Okay. I’m just about ready to throw the printer at the wall. Its an Epson R310 inkjet. Don’t buy Epson. Ever. Its horrible. This is my third Epson printer to have issues.
The first one decided one day to just print out pages after pages of cryptographic wingdings for the rest of its existence. The second and third ones decided to enhance all the printouts by adding stripes of the precise chromatic opposite color all over the place.
So my IHS project has the appearance of a terribly amateur print work.
Time to get a color laser. That is not Epson.
Oh, and did I mention I also ran out of paper? Meaning I can’t prepare anything at all for next week’s 1st International Festival of Biotechnology in India. I am leaving Singapore Sunday 10 am.
Great. Just great. Snapping under the stress of preparing for an overseas competition, with less than a weeks rest after A* NSC, trying to finish all my projects before I leave, and the printer breaks down, and I run out of paper.
And then Ms Ho comes chasing me for a commentary which I wasn’t even in class to write.
What an absolute disaster. I shall place this series of unfortunate events away from the portion of my mind that demarcates my consciousness.
I was out of class for most of the day preparing for IFB India, but I came back later because the lab technician had to go for lunch, and can’t trust us alone in the lab. So I was back in class for Language Arts A and PC lesson.
Both of which were rubbish. Waste my time. Better off preparing for IFB India in the library. Lang Arts A entailed Bose demonstrating one of her verbose and mundane ramblings about a subject matter which doesn’t exactly make sense to anyone.
PC entailed “someone” experiencing what is known as post-menstrual syndrome. Essentially screaming at everyone. Look. I freaking don’t care what happened with your year 4 class earlier on okay? (deduced from your conversation with Ms Ho) It speaks terribly of you as a teacher, leader and person if you take your anger out on other people.
I understand we are all human, we all get angry. We sometimes are curt and abrupt with other people, but today was a demonstration of utter lack of self-control. You are the last person I expected to act so unprofessionally.
I am disappointed.
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Some thoughts, more controversy. Again this isn’t meant to upset anyone, its just what I feel and you are more than welcome to disagree.
I don’t believe in the concepts of “country” and “race”, for all of us 6 billion people in the world are the same species. The DNA of any two people living today is at least 99% percent similar, a figure validated by numerous scientific studies. So then what is this big hullaballoo about our geographic territory or the way we look?
Okay. Granted the whole world can’t be one big happy family because there are a bunch of sick, twisted people, e.g. terrorists, extremists, communist leaders, etc.
Most of everyone in the world wants the same thing. Peace and happiness. So does it really matter which continent we live in? Why can’t we move forward together as a human race? Instead of individually country by country. Isn’t that rather selfish?
Isn’t it sad that this concept of geographical and racial divisions is preventing meaningful and purposeful discussion and dialogue on an international basis? Read the news to see what I mean.
I guess I am an idealist. A very naive idealist.
So I won’t fight for a country.
But I’ll fight for a cause.
I’m considering environmental or political activism. Maybe I’ll join Greenpeace. Or Reporters Sans Frontiers.
Its where I might make the most difference.
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I’ll be out of class for about the whole day again preparing for IFB India. Sorry guys :(
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Identity 10:39 PM
What I’m gonna say soon will be quite outrageous to some people. Please don’t get upset about it, because its just an opinion, just what I feel. Its not meant to be a personal thing to some people, and I’m not saying that you are wrong. Don’t take what comes next as the pure truth because its very opiated and biased. This is just what I feel.
Prepare for controversy.
I don’t like the NDP songs. At all. They are way, way, way too nationalistic. Corny lyrics and tacky soundtracks also. I won’t label it as propaganda, because that would be a very extremist way of looking at things, but I think you’ll get what I mean.
I find it sad that people resort to these kind of things to evoke patriotism.
I don’t think that’s right. Patriotism should come naturally from the heart. It doesn’t come from signing songs written around a glorified impression of the subject matter. It should be about the things we do to make our world a better place. Things like social or political activism, being an advocate for something like climate change.
Its disappointing that people need cheesy songs and government marketing campaigns to tell them that. Shouldn’t we already know what we need to do to make a positive difference? Do we have to be told how, by lovely advertisements and marketing campaigns?
Why is it we have to be reminded how to be proud of our country? Take a leaf out of Japan’s book. I still remember there was this shopkeeper, who upon seeing a dead leaf fall from a tree onto the pavement of a neighboring shop, promptly went over to put it in the dustbin. The people there are so polite to each other. They are concerned about stuff that extends beyond the individual.
