Monday, June 26, 2006
first day of school today. amazing, only the first day back and i'm sleeping in math class again...alright, i got my new timetable. still have maths EVERY SINGLE day, and thursday, woah, 7 subjects. we got a longer recess now, but its being made earlier, meaning we hav 3 periods before recess, and a very tiring 5 periods after that. personally, i would've liked to have recess after the fourth period, so it would be balanced at 4-4. but then again, this is Mr Che Rabbit we're talking about, so everything's kinda screwed up.
also, another thing Mr
at least, to me, there's some consolation. if when si qian sees this she'll probably freak at me for not studying for o levels. i finally managed to install Silent Hill 3! woohoo!!! when started playing i was like so freaking scared that a monster would come out from nowhere. also, it's so hard to maneuver the character (Heather), making me/her more vulnerable. but when i saw their monsters, it kinda looked retarded. the dog in bandages are ok, if not cute. but there's this small monster, like a child, but where the head should have been was this elongated eyeball. it resembles something from scary movie 4, where the guy who wants to commit suicide downs a whole bottle of sleeping pills, then look at the label and finds out its actually viagra. then his *ahem* starts growing like mad. the eyeball resembles the *ahem* in size and width. another monster just looks like some walking bolster. imagine wee kang, skinny like crap, make him 7 ft tall, and instead of head and limbs, put bolsters there. you get the picture. retarded. just mentioning "wee kang" is enough to let you know how retarded it looked like...haha, jkjk.
so, nothing to say now, so, adios
6:48 PM
And through it all, the rise and fall...
Friday, June 23, 2006
finally back, after a few days. if you're wondering why i went M.I.A. in these few days, its cause i went for the Ex-W330 chalet :)
Tuesday:
after the stupid english thing, which, incidentally, costs $20 per session for 5 sessions, (ARGH!!!!! I CAN'T INSTALL SILENT HILL 3!!!!NO!!!!!!! NOT AGAIN!!!!!!NOT ANOTHER FUN GAME I CAN'T INSTALL!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok sorry, that was completely random), we (henzy, min and i) went to henzy's house to get his stuff. after that, we walked to min's house to get her stuff. we did not go to my house, cause i brought my stuff with me :) after that, we went back to interchange and took an MRT to Dhoby Ghaut, i think, and had lunch there (pastamania!!! woohoo!!! only downside, it made me poor!!!)
after that we went to harbour front, before taking a bus to sentosa and then to Costa Sands Resort, or something...haha, i can't remember the name of the place where i stayed at for 2 days. when we reached there, we went to room 213 and 215, which are merged by a doorway. min got excited when she heard the tv on in 213 that she said very loudly "we're here!!!" and other things. suddenly, a man's voice said "who are you looking for?' and i scared us. but it turned out to be david's dad...haha. so after that incident we went to room 215, and found something...disturbing. apparently, our dear anna had poured the contents of a cup of instant noodles down the sink, choking it...it looked, as i said, disturbing.
after settling down, we went down to the bbq pit to meet up with the rest of the guys. and we barbequed some chicken, sausages and other stuff... after a while, the fire in the pit died down, and we took out the wire mesh full of food and placed it on 2 chairs to restart the fire. not long later, isaac decided to pull out one of the chairs to sit on, thereby earning him the right to wash all the chickens and sausages that dropped on the floor.
after the bbq, we went back to our rooms. by then, david's parents had already left, so we did not have to squeeze. haha. there were 5 people in our room (213), daniel, jeremiah, yi quan, john and me, and 6 in theirs, david, isaac, henzy, min, rach and anna. they managed to maximise their space, with the 3 guys sleeping on the hard bed supports and the girls sleeping on the beds which were pulled down to the floor. but our room was like, so narrow, and we did not have space to pull down the beds, so 5 ppl had to squeeze into 2 single beds put together. definitely not comfortable.
