Yesterday, went out with Shawn and Suyi to buy the PSP. I also want. =\ I'll buy it. Someday. Went to AMK hub, bought, went to have Pepper Lunch. Interesting. 1st time. Lol. Not bad, though I had to dircriminate against all the corn and make a little mountain of it at the side of my plate. Went home, changed, left for SKCC to mug. Quite hot. =.= I think I'll stick with Mac's


Stayed there with them till about 12 plus. The heat really got to our heads. After a while we just went bonkers. I therefore conclude Mugging is an exothermic process because as temperature increases, the equilibrium position shifts to the left to decrease the amount of heat, and the concentration of reactants, brain and raw information increases, and concentration of products, processed and mugged information decreases. And the process of going nuts is an endothermic process. I started making funny noises, and we started laughing madly at the littlest of things, and after a while we started throwing tortilla chips at a lizard 4M above us on a wall. Failed to hit it of course, but we got very close.


Some random pics:

Please do not feed the muggers.

A mugger clamouring for food. Looks like a scene from some Zombie movie/game.

Please do not tap on the glass.

=D

Mugging breakdown





[UPDATE]


Ahhh...this sucks. i'm scanning notes for Mr. S who kindly lost his alkanes and alkenes notes. =.= 32 pages in all. Its...anal. The process is long and tedious enough to be very troublesome but short enough that I can't mug while doing. GAHHHHHH. ZzZ...here's what I must do.


1.Double click the scanner icon
2.Click Next
3.Click Greyscale picture
4.Click Next
5.Name the file e.g. Alkanes1
6.Flip the page
7.Check if correct page
8.Click Next
9.Let it scan
10.Click Next
11.Click Finish
12. Repeat for 31 more times


In fact, I've gotten so bored I'm making a little stupid note on every page so i know which pages I've scanned. They consist of inane words like "RAWR." and "lalala~" and "Bloop. Bloop. Bloop." I'm sure he'll find them very interesting. Goody, I just finished. Alkanes. 18 pages of alkenes to go. ZzZ...now there's a running comic about a man getting mauled by a giant ethene molecule. Yup, I'm that bored.

Today was the last day of the official timetable. The last assembly. The last CLB lesson of my life. HELL YEAH! What an anti-climax lol! Couldn't wait for the day to end. W gave us each a personalised card. Cr left us with nothing. =D Well, I got S for econs. =.= Kinda improved.


Wanted to go home straight, but the CLB teacher messaged me. =.= Went for the lesson and he gave us some crap to do. Did the 1st ten qns(I got 10/10 HA!) and he gave us all the answers. I got A for CLB again, cos its CLB, LOL. My first A of the prelims. xD Then he scolded us for not coming to the last lesson. Wth, before prelims he told us its t3h l4st l3ss0n evar! for CLB. Then now he complain we didn't turn up. Oh well, today was for sure, definitely, in your face t3h l4st l3ss0n EVAR! No more CLB for the rest of my life lol! ^^ And we left the class and it was an anti-climax.


Reached home at about 230, had lunch, rushed out to meet Eliza at Hougang. Oh ya, we did a "Please Do Not Feed the Muggers" and "Please do not tap the glass" sign and put it at the glass windows of the study room. It seems so much like a zoo enclosure to me. I want to come back after the 'A's with a Hawaiian shirt, shorts, high socks, sport shoes, and a huge black Japanese camera around my neck asking: "Excoose me sar, but where ar thar muggars?" and take pictures. But the most probable scenario is that I'll probably be throwing up in nervousness or something lol.


Anyway, mugged till aobut 7 plus, left, went to RP's Macs at my house, mugged till 1130 before going home. And I also felt quite unhappy. Why? One of my flaws is that I hate losing. So I don't like to leave any mugging place before anyone. Why is why I am very satisfied t school. So my next goal is to overnight at Macs one more time and kick ass of all the muggers, and after that it will me to stay at Macs for 24 hours. Cool eh? I love our education system. A levels coming in 1 month's time. Need something else to brighten your day?


"People who sleep less than five hours are twice as likely to die of heart disease"


"A 17-year analysis of 10,000 government workers showed those who cut their sleep from seven hours a night to five or less faced a 1.7-fold increased risk of death from all causes and more than double the risk of cardiovascular death.


The findings highlight a danger in busy modern lifestyles, according to professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Warwick's medical school Francesco Cappuccio."


"'The current pressures in society to cut out sleep, in order to squeeze in more, may not be a good idea - particularly if you go below five hours.' "

-Digital Straits Times, Sept 26, 2007
Someone should let, oh I dunno, MOE see this or something. Oops, I mean students. Our education system is perfect. Still need more brightening?

"Foreign population in S'pore crosses 1m mark
Highest jump in at least seven years helps lift total population here to 4.68 million "
Throw 5 rocks, and 1 in 5 will hit a non-Singaporean. Cool.


"Economist Song Seng Wun said the surge in the number of foreigners reflects the nation's broad- based economic recovery.

'Foreigners are lapping up job opportunities for sectors across the board, from financial services to teaching to construction,'" he said.
YES! Economic growth! w00t! w00t! Everyone is making money! Everyone! Everyoneeee!


"Latest comments
aiya singaporeans...dont complain ..no point....pack and migrate..with ur kind of qualifications any country will be happy to take u. Life will be better.
Posted by: eswaran at Fri Sep 28 16:30:49 SGT 2007 "
Nonsense. Singapore is such a lovely place.


Our next National Song:
Give Until There's Nothing Left to Give - Reliant K


Lol. Enough with my random crap. Off to do other stuff...

Starting to feel a little tired. Lol. Spent today at home. Woke up a couple of times in the morning. Was raining heavily. I heard a loud blast of thunder and thought terrorist had struck some random part of Singapore or something. I saw a solid wall of grey outside my window, figured the world was probably coming to an end or something and went back to sleep.


Woke up with the sun shining and the sounds of traffic from outside my window. Damn. Checked my phone. Turns out Cr wanted me to return to get my entry proof. But, I got one already from CLB, so I stayed asleep. Till about 1pm. Went to school later to mug with tak @ atrium, junyu joined us later. We spent some time playing with paper airplanes and gliders. Did something interesting but I'll post pictures tomorrow or osmething. Oh, today was the last ever PE lesson in my life and I wasn't there lol. Stayued in school till 10, waited quite a bit for the bus.


