xpeia

peep squeek

2007-05-31T22:30:00.000+08:00

hello.

eeek.

woohoo!

2007-01-08T21:44:00.000+08:00

wow charlene posted!

so i shall post one more entry!
our z'cove is dead (it seems). haha so there's more time to oversleep, mug for some test now. not all that bad, considering that it lasted for the whole of last year!

just to update, the og dinner is changed to thursday. so hope to see all of u guys there!

HELLO !!

2007-01-06T22:28:00.000+08:00

hey!!

it has been ages since i blog( i noe) so i decided to do my part n contribute too! okie i went down for the first day if orientation and looking at the j1s and their OGLs juz reminded me of wad we went thru last yr. Time really passes by so fast! Gosh i m like j3?! Wah i feel old! N i saw yihui with her OG but i did not get the chance to say hi cos her OG n her were on the first level of the hall while i was seated on the second. Anw do treasure your JC life cos working isnt really tt fun.. my parents used to tell me tt studing was the most enjoyable and fun part of their lives and i guess there is some truth in it.

Let me assure you tt your JC2 yr will pass by really fast and b4 your noe it your will be graduating from rjc and gg on to uni and stuff. So do treasure the time you have wif your classmates and frens k!!

All the best in the year ahead and take care!!!:)

Charlene

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

2007-01-04T17:12:00.000+08:00

happy birthday to us
happy birthday to us
happy birthday to x'peia
happy birthday to us!

mandre and yihui have gone on to have little OGs of their own.. i neglected to ask them for the OG names haha!

anyway, it's been such a long time but orientation 2006 really seems not so long ago. i don't really remember the order of events anymore, but there are really many episodes of orientation that i still rmb so clearly. blindfold shoe game, balloon-kiapping game, spaghetti strand game, shaving cream passing, candle blowing, getting sianned at macritchie, making fun of the 156 paedo, and who can ever forget ONIGHT. geeky stuff man..

but those are all memories, we live in the moment now. soooo. next week 10 january wednesday we'll be having an X'peia reunion dinner thing. charlene and i hope that as many of you as possible will turn up tt evening. sorry it's so rushed and we can't play around with dates, because i'm enlisting the end of next week so i don't have much time left!

anyway, i hope all of you have gotten the SMSes, pls reply and pls come!

<3 always
darren & charlene

omg a post!

2006-12-13T00:03:00.000+08:00

ok i read the previous post so i shall blog.

if i remember several xpeia members also have birthdays in jan also (e.g. darren) so we can conveniently celebrate it for them haha.

well my hols have been not very fruitful in terms of academic studies.

1. holiday homework untouched.

2. dota every night.

3. xbox or outings in the day

haha hope yours had been more interesting.

ANYONE WHO READS THIS HAS TO LOG IN AND BLOG

2006-12-11T01:19:00.000+08:00

bloody crap this place is deadddddd. must start a xpeia blog campaign. so anyone who reads this entry please log in and blog about something okay. please please please.

ANYWAY. been playing hard, time to kick it down a little and work my ass off and do my university and scholarship essays and what not. hope all goes well and my dreams come true. (:

ys your odac trip was damn freaking sick la. too fun, too unfair. one day i'm going to drag some ppl and do some hardcore outdoor stuff myself. in the meantime i will have to be content with our batch 21 gopeng trip.. lol. and i hope it pours monkeys and cows so the river will be bursting its banks and we will go nuts on the grade 4 river haha. hope hope hope! i just got a brainwave. will bring my $2 shitty lousy film camera in a ziploc bag and chiong down the river, see what happens hahahaa. exciting man.

charlene chua is having so much fun with some person, and is starting to forget about us. bfffft.

anyway. my prom photos are here: darren-leow.fotopic.net, check them out if you have the time!

andddddd x'peia is turning 1 year old soon. u guys free sometime in january to celebrate our birthday? have one motherbig outing before i shave my hair and get conscripted to protect our nation?

erm

2006-12-10T21:48:00.000+08:00

whoo this post's gonna make this blog look not dead. or at least it can try! lolz.

odac just had a damn fun trip to australia! we went canoeing/paddling down the murray(pronounced MA-REE) river for 46 km(wooh longer than the whole of singapore), climbing on natural rock(haha laughs at those still climbing artificial rock walls in singapore)at Mt.Arapiles, and did some environmental cip in the grampians national park. And that's the summary of what we did. we did a lot alot more stuff, but i shan't bother explaining in detail, at least not yet.

haha since mel and beifen probably doesn't come here anymore, let alone blog here, i may just blog abt the aus trip here sometime later, after i received photos(damn it lah i dun hav digi cam so all the photos are like not with me).

so yea, that's all for now!

Whee enjoy ur hols!

Yong Sheng

lalala

2006-11-05T14:56:00.000+08:00

gd luck for a levels, darren and charlene!

ok that came a bit late, but at least it still came! whoo! anyway this blog is like so dead. someone blog plz?

apart frm that, heex, we shld go lanning someday. if ur class going and still hav space ask me along k? thanks. very sian, hols i still can't play =( nvm, still better off than darren and charlene! really hope u guys pull through this safe. then u guys can relax le.

aiya nothing to blog about le. so yup signing off.

Yong Sheng

hey! promos are over!

2006-10-07T00:22:00.000+08:00

hey everyone.

we survived the month of september again, and the promos are finally over!

so how about:
1. an OG outing since the last one was after common tests?

2. more people blogging plz

3. and keep our z'cove alive!

=) heex

The moments have passed. It's time to even the scales

2006-09-21T21:48:00.000+08:00

"The sands of time are running out. War draws near,"

Wooh, well done darren, for surviving ur prelims. hope u did well. But even as our dear j2s complete their promos, the starting introduction of warcraft III:reign of chaos(above) now nicely encapsulates the feeling of the j1s. Draw your war swords, fellow xpeians, and prepare for battle. Battle against this dreaded promos. And may we come out victorious.

gd luck guys. and gd luck to darren too, for his remaining papers.

Regards,
Yong Sheng

2006-09-21T00:04:00.000+08:00

prelims are almost overrr.

Tribute

2006-09-14T21:41:00.000+08:00

I don't know whether i m accursed or not...

At the tender age of 16, i've been asked to attend 3 wakes, wakes of my friends, my peers. and those are excluding the 2 for my grandfathers.

One in p5, when at the young age of 11, my then classmate had her life snatched away by a rare disease contracted from the soil. Another one just 2 weeks ago, for my npcc junior. And now the most heartbreaking one. My friend of 5 years and classmate for 4 years.

In the course of 3 weeks, i've been made to face the loss of a life twice.They have not taught me how to cope though. the news of it just creates yet another void in the heart.

When i first got the news, i lost my ability to speak. I cried till my eyes are sore. They are still sore now. but they do not matter the least bit to me. What really matters cannot be repaired though. The damage is done.

I dunno y. but i had this feeling of uneasyness which i don't know how to explain back just month ago at the end of july. This feeling had first surfaced back when i was in p5, 2 days b4 my then classmate passed away. It has never appeared again, until it resurfaced recently. I was worried, so i told gerard about it. He didn't have much of a reaction or worry though, and merely told me i was worrying too much about my ct results. I waited 2 days, nothing bad passed, but the feeling had not disappeared, it still lingered. I told myself that i might have been worrying abt the ct results too much, though i knew full well that i was never the kind to worry abt the results of any test. Slowly, after a week, the feeling disappeared. And i tot that was the end of it.

Apparently not. Tragedy had waited. Waited for the right time to deal its hand. its hand of death. I fear myself now. What am i to do the next time i get this feeling again? Dismiss it again? If not what?MY mind and emotions are in a horrible atate right now.

But i've nicely put up a brave front in front of others. If i don't stay strong, what will happen to garry, hong rui and ernest, the other members of my clique with him, who have been closer to him than i have? If i don't keep on smiling to others, who will?

But deep down inside, i still need more time. more time to come to terms with this loss. more time to cope.

YF, you've always been a great friend to me. Your jokes in class, your jovial ways have always lit up my day. The way you, me and ernest have become well known to be the best slackers ever. Your dota kses frm me. Your "i'm sure" quotes. Your tremendous strength, your chinese proness, your dota abilities. They'll stay in my memory forever. You'll fill the void that was created in my heart. And you'll stay there forever. I'll never forget you. I'll miss you. But i'll stay strong. for you. I'll remember you even after eons have passed. and i'll tribute you. You can be sure of that.

Rest in peace, my dear friend.

MidKnight™

Regards,
Yong Sheng

mozart flute quartet in D no.1, k285

2006-09-10T22:03:00.000+08:00

HEY GUYS!
i must reiterate again, that i really miss limericko. my cousin is helpg me get it up SOON. And then i can resume my indulgent blogging ways.

what a difference one person can make to ur mood. i tell u, i was in a totally different psyche a while ago b4 this person IMed me. and now i've lost the whole reflective me but i shall try nonetheless. :)

so lets proceed

sept hols 2006.

planned: mug mug mug operation mug. add sugar, add creamer, whatever. jus lock up in corfe place and studieeeeeeeeee

but major abberations to the .. page reproducing process (compare to phage reproductive process, okay bio. no idea? turn to 'transduction' page on bacteria and viruses II) actually resulted in some unexpected holiday plan B

it was one emotional roller coaster ride
pre sept week, felt really optimistic abt studying 'so much time!' and bishan library opening on sept 2. i think its too much like a mkt place, or a youth hangout place than a library tho. jus wondering if library actually came from 'libre' which means free in french which doesnt really make sense. ok no it came from libraire? which was a kind of book shop? library sounds nothing like bibliotheque which is the actual french word for 'library'.

okay i shall stop on the etymology thing there. am giving my sec2 bro a crash course on genetics b4 he goes for his bio pop quiz in ... 7h? alright.

ok BACK.

where was i. emotional roller coaster huh.
ok shall spare u guys the details. even i had a tough time placing them all out on the table to savour every one. lets see some memorable stuff i did this hols:
1.played for zhengyi's exam (my flautist senior! yup u guessed it, we played the flute quartet as u can see from the title. more on the piece later) on thurs, had fun praccing for the rest of the wk! i still want a chamber mugging group =( lol always thought it'd be very fun + productive if i cld alternate betw mugging and playing. definitely serves as great motivation for me!

