teacher's song to slacker boy(adapted from 'eyes on me')

Whenever flashed my notes
On the stage, on my own
Whenever said my words
Wishing they would be heard
I saw you smiling at me
Was it real or just my fantasy
You'd always be there in the corner
Of this tiny little class

My last lecture for you
Same old notes, just once more
My last lecture with you?
Maybe yes, maybe no
I kind of hated your way
How you shyly shut your eyes 'fore me
Oh, did you ever know?
That I had mine on you

*[insert two syllable name], so there you are
With that look on your face
As if you've never dozed
As if you've never slept
Shall I be the one for you
Who pinches you softly but sure
If frown is shown then
I will know that you are no dreamer

So let me come to you
Close as I wanted to be
Close enough for me
To feel your heart beating fast
And stay there as I lecture
How I loved your peaceful eyes on me
Did you ever know
That I had mine on you

[insert name here], so share with me
Your phone if you have enough
Your games if you're holding back
Or p0rn if that's what it is
How can I let you know
I'm more than the glares and the voice
Just raise your arm then
I will know that you are not sleeping

as it is done by changing a few words from a love song, i am not surprised it sounds mushy(imagine CSC or Genie singing it...). it is not supposed to be. i have no idea how to make it otherwise. give suggestions please.

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go figure.

yay i finally completed my project!!! which was due, erm, 4 months ago....

i presented my project at IME. 2 ri boys(me and ng yong sheng) and 6 rgs girls were attached to IME 8 months ago and we all did different stuff. the rgs ppl worked in pairs, and me & yong sheng worked solo.

i chose circuit design... not really exciting, while others got to see the really pro ppl work with really pro equipment, i was basically reading up and clearing up misconceptions(there are many) with the pro circuit design guys. those ppl only work with computers, solders, integrated circuits, and their most power tool is really their brain. (it took me 4 months to think up the first circuit with lgoic gates. it took my mentor 1/2 hour to do using transistors) but the only understandable topic that i could choose from.

in short, if i have to talk about the process, it would go like this: take out paper and pencil, think, draw, erase, think, draw, erase, check, erase, draw again, think, draw, erase... so, no. my project report has no process. hence it is only 8 pages long.

my project is kinda unique in a sense that even though i dun make any exciting discovery or invention, at least i have something that belongs to me at the end of this project. my circuit.

project presentation didn't go exactly very well... the introduction part people could just read off the powerpoint presentation. i didn't want that. so i put half the points on powerpoint half of them on script. and thanks to my crappy handwriting, i stammered quite badly when i came to the scirpt part.

aha, but since i designed the circuit myself, so when it came to part with no script and no ppt points, i actually sounded much more confident and convincing. it turned out pretty good. then the part came when i had to explain the circuit... which was quite complex. i could hear the "WOAH" from the rgs pupils and jc and polytech students as i showed them the circuit i designed... haha.

IME has no working laser pointer. the INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS that has the scanning electron microscope, electon beam lithograph, electron oscilloscope, tunnel scanning microscope, atomic force microscope, CMOS and BJT ICs does not have a working LASER POINTER. how fantastic. so what i had to do was like "kay u see, the first OR gate from the left of the diagram basically prevents the first LED from the left from lighting up when the 5th, 9th and 13th LED from the left lights up..." it was kinda tedious.

i remember one guy(from poly perhaps) was like slouching and yawning and mouthing me when i was talking about logic gates and the definition of digital circuits(the part i was stammering). then when i showed the circuit i designed he went like "WTH!" and was looking at the circuit diagram shaking his head... it was quite amusing.

the moral of the story is: logic gates may sound simple. but once u put them together, or take one apart, it is not. in this case there were about 100 logic gates. and a frigging lot of wire connections. 100 logic gates is made up of about 500 transistors. pentium 4 processor chip has about 15 million transistors. now you do the math and tell me why computer chips are so expensive even they they are made of like...sand and a bit of gold and silver here and there. now i think the circuit design engineers are paid peanuts(or ren min bi?) to make pentium 4 even affordable at all. (and in case you're wondering, professional circuit design engineers DO take the logic gates apart and remove excess material to reduce cost, power consumption and size... ouch.)

the rgs girls projects involved much more hands on it seems. they were doing weaving, sewing, laminating blah. i think they learnt a lot. and their presentations and projects were really good compared to mine and ng yong sheng's. i am impressed at the amount of effort they put in.

then... reception! i had about 6 or 7 drumlets, 4 pieces of cheese cake, and some really nice small bun with chocolate on top and a lot of cream inside.

i think the IME ppl are really nice...so nice that they'll scare the shit out of me if they scold me at all... i really felt like i was treated like a VIP, even though i am just a sec 3 little n00b in this field and they are all scientists, engineers, phD holders, the pros, really. i mean, even in an multi user online game, if the pros come down to me and teach me, show me the way, give me tips and all, instead of just saying "read the bloody guide n00b", i'll be really touched. whats more, this is in real life... if i were interested i might work for IME... but then i'm not... their work is really sian. and when u deal with small stuff u can't escape from the schrodinger's equation. ten years from now, even string theory perhaps. and string theory is worse than quantum mech.

Which leads me to my question: if people who do applied mechanics are called "mechanics", then are scientists who deal with quantum mechanics called "quantum mechanics"?

"Hello Mr Lee, what is ur profession?"
"i am a mechanic."
"hello Dr Jong, what is ur profession?"
"i am a micro mechanic."
"hello Dr Bohr, what is ur profession?"
"i am a quantum mechanic."

"Oh no, i smell gas! is there leakage?"

"don't worry! do you know that you should do install gas connection from a trusted technician, perform maintenance every three years, change gas piping every five years to prevent gas leakage, which can lead to fatal acidents?" union gas. your trusted partner.(ad ends here.)

"erm no. i haven't done any of those."

"oops. i guess there is indeed a leakage. erm... goodbye."

KABOOM.

okay i ought to say something about science club camp.

basically science club camp, in general, sucked. mainly due to attendance. i mean, what fun is there when u have 8 sec 3s and 11 juniors...which make up a grand total of 19 people for the camp? and mind you, not all are staying for the whole camp....

but! the zoo trip was quite nice... we all learnt from that place. though it is rather overpriced...and meal breaks were too long. all science club members thus learnt how to play cai quan. and zhong ji mi ma.

oh yar during one of these zhong ji mi ma lunch sessions alwyn kept guessing sixty-nine. so i was judge for one round and i chose 69. and alwyn got it. so he ate pea.

and jiahua rox. he kept asking the zoo tour guide, ivy, about elephants eating up a person.
"you see, i looked at the skull of an elephant and figured that if someone stuck his head in far enough, the elephant could close its mouth and crush his skull."

then ivy said,"erm... but if an elephant wants to kill it can just step on you!"

"ahh... but that seemed like a fancy way...or rather it could also pick a person up and mash its groin to its tusk..."

then for the next 5 mins we were discussing how an elephant can kill a man.

if you are wondering, ivy is a she. and she is in her mid 20s. and alwyn is quite fascinated with her. if you ask me... she reminds me too much of lilian wong for me to be fascinated. but then alwyn would ask, "what's wrong with having fanciful thoughts about lilian wong?"

for the remaining part of science club camp, i felt that the quiz was the best part. u noe why????

cos it was set by me! muahahahaha.... really... i think its pretty good. cunning and unpredictable. so unpredictable that amyas answered half of the physics questions wrong!! and yuan cheng xiang answered half the chem questions wrong! so they almost tied.

ask me or lois for a copy. i think it's pretty good. its only 33kb. and its free, u noe.

why do people try to be great?

i think we are conditioned to that. yep. thats it.

do you believe that a taiwanese tortoise wearing a square hat together with 9 other cute animals can answer questions with answers that deal into uni+ chimology?

i do. he is wu la bo shi. and he is a very knowledgable guy.

bo shi means doctor of philosophy. but then his shows never teach philosophy...only science. i wonder...why?


why?
why?

can wu la bo shi answer this question huh???

Once a upon time, government wanted some feedback. so they invited all the people who always complain and oppose the government, and asked them to join the "Straits Times Forum Union", or also abbreviated as STFU.

direct quote from http://www.thismodernworld.com/singapore.html

I was born and raised a strict Baptist, which means I was leaning agnostic by the time I was about ten, since, come on, if God loves us the way like a big dad, he's not really gonna burn us in horrible brimstone for all eternity. I don't know anybody's dad who is that big of an asshole. And after seeing all these people bowing and kneeling and burning shit and shouting and whatnot, all in completely different manners, all quite convinced that their method was the correct one because their God Guys said so... you either gotta figure it's all good, none of it works, or your God is so much cooler that everybody else is just screwed.

After today, the third one is obvious ego lunacy, and I'm frankly not sure which of the first two to go with. I'm telling you -- it's one thing to read about different religions and take an ecumenical sit-down now and again -- I've been in mosques and temples of all kinds before, many times -- but it's another completely to do the Grand Tour in two hours.

It seems pretty obvious there's a natural selection that operates on ideas, just as surely as on genes. Ideas that don't work die out. Good ideas survive -- but only if they're also equipped with reproductive and defense mechanisms, just like life forms. Take two otherwise identical religions which practice loving your neighbor -- and give one a totalitarian, expansionist bent toward the outside world, requiring the conversion of non-believers -- while giving the other a live-and-let-live mindset. Stir. Come back in a hundred years and see which one is still around.

So. 6000 years into civilization, Christianity and Islam are the Arsenal and Manchester United (or, for Americans, the Coke and Pepsi) of religion. Like that's one hell of a shock, if you think about it. And the pacifists don't run shit.

