Kayaking 2 Star First Day 6:53 PM

How do I end up involved in things I'm not even passionate about? I hate it when people phrase things in a way which suggests I don't have a choice. And then tell me that I had one. Know what? This is Allister you're talking about. He dictates his own schedule. Period.

Lee Zheng came too, and CLTs were together with us, not in a separate group. Yay! :) Having friends whom you know you can trust with your life around always makes life a lot easier.

2 Star means using a spray skirt. Its stupid. Its difficult to put on. It complicates the capsize drill. First time I did capsize drill with it, I kinda panicked. I hate capsizing into the horrible Kallang water. I'm sorry. I tend to overreact a little. 2 Star is not easy. Difficult is an understatement. 

Met another really nice CLT by the name of Michal. We kinda talked about a lot of stuff, like teacher gossip. She had a lot of stories....

It started raining towards the end. Like heavily. Keeping kayaks in the rain. It was fun :) Lee Zheng looked extremely happy. Lolz :) I guess sometimes you don't need a lot to be happy. Then I wonder why I am so rarely happy. Guess its personality...

Someone fell down. She also fell down from slipping on wet floor last year during 1 Star. 

Took MRT and bus home with Lee Zheng :) I appreciate the fact that he took a slightly longer route home, just to keep me company. I hope you find this blog someday. We talked a lot, about our lifes and the things we faced. I think it was really honest, like we were quite frank with each other. Somehow its the little things like this that I remember the most. Duno why. I was left with a lot to think about. 

Disaster Day 11:08 PM

Describing today as disastrous would be more than a slight understatement. There was some stupid rehearsal for Founder's Day, which took 20 min from Language Arts A. Unfortunately, we had to write a written commentary today, which made things horribly inconvenient.

Then common test results came back.

IHS - 12/15

Biology - 36/40

Chemistry 35/40

I thought of just crying when I saw the marks. I thought I could at least top either biology or chemistry. Turns out I was very wrong, and I'm nowhere near the top for either. Heck, even Jon Tang and Dean Sethi beat me in both science papers.

I duno what went wrong. I tried my best, still this was all I achieved. I feel like a flop. If I tried my best and still lots of people score better than me, does that mean that I am stupider than the rest? 

I know I really tried my best, but I still look back with nothing but regret.

I don't even feel like doing life sciences symposium, since I did so badly in the biology test.

After school I went for the Language Arts quiz which was impossible to do, so I guessed all the answers. Almost all at least.

Tonight I need to finish Art & Design homework, and do A Math filing. Tomorrow have A Math test (wish me luck :) )I need to plan my time even more carefully, cuz I also got tons of other stuff to do. 

Oh yes, Alex Goh said this when Edward asked to borrow a stapler:

"Then you must promise to be my friend"

He said it in a very funny way. Listening to Alex Goh is uplifting.

Mr Kenneth Ong's Matrices mini test was, in his own words, "laughably easy". It included questions such as "A null matrix is one where all the elements are _____, e.g. (0      0     0)"

a) zero

b) Chinese steelyards

c) In equilibrium

d) non-existent

I'll scan it soon and post it here :)

I've handed in my resignation letter for MPac. Tomorrow I'm gonna settle the official paperwork. I decided that I'm gonna go to where I can make a difference to this world.

Make the future that you want to have.

More Good Stuff 10:03 PM

Since this about good stuff, lets get the bad stuff out of the way first. Chemistry practical was an utter disaster. I broke a glass rod thanks to the lousy design of the test tube holder. I need to redesign it. Its a metaphor for PCs actually. Then I got one drop of acidified potassium dichromate on my finger, because it dripped from the filter paper down the side of the test tube. Obviously, I did the whole "rinse vigorously with water". But it hurt like hell. Plus its a carcinogen, and causes chromium dermatitis. May be fatal by absorption through skin, inhalation and ingestion. Thank god its only one drop. I was lucky.

Now for the good stuff. Today we (Ms Ong Wei Ling, Frederick Wijaja, Jonta, me) went down to AIT Biotech, a commercial biotech firm which we were collaborating with for Life Sciences Symposium. It was extremely fascinating. They are mainly PCR oriented it seems. They have very advanced scientific equipment. Their PCR thermocyclers are absurdly fast, ability to change temperature by 5 deg. C per second. And tiny, at less than a quarter of the size of the one's in school. They have two DNA sequencers. I never thought I'd get to see one. They also have high performance liquid chromatography, mass spectrometers, and a micro-pipetting robot.