2. lost my wallet plus a thousand other valuable things inside. got lambasted by parents who later felt guilty, i think, and began treating me nicer haha. was mugging the organic chem summary sheet on 156 and absentmindedly left wallet behind. i shldn have jus been lazy and stayed at home like lei and not go for chem rev test! sigh, house keys gone also! my whole family's security at stake!! plus i'd lost my ishuffle a while ago. eurgh, super heart ache. felt horrible horrible

3. and that friday, was positively the worst day of 2006, to cut the long story short. but i have so many pp to thank! and one of them whom i've really indebted to is leo hee xun, fellow xpeian! this guy rocks and totally deserves TWO cups of lemon tea from me. [this is to make sure i actually get down to treatg him] thank you for putting up w my psycho thoughts on the busride bac and even when i went bac on my promise to go home! thank you for jus being so tolerant of my very unpredictable self. and i really agree w the MBTI site on ur IFSJ personality.

yup guys go try it. ys' MBTI personality test. i think its rather accurate. but seems like i've changed. the first ever test that calls me an 'introvert'. i feel kind of amused, but upon deeper thought i think it jus might be true.

sorry for the very disjointed account.

gonna end off by talking abt the mozart flute quartet. i like it cos its really sweet and simple. jus the way i'd like this tumultuous week to end. which it did afterall, reminds me of the magic flute ending and how all the conflict and misunderstandings jus untangled itself naturally.

i cld categorise different stages of my life w different pieces of music. these songs/tunes/music are like a bookmark for me to mark a certain phase that i'd been going thru. so when i flip thru the book again, i cld easily flip bac to that page in time when xxxx happened. maybe its jus another way to help me organise that thing called my memory. like hei se mao yi, borodin string quartet, they're not jus nice music that i adore but more imptly, they symbolise a time of my life that can be so nicely 'characterised' by these tunes. its kind of abstract, but jus someth that i myself and only i can relish HAHAAH

flute quart in D means a great deal that im not able to describe to u all on this blog. i guess the quartet pp will never know either. its jus when things got horrible that i realised how impt it is to try as hard as u can (this is the main part, the trying hard part)to remain true to ur 'core', to stand on ur own feet and even if u have the best friends around, uve only got urself to depend on. some things jus have to be done. so quit those weak-ness.

thank you my friends.

smile

2006-09-10T13:41:00.000+08:00

put a smile on your face, and make the world a better place

Studying's a bitch eh, darren? Good luck to our two marvelous OGLs. And to cheer them on, here's a motivational poster!

peace, yo
Baron von Wank.

Salute

2006-09-09T11:29:00.000+08:00

My msn nick had two new additions in the last week, one of a tortoise, and one of a rose. They are not there for fun, they are tributes and reminders of two great people who passed away.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee
mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
for those whom thou think thou dost overthrow.
die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

One of them was a great famous crocodile hunter, who was struck down by a stab to his heart by a stingray. The other was a young boy, a rinpcc cadet in sec 3, whose life was snatched away by a virus that went for his heart.

from rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
and soonest our best men with thee do go,
rest of their bones, and souls delivery

You guys have probably read a lot about Steve Irwin, and will probably know more abt him than me, so it is the npcc cadet who i wish to highlight in this post.

thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
and dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell;
and poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
and better than thy stroke; why swell thou then?

Zh, i may have missed your wake cause i was sick that day. I may not have known you that well personally. But i'll will always remember u. The unit will always remember u. For having been a part of the unit; for having worked hard for the unit; for having strived to do your best for the unit. You have lived a life worth celebrating, and you will be remembered forever.

one short sleep past, we wake eternally,
and Death shall be no more;
Death, thou shalt die.

- john donne

Rest in peace

Regards,
Yong Sheng

Z'cove

2006-09-08T23:01:00.000+08:00

heyhey this is a disclaimer:

the z'cove is still alive!

so if you decide to stay and hang out with your friends before assembly, thinking that your z'cove is now gone, fear not.

it has never been dead for the last 8 months. and it's currently back to the old place outside LT2 so do go there!

dar

2006-09-05T11:54:00.000+08:00

haha studying's a bitch.. eating lunch at the com preparing to head to school.

anyway, here's something to help ys out: http://www.murraystate.edu/secsv/fye/ESFJ.htm

tc!

ys

2006-09-03T21:00:00.000+08:00

You Are An ESFJ

The Caregiver

You are sympathetic and caring, putting friends and family first.
A creature of habit, you prefer routines and have trouble with change.
You love being in groups - whether you're helping people or working on a project.
You are good at listening, laughing, and bringing out the best in people.

You would make a great nurse, social worker, or teacher.

What's Your Personality Type?

wtf? teacher, nurse or social worker? wth man. oh well, and i dunno wat S, F and J mean either. I only know that E stand for Extrovert. hmm, anyone care to enlighten me? thanks.

Regards,

ys

2006-09-02T20:50:00.000+08:00

wooh we are on a stoning spree again. and i'm here to end it again!

anyway, gd luck to darren and charlene in their prelims. all the best!

as for the rest of us all, our promos r like less than 25 days away. study hard! gotta trash the upcoming promos. and finish up ur pw!

.

250!!!

2006-08-25T22:10:00.000+08:00

woohoo it's the 250th post in teh x'peia blogspot despite the long stoning periods!

and our OG is still surviving (sort of).

and to celebrate this joyous occasion.... here's a dumb blonde joke!

one day, there was this blonde who was speeding on the highway cos she wasn't smart enough to understand the speed signs, thinking hard instead of what comes after "90".

so she was stopped by a police officer who was also a blonde. the police officer asked the speeding blonde for her identification card, but being a blonde, the speeding blonde didn't know what it was. thus she asked the police officer, who replied that it was "something that's rectangular and has your face on it:

the speeding blonde took out a mirror and handed it to the police officer.

the police officer took a look and said, "it's ok. I didn't know you were a police officer too."

andante.

2006-08-23T21:12:00.000+08:00

Hello everyone!

A big thank you goes out to older firman, ivana, derrick and terence for helping me with the essay. Terence practically coauthored it with all his syntatic corrections and improvements =) I do hope it lives up to expectations ><

Oh dear.

7. Is freedom always good?

“Any society that would give up a little liberty for a little security would deserve neither and lose both.” Freedom is a state much prized within the realm of civilised society. It is considered the most basic of human rights, and is intrinsic to our very existence. It is said in many religious texts, ranging from the Bible to the teachings of Zoroastrians, that Mankind is the only creature given the gift of free will. Yet, just as Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden because they chose to eat the forbidden fruit, freedom is a value that does not always yield positive results. There are two primary types of freedom, and those are, freedom from malevolence, and freedom of choice. In the latter especially, freedom is not always good, simply because the “right” choice, or the choice that is considered to be the best, can be pretty hard to make. This is all the more so because all our choices can affect other people.

First we begin by understanding freedom. This precious commodity comes in two forms. The first is the lack of external forces oppressing the individual, and the second is the ability to make independent decisions and act upon those. From this dichotomy we see that the concept of freedom entails three things, three prerequisites. The first and the most important is empowerment. Whether physical or otherwise, the first step towards individual sovereignty is to break free from the bondages and walls. Once you have overcome the oppression, in order to act upon your freedom, to utilize it, you will then need knowledge and maturity. Maturity, as discussed by Immanuel Kant, is the exercise of one’s mental abilities to arrive at rational and responsible conclusions based on an one’s knowledge and experiences. Clearly, the last two requirements for freedom are interlinked and it is from these two that derive the inherent flaws of freedom.

In today’s society, there are few who disagree that the most basic freedom, the freedom from oppression, is a good thing, and more then that, is fundamental and inalienable. The right not to be a bondsman, not to be a slave, not to be a commodity is one of the most sacred values of modern liberal societies.<

Having cleared that, let us look at the second form of freedom, the freedom of choice and action. As previously mentioned, this requires knowledge and maturity, and it is because of these requirements, and the inability of man to fulfil them and the inherent selfishness of man that leads us to the inevitable conclusion that freedom is not always good.

We make choices via a cost-benefit analysis – is my pleasure worth ten dollars more to have a steak over a hamburger? However, not all choices are as simple. Many choices have hidden costs, or have undeterminable or indefinite benefits. In this case, the cost-benefit equation could potentially be miles off track, impeding a rational choice. For example, if John were to be in a different scenario, this time choosing whether or not to take out a loan on a brand new Ferrari, he has imperfect knowledge of the future and therefore, is not able to factor in unexpected scenarios such as losing his job, or other misfortunes. This may lead him to make the wrong choice. In this particular instance, the freedom of choice is not necessarily bad, because there is no reason why John should be deprived of a BMW or Ferrari simply because he is not clairvoyant. However, if we take for instance the choice of pesticides used in agriculture, things may look slightly different. A farmer may choose a pesticide based more on its financial cost rather than other factors, such as the presence of toxins or pollutants. In this case, an imperfect knowledge of the harm done to the environment or to oneself may lead to a choice with potentially far sounding negative consequences.

Maturity, the tendency to make rational decisions based on knowledge and experiences is another factor in choice. Just like a child would rather play than study, immature choices are often shortsighted and may be harmful. The age of consent of 18 or above in many counties recognizes this fact and therefore, takes away a person’s freedom to choice while he is still a child. However, maturity is not something that is assured with age, and therefore, reason and rationality is not either.

This deficiency in reason and rationality allows us to construct one of the strongest arguments against freedom. Man is selfish, and will therefore make choices to benefit himself without thought or concern for others. It is argued that selfishness is essentially the ultimate immaturity, because the individual fails to account for factors in the bigger picture, either on purpose or because of a sheer lack of inability. This means that he fails to consider the welfare of society in general.

This is something that John Stuart Mill recognized in his thesis on liberty, which led to the evolution of the “harm principle”. This principle works on the premise that all individual actions have repercussions on other people and society. Freedom and rights should be taken away when these repercussions are negative. Therefore, John has the right to buy his car and potentially fall into debt because the effects are purely individual, whereas a burglar does not have the right to saunter into another’s house and walk out with his liquor cabinet, because he then harms another party. Rights are the freedoms you can exercise, crimes are those you cannot – obviously, absolute freedom is not a good thing.

This brings me to my final point on freedom. When John decides if he wants to buy his Ferrari, he also has to live with the consequences of this choice. When Twiggy walks past a cake shop, she has to decide if she wants to be tempted by the cheesecake in the window. If she decides to buy it, she will have to bear the consequences of such an action. Freedom brings about a choice; these choices, and their inevitable consequences, lead to responsibilities. This causes stress and may even become a burden, especially if the freedom was exercised immaturely or without complete knowledge. That is why freedom even over one’s individual choices may not be good.

Yet, why is freedom so precious that men fight and die for it? It is because it is in the human spirit to desire freedom. Freedom liberates the soul by giving individuals the space to explore and be creative. It creates passion precisely because it entails responsibilities and consequences. It enables diversification and promotes individualism. Nature’s snowflakes are not hammered out in great big forges in the sky. They are given room to form freely, each becoming a unique and exquisite work of art.

In the same way, regardless of whether freedom is good or bad, its benefits can be seen and felt everywhere. It is no mere coincidence that first world countries are mostly liberal democracies. Freedom encourages enterprise and development. The more liberal regulations are, the more vibrant the arts are.

So how shall we handle freedom? We must first commit ourselves to the most responsible and mature exercise of our freedom. We should then isolate the choices most harmful to our society by legislating against them. Our laws should both deny freedom to those who would abuse it and defend it from those who would take it from us. For what is the hope that gives strength to the prisoner in his lonely cell, chained in bondage behind rude walls but freedom? What Goddess does the storm tossed mariner offer his most fervent prayers to but freedom? What does it mean to human but to be free?

peace, yo
Baron von Wank

ys

2006-08-17T20:53:00.000+08:00

lolz my resolution of not playing dota stood tall and mighty for 3 weeks... and then got totally torn to bits today when my friends decided to play and asked me to play. My mouse duly protested the destruction of that powerful resolution by screwing up almost the whole game, though it didn't deter me from getting an impressive 14-5 score with my tinker, but it shld have been better. Shld have been 20-4 or smthing like that. Guess i shld listen to my mouse and head next time.

yong sheng

ys

2006-08-15T22:57:00.000+08:00

haha omg wang i tried it out too and check out wat i got.

Yesterday my teacher was thinking about seasons in the coming decades. She was really disgusted by that stuff, so she told my friend Trish about it, and she began yelling:

"Shut up!.. Shut up! If I hear another thing about the coming decades I'm going to shoot somebody!"