Sight seems to be human's most reliable way of getting information without getting hurt. Not all objects produce sound, and humans cannot use sound reflection(or sonar, which stands for SOund Navigation And Ranging) to know what something is like by nature, whereas humans can produce light, and with binocular vision,we can easily judge the distance of objects within 300 metres (this is limited by the distance between our eyes and sensitivity of our light sensors). Perhaps our linar(which stands for LIght Navigation And Ranging) can be considered a faster than sonar, and more reliable(the refraction of light is much less than sound waves, and diffraction of light waves is small enough to be considered very reliable,whereas sounds waves diffract a lot). Humans are unable to navigate completely purely using sound, and human ears can be easily decived by distraction tactics. Humans don't have great noses, so smell is out. Other senses touch and taste require the observer to be close to the object before it can be observed, and hence they are not considered. Whether the sixth sense is a real sense is still being debated, and i shall not discuss that.

So we can see, sight is our most reliable source of information. Even if your ears, your nose or your skin tell you otherwise, you will almost always believe what your eyes tell you. No wonder there is such a saying, "Seeing is believing".

What is black, or darkness then? Darkness is a condition where there is no light. Black is the colour that absorbs and emits all radiation, and in a sense, light. At room conditions with light, black will abosrb all light, and emit invisible radiation (whereas on the sun it will emit white light), and hence mimic darkness.

Humans are by nature weak creatures. Without knowledge from our ancestors who survived and hence could enlighten us on what is dangerous and what is not, we hardly seem to fit into nature. We have no caecum nor rumen, so it seems we are not fated to be herbivores. We have no canines nor claws nor strong muscles nor quick feet nor tough outer covering, so it seems we are one of the target preys( it does make me wonder since so many reports speak of lions, sharks, crocodiles, snakes, spiders...all the dangerous predators prefer other animal meat to primates'... is bad tasting meat one of our adaptations against predators?). Humans, by nature, have much to be afraid of. in fact, even in this room, i can find thousands of way to hurt myself if this place was pitch black, and i have no prior knowledge of my own room. Getting hurt instinctively causes one to fear. In the jungle at night, we not only had to stay unhurt, we had to find food as well. It is no wonder why many are afraid of the dark. Being afraid of the dark was, in my opinion, by no means sissy or childish. We needed to be afraid of the dark; there was much to fear.

Many people try to reassure those who are afraid of the dark that there is nothing to be afraid of.

"For the thousandth time, dear, i assure you there are no monsters under the bed."

It makes me wonder: did adult cavemen check what was under their bed? i doubt they had potassium permanganate, sulphur, or pesticides then. Centipedes, snakes and spider go under any warm flat object they can find, and sometimes they go over.

In sleep, humans are in a very vulnerable state. Their senses are made less responsive, and there are many things that once he is touched by ithe can be hurt, or even killed (a hungry jaguar or python are considered such things). This is compunded with the fact that should one be attacked during sleep, one can hardly respond, and even if he wakes up he will not know what the danger is, and the extent of it, due to the fact that most humans sleep at night.

Children have the instinct of our cavemen ancestors (who, probably thanks to their instinctive behavior, survived), and have little knowledge on how much safer the city is. There is much to be afraid of during sleep, and in the dark, i would hence make the conclusion that is it perfectly normal for childen to be afarid of monsters under their bed.

So should being afraid of the dark be considered an ignorant act? Even in the city, there is much to be afraid of. Most crimes occur at night, and many have the experience of feeling strange things at night. Perhaps they are things that come out in the night, and being an agnostic and not an atheist, i would not like to argue about that. It seems that it is more likely that in the dark, we can only rely on our prior information, our hearing and our touch for information of normal things(smelled or tasted ghost before, anyone?). We have a crippled source of reliable information, but we still have an active and vivid imagination. Probably we would be feeling the same thing in the day and at night, but because we can't see it properly, and perhaps fear-ridden by our imagination and prior information, we dare not explore. There are also creatures that come out at night, such as ticks, mites, spiders, and these are also reasons.

In short, the fear of dark is not unfounded, and is something we all have felt before. Now, in the city, this fear is probably one without a good reason, but it is nevertheless felt, due to our instinct, and not due our imagination. Hence the fear of darkness is probably as natural as a fear of pain, which is so instinctive that it is not considered a fear. Just like pain, fear of darkness can be overcomed by our mind. Let me give an example: A, in a proper mind, will not want to get hit by B, and will stay away from B when B tried to hit him. However, if B promises A ten dollars for every hit, and supposing B's hit does not injure, A would overcome the pain and allow himself to be hit, even though he still feels the pain. How about someone daring another to go to the attic of a "haunted" house at midnight without a torchlight? Now there is a good reason for him to overcome the fear of darkness, even though he will be afraid.

In these days, the rewards of risking darkness far outweighs the fear of it itself, yet pain still causes most shy away from it, as the reward is not high enough.

I feel that fear of darkness should not be considered childish, as most people in the right mind will not consider pain to be childish instinct.

Top lines prabu and lincoln laughed at (which were not supposed to be funny):

1."You can go blow it as much as you want for all i care!"

2. "After he's out of the way, you and me are going to... have some... fun..."
" Screw you!"

3. "Let's play a special game...for twins only..."

Scenes prabu laughed at (which were not supposed to be funny):

1. Shawn making fire

2. Ryan's head getting hit against the floor

DEDICATED TO LINCOLN

Every body stops
and stares at me
These two teeth are
gone as you can see
I don't know just who
to blame for this catastrophe!
But my one wish on Christmas Eve
is as plain as it can be!

All I want for Christmas
is my two front teeth,
my two front teeth,
see my two front teeth!

Gee, if I could only
have my two front teeth,
then I could with you
"Merry Christmas."
It seems so long since I could say,
"Sister Susie sitting on a thistle!"

Gosh oh gee, how happy I'd be,
if I could only whistle (thhhh)

All I want for Christmas
is my two front teeth,
my two front teeth,
see my two front teeth.
Gee, if I could only
have my two front teeth,
then I could wish you
"Merry Christmas!"

yay i got the book tt i've been wanting to get since may. now down to mug.

LAME SINGAPORE DUDE SPEECH. CLICK HERE.

*note: its NOT my voice.*

transcript of a lame singapore dude's speech:

" Pro-yo two...ahem...the best yo-yo in town. you want to buy one? then you can do, you know, funny 'around the world' funky tricks, noe...buy it. go buy pro yo.... it's fucking lame you know. yo-yo, pro-yo, yo man(yeoman). yeah.

japanese lesson number one.

watashiwa evan des. that means: i am evan.
can you understand?

baka.

chee bai.

nope, chee bai is not part of the great japanese language.

sorry i'm just trying to be funny here. i just, like, testing this new *taps mike* mini-mike that i, noe, made.

now let's talk about techno. why do people like techno so much... i dun understand noe. you noe all those beats...*does some cliched techno beats* so fucking stupid. only ah bengs and lians listen to them. wah lao eh... why..why... i dun understand leh. god create them just to, u noe, test our patience. maybe they are satan's incarnate. yeh?

am i lame?

some people say yes, some people say no. those who say yes... ahh screw them man. but nevermind ah. blah. wadever.

still can't stand them, those ah bengs and ah lians. wad the hell is para para. huh? whole day dance in front of the bloody machine, shaking their fucking hands, huh, think... putting the cross...noe, the scissors finger around their eyes, think they're damn cool. especially those fucking ah lians.

'ehhhh hen2 ke3 ai4 eh...eh....'
'ta1 ma1 de...'
'ni3 bu4 yao4 ze4 yang4 lah...'

chee bai...."

Pika - OCHOTONA PRINCEPS


Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
Subclass: True Mammals (Eutheria)
Order: Hare Shape (Lagomorpha)
Family: Ochotonidae.


Location: Northwestern United States and western Canada.


Habitat: Terrestrial. Rocky mountainous regions down to sea level.


Description: The pika is a rat-sized animal, grayish or brown, with short wide rounded ears. The short tail is not visible. It grows a little longer than eight inches and weighs a little more than six ounces.


Behavior: The northern pika lives in large colonies, within which each individual appears to maintain its own territory in the autumn months, and possibly throughout the year. It is active by day, feeds on grass, and spends much time gathering its food in small. It does not hibernate. The pika makes a short squeak, which is very distinctive and unmistakable. It lives in areas where man's presence is very limited.


Reproduction: The pika reproduces in spring and possibly in summer as well. Gestation lasts about 30 days and the female gives birth to two to five young at each delivery.

CLEMENTINE

In a cavern,
In a canyon,
Excavating for a mine,
Dwelt a miner sixty-niner,
And his daughter Clementine.

Chorus:
Oh my darling,
Oh my darling,
Oh my darling Clementine,
You are lost and gone forever,
Dreadful sorry Clementine.

Repeat chorus

Light she was and like a fairy,
And her shoes were number nine;
Herring boxes, without topses,
Sandals were for Clementine.

Repeat chorus

Drove she ducklings to the water,
Every morning just at nine;
Hit her foot against a splinter,
Fell into the foaming brine.

Repeat chorus

Ruby lips above the water,
Blowing bubbles, soft and fine;
But Alas! I was no swimmer,
So I lost my Clementine.

Repeat chorus

When the miner sixty-niner,
Soon began to peak and pine,
Thought he oughter "jine" his daughter,
Now he's with his clementine.

Repeat chorus

In a corner of the churchyard,
Where the myrtle boughs entwine,
Grow the roses in their poses,
Fertilized by Clementine.

Repeat chorus

In my dreams she still doth haunt me,
Robed in garments soaked in brine.
Though in life I used to hug her,
Now she's dead, I'll draw the line.

Repeat chorus

How I missed her, how I missed her
How I missed my Clementine.
So I kissed her little sister,
And forgot my Clementine.

Repeat chorus

Now you Buayas, there's a moral
To this little tale of mine.
Artificial respiration,
Would have saved my Clementine.

