ROARRR

2007-09-01T01:14:00.000+08:00

2007-08-28T13:02:00.001+08:00

blogger sux

2007-08-28T12:46:00.000+08:00

Is blogger still being a bitch?

Update

2007-08-23T20:22:00.000+08:00

So, am I still alive?

I'd like so say 'yes' with the enthusiasm of a preschooler but I don't have the confidence to say so :(

English paper was okay I guess. I don't expect A1 or anything but I don't expect to flunk it either. I think I rambled too much in my composition. Orals wasn't that bad. Though I think I wasn't exactly very clear though. They asked me about what type of transportation was my favourite type of transportation and I replied saying that I liked the train and how it was more eco-friendly and stuff. Then I had to talk about an unpleasant experience so I recounted my experience with the disgusting china woman who talked at the top of her voice and how she stole my handle- even though I was holding it in the first place.

Basically, it ends with me flinging the thing with a forceful fling and seeing how she becomes insulted and calling me rude ( she was babbling in the china language! -_-). This woman needs a smack on her face. I should be the one beomg angry calling her rude.

Xiao Jie? More like Siao Jie.

On a totally irrelevant note, I don't understand why China People speak chinese so weirdly. I think the Singaporean chinese accent and perhaps, the Taiwan chinese accent sounds better.

Hmph.

Social Studies paper was okay I guess. They asked about the gulf war. I had loads of things to say but I wonder whether I'll be getting any marks for my writing. Geography was good except for the fact that I forgot to mention about littering as a result of 'over-tourism'. I think I rambled a bunch of bull for the last question. On how the government is involved in a crazy conspiracy by using the taxes and GST we use to fund their crazy visions for Singapore being a Tourism Hub. The marker might think I'm crazy but it was really a desperate attempt to salvage any possible marks I could get for that question! Oh, I skipped the whole map reading question. I hate maps I tell you -_-

Music practicals was shit. Shan't say more about this.

Math paper was delightfully good. Well, as compared to all the prelim papers we've been doing, this one seemed the easiest. I could do all the questions in paper 2 except for the stupid Pac-Man probability question. Why the fuck do we have Pac-Man for a question. I hate pac-man -_- I think I won't screw this paper. Then again, I didn't have time to check so maybe I will :(

Mother Tongue paper was nonsense. I think I forgot how to spell in malay because I couldn't get half of my spelling correct. We'll wait and see what marks will I get after the prelims.

POA paper was the best. I skipped the whole paper and went home. I give up. POA is not meant for me. It's like how Phua Chu Kang isn't meant to speak proper English. This is destiny!

I'm left with the Sciences.

Wish me luck!

Die

2007-08-15T22:06:00.000+08:00

Monday's Music Practical is driving me off the wall. Perhaps, I just don't have the capacity to play like the likes of Oistrakh and Pearlman. Wait, I can't even hold a tune properly so I shouldn't even start comparing.

Sigh.

Changed my second piece from Brahm's Scherzo to Elgar's Salut d'Amour. Salut d'Amour is a simple yet amazingly beautiful piece. As simple as it can be, it can also kill a person who doesn't know how to play the piece well. That person, being me.

Here, listen to this girl attack me with her playing. I want to die

Yes I know what you all are going to say- "Wah, this girl so pro! The music so nice leh!"

I had that reaction too -_-

My first piece is still Spring by Vivaldi. This one isn't doing too good either.

I know I have to practice. But between practicing and mugging for the prelims, I really think I should mug rather than practice. But then again, if I don't practice enough, I'm going to screw my music prelims.

Either way, I'm still screwed.

See you after prelims ;(

Yikes

2007-08-08T23:21:00.000+08:00

So today's National Day celebrations came and went. Went through the usual formalities, the whole parade march and the declaration oath thingy. This was followed by the usual rowdy school hall celebrations. Quite typical actually. Nothing really interesting, except for the performances each level gave.

Shan't say too much about the performances though. Some were good, the others were crap.

I bet the school- the Powerful 3 (Principal, Vice-Principal and Vice-Principal) in particular were rolling on the ground with embarrassment. We had some Su Zhou China school kids with their teachers for some exchange programme and well, lets just say China school kids don't expect rowdy children in orderly, peaceful and democratic Singapore. I think we left quite a memorable impression with the China people ;D

Wo ai Zhongguo!

Personally, I felt the National Day celebrations were forgettable and uninspiring.

Do I like Singapore? Umm..why not?! This place is as convenient as hell. No place takes you longer than an hour to get to if you really know you way. Though there are some things I don't always like and agree about Singapore example- how Singapore in general is ruled and governed (some people prefer to say 'control' instead of governed ;D) I think Singapore is still quite nice. At least in Singapore, my worries fall under stuff like dreading to go to school, not having enough pocket money, and not being able to not go to school. I don't need to worry about hunger, famine, riots, being randomly attacked, being bombed down by crazy people. Why? Because this is Singapore and I trust Singapore.

Had the itch to watch movies for no particular reason and so, I made my way after the celebrations to watch Jay Chou's Secret and Royston Tan's 881 (PAPAYA!).

Jay Chou's Secret was disappointing. The whole plot was so corny lah. I guess, I expected more from him. They didn't really play like super virtuosic piano pieces or anything lah. I expected like, killer piano songs or something. To be fair, Jay Chou does play the piano well enough. The part when he played a single song on two different piano's side by side, amused me alot. His acting wasn't that horrible either. It was good, but it could have been better. I still don't like the ending though ;(

The trailer reminded me of those Korean drama's you'd see on Channel U or something. The music lah! So drama-mama. It isn't as though 1241212 died or something you know -_-

Papaya!

881 was much more entertaining. The whole thing was in your friendly ah beng's choice of language I guess. Hokkien, Cantonese, you get the drift.

Getai dancers dancing for the hungry ghost festival. 2 rival parties fighting for the super glamorous butai!

I now have Hungry Ghost Festival songs stuck in my head. Though I can't sing them lah. I remember the tune of one song. Me and Ling were joking about singing the song about the mother to our mother's in dialect when they scold us. I think our mother's will have this "WTF HAPPENED TO MY SON/DAUGHTER" look and will forget about being angry with us. hehe

The durian laser boob attack scene was super funny. Cannot tahan. There was this scene when the fat lady said something about how the God of Hell forgot to take one of the people or something. This aunty suddenly burst out laughing as though it was the funniest thing in the whole world. Her laughter made me laugh too T_T Laughter is infectious.

Overall, I just wished I understood Chinese in general more. Would have understood the show more :( Am happy to say that the local scene has promise though. I enjoyed this better than the secret!

Techno Cat!

Photo post

2007-07-28T19:17:00.000+08:00

Putting the prelims aside, lets talk about lighter stuff.

I am the biggest fan of The Simpsons in Riverside Secondary School! I don't care -_- I am proclaiming myself No. 1 Simpson Fan in Riverside and no one can remove this honorable title from me.

Caught The Simsons Movie recently. The movie event of the year (well, for me lah) has passed :( It was obviously very funny and it had everything I expected with a Simpsons movie. But I felt that the plot could have been better. The film was quite short too- about 1hr 30mins.

What is this?

Azim, watch out. Kumar might go after you. Lol

Mr. Ho tries to be Jesus.

Blur?

Its called Christ the Redeemer and its found in brazil.

We make a mockery out of those emo-cheena people who cut themselves.

"Moii shoo emo! Moii needs attentions! What can moii do?"
"EuUx cAnnS CuTtiEs~ uR sELfs Nerrhs!"
"Good idea lehhs!. Den moii can be Emo Kid! moii must get moii jiemeiis and ganjies and we must cut togetherrs!"
"yeSs LorhX. Den wE are notiixable and den WorrHs Our fame Will rise norrhx!"

Lets do it!:

Disclaimer:No cheenas were harmed in the making of these images. Infact, no one was harmed. This is fake!

Prelim Fever

2007-07-28T19:03:00.001+08:00

I don't want the prelims to come! :(

Must motivate myself!

Here goes:

The "E.M.B.A." program that kicks off on a Sunday morning in the heart of Shanghai's financial district is much like any other curriculum designed to train the future business leaders of China. "We give students the tools they need to build up their confidence," says Vivian Liu, general manager of the popular two-year-old program, which has seen 1,500 participants pass through its doors. But the difference between Liu's course and others is this: when the demands of subjects like economics or communications get too taxing, her students might just respond by having a good cry and asking for their mommies. How so? They're children. The e in this E.M.B.A. program stands not for executive but early, and the oldest student in the class is age 6. Civil servant He Jiachen sends his 3-year-old, He Xingzhen, to the E.M.B.A. course while he and his wife pursue their own adult M.B.A.s. "My son is developing well," he says. "In class, he isn't afraid of giving speeches, and he likes to be a team leader in group activities."

High expectations for children are nothing new in China, where the need to master the thousands of characters necessary for basic literacy�coupled with the educational legacy of Confucius�has turned many an inquisitive, bright-eyed student into a sullen rote learner. But the pressure on even the youngest children is intensifying as their parents embrace the notion that education is a primary driver of the kind of upward mobility that was previously unthinkable in China. Eager to provide their kids with a head start, Chinese parents are signing them up for everything from weekend prep courses for under-sixes to boarding schools for toddlers. And we mean toddlers: for $700 a month parents can send children as young as 3 years old to the Hualan International Village Kindergarten in the port city of Tianjin, where they live full-time in landscaped villas outfitted with 42-inch plasma TVs and pianos.
But given that roughly 60% of Chinese families in major cities now spend one-third of their income on children's education, parents are expecting results, not just luxurious surroundings. Li Hongbin's 5-year-old daughter, Xu Yunqiao, attends a private nursery school in Beijing, where she studies from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., five days a week. It isn't enough. Concerned that their children weren't being prepared for the admissions tests at the city's better elementary schools, Li and other parents recently campaigned for play times to be trimmed to make way for more study�and got their wish. Li also started sending her daughter to after-school and weekend classes in reading, math and music. A generation ago, few Chinese 6-year-olds knew how to read or do basic arithmetic. Today, top primary schools expect matriculating students to know at least 1,000 characters and their multiplication tables. Her daughter "has 100 math problems to do a week," marvels Li. "She can do rapid calculations in her head." But she worries that these skills may come at an emotional cost. "It's really terrifying," Li says, of Yunqiao's packed schedule. "We don't know if this makes sense, but we have no choice."
In China, the fact that most parents have only one child helps to explain the extraordinarily acute pressure they feel to produce a superkid�and the resulting proliferation of books with titles like Prodigy Babies and 60 Ways to Ensure Success for Your Gifted Child. But parents across Asia are wrestling with the same conundrum. They're desperate for their children to do well in life and know that relentlessly hard work and a top-notch education can raise the odds of success. Yet many of them also quietly fear the impact of the ferocious pressure imposed on their children in service of these aspirations�how could they not, when tales of emotionally broken prepubescents and student suicides are a media clich�? But however ambivalent they may feel, most parents conclude that the goals are worth the risks. Indeed, the sight of a child being driven to study harder�by a frowning teacher, bullying father or beseeching mother�is a tableau as archetypal to the region as planting rice. Parenting techniques that prioritize the nurturing of a child's self-esteem are not widely espoused. There are no Oprahs or Dr. Phils to scold the dads who don't hug their kids or the mothers who berate them for bringing home anything less than straight A's. Instead, many Asian parents have been free to neuroticize their offspring in ways that would make an entire faculty of child psychologists blanch. Why has this state of affairs persisted?
One answer is the region's historical instability. The Asian drive for advancement has always been sharpened by traumatic and seemingly haphazard events. There's a revolution, flood, famine, dictatorship, evacuation, massacre or coup within the memory of almost every Asian. Even if an entire country cleans the mud of the collective farm from between its toes and marches towards a glittering future of service-sector jobs and flat-screen TVs in every home, it only takes a currency crisis or a strange pox like SARS to shake collective confidence to the core. And when the world is looked at this way, the notion of a child's school years as a halcyon time of finger painting and end-of-term musicals can seem nothing short of scandalous.
Such attitudes towards children are reinforced by Asia's perennial concerns over familial honor and personal face. "Many parents want to show off their children," says Dr. Aruna Broota, a clinical psychologist at the University of Delhi who studies the effects of academic pressure on local kids. "They want to say, 'My son is the best performer in his class' or 'he will go to Harvard.' The child understands that what's important is not his education but that he is a status symbol for his parents."
But even if there were no socio-cultural reasons for the emphasis placed on material advancement, merely observing the action of an entire continent on the rise would be enough to make a child-nagging brute out of almost anyone. Whole villages and towns are making the transition from poverty to wealth in less than a generation�not just in China, but in India, Thailand, Vietnam and elsewhere. The neighbors who used to rear chickens and grow vegetables are now working in call centers or queuing at the local bank for the latest IPO. In these epoch-shifting times of fantastical wealth, the thinking goes, only a fool gets left behind�and only the most insouciant parent neglects to send the kids to cram school. "Professionals want their children to follow in their footsteps and become doctors and engineers," says Esther Tan, an adjunct associate professor in the psychology department of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University. "Those who are less educated want their children to do better and have better lives."

