lets get high!

2012-01-27T00:31:00.001+08:00

My driving test is tomorrow! And in related news, a long post is always preceded by a huge dose of procrastination. Good night!

New road bike!

2011-12-22T02:16:00.001+08:00

So, I "finally" got a new road bike after just slightly over a year. Haha I must say I am over the moon about it:) it's the one in the picture with the orange background. Specs-wise: Pretty awesome (not to the point of sick though). Looks to me at least, really good! It's the 2011 Jamis Xenith Race. I bought it when Hup Leong was having a sale just today. It's selling at 30% off, and so I bought it for $2345. Nice number. In terms of whether the bike is worth the price or not, i'd say damn, this is so worth it! Their US website is selling for USD$2800. So logically in Singapore currency it should be 3k+. In reality, yes it was selling at $3400 (before discount). Now at $2345, it's really worth and I emphasize. But then again, in absolute price terms, $2345 is quite a lot of money. Not very high in the bike world yet, but for a kid like me, it's a lot. How do I pay for it then? Which brings me to the next point. My dad paid for it. And this is where the mixed feelings and emotions begin. You know? When you're really happy about something and yet at the same time you can't help but feel a bit bad. I feel super guilty for asking him to buy it. Not as if he was very keen and willing. He reluctantly agreed after asking me a few times "you really want ah?". It's like a dad just trying his best to please his son. I might be a little touched by that, but it's mostly like "Ugh, I just made him spend unwillingly, and if not for my persistence in asking him for the bike, he wouldn't have had to spend". Perhaps, a good way to look at this is by taking it in the form of a life lesson/tip.

When a person requests something from you and you don't really wish to fulfill it, yet at the same time don't wan to cause him/her to be upset, just oblige. And show that it was a very tough and unwilling decision. Hopefully, the person will come to their senses and feel bad. Because you know what? From now on I won't ask for anymore new bikes and stuff already. The feeling of guilt is immensely overpowering. I would probably work hard for it myself and try to earn it on my own. Haha but it's true that in my head I'm currently also thinking, I wouldn't need a new upgrade with a bike like this.

My next trouble is also about my previous bike (the dark green one). It's been with me for one year and there's a kind of sentimental value to it. I rode 2425km on it. With my new bike, I think I'll ride it much less often and it'll probably just be left there to rot. Ahhhhh so wasteful too!:( Plus I can only cycle for january, and I'm off to army after that. I'll have a hard time finding time to cycle.

Clothes for prom

2011-11-19T16:14:00.001+08:00

Hey! So, I went shopping for prom with jeremy seow today. And between the two blazers in the pictures, I chose the green one. It's the cheaper one of the two, and overall it helped me to lower the cost. But after looking at the picture of the whole outfit with the brown blazer, I'm feeling a bit regretful.

I had wanted the brown one initially, it's velvet too, super nice material! But it didn't match. I dont know why, somehow in the photo here it looks very good. Such that i'm regretting not buying it. But in reality it doesn't really look matching. Plus I definitely need another colour of shoes to go with this one. And the pants aren't so complementing either. Which means I'll have to spend on buying a new pair of pants (not before having to HUNT for one), and then I have to get a pair of new shoes, probably from Pedro. They have nice shoes nowadays, but before I get the shoes, I need to know how the pants are like for matching purposes. That basically means i'm required to buy both quite simultaneously, which is difficult and worse still, time-consuming. That will also mean that my total cost will be more expensive brown blazer + new cream difficult-to-find pants + new shoes. And since I already got 2 brown shoes, it doesn't really make sense to buy an additional pair of brown shoes again, just because of a slightly different shade. And I don't find black shoes so nice either. Not that interesting.

For the other outfit, the pants + blazer matched really well. Like the pants had a sort of very slight green tone to it, and the blazer being green meant they went well. Furthermore, the shoes seemed to go well overall with the outfit, and not sticking out like a sore thumb. So in total, I only spent like the cost of the green blazer, which cost about $50 less, and matched better, with less trouble. Only downside is the green blazer sleeves are kind of long and I can't alter it. Whereas it is possible to alter the brown one.

And that sums up my self-validation for choosing the green blazer instead of the brown velvet. I feel less regretful now:) Thanks for listening!:)

2011-08-20T14:17:00.002+08:00

Well there's a high chance I've posted these pictures before, especially in the past when I was more active in blogging and while I was free to use the computer everyday. But today, I have a point to make. These pictures were taken when I was in sec 3, and look how kid I looked then! Well, during those days, actually I never understood why people said I looked like a kid. From my perspective, I always felt I looked normal. Sure, I knew I looked young. But how young, I didn't know. I didn't know I looked that young. As I was looking through these pictures today, I'm quite amazed at how little boy I looked last time! Haha really looked like a kid!

But the point is this: at any present point of time, I suppose you'll never be able to see what's wrong with yourself until at a later date when you look back. I had never thought I was so small and little-boyish in the past. Now I understand why people said I was a really small boy. Perhaps even today, I would be wrong to say I've grown up. There's a high chance that 2 years down the road when I review the pictures taken in 2011, I'd go (once again), "Oh man! That's how I looked in the past!" It seems that these changes are so gradual that you really don't notice them. You'll need pictures to allow you some "time travel" before you realise the stark differences in appearance.

Another thing I have learnt is that memories are important. It's been such a joy to look back at these pictures of 2008, recall the reasons for these photos or the events that these photos were taken from and enjoy the whole experience all over again. It's very likely that we're always taking our present situation for granted. Who takes pictures of every moment of their lives? Nobody. Why? Because we are living in it, and we see no reason to take pictures of it. Of course, it wouldn't be practical taking pictures of every moment, that would be a bit too much. But in short periods of time, we should always take a picture or two for keepsake. Some time later, we'll be thankful we did and smile at the past and how great things were. Till this date, I still think those days in barker were the best of my life so far and I sorely miss those times. Come on, every barker guy agrees with me that poly/JC is no where near the barker life we once lived. But we have to move on in life and then, probably the only way we can relive those times are through pictures. Pictures provide memories of the past. In effect, they are like the time machines which science-fiction has always imagined.

Have a great day!

2011-08-20T13:59:00.002+08:00

These are some of the pictures I've taken this year with my Nikon D90. We went to the train tracks before it closed for good this year. Like everyone else, took some pictures to preserve the memories. So there's ronald there, and the second picture is one which I managed to zoom very far into the end of the train tracks, where we can spot a lone man walking the tracks. The third picture is my attempt at being artistic hahaha. Well all the pictures are not-edited, so obviously the 'artistic' shot wouldn't even be close to other people's pictures.

The fourth picture here is the picture which I think is the best, out of a few pictures I took during a day where the sunset produced a brilliant spectrum of colours. Something I watched on discovery channel told me it's because of the sun's light sort of 'curving' around the Earth's atmosphere, and the gases only allow the red wavelength to pass through, giving rise to the red colour of the sky. Of course in this case, there were a few other colours from the spectrum too. But whatever the case, it looks very good huh. The camera wasn't so good at capturing the exact sight I saw on that day. The autofocus and lighting correction distorted the real view quite significantly, so this is the best I could snap.

2011-06-22T17:09:00.002+08:00

By the way, I haven't mentioned that I am going to take part in a cycling race this coming sunday 26th June at Fernvale circuit which is near Sengkang. It's 3.8km per lap and there are 12 laps so we just go around 12 times as fast as we can, basically.

2011-06-22T16:57:00.002+08:00

For the record:

Current weight: 53kg

Total number of pull-ups: I don't know, I haven't really been doing bodyweight pull ups, especially since there's no NAPFA to train for already. I did 21 for NAPFA, but I've moved on to WEIGHTED pull-ups! Haha I found a weight belt in the ac gym. It's one of those things you can hang weights onto the chain and that's what I do so I can train my pull-ups! :) I managed 6 reps with a 20kg weight and 10 reps with a 15kg weight. Haha time to change the muscles in my lats to be more fast-twitch rather than the endurance slow twitch.

Bench Press: I managed to do 3 reps of "touch chest perfect form" 70kg yesterday, which i'm satisfied with. But I'm not used to the 80kg 90 degrees anymore :( like when I use 80, my arms will feel quite compressed or something like that.

Dumbbell Flat Bench Press: However, I can quite easily complete 10 reps of 29kg dumbbells each side, which is an improvement. A few months ago, I did 5reps and then had totally no more strength, I dropped the dumbbells on the floor and almost twisted my shoulder.

Squat: 85kg x 5 reps

Deadlift: 85kg x 5 reps or 90kg x 2 reps

2011-06-22T16:02:00.002+08:00

Hey guys I'm back! Haha june holidays are almost over but I haven't really studied much. I feel too lazy everyday to study. So I haven't done much work. Anyway, exams were before june holidays unlike other schools (Ac is retarded) so that just adds to the laziness. I don't know what will happen at the end of the year if this goes on. I'm quite sick and tired of studying honestly. I suppose everyone is too, but my willpower is the weakest.

But I've been gymming almost everyday or at least I try to, so that's a plus! It's been roughly 4 to 5 times a week for the whole month of June, with some cycling days in between. I don't do cardio and gym together. That's just wrong hahaha. Though somehow I'm still at ~53kg with not much change as compared to what I've hoped for. The creatine is finally here but I'm putting it in hold probably just for this week because I need to get more information about how to load it and I need to plan the times I take it in. I will probably try to take my first scoop right after my workout instead of when I wake up or something. I didn't go to the gym today because I just blitzed my chest with Scott Herman's chest workout yesterday. Damn, I don't know why the past few times I did the workout, it wasn't sore. Today I woke up and I was like ouch! Hahaha it means it was a good workout yesterday. The whey I use now has been changed from Optimum Nutrition 100 Whey Mocha Cappuccino to the cookies and cream flavour. For reviews, I'd say I prefer mocha cappuccino much better. The smell of cookies and cream is a bit too strong la. And I always feel that cookies and cream gives off the heaty feel.

I've been into making coffee recently too. Haha like I've learnt how to make the Starbucks Caramel Macchiato and its variations such as normal latte and Vanilla latte. I've got the hazelnut syrup at home too so actually it's possible to make hazelnut latte by following the same recipe but I've not tried it before. It's much easier to make the iced versions because then there's no need to steam the milk and all but the skill lies in the steaming of the milk to create the froth, that's why I usually make the hot versions of the drinks. Haha it's really fun and after some practice and R&D I managed to do a caramel macchiato very close to the real one. Really. And I even took the takeaway cup from starbucks so I could make it super accurate. Haha it's much cheaper to make it at home. But there's the startup cost of buying the syrup which costs $6.50, the caramel drizzle sauce for $6, and the fresh milk and the coffee beans. There's also some wastage at the start where you'll definitely screw up and do things wrongly but I suppose in the long run it'll be fine. Of course, there's more work to do like the cleaning up and all, especially since I dont run my own coffeehouse, but it's fun too la. Just like baking a cake, making coffee drinks are troublesome but fun. Probably should video one session of coffee making down and put it on YouTube!

2011-04-16T06:06:00.002+08:00

Life's been good:) the routine of studying is now back! So I study, then gym, then eat, then sleep. And repeat. I'm still trying to gain weight so now I eat like chunks of food but actually I should spread them out over 6 meals a day. It's difficult to find so much free time to eat so I've only been able to do 4 meals a day recently. My weight is roughly 53kg now. It varies up and down by about 1kg. But anyway, thats about 13kg gain from last year. Yay!

So gym stuff again: I did bench presses till the bar touched my chest last week, supposedly the full range of motion, NOT SMART. The next day my joints were sore and after a check online I diagnosed it to be some rotator cuff problem. So I learnt that proper form is 90 degrees the hard way. Actually I've been doing 90 degrees form all the time until last week when people started saying I wasn't going low enough. At that point I felt I wasn't making gains so I decided to try. People with short limbs can touch the bar on their chest and have a 90 degree angle at their elbows, but ectomorphs like me with longer limbs (proportionally speaking) will have a very sharp angle when the bar touches the chest. Furthermore, this causes the shoulder to be forced backwards in order to accommodate the larger range of motion. In other words, the stress is being placed on the joint at the bottom of the exercise, not on the muscles. So it's BAD! I was doing 80kg x 8 at the "90 degrees" form, and people were saying I wasn't going low enough. I admit I probably didn't go 90 degrees when I was doing the 80kg. That was just last week. So for my next session, I'll be doing 70kg x 8 or 10 just to make sure I get the form right first. Form over weight, remember. I was surprised that with the full range of motion, even 60kg was able to make my joint sore for at least 3 days and up till now, which is 8 days later, I'm still trying to let it fully recover. It's not sore anymore but I'd like to leave more time for it just in case :)

As for school work, my organic chemistry is still horrible. Actually I don't really know the problem. Its probably everything. Like I have memorized all the reactions and stuff so now I know what's going on better, but when it comes to the tests, it's still terribly difficult especially when they give weird molecules which I've never seen before. Probably conceptual then :( big problem.