It rained today so it was quite dark and they took quite a bit to turn on the atrium lights. I liked the weather though. Did the VJC math paper. Reminds me of the other day when I was doing my tuition homework. I got one question wrong and I kept cusing under by breath. Galvyn looked at me and asked:


"Are you ok?"
"I'm in this school. Do you think I'm ok?"
"Good point."


Speaking of funny exchanges, there's a funny story BenQ told me about how he failed home economics, and I found it ridiculously funny. Apparently, his partner was an ass and didn't want to do anything, much less clean up the area, so he was the one who did the cooking. After each lesson they'd argue over who was to clean up. So during the exam, the teacher said: "I'm going to fail both of you if you don't clean up your bench in 5 minutes."


They spent the next 5 minutes arguing.


Hmm...I'm going to pack my bag for tomorrow and off to bed I think.

Hmm. Quick run through. Econs, nothing special though I'm not expecting much either. Still dunno anything yet. Chem...H gave us a small present each, very nice. =] Bio, quite crappy also. Some parts should have gotten marks one, but they didn't wanna give. I wrote "introns" in one answer, and the teacher wrote "^^^non-coding regions". On the opposite page, "Define the following...non-coding regions" I wrote "introns". Correct. =.= I didn't get marks because its pointless.


Maths, fucked up with a 50% improvement in grades and still a U. Ha. Shows how shitty my mid year grades were. On the bright side both subjects improved. Yeah. Bright side. Bleahs. Still, better than nothing...mugged in school till 9 plus. Reach home at 10. Dinner was tepid soup, and cold rice and meat. Nothing special. Not the first time I'm eating something like that, won't be the last either. I dropped my phone for the 6th time today. Yesterday was the 5th. Ok. So I guess it's on now then? Bring it, man. Bring it. Make me drop my phone. I don't care. In. Vin. Ci. Ble. Get me? Hard plastic cover AND silicon cover. Fine. I guess its me versus the insurmountable forces of evil suayness/the powers above. I'll take you on, asshole.


School is retarded, turning on the lights so late. Need to do my work in semi darkness. And I still have yet to do Math P1. Hmm. Radio games seem so easy to me. Lol. I can guess all the song lyrics so fast. =P But each sms costs 30 cents. Lol. Ah. Off to do work or something.

Well, today was horrible. I got a B for GP, but that's not the point. I got pulled down by the frickin' Paper 3 bio to get E. I dunno about math yet, but I won't keep my hopes high. Chem, I improved a little bit, but its still U. Again. I have yet to fucking pass a major Chem test/exam. Great. Just great. That just about sums it up for everything I know. Math will be released tomorrow, and Econs, Thursday I think. The end is coming soon and I'm not sure if its good or bad.


Oh, and my mum wants to hide my computer again. Yay! Whoop-dee-fucking-doo. I'm only back early because I have tuition today. So, everyday, I'm going to leave home at 630, return at 1030PM, and I can't even blog for a while now? For fuck's sake, I'm not even going to be staying in my own house anymore! I'll be spending, what, 16 hours outside, and 8 hours(definitely less) sleeping at home, and I can't even use the computer. Thanks.
Home: Home is defined as the place where I sleep for less than 8 hours before I go out the next day to get screwed by the education system again.


You know what? Fine. Hide it if you want. I've reached the stage where I don't really care anymore. I'll just sell my soul to the educational system and fuck to all that comes along. Who needs "free time" anyway? Not me. A "life"? No thanks, I've got my books. I think I'm going to be on one of the first poster boys for the Health Promotion Board Campaign. "In life, we all face challenges." Damn right you are about that. Except it should be "In a JC student's life...". On second thought, maybe not. Who needs trivial things like "sanity" anyway? Just shut up, don't ask questions, and be a good little Singaporean worker ant. Oh, and don't forgot to pay your CPF, income tax, road tax, COE, ERP, and annuity scheme on time.


Oh, and I frickin' dropped my phone for the 5th time today. Thank goodness for the plastic cover and silicon cover. Ha! Try and get my phone again! Maybe like how I got rid of my streak of bad luck last time, I just don't care. I was so pissed off to the stage I didn't care how many bad things happened in one day, I was too exhausted to care. So now I don't give a shit. Make me drop my phone again. I don't care. The hard plastic protects the screen, the silicon protects the keypad. Invincible.


Try it again. Go on. Work with gravity. Something is seriously fucked up. My 2nd last phone, dropped like 5 times in a year. The track record for my older phones was even better. Now, my newest and best phone yet? 5 times in 2 months. I'm almost convinced someone up there is out to get me. St. Nokia not happy I changed models to Sony Ericcsson? Fuck you. Sorry about all the colourful language. I'm just very tired and frustrated, and the idea of having my mum do the now-you-see-it, now-you-don't on my laptop didn't exactly perk me up. I just wanted to blow off some steam. This sucks.

Went to PS yesterday with Ben (another one) to buy stuff. He wanted to buy stuff to make for someone's birthday and dunno where Spotlight is. Anyway, found nth at Spotlight, so went to Art Friend. Saw some of the stuff he wanted, ut he didn't have enough money, so didn't buy anything. I told him "thanks for wasting my time." Hahaha. Went to the basement and buy some stuff to eat. Had takoyaki, and the, uh, yakitori. (yay for Google) lol. Was nice. Had the chicken, pork and unagi. I suddenly love unagi a lot...haha. =P Orange Julius, first time. Quite nice actually.


On my way back, Shawn and the rest called me and asked me if I wanted to join them somewhere? They wanted to go to Calven's house for mahjong and I agreed. Then, came one of those moments that made me feel that my life is unusually unique. It's as though the hand of fate had more than usual control over it, nudging people and events to collide time and again. When I look back, it seems as though my life was not a random chain of events, but a series of little coincidences, big and small, conspiring together to lead me onto a path already chosen.


