Max

Moved!

2008-04-15T21:09:00.003+08:00

Hey guys,
I have moved to http://maximillionhuang.wordpress.com/
See you there!
Max

Hope for a better age

2008-04-14T21:04:00.003+08:00

I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
[In The End by Linkin Park]

We tried (pun) hard and was leading 6 -3 in the first half. But lost 15 - 11 in the end. I just wanted to say I'm sad. awww...emo...Not really lah.
"...we haven't won the rugby title for 17 years..."
Make that 18. I think this time was one of the closest in 17 years. My brother said we once lost 51 - 3 to defending champs, ACSI. So well done, Raffles Rugby.

LOST: Season 185.
Rugby
Softball
Badminton
Basketball
Water Polo
Hockey
Table Tennis

The only gold we had so far is for tennis. (LOVE YOU SHOUJIAN!!!) The rest? Self-explanatory. There's always next year. Notice the title of this post: Hope for a better age. Supposed to be 'of'. Why I changed it? Well there's always next year and we can just hope that next year we do better. So we can hope for a better age.

Auspicium Melioris Aevi.

ps. I had some funny things that happened in class to say but I forgot about them and I'm in no mood to post about them anyway. Here's one from Shayne:
"Wad ter" (what the)

ORA Day

2008-04-12T19:36:00.002+08:00

Woah! Today was real fun. The dunking went quite well and so did the raffles merchandise. The dunking was super fun and we had some unassigned special guests. The teachers were real nice. There was MrTeo, MrKwok, MrsTanSM, MrNg, ZhaoLaoShi, NiuYiLaoShi and some others. SeeToh was having his fun with Niu Yi and it was comical. The machine spoilt half way but it was fixed. It rained half way too but we shifted the machine to indoors and filled it back up in double quick time. Oh and I go dunked 3(+1) times! Once each by Brandon, HaroldAu and the swimming teacher. Oh and Shayne in the pool. (dunked him back) Kai Lun got dunked can you believe it? The machine was so small it hardly fitted him and most of the water splashed out. (sense exaggeration)

We ended up with a whole box full of ice so I started throwing them up 3 floors and trying to catch them (it hurts) and we started putting ice into each others shirts, pants and uh...inner garments.

So today was brought to you by the ICs Shayne and Zi Yang! Yay! *Clap clap* I think Shayne got scolded by his mum for making her wait so long - partially my fault too cause we dunked him in the pool. But he didn't seem too worried. But sorry anyway.

hey there

2008-04-11T16:10:00.002+08:00

Been noticing quite a few people popping up at my blog. So just wanted to say hi. To those internet stalkers as jianxiong terms them, please tag okay? Internet stalker= someone who goes to other people's blogs and reads and whatever but doesn't tag. To Shayne: I went back home, checked my mail and went to watch tv. (yesterday) That's why I didn't reply. And I told you I would watch tv. Good luck for ORA!

Yep, ORA is tomorrow. RGSPB and RIPB is supposedly working together but I didn't really see much of RGSPB's side other than volunteering to get dunked. I think they provided the dunking machine though. Hahaha.

A little advertisement, the RGSPB/RIPB booth will be selling ice lollies, raffles hoodies, raffles custom badges (not the one you wear with your uniform lah) and chances to dunk teachers/RGgirls/RIboys. Chances. No guarantee. Depends on your throwing skill. :p Popular teachers like Mr. Oja, ZhaoCYLaoShi and Mr.TeoCY will be there. I will be there at around 1120, the same time as Mr.EngHS. So see you there.

Post PI was supposed to be after ORA. Good news: It didn't get postponed. Bad news: It got cancelled. Haha.

Talking about out ke wen about old folks' home:
CaiYH: [in chinese] You see in (insert some movie here) the old people are all happy but in reality are they that happy?
ChiHung: [in chinese] But you are happy what!
CaiYH: [in chinese] You won't be happy once you see your results. (jokingly)

1 stroke from me, 1 point for bayley

2008-04-09T19:59:00.005+08:00

Today was swim carn' heats and I went for 100m breaststroke with Mervyn, HuanHock, Benjamin and XiuZhen and we all got 1 point each! So that totals to 5 points from 2K'07. So, yay! Here's a a narration of what happened:

The whistle sounded and the horn blew

I was off, with a little lag, into the pool

My goggles came off and filled up with water

(It really did fill up with water - I couldn't see)

But I struggled on, trying to go faster

Finally I reached the end

Only to turn back again

(It's two laps you know)

When I struck the finishing stroke

I found out I had broke

My own record for frogstyle

Wow!

Umm actually, I didn't have a personal record for breaststroke - I don't usually time myself cos I'm no swimmer. Last time I timed was for frontcrawl, my faster stroke. I don't usually use breastroke cos I find it slow. So I learnt today that I actually can do it! So yep, I got 1 point for Bayley in swim carn' so you better win Bayley!!! If not my 1 point will be wasted (and so will my friends' other 4). Hence, I shall cheer for Bayley during the finals and hence, lay eggs. (hens)

Saw a video on mrbrown,

I'm like wow, this guy has one leg and is a bicycle courier and he lost his leg on a bicycle, saving a child.

Ok so today I received an email from the parent from rugby finals:

Hi Max,

Thanks for the prefect support on the semi-final match. Did a great job. Need further support for the coming match on 14 April.

Wondering for 14 April Final rugby match will you be the prefect in-charge of the cheers and other logistic issues.

Please get back to me ASAP. Thank U.

When I got it (without reading the contents), I was thinking, ok great, something to cheer me up. After reading it, I felt that it wasn't sincere and I felt cheated in a way and insulted in another. (I take offence EXTREMELY easily)

Wasn't sincere: thank U is in short form. I ABSOULUTELY HATE IT when people don't even take an extra nanosecond to type 'yo' +u. Especially when it's thanking people - comes out as insincere and in this case, slightly sacarstic. Another thing is that the first paragraph is totally impolite. If I really did well, it would be the first sentence. If I did a good job, the sentence won't be so short. And if you NEED (asking someone for help) help, shouldn't you ask politely? Or do you say, "OI! Help me lah!" Unless you are good friends, then it's acceptable but I don't even know her well and vice versa. If I really appreciated the person's help, I would bother to complete my sentences properly, ask politely and etc, treat the person with respect! About the last paragraph, why does she have to put ASAP in CAPS? asap cannot meh? or it would come off slightly more polite if she had put A.S.A.P. Feeling cheated is explained above as well.

As for feeling insulted, does she think I cannot sense certain sacarsm, certain unhappiness and a certain feeling inside that I will not be the prefect in charge for the finals? Generally, the whole tone isn't there and I just feel the 'hate' inside, behind that post. I might be reading too much into it but I just hate that mail. My reply wasn't that polite, it's almost the same unlinked sentences but at least it's more complete and considering the tone of her message, I think it was still passable:

I don't think I will be in charge. I need a break from organising many of the past competitions and will most probably be replaced by someone else.

Just realised...no greeting. Opps.

bad habits

2008-04-08T22:21:00.005+08:00

I don't think my GPA for progress report 1 won't be nice. Probably a 2.something. My chinese is 49% currently - not sure if adding 5 marks to my zuowen will raise it to 50. My physics is 59%, wonder if some miracle will happen to pull it up by 1%. The rest? I don't know. I'm just too lazy. I don't study, I don't do my work properly, I don't go out, I don't do anything. I just stay at home and do nothing...come to think of it, what have I been doing? I keep promising myself to study the next time I'm free but it never comes. I will just push the day back. Even until the day before a test, I don't even study hard. Must learn from RyanTan. Teach me lah.

