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FINAL POST

2007-05-10T22:42:00.000+08:00

So much time has elapsed before i post again. This is most probably going to be my last post at suburban-subway.blogspot.com, since
I have switched to blogging at lkyblogsat.blogspot.com.

So do visit it. And also visit the Windows Live Space that I was using between the period of time THIS very blog that you are visiting is not updated, and before the start of lkyblogsat.blogspot.com.

It is aquilaworld.spaces.live.com.

I'll also remove all the links because most are outdated. Most of the blogs have ceased to exist, so the need to link them will be obviated.

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2007-04-28T15:06:00.001+08:00

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I am at the Airport now, but where is Nemi and my Mark of the Beta!!

2005-12-07T10:03:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone... it's been a long time since i last blogged. From 2nd Dec to 4th Dec I went to the SJAB basic NCO camp, but I'll not talk much about it, since the things i say about it might be offensive to some people, and I think I'll rather stick those words to myself rather than offend others or get myself into slight trouble. So, talk to me personally if you want to know more about the camp.

I'll be flying to Hong Kong today, and it's almost time to board the plane.

I just hate this keyboard. I can't use my thumb to press the spacebar, since something is blocking it, and the letter n is so insensitive, especially when N is one of the most commonly used alphabets in English.

Maplestory:
My Aquila mage is still level 26, fame n20 only, because I went for the camp and lost 3 fame points, and had less time to train. By the way I didn't get any of the level 23 equipments like the ice wand...

Gtg now, continue later

What happened to the class allocation of the school???!!!!

2005-11-18T13:17:00.000+08:00

___(WHY IS IT LIKE THIS?!?!)___

Why am I in such a class? Who are my classmates next year????!!!!! Why can't I access Sharepoint this moment? Can't I even change my password... the password changing page is not available or whatever??!?! Don't tell me I've to go to the technical centre to change this Sharepoint password???!! I haven't downloaded the list, and I've not seen the list properly!! Now I can't even get into Sharepoint...

TENTATIVELY, I'll be going to 3-8, and that is erm... YOU FIT IN THE WORD THAT I"M THINKING OF!!!! WHAT DO YOU THINK????!?!?! I HOPE THAT THE SCHOOL WOULD CHANGE THIS THING COMPLETELY. I don't understand why they can't put us into Triple, Double, Combined.. just like last year and this year's Sec 3s. And FYI I'm a to-be-triple-science student. And I thought those 30 to 40 to 50 something triple-scientists would gather in one or two classes??!! Like this year's 3-1, 3-3 or 3-5? And it doesn't really seem that the tablet is going to matter... the tablet is not likely to be the cause of the school putting us in such a sorry plight, since the whole of 2-8 is not going up together as a class, though most are in 3-1, and 12 (including me) are in 3-8, but I don't understand why the school would arrange us in such classes. Well... the whole of 2-9 rising up as 3-10 would actually make A LOT OF SENSE, compared to any of the other funny funny class arrangements, since they are the sports class, and they have a special schedule/ time table!

Ok.. if you have no idea what I'm talking about in the previous 2 paragraphs, I'll explain. I'm in sec 2 this year, going to sec 3, and this year is rather crucial since there's a thing called streaming. Streaming into the different sciences and humanities. AT LEAST in the previous 2 years, sec 3 students have been streamed into triple, double and single (combined) science streams. But this year, maybe and perhaps because of the tablet programme, which I DON'T REALLY NOT SUPPORT AT ALL (understand? that means i am NEUTRAL in the view of the school's tablet PC programme... I don't love it, but I don't detest it either.) , the classes are screwed up, and I am afraid that I'll be with SOME people that I MIGHT NOT like so much, and I hope that the school would sort of reorganize the classes, hopefully, it's a TOTAL revolution or change or allocation, whatever you call that.

A New Post

2005-11-07T15:01:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone... finally there's a new post on this blog. Now it's the holidays, and that means school's over! However if I'm not wrong all the sec 2s have to go back to school tomorrow (8 November) to know the streaming results, at 12 noon.

These few weeks I'm playing 3 games -- MapleStory, Pokemon Net Battle, and Pokemon Crystal on Visual Boy Advance (Don't laugh...). In MapleStory, I have one character, and it's a Magician. As for character name? If you should know it, I would either have already told you, or I haven't told you yet. Anyway I won't reveal it here, since I would not want the whole world to know it. Level what? That's a question which so many people have asked me, but I didn't tell them my level. Now I'm going to make it clear: at this point of time, 3.01PM, 7 November 2005, my level is still a 2-digit number, NOT YET a 3-digit one. OK?? So if you really want to know... you can always search for me around Victoria Island (not Maple Island, obviously), and of course, double-click on my character, but of course this only applies when I am online, playing.

Pokemon Net Battle is quite fun.

Pokemon Crystal... since I told you I am playing, I might as well tell you more... about the main set of Pokemon I'm using!
I chose Cyndaquil as my starter (the fire Pokemon, and I made the right choice), so now I have
Typhlosion, lvl 51
Kadabra, lvl 53
Pidgeot, lvl 55
Electabuzz, lvl 53
Lapras, lvl 51
Houndoom, lvl 47
Gyarados, lvl 48
Dragonair, lvl 41

I'm sure you can count that there are 8 up there. The newest one is Dragonair. The 2nd newest one is Houndoom. I caught a lvl 18 Houndoor only after I arrived in Kanto, since it's unavailable in Johto. I appreciate Houndoom for its toughness and versatility, and it learns many great attacks like Flamethrower, and Crunch (DARK!). I like its dark-type since it would be very very useful against Psychics, of which Psychic attacks can't hit Darks at all.
As for Dragonair, I'm not sure whether I want to train it further, but now I only leveled it up once.. from lvl 40 to 41! I caught a Dratini in the Dragon Den (lvl 40) using a Super Rod, and lvled it up by 1, and it evolved into Dragonair.

!Happy Holidays!

Finally... A Long Awaited Post on my Blog!!

2005-10-08T12:11:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone... I know I've not been blogging for a long time, and I'm sure all of you missed my interesting posts... so read this post, which should be more interesting than ever.

Okay... If you have been reading my friends' blogs you would notice that the Common Tests are over! Monday was a full Higher Chinese paper!! Altogether 3.5 hours of completing 2 fairly (or shall I just say 'very') long and stressful papers -- Composition and Paper II. Tuesday was Literary Expressions, which was actually a formal Literature test on the knowledge of Shakespeare's Merchant Of Venice, which we have been studying for the past... 4 months. Wednesday was Geography, which I had prepared thoroughly, so I hope I can do rather reasonably well. Thursday was Science, which was erm... funny? If you know the concepts very well you could have done very well, but unfortunately I was one of those who was only reasonably well prepared, so maybe I'll not do that well for this paper. Maths... it was wasy compared to those challenging problems Mr Lee let us do during his lessons. Maths was on Friday, the last paper! Still, I left one question blank, even though I thought of a way to do during the test, I didn't write down and after the test I found that my supposed method was right but it was too late... I just didn't write that down... so two marks gone! And for another question, I'm sure it's wrong, so at most I'll get 31 to 32 out of 35...

Anyway, common tests are already over and I can start my Pokemon Adventure LOLOL. I'm playing Pokemon Crystal, which dates back to the year 2001. Maybe I'll try some other games like Maplestory. Talking about MapleStory I don't know whether I'll eventually like it, or be addicted to it. I've seen others mapling and it's like... jumping all over and attacking, even though the graphics are quite nice. At that time I was thinking... oh how would I let myself be addicted to such a funny (in this case it means sort of aimless and boring) game... but then many have been talking about maple in school, and many are playing the game and enjoying it. However some people don't like maplestory. For example, my SJAB junior, Seah Kar Howe, a class chairman, said: "Maplestory sucks like hell, right?" Okay everyone has his or her own perspective. Some like Maplestory while some detest it. Me? I won't know unless I play it, but as of now, I don't play Maplestory, so I can't give a definite answer. Maybe I'll play some time later... for example a few days later, but very soon I'll play the game.

Another game. DOTA! I don't see why some people enjoy it, since it's like so funny, but surely some people would seriously enjoy DOTAing, while some would not. As for me... I'm not sure, but I'm not planning to play DOTA.

That's all. Before I forget, I'm told to do something really HORRIBLE and TEDIOUS. I shan't talk about this here, but to know what I was told to do, feel free to chat to me on MSN Messenger.

SJAB Hike

2005-09-07T23:23:00.000+08:00

Yucks! The food at Thomson Plaza food court was horrible and worst of all, it's very expensive. It's a total waste of money. I wonder which idiot went against the idea of going to KFC and suggesting food court? That person deserves to be tortured. But worse still. I don't understand why one of our teachers/ma'm/sir told 4 year 2s (myself not included) to take the orders of EVERYONE and then MASS ORDER!! Oh my goodness. As you can see not every single of us are simple and/or simple-minded and/or are easily satisfied if we are served with a plate of chicken or char siew rice and have to pay... $3.50 for it. Everyone has his own taste and preferences and they would give ridiculous (or perhaps not really ridiculous, but more complex orders) which the 4 order-taking people would find it confusing. And before we were supposed to give our orders, we didn't even know what was available, and of course the prices, since the food court was a crazily expensive place to eat -- perhaps a plate of chicken rice there would cost more than any other place in Singapore other than those prestigious hotels where a high charge is actually reasonable. I really pity the order-takers. Luckily after that we were all allowed to buy our own food -- ourselves -- even though we still had to wait for every single one to be back before we could start trying how unappetizing the food was.

Okay that was too much on the food part. About the hike now. This morning we met at the stall at 9 am and after some briefing we headed off walking to MacRitchie Resorvoir. Then of course, without any doubt, our hike, began! It was about 12 km long altogether -- meaning that we walked 12 km. Simple as that!

There was a HSBC treetop walk which I had been awaiting since the beginning of our hike, as I believed it should be nice. It definitely was, but some cadets were scared of heights. The treetop walk was actually a suspension bridge which was 250 metres long in total and the centre span was 150 metres long. Being a suspension bridge it swayed left to right when somebody was leaning to a particular side or was walking vigorously (or how about jumping vigorously) on the bridge. Some people was scared of this but I think that it's not scary at all! If it were not safe HSBC would not have built this at all, and the school would not allow us to walk through! They wouldn't want to lose any of their gentlemen due to a deficiency of the structure which caused the collapse of this HSBC treetop suspension bridge (if that were to happen, but I believe, it would never.). So no one fainted, no one was injured.

After the trail we went to the nearest bus stop along Lornie Road and boarded 165 which was from Clementi via Lornie Road, Upper Thomson Road, Ang Mo Kio and the terminal is Hougang Central. We got off at Thomson Plaza, where we had our horrible meal (see above) at about 3 something. Then I was surprised that we were dismissed after that! Immediately! I thought there would have been something else awaiting us in school -- map reading course?! So anyway I took 163 with Shaun Neo to go home, wondering why we were FORCED to eat our lunches at Thomson Plaza if we would be dismissed RIGHT AFTER THAT. It's rather ridiculous, a little waste of time and a big waste of money.

September Holidays

2005-09-05T15:15:00.000+08:00

It's Monday and it's the start of the September holidays.

Not a lot of holiday homework though... not as much as the March holidays I presume.

Results

2005-09-03T23:44:00.000+08:00

Sigh... this shall be short. So disappointd with my results... for English (Literary Expressions) and Science (Physics) I am just 1 single mark away from the wonderful A1. For Geography I'm again just 1 single mark away from being the top of Special stream! Almost! I got 85, while the top is obviously 86. But if I'd been in Express I would have already topped, since their highest is 85. Sigh...

End of Term 3

2005-09-02T22:53:00.000+08:00

So fast term 3 ended.

Today we had SJAB training. It included an Air Rifle practice, which was quite fun!

And we also got back our report books.

Shall continue later.

Financial "Talk"

2005-08-29T18:19:00.000+08:00

Today we had a financial talk which I expected it to be boring but it turned out to be very fun...

We got into groups and played a board game, of which I had forgotten its name. It should be quite useful to us. And it was fun too!

Each of us started off with 5 000 dollars. From here you can see it's somewhat like Monopoly.

I ended off with 89 350 dollars, but that was only the average amount of money a player had throughout the whole class. Wei Jie had about 250 000 dollars when the game ended! Nevertheless I'm still way better off than Yi Yong, Thomas and their group members, who have reportedly been very unlucky while playing the game. Yi Yong had negative 4 000 dollars while Thomas had 5 000 dollars less than him. Haha... I don't know what had happened to their group.

"Counting our Wishes"

2005-08-29T17:55:00.000+08:00

The title of this post is a song which was played yesterday at Serangoon stadium while SJAB was rehearsing for the Annual General Inspection. Yesterday I was there rehearsing for marching as the supporting contingent for Zone 10. However, suddenly the three of us from Cat. High, who were Zhengxiang, Hui Jie and me, were called to march as G.O.H.! That is Guard of Honour. Well... don't be mistaken... being G.O.H. doesn't mean that I am the one carrying the flags, nor the chief commisioner, and of course that doesn't mean I'm the parade commander! However I would be one of the about hundred cadets standing right in front, wearing an additional colour band around my waist and also wearing white gloves. I was marching as the Guard of Honour yesterday, but I'm not sure whether I would still be the G.O.H. this Sunday, 4th September, when it is the actual A.G.I. (Annual General Inspection)? And whether they would still play that song which caused many cadets who were supposed to be at their utmost well behaviour to be giggling and feeling numb because of the horrendous melody and voices and lyrics?

