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What's on for 18/07/10

2010-07-18T15:26:00.002+08:00

Wow, its been really a long long time since I last posted something in this blog.

I seriously don't know where to start with!

Alright, maybe all that I can say was that I was too busy with all my work for all these time and really had very little time for myself.

Over these period of time when I neglected this blog, as mentioned in my previous post, I actually went to Philippines. However, I didn't do as what I promised to post all my photo and blogged about everything that happened there, as I suppose it would be so damn fucking long that it wouldn't even load.

I bought a new pedal, the BYOC Chorus from my senior, Keith. It sounded awesome, especially in colouring my clean sound and also make a nice lead tone with my BOSS OS - 2. Maybe with a few more new pedals and gears, I'm going to take a few new photos of my gears at the end of the year.

After nearly 8 months of long run, "Battle of the Bands 2010" is finally over, and glad to say, it was a success! More detailed report penned by me can be found here.

Yesterday, it was the "SP Rotaract Club" installation. There were performances and it was also my first time performing. With Zhi ying on vocals, Shaun on guitar, Serene on Keyboard and me on guitar, we did the classic jazz piece, "Sway" that was rearranged by me into something that sounded kinda rock with a really rocking solo by me :] And yes, my solo tone came from my BOSS OS - 2 and my BYOC Chorus and also a little delay from the Fender DSP 117 I borrowed my theater.

I did another piece, the instrumental cover of "Jay Chow - 晴天" with Serene and next it was an instrumental medley of Serene with her keyboard.

The installation went on well. After packing up, we went for a late dinner and ended our day.

What's on for 16/03/10

2010-03-16T16:55:00.003+08:00

Quite a long time since I last post something in this blog. So my exams just went by after CNY. Feeling fucked in some papers and quite confident in others.

For this hols, I somehow feel that it does not at all, feel like a holiday to me. Although its a 6 weeks end semester vacations, I still need to return to campus for meeting and trainings from literally 0900 - 1700 everyday for my Philippines OCS(Overseas Community Service) trip during the first 2 weeks. Then another 26 days or approximately 4 weeks at Philippines. In the end, all I could say is, I don't even have my holiday where I can spend my time care-freely. However, despite me making such remarks regarding my trip, I still hope that this trip would be a fruitful one where I can bring back new and good experiences from Philippines. I just hope that it would be time-well-spent for me.

I suppose when I'm back a month later, I would have lots of photo to blog in and it would again take a few weeks for me to do a full post of my Philippines trip.

See you all in a months time!

What's on for 20/02/10

2010-02-20T22:21:00.003+08:00

Its Chinese New Year this week, but I was not at all in the festive mood.

My first paper, Diploma Plus Maths would be on next Wednesday. Its like there's no way I can really relax for the short new year holiday of mine.

For these days, I've been studying Electronics, and realized that there's like at least 60% of the stuff that I'm unsure of. Really screwed man, after my Dip plus maths, I'm so going to continue mugging for it!

Exam would start next Wednesday and then end at the 3rd of March.

There would be 4 papers for me, which is also 2 lesser paper as compared to last sem.

However, as far as I can see, this semester's modules are more difficult as compared to last sem's. So I am just wondering if I am going to make it or not man!

Anyways, see you all again after my exams. Good luck to everybody taking exams too!

What's on for 08/02/10

2010-02-08T21:58:00.006+08:00

Today, its going to be a short post regarding last week and what's going to happen this week.

Last week, it was basically a very boring week with 2 practical test. Electronics on Thursday and Mechanics on Friday. I did well for Electronics and I think I will also do well for Mechanics.

Last Friday after lesson, I spent my time doing ITOE tutorials with Hong Yi in FC 4 together with some guys from DARE/1B/03. Then after that, we went for a Rotaract Club zonal meeting at SMU together with some other SP Rotaractors. That was a rather light-hearted meeting with jokes flashed around here and there. It ended at about 2030hrs and we went home after that.

On Saturday, I spent my morning tutoring Rachel, afternoon doing some Auto CAD tutorials and slacked through the day.

Sunday, I spent my morning doing a Auto CAD revision paper and then afternoon practicing guitar. At night, I spent my time doing maths and ended my day at like 0100hrs today.

As of today, I spent my morning to complete my ITOE tutorials and went for IDEA lesson to complete and test run my CDIO race car.

My team's car was actually supposed to be very fast, but sadly, due to some technical faults on the track, my team's car was lifted slightly off the track and crashed onto the side supports of the track. That crash caused the front axle of it to be bent. Hence for other runs, it became as slow as a tortoise and obviously, my team became one of the slowest running team.

My team's car

The Crash Video :[

So, nearly 3 months of hard work went to waste like that... really saddening!

Other teams in my class were very good too. Just like the one in the middle of the picture below, its the fastest in my class, clocking a timing of 2.80s in its first run.

Which one of these is the nicest looking car?

Sadly we cannot take back our car, instead it was being kept by the school. So all I had left were just photos of my car.

Today after I went home, I did my final Auto CAD revision paper. Finished it in 1h 50mins and that's the timing I hope to achieve tomorrow. My final test for Auto CAD is tomorrow and for this time, I seriously hope that I can do it well and ace that module!

Wednesday would be my OC individual presentation. Again, I hope that everything will go on smoothly and I can score as much as I could for it.

What's on for 01/02/10

2010-02-01T21:21:00.005+08:00

What the fuck man! Its already 1 month passed 2010. It somehow just seemed as if it was last week that I went prawning with Nigel and guys during new year day...

Worst of all, without knowing, semester exams are coming in less than 3 freaking weeks time! But yet, I've not even started my revisions...

Having Chinese New Year in the middle of this period of time just further worsen things for me. Its like CNY is the best time of the year for most Chinese out there, but yet, poly student like me gotta get myself fucked up over exams...

The last two weeks has been boring yet hectic for me.

Last Wed, it was DPA 10 intake orientation. Hong Yi and I represented my school, The School of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering to welcome this year DPA students. It was kind of like dejavu to me. It's as if like it was yesterday since I just enrolled into SP via DPA. Needless to say, one year really passed so fast for me!

We brought the juniors around the campus, had lunch with them and stayed with them till about noon time, when they all went to the library to have their lesson on the usage of their student's online database and stuff.

Next, during evening time that day, we had the second day of our lighting workshop with the SP Stage Crew. It was fun to learn more about light; the different types of stage lights, theories regarding the usage of the lights and also the most interesting part, programming the movable light (intelligent light). These stuff looks really fanciful and its really just as complicated as sounds.

These few days had been very stressful for me. I've been busying trying to clear up my tutorials and also my IDEA project. Just because of this project, I can't really sleep properly and was like burning midnight oil till 0100hrs just now. Luckily, the presentation ended today, and my lecturers were impressed by my group's presentation.

This week would be again as crazy as the few previous weeks. On Thurs, I would be having an Electronics Lab test, and on Fri, there would be a Mechanics Lab test for me. However, I am not at all prepared for them...

Next week would be my Auto CAD test (more like exam). I really gotta work hard for it and train more, so as to ensure that I can do things swiftly and accurately, in order to complete my paper...

This period of time is really very crazy to me! However, I just need to bite the bullet fr the time being. As after my exams, its again, holidays. And I suppose its gonna be about spending time for my Philippines trip.

BTW, just to let you all know, Black Death is a pandemic in Europe during the mid 1300s that killed several people. Its nothing satanic or anti-Christ, so don't come about saying that I listen to Metal, have a blog titled black death and is a satanic person... I am not a fucking satanist!

What's on for 16/01/09

2010-01-16T23:38:00.004+08:00

And so... 2 weeks of 2010 passed for me.

These 2 weeks had been kinda shitty for me, with several projects and assignments to do.

Just like for last week, it was poly open house for all the poly in Singapore. So, of course, there weren't any exceptions for SP too, and I was involved in it.

My involvement for the open house was kind of a crappy one. As my job was just to simply tend my club, SP Stage Crew, CCA booth. However, there was at least one thing good about my booth. It was situated right in front of the stage, so it means, I get to watch the performances when I tend my club's booth.

So, as the open house took up most of my time, I was so busy to an extent that I had to spend my Sunday to clear off my work.

As of this week, it's worse!

I had my 'Oral Communications' group presentation on Wednesday, and it was a crappy experience for me.

My group did about 'Animal Cruelty'. Initially, our intentions was to impact others with those issues regarding animal cruelty by using some images of animals suffering. And we ended up overdoing the impacting part and made everything too gory. Different kind of feedback were given to us. Positive ones were stuff such as our presentation being an eye-opener, well researched... While the negative ones were stuff such as it being too gory, too lengthy, bad team camaraderie...

Those negative feedback made was a big setback for me, so I gotta really try harder for my individual presentation...

For my CCA, SP Stage Crew, we are now in the process of planning a SP wide level band competition. And this made me busier, as for this week, I gotta go write a proposal for it and submit it to my CCA, officer-in-charge.

And lastly, I just got something for myself to make myself even busier. I just joined a team led by my 'Electronics' lecturer that would be going to The Philippines this March for 'Overseas Community Service (OCS)'.

So, for this weekend, I am very busy, as I gotta do my 'Maths II' tutorials, 'ITOE' tutorials, prepare my individual presentation for 'OC', do 'AutoCAD' tutorials, do 'Engineering Maths II' PBL, write 'Battle of The Bands' proposal... These stuff can really kill me man!

What's on for 31/12/09

2009-12-31T17:50:00.009+08:00

Hello everyone!

Today is the last day of 2009. Just like the previous few years, I'm going to make a short review of this year and also talk about my new year resolution.

Before I start, I'm going to talk about what happened for the past 2 weeks.

For last week, I basically spent most of my time slacking around and also to do some work. The only interesting this was, on the 23rd Dec, Wed, I went on a community service at west coast to distribute supplies to needy elderly. As of this week, I've been clearing up all my work and spent quite a lot of time working out at the gym. Just like this Tuesday, where I spent 3.5h during the afternoon in the gym...

After gym, I went to Novena to buy a new addition to my arsenal of melodic destruction...

Its yolk colored...

Its 2nd hand from someone who quit guitar...

Its $70...

Its...

The BOSS OS - 2 Overdrive/Distortion pedal

That's the little baby in the box

This thing is real terror man! It can make sounds that mixes distortion and overdrive together. So, other than the built-in overdrive kind of sound in my amp, it can also make other sounds such as some real mellow distortion sound, or some fuzzy sounding distortions. The only thing lacking is just my skills to fully manipulate it with several different songs of different genres.

This pedal has a level knob to control the amount of output(volume) I want, so as to not disturb my family or even to blow my amp's speaker. A tone knob for me to control it to make a darker or brighter sound. A drive knob to control the gain (or the amount) of the effect's output and lastly, which is also the most important knob, the color knob. This knob allows me to control the amount of mix between overdrive and distortion I want, so turning it all the way clockwise gives me total distortion and all the way anti-clockwise gives me total overdrive.

And so... here's my new arsenal of melodic destruction:

My TGM V2 - RD acoustic guitar, ESP LTD M - 50 electric guitar, Ibanez IBZ10G guitar amplifier and lastly the new addition, the BOSS OS - 2 Overdrive/Distortion pedal.

There would most probably be more and more stuff to be added as the days of my music journey passes, but currently, I think this set is going to last me for quite some time before I spend more money to buy new additions to it.

There's actually one thing that I forgot to talk about last week, actually, about a month ago at the 5th of Dec, I also bought a new phone, its a Sony Ericsson W705. However, that phone is not as good as what I've expected. Other than better sound chip set and more storage space as compared to my previous phone, the Sony Ericsson K770, there's nothing else good about it. The new interface of the media player kinda suck, despite having a 3Mp camera, the photo quality really sucks, as it doesn't have auto-focus. And then, the in-built wifi was more of a disappointment to me, its reception is very bad. Also, the part that sucks the most is that, my current phone is so much lagger than my previous phone.

And ya, here's my phone...

Then for yesterday, it was a fun filled day with my buddies, Nigel, Seng Hong, Jonathan, Kae Jian and Arunn. We went to Nigel's place to 'play' and BBQ. We had lots of fun together and had our fill during the BBQ.

Then as of today, I am going to meet those guys again for our countdown gathering later.

And so... time flies, a year passed. Reflecting through this year, I realized that I have again, changed. Maybe changing is just another part and parcel of life.

Last year, these were my new year resolutions I set for this year:

Be serious about my guitar lessons and learn till I find that I can quit and continue my self learning.
Excel in my post Secondary School Education and continue to be serious and consistent on my studies.
Maintain my relations with my friends now and also make new friends when I proceed further to my post Secondary Education.
Forget about the past, just look forward to the future. Don't let those sad things in the past hinder me.
Continue to just do what I like and what I am interested in. I love metal and rock music. I love cars, Japanese tuner cars especially. Just continue to do what I like, I need not care about what other people comment on my interest; even be it that my interest are not as common as what others do.
Be more independent to pay for my Yamaha Electric Guitar lesson's fee, public transport concession and maybe even my phone bill by myself.
I know this sounds weird, I would just like to let fate decide for me to meet a gal whose interest matches mine. Is able to be like me to take vulgar/sick stuff lightly; as a joke and will be happy being with me. Just hope that such gal will come into my life someday and maybe stay in my life forever. (Laugh at me all you want people... I know I sounded kinda desperate for a gal, but I can say I am not!)

For this year, yeah, I've been working very hard on my music journey, in fact, I've improved greatly as compared to the way I was last year. For studies, I was working rather hard on it, and will still work hard for it. For friendship, I've made several new friends through DPA, poly class and also through my CCA. I've also been contacting my secondary friends very frequently, especially those in NP. But sadly, there are still some whom I have somehow lost contact with.

However, there are still some unfulfilled resolutions for this year. Things like issues regarding my finances, although I am earning some money through private tutoring, I've always been only saving up money in the bank. So it was still my parents paying for my stuff. Only a small part from my income so far was used as my daily allowance, such as for stuff like food or some simple shopping. And very sadly, I seem to find it hard to forget my past and is somehow still living in the past... It is just too hard to put down some things or forget about some people in my memories.

So after living through this year, I've decided to not make too many resolutions for myself, but instead just concentrate on a few...

Live as myself
Study hard and smart
Try to live healthily physically and spiritually
Make more friends
Maintain good relations with all my friends now
Excel in my CCAs too :]

My new year resolutions for next year would just be this simple. And I here by hope that next year would be a fruitful year!

Goodbye 2009!

What's on for 19/10/09

2009-12-19T23:30:00.002+08:00

This week has been a rather busy one for me.

Despite the fact that its my hols, I am still rather busy with all my projects. Its like right now, I have 4 school related projects and 2 CCA related projects in hand.

I am just making myself busy man!

Hence, for the whole of this week, I had been going back to campus to do my projects with my team mates. Not much of a holiday after all huh?

Today however, was a rather interesting day. Together with my Rotaract Club friends and some others from some other club, we went to Bukit Gombak to play laser quest.

It is a game something like CS, just that its real life and its played with a laser gun, shooting on your opponent's sensors, that is on the vest everyone are wearing.

Initially during my first game, I kinda sucked at it, and ended the game with a rather low score. However, when I was playing the 2nd game, I improved greatly and emerged as the 3rd highest scorer of the day!

My scores for the game

After that we went home and I spent about 2 hours practicing with my guitar. After that, I went to Tempines to meet Nigel for dinner.

I was home at about 2300, I washed up and then here I am now, blogging. So, this was more or less my week... Really drab and boring man!

What's on for 14/12/09

2009-12-14T22:26:00.002+08:00

Wow! Another 2 weeks passed since my last post.

I was really too damn busy to even post man!

MST just went by last week. And I think I screwed up some papers... Anyway, fuck it!

So from this week on, till the 4th of Jan, it'd be my 3 weeks hols...

3 week hols? I don't really think so. I am going to be busy for the first week, which is this week. Then for my CCAs wise, I'd be also busying planning 2 different events, one from each of my CCA. So in other words, I don't think I can really rest properly even for this hols.

I am currently feeling kinda fucked man! I can't blame anyone for that either, as after all, I was the one who brought all these stuff upon myself.

Actually, to look at the brighter side, getting myself busy wont make my rot in the holiday mood. So this means, when school reopens, I would not feel so much "time lag" in myself, and is instead in the right mood to study.

For now, since its like the mid of December already, kind of think about it, my guitar journey have been going on for about 2 years already. It's kinda unbelievable that I've been doing it for some time. However, it was still a shame that I still can't play well. I still suck as a guitarist.

Well, again, all that I can blame is still myself. I am too busy with too many things. And I am not like some kids out there who can nerd in at home to practice all day long. If I were to spend 3 hours a week practicing, it'd be already considered as something great for me...

Right now, I am working on Arch Enemy - Intermezzo Liberte. This is a challenging piece, next I'd be working on As I Lay Dying - Forever. And hopefully, that would be a fast one. Then next, I'd most probably be working on some self composure or on covers for other songs.

What's on for 29/11/09

2009-11-29T00:35:00.004+08:00

Hello everyone! I am back again with a new post!

Time really flies, it had been about 2 months since my new semester starts, and right now, its already coming to the end of the term.

Ever since this semester starts, I realized that I suddenly became busy with several involvements; be it from my CCAs or from my projects.

I got so busy that I barely have enough time to rest, or needless to say, to even go hang out with friends. Everyday of my life right now seems to be rather packed with tons of stuff to do. There seems to be not even a single day that I can really sit back and relax through the day, enjoying my time resting, doing my own stuff.

My mid semester test is coming very soon. It'd be held during the week after. However, up till now, I have not even started my revisions at all. All my plans for this long week end seemed to be delayed here and there. As by right, I was supposed to finish all my tutorials on Friday and revise my work on Saturday. However, due to a family outing yesterday, I ended up finishing my tutorials on Saturday. Which means, I am only able to start my revisions on Sunday.

I somehow feel, after leaving secondary school, I seem to not have the same kind of motivation to study like the way I had in the past. I am not as focused as last time, and I just can't give in 100% to the things I do.

Last Saturday, I went back to my secondary school to attend and help in a NPCC camp. Although none of my ex-squad mates who went back stayed overnight for it, I somehow just felt something in me telling me to stay. Of course, the experience there was again, different. There were new experiences whenever I attend NPCC camps.

When I was sec 1-2, a junior cadet, I find going to camp a chore and was more like a torture to me. When I was sec 3, a senior cadet, I felt that organizing and running camp was a pain and were very stressful experiences to me. When I was sec 4, going to camp was like a time for me to literally criticize in my mind, the way my juniors plan and run their camp and also to give tons of advices and nagging to them. And right now, the feeling was again different. It was more like a time out for me from my work and to relax at a place very familiar to me, where I can suddenly sense all my memories during my secondary school days and felt as though I am a secondary school student again.

To me, my secondary school is just like my 2nd home. It was really heart warming whenever I set foot into the campus, seeing familiar faces such as my juniors and teachers. Also, most importantly, the several corners of the campus I used to hang out with my friends. These were the things that made me feel home.

Maybe for now, I am considering to be a teacher in future and serve GM. However, taken the fact that I did not go on the JC route, it would be somehow hard for me to teach in a secondary school. Hence, this thought was in the end, just a blank talk to me...

I was a student who entered Geylang Methodist Secondary School and left Geylang Methodist School (Secondary), right now in Singapore Polytechnic leading a work-packed life...

What's on for 25/10/09

2009-10-25T23:05:00.019+08:00

Alright everyone! As promised, here's my long awaited (I hope it is) post.

How should I start?

Ok, my trip to China was from the 04th Oct to the 17th Oct. It's a 14 days trip, with 11 days at Huairou and 3 days a Beijing city for R&R.

For day 1, we gathered at the airport as early as 0700hrs and took our 6h long flight to Beijing. Upon reaching, we took a 1h+ long bus ride to Huairou and then to the town we are residing in, Cha Wu.

In the plane

The plane we took

When we reached Cha Wu, it was already night time. We proceeded on for dinner with the Kindergarten's principal and a senior teacher. The dinner was really sumptuous! It was a +/-20 course meal, and most of us ate to our fill till we can barely walk properly.

Part of the "multi-courses" meal

We all resided in a dorm for the railway workers at Cha Wu. It was really great that we were at least given accommodation at somewhere near the kindergarten. Not only if it was by "关系" (relations) between the principal and the officials, we wouldn't even be allowed to live there. The rooms in the dorms are nice, and the toilets were very clean. Just one problem was that, there's no shower area in the dorm itself. We need to walk to an opposite dorm's shower house for shower. Furthermore, we were only permitted to bathe on even days (Tue, Thu and Sat). However, if we really need to bather badly during the odd days, it's still possible to bathe under ice cold water in the drom's toilet, using a water hose.

Me and my roommate, Marcus in our room. The cup noodles there cost about 80c sing. But it is quite salty and is not as tasty as our local cup noodles. The only thing great about it was that, there's a vacuum packed egg in it :]

See those solar panels on the building? Those are solar panels that heat up water for the shower house. I realized this only during the last day at Cha Wu.

The dorm we resided in

The town where the railway workers reside in. And that's also where the kindergarten is situated in

Living quarters of the railway workers

The kindergarten

As so, for the next few days from day 2 to day 5 (5th-8th Oct), we spent our days scraping, sanding and white-washing the mounted boards on the walls, so as to prepare them for our murals. If I was not wrong, we also started some parts of our murals.

From inside, Me, Timothy(My team leader) and Darren Chew (My other roommate) scraping the mounting board.

From left, Gary, Lin Keong (My bangla head :]), Gervissa, Me, Darren Cheonng and Timothy scraping the outer railings, preparing it for painting

The breakfast we had for those days

Oh ya, I forgot to include, on the 3rd day, Team 2, which consist of people from Temasek Poly, James Cook University (a private university) and some adult volunteers arrived.

On the 6th day (9th Oct), we all went out for our first R&R trip to the Great Wall of China and also an Orchard. The part of the Great Wall of China we went to was at Huairou. It's a forbidden zone, very little tourist, or rather trekkers can be seen there. However, the scenery there was superb!

Behind me, lies the Great wall of China

Magnificent isn't it?

On the Great Wall of China, we put off firecrackers. That was rather the first time in my life that I've heard and see a firecracker being put off with my bare ears and eyes.

After the tiring hike to the Great Wall of China, we went for lunch at a restaurant nearby and had a sumptuous meal. Next, we proceeded on to an Orchard.

A fish pond

Corns

Lettuce

If you were to look closely, there were actually 3 emus in the middle of the picture

Nice huh?

After our excursion, we returned to our dorm for a short break. After which, we proceeded on to the Kindergarten for our dinner.

After dinner, we had a special guest lecturer, Dong Feng from the University of Bei Jing delivering us a lecture on China's Urbanization. He was a rather interesting person.

