Brian a.k.a Po En

Taiwanese drama craze

2009-11-19T21:00:00.001+08:00

After exam there is really nothing muh for me to do... So that's why I started watching Taiwanese drama.

Well I couldn't stand taiwanese dramas last time because they are just like fairy tales. For example, the girl always finds herself to be the grand daughter of the richest man in Taiwan and all the crap, then there will be a 'happily ever after' ending.

That was how I felt a few years back but of course all this has changed now(hence the title). Recently I have been spending hours(sometimes 8 hours) a day chionging Taiwanese dramas. The two serial dramas I am watching now are really great. One of them, which I have finished watching, is great because it is really realistic and most importantly, it doesn't have those disgusting happy endings... But the downside of it is that it can be quite boring and less entertaining sometimes.

The second one which I am still watching is the story of my mum's generation. But I doubt non Taiwanese can enjoy this much because they simply won't get why a guy with heavy china accent proposing to a girl with heavy Taiwanese accent(to find out how it sounds like, listen to the dear ex president's speeches) is funny.

Ok I need to concentrate on the drama, shall end here~

Ps I sound naggy when I blog with iPod touch... Should blog with computer next time XD

First post with iPod touch

2009-11-15T00:55:00.001+08:00

Ok I know my blog has been completely abandoned after exam even though I said I would 'revive' it XD So what makes me want to write a new post after so many months? The answer is: my iPod touch~(FYI, I am writing this post with the virtual keyboard on my iPod touch, which I am still not used to typing on)

Still remember I said the next post I am going to post after exam will be my iPod touch? Well I was thinking maybe I should do an unboxing post in my iPod touch after exam, but there were simply too many distractions.(music, movies, games, you know, that sort of loud and red thing)

I think I will start updating my blog again now that I have written my first post after sooooooooo many months~ so look out for new updates!

DISCLAIMER

2009-09-22T21:53:00.002+08:00

I pronounce this blog dead from now on and I'll revive it when exams are over. (Which means the first post will likely be on my future ipod touch XD)

Ambush crafted feeling guilty.

2009-09-15T17:12:00.007+08:00

Today's a very special day as for the first time in history, I am going to blog about games. And the game so honoured to be blogged by me today is non others but......

MouseHunt!

Finally, after some frustrating time spent in the pinnacle chamber catching hapless mice for ambush bps, I managed to successfully craft my ambush!

Haha those who play mousehunt and have crafted ambush might be able to understand the joy when you finally crafted this nice brilliant trap after painstakingly collecting the ingridients.(especially those who risked crafting it at gm and was successful)

However, I crafted my ambush with quite a bit of guilt... Just now when I alighted from my bus, I suddenly realised the RGPS girl sitting beside me had fallen asleep and did not alight. I know she probably lives somewhere near as I saw her at the bus stop in the morning everyday. I wanted to go and wake her but I was already at the door so I had not choice but to alight, or I would end of missing the stop as well.

On the way home I was kinda guilty and was thinking: Even if I failed to get any ambush bps(I didn't know I already got it then), I shall not complain as it was probably my retribution for not waking up that girl. Then I went on thinking: If I crafted ambush later and failed, I shall not complain as well because that's called KARMA for not waking her up.

LOL and I started to curse myself(If my com got spoiled today... If I drop my mouthpiece tmr...) all the way till I went home. Now I think of it, the stop where I alighted and where she's supposed to alight was only 2 stops away from the interchange so it should be fine. But still, I'm really sorry to whoever you are for not waking you up. orz orz(I really didn't see)

Converse All Star Sneakers

2009-09-13T13:44:00.007+08:00

Something I wish to add on, on Thursday I went to Jurong Point to buy a pair of Converse sneakers.

I already have one pair of sneakers(and I wore it to the Spanish Fantasia concert)
<~The bottom one but this pair has high-top so it doesn't go with shorts and I don't really know how to wear it without looking funny except for covering it with jeans. Can someone enlighten me?( but i like its colour because you can't find any better blue sneakers in Converse shops now) So anyway, I bought this:

Well, this pair of sneakers kinda violate my principles for buying stuff because I really don't like to buy things so popular that you see everyone wearing/using them(eg. Crumpler) But then again I have no choice cos this is the shoes that go with almost everything so it saves me a lot of trouble.(But now i think of it, i wear jeans all the time) Also, it would be better to buy a pair of white(not shiny silver) sports shoes with a differeny colour logo cos it looks good with shorts. These two types of shoes basically cover all the bottoms I wear. Well, so that goes to my wishlist.

p.s Jeremy, don't say that I am crazy for owning so many pair of shoes XD...(which i know you will)

Sudden visit by great uncle

2009-09-13T12:56:00.002+08:00

Apparently my great uncle isn't interested to catch water from the merlion...

On Thursday, my mum suddenly received a call from Taiwan and my uncle told her that my great uncle(My mother's mother's younger brother) will be coming to Singapore later that night for a business trip. This great uncle, a close relative he might be, was a total stranger to me. The last time I saw him was 7 years ago when my uncle(My mum's younger brother) got married and at the wedding dinner there were so many relatives that I remembered none of their faces.

My great uncle works for an oil company in Taiwan and was coming to inspect the new oil tankers which will be transporting oil from SEA to Taiwan. On Friday he went to work and stayed in the tanker overnight.

On Saturday, he came back early in the afternoon and my mum decided to bring for a tour at downtown. They only took a 'short' walk. They first went China Town and walked all the way to Clarke Quay, where they visited the Raffles Stamford statue and took photos with merlion.(lol this part reminds of Jeremy trying to drink the water coming from Lionel's mouth) Then they walked to City Hall MRT and took MRT to Orchard. They had dinner at 鼎泰豐, a Taiwan restaurant but strangely has more popularity in Singapore.(But it's really nice) After that they walked all the way from Orchard Road to American Ambassy(Which is like at Holland Road?!) and took bus home. They reached home at about 10pm.
Summary of how far the walked: China Town ~> Clarke Quay ~> City Hall ~> MRT to Orchard Road ~> Tour around Orchard Road ~> American Ambassy

LOL After listening to my mum's recount, I was so glad I didn't follow them out and decided to complete my math worksheet. And it is also unbelievable that my great uncle, at his fifties, has the stamina to walk such distance after working in a ship for one whole day...

Today is Sunday and he's just left for his inspection on the second tanker, he'll be taking the plane back to Taiwan on monday.

BOOMS!

2009-09-09T16:12:00.008+08:00

Watch this, it's very motivating.

SLACK

2009-09-07T17:54:00.002+08:00

Today I basically wasted one whole day. I have been TRYING really hard to study, but didn't revise anything in the end. I am just in the wrong mood to study. It's seriously weird, I know i need to relax and slack a bit to have the mood to study, but i can't slack cos EOYs are coming.

Haiz, feeling kinda down now, should try to study in library tmr...

New Mouthpeice! Schmid 11

2009-09-06T14:37:00.005+08:00

LOL now I realise I have this habit of posting all events late. Didn't wanna post about buying mouthpiece at first but since Chinese full paper is so boring I should find something more 'constructive' to do right?(such as updating my blog)

On Friday(and today is sunday btw), after one whole morning of e learning I went to Windworks to buy mouthpiece. Quite a nice place cos it allows us to try a variety of mouthpieces before we choose the one that suits us best.

Trying mouthpieces was really fun and that Mr Yap was kinda weird(according to Mr Leng, all horn players are weird) so I found him really funny. In the end I chose my Schmid 11 and I can finally kiss my denis wick 5N goodbye!(evil laugh~) On Saturday I tried buzzing my new mouthpiece with a tuner and pitching high F. It feels harder but the sound is deeper and warmer(I can even feel the difference just by buzzing my schmid 11 and denis wick 5N) It's not really hard to pitch it on my new mouthpiece but I believe there will be more resistance when i try it on my horn.

Now enjoy the photos:

My new mouthpiece, no longer golden, but sounds better

Mouthpieces bought by the four of us

Lionel 'smoking' his mouthpiece and looking gay

p.s I just realise the horn I am using, a Jupiter horn, is actually a Taiwan brand.(which is made in Taiwan) When I was trying the mouthpieces, I saw a random Jupiter instrument logo, with lots of national flags below and the first one is actually the flag of Taiwan. It's really uncommon(the common flags that appear are usually USA, England, Germany or Japan) so I did some research at home and found out this shocking news... Why shocking? Because if you find a singapore brand that manufactures good quality and world famous musical instruments, you'll be shocked too.

Jupiter horns are actually quite despised by my section(*ahem*) and even by myself before the horn tutor said it sounded better than the Holton horns. Now I am proud of it, Jupiter horns are nice!(but still, I would prefer a alexander of course XD)

lol what a long post script...

Teacher's Day Post(one day late)

2009-09-01T11:12:00.007+08:00

Although the title of this post is 'Teacher's Day Post', I am going to post about this CD I've recently bought from England. This CD costs me 9.77 Pounds(= approx. S$23), which I think it's definitely worth it. The tone is really nice and the skill is simply awesome. The first song is already an 'ear' opener. In the Titanic Fantasy, the solo ends with a high D. Its tone so soft and gentle, yet the sound is strong and firm. It really makes ppl's hair stand.

Here's the tracklist:

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Now back to teacher's day. It's the same old things all over again, the cheesy performance, as entertaining as usual but not very inspiring.(One example would be the JC boy dancing 'Nobody' by Wonder Girls) I guess HCI was the earliest school in Singapore to be dismissed. By 10.30 I was home, waiting for others to be dismissed so we can visit Clementi Primary. Finally, at 12, Zi Xuan called me and we met up. We went to Clementi Primary, disappointed to find out that the gate only opened for us at 1.30. We went for lunch first and when we reached just in time to enter the school.

As expected, we didn't have much time to chat with Ms Chan as she had 3 batches of pupils. However, we had a really engaging chat with Ms Tang and before we knew it, most of the classmates who were not from her chinese class had gone home. After that we went to play basketball(we=me, Xin Rong, Jerald who's from basketball CCA, Zi Xuan, Hao Gang and Cao Qi), it's really fun but I somehow felt DAMN tired when I went home. In the end I only managed to mug a bit of bio before I was forced to stop, falling asleep 5 minutes after that(That's why this post was posted one day late)

Now I am still quite tired(I really dunno why), but I have to revise all the bio stuff so can't slack at all in the afternoon >.<

p.s Jerald owned in basketball man, Zi Xuan's also quite good cos he's agile. As for me, teaming with Cao Qi for half an hour(VS 3 ppl somemore) before Jerald joined us would be worse than drills for one whole afternoon...

對不起，我錯怪你了！

2009-08-26T20:10:00.007+08:00

Today's a lucky and unlucky day for me.

It's unlucky as I woke up LATE. Usually my alarm will sound first but I won't wake up after that. I continue sleeping till my mum wakes up and comes to wake me up.(so as to get the extra 10 mins of sleep) But today my mum overslept so I woke up late as well. As a result, I missed the bus I usually take.(I must reach band room by 7 to fall in for flag raising or I'll get punished)

You might be wondering, where is the GOOD NEWS? Well, the good news is it was raining this morning and FLAG RAISING WAS CANCELED. When I chionged into band room and grabbed my instru, ramaged through my bag for my mouthpiece, rinsed my mouth, chionged to the door, ppl started coming in the band room and I remembered Brandon(or is it someone else?) telling me 'Flag raising canceled, nice timing anyway~' LOL! but from tmr onwards I must wake up by myself, can't oversleep and expect it'll rain again...

Now back to my title(對不起，我錯怪你了！), the '你' here actually refers to extreme make-over.(an imba band song) The first time I heard it was during last weekend, when I was reading Harry Potter(random). My first impression of this song was 'wth, keep going loud and soft, damn irritating and so noisy' Yesterday I listened to it again(after being whacked by Qi Fan for saying extreme make-over sucks) and tried to appreciate the music. Only then did I realise the brilliance of this song. The impossible-to-do running notes, the blast-your-ear-off and soft-till-you-think-your-speaker-spoiled dynamics, and the as-if-there-is-super-glue-between-each-section togetherness.

I really have one line to say after listening: 對不起，我真的錯怪你了！

p.s decided to use different colours to highlight this time so that my blog doesn't look so red(like previous posts in band blog) Sorry for the weird colour chosen, there's a reason why I am not in AEP...

Do you pronounce pronunciation as 'pronounciation' or 'pronunciation'?

2009-08-24T20:25:00.002+08:00

Sorry again for not being posting regularly. There are things I can post definitely, but I have no time(too lazy) to post.

Nvm, what's past is past, I shall just post about today~

Sabbatical, oh I mean IDS(Inter-disciplinary studies<~even the name sounds so boring, haiz) was quite boring cos it's just like normal lessons, but at least we get to sit in LT4 the whole day to listen to lectures...

As you know since it's so boring I shall not elaborate too much on it in case you fall asleep...

Went to OBR after lunch. Very nice indeed, I had lots of fun with my horn(lol sounds so wrong). Held long notes and tried tonguing every notes, making sure they're clear. Didn't really practise songs cos I actually finished all of them already, just need to get my stamina back. Towards the end I was trying to play mononoke solos, managed to pitch but failed to maintain a good sound XD. haha I look forward to tmr's sectionals. When I heard 'we're supposed to PERFECT all the songs by tmr', I felt this excitement that I haven't been feeling since before SYF. Because I know I must stretch my stamina to the limit so as to improve. Don't think I'm crazy ok, at least being asked to do something almost impossible to achieve is better than being asked to 'finish notes and rhythm for your national anthem and school song'(-_-)

btw, I want to comment on YC's 'pronunciation'. This guy, if you still dunno him, has been corrected by me his pronunciation for FOUR TIMES. Most of you should also know that my pronunciation isn't very good either, then you know how 'good' he is. Nevertheless, I shall just share the fun with everyone(YC don't mind this, just for fun)

YC=YC's funny pronunciation

Imba pronunciation 1: 'Island'
YC: Iceland(this is classic XD)

Imba pronunciation 2: 'Titanium'
YC: T'ee'tanium

Imba pronunciation 3: 'Diana'
YC: D'ee'ana

Imba pronunciation 4: 'RhinoBot'(<~MH)
YC: R'ee'noBot

Looks like you have problem with all the 'I's...

