Thursday, August 30, 2007
♥ 10:43 pm
Happy Teachers' Day! Haha
Thanks for all the time and patience!
Rome, 408 AD.
'Stillcho is dead!' screamed the courtiers. The only capable Roman general in the Emperor's employ, dead at the hands of anti-barbarian plotters.
The Emperor wasted no time in asserting his authority. All mention of Stillcho would be banned. All the people would proclaim now was the name of Honorius, by the Grace of God, Roman Emperor in the West. Dissent was to be clamped down, the foederati of the army driven back to the wastes they belonged to.
Servants of the Emperor certainly did their work well. Dissent was quashed, rebels hung in the streets with no chance for clemency. The Empire which stood for meritocracy, and compassion for all was now degrading into brutality, dictatorship.
The men of the foederati, men not of Roman blood, but who had bled and fought in the name of the Empire couldn't take such repression anymore Their freedom' compromised, the only way forward was to take matters into their own hands.
No more was their loyalty to the Emperor, who had treated them like experimental and sacrificial pigs. No more was their loyalty to the men who ran the nepotic empire. Their loyalty was to their comrades, loyalty to the sacred Empire, that they were trying to free..
haha some randomness
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
♥ 9:11 pm
I've lost the will to have fun
ok... stupid hanging pokemon VBA on my mac
Saturday, August 25, 2007
♥ 12:55 am
haha my 18th has just gone by, just like that...
i don't know why i liked the anticipation of this one more, it just felt like that..
haha
thanks for everything! all the well-wishes, gifts (Corrinne May's new album + autograph PAWNS)
haha
get well soon.
and thanks for remembering...
t'aime vous!
Labels: Birthdays
Thursday, August 23, 2007
♥ 8:10 pm
almost 18!
haha
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
♥ 7:43 pm
Being doing Physics TYS, when i heard this.
This woman comes on the radio, complains about her husband being kinda paranoid, and restrictive on her privacy
(btw, this conversation is about whether it's ok for couples to check each other's phone)
DJ: So do you still love your husband?
Person: Yah lah, but...
and she goes on to list out her husband's paranoia behaviour on national radio...
Singaporeans... haiz...
blah blah blah blah...
17 years, 362 days...
Labels: Life, Radio, Relationships
Saturday, August 18, 2007
♥ 12:49 pm
Labels: Psychology, Tests
Friday, August 17, 2007
♥ 6:53 pm
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at the request of kunhan, i post this picture..
Thursday, August 16, 2007
♥ 7:33 pm
It has been an interesting day (and night)
haha emotions can swing from the depths of despair, to utter bewilderment, to joy, and back to the former.
not my first time at this, dear reader...
Today:
Physics - Physics TYS
Maths - Maths Paper, TYS
Econs - Econs TYS
English - no one there..
TYS TYS TYS TYS!!!!
i think that is a brand of a swimwear company...
i think ashley is right and wrong at the same time.
Got forced to go for the NTU talk today. several comments:
I kinda feel that the meaning of an education is becoming very diluted these days. Firstly, the main point of the Admissions Dean was to promote the college as one in which you go in, get a degree, come out, earn a lot of money as a businessman/engineer etc and hopefully go on to win a lot of awards and money.
What's the point of an education? It should be to develop the youth, and prepare them for what's going to happen in life. It's not to prepare them to work at a job to make a lot of money, and more money.
Singapore-style education has one main flaw, in that it stifles creativity, and becomes a machine churning out academically brilliant students who go on to become famous scientists or whatever.
However, the stigma of being a 'creative arts' person remains. Singapore is continuously trying to become a more vibrant scene for the arts. But the general consensus is that those who take the humanities or arts in JC/Uni are the academically weaker students. My parents forced me to take two HL sciences because it provided 'more choices', although i already made it clear that i didn't intend to pursue a career in the sciences.
Even being in the IB, the general outflow of creative thought is not there (in my humble opinion). The grading criteria is made in a way that if certain criteria are not fulfilled, no matter the content, formating is the most important thing. For example, in the EE, as long as the candidate fulfills the format criteria, he can pass, regardless of the content.
I want a job that caters to my interests and strengths, and one that gives me a sense of satisfaction, not slugging out in a dead-end job with no future (like some grown-ups i know). Money, to me, is a secondary concern.
It interested me, that on the list of top 30 earners in Singapore, (in which apparently 30% are engineers by training) the top has no degree
Although the presentation tried to impress the audience by stating the number of awards, scholars and commendations, i think that the motivation for a tertiary education should be one of interest, not money.
so say we all..
Je pense que vous êtes vraiment mignon, mon ami !
Cafe, non?
Labels: Education, Relationships, School
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
♥ 8:40 pm
(snivel snivel snivel)
Haha air-con rooms make me sick, compounded with the smell of our classroom...
well well
took a green form and went home to sleep. The fedac made (and is still making) me drowsy, and i've been struggling along, doing Physics TYS and Maths WS until i gave up..
Haven't had dinner. hungry..
you might be asking, what am i doing TYSes when i'm sick. Well to be honest, i don't know either.
I think it's just the stress of it all. The biological cogs just make you pick up the thick book, the sheets of paper, and just do it.
i'm adapting to the mugging mode. Just don't wanna do too much. I'm lazy you see..
haha
big decision!
(cough cough HACK HACK cough cough snivel)
Labels: Health, School
Monday, August 13, 2007
♥ 12:33 am
ok i've miscalculated...
hope has been restored!
haha dave kitson has only been on for 45 seconds and got his ass sent off
interesting
Labels: Football
Friday, August 10, 2007
♥ 12:13 am
Just came back from one heck of a massive crowded area...
