Teachers' Day Celebration

This morning was raining very heavily like yesterday afternoon; there were traffic jams and I reached school later than expected. Venue for ACES workout was changed to CC which was very cramped. Have to say a well-done job to all teachers who joined in the work out. This at least showed the teachers' enthusiasm to have fun and mingle with the student crowd.

The concert was generally well-done. After that bee joke at the racial-harmony concert, another lame joke on corn&porridge was given by the MCs when the AVA system was being set up.
Cant fully rmb all the performance... First-time seeing SA cheerleading performance and its pretty good... The duet was very well sung by the scholars... The mass dance of diff generation on stage was very interesting... Dance by the 4 dancers, including John, was pretty good too, in terms of their techniques... dance by the Dance society was ok... gymnastics was a bit too short in my opinion... and the final dance "Revolution" was also very refreshing and the costumes were also quite nice.
Throughout the concert, 10 awards (as sashes) were given out to nominated teachers who had the most votes, and it was fun to see the prizes which they got. The only real prize was the last award where the teacher got a very big teddy bear as the award.The whole concert only ended at about 11am.

After that, I went straight away to SJI to meet the others and see the teachers. Wei Yu's class had some sort of cake for their form tutor, so he had stay back for awhile. But Shi Wei wanted to go back to SJI as fast as possible, and in the end (from what i see) had that slightly-pissed-off look all the way walking from SAJC to the bus-stop. Sometimes when this kind of discrepancies occur, wo fei chang nan zuo ren ni zhi dao ma? Yi fang mian yao gu ji Shi Wei de gan shou, ling yi fang mian you bu xiang diu xia Wei Yu zi ji yi ge ren, you shi zhen de shi hen nan zuo chu jue ze... qing bu yao ling wo zhe yang de jin tui liang nan hao bu hao...

Reached SJI pretty fast... many of the 402 pple were already there and we gave presents to Mrs Chern in the canteen, where she got smudged by cake by her form class and went hysterical being "disfigured". Went to staff room to find Ms Goh and the whole class chatted for nearly an hour about "how's life going on" kind of stuff, it felt good to hear how everyone has been since we last met, whether for better or the worse, I bet has learnt something from those experiences. We also saw Mrs Woo, Mr Kuang and Mrs Lim. After that, we (Wei Yi, Pei Wei, Rui Chao, Shaun and I) went to talk to Mrs Chern for a while more before leaving for PS to eat lunch.

Wanted to eat at Pastamania with Shi Wei, eahy, Tsun Wang and Linus Tan, but Pei Wei didnt want to eat it so we went to eat at Burger King. Surprisingly met Jin Ken and few of his other friends there. We haven't seen each other since AJ family day carnival in term two... Soon after, Justin, Hoong Khit and Eugene Chow cam to meet us up and we started crapping as a group of SJI people as usual. We were then joined by eahy, Tsun Wang and Linus Tan, while Shi Wei went to play pool (or intended to) with Wei Yu. Hoong Khit and Eugene went to play pool while Justin left for his tuition. Rest of us decided to leave at 3.40pm to do something else but ended standing+stoning and crapping for another 10 mins b4 we decided on what to do afterwards.

