Thursday, March 31, 2005

so free i had time to do this...better get to work now though :P
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HAH! new com came yesterday, this is the first blog post ever on this new compaq...so kewl, i was tampering ard with it that's why i haven't posted in ages...512 RAM! Everything runs like super fast now, and the 17 inch screen roxors!!

My bro plays gunbound on this com...lol...it's coz of all the space it has...i thinking of doing some movie editing on this com, esp on my America trip, we videoed there so i'm creating a video show for the whole family to enjoy..i already finished some of the movie, but there's still much more to go, wish me gd luck

17 or 10 apr, that's our first worship practise, be prepared for it, inform me in any way if you're not free on those days, if you're wondering why so specific, it's coz of sloke. Anyway the dates are tentative, hopefully my dad can get the access to the church on that day so that we can practise a litte. It will just be a jamming session, we will just see whether we can gel together as a team.

Well nth much happening now, except i missed derek's band night....derek Lee....lol the chinese teacher was darn funny. Ken wei was at the band night, which reminds me, i've got some catching up to do with him.

I led embriodery for art club today...everybody said it was gay but they enjoyed in the end, sean especially and sean became like l33t by the end of the whole session. There was a Sec1 who couldn't even do one letter and kept getting tied up...lol poor guy...

So i gtg and do china hwk now, then i can go and play more com later....exams coming soon, gt start studying ya?

btw... a2 + b2 - 2ab(cos[angle]) = c2 :P

Monday, March 28, 2005

Just a Short Post....

yeah, just a short post b4 i go to tuition....dope i don't like tuition, but my tuition teacher is ok...she's quite nice...if only she wasn't a chinese teacher i'm sure it'd be much better

Ian back to normal jumpy and bouncy ways, chong wee still having a fetish touching and messing up my hair....i dunno why. Chong wee says my hair looks flat...ian says it looks like sailor moon...ummm no logic in that....go look for a pic of sailor moon and tell me whether it makes sense ya?

R&J i think we're doing actII scene IV, as usual ian jumps for the nurse role....then starts saying that he can't act as the nurse....derek mercutio, dan benvolio....sean cameraman....i didn't wanna be romeo so i took some weird character named Peter lol....

Lee Gek Kim went kinda mad today, we went deaf during IHS thanks to her....she inserted sounds into the pwrpt presentation, the amps were at full blast, MR worked well today unfortuanately, so yeah we were blasted with like super loud sounds...owowow >< And i think the england monarchy and the norman stuff is all kinda cool and interesting to learn.

No updates on the band yet...gtg soon so ciao!

Saturday, March 26, 2005

2nd week april...set...we're gonna have a practise for fun somewhere in 2nd wk april...my dad will just pick some random songs for us to try out and try gelling as a team...my dad suggests splitting into 2 teams within our band, coz my church only has a few instruments...2 pianos, one drumset and guitars are at your own freewill, you've got to provide. So set ya? if this works out, we may be playing by may....ok wad we need now is someone to provide acoustic electric guitars, electric guitars if gonna be used and bass guitars....anyone?

Cool...grace kwee said that worship band is legal for CASL...apparently drong said it according to eric...so we got some hope...btw for SL we might do sth at some student activity centre in clementi..sean's got the contacts...atm everything is going fine...i feel much better than i did a few days ago.

Enrolment service today...i didn't faint..WOW...but i did drink so much water that i went to the toilet like so many times..i marched in GOH...kester faithfully bought the gloves for us...unfortunately the whole cohort did not have gloves..so we failed mr sim's test and got punished....but it's ok...my cohort has a long way to go in unity...better get going...GAC's getting closer...Throughout the whole parade..we stood there...and Wesley Tay commented after the parade that he was like looking at this chiou bu throughtout the parade so he didn't faint...guess wad...honestly...i was looking at her too :P....so maybe that's why i didn't faint...

ROD...sad day today...i don't think we'll see a lot of our seniors again..other than WO Loke who will probably return as officer or sth...thanks for the great 3 yrs seniors... i still remember when me and WO joshua toh were stuck in the MRT at Eunos Station...i was trying to count the number of carriages the MRT had (if you didn't know...it's 6), then i ran out of the MRT and ran alongside counting the number of carriages...the doors were gonna close...so me and WO Toh ran into the MRT...unfortunately we got stuck and jammed the doors...so the MRT was like stalling for 1 minute...then the doors finally opened and everything went back to normal...pai seh pai seh..everyone was staring at us....

Thanks so much...i'll nvr forget the gd and bad times...the hikes...the camps...the 5BX...the jokes...the good timings...and the 3 (times 10) pushups...

sigh..i'll always treasure these times in my life...even when i grow older...

Thursday, March 24, 2005

CASL is ......(wish i could swear)

(BY THE WAY GUYS....the chatterbox is at a box beside my posts on the right....just scroll down and you'll see it...it's not like it doesn't exist...it's more inconvenient but yeah just wanna let you guys know it's there coz there have been like nil posts since...hmmm...:P) [hehheh i keep posting this coz my chatterbox is dead....:P]

I hate CASL, it's nonsense....apparently if we carry on with the band, it won't be counted as part of CASL hours.. Why? because it is 'religious devotion' and because..(ok i'm quoting phuan)

"If you play in a band for the school, it benefits the school and indirectly benefits you, so it's not really service, so cannot be counted for CASL.."

