directing the traffic, sad thing was that he had to do all the saikang even though he's the top scorer for swiss. JK took some photos of us when he left the funfair.

Everything was expensive there, especially the drinks and food, but we were willing to spend since we brought the funfair coupons already. Yongxiang and joseph played the ping pong ball game while joel went to the shooting booth, and he won himself a memo pad...

Pirated Ramly

Later on, weixian and xuanhan came and met with us to bring us around the fair. Went to the hall to have a short chat with weixian and we took some photos there too. I shall post them up when i get the photos from weixian.

Spent the rest of our coupons on bread sticks before proceeding to junhao's house to watch 投名狀, The Warlords.

It was a super inspirational film depicting real brotherhood. Battle scenes are really cool and the lines they spoke were very good. 你跟我记住，战场上只有一个头！ We had some inspiration for zixian and kahwai to be in the film after watching. 投名狀:2 undergoing production by swiss brothers, details shall not be revealed to the public at THIS moment, haha.

After that, me and yx headed home.

Fulfilling day well-spent with swiss bros!

I feel so lost

2008-03-28T17:31:00.006+08:00

More than 90% of my brothers have known what cca i am in now, but in case you are still in doubt, i'm in enterprise club. Ya, you know the club where you have to tend some mama shop to sell tidbits and drinks? I'm in it.

Swiss peeps always giving me that kind of look when i told them i'm in enterprise... even sokheng gave me a 'HUH?' when i told him about it. I've got similar responses from junhao, joseph, joel, zhihong, yongbin, sebastian, and many more to come. Zhihong still asks me what my cca is every morning.

I thought i could settle in a '1 meeting/week to kill time' cca but apparently, i feel i dont belong in the cca as well. Studies may be a priority but i feel so life-less whenever i go for the meetings. The cca doesn't suck, members are pretty and cool, but it's the things they do during the meetings that bore me. I think of those NPCC times which were so meaningful cause i learnt so much stuff, and i realised that i could be wasting 2 years of my life now since im not keen on what they discuss about.

The only reason im in there now is because there's only 1 meeting per week and i can have more time to myself. How wonderful?

I still remember the ghost train me and zixian took after our meeting ended.

Will my life be empty like this train?

I hope not.

Ouch

2008-03-15T22:37:00.004+08:00

Weather was so fine yesterday compared to the rains in the last few days.

Went to benghow's house together with zhihong in the morning to play tennis. Benghow's coaching made zhihong pick up the game real fast and we managed to keep the ball in the court most of the time. Still, we were no match for benghow even when we played a handicapped match. I hurt my knee halfway through the game, so now there's this part of my flesh exposed at the knee area.

Had 3 hours of good tanning and tennis before showering in the swimming pool's toilet.

Later on, we went up to benghow's house to unleash some ps3 madness. First game we played was NFS: prostreet, cars never seemed so real in tv before. Obviously, my crash and burn 'burnout' style left benghow and zhihong bitting the dust in the races, hahha, but i lost badly in the drifting tracks. Benghow's 7/8 years old cousin challenged us to call of duty 4, and we managed to win even though he was quite skillful for his age.

After zh and bh finished their soccer match, bh's hyperactive cousins started going hysterical after hearing that zhihong knew how to play the piano. They kept shouting 'play kungfu dunk' and then started running around the sofa, and the only song in the movie was the rap, it din't even contain a piano type piece of music, lol. So after that, zhihong played some crazy fast piece, one of the cousins still keep saying 'faster,faster!' when we nearly cannot see his fingers shifting past the keys already.

Went home with zhihong in bus 171 at around 4p.m. where i walked past the pasar malam to treat myself to a...*drumroll* RAMLY burger.

After giving out my order to the uncle, he stood up from his seat and made his way to the hot metal plate, whipped out the bread with some butter on them and also heated up the meat patty. Next, the most anticipated moment, the cracking of the egg. The uncle allowed the egg to simmer on the plate patiently, waiting for the precise moment to wrap it around the patty for maximum satisfaction.

Soon, my ramly burger was placed neatly in a simple styrofoam box.

do not get tempted to touch your monitor screen

Hot and warm, i felt in my hands, not like the usual McSpicy or Zinger. The first bite - extremely good! Reminded me that my last burger was roughly 5 months ago before the o levels. The soft and tender meat covered with layers of mayonnaise, bbq and chilli sauce, simply heavenly and also sinful(fats) at the same moment at such an affordable price. Irresistible.

