Tuesday, September 30, 2008.

and dmp's over, which means AUTUMN IS FINALLY HERE.

wait singapore has no autumn, it only has dry, rainy and f1 seasons.

confess. WHICH (shameless) IDIOT DIDN'T WATCH F1 SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX ON TV?

you deserve to die a horrible death, maybe like getting struck by massa's fuel hose.
joking.

anyway shan't say anything about my birthday, cause as per all my past birthdays, they all involve mugging.

eek.

and anyway. when autumn comes, the scent of freshly printed papers blows with the wind, and one can smell a whiff of the black ink on the printed papers and their words.

they spell out "END OF YEARS".

well, in other contexts, that usually calls for celebration, that santa is here giving his supply of oil to alaska for palin to dig up, and that congress somehow voted wrongly and really wanted the bail-out plan after all.

to ri guys, that ain't the case though.

my ss, geog and chem look untouched. well, maybe a bit of ss and geog, but chem definitely clean. seeing as i have ABSOLUTELY no clue what's going to come out for eoys, i should as well resign myself to fate and die a horrible death this eoys.

anyway dmp was half-fun-half-slack. some lessons bored me, others (mat. sci. ftw!) had me on steroids. ahh why can't we do more of these stuff next time?

now it's back to neurons. darn.

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Sunday, September 28, 2008.

note to patrick: your story will come soon. before that story i must post this.

anyway, resuming my "great people (or NOT-SO-GREAT people for the case of jeremy sia)"series, today's featured person is none other than

NIGEL FONG.

Scientists have postulated that there are 3 different species of humans in RI: the standard RI human, the Ivan and the FONG. (of course, there's a secret hidden 4th species, the IMBA, of which I dare not write for the IMBA power will overwhelm me.)

Let's debunk some myths about great Fong.

Myth 1) Fong doesn't play games.
You should be surprised that Fong plays games. Fong claims, "I was addicted to computer games in primary school." Maybe that's why he ONLY got 280 for psle.

Myth 2) Fong believes in nonviolence.
As experienced by this author, Fong can get VIOLENT. very violent in fact. he whacks people like nobody's business, as can be seen on tang huiyao's tagboard.

Myth 3) Fong likes mugging everything.
Tell him that, and he will respond, "No, I don't like doing Maths." Fong can get very pissed when people accuse him of loving maths, and will attempt to avoid Ivan Loh at all costs. (But then again, everyone avoids Ivan Loh.) Oh ya, and there's Chinese.

Myth 4) Fong is not random.
Then again, every pro person is random to a large degree. Look at Huang Wenjie, who will randomly throw his "waydn" and "ihbit" phrases at you halfway in the middle of the night. Look at Aaron Tang, who will randomly take out his phone and race while mugging. Fong can be very random and pull people's hair at random times.

It is indeed difficult to quantify Nigel Fong, a species of his own. But if there's one thing that can be taken away with regards to Fong, it would be:

"Have faith in Fong, you won't go wrong." (Fong, 2006)

P.S. I anticipate Fong slaughtering me tomorrow during Chem.
P.P.S. That's not good. Who dies on his birthday?
P.P.P.S. Speaking of which, something hapened yesterday night with regards to the aforementioned stuff. and Fong as well.
P.P.P.P.S. Fong can't deny this, but "Leave with Fong. You won't go wrong."

