today's cca: bball

today didn't go for choir... hee hee! Managed to persuade mr toh to let me skip choir to go join the bballers for training! WHee! XD Hahaaz... seems quite fun, even liyoung, jiayu, and brenda were there! =)

Got there late, cuz I had to stay back a while to see Mr Ang regarding the proceedure of National Day ceremony (I am gonna be the speaker! XP). Haiz, what a bad timing eh? Got to the bball court, just when the bballers all finished their super-vigourous warmup. Liyoung was with them!!! OMG... sheesh, missed out the start, doesn't bode well. Later, when we (ly and me) tried to slip among the bballers to join their training, hari suddenly came over and said to us...

"I think you better go over to the other court and play with them (jy, brenda). This training is strictly for bballers, and you can join us after our team training..."

Sigh. So much for hospitality eh? hahaha... nvm. Will still go speak to the coach when I see him for PE lesson. By hook, or by crook, I better find a way to convince him to let me join bball. I know the training is hard, tough, rigourous (hari reckons yingzhen asked us to go watch the training... to scare us off bball), but if even fishie can take it, why can't ly and I? Hahaha... must work hard!

Saw reico play 1v1 against nat. was quite a lost *expected*, but yea, nice effort man reico! *next thing i kno it, i may be going to beg him to be my bball shifu or sth. LOL...* Oh wells, felt rather down with the turnout of the 1st meeting with bball cca. It's like, experiencing rejection, totally... I must speak to the coach sia. MUST get the other bballers to accept me! Even if they were to do it grudgingly... (ie. hari?) Hahaha...

Went home by mrt today. Tagged along with liyoung, "my other self" (roy yeo), and lianhan, as we walked to mrt. ly was quite slow, and so we're behind the group of year 1 girls *ahemahem*. Dunno why, ly's footsteps were damn wide, and left me and the rest behind, striding forward as fast as possible *probably to catch up with da galz la*. Later, it seems they were trying to take a detour, and in a sense, waited for us to show up... -.- hahaha, then they were tailing us till the void deck, where they suddenly sat down and left us walking ahead. Haaha, muz be a ploy to get rid of us, lol... No matter, we still went ahead anyway. Our group actually sat at the MRT to WAIT for them to show up! *omg* XD XD XD

LAME i kno, but hey, where's the fun if we dun do such spasticated stuff? Lolz... ignore me. So took to Raffles Place, where I parted with lianhan, ly, and fishie, and followed mia north. Left her at Bishan, and took a feeder service home... Haha, a typical trip of MRT from school to home. =)

Oh, a side note. I met my dad along the way home on da bus! *redundant* lolz...

BBALL

argh. I feel so terrible... there's bball training tmr, and probably gonna be the 1st time I ever attended a bball cca. I am so scared: what if zhuo lao shi refuses to let me quit choir? what if when i go there, i will look so totally outcast? or or or, what if pros there look down on me for my ultimate noobiness and leave me out?! sheeesh... I am so freaking terrified, I feel like backing out now. But seeing yingzhen so enthusiastic abt seeing me there...... Hmm, I wonder. Oh well, guess I have nothing to lose don't I?

For now, my only obstacle is to successfully convince zhuo lao shi to lemme quit choir... ahaha, gonna be tough sia, me being the only bass in choir and all. The last thing I want now, is kenwei leave at the same time. Later zhuo lao shi get heart attack, lol! *or more like puke. I better bring a pail from the council room... XD*

Oh, poor elaine! she sprained her ankle, the poor girl! Sigh... oh well, rest well and wish u a speedy recovery! As for her events, I gonna have to find a substitute for her. mass relay wld be easy, but 4*100... sheesh. gonna be tougher than i thought. >.<

*praying hard for tmr* dun let hari mess me up k. I scared of alex... XD

To join, or not to...

ahhz, wednesday! supposedly one of my fav days... but no, not today, cuz this wednesday is far more tiring for me than any other wednesdays I have experienced!!! *ARGH*

1st of all, I have left 2 of my major homework undone, despite the number of days I had beforehand to finish it: ERP assignment, and BIO FLYER DESIGN!!! Oh noooo... I am deaddeaddead! Somebody save meee... *sigh* can't help it. Who asked me to drag all this shit into the last few days to clear up? Oh well, old habits die hard, as much as I wanna change. At least I dun drag CHEM hw to da end these days (CHEM ROX MY WORLD! XD). LOL! Haiz... better resume my hw.

Oh, 2ndly, there's council afternoon meeting today! Just when I wanted to rush home early to scramble my last min hw!!! Boohoo... so sad =(. Lost 1 1/2 hrs to the council activities... argh. Am feeling like fainting now sia. Haz, but must hold on, cannot lose hope! At least the matters discussed in the meeting were meaningful. Ms Flo was around to chair the meeting with us, thank god. I dun think if sky or I chaired the meeting, we would get very far... dear me.

and finally, the house matters. Cheerleading for Fleming is quite about everywhere, and Asra and I have yet to cook up something tasty for our house. Well, at least now I am seeing a small but positive group of enthu-kias tt are willing to help out, even though they might not be what others perceive to be "cheerleading quality" (ie. ernest, lan chi, etc). Now tts very heartening for me... plus, asra just discovered a teeny secret in the school that may somehow save our house some face in the case of cheers. This thing, I think, was left behind by the RJC blue house when they have moved out, and we happened to drop by it, decided it cld be useful, and took it with us. May not help out much, but in the end, we would know that at least we tried... =)

also arh, I have yet to complete the list of runners running for the hse. relays are still left undone, and I gotta go out there to rope people in!!! Gahz, pray that Fleming gets a couple more runners to fill the gaping holes soon... *prays hard*

Anyway, I better get cracking on my homework now, before it piles up and kills me tmr... sigh.

Oh, on a side note, I am considering joining bball.... I wonder if I should do it. After all, if I leave choir, there wld be no one else to take the bass section (gah. bryan left for dance before me, leaving me as the only solo kia in bass -.-) Butbutbut, bball is soooo fun! And somemore it is now open to the rest of the students to join lehz! How cool can that get??? ahhz... I am so hooked to bball now. And I heard the new coach in NUSHS is training the bballers from scratch, so... I still get a chance! Should I join? or not... hmm...

Homework sunday... *yawn*

Haizz.. not another homework loaded weekend. Hahaha... how siannnnnnnn. Going to die of boredom from homework!!! Luckily, chemistry isn't boring! XD Wahahaha... chem rox! Starting on physics, geog, and chinese compo today... hopefully didn't leave out any homework! >< darn...

Heh, stayed up till 2am this morning (to be specific, I logged off at 12.40am, but was trying to finish my damned chem prac), one of the latest I have stayed up to. Pretty shocked from how late I went to bed, haha, but I am sure some ppl I know can do much better than I can lar, right? XD Last night felt pretty bored, so played an old racing game that I bought like, I think 5, 6 years ago?! Wahahaha... the fun of the oldies eh? Completed the entire thing in 2 hrs (sheesh, cld have done better, but still rather shaky for the highest difficulty level. the maps were REFLECTED! What do you expect? =D). I really despo or something liao lar. Somehow WC3 and FIFA 2005 not appealing to me as much anymore... Well, FIFA still does. I have yet to get Wolverhampton into the EPL yet. XS Lolz!