Like wad??? i mean i know this is sth from that gep department meeting they had that day....everything is against this band...it's like we ought to disband lah... daniel considers leaving now as well...sigh. Well it's as if someone didn't want us to serve God...or maybe this just isn't God's will for us...if it's the former reason...then all the more we shld keep trying to do our best coz satan is out to stop us and he's trying to discourage us through these series of events....satan is afraid that if we succeed with this band....we could really help God...of course, if it is the latter reason, then we ought to just break up...so keep praying to find out which reason it is ya?

I was kinda mad with the CASL system...i mean we're doing meaningful things for God through this band...and it's gd...but we can't do it for CASL....'Creativity', check, 'Action', check, 'Leadership', a tinsy bit, but they deny us coz there's no 'service' involved, coz there's no 'Need'...i ask you, wad is the definition of a need huh? there is a need to further God's kingdom, that is undeniable....why can't we do this huh?

Other grps do like tutoring p1 students...what meaning is there in that...seriously, no offence guys...but p1 work is so simple they probably have no problem ya? and secondly, they have their parents as well, and a majority these days have private tuition...Plus, Henry park is not a bad school, so i ask whether there's a need? yes there is, a tinsy winsy bit...and it's accepted...so unfair lah..CASL is flawed...there shldn't be any kind of measurement for these things...you can't split them up into catergories...

Eric and gang went to see grace kwee...i hope it's gd newz

The band is not gone...it still exists, as a 'side' project to the CASL project....the band was split in 2 today, and we are separated now..so much for unity...we spent so much thought in thinking of the band and we spent quite a bit of effort trying to propose it....we were rejected tons of times by various grps...and it's real discouraging...i cried over it in school today, so if i was red-eyed, you know why....it's like everything suddenly goes to shambles....nothing

keep praying guys...or this band is gonna fall apart

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

BY THE WAY GUYS....the chatterbox is at a box beside my posts on the right....just scroll down and you'll see it...it's not like it doesn't exist...it's more inconvenient but yeah just wanna let you guys know it's there coz there have been like nil posts since...hmmm...:P

i'm worried for ian...he's so depressed....i know i don't know how he feels coz i never got very low marks for a test b4...but i need to console him somehow...it's not healthy to be constantly depressed. I think it's not fair to get other ppl upset as well when you're upset...i mean ian feels upset, so he starts daoing me for no reason and makes me feel like i've done sth bad to him....i feel bad coz i scored so well in IHS and he didn't....sometimes i'd rather score lower marks than cause others to feel sad or inferior....Poor ian...if you need emotional support, there are us frens ard to help ya...and don't forget God is most important of all, turn to him for help

abt false modesty....i'm not being falsely modest....i can't stand this false modest shiz...ppl try to be modest and i try not to make others feel bad by shutting up abt my marks and results...and then i get accused for being falsely modest...it's so silly...

SMP today...Derek used alcohol to sterilize his tie that got infected with e.coli, but he used the decolorizer one...splutz...don't be surprised if he comes to school with a white tie tomorrow, but he has 4 ties so i shld be ok. Parafilm is so cool, i wish i could take some home or sth. As of now, SMP still relatively slacker than ISO, but as Derek said...it's gonna get stressful very soon. On the way back, listened to derek's ipod and his non-mainstream music like 'So impossible', quite a gd song actually. We were bored, so derek gave me a lesson on pitching and intonation as well...i told him that ian (i think) said that he couldn't sing in pitch and he got dissed..lol

Worship practise. hwee playing on gd friday and me on easter day. I have to support hwee with a synthesizer though, she's improving but not very gd yet to be honest. Btw i tried drumming again and i'm getting better although i have some problems with stamina, esp with the bass drum....it's very tiring on the legs.

Well seeing grace kwee tomorrow, hope it's some gd newz bout our band..hopefully we won't have to redo our concept as phuan said...*crosses fingers*

Monday, March 21, 2005

ok...the band, i'm not sure whether it'll ever materialize....i thought we could play for my church, but my Dad wasn't that serious when he agreed that day...maybe it's coz he's afraid we will bring in comtemp. songs or sth, or maybe he thinks we're not ready yet...which is true...but we need chances to improve right?

He says that we can't have high expectations like leading a worship session all by ourselves....after all it's weird for the congregation to see someone they don't know and be led by them into worship....and we're youth too, they think like...'oh look a bunch of rowdy youths who are not mature enough' or sth along that line...i mean i'm quite sure some of the ppl will think that....

The schedule for my church is ok liao....it's well organized.....my church is 2 years old liao, it doesn't need as much help as it did a long time ago...so maybe we can't be slotted in...it's disappointing to be rejected again....i dunno it just feels so hopeless when you wanna do sth so bad...you work so hard to try to materialize your idea and your good will and then you get rejected....maybe it's not God's will for us to play at my church....