They don’t need all these tacky songs to give them a sense of ownership of their country.
They have a very strong sense of cultural identity, an identity that is really theirs truly, something that is honestly collected together, and is genuine. Their identity is not the result of pretty speeches on the need to “forge a national identity”. Its the result of what the people did themselves.
Something spontaneous.
No point having an identity if its been carefully engineered by marketing agencies. That’s just deceiving oneself.
Besides, I think the notion of “forging an identity” is incorrect in itself. How can one manufacture your identity? Your are who you are, and nothing that you can ever do is going to change that fact. You cannot escape your true identity.
Your identity is not made. It is not created. It is not forged.
It is discovered.
All this fuss about forging an identity has distracted us from the more meaningful purpose of discovering what our true identity is. What is the point of an identity that doesn’t reflect who we are?
Maybe its time that we discard the notion of “tolerating” different races too. That is erroneous too. We should not be tolerating differences. We should be accepting them and welcoming them with open arms. Our differences are what makes us a more powerful people. Our diversity is priceless human capital.
To talk as if our differences were a problem is stupidity in its purest form.
Because its our differences that are the solution.
Its time for us to forget about engineering our identity. Its time for us to start finding and discovering it. The little things we see, hear, smell, touch, feel everyday, our slangs, way of doing things, our people, our differences, are our identity. Our identity is already all around us, its already part of us.
All we need to do, is to open our eyes and see.
Prepare for controversy.
I don’t like the NDP songs. At all. They are way, way, way too nationalistic. Corny lyrics and tacky soundtracks also. I won’t label it as propaganda, because that would be a very extremist way of looking at things, but I think you’ll get what I mean.
I find it sad that people resort to these kind of things to evoke patriotism.
I don’t think that’s right. Patriotism should come naturally from the heart. It doesn’t come from signing songs written around a glorified impression of the subject matter. It should be about the things we do to make our world a better place. Things like social or political activism, being an advocate for something like climate change.
Its disappointing that people need cheesy songs and government marketing campaigns to tell them that. Shouldn’t we already know what we need to do to make a positive difference? Do we have to be told how, by lovely advertisements and marketing campaigns?
Why is it we have to be reminded how to be proud of our country? Take a leaf out of Japan’s book. I still remember there was this shopkeeper, who upon seeing a dead leaf fall from a tree onto the pavement of a neighboring shop, promptly went over to put it in the dustbin. The people there are so polite to each other. They are concerned about stuff that extends beyond the individual.
They don’t need all these tacky songs to give them a sense of ownership of their country.
They have a very strong sense of cultural identity, an identity that is really theirs truly, something that is honestly collected together, and is genuine. Their identity is not the result of pretty speeches on the need to “forge a national identity”. Its the result of what the people did themselves.
Something spontaneous.
No point having an identity if its been carefully engineered by marketing agencies. That’s just deceiving oneself.
Besides, I think the notion of “forging an identity” is incorrect in itself. How can one manufacture your identity? Your are who you are, and nothing that you can ever do is going to change that fact. You cannot escape your true identity.
Your identity is not made. It is not created. It is not forged.
It is discovered.
All this fuss about forging an identity has distracted us from the more meaningful purpose of discovering what our true identity is. What is the point of an identity that doesn’t reflect who we are?
Maybe its time that we discard the notion of “tolerating” different races too. That is erroneous too. We should not be tolerating differences. We should be accepting them and welcoming them with open arms. Our differences are what makes us a more powerful people. Our diversity is priceless human capital.
To talk as if our differences were a problem is stupidity in its purest form.
Because its our differences that are the solution.
Its time for us to forget about engineering our identity. Its time for us to start finding and discovering it. The little things we see, hear, smell, touch, feel everyday, our slangs, way of doing things, our people, our differences, are our identity. Our identity is already all around us, its already part of us.
All we need to do, is to open our eyes and see.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Defeat 10:11 PM
We lost A* NSC, trailing RI by 16 points.
I’m sorry for letting you guys down. Especially those people who sacrificed so much and supported me every step of the way no matter what. Especially my team mates. Thanks so much for everything you guys did, and I’m sorry I couldn’t have done better.
I tried my best. I’m sorry that my best wasn’t good enough.
16 points behind. Totally just crashed out. Even if we didn’t stand a chance, which I don’t believe was ever the case, defeat by such a big margin is so hard to accept.
Right now I don’t have the courage or strength to do IF Biotech India. I shouldn’t even be on the team. I shouldn’t even be secretary of biology research. I shouldn’t even be in 3.8
And even if IF Biotech India goes well as planned, that is not gonna change anything.
