just keep running

Hi.

I kinda ran out of things to blog. Life has been pretty boring these days. I spent most of my time worrying about chinese As, OP, I&R and a few other gazallion things that I shouldn't even be thinking about.

BUT.


Death Note is always there. Hah.

Death Note is probably the first manga/anime/whatever I actually bothered to followed, mostly inspired after watching the movie. It's a great show, everyone should watch it and admire how Light/Kira KILLS his enemies.

Okay.

Odac had the run again today, route made by Mr Ong (who did the recce on his motor and got us to run the route). Supposedly a near 5km lap, but I feel it's more. But whatever. That's not the main point.

We were turning into the main road from Serangoon Avenue 3 and while running along the road, I saw stuff like AIS and other other school I can't remember. Then I saw a condo U/C. I will never forget that condo.

COS.

The name of the condo was THE CHUAN. As in Lorong Chuan, Chuan.

Like wth? What kind of a name is THAT?

I was so amused I was ready to roll on the pavement and laugh my ass off until someone decides to come and haul me away to IMH.

Great future. @ 22:48

Hi all.

Next time you wanna plug any computer cables or anything similar, be careful okay? Especially if you're in NYJC. Cos in NYJC, plugging off ANY cables could be disastrous.

Well, at least that's the impression I got when my PW group went to ask Mrs Lucy smth if we could plug a Mac to the projector. I mean, it was ALREADY approved by the TA but she just had to come into the picture. After all, big boss right?

Well anyway, she lauched into a speech on how important is it not to touch any of the cables so as not to put other groups into a disadvantage. She's apparently afraid we won't be able to connect back the cables correctly and the projector wouldn't work anymore and everyone would die. And she had to do this with that volleyball teacher in the comp lab that can't speak proper english for nuts. Did I mention listening to bad english is a torture?

Excuse me. Our group has 2 9 pointers for O levels. Do we look like we can't disconnect and connect the cable back? Oh wait, I'm sorry. I forgot doing that puts everyone in the danger of Armageddon where the stars and the Sun would all fall down onto Earth and everyone would just burn out and die in the world wide BBQ, only in this case the ones being BBQ-ed are us. Oh, there's also the equally likely chance that the sky would fall, just like it did in Chicken Little and everyone would be flattened to death. So sorry. I forgot that. I'm sorry. I won't touch the cables anymore. I promise.

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Okay. I know she was just doing her job. But I couldn't resist doing a dig at her. Her attitude sucks like crap. Together with the teacher-that-can't-speak-proper-for-English-for-nuts. But we do feel a bit bad for putting the TA( what's her name, Li smth?) in a bad spot.

Judgement Day tmr. GOD bless everyone, especially those in danger.

I'm going to watch THE SIMPSONS. Bye. @ 22:03

I saw a newspaper article that almost made me kill myself.

I don't have that online ST thing like Mr Wang has, but here's a little summary.

JC students projects yield real-life benefits

Growing acceptance of PW as more than just a A-level requirement

More or less it talks about how good Project Work(PW) is, saying it instils independence and collaborative learning and that it brings benefits, not just to students, but to the community as well.

Har har har. Forgive my ignorance, but I can't seem to see any benefits PW brings to the student, let alone the community. In my eyes, it seems to be nothing more than a burden that gives more trouble than all my 3 H2 subjects added together. I'm certain I'm not the only one feeling this way. Heck, the percentage of students that hate PW can easily be more than the percentage of local drivers.

The article then goes on to rant about how the students proposals have actually been made reality, like the Subway outlet in TJC.

The Education Ministry does not track how many proposals are realised but about 2700 proposals are submitted every year. A check revealed that the number of projects realised at each JC is fewer than 10, out of the 170 written reports of projects submitted per JC/CI.

The acceptance of PW shows that it has come a long way since it was introduced in the A-levels in 2003.

This was were I got confused.

