man is superficial, man is greedy. man is selfish, man is self-centered. man is also materialistic.

there have been so many GP essay questions with like uh, " youths these days are not as hardworking as compared to their parent's generation." and we never fail to drag in the factor on materialism. actually it's not very true to say that all youths are materialistic, but there are a handful of spoilt brats who want to buy everything they fancy for. The reason why i want to talk about this is because i feel Education kind of makes us materialistic too.

you see the geog department is organising a field trip to Cambrige and it's a 3 week course, comprising of field work (like measuring the velocity of the river), talks by their geog professors and u basically get to mingle around with the Cambridge professors. Wait but the cost is a whooping 3000 dollars.and it's subjected to unforseen alterations like the weather So if one wants to attend this what shit they call "once in a lifetime opporunity", does it make the person materialistic?

i think what sarene said today was really meaningful,she mentioned that money is not to be spent like that. 3000 bucks is not a measly amount, unless your parents print money as their job or you are Goh Chok Tong's wife. So why is it that only those who are financially able to afford this sum of money can go, and those who are unwilling and unable to pay are not given the chance? So what's up with education's meritocratic scheme?

Well anyway, going for overseas trip doesn't make u any smarter, or more advantaged/well-off than your peers who can't go for it. Man does not have a photographic memory - it's just taking a plane over to UK, and back, and u pick up some good experience. So, does money make the world go round?

there was this newspaper article a few weeks ago about this malay married woman who had pre-marital sex, and she got pregnant. Now she finds it difficult to cope with the rising costs of having a child, and she has to "THINK 10 TIMES BEFORE SPENDING 10 DOLLARS."
so to all those rich little children who think that material welfare makes them happy, who scream in delight " i like that bagggg!!" and u immediately fish out 50 bucks from your wallet for it and hand it over to the lady grinning over the counter, u have to think 50 times.

because some of them really DON'T DESERVE IT*, simply because they have NOTHING to prove your worth.

where "it" refers to material possession.*



today is friday!! so that's something to rejoice about. tomorrow i have a dental appointment and then our class is going to bras basah to buy studying material. like our economics textbook and chinese text as well. and many other books to buy like geography, so all these will cost a huge bomb that can blow up the whole of Singapore. Books can be said as the most worthwhile things to buy, in my opinion. Rather than spending money on a top, why not spend it on a good book?

well this is rather subjective. but i truly agree with sarene about spending money only when u think u deserve spending it.

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in the light of the sun, is there anyone?
oh it has begun...
oh dear you look so lost,
eyes are red and tears are shed,t
his world you must've crossed.

..you said...you don't know me,
you don't even care,
you don't know me,
you don't wear my chains...

essential and appealed,
carry all your thoughts across an open field,
when flowers gaze at you...
they're not the only ones who cry
when they see you

you said...you don't know me,
you don't even care,
you don't know me,
you don't wear my chains...

she said I think I'll go to Boston...
I think I'll start a new life,
I think I'll start it over,
where no one knows my name,
I'll get out of California,
I'm tired of the weather,
I think I'll get a lover and fly em out to Spain...

I think I'll go to Boston,
I think that I'm just tired
I think I need a new tow,
to leave this all behind...
I think I need a sunrise,
I'm tired of the sunset,
I hear it's nice in the Summer,
some snow would be nice..
Boston...
where no one knows my name...


this song has been running through my mind a million times. haha. boston by augustana. i think that's his name.

today i shall do my chem tutorial and try out maths as well. i suppose the math one will be futile because i suck at it and i can never do math. =] there are some really hard working people in the class, and they have become my motivation. however i will only set myself as my own benchmark.

i got back my econs consolidation test 2, was kind of disapppointed with it because i got 8/15. well it's ok, can always try harder! =] i feel sad for jon, he shouldn't have dropped econs to take physics. (i guess it's also because i suck at physics so i'm eating sour grapes haha)

wait - i like sour stuff.

get well soon, to hwee kee. what's up with the poor lung infection thing? =[

have been going home with hayden and benjamin almost everyday, so i guess that's good about my class. and i am supposed to go running to kill off all the calories. you know the advertistment? KILOKILLER.COM.SG. haha! so dumb.

anyway i have chosen my CCAs - service learning club, business club followed by ODAC. my mom will throw me out of the house and leave me to sleep in the park if ODAC is allocated. but luckily, it won't be so because there was an interview round.

i think it takes lots of determination and passion for dudes to join sports CCAs. because it's mentally and physically draining. the MJ soccer guys are playing with yishun JC on the 2nd, and ACJC on the 5th of next month. i know they will emerge as tops. all the best to razif, zhijun, matthew, syadad, luke. the Tk-mj soccer club people.they run like dogs during training. but eveything we do comes with a price.

zhijun played a prank call on me yesterday. stupid. haha.

Labels: boston, chem tut, soccer

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

behold the majestic beauty of nature. this is grand teton park, USA.

i think the temperory time-table is really screwed up, we had 4 free periods at a go today! =] well it's not such a bad thing, because it provides more bonding time for our class. i think we are a bunch of freaking funny people. all of us are sick - sick in the mind! haha.

evan came to touch my butt today and after going to white sands macs (which we ate and did some homework and singing) , we created a din in lecture theatre 1 while waiting for bimbo pow to come. haha talking about our sick in the mind thinggo. mengting and evan started to talk about sexual intercourse and such. suddenly this male teacher came in to claim his waterbottle and i hope he didn't hear anything. imagine if our conversation had been recorded (you know they say they record down the lectures in MJ) right? then it'll all be uploaded on IVLE. which is pronounced as eye-velll.

so anyway i really like my classmates, very noisy and fun. although i miss the old people, but i am glad there are ppl in my class who are really open, and everyone dares to speak up. =]

the MJ uniform looks quite good with the victoria school tie, which is red and with thin shreds of orange. the tie belonged to ben. hayden was wearing the zhonghua tie and he sure did look funny.