Its my fault. I lost my cool with people more than a few times. I argued, and didn’t listen. I didn’t try to make compromises. I was so damn arrogant, and so inattentive. I was unprofessional too. I let my feelings and emotion get in the way of sense and logic.
I’m sorry I’ve been such an awful friend to have.
I’m sorry for letting you guys down. Especially those people who sacrificed so much and supported me every step of the way no matter what. Especially my team mates. Thanks so much for everything you guys did, and I’m sorry I couldn’t have done better.
I tried my best. I’m sorry that my best wasn’t good enough.
16 points behind. Totally just crashed out. Even if we didn’t stand a chance, which I don’t believe was ever the case, defeat by such a big margin is so hard to accept.
Right now I don’t have the courage or strength to do IF Biotech India. I shouldn’t even be on the team. I shouldn’t even be secretary of biology research. I shouldn’t even be in 3.8
And even if IF Biotech India goes well as planned, that is not gonna change anything.
Its my fault. I lost my cool with people more than a few times. I argued, and didn’t listen. I didn’t try to make compromises. I was so damn arrogant, and so inattentive. I was unprofessional too. I let my feelings and emotion get in the way of sense and logic.
I’m sorry I’ve been such an awful friend to have.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
A Losing War 9:43 PM
Do note that this is not referring directly to the disagreement with Dean and Swapnil, but is a generalization and reflection of recent events. That conflict has been settled :) Thanks Dean and Swapnil
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Lost like a leaf in a hurricane.
Confused by all that happened, confused by the consequences of all that I tried to do. Left without anything else around to point the way. Trying my best to make things better, but making things worse in reality.
I go school everyday with a scripted smile and a staged identity, hiding everything that I feel because thats what everyone else has done. Substituting raw emotion with politically correct content under the pretext of professionalism.
Looking around me knowing that the expressions contradict the emotions. Wondering what is the purpose of this masquerade party if we already know what each other feel. We know we lied to each other, yet we still deceive ourselves with a illusion that was never real.
The truth about how we feel is right in our face, but we act as if it wasn’t there. Is it because we can’t accept reality, or is it because we feel like we are letting our guard down when we show others how we feel in a world where don’t know who to trust. In a world where bitter rivals pretend to be your friends and backstab you at the last moment.
To have allowed my real emotions to flash briefly, disillusioned by the facade of other people’s apparent personality. Because it was something that I never believed in. Driven by the willpower to redefine the status quo.
And then only to realize that the consequences were conflicts and arguments of cataclysmic proportions. Conflicts that hurt people. Including myself. To be left feeling so angry, so desolate, so bitter. Thinking about it and longing for revenge so badly, never wanting anything else so much.
Knowing that you’ll have to move on someday. But realizing that by doing so, acting as if you couldn’t care less in front of other people, but locking yourself in your room when you get home and crying your eyes out, that people are just gonna take advantage of and walk all over you.
Kicked to the side bleeding, wondering if being who you are, showing yourself as you are, was the right thing to do, in a world where its the good guys that die in the ending.
Couldn’t it be that our repulsion to expressing our emotions, our self, our identity as they are, trying to pretend to feel, be, someone we are not. Treating our life as a performance, this world a stage, and the people we know an audience, that this could be the spores of human misunderstanding and conflict?
Could it be, that all we needed to solve every problem humanity is facing today, was just a bit of innocence?
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Lost like a leaf in a hurricane.
Confused by all that happened, confused by the consequences of all that I tried to do. Left without anything else around to point the way. Trying my best to make things better, but making things worse in reality.
I go school everyday with a scripted smile and a staged identity, hiding everything that I feel because thats what everyone else has done. Substituting raw emotion with politically correct content under the pretext of professionalism.
Looking around me knowing that the expressions contradict the emotions. Wondering what is the purpose of this masquerade party if we already know what each other feel. We know we lied to each other, yet we still deceive ourselves with a illusion that was never real.
The truth about how we feel is right in our face, but we act as if it wasn’t there. Is it because we can’t accept reality, or is it because we feel like we are letting our guard down when we show others how we feel in a world where don’t know who to trust. In a world where bitter rivals pretend to be your friends and backstab you at the last moment.
To have allowed my real emotions to flash briefly, disillusioned by the facade of other people’s apparent personality. Because it was something that I never believed in. Driven by the willpower to redefine the status quo.
