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Friday, May 27, 2005 @ 1:01 AM
irony of life.

wat's irony? irony is when u've onli studied 3/4 of the chapters for chem test and got 20.5/25, top 7 among whole level. irony is when u've actually studied hard for chem test and scored a pathetic 22/40. irony is when u've taken the phy test 15min late, and got a 50/60 grade, when the test was supposed to be tough. irony is when u tink u'd into the house com when u didnt, cos' of reasons i dare not delve into. how ironic life can get.

ya, got my phy paper on tue, which came as rather a shock. i had entered late as jerome wanted to wait for ed as usual. 1hr to do the test seemed impossible, but surprsingly, i managed to hantam all the way to the last qn. i'd figured i'd flunk the test, if not pass it with not so flying colours, but this's when irony comes into the picture. i guess u always expect the unexpected. i felt good getting such grades, maybe cos' i was never much of an academic achiever back in tms. irony irony...

seems like it was a day of physics. later that day i had phy spa, which was pretty much wat i had expected : a dumb elasticity experiment. i mean, the teachers had been particularly driving us hard to learn the core of elasticity exp, with all the notes and stuff. all in all, it was straightforward, though errors shld appear somehow. they always do.

MJ beat VJ. awesome. Liverpool beat AC Milan. awesomeR. it was a day of penalty shootouts. i therefore conclude that finals will most likely end in penalty kicks, just to tense up the atmosphere.

it's end of the 1st sem.



Saturday, May 21, 2005 @ 8:58 PM


my shadow.haha.. Posted by Hello



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i'm starting to miss my hair. Posted by Hello



@ 8:54 PM


this was like 3 days before i all these hair off. the pain... Posted by Hello



@ 1:51 AM
1 more week!

this week, it's been hectic. i mean, to start off the week, i had chinese test, which i effortlessly ( not becos i found it ez) did. hey, i even had time to pen a poem abt 'truth' on the qn paper, and it was pretty good one. wait till i get it back, i shall post it up here. nxt was chem spa. straightforward if u ask me, basically tested ya ability to titrate, din even use an indicator. like how jevan would put it, 'no kick la'. agreed.

nxt day i had phy test, at like 7.30 in the morning. could have taken the 7am bus '3', but i saw jerome, lonely, waiting for edmund as ususal. somehow, the 'nicer me' got the better of me. as a result, we were late for like 5min. Mr Se din look too pleased. got to do the paper at like 7.45. 1 hr more. so not a way to start the day. no big, these things happened, i dont blame anyone. mid yr lor, shall make it up then. during phy lect, i attempted to study for fmaths. ended up listening to the lecturer, though i find it quite odd taking into account that that he shld be the reason i shld read my fmaths. maybe i'm just too good a boy. fmaths rawks. no matter how many times i check my timetable, i cant believe i have fmaths slots in it. wat actually drove me to take this horrifying subj, where the sadistic teachers leave u to rot in the piles of tutorials, where the tests leave u gasping for air as u try to solve the insane problems while keeping ya sanity intact. i mean, hoesntly, the tests take ya breath away. not that PE cant do tt, but it aint a examination subj. fmaths rawks.

wednesday. hMz, nothing much to say, pretty normal day. had cca elections in the afternoon. wasnt a nominee, but not everything is abt being known, abt bringing things 'to greater heights'( this is getting a bit too cliche). i'd rather stay low. ok, i sound like a jealous fag. maybe, i cant tell. wait, i do sound like one. maybe cos of house com. still get over it. anyway, i dun see myself as a house com member, it'd be odd. real odd. shit happens i guess...

