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The O level results was released today. The school did quite well, wonders if i will be able to achieve that... Some subjects improved, while others dropped. Some teachers will be happy while others will not be. haha... mr choo should be quite estatic tomorrow, his class seemed to have done quite well. Geo, chinese e maths and a maths all got above 70% distintion, meaning that about 3/4 of the express got an a1 or a2 o.0... dunno how we are gonna achieve that... chinese at least is out for me... a maths... very very unlikely but i have good faith in e maths and geo! plz plz plz...wanna get below 10 for L1R5 but dunno if i can do that. must keep a positive attitude! i can do it! lets see what are my aims... please note that i am dreaming in a world of my own when i typed this so dun tell me is impossible, anything is possible in dreams!!!
English-A1
E.maths-A1
Geo-A1
Physics-A2
Combined Humans-A2
A.maths-A2/B3
Chem-B3
Chinese-B3/B4
haha... if i can achieve this it will be a miracle...still, who the hell wanna aim for a C... alright! gotta work towards it! haha... dunno why i am so positive this year...the showing us previous year result thingy seems to have some effect, made a lot of ppl wanna work harder but then it seems to last like a few hours for me lolz...
forgot to bring the homework home again... i brought the whole file home and it just so happens that the two piece of homework are not in them -_-''... everything not due tmr or today if you wanna be particular is in there... got yongjun to help me scan the chinese at 10+ and i had trouble printing a readable copy so started doing at 11 liddat. just finished. gonna chiong the english compo like siao tmr liao... and the physics file to. my one is supposed to be the refered to copy lolz.. if they wanna refer they only can refer to a blank piece of paper...
anyway, to comment on my mp3 player after finally getting to test it. it ROCKS! haha... sound quality is great and the earphone is comfortable. usage is ok too. the only problem i have is that my com seems to have some problem with it. after transfering a couple of files into it, it will give me the blue screen of death and refuse to work so have to restart after everyone couple of songs transfered o.0... painstaking tranfered enough song not to hear a repeat for the 3 hours that i have been listening to it now. i think i transfered 70+ songs ba. the stupid com sometimes crash in the middle of transfering so a couple of the songs are half there only but then i listen till blur blur so sometimes never really notice unless it suddenly changed from a chinese one to a english one. anyway, you shouldn't have to worry about getting this problem if you buy it, it seems that i am the only one because i tried a lot of forums and no one seems to have this problem... ba... i hate my com... 5 years old can be counted as antique in the tech world liao lor... i want a new com!!! no money though... maybe after O level get a job ba... love my mp3 player! maybe i will get someone to help me transfer some songs inside. really easy lor, just plug in the mp3 player and drag the files in, like a diskette liddat. no programs needed. anyone wanna help? one song transfer is like 1 or 2 sec?
wohoo!!! finally got my mp3 player!. Haven tested it out yet, still sorting out the songs, ripping, renaming bla bla bla. anyway, going to sim lim square was a joke. let me talk about it for a bit.
i checked out the bus guide and 147 seems to go there so i counted the number of bus stops to there. 33. ok the journey was going to be a long one but that was ok. so i happily took the 147. the journey was so boring... staring out of the window the whole time. i started looking out when i counted to 30 because i have sorta lost count during the jounney. by the time i counted to 35 and still haven see sim lim anywhere, i decided to get off the bus. walked around for a bit and saw jalan besar plaza. i thought to myself, " that can't be right can it?" i decided to call wenqin as he used to live in the area. he told me that i had overshot so i ran back a couple of bus stops. at the second one, i saw a bus-stop listing, you know, those kind that you see at bus stops.. found out there that i had infact gotten off two bus-stops early. ended up jogging all the 4 bus-stops to sim lim square. so in total i jogged 6 bus-stops. i was running around CBD like an idiot. oh yeah, i accidently knocked into a man who was carrying a bowl of soup and he spilled a little and he cursed at me. when i finally got to sim lim square, it was close to 7. decided to call off my plan for looking around and just went straight to the shops i read about in the forums that had good reviews. after walking around for a bit, i brought the mp3 player. black de.
went home after that by going to the mrt station at little india with some directions from wen qin.
so now i am still trying to get all the songs i want. judging from the size, i doubt i can fit them all in so that is another problem. lol... this is turning out to be more trouble than i thought. and i still haven listened to a song of it!
