What in the world...

Its a habit of mine to just journey to ST Online for some news updates, and these are the main headlines in bold and underline:

8 netted, fertiliser seized in London terror raids
Thai bombers escaped to M'sia: Thaksin
Arroyo says Madrid-type blasts averted in Manila
New bomb find in southern Thailand
19 killed in Uzbek terror attacks
Twin blasts hit Italian police station
Small bomb thrown at Australian embassy in KL

What in the World is going on in these people's minds...?

《叶子》——羽泉


爱情是什么颜色的　如果忧郁是蓝色的
快乐是什么颜色的　如果寂寞是灰色的
天空是什么颜色的　如果汪洋是蓝色的
我说天空也是蓝色的
因为他们彼此相爱了
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爱情是什么颜色的　如果记忆是模糊的
渴望是什么颜色的　如果时间是静止的
永恒是什么颜色的　如果呼吸是短暂的
我想我只好沉默
因为这问题地球它也在思考着
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.
透明是什么颜色的　如果风儿是快乐的
叶子的眼睛是透明的
心是　心是　快乐的　心是　快乐的……

PS: Yongwei, sorry for plagarising... but I admire these words as well ;)

Another Monday

Yups.. the holidays, if that is what you call it, has started. Esther and the rest of the girls in my household are off to Prague, so I am having the entire house to myself.. muhaha...

BUT I am nevertheless stuck in the library... can't work for nuts at home... nothing much happened for the last week until Friday, when I went to watch the Passion Of Christ with the Christian Union. This is a real powerful show, depicting (almost) exactly the last hours of Jesus's life before he was crucified. Highly recommended.

After that, headed down to Suan Hui's place, where he and Jerome was given a surprise Birthday party by a gang of us. Nothing much happened again. Just sit around, chat and wat else.. drink. Got home real late, but nevertheless managed to catch enough rest for Kite Flying the next morning.

The weather was good. Too good. There wasn't even much of a breeze to talk about, not to mention wind. We had difficulties getting the darn kites up in the air, and we exhausted ourselves running across, again and again, the length of the fields trying to give the kite a much needed boost to soar. Shag...

That evening, more birthday celebrations. This time its Youwei, and the usual 88 gang was gathered. Not surprisingly, Mr Lee had too much to drink again, and he started blabbering nonsense and swallowing tomatoes in bulk =P, and that was before he started terrorising us (by flattening us and attempting to dislocated Siang Bin's and Yuwei's toes). Ha~ hilarious...

Sunday... passed in a daze.. perhaps because the past 2 days were real packed. Well, its the end of the term, what do you expect? the day dragged on, and didn't really do much. Feel Piggish~ =Pp

All in all~ A summary

Hey babes !! (imitates Zhichen's voice, with much difficulties).

Alright... its the last week of the spring term, and after his week closes, the Easter break (also known as my examination holidays) starts. Toda marks the official start of my mugging days. My blogs entries will be diminishing like mad, but now you know why~

Yups, but anyway, in midst of mugging, I will be taking a week off to have a breather in Germany. Will be touching down in Frankfurt, going South, then North, in a general Easterly direction (like going to Mordor from the Shire), before flying back from Munich. Doubt if I will have the time to log my journey when I return, so I shall leave that to a bit later (later as in after my exams ends).

This had been a real meaningful term for me. Studies are still kinda floating, so thank Lord for that. Also, I have handed down my duties in ICSS to a real capable committee, so no worries there. (eh President... if u happen to read this, you better make sure that I dun have to delete this sentence from my blog a few months from now =P) Haha~ but i have confidence in them.

Back to books and circuits and semiconductors and loads of nightmares =P

Time to give underdogs a chance?

There has been a great hoo-haa over this issue in the ST forum over the past few days, the issue of whether to give underdogs (e.g people who have obtained perhaps less than 3 As in their A levels examination) a chance to get a scholarship.

' MS LYDIA Rahman's letter, while persuasive, receives little sympathy from me. While I agree that we have to broaden our definition of success, the basic barometer for scholarship boards still has to be grades. (ST Forum)'

How true that is. No, I am not one who is biased against people who do not do well in exams. I myself can be considered an underdog, just that I happened to be lucky. College students are doing extraordinarily well in A levels. HCJC and RJC boasts almost, if not more than 50% of their students getting 3 distinctions in their papers. Logically thinking, if grades were not used as a barometer for distingushing those who qualify for scholarship interviews, how many students will agencies have to interview if all students with 3 distinctions apply for a place?