Just linked TheophilusKwek, his blog is omgsupermuggerish. Sort of. He posts long articles created by himself there. Some are quite inspiring and mostly about RI stuff.

What's on NEXT week
Post PI and ORA day are coming up and ccts are next week. Monday is rugby finals and chem cct. Wonder what will happen. Tuesday & Friday is NAPFA, Wednesday is SS cct. Thursday is bored(board) meeting and hopefully it will be fun. Like all other board meetings. I think the pb is the only thing that makes me happy in school. Not even my class. I don't like my class. Hope it's just cos' it's the start of the year.

another broken-up sentences post. by max.

added: I'll be on the dunking machine during ORA day at 1120 (+/-) so do come down and have fun.

Pissed

2008-04-07T20:38:00.003+08:00

So as most of you all know, RI beat Saints 6 - 0 (two kicks in between the poles). That was what we wanted and yea, so we are happy. But not me.

Firstly, the parents were enthusiastic but the problem was that they were a bit umm... weird? Not really sure how to describe it so I'll just throw out a few adjectives/things they did and hopefully you get the idea. Aunty-ish, kaisu, typical singaporean, wrong cheerers, wierd actions (raising umbrella to cheer???), etc. And guess what? They are OUR parents. They do the wrong tunes for cheers, they do totally different cheers, like "Go raffles go, go raffles go...." In the end we just followed them. The parents were like scolding me and I could tell, very disappointed in me. I mean like, what the heck am I supposed to do to get the students to cheer? I lead cheer and if no prefect is near me, I'll just be the only guy cheering. And that screwed my voice up. I became sounding like Chay not too long into the match. In the end the parents decided to give Pathy a shirt (dunno what shirt) for helping to lead cheers. This was how it went:

[Me picking up discarded bottles near the parents' seats]

Parent: "Hey champion, we get you a shirt, what's your shirt size ah?"

Me: "What shirt is it?"

Parent: "Not you lah"

[I turn around...and there was Pathy!]

Pathy: "L"

blah blah....

I'm not saying that Pathy wasn't good, he was excellent. But I'm sure the parent treat me so dismissively lah. Like I am their slave and a super loud robot that can do anything thing they, the almighty gods/goddesses command me to do. So yea, that made me quite pissed.

Secondly, the students loudness was like that of an ant. (umm not you greg) They were softer than a single parent/prefect/rugger/referee (yes the referee shouted at us for stepping too close to the field). So they made me lose my enthusiasm. Another thing was that they didn't want to squeeze to intensify their loudness. More pissed.

The prefects were ok, some of them pon, but we got some unexpected people - which was great. Unexpected as in they weren't assigned to come down, but they did. So after the match, which wasn't that spectacular, only some of us helped to clean up. The rest? Zhao to the bus. And they almost pang seh-ed me. I'm sure they leave me behind. People actually forgot about me! Maybe they thought I was going home from there. tut tut...benefit of the doubt then.

When we got to RI, I thought no need to go training. But guess what? The bus turned into raffles square, and there was Keith. So we had to go for ncc. We did mutuals, which is some stupid teaching of drills thing. We 'ended' at 6 but stupid specs (sec 4s) were all sitting down at the podium, refusing to dismiss us. For no reason other than they are lazy and want to talk. So we were dismissed at 6.20+ After that, Part As (sec 1s) and Part Cs (sec 3s) were told to stay back. Part As did 50 push ups for whatever made Faizal unhappy, which is totally random and dependable on his mood. Part Cs waited for 2 others to complete their mutuals and the STUPID SPECS just ignored it and talked among themselves and after we were done, JustinY had to go photocopy something and waste our time. Then the specs had to drag more and more and more and more and more........... and we were dismissed at 7++ Just perfect.

So many other small things made my day - to those that cheered me up, thanks. To those that did not, thanks. To those that made me pissed, thanks too.

pissed.

Ok I realised that i have been typing long posts lately and this habit must stop. Must mug. CCTs coming up and my chinese gpa is 1.6. Better buck up. Any got any mugging tips?

Add-on: my head was aching throughout the cheering because it was low on oxygen and blood. Experienced it many other times, like standing up from lying down, just feels alot of pain in the head. Cheering probably expels all the air inside me and causes me to 'blackout'(super darkened vision) either that or I have a medical condition. This time it was the worst I ever felt and usually it lasts only for 1 minute but this time it was around 30. Bad...very.

Man Utd vs Middlesbrough

2008-04-06T23:01:00.006+08:00

Man Utd drew. That's real sad. But the weather was crap and Middlesbrough was play quite rough, doing all sorts of stupid tackles and pushing. The ref wasn't that bad so it was really mainly the weather and the Middlesbrough home ground factor. At least we are still 3 points ahead of chelsea. The next match is against arsenal, shouldn't be much problem - arsenal has not been playing that well. I'm just worried about the chelsea match coming up soon. It's just three matches away. 5 matches left, Arsenal, Blackburn, Chelsea, West Ham, Wigan. As you can see, the only threats are chelsea and arsenal. Chelsea plays Wigan, Everton, Man U, Newcastle, Bolton. Chelsea only has Man U as a threat so that's something else to worry about. T.T

Ok on to other things. Tomorrow is rugby semi finals and guess what? PSG (parents support group) is coming down! Some parent contacted me and decided on some cheers to let the parents memorise and cheer. That's quite cool but has caused some trouble here and there. But all in all, I don't think it will make much difference. sorry guys...

Oh and Abhinav popped his blazer button during CrescentGS invest on to some girl's seat in front of him while standing up. And the girl actually sat on it!

And chander just reminded me. I'm doing pledge duty this week so I need a replacement for raffles square entrance.

Ok time to bathe and slack for a while before sleeping. I'll sleep earlier than you, Aaron! And Ryan too. Hah.

Proposal to allow sleeping in class

2008-04-06T12:59:00.004+08:00

This is what happens when I get bored. A stupid proposal to allow sleeping in class. It's about 1259 words. So I do not encourage you wasting your time on it. I was just feeling bored yesterday and I typed this out. As you can see, the conclusion is crap. Because it was done today and I don't feel so bored anymore. Cos' of rugby semis. Feel free to comment. To get to the comments page, click on the title of this post.

DISCLAIMER: The following has been made out of leisure and fun. It does not mean any harm to anyone and if any party feels hurt, please do not take it to heart. Do not in any way, be it through word of mouth, hardcopy or softcopy, replicate or spread the following.

This proposal aims to allow sleeping in class, be it with or without teachers or ongoing lessons. This has been a long ongoing problem in school that has been surfaced plenty of times, which often ends with the teachers reprimanding the students for being inattentive in class. I feel that this is unfair; hence I created this proposal to fight for the rights of the students.

It is well known that sleeping is an essential part of life and without sleep; people will die from exhaustion, just like how people die from starvation and dehydration. (That’s why eating/ drinking in class should be allowed too.) Missing a few minutes of lesson to prevent death is definitely worth it. It is not as if being inattentive in class will result in death. Therefore, to prevent death from exhaustion, sleeping should be allowed in class.

It is ironic that teachers scold students for sleeping in class but usually not for talking in class. After all, both are being inattentive and in my opinion, which I’m sure many others share, talking in class generates way much more noise in class than sleeping, affecting the people who want to listen. Sleeping is silent and talking is loud but teachers choose to scold the former. So you mean people can talk and listen to the teacher at the same time? Once again, listening means hearing and understanding. If teachers, allow talking in class, what reason is there to not allow sleeping in class?

