eh? looks like the music conked out again

hmmm xava eh? hmmm need a reason to link ya. not that you know me all that well and blah blah blah
*3 hours later*
all right. i won't be that mean =D but don't complain eh?

heeeey today was quite -.- doing math till 1:30 last night probably wasn't such a good idea, especially since quite a lot of people were "rushing" it today... by "rushing" i don't think i need to elaborate right? hmm doesn't matter. oh and Mr Teo was quite pissed today. think it was because ppl keep not doing tutorials. well occasionally i miss out a question or two and he complained about that to my dad, so i think you can understand how he feels abt the class omitting the tutorial. well i don't blame him. tutorials help aid the understanding of things.

oook, maybe i should move away from that painful topic. anyway, bah geog project due friday haven't even gotten it solid yet. so much to do in so little time. yawn. listening to some odd instrumental music now. supposed to calm you down but it's just making me sleepy >_> i guess it did what it said it would achieve though -.-

errr yeah, got more stuff to discuss heh. did anyone read saturday's "recruit"? there's a good article in there about sales marketing. gotta be aggressive, gotta have the knowledge, and most importantly, you have to appear confident.

oh yeah, there's a piece about leadership last week too. leaders come in two fruity flavours (XD) the "expansion" type and the "housekeep" type. you should always have two on the ball. one might be able to suffice you for some time but will eventually collapse in on himself. see, the expansionist type is that with new ideas bubbling in the head all the time. the ones that have great visions, the ones that are insightful. they are the ones who expand people's horizon, venture out into unknown territory, and are the one, when working in a company, will allow it to expand. "housekeepers" are masters at keeping things in order. just as when you keep increasing your office size, things get messier and messier, and things get lost. the "expansion" types rarely have both feet on the ground. they jump from one idea to another without much thought. so if you only have the "expansion" type of leader, you're going to see very fast growth, but you can't keep up with the growth. eventually you'll just buckle in on yourself. if you only have "housekeepers" though, you'll find that you're hardly going anywhere. sure everything is fine and in order, but you'll never accomplish anything BIG. you need both working together to produce miracles. so, if anyone is a boss in the future, you know who to promote =D

ah what else? hmmm how about the 80%-20% rule, also called the pareto principle. basically, 80% of the effort goes into 20% of the work. think of it this way: when you build a buildings, most of the owrk is concentrated on the foundations and perhaps the roofing. the stuff in between hardly counts at all. or since we're all doign PW now i'll use that as an example. the trouble initially was coming up with a good GPP. then the research was yadda yadda yadda then now it's report writing. GPP and report writing are the two biggest effort-takers. wouldn't you agree? comeon, even the presentation is easy, impromptu something on stage, practice a bit jiu can liao what right?

hmmm... ran outta topics already ahahah more tmr, i guess

AHH YEAH!!!

a big thanks to gordon. heh songs are up, links are up, what else can i ask for? hmm yay thanks a lot! *kowtows before gordon* heh ok linked you as you wanted. if you get negative publicity don't blame me eheheh

SO, with the links up you can ask to be linked. but first, the rules, as always =D make sure you have a VERY good reason for me to link ya. either i visit regularly or i haven't had any bad preconceptions nor bad experiences, then i'll consider. and most importantly, ask nicely.

hmmm the music. still my very favourite from the karin series =D well not that i think anyone who visits will ever understand it, but whatever. those taking jap will know XD doesn't matter. don't need to know every song you come across right? anyway, if you know the lyrics it'll be a bit errr well not so comfortable for me =D

ok, OCC, i know you dont speak like that, which is the reason for suspect in the first place. heck, no self-respecting person behaves like that but knowing you... well let's just say i don't know what to expect >_> all right all right it's you ok? get off my back already -.-" and whoever spammed, please, my tagboard is NOT a place for advertising. you want me to link or advertise for you, you come to me directly. through e-mail or face-to-face.

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whew, ok now moving on...
did anyone read today's paper? about the blogs gettingmore and more popular? well i agree it's getting popular, i agree there's way too many blogs, but i quite disagree with the way they put it. i do NOT think bloggers do so for fame, popularity or anything like that. well, that's for me. i can be talking to a blank wall for all i care. the key is when you look back say 10 years later and go "i once thought like that, wow" or "lucky i held on to my perceptions after all this time" don't really mind if noone reads, as long as i know my conscience here is clear.

ah yes, econs H3 is so far quite a bit of a waste of time >_> spent 3 weeks so far and accomplished absolutely nothing. no notes, no lecture, no tutorial, nothing. kinda makes me want to go NUS already. and then they dropped a bombshell telling us there's an essay coming up! damn them -.-

errrr running out of stuff to crap. weekends generally aren't interesting. oh and i found a good book in school. odd title, but good book nonetheless.
lol getting quite attached to my blog now. don't think i'll give it up unless in dire circumstance =D

just... need... someone....

to... tell me... how.. to ... post... musics... and... links!

very sleepy now. fridays are always dreary. and i don't think that's OCC, but got no proof, so i'll leave it at that >_>

thought i forgot something today

hi gordon. guess my forced advertising tactics did work eh?
bit sleepy now. sleeping 3 hours this afternoon didn't seem to solve my sleep deficit problems from last night. can't even concentrate properly during chem today.

trying to get a song stuck in my head. find that helps clam nerves and maybe keep you awake at times of extreme boredom. oh, and talking about songs, i don't know why but i think the general consensus is that the Ending songs are much nicer than the openings.

eh, got a lot more to type, actually, but too sleepy already. will post something logner tomorrow, hopefully.