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Thursday, September 25, 2008.

well, it's coming!

i never ever felt excited during this timing for the past few years. but then again, who looks forward to a mugging-filled birthday? stinks.

anyway i wasnt referring to my birthday (yeah its only 1 day out of 366, ain't so special), but rather, to F1SGP.

im not exactly a fan of F1. im just hooking onto the excitement and lure generated by the 5.067km -long hydrocarbon-made track. then again, it's fun! i dunno but it may just be the spirit in myself (spirit seems like an awful word to use). oh whatever, it's gonna be fun with the added tourism benefits and whatnot (yay geog-mugging)

ohya if you REALLY wanted to give me a birthday present there's always a F1 grandstand ticket to be bought, it's only $1600++. not so ex, seeing as the painting (or should i call doodling) of the science hub@ri costs at least 12.5 times that (and was a rather cough-brilliant-cough venture of our hard-earned taxpayer money).

shall post pictures of the wonderful drawing up soon. though they seemed to have edited them.

anyway i was rather drawn on th the presidential debates starting very soon. though i dont vote (duh.) i have taken a keen interest towards the race, seeing as 1) this race wastes more $$$ and burns more CO2 than the race happening at 2000 (+8GMT) the day before my birthday right outside the flyer, and 2) i dont want another bush-like disaster in the oval office.

And since bush screwed up and his policies are typical of the republicans, its quite easy to tell where my vote (if i ever had one) would end up eh.

palin needs tuition for foreign affairs worse than me needing jap tuition. she can't answer questions for nuts, she has NO idea what bush has been doing with regards to the rest of the world, and can't decide whether iraq was a good thing. really, ill rather have the LHC blow the world up by heating up its magnets than having palin assume the presidential post (seeing as mccain isn't exactly young).

and worst is, she thinks that global warming isnt mainly caused by humans, yet wants a kind of anti-global-warming plan so she can continue playing ice-hockey in Alaska. AND dig up more oil in Alaska to foot the bill for the Bridge to Nowhere, which led her nowhere but down.

biden is clever enough to not talk so much. at least he's the fail-safe, so that if obama fails (which is REALLY unlikely) there's still biden who is really a secure candidate, who knows what to do (including leaving iraq).

then again, warren buffett probably saved mccain's face. by quite a bit, or else the bush admin (and the republicans) would have been owned. anyway bush was never a good idea to begin with. if only the nobel peace-prize selection council could vote for who they wanted in 2000. then it wouldnt have been an inconvienient truth any more.

Obama > McCain.

P.S. I feel sleepy.
P.P.S. Alan Aw Jin, give me your email.
P.P.P.S. Why am I staring at pictures of cells and whatnot when there are better stuff to stare at, like F1 lights?
P.P.P.P.S. Screw the EOYs. I've personally never seen some people mugging that hard.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008.

THIS POST EXISTS SOLELY TO PROVE THAT I AM NOT ON HIATUS.

actually not really.

but who cares about my gpa, bet it's going down, down and down to nowhere.

a meme!

koped from wh's blog!
TEN THINGS you wish you could say to TEN different people right now, but don't mention names:
1) You should stop feeding people with C3N3(NH2)3-laced Oreos. It's unhealthy.
2) You should not receive sweets from older men who might have an ulterior motive. Maybe not sweets, but Oreos.
3) Stop flirting, stop dreaming and start setting up your solar-powered racing car club.
4) I know you are "stupidest", but everyone knew that long ago.
5) Lucky you weren't in NSC team, or the buzzer would have been spoilt long ago.
6) Speaking of NSC, don't screw it up ok? Anyway my camp game is going along fine, but chances are, you won't be reading this.
7) But if you happen to read this, chairman, you know I want my camp game.
8) Hey I never forgave you for quitting Jap :D
9) And I never forgave you for taking French and butchering reindeers :)
10) And I never forgave you for playing for our concert and taking German! :D

NINE things about yourself:
1) I love classical music.
2) I wish I could tour the world and visit all the scenic places of the world before global warming sets in.
3) And I would be happy to die with "The Lark Ascending" played in the background while I lie on a patch of green grass in a temperate country, with my loved one, just watching the larks ascending (how creative can I get?)
4) But then again, I need to be rich to die like that. So I mug a lot.
5) But it's special for chem. I mug chem cause I like it.
6) I think true friendship is something I would die for.
7) I could spend hours in either/and 4B '08 or RISE.
8) I am actually rather shy. Some people may know this actually.
9) I am super-lazy. Therefore I think my EOYs are screwed.