Many of the scholarship recipients I know have a vibrant co-curricular life, in addition to their outstanding results, and we shouldn't begrudge them their just reward. (ST Forum)

The subsequent interviews after the 'grade gauge' will determine if a student gets a scholarship. How many scholars around are simply geeks? Almost none. I take a look around me and find most of my friends to be ex- Council members, ex - Chairperson of clubs, ex - Sports captain etc. And how many of these people here have fallen from grace before? My friend from college, Mr Ng came from a humble background, and he worked as he studied to support his family. Despite Council, working and taking care of his siblings taking up most of his time, he managed an outstanding A levels result to clinch a scholarship. Those who overcome difficulties and excelled are those who truely deserves scholarships, not those who complain about a dip in results due to 'personal problems'.

On a last note, I would agree that the society definitely have to give 'underdogs' chances to further their education, as every member of the Singaporean community is worth doing so. However, if you were a company director, would you risk $400,000 worth of liability to award someone with less than satisfactory results with a scholarship? If yes, what's the incentive for those who slogged through 10 years of their lives to produce outstanding academic and CCA results? What injustice.

Handing over and remembrance~

AGM concluded on Wednesday, and I am really happy with the results. Everyone who ran were suitable for all the posts, so not matter how it turned out, Singsoc will have a capable Committee next term. Good luck to you guys, Good Luck to you guys, and make sure a good job is done!

President: Kaileng
Vice President: Thomas
Secretary : Manda
Treasurer : Yanda (note the similarities in names)
Events : Marvin and Lionel
Sports : Darren
Liaison : Jacqueline

As I am blogging this, the video for Sojourn 2003 runs in the background. As I watch it, flashbacks of the enjoyable times during my term of duty and how satisfied I feel simply just... overwealm me...

Ice breakers, the familiar Night Elves flag, Kenneth and his pole dance, Doris and Fengtian getting dumped into the water, how the rain on the second day failed to dampen our spirits, building the sea stage, Fenghuai and Ira sorting each other out on the sea stage, Doris being chased all over the place, our 2 new events officers doing balloon dance, swimming over to the other island, Campfire, Secret pal game (and the subsequent drinking game, of which our new president caused me to down 6 shots...).

I couldn't help but stop smiling. I love what we have done...

天下无不散之宴席


最重还是走到了结束，最重还是比须放手。 有时回眸念望这一年所发生的点点滴滴， 心中充满不止禁的喜悦。 留过泪， 流过汗， 但不成后悔。 我很满意。

The Art of Wok

Went for Malaysian night 2004 : The Art of Wok. In my opinion, the performance was a lot better than last year's, even though the plot this year was much more tedious and longwinded. In short, I enjoyed it very much. But it was through this performance that actually spurred a couple of thoughts within me.

Foremost, I actually learnt a lot more about 2 of my malay friends through this performance. To Shaiful and Firdas, you guys are real talented! From singing to dancing to Silat (Malaysian Martial Arts), and even Chinese Wushu, there's almost nothing that this pair couldn't do.

(Warning, I might get emotional here =P) Right... another major stage performance in March, and this of course brings back fond memories of my own Theatre Performance that I dedicated 5 years of my life to.

黄城夜韵 (Huang2 Cheng2 Ye4 Yun4) will take place in a weeks time, and this is going to be the second year running whereby I will not be present. I could still remember how I felt on the last day of 2002's performace, where Mr Su invited me on stage to talk to the cast and crew. I could remember myself stuttering through what I wanted to say, and am trying to form words that convey my feelings. I just could not. Its not a feeling that anyway could express.

I could also remember the sense of loss once I left Victoria Theatre that day...

Back to reality... Maybe I shall participate in Mnite next year, just to rekindle my love for stage performances... unless ICSS happens to organised something similar for major event. * Hint hint to those potential 22nd exco members... *

Dreaming about dreaming

Had a recursive dream for a couple of days, and with the advice of my friend, I decided to look it just. Heres the result:

" To dream that you are dreaming, signifies your emotional state. You are excessively worried and fearful about a situation or circumstance that you are going through. "

Something that worries me and I fear... what?

Random thoughts

Was talking to Kaileng late on night on ICQ, and was just chatting away on how the year just went past, and how my 'beloved' freshers (as Esther puts it) have gotten used to life in London. I wouldn' say that I was of much help, but at least I was glad that I did try. I mean, I am outnumbered 70 to 1, what can I do much? =P

Ya.. anyway was telling her that one week prior to AGM, and there's a kind of feeling bottled within that I can't put a pen (or keyboard) to. Transversed from reason to reason, and finally decided that it was because of the relatively strong bond (or I would say, at least its stronger than that of mine batch) that I see among them. Is this really that important? Shrugs... Jon said that it is probably because of my Hwachong education that is responsible for my "fren-fren bond-bond" mentality =P