But anyway, thankfully my other subjects are fine. I got A for math and physics for term exams, but E for Econs and U for Chem. I got put into the supplementary remedial programme for chem, which I feel is a good thing since it'll help! And my math was a huge improvement by the way, since I failed my math the whole of last year until promos when I got D. For terms I got A, which is a marked improvement. Maybe that was a fluke. So last week we had another test on complex numbers, which I got A again! So, NOT a fluke :) but I'm still quite disappointed with the marks actually. Like my class isn't supposed to be that smart based on O level's but we're probably 3rd overall in school. Then the crazy scholars and all got 23/25 including some Singaporeans, while I only got 18 :( like most people in class got higher than me. Though when I look at others from other classes, it's not that bad! :)

extreme makeover

2011-03-05T00:02:00.005+08:00

I was looking through old photos from my old phone last night and I saw this picture. I took it on 31-March last year just for memories sake.

This made me very happy. This is the photo taken today.

My bench press is now 80kg x 6 reps up to 90 degrees range of movement.

Number of pull ups: 26.

I am kipping a bit, but I reckon I can easily do 15 reps with perfect form. Which is going up and down like a straight log, without swinging at all. However, within 30 seconds as in NAPFA, maybe I'll only achieve 10 :(

2011-02-16T23:23:00.001+08:00

2011-02-16T23:14:00.002+08:00

Hello! I've been pretty stressed lately and now I really have quite a lot of white hair. There's chem test tomorrow and I'm going through hydrocarbons really slowly because it is pretty complex. Haha so many reactions to remember! There's the mechanism of Nitration of Benzene and Halogenation of Benzene to remember. On top of that there's the oxidation reactions for alkenes. There's like oxidation with cold dilute alkaline manganate, and also hot concentrated acidified manganate. Then I have to remember all their products and the conditions and stuff. That's just a small part. So complicated!!

Term exams are also coming up in start of March. Well although it only lasts Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday then I get some break, but there's quite a lot of study for. And I don't feel like I know my work as well as I did in Sec 3/4.

Adding to my stress is economics symposium, since I'm president of Economics Society then I'm mainly in charge of overseeing this whole thing. Even though it is pretty slack in the sense that I don't have much work/research to do, it's stressful because I have to organise everyone and make sure they turn up for meetings and do their work or stuff like that. It's worse because a lot of them don't cooperate and they try to skip meetings because they got other things to do. I've to also write a welcome speech for the day of the symposium. Oh gosh.

Haha anyway been gymming and cycling as usual, together with studying. Watching the stock market less nowadays. The market action is rather depressing. I always see it's red or otherwise the green percentage is just really small. Perhaps I'm too used to seeing stocks 'fly', especially since I kept watching it in the recovery year of 2009.

I got E for econs by the way, even though I'm economics society president. Hahaha and this time term exams it's going to be a U :( I'm really lost in econs because I have no idea what the teacher is talking about. Time to get economics tuition-at an uneconomical price.

And on that bombshell, Goodnight!

2011-01-30T19:19:00.003+08:00

I'm quite lazy to type out stuff and I realised that my posts have been quite wordy for some time. So here's some pictures from the cycling trips I've been going for (:

When the bike was still new

Julian Ho in front

I took this picture while holding my phone out from the side.

Before one of the sunday rides

When Jem Seow and I parked our bike at the CPA during open house when we cycled to school.

2010-12-31T02:00:00.003+08:00

Hello everyone! It's the last day of 2010 and there's about 22 hours left in this year. Yes definitely, I agree with everyone and think 2010 has passed very quickly. The months just go by. I still remember posting the status: Wait, it's August already? And here we are at 31st december 2010. The holidays have certainly passed very quickly but i'm happy to say that i've achieved all my holiday plans. Things I wanted to do all year long, and keep saying "during the holidays" because i had no time during school term. I have gone to gym a lot, made sure I slept 8 hours, ate a good diet, cycled in the morning, fished, baked, taken orchard road light-up pictures, gone for supper sessions, met up with E8 for outings, as well as barker friends, played soccer at turf city/CCAB, gone on a date at botanic gardens, jewed 4 cups of coffee on free starbucks day, and many many other things.

Of course, the unimportant stuff like holiday homework hasn't been touched yet, with reasons being that I'm lazy to do it, and I don't exactly know what homework there is, even though i know there is a lot to do. The most important reason of all: Holidays are meant to give you a thorough rest and enjoy yourself, not to do work!

It's 2.03am now and tomorrow when i wake up, I will head to the gym and do the test to see if I have managed to achieve my 2010 targets. 25 pull ups! I only managed 23 on wednesday. Bench 75 1 rep! I hope I'll be able to bring the bar all the way to my chest and up!, which is one perfect rep.

Goodnight everyone!

2010-12-22T22:08:00.002+08:00

Haha here comes my once-a-month post for december!

I shall first start with my gym stuff. Remember the target setting just a few posts ago?

"By 31 December 2010, I shall:

Bench Press 70kg 1 Rep (currently 60.8kg x 6 reps)

Complete 25 Pull Ups (Previous record:17)

Squat 70kg 1 Rep (currently 62.2kg x 6 reps)

Shoulder Press 17.5kg 10 reps (currently 15kg x 10 reps)"

So here's what I've achieved so far.

Bench Press: Exceeded target. Recorded 73.6kg x 3 reps. Form: Elbows at 90 degrees only.

Pull ups: Below target. Latest record: 22

Squat: Exceeded target. 70kg x 6 reps

Shoulder Press: Met Target. Currently training with 17.5kg x 10 reps.

Haha hopefully somehow I can get 25 pull ups out by New Year's Eve.

Anyway, now on studies. There's holiday homework and all but since it's the holidays, I've been in the holiday mood and I haven't started studying or doing any work yet. There are going to be term exams when school reopens but come on man, I've had a tough year. I need my rest.

Baked quite a few times this holidays already, and then went on my Topman shopping sprees. Hahaha Topman is my favourite brand now. And their current season is awesome. Like the stuffs are nice especially the skinny chinos. I bought grey and clay colours of those. Actually I want the whole range of colours but sadly I don't print money:(

2010-11-19T01:19:00.003+08:00

Wow it's 19 november already. That's really fast. Haha life's been fine. I just came back from ccaab camp on tuesday and i hated the camp. As usual. Remember the story about the sec 2 camp giving me trauma. I can't take camps. Anyway this one had good and bad times. With the activities being fun but there were very strict discipline stuff and we had to go through quite a lot of punishment though it was mostly like 50 buddha claps or 20 push ups. Easy. I didn't go gym on tuesday because we walked through Tuesday 12am to 5am around singapore from mount faber, up mount faber, vivo, then tiong bahru, botanical gardens then back to school. I wanted to rest on tuesday so didn't gym, then wednesday didn't gym again because i went to play soccer with the usual barker people. Remember, no cardio and gym on the same day? Hahaha anyway went to do scott herman's recommended chest building exercises today in school. It has new exercises, new stimulants, sounds good (: I was really worn out after doing for 1 hour, which is good. Because it shows how effective it is (:

2010-10-27T23:06:00.003+08:00

Hey guys! I'm back! Hahaha okay i think i'll post whenever I can and shall stop being so lazy about keeping this place alive.

Anyway, promo results are back! Raw promo paper marks! (:

H2:

Physics A

Chemistry A

Math D

Economics E

H1:

GP C

Chinese U (hahahaha i was sleeping during this paper and i got 44/100. 45 and above is sub-pass which is actually a pass already)

So, I've worked quite hard for this I must say (though definitely definitely much much slacker than O levels! I was quite relaxed while studying for promos), and as seen from the results. But most of it is because I know what's been happening for all my schoolwork this whole year, although my results for most part of the year has been crappy. Like term exams and common tests and all. Rubbish marks. Hahaha but math still a lot of careless mistakes as usual. I could have easily scored 60+ and that would've been a B already. Which will help pull up and make my results look much better overall. In terms of university scores, i'm now at 72.2 based on promo paper results! Which means I'm eligible to be on the top students' list (which needs 70 and above). BUT! My CA has been quite bad because i've not been doing well for most of the year. So it'll pull me down and my scores will probably go into 60+ region :( means no more top students' list. We'll be getting our overall grades for the year this week or next, so I'm hoping that CA (30%) won't drag my results down too much!

Haha and oh yes, I've not been going for physics lectures and slacking through physics tutorials, but I'm still getting an A, and it's all thanks to my tuition teacher! The school physics department is really quite poor :(

I went to the gym with John Lau (math tuition friend) today (: We did chest and it was more efficient and effective than our previous session on sunday. Hahaha good to have such a workout partner, then it means less rest times and disciplined workout because we continuously take turns and use the bench, and that means our rest times are limited and we don't slack so much (:

Target setting

2010-10-22T00:11:00.002+08:00

Hahaha I just thought I should put out some personal goals I have set for myself out here in black-and-white.

By 31 December 2010, I shall:

Bench Press 70kg 1 Rep (currently 60.8kg x 6 reps)

Complete 25 Pull Ups (Previous record:17)

Squat 70kg 1 Rep (currently 62.2kg x 6 reps)

Shoulder Press 17.5kg 10 reps (currently 15kg x 10 reps)

2010-10-21T23:59:00.003+08:00

Haha wow, I thought I didn't update only in September. Turns out I forgot in August as well. Oh well. Anyway, I've been enjoying my life so far. The usual is just studies, gym and so on. I am now together with Grace so maybe we could at that in as well ;) hahaha. However, promos are over! So it's just gym and Grace. But! I've been down with a cough since the end of promos, 8th Oct(unluckily) and so I can't gym until I've recovered. Hahaha I did gym from the 8th until Monday the 18th which was the last session after which I told myself that I really have to let myself recover before working out again. Hahaha in between I still did some quite hardcore stuff! I saw the doctor yesterday and he gave me a 2 day MC and he explained why I shouldn't work out during this time too. So I shall try to resist the addiction. And it's also hard to get over my head that I won't get weaker if I stop for just these few days (i'm actually still telling myself that I feel weaker since i've stopped already, and my chest feels deflated). I'm still going back to school tomorrow though, but i'll go late (: like at 1130 because I have to collect promo scripts where I can see my results. Hahaha not that I think I'll do well, I guess I might not, but I'm not as nervous about it as compared to other people. It's just that I have other things to be concerned about. Like how to heal faster and get back to work :) Perhaps i'll be nervous right before the collection of results tomorrow. Okay ran out of things to say already. Goodnight!

2010-07-11T22:21:00.001+08:00

Oh, and did I mention? I got elected as President of Economics Society hahahahahaha.

2010-07-11T22:03:00.002+08:00

It's the end of the weekend. My weekends actually only consists of a sunday. Saturday isn't exactly considered a weekend for me because I have 3 tuitions. Hahaha Physics from 9-11am, then Chemistry from 3.30-6.00pm, Math from 7.30-9.00pm. I'd like to study and get work done during the gaps in between but there's travelling time so I can't. That means I can only get my homework done on Friday night (during which i'm usually relaxing after a long week) or Sunday (which is when i do my work). This week, there isn't much homework though. So I went to the Bukit Timah Field to play with Barker people and some of their new poly friends. It was quite fun and I trained my legs with squats and step ups on friday to prepare for this game. The term has started for 2 weeks for most people, but for me it feels only 1 week. Our first week was 3 days long because there was only exams, and we didn't have to turn up on the days we didn't have papers. Which brings me to my results: not very good. I think i'm maybe average in AC? I'd like to think that I'm slightly better than that though, hahaha maybe 45th percentile? (:

GP: not yet get back

Physics: A

Chemistry: D

Math: U

Econs: U

Chinese: Obviously U

Haha I was slacking throughout chinese paper that I only got 52/160. I'm used to not caring about chinese la, so it's like that. Still got the barker blood in me. At least I tried my best for compo though, and I wrote it without a dictionary (because I was so focused on the next paper Physics and I forgot). I got 33/60 for Chinese compo, which I'm happy with, looking at the odds(: I couldn't really read the comprehension and close passage stuff in paper 2 though, which has been my weakness. So I only got 19/100.

The math tuition teacher says it's normal to fail math. She told us she didn't pass her math until her promos. Then she said if we stayed with her all the way she'll guarantee an A for us because all her past students got either As or Bs. I trust her la, I can tell she's good and knows her stuff.

Physics was very good, but i'm quite greedy you see, so actually hoped to get higher. And after reviewing my paper, actually it seems quite possible to maybe bring the marks to touch 60/75, not 56/75.

Chemistry was unfavourable though, I didn't exactly have time to complete the last part. I only realised time was running out like 10 minutes before the end, and that was when the dormant chem god inside of me woke up to rush through the last part with almost pure instinct or i'd never have passed. Well, he'd better wake up earlier next time. And I want that A for chem.

