farewell party...BYE KE LI!!

I just got back home from the farewell party for ke li...it was fun and i'll try to give a coherent account of it in this post...

the whole thing started off with the whole group waiting for xue ying who was quite late.and by whole group i mean 10+ people...the full attendence list was me,nai yu,henry,gordon,stanley,ben quek,wilberg,shawn(who came later),felicia,sheryl,elvia,eunice,joyce,wan xin,liying,jasmine(who came later with mr lau) and of course ke li.on the teacher's side,only mr lau was present...funny how he's always the only teacher around at our class outings...

So after xue ying arrived,the whole gigantic group of us took our own sweet time walking out of the station and to the bus stop.for those who have never been to marina bay,the place has only 2 bus services that are sporadic at best so getting anywhere there takes a hell of a time.
after a cramped bus ride,we got to the steamboat centre.nai yu and gordon led us to a particular restaurant because the food there was better as compared to the others...at that time,i think that we should have decided as a group but looking back,it wasn't too bad...the place definately had a wide variety but had some self-service policies that weren't very customer-friendly...by this,i mean that they just gave us 4 live crabs and expected us to clean and cook them ourselves...its all very good for families with somebody who cooks but we're students for crying out loud!!its not as if we have extensive instrution in the kitchen...its probably enough that we could cook our own food,mostly meat and some meat on the side.
the NDP 2006 preview was also today so half-way through dinner we got a free fireworks show...its was nice but i couldn't get any pictures of it...haiz,sad.

after we finished dinner,it was time for entertainment and amusement...of course some of us had to get home but a sizable group still went down to the arcade and pool place...put it this way,we had to open 3 tables and still we had to double up at one table and 3 people didn't join in...it was there that i took my revenge against Jasmine and had Round 2 with Ben...i beat both of them in the first round we played then i took it easy afterwards...jasmine came back to beat me in the second round with me having 6 balls left...not very good i admit.but in my defence,i was feeling lazy so i used the snooker strategy.but next time...heheh,we'll see.my one regret is that i couldn't play with mr lau.elvia also surprised me in that shes quite a good player somewhere around jorim's and jeremy's standard which is to say above me

after pool,a even more reduced group went to the arcade.at that point,only ben,mr lau,jasmine,li ying and xue ying were still around...i played a bit of time crisis 2 and watch jasmine and xue ying play the para para thing.we also tried to persuade mr lau to try it but he adamantly refused...i suppose part of it is that if we got a video of it and threatened to show it to the school...well,you can work it out.the funny thing is,for an irrational moment,i was considering trying it out myself but eventually decided against it.

by the time we all finished,it was past 10.30 and the most prudent course of action would be to get home before we all got grounded.unfortunately,the train was having a few cock-ups.i swear that when ichecked the time to next train,it said 3 min but the next time i looked it was 4.finally the train came but it was not for boarding so we had to wait for the next one.i am convinced that we had to wait for at least a half-hourbefore we could get aboard the train.as is normal in Singapore,the train was super crammed.it got to the point that if the train jerked,you wouldn't stimble cos you were jammed against another person.

one interestin thing is that li ying called her boyfriend to also get on the train and afterward walk her home...the only problem is that both of them had no idea of which compartment they were in so it was worring for a while.of course,he eventually met up with her as he was in the next compartment.it was also the first time i got a good,up close look at her boyfriend...til now it was see them together but stay a discreet and respectful distance away so as not to disturb.it also made things a bit interesting for me since li ying and i walk the same route home at first with her going right and me going straight at a point...even then a long distance.my general strategy was speed and ignorance...that simply means that i walked as fast as i could and completely ignored her when i walked past the both of them...Li Ying,if u ever read this,i didn't mean to be rude,i just thought that i shouldn't be a lampost/lightbulb...funnily enough,when i looked back before crossing the road,i saw no sign of them...and i don't think i walked that fast...i wonder what they were doing...

think thats all i want to say...i better go to sleep if i want to wake up for church tomorrow...goodnight.zzzzzzzzzzzzz


mr lau losing at table soccer

bloody download speeds

i'm updating again in the space of a few hours...i have no idea what i'm doing.according to the date now,its saturday...so...ITS THE WEEKEND!!!the one thing i love about weekends is that nobody can touch me for school...i repeat: NOBODY can touch me for school,its whether i bother about school stuff or not.right now,the only reason i'm online is that i'm still waiting for my song downloads to finish.i think i've commented about it before its an ongoing problem,something on the order of global warming: slow but ultimately fatal with the fatal part being me killing the idiots who designed the server i'm dowloading from.
i dunno whether i mentioned in my last entry but my extended family is celebrating 5 birthdays tomorrow and of great concern to me is the fact that i have to get birthday presents for my cousins.to a guy whose idea of a birthday present is an electric guitar or a drum set,how the heck am i going to find presents??i asked people(girls obviously) about what kind of presents i should get and they all came up with stuff like soft toys or wallets or pencil cases which obviouly depend on my rather screwed taste and judgement...i am so dead...
i think i'll end on that morbid note...oh,F*** THE BLOODY SERVOR stupid motherf**ing thing

