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I never loved teacher's day so much. I have a much needed 2 day rest because of it. I still feel very tired from the perth camp. But, with holidays come work. There's actually not much work this time, but there's a chinese test. 250 chengyu. That means 250 zao ju to memorise. Sigh.

Anyway, the Teachers' Day celebration today was not bad. Better than the last few times. We had a hwachong idol contest this time. Nothing original, but the performances were not bad. Most of them, at least. And they were not restricted to solo performances, so we even had two bands performing. Both sucked, in my opinion. I went off in the middle of the performance back to my class, where some of us were busy preparing giant 'cards' for our teachers. Then when I went back, I realised I missed a performance by the college section. Heard daryl, B boys softball captain last year, was on bass. (btw, the college section had a separate performance. They had to do the aces day workout. didn't know aces stood for "All Children Exercising Simultaneously", lol)

After the celebration, I decided to go back to nyps. After all, it was just walking distance. I was asking around throughout the day. No one wanted to go back. So it was just Alvin and I going back to our primary school. I was hoping to see some of our ex-classmates, but I heard RGS still had exams, and most of us at HCI were not going. Dunno about RI or NY though. oh, and St Nicks, too. almost forgot. And River Valley. Almost forgot xiang shan too. In the end, though, both of us decided not to go in. We ended up walking around the school compound, outside the gates. So even if any other 6mer went back, we had no chance of meeting any of them.

We walked quite a long while to a bus stop, then we took a bus two stops to my home. Alvin had to take another bus :) Living close to school is good.

Well, I can sleep late today. And sleep in tomorrow. That's good. But having a school holiday means my brother will be hogging the computer in the morning. I guess that gives me time to bei zao ju.

This piano lesson was very funny. I meant to go to my teacher's house with something to give her for teachers' day, but in the end I ended up going for lesson with nothing in hand. Then when I got to my teacher's house, I got to my teacher's house, I decided to 'keep quiet', 'cos I had no card or anything.

Anyway, the lesson was normal, it was what happened before and after the lesson that was (can't think of a word). Before the lesson started, my teacher told me the confirmed date for her student piano recital. Yah, I knew that she was going to hold a piano recital with her students performing, and that I was going to be playing one or two songs. But I hadn't really thought of where she would be holding it. I was thinking along the lines of maybe all of us squeezing in her house or something. Then my teacher told me: she booked a small auditorium in Yamaha music school. Which had a grand piano. The concert grand. The original big one. Not some small cute 'lil version of a grand piano. OMG. I was thinking, "what the heck, grand piano...", then she dropped the bomb- the performance was going to have around 120 people in the audience. WTH. I didn't know my teacher had so many students. (The lessons are one to one, not group)

I dunno how I'm gonna pull it off. Even during the piano exams I make minor mistakes here and there. The last one, I even stopped for a split second for one of the pieces. My hands just suddenly froze. Sigh... humiliation is inevitable. I hope I'm wrong. Currently, the plan is for me to play Yesterday (yes the beatles one), and another song. Aargh. I just hope other students also make mistakes :)

Well, on second thoughts, it does seem like almost a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Not many people get to play on a concert grand piano. The big one. I hope I can make the best of this opportunity.

After the lesson ended, I finally decided I had to wish my teacher "Happy Teachers' Day". I mumbled the first time round. She couldn't hear. Made it even more awkward for me.

And to cap of this surprise filled piano lesson, on the way back home, when I got of the bus I was on, I realised it was advertising for X&Y :) No wonder I was feeling funny on the bus, lol.

If I wasn't in IP, I'd be muggin' like mad for the Prelims now.
If I wasn't in IP, I wouldn't be online now.
If I wasn't in IP, I wouldn't be as relaxed

Is it good to be in IP? I don't know... Most of my peers from other schools are probably studying like mad, preparing for the rest of their prelims (it's started already, I think), while I am here on the comp. doing nothing. Besides blogging, that is. There is that Chinese test on Friday, I think, but that's nothing compared to prelims. Am I lucky? I dunno. Maybe one good thing about the O levels is that the preparations for the exams are done in school. for 6 months, I think- practice paper after practice paper. I also have exams. But we don't prepare for them in school. We haven't completed the whole syllabus, and it'll only be finished when the exams are around a month away. Is that good? To quote from most people's history essay, "it is good to a certain extent". I guess I'll never know to what kind of extent.

