inane rumblings of an innate mind

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

♥ 10:05 pm

correction... i WAS thinking of going....
went to hong lim to find travel agent... chan bros....
6th to San Francisco -
SIA - full
China Airlines - full
JAL - full
ANA - full
THAI - full
MAS - full
EVA - full
basically every airline is booked...
damn....

i won the SGB lottery today...
the prize???
a trip to ST logistics base at Lim Chu Kang....
but it was quite slack
played football with the tiny balls
play cards
leave at 6
quite slack lah
but i dun wanna go there again...

adventure camp starts tmr.... two and a half days of righteous male bonding....
looking at ash's tour blog...
i really wanna go somewhere this hols...
hate this 647km sq island...

Monday, November 28, 2005

♥ 10:39 pm

it's been such a bad day...
it would have been such a great day, spoilt by food poisoning... haiz...
this week will be darn busy...
wed - SGB
thu-sat: adventure camp
mon - SGB

but the good thing is.... i may be going with my dad to US for the hols!!! yeh...
four days in San Francisco
five in Salt Lake City
two days in New York...

i'll do anything jus to get off this island...

we didn't get into the semis for the SEA games again, and the Team Singapore cheerleaders really look like, well, cheerleaders...

all the stuff at home are getting boring... down to playing online pool...
BLOODY CONTAMINATED FOOD!!!!
sigh....

Saturday, November 26, 2005

♥ 3:15 pm

what am i gonna do for the next few days??
play lan... pool... watch movie... haiz...
wed got SGB duty... den HQ send us email to persuade us to volunteer for more days... sorri man... got adventure camp...
the packlist was lame... under orders from the fuhrer (zheng yang) i did something lame (and maybe funny) as the list... dunno what to say...
sedition... a big word....

Jem - Just A Ride (from the O.C)

Life, it's ever so strange
It's so full of change
Think that you've worked it out
then BANG
Right out of the blue
Something happens to you
To throw you off course
and then you

Breakdown
Yeah you breakdown
Well don't you breakdown
Listen to me
Because

It's just a ride, it's just a ride
no need to run, no need to hide
It'll take you round and round
Sometimes you're up
sometimes you're down
It's just a ride, it's just a ride
don't be scared
don't hide your eyes
It may feel so real inside
but don't forget it's just a ride

Truth, we don't wanna hear
It's too much to take
Don't like to feel out of control
So we make our plans
Ten times a day
And when they don't go
our way we

Breakdown
Yeah we breakdown
Well don't you breakdown
Listen to me
Because

It's just a ride, it's just a ride
no need to run, no need to hide
It'll take you round and round
Sometimes you're up
sometimes you're down
It's just a ride, it's just a ride
don't be scared
don't hide your eyes
It may feel so real inside
but don't forget it's just a ride

Slowly, oh so very slowly
except that
there's no getting off
So live it, just gotta go with it
coz this ride's, never gonna stop

Breakdown
Don't you breakdown
No need to breakdown
No need at all
Because

It's just a ride, it's just a ride
no need to run, no need to hide
It'll take you all around
Sometimes you're up
sometimes you're down
It's just a ride, it's just a ride
don't be

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

♥ 11:05 am

in the light of the huge 'GEP vs Mainstream' issue there has been another reply in TODAY (22 Nov).... this will interest sean lee i'm sure...

In her zealous defence of Gifted Education Programme student, Michelle Qiu displays a sense of, at best, brash arrogance and, at worst, condescension and a superiority complex.
While i do not want to believe she represents the typical GEP student, it would be worrying if many 'GEPers' (as they call themselves) had such an 'us-them' mentality
Aside from proclaming 'mainstreamers' (what a patronising term!) to be immature, she is thrilled the programme allowed her to interact exclusively with 'people like us'.
For a 'gifted' student, she is quick to make sweeping generalisations that 'everyone' in the mainstream follows trends, almost insinuating that 'ungifted' people have no minds of their own.
It is fine if Michelle and her group of like-minded friends continue to live in their ivory towers, associating only with memebers of this chosen fraternity, kieeping out of their lives of the 'mainstream'. Unfortunately, many may end up with scholarships and eventually hold public office, where their policies will affect the 'mainstream' and the masses.
I shudder to think what kind of empathy there can be when, from the onset, these young people display such an elitist 'us versus them' mentality.
This is propbably an alarmist scenario, but picture this: A group of key decision makers decide that the general population is rather immature and cannot possibly have minds of their own.
As such, everyone with and IQ below 150 should be systematically eradicated. Such a mentality would please Adolf Hitler.

