ok my weekend just got burned, thanks to our famous 'incident' and my kompanie oberfeldwebel.. and a trash bag for good measure
next week, also will get burnt thanks to AHM. argh 19th with cambros and water points. damn
argh
one thing i read about in doonesbury interested me. i always like trudeau and doonesbury. It's a great analysis about human social behaviours more than anything..
so here goes. This strip (unfortunate i can't post it here in pictures, so the dialogue will have to do)
"Today, my lieutenant told me to stop blogging. He said that my description of daily life here in Iraq is against security, and that it also would be detrimental to morale of the unit. Luckily for all you readers out there. the CO is also a reader of this blog, and he told the lt. that freedom of expression is one of the reasons why we're out here fighting. To defend and protect our way of life.'
ironic, no? I don't dare post much here already, i'm fearful for my life.
argh it's a troubling dilemma i am in now.
it's hard to say. the fear that holds you back, tugs at your heart. the fear of losing what you already have.
it's like a gamble, no?
haha on a funnier side, take a look at this parody. haha Der Fuhrer also has problems of his own (i mean besides the war and the Jews)
and LET'S GO SINGAPORE! haha well done to our paddlers. let's silence the 5000 'zhong guo jia you' guys and bring back gold! (and hopefully a holiday too!)
went to open house, gave a birthday present, talked to people...
it's good to meet up once in a while you know...
went to starbucks hollandv to mug. kangdi pangsei me so i went alone.. quite productive to study in a quiet (relatively) place, with minimal distractions. until..
'Could you share your table?' 'Oh sure'
And than the two just gossip and gossip about other people's girlfriends, the dalai lama, blah blah... in total disregard that i'm trying to study there! how inconsiderate... i wanted to swear at them... then 'i'm tired, lets go back. i wanna take a nap.' haha wonder what they're going to do..
Saw Xinhui coming with her dad to mug. never would have asked my dad to mug with me. Saw eugene also hanging around...
it's madness you know, the world we live in. My son, don't you know with what lack of understanding our world is ruled with?
sis just left for 12 days, school trip to paris... what the hell i wanna go europe again man... haha studying hasn't been too good.... maths is ok, EL paper 2 wasn't that bad as i feared... chem is ok, physics is, well, destroyed...
lol
It's kinda good being the only one at home. Mom cooks stuff you like, not your sis, and there is a lot of peace to study..
but it's kinda boring... really... plus doing IAs and IOCs is never fun.... lol
(back to my daydreams)...
YEH YEH YEH YEH YEH!!
apologies i'm going crazy at home... need to go out...
haha what a match, and a kinda bad end to it... anyway i think that we played well, unlucky and lucky in many ways.... cheered until no more voice leh... wah lau... pics on flickr!
wah lau eh...
school is damn sian, got 75% for biomed physics test... ? really haha spent physics playing tennis footie, and getting CAS signatures...
will blog about the UCL final before the match... going to sleep now..
haha tmr...
A DIV HOCKEY FINAL! ACS(I) vs RJC!!! let's go rulz and singh!... haha LET'S GO AC!!
When i was in sec 1-4, everytime i had free time, i would do something fun. I was this hyperactive guy who wanted to do everything and anything before either lights-out in boarding, or at home. I could go ages without sleeping. I never slept in class no matter how boring it was. never.
then came yrs 5-6. Now i can hardly drag myself to school, to come into range of biomedical physics...
(like Paddy Clarke, i will know have a not-so-random shift in my train of thought)
Why are we doing biomed physics? stuff about how the ear works and biomechanics? Hell even the bio HL pple don't do this. and seriously. Our physics teachers are trying their very best to teach something they haven't taught before. Is this fair on them, and on us? We took physics to escape the horrors of Pre-IB bio, and now it bites us in the ass.
(back to the train)
to look at the broken clock, counting the number of seconds before the bell rings for recess. Everything seems to been so bleddy sian. IB was put to us very simply " Only 30% weightage on exams!" " Less mugging, more interactive learning!" " Something brand new! Preferential admissions to unis!"
really?
Forgive me the ranting, i didn't have my necessary 30 min of pre-assembly sleep. That's why i felt so sleepy throughout the day. and rather moody too.
There was a time where assembly started at 7.40 or later yes there was.
There was a time where 20 steps separated us from assembly yes there was
Now leh?
7.20 assemblies, walking with congested people up and down stairs.
haha nothing else to rant. need to finish paddy clarke haha
today we had EL A1 P2, questions on setting or characterization. Needless to say that i chose the characterization one. I don't understand why people want to do the setting one. Maybe it's because i hate setting and questions on it. I just don't know why. Hated those lit qns that had setting in it.
Went out for lunch with minyang, kd, ash and sam. had fun laughing at kd. what's new? went to the library, and got a few doonesbury books. love doonesbury, despite it's obviously liberal-leaning slant.
Mr Blair is stepping down soon, and i feel that he doesn't deserve all the brickbats about Iraq. Instead, Brits should look at his numerous achievements (i.e successful peace missions in Kosovo, reducing unemployment and generally reviving the prestige of the UK in the world). He was, at least willing to admit that mistakes were made in Iraq, unlike his counterpart across the pond.
i find it weird that we have so much periods in school, and we can't find a better time to have a EL test than at 4pm on a Monday afternoon. ?
Spidey-3 is worth watching, but it was kinda predictable. But good fight-scenes, decent story. yeah go catch it.. and why am i the only guy that thinks the corrupted Peter Parker is actually kinda cool? For Tobey Maguire to break out of the 'nerdy guy' role to a arrogant asshole is actually quite interesting,
this is a ramble.
i'm kinda looking forward to POTC, Fantastic 4 and Harry Potter now, i'm physically a wreck now. mentally not yet...
damn you, the establishment. It's the only one where the stress is year-round, not only during the important periods. one after another after another, the flow never stops. there's no way to take a break, now taking a break seems unnatural. Our social life is a mess, and after years, the environment hasn't changed, and we're becoming worse and worse. life's a drag, and the only exit seems to be not much better.
not a bad alternative after all?
It's impossible to get the best of both into one. Never. You have chosen to pursue this route, than change your bloody mindset! This cannot succeed if we continue to retain so much of the old stuff. Everything has become more rigid than less, as there are so much stuff we need to follow. Creativity has been released, but only with stringent rules. Is that creativity anymore?
haha i'll be so happy to go into uni. I swear.
on a happy note...
CAMPIONE, CAMPIONE, OLE OLE OLE!!! Yes we are the Champions! haha kudos to Mourinho after the Arsenal match, he told the Chelsea fans to cheer the players, not him, and to keep their chin up. Champions are only really tested after failure. However, i think that he might not be there after this season. If that happens, shame on Abrahomivic, Kenyon and all...