The last week of the school term starts tomorrow. Still in Perth Camp mood. Don't feel like going back to school. And there's the piano exam in 3 weeks. Aargh. Haven't practiced for a week.

Having some trouble uploading the Perth pics. No online album service allows me to sort the pictures by date and time taken. They all go by name. That jumbles my pics up, 'cos my digital camera resets the file no.s when I change the memory card. It never did that before, actually. I was playing around with the settings a before the trip. Must have did something to the settings.

Anyway, just added the Charlie And The Chocolate Factory OST to my music library. It sounded quite nice, and I haven't added any new songs to my collection, and I downloaded the OST long ago, even before I watched the movie, so now it's in iTunes.

I never get tired of Coldplay. Just listened to In My Place today. Very good. I also heard from Alvin's blog that he saw a busker performing Yellow with a guitar during the Perth camp. I wish I saw that. Must have been pretty average, I reckon.

In My Place - Coldplay
in my place, in my place,
were lines that i couldn't change,
i was lost, oh yeah.

i was lost , i was lost,
crossed lines i shouldn't have crossed,
i was lost, oh yeah.

yeah, how long must you wait for it?
yeah, how long must you pay for it?
yeah, how long must you wait for it?

i was scared, i was scared,
tired and under prepared
but i wait for it.

and if you go, if you go,
leave me down here on my own,
then i'll wait for you, yeah.

yeah, how long must you wait for it?
yeah, how long must you pay for it?
yeah, how long must you wait for it?
oh for it

sing it please, please, please,
come back and sing to me,
to me, me.

come on and sing it out, now, now.
some on and sing it out
to me, me
come back and sing.

in my place, in my place,
were lines that i couldn't change,
i was lost, oh yeah.
oh yeah.

Plane touched down at 6.04am today. Got back feeling very sleepy. And nauseous, probably because I didn't sleep enough. I couldn't sleep on the plane. Watched a movie on the way back, but I almost dozed off at the ending, so I switched to listening to music while trying to sleep. They got X&Y on Krisworld! Listened to the whole album, so obviously I couldn't sleep, haha.

I've got just over 200 photos. Filled all my memory cards. 128mb, 64mb, and 16mb.

Aargh, I don't feel like typing alot today. I'll do a super post on the whole camp tomorrow.

My toothache is ok already. It stopped hurting the 2nd day of the camp. The funny thing is, after that, another tooth on the other side started hurting. The whole tooth was very sore. Turns out that it was just a wisdom tooth growing out, according to Kai Keat. Anyway, it stopped hurting the next day. My dentist will know what's wrong during my checkup next week.

Week 10 of Term 3 is almost here. 1 test left. Chinese. 250 cheng yu. Sigh...
At least Week 10 only has 3 school days... Thursday is Teachers' Day, and Wednesday is the celebration day in school. Yay.

Whee. At the airport now. Using the very lag free internet kiosk. I really hope I haven't forgotten to bring anything...

Going to Terminal 2 in 13 hours. Flight at 9+ am. I sort of got some enthusiasm for the camp now... Well, this beats having prelims anyway...

Listened to all three albums by Coldplay in succession today, starting with Parachutes, then A Rush Of Blood To The Head, then finally X&Y. SHIOK, MAN! SONG BO! I can tell the title of most of the songs just by listening to the first few seconds! Haha, anyway... Coldplay Rocks!

Goodbye for 7 days. Until 26th Aug, Saturday. I'll be bringing my camera, so there'll be alot of pics to post next week.

Goodby S'pore, Hello Perth!

Stupid 6 o'clock rule. No freedom.

2 more days and I'll be on the plane (SQ!) to Perth. 35 more hours, to be more exact. I still can't say I'm enthusiastic about the trip... Still haven't packed...

I'm screwed for Physics SPA 4. Dammit. I didn't finish writing my comments and conclusion for the experiment! Sigh... there goes 5% for my end of year grade.