There was 3 choices for the 8 of us: Go play pool with Hoong Khit, join Shi Wei, or go home. Pei Wei wasn't feeling well so he went home with eahy and Linus. Beauty World was too far from my house so I decided to join Shi Wei, while the rest left for pool with Hoong Khit. Found that my hp had zero stored value left, so I used shaun's phone to call Shi Wei to find out where was he and Wei Yu. He told me he was at Paradiz and at "dunno which" centre but not the same one we went ytd, telling me to call Wei Yu to confirm. Called Wei Yu twice and he didn't even pick up once. So I walked and reached Paradiz at 4pm. I visited every single Shop I could find there and walked around it as though I was window-shopping in a shopping mall but I couldnt find them. I couldn't call then cos my hp had no value left. Wo xiang xin ta men hai zai na li suo wo you zai mei jia dian sou suo le yi ci, xiang xin jiu suan wo mei jian dao ta men, ta men ye zhi shao hui kan jian wo jing guo. Sou suo de dang er, wo kan jian duo jia pu zi li you xu duo de kong dang de wei zi. Yin ci, wo gen jian jue de xiang xin ta men hui zai na li. Ke shi xian ran de, wo shi cuo de. Wo zhao le ban ge zhong tou, yi zhi dao 4 dian 30 fen cai li kai hui jia. Lao shi shuo, ni men dao di zai na li ne? Da dian hua gei ni men shi ye bu jie? Wen nimen zai nei yi jia dian de shi hou ni men ye tun tun tu tu, wan dao shen me shi hou ye bu zhi... Zhe bu jin ling ren huai yi ni men gen ben jiu bu zai na li, zhi bu guo ling wo xia pao yi tangba le... Na ni men ke yi zao gen wo shuo, bu bi hai wo lang fei wo de shi jian qu zhao ni men... Wo da ke hua zhe duan shi jian zuo gen you jian she xing de shi qing.

Oh well, I reached home at 5.30 and begin to watch my 51 epi of Rockman EXE Stream out of boredom. Should have gone to sleep at 10pm... 11pm and I'm still here typing crap... only had 3 hrs of sleep last night doing I&R...
Have to stop blogging now, goodnight and Happy Teachers' Day to all teachers who have guided me through my learning years.

Note: Non-English parts are just parts which I found difficult to translate in Eng. cos my Cl is much better than my EL, but I simply have no CL program to write them in character form.

Teachers' Day's eve

Nothing much happened during the weekend really... just doing my dutorials and essays...

Learnt this year's ACES day exercise on Monday. Not exactly fantastic, not as fun as the previous year's, but still quite ok.

Had fun at Cha Yuan on Tuesday, when my class went there for tea-session. The people there told us the origin of Yu Lan Pen and taught us the types of tea and how to make tea. Had hands-on tryig to make tea, somehow it's a bit too bland... but the tea-egg and ice-cream puff were nice though.

Today, I was late for school for first time in my life!!! Never been late to school in Pri or Sec school or in first 3 months... and it seems to bring me back to the subject i talked to some people earlier...
Didn't have CCA in the afternoon... so went out with Shi Wei and Wei Yu in the very-big-will-get-you-wet rain to go eat and PS before going off to play. Then, we had dinner together at 7 before going home. btw, abt the anime aspect of me, this is the third time i've heard that comment already... n pls, no FMM...

To all who are feeling slightly, a bit or very sad out there: sadness is merely the trough of a sine curve, while the crest will almost certainly follow afterwards. Everyone will go through such a period of sadness/ST depression sooner or later and get out of it one way or another, so don't worry too much. I find myself having been through such situations many times is sort of getting immune to it nowadays... Do seek help from those around u if u find urself really unable to cope with ur feelings, dont bottle them up in ur heart, or it will burst when u cant take.

Just finished my I&R 1st draft 15 min ago... need to pass up tmr...
Going back to SJI straight after SAJC Teachers' Day concert... hope will see the others there...

More rest...

Feeling very hun hun chen chen in the head these few days... finally, another weekend has arrived for resting...

Had the 1st Strategy club meeting this wednesday after the new EXCO stepped up, and i believe was Shi Wei and Wei Yu's first time coming to Strat club meeting. Never played reversi for a long time already, Wei Yu lost terribly to me, and I managed to win Pei Wen by a margin of 2 pieces. After that, I accompanied Shi Wei and Wei Yu to PS to eat and simply walk around b4 going home.

Today's Learning Journey was not much of a learning experience. S03, S10 and Ms Tan's class went to URA(Urban Redevelopment Authority) for this Learning Journey. Since I came here during Sec4 for a Geog field trip, nothing was really new to me. Still, the most amazing thing people find are still the landscape model of Singapore and the most amazing thing to me is how crazy and desperate people can be in trying to answer questions wrongly.

