Finished M: Apprentice after the competition, haha :) Still looking for master, darned library doesn't seem to have them at all >_<

Yay. Computron's over. But the prizes were kinda useless, with Microsoft Project the greatest white sheep elephant (did i actually type sheep!?) - standing at a market price of 80, it has no use for us students, as it's meant for corporate users. Sigh. Spent the whole afternoon searching for the Microsoft office where we wanted to try swap them for other products. In the end we realised that we couldn't refund the products for money (our original intention) as refunds are only applicable for US. Argh. There goes my afternoon.

Slept. Slept all the way to 8.30pm after reaching home, before having dinner. Guess I'd need to make up for the lost rest :)

Hmm. Ok, was kinda stuck in school yesterday after blogging. Had to wait for Lennon to collect to cheque, will have to rush off for a movie soon, and at the moment, I realised I didn't bring my calculator for maths >_< It got progressively worse. Lennon decided to collect to the cheque on Monday, and so I went off to City Hall to meet my classmates for the movie. Met a bunch of CO people there too~ proves my theory right that I don't need a handphone with this network around me :) Was a little lost initially, had to call for directions, and was then directed to the phone booth with a simple instruction, move straight ahead until you see a phone booth, on which then I'd call for further help. It's only when I found them did I realise that all the tickets have been sold out, so we spent the next few hours prowling the region, or "giving a guided tour of this place for junyi", as proposed by my friend. In the end persuaded them to all come along to the library, where I finally am able to have a level of participation, ie finding books.

Even for the sleep-deprieved, books sure can help keep me up, but even so, there seems to be a limit to how much help it can give ~ eventually fell asleep 1 hour before normal bedtime.

Oooh. Tired. Amazing what 3 hours less of sleep out of a normal 6 can do to me. Yay erm anyway borrowed Magician: Apprentice, at last! Now I only need to find one more book to complete the Riftwar trilogy! Hrmm, now am torn between choosing to sleep or choosing to read... but there's yet another competition early tomorrow morning, how??

Ok, going to take a nap now. Hope I awaken ^_^
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...As much as I find acne troublesome, I must admit, it has been a useful tool to aid me to grip on to reality, staving off the mental conflict when my ordinary logic fails, by being the strongest proponent for my case. Yes, perhaps it'd help me stay on course and not stray off, think too much, whatever. But I'd gladly see it go too ^_^

Currently at the school's computer lab, waiting for Lennon to get over his lunch date with his primary school classmates. Sigh. I'm torn between staying in school and going back to my primary school. On one hand, it's already so late and I don't think many people will be there... but on the other we've promised to all gather 4 years after graduation, ie in JC, to see how we've all changed, which school we've entered, etc. So am stuck in the situation where if I go, there might not be much happening, and if I don't, I might miss out a lot, leaving broken promises lying freely. Sigh. Since I'm here blogging, guess which choice I made.

And yeah. Sleeping at 3am in the morning to wake up at 6am the next day sure kills. Could hardly drag myself out of the bed to have breakfast, and slept all the way from home to school. It's still amazing how we all manage to sleep on the bus and yet know when to get up, most of the time ^_^ Hmm, unfortunately I'm quite untireable, feeling quite energetic still, perhaps it's just the hyperactive me :)

And yeah :) Learnt the jian dan ai song well enough to sing during the ACES day workout, glad that I'm not the only one straining our vocal cords. Spent the next hour rushing through the gifts, tagging them, writing cards, wrapping, etc. Noticed by now most people have somehow disappeared ~ I mean, only 8 person in our class ended up doing the ACES day workout? Anyway, bought balloons in a balloon, costing 5 dollars (!) for one of our computing teacher, because my friend who's supposed to buy somehow forgot.

Had some initial doubts of the entertainment value of the teacher's day performance, but those were casted aside not long into the show. Always had a bad impression of such shows, probably ingrained within me after years in CHS, where the words "interesting" and "performance" don't go together :) But I can really see that they've put in a lot of effort to make it interesting, though the games seem very similar to those back in CHS O_o Enjoyed it a lot, especially the skits by the teacher, the songs, especially the compilation of three songs from prince of egypt by the band, and sang along :) Oooh. A pity I probably won't be able to enjoy the performances again, the prelims! (Argh!)

