Monday, October 27, 2008

unbelievable im actually REVIVING my BLOG. after 3 LONG YEARS.

some of my friends told me before, that my entries 3 years ago were all about serious school stuff... all about mugging, studying etc. But in the past 3 years, I think I've changed. I think I'm burying myself much less in the books, (which may or may not be a good thing) and became more active! I jog occasionally, dragging my 60kg mum along, and have been playing volleyball and table tennis recently - the only 2 sports which I really enjoy.

Anyway I feel a sudden urge to blog, 3yrs later, because I've quite a lot to spill out after today's volleyball matches for Medicine's Faculty Shield. aiyaaaa seriously I think I pulled down the team quite a lot, especially near the end. During the match against the M4s, I began losing focus and just couldn't catch the balls when the M4s serve. They were all pretty easy to receive, but the moment they land in my hands, they either bounce backwards, or out of court. We were actually leading, but those 4-5 serves which I missed allowed the M4s to catch up and eventually win. We probably would stand a better chance if Nigel, Youmin and Shiyun were present.

Self-blame aside, it was nevertheless an enriching experience. Each match I play makes me appreciate and love this team game even more. This game depends SO MUCH on teamwork and I enjoy passing the ball to my fellow team mate, and marvel at how the ball was beautifully brought across the net. We would always shout encouraging words to each other "Hao qiu!" "M2s ACEEEEE..."

And the CAs is drawing nearer and NEARER. it's just less than 7 days away. Everyone is so panicky, and yet i'm constantly thinking when would be the next time we play vball or table tennis. HAHA ok I really ought to buck up. and learn to prioritise.
almost finishing Patho - Cancer, immuno and microB left parts here and there. pharmaco and neuroscience virtually untouched OOPS. hey i promised not to be overly academic on this blog LOL.

I still worry about my family's financial status everyday. My dad's not working, and then just last week he has a numbing pain in the right arm which was diagnosed to be Cervical Spondylosis. Sister's working and my mum is really happy :). My tutor kid asked for a break, but will resume next month. Hope her grades would improve under my 'care' haha that sounds weird.

Hope the next few days will turn out fine, with Playhouse and CA revision. hope i dont get overstretched.

Saturday, November 12, 2005

a month has passed since i last blogged. heh heh heh, may be good this way, so u readers will always come and visit my blog to check if i blogged =P. ok so now i have, pls take your time to read, cos u dun always get to read alfred's entries. hahaha... ok im so lame.

anyway, the hols are here and while everyone is either slacking at home or partying down at orchard, i'll still be rather busy for the weeks to come. there's NRP Symposium to prepare for. yan zhi and i have to prepare a ppt to present in fron of an audience on our project. hmm... im not really anxious actually, cos i feel very fresh after the OP!! ya, we practiced quite a lot, so i guess both our presentation skills have improved greatly. the problem is getting good results. even after the symposium, i have to continue screening another 7 extracts on breast cancer cells, and each assay will take 4 consecutive days! oh gosh... and even when the symposium's over, we still have a 10 page report to write. whoo hoo... but things always come to an end. after a year of hard work at NTU, it is time to mark an end to this yr's research =).

and Bio O juz ended 2 days ago. hmm, i was really struggling to finish reading everything but i really couldnt. must blame myself a bit la, cos even though i had quite some time to spare during the weekend, i spent more time cycling then on the notes given oops. so yea, on wednesday, i spent the whole day in my study room, my whole table cramped with the bio notes and Campbell, then keep flipping here and there, trying to absorb every nitty gritty detail. onli managed to cover population eco and evo in Campbell. then the rest i read as much as i could from the notes given. Animal physio mainly. then i left plant physio and Biodiversity on thurs morning. wha, really so piah, chiong chiong chiong, even on bus 180 to boon lay mrt also keep flipping ferociously.