hmm... this hasn't exactly been a fun week, with quite a lot of late nights and what not but then i feel that i am starting to get used to it liao. last year when i had late nights, i would be yawning non-stop and struggling to stay awake the next day but now, i am able to keep awake during lessons even if i had a whole week of late nights now. wonders what it is doing to my body. i used never feel like sleeping when i got home but now naps are common occurances.
the tests i got back this week are far from ideal. with me failing the diffenciation test and all the chinese tests so far. but this was kinda expected so i didn't feel too bad about it...two tests next week apart from the usual chinese, hope that i will do ok for them. argh!!! a maths is giving me such a big headache...
going to buy my mp3 player hopefully tomorrow but one person go is so SIAN. zone out on the mrt or bus for so long...aiya... used to it liao...i still haven sorted out the problem of exactly how to go but i guess i will managed ba...i will admit this, guys do have a problem with asking for directions from strangers.
anyway, lets hope the coming weeks will be better! but with dreaded exams looming ever closer and closer, i doubt that is possible. still, we must keep our spirt up everyone! gambate!!!
hmm... today was a ok day, apart from the chinese test. my chinese really cannot make it la...
had the pratical right after physics ended. mrs lee let us go for the pratical and so we got to finish a little eariler than usual. kaoz... so many stuff to collect.. haha... i think physics collect the most stuff liao...anyway, because of the pratical, i didn't have lunch and my stomach was growling throughout the whole pratical -_-''... haha... i really need my 5 meals a day sia...
after that me, yj, hk and kobe had lunch at the coffee shop outside and then kobe keep saying the 2.4 thingy... 5 seconds big deal ar? i am so gonna win you this year...
oh yeah, anyone wanna go to sim lim square this saturday? or knows how to go? i need help here...
forgot to bring home any ss stuff home for the test tomorrow. lolx... i packed the whole bundle of books that i was supposed to bring home and i left it on the table when i went home -_-''...how forgetful can i get... good thing fangling scanned a few pages of the notes for me...thanks fangling!
anyway, that also meant that i am gonna be carrying a hell of a lot of books home tomorrow because that bundle also contained some of the books i can bring home. why is the stupid locker so ex? good thing my class is not buying it but buying our own shelfs... still have to drag those books this week though.
lessons was ok today. nothing really special really.
crap, look at the time. i still have to complete some english homework... bye for now!
Edit: great, just great. english i also forgot to bring home... really first time forget so many things sia... getting old liao la
actually i didn't want to blog today because i couldn't think of anything to write about but after reading a couple of blogs i decided to blog about the career guidence.
actually i am not to sure what i want to be but i am thinking about journalism or something to do with animals. i love animals!!! haha... maybe i can combine the two and a animal journalist. is there such a thing? haha... i wouldn't mind having a peaceful life away from the city which cannot be achieve in singapore so maybe i will migrate... of course preferbly with a large sum of money to rest on but that money have to come from somewhere. oh man... i still haven't even decide on going to a jc or a poly. i have next to 0 idea what kinds of courses there is and what courses are for what!guess i should do some research soon or i will be the only one who dun even have a goal to work towards le
a normal sunday, but killed by homework and test though.
watching black hawk down now. can't really get the plot leh, until now still dunno any of the soldier's name, dunno who the main char is and then they keep dying and dying and the hawks keep crashing. i dun even know the objective yet lolx... confusing plot... but nice action!
went for the check-up for my back today. was a little late arriving there, at about 9:15 ba. After taking height and weight then went to measure my spine. Good news!The doctor said my condition stablized and i dun have to go for anymore check up laio! cool!
then went to weiying's house to do the history project. do for about 3 or 4 hours? decent enough for something that is not marked la. haha... one of the last few slides very funny. after that we... cannot say or someone will be killed by someone but i am not involved though
after that reached home at about 8+? went to the coffeeshop near hougang plaza to buy food first, the one below the steps one, with the nice western food i blogged about before? decided to try the chicken chop instead. it was quite good la, but i still prefer the cutlet. queue so long sia... 20+ minutes...