Then today when I was telling KS about YC's pronunciation, I was corrected by him too!(<~retribution). I pronounced pronunciation as 'pronunciation' then he told me it's pro'nun'ciation. LOL, moral of the story: don't anyhow correct ppl's pro'nun'ciation...

p.s Next time if I pronounce anything wrongly, please correct me too cos if you correct me once it'll be corrected forever, if you don't I will keep repeating the mistake~(I really mean it)

The recipe to my smelly PE attire.

2009-08-12T18:35:00.006+08:00

Just FYI, the title was a parody to the english test question, 'The Recipe to My Satisfactory Life.'

An assualt to your senses just by looking at it? Well, you should really feel lucky you will never have to SMELL it...

The Recipe:

Ingridients:
HCI PE attire
Basketball
French Horn

Procedures(done in a narrative way):
My PE was probably the stinkiest thing I have ever 'created'(lol it somehow sounds funny) in my life(ok la maybe except my diapers when I was a baby) Anyway, this poor set of PE attire has gone through torturous activities today. Firstly, basketball. Basketball was probably the only sport during PE lesson that makes me soak my PE attire with sweat.(cos I don't play soccer) Basketball was seriously fun and enjoyable and my sweat was dripping from my shirt as I walked back to class.

You think it's already bad enough after PE? WAIT, there's more. There was OUTDOOR DRILLS in the afternoon.(OMG) So I had to take out the set of PE attire and wear it again and after one whole afternoon of sweating, there you have the nice smelly PE attire.

Haiz, I am kind of afraid of being smelly because other people might be affected because of me. But luckily, I seem to smell OK. Even after PE lesson(like today's), my friends can't smell anything as long as they keep a distance of 20cm from me(which is the case all the time) However today was a different case. My PE shirt smelt of an extremely disgusting acrid smell because I wore it twice.

I was really afraid my friends would say this as they walk pass me:
"Blimey, you emit an acrid smell of sweat!"
Hmm... this one sounds too refined, how about this?
"What the FU*K, you smell like some sh!t like that sia!"
This is much more realistic. XD

Fortunately again(Why am I so lucky today), nothing of that sort happened, so I myself am the only victim who have to put up with my smelly PE attire...

NOW YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN SMELLY PE ATTIRE?

Too many things to title my post.

2009-08-11T17:38:00.004+08:00

Quite a lot of things to do today...

History extra lesson, LEP, medical checkup, finished.

History revision, math hw, science hw, LEP hw, to go.

Too many things happened today, so i'll just be commenting on some.

First, MODI. I always thought there has to be a reason why the whole class despises you, why so many teachers dislike you and complain to cikgu te about you, why you are struggling to get a msg of 4 and below while other strive for 1.xx, why no one fights with no one in class but everyone fights with you. After being you LEP group mate, I finally know what the reason is. I don't care whether you change, it has nothing to do with me, but for the sake of the group members and for the whole class, STOP THIS NONSENSE AND BUCK UP.

Well, the above para wasn't me being emo, cos as you all should have know by now I don't post emo posts(or just occasionally). I shall move on. Medical checkup today was seriously a waste of time+money. What those nurses and doctor was simply taking my height(YES! I did grow taller and the school measuring machine is screwed.) and weight, LOOKING FOR my tetanus vaccination record on my health booklet, and putting the tick on the 'fit' option. Yes and this costs me $30+ and wasted one hour. Please tell me which of the above is something I cannot accomplish by myself? NONE! Oh, except the stamp and the signature, yes so i'm actually spending the money for $30+ for the stamp and signature. Haiz that's the tradition of Singapore. I have to spend time and money to get a MC, knowing it will do me nothing good but getting a 'absent with reason' on my attendance list.

lol this post is more like a complaint letter, sorry but i'm not in a very good mood today XD. Shall stop here before it gets too naggy.(Is it already?)

p.s Thanks a lot Jeremy for the chocolate, I finished it as I was writing this post. It's really very nice, and I kinda get what you mean on the letter. A MILLION THANKS~

Here you go:

SHOPPING~

2009-08-10T10:01:00.003+08:00

My crocs from the front.

The logo.

Yesterday I went to shop for things needed for OBS.

Didn't really finish buying everything on packlist, only bought clothes and shoes. Long pants are relatively easier to find than long sleeve shirts. I seriously cannot believe that so many shops don't sell long sleeved shirts. But anyway, still managed to get two long sleeve shirts. Why only two? cos my mum's principle of buying clothes is DON'T BUY TWO OF THE SAME SHIRT, so we've got to look for it one by one.

Something quite funny happened when we went to fox to buy shirt. My mum saw the wrong price cos there was a currency called 'P.R' something and it's at the bottom of the price tag, she simply took a glance at it and natually belived that was the price, which was only 16+. I was quite amazed then, how could a fox shirt be cheaper than that of a hang ten's? LOL when we went to the cashier then we got a shock, the two shirts we bought added up to $72, but it's too late so too bad XD. After that I went to see the price tag and I saw 'S$32' in the middle of the price tag. Haiz, stupid price tag, so misleading. but anyway $32 isn't that expensive, I felt quite lucky that it's only $32 and not anything more.

After buying the clothes we went to Vivo to buy 'shoes for wet activities'. LOL when I saw this on my pack list, only one type of shoes popped up in my mind: Crocs. I am one of those ppl who despised Crocs cos I found it ridiculous to wear some plastic shoes to places like shopping malls. But still, that's the only type of shoes that is waterproof and covers your toes right? Crocs might seem quite expensive for those who buy it for the first time, but I already knew although the shoes might look cheap, the price ISN'T CHEAP. When I tried those shoes, it gave me quite a special feeling that I can't really describe.(Like I am not wearing shoes?) Then when my mum asked me 'is it the right size?', I couldn't tell. Luckily the clerk told me the size fit my feet quite well(I dunno how he knew). After buying crocs shoes, I think I became more acceptant towards them cos they're not that bad afterall. So light and so comfortable...(and so ugly)

I feel it's a bit of waste to spend money on all this, such buying extremely thin long sleeved shirts so that I can protect myself from sunburn and not get heat stroke so easily. Well, it's not that I don't have long sleeved shirts in taiwan, but buying thin long sleeved shirts in taiwan defeats the purpose of buying long sleeved shirts because it can't protect you from cold, so I only have thick ones...

p.s I just realised I can't hand in my OBS form on tues. Friday I went to meet my pri sch frens so didn't go for medical checkup. Saturday When we went to the polyclinic in the afternoon, it's already closed. Sunday and monday it's also closed. And I'm supposed to hand in the form on Tues @@.

Hardworking morning

2009-08-09T11:38:00.001+08:00

Happy National Day!!!(When have I become so patriotic towards Singapore?!)

Woke up at 9+ today to watch the physics videos I'm supposed to watch and the do mind map...(Of course I've done other things like editing the HTML code for my blog and mousehunting XD)

LOL I felt so weird for being so hardworking. I should slack a bit from now on, leaving my japanese compo for the night and history revision for monday.

Anyway I will be going to buy whatever I need for OBS this afternoon(a lot of things man) so won't be free.

p.s I hope you like my new blog skin and don't find it too dull.

New Blog Skin

2009-08-08T19:08:00.001+08:00

Phew I just spent like the whole afternoon changing my blog skin. Didn't want a complicated one, but one as simple as possible~

Photoshots

2009-08-08T14:18:00.016+08:00

Felt like taking random macro photos today so went to google about photography and found that black and white is the most suitable for noob photographers like me to take nice macro photos.

After taking numerous photos and deleting lots of them, I came out with these 6 more presentable photos. Anyway, it's my first try so it may not be very good.
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Brian Presents,

Starring, Taylor Swift Album(Both CD and the CD box), Harry Potter and the Half Bloog Prince, my blanket, my CD player+Speakers, my mouthpiece, my stapler, my pencilbox, my correction tape, my thermometer, my compass set, my pen(s), my highlighter(s), random solar-powered head-nodding toy, my mouse, my keyboard and more.

Here you go:

Everything I do at leisure: reading, listening to music, or sleeping.

My favourite CD(for now) with my favourite speakers

My shiny mouthpiece

My messy study table.

The internal of my pencil box.

My computer table.
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I took some colour photos as well, but I guess my photography skills and my camera simply aren't good enough to make them look nice, so I didn't post them...

Will post more photos in future to make my blog more 'colourful'(my photos are in black and white @@)

blogger fixed

2009-08-08T11:49:00.003+08:00

YES I finally fixed my blogger. The toolbar at the top hasn't been displaying properly for the past few months and the toolbar for posting new posts has been screwed for a long time too, but now I fixed it~

lol thanks to JX's reply to Joesph on fb. Apparently there was something wrong with Joesph's facebook on his browser too. Then JX taught him to set proxy. The display problems of fb aren't really bothering me cos it doesn't really affect much, but the screwed blogger really makes me lazy to post new posts. After setting the proxy, I can finally see ALL the webpages displaying normally...

Wow, thanks a lot JX~

NDP+CTP

2009-08-07T21:17:00.001+08:00

Had NDP celebration today...

It's quite tiring, really. woke up at 5.30 to play for the parade. Everything was the same old things as last year, except the national anthem. I played the new score for national anthem, it's like spamming triplets all the way lol...

I was really shocked to find out that we're dismissed at 12.30, cos I WAS SUPPOSED TO MEET MY PRIMARY SCHOOL FRIENDS FOR LUNCH AT 12!!! Although I wasn't really very enjoying the performance and movie screening in audi cos I was trying to see if I could pon, I must say today's activity was AWESOME!!! Even I couldn't help myself from enjoying it towards the end~

After dismissal, I chionged back to clementi and was delighted to find out everyone else was just as late as me~ Went to KFC for lunch. LOL then Madeline came to join us with her 'friend'(*ahem* MALE 'friend'). It was kinda awkward and somemore I was sitting beside him. I, or rather the rest of us, decided to just leave them alone and I was like looking from the opposite direction from two of them till they left.(ouch, neck pain.) Actually it's quite unwise to bring your current classmates when meeting with old classmates cos you'll have two conversations going on at the same time. But she couldn't help it too cos she already made 'plans'(with her current classmates, I suppose) .when I asked her on thursday.. She sounded quite pissed off for not being able to come lol cos I informed her only yesterday. She kept wanting me to call Joedi to ask about today's gathering(almost delaying me from writing the 1k word essay)

After lunch we were wondering where to go. Kbox? That's our original plan but none of us sings(Well, it's not that i dun wanna sing, but i'm sure you would rather not hear me sing...) After some discussion(skipping 2000 words), we actually decided to go play basketball! Well, that sounded quite ridiculouse, we had three girls(Joedi, Jia xuan and Cherry) and two boys(Jerald and me), and one boy was leaving after lunch. So I happened to be the only boy there. fortuantely, I managed to call Xin Rong out to join us so I won't look too funny playing basketball with three girls...

LOL after that the boys play with the girls. Don't say we are bullying the girls ok, cos we actually got OWNED! I didn't play seriously cos Cherry actually whacked my nose accidentally after the game started(almost making me nosebleed) and I didn't want too much body contact with them(Yes, cos I'm 'really' not SR) But seriously I got owned by them cos I couldn't score due to some... technical issues? and FYI Xin Rong was not very tall so it's not easy for him to score either. After a while the girls pitied us and Jia Xuan joined us.

Haiz quite embarrasing mentioning this but I will just continue. Now my team has 3 ppl vs the other two girls, I must be really shameless to continue playing, but I did. The second round I did stop them from scoring, but passed the ball around instead of scoring. Jia Xuan is from netball so she's considered quite good in teamwork and all that so we still won in the end, but nothing to be proud of lol... Conclusion: Don't play basketball with girls; you feel too guilty to win, and too shameful to lose.

After 3 Jia Xuan and Joedi left, while cherry xin rong and I stayed to play. There were only 3 ppl so we just slacked around, and playing 'bullet'. Towards the end I was damn tired, but managed to complete it. Not bad, my 3 pointer after I finished one round of bullet got in XD

When I reached home I was damn tired, fell asleep after shower lol... and that's why my post is so disorganised cos I was still in the sleeping mood...

It's been long since I last spent my whole afternoon with my friends and had fun instead of mugging, so shuang~

Post.

2009-08-06T19:34:00.003+08:00

I'm really sorry that I haven't been posting regularly. I really have a lot of things to comment and share but I really have no time...

Today, I'm not really writing anything, just posting an post from my chinese teacher's blog:

伯恩的作文
今天讲完课文，同学很快速地做完成语练习，
虽然离下课的时间只剩几分钟，
但还是很想与大家分享伯恩的作文。

让伯恩朗读自己写的作文是再好不过了。
班上同学从一开始听，
就已发出怪声，那种嘻嘻笑的声音，
不时从四周传出，让人也忍不住想笑。

读到了“地理老师问的问题”，
那是文章的最高潮，
连我也控制不住猛然大笑起来，
笑得眼泪都飚出来了。

这已是我的第二回笑了，
第一回笑的时候是在改作文的那时候，
也是边改边笑，笑到不能自己，
因为我知道取绰号嘲笑别人是你们班上的次文化，
从文章的脉络看来，隐约可以知道主人公是谁。

很欣赏伯恩的文采并茂和敏捷思路，
在他的笔下，往往能将身边所发生的事情发挥的淋漓尽致，
正如之前的一篇有关“手指甲断的事”，
其实在记叙我在班上发生的糗趣事。
也是让我笑到飚出眼泪。

这一次站在俊荣被嘲笑的角度，
刻画出他那软弱的个性与无奈，以及同学对他耻辱。
虽然没有那么夸张，
但通过伯恩的描写，完全能让读者身历其境。
我在教作文时，也一直强调内容要有真实情感，
才能感动人，才能引起共鸣。

我想伯恩以后如果当医生，
也可以将医院的大小事写成书，
就像是台湾作家侯汶咏写的一系列医院的事，
也是非常的风趣好笑。
若不当医生的话，
也可以去当个记者或主播之类的工作，
保证你会红。：）

这次以“流泪”为主题的作文，
有些同学写的仍然是老掉牙的故事，
不是爸爸、妈妈去世、就是姑姑叔叔逝世，
连家里的小猫小狗去世也能让你流泪。
不是不能写这样的题材，而是你没经历过的事，
写出来就会让看的人觉得有点虚假。
但是，若真的亲身经历过生死离别的话，
也会让人读了想掉泪的。
这就是我所说的“真实情感”的表露。

记叙文就要有这种“叙事抒情”的功能。
就如你们现在正读的“近乡情更切”的课文一样，
从作者“毫无眷恋地要飞回自己的家乡”，
到朋友羡慕他归国的话“拨动了他的心弦”，
到“乘上飞往祖国的班机”的心情，
到怀念新加坡的美食和名胜，
到最后的“仿佛看到久别的家人在举目眺望”，
作者将他对国家和家的情感一步一步地推向高潮。
这就是这篇文章主要表达的“情感”。

同学在写记叙文时，千万要记得，
除了陈叙一件事外，
还是必须穿插一些心情或感情的描写，
这样，文章才会生动、感人。
Extracted from: www.cartyte621.blogspot.com

Well, after reading her blog, I can only say my posts are really not lengthy at all when compared to hers...