But then when my teacher got to the part about the seasons, Trish shut up and started grinding her teeth. But the next day, Trish's cousin told me that the reason Trish was so freaked out was because she has a fear of seasons from childhood. On weekends Trish can be a little unpredicatble like that, but all she cares about is my own good...

haha coincidental?

for the benefit of others who's not in 6N, trish is some girl in 6N. lol

yong sheng

woah dude!

2006-08-15T22:11:00.000+08:00

saw this link below our tagboard. i was like so totally "woah dude! i gotta check that out!" kk so here was the result of my little tryst with the random blog generator =P

Today my boss was listening to a radio program about sex in today's cut-throat corporate world. He was quite disturbed by the whole thing, so he asked my friend Natalie about it, and she began yelling:

"Dude!.. That's amazing! Don't tell me you're into today's cut-throat corporate world too!"

But then when my boss got to the part about the sex, Natalie suddenly got this dangerous look in her eyes. Then the next day, Natalie's father told me that the reason Natalie was so freaked out was because she used to write a lot about sex. Occasionally Natalie can be very unpredicatble like that, but she should know better...

Link of the day: WMD Counter

continental drift

2006-08-14T20:51:00.000+08:00

around two weeks ago, the tables at the amphitheater were like one big land mass, Pangaea.

however, due to College Day, the tables have been shifted apart, much like continental drift split up the continent of Pangaea into Laurasia and Gondowaland.

the organisms that mixely freely in Pangaea were split up a result of this continental drift, and our dear OGL minzhen desires a shift to "the other side" (i.e. near the piano).

her reasons are unknown, but let's just sit on the side for a change! it's also much closer to the parade square, so why not?

ys

2006-08-12T20:44:00.000+08:00

whee the fireworks from national day parade are great. but i wasted my whole national day hols away. now back to studying. hopefully i dun waste my time away again. 6 weeks left to promos.

yong sheng

yc finally speaks

2006-08-04T22:32:00.000+08:00

hi everyone! finally made my first post. all i want to say is work hard for promos and we'll make it! =)

ys

2006-08-03T21:51:00.000+08:00

crap i havn't started studying for promos! die le. at least now i stop playing le. yay. qte a gd improvement towards starting to study liao. lalala

>_<

2006-08-02T21:03:00.000+08:00

53 days and counting.
around 60 days to end of promos?

IT'S heex.

2006-07-27T21:38:00.000+08:00

woohoo 240th post!

haha the last ten posts were painstaking eh.

and promos are only 60 days away! that's 12 days for each subject! ahhhh!

shit i'm being damn random cos there's nothing much to write about.

and nice post. (see below) =P

not wang, not heex

2006-07-26T22:36:00.000+08:00

zzzzzzz
really really tired today =(

ys

2006-07-26T21:20:00.000+08:00

me again, and i suspect the one to blog after this post is either heex, wang or me again. lol

anyway, today marks the end of all the ihc things i hav to help out in! yay. on monday it was rock climbing, which MR totally owned upside down. Girls had shinbin and michelle making it to the tiebreakers by being two of the joint top five girls. The boys' double overhang mad difficulty route had justin and isaac out of 3 boys who were joint top. And the boys normal difficulty route had poey being joint top with tommy. While only poey won his tiebreaker, the rest finishing top were gd enuff to make MR beat the other houses totally. really totally lor. the next four houses were qte close, with MR being damn far away at the top. yay.

And today was the raffles extreme race. Our beloved charlene chua took part! She didn't win though, but she did qte well =) gd job charlene. But MR didn't do very well for it though. think we might be last. but nvm lah, our contestants did well. BB claimed all the prizes for boys category, hh for mixed category, and girls' were split between bw(or bb?), MT and MR. i think BB first and HH second liao. the rest see how the contestants do liao.

And our common tests are just 60 days away! ahhh! but for the j2s even worse lah, 5 weeks away only. everyone study hard! And odac is heading for Ophir soon, during national day hols. lol

Regards,
Yong Sheng

lalala

2006-07-20T22:14:00.000+08:00

blog, people. or else later the whole blog only got wang, ys and my entries only.

woohoo E for econs. too bad i can't spell any words.
and here's my plan to get all As in the promos:
[1] form study group with mengfei and menglin the IMBA nanyang twins.

[2] train arm strength and writing speed by doing forearm training!

[3] study 1.5 months before the promos!

[4] drink brands' chickens essence or koff some DHA pills that are supposed to make you smarter.

[5] aha and start praying.

lalala

2006-07-19T21:41:00.000+08:00

wah the french booth got a lot of food. gd stuff man. first nicole showed me around, so i ate some. then heqi came to show me around as well, and i got the chance to eat a second time =P but i didn't really eat though. i'm not that greedy. anyway, just to tell u guys that the french booth is nice. mandre will be happy to hear that. lol

n my physics spa today gg le. to the others, rmb to read the instructions carefully and dun be like me.

that's all

regards,
yong sheng

i come in peace

2006-07-16T23:31:00.000+08:00

Hello!

I just had a cup of 100% Real Brewed Tea! It makes me happy =)

I'll tell you more about my happy juice next time. It's really quite good. =)

Sometimes, I feel like a balloon. =)

Smile! =)

peace, yo
Baron Von Wank

ys

2006-07-16T14:11:00.000+08:00

wah y no one want to post liao. nvm i shall post then.

anyway, darren, how u owe charlene money? previously i'd expect it, with her being the odac treasurer and all, but now? weird.

gah, i just recovered my voice after totally losing it on friday following an outbreak of flu. My classmates were like wth is happening to u, ys? cuz my voice was like fading every second, until like by 2 hrs, it was totally gone. wah lao, that dunno wdv sudden loss caused me to miss the international physics olympiad astronight on friday night, as well as odac training and inter house rock climbing on saturday morning. oh n missed eureka briefing on friday too. now i'm totally clueless about what is gonna happen for eureka competition on tuesday, except that i need to loan a blazer for it. nvm, will figure it out somehow.

oh and everyone go join ihc rock climbing! especially the girls. cuz the screwed up rubbish knn councillors(no offense to darren and mandre here, they're probably not the nabei ppl i'm talking abt) have mixed up odac's instructions. the instructions are supposed to be max 3 teams per house, 3 ppl per team, EACH TEAM MUST HAVE AT LEAST ONE GIRL. i dunno how such an instruction can be ommited, but now it's up to the hse caps to sort it out, and any team without a girl will not be allowed to take part in the rock climbing competition. anyway, a few of us were route testing for the competition at the rg rock wall on thurs, and we realised that the girls route is really easy man. petrina could lead climb up the route without much trouble. The toughest boy's route is really scary though. double overhang, with the second overhang being 1.5 panels long. meaning the wall juts outwards parallel to the ground for 1.5 metres. siao man. i managed to get pass the first overhang, then got utterly owned by the second one. wonder how the contestants will do for it on the competition day itself =P

anyway, gtg now, got some odac proposal(odacia) to complete.

regards,
Yong Sheng

super combo!

2006-07-14T22:29:00.000+08:00

BBB.

was close to getting BOOB but oh wellz. awaiting econs and gp to finish my super combo!

making the best out of a bad situation

2006-07-05T21:59:00.000+08:00

so my cts died the way i expected them to. U,S yay. thus far. awaiting c and another s, which shld come frm physics and maths respectively. but i now hav 2 free lunches and nearly a 3rd in my bag! courtesy of me betting with my fren that i'll definitely get lower than her in chem and econs, both of which i managed to get lower. yay thanks yiting and gen. lol

yes mandre i'll miss lei. aww. but she say she may be bringing the slovenian delegates to rjc on friday if the sch approves. whee!

ah crap i dunno wat to write about liao. oh odac will soon be holding an expedition for the sch population, so if anyone is interested in taking part, can sign up then.

Regards,
Yong Sheng

a smashin youth day hol

2006-07-03T22:35:00.000+08:00

Care To Dance was a blast!
Thx heex for comin down!
Absolutely shagged after combined... 6h of dancing. Really cool banghra dances and lindy hop steps. Should do banghra for orientation dance, is like 10 times simpler and funner. My buddy was a joy lol, one smart gal she is. Then went shopping w mum at far east plaza and bought 4 tops and a pair of shoes. On top of that had bday celebration for my sec2 bro at night.

really tired but a well-spent youth day hol. YES!
ys, i understand ur lethargy? i'm going to miss lei alot as well! hahaha

cant wait to go bac to sch!!!!!!!

post 230!

2006-07-03T21:43:00.000+08:00

hey!

somehow i think this og is quite ownage... wat kind of og blog actually manages to reach 230 posts when most die off or get deleted before say, like 50 posts? partially this is due to wang's desire to reach mmmonster post and my desire to at least hit some nice numbered post (like 230?).

newae contrast to ys' day of degen at home, i went for this cip thingy after being persuaded by mandre. it was some dance cip by the ymca where u go dance with kids from low-income families and then make their day a better one. =P

well initially we went to ymca in the morning to learn the dance before teaching the kids. well there were like <10 guys and almost 50 girls and initially the guys were quite uncomfortable with the low proportion of guys and we were thinking that we have boarded a "zei chuan" (pirate ship). thankifully the dances later were quite fun cos we learned some bangra dance which involves crazy jumping around and doing the trademark indian shimmy-around-the-tree thing which was quite fun. and of course they were some rgs dancers which were quite ok haha.

then we had lunch at the nearby paradiz centre, when some of my friends and i were tempted to play dota. but since lunch was only 1 hour, we pushed it back to after the whole thing ended. then we went to tao nan school to find our primary school kid buddies and there were some quite cranky ones. these p3 kids were like half my height and they dare to kick their legs at us and some kid actually went to catch a grasshopper to scare the rgs and some jc-ish girls. then my friend got quite pissed after that grasshopper-catching kid touched his butt so he held up the kid by his legs and the kid wasn't very much intimidated. tsktsk about the attitude of kids these days.

newae we had great fun with the kids seeing how they enjoyed the dances pretty much, deriving much fun simply by jumping around or simply getting a few sweets after the whole thing ended. then my friends and i went to katong shopping centre to play dota for 1.5 hours before going home, and my team won even though the other team was owning us with kills and had much better items.

well looking forward to seeing u guys at the z'cove tomorrow and watching germany vs. italy and not looking forward to PW.

ys

2006-07-03T20:50:00.000+08:00

Today was one of the most unfruitful and unproductive mondays i ever had. I didn't play, i didn't study, i skipped odac outing, i didn't go for class outing. To sum it all up in 3 words, i did nothing. How i wished we were like ri and switched our youth day hol to next monday instead. At least can watch world cup final in peace as well. gah. i feel like some wasted shit now. lol

On a better note, tmr marks the start of school again! I'm actually looking forward to it! Well if u considered my monday today, u wldn't feel too surprised about that. but anyway, i had wanted sch to start again a long time ago. i miss my classmates, aww...

crap, i dun want to get back my test papers though.

die liao

slow moves.

2006-07-02T05:10:00.000+08:00

I have no idea why I am still up at 5 am in the morning. ><

Friday's gathering was a blast! All credits go to mandre for organising it, and to everyone who turned up for making the effort.

At any rate, today was a fruitful day of work and contemplation. I shall take a leaf out of mandre's book, and post an excerpt of an entry on my blog here =)

"What does it mean to be lonely?

"lone·ly (lōn'lē)
adj., -li·er, -li·est.