then reached NIE Gymnasium with gwyneth, liang zhen and zhen hao. so many students, and of cos la, largest cohort from RJC. we are actually the 3rd largest :-(. so anyway, we entered the gym, and it was quite huge, rows and rows of tables and chairs. so i sat at my designated seat: 85. pls bring me good luck. then i opened my pencil box to realise my mechanical pencil and eraser missing. oh gosh. then no choice, use a really blunt no-brand pencil and managed to find a tiny piece of broken eraser in the corner of my pencil box. PHEw...

it started at 2pm, and off we went. sections A and B first, 100 qns in total in 1hr 45 mins. actually there's just sufficient time la, and almost every qns i guess guess. of cos intelligent guess la haha. so many weird things in molecular bio, Zinc finger, then some sigma beta thing. wats that?! haha. after it ended, we were given a toilet break of 15 mins, and back we went, to do Sections C and D, also 100qns in 1hr 45mins. this time, the paper focussed more on Plant physio, Evo, animal behaviour and diversity. animal behaviour quite a lot leh and it wouldnt help if u read campbell haha.

so everything ended at abt 6pm. i emerged from the gymnasium freezing, even though i wore my jacket. later, liang zhen, gwyneth zhenhao and i discussed on bus, then i realised i got quite a lot of wrong answers. cos apparently, liang zhen, who swallowed Campbell, said that several qns came out directly from Campbell. oh wells... onli top 10% get into next round. Practical...

so Bio O aside, time to talk about life... again! haha... cos i realised, there's this long holiday in front of me, which isnt really long, onli just 1 month. without taking into acct the holiday assignments given to us by the school, i figured i could do some CIP and other non-academic stuff. havent clocked any hr this yr for CIP, im ashamed. so i discussed with pq abt some service-learning activity for the band. maybe we can paint the walls of the homes of the elderly? or music therapy lessons? we already found some organisations needing those service from the net. hmm... so pq and i will be organising it. for now, we have Noel Christmas Concert on 17Dec... also considered a form of service-learning, cos all proceeds go to the Spastic Children's Association. might as well advertise here:

The Hwa Chong Symphonic Band will be staging its annual Christmas concert, Noel 2005, on the 17 Dec 2005, 7pm at the Hwa Chong Auditorium. Tix are priced at $5 each! What are you waiting for? Come with your friends to celebrate Christmas with the band! Those interested, pls order tix by sms-ing Alfred at 97472854 or Pei Qi at 94756000 =).

ok, CIP aside, i also thought of going to university after the A levels. vanessa asked me tat day, Are you taking SAT? i then realised how little i know about it. i havent even though of what university to go to, whether US or UK? Dr Lee told me premium universities such as Duke. and the trend now is that most students would go to US, but UK universities such as Cambridge are just as good. hmm... so do i take SAT le? anyway, the registration deadline for SAT test on 3 Dec is already... err... Dead haha. so no choice, can onli register for SAT next yr 28 Jan. har... but i dun wanna take alone. will ask junhao and yanzhi...

should i pursue a career in medicine? research? biology? 2 factors come into play here - life and money. not that i'm money-minded or what, but i do think a stable income is really important for my family de mah. if i become a doctor, i think i'll have no life. u see, doctor like work everyday de leh, then i dun think got day off on Sat and Sun, though the pay is like, WOW! but i dun want to quarrel with my wife, about me spending little time at home and with kids.

how about a researcher? industrial? or academia? should i carry out research with a biomedical facility? then again, though i'll have a better carefree life, cos i get to go clubbing on weekends hohoho, but i wonder if there'll be a stable income. cos i dun think some research facility will feed you with $3000 a month w/o u generating any research findings lor. ya, so if i do not get results after 6mths of research, i bet i'll be kanna sacked. then should i do research and teach at the same time? i dunno, do i like teaching? hmm...

