SCHOOL DOES NOT ROCK! (duh)

"School does not rock" no more

2005-07-17T15:33:00.000+08:00

This is going to be the last post in this blog.
Yes, im going to start a whole new blog, with a new concept, new skin, etc. I will release the URL of my new blog when im done.
Thanks everyone for reading and supporting this blog! However, i won't be deleting this blog...looking forward to the completion of my new blog!

My thoughts about blogs, blogging...

2005-05-30T17:59:00.000+08:00

A blogger's thoughts about his...past-time?

1) This blog is strictly for my to rant about my feelings, happenings etc like a diary. The only difference is the technology and that I do not start my posts with "Dear Diary/Blog..." So of course this isn't like a diary, but what the heck. A quote (as much as I can remember) from one of the articles in the Straits Times about the latest scandals over blogger's posts, "A blog is not a private place for you to write everything you want, like a diary. Instead, it is a public place and anyone can view your blog. If you want to write things that you know would harm someone, Microsoft Word in your C drive is the best place to do this."
(Back to the main point...) My point is, I did not intend to create this blog just for the purpose of gaining ACE points. Not like some of my other friends...Of course, if Mr. Liew and Mr. Quek wishes to give me ACE pts for "controversial posts", I would still gladly accept them. :p

2) My comments on other's blogs:
NICHOLAS: A must-comment-on blog. His posts offends other people, namely those who have b-g relationships (you know what I mean...) Just go check his blog and you will know. Nicholas do you know that legally those pple who you have offended can file a lawsuit against you for slander?? (Re-iterating the point of the recent scandals over blogs.)

Also most of my classmates have left their blog to degenerate over time or switched to another blog without telling me their new URL. For the ones which are like that, I have striked-out their names in my "Links" section.
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Now for some other stuff...

I got 1st in class for term 2!! Im so happy....my mother was so surprised when i told her the news :D Me and tiansheng tied for 1st with an MSG of 2.0. The only sad thing is that my MSG this term slipped by 0.33.

iSpark Nite was *quite* fun. We kinda screwed up our performance, with the string for the shark scene being too short, Nicholas the slacker not turning up...But at least the audience cheered for us :) I think the sec 3s did the best in the performance; all the sec4s sang songs. Boring....It wasn't as if they sang very well either.
That night, I slept relatively well, falling asleep at about 12:30 and waking at at 6:00 am. Some of my classmates couldn't sleep, while other stayed up to play chinese chess and called themselves the dead chess society....无聊.

June Hols (finally)

2005-05-25T20:46:00.000+08:00

Yep the June holidays are finally coming ...but so are the homework :( and my Biology modular test is tmr!! ARGH!!

There's been a lot of talk in class about boy-girl relationships, and its mostly about Wei Qi, Kuan Yue & Eening. You can see posts about them in my classmates's blogs. So the rumour (note, RUMOUR) is that Kuan Yue has fallen for *her*, and Wei Qi already had a past relationship with her. And rumours have also said that they cried before because of her (dunno why). And although they appear to be cheerful and act normal in class, I guess their hearts are broken over her. sigh...just like in the drama shows....
Its lucky I have not fallen in this "trap" (I hail from a boy's school, remember?) But that irritating Shaun keeps asking me to get a girlfriend...shaun if you are reading this I'm telling you now, STOP IT.

Mr Quek has come back to teach (or haunt?) us...he will take over as our English teacher when Mr Warren Liew leaves, but won't be teaching us Literature anymore. *sigh*...Mr Liew is such a nice guy...we will all miss him... :'(
Also, I met Mr Quek at the Skin Centre about a couple of weeks ago...apparently he has mild eczema. (Note: Mr Quek if you see this and want me to take it off pls tell me and I will gladly do so.)

For more cheerful news, I will be going for iSpark Nite tmr - basically we spend a night in school. Hope that 1N doesn't screw up the performance. And then its the End Of Term Activities after that (Im going for bowling) so tmr is effectively the last day of this semester :)

I will enhance the appearance of this blog by using a skin from www.blogskins.com in the June hols when I have time.