Went home after that meal to rush some of the holiday homework since the holidays are ending soon...

Shag

2008-03-08T20:31:00.006+08:00

Had to wake up early today to meet up with junhao, joseph, yongbin, zixian for our regular gym session. In case you thought that your eyes were playing some tricks on you, it is true you did read Z-I X-I-A-N in the previous sentence. Zi xian, notorious for his 24/7 i-am-a-slacker face, made some effort to come meet us, that's the first step to getting an A for his pull-ups! Nice job, i am positive that one day, he will become fitter than all of us, haha.

The feeling of lifting more weights each week is very satisfying even though its so strenuous/demanding. The step-up machine is the real challenge for all our perseverance and strength, and it trains up our leg muscles real good. Even though zi xian dint do much exercises, the priceless expression you see when hes using the ab-rotation machine motivates us to work even harder... such is the power of an actual holy cheese.

Stayed there for about 2 hours before leaving for CWP to have lunch.

After finishing our meals in the kopitiam, we proceeded on to Mac to have desserts. Junhao had a strawberry sundae, hot fudge sundae AND also a double cheese burger while joseph brought an additional chocolate milkshake after finishing his strawberry sundae. It takes about twice the time for the straw to sink to the bottom of the milkshake compared to an innocent cup of soft drink, so you can probably imagine the thick layer of froth/FATS in it. If we do become fat one day, it'll be our JUST DESSERTS, get it? lol (sudden arctic breeze...)

JK met up with us after that before going to vincent's ah ma's house to play tennis.

Walking along the pavement of dairy farm condo is similar to attending a mini car exhibition show. The cars that people drive pass us look marvelous... makes us wonder when we will ever get hold of a smackxy-looking car.

Every man's dream...

So basically, jk was taken aback by joel's awesomeness in the first match. The stumped jk had to give way to joel who proceeded on to semi finals. I lost to joseph, and junhao lost to vincent. Joseph lost to joel later on because joel's strokes were just too smooth, unbelievable haha. See below for some match excerpts/highlights.

Joel with his agile smash from the net, which left us all deeply in AWE

Joel sweeping us(beginners) out of the competition, literally

Random picture of an unsatisfied spartan who claimed that he had paid too much for the ticket to see only 5% of joel's legendary skills.

In the end, joel left after beating joseph in the game and vincent challenged joseph to another game, which stretched really long. Eventually, joseph won... but that means joel can finish all of us! doh.

Left the place at around 6p.m together and had dinner at home.

1 week holiday finally starting, which means tons of catching up to do, hope we'll get to meet up to play again.

Pratamania

2008-03-06T20:36:00.006+08:00

@jc's pratas are really super nice, and the malay uncle making them is seriously skillful. He knows how to stretch the prata really aesthetically and his ability to slam/pack (otherwise known as 'OWNING' by swiss ppl) is superb! He, himself DEFINES the art of making prata. Whoever who visits our college next time must come and see how he stack the pratas... you will be taken aback, no joke man.

Damn nice, but he dint show how he stack the cooked ones together, and i wasn't the one who filmed the video.

Another video showing the making of pratas... skip to -0:25 to see a preview of how @jc's uncle own the pratas

Reason for putting @ is because some of the teachers do blog surfing which is not really good if my blog address shows up as the first few result in google.

Excessive exaggeration was involved in the making of this blog entry.

Checkmate

2008-03-02T12:15:00.007+08:00

Had CCA carnival on wednesday after school and i'm uncertain of which one to join cause there wasn't any sports or clubs which aroused strong interests in me. I signed up for hockey, air pistol, eureka and enterprise club but i can only attend one of them next week.

Hockey seems quite fun but i'll need to get the equipments and train from ground zero while some others can already start on playing the actual game. Dribbling ain't easy at all for those who are new to the sport. Training is 3 times per week, though quite standard for all sport ccas but very demanding since it'll be exhaustive.

Eureka and enterprise club seems a bit slack cause theres only 1 meet-up per week but i don't think the testimonial after 2 years will be beautiful unless i end up having a leadership position, which is quite difficult to get. The members in enterprise club have to tend a shop in a weekly basis but nobody ever visits it, so the members can do whatever they want. I told the others i may be considering to join it, then they said they will come and destroy the mama shop if i join. =.=

After 1 week of being psychoed by junhao physically and psychologically to join council, im glad i dint hand up the application even thought i spent a night writing the essay. I think 4h2, alpha program, and maybe even nyaa silver will be quite hectic already and now i can't even cope well with econs.

