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Bye Blogspot

2008-04-05T18:16:00.001+08:00

Bye Blogspot. Hi Wordpress.

otokonohito.wordpress.com :)

Speedtest

2008-03-20T12:02:00.004+08:00

115 words

Speed test

Resolution / Disclosure / Experience / Wonder

2008-03-15T17:04:00.008+08:00

Resolution
To walk to school everyday instead of taking a 3-stop bus ride. That will be an approximate distance of 1.5 km. Oh, that's 'cause I live in Bishan.

Disclosure
Yesterday, in Habbo, I met someone who claimed that he is a Sec 4 Rafflesian. So I asked him what class he is from. He refused to tell me 'cause he doesn't want me to stalk him (Doubtful point 1: What's the big deal?).

Then he asked me what house I am from. I said Richardson. He replied, 'Liar! There is no such house.' (Doubtful point 2: If I were him, I will say, Richardson is RGS' blue house, or I will ask, you mean Morrison?, since all Rafflesians should know blue house in RJC is Morrison-Richardson ['cause it's Morrison in RI, and Richardson in RGS for blue house].)

I asked him who is his form teacher since he doesn't want to tell me his class. He refused to tell, again. (Doubtful point 3: What's the big deal, again?) Then I told him that I'm from class 4-1, LOL. He said oh. (Doubtful point 4: Errr... in RI, it's 4A, 4B... not 4-1, 4-2...)

Then, he said we should meet up. So I suggested meeting at Morrison Memorial Library. ROFL. He said he may not be able to go 'cause he has to rush for his English Portfolio. (Doubtful point 5: Eh... since he's Sec 4, he shouldn't be rushing for any English Portfolios, 'cause the English project for Term 2 should only be ERP II...) (Doubtful point 6: There is no such library as Morrison Memorial Library in RI. There is only Hullet Memorial Library. =.=)

Oh, then I became random, and asked how about meeting at Block B Atrium. Then he said he will try to. (Doubtful point 7: There isn't a Block B in RI. LOL.) So I decided to expose his lie! Then everyone who was looking at the conversation all LOL-ed, and said 'Nice one!' LMAO.

And guess how the liar responded? He said he was testing me! And he was about to unmask me! Wow, nice! LOL!

Experience
I went to Mediacorp on Tuesday to support RI team in Chinese Language Challenge (华文智多星). From 4A, Yu Hsuen, Ben Wee, Yu Chen, Yi Ming and me went. We got to go 'cause our Chinese teacher is in-charge of the team and one of my classmates (He Shi, imba chinese scholar) is in the team. Anyway, we sat at the upper gallery (except for Yi Ming who sat in the lower gallery 'cause he's supposed to help if all the teams fail to answer the question).

Before the show starts, the in-charge asked us to clap for 2 minutes, 'cause they wanted to have a filming of an enthusiastic audience LOL. We clapped till our hands became red. Then individual school was filmed. We were supposed to act as if our school team has gotten the question correct, so we clapped, screamed and whistled. If I'm not wrong, they will insert this part into the whole show where appropriate. Quite fake, imo.

The host was Guo Liang (He's superb as a host!). He stood among the audience and shouted '欢迎收看' (Welcome to...), then all the audience had to shout '华文智多星' together. Then Guo Liang walked down to the stage and to his spot. Then the show started.

RI team was imba! For the first two rounds, it was the qualifying round among eight schools. RI was the highest with 24 marks at the end of the first two rounds, and the second highest was 18, wow! The top 3 schools entered the quarter-finals (which comprised of another two rounds).

RI team was imba again! RI got 46 marks at the end, while the other two schools got 32 and 14 respectively! So RI entered the semi-finals, where they will compete with schools who got into the semi-finals too through the same elimination procedure. Woohoo~~~

It was a great experience for me! I hope to see myself in one of the random shots on TV.

Wonder
Many Saturdays ago, I went to watch Chingay@Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC. I stay in Bishan (which is where RI is, that's why I can walk to school), LOL. I didn't want to go down 'cause I can actually watch from my house which is 16-storey high. I went down 'cause Kenneth Siah (from my CCA who stays in Bishan too) invited me, as well as Zhong Hao (from my CCA who stays in Bishan too).

I went down at 7, and both Kenneth and Zhong Hao were there already. Kenneth was with his parents and sister. We waited and waited and finally the floats were here! The floats were a rare spectacle! So niceeeeeeee... so I took a lot of photos, which I am too lazy now to upload! (Ya, I'm v lazy... that's why I posted this blog post only now...) Then OMG, the MPs were here too! And Kenneth and I shook hands with the MP! (LOL, actually I'd prefer to shake hands with TV stars...)

Oh, while we were waiting for the floats to come, Kenneth (or more specifically, Kenneth's dad) treated Zhong Hao and I to bubble tea. Thanks Kenneth and Kenneth's dad~~~ =D. Anyway, after that, Kenneth, Kenneth's sis, and I decided to go to the tiny garden at my flat (6 HDB flats form a Bishan Heights and there is some greenery in between those flats, and I stay in one of the flats).

There was a Bouncy Castle! We wanted to go up, and we stood on it, but by the side. The coordinator asked us to go down 'cause we were too old, I think! T_T! Sigh, then we went to play some games at the game stalls. LOL. Then after that we went to the back of the Bouncy Castle and sat down, and we enjoyed the tremor caused by the kids who are bouncing so happily. LOL.

Waste of time

2008-01-31T17:44:00.000+08:00

I went to Frank Brothers @ Esplanade last Saturday. We wanted to repair the spoilt bow but the repairman is overseas. So we went to Grammercy @ Paya Lebar. We took a bus after alighting the MRT and we alighted from the bus one stop earlier. We walked to the next bus stop where the Grammercy is. There, the repairman offered to fix the bow @ $70, which is quite cheap to me. Then I decided that I will be buying three $80 french bass bows.