PS the Open Beta for MapleSEA has started :)

Sabbaticals

2005-05-15T21:31:00.000+08:00

I havent posted for a LONG time as i've been too busy with 1N riddles and solving zest riddles...not to mention being busy school-related stuff. There are now 10 riddles on 1N riddles :)
I've realised that zest riddles had atcually been copied from notpron riddles, u can visit it at http://www.deathball.net/notpron Well 1N riddles was based on zest riddles anyway...

Ok so now about the Sabbaticals. I went for the PHP & MySQL Sabbaticals and liked it very much. My father initially wanted me to go for "Business Laboratory" but it sux...all those who went said it was boring. Not to mention I got the full 5 ACE pts for PHP&MySQL (not that I really need them anyway). And on top of that, we still got to slack and played com games during recess/before the Mr Yong (our trainer) arrived/after the sabbaticals. And Mr Yong is such a nice guy...he actually let us play our games after we finished our assignments. He doesnt even scold us :)
Now I can create a database and create a PHP site to show all the data. Our assingment was to create an online CD store which could list out all the albums in our database when u type in a keyword to search for. We novices have to finsih it in 2 days O_o Sounds hard? It is. My group included Jia Kun and Huang Ji. Jia Kun did most of the PHP scripting (i have to admit he is better at PHP than I am) while I did the layout (HTML) of the page. And Huang Ji the slacker barely did anything at all. Instead, he went to play com games and work on his C++ program while we worked (wad e crap doing C++ during a PHP/MySQL lesson -_-''').
In the end, Mr Yong awarded my and Jia Kun 5 ACE pts each for doing most of the work (and we did it quite well) but he only awarded Huang Ji 4 ACE pts. At least he's justified but I think Huang Ji deserves only 3 ACE pts. Not that he really needs it anyway. :P

NAPFA 2.4 km run

2005-04-23T13:09:00.000+08:00

ARGH i failed the 2.4 km run!! so sad...now i gotta comtinue attending the morning runs :( But i guess it helps me train up my stamina.

Anyway Mr Quek, my lit teacher, has said that my poem was quite good, so I'm going to do a presentation on it next week. Sadly (or fortunately), Mr Quek is gonna leave us next week. Most of my class is looking forward to it as the majority don't really like him.

My class is 'addicted' to Super Smash Bros, we play it whenever we get the chance to in school. (although I think we're not allowed to do so :p)

I signed up for the PHP/MySQL sabbatical, hope I can learn more in this area :). The Sabbaticals is a programme by HCI where we get to join a course on something we like. The whole last week of the term is dedicated to the sabbaticals, so no lessons :)

Well there's alot of other stuff which has happened to me in he past few weeks, but I won't go into detail else this blog would become too clogged up with unintersting stuff.
Going to eat lunch now.

NAPFA test/Projects Day

2005-04-08T22:48:00.000+08:00

haiz...got fever today so skipped gym and wushu lessons :( anyway we had our NAPFA test 2day and I aced it (with a fever :p). 37 sit-ups, 28 inclined pull-ups, SBJ 213 cm (same as shaun), sit and reach 43 cm and shuttle run 11.2 sec (dunno if it was 10.2 or 11.2?) thats a total score of 22/25, with grades BAAAC :D But im afraid of next week's 2.4 km run....i got low stamina so dunno if i can pass it. mebbe ill get an E for it at most :(

Yah so alot been's happening in school but havent found the time to write about it...term tests are just 'round the corner. *sigh* And projects day sux...we thought that we could pass the prelims but didn't...sigh. Well almost my whole class failed anyway. Wonder what went wrong. Hope that we can do better in the re-prelims...
This is the my poem which I had to write as my Literature homework...sigh...
The autumn wind whistles through the bare
Branches of the wayside trees.
Leaves flutter helplessly to the ground like dead birds;
Colours of red, brown, orange and yellow
Floating about in the breeze.

The happy days of summer are past
No more children playing, running around.
As I trudge home I am the last
Human soul
Not another person I found.

I shiver with cold, shuffle faster;
The main road which is ever so busy
Seems so empty now.
The sun sinks slowly, the winds settle lazily
As I finally reach home, relieved, and sigh.

About the Pope's death...may god bless him and may he rest in peace. Im not a Christian but i guess i can't help feeling sad :(
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Anyway, vote on the new poll!