long day

long day just about sums it up. and that day still hasn't ended for me. struggling with a huge 5-person GP project with only two people on the helm. bah. silly selfish people. not like it doesn't concern your grades either. so you'd rather insult people for being fun-loving, for being enthusiastic, for being absurd but you'd rather not put any effort into doing that same project. speechless, i say. go on continue leading your sad little life, however long it may last you.

library AGM today. no not the SFL, the HML. yeah went all the way back to RI. and let's just say they scrwed it up big time >_< well it still went rather smoothly, but by our standards the coordination was horrible. zhiyong (yes, he came back and he'll be here till 1st sept) was cringing in the back seat. and due to my retarding memory, conveniently forgot to bring wallet today so had to walk all the way back home. well it was good exercise and it helps you to think things through along the way, but today's jsut the wrong day for that. all things considered. and i've been stuck here doing nothing but GP so far. haven't even touched my math which is also due tomorrow. sighz.

let's see if i can get that picture i was talking about yesterday up. cool! i did manage to. it's some little thing i believe everyone should follow. of course i cna't control your actions, but it's just the best advice i can give at this moment.

Edit: huh, can't even do math now. to sleepy. can i go off the record now neeti? >_<

all right, since you ppl can't control yourselves i have ta go manually clean up after you. shame, isn't it, 17-year old need cleaning up after. continue to do so, and we'll see where it lands you. one fine day you find yourself hauled to court, don't say i didn't warn you.

hey hey, that was an unexpected visit

hi yannie. didn't really expect to see you come up here. must be skiving off PW period right? hehehe next time leave a longer message. well as long as you aren't in danger of being caught surfing "non-work-related" sites lar hehe.

all right, um, i need some help with the blogs again. need to find how to post pictures, and also need to know how to include music in the damn blog. bah. in the meantime, since i can't post music, i'll post the link. the link is actually to a music video, but you won't know the reference. well, unless you play flyff lar. so, just enjoy the flashy colours, and most importantly listen to the music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESK8zKZW2dM

yeah, and i'll tell you why this one stood out so much. it was the first thing in a long, loooong time that managed to somewhat tug at my heartstrings. don't ask me why, it just did. haven't had that feeling for so long so it was kinda unexpected. ah wellz. good to know the ice case isn't complete yet.

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oh yeah, this happened last saturday during our interview at cat high. huihui and sherine can probably testify to everything i mention, and one of the most... unconventional things he told us, as the coach of the school softball team, was firing his best players. well ok if they perform poorly in academics, we accept the reason. if their conduct is poor, we understand. but this guy fires his players for going to J8 during their school-CCA break, and fired his best player for getting into a relationship. zomg. those of you out there watch out ahahah. *koff*koff* um... dunno what his reasons are, they may be good, but i dunno, it just doesn't sound plausible. but after going through H3 econs, i learn that a lot of things that seem completely nonsensical turn out to be perfectly logical...

oh yeah, feel DAMN good that i managed to solve that scrwed up problem Mr Teo set for us today... it was kinda confusing in the logic because it went round in circles, but a bit of thinking and you can see the flaw in the argument =D

okok, other matters: today's assembly... lol hodge jsut about said everything on my mind. so i don't have to elaborate anything more here. and there's one more point to add. for me personally only, that is. for me, respect is earned, not given. that extends more than just peers, it includes teachers. those people, like speakers, who don't have substance but go around demanding respect and silence? sorry, i don't give it. having a brilliant resume, a brilliant social circle and fantastic achievements might lead me to have a better impression, but an impression remains an impression. i wouldn't extend it any further until i get to know you, talk to you and see how you handle things.

was gonna end this with a picture, but i have no idea how to post a picture. maybe next time when i figure out how to.

EDIT: seems i have to kinda edit my postings. isn't it odd that i checked before i posted this last message and before i was done i get a whole plethora of spam messages in my tagboard? seems that some people can be very efficient when they want to. too bad this efficiency isn't channelled into more positive areas.

now, let me give you a little bit more insight into the philosophy of these childish ways. the fundamental reason for bullying and insulting stems from one human emotion: insecurity. face it, everyone will feel insecure at some time or the other. whether it's your grades, or your job at stake. now, stooping down to putting down other people in order to solve your own insecurities is the most desperate form of solutions possible. it sends out a very clear signal that you can't solve your own problems, therefore, you give other people MORE problems such that your problems seem lesser. say you get a pay cut from your boss. instead of finding out why you get your pay cut and try to make amends, you try to feel better by making sure others around you get a bigger pay cut than you did. as hodge would say, it speaks a lot about your problem management and character. well, if you're going to stoop so low as to hide behind MY name and post utter trash which people KNOW is not from me, that's ten times worse than your conventional form of bullying. i'm wasting my breath, you won't listen to me anyway, would you? i'll just leave you people to your sad little lives, and i will see, at the end of a long, long day, what becomes of you, and what becomes of me.

so it's gonna be like that eh?

been hearing stuff around. walls have ears and bushes have eyes. i'm not in any position to comment about what i've heard, or whether they are even reliable or not. heck i wouldn't even want to investigate the truth about them. just make me hot and bothered, all for what?

fufufu today passed in a breeze. econs was scrwed up. i couldn't answer TWO questions but i found the rest relatively ok. serious i can't believe i forgot factor of MPC and monopoly firms. bah.

just heard that there isn't CCA on wednesday! yahoooo that means i get to go home at 12 noon! whoppee do do ahahah

and just got another econs book. damn you know some books make you stay up to wee hours of the morning just 'cause you want to finish it? well this is one of them i don't think i'll get any sleep tonight at all dammit. sigh

nothing much else to say... oh yes i just found a new good series. and another one that is a bit... er... objectionable. it's called SSS, made by the same company that made FFF what the letters stand for? heh if i posted them here i'll have the blog censured, so just give it a guess and i'll tell you if it's correct XD

i'm getting too damn OLD

yeah, you read that right. been forgeting a hell lotta things lately. like posting yesterday, for instance. oh yeah, sure it's just a small thing, but all these small things add up. firstly it's about how people view you when making a promise. secondly one fine day you'll find that one small thing will go one big circle and hit you right back in the face.