After that, I went back to SAJC for my first H3 maths lesson. Ms Sim managed to finish the whole H2 differential equations topic in 2hrs and said that we can get started on H3 syllabus next term onwards. Btw, I hope that the school would teach all 3 optional topics: Combinatorics, Plane Geometry and Graph Theory. I have never been very good at geometry, so if I had to choose, I would not choose Plane geometry for sure.

Need to complete lots of homework this weekend, but at least i can get a bit more sleep...

Gomenasai...

I guess pple shouldn't read my blog since my GP teacher, Mrs Chong, say that depression is contagious...

Wanted to post early last week but I was very busy and had no time to do so...
Wanted to post on last weekend but bad things happen one by one, so was in no mood to do so...
In the end, didn't blog for amost 2 weeks, till now...

First and foremost, I must offer a very BIG apology to all my PW grpmates. I will try to solve this problem and bear all the costs myself. I hope all of you can forgive me.

Secondly, went pooling with Shi Wei and Wei Yu again last Wed and Sat. Simply, dont feel like staying at home these few days...

Thirdly, in response to Shi En's comment few weeks back, my answer is yes...

Amount of thoughts and feelings in my brain is fitting to burst... having bad headaches and insomnia every now and then... maybe I'm more like Shinji than I had imagined...

Managed to recall the first dream of the year sometime last week...
Hope it comes true like some of my other dreams...
that will probably ease my pain by a certain amount...

201'03 Outing

First time blogging so early... since there is no new anime for me to watch...

Yesterday was our 201'03 outing. I left home at abt 10.20am and reached there at abt 10.50am. As usual, I'm the first one to reach and the next person, Wei kann, didnt come until abt 11.00am. Then came Evan and Shaun and we went to eat at Carl's Jr, followed by the arrival of (in chronological order)Sean, eahy, Rui Chao and Justin.

After lunch, we went to Star Factory for arcade game. Had real fun playing the Mario racing, managed to get 1st on my 1st play. Not bad. Then we went to someplace to play LAN. Initially, they wanted CS, but Evan, Shaun, eahy and I managed to persuade them to play DotA instead :). Rui Chao was supposed to go for his PW interview after 1hr of LAN but his group members told him dont need to go already, and after applying some peer pressure on him he finally succumbed and broke his own promise of not to play DotA EVER again. In the end, he still seems to be very good at it and he was the one shouting the loudest while playing the game ^_^ ".

After DotA, we were pretty undecided on what to do next. As many of them have other commitments, we didnt have dinner together and went home instead. Ate dinner on my own since my mother wasnt cooking that day and I had chicken chop at KFC. Reached home abt 6.30pm, after sorting out every single misc. stuff, did my 2 GP AQ for like 2 hrs until 11pm. SO, I studied for only 1 hr for my econs CT today, b4 turning in.

Fortunately, today's econs wasnt too bad. Most of the qns were set on D&S, which I studied pretty thoghrough and CPE only consist of a small part. After school, I heard that there was strategy club meeting today from Shi Wei and it turned out to be only for EXCO members. So went with Shi Wei and Wei Yu to play pool before Tak Ng (don't know how to spell, saw him quite often in SJI but never knew his name till today) joined us. Went home while Wei Yu stayed for 409 outing and here I am continuing blogging from where I left off in the morning...

For those who didn't come for the 201'03 yesterday, u better have a good reason for not coming...

154th Anniversery SJI AP

Didn't blog this last night since i came home very late(at abt midnight) and very tired...

Yup, yesterday was SJI's 154th Anniversery AP and also the 5th AP I've attended since Sec 1.
I arrived at SJI at 4.45 and met LOTS of people like:
(201'03)Shaun, eahy, Pei Wei, Sean, Shen Yang, Xin Lin, Wen Hao, Dannel,
(402'05)Gregory, Christopher, Brendan, Micheal, Wen Yi, Daniel,
(NPCC)Wei Yu, Shi Wei, Jian Long, Poah Sin, Aaron, Han Kwang, Aloysius, Ernie, Ronald, Johnsten, Kenneth Tan, Nelson, Charles, Gerald, Alex, Alvin, Franklin, Chuan Wei, Brendan,Ben Tay, Glenn, Ta Hoong,
(others)Glenn, Tsun Wang, Zhi Wei, Zhuang Mao and many more...