Well, I was on the phone with Calven, and it turns out they hadn't even called him when they decided to go to his out. He appeared to be somewhere outside too. I looked up, and saw a black shirted figure move out from behind a pillar, and lo and behold, Calven Koh! I gaped at him for a while and he gaped at me, both of us on the phone, then we hung up and started laughing. It was a total whatthehell? moment. Turns out he was going to work, and I was heading home, and we met right in them middle of Dhoby Ghaut station. I know the chances of meeting someone you know is higher in such a place, but the exact same guy I was talking to on the phone? It would be a total drama serial moment except both people were guys. =X


So I told them he was going to work, and I went home, watched Bourne Identity, Scary Movie 4 on cable (haha!), and Constantine. Felt quite tired today. =[ Either way, this brings to mind all the weird events in my life before. Believe it or not, off the top of my head, here goes.


I was watching a movie online once, then when I came out for a drink, I saw the exact same movie airing on tv. I had no idea it was showing that day.


Sometimes things I read in novels get translated into actual events in real life with startling similarities. Very startling similarities. There are many instances, but the most memorable one was of when I read a John Grishham book about a lawyer fleeing the country after swindling his clients. Some days later, I read about this Singaporean lawyer fled the country with loads of cash,with very similar parallels between the stories.


Another one, I was meeting my friends at TM, then my phone died. I had no way of contacting them, no numbers, no phone card. I was at a loss. I loitered about at the MRT station in the very slim off-chance that I would see someone I met. I had just started waiting when a train disgorged its first load of passengers, and I saw Pris (my class), so I borrowed a phone from her.


And there's on more but I can't get it. Oh well. Sometimes my life is a little strange. Haha. When these things occur it like hey! That's weird...there's so many similarities. Life works in mysterious ways.
[UPDATE]
I think this test is actually quite true...surprisingly. Give it a shot and let me know how it is. Only 4 questions, less than 5 mins. Lol.


Oh I forgot to blog about today. I passed the humanoid bag to ben. XW and val were with the brown and black rabbit lol. We had fun with bags with limbs and heads. They can mug for us at the study benches while we eat. =D Afterwards, left at 1 for CLB oral at TPJC. Waited in the room, stoned. As it got closer to my turn, it got more and more scary. I haven't felt that way for a very long time. That pure unadulterated fear of being in a national exam, facing down two invigilators that could make or break your life at any moment. Failing Chinese is ia no-no for uni. I knew it was silly and illogical, but what the mind knows is not always what the heart feels. You can't just explain some feelings away. They just remain, even though you know it is patently ridiculous to feel this way.


So I went out, read the passage, went in, and crapped my way through. The passage was ok but I felt like I was reading it in bursts, misread some parts, added some extra words, and did a LOT worse then in school. Topic was about my views on the sms system of charity shows. I knew what to say in English, but not Chinese. At least I got it over. Didn't see Sarah in school. My friend said TP's canteen food was on average 25% cheaper that ours, but Eugene said ours was better. Hmm. Debatable. I haven't eaten there, so I won't take any sides. =D My last visit was during the Open House last year, when life was better. Seems very long ago. Hmm. I spent two mins trying to lock the restroom door because it was warped. =X

This is a J1 a few months into MJ.

This is a J2 a few months to A levels.

The whole gang mugging at the study bench. =D

This is the latest fad in my sister's school. No, not Chinese essays but "Water Babies" as they call them. Specifically, squishy tiny wet rubbery balls that start out as little hard pellets, but when soaked in water, expand and grow fat and squishy. They are rather cute, I admit, and I also have had the urge to pop a few into my mouth before. I suddenly like bubble tea, having walked a great distance after leaving TPJC from the bus-stop to the bubble tea shop in the sweltering weather for some cool relief.


They come in a vairty of colours, such as transparent(hey, that's not a colour right?),yellow, blue, red, and green.


Sadly, in every population, there is variation, such as in size and colour, and some mutants are bound to appears. They are selected for by my sister as they are unique.

Survival of the weirdest? These dinosaurs are several years old. Lol. Been on top of my cupboard for many years now.

I feel like blogging about stuff and don't feel like blogging about it at the same time. So...I shall be an idiotic jerk and keep it all to myself. =[

You Are 32% Emo

You're definitely not emo, but you do understand emo people a little. You are introspective, but not to the point of driving yourself crazy.

Are You Emo?

Hmm...cool. Lol. That was a random thing.

Woke up today, took MRT to Bugis, met xw, val, and xw's friend. Had breakfast at Delifrance, talked quite a bit. Val left to have her injured leg looked at, and we went to Bugis street to take a look. We found the bags we wanted, and the lady made the 33.90 become 30, i think, and we cut it to 28, so the total was 112, and we dropped that to 110 also. =D But I still prefer no holds barred, free for all bargaining in Thailand. Funness. Lol.


After that, went home, bumped into my parents at the LRT station. Lol. Went home, slacked a bit, left to bowl with Shawn and Terence., Haven played a long time. Had a lot of fun. I didn't even realise we played 7 games. That's a lot, after we haven't bowled for so long. Fingers hurt. =D Scored below average, but performing ok. Spent a lot of $ today. =X Withdrew $50, spent $50 on the bag, then Spent $20 on the game. I sitll owe Terence $3...gotta remember. My bank account is getting low on money...=[

Did some more tuition work today. I find I'm a fantastically late sleeper, probably due to the fact I always stay up late whenever I can (meaning nothing on the next morning), which ends up in me sleeping around 3AM waking up up at like 11-1pm the the next morning/afternoon. Lol. I do that virtually every holiday/weekend and the only thing that can get me up early is if I'm going out with others, because I don't like being late. Other that that, I usually turn off my alarm after it rings and hit the bed.


Today, went to TM to meet with taky and Diana to watch I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. My first legal official M18 movie! Haha. Have I watched M18 movies before? Dont remember. =\ I know I did watch the Butterfly Effect and 40 Year Old Virgin as inflight movies before, underage. Gasp. =X


Anyway CnL was pretty funny. Its like Brokeback in that its a gay movie, but the similarity. Think Brokeback without any artsy stuff, a whole load of humor and um, girls, and you get CnL. Lol. ITs not bad for a laugh. =d After that, wandered around for a bit, before going home. Everytime I cross the road in front of taks neighbourhood I feel like I'm playing Vehicular Roulette with death.


