Monday, February 23, 2009.

it takes 2 hands to clap.

every action, even if done unknowingly, has a reaction.

empty words. so much for the proclamations.

please. will you?

Labels: friends, Life

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Thursday, February 19, 2009.

apologies to anyone who wished for something more entertaining from my blog other than lame useless rants. just that i needed to let off some (fake) steam somewhere (and well practising for GP too.)

anyway an update!

10S06P has been way way more cool than I expected! we sit and talk cock during free blocks (which somehow nearly always coincides with recess/lunch), and really laugh and talk and random around during lessons (coughFEESIXScough).

haha there you go, 10S06P <3!

anyway another part of my rather cool (compared to boring sec3) life is chamber! yeah sure i'm in more ccas than chamber, but i guess i still want to treat chamber as my 1st cca. it's really a nice place (even with the margaret sectionals, which really isn't that bad cause it works.) we hang out a lot (especially the j1s) and really random a lot (styling hair in the toilet. hmhm.) and insult each other (and get insulted.).

anyway lessons have been somewhere between fun and dull. lectures are always ZZZ time (especially chem.) EXCEPT for a certain subject, which is SO ENTERTAINING I CANNOT SLEEP.

FEESIXS is soooo entertaining! really it has become a habit for me to pay attention (cause it's so worth it to pay attention), and to think in sec 3 and 4 i never bothered to pay attention.

chem and math aren't all that scary (so much for accelerated learning.), and chem sounds quite fun (once the pullout lectures start).

gp and pw's ok, cause gp tutor really knows what she's doing and pw tutor seems experienced too.

i actually thought through very long (and in fact i'm undecided), but i dunno whether to drop econs for geog. unlikely though, seeing as i already got myself sloman.

anyway school's fun! and BW>you! and we really need to meet up guys!

Labels: Life

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Saturday, February 14, 2009.

yup so today's SINGLES' AWARENESS DAY, the ever-so-famous pseudo-holiday where people sell roses on the street with flagrant disregard for Singapore's selling permit rules, guys and girls boost sales and help get the world out of a recession, and where PEOPLE GO BACK TO SCHOOL FOR SECTIONALS.

zzz.

(joking luh we do need it, seriously!)

but honestly, all jealousy and jokes aside, i am one who totally disbelieves in Valentine's Day. I know you couples out there who actually bother to read this blog and not caress your dear one will scream "heresy" and demand me to be stoned to death tomorrow and claim i'm just jealous that i was HAPPILY alone listening to mahler, but i DO have reasons.

vday seems to be a very insincere and meaningless way of showing love and appreciation to the other partner. what happens is that people seem to prepare JUST for v-day and nothing else. it feels very forced, that there is specially a day set out for you to be forced to show your love, all thanks to peer and societal pressure for you to go out and spend your hongbao money on your loved one.

it feels artificial.

i mean, you ARE expected to go out to give some love to your loved ones on vday! so whether or not it is truly from your heart no one knows. maybe it is, but it may JUST be that one day where you care for him/her, and neglect him/her for the other days. HOW is that sincere?

it's like going to an old folks' home to visit your parents once every year during chinese new year. How does that show sincerity?! how does that show that you actually do care? everyone's expected to turn up, so it does not give an indication of anything.

yes the love spread during vday is nice, but really what happens after that should be the acid test (haha acid test soo reminds me of screwed-up chem practs where chester would drink chemicals). so in the end v-day becomes rather redundant, because EVERYONE shows their love no matter what (because society expects them to.), and as such it really feels insincere.

might as well scrap it and save up money so that you can BETTER show your love in a more meaningful way. eg. like buying stuff periodically instead of wasting it all on 1000 roses. maybe just buy 10 and save the extra 990 for a nice meal (or 10) at equinox.

and furthermore not saying anything about the roses and plantations. countless many other crops could have been grown instead of roses. the whole trade and supply of roses just serves to create more hunger and possibly even more deforestation and global warming.

seriously, why keep v-day?

Labels: Life

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Friday, February 13, 2009.

after awaking today i tried to kick myself up and out of bed.

as i did so i felt a searing pain through my right leg.

i just lay down, quite badly (partially-) paralyzed.

that explains why i came to school 10 minutes later than usual, and didn't walk as fast as per my norm today.

it's ok now, but it reminded me of something very scary, very very scary i had last year.

i dunno, but i think it was late april/early may last year. it was actually quite a minor thing, a ear infection (i think caused by a mosquito bite?!).

but that gave me 5 days of hell.

that morning i sensed something amiss. i woke up hearing a ringing tone (i believe it's a quite flat E natural) in my right ear, which refused to go away despite all i could do (i thought it was pressure, i thought it was water etc. and tried really every method i knew of then.)

then on the mrt i got a very very rude shock. i plugged my earphones into my ear and listened to something. whenever an A was played my ear would hurt and i would hear an A flat instead in my right ear.

anyway i guess there's no point describing in full detail what i suffered, especially how i had to adapt for the sake of even being able to listen to the teacher.

that rude shock reminded me about how I took everything for granted, especially my 2 ears.

anyway school has been (slack but) fun. what with going out with chamber people, hanging with OGs and playing STUPID GAMES like "how many moo moos jumped over the wall" and the MRT game (OHHH I HATED THAT LIKE I TOOK 40 MINUTES TO FIGURE IT OUT.), class bonding and piano-playing/fooling around with the violin/piano etc.

yup jc life's fun!