had chin oral on thurs. suppose to come early to help steph and co to move some tables and stuff for something. ended up arriving at 7.25. pai seh pal. chin lesson was slack since 'cher had to oralise (no such word exists. onli in my dict it does) others, so we were left to do our chin compo. no mood, since i was anxiously waiting for my turn to come. always disliked oral, had this fear of malu-ing myself in front of 'cher. not that i tried to improve myself so as to avoid this, but i can never for once take oral w/o being afraid. however, this time, i jus said 'heck with it' and tok lor. it's my vocab, cant say the right words at the right time. still, she said i was better than average, 'hai you xi wang' as quoted from her. wat a lie. come on, i know myself, if i sucked, jus splashed those words across my face. but i guess it's her job, to keep the students' confidence in check. wat angels. after tt, i was more relaxed, but had to help arange some refreshments for the principals who were coming down from china. when i entered the room, i was like 'typical. newater.' come on peeps, bluntly speaking, who would want to drink other ppl's urine? it's gross, and cheap. u're welcoming guests from foreign countries, don't they deserve more deserving refreshments? ok, newater may leave a lasting impression, but let's not go there...it was a packed day. could might call it fmaths day. double tut double lect. fun fun for everyone! koh's lect was pretty slack, which is an anomaly (getting warmed up for phy spa) from her other lects. another anomaly was that me, jev and clar sat on the first row. hope we dun get such seats for the star wars screening. oh, there's another anomaly for the day. GP lesson we watched 'i am sam'. oh, it was awesome. sean penn gets into the character so deeply, it's so realistic. in case ya din know, it's abt some mentally challenged father who's left to look after his child who was ditched by her mom. but in the years to come, he couldnt catch up with her in terms of studies and stuff blah blah... din get to watch finish though. wat onli.

sian day. phy lect was so boring! the lect was revising some shit abt spa, before the real lesson started. and it wasnt even a lesson lor. we were like recaping for almost the whole period. mex was like 'are we gonna recap for the whole lesson?'. when we got onto the real thing, it din realli matter. i was stunned, my friends were stunned. great, we're gonna become stuntmen. ok, bad joke, ha.ha. fmaths lect wasnt anything different. tng's lect i had to move to the far end of the back row, further away from quek. but i guess i spoke of my reason to move too indiscretly, so he moving closer to me. nxt to, to be specific. 'eric's my fren wat', or so he claims. come on 'cher, give me some space, let's not pressure the dumb kid kz? couldnt crack too many jokes as a result, but hey, at least i bonded more with quek. ok, tat's gay, and student-teacher relationship shldnt shld just stay tt way. slack for the rest of the day, lessons werent so intense. even PE was slack, played bball.

wat a wk.



Friday, May 13, 2005 @ 6:57 PM
nafa, the terror.

it was the day of reckoning.pft.but let's not rush to tt yet..

first lesson was phy tut. i had not bothered to attempt my dynamics tut cos O.C was up the previous night, and i needed my beauty sleep b4 tt. the 1st season of O.c was actually had more drama and plot as compared to the 2nd one. when ryan jus entered the cowens family, many issues that followed were real interesting, jus kept me glued and wana catch the nxt epi. but now, it's nothing but sex. making out with ya fren. making out with ya illegitimate aunt, who's so young that she could be ya sis. making out with the gardener ( this is getting a bit cliche though. desperate housewives..). still, i'll be the loyal viewer that i am and that it'll stray away from all the sexual-related impressions it's giving. ok, abt phy tut, i jus stoned as he went through the dynamics chp more clearly. mr se is awesome, realli appreciate the fact i got him. so patient and his cheerful vibe is well liked by everyone. fortunately, he had no time to touch on dynamics tut, so it was off to phy lect. nothing impt, finished up dynamics lect and brush thru the work,power,energy chp, which was damn sian. some guy behind was already in wonderland, and the two ppl nxt to me were making their way there. not helpful at all. the recess was so needed, though i ended up eating nothing. simply wanted some peace to myself and no more information download.