Research has shown that sleeping for short periods of time will help increase attention span. Short, in this case, means from around 5 to 25 minutes. This is definitely a better trade off as compared to drifting in and out of semi-consciousness for the whole lesson. By being in a semi-conscious state, you do not hear much – only phrases here and there and unless you are familiar with the topic, you wouldn’t be able to piece together what you have heard and you would most probably just forget about whatever you have heard. So I present to you the choice of attending a 1 hour lesson and listening to more than half of it, or attending a 1 hour lesson and listening to nothing at all. Listening in this case means hearing and understanding.

Teachers say they don’t sleep while teaching so why can’t students just listen? After all, teachers have to stand, talk and project their voice don’t they? That’s where the teachers are wrong. Imagine standing and talking at the same time. How do you fall asleep doing that? And now imagine sitting down on a chair and listening to someone drone on and on. You can fall asleep easily. I’m not trying to say make students stand up during lessons. I’m just trying to show why the reasoning that ‘if teachers can talk and not sleep, students can sit down and not sleep’ is flawed. This also shows why talking in class should be allowed: it keeps the students awake. For example, my teacher showed us a video during a lesson one day. So she sat down on her teacher’s chair and fell asleep after awhile. This shows that even teachers, when in a comfortable position, not standing up and talking, do also fall asleep during lessons. If they do, how are students expected to not fall asleep?

Teachers complain of students sleeping in their class but students complain of teachers making them sleep in class. Though many teachers have the same problem of students sleeping in class, there is just a handful that do not. And the reason is simple: the teaching style. Out of all the teachers that I have had so far, only 3 have managed to captivate me in the lesson and make me come out of it understanding every single thing he/she said. They use interesting diagrams/pictures, funny jokes and pronunciations and have earned for themselves a reputation of being the best teacher in the school. When attending these 3 teachers’ lessons, no one ever falls asleep. No matter how boring the subject may be or how boring the previous or next lesson might/will be. These, are examples of successful teachers. I feel that speakers need to hold their audience, need to captivate them, make them genuinely interested in the subject, just like how campaign candidates need to convince their audience. If teachers are unable to hold their audience, how can they be good teachers and what right do they have to teach us about public speaking? My point here is simple: if a teacher does not want any student to sleep in his/her class, he/she had better upgrade him/herself.

Another reason why teachers should look at themselves instead of blaming the students is that students have 9 to 11 subjects. If each subject decides to give a few pieces of work here and there, the accumulated amount becomes too much to handle. Teachers say that should be not a problem because they themselves have to mark 32 times around 4 to 5 classes of worksheets/assignments/test scripts. But look at the time teachers stay in school until. Ever since one of my favourite teachers achieved a higher post, he has complained that he doesn’t have enough time for his social life, be it going out with friends or family. If teachers, being adults who are supposed to be able to handle their time much better through their experience have to stay up late to mark work, what about the students? And it is the sad truth that students have to stay up later to finish their work. This results in a lack of sleep and so students make up for it by sleeping in class. Some of my more frank teachers have told me that ever since they became teachers, they have not been having enough time. And they are just normal teachers who take around 3 to 4 classes. One ‘coincident’ thing is that somehow, a lot of performance task/assignments are due on the same week and the rest of the weeks are spent studying for tests, doing work or other commitments. So even though teachers say that it is due far away, when the busy days are minus-ed off, it is actually due in slightly more or less in a week. This causes students to have to resort to staying up late into the morning to rush through the work and produce results of lower quality and get a ‘double scolding’ for sleeping in class and not producing high quality work. This I feel, is extremely unfair. Teachers say there are extensions, but they reject reasons like having too much work and only things like competitions or ‘teacher-endorsed reasons’ are accepted. So my point is teachers themselves find it hard to cope yet they give students more work which results in them sleeping in class.

The above are all reasons why sleeping should be allowed in class. We hope that you will allow sleeping in class after reading this and for those who would like to add on or edit the points, feel free to post in the comments area of this blog. It is accessible by clicking on the title of this post.

rant...

2008-04-04T21:18:00.005+08:00

WARNING: Super loooooong post ahead. (1083 words) Read at risk of your free time. Ranting ahead.

I was feeling quite sad on the way home but Max (not me) sort of cheered me up (unconsciously) and after taking a nap and drinking 'milocoffeenutella', I feel much better. I'm still drinking 'milocoffeenutella' while I type this. It tastes quite good. But I think I put a bit too much nutella- makes the drink a bit weird.

Ok so on to how I got sad.

1. Morning Assembly
The very first thing was morning assembly. I do duty at the entrance to raffles square near the JuniorBlk and I tell you, it sucks. Having TeoCY staring at you from his podium is scary. And it is not easy to do duty there. Yesterday, after the parade commander shouted sediya, I walked to inside raffles square but was stopped by TeoCY. Think he wanted to emphasise that we should stand still once the parade commander starts. Then today, one whole group of sec 1s came late from the other entrance and he told me to stop them. I looked over there and saw ShangXuan there stopping them so I just didn’t move. TeoCY then walked over there and did something to them which I didn’t see. After flag-raising, he brought them over to me and asked me to make them stay at ‘my’ entrance. So I just asked them to stay there. After all the classes left, they were still there so, being a nice prefect, I approached them and talked to them and they told me that they were having RE with their teacher and they started waving to her (quite a stupid thing to do) and they were smiling and all. And suddenly, a voice said “Very fun is it? Coming late for assembly?” We all turned around and there was TeoCY, towering above us all. He started scolding them and they muttered their reason meekly and I zhao-ed. On hindsight, I think that was bad of me. So I felt bad and all, and that TeoCY probably had a bad impression of me from today on. Not to mention that he has been repeating on the microphone “Max, move them (the sec 3s) off faster (from the parade square)” for almost every day. Wonder what happened to all the other prefects to help move people off. So that started my day off badly.

2. History
The next thing in the morning was stupid history. AgussBH was angry that we didn’t do his all precious e-learning work. 25 out of 32 of us didn’t do/ didn’t bring. I told him that I did it but didn’t print but he just said if there were EOYs and you didn’t turn up, you still get a ‘0’. He just went on a rampage/ unstoppable streak and OWNED everyone who didn’t do/ bring. And he didn’t even bother to listen RyanGSS (not raffles girls) out. He had a valid reason lah. After much argument that got RyanGSS pissed, he finally admitted that it was a valid excuse. So much for teachers saying that we should settle things peacefully and hear each other out instead of jumping to conclusions etc.

3. Interclass Soccer
So after school, I watched (can’t play for nuts) interclass soccer. 3A and 3B play quite well actually. In the end 3A won and I didn’t even realise that my class had already started playing. When I started watching my class, I realised that we were down 2 nil. From like 5 minutes into first half. We somehow managed to hold on to that for the rest of the match. I think the problem is not having an organised formation and people (WangJX) not wanting to pass. Through Ish’s GREAT refereeing, the other team somehow got a penalty and luckily for us, they hit the post. I think Ish should ref. he sucks and lets his personal emotions, temper (which is as LONG as his eyelash) and biasness affect his decisions. I’m probably slightly biased here but I think quite a lot of people will agree with me. YiKang! Do something about him! BennChang would be a way better ref.