Having been to Singapore for 6 years, he was rather familiar to stuff in Singapore. Several stuff he said about Singapore as compared to China were rather true. The lecture was mainly regarding the topic on rural-urban migration. These stuff reminds me of my Geography last year. However, it's just that they were from a first person point of view, delivered to me. To me, his lecture was very interesting, I've been listening attentively to it for the whole time. However, as of the rest, I could see a lot of them either dozing off or were doing their own stuff, such as playing with their phone, etc...

As of the weekends, during the 7th and 8th day, we were again, back to work; back to scraping, painting...

A 3 wheeled lorry I saw at the town

On the night of day 8, we had a cultural exchange session with the teachers and staffs of the kindergarten. It was really interesting to learn little by little of the different dialects of the different teachers who came from different parts of the neighboring provinces. And we had a fun filled night.

See, the way the tables were arranged really looked as if that its a business conference or something. This really shows the seriousness of our host

On the 12th Oct, Mon, 9th day, we went to a national park. On our way there, the rear axle of the minibus we boarded broke on the way. It was rather fortunate of us that the bus was not maneuvering at high speed, and was able to safely pull over to a halt by the roadside. Else, I suppose, I'd most probably be dead by now.

Look properly, the axle actually broke!

We were transferred to another bus and proceeded on to the national park...

Our objective of that trip was to climb up the mountain for our goal, which is a waterfall.

Despite the fact that the way up was rather tiring, there were several superb scenery to see.

Stairway to heaven?

What a big millipede!

After a long long long hike up, the small group of mine finally reached the waterfall. However, all of us were rather disappointed when we saw the waterfall. As it was rather pathetic looking. It was not as magnificent as what we thought...

Well, here's the pathetic waterfall all of us anticipated for throughout the hike.

All of us stopped there to rest. Some went up the waterfall to draw some water, and I too, went up to get some water. After collecting a full bottle of water, it was rather unlucky of me to loose my balance and grip halfway when descending and dropped my bottle into the plunge pool. At that moment, I was like,"FUCK! CHEE BYE! KNN! @*#&$)%&#%*%&^@...!"

I was really thankful that Darren Cheong actually came over to help me retrieve my bottle, however, after helping me, something worse happened to him. Some shit from some fucker who shitted by the waterfall got stained onto his pants. It was damn gross and smelly! Hence, feeling bad, I offered to wash his pants for him after we got back to the dorms.

We had lunch after that and next, we proceeded on to Huairou city to visit a reservoir.

Well, the reservoir was mainly just a coast. But there were quite a few interesting things there.

Meow meow...

Captured sea animals sold by roadside vendors. The irony was, these animals were to be freed in the reservoir once purchased

We went to a nearby shopping center to shop after that and off to a nearby KFC for dinner.

Jing Bei Shopping Mall

Arsenal shop which sell mainly sports apparel with Arsenal's logo and designs on it.

The school kids there

KFC!!! The chicken there tasted very different from those in Singapore and what's better, they had double zinger burger and egg tarts sold as dessert.

After dinner, we went back to our dorms to rest and ended our day 9.

On the 10th day, we went back to work; with our usual scraping and painting...

The sunset of day 10

On that night, we had our 2nd cultural exchange session with the teachers. We shared about Islamic beliefs and Hinduism to the teachers and after that, we had a fun filled time putting off fire crackers and FIREWORKS!!!

On day 11, it's finally the last day of work for us, which was the final painting job of painting the less corroded parts of the older playground. However, before working, a small observation of the kids were arranged for us during their lesson time. That was like our first time, throughout the whole trip, being able to at least interact with the kids. Reason being was that, due to widespread of the H1N1 influenza, we were initially not allowed to interact with the kids at all. And hence, interacting with the kids was rather a big thing!

Cute huh?

The kids lining up for their next activity

Actually by day 10, all the murals we painted were also done. And here they are...

These were designed by our team member, Roliah. Its basically designed according to the nursery rhyme, Old MacDonald.

This particular set of 3 were drawn according to the story of, The Ugly Duckling.

I colored the little maroon house at the top left of this piece. Really hard man!

As of the last 3 murals, they were mainly made up of stuff copied from the textbooks used for teaching the kids. So it was kinda like a free drawing to us

This is my favorite piece. As I spent the most efforts in painting this. The girl together with the bike was painted by me. And it was not at all easy when it comes to the toning and stuff of the bike and the girl's clothes

Well, as of this, I contributed to it by drawning those bubbles, corals and the seaweeds :] nothing much though

After finishing our work and final touches. We spent our time playing with the kids at the newly constructed playground. Seeing the innocence of those kids really reminded me of my childhood memories.

A bunch of adults playing with small kids

Candid shot

At about evening time, we packed our stuff and went on a small excursion to a few farms.

At the first stop, we went to a dragon fruit farm to harvest and purchase some fresh dragon fruit.

Dragon fruits were planted in those cylindrical shaped structures

These are dragon fruit plants with ripe dragon fruit (in pink) on it. I didn't even know that its plant actually looks like that

Well, the dragon fruits were very sweet and tasty... After that, we went on to the principal friend's farm. Its really a very big farm full of vegetables such as corns, carrots, radish, etc...

Children of The Corn

A even bigger and heavier radish was harvested, however, I do not have a photo of it.

After the farm visit, we went to a restaurant for a farewell dinner and once again ate to our fill.

The next day, it was our last day at Cha Wu. We started our day by visiting the nearby train station. That was also know as the source of all the noises(horns from the trains) at night that barred us from sleeping properly during those days.

Cha Wu Station

That's indeed a big ass train station!

After that, we went back to the kindergarten for breakfast and our final interactions with the kids. My group did a art lesson with the junior group(class of 3 years old kids). It was kinda heartwarming to see the innocent look of the kids doing their stuff. I was just wondering if I was like that back then when I was young...

Mr Chew in action...

Next, we had a few group photos at the playground before we bade farewell from the kindergarten. And lastly our last lunch at the kindergarten, before we return to our dorms to get out stuff and depart from Cha Wu.

Group photo with everyone. (sorry for the lousy quality. I don't own a scanner)

Kitchen staff, 王园长, me, another teacher(sorry that I forgot their names)

For our departure from the kindergarten, some of us broke down and cried. I was too, sad that we had to leave after having served there for such a long time. Such feelings was kind of like a De-ja-vu to me when my team at Cambodia back then in 2006 was leaving the Methodist school at Phnom Penh...

After our departure from Cha Wu, we took a 2hrs long bus ride into Bei Jing city. And that marks the start of our 2 day R&R. Our first stop was at the "Temple of Heaven". That temple was built in the Ming dynasty for the royalties to worship the gods. However, in present day, its converted into a park, opened to public.

Temple of Heaven

Old people playing cards

Trademark building for the Temple of Heaven. Its the temple for the God of Harvest

Marcus, Roliah, Darren Chew, Lin Keong, Ee Von and Me

A group of people 'Jamming' in the China way

Shadow of The Day

Finally found a China flag to add into my collection of flags

Next we went to check in to our hotel. On our way, I saw several unique looking buildings. And when I say several, its really so much that I got confused what exactly that building was built for.

That's actually a 'pair' of shopping centers, such unique building can be seen literally everywhere in Beijing

After checking in, we went to a nearby steamboat restaurant for our 重庆麻辣(Chongqin extra spicy) steamboat dinner.

Beijing Spice Girls, the name is already intimidating enough

In Singapore, I've too, eaten 重庆麻辣火锅. But this one I ate was real terror! We had 2 types of soup bases, one was the extra spicy chili oil soup base and the other was the chicken broth. The chicken broth was just like the normal steamboat we usually eat. But the chili oil base... woah ho! Real terror! Its so damn freaking spicy that it scratches my throat, incapacitate my tongue and burns my lips. Most people at my table totally couldn't take it. While what I did was to tolerate with it and was in fact kinda enjoying the spicy sensation in the end. I've never tried anything so extreme before!

After dinner, we took a bus to a nearby shopping center for foot reflexology. Up till then, I've never been to any of sort foot reflexology or body massage services before and was kind of nervous that it will hurt a lot...

In the public bus...

Its the first time for all of us

After the reflexology, I felt totally refreshed. However, MY BALLS HURTS! There was one procedure where my left and right thighs were flexed to the left and right respectively. That made my thighs squeeze my balls and it was really painful!

Next, as there was no more bus services, we walked back to our hotel and had a good night's rest.

At the 13th day, I woke up early with my team leader, Timothy together with Kristeen and my other team leader, Jesslyn to get breakfast for the team from a nearby diner. And next, we set off to the Tienanmen Square and also our visit to the Forbidden city.

CCTV building. Unique architecture huh?

Tienanmen Square

Entrance to the Forbidden City

For our tour in the Forbidden City, I personally felt that it was rather boring. But those stories from our tour guide made things more interesting for us. Basically, for those who are really so 'mountain tortoise' to not know what on earth is the Forbidden City, its basically the palace where the royalties such as the emperor, empress, prince, princess, etc... lived in during ancient times. I suppose pictures speaks more than words, so for this part, it'd be just pictures and captions...

Soldiers marching with their ultra solid slow march

Us, walking on the 'Dragon's Vein' That's the straight road where only the Emperor or Scholars or the Empress were allowed to walk on

If you noticed, all structures in the palace looks similar. That's why its somehow boring to keep taking photos of the buildings in the palace

Our tour guide explaining the plan of the palace

According to our guide, this is the only remaining authentic throne in the palace

After our tour in the Forbidden City, we climbed up a hill opposite to the Forbidden City. Over there, the full view of the forbidden city can be seen, and it was magnificent!

This is certainly more interesting than touring around the palace

We went for lunch after that at a nearby eatery and then to "Slik Street" Market to shop.

On our way to Silk Street, I saw this unique looking building, its the China National Offshore Oil Corporation's building

Silk Street is indeed a totally crappy place to shop at. Initially, my impression of Silk Street is a 'pasar malam' type of shopping where you can find those cheap and nice brandless stuff(which I always wear). But I was wrong, its actually a big assed shopping center full of overpriced pirated goods. Its like the folks there literally sell those fake goods at the price of the real ones. Just for an instance, my team leader, Timothy thorn his bag, hence, he wanted to buy a new simple and cheap bad to store his stuff. When he told the store keeper that he wanted to buy a new bag, the store keeper immediately took a fake Tumi bag for him. She claimed that its genuine leather and was trying to charge him 1840RMB for it. That's freaking +/-S$368! Who would spend so much for fake goods?! Initially we rejected her and decided to walk away, but that c**t just refuses to let us off. She was like desperately pulling tight onto Timothy's arm. Seeing her f'ed up attitude, I got kinda furious and was like saying with raised voice in madarin,"What my friend over here wanted is just a SIMPLE bag to put his stuff. He don't need such an expensive bag!" to her.

After a while a few others in our group came and was like trying to bargain further for him. In the end, the bag was still purchased at 200 RMB, which is still kinda overpriced to me. Seeing such f'ed up people there, I was kinda totally discouraged to buy anything there. In the end, what I got was just a new belt for 80RMB, a book titled, "Quotations From Chairman Mou"(the little red book) as a souvenir and 300++RMB worth of goodies to eat. While others blew quite a lot of money on those overpriced fake goods. Some even blew 1K+RMB for those stuff!

The name of this place can be deceiving

After shopping at that f'ed up place, we went to Lao She Tea House, 老舍茶馆, for a cultural performance with stuff such as Sze Chuan face changing, 四川变脸, acrobat, Chinese Oprah, etc... Somehow, I felt that it was not worth it spending 200+RMB for those stuff, as they were basically stuff that I've seen even in Singapore. But what's done is done... Else, we could have put better use to those money.

Lao She Tea House

The woman on the left was playing bowls and cups as her instrument

Sorry, I can't take any photos during the performances. So what I could do was to only take a photo of the hall

We went to buy KFC for dinner after that and went back to our hotel for a good night's rest.

The next day which was the last day, we woke up early for our small free and easy. All of us traveled in small groups and started off with breakfast at a restaurant near our hotel. Next, we just simply roam about the place for some last minute shopping and then went back to our hotel to check out. After that, we proceeded on to the airport for our flight back.

Beijing International Airport

I met Kok Wei from SP Rotaract club at the airport. He was returning from his Overseas Industrial Training Program (OITP) and took the same flight as me.

And so, that marks the end of our trip.

Here are some funny signs I saw there...

I took this on the first day at the airport... So does the lift stop at 1F?

I took this at the steamboat restaurant at the 12th day... So is the place going to be covered by landslide anytime or what...?

What's on for 19/05/09

2009-10-19T22:32:00.002+08:00

Hi everyone!

I am back!

Actually, I've been back since last Saturday night, but I was so damn tired and busy that I needed some time to rest and pack my stuff before I even make a post in my blog.

Its been 2 weeks since I last posted. However, the feeling was just as if like I just posted last week.

Everything went on very fast over there. In a flash, 2 weeks went by and my vacation is over.

School just started today and it was a rather boring day for me.

A full coverage of my trip will be posted on most probably, this Saturday, after I harvest more photos from the rest in my team.

And so, see ya!

What's on for 03/10/09

2009-10-03T22:32:00.002+08:00

This would most probably be my final post for my 6 weeks long vacation.

And ya, why final post?

Well, I'd be flying off to China tomorrow for my community service and will be back only after 2 weeks, which is also the end of my vacations already.

I'd most probably be missing you guys out there in Singapore during my 2 weeks there. Or maybe not? haha :]

This vacation was kind of a busy one for me. I literally spent everyday of it out doing my stuff. And I did not really play so much this time.

This week itself was already a busy one for me. My club, SP Stage Crew (formerly known as SP Roadies) signed me up for a 3 days long workshop regarding stage performance.

In this workshop, we were trained on vocals skills, acting skills and confidence building. These stuff were very fun, and I enjoyed them all!

At the final day of the workshop, which was yesterday, all the 3 groups were made to each perform a music (band) item, drama item, singing item and a random item out of the team's creativity. I did not perform, but instead, I broke out from my team and was designated for my backstage duties.

Yesterday was also my first time being a backstage crew as an AV crew. It was a rather different feeling from my backstage experiences I had back then when I was in NP. Hence, I was kinda nervous, but luckily everything went on fine.

On Wednesday night, it was a rather interesting night not to be forgotten. My DPA friends and I had a small meet up and dinner together. We had steamboat at Marina Square and some slacking at Esplanade, by the bay till 2300++, when we rushed to the MRT station to catch the final few trains home.

It's been a long time since I last met them and there were so many stuff to talk about! Everybody went on separate paths after DPA to different courses and classes. And each and everyone of us had hell lots of stuff to share regarding our different poly lives. Some enjoyed theirs some hate theirs and were like longing for poly life to be like DPA life...

It's really sad that all of us were not of the same course and class. As I can say, my DPA friends are one of the coolest bunch of people I've met!

And so, that's all for this week. See you all two weeks later!

What's on for 28/09/09

2009-09-28T01:48:00.003+08:00

Hi guys! Ever wondered how is it like to be drunk?

Actually I too, do not have the answer, but I was somehow semi drunk for some occasions this week.

My Family were all away for a short holiday at Vietnam from the Sept 23rd morning till the 27th afternoon.

Hence, I was all alone at home for these 4 days.

It was total freedom for myself! But of course, there was still some control I set myself.

For the first day, Wednesday, it was still all normal, as I had a meeting for my China trip in campus during the afternoon. By the time I was back, it was already the evening when I bought my dinner and retired for the day watching TV, playing my guitar, facebooking, etc...

During the 2nd day, Thursday, I spent my day slacking and lazing at home, watching movies with my com. It was until the evening when I left for Penisular, Music Theme, to fix my acoustic guitar. I spent $15 for my guitar's truss rod to be adjusted so as to straighten the guitar neck and also my guitar's saddle to be replaced and lowered. All these reduces the action of my guitar and its more 'playable' than the past. I also spent $6.50 on a .010 gauge copper strings which produces a real bright tone, which is also something I want.

Trip there also made me realize that my guitar is considered as the 'better' acoustic guitar in the line of TGM acoustics. It's actually already off production since 2006 and since then, several models after my guitar, TGM V2-RD, doesn't sound as good as my guitar. So, despite it being cheap, I will really treasure that guitar man!

The brand new look of my acoustic guitar

Brand new copper wounded strings for a brighter tone

Saddle replaced and lowered.

After leaving Penisular, I intended to have dinner at Beach Road Hawker Centre. I walked all the way there, and along the way, I passed by Kampong Glam, Arab Street area, and saw several 'Shisha' bar, and many people 'shisha-ing' at those bars. It was kind of weird for people to sit at an area, lazing around smoking for 2 hours. And I just wonder, what's so good about smoking, let alone 'shisha'? Next, when I was about to reach Beach Road Hawker, at Jalan Sultan, I chanced upon a shop with several old posters of Music fest and very old metal band posters. These stuff sparked off my curiosity and hence I entered the shop to 'look around'. Self printed tees and a few genres like grindcore, death metal, black metal, hardcore CD were also sold there. Next I talked to the owner of that shop. He is a Malay man in his later 30s by the name of Jam. His shop is actually more of his studio where he designs and prints Tees for events, or for his other customers with minor jobs like class tees or even personal self designed tees. We had a long chat, talking about music, metal, life, etc... He is indeed a nice guy to talk to, and maybe I can even approach him in future if I were to request for some T-shirt printing services.

Ignite Inc.

57 Jalan Sultan

Singapore 198978

igniteprod@yahoo.com.sg

myspace.com/igniteprod

After realizing that it was freaking late at like 2240 already, I decided to take a bus home and order MC for dinner (cum supper) instead.

On my way back, I bought a bottle of 340ml Jack Daniels and sprite for some high time later.

While eating, I was chatting with Jon over MSN, and as I took my first gulp of the raw whiskey after my meal, but I was still ok after that. Next I had a few rounds of it mixed with sprite and also another gulp of raw whiskey until it's like half drained.

Those stuff made my head spinning, made me unable to type properly and my head felt kinda heavy through it, but I was totally so high that I can't sleep even after watching a movie and playing Gears of War. It was until 0400hrs when I decided to sleep...

The next day, Friday, I woke up at 0900hrs and straightaway tidied up the mess I made on my study table from the previous night.

Jon came to my house to thon during the afternoon. We kinda slacked around doing nothing much. It was only after dinner, after he went home to get a change and me getting another bottle of whiskey(some cheap ass ones) and some snacks, then the real thing starts.

He brought his X Japan Last Live DVD to my place, and we were like snacking and with me drinking through the whole thing.

Again, I kinda got myself semi drunk after drinking too much again. That cheap ass whiskey I bought tasted much thinner than the Jack Daniel's I bought the previous night. Thinking that it's lighter, I gulped quite a lot of it down raw. To make things worse, I drank lots of coke, and that totally made me kinda crazy to laugh like a dumb fuck after saying some stupid stuff, and even saying several stuff in my mind. and of course I got very VERY high, and again I can't sleep. We were like awake till 0600hrs when we finally then took at nap till like 0900hrs when I woke up and him waking up at about 1000hrs (this is also where I wonder what made him awake when he did not drink a single drop of alcohol). That was crazy, but I am really sure that I am still conscious when I said those stupid stuff to him and it was just me being so high that I can't control myself to say those stuff or maybe rant those stuff out.

Henceforth, I tell myself, I should never drink like such a dumb fuck in future or I am really gonna get myself drunk and do some stupid stuff in no time.

We slacked till lunch and then I left for campus for my China trip meeting and him off to home.

After not sleeping for so damn long and also those dosage of hard liquor, I kinda had a hangover with my dizzy spells along my way in the train. I can't help but to doze off in train until I reach campus. I should say, I wasn't very awake during my meeting and was totally shagged when I reached home. I ate, watch TV, facebook till like 2300 and just simply dozed off till Sunday morn when I left for work and hence ending my 'freedom' and then went home at like 1930 hrs after my guitar lessons and my late late lunch cum tea.

So, those 4 days have been kinda freaky for me. It's really not nice(or maybe nice to a small extent) drinking excessively; getting myself crazy. However, I was kinda happy that I had the discipline to tidy up the place and also to do housework, and I think in future, I can live on my own man!

Just a small coverage, on the 22nd, Tuesday, it was my Roadies training in the evening. We got the stage lights at the Mobley Amphitheater working and had a full band set-up for a live band to jam. Next me together with seniors, their jamming friends and some of the other roadies members went to West Coast area for prata supper and Ice Cream. I had lots fun with them talking cock and was like only home at about 0000hrs.

And so, this week was kinda crazy and I wouldn't mind having another week like this man!!!

What's on for 19/09/09

2009-09-19T21:43:00.003+08:00

This week had been really crazy for me!

I was out for literally everyday... Monday for tuition, Tuesday for Roadies, Wed for Rotaract and Roadies, Thurs for tuition again, yesterday out with Jon and Seng Hong and Today for blood donation and a wasted trip to campus.

Wednesday was hell of a day teaching a whole bunch of rowdy lower primary kids for Rotaract during noon time. And it was kind of a wasted trip back to campus for Roadies after that. As the night event we initially had on Wednesday was canceled right on the last minute due to bad weather.

Yesterday was another funny day for me. I intended to donate blood during yesterday's morning and then meet Jon after that to hang out. When I was already at HSA's Blood Bank, I was rejected for donation. As I had Typhoid and Tetanus vaccination on 05/09, which made me unfit for blood donation until 19/09, and that's today. Hence, I booked an appointment for blood donation today and went to Dohby Ghaut to meet Jon.

We watched this animated movie "9", a show regarding the end of humanity and robots being what that remains on earth. It was quite a nice show to watch, and it's something suitable for all ages.

Next, we went to meet Seng Hong at Suntec. Both of us walked all the way from Plaza Singapura to Suntec. Initially, we could have walked straight to Suntec, but it was a stupid 'bet' I had with Jon, with me saying that La Selle SIA is next to Sim Lim and Jon saying that it's next to Iluma. So to prove it to him that I was right, we changed our course towards the Bugis direction. What's worse was that, we in the end just called off the bet halfway and carried on with our journey. So it was really stupid that we changed our course for nothing and made a big detour.

We met Seng Hong at Suntec in the end. His prelims just ended with the last paper yesterday, and so, that's was also the reason why he can be out with us. We went for the food fair over there and were really disappointed with it. As the food varieties was damn limited and the prices of everything were so heavily jacked up.

We had our dinner there however and went to Marina to slack after that. Next, we went home. It was seriously a boring day out actually. Real meaningless!

Today, I over slept and was late for my blood donation's appointment. When I reached Outram Park, it was raining badly, but luckily, HSA is only a stone's throw away from the MRT station, so it wasn't that bad either.

Blood donation went by faster than expected. And I went to campus after that.

I had lunch at food court 5 and killed some time playing Gears of War over there till 1400hrs.