It's amazing how many non-Singaporeans come to see such a sight. pity the police people who have to scold the chinese/bangla/indian workers that try to break the police cordon over the pavement section of the esplanade bridge...
ah whatever
photos were so-so, the fireworks were good, photos of that weren't great.
lucky i'm going to get other photos..
haha it's over! but it feels weird now... lol
Labels: NDP
Thursday, August 09, 2007
♥ 3:49 pm
Haha
i'm now on the stupid esplanade bridge now, waiting till the NDP parade starts..
it's a frigging madhouse here... at least 30k people here lor..
haha
stupid cramps...
Labels: NDP
♥ 12:50 am
It's kinda weird. You complain about all the shit you do, but when it's over, you miss the shit...
argh well, that's human nature.
It's been 22 hours without sleep. So i shall go and sleep soon..
why are all of them taken? damn...
Labels: NDP, Relationships, Sleep
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
♥ 8:33 pm
It has been a very interesting 24 hours..
Sleep deprivation.bad fish and chips.octopus balls.pool.hold'em.spades.manga.marching.
(1100-1800)
Went out with Chee, Keith and PKL to slack. Pool was not too bad, but could have been much better.
(1800-2030)The most boring part of the day. Reading some online MMO comics, basically stoning in 6.1, and wasting as much air-con that we can.
(2030-2130)
Dinner at Dover. Return to find our little secret hideout to be discovered! haha now got sean, yuanruo (who went lanning), fong, and kd (who never turned up)
(2130-0100)
cards.hold'em.blogging.trying to sleep. making a shit load of mess in my own classroom (sorry guys). anyway 6.1 wasn't ever clean to begin with.
(0130-0355)
Trying to rest. Yeh rite
(Day 2, 8 Aug 2007)
(0355)
NAH BEH WHO TURNED ON THE F**KING LIGHTS!
(blinding sensations to the eye)
(0400-0430)
pack.brush teeth. evacuate 6.1 before the mob comes in to kill us
(0430-0515)
me, keith and kd are the food delivery men. We can slack, and still be held up like angels to the people slogging with the pegging. nice. 
breakfast with ronald...
(0515-0630)
Hell loads of preparation. Pegging and stuff..
(on a completely different side-note, i think that uploading the photos onto blogger is insanely irritating, for pics, check my flickr account. Link above)
(0630-0700)
Time spend eating half a muffin, changing, talking to band people, being stupid, cursing and swearing when barker BB pulled the string marching on the field. nah beh. haha qien the blurdoryfish forgot her sticks, relegated to something else i forgot what's the name..
(0700-0930)
Parade. Was good, minimal band cock-ups. talking to everyone. good photos taken too.
thanks to everyone!
michelle.joie.bing jian.vivien.qien.kenneth.eggy.
haha i need to get some sleep
f**k...
You're asian, stop humiliating yourself!!!
If you're half Chinese, i'm half black
haha Rush hour 3 at the front row. pawns
back to the work!
Labels: NDP
Saturday, August 04, 2007
♥ 6:35 pm
The story of my life, 3-4 Aug 2007
3 Aug 2007
(1800 - 2100)
- Dinner at Ding Tai Fung was good, the beef noodles was great.
(2100-2200)
- While they went out for makan, i was the jaga. It's good to be alone, doing Chem TYSes that Wong brought along. I think that taking Strepsils is very good to relieve temporally throat problems.
(2200-0100)
Tried to sleep on the tables, on the floor, on the chairs. Couldn't do so. So went bridging.
4 Aug 2007
(0400)
NAH BEH WAKE UP SO F**KING EARLY!
(0415).
It's a sight to behold, when the bus never comes at such cocked-up times. One line of 120 GOH in number 4's outside 121 Dover Road, trying desperately to flag cabs. From Dover to Amoy Quee Camp, $13 plus 50% midnight surcharge. Madness.
KD, Sean, Leonard and I caught a cab to Queenstown Stadium. Another mad 50% midnight surcharge.
(0445)
Ran one round with Keith, went out with Jwong, Keith and KD to buy Mac's breakfast. Haha saw so many kids, just finished partying than go for breakfast. Nothing to do one.
(0600)
Guys flooded into the stadium. Madness erupts. I think we are giving the residents of the area a free wake up call. They should thank us. The National Day Parade (albeit a scaled-down version) at the comforts of their own home. A bit of appreciation maybe?
(0630)
Band forms up on the seats, percussions move onto the muddy floor. Damn it. Full of mosquitoes and stuff. Hah 5 out of 6 of them present. Dr Lee discusses other FUPs for band. Should be no problem. Bloody mud.
(0645)
Qien runs in. 'Wah lao i only just got call!' Haha. Parade starting to form up. Argument on how many bugle calls in the parade. Damn read the programme for Christ's sake!
(0700)
Girls have good memories, especially when it concerns treats.
(0705)
'Ok start first round!'
(0710)
Everything is smooth, a bit forgetful and blur though. Haha got whacked by Dr Lee. Naturally, i'm not there.
(0710-0730)
1st rehearsal goes well. Transition is 100x better than last week. Goodness.
The rest of the day goes pretty well. Only needed to shout once. Stupid guy anyhow give check immediately after the masok baris. What the hell...
Slept till now..
Why do we start quoting IOCs only after the thing is over?
Labels: NDP
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
♥ 4:20 pm
The ecstasy of already finishing my IOC has not subsided yet.
However, looking back, i think i didn't do that fantastic (like my mock) in the real one, which is kinda expected as nerves set in.
But Dulce was lucky, a good simple and easy poem.
back to Chem Prac 24, and mugging in general!
Labels: IOCs, School
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