4. Talking to Adil (it’s not your fault Adil)
After interclass soccer, I walked out of the school gate to go home but I saw Adil there for some MCC competition ushering so we started talking about what else…RIPB. We were thinking who was going to be head prefect next year. I initially had two people in mind but they just seemed exco-material. Adil said he didn’t want to be- wasn’t in my two anyway, he is also just exco-material (to me). I myself don’t want to be head prefect due to my grades. Would love to but grades are important you see… So were saying how RIPB has become sucky over the years esp. this year due to the massive intake of prefects “due to 185”. But that doesn’t really work out as said by both Adil and I, we get a lot of prefects, but in the end, the extra slackers just pon and don’t provide the manpower that they are supposed to give, defeating the purpose of recruiting extra prefects. So must change election system. And probably something that reviews the already elected prefects. More internal discipline. I realised that I suck a lot. I don’t act well, oh that reminds me, Greg is at YAWP. Good luck. I am not sporty; at least it gives me time which I waste on nothing. I don’t have high grades and I lack much much more. Damn.

Salvation (at last)
So after the long talk to Adil, I saw Max at 7-11 and he just made me happy. Somehow. I hope all Max‘s’ have some kind of cheerful aura. He lived at Admiralty (where I’m living now) 1 year back and now lives at Yishun. So I accompanied him to Yishun. I just felt better after seeing and talking to him. Wonder why.

Random stuff
LaiCK: “I’m leaving you guys at the end of May.”
WangKwan: “Can call you for a date right?”
LaiCK: “Got a hot date already, sorry.”
YuJun: “How many degrees Celsius?”
Class: “-.-“

Random fact: LaiCK says an average of 4 “okay”s per minute

Alright, thanks for reading through my whole long post (1083 words) , if you didn’t, it’s ok. I wouldn’t read the ranting anyway.

expensive (kueh) dreams

2008-04-03T17:17:00.004+08:00

For those who don't know, LaiCK changed his hairstyle to my previous one. And he dreamt of me and my family. So here's how the story goes. He was saddened that his friend left to go denmark for something. So he couldn't sleep properly that night. And it is somehow related to him having a dream while he slept.

The Dream
He and his friends went out for supper together and they were thinking of where to go as Singapore doesn't really have much nice supper places. So they were walking and they saw a 24/7 'kueh' stall. They went in and he saw me inside. And he found out that the stall is actually my family's stall. And my mum was saying in chinese "oh, so you are my son's math teacher".

I'm like...thanks for dreaming of me. But no thanks for telling it to everyone. And my family doesn't run/own a 'kueh' stall. Not any stall for that matter.

Back to (the diamond hard) Reality
Had math TA today, was screwed. Didn't have time to finish the standard deviation question cos I draw table (not needed). damnit. Chinese compo competition was screwed too. My mind was totally blank when I wrote it. First two paragraphs were ok but from that on, I just wrote rubbish and ended up writing two sides + 1 line = 2 pieces of paper.

April Fools'

2008-04-01T20:02:00.003+08:00

Harold Au vandalising the bio lab booking whiteboard with the word "HAHA"...laugh lah.

Pen-spinning competition in Japan...super cool. Not a joke.

of lessons and lunches

2008-03-31T22:28:00.005+08:00

So mr. wongdw left us. And we rejoiced to early. Our new physics teacher is the opposite of wongdw except for the teacher part. wongdw: hunchback, tall, thin. chanck: 'hunchforward'(puff out chest), more than plump, short. But both of them don't exactly dress properly. Don't think people like them exactly care so much about attire. Well, so wongdw is a perfectly excellent teacher and so is chanck. and cck is permanent. well done. happy ending. I think chanck wongdw and chonghg can combine to form some super club.
(i'm being sacarstic here if you don't get it somehow.)

All 3 of them are physics teachers. oO maybe physics teachers are all like that. That makes me think about otto fong - but he was a great teacher. (i'm serious here) nvm. Oh and cck dismissed us at around 2.30 instead of 2.15 for lunch. That added on with quahsw's dismissal at 11.15 instead of 11 during recess totally made my day. At least caiyh dismissed us on time for cca. Not like I was looking forward to it.

And tomorrow is 'Raffles Institution Primary Mathematics World Contest 2008'. Wish those participants good luck but I have to do touring for them. I remember doing the most number of ushering/tourings last year. (even beat paul tern lah) Umm I know cos I was dossiers IC. haha.

Ok so here's a song to cheer me (or you) up:

Hey, what's the big idea?

Yo Mika.

I said,
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
Or love's gonna get you down,
I said,
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
Or love's gonna get you down.

Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
Or love's gonna get you down,
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
Or love's gonna get you down.
Say love, say love,
Or love's gonna get you down.
Say love, say love,
Or love's gonna get you down.

I went walking in with my mama one day,
When she warn me what people say,
Live your life until love is found,
'cause love's gonna get you down.
Take a look at the girl next door,
She's a player and a down right whore,
Jesus slows up, she wants more,
Oh bad girls get you down.

Singing,
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
Or love's gonna get you down,
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
Or love's gonna get you down.
Say love, say love,
Or love's gonna get you down.
Say love, say love,
Or love's gonna get you down.

Mama told me what I should know,
Too much candy gonna ride your soul,
If she loves you, let her go,
'cause love only gets you down.

Take a look at the boy like me,
Never stood on my own two feet,
Now I'm blue, as I can be,
Oh love couldn't get me down.

Singing,
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
Or love's gonna get you down,
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
Or love's gonna get you down.
Say love, say love,
Or love's gonna get you down.
Say love, say love,
Or love's gonna get you down.

I went walking with my mama one day,
When she warn me what people say,
Live your life until love is found,
Or love's gonna get you down.

Singing,
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
Or love's gonna get you down,
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
Or love's gonna get you down.
Say love (say love), say love (say love),
Or love's gonna get you down.
Say love (say love), say love (say love),
Or love's gonna get you down.

Mama told me what I should know,
Too much candy gonna ride your soul,
If she loves you, let her go,
'cause love only gets you down.

Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh, lollipop.
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh, lollipop.

Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
Or love's gonna get you down,
Say,
Sucking too hard on your lollipop,
Or love's gonna get you down

heh. don't suck too hard on your lollipop. Did you know the lyrics was actually 'sucking too hard on your lolly, pop'?

Entertainment

2008-03-30T15:35:00.002+08:00

I have been watching a lot of stupid and funny videos on youtube lately and these are some (three actually) that I have watched. All these are hilarious, I tell you.

Ok so I saw this video on youtube. It's the most viewed comedy there, with over 80 million views so far. It's from a motivational speaker and comedian. He performed this dance for his finale of his show "Inspirational Comedy". Titled "Evolution of Dance"

And this is a 'parody' of it, with the description "in case you just couldn't relate to the original." And the title "Evolution of Dance for the rest of us":

And this is a totally unrelated video titled "Americans are NOT stupid":

Ok that's all. I'm looking for a nice game to play so if you have any ideas, do tell me okay?

happy birthday

2008-03-28T17:04:00.001+08:00

This goes out to Lock Leong! It was his birthday yesterday and we celebrated his birthday today. Too bad I didn't go for his 'party' at Mervyn's house. awwww.....

And I changed my blogskin once again. Seems like I change my blogskin on each birthday. Won't be doing that for a while. My new blogskin is green black white! Ain't that great?

Wang Kwan: have you heard the butter joke?
Me: no
Wang Kwan: better not tell you in case you spread it around.

lameness

2008-03-27T20:02:00.006+08:00

Taken from shanzhi's tagboard:

jonlian: no pain how to train! thats the whole point of physio. except that i stopped doing mine a couple of days after the op. ill be removing stitches tmr! WOOH YEAH. and check if the area around your op is numb or like nerveless cos mine is. and im freaked. i feel perpetually pinched. not a nice feeling. get well soon. the last thing we need is a bai kah on our cast. get it? CAST. like a medical cast or our production cast.

shanzhi: ladies and gentlemen, Jonathan Lian.

theo: LOL jonny >< you surely know how to crack a lame joke at this point in time.
shanzhi: lame joke? ladies and gentlemen, Theodore Tan.