PTM on saturday, have no idea what Mr Teo and my dad were up to scheming early in the morning while i was engaged elsewhere (PW) but i know taht i was slavedriven almost non-stop since my dad came back. >_< i want to know what's been going on...

oh yeah, been picking up a new game. sorry sherwin, i found something more dependable than knight online, something that doesn't kick me out evertime the server is full 'cause i don't pay hahaha. eh, it's called flyff if anyone wants to know. that stands for "fly for fun". doinky name.

did you people read the papers these two days? been reading a lot of it hehehe. can't really remember them now due to memory loss or somthing, but i can remember a couple of good ones. like on saturday, there was this full report on spouse abuse. and the sentence that kinda chilled me was "they seem ok on the outside, or at the beginning, you never know what they will turn out to be". gee, i hope neither me nor anyone i know turns out to be like that. but then again, like it says, i'll never know. heh, just in case, if i ever turn abusive or antyhing gimme a wake-up slap or something ok? i don't wanna hurt anyone =D

and yes, today's paper was rather chock-full of stuff, if you know where to look. there was this advisory column on how women take more sentimental value in dates, times, objects while men take the "huh? that happened? all right then, whatever you say" attitude. whoops. the feminine side of my mind must be stronger then, hahaha and eye for detail is what i have =D whether i remember them, heh i guess i do, better than most people. well, especially since so many people have been asking, and KEEP ASKING for my birthday. what the heck, tell you once should be enough, tell ya twice still ok, but 6 times? too much lar.

oh yeah, picked up a new word today. reading the paper lar. "negligeent" no that's not a typo, i know what "negligent" is. "negligeent" is a term for answering the door in your underwear, mostly used by ladies. heh i'd love to see someone turn up negligeently at school ahahaha. damn that's my male side talking. hush, you =D

oh, another interesting report is about women who give birth past 35 will usually have problematic children, whether it's alzheimer's or birth defects or whatnot. hmmmm. my mom's 55 this year. that makes her almost 40 when i was born (her birthday before mine) so hmmm... i think if i was born like 10 years earlier my IQ will be twice what it is now hahahaha kidding lar. but it kinda does explain my memory losses. maybe alzheimer's coming in liao ehehe. 40 years down the road if i don't recognize anyone, do jog my memory a bit k?

was just thinking about pressure. pressure makes some people crumble, like a rock. it makes some people into living gold, like diamonds. does it matter what pressure it is, or is it the individual handling that makes the difference? i'm not in a good position to comment, i think. sighz.

ah yes, about CTs. well it was quite the wake-up call i guess. i still can promote holding on to all my subjects. there are some ppl who can't. jope we'll all work for promotion by the end of the year. remember, you cannot afford to have more than 2 Ss or even a single U if you want to keep your subjects.

hmm, and replies, yes i almost forgot. excuse me, the principle of education is such that "no child is denied the chance for learning". i'm not causing anyone inconvenience by being in the session, in fact i know of people who need to be there but would rather not be there. so tell me, why do i not have the right to attend it? just my luck i'm caught up on some of those days >_>

pretty late night

yawn, don't really feel like posting but i promised it's a daily update barring technical faults, and besides i kinda hafta rish PW anyway. so might as well use the break time over here.

i don't even wanna talk about school today. nothing much went right. scrwed up chem spa, maybe i'm getting a 5/8 or something. then GP was bleh... then CV we barely did anything. oh teo was damn funny again as usual, but only to those sitting in the front row lar! HAHAHAAH dammit i still can't stop laughing thinking about what happened. HAHAHAHA

*coughs**clears throat* erm... yeah, then lib duty >_< then H3 econs, which was ownage. damn i'll NEVER in my existence called "being alive" will ever draw the connections these mad economists draw, andyet they're so simple and logical! here, try finding the relation between abortion and low crime rates, as well as the relation between beauty pageants and drug dealing. or even try to analyse how much people value your looks. can money really not buy love? eh, don't ask me to answer that.

bridge, meh. not playing that well today. then was SUPPOSED to go for dinner but everybody deserted and ended up only me and yannie. talk about, what else? class matters lar. um, i don't think it'll be very nice repeating what we said or even making a reference or anything so i'll leave it as "class matters" =P

and then on my way back met an old teacher-mentor. well i couldn't recognize her, she did me though. maybe i really never changed much over the years. heck, if you looka t my sec 1 photo i bet you can recognize me within 20 seconds. same ol', same ol'. old faithful, maybe? hahaha

eh, i've got lots more to say but i'll leave for tomorrow. time is now 0028 and if i don't start rushing i'll never finish the EoM nor get any sleep -.-

dammit, second time i lost posts due to technical failures

bah, all that long passage i typed about opening ceremony yesterday was lost. bah. i'm NOT going to repeat myself here, all i'll say is that they sent me to usher in a very stupid place (canteen back gate? wth? as if anyone's gonna come from there!) and that kinda fell asleep before pack-up time, so by the time i woke up we were nearly done =D less work for me, i'm not complaining ^_^

eh, ok, today... i dunno what's the fetish about copying answers. it happened in RI, it's happening here again. and the worst part is some ppl copy wrongly -.-" that aside, there's seriously no point copying blindly lor, not like we're going to be able to sit beside you during exam and let you copy our answer right? the understanding is key. after that you work out the stuff yourself. not like we're not willing to teach either, you know.