AP was as usual. Speeches, Prize-giving ceremony, march-past, changing of command, not to forget the free food. Somehow feel that this yr many of my classmates didnt come, instead overwheming no of NPCC people came back, whom i have not met for a long time. Also, this yr's passing-out SI Jian Da was particularly sneaky, who managed to escape throwing-ice-cream on him by acting angry, so he wasnt that badly screwed as Pei Wei last yr.

Han Kwang and others disappeared into thin air during the short moment when I was at the HQ and went to play LAN. Later, Shaun and I went to eat Steamboat+BBQ with Wei Yu and Shi Wei at Marina to celebrate Ronald's last day as CI. The 4 of us took one taxi there, and there was this GIGANTIC jam on the road around Bras Basah area, that in the end the taxi ride took 1.5 hours to reach our destination.

We arrived at the place at abt 9.45pm and were told that the bill chalked up to $144... Shi Wei wasn't very happy of course but we quickly got over that problem and got free pepsi ice-cream for each of us. Luckily, I didnt share the same steamboat with Ronald and those sitting with him; they actually dropped nearly whole bowl of butter into the water, which gave the water an unimaginable taste. My steamboat was fine though, since Kenneth and I was doing most of the cooking, the food turned out pretty OK.

We ate until 11pm b4 going to take the bus to marina MRT station. Waited until 11.20 and found that the bus is absolutely full, so we decided to walk QUICKLY to the MRT to catch the last train at 11.45pm. Ronald almost got himself killed by dashing across the road, barely stayed alive bcos the car stepped on full brakes and avoided collision. We sprinted like mad for the last part of the walk right into the MRT station. I havent had almost any form of formal PE for like 3 weeks due to my LTMC, and the sprint certainly serve as a good workout. Unfortunately, only Shi Wei, me and another Sec2 managed to get the train. The others went back by another later train. So in the end, I reached home around midnight and slept at 1am.

This morning woke up at 10am and still feelling very sleepy and had a very unproductive morning. Went to shop at Orchard road in the afternoon with my parents and my mum finally got me a crumpler sling bag!!! After that, we went to have dinner at Pizza Hut by WALKING from Wisma Atria to PS b4 going home to watch NDP parade live on TV.

As I just said, I had a very unproductive day yesterday and today and still have a class outing tmr, i need to rush out my GP compre by tonight... so i'll end my post here and go do hw instead of doing rubbish in front of my com.

Edited:- Aparrently that was not the last train, and others took the train after mine...

NPCC PoP

Wanted to blog in the morning but decided not to... stilll feel tired despite having 8 hrs of sleep...

Had my H3 maths selection test after school yesterday... it was a disaster.
Two qns: 1 on Binomial expansion and summation, another on AP GP and MI
Could only answer binomial and MI part...
all I can do now is to hope that i can get into H3 maths...

After that, I went to SJI to see the Passing-out Parade for the Sec4 NCOs.
Jian Da passed his SI post to Wei Jin, and Donavan's DySI post to Paul, frankly speaking this was quite expected from what I observe last yr when I was an NCO... too bad Shi Wei went off early for Dance Rapture early and didnt stay for PoP...
Saw Mr Lee Lye Hin and Mr Karl Lee also... and I only just realised that there is a new TO for NP this yr...
After PoP, I went to eat dinner with Wei Yu, Han Kwang and Ronald at Coronation Plaza, where all of us found out that all LAN shops have closed down already. Met Nigel at the Western food place, where we had dinner, also.