then go home eat liao still have to go buy buy food for my sis. man.. she is sec 1 and still dun dare to go down and buy food? omg... i seriously doubt it lor, she is just damn lazy and my parents actually believe her... just cos she cried... lame lor... dunno how to do hw cry, dun dare buy food cry, this cry that cry, such a cry baby... can't stand her
weekend is finally here again! although this weekend will hardly be a relaxing one, with a number of homework to be done, a test on monday and tomorrow gone to check up and history project. i just relised how long it has been since i played a game! nowadays nothing much to do on the com liao. and why does the stupid nurse set the timing for the check up is at 9 am!!! so damn early! spoiling my plans of being able to sleep late.
nothing much happened today, except that self-study was cancelled and those ppl who had cca were very ke lian and have to wait for so long. headache sia... two chinese tests next week.
wow... for a change, i didn't blog yesterday. i think i have been blogging every single day for a long time liao. reason i didn't blog yesterday was cos i studied chinese till 12+. maths test was horrible,i do until very cham... then the physics test was worse sia, i got 0 lolz...
today was quite ordinary, apart from the chinese test. for the first time, i don't think i will fail! i really love my class! gives me the feeling of home more than my home sia. i am thinking of buying a cheap mp3 player, anyone got any suggestion?
what a suxy day...heard something i shouldn't have heard and made me damn confused...
i think the only good thing about today was the laoing of yu sheng. haha... that was so funny. my hand kena bits and pieces of everything and then i was playing with the yu sheng over ching yee head then some drop onto her her, laugh till peng sia lolz...
then got home busy busy. do the 3 compos thingy while watching tv so do from like 8 to 10+. then proceeded to studying for maths. however, the more i study, the more confused i become. differciation(sp) sux! argh... then when studying about maths my mind want to think about anything other than maths. then think about stuff i dun wanna think about. sian sia...
i think kobe last time nick got something like what is good and what is bad. my one is worst then him sia lolz...
family, crap. i barely even talk to them now and when they talk to me, it is either asking me to do things or to nag at me. house is more like a poor quality hotel
friends. got friends is got friends, just that no close ones and then no one that can talk to and wanna find ppl go out also hard.
relationship. zzzzzz
school. same as everyone else in class so nothing much diff. i think this is the only thing that i dun have much to complain about...
studies. lolz...talk about this i also wanna laugh. there are so many stuff that i only do well when tyco only. then my a mahths and chinese is total crap. hopefully i won't screw up when the ones that really counts gets here.
lolz... what am i doing blogging and crapping in the class forum when there are so many things i haven done? maths, physics spot test, chinese wksheets... i give up. not like i will be able to get any sleep if i wanna finish them. been sleeping really late this few days so am damn tired now. i have no doubt that there are a lot of ppl who are chionging until face green green but i am not gonna be one of them. haha... sleep is more impt!
Today is Valentines day! haha... not like i have a lot of things worth celebrating...
the design of the box of the chocolates was stupid, the chocolates keep moving all over the place lor. but i couldn't do much so i had to give it liddat anyway. haha... yongjun brought so many roses then give here give there. chior had a field day sia... at least it is a lot cheaper than outside... 6 roses for $50... sheesh...
we also did the "singapore, our future" poster. is it just me or is this topic heavily over used... after sch did the maths hw. wah... very de mafan sia... draw until can't even see what i am doing... do for a very long time until the ppl around keep asking how come i taking so long. after finishing the hw, i went to help with the poster. basically, i helped by watching and being made fun of lolz...i am so used to it liao that i can't even get slightly annoyed unless it is said by ppl i dun like. do until 6+ ba... then we went to the coffeeshop for some food. treated satay. there were 8 ppl there? me, jun, kobe, ym,gt, fl, mx and yn. quite enjoyed the dinner although got a drink auntie come and tell those that were drinking bubble tea that cannot drink there. had an enjoyable day and it was quite fun doing the poster. gonna lau yu sheng tmr! but i am seriously hoping got food other than sweet potato or i am gonna die of hunger...
went to Tampines mall today with heng and kevin to buy something. dunno if they want ppl to know so i shalln't talk about what they buy. aanyway, i brought something for tmr liao. just hoping that nothing suay will happen, eg, melting.