Econs was surprising, I didn't expect to fail because I felt the paper was quick fun. But after looking at my script, i'll admit maybe I wasn't economically-sound concept-wise. Have to work on it! And actually I didn't study econs until the day before. Still, I doubt I'd have been able to do any much better.

Overall this exams have been a life lesson. I hope to improve during my promos. Luckily it only takes up 30% of the whole year. My form tutor was saying it was unrealistic to set a target of A when you get U. But that was exactly what happened for Physics. I got 10/35 for my first test, and now i got an A. Haha but I can probably attribute that to my diligence in studying for physics, where I did a lot of questions and really strengthened my concept. I did chem papers too but was slightly complacent, probably. Didn't study for econs and chinese but I got the U. I did the whole revision set for Math but still got a U. Math's results can be blamed on the retardedly hard paper. As pointed out by the tutor, AC always set's very difficult math papers. So this is probably a case of you reap what you sow;how much effort you put in determines your result.

Spain VS Netherlands tonight! I'm staying up to watch (: I haven't got the chance to watch matches live except Mexico VS South Africa and Germany VS Australia. Tonight's my last chance (:

2010-07-05T22:32:00.002+08:00

Tomorrow is when school really starts again! The usual drag of school, where everyday ends late and I cannot play Fifa10 anymore. It's been a relaxing weekend, post-exams. I've been playing xbox or going out and enjoying or gymming. It was very nice to make use of the school gym especially since it's empty on school holidays. I've not been so active stock market-wise, but mostly been concentrating on this whole gym thing, and schoolwork. The stress starts again next week when there's homework piling up and I'm struggling to finish it every night, having to end up sleeping late. But anyway, 1 and a half years will past faster than I know, and I know that (:

My studies are quite in danger currently. I need to score CCDE for my H2 subjects otherwise I'll have to drop one subject. I really think I should've gone for Poly Business School, which would've been a breeze, not because poly is slack ( i know it's not), but instead because business is basically my passion. And you'll do well in your passion right? And I would've! Except that uni admission is difficult from a Poly, and also its been my dream to fulfill from the start to make it to ACJC, otherwise why would I have studied so crazy hard during O levels? It'd be like a waste of effort.

2010-06-25T12:39:00.002+08:00

It's been a long time since I posted here. GP essay's getting on my nerves. Somehow I am finding it impossible to replicate whatever I did in O level English. Sometimes I just feel like since it's A level GP, I need to write something much deeper and that really inhibits me from writing properly. The most difficult part is the start of the essay. I used to start with "Yes I agree with the statement", but now I have to think of something more creative. And is there really a need to write longer introductory paragraphs for GP? I can't do that. My essays last year were usually just with a 3 liner introduction, followed by a slew of long points. This year from all the model essays I've been given, I see that the introductory paragraph is usually 7 lines long. It makes things way more difficult as I tend to end up putting in examples and my points inside, and it leads me to not know what's wrong or right to do in the essay. Maybe I should start reading my geog textbooks again. Or posting more here to improve my writing. But most of the time I am just plain lazy to write something here, and the same goes for the GP essay. It was due on 7 June to be emailed to the teacher but it is already nearing the end of the holidays but I haven't done it yet. As usual, I am stuck on the first paragraph.

2010-05-12T23:18:00.002+08:00

We had training today. I'd say its mentally strenuous and the physical is okay, for now. We had to pack the cage and spent like 1.5 hours on it. Then ran long distance which was tiring and pain at first but after a while it became quite fun and relaxing. We ran out of school into Dover Road, then past the back of SP and New Town Sec, then around to the front of SP, along the whole MRT line stretch and back. I think it was 5km plus in total. Haha Napfa 5 stations tomorrow, i'm quite excited and confident about it (: the most confident i've been in a long while.

I redeemed myself for chemistry test, but i'm not satisfied with the results, even though i'm quite happy with it. How ironic. The target was to either get full marks or top the class. In the end, I only got 16/20. Top in class was 18/20. This class is retarded please. We have like 7 foreign scholars and everyone's school test results are damn good, much better than all the other classes. Ah, now I see why there are so many boring people in class who only study. All the other classes have a lot of failures and people screwing up results, but our class always gets very close to full marks and for math's case, full marks.

I got 11/25 for math, which is fail,

then 11/35 for physics, which is fail worse,

then 24.5/50 for GP test,

and we haven't gotten back econs yet.

So obviously chemistry is my redemption. I wanted to prove that I wasn't stupid. Actually it was kinda the first test that I studied the night before. The other tests I didn't study for because I (have to admit) was a bit complacent and felt that the topics were easy so there was no need to revise. Not that I hardcore mugged chem the night before, but I just laid down on my bed and read the 3 chapters of notes briefly, noting the important points then I went to sleep. Must have been the good Alex Lee foundation. Coming here, I realise that a lot of the things he teaches us seemed to be preparing us for A levels.

I like econs too, so i'm quite excited about the test results even though I don't think i'll do very well. It's too subjective so it's going to be a bit like geog. But I have this belief that there's something special between econs and I. It was as if i have been studying economics my whole life, from doing business since primary 3 and then the stock market now, so i can feel it in my blood. No problem understanding econs stuff (: Then the tests was about property market and oh my! I've got a lot of background knowledge on it as well, like how it works and stuff. So fun!

2010-05-03T00:27:00.003+08:00

Barker chapel feels normal. AC's chapel feels uneasy. Whenever its chapel on mondays, the atmosphere tends to feel very awkward. I keep getting the feeling that since most people around aren't familiar to this and its basically just really weird watching them sort of being forced to listen to the preaching and stuff. This is especially so when singing, because somehow the lyrics seem more devout than at barker. Last time, it was that everyone was brought up together and used to it after 10 years, plus children are easy to mould when young so nobody really bothered. I've already heard Dave complaining about how he thinks he shouldn't be subject to chapel.

Saturday was quite a good day (: I woke up around 9am, made my coffee and had curry chicken for breakfast before going to physics tuition. You know what I wore? Red AC collegiate, PE shorts and slippers! Hahaha lazy to dress up. I felt so fresh and awake while on the way, listening to Norah Jone's jazz music and some other songs. Then reached tuition and sat beside Tih. I was 30 mins late but the tutor just started anyway. I understood everything about upthrust (: its really quite simple. In equilibrium, U=mg because the upthrust of a body is equal to the weight of fluid displaced :D hahaha. After class, asked tutor some questions about school assignments and got it. Tih gave me a lift home, thanks! Then changed to something more proper and went to Zhou's Kitchen at Amoy Street for High-Tea buffet with extended family. Haha buffets are quite fun because you get to eat a lot and gain weight. Then drove past Marina Bay IR, along the bridge for a look, and home. This part not so good because the sky was overcast and it was almost 6 :( I don't like overcast skies in the evening, even more so when the weather is even cooling. The evening should have a sunset or if it's overcast like after a rain, then it should be cooling. Played with the coffee machine and made for everyone, drank one more cup, then went for math tuition. No chem tuition in the afternoon because it was labour day. Don't ask why there was still math and physics haha. Then I understood everything in Math. We were doing AP/GP, quite easy actually. Came home, watched tv and tried to do some work while watching. The coffee kept me awake till 4.

2010-04-17T02:04:00.002+08:00

I've been stuck in the 300+ posts range for probably more than a year now. Haha but never mind. JC life has been fun yet hectic. I posted a while ago my schedule and it's really crazy. Lectures especially for chem moves so fast that i can't really catch up. Add the part where i fall asleep in lectures and i'm really lost. Not my fault though, its really conducive to sleep during lectures. The lecturer's voice is always so hypnotising.

We had math test on monday and i only got 11/25. I think it must be probably due to not having taken a test in a long while. I was so nervous and my hand was shaking, my mind went blank at the 1/f(x) question. Especially at the last few minutes when i felt i was running out of time. Made a lot of careless mistakes as a result. I definitely could've done way better but my nervousness killed me. It makes me feel like i really wasted an opportunity. Plus, Graphing Techniques is supposed to be one of the easiest topics in H2 math, yet I didn't manage to take advantage of it :( The students in class, quite a lot of them scholars, did well. One of them got full marks and 2 got 22/25. Most of them scored above 18. But never mind, A levels is what counts (:

Today I went to Vivo to watch shutter island with shimin (: it was a good movie, quite thrilling, even though I normally prefer to watch comedies and rom coms. But i didn't understand the last part of the movie. Heard it was a twist, but I still don't really know what happened. Then took train to Clarke Quay and walked from there to City Hall. Haha walking through Boat Quay in school uniform feels really awkward. Like all the pubs and people drinking, especially the ang mohs, and they swarm the whole street. Then there we are trying to squeeze past the alcoholic crowd in school uniform. Guess we should have walked on the other side of the river bank, it's quieter there. Haha well the whole part of town is a nice place to take a stroll at, or just get some peace, especially in the middle of the night. But went at the wrong time today. I feel really familiar with the place and really like it (: Marina square to slack for a while then accompanied shimin home then went home. Haha i made good use of my time on the train! Read chemistry notes. I used to think it was very difficult but I guess I was just thinking too much. It's actually very easy to understand and like Alex Lee says, conceptual. Nothing to memorize :D So from lagging behind in chemistry I think now i'm in good stead again. Will be trying hard to get good results for the chem test in week 7. Please, I need to make up for what happen with Math test!!!!!

Oh, and I think we should look toward scoring distinctions for Promos, why are so many people afraid of "being retained"?

2010-04-01T00:30:00.003+08:00

Hahaha i've been in a really good mood these few days (: And i've wanted to post here before march ends for quite a while, but never got to it. I barely have time to come online nowadays wth.

This is my schedule on average, not saying this week.

Monday - end at 4.10pm, go home.

Tuesday - end at 4.30pm, then rush to Pre-U Seminar meeting from 430-630 in school, then rush to tuition at Bishan which starts at 7. So I reach there late around 730 and sit there till 9 plus. Then finally go home.

Wednesday - School is slack, ends at 1.50pm. Training from 2.30pm to 6plus, then rush to Crown Centre with Jem Seow for chinese tuition which is quite flexible in timing. Hahaha i like, the whole class is AC and we know all of them. So we sit there from whenever we reach till about 9pm and go home.

Thursday - School ends at 4.30pm, whereby I'll probably go to chinese tuition again, if soccer training ends at 7 plus the day before, hence making me miss the wednesday class. So i go from 5.30pm to 7.30pm then dinner with Jem before going home.

Friday - School ends at 3.50pm, go home.

Saturday - Chem tuition from 3.30pm to 6.00pm ,then go to Bukit Batok for Math tuition from 7.30pm to 9pm.

Sunday - Rest.

I know i sound like i have a lot of tuitions. Its physics, chem, math, chinese. Its quite neccessary too. I find it quite hard to concentrate or understand stuff in school, so tuition serves as like a 2 hour session where the topic is summarised and made easy to understand. That makes it effective :D

Been gymming and working out a lot these few days too, since monday. I'm starting to use the proteins we bought from the coach already. Hahaha and i'm aching quite bad still, so i'm going to use tomorrow to recover, no working out. Okay, maybe the lower torso because so far i've only been doing the arms and chest.

By the way, Fun-O-Rama was really good! Happy time :D Nothing to do with the games la, i spent my coupons only on food. Haha met a lot of barker mates and we all walked around together. Major catch up session and reunion.

Happy birthday to Alex Lee! I wouldn't have gotten my chem A1 if not for him.

And happy good friday too, for tomorrow.

Happy April Fools!

2010-03-23T01:34:00.004+08:00

I guess it all boils down to me not loving you enough.

Well, recently I've had some people telling me that it doesn't matter what people think as long as i really love her. It didn't seem to make sense. How do you love someone with a terrible image? Until i realised something today. I just didn't love her enough.

I was thinking of this person who really looks like a guy now, and I still wouldn't mind up till this date. I wouldn't mind if people started laughing that I was going out with a guy. Because in this case i suppose, I really love her. Hence, it's alright.

2010-03-21T23:55:00.006+08:00

Okay, so my Dad has been behaving strangely. He's been going to the gym and on diet to lose weight, then he wanted to take the family out for dinner that night (i wasn't free though), and then he offered to send me to tuition on Saturday. What's more, he bought a new car again (not so unusual but still weird). And all investors know that a car is more expensive than it looks. You add whatever percentage gain your portfolio is onto the price of the car, and that is how much the car costs. So maybe something's going to happen soon. And its scary! Well, on the bright side, i'm only two years away from my licence so that's one more option when I get it (:

HLA saw a retarded week with a huge rise, and it's been consistently climbing recently. Looking good there (: In a related story, I sold all my other counters (except shell) and concentrated my money into HLA and LKH. Very nice fundamentals there. Ezra, you should really get into LKH.