can't really think of much to write, tomorrow prolly will be a DAMN long day. almost like last week, except exchange "chem tutoring" with "library duty" and you have thereabout it. ah yes, talking about personal tutoring. dammit i didn't score THAT well for CTs, how come none of the teachers are willing to include me in their "extra programmes"? i have a right to be there. triple B and ES should be able to get me in any supplementary class lar! wah lau... what's wrong wif those ppl >_<

ah, one more thing, yannie you didn't have to reply to my message ya know. but i'll read your reply =D actually it's quite an amazing feat that you can read my handwriting but ^_^"

too sour, eh?

just suddenly found that a lot of blogs i used to visit have been missing. did you guys take them down or what? no time to post? dunno, sorta miss the fun and fervour. hope this blog thing is not just a passing fad or something. that'll be really sad, since i intend to continue posting on this. ah wellz... can't force ppl to do what they don't wanna do.

and about the title for today. yep ife's been too sour lately, not because it's suddenly depressing or anything, just that i've been eating too much vinegar =D go brush up your chinese if you don't getit XD anyway, yeah since like 2 weeks after CT, been eating viengar everywhere. first get the cold shoulder treatment for some people i thought i knew well, then getting owned at CT's, then watching ppl get accomplishments -.- um, yeah the list goes on. and just this last week... well i don't wanna talk about it. i'll just say that it's time for me to move on, and i wish someone all the best. happiness is meant to be passed on, even at the cost of your own.

on the bright side, there are two things: one is that i can finally provide an answer to yannie's odd questions that day. yeah, thought about it for 3 days 3 nights, so now can give answer liao hahah i take questions seriously. another happy thing is that i managed a "B" on my GP paper. woohoo! and here i was worried sick whether i could pass it because i took the paper with like a 38 degree fever... was sick the next day too. yep, so i get my triple Bs plus the SE... quite ok lar, until someone made me eat more vinegar by telling me her double As >_<

this entire week is packed, as if last week wasn't enough. sigh. life goes on...

grrrr... feel stupid now

thinking there was chem tutorial tomorrow, i faithfully went to complete the halogenoalkanes tutorial, then looked at the timetable and found that it's math lecture tomorrow. damn i feel stupid. 2 hours of work well not wasted but could be put to use somewhere else... grrrr....

heh, after that MONSTER post yesterday i don't really feel like posting much today, so i'll keep it short. math, everything in my head lar. as in i know how to do the questions but when it comes down to calculating the stuff i think i'm gonna die hahaha. chem is ok too. just with the phrasing. and i still need someone to help me copy geog notes on wednesday.

dammit last week was a damn long week and still this week is still so damn long. got library opening ceremony, then got bridge inter-school, then ALSO got PW to do. dammit i need a break. i want to get back before 6 sometime this week. gee, is it that hard?

yawn, too tired. just thought of something amazing for GP. maybe that will save YJ's butt. bit late for that though hahaha. we'll see how it goes. hopefully i didn't miss anything important.

well, that was a surprise (long post, be warned)

er, before i start, chih hung could you please post your blog address to me again? i seem to have lost it when i cleared all my cookies and i can't reallt remember it. sorry.

ok, yan gui zen zhuan (damn why does blogger not allow chinese characters?) toaday's class outing was... odd. so few people came, but it's the the usual few this time around. in fact the usual few were missing! one was sick, one "didn't feel like coming" one got grounded, etc etc. ok i can understand the circumstances of those which they cannot control but "don't feel like coming"? wth?? and i don't think you're that good at kite-flying either >_>

hahahah talking about kite-flying right, i think we're like some noobs at it lar. went to buy kites, the first store gave us a price of $2.50 per kite (we're talking the cheap ones lar) i was so disgusted with that price. comeon, the last time i bought them one dollar apiece. ran ahead of everyone else to some provision shop, and found that they sell it at 10 for $6. wahahah. don't even need to bargain liao hehe. strings were standard rate, $1 per roll (short ones. the 2,000 feet ones are $8 O.o)

then came the hard part. kite-flying. ok we have absolutely no idea what the dickens we were suppsoed to do. firstly the kites were, well, DIY kites. i mean all the sticks and paper was there, but we had to more or less tie the strings ourselves. first thing tie wrongly liao -.- so some helpful dude (well old man actually) tied it correctly for us. then we tried to get it in the air but we kinda failed. horribly. so we had to go qing ziao (ask for help) from dear old sensei which helped us tie the string before. and this guy is PRO. within like 3 minutes he had our kite at the end of the line! ZOMG. out of curiousity we asked him how long he's been flying kites. the answer? 30 years. zomg again. we just keep getting owned by these people >_<

the sue brought this gigantic kite that we have absolutely no idea how to fly. actually, it's supposed to be used in damn windy places, and like run with it one. so well, it dodn't really suit our purpose. never mind, eh? at least me and yannie managed to learn how to get the kite up in the air. heh i even got it to the end of the short line! muhahaha accomplishment! i dunno how many others were able to do it but i guess not many.

after that they decided ("they" as in whoever's present from the, well you know gang...) to go pay cassandra a visit, so go all the way to dhoby ghaut. um... yeah, that's where i used to live. woohoo! hey i can even see my old flat from the bottom of the shopping centre, which i think once used to be Yaohan. Tania thinks Yaohan is off to the left, but i think that building is it. (did i mention the tania and yanfen look DAMN alike today? i'm serious, except for hair length if you look at them from the back you wouldn't be able to tell them apart. When we got there cassy's shift not on yet, so we have to wait like 20 minutes. what did we do? spend our time in some funky gallery and the adidas sports shop. go in the shop for WHAT i don't know, anyway was watching someone play XBOX. and DAMN the graphics are superb.