And then only to realize that the consequences were conflicts and arguments of cataclysmic proportions. Conflicts that hurt people. Including myself. To be left feeling so angry, so desolate, so bitter. Thinking about it and longing for revenge so badly, never wanting anything else so much.
Knowing that you’ll have to move on someday. But realizing that by doing so, acting as if you couldn’t care less in front of other people, but locking yourself in your room when you get home and crying your eyes out, that people are just gonna take advantage of and walk all over you.
Kicked to the side bleeding, wondering if being who you are, showing yourself as you are, was the right thing to do, in a world where its the good guys that die in the ending.
Couldn’t it be that our repulsion to expressing our emotions, our self, our identity as they are, trying to pretend to feel, be, someone we are not. Treating our life as a performance, this world a stage, and the people we know an audience, that this could be the spores of human misunderstanding and conflict?
Could it be, that all we needed to solve every problem humanity is facing today, was just a bit of innocence?
Monday, July 20, 2009
In Life There Are No Happy Endings 6:15 PM
I finished Call of Duty 4 a few days ago. IT WAS AWESOME!!!! :D It’s a bit short, wish it was longer. But everything else took my breath away :) The story-line and plot development is incredible. Its so real, so in-your-face. This isn’t the villains die and heroes live forever kind of story. The ending is so sad. I wanted to cry.
That’s how good the story-line was.
The soundtrack is of no compare, visually it is out of this world.
And the Mac port is faultless without a single bug (opposite of EA games). Kudos to Aspyr, Infinity Ward and Activision :) COD6 is launching November 10 and I can’t wait..... :)
In the meantime, I’m gonna play COD4 all over again from the start :) Really :) Its that good :)
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The next section is extremely bitter and angry. Uhh..... so if you’re happy right now you should cease to read right here, if not you will become emofied.
This is about A* National Science Challenge, Swapnil and Dean.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t hate NSC or our team. Jeremy and Daryl are awesome :) I just have no idea what is with Dean and Swapnil. From what is looks like, you both are purposely disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing, just because you weren’t the one who suggested the idea.
To Dean + Swapnil: I HAVE LOST WHATEVER LITTLE RESPECT I HAD LEFT FOR BOTH OF YOU.
Lets go back all the way to the start, the outfit design for NSC. Basically we had the whole holiday to think of a design. The whole holiday nothing from Dean or Swapnil, so me and Jem and Daryl thought up a design. And when I came to school on the first day of term, Dean and Swapnil were absolutely un-constructive.
If you don’t like a something, the absolute minimum you should have is a credible alternative. You don’t just criticize without the faintest idea of where to go next. In effect what you wanted was for our well thought out plan to be replaced by one thought up in approx. 2 nanoseconds simply because you didn’t have a say in the first idea.
If you wanted to put something of yours in, it should have been done well in advance, not 3 days before studio imaging. You essentially want me to get the team through the studio imaging betting on an idea formulated in the same time it take for a photon to transverse the classroom. You were hoping to get through on luck just because you didn’t have an idea and you didn’t want us to use an idea which you did not make.
And when it came to the studio imaging day, I made it clear earlier that I would bear in mind your comments on the first design and we should make some edits here and there. Yet instead of being constructive and brainstorming for ideas when they told us that the outfit was too formal and they needed to make a few MINOR edits, you immediately say that you were completely against the design in the first place and say its completely my fault. In front of the entire TV crew from Mediacorp.
YOU WERE DISUNITED, INDECOROUS, ABSOLUTELY WITHOUT SHAME, AND COMPLETELY UNPROFESSIONAL.
Then comes the time for prop design (yesterday). We all meet together at the same time to design our props. All five of us. While we were thinking of the props, you were utterly distracted playing this Mousehunt nonsense on Facebook. You refused to plan anything and took a cursory glance at our prop design and that was all.
When we get to spotlight at plaza singapura to get materials, you suddenly disagree to the entire set of props, whine about every single last detail not being as you would like, be totally uncompromising in every sense of the word, and try to formulate your own idea on the spot. Once again you refuse to utilize an idea simply because it was not thought up by you.
ONCE AGAIN YOU CREATE A SCENE AT THE MOST INAPPROPRIATE OF SITUATIONS, AND ACT WITH PATENT DISREGARD TO THE FEELINGS OF OTHERS
MAKE NO MISTAKE. I AM EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED WITH YOUR ACTIONS.
I’ve said my fair share.
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To realize that you had lied to yourself and deceived yourself into thinking that the world had only good people. To be torn to ribbons by people you trusted. To have your trust treated like some kind of joke. To have believed in a friendship that was never real.