EIGHT ways to win my heart:
1) Like classical music.
2) Talk to me. I need company.
3) Endure my whole lot of nonsense. I will be grateful.
4) GIVE ME MY 4.0 FOR JAPANESE BACK. (by definition no one can win my heart anymore.)
5) Food. Food. Because I am dangerously hungry for good food.
6) Don't be super-b***hy, cause I seriously hate these people.
7) Not be taller than me (I don't want to strain my neck too much, seeing as I always have to strain my neck in a school where nearly everyone is taller than me)
8) Be yourself. Don't fake! (think violas XD)

SEVEN things that cross your mind a lot:
1) Japanese. Ever since my disastrous results I haven't had a good night's sleep. The GPA drop that can be attributed to it is immense.
2) Chemistry (for obvious reasons)
3) RISE.
4) 4B'08
5) Random things in the world that influence the world, and how I wish I could help.
6) People and friends.
7) Music.

SIX things I do before I fall asleep
1) Turn off the computer
2) Go brush my teeth
3) Come out of the toilet and turn off the plug
4) Turn on the fan
5) Take off my specs
6) Lie on the bed and let myself enter dreamworld.

FIVE people who mean a lot:
1) My parents and sister. Though I don't mention it, it's pretty obvious right?
2) Mr. Ong, for all that you've done, as well as Ms. Shen and Mr. Sze.
3) Jeremy Sia (though I hate to mention it.)
4) All my other friends who I really can't mention here.
5) Gustav Mahler, for all the boring symphonies you write which make me fall sleepy. Oh yeah, and Herbert von Karajan, for playing the aforementioned composer's music trashily.

FOUR things I'm wearing right now:
1) My specs
2) My shirt
3) My pants
4) My watch

THREE songs that you listen to often:
1) Ralph Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending", tone-poem for violin and orchestra.
2) Gustav Mahler's Symphony #9
3) Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony #10

All 3 songs have an affinity with me. The 1st piece is easy to relate to, cause it's just so beautiful. Then 2nd piece is a very wonderful, ethereal work that transcends everything. The 3rd piece is really cause i need some fear in me. It's a very scary work when done well, and it's still as scary now than before.

I might add Richard Strauss' 4 Last Songs into the list, as well as his Metamorphosen.

TWO things you want to do before you die:
1) Find true love.
2) Listen to a live performance of Mahler's Ninth.

ONE confession:
I don't really mug chem a lot. SERIOUSLY.

Ok i suspect no one believed my confession. Darn.

There you go, 1 hour of my time, and proof that I PLAN TO SCREW MY GPA UP.

Labels: Life

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Friday, September 19, 2008.

yay. i have officially gone back to mugging chem.

that's the good news.

BUT.

im not mugging chem for eoys. which is a very BAD thing, seeing as i probably forgot most of my sec3 stuff (ehh we did QA like in april last yr! and its tested, the whole lot of them! and its the most memory-intensive one of them all! guess what-i forgot them all.)

anyway i predict i will suicide my eoys, seeing as my dmp mugging schedule is over-screwed-up (im mugging MATH only now, and math should have been finished over with according to my mugging schedule).

by the way,
I'M ANNOUNCING A
NON-HIATUS.

*stares in wonder*
to my mind, what's the purpose of having a hiatus just for the sake of exams? i remember when eoys came last year, i updated my blog like every day (and i vaguely remember playing gunbound or a game of that variant every day).

a blog gets exciting when you have many (interesting) stuff on and you need to record them down (remember that blogs came from diaries), that's why blogs go dead during the holidays. and isn't the most exciting time of your life the exams part? and furthermore you have quite a lot of time to do some random stuff (partly cause i cant sit down and mug for 4 hrs straight).

so, obviously, i refuse to set my blog on hiatus (unless i suddenly become buzy)

anyway i have some comments regarding some school system, but then again, this is public space and it's supposed to be kept quiet, so i won't say more here.