Zest riddle

2005-04-03T22:02:00.000+08:00

been too busy wif stuff for quite some time...only got time to change the cursor thus far - hope it works :) anyway zest riddles rox! (although it does get frustrating sometimes) Go to http://zestriddle.fanzine.pl ... my class is currently at no. 23.
anyway kuan yue copied the layout and sum other stuff of my Comp Studies project...mine is at www.hwachong.edu.sg/~y05hci450/ while ky's one is at www.hwachong.edu.sg/~y05hci449/

I'll stop here for now cos of time restrictions, but will be bak ltr to write more. :)

Good Friday

2005-03-25T17:47:00.000+08:00

Yay Good Friday is today!! :D A much needed holiday filled with homework...ok fine theres not so much homework but theres still much to do :( Sadly Im a free thinker so im not going to say anything abt Jesus Christ and the Chiristian stuff, ill get my facts wrong anyway.
So heres wats been happened to me in previous days...

Tuesday: left my drawing block in the gym again :p Luckily I remebered abt it while walking to the bus stop. Im so muddle-headed. Well as in Barry Potter series, non-magicians are "Muddles" anyway...

Thursday (yesterday): went to Wei Qi's house from 4 to 7 pm). we were supposed to be doing our Geog homework and other projects, but we ended up playing...tai ki (the card game), saying "i luv u" on wei Qi's msn acc to en (lol) and erm...playing the flash fighting game Xiao Xiao @ http://www.newsandentertainment.com etc, etc. so we didnt do any work at all (whoops) :p
Anyway it was there that i realised that my ftp account on the HCUI server had exceeded the limit for like one wk already...im in trouble. i wonder how much ill be CHARGED for that :'(

Today: went to visit some farms in Choa Chu Kang. sadly the weather was so hot i couldnt enjoy much :(

Also i heard that the scouts just had their 1st camp in the March holidays. And Qi En freaked out during solo night (what they do is that u get left in a place alone for a few hours). Well they had solo nite from 12 am to 6 am...im not really surprised cos Qi En is erm...lacking the male hormones which make u brave?

And our new Bio teacher Mr Lee (nickname: leefy) is SICK. he talks crap about "missionary position" and "coital engagement". Im not surprised that the SICK and PEVERTIC nicholas likes his lesson.
Our new Computer Studies teacher Mr Koh KT (the guy who made the EMB) also just drones on about C++ (thats wat we're gonna learn for this term)...boring. I still prefer the previous teacher Mr Yong JS who taught us CS last term. :(

Thats a freaky Term 2 ahead of us.

Nicholas

2005-03-21T22:00:00.000+08:00

Heh to "acknowledge" the massive amount of HTML copied from others (like me and Kuan Yue) it seems hes put this little scrolling acknowledgements at the bottom of his blog...but its very lame lah :p So he wants me to delete the "Nicholas is lame" post (i wonder y?)...but i shall not accede to his request...muahahahahaha. However, i will acknowledge that at least a little effort was put into acknowledging that Nicholas copied much HTML :p haha.

Ok so today was our 86th Foudner's Day (but Mr Hon accidentally said that Chinese High/HCI was 85 yrs old in his speech). It was really boring...just sit there and watch as they give out prizes for outstanding effort, improvement, blah blah...the list just goes on. the only gd thing was that there were no lessons and we cud go home at 11.20! yay!

Also a new poll has been added and a few minor changes have been made...check the poll out.
And check out Wei Qi's new blog! (in the links section)

Wrap-up of term 1

2005-03-20T13:47:00.000+08:00

Yep this shud haf been done a few days ago...but theres been too much homework...arrgh i havent finsihed my History yet :(
Ok...so this post will highlight some major happenings which haf not been seen on this blog b4.

Chronological order
1st day of school: was late. ok mebbe its a blessing in disguise cos i jus happened to choose the seat next to Wei Qi (all the other seats were taken up already). Didnt know tt we'll become friends sumtime in the future. :p

GEP camp: WQ's downfall. KY foudn out his little secret abt en...i guess WQ didnt expect KY to be so curious and try to find out more abt her and make it into a full-blown issue. 2 bad 4 him (aw...). evryday now 1N ppl talk abt wei-QI-eENing (those frm 1N shud be able to read btw the letters :p). talk about how fast "rumours" can spread (esp when u got KY and Derek and JJ at the head)!

