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Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:12:59 GMT

sigh. the terrors of having no internet.

im stuck here trying to come up with something to say, but because i am living on the mercies of my little brother, with him establishing a type of monopoly over the modem (no router, so he directly connects), and so i can only talk random shit here while he looks over my shoulder.

yea you like that. im crapping about you while you are reading this. so there.

a lot of things on my mind...

shall go back and mull over them before i sleep.

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:48:59 GMT

what if i have reached the specific day, will i feel any different?
what if i have reached the specific hour, will i feel any different?
what if i have reached the specific minute, will i feel any different?
what if i have reached the specific moment, will i feel any different?
what if i have already passed the specific moment?

is this the point where i feel a glowing light burning from within and burst out through all of my orifices, and then yell "Level Up!"?
is this the point where i suddenly realise that i have completed Stage 5 and is going to progress to Stage 6, where stronger bosses await?
is this the point where i win the prefectural competitions in some manga, and qualifies for the nationals, where superhuman teams will be aplenty?

who knows. but i will probably be awake, waiting with abated breath. constantly wondering: "is this it?", "or is this it?", "or...?".

DING. LEVEL CLEAR. YOU HAVE QUALIFIED FOR THE NEXT ROUND.

the crammer's prayer

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:57:16 GMT

"Dear Lord,

I want to do my best to fulfil the potential you have given me.

Help me:

- to stay calm

- to keep things in perspective and be content with the best I can do on the day

- to look out for my friends who need a bit of encouragement, and

- to always remember that the real test is how closely I can follow in your way."

"For I am convinced that neither entry requirements nor exam results, neither anticipation nor doubts, neither success nor failure, nor any expectations, neither last minute fears nor anxieties, nor anything else in life, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Amen.

http://www.cofe.anglican.org/news/pr4809.html

bowling for soup <3

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:38:53 GMT

I just love their lyrics! Its so fun to listen to!

"I almost got drunk at school, at fourteen
Where I almost made out with the Homecoming Queen
Who almost went on to be Miss Texas
But lost to a slut, with much bigger breast-es
I almost dropped out to move to LA
Where I was almost famous for almost a day"
-Almost by Bowling for Soup

"Don't hate us 'cause we're happy
Don't hate us 'cause we're beautiful
Don't hate us if we make you smile
Or if we go the extra mile
To make someone feel better
on a really shitty day
And if you're hearing what I'm saying then
I want to hear you say, "I'm gay!" (I'm gay!)
Say, "I'm gay!" (I'm gay!) "
-I'm Gay by Bowling for Soup

"And I can still see your dad
Running after me with a shovel in his hand
I don't remember much after that"
-Running From Your Dad by Bowling for Soup

"What big eyes you have
The kind of eyes that drive wolves mad
So, just to see that you don't get chased
I think I ought to walk with you for a way

What full lips you have
They're sure to lure someone bad
So, untill you get to grandma's place
I think you ought to walk, with me and be safe"
-Lil' Red Riding Hood (Cover) by Bowling For Soup

this is awesome!!

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:41:51 GMT

i dont wanna know how much time they spent on it >.>

i didnt... but i...

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:35:42 GMT

i didn't broaden my knowledge

but i enriched the life of another

i didn't pay any heed to the warnings of the teachers

but i listened to my conscience

i didn't think about how stressed i will be tomorrow

but i considered how uncomfortable it must have been for the past few negligent weeks

i didn't do my duty as a student

but i did my duty as a compassionate young man

i didn't study literature for tomorrow's test

but i cleaned the hamster cage

living a life of anonymity, as usual.