My class did something really meaningful today. I felt class spirit for the first time since... the tuo diao performance, lol. Initiated by Che-Hsien, our ex-chairman (honyp forced him to resign after the tuo diao incident), each of us got a class list. Then everybody else wrote a few words of appreciation for you beside their names. Or, rather, it was supposed to be words of appreciation, but more like some witty and some lame remarks. Ying Qun wrote "index no. after me" for me(he's no. 17, I'm no. 18)! Wth. Anyway, I could have guessed- I got a lot of "future chemist". All thanks to Song Jun. He started it. I never said I wanted to become a Chemist. I thought after I got that B4 adn then C5 for the last two chem test, they'd stop, but I guess it's my permenant nickname. Sigh... I prefer hyperxi, haha.

Aargh, my scanner can't work, so I can't post a scanned image of my 'appreciation' paper. Lol, actually my scanner never worked. It's one of those multipurpose printers, print copy and fax. I can use it to print, but dunno why the scanner part of it cannot work. And I can't be bothered to find out what's the problem.

Hey! My camera's the next best thing to a scanner!

Obviously, Song Jun was the one who wrote a comment beside my name. That slot's supposed to be empty. And Nicholas and Wei Ming didn't write anything. They weren't in school that day.

Perth Camp begins in 3 days. Flight on Sunday Morning. I haven't packed!!! Aargh... I've pretty much got everything (i hope) , but I'm just too lazy to pack it all in. And I missed the deadline for submitting my passport. Now I have to bring it myself on that day, or else I won't be able to go to Perth. Strange, though... I don't really care if I really forget. I'm still not really that enthusiastic about the Camp.

Physics SPA 4 tomorrow. Sian... Physics practicals are always very boring, for me, at least, much less a practical assesment. I think it's going to be something about coffee. Not too sure, my info is third-hand, from a classmate who asked a friend from another class which had taken the SPA 4 already. [EDIT: I just found out that it's about how milk and sugar affects the rate coffee cools, or something like that. Didn't we do that last year for SPA 4 too? What a crappy experiment...]

By the way, I think I have a toothache. One of my right molars hurts when I bite hard. Hope it's nothing serious. Not that I'm scared of dentists, but I don't want to have to remove a tooth.

Hey! I just received a message from my ex-captain, saying there's training tomorrow. "hey training tmr.. must come. it's the last one." Finally! The last training! It's about time too... exams are coming. I cannot pon(skip) this one then... I ponned the last one on Wednesday. It's not a good thing, to be skipping training (or is it...), but I'm glad I skipped the one on Wednesday. If not, my piano teacher wouldn't have been able to reach me in time to ask me to go down and book a practice session for my piano exam.

Haven't added any songs to my collection recently... still stuck at 2204. All my old songs are resurfacing in my smart playlist. What's a smart playlist? Well, a smart playlist is a playlist that automatically generates a list of songs based on a few criteria that you set. The one I'm using has parameters like x no. of 5 stars, x no. of 4 stars, x no. of 3 stars, not played for more than x no. of times, etc. It's quite good, actually. I get a nice proportion of 5, 4 and 3 star songs. The songs are rated by me, of course. But recently I've listened to the newer songs a lot of times... so the smart playlist is bringing in the older not-played-as-often songs.

Well, I supposed I've gotta start packing. Can't it wait till tomorrow...? Sigh...

Well, once again, another normal day at school. I was a bit dissapointed that the Chem double period was used for lessons instead of practical. No, I'm not that crazy about practical, just that there was supposed to be a second test for SPA 2,3 (S[cience?] Practical Assesment Skill 2 & 3). I didn't do that well for the first, I think, so I was hoping to have a second chance at reaching Level 6 (The highest level for the assesment)

The specifics of the first SPA 2/3 test. Titration. My results were 18.8 , then 18.7. I though, "one more results then can already." But as luck would have it, I got 18.6. I freaked out, man. "Should I take the first two readings or the second and thirds ones?". In the end I decided to do another titration. Got another 18.6. There. But then I didn't know how to explain why I continued doing up to 4 titrations... Sigh... there goes my level 6. Just when I got a 'perfect presentation of working' remark on my previous SPA practice.

Anyway, my teacher finally received the postphoned date for my piano exam. I had to postphone it 'cos the date I originally got was 21 Aug. Clashed with my Perth Camp. Of all the dates they had to give me one that clashed with my Camp. Made me really stressed. My teacher told me that if they coudn't get me a postphoned date, then I couldn't take the exam, and they would only refund me less than 50% of the exam fee! that's less than half of $100+!!! I had to get a letter from the school to prove that I couldn't make it to the exam on the 21st. Very troublesome. Because of that, though, I managed to see that the black and white notices the school issues are actually beige and red before photocopying. Haha, they gave me a beige and red letter. That's how I knew.
Well, now I've got a postphoned date. 15 Aug. That's about 3 weeks away. I'm getting very bored practicing scales and the exam pieces. 'Been doing that for over half a year already. I think I 'peaked' long ago. My fingers are feeling very werid now when I play the exam pieces. Gotta practice more...