(shan zhi injured his leg for those who don't know)

A dip in the pool

2008-03-27T15:38:00.003+08:00

Just came back from the swimming pool at yio chu kang. Originally intended to swim for 1 hour but it got cut short by some school that went there. The deep pool was filled with people so I moved over to the middle pool to lie down and 'relac' but it was filled too. So I left. Chased away...
But I saw my ex-swimming instructor, Mr. Ong, who taught me till P3. It's amazing that he can still remember me and my whole family. He was asking about them. He looks very old now though.

On the way to the pool, I saw this armed guard at Yishun MRT. He was carrying a rifle and didn't seem too friendly. Seems like something happened or someone tipped off that something would happen or Singapore is afraid that Mas Selamat would bomb Yishun. A second time.

Here is a video I found, made by none other than mr. biq:

Me: Robots turn blind after a while cos they stare too much into a computer screen. I mean, everything they see is in pixels. Wait. They don't have human eyes to spoil. XD

blackout!

2008-03-26T23:59:00.006+08:00

woah. My house just short circuited and blacked out. And immediately after I turn my com back on, Biquan smses me to tell me that post pi is canceled. Kewei supposedly smsed him. It just keeps getting better.

edit: just received an email from nigelchoo stating that post pi is canceled "due to poor attendance". I checked and didn't find any line saying that we are supposed to send him a mail saying that we are going. The database registers that 50+ people are free and so I'm very very disappointed. I'm not saying that I wouldn't be if the database registered lesser 'free people' but I was looking forward to it man... now I'm all emo.

another thing

2008-03-26T22:09:00.004+08:00

Another thing: my bro just told me that rj, rg and ri are all going to have a day off for the good results the j2s got for their a levels. Rj's one is on 1st april. I hope RI's one is also on 1st april. That way, I don't need to do kemama shop duty :D

After blog hopping (going from one blog to another without tagging), I found another person tagging with the name "max". At first I thought it was an imposter or something but I realised it was maximillian viera. XD Hope that no misunderstanding occurs that way...maybe I should tag with a different name. maX? any suggestions?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIQ!

2008-03-26T20:38:00.008+08:00

Guess what? Today is BIQ's 16th birthday! He has grown bigger now. So hopefully he has grown wiser. hahaha. Do wish him happy birthday k? He's blog link is somewhere on my blog. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIQUAN!!!

Yay! My blogskin has been changed. I'm happy(er) now. After editing the code here, there everywhere, I finally managed it. But now, looking at it, I think that it's quite lousy. (nooooooooo...) The banner is too plain and there's only one plain banner. Makes the whole blog too plain. I think I'll try to edit it. Hope that some changes will be made soon.

rawr

2008-03-25T20:27:00.007+08:00

Here's a summary I invented for the hockey b div finals:
The Saints opened the scoring in the middle of first half, but Raffles fought back and scored within the next 2 minutes. However, the Saints scored 2 goals before the end of first half, making the half time score 3 - 1 to the Saints. After a short 10 minutes break, the Saints scored another goal, lengthening their lead. Raffles was spurred on by their supporters and proceeded to score a total of 5 goals.The End.
But as most of you know, we lost 4 -3. Because 3 out of the 5 goals were not counted as they were scored from outside the semi circle. ><

Okay so before our clash with the Saints, two girl schools were playing teck whye and some other school. Teck Whye won eventually but that's not my point. Yong Xin was said (I wasn't there) to have been ogling at the female referee. So we told him to pay attention to our game and not ogle at the referee. (just in case)

And after the match, Daniel Tan and Shaun Yeo were talking to each other. Both of them were leaning aganist the wall but Shaun had his legs crossed, but both still straight, was looking down, smiling shyly, and slightly blushing. (girl pose) It was as though Daniel was his boyfriend and he was praising 'her' for something. Extremely extremely suggestive.

So on to cleaner stuff. Man Utd has drifed 5 points clear of Chelsea at the top of the table after they won liverpool and arsenal lost to chelsea. Would have preferred a draw between chelsea and arsenal as I feel chelsea is stronger but Man U is top of the table and that's what matters. With about 5 or 6 matches left, I think that Man U is going to be the league champion.

Till next time

max

E-learning

2008-03-24T20:41:00.003+08:00

I love you erickoh. Thanks for giving me extra history work after I chiong finish most of the rest. I was thinking whew so now I'm left with Philo and English. And I check asknlearn. BIG mistake. So now I have like 3 pieces of history work to do. ALL from ONE subject.
love you eric,
max

Interhouse Track and Field

2008-03-24T13:53:00.004+08:00

Bayley won once again, to nobody's surprise. We were ahead by 20+ points before today so it's not that easy to throw away all the points, considering that we have Syafiq, M'Chia and many more. And we won the cheering competition also - no surprise once again. We have been winning the interhouse track and field for 3-5 years (i forgot) running. Moor was a formidable opponent but they ran out of pro people. This year, Buckley was the main opponent. They were super close to us at times but we prevailed. Yep, so i'm happy. For now. ><

One bad thing was that people were not cheering on their own bayleyeans during the events itself but only during the cheer competition, which I feel is though practical, no good. Shows how much spirit we have. Oh and I passed Wei Han my bag to 'bao guan' as I was in the 'march past' contingent. He ended up passing to some guy he didn't even know. He claimed that that guy was from my class and from hullet. Well we weren't in our classes but we were in houses so I hoped that the guy would find me to pass to me but no. I went to the hullet and morrison side to look for it but couldn't find it. After the whole thing, I combed the stands twice but still couldn't find it. Almost about to give up and hope that they guy would pass to me on Friday, I saw Ahmad and he told me to check the front part - that's where he found his. I thought he was referring to the front row so I searched there but nothing. So I walked down to the track and found it leaning against a wall. ><

max

RI Community Day

2008-03-20T16:08:00.004+08:00

Today was RI community day, 1 of 3 events to celebrate our 185th anniversary. Started off quite well, other than some 'zao xia's (not sure if that's how to spell it) from the GOH, it was ok. Oh Issac's sassy voice wasn't really suitable for the event. So NCC went to collect newspapers. After looking through the list of CIP stuff, I realised NCC's was one of three that did not involve much interaction with the community. All the others had interaction with the elderly, visually impaired, children etc. The other one is changi beach cleanup by table tennis and another is painting of wall mural by HML.
Actually, NCC does newspaper collection every year so this is not new. Last two years, I remember chionging up and down to get newspapers and I remember sweating and hardcoring. This year, I don't know why, but I did not sweat at all, did not do much and was basically slacking. But I think it was the amount of newspapers. Last two years the amount of newspapers from one unit alone can beat what we get from one whole block this year. Location might have been a factor - changed from bishan to toa payoh. People there just dao your doorbell. You can see them looking through the eyehole but they just dao. Oh and I think our shirt affected it too. We wear the green and black prisoner shirt people think that we are no reliable. Maybe because of mas selamat? There was this block I did 3 floors and none of them gave any newspapers. I think we collected way less than usual overall.

Advertisements
Saw this website that gave all sorts of funny ads that "prove sex sells".
"Even automobile companies seem to believe sex sells best.
This suggestive advertising is from Volvo, and its titled 'We Are Just As Excited As You Are."

"Nice parking brake..."

max

yatta!

