nothing's like before.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

and you're gone; | 8:19 AM

I'm a thousand miles away
But girl, tonight you look so pretty.

Quote of the Day:"Why are skeletons so lonely? because they have no body to go out with!"-Woonie

good luck to eve for A levels!

all this heartbreak and anguish
because of you;

Monday, October 29, 2007

andvee; | 8:05 AM

She calls me baby
then she won't call me
and then ignores me
What's the problem?

keeps her distance
and sits on fences
puts up resistance
and builds defenses

You keep me hanging on the line
everytime you change your mind

you've got me on my knees
It's killing me

It's killing me;

damn right,
i'm jealous.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

anguish; | 8:03 AM

haha rafflesian spotlight's more scandalous then i thought. i reckoned they had zebra crossing to the wrong side of the road. if you get what i mean. HAHA.

Today after church accompanied Kwun Tong to see a chinese doctor that Yin Jiao Lian (Primary school coach) had recommended. After waiting for like half an hour finally finished and then it turned out that KT's elbow/ligament and bone had an infection between them.

Wow, that's scary.

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WHY RI IS NOT CO-ED (WITH OTHER SCHOOLS)

Well my dear reader, this seemingly weird title has just many definitions to it, but i'm quite sure that all of the sane people here would definitely like to know the factors that you know, most people would want to know about.

okay, that didn't make sense.

Before we entered the RGS school compound, there were many signs of image-conscious talks and styling (like PY using his shiny handphone to style his hair while Josiah flatly refused anyone or anything in the 5 cm radius of his hair). Louis stated one of his primary objectives of getting into RGS: To get a girl (s)'s number.

WHY?

a) He finds that his sms bill is too low (too rich)
b) He finds that his phone plan of a huge number of sms-es is going to waste
c) he has a girlfriend. supposedly.
d) for er, his personal interactions. (don't ask me what)

Now, whether or not he succeeded or got slapped in the face flatly, i don't want to know.

PY didn't want to take the risk of playing cubes in the RGS school compound because he felt that RG girls (which he preferred over NY people, tsk) one could be viewed as either geekish or cool. haha, that didn't stop me. then he added that i would look 'cool' because i got a crumpler bag. diaoOOO!

that didn't stop him from almost wanting to ask another RGS girl to challenge me since she was holding a rubik's cube. =.=

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i'm too bored to blog anylonger. sorry about that!

Quote of the Day:"Send me the picture?"-KC

she lives while i die;
fair trade, good deal.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

know thyself; | 8:26 AM

THE HOUSE OF SPICES @ RGS ROCKED THE HOUSE!

along with the other reputation-spoiling plays. HAHA.

Friday, October 26, 2007

putting my heart back together; | 8:30 AM

Rafflesian SPOTLIGHT!

Emotions will reveal. Sparks will Fly. A winner will be crowned with an iPod Touch I may add.

After convincing stubborn Ruijie to come along over a meal at the Long John's Silver, we managed to buy the tickets on sale and the price of $5 was really quite deserved due to the 3 hours ++ it took of our time. As Pok Pointed out, the Open Category (Titus won) was much more entertaining then the Solo One (Nabil won) though both were pretty good altogether.

In the end Nabil managed to clinch this nice iPod Touch (8GB) through his rendition of i forgot-what-song which was really well-deserved because the others weren't all as good as him. Serious! Of course Slau was pretty good as well and he deserves an award as well (2nd).

Seetoh was trying to disrupt the thing by his funny/crude comments which he incidentally added whenever he could by shouting as loud as possible. Walter managed to counter with a really nice retort (insulting his size and weight subtly) which Seetoh could only shout "Not Funny!"though it clearly was. HAHA.

My brain's frazzled out from the day's activities, so don't blame me if I seem very blur.

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The 185th Designs are....unique..but i don't think most people would want to wear them for a good reason. ahem. Most people would agree, once they've seen the designs of the various merchandise.