After the performance, there's a mad rush for the teacher's room, with everyone gathering there to give their gifts and their greetings to the teachers. It was terribly disorganised for our class, ended up having only 5 person passing the majority of the gifts to the teachers. Staff room was packed with students, students and more students, even movement is difficult. After distributing all the gifts, ran off to the Central laza with a friend to dance the mass dances. A pity that by the time we reached there, it's already the last dance, aka Wild Wild West. At least we had the opportunity to start the dance from the beginning ^_^ Whee, sure is fun, and getting confused over the dance steps already seem like a part of the mass dances themselves.

Noticed that we've yet to give the gifts to Ms Moh, and so got the gifts and went in search of her. After some investigation, we finally found her in the computer lab, marking our coursework. Aww... I mean, it's teachers day, hmm?

Went to Chinese High next, in search of my teachers. Though most have left, we left a few greetings on my Stik-it. Found my physics teacher, who then told me that in fact the teachers have not left, just that they're in the canteen with my ex-classmates. Rushed off in search of them, and somehow felt at home, tearing down the familiar corridors, spiralling stairs, and the grass slope leading to the canteen, almost makes me feel that I'm again rushing off from class to recess - the mad rush for time, for shorter queues, and passing the all-too-familiar landscape. *sigh*

Found the teachers there, unfortunately most are already beginning to leave, so didn't have much opportunity to talk much, other than advice to drink more water, rest more, and take better care of my face :P

Reached the class bench again, was stuck in the dilemma as stated in the first paragraph. Somehow uncovered a card that was supposed to be given to our maths teacher, horrors! Rushed off to the staff room in search of this teacher, and oops, guess he left. Never mind, left a note for him and the card too.

And yep. It's now 1:16pm, been blogging for the past ½ hour, have to rush off now to contant Lennon and claim our prizes :) Happy happy, what a great day ~

Great day, kinda. GP is ok, an opportune moment for us to just slack and perhaps try to listen what our class mates were trying to present ~ though copying so much from the board doesn't make it any fun-ner. And the wonderful end to the lesson with the teacher announcing the heavy holiday workload didn't help lift our mood.

The practical prelims also meant that the two periods of observing chemicals mixing is replaced by doing tutorials instead. Erm, yay. On the bright side, the teacher didn't realise that we have another period in the afternoon, and hence rushed through all the tutorials. Which means we get a free period in the afternoon! And yeah. Organic chemistry is quite fun :) At least up to now, wonder what the future beholds.

Break time. Rushed over to CHS canteen, which is almost becoming a weekly tradition by our class, due to _practical_ reasons. Yes, pun intended. While waiting for my friends to finish their drinks, got lost in thoughts again. The stairs I runran down everyday. The class. The teachers. The benches where our weekly erhu practices are carried out... Sigh. One never treasures what he has until it's all lost. What is left are fading memories, evanesced, facing the gradual erosion by time.

Physics lecture. It's getting me worried, as we're already near the promotional exams and yet the lectures are no where near its end, which means we've less time to revise, no!~ Followed by Maths lecture, which concluded spectacularly (erm almost), and was quite interesting, with our maths lecturer exhibiting child-like curiousity (for his age) when noticing that by placing his finger on the projector, it will make the projection brighter. All "good" things must come to an end, and so will the Integration/Curve sketching book. Whee! No curve sketching! Which means I've now got only about ½ tutorial left!

Quite a fun day after this. Cracked loads of jokes, quizzed our friends, during maths tutorial. Haha our poor tutor :) Went to coronation next, having one full period off without chemistry, and bought flowers for teachers, green apple green tea, and a bag of tasty small croissants at NTUC for consumption during CLAO ^_^

Kept myself occupied throughout CLAO, copying down whatever notes I can copy, (to exercise my word recognition faculty, or the lack of it) flipping the dictionary whenever possible to revise the old words. It's interesting to note the relativeness of the term "good student". I mean, I don't do my homework, I don't do well for class tests, I don't exhibit any sense of ability in this language, and yet my teacher can say I'm a good student. Why? Just because all my other classmates regularly skip lessons, and I dare not haven't even skipped one :P

Toyed around with the wrapping paper a friend bought so that we can wrap our gifts, but gave up in the end as I just don't have time. Before leaving, I got one tough integration problem from yet another friend. Unwilling to give up, I did it through the bus ride, before finally nailing the solution :) Supremely inspired, integrated for the rest of the bus ride, went to Mac and integrated until 7.30, and integrated again on the bus ride home, a time when I always usually sleep. Ooh! Hope it'd last :) Just like chemistry.