havent been studying. gotta buck up. i took a look at the nus courses and ntu courses. ntu doesn't have the geog fac under arts and social sciences, so NUS is the only place to go. i'm like really worried i can't even get into arts and social sciences. it's like impossible for me ( if i ever can dream of) taking up a double degree for law and economics in NUS. LIKE HELLO, SINGAPOREANS ARE SO FREAKING SMART CAN. I'M LIKE SO DUMB COMPARED TO THEM.i guess they'll rather accept students from RJ and the other elite JCs. =[ i guess at the end of the day, i will have to work super duber hard to guarantee myself a place in NUC arts and social science for a geog or econs degree, or business in NTU/ NUS.

today there was an article in the papers about people going on to pursue their education. from the general degree to honours, to double degree, now even to the global degree. WAH. these people are of such excellent calibre, so goal-driven and passion oriented. i bet if i have the chance to speak to them i won't understand what a word of greek they are talking. perhaps speaking in their own "elite language".

i hope my sister has the chance to be shortlisted for NUS school of medicine. but given her grades i don't think she'll be called up, since she got a B for chem. so that's quite sad because i think my sister can make a real good doctor as she bothers to care for the living world, and very generous. well it's good enough if she can read law or do accountancy.

everyone has lofty dreams to fulfill. but dreams are supposed to not come true! HAHA

Labels: crazy class, NUS, sex education., smart asses

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Monday, March 26, 2007

list of fruits i consumed today at today's eat good fruits campaign, in 501

1 pack of guava
a big red juicy fuji apple
2 wedges of papaya ( at home )


YAY!! i did OYC proud.

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Sunday, March 25, 2007

spent yesterday night reading this really good book, another fantastic one by mitch albom. all his books are of the same sort, the ones that touch your heart, leave you enchanted and leaving you pondering about the little joys of life. for one more day is no different, the last 5 sentences left me.. speechless, almost on the verge of tears.

when so many people out there in the world are struggling and hanging on fervently at the end of the rope, praying for a chance that God would grant them one more day of life, there are pyscho ones at the other side of the world attempting to commit suicide, emo, and contemplating about how sucky their lives are.(like the guy, chick, in this story) if you think that your life is in fragments and you have no idea how to piece them together, read this book. if you think there's no point hanging to your rotting, meaningless life that's like a decomposed apple infested with worms, read this book. and if you think you're comforting yourself by being emotional, read this book and get a life, because there are alot of dudes out there who are worse off than you are. =]

my younger sister was telling me how some of her classmates (who ae out of their mind, really) slit their wrists and then they start comparing how many cuts there have on their wrists. dumb asses, those little ignorant kids.

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Saturday, March 24, 2007

ATTENTION:
TO ALL PRIMARY/SECONDARY/JC STUDENTS WHO ARE LOOKING FOR AFFORDABLE TUITION:

my sister, chua yiying jacqueline, 19years old, waiting for university admission, is offering affordable tuition to all kids out there who need tuition. subjects she can tutor are general paper, physics, biology and mathematics (JC level). and all subjects for lower level.

academic qualifications:
Primary school education was completed at red swastika pri(RSS).psle t score:273
O levels were completed at raffles' girls school(RGS). achieved 9 distinctions
A levels were completed at victoria JC (VJC).achieved A grade for math, physics,biology. B for chemistry and B3 for general paper. (that's why she's not teaching chem haha)

cost of tuition is negotiable. venue is most probably at my house, which is at tampines.10 minutes walk from tampines MRT. interested participants can contact me directly. =] or leave me a tag and i'll get back to you asap.
thanks!

this is a free advertisment.
i hope i can get commission if i manage to hunt down any students for her. haha!

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Friday, March 23, 2007

dreamland, norway. is this for real?

day one in school after o2 night! =]

class popualtion is dynamic and spatial. means it is subjected to change in size bla bla bla. well 501's class population expanded by 2 members, from 12 to 14. haha!

we got some new people in the class. they are shimin, shi hui (man it's so confusing), evangeline, eunice who is really quiet, and pink monkey mengting. ahya mengting is not even new to me. i sat with her for chinese lessons before we sat for the june paper. and in the picture too it's my new found neighbour benjamin, who lives really near me. he's the only new guy and he's cool because:

- he is from victoria school (well almost all the VS ppl i know are cool )

-he plays soccer

- he lives near me so we are the tampines ppl (TC) which is tampines club

- he is a christian

- he was in norway and holland for church missionary and stuff like that from dec to march

and he was telling all of us during our IKEA lunch outing today that the temperature there was like -18 degress! oh no. we made a laughing stock out of oursleves!!!!! HAAHAHA.. the whole 7 of us were talking about freezing stuff. like what happens if you sneeze in the freezing cold weather and the frigid wind blows into your face, and tada u get frozen chilled ice kachang made of your sneeze. and what happens if you have to cry?? =] HAHA!

so cool to be able to go to NORWAY!! where is that man.

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Thursday, March 22, 2007

man! didn't blog for the past 4 days. orientation 2 was rocking good, with minor flaws here and there. it has been a fulfilling experience, packed with fustration, shouting, (screaming at my OG for being so slack). packed with triumphs, fear, tension,sceaming cheers,smses from jonas, the crazy camp fire (yes, it was crazzzzzzyyyyyyy) and of course, relief.

emotions were at an all high when i was perplexed about the dismal attendance phobos 5 had. i mean, like 20 people in the OG but only 15 came. plus they were feeling really sluggish like "eh? orientation?" i did have a very tough time getting them more.. fascinated with orientation. i felt like i was doing the work of 4 OGLS. i am not saying the rest of my phobos 5 OGLS didn't do their work. they could have been much better, i am serious. or perhaps it's my demanding personality, and i cant stand it certainly, when things progress in very insipid manners.

