ian can cook

Hey kids, welcome to the first episode of Ian Can Cook (pronounced as yan can cook XD).

Muggles! Ever wondered what the food in Harry Potter's magical world tastes like? There are lots of food: from Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans to Chocolate Frogs to Cauldron Cakes. Today, we are making BUTTERBEER - the Potter gang's favourite drink at The Three Broomsticks. It has a smooth buttery taste and it warms you up! Perfect for a cold day! And it's easy to make! Even a noob can make it.

Butterbeer is prepared warm. Yes, there are cold ones, but today we are making the warm version, because it is better tasting. The recipe we are using today is borrowed from the web, with slight modifications.

Ingredients for making 2 cups (250ml each):
1 cup of cream soda (F&N Ice Cream Soda)
1/2 cup of butterscotch syrup (get the smuckers one, quite rare though)
1/2 tablespoon of butter
A few drops of of vanilla extract (if you don't have, I think the butterscotch has it already)
A splash of absolut vodka or whatever hard liquor you like

Directions:
In a jug or some container, pour the cream soda into the jug, add the vanilla and absolut vodka into it.
Heat a small frying pan (smaller the better) in a fire to optimum temperature and spread the butter onto it. Pour the butterscotch syrup into the frying pan. Stir until they mix well. Wait a while until the mixture bubbles like a potion in a cauldron.
Pour the mixture into the jug or container and mix well.
Serve and drink and enjoy.

Let us continue with the show...
You kids may think that omg, fat everywhere, just like drinking straight from the syrup bottle! And imagine the layer of oil above the drink. Yucks. Well, don't be so paranoid, just drink lah. Anyway the layer of oil will not be that thick as you expect it to be.

On my first try (making 1 cup only), I am going to add butterscotch, butter and vodka to the heated frying pan together. (Notice the word VODKA)

Omg...I self-pwned. How am I going to expect this to happen! (I am not going to take a photo of the real thing happening in my kitchen again, it freaking shocks me.)
I am freaking surprised. I am shocked. Then, I laugh for damn long. XD It is f-ed up to the max. And it is damn funny at the same time. There goes my alcohol - all gone.

SO KIDS, DON'T TRY PUTTING ALCOHOL INTO A FRYING PAN WHEN IT'S HOT UNLESS YOU THINK YOU WORK IN A POSH RESTAURANT. In other words, don't follow this noob over here.

So I heat up the mixture in the frying pan until it's bubbly all over and I pour it into the cup of cream soda and vanilla and mix it well and add vodka (remember it burned off!). So how it turns out? It looks brown, with some fizz. Blobs of oil on the surface, but nevermind. Ah... the smooth buttery taste. It isn't perfect though, there isn't enough alcohol; the buttery taste seems to cloud it over. Most disappointingly, it wasn't that warming - perhaps I need to warm up the cream soda first next time.

On my second try, I am not going to repeat my mistake AGAIN! I make the butterbeer. It turns out that I've not added enough butterscotch syrup... -.- . It tastes plain horrible. I simply add some butterscotch syrup and there it is, almost perfect! The smooth buttery taste with a tinge of alcohol! What I am looking for! If only I care to warm the drink up, it would be perfect! I would be in Potter land (whatever -.-).

My second try! As pictured below: (I put this cup in the fridge for an hour already, so there's no more fizz. D: )
Butterbeer RATING: 3/5 Good. Perhaps the real thing in that Potter land tastes much better but muggles like me will never know.

We have come to the end of the first episode, kids. Don't cry please, you can see me again when I attempt another cooking miracle, I'm not going away for good. Have fun making butterbeer.

anime recommendation!

I spent yesterday night and today watching Clannad and Clannad After Story (up to 8th episode - still ongoing). 16 hours of anime!
They are pretty good to watch, with lots of eye candy to see. I LOVE eye candy. Lots of tear jerking moments and if you don't cry at least once, you are not human. And it's still ongoing!

Life revolves around a male protagonist who is a delinquent in his final year in senior high and throughout the first season he meets 5 girls and other interesting characters in and out of school. In the end, he chooses 1 girl to love and the end. In the 2nd season, for until the part that I watched, they are still in school. If the anime were to follow the visual novel on the PS2 or PC, in fact, the After Story only includes the part after graduation and the love life of the guy and the girl. Ai ya, I dunno anything, must wait long long cos every episode comes every week.

Sian, I go find other animes to recommend soon.

Verdict: Clannad - 8/10 Clannad After Story - 8.5/10 (at this point)

shortest ever party

Party at Tim's house.
I didn't know he had another house somewhere else. I went to his actual home nearby my home and no one was there except his maid. Then I called him and I found out that he had a secret hideout.

Party started at 5pm.
I came at 6pm.
The house was empty, except for a large floor space. A lone TV and a PS2 sat at one side. A gambling den was set up in front of the steps to the second floor.

Party ended at 8.30pm.
Why? Too many drunkards in the house. They actually left me out. -.- They drank my litre of absolut mango without me knowing that it was gone. I was in shock. No way they could finish it that fast.

Why did they have to drink so early? At least start the hardcore drinking at 11pm!!! And I thought that they are sucky drinkers. 2 litres of 40% alcohol and all the drinkers dying already? Come on lah.

I went home at about 11pm. So Kenneth and I had this conversation after the party. We laughed at their poor drinking skills.

21/11/2008		12:49:53 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		the class drink 2 litres of 40% alcohol and all die already
21/11/2008		12:50:00 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		LOL
21/11/2008		12:50:03 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		suck
21/11/2008		12:50:05 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		altogether 2l?
21/11/2008		12:50:08 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		no la
21/11/2008		12:50:24 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		each 300ml?
21/11/2008		12:50:40 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		i think it is not a lot yet
21/11/2008		12:50:51 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		yea as in altogether the whole lot of them 2l only
21/11/2008		12:50:52 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		hahah
21/11/2008		12:50:59 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		haha
21/11/2008		12:51:10 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		ya
21/11/2008		12:51:20 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		let's see
21/11/2008		12:51:26 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		i do headcount wait a
21/11/2008		12:52:01 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		those who never drink: rmd, kok, pooja
21/11/2008		12:52:38 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		drink very little: ankita, han
21/11/2008		12:52:52 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		drink little, not too much: me, gladies
21/11/2008		12:53:11 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		and annabel, jiayi
21/11/2008		12:53:34 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		drink siao siao: the dead ppl + teren and allan
21/11/2008		12:53:41 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		allan?
21/11/2008		12:53:43 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		is he alive?
21/11/2008		12:53:51 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		he damn red since b4 dinner
21/11/2008		12:53:56 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		hahahahaha
21/11/2008		12:54:00 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		so hes dead too i guess
21/11/2008		12:54:03 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		n
21/11/2008		12:54:04 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		no
21/11/2008		12:54:12 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		he managed to walk around the estate haha
21/11/2008		12:54:17 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		hahah
21/11/2008		12:54:31 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		so how many accounted for
21/11/2008		12:54:49 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		16
21/11/2008		12:54:54 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		yongye also
21/11/2008		12:55:01 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		the 2nd last group
21/11/2008		12:55:07 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		shaun sim no
21/11/2008		12:55:16 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		18
21/11/2008		12:55:19 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		lol
21/11/2008		12:55:23 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		ic
21/11/2008		12:55:37 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		ok.. 18 ppl, 5 dead ppl
21/11/2008		12:55:39 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		suck la
21/11/2008		12:55:48 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		hahah
21/11/2008		12:55:50 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		2 litres
21/11/2008		12:55:54 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		if 18 ppl drank 2 litres
21/11/2008		12:55:55 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		and 5 are dead
21/11/2008		12:55:58 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		theres something wrong
21/11/2008		12:55:58 AM		2'1.5" ken		ian		lol
21/11/2008		12:56:00 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		haha
21/11/2008		12:56:08 AM		ian		2'1.5" ken		that's why

EDIT: 19 people came. I left out the most important suspect who wanted the party to take place who drank siao siao but never died in the end - darren.
Final Tally: 19 people. 5 puking like shit and dying.
Yes, they all suck as drinkers. I've ever seen less people drinking even more than what they have drunk.