Repeat chorus

NOW START PLAYING 98 degree's I Do(cherish You)


I Do (Sharon Xu) lyrics

All I am, all I'll be
Everything in this world
All that I'll ever need
Is in your eyes
Shining at me
When you smile I can feel
All my passion unfolding
Your hand brushes mine
And a thousand sensations
Seduce me 'cause I

I love you
Sharon Xu
For the rest of my life
You don't have to think twice
I will love you still
From the depths of my soul
It's beyond my control
I've waited so long to say this to you
If you're asking do I love you this much
I do

In my world, before you
I lived outside my emotions
Didn't know where I was going
'Til that day I found you
How you opened my life
To a new paradise
In a world torn by change
Still with all of my heart
'Til my dying day

[Chorus]

A Morning Poem

I woke early one morning,
The earth lay cool and still,
When suddenly a tiny bird,
Perched on my window sill,
He sang a song so lovely,
So carefree and so gay,
That slowly all my troubles,
Began to slip away,
He sang of far off places,
Of laughter and of fun.
I stirred beneath the covers,
Crept slowly out of bed,
Then gently shut the window,
And crushed his fucking head,

I'm not a morning person.

Inspired by miki, i shall post the lyrics of a very interesting song with very interesting lyrics.

"The Bad Touch"

Ha-Ha! Well now, we call this the act of mating
But there are several other very important differences
Between human beings and animals that you should know about

I'd appreciate your input

Sweat baby sweat baby sex is a Texas drought
Me and you do the kind of stuff that only Prince would sing about
So put your hands down my pants and I'll bet you'll feel nuts
Yes I'm Siskel, yes I'm Ebert and you're getting two thumbs up
You've had enough of two-hand touch you want it rough you're out of bounds
I want you smothered want you covered like my Waffle House hashbrowns
Come quicker than FedEx never reach an apex like Coca-Cola stock you are inclined
To make me rise an hour early just like Daylight Savings TimeDo it now

You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

Do it again now

You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

Gettin' horny now

Love the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket
Like the lost catacombs of Egypt only God knows where we stuck it
Hieroglyphics? Let me be Pacific I wanna be down in your South Seas
But I got this notion that the motion of your ocean means "Small Craft Advisory"
So if I capsize on your thighs high tide, B-5 you sunk my battleship
Please turn me on I'm Mister Coffee with an automatic drip
So show me yours I'll show you mine "Tool Time" you'll Lovett just like Lyle
And then we'll do it doggy style so we can both watch "X-Files"

Do it now

You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

Do it again now

You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

Gettin' horny now

You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

Do it again now

You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

Do it now

You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

Do it again now

You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

Gettin' horny now

by the bloodhound gang

i have the honor to have kenneth low to read my blog! aiee.

and of course i declined. haha.

tts becos i asked him for the philo error analysis of sec 3 work. then i said does it have copyright? he said no, but why? i said i'm going to post it on internet.

he asked where? i said not forum, dun worry, its personal.

then he asked where? i said my blog. so he asked oh so others ppl can read it rite? i said yeh. "so can i see it?" err....tts about it.

anyway its an honor.

after hearing about timo's incidents, i noticed that there are quite many good samarians out there on the mrt. i used to appreciated this in sec one slightly, but now i'm just slightly pissed.

details: being an ri boy its easy to understand why i sleep on the mrt(yes i noe according to the bishan poilicemen i have get molested or sth, but thats not the reason) and i've been doing so since sec 1.

in sec 1 i used to sleep past the station, so these goot ppl would help wake me up("are you an ri boy? bishan already u noe?" then i dart out of the mrt with many thanks). actually quite embarrassed lah.

then now in sec 3 my brain has been mutated in such a way that whenever i hear the sexy mrt voice saying "choa chu kang" or "bishan" i'd dart from my seat. even when i'm fast asleep. which is good since i save time.

nowadays good samarians have even more intiative. heres a convo as i was taking a train ride from bishan back to cck, fast asleep.

lady: hey boy, are you okay?
me: *_* what?
lady: oh. i see you're quite tired. when did u sleep last night?
me: err... 1 or 2 am.(in sleepy tone)
lady: oh. next time u shud try to sleep earlier kay? sleeping late is bad for your health.
me: orh.(goes back to sleep)
lady: (wakes me up again)hey where do you live?
me: *_* err why do u want to noe?(mummy said i shouldn't tell strangers where i live)
lady: i mean where are you alighting?
me: cck.
lady: ahh. where do you study?
me: ri.
lady: oh ri is a good school! all that travelling must have taken a toll on you.
me: yah. i'm sleepy.
lady: oh i shan't bother you then.
me: (goes back to sleep with a silent sigh of relief)

then in kranji

lady: Hey wake up!
me: *_* what?
lady: its near your stop!
me: oh. kranji.(goes back to sleep)
lady: dun sleep now or you'll miss the station!
me: orh. (then forcefully pries out my eyes to keep awake)

then i reach home and sleep till 8 pm. and then becos i cannot sleep i end up staying up till 2 am.

what happens the next day? refer to above.

actually i'm quite happy that singaporeans are at least not tt cold but somehow when people underestimates people's adaptation capabiltiies it gets quite annoying after a while.

quote seen on an A level chemistry webby:

Warning! If you like your chemistry all tidy and simple, don't read any further. I have got to the point that most text books get to at this level. In fact, as I will show below, it is quite difficult to show this effect of ionic radius in any simple ions. There are too many exceptions.

oh boy i love this quote. imagine me saying: "alwyn... if you like your astrophysics tidy and simple dun go any further without understanding calculus, trigo, series, summation, tensors, gamma function..." oh my i'm courting death...

coolness. i'm teaching my neice. goot. take as revision.

i surprised myself by remembering the ovulation cycle even after 1 year of no-contact with tt topic and so much stuff to mug in between.

and btw if you are smart enuff to link up the two statements above, you might be smiling.

st nicholas r0x. so many things they dun teach. piang...not fair.... for them lah. it's always good to learn more now so tt u can afford to learn less later.

quite shocked when she asked me the function of the cervix...i was like... wth man i tot u shud noe better.... aneway i gave a very professional and textbook answer. MOXIOUS! wadeva.

aneway from this experience i've learnt that know dussen mean can teach. needless to say when u dun.

cool quote from huat:"i'm lazy, therefore i'm effecient"
i totally agree. like, totally, man.(yucks that sounds so bimbo)

why are we learning the three methods for salt preparation? actually if u think about it you can just titrate everything. but becos ppl are lazy they dun want to titrate, tts why they come up with double-decomposition and the excess insoluble reagent methods. the slack methods.

and paying attn in class is also a slacker method. gains u marks, gains u teacher's favour, and gives u more time to study other stuff. so that u can slack the next time even if u dun listen. but u shud still listen. so that u dun need to study. i slack. i love slacking.

budden tts why i suck at chinese. its a mugging subject. its conceptless. study get good marks, no study no marks. damn.

still dislikes studying.

in case u r thinking tt my GPA is 2.0+, u r right. what an achievement for a slacker.

KoL is a fun and addictive game. the good thing is that it is fun. the bad thing is that it is addictive.

here i shall take a few quotes from the game.

"glass of goat's milk: this is a glass of goat's milk. the milk came from a goat. the goat came from the mountains. you don't know where the glass came from."

"The heavy D: This is a letter D of extraordinary magnitude. The girls, the girls, they love it."

"baby killer bee: This is not, as you're probably afraid of, a bee that kills babies. It's a baby bee, that will eventually grow up to kill babies. Crucial difference."

"chrome staff: This is a chrome staff. It's so shiny that it alters the very fabric of space and time. It alters them so much that you'll get three extra adventures per day when you've got it equipped."

and some combinations:
"goat cheese + anti-cheese=goat"
"cottage cheese + anti-cheese= cottage"
"bridge+ dictionary= abridged dictionary"
"spider web+ spider web= really sticky spider web"
"really sticky spider web + really sticky spider web= really really sticky spider web"

it is fun. but it is addictive. do not start playing it. but if you have started, too bad, u'll have to continue playing it, and embrace the fact that someday the whole game is going to be reset and all you items, meat, and stats will be gone, someday, sometime.

fact of the day: my sister plays more hentai games than yiyuan. that's a lot to speak of. yiyuan, you ought to be ashamed. i shall of list them since i do not play them. REALLY. okay okay i did play a bit of 'love hina' but it's not a hentai game... not saying that i know what hentai games are supposed to be like.

i am thinking about a card. what am i thinking of? scroll down to find out




























its a card! (read question again)

wee.

spelling bee sho fun.

i haven't been studying so seriously since primary 6. i remember on wednesday(the day i had grading trng, physics remedial, and to hand in my chinese comp, RE report, parachute report, coincidentally) i woke up at 7.30. study from 8.00 to 1.30 pm(pure study, never heard of the slacker xinyang study rite? now u have), then sleep till 3.00 pm, lunch, then study from 3.30pm to 6.30 pm. then dinner, KoL, chat with frens(and found out that i've been studying the wrong topics all these while), then study some more from 12.30 to 2am. sleep.

next day wake up at 7.30. go school and finish compo at 10.40 and study a bit. then go SP to see frens then study some more until 2.30.

stupid alex ang sent us greek alphabets instead of greel prefix-subfixes. stupid. wow... i'm sure greek alphabets help us spell alpha ketoglutarate. or beta galatose. stupid alex, i say again.

nanyang copied us!! grr... SP sux, the auditorium was so small that we didn't even have 2 finger-spacing between each of us. nanyang girls were leaning over us to see and hear our answers. dishonourable.

anyway we purposely muttered wrong answers in our discussion to trick them. and they fell for it! haha jag!!!

and to our disappointment we lost to ny the next day. damn. we got 2nd and third, they got first and fourth. damn.

nothing to be embarrassed about. perhaps they were better at spelling than us. so? they dunno what nucleosomes, primers, mitosis, meiosis, C. elegans are. sure they know how to spell it, but they dunno what they mean.

ahh well. [quotes mr wee{quotes yiyuan: the buaya}: study hard]. its nobody's fault. just be more careful next time, alex.

teachers day performance was great. esp the teacherman vs slackerboy. slackerboy seems to describes me.