2008-03-18T20:30:00.004+08:00

first gold of the year
and so we won the tennis finals! Hip hip (hip), hooray! And there was no rain after two times of postponing! Sadly, Stephen and Bong&David lost their matches but we won the other 3! So we won 3 - 2, beating ACS(I). RGS beat MGS 4 -1 (i think) at the same place. ACS was quite irritating - almost every cheer we did they would do the AC version. Thankfully, we did not react the same way except for shouting "Go, Raffles!" when AC says "Go, AC" in retaliation to "Go, Raffles!" and that 'match' went on for 3-4 times and I think it ended with AC. Shouting bad things to our players didn't give me a good impression. Not that I had a good impression to begin with - they were worse last year.

Another test to fail
Had 'surprise' physics practical test yesterday. It's 'surprise' because it wasn't intended as a surprise but it turned out as one. Our previous teacher didn't tell us about it and we changed teachers in term 2. Our old teacher sucked. Our new teacher doesn't seem better. The previous one was temporary. He was waiting to go to the uni - don't know why he left so early - we still have 3 (bio, chem, math) other relief teachers who all are going to the U but haven't left. They said they would be leaving end of term 2. So now we have a new (new to the school and new to us) permanent teacher that hasn't proven himself...yet. I hope.
Yah so it was hard and stuff. They asked for 5 readings which was quite impossible considering the fact that we started way late. So most of the class didn't have enough time. Including me.

Umm guys, get used to my new hairstyle cos I'm like not going back to my prev one no matter how much you say. And I found out that Clement actually makes soft copy notes for himself...oO but they are quite helpful and he's super pro at using the com. So making notes with diagrams and everything is a breeze for him. People say hunger for knowledge as well as thirst for knowledge. So is knowledge liquid or solid?

max

Monday Blues

2008-03-17T20:29:00.005+08:00

It's Monday once again. I think Monday sucks. Not only because I reach home super late due to cca, but I get tired from cca. I'm not saying that cca sucks but well, it can be tiring at times.
Now to post random drinks that I have been drinking.

Iced-Lemon Tea
Literally iced lemon. Put a slice of lemon in the freezer and let it freeze till rock solid (can put a plate of many slices of lemons together and freeze to safe time in future uses). Make a cup of tea. Cool it down to a comfortable degree of ice lemon tea, squeeze an unfrozen slice of lemon and then add the frozen one (do not squeeze. Remember to add sugar. (or if you like it super sour, then it's ok.)

Brown sugar with lemon/lime
Make a cup of brown sugar drink. (They say it's healthy but it can be quite sweet - just don't put too much sugar.) Freeze it till it's like slurpee. (Not totally ice but not liquid. Sort of like bits of crushed ice.) Add lemon/lime (squeeze it in).

At the mrt...
Bumped into Keng Chee at the MRT today and found at that he lives at Woodlands! Cool right? Umm...don't stalk him jiu shi liao. He's the CEC council guy and he's from guitar. We talked about school and stuff and found at that both our fathers fetch us to school (har har). He wakes up at 6.05 and I wake up at 6.30 :P. But I reach school at 7.10 thereabouts. Oh and there was something unusual today. There were two empty seats on the train! At peak hour! Oh well, one actually, as Keng Chee pointed out. (One lady was seating on two. XD)

So well my posts have been quite long lately so I shall try to shorten them. Oh and Shayne doesn't like being called small smart boy or anything that implies he's young. Chander is a day older and keeps calling him small boy. He thinks that he is constantly bullied. If you ever read this Shayne, get used to it. Hahaha.

max

/edit: I still haven't gotten a new blog skin! Oh and if you experience pop up ads on my blog, I think it comes from cbox. Anyone wants to help me?

dark and glommy

2008-03-16T13:23:00.004+08:00

It hasn't been raining for the past 2 days and it doesn't seem like mother nature wants to continue. It looks dark outside my house...

the guy at the foodcourt
Yesterday I went to tar pau food for my family because my mum was out. At the foodcourt, I saw this guy stare at the menu which was stuck on the table for a long long time. He didn't seem able to read and he was pointing from one price to another, as though he only cared about the price. As he went along pointing from one price to another, he seemed extremely hesitant and I could see him biting his lips in nervousness as though he was unsure if he should spend the money. He looked poor and helpless and having a frowning face didn't help.

And there I was, ordering my food. I ordered 2 packets of fried half-chicken and 1 bbq half-chicken but the auntie gave me 2 bbq and 1 fried. So I told her to change it even after she asked "really cannot ah?" in chinese. Seems to me like I was treating food so lightly and someone next to me was staring at the prices for so long. Felt really guilty.

On the way home, my heart was pounding. I'm serious. And I found myself staring at the floor while walking - which I don't usually do. I felt uncomfortable, nauseous, unwell, everything bad. And as I'm typing this out, I feel it too. This feeling totally puts me off - makes me feel like my day is ruined. Not sure if you feel it after reading this post but I hope not because I was kept awake last night as I my mind wandered back to the incident. It lasts...this feeling.

The last time I felt this way was when I watched the movie "Unleashed", starring Jet Li. It's about this guy (Jet Li) who is treated like a dog by some other guy who killed his parents. The guy's crimes are unknown to Li. The bad guy, Bart, is a loan shark and uses Jet's (Danny) fighting skills to get people to pay up. Here's a catch: Danny has a mentality of a young child and is controlled by the collar the Bart gave him. When the collar is on, he is perfectly docile and acts like a small child. When the collar is off and Bart gives an order (to kill someone), he turns wild and kills the person (never fails - he's unstoppable)

I'm not sure why I feel this way - I guess it's just this deep sense of pity that is evoked when i see such scenes. My heart is still pounding...

Heroes Season 1
Alright so now that season 2 is out, I haven't even completed season 1 so I'm trying to catch up. I have been watching since yesterday and that's one reason why I haven't posted in the past two days. I'm currently at episode 11 and well, it's been real nice. Hope I'll have more time to watch it. I know I should be mugging and not watching serials but well, it's the holidays. The last day of it. I love Hiro - he's super funny now and the future him is super cool.

Oh, and I still haven't gotten a new blog skin. Ha.

rain, rain, go away

2008-03-13T19:16:00.003+08:00

come again another day far away
It's been raining for a while now and I don't really like the rain. I'm wishing that it would stop raining so people all around can go out and have fun during the hols or whatever's left of it. Makes the mood more emo doesn't it?

an hour at the barber's
Been a long time since I went to the barber. I think it's been 2 years. My mum used to cut my hair but today, I went to the barber to cut my hair in an attempt to keep longer hair. Got a new hairstyle, but I think my barber screwed it up. Spent around an hour there, including waiting time. My bro got a way nicer hairstyle even though we specified the same things to the barbers - two different people. Shows how people can screw up. Told my barber to cut like my bro and turned out different. Probably got pissed cos I told him to alter it twice. I think I would have been pissed too. Well, at least it looks quite nice despite not looking like my brother's.

Romeo and Juliet
Erica Berry

ms. connings said that at fourteen years old, the sparks
between them
would of been enough to set the whole of middle america
blazing -
leaving us non-believers standing in smoldering cornfields

she said the looks shared across ivy covered balustrades sent
gossamer threads of dedication
stronger than the tightropes in Ringling Bros

and the letters they penned to each other by flickering
candlelight?
every word a symphony unto itself
the clash of consonants and clarinets, vowels and violins,
syllables and saxophones

and then the bell rings, and geometry looms
and romeo and juliet dance away in a cloud of smoke
smiling at our hopeless high school sagas

That's from "The Wouldbegoods" from the Foyle Young Poets of the Year 2007 booklet. They actually sent it to me all the way from London for entering the competition last year. I submitted it individually so I think those who submitted through the school did not get it. Anyway, I think the poem's real nice. Describes our school lessons well. And this comes from a 11 -17 year old.