We need to put up some rules for drinking to make a party last longer and make it less of a suffering to the drinkers and the cleaners of their puke!

Here goes:
1. Don't go hardcore till late at night. Starting after dinner is a no-no, as it kills the spirit of a party.
2. Eat more before you drink and as you drink, you eat.
3. Drink water before you drink and as you drink.
4. Know your limit. If you suck at drinking, don't follow the rest, because the feeling after that will suck, and you will make a mess that someone else or you have to clear up.
5. If you do the above and still drink, you will become fat, so drink less.

To relieve the drinkers from suffering and a hangover later on:
1. Take Pepto Bismol/Antacid.
2. If stomach is ok, a lot of orange juice is good. If stomach is not ok, a lot of water is good. Alternatives include apple juice, gatorade. The thing is: hydration! So no caffeine and tea.
3. Eat sugar-filled foods. Don't have? Eat sugar lah!
4. 2 ibuprofen.

To cure hangovers:
Bananas, eggs, water, gatorade, fruit juice.

Important to assign non-drinkers to clean up their puke and relieve the drunkards. Get plastic bags, detergent, mops, beds, etc.

pedo bear

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE TEACHER!!!! omg omg omg omg. sick.

this is dumb and stupid

Since yesterday, 2 videos have been making it's rounds around the internet. Some mega wild birthday prank by a bunch of girls in acjc that was posted on Youtube on 30th September was flamed by the online community. It started on the HardwareZone forums, where it attracted 4k views by 11pm. The next day at 12pm, it had already attracted 18k views and it comes with a 27 page long thread. UPDATE: At 7pm, 26k views.

Today, it has been posted on stomp, the ultimate kpkb website that is linked to the press. And it is taking the front page of that Singapore Seen (the website you never want yourself to be seen on, i mean seriously). Screw the stompers, because they are starting to make a mountain out of molehill. The retard stomper, who brought the matter from HWZ to stomp must be the ultimate retarded whistleblower. This person called outrage (He/She made a special account to post this shit) went on and exaggerated the matter with an article that can make a reader feel so shocked. Then in the comments part they talk all sorts of crap like call MOE, call acjc, call principal, call parents, call authorities. They jump to conclusions like what have they been teaching in acjc and they lament about singapore youths and what other bullying could have happened in the school.

The 2 videos have been taken off, but apparently, the stompers are trying to upload them for everyone's viewing. This is the horrible truth about stompers. They are a bunch of kaypoh singaporeans. I won't be surprised if it appears in the newspapers tomorrow.

I know lots of people will be thinking: poor girl, poor whatever. But it's been like 1 and a half months since the incident. All that talk is just... senseless and useless. A waste of bandwidth and people's time.

Mr Kyaw appears at the end of the 2nd video to tell the girls off. I don't know whether he may be implicated in this matter. I don't know how will it end. I only know that acjc is going to be tarnished in some way.

I do know who started it all on the HWZ forums. I've been monitoring the situation since I saw the thread just being created. This guy told me back via sms: "Holy shit!! I didn't know it would cause an uproar... Shit Shit Shit!!" That shows that he regretted creating the thread. He didn't meant for it to blow up. When the videos were first posted, the only way to access them was to type "acjc" in the Youtube search bar, and they only attracted 200 or less views (I somehow saw them before when I was searching for other videos). Now, they have been extracted out from the blue and they are gaining online attention. He thought that the thread would disappear into oblivion, like almost every thread out there. But what was done is done. The damage is done, and it is growing.

What can I do? Just let the events unfold. The media is far too powerful for the individual to control. If you go to the front page of the stomp website, it is the first thing you see. But at the moment, Singapore Seen cannot be entered, probably due to some hackers.

The links:

Working video after being taken off Youtube
HWZ thread that started it all
Stomp website article

PICTURES here

Update:

Someone said:
"just now 987 got talked about it...lol
worst of all is...it says 'a teacher came and stop the students...
but the teacher did not stop the students because of what they are doin,
but because it might dirtied the school compound and they have to clean up.'"

One retard said on someone's blog:
"ACJC is supposed to be an institution with christian values.
It is shocking and unbelievable to see the public humiliation and indignity done to a fellow human being and in this case, a young girl who may have to live forever with the emotional scars and hurts with possible depression and who knows - it might even be a suicide trigger as I have heard yearly of a significant number of suicides involving JC students.
The MOE must investigate immediately and if necessary the Police must be involved if assault is deemed to be committed.
There must be follow up satisfactory action - the MOE owe it to all parents.
The victim must come forward to report the incident and get her family lawyer to follow up to seek re-dress in the Courts if the incident will indeed be covered up as we read - blogs about it are being quickly removed.
The victim must be helped referred for counselling if necessary.
The guilty ones must be punished not only the girls who participated in the torture but also all the boys in the background who cheered the bullyings and molesting involving forced change of bottom wear with revealings of one’s modesty, and stuffing of things into the victim’s blouse.
The MOE must make its comments.
The Police must be kept informed to put a stop to such bullyings in all schools.
Finally still unhappy parents must get their sons and daughters out of ACJC - with MOE facilitating.
Without a doubt, if my daughter were in ACJC, I will help her get a transfer to find any JC.
The JC must make its statement and not pretend that the incident dis not take place.
Finally can a member of the local or international press pick this article and highlight it in the newspapers - this is a social responsibilty of all to act."

Total nonsense I think, the above.

ACJC replies:

ACJC says it has counselled the students who tied up one of their peers to a chin-up bar in their birthday celebration and says it has advised them to celebrate in other ways.

This response comes in the wake of a STOMP posting where STOMPer outraged expressed disgust at the way the birthday girl was treated as she was filmed tied up and roughed up in her birthday celebrations.

In her response to STOMP, the principal, Mrs Kelvyna Chan of ACJC says:

"The College is aware of the incident which was a birthday celebration of a student who was popular with her peers.

"We understand that the student was prepared for the celebration, and that there was no malice nor bullying involved.

"When a teacher saw the celebration, he immediately stopped it and counselled the students.

"The birthday girl also assured the teacher that she was not hurt physically nor emotionally.

"Some weeks after the event, a teacher again enquired about the girl's wellbeing, and she assured the teacher and the College that the celebrations were all done in good fun and she was well.

"Although the activity was done in good humour, the college has counselled the students involved on the possible hazards of such activities and that there are more appropriate ways to show friendship among their peers."

That person who started the thread seriously made the matter so big that the school must answer. Very foolish of him to go and reveal this kind of things on the forum.

wtf i dunno what is this but read it

The Straits Times 30 September 1999
JUNIOR COLLEGE COLLAPSES AFTER 23 YEARS

The Anglo-Chinese Junior College, located at Dover Close East, lay in a pile of rubble yesterday, after the grand structure of 23 years came crashing down during morning assembly amidst the singing of the National Athem. A total of 122 casualties were reported, most of whom were students who were crushed when the toilets on the second level collapsed, leaving the largest lecture theatre on the third level to crumble in a large cloud of dust accumulated in the past decades.

Civil Defence officers arrived promptly at the scene, along with officials from the Ministry of Education and various government departments which were involved in the construction of the College more than two decades ago.

Mr Lenn, the vice-principal of the college and long serving teacher said, "We didn't expect it to cave in on us today. It was really a down-to-earth experience, and a tragic loss for all of us. We lost a good deal worth of government equipment." He declined to comment on how there were 122 students located in the level two toilets during morning assembly, at which every student is expected to attend. He also declined to answer exactly how much equipment belonging the college itself was lost, only saying that, "We've developed a strong emotional attachment to the facilities and building itself in the many years that the college has served us."

Mrs Lim Han Soon, who has been principal of the school for the past two years, attempted to explain the cause of the collapse, "I donch know what these students do sometimes. By having 122 students in the toilets the ground is sure to collapse."

The student leading the school in the anthem, requesting to remain anonymous except for saying that he was a year one student studying at the currently-levelled college, offered the most logical explanation. He said, "The college has been undergoing ground works at the car park recently, which may have caused a shift in the foundation, leading to the collapse of the school.