Term 3 Results... OUT!!

2005-08-25T22:56:00.000+08:00

The results for this term is out. Of course I'm referring to the test results. My grades aren't up to expectations...

I'll blog about my below-satisfactory results next time... I don't know when, but it'll be very soon... as I need to complete my English research on the Grand Canyon soon!

Inspiration

2005-08-21T23:02:00.000+08:00

Inspiration. What inspiration? What's it all about? Why should my title be 'Inspiration'? Am I inspired? By whom? When was I inspired?

It all happened about 15 minutes ago, when I searched for the software 'Inspiration' online! It was recommended for our concept map project, so I tried to download it -- a 30-day trial version of the Inspiration software!

I had never heard of Inspiration before, and I thought that it might be a minor software, with a minor and perhaps never-heard-of producer, like the 'Fun with Construction' software that the tablet classes are using for Mathematical constructions. I think only Catholic High and Cresent Girls are using this software -- the only few-hundred users of this pathetic software that you might have never heard of -- Fun with Construction! What a name for an educational learning software indeed -- fun! Fun indeed, and I think those users are having undescribable fun. And the thing is -- I'm not even sure if Crescent Girls are using this FUN software! If not, then the only users of this FUN and (yet) PATHETIC software are the few from Catholic High!

Anyway Inspiration is NOTHING like that fun software that all of those in the tablet classes enjoy every time during their fave maths lessons. It is a great software, and an alternative software for kids is Kidspiration! Even the website itself is wonderfully designed and decorated. What more can you expect? Download NOW!

http://www.inspiration.com/

Have fun, and I hereby ensure you, that the fun would be much greater than that of Fun with Construction!

Do have fun.

St John training

2005-08-20T18:53:00.000+08:00

Just now I went for a SJAB training at the Police Academy all the way at the intersection of PIE and Thomson Road. It was rather tedious even though we didn't do any push-ups at all... we were so well-behaved, disciplined and our drills were (maybe) near perfect! Haha... so PLEASE laugh at my joke.

Well... something happened that left a few (3) of us feeling discriminated, unfair and of course, unhappy and upset. Somehow we were unfairly treated, and discriminated! But the 3 of us in the supporting contingent had already most likely tried the best and all 3 of us gave timing for the contingent so we had already worked hard but somehow it didn't pay off... still was unfair to us.

somehow.

Friendster

2005-08-15T23:08:00.000+08:00

I'm currently at Friendster.

Sick, Monday

2005-08-15T22:41:00.000+08:00

Hello, the title says it all -- today is Monday and I'm sick.

So we had Music lesson today which was fabulous and I definitely enjoyed watching Les Miserables. It was really great! I'm serious here.

Today we got back some of our common test results, namely Geography, Science and Higher Chinese. Sigh... I'm rather disappointed about my results. None of them are excellent, and my Science is quite below a lot of other people, although I passed. I didn't fail any subject but all are either average, or slightly below average.

Hope I can do better for my Maths and English!

Review of the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

2005-08-13T13:27:00.000+08:00

Based on the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, the movie is as interesting as the book. If you have read the book you would remember about the chocolate factory, Mr Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket and his four grandparents and parents all packed in a crooked and dilapidated hut, the Oompa-Loompas, the Wonka something-something fudgemallow chocolate bar, the five golden tickets and the five who obtained them. They were Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee and of course Charlie Bucket. I can’t help agreeing that the book and also the movie were superb to the eyes and the mind of the readers and audience.

The cinema was filled with small kids and adults and teenagers. On the surface the movie appeared colourful and appealing to the eyes of kids. However, actually this movie was filled with deep meanings that made it actually horrifying if one thought deeply. Firstly the oopma-loompas. They were from a country which nobody knew the location of. The oompa-loompas were constantly attacked by ferocious beasts that dominated the area. One day the owner of the factory Willy Wonka visited the country and found out that they loved and worshipped cocoa beans. So he invited all of the oompa-loompas to work in his enormous factory, which once was served by human beings. The oompa-loompas were short beings who could only reach until an adult’s knee. And their complexion was relatively dark, darker than any person who appeared in the movie. There were a lot of oompa-loompas featured in the movie but all of them were identically short. I wonder if this was racism, perhaps not by Roald Dahl himself but by the director of the movie. But I’m not sure so don’t further ask me.

All the four kids were somehow injured except for Charlie Bucket. The first one, Augustus Gloop was greedy so he bent into the river of melted chocolate but in the end fell down the river. A sucker (ya, a machine like a sucker) sucked him up the pipe and that was horrifying enough if it happens in real life. The result was him covered in chocolate and that was a reversible error or mistake, since it could be washed off. This wasn’t the most alarming thing.

Next was Violet Beauregarde who loved to chew on gums. She chewed on a gum which was first-of-its-kind – a whole meal with a blueberry pie as a dessert. The gum was still in its ‘beta’ stage, and there was an error. The gum caused Violet to turn violet and expand like an inflated ball, more like a blueberry which was like a few thousand times bigger than the average berry. To turn her back into her original manner, she had to be squeezed or un-juiced. The result? She was still as violet as a blueberry but unfortunately she was extremely flexible. She was shaped like a normal girl, luckily, and did not remain as a huge blueberry. She was a karate champion before she got turned into this state, and she particular loved her flexibility though her mother was utterly worried. In real life this would not happen, but who could imagine what could happen to Violet if she remained so flexible and violet?

Next on the list is Veruca Salt. She is a terribly spoilt girl from Buckinghamshire, England and lived in a mansion that could be compared with the Buckingham Palace. Her father owned a factory and to get the golden ticket for her beloved daughter Veruca, he ordered all his factory workers to stop their daily routine work and unwrap the millions of chocolate bars he purchased instead. And of course they found one. In Willy Wonka’s factory, she was attacked by squirrels and finally dropped down to the rubbish chute. Her father followed her down as well. The result was a spoilt daughter and a rich father covered with rubbish, walking out of the factory.

Finally Mike Teavee was a boy who loved the television and television games. He was quite fortunate in the sense that he was the fourth to be eliminated, but very unfortunate since he turned very small and had to be stretched into a tall bamboo, twice as tall as his father but much, much thinner. He totally resembled a bamboo and I wonder what could happen to him. This boy, together with Violet, is the more unfortunate casualties since they are most likely irreversibly changed, forever.

Willy Wonka seems to ignore and neglect the injuries of the casualties. He seems nonchalant, though he knows what to do to help them and that he might not be able to help completely. He does not really ill-treat the oompa-loompas, though the idea of oopma-loompas might make some people feel irritated.

On the whole, the movie is wonderful, a treat to the eyes and the mind of the audience. Kids might find it totally hilarious and that there’s not a single hint of unhappiness in this movie, but actually it might contain some sinister ideas and deeper meanings, and the underlying message is… well maybe the naughty kids would get their lessons and the good ones (like Charlie Bucket) will be rewarded ( His reward was to become the owner of the chocolate factory, taking over Willy Wonka!)! I’m not surprised if some schools choose this book as the book for studying for Literature lessons, since the story is actually complex and not shallow. Nevertheless, it’s no wonder Straits Times gave it a 4 out of 5 stars for the movie review. I strongly recommend this movie, and if you haven’t watched it, there is no reason for you not to rush down to the cinemas to view it before it ends. Quick! Disconnect your internet service and turn on the computer, and rush down to the cinema to view it. You’ll be most likely amazed and you’ll love it.

However, one thing is that one part of the story is not included in the movie. Remember Dahl wrote about Willy Wonka producing ‘square candies that look round, and round candies that look square’? I can’t remember exactly but it’s somewhere close to this. This part isn’t featured in the movie at all, though it doesn’t make a big difference to the overall quality of the movie.

Luckily it’s not Friday today

2005-08-13T13:26:00.000+08:00

Luckily it’s not Friday today. Or else it would be known as … Black Friday.

I’ve got so many things to blog about, but not a lot of time. The workload this weekend is heavier than the average. It’s because of the Geography homework: Meg the Rock 2 and 2 newspaper journals.

As I have promised, I’ll talk about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the National Day celebration at school and in Tampines and of course something else.

On the day after National Day I watched the amazing movie. For a review read my next post.

Too late, too little time

2005-08-10T23:16:00.000+08:00

It's too late.

At first I had it all planned out.

A few posts today. Firstly about the movie I watched today, which was mentioned in my previous post. A movie review. Then comment on the school national day celebration and also that one in Tampines. Or perhaps about any celebration anywhere. Finally about something that shalt not be mentioned here, simply because it shouldn't!

Unfortunately I'm not left with much time.

It's already 11 something.

That's why I say it's too late.

Don't you agree?

And won't you curb that undefeated eagerness and excitement to read my articles?

Please do so.

'Cos you're not gonna wait long for my next post!

End of Holidays

2005-08-10T22:36:00.000+08:00

It's the end of another long weekend. This weekend came just in time. Firstly, it's because the common tests are just over for the Secondary 2s. Next I don't have much, or perhaps, any outstanding homework. And of course, we have a five day weekend holiday to celebrate our homeland's birthday! That's an one-of-a-kind long weekend - firstly it's long and it's also memorable.

So many things happened these few days. So little time to blog. I have about 8.5 more hours before school starts tomorrow. To sum up what I'll be writing about in my next few posts, I went to Tampines to witness not only the quite-successful National Day exhibitions but also the failure of the 2-minute-long fireworks which disappointed many, and watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory today.

Don't worry if this article disappoints you like the fireworks yesterday night in Tampines or like the celebration we had in school on Monday. There will be more, coming up.

NDP

2005-08-07T22:51:00.000+08:00

Happy birthday to Singapore!

Tomorrow I'll be marching.

... must be at school by 06 30!

That's very early.

Esplanade Concert

2005-08-07T22:48:00.000+08:00

Good luck to all the performing artists who performed at the Esplanade. I think the concert should be over by now, but anyway all the best.

Fifty-nineth Post

2005-08-07T22:43:00.000+08:00

Today me and all the other councillors and some prefects who weren't involved in the Esplanade Concert went to the Istana to do duty. We were to form a human barrier to prevent the public from entering the small area that we were supposed to guard to see the President of Singapore, Nathan. It was very, very hot and imagine us in long-sleeved shirts and pants and a thick black blazer that absorbs any heat that can possibly reach the Earth from the Sun.

Common Tests Over!

2005-08-05T23:41:00.000+08:00

|common tests over|

I think I haven’t blogged for almost two weeks, mainly because of the studying for common tests and the painting of the classroom (don’t laugh… remember: I was the emulsionist, so were Jun Feng and Gary, and Jonathan did help too) and of course all sorts of funny and ridiculous things all over the place… that deprives me of the time to update this blog of mine.

Guess what happened today? Higher Chinese test! Since it’s over I shan’t talk about it since Mrs Goh has mentioned yesterday… “…don’t keep on talking about the Geog test. It’s already over and if you have done badly you have done badly. Talking about it doesn’t make any difference…” so congratulations to all who have (might have) excelled in this week’s common tests and good luck to those who might have done otherwise.

Guess what happened today again? OK today’s the last NDP rehearsal which was OK for the later part but boring for the first part. Firstly Jonathan and I went to the store to put our bags at 1.55 p.m. then suddenly we heard that we had to fall in at 2! When I checked the notice board yesterday it still hadn’t been changed so most likely it would have been altered today. But if it had been altered just today, who would know? Not a lot of people would check the notice board today again. Anyway we had to skip lunch and change to full-u asap.

What’s so boring: We rehearsed the rainy day plan in the Secondary school hall. The hall was dimly lit, or should I say day-lighted, since all the lights were off and the only light came from the outside. Well that doesn’t mean that it’s pitch-dark but it’s just the darkness that you would get after you have entered a classroom before you switch on the lights, provided that they had not been turned on by a particular someone beforehand, before you step into the classroom or after you have stepped in but before your hands could reach for the switches of the lights. That’s quite un-bright (I can’t think of another word) and drowsy too. It’s so hot today and I did not have enough sleep yesterday night since I stayed up late doing a particular something that was pointless. I rushed the Maths Voyage questions but then unfortunately Mr Lee said that we could hand in next week. So I felt like sleeping when I was standing there in the hall and oh… I yawned a few times and closed my eyes… for a few seconds.

The next part was better. It was at the school field where the view was panoramic and of diverse colours unlike the hall. So I managed to be VERY alert (responded quickly) and awake. That was better. I didn’t feel sick at all though I was tired, or some say exhausted, while some say fatigued.

Good luck and goodbye!

Unfortunately my article is extremely long-winded again and any average person literate in English can reduce this 500-word article to 50 words.