Of course the purpose of me posting the extract is not to show off how she praised me, but because I feel her post actually makes sense(WOW! UNBELIEVABLE!) I realise when writing a chinese compo, it's the best the write about your true experiences instead of making up one. Whenever I wrote about my own experiences, I can almost gaurantee an A1.(provided I don't go out of point like last time). If I make up my own story, it depends on my luck...

And please hor, although the first compo which I wrote about her breaking her fingernails was to niao her, I actually thought naively that this compo might stop ppl from calling nicknames. Now I think of it, it's kinda ridiculous. Just like what cikgu te said, calling nicknames is our class' subculture, you're not a part of 2o1 if you don't have a nickname! Don't worry GX, you'll have yours VERY SOON!!!(like tmr?)

Also, I want to highlight this para:

'我想伯恩以后如果当医生，
也可以将医院的大小事写成书，
就像是台湾作家侯汶咏写的一系列医院的事，
也是非常的风趣好笑。
若不当医生的话，
也可以去当个记者或主播之类的工作，
保证你会红。：）'

lol, 侯文詠 is indeed one of my favourite writers, I guess I adopt much of the humourous way of writing compo from him XD. And i like the last line '保证你会红。：）' somehow sounds very funny to me...

p.s I know this post is not really a post, will post my own stuff very soon, when I am free~

Test period...

2009-07-28T16:03:00.003+08:00

Hmm I haven't been posting for quite long, since I'm kinda free now, I shall update my blog slightly.

Well, today's assembly was really funny. Here's the discussion between one spastic boy and Dr Hon:
Topic: Teachers' prejudice towards students

SB=spastic boy, Hon=Dr Hon
(after few minutes of debate)
SB: "All the teachers are prejudiced towards me!"
Hon: "Then the problem lies with you!"
SB: "No! No! They all have misconceptions of me and they are prejudiced towards me!"
Hon(amused): "In this case, it is clear that the problem is with you and not your teachers, have you tried to change your..."
SB: "No, Dr Hon I really need to enlighten you on this!"
(whole audi burst into laughter)
Hon: "I see why the teachers are prejudiced towards you now..."

Lol, the guy went up to the mic and owned himself for the second time already.

Anyway, back to what I was saying(was I even saying anything?), today's math test wasn't really well done... Left two questions blank cos my brain was hanging, one of the questions is really ultra scam... Haiz~ Anyway, after calculating, I already lost 6 marks and I suppose there will be more mistakes... So may be a bit hard to get A1. But it seems to become a trend that I always screw up the first term test and do well for the second. So I'm not really worried...

Chinese test tmr, I'm not really worried but I felt slightly pressurised by SR. He's gotten 3 A1s for chinese assignments consecatively, dunno where he got his luck/tyconess/*ahem*'zhai standard' from. There was once I even lost to him by one mark in one of the assignments. WTH?

I'm dead.

2009-07-20T15:11:00.004+08:00

I'm so dead today...

Why? English Oral!!!

We're supposed to present a script on food hygiene individually, but it became a interview in the end.

This was what happened:
B=Mr balan
Me=me

Screw up 1:
B: Who are you representing?
me: I'm representing my project group(totally screwed answer!!!)

Screw up 2:
B: If you go to a hawker centre and speak to the hawkers, are they going to listen?
me: no.
B: So how are you going to make them listen to you?
me: We can gather them and give a talk on food hygiene.(I can also say I can hang the poster done by my group in the hawker centres to raise awareness, but I somehow forgot...)
B: Have you heard of unlawful assembly? Do you know what permit you need to hold a talk?
me: $@%$%@$%@#$@#$

Screw up 3:
B: So how does your group do the research on food hygiene?
me: um... we were assigned different tasks. I am in charge of doing the ppt and I have to refer to the summary sheet and do my own research blah blah blah...
B: Didn't I just tell the class I don't want to see patchwork? You're telling me what exactly I told you not to do!!! You may call the next person to come.
me: (oh sh!t. I'm dead meat!)

Well, my mind was in a mess cos I was starving and I might faint if I stand up too fast or run a short distance... Maybe that's why I wasn't able to answer the questions. Anyway, it's over now, so I'm not going to care either...

swimming

2009-07-19T16:03:00.003+08:00

I went swimming today.

Woke up at about 9.10, left my house at about 9.50. The swimming complex is really near my house(less than 200m from my house), came back at about 11.

Well, it's not really I suddenly become very sporty and I am so enthu that I want to swim on a sunday morning. But last wed we had swimming lesson in our shcool and I choked half way after swimming for 25m cos I was too tired. I can only swim freestyle, yes, freestyle is faster(I think that's why the person in front almost kicked my head), but it's also more tiring. In order to pass the test, I'm supposed to swim 50m without stopping/drowning/dying.

That's why I made up my mind to learn breast stroke today. The funny thing is, I swam 50m using freestyle as WARM UP and it wasn't too tired@@ Maybe the reason why I choked half way was because some warm ups were required after not swimming for 3 years. Nevertheless, I still spent 1 hour in the pool figuring out how to breast stroke(eg. looking at ~~pretty girls~~ fast swimmers underwater) By the end of the session, I can swim 50m quite easily, but I'm still quite slow...

Anyway, just like 2.4, I am only aiming for a pass~

Harry Potter

2009-07-18T23:14:00.003+08:00

I went to watch Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince today...

Well, kinda disappointing. Many scenes I'm expecting didn't appear. The movie ended abruptly and many scenes you can't find in the book somehow appeared in the movie and many scenes in the book didn't appear in the movie.

Overall rating: 2.5/5(You just passed!)

Had I not been a Harry Potter fan, I wouldn't go and watch the movie...

I think the book is really nicer...

PD

2009-07-16T12:08:00.004+08:00

lol pd is so slack...

I think my project went well, but it still depends on the judges whether I can go to the finals...

Busy night it's going to be tonight, but so sad I can't do anything right now. I have jap lesson from 3.30 to 6.45(meaning: whole afternoon gone), math worksheet(I brought it with me, but it's impossible to do trigonometry without calculator. Agree?) and history worksheet(which is at home)

Nevertheless, I have my CD player+speakers to accompany me~(lol, last time it was: I have my GwH to accompany me, but it's not that motivating now...)

hmm...

2009-07-15T22:00:00.002+08:00

Band prac today...

Well, as I expected, my lip muscles are screwed after not playing horn for two weeks(and this is called retribution)

Haiz. sad. band pd ace test, so many things to do...

Band Prac Resumes!!!

2009-07-13T17:32:00.007+08:00

YES~ Band prac is finally resumed. Well, feeling delighted and sad at the same time cos I really miss band prac but then if band pract starts I can't have the afternoon to do my work and listening to music anymore...

Anyway, no feeling of typing anything lengthy today, shall post some photos of my bday present and random stuff...

Here you go:

Tada~ Samsung CD player+ two Hi-Fi Speakers

Another angle...

Third angle...(sorry for the box of tissue paper on the right)

Random poster that my sis gave me...

Well, after listening to the Hi-Fi speakers, I can only say I will never buy any mp3 player in my life again. CD player+ Hi-Fi speakers is WAYYYYYYY better in sound quality than MP3 player...(CD vs MP3, Earphone vs Hi-Fi speakers.)

Moreover, some Hi-Fi speakers are actually cheaper than MP3s...(but of course if you buy those hi-end speakers it can still cost you a few thousand dollars)

p.s I just realise this player can play mp3 too, just have to put the mp3 in a thumb drive and plug it in as the picture shows. LOLx

= =|||

2009-07-10T14:47:00.001+08:00

No band prac=Nothing to write on my blog...

I hope band prac resumes soon... Although i'm sure I won't be able to cope with school work after band prac starts again, but who cares?

Long time no post!!!

2009-07-04T19:00:00.005+08:00

Yes it's been almost two weeks before I last posted. Well, you can't blame me cos i was really busy:

Right after band chalet(25/6, thu), my dad came to Singapore to renew our PR.

Right after we renewed our PR, I was down with flu!!!(Highest fever: 39.6, my record ever...)

Right after I recovered from flu, E-learning started. Well, you can't expect someone who's been sitting in front of the computer from 8am all the way to afternoon to continue blogging at night.

Yes! Now that my dad has gone back to taiwan, I have recovered from flu and e-learning has ended, I can finally start blogging again!!!

Today, went to Jurong Point with my mum to shop for my birthday present. Many people think it is weird to choose your own present and ask others to pay for it, but my family members (including me) really don't know what get for one another...

But, big trouble today, EVEN I DUNNO WHAT PRESENT TO CHOOSE! I realised birthday present becomes meaningless when you can have everything you want easily. I start from my head to my feet: branded shirt, branded watch, branded jeans, branded bag, branded shoes. I have everything and i really dunno what i want for my birthday...

Haiz, i wish i were born in the generation and in the family when you only get to buy new clothes during new year and on your birthday and you are the happiest person in the world if your dad gives you one second-hand watch that is still functionable... Suddenly felt quite emo when i think about it.

After a while, we went to a CD shop and I bought two chinese albums(五月天+梁文音）. Then I finally decided to go to sim lim square to buy a CD player+speakers to put in my room for my bday present and at the same time buy a laptop bag for my sister's bday present.

When I was in Jurong Point I saw a remote control toy car that can climb on walls. Quite special, I think i am getting it for my cousin when i go back to taiwan at the end of the year. but I am afraid it will spoil very fast, how if it runs out of battery when it is climbing high on the wall and just drop onto the floor... must think about it before i buy...(costs $39.95 leh)

Lastly, most amazing/funniest photo of the day:

買CD送Kopi O? Perfact match! XD

Shortest post ever!!!

2009-06-22T20:07:00.004+08:00

This is probably the shortest post I've ever posted:

BAND ROCKS!!!!!!
BAND CHALET ROCKS!!!!!

Will post more about it when I come back on Thursday...^^

OVERSLEEPING KING!

2009-06-18T14:01:00.006+08:00

Today I went to school for sectionals at 9. Woke up at eight, reached school just on time.

Only two ppl will be going, Jeremy and me. I was kinda shocked when I went to OBR and found that it was still locked. Jeremy is usually early when he goes for band prac. My first thought was: he must have overslept. I don't have the code to open the door so I could only wait. I went upstairs and stared at the side gate/daydreamed. After half an hour(which I almost fell asleep twice), I went home.

I wasn't frustrated or angry actually cos
1. I realised I didn't come in full PE attire.(Jeremy said there'll be outdoors)
2. I really grudged going to school for outdoors.(and at 9am in the morning, in Singapore somemore)

Was relieved when I got onto the bus lol.

but many factors have actually made me decide to go home. Had I known the code to open the door, I would have had individuals first; Had Jeremy's phone not been confiscated by his mum, I could have contacted him.

At 11+ Jeremy talked to me on msn. lol just as i expected he really overslept.

Haiz, the only thing I lost was just the two hours of sleep(and maybe 90 cents to travel to school and come back), but I got more time to do work/slack now~

Here's Jeremy's blog: http://itisbecauseofweiyangthattheworldspins.blogspot.com/
(I know the url sounds irritating, but it's quite interesting to see an event from two different views.)

Exhaustion...

2009-06-12T19:01:00.002+08:00

Went to school for the whole day for band prac...

I shall keep my lines as short as possible cos I'm too tired to type too much(and you're probably too tired to read lengthy post too~)

Outdoor drills in the morning. Almost killed me. I almost 'fainted' at first cos I didn't drink water since I woke up and perspired a lot under the sun. Felt better after drinking all the water in my water bottle. haiz, everything was so tiring under the sun. Stand straight. Look proud. Lock your arms. Clench your fist. Push your chest out(It just sounds wrong to me). I bearly had energy to walk back to OBR. After resting in OBR with refreshing air-con, finally felt less tired. Went for lunch with my section, flute section and Qi Fan.

Afternoon indoor band prac was sooooooooooo enjoyable(as compared to the morning). 80% of the time we stayed in air-con room. Had individual/sectional. Quite slacking cos we were all tired. JX was even sleeping against the sound-absorbing cushion on the wall.(and Jeremy and I even took picture of him, but he woke up just on time to delete the photos) Too bad I can't put the pictures in my blog to make this post more fun to read.

Haiz, I'm supposed to use as few lines as possible to finish my post, but still end up with two wordy posts... apologies.

Sectionals!!!

2009-06-11T16:43:00.003+08:00

Warning: The title of the post does not have to be relevent to the post(Trust me, I won't write such a long post just talking about having sectionals!)

Had sectional from 9am to 11am today. I was slightly late so didn't have time to warm up properly, I guess why I couldn't play properly at the start. Anyway, as you most probably should have known by now, what I talk about first in the post is usually not the main point...

After sectional, we went to Orchard Road(<~see? that's the main point). lol you may wanna ask, what can four boys do in Orchard Road??? Obviously we can't shop... Actually I also didn't know why I went to Orchard Road but I simply didn't want to go home so early. So we went there and had lunch(KFC, haiz I am really disgusted with fast food...) We met clarinets section there too.

After lunch we realised we've already done everything we can do in Orchard Road(that is, to eat lunch~) So I suggested, 'Why don't we go to LAN and play CS?' Cos I've been playing CS everyday at home and I can headshot ppl quite well now. Everyone agreed so we decided to went to LAN together. But there's a problem: three ppl are in school-related attire(SY, Jeremy and I) SY was wearing band t-shirt so it's not very obvious, Jeremy was in PE but he had a jacket with him, I was also wearing PE and I didn't have anything else to wear! In the end, no choice, had to go to Giordano to buy a cheap shirt. I bought the shirt for $10, it's totally 'designless', but nvm, I was going to LAN, not a fashion party...