Situps during gym was murder.

INPWNS YOU!

Quote of the Day:"VOOHTE!"

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

blocked; | 9:24 AM

sigh. tuesday seems so far away again.

cut-off point, hypocrite.

nobody really cares much.

Monday, October 22, 2007

royal-ed; | 7:32 AM

today's a royal screwed-up (down?) day.

seriously, it's difficult penning down all the mixed conflicts and feelings that's just buzzing in like some blender on overdrive guzzling on the earth's resources. this reminds me of geog, which was f-ed up big time.

there's no more confidence for me in writing essays because no matter how hard i try it seriously just comes back with an L3/7. (wish they could've added another L3/37 then it becomes 1337 then i'll start pwning everyone) somehow when's it all like this i like to write random stuff to digress and let my mind wonder.

seriously makes me wonder why sometimes the end of years were ever existed though tcy did give us a breakdown on why they were implemented in the RP system. however i haven't really seen much use for it except for forcing people to die by brain knowledge compression and drinking burnt pieces of notes that our science teacher ingeniously just gave us.

somehow contemplation about all that's happen in this very epic roller coaster rush (that's been unfortunately forced upon us by the school) that's all been forced into these days. Damn, seeing my history teacher sign in on msn's seriously creeping me out and i'd wonder how my essays though i friggin hell did mug for it go, because it isn't always the fact the amount of effort you put in = the amount of marks you get.

Damn, i need painkillers. I'm talking rubbish you see, so don't blame me if this post doesn't make sense.

another aspect is that even though you've tried the hardest but it never seems to work and when you just meet Failure in the face you'd known that you've fallen and that you know the whole world just comes crashing down on you and you just feel like dying in one corner where no one can see you. no one cares anyway, not many. they'd all just busy and i don't think most of the them have the time to.

you wouldn't-

on the other hand, there's really been people that's unexpected that's asked whether it's been okay. though it seems like a small action it really goes a long way, at least to me but may not be so to the other people.

i'm not going to talk about the grades because it'll end up with me being even more emotional and it won't really help for my self-esteem i guess if i ever had one. wish that today was tuesday so i'd see if i could join tennis lessons that my mum was taking. then i'd have a few minutes of just channeling all these into the tennis racket to these wretched despicables spheres that i'd dream of blowing all of them away. reminds me of physics and final fantasy where KE = feelings/emotions. don't ask me what those mean, i don't really know as well.

not like i know you any better anymore.

some teacher's really been great such as mrsmartinaong and mreddiechua whose' really said whether tests have been alright and all. it's really been touching when these positions of authority actually step down and step away from the respectable "face" and act like real humans instead of dead roses, if 2A people get what i mean.

i just hope that there's a huge big sword just standing right in front of me and i can address all the problems in the life by just burning them all or hacking them. it's also disturbing how one can just think and think and talk about all these mentally unsound pictures (physics is impossible) and dream in their own little fantasies about taking them all down one by one like those people do in advent children. sometimes i really wish that there's an alternate reality to this where people can take down giants in their lives, figuratively and literally.

buying large swords light enough for me to swing around! anyone?

all's that been's just been turned upside down ever since eoys came around and the life's really changed a huge lot due to the numerous differences in lifestyles. let's see - would i wish this was a few months before? maybe a progress report 1 as a submission for my overall gpa would just be one of the best things, and i'm not even sure if a bare gpa that's inversely proportionate to the amount you study will be there.

not like you will ever be;
you're shining on out of my reach;

that won't stop me.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

existence; | 7:56 AM

The Great Escape - Boys like Girls.

One of the nicest vids there is on youtube with the music played here even better then in the mp3. version in my opinion. Sounds clearer and got more of that "hype", if you get what I mean.