Geop rep: I dun think i regret being selected as geog rep. amazingly, majority of the class voted 4 me (i think) :p Whats so gd about me?? at least the job is not as stressful as other stuff like being the Chinese rep...

Blogging craze: The few wks when evry1 wanted to create a blog. Yep this blog was oso created partially becos of the craze...(mebbe it was oso due to me wanting to show off sum nice HTML...this contradicts the disclaimer doesnt it?)

Sec 1 camp: sux. RI's GEP camp was so gd (already covered in previous post) and ACS's GEP camp was held on a cruise! <<
well at least it did help mi find out more abt the character of sum of my classmates...

Teachers: we're lucky tt we got mostly gd teachers. accroding to one of the sec 2 seniors, all the better tachers are "reserved" for sec 1. i wonder how school life will be like next time..anyway most the teachers scolded us only once in the whole term (wow isit tt we're really "angels" or they can really keep their temper? :) )
anyway congrats to Mrs Yong...shes pregnant. so Mr Quek will take over teaching us Literature altho Mrs Yong will still be our form teacher and be in charge of admin stuff...its a pity to c her go. And Mr Liew (our english teacher) will be leaving sometime in June/July cos his scholarship bond is up...its a pity to c him go oso. He'll be going to university-wishing him gd luck in his studies. Mr Quek MAY take ova him then. :(

Whole of term 1: Always feel sleepy in class. Must haf been the work of the mosquitoes at night.

Term 1 results: Yay i got 3rd in class wif an MSG of 1.67!! Benjamin got 1st while Derek (i think-or was it zhaoxing?) got 2nd. surprisingly, neither Wei Qi nor Yi Yong got into the top 3. cant rmb their MSGs and ranks tho.

Yong Quan: i guess if HCI had the mass run at MacRitchie this wudnt haf happened. and the thing abt Pigsie having onli 1 out of 5 chance of survival must have been false. and one piece of REALLY gd news (but its a couple of days late): hes been discharged! Wahoo! he even logged in to msn.

Ok so tts all i haf to say abt Term 1...hope tt Term 2 wont be so stressful :p
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oh and i heard tt Mr Quek wud be going around to check our blogs quite sum time ago...i wonder whose he's seen so far?

March hols are here..

2005-03-17T21:35:00.000+08:00

u must be wonderin y i havent been blogging 4 so long...well ive been too busy wif my holiday homework. i jus finished my Comp Studies one where we haf to create an online portfolio, but i wont post my URL until the last day to prevent lame ppl like Nihcolas frm copying...haha. paranoia? i dun think so. btw Nicholas's online portfolio is at www.hwachong.edu.sg/~y05hci451/index.htm and u wud notice tt the BGM 4 one of the poems is copied frm Kuan Yue...also his scrolling thing is copied frm hubert (www.hwachong.edu.sg/~y05hci442/index.htm) and his scrolling title is oso copied frm KY's blog!! wat a copycat creep.

Ok...so on Monday i went for treatment at the Skin Centre for my wart...its a kind of viral growth thats very ugly and pain...mine is on my 2nd toe on my right foot. Ok so i got to skip gym trainin becos of tt...:p

Tuesday: went 4 a movie with Wei Qi & Hong Hui & WQ's ex-classmates from Chong Fu. saw eening...but i agree wif HH, she not really v pretty. We watched "a series of unfortunate events" at yishun GV...alot of info gaps so it was so-so only...but price of $6.50 still reasonable lah. and this movie is the 1st i watched a movie wif friends and no adults...this is oso my 4th movie (only).
PS 4 those of u wif funny thoughts...i sat beside WQ and HH and there girls sat in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ROW
anyway after the movie sum of wq's ex-classmates caused sumtin to *ahem* happen btw wq and en...i wont elaboate else wq will kill me :p for those who want more info go ask him urself. so i guess its a blessing (4 WQ) tt Kuan Yue didnt go after all..