double fmaths lect was up nxt. heng no mrs tng double period, or else all i'm gonna give her is constant nodding throughout. we need variety lor, one mdm koh period and mrs tng, don't throw us two of mrs tng. moreover she is pregnant, unnecessary pressure should be avoided, stress aint healthy for the baby (heard this while watching first mums on tv mobile. quite interesting actually, first of its kind for me.) anyway, did roots of polynomial and vectors, so not interesting. it was getting draggy when the ring of freedom brought about cheers of jubilation, in the form of mumblings that is. PCCG tok in the hall , but i slpt through it so obviously cant say anything abt it. all i could barely rmb was that the speaker married at 15. wad da hell.

lunch time. when we were making our way to the tut cls, i realised i wasnt my usual self. felt so sian, so purposeless, so meaningless. must be the lessons, or one of those moods. mr se came by to hand us our kinematics tut which he marked. odd, mr se neva was this diligent or effective. power, his wifey must have given him some sugar the prev night.swt...we had to finish up our half-written compo during GP. dunno why, but i just couldnt put my mind to it. i was more into the 'write-crap-don't-care-how-it-turns-out-even-if-i-might-get-F' mood, was so heck cared. maybe it was the pft which was drawing closer.

2.45 pm. PFT. realised we were the onli cls doing 5 stations, so the teachers tried to rush through everything. pity the other classes, had to do 2.4 at this hour. sadistic sia the PE teachers. anyway, sit&reach and shuttle run was my onli consolation. 52cm and 10.2 secs respectively. in fact, u can count them as the onli ones i did. the rest were pathetic. push ups 35. wad onli. sbj was 210 on the 2nd try, but cos' i fell back, my hand fell to the 115 cm mark. 2nd attempt: 115 cm. wad onli. pull ups wasnt so bad. the humiliation was unanimous, ppl were getting zeros or threes. din fell so out of place or left out. i jus went up and released my grip. told 'cher 'don't want to waste your time'. so respectful of ppl's time hor? haha, excuses excuses.. 2.4km? let's jus say, even if i was graded as a gal, i wouldn't get a A. shoot, i shlda faked as erica, but my built and broad shoulders gave me away. or maybe cos' i wasnt convincing enuf in terms of my actions..wateva the case, it's all over...finally, and dreadfully...

while i was trying to doze off during PCCG talk, i was doing some deep thinking. (graeme's so influential). haiz,life's so unpredictable. i mean, u cant...no, u shldnt assume things will worked out the way u think they will. don't delude yourself, it's not healthy and it'll onli make matters worse. jumping to conclusions based on not-so concrete facts is foolish. but sometimes, the mind cant convince the heart (as crudely quoted from graeme). so true. a good eg was the house com elections. though i wasnt cheered on so much by the my cls and a few others, though i made contributions to the track meet, though i tried to turn up for meetings, all these meant no shit. i know i shldnt be a sore loser, but still, unfair is unfair. even if i din get in, why not jaesung? he's good wat, real needy when needed. i guess zhi yu, me and jae have something in common now : house com rejects. no big, shit happens. deal with it. my mood hasnt been so cheery lately, maybe cos' of wat's been happening and wat's to happen. no worries, it's jus one of those periods, i'll get over it sooner or later. sooner, i hope.



Saturday, May 07, 2005 @ 5:26 PM
Triton is spelled W-I-N-N-E-R-S.