maybe the IQ part is paranoia, but i agree with the writer here. in fact, i feel that GEPers in ACS(I) are more immature than us. The GEP teachers have to handle them in a different way compared to us 'mainstream people'. They look as if the students are 10 year old kids, not the 16 year old people they are.
it's not the heavy stuff they learn that we are criticizing, it's the elitist status that is unfairly given to them. Even some GEPers i know (won't mention names) also believe that they don't deserves such elitist status.
I remember back in '98 when i didn't get into GEP, and i was quite disappointed. However, i found out that out of the top 10 boys in that year, the top 7 (includin me!!! lol) were non- GEPers. Some of them (like thang, lew, john b) are people that are doin well, maybe even better than most GEPers now. the people who went into GEP were actually those who weren't that bright, and i dun think they are still that bright now.
Those in IB will know, our averages are far better than most GEPers.
I know that some GEPers are fine, great guys to be with. but most of them stay in their shells, not willing to come out. next yr will be very interesting...

i'm now molting at home... waiting for all the skin to drop out.... NYAA gold is so darn irritating....

Sunday, November 20, 2005

♥ 9:39 pm

to all those pple who are posting as me on my tag....
unless ur so sian.... pls post as ur own name....
dun think i dunno who u r...

Thursday, November 17, 2005

♥ 9:21 pm

went to watch harry potter and the goblet of fire today...
bloody cinema... air-con break down... plus my burned self... haiz...
i demand a refund...
the class party at sentosa was fun... besides the strong sunlight... the constant shouts of 'STONEFISH!!!' the lan was bad (for me)... but overall it was a good time of fun... only wished that more pple could have come...

now i will be a movie guru for all u guys who haven't watched GOF...
ignore the hype... the movie isn't as good as it is proclaimed to be. It's a good flick for the thrills, CG stunts and storyline... but somehow it seems to be too fast and it doesn't really attract someone who had never read the books... like anyone hasn't...
the trio's acting is ok, but the big letdown was the other characters... for a third of the show ron becomes harry's greatest nemisis... the characters of cho chang, viktor krum etc. aren't really developed well enough....
overall u should go and catch it, but don't get ur hopes up too high....

best performance - ralph fiennes as voldermort... really.... or brandon gleeson as mad-eye moody
worst perfomance - choose between katie leung (cho chang) or that bulgarian guy as viktor krum....
best scene - the part where the horntail chases harry.... although a little overkill...
most cheesy scene 1 - the part where hermione suddenly gives a bear-hug to harry in the competitors tent in the presence of rita skeeter.... i thought she liked ron???
most cheesy scene 2 - when harry emerges with cedric's body, everyone starts cheering until fleur starts screaming...
for all u cho-baters out there... her role is so minor, the only important part was when harry asks her out.... besides, she could be micheal doyle's daughter in disguise, bloody scottish accent...
what irritated me the most was the teens behind me...
quotes:
that guy is not mad-eye... he's barty crouch!!!(15 minutes into the movie)
he really likes cho chang!!!
he's gonna pick the hungarian horntail!!
it's the carriage/ship!!
emma watson's so hot!!!
(k, i made that one up)
stop shouting the obvious to the whole cinema lah... let pple enjoy the show... jeez..

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

♥ 9:39 pm

what a f**ked up day...
left ic at lan shop in paradiz... left ez-link at jurong east regional library....
when i was at the library borrowing stuff, i couldn't find my ic, den i left my ez-link in the slot... haiz...
wasted 2 hrs going back to paradiz...
tmr is class party at sentosa, where i also have to do research on the bridges in sentosa... shit...
to all aunt agonys/love calculators out there....
there's nothing going on... serious...