They use bleeding edge polymerase technology, that can act directly on a raw sample, without any purification. You can literally mush a sausage up and PCR it like that. Its specially designed to function even with impurities and inhibitors.  Also, they are trying to get a shipment of this agarose gel electrophoresis system, that's half the size of ours, completely sealed, utilizing blue light instead of UV and can output a real-time video feed to a computer. That effectively makes the overnight counter-staining procedure redundant, and means that UV protection is unnecessary.

The whole process, all in, including electrophoresis takes just an hour and a half.

So cool right?

Anyway, I almost messed up because I accidentally added only 0.4 microlitres of each primer. It was supposed to be 1 microliter. So thankfully I managed to spot the error and added 0.6 microlitres more of each primer. :) Did the agarose gel loading perfectly :)

I gotta thank Ms Ong Wei Ling for taking us there. I've never felt so amazed since primary 3?

On the way home, I found out that we won first place in the Life Sciences Symposium battery competition. Yay :) Thanks a million Arul and Saurabh :)

I got perfect experimental results for physics, and finished 15 min early, even though I was very tired, and just drifting along.

Oh yes, Lang Arts A got 22/25. I remember not daring to look at the paper when I got it back. Now I can breathe again. I hope I am top :)

I found something I wanna live by for the rest of my life:

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Wish I could have been at NCDCC though. Its actually fun, if not for the footdrills.

Life is cool.

The Little Things That Make Life Worth Living 10:22 PM

Sometimes I emo so much, that I forget to appreciate the people and little things that make life worth living. This one's for the people who pick me up when I fall down, the people who are always there for me, the people who make me feel wanted, the country that makes me feel safe.

I was crushed when the C Maths results came back. I was nowhere near the top. Lucas hugged me, and told me everything's gonna be alright, and other stuff. That little thing meant a lot to me.

Throughout the worst moments of my life, there are always people there for me. Maybe its a phone call, maybe its just talking to each other in person, or just a message on this blog. Like "It wasn't so bad, cheer up". Thanks especially Nicholas and Joel Toi.

There are people who always seem happy to see me. Thanks, especially Joel Ong :)

I am wanted by a lot of people. Today Ms Ong Wei Ling came with an offer to learn from a commercial biotech company. I wanted to go, but was already with Daniel's electric fish project. She went out of her way to convince Mr Jason Chan (thanks for being understanding :) ) to let me quit that project for this one. I really appreciate that. (Left Jon Tang in the lurch alone with Daniel and ummm... someone else :) Muahahahaha)

I may be overbooked and extremely busy. But I realized that makes me feel wanted :) Its a good thing

Total Defence Day meant more to me than just missing some lessons. It reminded me of all the things that I remember the most about Singapore. The feeling of being safe. The streetlights that light my way home. Literally. Because I came back very late today, and it was really late when I was walking from bus stop. There were a lot of other things about Singapore that mean a lot to me. It gave me a reason to give my all in NS.

The noise of people talking on the train made me happy. People still care about one another.

I realize how lucky I am, comfortable home, fetched to school by mum every morning. 

Thank you everyone, there's too many people to list all here, for writing the happiest memories in the story of my life.

Enthu 10:16 PM

Enthu. There I said the word. And broke my promise of not saying it ever again. Why? Because the (silly little) enthu people have committed a great unforgivable crime. The names of these people have been with-held to prevent outrage, outbursts and outcry. But you probably know who did it. There is now footdrill practice on Monday, courtesy of said person's suggestion.

Dang it! Are these people tired of life or something?

Decided and Determined 9:49 PM

C Math marks came back today. I got 43/50. I was originally happy. Until I saw Nico and Arul and Swapnil's marks and the marks of that kind of people in general. Most were getting 49 or 50. I felt like crying. Life is so like that.