shopped around for a bit liao when to watch constantine with heng. we brought the tickets only half an hour before the show started so only left the front row seat. when the person at the counter said that i wanted to say dun watch liao then heng go and say no problem -_-''.... in the end have to watch the show from the front row seat. wah... damn uncomfortable sia, cannot even sit straight or cannot see the whole screen... but the movie itself was quite nice la. haha... got a lot of laugh out loud moments like when gabrial talked to constantine.lolz... i still feel like laughing when i think of it. after that walked around a bit then i go back to hougang liao. oh yeah, got a haircut before i went home. hair too long liao...
went to yongjun's house today. being the lu chi that i am, i got lost going from sch to hougang point lolz... emm... reached his house at 11+ then played ps for a while and then ppl start coming and just played lor. i was playing until ben heng came to play blackjack with me at $10 per hand... in the end lost $130 to him...zzz...
oh yeah, we lao yu sheng too! haha... so many ppl trying to lao a tiny plate of yu sheng, so the pieces went flying everywhere... i can't imagine how our class de will look like...i think they asked miss ng for permission to lao yu sheng on tuesday if i am not wrong. at 5+ liddat me and heng left. we took taxi to tampines, with me going to my aunt house and him to his nai ma house. gambled at my aunt's house too, win about $20+. haha... i should have won over all this year if not for ben heng -_-''...
what a nice day! let me see... extra lessons was cancelled!!! that in itself is a cause for celebration! i mean who is in the mood to study on the 3rd day of the new year?
anyway, we went to kobe's house after sch ended. there was about... 10 ppl? or maybe a little more. after we collected ang pows from his parents who left for lunch, some of us started playing cards while the others watched tv. i won surprisly lolz...$14 there. then ben heng was not happy with the playing speed so he challaged me to a one on one where i was really really lucky and won 5 rounds without losing any and at $2 a game, that was another $10.
after that, we went to wei qin house. wah... her house also big sia. after a bit, we started playing cards again with wei qin's mom joining in. after a bit, i won $26 as a result of the last round where everyone doubled their normal bets and i playing as banker got 21~ haha... after that we played a bit of daidee and i was lucky again and won abit even though i didnt want to... at around 6+, we went home, with wei qin's parents driving me and kobe to hougang point where they were going to buy some stuff. over all won about $50? i think about balance out le ba so i now not losing or winning much.
oh yeah, tomorrow going to yj house and then my aunt house later in the afternoon. haha... let's see how tomorrow goes!
today after a tiring and mentally stressful day of gambling, i won $60... wah... you have no idea no stressful it is when someone(my aunt) keep betting $10 and then keep getting blackjack and double aces... good thing when she became banker i did the same thing...
haha... so my loses not so bad liao...
good news is that i got a decent amount of angpow, although my dad's shunk from $100 to $50. i finally got to keep my grandma's $100 one. mom was $20 and i think the rest is about $50?
bad news is that i lost $70 today. oh well, i guess that it is just my luck ba...
first post of the rooster year! wohoo! tv says snake year de gonna have a good year. haha... no harm in having a hope. anyway, lost $53 yesterday in mahjong but i have a good feeling about today!!! :D :D :D wohoo! oh yeah, anyone wanna go the woodlands that big big funfair?
wow... so many things happened today... let me see...
first off, we delivered the hampers today. wow.. the hampers damn heavy sia... haha... our class too generous le. we carried the hampers from our class to the family service center. actually it wasn't that heavy la, lighter than the minernal water that time. however, this time the basket was not meant to be carried this was and make the wrist very pain sia... when we came out, we bumped into mr soup who asked us to take photographs so we had to go back into the center and lug the basket out, let him take photos of us carry the basket in and then carry it back again -_-''... after that, ms ng treat us to drinks and chicken wings! haha... ms ng really treat us too well sia...
when we went back to sch, our class was still in the hall so we waited by the swing area. mr lim spotted us and told us to go up but when we went up there, the talk over liao. dun have our things so went back to the class and waited for dorcas for the keys. couldn't find her at first so by the time we went into the LT we were rather late le. the first thing we heard mrs lee say was about blogs and that we were advise to shut it down as ppl from the public were reading about our blogs and writing about them to mrs low. i dun plan on shutting down this blog as i have grown used to being able to write about how i feel and being able to look back at my previous entries. thus, i am going to set a password for this blog. this will remove the problem of ppl from outside reading about it and there shouldn't be anymore problem then. the password will be the meaning of our class cheer. if you know me, you will know it so there shouldn't be any problem. gonna set the password tmr.