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:32:33 GMT

even though the name was the same, it just didnt mean the same thing.

they intended it for someone popular, not someone anonymous.
and they did it consciously, whereas mine was an accident.

what i got was the residue. it was all i can do to close my eyes and imagine that name, which was my name, was actually my name.

but it felt like shit.

last minute revision schedule

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:24:27 GMT

Saturday
Pray for divine mercy

Sunday
Read through Econs notes
Memorise definitions
Do brief frameworks
Find my Intl Hist notes

Monday
Get an A for Econs
Ask someone to help me with Apps of Diff and Integration
Do a paper if there is time

Tuesday
Get an A for Maths 1
Read through Intl Hist notes
Memorise all factors and evidence

Wednesday
Get an A for Intl Hist
Read LDJ and Wilfred Owen
Read Wilfred Owen again
Tear up Wilfred Owen in frustration

Thursday
Brainstorm about themes
Ask random people for help
Give up

Friday
Get a U for Lit 3
Cry
Photocopy missing SEA notes

Saturday
Beg for divine mercy

Sunday
Read through SEA Hist notes
Arrange evidence into factors

Monday
Memorise factors and evidence

Tuesday
Get an A for SEA Hist
Finish up Sampling and Hypo Testing

Wednesday
Finish up C&C
Do a paper
Do another paper

Thursday
Get an A for Maths 2
Either: Breathe a sigh or relief
Or: Hide in a corner and sob

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:08:01 GMT

Japanese
Kamikorosu

English
1. to stifle a smile, yawn etc
2. to bite to death

either the translator sucks, or the japanese language is some evil shit designed to kill people like me by making me think they are going to be "stifling a yawn", when they are actually going to stifle my life.

satisfaction from the little things

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:04:35 GMT

tried to start on econs

failed to understand anything

tried to come up with my own essay framework

failed to write more than a few lines

tried reading other people's model essays

understand what they are saying, but would never have thought to write what they had written

gave up

booked an hour of consultation with mr andrew tan

came up with a rough idea of what to ask

and now i feel accomplished.

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:11:53 GMT

End of Prelims Day 1

GP Essay
~~GP Compre~~

Lit Unseen
~~Lit Beloved~~
Lit TIOBE

please dont drag me down.

grrrr

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:13:04 GMT

just when i wanted to shut down and sleep

MY TORRENT SPEED JUMPED UP TO 130KBPS. DAMNIT... IT JUST HAS TO BE RIGHT WHEN I WANT TO SHUT DOWN. WHEN I WAS LEAVING MY COM ON THE WHOLE DAY WHILE DOING LIT, YOU BARELY GO PAST 10 KBPS. YOU FICKLE FICKLE SEEDERS.

ok it dropped to 75kbps. but still.. DAMN IT!

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:03:57 GMT

if not for the fact that it hurts so much, its quite hilarious really.

teacher's day, and i am at home

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:51:20 GMT

but i just did my conscience a world of good by wishing my teachers a happy teachers' day on their facebook walls.

hope they have a great time today, while their poor students mug their heads out =(

the colour of magic!

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:03:07 GMT

watching the movie on channel 5 now. first time i saw a terry pratchett book in movie form.

i hope it wont suck, though so far its only average.

hmm

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:00:23 GMT

i stared at this blank box, and i dont really know what i want to say. i just felt like typing something out cos i dont wanna let this thing go dead just cos of studying and all..

ah well, perhaps as i squeeze out inane lines after inane lines, i will actually think of something of substance to say.

sigh... i guess everything that i think off goes back in some ways to love...

yet, i dont really have anything new to say about it that i havent already.

this must be the most boring post ever.

yawn.

an everchanging list

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:05:41 GMT

in no particular order

brown university
columbia university
dartmouth college
UC berkeley

what a joke. i don't have any safeties.

finished beloved.

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:25:31 GMT

they laughed then. a rusty chuckle at first and then more, louder and louder until stamp took out his pocket handkerchief and wiped his eyes while paul d pressed the heel of his hand in his own. as the scene neither one had witnessed took shape before them, its seriousness and its embarrassment made them shake with laughter.

"every time a whiteman come to the door she got to kill somebody?"

"for all she know, the man could be coming for the rent."

"good thing they don't deliver mail out that way."

"wouldn't nobody get no letter."

"except the postman."

"be a mighty hard message."