For the new bows, a case is needed. However, Grammercy doesn't have a suitable bow case, so we were recommended to go to Synwin @ Tanjong Katong Complex. We took bus 40 as instructed and we alighted at City Plaza (which somehow the person at Grammercy mentioned while explaining how to reach Tanjong Katong Complex). We couldn't find Synwin @ City Plaza, so we went to see the bus route of bus 40.

We realised that bus 40 goes on a loop route, and we found Tanjong Katong Complex as one of its stops, but that stop is very far away from where we are. However, since it's a loop, we decided to take the bus to Aljunied MRT and crossed the road to take bus 40 again. When we reached Tanjong Katong Complex and found Synwin, we were quite glad! Finally!

We saw Chinese instruments and White-coloured Double Bass inside! Cool! Then Tony bought a case that costs $37.45 for himself, and I will be buying that too. When we came out of the complex, we found out that, OMG, Tanjong Katong Complex is just diagonally opposite of City Plaza! Zzzz, LOL!

~~~

Sianz. I did my English Oral Diagnostic three weekends ago, i.e. 12-13 Jan. Until now I still haven't presented. Zzzz.

Woohoo!

2008-01-03T18:41:00.001+08:00

Woohoo! I got the kinder English teacher ROFL. Actually, the fact is that 4A and 4C have combined English lessons together. The weaker students from the 2 classes form Class 1 and are taught by the fierce teacher. The stronger ones form Class 2 who will have the kinder teacher.

OMG, I am like so nooooooooob in English lor. So I really don't know why I belong to the 4AC Class 2... which is supposedly for the stronger ones... In my class, 19 people belong to Class 1 while 14 (including me) belong to Class2. While for 4C, 13 people belong to class 1 while 21 people belong to Class 2. LOL. But the 4C people are really prooooo, and I feel really like a nub.

Anyway, I'm very glad I didn't get the fierce teacher. LOL.

4A: Arrogance, Anxiety, Acquaintance, Apathy

2008-01-02T20:22:00.001+08:00

Arrogance

Today my sister had music theory lesson at 3.30 pm with a bunch of other students. One of the students is a Sec 3 (of 2008) Rafflesian. He was wearing his white long pants. Hmm, I thought Sec 3s are supposed to wear their white long pants only after OBS?

My mum also knows that, so as a typical kaypoh auntie she asked the Sec 3 Rafflesian about it. You know what he said? He said that Sec 3s are supposed to wear long pants. =.= I mean, diaoz, since it's already after school, even if he hadn't known beforehand, he should have known by then that Sec 3s can't wear their long pants yet...

My mum wanted to explain, but this Sec 3 Rafflesian dao-ed (ignored) her with an arrogant look on his face. DIAOZ... I think that guy already knew that he wore the wrong pants (duh), but he wanted to save his face hence his responses. =.= And anyway, it's not as if my mum does not have a Rafflesian son. Dao my mum for what? Does he think he's that great? Or does he think that he is soooooo correct and my mum is soooooo wrong?

Anxiety

On my timetable, at the box labelled EN (English), the initials of two teachers are written. I hope and pray that I don't get the VERY fierce and scary one, whom I think is not that good. I really hope it will be the other one, who seems kind and teaches good. LOL. The answer will be out tomorrow at 10.30am. Ahh...

Acquaintance

Acquaintance just sounds weird, but I don't care. LOL. Anyway, my FT1 is the same as last year's, while my FT2 is my last year's Chinese teacher. So she will be my Chinese teacher for 2 years, Sec 3 and 4. Gigglez. My FT1 teaches Maths RA (if you don't know what it is, it's some pro-er Maths). So he doesn't teach me. But my real Maths teacher is the same as last year's too. So are my PE and Bio teachers. Gigglez. I love it.

Apathy

I have absolutely no interest in sandcastle building. But I'm appointed leader for group 4A-1 for this sandcastle activity. Sianz. Every 4-5 classes has a different task. Our task is to make a sand Theme Park. ROFL. We planned today, and we will execute it on Friday, at East Coast. Sigh, I don't think we'll be able to make a proper sandcastle on the day itself. T_T

Happy New Year!

2008-01-01T21:55:00.000+08:00

Yay, it's a brand new year!

I think I will be having a great start to this year 'cause I managed to finish all my holiday homework! Glad to know that I still remember my Japanese after about 2 months... 14 pages of Japanese homework worrrxxx... I also managed to squeeze out the 2 chinese article reviews. Just anyhow crapped. Gigglez.

Oh, I'm so happy to find out that Raja block will only accommodate the Sec 3s and 4s... and 4A and 4B are gonna be the only 2 classes on 2nd floor of Raja block... Hmm... the other 6 rooms are used for other purposes. LOL! So excited!

Concert is finally over

2007-12-15T10:02:00.000+08:00

Yay, glad that the concert is finally over... but look at my fingers after plucking so much...

$80 Pizza Hut Vouchers

2007-12-09T23:22:00.003+08:00

Wahh, my sis and I won $80 Pizza Hut Vouchers; check it out here!

Bday today

2007-12-04T08:49:00.000+08:00

o.O It's my bday today. LOL.

By the way, my sister and I were quite lame and we participate in this KidsCentral End of Exams contest. I think the competition is only for Primary School kids coz we're supposed to talk about how we feel about the coming holidays. When we submitted our entry (1 only, using my sis' name, but I typed out the entry), our holidays have already started (my sis is in Sec school too).

And guess what? Our entry is one of the best 5 entries and we won $80 Pizza Hut vouchers! ROFLMAO!

My Ring!

2007-11-25T11:38:00.000+08:00

Look at my ring! It's pink!

I've got nothing to do so...

2007-11-06T10:40:00.001+08:00

I made this nonsensical video! LOL Enjoy.