1. Without companions; lone.
2. Characterized by aloneness; solitary.
Unfrequented by people; desolate: a lonely crossroads.
1. Dejected by the awareness of being alone. See synonyms at alone.
2. Producing such dejection: the loneliest night of the week.

lonelily lone'li·ly adv.
loneliness lone'li·ness n."

Until recently, I accepted what the dictionary told me. That it was simply a state of being without. I always thought of loneliness as something of a negative - an absence of companionship, and, of course, something temporary, as its very nature suggest.

But now I have come to realise that it is so much more. It is something which could press and oppress. could distort the ordinary, and play tricks with the mind. It lurks inimicallly all around, stretching nerves and twanging them with alarms, never letting one forget that there was no one to go to for help, no one to turn to for comfort, no one to care.

It places one in context, as a tiny grain of sand in the world's mightiest deserts, or as a atom, adrift in the vastness of the infinite cosmos. It waits and stalks, all the time bidding its time for the chance to frighten, and frighten terribly. That was what loneliness is really all about.

To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it. It is to outrage it's very nature, and the very purpose of its creation. The prisoner and cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are also aspects of that greater entity. But when it is abandoned, and is severed completely from the herd, in a sort of way, the herd no longer exists. And for the herd creature, it is no longer a part of any entity. He becomes part of no whole, a freak without a place.

He then turns to his reason and rationality to exist and survive as an island. He must negotiate a calm in his mind, as every aspect of his existance screams out in a chorus of chaos. What a poor and pitiful creature he must be...

And if he should be unable to hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed. Most utterly, fearfully, dreadfully lost, so that he should become no more then the twitch in the limb of a corpse.

peace, yo
Baron Von Wank"

darren

2006-07-01T02:42:00.000+08:00

HEYYYYYY haha love you guys so much! anyway. im sorry i cooped myself up downstairs playing xbox. just that. it was so tempting hahahaha. but anyway. today was good. (: thks everyone for coming n thks mandre for planning it!

anyway. just got back from watching germany vs argentina. hahahaha they ended up at penalty shootout. which reminded me of my penalty cockups in the winning eleven game against ys. haha. lehmann is a penalty king la saved 2 penalties and sent germany through.

i guess argentina is as CMI as me at penalties.

Wow this OG is not bad

2006-06-30T23:31:00.000+08:00

not bad at all

og outing @ corfeplace
Approximately 6 months after we first came tgt
turn out was really good.
i was impressed!
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
...
12!!!
okay, shall credit those who came (come also got credit, wth lol)
mel, mich, ann, yihui, heex, wang, ys + lei, ben, yongchun and not forgetting darren!

on top of that, i thought the free 'n' easy evening was a pretty good chill out time. Xbox, guitar/piano/viola/bridge playing, chomping away (didnt u love the prata?)

Side note: Everyone who came owes darren 2 bucks alright, he helped pay for the tidbits first. Thanks!

Have come to a realization that there're really only 2 things that i need to enjoy my life: 1, Food and 2, Friends(family). As simple as that!

Yay i feel contented, its been a long long long day (what with bio killer, piano ensemble mtg, chamber batch talk then the prata dinner and chilling out) i can finally retire to bed with a head that's no more crammed to the brim with random phrases from cellular membrane notes... (crap it didnt help did it)

love you guys!! :)

with wang's wondrous way with words.

2006-06-27T19:41:00.000+08:00

We wandered, weapon wielded, within weathered, white walls. Wrecked wreaths wrap women whose wicked wrongfullness we whipped with whirlwinds' wraths. What wretchedness! We were warriors wrangling with worthless wenches. We won with wit and wisdom. Within weathered, white walls, we were worshiped. We were without want.

hoho

2006-06-27T19:07:00.000+08:00

i bet everyone's enjoying the first two days of cts now, and being the first common test of jc life and also of rjc, we must all be traumatised.

never before has there been tests when you can recite the whole textbook from the back to the front and still stand a high chance of failing because the teachers either think you are:
[1] having the hands of schwarzenegger or something and u'll never get tired

[2] you are an animal in the arctic or antarctica who is immune to the freezing cold of the hall

[3] you are doing an JC 1 level paper from a chem teacher's point of view

[4] you have the answer scripts lying around somewhere on your table

[5] no time is needed at all to balance ionic equations, deal with tricky calculator buttons, paper dropping, pens spoiling, call of nature or even a table with uneven legs!

[6] you can think just as fast as you write! but if you're arnold you're unlikely to think too quickly. and so your last answer in the test will be "I'll be back" cos u probably left half of it undone.

OGathering on 30 Jun, fri

2006-06-27T17:02:00.000+08:00

It has come to my attention that many of you, though brimming with enthusiasm regarding the outing, are still very blur about the outing details. My fault, partially! So here it is:

Time: Meet at Bishan MRT @ 5pm
Programme (subject to change dep. on what time pp turn up):
530pm - reach serangoon garden
530-630pm - Eat dinner at prata house/cafe cartel/coffee shop
630-9pm - Come to my house: a few options inc. xbox, french musicals, gorging ourselves with more food, play tennis/squash (must pay though), go to the park playground.. aiya so many things we can do
OR
630-9pm - Kbox

Really up to you guys. Pls spread the msg around. So far, the pp who have more or less confirmed attd, inc myself:
wang, heex, mel, ben, ys (and lei?), mich, darren, charl

I still need the rest to tell me whether ur comin or not!

c'est moi! again

2006-06-25T20:36:00.000+08:00

An excerpt from my entry on the 3L class blog.. haha jus feeling q screwed up for cts hence resorting to blog therapy. Good luck to all for the CTs! (and of course post-CT OG gathering to look fwd to on Friday!)

"i'm going to miss the jun hols ALOT;
it has been my most productive hols ever, (i wldnt dare say that for my studies, but at least in the other aspects i've learnt a great deal)
from busking for somethingood to talking to my viola teacher to mtg new friends at a conference to helping out at home,
its set me thinkg if its really necessary to actually go to sch when u learn so much from experience life itself. i actually have a better idea of what i want to do nx time, believe it or not. NO, i do not intend tb a full-time busker nor do i intend to marry a busker (but i definitely do want to busk again in the future). One thing for certain that i know, the thing that i've set my sights on will require alot of determination and hardwork.

If u guys had read my email regarding ike's petition, its honestly going to be the spoof of the century if he isnt granted deferment. Its totally nonsensical and lame how rigid and inflexible the authorities can get. It's every musician's greatest dream to get into Curtis and after working so hard to get in, he's actually going to miss the boat, the boat thats going to launch his career on the intl scene. Argh, the chinese phrase yi fen tian ying would be the most apt way to describe the sheer indignation and unjust that i feel now.

I've had the honor to know ike as an acquaintance and i've always admired his brilliant and very mature playing. Most of the time though, its never struck me the amt of hard work that he puts in behind the scene, the many sacrifices that he must have made to reached that level of skill and polishedness. The amount of practise and hard work that he puts in honestly puts me to shame (And of course, he's got the natural talent to boast). Thats why i hope and pray that he makes it to Curtis.

There is no easy way out.

Some of us may think that with this bit of cleverness, xiao chong ming, we'll make it through every time. Another common mentality that even i'm guilty of, is one of 'Aiya, jus mug and cram for a few days b4 cts should be okay one lah'. But this is not consistency and this is not genuine learning. Personally, this is an awfully disgusting attitude towards one's own learning which has manifested amongst many a student, including myself.

Why should we the pp who cram last minute do better than the rest who have consistently revised and relearnt their stuff? It wld take some really super power brains or a god-sent miracle to make that possible. And i guess i wont be hoping for miracles this CT.

Ike's story will be a continual source of motivation for me and i hope that his story would have set you thinking about ur life and what ur gonna do about it.

Cheers :) And i'm lookg fwd to home-coming tmw!

(Sorry i'm not sure how the entry turned out tb so serious lol but i guess i have this tendency to ramble into very serious sounding stuff esp when i realise how screwed up my own circumstances are)"

darren

2006-06-24T00:22:00.000+08:00

hahaha im here to rescue this place! BUMP!

anyway. just looked through some of the photos from z'kardia. many many memories, really. and i take it that since none of you are coming to us for advice n all, you all are doing alright in school. CT1s are just round, hope u all aren't gona flunk urs like i did for mine last year. all the best k..

n on friday we'll rock amanda's house. pls let those who dont read the blog know abt this really asap. if not we'll have measly attendance on friday. :\

ys

2006-06-22T21:36:00.000+08:00

Whee! i'm back! and very heavily screwed as well. After spending the first half of the hols playing(not dota lah, freaks) diablo 2: LOD, and the 3rd week mugging astro(learning about the dangers of manipulating space time(while someone named wang does it here)), i'm left with 3 days and i still have not started mugginga single word for the upcoming cts. which pretty much explains why i'm heavily screwed.

On another note, the rj astro teacher in charge and the astro seniors took a gamble on splitting the four experienced astro j1s into 2 teams instead of concentrating them on 1 to send to the recently concluded NUS-NTU astrochallenge. The gambit paid off beautifully in the prelimnary rounds as team 2 clinched 2nd and team 1 4th to leave rj as the only school with 2 teams in the finals. It then fumbled just as spectacularly in the finals, as the weakened teams could only managed to compete with each other for the 3rd position, with team 1 coming out just just on top, courtesy of beating team 2 to answering the very last question of the competition and overtaking at the last possible chance. overall, rj team 1 3rd, rj team 2 4th. wat a failed gamble, but nevertheless a great one in that no one ever expected team 2 to make the finals, which was shocking when they not just made the finals, but that they went in holdng 2nd spot, behind traditional powerhouse njc.

So now i'm left with just 3 days to study for the coming cts, i dun hav a working graphic cal, and i dun think i'll do much in the coming days. Whee i'm screwed.

ys

mugmug.

2006-06-13T22:00:00.000+08:00

heyo just to save wang from being excessively poetic, making 5 posts in a row or a mmmonster post :P

how's the mugging everyone!
if u take bio, gd luck! it appears that i spent like 2 weeks on this single subject and i'm gonna leave half a week for each of the other three (maths, econs and chem). well if u take something like history, i envy you.

oh and my teacher said the expected average for chem is a C. that's 50-59. above 60 means u are good.

Doctor, doctor!

2006-06-13T21:56:00.000+08:00

with some careful manipulation of the space time, continuum, my posting streak is undisturbed... monster post!! =)

damn i'm awesome.

lol. Why this blog so dead one? Anyways. HI DARREN! I went home and mugged as you commanded! Muahahahaha. I am diligent and hardworking. But I am still going to fail CTs!! =(

Anyways, good luck everyone!! This is the home stretch now. lets finish strong!

peace yo,
Marquis de la Wanka

2by Four

2006-06-12T20:40:00.000+08:00

Mega POST!

Muahahahaha my cryptic enigmaticness ownz all.

third time lucky

2006-06-12T00:36:00.000+08:00

A triple post! To keep the blog alive! Multi post!

okay okay. On to serious matters. I have something to share with all you x'peians and other readers of this blog today. Something from the bottom of my heart, and undeniably true.

I have found Love. The One that I will spend eternity with.

It was quite obvious to me it was her really. I don't know how I missed all those pointers and clues. All the signs showed me she was the One. She herself yielded the information to me on many turns. So many hints strewn all over the place, and me, in my infinite foolishness, missed them all.

As for the moment itself, it was truly love at first sight.

It was so surreal, I couldn't believe it was happening.