Went to gym yesterday morning with joseph, junhao and yongbin before meeting up with junyoong and binghan to watch L: Change the World at about 1p.m.

It was an awesome show cause the fat kira wasn't acting in this sequal :P. L was still defending his title as world's no.1 detective even though he had only 23 days to live on since he had written his own name in the book, don't think he'll live any longer than that with his crave for sweets.

The mask owns! and it has made it's appearance in both death note 2 and change the world.

L, "It's Checkmate!" coolest line ever.

Finally a random conversation i had with weixian to end it off

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O2

2008-02-23T20:50:00.005+08:00

First day to ajc was so tiring because we had to report at 7am. Woke up at 5.45am instead of the usual 6.30am during the pae period. Felt so dead when i left home at about 6.10am.

I was greeted by junda, yongbin and minyi while i was semi-sleepwalking at chua chu kang mrt station. Luckily, i had yongbin and minyi to talk to during the trip otherwise i'll be bored to death. (think junda was still waiting for his friend)

Joined up with the gang later on at yio chu kang to walk to school together.

We had to separate after that to join our OGs... and i realised that im the ONLY 2nd-intake male in my group for orientation 2. Almost all of them are from the same class or previous og except for some girls. So after joining them i was a BIT emo, actually VERY emo cause the boys were all talking among themselves as if friends since kindergarten and it's also difficult for me to start talking to new people. I still remembered telling myself to be more enthu for this orientation cause i wasnt during orientation 1, but i still failed.

Proceeded on to principal and subject combi talks in the auditorium and i had to wake myself up in several occasions during the 2.5 hours cause i was really dam drowsy. Watched the orientation opening video which was super lame because the alliance leaders were dressed up in some very funny costumes and they still had to carry cardboard weapons, must be dam embarrassing for them, haha.

Played some games and learned mass dance in the hall and zhihong still complaining thats its very boring even though his group has TWO swiss people. Imagine my situation please.

Collected OPack which consists of shoebag, collar pin, shirt, towel and handbook at the end of the day before going home.

Second day started off the same.

Went for KI test with zh, only to get owned by the cuckoo questions which look like they are taken out from joke books. Played some water games and i found out that og 32 is actually quite enthu although we were on a losing streak. Then we had teaching of the school song after lunch and it's easier to remember compared to pj's one cause the verses are much shorter. After that we had to learn how to dance the 'puppet' and couple dance, which ended quite fast... still remembered we had to dance so many times in pj cause everybody was getting it all wrong.

On the last day, we got to play a game called 'protection of the ancient scriptures' which sounds pretty dam psycho but it was fun. A little like pj's war game just that 3-4 people had to squeeze into one hula hoop/gunny string then move together to try to spray some water onto the newspaper. My group was squeezing like mad through the crazy opponents blocking us and abs area sure hurt cause the the gunny string was stretched around our waist.

There was also this school tour thing and we had to complete tasks after visiting each section of the school. We had to complete 25 pull ups for each og in 1 particular station, and i felt so weak after 9 pull ups, i should really go train again since NAPFA is coming early this year, april if im not wrong.

Had potluck in the noon and there was a crazy load of potato chips, so glad im not suffering from sore throat today. 3 hours of college CIP after that where we had to come up with designs for coasters to be sent to old folks' homes. It was so scary to work with girls who wanted to paint some guy's fingernails purple. =S

Found out that weihao(tiko) and kahwai managed to appeal into ajc successfully, let's welcome them into the swiss kumpung association haha.

Dance and cheers at the aj square before going to the hall for finale. I think im starting to regret not asking for something so important and meaningful.

Finale night was great, especially the ogf performances, must have put in a lot of effort for them to be successful. The indian guy who did the whole solo michael jackson thing was so cool too, lol. Also not forgetting the mass dance at 1.3x speed. The whole night was wonderful, except for the rain.

Went off with swiss peeps to causeway point for dinner before heading home.

2 more lecture weeks before actual classes, ganna be dam boring man.

Anticipation...