But still, my staying up late is worth it. Hahaha... somehow the people I wait for appears in the dead of the night, lol... quite cool, but I am pretty sure my dad won't approve of my behaviour la... *wink* But too bad, I know there would be some that have "waited the night in vain"... teehee! I love to use the quote: "When you fish, you must wait for the right place, right time..." Bwahahahahhahahaha!!! Sorry, my lame joke. FISHING! o.0

Although during the past week, I was very troubled and frustrated with myself - which began to affect my schoolwork *ARGH* - this weekend has proven to me one of the best weekends I can ever have, one that has allowed me to free myself of the pains in my mind/heart/soul! Haha (dramatization. oops). And I would like to thank a very special person for making this possible... She would know who she is. Thanks a million!! XP

Now now... with my spirit back. I wanna do something different... I wanna join the one and only------- FUN SIDE!!! XP (become the 1st year 3 to do so at any rate. haha) liyoung, can let me be an honourary member too???? XD XP XS pls pls pls!

Wahahahha... and now, it's back to work. Wait. I better go monitor some of my friends' blogs. A couple of people's blogs have been - threatened, in one way or another. I do not wish to see a fight like the one that has occured TWICE on my blog to happen to other people too, especially if they indeed are an "innocent" party. here I go *forensic science application? I dunno* hahaha..

The Time Machine

Ahhz, feeling tired after a long thursday... haiz, really muz get used to this routine sia. Thx goodness there's always forensic science and bball to look forward to at the end of the day... haha?

But nevertheless, nothing else beats blogging at stress relief! I mean, it's like, coming home after a long day, with so much in your head that u wanna throw out, and it greatly aids in organisation of my commonly overloaded mind. Lolz. Sounds chim, but waddaheck, it just helps me to relax *man mama* (diao. copy lippy's line. ahhz). And today, I am in the mood to write... a poem. -.-

This is the 3rd time I am writing one (gonna be as shitty as the 1st 2. if not, worse). Now, I shall write about the Time Machine, which also happens to be the book I have chosen for my ERP assignment *gah* haha... picked it cuz it is thin XD. Anyway... I not gonna repeat the storyline wholesale larr... just gonna rewrite my own version of it. I know my writing skills stink, but pls, bear with it. if u can't stop here. I mean it. stop. =)

As for the rest of you that dare to read my horrendous writing, continue...

The Time Machine

All this commotion began,

not so long ago,

when I was toiling at my desk,

a wonder began to unfold.

The project I've worked on all my life,

has come to reality.

The Time Machine is born on earth

a marvel for all to see.

As I nervously slipped in,

and thought of what I've done.

All my dreams and aspirations

have boiled down to this one.

Clutching the lever in my hands,

I can change my fate.

Or some other poor being I pick on,

for good, or bad, he's dead.

Talk no more, I told myself,

it's time I'd set off,

Plunging myself into the near future,

curious what I would see.

100 years ahead of time I fly,

and it's a whole new world.

A place of towering skyscrapers,

and lots more left to unfold!

Technology of my wildest dreams,

designed beyond my imaginations,

robots that serve us like slaves,

and powerful AIs for our foundation.

But in a night, the world is changed,

the future forever torn.

Our robots all turn on us,

and worse of all, they won.

Now humans are no more than slaves,

to our own pathetic creation.

When will the day come,

where will there be salvation?

But I could think no longer,

for those savages are after me.

Into the Time Machine, I fly

back to 1943.

That time had a world gone mad,

from destruction of world war 2.

People dying and countries crushed.

fighting and flames, KABOO!

I thought I'd be some smart aleck,

and go end this crap.

Looking up hitler in his sleep

and end his life with a snap.

But seems history dictates the string of events,

that even the time machine can't change.

Upon my foolhardy attempt to assasinate Hitler,

He caught me with little to arrange.

"Fool!" he screamed out loud,

"do you think fate's for you to alter?

For I, mighty Hitler, shall dominate the world,

scum like you will falter!!!" (exaggeration).

But thank heavens that Time's on my side,

and so got myself ready.

The moment Hitler's men advanced for the kill,

I popped, gone off, real steady.

In panic, I driven my controls too far,

to the point of infinity.

Suddenly my machine overloads and dies,

leaving me stuck in time for eternity...

However, some miracle took place,

and I landed with a plonk.

In a dark land with no light,

for a moment, I thought I went "donk" (dumb).

In a flash of blinding light, an image appeared,

throwing me off by force.

I then realised that Time's creator,

has finally found me, looking cross.

"There are certain things in this human world,

where humans have power in their hand,

unfortunately, Time's not for fools to meddle with,

thus go banish your ambition so grand."

"To think you can travel about in time,

and change fate like clothes,

is nothing but a stupid idea

which you've rashly wanted to hold."

"Time is a dimension for God to manage,

not irresponsible mortals like you.

Thus I shall destroy this machine of yours

and back to your world you shoo."

And with that He banished me back home,

without my Time Machine,

leaving a last message for me,

not to meddle with time or such things.

But Man's hunger cannot be satisfied so easily,

and back to work I go.

For good or bad, I dunno,

but the Time Machine is for mankind to own!

XD. Sucks? well. you go then. I reeally really need to rush my homework now. ciaoz!

Service Learning. DONE *i hope*

ahhz, back home. can relax *not*... yayaya. How to you tell me? With all that homework and wadeva else crap I need to manage? Lolz... as I blog, I am currently trying out ESPACE (nushs new online system/community for lessons), and resetting my password. I better ensure no prankster would try to lock me out of my own acc... Ahahaha (though I am very sure even if there are pranksters in nushs, they won't come for me... lol!)!

Lol, anyway, this morning got to school as usual, but didn't head for the council room. Spent 1st few mins at canteen (haven't been doing so for a loooong time. Lolz!), cuz I thought since yingzhen not going up, I might as well not go. Turns out that when yingzhen saw me, she was like, "roy ah, today got council meeting leh, why are you here???" Shoot. haha.

rushed back up, and met rest of council (abt 3/4 of them) as ms flo lee began today's meeting. nothing much, but we missing out several key personel from council... and florence (yr3) seemed damn pissed at me when I apologised to her for not informing her abt the morning council meet... arhh, srry florence! XP

math (logarithms), boring, but yea, chris wong rox! =D lol. downloaded bdude from reico, and that would be the second game in my graphing calculator! Whee! hahaha... better be careful, lest I suddenly turn into a graphing calculator addict!!! (whoever has heard of such an addict?! omg) Hahaha... and I didn't bring my geog notes today... argh, had to camp at the back of the class with charmaine and chin pin. Lol, thx gdness mrs kan didn't realise. Better be more careful in packing my bag next time... >.<

Into the LT to watch the releasing of ESPACE to NUS High... it ROX k, haha (or at least, I nvr seen such a thing before in CHS. Maybe got la, but muz hav been pathetic). Too bad, they didn't present the thing to the school in a very "grand" fashion and all. it makes this system seem like a white elephant or something *haha*. Anyway, I am so excited abt espace!!! When this thing goes big, it's so gonna roxxorz! Lolz...

Lunchtime. Had to assemble back at LT by 1.15pm, so since got so much spare time, I went to play bball with fishie and viona. too bored liao la, I tell you, have been "bball deprived" for soooo long liao... haha. Saw all the year 3s playing on one court. So many people, I join in confirm become a lamppost one, so just started a new game with the 2 of them lor (call it bully. Haha). Later liyoung, issac, roy yeo, and jensen joined in, and turns out to be FUN side vs non-FUN side... Lolz, wadeva, other roy played really well too, and I got couple of tyco shots today... lolz. OH MAN, issac can do 3-pointer!! siaoo... wanna die XP haha!

