Friday, August 27, 2004

fuckin' hell. i think my computer's infected with some sorta trojan downloader virus, and yeah i absolutely hate it when things like that comes along and screw everything up. alright i have no idea what that friggin' shit is, and luckily avg (my antivirus scanner) detected it in time. apparently my comp downloaded that virus crap while i was using ie, and somehow the trojan just bypass any activex authentication process and stick itself to notepad.exe - yeah the notepad program that everyone uses to edit text files. i don't buy it when people say that a computer can get virus infection just by visiting an infected website, but now i truly do after being fortunate enough to chance upon such a site. it ain't a porn site by the way, so those porn barons can carry on surfing through their favourite galleries without any fear - but then again, how many peeps would actually do that when movies offer a much more complete experience than spastic static pictures. oh well i'm diverting away from the topic.

anyway avg removed the virus for me, and i thought for a moment how wonderful this virus scanner is until i realised that it actually removed notepad along with the virus together. fuckin' shit now i gotta load up the crappy ms word just to read those miniature text files. what can i expect anyway, since i think that my notepad.exe is so screwed up that it's beyond any form of redemption. man though avg claimed that my comp is now free of any virus shit, i still have this nagging feeling that not everything is being cleared away. trojan horses are famous for camouflaging itself in stealth mode and redownloading itself whenever an internet connection is possible. *sigh* i just hope that my comp ain't targetted by any keylogger program or else there goes all my accounts - but anyway i don't have any important accounts and the hackers would find it more time-efficient to go on spoofing the computers of those rich businessmen with those internet banking accounts. heh think i'm thinking too much i hope.

windows xp professional without notepad.. wtf.

Monday, August 23, 2004

*sigh* singapore was that close to achieving a olympic medal once again. well we managed to claim the fourth spot in the women's table tennis singles at sydney four years back thanks to jun junhong, and li jiawei continued this trend at athens this year. of course i'd rather her to go on and achieve at least a bronze for the medal-starved singapore, but some things are just not meant to be yeah. come think of it, it's really such a painful wait for this small nation to get its hands on a olympic medal after our one and only silver medal was won at rome 44 years' back in weightlifting. it's indeed such an irony that weightlifting is not being treated as one of the core sports now.

yes our sportsmen may have lost badly at events such as swimming or archery, but no douby the hopes of the nation were lifted up when susilo managed to crash into the quarters of the mens' badminton singles after defeating the first seed lin dan. everyone rallied behind him and some even touted him to come back to singapore with a gold medal, but alas things were just not meant to be as the thai youngster poonsak emerged victorious within the quarters. nevermind, we thought to ourselves, as both zhang xueling and li jiawei both advanced to the women's table tennis singles quarters too. zhang may have lost to the north korean kym, but li jiawei went ahead to defeat the second seed wang nan to be in the thick of the action in the semis after some magnificent display of flair. perhaps this could just be singapore's year afterall, and all that separate li from a guaranteed silver medal is just that one match against kym, who's ranked 40-odd in the world. but then again, things were just not meant to be as li lost by a meagre 2 points in the deciding 7th set. it's alright, we tried to console ourselves, as there's still a bronze medal up for grabs although we may have lost our shot at the gold and silver. plus, li has won the korean in the us open earlier this year so history should be on our side. but sadly things are just not meant to be as li lost 4-1 sets. perhaps the burden of the nation was too much to shoulder, or maybe it's because the semis' defeat was just too great for her to bear. well she did try her best, and hey things ain't that bad yeah? we managed to mantain our fourth position in the end.

but deep down inside within everyone's heart, we know that something is just missing from the whole picture. well some things are just not meant to be..

