Earliest record I arrived in school

I reached school at 7.40am today. It is the earliest record ever thanks to the Oral Communication presentation. When I was in the toilet with Nas and Zhi Teng before going to class, we decided not to tuck in our shirts as the cutting was those tucked out kind. Zhi Teng's one looks like the tuck in kind but he didn't care too and the shirt looks a little too big for him, making him look like he is wearing a trenchcoat, those worn by British soldiers in World War 1

The three of us discussed the presentation last night on MSN and this the screenshot of Zhi Teng and I doing a video conference

and that is my feet "talking" to him

The bloody lecturer was late himself, he said he will be in the classroom by 7.50 to let us prepare but he arrived at 8 I think. Then the three of us stood outside the class like idiots perspiring in our long sleeve shirts. After the lecturer came, we prepared a little and took the advantage to quickly start our presentation as only a few people had arrived. Overall, I think we fared well and Zhi Teng spoke much better today. Actually we wanted to show a video at the end but did not do so in the end because of some problem but I shall show you all here what is it about


Then at Maths, the old witch continued her differentiation and all the dy over dx thingy. At Data Comm, we drew graphs which the lecturer said we have to memorize. I took some photos in class

Oi Jerry, sit down lah! Don't kaypoh other people!


Zhi Teng forever playing his handphone no matter where he is

And this is the photo of the day, taken in Character Developement class
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FAT ARM!!! Yes, that's my lecturer

I had a nightmare

Last night, I had a nightmare. It was about the presentation during Oral Communication on Thursday. My group was the first to present but both Zhi Teng and I were late. When we arrived there, Nas looked annoyed as he was waiting for us. Th audience had also arrived before us and had already settle down. This is part 1.

Part 2 is Zhi Teng's attire. He came in a T-shirt with jeans instead of the office kind of attire. Nas was getting more angry by then and Zhi Teng didn't seem to bother at all. Then we started presenting, Nas and I forgotten our lines and did not know what to do halfway but luckily Zhi Teng saved us. But he himself did not fare better as well, he kept on reading from the computer and did not look at the audience at all. This is part 3

When we finished our presentation, the lecturer asked why were we so "below standard"? Still irritated by our punctuality and Zhi teng's attire, Nas threw a chair at the lecturer and stomped out of the class. I think someone went to chase after him and I could not remember what happened after that

I will have to reach school before 8am tomorrow as my group is really the first to present, but being first has it's advantage as well, which is you can quickly get over with it as soon as possible

6 January

Today morning went for GEM lesson on psychology, only one-third of the class arrived when I reached and I only know two people there. One was my classmate, Nicholas while the other was Stanley from DIT. I sat at my usual place right at the back in a corner. Then feeling bored listening to the old female lecturer talking, I moved over to crap with Stanley, then we crap, crap, crap and the lecturer also crap, crap, crap. I was wondering where was Nas, he should have been in class by then given his punctuality everyday. Then finally at 8.30, my classmates all came and I reluctantly moved back to my usual place to pave way for the others to sit but only one person came to sit in my row. Then I called Nas and he said he will come later, betrayer

During some part of the lesson, we were asked to write down things we fear, so these are some which I penned down. Fear of no money, fear of white tigers in the zoo, fear of getting trapped in the Singapore Flyer, fear of going under an ERP gantry, fear of cockroaches and many more

Then went for Maths and that old witch talked about differentiation and the class was spooking quiet like a cemetery, so I tried to create some noise together with Nas and we sort of succeeded by making everyone awake. Next was computer hardware and nothing interesting happened. Just that when I first entered class and sat down for ten seconds, Teo Shin Jen who is the lecturer requested me to change the name I linked him on my blog to his blog address instead of his name. Yes, i did what he wanted as he said he wants to remain mysterious but I am going to tell you all now anyway. So there's no secret at all

At lunch, I asked Zhi Teng to buy the indian chicken fried rice for me. The thing looks red and I don't remember eating a single shred of chicken at all. We discussed about our Oral Communication project which is giving us lots of headache from the topic we want to choose to the powerpoint slides to the clothes we have to wear on Thursday. Suddenly, the girl from the bench beside ours came over and asked if she can borrow our computer. At first, it seems that she was asking me as she looked at me first(maybe because I'm so charming)but turned to Zhi Teng when she finished talking

So Zhi Teng entertained her and she brought her laptop over to our bench and sat with us beside Zhi Teng. Nas and I were sitting in the opposite side so we did not manage to see what they were doing so happily. After a while she left, looking quite satisfied but she left a book behind. It was about skyscrapers and all those building stuff. As she did not came back to take the book, we decided to return it to the library on her behalf

By the way, I am the one who suggested to return it to the library, don't you think I am such a kind and caring person?