Thinking that there was a meeting just now, I went to DSD, Department of Student Development (formerly known as SAA, Student Alumni Affairs). When I was there, I was still blindly wondering where on earth everybody were. And so I sms a few of my team mates. As one of them replied asking me if there was a meeting today, I then realized that the meeting today was actually postponed to next Wednesday.

That was really dumb of me, and so... I went home and ended my day at home doing nothing much but to sleep, eat, watch TV, blog...

And so that's my week... Really busy and freaky.

What's on for 13/09/09

2009-09-13T01:27:00.002+08:00

Hi everyone!

One week of my holidays just went by...

The week was kind of funny. My parents were off for holidays at China for 9 days since Monday. And so, that also marks my self-reliant days. This went on for 1 week already, where I've been doing most of the housework, such as the laundry and cooking. I was kinda sick of doing them! Especially the laundry. As it was really stupid to wait by the washing machine to wash the clothes, and it takes up about half an hour everyday!

Other than that, I've been kinda busy with my CCAs stuff and my China Trip stuff, with all the meetings, preparations, trainings etc... Kinda tired with them actually...

So, this holiday wasn't really 100% relaxation for me :[

Something really funny happened. I intended to organize a night cycling expedition on Thursday night till Friday morning. So of course, what I did firstly was to call up some people for it. I first contacted, Jon, and he was ok with it. Next Nigel, who was also ok with it. And then Kae Jian, who was too, ok with it. So as I thought that there were 4 of us, a even number amount of people (for such expedition, it's better to pair people up, instead of having an odd-number amount of people, where there will be someone left out when we were paired up) and were already set for the expedition, Nigel suddenly called me, saying that he wanted to back out due to reason such as the 7th lunar month being "unsafe", and stuff (well, if you don't know, in Taoist beliefs, the 7th lunar month was known to be the month when beings from the neither world rise up to earth for a visit)... So I decided to approach Yip Han for it, but he turned me down, saying that he was tired after a camp. Next, as I called Jon, telling him the situation, he too backed up, telling me that even if there were 4 of us, there were too little people, etc... And hence, The expedition was canceled, and was postponed to some times like December when I would be my semester 2 mid semester break and Nigel's post 'O' Levels long holidays.

For these few days, I've been also running for a bit to keep fit. However, for now, I decided to not time myself when I was running, but to instead train more on my stamina by trying to jog over a longer distance (rather than my usual 3km). And also to run at night/mid-night, before I sleep, rather than to run before sunrise, by waking up damn early for it. I started off with 5km on last Sunday/Monday, 6km on Tuesday/Wednesday and 6km just now, on Saturday/Sunday(today). It really felt so nice to sweat everything off during such insanely hot days, and it was really rewarding to endure through such distances. Maybe in no time, I will try to increase my distances, and eventually, I will be able to run for those running events!

And so, here are some of the highlights from me for this week, do expect more next week :]

What's on for 06/09/09

2009-09-06T00:31:00.002+08:00

Hello everybody! Exams are all over! And so, here's the end of my first semester in poly.

With exams all over for now, I am going to put my books aside and concentrate on my CCA, China Trip more, and also to get time off having fun, re-connecting with old friends, etc...

Of course, I am also going to spend more time sitting with my guitar, practicing it! I will try my best to master a few more songs and skills, which will enable me to be more experienced.

My vacation would be 6 weeks long. It's not very long as compared to my post 'O' Levels break, but I am sure, it would be enough for me to relax and breathe.

Of the 6 weeks, I would be also spending 2 weeks at Huairou, China, somewhere at the outskirts of Beijing, to serve for my Overseas Community Service, OCS. And to me, now is then the time that I can really give in 100% for all the preparations for the trip. Which means, yes... I've been just fucking around all these while for almost all the prep sessions, and wasn't really paying much attention to them. Really sorry man!

Well, back to the main topic, so for these days, I will be still kinda busy with several non-academical things in campus. And this means, I am actually too busy to even go get a part time job for myself! This is kinda crazy, but I think this would not be much of a problem. As I suppose my time wouldn't be wasted off anyway.

I gotta really cherish all my vacations man! As that's then the time when I can take time off, relax and get back into the real me!

What's on for 22/08/09

2009-08-22T23:17:00.002+08:00

Alright, so my final revision week passed so fast; faster than expected!

This week was kind of boring and drab for me. I've been just practicing on past year papers for my E. Tech and for Thermofluids.

The attendance for my class dropped drastically for this week and the class was quite quiet suddenly.

Thursday was the funniest day for me. As I was the only one in the whole damn class reporting for C. Programming revisions session. It was kinda weird, as the whole class was damn quiet, and it was like I was just sitting alone at a side doing my practices, when my lecturer was also sitting at her desk doing her stuff.

Only interesting thing for the week was, last night, Nigel, Hong Siang, Kae Jian and I met up for dinner to 'celebrate' Hong Siang's birthday on Sunday and Nigel's on Monday. We had a great time reminiscing the past and also quite some time at the pavilion near Aljunied Crescent Block 108 looking at Kae Jian and Hong Siang practicing street dancing (sorry, that's not my thing and I don't exactly know what's their dance genre).

As of today, I spent my whole day practicing past year papers and also to study.

Monday would be my first paper, Thermofluids 1 and then with all 6 papers, my exams will end at the following Friday with Engineering Maths 1.

What's on for 15/08/09

2009-08-15T22:40:00.002+08:00

To all regular readers out there (which I don't think there is a lot either), sorry for not posting for these few days. I've been too busy with my school work; with those projects, practices, etc...

Exams are coming, and I suppose you guys will not see me post for quite some time too after today, till the end of my exams 3 weeks later.

I was really fucked after this week man! It was like 2 presentations, one on Wednesday and Thursday.

Monday was a holiday, and my class and I went to cycle at ECP. However, we did not go too far. We merely stopped at the Changi MOE campsite area, and then turned back to ECP for dinner. Tuesday was rather a long day of maths and some roadies stock taking stuff... Speaking about roadies, SP Roadies is a newly formed CCA by a committee students and a new staff at SAA (Student Alumni Affairs). I am part of the committee of people, and that will be my primary CCA for now.

Wednesday was an even longer day. Despite ending lessons at 1100hrs, we all went to BMTC(Basic Military Training Centre) at Tekong for my ONOW excursion. Over there, I got to see the military camp out there and those stuff that I'll expect to see, use and train on in a few years to come.

It was an interesting trip, but what's fucked up was that I need to write a 300< words reflection regarding the excursion.

Thursday was kinda crazy, I carried my amp, guitar, laptop and my usual study notes to campus for my CRS (Critical Reasoning Skills) presentation.

Now, you guys must be wondering, why on earth did I bring my guitar and even my amp for. Well, it seriously for part of my presentation...

My team was supposed to present stuff regarding E-learning not being to best teaching method. And hence, for the intro, we decided to play the first part of "Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends" from the MP3 to everyone. Then, when the distortion part comes in, I'll start playing my guitar and then the other 2 members of mine will sing, all the way till the end of the guitar solos. The rationale over that was to make people bored over listening to the MP3 and then to capture back everyone's attention when we start performing. As this is also similar to E-learning being like the MP3, which is less interactive, while live classroom teaching by a teacher being more interactive. However, for a part of the intro and the solo, I kinda screwed up, due to the fact that I was too nervous, and failed to deliver a nice act for everyone.

The part of getting everything home was also a pain... everything's so damn heavy, and by the time I reached home, I was already drenched in perspiration.

Yesterday, I kinda slacked off my day, chatting with Bennie and Jason, both my DPA friends for the afternoon, and then went home to continue slacking. Maybe it was because that I was too tired. Hence I was not at all in the mood to study for the whole day...

And so... starting from today, I'll be studying hard for my exams!

And within no time, it'll all be over, and there goes my semester 1.

What's on for 03/08/09

2009-08-03T23:36:00.002+08:00

Hi there, kind of a late post for last week, and without knowing, another week passed.

Here's just one thing you guys would be wondering, why does all my introduction for every week's post sound the same? Well, personally, I seriously too don't understand why. Maybe it's also due to the fact that my life is kinda repetitive between school, guitar, home, fooling around over nothing, blah blah...

I can admit, I'm kind of a "no-life" person. But before saying that, a few interesting things did happen last week.

Last Tuesday, my guitar teacher was finally teaching us harder stuff. What I mean for harder is 'Carlos Santana - Black Magic Woman'. If it's anything by him, all that I can say is that they are not easy stuff. And to really master them, I will need several years of practice and learning to fulfill it. Hence, I spent my Sunday morning and a moment ago, Monday night to practice part of it, and managed to play the first solos of the song. However, it's still not perfected yet, with wrong notes and timings played on and off.

Saturday was kind of a long day for me. As it was my 3rd meeting for my China trip.

I was kinda glad that the meeting was at somewhere near my house at lor 21 Geylang. As its very near to my house.

That place is actually called 'High Point' and is located at somewhere near Aljunied MRT. It's a halfway home for ex-offenders.

That place is very quiet during the afternoon, and it was so quiet that it's also hard for me to believe that its actually situated at the core of Geylang where its surrounded by roads.

Going there was quite of a different experience for me. As I met some strong-willed gentlemen over there. There was this China migrant worker whom I met, he was injured during work and hence, is unable to work. Furthermore, he was also admitted to the hospital due to his injury during work. However, despite the fact that he was out of a job and was in debt to the hospital, he was still strong-willed enough to not want to accept any help from others, and it was like after several persuasions when he decided to work there in exchange for food coupons.

We spent some time discussing and listening to others sharing about China and then, we were also given a treat to... something unexpected... FERMENTED TOFU!

Actually I love it! It's something that I had not ate for years, and having had the chance to eat it last Saturday was really a joy! Despite the fact that most people hates it...

Today was again, quite of a boring day. Nothing much happened, except that I felt really great after running 3 km when I got home. It took me 13:00.98 to clear that, and was obviously faster than last Thursday, where I clocked a 13:30.

And ok, that's the end of my sharing today, next update in a week's time :]

What's on for 26/07/09

2009-07-26T22:34:00.002+08:00

Week by week passed... the final week of July is coming.

Time seriously flies, I somehow still remembered myself talking about BandAGE 09 last week....

Oh ya! By the way, photos of BandAGE 09 can be viewed in http://bandage09.blogspot.com/2009/07/bandage-09-photos.html

This week was a real boring week of studies...

I had my Electrical Technology practical test on Wednesday and C. programming practical test on Thursday.

Hence, for last week, I actually spent a lot of time practicing my C. prog. And as of E. Tech, I seriously did not study for it, as I don't really know what to study about.

In the end, I made 3 mistakes for my E. tech, while my C. prog went on smoothly.

Yesterday, I spent my whole day chilling out with Jon. And for today, I was totally getting myself fucked up over maths.

Stuff for my diploma plus maths are getting harder and harder. It's like, I can't solve majority of the questions, despite thinking over them for hours. I am feeling so fucked and dead man!

Maybe after next week, I am going to write up my studies schedule for my semester exams. Gotta really be serious in my work man!

I suppose if people like Jon or anyone in my class were to read this post, they will certainly say that I am a nerd, "kiasu kia" or "chiongster". But all that I can say is that I am a slow learner, I am seriously that kind of person who need to study hard in order to get everything into my head. I am no smart ass like many people are...

And for those not in my class, who are wondering why am I so busy over assignments every week, all I can tell you is that most of them come from both of my maths modules and there is no such thing like a tutorial session for us to do our tutorials or assignments. Hence, they must be done by ourselves at home!

What's on for 18/07/09

2009-07-18T22:27:00.002+08:00

Finally... BandAGE 09 is over!

It has been more than 2 months of hard work, and our fruit of labor was paid off with the event being ran smoothly with a 250++ strong audience.

It was indeed a great success!

The only flaw was that the transition between each band was not smooth and there were some technical glitches on and off during the event.

As of stuff before the event... It was rather messy initially and we indeed took a long long time to get everything fixed up. And as of stuff way before the 17th, it was worse! We had several issues regarding the equipments, participating bands and audience.

Problems like not being able to get a decent bass amp for the gig, participating band being inconsistent in their performance timings and low sales of tickets.

Such problems was even prevailing during that earlier part of that day itself, the 17th.

It's like at that day itself, even when the logistics crew went to draw the equipments, they were still unable to get the bass amp. Then one band suddenly came to tell me that their members can't make it on time and wanted a change in time slot. And the ticket sales was still rather low during the start of the day.

However, after some negotiations with the officials loaning us the equipments, we got our bass amp. And after some rushing of the band members, that band managed to make it on time and did not upset the timings of all the other bands. As of the ticket sales, it was really shocking to see so many people coming down in the last minute to support their friends. That made our sales shot up high...!

Lets move on to the actual event...

At about 1730hrs, the audience were already starting to fill the auditorium. And we started at about 1750hrs... At about 1800, the first band performed and this went on till about 2130hrs, where the last band performed...

Some of the bands were really good! While some have a lack in skills here and there... There was one band that had about 50 people supporting them by standing at the front of the stage. And when they were performing their second song, they even attempted to morsh. However, the other event's personnel stopped them on time, and they stayed there obediently till the end of the performance.

Oh ya! I forgot to mention, I was in-charge of the lighting and was also assisting the sound man, who was supposed to be the emcee for the event. It was really lucky that he had another person to take over his post as the emcee and instead, volunteered to help as the sound man! Without him, Johnadab, it was literally impossible for everything to run! And I was really thankful of his help.

And, ya, so I was basically at the control room, controlling the stage light for the whole show. In fact, I spent majority of my time in the control room with Johnadab for the whole day...

Everything ended at about 2200hrs. We packed up in the backstage till about 2230hrs and left for home after that...

Today, I went back to campus at about 0800hrs to transport the equipments to somewhere safer and then stayed in the library to do my dip plus maths assignments till about 1230hrs, when I went for lunch. Next, I went for my China trip meeting, which ended at about 1700hrs and then I went home to eat and continue to do my assignments.

Tomorrow, it would still be a busy day. I will still continue to do my assignments in the morning and also study for C. programming. As Thursday is my practical test.

I am seriously fucked man!

What's on for 14/07/09

2009-07-14T22:28:00.002+08:00

Today's post came kinda late. I was just too lazy to do anything last weekend...

Up till now, all the results for my MST were back, and I did relatively well for them. Except for my C. programing, where I scored a B for it. But never mind, I will try hard for my semester exams and try to score better results than what I had for now.

Basically, things had been kinda boring for these few days. It's kinda repetitive that I report to campus everyday, and then leave for home after lessons, or maybe after settling some stuff in campus.

For these few days, I'll be extra busy over BandAGE 09 too.

The event falls on this Friday the 17th. Hence, my committee and I need to seriously get everything prepared and also assure that the event will run smoothly on that day.

For now, the only issues that get my fucked up are issues with equipments and also the scheduling of the bands.

It's like there seems to always have bands calling me, asking me to have their time slots changed due to reason such as their band members not being able to make it for their timings or even some lame reasons.

And regarding the equipments, worse. Bands were all one by one calling me to ask me for the specs of the equipments, while some were like even complaining to me regarding the equipments provided. Furthermore, what's worse was that the officials loaning us the equipments were rather reluctant to loan us the stuff. It's like when I was asking if there were 2 guitar amps and 1 bass amps, which are the basic requirements for a band, that official was like,"what! I thought you guys only need one amp?!"

To me, that was like, can't she see that we are organizing a rock band concert here. These stuff are like the standard necessities. The drums was also rather reluctantly loaned to us. And whats worse, they can't loan us a decent bass amp.

Hence, for now, we were like even trying hard to get them to loan us a proper bass amp and some other equipments...

Arrrgh! I will just stop talking about BandAGE. Full coverage about it will be posted next week.

For now, life is also kind of boring for me. Within no time, semester exams are coming, and more and more projects are reaching its due date.

Everything in me seems to be kinda fucked up, and I am really fucked myself...

What's on for 05/07/09

2009-07-05T21:15:00.003+08:00

And so, the MST week passed...

And I think, out of the 5 papers I had, I've totally screwed up my C. Programming test. I can't believe that, despite the fact that I set aside 1/2 an hour for the last question on writing a program (yes, literally writing one with pen on paper),I still can't finish writing the program!

While for other papers, they are still fine...

Although the the MST week is over, there is still 1 more test for Maths 1 (dip plus maths) next Wednesday. The more screwed fact is that, I have not finish studying my stuff for Maths 1...

I intended to study yesterday, until Seng Hong and Jon asked me to go out yesterday on Friday night. Its not a nice thing to reject them, being the fact that Seng Hong is rarely free, as he has to spend time preparing himself for his 'O' Levels this year.

We spent our yesterday taking a train to Joo Koon station for nothing (which is kinda dumb) and then to Jurong Point. We initially intended to watch Transformers 2 there, but after seeing the ridiculously long queue for the tickets, we decided to go to Bugis to watch that flick.

We left Boon Lay after lunch for Bugis. And when we reached Bugis, the time slots for Shaw are all late night slots. Hence, we proceeded to Iluma and had quite of a tiff, over to watch the 1610 or 1810 show. I wanted to watch the 1610 show, as I had to leave for home and then to study at night. While Seng Hong was like wanting to watch the show, no matter what. And Jon was just quiet. Then when it came to our turn to buy the tickets, it was like there were only the first row's seat for us to watch the 1610 show. Seng Hong was kinda fucked up over me, but in the end, we bought the 1610 tickets and proceeded to watch out "HD" quality show.

Such kind of feeling was just like the feeling I had 2 years ago, when I was watching Transformers 1 with Prem, Shaun and Faizal, back then when we were sec 3. It was the same, we watched the show from the 2nd row. Where we had to stretch our neck to look up at the screen, and also to roll our eye balls to the left and right to look at the whole screen...

I kinda felt that the show is not very nice, as there is not much storyline in the whole show; it's more or less just a lot of action. And I'd most probably give it a 3.5/5...

As of for today, I spent my morning tutoring and then afternoon to study my maths...

I've studied for a few hours already, but everything still look very difficult to me. Maybe I gotta go do the practice paper later or tomorrow night to gauge my standards.

And I suppose, I should go now... I'll study for a little more and then print some stuff and sleep...

What's on for 28/06/09

2009-06-28T21:03:00.003+08:00

Time flies...

My 3 weeks long mid semester break is over!

Starting from tomorrow till the following week's Wednesday, it's mid semester test for 6 of my modules.

I've spent my first week of my holiday completing some assignments, 2nd week studying the theory part of all the modules to be tested and then this week practicing my work. Also spent the whole holidays clearing up some projects.

However, despite myself preparing so much for all these test, I am still kinda not confident in my mid semester test! I am just wondering what's wrong with me!

Maybe I've given myself too much stress... But kinda think about it, I've actually spent quite some time wasting my time on going out, movies, facebook, computer games, slacking...

And I just realized that my concentration now is not as good as the way I was last year. It's like last year, I can spend 4 - 5 hours straight studying and doing my work. But for now, if I can survive for 3 hours, it'd be great already! Maybe its all the fault of my notebook being so near to me all the time, which made me distracted.

So, after some self reflections, here's my resolutions after this term break:

1. Exercise more starting from next term.

2. Spend more time revising my work weekly.

3. Concentrate more when studying for my semester exams

I hope I can fulfill whatever stated above when next term starts after my mid semester test and after BandAGE 09.

Speaking of BandAGE 09, do support this event in the name of charity!

Each ticket is only $5.00 and with 5 or more tickets purchased, a 20% discount will be offered!

Tickets will be sold after MST at SP food court 4, KoFu.

And that's all for the week. See you there for BandAGE 09!

What's on for 21/06/09

2009-06-21T23:44:00.004+08:00

Happy Birthday to myself!

I am 17 this year, and I don't really feel anything special about it. Its more or less just like I am officially older by one year than my previous age. But kinda think about it, I am getting older and older everyday. Its like, I am older by one day once a day passes by. So there's nothing so special about my birthday actually. Unless its like my 18th birthday when I can officially watch M18 films in the theaters and also buy alcohol. My 21st birthday, when I can do anything I want without my parent's consent. And lastly, my 35th birthday, when I can buy a HDB apartment of myself, if I am not married by then.

Yesterday, I went to Bugis with Jonathan and Nigel (actually called Arunn and Seng Hong too, but both cant make it) to catch a flick called Pelham 123. Its an action film with quite of a good plot. Worth watching!

Next we went to slack around at the newly opened lan shop at Iluma's 7th story (Since we watched that flick over there). Its kinda like a game freak or geek's heaven (no offense to these community though). According to the staff that entertained us, they are going to have some sort of service like some 'models' walking around flirting with those gamers, pushcarts selling foods, etc... But I can admit, their service is really superb. When we were like right outside of the lan shop, one of their staff was already like welcoming us and was like bringing us in and was chatting with us for almost 30mins until we left.

After that, we went back to Aljunied. Nigel left, while Jon and I went for our dinner cum supper. And then left for home...

Today, I woke up kinda late. And my dad already cooked some egg with sweetened noodles for everyone. That's something I miss a lot ever since my grandma "left" me when I was 9. Every year, during my birthday or Chinese lunar birthday, when my grandma was around and I was at her house, she would cook sweetened noodles with egg for me. And I love it a lot! But kinda think about it, she already "left" me for 8 years! What a long time since I ate something of that sort.

After my breakfast cum lunch, my family went to East Coast Park for a dip at the beach there. Kinda boring. After that, we went home for some slacking, while my parents prepare some stuff for the gathering at my aunt's house.

The gathering at my aunt's house was "superb"... It was so damn boring. Nothing much to talk about with all my cousins actually. And we were like watching vids from youtube. From stuff like some Mr Brown, to Hossen Leong, to some hokkien stuff, then we were watching stuff like people playing flight of the bumble bee with instruments like guitar, harmonica to even stuff like hand and recorder... then several stuff from Guinness World Records... Really bored and meaningless.

This year for my birthday, I received stuff that I don't really need for now actually... A wallet that doesn't really suit me from my mom (my mom usually get stuff that doesn't suit me) and also a pair of shades from my aunt. Well, thanks for those gifts anyway, although I suppose they will stay in my drawers for long ;p

What's on for 15/06/09

2009-06-15T20:43:00.002+08:00

How nice would it be if I can turn back time...

If I can turn back time, life will not be the same again.

If I can turn back time, I will not be even talking about turning back time.

If I can turn back time, history will not repeat itself. And I suppose everything will happen in the way I wanted it to be.

If I can turn back time, I will not be reminiscing about the past.

If I can turn back time, there will not be such a word called regrets.

If I can turn back time... If I can turn back time... If I can turn back time...

In life, there are so many occasions when the thought of turning back time came into my mind.

I am always thinking about the past, regretting and whining over the mistakes in life that I've committed.

Will turning back time really change anything?