Ooh. It's late. I guess I better start to finish off my program, so I can sleep.

Woohoo! Yesterday was the first day in a long time where I've not touched my computer one bit :) Was too tired, went to West Mall after school to hunt for a teacher's day gift, where we searched high and low. Was already 8 when we're done, so Chris and I stayed back until 9.30 in MacDonalds to study a little, him Econs, me Chemistry. Was a little broke after buying all those gifts, so we sort of made them a little annoyed by asking for cups after cups of water ^_^ Reached home at around 10.30, where I just ate a little supper, having skipped dinner, and went straight to bed without bathing. Well, almost straight. Kept awake until nearly 12 by my sister asking for help with her maths questions. Hmm, it's terrible to admit that you can't even solve her questions, even though it's olympiad-styled. And I have to teach her new concepts like expansion because all those questions are like more for secondary two >_< Initially wanted to bath, but fell asleep again, interestingly, dreaming that I was bathing.

Woke up feeling very uncomfortable, before realising that I'm still wearing my school uniform >_< Boy, it sure is hot and stuffy sleeping in your school uniform, isn't it. Got off a bad, slow start, unable to kickstart to the dawning of the new day, and only reached the bus stop at 6.20am, completely overwhelmed by "luggage". GP File in one hand, erhu in another, bag of teacher's day gift somehow held in place by a hand (which, i can't recall) and of course, a bag on my back. hmm. alliteration. Anyway, with all that luggage, I can hardly sleep comfortably throughout the one hour bus ride, kept on the edge seperating dreamland from reality by fear of dropping my stuff.

Day was fine, being one of the shortest days with the least lessons, and the lightest ones, too. Started off with chemistry, ooh beginning to think organic chem is really interesting. Though I never score for chem, bah. Maths follows, with me very unproductive, unable to tell the x-axis from the y-axis when trying to find the volume generated by some stupid pairs of equation. GP was ok, went through time tunnel, where I did this lil presentation of three explorers, not really so of a presentation actually. merely told them what to write and presented a little on their lives. boring. Break, then computing lecture. Woohoo! A period to shut down and just take a nap discreetly. Followed by CT session, where I had a ltitle chat with the tutor about the class and myself. The class was kind of wild too, playing guitars, erhu (mine, ahem), looking through sites, drawing, singing, etc.

Later went for the mass dance revision :) Kinda hard to practice without a partner though :P Seriously don't think anyone could learn anything if they had no prior knowledge as to how the dance steps are like, as they just went through all the dances sequentially without stopping.

Nah. Think I shall stop here, or somewhere. It's getting late, and I wouldn't be home early tomorrow. Nitez!

now i really understand why not knowing is better sometimes. i'd rather be it that way. just that my curiousity gets better of me. so until it overwhelms me again (tomorrow? :P), i think i shall stop reading all blogs. go on a blog-reading hiatus. until i find too much time again.

From newscientist.com feedback section:
Reader Elaine Waters tells us that pupils at her local school have been thoroughly perplexed by notices posted recently round the school announcing that: "The stationary shop is moving"

lol! :)

Note to self: Start writing the log for the class outing before I forget.

Whee. Interesting day. More or less first time that I played the erhu alone in an orchestra, and for once there can be no escape when I play the wrong notes, oops.

Just can't do work. Slept the afternoon away. And oh dear, promos' less than a month away, better start studying soon >_<

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Boys compete 'for the sake of it'
But girls will not waste effort on competition unless it pays, a Canadian study reveals

Hmm.

Arrived slightly late for the ½ hour lesson on solidworks, where we were just given notes copied straight out of the manual as to how to get the program to work... Physics lesson/lecture after that, brought in food after the teacher said it's ok to eat during her lessons as long as we don't mess up the place. Sought relief from boredom by playing multiplayer Scrabble on a Palm with my friends, and missed the copying of much notes. Oops.

I think I'm improving, in a sense at least. Cautious, you might say. Although you might get the point immediately, it's still better to act sluggish with your thoughts, and try to ascertain whether what put forth was truly what was meant, from their words, body language, etc, rather than just me reading too much between the lines. Hmm, though I noticed it's pretty hard to keep a straight face when your facial muscles are tensing for laughter. Perhaps I've grown fearful of misinterpretations, awkward silence after realising what you thought was not what they meant. OoOoH and Chris treated us to bubble tea! :)

Weird. My radio is giving all sorts of funny static, but when I come into close proximity it, or simply just place in on me, it justs clears up. Oooh err.