Oh, yah, one more thing. The Piano exam is like a money sucker, man. Besides the very high "examination fee", which costs $150+ for grade 6 (the grade I'm taking) and up to $1000 (no kidding!) for the diploma, the centres holding the exam also get to make a killing! A pianist, unlike most other musicians, cannot bring his own instrument about, so us exam candidates have to practice on the pianos at the exam venues to get used to the 'feel of the piano'. And those centres sure know how to "rob in daylight", man! The centre, or 'piano school' I'm taking my exam at, Motivation Music School (crappy name), charged $30 for an hour! No choice, I had to book a practice session. And that's on top of the $150+ exam fee! That's why I've gotta pass :)

I'll most probably pass, though, unless for some reason my nerves get a lot more worse than they already are during exams. Aiming for distinction. 130+/150. I got 126 for my grade 5 pratical exam. Merit. Never got distinction before. Quite proud of my Grade 5 Theory, though. Full marks!!! Yeah!!! Got full marks for my Grade 2 theory exam too. the rest were all 95+.

Anyway, my exam is in the morning, for the first time (the last 5 times were all in the afternoon), so I think I have to skip school. A little happy, but at the same time guilty. I'll most probably be skipping exam revisions...

Another thing, I hope I wasn't too confusing about the Piano exams. There are 2 different types. Theory and Practical. Read properly above. I'm better at Theory, haha :) I'm quite lazy at practicing piano. Ok, very lazy. But once I start practicing, I can go on for hours. It's very fun. I sort of have an 'on-and-off' passion for piano :)
Sort of influenced by my very passionate piano teacher. I don't want to become, in her words (sort of, can't quite remember), "One of those who learn until Grade 8, then stop. And completely forget how to play the piano." That's really cham. So that's why I'm trying to memorise some songs to play at leisure. Playing Yesterday recently. It's a great song, and still great when played on the piano. Oh, and the version I'm playing, according to the footnotes of the score, is the one used in Mr Bean the Movie. Lol.

Yesterday - The Beatles

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be,
There’s a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go I don’t know she wouldn’t say.
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Mm mm mm mm mm.

Yay, another long post!

Quite a normal Monday today. PE lesson was quite fun. Frisbee. Yes, I know- I said frisbee. It is fun. The way we played it was something like captain's ball, where each team has to get the frisbee to the other side. Our team trashed the other team, man! Very tiring, though. Got hit in the face too. I was jumping up to grab the frisbee, when a classmate rammed his elbow into my face. Ouch. Got a small cut on my lip. No big deal, actually.

Anyway, got back two test papers today. Maths and Geography. I already knew my Maths marks, so I wasn't expecting much. But when I calculated my Maths avergage this term, I was desperately searching for another mark.
65 + 81 (this test) = 146.
146/200= 73!!! Just two marks short of A1!!!
I needed another mark for this test, which would have made my percentage for this mark 84.
Original mark: 32.5/40 ~ 81
Mark I desperately need: 33.5/40 ~ 84
I managed to find a question in the paper which could have gotten more marks. And I (half) succeeded. Got 0.5 more. Dammit. Now my Maths average for this term is 74. Wth. Just calculated my best case MSG for this term: 2.5
Sigh... If my Maths got A1 instead of A2, and my Chemistry got A1 instead of a bloody C5(!!!), I would have managed to get a personal best of 1.6! Sigh. I've never broke 2 before... Aargh.

Well, these are all regrets. Have to look forwards, exams coming up...

Shin still hurting, by the way. I thought of posting a picture of it here, like I did for my wart in my phlog (that was very disgusting, haha), but there's not point. It looks perfectly normal. But it doesn't feel perfectly normal. Not at all. Ow.