finally...THE WEEKEND but i'm disgusted

its finally friday...that means that i can catch up on my sleep tomorrow since i normally sleep until 11 on saturday.I went to watch "the lake house" today after school with some classmates who were basically eunice,tabitha,felicia,benjamin,nai yu and wilberg...it was a good movie but im still struggling with ending...somehow or other i just can't work it out...but nvm,go watch it for yourself and see whether YOU understand
i finally managed to find my chem teacher's blog...some of his entries are very amusing,especially the ones about my class...this finally helped me understand the significance of a journal or diary...all these humourous things happen but as time plods on,you forget them and its only through the words that flow from your own hands that these anecdotes continue living on in memory.
the class is having a farewell party for ke li tomorrow but attendence is disappointing in its uncertainty...everybody is saying things like "see who goes first" and all that...its a dodge that i frequently use myself so i can't really flame them for it but its a bit disappointing.I mean,just because a person is not from your own clique you don't feel a pressing need to go to an event for them...She's still a classmate for crying out loud!!!you stoned through the same tutorials,slept through the same lectures,had the same lessons with her...isn't that enough to ensure your participation??its disappointing sometimes...but i suppose thats what you get when the class fragments into cliques with each small group off doing their own thing.the reasons for this particular phenomena are numerous and i suppose that for my class,they fit together just nice.but thats enough complaining about my class.i think i'm having such strong feelings because to me friendship is absolute and binding...probably not many people in class know this(practically nobody) but if i see you as a friend,it means that if you asked me to do something,i would probably do it.not anything immoral but if i could then i would do all i can to help you.the simple problem of this is that not many know that i see you as a friend...that comes from another set of social conditions that i could spend the whole night typing about but won't discuss now.
and of course i have to buy birthday presents for cousins that are also incidentally female(almost all my cousins are female)...this is particularly challenging for me because i simply cannot choose presents for people...which is why i hate birthdays and Christmas...i always feel bumbling and stupid around this time...
well,going to get my 12+ hours of sleep...cya and goodnite

singapore's 17 JCs and how they think

Q: How many RJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: 4 whole faculties. One to design the new bulb, one to manufacture and test it out, one to write a proposal on it and one to market it.

Q: How many HCJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. To compete with RJC.

Q: How many VJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. One student to screw it in and the rest to cheer and wave flags and banners to give him/her support.

Q: How many NJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They can study without light.

Q: How many AJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They're too busy trying to be one of the top 5 JCs.

Q: How many ACJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They'll rather use all their money to employ YJC to do it for them.

Q: How many YJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Only one teacher to tell them what a light bulb is in the first place and to demonstrate how to change the light bulb. (So how do you think they're able to change it for ACJC?)

Q: How many CJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They'll prefer it to be darker. (Hmmmm... *raises eye-brows* )

Q: How many JJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Their physics is so bad that they made their macho male physics teacher cry.

Q: How many TPJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Would they even bother?

Q: How many SAJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They believe in praying for it.

Q: How many NYJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are still using oil lamps.

Q: How many SRJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Huh, what litebarb?

Q: How many PJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Heck the light bulb lah, the principal would do something about the rightbarbs. Let's do 300jumping jacks for not wearing the proper school attire.

Q: How many MJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are too busy trying to get promoted.

Q: How many IJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are Innovians. They'll find ways out of the dark.

Q: Who wrote all this?
A: A TJCian.

Q: How many TJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They think they are already very bright.

lame but oddly appropriate in some areas...especially the MJC one. Thanks for putting this on your blog judith...hope you dun mind me copying it