The secret, I realised, was in the approach. The way she sereptitiously crept up to me, and the hidden glances I kept stealing towards her. And then, we got the opportunity to communicate. I remember the first time we held conversation. It was late at night, and I heard a Call. And before I knew it, there I was, sitting before the window, staring skywards, totally distracted, utterly lost in a world of my own.

We've had more intimate moments since then. There was this particular night. The sky was exceptionally clear, and we were out somewhere quiet. The feeling was magically. It was as if my very spirit and being was elevated by the mere thought of her, and my heart soared, wings outreached, an open target for cupid's arrow.

What captivates me most about her? Her eyes. They glow with the brightness of a billion stars, and shine with the splendor of the finest nova. And when you glance past the surface, you see their endless depths, as the reach into the vast expanses of forevermore. Like the deepest night, they have an allure that is simply hypnotic. You can see the reflections of the infinite darkness of a blackhole in them, and from that abyss, you sense, and in the back of your mind you hear, thoughts that arise from the soul of an angel.

She is the stuff of dreams. Enthralling to the last, yet elusively out of reach. She is never at rest, never at peace, always busy, changing, evolving, growing. In her presense, I feel so out of my depth, so immature, so insignificant. It's like I'm drowning in her presence.

For my own part, I have never had a thought, or an image, that I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness, than with which I first conceived it. She is however that particular class of fancy, and her beauty and magnificance is of a kind that of which I have as yet found impossible to adapt to language. My attraction to her, my devotion, arises from the soul, and with her, I find myself at the apex of the most intense tranquility, when the bodily and mental health are in perfection, and I find myself drifting down the seas of my thoughts, reaching a place and a time where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams.

And now I've captured this fancy, and it seems to me, that at every moments, all that I see, or seem, is but a dream, within a dream.

My baby, she's out of this world!

peace, yo!
wang.

take flight

2006-06-07T03:22:00.000+08:00

double post!

oh and btw, yep, i'm all for a gathering or party or something (:

goodluck everyone mugging for CTs!

WANG in da HAUS!

2006-06-07T03:16:00.000+08:00

Poem 2
Me.

I AM THE WANGMAN

26.
August.
'89 of the Wall

wanghanchen
@
gmail.com

64814179
If I told you where I lived
I'd have to kill
you.

S06N

I AM THE WANG MAN
does that answer
your question?
(last one)

Coffee + Medication
=
bad.

flap.

OGathering and MR profiling

2006-06-06T22:23:00.000+08:00

HI ALL,

Hope ur having a wonderful holiday. I'm enjoying every moment, well sort of. If u consider function/dept meetings and rehearsals and 'failed' mugging to be ur kind of fun.

Firstly, i have to clarify that my house is alas not available for the entire week 3 unless u guys desperately wanna invade the house while the owner's not at home. i'm really sorry but from since forever, i've been having someth on every single day. NO JOKE. (not sure how i actually planned this jun hol schedule of mine, but i'm filled to the brim already) You see, i have 3 busking performances comin up and another mini perf at esplanada library. >< And i'm going to watch Sg idol on thurs!

Mich, sorry for downplaying ur enthusiasm hahaha but not to worry!
Instead i'm proposing that we have a post-ct gathering. This one, shldnt be a problem on my side.

30th june friday, @ my place.
For most of us, Bio paper ends at 10. We cld mt at bishan MRT @ 4pm and then come down to my area (there's good prata! cafe cartel?) for dinner. As for entertainment... Highlight: Screening of french musicals. There's also a xbox and a guitar. Cld jus buy some chips/drinks etc and chill out in the basement. Will try to make it as comfy as possible.

How does that sound? I hope its motivation for u guys to study for the cts.
Pls post ur responses on the tagboard so we can start planning, if necc.

Secondly, the MR comm wants to collate info from every MRian. I have most of ur info, but not everyth. Therefore, i need everyone to send me their full name(for mich only), class, birthday, hm & hp no.(for mich only), email, address, and area of contribution/expertise/interest.

For the last one, examples include designing, banner painting, floorball, blueprint (writing), science-related stuff etc

Pls send this info to manderwaalsforces@gmail.com or alternatively, post on the tb. AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

2006-06-06T12:38:00.000+08:00

hellos! yup yup im really supportive of the bbq at amanda's house! where isit by the way. okay see yall sooooooon!((:

-miche

THE WANG MAN!

2006-06-05T22:44:00.000+08:00

A poem to myself. By myself.

Haiku,
Verse.

Watermelony
Anthropomorphism Nut.
gynaecologist

Awesome.

Now go off and
Sleep.

hols!

2006-06-05T22:20:00.000+08:00

hey everyone!

hope everyone's having an enjoyable holiday, especially the ODAC people at some ulu-far-away-tucked-in-the-mountains place. my hols have been quite boring... cos i'm staying at home, only to allowed to use the comp 2 hours a day. and i'm not allowed to play computer games, xbox, ps or watch dvds.

gah so i'm dying for an OG outing, to relieve my boredom and to make up for the one cancelled recently :P.

suggestion: amanda's house (big lor)
date: week 3 of hols, weekday or weekends (both are actually possible)
time: evening
outing: bbq potluck?

haha i got it planned! now for mandre to check if her house is free and people can actually go!

my dear babies

2006-06-02T22:15:00.000+08:00

CAN YOU ALL BLOG! haha.

im sure ur hols are damn happening right.

i've wasted one precious week of my hols already. hahaa. spent 2 days in JB (2 separate day trips into msia by my parents) and watched 2 movies consecutively yesterday. crazy stuff.

taking my SAT tmr. hope i improve from my prev 2170 score.

i'm sleepy! anyway ppl are still damn impressed with our 207 (now 208) entries so keep it up okokok. don't let this place die!

learning to write again

2006-05-31T22:40:00.000+08:00

For the entire afternn today, I've been practising to write in a new way - french cursive. The r's are the most distinctive feature; rooted on the right. The d's, a's, c's are written anti-clockwise from the top of the curves (unlike the way i've been writing them, from the bottom up and clockwise.)

Not sure if it looks more legible than my normal one because of the 'links' here and there lol. But it definitely looks more fanciful and neater of course.

My hand moves in a less fluid way now, so i write slower. In fact, i even need to think about where the 'links' between the individual characters go. Still trying to kick the habit of the clockwise curves, have been so used to them.

I'm trying out a new handwriting not only cos it looks nice. But i'm wondering if by slowing down my writing, i will think more about what i'm writing (of course, after i get past this transition stage). hmm, but not very realistic for exam conditions so i better learn faster. Also, it forces me to be adopt a more disciplined approach towards writing. My handwriting has become terribly illegible even i'm disgusted at it. Rereading my journal entries from CCAL camp, they look more like snippets of severed string.

Yes, discipline. Discipline is what i'm going to need for the coming one month.

missing school?

2006-05-27T23:02:00.000+08:00

lawl somehow i dun get to blog the 100th or 200th entry or some memorable entry... so this will be the first entry of the holidays!

our blog's been slowing down recently... but it's still alive!! woohoo!!

only the first weekday of the school holidays and i'm getting withdrawal symptoms. got a fever on sunday and was feeling quite lousy the whole of yesterday. then today i had nothing to do cuz there was no school and i couldn't use the comp, so i practically rotted in front of the tv.

can it be that i have become accustomed to attending to class/og/cca/committee/cca section/sec 4 class outings or gatherings or watching performances almost once every week that the florist at city hall is gonna noe my face soon (and almost becoming so broke)? even my classmates are dying to have a class outing right on the first week of holidays cuz everyone's actually missing school.

haha another reason is because i dun have dota on my comp so i'm always damn bored at home and my parents kept my wc3 cds...but that's besides the point. why dun we organize a og bbq or something during the holidays? go to someone with a big house, then we can bbq and enjoy messing up their houses. it's only a suggestion though, but plz organize one!!!

ys

2006-05-27T21:09:00.000+08:00

Some mass theft has occured within rjc compounds, so i urge everyone to keep their belongings witht them at all times. For those of you who are wondering what this is about, some mass theft happened in classroom a23 between 7-8 pm last friday, last day of sch, during astro farewell. Losses include: 1 sch laptop, 2 ipods, my hp, $70 from me and wei lin, and a BOOK. yes a book! wtf right. lol. and some astro bookmarks were also torn up. Either the thief got frustrated, has some thing against astro, or is damn screwed up. lol.

That's all for now. Enjoy your holidays, and forget about calling or smsing my hp for now. lol. Till i get an old one from my friend.

And remember, keep your valuables with you at all times.

Regards,
Yong Sheng

yeeeehooooooheloooooo

2006-05-23T21:36:00.000+08:00

i'm here to revive the blog. or at least revive my blogging. :\ haha been caught up with tons of stuff. like really really really caught up. miss all of u so much. been reduced to a mere HI and WAVE when i see u all here and there. haha i dont know. maybe being an OGL is like that. eventually u'll have to let go and watch the ppl under your charge take wings and fly.

looked through my photo album of orientation tt day. council invest has broken the record of most number of photos taken haha. i took 300+ in 4 days for zkardia, but i managed the same number in just one day! lol. but of course i had 2 proper batts that could hold their charge, plus a 1gb memory card.

i'm glad to see that all of you have found your space, your niche in RJ, your good friends, your happiness, everything. i went for dance night tt day not knowing that so many of our OG ppl were performing. or at least i knew just that. haha didnt occur to me. pleasantly surprised, and proud to watch you guys dance on stage.

narpal's playing tmr i think. i hope i'll be able to make it down to watch a bit. everyone try too. although i think tt bugger will play damn well anyway.

manda, i have THREE browsers on this com. usually i use opera, but its damn lousy at blogging and emailing (cos u can't do all the font options) so i use firefox for that. and for serious stuff like NS application, SATs application, watching movies online tt kinda things, i use IE. haha. i think if u use opera u wont want to go back. don't know why.

anyway. yea jc life is really short. the j1 year should be cherished and treasured. don't get too caught up in mugging ok. i see lots of j1s mugging their asses off like mad. chill, take a sniff at the flowers along the way. when u reach j2, boy will u miss the j1 times of freedom and carefreeness. sigh. ohwell. tc all. tmr gp cts goodluck!

i miss limericko

2006-05-22T23:32:00.000+08:00

Firstly, i wld like everyone to make it for the MR CIP. Try ur best, pls. Lets take this time to have an OG outing and have fun at the bird park with our cute lil friends. I shall refrain from calling it the CIP as i personally dont think theres anyth very CIP-ish about this activity. However, i think great effort on the part of the bluebloods and i'd really wanna spend some time at the birdpark jus chilling out. I'll be gg so y'all go too!

[oh yes, wang i hope ur feeling less feverish from this morn. u really shld try not getting so worked up so easily; bad for ur health. hope u'll support the bird park endeavour. its really nth devious. :)]

After my blog went haywire, it probably wont get any better till my cousin comes bac from russia next wk, i suddenly have an urge to blog. Miss having that realm all to myself. Hence, i will be making more frequent appearances 'ere.

Today i was happy. I was happy partly because i spent quality time with a few gd friends. Cynthia and lei and dawn. It was after i 'd come bac from match support and was sitting at council rm area doing some work. The sky was overcast and u can hear the wind howling. Gloomy and drizzling, but i like it that way. Makes u want to sleep but at the same time, ur not sticky either so its the perfect weather to want to study outdoors. Talked about alot of stuff b4 i had to go for chamber prac at 730.