(so far i've gotten two zeros for math assignments, and failed 4 math tests, including the common test. wow. now i need about 80% of the rest of my assignments + tests + pop quizzes+ CT to pass math)

i went back to my pri school. not one ri boy soul is sight. batches after mine have no loyal ri boys except me!!! i'm so disgusted with these chaps. no excuse man, when you see 7 rgs and 9 ny girls from the same batch it is highly unlikely there are no ri boys. ( my batch is 2 ri, 2 rgs, 4 TCHS, 4 NYGH...perfectly balanced)

aneway i need to stress that i am proud that my pri school has bred an rgs girl who got GPA of 3.9....and she's none other than Hong Jia....*claps* kay lar not much value addedness cos she's been thrashing everyone else in the school since she came in...but topping rgs is....0_0

engaged in a long long convo with Hong(chinawoman, Lulu ought to learn[on a side note she does remind me of comrade gabriel lee...a bit]) and Christine(pro @ humanities, same height as lois).

i thank lois and jimr for showing me it is possible for diff genders to become normal frens. tokked abt the good old days. for a long long time. went well considering that it is my first time having such a long convo with girls. then i told a dirty joke that they didn't understand then they signaled for me to leave(by suggesting browsing for mp3 players and music cds). oh well. I'd better keep jimr's advice on mind next time. if possible.

acheivement of the day: i know something about electronics that huanglu didn't! HAHAHAHA

I personally don't understand why so many people just dun appreciate philosophy... it is so intriguing... with such far-fetching yet possible implications. the main barrier me and philo is that i am unable to put my thoughts into words.

there was a case of a mass suicide, where the people claim that they are killing themselves to escape from the matrix. STUPID. they obviously haven't thought far enough...just absorbing what the other are telling them... what a waste of lives....

also the way people act, i feel, is pre-determined by their 'philosophy of life'. if you live in a society where treachery is valued, the way you act will be different had you taken the confucian school of thought.

this leads me to think that philosophy is very important. i am not trying to deny the credibity of religion, but seriously speaking i feel that religion is a very powerful simplification of a thought that would lead people to act in a way that if they come together, they can form a strong, united, a properious society, and this would help in the advancement of the human race.

(mitch and lincoln i plead for your forgiveness in advance)i feel that religion could have been created to control the human mind in a positive manner. and i am glad to say that i feel that many people are really thinking about their own religion, judging from the fact that most of the people in the world have religion that instils good values beneficial to the society, instead of 'evil' religion. i feel it would be really tragic if human lives are lost because of this priceless gift to the human race.

science and religion need not coexist, but it would be best if they could. sigh... sometimes i wish that the earth was stationary and immortal, the sun goes round the earth, and that stars were pasted on a perfectly spherical wall. then we could all continue to live in this beautiful illusion. it is no wonder galileo was punished... he didn't deserve punishment, in fact he contributed immensely to physics, but he destroyed man's beautiful dream. he had hurt us unknowingly.

it would be disastrous and unthinkable if everyone think of religion as some form of superstition. when the great unification theory comes to light it would shatter the man's beautiful illusion once again... and i feel that a rather large proportion of the people in the world in the next generation would regard religion as superstition... and it would be tragic.

free thinkers without a philosophy or religion to fall back on, i feel, do not have the protection of an omnipotent being or an all-encompassing principle from the disturbing things that one will encounter in one's life. he would have to think, very hard sometimes, for a solution that have already been given indirectly in the form of religions and philosophies, and if he decides to take a short-cut or give up in the middle of his thought process, he could just end up like the people to kill themselves to escape from the matrix.

it does not take a true genius to come up with a philosophy, but to really bother to think through all the disturbing facts of life and summarise them in the form of human language requires a lot of work and patience. it can at times to really tempting to take short-cuts, but they CAN be fatal.

i feel that people who are not really bothered with philosophy should have a religion or 'philosophy of life'. and people who want to depend on their own mind for answers, be prepared for a long, rough and dangerous ride, and get lots of exposure too.

i have thought of something. how do we know anyone/thing else other than yourself exists?

arguments:

1)According to the brain in the vat argument, all your senses are 'hacked', so you will not be able to find out if all you sense are even real at all. Hence the only thing you can prove that exists is yourself.

2)In some cases, one has dreams so vivid that he cannot tell whether it is real or not. he can interact, sense, and think about things and people in the dream, and he can also move and change view-basically everything that one can do in the 'real life'. however, all these objects and characters do not even need to be the input of an external controller- it can be figments of one's imagination, just like in dreams.

hence I hypothesize that it is not possible to prove that anyone else except yourself exists. therefore i think that suicide bombers are kinda strange.(i'm being mild here.)

darn. the market for good mushiking cards is getting smaller. i'd better sell it for even a meagre profit before the fad is over.

screw it. mushiking has wasted a total of 6 hours of my life... lame game. gonna get rid of the cards soon. prefarably with a profit $__$

kay sooo... lets see who wants to compare the championess of their RE oral prsentation with me?
i was supposed to present on 11.30 am, 25 august. i was informed this on 8.10am on 25 august. wow.

so i finished my physics worksheet(supposed to take the entire lesson kay) in 3 minutes and spent the rest of the lesson answering questions of my classmates and doing my powerpoint. then later not enuff time i used up 1/2 the chinese period to finish it. then i went back and told the chinese teacher the truth. and he gave a stunned look and said: "i see... next time when such a thing happens make sure you inform the next teacher first." 0_0

to explain why i was so surprised firstly u will need to understand that the first two years of my RI life of chinese studying had zhang mei suo in it. and then you will need to understand that the new male chinese teacher speaks EXACTLY the same way as zhang mei suo... "BU GUANG CAI...ah...bu guang cai" "Hao le wo men kai shi shang ke...da jia yu xi le mei you?"

had i done the same thing to zms i think the class three storeys and three classrooms away can hear him. or maybe he close the doors and the next classroom can hear me cry.

anyway back on my RE presentation.

so my project was on electronic circuits. to draw the circuit in computer will take hours. i've settled with drawing on transparency. which i didn't have and needed to get from miss huang during recess. and because of the large number components (is a 3 digit number of wires, 40+ logic gates considered a lot? not for a pro, but it is a rather daunting task for me to draw them neatly on a piece of transparency) i couldn't finish drawing it before i needed to present.

shrug. upload and present. and lo and behold in just the only project i chose to use transparency the OHP broke down. TWICE. and the judge waited like 1 minute before asking the timer to stop timing and change OHP. but in the meanwhile he allowed me to draw my diagram on the whiteboard. by the time i finished i would have finished the marker ink, but miss huang(one of the judges) allowed me to just draw one setup only(supposed to be 4). so i only used 3 minutes drawing. and i didn't know how to do picture mute...boohoo.

after that i presented. and i could see the look of awe on james miao's face. grins.

then the judges asked qns. no student asked.(either they didn't understand or they didn't bother...not a very good sign) the judges asked very good questions. first one was one that i had answered before in a presentation in IME. so i was prepared. next one was posed by mr wee concerning the circuitry. i think i answered well. after all i designed the whole thing from scratch(admits that i got some help from zhao yan and mr quek my mentor) i should understand it rite...

somehow when i had three slides left and i was told to sum up quickly i was said "well this project taught me the aspects of circuit design, in which some are not easy, and it makes me very impressed of the father of the computer, charles babbage".

almost end of my RE.

today i happen to be in a good mood so i shall write a very long narrative on MUSHIKING.

italics: the player's train of thought
normal font: the words on the mushiking screen
quotations: "the mushiking sound effects"
bold: sound effects
parenthesis: (the real life circumstances)

"hi i'm popo a very good friend"
kaching
1 credit. please remove card. 0 credit.
play with a friend? bish

"great! train with a friend to improve your skills!
now please, scan your beetle card. it's the green card! if you don't have a beetle card, press any button and a large beetle will fight for you!"(scans in 'crimson gena beetle') bish
"great! now teach your beetle skill by scanning your skill card. its the orange card!"
(scans in inner femur pinch)bish
"you taught it a pinching skill!"
(scans in agitation)bish
"you taught it a throwing skill!"
"GREAT!"


"now please, scan your beetle card. it's the green card! if you don't have a beetle card, press any button and a large beetle will fight for you!"(scans in 'giant abdominal beetle') bish
"great! now teach your beetle skill by scanning your skill card. its the orange card!"
(scans in king finger poke)bish
"you taught it a pinching skill!"
(scans in agitation)bish
"you taught it a throwing skill!"
(scans in finishing attack blocker)
"you taught it a hitting skill!"
"GREAT!"

"Yes, its a crimson gena beetle! now let's see how it powers up!"
crimson gena beetle:
inner femur pinch: very compatible. super finishing attack!
agitation: very compatible.
finishing attack stopper: quite compatible.
"you did it! scissors is your finishing technique! use to finishing attack to defeat the opponent to do a great deal of damage!"

"Yes, its a giant abdominal beetle! now lets see how it powers up!"
giant abdominal beetle:
king finger poke: compatible.
agitation: very compatible.
finishing attack blocker: compatible
"you did it! paper is your finishing technique! use your finishing attack to defeat the opponent to do a great deal of damage!"