"In addition to that, the heavy downpour yesterday morning flooded most of the classrooms. With the kind of structural integrity ACJC has, I wont be surprised if officials say that water seeping into the crevices of the chipped concrete actually might have further eroded the walls or concrete flooring." When asked if his singing could also have played a part in the tragedy, he could only raise his hands in frustration, "With the kind of audio system we have, any singer could bring the school down."

Structural integrity was the key-phrase at the press conference held at the ACJC Sports Complex later in the morning, as a panel of investigators and architects explained to a large group of journalists the main reason behind the fall of the college. "Apparently the gaping holes in the walls were not reported to the ministry earlier, and thus we were unable to gauge that the structural integrity of the main block of ACJC was far from sound. With the extra cabling involving the installation of fibre optic cables and a host of other inclusions such as ten-thousand dollar projectors, we never knew that the building could not take the massive drilling underground and around the building." said Mr Con Structor, who is the chief investigator at the site.

A furious parent of a deceased student accused the Ministry of Education of overcrowding the junior college with many more students than logically possible in ACJC, saying, "Twenty years ago there only 600 students in the college, and in recent years this number has grown to more than 1800. With the kind of sub-standard facilities that my child has been studying in, how could anyone expect the building to stand any longer?" Mr Lenn was to point out that this was not the case, as the ACJC Sports Complex was still standing and was also considered 'part of the college'. Massive salvage operations have been carried out in the past 12 hours, with excavators from a nearby construction site situated at Buona Vista MRT Station being brought in to remove the massive amounts of rubble. Emergency operations were also carried out to remove the initial 5m layer of dust covering the building, using high powered vacuum cleaners. Salvaged so far was a Neoprint machine, a tub of Cremo ice-cream, an ACJC umbrella, and a pair of ACJC bears.

Upon being questioned that a bomb might have been set off in the toilets instead, the investigative panel quoted that this could have been the case, except that the only way in which this could have happened was if there was a massive buildup of methane in the toilet at the second level, and that a spontaneous combustion could have triggered an explosion leading to the collapse.

As a result of the collapse, the Anglo-Chinese Junior College would be temporarily relocated to Raffles Junior College, which is equipped with similar facilities but lacking in an Olympic-size swimming pool and a fully-fledged Sports Complex. In return, ACJC would loan it's Sports Complex to RJC till it shifts to Bishan, leaving ACJC to take full control of all its facilities in Ghim Moh.

Upon listening to the announcement that ACJC would share its premises with RJC and would eventually take over its campus there, a prominent Student Councillor from ACJC whispered, "Looks like we can shelve the upgrading plans after all, or perhaps we could help upgrade the campus in Ghim Moh instead..."

In the meantime, riots were reported to have broken out in RJC, when an ACJC student was involved in a scuffle with an RJC student. He had tried to put up the ACJC flag in place of the RJC flag at the flagpoles in RJC. This angered the Students' Council of RJC, and the situation was further aggravated when a roving band of ACJC students repainted the front gates of their college red, blue and gold. The students from Raffles retaliated, and attacked the band with grenades made in the chemistry labs.

A mass protest is expected tomorrow, when RJC students are expected to wear ACJC uniforms to school.

COPYRIGHT (C) SEPTEMBER 1999 ALL CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY ARE FICTIONAL, AND EVERY ATTEMPT HAS BEEN MADE TO ENSURE THAT THIS INCIDENT IS INDEED JUST A FIGMENT OF THE AUTHOR'S IMAGINATION. ANY RESEMBLANCE TO LIVING PERSONS OR STANDING BUILDINGS * AND ORGANIZATIONS IS MERELY A FAULT OF THE MIND, AND IS NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.

Japanese police run in fear

the last before A levels

This is the last ever post before the A levels. 23 days left. A levels lasts 16 days. So 39 more days to freedom - and the next post after this. After x number of days of freedom, it's time to enlist into PES C1L2 version of BMT, whatever is that.

A level preparations are going fine. No worries at all. Just that GP I need to memorise 1 megaton of examples before this monday which is the mock paper. Econs I'm like mugging content now.

Friday's chemistry mock was kind of difficult. On the 1st question, I calculated my initial rate using the gradient of the 2 reaction graphs but the gradients I got went haywire. I just simply put 1st order with respect to [H+] even though the results wern't that obvious that it was. The second question I bombed myself by not answering a 1 mark question that was simply a matter of writing a single word - "postive". The 4th question elucidation I was stumped. The LiAlH4 can't possibly give 2 products with an ester because that reaction isn't in the syllabus. It was the case, my teacher said, the ester got cleaved. On the net, I found that that makes 2 alcohols. Whatever lah, my elucidation gg one. Must go work on it.

Enough of matters that are too academic. After baccalaureate service, my class went to 4.6 cos the class rep got this surprise he claimed to take 8 hours to do it. Yup, it is a video! Not released on Youtube yet (later get screwed by the teachers who want privacy). Darren also invited all our teachers along, but the most important one, Mr Lim, got a meeting. So he never watched it with the rest of us.

Good job Darren. I didn't know beforehand that he actually interviewed all our teachers. Wow.
So yeah, the whole class got fired up after the video. And we actually could take a bus to vivocity together. Well, after lunch at Carl's Junior, every clique went off their separate ways. -.-

So did anyone notice something strange on baccalaureate day? Ok, apart from an excess of camwhoring by many people, what else? Did anyone look to see anything on the field?


An aerial view from the roof.
Can you see what the letters make out to be?
You can probably see "exams". Then on the left? ♥. Yup, ♥. So ♥ exams, apparently so.

So what? Nothing unusual, could just be a bunch of crazy acjc councillors making stuff and leaving it on the field. NOT!

It is a hack, like the MIT hack. Looks like an epic fail here.

Well, some MIT student wannabes wanted to emulate a MIT hack. The plan was to hang "I ♥ exams" across the field by tying a raffia string from the flag pole on the roof of the viewing gallery to the giant lighting pole on the other side. So they stayed late in school on the day before baccalaureate day. At about 11pm, they tied some string to the flag pole on the roof above the viewing gallery. Then, the security guard came over downstairs and they had to stop work. Nah, that's not the end. The security guard went away and they continued on. They pulled the string all the way to the end of the field. Then they realised they got not enough string. They pulled the string and it snapped. Game over. The result: What you see on the field.

That was not all. They wanted to do something with the the plasma screen in the hall. To display something the next day perhaps. They already got the high-tech equipment ready to do just that. But it was already so late, so they decided to call it a day.

Don't ask me why they chose "I ♥ exams". Those people are just a bunch of ultra-smart geeks. If you count the number of them in the J2 level, you probably know there just a few of them and you probably will know who did it. Yeah, of course I know who did it, but I won't tell anyone.

more words

My blog is very wordy. I don't know why and I don't intend to change the words.

Oh, the ultra-portable in the previous post hasn't been fixed. I can't be bothered with it anymore. Maybe I will use the warranty soon to get it fixed. It will be such waste of time to fix it now.

Anyway, in an hour's time, the F1 cars will starting rolling on the Marina Bay Track. I am going to watch it this weekend - on my TV. No point buying anything like a ticket or booking a room. TV rocks my (clean) socks. Who's going to win? eh. After Schumacher left 3 seasons ago, I had no one else to support. -.- Perhaps Lewis "Catch Him" Hamilton. Perhaps Massa. Just perhaps. Yeah, I admit I am one of those who follow the crowd. But I don't care.

I know this is wols but for prelims, I got 4 H2 As and an E for General Paper. E for GP is means you are a noob. NOOB. Which I am. My powderful Engrish is my downfall. Well, actually I don't know. It's just a damn problematic essay + a lousy compre. This result is called an anolamy. OK?! (Oh, A was a mere 62 marks, which is like only 10 marks away.) So how my Maths from a D became an A? I'm not sure. But I do have a theory: moderation based on past results. My friend has another theory: Moderation based on selected questions. Since there's no way to find out which one is true, I guess it's up to speculation. In any case, I'm glad I have another A. So I should be happy with my results? Yeah right. Hell no. My GP is noob ok. Forget the rest. If the GP is noob, there's no need to consider the rest.