I'm Blogging Again

2005-07-25T20:27:00.000+08:00

Hi to all! I don’t have much time because I need to do something else, so I hope this can be short. Last Saturday Andrew, Eugene, Philip, me and three other prefects, Yi Ping and Kenneth Sooi, from secondary 2 and Edmund Chong from secondary 3-1 went back to school to help out in a very meaningful thing. It’s a step to our Guinness World Record – on folding (don’t know how many butterflies) and pasting them around the school. We did not fold butterflies but instead we painted the walls to be filled with butterflies (paper ones of course) with white emulsion. It was great fun, especially when it came to the part when we were washing the dirty brushes and trays which we used somehow like palettes. I shan’t elaborate… anyway it was great fun painting and of course washing the accessories.

Today some foreign visitors from China came to our school. There were some exhibitions outside the bookshop area. To my horror, surprise, astonishment and shock, my digital art work was there!! It was actually the first prize in Sec 2. But the thing is that my name was not there. My register number was correct, according to the point of time when I handed up the art work, but instead Methawatcharawong Tawan’s name was put there! I don’t blame Tawan, because he has nothing to do with it, but I don’t blame the Art Department or whichever art teacher or whosoever because I know that it’s an accident that they put the wrong name but I hope they would be more careful in matching art works with their respective owners (artists).

Languages

2005-07-19T20:40:00.000+08:00

코리아
नेपाल अधिराज्य
ภาษาไทย
Российская Федерация
المملكة العربية السعودي
Cộng Hoà Xã Hội Chủ Nghĩa

I'm sure you know what these languages are.

Blogger Images

2005-07-17T22:36:00.000+08:00

Just trying out Blogger Images

The Road to Junction Eight

2005-07-16T18:29:00.000+08:00

The Road to Junction Eight

written by the owner of this blog

Leaving the grand stand

Beside me are the Science labs

Three vending machines await me

Four boys with Tablets on their laps

Down the dark stairs

The security guard’s there

A maroon car goes past

I reached the school gate at last

Opposite is a green field

A traffic light greets me

Locked is the side gate

Cars stopped immediately

A Chinese woman in blue

Two boys zooming past me

A bird was seen too

Five people waiting for the bus

Sitting, standing and/or talking

Eighty-eight comes and thus

They stand in unison

They walk towards the bus

Blocked by an ads stand

The stop is behind me

So is the bus

A terraced house

A stairs that goes up

A dented sewage lid

A Malay man strolls past

Followed by a group of kids

Then four fifteen-year-olds

The stadium and the pool

Vaguely seen behind the bushes

The junction arrives

A taxi stops for me

Then a triangular road island

I step onto the hypotenuse

And the adjacent on the right

Soon turns green the light

Ten other pedestrians crossing too

Reached another triangle

On the ground is a pebble

Left is the MRT track

Right is the main road

Far right are the bungalows

Ahead is a stand

Quite a distance ahead

Eighty-eight

Fifty-five

Thirteen

A hundred and fifty-six

Thirteen

Eighty-eight

Fifty-four

A lorry then crawls past

Unknowingly the taxi stand is ‘ere

A car with a girl at the rear

The overhead bridge brings me across

But I’m staying here

The ice-cream man’s here

But I’m not going to care

A new section recently re-opened

Of the over-a-decade-year-old station

“Circle Line under construction”

A ticket-selling machine

Dozens rush across the turnstiles

Getting slightly darker

Sunlight seen again

Overwhelming crowds all over

A temporary toilet

Of pathetic condition

Male and female separated

Walls whitewashed

A boy asks for donation

Then comes another one

Here comes a teen with a tin

Helping to raise funds

Ignored them

The fresh smells of BreadTalk buns

The odour of the station toilet

Conglomerated together

A boy with his mother

Three girls from BPSS

A bunch of teens

About seven RI boys

More than four CH gentlemen

One ZHSS student

Four kids

A crowd of adults

Three elderly women

Dozens of families

Extended and/or nuclear

Many many more

Another conglomeration

A huge ‘Junction 8’ logo

Ahead of me

People of all kinds

All around me

I ended the Road to Junction Eight.

Thursday

2005-07-14T22:35:00.000+08:00

One week has almost passed. It's Thursday again! But what's so special after all... there are about 52 Thursdays in one year.

Well, on Tuesday, our group unfortunately had to present the personal recount speech for English Communicative Course when we were not very prepared. I was quite loud, I suppose, but my speech was not fluent as I paused sometimes. Therefore my marks were not good. I'm not sure whether this is counted in CA3 or SA2, but I hope it won't pull down my marks by too much.

Investiture '05

2005-07-13T23:09:00.000+08:00

It's over. Everyone has done their part to make Investiture a success.

This morning at 09 50, all of the student leaders gathered at the hall to rehearse for the Investiture. The investiture would be right in the afternoon during assembly. That means we're skipping lessons! I skipped, unfortunately, English, Maths (test) and Science.

The rehearsals were quite efficient. We skipped recess but then had a 15 minute break at 12 05, when everyone rushed to finish their lunches.

Then at 12 30 the guests from all the different schools arrived. They came from St Joseph Institution, Raffles Girls School, Nanyang Girls High School, Singapore Chinese Girls School, Anderson Sec, Whitley Sec, Beatty Sec, Holy Innocents' High, Boon Lay Sec and Montfort Sec. I think that's all.

Then the sec 4s passed out.

EXCO 2005 to 2006
Students' Council
President: Ng Yan Hao 3-1, NPCC
Vice President: Nicholas Leong 3-5, iMedia
Vice President: Ong Jun Yong 3-2, Table Tennis
Secretary: Edward Tiong 3-1, Modern Dance
Head of Publications: Daniel Tay 3-5, Band
Head of Project Management: Chean Yu Fei 3-7, Choir
Other EXCOs (sorry... couldn't remember their positions; it's better not to type them in if I'm not sure, so that I won't put in the wrong information. LOL)
Joshua Teng 3-1, Chess Club
Fu Qiren 3-4, NPCC
Lin Zongxing 3-3, Chinese Orchestra

Prefectorial Board
Head Prefect: Benjamin Neo, NCC Land
Vice Head Prefect: CPL Dominic Yu 3-2, SJAB
Vice Head Prefect, James Wong (not sure), iMedia
Senior Prefects:
Calvin Houng, iMedia
Laurence Putra Franslay
Liew Wai Kit, NCC Land
Fong Chun Hern, NCC Land
still got one more... forgot his name already

Class Management Committee
Chairman: Cai Chen
Vice Chairman: Xu Beiyang
Vice Chairman: (not sure)
Executive Committee:
sorry... i don't know the names of them.

After the Investiture we had to lead our invited guests from other schools for a tour. Stanley and me led two female student leaders from Holy Innocents. They were from Sec 4. I hope we did a good job.

Then the tour ended and I stayed in the Students' Lounge with some other Sec 2 councillors.

I seem to have not blogged for a long time. I have no idea why this article is unbearably boring.

Weekdays Coming to an End

2005-07-10T23:59:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone.

It's almost 12 midnight now, and the wonderful weekends are coming to an end. '

Good night!

btw:: Patrick Ong's blog address has been changed to http://eventhorizon91.blogspot.com

New Geography teacher, new Student

2005-07-05T22:14:00.000+08:00

For the last week our Geography teacher was Mrs Oh. Now it's been changed to Mrs Elaine Goh, the Humaties HOD, for some reason. Anyway she's great and funny and even though she actually says that the students on her right are clowns, since they kept on laughing and giggling for no (actually for SoMe reason), she's very interesting.

There's a new student who just transferred from 2-2 to our class, and he's Chen Tian Le.

Happy Birthday to Ingmar

2005-07-03T23:01:00.000+08:00

Hi! Tomorrow is a holiday so I can sleep late. Anyway today is Ingmar’s 15^th birthday, and before I begin I would want all of you to say “Happy Birthday” to him if you see him online, or send a message to his e-mail. In the afternoon, we went to Punggol CC to play Counterstrike. The computers were not good—they were actually Windows 98 computers! Well, I can’t help agreeing that it’s quite cheap-- $2 per hour. That’s some sort of a Cybercafe, where everyone, not only teenagers, visit. Not everyone play Counterstrike, however. Some played Runescape, which was boring, Gunbound, Half Life while some were at Friendster or on MSN Messenger. I thought it was OK, but some people could not help complaining about the pathetic quality of the computers.

We then went to Patrick’s house for a while, followed by Ingmar’s house. We had dinner there, and at the same time played his X-box and CS on the computer.

I just managed to borrow a copy of Counter Strike- Condition Zero. However, I had no high hopes of it working well on my old computer. My computer could not reach most of the requirements for the game. Nevertheless, I was able to play, given that it took more than 5 minutes to load a map, and the screen size was 640 x 480. That’s why I’ve decided to go online and go to websites like thesims.com, simcity.com and of course I blogged.

I want to play SimCity 3000 later, though I really, REALLY LOVE SimCity 4, since it is a greatly fascinating game with much more control over many things than its predecessor, SimCity 3000 and SimCity 3000 Unlimited. Still, I doubt if my computer can support the high requirements of the huge-sized game.

Online

2005-07-03T22:57:00.000+08:00

Hi
I'm online now, but I'll write about more things later.

MSN Discussion

2005-06-28T22:29:00.000+08:00

10.32pm
... and we're still discussing into the night! Ingmar has just logged in about five minutes ago, but surprisingly no one went to invite him to our conversation. Now he has been invited by someone, finally.

10.37pm
... and we don't seem to have much progress.

10.42pm
... and now Gary is chatting with me, and blasting me with all PIG winks. No offence!

10.45pm
... and I shall talk about our teachers now. For Geography, we have Mrs Oh Wee Ming. Our Science teacher is Mr Daniel Ling, while the music teacher has been changed from Mrs Chaillan, who is superb, to Ms Chow. I'm okay with this new combination, though I might not like it totally, as I preferred other teachers to teach particular subjects. These information shall not be posted here for some reasons.

10.53pm
... and we seem to have a slight progress.

10.57pm
... and Ingmar finally has a copy of the slides. I sent him.

11.01pm
... and 11 o' clock has passed.

11.03pm
... and I'm so bored that I have to resort to surfing at Friendster!

11.13pm
... and I'm still at Friendster!

11.25pm
.. and I'd better sleep now.

ByE!

Rotation of the Water Bottle

2005-06-28T22:20:00.000+08:00

We're now discussing about the Rotation of the Water Bottle project now. It seems that not many of us are interested. As like many other MSN Messenger discussions, we can't concentrate on our topic. For instance, Patrick seems to be killing cockroaches or at the toilet, Sheng Kang seldom talking, and wanting to sleep, Yi Yong talking about stuff unrelated to the project, and me... posting at my blog and wanting to play SimCity 3000 (yeah, that old computer game that dates back to the year 1999), and at the same time wanting to sleep too. As for Ingmar... I've got no idea where he is; at least he's not online.

Holidays Almost Coming to an End

2005-06-25T12:59:00.001+08:00

(my desk is slightly messy)

My desk is in a small mess. But I’m not irritated by that. It’s messy because I’ve not only finished emptying every single thing that’s useless or outdated in my school file and placed them untidily (not stacked, but just placed all around) onto the place on the table where I normally sit for writing and doing my homework, but also because I have finally finished about 99.9% of my holiday homework, and this allows me to mess up my desk temporarily since I’m not going to do any writing there recently. So, my desk is messy. But the tiny mess would be cleared away very soon, or at least, before Monday, into the different collection centres, namely the maths file, science file, history file, nameless file, used-but-still-can-use-paper collection, and the rubbish bin.
In case you're wondering, that is Netscape Browser 8.0

(completed holiday homework)

That’s enough of talking about the small mess on my desk. As for homework: I’ve finally completed the quite the last holiday assignment of this holiday. It’s Ying Yong Wen. If you are a Chinese, from Singapore (maybe not only Singapore), studying in a secondary school, and most importantly, take Chinese as a language that you learn in school, you will know how to write the word ‘Ying Yong Wen’ in Chinese characters, and perhaps also know what is a ‘Ying Yong Wen’, and know how to write one. I did not like to write this Ying Yong Wen, but after dragging this for many days, I’ve finally completed it this morning!! Please congratulate me… I’ve finally finished almost everything… I’m left with clearing up my desk!

(A series of unfortunate events)

Have you heard of this quite-famous series of unfortunate stories of a series of unfortunate events called ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’? If I’m not wrong, there’s been a movie about this series of books earlier this year. I went to the library recently and found Book 6 – The Ersatz Elevator lying somewhere. I found the book great and borrowed it. Then I read it. At the back of the hard-covered book, the author Lemony Snicket has sort of a letter to the reader. It’s something like:

Dear Reader

If you had just picked up this book, it’s not too late to put it down……

With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket

When I just took the book, I did not know what Ersatz meant. I thought it was just a strange name for a particular elevator. However, after reading it I found out that ersatz was an adjective to show that (a thing/object/person) who pretends to be something that he/she/it is not. For the exact meaning, please check the dictionary. Snicket would introduce a difficult word like ‘ersatz’.

E.g. The elevator was ersatz.

Then he would explain what the word ‘ersatz’ meant.

E.g. In this case, the word ‘ersatz’ meant something that pretends to be something that it is not.

Then he explains further.

E.g. The elevator was ersatz as it seemed like an elevator, but it was actually a secret passageway disguised as an elevator.