"now let the battle begin!"
(the crimson gena beetle's[CGB] tarsal hits the gena to produce a weird slapping sound)
(the giant abdominal beetle's[GAB] frons exhales deeply, its labrum wide open, then quickly clicks back and releases its maxilla, producing a sound resembling "harger" or huggle")

player one thinks: neeheehee....finshing attack of course. (press scissors)
player two thinks: gulat! (press stone)

"YES!"(the GAB rushes toward CGB head on, while it was still sharpening its long pincers, and the CGB gets toppled over to the side and hitting its head with a loud thud. its gena turns more crimson from the impact and gets up and recovers, though its had sustained a large amount of damage, with only 4/5 HP left. Due to the finishing attack blocker skill, the GAB now tenses up its thorax, preparing to use its gigantic abdomen to block to view of the oppnent, thus effectively preventing a precise aim on the inner femur)

player one thinks: hmm...finishing attack blocked. so he can use paper, his finishing attack uncountered. i must minimise this damage. (press paper)
player two thinks: since the opponent's finishing attack is blocked, he will try to minimise damage by blocking my finishing attack. hence i might be able to catch him by surprise by countering that move. (press scissors)

"YES!" (the CGB realises that it is unable to use its finishing attack due to the unusual twitching movements of the GAB's abdomen. It holds its mandibles high up, preparing to hold up the opponent, yet it gets countered again as the GAB fully extends two legs crossed, and pokes both side of the thorax, while retracting both legs, thus pinching the neck hard. The CGB is very pissed, evident as its gena turns more crimson with extra piaking sound. now it has only 3/5 HP left)

player one thinks: shit. *** it... now if it uses its finishing attack i'm gone. but wait, he knows that too...so he'll counter scissors and use stone. but wait, if i use my finishing attack i can deal even more damage as it is a super finish. so he'll try to counter it by using stone. soo...(press paper)
player two: finish it! (press paper)

"Alright."
(CGB and GAB now prance around with their tarsus outstretched, hoping to grab each other. they strike at the same moment, and as they hit each other, produce a very loud piak. little damage sustained by both)

player one: okay...i suppose he thinks i think he thinks i'll use my finishing move...so he'll use scissors. now great chance to use my finishing attack stopper to keep me alive for another turn. (press stone)
player two: i rock. random. (presses all three, and paper is selected)

"YES! ITS THE FINISHING MOVE!!"(blue light glows around GAB)
(GAB lifts up CGB effortlessly with the effective use of momentum, jerks its head up and down, disorientating CGB for a while, before slamming it onto the ground. Then a butterfly comes up and lands on the CGB's thorax, agitation the CGB even more, and now it has hit and all time level of frustation, its gena turns blood red, with strange darker lines on it. CGB has little life left!)

player one: now i'd better use my finishing attack soon and think less..no time (press scissors)
player two: hey random works! now let's try again.(presses all three, paper gets selected)

"YES! ITS THE FINISHING MOVE!!"(super bright green light glows around CGB as it sharpen its claws for revenge)
(CGB darts forward, while GAB arrogantly waits with its lefs outstretched, preparing for a firm grip, Alas! CGB darts fast and low, its sharp claws scraping the legs, as it lunges for the femur. it darts so fast, that the cgb over shot and flipped the GAB high up in the sky. now the CGB awaits quietly under the large shadow caused by the abdomen of the GAB, preparing for the moment of revenge. now it is arrived! at the femur almost touches the ground, the CGB swings its body towards the inner side and pinches hard. the GAB grimaces in agony, as the CGB continues to unleash its fury, darting and rolling around the ground, leaving a very distinct mark on the GAB's inner femur. The GAB collapses in pain.)

"The Crimson Gena Beetle wins!"

To be continued.

i have a speculation that the <> is the condensed version of string theory. And alwyn and i have found some startling coincidences.

i love knives.

knives are simple, yet fascinating, considering the way that its underlying concepts are intergrated together into a useful, powerful, and awesome tool that the human civilisation could not have progressed so far without.

basic principle: pressure. When you sharpen a knife, you sharpen both ends evenly at the same angle from the grindstone, and after it has been sharpened, if you try to sharpen either side anymore, the other side will come crumbling off. which is to say, the surface area of the blade ULTRA small. Thus any small force applied to the handle exerts a very large pressure, causing the objects touching the blade to be split or punctured.

Another principle is the wedge, which is a simple machine consisting of two rigid inclined planes. When a slit is made, the wedge causes it to open up slowly, and the blade itself cuts the material at the point of contact.

Such is how a knife works. it is simple, yet effective and ingenious, and is an invaluable gift to the human civilisation.

Now that i have bought a few grindstones and i have a drill at home i'm gonna have fun. Currently requesting for GGY to give me one of his steel bullets to sharpen for him. aww well.

one day i could go jimr's house and grind up some stuff.

i just realised that i like to boast.

i remember a convo with zhenghong when i boasted... and i was estatic.

XY: so did u take part in the RI-BP sci creativity challenge in p6?
ZH: yar. i got first. (smirks)

moment of silence... my face glowed with a fake glimpse of awe

XY: hmm... really? but you couldn't have gotten first...
ZH:?
XY: Because i got first! HAHAHAHAHA....
ZH: oh...OH! YOU BASTARD!

wide grin :]

for example, goats cannot drink greek wine, greed never payed off until in jail. persons with disabilities should not be allowed to freeze dry fish and beef. this is especially so, as the blind are unable to see the freezer, and may find it difficult to read foreign treaties. green coloured tabasos are unsafe because green is usually used in cartoons to represent radiation or poison. the fact is that many green substances contain chlorophyll, which is used in soap, and if green were a dangerous colour, these soap businesses should have been bust. but they are not. and chlorophyll soaps rock btw. i wonder how chlorophyll help to make soap better other than providing a relatively easy and natural source of colour. chlorophyll A and B and carotinoids are rather large molecules and by rights should not be easily absorbed by the skin. in order to improve chlorophyll absorbtion in the skin, we should applied green tabasco generously on all parts of the body. this will certainly give you quite a sensation and undoubtedly rejuvinate a person, and may prove even more effective than palmolive liquid soap.
 
Thus, i conclude my house's case that green represents health. thank you judges.   

when people start to play with yetis they like to go home and gun down misers. this is because tabasco sounds like tobbacco and both are kinda addicting. peas taste good. this year four yahoogroups will bounce on the ground and hear the frogs speak. why is this so? pretend that you have never thought about the great founders of arabia and you will find yourself a happy person.

from now on i shall replace the word jack with zhaohan. dun ask me why, but it is the class tradition.

i dun like homework. but i can't survive without it. what should i do.

sigh... feel so humchi.

i need a book. or else i'll play game and waste time.

ok i really need a book. finished alice in wonderland and through the looking glass. had a weird dream after that. like a familiar...but strange world. something is different, not very obvious, but somehow things just turn out weird.

i dun like white light. kinda makes me lethargic and feels fake.

study. i dunno whether i like studying or not. i'm not sure if i like to study becoz of interest or bcos i like to show off.

sigh. school would be such a wonderful place to be if there wasn't hmwk. i dun like hmwk. but i can't learn without it.

i need a book.

i need a book.

i dun believe in myself. somehow...my social life is pretty screwed. is it an attitude problem? i dunno. a lot of times i just dun have anything to say. but i want to express myself. i have no idea what i am doing.

why do i want to communicate even though i can't? i dun even know if others exist. is company an addiction? if a man is born alone and lives alone will he ever feel lonely? and am i one who lives alone?


i need a book.

Einstein was once offered the Israeli presidency. He declined.

Einstein has always been smart.



My grandfather's cock
Was too large for the shelf,
So it stood ninety years on the floor;
It was taller by half
Than the old man himself,
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
It was brought on the morn
Of the day that he was born,
And was always his treasure and pride;
But it stopped short
Never to go again,
When the old man died.

aye.

RI thrashed the other schools in NUS X-games. MUAhaha

competition was made up of three parts. one is a car, another is a top, and third was a bridge.

ri sent two teams. many other schools took part and sent about 6 teams. we ended up with about 30 other teams to compete with.

ri team one got first in car and first in top and almost first in bridge. damned close to a grand slam, i tellya.

ri team two got second in top and almost first in bridge.

in the end ri team one got first and ri team two got second. woohoo.

ri sent two teams to the same competition and got first and second. ain't tt quite wow?

convo of the day:

(jimr previously mentioned something abt dunking ppl into pool)
jimr:i hope they dun forgot to wear bra...
lincoln: WAH LAO!!! OF COURSE THEY WILL WEAR BRA........

lincoln:......but THEN AGAIN i wun mind if they don't.

Mattel recently introduced the "Harry Potter Broomstick". It's a battery-powered toy that resembles the flying Nimbus 2000 brooms from the Harry Potter movies. For added effect, the broom makes "flying noises" and vibrates.

After a while on the market, concerned parents noticed that mostly young girls seemed to enjoy the toy - especially the vibrating part...Here are some of the customer reviews from the Toys R Us website:

Reviewer:

A toy enthusiast from NJ

This toy was #1 on my daughter's Christmas list. So what the heck, although it has no educational value I figured it would be good for imaginative play. It wasn't until after she opened her gift and started playing with it that I realized that the toy may offer a more than sensational experience. The broomstick has cute sound effects and ***VIBRATES*** when they put it between their legs to fly. Come on---what were the creators of this toy thinking? She'll keep playing with the Nimbus 2000, but with the batteries removed.

Reviewer: Ashley from TX

My 12 year old daughter is a big Harry Potter fan, and loved the part with the Nimbus 2000, so I decided to buy her this toy. I was afraid she would think it was too babyish, but she LOVES this toy. Even my daughter's friends enjoy playing with this fun toy. I was surprised at how long they can just sit in her room and play with this magic broomstick! A great buy for any Harry Potter fan! :)

Reviewer: A toy enthusiast from Maine, USA

I recently bought this for my son, Vantro. He's a HUGE Harry Potter fan. Seen the movie 32 times (in the theaters) and made the paper. This toy gives him the ability to fly around the house zapping things. My only problem I see with the toy is the batteries drain too fast and his sister fights him over it, so now I need to buy her one.

Reviewer: poola13 from Ohio

When my 12 year old daughter asked for this for her birthday, I kind of wondered if she was too old for it, but she seems to LOVE it. Her friends love it too! They play for hours in her bedroom with this great toy. They really seem to like the special effects it offers (the sound effects and vibrating). My oldest daughter (17) really likes it too! I reccomend this for all children.