but i must say that there were some really enthu members in my OG and i thank God for that. like jasmine tai tai, fiona and Jin heng. the others could make do with more shouting and i think the most frequent line i said was " C'MON HURRYYY UP~!!!!!!!"

through this orientation - as a leader - i learnt many many things. i learnt that i have the ability to lead a group of 20 unenthusiasitc and looking-bored people. i learnt that i am a very pushy person, and i do not hesitate to shout at them when they fail to heed my instructions. i learnt that it's no easy feat running such a mega programme. through this i really have learnt to respect the council alot, as well as the house committe members, nadira and wei jia. especially for weijia, i'm proud and more proud to say that he's from TK, and TK has made leaders. wei jia is truly someone i respect alot and i look up to him because he thinks for the house's welfare and spirit at all time, even when it means losing his voice and having to postphone the block tests.

command and control - that's what a leader must achieve before he calls himself one.

ok. moving on to programme proper.

day 1

was supposed to reach school at 645 but because the few phobos dudes were waiting for rossane and teh dang bus took very long to come, we ended up reporting late. oh well. someone always has to be late! ice breakers was a marked failure, because at times i was really clueless with what we were going to do next. oh well it's ok, since it was only a start.
CSI later on was better, but they weren't at even like.. half of their optimum hyper level? anyway it was great coz phobos managed to clinch 1st for CSI, just like what happened in orientaion one. after the freshmen went home, we received a big pep talk from mr yeow, who is a really good speaker and i respect him alot too. made water bombs, went home dead. enthu level was at an all time low, because the debrief really dampened my spirits.

day 2

woke up thinking i has 4780163 more hours to sleep, but unfortunately, i realised i was only in oblivion. forcing myself to crawl out of bed, i managed to reach school super early with michelle and some other OGLS. OH i remember! i went with timothy and hong han whom i met at the MRT station. went to school before departing for my MMM station which was at bras basah. the teacher in charge for my station is.. AIYOH. no words can explain how disappointed we were in her!! she told lei zung that she would "meet us at our station and inspect us, before the 1st group comes" and TADA!! till 4pm there was not even a shadow of her. dammit!
lei zung and i waited for very long, and we went to visit hong han at the national library a few times. triton was reALLY impressive, a cut above the rest of the groups. then we had to go back to HQ which was this church along bugis or something. near SMU. went home with michelle and i am so glad taht i got to talk to my old seating partner in sec 4. how we rushed up to physics lab on the 3rd floor, wanting to reach the lab earlier than jonathan tham who always gave us chewing gum, jelly beans, and all sorts of goodies. HAHA. went home really tired again, but i was relieved MMM was successful.

day 3

wet and wild!! but before that we recapped the dances. i think luke and zhijun are really hilarious people. they just seem to put a smile on my face that easily. W and W was fun, and tada i was the ultimate target at all the stations. after evolving into a swimming pool ( oh man the feeling was great to be simply all soaked from bottom to top. or top to bottom. outside inside out) sarene and i headed to NTUC to grab stuff for the OG to eat during campfire.

i think camp fire was the most successful item in O2. luckily it rained. 10 minutes after we asssembled at the plaza, the heavens opened and binds of rain descended down onto us. we scurried into the hall. that night was crazy, it was pure ecstacy. it was madness, it was extreme mirth. we cheered and cheered and danced and cheered like there was no tomorrow. it was in an enclosed area so the rebeveration made the atmosphere even better. the mascot parade was rally funny because all the callisto mascots came out naked. the phobos one was really hilarious and we laughed like mad. i still like what philip tau pok and the other malay host did.

" we are not VJC, TJC, RJC - or TPJC.
we are - MJ (spins a round)
C!!!!!!"

lastly we found out that phobos managed to clinch a good second, which was sad because we lost to triton by one pathetic point. it was relief - because at least we didn't lose like the past few house events. =]

i also realised that phobos seven (the og i was in for PAE) was really an enthu OG because everyone made it fun. and i am quite a good freshie to start of with too. HAHA.

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Saturday, March 17, 2007

have u ever felt so angry and antagonized that you end up screaming into the mike? (anthony) or felt so disconsolate that u sing to yourself an emo song? (azmi)

NO LINK. quite a funny picture. starring anthony-fool, hamdi, and mudd!

i'm really excited for 02 starting tomorrow. hope it won't flop. so what are we gonna do for ice breakers? =] i'm wearing my factory girl uniform for the first time tomorrow. the material is so thick i feel like i'm on a bed of rose thorns. gotta be in school by 0640, hope dad can send me to school. man! this is so excitinggggg!

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What Classic Movie Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

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the book i'm currently reading. =]

humph! everyone who went for this posted this on their blog so i shall do the same thing too. from left : beatrice,sweety tiffany, sarene's head (cos she too slim then i'm blocking her unintentionally, me, fahmi, hayden and kenneth OGL.

i'm wondering if fahmi has siblings. and if he happens to have them, is his sister called re-do? and brother called lah-soh? because his name follows the CDEFGABC scale. fah - mi - re - do!

thank u cheryl for your little mouse-like creature handphone chain. =] i removed the winnie the pooh in rabbit suit because it makes everything look so bulky.i love meeting up with old friends, because there's always so much to talk about. yesterday we started talking about pri. school stuff, like how samantha's hair was like a rectangular blob. HAHA. i mean everyone had short hair in primary school, red swastika has all along been traditional and conventional, until the new principal came.

i'm currently reading this book entilted "MAO - the unknown story" by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. It's about mao tze dung's life,but it's kind of astonishing. He didn't take a shower or bath during his 27 year rule, and his reign brought death to about 70 million chinese. It's a really interesting book, but i'm only at page 34 of the 654 pages. anyway there are long lists of acknowledgements and sources, so the authors must have took alot of time and effort to write this book. a decade to be exact.Apart from having 4 wives he was also a great flirt and womaniser. oh man, and he didn't bathe. must have been stinky. EWWWW!!!