Anyway...my dad suggests sth, that we start slow...maybe he can lead the worship session and he can choose the songs to play and all, and we are just the backup band playing...sure, the thrill of being a grp is lost...but at least we get to play and serve God....So how? You guys wanna do this?
After all, everything starts from somewhere, after the congregation is accustomed to us...then maybe we can slowly take over. Or maybe we shld look for some other church that is more open to newcomers and changes, that may be better for us...keep praying ok guys? we need to find out where God wants us, and if he doesn't want us as well, then we shld just scrap this idea...

Well....let's talk abt other more happy things...this fri gonna go sean's place to do the R & J skit...we wanna do the balcony scene and sabotage ian and derek...derek's fine but ian was like No way so yeah me and sean couldn't carry out our brilliant evil plan....anyway...one of the only all-male character scenes in R&J is the Mercutio Vs Tybalt one....but ian and fab want a scene with 2 female characters so they can act in drag....scary....ian's a little funny lah...he wanna act drag so we let him...then when the time comes...he doesn't wanna act...so fickle minded....like last yr medusa...remember ian??

kk...cya tomorrow...now i go watch LOTR on TV and then go read metamorphosis...lang arts such a bore....

Sunday, March 20, 2005

Well nth much today...just finished up my changwensuoduan, and i don't even knoe whether it's due tomorrow...sigh...right now is the mass printing session of all the hols hwk...i'm so last minute

Church today, Uncle Wilson couldn't make it coz Natalie fell sick again...this calls for even more prayer...Michael revealed to us his calling to the pastoral ministry and his story of how God revealed that purpose to him...i still need to find my purpose for life as well...Matthew 28, the great commision, go and make disciples...i tried with chongwee....witnessing is like telling ppl abt christ then letting God take over...so for now i've done my bit.....

Good Friday and Easter Sunday coming up, i've got to play 2 worship sessions within 3 days...wad did i say abt my preaching point needing more help, that's where our band is gonna come in, let's continue discussion tomorrow in school ya?

I didn't know hwee knew the planetshakers....she was talking bout them today....anywayz she knows open up the gates so that's kinda cool...she was like excited on our band and the possibility that we might bring some comtempary songs into the church....well i dunno bout that....my dad says that we could but told me not to overdo it....maybe like one new song a month or sth....that may work...also song choice is very important...the songs must have meaning in them....and they must be practical. So that's sth to ponder bout...esp for ian and derek who are arranging the music.

Well i met the muah chee auntie at cold storage again today....she said she missed me and was asking me like why i hadn't bought muah chee for more than 2 wks liao...well i told her bout the hike...don't wry nxt wk she'll see me twice on gd fri and easter sunday.....It's kinda cool that i made frens with the muah chee auntie...of course she enjoys seeing me...she gets $1.50 a visit...but hopefully that's not all there is to it...

Well i was bored so i changed my blogskin....one reason was coz i couldn't view it with mozilla and i'm sure many others couldn't as well...i hope it's better now....autumn is such a nice season you know...i wish there was autumn in s'pore....it would be so enjoyable....it's just a very comfortable and relaxing season..the orange backdrop and all...

End of the hols...wait wad hols...?? cya guys tomorrow and remember to finish ur work...

Saturday, March 19, 2005

sorry been very tired lately and had no time to blog...but the following post is important for the 3.9 band members so listen up....

2 days ago went to the studio that my drummer suggested to me...its somewhere in commenwealth area...lutheran church if anyone knows where that is....so we can get there pretty easily and conveniently....had problem finding it...it was in a fruit store...i mean wad, kinda weird , and the peeps playing in the studio were like tatooed ppl, looked really scary like gangster liddat.....so i went in i saw that the space in the studios (3 of them) were pretty small...i guess if you try really hard everyone can fit but it's really quite tiny...1st drawback...2nd drawback $15 bucks an hour....but for month of march you get 1/2 hr free wif every 1 hr of jamming.....one thing gd...all instruments provided on request...so yeah everything from drums to guitar to everything.....So wad's the call guys...not much time left till end of march....ask me in sch for the contact no. and all on monday ya?

So i went to my grandma's place...my couz was there (father's side...not hwee...), he brought his bass guit...but no amp, pity...anyway..he has a band too, they practise in katong where there's $10 an hr for a 4 piece band studio so i guess its abt $15 again for like so many of us...i know the katong area east coast area has a lot of studios but it's really far and not convenient....Oh and my dad says if we're all really willing he'll slot us into the worship playing schedule for my preaching point so we can play like every month or so...cool eh?