[10:10:03 PM] Lincolnes - : Your reputation is worse than ever
[10:10:06 PM] Lincolnes - : In fact
[10:10:08 PM] Lincolnes - : It's now negative

[10:16:24 PM] Lincolnes - : You rock


i rock.

avoidant


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MUAHAHAHAHA !!!

TWENTY THREE DEMERIT POINTS VANISHED INTO THIN AIR WITHOUT EVEN A SINGLE HOUR OF DETENTION!!!! WOOHOO!!

eeshhh.... feel so humchi... dun ask why.

looks like my air cannon and remake launcher is gone... 2 inches of notes to study in 2 weeks... bleagh.

in a weird mood... somehow feel like making a iron bodkin arrow, but that's close to impossible without a furnace and a source of good iron(i wonder what is not made of steel nowadays). currently considering electrolysis. met with a lot of disagreements. but then somehow i think it might work... even though i get the feeling that if I do it it wunt. haven't contributed to the KKK yet. though i really dun mind scraping sticks :) smooth long and hard... so nice to the touch.

my judo is screwed lah... i think some of my fire extinguished due to 2 weeks of no training. but then my fire had never been strong in the first place... and now it is even weaker...

i wonder how jimr gets the time to finish all his homework and train and still do fun stuff like pyro. *remembers a saying that ppl who dun sleep dun grow tall* ahh well. my grandma said tt i wun grow taller than my father. i shall prove her wrong. 1 cm away. and if i dun sleep enuff i cannot concentrate in class(which is my secret of passing without studying true lah, its not a secret i mean, for an extra hour of sleep i save a lot of time and trouble later), and when i read i just forget the previous sentence after reading one.

my study tips.

sleep and breakfast. DO NOT EVER DO WITHOUT THEM!!!

fibre: saves you a lot of time for sleep. and possibly demerit points.

travel time. only study if you are not tired, or it is the day of test. otherwise sleep.

classes. always ALWAYS pay attention. i mean it. teachers will usually tip you off on the exam questions. and usually the things the dun teach wun come out for exams, and helps to understand better. it helps a damn lot and basically if u dun then all your sleep is wasted.

recommended reading. ask teacher(no, excluding language teachers) to recommend. helps also and gets u a pretty good testimonial if u pay attention and hand in your homework and DO NOT DISRUPT THE CLASS. but then actually whether u read it or not is optional(go ahead, read campbell reece).

DO NOT COPY. seriously. so what if u screw up your assignments. learn from it. what matters are not assignments, but exams and tests. yes EXAMS. we are really just preparing for A levels. so dun copy.

basically these are tips to get away with not studying. works for me, but not sure if it works for others.

feel free to comment. anyway my GPA is rather sucky though... 3.2 ... but considering the fact that i didn't study, i feel it is pretty good.

"Methyl salicylate, as found notably in oil of wintergreen, has additional external uses as a local rubefacient and is very well absorbed through the skin: it is thus a useful application for an inflamed joint -reducing the inflammatory process while at the same time PAINLESSLY increasing the blood flow itself."

courtesy of www.herbs2000.com

on a side note. Methyl Salicylate is the active ingredient(12.7%) in deep heat.

thought of the day:
Prelude to "little red riding hood"
"Hubby Hubby, why do you have such huge ____?"
"All the better to ____ you my dear."

founders day rocket launcher was a success...though things didn't really turn out as sweet as expected, but that's part of life we'll have to accept. for example, my launcher (the one on the right) didn't fire as far as i expected it to. i suspect there is a minor leak. and i still haven't repaired it. darn. but it still is a lethal weapon at point blank range....so hell yeah.

i am thinking of building another launcher from scratch in the june hols. yiyuan said he's gonna build a launcher thats gonna make me jealous. snit him. he has no prior experience. i on the other hand have already built a launcher that have already made him jealous enough to want to build one too. and i tell u without considering the materials, i can build one in half a day and use it the third day. yiyuan stands no chance.(and if i had to make one to make yiyuan jealous i should consult jimr and ggy and WANG...and hopefully i can fulfil the tasks)

currently considering attaching an extra pressure gauge, emergency air release mechanism, and to make it detachable as well. also considering to make a double cushion so that it can be hand fired. need suggestions from huang, jimr, yiyuan, and of course, ggy.

now on other stuff.

got a corny dream last nite. dreamt that i hacked into mitch's blog and kept the password. later when i felt pissed i deleted his blog. then he was damn pissed when he found out it was me and he got the whole RIPB to come down on me. scary dream.

another corny dream that i went past a temporary stall selling boxes of atachi at 3 boxes for $2!!! then when i searched my wallet i found $50 orchid series notes...$10 bird series notes... and had 50cent old coin and $1.90 worth of new coins. and i had no friends nearby!! so i had to forgo the cheap atachi... :`(

moral of the story: never underestimate the power of friends.

on to training.

wasn't much of a training really. mainly moved new mats to the dojo, and thus provided extra land for territorial expansion towards the ping-pong territory *sniggers*, but that implied a high upkeep, and new lands may not be fertile. oh what am i talking about?

the new mats+ o'le mats created a dojo 4/3 the size of the previous one. and the new mats are HARD and STICKY. oboy we sure are gonna enjoy this for trng camp(remember guys, 4 rounds of front crawls? per training? plus punishment front crawls? and nagekomi... woohoo.)

but always look on the bright side of life! that means more soccer space!

As with other swearwords and taboo words, or intensifiers, fuck is often not used in its original, literal meaning. Rather, it is an intensifier expressing nothing but the speaker's strong emotional involvement (often negatively, but not necessarily: e.g. "fucking good" is a rude way of saying "very good"). In the book Practical English Usage, the two meanings of the word are clearly illustrated by juxtaposing the sentences:

What are you doing fucking in my bed?
What are you fucking doing in my bed?
What the fuck are you doing in my bed?

The first sentence means "Why are you copulating in my bed?", while the second and third merely emphasizes the sentence "What are you doing in my bed?". The second usage is more common than the first, and the third is even more common then the second.

"Fuck you!" expresses anger, and thus seems to be more related to "I am so angry at you, I am going to rape you to punish you" than to "I would like to lovingly have sexual intercourse with you". It also may be related to "fuck off," which seems to be a reference to masturbation, where it might originally have been a vulgar way of saying "quit bugging me and go back to masturbating or whatever stupid stuff you usually do." It may also express indifference with respect to the well-being of another person or of other people in general, for example reacting to a request, or the imposing of rules.

Another use of the word fuck is as a replacement for the word God in profane statements. For example "Fuck knows" means something like "I don't know, and neither is anyone ever likely to know".


Linguistics

Verb

The word can be used as a verb transitively:
He fucked her.

Or intransitively:

They fucked all night.

Noun

As a noun:

He is a real fuck.
What the fuck?!

Interjection

The interjection fuck is frequently used to express shock, discontent and anger in general.

Fuck! A punctured tire!

Present participle

The present participle fucking (or fuckin' ) is commonly used to intensify a verb or noun. As described earlier, it is used more negatively than positively.

My fucking boss gave me tons of fucking work to do.
She is fucking beautiful.

In addition, the present participle is sometimes inserted in the middle of a word as an intensifier, a process known as expletive infixation. For example:

That was abso-fuckin-lutely cool!
Ex-fuckin-cuse me!
In-fuckin-credible

Portmanteau

Prepended to another word, the sound "f" is sometimes used to evoke the entire expletive, with an intensifying sense. (See portmanteau.)

That's fugly (fucking ugly).


Courtesy of Wikipedia.

whee. i made a launcher. all by myself. from my own pocket. and it works! Muahahahaha! it's mine!!! not the school's...yes it's mine!!! now i can launcher my own bottle rockets all by myself! without other's permission!

oh yar... have to mention the "learning journey" to bugis. at first i just wanted to go to a hardware shop "a short walk" from our school to buy an O-ring[something supposedly very common](first you either turn left or turn right, then you walk straight for 15 minutes). didnt intend to go to bugis, but since jimr was so enthusiastic about it, and also i forgot how to go to the hardware shop, and also jimr assured me that the place would sell O-rings("i will bang their heads if they don't"), and also he mentioned exciting stuff(forgot, but certainly sounds very exciting), so i went.

truly it was a place full of fun junk and boy, it had things like tinderbox, sledgehammer, 3 feet long cutters(i wonder what it cannot cut), coffins, a protection mask for acetyl-oxy-welding and *piles*. all sorts of shit(saw methanol too, poisonous, volatile and burns cleanly, very tempted to buy until jimr told me that some chemicals require IC)

jimr bought a can of higly compressed butane, and when released froze anything. produced frost on the nozzle when pressed for some 3 seconds.(good follow-up to deep-heat and chilli. chilli his nipples then freeze it off. or deep heat someone's balls then freeze his **** off)

basically, the bugis place had everything. everything but O-rings. wow.

so we went back to bishan and he followed me to a hardware in god-knows-where. that place wasn't impressive. was about less than 10% of the size of the shop he showed me. but it sold O-rings. (jimr was like saying "du-lan" all the way back to school)

ali is a cruel person. he superglues and araldites ants. one ant would never have its body leave a tree leaf.

oh yes. rockets are fun. do not underestimate a 1.5 foot launcher or a 1 foot rocket. founders day you all shall see.

exeunt.

--<<{cHeoNG : i should ot get distracted
--<<{cHeoNG : lest i fail me chinese CT tomolo
--<<{cHeoNG : oh wait...it is today
.:jenny:. --: :p
.:jenny:. --: fail den fail larh

jenny is a bad influence.

alwyn told me that there was training on saturday.

i wondered.

then i asked garry. he said there was.

so i came on saturday, and saw only sec 4s.