2008-02-19T22:53:00.002+08:00

Tarandip's birthday party was on last sunday. I met up with the guys at west mall before going on for some last-minute shopping. Beng how's idea to get movie vouchers was quite practical but when we found out that they were selling at $80 for 10 movie vouchers, all of us thought that it was not ganna do well as a birthday present for one person.

After some thorough consideration and such, me, zhihong and benghow pooled in to buy a bracelet which is NOT ordinary at all(lol), while jk and weixian got a popular gift voucher.

Time passed pretty fast during the party cause there was a lot of food and channel 5 was showing around the world in 80 days during that time.

Went off with edward and yongxiang after the party to bukit panjang's macdonald's to have some chocolate sundaes. After enduring through edward's collection of lame videos in his mobile, we finally left for home at about 11pm.

Last day of school in pjc was so boring. Only half the class came, 11 to be exact, and most of the teachers dint come for class except for chemistry tutorial. I lost my chem homework in class after i passed to somebody and i couldnt concentrate but luckily jiasheng, who ponned his PE just to go my chem tut, was there to teach me.

Later on, the relief teacher that came in for maths was darn nice. We suggested that we should just slack since there was so little people in class and then he just wrote down six questions on the board to show that he is 'working'. The coolest thing is that he was from swiss too, only 10 years older and he knows mrs sally yu! After presenting the questions, he sat down and started chatting with us about his NS life. Oh ya, he looks like junda + mr ngoh's hair style, junda ngoh, No joke!

Skipped chinese and bio after that to enjoy my last cup of mango madness in pjc's cafe. Regreted not going for bio tut cause the teacher is seriously very good in teaching although a little strict and i wanted to thank her so much but kahwai was dragging me to go home. Heard that she cancelled the lesson after hearing that only 4 people will be attending her class... sighs.

This 1 month has been great guys... although it was short, it has certainly made a mark in my life, i hope that everybody in 08S01 will enjoy their future stay in either pjc or in another jc. Cheers. :D

Finally received the long-awaited sms from MOE this morning at 8am.

MOE: Congrats TAN WEI MING, you are posted to ANDERSON JC, SCIENCE (21S) under 2008 JAE. Pl report to JC/MI on 20 Feb 08 at 7.30am.

(not 1 word less/more)

Im quite glad that i dint get into nj although my parents want me to get in badly. If i did get into nj, my chance of survival in the school will be about negative percentage. It was also great to hear that most of the peeps in swiss 4E5 are going in too, but still a bit sad for those who dint manage to get in, especially jiasheng since i've been consulting him most of the time i do not know how to answer physics/chem questions. All the best again to those who are not going ajc.

Still have to pay $20.30 tomorrow for a new orientation package and im in OG32, hope the peeps in there will be sociable.

Currently, I've been asked to join the elmo clan by edwin, the ultimate elmo hater who likes to whack elmo with a badminton racket whenever and wherever possible... and he's the boss.

Click for larger view. : ]

Class spirit

2008-02-16T10:44:00.005+08:00

Thursday was valentine's day and there was a load of activities in pj; fun dance in the morning, song dedication and of course the SCAP people who came knocking on the doors to deliver roses etc, ALSO not forgetting me accompanying SOMEBODY to give his $43 bouquet to his BELOVED girl, ahem.

Lessons went smoothly on that day before we had the last and we-ir-dest gp tutorial in pjc ever. Everybody knows that homosexuality is going uphill these days but its still funny and strange to discuss it with a teacher. Mr siraj's experience overseas was hilarious especially the one about his kids seeing some gays hanky-panking in a restaurant, then someone in the class brought up a blog set up by 2 gays which he saw some time ago, how interesting, haha.

My class's spirit in pon-ing lessons is so solid. After maths lecture yesterday, everybody left the hall together and started a mini conference(actually already started at the last 10 minutes of the lecture). Eventually, i was persuaded not to go too since there was really no meaning to go for a chem tut with no teacher, followed by maths tut to do same questions. Don't know what the maths teacher is going to say on monday... or maybe she's used to it already. Chinese is mass-poning which is really sad for the lecturers cause only less than a quarter of the hall is filled with students and most of them just go to give face or TCS( talk-cock session)

Sudden instinct to buy myself a pjc collar pin at the end of the day, it looks quite cool cause there's a transparent block above the pjc crest and then there's like a chain to the button area. Hope i'll remember to bring it on the last day of school cause it'll be the first and last time i can put it on.

BUM!