It's a terrible thing to be praised sometimes. How would I react, respond to it? Yeah, it's quite hard to reply without being braggish, and yet not replying seems to make you seem rude, worse, haughty, supercillious. The only defense is either a glib tongue or a fast mind, both which I lack. Change of topic is currently the way, though it seems a little awkward, hmm. Any suggestions to this dilemma?

Grr. 61 junk mails in less than a day, practically eating up half of my 2 meg account on Hotmail. To think it was only around 30 per day several months ago. Spam is getting really out of hand, I guess I'd be expecting a 100 per day by the end of this year >_<

No time to blog now, laters!

Urgh. Futile battle against sleep. Eyelids are falling, falling, falling. Yet there seems so much to do, yet unable to find anything of importance to be done. Not counting homework, yes, definitely not homework. Lacking lotsa time. Then add in the sudden newly discovered cache of stress to add on to all the worries, burdens. Help... Falling into empty void... must... not... fall... asl

Ooh lazy me. Fell asleep after dinner, waking up at around 10 to start on the Time Tunnel assignment, which is due tomorrow. And it's going to be a long day tomorrow, sigh. Think I shall go sleep soon or something...

Anyway, interesting day. Was already the shortest day, with effectively only 6 periods of lesson, and made shorter when the GP teacher absented herself from lessons and was nowhere to be found. Sudden class interest in the mass dances also led to us learning the steps from the councillor in our class, _in_ the classroom, with one window open to the corridor. In plain view of anyone walking by :) Wonder what those teachers were thinking...

I'm really amazed at some blogger's frankness, openness in a blog. And some of these are those who believe in safety by not telling the addresses. Accidents do happen, blogs aren't called (we)blogs for nothing, and anyone can stumble onto your page, especially on pitas. Hmm. Ah well. Just found another blog of similar nature. At least this was deliberately set up for this purpose. Sigh. Reading through them gives me the melancholic feeling about this whole issue. Had always wondered in the more innocent times of prepubescent years, why people are willing to risk hurt (etc, etc) by becoming attached. Now the whole notion seems scary.

Hmm. Curiousity. Terrible thing to have too. Once it gets overhand, it will just seem that you are poking your nose into everybodys' affairs. And its bad too. To know something the other party doesn't know that you know. Yep. It does have it's uses occasionally. Choosing between knowing and unknowing, it's like choosing to hold which end of a double-edged sword.

And haha, it's going to be the first time I'm ever going to be in front of the school for having won something... Sigh. Sadness. Ok, the prize is ok, just that we could and should have done better.

Blogs sure are interesting. Amazing how everyone behind the veil of anonymity can relate their life stories, their deepest secrets, to anyone. To quell their inner desires to be known, read, and understood? Perhaps that's what everyone is ultimately looking for. Seek solace behind the screens, addresses, bits and bytes of a hypertext page. Your life story, your thoughts, embedded deep within the heart of the net, lost amongst the billions of bits passing through simultaneously. Yet hoping that someone, anyone, will stumble upon your page, against all odds, read it. Hoping for acceptance, understanding, yet not wishing to be known to the other end. I hate to say it so, but I guess it's partly why I blog too. The "I blog, therefore I am" syndrome. Seeking what all humans desire, to make their existance substantial, within this evergrowing environment in a rapidly shrinking world.

Yes. It's 1.41am now. Late. Better go sleep. Tata.

I've sure got interesting parents. Others complain when they heard their sons come home late after like playing basketball, badminton, or any sports. My parents just look at me and either say, "What, you actually play sports?", or "Good! Should play more sports, rather than being stuck in front of the computer screen all day long." Whee. Advantages of overusing computers ^_^

When I force myself to sit down until 10 to do work, I fidget on the seat, waiting for the clock to strike 10. Then when it does, I suddenly don't want to stop doing. Mental inertia does funny things to your schedule sometimes. ^_^

Oh well. Guess I better get on to doing Time Tunnel for GP. Wonders why the teacher gives us 3~4 weeks to do, and we'd all only start doing at the last minute. Hmm.