P.S. dmp is half-fun-half-boring.
P.P.S. some could have been taught better, and some couldn't have been taught better (MATERIAL SCIENCE IS THE <3! ohmygosh i just LOVE material science, especially what we do with epoxides and polyethylene terephthalate! it's cool beyond imagination!)
P.P.P.S. I'm broke. thanks to cafe cartel and a certain person who uses brownian motion as a tool of movement XD)
P.P.P.P.S. And aren't you supposed to ask me on MSN? I'm waiting.

Labels: Life

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008.

i think i'm suffering from a severe case of anorexia (perhaps the worst in my school). i refuse sweets on the basis that "i will grow fat".

then again, i just ate half a 12-inch pizza for dinner today.

hm.

let's ignore my weight issues and talk about my height issues ok?

yeah, I'M TALLER THAN BARRY. (lol.)

but if i were to continue, im gonna get owned cause nearly the whole world's taller than me. and by reminding myself that i'm short im reminding myself of a stupid bet 4 years ago.

i remember when i was in ny the people were like >2heads taller and >2 times my waist length. so im not fat, but im not tall either.

sniff.

then again, i am short enough to not hit my head when i attempt to go under a lot of things. that's how i can crawl under the table during chem to write something on the board (did i say anything? oops.)

well, though im fat and short (not fat actually, but i'm supposed to be anorexic!) i still like myself for how i am, unlike crazy people who get silicone implants and whatnot. that just goes to show how insecure one is, making oneself even more insecure and exposing one's insecurity to the whole wide world.

so don't give those plastic surgeons free money! refuse all forms of physical alterations. dont get a nigelfong-brain implant as well! (cause it's for me, not you :D)

Labels: Life

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Monday, September 15, 2008.

dmp is a mixed bag for me, seeing as my 2 "free" days (one being tmr) aren't exactly free, thanks to assembly. comeon! it takes me more time to go to sch and back than it takes for assembly.

urgh but nvm.

anyway CHEM IS TEH <3! (= <6) ok lame mathematical stuff aside, this must be the SMALLEST dmp class ever i think, and it's so fun! you get to cut up diapers, play with random polymers and do loads of funny and random things!

now i fully appreciate being in chemra. it's so fun, they had better equal (or better) this in rj! (that's if i even qualify in the 1st place).

P.S. Jeremy Sia likes Theophilus Kwek (note the 1-way relationship.)
P.P.S. But Theophilus Kwek already likes other people (hint hint :D)!
P.P.P.S. Theophilus Kwek should STOP flirting too much, cause it hurts others' feelings too. Mug more and flirt less, so your crushes' (note the non-singularity) parents won't have to complain that their daughters' phone bill has dy/dx increasing soo fast it's faster than the particle in the LHC.
P.P.P.P.S. I like this! Cool. But must give credit, therefore i credit a certain orange timpani.

Labels: school

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Sunday, September 14, 2008.

well, liverpool won! for sooooo long already. lol it's a little too late but, well, no offense to man u fans.

anyway today is supposed to be mid-autumn festival, where we celebrate our mooncakes (with durian, lychee and heaven-knows-what in it, and strange colours that seem to come from a chem(!) lab plastered all over it) and energiser-powered lanterns.

and just last night my estate had its 1st pasar malam this year (if i recall properly). it was hardly bustling at all, with merely 200m of shops and so few people (even on a saturday night).

in the past, i remembered my estate having at least 1 pasar-malam every week. they were grandiose in stature, with rows and rows of shops, countless swarms of people mingling with the fake gucci bags and the not-too-healthy ramly burger.