Chew Peck Khoon, a 48-year-old Singaporean IT worker, is typical in her conviction that success at school is a key stepping stone: "I want my children to do well and get a good education that will bring them a better future." And, of course, she's anxious for her children not to fall behind her friends' and relatives' kids. "We always compare," she says. In a city-state that streams children as young as 9 (an age when the top 1% enter the so-called Gifted Programme), cramming is viewed as essential if kids are to have any chance of keeping up with their peers: an estimated 90% of Singaporean families arrange extra tuition for their children. In Chew's case, the extra lessons helped to win the admission of her daughter Ying Ting to Nanyang Girls' High School�one of Singapore's finest. The 14-year-old now begins her day with a 6 a.m. wake-up call and finishes it at 10 p.m. or later, after several hours of homework and extracurricular activities. What most adults would regard as a long daily slog is entirely unexceptional for Singaporean youth. "I've seen people studying till 1 a.m.," Ying Ting shrugs.
Many parents cannot believe the timetables with which their children must cope. "It's very cruel for today's kids," says Shanghai parent Yang Langtao. But Yang's son, 15-year-old Bohong, nonetheless works a strictly regimented day that begins at 6.15 a.m. and ends at 10 p.m. On the weekend he studies classical Chinese literature, crams chemistry for an inter-school competition and practices English. He has virtually no leisure time, though he doesn't seem to mind because of his own ambition to succeed. "When I was a student," his father reflects, "I went to school for only half a day. And in the afternoon, I could play with my pals as much as we wanted."
By contrast, if today's parents do not fill their children's every waking hour with study, or at least organized activity, they risk social disapproval. In Hong Kong, 10-year-old Cheng Hoi-ming has 34 hours in school each week, as well as at least eight hours of tennis lessons and nearly three hours of extra tutorials in science and math. Her 13-year-old sister, Hoi-ying, was participating in 10 extracurricular activities each week by the time she reached second grade (a schedule that has been eased only slightly now that she has entered middle school). Even so, "I was regarded as an irresponsible parent, because they were not doing enough," says their mother, social worker Alice Chang. Parents who withdraw their children from the fray altogether face even greater opprobrium. John Au, a graphic designer, says his relatives were aghast at his decision to remove his son Justin from Wah Yan, one of Hong Kong's most prestigious schools. "A lot of people regard getting into Wah Yan as like winning the lottery, but my son was working until 11 p.m. every night at 7 years of age," says Au. "He got tired and I got tired." Justin now attends an international school and, according to his father, "seems much happier."
There are many Asian parents who, like Au, have become disillusioned with conventional education systems. But not all of them have his confidence when it comes to knowing what to do next. Instead, they are more likely to experience the confusion felt by Chikako Kobayashi, a mother of two grade-schoolers in the Tokyo commuter suburb of Hachioji. She sums up the feelings of many when she admits, "I don't really know what is best for my kids."
Many Japanese educators have likewise started to question their own assumptions. Chastened by incidences of teen suicide and school-related stress (and mindful of the need to create a more adaptable workforce at a time of economic restructuring), the Japanese Ministry of Education has, in recent years, implemented measures in public schools to take emphasis away from rote learning. In a country once notorious for the burdens placed on its young, schools are now required to adhere to a policy of yutori kyoiku (relaxed education). This involves a broadening of the curriculum to include more general-studies components, but a reduction in the overall amount of course material and school hours�a measure colloquially known as "the 30% decrease." The practice of half-day schooling on Saturdays has also been scrapped. "The ministry re-evaluates its policies every 10 years or so, and the most recent changes stressed the need to give children the ability to learn independently, rather than just stuffing them with information," says spokesperson Shunichi Taniai. "The emphasis is on creating a well-rounded individual with a healthy mind and body."
In South Korea, too, there are signs that even the most traditional institutions are beginning to question their old ways. Take the Korean Minjok Leadership Academy. To almost every parent, it is the shining apex, the Mount Olympus, of the country's schooling. A three-hour drive east of Seoul, Minjok is a private school that derives its eminence from results. "Most students go on to Yonsei University, Seoul National University, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology or Pohang Institute of Technology," says headmaster and former Minister of Education Lee Don Hee, reciting the names of some of the country's most desirable tertiary-education establishments. "If not these schools, then they go to medical school." And if they want to study abroad? "They matriculate to Ivy League schools or their equivalents." Results like this come through the disciplined implementation of classical methods. These require students, inter alia, to speak only English from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., practice either Taekwondo or archery, and learn traditional musical instruments. The children bow silently in the presence of visitors and wear old-fashioned hanbok garments. Academic disappointment is hardly contemplated. "No student has ever failed to proceed to the next grade," says Lee. "We select students who have the potential to become leaders in many areas of society, and we train them."
Yet under Lee, even this seemingly immutable Confucian stronghold is changing: he has broadened the criteria for admission ("because I wanted to find talented youths, not geniuses who had been created by their parents"), instituted unsupervised exams and introduced a student council. Lee even utters the kind of liberal maxims that would have had a previous generation of headmasters squirming with unease. "The school tries its best to help students enjoy learning," he says, "and not to have them study under pressure."

Such concessions to modernity are more likely to worry Asian parents, however, than reassure them. In Japan, the great majority of parents are deeply suspicious of yutori kyoiku and their concerns were exacerbated by the results from a student-assessment test carried out among OECD countries in 2003. In reading comprehension, Japanese 15-year-olds were given a lowly 14th place in the country rankings. Another report, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, stunned Japanese with the finding that their children lagged behind those in Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea. "Many parents are worried that their kids will lose out if we get carried away with yutori kyoiku," says Akiko Nishimoto, a systems engineer and mother of two in the suburbs of Tokyo. Yutori is supposed to mean "relaxed," "but ironically it is creating a desperate, inarticulate anxiety among parents," she says. Adds Miyuki Igarashi, a 43-year-old with a son in fourth grade: "Yutori kyoiku hinders ambition in children. Children give up very easily these days."

An unintended result of the new policy has been an exodus from state schools to private schools. The number of first-graders entering public schools declined by a total of 3% over the past four years, while the number of children enrolled in private schools rose by 10%. The surge in demand for private education has been a boon for swanky establishments like Satoe Gakuen in Saitama prefecture outside Tokyo, where an annual tuition fee of $12,000 buys an extraordinary range of facilities. Never mind science labs, the school has its own planetarium as well as science teachers qualified to doctorate level�and all this is for an elementary school. "Parents are spending more on their children and there's a move to private education at a younger age," says vice principal Michio Kaneko. If parents can't afford private schools, they can at least dispatch their kids to after-school classes. "Most of the parents who send kids here are dissatisfied with the standards of [public] education," says Sachiko Kishi, a Kumon teacher in Tokyo. So despite the best efforts of the government to reduce study loads, many parents are working their kids harder than ever.
If Asian education is to be reformed, then, the battles must be fought in homes and hearts. The children of Seoul's Haja Center are familiar with this already: many of them had to fight their parents merely to be allowed on the premises. Take a quick walk around this experimental high school and it's easy enough to see why. Run by Yonsei University and the Seoul Alternative Learning Community Network, the Haja Center (the word haja translates as "Let's do it!") charges $40 to $150 a month for the kind of courses�filmmaking, fine art, web design, music recording�that would darken the countenance of many a Korean mum or dad. Unlike the Minjok Leadership Academy, there are no students dressed in the garments of a previous century, speechlessly prostrating themselves before visitors. Instead, groups of denim-clad, iPod-toting youths come and go from a rowdy cafeteria and look you in the eye if they notice you at all. Teachers are not even called teachers but pandori, meaning "facilitator" or "venue operator." For children traumatized by the rigors of the conventional education system, this is a blissful refuge. "Three or four years ago, children would come to us clearly exhausted from fighting their parents," says Chung Yeon Soon, who until recently was the Network's deputy director before assuming a research position at Korea National Open University. "But these days, some parents seem more able to empathize with their kids. There are happy cases now, in which parents and children actually come to visit the center together."
There is cautious optimism in other parts of Asia too. Vasavadatta Sarkar, a New Delhi schoolteacher, observes: "There's no question that children are under mounting pressure, but there's a new generation of parents who understand that there are new career options open to their children." Partha Iyengar, an analyst at the Indian offices of IT consultancy Gartner, agrees. "The present form of education has helped the Indian IT industry create a world-class resource pool that is easily trained in well-defined processes and disciplined enough to follow those processes to a T," he says. "But it is also very ill-equipped to nurture [independent thinking]. If there is a concerted effort to produce more creative students, we will be well placed. Otherwise, India runs the risk of fading back into oblivion."
Iyengar's emphasis on the need for marketable skills is axiomatic to every Asian parent. It may not be couched in the same economic jargon, but it's a favorite theme of mealtime homilies and bedtime lectures. The only problem is that many parents are approaching the topic from an outdated perspective. In the new economies, the real spoils will go to the creatives�the quick-witted entrepreneurs and innovators, not the compliant milksops with ambitions restricted to the traditional professions. Education reform will come about only when this is more widely recognized by parents across Asia. Hirohito Komiyama, author of several books on the Japanese education system, explains: "Students who undergo mindless cramming tend to have a low EQ [a measure of emotional intelligence], and those who don't learn to socialize or communicate with others cannot succeed in the current corporate world, which increasingly seeks well-rounded individuals." South Korean educator Chung adds: "Education used to be the only way a person could move up in society, and the parents of our children are of a generation that grew up in just such a culture. But they are trying to impart 20th century values to 21st century children."
And if none of this resonates with parents, what about a straightforward appeal to human kindness and empathy? Says Esther Tan of Nanyang Technological University: "Although having children who do well will make them proud, most of the parents I encounter genuinely want the best for their children rather than [looking] to boost their own egos." Change will depend on the ability of parents to admit this more readily, to let go of their fixations with status and social superiority, and to recognize their children not as appendages but as individuals.
Even in China, where the desire to equip children to compete is so all-consuming, there are those who realize that the pressure has gone too far, that there is a desperate need for everyone�parents and kids alike�to kick back and take a deep breath. Feng Shulan, principal of Yayuncun Number 2 Kindergarten in Beijing, says she has repeatedly resisted demands from parents to push her students harder than she believes is good for them. "Sometimes, we have to lecture the parents about what's appropriate for their kids," says Feng. "I tell parents it's also important for them to simply spend time with their kids. I tell them it's important for the kids to be happy." If we forget that, we've surely forgotten the most important lesson of all.