Dad was late, so oliver, daniel and I waited at porch for him, as we gathered all the newspaper we collected so far for service learning (not a bad sum I tell you! thx all that contributed! =) )... we even got some from the canteen vendor! Lol! cool... took some time to tie up and load the newspaper into my dad's car, before setting off for Lions Befrienders office. Turns out there was a little, errm, trouble caused, because our group didn't seem to have registered in the list on our 1st visit (we were 1st group, and didn't sign in with the rest of the folks mar), so spent a little time registering ourselves, and then got this very nice-looking volunteer that brought us up to see the old man. We (or more like I) were very eager to go see him again , because we got all our stuff to show him. He seemed pretty happy with it, when we went up to see him... Haha, I feel at ease now, lol. Oh, saw fangyi, luxi, sheng, damien, and ganshun with the old man too! Seems that we were assigned to the same person! haha... interesting. Spent 10 mins there, and then left for home...

10 MIN ONLY. w00tz! WE ROCK.

Hahaha... nvm nvm, it's all over now! Whee! *finally got rid of it, I should say* Went to Wheelock place to pick up my nokia 3220 which i sent for servicing last week. Seems better now, hopefully it won't give me anymore headache... at least until I go trade it in for a newer phone or something, haha. Also popped by borders to check out the new harry potter book... wah, ex sia, $40.60 at borders! that's it. I am waiting for another 3-6 months to let the price fall, then go buy. In the meanwhile, I would have to resist the inevitable "withdrawal syndrome"... lol? XD

Haiz... homework time. Got english test tmr on critical thinking, and I dunno what the hell it is gonna be on lor! Sigh, that's it man, thattt's it...

Oh, on a lighter note. I shall quote donovan, "You should go take care of the animal..." Amusing. XD (few catch the significance of this sentence, but I am sure samuel will... heez!)

some just dun learn...

Aye, after a pretty "eventful" weekend, it is finally back to school (and back with more homework... gahz!)

Anyway, got to school slightly later (7.05am), thinking that I could spend some time on my geog and chinese homework, considering that I have been overly enthu in finishing my physics and bio prac homework over the weekend. But no... yingzhen just suddenly reminded me that I have not done my history assignment!!! bother bother bother... *frets* damn la, oh nevermind, can just do it in the council room with the last bit of free time I have before lessons. Right. That's how it was until when I was writing an announcement into the announcement book, fiona just popped in and asked me whether I have prepared for the presentation of newspaper article for history... shit.

But ahhz, managed to keep my cool, and although fiona did cut out a last min article for me from today's paper and thrusted it at me directly under mr salim's nose (uh oh), I did not go bananas during that short presentation. In fact, I didn't use that new article, but re-present the article that fiona unsatisfactorily presented to mr salim (btw, that's in mr salim's opinion). Funny, I don't think I said anything much different from fiona when she presented last week, but yet mr salim seems quite ok with me... Hmm, wonder why.

Moving on, english class at MRL. Met the new english teacher Ms Chan. Hmm, quiet, but a kind-looking lady. She seems new in the teaching profession, so hmm, I wonder how on earth she is going to be able to control 304 during class... or maybe the reason why ms flo passed our class to her is because 304 is the easiest class to manage in the entire level? XD WHee! 304 rox! (i hope u are hearing this yingzhen! =))) )

Break. rushed my geog homework. didn't have much time to slack anyway, so was really frantic and all. rush rush rush... gah. Hate doing last min homework, deprives me of socializing time in school (which is pretty sad, come to think of it). At 11.50am, we (the hse captains) moved off for ms flo's office. She said she wanted to meet us for something... hmm. wonder what.

Then, I met "them". yep, more precisely, the "2 of them". Hahaha... didn't want to stir up trouble, so just tried to keep myself out of sight for the moment. I wonder why they are with ms flo... my guess is that since teo could go in, it has to be hse-related. Exact details? I can't be bothered to find out. Not that it will kill me la anyway. =D When they were done, they left the office and as I passed them, thinking that an apology to them over the past events would be just nice... one of them spat,

"roy you pissing f***..." -.-

How brilliant. So much for wanting to be friendly... haiz, I guess jac was right. argh wadeva. I wonder if "he" knows about this... (btw, it shld be very clear who I am referring to, since there are few in school that openly swear at me. lolx, amusing)

Then came physics. DARN IT. Couldn't understand a crap about differenciation... Really must get my dad to teach me the gist of it... somehow. ARGH, then came geog. Watched a documentary! How cool eh? XD And chinese is fun as usual (how can it not be? with people like jac, josh, nic wong, and err.. me? *ego again*) Lolz... finally, bio class at the end of the day. Thought I would fall asleep for that lecture by ms seah... but seems that the topics discussed were lively enough to keep me awake, even though it was at the end of the day... *haiz*

Back home, feeling much more relaxed than last night. Dunno why, the depression just fades away... perhaps my skills at purging "evil forces" within me is improving, hahaha... *wadeva the crap* Back to work. sigh... =(

Depressed... why?

After this morning's sudden inspiration and euphoria, it slowly ebbed away throughout the afternoon, as I slogged my guts out trying to be "guai-kia-ish" and typing my physics report out, and searching for answers for the bio practical assignment (gah, still got some stuff I have yet to finish). Still have to do my geog and CL assignments, but gah, I am currently too worried to even think about these matters! =( Will leave it to tomorrow break time to finish... I hope *closes eyes*.

Now, all that's left in me, is... depression. What bugs me, how it got to me, and why, I do not know. Perhaps this is one critical moment in my life that I must persevere and pass through, to move along with life. I thought, after leaving CHS, I would be able to leave behind most of the stress, and live a perhaps more care-free life? But seems that new troubles have arisen from boiling waters...

No, I am not refering to the recent spate of events that have just occured here, but other things too... they seem to come crashing down on me all at once. I wish I could just go sleep and won't wake up till eternity...

But then again, that's as gd a behaviour as a coward! And I don't want the world to know me as a spineless, useless git! I shall awaken tomorrow, with a fresh mind and combat spirit, and tackle these woes one by one. It won't be easy, that's for sure, but I am sure with a positive mindset, I can conquer it!

You know, perhaps I can start, by channeling some of the positive energies that my fellow house mates have. They all did alot to encourage and cheer me up, especially asra. I owe what the house has accomplised today... I, am totally lost for words.

But for now, it's bed time for me to channel my inner-self's calm... yep. night.

Inspiration

Strange... I am blogging in (late) morning... quite unlike me, but argh, wadeva...

Just had a very, very strange dream. In my dream, I seen myself planning great, really great things for Fleming. Exactly what kinda great things, I could not see it myself, but I could feel it. The force is just... there. Very strong, very powerful, some sort of positive energy tunneling through me, allowing me to be enlightened about the future of my house... even though it was just for a split second.