another day,another whirlwind

i'm blogging again...nvm.Lots of stuff happened today.starting in the morning: Woke up early to go to school for the Meridian Leaders Day...can't the school just leave that extra hour of sleep alone??!!i mean,they've been having activities in that time slot for as long as i care to remember...KI was fun today where chen shien told us about probability and odds and we had a lot of fun arguing and thinking...somehow or other, we free-associated all over the place and raised topics that had almost no link to the scheduled one. Then during recess, we celebrated Li Ying's birthday...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!...as i wrote in her card, one more year,one more wrinkle or as i read somewhere,"its a joy to grow older.the mind gets better but everything else starts breaking down". later, is skipped cca to study/do work...i really think that it was a better use of time than to slack off during cca...unless cca was something more interesting like basketball or soccer or squash or badminton...basically most of the sports.we couldn't have bowling training today because wilberg cancelled last minute on us...ben was damn pissed,and he remained pissed for the whole day...i can understand that,i mean,if you're the emotional type,certain strong emotions can stay with you for quite a long time.
oh,today was also a milestone in that I FINALLY PASSED AN ECONS TEST!!!yep,got an 11/15...i am really satisfied with that grade...i suppose some of that satisfactio comes from a subconcious need to prove to myself that i can still work and study...what with the mid-years and the chem bonding test(got a S by the way)...i think i was starting to lose confidence in myself...
as per normal,i checked my friends blogs and one touched me very much...from what i can gather,she is still sad about her old boyfriend breaking up with her and she also thinks that its her fault that the relatioship ended...add on the fact that she found another boyfriend so fast and i think i'm justified in worrying about her.I just wish that she could get over her old boyfriend and also watch out in case the present one is the "rebound guy"As numerous breakup books and articles and writing's say,its not YOUR fault if the guy breaks up with you.if you think that you did something to him to cause the breakup,look at it the other way and consider the fact that if he really loved you,he would forgive you and try to patch up the relationship.in other words,he would do something instead of taking the easy way out and dumping you.In fact,this process of making mistakes and forgiving is a very strong relationship builder.the simple fact that he dumped you means that his love was not strong enough to withstand the first crisis that came along...in that case,better to move on and try to find true love...
the above paragraph is embarassingly romantic but i really believe that that is what true love is and how it can help the couple get past any problems big or small...for a really good example,watch the movie "Love Actually".it is a beautiful movie where the breadth and depth of love is showcased in numerous little encounters and relationships.enough about love...i think i've exposed myself enough for one blog...next post,i'll add in a joke from a friends blog about the various JC's...

getting moody...

can't believe i'm blogging again so soon...but i dun have anything better to do while i wait for the bloody motherf***ing download to finish.i mean,i have broadband,high connection speed and all that and the thing is still plodding along at 5 kbps...that was fast when they first came up with the modem but i'm sure its a little slow for modern day connection speeds.anyway,school was the same old-same old although there was the jap pop symphonic band from nagoya that was kinda having an exchange with mj and they played today during morning assembly.THEY ROCKED!!!they were great,coordination,music,moves everything...if any band in Singapore could perform like that,the syf would have to come up with a new award,something higher than gold with honors...platinum?i skipped maths remedial to do maths tutorial...how pathetic does that sound??but all in all,it was probably a better use of resources...if i went for the remedial,nothing would have been done,trust me...i don't think i could have even lasted 5 min before daydreaming than stoning than falling asleep.my class seems to be getting smaller...for first three months,my class was like 28 people...than after JAE,it dropped to 24,now its 23...its a bit sad really.i'm sure that Ke Li has her reasons for going to poly...sometimes i think i might have gone too if a only knew what course to take.the only problem i can spot here is that she has already withdrawn form MJ but has NOT been accepted by the poly...don't think i need to elaborate...if by some perverse trick of fate or chance you read this,i wanna say good luck in whatever you do...i din really know you well and i'm pretty sure you'll forget my name very fast but it was nice having you as a classmate and a friend.this post has made me really moody and melancholic...oh well,time to check back on my downloads...good luck with tomorrows physics test guys!!*snigger*

next update

i think i'm not really a good blogger,after all,its been MONTHS SINCE I UPDATED!!!!not a really good track record...i mean,my friends update at least twice a week but i take twice a term.As per normal,midyears suck but still managed to avoid that dreaded Parent-Teacher meeting...i wonder how it went earlier today...anyway,grades are
Chem E
Maths U(nice way of saying F)
Econs U
KI A(damn unexpected,i jus wanted a pass)
Lit D(not good...i wanted a C)
Chinese B(definetely unexpected...i mean i din touch chinese at all)
at least i can still take KI...however,as my classmate put it: Tune in to the next episode of Survivor: KI and see whos out next!!thats rite,my KI classmates are dropping out like crazy...now 11/16 left...wonder who's goin next.
I've also started downloading Jap anime songs like crazy...i have no idea way since i don't understand them at all...but the musics great.Now,my only problem is that i am desperately trying to find the score sheets for some of the songs...not very easy,trust me.
PW is in final stages and i have done NOTHING AT ALL for my EOM...so shoot me,i dun really care,and besides i can't find anything to evaluate(wat a dumb part of PW,i mean we have to do this already for the written report rite??)
Been reading my fren's blogs...like all teens,their life is filled with problems...i really worry about them but i can't tell them to their face that i worry for them...for one thing, i dun know how and another i'm kinda worried how that will sound if i say it to their face.looks like i have to offer encouragement here...HOLD ON GUYS,EVERYTHING WILL GET BETTER!!!JIA YOU!!
Ms lai gave a presentation where she told us the time we still have left to promos and the time we have to study EACH SUBJECT...a bit excessive i think.Mainly,its not the hours logged but the effort put in the time you have that matters...we're not getting paid by the hour u know.Just do as much as possible in that 10 min u have and there will be some result.As for my INTEREST *ahem*,still there,not saying anything about who,probably won't be much use if i confess anyway...
i better stop here before this post causes the servor to hang...i wonder how long u can write before it crashes??