Ivy Goh did not appear today, so we had an hour of free time. Spent it brainstorming for Life Sciences Symposium ideas. I'm doing Evolved Communication, find out more at IB Physics Lab 3. :) Cya there! Tomorrow, the whole team is meeting, I'm very excited, cuz I've got lotsa ideas :)

Moot Parliament went, well, not that great. Nico just had to press the keyboard and muddle up the last animation. I think the part that hurt the most that day, was discovering that only two of our three teams got in. Jeremy's team was rejected. I feel awful sorry for them. I cannot believe that RGS sent in 5 teams (4 were accepted), when the rule is not more than three. And this is at the expense of other MPP schools, because the total number of teams is fixed. And there were two duplicate topics selected, two teams doing foreign workers, and two doing HOTA, instead of introducing a new topic, like what Jem was doing - Women's Charter. How unbelievably stupid.

By Lang Arts 7 people had left the class for various reasons, many unwell. Ms Bose asked whether her lesson was making lots of people fall ill :) Lolz. She's a nice teacher with a sense of humor :)

Oh yeah, Alex Goh and co. did a fabulous class notice board. I love it. Creative. Great job done :)

Jeremy got hurt halfway through school. I walked past and I didn't notice until Daryl told me. I'm sorry Jeremy. I'm so blind. :(

In the end, I didn't go for the Life Sciences Symposium energy competition trials because Arul couldn't get the zinc on time. So we'll meet up on own. Actual thingy is on Friday. Apparently pure zinc is about USD 1000 per square foot. Cool. :)

So I went straight for art, where my concepts were flat out rejected, because they were not relevant to the context around me. Oh no. I'm gonna cry.

Halfway through thinking through possibilities for art, Barnabas and I kinda just talked. About stuff like internal conflict and issues in our CCAs, canoeing and MPac, about how we feel about what we do and why we do what we do. Today, I've found someone, who's equally passionate about what he does as I am about what I do. And made a new friend. We were more alike than I thought we would be. 

I think I've decided that I'm determined to leave MPac. Doesn't matter what teachers say. I'm set on quitting, cuz enough is enough. When I've settled matters for this week, I'll send in an official letter of resignation.

I came home, and there was a rather messy argument, with me in it. I decided that I'm gonna carry on with my life, ignoring the people who make me feel not good enough, the people who compare me to better people, the people who always find something wrong with me, the people who reject me. 

Decided and resolute, nothing will stand in my way.

Sleeping on Issues Helps 10:42 PM

Okay, now that I've had a whole weekend to sleep on the stuff that happened on Friday, its time to clear the record properly and objectively on certain specific issues, because the writing seems to have ruffled a few feathers. Let me first say that then when I wrote all that stuff I was pretty uncalm, hence they are not entirely accurate. However, they will not be removed as they represent my feelings in that particular point in time.

I officially apologize as editor-in-chief of the Spiky Press, for my impulsive comments.

A certain person, name with-held upon request, thinks that the contents of Friday's article imply and insinuate against him. This however is not the case, as I was really unsure of the full details of the stuff. Any correlation is strictly coincidental. 

Please read Friday's article with more than a pinch of salt. It is very biased due to an imbalanced state of mind.

Now on to other matters. Andrew has went and got berets for both of us, which is a nice gesture which I appreciate the trouble. Thank you very much :) I will still need to go get the cap badges though.

Moving on, during Lang Arts on thursday, we went through a poem that I think reflects how I feel:

The feelings I don't have I don't have.
The feeling I don't have, I won't say I have.
The feelings you say you have, you don't have.
The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.
The feelings people ought to have, they never have.
If people say they've got feelings, you may be pretty sure they haven't got them.
So if you want either of us to feel anything at all
You'd better abandon all ideas of feelings altogether.

--D. H . Lawrence

Did I mention that Lang Arts lessons are now so much more entertaining. The class has started bullying Fiona Ho. For this poem, some people were laughing about the fact that the poets initials were DHL, the delivery service. Ms Ho didn't get the joke. She looked lost. 

I discovered why they kept laughing about Pho. I thought that was vietnamese noodles, apparently they spelled it as FHo. Short for Fiona Ho. She didn't get this one either. Lolz :)

We did this poem too on thursday - Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 18 (sorry, its easier to write this way than XXVVIIXVXIVXVX etc.......)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of Maie,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

Joshua volunteered to read it and he made a joke out of the whole thing. Dimm'd was purposely pronounced dimdee. Grow'st became growsted. Ow'st became ousted. It was hilarious, and Fiona Ho's expression was priceless, she looked like she was going to faint. She tried to ignore the peels of laughter :)