As I expected, I got the highest score playing CS, but it felt quite different from playing at home. It's noisy and rowdy and I couldn't concentrate very well. It's also much more fun than playing alone~ Also my performance was really inconsistant, if I got a gun that I am used to, I could be the one killing all the opposite team, if I got a random shitty gun, I was usually the first one to die...

Kuws & HciBand In Concert!!!

2009-06-10T20:51:00.003+08:00

If you're interested, please contact me to purchase the tickets~
It's a concert held by a GwH band and a professional Thai band!

First holiday band prac

2009-06-08T18:39:00.002+08:00

Today went to school for band prac for the first time since June holiday.

Band prac was really fun(I dunno why I enjoyed band prac so much, maybe I'm weird XD). I think Mr Leng was quite happy with our progress cos we did lots of individuals to get notes and rhythm and we showed quite a great improvement today~

However, I haven't played/touched my horn for one whole week so it felt very tiring to play high notes and my tone was a bit screwed up too. Guess it'll take a few days to recover to my normal standard...

Please don't be disheartened by the lengthy post and exit my blog. I am writing such a long post cos there is something for me to write about.

Introduction to today's special event:
JX, aka Jie Xuan, horn section SL+Drum major(sec 4)
Jeremy, horn section ASL(sec 3)
Lionel, horn player(sec 3)

After band prac there was an... incident?(This is actually the main point of this post) When we were about the leave, I saw JX's bag in the shoeroom and smiled at Lionel, cos we used to screw JX bag for fun last time, but recently I stopped cos he'll get angry... Then Lionel said, "I must do something to his bag today..."(<~with an evil look on his face) The next moment I saw Jeremy hiding JX's shoe and both of them started running/fleeing. Instinctively I followed them and I was puzzled. WHY ARE WE RUNNING AS IF THERE'S A DINOSAUR BEHIND US? After we reached OBR then I saw Lionel putting a black 'thing' down(<~ don't be misled, it doesn't belong to any part of JX)

haiz got to start another paragraph to make the post look less lengthy. Then I realised the black 'thing' was JX's bag! So that's what we've(ok I mean they) done so far. Hid his shoe. Took his bag and ran to OBR. Then JX called Jeremy and Lionel and started Threatening them(could see from their faces that JX was quite pissed off) Almost a few seconds later I heard someone/something stomping down the stairs, IT'S JX!!!(<~lol I make it sound like JX was some kind of monster)

JX first reached for Lionel, I didn't see the details cos I was planning my escape route. The only thing I know is that he was pinned onto the floor the next second and JX was trying to strangle him and forced him to tell where we hid his bag(it's in one of the cupboards). Lionel refused/was too shocked to say anything, then JX looked up at two of us. Jeremy hid behind me quickly(<~this bastard!) I was not really scared cos I was innocent actually. Then JX said, 'Po En, move away.' Apparently I wasn't his target so I moved away, feeling kinda relieved. And again JX charged towards Jeremy and pinned him down on the floor. This time Jeremy told JX where we put his bag and even retrieved it for him... JX left the room, or rather he stomped off the room and threw a chair high up in the air(actually from my point of view it looked quite beautiful and anti-climax cos the chair was turning in all angles as it flew and it landed on the floor peacefully with little noise as the chair is made of plastic and the floor is carpeted)

After the whole incident ended I was left in OBR quite awkwardly. Everyone had something to do. One got pissed off, two got beaten, and only I was stoning in the middle of the room.

Then even worse, JX came in again with the other majors, namely QF, HY and JS. Then they started saying we deserved it blah blah blah...(ok but it made sense, it's really 我們自找的)

Haiz poor Lionel and Jeremy, they must be very traumatised...

Moral of story: don't hide JX's bag again.

Restaurant City Craze!!!

2009-06-06T00:21:00.002+08:00

LOL my whole family is into restaurant city on facebook!!!(yes, including my mum~)

This is how we are 'running' our restaurants:

Me: Desktop(with firefox)

Mum: Desktop(with IE)

My sis: Laptop

lol, it's really quite fun, but it's my mum and my sis who are really crazy, playing restaurant city for the whole night, while I just let it run and go play CS/do homework...

haiz can't believe my mum actually signed up for an account just to play restaurant city... @@

gtg now cos my mum wants me to let her use the com so that she can continue playing her restaurant city...

very special june hoiday

2009-06-04T18:06:00.004+08:00

Today I went to the subordinate courts as a student journalist. It's really a very special experience for me. I went to listen to many trials, where the lawyers, witness and the judges argued around. It's quite similar to debate, but it's at a really slow pace cos they need to cite all the facts clearly... Anyway, the place is quite creepy with ppl in suits walking around...(*ahem* I'm in polo shirt lol) And now I have to come out with a 500 word chinese article about what I've learned today... $#^#%^#%!

BTW, I am supposed to have a very free week this week SUPPOSEDLY and I dunno why my week was packed with activities... Here are my schedule for the first week of june holiday:

Monday: SPH-培訓營(8am to 7pm)

Tuesday: SPH-培訓營(9am to 7pm)

Wednesday: SPH(lol?)-discussion about zbComma(3pm to 5pm)

Thursday: Subordinate Courts-not that I got sued, it's a work attachment in the courts as student journalist...(10am to 5pm)

Friday: Science Centre-Science ACE opportunity!(2pm to i dunno)

Saturday: SPH(what?! again???)-compulsory #$%#%^#%(<~didn't hear what it is, but it's compulsory...)(2pm to wakarimasen) Sunday: Jurong Point-Movie~(slack the whole day!)

It really feels so weird to me having to go out everyday for all kinds of activities... but it's more fun than staying at home the whole day like my previous june holidays. If you compare my schedule for this june holiday to the previous ones you'll probably find that they're quite different:

Let watch TV/use com be x...lol

Let sleep to noon be y. ^^

Monday: y, x to night, x to at least 12 am.

Tuesday: y, reject friend's invitation to bday party(cos too lazy to change/go out), x to at least 12 am.

Wednesday: y, pretend to be sick to skip cca, x to at least 12 am.

Thursday: y, x, x.

Friday: y, sleep, sleep...

You see the difference???

Miserable Holiday(ok not really, just read on)

2009-06-03T20:05:00.003+08:00

hmm... Today is the third day of June, also the third day of June holiday.

On Monday and Tuesday I went to SPH early in the morning for 培訓營. The first day was really miserable. ok actually I shouldn't say this cos I know many ppl actually worked really hard to get the camp going on well. Yes, I learned quite a lot of things and the 講座 are really very useful to us. But there is just a 'slight' problem: THERE IS TOO MUCH! Just imagine sitting in an auditorium listening to lectures for 9 hours IN CHINESE(No difference for me, but I know to some of you it would be a even worse nightmare) with just a lunch break in between. At first it was quite interesting cos there were really quite a lot of learning points but after a while I lost focus and couldn't concentrate anymore(but the afternoon lectures were still great, just that I couldn't concentrate anymore)

And there goes my first day of June Holiday...

Second day was much better cos the lectures were so much more interesting and lively/funny, so I actually quite enjoyed the second day.

Same, I spent my whole day in SPH(with no regrets)

Today I WENT TO SPH AGAIN!!! One of the 編輯 from zbComma asked us to go to SPH today to discuss the contents about 逗號. Its duration was only one hour+ and we were all quite engaged in the conversation so it's quite fun. It's really enjoyable to publish articles on newspaper cos LOOK! EVERYONE CAN SEE YOUR ARTICLE!!! XD

And tomorrow(oh this blog is becoming my personal diary lol) I am going to the court for work attachment with one of the journalist! It's really a life-time experience for me!(and that's why i'm not going for sectional tmr XD, anyway I think I got most of the notes and rhythm already)

Hope I can have my own articles on zbComma soon~

p.s Addicted to counter strike these days...

I saw Jolin today!!!

2009-05-30T21:48:00.002+08:00

Today I went to Jurong Point and saw Jolin!!!

Actually I was going to Jurong Point to watch movie, not to see Jolin, but when I was at the entrance, I was thinking: 有沒有搞錯阿？？？ I couldn't even walk into the entrance cos it was packed with ppl and I had to squeeze into it...

Then My mum and I went to second floor, hoping to take a look at Jolin(since we've never seen her in person before and we were quite free then). Again it was amazing, there were at least three layers of ppl at all sides of the stage and I only managed to take a glance at her.(my mum was too lazy to squeeze into the crowd)

Well, she.... looked exactly like Jolin(LOL). Nothing special to me actually cos she's not really my idol(the fact is I don't have any idols, I only listen to the songs) and there wasn't much excitement cos it was damn crowded and I felt slightly dizzy after that cos the oxygen level was probably very low...

Now talking about the movie, we watched 'the night at the museum 2'. I was expecting it to be really funny as I had a good time laughing watching the first one. Apparently it's not very funny, or shall I say I wasn't in that good mood to laugh or something. There were many funny parts but I simply couldn't laugh, dunno why...

I kinda regretting watching this movie instead of terminator, cos I think terminator will be much better... NVM, watching it next week anyway(and I hope to watch harry potter also!!!)

Going to zoo for some activities tmr(we'll get to feed the giraffe!), got to sleep earlier tonight...

JUNE HOLIDAY!!!

2009-05-29T20:30:00.002+08:00

Woohoo, term 2 has finally ended!

LOL, very biiiiig mood swing, one enthu post after an emo post...

Anyway, everyone seems to be in good mood today cos it's the last day of the term. I heard Mr Lau saying 'Yeah!' to Mr Toh when I walked pass them haha, he's probably very happy cos he has just finished his last lesson~

Band prac was really FUN(to the power of 999) today! We played through the songs today, although it still sounded um... not very nice, but I could hear the improvement made by all of us. We even played machu picchu! The excitement was totally the same, it felt like the concert we held before SYF rather than SYF itself(cos in SYF I was serious, not excited). Of course we didn't play as well, but I felt really proud for the band towards the end of the song... haiz it can't be described with words(ok it's because I am not good in english...)

After band prac today, I seemed to love band a little more and I also realised I really love band a lot!

Term 2 has ended...

2009-05-29T20:05:00.004+08:00

Only today did I realise how time has passed...

I remembered when I finally got into HCI, looking proud in the new uniform;

I remembered when I woke up at 5.30 just to go to school early for the first day;

I remembered meeting my classmates for the first time;

I remembered when I went for the band trial, meeting my seniors for the first time(I think it was Jia Sheng);

I remembered when I went to join the band prac with seniors alone after all the sec 1s have left, hoping to take part in open house performance;

I remembered when JX told me I was in NBC;

I remembered how I screwed up NBC due to extreme nervousness;

I remembered doing badly for tests cos I didn't even know the test dates;

I remembered playing for flag raising for the first time;

I remembered swearing to study hard in sec 2s after sec 1 EOY exams;

I remembered the hardship and stress we had before SYF;

I remembered how we cheered in SCH after we got GWH for SYF;

That's my 1.5 years in HCI, looking back now, I'm pretty satisfied with my achievement so far. but I'm really afraid my HCI life will end way too fast for me. Soon sec 4s band seniors will be stepping down, sec 3s will take over. Soon I will become a sec 3, watching the sec 4s stepping down again and then our batch will take over. By then, maybe we will go to another SYF and get another gwh(hopefully) and I will be going to JC

This isn't much time left.

A significant post

2009-05-28T18:08:00.003+08:00

Now, guess why this post is significant.

Ok I don't think you'll know cos it's really too difficult(or too lame). It's significant because this is the first time I post two posts in a day!!!

Actually I'm posting again cos.... I feel like doing so? XD

Went to obr for individual this afternoon, just reached home ten minutes ago. the individual was quite efficient I think and I can play through mermaid now at tempo 120. It's really hard cos I'm playing first horn and all the notes are SKY HIGH! I had individual from 2.30 to 5+. Towards the end my lips were burning already, but still manage to finish mermaid notes and rhythm(It sounds quite nice) and John Williams...

Anyway, playing first horn is quite fun actually cos I can spam high notes/I can train on my high notes, but I'm just afraid I might not have the stamina to play through the whole concert...

(titleless) XD

2009-05-28T11:34:00.004+08:00

Slacking in IS lesson now muahaha~(cos I've finished my work)

Just trying out this 'titleless' title for fun cos I really can't think of any title...

Haven't been blogging for a few days, I was shocked that someone actually came up to me and asked why I haven't been updating my blog regularly, so touched that there are ppl reading my blog!

Ok, I shall start my post(<~very lame starting line)
Last week of the term, only one word to describe: BORING!!! During assembly on Tuesday I listened Malay culture for 80 minutes, agonising... Ok it's not really very boring but I think it's hard to stay awake after listening to the same topic over and over again for 80 minutes...

Then again on Wednesday history lesson I listened the topic communism for one whole period. Every presentation tells us the definition of communism, etc. Same, really hard to stay awake. Also, the ppt slides are as wordy as history essays. and the last group consists of blowey and popopopo, they are as monotonous as the history teacher himself...(I dunno whether they're presenting or they're trying to put the whole class to sleep. If it's the latter, they've definitely achieved their objectives~)

Band prac in the afternoon was far more interesting than the lessons, We had sectionals with the sec 1s junior, and just as expected they sounded like sec 1s, but I think they're going to be good horn players(might own me) next time cos they're improving pretty fast...

Today is much better, but have to endure double period chinese later, so SAD!!! Going for individual in the afternoon, apparently I'm OWNED by the mermaid notes and rhythm... Ten minutes more to end of IS(slacking) lesson, shall end here(cos I've got nothing else to say haha)

p.s to whoever(yong dick, bright hui, lililililililililililililililililili and pig bird egg sheep) who posted random shit on my blog just now(unauthorised!), nvm, nvm, nvm, I will forgive you, I will...

KS house

2009-05-25T18:09:00.002+08:00

Woohoo I went to KS's house today, just reached home twenty minutes ago...

We played billard(which I got owned completely), table-tennis and poker(big two). It's really fun and I think this week is the only week that I can relax a bit before my busy june holiday schedule(but I seem to be enjoying it, I must be crazy...)

Big two was really fun, but I shan't play too much, later I got addicted...