With reporting by Aravind Adiga/New Delhi, Hannah Beech and Bu Hua/Shanghai, Susan Jakes and Nicole Qu/Beijing, Austin Ramzy/Hong Kong, Toko Sekiguchi and Yuki Oda/Tokyo and Jake Lloyd-Smith/Singapore

Taken from TIME magazine ;D

If kids from china as young as 5 can do it, I can do it too!

Ganbarre~!

The Simpsons

2007-07-15T11:00:00.001+08:00

(drama farewell post has been updated with a nice farewell pic ;D)
The only movie I've been wanting to watch for the longest time ever.

Summed up

2007-07-12T22:15:00.000+08:00

My days have passed by me to easily. I want to freaking bang a wall and die. The prelims are coming in a month and my revision isn't even half way there. I repeat. I want to freaking bang a wall and die.

In other news:

Focus study has been as boring as hell. I don't find any of them particularly useful except for Math Focus Study. Even Math Focus study is kind of useless. So yes, I don't like Focus Study.

Bored, tormented students always have ways to amuse themselves in near death situations i.e Focus Study.

Azim writes sticky notes and Hila becomes a victim.

What is that?

Me so Horny!

It gets worse.

Garfield wants to share some love too.

Ehem.

xxx

We went to RJC (Bishan Junior College! hehe) for DEP a few weeks back.

Auspicium Melioris Aevi

Sir Stamford Raffles poses like some big hot shot.

If Mr. Raffles actually had a bust, I'm hell sure that he is an -A, can you imagine that? Boobs that actually curve inwards. Haha

We found something interesting on some random notice board in RJC

"get out of my uncaring elitist face"

If you don't get it look here :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Shu_Min_elitism_scandal

Goodbye RJC

Btw, our school can't have the tagline "The RI of the North" anymore because I just found out that RI is in the north so yeah, WTH

On a totally irrelevant note-

I have killer cleavage and all females in the world must emulate me.

This is as wide as they can get.

-goes back to mugging-

North Korea!

2007-07-11T19:35:00.000+08:00

A drawing by fellow North Korean Ling.
(The only thing I drew was the stars and the Korean words for the tree too)

Close-ups:
N.Korea's best friend- The People's Republic of China

"Wo Ai ______!"
I forgot what was the word for "peace"

A tree patriotically parades the North Korean flag

"North Korea is <3"

The tree speaks english too

"North Korea!"

The giraffe salutes the fatherland.

MADE IN N.KOREA

All hail the fatherland!

Drama Farewell 2007

2007-07-06T21:37:00.000+08:00

(press the hyperlink to see last yr's farewell)

One year ago, we were the ones preparing for the 06's graduation party. Now, as we age and become saggy, senile people- we are the ones who get to sit and finally graduate. God do i feel ancient -_-

So we finally graduated. We had the farewell thing and the whole thing was done in less than 2 hours. Short but good I guess.

I joined the Drama Club in mid sec one (after running away from the choir because I realised I could not fucking sing for nuts -_-) We were handled by Mr Tsung, Miss Nora and Miss Hesley. Half way through, Mr Tsung left us and we were left with the dynamic duo. Haha corny nickname -_-

They were good and funny and along the way we got ourselves a few instructors. One had her boobs spilling out like an eruption from some volcano. She and I clearly had "creative differences" and got along like oil and water. Then we had a bunch of instructors who thought us stuff like miming and theater studies or something. I remember one of them being particularly hilarious. She threatened to expose her belly if we din listen to her. Then we got Charlotte. She was good fun (she bit people too). Then for SYF we got Mr Olivero. He was okay I guess.

2 SYF's and a shitload of other small performances- and I'm finally done with Drama Club. I'm glad I joined the CCA and I'm also glad I finally graduated. After 4 long years!

The girls wanted a shot taken by this famous north korean paparazzi. ;D

A final speech by our President before she steps down:

The cakes were shot by Azza.

We start eating the cake.

I've just realized my eyes are like super small. You can only like see two slits lah -_- Like chinese eyes kinda small. Not that I don't like chinese eyes. Its just, WHY ARE MY EYES SO GODDAMN SMALL! T_T

We get to write on the Drama Castle thing. All people who graduate from Drama Club get to scribble on this thing. I find this to be super cool lah.

The royal camwhore Azza graces the event with her presense -_-

Liyana scribbles as I shoot her butt -_-

My butt has a super close-up. Complete with my name for all to see.

"moii thinks drama ishh ke ai. With approval from N. Korea"

I decided to leave the club being remembered as a cheena twit. Perfect! ;D

Ahem.

Nelle's butt has a message:

"Drama Club da bomb. 07' seniors most ke ai nerrhs!"

Nelle's butt joins me in being a fellow cheena~!

In the year 2006 someone wrote:

I'll miss HOT STUFF the most!

In reply, Jie Lun our club's "Hotstuff" replied:

"Hot Stuff has left the building"

Jie Lun writing..

Shu Pong and Esther:

The new Exco members of the Drama Club:

Haresh looks weird -_-

Meanwhile, Nelle went for plastic surgery and flew back from South Korea in 2 minutes to make a special announcement!

"People of the Universe heed me now and heed me well.."

"Be drug free or go to hell!"

WTF -_-

We go look around for our presents:

Azza and Jim get voted for Drama President!:

Azza is clearly, estatic:

"Where is the Drama Tranny 07' award?"

Nelle expresses her dissapointment.

We collect our farewell cards.

Apart from the fact that I look retarded here, I feel very good because I am looking super tall here!. Note the shocking difference in height.

hahah

We played waterbombs. Managed to get Eddie wet despite his unwillingness. I threw a waterbomb right into Shu Rong's face and her spectacles fell-off. We stopped for a bit to find her glasses and the games continued.

Shu Pong ah. Sorry T_T

I made up by taking photos with Shu Pong:

(small eyes again!)

We were soaked to the skin. I forgot to bring an extra pair of undies so you can imagine how uncomfortable it was for me to prance around with wet undies after the whole thing. I must remember to bring undies next time! -_-

Shu Rong, Me, Ling and Eddie went off to change while Tranny Nelle guarded the toilets with her life.

"No entry!"

Sadako was found coming out of the ladies! WTF

Goodbye Drama Club!

On a totally irrelevant note, Miss Wong was talking about Saturation Points a while ago. Me and a certain someone ( I can't remember T_T) talked during recess/class and our tête-à-tête went like this:

"We so stupid lah. I cannot understand anything nowadays. I think I'm stupid!"
"What time do you reach your Saturation Point?"
"8am!"

-.-

-_-

Update

2007-07-05T22:07:00.001+08:00

School has been pretty intense these days ;(
I've forced myself to start mugging and I have to spend less time playing with the computer.

Life sucks lah.

On a totally irrelevent note:

Who wants to be a transformer? HAHAHHA

Sentosa

2007-07-05T21:46:00.000+08:00

Connie Talbot

2007-07-01T23:39:00.000+08:00

Innocence. A beautiful thing isn't it

Fun

2007-07-01T00:51:00.000+08:00

Manaswini's birthday party was fun ;D

I'll blog about it later but for now, Tranny Nelle awaits!

Disclaimer: No trannies were harmed in the making of this video. Contrary to popular belief, we do not encourage mere mortals to adopt tranny behavior as seen in these videos. However it must be noted that trannies are normal people. So please don't make fun of them unless they want you to laugh at them like here. hehe

We fucking love trannies! ;D

(A tranny is short form for transvestite. I am warning you. DO NOT GOOGLE UP THE WORD TRANNY. Unless you want to see a woman with a certain male anatomy part, I warn you to not search up tranny)

Ponder

2007-06-27T22:51:00.000+08:00

Nothing is free from contradiction. Not Religion, not politics, not even food!. Nothing! So don't start telling me soandso is full of nonsense and contradiction. I can tell you your soandso is full of contradictions too ;D So lets just go watch anime shall we?
I must start mugging!. Focus study has started and stuff but I have not even finished my topical revision! must super mug!
I am craving for cheese prata AGAIN.
Real Otaku's only need Notepad to draw up anime girls.

The Great Leader's Decree

2007-06-25T21:55:00.000+08:00

I have orders from our great leader to stop using the computer and to start mugging. I hereby heed the great leader's request and shall be blogging less. Try coming here every Friday. That'll be when I do an update.

Meanwhile, laugh yourself silly with our Uniquely Singaporean view of things:

In Singapore, the majority of us live in Highly Dangerous Buildings (HDB),
And most people have already got used to Paying and Paying (PAP).
Not only do you have to pay, you Pay Until Bankrupt (PUB).
If that's not enough, somebody still Purposely Wants to Dig (PWD) and get more from you.
So what more can you do when you are in the Money Only Environment (MOE)?
With the current Mad Accounting System (MAS), you are forced to Pay the Sum Ahead (PSA),
Which will leave some people Permanently Owing Some Banks (POSB).
And forced to live on the Loan Techniques Always (LTA) system.
When you fall sick and happen to be admitted to a Money Operating Hospital(MOH),
You might be able to use your Cash Prior to Funeral (CPF) fund.
If you are out of luck, you may meet doctors who Never Use Heart (NUH) to treat you,
And you will be Sure to Give up Hope (SGH).
To help ease the traffic, motorists have to pay Cash On Expressway (COE).
If that doesn't help, they can always Eternally Raise Prices (ERP) on the roads.
If you don't own a car, you can always make a Mad Rush to the Train (MRT),
OR get squashed in a bus Side By Side (SBS).
Lastly, under all these pressures, there are not many places we can relax,
Not even the good old place we used to go because it has become
So Expensive and Nothing To See Actually (SENTOSA)!!!

(taken from talkingcock.com)

Honestly, I don't think Singapore is that horrible. But you have to give credit for making a good laugh at our uniquely Singaporean Acronyms.

;D

On a totally irrelevant note:

(from time magazine)

WTF. Disgusted with the things we humans do sometimes. Poor tiger.

I remember a certain someone telling me he ate this thing without knowing what it was. When he asked what meat it was he got a shock.

Well, at least he had a reaction.