Friday, August 20, 2004

well it surely wasn't the best situation that i would actually consider getting myself into - things were looking very grim indeed while i was sparring with jen over badminton. hmm on the surface it may seem that it's just a harmless singles' match between two classmates pitting their skills against each other, but it's definitely much more that what's apparent. it's my painful struggle to establish my identity as a guy. yeah and i'm playing against a gal, and what's more embarrassing then succumbing to defeat over the fairer sex yeah? but sadly things didn't turned out as what i hoped for, and the worst case scenario of being badly thrashed by jen did turn into reality after the 5th set. yeah we're playing for the best outta 7 sets, and unfortunately i only managed to win one while surrending the other 4 to her. gee and i must have looked like a idiotic faggot running about the court, just to have a go at tryin' to return her smacks. for one, i began to doubt my stamina once again for i was beginning to feel fatigue overtaking my whole body and i was losin' concentration easily. two, jen's strokes are strong and forceful - often travelling at a velocity so fast that i could hardly react to it straightaway. three, my positioning is often questionable as i keep finding myself trapped in one side of the court, only to realise that she had whacked the shuttle over to the far end of the other half. four, i couldn't really attempt to be on the offensive cause i couldn't do a proper smacking for some fuckin' unknown reason and i'm just like a sheep awaiting to be slaughtered under her racket. fifth and finally, my badminton just suck to the bloody core and i was making all sorts of frigging unforced errors. so much for my ambition to thrash jen hehe. anyway i guess playing squash does help to a certain extent, cause your shots generally tend to be much more powerful? hell it's such a bitter experience to know how bad i am at racket games, but i shall be back one fine day for a proper rematch and show jen that whatever she achieved today was a total fluke haha =)

actually today was kinda fun, cause i didn't know that badminton could be so exciting ever since i last touched my racket at primary four. was playing both singles' and doubles' with those slackers of s92, and of course we had our fair share of amusement and embarrassment too. well i found out that the best way to triumph over layne is to aim at her head, cause she'll freak out and panic outta nowhere heh. it's always not a good idea to play short shuttles against jen, or else she'll jolly well whack the bloody shuttle onto my head. haha yep and the combined forces of both me and joel couldn't overcome the mighty kaiyun at all. final result: 5-0 in ky's favour. damn i think both of us will really need to cough up some good excuses for the poor showing this morning.

and the crappiest thing today has gotta be edna chio i guess. as both of us don't have any physics lessons after our econs tutorial, me and ky was walking together towards the bus-stop. suddenly edna popped out suddenly and shouted to us from the back, saying that both of us are patuo-ing. wth man, and edna went on to say that both of us was walking so slowly cause we wanna enjoy the beautiful sunshine. and for goodness sake it was around 1pm then, and the sun was so frickin' hot that no one in the right frame of mind would've wanna enjoy it lol. guess it's always fun to have such a crappy teacher like edna chio. i seriously can't imagine how mr stanley ong or even mr koh's gonna come out with such crappy statements, really. and when ky asked her if she's taking a cab or car home, edna just gave us a reply that none of us expected: walking home. she said it so casually that it was so amusing and both of us couldn't help laughing our ass out haha. hmm there wouldn't be anymore econs lesson for the next few weeks, and imma gonna miss edna chio a lot. *sigh* why must all good things come to an end.

Monday, August 09, 2004

it's national day today!! and yep, singapore's officially 39th years ago now. this year's celebrations has an added significance to it also - as this is the last time prime minister goh would attend the ndp with the status of prime minister. actually my understanding of pm goh only increased these few years, for i admittedly i was kinda apathetic to singapore politics lol. i guess he's not just any other person you can find in singapore - afterall how unextraordinary a person doing double majors during his uni days be right? he's gone through lots of ups and down with the country over his 14 years at the helm, and singapore has indeed seen a stark improvement in terms of development under him. he's made singapore economically sound, politically stable and also socially safe for every citizen within the country, so i guess it's high time for him to step back to relax abit and enjoy this coming well-deserved break. yeah and i think that the baton of leading singapore would be passed on to the current dpm lee hisen loong within one or two days. oh well, i didn't know i was gonna write sucha long paragraph on ndp '04 haha. =x