Now i was really waiting for this prac for so long. Hadnt pracced w the choir b4 and i was pretty excited, to tell u the truth. (yes, excited to go for reh.. lol). Alright, and it turned out rather nice. at least didnt downplay my expectations that much. They sang decently but not as eerie as my recording sounds.

I've switched to firefox for my internet browser. Seems slower than safari. But i'll give it a try. The interface is neater and i like the 'Find' function, it also gives the url of hyperlink at the bottom, which safari amazingly doesnt. My MSN messenger is also screwed so i'm practically cut off from the world except thru blogs and of course, the hp which i really find a chore to use.

i'm also happy today cos i got to know that i've gotten the pre-u scholarship. Have to work real hard for promos so that i get the money nx yr too. In the meantime, i'm definitely more motivated to complete my tutorials, assignments and read my GP articles... hur hur

p.s. i hope that every single one of u find meaning in at least one thing that ur doing in ur life now. 1/4 of jc life is coming to an end, i hope that when u look bac, u'll at least have had some memorable exp that u cld hold dear to ur heart, some people that u have shared these exp with, some lessons u've learnt from them, even some that u've given to others around u. Darren told me that what u get out of council is as much as what u put into it. In fact, i think this applies to jc life and life in general. What u get out of life is as much as what u've put into it.

Cheers to all for having come thus far for the first quarter of college life...

xoxo,
manman

BenLow

2006-05-22T21:42:00.000+08:00

Hey guys... I'm going for IMCB attachment from Wed to Fri, so probably won't be seeing you guys until our next OG outing during the hols. Wishing everyone all the best for Wednesday's GP Common Test.

Yup I'll miss you guys... If all of you have decided on whether to go for the CIP thingy on next wednesday, let me know k? I'll try to make it as well.

Yup so see ya guys soon... =P

MR CIP on 31 may, wed @ the bird park!

2006-05-21T22:35:00.000+08:00

An overview:

Date: 31 May 2006, Wednesday

Time: 1030 - 1745

Venue: Jurong Birdpark

Expected turnout: 30 Children

3 Teachers (from Viriya Family Services)

60 RJC Volunteers

1 RJC Teacher

Proposed Itinerary on 31 May 2006

Time Activity/Venue Action By Remarks
1030 - 1130 Icebreakers
Briefing for volunteers

1130 - 1200 Lunch for volunteers at RJC
Far East Chicken rice to be pre-ordered and transported

Hannah
1200 - 1230 Leave RJC and travel to Viriya Family Services Kevin Long
1230 - 1345 Pick children up from Viriya Family Services and travel to Birdpark
1345 - 1400 Arrival at Birdpark Balpreet
1400 - 1415 Panorail Ride from Main Station to Lory Station
1415 - 1445 Lory Loft (elevated boardwalk and suspension bridge)
1445 - 1500 Walk along main route towards Pools Amphitheatre via Birds of Paradise, Royal Ramble etc.
1500 - 1525 All Star Bird Show (Pools Amphitheatre)
1525 - 1625 Break (dry weather: fountain plaza / wet weather: shelter near Riverine) *Games played here*
1625 – 1645 World of Darkness
1645 - 1700 Penguin Parade
1710 - 1745 Depart from Birdpark and travel back to Viriya Family Services
1745 Children and volunteers dismissed from Viriya Family Services

tada!

2006-05-21T02:59:00.000+08:00

RP production is FINALLY OVER!! CHEERR!!!! =)

Gosh, that was amazing. I feel...liberated.

oh and btw, this is the 200th Post! I have the honour once more!

its me! j'arrive!

2006-05-20T20:36:00.000+08:00

My server (illusione) is down and i have this urge to blog. Alright, call me fair weathered, but here i am thankful that the xpeia blog is still up and running haha dont ask me y it didnt run to my klass blog, i dunno why either.

In the morning, had CCAL prebriefing from 8-2pm. Yes, it was extended 1h more. Kinda wasted my saturday morn dur which i cld have invested a few more hrs of gd slumber. Bintan is going tb like a second OBS, somehow i dont have a good feeling about it. Eversince i quit touch, fitness level has plunged. Very noticeably. Climbing up the staircase in my house doesnt feel as effortless as it used tb anymore. Sigh! I knew this was gg to happen; it was only a matter of time that the pangs of guilt plague me (phase 1) before phase 2 sets in, which is when i no longer feel remorse/regret anymore. And thats when it gets real bad, cos i know i'll jus be resigned to the fact that i've so many things to do, and exercise no longer comes in as a priority (it has never been, but oh well.. u know what i mean).

My fingers are peeling. The skin at my fingertips, i mean. Theres this raw feeling, as if u've been stripped off... your skin. And it hurts esp when i have to wash my hair. It happens periodically, hafnt figured out what the catalyst is. Weird way my body functions.

Through blog surfing, I realised that there are certain introspective people in our midst. No doubt, the majority of blogs are of daily-ing, ranting, 'talking cock' sort (which i'm really getting q sick of) but ive had the luck to chance upon a couple of really good ones. And i like em alot, perhaps thats y i'm inspired to want to sit down to blog this evening (then i'll go do my work hur hur). Amazing, how they can be so frank and unrestrained in the expression of their ideas. One of them has this perpetual curiosity and questioning mind that i really like. I really cldnt do that, for despite having had 3 yrs of blogging experience, i'm still very aware (bothered, to a certain extent) of my audience out there.

On another note, ever thought of how it wld be like to date a genius? Wld be pretty pressurizing i must say, unless ur a genius urself. But nevertheless geniuses still have this charm to them. hot-brains factor hur hur

Yes, invest is finally over. And will be choosing functions soon, council life is jus starting to get interesting. The match supports have definitely made me love raffles even more. You know someth's going on when u hear the perpetual chanting of 'go raffles go raffles go, bring them down bring them down' in ur head. Other than that, council friends have been really nice too.

I need more time though. Theres too much of to do
and too little of me

reality check

2006-05-14T21:29:00.000+08:00

wah og outings very hard to come by leh. everyone is damn busy, so hardly anyone is free. And our og, while still surviving, has actually wittled down to like only ben, heex, mandre, yihui, ann, yong chun, wang, mich, mel and me mainly, whether we like to admit it or not. With like 10 ppl, there's got to be at least half who are busy with something on a cerain day. Of the remaining 5, there'll be one or two who'll be unable to make it due to some last minute reason. So that leaves about 3-4, which looks more like an occasional gathering of friends than an og outing.so it's pretty hard lah. and come this june hols, when everyone thinks that they will have time to meet up, the odacians will be going to trengganu, in a gruelling expedition that involves both climbing and kayaking. Mel and bei fen will be involved, while i'm not due to cost reasons(wth man, i'm poor, no choice). so not very likely we'll hav an og outing then, unless everyone else is free.And by the time the odacians come back, it'll be time to start mugging for cts. oh man crappy.

Anyway, odac handover was great! Not to mention liverpool beat west ham for the fa cup in a similar fashion they did last year for the champions league, all while we were having un at pasir ris. The same thing always happen to liverpool one lah, first the goalie screw up, then gerrard rescues them, then the goalie all of a sudden becomes a shen and wins the game for liverpool. last year was dudek, this year is reina. Anyway, though we hardly did anything for handover, it was still great! hope our og outing can be smthing like that.

Looking forward to the next og outing, and for it to prove my mathematical calculations at the top of this post wrong.

Regards,
Yong Sheng

BenLow

2006-05-13T20:27:00.000+08:00

Hey guys... Well, the outing didn't materialise. But no prob! We'll find some other way to get everyone down for an outing. Right Heex? Haha.

Well, guess what. Our blog's reaching the 200 mark. And you guys are only 22 posts behind the blog that I've had for 2 years. Haha. Go guys, continue blogging! And we'll probably reach 300 soon. =)

Well, see you guys Monday!

og outing?

2006-05-10T22:23:00.000+08:00

hey everyone!

so here's the plan:
og outing on vesak day!
date: 12/5/2006
lunch and after-lunch activities
location: ?
time to meet: ?

haha i'm not going for lunch, so i'll be joining u guys only for the after-lunch activities... so people who are going, please come up with somewhere that u want to eat at, and a time to meet. then after lunch, u can contact and i'll join u guys there. =)

heex

ys

2006-05-10T22:10:00.000+08:00

so when's the outing gonna be? dinner tmr? or an outing on fri? And does anybody wants to go lanning or what? if pool, someone suggest a place? Cuz i dunno much places. As for lanning we can either go orchard, dhoby ghaut or katong. If it's gonna be katong, we can have lunch there too. the food there is nice, especially the laksa. Anyway, the costs are gonna be high, for lanning or pool cuz it's a public hol, cept katong(which is still $2/hr). So does anyone want to open up his/her hse for everyone to go? mel? heex?

So how? aiya, think we meet at og table tmr then decide lah. I guess it's easier that way.

charlene

2006-05-07T01:13:00.000+08:00

wheee!!! SATS is OVER!!! here comes freedom!!

haha gonna play like crazy!!(for awhile lah)erm so when is the nxt og outing arh? confirm alr annot cos i m kinda confused now..

ys

2006-05-06T21:47:00.000+08:00

ok i think i blogging damn a lot recently so will probably take a short break after this post liao, until i can confirm the og outing on thurs/fri/both thurs and fri. Anyway, I (or rather my teacher) was right after all! the school did indeed declare a hol cuz of the GE. and since the teacher had said 23rd may, i suppose the hol will be on 23rd may tues.

And dun worry ben. Even if we want to go lan, i doubt our og can make it. as in like who wants to go lan other than me and heex lor. so getting our og to go lan is a damn uphill task lah, unless our og girls are like the odac girls. =) mel if u know what i mean, grace and marie. they said they found it fun and wanted to go back again, cept with more girls cuz the lan shop is rather guy dominated. lol

so quickly decide which day, then if it's the 12th, decide on wat to do after lunch, which will pretty much determine where we're going to eat. for example play soccer? the cheapest. lol or basketball. or sit around or slack around.but then i won't mind lan or pool either. or going someone's hse!

Regards,
Yong Sheng

BenLow

2006-05-05T17:09:00.000+08:00

Hey guys... I got three really awesome things to announce!

1. I managed to do all the undone tutorials that I've left untouched ever since my concerts. A zillion tutorials left undone, but I completed all of them in 2 weeks. I guess thats not bad... And studied for my tests! I think I'm gonna do ok...

2. I'm back in the blogosphere after a short hiatus, cos my two sec 2 bros had tests the past week and my parents didn't want me to use the com. So well, finally got the chance to blog.

3. Its the first time in a long long long time since I've come down to the OG table for every single day of the week! Yayy.

Ok about OG outing... Anything's fine with me. But of course, pool is the best for me. Either that or soccer haha. If you guys wanna go lanning... Warning! I'm a DOTA noob. Must teach me how to play... But its up to you guys. Pls message me the details or post them here or something. And I'm really glad that X'PEIA hasn't died out yet. Like some other OGs... =) You guys rock!

ys again

2006-05-03T23:33:00.000+08:00

haha heex was right. I ended up borrowing the cal from mel. Thanks mel! Miao!
Ok erm and i dunno what that teacher meant, though i think it's about the council pres and hse caps, though i dun see how that could get us a holiday. lol. erm and is anyone else up for og outing on vesak day? Can everyone come? Try to make it, then we confirm details =)

Regards,
Yong Sheng

c'est moi!