"and his last."

i dont know if its because its nearing the end of the book, or that compared to the rest of the book, its a comedy film, but i just found it really funny.

me? me?

this is interesting! never knew about it...

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:10:50 GMT

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if you didnt know that facebook had English (Pirate) under its list of available languages, join the club!

whoa.

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:10:33 GMT

i never knew my grandma was only 80 this year, when we actually celebrated her 80th birthday last year (or the year before that).

apparently she celebrated her 70th da shou when she was 69 or something cos my uncle had cancer and they wanted to celebrate the occasion before he died. strange, but whatever.

and then they continued the "lie" when she was 79, cos she had poor health then and they were worried she might not live to see her actual 80th da shou.

i still dont really know how old she is!
well, happy birthday granny, whatever your age is.

Up!

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:32:42 GMT

whooo... after putting it off for so long, i finally managed to watch it today!!

its nice enough, but i guess after so many super Disney movies i kind of had extremely high expectations of it. still great though!

But i really loved the beginning part about the couple. its so sweet! *ooh manliness rating going down*
er.. i mean, its pretty cool how the girl turned out to be a chio bu *zoom.. manliness rating going up (haha.. Up!)*

anyway, the thought of growing old with someone you love, ahhh thats so peaceful... i think if i can get to enjoy that kind of life, i wont mind being a boring old couple living alone in some old house.

blah. i think i should stop myself before i go down the path of no return. i have recently been plagued by a sudden urge to find a relationship, and i just managed to take things easy, so i better not start falling in love all over again. its too scary =(

so many things on my mind right now. how to get the results i want in A levels. how to choose between cheaper, local unis or expensive exciting overseas unis?!?! a student loan will set me back a few hundred grand and i am not sure if thats ok.

anyway, i like to count my chickens before they hatch, so i have already been looking through some of the universities. so far, i have been choosing based on very shallow stuff like the city they are in and the name of the university! (im not joking)

its like, even though i want to go into brown university currently, its just so, uncool! BROWN? BROWN.... bleh, doesnt have a nice ring to it.

this explains my second choice! i feel like going to uni of pennsylvania. i mean, yea thats the state, but pennsylvania still sounds fiercer than brown!

and lol. just got introduced to another uni with a fierce name. UIUC! uni of illinois urbana champaign! like omg... i can totally imagine myself saying "i go to university of illinois at Urbana Champaign." and man.. are they going to be in awe.

but i think my criteria is that it must either be on the west or east coast. i dont wanna be stuck in the middle of the US with the population probably never hearing about singapore at all. so that rules out illinois. dont mind berkeley either, or even UCLA (it sounds cool, and is in LA!)

haha i think i am totally wasting my time thinking about such stuff cos for all i know i might get straight Bs and have to go to some random unknown weird shit. yea man!

i hope i have the will to study hard and get A's! Amen!

L> good earphones

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:33:44 GMT

so far, by process of elimination:

i dont want a regular earpiece.

i dont want another set of headphones

that leaves in-ear ear pieces, and those in-ear earpieces that loops over the ears.

and out of those, i settled on the latter.

so i am looking for some reasonably priced earpieces that are of reputable brand. any recommend a particular brand or model?

and lol this reminds me of the time when i asked ruiyi how much his was, and he said 100 plus bucks and i was all like "hmm that sounds ok". i think i was on crack on something at that time, cos now when i think about that.. OMG thats insanely expensive.

and i said the pledge at 8.22! and the camera caught mrpresident nathan not singing the national anthem!