Out of 170 written reports, less than 10 are realised. Take 10 as an exmaple. Doing the math, we get 10/170 x 100% = 5.88%. This means less than 5.88% of the WRs are realised, right? Unless my A grade in math was in vain.

SOOO, < 5.88%. Where is the bloody hell is the the acceptance of PW shown?

With articles like this, I can't be sure of how much truth is there in the newspapers we read.

On a lighter note, I saw this one day out:-


I was like, what in the world is that? Until my sister told me it was the chinese word "JIA", which is actually 33.33% of my name. I almost slapped myself for not recognising it.

And they scold me for ugly handwriting? @ 22:07

HOHOHO. This is bloody funny. Especially at 05:33.

All your base are belong to us. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Tonight till tmr morning there's overnight prayer meeting at hoGc, which I so sadly cannot go cos 1)it's overnight and it would take a lot to smoke my parents through that and 2)if my parents ever find out, you'll never ever see me again. Really. Man that sucks. Sometimes I just feel like blabbering out everything my dad and pray that everything turns out fine. But that would require a bit of time and management which I at this point of time, do not have. So well. So I guess my step of faith(as Mong puts it)would have to come slighter later.

And it's my mum's birthday today. Happy birthday Mum. Please, next time you wanna bitch about anything, please try to realise that your son has quite a few problems of his own and would really appreciate it if you could understand him a bit better. Thanks.

Till then, bye. God bless. @ 22:43

ring ring hello?
eh jiajie. james here ah.
yo tandy pw how?
huh who tandy?
aren't you tandy?
huh no! I'm james from new zealand!
!

Yeah okay. He's one of the TW 06 people. Apparently ICEP's going on again and they need people in the month of December. I might as well go down.

Well. Nothing exciting these few days. It's been PW like everyday. This sucks. Only had time to meet Mong. OP is dying, relatively. Standard Chartered in under 2 months. Chinese As next month. OP dry run tmr. Damn sch projector cannot read Mac. Must do lousy PPT. Model half done.(Not forgetting to mention it's zapping a lot of our money.)

Oh well.



HAHAHA. @ 23:25

Hello.

In comp lap now. Osborne behind me.

Bye. @ 12:03

And just as I thought my life was changing for the better..

ho ho. sometimes I just don't know how wrong I can be at times.

Well I guess everything's changing. But my heart won't. Really. @ 22:40

Poop. It's all out.

In no particular order:-

GP:
Paper 1 - 27/50
Paper 2 - 24/50
Total - 51/100
Percentage - 51%
Grade - D

Math:
Total - 73/100
Percentage - 73%
Grade - A

Chemistry:
Paper 1 - 30/40
Paper 2 - 21.5/40
Paper 3 - 29/60
Total - 80.5/140
Percentage - 57.5%
Grade - C

Econs:
Paper 1 - 9/25
Paper 2 - 9/30
Total - 18/55
Percentage - 32.7%
Grade - U

Physics:
Paper 1 - 29/40
Paper 2 - 34/60
Paper 3 - 39.5/60
Total - 102.5/160
Percentage - 64.1%
Grade - B

Chinese:
Paper 1 - 21/30
Paper 2 - 22/50
Total - 43/80
Percentage - 54%
Grade - D

Oh well. I guess that's pretty all right. I did expect to fail econs and I managed to pass chinese. Never mind if it's a lousy pass. What I didn't expect was that physics grade. I really didn't study much for it as compared to chemistry but lok at the frigging grades. Next time I also don't want to study already. @ 22:27

It's a frigging miracle. I swear it is. @ 23:33

By the request of Osborne Chan, I have decided to post the name of the ***** displayed her utter stupidity and irresponsibility to us yesterday.

Her name is Mrs Queenie Wong.

There you go.

Today was one hell of a day. Finished 8km, had PW, sold ice cream and ATE ice cream. I probably had like, 20 scoops of ice cream in total.

I'm not going to touch ice cream for a very long time.

I have PW to do. Good night and God bless. @ 21:09

Let's blog about teachers shall we?