Now wad did i do yesterday??? hmm....ah yes...i went to sch to do my art club thingy....i have to lead this lesson for art club and guess wad i'm teaching everyone...?? embriodery...yes you got me right...cross-stiching...lol, hey i didn't choose it, i had no choice, sharon woon made me do it....i wanted to do the cool ironing bead thing but sean took it...i wanted to do the stringing of bead things to make animals....but zephy took that...so i was left with cross-stiching.....kinda gay but hahah it's a little fun lah...but your neck gets all stiff and sore...ow. So i learned how to cross-stich and sharon woon gave me PURPLE thread...hmmm

Following that i was late so Lena Yeo was abit mad but nvrmind...she gave me a lift to Toa Payoh HDB hub for the Geog quiz thingy that i was sabotaged to do coz ding and ian couldn't...SYF lah... so i was there with all the sec 4 students who i didn't know well...to do what? answer 5 questions...wow i never felt so useful in my life....anyway it was quite interesting...they had an amazing race style race ard s'pore that tested them in geog...map reading and all...and current affairs as well...i give you this interesting quote from one of the VIP's speeches:

"I believe that a short speech is akin to a miniskirt...long enough to cover the vital parts but short enough to keep everyone still excited"

I'll try to remember that...it's a really gd punchline....

anyway...the prize presentation....we weren't in 4-10 place....3rd place was...um i forgot...then 1st runner up was...

Anglo.....Chinese.....School (oh yes..oh yes)..........BARKER ROAD!!

Oh wow...we were totally delighted....they got 24th place in the end...initially they thought the names were mixed up and they actually asked the judges and all whether they had made any mistakes....wah not paiseh wan leh.....yepz they looked a little like sore losers but i guess you would feel that way if you ran ard the whole of s'pore and got only a $15 border's voucher....and the winner got like a crap load...i can't recall...and the winner got to represent s'pore internationally in Hungary in August wow!!! So Lena Yeo wasn't very happy and she told me nxt yr she would look for me and others to form a team and try our luck again...so ian and ding watch out....(yes ppl with gd knowledge of current affairs are most welcome)

BB today...i found out ACS Barker peeps can't march for nuts...or at least those in my contingent...they were so slack lah..some were like brisk walking instead of marching...elbows not locked, not swing 90 degrees...some swang even less than 45 degrees....made us all look so bad...and we're sec3 some more...and the sec 2s were owning us...i so wanted to get into guard of honour so i could get together with ppl who could do good drill for alwhile....and the barker ppl are like wad 2 ranks above us...with that type of drill??? i think some of them ought to feel ashamed man....i donwan to make a distinction or be proud be i seriously think they shld buck up a little....i'm sry if i sound proud...i shld be more humble...but even Mr Sim said the drill he saw from all of us made him want to puke....oops, anyway i think sometimes even i'm not very gd at drill (that's why i wasn't picked for GOH)...but at least i try my best...and that's wad's important.

changwensuoduan sian leh..do we have to do..i did till 8 today planning to finish it up just in case...the hols are passing so fast...just last wk i was somewhere in limchukang....haha...so..i've been slacking during the hols...how bout the rest of you guys??

Right now gtg....worship practise with my dad for easter sunday and gd friday....cya guys

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

oh well...just a short post...i'm gonna review my BB hike for the sake of my memories in the future.....

BB HIKE

Well, from Lim Chu Kang all the way back to school...if you say that's short you're crazy...we started from this place where there's a narrow neck between s'pore and malaysia...we've been there b4, you know the place where the japs floated tanks over...yes...so yeah

I got the second checkpoint to navigate to....horrendous checkpoint...we could have travelled 3km less if there was some bridge but NOOO, we had to make a Big U turn to get to the checkpoint...suigei buloh...so we had lunch at suigei buloh and the guard was so nice to let us start a fire in a wildlife reserve...i almost started a forest fire...oops...besides that, the guard gave us access to a nice lil water cooler to refill bottles...how nice...you know how we repaid him?

Well we powder bathed at suigei buloh coz it was raining so we waited......and yeah we messed up the floor, covered in powder...i tried cleaning up to no avail. So we got a gd scolding and they asked us wad our sch was...i think some of us whispered RI...hmmmm....so dishonest...but we promptly left afterward...they did not like us....Still raining, so we camp at a busstop for 2 hrs.....10 ppl in a busstop, naturally we couldn't fit and most of us got soaking wet...

8.30pm, treking somewhere in Lim Chu Kang...it was all dark and scary...the lightning was starting up again...we hid in a small deserted powerhouse...spooky ya? and we kept running into stray dogs that were wild, yes, they could just run up to you and BITE you...scary....but we managed to get past them safely, thank God....

8.30-9.30, a horrid 5km trek all the way along limchukang....it never ended, my feet were blistered so badly but i held on....so we hiked a total of 10km in 2hrs non stop....it was a gd achievement, rewarded with dinner somewhere near a graveyard...eeeeeee.....anywayz...it was just super tiring....

Ended at NTU that night, we sneaked past security and pitched basha tents....alex left us as he wasn't feeling well so i had one basha tent to myself...happiness :), had a wonderful sleep that night...

Nxt day was a hike from NTU to Boon Lay MRT then all the way back following the MRT line....was such a long walk, i had to push Jack all the way...yah abt Jack, he's so annoying lah, keep on walking so slowly and giving up and complaining, asking for breaks and rests and all, can't he see that everyone is as tired as him and it's just that we're suffering in silence that's all....i mean...it's just annoying, the previous day he kept cheering when it rained coz it meant we had to go back and stop the hike...can't stand it, can't he just be enthusiastic abt the hike....