3.76

2007-11-03T17:48:00.000+08:00

Quite pleased with my results 'cause my parents are quite pleased with it.

Got two 79s. =.=. Could have gotten 3.84 instead lorz.

Happy

2007-10-27T12:53:00.000+08:00

Thanks to Yee Siang that I've learned and memorised all Korean characters. LOL, quite happy. EOEOY-Exams is great! Managed to do what I've wanted to do.

Before EOY Exams, I've made a promise to a huge bunch of friends -- 8 at least. But I had to put it off due to the exams. But now I've managed to live up to my promise and everyone is happy. ROFL.

Yays.

Happy!

2007-10-23T19:00:00.000+08:00

Got back Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Social Studies and Higher CL results today. Quite pleased with my results. ^^ So don't mind me showing ~~(off)~~ the scores. LOL. But I suck at Geography. Just 1 less mark and I will miss 3.6. LOL. English is also a pity... hope there will be moderation. And I got 79.3% overall for Japanese. Will RI round it up? I hope so... for now, I just put a 80% to make myself happy. If that's the case... I will be getting a 3.76 for my Overall Report. Yay.

	CA (60%)	EOY	EOY (40%)	Overall	GPA
Physics	79%	65/80	81.25%	80%	4.0
Chemistry	77%	69/80	86.25%	81%	4.0
Biology	75%	77/100	77%	76%	3.6
Social Studies	75%	23/30	76.67%	76%	3.6
Higher CL	74%	94/120	78.33%	76%	3.6
Geography	70%	28/40	70%	70%	3.6
English	68%	30.5/45	67.78%	68%	3.2
Maths(x2)	87%	73.5/80	91.875%	89%	4.0
Japanese	82%	75/100	75%	80%	4.0

Excited

2007-10-20T13:04:00.000+08:00

Today's dazu was quite slacky 'cause there was a relief conductor. Only practised 1 piece for the whole 3 hours 'cause that piece is composed by him. LOL.

The relief conductor preached quite a lot, but it was quite beneficial for the rest of the orchestra. This is 'cause he pinpointed at almost every instrument and asked the players to practise this and that, but he didn't correct me at all... 'cause according to him, he didn't concentrate on my double-bass parts... although I put in a lot of effort and got my fingers sore which should be quite rare now...

I think it's due to the fact that this is the first practice after a 2 to 3 week EOY break... so my fingers had to adapt to the reaction force of the strings and the fingerboard again. LOL. Talking about reaction force, it reminds me of Physics. And Physics reminds me that we're gonna get back our EOY test papers next Mon and Tue! Yay, so happy, 'cause I wanna see what I reaped after I put in 101% effort to sow.

Monday: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Social Studies, Higher Chinese Language
Tuesday: Geography, English, Mathematics

Hope I get the marks I deserve, after mugging like I've never done before.

EOEOY Exams liaos~~~

2007-10-11T18:00:00.000+08:00

Yay! LOL! End-of-End-of-Year Exams! Break from now till next Tues!

5-10-07
~~English~~ (I think it was badly done...)
~~Social Studies~~ (The questions were like OMG.)
8-10-07
~~Chinese~~ (Quite simple...)
~~Chemistry~~ (MCQ quite easy, but Section B is harder, Section C hardest.)
9-10-07
~~Mathematics~~ (Very easy.)
10-10-07
~~Physics~~ (Quite easy.)
~~Biology~~ (So-so)
11-10-07
~~Geography~~ (Easier than expected! LOL.)

年末試験の作文

2007-09-29T12:49:00.000+08:00

今年一番うれしかったこと
今年の中で、いろいろなことは私をうれしいにさせました。しかし、一番うれしかったことは携帯電話をもらったことです。
この前に、携帯電話がありません。父によると、携帯電話は高いし、なくなりやすいし、私がまだ若いし、私に電話を買ってくれないことにしました。ですから、友達の電話を見ると、悲しくなります。それに、いくらでも父に電話がほしいと言って、父は買いません。
しかし、八月に父が携帯電話を落として、電話は壊れました。ですから、父は新しいのを買っていった時、同じの電話を二つ買いました。それから、一つのは父が私に送ってくれました。電話はきれいで働きがたくさんあって、驚きましたが、うれしかったです。父にお礼を言いました。
携帯電話があるようになったことは今年一番うれしかったことです。

Haircut

2007-09-27T22:22:00.000+08:00

Went for a haircut a few hours ago. Waited for 10 mins at the barber, 'cause the barber was very slow. He should be in his sixties, and he was combing the person's hair again and again for the 10 mins and cutting a few strands after every few combs. He repeated that for 10 mins. =.= I wasn't able to see much difference between the person's hair before and after that 10 mins. Got impatient and played with my um-bruh-ella. LOL. Actually, to put it positively, the barber is meticulous. But I would say he's a perfectionist. :|

Progress Check of Revision Round 1 [Round 1 (done at least 5 days before) = Detailed Revision; Aim = To relearn and understand. Round 2 (done 1 day before) = Rough Recap; Aim = To remember and memorise]:

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51% out of 9 subjects

English: 0%
HCL: 0% (didn't manage to start. T.T)
Maths: 95% (didn't finish, just left with some practices for trigonometry, i.e. last topic)
Physics: 100% (yay!)
Chemistry: 100% (yay!)
Biology: 65%
SS: 0%
Geography: 0%
Japanese: 99% (Finished mugging, but I think I need to re-revise again tomorrow...)

Mugging Day

2007-09-26T22:50:00.001+08:00

No school tomorrow = Mugging Day.

Progress Check: █████████░░░░░░░░░░░ 44% out of 9 subjects
English: 0%
HCL: 0% (gonna start tomorrow~)
Maths: 55% (gonna finish tomorrow~)
Physics: 100% (yay!)
Chemistry: 100% (yay!)
Biology: 65% (left with Respiration and Transport in Man...)
SS: 0% (Humanities last)
Geography: 0% (Humanities last)
Japanese: 80% (Gonna mug tomorrow since EOY is on Fri.)

Frog Dissection

2007-09-24T20:34:00.001+08:00

A picture tells a thousand words... Check out all of the 32 photos above!

Mugging season

2007-09-23T22:10:00.000+08:00

No updates for quite a long while. Have been mugging for the past week, so I didn't want to waste time blogging. LOL. Anyway, I think my progress for the first round of revision is quite good.

English: 0% (which I don't think is necessary anyway)
HCL: 0% (which I think there's no point to do a first round of revision 'cause I will definitely forget all the 词语)
Maths: 0% (gonna start tomorrow~)
Physics: 100% (yay!)
Chemistry: 100% (yay!)