Labels: class, friends, Life, OG

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009.

monday was quite cool, hanging out 1st with OG then class then 4B people (for a short while though) then class then OG THEN juniors (for a looong time). ohh mann i miss my juniors!

yesterday was super-screwedup. as in, it was JUST the (by-now-infamous) chem 1st lecture. then RIGHT AFTER THAT i already got people saying good job for being sabo-ed during chem.

ehhh not like i could offer a better explanation without angering the crowds lor. right after j1chamber lunch i walked past a guy while going back to rj and he whispered "orbitals" to me.

AND even my og members (those from S03 classes) commented on me lor. like o.0

nice start lumpy. thanks so much man geraldsng.

anyway rj's a very scary place. honestly, throughout my 4 years in RI, I never once saw so MANY people mugging together even when THE EXAMS ARE FAR FROM NEAR. whole ENTIRE CLASSES go to library to mug, members of classes sit down and mug together, even people I thought weren't muggers also sat down to mug IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY.

i was seriously shocked.

and guess what so-called muggers like ME, RENYONG, AARONTANG and AUSTIN (incidentally all 4 are double-ra "freak muggers") were doing then.

we were fooling around at mep room playing some pieces.

now now it's scary how one person mugging can totally influence a whole group of non-muggers to start mugging. herd mentality i call it.

disgusting though. really.

Labels: Life

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Monday, February 9, 2009.

classes out today.

and after worrying for 3 months ever since i screwed up my jap eoy i realised that there was absolutely no need to panic.

my class' 10S06P, the pCHEMRA-MAFFRAe/a/g class.

yeah.

i like knew nearly every guy there (austin, the 5 4B people, renyong, baohanjie and yeyushi) rather well (maybe not baohanjie and yeyushi).

just worried that the people aren't enthu enough. doesn't sound as crazy as 4B '08 (or even 10S06Q).

so we played games from 9.46 till like 11.26 (i think.) and then moved over to ri for lunch till about 12.30.

then some magic occured.

while talking to my class about possible locations to go, i saw a group of familiar people.

not 1, not 3, but a bunch of 6 O'RIGAMI people!

walking towards ri canteen.

and worst of them all, this was TOTALLY UNPLANNED! so it was just pure telepathy! ramasamy, nicholas, chng yan, esther, zaid, trung! then later came clarence, shi min, (kelly who alreadly left campus) and xian min!

so all of us met UNPLANNED for lunch!

and not also forgetting the unplanned morning meeting at the 'ome! like quite a number turned up without prior planning!

i swear O'RIGAMI has some form of very very strong telepathy! =DD

Labels: class, Life, OG

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Sunday, February 8, 2009.

disclaimer: actually i wrote some of this post on fri (on the mrt trip from cineleisure to school i spent some time thinking about this and emoing), but withheld it for the o'rientation post (refer below). but after some gepper discussion with a fellow gepper i guess i want to blog about this. apologies if it's a little dry, i need to get this off my chest.

i dunno how many times we've discussed this, but my OG seems to be rather interested in the topic of GEP. why so i'm not too sure.

but apparently ramasamy (and i believe a LOT of other people) can tell if a person is GEP or not JUST BY LOOKING at the face. he was rather accurate at that, and that (and a number of factors) seemed to make GEP people different from non-GEP people.

honestly it's quite true to a certain extent.

but i guess it's overabused. people start having GEP-phobia, people start stereotyping just because a person is/isn't GEP, people start ostracizing GEPpers.

in the end what happens is that GEP and non-GEP people become 2 separate species of people.

then discrimination occurs.

i read somewhere that "the best form of praise you can ever compliment to a gepper is "you don't look gep.""

that, seriously, is cruel.

is being GEP that wrong? just because GEPpers were isolated from the world for 3 years doesn't mean they're a totally new species of people, a separate organism right?

honestly, why on earth must there be a form of separation between GEPpers and non-geppers? is it correct to ostracize a bunch of people and laugh at them just because they scored a bit higher for a small test done years ago?

and are GEPpers just different? NO!

how on earth can GEPpers be truly different? will you ostracize a person if he/she just scored 1 mark more than you? does his/her brain truly think differently? will he/she morph into a completely different creature as soon as he/she signs the form and accepts GEP?

NO!

then why the fear about being with a gepper? are all geppers some kind of monster, abnormal freak about to swallow non-geppers up?

we are perfectly normal! some people play dota, some people slack, some people sleep, some people sing in the bathroom. just because we did well for one test or two doesn't mean we don't carry out what normal people do!

really i sometimes wish i wasn't a gepper.
(but i enjoyed gep, truly, from the bottom of my heart.)

Labels: Life

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Saturday, February 7, 2009.

i'll hold off other posts 1st for the mandatory o'rientation post.