I guess this is it. More words.

You want picture is it? Fine.

sucky vista bug

Darn it. My Kohjinsha SR series ultra-portable laptop is in a complete mess right now. Yesterday when I restarted it after installing loads of programs, the wireless internet connection gg-fied. All the damn thing is saying is that the dependency service or group failed to start. I mean like wth. This kind of problem omg. Only 2 weeks old and the internet connection became so bugged all of a sudden. I can forgive that it runs very slow on Vista and has a crappy 1GB RAM (Vista on 1GB memory is omg already). But the wireless gone... that is horrible.

So I spent the evening trying to fix the damn problem by searching on the forums. I tried all kinds of crap solutions and I don't even know the side effects yet. All I know is that I can't solve it! Ahhhhhhhhhh...................!1!!11one!! Stupid wireless. Ultra-portables are meant to be wireless and without it, it's a goner. omg omg omg. HELP.

To Zanarkand // Final Fantasy X // VOCALOID2

Sounds creepy haha.

prelim results

Everybody dreads the prelim results. Many people's fears came true. Umbrellas and Sunshine seem to be the words to describe many miserable souls. It was expected, wasn't it? No?

Fine. I'm not one of them. Let's keep it quick. I have 3 As out of the 5 subjects I take (4 H2s). Physics, Chemistry, and most shockingly, Economics. I expected to deliver the goods with physics, but not at such a good score that I was ahead of the main pack by about 5 marks (only the great Han was higher by about 2). Chemistry was simply amazing. I told everyone I got 23/40 for Paper 1 MCQ and still managed to get an A. Chem tuition does work wonders (if you know how to deliver the goods) :D. I still wonder whether I'm going to get split into a different tutorial/lecture class because AC sorts Chem students via the Paper 1 score. Economics left me stupefied. The class pestered the King to reveal our Econ scores during the tutorial. She said the first is as usual, Han, then second, Me, third, a long list.... (ok, good news, did she mention me?) Then she said that this class has 2As, 10Bs... Did she say only 2As? Omg, I got an A. I was stymied by how I got an A. That was impossible. The CA mark on the visualiser said S, a low B for Term Exams, and of all things, A for prelims. It was there, in black and white, as clear as day. S to A, in extreme circumstances of an exam in which I had hardly any prior practice. For the 2nd time today, I was 2nd in class for a subject.

The rest of the subjects were darn horrible relative to the 3 As. Maths was a D. It was really bad. GP was like a freak accident. I got an E, which I seemed to realise as lower than the class average (ok, at least higher than half the level). I was expecting C or more, even though no one else in the cohort had an A (am I right?).

Everyone thinks I must be ownage to get 3As based on raw score. Actually, I'm damn sad about the performance with my GP (not with Maths, I'm ok with that kind of grade because I never practised it at all after the Swss trip). The subject I usually can't perform well in exams came back to haunt me. In class, I'm much better, and I don't know why I can't do the same in the exam hall. I'm sad because I did badly in the most important subject of all and I know I can do a lot better.

Overall, SA1 had its worst-ever performance. We probably lost our dominance in Maths and the Sciences. I'm the only one (other than Han) to get 3 H2 As based on raw scores, which shows how poorly we did as a class.

Maybe we should all go on a 1 week trip to Switzerland /Austria before the A levels and see if that works.

prelims

Prelims aren't over yet. However, all there's left is the multiple choice papers for Chem and Physics. Which means all I need is a four-sided dice and a pencil. Hmm, I could probably make do with a calculator and a rubber (not condom).

As everyone seems to suggest, my standards are pretty high. Ok, yes. But when I say fail, I don't mean a B because I would be failing almost all of my subjects. I mean not a proper pass. Therefore, S and U means fail! Get a life, everyone, I'm not that good. I'm simply an average in 2SA1, which is just another top class. (ok, i'm getting ironic -.-)

In any after-prelim thoughts before the results, predictions (without final moderation) are sure to be important. Here are mine:

General Paper was ok. In the sense that at least a B is possible.

Economics is what I would call a variable subject. Anything can happen. Paper 2 was a miracle because I had never ever done 3 essays in a row for Econs with 5 sides each and yet I managed to complete them on time. Given my new found confidence in the subject, my grade could probably range anywhere from A - C.

Maths was simply I don't know what to say. Paper 1 was simply terrible at first sight. I totally screwed up the paper to the point that at least 40 marks was lost without doing. To prove to myself that my pure maths wasn't so screwed up, I went home and did the paper and to my surprise, I managed to savage 19 marks in the first page of the paper. I got lazy to do the rest because I had to study my other subjects. Paper 2 wasn't too bad. The MI question seemed impossible so left it blank. A host of small mistakes I discovered after going through the paper in my mind probably sapped off a few marks. The statistics section was mainly challenging but all solvable. My mind actually could work. A good prediction for paper 2 is anything between 80 - 89 marks. En route to B... yes. A seems a distance away (unless I'm so lucky to get 55 and 85 to make 140). Perhaps after moderation?

Physics Papers 2 and 3 were like easy peasy. A is confirmed given that my dice works properly for the MCQ.

Chemistry Papers 2 and 3 were easy. A is also confirmed (if dice too works properly).

The bottom line is the predicted grades for the A levels. If I obtain all at least Bs after moderation, definitely, my predicted grades is straight As. I get a feeling that even if anyone in my class obtains a C for any subject, they could probably push the predicted grades to A. So, there's nothing to worry about. YAY!

olympics!

So many things have happened over the last few months: Swiss trip, Prelims, Olympics... So finally I'm back to say that I'm back. -.-

Let's skip the Swiss trip for the moment because it's seriously a wols matter. Olympics first.

This Beijing Olympics 2008 clashed with prelims. The kok said this: "Olympics comes every four years, prelims is every year also have. Of course I would choose Olympics." Forgive his incoherent style of thinking. It so happened that prelims started when Olympics started and Olympics ended when prelims ended. So what to do? Definitely I had to watch the Olympics!

As everyone knows, the opening ceremony was spectacular. Brilliant fireworks that even the commentator said that only the Chinese could do it. Synchronised performers on the ground executing precise manoeuvres. They painted and literally painted scenes of Chinese culture. Flying acrobats added in a touch of surrealism. No one could forget Li Ning flying through the circumference of the Bird's Nest and lighting the symbolic Olympic cauldron.

Ok, the next day was Singapore's National Day. After watching the previous day's performance, I felt that the show segment really paled in comparison. For some consolation, the only part of the show that could match up to the Beijing one is that of the Soka performance. Ok, based on relative amount of money spent and the time spent to rehearse, the NDP is better! Yay. :D

Over the next few days, China dominated the medal standings. The Chinese diving was absolutely owned. The boyish looking Chinese weightlifters owned too. In the end, they earned 51 gold medals. It seems like gold medals is damn easy to get. On the other end of the spectrum, Singapore can only manage a Women's table tennis silver. To us, a single medal seems like gold + platinum. After all, gold medals are actually near impossible, with China taking them all. (yong ye and all the chinese scholars in acjc are cheering -.-)

This Olympics came the great Michael Phelps, with 8 gold medals. I did watch the 7th one on a Saturday morning at 10.10am. It was like he was lagging behind Cavic all the time. Then Cavic was gliding towards the finish line. Then Phelps raised his arms at the last moment and with a great swipe he put them forward to touch the electronic board first. I was stunned. Wtf, how in the world he win with a 100th of a second margin of victory. Ok, the shark deserved it. After that win, he was sure to be in the history books.

Usain Bolt is just the ultimate. How in the world he broke 2 world records for the sprint double in a single Olympics? And I like that he's a media man. That simply makes people talk about him.

I call this the greatest Olympics ever. Because 3 things happened that could only happen once in a blue moon: Singapore's Silver, Phelps and Bolt. Of course, the wonderful spectacle put up by China, which continued to the closing ceremony. Looks like London has a hard job. Thinking of London, if I got into a British university, I would probably be there in 2012. That sounds great. Ok, I'm going to try to apply for a university there after prelims or A levels.