Anyway, almost 6, have to stop soon. Gonna do my PT. I'm doing my own PT at home. Getting really unfit, since Softball Nationals ended and training stopped. There's A boys training, but that's only almost once a week. Almost because sometimes I pon :). Anyway, I started doing crunches at the beginning of Term 3. Now, I've progressed to doing:
2-3 sets of:
30 crunches
15 push-ups
15 leg-lifts
20 dips
Must keep physically fit if I'm gonna maintain my every year Gold for Napfa streak next year. I should be able to do it, the only problem is pull-ups. Sigh. My arm strength sucks.

Quote of the Day: "Still Ow." (My leg)

I really love this song. The Bass guitar part is very riveting. And the guitar tune at the chorus part is very melodic... So I went to check the lyrics. It's quite relevant to me right now... ...

Almost Forgot Myself - Doves

So close...
You're wasted again
I know, somehow...
I lost myself...again

Making me high again
I almost forgot myself again
It hits me so hard
It kills me again
Today

So close
Yet you're wasted again
I know, somehow...
We'll find ourselves...
I don't know, I don't know

Then we'll be high again
I almost forgot myself there
It hits you so hard
And kills again

I almost forgot myself again
I almost forgot myself there
It's hitting me hard
It moves me again
Again...

[Note: posted on Aug 15, but this was a blog for yesterday, Sunday Aug 14 2005. I was meaning to blog about this. Just forgot about it.]

OUCH. I hit my knee. Not just hit. My entire weight landed just below my knee. I was jumping around, trying to get my leg into a pair of pants. Then I accidentally (lol, if not what-purposely?) jumped above the wooden pole at the corner of my bed. Before I knew it, I heard this very loud BAM. It took less than a split second for me to realise- I just landed on my knee. Pain. Excruitiating pain. Extremely excruitiating pain. Ow. Started swearing.

It wasn't really swearing, actually. More like "oOWWWWWWW!!!!! OwWWWWW!!!! Ouch ouch ouch ouch ow ow ow...." for a very long time. You get the picture.

It's my left knee, by the way. Not really the knee, too. The part of the shin just below the knee. It still hurts like mad. I think I can actually feel a dent in the shin! Hope it's not fractured or cracked. Most probably not, though. I can't see any bruise, too. Tough bone, haha.

Quote of the day: "Ow."

It's not even a week and I don't feel like blogging already... Exams coming in just over a month's time. And I also just realised that the Perth Camp is next Sunday. So soon... I haven't got my things ready yet. I should be excited, right? But I'm not really looking forward to it.

It's gonna be a very boring school week starting tomorrow. All the tests for this term over already... Oh, and I'm getting my Geog test back tomorrow. I don't expect very much from Geog, but hopefully my Geog and Core will average out to a B3 or A2 for IH, then my MSG this term won't be so bad. All because of Chem... Sigh...

hm... maybe I'll follow some other blogs I've seen, and put song lyrics in my posts. here goes:

it's quite relevant to me right now... not so much the lyrics, though- (especially the 'all you ever wanted was love' part haha), but the music. But I can't put the score of the song here, can I?

Low - Coldplay X&Y
you see the world in black and white
no colour or light
you think you'll never get it right
you're wrong you might
the sky could fall could fall on me
the parting of the sea
but you mean more mean more to me
than any colour i can see

all you ever wanted was love
but you never look hard enough
its never gonna give itself up
all you ever wanted to be
living in perfect symmetry
but nothing is as down or as up as us

you see the world in black and white
not painted right
you see no meaning to your life
you should try
you should try

all you ever wanted was love
but you never looked hard enough
it's never going to give itself up
all you ever wanted to be
living in perfect symmetry
nothing is as down or as up
don't you want to see it come soon
floating in a big white balloon
flying on you own silver spoon
don't you want to see it come down
there for throwing your arms around
and say "you're not a moment too soon"

'cause i feel low
'cause I feel low oh oh oh oh oh
yeah i feel low
oh no

aargh... Can't get enough of Coldplay, man! I really hope they come to Singapore on their 'World' Tour. What's a world tour without Asia?

C5 for Chemistry, my favourite subject, was really a huge setback. 3 Chem tests this year so far, and only one managed A1. 75 only. the other last term was 64. Dunno what's happenening to my Chemistry. In the latest test, which I got C5, I actually got 7 out of 10 MCQ wrong. Anyway, I've almost gotten over that. Almost. Anyway, word has it that there will be no exemptions for Sec 4s this year. So everyone's taking the exams for all subjects. Haha. Some people have never taken end of year exams for their past 3 years in HCI. Good luck to them, man.