Then, in my dream, there I was, planning for the upcoming track events. I see great enthusiasm, excellent participation, and many people "on the ball", ready and willing to run for the House! Wow... it seemed, so... real. -.-" But hey, could this just be a premonition of great things to come for us flemingists? XP

Anyway, back to reality. After that great "ego booster" (i see people scowling at me now. =) ), I must proceed to initiate the plans for Fleming. The house morale must have been boosted from the last victory, and ebbing away is the sadness from our disastrous Sports Day =( , thus, I really must do something to continue this spirit... A couple of ultra-enthu juniors have come to me with great plans for the future of Fleming's members, and it seemed well, big. At 1st, I was reluctant to carry it out, but seeing such power coming from individuals so young... I really cannot bring myself to put them down. Even now, I am excited as to how this thing is going to turn out! hee hee... the ball is in our court now. We'd better give it a good shot. =D

Oh, and jac's really nice! She offered me help for Fleming, despite the fact that she's from rival house Nobel... Ahhz, I should say, that's true house spirit! =))) yep yep. Really appreciate it jac, thx for the encouragement!!! XD

Sigh... homework time. Physics report and bio report waiting for me to finish. Lolz... ciao!

NUSHS inaugural cross-country event!

phew... what a long day. I am so bloody exhausted. later on, I still wanna have some fun with my cousin on WC3, or perhaps, play FIFA 2005 and get Wolverhampton to complete their season (currently manager for that team. English Division Champs).... ARGH, but still, I MUST say what I have gone through today, that have totally changed my life... XP

Today early morning (6.45am), left home for McRitchie Reservoir (venue of X-country run). Cuz I left a tad lil too late, I couldn't run there, and so had to take a bus -.-. Haha, no walk for me this year to mcritchie, haha. Next year maybe...

Reached there, met asra, kenwei, and a couple of fleming members. Asra then revealed a secret to me which 2 of her best "aides" in Fleming have told her... This secret, concerns the future well-being of Fleming, and perhaps god-send opportunity for us to make a turn around... yes. I know it would bring all of us to greater heights, and leave "undesirable people" that stand against us biting more dust than what they did today.. XD XP XS (you guys shld know who I am refering to eh?) In the meanwhile, I shall keep this secret... a secret. =)

at 7.45am, the 4 hse captns went forward to lead the warm up. I started it and well, didn't conduct it well la. Hahahaz, screw it. Was never trained to be any form of PTI (physical traning instructor), lolz. Anyway, after the mass warm-up, all of the competitors went to get their number tags... I got 102 (tts random), and so I went to gather together all my B boys runners for Fleming... to start planning how not to be last. XD And also do the warm-ups la. Haha, quite a period of time to do extra stretching, then the competitive girl runners went off to the starting point...

Tian Cheng and I tried to see them start off, but we were too late when we jogged towards the starting point... *sigh* oh, and yingzhen sure is pro, starting off already start sprinting faster than mr chong liao! XD. Anyway, we just waited there for the rest of the competitive boy runners, as they came in slightly later all rearing and ready to go... very nervous, I was. And there was a short period of time when I suddenly felt like going to the toilet. =D Haha, amusing yes, but I get that all the time (especially just before a major examination)...

But it soon passed, as we all went off. Alot of guys were all charging off towards the front, leaving all the fleming boys (and a couple of weaker runners from other houses) behind. Sigh, quite sad if you were to look at how tian cheng, abi and me were running, but yea, tts the reality of things. As we were trudging through the forest and muddy terrain, we were all dead exhausted, the fleming team, but we boys never gave up, and stick together as one team, one house. I didn't stop running, until when I reached the pavement along lornie road, when finally the mind-over-matter thing exhausted out. *phew. hard work* Then, it was walk and run for the lot of us, until we caught up with ken wei, who could not keep pace with bryan (too pro liao mar). Then, I started the mind over matter thing again, and driven myself ahead to the last stretch. It was then, did I realise how important the encouragement from my fellow house members (and friends from other houses) were! I suddenly found new light in my run, and overtook a couple of people in the road to victory... XD *drama again*

Reached the finishing line, and got 11th position (out of 18 odd people I think. Could be more, I dunno). Isn't top 10, but I am satisfied already... =) Gulped down 5 cups of orange juice, courtesy to McDonalds, and then went back up the road to cheer the others on. I should say, even though we guys from fleming didn't perform exceptionally well, I am still proud of how far we have gotten so far! I see them run, but in their eyes, I see them run with spirit, with passion, and with such loyalty for the house which I bet fibo's people would never have dreamed off. *propoganda* Lolz... yes, and besides cheering for my own people, I did something that I never did before in 8 years in school house events; that is to cheer for other houses too! Fibo included (but I am sure that the fibo cheerleaders won't appreciate that, cuz they will feel that they can do a far better job than I can, RIGHT?)! And yep, was out there with them till the very last member came back... =)))

Now, for the most exciting part of the cross-country event: PRIZE PRESENTATION! And I just got reports that our B girls and C girls did exceptionally well! XD Whee!!! I am so proud of them all, they seriously have proved me wrong about their abilities... I will never doubt them again. ever. I was so elated about all that has happened, that for a fleeting moment, I thought all this was just a dream, but like how the 1st album of F.I.R. goes, it is a "Fairyland in Reality". XD Yep yep, they were true, and I am loving it more and more every second! XD

Then, came the results.

C Boys (Team): 4th (lianhan too pro. sheng too. Must pick more athletic people in future... I see great potential in this batch. really)

B Boys (Team): 4th (cannot win la. Got people like jen, nat, caiyue, shaun, benedict, bryan... etc)

C Girls (Team): 1st (eliza and yangxuan, you guys rock man!)

B Girls (Team): 1st (w00tz, the entire group of them were great! Especially the twins vivian and lillian! XD)

Fleming runners' of excellence (top 3ers):

• Low Ying Si, Eliza. 1st
• Pek Yang Xuan. 2nd

The girls teams for Fleming totally rocked the house man. Pwnage...

OMG OMG OMG. Am really happy with them... they haven't let me down, and definitely didn't let the house down... XP.

That's not all! Fleming for once, has brought home more than just "bottom-feeder" rankings... We even came in 1st Runner-ups for the competitive running, and...

OVERALL HOUSE CHAMPION FOR THE 1st X-country in NUSHS!!! XD

Here's the rankings for overall house champs:

1st: Fleming (we rock!)
2nd: Nobel (you guys haven't let me down. keep it up man!)
3rd: Faraday (cmon, you guys can achieve more! gd thing you fellas weren't last)
4th: Fibo (nothing to say now, eh fibo cheerleaders? XD )

And by some people's request, here's competitive house champs:

1st: Nobel (nat, jen, and co. keep going! dun disappoint me)
2nd Fleming (the slope up is steep, but we will keep climbing!)
3rd: Fibo (heh, yingzhen, caiyue, sheng, bryan, muster more might)
4th: Faraday (I know you fellas have some rough times this X-country, but muz work harder k!!!)

Wahahahaha... still on post-winner-ish high! XD I cannot stop thinking about it... the moment where the big silver "washbasin" goes to fleming, and fleming it goes to! XD So proud of all the runners... you guys all rock da school big time man!

Oh tt reminds me, I think since Fleming has done all of us proud, I shall put up a Hall of Fame to let the runners gain some recognition. I hope other fellow Fleming members will look at them with some respect, especially for their willingness to run for Fleming House!

HALL OF FAME

To the gallant "losers" that didn't win, but put in their utmost efforts for the house... XD:

'C' Division Boys:

• Tan Rui Rong Jonathan
• Liew Min Hui, Johannes Nathaniel
• Ong Tien Sheng Royston
• Yeo Wei Xiong Nicholas
• Lee Jian Yun

'B' Division Boys:

• Ang Moh Lik Roy
• Chew Si Ming
• Neo Tian Cheng
• Abimanyu Raja
• Tan Ken Wei

To the brilliant winners, that have done the house proud!