Then when we left KS house we(Andika and me) were trying to find our way to the MRT station. Apparently both of us are pretty bad at directions(especially me...) so we got lost in the end XD. Luckily after KS and his mother told us the way we eventually found the MRT station...Amazingly I don't feel panicked at all cos I was so sure that we would find our way~

This incident really shows that Singapore is a quite a systematic country. Of course we can find our way easily cos Singapore is really small, but I feel quite secured cos I know any bus will bring me to a nearby MRT station and I will definitely find my way home in the end. If someone drove me 100km away from my house in Taiwan and dumped me(and I happened end up in a countryside with no taxis and no phones, which is impossible actually), the only thing I could do is maybe find the nearest police post and ask the police to take me home... Ok pretty bad and unrealistic example but anyway, Singapore is a nice place to be if you are to get lost...XD

p.s perspired a lot when we're trying to find the MRT station, better go take a shower before dinner~

Angels and Demons

2009-05-24T19:01:00.002+08:00

Went to watch Angels and Demons today. Quite okay and much better than Da Vinci Code(I mean the movie, the novels are both great) but same thing all over again, the movie can't feature all the details clearly and I think it might be slightly confusing for those who haven't read the books.

Before the movie they played a trailer of a horror movie. I think everyone was shocked to see that and the scenes are quite disturbing. Can hear some kids crying after the trailer. Haiz, horror movies suck. I was slightly late cos I went to toilet and when I came back that bloody trailer was being played... I think that movie was PG(ridiculously) and its trailer was therefore allowed to be shown. Anyway, very irritating.

Oops I went off topic again... The movie was quite nice but it might be a bit dull to some of you, or maybe just for me cos I love to watch action movies. XD I'm so excited cos there are four movies showing now and I want to watch three of them(the one left out is that irritating stupid sucky horror movie). I also look forward to Harry Potter(6)~ Woohoo, so nice~(<~typical movie lover...)

Zoo CIP(2)!

2009-05-23T22:13:00.002+08:00

Today went for zoo CIP again, or I shall call it conservation ambassador training...

CA training consists of two trainings and we will be assessed on our speaking skills and animal knowledge, etc, and if we pass the test, we will be going for 6 sessions of tour guiding the visitors to raise awareness about conservation. Sounds fun, doesn't it?(ok doesn't sound fun actually, but it's really fun~)

I really enjoyed it sooooo much! At first I thought it was just some random CIP activities but after joining I find that it's really a enjoyful and meaningful experience to me~

Yesterday night I downloaded the notes online and was shocked to see the notes have 30 pages and I'm supposed to memorise them for the assessment today. Luckily chionging notes at night is a very common thing for me so it's not that tough after all. XD

Today we went through briefing in the morning and then we were tested in the afternoon. It's mainly on our speaking and presentation skills, cos they don't expect us to be experts in animals for just two trainings. Well, I did ok actually, though my command of language(especially english) and speaking skills aren't very good. There are many adults who are much more mature than me and can speak really well(well, just as adults do haha).

I presented on kangaroos and after the event ended, I really learned lots of things on animals cos I listened to everyone's presentation as well. Also, it's completely different when you present to public instead of your classmates, so it's a brand new experience for me~

One more thing great about this event is that we can make lots of friends and everyone is quite friendly to me, mainly because they're all quite mature, unlike me... and I really feel like a kid there lol...

However, there are a group of boys from a sch which shall not be named(*ahem* a very 'independent' school) They seem to be playing a fool as compared to the others and I heard they all failed the test in the end. Haiz can't blame them actually cos if I went there with my classmates we/they would be playing a fool too, but when all your peers are so mature, you are forced to behave maturely.

longest post ever~

2009-05-22T20:21:00.002+08:00

Warning: This post will most likely be the longest post I've ever posted.

ok, many things have happened these two days. I feel that quite a number of them are quite interesting and it would be nice to share with everyone~

Yesterday I overshot on my bus by one stop. It's not because I've fallen asleep, but cos no one pressed the bell! 1/3 of the ppl on the bus alight on the stop in front of nanyang girls everyday and yet on that day no one pressed the bell and the bus drove straight pass the bus stop... I could hear a lot of 'oh shit's(including me) when they realised the bus didn't stop... LOL

During Math lesson Mr Toh was doing some 'demonstrations' on equalities and asked, "who's the tallest person in the class?" Straight away names like GX and ZX came to my mind. Then I heard the funniest name in my life. The class suddenly started shouting 'Kane! Kane'... For those not in 2o1 Kane is 140+(or is it 150+) and is not the tallest but at the other extreme end. The even funnier thing is that Mr Toh actually chose him as example. I feel so sorry for Kane~

During Jap lesson in the afternoon I presented my oral assignment finally... Haiz, I rehearsed for so long and did ok(no bad lah?) for it but I screwed up totally during Q & A cos I freaking don't understand what sensei is talking about. LOL

Today morning the stupid bus came either too early or too late today. The timing has been VERY inconsistant this year and I kept missing the bus man~ Today the same thing happened, and I had to go to another bus stop to take another bus so as to make it on time. but in the end I'm still late cos of traffic jam... Haiz JX said it's last time I can use the bus as a reason for being late, but the fact is i can't help it too... SAD

Ok, by now you should have realised that my post is quite sucky(ok it really sucks) cos I'm not exactly in the very right mood to post. During band prac today I realised my tuner's green light doesn't flash anymore. It's obvious it spoileed during the period I lnt my tuner to JC ppl. Now let me tell you why it is so important. Green light flashes when you're in tune and without it you don't feel very good when your note is in tune as you don't see the green light flash(ok it's really lame XD). Another reason is that in dimmer environment you can't see the needle and have to rely on the lights to see whether you're in tune, so it's very inconvenient now that it's spoilt... I don't care, when I pass the tuner to them it was in PERFECT condition, not even a scractch(bought it for less than a month), and now it came back with scratches(i don't mind actually, things always get scratched) and with slight malfunction. I feel that it's really unfair to me, so i'm most probably going to make them pay for the tuner and I give this tuner to him, then I can use the money to buy a new tuner.

phew, once again, sorry for the long post...(it's a complaint actually haha)

CSM

2009-05-20T13:07:00.004+08:00

I'm home so early today!!!

CSM is really quite boring, but we get to go home early don't we? so it's worth enduring~

Today we(band ppl) just walked on Kah Kee Drive from high school side to JC side. to and fro, to and fro, to and fro...

Actually we were supposed to try to get phone numbers of NY girls while walking around but in the end no one did it except Qi Fan and Elliot(come on, even if a stranger tries to get my handphone number, I will refuse, so it's like mission possible...) Qi fan and Elliot went to two NY girls i think, and I thought they were going to make it, but as one girl started chatting with them, her friend pulled her away... 残念だ...

Then I went to band room to look for my tuner again, and finally found my tuner. Apparently Jason put the tuner in the wrong cabinet. There are lots of scratches on my tuner, showing that it's been mistreated(dropped on the floor, etc), but it's still functioning perfectly. Haiz, poor thing.

MY TUNER!

2009-05-19T22:33:00.002+08:00

I'm supposed to get back my tuner today, which I lent Jason few weeks ago for JC SYF...

He said he put it in the horn cupboard but I couldn't find it during band prac today. SAD.

I hope it is not lost, maybe it's just my eyes(wear the wrong specs maybe?) or Jason put it in the wrong cupboard...

Anyway, going to SALT centre tmr to try to find my tuner~

Post-test QUIZ TIME!

2009-05-18T17:36:00.008+08:00

I've come up with a random idea today...

I will put down all my marks for my tests on the left and the subjects on the right, then YOU shall try to match the marks to the respective subjects!(ME=RANDOM!XD)

For those from 2o1 it shouldn't be too hard for you since you should roughly know what marks I get~

Enjoy the quiz~(sry no prize for the quiz due to financial difficulties XD)

A. 39/40(ALMOST...)aaaaaaaiaaiaaa1. English

B. 37.5/40aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaai2. Chinese

C. 45/50aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaa3. Math

D. 68/80aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaa4. Chemistry

E. 19/25aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaaiaaa5. Geography

F. 14/20(so sad!)aaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaa6. History

G. 19.5/30(really sad!)aaaaaaaaaaaa7. Literature

H. 19/30(extremely sad!)aaaaaaaaaai8. IS

Answers below:
A-3
B-4
C-8
D-2
E-7
F-6
G-5
H-1

Results not as good as last term... I didn't do too well for my English cos I was sick on that day and made LOTS of silly mistakes(so silly that it's funny, such as writing roll-playing instead of role-playing. LOL) I screwed up geography completely for some unknown reasons...nvm, I'm still satisfied with the results, will work harder next term(full time mugger)

Let's PLURK!

2009-05-17T17:35:00.005+08:00

I just started using plurk after seeing Madeline's blog...

Just look at my sidebar(below the shoutbox) and you'll see how it works. It's really fun and useful especially when you don't have time to write a new post.(Having said that, I don't have time now and yet I'm still writing my blog XD) You can just post your feelings there~

So I'm here to promote plurk because I shockingly found that only two ppl in my msn contacts use plurk~ Do add me as friend when you create your own plurk account~(click here to sign up~)

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Somethign extra:

Read this first before you continue~

I just read that China has banned plurk in its whole region... find it very ridiculous, and some Chinese(as in ppl from China, not the race) are arguing that China is not under communism anymore... I STRONGLY DIAGREE AND HERE IS THE PROVE! And I really don't see why China has to ban this website... maybe someone insulted China using plurk before???

Last, just like the title of the report: Plurk wants to make peace, not war! Lift the Ban!

p.s shouldn't say too much, later my blog got banned too XD.

zoo CIP

2009-05-17T13:40:00.004+08:00

Sorry for the long posts(including last times'), cos I really had a long day...

I went to a zoo CIP yesterday. It was fun and I really enjoyed it.

The night before I was in delimma cos I have to choose one from the open house CIP from HCI or the zoo CIP from TXY. The zoo CIP is going to be very tiring so I wanted to go for the open house, but I was later told the zoo CIP is compulsory as I've already signed up for it so I had to tell JX I'm not going for open house.

Then, I went to read the criteria for attending the zoo CIP and found I was actually underage(age limit=15, I'll only be 15 after my bday in july) so I had to tell JX I'm going for open house again.

THEN, the person I/C of the zoo CIP told me they count the age limit by the year so I was officially 15 to them, and since I've signed up for it, it's still compulsory. And again I had to sms JX I'm not going for open house.

Actually I didn't want to go for the zoo CIP, I knew it would be fun but it's from 8am to 6pm(and I had to wake up at 6am to reach the zoo on time). The open house CIP is from 9am to 1pm(and I only have to wake up at 8) But I didn't have a choice so on I still attended the zoo CIP...

It was really fun, it wasn't really the actual CIP but just the training session. We still have to go to the zoo for at least 12 hours to guide the tourists during the holidays. We toured around the zoo and then we went 'behind the scenes', this includes touching the animals, etc.(which is really fun) During the CIP, I felt like I was a kid again, cos I bearly met the criteria for age limit and I was one of the few teenagers there. Most of them were either JC, poly or uni students. There were only a few secondary students and among them I was the youngest...

After the activity I went to SPH to help out, this is my first time working there after I got into TXY(I was really busy before that). We worked all the way till 8.30.

On my way home(MRT from Toa Payoh to Clementi), I met a few pai kias on the MRT. There are two 'parties'. One guy from a party was scolding another girl from the other parties. ok, not really scolding, he was just telling his friends about the other girl, which was meant to be heard. Then the girl was doing the same thing. AND I WAS STANDING BETWEEN THEM! I bet I haven't heard that much vulgarity since the start of the year and almost every sentence they said it contained at least one vulgarity.(most popular: KNN, CB) Actually I don't really care cos it has nothing to do with me, but ten minutes later I realise I was taking the wrong direction and I didn't realise it before cos I was listening to their arguement... haiz 自作孽不可活...

On the way back home(in the correct direction), I was thinking how come I haven't been hearing lots of vulgarities. Most probably cos hwa chong ppl don't really use vulgarities. ok, we might use it to curse sometimes(most commonly used: s***, f***) or say it when we are just joking with someone. But when we really want to insult someone and want him hurt seriously, we seldom use vulgarities cos it's not powerful enough.

When I reached home I was REALLY exhausted... Haven't worked so hard in my life before~

YES!

2009-05-15T20:34:00.005+08:00

Finally I think I will be free from now on...

All my tests finished(except Jap and english oral). Got back my Science paper today. The paper is not easy, it is extremely/super easy. For the first time I think I can really get FULL MARK if I don't have any careless mistakes. Of course it didn't turn out that way, I forgot to balance a chemical equation and made other random mistakes too. Got 37.5/40 in the end. Again I FAILED to top the class. It's really sad, YC got 39/40?! I'm not saying he didn't deserve getting such high mark, but it's sad that I couldn't get higher than him...(When have I become so kiasu???)

Also got back my lit paper today. There are only two explanations for me getting A1 for lit for 2 terms:
1. Gilbert is really nice to us.
2. Miracles can really happen twice.

I thank God for that. orz orz OTZ OTZ

On the bus home something interesting happened... An Ah Bei was watching the 7pm Korean Drama on Channel U(That's um... interesting.) using something like an MP4. He played the sound really 'soft'. Even with the loud music coming out from my in-ear earphone, sound of the engine, sound from tvmobile, I can still hear clearly the conversations going on in the drama... Haiz, very inconsiderate.

All the same...

2009-05-14T20:50:00.002+08:00

I thought my busiest week for the term would be last week and I was totally wrong!

This week is just as busy, tests, random stuff(Chinese drama)...

Haiz I am actually not supposed to be writing my blog but I really have to take a break. Anyway all the work(tonnes of them) for today are not that urgent, and my tests are all finished except Japanese and ENGLISH oral... Damn irritating, end of term and still have lots of english assignments. But no choice, just finish them all and enjoy my june holiday(which is likely to be filled with events too)

Um, today was chaotic. It started pouring when I left my house and my umbrella served no function as I walked to bus stop. My lower body was totally drenched and my feet were soaked in water and my poor feet had to suffer the whole day. When I reached home, my feet smelled... um I'd better not describe it in case anyone of you are eating right now. Math test is quite all right, got back chinese paper, got A1 but failed to top. Stayed back till 7.30pm after japanese lesson, left my math file at the language centre but my friend(Brandon) brought it back for me...

Ok I should end here before this post gets too wordy(Is it already?) and I actually still have work to do...