Changi Airport

2007-06-24T12:41:00.000+08:00

Outing 2
(IKEA post has been updated with more dumb photos :D)
After buying Azim's present at IKEA, we had nothing to do so we decided to go and check out the legendary Starbucks at Changi Airport. Coincidentally, Eliz was on her way there for holiday at Bali so we sent her off :D

The world renowned Singapore Airport. We've dropped to third place though :( Some airport in Korea got first position now :( Damn you South Korea.

The skytrain changed a whole lot. I remember it being a whole lot less umm high tech. Plus the carpet in the train smelt like armpits. WTF

Finally we find Starbucks. The whole purpose of coming here was to see this particlar starbucks because it was like 24hours. Dissapointing though, it was a bit too small. Wished it was bigger.

And I'm telling you. There is no where else in this fucking planet where you'll find students STUDYING in the airport. This is uniquely Singapore :D So fellow countrymen and countrywomen, if you want to mug for 24/7 visit Starbucks at Changi ;D

(stolen from ling)

We have strange tendencies to be highly stupid and retarded. We made poor Ronald Macdonald carry our sampan bag to make him look like Bryanboy(www.bryanboy.com!).We tried entering our sampan bags and tried sampaning around the airport too ;D

Me and Nelle have been wanting to do a bryanboy pose to send to him since like sec3. T_T

Gosh. Do we look retarded or what T_T

Singapore Airport has camera-ugly flowers.

The orchids were so fucking neon-like I thought they resembled my highligthers T_T

We see Eliz after waiting for 1654861 hours. I stand far, far away from them and pretend to be some crazy paparazzi guy.

Paparazzi shot!

My cover was blown!. I was made to take shots of them T_T

Ling wins an Oscar Award for Best North Korean spy ;D

The biggest rainbow I've ever seen in my whole life.

WTF is an eye plug T_T

Next stop:

Azim's Birthday ;D

List

2007-06-21T20:58:00.000+08:00

The June Holidays are almost over :( I'm happy to say that this has been the most fruitful and most not wasted holiday month in my whole 10 years of Primary and Secondary Education. This however, does not mean I've started to become a hardcore mugger and study 24/7. I just studied more this time round :D
Had a meet-up with my Primary School classmates. I didn't really get to talk to all of them and stuff but it was nice seeing them though. Some were completely unrecognisable! Seeing my old primary school clique was also very, very nice.
Call me phychotic, but I don't get why people post character analysis posts on their blogs. You know, those "you are 85% creative and 15% retarded" kinda things. Doesn't that like allow people to like sorta figure out how you are like? Like how you think and how you will react to a certain thing? Doesn't that bother you at all? What if some crazy stalker started following you around and you got super shocked because he manages to predict your moves and stuff. You'll start to think he has magical powers or something when all he did was just "study" you with all those character analysis posts you do on your blog -_-
Yes, you can call me phychotic for that now.
Drama Farewell party will be on when next term starts. I fucking swear to throw those water balloons at every single person I see. I remember trying to throw water bombs at Sherrillin (now an ex-riversidian). She brought an umbrella to run and prance around with and she got away dry -_- Nelle wasn't any better. Her fun got stopped because some idiot threw water balloons on her boobs and she died almost immediately after that. So people, watch out for me throwing water balloons at you all. AHHHHA
We got into DEP!!. I don't know about the rest but I sent crap to them and well, I still got in ;D. Manaswini and Ling, lets go to RJC together on sat for the meeting okay?!
When you think you're crazy, take comfort in knowing that you are not alone. This video shows Takuya Kimura prancing around twirling his hair like some dumb blond. Ever since Jia Le bluetoothed me the mp3 for Gatsby, the bloody song is stuck in my head. Talk about effective advertising aye?

IKEA

2007-06-20T10:51:00.000+08:00

(The post on the outing to borders is updated with more photos ;D)

Outing 1
IKEA was as expected- very picture friendly. Unrealistically, photo friendly ;(

The new Ikea was big. Though not as big as I expected to it to be. This one was located in the middle of nowhere.

Ikea tries it's best to be more earth-friendly:

"No more free plastic bags"

Ikea has loads of pretty toys. There were teddy-bears, snakes, cats and a whole lot of cute soft-toy animals. If I were a kid, I'd get my parents to get me all of those toys. Ahaha

Two teddy-bears were caught in kinky action :O

Tsk tsk. Toys these days..

A whole load of other pretty things:

I tried putting my camera setting to "vivid" and look how these flowers turned out:

A bit too colorful but still pretty ;D

Cats found peeping:

The sampan girl in various forms of posing. All equally sampan-like though. Ahaha

Squeeze! Squeeze!!

Let me remind you how huge Ikea is again:

Fine. It doesn't look huge here but you get the point -_-

Ikea Ikea!:

A pretty flower-like object:

Sitting down:

Azim's mini-mannequin doll. Sorry, we played with it before we gave it to you T_T

Its drowning!

It drowned in my new bag which we call the "sampan". Its cheap, big and it is a big "fuck you" to people who use plastic bags. Recycle dammit. Bring a bag instead of using a plastic bag! T_T

Fun with the sampan bag:

I try my best to be a cheena twit with a peace sign. Kawaii nerhhs?! ;D

PWAH!

Everything is made in china. I fucking swear T_T

2007-06-15T22:22:00.000+08:00

Taken from Nelle's blog cos I lazy -_-

Mahdi and I have found new respect for the Americans.

Charles: What religion are buddhist monks?
American: ISLAMIC!. Well I don't know..

Charles: Who won the Vietnam war?
American: We did. What? We didn't win the Vietnam war? Ok, good.

Charles: How many sides does a triangle have?
American 1: Damn! FOUR.
American 2: There's no sides. Erm.. ONE?

Charles: What's the currency used in the United Kingdom?
American: Possibly American money?

Charles: Based on war terror, who will be the next country to invade?
American: Russia, China, Indonesia, Brazil

Charles: Who is Tony Blair?
American 1: I don't even know. A skater? (That's Tony Hawk dammit!)
American 2: Tony Blair is an actor.

(Oh oh! Homer Simpson thinks that Tony Blair's Mr Bean ._. )

Charles: Which countries are in the Axis of Evil/ Axis Powers?
American 1: California
American 2: New York
American 3: JERUSALEM.
American 4: Florida
American 5: Misissipi
American 6: The one with the turban thing on his head (Osama). I call him a diaper head. (If Osama ever heard about this, she'll prolly be the first to die -_-" )

Gee.

How can Hitler and the Jews have been allies and why are some of the states of America part of Hitler's alliance -_____-"

Charles: Who was the first man on the moon?
American: A Russian. (Dammit, Neil Armstrong was from the US)

Charles: What is a mosque?
American: An Animal?

Charles: How many kidneys does a person have?
American: ONE.

Charles: How many World Wars have there been?
American: THREE.

Charles: The movie Star Wars is based on a true story. True or False?
American: TRUE.

Charles: How many Effiel Towers are there in Paris?
American: I'd say bout TEN. -_________-"

And believe me,
Most Americans would support war against a country they..
DON'T EVEN KNOW .__.

And when told to spot certain countries on the map,
All of them just picked the place where they saw the name of the country given..
(they labelled north korea and Iran on Australia -_-)

Without knowing that the country is actually Australia -_-"

Charles Firth also went around America saying that he is John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia and the Americans actually believed him -____-"

Charles: So have you seen me on TV before?
American: Yes I have. Yes I have.

That's not all,
I have more :D

xxx

Charles: When did the September 11 attack occur?
American 1: 2004.
American 2: October.
American 3: August I think.
American 4: September 9th.
American 5: 9th Eleven.. Septembereth?

Charles: What religion did the 9/11 terrorist belong to?
American 1: HINDU!
American 2: Er.. Hindu?
American 3: Uhm.. Er.. They were stupid! That's all. They were stupid whoever they were.

Charles: How many people died in the 9/11 attack? Is it 3 thousand, 30 thousand or 3 million?
American: I don't want to be wrong.. Millions.

xxx

Charles Firth goes around telling the Americans that all the famous landmarks in other parts of the world like , The Great Wall Of China,The Leaning Tower of Pisa are all replicas of the ones in Australia and..

The Americans bought it.

-_______-"

They even went to believe when some random Australian guy went parading around the streets claiming to be John Howard. And some Americans were like "Yeah! I saw you in the television. Keep on supporting America!"
xxx

And I thought Singaporeans were stupid.

SHEESH.

Random

2007-06-13T00:25:00.000+08:00

This is good. F.U.C.K stands for ' Friends U Can Keep' so promise me, you'll F.U.C.K ME forever! Send this to 10 people including me, and see who F.U.C.K you back. hahaha.

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.././.../..../..../.|_......_|.\....\....\...\.\..
(.(....(....(..../.)..)..(..(.\....)....)....).)
.\................\/.../....\...\/................ /
..\................. /........\................../
....\..............(............)............../
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bye2...
take care..
-insert name-

I don't know where these people on friendster get their ideas from. Kinda ridiculous- perhaps even funny to a certain extent. But I don't want people to fuck me back if they are my friends thank you.

Umm.. whatever T_T

xxx

Those of you who play Pokemon may recall seeing the Pokemon map when they press the start button. Now, let us see how a bunch of supposedly drunk japanese view the United States.

Life is indeed a game aye? ;D

I love technology

2007-06-10T23:03:00.000+08:00

Ahh..the wonder that is technology. I wonder where would I be at this moment without a computer and good high-speed broadband internet. I love the age we live in ;D

KFC loves pandas and China!

All hail the motherland!

Remember the ganguro post I did a while back? I've found a scanned page from the book:

And this too:

Would you call this an otaku or a fucked up wannabe ganguro ? I'd just call him a crazy fat ass :D

These video's are definately the most funniest bunch of video's I have seen for this whole week. You have to watch these. Thank god we don't speak English like that ahahahha

You should learn to love hamburgers like this kid. Ahhhaha the kid is cute

On a totally irrelevant note, Paris Hilton got sent back to jail crying.

Paris, the stars are blind but the law isn't. Ahahahah

This person wants to be your next girlfriend. Please be nice to her:

chio hor? :D

Picture heavy

2007-06-09T23:41:00.000+08:00

Taken a few weeks back. I can't remember when but I do know that these were taken before the parent teacher session.

Ling decides that we have to go to town to go get something at Kinokuniya. I tried dragging Fitri by making her sign some stupid paper. That dumb girl predictably ditches me claiming she couldn't go because she had to go to Malaysia or something -_-

The 3 dots is actually Fitri's signature. I'd be a happy kid if I were Fitri's kid. Every time I flunk a test, all I need to do is put 3 dots as a parents signature. ahha

We went all the way to town only to find out Kinokuniya was closed due to some stock-check. We blame it on the ugly giraffe that we brought along. We actually wanted to burn the bloody thing but it ended up in the Fountain near Moss Burger. Eddie recommended throwing it there for "spiritual cleansing".

Ended up wasting our time at Macs.

Behold-Ling's Pretty cybershot. It takes better pictures-I bitterly admit. But the interface confuses me. Sorta reminds me of the PSP interface you get with your PSP.

Presenting..