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Friday, March 16, 2007

geog resurrection.

i tried being an ah-beng mugger today while waiting for the latties at MRT today. had a great time! =] thank u all who came: myself, sarene, tiffany, kenneth OGL though he was supposed (ahem supposed) to study, hay, beatrice, fahmi!! yeay. bought too much food so fahmi bought everything home.

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Thursday, March 15, 2007

You have a 20% chance of going postal!

Good news! You're not very likely to kill your coworkers. You seem very well adjusted. You rock! Talk about those feelings!

How Likely Are You to Go Postal?
Create Your Own Quiz

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=]

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ATTENTION ATTENTION ALL PHOBOS VII OGLS ANDO7S501 DUDES ( EXCEPT ZHIJUN AND RAJIFF SINCE THEY ARE VERY TIRED W SOCCER TRAINING)
PLANS HAVE BEEN ALTERED. SUGGESTION IS TO HAVE A PICNIC AT PASIR RIS PARK TMR AT 2PM. PLEASE MEET AT OUR FAVOURITE MRT STATION AT 2PM. PLEASE BRING ALONG ANY SORT OF FOOD U CAN BRING BECAUSE IT IS A PICNIC! SEE YOU ALL. =] LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.

GOOD LUCK TO JONATHAN FOR CANOEING TMR!!

.i really did not feel like crawling out of bed at 8am this morning, The bed i was sleeping on felt especially soft and comfy. but i was supposed to go for geog lesson!! at TJC. anyway it was a great experience. met joel phang (sai) and jonk and priscilla and yeah, that's all the TK dudes i met. great to see them all in the mucus green uniform. when i saw dorea,oh man!! hugged and made lots of noise in the very small TJ canteen. so we went for geog lesson together. the indian lady lectured with her eyes closed, she looked like she was in coma or something. sleep walking? well i understood what she was ranting. and there's alot more to geography than what i had thought. litho suddenly became so cheem. picked up new terms like the Y-arm theory, aulocogen,benioff theory. OH MAN! ^^ after that, saw huiqi sitting down comfortably at the canteen. i can't believe her the dang case is still pending can, it's so insipid!!

took MRT with xiao hay to pasir ris. oh well he was going to tampines. we continued to do phobos identities. poor jonas, so many responsibilities. and not many people came to help today, only a dismal number of.. ten? wonder where all the other PHOBOS oGLS went. another thing is that i found out 501 and 502 have been shifted to atlas, along with other 5-series classes. si am i now in phobos or atlas??? and syadad and GHX are both in phobos 5. i reckon i'll have lots of anti-enthusiasm. =[ haha.

Labels: TJ's geog teacher, wrong identity

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Just talked to hayden. The last minute (well, as usual) notice for all phobos OGLS to return back to finish up the identities and to practise the house cheers. And so I decided since I have to go out again (grumbles) why not attend TJC’s geog lecture tomorrow? It’s always better to broaden your visions and take a peek at what other institutions are doing and gearing up for.. A levels?

Funny things happened today, and I mean funny things. so after the identities thing at the gallery (which wasn’t so productive) and the identities made us look like we were from a cult, ready to attack the public with rioting material like setting fires, burning photos and smashing alcohol bottles at other people. Left early to meet Samantha and Cheryl. Happened to see a lot of familiar faces at tampines mall (we’re always going there because I live near there). Yingcong, whom I haven’t seen for months was there. There was a serious problem with his hair but I shall not mention on it because it’s something unkind. Saw my dearest choir juniors ah boy zheng jun and jian yong.
Happy birthday jian yong!! =]
Then we met yingcong and weicong (cong brothers), peizhen shu huan and qihao. We stood at the glass pane where we could see bakers kneading dough and all that. The one at four leaves looked like she was folding blankets with the pastry, with the ham hidden within.
The best encounter was that we met 3 little boys from Poi Ching Primary. They were really cute, and had the ignorance of little kids (well I mean some kids are little evil devils who are so spoilt, but that’s beside the point) Followed the 3 kids around tampines mall for a while till we managed to get their photo. It’s not that we were psycho and we wanted to be stalkers, they were just irresistible!

Was watching the arena yesterday. Both teams put up a great fight, just that Loyang was kind of aggressive when they attempted to emulate Hwa Chong’s rebuttals. At times they went off tangent, rebutted for the sake of rebuttals. On the other hand HC encapsulated their agenda pretty well.

But what’s with the motion given man. They have a problem. It’s always one sided and one team is always given the clear advantage to do well. They will be more inclined to present their points better, because they have the generally “right” opinion that makes perfect sense. The correct motions are inexorable, making in difficult for the other team to make rational rebuttals.
For example, yesterday’s motion was something like “bloggers are becoming more influential than journalists these days”. Like DUH, of course not. Influence is such a powerful word, and why bloggers? Do what we type here in our little new post even make a significant difference to the lives of people? That’s not even influence. But Loyang did come up with some really good arguments that are commendable.
I think they should review the motions given. Next week’s motion is “Singapore’s education system breeds elitism”. LIKE DUH??? The education system hinges entirely on a merit-based systen, where academic excellence is emphasized on in everyday school life. Education has evolved into such an important tool to level up in society, as well as a vehicle for social mobility. Everyone wants to do well, so much so that one who is intelligent is more well-respected than others. Intellectual ability becomes imbued with such positive attribute that it nearly becomes associated with a moral virtue. Not that people who get As are more saint-like, but we always like to associate dudes who get As as those who are more hardworking, goal-oriented and all those values u can ever find. This breeds a ‘I am smarter, thus better than you” attitude and tata! You get elitism. Oh well. Musings here, no influential power.

Labels: 3 little boys., arena

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if someone were to plant an acorn in your garden for every kind word that you said
and chop down a tree for every unkind word that u said,

would your garden become a desert or a forest?

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Monday, March 12, 2007

yes. i found this really cool website that teaches s,p,d,f orbitals and it's quite concise.