Busy week

2009-05-09T11:28:00.004+08:00

My blog is almost dead this week, mainly because I haven't been posting anything...

haiz this week is realy a very busy one for me. Why must everything come together in just one week.

I have

Five tests
Band
LEP 1000 word chinese essay(this is crazy)
Chinese Drama Rehearsal(this is a waste of time but we must do it)
English assignments(made me sleep at 12 T.T.)
Revision for two tests next week(Science and Math, must get A1 so have to mug)

Finally this week is going to pass, but i'm still left with chinese essay, revision for two tests and chinese drama rehearsal! I just hope I can quickly finish them all...

Total randomnessssssss

2009-05-06T23:08:00.002+08:00

Just found this on my own blog :

發發發！Nice I like the number!(RANDOM!)

Interesting things yesterday...

2009-05-06T16:30:00.002+08:00

I'm finally free today!(not very free actually, have geog+chinese test tmr and have to write script for chinese drama, but nvm)

I'm now going to write about what happened yesterday. Three funny/omg/evil things happened yesterday...

Firstly, I forgot to put on my colar pins and school badge! One of my classmates pointed it out to me and I had to hide from all the teachers(TCW, SK2, etc). I was really lucky that I didn't get caught by any of the teachers except one, my English teacher. I went up to him and asked him some questions and he asked me in a stunned look,'What happened to your shirt???' He was in a good mood yesterday and let me off...phew~

Secondly, I screwed Modi upside down! We had lunch together and he went to buy drink half way. When he came back and started eating again. I scammed him by telling him I had done something to his food and he has already eaten it. Then he started asking me what I have done to his food. I kept saying thigns like 'No use telling you, it will just make you feel worried, just forget it' 'it's not too serious, trust me, at most you get stomachache.' 'Nothing, really, nothing!' All this made him feel even more troubled and the truth is I didn't do anything to his food. LOL he was still troubled during LEP lesson. I think he looked like he's going to kill me when I told him the truth today...

Thirdly, I met Mr Balan(the english teacher who caught me without my colar pins and school badge). He took bus 156 too and I couldn't sit down even if there were seats around cos I dared not go near him. I was really scared he would come and scold me. Luckily nothing has happened~

My post is quite sucky today cos i'm not really in the mood of writing on blogs, but nvm, have to write chinese drama script/revise geog/do english assignment now~

Mother's day special

2009-05-05T20:48:00.002+08:00

I can't really post today cos I have a literature test tmr and I am running out of time~

Will post about the intersting things(trust me there is) today.

Now I just want to wish all mothers in the world a happy mother's day and share with you this video. It's simply brilliant(and very funny)! Happy Mother's day once again.

Ok I really gtg. Bye~

H1N1

2009-05-04T15:42:00.002+08:00

Saw many changes in school today due to swine flu'...

First, when I entered the school and walked towards the band room, a teacher(forgot who he is) was asking, 'Are any of you feeling ill? Are any of you having fever?' I was like LOL! I suppose they call it 'visual checking'...

Then there were two temperature taking exercises during lessons. The BEST thing is: I forgot to bring my thermometor! Haiz so I had to go to general office to take temperature. Dunno whether I'll get demerit point, but i don't really care. Life is not perfect anyway so it's fine to get a demerit point every year XD.

I went to band room to play my instrument until 2.30. When we were leaving the school we found that the main gate was LOCKED?! So had to make a big turn from the side gate.

Haiz I found that it's a bit of over-reacting. The flu' haven't even entered singapore so what's the point of doing all these? The priority now should be keeping the virus out of Singapore. Of course I still support the idea of being careful. And all these troublesome things will get us ready when the virus enters Singapore... so got to bear with it~

I'm also very scared that the swine flu in hong kong will pass to Taiwan... So many flights flying to and fro, very hard to prevent.

p.s swine flu' spreading, tests still go on, so I still have to study~

OH SHIT!

2009-05-01T11:18:00.004+08:00

I'M SO F**KED UP!

When I was about the revise my history just now, I realised I left my history file in school. And my history test in on Monday, third period...

Fortunately zhi xin lives near me and I can phpotocopy his notes to revise...

Tonight I'm gonna watch a 舞台劇(kinda forced by our LEP teacher, but I don't mind watching actually), hope it's nice~

Haizzz, all my tests are in next week so have to revise over the weekend...

Therefore, these three days=stay-at-home-to-mug-day.(I feel I'm really kiasu, we don't even have mid year exam and it's just term test...lol)

ok, shouldn't waste more time, must revise other subjects first.

p.s million of thanks to zhi xin(and ming ren who told me where he lives) for being so nice to meet up with me and lend me his notes to photocopy~

勾起我童年回憶的木瓜牛奶！

2009-04-29T18:57:00.005+08:00

(My first time having a chinese title in my blog~)

Yesterday Po Rui came to me and told me the vending machine in the canteen is selling papaya milk from Taiwan. I was very surprised and couldn't wait to try it. After LEP lessons we went to canteen. It's quite a small packet and cost only 70 cents. I quickly got one and tried it. When I took the first sip, it was really touching! It tastes exactly like those you can find in 7-11 in Taiwan! (and why is this supposed to be touching?!)

Now as you know our drink stall sells papaya milk too(that's really rare in singapore). After comparing both dirnks, I find that both have their goods and bads. The papaya milk from taiwan tastes nicer overall as it has deeper papaya taste, but the milk is not 'fresh' milk so it tastes a bit artificial(aiya my description sucks). The drink stall papaya milk has lighter papaya taste(mainly because it's less sweet) and the sweatness mainly comes from the syrup that is added, but it uses 'fresh' milk so it's healthier.

Last, 沒圖沒真相，請看：

Papaya milk in the vending machine.

Papaya milk... on the canateen table?!

p.s When I went to the canteen in the afternoon, I realised it's been SOLD OUT!!! I hope they will restock it tmr.(lol I'm addicted to it already.)

Getting sick at the wrong time...

2009-04-29T18:42:00.005+08:00

Haiz I'm really unlucky.

For my one plus years in HCI, I always get sick at the wrong time(important times especially)...

I got sick the day before sec 1 EOY exam started!

I got sick the day before SYF!

I get sick now when swine flu' is spreading/term tests start!

What the $T^#%#$%#$%#$%#$%!

Something extra: I think jie xuan won't believe I am really sick today. He would have thought I skipped the sectional pretending sick. Haiz even I didn't expect to get sick. I woke up with slight sore throat. I was well and energetic and even threw discus during pe lessons. Then during chinese drama lesson I started to have running nose. During lit lesson(in com lab) I started to have blocked nose. During Math lesson I needed tissue paper to blow my nose. During History lesson I could hardly concentrate... and during English test later on, my nose was really killing me!(lucky it's just writing. If it's a math test I would have failed) After the test I felt extremely tired and uncomfortable(I mean my nose), so I went home.

On the bus home then did I see jie xuan's sms: sectionals at 4 today. reply to acknowledge. Anyway I was really very ill so didn't go back to school...(If I wasn't sick jie xuan would really screw me up side down/inside out...)

p.s Before I started doing homework at home, I wrote a 'sacarstic note' on my facebook^^ Pls go and take a look~

CIP Activity: Bringing the elderly to terminal 3, Changi Airport

2009-04-25T18:20:00.016+08:00

(All photos taken by me, click to enlarge)
Today I went for a CIP activity and our class brought 20+ elderly to terminal 3, changi airport. I personally haven't really been there before so it's a new experience for me also. I shall tell the story with pictures this time~

First view of the airport. Clean and neat.

Elderly entering the airport.

Elderly coming down the escalator.

Elderly sketching random stuff in the airport.

Kane helping the uncle to sketch.

Mass photo 1: aerial photograph from second floor.

Mass photo 2: um...as you can see, it's a photo.

Just for entertainment...

Auntie smiling at the camera.

Mass photo 3: elderly in the jungle.

Elderly looking at the aeroplanes.

um... on behalf of 2o1, I would like to apologise to Hwa Chong Institution cos we did 繞口令, sang 朋友，細水長流 and even 華中行 in the airport! This was what I heard from the students in the macdonald behind me: "*laughter* WAIT- Are those ppl from Hwa Chong??? OMG!" but the elderly enjoyed it i think, so it's worth it~(btw I'm the photographer so yep...^^)

Elderly bought curry puff for us! How kind of them~

Arturo eating.

Arturo chewing.

Ming Ren(Some mysterious kung fu skill) and Koh Siong(kung fu panda skill) saying goodbye to each other.

Overall, quite enjoyable. It's really nice to see the smiles on their faces!

p.s YES I've finally finished this post! It's really agonising uploading these pictures cos my camera resolution is 10m+ and each picture took like 3 minutes to upload...

What a sick title...

2009-04-24T21:04:00.003+08:00

LOL x 99999 @ the title!!!(Am I very random?)

Wednesday Blue!

2009-04-22T16:57:00.002+08:00

I first came out with this phrase this morning in the band room. (You can ask Jeremy for details. *hint* It has something to do with the colour of seomthing he is wearing.)

I guess cos I came out with this phrase, I had a really bad day today. Many things suddenly all came together today and make me very stressed/emo.

School work:

Got 27/40 for math test.(NOOOOOOOOOO!!!)
Had a Chinese common test after school.(very time wasting)
Had history mock test(just got traumatised by my math result and I had to write an essay the next lesson, how cruel!)
Have to study for jap test tmr(I will really fail if I don't)

Extra stuff(which means it's very extra but I still have to do it.):

Chinese Drama script(Why I am chosen as the leader?!)
Brainstorm for amazing machines(my fault, have been dragging it for days)

I shall try to be more optimistic since there will be another math test in this term and I can still get an A1 for this term...

Though ming ren got A1 for math test(haiz and I got a B3), I still pity him as he lost his pencil case and science practical file... Wish he can find it soon.

The dilemma

2009-04-21T21:41:00.003+08:00

Please bear with long post cos I have too many things to say~

So which one should we choose?

After SYF I have been pondering over this question. Shall we do outdoors or indoors nex year? There is a international concert competition(which will be held overseas) and SYF for marching bands.

I believe it is quite hard to choose between these two competitions for many HCI band members. Outdoor can help to build team spirit and it is a brand new experience for the sec 2s/1s. However, since we have gotten our desired GWH, shouldn't we continue to work hard and sustain the standard as a GWH band?

I was hoping for outdoors at first, but after SYF, I started to change my mind. I was afraid that our standard as a concert band will drop after practising ourdoor for one year. For this reason, I decided to choose the latter. The sec 3s had a meeting over this issue today(I suppose) and they have also come out with the decision that our band will be going for indoors next year. I heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing the news.

I felt kind of guilty after having the thought of relief after knowing we don't need to do outdoors. I admit outdoors are really not my style. Many might say I am being selfish as it is our band's tradition to go for SYF for marching bands. And don't forget our band's name:HCIMB. M stands for milltary. So does giving up outdoors show that we have officially changed the style of the band after 30/40 years of tradition?(forgot how long it is...)

The answer is NO. The band does not lose the spirit of being a millitary band. We still exercise the discipline a millitary band should have. We still do outdoors every morning for flag raising! It is evident that we are still a millitary band after all. We shall continue to practise the discipline and the style of a millitary band.

But, since the juniors who will be leading the band next time(the sec 1 batch now) will not have experienced outdoor training and by the time it's their turn to lead, they might not lead their juniors as well as the seniors had as it will be their first time(if there is still outdoor SYF 3 years later). I am really afraid that the trend will just be broken and it can't be recovered.

Haiz I feel like a crazy guy after trying to come out with a statement and disagree with it after that, but that's really what's in my mind now...

Hence, there is only one word which best describes this situation: dilemma.

A perfect miss~

2009-04-20T17:33:00.003+08:00

If you haven't read the post before, pls read that post first so that this post will make sense to you.

I left out something just now. It's so magical that I must share with you...

Before I left my house to buy my earphone, my mum and sis were on the way back from the hospital( for details pls refer to the previous post). I suddenlly had a bad feeling that I would bump into them when I left the house(it's not really bad actually, but nvm). So I decided to go out quickly. I closed the window and saw a taxi stopping below. My first thought was: Oh sh@t, here they come!(I dunno why I was panic, but nvm). So I quickly got ready to leave.

However, moments before I left, I suddenly got a call from nature and had to answer it of course. So I quickly went to the toilet and by the time I left the house. I saw the lift at 21st floor, arrow pointing up(I live at 23rd floor). I quickly went to hide behind the staircase(I dunno why I should hide, but nvm). Just as I expected the lift stopped at 23rd floor and it's THEM!!!

So I walked down to 22nd floor and took the lift down. I seriously dunno why I hide from them, but this feeling of 'oh no I think i will bump into them later' somehow makes me panic and resulting in all the weird actions of me...

p.s I still find it very magical that I really bumped into them at the end...

Efficient shopper

2009-04-20T17:23:00.003+08:00

Just being bored and feeling like writing something random...

I find that I am really a very efficient person in terms of shopping. On Saturday I found that my earphone was spoiled and decided to buy a new one. So I first checked it online. After a quick search, I finally found that model that I like.

It's a Sony earphone so I decided to go to IMM cos it's 1.near 2.available. When I reached there I headed straight for the Sony shop. Had I been with my mum, we would stroll and look at other items before we reach the shop. Instead of doing that, I walked at a 'amazing' speed as I wanted to quickly go home after that. I could almost feel the other shoppers dissapearring from my sight as I chiong past them.

After a few minutes I finally reached the shop. I headed straight again to the earphone section. I chose the one that I have found on the internet and paid. Then again I chiong all the way back to the bus stop and went straight home.

The whole process took about half an hour and when I reached home my sis was amazed and asked, 'Did you really just go to IMM and come back?'

Last, my earphone:

(source:http://buy.yahoo.com.tw/gdsale/gdsale.asp?gdid=1408891)

p.s I'm kind of lazy to take photo so I just get it somewhere from the net...

Finally back...

2009-04-18T18:49:00.003+08:00

My mum and sis are finally back from hospital today!

When my sis reached home I was buying my earphone at IMM. When I reached home and knocked on the door. My sister was trying to shout: I can't open the door... Luckily I brought keys and open the door myself. Then I saw a figure lying on the sofa.

lol it was quite funny to see her lying there, looking weak and tired. When she stood up and walked, she was as slow as my grandfather(and trust me my grandfather is really quite slow). She couldn't really stand straight cos of her wound on the stomach...

haiz sad that when her school starts on monday, she definitely can't make it...