anyway i managed to catch the first episode of singapore idol on channel 5 after the live telecast of the ndp parade; and boy i gotta admit that i'm pretty much amused by how ridiculous some idol-wannabes can get. it's a hilarious show really, and one must either be a complete idiot or a 101% mugger to miss it yeah. seriously speaking, who needs william hung nowadays when you've got a stripper who's main aim of coming for the auditions is just to 'entertain' the judges, a china dude specially coming from shanghai who's better suited at singing for beijing opera with his classically-trained vocals, a nerd who sings so softly that none of us could make out what he's mumbling about (in fact, i almost thought that he was just opening and closing his mouth throughout the whole audition session heh) and last but not least someone who's trying to be overcourteous and kinda pissed off the judges by asking for permission every now and then. ah, and the gal who started cryin' nonstop throughout the whole thingy suddenly came to my mind. these people are real jokers man, and darn suffian from sajc wasn't caught on tv lol. i think that the next episode's gonna feature a 'banana man' - some idiot who thinks he could protect his real identity by wearing a banana outfit, complete with a banana mask over his face of course haha. bah the show's funnily retarded, and my whole family are practically rolling over the floor laughing as we witness how plain absymal singaporeans can get. and i thought that someone wrote in an article sometime ago taht singaporeans tend to be camera-shy. but then no matter how much of a flop those contestants turned out to be, all of them deserve a pat on their back for having that initial courage to even sign up for the auditioning process. :) bah somehow i feel that the show is missing some important element - perhaps it would be a good idea should they show more footages whereby the contestants get nasty and disses the panel of judges yeah?

Saturday, August 07, 2004

woots i just returned from layne's house today, and i'm totally shagged right now. there's no formal lessons for sajc students today, and yeah we had a half-day worth of celebration. frankly speaking i wouldn't even think twice about skipping today for such celebrations are a waste of time, but then again the inflexible mrs lee would force me to get her a medical cert instead of the usual parents letter - so in a bid to save me the trouble of going around clinics beggin' for a mc i just dragged my body unwillingly to college today. and my point was right after all: the so-called celebrations are just plain stupid and time wasting indeed. the scorching morning sun was shining right into where the students were being seated, and to make things worse all we're doing for the whole morning was to watch interhouse telematches and also the mass musical chair. the planning obviously sucked to the core, and many students could be spotted leaving the gallery in which they are seated to other parts of the college. the mass musical chair game could be a fun activity to watch, but the teacher i/c screwed it up by slowing down the pace of the game, causing it to be extremely dragging and painful for my attention to continue.

anyway after the whole shitty morning in school, i went out with jen's gang, joel, yuzhe and charlene to have our lunch at ps' yoshi. had a beef-cum-salmon bowl with veggies, and i must say it's really filling heh. we're having quite a good time there, gossiping about the various cliques present within the sucky 03s92 class and how economies of scale in hardcore mugging can be achieved by combining both the rv and mixed school cliques together. it's kinda mean for us to talk behind their backs i know, but somehow the mugginess of the class is beginning to get on da nerves of the 'traditional slackers' within the class and this is our only chance to get back at them. oh well. jen was especially crappy today by saying that smss students are called margarines and saying that joel, yuzhe, me and her gang could unite as one and become the kaobeh-kaobu gang lol. yeah and i played at the ps arcade briefly before watching the notebook with yuzhe and layne. haha don't expect any special storyline or visual effects from this sappy love flick, but the romance factor is still there so it ain't really a bad choice for couples to go together. yeah at least i didn't puke or fall asleep at any part of da show heh.

and the highlight of the day must be the trio's decision to proceed to layne's house and watch a vcd there. plus we're gonna fix our own dinner using her kitchen yay! so off we went to purchase the ingredients we require for our dishes and also we chose the tale of two sisters as our vcd pick. haha i do admit that i'm quite a pampered kid at home so i don't really get to cook for myself or wash dishes for that matter, but i thorougly enjoyed today's cooking session though i wasn't doing as much as the head chef yuzhe. yeah my tasks were the simplest outta 'em all and i was taking every opportunity to learn yuzhe's kitchenery skills. and layne was always there to supervise the cleanliness of the kitchen, cause she would be in very deep trouble should her mom comes back home and realise that the kitchen is messed up. so in da end we had rice, steamed egg, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, cabbages with small pieces of pork and finally da stupid campbell's vegetable soup. layne said that it was her first time cooking a full meal, and it was my first time too actually utilising the kitchen in my friend's house haha. guess the food taste simply great (okay - maybe the tomatoes were too sour a lil') especially when you played a part in the cooking process. gee and now i'm really looking forward to my second session at layne's kitchen hehe. =)