NICHOLAS IS LAME

2005-03-10T21:21:00.000+08:00

If u c Nicholas's blog, u wud c tt he copied the scrolling title from Kuan Yue. NICHOLAS U COPYCAT. Anyway ur stupid virus thing is also lame and ur incessant pop-ups is also annoying. i am too pissed to visit ur blog again becos it closes after the stupid virus thing is finished.
Also do not believe Nicholas that Kuan Yue forced him into having s** that fateful nite. Its jus a lie. BOTH parties were willing.

PS for more details about the sec.1 camp, visit hubert's and bing heng's blogs. their report is really detailed.

My badminton tourny/RI camp

2005-03-10T20:14:00.000+08:00

Theres good news and bad news.

Good news: I got into the quarter-finals (2nd round) of the badminton mini-tournament today! Yay! But actually it was more of luck than skill :p My friends who were more pro then me actually got eliminated in the 1st round.
So heres the format of gameplay: All competitive games will be singles. The semi-final and final game will be 3 sets, while the others will be a set each. First Round: Participants will be divided into 4 groups A - D, and each group will have a court to play amongst each of the others before the best 2 of their group are determined. The first to get seven points wins a match. Quarter-finals: The best 2 from each group will be grouped into 2 further groups X and Y, with each group having 2 1st-place and 2 2nd-place group representatives. Another round-robin will take place to determine the top 2 from these two groups to qualify for the semi-finals. There will be 2 sets of 11 points each(if there is a tie, there will be a 3rd match played). Semi-finals: Group X winner will play Group Y runner-up, Group X runner-up will play Group Y winner. Finals/3rd place: Semi-finals winners/Semi-finals losers (of cos)

How i was so tyco (lucky): My grp, D, had only 3 nubs-one from sec. 2, one from sec.1 and me :p Then there was one better than average sec. 2 player, and one sec. 3 (i think) pro. Then, after winnning 2 matches, the pro withdrew! wow.
so i lost to the btr-than-average sec.2 7-0 (it was my 1st match and i guess i was nervous), but thrased the other sec.2 7-1 and won the sec. 1 7-6 (still very nervous). So by winning 2 out of 3 matches, i got into the 2nd round! wow.
Obv, i got thrased by the best guy from grp C 11-2, 11-0 in the 2nd round. boohoo. His balls were dam fast and he smacks like hell. As one of my pro friends who lost to him describes him: "too good for a sec.1".
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Bad News: I envy the Rafflesians so much.
About the RI camp: WOW they're so dam lucky. it was a GEP only camp and they didnt have a sec.1 camp. They camped in the Sembawang Boys Brigade camp. 1st gd thing: they got to shower properly-the cubicles ALL had showerheads and they didnt have to rush and finish in 2 mins(the only bad thing was tt the toilets were smelly). 2nd gd thing: they had BEDS to sleep on! and there were no bedbugs either. 3rd gd thing: they had activities like war games and a mini amazing race. Cant say we enjoyed OUR activities as much as theirs. 4th gd thing: their food was nice. They actually had catering where the lay all the food out in a buffet style! we only got lousy oily food in styrofoam packets (u know the kind those hawker center aunties give u when u takeaway) 5th gd thing: they didnt haf to get dirty in any of the activities
The only bad things: Physical Training in the morning (they haf to run around the campsite) and bathing (they still complain about it?!)
They are so dam luky lor.
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Additonal couple of notes to my previous post: 1) our camp motto was "gold after fire". geddit? fire=torture :(
2) our instructor hinted to us that our CDANS campsite had a spooky history. ponder over this: while there was jungle growing all around our campsite, why was our campsite suddenly so empty and void of trees? there werent even any tree stumps. theres also a temple and a statue of the Goddess of Mercy across the road. *a shiver runs up my spine*

Sec. 1 camp

2005-03-09T16:01:00.000+08:00

That *groans* camp just ended today...phew! I'll just cut short all the stuff about the camp so u wont be bored with my complaints...lol