Then she asked what can we tell from this poem. Then Jeremy said "Shakespeare can't spell". And she scolded Jeremy, and Jeremy just laughed at her. It was unimaginably funny, I was in peels of laughter, which I didn't try to hide, cuz I tried earlier and couldn't. :) Wonder what she thinks, a prefect and her chairman laughing at her. Lolz :)

Its hilarious how we ruin her notion of "beautiful piece" of writing. We also suggested explicit connotations to certain poems. I tell you the look on her face is priceless :)

Today's Lang Arts was pretty funny too. We were doing "The Little Black Boy", something about "beams of love" and how it causes stuff to grow metaphor thingy. Joshua was like "And cause them to grow big, very big" Fiona Ho was like "Yes we know that Joshua, you don't need to tell us that" I don't know how to do her facial expression. Its just hilarious. :)

And when we got to the part about "Lamb's rejoicing", lots of people were making baa noises. It was soooo funny her expression. You must make it a point to see in in your lifetime. Its that "unique".

Looks like Lang Arts' gonna be fun this year.

I have been busyfied once again. I'm double-booked tomorrow, something that never fails to happen. I need to be in two places at the same time. I need Hermione Granger's time travel device. In fact being triple-booked is not unusual. Design homework is due tomorrow. Life Sciences Symposium energy competition trial (wish me luck :) )is tomorrow, I'm all over the place getting materials.

I noticed that I have never tried to control my feelings. If I get upset, that kills me. If I don't like someone, I make it very clear. The only feeling that I hide, is when I like someone. Maybe because I'm scared of being rejected. Maybe one day I'm gonna have to learn fight my emotions down.

My Weekend 11:04 PM

I'm still thinking about what happened with NCDCC on friday.

Yesterday was my 5th kyu karate grading. It was pretty okay and for once I bothered with doing the kiai. Sensei said that the grading was "fine" at the end. I hope that means I pass. I hope.

Piano was awful. Grade 7 is just freaky. Seriously. The only time I remember feeling like this was Grade 5. Its way way way too complicated. Contrary to what Jon Tang will have you believe about piano being laughably easy.

I had lunch at Fish&Co. today. And I shared a big fish drink with Eth. And for the first time we managed to finish it. Its basically a huge glass of blended ice juice thingy. I like the cheese fish and chips.

I spent most of the weekend brainstorming for Life Sciences Symposium. I have oodles and moodles of ideas, not to mention some for my upcoming design company with Kapilan. Too bad I sent out and email regarding a meeting one Monday for LSS but only Jon Tang replied. Its annoying how people don't read their emails.

I have biology test tomorrow. I want to top this one :) Wish me luck!

Total Defense Day 10:26 PM

Today is Total Defense Day, meaning, in the case of this year, that anyone in a UYO has to appear in school in full uniform. For once, I bothered to do all the starching and other random stuffs. Andrew will have comments to say, I predict. So let me explain why. Back at ACS Primary, Total Defense Day was a pretty important event in the school calendar, so I was very shocked to find it accorded no attention at ACS Independent. But I still think its important anyway, so that's why I did all that stuff.

I've misplaced my beret, which I find extremely annoying. We were given the option to come with our cap instead, but anyway I called Zhi En and asked if I could borrow the one from the room. So I waited outside the room for him to come with the key. 

Lee Zheng came first and he had the key. We talked for a while about stuff. Turns out he was demoing Hazmat gear during the Total Defense presentation. He was going Sentosa with his class for IB orientation later. Lucky guy. I was going to have Chinese common test. I wish we had more time to talk a little more. I wish we had spent more time together since we first met. :( Damn regret.

The beret did not have a cap badge, so nevermind I was going to use a cap instead. Then I had to go and rush off to find Mr Alex Ng to get my SGT epaulettes along with some other people. He was, as predicted, fashionably late. 

Total Defense presentations were pretty short. Just a couple of videos. And an NCDCC presentation about Hazmat. Take that NCC! We did something for Total Defense Day :) Sadly Daniel did the slides and speaking. Awful. Couldn't he have the creativity to at least create his own cover slide. And why, of everything to use the awful Powerpoint? I hate that program, I hate that word, and I hate the company and people who created it. Sorry PC people. 

Chinese common test was okay, I think I will pass but not do well. Couldn't remember the blasted kuan shu word, so lost one mark for not writing shu.