I also call this the greatest Olympics for slip-ups and athletes looking their most unglam. The media coverage is so insane that you can have weird and sick stuff happening. So click here to see lots of unglam moments. Sure roflmao one.

acjc concert band presents...

ACJC Concert Band presents again!!!

Muse ~ a night to remember ~

When: 6 July Sunday
Time: 5.00pm
Where: Singapore Conference Hall
Tickets: $10 n $15

Pieces played:
Symphonic Metamorphosis ~ on the theme of Saint-Saens' Third "Organ" Symphony ~
Armenian Dances
Charming Asia
and lots more!

Catch us before we fly to Switzerland for Competition!

Edusaveable for ACJC students.

ACJC Concert Band presents again again!!

Special ACJC Band CD!

~ A Legacy of Musical Excellence ~

Always wondered why recording is not allowed in the concert hall?
Always wanted ACJC’s recordings though recording not allowed?
Always thought your recording is of low quality?

Fret not!
Here’s you chance to get the recordings at the very worth it price of 2 CDs for only $20!
It’s your one and only chance to purchase these CDs!
Not sold in public, but through ACJC’s band members only!

Disc 1:
1. Carmina Burana Mvmt. 13 Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi ~ by Carl Orff
2. Hunchback of the Notre Dame ~ Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz arr. Calvin Custer
3. Fantasy Variations ~ Niccolo Paganini arr. James Barnes
4. October ~ Eric Whiteacre
5. Turandot ~ Giacomo Puccini arr. Toshio Mashima
6. A Movement for Rosa ~ Mark Camphouse
7. Symphonic Overture ~ James Barnes

Disc 2:
Star Wars Trilogy ~ John Williams arr. Donald Hunsberger
1. i. The Imperial March
2. ii. Princess Leia’s Theme
3. iii. The Battle in the Forest
4. iv. Yoda’s Theme
v. Star Wars (Main Theme)
5. Highlights from “Chess” ~ Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson arr. Johan de Meij
6. The Phantom of th Opera ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber arr. Johan de Meij
7. Festive Overture ~ Dmitri Shostakovich trans. Donald Hunsberger
8. Overture 1812 ~ Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky trans. Mayhew L. Lake

Remastered by Rolton Productions

Alright, I koped this from Gerdine's blog, who koped from Enjia's blog.

h3 exam

NTU H3 Contemporary Physics. The worst ever H3 course ever, has ended. YAY! (note the two "ever"s.)

I've suffered much; I've went through lectures to recover hours of sleep, I've been taught somebody's PhD thesis, I've went out of tutorials with nothing gained, I've been through the depths of tunneling, I've seen the potential of a brain cell, I've witnessed a resonated particle, I've been pressured by a beam of light, I've resisted the lure of magnetization, I've oriented my state of spin en pointe.

Passons à l'examen H3.

Prof. AS: Welcome to hell. Prof. WL and I have come to make hell for you in this pathetic lecture theatre in NJC. WL says that all you pathetique people are going to fail. He also told me to tell all of you, "Do you understand?"

Shaun: YES! (enthusiastically)

On the paper, there was printed at the back in big bold letters: Do Not Turn Over The Paper Until You Are Told To Do So. But who cares? I flipped it over anyway. I looked at the questions, horror of horrors. MRI, K+ ion cell potential!!!one1! X.X I saw death in the eye. It stared at me for a long while. I turned away and looked at Shaun on the left. He was petrified, and I knocked him hard, but he remained a stone, a far cry from his enthusiasm just seconds ago.

Prof. AS: You are given 3 hours. You may begin (your journey through hell).

I scanned through the paper. 2nd page: p-n junction for rectification and tunneling diode, JFET. 3rd page: RKKY interactions (huh? what? X.X) 4th page: Energies of particles and bond energies. 5th page: Electron in a nanowire, fabricate it. 6th page: SET.

Me: 3 hours! Are you kidding, Prof. AS?! I looked at the paper and I know that I can't finish all 8 questions in 3 hours! And what the hell is this RKKY?!

Prof. AS: You noob. Choose 2 from the last 3 questions! Anyway 3 hours is nothing. I've seen my average student finishing his honours year paper in 2 hours. RKKY? What the hell is that?

Prof. AS came over to my seat and took my paper to see what is RKKY all about.

Prof. AS: Ah! So it is about the GMR. It won last year's Nobel prize you tard. RKKY? Oh, it's simply one minute part of Prof. WL's PhD thesis. If you don't get it, why are you here?

I thought Prof. WL was merely showing us his amazing 200 page thesis in the lecture theatre the other day. It turned out that he was testing us on it. Me stoned and gave Prof. AS a -.- .

Prof. AS: Well, this is hell. So live with it.

Shaun: Hey Prof. AS, what in the world is this? I've never seen it before. (shouting)

Prof AS walks towards him and takes his paper to examine.

Prof. AS: Of course you've never seen it, because you never asked what in the hell is this.

Shaun thought that it was lame and gaves him a wtf face.

Prof. AS: You are asking me about how to use an electron beam lithography system? I thought that you have used it before, haven't you? You two-time silver medalist at the SSEF who co- invented the gecko tape surely know what is this?

Shaun: Are you trying to mock me?

Prof. AS sniffed at Shaun and walked away briskly.

Finally, I finished my first question. The second one seemed horrible. K+ concentrations inside a cell and outside a cell? Huh? Some weird potential difference? Ah, I can use the Nernst equation, the equation I've never used before in my entire life. What was it again? V= ln(Noutside/Ninside)kT/q. Or was it ln(Ninside/Noutside)? Omg. Disaster. Where is the coin? I need to flip! I grabbed my bag and took out my wallet to take a coin.

Prof. AS: Ah yes, you, the RKKY noob. Cheating huh? There! I see your notes sticking out for your bag. Looking through your notes huh?

Me: No lah. I'm just getting a coin to flip.

Prof. AS: Lies. All lies! There isn't any multiple choice question around here. Don't think I don't know what you are thinking, you cunning noob! Well, this is hell after all, so as your punishment, I shall call a banshee to administer 250 whips on your butt. Muhahaha. You got pwned!

Prof. AS accompanied me the stage of the lecture theatre and called a banshee which wielded a bewildering whip with 9 thorny tails. I almost collapsed at the sight. Then, the first whip came in. I cried in pain. The next 248 whips were exponentially more painful. Before the last whip, the banshee set the whip ablaze, then it came down hard on me. Shards of pain went through my butt, and then it felt as if my butt was on fire. Omg, it was literally on fire! My pants were burning! I dropped on the floor and rolled on my butt and that stopped the fire, but the pain became more excruciating. Prof. AS ordered me back to my seat immediately, but I couldn't even get up from the ground.

Prof. AS: You are really asking for it, aren't you? 250 more whips! Thereafter, a taste of a collision with a proton in my particle accelerator. I've never done that on a person before.

250 more whips came. And then Prof. AS's helicopter transported a huge particle accelerator that came crashing through the roof and onto the stage. It was magnificent, just like an oversized donut.

Prof. AS: Ah, yes, my sychrotron, it's tiny but it packs a heavier punch then the colossal ones you see in Europe. I invite you to step into the ring 1 minute after I've turned it on.

Prof. AS turned the particle accelerator on and the machine purred. After a minute, I mustered all my remaining strength and opened a hatch and stepped into the ring.

What happened after that was history.

Disclaimer: Well, you may choose to believe the above story. Or NOT!

On a serious note of B-flat, I thought that the H3 exam turned out quite ok, because I attempted to study and memorise. For those who did not study properly, hmm... gg.

h3 exam is tomorrow

I am studying physics now. So wish me all the best if you are my friend.

Here we go... JFET, MOSFET, SET, RTD, RAWR!!! (ok, the last one is my creation)

science is fun and band

It was a fun morning, walking/running around the botanic gardens with a bunch of retarded kids with boundless energy. Tim Woodcutter ran in front of the pack like a mad dog. The rest simply lagged behind while I had to catch up with the wild boy. When Sofia unexpectedly climbed a gate, I was amazed, because I thought that she was one of the better behaved ones.

