(From the last post: Answer is E. The meal cost about $1600)

I hate CCTs! Just screwed up my Maths and Chinese ones, but the good thing is that I'm not having the Bio one, which should be much worse. As a result, I'll have 2 free periods tomorrow! One from the Bio lesson and one from the test at the end of the school. If not for MEP, I could have gone home one period earlier...

Anyway, just went for heats yesterday, on my favourite event, triple jump. People say that I have long legs, so I should technically pwn in triple jump but that obviously wasn't the case. I signed up for triple jump again last year and this was what happened...

The qualifying mark last year (sec 2) was 7 metres. Last year my legs were still a bit short and I wasn't as tall as I am now. So signing up for triple jump was just an approach to trying something new. I didn't know how to jump it at all, until that very day of the heats, when I consulted my P.E. teacher at that time: Mr. Steven Lim. Mr Lim pwns! He's a runner, and he can complete your 2.4 within 6 mins. For our cross country event (around 5km) last year, he smashed the record with his timing of 13 mins!?!

So after he gave me a basic idea on how triple jump worked, I tried out a few times, but I could not hit the qualifying mark! My best was usually 6.8 metres which totally sucks. So on the very event itself, I tried a bit harder and guess what happened. I stepped in between the track and the sandpit, thus barely reaching the qualifying mark. As a result, I sprained my ankle, as I was not stepping on the track nor the pit, but right smack in the centre. Worst of all, that reading was not counted >.<

So this year, I went in with more confidence. The qualifying mark on the paper said 8 metres, and during my few practices, I found that I could consistently jump around 8.8 metres. But at the event itself, they shifted the mark, so it became 9 metres, and they said there will be no qualifying mark, just straight into the final top 8.

Crap... I remembered last year's incident where I could only jump 6.8 while the mark was 7 metres. We were given 3 tries, and I screwed up my first 2, landing rather close to the pit too. I was smarter this time... Rather than take the risk and stretch my leg further than it should go, I stopped right in front of the pit where I could manage. After the 2 tries, the teacher shaked his head at our pathetic performance and shifted the mark to 7 metres.

I was quite happy when I saw that, as finally I could jump into the sand pit with my jumps of 8.8m. Thus, on my last jump, my ego was quite high. As a result, I didn't time my run properly. I started from my wrong foot, and thus, in order to go off from my proper foot (left), I jumped off much earlier than the 7m mark.

I did jump into the pit. My reading was 7.20m...

Haven't posted for a long time cos nothing interesting really happened.

Just went came back from dinner, from a seafood restaurant at the turf city. That's where the Unique Seafood Market is... My uncle treated my whole paternal side of my family (total 24 people).

Here's what we ate:
Yu Sheng (the dish where everything is mixed together and the short kiddies with short hands dun get to participate in the fun at all)
Lobster
Some random Vegetable
Fried King Alaskan Crab
Steamed King Alaskan Crab
Fried Noodles
Dessert Mango Pudding

Multiply everything by 2 cos we had 2 tables...

Now guess the cost:
A) ~$50
B) ~$100
C) ~$500
D) ~$1000
E) ~$1500

Post your answer in the tagboard.. I'll reveal the answer in my next post..
No prizes for guessing the correct one..

I'll start this post with a quote from my friend, Guitarist Victor.
"Your blog spots are too detailed and elaborated."

So guys, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! 'nuff said.

Tuesdays

Today is Wednesday, but I shall be talk about yesterday.

(Thanks to Jian Xiong for helping me with this blog. Its nothing much to most of you, just downloading the blogskin and using it, but my HTML skills just suck, or as Jian Xiong will say, "Lack of skill". )

I shall first list down my to-do-list for the next few weeks:
ERP Due (recommended by teacher) Week 7
Philosophy test
History test Week 8
Chinese file check
Chemistry test on Separation techniques
MEP test on Romantic period
Chinese composition (letter)
Chinese test Week 9
English test
English blog assignment due
Maths test (i'll probably fail)
Social Studies utopia assignment (haven't started yet) Week 10

Woah, that's quite a lot, isn't it? On Tuesday, our first period was Chinese, and our teacher gave us notice of the Chinese file check, test and composition homework. That is when everyone started checking their diaries and lamenting on how much homework they have for the next few days. Andrew (our Assistant Monitor) actually stood up and read of his diary the homework and test we have to the teacher. The teacher seemed quite amused, and postponed our composition assignment which was supposed to be due this friday to next friday :)

As we were sighing about our homework load, the next teacher, Ms Peh who taught us Maths walked in. Andrew immediately jumped up and told Ms Peh, "Mam! Give us lots of homework!" Everyone turned around to look at him smirking, and said somewhat in unison, "Screw u lah, Andrew". The Maths lesson continued, and we were learning about coordinate geometry, equation of circles. Ms Peh tried to derive an equation from a formula by the method completing the square, but the way she explained it ensure that no one knew what she was talking about. This was when Andrew popped in again.

"Mam, I know how to do." Andrew said as he stood up. He got the marker from Ms Peh, walked up in front to the whiteboard and started explaining. Surprisingly, he was not bad, and helped the class understand easily. Thus, he walked back to his seat proudly, and then turned around to tell Ms Peh and the whole class, "Haha, Ms Peh, I remembered what you taught me in Sec 1!"

What an egoistic guy Andrew is, don't you think so? However, he got terribly jacked when Ms Peh answered "I taught you completing the square in sec 2, not 1." The whole class burst into laughter, but settled down quite quickly. But not long after that, another commotion happened.