For me to have believed that just because we are still in school, that that could somehow make us exempt form the kind of internal politics that cretins create.
Wonder if anyone knows how that feels like.
That’s how good the story-line was.
The soundtrack is of no compare, visually it is out of this world.
And the Mac port is faultless without a single bug (opposite of EA games). Kudos to Aspyr, Infinity Ward and Activision :) COD6 is launching November 10 and I can’t wait..... :)
In the meantime, I’m gonna play COD4 all over again from the start :) Really :) Its that good :)
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The next section is extremely bitter and angry. Uhh..... so if you’re happy right now you should cease to read right here, if not you will become emofied.
This is about A* National Science Challenge, Swapnil and Dean.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t hate NSC or our team. Jeremy and Daryl are awesome :) I just have no idea what is with Dean and Swapnil. From what is looks like, you both are purposely disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing, just because you weren’t the one who suggested the idea.
To Dean + Swapnil: I HAVE LOST WHATEVER LITTLE RESPECT I HAD LEFT FOR BOTH OF YOU.
Lets go back all the way to the start, the outfit design for NSC. Basically we had the whole holiday to think of a design. The whole holiday nothing from Dean or Swapnil, so me and Jem and Daryl thought up a design. And when I came to school on the first day of term, Dean and Swapnil were absolutely un-constructive.
If you don’t like a something, the absolute minimum you should have is a credible alternative. You don’t just criticize without the faintest idea of where to go next. In effect what you wanted was for our well thought out plan to be replaced by one thought up in approx. 2 nanoseconds simply because you didn’t have a say in the first idea.
If you wanted to put something of yours in, it should have been done well in advance, not 3 days before studio imaging. You essentially want me to get the team through the studio imaging betting on an idea formulated in the same time it take for a photon to transverse the classroom. You were hoping to get through on luck just because you didn’t have an idea and you didn’t want us to use an idea which you did not make.
And when it came to the studio imaging day, I made it clear earlier that I would bear in mind your comments on the first design and we should make some edits here and there. Yet instead of being constructive and brainstorming for ideas when they told us that the outfit was too formal and they needed to make a few MINOR edits, you immediately say that you were completely against the design in the first place and say its completely my fault. In front of the entire TV crew from Mediacorp.
YOU WERE DISUNITED, INDECOROUS, ABSOLUTELY WITHOUT SHAME, AND COMPLETELY UNPROFESSIONAL.
Then comes the time for prop design (yesterday). We all meet together at the same time to design our props. All five of us. While we were thinking of the props, you were utterly distracted playing this Mousehunt nonsense on Facebook. You refused to plan anything and took a cursory glance at our prop design and that was all.
When we get to spotlight at plaza singapura to get materials, you suddenly disagree to the entire set of props, whine about every single last detail not being as you would like, be totally uncompromising in every sense of the word, and try to formulate your own idea on the spot. Once again you refuse to utilize an idea simply because it was not thought up by you.
ONCE AGAIN YOU CREATE A SCENE AT THE MOST INAPPROPRIATE OF SITUATIONS, AND ACT WITH PATENT DISREGARD TO THE FEELINGS OF OTHERS
MAKE NO MISTAKE. I AM EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED WITH YOUR ACTIONS.
I’ve said my fair share.
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To realize that you had lied to yourself and deceived yourself into thinking that the world had only good people. To be torn to ribbons by people you trusted. To have your trust treated like some kind of joke. To have believed in a friendship that was never real.
For me to have believed that just because we are still in school, that that could somehow make us exempt form the kind of internal politics that cretins create.
Wonder if anyone knows how that feels like.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Lint-Free Paper 7:12 AM
Went to A* Institute of Materials Research ad Engineering, as part of National Science Challenge
We went in two taxis, and Jem, Dean and Swapnil got los in the NUS campus. Then when we finally found them, Swapnil had left his wallet in the cab, so we had to call the cab back.
Then the NSC people wanted to take an extremely cheesy scene of our entering the IMRE building for the TV show. When we finally started, the presenter was terrible, and the presentation was awful. The presenter was not confident, and the slides were not visually appealing.
Getting into the lab was extremely troublesome. Basically you need to gown up until all you can see are your eyes, and even that has goggles put over it. Then you have to get blasted with air to dislodge dust particles, and walk over a sticky floor that removes dirt from your lab shoes.
And you can’t use normal paper to write inside the lab, you have to use lint-free wax paper. They are so obsessed about particle contamination.