Anyway, today I was soooo bored and I just came across youtube videos and found some nice stuff:

Which basically is a Rubik's Cube Video. Somehow this really got me inspired into timing my own and I even found out a Rubik's Cube Timer that's online. Pretty cool but the authors claims it has some bugs. Timed a bit and to my surprise my timing went down =D and I've even taken a screenshot of all 13 timings, so if you want to boost my ego/or kill my ego by pwning me you can ask me for it.

Started reading Devil Wears Prada! Woot quite cool though it's more of a girl-type of book but inside's really isn't always talking about clothes. Gives a wide-eyed perspective of the working world.

Quote of the Day:"-_- my name's been disfigured to the highest degree."-Claire

~~Oh sure, zebra lover. =D~~

throw it away;forget yesterday;let it fall along with the memories of you.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

fight against destiny; | 7:23 AM

LAN in the afternoon was pretty okay but seriously expensive. I spent about 7 dollars on about 2 hours in total which included DotA and another TD game. Wish i could've stayed longer but because I had guitar lesson at 4 so I had to return home earlier =/

Spent like 45 minutes yesterday night/today morning trying to find a piece of my red DIY cube piece which dropped out. Turned out that it was in the guitar pocket and that my maid found it instead. (I found the other 2 pieces that exploded okay!) Thanks.

Finally got the NEP email invitation to the E-groups that I was waitingfor. THought I didn't have it at first but then it was in my junk mail surprisingly. Thanks to Nigel Fong who helped =D

watching my cousin play counterstrike when he's using a machine gun against bots which can only use knives is seriously funny. What's more he's using friendly fire and of course shooting um, his teammates. Course, he's dying too.

"WHAT I DIED!"

We're getting back our exam results on Monday/Tuesday where the school board has specially devoted 2 deathdays for us to kill and torture ourselves when we receive back our superbly horrible grades (for me at least). I've screwed up science and maths and i'm not confident for the rest. haiz. =/

ah well. tend not to have much to blog about when sentiments happen and it all goes down in the ground.

Quote of the Day:"ZOMGUTWTHBBQIMBAF2L."-Ruijie

bring it man;
i'm not just/just about to give up

Friday, October 19, 2007

de-emofication; | 7:40 AM

yay elected prefects! =D

if you are in RI you should've known that about 22/25 secondary 2 nominees got into NEP ~~Noob Elected People~~ , um i mean Newly Elected Prefects. Anyone notice that RI simply loves short forms? Like FT for form teacher, LT for Lecture Theature, PIE, AEP, SLE, etc etc. Now, NEP sounds like some extension program like AEP or MEP.

For now I haven't received the Yahoo! Group invite from Kangjie yet so I guess i'll have to wait =/

Congratulations to the other NEPs who got in too!

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The past few days have really been a bore, with not much value coming out of it at all. Maybe the OBS talk was vital but the rest was frankly, boring. I even wanted to skip school a few days because I knew the programmes ahead were like zomgutwthimbabbqf2l-ishly boring. Good thing tomorrow i'm going out with the 6J guyssss! some of them anyway.

Mass swim + gym was seriously tiring. zz. at least I got a bronze medal out of it! Though i seriously swim like a brick, which means downwards. Somehow within the 50 minutes I was able to swim 10 laps and barely pass a Bronze. hooray, achievement already.

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just now another "figure of authority" who in RI that shall not be named due to the anomity (unless he wants to be named) passed me a URL of a certain relief teacher. It's FTW material, and worth a few laughs and entertainment value.

I shall quote a few funnier posts.

Thursday, Sept. 06, 2007

i went to ri to get my modules' notes today, and i almost screamed when i looked through the nanotech notes.

I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT LAR!

me: er. mrs kua, are you sure i can teach this? i really dunno anything about it.

mrs kua: oh well thats ok, i dont know anything about it either.

HAHA ri boys, your teachers have been fooling you.

and i'm going to teach the boy who jumped off the school building earlier this year. they told me then i was like eh?? he not accidentally fall off the building one meh? then the teacher scold me, u think he really can fall off the building liddat ah. we tell the press liddat really got pple believe. lol wahlao he just came back from his medical break lor! i scared wait stress him up again.