This is the same for many other words such as idiosyncrasies… and I can’t think of anymore. Anyway, the book was so captivating that I brought it overseas and kept on reading it, reading up to 40 to 60 pages a day. The book is all about unfortunate events of the Baudelaire orphans who have lost both their parents in an unfortunate fire. However, Snicket is humorous and makes it seem tragically funny. It’s sort of a tragicomedy that captivates you fully – the next tragicomedy after Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. I’ve to stop now, since I’ll be having lunch and going to school later. So I can’t attend the gathering later at Compass Point… too bad. I’ll continue some other time.

2005-06-25T12:59:00.000+08:00

(my desk is slightly messy)

(completed holiday homework)

HK Airport

2005-06-18T12:59:00.000+08:00

Hello everyone. Once again the free internet service provided by an international airport has been taken advantage of. Well, this one isn't at Changi, but at Hong Kong International Airport, at Chek Lap Kok, Lantau Island. This is not really free, just that they are promoting the internet service, by giving users the first 15 minutes free. After that, you have to pay. But I'm not gonna pay, not because I'm naughty or whatsoever, but because I would be boarding the flight very soon.

Comparison between the computers and the service of the two airports.

HK
LCD Mon is Philips
HP keyboard, which is more easy-for-typing than that of Singapore
HP mouse
Unknown processor and hard drive, since it's embedded under the cupboard
The table is high, but there is a high metal chair for the user to sit

Ok, I shan't continue, since I'll be boarding the flight very soon.

inHK

2005-06-13T13:22:00.000+08:00

I’ve not blogged for a long time already… ever since that post commenting about the free Internet services in Changi Airport. I shan’t write too much about what has happened lately, since this is a public blog, and I think those of you who are alert and observant are aware of this – thee fact that thy blog is no private blog, and that anyone in the whole wide world can view it. And I think that most of you are alert and observant. That’s why… I won’t write things that are very personal here.

But that doesn’t mean that I won’t post anything here! Firstly… it’s thy holiday homework. To be honest, there isn’t really a lot of holiday homework this June holiday, which is contrary to my expectation. (I don’t mean I expect, and WANT, a lot of homework, but the fact is that I cannot think of a better word than the word ‘expectation’, and the second reason being ‘expectation’ is quite a word of choice, and finally the third reason being me thinking that you are able to interpret that my usage of the word ‘expectation’ is not to show my WISH or WANT for a lot of homework, but to show my first beliefs or thoughts or thinkings that there WOULD BE a lot of homework, even though I don’t mean that I WANT a lot of homework.) I wanted to complete all of them within the first week of the holidays, something that seems to be quite easy a task, but in the middle of the week, it seems that it’s too difficult, as I don’t concentrate fully, i.e. use 16 hours of everyday to complete thy homework, the remaining 8 used for sleeping, and no play, but it’s good that I don’t concentrate fully on my homework, since it IS the holidays. Nevertheless, I haven’t finished my homework. I’ve completed those that I feel like doing, or some say ‘interested in’, such as Maths hw and Shakespeare ws (yeah!!), but I’m left with a long Science WS, Ying yong wen, art and that Rotation of thee Water Bottle thing. I know that once I return to Singapore there would be a lot of stuff awaiting. And very soon school would start, again. So, good luck to myself, and also to everybody who’s in the process of doing your holiday homework.

Secondly, it’s Disneyland Hong Kong. No… it’s still in the process of completion and preparation for thee grand opening in September, it’s still not open yet.

But when it’s completed it would be the world’s cheapest Disneyland (HK$300+ admission fee only; about S$70, and that’s cheap compared to other Disneylands.), and also the smallest. I’ve seen an aerial virtual tour shown during news about this Disneyland. It’s rather small - even though I did not compare it with other Disneylands, I still found it something like… E*c*p* Th*m* P*rk??!? (I mean the size) Maybe I’ve got the wrong impression, it’s announced that it’s the world’s smallest Disneyland in terms of size. But I don’t think that it would really be very, very small.
Cast Member Mini Bean Bag Plush - Security Guard Mickey

The park should be quite big, actually. Definitely bigger than E*c*p* Th*m* P*rk. And also big in terms of attractiveness.

Airport Terminal 2

2005-06-04T09:52:00.000+08:00

Hey everyone! I'm now at the airport terminal 2 taking advantage of the free internet service to update my blog. I'll be on an aeroplane soon.

Before finding this computer...
I searched throughout the airport to find an internet service. I remembered that last time they had one in the airport, and it was... also FREE. We could even sit, but the seats were unreasonably small and without backing. Never mind... I couldn't find that spot anymore... Instead I found this one which required me to stand. But that's OK, as long as I have an internet service provider. For this one, I waited for about 2 minutes before a user finally left. Reasonably short waiting time.

Let me go on... since I still have some time before my plane departs. It seems as if they re building another storey ABOVE the check-in counters in Terminal 2. How could that be?!?! The ceiling is now about 2 stories high, but if they were to add one more storey, the ceiling height would be very low. With this kind of low ceiling height, how can they get awards such as the number one airport in the world? Hope I interpreted those steel bars that stretched above the counters wrongly, and that they are not adding a storey, since that might be hazardous to the structure if not carefully planned and built.

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2005-06-03T22:35:00.001+08:00


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2005-06-03T22:35:00.000+08:00


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Get to Know the Power Mac G5

2005-06-03T22:34:00.000+08:00

Get to Know the Power Mac G5

The Professional Dream Machine
Once again, the Power Mac G5 is raising its game by delivering the powerful tools and amazing performance you need to design, build, compose or achieve your next breakthrough. Choose the new 2.7GHz dual-processor speed demon, a mid-range or entry-level model, or customize your own.

New to the dual processor models
The new features of the Power Mac G5 will help take your digital creations to another level:

Faster PowerPC G5 processors — up to 2.7GHz
Speedier frontside bus — up to 1.35GHz on each processor
512MB of memory standard
Higher-performance graphics cards with twice the video memory and built-in support for the 30-inch Apple Cinema Display
Larger capacity hard drives — up to 800GB Serial ATA
A 16X double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL, DVD±R/CD-RW) that burns twice as much data and video on DVDs
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, the world’s most advanced operating system

64 Bits of Power
The 64-bit PowerPC G5 processor combines with Mac OS X Tiger to deliver breakthrough performance for today’s most demanding applications. You can install up to 8GB of main memory — four times more than a typical PC. Furthermore, applications in Tiger can use hardware-accelerated math functions that increase performance for everything from complex scientific calculations to high-end video and audio projects.

High-Performance Graphics
Every Power Mac G5 boasts a dedicated AGP 8X graphics slot and a choice of standard and premium graphics cards from ATI and nVidia. These powerful cards take full advantage of the latest graphics technologies built into Mac OS X Tiger such as Core Image and Core Video. And all cards support dual displays, video mirroring and TV-out.

Expansion and I/O
The Power Mac G5 offers plenty of room to expand as your requirements change. You have the option of three 64-bit PCI-X slots at up to 133MHz. You can also add a second internal hard drive and up to 8GB of RAM, plus a variety of external peripherals over FireWire 400/800 and USB 2.0. You also get Gigabit Ethernet plus both optical digital and analog audio input and output jacks.

Whisper-Quiet Operation
The Power Mac G5’s enclosure houses four discrete thermal zones to compartmentalize the primary heat-producing components. Fans in the zones spin at very low speeds, creating an environment that minimizes distraction. Dual 2.7GHz systems also include an innovative closed-loop liquid cooling system that draws away heat quietly and efficiently.

Get to know the eMac

2005-06-03T22:33:00.000+08:00

Get to know the eMac

Simple, Affordable, Powerful
Delivering even more value and performance for your investment, the eMac offers a simple, clutter-free, all-in-one design and comes with everything you need for learning and playing. Right out of the box.

Affordable All-in-One Design
The eMac puts the whole computer — including 17-inch (16-inch viewable) flat CRT display, 18-watt speakers, 56K modem and optical drive — into a single, attractive package. It’ll look great on your desk, whether you use it in a dorm, kitchen or bedroom.

Your Digital Hub
The eMac now features the new Mac OS X Tiger and the award-winning iLife ’05 suite of applications, so you can make photo slide shows, create home movies, compose music, surf the web, watch movies and much more. Choose the combo drive eMac to burn CDs and play DVDs, or choose a SuperDrive-equipped eMac to burn your own double-layer DVDs at 8X speed.

G4 Performance
The impressive 1.42GHz PowerPC G4 processor provides all the power you need. Whether you create complex Excel spreadsheets or large Keynote presentations, eMac won’t miss a beat. And you’ll really enjoy eMac’s performance when you’re scrolling through thousands of digital photos in iPhoto or applying transitions between clips in iMovie HD.

Blistering 3D Effects
To power eMac’s brilliant CRT, we’ve included an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics processor with 64MB of dedicated video memory — twice as much as previous eMac models. The Radeon processor offers dazzling 2D, 3D and video performance, a feature you’ll really appreciate when editing footage in iMovie HD or while playing Halo.

Fast Connections
Every eMac has two fast FireWire 400 ports built-in, plus five USB ports: three USB 2.0 on the computer and two USB 1.1 on the keyboard. So you can easily connect your eMac to devices like the iPod, digital camcorders, cameras, PDAs and more. Choose the AirPort Extreme option for high-speed wireless networking.

eMac Gallery
Take a closer look >

What’s Included

In the Box

- eMac
- Apple Keyboard
- Apple Mouse
- Modem cable
- Power cord
- Install/restore DVDs/CDs
- Printed and electronic documentation

Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger
Tiger delivers 200+ new features and improvements, such as the amazing Spotlight search technology and handy Dashboard widgets. Tiger also includes all-new versions of the following system applications:

- Safari 2
- Mail 2
- Address Book 4
- iChat AV 3
- iCal 2
- Font Book 2
- DVD Player 4.5
- Preview 3
- Xcode 2

More Software
In addition, the eMac comes with an incredible bundle of software:

- iLife ’05, which includes the latest versions of iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD and GarageBand
- iWork '05 30-day trial
- AppleWorks
- Quicken 2005 for Macintosh
- 2005 World Book Multimedia Reference Suite
- Nanosaur 2
- Marble Blast Gold
- Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive

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Holiday

2005-06-03T22:12:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone! This morning we had a council meeting... General meeting. It's not really a meeting but actually a general briefing. It's about the conduct of councillors, what we should do for pool room duty etc... and most importantly the Investiture. The investiture is quite complicated... a lot of things to do.

Tomorrow I'm flying to Hong Kong... so I'll have to pack my things. I haven't started packing yet!

Anyway about the links... I've got people up to class 2-3, many whom I don't know, linked to my blog. If you were observant enough, I've not completed the lot of 2-3, as some people haven't been linked. DoO eUu nOe huU aR dEy? OOps... I'd better not type DiS WaE, since it's irritating.

The Amazing War between Firefox and Opera

2005-05-30T23:51:00.000+08:00

Ok. Let’s begin with Star Wars. Just now I just watched Star Wars 3 with Ingmar after his band at Junction 8. When we entered the cinema, it was not packed at all. I thought Star Wars would be quite popular. When the movie started, there were only three rows filled, given that every row had only 10 miserable seats (it was a tiny cinema), how many people were there? To add on, not every single seat was filled up. For instance, out of the 5 seats in my side, only 4 were filled up.

Ok. Let’s begin with the MOVIE itself, without too much concentration on the NUMBER of audience. When the movie started, I felt lost. I’ve never seen any Star Wars movie before! I’ve not even heard about the story of Star Wars! How would you expect me to comprehend a scene of galactic fighting with spaceships big and small, gliding before a black background scattered with stars, right at the beginning of the movie? What’s that?? It’s not that I’ve no prior knowledge of Star Wars. I actually know that it’s the war between the Jedi and Sith, according to Wee Seng. After watching halfway then I began to know what’s happening. When the movie was about to end, the two Jedi men from the council (councillors!) were fighting above a pool of boiling lava. That was the exciting part, and the climax was when thy man whose name was … ANIKA??? Got burnt. So he left his pregnant wife (with twins!) by themselves. According to his dream, his wife would die at child birth, and it came true. Ironically, it was HE HIMSELF who dreamt of it, worried about it, shared his worries with his wife, assured his wife that it would NEVER happen, hurt and almost killing his wife, causing her to die at the point after her second child was out. Ironically it was HE HIMSELF who caused his wife to die. That part was intriguing. GREAT. So at the end I found the movie very nice. No wonder Straits Times gave it 3 1/2 stars out of 5.

Ok. About the Amazing Race that happened last Thursday, organized by NKF. I shan’t elaborate further. Let Yi Yong tell you about this (in other words, I shall copy what Yi Yong posted on his blog about the same event onto my own blog)::

= nkf "amazing race" =
alright, last thurs the whole sec 2 cohort had to do a CIP programme called "amazing challenge 2005". the nkf idiots made the programme SOUND interested (let me stress on the word SOUND again), having so many prizes like iPod shuffle for the winning team, etc etc. but, as a mature-enuff person, I AM NOT FOOLED. they are just trying to make use of us to get more and more money. alright, THEY HAVE SO MUCH money already, and i am quite sure that they don't need so much more. they just want the money to feed the stupid KBUDDY. IDIOTS.

the amazing race is not even a race. it shud be called "walk-on-the-street-and-get-money-for-kbuddy programme". the programme is a total waste of time, energy and ez-link card money alrite.

my group, consisted of thomas, ingmar, patrick, kung yin and me, were allocated to orchard rd (the place where we did our "orchard of hope" for CIP also). orchard rd is seriously full of ANGMOHS. yes, angmohs. and i don't like angmohs. or rather, SOME angmohs. they are simply snobbish idiots who think that they are so good. i tried asking them for donations and GUESS WAT?! none of them donated. so, i gave up on those white-hair-big-nose crap and asked other people to donate.

well, settled our lunch at the mac outside the building having the lido cineplex inside. ingmar, our STAR-MONEY-COLLECTOR, helped all our teammates to get $10. wow. oh yah, while we were doing our k-buddy fund-raising thing, we made fun of people like ***** ****. oops.