anyways, after we came back, we decided to bathe. i found out, to my horror, that i had brought pants, but not shirts!!! so that night i borrowed jeremiah's shirt. haha. we had a 5-people quiet time after that. just sat down, sang songs and prayed. we had breakthrough, we did it for more then 1 hour. haha after that, jeremiah told me this tragic story about a boy named jeremiah. if you ask me i'll tell you, just make sure you don't ask me online. the story was oddly captivating...haha. went to bed after that. we didn't sleep until 3.30am, we just kept laughing and laughing. that's what you get when you get 5 guy squeezed into 2 beds
Wednesday:
i woke up at about 6, when everyone was still sleeping. i managed to squeeze myself out of the bed (quite a feat, considering i was stuffed between yi quan and jeremiah). i went out of the room and sat at the doorway, cause the room was just too cold... so i sat there for quite long, standing up occasionally, waiting for people to wake up.
there wasn't much to do there, so we took out a pack of cards and started playing. john went down to buy breakfast, but poor me was to pathetically poor to buy breakfast, so i ate the instant noodles there. we played for a while, then went to the beach for a while before going back to resort to swim. the stupid john kept trying to drown me for no apparent reason...jeremiah did
some acrobatics or something, kinda cool. after tha, he and yi quan started doing some"high risk maneuvers", lifting min up clear into the sky while in the pool. very nice.
went back to the room after that and bathed, the we got news that benny was coming over, so me, ana, min and yi quan went to delifrance outside the bus stop to wait for her. i was still poor, so obviousy i couldn't buy anything... :( when benny came we walked back to the resort and prepared for cell group.
it started out fun, with us singing SOS and Destiny. then Take All Of Me. after that benny shared a word with us, and we sang Take All Of Me again. this time, benny went around laying hands on us and praying for us while we sang. when she got to daniel, who was beside me, my hand started to shake a little.
when she got to me, she put her hads on my head and prayed. the prescence of Holy Spirit was so strong that my whole body started trembling. when she was done, she went to rachel. my body was like trembling now so i rested my head on the bed support and cried a little. i think that was the first time the Holy Spirit touched me in such a way.
after the cell group, some of them wanted to go barbeque, but i decided to stay back with some people and watched tv. after quite some time, i went down to join them, finding out to my "horror" that they had finished all the food and were left with eggs, so they started barbequeing them on pieces of aluminium foil. quite tasty, actually. haha. went to bed after that. this time we managed to make more room for ourselves, so we slept better.
Thursday:
woke up at around 8-9 and brushed my teeth. after that, i played blacjack with eddy (he came somewhere around 8pm wednsday). kept losing, don't know why. then daniel got up, and we played big 2 with him. for six straight rounds i got the diamond 3, earning me the right to start first. i was like "who has the diamond 3?" then when i saw i had it, "oh, me" and this happened 6 times, mind you. and out of the 6 matches, i didn't win 2 :P then jeremiah joined, ad i never touched the diamond 3 again, and only won once. haha
after pcking, we left at around 10am. we travelled to harbour front station and ate breakfast at the coffeeshop there. after that, we went home, where i had a 6-hour nap. woohoo! haha. nothing much happened after that. so, overall, the chalet was quite fun.
Final Score:
Room: 6.3/10
Company:9.7/10 (could have been a 10/10, but...)
8:41 PM
And through it all, the rise and fall...
Monday, June 19, 2006
Time check: 5.12 in the morning
Why am i up: i have no idea
it started at around 10pm, when i got my ss homework from a friend (i'm such a good student that i lost my homework. model student in the making). anyways, here's a ten step guide to doing your ss homework.