2006-05-03T21:13:00.000+08:00

hey xpeiaaaaa

terribly guilty that i hafnt been making any noise on this blog. and council's been calling for soooo many morning mtgs, or more like my own av/log comm that its really quite urgh. meetings everyday. no joke. dont laugh!

today was sick and didnt go to sch. missed my first chamber prac with the intl festival chorus (first in the series of 7h rehearsals). but glad i listened to my mum and didnt go. i was really dying to go, cos up till now we had only been practising with the orchestra and not w the choir, which really has a major part in the work. We're doing The Requiem which Mozart wrote on his deathbed. It sounds really eerie but cool at the same time. Okay i shall not ramble on about Mozart's masterpiece on this xpeia blog now...

haf been so busy i've forgotten many people's bdays. sometimes wishing is jus not enuff and i go up to them and wish, emptyhanded. esp when they've given me stuff, and so its rather awkward. Going to have to give belated ones soon. But urgh so many things to do and i dont like to make presents which are half hearted or lousy quality. =\ (not that theyre mind blowing in the first place but i want it tb nice, at least)

darren, dyu go for all the match supports? jus wondering hur hur

I've finally finishe freakonomics! woohoo, cool book. Interesting case studies that cld who knows come in useful for gp hahaha

i cant go for xpeia outing on 12 mar cos of MR comm outing which was planned long time ago. how about dinner on 11 mar? thats like a really gd day cos its the eve of hols and i love eves. BUT if every1 else is free on 12, go ahead without me. Yes, i mean it. Maybe i'll go for both outings afterall lol. (somehow i'll have a way i guess)

heex

2006-05-02T22:12:00.000+08:00

heyyy everyone!!

wah charlene and darren are so good, that they have actually blogged! =) now it's time for the other people in the OG to start blogging more.

these few weeks i'm really busy with around 18 hours of co practice and a class bqq (which happened on saturday) to plan about. so lately i'm coming closer to being like wang who has mastered the art of early-morning-meditation. however, i'm very ok for an OG lunch on vesak day, so why dun we decide on a location quick and then we can all enjoy ourselves on vesak day. i'm not really expecting anybody here to be strict buddhists that must eat vegan food or must go temple and pray, so everybody should be free rite?

so as long we don't have hiccups like someone suddenly invites you to eat buffet at some posh hotel in town, let's go for an OG lunch (the last time we had one was like in... term 1 week 2 or something?). after that we can even go pool, lan, kbox, sit around and talk kok or go crash someone's house (not mine though). it's also to celebrate 5 months of x' peia and we're still going strong!!!

p.s. ys, ignore gerald lah. i bet someone in the og can lend u his/her g.c.

ys

2006-05-02T21:05:00.000+08:00

Wah siao, i'm very very screwed. there's maths test tmr but my gc is screwed. Wth. I'm so so so gone case. I need to get a gc or i'll be taking the maths test without a calculator, which is not a good thing at all from my previous experience in sec 2. Though i managed to get a 84 out of 100 for that test, i doubt i'll be so lucky this time.

Which boils down to one thing: I NEED A GRAPHIC CALCULATOR!

Anyway, vesak day lunch should be ok lah. and lol, SATS on a sat. Oh and my teacher just told me that the school would probably declare a school holiday on the 23th of may, tues due to the GE. oh yeah. But then mayb she was just saying that to persuade me to go for a some seminar thingy.

[squeezee] SCREW IT MY HANDPHONE'S GONE says:
i can lend you
[squeezee] SCREW IT MY HANDPHONE'S GONE says:
come z'odac

And oh yeah gerald tay just said he can lend me his gc! wooh hoo! Whee!

ok time to zhao. bye

Regards,
Yong Sheng

P.S the rest should come and blog leh, even our 2 ogls blog liao

charlene

2006-05-01T23:44:00.000+08:00

HELLOO!!!!

haha i noe it has been eons since i last blogged cos i prefer to tag lah.. not very used to blogging. i shall try to blog more often so tt i wont be the slackest ogl(as wat heex claims)=)

okie my life hasnt been very interesting over the past week cos i have been mugging for SATS which will be on this sat. i have no idea why i signed up for the may 6 one instead of the june one lah..if i had signed up for june one then got more time to study..aiyah! yar so i have an overload of english now.. all my life i nv cared abt grammar and juz wrote wadever sounded rite so now i m like learning grammar all over again..no fun=(

wah cant wait for may 6 then i will be FREEEE!!!whee!!! oh and tt day got dance nite too!!

hope all of u are doin fine (",)
study hard & play hard too!!

okie gtg back to study vocab.cya!!

darren

2006-05-01T22:38:00.000+08:00

HELLO. (i shall blog to prevent myself from becoming joint last place OGL hahaaa) it seems our blog is like some. sinusoidal curve. and now we're in the negative zone so come on ppl let's bring it back up! haha. how's life been for u all. i guess it's been nothing but busy for all of u, it always is the case when the blog starts to stagnate.

hope the weekend was a good rest for u all. i know i havent met up with u guys in ages. haha i've been coming to sch later n later n later tt day i was almost late! :X yea was running on low sleep. but now i'm rejuvenated after the good weekend hahaa.

had a good dinner at marche today with the council camp ics. haha we're really nice bums, u know i felt so weird yelling at the 26ths during the camp then i see amanda in the crowd. i felt so hmm. i duno. hypocritical. but the camp turned out well, im getting the feedback from 26ths and it's 99% good. amanda u still owe me feedback! xD

read my blog about my saga with a dog yesterday. i'm not gona repeat it here haha. it was terrible.

ok everyone takecare! u all up for an OG lunch on vesak day? (:

ys

2006-05-01T15:30:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone,

There's gonna be a physics test tmr and a maths test on wed. So go and study. Don't be like me, still havn't study yet. Oh and shit, there's gonna be physics spa too. So be prepared.

Hmm, i think i should be off studying. Bye

Regards,
Yong Sheng

MEL

2006-04-29T23:05:00.000+08:00

hellohellohello!!! =D sorry for not updating for such a long time. anyway, hope everyone's been doing fine with their tests/SPAs etc. and i know this is abit late but congrats to mandre for getting into council. =D AND darren - i still want to see you being scary. hahahhaa.

rightttt. good luck everyone who will be taking bio SPA next week. =) i'm not sure when the physics one is. but i know i have bio SPA, GP essay test and math lect test next week. *_* Oh and to heex - jiayou for CO concert. =)

mich is back:DD

2006-04-29T01:51:00.000+08:00

HEEHEEHEE. i just realised i havent been updating on this blog!

so herrrrrrrrrrreeeeee i ammmmmmmmm to have my presence brighten this site up:DD

catch me over here! i wrote an entry on the rock concert((:

take care all! goodnights.

heex

2006-04-23T16:54:00.000+08:00

hey everyone!

congrats to guoren and ben for their successful raffles rock performance. michelle and charlene were there too, so i'll just help them congratulate you guys on their behalf. there was no doubt that the band that managed to turn up the heat was Mr. Siva's band, E.I.C, and Mr. Siva's singing was GOD-like; but Eden-Sol still did a good job especially with your self-compositions.

that's all from me now cos i haven't got really much to say so far. =P

heex

BenLow

2006-04-23T11:00:00.000+08:00

Hey guys... I'm glad the hectic week is over for me. Two concerts in one week is no mean feat, and I'm happy and feeling so blessed. Thanks to those who came down to see me perform and support RJGE and RR. Appreciate it guys. Its times like this that you realise how important friends are to you.

All the best to Mandre who's in council now. And all the best to all of you who will be performing or will be participating in competitions. X'PEIA will be behind you guys whatever happens! Definitely! Thats what friends are for ya?

Love you guys.

its me AGAIN

2006-04-20T00:38:00.000+08:00

woah suddenly every1s blogging again! even ME, at 12:44 after finishing my PI and mailed it to my teacher. Council stuff starting to set in, i think i better dev the good habit of 'jin ri shi, jin ri bi' so that i dont have backlogs, as much as possible. Realised its very scary when u lag behind, like how i missed 2 days of sch for OC. The more u lag, the more u panic and then u lag even more (mel, reminds me of what Mrs Ang told us about rotten bananas haha)

Ben, hope u had a great time at amarante (did i get it right?). concerts are always such wonderful things, no matter how much u screwed up, the experience of pulling it off ultimately is really one thats once in a lifetime. Thats why im choosing to stay in chamber no matter what, apart from my love for chamber music haha. Sorry for not being able to support any of our og mate's concerts, due to lack of 1. time 2. money 3. also, interest for particular genre of music hahahah :D But im sure ur concert experience, esp the ones at coolio venues like esplanade (unfair!, must collect the passes ah!), will be really amazing.

I am however, going for dance, many many friends dancing that night. Got tics from wulei b4 the mad rush today, PHEW. Dance night's always been some helluva event in RJC, i came for last year's as well but i think this yr will be better in terms of company. Last year went with 2 IMCB seniors whom i still keep in touch with now (yup, darren we went to support xinyi haha), very nice supportive pp.

Yup, now that im in council pls feel free to give me ur feedback about anyth and everyth, and as long as its someth that is within my means, i'll definitely try my best to help you. Being my OG mates, the first gp of 'new' people that i've gotten to know since the first day, u guys are definitely a special bunch to me lah lol thanks for all ur support all this time :) And if i do have to skip zcove sessions in the morn in the (near) future, do pardon me ah.

another thing is that i realised that we all go to zcove, but go there to sleep and/or mug (esp wang, sleep like some log!). very minimal interaction. but ITS OKAY, REALLY - jus an observation on my part, cos every1 seems zombified like burnt midnight oil everynight or smth. speaking of which, my bed is beckoning and i must go. take care every1!

TMW gotta mt at council rm at 720 to meet my buddy (senior), whom i think i already know who she is lol

awesomeness unlimited!

2006-04-20T00:25:00.000+08:00

Dance night tix almost all sold out I think! Unbelievable!

Guitar concert over! Amazing!

All overdue homework cleared! Fantabulous!

I'm on a row! Victory dance! =)

hahaha. Sorry yongsheng, will have to disappoint you again =P this thursday not free still... aiya... these weeks all not free... Arts fest has kept me damn busy lor. Doing AV, doing favours for friends, etc etc. I am proud of the case I prepped with my friend for debates, even though the coach didn't use it wholesale. And I am proud of the ideas behind my GP essay, which I shall retype out and redraft soon. That's why I haven't been online or on the x'peia blog often the last few days... Heartening to see most of the OG still persisting at the z'cove in the mornings. It's almost instinctive for me to go there already! Regardless of what state i'm in when I arrive at school, half-dead, sleepwalking, stoned, I will still walk towards the general direction of those vaunted tables. And promptly plonk my head down and power nap! =) Or strategically discuss techniques for math assignments.

And da main man NARPAL!! you rox!

peace, yo
wang

And Narpal, you rock dude!

GUESS WHO'S BACK!