Biology: 65% (left with Respiration and Transport in Man...)
SS: 0% (arr... sianzzz)
Geography: 0% (more sianzzz. I think I hate Humanities)
Japanese: 80% (left with all the kanjis. EOY is this Fri. Will study on Thu 'cause no lessons for the whole day ^^)

Btw, the photo on the left was taken when I was in P6. Hahaha. Found it in my dad's handphone on Fri. Comment from Keng Chee: 'OMG! U LOOK COOL IN YOUR DP!' 'Cause that photo is my MSN display pic too. LOL.

Vote for me!

2007-09-17T22:59:00.001+08:00

Have you seen the movie above? Izzit very nice? I think it's very nice.

If you think the same way as me, then vote for me! Click here to vote! Yes, vote, not nominate, 'cause I'm one of the ten and only ten nominees. If you vote for me, I will win great prizes in Habbo! Vote for Otokonohito!

And if I'm the top of the ten, I will stand a 4% chance of winning a pair of real-life tickets to Hollywood! That's so cool!

New Handphone

2007-09-16T23:11:00.001+08:00

o.O I got my first ever handphone liaoss. ^^ Do tell me if you wanna know my number.

Lightbulb

2007-09-14T22:56:00.000+08:00

Just realised something. If I use the name 'Oto' to tag the blog of somebody who doesn't know that my nick is Oto, asking him to link me, he won't do it. But if I were to use my real name, i.e. 'Jia Jin', he would. I wonder why my frenz are so not curious to find out who is this 'Oto' by clicking the link. LOL.

Japanese

2007-09-13T20:18:00.000+08:00

o.O I got 8/10 for my Japanese Oral. Higher than I've expected, LOL.

Your Japanese Name Is...

Otokonohito

What's your Japanese Name?

Fire!

2007-09-12T20:11:00.000+08:00

At 2+ am today, my mum suddenly woke me up and shouted "Got fire!"

Ya, there was a fire breakout 5 floors below my unit. My unit number is #16-91 while the fire scene was at #11-91. My flat is not of those old types whereby there are long corridors. It basically has a common rectangular area and there are 6 units linked from that common area, which makes it look like a flower, with 6 petals, if you were to have a bird's eye view.

So I ran out with my family to the common area, without wearing my underwear. I felt so awkward. LOL. Anyway, I looked downwards, but I didn't really see the fire. I just saw the outer walls of the burning unit glowing in orange. Judging from the glow, the fire was quite a big one. So, almost all my neighbours were out, walking around, looking here and there, and getting frantic and didn't know what to do.

Then, my neighbours said that we should close our windows. So I quickly ran inside with my mother and helped to close the windows, and at the same time, I made use of the opportunity to put on my underwear. LOL.

It was quite funny that my neighbours from two out of the 6 units on my floor were still sleeping amidst this commotion. My neighbours and my parents were ringing the bell and banging the door, but they were still sleeping. What heavy sleepers are they.

Later, my neighbours said that the police a few floors down wanted us to evacuate, but we couldn't use the lift. Ya, so we had to walk down 32 flights of stairs to get down from the 16th to the 1st floor. When we reached the 11th floor, the smoke was so thick that I thought I was so gonna die of suffocation. But the 10th floor was totally cool. The air was so crisp and fresh. LOL, it's 'cause smoke travels upwards, not downwards. =.=.

When we finally reached the ground floor, there were a lot of people. They were all wearing sleepwear, like duh. But it was quite a rare sight. First, I've never seen so many people from my flat where I've lived for 10 to 11 years. Second, it's quite interesting to see most of them wearing T-shirt and shorts, and some wearing pyjamas. LOL.

I heard from some aunties that they heard quarrels before the fire. Hmmm.

After about 30 minutes, we were allowed to return upstairs. My parents were so kanchiong as they quickly rushed to the lift, so my sister and I followed suit. Then, I realised we were the first few to return home. I bet the common area of the ground floor was very crowded as people took turns to enter the lift.

Btw, my mum told me later on that the 12th floor was also affected by the raging fire. Luckily, the owner of that unit has actually sold it away and was gonna move out today. Hahaha, the new owner is quite unlucky... hafta waste money to do some repairing.

Hmm, what a rare experience.

Hello

2007-09-11T07:54:00.001+08:00

Weird, it's now 7.55 am, and I just woke up, automatically. My first lesson starts at 9.30 am. Hmm. Btw, click here and find my name.

Thumbs-down

2007-09-10T17:59:00.000+08:00

DMP is worse than expected. Every module was so dead today 'cause the class is just too small. Was stoning quite a lot 'cause the teachers were not quite interactive. I would rather have normal lessons...

日本

2007-09-08T13:02:00.000+08:00

I'm quite glad that I borrowed this book called "Basic Japanese Vocabulary: An Explanation of Usage" by 寿子山口(Toshiko Yamaguchi) from the library on Wed. It was in my bag till Fri when I suddenly remembered I've borrowed it, LOL. It basically (no pun intended) compares the differences between similar Japanese terms like 飲酒する and 酒を飲む; 習慣 and 慣習; 独学 and 自習 etc, etc.

Because of that, I've finally realised the differences between 日本 and 日本. I mean, にほん(Nihon) and にっぽん(Nippon). You pronounce Nihon as Ni-hon and Nippon as Ni followed by a short pause then a Pon. Here's the quote from the book:

If you have listened to the Japanese cheer their national football team, you may have heard the word にっぽん. This is used more frequently in spoken language. にっぽん has a small っ before ぽ. This small sound is created by doubling the consonant /p/. This process is called gemination. Japanese words such as 学校（がっこう）'school' and 楽器（がっき）'musical instrument' are created by gemination. When people cheer competing teams, they get excited emotionally and want to convey their heightened emotions (or patriotic feelings) through words. People prefer to use にっぽん rather than にほん to convey these strong feelings. When you meet new classmates during the first week of the academic year, you will normally introduce yourself. You might say a sentence like 私はにほんから来ました. It would be odd to say にっぽん because there is no need to emphasise the fact that you are 'from Japan'.

Cool, right?

Nothing to do... 没事做。。。何もしない。。。

2007-09-06T10:45:00.000+08:00

Boring! I wanna go to school! 好闷哦！我好想去学校！つまらないよ！学校へ行きたい！

Nicely packed day

2007-09-03T23:44:00.000+08:00

Today was quite a tight day for me.

Woke up at 7.10. Reached school at 7.55 for Chemistry Makeup/Revision/Remedial. Chemistry teacher Mr Vetuz was 15 minutes late. He was waiting at the Chemistry Lab for us, but he told us last week that the venue would be 3A. =.=. Wasted our time.

Went through CCT2 and other Assignments. Got 27/33 for CCT2. Very happy, 'cause I got 18/33 for CCT1. 9-mark improvement wor! Chemistry department is quite weird, 'cause they like the number 33. I mean, you seldom see a total mark having 3 in its ones place right? Most of the time you see either 0 or 5.

We (ya, Yee Siang and I) were gonna have an outing at 9.30 for Aroma Chem DMP. And yet, he's sooooo late and still, he was dilly-dallying throughout the whole session. I know why, 'cause he's gonna have the lesson till 12 (ya, 4 hours total), so he has no reason to rush through his lesson. Anyway, we were 5 min late for the outing. Heng, the bus didn't leave without us. =.=.

This DMP session should have been 3 hours. But we spent half an hour on transportations, and actually we only had 1 hour of proper learning. =.=. It ended at around 11 instead of 12.30. =.=. Cheat our $! I forgot to say, we went to Singapore Polytechnic, and there's a Mcdonald's there! Big Mac meal only costs $4.40! $1+ cheaper than outside! VVVVVV cool! I bought Big Mac Upsized Meal at $4.90! Wootz! LOL. Then Yee Siang became lame and said that the McSpicy was the best one he has ever tried and claimed that he had a sense of contentment after eating it. =.=.

After that, we went to Esplanade with Tony. Ya, Tony is also in the DMP. Quite fun to go Esplanade lah, 'cause it has been quite long since I last went. The underground passageway was what I was looking forward to lah. The one from City Hall to MRT if you don't know what I'm talking about due to the fact that you are a rich brat who seldom takes MRT, or who don't have to take MRT to Esplanade.

Oh, we went there to buy cello and bass mutes. I was quite shocked to find out that they are sold in a shop called Frank Brothers which I have actually passed by quite a few times long long time ago. There was this $40 000 double bass! Scary! Didn't quite dare to touch it, but still touched it at the end 'cause we were trying out the mutes. Also, there was this vvvv light score stand which costs $75. Nice nice. Tony wasted quite a lot of time in the shop. (Like some auntie who probes and scrutinises.)

After that, Yee Siang and I took MRT back to Bishan while Tony went home. When we reached Bishan, it was raining crazy cats and dodo dogs! Yee Siang wanted to take bus but I asked him not to, 'cause it was already 2.25 pm! We have to reach by 2.30! In case you're wondering, there were actually 2 Chem sessions. One from 8 to 12, the other from 1 to 5. Since we attended the first 1.5 hours of the first lesson, we should attend the remaining 2.5 hours of the second lesson which should start somewhere around 2.30.

Yee Siang didn't bring his umbrella, so I had to share mine with him. =.=. My umbrella was just big enough for me, but not quite spacious if shared with someone else. So while walking on the flooded pavement, we were bickering like women 'cause of the rain which was wetting us. We were quite stupid, we could have walked through the shopping centre and flats to reach the crossroad junction. But we chose to walk along the road. =.=.

When we reached the crossroad junction, we couldn't click the button 'cause the whole area was heavily flooded! If we were to walk in, our pants would get wet. So we were like stoning. Luckily, our classmate happened to appear at the flats who was going to school too. (Ya, he was smarter. He picked the easy route.) Very lucky! He helped us to click the button. Hahahahaha.

After we crossed the first part of the road (it's a crossroad junction mah), we were nearly drenched by all the speeding cars. They were splashing water at us. But was quite funny. Hahahaha. In the end, we reached the classroom at the very correct moment. Mr Vetuz was about to finish what he did with us before 9.30. Ya, so we didn't miss anything! I mean, coincidences happened twice today. First, the appearance of our classmate! Second, the very exact moment to reach the class! Hahahahaha.

What a day. Thanks for reading my diary. If you really read through it, you are my Diary, 'cause normally people who keep a diary always start off with "Dear Diary..." for their every entry. LOL.

Incomprehensible Mandarin

2007-09-02T15:51:00.001+08:00

I came across an interesting article from Lianhe Zaobao, 31 August. It was on Page 25, if you wanna know. Anyway, you can read the article below or click here.

看不懂的华文

我住勿洛蓄水池一带。最近，这里的住户都收到了附近一所中学发出的传单，通知住户要在某月某日上门收集旧衣物作为慈善用途。我看了传单的中文，简直不敢相信这是学校发出的。华文显然是根据英文翻译的，但却译得一塌糊涂，让人看了摸不着头脑。显然的，文字完全没有经过适当的校阅，翻译者也完全不负责任，以致贻笑大方。以下就是传单的原文：

　　“亲爱的居民，

　　作为我们的学校的CIP节目一部分，我们在我们的老报纸和衣物的汇集寻求您的帮助培养资金为是我们的被采取的慈善在2007年的MDAS（新加坡肌肉萎缩症协会）。在星期四汇集8月30日将发生在2和5pm之间。

　　如果您可能留下您的老报纸和衣物在您的门阶在那天促进我们的汇集，我们会感激。不要使用镇议会提供的黄色塑料袋。简单的塑料袋就足够了。您的贡献被赞赏。谢谢！”