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/atoms/properties/atomorbs.html

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2 of my cousins. =]

this morning i was watching CNA news and there was this advertisment for the documentary of the week, entilted " i have tourette's but tourette's doesn't have me". feeling inquisitive i went to check out what tourette's was.


"Tourette Syndrome is best defined in the archives and pages of neurological conditions, syndromes, and disorders. Initially Tourette Syndrome was seen as extremely rare and an individual was viewed as having violent muscle contortions (motor tics) and vocal disruptions (vocal tics) combined with outburst of swearing and obscenities"
from http://www.tourette





very interesting. no cure yet exsists but according to the website, behavioural therapy and other alternative treatments do help to supress the condition of the child. and it happens more often in males than in females. oh well. so we are lucky and blessed to be normal. just that we have to study a teeny weeny more than other kids with such disabilities.





and yesterday! i was watching Asian Food Channel (AFC) [oh man i keep watching TV] and there was this programme about how tribal folks living in Nepal get honey from bee hives. there's most honey in the hive when it's a full moon, so that fascinated me. =] they didn't have any safety gear, just lots of ropes. and the beehives were located deep within the caves in the rugged valleys. oh my very dangerous, and full of impending doom. after they managed to retrieve the honey comb they squeezed out 20+ litres of honey. and they sell this goo-ee stuff called honey wax, which fetches high prices. cool.





i was just informed that there's a 6/2 gathering tomorrow at eddie's codo. HMMM! it has been 5 years since we last met up with each other. absence makes the heart grow fonder, but only for a period of time.

studied chem this morning. i think i understand the shielding/ screening thing under effective nuclear charge (ionisation energy). who on earth came up with s,p,d,f?


lemme check it out.

Labels: honey, s p d f orbitals, tourette's

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great. just came home from OGL stuff, i'm super sticky and i'm really in need of a good bath. i realise i'm kind of addicted to 100plus. oh no no. it makes people fat. it's an isotonic drink. and i didn't even burn like 50 calories from the mass dance.and i went on to drink bubble tea after that. so that's 90 tea spoons of sugar today. well guess i'll go for a little run if i feel like it. went home with lilian and these are the plans this holiday. i'm going to start (like really start) administering medicine to my drunken chem mood. gotta buck up. and those issues of TIME have been left untouched for days. and i'm not even sure if it'll reaally help in GP! START STUDYINGGGGG. LIKE ALL THOSE PEOPLE IN TJ!!

TO HAYDEN.
THANK U VERY EVERY MUCH, YOUR SMS THIS AFTERNOON MADE MY DAY. i was grinning all the way from the mrt station to home. it's like a 15 minute walk. YES! welcome back to MJ> we welcome u back with open arms. sai kang warriors forever.


my holiday schedule

monday - OGL dance
tuesday - nothing. stay home study. alter my skirt coz mum refused to help.
wednesday - OGL stuff. making identities for the phobos freshies.=] then most probably going out with 2 best dudes. not gonna tell mum if not she'll be angry at me again.
thursday - not sure wanna go choir not. if not, stay home and help me younger sister with some little india project. haha
friday - civics group and phobos VII OGLs meeting at MJ school gate. we are going to our favourite hangout place (where huiqi can go be a porn star and OYC can get caught in the bath again)
saturday - shaz and yingcong are organising some sentosa 4c outing. not really sure if i want to go if my mum will allow me to, coz i'll come back like a red lobster again. it's bad for your skin you know. u knoe people in australia have lots of dudes getting skin cancer? ahah
sunday - family day.

NEXT WEEK>> DRUMROLLS pleASE

on monday i have to be in school by 640am for orientation II!!!
looking forward to it.

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Sunday, March 11, 2007

What Famous Leader Are You?
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Saturday, March 10, 2007

Urgent notice to all 07S501 students!! And phobos VII OGLs! =]
This coming Friday (17th march)
Lunch at the you-know-where place[ where OYC got caught in the bath]. Please meet at 1pm school side gate! But OGLS might have to stay home and mug for block test. You are highly advised to stay home and mug 10 hours for the tests. But we are desperate for the outing!!

I feel so cheesed with unproductive, lame and noisy choir practices, My mind is set on withdrawing. YES – I WANT TO WITHDRAW and join bizclub. But BIZCLUB is not a soft option, I’m really quite interested in it. Anyway so today there was choir practice at the usual Siglap South CC. Wasn’t feeling well but I still went. I caught the flu bug again!! It’s not very huge, like a nymph. Not a mama bug. It’s stuck in my net! and I wonder when it will get released. Well at least I didn’t take French leave and excuse myself from grueling choir. But at the end of the day, we are still back to square one. No improvement. Which is sad. =[

Man is selfish, yes, that’s absolutely true. I’m not exactly the kind who’s selfish and unwilling to help people. But neither do I always put others before myself. Hey it’s a dog eat dog world out there. No one is going to be your valiant knight in shining armor and shield you from all evils, we got to fend for ourselves. My sister thinks I’m very selfish because I’m unwilling to help choir, because I just don’t want to be associated with them. It’s partly true. I don’t want to play cat and mouse games with the admin committee. It’s hard to find that willpower to attend choir when you don’t even enjoy singing in the choir.

Luckily the day was made better because the secondary schools performed for each other. I’m so proud of TK choir, I beam with pride whenever they are mentioned. Strong gamesmanship. I look forward to another Gold With Honors added to their name. Under the tutelage of Mr Kwei they can definitely achieve it.

Oh man, I’m becoming garrulous.

Anyway learnt a new phrase today. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. I was watching Asian Food. The host said something like “ Age doesn’t matter unless you’re cheese” Checked the dictionary for it but I couldn’t find anything of that sort! Unless there’s something wrong with my hearing.. =X

By the way, I’m still bewildered that Hayden grabbed an appeal form to come back to MJC. I hope he comes back. The class really misses him a lot. But it’s beating around the bush. Haha see, Hayden? I told you, just confirm plus chop guarantee stay in MJ.. =] M-Mugger always!!!