The idiot zebra crossing is up the road and I have to go up, cross, and go down again to the bus stop. So I stand there, waiting for an opportunity to cross, afraid to cross because the bus is blocking my view, and I might get clipped by a car and then bye-bye A levels! =X So I tag along behind the residents of that area, already familiar with playing cat and mouse with the various cars and trucks.


Anyway, I was helping my mom with dinner the other day (quite a rare event actually, =X) And I simply couldn't resist.

Broccoli Slice 1:You know Bob, I get the feeling we're being watched...
Broccoli Slice 2: Don't be silly Tim, there's only us and the prawns.

BnJ+Bio

Oh and I like this brand of jelly. QiQi or osmething haha. I think it's from Cihna, but I ha ven't dropped dead yet, so... Well, their quality control is quite cool. There's actual peache slices inside, and one day I saw one cup has a rather small slice, so I thught, ah, cheated again. Then I realised that out of the mean 4 slices per cup, there was another small piece inside! So maybe they have controls to ensure a mean weight of peach actually go into each cup. The no. of slices is like mean 4, and stendard deviation 1. =D

I. Nearly. Won. A. Daughtry. Gift. Pack. AAAAAAAAH Damn. I seem to have a strange talent for getting it right. Twice already. Before the rest of Singapore. Anyway, its on the Shan and Ros show on 987, 4-8pm. This game called "song to squeeze", they speed up this song real fast, and slowly slow it down bit by bit, and people call or sms to guess what song it is. Amazingly fun and well...One day I was walking to Ikea, and listening to 987, and they played this Akon song. I got it. But I thought there'd be lots of other people smsing so I didn't. Surprise, surprise! Noone. They unsqueezed (slowed it down) it, nobody. I figured, the tickets to the Kanye and 50 cent Thing were in the middle of prelims, so I didn't sms. Unsqueeze again? Twice, until it was VERY EASY before someone got it. I was like walking to Ikea mouth agape because either their show had very few listeners, or everyone had not turned on their radio in months.


Today, they played Hilary Duff's Stranger. I got a snatch of it but didn't sms because till now, none of their prizes really suited me. I wanted the Daughtry tix yesterday, but I didn't recognise the song(Music by Madonna). Today, NOONE got it again, and I was sorely tempted to sms. I picked up my phone, typed RS, and put it down. I dunno why. Was I afraid of hearing my voice on national radio? Lol. Anyway they unsqueezed it and someone finally got it. A Daughtry Gift Pack. I was like SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEITTTT. =.= ARGHHHHHHHH. I am SO trying tomorrow as long as I know what song it is. I hope I can get a track record of knowing the song 1 squeeze before everyone. I want to be The Song To Squeeze killer. Rawr. =] Yes, I know I'm a bleeding idiot. I have suffered enough today...

[I cannot believe what I just did. Lucky I removed it. I must be out of my mind. Better not pull a stunt like that again. Big Brother is always watching. What I did was some light humor on the annuity scheme, but I thought better of it in the end. I better keep my thoughts to myself before I get sent to Room 101. Sigh.


Here, better keep your head down and mind your own business. Better safe than in jail. Crap. I'm 18. Room 101 Room 101 Room 101.]


Spent today reading some bio and stuff...nothing special. Lol...tml last and final day of prelims for me. Anyone wanna go out? Lol. I didn't say anything above. None of you saw anything ok? THis never happened? I didn't post anything. Zip. =] To distract the gahmen I'll do a quiz!(my blogger scren just screwed up. They're watching me. =X


The "20 Qs n As " game


Tagged by M.A.G.E. to do this:


- Each player of this game starts off by giving 5 weird things about themselves.
- People who get tagged need to write in their blog of their own weird things as well, and state the rules clearly.
- In the end, you'll select 5 people to be tagged and list their names. *I shall add - NO TAGBACKS!



1. Someone knocks on your door at 2am, who do you want it to be?


A small (and cute! Caute eems to be a prerequisite of small creatures in anime.) magical creature that will grant all my wishes, no matter how impossible, E.G. Total destruction of MOE/Microsoft (whichever you like)


2. Your boss tells you he/she will give you a $20 raise if you'll do your job naked, do you stay and take the raise?


So little? Lol.


3. Put yourself in a nutshell.


I am me. Done.


4. Ever seen a ghost?


No, and I don't think I wanna. I need my sleep. I'm still in college. Lol.


5. Happy with your body?


I want to be taller. Please? =X


6. Something about you?


I hate this place. =[

7. A place you wanna visit?


I want to go to a lot of places...Paris?


8. A job you'll never do, no matter how much you were paid ?


Anything that has to do with being in contact with the bodily excretion of others, blood excluded. Though I probably won't be a doctor though. Lol.


9. A band/group you thought was cool when you were 13?


I didn't pay attention to such stuff at 13...uh...I was growing out of Pokemon...


10. You have a nightmare, who's the first person you think to call?


I wouldn't call anyone...I'd probably go Oh SHIT! Wt*ux whazzat...and wake up.


11. Wanna have kids before you're 30?


Hmmm...why not?



12. A memory from Secondary School.


Sitting around the class radio with my friends listening to songs and talking during break. Yes. We had a class radio. Our prinipal wanted our school to be funky and seem like home, so we all got one of the listening compre radios. But the new princitard took em away.


13. Ever had a crush on a friend's parent?


That. Is. Like. Sick.



14. Do you look more like your mom or dad?


Um...I think dad.


15. Something you've always wanted to learn to do?


Learn how to play the guitar.


16. How you'd like your life to be in 10 years?


28? A nice car, a nice house, a nice boat, nice money, nice wife, nice kids, and possibly away from Singapore. Hahaha...who am I kidding...


17. Something you learned this year.


Um. How complex numbers warp reality.


18. What do you want for your birthday?


Its over. But...
Emotionally: I want a nice outing with my friends, all the different groups of them, the old sec sch gang, and the new JC one.


Physically: A DSLR


Mentally: To be a genius. Oh wait. I have an IQ of 130 and I can't even integrate properly.