I should say yes, if I were to turn back time and get back to the past with my brain now.

So many things can be undone, and everything will change...

However, what if I completely turn back time without bringing my present brain to the past?

Wouldn't everything be the same again?

The present will still be the same, and I will be still whining over the past. History will repeat itself all over again...

Up till today, there were so many things in life that I've done which caused me to be utterly regretful over.

On and off, I will think over these things and then realize what kind of idiot I was to commit those retarded mistakes in life.

I screwed up so many things in life, and I suppose this is also the main reason why I am always talking about the past; living in a life full of regrets.

What can I do anyway? Continue whining? No freaking way!

However, talk is cheap! I am always telling myself to look forward and forget about the past. But in the end, I am still paying more attention to the past than the present and future.

Talking about the past wont change what happened to me when I was sec 1. It wont prevent me from knowing that fact that I wasted 4 years for nothing. It wont change the fact that I have a bad name and reputation among some people. It wont make things happen the way I wanted it to be... And in other words, I still suck in literally everything...

Alright, lets just stop talking how fucked up I am, I don't think anyone is interested in knowing anyway...

Lets get into the present...

1 week of my mid semester break went by. And I felt that last week was kind of well spent. As I've completed at least 90% of all my assignments and is able to start my revisions from today on.

Time is short man! Within no time, there goes my mid semester test. And I am just working hard for it.

What's on for 06/06/09

2009-06-06T23:00:00.005+08:00

It had been 2 weeks since I last posted. Very sorry man! I am really very busy these days over several stuff.

Last week, I mean last Saturday, it was the Rotaract Club freshmen BBQ gathering. I met several other Rotaract club members whom some of them are people whom I had never seen before.

We had quite a lot of fun playing some bonding games and also eating. When it was late, some left for home. While the others stayed over.

I was one of them, and we went night cycling!

We started off at about 2330hrs and cycled from Pasir Ris Park to Changi Village.

In our group of 7, there was one of them who did not know how to cycle. And hence, she cycled with another guy on a double-seater bike.

After reaching Changi Village, we took a short break, and then set off for our return journey to Pasir Ris.

We reached Pasir Ris at about 0330hrs and then slacked till sun rise, when we went for breakfast. Between that time, I tried to catch some sleep, but failed. As is was too hot and there were too much ants around.

Oh ya, something interesting happened too! When we were on our return journey back, just about 30m from our "camp-site" my rear tire burst. And hence, I should say, I am both lucky and unlucky. Lucky that my tire burst when we were reaching our goal, unlucky that my tire burst :]

After that, I still went to tutor Rachel, and was really very tired when I was teaching her, as I literally did not even sleep at all!

Hence, when I went home, I had my dinner and slept through from 1900hrs till the next day when I woke up for school.

For this week, school was kind of boring and slow. I had my C.Programing mock test, and scored 62/95. Which is a real sucky score. Did a 5 question MCQ test with a 5% weightage quiz for Engineering Maths, and was very busy the whole week over Bandage09, the charity band competition my class organized.

For more details, please log on to bandage09.blogspot.com

Do support this event, especially if you are a SP student.

Today, I went out with Jon and Seng Hong for pool, slack, dinner and then slack again...

We first went to Bugis for pool, then Tempines to slack and shop for a while. Then dinner at Pizza Hut. Next, we continued to slack till about 2030 and then went home.

We talked about some crazy stuff, and they also did some crazy stuff to me. But, after all, we all had fun though!

Today, I was also brooding over some stuff which were from my secondary school days. And it reminded me of 3 persons and 3 different songs for each of them. (although the 2nd was kinda of a joke)

They all respectively reminded me of 'Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends', 'Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest' and 'Bullet For My Valentine - Hearts Burst Into Fire'.

All three are real nice songs indeed!

Hence, a moment ago, I decided to shoot a video of me playing 'Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends' with my guitar... Enjoy!

What's on for 23/05/09

2009-05-23T23:29:00.003+08:00

Quite a few stuff happened this week...

On Tuesday, it was my audition day for my SP Student Comperes... And I suppose most of you all would be like now wondering,"What on earth is Comperes?!" Ok, let me explain...

Comperes is the older term for MC (Master of Ceremony) or emcee (a French word which bears the same meaning). Hence this club is a club which trains students to be emcee for events.

After the audition, I then realize that, despite the fact I can practice public speaking confidently, I cannot really speak well from something like a script or something of this sort...

I was made to read from a script regarding one of those MOE prize presentation ceremony; which is a formal event.

I merely read 2 paragraphs. And those people simply told me to stop. Next they told me to read some names from a piece of name list. And so I read a few names till they told me to stop. Next, they said that I did well for my Chinese during 'O' levels, and requested me to translate whatever I read from the script they told me to read from. I merely translated 1 paragraph, and then I was totally stuck on how to translate the next word I am going to say. And so, my audition ends. They did not ask any further questions.

At that moment, I knew that I fucked everything up. I simply just don't cut to be an emcee or something of this sort.

Days later, on Thursday, I was notified by them through sms that I was rejected. And so... I went on to join other club.

Since Comperes don't want me, I decided to join something meaningful which will make me willing to devote my time to. Hence, I joined Rotaract Club; a club which mainly do community service such a providing free tutoring to kids at Clementi Student Centre and some other outdoor activities, such as night cycling and camps.

I joined the club on Thursday (moments after I knew that I was rejected from comperes) and went for their activity at Clementi Sutdent Centre yesterday...

I spent some time tutoring some kids and next the rest of my time talking cock with some of the freshmen who also joined the club until everything ended.

On Thursday, I also did something very meaningful and satisfactory...

I DONATED BLOOD FOR MY FIRST TIME!!!

Blood donation is indeed a very simple thing to do which can save lives.

It's not at all painful, and the process of donating blood is very fast. In fact, its all the pre-donation processes such as the body check-up and waiting time which made everything long...

My Blood... Its really warm!

And I suppose, in future, if there are anymore of such blood donation drive in SP, I will certainly support! Or I may even donate regularly every 3 months!

Donate Blood, Save Lives

What's on for 16/05/09

2009-05-16T23:52:00.002+08:00

Well... another week passed.

More or less... I am studying everyday...

Kinda boring!! I know am kinda lifeless!

For this week I had hell lots of maths from my dip plus maths! It's like 8 exercises of differentiation to do... All the way from basic differentiation from algebraic rules to logarithmic differentiation.

Doing all these stuff made me wake up early on certain days to do and also my whole afternoon yesterday till about 1730hrs to complete it.

In the end, all my work piled up to about 20 pages or so... wow!

And that made me really sound like a geek or a nerd or whatever man... "-_-

And for just now, I just went out with Nigel(wow, after so many months since um... Feb?) and Jon for some pool and slacking.

Next for dinner with Nigel at Geylang area and Jon was with his family for a flick...

So... That's my week. Nothing much other than studies...

I am so damn geeky man!

What's on for 09/05/09

2009-05-09T21:56:00.005+08:00

Time seriously flies...

Without knowing, its already the 3rd week of my 1st semester.

More and more work start to come to me. And I am trying harder and harder to clear all of them, so as to prevent them from piling up.

Just like for my dip plus maths. It's like a sudden rush of so many exercises to complete within this week, ONOW with a community service project for me to do, Engineering maths with a problem based learning (PBL) project to do (which was already solved this week), C programing with another PBL project to do and also a peer teaching project to be completed by week 5 for my dip plus maths...

So in conclusion, I am damn busy with so much work to do. I just wonder if there will be more to come or something...

As I had already completed my dip plus maths assignments, Engineering maths assignments, C programing assignments and those doable Thermofludis assignments during the weekdays, I decided to slack (well, not literally the whole day though) today off.

My day today started off with tuition and then next to Bugis for pool.

Pool today was much better than the past few weeks. The old me seems to be back! At least I secured a few victories (not very honorable victories though) in a few games with Jon.

After that, we went to Sim Lim to source for a thumb drive, as Jon wanted to buy one. Unfortunately, we left empty handed.

After that, by some weird reasons, we left Sim Lim by the exit facing Tekka. And we ended up walking to Cathay and then Plaza Singapura.

The new Nissan Fairlady 370Z displayed outside of Cathay as a lucky draw prize.

It was kinda like plain walking throughout and next, we left at about 1740hrs.

When I reached Aljunied, I met Nigel. We had a chat for a while and then we went home after that.

And so that's my day... A meaningless day out.

What's on for 02/05/09

2009-05-02T23:35:00.002+08:00

This week, it's not going to be as long as last week's post.

I have nothing much to say...

For this whole week, it's like just lectures, assignments, tutorials and nothing else.

Oh ya, maybe I can just tell you all that I spent my Wednesday afternoon mugging in the library doing my dip plus maths assignments, Friday doing my engineering maths assignments and just now, in the morning doing my Thermofluids practical plannings.

So after all, they are nothing so interesting. And I suppose if I continue the rest of my post with all these stuff, most people in the sane mind who have other better things to do will just press alt+F4 and navigate to somewhere else...

However, despite this week being as dry as a desert, I found out something interesting tough.

There is this guy called Yeow Dong in my current class who turned out to be actually also my classmate back then in Hong Wen School (HWS) when I was in 3EE (In HWS, afternoon session classes will have its class name repeated twice. Hence when I was p3, it's the afternoon class and my class was therefore 3EE) and 4E.

Well, you people will certainly think that it's weird of me to realize it until the 3rd week I met him in my class.

Ok, just to explain. Actually, he recently just changed his name to Yeow Dong. His previous name was actually Ming Yang. And since it was like 7 years since I last saw him, he certainly looked different.

However, after knowing that he is that Ming Yang, I started to recall who he was and part of my memories in HWS started to flash back into my mind. I started to recall people there, the campus, and even the teachers who taught us.

Miraculously, he even told me that he is still keeping in touch with several of my previous classmates in HWS.

Yesterday, he listed down several names of my classmates in HWS. And I searched for them through facebook. To my surprise, I found some of them. Above to that, some of them turned out to know some other people I knew. What a small world!

And so, because of him, partial memories of HWS came back to me, and I suppose in time to come, I will recall more stuff.

And so, my post ended up to be so long in then end... haha :]

Well, just to let you all know, I actually came from 3 primary schools.

P1 - P3 1st semester, I was from Changkat Primary School. As back then, I lived in Simei.

Since I shifted home during 2nd half of my P3 year, my parents actually wanted to send me to Geylang Methodist Primary School (GMPS). However, during that time, GMPS was undergoing PRIME upgrade, and was temporarily shifted to Katong area.

Hence for P3 2nd semester - P4, I studied in Hong Wen School. As it is nearer to my house in Sims Drive. As compared to the temporary GMPS in Katong.

When it was year 2003, Geylang Methodist Primary School moved back to its original and current site. And hence, I transferred school again and was enrolled into GMPS during my P5 - P6 years. And after that 4 years in GMSS.

So in summary...

P1 - P3 1st Semester, Changkat Primary School (2.5 years)

P3 2nd Semester - P4, Hong Wen School (1.5 years)

P5 - P6, Geylang Methodist Primary School (2 years)

What's on for 25/04/09

2009-04-25T20:15:00.007+08:00

And so, I survived through the first week of lessons in poly.

I was just wondering, who on earth said that poly is very slack and is a place for us to relax!

1 week passed, and I was totally burnt out. For this semester, I am taking 8 modules in total, 'Electrical Technology', 'Thermofluids 1', 'Mathematics 1', 'Our Nation Our World' (ONOW), 'Computer Programming', 'Engineering Materials', 'Engineering Mathematics 1' and 'Critical Reasoning Skills'.

All of them, except for 'Critical Reasoning Skills' seems to be as time consuming as each other. And yes, you did not read wrongly, I am doing 2 maths modules at a time. 'Engineering Mathematics 1' is the general maths module for all 'Mechanical & Manufacturing' (MM) year 1 students to take. While 'Mathematics 1' is the maths module for my 'Diploma Plus Certificate For Engineering Maths and Science'. My dip plus maths is really tough, as its really stuff that requires quite a lot of thinking. Worst of all, I need to spend S$55.50 to buy a damn thick book on Calculus, which is about 1.8" thick, 10.5" long with a 8.5" width.

The another insane module is 'Our Nation Our World'. That module sounds like 'Civics and Moral Education' in secondary school, but in fact its kinda of a stupid module which requires students to do some weird things like spending tons of time answering and thinking over several questions regarding our roles in life (for this week's assignment), and some other character development topics, where some might even require us to write reports.

I survived through 'Program Design' in my Poly Preparatory Program (PPP) in my DPA days. And now, I am going to again do programming! Worst of all, it's not just learning programming concepts like what I did in 'Program Design'. Now, I am going to learn programing with C++ programming language. This is insane! I think I am going to struggle through programing again. Some of the other modules mentioned above are quite tough too, but I would not want to spend more time talking about them.

And so, there are so many modules to cover every week. Lessons starts at 0800hrs everyday. On Monday and Tuesday, my day ends at 1600hrs. Thursday is the worst, 1730hrs. And then I only have Wednesday and Friday where I can be more free to end my day at 1200hrs.

It's only the first week, but yet I am already very busy over my work. Yesterday, as I ended at 1200hrs. I spent hours camping in the library doing my dip plus maths assignments, and then hours in the morning, just now, doing my engineering maths assignments. ONOW also ate up a lot of my time answering retarded questions in a worksheet about my goals in life and also an essay regarding my views on people misusing the campus's library...

So to those non-poly goers, poly life is not as slack as you think after all. It all depends on what type of student you want to be. You can just not do any tutorials at all, and end up struggling through modules. Or be a mugger to complete all tutorials on time and understand your stuff well...

Yesterday, after mugging, I went to meet Jonathan at the evening for some pool (and I got badly trashed again, not winning any games) and also for dinner. We ate Chicken Rice at Jalan Besar and were quite full, so we went home after that.

I suppose, in future, such kinda thing will happen often. Since in the day, I am already so busy with all my work, and I will most probably only ave time to go out at night.

I drank this on Tuesday, on my way home after guitar lessons. It's a whiskey and coke mix, (8.00%). And god damn it! It's so damn sweet, that it's even sweeter than coke. Can't even feel that it's alcohol!

What's on for 18/04/09

2009-04-18T23:17:00.004+08:00

This week is again, the start of my poly life. Yes, it's again the start.

This week was the opening of a new chapter of life, its officially the start of poly. DPA days was long over with a full-stop and now it's all a new environment (not really new though), new people to meet and serious business for the next 3 years throughout my diploma course.

My class is DARE/FT/1A/04, there are 17 people in total, 2 females and 15 males. So it's more or less something different from my sec 3/4 class of 35 females, 7 males. And I suppose, the crazy me will be back (actually it's already back during my DPA days, where cluster 5 have only 1 gal among the 22 of us).

This week is the orientation week. And its again, school tours, spice training and stuff for me. But this time, things seems to be kinda interesting though, as almost everyone in my class (except for 1) are new to me. And so, it was also a good opportunity for me to mix around and know more about everyone.

I am so happy that my class is more or less an active class, where people are mostly friendly and funky people. Other schools like the school of EEE have stuff like class bonding activities during their orientation activities. While as of my school, there aren't anything of such sort. But amazingly, we bonded ourselves by having lunch together right at the very first day and then to go bowl together as a class on Thursday.

This is indeed something very different from my secondary school class man!

So I suppose my next 3 years with this class will most probably be memorable for me :]

Yesterday, it was a day off for me and Jonathan. Hence, we decided to go Bugis to catch a few flicks. We went to Bugis Junction to watch this movie "The Sinper" and Yip Han also joined us for that. And next to the new shopping center to watch "Shinjuku Incident"

Both flicks are not bad!

"The Sniper" is a show about a team of snipers in the SDU(HK's version of S.W.A.T.) cracking down criminals and then ultimately fighting with one of their ex sniper who was also one of the top sniper in the police force.

"Shinjuku Incident" is a flick about those time, during the 90s where several illegal immigrants entered Japan to start their new life. Some of those immigrants formed their own gangs to protect each other against the Yuzuka (Japanese mafia group) or other gangs. And in the end, there was this gang of Chinese immigrants that made it big and took control over a district of Tokyo. But they ended up having lots of trouble with other branches of the Yuzuka and bloodshed occurred.

And so, we watched 2 movies yesterday and really relaxed a lot.

Just now I've been slacking my day off; rotting at home. It was only until night time, where I went to chill out with Jonathan, again to Bugis for some pool and slacking.

And so, that's my week. Next week will be the start of lessons. Work will start to fall onto me...

What's on for 11/04/09

2009-04-11T21:43:00.018+08:00

And so, another week passed...

This week's post will be quite long, as I will be talking about the 2nd part of my vacation at Perth and also whatever that happened this week...

Last week I ended with the trip to Perth City regarding last Friday. So today, I am going to start from last Saturday.

Last Saturday, it was the 5th day of my Australia's trip. We went out with Mrs Ng to the fruit and vegetables wholesale centre in the morning, before breakfast.

The wholesale centre

The wholesale centre is something like the Pair Panjang wholesale centre in Singapore, where we found quite a few good bargains of fruits. We bought a damn big watermelon at only A$1.00 and a whole box of plums (about 4kg) at about A$9.00. After that, we went back to Ng's residence for breakfast and then, we went to the supermarket with Mrs Ng to get some chocolate and Nougat.

After that, we went back to Ng's residence again and then set off in 2 separate cars with Mr and Mrs Ng for a tour, off-town to Mandurah, where we had fish and chips for lunch and then next to Rockingham.

Nice view of Mandurah huh?

The famous fish and chips in Mandurah

We intended to take a ferry to Penguin Island from Rockigham, but unfortunately, we missed the last ferry there. Hence, we merely just stopped over to take some photos and then travelled to Fremantle.

The coast at Rockingham

We visited the 'Fremantle Markets' and also a bar called 'Little Creatures', where superb beer and chips were served.

The bar, little creatures

That's where freshly brewed beer comes from

Nice cool beer!

We went to the fishing bay at Fremantle after that for a stroll and then next for dinner.

A nice beacon to come with the sunset

The next day, which is the last day of our trip, we went to the beach in the morning, for a dip.

The beach there was really stunningly clean and much more beautiful than those in Singapore. And the water are so much clearer than those we see in Singapore!

When I went into the water, it was also shockingly cold! I suppose it's about 10°C or so...

Well, just see for yourself, cleaner than Singapore isn't it?

After that, we went to a Macadamia Nut farm to get some Macadamia nuts. Nuts there was much cheaper than those sold in Singapore. And they comes in an assortment of flavors! I should admit, this is also the first time I see a whole macadamia fruit as itself in the farm.

My eldest bro btw...

My dad holding a macadamia fruit

Next, we went for lunch and then for some final shopping at the mart.

We went back to pack our stuff after that, and after packing, we still had quite a lot of time. Thus, we had a walk at the park in the Neighborhood.

The park

After the walk, we intended to have dinner at a Italian restaurant. However, when we reached the restaurant, it was closed. Hence, we went back to Mr Ng's house for dinner.

Next, we took a ride to the airport and then a flight back to Singapore.

We reached Singapore at about 1830hrs on Monday the 6th.

On Monday, I went to SP to get my pre enrollment package, and then next to Bugis to slack.

On Tuesday, I spent my day at home slcaking.

On Wednesday, I went for enrollment in the morning and then in the afternoon, Yip Han, Jonathan and I went to Mt Faber park for a hike. We visited and walked over the 'Henderson Waves' and then next to 'Hort Park' for a visit. After that, we went to Vivo City for dinner and also some slacking.

We saw some monkeys during the hike

Alexandra Arch, The bridge leading to Hort Park

Hort Park

On Thursday, Yip Han, Jonathan, Jeremy and I went for cycling.

We cycled from East Coast Park to Bedok Reservoir. And then next back to East Coast Park to return our bikes. We had dinner after that and then we went home. Maybe it was because that we are all very tired, and that during our way back, it rained, and all of us were drenched.

Yesterday, I spent my morning and noon tutoring Seng Hong with Jonathan. And after that, at night, I went to Jonathan's church, the Lighthouse Evangelism at Woodlands with Jonathan and his bro to watch the Good Friday miracle service.

And yes, I was not joking, I really went to church... But of course, it was just all out of fun that I went there. I was just interested in experiencing the miracle service.

It was kinda insane yesterday to see so many people flooding the church, when the church is already like 4 stories high!

And indeed, the service was kind of an eye-opening experience. Miraculously, people were suddenly healed after some prayers and its just totally too hard for any non-believers to believe those stuff.

And lastly, all that I had to say about today was that, I spent my day rotting at home, sitting in front of my laptop, using my laptop.

What's on for 03/04/09

2009-04-03T22:35:00.006+08:00

Today's post will be a very special one...

It's live from Perth, Australia!

And yup, I am off to Perth for holiday. And this time, it's as a whole family, including my dad. (he renewed his passport recently)

We set off on Tuesday evening and reached there at like 2300Hrs. (due to daylight saving, their time is the same as Singapore's time)

When we reached there, it was a big 'WTF' the airport customs are really god damn strict man! They literally check thoroughly through the baggage of visitors who declared that they brought foodstuff into Australia. And even if for people like us, who did not bring an foodstuff, the queue to scan our baggage was also damn long. The total time for us to clear the customs was like an hour.

After that, my dad's friend, Mr Ng went to fetch us from the airport, to his house. And so, we were staying in his house for the next few days, except for day 2...

Mr Ng have 3 children, 1 is in Singapore, 1 moved out and only his youngest son, who is 21 this year, pursuing for his bachelors is staying with him and his wife.

My dad in front of the Ng's residence

We slept over for a night and then we traveled (Mr Ng lent my dad one of his cars) to Swan Valley, a farm land at the country side. We stayed in a chalet which we pre-booked for the night. And had a whale of time touring around the different places of attractions, such as a chocolate factory(not one as interesting as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory though), a vineyard, tasted some wine there, a nougat shop, where we bought some nougat, visited a bar which sells really wonderful beer, and then settled to rest in our chalet for dinner and a good night's sleep.

The Chocolate Factory

Chocolates!!

The vineyard

Nogats!!!

Feral Beer! Its damn nice man!!

There are quite a few animals there at the chalet. There were 3 geese which stick together all the time, crapping all around the place. And there were also 2 male peacocks there.

The chalet room, cosy huh?

The 3 geese and...

One of the two stupid peacocks

The next day, the 3rd day, it was a very long day for us. We traveled ever greater distances to several different places. We went to Yanchep National Park as our first stop to see some animals such as Kangaroos, Koala Bears and some birds found in Australia. We also went into a crystal cave, deep down in the earth to see some natural crystals.

Birds

Kangaroos

A Kola Bear climbing a tree

The Crystal cave

Next we advanced to the next destination, Lancelin, which was several Km away to see some sand dunes.