Well history students, what does the source above tell you about RI teachers? Explain your reason and justify your answer. [15 marks]

Quote of the Day:"This vacuum cleaner sucks! It can't suck anything!"-Zeb

~~zeb + pink.~~

ahem you didn't see anything. i hate dental appointments now.

ignorant bliss; take it - it's yours.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

| 5:31 AM

conveniently koped from kelly's blog
How to tell if you're a gymnast

You're a gymnast if…

- the Matt and Kip you spend most of your time with aren't guys.
- gymnastics is life and the rest is just free time.
- blisters and cuts have become a norm on your hands.
- people mistake you for an “emo” kid after you show them your hands
- you use grips more than you use a towel.
- you dance/somersault along the hallway instead of walk.
- the vaults you are accustomed to hearing about has nothing to do with the bank.
- you mistake fitness corners as cheap gymnasiums
- you see people spraining their hands and say “oh only?”
- you think that nothing is wrong with your ligaments until the bone shows.
- you are in a shopping centre and all you want to do is to flip and hang on the poles.
- people mistake you for a rubber band.
- you do handstands and cartwheels for fun in a playground..
- you are more used to sweat than you are to water.
- you’re usually the daredevil in your class
- spinning around doesn’t make you dizzy, it makes you alive
- you see people break-dancing and subconsciously think that you can do better then that
- 3 hour trainings seem short to you
- "200 squat jumps on the floor instead of on the crash mat" sounds better than winning the lottery.
- you use your bed to do gymnastics and trampoline moves.
- you use chalk more often than soap.
- you travel around your house upside down
- you aren’t freaked out by the scariest roller coasters; you’ve been through all that in gym
- you find that all the other CCA’s PT is extremely easy
- any part of your body cracks loud enough for the whole class to hear.
-you’re amazed when your friends can’t sit on top of those bars at the fitness corners
- your friends are interested in the latest fashions but you're more fascinated by the latest leotards.
- people dub you as any animal related to being agile and “aerodynamic” (WHATEVER AIRPOK!)
- you don’t get it what’s the hype over d
- at gym competitions your friends are interested in the opposite gender while you’re more interested in what they’re doing
- your hands are itchy whenever they see something bouncy that can act as a trampoline, even beds
- you never lose your balance
- you watch any movie vaguely related to gym and like it, no matter how bad the acting was.
- you love freaking people out by showing them your hands
- you have more blisters than knuckles.
- you come home with more chalk on yourself than on a chalkboard.
- you point your toes when you're sitting down.
-you bounce when you walk
- practice makes perfect isn't just a saying, but a way of life.
- all your friends are out shopping while you are at training.
-you get disappointed if you don’t get muscle aches after trainings
- all your doodles and drawings are somehow related to gym.
- you can stick it without using glue.
- you do pirouettes while waiting in line..
- your idea of a floor is square and bouncy.
- whenever your class has to put up a performance you’re always doing something acrobatic inside
- you think of gym instead of spongebob when "sponge" is mentioned.
- a bar is a metal pole-like thing instead of a place where people drink.
-you don’t find being stuck 3 metres in the air scary
- a tramp is a trampoline instead of an action or a sexually promiscuous woman.

- you think the world’s better upside down.

I like the last best =D

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Quote of the Day:

"Pink!"
"我要练习跳舞!"- mao mao.

if only i could breathe
without you on my mind

Friday, October 12, 2007

potential forgiveness; | 8:03 AM

gym training on monday at 9am!

don't know if that's supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing. guess that after slacking for like a few weeks too lazy to exercise :)

Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children's really one of the best animated Final Fantasy movies you can find on the market nowadays. The Action's really brilliant (though scientifically nigh impossible) with all the fancy sword fighting and bike chases. The graphics are seriously top-notch (accompanied by pwnage music) and everything looks parallel to reality (maybe except the hair and the faces) but you get my point =D

Anyway the entire day was kinda wasted away (not shamefully =D) watching movies and trying to sleep in different rooms. Dinner was spent at a steamboat restaurant because my brother's going off to Taiwan for 3 weeks in about 2 Days for Army-related stuff.