School's been alright, but i'm quite annoyed by GP. I think i've found the reason why i've seemed to lost my skill in writing already though. I've been trying too hard to stick to the "format" and hence I can't write properly. Oh well, I'll try again soon and see if its back to its usual style. I hope they accept me into Pre-U sem. The teacher took her own initiative to invite me to join the other day. Supposedly they rejected a lot of applicants so now they need people. I just finished writing my preliminary proposal just now and i've yet to go for the interview. Fingers crossed!

2010-03-07T23:20:00.003+08:00

So during dinner I was thinking back about the whole time from Sec 3 till the day i managed to get into AC.

I don't know if i've mentioned this before, but it seems like going to 3B3 was a blessing in disguise. Remember when i kept lamenting about being in a lousy class and wanting to appeal to A band? Hahaha now i actually see it as a good thing that i stayed in B band. It was the motivation. The force to make sure i study hard because i want to prove to people that i was worth more and so i worked really hard the whole year, which got me to 4A4. The rest was just carrying on my efforts and using a lot of mental willpower to get through Os.

Well, what I just wanted to say is, it was a blessing in disguise, it was a good thing i stayed in B band. If i had managed to make it to A band, i would've had the same lazy attitude i had in sec 2 and not bother to maximise my full potential. Then i probably would've gotten somewhere around 16 for Os. Hence, maybe we need some lows in life to get us higher.

NO I'M NOT HINTING ON ANYTHING. THIS TEXT IS AS SIMPLE AS IT IS, NO OTHER MEANING.

2010-02-23T23:32:00.002+08:00

Hahaha i really have no mood to blog nowadays. well, will just try to post at least once a month.

Went to ntu with my class to sell fun-o-rama coupons today. haha i'd say its good bonding. they're all so low-profile and unheard of i don't bother to hang with them during recess. we have our own scaled down E8 table with shawn and joel and their classmates. haha so anyway i used my little boy charm to get people from ntu to buy. mostly lecturers (well they got the cash) bought then pledged to donate to charity. i sold $70 worth in total. then vito wanted to buy from me too so i cycled to his house during dinner. he bought $50!! nice nice :D hahaha so thats like 120/200 done. still got some barker people buying from me, then the rest will keep for our own use during fun-o-rama.

soccer is fun (: but tiring. we had to run 10 rounds around the outside of the track last wednesday during training. my thighs ached until friday. its called unfitness (: well, no training for the next 2 weeks. tomorrow is cross country and there's some leadership program next week.

2010-02-02T23:18:00.002+08:00

My turn to be sexist.

WOMEN CAN'T DRIVE.

oxymoron |ˌäksəˈmôrˌän|nouna figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true).
Oxymoron e.g. Women drivers.
Seriously, don't you notice whenever you see a driver screw up on the road, it's female? How to tell it's a female driver:-The car which holds up one whole line of cars in the carpark while parking. -The car which hogs the right-most lane on PIE, travelling at 65km/h. -The car which brakes when the road ahead is totally clear.-The car which stops on amber at the traffic light.-The car never manages to U-turn without doing a three-point turn.-My mum who does all of the above.

They don't dare to drive with only one hand on the steering wheel and talk/sms on the phone. They constantly drive 20km/h below the speed limit on the overtaking lane. You don't get a medal for travelling below the speed limit by the way.

Road hazards: Pedestrians, Elderly, Women drivers.
Hahahaha okay enough said. BYE.

2010-01-31T22:01:00.001+08:00

CBOX ADDED AGAIN! Comments (:

2010-01-31T21:12:00.003+08:00

The world is incredibly sexist.

-Women can clean male toilets, but not the other way round;
-Women can be the salespeople for men's underwear, but not the other way round.

I am just frustrated that I've been noticing these occurrences recently. It's annoying.

I walk into the toilet and then a female janitor walks past right behind me, oblivious. Sometimes, they don't do that, but they still stay in the toilet and continue mopping/wiping the mirrors, even when a lot of guys are in the toilet doing stuff. It's not like she's hot. SHE'S 50 PLUS! Eww.

I go with my mum to buy my briefs and the salesperson is a woman, she's fiddling around and showing the samples. How awkward and embarrassing.

2010-01-24T01:08:00.002+08:00

HEY EVERYONE! 9 POINTS! hahahaha, so, results day came and went very quickly. I orgasmed when alex lee told me i did well and was likely to make it to acjc depending on cut-off points. Hahaha which explains this photo Nic Wong took of me.

It's the "I'm so happy that all the muscles in my faces are contracting and I don't care that there's a zit on my face" face :D I look like I have coloured hair.

Hahaha there wasn't a picture of me before that, which was me looking like I was grimacing in pain.

Then I went to the class table to collect the results and Chia told me that I got 5 distinctions, 4 A1s and 1 A2 and then I was hoping I could get a B3 for the last subject which turned out to be physics. Yes, I screwed up the MCQ for that subject. But anyway, I'm happy! After the AC bonus of 2 points and 1 point for CCA it becomes 6 points! Which is science stream, based on last year's cohort. Hahaha all the hard work paid off and I'm so glad. I really don't mind the hard work and crazy studying that I will have to face for the next 2 years. It's worth it, rather than poly. Hahaha I think I've said enough about the whole JC thing before, in my post during prelims.

Posting results on 27th Jan. I put AC as first 2 choices, followed by SA science, and then CJ science. We have to go to school on the 28th and begin orientation. Which means that there are only 3 weekdays left in this school holiday, and there are some things which haven't been completed yet. Hopefully, i'll still be able to do these things when school reopens.

-Bring Cephas Neo for shopping

-Starbucks at Suntec with Derek

-Go out with Kenneth Chew/ Kenneth Chew comes to my house

-Starbucks with Rui Hao (totally unfufilled)

-Coffee Bean with the Bisexual and Derek at night.

AND CONAN O'BRIEN. I'LL MISS HIM SINCE HE'S NOT DOING THE TONIGHT SHOW ANYMORE. HIS LAST TWO EPISODES WERE ON FRIDAY NIGHT. WELL, HE WAS REALLY REALLY GOOD.

Stocks-wise, IT'S A HAPPY WEEKEND FOR ME :D not for many others though. Somehow the Obama policy has hit the markets.

JED < 3

2009-12-26T01:03:00.002+08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!

Hahaha I love this song! It just cheers you up, and makes you wanna dance. I don't know about the lyrics though.

2009-12-21T19:23:00.003+08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY!

(if there are still people who bother to come back and check this blog of Winston Lee)

So, it's almost the end of the month, almost the end of the year. I haven't been blogging much. Partly because i'm lazy and can't be bothered to, and partly because I have nothing much to say.

Holidays have been fun. Basically been going out everyday. Normally the day goes like this: Wake up around 11 or 12 noon, then go out, till about 12am, i'll reach home. Basically out from afternoon till night.

After Os: Been clubbing twice. It was good experience i would say. Something I would do if i need to destress or let something out. Otherwise, i'm happy just being with friends and chilling around.

Tried working, as a door-to-door salesman selling ugly christmas cards. It was a failure. Haha worked with Jed, Valen and Tih. Then Tih 'resigned'. So we split the commission and profits among only the 3 of us. Each got $45 for 2 days (although we slacked for the most part) of trying to peddle our crappy christmas cards for Vino. We could've earned much less, but luckily we used a bit of our brains and managed to get cash out of it. HAHA and I shall not disclose what we did ;)

Barely been shopping, unlike what I planned to do. Haha, and I was also supposed to finish reading the stock market books. It's about 1 month and 2 weeks into the holidays, but I'm still in the same page as after prelims in "Stock Market Rules". I haven't continued reading "Buffettology" too either. Basically, lots of non-going out plans made before Os in order to occupy myself and add some substance into my life have not been fulfilled. I'm too engrossed in going out and just having fun, and when I have the time, I don't get the mood. I was also thinking of continuing my Espanol studies, but that hasn't been done too. It's not like i've been talking to Ezra much anyway, so there isn't motivation. I hope I go to the same school as him next year!! Then we'd be schoolmates for 5 years. And classmates for 4 years. Well, was supposed to go fishing with him frequently after Os. We agreed. But, looking at things, at most, we'll only be able to manage 1 fishing trip in 2009. We've both got our own things to do. Going out for me, and overseas and his own hobbies to occupy him.

I've been going out mainly with TihHung, Jed, Valen, Charm. Sometimes Chris comes along, but he's mostly been away on vacation. Jeremy seow and HengXuan come along occasionally. Last time, I was thinking holidays would be filled with E8 outings. But they're really inactive at the moment. With one or two always out of town, and they seem very interested in going out only if everyone can make it. So, it's not very possible. We've only managed 2 outings so far this holidays. Hahaha that aside, i'm loving the people in it now. There's only Joel, Brandon, Shawn, ZhongHan, Derek. All of them are good friends. It may be just the 6 of us, but we're still retaining the name. Chuangfeng has his own 'stuff' to do, and it's not like i'm close to Byron at all. Now it's good because everyone in the group is close to each other. At the moment, Shawn and Joel are away in Japan for some school band trip. Derek just came back this week. As you can see, it's not very possible to arrange an outing. Haven't been meeting much with Derek too, unlike usually. Before Os, we used to be quite keen on going coffee bean or something of that sort. Seems like the urge has been lost.

Oh, and I'm together with Jed now <3

2009-11-27T20:35:00.002+08:00

I don't know where to start.

2009-10-14T09:42:00.001+08:00

I'm in school now. It's the third last day of school :( I don't get why people aren't coming because from Friday onwards, you can't come even if you wanted to. So why not we make the best of what we have left. I'll bring a camera on either tomorrow or Friday and we shall all take many many random photos to remember barker life.

Today's recess is at 10. So it's more or less just us and A5 so I don't sit at the usual table. Ahhh the class is damn stressed I think. Mongoose bursts out in random laughter and then everybody in front just starts laughing too. It's contagious. Hahahah.

Didn't do much work yesterday, only 4/5 E math paper 1. Feeling guilty about it now. It's 12 days left to Os!! And I spent my time sleeping and on the phone with brandon and shawn. But looking that I've been doing work everyday-at least one paper of something, sometimes more-it's not that bad. Now I have to up my standard of English compos. My standard has been a vertical decrease from averaging 24/30 to 19/30. It's below the 20 line!!! Maybe it's due to the lack of blogging.

2009-10-07T18:55:00.002+08:00

I barely have time to blog nowadays. And if I have the time, I find myself having nothing much to say. Anyway, today is 19 days to the start. I haven't started a countdown for the end yet.

Study mood is getting better now, I don't know why, but it just happens that the urge to study comes in when you find yourself flooded with uncompleted exam papers and you look at the calendar. I find myself doing on average 1 paper a day, trying to bring it to 2. Already did one paper today, so I shall finish one more paper tonight and it will be 2 papers! I'm alright with chemistry and E math already, now I just have to keep those up and improve others especially geography and A math. C6+B3= 9 points!! Trying to bring it to a B3+A1=4 points. Haha that really sounds better.

Stocks-wise, the market has done a small recovery the past 3 days ever since the minor decrease last week. Liz Claiborne reached the bottom of the channel and it bounced back up (as predicted). I've been watching it, and it's proven my theory. Just wasted another opportunity by not buying. This counter has a 'high risk' percentage on Bloomberg, but theirs is based on calculations. It basically moves retardedly with a Beta of 2 (twice as volatile as the index). When it goes up, it really flies up, going 8%-10%. Same when it goes down. The easy part is, when it's going up, it's straight up without any breaks in the days in between. So, we buy the moment it changes from red to green, and sell immediately if we see a change of green to red. Simple, but the only risk is "what if the trend changes?" Then we're screwed.

I am liking the way Hi-P has recovered. Gains of 3% on average this week, thats a good thing. I should see the red on Yahoo! Finance change to a nice green soon :) Boustead Singapore has also recovered, from 0.725 to 0.765. So we've missed a buying opportunity. Not sure if it'll go down again though.

I want

SALVATORE FERRAGAMO!! :D

What I need:

20% return.

Good luck to everyone for O's!

2009-10-04T22:55:00.001+08:00

Your lips look so lonely would they like to meet mine?

So, O levels in 3 weeks, and after that 3 more weeks and i'm so going to do everything I've always wanted. High on the list, karting!! Wheee! But now, I got to think of a way to reduce complacency. I'll definitely get above 10 points with this kind of complacent attitude. Sigh.

I don't know what the market is doing now. Hopefully it'll go back up soon. But better tell me before that! I'll buy up everything I can afford. Boustead!! Then I'll take some profit and use it for Salvatore Ferragamo:)

2009-09-21T20:59:00.001+08:00

Prelims are over and results are back. Set a target of 12 for myself, got 16 instead. I really got F9 for the subjects I had said I wanted a F9 for. Chinese, combined humanities. I'm happy I failed history of combined humanities enough to not have to go for time-wasting consultation sessions. 16/50 to 24/50 have to go, thankfully I got 11.