I personally felt that this trip to the sand dunes would be very beneficial to me if I were to be still a secondary school student. As I learned about sand dunes and stuff in Geography, back then in my sec 3 days.

Those sand dunes are very soft!

Next, we drove an even further distance of over a hundred Km to 'The Pinnacles'

The trip there was tough... We made several detours and was almost out of gas! and one of the detour was even caused my the GPS in the car; which directed us to a dirt road (like one of those in WRC). And so, that made us made a U-turn back to the main road!

By the time we reached there, it was about 1730hrs. In some sense, its a nice thing, as the sunset view there was nice, but it was also not a good thing, as the sky was darkening at that time, and we still had to travel a long distance back to Mr Ng's home.

And ya, back to 'The Pinnacles'. The trip there was worth it though, as those rocks found on the desert were magnificent!

At about 1830hrs, we set off for our 270km long journey back to Mr Ng's home. We were again almost out of gas on the way, but luckily, we found a gas station and then off we go at over 120km/h back to Mr Ng's house.

We reached his house at about 2100hrs and then ended our day there.

Today, we all went to Perth City by public transport.

Their public train

That was indeed a big city with several places of attraction there. We walked to the 'Australian Mint museum', next to a Bell Tower called the 'Swan Bells' and a 'Ferris Wheel'. After that, we took a bus to 'Harbour Town', which is a shopping center, for lunch and shopping.

Perth City

The swan bells is the tall, pointy tower.

Harbour Town

Stuff there are relatively cheaper than stuff outside. As there is a sale (I suppose, or is it going on all the time?) going on there.

I bought a pair of plain flip flops at A$2.00 and a 'Rip Curl' PVC wallet for A$9.00.

My new Rip Curl PVC wallet which I bought for A$9.00

I even wanted to buy a new pair of board shorts for myself. But too bad, those on sale are too big for me. Hence, I did not buy any.

After that, it was kinda late, and hence, we took a bus back to Mr Ng's house, where we had a really sumptuous dinner.

Perth is indeed a nice place to see several rare, vintage cars. I saw several Nissan Skyline GTR (BNR32 to even BNR34). A very old Subaru WRX STI, a Fairlady Z 300ZX (Z32), a Mazda RX-7 FD-IIIS, Toyota Supra...
However, I was too slow to take photos of them :{

But during the 5th day I managed to take some photos though...

Subaru B4 Legacy 2.0L (Or maybe called as a Liberty in Australia)

Toyota MR2

Toyota Supra

And so, that's for these 3 days at Australia. I will post those photos and links when I reach Singapore; when my next post will be up, talking the next half of my trip there. (added)

What's on for 29/03/09

2009-03-29T00:37:00.003+08:00

And so, my 2 months long Poly Preparatory Program ended on Friday with a DPA 09 mass BBQ...

It was kinda sad that this thing ended so quickly!

This week really went on very fast! Monday was my final Program Design lesson, where I programmed my robot be work as a bomb detector. Actually, De Ming and I programmed it correctly to fulfill the task. However, due to this stupid technical problem that the robot cannot move straight, a lot of marks was deducted when our robot did not seem to fulfill those intended tasks.

Tuesday was my final Essential Speaking Skills lesson. In fact all of us had a test that day. That test was kinda like oral exam and it just went by very fast. I did my marketing project with Prem and guys after that till the day end. And left with a little to touch up for our presentation.

Wednesday, I went to the SP's library to meet my marketing group to finish up our project. After that, I went for pool spree with Jonathan, Yip Han and Kae Jian. We went for dinner at 'Astons' and next stayed out till it was damn late.

Thursday was my final Understanding Data lesson. I did my assignment as per usual with my group and ended very early. And so, my marketing group and I had a rehearsal of our presentation after lessons.

Friday was my Final Marketing lesson; my final lesson of PPP. My group got to present first for the presentation. And I was very shocked that my lecturer had tons of praises for our work and our presentation. And so, I slacked till everybody presented and till lesson ends.

After that, Prem and I went to meet Jia Jia to buy those BBQ supplies from Clementi. And next, after unloading everything, most of us went to Mobley to slack.

It was about 1830hrs, and I went down to the BBQ pit to help.

We had tons of fun cooking, eating, playing...

But all good things will come to an end. At about 2130hrs, we all had to pack up and leave and so... After taking some goodbye photos, everybody made their move and left.

And so, my DPA days ended with this BBQ...

Although it was the end of DPA, but what I say is that, 'It's the end of the beginning!'

The real poly life awaits!

DPA was indeed an extraordinary experience for me. It's really so great to meet so many cool and nice people. And it was 2 months well spent! Really so different from what I expected 2 months ago, where i thought that DPA was a waste of time!

To sum everything up, I just would like to say,"Thank you SP, thank you DPA, thank you all folks I met from DPA who made my two months wonderful!"

what's on for 21/3/09

2009-03-21T22:19:00.009+08:00

Another week passed. And here goes my eLearning week.

This week had been a rather busy week for me! Program design was rather hardcore. As my lecturer was teaching us at light speed! He expect us to answer all the questions he typed on the screen right at the moment he finished typing those questions; he expect us to complete our task without even showing us the ropes around the software he is going to let us use for the assignment. And I am just wondering how I am going to get tomorrow's program design test done within my 5 hours.

Tuesday was a busy day of pre-chalet preparations and tuition.

Wednesday was a whole day of project in the campus library. And I also sort of ripped a movie called "Talking Cock" from a DVD found in the library. That show was kinda 'cock', but was funny at several parts though.

Thursday was my F4-1 09 class chalet. William and I reported to GMS(S) as early as 1030hrs to meet Miss Choong to get out chalet supplies (mainly food and stuff for the BBQ). We reached the chalet reception at like 1400hrs and was kinda disappointed that we cannot check in at that time. As the chalet would only be ready until 1445hrs. So the 3 of us slacked till 1445 outside the reception office and then went to check into our chalet.

We unpacked those stuff we brought at the moment we reached the chalet. After a while, Louis came, followed by Wan Ying and Olivia. We spent some time together fixing and cleaning the place up and after that settled down for a nice chat.

Wan Ying and Olivia left at about 1700hrs and Prem came after that. At about 1730hrs, Rachel (of my ex-class), Dawn and Eileen came. And we started the fire for the BBQ. The first shot was kinda of a failure, as the charcoal we used were of big and thick chunks. They just refused to burn! But after some time, it started to burn slowly, and a decent heat was made for the BBQ to start.

William, Louis and I remained at the pit BBQing food for everyone for most of the time. While the rest came to help on and off. Louis started a bigger fire on a new pit next to the existing pit. And this time, it worked perfectly. As the charcoals he used were those long and thin pieces of charcoal.

William, Louis and I cooking

We BBQ till all the food were cooked. Only then, we then settled ourselves down to eat.

When we were BBQing, Gina, Janice, Yi Wen, Amilia, Si Min and lastly Miss Nonis came to join us.

All of us sat at the table by the BBQ pits eating and chatting and had a whale of time reminisce our past years in GM.

A group photo with everyone in it:
1st row, from left, Yi Wen, Si Min, Amilia, Eileen, Dawn, Janice, Gina and Miss Nonis.
2nd row, from left, Miss Choong, Me, Prem, William and Louis.

After some time, Miss Nonis left, and all of us went back to the chalet to wash up a little.

Oh ya! I forgot, Miss Choong also invited her sister(Rachel's mom) and Rachel(my chem tuition student) for the chalet.

Meaow meaow... some of those cats I saw at the BBQ pit. They appear as a clan!

And ya, after that, I spent some time coaching Rachel in her E maths stuff, while the rest were like playing truth or dare upstairs. When I joined in, they only played for a while more and were like all leaving for home. And so, everyone left at like 2230hrs, leaving William, Miss Choong, Mrs Chen(Rachel's mom), Rachel and I behind. We packed and cleaned up till about 2300hrs and that was also the time when Miss Choong, together with, William, Mrs Chen and Rachel left, leaving me, all by myself, behind at the chalet.

Ya, I know it's kinda weird for me to be be all along in a chalet with so many rooms! But I kinda killed my time easily with my laptop.

I watched 'Live n Loaded' till about 0000hrs, when it ends. Then I went to a nearby 'Cheers' to buy 2 cans of 500ml Carlsberg, 2 bottles of Breezes, 1 big bag of lays sweet and sour, 1 bar of chocolate.

Went back to the chalet to bathe and then I spent the rest of my time, snacking, boozing while watching American Pie 1 and 2 until like 0300hrs. When I felt really tired and decided to take a nap.

After that, at about 0600hrs, I woke up to wash myself up and then went to play Command & Conquer Generals - Zero Hours an at the same time drinking up my last can of beer. (ya... I know it's kinda lame to play games instead of sleeping)

I played till about 0800hrs and went to heat up my breakfast (which was some bee hoon and chicken from the BBQ). After looking at the chicken wings, I decided to tear off all the meat onto a plate before heating in in the microwave oven. In order to give myself some ease in eating it. But I was kind of dumb to heat my chicken meat (since those meat were already teared from the chicken wings) for 5 minutes in the microwave oven. And so, my sumptuous marinated BBQ chicken became a pile of shit!

Chicken became shit!

And so, I was reduced to only bee hoon and otah to eat for breakfast.

I packed everything up and did my final inventory count on those stuff in the chalet. And then went for a bath. Next, I called the reception for check out and checked out at about 1045hrs.

I called Jonathan to meet him for a flick at Tempines and next went to Tempines to meet him at 1230hrs.

We initially intended to watch 'Kung Fu Chef' but the show was not available there, so we decided to watch 'Detroit Metal City' at Tempines Mall.

We had lunch at 'Long John Silvers' and went to watch the show.

The show is about this nerd guy who came from a farm in a less developed province of Japan, and traveled to Tokyo to study in a university there.

He initially wanted to sing those crappy pop songs which sounded kinda gay and funny in a band. But by coincidence, he saw a poster by the street, written 'No Music, No Dream', which is also his motto. So he went to join that group he saw. And neither did he expect, he actually joined a Death Metal band called 'Detroit Metal City' (DMC). He played as their guitarist/vocalist and was very miserable in the band. Although everyone worshiped him like god. As he hated Death Metal greatly and was always longing to play his music (yes, those fag stuff). The story advanced to a state where a legendary Black Metal artiste from the States went on a tour round the world before his retirement to challenge all potential bands all around the world. And of course challenged DMC in Japan. The story ended with DMC defeating that guy and then that nerd guy performing his type of music(those gay stuff) live on stage with all him gears (his costume, a funky shaped electric guitar inherited from the guy whom he defeated) and after that a Death Metal piece, after being hit by a lighted cigarette from his producer, who was very unhappy with those crap of his.

To all Metalheads out there, do watch this show, and see how ridiculous this show exaggerated about Metal.

And just a fast fact, according to Jonathan, this show is based on an American Rock band called 'KISS'. KISS have a singles called 'Detroit Rock City'. And that guy from the States who challenged DMC in the movie is actually the bassist of KISS.

But anyways, don't get the wrong idea, KISS is not a Death Metal band, it's not really Metal, it's more of a Rock band.

One last thing of this long long post I had, I slacked through today at home rotting and here's only one thing for today,

What a nice sunset :]

What's on for 14/03/09

2009-03-14T23:14:00.007+08:00

The post for today would be a very special one. As it would be the first time that I am going to post my blog using my notebook!

Today is a rather interesting day. In the morning, I went for cycling with Jonathan at again, ECP. And this time we were like cycling from ECP to Pasir ris park. It was like 40++ Km back and forth from ECP to Pasir Ris, Pasir Ris back to ECP. We were damn shack after that, but was kinda satisfied that we conquered such great distance.

Actually, at the start of the ride, I met Wei Lin of cluster 2 of DPA PPP at ECP for her Secondary School's 39th Anniversary Party (i suppose). We exchanged greetings and then I cycled off to catch up with Jon.

After cycling, both Jon and I went to have some Katong laska and then took a bus and next a MRT ride to Suntec for the IT show again.

This time, Jon and I each bought a 2.1 surround stereo system with a sub woofer for his personal desktop and for my case, its for my personal notebook. The stereo system cost me about 40 bucks. But all that I can say is, such money is worth spending.

The pair of satellites

The sub woofer

The sound produced by my stereo is superb. All I did was just to plug it into my notebook, re-tune my media player's equalizer and then played a song. That's all for superb quality sounds to be produced. I was totally amazed about it! The sound produced is so much better than those cheap pair of woofers used by my desktop :]

And so, that's how I spent my day... Cycling and squeezing my way through at Suntec for the IT show.

What's on for 13/03/09

2009-03-13T23:58:00.012+08:00

Time flies like crap! For this week, it would be like already the 6th week of my DPA Poly Preparatory Program. Next week would be my eLearning week, whereby I have lots of assignments and projects to do for most of my modules and then to report to campus only on Monday for my Program Design lessons.

This week was kinda of a fast week for me... Monday was obviously much more fun than any other Program Design Mondays I had for the past 3 weeks. As I was exposed to a little of robotics on this Monday. And these Lego robotics stuff is kinda more interesting than my those visual logic program writing kinda stuff man!

And after lessons, I went to bowl with De Ming from my cluster and Justin from my camp group but is from a neighboring cluster. At first, I was just sucking like usual, where my balls were always entering the gutters. But after some words of advice from a guy who is bowling by himself at a neighboring lane, I started to bowl straight and was improving greatly. At the end of the day, I played 4 games. And The 4th game was the best. As I scored a 83, which is kinda high for a noob like me :]

Tuesday was a short day. As we had a group test on Effective Speaking. Where my small group was just to discuss about a newspaper article cut-off prepared for us during the test. And we were kinda dismissed earlier for that day. Tuesday was also the day when I finally got myself my own notebook. It's the so-called value buy Acer notebook featured in the SP pc roadshow. And here's the specs... [click here to see my notebook's specs]

I spent quite a lot of time on Wednesday and yesterday configuring and transferring my stuff from my shared desktop into my notebook. And up till now, my notebook is more or less very personalized already.

On Tuesday night, I had my guitar lessons. And finally, my lesson is starting to be a little more interesting. As my teacher assigned us some stuff to practice for our optional music exam. Which made me spend quite some time on Wednesday morning practicing a small part of that so-called 'exam piece'.

Today was a even shorter day for me. As we were all were dismissed at 1200hrs right after our Marketing test. And speaking about the test, I think I am not going to do well for it. As I had some concepts maxed up. So I think I am going to die for that man X[

After lessons today, I went to slack around with those gals in my DPA group and den went to meet Jon at Cityhall for the IT show at Suntec.

For the IT show, I think I am going to buy this Sonic Gear stereo system for my notebook. It sounded good, and it's like only about $40. So I think I am most probably going to buy it tomorrow. BLAST MY ROOM OFF WITH METAL MAN!!!

I went to Sakae for buffet with Jon, (ya, I know, it's kinda weird for 2 guy to do that together) and were very full after that. I suppose I can jsut as well skip breakfast tomorrow :]

And lastly...

What a nice Impreza WRX STI Spec C I saw last Friday

What's on for 06/03/09

2009-03-06T21:36:00.002+08:00

Burn mother fucker! BURN!

My head was spinning, my knees were aching... I can't think straight, I can't walk and even see properly. My perfect eyesight suddenly became a 400 degrees shortsighted eyesight...

This Tuesday, I was down with fever! Despite being sick, I still went to school as per normal and even remained lively (although I seemed to be more quiet that day) in my Effective Speaking class, crapped around with those folks waiting for their turn for Effective Speaking Test while waiting for my turn at the same time. But as I was on my journey home, I was really feeling very weak and was at the verge of collapsing anytime. When I reached home from school, I quickly took a bath and off I went to take a nap.

Woke up at about 1700hrs, and was still feeling very dizzy. But despite that, I went to refresh myself, went to tune my guitar and went for my guitar lessons.

Guitar lessons was like total crap and bullshit... for the whole hour, my instructor was like only covering the intro of 'Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water' with us; which is something I already know. I was so bored of playing the same thing over and over again to an extent that I strummed too hard and by some way broke my D-string...

I bought a new string after lesson and was like shivering my way home. I took a bath, fixed in my -string to my guitar and off I went to sleep. And by the way, guess what's my body temperature on Tuesday... It's like a big WTF to me, a crazy 39.6°C!!

The next day, I got better, I was like 38.4°C. And so I went to Prem's place to do my project with my group for my marketing project. And as for yesterday, I was more or less alright already. As I was like already 36.2°C.

Today, marketing was like a very boring lesson for me and was so happy that lesson ends earlier today. Went to the library to touch up on my project after that and went to meet Jon at Bugis for pool. And I just wondered what's the problem with me today... All my shots don't seem to be straight and I can't play like the way I usually am.

And yes... that's all for the week, I was sick and had a topsy turvey week...

What's on for 27/02/09

2009-02-27T23:22:00.003+08:00

Week by week passed. And now I am more or less set into SP already. I can at least navigate my way through around the campus now without looking at the map or something.

Had a hardcore lessons of program design on Monday, a very interesting effective speaking lesson on Tuesday, nice pool session with Jonathan on Wednesday, a moderately fun understanding data lesson on Thursday and lastly a less boring as compared to last week's marketing lesson today.

Thursday was the birthday of Aaron from my cluster. Several people from his DPA group, 'group A' and some from my cluster went to food court 5 for a mini party for him. He received some weird gifts such as boxers shorts, a roll of toilet paper and also some stuff like a remote controlled toy car :] We then went to bowl together after that till about 1800hrs and went home.

Today's marketing lesson was rather interesting as compared to last week's lesson. As we guys crapped around in class and spiced the 'dead silent' class up with laughter and giggles.

After lesson today, I went to play pool with folks like Aaron, Bennie, Jason and De Ming from my cluster. There are a few 'pros' there who can play pretty well, and that made me feel like a sardine in the ocean. After that we went home and took a train home together, as Bennie and Jason are also people who lives in the east.

When I reached Aljunied, I realized that it was only about 1645hrs and was rather early for me to go home. So I decided to visit my NP friends at GM, However, it was rather stupid that the security guard forbid me to enter the campus. While William was allowed to enter the campus. And speaking about William, I was so shocked that he is going back to GMS(S) NPCC to serve as a Cadet Inspector (CI). That would be his CCA for his JC during the next 2 years.

Oh ya! Back to the part I was stuck at the guard post. So in the end William and I were like sitting around at the main gate, outside the guard house chatting and gossiping about people while waiting for Nigel and Seng Hong to be dismissed. We waited till the sun set and here's a nice photo of the school's entrance which I took just now

And so, that's my week. It might sound a little plain. But it's rather interesting for me. As I was like crapping around with people everyday.

What's on for 19/02/09

2009-02-19T22:38:00.009+08:00

Hi, here I am again! Ok, by popular demand from Clare of SP, I would like to share about this funny thing that happened to her during our return trip from Mawai.

When we were almost back to Singapore at the Malaysian customs, Clare took her black wallet instead of her passport with a black casing. And I suppose she thought that she can cross the customs with her wallet instead of her passport *_*

How careless she was...

Today was another day of school for me. We did the module on understanding data. It's a rather simple module. As it is about something like 'mean', 'mode' and 'median'; something we learned from secondary school E maths. I played pool with part of the 'Chocolates' after lessons at Mobley and then we went home after playing for an hour.

Hmm... what ball should I plot

Ouch! My balls hurts more than the balls I hit.

A small group photo outside the pool room...

Um... peace?

When I went home, I played my guitar again, but with the new pick I bought from Swee Lee yesterday. It's just a cheap ass 60c Jim Dumlop .73mm teardrop shaped black pick. And I use that to play the solos of Electrico - Runaway

Enjoy!

What's on for 15/02/09

2009-02-15T21:47:00.005+08:00

Hi guys, today I woke up damn late at about 1100hrs. So I skipped breakfast and had lunch at about 1300hrs. Went to teach Rachel after that and met Jonathan after I finished my tuition. And we went around slacking till about 1900hrs when I went home to end my day. And that's for today...

Yesterday was a much more interesting day than today. Jonathan, Nigel, Seng Hong, Arunn and I went to East Coast Park to cycle. We started cycling at about 1200hrs and ended at about 1800hrs. The route we cycled on was literally the same one Jon and I took the last time. We stated off from East Coast Park and then cycled to Changi Village. We had lunch there and then we cycled through the Changi Coast Walk; back to Changi Village and lastly back to East Coast Park. We had dinner after that and had a walk at Parkway Parade. By the time when I was home, it was already as late as about 2300hrs.

The 5 of us at Changi beach

View of Pulau Ubin from the Changi Coast Walk

We exited the Changi Coast walk from the 'Changi Beach Club' and proceeded to Loyang Ave and then back to Changi Village

Speaking about yesterday, I then realized that yesterday was actually Valentines' Day. When we were at ECP, we actually saw several couples strolling and riding down ECP.

And well, I suppose for me to forget about Valentines' Day is no big deal after all. As I do not have a valentine. It's more like friendship day for me. And I feel nothing at all. The cheeky few of us actually did this funny thing of saying 'Happy Valentines' Day' to every couples riding on a couples' bike. And it was somehow kinda crazy to do such a weird thing :]

What's on for 13/02/09

2009-02-13T23:16:00.005+08:00

Hi guys! I am back from my DPA camp at Mawai, Malaysia. Actually I am a little late, as I actually came back to Singapore yesterday, but was too damn tired to post...

But anyways, cut the crap, and start the story...

On 10th Feb, we assembled in SP early in the morning at about 0700hrs and departed to Mawai. When We reached there, we had a hilarious briefing by the amicable instructors and had lunch next. After lunch, my group, 'Chocolate' went to watch a display of the animal traps the Orang Asli uses and also had a swampy hike in the muddy swamp (although it was not very muddy though, due to the dry weather). We had dinner after that, and then, all of us set off for a boat ride down the river to watch some fire flies and star gazing. When we were back, it was rather early. So my group and also some other folks around sat around in the dining area to play this game 'Truth or Truth' (it's something like Truth or Dare, but it was just that there are no dares). We had a great time laughing out hearts out throughout the game until debrief; when the game and the day ended for everyone.

During the second day, everyone woke up damn early at about 0530hrs to pack the stuff needed for our hike up Gunung Arong (a hill). We set off to Gunung Arong after we had breakfast and the bus ride there from the camp was about 1hr30mins. When we reached the hill, everybody looked rather energetic. But when the hike up starts, everybody were perspiring like hell. It was a rather steep hill (steeper than Bukit Timah at least), and there were no proper steps for us to ascend the hill. After about 45 mins or so, everyone reached the summit. We had lunch on the summit and next, we descended the hill. The way down was even harder and longer than the way up. As the hill is very steep, and there was a tendency of us slipping a fall down the hill. When we finally reached the bottom of the hill, it was the beach which faces the South China Sea. Everybody took a break. I used that time to write a 'SP DPA' on the sand and took a photo with my group.