2008-02-13T14:21:00.001+08:00

Breakfast

School

Lunch

Home

Dota

Homework (if there's any)

Sleep

VICIOUS CYCLE!

I realised i've been slacking so much the past few days.

Life's just ain't as hectic and crazy compared to pre-O levels period. That's definitely something to be glad about, but the feeling of being so free and restless is much more dull. Yet, when the torrents of homework and tests start pouring in, i'll start complaining again. It is so difficult for me to find myself in a comfortable state, and that seems to be the case for everybody...

When I have managed to save enough cash to get something i really wanted, be it getting the psp or a new pair of earphones, the satisfaction never really gets into me because i often regret not spending the money on something much better. When i have already achieved my desired goals, i think back again on why i dint do better.

Unlimited human wants
Limited resources

...How true

Happy CNY~!

2008-02-07T12:07:00.000+08:00

This time of the year has come again!

New year's eve was great. Watched meet the spartans in the afternoon and i must say that it's seriously super funny! Tons of spoofs from the other movies and tv shows, like ugly betty as the oracle, american idol judges + britney spears getting kicked into the pit of death, and also not forgetting the 'storm the yard' battle between the immortals and 13 spartans! Thinking of the scenes makes me wanna laugh again. Definitely a MUST-WATCH for those who caught 300 and Epic Movie! (although it doesn't seems like it's worth the price, lol)

Din't visit chinatown's temples yesterday night (hooray 2008) and im so glad we din't go because we had to squeeze through the crowds of crazy aunties and uncles in the previous years. Worshippers rush in to get their joss sticks into the large urn and then the people working there remove them in less than a minute, is there even enough time for their messages to be sent to the dieties!? I'm thinking maybe it's just self-satisfaction for the people who prayed.

Spent the day eating snacks and such, started to feel the pain in my throat when i woke up this morning ,argh, i should really control myself but this experience only comes once in a year. :S

Will be visiting my cousins later on, will have pretty much to catch up on since i'm the only person getting o levels results this year... hohoho. :]

Happy CNY to those celebrating now and also to those who are not celebrating. There's also a lot of people going back to msia to celebrate, hope that they wont get robbed on the way, hahas.

Sianism.

2008-02-03T11:36:00.000+08:00

Apart from the class chalet which happened last week right after the release of o levels results, nothing much has been happening in school, except for seeing some people withdrawing from classes.

Got back my econs test yesterday and i luckily scraped through it, many people failed the test because most of us had simply no idea what the econs teacher is talking about in her lessons. The new teacher is much better compared to the previous one because she tries to add some jokes to the lectures while we're half-awake.

S01 almost set a record of 6 people attending maths tutorial on friday cause everyone wanted to mass-pon after chem tutorial. Fortunately, somebody in the class went to call all of them back so that we wont get into trouble.

I was given a chance to apply for the moe overseas trip, but i dint went to meet up with the teacher-in-charge. I thought it would be troublesome and i'll have to pay a large sum for the trip.. life is full of hard decisions... i may never get the chance to go USA, Canada or KOREA ever again... =(

Second bio test coming up tomorrow, and i still have a ton of homework to do...

TOFU MAN

2008-01-31T18:22:00.000+08:00

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

Epilogue

2008-01-28T14:31:00.001+08:00

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.

@ Beng How's house

2008-01-24T09:22:00.000+08:00

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.

All Wound Up

2008-01-20T11:55:00.000+08:00

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.

Line Diagrams WINDOWS PAINT Style

2008-01-15T20:09:00.000+08:00

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.

Tutorials

2008-01-14T17:44:00.000+08:00

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.

PICTURES (work) Pt. 2

2008-01-09T17:56:00.000+08:00

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.

SIGMA~

2008-01-06T11:27:00.000+08:00

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.

Totally Defeated

2008-01-03T20:58:00.000+08:00

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.

Sweet Home Alabamaaa!

2007-12-30T16:15:00.000+08:00

Finished the last day of work finally, missed 3/4 of the last episode of mo nu youxi on channel u when i got home but it's ok since crunchyroll.com, best site for any chinese/korean/HK dramas, is always there for me. Ending of the show wasn't very good, seems like everything's in a rush.

Anyways, yesterday was a great day cause i finally went for a swim after 4-5 years of not touching the waters, half the time there was floating cause i totally forgot how to swim, and seeing those 5-7 years old swimmers make me feel so sian diao.