TLN finale

The Little Nyonya is coming to an end tonight. The final two episodes will be aired back to back from 8pm to 10pm. But I already know the ending and I shall tell you all, Yueniang and Chen Xi will not be together happily ever after. Yueniang will marry that ang moh lawyer called Paul while Chen Xi and Libby will tie the knot and have 6 children. It is a tragic yet happy ending for the show and viewers will surely be disappointed. The scriptwriter was really wicked to have made the story like this. Maybe in this way, people will remember this drama better and miss it more

Let's see if we will have post drama syndromes on Tuesday

Japlish

Share with you people something funny. It's called Japlish, Japanese plus English

First day of school

Yesterday, while I was walking in Clementi, I noticed something which I have not seen for at least the past four weeks. Yes, it is students wearing school uniforms and white shoes, carrying their bags and books, either alone or in a noisy group. Speaking about wearing school uniforms and white shoes, the last time I did it was during my literature examination during the 2007 O levels. I wore an office like attire to collect my O level results instead of our white or yellow uniform which most people wore on that day and my shoes were black. While walking into the hall, I met York Seng and he even commented about my attire and stared at those Converse sneakers which paled in comparison to his ordinary white shoes

Ok, back to the topic on what I saw on the streets. Yesterday was the first day of school for kindergarten, primary and secondary school pupils. Most parents of primary one students would take leave and stand outside(or inside)the school to take a peek at their little boy or girl if they are safe and sound. Primary six students will be preparing for their PSLE which decides their fate of which secondary school hall they will be sitting in with strangers exactly one year later. Secondary one students will find themselves in an awkward position as they have become the smallest in the school after being the eldest in primary school last year. Secondary three male students would also feel awkward as they are wearing long pants after two years of shorts. Secondary four students start to see both darkness and light as their dreaded O levels and exciting prom nights await at the end of the year

Exactly five years ago, I was playing this stupid pirate's game in the classroom with strangers or should I say new classmates? It was interesting and fun though I did not win it eventually. I remember Wai Yuen was the first one out of the game and he had to sing the pirate's song in front of thirty-nine classmates plus our form teacher, Pek Aik Soon(I prefer calling teachers by their full names). "Oh way oh way it's a pirate's life" I still recall it and you have to sing with your arm moving in one direction. Nick was one of the first few friends I made because he is just before me in the class list so we were always sort of together when we had to stand in a row

Two years later when we were all in long pants and still look so charming, we got to know more people who were our new classmates. Nick, Wai Yuen, Jian Nan and I were all together in the same class again and that is where I got to know Teck Cheong, Aarti, Jason etc. York Seng also became my new classmate but we have already known each other in NCC since sec one. Then we had a useless form teacher in Lindy Goh who only knows how to give reminders to students who are misbehaving in class. Three reminders and your parent will be called, correct me if I'm wrong Wai Yuen, Nick, Teck Cheong. I would like to elaborate more on sec three

We had the worst bunch of teachers in secondary three

Our physics teacher, Tan Puay Eng who is also the discipline master is a time bomb. He can give detentions anytime he wants to anybody in class. There was once when I answered a question wrongly on the whiteboard and then like that also kena detention. Our other science teacher, Anglie Ng who teaches chemistry is a mad dog. She can scream (or bark)like a mentally unsound person. You would be really suay if she is your neighbour. To top it all, there was our literature teacher, Jane Chng. Another champion in screaming but a little more humane than Anglie Ng. Until now, I still cannot understand how did she become the school's contemporary dance teacher with her big figure. Notice that I use the word "big" to sound more polite