and it's time to exercise!! usually during weekends, i cycle more frequently. and apparently, cycling is becoming quite easy for me leh. i dun feel tired after an hr of intense cycling to Lot 1 or other uphill places. maybe shld go swimming and jogging a bit bah. aiyo, i worry for my swimming ability leh. must at least know freestlye leh, then i can confidently tell others "I KNOW HOW TO SWIM =)". but i'm 17 argh! how can learn from a swimming coach amongst pre-schoolers? i guess i must self-learn. sometimes i watch TV ar, then that Ian Thorpe cutting thru the water like a fish, i watch in awe. not at the body pls, he's wearing a swimming suit, but at his gracefulness and ease of swimming. freestyle LOOKS easy leh, but when i try in water, i feel so clumsy. cant even breathe when i twist my head. hmm... shld practice la...

im alone at home now. i kind of like it, i do my work in peace, need not worry abt what's on TV, where my mum's going, etc.

btw, lemme introduce u all to a song. Photograph by Nickelback. not bad la, this song, i find the guy's voice quite... peculiar. and quite a nice chorus too!

and also Let Go by Frou Frou. very nice tune throughout, and hwachongians may realise that the Modern Dance danced to this song for their teachers' day performance.

ok shall end off here. WHOA, this is a lot of words =). will write soon [a lie]

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

haha, it's been a loooong month. and once again, i see cobwebs... and dust collecting on my blog. shall do a spring cleaning now. lolz.

yup, it's the post-promos days now. i've been enjoying the past few days. lemme give a short summary of what happened the past wk.
biology exams ended on thursday. it was horrible, 2 hrs for the whole paper, even mr chow the physics tutor was shocked that the biology paper only lasted for 2 hrs, inclusive of MCQ, structured qns and essay! amazing. ok, so after that, my class went to orchard to watch Corpse Bride. didnt really appeal to me, esp since the ending was quite abrupt. the corpse bride just disintegrated into thin air lolz. the main character of the movie had the voice of Johnny Depp, unfortunately yanzhi didnt go. he could have entered w/o paying for a ticket lor, cos the usher didnt even count when a whole bunch of us entered. yup, so after the movie, we shopped a while, and... left. haha.

friday was much more memorable. CLASS OUTING TO PULAU BUKOM!! so exciting. we had to take a ferry to this offshore island south of singapore, near jurong island. there's some clubhouse/chalet belonging to Shell on the island and joanna's family is a member over there. the place quite shiok. it isnt like some peaceful paradise, and it isnt like Hawaii, but the island is really quite empty, so much so that the island BELONGED to us for that day haha. we played lots of sports that day. NetbAll, badminton, swimming, frisbee, basketball, table tennis. play ar play ar, and also took a whole film of photos. had to leave at abt 8:15pm by ferry once again. it was really memorable...

saturday was quite boring. nothing much to do, just that i spent the day packing and filing all my stuff. aiyo, now i have so many those thick-thick files. and my table is so miserably small, must squeeze everything together. at evening time, i went cycling. at first daniel told me he also wanted to cycle, but then when i reach palm gardens, he decided not to. oh wells, cycled alone until shaeng called and chatted with me a while on the handphone. he suggested going out one day, then we talked a little bit more and then hanged up. then i cycled back home lor.

suddenly at 5am in the morning, shaeng sms-ed me saying he'll wake up pretty late. i was wondering why he sms me, so i thought he sms-ed WRONGLY. haha, even thought he was sending it to his gf or something then accidentally sent it to me since i'm usually on top of ppl's hp list lolz. when i woke up at 10:30am the next day [sunday], i received another sms from junhao saying "So are we still going to your house? if so, what time?" har? i'm confused. how come junhao's coming my house? then juz nice junhao called me and explained that shaeng asked if they wanna come my house on sunday!! lolz... shaeng didnt even tell me lorx. but nvm mah, cos i also have nothing on on sunday, so i immediately agreed and junhao, shaeng qk came to play mahjong and bridge. we borrowed a VCD --- austin powers Goldmember, and had a great laugh at all the obscene jokes. for example: my submarine is long and hard and full of seamen. oh wellz... then later on, daniel sms-ed saying he's cycling, so i invited him up. at abt 6pm, biondi called to say he's also coming haha. so exciting, ppl flooding my house. by the time biondi cycled here at 6:45pm, the others left at the same time, leaving only biondi and me haha. then biondi stayed on to have a chat with me. and i warned him about his potential gf haha.