He's an ARMOUR: Tankee btw, and supposedly the commander of his tank. First to die, so they say as well as he's the only guy in the 3-manned tank that's exposed. At least he has a machine gun and he's supposedly the leading tank too!

Anyway, the restaurant really was quite good with a wide variety of stuff like meat & Japanese food, even with ice cream. No excess wastage charge. 22 Dollars ++ for an adult though, but i bet my brother ate like much more then that. He was acting reaaaaaaaaaly weird that day too.

My father tried to do a Hand "Body" wave! HAHAHA.

Quote of the Day: "Your Momma so fat, that when I did a U-Turn to avoid her, I ran out of gas!"-Eve

funny how "no obs" is actually "noobs" in between. wonder what that could mean.. :)

to be forgiven;
yeah, that's what i want.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

freedom; | 7:30 AM

FREEDOM!

Anyway, if you're in the Raffles Family you should've known by now that the EOYs/EYAs are OVER. Maybe not for the AEP-ers (ape =D), but still, the official ones are O.V.E.R. Hooray for that!

Now it feels kinda weird not studying as the highly compressed notes are lying abandoned in regions of the house, waiting to be burnt, buried or hidden away so far that no one can ever find it.

BURN BIO BURN CHEM BURN PHYSICS. WAHAHAHA.

Science and Maths was totally murder. I think I left out about 10 ++ marks for mathematics, which was about class average.

Before maths test occured an incident that would've never have happened if not for a certain figure of authority otherwise know as RS (as for initials) invigilating our class because our FT wasn't here. She was harping on about the exam rules and when JY lent our Mac Boy a pencil (because he didn't have one) and she flared up (reminds me of Mt St Helens) at him.

She immediately started talking about Prefect Nominees and asked him to give him his badge and then took away his paper for "breaking the school rules". Yes, it's an examination, but it was a mere gesture of a good intention! It's not like there were notes scribbled that were stuffed inside the mechanical pencil. Even though JY should've been reminded, he shouldn't have been punished to that extent.

This is why you should not post pictures of yourself up on the wall. Good thing I didn't, because all the teachers that see you breaking school rules (including security guards) will try to pwn you as much as they can.

Someone should invent stuff that knocks out people.

Especially people on buses. Cough cough.

Quote of the Day:"I thrive on positive reinforcement."-Bunny in SirFong's comic

PS:Happy Birthday to POKKKK. Thanks to Patrick for helping me get Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children

i turn to you,
you're never there.
stop shutting yourself out

you know how pain it is
to see people you care for die inside?

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

one last shot; | 7:35 AM

math tomorrowwwwwwwww. last paper, babeh.

some of them are going to LAN, but i'm not sure if that's allowed.

Quote of the Day:"WAAAAAAAAH I JEALOUS!"-W.K

aussie =D

Monday, October 08, 2007

your guardian angel; | 7:46 AM

History tomorrow! Still can't get the hang of doing the Essay Format. I shall try it here!

L4 - Has a stand and explains 2 point of views with adequate examples + explanation.
L5 - Has a Stand + explains 2 Point of Views with Examples + explanation (L4 basically) with the justification of the MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR by a criteria or explains to what extent clearly.