1st day
Venue: CDANS (Civil Defence Association for National Servicemen) country club
Complaints: 1) teachers got to sleep in the chalet (waa got air-con!!). And they didnt even haf to pay a single cent! :(
2) Not enough time for the High Elements (its basically a high-rope course)
3) Food stinks. We got nothing but lousy vegetables and barely any meat! Dun even haf eggs. No drinks even 4 lunch! (had to drink tap water) Even when we had the drinks it was so diluted it tasted like plain water.
Summary: I was in grp 26. thankfully everyone was from 1N so we knew each other. We named ourselves the Weevils! (sounds familiar? KY).
Anyway after we set up our tents we played sum common problem solving games (like the one where u link up every1's hands and try to unentangle ourselves. we cheated tho :P)
Then we had sum team-building exercises (u know wat i mean). Finally, the thign every1 was waiting for: high ropes challenge! But there was so little time we cud onli do one component (bah). anyway i realised i was not that scared of heights (yah altho my legs were shaking a little). i feel so sorry for Jia Kun who was behind me. He was just about to go up when the activity ended! many of the others also didnt get a chance. Poor them.

2nd day
Venue: Chinese Gardens
Complaints:
1) teachers still got to sleep in air-conditioned cabins!
2) teachers slack (they didnt trek with us except for Mr Liew-but he didnt haf to carry any heavy luggage cos his was all in the car!)
3) bathing stinks! (more details in the summary)
2) food stinks (no explanation needed)
Summary: At least breakfast was good. We got some char kuay teow wif an egg. After that we had to TREK from CDANS (in Bukit Batok) to Chinese Gardens (Jurong). Thats a long way to walk under the hot sun. lukily the thing at turf city run didnt repeat itself.
The environment at chinese gardens was even worse. all grass wif biting ants and "flying" spiders and hardly and concrete. wahhz.
anyway the water activities this time were fun (however dirty). We started off with learning boring songs and map orienteering. at first we were pissed but later we realised how lucky we were. the other grps had to do that wif soggy cloothes and shoes!
Later, the excitement of the day: water activities. 1st activity: raft-building. all we got were ropes, 4 lousy tires and 4 poles. and we had to paddle our raft across a muddy lake! nobody's raft was able to stay on the surface and sunk halfway/disintegrated. at least ours didnt disintergrate. i did much of the rope tying (i was a scout b4). during our "test", the whole thing came loose and the 4 ppl on it got wet. whoops! not enuff ropes. we "borrowed" sum frm other grps and our raft eventually worked. but every1 still got wet and muddy. it was fun anyway :)
2nd activity: dragon-boating. it isnt as fun as canoeing tho. and we cudnt capsize the boat :p
and the worst part of the day: BATHING. omg. If u haf a weak heart skip to the next paragraph. so we had to "mass bathe" wif ONLY our underwear on. sum guy wif a hose sprayed water on us. that stinks (literally too). so it was like, we were bathing in the OPEN wif nuttin but a canvas sheet overhead. i hope no unsuspecting tourists passed by. and we had to endure gravel in our shoes. i wont go into details. for pervertic stuff go to nicholas's blog. he has a yellow and contaminated mind.
Sleeping: nuttin special except that Nic and KY were having s** in the tent. told u tt guy's perverted. i wont go into details.

3rd day (today)
No complaints
Yay! our camp finally ended. the Weevils didnt win anything tho :( and breakfast was nice wif char kuay teow amd a chicken wing.

Things i learnt: 1) Qi En is like a sissy. during the high elements, when he was being lowered, he was making cc noises. 2) nicholas is dam pervertic 3) teachers are so priviledged 4) HCIS ppl are brats (majority at least). They scolded the teachers "bus thirds" behind their backs becos they had drinks and we didnt. one even said: "不用紧，我回家去跟爸爸讲就好了。” Ya, their parents are rich, but money and everything u kno. 5) Yu Xuan is also a brat. always gets in trouble.

So i can conclude that we paid $75.40 for this but didnt even get half the worth of it...
Calculations: 400 (bare minimum) x $75=$30 000++ Food: $3500 (maximum) Rental of land, chalets: $7500 Equipment: $8000 Transport: $1000
Total: $20000 Profit: $10000 ++

I wonder how the RI/ACS boys are gettin on in their camps...they may be smirking at us rite now.
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Other news: Pigsie is getting better. He can now talk. Three cheers for him! :) Thank god.

I haf a badminton mini-tournament tmr as EOTA (End Of Term Activities)...wish me luck :)
You can expect more changes to this blog during this weekend and next week. The March holidays are coming! Wahoo!

'A' level results...