We ended up in KAP, had lunch at Mac as a tradition, thanks so much WO Ng and Staff Ho!!!

FINISH.....

Today was my bro's bdae...so i almost forgot but isn't that wad most ppl do...lol. not much happening today except for piano lesson and meeting the OMers JLow and Daniel on my way back home....Sean isn't home tomorrow, he's going overseas so i dunno how i'm gonna do the Romeo and Juliet play thing by nxt term, i think i'm dead lah...at least ian volunteered to be Juliet...so now i just avoid being Romeo and i'm safe....who wants to fall in love with....eekk!! sorry no offence ian...:)

My dad's going for some colon scan thing so he has to take this laxatives today to like poo the whole day and clear his system, i think it's very poor thing lah...i pity him, he can't even eat fruits and veg for the past few days...and i think my dad's improving at piano as well, he started like 2 mths back and he can play basic chords and songs already....keep it up dad...naturally i'm his mentor for this..heheh. And he's my mentor for guitar....:)

Well...just worried abt Romeo and Juliet proj now and the Worship band.....sigh...help me

Monday, March 14, 2005

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...my blog is NOT dead...c'mon i've just been away for wad....6 days? :P
Okie, 8-11 march on virgo and 11-13 march in the middle of nowhere in s'pore....you expect to me blog?!! seriously i have no time to....and blogging on virgo was out of the question with rates of 33 cents a minute....only crazy diehard sk-iers like phil paid $8.30 to use the coms.

Virgo was really fun...i didn't expect it to be that fun but it was.....
first night, went for the supper, i was like omg....so much food, trust me, you neva seen such a big buffet b4, it's just huge!!! lim clan had a short supper b4 splitting up to our separate rooms. The spread was fantastic....if you think carlton hotel or wadever hotel is gd, you've got your definition of good messed up....

Worship band.....F# chord is NOT F#m chord....gettit? and 'lord i offer my life' sounded horrendous...i wanted to just go forward and take over or sth....it was ARGH...i kept looking for ian, sean and derek from my seat to give them that 'look' of like saying...'what the crap...', i couldn't find them but they too were trying to give me that 'look'. We all agreed unaminously that we got to settle our band. and ian cheong looks like he wants to pick a fight when he sings....

I roomed with justin, andrew and yan ming (or yao ming due to his tall tall tall....you gettit) . Andrew keeps bringing betrand in and starts to tussle ard with him in bed...dunno wad their doing, must be due to the fact that betrand plays juliet and andrew plays romeo or sth liddat. Justin comes back at 2 a.m. after playing basketball....Yan ming stays faithfully in the room and obeys the curfews....yan ming is quite funny actually...go spend some time with the PRCs and you find out that they are normal ppl just like us....they have a gd sense of humor at times as well...of course not always...yan ming keeps making jokes abt Grace Kwee that i don't understand.

Day2...paos for breakfast...yum...then comes the worship band again...!!! Ok i donwan to talk bout that anymore, it scares me.....

Futurescape and FPS make no sense....its boring, i dunno why ppl choose it for ISO, ok ISO is worse but FPS is still boring....look at a scenario, think of problems, look for the underlying problem and find a solution....makes no sense....sry sean and gang...but i just don't appreciate it...prefer om....jlow says FPS is a cheap om ripoff.....anyway, we managed to pull off a presentation and poster with the help of ms phuan's 'on-ness', and Yan ming's mega research essay on the topic...wow and you thought i was hardworking.....

Forced to watch a acrobatic show by yvonne lim but more than 3/4 of us ditched the act and did our own stuff...haha..take that...anyway, i spent the whole night playing table-tennis and improving my forehand and smash thx to lejon :)....we played king and i think i was king once...but it didn't actually count since i had to beat daniel to become king...haha...lejon was 1337 and sean was gd but cheapskate with his defensive shiznit....ding has this kewl way of cutting the ball and spinning it...though it always fails on the second return and it always causes him to mess up the serve and give the opponent a point........Then came yan ming...so pro...foreign talent, he went on a smashing spree and owned us all, and his 'aiyah' everytime he fails has this super funny accent....ask lejon...lol....his serious look also left us in stitches.......There was also this indian guy who could twist his arm awkwardly like 360 degrees to hit the ball and he was easy to beat but he kept owning lejon.........oh yeah i played so much i forgot abt mahjong...missed the chance to play with pexxxxx...as everyone calls him.

3rd day...table tennis...need i say more...after departure...i went home by myself for a short rest..3 hrs later..i go to sch for the hike and pre-hike programme....no rest at all...wtc right?


BB HIKE RECOUNT:

Pasar Malam...russell loves it for some odd reason...this yr we were smart...everything in ziploc and we had our master plan that standardized everything...we had to take everything out from hike packs and place onto a groundsheet in a standardized order....in like wad...less than 2 minutes...ow...impossible but we did it in58 seconds once....john kao left earlier for some weird reason...poor guy. oh, he could have at least taken his bagpack home....
I had trouble with pasar malam...very stress one you know....at least we had biscuits as a reward...choc biscuits...normally i don't take choc...but it was an exception this time...i was just too sian to care....and it didn't taste like choc in the first place......