The hyper boy in a red shirt called Joe or Jack the Ripper or whatever you call him was leading the group around. He was arrogant, much worst than myself last time. He seemed to know everything. Until he got pwned.. muahhaha. retard. He thought he knew the house with a lot of plants as the Green Pavilion, and which part of green pavilion can you find either of the words Plant House?

Those kids obviously have the most corrupted minds in the world. They said that have watched like all the Final Destination movies and they could describe each gory scene in its full glory. Not to mention, they've probably heard more of the word "fuck" and its derivatives more than me when I was their age. For your information, I didn't know that such a word actually existed until about their age.

When I asked a girl where the other team leaders were when we got back to school, she hesitantly said that they were in the college. After this, I thought, omg, the world is simply falling apart. I kept wondering if the girl met that 'lame' fat boy alone in the rain or my chem teacher before I spoke to her.

Well, we walked round the botanic gardens, but it was just too easy. Whoever who designed the course the amazing race was uber noob at it. After that experience, you know what, I actually preferred last year's gruelling amazing race. That rocked because you could get really lost to the point that you felt so frustrated, that you could feel all the other groups overtaking you. But that time, my team clinched a rather good position in the end. During this time, omg, we were like just below the average in our ranking. Seriously, the waiting time to do the activities at each station were like really long. Obviously, the solution is to make people really get lost. Another point of criticism to make is that the activities the children did at each station aren't really that beneficial in that they don't learn science. Where were the long worksheets that last year's little people did at each station? Where were the scientific explanations for certain phenomenon that they could have highlighted? Were we having an amazing race for the sake of doing one, but in doing so, leaving out the quintessential component of the camp?

I left those hyperactive kids after lunch in school to the 2 other team leaders from 1sc7, sheng hui and zhenxuan (whatever her name), so as to attend band (I didn't mention band to them cos I knew 1sc7 has quite a few band ppl, in case they go talk crap of me to those ppl lol). Both of them were a far cry for who I had last year as a team leader partner because their children handling skills were like low level, and so they left me in charge of caring for the children and giving instructions for most of the time, which was so unlike last year when I was the opposite.

Anyway band practice was better than the norm, in which I define the norm as a practice in which dr lee is super pissed with us. What's wrong with us? I think mel and pb properly identified the problem. xy? She was indirectly bitching around with other people and talking ill of them at some point, so I rather not listen to some of her crap.

Moving on, I think the band relatively sucks as compared to last time because I know that some of us are always lying to dr lee that we have our intonation charts. Another thing is that we aren't making much progress because a handful of us fail to remember the subtle corrections from the previous practice (in which I emphasize the importance of writing down, in which I know that I am guilty of). Another thing is that some sections are seriously wasting our time in rehearsals, so I advise them to practise more. And if the person next to you is playing the wrong stuff or some solo could be better, please point them out as good music in band is a collective effort. I also don't think everyone knows the meaning of the the five finger ending thingy, because all the time I hear late flutes and late random instruments. Furthermore, everyone should watch dr lee closely because I know it sucks for a conductor to feel as if the band is slipping away from his control and we can all see that he gives a lot of visual cues.

What I thought was amazing about today was that practically everyone stopped playing immediately after dr lee stopped. As I didn't go for the talk at 12pm by the ex-co, so I didn't know anything. But I think it means bigger and better results will be appearing, somehow, after a series of talks, I hope.

struck down update

Alright, rmd did get struck down. aka: was hospitalized.

On Thursday, the last day of school, he came back to class after missing 7 days of school, without caring about his condition in which the doctor gave him a MC that lasts till I think end of the June holidays. His condition: asthma; but he said he doesn't believe it as he never had a hint of an asthma attack before until that fateful day. I thought it was an allergic reaction to something but his story told me otherwise.

That day he was playing soccer in his house (he claims his hdb flat is big enough.. lol). Suddenly, he couldn't breathe, and every breath he tried to take required a lot of effort. He was wheezing, choking, as if someone was strangling him while he was having a bad bout of phlegm (Alright, I'm exaggerating too much -.- , but I ever experienced something similar when I was 10 due to a food allergy.). Immediately, he was admitted to the A&E of some hospital and he was attached to this oxygen mask and probably medicine added to clear his airways. From my previous experience, I was also attached to something like that and so that time, I held my breath and realised that I could hold it much longer... duh!... haha. Rmd was then told to stay in the hospital under observation for 3 days after the attack. After 3 days, he went home and was diagnosed with asthma (he still doesn't believe but that's not important). He was given a long long long mc (for weak lungs) and he stayed at home until Wednesday. He said he did go out to some crowded place and he almost died, owing to his weak lungs. So sad.

Don't worry, he's back in action, and he attended the SMC's Spuntik camp and stayed with everyone else for dinner at sushi tei at holland v. :D

I think last Wednesday, my class' form teacher told that our class was having some bout of bad luck, having people being away from school for long periods of time + a teacher too. He doesn't want it to continue. It eerily reminded me of my previous post. Yeah, I know it sucks for it to continue. But are we sure that we can decide when to stop the Russian Roulette? I highly doubt so.

struck down

Apparently, a dreadful disease has struck my class and a teacher who teaches my class in the last 2 months. Why is it so depressing? Well, everyone out there affected has been hospitalized. Nah, disease doesn't mean some weird infection. It means a coincidence of unfortunate events.

First came SLow. She was hospitalized twice already this year. Both times were real ordeals. The first one was something lah during the term exam period. Then the doctor gave her a medicine or antibiotic that she was allergic to and she went into a really bad situation. x.x The second one, she had a gastric problem or something like that and she went missing from school for like damn long. Well, anyway, she's alive and well now so that everyone can continue to make fun of her. :D

Then Yap the teacher got struck down weeks ago by an auto-immune disease. omg. Needless to say, he almost died. When he was gone, dk took over his lectures and my class was treated to a dk style tutorial (really sucks, but at least you learn) and we also had combined tutorials with sb4 :D . Back to Yap; let's go on to his story. Well, he started feeling unwell one day and he went to the hospital A&E. The doctors thought it was some normal disease (wrong diagnosis!!!) and gave him antibiotics and he went home. His condition became worst and he went to the A&E a second time and they gave him more treatment. His condition got worst. Apparently, I think it's something dealing with the skin and he went to see his friend dermatologist at the National Skin Centre. Somehow, his friend knew that it was a rare autoimmune disease. Thank God, if not, I dunno what could have happened to him. His actions said he felt so weak that he was like collapsing throughout that time. So he was warded again and put on steroids (to pump muscles! NOT!). So 1 week later, he was back in school and I heard all these from him. Shaun and I were like shocked and amused at the same time. There he was, standing alive and talking to us, a complete difference from a week ago at that time. Totally unbelievable but a really tough ordeal. He was still on steroids then. So Shaun told him to head to the gym. But that's another story. lol.

Shawn got struck down recently. Anyway, he went to hospital over something probably to do with his leg getting hurt and him needing surgery, so he's carrying some crutches now. It isn't that serious though, with him crapping around in class as usual. haha.

Now, rmd. Where is he? He didn't come to school since Tuesday this week. Certainly, he was struck down too.

Someone tell me what's happening to 2SA1? And who will be next? Certainly not me! I still got a Swiss trip and my H3 exam soon! Anyway, tune in next ____ (fill in yourself) to find out.

nodame

Great. This place became a cemetery. Whatever lah. I'm back.