monday! err... what happened, lemme think. oh yes, the morning Skill A bio paper. aiyo, they used the same qns. effect of temp. on respiration of yeast. aiya, but then i think my approach is kinda wrong, cos i used height of foam, while many others used that syringe method. oops. after that, i slacked at bandrm with daniel for several hours, before finally going to orchard with yanyun and kuan khoon to meet up with pq, yunwei and david. for the first time ever, i ate at Cafe Cartel at Cineleisure! lol, wasnt really filling, and after tat lunch. i went home lor...

yesterday was tuesday! and it was FOS!! Festival of Sports!i think i'm a really sporty band member! believe it or not, i'm in basketball, badminton, table tennis and frisbee haha. [would be in netball if it wasnt only for girls =(] err, but then, i was only reserve for basketball and 'captain' for badminton hahah. aiya, got a nasty bruise at my knee after frisbee mah. at first i didnt play table tennis de, then somehow i got involved haha. it was really exciting, cos before i played, my class advanced quite a lot, winning 2 classes. but when we met the teachers team, [which was also when i started playing], we lost terribly haha. 2:0 for all 3 matches oops! haha but it was fun, being exposed to these much more qiang players. and the 7A netball team got 3rd!!! amazing girls haha. hmm as for the others, err, we stand not much of a chance, esp since our class so few ppl in sport CCAs mah. we are mostly a musical grp haha.

oh and in the morning i was really worried about my Bio grades. sigh. i dont know, i really do hope i can get into Bio Olympiad but deep inside, i just have this gut feeling i will not. first of all, i think my bio promos was quite poorly done, with almost 1/2 of the MCQs wrong. and structured got many wrong absurd answers and essay incomplete. i admit that i havent been performing well in biology this year. i dont know why. the block test was an utter disappointment for me. but i really really hope i could go further in biology. i want to pursue a career in biology research or something. and to do so, i would like to take Bio S Paper. but all these is crumbling before my eyes. i've been thinking about life lately. i've learnt a lot in secondary sch, and i love to learn even more abt biology in JC. when the clock struck twelve, i walked anxiously to the Bio notice board. oh? it seems that the biology department hasnt finished marking our papers yet, so the grades and selection results will only be out on thursday, which is... TMR! i have never felt so... disturbed before.

i heard this from somewhere - this promos can either make me, or BREAK me.

and CONGRATS to junhao!!! u got into Chem Olympiad! so happy for the reigning Chem King. for those who dunno the story behind it, it's because junhao had been constantly topping chem in class since sec 3, so we call him Chem King lor. pls really jia you this couple of weeks and wei4 xiao4 zheng1 guang1! first will be Singapore Olympiad and i'm sure you'll do well enough for International Chem Olympiad! and yanzhi, if you are reading this, i noe that you are disappointed that you didnt get in. but i'm sure you'll still be getting your Chem S Paper. so continue your passion and interest in chemistry!