Final pasar malam on drong's hill, in the tradition of BB of course....it was all dark and we couldn't see no nuts..the odds were against us...we were tired...but we persisted....and we ended with all of us as christmas trees with groundsheets hanging out of our backpacks....i was carrying half my stuff by hand by the end....

so we did pasar malam and did quite a gd job....and wad did we get...a non-air con room to sleep in...so luck we had that day...well we were so tired we fell alsleep anyway....

...................................................(to be continued)


so longwinded...and it's like wad 11.35 pm now...*yawn* i need to get some sleep, i will continue with the hike experience tomorrow...look forward to that. RK Narayan is annoying...so is suseelah....expecting us to do the essay on him without teaching us b4 hand....i cost me like 4 hrs researching on him and i just wrote nonsense bout him at the end of it...

btw...getting a new com...compaq...it has like 512 or 256 RAM...and that roxors....anything is better than 64MB of RAM...or 63 in my case...i can finally play better games and open up 5 taskbar items without hanging the com!!! i wanna play fifa 2005.....hmmm where can i gettit from??

oh yeah...i was bored so i tried the quiz on ian's blog.....





Your Brain is 60.00% Female, 40.00% Male



Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female

You are both sensitive and savvy

Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed

But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve





ARGH!...it can't be...i was being honest...hmmm i'm 60% female...dope i think the quiz is defective....anyway...not as bad as ian lah ;) '

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

gep camp today...wad a bore...i'd rather have normal lessons instead...i mean the keynote address and panel speeches were quite boring after some time....insightful yes...but a little long winded...Loh chin ee and 2 others as panel guests...and mervlyn goh as the mc or sth...oh yeah...happy international women's day today!!! (this goes to ian...sry..:P)

Anyway, somehow or another, the sec 4s managed to organize their band...they said they just got it together yesterday...and all of us in the band were like....WAD??? they just organized yesterday...we asked like last wk...and WAD??? we don't get to play....so throughout the whole thing, sean was criticizing and scrutinizing the drummer....Joshua Hoe...wad do you know? Sean was like pointing out all his mistakes....and to be honest, there were quite a handful...Josh kept messing up the tempo, one way started too fast...then slowed down...then at the bridge everything went haywire....same for now that you're near....and sean looked down on the floor and shaked his head....well we couldn't do any better could we?? Actually yes, we could have (that's wad everyone says)...but that's not the point...:P, we'd better get our chance nxt time and when it comes...we won't mess up!!!

Futurescape is a bore, of course sean and ian won't agree but i don't care, it's boring...you have to read a scenario drafted by Alvin Tan on the US secretary of state J mac and spore president Ian Lin.....and someone Tan Hen Gong...you can't get much lamer than that...anyway, i got into justin's grp...he's SL, i'm ASL, so that means i'm his slave for 3 days....ahh!! anyway, gd chance to get to know him....oh yeah...i found out China PRCs are SO hardworking, i mean one of the only few ppl who were on task for futurescape was Yan Ming...the tall guy...i think he's quite nice actually...

Mind Games...i failed horribly i think....IQ quiz...i still don't get how gd mugging skills are related to a high IQ, but i did it anyway....me and fab actually. I tycoed like half the paper....and me and fab just put random letters for half the questions...after all we had a 1/26 chance of getting it right...why not? So we hoped for the best....hoped not to be beaten by julian and shouren :P

RESULTS.....ACS(I) won nth as usual....me and fab got second for IQ quiz...we got owned by the RG girls...*ahem* someone and Shuting....now that shld be a familiar name to some out there *eyes kevyn*, anyway, warcraft ppl darren jianyang and ryan goh the thirsty lippo won the first rd (topped it in fact...), got into finals...promising but then they got owned as they were gang-banged by Dunman, RI and Hwa Chong institution....HC went on to win...Scrabble, Jin was neva gonna win anyway....HC won....lastly chess....Joash and Philip, we thought we had a chance...then there was this super short HC guy who beat both of them....BOTH!!! that's like some super pro prodigy or sth...so being short isn't so bad....HC took home the challenge trophy for 3rd year running.....

So i got home.....and sat down....and did futurescape...sigh...now ima go do some tuition work....*yawn* cya all at the cruise tomorrow!!! btw i'm not bringing dress shoes!!! No blogging for 3-6 more days coz i got BB hike and all...cya all till then :)

Sunday, March 06, 2005

well well...acsi traditional o lvl gd results hols tomorrow, so i can afford to blog this late at night....

Church today...john 3, nicodemus and john the baptist...(not john the queer...) Michael did another fabulous job teaching us...my bro kept going crazy over his theme verse and kept repeating john 3:16 over and over...btw it's his theme verse coz his bdae is on the 3rd of March...i still haven't got one yet...but 1 john 1:9 is highly eligible....