*on a side note patrick cho please explain what I see on your blog.*

anyway o'tiero (FOR THE 3RD TIME RUNNING I DON'T BELIEVE THIS WORD EXISTS IN SPANISH. nevermind, it can be another "powerdei"-ish word (yeah like invented.)) has been nothing short of brain-dazzling.

magical, to be precise.

so many cool stuff indeed - stationgames, an amazing race, "when we look back", BATCHDANCE! (ohmygosh i think i lost count of the number of times i've seen the youtube video), raindance + sundance, wargames (lol stripmeifyoucan), face-paint war, captain's ball during take5 and MY FASHION DISASTER (yes till now i cannot believe i actually did a catwalk o.0).

indeed, i never had THAT high hopes for orientation, seeing as (as jiggy pointed out before orientation) we would bond together with a bunch of people who we won't interact much with after orientation. but. but.

something really cool came about because of that. we made new friends, had awesome wacky fun together (buying fbts for me?!) and really let our hair down.

so what if we won't officially meet up after orientation? so what if we're all going to be separated because we take different subject combis? so what if we aren't in the same ccas or in the same classes?

we're gonna stick around for long.

and really, a lot of credit should go to our OGLs, chloe, edwin and wei jie. really what made us moving on the 1st day was actually the OGLs assisting our ice-breakers, because right before that everyone was practically silent (even I didn't talk to leon much, and leon was perhaps one of the 2 people i knew before this). random assorted stuff (especially dinners, which were really good at breaking the ice between all of us) made us closer, and really i doubt our OG would be so close if not for the OGLs.

also not forgetting our "grandparents", leon and chng yan, who really did a wonderful job getting our og together for random assorted fun stuff (including dinner and presents for OGLs). as well as the rest of our OG, including wacky people *coughramasamycough* who really got us close together.

o'rigami BW11 FTW!
(and if any of you see this please tag!)

Labels: Life, OG

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Thursday, February 5, 2009.

i know it's just wrong to do an emo post now but this, after all, is a web-log(aka web diary), and i AM entitled to my opinions provided it doesn't get me into trouble.

yeah i guess it's something everyone has to go through.

it hurts leaving people.

a number of my blog posts these few months revolved around my (soon-to-be) former class. it is agony, agony indeed to think about how the past will never be the present.

and i guess it will happen soon.

o'tiero (I STILL SUSPECT IT ISN'T SPANISH.) has been really great, but the fear in everyone is what happens AFTER that. whether our og will stand together and be great friends despite the passing of time or disintegrate and be a small fragment of our life, never to be together and all forgotten, we will see.

i don't wish for the latter. i want to meet my og and talk to them, chit-chat and go for outings often. i want to have parties with them. i don't want orientation to just be about assimilating into merely the school compound, but also mixing with people and forging everlasting bonds.

but ever so often the latter occurs. it's only a matter of time when another group of people come into your life. classmates, ccamates, juniors and seniors, soon-to-be ns platoonmates...inevitably you'll have to face the same situation again and over again.

that's why i changed my msn nick and pm.

in the end you can't be best friends with everyone you ever met in this world. no one will have that much time. so some will stay while some will go. former best friends will become nothing but acquaintances, which happens ever so often.

so anticipate it. know when you're going to part, for then if you know that it won't last long you can make preparations for it.

it's just like how morrie described dying in "Tuesdays with Morrie". he prepared mock funerals for himself, not celebrating death, but life itself. he taught himself to accept death and not shudder at the sight of it, even when confronted with Lou Gehrig's disease.

most importantly, he made use of every single second he had left wisely.

that's just exactly what we should do. inevitably groups of friends will break up into oblivion, but before you know that the break-up will occur why not do your best? make use of every single second you have left before the bonds start loosening.

and that's why i'll promise i'll go crazy with my og tomorrow.

Labels: friends, Life

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009.

will do a post on o'tiero (i still dunno if it's REALLY spanish. tried finding it on google and everything was rjcorientation-related.) after the whole thing.

so for now 2 things:

1) GUYS RAISE UP YOUR HAND IF YOU DID NOT GET OWNED DURING "STRIP ME IF YOU CAN" TODAY.

you're a LIAR.

sorry =D

but really i was rather fortunate to get into "sickbay" early (cause i tripped over someone's leg and fell and got bruises). heard and saw many nasty stories about guys getting (for lack of a better word) raped by whole swarms of girls. Like 8 girls surrounding one guy?!

gosh wow there should have been more protection in place. the amazing number of guys getting damaged can shock you into thinking that girls are some mutant violent people.

maybe they are.

=D

2) something happened during wargames today that was damn funny.

while we were at stadium steps resting after the release of results HH stood up and was about to cheer.

they stood up, did their hand signal.

AND THEN.

suddenly from the left came a cheer. people in yellow, clapping in rhythm, going "HOT WE'RE SO HOT".

HH was stunned. they stared.

they tried to start their cheer.

"HOT WE'RE SO HOT."

and in the end BW TOTALLY PWNED HH. like TOTALLY.

this was perhaps the 1st time i ever saw a house interrupting another house's cheer and causing them to stop cheering and listen to the other house.

BW GIVES YOU WINGS!

Labels: school

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