2005-03-06T22:44:00.000+08:00

1st off, congrats to Mr Liew, our Chemistry teacher, for his outstanding 'A' level results (yah hes pretty young... :p).
Some background info about mr liew 4 those who dont know him: he is a Malaysian scholar (wow) - not being racist or anything, but doesnt it emphasize the point about "foreign scholars"? :p He was also the top 'O' level in his year (WoW), and doesnt need to go to NS cos hes not a S'porean (WOW). Thus, he came bak to HCI to teach us (talk about being really loyal!:) ). Pretty interesting history, isnt it?
Anyway, he got 4As in bio, physics, chemistry and maths, distinction in maths 'S' paper, merit in bio 'S' paper and a2 in GP. Well its not perfect, but at least he could secure a scholarship to CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY!!! wow!! three cheers for Mr Liew!! :)

Anyway that *groans* annual sec. 1 camp starts tmr...so i wont be updating this blog for the next few days :( [Not]surprisingly, my friends frm RI and ACS oso haf their camps next wk...

Oh ya and KY's blog is real awesome...check it out! :) He even did away wif the template! mebbe ill *try* to do tt in the March holidays...

Arrgh

2005-03-05T11:18:00.000+08:00

I havent had time to blog in the past few days...so sorri 4 the lack of updates.

1) Dammit. Pigsie's article appeared in the Straits Times already (Mar 3). Well, i guess this was inevitable...i hope pigie's parents won't be too upset
Anyway, Pigsie's really recovering pretty fast. He can now talk, but is still weak (wats the use of keepin this confidential now??!!) As usual, lets all pray that he recovers quickly at this rate. May god bless him.

2) 2day at gym trainin: My coordination's pretty bad. i cant do the hou4 hui4 huan2 (dunno how to type it in chinese). the seniors then got pretty pissed at us :p
then at wushu lessons: I failed terribly in my li3 yu2 da3 ding3 (oso dunno how to type in chinese) basically, u're supposed to bring urself up while u're lying on the ground (dunno how to explain) i oso forgot some of my 套路. im such a letdown :'(

3) one gd point: the holidays are here in a wk! yay! bad point: all of us sec 1s got a 3-day camp on Mon-Wed, then after tt we (sec.1 iSpark/GEP only) still haf to attend sum workshop. Arrgh!

4)english lessons are really interesting. we get to study how Singlish works and the diff btw it and "perfect english". and amazingly, i still got 4 ACE pts for EL and 2 pts (upon 3) marks for oral participation. and its like im one of the quieter ones in class lor :)

And i left my drawing block in the gym today :( guess ill collect it on Monday.

Pigsie

2005-03-02T21:22:00.000+08:00

I wont be postin specific info about pigsie from now on, for the sake of him and his family, and also for other reasons. Ive also deleted specific info about him. May he get well soon.

Anyway ive got nuttin much to say about today, except tt the number of sec 1s going for gym training are shrinking. mebbe they got into other ccas already-i dunno. Anyway Alan is such a brat he always like to act high-and-mighty lor. i dunno if hes jus jokin wif us or if hes really like tt. i hope tt if its the 1st one, he doesnt do it so often. ivan is also starting to hate him.

oh ya and ytd mrs lim didnt cum in 4 history. we're so lucky cos we were supposed to hand in our hist file. shes on mc for a whole wk and we wont c her till term 2!! woohoo!!

Anyway theres not much more to write for today. our sec 1 camp is comin soon. i cant say im lookin forward to it tho.

YAY!

2005-02-28T13:24:00.001+08:00

'O' level results released today...HCI had 11 ppl wif 10 A1s and our MSG (Mean Subject Grade, not the stuff u put in ur food :p) improved in practically every subject!! yay!! And then Mr Hon our principal decided to end school for 2day 1.5 hrs early...double yay! And im finally going back to gym training after one wk...triple yayyayyay!!! Also i mastered saying "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis" pretty fast (PS thats a lung disease->tubercolosis, is the longest word and is a mouthful. its pronounced as "neumono-ultra-microscopic-silico-volcano-coniosis") Quadriple yayayayay!!!! lol

Anyway ive changed the bg music (i kno its still lame) so sam i dun owe u anything now. Also complaints that the user prompt which asks who u r is lame have been heard so its been taken off. And vote on my new poll! :)

Signing off from the school computer, making use of the extra time :)

EXTREMELY GOOD NEWS!!