We continued our hike back to the bus after that and next had a tea break at one of the small canteen at that area. We went back to the camp to wash up after that and also spent quite some time to prepare for our camp fire performance. After dinner it was the campfire, and I can really admit that this campfire is a very special one. As it is not as 'forced to be enthu' kinda campfire like those I had in NP back then. I really had great fun with everyone and I can say, this campfire is the best campfire I ever had.

On the last day, we played at the water obstacles and rafting after breakfast. Those obstacles are really challenging. Nobody can leave the obstacles without getting wet. For me, I fell into the muddy pool for several times, but I really had great fun though. Rafting was fun too! Although that was my third time rafting, it was a rather different experience. First of all, all the materials given were rather limited. And so, we gotta innovate and compromise in the raft. My group was divided into 2 and were required to build 2 rafts. The sub-group I was in had literally no one who was really camp craft trained. Even for the ex-Girl Guide in my sub-group, she said that she did not know how to tie a square lashing. So I ended up tying all the lashings and also attaching the jelly cans to the compromised raft frame. The raft my sub-group built managed to stay afloat with Prem sitting on it until Prem lost his balance and it capsized. While the other sub-group's raft broke apart at the moment they set the raft off into the water. We washed up after that and did some area cleaning. We had our last meal there, left the camp for shopping at a Jusco in Johor and also ultimately back to Singapore.

This camp was a rather different experience for me. As for the first time, I was not given heavy leadership positions to carry. So I was really having fun and relaxing throughout the camp. I met several nice people out there and also, the food served there was damn nice! So overall, I give this camp a 10 of 10! A real wonderful camp!

Today, it was a rather boring day for me to wash my bags, change my bed sheets and also to do some household chores. I spent some time playing my guitar and here's something I would like to share with everyone...

Enjoy!

What's on for 08/02/09

2009-02-08T09:03:00.001+08:00

One week of PPP passed. It's basically just orientation for the whole week. As mentioned on Monday, Monday was rather boring. But Tuesday was a rather interesting day.

On Tuesday, we went to Bedok Reservoir for dragon boating and also for some treetop high ropes obstacles. What's even interesting was that when we were on our bus ride back to SP, the bus suddenly broke down in the middle of PIE. And it was such a coincidence that the bus broke down at the area near Sims Drive. So it was really so lucky of Prem and I that we can leave the bus from there and go home. While it was rather ironic that it was unlucky for the rest who were stuck in the bus for about 20 mins, before the bus started moving again. And they reached SP at about 1840hrs, while I reached home at about 1730hrs.

Wednesday was quite interesting too. We had a tour to a recycling plant in the morning, some group meeting for the upcoming camp on the 10th - 12th Feb, Tuesday to Thursday. And also a CCA exposure on some Japanese sword fighting sports.

Thursday was a day of CIP. We distributed flyers on anti-denge, door-to-door, to every folks living at the neighbourhood near SP. And it was a rather short day actually.

Friday, we had a nature tour to Sungei Buroh nature reserve. After that, we had some sort of presentation on the poster we made regarding conserving the environment. And we ended our day by having a CCA exposure on Archery.

And lastly, for yesterday morning, I went back to GM to meet my NP juniors and also folks like Nigel and Seng Hong. After that, Nigel and I went to Tiong Bahru to make my new poly MRT card and next we went to Marina an Suntec to 'waste some time'.

And so, that's my week. Orientation and slacking around...

What's on for 02/02/09

2009-02-02T21:05:00.003+08:00

Sob sob... my vacation is over! Today is the first day of my Polytechnic Preparatory Programme (PPP).

So for today, Prem and I reported to SP at 0830hrs for registration and had a damn long wait, followed by an introduction lecture about this PPP thingy. Breakfast was served and we had another round of briefing regarding the orientation programmes for my PPP.

After that, it was a tour around those workshops relevant to my school, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing (MM) with all my future schoolmates. We had lunch together at the KFC in one of the food court there after that. And It was some kinda unbelievable that I started to crap with those guys out there, even though it was the first time I met them. Speaking about school mates, there are no girls entering my school through DPA. And for Prem's school, School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE), there's only 1 girl among those going to his school. So this shows that stuff relating the mechanical side (my school's stuff) and electrical side (Prem's school's stuff) is not popular among the girls. And by the way, for this PPP orientation, my school is joined together with Prem's school as one group, group 5. While on the other hand, stuff like those business courses, management courses, arts courses are popular among those girls. As I saw another group of these courses' students passing by me. At least 90% were girls! As compared to my group, which has only 1 girl among the another 20+ guys. So it's kinda like a totally opposite experience I had in my upper sec life, like I always repeat, my Sec 3/4 class have 7 guys and 35 girls!

We, cluster 5, had another lecture in one of the instructional room in the library as a group regarding the SP's online services. After that, we stayed on in the same room for a damn boring lecture by one of the librarian on the use of the online library services. There was a tour around the library after that (which is equally boring) and the day ended for most of us after the tour. Except for those selected students (whereby I am one of them) who scored 12 or lower for E1R2B2, at least an A2 for E Maths and A Maths and at least a B3 for a Physics related science. And the others who were interested were also allowed to sit through this briefing on a Diploma plus programme called the Diploma Plus Certificate in Engineering Mathematics & Science (PCEMS). This is a useful 2-year programme which prepares me for mathematics in university level's engineering. And I think I am so going to sign up for this course man!

Ya, so that's all for today; the start of my poly life. Tomorrow will be a day of forest trekking and dragon boating. So I do hope that tomorrow will be more fun!

What's on for 29/01/09

2009-01-29T22:33:00.000+08:00

What's on for 25/01/09

2009-01-25T09:43:00.012+08:00

Hello! Time flies, just one more day, it'd be Chinese new year! And I would like to wish everyone out there a prosperous Chinese new year.

Today's post is certainly not about me talking about Chinese new year (which is future tense); its about yesterday, the 24th.

Yesterday, Jonathan and I went to East Coast Park (ECP) to cycle. We started off at 1400hrs at ECP and cycled all the way to Changi Village (The place near Changi Jetty, the Changi Nasi Lemak place).

On our journey from ECP to Changi, after leaving ECP, we saw the 'Ministry of Education Changi Coast Adventure Centre', which is also where our school (GMSS) held the 2007 Sec 3 Adventure camp (which I attended).

After that, we cycled on a very straight track along Changi Airport called, Changi Coast Road. It is about 7++ Km. And what's so interesting is that, we can see planes landing and taking off when cycling on the road. And this is also the road linking ECP and Changi Beach.

The long ride through the Changi Coast Road was a breeze, and at the end of the road, towards the direction of Changi Beach, we saw a T junction leading to the Changi Exhibition Centre (The place where Carrerista Jamboree was held). However, that road leading there is a private road, and it's cordoned off. After traveling 800m or so, we reached Changi Beach.

Changi Beach is smaller than ECP, but there's a lot of campers over there. Maybe it was due to the long holiday (From yesterday till Tuesday), many non-Chinese who don't celebrate Chinese new year want to spend their holiday in that manner. Jon and I stopped over at Changi Village to buy some drinks to revitalize ovrselves and after that, we turned back for our return trip to ECP. We reached ECP (the place we rented our bikes) at about 1730hrs, and were so lucky that the bike shop staff did not change us extra for returning late. Because we only rented for 3hrs, and we were about 20mins late (The bike shop started clocking our bike rental at 1410hrs). When we stood up to walk, my ass felt like jelly and my whole body felt so heavy. It was so difficult to walk. Only after some walking, we then recovered from the numbness.

The ride from ECP to Changi was about 18km, so in total, we cycled for about 36km yesterday. What a nice workout we had :]

This is the route we cycled through (line in red)...

What's on for 23/01/09

2009-01-23T21:28:00.003+08:00

Wow! It's really fast! Another week passed just in a blink. Its really so fast that my long post exams vacation is ending soon, and another Chinese New year is coming soon! Nothing so interesting happened for this whole week. It's just all about preparation of the EPA trip presentation. Just right, just now, in the morning, I presented my stuff.

I somewhat feel that I had not work enough for this vacation. I literally did not even earn enough money for myself to 'stockpile'. As I had spent all my money from working at 'BiBi & BaBa' on my guitar and amp. Its so saddening that my carefree life is ending so soon; Poly Preparatory Program (PPP) for my DPA is starting next month. I so hope that it's not totally crap and bullshit taught in this program. Oh ya! Speaking about this PPP thing, there's this trip to Kota Tinggi, Malaysia during the term of my trip from 10th Feb to 12th Feb. So sickening man! 10th Feb is a Tuesday, and it clashes with my guitar lessons. So that's S$20 gone for me! And I think I will be slower than the rest by then.

Just hope that the PPP is not shit, bullsht and crap :[

And by the way, happy Chinese New Year to everyone! Will post again next week.

What's on for 16/01/09

2009-01-16T13:13:00.003+08:00

Well, its really rare of me to post during the day. But anyway, here's what I want to talk about...

I just wonder, why am I always regretting that I did not behave properly in my 4 years of my secondary school life; I did not carry myself properly to make people think that I am a nice guy. I really regretted that I did not carry myself well when I was sec 1 man! I know it is sensitive to talk about such stuff openly in blog, but I just feel like saying. I think if I was a nicer person (i.e. to not talk sick, to not curse around, to not behave like a gangster), I wouldn't had been rejected by the gal I like when I was in sec 1. I somehow just felt that among all the gals I've met along those 4 years, she's the best! However, 3 years or so went by, and I suppose people do change. Most probably she had already changed a lot as compared to the way she was in sec 1. And I do really feel that I had changed a lot as compared to the way I was during sec 1.

Back then when I was sec 3, I was also so foolish to go for such a immature gal. It's really dumb of me to waste my time over such person. But just thinking back, it's just a learning experience for myself. Although it was disappointing that I did not get a proper steady (although there were a few in my mind whom I wanted to go for back then) or something among these 4 years of my secondary school life while some other guys who were thought to have a worse personality than me get the gals they like, I am not sad at all or something.

All that I am thinking was that, maybe it's just not the time yet for me to find that someone else who is going to make up half of my life. Let fate decide all these stuff for me. Maybe for now, there aren't much matured girls around me. And its just not the time for me to get into a proper relationship. But as I proceed to poly or even somewhere further, I suppose that someone might just appear in my life. And I'll never know, this someone might be the one for me. So what's there to fret about anyway? But even if I don't find any ever in my life, I think I wouldn't mind spending the rest of my life by myself. Furthermore, most girls in secondary school are immature girls, they may look matured on the outside, but deep down in them, I don't suppose they are ready for a relationship yet, somehow they might just think that it's cool to be with a cool guy, they can show off the cool guy to their other friends and for extreme cases, they might think that its interesting to get laid. And for those sucky guys around, I think those are more or less desperate for a stead. And if those guys are not so matured yet, they might just think that getting a stead = sex partner.

So in conclusion, after looking at so many examples of couples around me and after my few rejections, I feel that I must be mentally ready for a relationship first before getting into one. Secondly, it is still better to look for a matured girl. Looks doesn't matter, but character does. Looks tarnishes with time, while character stays in a soul forever.

Wish other lonely guys around to live strong and do remember that you still have friends or at least family around, and that will not make you lonely. Steady (especially those puppy love cases) are just secondary, friends and family are then the important mental support of our lives.

Cheers, beer makes me happy!

What's on for 13/01/09

2009-01-13T16:39:00.013+08:00

So as mentioned yesterday, I really went to buy my electric guitar and amplifier.

I went to Wee Lee Music (The Jam studio near Aljunied MRT) to buy an Ibanez IBZ10G amplifier and a 2nd hand ESP LTD M-50 guitar.

Let me start with my amplifier...
As mentioned, I bought the Ibanez IBZ10G. This is a moderately small amp (amp means amplifier) will quite of a big sound! However, as I live in a HDB flat, I think its still better for me to tune my volume knob to its lowest possible volume all the time. This amp have a built in overdrive and also a crunchy distortion. To tune between these 2 effects, all I have to do was to switch on its drive and the tune the bass, mid and treble knob to the correct tuning. This amplifier can also be tuned to a clean bright sounding tone when the drive is switched off.
Here are some pics of my amplifier:

Ibanez IBZ10G

And as you can see, there's a drive knob, and also a simple equalizer knob consisting of a bass knob, mid knob and also a treble knob.

As for my guitar, the ESP LTD M-50, it's indeed a marvelous guitar! Although it's a 2nd hand guitar, there are only a few minor scratches on the body. Other than that, everything's fine! Furthermore, this guitar works perfectly with my amp; it produces great sound. According to ultimate-guitar.com, it was reviewed as a very durable guitar with great sound, so I suppose this guitar can last me for a very long time, or even forever!

ESP LTD M-50

Here's the body (front)

The pick-ups, humbucker-humbucker set up. And they are actually ESP LH-150 (B&N)pick-ups.

The body (rear)

The headstock (front)

The headstock (rear)

Although this is an LTD, the machine heads are also from ESP

Here's another tinge of ESP in it

And so these are my guitar stuff, TGM V2-RD acoustic guitar, ESP LTD M-50 electric guitar and Ibanez IBZ10G amplifier.

(note, all the guitar terms might sound hard to understand)

What's on for 12/01/09

2009-01-12T21:30:00.009+08:00

This is post number 123 in my blog, and it is also the first post for year 2009.

So it was really true, I spent my last day of year 2008 counting down. However, it was a rather different way of counting down. I spent the last drop of 2008 playing at the playground (sounds childish, but we really did). We didn't really realize that its the new year at all. As we didn't even countdown in fact.

For these days, nothing much went on. I went for my first ever electric guitar lesson at Yamaha and realized that there were many guitar techniques that I got wrong all these while for my 1 year of playing. Speaking about guitars, I am going to get my guitar tomorrow, and it will most probably be (90% in fact) a ESP LTD M-50 for my guitar and a Ibanez IBZ10G for my amplifier :]

My Faith 2-1 Chalet went on during the 7-9 January. We had great time together playing pool during the first 2 days and also enjoyed a BBQ during the 2nd night. Kin Ing was also nice to prepare a Truth or Dare game, where every had a helluva good time playing the game after the BBQ.

Although I was real tired after the chalet on Friday for just sleeping for an hour each for both night, I still use my reserve energy to attend the open house at Singapore Poly, the place I report for school next month... haha. It was rather meaningless for me to go there to just inquire about some courses, so in fact I had my own tour around the campus. The campus is huge! I even took a photo with the Fighter Jet displayed uphill in the Campus

Sunday was another day of tuition with Rachel and all I can say is that Acid and Bases is a real difficult topic to teach man! With 1 hour, all I that I had covered was just stuff about Acid. I will cover Bases next week.

Today, it was judgment day for everyone! Today is the release of the 2008 GCE 'O' Levels results. For most people, they had a hard time sleeping last night. But for me, I had a good time sleeping but instead a hard time waking up today. The song 'The Day That Never Comes' by Metallica kept ringing in my head. How I hope this day never comes, as I had a bad feeling about my results. I was really afraid that I wont do well this time. When I was waiting for the release of my results at the school hall, the song 'Hallowed be thy Name' by Iron Maiden kept ringing in my head, especially the first few verses 'I am waiting in my cold cell when the bell began to chime' My heart was thumping like hell just now, especially after seeing a few of my classmates who broke down and cry after collecting their results. When it was my turn, I literally can't walk properly. My legs felt like jelly, and every steps towards Miss Choong was so difficult. after I took a sit in front of Miss Choong, my right hand was trembling like crazy when I was instructed to sign on the name list to mark that I had received my result slip. After Miss Choong passed me my result slip, I slowly flipped it open to check out my results. At the moment I saw this

I can't control myself and shouted in joy,"OH MY GOD! 我真的考得这么好啊！ Arrrgh...! OH MY GOD...!" I straight away went to call my mother and shared my joy with her. Next I showed all my NP juniors and friends (who were also curious to see my results)around me my results. They were also so shocked to see that I scored so well!

If you cant see the pic of my result slip properly, here's my results then,
English Language B3
Combined Humanities A2
Mathematics A1
Additional Mathematics A2
Physics A2
Chemistry A2
Biology A2
Chinese A1 (you guys should have already known about it last year)
Chinese (oral) Distinction

I was really shocked that I scored such godly results! It was in fact my best results ever for my Secondary school days. Especially for my English, Biology and my Combined Humanities. For English, I thought that I would at most just pass. As the paper 2 especially was really tough. And the condition for me to do well or even pass seemed bleak for me. While for Biology and Combines Humanities, I had never ever scored such godly results! A B3 for Biology and a C5 for Combined Humanities were already good enough for me. But an A2 for both was indeed a feat! I took a photo with Nigel and our used-to-be squad, the sec 4 this year and also my last photo (most probably) in uniform with Miss Choong.

And so that's all for what I want to talk about on what happened these days.

This is just one last thing I want to talk about...
Do I really suck that much? I know that I am perverted, vulgar, overly chatty (chatter box) and loud spoken in an irritating way sometimes. But other than that, where else do I suck? which part about me is undesirable to others? Can someone please tell me what's the problem you people out there think of me? I am willing to take in any comments, so do be truthful. Thanks

What's on for 30/12/08

2008-12-30T20:21:00.006+08:00

What a weird thing to say; today is the eve of new year eve. So it means tomorrow is the last day of 2008 and the day after would be 2009!

Lets not talk about the new year now; lets talk about whats on today. Today is the last day of my work for the uniform sales, and it was really a tiring day (not as tiring as those days in the store anyway) to pack up all the stocks and re-count everything. So that's why my job ended slightly later at 1500hrs, instead of the usual 1400hrs.

Today's post will be my last post of the year, as I am most probably going to countdown for 2009 tomorrow and will not be posting tomorrow.

So one year or so had passed since last year during the 28th Dec, when I set my new year resolution for 2008. These were my new year resolution for this year...

Kick that habit of cussing openly
Stop talking sick openly
Stop being a rah rah person, or I'll sux in other's eyes
Start talking to people of all genders more
Mix more with the rest in my class that were missing from the chapters in my life
Try to avoid those blacklisted assholes in order to not be one.
Excel hard in my schoolwork
Try to stay cool at all times
Prove myself to my new goal in life that I'm worthy for her by fulfilling all these things above!

And after living through this year of 2008, I think I had changed a little and had fulfilled part of my new year resolution for 2008. Firstly, I reduced my rate of cussing openly to people. Secondly, I realized that I almost quit talking sick openly, especially to girls this year. Thirdly, I am still quite 'rah rah', but its for the better. I learned how to take initiative to do things, rather than to act hero all the time and make myself look busy. Fourthly, I interacted with more people in my class and even controlled my speech when talking (i.e. to not curse, talk sick and be more serious). Fifthly, I really worked very hard for my 'O's this year. As compared to last year, I had been slacking a lot last year. And this year I was more serious and hardworking on my studies. Lastly, although I mentioned to avoid those blacklisted assholes in order to not be one. I found out that it was mean to be like that, so I did not obey to that. I just behaved myself in order to not look like those assholes. And for my that 'Goal' I mentioned last year, I turn out to just forget about it and went for another instead... but failed :[

So for next year, here are the stuff I want to do...

Be serious about my guitar lessons and learn till I find that I can quit and continue my self learning.
Excel in my post Secondary School Education and continue to be serious and consistent on my studies.
Maintain my relations with my friends now and also make new friends when I proceed further to my post Secondary Education.
Forget about the past, just look forward to the future. Don't let those sad things in the past hinder me.
Continue to just do what I like and what I am interested in. I love metal and rock music. I love cars, Japanese tuner cars especially. Just continue to do what I like, I need not care about what other people comment on my interest; even be it that my interest are not as common as what others do.
Be more independent to pay for my Yamaha Electric Guitar lesson's fee, public transport concession and maybe even my phone bill by myself.
I know this sounds weird, I would just like to let fate decide for me to meet a gal whose interest matches mine. Is able to be like me to take vulgar/sick stuff lightly; as a joke and will be happy being with me. Just hope that such gal will come into my life someday and maybe stay in my life forever. (Laugh at me all you want people... I know I sounded kinda desperate for a gal, but I can say I am not!)

So those were the stuff I want to do next year... Hope that I will succeed and make positive remarks to these new year resolutions I listed down today in about a year's time from now.

What's on for 29/12/08

2008-12-29T21:18:00.034+08:00

Today, my eldest brother and I went to Carrerista Jamboree; an automobile event at Changi, where the first ever 1/4 mile drag race was held in Singapore and D1 GP's Nobuteru Taniguchi of Team HKS was invited as a guest drifter to perform his drift stunts here.

We spent quite some time today viewing the cars displayed in the Changi Exhibition Center. Here are the photos I took out there...

The Admission ticket

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X

Another Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X

Nissan Fairlady 350Z, Z33

Honda Integra

Honda S2000 (I suppose)

Nissan Sylvia S13

Subaru Impreza WRX STI (06 edition)

Nobuteru Taniguchi's Toyota Altezza SXE-10 (Displayed in exhibition center)

Nissan GTR R35

Again, another Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII

Porsche 911 GT3 RS (One which looks totally similar to that in Need For Speed Carbon)

Another Honda Integra

Mini Cooper S

Volkswagen Golf GTI R32

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX (Full carbon fiber decal)

Some old Datsun which I am also unfamiliar of...

Nissan Sylvia S14

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI (I suppose)

Another Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX

Subaru Impreza WRX STI (08 edition)

My Brother and I proceeded to watch some 1/4 mile drag events after then and also watched the drift display by some local drifters and also most importantly Nobuteru Taniguchi's drift display. We even took a photo with him after that and I also asked for an autograph from him!

Here's a video of a Lancer Evolution IX driving past (really just driving past under 100km/h) the drag course...

Nobuteru Taniguchi in action!!!

Nobuteru Taniguchi's Toyota Altezza SXE-10

Those cars down for this 1/4 mile drag event

One nice purple S13 we saw before leaving for Nobuteru Taniguchi's autograph and photo taking session...

My bro and I with Nobuteru Taniguchi

Nobuteru Taniguchi's autograph on my Carrerista Jamboree's visitors' guide

Although I am not a big fan of Nobuteru Taniguchi, it was really an honor to see a D1 GP drifter drift live in front of me! This was certainly a wonderful experience for me! If Formula Drift were to tour to Singapore again next year (most probably actually), I will certainly go for it!

What's on for 28/12/08

2008-12-28T23:00:00.005+08:00

Yawnz... I am so lethargic now! Maybe it was due to the lesson I had just now.

This week was quite of a breeze for me. Work was very simple for me; the supervisors in charge of me were much better than the one during the 19th, my first day. This week is also the Christmas week. I am not a Christian, so I don't really take this festival as something really important and significant to me.