And no photos, because your camera might have dust particles on it :(
We were having a tour about solid state lighting and next generation LED technology. Apparently LEDs are manufactured using a vapor deposition process. When it got to the part about nanoscale etching of the p-n junction, they use a vacummized plasma chamber.
And the vacuumized plasma chamber is impossible tiny. And there are windows to look inside.
The cost of one vapor deposition device exceeds 2 million US dollars :)
Had fun laughing at Jem and the glass door :) Well lets just say there was a rather large sign that said “PULL” :P
Ok actually there was also a button for a magnetic lock XD
We went in two taxis, and Jem, Dean and Swapnil got los in the NUS campus. Then when we finally found them, Swapnil had left his wallet in the cab, so we had to call the cab back.
Then the NSC people wanted to take an extremely cheesy scene of our entering the IMRE building for the TV show. When we finally started, the presenter was terrible, and the presentation was awful. The presenter was not confident, and the slides were not visually appealing.
Getting into the lab was extremely troublesome. Basically you need to gown up until all you can see are your eyes, and even that has goggles put over it. Then you have to get blasted with air to dislodge dust particles, and walk over a sticky floor that removes dirt from your lab shoes.
And you can’t use normal paper to write inside the lab, you have to use lint-free wax paper. They are so obsessed about particle contamination.
And no photos, because your camera might have dust particles on it :(
We were having a tour about solid state lighting and next generation LED technology. Apparently LEDs are manufactured using a vapor deposition process. When it got to the part about nanoscale etching of the p-n junction, they use a vacummized plasma chamber.
And the vacuumized plasma chamber is impossible tiny. And there are windows to look inside.
The cost of one vapor deposition device exceeds 2 million US dollars :)
Had fun laughing at Jem and the glass door :) Well lets just say there was a rather large sign that said “PULL” :P
Ok actually there was also a button for a magnetic lock XD
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Pho-tos 8:40 PM
Here are the PHOtos of the stuff we do during Lang Arts B :D
We drew this for Ms Ho before she came in :D Its the most realistic Pho24 drawing we have done so far :) When she wanted to erase it we all started squealing XD Then we told her we spent the whole morning doing it because it was for Language Arts A :P
This one is apparently a picture of me. By Jon Tang :)
There's supposed to be 2 deer in this picture only, but we made a joke out of it by saying we could see a penguin and Ms Ho's face XD Daryl is outlining more non-existent stuff in the picture :P
Lang Arts B is so totally the opposite of Lang Arts A. B is fun and exciting, A is boring and stupid.
A Mathematical formula to quantify the amount of boredom that precipitates in Lang Arts A lessons.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Fiona Ho's the (wo)Man 9:54 PM
Someone did something so damn nice for me today :) .....
I was getting on the train with a friend and my bro. My bro didn’t get in in time, so he was left on the platform while I was in the departing train. Naturally I called his phone and told him I’ll get off at the next stop, and meet him on the next train. So the train arrived at the next stop. I said my goodbye to that friend and headed for the door. And guess what? Four words. “I’ll wait with you.”
Its quite something to be able to drop everything else to help a friend. Its quite something to be able to sacrifice time for a friend without second thoughts. Maybe to other people all it is was 6 minutes. To me it means a lot more than that :)
Thanks a million Joel Toi :)
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Apparently some people have made recording’s of Language Arts B’s classic moments :D Which mean’s it might appear in our class book at the end of next year :) Unfortunately, due to licensing agreements with the lead actress, i.e. Ms Fiona Ho, we are unable to deliver this production over the web. We are currently negotiating :)
Anyway, it was super funny cos half the class was behind Jem’s computer screen during contact time, and Ms Ho was doing the classic “What is going on?” Then the whole class said we were doing project XD And Ms Ho was like “Which project need so many people one?” And we told her it was a documentary on language. Which was in a way the truth XD. And the first thing she said after that was “And is it making fun of anyone?” with the classic angry face and folded arms XD
And we played it on the projector for the whole class to see :D It was richard trying to explain the poem “The Sheltered Garden” and making a complete joke out of the whole affair. And halfway through, Ms Ho was like “If this is IOP, sure fail. All the wrong interpretations.” XD And when it came to the part where she appeared in the video, “What am I doing inside?” XD
And then Language Arts B lesson later was totally awesome :D We said a lot of hilarious stuff XD
Ms Ho asks where Daryl is. Jem - “Um, he’s in the library emoing.”