And anyone from chinese high? Listen to this short clip of the song... Kellerman's Anthem by Emil Bergstein Chorale Familiar, hmm? :)

Ouch. Basketball is a dangerous sport, especially when you're inept at it. Somehow lost control of the ball and ended up having my two last fingers running into a friend's leg. Ouch.

Tired, and have yet to do any work. Places with computers within easy reach sure aren't the ideal places for study.

1 am: Wrote a lot, a lot. Accidentally hit the back button. Lost. Perhaps I'd write it next time.

Some pointless ramblings...

is it not different hearing one of your favourite song over the radio, rather than on the computer? somehow it just doesn't feel the same, perhaps you get this lucky feeling, being able to hear that very song from the vast ocean of records out there. or maybe glad that others can also be hearing this song, perhaps?

prefer old songs on the radio, rather than constantly chasing the new ones. somehow new songs seldom catch my attention, even what others declare as great songs can't even inspire interest in me to finishing listening to it. but the older songs they are playing are sort of time-tried and tested, having undergone the ravages by time and by the new songs constantly popping out, then are singled out as the ones most memorable and beautiful. time is indeed the most powerful selection agent, memories, songs, movies, just see what or which survives the longest.

... end pointless ramblings

Anyway. Completed the download of Minority Report and wooh, nice story. Real pity I missed it in the theatres...

Terrible, terrible. Lost my entire ICQ history up to May because I overmeddled with it, was trying to figure out how to merge two databases when Windows suddenly made one file disappear ~ tried to copy it to desktop, but another file is already there, hit cancel, file gone. Even System Restore fails to do anything useful. Darn. On the bright side, I've regained 4 years of ICQ history which I copied over from the old computer ~ though it'd never make up for the two lost months. Sigh.

And yes, I moderate my board. So if you find your post missing, yeah, at least I read it once.

Oh lol, and I forgot to even bring my lip balm to the competition. Ended up in the air conditioned room, shivering from the cold and suffering from the darned lips. Not a good start, haha :)

Eehw. Inverse of Whee. Eehw.

Expectation is proportional to disappointment, often inversely to achievement, is it not? To the prying eyes of the world outside, perhaps what we've gotten is decent, but under the scenes I'd know we've done terribly. Perhaps it's normal to aim high but fall short, just that sometimes the fall isn't exactly short ~ and painless. And I still hate to believe that perhaps this is all caused by the lucrative prizes that we could have won.

Shall go sleep, its 5 now, and perhaps everything will be right as rain after that.

Asked my father his views on euthanasia, been quite a double-sided argument in class and GP, and I must say I've learnt much more on how to write and when to avoid such topics. Haha. Bamboo policy again, sway with the wind. No point being too strongly entrenched with your point of views. No right or wrong, everything is relative to the situation ~ something right here might be wrong in another situation, wrong may be right. Had interesting insights on religious point of views from Buddhism and Christianity, strengths and weaknesses of the latter's view, too. Suffice to say in 10 minutes, I've learnt more than what I'd have learned in class after 1 period.

Yay. No time. Shall blog more some other time.

It's not right. Fear/wariness is so deeply entrenched that I daren't do it, but still do it in the end, obligation or inner desire? I just hope it doesn't show, it'd be bad. Perhaps I'm viewing it from the wrong point of view. Scared. Very. It just ain't right, it isn't supposed to be so. Screwed perspectives doesn't really aid the situation.

Ooh guess what? The Cisco Networking Challenge thingy is tomorrow. Whee. Never felt so unprepared for a competition before, grr, hope we don't do too badly, haha. Wish me luck! :)

And to think after the competition, I'd have to face the forthcoming onslaught of tutorials, tests and exams. Yay. I don't make sense. Shall go bath now, whee!

Hmm. Reading the articles at NewScientist.com really makes me feel uneasy about the future. New discoveries like genetic modification, cheaper clonings, weapons, etc. Really makes me wonder if the human race is going to destroy itself, just like the Matrix, for just being too smart for its own good. We might not develop AI that'd destroy us, but at this rate, we'd either all get killed by freak discoveries ~ just like how they almost rebuilt the virus genes by piecing other fragments togethetr for the smallpox virus.

Let's pray we wouldn't be around when such things happen :)

Oh hrm. Pity my parents cannot make it to go for the reception of the competition im taking part in on Saturday.

And I wonder why do I even bother to write this down :) Just an uncontrollable urge, hands move, fingers twitch, and ta-da, a new entry.