2006-04-18T23:50:00.000+08:00

HELLO. okay i have to apologise a lot for not turning up at the z'cove every morning. i have my reasons! been really busy with council camp stuff that i'm at the council camp area every single morning doing stuff. i'll reappear once CC is done and out of the way i promise! (:

anywayyyyy congrats to amanda! now guoren and ben can ask her to put the guitar in the council room not just me! haha everyone give her all ur support like you have been doing so far ok.

since i've set the precedent i expect everyone to start blogging here again and not let this blog rot and die in the pits of dead OGs and what not. the spirit of x'peia lives long and shines bright. stick together and we'll all be fine (:

everyone of u is getting busier and busier by the day. tutorials piling in, tests, spas, cca trngs, n now a councillor. haha maybe u'll see less of each other i dont know. but rmb to say hi at the v least. don't end up like near strangers. i must nag nag nag abt this or u'll end up like me haha.

ok that's all for now folks. back to council camp prep.

ys

2006-04-18T21:12:00.000+08:00

Congrats manman! Have fun working with your fellow councillors in the future =) Even though the council results has been well deserved for a lot of ppl(mandre included), I personally feel it's not as great as i thought it could have been. Some screwed up people got in, while other people who are deserving of a place in council, like chi hung, chia qi and yiding, didn't get in. A pity indeed...

Anyway, napfa was great today. Kept me pretty much on course for 5 As and an E, after i managed an A for my 2.4km run. And whoever said girls are slower runners than boys hasn't seen the girl who ran after us today. She's damn goddess lah. Apparently, she's in cross country and her name is yanyi?(i dunno how to spell but it sounds something like that) from what my cross country friend, shun cheng, told me. She owned, trashed nearly everyone there lah. and when i say everyone, the boys are included pls. Only shun cheng managed to run faster than her at 8.53. The way that goddess owned was like she lapped a girl in her 3rd lap, and double-lapped that girl in her 4th. She then completed it so fast that the PE teachers, who usually keep quiet about the results, asked the time keeping teacher for the timing. What followed an area effect stun lah. 9.03, wth. Rampage, Ownage, whatever you call that.And the way she ran through was damn expressionless, the kind of look you have when you first start your run, the kind which makes you think she has ran only one round. The boys got owned. All except one, thankfully.

And wang, you better play witht the class this coming thursday lah, stop excusing yourself and do something else and still want to talk big lor. My bounty hunter is waiting to slash you and prove itself, after it owned the rest of the class, kelvin included thank you. i still have the replay but i doubt you'll be interested in it, so you better come and see it with your own eyes and stop saying bh is a lousy hero.
"It will be done."

Regards,
Yong Sheng

heex

2006-04-18T20:39:00.000+08:00

yo everyone...

first, congrats to mandre for getting into council. if you sincerely congratulate her and voted for her, she might treat you to a cup of lemon tea. but she will ask you to get her a congratulatory drink, so better find more people to ask for free lemon tea together so u all can pitch in money for her congratulatory drink.

about napfa... whee. i'm still on mc from pe because of my great ankle. therefore i would be slacking and catching up on tutorials while you people are trying very hard to do well for napfa =P

and this week for me is horrible. i think i have 16.5 hours of CO practice.
Monday: 2.5 hrs
Wednesday: 6.5 hrs (2.30 to 9 woot!)
Thursday: 2 hrs
Saturday: 5.5 hrs
to add on, i have a econs lecture test on friday. and PI is due next tuesday! woohoo!

i'm basically free only on sundays as i have class CIPs on friday. so count me out for every concert/performance before 7th May. so dun even bother trying to sell yr tickets to me (like guoren hehe.).

its me, after a long long long wait

2006-04-17T21:46:00.000+08:00

Hi guys, omg im so glad its all over! thank u ALL for ur support, xpeia :) (ys, mel, heex, ben, wang, yihui, yongchun, darren too!... ) i was under tremendous stress last week and u guys were always there to tell me its gg tb fine, and i was stubborn enough not to believe any of these kind words. (cos i really am pretty stubborn). but today, monday, the first day of the wk, im feelg as if this huge boulders been taken off my chest. mainly cos balloting's over and so is campaigning, and i can take a breath again.

and start enjoying doing my work. after sch, there was match at 4pm+ and b4 that i was to make up my mock chem SPA and i had a bio SPA uncompleted. that was at 2pm. rushed like MADNESS (w my klassmate sherman) and after the long marathon, i completed both the SPAS in record time of under 1.5h? hahahaha SO accomplished. And it rained (as usual on mondays), so match was cancelled and will be postponed to friday.

It ALWAYS rains on Mondays and its pissing me off cos the matches are always postponed and at this rate we'll nv be able to end the league. but secondly it means that i keep procrastinating my workouts. YS, high 5. Hafnt been exercising since last PE lesson and thats pathethique man. Had touchrug & PE quite intensively for first few mths and then lately jus physically atrophying like nobody's business lah. What a better time when NAPFA is on wednesday. i've only done 190+ for SBJ once after my very strenous touchrug PT 3 wks bac, and i doubt ill be able to reach that standard on wednesday. IRKSOME

timings jus not going very well

ys =)

2006-04-16T17:04:00.000+08:00

wah y this blog so dead? nvm, at least i'm posting now.
erm crap there's an econs lecture test coming up so everyone better study k.
anyway, mandre, wat about goodwood park buffet? you're making me hungry. lol
and wth, i got nothing to post about liao. that's how boring and irrelevant my life is. The only thing worth mentioning is that my idea about spreading dota(momentum) got accepted by my pw teacher, much to the disbelief of my friends. lol. but i haven't really a concrete idea about how exactly to go about doing it. and the idea which i gave her, she questioned it so much, i dunno whether i shld g ahead with it. lol.

anyway, i think my napfa is screwed. i keep wanting to train for it since the start of this year, but till now, 2 days before the actual thing, and i havn't trained yet. crap, i'm gonna get E for my standing broad jump and get a bronze. shit.

and the long break is over and i still havn't done any work, shld be off doing physics now.

regards,
Yong Sheng

p.s. vote for mandre and wu lei! must k.

BenLow

2006-04-11T21:46:00.000+08:00

Hmmm... I guess theres not gonna be an OG outing tomorrow. But well, we've always got other opportunities. Like the outing Heex suggested. Well I'm for it. Anyone else wants to go?

Well, good job Mandre with your campaign thingy, and don't worry, X'PEIA will vote for you and support you all the way! =) Well at least I know most of us will. I think MR is gonna be a super super awesome house after the new MR council gets elected. All the candidates are really really good.

Wah... I caught the flu from someone on Monday when I came to paint the RJGE banner for concert. (Please come its on the 19th. Haha.) Sniffling now. I'm kinda glad that there are tissues all over school now so I can use them at any time haha. The funniest campaigns are from MR house =) At least thats what I think. Theres some one who's offering free water cooler water on the 4th floor haha.

Better drink more to help me recover haha. Well, see ya guys soon! =)

heex

2006-04-11T21:05:00.000+08:00

whee it's the 170th post of the blog! hope more people continue to blog (like darren/ann etc. who have taken a long break from blogging =.=)

today was speeches by council nominees. we witnessed dear mandre being part of the water cycle and eventually experienced precipitation (of water) on her own body. hehe. everyone took out their umbrellas, but they were useless in the end. but thankfully there's the serviette group to help wipe up the floor.

and are we having an og lunch or something this friday? according to my sources, people either have evening service or morning service. that sorts of leaves the afternoon free rite? so do we want to go somewhere to eat? i know of tis jap restaurant in tanglin mall that's quite cheap (set for around $9-11) and still serves quite a large portion of good food. we can go there, if we're having an outing...

vox vitae

2006-04-09T18:58:00.000+08:00

-taken off my own blog. i felt bad about sidelining this blog... so i figured i'd cheat a bit. hope you all don't mind.

I know I have ranted very often about these Right to Life people. I know I have bitched about them as well. But I think after much careful deliberation and consideration, the issue has entirely crystalized in my head, and I will make one more post on it.

At the end of the day, what pisses me off the most about the politically religious (notice I didn't say fundamentalist, there is a reason for that) is that nonbelievers build up this impression that religions like Christianity is all about forcing them to live by a creed that they don't necessarily believe in themselves simply because it is the one and only true path to salvation and glory.

Well guess what. That could not be further from the truth. Christianity in its truest form is about freedom and love, not bondage. Not telling other people what they must do. Not passing moral judgements on all the people of the world. The brand of Christianity that receives the most media attention is a pervasion, and plegian blemish on a perfectly respectable religion.

That isn't what being a Christian means. Even if it is a myth I subscribe to the fact that Christ, be he myth or be he man, never intended for his message to bring oppression. Even if it is a myth that I subscribe to the Bible, be it the inspired Word of God, or the fabricated Word of Man, tells some interesting tales, and has lessons for all of us.

People have simply misused the religion for their own gain; organized Christianity has had a track record for abusing the trust of the masses to further the power and wealth of unscrupulous men...

Abortion will never be a gray area for me. I know my stance, and I will defend it. What I will never do is to imply that my stance is any more morally correct then anyone elses. I may disagree with them, I may bitch about them, but at the end of the day, I do not disagree with their choice of views, nor do I bitch about them choosing one option or the other. What I do not agree with is them forcing this viewpoint down on other people's throat based on the argument that they have the moral high ground, and know what is best for all humanity.

On the one hand I can see where it can be wrong. On the other hand I can see where it is the right choice. But on the gripping hand it simply does not fall into the tasks of my job to judge who or when or how or why anyone should be choosing either of those.

Which is why it should remain legal. Which is why I am pro-choice. God is pro-choice, too. That is what free will is all about. We are free to choose whatever we think is right. But only what we think is right for us. He gave us hints, but ultimately, he leaves the choice up to us, for us to decide what we want to do. The Christian God never gave anyone carte blanche to decide for other people what was unforgivable. Anyone who thinks that they are qualified to judge such personal matters for anyone other than themselves is about as arrogant as it gets.

I remember the tale of Lucifer. The Fallen Angel was cast out because he thought he was qualified to judge, that he was akin to God. It was his pride in his own righteousness that did him in.

At least Lucifer was more honest. At least he didn't claim to speak for God. He just claimed he was as qualified as God. How much more wrong is someone who claims both to be the voice of God and as qualified to judge?

peace out,
hanchen

dead tired but still awake at 12.34am

2006-04-09T00:15:00.000+08:00

ORA today was really hot and acks, had to seek respite in the art room haha performing was tiring, physically draining i tell u. no joke, esp when u try to vibrate for every note and u want to look good on stage (im talkg bt showmanship here haha). oh yes and kudos to wang and ur stagehands co. thx alot, tho the performers dont really show it, but we do appreciate ur help!

Reception food was okay. I never complain about free food u see haha, and i practically stuffed myself b4 walkg around the funfair. met many pp, jus see anybody interesting then start 'leeching' onto them this and that lol kinda fun (ORA has always been fun for me, last yr i got a rose from someone i didnt know lol and this yr my friend's teachg me how he picks up girls rofl) talked to rg vp (mr chang), teachers (mr anselmchu and mr kennethtan).

it was kinda messy plus the rain caused me to stay in sch. hung around at the arts exhibition (very very talented pp u have there!) while the bulk of my klass was waitg for their turn at the haunted house lol. realised that my klass has this tendency to congregate (no matter where we are, we'll someone meet and form clusters, akin to hydrophobic micelles) and i keep bumping into 3L pp everyw. no joke, but its nice. gives u the false impression that u know alot of pp when its actually the same ol pp u mt lol [feel free to drop by my klass blog s03lovelies.blogspot.com]

V, ys

2006-04-06T21:21:00.000+08:00

"this visage, no mere veneer of vanity, this vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. however, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. the only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-ŕ-vis an introduction, and so come monday, i'll declare war on somebody. May i vitiate his vociferous self, vituperate his vocals, and void his visibility."

Wish me luck.

Regards,
Yong Sheng