English 2
E math 2
A math 3
Physics 2
Chemistry 1
Geog 6

Total: 16

I have re-strategised from here and learnt from the prelims. The new realistic target is 8, and it is not too far away if you look at it subject by subject. Geog push for a B3, A math push for A1. The rest push up 1 grade, and 8 points is here.

Finally went for cycling therapy on Saturday. Usual, got up at 3.50am, and by 4.40am i met Julian at spc coronation. We cycled around the f1 track then slept at the seats on the floating platform until 6.30. After that, carried on our journey to marina barrage and just rested. Cycled around town around more then I reached home at 10.

2009-08-31T23:35:00.001+08:00

Haha today's birthday! Thanks everyone who wished me, made my day. Looking that I barely wished anyone this year, I'm touched and grateful that you all remembered.

Went out with a different group of people today. Shahruh, jem seow and Tih. We went to walk and talk and walked into the crazily prices shops at ion, after the movie at lido by the school. Hugo had doors and they opened the door for us, so I'd say they had the best service. I want the Burberry cologne!! Burberry's a really nice brand to me now. I like their trademark design.

Thanks for the lunch at fish and co guys! And sorry E8 I didn't go out with you guys. I wanted to do something I liked today, and you people don't share the same interests as me.

2009-07-30T23:36:00.001+08:00

I believe that drastic actions yield excellent results. I'm only using iPod before I sleep, com after O levels. Blogging is using iPod. Just like in sec3, it was proven that when I only allowed myself to use the com during weekends, results increased, giving me the year with the best results, but others flunked. I am now starting my drastic actions.

2009-07-30T23:31:00.001+08:00

Today I took the bus home alone for the first time in a long while. Normally I would find company but today I decided not to waste time. It was a very good opportunity to start my soul-search mode
once again, when I sort of talk to myself inside my head (it's weird but hey sometimes it helps okay. Acts like an advisor from your inner self).

So I was thinking about O levels again and the whole studying thing as well as choice of jc. I realized that the little choice and sacrifices we make these 3 months is going to affect my entire life. It's like a major cross junction, just with many more possible routes. I want to go to ac because I really can't bear the thought of hanging out with nsks at ngee ann. Then not really other JCs because half the people there, I probably wouldn't know, and god knows which schools the girls will come from. Then ac? Either barker, or else acsi. Primary school friends, people I've pretty much spent my life thus far with. Girls? Magnesium Sulfide. Great! Set. I finally get to hang around with the people I want to be with, and I HAVE A CHOICE THIS TIME, all in this 3 months.

It's 12.5 weeks to O levels. 88 days, less than 3 months. Prelims are in 2 weeks. That important benchmark which will tell you if you can make it, or can't. 2 weeks to study for prelims. Then, prelims take 3 weeks. 7.5 weeks left for studying for O levels. I have 6 studiable subjects(English and Chinese are out), so that is roughly over 1 week to master each subject for an A1. The time to study is NOW. Not too early, nor is it too late. Just nice.

The steps to it? First, I thought about all my distractions (superseries style). On the way home, there's kap. So I'll avoid that. I can go there everyday after 13 nov. This way, I'll reach home faster. Then when I reach home at 3.30, many many many distractions. Major distractions: 1. comfortable sofa + newspapers. 2. Ronald lee. Method: go home, straight into room. Take out planned study materials, shower. Bring planned study materials with me, go to dining table to have lunch. End at 4.00. Banned from sofa, I'm not allowed to sit on it for 3 months after lunch, straight into the study room, door closed. Fan/air con on( depends on weather), time to study. It's 4-7.30. Dinner till 8.30, study till 11. Prepare for bed and sleep. Thats about 6 hours of study a day. Even if I start my afternoon study session a little later because of bus delay, it's okay. I can catch up using dinner. Worst case, I'll still be clocking 5 hours of study. I'll rarely be seeig ronald since I won't be studying with him in my room. So, that's my plan for 6 points. It's probably possible;)

2009-07-29T16:20:00.001+08:00

I just recovered from a strange bout of flu. I had fever, and it was below 38.0 all the time, lasting only Friday and Saturday. There was no loss of appetite at all. On Friday it was just fever only, with no other symptoms. Then Saturday was fever+cough, so I went for alex lee remedial (he's crazy, 3 tests in 1 week). Sunday, no fever, but sneezed crazily. Monday, went to school (socially IRRESPONSIBLE :P) sneezed a lot too. Tuesday I went to school with a numb nose and after that nothing happened, just very mild cough. So I probably don't have H1N1.

Lester sits on my left and on Saturday be found out that he had a confirmed case of the H1N1 flu. So no hot guy sitting on my left for 1 week. Under the old circumstances, it would mean quarantine for those around him. But no, there's no such policy anymore since it's so severe the government couldn't be bothered and no quarantine is neccesary. Which is really stupid right. Look: at first, when there was ZERO cases in the country, they raised the health alert to orange, temperature checks, masks, 993 ambulance services, border temperature measurements, quarantine, aloha resort, and a buffet of other "strategies".

Now we see our death toll having some numbers, flu cases stopped tracking because it's "too many to count" and everyone around is sneezing or coughing. What are they doing? No quarantine, no more border checkpoint temperature checks, no more ambulance services, no more safety measures, WHEN ITS THE PEAK OF THE WHOLE FLU PANDEMIC!

That's like saying that they're preparing for "war against terrorism". When it happens and we're all under siege with bombs thrown at us, we're going to stop bag checks and all that airport patrolling since it's the peak of the war and we can't be bothered anymore but to lose, because the situation has gotten "too serious". Yup, comparing the H1N1 and terrorism cases alongside each other, this is what I infer. Super measures at first, but when it happens, all hell breaks loose and we'll just give up all that we've worked for in the past.

2009-07-21T23:46:00.001+08:00

A waiter brings the customer the steak he ordered with his thumb over the meat.
"Are you crazy!" yelled the customer. "Sticking your thumb in my steak?!"
"What" answers the waiter. "You want it to fall on the floor again?!"

Something I found from my ipod app.

School's been fine. I like this stationary class system a lot. Very relaxing, you don't have to get up and climb stairs every 1 hour or so. And I'm sitting at the back with Ezra, so it's just like in primary 5 where we set-up our own "home". Then we just discuss stocks. It's actually kind of our cosy corner. The only problem is that we don't have a fan overhead. It's scorching in the afternoons. Paying attention from the back isn't as bad as I thought, as long as you make an effort to listen, it's alright. And during slack periods, the fun is right where you are :)

2009-07-10T18:18:00.003+08:00

Its ALMOST mid-July. End of second week of Term 3! Thats so fast. Prelims are in 4 weeks. Right after national day.

We had Chinese O level oral yesterday. The passage was really hard to read, but the topic was really easy. Whether teachers should make friends with students. Haha it was okay, i had the points but I couldn't really put it into words. Kept stuttering and was very nervous. Hopefully they'll be nice :D anyway it's understandable to be nervous for everyone since its O levels.

Life's pretty much revolving around the same stuff these days. Stocks, Gym, Studies. Life is satisfactory. But I can't go to the Clarke Quay Central gym anymore. Dad rented out the unit yesterday, so had to hand over the keys. Now there's only my house left, which is worse than shit. Small, old, lousy equipment. I guess I could last like this for the next 3.5 months, till O levels. Approximately 107 more days!! It is THAT close. Then go out, go out, go out, and go out.

2009-06-25T19:23:00.004+08:00

It's Alright, OK

I'm so much better without you

I wont be sorry

Alright, Ok

So don't you bother what I do

No matter what you say

I wont return

Our bridge has burnt down

I'm stronger now

Alright , Ok

I'm so much better without you

I wont be sorry

You played me

Betrayed me

Your love was nothing but a game

Portrait a role

You took control,

I couldn't help but fall

So deep

But now I see things clear

Don't waste your fiction tears on me

Just save them for someone in need

It's way too late

I'm closing the door

2009-06-22T22:44:00.002+08:00

havent been blogging much recently. haha this is like the first post this month?! been busy, cant be bothered to blog and also dont know what to say.

anyway, imun from 17-19 june at acsi. it was interesting to meet new people again. Clara chua is such a flirt, always finding some guys to hang around with! Also, got bombarded by many people about the trisha lim thing.

always starts with:

some random person: hi winston, can i ask you a personal question?
me: what? *expecting something about her*
the random person: how's trisha?
oh wth.

IB girl is damn cute! I told peter and ajinkya. somehow it leaked. I WONDER WHO. hmm. So apparently now the whole council knows and they were teasing her about it at council dinner (which i did not attend). Oh well i didnt even say anything, all i said was that she was cute. Time to dispel the rumours.

Tuition on sunday was okay, class seemed really small because brenda and sean didnt come. I didnt get to have lunch with Elizabeth because she had some father's day celebration thing. Had lunch with Russell Seet after church at plaza singapura in the end, then left for YMCA to do alex lee's homework. He is crazy, gave us 8 essays to do during the holidays. Plus, there is class 3 times a week. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. So did my work in one of the empty rooms until like 2pm then Desiree smsed me so i went up to the cafe and studied with her. After tuition went to meet hx and left for trisha lee's birthday party. Got to meet melvin chew after about 3 years plus. Hahha it was a good thing. Sorry i had to rush off, didnt get to leave you my number personally. It was kinda rude to just tell you to get me on facebook and run off. Sorry!

Today had physics in the morning from 8-10. haha i woke up at 7.40 so immediately rushed down to school and arrived at like 8.40. could've been earlier if not for those temperature measures. After physics, went to the gym at Clarke Quay Central with Derek. Ate yoshinoya for lunch, then went to school for alex from 1pm to 6pm. Then home. OKAY INTERESTING STUFF ON MSN NOW! BYE.

2009-05-29T20:14:00.002+08:00

hey people. i think nobody reads this blog anymore since i havent updated it in so long. anyway, exams are over. results are back. i think our school is quite stupid. 22 points and i'm above average. that means most people will go to ITE? wth.

today, went out with micah, jeremy fong, daniel chua and shahruh kumanov. the son of the uzbekistan ambassador. He was retarded and high, so he started doing a lot of shit. For every group of girls who walked past, he would shout, "NOT HOT!" Then he started making fun of some girl's name in candy empire out loud. it said 'phyllis' on the back of her t-shirt. so he went close to her and started saying 'syphillis', while purposely standing very close to her. hilarious. then he went to the staff there and asked if they sold candy bras. after a while some obese woman went up to us and asked for our class, as well as saying in a very serious tone that it was not funny. I managed to think of giving a fake class in time, so i told her 3A3, which is non-existent. HAHA she'll call the school and they'll never know who. hmm.

2009-05-02T23:51:00.003+08:00

ssssssssssswineeeeeeeeeee fleeeewwwwwwww

hahah if this carries on, schools will be closed in no time. we just have to wait for 1 case to reach singapore, and then exams will be postponed, we slack at home. It's just a matter of time. But anyway i dont think that this virus is that BAD. Its just that it has the potential to be super lethal and makes life really uncertain. Like I can pass the virus to you without showing any symptoms in the first place, then 7 days later I have fever and whatever but its too late, because you'd have it by then too. Thats SCARY. But thats the small picture. If you see it as a big picture, it ain't that bad.

1. The total number of people who have swine flu currently are less than 1000. Those who have died in mexico and the few in other countries total less than 250. Compare this to the world population of 6000,000,000. IT AIN'T THAT BAD!

2. Most people who get swine flu recover and don't die, but the minority who do, get highlighted.

3. Cancer and SARS are probably worse.

4. The hype is all about UNCERTAINTY. But the probability of getting it is super low.

5. Don't WORRY!!

If this thing reaches stage 6 and school is still not closed, then all those who have died so far, have died for nothing. what a waste it would be.

There's chem tuition tomorrow! heee its always so fun. Elizabeth and her positive laughing energy. Today and yesterday we had chem remedial in school, alex lee is super enthusiastic. Weekends and public holidays. Chem's been goooood. I got about 79% for two multiple choice papers. Then learnt from mistakes and re-did. 100%!! Yay!

walking in memphis-marc cohn

i knew i loved you-savage garden

I knew I loved you,
before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you,
before I met you
I have been waiting all my life

2009-04-30T21:53:00.003+08:00

We had history and Emath exam today. History went super smoothly. Thanks hx! History tutor. Haha. Anyway, for the first time i think i'm gonna get quite good marks, and i used to get 30% only last year. E math was sort of a killer. Everyone was complaining that they were very sad and that they're going to fail. But it wasnt as though i had very high hopes on it to begin with, so its okay!! Might pass might fail, but i remain emotionless. Whatever it is, I'll think i did fine. People, its too late to regret anyway, so whats the point in getting yourself all upset thinking about it. Just get it over and done with, there are still many more papers to go.

EZRA WEE DON'T FORGET TO RETURN ME THE BOOKS!