What are exemptions? Well, my school has this scheme going on where those who have averaged a good score (I think it's A1) for the tests for a subjects get recommended for exemption. Then their respective subject teachers get to approve the exemption. I only got one exemption in the past 3 years. For Maths, last year. It was a great feeling, to leave early after the English paper leaving those who were unlucky enough not to be exempted behind to take the Maths exam.

Anyway, I almost forgot, this post is titled Things are looking up. Well, after that crappy C5-for-Chem setback, a string of marked tests came back. A Physics test and two Maths tests. I got 65% and 81% for the two Maths tests. Wasn't really satisfied with both the marks, especially the first one, and both of them average out to 73, giving an A2 for Maths this term. Hey, I've been slacking quite a lot for Maths. Guess I have to start working (harder).

Oh, what about Physics? Well, just yesterday, on Thursday, Mr Tieu, the Physics teacher gave us back our test papers. Before doing that, though, he quickly flipped through the stack of test papers, looking for failures (there were none). One of my classmates looked peeked from behind, and exclaimed "Wah, Zhe Xi! Full marks!". That really gave me a jolt. I replied, "Cannot be lah, where got full marks for Physics one?" Yong Jing (the one who peeked from behind) then said, "Dunno lah, either 35 or 25, not sure." The test is upon 35 marks, by the way. Anyway, my heart was racing like mad. I really hoped it was 35, not 25, 'cos 25 was only another A2 (Dunno why, I've been getting a lot of A2s for Physics). But it was very impossible to get full marks. I kept on hoping for 35, though. Sigh, when the teacher gives out the tests papers, and I hope for that kind of mark, it always never came true. (Especially for Chemistry.)

When it was my turn to get my paper, I was very calm. "Yong Jing saw it wrong totally, " I said to myself. I most probably got another A2. But there was still this hope. You see, the 17 people (I'm index no. 18) who got their paper back before me all had unusually high scores. So I wondered- Could I really have gotten full marks?

I got my paper- 33/35. It was sort of an anticlimax. I was really hoping for 35 ;). I was actually Dissapointed to get 33. lol. Then it hit me when I calculated the percentage for my score. 94%. Wow. I never got that high for a Physics test. This test more than made up for the other Physics test, which I got A2, making my Physics grade for this term A1! I can't remember getting A1 for Physics for a term! A1 for Physics... omg. Oh, yah, after this my classmates changed my nickname from "future chemist" to "future physicist" (No thanks to Song Jun). Dammit I hate either of them. But I'd prefer the former. I really like Chem... dunno what happened this past two terms...

Another thing, I went around the class yesterday to see if I got highest. I thought I did, and was in a state of delirium yesterday, but it turns out Khai Shin got 33 too. Anyway, I'm still top, just tied with someone.

Sigh, how I wish I got 94% for Chemistry instead...

Anyway, I got a non-fiction book last Sunday. Haven't read non-fiction much recently, except textbooks and notes, haha. "The Fabric Of The Cosmos". It's great, man. I'm no geek or nerd, but this book makes Einstein's theory of Relativity very interesting. That's not the only concept explained in the book, but that's the part I just read. Absolute SpaceTime- wow. Ok, I reiterate, I'm not geek or nerd.

Had the last test of the Term this year. Chinese. I forgot a few zao jus, but what the heck... I've never been very good with Chinese. Studying Chinese= Memorisation work for me.

Another week of lessons, and I'll be off to Perth for the School Annual Camp. Can't say I'm really excited about that, actually... Dunno why... hm... I'm excited about the plane ride, though. SQ! 5 hours with the entertainment system onboard the plane. Can't wait...

Wow, this was a long post... I guess I'll stop here. I don't wanna bore my readers, do I? lol, do I even have readers?

Boring National Day.

Piano lesson in the morning. Brought forward from the usual 4.30pm to 10.15am. Started raining on the way back home. I was kinda hoping it would rain during National Day Parade :) Wanted to see how it would proceed in the rain.

Anyway, I spent/wasted 3 hours creating this template. Hope it looks good on Internet Explorer. Can't be bothered to check. I use Firefox :)

Oh, I should be watching the National Day Parade today. Dunno why I don't really feel anxious that I'm missing a bit now. Maybe it's because I missed the last one last year...