Q2a) How far was China's participation in the Korean War a result of its desire to spread communism? Explain your answer. (12marks)
Step 1: look for sec3 ss guidebook (5 minutes)Step 2: realise i lost my sec3 ss guidebook (1 second)Step 3: look for sec3 textbook (20 seconds)Step 4: look at sec3 textbook for a long time (1/2 hour)Step 5: stone after realising i can't find the answer for a 12mark question within a 2 paragraph article (1.5 hours)Step 6: looking at my watch and realising i haven't wrote anything in 2 hours (1 second)Step 7: Deciding to write something, ANYTHING (1 second)Step 8: Stone 1/2 hour)Step 9: Pulling something out from my ass to write the answer
20 minutes)Step 10: Repeat Steps 1-9 for question 2b
question 2b wasn't that bad though. if i remember correctly azizah gave us a similar, if not identical, question before. for question 2a, i couldn't think of anything, so i pulled some crap from my ass. but i have to admit, it's very convincing crap.
right now i'm bored, and i can't exactly go to sleep cause i need to "wake up" at 6, and i might oversleep. so here i am, doing nothing at 5.47. yea, i know it was a long time since i started, but i tried to do something which didn't work out, so wasted alot of time
got an interesting email, with an interesting story. some people might have read it already, but i'm putting it up here anyways and you can't do anything about it :p
There once was a man named George Thomas, pastor in a small New England town. One Easter Sunday morning he came to the Church carrying a rusty, bent, old bird cage, and set it by the pulpit. Eyebrows were raised and, as if in response, Pastor Thomas began to speak..."I was walking through town yesterday when I saw a young boy coming toward me swinging this bird cage. On the bottom of the cage were three little wild birds, shivering with cold and fright. I stopped the lad and asked, "What you got there, son?" "Just some old birds," came the reply.
"What are you gonna do with them?" I asked.
"Take 'em home and have fun with 'em," he answered. "I'm gonna tease 'em and pull out their feathers to make 'em fight. I'm gonna have a real good time" "But you'll get tired of those birds sooner or later. What will you do?"
"Oh, I got some cats," said the little boy. "They like birds. I'll take 'em to them."
The pastor was silent for a moment. "How much do you want for those birds, son?"
"Huh?? !!! Why, you don't want them birds, mister. They're just plain old field birds. They don't sing. They ain't even pretty!"
"How much?" the pastor asked again.
The boy sized up the pastor as if he were crazy and said, "$10?"
The pastor reached in his pocket and took out a ten dollar bill. He placed it in the boy's hand. In a flash, the boy was gone.
The pastor picked up the cage and gently carried it to the end of the alley where there was a tree and a grassy spot Setting the cage down, he opened the door, and by softly tapping the bars persuaded the birds out, setting them free.
Well, that explained the empty bird cage on the pulpit, and then the pastor began to tell this story.
One day Satan and Jesus were having a conversation. Satan had just come from the Garden of Eden, and he was gloating and boasting. "Yes, sir, I just caught the world full of people down there. Set me a trap, used bait I knew they couldn't resist. Got 'em all!"
"What are you going to do with them?" Jesus asked.
Satan replied, "Oh, I'm gonna have fun! I'm gonna teach them how to marry and divorce each other, how to hate and abuse each other, how to drink and smoke and curse. I'm gonna teach them how to invent guns and bombs and kill each other. I'm really gonna have fun!"
"And what will you do when you get done with them?" Jesus asked. "Oh, I'll kill 'em," Satan glared proudly. "How much do you want for them?" Jesus asked
"Oh, you don't want those people. They ain't no good. Why, you'll take them and they'll just hate you. They'll spit on you, curse you and kill you. You don't want those people!!"
"How much?" He asked again.
Satan looked at Jesus and sneered, "All your blood, tears and your life."
The pastor picked up the cage he opened the door and he walked from the pulpit.
Notes: Isn't it funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.
Isn't it funny how someone can say "I believe in God" but still follow Satan (who, by the way, also "believes" in God).
Final Time Check:5.50, parents may come out from the room anytime now, so i got to go, even though i know the maid will rat me out. so, sayonara
looking forward to w330 chalet on tuesday-thursday :)
5:15 AM
And through it all, the rise and fall...