When it was secondary four two years ago, we were all too familiar with one another and the school surroundings. Everything started to get boring although some teachers have changed especially our form teacher which everybody would certainly give a thumbs up. Our maths teacher, Portia Tan, told us that Lindy Goh was too tired to manage us. It is said that our class is famous in school for having the worst discipline and top in everything that is bad

That's the end of my long winded story which is only a small quarter of my secondary school life. I will write more next time when I have time

New year resolutions

RealBlurPolitics®: Ever wondered how a politician's new year resolution look like? Read on to find out

PM
I hope I can have a pay raise this year but I must think of some ways to earn those money from the citizens first. Maybe I should increase property prices to absorb more money. Then retrench some civil servants to prove to people that those working for the government do not have metal rice bowls. Isn't that killing two birds with one stone?

Home Affairs minister
My wish is very direct and it is to hope that Mas Selamat will be caught or I might get sacked. I also wish that my little people will not let me down anymore and let criminals escape so easily. I want all windows in government buildings to have grilles. Lastly, I want to grow taller

Education minister
As the economy is rather bad now, I wish that all schools can cut down on costs involving less crucial things like student welfare and plan more activities which will make students pay more. As for the new seven thousand five hundred teachers which we will be hiring this year, I hope they can all agree to settle for a lower pay where we will tell a white lie saying that as they have little or no experience, so that is their starting pay which is rather little

Foreign Affairs minister
I want to change my position as foreign affairs minister, flying around the world every now and then has made me lose quite a lot of hair. I wish I was Information, Communications and the Arts minister. Look at that skinny guy, his hair is still intact even though he's over sixty which means that job should be easier and I heard he is stepping down this year, so here's my chance

Transport minister
I wish those poly students would stop complaining about their high transport fares. Maybe I should discuss with my colleagues from other ministries to offer them some perks that will silence them for the time being. Something should also be done to solve the ERP problem, never mind, I think I'll leave that to next year when more money is collected

Thaksin Shinawatra
When can I ever return to the land of a thousand smiles? I miss drinking my tom yam soup and watching muay thai on TV, the King is ignoring me forever. In the meantime, let me do some football club shopping, which EPL club should I buy next? With the experience at Manchester City, I think I can buy a better one now

Barack Obama
Everyone is saying I am thin or whatever. I hope to train those skinny legs of mine to be more muscular so that Arnold Schwarzenegger will not laugh at me again. I hope to hire a couple of bodyguards who are good at catching shoes, in case the same thing which happened to Bush happen to me

Chen Shui Bian
I am innocent. Can somebody believe me? Those ingrates, when I was president they bootlicked me, now I am a nobody, they want me arrested. Where is justice and fairness in this world?

Abdullah Badawi
Let me pray that Uncle Mahathir will reduce the number of criticism he has on me. Anyway, I am going to hand over to Brother Najib in March although I am sort of forced to do so. Just three more months to freedom, I can endure it, yes I can

Anwar Ibrahim
My Pakatan Rakyat will go all out to defeat the Barisan Nasional and I am going to be PM to see Mahathir off to jail and make sure he suffer a worse fate than me. People are starting not to believe me after I did not do what I said last year so I am going to gain back their trust

First day of 2009

Today is the first day of 2009 although some other parts of the world are still in 2008. Although I am typing now, there is de facto nothing interesting to talk about. Perhaps I'll have some pictures here to fill up the space


People walking past a Shi'ite shrine in Baghdad's Karrada District. In 2008, life in many parts of Iraq regained a sense of tranquility.


Bikers in a race at the 2008 Beijing Olympics at Tiananmen Square


In the centre, this is one my favs. Obama and Co. going to a victory speech in June last year after he became his party's presidential candidate


You have to be a good goalkeeper(shoekeeper)to be his bodyguard


This bird is rebellious, maybe a problematic adolescent


Divine picture of nature


Random photo. I took this at the 11th floor of my block where there is lift upgrading

Morning in Clementi

After my practical lesson today, I met my ex-Tanglin comrade Jason to bring him to the bridal shop at Clementi to have his passport photo taken and Zhi Teng followed us. It was the only place where I can think of in Clementi that has this service. It was done pretty fast but because of two nerdy looking twins in some white shirt brown shorts uniform from some useless top school who had theirs taken after Jason, we could have left earlier. They were accompanied by their nerdy looking sister and ang moh pai mother who only speaks English and insists on using her credit card to pay although the shop owner say the card was not acceptable, can't she just use cash?