Anyway... Happy Birthday Singapore!

I'm not at the parade, but at least I can see the fireworks. From my home, out of the window. Not bad, eh? I'll try and post an image here.

[EDIT @ 8:55pm]
Images may be a bit blur :) I only have a 3.2 megapixel camera and a pathtic free (super)mini tripod.

National Day celebration at school today. I was looking forward to this day for a long time, because my class was gonna perform. We did Jie Kou by Jay Chou, then a portion of Madagascar the movie's I like to move it, then finally Tuo Diao. I didn't perform- I mixed the music. Sigh, our performers went a little over the top during the Tuo Diao part. They removed their last layer of shirts. Then we got stopped by Jason Wong. F***ker. Ruined the show. He said something like not appropirate for national day, and that we weren't supposed to toss the school uniform around. Utterly humiliating for our class. And we were the first performance too. Sat through the rest of the performance with no mood to enjoy. Not even Chee Yang's (not sure about the spelling) extraodinary imitation of F.I. R. cheered me up.

Btw, I think Chee Yang's gay, man. The way he talks, walks, moves, rests his head on his little finger, and most of all his OMG voice really makes it hard to believe he isn't. Heard he has a boyfriend outside of school, and recently won the F.I.R. mo fang da sai, FEMALE category. LOL. Anyway, enough about Chee Yang. This blog is about me.

There was supposed to be a carnival after the performance, I walked around, then went bowling at marina with a few others. I was planning to reach home by 3pm, but in the end we stayed back to play pool and LAN. I suck at CS. Oh, and I managed to acheive a new personal best for bowling! 118! Started with 3 spares at the beginning, then got very lousy, and ended with a bang- one spare then a strike! Not bad for someone who's only played around 10 bowling games in his life so far, eh?

Anyway, we headed for home at 4pm, but I only just got back. Why? 'Cos there was this National Day Carnival at Marina. When we stopped an army officer for directions, he actually forced us to "go to see the submarine". Lol- why the quotation marks, you say? Because we walked a big round, and only managed to see a ship 207 far out at sea. So, we took a bus to Tanjong Pagar MRT, and here I am now.

Sigh, still feeling very dissapointed with how the performance turned out. We almost made it... Well, at least now we know 4K has great class spirit. "I like to move it move it, I like to move it move it, I like to move it move it, Ya like to, MOVE IT!"

I've gotta change this crappy template. I like to be unique. There's probably hundreds of people with this template. But I can't make sense of the codes - my html skills a bit rusty...

Hi! This is my first post of my first blog. If you don't count a phlog as a blog. What is a phlog? You don't know? phlog= phone-log. Most people now think phlog refers to photolog. But I know better. Phlog was first used to refer to a blog updated via SMS. What is SMS? Go wikipedia.com. See that little search box there? Type in SMS, then click search. Can't find the search button? You shouldn't be using a comp.

Anyway, I knew about blogs long ago. I just didn't feel like making one. Phlogging was much easier. Just send an SMS, and viola! Message posted. I have 700 free SMS a month, so I figured I'd better not waste it. So why did I ditch phlogging, and switch to blogging? Well a few reasons. Blogging lets me write more in less time. Of course, there was this other small little factor: Phlogger got friggin' unreliable after I used it for a year! Their service stopped totally for a month or so a year back. So irritating! I had to manually update my posts. Then when they came back on, the problems started. Most of the time my messages didn't get through. So I continued to update the posts using my outbox on my handphone. But enough is enough. I'm tired of updating my phlog manually. Anyway, updating it manually is almost the same as blogging already, without all the fancy functions that blogger provides.

I actually meant my Phlog to be something like an online diary. This blog may be used for this purpose. I dunno... Anyway, here's the link to my now officialy defunct phlog: {[EDIT (9th Aug 2005): just click on "phlog" at the side]} It's a very long link, eh? hyperxi.blogger.com is much better.

Wonder how long I can keep this blog up, and also how often I will blog. Hm... dunno.
Woops, I'd better go save my two year's worth of phlogs before Phlogger crashes and loses all my hard work!

And so the first post ends. Is it the first post? My first blog post? Yah. But not my first online journal post.

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LOL. You know, those two sentences up there were written a year ago.
TWO 31st of Octobers have passed since. whee.

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