after sch, a few of us stayed back to clean the class. an accident happened while we were mopping the floor. geok hurt her foot and bleeded a lot. wah.. seeing the blood dripping is scary sia... some st johns member came and helped her stop the bleeding. she went home and the rest of us cleaned up the rest. some of the houses de notice boards got some problems so others left to help. reached home at 7+ sia... oh well, lets hope everything will be better...
oh yeah... i said something about today supposing to be a very good day right? i guess it was quite a good day, if the accident didn't happened. the tests that i got back today was pretty good... i seem to be on a tycoing streak... then the hamper thingy was quite fun... but it doesn't seem to me like the best day of the month or anything liddat... so i guess it isn't very accurate...
Went to Plaza Singapura today. actually i wanted to go at like 2 then be back by 6 but then i woke up late and slack so much that i ended up going out at 4. still couldn't find anyone to go with so i went alone. on the train there msg wenqin who said he was going out today. turns out he is heading there also but is with a bunch of 4e1 ppl, most of whom i dunno well so i went to shop around alone. turns out to be a wise decision, i went there that time they were at mac, i finished touring whole ps liao they still at mac -_-''... couldn't find anything to buy so i go find them walk walk a bit. oh yeah, i brought a ice cream at swenson(sp?. mint de. did i even mention that my fav flavour is mint? cost me 3 bucks but i guess it was still ok ba... haven had ice cream in ages le. somehow i ended up walking around alone again and then wenqin called me, saying that most of them going home le, left him and leonerd so i went to find them. i really needed some new shirts for new year so desprate liao, anyhow go into shops and see. found a nice black shirt at U2($33) and brought it. knowing that my mom would nag if i just went home with a black shirt, i went into bossini and anyhow choose a red shirt. it was selling at one for 9 and two for 12 so i brought another black one. lolz... i somehow only like dark coloured shirts, brightest i would go is red if you dun count white. then after that went to ... i forgot the shop name liao, where leonerd and wenqin brought a shirt each. same design, one black one white. can be hei bai wu chang liao lolx...
after that went to arcade at the request of wenqin and then he go there dun wanna top up his card cos he say top liao he won't be able to go home till very late so we play a round a daytona then go home le. i was leading for most of the race, making them crash twice each but the system bu shuang me, the very last corner of the very last lap let leonerd overtake me so i was 2nd. after that went home le. as expected, my mom bu shuang i buy black clothes...i think i have mastered the skill of totally ignoring what she say liao, didn't hear a word of what she said...
oh yeah, i was very bored yesterday so i went to horoscope websites. i dun believe in them but i was bored so go and see a bit. turns out that tomorrow is supposed to be like the best day of the month or something for leos( my sign). lets see if it is true... i could do with a good day.
ok... i am feeling seriously pathetic right now... want to find someone to go out with tmr to shop for clothes also cannot find... not like i never ask...am i that unsocialable...
went to give marchand today. wah... he also got a lot of hamsters sia... dunno why he still want somemore... give him liao i went to compass to see if i could find any clothes to buy but then couldn't find any i like. then went to hougang mall, same result. oh yeah, tried the twister fries for the first time. er... how to say ar... ok la, but then lose to A&W by alot. somehow reminds me of wedges...
after that i went home and then went to the gym. was supposed to meet jiajun there at 4 but then couldn't contact him. we agreed on it on thursday i think. and you know what? he gimme aeroplane!!!! in the end i trained alone... sian 1/2...
come home then mom straight away nag at me for some reason that i forgotten. honestly, out of ten times she talk to me, 8 or 9 would be nagging at me... i am not exaggrating... f*** up day... so different from yesterday... hate it...
oh yeah... i made a new class forum today. the old one load very slow and then not so easy to use so i found another host.
http://s8.invisionfree.com/4E4/index.php
go and register and post leh!!! i one person posting very kuku lor... hate myself...