Someone peeks through the door. Ms Ho asks who it was. Daryl Chen says “Your momma”
She wears purple today. First thing I said when she came in, “Oh my god. Purple is now so totally my favorite color.” Her reply? “Allister!?” XD
We said a lot of other stupid things XD Then later everyone started throwing paper planes. Then she made us stay back for 5 minutes afterschool XD
And the best one. She was explaining something about the poem “The Man in the Bowler Hat” when suddenly she said loudly for emphasis, one particular line in the poem. “I am the Man”. We all burst out laughing XD
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Lucas says to stop playing Call of Duty 4. He says its not like me. He gave me a funny look when I said I like to play with the most detailed settings for blood. Uhh..... so now you kinda have an idea how much I hide behind that scripted smile.
I’ve just played the mission featured in the opening sequence of the COD4 trailer. It was totally AWESOME :D
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is launching 10 November. If you play computer games, and you haven’t watched the MW2 preview video at E3, you owe it to yourself to go watch it. Its totally unbelievable.....
If it takes more than a few weeks for the Mac release, it may be just the reason that I’ll install Windows on my Mac.
The suspense is killing me.
I was getting on the train with a friend and my bro. My bro didn’t get in in time, so he was left on the platform while I was in the departing train. Naturally I called his phone and told him I’ll get off at the next stop, and meet him on the next train. So the train arrived at the next stop. I said my goodbye to that friend and headed for the door. And guess what? Four words. “I’ll wait with you.”
Its quite something to be able to drop everything else to help a friend. Its quite something to be able to sacrifice time for a friend without second thoughts. Maybe to other people all it is was 6 minutes. To me it means a lot more than that :)
Thanks a million Joel Toi :)
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Apparently some people have made recording’s of Language Arts B’s classic moments :D Which mean’s it might appear in our class book at the end of next year :) Unfortunately, due to licensing agreements with the lead actress, i.e. Ms Fiona Ho, we are unable to deliver this production over the web. We are currently negotiating :)
Anyway, it was super funny cos half the class was behind Jem’s computer screen during contact time, and Ms Ho was doing the classic “What is going on?” Then the whole class said we were doing project XD And Ms Ho was like “Which project need so many people one?” And we told her it was a documentary on language. Which was in a way the truth XD. And the first thing she said after that was “And is it making fun of anyone?” with the classic angry face and folded arms XD
And we played it on the projector for the whole class to see :D It was richard trying to explain the poem “The Sheltered Garden” and making a complete joke out of the whole affair. And halfway through, Ms Ho was like “If this is IOP, sure fail. All the wrong interpretations.” XD And when it came to the part where she appeared in the video, “What am I doing inside?” XD
And then Language Arts B lesson later was totally awesome :D We said a lot of hilarious stuff XD
Ms Ho asks where Daryl is. Jem - “Um, he’s in the library emoing.”
Someone peeks through the door. Ms Ho asks who it was. Daryl Chen says “Your momma”
She wears purple today. First thing I said when she came in, “Oh my god. Purple is now so totally my favorite color.” Her reply? “Allister!?” XD
We said a lot of other stupid things XD Then later everyone started throwing paper planes. Then she made us stay back for 5 minutes afterschool XD
And the best one. She was explaining something about the poem “The Man in the Bowler Hat” when suddenly she said loudly for emphasis, one particular line in the poem. “I am the Man”. We all burst out laughing XD
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Lucas says to stop playing Call of Duty 4. He says its not like me. He gave me a funny look when I said I like to play with the most detailed settings for blood. Uhh..... so now you kinda have an idea how much I hide behind that scripted smile.
I’ve just played the mission featured in the opening sequence of the COD4 trailer. It was totally AWESOME :D
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is launching 10 November. If you play computer games, and you haven’t watched the MW2 preview video at E3, you owe it to yourself to go watch it. Its totally unbelievable.....
If it takes more than a few weeks for the Mac release, it may be just the reason that I’ll install Windows on my Mac.
The suspense is killing me.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The Domesticity of Boredom 7:06 AM
It’s quite awful how life can be so terribly busy and yet so absolutely boring at the same time.....
I finally actually managed to have a weekend where I actually could relax. I think I shall make it a point to sleep more. It does wonders.
Designing the outfit for A* National Science Challenge has been an absolute rush, because the studio imaging is almost immediately after June holiday’s ended. It was quite messy trying to arrange it with other people, and it was pretty obvious that some parents were beginning to lose their tempers. So I did what Nicholas would probably suggest, that is take a break. So I went to sleep. And it seems that I woke up with a solution. How nice :)
Art is gonna be another crazy rush. We have about 11 weeks to complete 2 graded pieces. Oh dear. Adi has decided not to appear for art because he thinks that is a boring waste of time.