woohoo! wat a day i had yesterday. it was the inaugural 3rd track and field meet for MJc. it was a pretty much typical morning with physics tutorial and lect. it was followed by a so-darn-boring double period fmaths lect. moreover, it was taken up by the same lecturer, who i personally think loves to act cute. why? cos' she has this habit of speaking her thoughts. it's like she has no mental voice to say it for her. for eg, if she makes a mistake, she'll go like 'aiyah!why i so careless?sry sry..' or 'ehz?how my pen suddenly change colour?'. oh so not cute lady..i realli bui tahan her lesson lor. 2 consecutive periods with her seems like eternity. and it doesnt help very much when both ya frens nxt to u are dozing off and constantly 'nodding in agreement' with wat she says. the temptation, it is there. but miracously i survived the ordeal. it was a well-deserved lunch that followed after. met up with the other triton nominees to finish up with making the pon-pons ( the thing that cheerleaders use to shake with their hands). after we're done, we went for a briefing. it was pretty much the usual after tt, get all stuff together, clear up last-min tasks, learn the cheers from our cheerleaders and get down to the netball court. 'it looks like it was gona rain' someone from the crowd mentioned so. ya, it would definitely rain if u maybe did a little raindance? come on man, don't say this sorta things when we're abt to start the track meet leh. sadly, our words werent enuf to convince the gods to not pour down on us. as a result, we hada wait for the rain to die off. half an hour later, we ended up with continuing with the cheerleading competition in the hall. awesome man, this was a first timer for me. and darn, the callisto had babes man. miranda had skirts that shld end up being the default length of MJ's gals' uniform.but i think triton had the most organised team, though we lacked in numbers, but we had quality shit ( honestly, we were that good.) we even ended with a bang, cos' one of the ladies had fallen back flat on the floor. no one had caught her when she fell. dang, they shoulda called for me, i would glady help grab her..i mean catch her la..

after the much-hyped cheerleading thingy, everyone was rushing for the milo truck. it seems like this milo truck is everywhere, be it road runs or wateva sports meet i've been at. milo is so influential.haha, dunno wat nonsense i'm toking..anyway, i had to help out with putting the chairs in place for all the tritons. we were stationed at the ramp/bridge in front of the hall. i found it a rather awesome spot, not becos we were nearest to the milo truck, nor was it becos we could block the other houses from going to the toilets, but we werent so packed together, we had the space we all wanted. and there was enuf leaning space for all tritons onto the barracade. if every batch continues leaning onto it, the barracade is gona give wat sooner or later. heck, it shld last enuf for us. when the events started, i had surprised myself. i was unlike my OG-self, the slacker and unenthu me. maybe it's becos i had to set a good eg for the rest. wateva da case, the triton nominees and i were cheering our hearts out. and gladys seemed to have the capability of screaming all the way. and i mean all the way. she was like for every event screaming at the top of her voice, which me and jaesong failed to do so. gals, they're always unpredictable. kah mun oso, dunno how she do it lor. maybe she's been training at concerts, it was either scream or be screamed at. power sia.

we onli gave out the bandanas halfway thru the meet, when gladys mentioned it. and instead of tying around their forehead, they ended up making ties around their necks. so creative, and yet they cant think of something good for their PI. odd...and then we carried on cheering, which soon became our drug to get high. the cheerleaders were oso damn ON, most of the time they'd get the ball rollin and we'd add the boost they needed. Anyway, as for the events, triton rawks. the impression of triton being a loser house at the road race soon became a distant memory, as we claimed medals after medals. kudos to gian seng. i realli respect this fella, he takes his runnig seriously. and fu kun, the kun(g) fu bastard. din know he was so powerful in track events. he made the gap we needed with the other runners in the 4 x 400 relay. and all the time i tot he was just a slacker. wait, i still think he's a slacker, but a athlectic slacker that is. i think it was thanks to the house t-shirt i lended to him that made the difference. haha, no la, jus kidding..

So we caried on cheering and we had milo after milo and barry looked so cute when he did the novelty race. dang, i so envied him when the cheerleaders were boosting his morale, they were like his fan club. when will i have my fan club? all in all, we went from fourth to 3rd overall. i seriously think we deserved it, after all we did and all the runners did. and stupid stephen made me settle the attendance thingy, had to make sure all the sheets were marked by respective CG reps. but my sorrow was drowning in the estactic cheers of tritons. we did well, too well in fact. i hope nxt year will be the same. till the nxt track meet guys..



Sunday, May 01, 2005 @ 10:56 AM


me waiting to receive the prize at speech day! Posted by Hello