Today was quite funny... recess that time we celebrated the birthdays of ppl born in jan, feb and march. returned to class at 11:20 when we were supposed to returned at 11:15. i thought everyone would be late ma, in the end kena scolded by everyone lolz... ms ng brought for us a huge cake. well, huge enough for 30 ppl for have a decent sized piece anyway. must have cost her quite a bit. haha... feeling sorta guilty now, she keep spending so much on us. then we took a class photo! ben was outta place as usual, posing in some dumb pose. if you have been reading my blog long enough, you should know that i very bu shuang him... then after then kena sabo by hankee to take a picture with yinning. haha... no gonna comment on it more, say anything will also be wrong on this topic.
then the 2pm that break i bo liao go lib see see how the sec 1 are like( today is the welcome party. dumb me commented that the drink taste horrible without ice so was asked to go buy ice. being the nice guy that i am, i went to buy the ice. wanted to buy from the canteen at first but then they dun have liao so went to 7-11 to buy the stupid ice. 5kg for $3.85 sia... their ice dunno made out of spring water or something.. so ex... then the 5kg like not 5 kg leh, much lighter that the 5kg rich from the feel of what i remembered. then again, my memory sux so much so i could be wrong as well. carried the stupid ice back to the lib liao went back to class and straight away ppl tell me to empty dustbin -_-''... no compassion sia these ppl. nearly slept through the maths lesson. after lesson end went to the lib. games over le so go there and eat nia. haha... lib so slack, other cca still doing so cham i haven had duty since last year april liddat liao lolz... only once a week for a couple of hrs nia. then this year 5 day week + self study end up i only have cca for like 1 hr per week only and go there everytime nearly everything done liao so go there also slack only. 12 new ppl this year but only 2 boys. and the two boys are damn noisy... can't remember the name of the girls yet, somehow they all seem alike to me and their names all so hard to remember de...
oh well today was quite a good day so i think i better go sleep le ba...
ok... i think that i am just going to use a date if i can't think of any titles to use.
a lot of ppl have began to blog in "perfect english" in fear of the teachers but i am not gonna do it. i too lazy liao. anyway my blog is just for me to remind myself what i did. my memory suxs so i doubt i will be able to remember this aprt of my life if i don't save it somewhere... anyway, what are they reading our blogs for? i know that blogs are accessible to the public for a reason but i think they should know that students, being students, will talk bad about the teachers that they do not like. if they are going to get all angry about it, why are they reading it in the first place?
ok.. enough about that. today was a normal day, with me crashing the chinese test as usual like i do every week so i am not gonna talk about it liao. pratical was fast today for a change, at least ammonium was not used so much... i am absolutly dreading chinese new year's eve. gonna have to perform as a zhao cai mao with 7 others from my class: kobe, yj, mx,gk, elalis, puay ying and ching yee. wah... my stage fright is gonna kill me... i will be trembling in fear... in fact, i think that stage fright is the only thing that i am really afraid of. i am not afraid of heights, bugs, animals and things liddat... siao liao la...
oh yeah... i noticed something, girls in sec 4 seems to have become more kai fang? dunno if it is just me but this year, the girls seems to have become more daring in what they talk about. you know what i mean...while the guys have quieten down a notch. haha... not that i am complaining, this kinda conver is more interesting to listen to then which guy is shuai -_-''
is now offically my most hated day of the week. apart from there being FOUR periods of maths, there is the god damn xiao che yan as well!. oh god, i hate studying chinese... it is like a torture to me...soup is not exactly being very nice about it either... he says every blank will minus double the marks the qn is worth... kuku lor... dunno means dunno write comfirm wrong word for what... fine... i am gonna write numbers in chinese for the words i dunno tmr... somehow i think studying chinese is pointless for me. i got study lor, and for quite some time also but then when i wake up, i forget everything. guess you call this short term memory but then it is not so bad for the other subjects because they need understanding more than bloody chinese which is just vomiting out what you memorized. is there any god damned point to this crap... for one, it doesn't teach you any skills at all and there is absolutly nothing gained from it lor... how often will you be asked to use all those stupid words when you go out to work??? which is all education is about right? to prepare you for the working world? for that, teaching you something that needs you to use skills is better than just plain memorizing lor...
Edit: i just read yesterday's newspaper and an interesting article caught my eye. chinese syllabus have been cut by 61% for p6 and 27% for sec 4! ha! MOE agrees with me! got the papers read the article ba, it is on the front page. did soup say anything about it?