ok, ben and jerrys. we all had hot chocolate and coffee. who am i kidding? it's an ice-cream parlour, dammit. ended up sharing some triple scoop thingy with zy. heh been too damn long since i ate ice-cream liao. and apparently i don't know how to "enjoy" ice-cream, as zy keeps reminding me. what "drink water after you finish the entire ice-cream"or "don't eat dinner after ice-cream"... whatever lar. i'm not that ziang jiu hahaha

and then dinner! dinner and BK's. and i'm like i don't like Bk >_< never liked any sort of burgers before, in fact. not even the cheeseburger from mac's, which i eat occiasonally because it's the only thing i can finish in 10 mintues XD. anyway, got a fries and onion rings. and spent the time talking about stuff like height, T-shirt sizes and online games like neopets. what the hell do ppl still play that? well i do, but only occasionally =)

and on the way back yannie started asking me these like damn weird questions lar. i seriously don't know how to answer you, man. eh, you answer them yourself, then maybe i'll consider answering them.

woot this is turning out into some damn long bomb post. still got three more sub-stories to tell before i sign off =D

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first sub-story. kinda reminded during GP when skirt length was suddenly brought up for some reason. forgot that reason but anyway i have a very lasting memory about that that was brought up again today. see, i think it's no big secret that i watch anime quite regularly (ok i've not really been doing that lately but wtv) and at first i thought that the ppl in Japan are quite deprived or something. well at least the producers are. i mean they make the female uniform so... well... short. and so i thought. until our jap club was visited by 7 jap school transfer students (they have since transferred back so don't bother looking for them) and um, well let's just say we thought they were taking the opportunity as transfers to flout school rules as much as they please. turns out no. see the *standard* length for them back in japan.. ok this is hard to decribe. lemme try... from the bottom of the butt area (meaning like the lowest bit of the anatomy you can consider the buttock region) add three finger-width (meaning put three figners together and the total width of those three fingers) and that's just about the hem of the skirt. most of us started (well the guys, at least) to roll our eyes while the girls were like covering their mouth or retching. yeah i find it hard to believe to until today. 'cause a couple of these japanese ppl got on the MRT today, and althougth it's not school uniform it is THAT short. i'm like, don't talk about sitting, how do you even climb stairs? zomg they must be damn pro of something lar -.-" don't even want to think about it.

second: did you read the papers today? about abusive wives and meek husbands kind of thing? well they were discussing why so few of these cases turn up, and they were trying to pin it on a few reasons, like reputation or image, but i think none of them got even CLOSE to the right idea. see from what I think, it's jsut that the law and constitution gives too much rights to women. comeon, if a woman wants to convict someone of rape or something, and sticks to her story, the chances of the guy getting away are like less than 1/5. same with this. lay ONE finger on your wife or say ONE abusive word, and it's bye-bye cold storage for the next 5 years AT LEAST. and if you try to convict your wife? hahahahah i will shake your hand, pat you on the back and tell you "good luck".

last (finally): actually i read this yesterday but since i posted already couldn't be bothered. was reading YJ's post (did i mention the YeJie is a damn big SPOILSPORT? comeon lar, opportunity to nearly score full marks for a GP project and he's being so stubborn XD) about various scandals nearer CT's? i know the reason why. it's because ppl like us are gullible enough to respond to various pleas of help from others who like slack half the year and go "oh noes, please help this person in dire distress because i suddenly find i don't comprehend almost everything i read" and being the KIND people we are, we oblige, we teach, and sometimes, we manage to make them pass. and after the CT's (or promo's) it's back to "ok, exam over, to heck with the results, let's have fun" ALL the way until the NEXT exam period, where it's again "oh noes, we need help!" sigh. what to do?

woot, you finally made it to the end. lol hope you didn't fall asleep reading all this.

-.-" nice "create post" page

damn, even this page is giving me problems, won't load properly. bah. nothing much going right today.

H3 econs: read at least one books a week, and they gave us four books right off the bat. i'm so sure i'm gonna be able to read all those lar... ay i'm not some candidate trying to get his masters degree lor please. i'm just a lowly JC student trying to mug other subjects as well...

oh, and class outing tomorrow? got half a mind not to go already. well i'll still probably drag myself there on yannie's account (in chinese, "kan ta de mian zi shang") but if i get anymore of a *certain* load of taurus (tm) i swear i'm gonna storm off. had enough already.

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got a couple of stories to tell today. first one is some funny thing my dad's colleague related. you know some cab drivers are damn talkative? yeah, and usually i don't mind them, but i guess it irks some people. so this guy was returning from some late night feast "xi jiu" and the driver almost started a conversation as soon as he got in. "you know xxx international organization carried out a survey, and Singaporeans are like the unhappiest people on earth, why do you think that is so" (i'm translating this from chinese, so if it sounds a bit wrong then i'm sorry) so this guy who doesn't really want to talk snapped back "get in the car only $4.80 already, will anyone be happy?" (well, plus night charges, plus call charges yadda yadda) well it's effective. the cab driver shut up after that =D

2nd story, this one involves a bit of math but it's pretty entertaining too. also translated from chinese since i heard this from some storyteller when i was in china -.-"

there was one person A in a room, and there were twelve mosquitoes.
12 / 1 = 12
A couldn't take it anymore.
so A called in a friend, B
12 / 2 = 6
that's much better.
but the situation still can be improved, let's call in C
12 / 3 = 4
here comes D, this is getting lively.
12 / 4 = 3
now everyone's happy.
oh wait, here comes E.
12 / 5 = ??
so the four of them told E to stay out.
"piak*piak" E killed two mosquitoes
10 / 5 = 2
now the mosquitoes can be shared equally.
"piak*piak" E killed another two mosquitoes
8 / 5 = ??
everyone thought E was a troublemaker, so they chased him out.