Andrew was our assistant monitor, and now, it was our monitor that was involved. He accidentally (or perhaps intentionally) said the word fu*k really loudly, and of course, Ms Peh heard it. It was his second time already, having done the same thing just a few days ago. With a pissed off look, Ms Peh turned to Bryan, who replied “Mam! He koped my stuff!” Man… How childish can you people get?

During recess, after raiding the snacks machine with Dennis, we returned to our class, where Dennis now started asking people random question. This is one of them: “Ask yourself this question. Do you suck?”

Diao. What kind of question is that? I replied Dennis “Not more than you”, but he then rebutted “If you don’t suck, then how do you eat lollipops? Don’t tell me you have never eaten a lollipop in your whole life.”

I kept silent for a while. Its better to think of an appropriate answer first or you will get jacked. Dennis then turned to Samuel. “Hey Sam, ask yourself this question. Do you suck?”

Samuel replied “No”, and Dennis used the lollipop thing to rebut him again. Samuel paused for a while, and then replied Dennis, “I don’t suck lollipops, I lick them.”

Dennis was stunned for a very short while, and decided to give in. He replied “Smart boy!”

Dots…… Dennis, ask yourself this question. Do you suck?

A Monday in 3D

Today was a relatively boring day too. We had Math in the first period, and there was a test, which I obviously did not study for as I knew nothing about it until that very morning when Jian Xiong told me. The test was actually quite simple, but I can’t believe I actually screwed up, especially the last question. People like me usually look too deep into simple stuff. Haiz…

Our second period was SS, which was a free period as our teacher was not around :) Everyone was doing random stuff; I was playing handphone games (Gunbound) with Samuel Koh, and after 5 games I lost 4-1. We had Chinese, and then recess.

Remember the retarded dude I mentioned in my last post? Lets just say his name, Dennis (sounds like a crap name right?) This Dennis Heng is a screwed up one, unlike other Dennis’ that I know of like Dennis Chew from my primary school. Oh well, so during recess, Dennis and I were walking to the snacks machine in our boarding complex, as the canteen is always packed like sardines. I bought Ruffles, and so did he. The funny thing was that his packet of Ruffles got stuck. Haha, these machines are never reliable. So we tried banging the machine, but the snack was stuck fast. In the end, after like 10 minutes, Dennis took out another 60 cents and bought another packet from the same slot. 2 came out fortunately, and later he sold the extra packet to someone else.

After recess, we had Physics. My class is 3D, one of the mugger class (A-D) but the least mugger one. However, there is this mugger called Tian Chen whom every teacher just loves soooo much. Our Physics teacher was one of our better teachers, and we were covering the topic of Light then. We came to the question which talked about Eclipses, and here’s where the fun began… The teacher was talking about the Lunar eclipse, the one which the Earth is in the centre of moon and the sun. So he said, "We experience this quite frequently, this is how we get our new moon and full moon etc."

Tian Chen jumped up from his seat and cried "No! Eclipses and phases of the moons are just 2 different things!" Then, there was this argument among the teacher, Tian Chen, and the rest of the class. The argument was quite heated, and then the teacher covered the theories again and said, "I thought that was what you people learned in Primary School, isn't it?"

Tian Chen cried out louder "Noo!! That's the childish, kiddish explanation!!!"

Silence. The teacher's face was red, really red. The class was in a state of confusion for about 1 whole minute or so, and then Tian Chen said, "Can I draw some diagrams on the board?" (Class: "Woah...") The teacher agreed, still smirking and Tian Chen started drawing his AEP standard pictures. He cleared up a lot of things, and the teacher seemed quite impressed too. He just said that he would need to check it out once more. Haha

After Physics was Bio, which was a free period, followed by Lunch and English. I was reading Death Note comic 6 during all 3 periods (under the table for english) from my fellow friend, Violinist Ben Wee. English was just so boring, and the book is just so interesting. I finished the book halfway through English and lent it to Dennis. We had CCA which rocks as it always does and now I'm in front of my com typing out this blog post for all, mainly inspired by Tian Chen's acts. What he did just shows one thing, We Students Rock! Houyes.

My 1st Post

Hi all,

So many people have blogs, so I figured out that its time I started one. Well, just to introduce myself. I'm Hong Rui, 14 turning 15. I play the cello in RISE, which is the Raffles Institution String Ensemble. The Cello rocks :)

Oh, well. Lets get to business. Blogs record daily experiences of the people, and so I'll share with you mine today. It was a relatively boring day, with the same old lessons, same old program. The good thing was that there was one free period, cos I don't take Biology. So, my few classmates and I went to the library and started doing homework/reading/idling our time away.

So there was this dude, who was playing a handphone belonging to another guy. The phone had full battery at the start, but when the period was over, it was left with 2 bars. I was reading a book (神雕侠侣) when suddenly that dude spoke randomly.

"Someone get me a book"
"For what?"
"To piss in it."
"Dots... Go to the toilet."
"Thats retarded."
"Everyone piss in the toilet."
"No-la-no. I'm sure you go to the toilet to piss."

In the end this retarded guy did nothing at all and continued playing the phone. Swimming was after that, and we played polo. My team was thrashing the other at one time 5-1, and some random teacher joined the game and the score became 6-7 in the end. >.<>

After school there was Music Elective Programme (MEP). Well, we had a test, which I didn't study for and so I screwed up. There was a break of 15 minutes later on, and some of my friends (which included the retarded guy who pissed in books) went to play soccer with a bottle cap! Turned out that that screwed up dude played quite well. We won 9-7 in the end.

Life is retarded...