My cybershot. Slimmer, thinner and NOTobese ;D

This is the abomination we call the ugly giraffe. I swear it fucking looks like some deformed fetus. What an ugly fetus. This thing brings bad luck. Kinokuniya was closed because we brought this ugly thing. We lost the debates because we brought this fugly thing.Thank god it got flushed in that fountain. Ahhha

Ling killed the bloody thing at the fountain. I still think we should have burnt the thing to death but heck. At least we don't have fugly giraffes around anymore.

(screen-shot taken from Lings blog)

We decided to stray to Wheelock Place (well, at least I think it's called Wheelock Place) to look at Borders Bookstore. I felt as though I was betraying the lovely Kinokuniya T_T Borders was like a child-care centre. The books were everywhere (especially at the kids section). Kinda reminded me of LV4 of the Woodlands Library. haha

The design of the building was cool. I liked the glass exterior. The interior was kinda futuristic. You should try using the escalators in the place. It kinda circulates around the building. As you go higher, the shops get smaller because the whole building was built like a cone.

We walked around after being bored by Borders and look what we found:

"Rescuing the untamed out of the jungle into the clear"

When i first saw the advertisement I thought it was one of those save the Jungles of Indonesia ads. It turns out to be save the blackforests down under -_-

I cannot imagine the idea of lying down butt-naked to await being stripped with hot wax by some unknown person who stares and strips crotches for a living. The Pain isn't the problem I think. It should be the shame that kills -_-

Someone from Nelle's class likes Heidi Klum. I can't remember who right now T_T I am however, very surprised that Heidi Klum designed BIRKENSTOCK. Yes, those expensive sandles. At least they're comfy and they don't look like those ridiculous Crocs slippers. I'd wear those slippers only to the toilet -_-

Had Starbucks before we left. Actually, only Ling had starbucks. She went super hyper after that.

I told you she went hyper -_-

Went back to Woodlands and went to cold storage. I can't remember what I bought but I took some pictures as usual.

Does this remind you of a certain magazine? hehe

Have you ppl seen the Kit-Kat advertisement that stared Joakim Gomez? I found it super funny. Talk about a mismatch. Those Japanese School uniforms looked super weird on them. Now we know why Singaporeans don't have japanese school uniforms.

The Kuma Shirt I wore on that day. Kuma means bear in Japanese if you don't already know.
Found these 2 birthday greetings to be a little out of the ordinary. I wouldn't get these 2 for anyone though.

More soon :D

Wait!

2007-06-09T16:05:00.000+08:00

4:15pm
I have big cravings for pizza, pasta, cheese prata and nutella and breadsticks oh you can't go wrong with breadsticks. Oh! and garlic bread too. I love garlic bread. I really should be eating more anyway. I found out i was 2kg underweight like 3 days ago -_-

Hungry!

7:00pm
I settled for chicken masala instead. But i still want my cheese-prata. God, why can't money like fly down from the sky. I'd run to the prata stall without hesitation if that happened -_- I don't have the mood to continue Math. It gets irritating after you do it for quite some time. Perhaps I'll go watch stuff.

8:00pm
Watched Liar Game. Sorta like Detective conan and Deathnote. Stars the very nice, Toda Erika. She's so bloody gullible in the show lah. And I didn't know she was only like 19 this year. Sugoi

11:30pm
My Electone is being a bitch. All the sounds are stupid and I'm left with a pathetic Trumpet-Flute-Tuba combo. What the hell. I can't even change to other sounds lah. Only the brass sections work. I want a bloody Stagea now dammit. Give me a stagea. I fucking want a stagea.

-whines like a spoilt-brat-

The holidays are good :D

2007-06-05T23:17:00.001+08:00

My holidays has been made up of a good mixture of revision and Anime and J-drama watching. Basically, I watch anime and Jdrama the moment I finish my revision for the day. I'd do my revision and start watching around 11:30 and finish around 3. Decided to skip msn all together because I always end up staying up super super late talking to random friends about random topics.

Back to Anime and Jdrama-

Proposal Daisakusen is good. Tells of a story of how a guy gets to fix up his life after being given a second chance. Plot sounds a bit corny but it really is good. Stars include Yamashita Tomohisa from NEWS and Nagasawa Masami from Dragon Zukura.

Helleluliah Chance!

Bambino is nice too, about this guy who wants to be some chef or something. I always end up wanting to eat pasta after watching this show -_-. Stars Matumoto Jun from Arashi (嵐) and Nose Karina. I think Bambino is more interesting though.

I have much much more shows to watch when it comes to Anime. I've finished watching
NHK ni Youkoso!, Maburaho (yes it was kinda sick but it was funny ;D). I'm halfway through Mahou Sensei Negima! (another sick one but the manga was good so heck -_-) .

涼宮ハルヒ Suzumiya Haruhi is cute. They have this super cute dance routine . You 'd never guess who I dreamt was dancing to the dance T_T. I 've started re-watching Deathnote and I have continued where I stopped off with Bleach Episode 92 I think. Orihime from Bleach is such a blur sotong. Ahaha. Started watching Honey & Clover . From what I hear, its supposed to be good. We'll see ;D

Oh yes, I'm watching Nodame Cantabile too. Nodame-chan is so cute -_- the random noises she makes really makes me laugh.

Who wants to dress up as a mongoose for Halloween this year ;D

The 涼宮ハルヒ Haruhi Suzumiya dance!:

Watched something that reminded me of Full Metal Panic Fumoffu! This time it was with these gigantic panda suits. Super cool. Super super cool!

Michael Jackson has an indian counterpart. He imitates his "Thriller" Music Video. The one with him dancing around with dead people -_- But this time he calls the video Girly Man!

The subtitles are based on how the lyrics sound in english.

So next time if you go to the graveyard and see people dancing, don't be alarmed. Its the Girly Man!

2007-05-30T22:08:00.001+08:00

Umm.

I must apologise for whatever I have said that isn't true to anyone. I have been told I have a sharp tongue. I know I cannot keep secrets to myself and my mouth is bigger than the grand canyon. If I have talked ill about anyone and this ill i have talked about isn't true or correct, I want to say sorry

):

I don't want to leave school with people remembering me as the asshole who talked shit.

Lazy boy

2007-05-27T21:55:00.000+08:00

The urge to play with this computer is strong. The urge to go play with the ps3 is stronger. The urge to go sleep is the strongest.

I seem to be highly unfocused today. Although the MT O level thing is like tmr, I feel no sense of urgency nor do I feel the need to suddenly do Malay Exam Papers.

In short, I'm lazy.

Again ):

Random!

2007-05-25T22:26:00.000+08:00

I've just went through the CD cikgu gave me for MT practice. Full of stuff. Crammed with malay questions. Must devote my Saturday to complete the thing :D
I survived today's Parents Meeting Session. Coincidentally, no one PMS-ed with me even though Parents Meeting Session can be abbreviated as PMS!
I am super, super sick of bad pasta. Some restaurants destroy whatever reputation they have with crummy lousy food quality. The woes of franchise I should say.
I have weird cravings to run out of my house in the middle of the night to satisfy my craving for cheese prata. I feel like a pregnant woman -_-
I want to change my hand phone dammit. My sonyericsson gives me dry hands. I fucking swear its the radiation. Ever since I've gotten the phone my hands have become dry and not it's usual wet self. Not that I like my palms wet or something, but it's way better to have moist palms rather than having weird, dry palms
I think I have upset a certain someone. I'm not sure whether I actually did, but if I was the one that made you mad, forgive me. My mouth often shoots things faster than my brain can control it.
I have a sudden urge to start collecting manga and anime again. I pity my wallet T_T
My violin string broke and I am afraid to put a new string in because I'm afraid it will snap again T_T

xxx

This is really funny shit!(no pun intended):

Doraemon becomes the most traumatizing thing on the planet:

:D

So much for being random aye?

This week in summary

2007-05-24T20:41:00.000+08:00

Mother Tongue Intensive lessons have ended. I have sadly, become worse -_-. My last paper was a failure. Perhaps this is an omen for the coming paper on Monday. No! I shall not think like that. Lets hope I suddenly become brilliant and become a genius at Malay in two days :D

Cikgu has been a big big help for MT. I don't think I'd bother to even care for MT if not for her. She salvaged my interest for MT just before it died :D So she really deserves 2 thumbs up (shows two thumbs)

The whole thing ended with Cikgu asking everyone to take group photos. I could have taken a photo too but I was lazy to take out my cybershot -_-

So as Bapa Deric says,

"Jangan takut dengan Peperiksaan O pada hari Isnin"

Umm, he said something like that lah :D

xxx

Went to catch Kronos! by ACJC's string ensemble on Tuesday. Rushed like a dog from Music O level class and came in a bit late with Ling. We missed the first song but that was about it.

I felt that their playing was well, obviously good lah. But I felt that it wasn't really fitting for a "final concert" since their conductor was going to leave to further his studies or something. They played Debussy's Clair de Lune! :D It was super nice!!

Debussy-Clair de Lune:

:D

Random shots:
The Victoria Concert Hall, made ugly by my cybershot. My cybershot has a weakness. That weakness is taking shots in the dark. They turn out fugly ):

Pirates of the caribbean Advert. Why the hell does a big scary old bald man have to represent Singapore. He actually looks like the Hun guy from Mulan. The evil guy in the show.Sad to say, I've not watched a single Pirates of the Carribean movie. Zilch! Shows how much I care for such things -_-

I think this is the CBD. Not sure. I am however, extremely sure that this photo is fugly! :D

I received many, many stares from people on that day because I carried around a Blush! paper bag. No -_- I did not go around buying bra's and panties. You have to trust me on this one. I just didn't realise that Blush! was a lingerie brand until I left the house and I stared at it properly. Exotic Wonderbra! Lingerie for women! So read the words on the bag. And yes, I did blush when I read it properly. The people in the train must have thought I was a young prodigy at being an old Ah Pek -_-

xxx

On a totally irrelevant note, I have interesting wallpapers for my phone! Well, I think they're interesting lah

The pictures only look interesting because it was taken from my cameraphone. The effect was kinda nice me thinks. If I were to just like put the normal images here, I wouldn't have been screaming here for nuts.

Last year's halloween. Ling and Me dressed up as people from deathnote. Nelle umm, dressed up as Nelle :D

My Nodame Cantabile screensaver! It does the cutest dance when it goes on screensaver mode. Not usually into cute things okay -_- But this is an exception!

Tmr is the big meet the parents session. I pray for the safety and wellbeing of all students tomorrow.

T_T

Education

2007-05-23T23:21:00.000+08:00

Life is the biggest bitch you'll ever know. And karma is her cousin. Me and Ling have safely concluded this to be absolutely true -_-

I dislike studying lah.

I feel like throwing all my books into the recycling bin (lets be environmentally sound!)

On education:

Not fun

No short cuts

2007-05-23T19:54:00.000+08:00

I am in serious need of severe head banging. They look at mid-year results. They look at mid-year results! Sec 3 and Sec 4 results T_T. I feel super super horrible.

Mother Tongue Intensive lessons are well umm okay. The sec 5 boys are noisy but they can be funny sometimes. Yes, sometimes. I was caught sleeping by Cikgu today. Received severe laughing by people for this. Malu T_T

My testimonial is still left undone. Shall begin typing extreme propaganda promoting myself like some stupid product. Not very nice. Especially when I know that even if I were to be on promotion, no one would buy me T_T

AHAHA T_T

I pray that the meet the parents session will be tolerable. I am a lazy stupid boy but I don't cause trouble in school okay! So please, person up there, make the session a tolerable session.