WARNING:: WHAT HE WROTE IS NoNe OF MY BUSINESS. IT’S ALL HIS COMMENTS AND FACTS SEEN THROUGH HIS OWN PERSPECTIVE, AND I HAVE NOT ADDED A SINGLE WORD OR GIVEN A SINGLE OPINION ABOUT THE POST. Repeat: NoNe Of My BuSiNeSs.

Ok. About Firefox vs. Opera. The day before yesterday, I just installed Opera browser into my computer. Just now I opened blogger.com using Opera, and tried to post. I couldn’t type anything into the contents field! Sigh… don’t know what happened. So I immediately felt that Opera was lousy. I opened Mozilla Firefox and as usual, I could easily post onto my blog.

What else:

Common good points:

Tabs

Bad points of Mozilla Firefox:

It’s difficult to obtain themes

Requires additional downloading of plugins

Some plugins couldn’t be found

Bad points of Opera:

Advertisements!! (it’s not really distracting though; it’s on the top, right below the taskbar)

Can’t post on my blog using Opera

They are so stingy in thy sense that they want to give AD-FREE browsers only to those who pay, when Mozilla is FREE, and AD-FREE.

Website of the Day- Madagascar Trailer

2005-05-29T23:22:00.000+08:00

http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/madagascar/md_base_lrg.html

Large Trailer

Madagascar

2005-05-29T23:17:00.000+08:00

I’d just gone to GV.com to watch the trailer of Madagascar by DreamWorks. Since I wanted to view the large version, I had to wait ten minutes before it was available. But once it was ready, WOW! The trailer was amazing! It was really a professional piece of job done and the artists and producers have really put in tons of effort to put up not only this two-minute trailer, but of course, also the whole movie Madagascar. However, after I tried downloading the website (My motive was to download the trailer into my computer), and I opened it, I could only hear the music of the movie trailer, which was in QuickTime Movie format (.mov). Okay, the sound quality was superb, but I couldn’t see the video, which was even more astonishing. That’s so disappointing… next time when I want to view it, I must go to that website again…

[Yahoo! Video Search]

This Yahoo! Video search is not really effective… let’s tolerate since it’s still in its Beta version. I tried searching video clips. When you search for iPod, there are a lot of suitable results. However, just try Cadbury, or Singapore. Most of the results are irrelevant, and also in strange file formats that firstly, I fear that my computer can’t play it, and secondly, it might contain some virus. So far I have only downloaded Apple TV commercials which are all very nice.

[blogskin]

Finally, I’m going to talk about my change of blog skin. I’ve been using the chopsticks template for the past few months, even though I admit that it’s really ugly. Furthermore, the links are not updated. Sorry to Si Lian and many other people whom I have not put up your links or changed your links yet. I’ll do that as soon as possible.

Let’s not get distracted. Why did I change blogskin? Firstly, as I’ve mentioned, the previous blogskin was terrible. I didn’t want to search for more skins at blogskin.com, since the results aren’t pleasing, and the website is very slow. After seeing all the results at blogskin.com, I can conclude that it’s really hard to find a nice one at blogskin.com, and the preset ones REALLY look professional. Yet so many people do not want to use them, and think that they are too monotonous. How can that be? Anyway, I had quite some problem deciding on which blogskin I wanted, from the list of preset blogskins available. Some of them are really, really nice, and I hope everyone would appreciate their professionalism instead of the amateurism and UGLINESS of SOME, and I REPEAT, SOME (NOT all), of the skins at blogskin.com.

Word count: 443

Finishing up the side bar

2005-05-28T23:27:00.000+08:00

Wow... I've spent a painstaking effort to update the sidebar. As I have mentioned earlier (maybe a few months ago), I want to put everyone in CHS' blog links into my blog, and I am reaching out my first step by... starting to add the links of people whom I do not know from class 2-1. Above that I also added a shoutbox.

Last night blogger was lagging. This morning it was lagging too. Hope it's faster now.

Just downloaded Opera Browser. Not bad... it's quite fun, just that it's totally terrible that they retained the stupid ads on the top, since I'm using a free version. Can't they just remove it? No-one would be interested in THESE KINDS of ads.

(shuihuzhuan)
rotation of the water bottle
Why must we do a project on the rotation of water bottles? It's extremely boring and I'm not interested. We are to do a powerpoint presentation in groups, and the topics is about something inside the rotation of the water bottles. Sigh...

screwed up term 2 but still managed to get into trpl science

2005-05-27T20:41:00.000+08:00

(screwed up term 2 but still managed to get into tr*pl* science)

sigh…

Last week our results for most of the subjects were out. I was disappointed with every single subject. Maybe some people might think that I got… wah, so high, so high that I have to raise my head 87 degrees so that I can have a glimpse of your marks… but many, many people would have to bend down and use a magnifying glass in order to see my tiny marks. Ok, sorry, that’s really rubbish. Let me break them up into POINT FORM.

[Literary Expressions]

Overall: 74/100

Highest: 76/100

AAARGH!!!!!! Dropped by 1 mark, and most unfortunately, couldn’t get A1… If I had got just one mark higher for the different cultures test, I would have got A1 and topped the class. Anyway, this term’s LE was easy due to a spelling test that occupied 15%. But as you can see, our class standards are not very high. Highest is 76 only, compared to the highest 84/100, which most probably came from John of 2-7?

Different Cultures Test 17/25

[Maths]

Overall: 66/100

Highest: Forgot, and don’t want to mention

[Science]

Overall: 74/100

Highest: 76/100

AAARGH!!!!!! FAILED COMMON TEST!!!! 14/30 (%) If I could have just gotten one more percent for common test I could have got A1 for science.

[History]

Overall: 65/100

Highest: 91/100

When I got back my history common test paper, which was 70% (!!!) of SA1, I almost felt like crying… it was like this… Ms Tan Shi Hui was giving out all those papers and when the person got high scores, she would say **** ***, 17 and a half! Then I actually worked very hard for this paper, even though I admit that I was not paying attention at times. When she gave me the paper she said nothing so I expected a low mark. At least I improved from last term – 10.5/20! Actually I’m interested in History, especially European history, since it’s fascinating, but passion doesn’t always equate to proficiency… Ok, my inferential questions were actually good, but my marks were sucked by the high difficulty (not really difficult..) of the factual questions. So… I wonder what Humanities combination I should take next year… available for pure are geography and history? I don’t know whether there’s pure English Literature. For Elective, there’s Social Studies + Music, Art, Geography, History, English Literature, Chinese Literature… I think that’s all… I have always had a ginormous interest in Geography. Last time, since K1, I’ve been reading and analyzing the different routes that a car could take from one place to another on the street directory, 1993 edition. Primary one started to be hugely interested in maps, flags, population. Pramary four, whenever I went to Borders at Orchard, I always took tens of books about Geographical facts, and quite a number was about AMERICAN states. So if you asked me what’s the capital of the state Oklahoma, I could straight away tell you it’s Oklahoma City. Ok, that’s too simple and straight-forward. If you were to ask me what’s the state capital of Arkansas, I could tell you that it’s Little Rock And the capital of New York state is NOT New York City, but it’s Albany, a small town Northwest of NYC. Broadway (the name of the avenue), when extended would most likely end up in Albany… Ok.. that’s enough. Any way I was also interested to find out which country had the highest literacy rate in Africa, and which country had the highest GDP in Africa, so I looked through all the books and lists I have collected…. And until now I still love reading maps, especially subway maps and city street directory maps. Most likely I’ll take Geog, unless Something happens… maybe what if I fail Geog next term?? Haha… that won’t happen

(that’s enough)

That’s enough… so my average for this term… I didn’t really calculate, so I don’t know…

Sorry if I’m boastful and boasting boastfully about my boastable results.

But average for this semester is… erm… better not tell you.

Anyway, I got… 4^th in class. But my class not very qiang… not like last year 1-4. So many people from 1-4 got such high scores last year. Then all of them went to 2-1… Reading the report on the last year term 1 in the report book, 4 of the 8 top scores of respective subjects came from 1-4. They are Maths, Geography, Science and Home Econs.

(that’s really enough)

that’s enough… let me talk about something else

(nkf)

Yesterday we had an NKF amazing race.

Word count: 776 words

Cadbury

2005-05-15T21:35:00.000+08:00

Postie
Wouldn't it be nice if the world was Cadbury
Chocolate roads and trees 'n' birds 'n' bees
Delivering all kinds of letters daily
Every kind of purple parcel too
And if the dog did try and grab a mouth full
You can bite him back, he'll taste delightful
Wouldn't it be nice.!

Surfer
Wouldn't it be nice if the world was Cadbury
You could surf inside a chocolate tube
Ride your board across the wave forever
Get wiped out and never get a bruise.
And if a shark came up and tried to bite you
You could say "I'm chocolate I invite you"
Wouldn't it be nice!

Soccer
Wouldn't it be nice if the world was Cadbury
You could be a soccer super star
The referee would blow his chocolate whistle
A shot on goal would even break the bar
And if you went and scored the winner
You'd win the cup and eat it for your dinner
Wouldn't it be nice!

Car
Wouldn't it be nice if the world was Cadbury,
Driving in the car would be a tasty treat,
Changing gear would soon become a problem,
Cadbury Dairy Milk is so good to eat.
And when you arrive at your destination,
You'll be greeted with an exclamation,
Wouldn't it be nice!

http://www.cadbury.com.au/contact/adcampaigns.php

HELOO

2005-05-14T13:42:00.000+08:00

Heloo everyone. I’m updating my blog… just 4 days after my previous update. Recently the common test results are out… and I AM very DiSAPPOINTED about them. We got back our Maths, Science and Higher Chinese papers. On the overall, I wouldn’t fail any subject, but I failed the Science Common Test, which was almost a virtually impossible thing to happen to me. The bad thing is I got 21/45. The good thing is the test only constitutes to 30% of the total Science marks. The other components include daily work, Bio journal and Science Mini Project, and I scored really high for the three components. Still, I ONLY got 65 for total, given that my second lowest marks WAS 76. Maths… I passed, 23/40. Chinese, I passed, 30/50. Now I’m awaiting my Literary Expressions, hopefully I can get a A1, or at least A2. Maybe Lit. E. is the only thing I can get A1. I got to work XTRA hard to get into triple science, which I thought I could DEFINITELY go to. SORRY if I’m showing off, or being too boastful.

I HATE TAN K*R W**N

2005-05-10T07:01:00.000+08:00

HELOOOOOO!!

Heloo everyone! Finally, I’m back… Last two weeks I didn’t really have time to blog, because of the common test, and many other ridiculous things that had happened… So my last post was… more than 2 weeks ago, in April? To all the loyal supporters of this popular glob, I am quite sorry to disappoint you… for there had been no updates on my glob recently.

Last week was the common test week. Surprisingly the tests were so difficult! Or maybe too long. For the science paper, so many pupils complained about the short time (45 minutes to 50 minutes- whichever is correct, I forgot) given to complete the long paper… I’m quite worried about my Science… where would my A1 go to? I hope there wouldn’t be any A1s in this class. Even if there is, I hope it’s me. Mathematics is also another killer. Maybe not totally because of the common test, which is not easy either, but because of the many class tests that I had failed. For the first one I got 13.5/20, then I was quite disappointed. Then the next one, which was on Algebraic Fractions, similar to the first one, gave me 6/20. The third one… 8/20, then finally an EASY one, but far too long to be completed in the short amount of time given, but of which if there had been sufficient time I might be able to get quite high… that one I got 8/20!! How disappointing. Higher Chinese is slightly better. Literary Expressions and History are not as killing, and I hope to achieve quite high for both. Sigh.

For Literary Expressions we are going to start on Shakespeare’s (William Shakespeare’s, to be exact) Merchant of Venice. It seems very interesting and exciting, and we were required to do a group work, a PowerPoint presentation on one of the aspects of Shakespeare. At first I was, for no reason, sure that I would be assigned to good group members who are hardworking, intelligent and have at least a certain amount of common sense, personal hygiene and discipline. But I was wrong. Our Literary Expressions teacher was Mrs Tham, and she used a undemocratic way of dividing the class into groups of 3 and 4. I don’t see any problem that lies in that, as this is a good way to divide all the intelligence and stupidity, capability and incapability, and popularity and unpopularity among the whole class. Unpopular people would not have to forced to do by themselves, and other groups which are formed by the students themselves would not have to face the deadly fate of unwillingly accepting an unpopular outcast into their group, therefore resulting in unhappiness among the group, which should most likely consist of friends who know each other and know that each other is capable and good. However, the choosing of groups was different from the Cuba project one. For that one, Mrs Tham used 37 pieces of paper, rolled into a ball, each with a register number on it. Then a student chose 4 pieces of the paper and the four register numbers would form a group. This time, register number 1, 11, 21 and 31 would form a group, and 2, 12, 22 and 32 another, so on. I didn’t realize that some Bangla Pigs WHICH have no common sense, personal hygiene and discipline was about to join my group!! I think you have guessed it. TAN K*R W**N!!!! Fill in the *s with your own vowels, until you think that the word makes sense, and sounds like a Bangla Pig’s name. Luckily the other group member was Kris, and not another unpopular star, or I would be doomed.