Sunday, September 04, 2005

haha, i'm like blogging weekly now. which isnt a good thing. cos' previously, i blog almost DAILY. lol. aiya, really too busy mah. and even if i'm not, then i would most probably be sitting on my sofa watching SCV haha.

so another week has ended, and the september hols have started!!
this past wk has been quite an eventful one for me... so here goes...

monday, it's just normal school la. had to rush off to ntu [again!] after school to continue supervising nelly and alfred [not me ahha] during the assay. ended pretty late. later met up with junhao at jurong point to shop for some tchers' day cards. 7 cards ---- $15 in total! argh wat a bomb. will be sharing with shaeng, junhao, yanzhi, qk and i think haotian too? got home really late too. sniff, could feel the onset of a flue...

tuesday, 30 Aug, 2 more days to teachers' day! there was a rehearsal after school, abt 4+pm, and we juz ran thru the whole song in the audi for only about 1/2 hr. bernard and i then rushed off for Bio O. wow, really got some quiz leh, but it's really cheem so heng, didnt waste time worrying and studying for it. some really disgustingly kiasu... [roll eyes]. i'm really annoyed. so in the end, 17/40 haha. many failed too mah ;-) ahhh--- chooo!

wed. woke up feeling sick all over. picked myself up, went to sch and after dancing for a while in the central plaza, the band members had to change and get ready for the performance later duiring the teachers' day celebration! we wore shirts with a specific colour for each section. for trumpets, it's blue all the way! cos all boys mah. and got gradient somemore. ok so we played, and everything seemed to work out just fine ;). i really felt sick then, and still managed to get to chinese high later after the performance to meet up with my old teachers. gosh, everyone scrambling off for staff retreat, and i could only shake hands with some teachers before they had to leave. ermz...
also thought i would like to return to my primary sch [PEPS!] but then it was already 12pm, and i'm on the verge of fainting... so in the end, chose to rush home and collapsed on the bed.

thurs: it's teachers' day!! and i'm DEAD sick. fever 38.9C, sore throat, runny nose, cough every weird symptom la. but still had enuff strength to read today's papers. headline was, DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE!! gosh so scary. also read from somewhere that you would be more likely to contract Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever DHF if you had dengue for a second time!! oh my gosh... i was so afraid, kept checking my ankles and wrists for any red spots. i'm afraid i'll get the rashes again.
when self-medicating didnt work, my mum finally brought me to SP clinic near QK's house. the doctor also cautioned me to look out for any rashes appearing and if the fever still doesnt subside in a day or two, i will have to have my blood tested! arghh... noooooooo...

Fri: i feel like a living corpse on the bed. reached out for the thermometer once again, and it reads 38.5C. that doesnt help -_-''. my fever has yet to subside. so for the rest of the morning i just continue to sleep and sleep. afternoon i also sleep and sleep. which also means that i... PON SCHOOL! haha... eh, got maths test somemore leh. didnt manage to revise still go take test for wat. and many later told me the test was a killer...
in the evening, i felt much better, fever subsided liaoz... 37.4C. so i forced myself to go to vanessa's house for the class BBQ! yay, seeing so many ppl cheers me up. i'm beginning to feel claustrophobic, having being stuck indoors for ages. i only ate 2 sausages, 0 chicken wings, 0 strands of spaghetti, 2 marshmellows. yup, that's it... by 11pm, went back home lor...

today, still coughing and throat still very sore. at least the fever did not come back and my nose is now plugged haha. heng heng, no dengue. just a dengue scare. bt panjang still remains a habitable place, though it was a dengue hotspot 3 years ago. nearest hotspot is teck whye, 2 LRT stations away from my house. not really far, but hope it's comforting to know that the silly mosquito would possibly NOT fly 21 floors above the ground to get to a 17 year old boy ;). sting the other people 20 floors under mine! HAHAHA. gosh i'm so evil. in this battle against dengue, we shall eliminate ALL mosquitos!! i've taken the first step this morning while brushing my teeth. i saw a mosquito landing on my mirror and WHAM!

i leave the bloody juicy details out ;)

Saturday, August 27, 2005

once again, it's been a week since i've last blogged. hmm...

well, it has been a stressful and busy wk. i had tests... quite a few, which i dun think i prepared well enough. sigh, i'm tired too, having reaching home at earliest 8pm everyday.
went to NTU, and dr lee told me that his friend passed away recently. i asked a little more, and he revealed that it's the just-married couple who perished in a car crash in Perth! whoa... it's quite a coincidence. the point is that, sometimes, you really do regret not having spent more time with a person, only AFTER he or she is gone.