Special experience

2009-04-18T18:32:00.005+08:00

My sis just had her operation and couldn't move too much as it was very painful. My mum had to therefore stay with her at night in case she needed toilet/water.

Question: How about me?!

Of course I will be staying at home alone.(In case anyone asks me where my dad is, he's in Taiwan) This is my first time staying at home alone for the whole night(two nights indeed). I am not really too used to it as I am usually not the last one to sleep and there will still be movements after I sleep. but when I was alone, I really hear COMPLETE SILENCE when I lay on my bed. The silence was really creepy, as if time had stopped. Only the occasional shouting(I wonder why they were shouting too) of my neighbour could remind me that the world was still rotating. It was also quite enjoyable as my mind was at a very peaceful state under that kind of silence.

I also have to wake up in the morning myself. When I woke up the first morning, I really didn't know what I was supposed to do cos 1. Normally I don't do all the sai kang. 2.I was half awake. Then I tried to recall, so I remembered to brush my teeth, wash my face, turn on TV to news, turn on the fan, spread nutella on the toast, sit down and eat, get dressed, turn off the TV, turn off the fan, turn of the lights, open the door, lock the door. (oops did I forget to comb my hair?!)

It's kind of fun to do everything alone actually, but i think two days are enough~

BORED!

2009-04-17T18:34:00.002+08:00

I've been staying at home the whole afternoon alone as my mum has to look after my sis in the hospital. I regretted so much for going home so early. Cos I seldom speak for the whole afternoon and it is really very boring...

I know understand why those senior citizens who stay alone will become very slow cos I feel my brain is slowing down just for not talking to anyone for one whole afternoon. I can't imagine if this goes on for a few more days...

Luckily I have some activities on Sat~

acute appendicitis!

2009-04-16T20:09:00.002+08:00

My sister is down with acute appendicitis(aka 急性盲腸炎)!!!

She's now in hospital. According to my mum, it's not really severe but she has to stay in the hospital to wait for her operation.

She's been having stomachache since yesterday night. My mum examined her in the morning(she's a doctor btw, but no certificate in singapore). She was almost very sure that my sister has acute appendicitis so she took her straight to NUH. The NUH told her that she couldn't just bring her there as my sister has to been examined by a polyclinic that she has acute appendicitis before she can go to NUH.

So she took her all the way to polyclinic. After waiting and finally being examined, the doctor derived to the same conclusion as my mum: my sister is likely to have acute appendicitis(and three hours were wasted in that process...)

She took her to the emergency department and amazingly it cost $90 just to get in the queue.(pardon me if this is actually normal in Singapore cos in taiwan it's MUCH cheaper). She spent more money after taking X-ray, etc(which I can't name XD). And after all the check up they still conclude that THEY CAN'T BE SURE THAT SHE HAS ACUTE APPENDICITIS! So now she has to stay in the hospital(to put it in a scary way, she's hospitalised) My mum is bringing her some clothes and comic books for tonight.

My mum was complaining to me. She said if she's in taiwan they(the doctors) would have confirmed she has acute appendicitis and she will be having her operation ASAP. She was amazed by singapore medical system efficiency...

Anyway, let's just hope that she recovers soon(Her school is starting next monday and now she's down with acute appendicitis...)

GWH announcement

2009-04-15T14:35:00.003+08:00

Since I'm waiting for my meal I shall post something that I left out just now.

Our result for SYF was finally announced to the school today. What a pity that it was very stuffy today and I could almost feel beads of sweat rolling down my back when standing in the field waiting for the result to be announced...(FYI, I'm standing in the field cos the band plays national anthem for the school every morning)

Finally Jia Sheng announced the result. He sounded quite nervous as his voice was slightly shaking. It was quite joyful to hear the GWH being announced again. We played anchors aweigh and left the field.

When I went back to my class I was glad that no one used GWH to niao/suan(eg. waaaaaa GWH soooooo zhai lor~) me as they've been doing that for a few days...

p.s If I post again this afternoon pls stop me cos I really have to start eating and get to my work after my meal.

tonnes of homework

2009-04-15T14:21:00.002+08:00

It's been many months since I last reached home this early(2pm+)

Of course I go home so early only for one reason: homework.

I plan to finish all this by today:

English compre
English wordlist(check dictionary and find the meaning)
science worksheet
chinese....... stuff
math worksheet
literature worksheet
history worksheet
revision for math test tmr

OMG let's hope I can finish all these by today. Going to have my meal now and CHIONG!

p.s very tempting for me to continue watching TV or surfing the internet(go to facebook, read friends' blog, etc.) but I am going to resist it.

Accidents on the bus...

2009-04-14T18:56:00.004+08:00

I've just reached home...

Actually I wasn't supposed to reach home so late today as my CCA(band) is having a break after SYF. However the sec 1s still have band practise and we have to still go for band to teach them how to play their instruments. It went on quite well, both sec 1s in my section have potential.

Anyway the main point of this post is about an 'accident' that happened on the bus. I boarded a 154 and finally got a seat after a few stops. I was sitting beside a HCJC girl. As usual there was traffic jam and I fell asleep uncontrollably. The bus kept jerking so my head was tilting to the sides and I had to try to balance it back. But then there was once the bus braked suddenly and I went off balance and my whole body just leaned on the HCJC girl beside me.

I wouldn't have woke up straight away if she hadn't reacted so much. I think she was shocked and she almost jumped when my body fell on her. I quickly got up and said sorry to her.

After that I dared not fall asleep again so but it was really hard. So I was in half conscious state when I pressed the bell. Instead of pressing the bell, my hand overshot and pressed the person's head in front of me. She turned and stared at me and I had to apologise for the second time on the bus...

EMBARRASING!
And Sorry to two of you once again~

Playlist

2009-04-12T16:53:00.004+08:00

I've just added a playlist to my blog...

Decided to choose songs of Jay Chou cos it's more light-hearted~

I am trying to make this blog more colourful so I've been adding many things to this blog.

hope you'll like it!

p.s it's a really short post cos I really have to start doing my homework...

The Photos of Joy

2009-04-11T15:36:00.012+08:00

These are the pictures when the result was announced. I think it expresses exactly our feelings when we heard we got GwH~

The first reaction:

The second reaction:

Jie Xuan stretching his neck like an ostrich:

Zheng Yu smiling big at the camera:

Jie Xuan's smile looking very wrong:

Jeremy looking excited on hearing Edwin saying he will treat the whole band to lunch:

(photos obtained from Band Fusion. More photos can be found at http://www.sgbandfusion.com/)

Despite getting the reward of our hard work, we should still not be overconfident. If we are too proud of ourselves and stop working hard, we will never improve and we won't do well for the next SYF. I actually feel kind of nervous after SYF cos I know we(the sec 2s) will be the ones supporting, running and leading the band two years later. We must really work hard to surpass the standards of our seniors now and continue to strive hard for another GwH two years later...

Random note~

2009-04-11T11:50:00.001+08:00

Just a random note...

I'm suprised I didn't get diarrhoea after eating so much half-cooked food yesterday~ :D

Back from BBQ

2009-04-11T01:09:00.002+08:00

I'm finally back from the BBQ organised by lian he zao bao tong xun yuan club...

In case you dunno what that is, it's actually a student chinese newspaper club that writes 逗号，星期五周报,etc.

The BBQ was organised by the batch the year before us so they were starting the fire at first while we stayed indoor playing truth or dare. It was suppoed to start at 6+ but at 7 they came and said they couldn't start the fire. So we went down to help. The fire was really very hard to start cos 1.the weather was humid 2.the charcoal has low quality. Eventually we got the fire started after seeking help from the group BBQing beside us(he's really a pro man).

I spent 80% of the time BBQing for the others cos most people were waiting for food. It's quite fun actually but it's really hot and tiring. I ate little food and drank two cans of coke to fill my stomach. There was probably not enough heat so the food took VERY long to be cooked. The whole thing ended at around 11pm... I was pretty afraid that there would be no more MRT but luckily I managed to catch the last few trains

haiz BBQ with friends is not really a beneficial activity cos you either feel guilty watching others suffer BBQing the food or you suffer BBQing the food...(It's only suffering when BBQing with friends cos if you BBQ with your relative the adults will do the job^^) Of course once you gain more experience you won't be suffering anymore but obviously I still have a long way to go~

p.s I wanted to take lots of photos and put it on the blog but I was BBQing the food from start all the way till the end so I didn't have a chance to touch my camera at all...XD

Project's Day today!

2009-04-09T12:21:00.003+08:00

I'm currently sitting in the computer lab(which I'm not supposed to), after sneaking out from the Project's Day judging...

Anyway, my presentation is done so what's the point of staying there?! XD

Today is quite fun actually because all lessons are canceled for project's day. There is no stress too cos it's only the prelim and we are almost 100% sure we'll pass~

My group's presentation is on Creative Art... Not really a category I'm too good at(I suck at art actually^^). I didn't get to present as by the time it's my turn to present the time was up so we had to stop... Overall it went on quite well~

Hope we can pass the semi-finals too!

p.s Going to band room to finish my Japanese homework... now that SYF is finish I must quickly do all the homework that I owe the teachers(sorry orz orz)

Style of writing~

2009-04-08T19:27:00.003+08:00

I just realise something...

I went to read many of my friends blog and I realise their posts are all so short!

Unlike my essay way of writing(XD), they seem to be penning down their daily life and always have a topic when I post...

I must make my posts shorter next time, if not all those who visit my blog(YOU!) will have a hard time...

ok I should stop here in case I make this post too lengthy again~

SYF 2009: A Shiny GWH!

2009-04-08T18:09:00.007+08:00

After months of hard work and almost ignoring all my school work for a few weeks, our band(hciband) managed to achieve Gold With Honours!

It was my first time participating in the SYF... Fortunately I have participated in NBC last year(which I freaked out on the stage and couldn't play properly), I was not so nervous this time. I slept at 9+ the day before Thursday just as Mr Kiang told us to, but I still couldn't get enough sleep as I was fidgeting in my bed the whole night thinking about SYF tmr.(I blame the random sms that woke me up at 10+...)

I was very glad that I wasn't very nervous, which made me feel more confident, which made me feel less nervous(so it's a cycle you know). I played, just like how I played during rehearsal, of course with slight nervouseness. At first I thought we screwed up. Cos The clarinet parts of Overture 1 was really soft from where I was seating and I started to panic. Of course I still play my part well through the whole piece. Then we played the choice piece, machu picchu(I hope I've spelled it correctly...), it was nice through out and my lips were burning towards the end(especially when I tried to sustain the high F). A sudden feeling of emptiness almost striked me immediately after I finished the last note. I've just presented what we've been practising so hard over three months to the judges!!! SYF is officially finished for us...

We went out(with seniors telling us that we did fine), and reentered the concert hall. We watched one band played (and the conductor had such 'unique' style of conducting.) The judges then left the hall to discuss about the score and that was when I started to clench my fist to ease my nervousness. After a really longgggggg wait, the judges reappeared and I started praying. We were the third last band so I knew I would still have be tortured for a few more minutes. Many bands cheered when they heard their results(which I had not much interest to know as I only wanted to know HCI band's results). Finally I heard: 'Band 86, Hwa Chong High School band-'. I started chanting 'Gold with Honours', 'Gold with Honours'... and I heard 'Gold~'. Yes I know we can get a gold and I am expecting something else behind it!!! Please award us with GWH, please! 'with honours!'. Instantly, the whole band jumped with joy. We cheered loudly and many were shouting 'YES!' 'YES!'. It was so touching to see the whole band being on cloud nine with the GWH result and even the Teachers i/c hugging each other with joy( shows they put in a lot of effort also). We left the hall and continued cheering.

I was excited throughout the way back to school. My friends of String Orchestra congratulated me too. We took some photos in the band room and went to Mac for our victory lunch~

I am really touched by the band's hardwork and I feel this GWH is a motivation to push us even further. It's really the best thing in my life!

p.s: The best thing about SYF is that I get to skip school for one day and of course there won't be CCA training in the afternoon(it's a Friday)! XD and sorry for making this post so lengthy... I dunno how it became like that and I'm too lazy to shorten it so please bear with it~

Horn section from left to right: Jeremy, Lionel, Po En, Jie Xuan:

SYF participants+teachers i/c:

Victory lunch:

Assignment: BIOGRAPHY ON MR. WANG WENJUN

2009-03-23T09:45:00.008+08:00

Advice to visitors: This post is just for my English assignment and you don't really have to read it... Of course you can still read it through if you want to~

On the 15th of August, the year 1928, a new member was warmly welcomed by the Wang family. He was named Wang Wenjun. Happily, Mr. Wang spent his innocent and free childhood with his family in Jiangsu, China.

However, the Invasion of China by the Japanese dramatically changed his life. When Mr. Wang was just a 7-year-old kid, the Japanese launched an attack against China. Bombers were flying above the rubble of his house almost every day, dropping bombs. The young Mr. Wang would huddle in fear with his family in a crowded bomb shelter near their house to survive the bombardment. The Japanese attacks soon led to some massacres of the Chinese, including the most infamous Nanjing massacre, where thousands of loyal Chinese lost their lives to the brutal Japanese soldiers. “We were living in fear. The bombs dropped like rain from above. I was afraid that they would find us and kill us all. I did not want my family to be separated,” quoted Mr. Wang as he reflected in living through the war. His family was one of the most fortunate families which survived the invasion of the Japanese shaken but unscathed. “That’s why I hate wars so much. I do not enjoy the sight of people dead or dying,” Mr. Wang whispered as the painful memories of the war flashed back to him.

Soon, Mr. Wang grew into a teenager who had gone through suffering of wars. However, the suffering he faced changed his way of thinking. He was loyal to his country and did not want his family to be harmed any further. So, to protect his country from another invasion by foreigners, he joined the navy. He was brave and clever. Although he could easily pursue any other career on will, he preferred to serve his country. He wanted to be one of those few who would sacrifice themselves for the country.

Despite his loyal services to the country, another war was fought on China in the year 1946. However, this war was a civil war, a war fought between two different parties, known respectively as Kuomintang, the government then and the China Communist Party, led by Mao Ze Dong , the current government of china today. The war did not really involve the navy as most of it took place on land.