:(

Dick Lee is Lee Kuan Yew's new bestfriend :D :

Random Videos

2007-05-23T17:36:00.000+08:00

A video about the great leader, Kim Jong Ill:

Don't use plastic bags:

:D

Luck

2007-05-20T22:52:00.000+08:00

I've been putting this giraffe as my display pic for quite a while now. Reason is that it brings good luck. It helped us during the JG's this year. And the moment it got stolen, our luck started to run out. Shall put it on until Mother Tongue O's is over. Firstly, because I need all the luck I can get for Parents-teacher meeting session and of cos' for the Mother Tongue O's.

In case you've forgotten what it looks like, take a lookie here:

We all need some luck in our life sometimes :D

Ganguro Ganguro!!

2007-05-20T19:51:00.000+08:00

Look at these photos:

Now tell me, are they:

crazy people from woodbridge hospital
people dressing up for halloween
cosplayers

Well, actually they aren't any of those above.

These people are called the Ganguro or "Gals". The basic look consists of dyed hair (predominantly blonde, but often of several colors) and a deep tan. Black and white eyeliner, gigantic platform shoes and brightly coloured outfits (more towards the neon side) complete the ganguro.

Contrary to popular belief, the ganguro do not steal, rape, jump or eat people on the streets -_-. They are normal people who just love to dress differently. Uh, yes that must be it.

The Ganguro swear by water-based markers-which they use to color their eyes. Para-para can be considered their religion and they reside in the japanese city of shibuya. Oh, you have to be female to be a ganguro too -_-

I've youtubed loads of things about the Ganguro. Was suddenly interested to blog about them after randomly clicking on links on youtube, which eventually led to loads of ganguro videos :D

I think people will probably call the police if a group of Singaporean kids come out dressing like that and parade around Orchard road. Really -_-. Singapore has cosplay, Singapore has the emo-goth dressing people. But Singapore will never ever have ganguro. Ganguro is unique to japanese sub-culture.

Japan Tv: Fashion in Japan

Tokyo Story: The Shibuya Gal-Sa

Ganguro Rules!

The next time you see people having pink hair and white eye shadow and lipstick, don't call the police. These people are the Ganguro!

;D

Information from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganguro and youtube.com

Sms of the year

2007-05-19T23:54:00.001+08:00

Win already :D

Bored

2007-05-19T17:19:00.000+08:00

It is with much regret that I announce that I am bored. There isn't anything a sick boy can do but to rot at home and play with the PC. I am feeling slightly better though, after visiting the doctor at woodlands polyclinic.

I can finally taste food too :D

Though I still have green mucus coming out of my nose lah. Wait, too much information aye? :)

Speaking of food, look at these bento boxes:

Too cute to eat aye?

The Ginelle

2007-05-18T23:40:00.000+08:00

I present to thee, The Ginelle.

The Ginelle will answer anything you ask her and she will give you intelligent replies!. This is the best invention ever :D

Part1:

Part 2:

More video's coming soon :D

Melayu :D

2007-05-18T23:16:00.000+08:00

I will go out on a full scale crusade. A crusade that will end with me winning over my mother tongue. I can't say I'm confident about it, but I am aiming for an A2. Shocking aye? Yes, me thinks so too.

I will bloody read berita harian everyday and read malay books from the library. I will learn re-learn imbuhan and I will take all the mock-exams seriously from Monday onwards. Malay isn't the hardest language in the world. The people who take chinese have a far worser fate than me. Memorising those chinese characters must be tough- especially when you have to know over 2000 characters T_T

I really hope I will be well enough to come for school on Monday. I want do Mother Tongue! :D

Happy

2007-05-18T20:23:00.000+08:00

I am sick. Coming down with a fever- probably because I went running around in the rain yesterday so I guess I deserve it T_T

My results weren't fantastic. But I was surprised that the whole class wasn't doing awesome too. I thought they like studied lor -_- I thought all of them left me in the dust and that I was going to be left to decompose to become loser material.

Two things that surprised me:

Geography paper- didnt do the bloody Map-Reading question and I did not do two other questions, one on the bangalore technological centre and the other one about development I think. And I got a bloody 27/50. Super amazing. Perhaps it was some fluke or something but I did quite well for geog lah- taking into consideration that I din do 3 questions that were probably worth at least 20 marks. Pwah!
Music Practical- I got distinction. AHAHAHHA I thought I bloody flunked the paper lah. I thought that the whole thing was a goner after pedo man and me died while playing. But I got quite awesome marks. That is super awesome :D

Though my L1R5 isn't even worthy for entrance into ITE right now, I can say comfortably that I still have hope :D Everyone got around my results this term round. Well, almost everyone in my class lah.

Cheers!

Yay!

2007-05-17T21:09:00.000+08:00

Today was good.

I passed section A for POA.
I got 67 for MT
I told my father Im going to flung the whole mid-year thing and he did not kill me.

So happy :D

2007-05-15T21:16:00.000+08:00

First and foremost, the entire batch of kids from secondary 4E has to thank me for being able to not go to school today. Reason being that I am the only student in Riverside in sec 4 who takes music as a subject, hence giving the other sec 4 kids the time to slack. Imagine if I dropped the bloody subject last year, you ppl would have been going to school!

Must thank me :D

Today's music paper was stupid. I have friends who mistook Japanese music for either African or Indian music. Funny shit man. The Haydn portion of the paper wasn't any better. I have come upon realisation that no matter how hard you study for prepared listening, you will still fail if you don't know how to use the weird music vocabulary used in Music O level papers. This is so not fun -_-

I walked a bit and met Eddie, Ling, Nelle and Hila. They were parading around in Nanyang Optical. Apparently, Nelle went to buy specs. What was even more amusing was the fact that she was there since 2pm in the afternoon (it was 5:20pm at that moment in time mind you -_-). I bought my chocolate sundae and promptly made my way home.

Ling is getting her Cybershot T100 like, soon. I went to tell her that I didn't get the darn thing (this fun sir went to buy the slim T10) because I felt that it was a bit chunky. Thinking back, me thinks me was being a spoilt jealous brat ): congrats you lucky bitch :D I don't care -_- my cybershot is pretty too!

T10 in black and T100 in red:

Please say my T10 is prettier.

T_T

We have agreed to be literal cam-whores by taking pictures of each other's cameras. The world is an intersting place to live in aye? :D

On a totally irrelevant note, I had a stupid moment today. Today being Tuesday means I get my 8days magazine. This being so, it means that I will ignore the world and drown myself in the book as I get absorbed into reading the bloody magazine.

So guess what?

I walked back home today reading my 8days, I took the lift with a bunch of foreign workers (speaking in very china

Just as I was going to start to complain, the lift door opened. Turns out the china speaking people dropped off at the 9th floor with me forgetting to come out (hence staying in the lift for an extra minute). china accents). The door opened and they went out. I continued reading my magazine. One minute later, I started to wonder why the bloody lift wasn't reaching the 9th floor (which I was supposed to come out at). I got a bit impatient and started furiously pressing the lift button. What scared me was the fact that the 9th floor button wasn't lighting up (meaning that there was something wrong with the lift).

I am so clever.

T_T

xxx

I swear, blogger is giving me more html problems than I can tahan.

Not fun I tell you. So if you see weird paragraphs and weird font sizes. Don't blame me, blame blogger! T_T

iGallop is <3!

2007-05-14T20:52:00.000+08:00

iGallop is <3 -_-

In persuit of happiness

2007-05-14T18:11:00.000+08:00

Chemistry Paper 1 was nonsense. The paper by itself wasn't difficult at all but with my highly developed mental capabilities, I don't think I'll be able to score even a pass.

It's scary. People are talking about securing A's for their exams, but over at my side of the planet, we only think of securing a pass. They talk about A1's and we only talk about passes.

POA Paper 1 wasn't difficult. But I really don't think I'll pass this paper either. Overall, for POA me thinks I can pass lah, but not this section. I did the paper in a record 10 minutes and promptly fell flat on the table and slept. No hope I tell you, no hope.

One more paper to go- Music Paper 2. Unlike the other papers, I shall think of achieving more than a measly pass for this paper. I want better for this one dammit.

I fear the upcoming Meet the Parents session. I have strange thoughts of hiring 'parents' like what those South Korean students do when they do badly for their papers. Too bad Singapore doesn't offer such services.

Nevermind, shall tell my parents to prepare for verbal slaughter by Miss Nora, or Mrs Singh- if I really did extremely badly

xxx

Warning, I am going to be super random. Like super, SUPER random :D I might be talking about chocolates and suddenly, be talking about roti prata, so if you don't like random things, scram!

My Internet Explorer is weird. Frankly, I've never really fancied IE, I've been using firefox ever since I came to know of its existence and I've never looked back. But I recently decided to use my Internet Explorer. Guess what? My whole internet explorer is coded in Japanese.

Yes, it may be cool and stuff, but imagine if I really want to use the internet and I can't bloody read Japanese properly?. Thank God for Mozilla Firefox (:
(press on the image for a bigger view)

xxx

I've been looking through my picture archieves and I've found something very amusing. Edwin Pang loves taking photo's of Manaswini.He took like more than 10 pictures of her lah -_-

Don't believe? Look here!:

Hehe, it's been a while since I've played with photoshop. Should play with it more :D

xxx

Nelle should take malay for her O levels.AHAHAHA

Never call a man happy until he is dead.

2007-05-13T22:11:00.000+08:00

(blogger's posting section seems to be ugly and not working properly at the moment, so please excuse the monotonousness of my typing. No bloody italics and bolds and variety in size font today)

It's a wonder how you get miraculously cured from itchy, sticky sore eyes and a horrible flu just by playing with the bloody PC. Honestly, I am astounded and will forever continue to be with this fact.

I motherfucking cannot concentrate. I cannot bloody study. Every time I try to bloody hit the books, I either turn sleepy, or my body magically turns the "sticky, red eye, flu" button thing on. This is sick lah, have I reached the point of hating to study so much that my body itself has developed an anti-studying mechanism?

This is bloody sick.

Everything has gone sick today. First, I find out that I don't have bloody milk to eat my bloody koko-krunch for breakfast. Then, I sulk and complain how my siblings are so bloody inconsiderate for not leaving any milk for me. And magically enough, they tell me that there is indeed, some milk in the fridge. I start to think that my day might be slightly better but this stupid hope is dished out the moment i taste the milk. It tastes bad. Bloody hell it's fucking expired.

I go to my room, desperate to mug for Chemistry. I start to complain about how we have to learn about bloody mole concepts and stupid relative molecular mass shit.

"mole mole mole, go see PCK's mole lah dammit!"

I get so pissed, I start cursing. I don't know why, but I've been vulgar ever since the day started. (My first word of the day was "fuck" for your information).

Looking at my notes gets me irritated. So I decide to sleep on it for awhile. I set the alarm to 11am. And I awake only at 6pm. You can imagine how many more strings of vulgarities came out of my foul mouth.

6pm.

I try to make the best of whatever time I have left. I've decided to slaughter myself for the POA test. There's no bloody point. I'm not going to do the subject for the JC, so I don't see why I should study for it. This is me trying to justify with whatever stupid logic I can at this moment. Don't try to lecture me about the importance of all my bloody subjects, because I am just being irritating and annoying at this bloody moment.