Yesterday, I watched the nodame drama special at night like after school. 4 hours of non-stop nodame! Nice. Chiaki and Nodame is a nice couple, and exactly like opposites... so they attract. So there are 2 specials. The first one concentrates on Chiaki winning a conducting competition. After having to see him conduct, I must say that he can conduct well, even though he's really acting and he's not a conductor in real life. One nice part is the part where the conductor has to spot mistakes deliberately made in the orchestra, which is exactly like what dr lee says in band. In another part, the chiaki realises the orchestra slipping away from him and also not looking at him. I think this draws similarities in band where we only sometimes look at dr lee even though he's giving a lot of visual cues to help us express our musicality. The second one concentrates on Nodame and why does she play the piano. In the end, everyone went to some church in Europe and Nodame gave a recital. She was lol cute in the Mozart costume. When she played Mozart's twinkle twinkle little star, I knew I had to get my hands on the score cos it sounds nice. Then, at some salon party later on, Chiaki and Nodame finally... kissed haha. Like so shocking.

By the way, the Nodame in the show does not really play the piano. But they happened to cheorograph it so well that Nodame actually lifts her hands at the right places after hitting a loud chord (they keep her hands hidden behind the piano). I think Son Rui also can't actually play too, and she played one of Lizst's Transcendental Etudes, which is like one of the most insane stuff in piano music. I'm suprised Nodame's ear is so darn good that with just several hearings, she can master that insane piece. If only I could do that... haha.

Then today in band, we played all the japanese arranged stuff. Lol my rhapsody in blue solo screwed up big time and in kenneth's version, everyone laughed at at weird trill he made. I think I should take out all my recordings of the solo and let everyone listen because everyone isn't playing properly at all (me included), and I think dr lee went darn fast for the solo (which means less enjoyment of it). Hmm... for people playing the ad libitum parts, gg man, cos like no one today played a pro-ed version of swing style improvisation.

What dr lee said after my "audition" really stuck me cos it reminded me of chiaki's part of the nodame special. Adding on to what he said about conducting in which everyone can make sushi, not everyone makes good ones, he said something like that one must be different from the rest and input some sort of invidual characteristics in his music. He also said that the conductor moulds the music, which really gave me the the impression that conductors really differentiate what different bands sound like and how important they really are.

That's it. I'm tired. Now all I want is to perhaps learn the piano part of the real rhapsody in blue for fun (could take millions of years) and twinkle twinkle little star.

sleeping at a later time

Perhaps I do need to sleep more.. or less. Man, I'm gonna get retarded here.

The Effects of Sleeping at a Later Time
(applies to Ian only)
Lee Kang Qi Ian ACJC
Lee Kang Qi Ian ACJC

Abstract
Many assume that sleeping later than usual is bad for health and for social life. In this paper, we present our findings of sleeping later than usual. Our findings show that sleeping later than usual confirms the assumption that it is bad for health and for social life. We also find that there are 2 equilibriums in the amount of sleep required to wake up fresh after sleeping.

1. INTRODUCTION
Many assume that sleeping later than usual is bad for health and for social life. Thus, our primary hypothesis is to confirm this assumption. Our secondary hypothesis is that the optimum amount of sleep is 8 hours. We define health as performance during PE and the amount of tiredness, and social life as the ability to socialize with others and the enjoyment of being with people.

In our research, we could not find any more willing subjects other than the subject named Ian. Thus, we have assumed that this research only applies to Ian. This assumption is well-justified because we have already stated explicitly in the heading that this ONLY applies to Ian.

In Chapter 2, we shall present related work. In Chapter 3, we present our methodology. In Chapter 4, we present our results and discussion. Finally, we shall conclude and state possible future work in Chapter 5.

2. RELATED WORK (screw this part... :D)

3. METHODOLOGY
Every day, for many many days, we subject Ian to random different sleeping times and a fixed waking time so that the amount of hours of sleep varies. For example, on Monday, he may sleep at 9pm, and on Tuesday, he may sleep at 3am, and on Wednesday, he may sleep at 11pm. But every morning, he wakes up at 6am. This was done to ensure that the subject does not get accustomed to a particular sleeping time after a period of time as in the case in which we give the subject a fixed sleeping time for a period of time.

Upon an hour of waking up, the subject is asked to judge his level of tiredness on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the most tired. On PE days, we judge his performance during PE by timing his runs and the intensity of his workout, again judging the performance on a scale of 1-10. We also take into the account the amount of sleeping time that the subject has during tutorials/lectures and rate it, using a complicated process on a scale of 1-10. With these 3 indicators, we can obtain a very accurate indicator of the health of the subject on a particular day via a summation of the 3 indicators.

To obtain an indicator of the social life of the subject on a particular day, the subject is subjected to 3 tests. The subject is asked at a random time during the day to judge whether he is comfortable socializing with others on a scale of 1-10. Then he is asked whether he enjoys being with people on a scale of 1-10. We also observe the social behaviour of the subject carefully and judge it on a scale of 1-10, with being extremely sociable at 10. Thus, we can obtain an accurate indicator via a summation of the 3 indicators.

Using the 2 indicators, and comparing each indicator to the amount of sleep in hours of the night before, we can construct two graphs that correspond to the health and the social life of the subject.

4.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

The graph of the level of health against sleeping time is shown in Figure 1. We can see that the level of health when sleeping at 8-9 hours at day is optimal. After 9 hours, the level of health decreases, in which we suspect that is because the body is not used to because of over-resting. We observe that persistent tiredness is highly present does not sleep at all, while sleeping for 1 hour drastically improves the level of health by 100%. Unusually, sleeping 3 hours a day gives a level of health that is comparable to sleeping at 7 hours a day.
Figure 1: The graph of the level of health against sleeping time.

The graph of the level of social life against sleeping time is shown in Figure 2. We can see that the level of social life when sleeping at 8-9 hours at day is optimal. After 9 hours, we see that the level of social life drastically decreases. Unusually, sleeping 3 hours a day gives a sudden rise in the level of social life.

Figure 2: The graph of the level of social life against sleeping time.

We can see a correlation between the level of health and the level of social life with the sleeping time from the 2 graphs. Combining both results, we can say that the level of health affects the social life of Ian and we could possibly account tiredness for the lack of social life.

As sufficient experimental results for statistically reliability was taken into constructing the graphs, we cannot treat the sudden rise in the combined level of health and the level of social life at 3 hours of sleeping time as an anomaly.

We conclude that sleeping 8 hours a day for Ian is optimal for the best level of health and the best level of social life. We also conclude that sleeping 3 hours a day is plausible in the case where there is no other options for Ian.

5. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK
In this paper, we have presented our work to prove our hypothesis that sleeping later than usual is bad for health and for social life, and it turns out that our hypothesis is true. Our secondary hypothesis is true as we concluded from the results that sleeping 8 hours a day for Ian is optimal for the best level of health and the best level of social life.

As future work, we may work at research as to why there is sudden rise in both the level of social life and health at 3 hours of sleeping time.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank Ian, the subject in which we carried our sleep experiments on, for his willingness to put his studies at a perilous point due to his sacrifices in missing out on tutorials and lectures. We can never find a more dedicated subject than him.

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So, yes, research has proven that sleeping is good for Ian. Ian should learn to sleep more. And Ian is me. Darn.

fitness

Oh dread the NAPFA. It's next week double period PE for everyone else in the class so I guess I'm taking it anytime soon too. I guess I'm gonna fail NAPFA this time -again. I'm the most unfit in the class. I have the slowest timing for 2.4km among the guys in my class. I can do 3 pull-ups, but that is still a fail in the eyes of the teacher. I can jump 215cm on average, but I dunno whether that is enough to make the cut. I can reach my feet but can't reach beyond that. All that I can do is a pretty good dash for the shuttle run and a sit-up session on overdrive. 2 more months of freedom in the future hangs in the balance. But does the result matter when I'm confirmed PES E with an forum example from a search result?

"lol...ask this kind of question...but anyway i got the answer:

pes E = serious permanent physical defect. i got 2 fren who are pes E, both are cos of hole in heart. they are born with the defect. so maybe, take a drill and do it?"

Here I am. Me. Physical defects plague me: my ears are deaf at high frequencies, my eyes are blind without my glasses. But I'm not dying, don't worry. Fitness... hello, I'm stricken with unfitness for life. Who cares about NAPFA?