Hmmm having my entire face covered with the juice from Aloe Vera ^_^ Originally wanted just to cover the lips, which is just too prone to excessive drying, ended up being spreaded all over my face, perhaps after hearing the possible medicinal value in skin healing, haha. Don't really know what's wrong with my lips, occasionally once in a while it'd get so dry and uncomfortable I'd have to apply the lip gloss, but it doesn't really last beyond a day or two ~ has been burning from dryness for the past week or so already. Distracting, annoying and just plain painful. Grr.

Hmm little happened this week, as usual. Ooh it's getting usual to have nothing happen O_o Ahem. Had a bad start into today, somehow forgot to bring my erhu out with me, had a panic attack (ok, maybe not) when I realised so. And it's really beyond just CO. It's something else too. Grr.

Though computing lectures were made more interesting with the addition of laptops, where we were able to program on, or write chain stories, while listening to the lecturer. And the resulting stories, erm well, was interesting to say the least :)

What's the difference between being alive, and having a life?
Being alive is going for lectures.
Having a life means skipping it.

Haha well. Interesting discussions that arises out of GP periods ^_^

Oh yeah, and this is the article I was talking about... http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992667. Hmm, guess I better start trying to grow tall, haha :)

Can any singaporean reader help? :) Do this short and simple survey, it's for my project work ^_^ Thanks!

An pre-bloom, healthy, fairytale flower. A flower pot. Water. People. A pair comes along and waters it, tends to it patiently, and one day it shall bloom beautifully to these souls.

Reality strikes. Flowers die, few blossom, and the sun doesn't shine forever.

Every flower is different, and it often comes by chance that one is able to find and nurture it to its full glory. Perhaps because each have different demands... sometimes too much water, too much attention kills one. Some others have their petals torn apart by over-attention, from one or many. Several will take much time and effort. Others wait in vain for their water bearers, some at the wrong spot, in that corner of the wall, others, well. Sometimes it's just a combination of factors, and maybe skill, or the lack thereof, of either party, perhaps, that the bloom cannot blossom.

Some searched desperately for the flower in their hearts, not waiting for fate to bring it to them, but unable to find someone else able to admire the same. Some searched in vain, while some lucky ones are brought together by the wheels of fate, or by manipulative hands. Others aren't so lucky.

Most change - they are no longer the same as before, just a part of its growth. Sometimes for the better. Sometimes for worse. And what happens to the poor bloom if it was to turn out for worse?

Sometimes, one cannot expect too much ~ it takes two to play the watering game. Some lost faith half-way. Others give up. Some just don't like that flower in the end, how it turned out.

Even though they say you can't learn to care for a flower, I still walk amongst the gardens. To feel happy for the patient ones seeing their flower bloom, to share the pain of one who failed, and perhaps learn from it. To glance at unbloomed flowers, all waiting for the day their guardians would arrive to look after it.

No flowers in sight have caught my fancy, and I certainly hope not, at least for now. I probably lack the skill, the time isn't right, as it'd take much time. Perhaps one day in the future, I'd glance upon one flower and have my eyes set on it.

And perhaps someone else will too, admire the potential in that unbloomed flower.

Disclaimer: All events in this little story are fictitious. Any flowers, people or whatnot bearing resemblence to a similar counterpart in reality is purely coincidential.

Grr. Thats why I hate it sometimes, you can't express your "inspirational" works, haha, without someone misinterpreting it. I'm not pointing this at anyone, so don't worry, it's just my observation. And up to your interpretation. Me love analogies. Haha.

What's the point of hit counters? Shrug. Perhaps I shall never understand their joy of seeing their counter rise, or bemoan their losses. I'm afraid of these creations, their values. Cruel judges of popularity, paranoia-creation devices, disappointment, mocking you silently everytime you look at someone else's numbers. Blogs & interblogger's relations aren't to be judged solely by these meaningless numerics, hmm? Perhaps I've truly misunderstood it all, these counters are part of every weblog, and everyone else does want to know how popular/unpopular their sites are?...

Blah. Ignore me. Just took a test @ http://www.firda.lemurpants.com/quiz/hitslut/, and just got a bit carried away. Btw, I scored 10/100. And no, you can't find a counter in my page ^_^

Must I only remember what I wanted to ask after that person has gone off? Grr.