I love it when I'm in the seat of the one with authority. Don't you all? The wonders of being able to do anything, be it right or wrong. It doesn't matter, cos no one's there to question you. You're in charge, remember?

And that's what some teachers are. And really, some of them don't deserve to be there.

Take the ***** in the morning for example. Some teacher she is. Shifting the blame to my whole class in front of the whole school when it's so clear SHE was the one at fault. Honestly, I wonder what they teach them in NIE.

"Oh, they seem a bit confused over who's making the announcement."

Oh hello, u shrivelled old hag. It seems to me that YOU are the confused one. Do get your priorities in order, can you? Some HOD you are. Shifting the blame to us STUDENTS. What do they call that, irresponsibility? Do get yourself some medicine if you fail to remember certain things cause you ARE getting old, you know. Please, save everyone some trouble and get yourself some help. And it really isn't OUR fault you're nervous in front of the school. Ain't our freaking problem.

And what did I tell u guys man. Those teachers read our blogs. And for a bloody good reason at that. Head on down to http://euniceee.blogspot.com/ and read the entry dated 6 Oct. You thought your blog was a safe place to rant and whine, didn't you? Think again. =]

It seems to be the blogosphere isn't safe anymore. Big brother's watching. Blog about your life and they call you into the office and accuse you of not studying of As. Better still, print the whole damn blog out as evidence. Back in TK I heard a student was made to do a public apology when he/she blogged about a teacher.

I don't know about you, but I find these acts extremely low-down.

I mean, it's probably a teacher's duty to care about the student (blah blah blah), but using the blog? And spilling out the contents?

Haha, it's probably not safe to blog anymore. For all I know, some ny teacher's reading this right now, thinking when's the best time to make an announcement to call for me to go to the office and show me a few printed [full-colour, may i add] pages of my blog. Man, that would be legendary. My mother would be so proud.

I think I better stop now before I go over the limit. Later they come read my blog I die already. Churn up all the old entries with gazallion of vulgarities and profanities and show my parents.

"Your son might have an anger management problem."

Thanks ah.

And oh. Welcome to the new age of total control. An age where no place is safe. Not anymore. @ 23:06

I've found this interesting cartoon that I thought I'd share here.


ah?

Let's do this the Social Studies way, shall we? (tries to remember what Ms Koh taught in class.)

This picture depicts a man, namely an ex-convict trying to land himself a job in the civil service. However, he is blocked by a (abnormally) large ribbon called the Yellow Ribbon Movement..

Or something along those lines. You get the gist.

On a more serious note, this was seen @ http://seijieiga.blogspot.com, where various Singapore politicial cartoons are shown. Some of them have quite some substance in them. Back to the picture, it's basically a situation where by the ex-convict tries to land himself a job in the civil service (The Government) but can't cause the Yellow Ribbon's blocking him. The irony is that the Yellow Ribbon is started and very much supported by the Government but yet they do not allow ex-convicts to enter the civil service as employees. So that's more or less the whole gist. They tell the public sector to give the ex-convicts a second chance by giving them a job, but they themselves don't seem to able to do it themselves.[Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against convicts. I think they all deserve a second chance, like all of us do.]

Food for thought.

God bless. @ 23:22

Hello. I just realised I've been blogging almost everyday lately.

Well, remember how they always say it's good to share your burdens with other people? I'll take that to mean, to talk to people about whatever's troubling you.

Sounds easy doesn't it? Talk to anyone, trouble goes away.[For a while, at least.] But it really isn't that easy. Really.

It's not that easy to find someone to talk to. It's like travelling to the Land of Mordor to drop The Ring into the pit where it was created.[Okay, maybe LOTR has gone to my head.] The things, most people fail to understand you really feel and in the process of "sharing your burden", you somehow manage to talk to someone that mocks at your pathetic state. And nope, that doesn't really help.

Of course, there are many others around, but they really can't be bothered.