19. Name 4 things u did yesterday.


Slacked. Watched 23 episodes of anime. Um. Ate? Nearly went out.



20. Last item you bought yourself.


Gee. -thinks- So hard to think. Food I guess...



Tagging:


1.Ben
2.Galvyn
3.Priscilla
4.Raye
5.Taky

Random thought:
Listening to 987, "Be the first male or female caller on..." There's isn't exactly a third gender is there? Or are they banning those with...um...you know. Different preferences? Don't kill me, I'm just pointing out they can just simply say "Be the first caller..."<

Ooh! "It runs on Vista so it'll be very easy to use." Hahahaha...cool. Obviously they're hoping the person who wins that laptop hasn't heard about the User Control thingy.


Today...stayed home, watched anime, finished Zombie Loan and watched some Claymore. Lol. Hmm. Basically that's it. Off to dinner now. Oh yes! Pics! Coming up...




Ikea with Galvyn

Prawn with...Prawn eggs? =X




Mugging: Won't kill you, only makes you bleed.


New Ti-84 Plus Limited Edition:Meridian. Only 50 available! Plays the school anthem and displays the school logo on startup! One-button press for FULL memory reset during exams!

Galvyn's cups.




Evil is afoot beneath MJ.

Back when radio was the fad. My parent bought this radio for me as a kid so that I had something to listen to when I did my work. The other day, I had no laptop and I didn't wanna waste my phone's battery, so my mum dragged this out for me. So 15 years after it was purchased, it's actually being used exactly how it was intended. And it works perfectly fine. Quality Japanese audio product.

This was dangling right over my head while mugging at Hougang mall. Huge heavy-looking chandelier.

Newest attraction in MJ! My and Galvyn were in sch when it was delivered and installed. Got free chocolate from the man. =D After that every single J1 was clustering around the machine gawking, lines formed, and it sold out in a few days. I'm surprised no one was hawking T-shirts like "I bought coffee from the premium coffee machine!" =p

Why "sglover" is doing in a chem website I will never know...seems like a nickname form some shady IRC site to me...lol.

Twilight Mirrors

I dunno what to name this. Lol.

3 papers today. Couldn't wait for it all to be over. Felt great when it was. Only left bio MCQ, hahaha. =D Today could cut loose a little. Got thru Chem (freezing cold in the hall; was directly under the air con) Revised some stats, or rather, answered some questions about stats. I couldn't wait for 5pm, I even set a countdown timer on my phone. Lol.


Math...I screwed the idiot hypo question because their wording was so horribly shitty. =.= Was glad when it was over also. Went to atrium with ben, tak, xw, and val. Stoned there, slacked, wasted time, and made plans about which place to go for dinner(Hong Kong Cafe? Crystal Jade? Chinese Gardens? lol.) but scrapped them all to buy cheap noodles from White Sands. We also couldn't leave tak all by herself. See? We don't discriminate against the less fortunate. =D


We dithered, and hung around for a very long time, then went in the study room, and talk and I was getting hungry so I threatened to go and lie facedown very quietly on the floor until they were done. But we left in the end. Lol. Then we had another firefight in the atrium, with xw taking part also. OH and we went to look at bags in WS. Maybe we are all going to buy similar bags. =D


Left at about 9 I think, then wandered at WS, stood in front of the VCD store and watched some Korean movie, ogled some anime box sets, distributed by...ODEX pte ltd. xD I'll post my pics tml, needa crop em...

Random post


One of the funniest things I did as a kid:
Once after my parents caned me for doing something which I don't remember, I had my first issue. Lol. I also did my first emo drawing which was of course the typical-kid-with-hidden-issues thing. I drew on a piece of paper myself with lots of tears and my parents standing on the other side looking angry, and if I remember rightly, a cane.


Then on the top I wrote "Mommy and Daddy don't like me" in big letters. I hid it under the fan but my mom found it while cleaning the house one day, and me and the folks had, well, a Talk. But it was SO COOL. I wish I had that picture now. Its like so classic. Shows I was wayyy ahead of the emo trend before it even gained popularity. I think I was slightly younger then 7. Cool. =D

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This is some pretty cute stuff. But its more of a guy thing I think. lol. Its a comic about LotR in a RPG setting with real players and such, and its pretty brilliant idea. Haha...
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Today was pretty dull. Woke up after extra sleep at about 11 plus. Mugged till about 430, read an hour of Grisham to destress before going back to it. finish my tuition homework. Went out for a drink, and for fun just stretched out both arms to touch the door frame and stretched my back simultaneously to hear a few cracking noises. =.= Working plays hell with your back. Another negative point. Lol.


Went out for dinner...when i opened my closet to change clothes I felt something hard and flat inside and my jaw dropped. I had occasionally given in and spent some time wondering where my currently MIA laptop could be, and it was right in the back of my wardrobe. Of all the weird and wonderful places in my home to hide it (storeroom, my parents' closet and associated drawers) it was in my own closet the whole time. lol. In fact the only reason I stayed home today was because the com was missing.


Went for dinner at Mos Burger because I wanted to try something new. While there I saw this group of teenagers, secondary school having dinner together. They were probably out having fun the whole day, you know, out with your friends, walking around, eating together. And I felt a wave of immense sadness. I was once like them. I was once...normal. I had friends. We went out. We played. We dragged tables together and sat in one big group and laughed and talked and jibed each other as loud and as long as we wanted. But now, I'm locked into the system.


I look at them and I feel like I'm in this huge procession, another nameless face in a sea of nameless faces, marching down the main street of a ruined grey city. We march forward, all seeking to attain our goal, to attain the Singaporean dream. The dream is there, bright and golden and always in the distance. Every time the hordes are about to reach it, the dream is moved on a few years down the road. 65 or 85, take your pick. And so we walk. And we age. And we chase that dream.


As we split, we all have grown apart, and we get wrapped up in our own lives, trying to stay afloat. I am lucky, to a certain extent. I still meet with my friends. Once a few months. We go out for a few hours. The last one was organised by none other than one of us who is in poly and enjoying her holidays now. If not for that, it most certainly would not have happened. Having a good old reunion with our friends? Sure, but I'm sure the thought crosses our minds less as time passes and we drift apart. We can only slow it down. Have a reunion? Sure, maybe after the next test. Or maybe after I finish studying this subject. And it goes on.