Saturday, November 12, 2005

♥ 9:42 pm

i didn't know the singapore river had so many bridges...
a big hi to phan... who tagged... lend me some games lor...
fate...a bit thing to ask... a big thing to wonder about... i have never believed in fate, always believe that u decide your own fate. but it's true that some things are indeed beyond ur control... u are in control over urself, but u're not in control over others.... haiz... sometimes things are really beyond ur control. You only can try to make things work the way u want it...
really sian hols lah... today went to fish and co to eat the seafood platter for one... then hear my sis complain for the whole meal...
playing c&c zero hour (again)...
she's cold and she's cruel, but she knows what she's doing...

are u really busy... or do i sound like a despo... maybe i do...

quote of the day
(from Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith)
Anakin: You're either with me, or against me....
(actual meaning - a quote from George Bush)
Obi-Wan: Only a Sith deals with absolutes...
(actual meaning - Darth Bush???)

imagine.... Darth Bush and Darth Cheney vs Jedi Osama and Jedi Al-Sadr....
the world is a crazy place after all...

Thursday, November 10, 2005

♥ 8:36 pm

i really, really have nothing at all to do....
it's weird, life, when u r in school u want the hols to come, but when ur out of school u want to go back coz it's so boring...
well, life's one hell of a crazy thing....
bought catching tales and demon days on tues... demon days was going for 12.90 so i couldn't resist... blasting jazz in my room makes it feel like a bachelor's pad (for 5 minutes)... after that, it gets sianz again.... haiz...
tmr going to do exploration project for nyaa gold... dots...
went running today, but barefoot... for fun... stupid decision, got blistered feet...
when you have wanted to do something, why is it always u get cold feet...
to kangdi and kok siong...
stop bitching about the acq job lah... it's over... pls... make love, not war... (not literarily duh...)
who wants to go watch GOF on 17th... arrange lah...
really... flaming judge is really back in business...

Monday, November 07, 2005

♥ 1:23 pm

WE BEAT CHELSEA!!!! WE BEAT CHELSEA!!!!
what's the score, Jose
what's the score, Jose
Ole ole ole.....

i must say, united played one heck of a game, and keane's scoldings did really have an effect. smith played damn well... fletcher wasn't fantastic, but he scored the only goal... and the defence played quite well, but chelsea could have scored how many...
now we're third, behind chelsea by 10 points (with a game in hand)...i think we might still get second... that's not too bad lah...
anyways... hols are damn sian... sat go for nyaa logging (and play com too).... den went for some BBQ in which i played pool and drank beer...cool...
now logging nyaa gold again... stupid... jus crap and crap...

Friday, November 04, 2005

♥ 2:22 pm

come to think bout it... hols are also damn sianz...
doin NYAA gold logging now... how sian...
games all play until sian....
so i will use this post to be the fantasy manager of man u... a club in crisis....
firstly... can rio ferdinand defend???
(exhibit A, his defending against boro for the second and fourth goals....)
u're being paid 100,000 pounds a week damn it!!! do something properly!! push that guy off his feet!!! dun let him run pass u!!!....
secondly.... is the midfield good enough???
(exhibit B, the manu midfield now.... scholes, fletcher, ronaldo, smith)
fletcher really is not gd enough for man u... ronaldo must use his pace more than jus doin step-overs... scholes needs to regain his glory days... smith is still a work in progress...)
thirdly... does 4-3-3 work???
(in fifa 06 it's damn gd...)
i dun really think so.... rooney should be slightly behind van nisterooy, running at defenders.... park could play in the middle or on the flanks....
fourth... does man u need a new manager...
ferguson has been a great manager for united... but he has made some horrendous signings at over the past few years.... veron... forlan (although he's doin well at villarreal...).... saha (a huge flop)... even ferdinand (for 30 mil u could have got frank lampard... steven gerrard.... heck even henry)

so what must united do now???
1) sell some players - fletcher should go, saha should go, o'shea should go... liam miller is a young and hopeless flop....
2) buy some players - swop rio for ledley king or somebody better, open the chequebook for micheal ballack, get a new back-up striker like robbie keane (if spurs wanna sell him) get someone to replace keane (not smith..) maybe javier mascherano from corinthians...
fergie must learn not just to depend on famous players, but to scout for young talent and groom them.

Team United 06/07 ( i hope)
Van der sar, G. Nevile, King, Silvestre, Henize, Ballack, Ronaldo, Mascherano, Park, Rooney, Van Nisterooy... (4-4-2)

anywayz.... MAN U TO BEAT CHELSEA!!! ( i hope.. somehow, maybe lampard will score an own goal or something)

_end_of_rant_