I HATE TAN K*R W**N!!
I HATE TAN K*R W**N!!
I HATE TAN K*R W**N!!
I HATE TAN K*R W**N!!
I HATE TAN K*R W**N!!

I’m not saying that Mrs Tham’s undemocratic way of division is no good, but how I wished that the same ‘lucky draw’ method would be used instead of this ‘register number’ method. I’m just purely unlucky to have such things in my group. Hopefully she won’t use the same method of division next time.

Recently I just received my COUNCILLOR badge, and the PROBATE badges were returned. Not only I was given this badge. In fact, every single councilor on probate received it.

That’s about all. BYE!!

(word count: at least 711, excluding all those I HATE TAN K*R W**Ns)

Main EVENT::-+-+!!!Gary’s Birthday!!!+-+-

2005-04-24T22:53:00.000+08:00

-+-+!!!Gary’s Birthday!!!+-+-
Happy Birthday to our most popular student in 2-8, Gary Chew Kok Fei!! His birthday fell on the 22nd of April, Friday, and it was hugely celebrated! It was such a major event in Catholic High School, that the class sang the Birthday song in two languages (we’re bilingual) after every lesson! Congratulations, Zou X Kou Yu Fei Wen! That’s his nickname that we all call him. Then recently we received a green booklet called ‘My Journal’, and it was thought to be quite interesting, but guess what - the year was 2003/04! As a result, most of us didn’t want to keep it, and thought of a great way to dispose of them. We handed our green journals to Yi Yong, then he wrote things like

Happy Birthday Gary!
Brought to you by W**ny

on the cover of the journals. (the covers were plainly light green without any pictures, and it was made of hard paper) There were altogether about 8 journals with such greetings on it, and finally, Gary received 8 birthday gifts! He stuffed all the 8 journals inside his bag. Whenever somebody offered to let Yi Yong draw on his unwanted journal, Gary would say NO, DON’T GIVE HIM! I DON’T WANT TO RECEIVE ANYMORE!! But most of us ignored him. LOL. If you feel that this article is offensive, twist your mind and tell yourself that this is just a joking-style article and no offence. Just joking.

^By the way^
By the way I shouldn’t be here blogging. I should either be sleeping as it is very late, or I should be completing my English poem Worksheet. But I decided to just slack a little, and that would not rob me of the ability to do well, hopefully? Moreover, I have not blogged for such a long time, and that makes my blog… not frequently updated! It’s turning to become a blog that is updated weekly, again!

~~This week~~
Let’s start off with yesterday. All the Secondary 1 and 2 student leaders, i.e., the Councillors, Prefects, and Class Chairmen, had to attend a leadership training course conducted by Acorn, again. (Acorn also conducted the 8 to 6 training during the leadership training camp during the March holidays) It was quite fun, however, only a few councilors turned up… They were ME, of course (if I were not there how would I know who WAS there), Eugene Ke, Gabriel, Joshua Chan, Ziyang, Jeffrey and Clarence. There were only 7 councillors! I wonder what happened to the rest of them. Anyway this workshop was quite fun, but we could have been advised earlier to wear something else other than our School Uniform, because there were a few physical activities. At least the head prefect allowed us to take off our ties while doing the activities. My tie… had already been fixed by then and I was not wearing a slightly dismantled tie ( a few people from my class SHOULD know, but never mind if you don’t know what I’m uttering about, since it’s unnecessary and unneeded ). When doing these activities, we were randomly split up into 6 groups. My group consisted of me, Rui Xian, Jing Kai, Jun Feng, Darryl Seah, Jeffrey, Ziyang, and a cute sec 1 class chairman called Nikolas.

On Friday I did not attend CCA ( I prefer not to say ‘skip’ CCA), because I was one of the first few who volunteered enthusiastically when our assistant class chairman asked for 11 people to attend the Learning Journey on 22nd April, Friday (Gary’s B-day!), to the NeWater museum for a visit. The museum, or maybe not really of a museum, or the tourists’ exhibition centre of the NeWater plant in Tanah Merah, was really fantastically done. It is a very interactive place, and don’t expect it to be like any other traditional museums such as the Asian Civilisations Museum down by the Singapore River in Empress Place, where it is boring and expects you to figure out the huge chunks of collected information by yourself (but basically that is not one of the best examples of bad and un-interactive museums that is around, as at least there are a few LCD touch screen panels for interactivity). At this NeWater exhibition, or perhaps tourist centre, there is a step-by-step approach in teaching the masses about water supplies in Singapore, in which firstly, is a short ten-minute movie of introduction, followed by a few stages which shall not be named and elaborated. Join the next Learning Journey if you want to find out more about the NeWater plant. Anyway, there are so many plasma and LCD touch screens in the interactive ‘games’ hall, which would be very exorbitant, and the government could have used the money to purchase more … ultraviolet filters for the NeWater, but that reminds me of the famous quote, ‘Money is never a problem’, and with that rhetorical and inspiring quote in your minds, I shall hereby end this blogging session.

Frequent

2005-04-15T22:47:00.000+08:00

||Frequent||

Suddenly I realize that I am ahem, blogging quite often! It is just 2 days away from my previous post. Anyway, I know that I am actually not blogging very frequently, because of a lack of time, or something like that. When I just started with my blog three months ago, I had never expected myself to blog DAILY, since that is incredible. Some people are seemingly busy, but they can afford to supply 700 words to their beloved blog daily. Now that’s Incredible. I CAN’T do that. I even thought that blogging would be a weekly activity, and it turned out to be one! It seems that these few weeks I am only blogging on Friday nights.

Now, back to what happened today. Our first period was Carpe Diem, and it was held in the hall. All the Sec 1 and Sec 2 pupils went to the hall by 8.10am, and the mass lecture was given by our SJAB teacher in charge, Ms Tan Lee Choo. It was about INNOWITS! This year, our WITS is made more creative. There is an INNO added in front of WITS, which makes the name so different and INNOvative. INNOWITS. Then we were not told to bring paper along, but she asked us to copy down notes! She announced that it would be too costly if she were to print out all the 16 (?) slides for all of us, so we might as well just copy them down. Our class second period is Music, so we brought along our music files. Coincidentally, I had a piece of paper inside the file which can be used for copying notes. That was not a fresh piece of paper but one side was printed the guitar chords of Guan Huai Fang Shi, and I didn’t really want to use that piece of paper, but… we had to copy down. During the whole lecture, my few classmates behind be talked and slapped and hit each other. So childish, but I didn’t care about them.

Next lesson was Music, as mentioned. The few Nan Chiau de sat together, together with Zou-X, on the first row. Then Yi Yong say that I ‘nerd, go and copy down notes, only nerds like C***** **** ** would go and copy down all those notes…’ Then I forgot how I replied to his ‘wise’ comment. Music lesson was about… Indian Music! It’s actually very interesting to know about North and South Indian music. It’s totally fascinating! I doubt if anyone in the school could play that kind of instruments. They look honourable and complicated to master. But it’s truly really wonderful to have such exposure to these less-familiar musical cultures in the world.

English lesson was by Mrs Tham. It was ok, but a few people did manage to fall asleep!

Recess

Maths… Mr Lee CH. The class was noisy as usual. I couldn’t hear him properly. When the lesson ended, it seems that no one is listening, except for Pei Gang, Cheung-Hsiag, and the few Nan Chiau de, including me, and perhaps a few more hidden people who have been paying attention. Other than these few people, no one was listening to Mr Lee. Including Seng Kang de.

History lesson was next. At first, Ms Tan allowed us to enter the lousy computer lab 1 to do our research. (That lab’s really lousy-- some monitors got no CPU, my CPU the casing came out. On the overall, the computers are quite slow.) Ten minutes later, Mr Ng and his Sec 1 class was waiting outside and they were urgently in need of using the com. lab. And I don’t know the reason. Anyway we went back to our class and Ms Tan said do your planning for your essay (if you are not from 2-8, you won’t know what I’m talking about, but that’s ok). We could do our planning in groups. I could not even plan. Actually most of us could not. It’s not that we could not find information, but it’s that we had too much information found and we had no time to digest all of them, and of course we couldn’t remember all the information and opinions that we had discovered. So I ended up sitting together with about 8 more classmates, listening to Tawan M. and Zong Rui debate about our topic.

Science lesson was the last lesson of the day. The whole lesson was about our Science Mini Project Presentation.

For some reason, there was no SJAB training today. It was also raining quite heavily at around 1.40 to 2.20 in Bishan.

ABOUT THE LINKS::

Sorry that I haven’t updated the links to blogs like Patrick’s blog. It has been changed from http://firefoxrox.blogspot.com to http://eventhorizon8664.blogspot.com. Yi Yong’s blog has also been changed from http://longtimeago-home.blogspot.com to…. a new one! (I could not remember what’s his new one, but I know his new blog. Just have to find out.) As for a few people who have just applied for a blog, I would Link you as soon as possible. Link me too!!

Happy Birthday

2005-04-13T20:28:00.000+08:00

Happy Birthday! to myself.
Well, today is not my birthday. It's Martin's. Anyway, Happy Birthday to Martin. My birthday was 3 days ago, on 10 April. I'm officially 14!

My birthday presents so far...
Myself-- 2.4km run improved by a lot! Pass. Timing: 13:10
Students' Council -- a birthday card
ALex-- Graph paper lol
Patrick-- Graph paper also... lol

And also thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday. There are too many people who wished me happy birthday, so I won't list them out.

Tomorrow is Band SYF. Modern Dance also tomorrow right? Good luck. Don't ever get golD!! Must get gold with HoNoUrS!

Anyway I am VERy happy that I passed my 2.4 by so much... Last year I run so many times before I could finally pass the test by 7 seconds. So, please congratulate me on top of wishing me happy birthday, if you wish to. Not compulsory.

Tomorrow everyone from Sec 2 and some from sec 1 are going to support the school basketball competition. Dunno what South Zone B or C or D or E division or something like that. Hope they win something, as usual.

Happy Birthday to:
Martin
Thomas
Stanley
Gabriel
Myself
and everyone else whose birthday is in April

3 months

2005-04-07T00:33:00.000+08:00

3 months
Suddenly I remember that this is the 3rd month of the blog! 3 months old already. LOL

Wednesday

2005-04-07T00:31:00.000+08:00

Wednesday
Today is Wednesday… obviously. This morning, we had P.E. Sepak Takraw. We were taught how to head the melon-sized plastic and strange ball, which is not made of rubber but bounces. As usual, my heading was very lousy. I headed either too slow, or my reaction was too fast. Sigh… Basketball is better than sepak takraw. I prefer basketball. I did not mention that I am better in basketball. Luckily, Mr Khoo did not restrict us to heading. We could also use our legs to hit the ball. Then P.E. ended quite fast, because it was not on physical fitness training.

Chinese lesson. Mdm Wong. Textbooks. For this year, I don’t remember using textbooks many times. This might be an advantage and also a disadvantage. Advantage: Chinese lesson would not be as boring as teaching everything and word that comes from the textbook. Disadvantage: Chinese made more difficult without 填写汉字，造句……

Recess! Wait… not to forget a ten-minute break in between. IT, assembly, councillors’ meeting. I wonder what happened to our Class EXCO meeting? When I got back to class almost no one was there.

I went down to the auditorium to help the drama! English drama! Some other Sec 1, 2 and 3 class chairmen and councilors were also there to help in getting the props ready before the performance. Then we all were treated to watch the performance! The drama was fabulous. Fantastic. Superb. Surely get platinum with hounors. Wish them all the best. Not to forget about the other performing arts groups who are going for SYF soon. Band, choir, modern dance. Did I miss out any one?

Anyway, had choir come back with a gold with honours today ( I mean, 6th of April)? I’m not sure… I hope even if they have not, they will.

As for the links in my blog, I know that some of them have not been updated. Please be patient… it’s good enough that I put up a post right now. Remember, the emphasis of any decent blog is on the posts, not the links to friends. I’m not saying that there should not be any links, but… well, let me emphasize that the emphasis of a blog is on the posts, not the links, unless the blog owner is indecent, which makes the bolg indecent, which is most unlikely to happen, since personally I think only decent people blog at blogger.com. Haha! BUT. that doesn’t mean I’m going to ignore the links. I’ll get the links done once I have the time. Meanwhile, it’s already late and I have got to sleep. Good night!

Wait… not to forget. I would also be putting up a visitor counter. I’ll get one when I’m free.

Word count: 461 words

What the t*tle

2005-03-26T01:00:00.000+08:00

What the t*tle
Phew… Finally I got time to blog.