Sigh. There just aren't any CG images of Garnet large enough for me to work on, and most fan-arts are well, fan-arts and not CG. Haha. Maybe FF8 then, but it's so common, at least I like it, everything of the world in dark dull colors, the storyline, plot and people, no fairytale. Just like reality ~ the closest fantasy to reality.

Was watching the movies archive of the Final Fantasy on my hard drive in search for a picture to dress up my page when I came across this...
FF8 Disc 1 Graduation Dance
I guess this movie have subconsciously affected me to try to learn all the dances I've come across well... Muz watch it, especially for guys and/or broadband users, its only 19meg :) Will be quite "inspirational", trust me ;)

Blah. Better get back to finding nice CG to don my page.

Ooooh I'd so dead tired... Had to ask Mi'er to help pass on the message that I'm most likely incapacitated and cannot go for CO tomorrow X( Out for 14 hours since morning, where I went for some kind of lesson in preparation for the competition in 1 weeks time. Then went out with the rest of the class to Sook Fen's new home, ooh it's nice and comfy!, and then went through lots of trouble to fetch people and stuff, before finally arriving at our destination, some kind of marina place where you fly kites, to well, fly kites. Spent most of my time walking all over the place, flying this kite and that, taking photos, eating, etc, but din even put a kite into the sky. Then went for dinner at Suntec, and went in search of the elusive gift we intended for one of our classmates, which is indeed the most uncommon thing that one can ever think of as a birthday present. Then realised we were so far from the MRT, and ran all the way back with a friend who needed to catch the train. Din know that was so exhausting until I got onto the MRT, and could have just collapsed there in a heap if not for the bars...

Whee... have to go sleep now...

Gee. I _even_ feel uncomfortable playing games now, and just wants to do something else, as if there's something important to be done soon. Hmm guess that's what JC does to you :(

Hmm, noticed the generation gap effect yesterday, and they weren't even a generation away, slightly around 6~10 years older, perhaps? Yeah, they talk about TV, games, schools... but hmm it's just different. Perhaps the world's moving on too fast, things that they do, watch and say, are already so different ~ just like how we'd view our juniors and remark how different they are. On a sidenote...
"What, put NYGH in the through-train program with TCHS and HJC? No no! Their sec 1 and 2 girls now are even worse than our boys...", my secondary school teacher, whose name has been concealed to protect his privacy (not to mention safety).
Haha :) The society that we know of are indeed changing a lot ^_^

I'm really not cut for page design. I've no eye for colour co-ordination, design, and all that stuff. Very disappointing attempt #1 at T:U v4

Argh! It's national day, a holiday, no school, don't want to do work... but I've got absolutely nothing else to do!~ Perhaps I shall go watch some movies I've downloaded... maybe Monsters Inc?

At least I'd be going out with my class tommorrow... ^_^ Then I'd find time to complete the work I've yet to do... Get my priorities right, homework last! Whee~

"JC1 just pass your tests can already! Must enjoy... it's your last chance!"
"Take 'S' papers for what?"
"Aiyah, don't need to study so hard, must play more!"
- Selected quotes from conversation with my secondary school physics, Mr Foo

Yay.

Wanted to blog today, but was an especial hectic day, for a holiday. After the performance in which everyone was more or less affected by "herd poison", was already quite tired, but the earlier excitement kept me awake. Was talking to the TCHS teachers when it wore off, and became very very sleepy. Urgh, sort of expected it, all the teachers just looked at me and commented on my face, first thing. Oh, then went to KAP, where we practically sat there and did nothing but talk for 3 hours straight... Rushed and only reached home and 6.30, hastily ate and bathed and hopped on a bus to go BHCO. Oh, and hehe I never realised that straight hair is such a gift until my friends all bemoaned how unfair it is for a person like me to be granted straight hair when I don't even comb it :P

Wanted to write about that Flower story today, but hmm I still haven't got any inspiration yet. Maybe I shall write it tomorrow. I'm sick, tired and my limbs are threatening to fall apart. Nitez

Hmm perhaps I shall pop by the NDP website and learn the dance first before going to sleep....