Time to take flu med and retreat to my humble royal bed again.

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Friday, March 09, 2007

Brain Lateralization Test Results

Right Brain (32%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain. Left Brain (52%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain

Are You Right or Left Brained?
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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Heal The World

Written and composed by michael jackson.

Produced by michael jackson.

There’s a place inYour heart

And I know that it is love

And this place could

Be much

Brighter than tomorrow

And if you really try

You’ll find there’s no need

To cry

In this place you’ll feel

There’s no hurt or sorrow

There are ways

To get there

If you care enough

For the living

Make a little space

Make a better place...

Heal the world

Make it a better place

For you and for me

And the entire human race

There are people dying

If you care enough

For the living

Make a better place

For you and for me

If you want to know why

There’s a love that

Cannot lie

Love is strong

It only cares forJoyful giving

If we try

We shall see

In this bliss

We cannot feel

Fear or dread

We stop existing and

Start living

Then it feels that always

Love’s enough for

Us growing

So make a better world

Make a better world...

Heal the world

Make it a better place

For you and for me

And the entire human race

There are people dyingI

f you care enough

For the living

Make a better place

For you and for me

And the dream we were

Conceived in

Will reveal a joyful face

And the world we

Once believed in

Will shine again in grace

Then why do we keep

Strangling life

Wound this earth

Crucify it’s soul

Though it’s plain to see

This world is heavenly

Be god’s glow

We could fly so high

Let our spirits never die

In my heart

I feel you are all

My brothers

Create a world with

No fear

Together we cry

Happy tears

See the nations turn

Their swords

Into plowshares

We could really get there

If you cared enough

For the living

Make a little space

To make a better place...

Heal the world

Make it a better place

For you and for me

And the entire human race

There are people dying

If you care enough

For the living

Make a better place

For you and for me

Heal the world

Make it a better place

For you and for me

And the entire human race

There are people dying

If you care enough

For the living

Make a better place

For you and for me

Heal the world

Make it a better place

For you and for me

And the entire human race

There are people dying

If you care enough

For the living

Make a better place

For you and for me

Heal the world

Make it a better place

For you and for me

And the entire human race

There are people dying

If you care enough

For the living

Make a better place

For you and for me

Make a better place

For you and for me

For you and for me

For you and for me

For you and for me

For you and for me

For you and for me

nice song.

anyway!! i've bought my college uniform. i look like a productions operator working at a flatted factory in Jurong under JTC> my job is to place memory chips into the diskdrive 24/7. my efficency rate is 92.7% and i can assemble 26 chips in a minute.

had a hard time putting in the show lace luckily my mom helped me. guess she has to help me alter my skirt too. =]

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Today is Friday, which means there’s no school because MJ is holding a staff retreat. YESSSS!!!!! I suppose they will be brought to sentosa to have a nice afternoon out in the hot sun playing volleyball and drinking cocktails at the pubs which line Palawan beach. They shall end up as cooked. piping hot lobsters and we shall feast on them. YUCK. The idea is enough to put me off.

Anyway I had a weird dream last night. I mean I have always been having outlandish dreams. I dreamt that it was the 2nd day of Orientation 2. Because I am a game IC I have to report to zone IC first. But in the end I was driving there. And I managed to park my car at the Bras Basah Car park. Haha. Is my desire to drive really so strong that this has to occur in my dreams? NO. I’ve never believed I could drive – only in my dreams.

SO what are dreams? They are sequences of scenes and feelings occurring in one’s mind during sleep. Or rather, things that cannot happen in reality are reflected in dreams. Some people say it’s because of your strong desire for that event to happen, that’s why you end up living in delusion and oblivion and TADA! it happens in your dreams. Not exactly the case for me. because I have had the wildest dreams like kissing zhijun (still remember I broke out in cold sweat, was so dreadfully frightened and started messaging Samantha, dorea, Mudd and Jun. ) =] there was another dream. It was Sunday night (yes! I remember it’s Sunday) and my family was having dinner in the balcony. Mrs. Chee suddenly messaged me out of the blue saying “ Sorry for not informing u guys earlier, but Pchan would like to invite all Sec4s to a graduation dinner”. Then it’s ridiculous, I was teleported immediately to school, along TK’s extension bridge. Then there was a sleepover in school and in convoy, we started picking up pillows that were strewn all outside the staff room. How preposterous!

Anyway, that’s the end of what I have to say about dreams. It was the 2006 O level English Essay topic and I wrote on it. Something about my grandmother’s jar of colorful buttons which sat on top of an old mahogany cupboard. Her dream was to be a seamstress. Actually the day before the exam I was asking Zhijun if there was a gender term for tailor. And I can’t believe I asked if it was tailoress. (hey but I know it’s seamstress ok just couldn’t churn it up). Must have had a concuss earlier on.

I’m looking forward to Orientation. There’s mass dance practice on Monday, Choir on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday. Oh man. I really want to stay home and study but the freaking choir schedule doesn’t allow me to do so. But then again, since I am withdrawing from choir, it doesn’t make any sense to attend practices.

OH WELL>

i'm feeling much better. sam smsed me to ask if i was ok. yeah i'm ok girl. thank u alot. Zhijun callled and comforted me. Thanks son.

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oH mAN!

thoughts are now spinning in my mind like an accelerating carousel. i really wanted to join bizclub with dorea very very very very badly. can u sense the mirth from yesterday's post? but i'm glad she's moving on to greener pastures. i really can't bear to see her leave. i'm depressed now! but parting is sweet sorrow. dear dorea, i didnt expect this, but i'm looking forward to the good times you will have in TJC.

today felt weird day no. 2.
huiqi and hayden weren't here. dorea left for interview. OH MAN!but today was very fun because the new intake was taught the meridian medley. YES! once a meridian, always a meridian. the camaraderie ( i tink spelling is right) was really good, and for the first time i felt like a real OGL because we were pestering the people to come up quickly. bought uniform. the queue was so long, snaking queue is tat what u call? went home, slept, got dorea's message. cried.

i'll miss you, stupid dorea quek.