Anyway… I found out a few blogs…
Zheng Kai’s new blog :: http://final-drifting.blogspot.com/
Jion Chun’s blog :: http://disurworld.blogspot.com/

Maybe I’ll link them… on my left hand side that bar. Anyway I feel like creating links of EVERYONE in the school, esp. all the sec 2s. I can group them according to their classes… regardless of whether I know them or not. Then I’ll separate those people whom I personally know into a different category -- Friends !! Well, this is just a suggestion -- a proposal to myself -- might be carried out.

On Thursday I was dismissed at 12 noon for a SJAB public duty at Bishan Stadium. On our way there, at the junction, we met a St. John Ambulance. Then we were in our full-uniform and carrying our first-aid equipments, walking to the stadium. There were 5 of us- Si Lian, Pei Gang, Guo Jun, Chun Hian and me. The ambulance actually stopped to pick us up! Then for the rest of the journey, we were riding on the ambulance. However that ambulance had its back windows pasted with white plastic sheets (just like any other ambulance!!). We could not see what was outside. But never mind… an ambulance ride for half the journey from the school to Bishan Stadium is good enough…

Well, the event is actually an inter-primary school sports meet! I didn’t know about it before I went there. I only know got first aid duty. Even Nan Chiau Primary School was there! The first aiders of the event (five of us, plus the driver of the ambulance) were sitting right next to the ending point of each race and near the starting point of the race. That means, we were sitting right next to the track. I met a few familiar faces from Nan Chiau Primary, but I don’t think that they would recognize me.

The whole thing ended at about 5, and then we had an ambulance ride back to school. There were only erm… 2 casualties throughout the whole event, and both were minor injuries.

So on that day I missed 1 period of science, English and Project Work.

Today is Good Friday. Holiday! A public one. That means got a long weekend. But I got the SJAB Colour Commissioning on Sunday, and it would occupy almost the whole day. Or maybe ¾ of the day. Science project to be completed by 28th of March.

What happened during the holidays?
Monday- SJAB Community Emergency Preparation Programme (is it this name?) at Telok Kurau camp
Tuesday- Science remedial… plus lunch at McDonalds with Jonathan (Junnythin) and Wei Jie.
Wednesday- Homework at home
Thursday- Homework plus Home Econs project. Wei Jie come to my house to do
Friday- Council- Leadership Training Camp, together with the whole SLB (Students’ Council, Prefectorial Board, Class Management Committee)
Saturday- Camp until 12 something. Then I slept for the whole afternoon because I was so tired. Do Homework.
Sunday- Marching in the supporting contingent for Colour Commissioning (rehearsal at Yio Chu Kang Stadium). At night I rush homework…
Monday- No holidays anymore… school!! Term 2 Week 1 Day 1
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Wow… it’s 12.57am already. Took about one hour to write this thing. Includes planning, drafting, brainstorming, typing, refining, checking and uploading. (exaggerating) Now it’s already Saturday… weekend! LATER, I’ll sleep and then wake up, brush my teeth, wash my face, have breakfast, and begin a new day. LATER. Now I’ll brush my teeth and wash my face and sleep first.

Holidays

2005-03-15T18:58:00.000+08:00

Holidays
Hi everyone. It's the holidays!

End of Term One

2005-03-11T23:46:00.000+08:00

End of Term One
Finally, term one has ended. This term has been such a tiring term. I’ve been so busy lately. During my holidays, I won’t really have holidays as I have so many projects, homework, camps, remedial and CCA. I think everyone Sec Two student shares the same experiences and feelings as me, right?

What happened these few days?
Monday- Talk on Social Etiquette
Tuesday- Rehearsal for 时事问答比赛。Mosaic project. Dinner at Naked Fish Shoppe!! Nice and delicious!!
Wednesday-时事问答比赛 in the hall during assembly! Our class got the last among the 9 classes.
Thursday- Replacement for casualty in the First Aid Competition. Went to Pierce Secondary School for a mock competition.
Today- SJAB

Sec 2 Camp

2005-03-07T21:42:00.000+08:00

Sec 2 Camp

This wonderful yet dreadful event happened on the 25th to 27th of February. On Friday, we went to school as usual, but school for classes 2-5, 2-6, 2-7, and 2-8 ended at 12pm. It was followed by a half-hour lunch break. At 12.30pm, we were all supposed to be assembled at the plaza with our enormous backpacks or luggage. The four pathetic classes, comprised of about 4 x 37 pupils, were left sitting and melting under the scorching sun. Finally, at 1 something, we got onto our buses and the bus’ wheels began to roll to Jalan Bahtera Camp Site, in Jalan Bahtera (somewhere in Lim Chu Kang).

On the whole, the camp was a camp of adventure as it consisted of challenging activities such as high ropes, abseiling and zipline. Actually, the camp also trained our level of discipline, as we had to do pumpings (in case you don’t know what’s that, it’s PuSh-UpS) if we were late or noisy or simply not well-behaved.

First day
Zipline and Abseiling
Zipline was very fun! I wanted to do it again, but each person was only allowed to do it once.
Abseiling… I’m such a failure! I have done abseiling before, yet I dared not do it this time. Perhaps it’s because the increased height of the abseiling tower of this camp.

Second day
High ropes and kayaking
High ropes was so scary! Initially, I confidently made fun of those who struggled on the three-storey high ropes. When I got up there, I was wrong. I didn’t know that it was so high and I was very, very scared. I couldn’t help screaming to the Sec 3 I/Cs down there that I was very, very scared and couldn’t do it and wanted to come down. Well, that one was a difficult rope course, so I came down and tried another two more. The two more were easier (at least they were not swinging in the wind) and I completed it, although I was still afraid.
Kayaking… My partner was Jun Long. We put on our life-vests and then set out to a ‘nearby’ island, which seemed very near when we rowed there. The journey back to our camp site was the most scary and challenging part. It was peaceful and fast when we rowed to the island, as we were along with the current. When we came back, we were against the current, so we could not stop rowing at any point of time. Once we stop, the kayak would move backwards. But the very worst part was that there was a thunderstorm!! Suddenly, as we were rowing our kayaks, thunders started roaring and ominous clouds appeared, darkening the sky. We were frantic and started to worry about what would happen to us if the storm continued. Sometimes, when the salt water went into my eyes, I cannot see and felt even more desperate and anxious. But when I looked behind, there were at least 8 more kayaks behind us. There were about 4 more kayaks ahead of us. The whole group was quite distinctly separated into two, perhaps by a tide or wave or current or whatever. No matter what, the kayakers behind were very much behind us. About fifteen minutes later, it started to rain. We rowed our kayaks at full speed and quite soon, we arrived at the shore in one piece. Our teachers were very helpful and rowed their kayaks out to the waters to push all the kayaks out there to the shore.

Third day
Rock walls
Very fun but I was scared too.

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for today, that’s all. I’ll continue with other things next time .

Interactive Session on 19th February

2005-03-07T21:39:00.000+08:00

Interactive Session on 19th February

There was an interactive session for the new Sec 2 and Sec 3 councilors on 19th Feb, which was more than 2 weeks ago. See, I don’t have the time to blog for the past few weeks, so the event is only featured in this post, which is actually posted 16 days after the thing happened.

We got randomly divided groups and began with ice-breakers. Followed by 3 different workshops. Then we had lunch. The last event was the best. It was water bombs. Each of the eight groups was given a pail of water and many plastic bags. We created our own water bombs. The game was very fun. After that, the whole session ended.

New Post, Finally

2005-03-06T12:52:00.001+08:00

I have not posted anything on my blog for such a long time... I was so busy!! For the past erm... 2 weeks, i did not really have time to blog. Finally I have some time to write something.

So many things happened in the past 2 or 3 weeks.

Students' Council- Interactive Session
Sec 2 camp- 25th to 27th February
Cross Country, and the cancellation of Cross Country
O' Level results
Quarter Day on Friday, 4th March
And many others ++

I shall elaborate on all these and many other things ++ on future posts, if I have the time.

2005-02-18T23:53:00.000+08:00

Contents
There is a limit to the types of information I can post on my blog. I might want to talk about anything under the sun, but I cannot really do that. There’s a limit.

Of the many blogs I have visited, I can see that a considerable amount of gossip is posted regularly, on SOME of the blogs. (NO OFFENCE) People often criticize their most hated classmates or friends online, and even tell the viewers to zip their mouths and not tell that person about this online gossip. If the blog owner really does not want the target to know about this, then he would have done a foolish thing my posting it online.

By posting it on his blog, he is making this gossip or rumour a PUBLIC one. The owner might think, “Oh, I didn’t tell THAT PERSON my blog address, so he won’t know one lah!” However that is absolutely untrue. The targeted person can easily track down the gossiper’s blog address if he really wants to. He can simply ask around, or use any other form of simple and low-technology methods. It is not a task as difficult as hacking his e-mail or Gunbound or Runescape or whatsoever account. That is the reason why I wouldn’t want to post any gossips, or worst still, sEcUrE sEcReTs on my blog.

Another popular thing that many bloggers do is commenting about a teacher, online. Again, the blogs are public and anyone can see it! You might think, “I didn’t tell the teacher my blog address, then she won’t know one!” How can she not know?? When the teachers want to know your blog address, they can find out easily. That’s the reason why I don’t (or seldom) comment about school events or teachers on my blog. That’s the reason why I am not afraid, even if you, the visitor reading this post, are my teacher.

For my posts, I can still write about a lot of things, such as my daily life (that’s the original purpose of a blog!) or maybe I can comment on a MAJOR event which everyone’s commenting on.

Remember, blogs are public. Everyone in the world can view your blogs, as long as they have a computer and an Internet connection.

Today

2005-02-18T23:52:00.000+08:00

Today
Chinese test
SJAB till 6.30pm
Surf the net

Common Test

2005-02-18T23:51:00.000+08:00

I haven’t been posting for a considerably long time because of the common tests.
Monday- English
Tuesday- Mathematics and Home Econs
Wednesday- Science
Thursday- History
Friday- Chinese

The Links should be OK by now

2005-02-10T19:27:00.000+08:00

After a such a long time, I have finally edited the links so that they would function normally.

Happy Chinese New Year!!!!

2005-02-10T16:14:00.000+08:00

Happy Chinese New Year to all the loyal fans of this popular blog!! (haha... just joking, but i think that's true) Anyway, Happy new Year to all of you.

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my skin... Suddenly I thought that this skin is not bad, but I'll change my skin anytime I want to. I know that my links are not quite well done- I'll refine them later. Hopefully by today, the links would be perfect.

Finally... again

2005-02-09T19:17:00.000+08:00

I have finished putting all the links on the left!! It took me such a long time.

Change of Skin

2005-02-06T13:34:00.000+08:00

Change of Skin
My skin is not good enough. I am planning to find a better skin, but Blogskins.com has ONLY more than 10,000 skins available! Out of the minimal number of skins, I think that not more than 10 of them are suitable for me. That’s why I am asking: Does anyone know of any other skin website that offers FrEe blogskins? If you know, either

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Chinese New Year!!!!

2005-02-06T13:24:00.000+08:00

Chinese New Year!!!!
3 more days to Chinese New Year! In case you are a foreigner, and you are a total stranger to the celebrations of Chinese New Year, either

Read the following::
Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.
The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every few years (seven years out of a 19-yearcycle). This is the same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.
New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are celebrated as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors.
The sacrifice to the ancestors, the most vital of all the rituals, united the living members with those who had passed away. Departed relatives are remembered with great respect because they were responsible for laying the foundations for the fortune and glory of the family.
The presence of the ancestors is acknowledged on New Year's Eve with a dinner arranged for them at the family banquet table. The spirits of the ancestors, together with the living, celebrate the onset of the New Year as one great community. The communal feast called "surrounding the stove" or weilu. It symbolizes family unity and honors the past and present generations.

