First Day of School 8:27 AM

First day of school was okay I guess, boring.  The twentyfour ad was postponed because NYAA is being evil and not replying to our sponsorship letter.

Last Day of Holidays 12:26 PM

I am very disastrously unhappy and utterly outraged.  My holiday has been rubbish, what with NCDCC ATC and SANA course and work and project-work and even more work and tuition and etc.  I have had about 6 free days out of the entire holiday.

I think we live in a country that is too kiasu that we sacrifice so much, in fact almost all, of our personal time for work and school.  These people who want to meet so often needs to get a life.  I have one for god's sake!  I think that people these days fail to recognize the fact that people have a life outside of school and work.

I think that modern life is too stressed.  This should not have to be the price of living in an up to date society.  This is ridiculous.  The people who came up with this education system honestly ought to be shot dead!  People nowadays have absolutely no respect for other people's time at all.

Children of the past made leaf collections as school projects, now all we do are powerpoints and more powerpoints.  Where is human interaction, where is life?  Why are we becoming so cold, robotic?

Life is short.  As I have said in my ramblings on life, I don't want to be saying "Oh, I've worked so hard, I'm happy" in my twilight years, but rather I would want to be able to say "I've had one life that I lived to the max."

Su Ming's Birthday 7:10 PM

My counsin's birthday today, went over for her dinner party...........

Going All Around Singapore 6:47 PM

Had MPac film shoot again.  It seems like this twentyfour advertisement is dragging on forever.  Well at least today is more interesting, we are going all around Singapore to do the film shoot.

The first stop was Esplanade theaters on the bay, where we did the jumper scene both on the Esplanade bridge and in the Esplanade foyer.  We had to get the management's approval to do the latter though.  We went to the management office and requested to see the supervisor.  The receptionist was very shocked; "Regarding what?" :-) Ha, ha!

After that we took the MRT to Marina Square to do the mind-reading scene at the McDonalds there.  I acted as the mindreader in this one.  We had a quick lunch there after the takes.

During lunch we thought of doing one scene at Henderson Waves, the tallest pedestrian crossing in Singapore at 200 ft above sea level.  We took an MRT to Harbourfront before taking a bus to the foot of Mount Faber, and walking up to Henderson Waves.

The view is very nice up there, and it was very breezy.  Felt like I could remain there all afternoon. :-)  Unfortunately after resting a while we had to quickly shoot the scene, before leaving to do the last scene that day at the Senkang LRT tracks. :-(  Well, we figured out where we are going to host our film festival this year! :-)

MRT to the last stop Senkang.  We shot the scene at the front of the LRT roller-coaster style.  Had to go two rounds and the other line to get enough footage to speed up.  So boring, wanted to leave early. :-(

After this I took an MRT back to Kembangan, where my mum picked me up to go to my cousin, Su Ming's, birthday party.  Whew! Two birthday parties in a row.  It was quite fun, we managed to have a game of Cluedo after dinner.  We had two ice-cream cakes and two normal cakes, so that we could try many flavors.  As usual Ethan spilled candle wax on the cake and Su Ming could not light the cake. :-)

Quite a nice conclusion to my day, don't you think?

Andrew's Birthday 1:30 PM

I had MPac film shoot in the morning for twentyfour advert.  Done in school, so boring.  Managed to leave before lunch and got Andrew to pick me up from school.  We spent the rest of the day together with Colin.

We went to Vivocity for lunch, some german restaurant, and had some very tasty fish for lunch.  Colin had not arrived yet, he was taking MRT here; we found out that he was also in school for basketball!  And all the time Andrew was like "I know he's definitely asleep!" until he called, then "I bet he's just woken up!"

During lunch Andrew's mum recommended some non-alcoholic beer, which we ordered one to share.  It has the smell of bananas and apple juice, subtly sweet.  It tastes like a blander white wine.  Andrew was "I know from the smell its going to make me throw up!"  We all tried it except Andrew, who refused to touch it ;-).

Steven (Andrews bro) had to go home to tuition.  So we went to Harbourfront to meet Colin, then we took MRT to Sim Lim.  Forgot Ez-Link card, how annoying! Hung out at Sim Lim for rest of the day.  Andrew bought a Razer keyboard and mouse just for the free bag?!  Of course I 

                                                         then made quite a few comments! :-)

We took a cab to UE square and joined Andrews mum and dad and Steven at Minori (Japanese) for dinner.  We laughed at some of the menu things like all the weird parts of chicken. :-)  It was a a la carte buffet but Andrew and Steven and Colin still fought over the sashimi. Ha ha!

Went back to Andrew's place after dinner to play Crysis, and boy does it live up to its reputation.  Its stunning, but I still won't ditch Mac.  I like Macs, but thats another story for another day.

Cosmos 3:23 PM

Hey has anyone read Cosmos by Giles Sparrow?

It is an incredibly well written book with stunning A3 sized photos!  The introduction itself makes you imagine as if you are slowly flying outward from earth into the larger scale of things.

Anyway, I had Chinese tuition this afternoon.  Urgh, so boring! 

My Very First Blog Post 8:41 PM

Dear blog,

This is my very first blog post.  I think that I shall begin by describing myself.  My name is Allister, and I gel my hair at school, earning the nickname Spiky.  I like plant biology and Macs.  I dislike mean people ... *cough cough to all the mean people out there =)*... 

I am in MPac, Science Research Challenge and NCDCC (ATC was awful by the way, what with all the evil cadet lieutenants etc. =( ).

My June holiday so far has been ridiculously busy, having to meet up lots of times about MPac (Filmmaking Society of ACS Independent) and our upcoming twentyfour filmmaking competition which we are hosting.  On top of that, there are sooooooo... many school projects! =(  Although the history project seems rather interesting; we are supposed to shoot a movie about any topic in Singapore history. =)

I've just watched Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian and Indiana Jones - Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and I have to say that they were very very nice.  We even got extra popcorn coupons at Indiana Jones!

Also, I absolutely love this blog design.  But it was quite a pain to set up; took me the whole morning.

And I have passed my second karate grading and my piano grade 6 practical exam! ;-)

Hope to write more soon

BTW the picture is of my brother during a trip to NZ 2 years back

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