my bandmate in chinese high, arthur chen, must have suffered a lot of emotional trauma when her mum passed away in a freak accident during CNY. what happened was that her mum got down the car when the father stopped the car on the expressway. she wanted to go to the boot to check whether they brought the passports. it was that moment, when a car came crashing towards their car, with a mum in between them. i also read the article and i would never have thought that it was arthur's mum.

on another occasion, i went home after school and purposely made a detour to buy the day's edition of xin ming ri bao. i really wanted to read the article on the death of my band senior, Raymond. i remembered while i was at school, suddenly the school called for all band members to go to the lecture theatre. i went there only to see downcast faces of my seniors. i approached one, totally oblivous of raymond's death. the senior only muttered, Raymond jumped last night. i was really shocked. we could have prevented that from happening, since we already noticed that he was acting strangely last week. the article revealed that raymond may be experiencing depression when he finally jumped off from his window that fateful night.

our lives seems to be just like a ship. your new friends thatyou've made would board the ship, whereas others would alight when their time is up. only when they alight do you realise their absence.

pls cherish everyone around you. pls do.

Saturday, August 20, 2005

yawnzzzz i'm really tired. it's 1.05am now.
so i shall write a short blog...

today had bio SPA, heng can finish on time.
had band today afternn, audition for teachers day concert, which is going to be held on 31 Aug. we played "It's a Small World" haha... wonder if it's good? there's a portion where the band has to sing the tune. quite lame haha, but hopefully can engage the audience la.
after band, went near to Zen Garden and met qukui, vanessa and biondi. then later pq vanessa and i went to indulge in ice-cream somewhere at Serene Centre. And we talked a lot... A LOT. from 7pm till almost 10 pm lehz...
then i got back home. phew, almost missed my stop sia. then i ate my late dinner - beehoon, while being engrossed in a documentary on pregnancy. so amazing, the show is excellent. it follows the development of the baby, from a zygote to embryo to foetus, and 36 wks later, a full-grown baby. amazing...

okok le, i'm tired. yet another week has ended. i love friday nights...

Saturday, August 06, 2005

oops, almost forgot to blog again. it's almost a wk! haha.

lemme first talk about my class BBQ party last night. ooh, i really love it.
u see, many of my close classmates came. we all went to haotian's new house, juz a short walk from Aljunied MRT. cool condo sia. apparently, his parents are away overseas for 4 wks, and poor hao tian would have to survive on his own. so after band ended pretty early at 6pm, a group of us left for haotian's house. adam was already there starting the fire - and he was really good at it too. first time bbq so successful, cos the charcoal burn like siao. haha. thx adam, ur 4 years as a boy scout helped alot *winks*. ok, so we ate sausages... chicken wings... sotong balls... marshmellow... fruit punch with kaishyang's bracers... and ribena. it was really enjoyable, cos it wasnt a big group, only abt 11. so we bbq-ed, sat, chat and sang. we sang many songs la, with nicholas' guitar accompaniment. it was already 10:30 when we went back up to haotian's house. ppl began leaving, then only vanessa and i got stranded in haotian's house. then we watched Wife Swap and saw a lesbian couple on TV. oops. finally haotian and adam got back and vanessa and i left at abt 11:45pm. i was worried that the last train had left. in the end, it was true argh... so had to get on a taxi lor...

then today, i went to yewtee industrial park to check out my mum's stall. business not that good, cos it's a saturday [hopefully thats the reason]. so i stayed on for the whole afternoon, selling buns and beehoon. all the customers are workers in the industrial area la...

that's all actually, for today. will be meeting up with my PW group tmr at KAP in the afternn. perhaps i'll go swimming later... yawnzzzz