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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

i just can't smile without them. sorry cheryl your face isnt there

during our class gathering, the 3 of us sneaked into momo's room and started taking up different identities.

that's the 4c clan!!! miswan, azmi, anthony,razif, marc. ahmad came later. then joanne,fat cat, rachel,me,shaz, dorea. zana, huda, emily, lilian

i love this picture!!!! azmi, mudd, me emily

we all have constipated looks.

blaeahh!!

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oh man oh man. zhijun just called to say he's changing combination.feel like crying. there goes phobos seven and our class!! anyway today was day 1 of orientation. it's thrilling i didnt have to sit down again and instead we had to usher in the freshies. we didn't conduct ourselves very well. super noisy and there was incessant talking. saw old faces, new faces, old friends. it felt weird that the second last row was only occupied by 5 o7s501 people.

to hayden, i know you feel alienated and all that,but look forward to your bright future ahead. i'm withdrawing from choir ( don't say QUIT it sounds like i'm some big shot).joining the you know what CCA. woohoo. i will miss you alot definitely. do come back ok?

anyway i'm sad that many of the phobos seven people didn't manage to stay. there have been rumors buzzing around about MJ's cut off point this year. 8?9?10?

oh yes. i'm withdrawing from choir. there's just too much politics and committment i have to give. i can't do that. met jian xin and he's in BIZ club so i can't wait to be his direct junior. YAY! i voted for him 3 years back ok.

well. choir today was ok, sub standard. i feel more relaxed and less tense when mr yong conducts though he's really funny. =] goodbye mr kwei. legacies of me will always remain. went to macs to grab an ice cream cone with the GC, emily and lilian to celebrate our liberty and yeah, we can exercise our freedom.


great. i weight off my shoulders.

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Monday, March 05, 2007

i'm waiting for the JAE website to load, it's lagging. all those excited and apprehensive little kids must be scrambling to their computers and i macs and all that u call to retrieve their posting result. No stress for me, i've long settled down. =] GOSH IT"S REALLY LAGGING!!!


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anyway. yesterday i went to the beach and as usual samantha was really late. cheryl and i stoned at the bus stop for half an hour so that's lost productivity. you know the marginal cost and benefit thing. haha. ok then i went back home like a red lobster. the single bike had a problem with its gear and the bicylcle chain came out like 7 zillion times?!$~ 2 kind souls stopped by to help us. and in the end we looked like car mechanics with the oil stains on our hands and arms. =x haha. went for lunch at the usual place, bought bubble tea. met taufiq! he went to JB yesterday that's why he didnt come for the class gathering. oh well so i met daniel,he was eating a.. doughnut. yes! visited fat cat at her house. waited for the dang bus 10 for 50 minutes, think it broke down half way. UGGGHHH ended up reaching home at 810pm.


studied chem.

slept.

boring.

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Sunday, March 04, 2007

just came home from class gathering, it ROCKED!! thank u momo and his mum for the wonderful food. we had a hard time getting the fire started. the sparks were flying everywhere and anthony got blisters. anyway it's so great to see your old friends coming together again, doin the same old stuff! =] that's singing, playing guitar, playing drums. had an experiment with momo's drum set. I MUST PRACTICE!! so i'm not so bad for a first timer as well.

had lots of fun playing the 7 up game. i reached level 4, the 2nd highest of all. what a loser. concentration was so funny. then we stayed in the room, watched the guys so crazy. they were really tau poking each other so it was an eye opener. went home with the people at 900pm. waited for the bloody bus!! =] walked home with miswan, he's gonna do aeronautical engineering. COOL> will upload pictures soon.

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Saturday, March 03, 2007

Today was recce session number 2 for MMM. Woke up at 6am and the whole house was all graveyard silence. Though the night before was really noisy when sis came home after her celebration. How cool can it get to get such stellar grades? I wanna study hard too, but of course not as last minute as her. =] So off I went to Macs for breakfast, before heading to city hall to meet the rest of the group.

Lei zung and I waited, and waited and waited.

Sneaked to seven eleven with our other game Ics and we were having picnic there, armed with raisin bread, frutips and doughnuts. Of course all the food was bought by him but I was forced to eat 3 frutips or have them risked stuffed into my ears. Well the wait wasn’t so bad after all! Because we talked about lots of stuff. He’s really a nice guy to talk to.

So when the group came at 2.15pm we got really excited. Sarene saw my new haircut!! (my hair is really kind of short I should have just asked for a mushroom head)well the group was not as enthusiastic nor active as I had expected, I guess everyone was tired. But considering they were the OGLs they could have been more enthu. So I didn’t award full marks because they certainly deserved what they worked for. Well but lei zung gave them a perfect score! I hope they can eliminate that “ I am tired” factor. If not, orientation is going to be nothing but a bore, especially to the freshies. Went over to check out Loretta’s group, they were really full of verve! =] so great effort to all the Ogls and MMM game Ics. And the councillors and the teacher that came along. What’s his name? Mr Horn.

Looking forward to tomorrow for our long awaited 4c gathering. it’s 2pm at Kembangan MRT dudes. We’ll then walk or take bus to Mudd’s house. Looking forward to Monday I’m going to the beach with my best friends. Our usual hang out place! Looking forward to Tuesday. OHNO there isn’t anything on that day other than posting results. I don’t even need to check the results. I think I’m going to visit my tuition teacher Mr. Ng on Tuesday I guess. Shall check with the BBT mavians. Looking forward to Orientation. I hope everything goes well! Can I look forward to lots and lots of studying as well?