The year 1949 was the year when many significant events happened to Mr. Wang. China had fallen to the hands of communists. Mr. Wang did not want to surrender to the communists and decided to retreat with his troops from his hometown to Taiwan, known to him as a little island in the south. The navy left in the middle of night suddenly. “It was chaotic, like a nightmare. We were packing and the generals were asking us to hurry. I did not know what was going to happen to my family – Would they survive the war? “ Mr. Wang recollected of the escape from China. “It was a long journey before we reached Shanghai, the last city that had not fallen to the communist then. Quickly, we boarded the ships to Taiwan, without knowing the fate of my family. Would I ever set foot on my home again? I had to put aside my feelings and focus on retreating with the troops. The communist were hot in pursuit. A few of our ships were sunk by the warships. The situation was dire. ”

Mr. Wang arrived in Taiwan after spending a few sleepless nights on the boat. Luckily for the troops, the Kuomintang was a government which had far sight. The government brought tons of gold in their retreat to ensure that they were able to function well before they manage to settle down in Taiwan. The communist attempted to attack Taiwan after taking over China, but failed with the tough fighting of Kuomintang troops and US army. ‘The communist was firing their big guns. The noise of shelling was enormous. After fighting back using our canons and with the assistance of the Americans, they finally stopped their attack.’ Mr. Wang declared proudly. Even though Mr. Wang survived the war again, he was upset at the way the communist government was making the people in China suffer with their harsh policies. He was homesick as well but he knew he could not return now.

Soon, Mr. Wang left the navy and worked as a local government official in Taiwan. Another milestone of his life was marked when he married a charming lady in Taiwan. After he set up his own family, Mr. Wang slowly got used to the life in Taiwan. Soon, he had two sons and two daughters. Everything seemed well. “It was like a new life to me. I felt like I was reborn,” Mr. Wang said.

In the year 1989, the communication barrier between China and Taiwan was lifted. Finally, Mr. Wang called home after 40 years of waiting. He and his family exchanged memories in tears as they were glad to get back in touch with a long lost family. Immediately, he planned on returning to China to meet his family. Unfortunately, Mr. Wang’s mother passed away before he returned to his hometown. It was the deepest sorrow in his life. ‘I almost broke down instantly upon hearing the news in Taiwan. I didn’t even get to see her the last time before she passed away…’

The Kuomintang government urbanized Taiwan and the average personal income every year raised from only a hundred US dollars to US$15000 in just a few years, the standard of a developed country. In the year 1992, the first president election was held In Taiwan. As an ex-government officer, Mr. Wang of glad to hear of the news as he knew that it meant that Taiwan was fully democratic. “Taiwan is a country made by people for the people. I am proud being Taiwanese,” Mr. Wang said proudly when asked for comments. The Kuomintang ran for the 1992 election and won. Soon the year 2000 arrived and another election was held, this time the victor is the ex-president of Taiwan, Mr. Chen Suibian. Despite let down by the defeat of the Kuomintang, Mr. Wang still said “It is a necessary change of a democratic country. We should therefore go on and accept it,” This showed the optimistic and loyal nature of Mr. Wang. Mr. Wang also supports the idea of democracy a lot so he thinks he should always respect the decision made by the people.

Mr. Wang also commented on the current status of China. ‘Although the China is no longer the country that I am loyal to, I am still happy to see that the communist government is finally making an effort to develop China now and my relatives in China can have a better life.’ He feels that it is a pity that China went through Cultural Revolution which is useless and only brought harm to China.

Now, Mr. Wang is living happily with his family in Taichung, Taiwan. In his 60 years in Taiwan, Mr. Wang had rare encounters which will probably not happen again. The most significant one of all was the great earthquake that took place in 21st September, 1999 which left many houses in rubble. However, Mr. Wang’s house is located at a place which is not so greatly affected by the natural disaster. “I thank god for that,” said Mr. Wang, laughing.

“Life is like a boat, even If you do not intend to continue, the waves will continue pushing you. So, we should always face life in an optimistic way and live with the currents of life, strive hard and live life to the best,” Mr. Wang concluded with a cheerful smile.

Dony by: 2o125 Wang Po En, 2o110 Henry Lau, 2o126 William Wong

Washing a horn is FUN(DISGUSTING)!!!

2008-11-07T20:31:00.011+08:00

As the title reads, I washed my horn today...

um...I would say it's a fun experience but also very disgusting as I in a public toilet(although very clean) for one hour bare-footed and what came out from this French Horn is unquestionably......How should I put it?......disasterous....

Anyway, for the good of those who are eating as they are reading my blog, I shall not reveal the 'stuff' I managed to dig out from my horn...

Now I am going to tell you how a horn is washed~(Although you might probably not do it in you life.)

Step 1:

Remove all the slides from the horn.

Step 2:

Put all the slides in a bucket of water(added with brass soap).

Step 3:

Wash them and clean the inside with a brush.

(Myth:What is that black thing? um...I decided to colour it black as it shows something that should not be shown to public...(Btw, the person in the picture has a nickname that deserves to end up in a toilet bowl nearby. I believe all members in the band know who he is...)

step 4:

fill the horn with water and pour it away. Then, wash it with a brush.(This part is the most unsightly part of the process so I decided not to take any picture of it. But I'll show you the brush.)

Step 5:

Dry everything and put everything back and it's done!

After washing the horn, I find that it is definitely worth the time doing the hard work as the tone colour of my horn becomes sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo nice!!!!!

Lots of thanks to Edwin, who taught me how to wash the horn, Tee Zhuo, who suddenly appeared in the toilet and helped us out and Jeremy, who provided me with the equipment to wash to horn!

NBC has ended... JBF coming up...

2008-07-12T21:35:00.004+08:00

NBC has finally ended, we got a satisfying result of gold. It was time to have a break, BUT there is another event called JBF coming up. JBF stands for junior band festival, and the sec 1s(INCLUDING ME...) will be performing. It is indeed quite sad for me because I don't get to have a break and have to practise hard AGAIN for JBF... However, I am still very willing to perfom in JBF with the rest of the sec 1s because it makes our sec 1 batch more united and I can at the same time gain more experience too! I will do our band proud again and perform well in JBF again!

National Band Competition Results-GOLD 84.17%

2008-07-12T21:01:00.008+08:00

Before I express my feelingssssss(Cos there's a lot to say), let me just just quote a post from the electronic message board(EMB) of HCI...
Dear all(This refers to the band members),
I'm sure many of you heard the news by now. Well, I'm not as
disappointed as some of you are. Really. Because I think you guys
did great. Honestly. There's nothing to be sad about. Ok, maybe a
little...because we missed the distinction by 0.3% (It was later found out that our score was 84.17%, not 84.7%, so we missed gold with distinction award by 0.83%)(darn that stupid
announcer, purposely give us the suspense....)
But hey, this result was achieved by sending just 43 people. Sec 2s
and 3s. (ok, + 1 Sec 1(That's me!). The other 2 distinction schools (Cedar and
CCK) fielded their Sec 4s...
We got the HIGHEST score for the GOLDs!
So don't be disappointed. Instead, be happy that we have improved!
From silver to GOLD!! Next year, we'll go the extra mile and bring
back the Honours! (If CCK - the so-so school we had an exchange with
last year, can improve by so much, so can we).
Well done all of you. I'm really proud of what you guys have
achieved in just 2 months+. Given we have more than 6 months to go
before SYF, we can definitely do it!
:)
Mrs Lai(Teacher-in-charge for HCI band)

Um, I am very proud and glad that my band did well, but It's such a pity that we missed 'gold with distinction' by just 0.83%!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, this was a very fun experience. When I stepped onto the stage, I almost couldn't feel my feet and before I knew anything, everything was over and I hardly could remember anything in the performance.(Really amazing, isn't it?)
No matter what the result is, the competition is over for us anyway. WE WILL WORK HARD TO ACHIEVE GOLD WITH HONOUR FOR NEXT YEAR'S SYF!

Thanks to Mr Leng, our conductor, who spent so much time and lost so much hair conducting, nagging and scolding us and made us achieve gold award.

Thanks to Mr Kiang, our another conductor, for fixing all the parts we played badly when Mr Leng was not around.

Thanks to Mrs Lai, teacher-in-charge of HCI band, who managed the band so well that we get to practise in the most efficient way.

Thanks to majors, Jie Xuan(YOU ROCK!!! HORN SECTION ROCKS!!!), Jiasheng and Qi Fan, who...(What exactly did they do? They seem to be doing everything for the band, but it's hard to list them out one by one...)

Thanks to all band members(including me) who work hard together towards our goal.
I LOVE YOU!!!

Blood stains found in my house!!!

2008-06-27T21:13:00.003+08:00

Wait, wait, wait. First I have to tell you that there was no murder in my house(So sorry to disappoint you, go watch CSI). It was my cousin's blood that was found in my house. It was on Monday when I went for my Japanese lesson and My grandma went to China Town with my mum, leaving my grandpa and cousin at home. My grandpa was reading a book and my cousin, this silly boy, actually took a pen knife and tried to cut a staple(the bullets you put inside a stapler) into half. In the end, he nearly cut his finger into half and went to find grandpa with the bleeding hand. I think both of them had a big fright. Can't believe he's doing such silly things...

Have mood to post new things again!

2008-06-27T21:04:00.003+08:00

As you can see, I haven't been updating my blog for the past two weeks. This is mainly because the visit of my grandparents(and cousin too) from Taiwan and also not accumstomed to the new term. Today is the first day when I can relax and I decided to write something on the blog to make myself more occupied.(I dunno what nonsense I am writing here lol) Anyway, just ignore this.

I climbed Bukit Timah Hilllllll...

2008-06-10T21:04:00.005+08:00

I climbed Bukit Timah Hill today... Well, I think you should know it's the highest mountain, oops, I mean 'hill' ,actually, in Singapore. It's 100+ m high...

Although it's such a short 'hill', I'm still exhausted after climbing around the hill. We(Mum and I) didn't really climb to the summit as it is quite boring doing so. Instead, we climbed the small path around the hill and it's really fun(and tiring too)! We felt quite desperate when there was still such a far distance to destination(which is HOME)... haha!

There are many cute monkeys around the hill too.

I'm so depressed...

2008-06-09T21:51:00.002+08:00

Apart from the fact that I actually died in maplestory is already very sad. NOW THERE IS ANOTHER PROBLEM: My Handphone Bill!
Most people usually get scolded by their parents for talking too much on the handphone. However, it's a totally different story for me. I was actually asked to talk more on my handphone because there are 100 min free calling for me and I couldn't reach half of it! I'm really speechless... 這世上還有天理嗎??? 冏rz(It means frown, that Chinese character is actually pronounced as jong)

Maplestory is still quite fun!

2008-06-09T20:10:00.008+08:00

As I have mentioned in the previous post, I have to stay at home and study for this week. So how do I actually spend my free time? One simple option: I play back my computer games and spam cube(also trying to learn G perm)!

I logged on to my Maplestory Character today, One lv 91 hermit, one lv 80 ice mage, one lv 40+(can't really remember) spearman. It is really quite fun! There are a lot of new things for me to explore. New maps, new quests for me to do. I spend some time training on some new monsters. haha, such an enjoyable day!

This is the screenshot of my lv 80 mage.(just trying to make it look colourful.)

Updated at 9.30(Somewhere there):
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I just died at parking lot. Haiz I was too shocked to take a screenshot so you guys can't see how pitiful I was when I was floating beside my tomb... WTH, WTF, WTB(It means what the 'bong', I don't really know what bong means, Zin Wai taught me that)!

Half of the holiday has passed...

2008-06-09T20:07:00.002+08:00

This is the third week of holiday, which means half of the holiday has passed...
I have to start to study from this week onwards, so much homework to do and so many projects to do! WALAO!(This is just to complain about how short the holiday is, please ignore.)

Cube meeting in Suntec City!

2008-06-07T23:36:00.006+08:00

I went for my first so called cube meeting in Suntec City! Well, don't think it's a formal one in the exhibition hall or something, it's just a few( around 10) cubers sitting near the Toysrus in Suntec City Mall and spam cubes. It's pretty fun, I learnt quite some new things over there and I really enjoyed it. We went for dinner after that and my hands were really tired=.= After that, we went to Martin's house and play Audition and Highstreet 5. I don't know how to play both of them but they looked rather similar. Just the arrow buttons followed by a space bar and it doesn't look interesting to me at all! Stayed in his house for one hour+ and when I reached home, it's already 10pm+. Anyway, it's an enjoyable day for me.
What's more is that I BROKE MY PERSONAL BEST RECORD AND IT'S NOW 22.96S!!!!! XD
(A prove that I've done it, by the way the cube in the image is mine^^ I couldn't have broken my record without it~)

P.S:My goal is to beat Martin in personal best and average timing. XD

Korean action movie...

2008-06-07T23:32:00.004+08:00

haiz...... I'm in a bad mood. I just watched a Korean action movie, named 'tube' and it wasted me 2 hours because it is so lousy!(I really don't know how to put it, but it simply s*cks) It's such a shame that Korea can't even come out with a proper action movie... haiz, I shall not waste too much time giving comments for that Korean action movie, but I've learnt a lesson: If you wanna watch action movies, wach Hollywoods. For Korean shows, just watch Korean drama will do... (I'm really glad that I didn't watch it in a theatre.)

This is the movie I watched. The cover looks nice and the movie seems to be exciting.

but...

知人知面不知心,

知title知cover不知the content of movie.(LOL it sucks too...)

Small thing makes a big difference

2008-06-06T14:23:00.000+08:00

If you're free and feel bored just like me, let me share with you a longgggg story......
Once upon a time(To be precise, yesterday afternoon), I was on a 156 bus to HCI, my school, for self-practice on my instrument. On the bus, there were two little cute girls, one Chinese and one Malay of age between 7 to 9. Half-way, the Chinese girl started teaching the Malay girl a Chinese song(think it should be 小蜜蜂) and it was so interesting when a Chinese girl actually tried to correct the Malay girl's wrong pronunciation! After a while, the Malay girl was able to sing the song with the Chinese girl! It was quite amazing the speed kids learn things. What amazed me even more was that such little cute thing that happens at ordinary places can actually make others feel good and happy for the rest of the day!

This is my new blog!

2008-06-05T22:09:00.000+08:00

MY NEW BLOG finally! I do have a Chinese blog last time, but since I'm now in Singapore, no one is reading it so I decided to create a English one! Will try to update it everyday...