Mr tan asked me why i came.

shock.

then sec ones came too.

mr tan advised them to go home because his training plan was for the older boys and (direct quote)"YOU WILL DIEEE!"

in greater shock, and apprehension, considering that our training plan is already 'quite' tiring.

training started at 10, but came at 9.

after stoning for half an hour tan told us to do uchikomi while waiting for the jcs, and to warm up.

30 minutes just to do uchikomi. translates to 30 minutes to correct my entry.

then watched video for 40 minutes. warm-up effect from the uchikomi gone.

training was somehow felt more slack than usual. felt like i did half the amt of uchikomi than usual. (no, I didn't slack)

maybe thats because my seoi nage uchikomi is done on darius instead of jingwen. oh boy, darius... if i did uchimata uchikomi my arms would break. (it is good to train wif challenging ppl like lincoln and jingwen...good in the long run)

didn't feel any more tired than usual. i believe that the jcs feel that way too.

gained some things. shall not blame alwyn. partly(or mostly ^-^ )because i met someone whom i longed to meet.

"everytime i look at the FHM cover i want to puke"- ng yong sheng. What an honest boy.

whee. just memorised the periodic table. now to increase speed to alex and eesin and guocong speed.

pyrophoric substances are dangerous. they combust instantly once in contact wif oxygen.

jenny is so copper telluride.

thought of the day: there are certain things that can only be said to either complete strangers or close friends, and no one else... (kena jag)

where i belong
where i keep my heart and soul
where dreams come true for us
i want the whole world to know
i want to shout it out loud
that this is where the fuck i belong

thought of the day: i really wonder how complex intercontinential rocket missile equations are.... esp considering that the gravity comes from the center of the earth, the earth is not a perfect sphere, AND they still have to defend against patriots.

word du juor: jag: a period of indulgence in an activity, emotion. eg, man make machines, machines help man, machines destroy man, machines control man, and man was damn jag.

thought of the day: if i were to form a cult, would it be called "Yakult?"

word du juor: jerk: the third derivative of time is relation to distance. e.g., jerk off.

word du juor: fetish: a sexual attraction to (a) certain body part(s) that is/are not reproductive organ(s).

question of the day: what is the colour of the bougainvilla flower?

hmm. training was slack today. slight breakthrough in my left throw. had stand-outside-and-play-if-u-want randori. more fun than normal kind. played all except one or two bouts. the white belts caught on the sec 2 and 3's enthusiasm and chionged out. good stuff.

back aching from dorsal raise. eeg.

oh yes, played a "left throw only" randori bout wif jimmr. didn't get thrashed. but still lost...bleagh....too slow.

hope to play ambidextrous. in fact i think i am doing that now. after ambidextrous shall hope to progress to the big man + seoi nage stage. kinda like bryan, i hope. but by then he wud have advanced to the next stage. bish myself. sec one slacked for 4 months... "a bit" too long lar...

thought of the day: rocket equations are really quite hard.

question of the day: What is the ratio of gravitational constant on moon to that on earth?

another question of the day: Taking the avogadro's constant to be 6*10^23, and the Ar of carbon to be 12, how many molecules of carbon are there in a 0.12g diamond?

yet another question of the day: Why does jacq sim like banana?

still yet another question of the day: isn't timo just dead on wednesday?

word du juor: banana: something long and sweet tasting, and usually covered by a yellow sheath, which cannot be eaten.

thought of the day: chirstoforo columbus didn't find out that the earth was round. aristotle knew it already but later ang mohs dun believe him. (not that he is very trustworthy, but he is really clever)

"The shorter plant was touched twice a day. The unmolested one grew much taller." quoted from a very reliable bio txtbook.

what if someone genetically modifies kapok to synthesize nitrocellulose? that will be fun...especially in the fruiting season....

quote of the day: "who discovered potassium?" "caustic of potash"

haven blogged for some time. maybe i was mugging for a quiz.

yesterday and today was mugging like siao. only managed to cover biological molecules, nervous transmission, photosynthesis, and respiration. erm...yeh. "only".

photosynthesis.
somehow it doesn't resemble the innocent "plants take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen in the day" that i learnt in p6. not at all, in fact.

respiration.
now i understand that it is different from breathing.

nervous transmission.
so nerves are not electrical wires....

biological molecules.
i never knew nicotinamide is present in our body. in very large amounts, i might add.

i screwed up today's quiz. no negative marking, yet i ommited half of the questions. thats damn shit.

and during the practical round i forgot to convert centimetres to metres before doing the pendulum formula. thats chao jag.
at the end all my answers were in the working paper, not in the answer sheet. the emcee said "no more writing". heck, so i just tore the info from the question paper and stapled it to the answer sheet. no writing, and so i didn't write.

and during the quiz, the rgs were power muggers. they seemed to have no life other than mugging science. i mean, being unable answer simple math and computer questions isn't exactly a very good way to live a life.

and oh yes. jenny should go here and look at the sixth defination. jenny and jimmy scandal...hmmm....

yongsheng is a broken man. rilong has a broken man.

quote of the day:"i have already done my best, and i have no regrets at all." william hung, when he got kicked out from AI.
thought of the day: ditto, yours truly.

hmm. kyu grade today. breakfast consisted of a mug of horlicks, 4 pieces of slow-release high-carbo high-fibre biscuits, and an egg. good stuff.

lunch consisted of 1 litre of glucolin, 800ml of apple tea, 2 pieces of those funny biscuits and a shot of red bull. very good stuff. lots of sugar. which were mainly consumed in the process of warming up.

first bout played against a hougang sec guy. weehee. first win in competition ever. won by two wazaris and a koka. didn't even warm up before the bout. oh well. kinda nervous. in the first 30 seconds i totally forgot about seoi-nage and used pure leg technique. still got a koka anyway. strictly speaking it is the opponent's shido. then he did three failed seoi nage on me. then i thought, "hey, i can do that too!" and kebammed him.

then groundwork made a stupid mistake of releasing the grip on the shoulder for one on the leg. as such, he promptly got up.

then after some time kebammed him again. wazari! yay. first win in all my competitions.

second bout... got whacked, but didn't get thrashed. oh well, i tried hard. lost by one koka and two wazaris. what a coincidence. jingwen won my opponent due to cunningness. punching... and pain.

beeeed. need some more experience. kena cunning by that guy. he looked like he was going to do a left throw, then i stoned and prepared to counter, then he did right seoi nage. which i turned into his throw becuase i tried to turn out of an anticipated left shoulder. then kena wazaried and held. then goodbye.

thats quite it about my bouts.

watching sheralyn play is damn madness. SERIOUSLY MADNESS!!! omg.....joseph and hanlong and kim chuan was like going mad... she only did one throw. quite effective, i'd say. gets anticipated after a while though. ok lar, much better than my time lah. but then turning to lie down on the back is seriously.... not very advisable.

shag. i need sleep. sleep is important.

quote of the day:"liang zheng is a person whom you can call a bastard or a shen" joseph, commenting on a physics genius

ok i admit i was in a bad mood that day and that is very likely due to the fact that i still had a physics illusion to present the following day--alone and unprepared. and i didn't even had an illusion.

so on the very day i brought a picture that is reflected upon itself at 45 degrees and went up without even a powerpoint presentation and armed with just two mirrors , a marker and that piece of paper. and throughout i talked crap about how you can use mirrors to get back the same image even if there is something on top of it. and i explained all the angles that works--45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270, and 315. that very well took up about 5 minutes.
then i spent another 3 minutes saying why this works and what kind of picture can be used and blah blah blah... then ended the presentation by showing the picture to the audience and placing two mirrors on it.

bah. miss huang wasn't impressed. at least i didn't get screwed.

lately been getting thrashed in randori. must be more flexible. and alert.

quote of the day: "Xin Yang stop drawing gonads." ng kia boon, a horny sec 2 gymnast, when i was drawing a klein bottle.

lesson of the day: sleep is a luxury for students. not for sportsmen.

screwed up some stuff. screwing up things is not good. argh.

i have a screwed up project. and it is individual, so no one to blame.
i have a screwed up academic year ahead. tons of unfinished homework, tons of things to mug, and every piece of fucking work will be counted. seems that i didn't have this problem in sec 2.
i have a screwed up science knowledge. 5 secs one beat my prelims score(which i did in sec2). and i thought this year's questions were harder.
i have screwed up judo. jimr can elaborate.
i have a screwed up body. everyone is stronger than me.
i have a screwed up memory. everyone has better memory and ability to understand things than me. sigh...my IQ sux lah.
i have a screwed up primary school life. no matter how i look back it just seems so damn wasted. like why we have a big topic called "solving problem sums" that involves 6 months of practice when they can just teach us algebra. which IMO is much simpler than drawing models and ratio and cross multiplication. chinamen rox.

sigh... i am so screwed up. never experienced this problem before. i noe many ppl are coping well with 4 managerial positions in 4 ccas(like ali), but i am at quite a loss. i don't want to look back some years later and say, "sigh...why didn't i do this..." seriously i need to balance judo, studies, and mugging(my favourite). i seriously feel like neglecting my studies to study(literally)... not that i am contemplating on quitting school...

screw lah. Who said rp provides learning at your own pace. you take your time to learn u screw up your first semester homework you are screwed for the rest of the year man. the spirit of RP is to mug 12/7 in november and december so that you understand everything first then do homework. which are in the first place supposed to help. hey, i don't mind rp. just give us less homework. certain departments are taking advantage of RP.

sigh. my life is so screwed up.

argh... i want to study... i like to study... but homework is preventing me from doing so... and they are supposedly part of studies...

crap lah. repeat sec three then repeat lah. it might even put me at an advantage.

homework is our common enemy. it is the counter-force of joy ; the end to free time ; the gaoler keeping us within the syllabus ; the hindrance of study. i protest against the great focus on the immoral cause; the drain of school resources: homework.

i shall live through this year in a fu1 yan3 se4 ze2 attitude. what if i get kicked out of RP? could mean the end of a smooth road to university. homework are the pebbles to prevent me from falling from the smooth road. but i think i have skiis.