Woohoo! Su-e and Gwaz are returning to the blogger fold soon again :) So that leaves 1 on hiatus, another one whose host vanished, poor Yinkae. Hmm, and I might as well add Christopher and Nankun to the list of not-so-recently updated blogs :P

Whee! Tomorrow is the last day for the week, for we'd more or less be free on Thursday and Friday, due to National day celebrations! Though I'm feeling a little apprehensive about Thursday's faculty performance - haha hope noone recognises me on stage!~

Happy. Happy. Happy. Even looking at my computer perform recursion and spitting out rows after rows of different combinations seem to make me happy :)

Aww... there goes another of my links to the hiatus monster :| Bye Ciela :) Be back soon! On the brighter side, Yunfei is back, hope he stays haha...

Lazy me... It's such a wonderful Sunday afternoon, and yet I still don't want to do my work. Tired of pendulums and springs,, sigh. Hmm my friend just told me "oscillation tutorial f***ingly simple", and ooh I feel motivated! Shall go do it now :)

Haha, suddenly felt like revising the dance moves. There are still other "technical difficulties" *ahem* to resolve, think I'd go one step at a time ^_-

This page is getting stale... must find some time to design a new page! Haha just hope I don't make it look worse than what it already is...:P

Guess what? It's so so so late. Ok maybe not, but it's already 9.45. Sigh. School is just tomorrow, someone shoot me, no? But finally finished watching Ep6 of Star Wars, finally! Now waiting eagerly for Ep3, but while that, moan over not watching Minority Report >< Just can't find anyone to watch with me! *sniff*

Argh, I give up on maths. My eyes are smarting from the poor light fixtures in my room, and I can't solve that darned problem. Shall go and sleep after this, once I'm finished with this week... Been quite some time since I blogged.

Hmm, busy week, I guess. Ended at Saturday, so perhaps I'd proceed from there. >_< Can you imagine? Blogging 6 days in one go? Better start.

Went for my first CO practice at Braddell Heights CO, haha had an interesting debate that morning with my dad, who insisted that I go straight there instead of going to Bishan to meet Mi'er who'd be bringing me there. Ended up taking the bus there myself, and tried to do ionic equilibria on my way there and in the bus stop, since I was early. Several bus stops and quite some distance on foot later, finally arrived there, hmm is sure hard to find.
The practice was ok, as the pace was still slow and I was able to keep up most of the time, but argh the second song is terrible >< especially when the conductor was speeding through the entire song so that I'd know how it sounds like.
Went for lunch later with the rest of the CO, still having difficulties trying to remember their names, can never remember names properly, guess this is going to take me some time. Realised that I could take 147 home, and was pleasantly surprised to note that the return trip took 12 mins to reach the bus stop I usually get off at. Reached home and slept, slacked, wasted the day away in front of the computer. Grr. Mustn't let this happen this Sunday again.

Monday. Hmm what really happened? Nothing much I guess, was still feeling terrible.

Tuesday. Coursework. Was sort of looking forward to it, even though there was a sense of dread from almost everyone else. Hmm those programming questions are quite hard!...

Thursday. It is really one of the days where I feel like skipping all the lessons, because it's just so long and hot and ... never mind. Wanted to skip CLAO classes and even BHCO so much, and even tried to get more people to join me in skipping lessons, but still ended up going for both of them. Sigh. Guess I'd never know how skipping classes would be like :P But on the other hand, I wouldn't want to know ^_^
And yes, although BHCO was fun, I reached home very late, around 11.30+, bathed and just plonked down onto my bed.

Friday. That was just yesterday, but hmm somehow I couldn't remember anything memorable. Oh yes, CenTaD. Even though I admit that I don't exactly like this project, the idea of having an entire airconditioned large room to your project group, and everyone armed with their laptops doing the research, really really seems quite fun. Haha. Anyway, went for CO later, and as usual ended up staying behind to help out, this time with the arrangement of the scores the orchestra has collected from the members.

Saturday. Round 2, Computron. Went to NUS for the competition, and saw one of the BHCO member there, still not sure of their names, sigh. Was still quite smooth-sailing at the start, but series of problems plagued our group, causing us to stumble quite badly in the end. Sigh. There goes our chance of entering the final round of Computron. Went to McDonalds' for lunch alone, as all my team members was extremely put off by the competition. Hmm ate the Chicken Big Mac meal again, MmM! Went back to HJC later to do my work, as I'd never be able to concetrate on my work at home. Watched my CO friends in charge of balloons on MAF fold those long balloons into shapes of flowers and swans and stuff, while listening to the radio all day and doing chemistry and maths.

Think I'd stop blogging for now, it's darn late!~