I need a new blog skin! Anyone out there care to point me to one? I'm look for something which has a black background.

ache

2008-03-12T19:32:00.004+08:00

[Warning: specs, don't read whatever's below- if you do, don't talk about it]
"I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes" (Love is all around by Troggs)
Yea...i feel it in my whole body: ache from march camp. I think the specs mixed up tekan and pt. Cos' tekan =/= PT. Bascially we did way more than an average of 100 and its not spreaded out.

Day 1:
Reporting - we did like 100 for reporting late
Bag check
Bunk clean up (not-so-clean bunks didn't do any)
Individual Field Craft
Fright night
(+ random 'knock-it-downs' from specs)

Day 2: (forgot where the alot of push ups came in but confirm had alot)
Nothing (listening to campany ic talking cock and teaching cheers)*
Tears of the sun (boring...)
War games (run like siao and do push ups - not that much to respawn)

Day 3: Doomsday
'Morning PT' OOC slept at 2am, the rest slept around 12. We were expected to wake up at 5.30am without alarm or anything. Impossible to me considering that we sleep so damn late and previous night also cannot sleep well. In the end, no one woke up and the specs woke us at 5.55. We kenna screwed for not waking up at 5.30. Reasonable? Like totally. So we ended up doing 95+ (I fell out cos really damn tired) and we ran quite a bit around school. Ended up aching more than ever. (oh and the part b's missed the super fun pt...damn ><) Promotion ceremony: super super loooooooooonnnnnnngggggg the space between each cadet was just too much to take. Tak boleh tahan. (oh and the part b's got screwed for being late) Dismissal: yatta! (yay in jap - learnt it from dark water - horror movie for fright night)

So that's a summary of march camp. Hope we learnt something from it (other than the fact that the specs are screwed - i doubt we learnt anything else). I can't even move around properly without having to feel strain in one muscle. I think when i wake up tomorrow I'll be totally stiff. I felt damn pissed with the specs during the camp but on hindsight, not all of them were screwed. Only some - but they did not have too many choices, but the least they could do was to ease up on the push ups. (I think the camp commandant played a major role in the PT part)

*The specs did not have proper planning for wet weather, i hope... (cos it was seriously bad)

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Ok so i still have lots of work to do and writing a super long blog post is not going to help. (english blog? hahaha)

yatta!

NCC camp and RG girls

2008-03-09T18:45:00.007+08:00

March camp is here...it's supposedly the 'tekan' camp but i hope it'll be fun. It's the last camp before i become a spec and get to plan camps. December camp is planned by my batch! yay! That is if i survive march camp...
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Saw Michael's post about the chinese teacher swap thingy and decided to post it here too so that i can say that girls are mean. We are not from the same class...we just share the same teacher. Evil meanies... Well what happened was that my chinese teacher swapped with an RG chinese teacher. On the first day, we (both RI and RG) were given a2 pieces of paper to write down our impression of each other. This is what the girls wrote (drew):

Like, thanks. (and we were too gentlemenly to write bad stuff about them - who knows? maybe someone from RG is blogging on some RI poster. XD go find it yourself.) Ok so our teacher told them that we weren't that bad and this is what they wrote:
And they mean it:

They are super nice lah. Here's more:

Migh be reading too much into it but are they saying that we are geeks and we suck? Too bad we didn't say that RG contains one of the most geek looking girls. (In my opinion, that's true. SCGS and Nanyang have nicer looking girls...in general.) Fortunately, they are sec 4s. So I won't be meeting them in my batch in RJ. (but they'll be my OGLs...damn)
More about the teachers now. The RG teacher attempted to complete the assignments given to her from the RI teacher but she ended up showing us movies, complaining that we do not cooperate. I think her standards are too high. We didn't speak (at all...until we finished) during the lesson she made us do summarisation (chang wen suo duan). And our teacher came back saying that the students there are super nice and cooperative and nice and oh, did i mention cooperative? Like, whatever.
As for what we put in our posters, we sabo-ed each other by writing each other's emails/handphones on the posters (after writing whatever else) and seem desperate. (I was sabo-ed - luckily no one has contacted me, yet.) I only wrote that RGNCC is damn man (which is true - can ask Mrs. Aymie David - she was from rgncc. The rest of my group wrote nice things. Found out that there's an rgpb exco member in one of the classes that swapped teachers. (nothing much, just a discovery)
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Hope my batch of girls aren't that screwed up.

FA cup

2008-03-08T22:56:00.004+08:00

Man Utd just lost to Portsmouth. Luckily it's FA cup and not the premier league but Van der Sar is injured and guess what? Ferdinand was playing as keeper! Kuszczak got red carded after Van der Sar was subbed out for an injury so Ferdinand had to be keeper. Remember O'Shea from last year? Seems like Man U is having problems with keepers. Should get a better keeper. Like David James. XD He is really good. Portsmouth defence was marvellous and no matter how hard Man U tried, they just couldn't get the ball past that line. Sigh...for those who don't know, i actually support Man U. (but not like a crazy fan)
Read BBC for more.
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Ok so nvm about soccer and the FA cup. Quantum of Solace is coming out november 7th. Its the sequel to Casino Royale and said to be set 1 hour later litterally. Don't really like Daniel Craig but his James Bond, man. So now there are 3 movies on my list: Ironman, The Dark Knight and Quantum of Solace. Hope to catch them.
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Ok that's all

ouch

2008-03-07T21:59:00.003+08:00

my feet hurts...from walking around the whole day in my black shoes. Ouch! Oh and that reminds me of what Mr. Clement Zheng told me about the prefectorial board then. He said that they had 3 golden rules that was tradition since long long time ago. They are:
1. Never undermine the board
2. Use your discretion
3. Put yourself in other people's shoes
Sounds cool right? Maybe we will have it next year.
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Stayed in school till 8+ today to welcome back the sec 2s from malaysian montage. They mostly came from 6 - 7 but one last bus came at 7.50 (thereabouts). They said that the food yesterday was real bad and they all kenna diarrhoea at the customs and they 'jam' (in the toilet) for 1 hour - and that happened to be Desmond's bus. Hahaha. And i heard that a teacher had diarrhoea 5 times in a day. Ouch!
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Today i heard on the morning news that someone got shot. I didn't hear it clearly and i thought they had caught Mas Selamat. But it turned out that it was just someone nicknamed 'botak' (though he has lots of hair) wielding a knife who stabbed someone to death previously. The shot to the chest killed him. Ouch! My thoughts: (this are my personal thoughts - sorry if they make you feel upset) Why didn't the police disarm him instead of killing him directly. Don't they learn unarmed combat? Sounded like the straits times was trying to cover up, saying that the police "had no choice but to fire".
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Ok enough about that. Today A level results were released and it didn't sound like rj did too well. Rj wasn't even mentioned in the chinese news. Only HCI. >< Ouch? Oh and chem OBA today was real hard. Even though it was open book, it didn't help much.
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Alright i shall go and do something else now.