C Division girls:

• Pek Yang Xuan
• Low Ying Si, Eliza
• Tan Yue Lin, Brenda
• Rashidah Binte Zulkifli
• Tsang Li Ping, Marianne
• Lim Jia Yu

B Division girls:

• Lim Yujing, Vivian
• Lim Yuxian, Lillian
• Teng Jin Zhi
• Ameera Binte Ahmad Jailani
• Teo Shu Hui Elaine
• Tsoi Wai Yi, Jasmine

Ahahahahaz... ph34r, the uprising of Fleming. Perhaps the tides and fortunes are changing for us, yes, it is time, for us to show our prowess! *propoganda again*

Ahhz, aside from the house matters la. After the Cross-country, me, nic yeo, junle, royston(jr), kenwei, bry, fangyi, beryl, becca, and brenda went to j8 to celebrate! Whee! Fleming's 1st victory in NUSHS history! (now we can be considered to be on par with nobel eh? wait, nah, we still got a long way to go...) Hahahaz, I dunno, but we did hava nice time there chatting and having lunch. OMG Tan Ken Wei arh... how old are you? Still reading pokemon manga?! XD

After lunch, I rushed back home to pick up my particulars and personal articles, and hava shower before going to ICA building at Kallang Road to replace my lost IC... argh goddamnit. Had to burn 100 bucks for my carelessness... sigh. Then after that, had to head to Wheelock place to go get my Nokia 3220 serviced. Shitte, I think I am losing faith in nokia, lolz...

Then after that, it is back home to buy stuff for the 62-year-old man for service learning... Me and my mum got quite abit of stuff for him at the local supermarket. I hope he likes it! XD Whee.... And we are gonna be collecting newspapers for him too! How nice eh? =)

Back home now. Going to eat dinner. Sheesh, I am terribly late. Byee! XD

X-country tmr!

Aye, I am feeling so tired now... dun think I will blog today. Will blog tomorrow, after NUS High's inaugural... CROSS-COUNTRY!!! *whee!* and wish fleming all the best!! =)))

Hahaha. yep, cya!

我第一此用华语来BLOG

Hey, 大家好！ 这是我的第一次用华文来写我的网上日记！哇。。。 很好玩呢！我还记得，前几天，是 Jac给我这个“挑战”。现在，我终于成功了！！！ XD

哎，只可惜，我的华文水平低，通常写几个字或讲几句话也觉得很困难，怎能写出一篇又好读，有精彩的日记呢？哎，我真的对自己很失望。。。为什么小时候没有多努力掌握自己的母语呢？只怪我在小学时，学习华文的态度很差，而且校学华文老师们都很烂（哎呀，我到底怎么能把责任推写给老师们呢？我真的是太过分了！）。现在，我想做些补偿，但是，恐怕已经是太迟了。。。咳。。。 真伤心。

算了，过去的往事，别提了。呆在那儿看天花板也没用。现在最重要的是，对用华语培养兴趣！这样，我就不会忘了我的母语，而且也能把它发扬光大，一代一代的传下去！我们华人可不能忘本，忘了自己的“根”！！哈哈哈。。。

不知道为什么，我最静总是喜欢用华语和我的朋友们交谈。虽然大部分的人字用英语来回答我，但我知道，总有一天，他们也会像我一样：多讲华语！XD 至从我从公教中学转到国大附中，我发现，能用话语的机会大大减少，而且，令我失望的是，很多学生们（尤其是快捷花纹的）之以为英语很有（CLASS），而华文只适合那些社会上那些“低级”的人。哎，这个想法需要大大的改善啊！这个想法，只会使我们把祖先们带给我们的文化都忘得一干二净！！！糟糕，难道新加坡以后会变成一个“洋人社会”吗？

我希望以后，国大附中的华族学生们都会多用华语交谈，这样才算像个华人嘛！XD 哈哈哈。。。哎，如果卓老师正在读我的这篇日记的华，那该多好啊! XP

In the meanwhile, it is back to...

蹂躏！(rolling), 牛肉-transmitter (neurotransmitter), 批评TOM (peeping tom), and the infamous “熟道烂”（别问我它是什么意思。只有Jenkin 知道。。。哈哈哈！）

so much for chinese class eh？ XD

Anyway, am done for today. Until next (chinese) blog post, CYA! 再见！

1st time someone got me to edit my post...

Heh, I dunno what to blog about today. Sometimes, there are certain days where I simply got nothing at all to share, or nothing to ventilate, or anything!!! It leaves me really uneasy. cuz well, I didn't update my blog, and that isn't a very good sign for my blog. Lolz, I must keep this baby updated man, even if I've got nothing. Cuz well, I know for sure there are bound to be the people that I "least expect" to come read my blog... hahaha. Gotta get myself some angsty space man. (or have I started picking up bad habits about blogging? Goodness gracious -.-)

Anyway, since I got nothing much to add today, I shall just talk about... how someone in school requested me to remove some stuff I had written.

Heh, all the time, whenever I had written stuff on my blog, it has always been alot of emotional stuff, things directly outta my heart and all... I know ms flo mentioned today that people that do things based on "gut feeling" or "emotional instincts" have very superficial thinking, but I gotta get this out man, or else i'd have imploded like the human population will soon... (wait, or is it explode? dang. wadeva)

As a result, I tend to write posts on many rather... sensitive issues, and once or twice, stirred up quite an uproar, be it online, or in school. There was once, where I blogged abt a certain girl in school and how I feel she's been unfairly treating someone else? Remember? (for those that don't know, dun worry. this was an old story that took place months ago, in the 1st term) Anyway, this girl feels that I have been critisizing her too much, and took it onto my tagboard, where she began a flame war against me. She got a couple of her best friends too, and soon my tagboard was an entire board on fire... seriously. XD Hahahaz... but that incident is long over, and although I suppose that girl still despises me, I think that it has finally come a time for me to move along.

But recently, I have seemed to repeat my mistake (am very fond of doing so. dunno why). If you have been reading my blog post on the 8th July 2005 (the post is still there), you would know what I have been talking about. Well, this guy that I have been posting rather "biased" and "unfair" comments about, has approached me during my geog lesson today, and... requested... for me to remove certain parts of the post! Hmm, interesting, the 1st time where someone felt he got hurt by my "untrue" blog post, and has asked me to take it off... Hmm.

Well, perhaps I did wrong him in a sense, but that's for me to find out... In due course. Hmm, that's if I even bother to find out though! And if it comes a day, when I finally realise that I DID maglined him, then well... I suppose I'd give him what he always EXPECTS the people who did wrong things to him to do: apologise. =))) *well, apology. I mean it. VERBAL APOLOGY* Get it? do you guys out there get me?

Ahhz, so, to respect him and honour my agreement to him, I have to take down those passages of errm, quite "incorrect-in-his-opinion" statements. I hope, that he is reading this, that I DID HONOUR MY AGREEMENT. and well, hahahaz... he'd be a nice guy once again and stop treating fiona like his enemy.