2009-04-30T21:50:00.002+08:00

One

You're like a dream come true

Two

Just wanna be with you

Three

Girl it's plain to see

That you're the only one for me

Four

Repeat steps one through three

Five

Make you fall in love with me

If ever I believe my work is done

Then I start back at one

2009-04-24T18:18:00.001+08:00

Half already hate;
When they meet,
The smile is oh-so-fake
The other half are mislead
All but one,
For birds of the same feathers flock together.

2009-04-21T23:55:00.001+08:00

I decided to blog because I haven't done so in a long time.

Life has been quite happy lately, which is good. I stopped making so much noise and talking so much crap at the recess table nowadays and just stone, but people say I look happier recently. SMILEY!

Today's physics class was funnier than usual. Lau was especially entertaining by being sarcastic and offensive (as usual). He chased away the ah bengs loitering around the classroom, then when he walked back in, he was like "haiya. Failures in life. It's correct what. Based on their current attitude and forecasting their road into the future, we know that they are failures in life". Haha he is so right. Then Kenneth was leading the rest in praising him for other stuff that he said. Like "Sir, you are perfect." then the reply? "yes, of course." Or
Lau: so far I only teach the smarter students. I've never taught the smartest students before.
Kenneth: that's because you are the smartest.
Lau: that's right, but I'm not a student. (To class:) he tries very hard to be a model student. Learn from him.

Haha lau could be called jovially egoistic I guess. His lessons are entertaining and comedic.

We all got back geog test today too! Haha yay I got 19/25. From a B4 at the start of the year to A1. Seriously, bernard and I agree that OBT is a good teacher, despite some of his doings. The class shouldn't dislike him so much. He can teach, and we can see it from our results improvements.

After school, Adam, chris, tim, nat, ruihao and I went to the Cathay for free cone day! Haha it was a good experience. Once in a year. Then Gilda and friends came. They saw us and just cut the queue and joined us without asking, and even went ahead of tim and nat. What the hell man. And I realized later that the guard actually asked if they knew us. Wth if I heard it I would have totally said no. Looking back, I should just shouted "screw off don't cut queue" at her loudly, in front of like so many people. She's pissed me off enough. This is one of the times when I'll rather do first then think. It would be extremely interesting to watch how 100 stare at her. She's gonna look so BEAUTIFUL. Like whoa, magnifique! But anyway, ASSUMING I did that, I would be thinking afterwards. And I guess maybe I shouldn't have done it anyway, but DEFINITELY I'll do something for the cause of embarassment on her. Amen. :D

2009-04-05T23:57:00.001+08:00

Winston

Had the best saturday of his life so far

2009-04-04T07:47:00.001+08:00

Why do you have to be so symPATHETIC? Ugh.

2009-04-02T22:36:00.001+08:00

I think I am going to fall sick this weekend, as usual due to overexerting myself. As my mum says, I'm not superman anyway.

Wednesday:
PE run 2 rounds barker
School without sleeping
Did chem practice papers after school
Went to serene for lunch
Went home, didn't sleep
Talked on the phone from 12am to 3am.
Slept at 3am.

Thursday:
Woke up at 6am, so only 3 hours of sleep
Didn't sleep during assembly (wow!)
Went through many lessons of school without sleeping (wow!)
2.4km napfa run after school
Went to macs at toa payoh after run
Went home, didn't sleep.

So, in 2 days i've only gotten 3 hours of sleep, and that's totally overworking, and I'm gonna fall sick from fatigue. Strangely, I don't feel tired at all, yet.

2009-03-30T16:04:00.001+08:00

School was really depressing today (recently too). Maybe its the lack of sleep or all the recent results. It's sec 4 year and I am screwing up in my sciences.

One of the nightmares are when I realize I rejoice unknowingly when I find out that there's no chemistry the next day. Whatever happened to celebrating chemistry classes in 2008? I think alex lee's making many of us dislike chem. His magic has been lost. Maybe he is being too hard on us. Chem tests every Wednesday after school in term 1, in which we all fail. Then he emails our
parents our marks every time and most of us get screwed. Term 2, practice papers every Wednesday after school plus remedial on Saturdays. Revision test on the 2nd Saturday of march hols, where all of us except Bernard screwed up. Hence, the end result? Most of us find chemistry a terrible subject and are losing interest.. The main point is that he's seriously overdoing it. A1,2,3 don't have all these stuff and they're doing fine.

Physics is getting really factual and all the memorizing work has come (I think). The electromagnetism chapter especially. So many things to remember and I don't get half of it. Where did all the formulas go?

Geog, however, has been pretty good. I've been knowing my stuff and I bet if we were given slightly more time the previous test I could have topped the class and got 80. I wrote 2 pages long for my first question which was worth 7 marks. I got 17/25 but Bernard got 18/25. It's quite surprising though. He wasn't that good in sec 2. Can tell that he has changed a lot. For most subjects he's 1st and I'm somewhere 2nd to 5th.

Anyway, today was my history project group's turn to present to the class. There was Kai Kein, Kenneth, dennis, kalai and chris quay. We ran out of time so continuing tomorrow. Dennis did a really good presentation for his section. No idea why he kept thinking that he'll screw up. I am halfway through my section. Tomorrow's the continuation. Heheh hopefully we will get an A1. Put a lot of effort into this whole thing.

Tomorrow is even week Tuesday so it's H cube after recess onwards. Haha really happy because essentially it's a half day except that you got to spend the second half in school, slacking.

Would you literally fight for a friend in need?

2009-03-17T22:11:00.002+08:00

SCMUN today was pretty much retarded bullshit. Every time the Mani goes up to speak everyone starts to laugh at his speech. His accent is damn funny. So we had crisis time after lunch. 10 delegates got "kidnapped". Nicole Clarabelle Effendy was being a totally bitch and started bossing around. It's not right because she's like the same age as all of us and she acts like a REALLY HUGE authority on stage?! Yes, she's like the highest authority in scmun but she's totally overdoing it. So I left to walk around the school during unmoderated caucus (which is like a break for discussion time). Then happened to meet all the 'kidnapped' delegates. They were trying to run around the school because they felt bored in their room. But I joined them anyway, on the excuse that I cannot go back or else the rest would find out. So yea we all just slacked around and had fun watching YouTube while the rest of the people in the Auditorium were busy working on the resolution.

2009-03-17T00:04:00.002+08:00

Went to Wesley on Sunday for the first time with Jordan. Time seems to pass really fast there. Hmm so I intend to go there regularly(weekly) from now onwards. Anyway I have tuition at YMCA at 3 so it's very convenient. After church went out with Jewel for lunch and to get Chris Quay's birthday present. Then went for chemistry tuition which totally made me get a headache.

Today was the first day of SCMUN. It was fun because we ended up ganging up against the directors. I tell you, the fat girl is such a bitch man. Damn irritating. Kept picking on all of our actions. But we all had a good laugh. Nobody really bothered to debate so much over the first issue so after the break we all agreed on the same thing. It was hilarious when people starting going up and supporting the previous delegate's stand (which was the support the other delegate's stand). After the whole thing ended at 5.40pm, went to island creamery with Gabriel, Trisha and 2 hwa chong ~~gays~~ people. After the hwa chong people left we just played truth or dare, which was mostly just to get the truth out from the other person on whatever we wanted to ask.

This video is really inspirational.

2009-03-06T17:10:00.003+08:00

I haven't updated for 2 weeks. omg. Today's sky looks really nice. But the temperature is scorching.

This week's was really fun :D Especially Chinese lessons because we get to go online. Hahah mr chia doesn't care at all remember? It was also first week of Sports and Wellness(something like TAF club) for underweight people. Mine's on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. I think it's really nice. They seem to pamper you a lot. Haha do 30 push-ups, drink milk, then they ask you to go for recess and eat more. Direct opposite of the harsh treatment they give to the overweights :D

Physics SPA was on Wednesday. I suppose I should be able to do it quite well, didn't seem to screw anything up. Everything went perfectly. Chem test got postponed because Alex lee wanted to hold a remedial for graph plotting. Some people can't plot at all HAHA. After school dropped by Serene macs with Andrew Yuen. Wow he is LOUDSPEAKER. Can't stop talking and talks VERY loud. I think everyone there could hear him. Embarrassing stuff :(

Today LCK seemed to be in a really good mood. I don't know why haha but it was strange. He was all smiley and made a lot of funny remarks. Then we had A math test on Kinematics and Connected Rates of Change. It was really easy. But I don't think many people (including me) are going to get full marks because we all made careless mistakes here and there. Full marks opportunity wasted. Oh well never mind at least its just a test. Doesn't matter. After A math we just slacked for the rest of the day. (Chinese and Contact Time)---> everyone was playing games or going online + Chapel ( we were all really quiet because all of us were SLEEPING).

2009-02-26T22:34:00.002+08:00

This was taken before PE. The sun was nice.

Chia Choon Khai teaching us how to say ass hole in Chinese

Then he moves on to buttocks. Best teacher (:

Half the class is playing and slacking while he's teaching

He doesn't really care anyway. I was watching Yes Man during his lesson on my touch then he came up to me and asked me what I was doing on my iPod. Then I told him watching a movie then he was like, oh, can you teach me how to use mine too? (the school gave every teacher an iPod touch to mark attendance)

The other half of the class is sleeping.

Gary's trademark position.

The slackest teacher around. And also the friendliest. I think all the English department and MOST of the Chinese department teachers are really nice.

2009-02-22T19:58:00.010+08:00

Hahaha today I feel very happy! Much happier than I've been for a long time. Haha last night was super fun. I went to fusion with Philip chin, wei yang, gan chai, keefe wong, alan cheong and zhien wei. Jeremy fong was supposed to come but his parents didn't allow in the end. Towards the end everyone was high and jumping to the planetshakers music. We all wanted one more song and after that we had an encore. Awesome stuff. The pastor was hilarious. Inspiring. I learnt that life is too short to be so sad all the time so we should make the best out of what we can. :D Also, we all have our own ways to worship so we shouldn't care what others think of what we do. Now I feel like a changed person. I feel like I've become so much close to God all of a sudden. The impact of fusion is much greater than going to city harvest or cell. Really. That was the first time true joy of worshipping in my entire life. If anyone asked me if I was a Christian I could say yes confidently now (: I would've totally regretted it if I missed last night.

I think I have to get the discipline to enforce that computer-on-weekends-only rule. I think part of my laziness is coming from me going online too much. Still have so much homework to do! The price to pay for slacking through the weekend. Oh well.

Bye

Winston is happy!!!

2009-02-20T19:02:00.001+08:00

Winston says...
The whole world is so gullible!! Hahahahahaha

His parents are so naive and crazy(not in the good way, nor the mental hospital way)

2009-02-15T22:25:00.001+08:00

I almost died this weekend.

1) from a Suzuki Swift
2) from a terrible stomach flu/gastric pain which left me on the bed from 6pm, Saturday, till 10am, Sunday.

Left the house at 4.35am, reached home at 3pm after going for chem remedial and lunch.

2009-02-13T22:58:00.001+08:00

I have decided to go cycling tomorrow to get everything out.

2009-02-13T19:42:00.004+08:00

Today is Friday the 13th. This week passed really fast. All of a sudden it was wednesday, thursday, friday!

It's been very frustrating. Since the start of the year. Chemistry. The last test was Simple Electric Cell and I failed 7/15. The worst part of it is I don't have any idea what's wrong. I blame it on luck, that things seriously aren't going my way. I studied the whole of Alex Lee's notes and understood everything. It feels like the Sec 2 situation and that is not good. The year I screwed things up. I find the most recent test easy and it's making me go craaaaazy. Then Alex Lee keeps emailing my parents the test results and stuff. So they think that either I haven't been studying or I don't have enough time to study. It's pissing everyone. There seems to be nothing more I can do. And everyone is doing relatively badly too. Only very few are getting high marks and it's not consistent at all.

So,

1. My parents think I haven't been studying enough

2. They think I don't have enough time

3. Everyone's having about the same sort of fate.

4. They don't understand.

5. I understand the notes and chemistry, I don't understand my marks.

6. I think it's ridiculous and frustrating.

7. It's stressing and killing me.

8. Good bye.

2009-02-09T18:13:00.001+08:00

Sent my cousin off at the airport at midnight on saturday. She's going to Switzerland for 6 months to "study". That is soo lucky.

Yesterday i sent an email telling lynette loh feedback on A math class. Hopefully she takes it positively.

Today was a fun day. Had a lot to talk about. History class was interesting as usual. Ang moh teachers are good :) graham and Emerson. Though being physics rep is not easy. LCK wants so much. English was good. Teacher returned argumentative essay. Second in class 23/30. Sigh I think it's definitely a "can do better". Improving the introduction would have helped. We are not supposed to start with agree/disagree but I did that. So got penalized.

Tomorrow there's superseries by Adam Khoo. Haha we get to miss half the day. And go back really late at 6 :( oh well he'd better be inspiring.

Now I need to find a blazer and black shoes for SCMUN. I overslept for the briefing on Saturday morning which meant I didn't know anything until this morning I got the notes. Wth. I hope it's worth going.