Went to causeway point after that to get myself new slippers since my current one got torn while playing soccer with the guys during the previous chalet.

Originally $39.90, but they having a big sale at royal sporting house, so it's just $19.90, great deal :D

Feeling drowsy now since i just spent about half the day in IMM with my parents shopping for new beds to replace our current dust mites-infested, fungi-growing beds(just exaggerating). The place looks great after renovation and there's also a hell lot of people, especially the bathroom accessories shop, i had to seat on the toilet seats to let people walk past me.

I shall post some pictures i took on the last day of work in cold storage in my next post, but for now, it's time to nap. =D

FutureMe.org

2007-12-27T09:22:00.000+08:00

You guys definitely need to check out http://futureme.org/, u get to send an email to the future either to urself or anybody else in the world if u have his email address. I just received a letter i wrote last year to myself...

Here's it:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Dear FutureMe,
Hope u meet ur expectations for ur O' Levels!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Well, im certain i failed myself in the prelims but anyways, here are some very interesting letters i read at the site.

Dear FutureMe,
If you still exist, You are a f**ing awesome person, but you should have made it look like an accident.
(written Tue Feb 28, 2006, sent Wed Feb 28, 2007)

Dear FutureMe,
you are sitting at taras, american idol is on, you just found your aunt Pat has cancer, you're drinking high life and have no job. I HOPE YOU ARE HAPPY!!!!
(written Tue Mar 28, 2006, sent Fri Apr 28, 2006)

Dear FutureMe,
You will be 63 by now. You should at least be a sr VP of a medium to large organization. If your plans are on track you will have at least $10 million in investments.
(written Sun Jan 29, 2006, to be delivered Wed Dec 31, 2036)

There are also the ones which are very lengthy about them loving their loved ones and those written right in the midst of a war, do check them out at futureme.org.

Merry Xmas... and good bye to the festive season :'(

2007-12-25T23:21:00.000+08:00

Been busy these few days cause it seems like everybody living near king albert's park love to do some last-minute shopping before christmas.

The entire cold storage resembles a mini orchard road smacked right into bukit timah with all the crazy customers rushing in to order their turkeys and xmas whatevers. The F&V room is like robinsons when the staff move in and out of the F&V room to get turkeys, log cakes, and xmas trees and its pretty irritating when they scream the customer's orders across the room. Not forgetting the crazy-bickering customers who quarell over the weight of the turkeys when the birdies are only less than 1kg out of their range, and im not sure why an extra 500g will kill them, it's not like they cant afford it(BUKIT TIMAH-BUNGALOWS-RICH PPL, HELLO!?!?)

It's troublesome to even get the cart out of the store room and seeing the literally non-moving traffic outside, it's a whole pain in the ass just to deliver one crate of apples. Even when i managed to get outside with countless "excuse me's", i get bombarded by customers asking me for this and that, so it takes like 5 minutes just to finish stacking whatever thats in my cart, which usually takes just 1-2 minutes.

According to Joven's forever inaccurate-untrustable-believe at ur own risk-statistics, KAP CS managed to sell about 400 (and counting) turkeys this festive season! Man, that's a hell lot of turkeys...

The xmas buffet was crap, there was nothing left on the table when i reached there, but the aunties gave me a tub of haazen-daz cookies and cream ice cream to enjoy, yes, a whole tub to myself :D

Hopefully, the remaining 3 days wont be so exhausting for me, and working seems to be much more fun now(injuries excluded).

Last minute till the end of christmas, and the start of boxing day...
Merry Christmas guys, enjoy it cause it only comes once a year :)

PICTURES

2007-12-19T16:05:00.000+08:00

First time working overtime in cold storage, not by 10 minutes, but 4 more hours the day before yesterday. Apparently, one of my co-worker's grandmother is sick and could not come for work, so i had to cover his shift for him and i worked from 10am to 10pm, 12 long hours, before returning home. The worse thing was that i was told by my supervisor to work overtime right when i was about to leave the supermarket, totally sianz right...

Endured through the night alone in the F&V room, picking disgusting super rotten cherries from the ALREADY rotten ones, so that they can be resold in the shelves, now u know how supermarkets work when they wanna save on some cash, totally wicked.

Took some photos with my phone when i got bored in the room, check 'em out.