Uncle Joel's such a rash guy...he's so close to God, yet he's very rash when he makes comments about you...i wonder if he realizes that he's hurting your feelings when he makes comments....maybe he doesn't...then it's a pity coz i often feel a little hurt abt his comments abt me...he always makes me feel guilty of not doing enuff to please God, not praying for others...not greeting him in the morning (not that i'm disrespectful, i'm just a little shy that's all...)....not sticking together as a band....sigh...i dunno...

God Bless hwee nxt wk, she was so angry i dao her for the BB hike nxt wk so i left her to do all the hymns and the worship songs and the Gloria Patri...she detested the doxology a lot...oh well there's a first time for everything...you can't always depend on me to help you play the doxology...she's picking up really fast...i think at even a faster pace than me when i started..thank God and praise Him for that...

Had a little talk abt choosing songs for worship with my dad....he said the content of the songs are more important...make sure the songs mean sth...that's why he says that a few contemp. songs are so emotional but without meaning...so they are not as meaningful...well i guess it's true...how many times do we pick songs for their catchy tune rather for than their meaning and their significance...this is sth to ponder over for the band....

For ppl reading this blog, post how many hrs of the day you spend slacking on the com and console me plz...i keep playing so long hrs and then i neglect my work...which actually isn't much anyway coz i finished a lot of it oreddi...but i still feel so guilty everytime i play more than i work...i dunno..i think i'm weird and queer...i have to work to make the day meaningful...i played like more than 2 hrs today..and i'm full of regret...i started a nice lil' notebook and i'm planning to compile all my notes for all subjs inside there...at the end of the yr...i'll bring it secretly so ppl don't still it and mass produce it again..hah!

well gtg now...sigh..still upset over no band playing...look forward to more opportunities..as for now...why don't we start practising ya?

Friday, March 04, 2005

disappointment....can't play for the GEP camp...too late liao...wad's worse, sean gets to play without us....Ian chong leading....maybe nxt year ya? Sean dislikes methodist music, he says that it doesn't need drums...actually i dunno wad's all this fuss ovr different types of music...all christian music is worship as long as you do it with the right heart...wad's important is the heart, not the kind of music...sigh...nxt time then we play lah....its just too bad, ty for trying sean

A math test quite a breeze, so i'm quite glad now, came home after piano and slacked a whole day, yep, not a single piece of work done. Too bad i had piano, or i could go ken wei's house to TOS....speaking of games brings KOTOR to mind...i have no idea wad it is...but apparently its a kewl game. maybe i could try someday.

POD shock, almost everyone failed, kaijun surprised he got top in class for a 1 am piece of work...i got 12/20, not too bad, but not very gd either huh...better improve...

I signed up for IQ quiz not coz i was smart but coz i wanted to pon tuition...ha!

Oh, check out ian's blog, i dunno wad's the deal with the fight over who owns me...and i got slapped a lot of times by various ppl...lol. First jin, then ian, then chongwee (scary....still remember last yr second semester....unseen horrors...) then fab...and probably Derek too. Spending so much time with Derek that his splutzness rubbed off on me. Now he's like unsplutz, and i keep doing silly stuff, like sitting on picture frames and breaking em....OEP brings back so many fond memories...sigh i still remember when i dropped the meat into my chinese tea...or was it sprite?? OEP memories...nostalgia....sigh

I miss all the gd times i had in america, still remember the gentle cool winter breeze, the bright lights of Disneyland, the jog across the Golden Gate Bridge, the visit to Alcatraz, the horrid slopes of SF and the elephant seals...well who could forget Yosemite...where i saw snow for the very first time, embraced the snow, played with it, rolled it into snowmen, a white christmas, i remember it so well, the hot bath in my backyard, sigh gd memories, nostalgia....

One day i'll look back and treasure all these gd times i have with my family, my friends, and my classmates, such a wonderful childhood, thank you God....

Thursday, March 03, 2005

73% for china test...i did well, got tops but it was coz of zao ju and tianxiehanzi, if you ask me, i think ian deserves the higher mark, he's so much better at ke wai stuff lah, i really admire him for being so gd in kewai and being so enthusiastic in reading chinese bks and material, its really rare in the society now and he' s one of the special ones...I felt so useless, nxt yr i'm gonna fail chinese when they remove tianxiehanzi and zao ju....yes it's a reality

Wild goose chase for grace kwee, so easily noticable for her size yet so hard to find....trying again tomorrow i guess, hope we can find her and clarify all the stuff abt the band and all...found out that ian chong was playing for worship on the GEP camp....like OH NO!!!! so we are gonna try and salvage the situation and maybe volunteer to play...shall we? oh we're being so bad to ian chong but who cares ya? I wanna play..hopefully the band is willing to play for my church...then i can secretly lure some talent over to my church as well...but shhh that's my secret diabolical plan...no lah just joking...