If you are not too lousy in Chinese, it should be quite obvious to you that they used either a lousy online translator or a lousy human translator.

If you were to translate the Mandarin version to English, you should get the correct English meaning which should be something like:

"Dear residents,
As part of our school's CIP Programme to raise funds for MDAS (Muscular Dystrophy Association Singapore), we seek your help in our collection of old newspapers and clothes. The collection will happen on Thursday, 30 August, between 2 to 5 pm.

In order to facilitate our collection, we will appreciate if you could leave your old newspapers and clothes at your door on that day. Please do not use the yellow plastic bags provided by the town councils. The simple? ordinary? common? plastic bags will be enough. Your contribution will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!"

End of Term 3!

2007-08-31T22:57:00.000+08:00

Glad.

I got past the challenging term! I really don't know how I managed to. So, to reward myself, I went to watch RIGE's concert 'RAGE XII: Vivace!" just now.

It was generally pleasing to the ears, and I like most of the pieces. However, I don't know why they made it so informal 'cause they were laming around in some of the pieces.

In one of the pieces, someone, named as The Phantom, walked in with a mask on his face and a rose in his mouth. He sat down and pulled up his long pants to knee level, when he was wearing concert attire. He also had with him, coke. =.= Then the other performer was less lame but he had with him, milo. They were laming around on the stage, and untuned their guitars, for fun, then tuned it back. It was quite funny, but it's lame. LOL.

Then, there was this Rock Band item. In order to have this item, they borrowed RICO's Drum Set. But... they were taking turns to sit on the drum. Ya, sit on the drum which has its drum skin facing outwards. Then, they were laming around again. The Phantom was wearing shorts and showing his thighs, on purpose. The whole of his thighs was quite exposed as he was like squatting down and doing all sorts of weird actions. Moreover, the whole Rock Band item was so noisy and it dragged on for quite long.

If the Rock Band item was removed, the whole concert would be quite a good one to me lah, 'cause they played nice Chinese songs 城里的月光, 童话 and 菊花台.

What a silly mistake

2007-08-29T22:32:00.000+08:00

Sad. Maths CCT today.

I was supposed to find the length of the shadow of this tree. Yes, I found it. It's 28.7m.

But I put wrong units. I didn't put m. Guess what I wrote instead?

You guess cm? Nah!
You think it's mm? No. =.=
You believe I wrote km? Nope, I ain't a noob.
picometre, nanometre, micrometre? Nah, nah, nah. =.=

I drew a nice little circle!!! 28.7°! Wow! The shadow of the tree is 28.7°! I ain't a noob man! I'm a pro! Hahahahahahahaazzz~ -.-

o.O

2007-08-27T21:31:00.000+08:00

Went out with mum today. Had some interesting encounters.

Mum was buying some ladies' undergarments. I was waiting outside for her (like duh). There was a CD shop nearby and some Chinese song was played. There was also a black cat somewhere near me. It was lying down, motionless except for its tail. I was tapping my foot with the tempo of the Chinese song and I realised that the cat's tail was doing the same thing as me. The tail was going up and down, at the same rhythm as my foot. Wah, got music talent sia!

So, I was tapping my foot while waiting for my mum outside the shop. Then, a man stood beside me and faced towards the shop, looking. Weird, my mum was the only customer, so there's nothing wrong with me standing outside and looking towards the shop. But why was the man doing the same thing as me? Was he waiting for the shopowner? Or was he admiring the bras? Hmmmmm...

So, I got impatient... I looked around, then I saw an advertisement. A picture of Katsudon with miso and 2 pieces of orange, a $2.90 set meal. Cheap, but that wasn't the focus. I looked at the name of the shop and was thinking about it. It was 相撲の家, or, Sumo House. Nothing wrong, 'cause Sumo indicates to you how one will become as fat as a Sumo after eating at Sumo House. However, if you don't know English, the Chinese characters would make you wonder, 'cause 相撲 only means Sumo Wrestling, while 'Sumo' could mean the action (i.e. Sumo Wrestling) or the participant of Sumo Wrestling. What has Sumo Wrestling gotta do with a Japanese eating house?

After that, I saw a haircut shop. The name of the shop is 剪の店. Oh please, there is no such Kanji as 剪. The Japanese of 'cut' is 切る. So it should be 切の店? Haha, I wonder what would people think if you really put that as your shop name, 'cause 切 means slicing in Chinese, like in 'slicing meat'... Sianz, nowadays, I keep seeing Chinese brand names or shop names using の as 's or 的. It's totally wrong lorrr... For example, I saw this 優良の品. For goodness sake, since 優良 is an adjective, the linking character should be な instead of の.

At NTUC, I saw some oranges. It's labelled as 新鮮やさい. It means fresh vegetables. Nothing wrong? Nah. Since 新鮮 is an adjective, な should be there to link, so it should be 新鮮なやさい instead! By the way, the kanji of やさい is 野菜 which means vegetables in Japanese, but it means wild vegetables in Chinese. No wonder, やさい is used instead... if not people would think the vegetables are wild. =.=

CSS2 is a failure!

2007-08-26T08:13:00.000+08:00

Updated with some Youtube videos. Scroll down.

Disclaimer: This post contains highly biased comments. Please read at your own discretion.

Was damn pissed off last night when it was announced that Shawn is the male champion. Was even more pissed off when the overall champion was announced. It's Shawn again. =.=