With the floor littered and stained with whatever shit there is, it's the perfect working environment! (sarcasm)

air conditions in the chiller rooms, keeping the temperature sometimes below -200 degrees C so that the turkeys are kept frozen.

US circuit racer, maximum speed of 350 miles/h. Not for sale.

Nice try, Singapore

2007-12-14T17:34:00.000+08:00

Singapore's shuttler kendrick lee just got pwned by indonesia's taufik (yawns x3), what were we expecting anyways...

21-16
21-9

Never mind, it was a great lesson for kendrick and great play too since he won world's no. 12 ponsana (no idea how to spell) at quarter-finals.

Singapore vs Vietnam in soccer for bronze medal up next but no mood to watch...

Chalet

2007-12-13T14:45:00.000+08:00

Chalet at downtown east was not bad, just that most of us are complaining about the money matters.

Went to meet up with zhihong and mingyao right after work at 6pm yesterday in clementi mrt station to go to the class chalet together, but AS USUAL, the malaysians managed to reach there 20 minutes past the agreed time. 20 minutes seems like quite an improvement from the 30 minutes wait for the recent grad tea(DO YOU STILL REMEMBER).

Mrt trip from clementi to pasir ris took about 50 minutes but our psps kept us occupied all that while, along with my rants about cold storage too.

First thing there was being bombarded by weixian to pay up the chalet fees, but still got a couple of bites at the bbq pit, i.e 3 plates of fried rice, hotdogs, otahs(cooked ones this time round), mash mellows, and drinks. Ms ee was there too. Many of us were playing with the smoking hot solid charcoal after dinner, and also not forgetting the 'champagne' the girls opened up.

Not much stuff happened afterwards, only interesting thing for me was owning xuanhan in soul caliber with a female character, lol no sweat man :D, anyways, i was just mashing the buttons crazily.

Lights out at 12-1am since many of them were KO-ed after the first night, which i dint attend.
Breakfast next morning and went home right after it.

This might be the last chalet and for the 4e5s to gather, hopefully we'll meet up some other day before JAE to chill out a bit.

Tired and hungry, lucky im getting the next 3 days off. =)

Yes, Sir

2007-12-07T09:43:00.000+08:00

Since last Sunday, i've been seeing benjamin for all my working days and that includes both my bus trips to and from work, such coincidence. He's the one who actually noticed me in the bus as im always in a daze during the trips.

Turns out he's working as a promoter in bukit timah plaza which is just opposite the place im working at, and he's earning $6/h which is much more than me :'( and he works 12-8 daily same as my shift, that's why we see each other in the bus even though different bus stops.
He's suppose to promote a product by doing a demo when the customers come and get them to sign up or something. Zi xian is also working in the same popular branch but as a different job, saw him yesterday when he came over to macdonald's while i was having lunch by the stairs.

Went to bukit timah plaza right after my lunch to see what it's like. There's a hell lot of maid agencies, like about 1 every floor. No food court but a lot of those small stalls selling cooked food, and the whole place looks kinda old maybe cause there's not a lot of people walking around in the mall.

And benjamin always says 'Goodbye, Sir' to me when he alights from bus.

P/S - There's 2 weird chinese boys yesterday, asking me whether cold storage sells tv cables while i was stacking fruits. Hmm, so i was wondering whether i shld hand them a brinjal or something before i led them to the appliances area. And i have no idea why the kids over there like to weigh their cars and dolls on the weighing scale.

Peeps in the F&V room

2007-12-02T21:16:00.000+08:00

For tonight, i shall compile the names of the people working together with me in the hell-like F&V room, which is forever dirty even though the cleaners pop in 2 to 3 times each hour to snack on fruits.(shall take a picture next time)

Aunties

Ah Loy Auntie - Auntie who introduced me to the other staff members of the F&V crew, also known as the most hardcore auntie in the department. She's forever asking me to hurry up when im pushing carts of vegetables in the morning, sometimes i feel like she really wants me to run with the cart.

Ivy Auntie - Most senior auntie in the department, the only person who helped me out with the calculation of wastage and the codes of vegetables. She's the one who can recite out any 6 digit codes of whatever fruits or veges, and i have no idea how anybody can possibly memorise all of the codes.
Me - "Auntie, whats the code for the 110C Dragonfruit 100g packet one arh?"
Ivy - "Alamak, it's 164987, faster write down." (without referring to any notes)

? Auntie - Very quiet auntie, in-charged of wraping and weighing fruits. Only sentence she spoke to me was "Ah boy, u waiting for O' levels izit?"