I want to be like them. I want to go out and sit and talk and play without a care in the world. When was the last time any of you had a good and proper meetup with your friends now that you've all got your own lives to run? Even my last time with them was abrupt. Dinner at Sakae for, then one left for tuition, one left for home and the rest left for pool. One didn't even make it. And that's how it is. I envy them. I find it hard to believe I had once experienced times like theirs before.


What have I done?

Best. Letter. Ever.

Exactly what I was thinking. Exactly what I was thinking. Same as the letter on bus fares. If they judge fares by economic growth and median household income, doesn't that include the income of the top earners too? Hello? Won't that skew the results? Ha. Nice trick but someone saw through it. Economic growth, yay! But I don't see my dad's pay raising.


Brilliant point, why not take the median income of those households that often take the bus. Why not huh? Funny why that's overlooked. Seems oddly logical now someone mentions it? Median household income, pfft. I'm afraid there's something called private cars. You know, those shiny new things that ply our roads everyday? You can't miss them. Hundreds of thousands of them. Take a look.


For my vieww on the annuity, they're similar to that letter. I for one highly doubt my chances of surviving to 85 in today's world. Take a look at the education system first, and also take a look at us. Ha. Reminds me of the HPB's slogan. No health without mental health. Is that so? But JC students seem to integrate into society well enough.


It's a wonder I haven't seen that tiny little valve marked sanity go pop! in someone's head yet. That'll be a show. Stress levels! I'm wondering if when they looked at better public healthcare, better hygiene, etc etc etc, did they consider stress? Life is NOT just about numbers. There's qualitative aspect to it. Like, oh i dunno, how we feel about stuff? what do you call that? oh yes, emotion. Oh yes and pollution, wonderful wonderful pollution. Can't miss that. And its worsening, innit? H5N1? Dengue? SARS? Every time we go out, everything we do there's an associated risk also. And in a nutshell, to me, 85? Not easy, not right now.

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Hey guys. Sorry about the delay in blogs. So many days of my life will go unrecorded because my latop is missing. Well, not really, my mum took it and hid it for me. Why? Because I said I go out to study, otherwise studying at home with the computer distracts me. Thennn...she hid it.


Problem: I already go out and study everyday, so what does doing that leave me with? That's right. Nothing. I go out from like 630am to 1030pm plus, and when i get home I cannot even blog. I used be able to go out, mug, come back, go online a while. Now its go out mug, come home, blank. =.=


The only reason I can do this now is because I'm using the main com while my sis and/or dad is not using it. Uh...where should I start? There's been quite a bit of interesting stuff. Um yeah. Sept 11? Haha. I sent an SMS to 987 for kicks but I dunno if they read it because I muted it to watch Bleach. I found the movie online! =D never expected to get it since all I found were raw. I got it on youtube. I let it all buffer, before going to sleep at 3.


Anyway thanks to everyone who msged me that night and the next days and after. =D Pris was the first one. =P Hmm...This is also a time of guilt for me because I get a lot of birthday wishes and throughout the whole year I virtually give none. =X Maybe its just because my birthday is on an unusual(lol) date. I hope. =X I used to have a lot of birthdays stored in my old phone but when I changed phone I lost everything... so, sorry to anyone if I forget!


The actual day itself was pretty normal. Had an sms reunion with sarah whom I've not spoken to in months. lol. Watched bleach omgomgomgfantastic!!!! and slept a bit in the afternoon. Woke up with my biological clock screwed up because I don't usually sleep in the afternoon, so this crappy feeling I get on waking is also what stops me from doing it more often. Yet, I don't get jet lag when I go overseas. Weird.


Tuition...usual, slept at 1 plus or 2, can't remember. Sept 12, 13, nth special, mugging in school with um...-thinks-gah I don't remember. =.= This is why I blog almost everyday...I mugged with Val, Galvyn, and tak in some order or other over Wed and Thurs. Stayed till about 9 or so. SMSed 987 on Thurs night, dedication to all Meridian Muggers lol.


Um, today I had a fight with ben. It was really bad. Yeah. We like battled it out using tak's crutches. Total Star Wars ripoff while she filmed us hahaha...I think too much exam stress. file was like 50 MB lol. Then we used the gunshot sound in our phones and the crutches and had a shooting match in the atrium. =X It was quite hilarious lol. Living out your real life Counter-Strike fantasy or something. It was quite amusing until ben did a kamikaze towards me in an attempt to melee me with his "gun" but I stepped out just in time to shoot him point blank in the chest. xD


Oh and today we can officially call MJ a hell hole. Why? There are demonic forces underneath the school, and I have the video to prove it. anyone watched The Exorcist? There's a part where the girl pukes a fountain of green muck over the priest or something. Well, a drain was doing that today. Not green muck, but a big spray of rainwater came shooting out from a drain set flush with the ground. Then this 1 inch thick concrete and metal drain cover started moving up and down as though it was going to pop out all the wayy and water kept spraying out. Very cool. =D


I have quite a few new photos too. Today didn't really mug much. Must be the TGIF thing lol. OMG its still early. I'm surprised. Hardly at home so early, but I was bored at school. Hmm. I kept falling asleep during econs. You can run but you can't hide from sleep. All those hours I stole away the past 3 days caught up with me during the exam and several times my words faded away to a cute little tiny spiral as I dozed off.


CLB was boring. Wrote some crap, answered 30 MCQ questions. I had nothing to so so I drew a nice little epic zombie massacre spanning two papers. Uh...nothing else interesting I guess. Lol.

Much has happened since I last blogged. On Sun, went to Ikea to mug with Val. I think I must've offended some great phone deity or something, or maybe Saint Nokia with my switch of makers, or maybe it's just Shawn and his unlucky hands. His own phone went mute. I lent him my old 3100 for a couple months, and gave it to him in the end. That very night I gave it to him he dropped it and it went mute too. Then few days later he called to say it was fixed. Then when we met for Sakae with the old gang the cover had dropped off it. Then he told me he moved his sister's phone on Sat night and her phone went mute. And he touched my phone during that Sakae visit. GAH.