Under there blisss...*laughs* haha, ppl so bad to the grp presenting today...i mean its just a device that detects moisture, ppl start laughing...and the guy on stage was already so nervous and stuttering liao, and we just made things worse for him...c'mon, i think they put in quite a lot of effort, and we didn't even show appreciation, we ought to be ashamed....ppl started laughing esp when they said they were gonna improve it by making it vibrate and have sound, and also about the electric shock...they laughed....i tried to hold back laughter but to little success....so sry to the ngee ann sec team...

I hate the dress code...i hate long pants and long sleeve tee...i bet the dress code isn't actually that formal, but its just a scheme of yvonne lim and gang to get us into the gentleman look...sigh...according to darren, the women don't have a dress code and can go in like berms and t shirt...unfair...GENder bias...where got such thing one...i donwan to wear long pants and tee....i'd rather starve to death or sth....

A math test tomorrow, haven't studied but i've been practising, hoping to practise a little in sch tomorrow perhaps, and then pray to God and hope for the best...the best i could do now is just fall asleep and have a gd night's rest....

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Just a short post, this must be the first time in a long while i posted two days in a row.....hooray :)

Messed up math test today...i forgot the 'negative b plus minus' thing existed and i messed up the completing the squares and all....one advice for ppl aiming high...sleep early and have a fresh mind...thanks for being with me anyway God....

Thank God i got 26.5 for physics as well, and i did it with no knowledge wadsoever, courtesy of Jason Chan....Arjun got 29...sigh...how'd he do that, he must have like summoned some sacred indian pwr...apparently many gd physicists, or smart ppl for that matter, are indians...knowwonder.

No SMP today, gd luck for your third lang test Derek... and yeah hopefully you got your ideal gas thing done...*crosses fingers* poor guy...

so i stayed back today at sch, went to the BB room, waited for my BB week card....no one there except me and Mr Sim and we had a nice chat abt the upcoming GAC and all...still have a lot to do, esp the armor design, must get that done...anyway...i helped mr sim do up the squad rolebooks for sec ones, for the Smyrna and Tyratira wings...(hoped i spelt correctly), i went behind the scenes and like saw that BB has fake and real squad rolebooks, really amusing things happened in the BB room...i came out laughing...anyway eventually got the BB week card, I'm gonna bring it ard and extort your moneys....haha...watch out guys...

Surprise chem test tomorrow....why do these things always happen....

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

congratz to huiyi on getting 13 for L1R5 in the 2004 O lvls, she worked hard 4 it :)

I knew i shld have gone to the audi earlier yesterday to cover up my pyramid of stickers for the academic awards on my chair, by the time i was there, everyone was staring so yeah...a little paiseh. Immense support 4 me when i went on stage and collected my tray of academic awards, only my mom was present....when i went on stage and collected the tray, everyone was laughing at the top part of the audi...great support, ty. Mervlyn Goh was like, and the top in ...blahdeblahdeblah, and all the sec2s were like WOAH, hopefully i'm an inspiration to them or sth...tan see keng was commenting that i was champion or sth, but i would like to dedicate all these to God...thanks for all you done despite my unfaithfulness...

I dunno why ALL my half days always fall on mondays...its so stupid coz i have tuition on mondays, just like yesterday lah, bad scheduling..sigh

Today turned out fine, i did not get lost on the way to the indoor stadium despite my usual splutziness....took a 14 followed by 16...too bad i didn't go to ian's place, if not i could play halo...sigh, it's a fun game...speaking of games, it always reminds me of the sleepovers at ken wei's place, i'm increasingly looking forward to june hols when i can finally go over and spend some time catching up with one another.....

ACS celebrations!!!! balloons were so cool, ppl kept using the book to pop the balloons, so amusing, and the tidal wave of primary sch kids running to the cetre of the stadium and playing dead...boy that was hilarious!!! And there was Tharman Shanmugaratnam....is that it? i can never spell his name....It was all pretty interesting until the prize presentation... Azmi was playing for the teachers' team for telematch, and we were all inclined to cheer for him and his gang, they koped second place in the end....gd job, maybe he's so happy he'll make tomorrow's test easier for us....speaking of which i'd better get going....Sean and FPS gang left for KFC with Azmi later on, i wanted to tag along, but i got lost and sean and ian left me behind somewhere...so i decided to go home....

Chong Wee hates limclan, and the way we always , like today sitting together in a row for example....he was upset that i separated ian from him....well, i didn't want him to get angry, so i gave in lah, but i don't see wad was wrong with wad i did....i just didn't want to sit at the outside seat....i feel more comfortable sitting between 2 other seats...i know it sounds like a ridiculous excuse but it's just me....

Band....how's it going, pretty bad, at present, seems like it's not gonna materialize in the first place coz it has nth to do with 'service', dumb CASL....anyway, we want GEP camp but too late liao i think...the only hope left is at my church. My church is willing to give this band like once a month or sth, we're shorthanded anyway...the problem is whether the band members are willing to go all the way to Woodlands for it...band ppl reading this, plz respond...btw i found the studio liao, apparently Uncle Joel knows the boss, does that mean i get a subsidy? it's ard 15,14 bucks an hr, but with a strength of like 9 ppl, it shldn't be too costly....

Things going well so far.....math test tomorrow, God bless to everyone who's gonna take it....