last day of school

2008-03-06T21:03:00.002+08:00

yay! tomorrow is the last day of school and after that we get a one week well-deserved break. While everyone is chionging their english blog, i sit here and type in my own blog, having done the english one yesterday (i rock!). hahaha suan. but i have chem OBA tomorrow at the chem lab. Hope it's easy. >< My tooth still hurts slightly and i have this feeling it won't ever recover fully.
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Term is ending so i guess i would like to reflect on the past term and see how i have changed as a person. Basically, i find myself drifting apart from my beloved 2K, now that I'm more into prefect work and I'm in 3Q. I think my class sucks but i hope it's just the start of the year and my impression will change. I find prefect stuff way more fun than staying in class and i think that's one of the reasons why i wanted to be a prefect - to make more friends. But now that the board is getting more and more and more screwed up (I'm not saying that there are no nice people - I'm saying that there are just some that aren't that good and it's increasing yearly). Love you RIPB! I shall leave the rest of my reflections to tomorrow.
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Had dinner today with theodore and shou jian - they only accompanied me because i got 'pang seh'ed by part of the exco. The worst thing is, they just sat there and watched me eat - they have food at home. Was really guilty and really want to thank them for being so nice. Thank you! (if you ever see this)
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Oh and yesterday gregory said i 'blonde' (blended) in with the green cushions in the pb room as i was wearing the green pb shirt. Moral of the story: Blonde is the past tense of blend. (according to greg)

toothache

2008-03-05T20:49:00.007+08:00

Stupid shayne. (alliteration) Was playing with the loudhailer on the way to match support for tennis when he smashed it into my front teeth. And it still hurts >.< EDIT: hey what happened to my long post! Grrr...stupid blogger. Maybe it doesn't like me saying that shayne's a nice guy or that i should stop teasing people about their private relationships or that english blog (rivalry) is due friday or that i failed my math.
Oh and i still don't know how michael got his name to be nellie

toothache

nothing much really

2008-03-04T15:51:00.003+08:00

Got back my chinese CCT (Common Class Test) today. Screwed it up big time. Never liked chinese but must improve to have no need to take chinese in j1. Saves time to do something else (like mugging for other subjects). Please don't ask me how much i got - i failed okay...
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CCTs have been really common the past two weeks occurring every other day, if not daily. There also was alot of other tests like chem SPA and stuff. Speaking of chem, i have chem OBA (ope book assessment) tomorrow and math TA (topical assessment) tomorrow. My teacher said that TA is like assignment 3 so guess i'll mug that. Oh yah, great news: english blog is due Friday - not tomorrow.
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image taken from http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/03/hexapus-octopus.html

Notice anything missing? Two legs! Read the above link for more details. This photo is not digitally altered or anything. It's real!

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Oh and this section is just for shayne (and his friend). I only know his friend's nickname let's just call her (yes 'her') M and well, we (chander and I) have been teasing him about M quite some time so i think i shall stop. Happy now, shayne? (and chin jie showed me those stuff) So now greg's got L and shayne's got M - who gets N?(wait...desmond has J so daron must have a K somewhere)

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Alright, alright, i think i'll go do my ss reflections now. Can't wait for holidays to come. Wait...there's still ncc camp...alright, can't wait till end of ncc camp.

enjoy life

Monday Blues

2008-03-03T19:49:00.002+08:00

Great. It's a monday and its raining. It doesn't help that i have chem oba and math ta on thursday and history and ss projects due on the same day. Oh and did i mention the english blog due on wednesday? And my new file is spoilt. Monday...
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In school: Shayne provided some laughs running from Mush today and Daron and Gregory was treating it like a comedy. Was quite funny actually.
Heard that Chang Cheng got 29/30 for chinese cct. He has been on an ownage streak since the start of the year. Out of three tests so far, he got two full marks and one 29/30. Is he cheating or is he cheating...IMBA
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On the way home: As i was walking out of RI, saw two sec 1s with their shirt tucked out so naturally, i told them to tuck them in. One of them complied. The other ignored me. So i just repeated to the guy to tuck in his shirt and he folded it in. Told him to tuck in his shirt again, and he said its outside school - no need to tuck in shirt. So i told him that tucking in your shirt is so that people do not get the wrong impression that RI is 'gangsterish' and he dao. So i told him again to tuck in hist shirt and he at least made an attempt. Great.
Was standing on a train next to a lady and wanted her to move in (there was a huge gap beside her) so that the people near the exit have space. So i hinted by shifting my weight on my left leg (she was on my left) she saw it, and looked around as if checking that the people there need space and ignored the hint. At the next stop, a person got off and the lady took a seat. I was thinking 'yay now i got space'. However, i realised that the faulty air-con was dripping water on the 'huge gap' beside the lady. >< owned.
At admiralty, just as i alighted from the train, i saw that same guy (above above) with his shirt tucked out, running down the escalator. Grrrr...
At the traffic junction, heard a taxi horn trice - pretty common in Singapore (some idiot beeped for like 20 seconds near RI before). And to my surprise, i heard a shout in return. Instinctively, everyone at the traffic junction turned to look. Apparently, some guy was runing across the road but it was red light for peds and the taxi driver was impatient so he beeped his horn to get the guy to go faster but he stopped and shouted at the taxi drive who stopped his taxi which was behind the guy and already halfway through the crossing area and wound down his window and shouted back along with some gestures (i think he was pointing at the road and the traffic light). So anyway, the guy without an umbrella ran the rest of the road and came to my side of the junction. This guys so happens to live near me and i was 'following' him for quite some part of his journey home (with an umbrella). Wanted the share my umbrella at some point but he ran ahead and i think if he didn't i would be too scared to offer him it anyway. He didn't have a gangster look but he didn't look too friendly either.
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And so now im back home. Had my dinner, bathed and read Ctrl+Alt+Del, a comic that is updated on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and its quite funny. So now i guess im off to key in my bookings and listen to mr.brown (updated on mondays).

enjoy life

x.x

2008-03-02T21:44:00.006+08:00

I haven't done my english assignment which is due week 10 (but i don't know which date). i haven't done my history assignment which is due thursday. i haven't done my ss reflections which is due thursday as well. RAWR!

Well, on to more fun stuff. Went to Aaron Tiong's house yesterday and had a great time! Was playing cards with shayne, nigel, daron and kang jie and we had real fun smashing kang jie's face into his cake - he left his noseprint in it. All the other birthday boys born in February had a bit of cake in their faces but i think only kang jie got it twice. Oh yah, kang jie is supposedly theodore cos his teacher calls him theodore. Will try and get photos from the real theodore. As issac puts it: its 'facebookable' and 'bloggable'.

Sigh...Back to work...

enjoy life

Movies Coming up

2008-03-01T12:30:00.011+08:00

Ironman

The trailer seems cool enough, i'll probably go catch it with my friends some time (i hope).

Batman: The Dark Knight

Stars Heath Ledger, who died recently, as the Joker. Better known for Brokeback mountain, he was also in A Knight's Tale, which i watched long long time ago. Been waiting for the sequel to Batman Begins. Batman has a new toy! The Batpod (Batcycle).

My First Post

2008-02-29T21:38:00.002+08:00

Well, this is my first post and i have lots to say. Been wanting to start a blog for quite a while but just did not have the final push to get one. The english assignment gave me that push.

Had PI not too long ago, it was great but just seemed a little boring to sit on stage throughout the whole thing. Heard from a teacher from the batch of 2003 and their PI then seemed super cool. They had this 'video conference' thing where the HR head comes on stage and feel lonely so he calls the exco who are at different places. The head prefect and deputy head are at the library and a phone rings. They remind the students to not disturb others and realise that the phone is actually their's. So they talk to the HR head and walk to the hall. The two welfare heads are running on the track (they are trackers) and they run to the hall. Don't know about the others but im sure we can explore that next year. Also, the entrance sounded cooler. The NEPs walk in first and fill up the sides of the aisles while the exco walk in, with the NEPs following behind them after the exco passes them. Could be explored next year i hope.

Today is Aaron's birthday. Happens once every four years so he is actually four years old today! (16) Going to his house tomorrow to celebrate. It should be fun, quite a few prefects are going down too - he is considered an honorary member.

Well, since i forgot what i wanted to type, i guess i'll end off here.

Cheers,
Max