I dropped it on the frickin' sidewalk and there's like four freakin' patches of tiny pockmarks and scratches and looking at it makes me want to swear. DAMMIT. One of my favourite phones and I drop it 4 times in 2 months. F***. Very pissed off. I'm almost convinced someone up there is out to get me. I think about it and I get pissed off. My older phones survived a year with that same number of drops or less, and little or no damage at ALL. Crap. The plastic cover popped off and something that pisses me off is if I had taped the cover shut it probably wouldn't have happened. So the phone that has caused me so much heartache is sitting in a transparent plastic bag taped up tight, and I'm going to buy a silicon cover after the prelims. With so much protection, nothing is going to hurt it. NOTHING. Screw you if you think you can hurt my baby again, gravity. =.=


Ben joing us to study at Ikea in the morning. Bio was ok. 13 mark essay and I wrote 3/4 pages. =.= Either way,
Happy birthday to me~
Happy birthday to me~
Tomorrow I have chem paper 3~
Happy birthday to me~.
Damn.
Oh yes I have tuition tomorrow also.
I know. I have a very sad life. I think the nasty event on my birthday curse is coming back. Like when my grandma passed away a week before, my hamster died on that day, when 9/11 happened, and when I have Chem P3 and Math exam the next day. My worst subjects.


Oh and I think today was funny. A great cosmic joke. Someone up there was probably laughing pretty hard this morning. Who should be my invigilaor but him. Of ALL the people, him. What are the chances of that? =.= Fantastic duel of the fates I must say.

Silly, silly, silly. Not many people really understand this, do they? The online masses, the greater majority, the public, the hecklers, I could go on forever. A simple twitter post. "Nobody understands what I'm going through." Ben also has something on his blog along those lines. But most view it as a a slogan for idiots, the stereotyped emo kids. Hardly anyone sees past it, blinded by the simple label that it is another mantra by those foolish wrist-cutting kids. Few realise what it really, truly is. Emo? Au contraire.


Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that for someone to see the true meaning of this, they must have experienced it before to grasp the full meaning behind the general phrase of "Nobody understands me.", often thrown about and used as the foil for humor. I cannot say that the "experience" entails, but maybe it involves keeping things to yourself. Problems nobody knows. Emotions you feel. Maybe it is the feeling of also being alone, of having no one you wish to confide in at all. Maybe it is of carrying a burden that only you know exists. No matters what is it, You do come to the realisation that quite often, "Nobody understands anybody."


That is it. (To me, at least.) The realization that we are all separate, individual, human beings. Independent entities, each carving our own path in life, each affected, moulded, and shaped differently by our experiences. Everyone knows it, but we never really pay attention to that fact. We have our own unique characters, each singular event in our life leaving its imprint on us, making us markedly different from one another, turning us into who we are today. We are constantly changing, constantly being reformed, altered, tweaked, with our encounters with the world and the people around us.


This uniqueness, essentially means that none of us really understands each other, not in the conventional sense of the word, but also perhaps the way we think, and how we react. We all may react differently to different situations. You can understand a person, but not fully to the extent that you have explored every tiny gradation on the surface of their soul and what makes them who they are. If I were to use an analogy, the world is like a glass box with a million billion little objects as events, and 6 billion little deformable blobs of clay. Shake it hard many times, and there you have it. We are all different, and nobody really understands one another.


Yet, there are some. Some who think they do so, and have the right to say so. Nope. The people who float about in online space, clicking about, and see fit to make disparaging comments, heckling, or plainly being a waste of genetic material. In quite a few cases, what you see is not what you get. Unless that person really pours his/her heart out to a large extent, or if you are very close to them in person, you don't really know them at all. This gives you no right to condemn them, to insult them, or otherwise.


We are not obliged to spell our entire lives out to you, and you, similarly, are not obliged to read them. After reading, I realised that Ben is probably doing what I'm doing. We blog about our lives and stuff, our thoughts, opinions, and comments. But we don't really show the true person within. I won't speak for him since I'm not him, but sometimes, I don't really open up a lot. I don't mention events, or I simply leave the details out, but still. Whenever I see people making a nuisance of themselves of generally leaving unhelpful comments, I get annoyed. A blog does not always paint the full portrait of a persons, and to base your impressions on that is simply foolish.


The easiest way to put it in words is that what happens in my life goes up in my blog, but some stuff doesn't make it in just because I don't want it to. I sure many people do the same. No matter how much you wish to pour your heart out, a blog is still public one way or the other, unless you lock it. Hence, no way you can make an accurate judgement. This is the most basic example I can think of. Sometimes I quarrel with my mother, and she makes a judgement on my behaviour, thinking I will do this or that in a certain situation. She can be wrong quite a few times. If someone who has lived with me for the past 18 years cannot fully "understand" me, how can you pass judgement on someone based on a blog?


The Whimsicalness of Freedom
Art by -=[K]=-
Name by Galvyn


I haven't had a muse like that for a very long time already. Must be the studying. But I think it is crap as usual, as I do with all my stuff. Audience reaction? I have fears that I may get flamed for this, but what the hell. My own two cents, done on a spur of the moment, so don't bother trying any funny stuff. No rebuttals and no counter arguments, simply because I have no TIME. There may be holes but I don't have the leisure to plug them up. I just followed the flow to see where it would take me. Cheers. I need to go to bed. -yawn-

I have problems again. And issues. Great. Nope, not telling anybody about it. I should update my friendster profile. Hobbies: Keeping stuff to myself, wallowing in pain and misery, revisiting my past, mentally hurting myself. Who I want to meet: Anyone, because no one understands me so it's all the same. LOL. Fantastic. I just don't feel like telling anyone about it so I can bear the whole thing myself. I don't have trust issues. I'm made an online friend whom I've never met my confidante before, and talked about stuff even which I've never even discussed my friends for years. Simply because I trusted that person, and it was trust well-placed. But we've lost contact either way.


I've only given a good friend a glimpse of me because I was doing it solely to help him, out of my duty as a friend. I visited my Great Emo Period in J1, traced out the journey. Other than that, I've kept everything to myself. Sometimes people come to me for help. I'm ok with that; more than happy to help a friend. But when I have my own issues, who do I dump on then? Dump. It has negative connotations, but it's merely my own personal terms for it, nothing bad attached.