Chinese New Year (春節 Chūnjíe, 農曆新年 Nónglì Xīnnián or 過年 Gùonián), also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival, one of the traditional Chinese holidays, is celebrated on the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, which falls on the day on which the second new moon after the day on which the winter solstice occurs, unless there is an intercalary eleventh or twelfth month in the lead-up to the New Year. In this case, the New Year falls on the third new moon after the Solstice. (The next time this occurs is in 2033.) Celebrated internationally, including in Chinatowns, Chinese New Year is the most important holiday of the Chinese people, and many East Asians such as Koreans and Vietnamese who have holidays which fall on the same day.

or Go to this website::
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year

Review of the Day!! from vainquer.net

2005-02-05T01:18:00.000+08:00

either go to::

http://www.vainquer.net/store/be_entertained/oceanstwelve.htm

or read this::

Review: Ocean's Twelve
Patrick J. Austin As the trailer states, they're all back. Yes, all of them! "Ocean'sTwelve" is a sequel to the star-studded blockbuster "Ocean's Eleven."Everyone from the original (though it shouldn't be called an originalsince it's actually a remake of the 1960's "Ocean's Eleven") is backfor a new caper. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and JuliaRoberts top the list of this mega-star ensemble. Of course, itwouldn't be a sequel without a new face added to the bunch. That facewould be from the angelic Catherine Zeta-Jones.The plot is rather simple—Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) is able totrack down the eleven thieves that stole his Vegas casino fortune andis demanding to be paid back with interest. He's not living in poverty(his insurance company reimbursed the money that was taken), but it'snot about the money, it's about getting even. Benedict gives the grouptwo weeks to come up with roughly nineteen million dollars each. Mostof them have spent their share from the previous heist on nefariousbusiness ventures or high-priced toys. So, the only way they can thinkto come up with such a large bounty is to steal something (and, ofcourse, that something will be rare and worth a bunch of money).The difference in "Twelve" is the caper really isn't the focus of thefilm. In "Eleven," the movie centered on the group trying to get intoBenedict's highly guarded vault; that was the primary focus aboveeverything else. In "Twelve" the caper itself certainly plays a largerole, but it's more like a backdrop rather than the epicenter. Thistime around, the focus is on the actors just having fun, even at theexpense of their own Hollywood images. It relies on their dialogue andthe ability to play off one another.Out of all the stars in this film, my personal favorite was MattDamon. He plays the goofy, eager-to-please Linus Caldwell. The movieneeded his humorous insecurities to compliment Brad Pitt and GeorgeClooney's super-cool performances. One of Damon's more memorablescenes is when he wakes Rusty (Brad Pitt) on a trans-Atlantic flightand politely asks to "play a more central role." Pitt and Damon arereally fun to watch together. You can tell each is trying to let theother take the scene.The only real downside for me was the lack of realism to the theftsthemselves. Steven Soderbergh, the director of the film, really teststhe limits of plausibility. For example, the group decides the bestway to steal a painting from an eccentric billionaire shut-in whoguards his home with numerous alarm systems, is to go under the houseand raise it with hydraulic lifts. Right, that's very realistic. I'msure many thieves have tried that one. You can't help but ask--theseguys can't afford to pay back Benedict, but they can afford to gethydraulic lifts to raise a house? But, this is the fantasy world ofmovies, so I guess you should leave reality at the door.Overall, "Ocean's Twelve" certainly does "Ocean's Eleven" justice. Allof the actors seem to truly enjoy working with each other. If "Twelve"continues to do well at the box office, I wouldn't be surprised to seean "Ocean's Thirteen" in the future.

adapted from www.vainquer.net
http://www.vainquer.net/store/be_entertained/oceanstwelve.htm

Read this!! News article of the day!!

2005-02-05T01:09:00.000+08:00

either go to::

http://nytimes.com/2005/02/04/politics/04middle.html?hp&ex=1107579600&en=fa00e1d19425536c&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Or read this::

By KIRK JOHNSON Published: February 4, 2005

DENVER, Feb. 3 - The early 50's are the gawky awkward years under President Bush's plan to overhaul Social Security, a fact that is not lost on Tom McEwen.
"I'm not in the 65-year-old group which he says will keep the benefits and not in the 25 group that gets to invest all their money," said Mr. McEwen, a 50-year-old lawyer who was having coffee and reading a paperback in a Starbucks here on Thursday morning. "So I'm the most affected of all."
The great middle band of the Social Security debate agrees perhaps only on that point, that the president's plan, for better or worse, has put them on the cusp - too old to see much benefit through the miracle of compounding in a private retirement account, too young to have any guarantees.
But their numbers, and the role they might play in the debate, are enormous. People born in the peak year of the baby boom, 1957, turn 48 this year, and millions of those who came immediately before that, in the giddy ramping up of fertility during the Eisenhower administration, have already charged into their 50's.
Other demographic groups have their issues. People in their 20's and 30's fret over the array of important choices and long-term consequences that could come with managing part of their retirement fund.
People in their 60's are relieved that promises about inviolate benefits for people over 55 - first made in the New Deal in the 1930's - were repeated on Wednesday by Mr. Bush in his State of the Union speech. But they also worry that younger people will not be disciplined enough to flourish under the new system.
For the in-betweeners, like Mr. McEwen, the palette of opinion about Mr. Bush's plan is unbounded - from confidence to fear to resignation, all tempered or heightened by the pervasive sense of being caught in the middle.
Steve Whitcomb, a 54-year-old tax accountant, said that he long ago discounted the idea that Social Security would be there for him at retirement, and that he supported Mr. Bush's plan.
Two of Mr. Whitcomb's co-workers who were strolling with him down the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver - also tax accountants in their early 50's - disagreed, but in subtle ways.
Pat Ranney, 50, said she thought that Social Security might well need an overhaul, but that private accounts would create a divide in society between people who manage their money well and those who do not. Most do not, Ms. Ranney said.
David Aull, 51, said that he thought he would be O.K. under the Bush plan, but that the broader society, and how it holds together, might not.
"I'm lucky in that I have a good job and things are going well for me - but I also realize there's a lot of people who aren't doing so well, and I don't think these guys care," Mr. Aull said, referring to the Bush administration. "The older I get, the more I see this and the more I care about the poor falling off because it's pulling the country down."
Some people in their early-to-middle 50's said they supported Mr. Bush's ideas despite any personal sacrifice they might have to make because of their between status.
"Is it the right direction in our personal finances?" asked Kathy Robertson, 52, a financial analyst who lives in nearby Aurora. "Any time you're taking away something, no, it's not quite the right direction."
"But I think it is something that needs to be fixed," she said.
Most of the people interviewed in a day's snapshot of middle-aged opinion - one morning, one city and the chance encounters of a reporter and photographer - said that politics, at least to a certain degree, colored their views. People who voted for Mr. Bush tended to be more optimistic about his plan, while people who did not generally took a dimmer view.
Ms. Robertson and her husband, Mike, a fireman who is also 52, were exceptions who said that parties had nothing to do with it. They voted for Mr. Bush, they said, but also supported former President Bill Clinton.
"You think about Clinton and even Clinton said it was a concern of his," Ms. Robertson said, referring to the Social Security system. "So it's not a President Bush thing."
One man who described himself as a Republican and a Bush supporter couched his support for Mr. Bush's plan in terms so cautious that he sounded almost neutral, though he said he was not.
"They may go bankrupt and possibly some of these savings plans that he spoke about might be good," said Tony Geneva, 53, a hairstylist from Littleton. Mr. Geneva said that he was counting on Social Security to make up at least half of his retirement income, and that he hoped for the best. "I've got confidence in him," he said of the president.
Other in-betweeners said they were bracing for the worst.
Elva Chavez, 53, who lives in Denver and described herself as disabled, said that for her, Social Security was likely to be the difference as she gets older between getting by and not getting by at all.
"It's that or nothing at all," Ms. Chavez said. "I'm scared."

Adapted from the New York Times online

Finally……

2005-02-04T23:54:00.000+08:00

I have not updated my blog for a long time already. You may be shocked, astonished, amazed or heavily surprised after you have known the fact that I have finally posted this long-awaited new post onto my blog, but I don’t care how you are, and the only thing you should do now, would be to read this long-awaited post of mine and not think or feel anything else, and this is especially true if you are feeling hocked, astonished, amazed or heavily surprised after you have known the fact that I have finally posted this long-awaited new post onto my blog.

Well, the reason why I did not update my blog is not because nothing special happened, but it’s firstly because, I do not have thee time, and secondly, even if I had the time, I would rather make use of the time to sleep or rest other than typing something on this blog. So, today, I gladly appreciate it if you gladly appreciate this new post of mine on my blog.

Ok. What happened these few weeks? Firstly there was a 6A gathering at the SSSSSSCCCCC on Hari Raya Haji. And if you want to know about anything else that happened these few weeks, come on and ask me personally!

What about the gathering? The gathering was organized by xxxxxxxxx and xxxxxxx. Actually I forgot who the organizers were. Were they Guo Yiyong and Debbie? Or Emily? So sorry that I forgot. The gathering was a successful one, and this was the most successful gathering since our P6 days, when everyone actually gathered everyday for school. This time, I think 32 people out of the 41 (is it 41?) pupils of 6A. So, it’s successful! We played basketball, block catching, talked, told ghost stories and played basketball too. For more details _______

I know I haven’t put up my links to my friends’ blogs, RiGhT? Maybe I’ll put them up later. Or never, as I plan to change my skin of the blog. So, please wait……

Orchard of Hope 2005

2005-01-16T01:26:00.001+08:00

Today is another long tiring day. In the morning I went to Patrick’s house to begin with the project work project. Yi Xian, Sheng Kang and Yi Yong were also there. After discussing our project for a while, we slacked and played, talked, surfed the net, played Fifa 2002 and stopped doing the project liao. Actually Fifa 2002 is not bad game. I slightly enjoyed playing it.
Then we brought Patricks’ soccer ball downstairs and found a spot to play. Play soccer. Very fun!! I like to play soccer with only a few people, not a whole bunch of 22 all rushing for a tiny pathetic ball. I had a huge domination of the ball and EVEN mangaged to score a few goals.

We went to Rivervale Plaza for lunch.

After some time we took the MRT to Somerset to attend the Orchard of Hope 2005. We were told that it is at Youth Park. Quite a number of students from Catholic High were waiting and waiting… until someone (was that Ingmar?) said that we were at the wrong place and led us to the park above Orchard MRT station. Ya, that is the correct place. then finally our job started at 4.45pm. we went around collecting funds for charity, which is for the schoolchildren in Sri Lanka whose homes were devastated by the tsunami. We asked around in groups for donations, with help from a guy from serangoon JC who was our leader. Not hard, but the bad thing is that we had to give out our balloons and cards after somebody donated. The public was generous in donations but people just don’t want to get a card or a balloon unless they had a child with them. However it was not difficult to give out balloons either. Finally, the whole thing ended at about 8.

So we went for dinner together and then I was back at home after a tiring day!

……

I wanted to go to blogskins.com to download a new skin. A skin of a city. I had all the time to find it, but I just couldn’t get connected to that website!! It was just like yesterday. So, meanwhile I have to stick to this chopsticks design. Anyway, I won’t be creating friends links very soon as I want to change the skin. As for a tagboard, maybe I can put up one later as it is useful. So bear with it. Don’t care about all those things on the left. Just concentrate on the main focus- my posts.

2005-01-16T01:26:00.000+08:00

14 Jan 2005

2005-01-15T01:06:00.000+08:00

Phew. This week finally ended. Today was a long day, from 7.10am to 7.30pm. There was this Sec One CCA orientation programme which took place in the afternoon, after a long tiring day of school. I just ate a chunk of Nestle’s Double Delight ice cream. Too sweet, but very nice!

In the SJAB exhibition, I was the pathetic casualty involved in an accident and got a fracture on my left arm, a laceration wound on my right palm and an incised wound on my right thigh. So poor thing. I had some fake ‘flesh’ sticked onto the places where I should be injured. And some fake blood. All I had to do was to scream or groan in pain but I couldn’t do that properly lol. Then I was carried on a stretcher with all my fake wounds on and gave out brochures.

This morning we had guitar lessons during music. I was quite confused and could not play all those simple notes correctly. But guitar is not as difficult as I had thought.

Oh…. tommorrow is another tiring day. 10 o clock, go to Patrick’s house to do project work. Afternoon, we go to Youth Park to do volunteer work at the Orchard of Hope 2005. Until 8 o’clock. At night. So that means I have to do all my homework on Sunday morning and afternoon.

So fast 2 weeks passed. Got used to going to school already.

go to
http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com
http://dyingis.blogspot.com

What happened last week? I didn’t have time to post blog last week, so I’m writing it now.
Monday- First day of school.
Tuesday- Forgot liao
Wednesday- Yeah! Got selected to be a councillor! Always wanted to be one.
Thursday- What happened???!!
Friday- CCA, preparation for Sec One Orientation

Today

2005-01-09T22:40:00.000+08:00

Morning
At home. I read newspapers, then watched a Richard Scarry VCD with my sister. Not bad!! The I decorated my Maths Voyage book.
Afternoon
Lunch at CP
Evening
Went to tt new CC in Sengkang. Our family’s friend booked a badminton court at the CC and invited us to play badminton with them there. The CC was quite nice. I thought the indoor court was air-conned. Yes, it had air-cons. But they were not turned on. The moment I started playing, I felt very hot.

First Official Post!#!

2005-01-09T22:35:00.000+08:00

Hi everybody! This is my first official post! This blogger is so difficult to use :(. Don’t know why. First I searched for quite a long time for the right skin at blogskin.com. However, there were not a lot of skins. Not as many as I had imagined. I tried typing in a few keywords to search for skins. But there were so few search results! Then I tried typing food, and I found this one called chopsticks. Anyway I think I would create a new skin with something very urban. When I have the time.

I tried so hard to create the links to friends’ blogs. Then I asked Huazhi for help. He said copy this and paste somewhere… But I still didn’t understand how to link. (lol. no offence) I went to ‘template’ then tried to change those unfamiliar html. Instinctively I thought I know how to create a link but then I failed. then I tried again and again and again and again and again and again to create links to my friends’ page. Then I failed. finally I decided to use Dreamweaver to dreamweave my links. Using dreamweaver was slightly easier than looking at piles of HTML. Anyway I had learnt dw before. after a few tries I accomplished. Or at least, I think that I have accomplished. Anyway I havent finished creating all the links so I will not upload my updated skin wif all those links. So pls wait… I’m a new user… Pls give me some advice.

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