and there you have it, division from china! come to think of it, it's a great lesson to use if you ever need to teach division to primary schoolers =D

gonna hate fridays from now on...

friday's schedule is jam-packed. like damn, except for a one-hour lunch break it's brain-power all the way until 9:00 at night. school officially ends at 2:00, then it's Mr. Wong not-so-private tuition until 4:00, then econs H3 until 6:00, then bridge until 8:30. WOW great day huh?

was speaking about a certain issue with Sherwin and Preston during lunch, and brought it up again when going home with yannie and annong. (heh, sorry to intrude on the privacy there ^_^") seems like something i posted on the class blog with the help of sue MUCH earlier in the year holds out. what it is, it's "sensitive" so i won't say here.

yeah, and the resolution i made a few posts back... quite a lot of people have beaten me to it. i try, i really try to mix around and avoid sticking to one group, but some factors prevent us, people who are willing, from doing so. no it isn't something like "you can't force conversation" or "we have nothing much in common" anymore. it goes much deeper than that. i was gullible enough to believe it once, i won't do so another time.

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was reading the newspaper this morning, and right across the front page of the"home" section is about the skeletal remains they found. it's sad isn't it, to have someone leading such a secluded life that she isn't even missed by anyone! i wonder, if i disappear for some reason, would there be alarm? would anyone miss me at all? some questions i don't dare to answer, but i suppose it will reveal itself one of these days.

maybe i shouldn't be putting so much effort into helping others anymore then, looking at the way things go. self-centredness is a fault of human beings, but what choice is there when kindness and helpfulness is always being repaid with being ignored, being insulted, and others? heck, there's even a chinese phrase "gou pu mao zi - duo guan xian shi" for it. the situation causes the fault in humans, not the fault creating the situation.

final result: SEBB

damn, cannot form any good acronym with zis.. ah whatever lar... still waiting for GP. maybe can form my SEAB with GP ahahah no way lar...

lol, jason teo talking with each of us this morning, dunno what he told the others but he told me i have a good head for econs and i should go for the A, barring stuff like the case study, of course. damn i still quite pissed off at that case study. total injustice to our standards >_>. i was like, if i have a good head for exons, then there must be thousand and one geniuses at econs. -.-"

ANYWAY, heh, like i said, i teach something, GURANTEE at least a pass, correct? hahaha i kept my promise. next step.. what's the next step?

okok i may need to mug a little more, but i don't think it's the mugging that's the problem. as Mr Wong told me, i have the content, i have the understanding, i jsut need to put it down in words. for some reason my ideas don't get across well enough... bah,. like chem paper, all the content is there but no marks. damn...

okok, let's see how things turn out on sunday for class outing. remember to be there, especially the forgetful ones =D

what a mess...

i must work on my expression a lot more. seems i have difficulty getting my point across without it being misinterpreted. i sorta figured out people might think i'm attacking the council OR the council members, that isn't what i mean. sigh. and people DID misinterpret me. what a mess...

i have NOTHING against both these parties, neither the council nor any members concerned. i'm just stating what i'd observed since sec school, and after hearing the recent grouses of someone i decided to post it. i had to use a general term because i didn't want to be pinpointing names, now did i? what other general terms is there to use, "someone who recently had some authority"?

sigh, i hope that clears things up. intended to post this yesterday but fell asleep. er, wil update something later, after dinner

they get a half-day tomorrow??!!

life is uber-unfair. i jsut heard that RI lessons start at 11:00 for those who opt to watch soccer at night. whatuf, if lessons started at 11:00, never mind the later dismissal i would be like damn happy lar... why doesn't RJC have that kind of policy, eh? student welfare, y'know.

bleh, another lazy day. raining the entire afternoon so couldn't go out. i think my mom wanted to buy something but the rain washed out the plans... so spent the day playing again lar hehe. getting quite proficient at 02jam now...

also been trying knight online that sherwin introduced. lol it's not too difficult, and it's repetitive but i've already quite a reputation there. no kick lar, gimme something difficult to play, that's where the challenge is =D

nothing much else. see everyone in school at *sigh* 7:45am tomorrow i guess.

I give up, dammit

arrrgh, pulling out my hair already. i'm definitely not suited for psychomotor stuff. some people can tap two different beats at the same time, i can do that to a certain degree, only when the beats aren't that far apart, like 2 beats a second on one hand and 3 beats a second on the other. i've been trying for the last four hours to complete dratted "jingle bells" on 02jam, and i've been failing miserably... grrr. um, try this. tap a steady beat of about 160 beats per minute (about 2.5 beats per second) and tap the tune of "jingle bells" with your right hand. and no smarty-pants, you don't slow down the tune >_>

um, ok i shoudl use this opportunity to catch up on the last few postings i missed. where should i start...

library then. library is like undergoing this HUGE renovation for opening ceremony. bet you will notice the difference if you go there. been folding and threading paper cranes at least 5 hours consecutive on saturday, and another 3 hours on friday. my origami skill'll prolly go up, but i wouldn't count on it =D. oh yeah and there are a lot of china scholars in the library. they have too much time, methinks. and my senior told me when i speak in chinese i tend to have the china accent. weird, no one every told me that before and i never noticed before. next time i speak chinese or whatever (like, a complete sentence lar, not one or two words) you make the judgement for yourself.