Shawn was so lousy last night. He forgot the lyrics during the first part of the show. He was also criticised by the judges about his rhythm. Although I'm usually bad at rhythms, I could also tell that he screwed up. Thus at the end he got 34.5/50 while Benjamin, his opponent, got 40/50. Shawn got a 3.2 while Benjamin got a 4.0. However, I don't know why there are so many dumb audience who kept on voting for Shawn which enabled him to beat Benjamin and became the male champion. This is so unfair lor. Why did the audiences' votes take up 70%?

However, I was quite glad that Keely is the female champion. She got a 37.5 while Zhengning got a 35. As for the other 70%, Keely was also leading. Therefore, it's quite convincing for her to be crowned the female champion... unlike that Shawn.

When only Shawn and Keely were left on the stage, Shawn continued to sing lousily... He was supposed to sing a duet with CSS1's female champion Teresa. The song was 今天你要嫁给我, meaning "Wanna marry me today?". Like OMG, if you did watch that particular performance last night, you will be Rolling On Floor Laughing My Ass Off, a.k.a ROFLMAO. It seemed like 姐弟恋 (Romance between an older woman and a younger man), due to the height disparity. Teresa was so much taller than Shawn. Not only so, Shawn was criticised badly by the judges...

Aiya, Keely sang her love song with CSS1 Male champion Zhiyang much better than that Shawn but... Shawn still got the overall champion title. Sianz. Sadded.

Compare Keely's with Shawn's...

Silly yet Interesting

2007-08-25T13:22:00.001+08:00

In the 4.5 hours when I was away at RJC for CO practice, I met quite a number of...

愚かで面白い人 (愚か means silly while 面白い means interesting.)

Someone covered a displacement of 1.2km but a distance of 1.8km to return home instead of taking bus.

Someone thought that the new song is easy because he plays the double bass (as double bass' parts are always simpler compared to the other instruments'), but somehow got suaned by his senior at the end 'cause the simpler it is the harder it is to play it well.

Someone owes someone else 20 cents but he paid a 25% interest (i.e. 5 cents).

Someone forgot that Parent-Teacher's Meeting was this morning and hence his parents did not attend.

Someone, whom you should never do a prank on, got slammed by the door because of a prank played by someone else.

The prankster got beaten up in the end.

Sometwo got shocked by two 'clinks' made by a van which passed by, thinking that they were gonna get hit.

Are you pregnant?

2007-08-24T21:53:00.000+08:00

Today was relatively quite an easy day. Hmmmm...

My dearest CLE teacher Mrs Jacq Chua talked about teen pregnancy today. I relearned that condoms are useful to a certain extent; there will still be a 2-3% chance that 'one tiny little sucker' (quoted from Mrs Chua) will find its way through. However, if we use two condoms, ~~there would be extra protection~~ nah, the two condoms will cause friction and wear each other out.

I also reunderstood that you can get a 8-year-old girl pregnant if her menstruation period has arrived. That's so damn cool! If a girl has a child at age 8 then her child also does the same thing, and if it continues... "I am K1, my mum is Sec 1, my grandmum has just finished university, my great-grandmum is reaching her thirties and my great-great-grandmum is as old as your mother..."

After CLE, we took 4 photos with Brendan (2 with Mrs Chua and 2 with the teacher-in-charge of the exchange programme cum Philosophy teacher Mr Au), the exchange student from Australia who has stayed with us for 4 to 5 weeks. Brendan is gonna leave on Sunday. Awww, so sad, although I didn't talk to him at all.

So during Philo, it was dialogue session and it was a slack period for me 'cause I've done mine last week. We wrote farewell notes for Brendan on a RI PE T-shirt. Yee Siang and I managed to write "Bye" and "Thanks" in 8 languages on the shirt, thanks to my handy-dandy electronic dictionary.

My electronic dictionary is very cool! It has Jap-Chi and Chi-Jap dictionaries, plus a Eng-Chi-Jap-Kor, Chi-Eng-Jap-Kor, Jap-Eng-Chi-Kor and Kor-Eng-Chi-Jap dictionaries. Besides that, you can draw stuff in 'Paintbrush', learn 10 different languages in 'Travel Dialogue' etc etc.

PE was even slackier. 'Cause it was raining, we got to have some workouts at the Gym. I ran 3 laps of 0.4 km at 10kmph on the running machine...

I got back my Chinese Ying Yong Wen test. I got 17/20. Only a few of us got it back 'cause Cai Laoshi wants us to type out and send the soft copy to her. Lol. But sian, I could have gotten 18 instead if not for my silly mistake. I wrote 素问 instead of 素闻. Just that 1 character has cost me 5% of my marks!

Wootz!

2007-08-22T23:07:00.000+08:00

Can you imagine how good a news can be?

I just got the bestest news ever. Our English teacher gave us our debate topics on Monday. The teams who got Topic 1 and 3 have to do their debates on Thursday... which means there are only 3 days for them to prepare. I'm part of the unlucky 16...

So I stayed till 12 am on yesterday... and planned to stay till round the same time today. But good news from Chong Yu. LOL. Mrs Nathan won't be coming to school tomorrow as she is sick. I was like OMG and I invited the opposition team to our MSN convo and broke the bestest news to them.

Wah, I'm so glad!!! There's free period tomorrow. But oh well, I would rather the debate be done this week so I don't have to worry about it for so long...

How time flies

2007-08-21T18:27:00.000+08:00

Time really flies.

A Long Phone Convo Which Did Not Seem Long (at least to me)
I was talking to Tony on phone for quite a while just now. At the end, I was stunned to find out that we talked for half an hour. That should be the first time ever that I talk on the phone for so long.

A Long 30-seconds Wait That Supposedly Is Not Long (at all)