Tuesday, August 03, 2004

whoa i just got back after math tuition at joel's place. it's definitely not a nice experience spending two pure friggin' hours listening to the application of integration techniques and the likes - half of the time i was just nodding my head incessantly without realising what's actually going on. and my tutor chew kinda know that i'm not giving him my fullest attention and he even forced me to go wash my face halfway through to prevent my eyelids from closing. *sigh* it always suck to have tuition after school really, let alone tuesday which is the second longest day i had outta my whole timetable. man i'm totally shagged now and i can't help but think about how overstretched jc students are on my way back home. the duration of the lessons are way longer than that of secondary school, plus extra commitments such as cca would strain your daily schedule and screw it up like anything. it's an even worser scenario should ya happen to be in any sports cca, cause you would feel so dead once ya step into ya room and just conk out in your bed - only knowing the next morning that you're in deep shit cause you haven't done any assignment at all yet. jc life.. *sigh*

and oh, i just can't seem to take that rj girl outta my mind. what crap lol.

Monday, August 02, 2004

was supposed to have lunch after school at al-ameen with yuzhe, but in the end we opted for the halal dim sum restaurant next to it cause we've been sitting at al-ameen for ages and the waiters just seem to ignore us regardless of how we call for 'em. guess the service attitude at al-ameen requires great improvement there, and it's not the first time we've been snubbed by those stupid waiters there. today's yuzhe birthday and he said that he was gonna treat me, so i just sat back and watched him ordered kailan, xialong baos, siew mai, porridge and some oter weird stuffs. alot for two people i know, and i was rather worried that i couldn't finish my own portion for i had pattaya rice in school not too long ago. anyway the dim sum was kinda well made according to yuzhe, though i don't really know cause my stomach's still feeling darn full after all the pattaya rice i ate. surprisingly there was no other peeps there at the restaurant, and the sole waiter is just one big cockhead. apparently he took the wrong orders - giving us five xiaolong baos instead of ten, and the most infruiating of all he took char siew buns instead of the intended bbq chicken buns. and the reason? 'oh i'm so sorry there's no chicken buns left.' what friggin' reason is that man, if that's even considered a reason in the first place. what's most embarrassing was that the waiter told us that we couldn't pay by yuzhe's nets card while we were footing the bill, and poor yuzhe only had 7 dollars cash left in his wallet. and i had to practically drained my whole wallet to pay up the reamining 14-odd bucks, giving the waiter lotsa ten-cent and two-cent coins in the process. oh well so it wasn't a treat for me afterall, and i'd swear that we would be very dead if i didn't have enough money in my wallet.

well after that i went to town with bernard to get a present for his pa friend. apparently he doesn't have anything in mind to give, so we had to walk up and down orchard road and stopping by several shops to see if he thinks likes the pressie. oh gee. and i can tell ya that for a guy like him, he's a much more meticulous shopper than some girls when it comes to choosing bday presents. but i can't really blame the poor chap though, for one shopping is not his thing and he didn't really have even the faintest idea of what he have in mind. and we took a friggin' three hours-odd to finish everything i guess. perhaps it would be a good idea for those shopaholics if they begin with the end in mind (as quoted from some sa teacher whom i've forgotten) to speed things up; or maybe it's the long draggy process of looking around that shopaholics are relishing in? only god knows i reckon, but one i'm sure of is that yay i'm a better shopper than ever before (i hope) with a higher tolerance level now lol. gee i think bernard's ears must be hurting since the very moment he saw me, for i was complaining nonstop about how tired i am and how i could utilise the time i wasted at town to complete my math tuition homework which is like due tomorrow? oh well. =x

but not everything's that bad afterall i guess. cause while we were taking the escalator upwards from the underpass towards tangs i saw a rjc looker. yeah she was travelling in the opposite direction and boy, she has to be the most beautiful rafflesian i've seen in my entire life. and i'm not kidding here, really. damn i really regretted not changing my route and ask her for her name at least, though a handphone number would surely send me rocketing up to the dark sky above; ah she may think i'm some kinda desperate lunatic, but i couldn't be much bothered heh. *sigh* it's such a reeeeeal pity that i didn't have that form of courage at that moment of time. and the most surprising thing of all this: she didn't have a guy standing next to her!! omg me and bernard keep telling ourselves that this couldn't be true, for it's virtually impossible for any guy not to be attracted to her on first sight. yeah infatuation i know, but i wouldn't mind spending everyday out on her corner in the pouring rain gettin' mad over a hottie like her. haha what a cheapo transformation from maroon 5's song lol.

equation for da day: rafflesian = smart + beautiful. woots.

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