2005-02-26T23:16:00.000+08:00

Great news: Pigsie has finally regained conciousness!! Our prayers have been heard. Praise the lord! (although im a free thinker)

Anyway, after 3 days of hard work, my blog is finally done up. Its amazing how much ppl can do in a short period of time if they r determined.
More to look out for on my blog: a nicer background, a cool cursor, a poll, more graphics and much more.

Yesterday was a bad day

2005-02-26T13:51:00.000+08:00

Didnt haf time to post ytd...so ill gif a full scale report on it by chronological order

0800-literature lesson. lit test (40 mins-but due to delays it became 35 mins) 2day. it was erm..manageable...BUT I DIDNT HAF ENUFF TIME! i cud onli finish half of wat i wanted to write 4 the 2nd qn :'( spent 2 much time on the 1st qn already...onli left 7 mins 4 answerin the 2nd qn. hope i can still pass...

1000-history lesson. we were gonna get bak our history test paper. every1 cud smell doom walkin towards our class...and she entered. she said that she wud be givin us our test papers that day...she did not gif a hint of our doom...but we knew it was here. she gave out our test papers, occasionally sayin "How dare you!" along the way. half the class failed, wif 7 ppl gettin "one-digit" marks upon a total of 25 marks. well its not surprisin since our class is supposed to be the "Maths and Science class", and 1L is the "humanities class", not us. 1M got 7 failures and 1L, 3 onli. i got 12 and failed by 1/2 marks :'( benjamin got the highest wif 22 marks. hes so pro!! Now i gt do this *groans* reflections about y i failed.

1210-Maths lesson. Miss Gwee was oso gonna gif out our test papers. we hoped tt things were gonna look up...but we were wrong. *someone* 1st pissed Miss gwee by repeatedly pesterin her to gif bak our test papers. Our class showed disapppointin results. the lowest marks i kno so far is 10-15 marks upon 45. I got 26+5 marks. The genius who sits beside me got 32+4 marks!! he got an A1 (so pro!!) anyway im so careless. lukily we dun haf to write any more reflections 4 this one.

1600-Mass run @ turf city. Pigsie collapsed. best wishes to him and may he recover. we're all praying hard 4 u, pigsie. Anyway, the "mass run" turned out to be the "mass walk". although a few of my friends and me slacked and walked 4 most of the way, occasionally jogging/sprinting when we saw cameramen or when we felt like it, we still finished in 45 mins (time limit=50 mins). and we were faster than 1/4 of the student population! our best achievement was beating zhaoxing ~lol~ anyway the freakin prize presentation took so long and the freakin ky kept threatenin to pour his coke ova me. dam him.

And once again, we are all praying hard for you Pigsie. please get well soon.

PHEW!

2005-02-24T22:10:00.000+08:00

Im finally done for today! My blog looks much different from just a mere 5 hours ago...Im amazed tt i cud do so much in a day. Everything looks ok now...and as for the bg music...IM SORRY SAMPSON once i can find a btr midi ill change the music asap. my previous one cranked up. that darn scrollbar also doesnt work!
The background also stays as black til ive found a better wallpaper...complaints that the text cant b seen wif my previous image have been heard.
Oh well its too late 4 today to do anything more..my lil bro oso wants to play the computer :( so i guess thats all i can do 4 today. But its enuff already :)

Tons of homework

2005-02-24T18:20:00.000+08:00

Waa..lotsa homework..Literature test tmr....sianz arh...

At least my test results have been *ahem* reasonable (so far)...and the genius (www.pyrosangelicspirian.blogspot.com) who sits beside me in class still sez that his marks are lousy...what crap! his marks are already so high already lor...

anyway it seems like yi yong and ben and the genius who sits beside me are gonna battle it out for the best results...lol

Hi

2005-02-24T17:00:00.000+08:00

This is the first blog im makin and the first time im messin with stuff on the web. Its gonna be about my school life (duh)...some html is copied from my friend's blog :p (sorry sam)

Disclaimer: If u came to see fancy html stuff, u will be disappointed. So just go on to another one.