Call of Duty 4 is very fun :)
I finally actually managed to have a weekend where I actually could relax. I think I shall make it a point to sleep more. It does wonders.
Designing the outfit for A* National Science Challenge has been an absolute rush, because the studio imaging is almost immediately after June holiday’s ended. It was quite messy trying to arrange it with other people, and it was pretty obvious that some parents were beginning to lose their tempers. So I did what Nicholas would probably suggest, that is take a break. So I went to sleep. And it seems that I woke up with a solution. How nice :)
Art is gonna be another crazy rush. We have about 11 weeks to complete 2 graded pieces. Oh dear. Adi has decided not to appear for art because he thinks that is a boring waste of time.
Call of Duty 4 is very fun :)
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Crazy 10:07 PM
Okay, the first few days of school have been absolutely crazy. Too many things happening at the same time.
Moot Parliament is the most stressed ISO. Rushing like crazy.
Then there is also the stupid Chemistry creative assignment due this friday. Basically, its writing a poem, short story, comic or song about any chemistry topic. Its quite awful to try and communicate uncreative content in a creative media. What’s worse is that this is our term 3 project work marks. Rohan Shah said something on Facebook like “Rohan Shah has just written a poem about chemistry and is waiting for the Gods of Artsy to smite him.” This chemistry creative assignment is blasphemous.
I am almost very sure that Mr Peter Tan set the project. I mean, who else would use words like “interestingness” in the printout guide.
Actually everything this week is rushing like crazy. I’m like trying to do at least 5 things at the same time, all day long. And working on the MRT train using 3G internet and my laptop. And this multi-tasking either makes me say things without thinking if people talk to me while I’m doing stuff, or it makes me extremely short tempered.
A huge sorry to Joel Ong, cos I think the way I replied to your question after school sounded extremely rude. Sorry :( Wasn’t thinking what I said, my mind was elsewhere.
It doesn’t help that there has been a very recent distraction. Here’s something you don’t know about Ali. He likes first-person shooter games.
I just started playing Battlefield 2142 by EA. Found out about it because it was featured on the Apple website...
Which reminds me, I think EA is going to be the second on my list of brands whose products I boycott. Honestly, why can’t they ever do anything properly. Software bugs all over the place. And not just in 2142, Spore also had a silly amount of problems. It seems that no matter how hard the game developers work, EA always finds a way to screw things up. BTW the first on the list is Microsoft, although I have recently made an exception for Messenger (if you wanna add me its allisterlow@me.com) because people asked.
I’ve just managed to get my hands on Call of Duty 4, another first-person shooter. Will install it when I am actually free.
Moot Parliament is the most stressed ISO. Rushing like crazy.
Then there is also the stupid Chemistry creative assignment due this friday. Basically, its writing a poem, short story, comic or song about any chemistry topic. Its quite awful to try and communicate uncreative content in a creative media. What’s worse is that this is our term 3 project work marks. Rohan Shah said something on Facebook like “Rohan Shah has just written a poem about chemistry and is waiting for the Gods of Artsy to smite him.” This chemistry creative assignment is blasphemous.
I am almost very sure that Mr Peter Tan set the project. I mean, who else would use words like “interestingness” in the printout guide.
Actually everything this week is rushing like crazy. I’m like trying to do at least 5 things at the same time, all day long. And working on the MRT train using 3G internet and my laptop. And this multi-tasking either makes me say things without thinking if people talk to me while I’m doing stuff, or it makes me extremely short tempered.
A huge sorry to Joel Ong, cos I think the way I replied to your question after school sounded extremely rude. Sorry :( Wasn’t thinking what I said, my mind was elsewhere.
It doesn’t help that there has been a very recent distraction. Here’s something you don’t know about Ali. He likes first-person shooter games.
I just started playing Battlefield 2142 by EA. Found out about it because it was featured on the Apple website...
Which reminds me, I think EA is going to be the second on my list of brands whose products I boycott. Honestly, why can’t they ever do anything properly. Software bugs all over the place. And not just in 2142, Spore also had a silly amount of problems. It seems that no matter how hard the game developers work, EA always finds a way to screw things up. BTW the first on the list is Microsoft, although I have recently made an exception for Messenger (if you wanna add me its allisterlow@me.com) because people asked.
I’ve just managed to get my hands on Call of Duty 4, another first-person shooter. Will install it when I am actually free.