Thursday, June 15, 2006
bio remedial was cancelled today...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mrs chuah should at least have told us that it was cancelled!! what the heck is the relay system for anyway, some kinda joke?! granted, i was 30minutes late for remedial, but still!!!!!!!
however, it seems this is kinda God's plan, cause my finger's been getting worse lately. so when i heard it was cancelled i phoned my dad and got him to bring me to the polyclinic :)
my number was 2180, room 54, second floor. time just flew past for me... probably cause i was playing soccer on my phone (man utd, 4 seasons , won every single match, 90% of which leading by 3 or more goals...wahahaha). my dad was beside me, occasionally saying "wa, zhe me jiu ah?" (translated: wa, so long ah?) and my reply would be "polyclinic ma..."
medicine was kinda cheap compared to private practioners'. 8 bucks plus. but it was still more then my dad's estimate of 3 bucks.... dot dot dot...
i had this scary experience last night/this morning
as some of you a.k.a. the people who went to sentosa for min's bday would know, im claustrophobic, meaning i'm terrified of enclosed spaces. actually, its not so much the enclosed space than the inability to move that scares me. this started from an experiences when i was like 10 years old, so you see how much this affects me to last this long.
ok, back to the story. has anyone had this experience where you are like half awake? like, your mind is totally awake, but your body just won't move, as if the part of your brain controlling voluntary actions is still resting. i had this kinda experience since sec 3, but so far i only remember it happening not more than 4 times. the first time it happened i was scared like crap.i could swear i almost cried. its like, my eyelids were closed, and when i tried to open them i couldn't. that was when i started panicking.
so then i tried my fingers. i was like "c'mon, MOVE!!" but it stayed stationary. it was only about one minute later before it started to move abit, then finally, when my brain was fully awake, i clenched my fist. that was scary.
but what was so weird yesterday was that when it happened there was like thios strong prescence there. my ears were blocked, as if i was in an airplane experiencing high pressure, and it was like, block, unblock, block, unblock, VOOOOM vooom VOOOOM vooom... and my eyes were like partially open, and they were staring at this part of the ceiling, above the door, and there was like this small card or paper wrapped in plastic hanging there, and the crackling sound from the plastic as it swayed in the wind was quite audible. so i tried to say out "He who is in me is stronger than he who is of this world!" but my mind was racing, so i tried to say the word "Christ", but all i could manage was a "K...k....Chr..." it so freaking scary man, i felt as if the devil was there, and i couldn't move, so more than feeling claustrophobic, i felt helpless, making it 10 times worse. but slowly i gained control of my boday, managed to say the phrase out, and immediately everything stopped. PRAISE THE LORD.
aftet that i jus laid on my bed, and when i looked at where the "paper" was, there was only the white paint of the ceiling. that was scary.
for me, with my bad memory, i would probably have like 50 nightmares a day and not remember anything about them after i wake up, but this was different, seeing as how i was fully aware of the situation when i happened. BUT, because of my nature, i've completely shook off the experience :)
ciao
3:09 PM
And through it all, the rise and fall...
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Tuesday
watched The Omen with edward, kok, wk, wj, mesh, james, zilah, yuting, marinah and mei hui.
after the bio remedial, everyone except james, mesh and me went to west mall for lunch, or something...not quite sure what they did there. james didn't bring enough cash, so the 3 of us went to his house to get it. the first thing me and mesh did when we got there was play miniature golf. the ball just refused to go in for me, just like the basketball (for more info refer to previous post). after that james turned on the com and started playing metal slug. he's quite good, the way he dodges the bullets. there was one part where 3 missiles came and him and he literaly shouted out "how am supposed to dodge this?!" right after the words came out of his mouth he dodged it...
after he quit the game, i suggested playing gunbound, since we still had time. we used my account :) we went into a room where there was this guy who kept playing 1v1 with us, and didn't leave, so we all had the same opponent. i did ok with him, even though i've been deproving like mad lately. james won one and lost one. and umesh was the worst. in the first match he somehow managed to hit himself times, and rounded it up by killing himself, losing me about 3 or 4 gp. the second match he did SLIGHTLY better, but i think he still lost. haha. he still had the cheek to say james was lousy when he missed a shot, so james and i countered by saying "at least he didn't hit himself," which successfully shut him up.