on the topic of paper cranes, remember when i said someone folded 1000 paper cranes? apparently the correct bumber was 1320. don't ask my why that was the number but you really got to take your hat off to that kind of dedication and patience. i'm not sure i can do that myself, although i probably wouldn't do something like that ^_^" and then there are the paper stars, too. 1500 of them. i've folded paper stars for some CIP before and it's really painful. no it isn't those you make with construction paper, it's those made from straws, woven in and out, that one. boy, 1500... i know what to put on my wishlist now =D not that i think you should make that kinda thing lar... i wouldn't know how to react =)

and econs paper, ok i didn't really want to discuss about it, at least i think i still can get my B unless they scrwed me up for my essay as well... huh. even if i make a lousy exam candidate at least i make a good teacher. for a *really* bad failing grade to a 64%. am i good or what? i want to collect a favour, man.

some interesting conversations i picked up on my way back home from school, since i have to pass by two other schools before i reach home. no i'm not going to post it here because, well, it might be used against me and let's just say the statement, although generating immediate laughter, is quite embarrassing and i haven't found a counter for it yet. no it's not insulting. when i find a good counter i'll post it here and you'll see what i mean ;)

right, results officially back next week. i'm HOPING for a BBCD but most likely i'm going to get a BDDF.

end of week 2

or hey, i keep thinking it's week 1 for some reason, probably because i already used to exams being in term 2 heh. anyway, played enough to more than make up for the holidays this past weekend.

i've managed to make some ppl very pissed off at me. no it's not anyone i know in real-life, it's got something to do with some online strategy game. and i suppose they don't like my style of play =D

um, need to dash. maybe tomorrow i'll post longer. really need to go now, sorry.

so late...

what the heck? who is this? identify yourself please, and i do NOT take kindly to people who spams the tagboard behind a screename AND making false adverts. remove yourself please.

bah, dumb internet went down just now so now i'm so freaking sleepy that i can't post properly. i think i had a lot to say but can't be bothered right now...

oh yeah, econs test paper was dumb. what the heck, we're supposed to answer something the question never asked for? no it wasn't even implied, as what the teachers claim. nonono there's a large difference between IMPLIED and NOT STATED. if you're going to say everything is implied then each answer will be 7 pages long because as long as any topic has the slightest relevance to it it has to be included. that is not logic. that's just authoritarian rule (i.e. i'm right, you're wrong)

too sleepy to post anything else. will make up for it tomorrow.

today's NOT friday, there's SCHOOL tomorrow

the odd swap with friday timetable keeps making me think today is friday dammit. and i think preston has the same problem, thinks there's no school tomorrow... gonna get in BIG trouble if we don't remember this by tomorrow...

oh yeah, had a stuffy nose this morning. it's not much of a wonder, since my nose is sensitive. sensitive to what? ah, there's the catch. no it isn't pet fur, nor dust, nor any of the aforementioned stuff. oh no, we figured it's rain. go figure! i didn't believe it at first but it seemed that everytime i had such problems later in the afternoon or in the evening it would rain. odd. the odder thing still was that today was a totally rain-less day.

speaking of breathing difficulties, my mom and dad were talking about their experiences in Tibet. you know, the high-altitude areas more than 5000 m above sea level. from the way they talk i don't think i'll last there. everyone has different tolerance levels, but my dad didn't make it past 3 hours and my mom was nauseous once she got off the plane. damn if this has anything to do with genetics i won't be able to go there either -.-"

waiting for the 02 jam server to come back up, i think i'm waaaay too hooked onto it right now. heh can complete difficulty level 8! YAY!

term 3, day 1

gee, time slips through our fingers like grains of sand. can't believe i've already passed 1/4 of my life, and not having accomplished anything much neither... bah. as i quote calvin from "calvin and hobbes" "oh no, it's one hour later than it was half an hour before!"

hmm, new timetable. and i have to say the new timetable IS NOT GOOD. two periods of geography back to back??!! and why did they put econs H3 on friday??!! dammit seems like i'll have to give it up. and i was working so hard for it too T_T

actually i fully expected to start getting our CTs back today... i mean they had the whole weekend AND youth day to mark... lazy teachers. heh just kidding. i know they have a lot on their plate right now. but they've been dropping hints all day, and none of them sound good. ok i know i screwed geog, and i was hoping to get a decent grade for econs, but by the sound of what they both said i think i'd better start a crash course before promos...

oh yeah, i found a new game, quite hooked on it right now. ok this isn't the best timing but i just found it, so heh no choice. actually i got introduced to it when i just went on to gunbound out of boredom. wanted to see if i had any skill left over. "dao lao jiang bu lao" hahah anyway, as i was saying somone who was playing me introduced this thing to me.

um, imagine the DDR machine, OR the parapara machine. now imagine that instead of stepping on panels or moving your arms, you hit buttons, everything else stays the same. that's about it. i think in China it was called Rmix revolution or something can't exactl remember it. well i was pretty good at it in China, could clear the intermediate stage (but well, anyone can get good at it after blowing at least 200 credits on training =D) so i thought i should try it out on the home comp. and let me say this: although the mechanics are exactly the same, playing on the keyboard is SO MUCH HARDER. i'm still stuck at level 9. gee...

oh, the name of the game? 02jam. it's some malaysian thingy, so naturally *most* of the songs are in malay. but hey, who cares? just means that i have another foreign language to add to my collection of songs which i completely don't understand (tm) =D

ok, out.

repost

gee, it didn't seem well to have my only post for the day super-short and super-not nice, so i had to repost. anyway, to the people concerned, i guess things must seem different or over-exaggerated when i describe it. but then, "in" people usually never have problems with social lives. someone once asked me why people should be bothered to be "in" ? i have the answer now.

feh, anyway, chih hung i finally figured out what hiatus means. hope nothing happened to you. gotta improve my vocab, lots.

oh, i got a very funny e-mail that slipped past my spam filters. i'm serious. just don't take the contents of the e-mail seriously though... they're what you call... sleazy, i guess. =D

message received: 14:23
Good day to you bro! The good news are that this obstacle can be overcome by you, the real man. You will become her best partner ever - she just won't be able to leave! No anguish, just adoration.

gee, these people do go overboard with this stuff don't they?