Indians

Azmi - Otherwise known as Assmi, funny guy who always asks me to carry stuff for him. Works in the morning shift. Knows a bit of chinese too. Oh ya, his instructions for picking and packing grapes?
Rotten = Throw, Angry = Eat.

Ah Bang - Friendly guy and also very hardworking. Works at the night shift daily and comes from M'sia. Seems to be very popular in the department and also with the others. For no reason, the other indians always ask me whether hes the most handsome one or not. I am in doubt whether to say yes(hes quite good-looking) or getting beaten up. The only person left in F&V after 8pm (when i leave) is him.

? - Dont know the name, but hes fat and always slacking around. In-charge of the fruit juices area. Always flirting with malay cleaners.

One thing common for all 3 indians- they all speak both tamil and malay.

Me - only one auntie in the department calls me by my actual name, the other aunties just call me "Ah Boyyyyyyyyy"(extra long stretch), and the indians always call me "eh,bro"

Still surviving

2007-11-30T09:57:00.000+08:00

Have some time to blog now since my shift starts at 12pm till 8pm today('night' shift).

Yesterday was pretty fun cause i managed to learnt some new stuff in cold storage. First, when i reached the staff room at about 8.30am, i was asked by the aunties to bring the crimson and thompson grapes out. Had no idea what alien language they were talking at first but Azmi (Indian no.1) lead me to the chiller room to take out the grapes, and i can still remember his 金语良言.

Me: So how do we differentiate between Crimson and Thompson grapes?
Azmi: Bro, you see here *points to side of crate* this is crimson, *points to another crate* this is thompson, ok u wait a while.

Next, he moves about 10 (eff-ing) crates of grapes to the trolley.

Azmi: Pack. (and then he smiles like some dumb dumb while he goes slacking off)

At that moment, i was going 'WTF' in my mind cause the crates stack up to higher than me and it may take forever to finish wrapping them into the small plastic boxes. Nevertheless, I started working on the grapes and managed to complete the 10 crates of grapes after about 2.5 hours. It was difficult trying to wrap them up because i needed to cut them up nicely to fit into the boxes, and there's also the murderous task of picking those disgusting, foul-smelling rotten grapes.

Here's a snapshot of rotten grapes taken from yahoo search.

and im not exaggerating what i saw and smelled in cold storage.

Later on after lunch, i learnt how to do some accounting from the auntie in the department. Quite interesting to calculate the cost of wastage per day for just the F&V section, which actually amounts to quite a high sum, e.g ~$600-900 /day. For fruits/veges that are rotten, they cannot be thrown away and have to be brought to the room to be weighed so that we can calculate the loss.

Half an hour left before i leave home, shall go eat lunch now...

My very first day of work (in my life)... along with my very first post

2007-11-27T20:20:00.000+08:00

Today's the first day of work at cold storage in King Albert's Park which is located beside ngee aan poly, it's quite far away from where i live but im only working that far because my neighbour's uncle is driving us there every morning.

Had to wake up at 7am and was freaking tired because i've been waking up at very late hours the last couple of days. After about 30 minutes in joven's uncle's car, i finally reached the place and went through an interview with the boss there, managed to clear it after about 5 minutes? and then went to the department i was assigned to... FRUITS AND VEGETABLES (AHHHHHhhhhh..)

The people there were really helpful, my department consist of 2 aunties and also 2 indian men. As expected, the staff rest room was really smelly with the stench of veggies and fruits in the air. Din't really like the conditions as it was considered disastrous compared to joven's department (canning) :S. The only cool thing about the room is that it's connected to 3 chiller rooms which is real cold, bout 10 degrees C. The day was packed with never-ending tasks even though i was doing 5x the speed of those indians slacking in the room. I was stacking, wraping, transporting, forwarding (shifting the older goods to the front of shelves) and of course, slacking(after i finish my job alright!!), basically i was covering everything a banglah would have to do.

Motivating myself to wake up early and continue working now so that i wont lose the interest since im most probably ganna work till the end of December(oh god, countdown:4 damn weeks)

Oh ya, my advise for anybody who is slacking at home wondering what to do every hour? CONTINUE SLACKING... don't go and find a job unless the pay is really high and is highly interesting, e.g LIFEGUARD.

END OF FIRST POST :D