FOR GOD'S SAKE, she's a member of your chaos team!!! (ok, now I may be wronging him again. wadeva. I am just posting what I think has happened to him)

A last thing, before I end my line of ridiculous crap. Those of you who are interested in what I have deleted, just drop me a message or something. I got the original. =) But honestly, I doubt anybody reading my blog will giva damn la, lol.

c'yall... for the moment. xD

Slack weekend

gahz, have been wasting too much time during the weekend playing com games (ie. wc3, neopets *recently resumed playing XD*). really, this isn't the work attitude an A-scorer should be having! *ego!* Hahahaz... jeez, I must change. BIG TIME. >.<

Yesterday, had math oly training (11.30am-1.30pm). Not too bad, the standard, considering the fact tt it's dr chua from NUS teaching us. XD But this is by far much easier than the SIMO standards (i suddenly feel the drastic relaxations in my usual expectations in math olympiad training)... Hahaz. Did indices and surds for 1st lesson. Will be expecting more in due course...

After that, went to mcdonalds for lunch. Met Zhaoye, jingzhi, wei chao, and yunying there. Hmm, or more like they met me. Hahahaz. After a quick lunch, I walked to mrt to take train to tiong bahru station... to replace my lost ezlink card (i lost my wallet on youth day, remember?)

Ride cost: $1.10

Ok, one trip, not too bad... until I realised, that I forgot to bring my BIRTH CERT!!! (no ic. lost it =( ). GAHZ. got to make a trip back bishan to rush home to pick it up.

Ride cost: $1.50

Bus ride (410): $0.55

damn, it's these days I see how high transport fares are... goddamnit. I hate this. I wish the government cld just cut down the fares or something. XP
Anyway, got back home, and lo and behold, my mum was willing to send me to sembawang mrt station to make my ezlink card! *phew*... saves me another $1.50. Sheesh.

Went there, and got to wait one whole hour there while my card is being made. oh men. I nearly died of boredom. Lucky for me, Sun Plaza is just nearby, and in it, there is a... LIBRARY! Whee!!! XD Read a picture collection for Singapore 1996. Pretty fascinating, and good pics taken! The photography club in NUSHS can take a leaf outta the professional photographers' books! hahahaz...

When all is over, I calculated my total expenses...

Lunch: $6
Transport: $3.15
Card Replacement fee: $19

Total: $28.15

ALL OUTTA MY OWN POCKET!!!

Gahz, it burns to see your own money go like this... *haiz* Anyway, still gotta foot da bill for replacement of my IC... sob sob!

ARGH. I HATE MY LIFE. (too much exaggeration. dun mind me)

Today, was all devoted to homework homework homework... hahahaz. I love chem! XD Whee, mole concept sure is fun!!! Haha...

Oh no, I just realised tt I still have to complete my chinese homework. ARGH. Last min rush again. My dad is so gonna kill me -.-" Haiz...

And surprisingly, one night's sleep has enlightened me to the path I should be taking from here, with regards to my relationship managements and all... Shall carry it out tmr. Sheesh, I make things sound like plans for world domination or something. -.- Lolz!

Anyway, gotta rush! Cya!!

samuel

Hmm... usual stuff today. ended earlier than 6! =) But still pretty late la, hahaz.

Got chemistry "molecular shape" module today. 2 hrs of revising last sem's stuff, going through introductory details on how molecules are shaped based on their valence electrons, etc etc... and the most fun part of the lesson was... drawing dot-cross diagram!!! XD Now, how fun can that get?! (and btw, I ain't being sarcastic or anything)

no lit today, so a number of councillors all went to council room to do work and stuff. it's times like these that i really appreciate the council room for it's existance in the school. Ahhz, 1 1/2 hrs of relaxation and destress after a long week of work in an air-con room with your fellow councillors! XD haiz, but this wld b the only time it wld happen... cuz the only reason a large no. of year 3 councillors can make it is bcoz lit lesson for today was cancelled. lucky them... XP

went to LT to listen to kai xiang and his frens (btw, they were ms flo's former students when ms flo was teaching in RI) share their experiences on community work and stuff. aye, so bored. fell asleep again *not surprising*, and I knocked my head against the tablet a couple of times too i think... *sigh*.

Chinese lesson, as usual. zhuo lao shi went thru the chinese poster worksheet with us, and started us off on our 1st chapter in the textbk (finally!)

After a brief lunch, headed to music room for choir. Sheesh, haven't been to choir for quite some time liao... voice lost touch and all (heez, lucky zhuo lao shi is coaching us at the moment. otherwise, the other conductors wld have me chopped into mincemeat faster than lightning falls out of the sky), but within minutes, I warmed up again and was back in the swing! Although I should say that I ain't fabulous, but it wasn't terrible either. =)

With choir ending at 4 (whoopee!), we (kai hui, jac, me, etc...) all rushed down to the field area outside the art room, cuz the scouts and guides were doing field cooking! Whee! Hahahaz... they cooked pizza, and it's fragrance was so strong that we cld even smell it from the music room! XD Haha! Hadda taste of it... mhmm, not too bad for 1st timers at field cooking! (or are they not 1st timers? I do know mikel and eugene aren't).

Felt quite free and relaxed after cca, cuz it's the end of the week (and a pretty uppy-downy one) and I finally get to go home and chill over the weekend, gearing up for the next 5 days of fun (or hell. depends) next week. Never felt so good before! =) Hahaz, helped jac take down the stuff on the choir board, then left for home... alone. haiz... how I wish there would be people that take the same bus with me home! XD (well, there are, for instance, eugene, fiona, and I just discovered vardini does as well...)

Hmm... just made an interesting discovery today. It seems, that samuel has finally drawn himself out of his shell! (phew, I'd thought he'd wallow in self-pity for the rest of his life or something. haha) And now he's beginning to talk to people. Friendly ones 1st of coz, like mia, or err... who else, I dunno. I never bother checking. But anyway, he's still as cold to his "enemies", like say, derrick, or fiona, or me (his latest addition), hahaha. I dunno what's going up in his mind or something, but I gotta gut feeling that I am not liking what's in store for me in the near future... Err, that's if there IS anything. XD

Back to the point. After cca, I observe that samuel's been not putting a total black raincloud over his head anymore. In fact, I seen him smile at others when I am not in his direct view, and he talks to some of the people which i kinda... least expected him to talk to (those reading this, it will become very obvious who he's been talking to if you watch him after sch. but rmb, timing is essential). Err, he even speaks during chinese class now! Interesting... hmm, but still, I remain puzzled as to what lead him to this sudden, drastic change in him. Perhaps, he has went to see the school counsellor? Or something good has happened to him? Whatever it is, I feel glad to see that he's left his state of depression (which, to any 3rd party, looks like a very sorry state) and began expanding his ring of friends again. Aye, finally after so long, he's learnt to take my advice in socializing in school, that is never to just have 1, 2 friends and become (intimately) close with them, but widen your network and have a ring of buddies and gd peers to support you when you need it! Hahahaz...

Actually, if he wants to "dao" me and expects me to go begging him on what's wrong, I won't fall for such lame and childish acts. It saddens me to see such a buddy go mad and seeing imaginary "knives" flying at him from his buddy, but I shan't giva damn. If he wanna play dumb, I shan't bother him. Hahaz, it gives me one less person to fret over his well-being. Anyway, he thinks I "betrayed" him or something, which sounds absolutely ridiculous, since so many people know my character and all... (anyway, my current level of thinking and intelligence doesn't allow me the capacity to plot against friends and backstab them) Maybe that's why I have always been so friendly to all my fellow peers, cuz they know me well enough and we get along fine. Whereas for those people that are not able to get along with me (or I feel that they are difficult to get along with), I will not bother at all.