2009-02-07T00:00:00.002+08:00

I totally do not regret going to support the school for Julia Gabriel's Competition. Haha I think i'll go for all the rounds.

2009-02-06T23:58:00.002+08:00

4 February 2009 cycling pictures

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=215720&id=549000073

We didn't go and catch the sunrise because that can be done anyday. So instead we went to watch people going to school.

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2009-02-04T05:35:00.001+08:00

It's now 5.24am on my watch and I've been sitting here at serene macs since 4.30 waiting for Julian. Actually waiting is not too bad. This place is pretty relaxing and comfortable. I didn't know class 95 songs were so soothing. Haha I'll listen more to them from now on. Intended to study geog while waiting but ended up reading straits times on my iPod in the end. Oh well pictures from my SLR when I get home. Julian is here and we are going to catch the sunrise:D

2009-02-01T00:27:00.003+08:00

Super short week! Haha debates on Thursday was fun. It was a newcomers debate. This house believes that children's television today has no educational value. It was really difficult to stay composed because of the nervousness. Everyone gave me the highest rank in their scoresheet except for David Aw. I'm second rank on his scoresheet :(

Anyway went to joel foo's house with (shawn+justin) koh, brandon, derek, byron, martyn yesterday. His mum was really nice. Specially organised a gathering for us. Wth joel's macbook is full of movies. Watched made of honor again! After that everyone except byron and martyn came over to my place for bbq. Dad's colleagues and friends came too.

Today I did work in the early afternoon, then went for cell in the late afternoon. Mum made me feel extremely guilty by reminding me I haven't done much work and I have too many activites. Really need to start studying harder.

Chem's really disappointing. From first test:

4/15

9/15

6/15

I think Alex Lee's magic does not work on me.

Everyone's getting these marks but still. It's worrying and terrible. Then there are so many activities during CNY. Not much time to do work. And no mood when there's time. Shit maybe staying in 3B3 was better? Got to cut down on going out.

WEDNESDAY IS A HOLIDAY!! Haha my plan for that day is cycling in the morning at 4am EVEN IF NOBODY'S GOING WITH ME. Then I'll stop at sixth avenue on the way back for my favourite wanton mee. And in the afternoon I'll go study outside. Whether shawnkoh and co want to do a group study, I'll still go somewhere relaxing to do work. See, 2-in-1. Hang out, and get to study so we don't waste the holiday.

Secondhand Serenade-Your Call

2009-01-24T18:48:00.005+08:00

I got 9/15 for chem test. I think I have issues. Terribly bad issues. I've been scoring extremely low for chem. First 4/15 then 9/15. What the hell. Yet i was thinking of full marks. Ugh. This wednesday, I'll make sure its at least 12/15. So much homework to do for this long weekend. Anyway, something to look forward to tomorrow. Cycling with Adam and James!(maybe)

Went out with Fong and Phil yesterday for Chinese New Year shopping (actually its just a very good excuse). Started with Heeren then went to Paragon. I got a shirt from Celio. Got 3 shirts already. Fong got a stretch t-shirt from Banana Republic. Phil almost bought a pair of slim cut jeans from Gant but they didn't have the correct size so he didn't buy. Then Phil had to go off to meet his mum. So Fong and I took a train with the intention of going to Vivo but in the end went to Plaza Sing. Springfield had nothing much and overall it was boring there. Fong wanted to buy shoes so we went back to Wheelock. Wanted to get Onitsuka Tiger no other brands seem right. But I think my mum will murder me cos I already got 2 shoes from Christmas presents. Then walked to Heeren to check out Limited Edt and he bought a white Tiger shoe for $170. After that went to see Swatch watches. There was this particular model which was quite nice. I'll find out the model number then I'll ask my cousin to buy it from Switzerland on my behalf since she's already going there. Took a train to Outram with Fong then took 970 from there.It takes forever to come. Reached home kind of late for dinner at 8.30.

2009-01-24T18:30:00.002+08:00

VERY IMPORTANT!!

There will be a partial solar eclipse passing Singapore this Monday, 26th Jan. It will occur from 4.30PM till 6.58PM local time. The max eclipse will be at 5.50PM local time. Don't get confused by NASA's timings because its in GMT. Don't take an afternoon nap.

2009-01-18T21:48:00.003+08:00

The class is fairly attentive i suppose.

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I think this shot above is the best! Hahahaha

Second week of school was fine. Except that for the first time in a long time, I failed a chem test. Chemical bonding-that was last years topic. Surprising, disappointing. But I guess its healthy to fail once in a while.

Melamine Zeppelin?

2009-01-11T12:54:00.001+08:00

First week of school: not so good.
I haven't started my studying yet. I think it's going to be too late already. By this coming second week hopefully the mood is back then I can start revising sec 3 stuff. For now, the only sec 3 I've done is for chem. Mostly because the notes make it so easy for self-studying.

4A4 should be able to do super well this year.
Best chemistry teacher, best physics teacher and a very effective A math teacher. Now I understand differentiation perfectly after she went through it on her first lesson. Much better than LEC.

Didn't really get a chance to do much work these few days. On Friday, came home, ate and showered then went off to meet hx and co at plaza sing to watch transporter 3. It is totally ridiculous. Which non-AMG E-Class can outrun or even match an audi S8? But Jason Statham is still really cool nonetheless. After the
movie, went to his house for his birthday party. His p6 brother managed to carry me. These karate people are crazy. Then Seth and his 2nd brother were like making a lot of jokes. Funny shit. Hx's parents sent me home really late at 12. Thanks for the ride(:
Saturday morning, went for my favourite sixth ave breakfast then went home and tried to start doing SS source based homework. Couldn't finish it because I forgot how to do so had to keep referring to last years notes. Went to ngee ann poly open house in the afternoon with Micah, patrick and leon. Dad sent me there. We saw all the science courses and solar and a bit of business accounting. Some feeling of depression at NP. Feels like if you ever end up there, no more future. Yes the science courses seems really fun and interesting but all the job possibilities are so boring and relatively low-paid. Who wants to work in a fish farm or be a horticulturist? Oh, how about a nurse? Maybe you wanna use liquid nitrogen to make ice cream. Sigh. Better work hard and get to acjc.

School's recess timings are super messed up. Now we all know Peter Tan's management=bad. Who has recess right after assembly at 8:30? And we're all very used to school ending a while after recess. So with recess at 9 on most days, everyone is lethargic and unable to pay attention by 12.

Still got 2 more weeks and then it's Chinese new year! Finally get a few days without school.

2009-01-04T20:49:00.002+08:00

Suddenly I miss the holidays a lot even though it only ended 3 days ago. The part I miss the most? Cycling 4am in the morning. Haven't done it since 9 Dec! Peaceful, joy, stress-free and freedom. It's difficult to find the same feelings again. Totally different from any other time of the day. I suppose we never treasure and cherish what we have until we lose it. Hence I feel that maybe holidays were wasted. I hope CNY will come quickly this year. 3 weeks away from now. A long weekend is a great opportunity to do holiday stuff.

Okay, first day of school-super short. We were dismissed at 13.10 because the school had nothing left to say. Could say it was alright. Not much stress yet. I was reading Eclipse during Chinese because the teacher was talking about many different Dynasties in China which I couldn't be bothered to listen. Then during A math, teacher was absent. So Ezra and I discussed Spanish grammar and words. After that was the usual school rules talk and they made us sign an agreement with them promising we'll abide the rules. Then if we break the rules they'll use that signature against us. Wth they didn't give you a choice in the first place right. Not like we were allowed to choose whether we agreed or not. This year's class mood wasn't as depressing as last year's first day, so no tears at all. Pleasant atmosphere I would say. After school went to KAP with Micah, Patrick, Hx, and Jem Seow.

I think starting school on a Friday is a good idea.

2009-01-01T21:17:00.002+08:00

2009! That was quick.

2008 was sort of wasted. And it passed way too fast.

2008-12-26T22:48:00.004+08:00

6 Days left to live. And I still haven't done anything that interesting. Neither did I fulfil what I wished for from the start of the holidays. The only wish unfulfilled. Don't you feel that 2 months and 1 week is way too short?

Oh well.

5 early morning cycling trips

1 morning soccer

1 overnight fishing

countless:

salvation army CIPs

evening cycling

outings

Total: still not enough.

I want a day trip to Pulau Ubin for fun. And that's still not enough, by the way.

2008-12-25T18:57:00.003+08:00

Heh I hope nobody thinks I'm in any sort of a clique. They think I'm in their clique, but my heart isn't there. Just people to go out with.

Merry Christmas!!!! Haha this year's presents were the best. I got two Puma shoes, a pair of jeans, and a pair of beach shorts. And the party was great too. At least the atmosphere was right and christmasy. The past few years was like, just lots of food and no christmas spirit. Haha.

Went fishing on Monday night. We almost caught some fish but somehow it managed to escape. So in the end, there was nothing. But that's not really the point, anyway. It's more of the sleeping outside and camping fun

2008-12-22T13:59:00.002+08:00

I wasted my sunday, didn't do anything. Crap. Was supposed to go breakfast with Derek this morning but i woke up late. Sorry!! Went back to sleep and woke up at 1pm. Seriously, huge waste of time. Fishing tonight. I've made a lot of ice already but somehow i cant remember where i put my hooks and weights. Never mind, can buy it from changi village. I'm thinking of what i can do from now till 6. hmm.

2008-12-21T12:55:00.002+08:00

Haven't been posting much. Okay, shit. 11 more days to live. I want to watch Yes Man again!!

Last night was crazy. Went out with Patrick and Micah to walk around at 3am. Yes, AM. It was just too difficult for me to say no. Besides, they agreed to go for overnight fishing. Anyway, it was not exactly fun or high at all. Everyone was so tired we looked like 3 zombies walking. Then Patrick bought some drinks from 7 eleven Rail Mall and had mood swings. How entertaining to watch him go happy and then sad, then laughing again. And he couldn't walk straight. But at least they bothered to walk me home since they were the ones who asked me to go out with them.

Tomorrow-Monday-Night-Fishing!!

Monday night to Tuesday morning.

Finally managed to arrange with Ezra and his Dad allowed! Great. Micah and Patrick are coming too, but mostly for the part where I told them that we weren't going to sleep. Going to buy all the stuff we need tomorrow, less of the fishing stuff, but more of the stuff we need to enjoy like food and drinks.

2008-12-19T23:00:00.006+08:00

Winston is busy learning Spanish.

Winston es ocupado aprendiendo Español.

Hahaha. Okay, started on Tuesday. Been learning with Ezra. We're both learning. I can more or less send simple smses and make simple sentences in Spanish without the help of a translator now. That's good progress okay! Yay! I made a very long list of spanish words to memorise. Maybe should have started this thing earlier, then by now i'd be able to converse easily. We intend to use it in school so that people won't understand what we're talking about. Soon i'll start posting in both spanish and english, for improvement's sake.

Went to Sentosa beach with Bryan, Keith and their cousin on Wednesday. Joel foo came later. After that, went to vivo with them to meet jh, justin, hx and shawn wong. Bryan, his cousin and I went to walk around first while they were discussing YEC. Then hang around at food court with them before going to Raffles City food court for lunch. Walked to Esplanade after lunch and just took pictures there. Then went to do salvation army CIP with joel foo from 7 till 9.

Thursday? Went out with cousins to watch Twilight at The Cathay. After that walked to Wisma Starbucks. One slept, the other played games and listened to music, while the last one studied Español.

Friday? Today. Met Jing Lin and watched Twilight again at Plaza Sing. Clair De Lune is such a nice song. I think Edward and Bella are cool because they're the star couple. And Bella's acting was kinda weird when in the hospital at the last part. Oh well. Then walked a lot, ate at Shokudo Raffles City. After that met Hamburger in the evening. We ate at Swensens. I realise that people treat you differently when you wear dress shirts. It's like suddenly you become a more important person to them. And suddenly the service improves by a lot. Anyway, after dinner we watched Yes Man, which was the best comedy/movie i've ever watched in my life so far. I promise I'm going to watch it again for sure. It's like, if you find the need to laugh continously non-stop, GO and watch it. You aren't laughing "half the time". You are laughing "all the time". The funniest movie ever.

2008-12-14T08:57:00.004+08:00

Swimming @ The Central, Clarke Quay

Some pastor who claimed he was 114 years old?

Christmas light-up 2008

Orchard crowd

2008-12-11T11:14:00.001+08:00

Went cycling with Julian on Tuesday morning. It was kind of boring because we had totally no idea on where to go. Exploring: Marina barrage, orchard, city hall area, Clarke quay, Singapore river, sentosa, business district? All done. Next time we'll go to woodlands checkpoint just for the fun of it.