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and to make up for the uber short post i'll post a short story out of the entire cache i have here. inspiring, philosophycal, tragic... i leave it up to you. alternatively you could just take it as another story.

seven birds once lived in a forest. each bird had it's own tree. every morning at 7 sharp the birds would sing in sequence, starting from the first, the Do bird

"Do, Do, Do..."
"Re, Re, Re..."
"Mi, Mi, Mi..."

then disaster struck. The tree in which Do's bird made her nest was felled. Having lost her home, she bade goodbye to the woods, not before passing on her song to her neighbour, the Re bird. now every morning, the Re bird goes

"DoRe, DoRe..."

and every time the remaining six hear it, they wonder what has become of their good friend the Do bird.

Some time later, Re's tree was also felled. Bidding a sorrowful farewell to the woods she knew so well, Re passed on her song to the Mi bird.
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And today, one solitary tree stands in the middle of the park. and those who get up early can hear a slow, sorrowful tune everyday at 7 in the morning:

"DoReMiFaSoLaTi
TiLaSoFaMiReDo"



A/N: i had it translated from chinese. doesn't have the same impact but i hope i did a good job.

want a zero sum game? fine!

keh, and i wasn't feeling all that bad today either. great way to put a dampener on things eh? like i said lor, doesn't matter if i'm not wanted or anything. what bothers me is ze funky excuses, AFTER i get interested in it. all right, next time i won't bother at all. that will make you happy doesn't it? i think it would!

sorry, i'm waaaay not in the mood to post anything else. don't even feel like posting in the first place but since someone wants me to get out of the picture so badly, fine, i will. happy now?

another boring day

hmm, still as boring as ever, but for some reason i'm a bit more lively today. weird? dunno. i think it's just personality heh. short down-times, and high the rest of the time =D

ok, i need new games, i think. but mostly my taste is quite different from the rest. i prefer games that are more complex, those with a steep learning curve. actually this doesn't just apply to computers. anything i do is kinda like that, i think. see, the brain degenerates when not in use. it's always good to exercise it and use it to the max. using it to think at like 10 thoughts a minute is good stuff.

and talking about games, been too long since i last played anything. not as proficient with the ones i used to be good at. need a lot more practice =D but ah, that's life. c'est la vie, ma chere.
on note of foreign translations: sherwyn! i'm gonna get you! translate something properly for me next time please!!!

and yes, i was promising a review yesterday... hmm better get to it. and before i start i want to send out like a plea for help, 'cause i really need to know how to link as well as how to add funky stuff like music to the blog yeah? thanks. leave a comment or something if you can help.

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Love Love?

Summary: Ooizumi Naoto gets the oh-so-entertaining job of doing the "extras" filming during the production run of some film which title eludes me. that's all you have to know. cue to the pantsufest, as i can quote

Storyline: what? sorry, word does not exist in this show.

Character: boring, perverted male lead? check. huge base of girls? check. character stereotypes? check. loads of um... you know, and panty shots? sigh... check. yep, it's a harem anime all right. and a very VERY overdone harem at that. the characters are ALL largely stereotypical so there's nothing much ot say. what we reviewers hate the most is stereotypes... and we get that here... just read on, read on.

Music: they added a nice touch to the opening music, i think it's called a "cannon" or something... you know, where they have one person singing, then another person cuts in, then the first person cuts back in, and so on. quite creative, i thought. well that is good, but the lyrics have something to be desired. i mean, it's not that they were bad or anything, but just a *leeeetle* bit too perverted. and i actually went to translate it not knowing what it was... bleaugh. ending song was a biot more serene but still perverted as ever -.-"

comments: i think the producers must be on crack when they developed this series. either that or they thought stuffing a male lead into a complete harem (yes, i use the word harem) and giving him more than enough bathroom shots, breast grabs and panty shots to induce death by nosebleed would be very entertaining to the audience, which i must note at this point, is definitely NOT. what the heck, i think it more painful to the watcher to watch the female cast appearing out of nowhere, tripping all over the place or jumping down from higher vantage points. no, just NO

conclusion: well, get it if you're in *THAT* mood and need something pervy to watch. otherwise i would suggest not even touching it with a 10-foot pole.

got nothing to do today, so watch anime and review tomorrow

like i said, today is damn boring. too boring for words. want to know how bad the situation is? i got nothing to do, so i tried playing some com games, and the only one that kinda worked was asteriods. yes asteriods, the 1959 game from so long ago. i need SOMETHING to do dammit.

ok replies first. eh, thanks for the reassurance, but... it's kinda hard to accept after some time already. i mean once i've lost faith in something, which rarely happens, sorry, you're going to have to do a LOT of work restoring that confidence. besides, on that day itself i got enough hints to leave, and i took it. didn't notice that i was the only one that left, and didn't notice what i told tania and the rest when they came rushing up too, i suppose. well ignorance is bliss, i guess. but still, i'd have been much happier if i was given a straight response rather than subtle hints. but ok, since you claimed it just wasn't well planned, and just because it's coming from you, i'll give ya'll the benefit of the doubt this time.

at any rate, it's good you got over your problems. i'm not a top-rate counsellor, so i can't really give advice on what to do in a situation like the one you told me some time ago. well, from the way you're interacting and having fun with people again it seems you're much better. that's good. no point mulling over one person or one thing.

have nothing much else to say (sorry if today's post sounds depressing) so i'd stop here. if i have nothing to do tomorrow again i guess i'll post another review, although not many people like it. what to do?