All in all, this is not what's troubling me. If samuel wants to go find friends to speak to, bla bla bla, I dun mind. But of all people... he's chosen to speak to mia. now now now... please don't get me wrong. I have no ill-intentions whatsoever! Samuel speaks to mia, probably it's bcoz mia's very friendly to all sorts of people, or perhaps he wants to so that he has someone with common interests to chat with (mia and samuel are both like bio XP) or something like that... Argh, you people reading this can just say that I am getting overly paranoid or what, but I remain just as suspicious. Why, of all people in this school, has he chosen to speak to mia? I mean, there are loads of other people in school that are just as friendly and outspoken as mia, right? Like say, asra, or jac? Furthermore, he has his entire mentor group of friends to turn to... but why mia??? To all of you, I know you won't giva damn, but I m sorta... dunno how to put it... uneasy?

**************TEXT EDITED/REMOVED******************

(By request from person that feels he's being "maglined", I have removed 2 paragraphs concerning him. or more like I maglined him in a way. Lolz)

For those that think I am getting more and more insane by the minute, please ignore all the garbage I spouted, for that's just some random crap that I written down to ponder over... and also to ventilate, like all angsty teens do on their blog these days. Except... I try writing with style. XD

Paranoia... seems to be getting the better of me these days. I... must... control. =)

chemistry homework...

wa... today extremely long day man. Am worn out like crap. Haiz, need to get used to this sooner or later.... or else later in term, i'd suddenly come down hard with depression or go mad from stress or something! *argh*

oh no, 1st wave of chem homework! argh... muz be as guai kia as i can! Must do finish all the work by today... *dies of overwork* hahahaz. Just trying to be as guai as i can this sem, dunno y... sigh. But nevertheless, all this for a good cause! XD

Back to work, before it's too late... *yawns* I am so sleepy at 10pm. I think I'd feel more comfortable... in bed. =)

*short post* I got nothing much to say today. gahz, just blogging for blogging sake, and keep it updated or something when I still got a pocket of time open for my personal activities.....

Nothing to say...

Hey'all! (darn, addicted to daniel's catch phrase liao XD) Today's err... great or not? I dunno... haiz. Anyway.

Had 2 hrs of math today with mr chris wong. Hahaha, learning exponential and logarithm today! Whee! *more challenge* chris wong ROX! Lolz, much better than kavitha anyday, honestly... XP And I am sure all other nush-ians will agree with me, won't ya'll? (not again) Got to use the graphing calculator to try out certain basic, but pretty neat stuff. Didn't expect the graphing calculator to be sooo powerful and useful! haha, but mr wong just reminded me that this calculator runs on an "ancient processor". Remember the gd ol days when coms were still running on "86" processors? the predessor of the 1st Pentium? Yep, the graphing calculator processor is about the equivalent of that. Could be worse... lol. No wonder it lags everytime it gets complicated tasks to handle... sheesh, but better than the scientific calculators la, hahaha!

Next is geog (omg, geog clashes with math in betting!!! and chris wong teaches that module!!!!! Noooo... Had to drop that module, and lost the chance to play card games in class... >.<), haiz... thought I would be sleeping in class again, but this time, mrs kan was able to keep me awake. Dunno if it is just me, or perhaps mrs kan had changed her teaching techniques slightly to make it more interesting instead of droning through her notes. On the other hand, it could be just that the module content appeals more to me. Last sem was human geog, remember? Darn dry, the material was. =( Aahaha, hopefully am able to keep this up for the rest of the semester..... XD

Break, then it was off to a classroom to have a combined SL discussion session with 301 to plan our service learning activity. Sigh, didn't jump myself into a group fast enough, and ended up with daniel, dominic and oliver. Sigh. All of them i doubt will be very conversational when we meet up with the poor & destitute ppl... since we are all from express chinese class, and not so well-versed with CL, haiz... Maybe oliver la, but seriously, I doubt him. Gah, wadeva. Just gotta make do lor. Seems like I need to prod dom and oli alot to speak chinese, and daniel cannot speak chinese (dun get me wrong, dan's been in aussie for the past 3 years, thus he's exempted from taking CL in singapore. =) ). I think I need my dad to tag along as a dialect translator or something like that... XP

End of school, but dily-dallied about, watching people come and go, reading through the comments that ying zhen and youth day commitee forced people to write *haha*, and hanging out to see what mia's doing. Pity her, the poor girl. So busy... unlike a slacker like me *winks*

Saw a 50+ old woman on the bus today, telling off vardini (she took the same bus as me) for putting her bag on the seat and telling her that it is inconsiderate to do that, and was passing a comment like "girl, don't you know that you need to pay extra for the bag to 'sit' there?" vardini went red in the face and immediately stopped talking to me... and that woman sat in a seat behind me and went on ranting and complaining about another issue to an indian lady sitting at the rear of the bus. And the next comment really pissed me off...

"The young attitudes of this country is like that... I fear for the next generation and how they will be like..."

GAH. Oh fine you. Think that the next generation after you is pathetic right? No moral rights? not to your suiting right? FINE LA. Go screw yourself and petition to the newspaper or something, write about how this new generation of youths are such failures and in comparison to your "elder" generation, are so "si1 bai4". Or if you want, go home and write on your blog, or in your diary since you elder generations dun use blogs, about how majorly wrong this society is, and the stuff things should be la... But PLEASE, this is an ever growing, ever changing society. Generations come... and go. Your's 1st, then ours. There's a time when you guys are out there running the show, doing things to change the world, but understand, that in the end, you will have to step back. yes. put simply, RETIREMENT. shut your mouth, quit complaining (openly), and pass the baton to the new gen Y la. For god/pete/heaven's sake, you must accept the way things are changing in this world, be it for the better or worse, in your 'humble' opinion...

Eg. Abortion in the past was used to be cruel and inhumane, but now it is widespread and common. Gays and lesbians are a huge target of attack, but today's society has accepted them. Cloning was once gunned down by "moralists" and "ethically upright people", cuz it went against God's will of creation of life as a gift from God, but hey, cloning is done by scientists, and there will come a time when even humans are being cloned! When this time comes, whether you like it or not, the society won't giva damn, cuz the norms are changing, and the world has evolved and changed to accept this once "immoral and unethical" act.

In short, I hope these kinda people in future keep their opinions to themselves and dun go around in public telling people off (especially innocent people like vardini) just cuz they dun like things are run. Perhaps, if you were the president of the United States of America, I would listen, but who the hell are you man? Just shut your damn mouth and stop sliming us youths and new generation of people, for it will be us to run the show that you were once on... and I love to end with this phrase by Michael Jackson's song, "... just BEAT IT!"

Argh, enuff ventilation. Gonna do some reading now or something, I guess... lol, and have gotten some new techno tracks and mixes! Whee!!! XD

qn 3, open section (special round)

ARGH... HOLY SH*T! just read the solutions provided by one of the simo team members on their yahoo mailing groups for question 3, Open Section SMO (special round)... and it looks so goddamned ez!! I wanna die... *faints*

This is the question (in case some of you are pondering what the heck I am talking about):

3. a < b < c are distinct reals such that a+b+c=6. ab+bc+ca=9. Prove that 0 < a < 1 < b < 3 < c < 4

**********************************

Solution 1 (using calculus. I think):

Consider graph of f(x) = x^3-6x^2+9x-Y (where Y is aconstant=abc, but we dun care what it is). The roots of this eqn are a, b, c (from theory of roots and eqn) and are where the x-axis cuts the graph (it must cut at 3 distint points) Differentiating once, we get the hump and bump at x=1, x=3 respectively. All that remains is to observe that f(0)=f(3) and f(1)=f(4) … Hence, we can conclude that 0 < a < 1 < b < 3 < c < 4 [Draw the graph if this is not obvious to u]

**********************************

Solution 2 (no calculus. just plain ol inequalities):

a^2+b^2+c^2= (a+b+c)^2 - 2 (ab+bc+ca) = 18

If c >=4, then the sum of squares is greater than 18. (let c=4+d, and do somemath)
If b >=3, then b^2+c^2 > 18.
If a <=0, then b+c > 6 and hence b^2+c^2 > 18

If a >=1, then we are in trouble. But look: a(b+c) + bc = 9, or a(6-a) + bc =9. Now, bc > 4 (since c > b > 2) implying a(6-a) < 5. Which in turn implies a < 1.