I installed my new speedometer today (actually, you could say yesterday). Bought it on Tuesday but couldn't get it to work properly so I cycled to Tanglin Trek store and got it done. The service there is like really good, plus they got their own servicing counter. Quite cool. Then went home, and followed mum and bro for late lunch at Great World City. Dont like staying at home. After that walked around and bought some Christmas gifts for cousins. Hope they like Lego. After that went to Central to swim a bit. The pool is so unused even though it's so nice. Ate dinner there then walked around Clarke Quay. Sat at the river and watched people take the bungee jump. Seems thrillingly fun. I will try it one day. Stayed till like 12 then went home.

Finally, something interesting. Monday night- fishing! Hope DC and Ezra get their permission to go. Would be nice if they can go because we're staying over at changi village this time. A change of place because we are really tired of Bedok Jetty. How boring to keep going to the same place. And there's new fish at Changi too!

Tomorrow I'm going to somewhere near Subordinate court to look at seats for the bike.. My ass cheeks and balls hurt with the current one. It gets really pain after a while. Then there is cell group event. Soccer and other games at ngee ann poly. I'm not sure if I should play. Need new futsal shoes! My current one is from p6.

Friday
Outing with Joel foo, zhong Han and shawnkoh. I don't know wth are we going to do. Meet at harbourfront mrt. So are we going beach or just walk around vivo and stuff?

2008-12-08T23:33:00.000+08:00

2008-12-07T13:11:00.006+08:00

Realised I haven't been updating much, like only once a week? But then again, this holiday is so different from last years. Went out almost every day last year, the best nov-dec holiday yet. Frequency of going out this year? Hardly ever. And I don't want it to be like June when everyday all I did was go out with mum and bro. Once in a while is fine but too often is a waste of time. Haven't even gone for fishing trip this time. Ezra and I know we want Changi Village, but its hard to find a good time to go because Glenn doesn't want to go anymore so we have to see when Daniel Chua is free. By the end of next week please!

Took a train all the way to Tanah Merah to visit my grandma on Friday. Then went to Tampines IKEA with Wayne for food and walking, and then went back to grandma's house for dinner. After that, went home. I was that bored. Actually I told her I was going to cycle there at first but then she was like blah blah blah later get knocked down and killed. So to make her keep quiet I have to give in to her. But I'll do that tonight, there's family gathering as usual.

Anyway, had cell group yesterday. My 2nd time. I think the other must have very strong bones because they can sit on a marble floor with their legs crossed, for more than 2 hours without any cushions and appear comfortable. How do they do it? It was combined cell with the other group and somebody was there too. I suppose he found out who I was after Krystle (leader) mentioned my name a few times. But he's changed, not that arrogant anymore. Hmm. Immediately after cell had to rush off to do cip again. Clocked about 24 hours so far. But it's starting to really get boring and hard to do. The ringing gives me a headache. And standing there feels like such a waste of time.

Can't wait for Tuesday morning! Hope the weather will be cloudless and sunny again. The last trip before julian goes to Japan.

The heart aches when I realise we've got only 3 more weeks left to enjoy, and we didn't really make use of the past 6 weeks.

All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey

2008-12-01T19:52:00.000+08:00

A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton

2008-11-30T18:23:00.006+08:00

Weather on 29th Nov = Perfect.

Sunny, relatively cloudless.

Cycling again. Same time same place. 4.40 SPC. I only got 3 hours of sleep. We went to Marina Barrage this time. The air along the road going in is terrible. Not too bad at 6am because work hasn't started yet. But when you get out at like 7.30, it's hard to see anything. You got to squint or the dust will get in the eyes.

After cycling was salvation army kettling for another 6 hours starting from 1, with a 2 hour break in between. So I had to stand for 4 hours altogether.

2008-11-27T22:48:00.005+08:00

I just finished talking to Jeremy seow and he's off to Australia! Have a good trip (: Don't waste your time. Sigh no talking partner for 9 days but I think i'll get through it. 9 days is short.

Anyway. Was supposed to lunch with Gilda but had to call it off because I had to find CIP opportunities. Sorry! Tomorrow I'll be helping out at Red Cross Home For The Disabled for about 2 hours then I'll go to Bukit Panjang Plaza and be a kettler! That's the name of the person who helps the Salvation Army collect donations during the Christmas season. You know, the one who stands at one spot with that red tin can for money and rings the bell for donations. My partner had better be some nice person. It's from 1-3pm and 5-7pm. I'm doing it on Friday and Saturday then I'll most probably request to change my location to somewhere in Orchard and change my time slot to 1-3pm and 7-9pm.

Shen Dan Jie = Laying egg festival? (Ronald's best answer of the day)

2008-11-25T22:06:00.010+08:00

Life isn't that boring nowadays. Haven't gone cycling since Sunday and that proves I'm not crazy. Good. I have a life :)

Spent time today catching up with friends. Went to school to do CIP for 1 hour at 7.30am this morning, then met derek for breakfast at 9 something. Then went to his place to talk more and play with his monkey while he did his A math.

Then I started using his phone to sms Ronald's friend and get info while he used my phone. I went to meet Kenneth chew at KAP after that! Haven't seen him for more than 2 weeks. And haven't talked much for more than a month! So we spent 1.5 hours talking and catching up, then he went with me to Red Cross home for the disabled. I needed to go and enquire about CIP work. No choice I need the points you know. So I left my contact details and they said they'll call my parents for the consent and get back to me for further details. We walked back to my house after that, then waited till about 5 plus and both of us left for KAP AGAIN to meet Michele for dinner. And after dinner, home!

Anyway, holidays are not going to be so wasted after all! Going fishing soon one of these weeks, and I think there is soccer at CCAB one of these few days and there's still the usual cycling. But jeremy seow's going to Australia in 2 days' time so that means can only cycle in the morning with Julian and no more evening cycling. Sigh. But most of all I hope there will be more fishing and going out. At least make it like last years' end-year holiday!!

2008-11-19T15:49:00.006+08:00

Cycling on November 17

Woke up at 4am and then left house as quickly and silently as possible. Cycled down to Duchess. The lonely 10km, 25 minute ride. The road was very empty as usual. Finally reached and then met Julian and left for town. Cycled through Paterson and stopped at Great World for a while and then went to Esplanade. We cycled through the F1 pit building and explored the area. It's open to the public, didn't know that. Then went back to Serene and had breakfast before cycling home. Stopped by KAP to buy food for the rest at home. Reached home at 9.30.

F1 pit building area

Cycling on November 19

Woke up this morning at 3.50am. I put 4 alarms again. Left at 4. Had the longest ride so far. Almost 5 hours continuously. Met Julian at SPC then ate at Serene Macs before heading to Sentosa. We went through everywhere without anybody noticing. Into Sentosa, past Sentosa Cove, into all the small developments. All the guards were half asleep anyway. After Sentosa, cycled into Business District, then through City Hall area past Clarke Quay. Pass Plaza Sing, Somerset, Orchard then went to Julian's house to slack. Mum picked me up from there and I left my bike at Julian's place because she had to go to PS to run some errands so might as well bring me there too to look at dress shirts. Bought 2 of them in the end. Very happy with it :D

vivo at 5.30

Sentosa

The Berth

Breakeven - The Script

I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing
Just prayin' to a god that I don't believe in
Cos I got time while she got freedom
Cos when a heart breaks no it don't break even

Her best days will be some of my worst
She finally met a man that's gonna put her first
While I'm wide awake she's no trouble sleeping
Cos when a heart breaks no it don't breakeven... even... no

What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you and
What am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and your okay
I'm falling to pieces yeah
I'm falling to pieces

They say bad things happen for a reason
But no wise words gonna stop the bleeding
Cos she's moved on while I'm still grieving
And when a heart breaks no it don't breakeven even... no

What am I gonna to do when the best part of me was always you and
What am I suppose to say when I'm all choked up and your ok
I'm falling to pieces yeah
I'm falling to pieces yeah
I'm falling to pieces
(One still in love while the other ones leaving
I'm falling to pieces
(Cos when a heart breaks no it don't breakeven)

Oh you got his heart and my heart and none of the pain
You took your suitcase, I took the blame.
Now I'm tryna make sense of what little remains ooh
Cos you left me with no love and no love to my name.

I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing
Just prayin' to a god that I don't believe in
Cos I got time while she got freedom
Cos when a heart breaks no it don't break
No it don't break
No it don't break even no

What am I gonna do when the best part of me was always you and
What am I suppose to say when I'm all choked up and your ok
(Oh glad your okay now)
I'm falling to pieces yeah
(Oh I'm glad your okay)
I'm falling to pieces yeah
(One still in love while the other ones leaving)
I'm falling to pieces
(Cos when a heart breaks no it don't breakeven)

Oh it don't break even no
Oh it don't break even no
Oh it don't break even no

2008-11-17T12:28:00.000+08:00

2008-11-11T14:47:00.006+08:00

This morning was the best! Woke up at 3.50am, was supposed to meet Julian at 4.40am at his house. I only had 4 hours of sleep. Anyway, left home at 4am and cycled there. I was 6 minutes early. Went in for a while then we both left for Orchard. Haha cycling early in the morning is so fun. You get the feeling that you own the whole road because there're no cars. We reached Taka at like 5 plus to see the Subaru Challenge thing. Orchard like some construction site. Road repairs everywhere. After that we made our way to Singapore River. Used the longer way through Tanglin and then Grange Road. It was so peaceful there. Then we cycled to Anderson Bridge and crossed it to Padang and Esplanade. From there used the normal way back to Orchard. Under the tunnel was scary. There was this cement truck right behind us. Then went to Botanic Gardens and through Cluny got to Serene for Breakfast at 7.30. After breakfast went to Julian's house and then slept for like 1 over hour. Almost couldn't get up and walk.

Far East at 5

The thing that leads from Hyatt to Tangs

The emptiest Orchard road ever seen:Totally empty.

All the construction works

The challenge thing

The whole street was empty

2008-11-07T11:40:00.003+08:00

So, I got my 10 DCs for skipping OBS. I would say it was totally worth it. 20 hours instead of 108 hours. And then we got to go for meals during DC, went to Far East and Wheelock with Philip on Tuesday. It was just like office work. Making phone calls to parents, scanning out stuff, de-filing papers. It was quite fun. The two admin staff there treated us like colleagues instead of DC people. Found out that Sim was actually a nice person. He talked to Philip and I quite a lot. Both of us were like the most efficient and hardworking people around, they sort of ran out of work for us to do. Completed my 20 hours yesterday!

Along the cycling route

I've been cycling everyday this week with Jem Seow. Getting tiring, yesterday we both were damn slow because we didn't rest since Monday. Haha I used the drive-thru at KAP to help him buy his double cheeseburger yesterday. He finished it in about, 3 minutes or less. But not exactly surprising. We both got horned at on Wednesday for suddenly cutting into some dude's lane. We're used to it already so just ignore it. Horns cause accidents because they shock the other person and decompose the composed. So people make a panic reaction and thats it. Not a good idea then. Drivers who horn become the road hazard. From a no-accident situation to an accident situation because the driver made the cyclist fluster. That's why, if a driver is smart enough, he won't do anything. And hence we can conclude that, so far, the drivers aren't exactly smart. They are just impulsive.

2008-11-02T16:10:00.004+08:00

Yesterday went out with Shawn, Joel, Zhong Han, Derek and Brandon. It's been one whole year and we're still in the same group together and going strong. They wanted to bowl but the alley was just too crowded so we went to Esplanade to chill out. Sat at the roof terrace for a long time. Just did stupid and funny stuff.

I'm very lucky to be alive, and I'm not in the hospital either. Went to Malaysia for karting this morning with Parents plus Ronald. Normally I just spin and recover, today I crashed for the first time. It was quite shocking and before it all I said in my head was "oh shit, gone". I lost control thanks to the dude in front who was supposed to guide me but he suddenly slowed down so I locked up and skidded out of the track at speed and hit the sandbag. That caused high Gs, so I flew out of the kart when i crashed and landed head first. Helmet protected my whole head, thankfully, or I really wouldn't be here. No physical injuries except for some minor scratches from the sand but the crash stunned me and I couldn't walk straight for a while. And because of this I might get a racing suit because the person there said its safer :D

2008-10-29T22:57:00.002+08:00

Haha, everyone else is having OBS except for A band and those who went in June. I just didn't turn up :D So that means I kept my promise that I'll never go to the Sec 3 camp. Yay! Joshua Teo did the same too. I was so surprised to see him today. While we're enjoying ourselves here, let's feel sorry for those suffering at camp. How 'fun' can it be?

Holiday lessons are boring. A math differentiation seems so hard! I don't get a single thing. Even the basics. Now we're on to Trig Differentiation and it's worse. My worksheets are mostly blank. Don't even feel like paying attention. Tomorrow is the last day of the lessons. Great and then its truly start of holidays. 2 months!

2008-10-25T13:23:00.005+08:00

Evin totally covered the car.

After the dinner we walked to Plaza Sing from Wheelock. Haha we were damn high. Kept making a lot of noise. And I think there was a trans outside Wisma. Everyone was staring at him/her.