and now, 5 years later, all has changed. what is left of pasar malams are but inconsequential; within a few more years it's going the way of the dodo and all the amphibians (soon, actually). and whatever we loved about the mid-autumn festival has all been taken over by what we love about other cultures. what's the point carrying plastic lanterns? what's the point eating durian mooncakes with not a single yolk in them?

there's this piece that i started liking ever since sometime in july, where i was rather sad and angry and blasted it out (bad for classical music, but well). it's called metamorphosen. composed by richard strauss during late wwii, it spoke of his grief at the loss of german culture. he moaned when he saw opera houses being converted into cinemas, and he cried when air raids burned down many opera houses. this work was his response to the loss of german culture, all because of some germans.

yeah, it's 26+ minutes, and is a string ensemble work, but i do love it a lot. when i hear it, i listened to the outpouring of grief, that something once so great would cease to be, that whatever culture and identity built up was but to vanish in the face of their descendants.

we must keep in mind that development does not seek to erode culture, and we must hold on to culture and not let different ideals envelop us.

Labels: Life

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Thursday, September 11, 2008.

well, i was feeling rather downbeat just now, but i'm fine now.

anyway, a meme (rather, the FAMOUS meme).

the one where you just list names but won't know the question (unless you already know, or want to do the meme, in which case you can ask me).

1) Keng Chee
2) Nigel Fong
3) Nigel Fong
4) Jerald
5) Kenneth Yong
6) Barry
7) Nigel Fong (seems he's rather popular)
8) err, i'm in school! question invalid, me thinks.
9) Jeremy Sia
10) Weng Hong
11) Theophilus
12) Hmmm. Hmmmmmmm.
13) Nigel Fong (really popular me thinks)
14) Jeremy Sia (well, sorry ): )
15) Ben Yong (cause it just looks so weird!)
16) Ben Yong (srsly)
17) Weng Hong
18) Daron??
19) have faith in Fong, you won't go wrong.
20) Ivan. that goes without saying.
21) I dunno, myself?
22) Jerald. He slashes himself so much his body turned black (:
23) I actually have someone in mind, but never mind -.-
24) Somehow I also have that same someone in mind.
25) Theophilus (TOO BAD.)
26) eew. refuse to answer.
27) I dunno.
28) IVAN! he will look like some super-bad-mad-evil man ready to kill anyone with maths.
29) Won't say.
30) I'm glad I know you guys.

yeah that's it. now need to do geog, due tmr X(

Labels: friends, Life

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i can't believe it.

really.

how did i score so low?

from 81, to 2 years of mid-70s, to this.

i wasn't there to collect the papers. i don't want to be there to see it.

this really made me wonder, why i was so stupid. stupid to take it in the 1st place, stupid to choose the wrong language, stupid to continue for 4 years, stupid to score so badly.

and i even signed up for jlpt2.

i might as well not go and tear up the receipt. look at me, a piece of incapable crap, who can't properly use a language.

i stared incredulously when i heard daniel chew's "feat" last year. all 4.0, japanese 2.8.

now i got the exact same fate, and possibly worse, seeing as my chinese isn't half as good.

my gpa has plunged like crap.

and i have only myself to blame.

Labels: Life, school

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Tuesday, September 9, 2008.

ok there's a serious obsession in my class about the large hadron collider.

apparently quoting zhiyi (who DEFINITELY isn't the best person to quote with regards to science, but you'll see why), "the LHC's going to form black holes, and we'll be swallowed up by the black hole tomorrow! Doomsday!"

well, his words do have some sense in it, that's why you see a lot of 4B people with anti-LHC messages on msn.

well. we might also burn to death by those strangelets. you never know how you're gonna die.

but it's quite ironic isn't it? what the anti-LHC scientists want to do is to shut it off cause there's not enough proof that there WON'T be a black hole created, and the scientists need the LHC to find out more info about black holes so that they can prove the anti-LHC scientists. so it's in a very screwed position.

well. who cares if we die tomorrow? at least we, unlike rgs, won't need to mug for eoys (:

so cause of this LHC worry, which looks familiar, some members (of our class) have been acting erratically.