Anyway my stay in MJ for the first 3 months has been very fulfilling and enriching. Like I got to see what a college system’s function. It’s no longer like secondary school when you get reminded to do your tasks. It’s very often your own loss if you don’t bother to put in effort for things. I have heard the darkest stories of the school, and I tell myself because I chose the school and not the other way round, I’m not going to let the lamenting and complaints of other MJ dudes affect me. Like what cavin said, it’s your attitude that makes the difference, not about the evil things the school makes you do. At least I had the freedom chose the school, so I will not – WILL NOT regret choosing MJC. I think Orientation was great and fun, but that little bit of fun is only a fabricated façade. I’m looking forward to tougher times that I know I can overcome with God’s strength.

But PAE really plays with your heart strings. If I hadn’t been posted here, I wouldn’t have met many people. My Orientation Group leaders – Adele, Baya, Kenneth and Sebastian.( although I kind of forgot how sebas looked like because I don’t take the effort to keep in contact with him). The choir seniors and the types of choir. The sweet teachers in MJ, especially Mrs Chua our Ct and geog teacher and miss June tan for all those little goodies. My class. 07s501. and of course PAE gave me a chance to know my existing friends like huiqi much better. although we were already very close in secondary school. And it also gives me a better edge over others because I have been in line with the school curriculum. New friends, new system, new way of going to school, new canteen food ( which isn’t something very glorious to talk about hehheh) . So cool.

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Friday, March 02, 2007

beaching is fun!! best people ever.

07s501.

TODAY WAS UPER FUN AND HAPPY!!

we gave mrs chua her huge turtle and miss tan her jellly( it's called xi de guo dong). there are really very very nice and sweet teachers in MJC. =] minus the irritating ones who demand work. i mean even the boring teacher(s) is/are such sweet people to have. i love my teachers!

today was officially the last day of school. the A level release was today, and i'm so proud of everyone. MJ has apparently, oh well its APPARENT that they have done well. esther lai has hereby DECLARED monday as a school holiday (they had it in mind all along) haha. anyway it's great. i wanna congratulate my sister yiying. my mum messaged me a 3a,1b at 11 plus am before the math lecture. i'm seriously very proud of her. As for bio, physics and math and B for chem. well through this i;m even more willing and driven to work hard for my As though it seems like such a far-fetched theory to talk about at this point of time. but i'm really happy today over this. this rocks. my family is producing ROCKERS. haha.i stilll owe my sister a coffee bean drink.

well but i'm kinda depressed it's the last day and i really had a fulfilling and funny time in S501 ffor the first 3 months. some little pieces of encouragement for all my class mates =

hayden

i know u might be leaving us but i'm still glad to have been your classmates. thanks for all the little talks on the bus ride home. you really made a difference to my life. happy mugging and we'll meet each other to... EXchANGe nOtes!!

huiqi

i know wadda u thinking. this 3 months would just be not the same for me. whereever you go, legacies of huiqi will remain. you have been through much in MJ, all the tribulations and fustrating PE lessons, and things you got yourself into. one last piece of advice to you: DONT DIVE!! =] red tea rocks.

sarene

stop saying you very fat. haha anyway your jelly today rocked man. i'kll continue to be your very frank, hardworking and super funny friend for the rest of our MJ days!! =] ROARRRRR. (insider joke) you are loved by me too!!

yeong chyun

(licks)HONEY!!!! you really make me laugh and you brighten up my day.. we will still be classmates, and so you still want to " do it" tonight right. hahaha you rock. and dont always ponder for so long over chem redox questions!

amanda

you dont talk alot. but youa re cool and you play your netball very well. haha i suck at tennis man!! i made mj lose money by hitting out 2 tennis balls to the road outside. haha

tiffany

youa re really really sweet. i will love to have you bacl. whereever you go, remember wad mrs chua said okok?? be consistent, settle in quickly. you can do it!!

razif, zhijun

hi dearies. you have been a shining beacon to my life. i understand that both of ou are deluded. and both of you think u are studs. well, not studs. you are stars that shine upon my life. dont' change combi can?? =/

fahmi, jon, beatrice

hi twinnies. will continue to be your classmates. haha. see you all around.

other than that, i met up with my 2 best friends today. as usual i was the earliest and the typical latties were late. haha. and then i had my hair cut at okinawa. it's kinda short, will wait till cherly and sam send me the pics. and they are helping me with the blogskin. thanks dudes.and during lunch at the bedok hawker centre, there was this lion dance THAT CAME RIGHT TO CHERYL'S EARS!! haha. it was loud and our ear drums were bursting. it then started to pour heavily. went to macs to get sheltered. the soggy fries and hard fries exchange session began!! it was really so much fun.

tomorrow there's MMM recce, supposed to have choir. sunday it's our class gather. on monday it's school holiday, so i'm meeting my 2 dudes again. =] i love my life.

parting is sweet sorrow.

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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Met my long lost friend from primary 5 today,bi bi. he is coming to MJ choir. I haven’t seen him for donkey years but I remembered how close we used to be because we were in the yellow group. You know in the yesteryears the class was grouped according to colours right? Very very happy to see him. Couldn’t recognize him, but nothing beats the real McCoy!!

luke came to crash yesterday. it was really funny. wish we could have more of funny people around. anyway the chinese debate ROCKED!! the debate was so intense with both sides rebutting like there was so tomorrow. well i think i was speaking more english than chinese. and we won the mei lian da fa xian competition, so MALU. anyway jun's good looks must have won much praise, so that must have been why we won.

i just came home from ikea together with the class. nehahaha. it was really fun YC kept changing identities, swapping between prince of india and some british guy. it was REALLY FUN!! huiqi treated us to theis cream of asparagus soup. it looked like green tea ice cream that's melted. and we bought mrs chua some stuff. it's really cute. tomorrow is somehow the last day of school, and i'm really sad to see people come and go. so much adjustments to make. =]

cant wait for the gathering this sunday.

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