On the other hand, there's always the option to keep things to yourself. Personally I find this a better way out, relatively to blabbering your troubles to everyone else. I prefer this cos:-

Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence

Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world
Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Can't you understand
Oh my little girl

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

Vows are spoken
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Pleasures remain
So does the pain
Words are meaningless
And forgettable

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm.

Enjoy the silence.

cos deceche mode says so. =)

On YET another hand, some people don't seem to have troubles at all. They have it all, money, brains, looks, good family, great friends blah blah. It's really quite irritating to know such people exist. =x

Which is why it's sometimes good to imagine. Which is also why I'm now going to play Maplestory and imagine I'm a level 17 theif named "gahhhh" and my main aim in life is to kill as many mushrooms as possible. That way my only problem in life are gonna be just mushrooms. Sure beats the hell out of all the shit I've been thinking about.

figures have been censored to protect runner. =)

Well, I'm off to do some reflection. Bye and God bless. @ 22:06

hello.

I have a small confession to make. It's really quite insignificant.

I have started playing Maplestory again. Thanks to the little MS chat I had with some of the Odac ppl in the morning.

But yes, I am playing now. I actually went through all the trouble of creating a new account. Then I realised I have this super old character named "gahhhh" in there. Opened it to find a lvl 17 thief.

Ah, and here's where all the memories starts flowing back.[just like how the flood at the Ford stopped the 9 Black Riders that were after Frodo and The Ring. Okay bad joke.]

"gahhhh" was right exactly where I last left him. At least in my memory. Then I remembered who I was playing with the last time I used "gahhhh". Then I opened the buddy list and there! There was the name, sitting right there, reminding me of the past. And it sure felt like shite.

Then I jumped around for a while killing orange mushrooms, thinking of how great the past was.

Then i deleted everyone on my buddy list and quit playing. Cause some things are better left undone.

THE CLT CREED

I will be loyal to the Corp, my unit, my officers, peers and juniors.

My rank is an opportunity to serve others and I will carry out my task cheerfully and accomplish them with quality.

No task is too lowly for me.

Leadership to me is a privilege and not a birthright.

I will not abuse my powers and boost my ego at the expense of others.

I will lead by example and shun the bad practices of those who have gone before me.

I will earn the respect and not demand it and I will achieve it through courage, humility, honesty and fairness.

I will place the welfare of my charge above my own. My cadet first always, myself last always.

I will be an outstanding example in my dressing, speech and conduct at all times in and out of my uniform.

I will instruct others using a patient, positive and encouraging but firm approach.

I will expect high standards but it is only because I must first be good at whatever I teach.

I may not be faced with favorable situations, but I will persevere and to the best of my ability because I can make a difference,

Sirs and Madams.

About high time I started following the Creed. @ 22:35

I'm here to rant and whine for a while, so please, if you can't stand such things, kindly hit the red cross sitting on top right hand corner of this screen.

I've always wanted to be 1 of these 2 things: a figher pilot in the RSAF or a combat officer, preferably a Commando/Guards officer.

And I can be neither, mainly due to my eyesight.

I have a serious eyesight problem, with about 700-800 degrees of short-sightness. That means I'm blind without my glasses. Literally. Steal my glasses and I can't tell your left hand from your right hand, even if you stick both front in front of my eyes. And that also means i always have to wear glasses. With lens that are so irritatingly thick, you could put them next to a LOTR trilogy book (like the one I'm reading now) and you won't be able to know the difference. [Okay, maybe this is slightly blown up. But you get the idea.]

Okay. So I can't live without my glasses. And this restricts my movement a lot. I can't hop onto an F-15 and start steering the damn thing high in the sky, breaking the sound barrier and speed limit without anyone catching me. That's cause when I break the sound barrier and speed limit, I break my glasses along with them cause there's 10 times my body weight acting on me. So I break my glasses, I become blind and I crash the jet into Suntec City and there's gonna be a new 911 event.

Neither can I wear the red beret, cause I can't do the Airborne course without killing myself trying to figure out where in the world I am at a few thousand feet above the ground without my glasses. And I can't perform tasks that the most highly trained soldiers in the SAF should be able to do cause I've got 2 transparent things in front of my eyes.