ARGH!!! FIVE SEC ONES BEAT MY PRELIMS SCORE!!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I'M SUCH A LOSER!!!!!!!!!

today was the day... the interhouse science quiz. good stuff.

yiuyan screwed up the dice..... he mixed up the medium score with the hard score. smart boy. and nobody answered the hard questions.

i predicted that people would answer the easy questions first, then finally the hardest questions. however, the opposite happened. and the main people answering were sec1s. shame on the sec 2s.

khoo seng teck didn't take part. what a waste.

and i though this year's questions were harder than last year.

crap.... 5 sec1s beat my prelims score!!! ARGHHH!!!!!!! WHAT A SHIT MAN.

i set a question that killed the MC. "what is the common name for acetylsalicylic acid?" ali couldn't read it. kena jagged.

good thing that yiyuan remembered not to reveal the answer. but then, he screwed up the dice, so he still screwed up.

yuan cheng siang was being a bastard. he thinks he knows more than everyone else. (okay lar for a sec 1 he knows much more than me) but he is plain screwed up. and he let the whole LT know that he knows the f word.

and he was being very smart.

Alex:"What are the four bases for an RNA molecule?"
YCS:"Adenine Thyamine Cytosine Guanine"
Alex:"Sorry your answer is incorrect"
YCS:"OH FUCK ITS URACIL NOT THYAMINE"
Alex:"The question is now open to other contestants"
Another team guy:"Adenine Uracil Cytosine Guanine"
Alex:"correct"

jag boy.

another smart question:
"The metals X and Y are in steady thermal state. Which of them has a higher heat conductivity?"
Hullett:"Metal X"
Alex:"Sorry your answer is incorrect. The question is now open to other contestants."
Moor:"Metal Y"
Alex:"correct"

nice one alex.

YCS was being a bastard again by doubting the MC's decision. He said that the answer key was incorrect and the other guy's answer is insufficient. C'mon boy.

We must all learn from Amiyas---small, silent but deadly. In fact he scored twice the amount of points than YCS. Screw YCS lah. he fucked up the quiz. and fucked up bayley's reputation as well.

OMFG. The sec ones this year are damn zai. they are even better than the sec 3s. what they lack is just math. so i shall study math. :-Þ

Learn from Amiyas. He is the man. Highly recommended by Mr Xu Wei Zhen.

thought of the day: what will happen if a two snakes eats each other's tail?

quote of the day:

m00t participant: acetic acid.
alwyn: sorry, your answer is incorrect. the answer is ethanoic acid.

woohoo. half day

tok abt yesterday first

kae...CLE is crap. it has go nothing to do with character and leadership development. it is simply lifeskills. so we watched...or rather shown a video while we slept. crappy stuff. like how they mange stress. OH MY GOD!! I SO DIDN'T NOE THAT ALL THE OTHER TEENAGERS HAD STRESS TOO!! GOSH!! AND I DIDN'T NOE THAT STRESS CAN BE MANAGED!!! SO I LEARNT A FUCK LOT!!

went for interhouse science and creativity challenge rehearsal. purely for fun and boredness. and so i was assigned a role of handling the prizes. good choice. i wun kope, coz i have the best throphy already...haha... crap lah, they are all made of plastic lah.... my two gold(WHOOPS) throphies' colours are fading.

alwyn was being extra by putting on a funny accent. Ali was okay. and i was the m00t participant and thus they forsaw a lot of circumstances that they didn't expect. thrashed gordon. "partly" because i set half of the questions and seen all the answers before. and i answered the dragonfly question in the exact words as stated in the answer script. "maybe" because i set it too.

kay i shall not reveal any more secrets. u are welcome to see them for yourself. tomolo at 10am, LT1(i think).i can say that i can only answer about five of my own questions if i were a sec 2.

today went for another rehearsal. was more screwed up. coz yiyuan kept forgetting about the second attempt thingy. or my buzzer suggestion. great.

and i competed with a button masher+answer koper, and a sec 4 guy who was to train his buzzer skills. sadly i got thrashed. despite setting half of the questions, and the sec 4 guy answered the questions like how the answer script stated. despite being a complete stranger to the questions. one word...pro.

and alwyn was koping collabarium food around. i managed to see through and escape all his koping attempts until i ate one chunk of MSG. i hereby quote huanglu:"Collabarium food is nicely cheap and mysterious. you dunno where the meat comes from."

alwyn was doing his chinese compo. or more correctly trying to. sigh... how can he be so constantly distracted from his cause despite doing his work in such a conducive working environment with hardly any distrations? sigh.... alwyn...

not vey happy with my intellectual ability. i spent two months trying to perfect card throwing, and now i can throw hard but not straight. and daniel yip learnt it in 10 minutes. and is doing better than me. FUCKING GEPS.

sigh. gotta sleep. big event tomolo. hope yiyuan dun screw up.

thought of the day: if a rocket follows projectile motion laws with no air resistance with a graph of y=x², by increasing the height of the platform it is launched on, how much farther will it travel?
a. square root fo height
b. square of height

"The joy of capitalism" by Steven E Plaut is a good book. everyone should read it.

dicto simplicitor. if you are spotted reading it in a communist country you are as good as dead.

well okay. it is a fun book. it teaches you about capitalism and why communism is not good. like it said, communism will not work, and it didn't, and also how government intervention is mostly bad for the economy.

hasty generalisation. just because it seems right about these two point doesn't mean that this whole book is accurate.

ok, so i am in a weird mood. i am thinking about everything in terms of material gains. which is not bad. must be because of "The Joy of Capitalism".

post hoc. your view on the society hasn't got much to do with the book. in fact the book isn't even about that.

wtf i am countering all my own points on why i like "The Joy of Capitalism". i am really bored. but i got a shit lot to do. crap lot of hmwk, a quiz coming up 2 weeks later, a big event nex saturday....argh...so busy and still thinking about it coz its such a nice book. no, but seriously it is a good book.

et miseri cordiam. you are trying to ask ppl to read this book by gaining sympathy. ur busy-ness has got nothing to do with the credibility of this book.

FUCK LAH. just read it. it is good. esp for jimr who has been brainwashed by communists. i am brainwashed by capitalists. lets share ideas.

okay so i shall tok abt today.

i believe i can make a general statement that it is generally not easy to seoi nage ppl who are shorter than you. the shorter the harder. uchikomi and nagekomi was dramatically easier on miki. who is also shorter than me(sorry lah jimr...stating a fact)

today the training program was like yesterday. except that during the reaction practice because there was too much stoning. so we got 10 reverse push-ups, 10 diamond reverse, 10 wide arm reverse, one round front crawl, three rounds frog jumps, one round front crawl, three round frog jumps, then ten reverse push ups again. GREAT WARM-UP for the arms. i was slacking by spreading my legs. slacker me. seemed to give me an edge during randori today though.

today randori was nice. got beaten by miki and yongsheng and guxin. then decided to test makikomi on garry and hey it worked! and i proceeded to test on bryan. beat him 3-2 or 2-1. can't remember. heck, i beat him^^. almost beat timo. drew wif zhang xing. then last bout played wif emmy. threw him twice in exchange of getting thrown about 7 times. okay lar, he let me one... can tell from his continous use of uchimata when his flying seoi nage would work fine. mebbe he wasn't in the thrashing mood today.

strangely i was able to pull ppl towards me today. quite surprised when i managed to pull yongsheng in. i think it could be because the front crawls gave me a nice warm-up for my arms. or maybe everyone's else's arms are shagged while mine wasn't because of slacking.

hehee... on the upward cycle!! starting to enjoy randori!!! good sign!!!

after randori i left early for some science-interact club thing. called the RI-MINDS carnival. which was very screwed up. supposedly we are to launch rockets at 15 minute intervals from 11 am to 1pm.

then i reached to podium at 11am. one science club guy was there. he said he dunno wad i am supposed to do and asked me to look for alex. who happens to be a photographer. which means he could be anywhere in RI. so i spent 20 mins looking for him. found him. he told me to look for wenwei. who is also missing. so i walked around asking ppl where wenwei is. "there! he's there!" and i go there cannot find him, only to find a guy to claims he is in the opposite direction. they rock.

by the time i found wenwei it was about 12 noon. he told me the prob was that mrs yau ,who has the launcher, is not here. so we called a chem teacher and asked her to help us take out the launcher. she took quite some time. and there was no pump. how nice. so we waited for mrs yau. she came at 12.20 and said she didn't have the pump. so we borrowed one from the maintenance dept and set off to test. finshed testing at 12.35. then waited at the podium, while we got ready to launch. then the boss(chairman of science club) said "make there aren't any stupid idiots standing in front of the launcher(fyi, the launcher can launch a 1.5 kg rocket to a distance of 150 metres away)". and i made a not-very-kind comment:"but like you said they are stupid idiots"

so we waited. and they announced at 12.45pm that we will launch at 1pm. how nice. despite constant yelling and warning and signalling not to stand in front of the launcher many ppl were still standing in front of the launcher. which was pumped up to a nice 80 psi(max 110 psi, which is quite dangerous...). one person even kicked it. seems that they are not in MINDS for no reason.

so we finally launched it. they were awe-strucken by the champion launcher. one minds boy(who kicked the launcher just now, fyi) insisted on pulling the trigger, when the rocket was not pumped up at all. okay...so we let him pull it, and "surprisingly" it didn't fly. cool. then he yanked it even harder. still no result. he seemed to realise then something was different about the launcher. he still insisted on holding on to the trigger. as you may know, one cannot pump and launch a rocket at the same time. so we tried to ask him to let go. he wouldn't. so with the great help of a minds staff we managed to launch the second rocket. yay. keep stuff go home.

dats about it.