Rest of the day was boring, except for Chemistry and Chinese. This is what Ivy Goh wears:

The Ivy Goh Spring/Summer Collection

"White"

Labcoat top + IKEA HEDDA RUTA curtains, SGD 39.99 for 2

"Old"

Large teabag + Umbrella fabric

Her ting xie was once again postponed when someone rubbed it off the board. Oh yea, and she doesn't tell you when she wants you to give out books. She just puts in near you and walks away.

Chemistry had lots of cool experiments. Precipitates and solubility in alkaline solutions. The colors were mesmerizing.

Panel discussion after-school means that I miss NCDCC. I was actually looking forward to this one, because we were supposed to be teaching year 2s. The panel discussion was boring and the presentations plain ugly. I did ask one question:

"Speaker's corner has been written off as a failure in many publications. Why do you think this is so? What do you think holds people back from using it? Or is the idea fundamentally flawed?"

It didn't get answered. The panelists skipped it even after the moderator approved it. Later Mr Ang said that the minute he heard it he knew they couldn't answer it. Lolz :) Then I asked why did they skip it. And he said "because they are panelists." Lolz :)

I didn't attend the reception cuz they were so many people and I wanted to, for once, go for NCDCC. Then I found five things.

1. I am teaching year 1s not 2s. Meaning including Eth and Steven.

2. I missed IPP test. Meaning I have to arrange a makeup time.

3. I am not in the March SNCO course. Disappointment. Hope hope hope etc. that I am in the June one.

4. The Lee Zheng, Daniel, David, and Zhi En were not around. Meaning year 3s were in charge.

5. Some Year 2s were laughing (and being really crude) when they were being pumped. So they were screwed real bad. They were forced to run round the IB block. Which I find mean. And a few of then ended up doing a lot a lot of push ups. And worse still someone went and spilt year 2s up and punished half, and left the other half alone. Which both achieves nothing and makes innocent people in the former half feel unfairly ostracized. Come on, what happened to the All for One and One for All?

Later one, I knocked all of them down for a few of them still being really really in your face rude. And at the end of the whole thing, Mr Lawrence Yong told JonTang that we were too hard on the year 2s. Actually I feel sorry for them, that just because of one or two people, other innocent people get into a hell lot of trouble for no reason. I think that disregarding the All for One rule was the worst thing that was done today though. I'm not gonna point fingers here, but I think that the year 3s need a post-mortem meeting.

I feel really sorry for the year 2s, regret knocking them down, and guilty that I wasn't there to watch out for the year 2s, not least my year 2 friends. 

Hoping 10:08 PM

I found a couple of inspiring quotes:

"If you're a scientist, its time to ask yourself if you're making a difference where you are. And whether you'd like to make a bigger one."
--Atomic Weapons Establishment UK

This one from a iPhone wallpaper:

Learn from yesterday

Live for today

Hope for tomorrow

Anyway today I went for the Biotechnology Fair 2009 briefing. Which was apparently at the Science Centre. Wanted to walk around after the presentations, but it was pretty late so I went home. 

Oh yes, remember the charity bazaar? Jon Tang told me before hand that I will buy all the paintings for 200++ if they aren't sold. At the end of the actual bazaar, he sent me an SMS saying that they were unsold, and that he told Ms Fiona Ho that I will buy them. So I called and said that was a joke in very bad taste. I pretended to cry on the phone. And yesterday he told me that he recorded it and he wants to use it as his ringtone. And that he wants to freely distribute it. See? Jon Tang bully me. The niceness is a devious facade I tell you. Jon Tang, I thought you were my friend...

Chemistry was really cool. Lots of interesting reactions. I was villianized for knowing most of the reactions. Lolz. :)

I hope I can get into SNCO course. An NCDCC course I actually want to go for. :) And tomorrow have physics exam. Wish me luck :)

I Wish I Cannot Feel 9:48 PM

Today was unusual. I am now participating for Life Sciences Symposium energy competition, running an exhibition booth and sending in an entry for Biotechnology Fair 2009. I'm not saying that's bad, because I love science, but things tend to get a little messy when too many things happen at the same time.