Like the proverbial adage: "Who will watch the watchers?", Who will listen to the cousellor? Physician, heal thyself. I cannot, so I just keep it all locked away, and with the key in a well. Maybe I will talk to someone. I dunno. The way I see it, what's the point of dumping on someone when they can't help you solve it? Might as well just carry on, listening to others and myself. The traditional emo "Nobody Understands Me" seems oddly apt here. Keeping stuff to yourself is fun.


So it's not going up on my blog either for obvious reasons. Lol. Remember, my address is "a lack of verisimilitude". This means a lack of truth, or the quality of being truthful. This doesn't imply that I am lying in it per se, but that I may leave out stuff here and there. So this isn't that big a look into my head.

The thought of suicide is a powerful solace; by means of it, one gets through many a bad night. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Haha...I'm nowhere near that stage though. Don't worry. But its a very interesting quote I heard from Galvyn.


Enough with that crap already. Either way today wasn't very productive because of my mood. It screwed up me trying to mug badly. Did bio but I did talk to Galvyn. Saw Ben at Ikea. Finally I had an idea. I looked at the cup of pepsi, beer, and ice lemon tea he had poured into an empty cup of "chocolate moose[sic]" and said: ok, the first person to talk before 930[pm] drinks this." and so we mugged. Went to walk a little after mugging before leaving for home. 27 was not crowded. Maybe they heard me, or maybe cos I left later. Oh yeah. Pepsi reacts with "chocolate moose[sic]" to release a lot of bubbles, proportional to the amount of mousse in the cup. You could be mistaken for thinking it was a cup of root beer. Uh. That's it for today I guess.

Went to Kovan Macs to mug with Eliza today. Did some Bio, Chem till about 530. Unusually noisy today thanks to some teacher who brought in an entire legion of kids. They might as well have brought in a legion of the damned for all the noise they made. I like kids, but not when they make so much noise that even I, used to mugging in such places can't tolerate them. However, they're still kids, so I should just let them enjoy their childhood, or whatever there is of it.


I view kids in our society today with sorrow, like child-soldiers marching off into battle. Pre-pubescent combatants sent to battle for their futures in our very good and competitive system and society which is perfectly fine and good as it gives us a competitive edge over other countries and helps to promote economic growth. Yay education! I wonder if there will be a day when every male will be asked to shave their heads and every female has to have short shoulder-length hair.


Freedom of choice is just a silly little trifling thing that prevents full and effective use of resources. With such short and neat hair, resources and manpower and time need not be wasted on hair checks, sending of students to the barber, or confiscating of colourful hairbands. Maximum effectiveness is key for our country's success in today's globalised world, no? WE will all march happily into our learning collectives to learn! Look, we even have wonderful leadership camps for little primary school kids. I'm sure they'll have a wonderful childhood being moulded into leaders of tomorrow at the tender (and hence easy to mould)age of 9. I've seen.


Ok enough with the crap. Lol. I'm just saying that from what I see, quite a few kids lead very stressful lives now, which was a hot topic of debate in the forum pages a few weeks back. But I may be wrong. -shrugs- Who am I to say anything, right? Haha. Zip.


Hmm...had dinner with the old gang at R'vale Mall Sakae dinner buffet. Quite a nice meal. Had a lot of fun. After that went to play pool at Hougang before returning home.

Obvious proof Bill Gates has a hand in designing Barbies. Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Ultimate. Barbie Ultimate Furniture Playset, Barbie Deluxe Furniture Playset, Barbie Premium Furniture Playset.

And I see that either the S$ and HK$ exchange is really bad, or they don't want Hongkongers getting their hands on the answers to the Chem TYS. And they have numerous prices for different GST percentages.

Went to my cousin's house for help on Chem and Math. Stayed there from about 2 to 830 plus. Nohing much of interest. Mugging with Eliza tomorrow. =X Weird. It's been a long time since I had nothing much to blog about already. Lol.

Went out to Mug at Ikea today. Reached at 2. Did some bio and math. Would've been boring, but I had my phone with me, which meant radio and mp3 for hours. Stayed till 930. I'm trying to fill my days with mugging outside with one person or another. The beginning to the End comes in just 5, oh, make that 4 days. Here's an accumulation of pics I took over the past few days, since there's nothing to blog about today. Lol.


The bus 27 home was packed again as it almost always is. I dunno what's SBS' problem. No doubt people have complained about this. The buses always have been packed and yet they only stick single deckers on this route. They have the money to buy shiny new buses and can't solve this problem of packing people like dismantled Ikea furniture in a neat little metal box? I'm not even asking for ALL the buses to be changed. Just divert some double deckers to take this route during peak hours. Is that so hard? Pfft. This stupid problem has been going on for years already and the situation is still the same.


Another facet of our transport system that drives(pun unintended) me to say "I'm getting a car, and the environment can go to hell." Anything to get away from buses that come 10 mins late to make you get stuck in a jam as a direct result, buses that vy for the Guinness World Record for "Stuffing the most number of tired office workers, aunties, grandmas, frazzled students, and random people in a bus, and buses that MAKE ME LOSE MY WALLET, and buses with five legged spiders(nah, I just threw this one in for fun).

This makes a pretty nice desktop wallpaper I think. Very cliched. Lol.


Nature Photography. Lol.


Some cute questions my sec 1 sis was doing. Very funny, not a joke at all. I couldn't get the 1st one because they had to act like total tards thinking they were very smart and use Physicslish. And...I take bio of course so I had to consult a friend who informed me they were using a JC Physics formula and told me that the terms meant.

3D rendition of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I don't like the picture for some reason.

Since we paid ove $170 for it it has to be worth something right?




Tak, Val, and some random plates we found in school. Dunno whose. Lol.

While mugging, a mysterious sign appeared. THen after we packed up we realised there were two pens on the table that belonged to neither me nor val. We left them there. Noone else came to join us, and the table was empty when we came back. How? We realised she must've koped tak's pens when we moved into the study room. =X Sorry tak.

Night fall.

My favourite pic of the day. Somehow I just love the glint of light on the edge of the glass.