And all these really irritates me cause it's not my fault I'm short-sighted. Neither of my parents were. You can't blame me for being such a studious boy at primary school, can you? Reading every single book that comes along until this shite developed.[Honestly, this was the reason I'm wearing glasses. Really.]

But nvm. I'm going to be things far greater.
I'm going to whack my As. Then I'm going to get a SMS(Military) scholarship from the SAF. Then I'm going to join the army. Then I'm going to in OCS. Then I'm going to become an artillery officer. Following that I'll spend the rest of my time playing with the Primus, FH20000, Pegasus and all those stuff. My best friend would be a 155mm round that can blow your ass away.

Singapore Artillery.

Yep. Bye. God Bless.

i didn't mean to fall in love with you. @ 23:22

Amazing. Today was absolutely sensational. Can't put in rightly in words, it would do the experience a bit of injustice. I was honestly quite close to tears towards the end. But it was still, great. I wanna go. Again.

And oh, this is definitely a video worth watching.


Go till the end man. It's super funny yet true.

Okay I'm off.

haze haze, go away. @ 22:04

what a day. woohoo.

First I managed to find a totally empty gym. Then I surrendered my EZ link to 2 strangers when I played pool at 2 different places in 1 day. lol.

And I happened to see some SAFPU soldiers at TPY rehearsing for some event. I must say it was kinda cool.


Sure, there's loads of these on youtube, but seeing it up close was a cool thing to do. hah. rotations and all, super smoooooth.

Then we went off to sembawang to meet the rest for dinner, where we ran around the estate, chasing each other with whipped cream. Fun, ain't it?

Sometimes it's amazing how anyone can be a bad guy for a small while, and deemed to be a villian be everyone else for a very long time. I guess that's why they say changing's a hard thing to do.

And did I mention the haze is horrible? I can barely see the block next to mine. Hah. @ 00:29

hello.

after numerous days at war with my promos, they're finally over. I'm 100% sure I'm going to fail physics, prob sub-pas econs, and hopefully pass everything else. If not I'm going to be a OGM next year again. I'm quite close to achieving that already. Well, I'll worry bout that in the days to come. For now, I'm going to slack. Lol.

Some days back I recieved this "thing" from mh.


very obviously, it's a fund raising card from my dear hqncc.

I can clearly remember the last time I got this card. For some reason I remembered it when I was in Sec 2. I have no memory of getting this in Sec 3 or 4. Either they decided we didn't need it or I simply forgot.

Well, I could also remember the first person to donate on that Sec 2 card. The smile on the face, the delicate signature, everything.

Maybe I remember too many things.

rahh. whatever.

I've added a little song thing, it's near the bottom left of the page, right under the tagboard. It's a great song. I meant to get another song up, but apparently the webby I got that thing from didn't have that song. I figured, whatever.

And I also think that MOE is dumb.

Okay, so that's was totally random. but seriously. The education system here is so warped, they make us cramp 60 marks into 1.5 hrs, which in actually a near impossible task, considering the questions weren't exactly the mainstream type. I mean, what's the use of making us think so fast? To add on, I personally think that dropping EM3 is a bad idea. A very bad one.

No evil intentions, I don't mean to discriminate against anyone but, there has to be a hierarchy in any society. The good and the bad. The clever and the stupid. Just like how everything in the universe has its own opposite. Light and darkness. Heaven and Hell.

But dropping EM3? I mean, where are they going to stand now? In a class of EM2s? They're not going to find their place. Instead, they're going to face more discrimination cause everyone around them's going to be progressing at a much faster rate than they are.

Oh well. I guess that's the least of my problems now.

And oh, this really made me laugh. I don't think you'll blame me. Lols.

Oh well. I'm off. Good luck to everyone still having EOYs, promos, whatever. God Bless.

"War is upon us, whether you risk it or not." @ 23:18