Essay Format:
Point
Explanation + Elaboration
Example
Link back to Question/Criteria

Tackling Comparison Questions:
-Provenance (Source)
-Tone
-Purpose of the Source (message)
-Point of View

No need conclusions. Only need to identify
How similar are Sources Y and X? -> Similarities + differences
In what ways are Sources X and Y similar? -> similarities
How are Sources X and Y Similar? -> similarities

As a side note, Quote Evidence/Source/Use contextual knowledge as far as possible to explain

Usefulness Questions:
Reliability Test to discover an aspect of usefulness.
Unreliable Source -> can be useful because it shows the motive of the source/hidden message/mindset of the source
Reliable Source -> Can not be useful because it is not relevant or it only presents a limited perspective depending on the context
USEFUL = ANSWERS THE QUESTION

Another side note: apply contextual knowledge if source is limited if applicable. Like Source does not show difficulties faced during Merger you can state the difficulties when it only talks about the effects.

BE OBSERVANT!

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Quote of the Day:"We're history tomorrow."

Use me as you will
Pull my strings just for a thrill
And I know I'll be ~~okay~~
Though my skies are turning gray;

Friday, October 05, 2007

she's on your mind; | 8:47 AM

Now, don’t just walk away
Pretending everything’s ok
but you don’t care about me
And I know there’s just no use
When all your lies become your truths

you were the first person
to take all there was to take
away;

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

yellow; | 8:07 AM

EOYS IN 2 DAYS.

gasdrfawefdsl;gkjahsdpufiafhalkjsdhfuh.asdfh.a!&^!(@().

Quote of the Day:

"Good Friday - Someone important died. This friday - we are all going to die =[" -Amos
"Wonder how our currypuff girls are going to perform in RG...."-Lin Sen

FOR THE LAST TIME I'M NOT IN RG. THE PLAY IS GOING TO BE AT RG NOT ME. (actually i'm dancing)

goodbye reputation.

be strong;
believe.

that i'll be there for you

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

coldplay; | 7:27 AM

Elections 2007!

As usual, my picture looked SUPERBLY SPASTIC. Even the Video was super noisy+i was too busy covering up my face from the school population (not in the video) to see how it turned out. Probably very noob.

Thanks to all those that voted for me, Jun Yang, Zi Yang, Shaun today! :)

Some secondary 3 people are really, really spastic. One of them went around after the election progress (when school ended), publicly announcing and desperately trying to suan the nominees that he didn't vote for any one of us. Like seriously some 15-year olds are really that immature.

No offense to any others, only 1.

Thanks to any others who helped remove the ~~friggin~~ posters and the bluetack from the wall tooOoooooooooooo!

As it is the common trend now to be doing history/geography/weird questions (my history grade sucks at 3.2) I shall try one in a bid to raise it.

To what extent do you agree that the EOYs, though called as End of Year Examinations, are in fact, really just RI ploys to get students to suffer and die?

To begin with, I shall be defining my stand. Personally, I do agree to this statement to a large extent as I, as a student, have seen the current curriculum/system that has been implemented in 2007's year. For example, the Chinese HOD has very cleverly alloted hundreds of words and sentences for us to learn along with other chinese literical terms like si ju, etc. Thus, it is near impossible (unless for the new generation of muggers, known as people who LOVE to study and study alot) for us ordinary and dumb students (including myself) to cover the numerous topics that have been given to us over the year. Another factor that aggravates the situation is that we have to study for the OTHER subjects which includes killer subjects like Biology, Physics, Chemistry, General Science and Math, etc.

Moreover, we have other commitments. For example the Elections of 2007 significantly increased the stress level of the nominees and greatly reduced the time they had to ~~effeciently~~ study for their exams. Others may include organizing the school events like Prometheum Day where it is a clear fact that many had to stay extra hours (hence affecting mugging time) to prepare for this prestigious and important event.

Hence, under stress, students are clearly susceptible to falling prey to diseases and the munchkins monsters and are thus prone to death. Stress will also eventually lead to suicide cases if not tackled properly. Thus, I conclude that EOYs is really a method to kill off students through their detrimental side effects.

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After reading that enriching essay, I hope you have benefited much. :)

Quote of the Day:"Shake to shuffle your Sony Ericsson W580i Walkman Phone."-MSN Advert

It doesn't work on mine! :(

you know
i always _____ you so;

[insert love above]