Something happened, and now I am also in NCDCC 2 Star Kayaking course. Andrew came during recess, and said Alex Ng did the choosing. I'll leave that at that. When he told me I just freaked. So I went and talked to Joel Toi, and that made me feel a little better :) 

Andrew thinks that that course is something that should be looked forward to. And I said (a little bluntly) that I would like to go with Joel instead. I think he's upset. I'm sorry :)

I did say yes, because I didn't think that Mr Alex Ng / Dr Tan was going to take no for an answer. When every did they? :) I regret saying yes, even though I didn't really have a choice. I realize I spend a lot of time thinking about the things I've done and looking back, knowing that I will never be able to change what has happened. I wish I could be the type of person, ruthlessly efficient, who can just forget everything that went by, and just look dead ahead and build a better future without turning back... Sometimes, I find that the ability to feel is an evolutionary flaw. Sometimes I wish that I couldn't feel.

There are millions of things which I want to forget and never look back at again, but I find I can't. Sometimes its people I miss the most because its painful to think of them.

Sometimes I wish that I was cooler. Sometimes I wonder why I try to be somebody I'm not.

Talking Makes Me Happy :) 9:46 PM

Hmm, I have not written stuff for a while. That's because I was busy with the Moot Parliament proposal presentation. Now that it's done, only to find that the actual presentation is far far away, let's go over what has happened for the past few days.

Apparently my karate grading is next week. Oh dear. As usual, I hope I dun phail. I need to be more positive.

Monday was chemistry test, which I did not study for, contrary to what Jon Tang will tell you. The test was easy, except for the lack of enough time. The section B questions are just b**ch. So much to writing to do. So I left out one point for the last question on fractional distillation. I hate it when I know I can't top a test when I could have. I never forgive myself. :(

On the way home, I met Joel Toi at the bus stop. And we were going the same way all the way home, MRT etc. :) So we talked all the way, which was a really nice thing. :) I realize that everytime I feel emo, I always feel better after talking to people (about anything).

Anyway, at the bus stop, everyone was rushing for the first 74 that came along. The aircon was not working. Since it was so crowded, I decided to wait. Immediately after the bus left, another 74 arrived, with a working aircon. Epic phail for the kia su people who rushed.

Alex Ng called on the train ride home to ask Joel whether he wanna go for two star kayaking. Andrew was going too.

We talked all the way home :)

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Life's Not So Bad After All 11:43 PM

I wonder how I should look at the Core Maths test today. It was easy. Except for one question. 1b. The horrible square roots and subjects of formulas. I have decided that I hate squares and roots. The one test in the whole year where I actually had a chance to score 100 and I screwed it up.

White space had Chinese lesson. Andrew tried to run away. Terrible. Then he changed into uniform during Chinese. So enthu. Whoops, I'm not supposed to use that word right? XD

NCDCC went pretty okay. Okay leaning towarda well. :) Oh, did I mention that Ms Anna Lim loves to drag out the word NCDCC. I tell you she loves to do it, she gets a kick out of it.

Today was Hazmat, meaning memorizing 130++ powerpoint slides. 9 classes of hazardous materials, properties and emergency procedure, then chemical agents. It started pretty late because we misplaced Mr Alex Ng.

Hazmat was a lot better than it would normally have been because Lee Zheng was teaching :). I think that alone made the 130++ slides a thousand times less painful. When we were almost at the end he said "Oh, we're almost done, good job Lee Zheng". :)

Test was immediadely after. Lee Zheng was like "The test is very difficult" one moment and the next "The test is very easy". He gave us hints during the powerpoint and tried to do the paper later also, mentally. That was nice of him, and encouraging.

Apparently next Friday is total defense day, meaning the whole school day in full uniform. Absurd. Andrew asked whether we were going to do anything stupid. Lee Zheng was like "No, Daniel will" XD

As I was walking to the roundabout, Jonathan Tang got me into this argument about whether I mug for exams. For the record I do not. Whatever Jon Tang tells you he is bluffing. Don't listen to him. :) Anyway, as I was loudly stating that I do not study for chemistry, Ms Ong Wei Ling was apparently behind me. Whoops! She said hi, and we chatted for a short while. She asked how I was, which was really thoughtful :)

I slept in the car and came home to lots of Kueh Pai Tee for me :) yeah! Kaka made the filling that afternoon.

After dinner Jason Chee called to ask if I wanted iWork and iLife since he got them. I already had them, but I think it was extremely thoughtful of Jason to ask. :) Thanks a million for being so thoughtful!