But here I am, stuck in a world where physical defects pale in comparison to the competition in the class that I am in. I guess, it's time to get working.

hate rain

Today I had my H3 test. So like I went to NJC in the morning at 10am and took the test. So the test turns out to be retarded and very short essay kind of questions. Those kind that require understanding and memorization. So unlike what is physics. Isn't physics all about maths? They only gave one calculation, evaluate this integral kind of thing. ok, it's ironic why I'm advocating maths when I got wrong for that question. The rest of the questions were almost like describing what the notes wanted to say (but the notes did not say anyway cos the notes were like shit). For example, "How does the Scanning Tunneling Microscope works?". Ok, the external H3 notes did not state how it did work specifically. But the ACJC internal H3 notes did say, so thanks goes to TYS who like gave us the notes. Yeah, so I did pretty ok for this test, probably much much better than the previous test that was a disaster cos nobody knew what kind of questions to expect.

So after that, I went to the NJC canteen and bought a bubble tea which was passion fruit (my favourite :D) milk tea. Their bubble tea was good. ACJC should have this kind of thing, then my rating for the stall selling that drink would skyrocket all the way if the drink is good (I'm referring to the old blog post: "The State of ACJC Food", where I rated all the stalls in the canteen).

Then I realised how NJC is like really a retarded place to be cos the locked the gates that faced Dunearn Road cos it was the back of the school. So Shaun and I had to walk one big round to the front of the school (deep inside Hillcrest Road) get to the bus stop along Dunearn Road. Then, you know, at that time about after 11am, the clouds became super dark and lightning was everywhere. By the time I was in my bus to go back to Chancery Court, it was raining like shit. So I rushed into Cold Storage to grab some food and came out to see the worst kind of rain possible. Then like now, how to reach ACJC in time for band?!

After waiting unsuccessfully for the rain to stop, I obtained an umbrella somehow and went to meet Timmiie in the middle of the rain to return back his ez-link card (which I took it on Thursday and failed to capitalize on the chance to siphon some money). Then I took a bus 48 to holland village and got wet all over in spite of the umbrella. Then I offered to get extra food for the clarinets who were starving in band as they ordered damn little food. When Melvin said get oyster omelette without oyster, I'm like why call it OYSTER omelette in the first place?! When I ordered it, the auntie wasn't that surprised... -.- Then I freaking carried all the food in the heavy shitty rain back to the bus stop. My shoes became soaked like shit by this time. And then got a bus to school.

So I reached school at 1.30pm, by chance, I don't know how. Ms Sng seemed to be scolding someone so I had to go by the lift way. Then yay, the MEP people also came at the same time as me and we went to eat in the void deck. Pity lumpy and sam ho who ate like nothing much for lunch cos of the little food ordered, but they didn't want any more food so never mind. So in the end, we went for band like damn late. haha. And lucky Dr Lee wasn't there to conduct, only Ben. Was a pretty productive session, with the rhapsody on the theme of paganini.

Anyway rain spoilt the day. I had to ensure rehearsal with wet shoes, which is retarded. Even now, my shoes still smell smelly. So yeah, rain should die.

wols stuff

wols is the euphemism for well... slow.

Fun-o-rama pictures first.

I love blood. :D

Well. The last one is real blood.

So my class got 2nd for the games stall in the fun-o-rama. 2nd because of the dunking machine (which is cheating). So about $2800 for a small stall. Yeah. So from now on, I love soap. I love Lux, Dove and Sunsilk. So First prize - soap. Second prize - shampoo. Third prize - soap. That sponsor provided us with the ammo for just the weapon we needed for attracting a neverending supply of customers - sure win, or we pay your coupons back in cash. Muhahaha. So for our win, we got tickets to go to the bird park. Since my class shirt says: "we.mug", I doubt that we will ever go. D:

Second comes H3 Physics. I feel that Mr Tan or TYS is so kind in helping Shaun and I in our shitty understanding of quantum mechanics and the Schrodinger Equation, cos our external H3 course only touches the very "surface" of this topic. Shaun asked him whether we could join in on the internal H3 lessons to learn some bit. He instantly said yeah. I mean like, where else can you find such a nice physics tutor? So last Friday (not this one), we went to join the class for lessons. We came out as if we knew everything there was to know. YAY!

Third comes General Paper common test. I swear I could have done the test without reading the GP package (yes, I did read, as always... SA1 mentality again D:). This time, they gave the title of the article where you are supposed to look for the stuff (yay). Apparently, a handful of them required only reading a little and you would already see the stuff you want. Like they want you to define "social norm" and obviously it's at the top of article. But seriously, the last few parts of the test seem retarded cos there isn't any clear cut stuff you can copy. I hear my GP tutor is gonna complain against the easy peasy test cos it was seriously (no-brainer)^10000. I also hear that the J1 GP common test is like the articles/questions are in random order. That is seriously (gg)^10000000. If that really happens, I think more than 1/2 of the level would fail. Must as well don't take. Hmm... if only someone can confirm my rumour, or it had already happened...

On Friday, it was PW result day and as expected, I got A! YAY!!! Among my group members, Jia Yi and I got A, and Kok and YongYe got B. You know what? I'm not happy. YongYe should get A for his effort to be involved. And especially, Kok certainly deserves something higher than A. He was the one who single-handedly made our event a success. (Mind you, our event was actually done properly in its full glory.) He was the one who could outspeak and bullshit his way through Q & A and OP. Damn. Being the group leader, I should have at least take some time off to edit their 3 individual written components. Blah. Anyway, sometimes bad luck gets into the way even though you put in all the effort. Since the results are final, there's no point complaining for them. I still feel that our group should have got a full A grade though.

Also on Friday, Dabid, Bel, Zan, Mark, Han and I took a blue slip to collect our NRP prizes. So we went to the school of media, arts, design whatever in NTU, where the ceremony, the NRP opening for 2008 was held too. The J1s who were participating also went and I realized that almost all of them were foreigners, with like many Vietnamese, which is a surprising large contrast from my batch. So we mingled around with them (and Han mingled with her juniors in their language).

So what happened during the presentation ceremony was that the programme booklet had the name slip that had my name attached that we were supposed to pass on to the usher before going on stage to collect our prizes. When I went to the front to line up, I realized that I had not brought my programme booklet. So I went back to my seat, and to my horror, I didn't know where the hell was the damn booklet, which I knew that I left on my bag. I searched everywhere and couldn't find it. So I went back to line up and they told me I would not get onto the stage to receive my prize. I was like wtf after that and reluctantly went back to my seat, feeling out of place. Damn, missed the chance to shake the hand of the dean of the engineering school which only gold award recipients got to! I watched everyone go up stage, except me, which is damn retarded.

Unexpectedly, at the end of the entire ceremony, some idiot SAJC guy gave me back my programme booklet, with the slip of paper attached, without a word. I was too shocked to say anything to that guy, becoming instantly totally wtf. I thought, forget it, I can't be bothered tell off that ccb in front of everybody. So in the end, I still got my award, but I still can't stand the fact that I was sabotaged. I mean that guy could have noticed me searching for something and asked me whether I was searching for the programme booklet, which he never did. What a knnccb kind of guy.

The end of wols stuff. On to the tneserp.

clarinet quotes

My original compiled list of clarinet quotes! :D

Nonsense: My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are. - Goldie Hawn

BOOOO: Clarinet, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet- two clarinets - ambrose bierce 'the devils dictionary' 1906

(BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)^10000: I started in elementary school. I tried clarinet first since my mom had played it but I didn't like it. When I tried the violin it was like, 'Wow, this is fun.' It's like my passion. I love playing the violin. - Eric Vargas

Yay: In addition to my love of chamber music -- and the clarinet among wind instruments probably has the richest repertoire -- I also want my students to hear me in this setting. They all come to the orchestra pretty regularly. - Ron Samuels

Nice: Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones. -Gerry Mulligan

Nicer: On the new album, for example, I'm specifically thinking about the bass clarinet all the time because I love it so much. - John Grant

Wisdom: The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be. - Jack Brymer

Good: Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet. - Lee Konitz (YEAH BLUE SHADES!)

Better: I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know. - Acker Bilk

Best: Please do not shoot the clarinettist. He is doing his best. - Oscar Wilde (modified from pianist)