Two bloody hours pass, I have my dinner. Not very delicious, but palatable at the very least. I take my shower, and I find myself fiddling with the PC yet again. Honestly, I don't quite understand why I find the PC so fun to toy with. I know what to expect when I go online, and yet I never fail to continue wasting my time with the bloody Internet.

Fuck this.

It's 10:30pm right now. I am salvaging any remaining feeling of determination and 'hardworkingness' to hit the books. This is a desperate attempt. I look at the clock and grow increasingly angry with every second passing.

You know what.

Fuck this.

My spelling has probably been reduced to a 5 year old. I am powerless without blogger's spell check tool. Which, has died on me today. My very strange sentence structure is also very odd today. I bet Mr. Tsung would like circle here and there and write a big EXPRESSION on my paper (if this was a bloody essay)

A horrible day I tell you. I apologise for any fucking vulgar language because I have clearly woken up at the fucking wrong side of the bed today.

(chee)bye!

2007-05-09T21:21:00.000+08:00

I'm wondering if I'll produce better results this term. I did my revision and stuff, albeit at the last minute. But, this has to be better than last term. It just has to be. In fact, it will be.

Me hopes.

Geography was stupid I guess, because I skipped the whole question on map reading and didn't even bother to touch the Bangalore Technological Park question. I didn't have time lah. But with a good dose of luck and whatever I wrote in that paper, me thinks I stand a relatively fair chance of passing, though not scoring for the paper.

Math paper 2 spells impending doom for me. I know I'll die tomorrow, but I am going to die with dignity and put up a fight -_-

The days in the hall

2007-05-03T18:47:00.000+08:00

I swear in the name of the great motherland(inside joke)

To read more books and expand my dying language and writting skills.

This being realised when I run into problems when we have to write short-stories and essays. When Mr Tsung tells us to write essays or short stories, I'd go have my own fun and either a. write an argumentative b. not do it at all (:

Adding further to this dread, Mr Tsung tells has proclaimed to the known universe that all those that wrote argumentatives for English Mid-Years are doomed to die. Well, something like that at least.

I hate reading lah. I really, really don't see the point of reading some book containing 0% facts. Give me an encyclopedia, I can tahan. Give me The Straits Times, I can tolerate. Give me 8 days, I like.

But give me a stupid boring story book and I sleep T_T

On a lighter note, mother tongue paper was reasonably easy. Amongst freezing temperatures and scary O-level-like styled simulations in the hall, me thinks I can pass the paper.

xxx

After school was spent with Shurong, Nelle and Fitri (mostly) at the fountain of eddie. Saw some interesting stuff today.

Satisfy your secret fishy fantasy!

Explain and evaluate your answer too (12 marks)
Sourced-based question. Well, we could use a little practice, considering that tomorrow is the Social Studies paper.

Walked a bit. Making naughty sick jokes about the secret fishy fantasy, and proceeded to cold storage. Buying chocolates, for the sake of satisfying a strange desire for chocolate.

Bear in mind that that particular packet of Hershey's was unopened. Strange packaging errors I tell you.

Today's winning dialogue:

"Eh fitri, why the mother tongue paper keep on talking about dead bodies and teenagers?!"

"What dead bodies?!"

"Jenayah!, you never see meh?"

"Dead body is jenazah stupid -_-"

Before I leave, Nelle has something to say:

Don't ask. Crazy things like these just happen okay :)

Banzai!

Mother Tongue

2007-05-02T21:17:00.000+08:00

Mother Tongue Mid-year paper is like tomorrow. I really want to bang wall and die. I actually wanted to go buy a bloody Berita Harian you know, as a desperate last attempt in improving my Malay, especially those bloody imbuhan's. But naturally, when you are me; you can never stick to schedules.

Deric tells me he doesn't buy Berita Harian. I don't too actually (:

But he has a special reason. He tells me in Indonesia the short form for Berita Harian, BH means bra. So, when people start asking if he buys Berita Harian, he will start laughing. Funny shit.

I am going to pass this Mid-Year Mother Tongue paper. I don't know how, I don't know why, but I will pass this paper(me thinks)

Before we leave, Mrs Pang has an important announcement!
(double click for bigger image!!)

I like Mrs Pang. For all her long-winded speeches, she has the best intentions for us and she really seems genuinely concerned for our sucky lives. But she really can be hilarious sometimes. We're not in SJI or ACS Mrs Pang, we don't need funny talk. Not that funny talk is wrong or anything, but it doesn't seem very umm.. fitting in our school.

January

2007-04-30T22:37:00.000+08:00

This is one of those random posts. Ignore them if you like.
Taken during January and December of last year me thinks.

The mid-years are here. I feel the pain of failure already. One cannot change what was already decided yes?

sigh.

tagged!

2007-04-29T22:05:00.000+08:00

Tagged by Ling -_- Most probably because she is bored and more probably because this blog is decaying at the speed of light. May I remind you people that I don't like to blog anymore. There is just no more fun in blogging publicly anymore lah. You say one thing, you kena body-slammed. Say another, you kena verbal-bashing when you go to school. Hmph.

RULES:
Each person who gets tagged needs to write a blog post of their own 6 idiosyncrasies as well as clearly state this rule. After stating your 6 weirdness you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names at the bottom of the entry. Dont forget to leave a comment on their tagboards that says "you’re tagged!" and tell them to read your blog for information as to what it means.

Idiosyncrasy
Pronunciation: "i-dE-&-'si[ng]-kr&-sE
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek idiosynkrasia, from idio- + synkerannynai to blend, from syn- + kerannynai to mingle, mix -- more at CRATER
: a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality

Idiosyncrasy #1:
I absolutely hate sushi. In fact, I hate any food that is like cold, but can be eaten and enjoyed better warm. For all my love for the Japanese culture, I have never come to fully understand why people adore this weird dish. It is too cold for my liking dammit. How can people stand eating cold things. The feeling of severe cold coming from the food will kill any appetite I have for it. I mean, why can't sushi be warm or something -_- . How can you stand to eat something so cold. Cold food can be jelly. Cold food can be chocolate. Cold food can be potato chips. Wait. Potato chips aren't supposed to be cold. Heck lah, you get what I mean right? Some things just should not be eaten cold. Like your Fillet-O-Fish. I for one cannot stomach cold Fillet-O-Fishes. Extremely disgusting -_-

(ignore the nonsense commentary by Nelle and Ling)
Okay, so I don't hate sushi that much. But still.. -_-

Idiosyncrasy #2:
When I was smaller, I thought the world was in black and white because the television shows were all in black and white. Remember those huge bulky gigantic black and white television sets? Had those in my home when I was living in Brunei me thinks, and so came forth that stupid idea. I thought that the world only had colour like 20 years before I was born; with the invention of the colour television. So I was like wondering, how did people manage to 'paint' the world. I imagined some sort of stupid cheesy adventure where people went in search of brushes, each containing a certain colour of the world.

Yes, I know. It's very stupid lah. Imagine how my mother looked like when I asked her who was that fantastic person who painted the world -_-

Idiosyncrasy #3
(this is another 'when I was young' thing)
When ever something wrong happened at home, my father would go to me and would ask me whether I did it. He would ask me, "accidentally, or on purpose". I didn't quite understand the meanings of both words, so I always picked the word which sound cooler to me. Sadly, that word was 'on purpose'. So even though I was innocent from whatever crime I had been convicted of, I would get a whacking from my dad and I would be crying while being hit, "But it was on purpose! I never do anything! It was on purpose!"

Extremely intelligent.

Idiosyncrasy #4
I have a tendency to insult people when I feel insecure. There was this one time when I was in Secondary 1 when Manaswini wanted to make friends with me. So she asked me smiling away, "what is your name?". I thought she was trying to make fun of my name or something, cos my name sounds like you know, mud. So I replied, "Mahdi. M-a-h-d-i. Got problem issit?" while folding my arms and sounding all high and mighty -__-. Honestly, I don't remember this at all, but Manaswini told me she hated me in sec one cos I was so insulting and arrogant -_-

Idiosyncrasy #5
I have never eaten Asam Pedas and Mee Siam and Sambal and Lontong and Nasi Padang and Nasi Campur and otah and (the list goes on, but basically I've not eaten loads of Malay food) I find Malay food to be too smelly lah and too mixed up. I mean, they put loads of spices and ingredients and mix them all up. Ending with something that tastes like something and at the same time, of everything. Ends up, I don't know what I'm eating anymore. The last time I tried to be adventurous was when I decided to try Mee Rebus. I ended up with horrible rashes due to the fact that I forgot laksa had like prawn stock inside or something. I've been traumatised ever since.

But I do have my share of malay food that I like lah. I like nasi lemak (without the sambal, please) and Soto Ayam. I like food that doesn't smell and taste like too many things. Yes, that must be it.

Idiosyncrasy #6
When I was small and ignorant, I thought the Chinese language sounded like this.

"ching chang chong chong chang"

So when I first came to Singapore, I went to my chinese friends (in an attempt to be friendly) and said somthing like this

"Hi! Ching chong ching chong ching ching ching chong!"

You should have seen the look on their faces.

Well, I think i deviated slightly off topic. Some of the idiosyncrasies I gave weren't even idiosyncratic enough lah -_-

Who am i going to tag next? I dunno. I lazy -_-

xxx

I swear, this has to be the weirdest phone in the world. How are people like going to sms and stuff?! Nonsense!

Mozart and The Simpsons

2007-04-26T21:40:00.000+08:00

The Simpsons kick ass!

Like totally!

2007-04-25T21:57:00.000+08:00

(more soon)

W.A. Mozart - Sonata KV 448 in D Major

2007-04-23T23:20:00.000+08:00

Someone learn this song and play with me! This song is so fun to play lah T_T. Who can play this song with me. I have the score. After mid-years? Gee, I sound so umm.. despo-like. Heck lah.

I'm serious (and bored)

Starbucks and Kinokuniya

2007-04-23T22:16:00.000+08:00

Starbucks is now my new best friend. Despite their overpriced cups of coffee, I feel that starbucks is really great because you can stay in there for 23432523 hours and the people (call them baristas) won't chase you out. I guess you're paying for the seats you use then.

I'm desperately trying to finish up revision this week. Coffee will remain mandatory. The homework keeps coming, and I can't do the test papers because I have yet to finish revision -_-

Starbucks will remain my second home (:

After starbucks, I went to Kinokuniya with Ling. We saw some kinky stuff:
Imagine what people thought of us while we took these photos . Voyeurs in the making aye? -_-

Isn't that last person from Gundam Seed or something. It gets freakier if you can read the chinese characters on the comic book. God, I wonder why they even allow these things on the shelves. I'm not going to pass any judgement though. Some people call these type of things 'art'.

Really!

Bang wall and die

2007-04-22T22:01:00.000+08:00

Mid-Years are coming in less than a week. I have not finished my revision. My classmates are really ahead of me in terms of work. I feel like banging the wall and die.

Heck, lets not even call it revision. I think I'm re-learning the bulk of whatever I'm studying lor ): Especially POA.

Honestly, I've never really found POA to be my cup of tea. Heck, everything doesn't seem to be my cup of tea lah dammit.