here's an anecdote:
james and his family got sick of his house in the condo, so they decided to move..........to another apartment 3 blocks away in the same condo area... -_-"
after that we left for west mall to watch the movie. nothing eventful happened, except for the fact that edward hid his face while watching AGAIN. he did that in "samara" and "the maid", which i can overlook since they are both horror movies, but "the omen"?!
the part i liked about the movie was when the woman jumped at the guy from behind. almost everyone was startled and set back together, as though it was synchronised. lol... james and wj didn't, though. apparently they had "expected it". after the movie, i went home to play the sims (yea, version one...pathetic right?). it's amazing what you can make them do. the female is now a competent potion brewer, and the guy plays electric guitar quite well. but i have to remind myself at the end of the day that it's fake...
Wednesday
went to the science centre for the DNA Extraction workshop. learned about DNA extraction (duh...) i also learnt why edward is such a cowar-, i mean not much of a risktaker. it's because he has very little of a certain gene. either that or he has none at all.
after the workshop, the same group who watched the omen minus james, zilah and marinah plus adi and sharon went to LJS. again, not very eventful, but now i can officially declare myself broke.
6:20 PM
And through it all, the rise and fall...
Monday, June 12, 2006
well, it's official. the one-week biology boot camp has started. 2 hours a day, for five days, nothing but bio.
woohooooo...yay...
today after remedial, kok, edward, umesh, wj, wk, yuting, sharon and me went to the basketball court outside the school to play. angela (not siqian) and sze han (i think thats how you spell it, i don't know..haha) joined us after a while. i couldn't score once, the ball just refused to go in. and when i finally did score, it was accidental. when i managed to grab the ball, i ran up to the other half of the court (yes, we played the whole court) since everyone was like excited children and just ran to the half of the court with the ball, leaving the other half undefended. so i ran up, with someone behind chasing me. when i tried to shoot, the ball actually managed to hit my chin and rebound back into my hands, and in the shock of it i closed my eyes and just threw the ball at the direction of the hoop. next thing i knew, my team started cheering :)
after the game, edward, kok, yuting, sharon and me went to the coffee shop to get buy some ice cream. i ate this weird one, called hip hop ice cream or something. when you lick off the ice that's frozen onto the ice cream, the whole thing goes soft and jelly like. you can shake and shake and it just wobbles. so fun to play.
my keyboard is busted. can't type the numbers above the letter keys, which also basically means i can't type the dollar signs, percent, "at" sign and etc...ARGH exclamation mark x 25
you know those brackets i used up there? i actually had to get nani to type them out so i could copy and paste them... pathetic right.
who has a spare keyboard?
11:38 PM
And through it all, the rise and fall...
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
back after a week. haha, sorry, but there's really nothing to blog about during the holidays when you are in sec 4, unless you want this for 5 straight days in a row:
monday:
today i went to school for remedials, and came home to use the computer.
tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday: refer to monday.
anyway, today w330 celebrated rach's (4th june) and si qian's (5th june) birthdays. min went out to IMM at 9.45, and i, as the treasurer of the cell group, had no choice but to follow her. besides providing the funding, my other job there was to be the labourer and carry everything back to her house. we went to IMM to get the ingredients for the lunch/celebration. li jie met up with us, in giant, and we set about to hunt down things like cucumbers and crabsticks.
after that, the three of us went back to min's house and started preparing. less then 20 minutes later, henzy came and helped out. we "stripped" the crapsticks together...haha.
when everyone arrived, the lunch started. nothing much happened, except that kok was robbed of his sausage. then, the min took out the brownies she baked to substitute for the cake, and we "surprised" si qian and rach with a birthday song. you would've been an idiot not to expect something like this just 1 or 2 days after your birthday. nothing much happened after that though.
I WANT A (okay, maybe a few) STIKFAS FIGURE!!!!!
7:16 PM
And through it all, the rise and fall...