Then we went to the hawker centre to makan. As it was still early, the place was relatively empty when I first look at it. Then while looking for a table, I realized that all the empty tables were those with two seats. Suddenly, an auntie waved at me and gestured to follow her as she led us to an empty table, big enough for the three of us. I already knew what will happen next and upon sitting down, she asked us "要豆花水还是甘蔗水?" I ordered the former, Zhi Teng ordered the latter and she looks happy. But we were not happy, we did not like that table so after she came back with the drinks, we walked over to another table to sit. Jason ordered some white-coloured dessert, Zhi Teng ordered chicken chop and I won't tell you what I ate

After that we went to the bookshop as Jason wanted to buy graph paper before going to a shop to play a lame game where you have to shoot ping pong balls either in a row or column to win something. Each round costs 20cents, we played three times and won this small little miserable prize


Finally I headed to NTUC to "shopping" and went home

This is the last post of 2008, oh no, all my posts will be dated 2009 from tomorrow onwards

adiós 2008 bienvenido 2009

30 December

Guy looking down

3 friends laughing at him

Girl(pulling the guy's shirt): 我们刚买的,可爱吗?

Guy turns his head and 勉强 smiles at her

Feels pai seh

Yes, i ate the mega mac burger from Mcdonald's during lunch. It is not really that huge after all, my mouth is still 勉强 big enough to bite it. Actually, the most interesting thing is that I still don't feel full even with french fries and a cup of coke in my stomach as well. As it was bigger than usual, I had some difficulty eating tidily and the cabbage sort of dropped out

Again, I did not take any pictures as I think it was not necessary and there were other people around me too during that time

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Today is the 30th of December and only one day stands between us and 2009. So this are the few things that 城市人 like you and me will normally do during this part of the year.

Do the annual spring cleaning of your house which may actually be the only thorough one in the whole year, so it is pretty pointless doing it only every 365 days.

Come up with a new year resolution that contains all your dreams and wishes that never seem to come true even after so many years of coming up with them and doing nothing to achieve them

Spending the night counting down the new year with other idiots who scream and yell "Happy New Year" to one another when the host counts to one and fireworks burst into the sky, all these adding up to a high volume of air and noise pollution

Recalling all the memorable things that occurred to you this year which you will probably forget more than 90% of it in 2 weeks time and cannot be bothered to remember them again since it is the new year. So why bother killing your brain cells?

Wishing your friends a happy new year electronically via call/sms/email/MSN/Facebook where those messages are likely to be those sent by other friends and you are just recycling them and wasting your call duration/smses/electricity/time/money

Hope to start the year all over again and redo or undo the things which make you feel regretful but at the end of the day, nothing will change except that you have to get used to writing 2009 instead of 2008 when you write the date

But we are all humans right? So it is forgivable that we do all these annual things since it is human nature

Back to school

Yesterday, I had forgotten to do something very crucial. Actually it is not really crucial but it has been in my head all the while for the past two weeks and I will think of it everyday. But, but, but, it just slipped of my mind yesterday. This crucial thing that I regret not doing is none other than to go to Compass Point
For The Little Nyonya public event

I have been visualizing myself at the place and what I will be seeing every now and then. I wanted to see Dai Yang Tian PK Qi Yi Wu on stage with Jeanette Aw but I will never get the chance again


Anyway, as mentioned in one of my previous post, I said that the three weeks of school holidays will pass very quickly. Indeed, it seems that it has only been three days since the day I was down with fever which is also the first day of the holidays. I am going back to school tomorrow and I wonder what will it be like

I think most of the things are still the same. The empty field is still under construction, the foodcourts are still packed with people that it is almost impossible to find an empty table during lunchtime, mosquitoes will bite me when I sit at the benches, some of my classmates will be late for class, my Maths lecturer still look old and wicked and many more