This is the day when I play LAN and DOTA for the second time in my life. Still remember the 1st time I played was with Wei Yi, Evan, Xin Lin and Wen Hao at Coro Plaz. Much better than last time, at least i didnt get killed like 10 times in a game, and somehow I have like 8000 gold after every game unused, which amazed Han Kwang pretty much...
Sort of reminded me of the days when i was a bit crazy abt Warcraft II when graphics were still 2D. Wasnt used to the keys and graphics at first, but seem to get used to it after like playing other 3D games during the June Hols...
Have to stress that playing it in a dark environment like a LAN shop is bad for eyes, my left eye feels like slightly swollen this morning after playing nearly 3 hrs last night...

Apparently, I found a very curious trend in JC, pple like to ask "do you have a girlfriend?" . I found that after my CTs, there will be at least 1 person a week who ask me this question. Anyway, i find no obligation to answer this qn to anyone when those pple do not answer me truthfully when i ask the same sort of qns. Is this the limit to which friendship, or rather my friendship with them, extends? Even though we have known each other for a long time?

You shi zhe zhong shi zhe zhong xian xiang zhen ling ren fei jie. Dang bie ren wen ni shi, ni ji ran bu shuo shi hua huo zhe bi mian zhe ge hua ti, dang ni wen bie ren shi you zen neng qi dai bie ren dui ni shuo shi hua ne? Zhe lei de xian xiang you shi zhen ling ren bu dei bu chong xin jian tao "you yi" de ding yi, chong xin si kao zi ji yu ta men de ju li, hai you zi ji suo neng zai ta men shen shang tuo fu he ji yu de xin ren...

Tmr is SAV's band concert and my homework is undone, I'll have to do it after breakfast tmr...

BMTC visit

Didnt blog yesterday bcos I had lots of HW and Iwas very tired after the BMTC visit.

Yesterday, school ended at 11am for those going for BMTC trip, ended up, missing Chem lecture. Took an hour bus-ride before boarding the boat that took us to Pulau Tekong, a place that every S'pore males will be in after their 18th birthday. Actually, I already saw some of the things back at the Temasek Sem. like the M-16 rifle, obstacle course and face painting for camouflage. Participating schools were MJC, RJC, SAJC, SRJC and TJC.

New things were the simulation centre for recruits to train their shooting skills. The whole room is so high tech, like an arcade centre, and I managed to try the the simuklation hands-on. One word: cool. That was the only good part i can remember. Then, we visited the other stations before goingg to the recruits' bunk. As expected, abt 10 person per room. There is also the annex where recruits can relax during free time. Inside, there TV, football game table, ping-pong table and 2 pool tables with mismatched sofas and chairs around. Then, we were given a short talk on the equipments given on first day in the backpack. One thing I didnt know is that there was a pair of sports shoes inside the backpack.

Before leaving, there were refreshments for us and I saw Davidson and Zhen Cheng from 403'05 , again SJI pple. Somehow, I keep meeting SJI pple during these events... The boat was very shaky, moving in SHM, bobbing left and right, someone nearly fell down in the boat, even I was feeling a bit giddy after the ride. the last time I took a boat to batam for an hour, i didnt even fell a single bit of giddiness, and this time it was only a 10min ride...

Today, it was a sucky day if u want to call it that way. One of my PW group member was behaving in that queen-like mannner again. Borrowing a chinese dictionary from u sounds more like ORDERing u to give it to her, whiny about every little thing, and give u that baka-tic black face when u try to talk to her. Then when she needs my help on maths and stuff, she'll will feign innocent and come asking u "How to do this qn ah?". Also, there are some scholars in my class who are totally insensitive and do not understand the meaning of "shi ke er zhi" and continue to talk senselessly.

If this continues for another few months, im afraid that that i might have a mental breakdown during promos, which is the last thing i want. For me, i can afford not to study few days b4 exam but i cannot be in a bad mood, else i'll miscalculate, read Q wrongly and make other stupid mistakes like that. Which is why i always try to play all day on exam-eve, for mental maintenance.

Another thing, if friends are going to ignore me when i ask them for help, do NOT expect me to help when they ask for it. In contrary to people who blog out of leisure, i blog out of frustration usually.

In summary, I'm not in the best of my mood today.