barry: "Oh dear. Now I only have 2 days to proclaim my love to ****** (ask me for name), or else she won't know forever."

philo teacher: "In the event that the black hole doesn't occur, you still have to do your dialogue ob. Too bad."

oh and anyway, tomorrow is merely the day where they start the proton beam and accelerate it. so no collisions yet, which means that we won't die tmr (unless of other STANDARD causes) and we have to take the eoys ):

Labels: Life, school

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Sunday, September 7, 2008.

life has been terrible, especially the by-now-famous-and-hated-by-all-sec-fours-for-wasting-their-time-since-it-is-utterly-and-completely-useless-so-we-should-not-even-do-it-at-all-so-i-wonder-why-we-are-doing-it CLE poster.

ok ignore that strand. i'm having a bad case of pms now.

ahh and there was stupid ysc judging, of which i WILL NOT COMMENT.

*comments*

but it was stupid anyway.

now im headed for a t4w1 which was SUPPOSED to be dmp. then again, something just had to come along.

P.S. Life sucks.
P.P.S. So don't go for YSC this saturday!
P.P.P.S. Cause Republic Poly is FAR.
P.P.P.P.S. Yeah I'm doing a WH.
P.P.P.P.P.S. What's wrong?

Labels: Life

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Thursday, September 4, 2008.

i swear, people are getting more and more kiasu nowadays.

today afternoon, while i was HAPPILY reading an essay on mahler (while listening to mahler, duh.), theokwek called me.

turns out he's one of the freaks who want to take 2 RAs next year.

and 1 RA is bad enough. 2 RAs and 11 subjects, is he mental? uh but never mind.

so he asked me for help. like "what kind of qns do they set for mathra?" apparently i failed to persuade him not to take maffra. so well i told him, and he began asking me for help to ace the ra selection test.

eek so geeky. when I was in sec 2 i didnt even care about the test. i even lost the geogra application form.

ppl like theokwek give a nicer definition to "kiasuism".

edit: I FORGOT ABOUT JLPT FORMS. ahh. how careless am i. which means I HAVE TOMORROW ONLY TO FILL IT IN. wonderful eh.

Labels: Life

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Wednesday, September 3, 2008.

i'm typing this in google chrome!

Labels: Life

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Monday, September 1, 2008.

dunno why, but these recent days have been weird for me.

i suddenly have this super-strong urge to want to go somewhere. as in go backpacking. cause i dunno, i just feel like. the experience of going to another country, interacting with others, having fun, i dunno, but that just sounds tres cool.

and if i do go backpacking, japan's the 1st place i'll go. cause i dunno, i'm beginning to feel the aftereffects of taking japan as a 3rd lang. its like, sooo many people who learn jap are all super-addicted to jap culture, and it's soooo cool if i can go there and have fun.

yeah, that's if i can afford it.

i still seriously think japan is such a WONDERFUL country. you have stuff like tokyo, which mesmerises you to no end (shibuya is just THAT cool, and what with harajuku, shinjuku, ginza, akihabara etc, it's a shopper's paradise.) then there's the rustic rural charm (which for some strange reason excites me more than the urban sprawl) of the japanese villages, which are soooo breathtaking (LITERALLY) beautiful. then there's the snow of the mountains and the warmth of the beaches and the onsen. and there's the cultural monuments which are so wonderful (along with all the matsuris).

went to japan once, but i just realised i need to go there again.

ahh. then there's newyork. i realllly want to go back to ny and dunno, parade in the middle of times square? i remember when i first stepped into times square, i couldn't believe my eyes. it looked so deceptively small and simple. yet after carnegie i was instinctively drawn back to times square even if it was in the middle of the night (literally 12mn). ahh, there's so much to go and visit.

then there are other cities and places i badly need to visit.

but for the time being, dream on lumpy ):

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