Someone gave mummy a Nokia E71. It looks fabulous, is wonderously thin and came with a nice case. Mum gave it to Ethan.

Its nice to know so many people care, and I'm happy today. I think I need to be more content with life. And look on the nicer side of things more. And I wish I spent a million times more time with all the people who make my life worth living.

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Life is Weird 11:06 PM

Okay, firstly, if you are reading this now, which you probably will do soon, I'm sorry Joel Toi for what I said/wrote earlier on. I was being insensitive and careless. The text has been removed. I'm sorry.

But what do you mean that lots of people read what goes on here? Who does? Just curious...

Advanced Math was cool today. I was totally fascinated by a process known as synthetic division. It is fantastically elegant, sleek and blazing fast. Go look it up. You'll be amazed by what you find.

POD was free period. Yay. :)

People were amazed I took notes for IHS instead of sleeping. Mindmap.

Chinese was funny. We counted the number of arbitrary noises such as "huh" that Ms Ivy Goh makes per minute for each minute of the 60 min lesson. They were categorized into different sounds, and the on-going activity in that minute was noted. I will then plot a graph of minute one to sixty with the on-going activity in colored sections. Thus I intend to find the correlation of amount arbitrary noises to activity or period in time. Recorded the whole lesson using my phone just in case I need to recount. It was between the pages of a Chinese book under the table  :) heheheh.....

It was under the table because Andrew suggested that if I left in on the tabletop Ms Goh might pick it up and try to use it... Lolz

After school, things got weird. Went for the NCDCC meeting on admin positions. I'm in the Events team. Like WTF?! What's that supposed to mean? I think it is seriously messed up. Lee Zheng didn't come, so there wasn't much of a meeting anyway. Why did you arrange us like this Lee Zheng??

Oh yeah, the iPhone beats a netbook for checking email. In the second demonstration already. First one was at Dragonfly at St. James.

I'm doing the same Life Sciences Symposium topic as Daniel Lim did, for the second time in a row. Oh my... In fact I'm working together with him on the same project this time. Of all the people it could have been. Why?? Why?? Why?? Daniel tried to hide his shock. My first thought was why couldn't it be Lee Zheng instead...

During the Life Sciences Scymposium I heard another episode of the Dheepa drama.

Computer hangs.

Student: "Madam, my computer hung"

Dheepa (in irritated tone): "So wait a while!"

Student (after waiting): "Madam, its still hung"

Dheepa (in irritated tone): "I told you to wait a while right?!"

Ethan is now in NCDCC. So is Steven.

Life is random. Shake to shuffle.

African Yams 10:30 PM

Today went pretty okay, I guess. Ms Ivy Goh made about 115 abitrary noises (huh) during a 80 min lesson. We counted.

There was an evil diagnostic test during core maths. It was about year 2 stuff, algebraic manipulation, like factorization and simplification. I hate the test cuz it made me feel stupid.
Mr Kenneth Ong thinks that the test was laughably easy. I told him it was not. He didn't believe me and said I was trying to scare him. I think he's in for a shock when he marks the papers.

After school went for the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve ranger thingy. Apparently the whole thing when the class comes along too involves the removal of African Yam from the reserve. 

Wonder why....

I missed the whole presentation because of the CCA exhibition where I was at the NCDCC booth. Refer to earlier posts about the enthu people. Whoops! I said that word again.

The yams as you can see are huge...

We did a rather unscientific dissection. The inside is white and has a sort of turnip, potato consistency and appears to have a rather large amount of juice.

Oh yeah, on the way there in the bus, me and Andrew had a debate about enthuness. Which got nowhere. Again.

My mum's gonna go Sweden in April. I can't come becuz of school. Sucks right? At least I'm gonna go Okinawa in June.

It's snowing over one foot of snow at my aunts place in England, in the heaviest snowfall in 18 years. Everyone is snowed under, and the place looks almost magical. Kids are sledging down the road outside my aunts house because cars can't drive. The road I used to walk down so often as kid. People are mucking around in the park down the road. The park I used to play at as a kid.

I don't want to grow up.

I wish I was there. Again I'm not. Because of school.

I shall soon be writing my 25 Things FaceBook note. As I read other people's notes, I realize that I wish I had more time together with the people I care about.

Tomorrow is the Bose common test. I hoe I dun phail. I'm afraid.

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