However, there's something different this year. Finally, my Christmas this year does not mark the start of the last week of my year end vacation. For this year's Christmas eve, Miss Choong also invited William and I to her house for a party. That was actually her family gathering, but all that I can say is that William and I had a great time there. The photo below was a photo taken in the party. And that girl at the extreme left is my student, Rachel, she's Miss Choong's niece too.

For that picture, I utterly have no idea why William did not lean closer to me, so as to make himself seen in the photo :|

For Christmas day, it was really a damn boring day for me. Out of the thousands places to go, the Lows and associations (all my relatives from my mom's side) wanted to go to Macritchie reservoir park for a family gathering. I was dead bored out there and was dreading to 'bail' myself out from this gathering. I did manage to 'bail' myself out actually. But it was only until the end of the day when I went to meet Nigel for a nights out.

On Friday, I finally signed up for my electric guitar lessons at Yamaha, Tampines. All I can say was the Yamaha is a weird place which charges people S$21.00 for a whatever registration fee (non-refundable) and then a S$100.00 deposit (refundable) if I were to pay my course fee by cash. One more worse thing, I need to buy my own guitar cable if I were to take lessons there. But anyway, there's no use of me complaining so much about this course. As, I've already signed up for the January intake Tuesday evenings lessons. All I need to do for now is to go buy a cheap cable and then buy a Yamaha textbook they wanted me to buy.

There's also one weird thing tat happened to my right eye. I started feeling a sense of itch when I was at Miss Choong's house during Christmas eve. And yesterday, when I woke up, I was so shocked to see a big patch of sore on my right eye. I went to see the doctor yesterday at the polyclinic. And I was so fed up that I had to have such a long wait just for a 10 minutes consultation! This picture below depicts my right eye yesterday...

And after some medication, this is the way my eye looks today morning...

Its slightly better as compared to yesterday.

Alright, see you guys soon for my new year resolution write up... :]

What's on for 19/12/08

2008-12-19T23:35:00.002+08:00

Week by weeks passed. My vacation was drained to almost a month and a week left. Quite a lot of things happened for this week.

Last Sunday, after my tuition session with my student, Rachel Chen, I went to TM to visit the Yamaha branch to inquire about their electric guitar lessons. Its actually a 3 year course. And the course fee is quite expensive. The initial part of the course would be about S$80 a month. But as I advance to more advanced levels, the course fee will increase to up to about S$120 per month. Which means, if I were to go take up this course, I would have to pay it with the money I got from tutoring. And I do really hope that if I were to take up this course, I will give in 100% to it and clear the 3 year course, but not to give up halfway due to my loss of interest or some other unreasonable reasons.

The last time before I went to Korea, I mentioned that I wanted to buy a Cort G210. And yesterday, I saw something better(I suppose) at Wee Lee Music(That jamming studio near GM). I saw a ESP LTD M-50. That is a very budget guitar. And according to the forum at ultimate-guitar.com, most people actually bought that as their first guitar! For now, I really gotta consider between the G210 and the M-50. The G210 is brand new and is about S$260 in Swee Lee. While the M-50 is 2nd hand, but is very durable and versatile. Its only S$220 at Wee Lee music. So now I am wondering, should I buy that M-50 now before someone else does. Or should I go pick up my guitar lessons first then buy that M-50 if its still available by then or to just buy the G210. what a dilemma I have now :[

I worked in the store for a few days this week and today, I was posted to Gan Eng Seng Secondary School to sell uniforms. I was quite fucked up with those aunties working with me. Especially for one who bossed me around and even claimed that I don't know a shit and was not doing my stuff well. I was so hotheaded just now that I confronted that auntie openly and made her shut the fuck up!

If she still continues to treat us(part timer like me) in such a nasty way, I can assure her that she's going to get a trashing from me during my last day of work! Let her see how fierce I can actually be. By The way, sorry, for my rudeness to curse again, but I was just too angry then!

What's on for 14/12/08

2008-12-14T20:36:00.004+08:00

I'm back again for another post for the week.

This week had been a real crappy week for me. I finally started working. but that job is real sucky man! I applied to sell uniforms for this uniform supplier 'BiBi & BaBa'. But instead I was posted to be a store man to do some packing, stock-checking and store keeping for their store. The worst part is that my pay is totally pathetic! I only earn S$4.50 an hour.That's also equivalent to the amount others were paid for uniform sales! I gotta persevere on till next Friday, the 19th; where I would most probably be posted to other schools to sell uniform.

Wednesday was a great day for me! I went to Tempines to watch this flick 'City of Ember' and also to have Seoul Garden for our lunch cum dinner.

And yesterday, I also went to Suntec with Nigel after work to spend some time out. We slacked around and also watched this flick 'Twilight' together. At first I thought that it was some sort of girly shows which girls watch for those 'hunks'. But in the end, I felt that the show is quite nice and I think I will watch the subsequent series of its movies in future :]

What's on for 07/12/08

2008-12-07T20:14:00.004+08:00

Hi people! I am back from Korea! I actually have tons of things to say about this trip, but I suppose there's no need for me to do so, as I will end up being long winded.

My trip starts from the 01st Dec, where everyone assembled at the Airport and took our flight to Inchon Airport, Korea.

Our first stop at Korea was to shop at Dongdaemon shopping district, I impulsively bought a pair of jeans which cost about S$23 from there and ended up regretted paying so much for a pair of cheap jeans.

For day 2, we all visited the Independence Hall of Korea and learned a lot about the dark years of Korea during the Japanese domination. We went to the Hyundai car automobile factory after that and witnessed the production of automobiles. It took only approximately 57 seconds to produce one car!

At day 3 we all went to a theme park called Everland. We had great fun challenging each other to take thrilling rides and the only disappointing thing that happened was that we did not get to ride on the largest wooden roller coaster there. After our visit to Everland, we proceeded to the ski resort and started skiing after dinner. It was not easy to ski, but with some practice, I started skiing down the slope and even succeeded in braking properly on the snow.

During the fourth day, we went to the Digital Pavilion. There were many hi-tech, futuristic stuff displayed there. Those stuff there were rather impractical, but it was also creative and imaginative of the Koreans to have thought of designing those hi-tech stuff. After that we visited the Seoul World Cup Stadium. This stadium was indeed magnificently built. It is much bigger than Kallang stadium man! We went for lunch after that and after lunch, we visited the area at the boarder of South Kora and North Korea, called the Demilitarized Zone(DMZ), where we were able to see North Korea from that area. We learned a lot about the Korean war through the visit there. after that, we proceeded to the Kinchi School to learn how to make Kinchi. After the Kimchi Lessons, we were also allowed to borrow some traditional Korean costumes and take photos with it.

For the fifth day, we visited a cultural museum and also a palace. And it was freezing cold out there starting from that day on. Such cold weather made us to all not concentrate much on what the tour guide was introducing about. After that we went to Antique street. There were nothing so fascinating to buy from there; all I saw were just some souvenir shops and some female fashion appeal shops. After that, we went to the artificial village constructed for the filming of this Korean drama, 大长今. This village just looks smaller than how it really looked in the TV screen. We went to the Nandaemon shopping district to shop after that. We bought some stuff from there and ended our day with dinner. A small cluster of us actually also did some wacky stuff during that night. We had Baskin Robin's ice cream out on the streets with a temperature of about -10 deg C. I actually also had one during the first night. But the first night was not as cold, it was just about 5 deg C.

During the last day, we went to a shopping street which specialise in women stuff called 女人街, where I bought only a skull pendent and nothing else. After that we visited a Methodist Church as our last stop and proceeded to a restaurant near the airport for lunch. After that we did our last shopping at the supermarket downstairs of the restaurant and went to the airport to catch our flight back to Singapore.

I reached Singapore at about 2200hrs(Singapore time) and that marked the end of my trip.

My trip this time is very different from my trip to Korea a decade ago. Numerous things changed in Korea! For this trip, I was served by a wonderful tour guide, Jacky Kim and also a very patient and reliable coach driver. This is indeed a memorable experience for me, having to go overseas for a holiday with so many friends! I will never forget this experience man!

By the way, just look at this picture below which I took at the Dongdaemon shopping district...

I suppose women have 'special rights' in korea when it comes to parking. Or its something regarding their driving skills :]

What's on for 29/11/08

2008-11-29T20:31:00.010+08:00

Hello! Another week passed and here's my final post before my departure to Korea for my 6 days long (1st Dec - 6th Dec) EPA trip.

I realized that there are many bugs for readers who uses Microsoft Internet Explorer to read my blog. Therefore I advice those who are yet to download Mozilla Firefox to download it using this link Mozilla Firefox Download (Its a useful browser to use anyway. As it can load pages and download stuff faster from sever than IE)

And as most people complained that my post are all damn long winded, I think its really time for me to shorten all my post... Haha :]

Alright, for this week, I slacked on from my last post till Tuesday and conducted my first ever Chemistry tuition for my first ever student on Wednesday.

Thursday was an unforgettable day for me. As most of my F2-1 o6 friends and I had a fun filled day at Sentosa. Everyone seemed to enjoy ourselves and time just flew past fast. Without knowing, it was already the end of the day and its also time for us to go home :[

Yesterday was a total waste of time for me. My mom and I intended to sell tons of books to those 2nd hand bookstore at Bras Basah. It was 1000hrs in the morning, but the 2nd hand bookstore will only open at 1430hrs on Friday. So we ended up waiting for about 3hrs - 4hrs for the shop to open. I spent part of that time talking to my mom regarding my intention of buying my first electric guitar. I can't believe it, my mom actually agreed to it and even offered to pay for it first. So after selling those books, my mom and I went to browse the Swee Lee branch at Bras Basah. After that we went to the Head Quarters of Swee Lee near my house to browse and source for more guitars. And in the end I decided to change my mind from buying that scaled down 24 frets Ibanez to a Cort G210 which cost lesser and is a full scale 22 frets with whammy bar. But I will most probably buy it after I found a guitar course for myself to speed up my learning.

Today, I went to Johore Baru with my mom and my bro. We had Secret Recipe cakes of RM6.30(S$2.65) each for tea and had seafood for lunch. I bought a new T-shirt for myself at RM19.90(S$8.36) and also a pair of Converse which cost only RM81.91(S$34.42). What a great catch! :] Malaysia is also a heaven for 'Zhngster' (people who customize and modify their car) man! I saw many 'zhnged' (modified, present tense is zhng) Proton(Malaysia homemade car manufacturer) into stuff which looks like Lancer Evolution III or into stuff like EG6 (Honda Civic hatchback). I also saw many 'zhnged' EG6 and a couple of S15, which are like damn cool man!!!

I'll be leaving Singapore on Monday, so I suppose I'll be back with stuff regarding my trip to Korea :]

Here are my pics in Malaysia by the way...

Welcome to Malaysia, the country where you can legally blow bubble gum

This is most probably the new causeway in JB

The pair of converse I bought

What's on for 20/11/08

2008-11-20T20:09:00.009+08:00

Monday was prom. And for all I can say, it was not as great as I thought. I didn't seem to have those kinda feeling of remembering that day forever. I seemed to not take prom as anything that important. I literally spent nothing, not a single cent (other than the admission ticket for $57) on prom. I took a long sleeved shirt from my dad, a pair of gray trousers which I own, a pair of black synthetic leather shoes I borrowed from my brother and also did a simple, gangster like hairdo. All I that I spent was only on a flick with Jonathan after prom. But for that girls, I suppose most of them spent big bucks on prom... Most of them seemed to have spent a lot on their dress and hairdo. There were even some of them who looked so different from usual days. I almost failed to recognize them. For prom, all I did was just to have my meal, and to also to just take part some of the lame activities organized my the sec 3 prefects. What I mean was to just let time pass off and next spend the rest of my night for a flick with Jonathan. Initially, Arunn was also supposed to join us to watch the flick "The Coffin". But too bad, his dad called him in the last minute and he wasted his $7.50 on the flick ticket when went home alone. That flick was nice, but it's not an easy to digest flick. I reached home at about 0240hrs, 18/11 and was dead tired. However, I stayed up till about o300hrs to ponder over some personal stuff and to also wait for my hair to dry. Here are also some of the few photos I took for prom by the way...

Most people actually took tons of pictures with their many friends from either their class or even in the neighbouring class. But for me, I did not take much photo. As I did not bring my mom's camera along.

For Tuesday, I literally just slacked off the whole day. I went for the 'Food Fair' in the EXPO with my mom in the morning and next went back to school for my EPA trip meeting cum briefing. After that I went home and slacked.

Yesterday, I slacked off my morning playing "Opposing Force" (A subsidiary game for Half-Life)
and then started my massive spring cleaning for my room. It was so hard to clear my stuff man! As there were just so much trash to chuck. I paused my spring cleaning at about 2100hrs and rested for my day.

And for today, I woke up at about 0500hrs and went for my morning jog. I finally re-conquered my 3km challenge. I rewarded myself with a breakfast in the food centre after my jog at about 0530hrs and went home to bathe and sleep till about 0700hrs, when I woke up to prepare myself for my DPA registration at Singapore Poly. After the registration, I went to my aunt's house with my mom for a nice chat with her and then went home. As of today, I resumed my spring cleaning and cleared tons of unwanted stationey. I paused my cleaning at about 1800hrs and went about cooking dinner for everyone. I cooked speghetti bolongenise and it tasted great! And so, for now, I am ending off my day slacking and next sleep. Tomorrow will be another long long day of cleaning.

My room can be very small, but the stuff are just too much for me to tidy.

What's on for 16/11/08

2008-11-16T20:14:00.007+08:00

Here I am, back again as a regular blogger. I am going to post frequently from today on. And for today, I will start of with stuff that happened on Friday.

On Friday, I woke up rather early at about 0800 hrs and then went to GMS(P) for my dental appointment. It was a year since my last check up and that will also be my last trip ever to visit the dentist at the primary school and also to seek dental services for free. My wait at the dentist was rather long. As I waited for two primary school students to be served first. The first one, who is a boy was still ok. But the second one, who is a girl was a real pain in the ass. She had some decayed teeth to be treated and was required to be drilled away and be repaired with dental fillings. Drilling was known to be a painful process, and that girl made the dentist's life difficult by refusing to open her mouth. That wasted my time and got me waiting for my turn for like about an hour. And when it was finally my turn, it was lucky of me that my teeth are still ok. Those large fillings (covered at least 2/3 of my molars left and right of my jaws) are still intact and have no signs of defects. All the dentist did to me was just to scrape off some tartar between my teeth and to also fill a depression on one of my left canine. After that I went to look for Miss Choong in school and was so delighted that I finally get to see her after months. I helped her for a while in the library for some administrative work and next went to the airport together with Mr Chia(D&T teacher) and Miss Tan(Physics Teacher) to send off the Fuzhou CIP team. After that I went to Swee Lee near my house to view their array of guitars and tried their Ibanez. It was real weird to play an electric guitar. As the moment I touch a string, it will sound off a tune. And I also have no idea how to set up one.

Yesterday was a rather long day for me. I had two weddings... yes two wedding to attend, my cousin's and my uncle's(my dad's cousin). My day started at 0900hrs, where we went to my cousin house for a buffet breakfast and some slacking. Next when it reached noon, we went to a transition hotel at therminal 3 of the airport to attend my uncle's wedding. it was an afternoon banquet and that was my lunch. I took this opportunity to booze a little. I drank a glass of red wine and also drank 95% out of my brother's glass. After the banquet, we went home for a break and at about 1800hrs, we proceeded to Sentosa for my cousin's wedding. and for that wedding dinner my elder brother and I will be seperated from my parents. and again I took the opportunity to booze more. I drank 2 glasses of red wine and also a glass of beer. But however after the banquet, I was not at all drunk. I went home and got a damn heavy lecture from my mom for drinking so much in front of everyone. But yesterday's boost of alcohol was nice man!

Today was a real lazy day for me. I slacked off my morining and next went to penisular to spend some time out by myself. When I exited from the exit to the St Andrew Cathedrial, I saw an interesting piecs of art on the entrance wall of Raffles City. It is a picture that can be seen as 3 different pictures using colour filters.

After that I went to penisular and visited a few music stores. I went to a shop called 'Davis Guitar Music Centre'. This shop sells B.C. Rich guitars (I saw the beast for the first time) and also many ESP guitars. It was so cool man. The first thing I asked the store assistant was for the Michael Amott's Ex ESP signature guitar.
And it's so cool man! They have it! But it's sold at S$3800. And that was like a wow! for me. I also saw the cool ESP LTD AX series which was sold at about S$400+. After looking at so many guitars I went to shop around for some clothes and bought an Arch Enemy T shirt and also a plain brown trucker cap. After that I went to Bras Brasar and went into a shop wich sell real exotic Fender Stratocasters and Gibson Les Paul. They are all damn rare, damn expensive stuff. I listened to the other customers chatting with the boss for a while and also listened to some customers playing some Blues licks when they were testing the guitars. Howerer one phone call from home spoilt my quiet, peaceful time alone. My mom literally forced me to join them for some boring hike to Mc Ritchie Reservoir. And it was so boring man! Bur I had no choice, I still gotta get out of my peaceful quiet moment alone and then back into my family. I had dinner after that and now blogging.

Tomorrow will be prom and I suppose its going to be a sucky one. Its nt like those in america where each guy will get themselves a date and spend that night with the special one. Most probably the guys will sit at a side and the gals will sit at another side. Next will will just eat and leave.

What's on for 13/11/08

2008-11-13T22:15:00.002+08:00

Guess who's back: back again. I'm back, I'm back. I'm back I'm back... Haha! I'm back! I'm finally back after such a long long time.

My race of 2008 is finally over with my Biology paper 1 as my closing paper. In fact, I suppose that's also the last paper of GCE 'O' Levels 2008

Approximately 682 days ago, my journey started... Grueling hours of mugging and practice everyday. Countless hours of learning and lecturing. Nights after nights of sleepless night. More than 500hrs of sleep sacrificed.... All just for one thing, GCE 'O' Levels 2008.

Life as a secondary 3 student was real bad for me. Such new environment with so MANY girls and so LITTLE guys (35 girls : 7 guys in fact) shocked me badly initially. It was so hard for me to adapt to such change. I cannot behave like the way I was in secondary 2. Vulgarities or sick stuff could only be confined between the guys. I could not be as rough as I was to those girls. And other than such difference in gender ratio, everything taught in school suddenly seemed so difficult to study. Science and Maths were no longer just one subject. Schools hours suddenly became so long everyday. In other words, sec 3 life was rather sucky initially. But it was until the second half of the year that things got better. However, after June 2007, in fact even before that time, stuff in NP suddenly flooded my brain space. Heaps over heaps or responsibilities suddenly pressed me hard on my shoulders, and that made me unable to even catch a breath to juggle between my daily school lessons and all those NP stuff. Life passed day by day with such hectic lifestyle for the second half of the year and the year ended with a flood of NP matters for me to settle everyday. When majority of the people around were enjoying their december vacations.

So with a wasted sec 3 year, here comes my sec 4 year. This year... worse! Extreme mugging and drilling starts. Sleep was no longer taken as an issue to me. 4 hours a day was as good as 8 hours normally. Books and notes were every all on my personal desk! My room was just like a war zone(although it still looks like one now). Everyday was about working hard at home and relaxing more in school. Play was almost gome from my dictionary every week until Friday. But it was also so odd of me to fall for someone during such mega hectic year. It was like I had been thinking about that girl all the time through this year. It was so werid for me to fall for such a girl who is a total real mugger. A damn hardworking girl. I admit that I exaggerated just now, saying that I mugged and drilled almost everytime, in fact I spent at least 25% of my time slacking, taking time off. But for that girl I fell for, she seemed to be studying all the time. During June, my friend already literally helped me confessed to her without my approval and I was rejected by her. Reason being that she wanted to concentrate on 'O's. However, I was still working hard to try get hitched with her. I had this thought that I will try again after 'O's. But thing just wont work for me. And its so true that a no is a no. I inteneded to confess to her personally today right after that paper. But instead, I was already rejected by her yesterday after telling her that I want to a word with her today. What a loser I am. But all I can tell myself is that I must not look back at yesterday. She might have rejected me today. And just let it be fate that I will not be with her. I will look forward to every single tomorrow and live in every today! And all that was yesterday will be the past already, and there will be no point brooding hard on them.

My Sec 4 year is coming to an end...
Prom night is on this coming Monday 17/11, and i suppose its so not going to be as cool as those seen in American flicks. But anyway, I will just take that as my last opportunity to enjoy with majority of my sec 4 corhot. EPA trip to Korea will come at 01/12 - 06/12. And I suppose that's all for my sec 4 year.

And for now, all that I want to do is to slack all I want for the time being and to relax all I want to regenerate my energy.

What's on for 17/09/08

2008-09-17T19:38:00.009+08:00

Ok, first of all... This is not going to be my post of the day. (as mentioned the last time) But this post is a real Impulsive one after finish rushing all the American Pie. Yes, and its like American Pie 1 that I watched last year, American Pie 2 which I watched two days ago and American Pie 3 - 6 Which I watched a moment ago.

Although all of them are about getting 'laid'(fucked) with a nice girl after a party or something. I started to realize something:

1.) Sex is not = to love
2.) Loving someone = commitment and compromising
3.) Sex is not a must in all relationship
4.) If I were to ever have a girl, I will really treat her good!
5.) Unless I marry the girl I love someday, I will never fuck anyone before marriage
6.) I will either fuck only one girl ever in my life which is my wife in future or never even do that at all in my life if there's no 'special one' for me

All these are contridictary to what mentioned in American Pie. Watch them one day if you are free and maybe you will realize what I mentioned are true.

What's on for 01/09/08

2008-09-01T10:40:00.003+08:00

I am not posting today, but here's two damn vulgar ge tai(歌台） songs. 1st one is Chee Bye Bo seng Li (Vagina no business). The second is xiao wei （小威), but its lyrics were changed to a damn vulgar edition. Hope you like it :]

What's on for 22/08/08

2008-08-22T23:48:00.002+08:00

This is the last week till the start of my prelims. And it was really a tiring and busy week for me. Same as the few previous weeks, I slept at about 2200hrs everyday and wake up at 0400hrs to study. This can be exhausting for me, but I just need to tell myself to persevere on. What’s more, my 'O's coming so soon! Just a few more months of drilling and it will be over!

This weekend will be extreme Social Studies for me, as my paper for Social studies is on next Thursday. And this is just one thing I can say to myself, "As long as I score a B3 for my combined humanities, I will be satisfied already." I just wanted to do it for the sake of my hard work and pride, I doubt that is useful for my admission into poly anyway. English is also next week, and I suppose I will also spend some time revising the formats of all types of situational writing and also some useful notes. And this coming September holiday will be my extreme drilling for all subjects. As I calculated, I can spend one full day for each subject. And I do really hope that I can spend this coming week long holiday productively; completing all my revisions of textbook and notes for every subject. After my prelims, I am going to spend loads of time to revise whatever that I am still unsure of and also to practice my TYS and some assignments given to me by my teachers. Next I will complete my race of 2008 with the final sprint in my 'O' Levels.