I take bus to school every morning. To reach the bus stop that is across the road, I have to bypass a T-junction. Basically, I have to cross a road, with traffic lights, on the same side of the road in order to be able to get to the other side of the road. That means I have to wait for the green man twice.

So this morning, I was waiting for the first green man, and 30 metres away is my bus which is stuck at a traffic light crossing that is before the bus stop. (The T-junction is after the bus stop, according to my orientation...) Then, both the bus and me started to move at the same time as the traffic light where the bus was turned to green light (or otherwise, red man) and the one where I was turned to green man (or otherwise, red light).

After I crossed, I was clicking the button like mad as the bus was already at the stop and a lot of people were boarding. The second green man has to appear before everyone has boarded the bus, except me! At the end, the green man appeared after everyone has boarded and the bus has left the bus lane... It was just about 30 seconds total!

Procrastination is bad!

2007-08-20T19:41:00.000+08:00

Sigh, should have done my English Blog entries during the weekend. Now the workload is getting heavy...

Need to chiong SS Assg, and English debates are gonna be on Thu 'cause next week's lessons are gonna be eaten up by Staff Training Day and Teachers' Day celebrations. That's quite unfair 'cause only 4 teams (on 2 notions) will debate on Thu. The rest will do so next Tue. I'm among the unlucky ones. Sianzzzz.

Today I'm quite upset 'cause someone broke my 4-year-old treasure. I pretended to be very angry and I got a ~~letter~~ SMS of apology. LOL... I was also very angry when I had to bring the double bass, which I shared with a big bulky senior, to and fro the RJCO room which were vvvvv far away from our practice room. Today is the most upsetting day.

Very true!

2007-08-19T21:29:00.000+08:00

This is so true. I'm very good in art and design! Look at my piink design! It's good right? I did the coding for this blog all on my own! Me good at computer programming, right?

You Are a Visual Learner

You tend to remember what you see, and you have a good eye for aesthetics.
You excel at art, design, and computer programming.
You would be an excellent film director - or the next Bill Gates!

What's Your Learning Style?

Procrastination

2007-08-19T09:52:00.000+08:00

I know I have a lot of things to do since I slept in early last night and woke up at about 8am this morning. However, I don't know why I tend to procrastinate, although my dear CLE teacher (Mrs Jacq Chua) has taught us not to procrastinate, and how not to. I procrastinated yesterday by doing up my blog. Now I'm still not doing any proper school work.

I have to do my English blog entries, my SS Assg and 2-week overdue Geog Essay Practice. I got 2.8 for Geog already, and yet I haven't done the Geog Essay which is supposed to be a good practice on longer essay writing and also for the teacher to gauge my standard (which isn't quite high). Ar, I feel guilty.

Anyway, since I wasn't doing anything serious, I did something else...

Your EQ is 107

50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick!
51-70: When it comes to understanding human emotions, you'd have better luck understanding Chinese.
71-90: You've got more emotional intelligence than the average frat boy. Barely.
91-110: You're average. It's easy to predict how you'll react to things. But anyone could have guessed that.
111-130: You usually have it going on emotionally, but roadblocks tend to land you on your butt.
131-150: You are remarkable when it comes to relating with others. Only the biggest losers get under your skin.
150+: Two possibilities - you've either out "Dr. Phil-ed" Dr. Phil... or you're a dirty liar.

What's Your EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient)?

You Are 16% Nerdy

You are definitely not nerdy - in fact, you probably don't know any nerds.
You probably care a little too much about your image. No one will know if you secretly watch Star Trek reruns!

How Nerdy Are You?

New Blog!

2007-08-18T13:24:00.001+08:00

After almost 8 months, I've finally decided to resurrect my blog! Long long ago, I used LiveJournal. Then I changed to Beeplog.com (which is kind of obscure...). By late Dec, there was something seriously wrong with my blog @ Beeplog and I could not be bothered to do anything to it. Besides, life has been quite boring then so there wasn't any point for me to blog.

However, Sec 3 life has seemed to be much more exciting. There were a couple of times when I wanted to record down what have happened but sigh, I've got nowhere to do so. Since I have become lamer as compared to last year, I've decided to waste my precious time to do up a nice pink blog~ Hah, so please enjoy my masterpiece. Rofl.
~~~
I feel very sad. I got 3.56 for Aug's Progress Report. It's all 'cause I screwed up my Geog and Chem CCT which caused me to get 2.8 (which is in fact, a 64) for both subjects! Although it's a 3.56 (a big drop from my 3.89 last year...), I'm just glad that I didn't get lower than the dude who sits beside me. Yee Siang and I tried to calculate our GPA by adding all the GPs up and then divide by 8. LOL. We did not get the GPA that is shown on the report.

YS and I were like so nooby lah. Maths is of double weightage and I only remembered when Tony told me during CO dazu today. Talking about dazu, I think the bass (excluding cello) section is always very noisy during dazu. Tsk. LOL. We played the 感怀, Can you feel the love tonight? and Schindler's List. The first 2 songs require us to pluck all the way. Thumbs up! The third song had both bowing and plucking but it was still very nice! All 3 songs were quite simple, so we were very slacky... LOL.