$10

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:27:23 GMT

ooh. saw carlos at church today. even though i have already known he was a member there since the first time i went to the church, i didnt see him until today.

lol, another hc senior, another stellar result. i really feel pressured now to do well, and continue the tradition, but its really so hard to imagine myself getting all 'A's. I just am not the kind of person known for my academic excellence, but i guess i shall not niao myself any more and get ready for a day of studying tmr.

carlos is going off for OCS (haha, another thing that i had wanted to achieve also), and will be gone for another few weeks to brunei. well, good thing i managed to chat with him a while before he goes off again, and now i have more data to consider the next few years of my life.

oh, and i finally broke my unwillingness to pray out loud in front of a group, although it was a time when everyone prayed anyway. hope i can keep it up next week!

really excited about Up now, with all the positive reviews etc.

ah... ytd i lost my seiko watch that cost my mother quite a sum when i was in sec 1. it was lost in the cinemas at amk hub, and so far the staff have not contacted me about it yet. my left wrist is feeling awfully empty now, so i hope this thing gets resolved soon, and my watch gets returned back to me safely.

and i won a $10 shopping voucher for reading my bible everyday this month(-1) xD
guess there is always a silver lining.

ok, stream of consciousness over.

ch-ch-ch-changes

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:01:17 GMT

University

i used to desire going to the UK far more than the US. at that point, i said it was cos i like the culture there, and the accents. looking back now, while i still love their accents, and wont mind some of it rubbing off on me, i think my supposed love for their culture might be due to a more rebellious attitude, like when everyone fawns over going to US, i simply refuse to.

right now, i think i am enlightened? i mean, i already switched my sights to US rather early this year, but I that was more of... the classic american school cliche and might not necessarily be informed. this time, i got more substantial reasons. according to the undergraduate's sharing session, the US's work is split throughout the university years, while UK only counts the last year, causing ppl to cram all their mugging in that year. seeing as how i am totally enjoying the wonders of A levels now, i can safely say that i definitely love going to UK over my dead body.

Pets

I really loved kittens, because i always had the notion that they are way cuter than dogs. and the munchkin kitty video only served to reinforce the equation: kittens=cutest in my head. so getting a kitten was pretty much my only thought.

but i dont really know how, but after going to a random Pets lovers' centre, i was viewing their puppies on display, and I really loved a particular 2 month old black yorkshire terrier. it was so small, and so shaggy in a cute way. even when it ended up vomiting something, the way it did it still enchanted me. and now, i am thinking that dogs are probably more active and spontaneous that cats, and i think i will greatly appreciate that after having a lazy humji hamster. (still love you though)

music tastes

for some time now i have always considered myself at least a bit different from the norm when it comes to this. i follow a very strict playlist criteria, which means if i dont have at least 5 songs that i love by any particular artist, i refuse to listen to any of them. and if i do have at least 5 songs i love, i will put the whole album in. so my playlists consists only of a handful of artists. i feel some pride in that very few of my friends like (or at least dont hate) fall out boy, because i feel like at least i am me, and i am not being like anyone else when it comes to what i like in music.

then now, rock can not be said to be my favourite genre anymore. thats because i have found a new love. you might laugh at this, but i still have to say it. barbershop quartets. i dont know why, and i certainly dont know how, but they just sound absolutely amazing to me. perhaps its the harmonisation, or maybe the fact that its a capella. but i do know when it started, and that was in Haunted Mansion, the one with eddie murphy in it. i rmb there were 4 statues in the show that sang instead of talked, and i loved the way they canon, merge blahblah (all those techniques that goes beyond my limited knowledge of singing) and the fact that they generally sing very happy and cheerful songs. i was reminded of my liking today on some tv show, and so far i have spent a great part of the night listening to them on youtube. barbershop quartets 4 ever!

dizi

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:20:30 GMT

suddenly had a renewed interest in the dizi, because i still havent lost the desire to be able to play an instrument, and i feel i like wind instruments the best.

but still got some problems though, and i love lists so i shall list them out.

1. time
with A levels, and only one month between that and NS, i effectively have 0 time to really start taking lessons.

2. money
lessons arent cheap. someone told me hers was 60 bucks for 50 min. i was totally =O

3. difficulty
and she pour cold water on my plans when she say its tougher compared to other instruments... damn you.

4. inability to find resources online
i was trying to look for vids on youtube but there were pitifully few good vids.

searching on google turned up plenty of other stuff though...

dont you love the internet?