Despite the stress and pressure I've got through this week, I managed to still spend some fun time bonding my class together to prepare an early Teachers' Day celebration. Last week, as there was 2 free consecutive periods, I decided to rally my class to plan and organize a miniature party this week to celebrate Teachers' day with every teachers' teaching my class. First, I assigned a few of my classmates to each make a card for a teacher of their choice and next let the class write some words of appreciation on the card. Even for me myself, I also made one for Mr Sophiandy, my Social Studies teacher. Next I calculated and allocated budgets for some party goodies, such as drinks and cake. And assigned someone to buy the drinks and utensils. While I ordered the cake (1.5kg strawberry). And lastly, throughout the remaining of last week to Wednesday, I informed about the 'something' my class prepared for them after school on Wednesday. When Wednesday comes, all the cards were more or less done. And I also went to collect the cake early in the morning. As the 'someone' I assigned to buy the drinks and utensils was down with fever on Wednesday and did not come to school, I rushed down to the petrol kiosk next to my school right after the school bell rang at 1350hrs to buy the drinks. And after some time I returned to class, teachers started coming to my class. And the celebrations start (although some teachers didn't manage to come). It was really heartwarming moment to see all the teachers looking so delighted for the party and cards prepared for them! And for that, I would like to thank everyone in my class for being so supportive and most importantly for all my teachers who spent their blood and sweat to teach my class. Wish all teachers a 'Happy Teachers' Day'!

This will be my last post till the end of my ‘O’s I suppose. I would like to thank all my readers out there for being so supportive to my blog and also to give me constructive comments. And also to all these spammers who created so much fun and life in my blog. Thank you! See you all after my 'O's. And I assure you all; I will be back with a very long post. :]

What's on for 15/08/08

2008-08-15T22:54:00.003+08:00

Last week was National Day. And this week is also an important week for me with three important things going on on Tuesday...

Since the moment after I stepped out of the exams hall during 25th May for my 'O' Levels Chinese written papers, I've been very worried of my results. And my morale dropped after I walked out of the examination room for my 'O' Levels Chinese oral exams, as I stumbled a few times when I was reading the passage. And I've been living with this fear of myself not scoring A2 at least, disappoint myself for maming so much efforts for Chinese. Call me paranoid; in fact, I cannot really sleep well for last week end. As I was too anxious over my results and also my 'O' Levels English oral. When it was Monday, I was in a dilemma of whether to check out my results first then go for my orals first, or to do my oral first then check my results after that. As if I were to not check my results, I will continue to live with anxiety over my results and not be able to concentrate well for my English orals. But if I were to check my results first and find out that I did not do well, I might be so devastated to a state that I cannot think straight and in turn screw up my English orals. However, nature just has its way. Miss Choong seemed to be more anxious than us. As she checked out our results before recess (the results should be displayed on the noticeboard outside the general office during recess) and came to class during Geography to announce the good news that my class have 12 A1s and 7 A2s. And the shocking part was that I was one of the A1... At that moment, I was stunned. My jaws dropped and I thought that I heard wrongly. I verified with Prem and it is true, I got an A1 for my 'O' Levels Chinese! Initially, as I mentioned above, I was so anxious that I will not do well to a state that I expected myself to score at most a B3 or worst still even a C5. I still could not believe it, so when the bell rang for recess, I went down to the general office to check out my results personally. In fact, for this time, I really got my best ever results for Chinese. I scored a distinction for my Orals despite stumbling for a few times and an A1 for overall. I was overjoyed and the school was also very impressed with my class's results. As we broke the GM record of scoring so many A1s for this June papers.

However, although my class did extremely well this time, there are still some exceptions. Some of my class mates did not reach their targetted score. There are some gals in my class who scored a pass for orals. And that pulled down their grades badly. Like for example, there's this girl in my class whose Chinese standards is better than mine. But she ended up scoring a B3 when she deserves an A1. According to her, she told me that she was too nervous during orals and did not manage to perform at her optimum. Hence, she only scored a pass for oral. And that pulled down her grades badlyto a B3... Anyway, what done is done. And all of us still stand a chnace to re-sit for our 'O' Levels written papers during November. So for readers who did not do well this time, you can still retake and try a second shot for your targetted results.

Tuesday was also my 'O' Levels English orals. And I don't think I want to talk about it, since I will ony know the outcome next year. My results for Direct Polytechnic Admission (DPA) was also out on Tuesday, and thats also the third important thing going on on Tuesday. After English orals, Prem went home early and called me, telling me about his outcome for his application. He told me that he was shortlisted for the direct admission of Computer Engineering in Singapore Poly (SP) and of course I congratulated him. As I was indirectly reminded to check the results from that phone call, I immediately booted my classroom's computer and used that to check my DPA results. a few fro mF4-3 passed by and were curious of what I was doing. So they ended up crowding around me as I checked my results. When I logged into my DPA account, I was elated to see the message saying that I was being shortlisted for the direct admission of Aeronautical Engineering of SP. And this means that both Prem and I got the course and Poly we wanted! Monday was like a double joy for me, as I was relieved that I scored an A1 for 'O' Levels Chinese and also that I was shortlisted for the course and poly I wanted for DPA.

For the rest of the days in the week, I was behaving like a machine for sleeping at 2200hrs every night except for Thursday and waking up at 0400hrs everyday to study until 0600 when I wash up and prepare myself for school. Yesterday, Thursday was the worst. I slept at 2300hrs and intended to wake up at 0400hrs today. However, all thanks to the damn monquitoes. I was badly irritated by these minute flying creatures that buzzes around my ears; sucking my blood. I cannot sleep properly, and I ended up taking catnaps till 0400 when I woke up. It was just so tiring for me to sleep so little. But one weird this was that, despite my mind telling me that I am tired and I want to sleep, my body is telling to stay awake and high. Its just so weird that a body-over-mind thing happened for me. And it could be due to my exhaustedness, I also nearly fainted after mass PE for exerting myself too hard. And I suppose that explains the activation energy which stimulates my body for the whole day to feel high when I wanted to sleep in my mind.

What's on for 09/08/08

2008-08-09T00:04:00.002+08:00

It's National Day today; the 43rd National Day of our nation. And 08/08 was also the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics; an event long awaited for.

This week was a very busy week for me. although it was a holiday on Monday due to the Thanksgiving Day in my school, I had a tough time studying through the week. As I had A Maths Test and English word power on Wednesday. Physics and Chemistry test on Thursday. So all the way from Monday to Thursday, I've been sleeping at about 1000 hrs and 1100 hrs on Wednesday. Then I woke up at about 0400hrs on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. That's really tiring for me, but I just got to persevere on. As my revisions for all these test will also mean that I am indirectly revising for my prelims and 'O's.

Yesterday, it was also my school's National Day celebration. Looking at my juniors and some of my classmates participating in the parade, I some kind of recall my days last year. And it was exactly a year ago that I led my NPCC supporting contingent for last year's National Day; which was one of my glorious moment in my life. And this year, its my junior, Jun Jie taking over me. He did me proud by the way for performing smoothly during the parade. I suppose he will also feel the same way as I did next year, for seeing the next leader leading the contingent.

Time is short for me. And I really hope that I can make use of my time wisely for my revisions and also for some time out of my stress.

What's on for 01/08/08

2008-08-01T22:48:00.003+08:00

Today's the first day of August, also the first day of the seventh lunar month. Which means all 'brothers' and 'sisters' from the netherworld rise up to the human realm for their 'holiday'. For all believers, I think its time for us to send our regards to our late ancestors. And for those who do not believe, at least show some respect to them; do not fool around with them!

It was rather light this week. All the important thing I had was only biology SPA skill set 3 on Monday. And I think I committed a grave mistake to plan for the process of photosynthesis in a plant to last for only 15 minutes. I think marks were deducted for that. The rest of the week were rather dry for me. All I did were just tons of homework everyday and sleep late or wake up early to revise my work. I had a E maths test just now and it was rather manageable. And I think I will also make use of my coming long weekend to study and play.

Tomorrow is my school's 84th Thanksgiving Day (Which explains my holiday on Monday). And I will be attending it tomorrow as a prize recipient for The Exemplary Student Award (EPA) and for the Eric Chan Award. I am elated to get these awards and I will cherish them. As it is really a lifetime experience for me to ever get them. Thank you all teachers and staff who nominated and selected me for these awards!

Isn't this magnificent. It was the sunset on Monday 28/07/08

What's on for 26/07/08

2008-07-26T20:34:00.003+08:00

This week was not as busy as last week, as there were not much test this week. But somehow, I felt that I am still very busy. On Monday, I slept at 2100 hrs and woke up at 0300 hrs on Tuesday to study my A maths. Then I stayed on till about 2300 hrs on Tuesday to study for my A maths test and slept till 0600 hrs on Wednesday.

Speaking about Tuesday, something funny happened during Tuesday night. When I was bathing, I stared at the mirror and realised that my mustache was too long. Hence, I took a safety razor from my elder brother and decided to shave it off. I was lazy to make a soap solution as my lubricant, so I used the foam produced by the shampoo I used to wash my hair. And after I applied the foam, I started shaving until some of the foam on my hair flowed onto my eyes. It was excruciating pain and as I flustered, I accidentally cut my upper lip with the razor. And that was like a double blow for me. My lip bled profusely and it was like even after I applied a plaster on it for hours till 0300 hrs the next day, my upper lip was still bleeding.

Wednesday was just another boring day with my A maths test during remedial lesson. After remedial lesson, I also stayed back in school till about 1800 hrs to see my cadets have their first joint rehearsal. I went home after that and spent my night doing all my assignments and slept till 0500 hrs the next morning to do my Geography assignment. Then Thursday was a long day for me. Altohugh Miss Nonis announced that her Phusics remedial was cancelled, Miss Lam used that time to conduct a joint Biology remedial with F 4-2 instead. I went home quite late and spent my whole night studying for my Physics SPA skill set 3 which was conducted yesterday. The exam was ok for me. Just that I made rushed through some ammendments at the final few minutes; scribbling some words to some of my procedures. But other than that, I think I was sitll on the right track of planning the experiment correctly.

So that was my week, and next week will be another stressful one. Monday will be my Biology SPA skill set 3. So I am so going to pump myself with Biology tomorrow.

What's on for 19/07/08

2008-07-19T00:43:00.002+08:00

This week was a real busy week for me. Life everyday is about catching my breath to complete all my assignments and also to study for tests. Tuesday was my 'O' Levels Chinese Listening Comprehension; and I think I got some questions wrong. Wednesday was A Maths revision test on Calculus; I felt that I would not do well for Calculus this time, as I am really very bad at integration. Thursday was Chemistry SPA skill set 3 exam; I think that's ok still. Friday was Physics SPA skill set 3 mock test and E Maths revision test. I felt that both test were ok and its not as heavy as the rest from this week. Friday, after the E Maths test, we also had an extension lesson on Ecology by Miss Lam till about 1800hrs and I was real restless at the time towards the end of her lessons. It was a real long day for me, as I woke up at 0500hrs to complete a E Maths paper 2 from Bukit View Sec, then lessons end at 1800hrs. Up till now (0055hrs) I am still awake blogging! So this is a real long day indeed.

Speaking of waking up early, I have recently cahanged my study strategy by a little of sleeping early and waking up earlier to study or complete my work. I realised that I can actually reap more by working early.

These days, I am also feeling very vexed. I just wonder why, every time when I see that flirtatious guy in my class flirting with the girl whom I like, I will just burn in anger. Is this the element of jealousy? I suppose so. I really feel that I should learn how to put things down, as she has already rejected me and decided to stay as friends with me. It is really hard for me and I just don't know why, I just like her so much. I just feel that she's the one for me and I want to be with her. This is a real shitty feeling man! Its like the second time in my life that I got so crazy over a gal whom I like. How? How am I going to help myself to ungrip this knot in my heart?

What's on for 11/07/08

2008-07-11T23:58:00.002+08:00

Another week passed... This week has been a busy one for me, although schools starts on Tuesday this week due to youth day. Despite the holiday, Monday was a real busy day for me. I spent my whole day completing my weekend assignments and studying for my geography test. Tuesday was geography test. And that test is so 100% from ten years series! I was just so dumb to not practice my ten years series before the test. I had a lot of homework on Tuesday, so right after remedials, I went home to do all of them and also study for my Thursday's Chemistry test. Wednesday was a rather dry day and it was almost the same as Tuesday; I went home to do all my homework and studied for Chemistry. On Thursday, my class had a few free periods and initially, I thought that I can spend that time studying for Chemistry. But I was just so not in the mood to study but to talk cock with Prem, Ken and Lakshmanan. It was Dora's birthday that day and all the girls sang the birthday song to her. And from that we tried changing the lyrics of that song to a funny version for those turning 16:

Happy birthday to you;
you are 16 this year;
NC 16 flick's for you;
enjoy the violence and gore;

Happy birthday to you;
you can have sex from now;
so go and have fun;
and get some VD

then we guys said a even funnier one if someone's 18, and it goes like this:

Happy birthday to you;
you are 18 this year;
you can buy cigarettes now;
so go grab a pack;

Happy birthday to you;
you can buy beer right now;
go 7-11 to buy;
and get fucking drunk

Happy birthday to you;
M18 movie's for you;
sexual content and gore;
will keep you entertained

... (and it goes on)

So after that, all of us laughed our hell out to tears. It was a well spent free period indeed, as we spent that time relaxing and got ourselves out form our extreme stress. After lessons during remedials, we had our Chemistry test. And it was so unexpected that our test is a MCQ test. So I was so relived that I will have no difficulty in attempting the questions. As I need not spent lots of time writing. Our day ended damn late at 1730 and the moment I went home, dinner's ready. All I did was just to fill up my draft Direct Poly Admission (DPA) application form with the computer. And after dinner, my eldest brother helped me to amend my application form and I submitted them online. After that I spent all my time till about 0000hrs on my homework and then slept at 0030hrs. Today, I woke up late at 0630 hrs and reached school later. Today was long as I had Biology extra lesson till about 1630 today. I stayed on to listen to Miss Lam's sharing of a story she heard from church and also listened to her preaching about Christ. I went home late like yesterday and had my dinner almost immediately I reached home. after dinner, I spent all my time slacking. I played my guitar and was practicing with the song in Music and Lyrics by Hugh Grant and Haley Bennett called 'Way Back Into Love'. I was practicing with the TABs I downloaded a few days ago and spent an hour or so with my guitar. Next I played DotA with Jonathan and now, here I am blogging.

What's on for 05/06/08

2008-07-05T00:08:00.002+08:00

Another midnight post I have today...

This week has been a real tiring week for me. For the whole week since Monday, I've been home late from remedial and started work late everyday at about 2000hrs. Sleep is again something being lacked since school reopens. Every night, I sleep at about 0000hrs and woke up at about 0600. I'm really tired. But I just have no choice, as I gotta finish my work before sleep. Although I have no test for this whole week, it was a rather hard week for me, as there's load of work to do everyday from various subjects. I suppose next week will be worse, as there's 3 test coming up; Geography on Monday, Chemistry on Thursday and Biology on one of the days. I think I'm really totally freaked out man! I just cannot believe that next week is so heavy again. So this long weekend is more like a study weekend I think. As, I gotta spend all my time completing all my homework and to also study for all 3 tests. I just hope that all my buddies out there won't pull me out to slack and waste time. Or I would not be able to be on task then...

There's also this interesting thing that I've just realised about life; when hate burns in us, we will always make this black flame burn on by feeding it with all the bad things about certain person we hate. And hate is everlasting like love; you will find it hard to forget those whom we hate, neither is it easy to forget those whom we love. Hate burns in hell and love shines in heaven. These two elements revolves around us human beings on earth all the time. Hate is everywhere, it is never easy to extinguish this black flame, but it is very easy to catch this flame... Forgive and forget may sound easy, but just try doing it with the element of eternal burning hate around. I can just assure you, it is not easy!

What's on for 27/06/08

2008-06-27T22:18:00.002+08:00

One week passed since my Jun vacation ended. Despite checking my 'O' Level Chinese Oral examination's date via the SEAB website during my vacations, I was still so shocked to hear from Miss Choong that my Orals was on Thursday. I did not expect mine to be right at the first day of the Oral exams. So through these few days from Monday to Wednesday, I spent all my time everyday practicing on my Chinese orals till a state where my eyes got so tired of reading and my mouth became so dry that I cannot utter a word. During all these practicing sessions, it was really a frustrating thing that I tend to 'stuck' and stumble halfway when reading the passage. And I was like praying so damn hard for myself to read smoothly during the real thing and also to eject all my constructive ideas to the examiner during the conversation part. However, results vary from what I wanted.

Yesterday afternoon during my oral exams, I was very anxious. When I entered the examination room, the chill in the room produced a fear that gripped me tightly like a vine. My hands were trembling even when I was holding to the door knob, stabilising the door and to close the door. I greeted the examiners and sat down in front of them. When I started reading the passage, I suddenly stumbled and became stuck for the first sentence. But I still managed to read that sentence off with me trembling in my speech. The subsequent parts of the passage was ok, just that there were also some confusing words that made me stumble for a while. the last sentence was the funniest of all, I read on till the end and then realised that the examiners were staring at me as if there is something weird going on in me. But in fact something really weird went on, I missed out the last word of the whole passage and I was very embarrassed that I read the last word only after a second after I stopped from the previous word... This was how I read the last part: "。。。。。。我煮得很好。。。（1 second) 吃。" Thats really so funny and embarrassing man! Luckily conversation was still ok, the topic is about the 'Bring your own shopping bag' project. I had a lot to say for that, so ideas was flowing out of my brain like the tap. I said to my fill and ended my oral exams within this few minutes.

What's on for 21/06/08

2008-06-21T17:39:00.002+08:00

[ "Sir, would you like to donate?" "Ma'am, would you like to donate?" "你要捐钱吗？" "小姐，要捐钱吗？" "先生，要捐钱吗？" “Oh, ok... never mind." "Oh, ok... 没有关系." "Thank you!" "Thanks a lot!" "Thank you, have a nice day!" "谢谢!" ] These are the few phrases that I've been saying for the whole morning. They sounds familiar huh? Yes, I am doing flag day today morning with my class as my class's CIP. This flag day was fund raising for 'Kidney Dialysis foundation (KDF)'. And people must be thinking, why am I raising funds for that notorious NKF?! To assure everyone, KDF is a private organisation that supports the kidney failure patients in Singapore for kidney dialysis. And KDF has nothing to do with NKF! Actually, this is also one of the things that I've been repeating to the public for the whole morning. Today's flag day was quite successful, as I cleared all the 120 stickers given to me. And William and I were just so lucky to be just the only two people collecting at Simei, East Point Mall. The rear exit there has heavy traffic of shoppers, and the frequency of people donating is high. It was just so unlike Downtown East, where Louis, Lakshmanan, William and I started to try our luck at first and failed. As it was very empty there in the morning 0800hrs... So that was also the reason why William and I switched location to Simei, while Louis and Lakshmanan went to Bedok. William and I reported back to Pasir Ris MRT to return our donation bags at about 1230 and waited for the rest of my classmates to return to the booth and collect a reflection form. At about 1345, I went home with William and after that when I reached home, I slacked my afternoon off by playing Need For Speed™ CARBON on XBOX till now. That's my day...

In fact, it today is actually my 16th Birthday... haha.

What's on for 18/06/08

2008-06-18T15:50:00.004+08:00

Woo hoo! This is finally the 100th post since I opened this blog. This is really a significant post! Maybe the 200th post will be the another significant post of mine.

Back to life... Nothing much happed for these few days. All I did was to study, slack, study, slack. Nothing else was done. I just cannot believe that my short holiday is ending so soon. Just another 4 days, and its over. How I hope my holiday can be extended for another two weeks or so man! Two weeks of holiday is really too short for me to revitalise from my usual stress. And in fact, many secondary schools also did the same thing to cut their 'O' level students' holiday by half for extra lessons. Many parents complained to the press for schools not giving their kids sufficient time to rest. But schools just do not have a choice, as we are already rushing very hard to complete our syllabus. My first two weeks of holidays was just purely lessons in school. And I just realised that I do not even have the time to play much for this two weeks vacation. I just wonder if 'O' levels will be pulled forward by a week or two next year. If thats so, I suppose my secondary 3 juniors this year will really suffer next year. The rush for an early 'O' level is really stressing all students out!

And for now, how I hope that I can travel back to the start of the year with my brain now! I thats so, I will certainly have no problem with all my schools work. And can even have so much more time to study. But having such thoughts is just unfair...

This is just an extension of today's post. Just right after I post just now, I watched this show, 'The Forty Year Old Virgin'. Just one word to describe this show, "It's hilarious". This show is about a guy who is already 40, and he is still a virgin. All his friends cum colleague were persuading hard on him to find a girl and get laid. But this guy just find it so hard to even mention the word 'sex'. One day, this guy met this divorced woman with 3 kids and a grand kid; he got deeply attracted to her and even dated with her. Things went on with some complications in between that relationship. And in the end, they got married and finally, that guy lost his virginity to his wife. Watch this show on some online streaming sites if possible.

And after watching this show, I personally felt that whatever that guy did was absolutely right. It is just so great for him to abstain from sex until marriage. Despite all the mocking he had from his friends, I do feel that his friends were just so wrong to pollute him by persuading him to go have sex with any woman he meet. In fact, this is morally wrong! To me, sex is also the last thing I will talk about in a relationship. I may sound like I am lying, but this is just a fact about me: I can talk sick stuff and think about sex all the time like any other men. But deep in me, I still hold the mentality to abstain from sex till marriage. As I felt that sex should be only enjoyed between married couples. And this intercourse is just the act of reproducing off springs; pleasure comes after that.

What's on for 15/06/08

2008-06-15T21:46:00.002+08:00

I'm making it short and sweet today...

Today I woke up at 0900 and spent a real lazy and boring morning at home. In the afternoon, I went to Simei to retrieve my phone, and I was so glad that they had my phone done. So for now, my phone is back to the near perfect condition again. After that, I went to join Nigel, Seng Hong and Jon for a few rounds of pool. I played an 8-balls game with Jon and lost it. And I played a 9-balls game with Nigel and won him by plotting the 9th ball with my left hand holding the pool cue and by some chance, Jon hit the butt of the pool cue when I was also hitting the cue ball (white). So thats how I succeeded in plotting in the 9th ball, henceforth winning the game. After pool, I went home, had my dinner and started working on Friendster again. And the last thing is me blogging for today.