Then again, I prefer coffee now. How, incoherently random

Speaking of coffee,I am highly amused at how a cup of coffee is able to help even short-attention spanned people like me study.I used to think coffee was a drug. Some type of stimulant people use, something people take to become extra alert and stuff. So I avoided it.

Yes -_- I am aware that I am super dumb not to know this like 4865434 years ago.

But now I know better (:

Motivation for Mid-Year:

I don't want to see Mrs. Singh.
I don't want to see Mrs. Singh.

Repeat mantra!

I DON'T WANT TO SEE MRS. SINGH

Q#$@#@%##!!

I've uploaded the drama club images into my vox. The link is under the ETC column.

SYF Drama 2007

2007-04-18T22:10:00.000+08:00

SYF for drama was okay (:
But i had horrible make-up sessions to become a 'father'. Involved ugly makeup and hair. I'm telling you. Im not that ugly okay! ):

Allow me to complain about me first. It was fugly lah. I not happy. I've never felt so offended ever in my life. Okay, maybe not. But it was still ugly dammit.

Step 1:
Put on a fugly hairband and await getting your faced dabbed with horrible oily used make-up sponges. Oh, i get a fake moustache too.

Step 2:

Get ugly father-like hair with about 1894861 bottles of hair gel. I swear, my hair felt like a piece of plastic after that. Congratulations! You are now fugly!
Before and After
Big difference okay! BIG difference

Before pictures:

After picture:
Ugly ):

Never mind. It isn't a big thing actually. I'm just being whiny because I really have nothing to blog about nowadays :D

Links to the other pictures are up. Warning, includes loads of images of azza, azza and azza. She is the professional camwhore

Speaking of azza,

Links:
http://anawesomesonata.vox.com/drama/
http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b290/shurong4/

More images coming up soon. Watch this space.

Happy

2007-03-30T22:49:00.001+08:00

So we lost. Sure, we're disappointed. Sure, we're sad.
But we enjoyed every moment.

I love the dingbats (:

More updates soon
(the best is yet to be! HAHA)

Crap

2007-03-27T21:47:00.000+08:00

Though I understand that putting a person's picture without his/her permission on a blog he/she does not know exist is wrong, I feel obliged to show to the world a weirdness never seen before in your joyful train rides.

Stole this shot with my ugly camera-phone. My cybershot is small, but not small enough not to be noticed T_T

What is he trying to be? L from deathnote issit? With a bloody handbag and scary eyelined eyes. Horrible Cosplaying perhaps? Add that to the fact that he(?) wears super tight pants which really compliments he's flabby thighs and you get an ugly L.

Okay, maybe I'm wrong. But I think that opinions should be heard no?

Sorry lah :(

I just never expected to see such weird dressing on a train ride home. Maybe I'm just a boring person. Perhaps I'm just nit-picking.

But you cannot deny that he looks weird.

Violin was crap. Perhaps, this is the reason why I am lashing my childish unhappyness with this poor person.

Today

2007-03-27T10:17:00.000+08:00

The exam is today. Wish me luck :(

I really need a lot of luck today. Lucky Mahdi isn't lucky enough on his own you know. I hope the ang moh examiner doesn't have a scary face and a weird accent. I hope I don't become nervous. I hope I don't screw my songs. I hope I don't play my scales out of tune.

I hope.
(and i need a lot of hope too)

The Drama Club is going to HCI for rehearsal. Sorry I can't come. Promise to make it on other rounds.

A super early version of the script. Don't worry, it isn't this sucky anymore

Tomorrow

2007-03-26T22:20:00.000+08:00

The violin exam is like in less than 20 hours. I just hope my nerves don't get the better of me. And I hope my stupid violin teacher does not throw me that type of "you're going to die face". Sometimes, even if I practice, if people give you this look your morale just sinks to 0 and you play like poop.

今日わ私の誕生日です。マディくん、幸せか？

I just hope I do well enough to please my parents lah ):

Violin on Tuesday

2007-03-25T22:11:00.000+08:00

The violin exam is on Tuesday. And I'm not confident of securing even a merit. A pass is obviously obtainable. The songs are in tune and stuff. But those little details like a shaky bow and those little expression marks and dynamics are really pulling me down.

I mean, I know I'm suppose to follow the bowing and stuff but sometimes, it just doesn't turn up nicely.

):

God, how I yearn for at least a merit for my grade 8.
(impossible)

On Guard!

2007-03-25T17:00:00.000+08:00

THBT political parties should be allowed to advertise

Here we go again :(

We are opposition this time round :D
I always like being opposition. There's always more to do in opposition

Up against Saint Patrick's. I heard they have a reputation for being a naughty boys school. Don't know how true is that lah.

I do hope we get more supporters this time round. Our morale seems to be sinking.

Wrong News?

2007-03-24T21:30:00.000+08:00

Am i seeing things? Or did I just read that Riverside actually tied with Bowen instead of getting second? I mean, we won all 3 and got best speaker for all 3 rounds like them too you know. Whats even better was that Manaswini won all 3 best speaker awards. Read that they did get those awards, but not from the same person :D

Read for yourself then:

jg debates: 3rd round

how cool is this?

'C' Division
1(=). Bowen Secondary School (3)
1(=). Riverside Secondary School (3)
3. Maris Stella High School (3)
4. Nan Hua High School (3)
5. Bukit Batok Secondary School (3)
6. Pioneer Secondary School (3)
7. Anderson Secondary School (2)
8. St. Patrick's School (2)

and we're in the quarter-finals. yay!!!!

once again, we beat zhonghua sec and mj got best speaker.

and guess what, in the 'c' division we're tied for first place with bowen sec. quite an achievement eh? seeing that we've never made it past the qualifying rounds before.

i must record my appreciation to kerri, foremostly, as she has definitely helped the team reach a higher level. and of course, the kids themselves, for the commitment and enthusiasm they've put in.

good job all around.

Tags: debates, school

I shall remain skeptical. Don't want to be so happy over nothing. What if Miss Nora got the news wrong or something. We heard we got second and now we suddenly tie? Its good news lah :) but I want this piece of good news confirmed with a stamp of assurance.

Ugh.

I turn 16 on Monday. I hate becoming old dammit.

Debates

2007-03-24T14:53:00.000+08:00

We had to go to ACS Barker for Debates this time round. The school was soooo nice lah. The facilities were awesome too. Makes me jealous :(

Went off against Zhonghua Seconadary School. With that nonsense motion I talked about last time. Zhonghua was not bad actually. But we won :D

Manaswini bagged best speaker (for the third-time!). And we got into the quarter-finals in second place. Bowen Secondary being in first place.

Not to worry though. We don't intend to keep being second :D

T_T wait.

Maybe I'm being too high-headed. Gahhh

We stayed up the whole night the day before until like 11pm plus. You should have heard how Kerri whined about not being able to watch Prison Break -_-

Zhonghua secondary, the opposing team

At first, we felt like dying. Infact, i actually dieded (no such word T_T)

Don't be fooled. We still felt like we were dying

Gah.

It seems like we get more nervous with every debate that comes. We have to overcome our nerves lah.

Me.

Oh, i got my braces removed :D

Yupputa!

2007-03-18T16:14:00.000+08:00

Agenda
This coming week will be a really busy week

A shitload of drama/debate meetings. God its either drama or debate after school. I want to die lah
Remove my braces on the 23rd!(after 148846189498748 years of wearing it). This means I won't be coming to school on Friday . I am soooo sad. -_-
Debates on the 23rd. Really not looking forward to this one
My birthday on the 26th. Also not looking forward to this one :( IM ANCIENT GODDAMMIT
VIOLIN EXAM on the 27th. I'm not prepared! I don't want to do this one at all :(

This calls for a slash of the wrist! Relieve stress and sorrow~!! Cannot take it so must cut myself!

-___-

Don't worry I'm just being irritating thats all :D

2007-03-17T17:50:00.000+08:00

I'm not getting the debate motion
We have about 6 more days before the debate and I have yet to grasp fully the meaning of this coming debate. The motion not fun lar :( They might as well have given us a motion like TH believes that bellydancers are saviors to humanity.

Kerri expects me to send her my research and stuff. But I don't even know what to research about leh. It's been a while since I've been this stumped because of a stupid motion. Even a pollution permits debate would be easier -_-

Let's try to cheer up shall we?

Can this happen in the next debate again?

2007-03-16T21:26:00.000+08:00

Hello ZhongHua :D

We've just received the motion for our next debate. This side would ban private cars from entering major cities. We're going to be proposing for this motion. Oh what extreme joy. -_-

Zhonghua Secondary is the school we'll be up against. They won two debates too I presume, seeing that JG always hooks up the teams that get similar marks and stuff.

I'm hoping this coming debate will be to our liking. The stress to win this year's JG C division is extremely high. It's not as though the teachers are putting pressure on us though. It's just that when you're in your senior year in a school, you want to leave a lasting (positive) impression.

With Kerrie as our coach and our wonderful debate team, I think we stand a fairly good chance in winning this year's JG.

But let's not be too confident shall we?

T_T

xxx

Violin Scales

My practicing has paid off. :D

Less notes are sounding like notes from some funeral song. Major and Minor scales are about done. Just need to work on the slurs for them and work on the other components (chromatic scales, dominant seven's etc).

Oh yupputa!

:D

2007-03-15T23:04:00.000+08:00

Violin Scales are hell
Playing scales on the violin is irritating I tell you. I don't understand why I have to play a whole bunch of irritating notes for an exam I hardly want to do. Its extremely frustrating when you practice for hours and still hear those same notes going out of tune. Its even more frustrating when you hear your teacher asking you whether or not you've actually practiced because the notes you play still sound so bad. I'm not happy with my scales dammit. I have exactly ten days (starting as of tomorrow) to get my scales right. It's late. I know. But it's not too late to get a decent grade. Should have practiced my scales more lah.

It is due to my own procrastination that this is happening to me.

Mahdi must practice more!

xxx

PS3 and youtube

I was so super amazed by the fact that my PS3 can like play youtube. I mean, yes indeed on paper, it does say that it could use the internet and stuff but.. I'm still amazed.

So maybe i get too easily amazed lah but still..

2007-03-15T22:36:00.001+08:00

Debates

I sort of like, forgot to write about our win(s) in debate. Debates has gone extremely well for the past few matches. One more win and we'll be past the preliminary round. Our first round was against Loyang Secondary, the school from the arena. Although it wasn't the same team
though. The team Loyang sent lacked experience I guess. They didn't even know what a reply-speech was. Kinda sounds like our debate team a few months back :D. The Second Round was against some autonomous school called Ngee Ann Secondary. Their speakers were IRRITATING. Irritating with a capital 'I'. Especially the third speaker. God do i dislike the third speaker.

Gah.

One more week to the next debates. Lets not break this winning streak shall we?

2007-03-15T22:35:00.001+08:00

Drama
I so do not like the script for this year's SYF. Nevermind, toleration and respect must be upheld for the greater good of humanity! Yeah right -_-.

Nelle passed away that day, so we decided rather, she decided, to give herself a proper burial with newspaper from last month's Straits Times. Paid respect and sat in silence as we grieved the loss of our good friend. Only to realise she came back to life after ten minutes.

_-

YAY