**********************************

Solution 2 seems a lil incomplete with holes or something... the editor on the yahoo groups of SIMO made a comment, but gahz, I won't bother to add it in.

wa kaoz, i still can't believe that these people that provided the solutions found it sooooooooo easy! I think I can just murder myself or something... gahz. I... must... work... harder... damnit.

Still pondering about my lost wallet. Can't rest easy anymore in school, or at home... this is bad. =(

Open Special Round, SMO

Haizz... today went to take the SMO Open section (special round). oops. Turns out I am the only NUSHS guy there that doesn't have his name on the register! uh oh... hahahaz, no worries. I followed exactly what dr tay said at SIMO camp, and told them that I was sent there by SIMO. And then, the fellow there made a couple of phone calls, and walah, I could take the test! whoopee! *4 1/2 hrs of torture. sheesh, how on earth can I be happy?*

4 questions. 4 1/2 hrs. Really hell in there man. Ok, for once, I was in an LT that wasn't too hot or too cold, and I was comfortable and all, but it did little to help boost my performance during the test. sigh. could only answer one question fully, and in my opinion, the proof I written was absolutely sloppy... *moans* Anyway, it's finally over, and all SMO commitments I have this year are gone. Heh, more looking forward to the math olympiad training by dr chua in school for the next few saturdays in this semester! Hope to get myself back in shape soon sia, have really lost touch... Really.

Now, lemme get back on a lil on what happened yesterday. Sheesh... so much happenings, so little time. -.-"

Youth day! woohoo, yea! cool right? And it is NUSHS 1st youth day too! *heehee* And we really celebrated it with a bang big time (unlike other schools like my former sch CHS, which I dun recall much fabulous and outstanding youth day celebrations and activities... at all. Those schools are really sad cases sia =) )! There's so much that happened, lemme put it as simply as possible... hmm...

Arrived at school early (well, 5 mins earlier than my usual, tt is XD) haha. Then went to council room to go see da "gang", hahaaz. Did those final min preparations and stuff, before heading for the parade sq to start of the day.

hey hey hey, the 1st activity was the rube goldberg thingy... got to make a complicated contraption to do simple things (that's the whole idea of rube goldberg machines. Making simple things COMPLICATED! XD). In this case, the school was to split into our seperate mentor groups, and was supposed to make a machine hit a gong, and release confetti. The catch is, it must take as many steps as possible, yet the machine must function! XP challenging, yea. But I should say that I am proud of my mentor group 304. Although ours wasn't as elaborate as the other mentor groups, or as complicated, yet it almost managed to fulfill it's role (note. I say "almost". reico's bball just stopped short of hitting the gong while sliding down the rope. Now, how sad can that get? XS). Hahahahahz... It is then did I lost my wallet I think. GAHZ. There goes all my personal articles and cash...... If I had known better, I would have kept it in my bag in the council room... Haiz.

Moving on, station games! w00tx! Hahahaz... was attached to 301 (eh, pretty notorious group, from feedback I receive from "fellow councillors" haha). Oh well, thank goodness there is eugene there running the show! =) Anyway, we went to do the stations Omega, Spiritus, Undergroud, and Blind Mice, all of which the councillors have done before in one way or another, but yet seems totally new to the students in NUSHS... I guess we councillors are really lucky to have gotten the chance to play such games before, eh? XD So uber fun!!! XD (but well, not for me exactly, cuz I cld only stand by the sidelines watching 301 "suffer"... Hahahaz. Nah. I am being prejudiced.)

All in all, I thought 301 was really horrible, but after seeing their performance at games day, I have got to say that they have the potential to bond together as a strong mentor group in the near future... C'mon 301! Pull yourself together and be like 304!!! (the mentor group that was like, totally split last sem, but gelled together real well this sem!) And eugene, I dun give my praises openly like this k... You muzn't let me down! XD Am looking forward to see another mentor group to match up the might of 305!

Oh yea, I LOVE 304! YOU ROX MY WORLD! DR WONG, MS CHENG, MR HO, you guys are da best!

Whee... have never been so "on" about my mentor group lor! Muz be the shirt man... Hahaz, thanks to everyone that have put in their part for their mentor group 304, and I am proud of all of you, especially ying zhen, for being so enthu abt everything in 304, thejas for taking up the leadership to bring us together, charmaine who contributed much to the "spiritus" element of 304, and even people like derrick, who was once not enthu about our group activities, but yet I seen him cheer for our mentor group!!! WHEE!!! I love 304! *cheers!*

Man. Too much propoganda. Pardon me 305erz, but 304's on da rise... XD

Water bombing! Hahahahaz... some of the student leaders didnt get to play, cuz we were busy tabulating marks. Argh wadda heck la, I still sneaked away from the group to join the fun... But soon, I decided that I was better off tabulating the marks. The moment my foot hit the parade sq, and I dashed under the stairs to grab a spare pail of water bombs, the "coalition forces", formed by nic and co, all advanced on me and GANG BANG ME. wa shit la... hahahaz. totally soaked, thanks to them. Haiz... only launched 4 water bombs, then the fun stopped liao. Cheh, not fun for me at all, sigh, and with my lost wallet still bugging me... sian lo.

Well, results for the station games. 305 were the champions (naturally), but this is the 1st time 304 is the second best in mentor group activities! w00tz! WEE ROX *hahaz, bad spelling!* I am proud of ya guys. Honest!

304 rox!
304 rox!
304 rocks da school,
304 rox!

Our cheer! *short and simple* It wld be better if we used the nobel cheers too, but I doubt charmaine allowed it. Haiz, lol.

Acceleration test immediately after that. (what a party pooper). Had coordinate geometry, plus polynomials test. But dang, cldn't score an A for both of them... sheesh, so close, yet so far! Perhaps it was due to my mind drifting on my lost wallet. goddamnit. Sigh... anyway, screw this la. To hell with the test, it is back to the drawing board *yawn*.

Lets say it one more time...

304 ROX!!!

Lost wallet

Damnit. I am not in the mood to blog today. Will blog about youth day tomorrow, when I am in... a better mood. =(

Argh, lost my wallet in school today, goddamnit. Lost my IC which I JUST COLLECTED, and my EZ-Link which is still rather new and all... plus quite abit of my cash and other "important" personal articles. Man, how could I have been so careless?!

Just made police report. Dad ain't happy with me. I am so dead. My life is screwed just because of one missing wallet. shit shit shit, how more shitty can this thing get?

I just hope... sincerely hope, that someone would be kind enough to pick up my wallet in school, if they see it, and return it to me, or drop it off in the General Office or something... Of coz, the chances of that happening are... pretty slim, yea. *sighs*

I think I am gonna cry. Leave me alone.