FORMULA ONE

For now I shall just treat this blog as a partition out from my mind which I dump some of my thoughts so that my mind can be freed up for other stuff.

Like, studies.

I was following the live timing for today's Formula One's race, Monte Carlo in Monaco. This race is especially exciting because its a very tight road being converted to a race circuit, making overtaking extremely difficult.

Michael Schumacher initially qualified for the pole position, but was kicked to the back of the grid, because of a cheat he committed.
I was happy to see him start last, because it meant that Kimi Raikkonen would move forward to third.

As I watched the numbers jumped on my screen, I was so delighted when I saw Kimi overtook second position Webber, then threatened Alonso in the lead with an average 0.5 seconds behind, with several best lap timings and sector timings. I was so confident he could overtake Alonso and be champion today.

Until Kimi's car caught fire at lap 51.

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watching him did an fantastic race before retiring when there's only a third to the end is really very disppointing, not just to him, but also to me.

The fact that the guy at the last ended the race in sixth position does not help matters.

Perhaps a little consolation is that Montoya came in second, which helps McLaren Mercedes get some much-needed points. Still, I'm a little worried for Kimi because he has not been performing well this season, while his competitors are doing very well.

Well, the only reason why I support Kimi is because he is the number one driver in McLaren Mercedes, which is just about the only Mercedes car I like in the entire fleet. And the only reason why I support McLaren Mercedes is because its black-and-grey paint looks cool to me. Haha. Somehow I just don't feel comfortable with red-coloured cars dominating almost every race.

Then there is the shocking news that Kimi may be moving over to Ferrari next season. If he really moves over, should I still support him? Never will I support that red coloured company!

Singapore should have an F1 circuit. A tight street circuit will be best man!

Strange the World Cup is coming and I'm yakking about Formula One instead.

WHY DIDNT I BLOG AS OFTEN AS BEFORE II

Because I don't know why I am blogging in the first place.

It started off as an interest, but now I wonder why I should have this blog. Blogs fall broadly into two categories, either write for others to see, or for oneself to see. I thank the little group of my friends who visit my blog every now and then, but seriously, I got nothing for anyone to see. I read other blogs and they can give their opinions on everything under the sun in fantastic English, either in essay or in poem form, then I look at my own blog and see that I write nothing but rubbish, and can write nothing but rubbish, using horrible English with primary-school-level vocabulary. I deeply regret that I'm not well-versed in languages, and I sat on the fence too much that I am now deprived of my own opinions, but then, there's nothing much I can do.

I can easily dismiss this by convincing myself that this blog is to store all my memories so I can refer to it when i'm "old". However, I *think* I am not one who clings onto the past, or at least for most of the things. Anyway, I can't imagine my memories being stored on some servers which can be read by anyone on Earth. A written diary sounds much better than that.

Furthurmore, my blog is being read by too many people that I cannot really say what I want to say, or store any memories which I think should be kept intact with the passing of time.

So what exactly why am I keeping this blog? So that my friends have something to read whenever they come? So that I can rightfully declare that I have a blog?

Should people care anyway if VJC has a good soccer team or they can't even score a goal in ten matches? Should people care anyway if I'm using Linux or Windows? Should people care anyway if I am the top student in the world or I am kicked out of school? Should people care anyway if I'm alive or dead?

I'm not saying that I don't want to blog anymore; its just that I find it hard to blog properly when I don't know why I am doing it.

So, I need to know the purpose of doing something before I can do that something properly. Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

Look, its yet another piece of rubbish. And when I say its rubbish, its really rubbish. Don't read too much into it.

WHY DIDNT I BLOG AS OFTEN AS BEFORE I

My life in the past few weeks had been very monotonous, thus I find it unnecessary to blog about how I rush my tutorials in the wee hours of the morning to catch up with the pace.

Until recently.

The past two weeks were jam packed with sports finals, and the college had called for students to go down and support. I went for basketball finals, badminton finals, soccer girls finals and of course the soccer boys finals.

Watching the basketball finals and badminton finals made me felt like a jinx. Up till that point of time I had watched a total of 5 finals, since last year, and VJC lost all. For a moment I thought maybe my absence would help the soccer guys win this year's title.

In the end, I believed that those losses had nothing to do with me, so on Wednesday I went for soccer girls finals (skipped hockey finals as a precaution haha). Watching girls play soccer was, well, kinda entertaining. I shall not go into the details, but VJC played well. And for once, I managed to see my own college winning -.-''

Thursday was the big day. Instead of a half day the principal declared we use Friday's timetable as most of us end early on Fridays, then ordered buses to transport the entire school down to Jalan Besar Stadium. The match was an exciitng one, watching VJ coming back first from 0-1 down then later 1-2 down, then scoring 3 goals in 4 minutes to take back the title we lost last year.

Frankly speaking, MJ played a better match with their excellent skills and accurate passing. VJ won because they had better stamina and fitness, as all can see from the last goal where the VJ guy ran down the length of the field to score after intercepting a corner kick.

Interested parties can catch the last 4 minutes of the match here. Its at the last couple of minutes of the video.

Friday was spent going to school only to hear them announce that it was a full day off, then while the rest of the school can go off to have fun, my class had to walk the stone path three times and climb up a 25-storey HDB flat for "healthy lifestyle".

Ended yesterday by watching the Da Vinci Code.

I have lots more to talk about, but I guess that's all for now. Maybe I will blog more next time. Maybe.

Am I too late to say that the ruling party won again?

I don't know whether to believe them that we should not compare this elections results with the one in 1997, because the 2001 elections was an exceptional case. Personally I think, 9/11 and SARS does not have any effect on elections results.

Maybe they are coming up with some excuse to explain the drop in their results when compared to the 2001 elections.

Anyway, congratulations to the opposition for retaining the 2 seats they already had, and almost winning one GRC. Let's hope that they will do better.

For the past week a flu virus has been spreading around the class, and a conservative estimate of 5 pple, including me, had since fell victim to it.

I attended a business symposium organised by our Firefly Club and EDB today, held at the PT. The theme was on the transport industry, and different jcs sent in teams earlier to give presentations on one of six topics. Today was the finals for three jcs, and they all chose the same topic on whether the Airbus A380 was a worthy investment.

Luckily, the symposium was very general for non-econs students like me, perhaps except someone can explain the term "supernormal profits" to me. Haha. The symposium was very enlightening, as the teams presented views and opinions on the A380 which I have never thought of in the past. But I thought the keynote speech by the guest-of-hounour was abit too long.

Attending lectures in Lecture Theatre 5 is a test of one's tolerence and patience towards noise pollution. I'm usually quite tolerant with the amplified murmurs, and lately I find myself increasingly difficult trying to keep my cool with all the noise behind. I have not exploded because I have high tolerance. Just today in the PT, a bunch of students seated at the last row were talking loudly among themselves while the guest was making his speech, and they seem rather comfortable with all the racket they were creating.

Of couse, I'm not trying to say I don't make noise. But I guess I know when to stop ba.

It feels weird when the entire PE department knows that my class has a civics tutor who is the cross country teacher-in-charge and himself a champion runner for the past 9-10 years, and then all the teachers expect us to run as fast as him.

Pressuried? Stressed? Special? I dunno.

My class's PE is on the first two periods on Friday, and we happen to be the only Year2 class among the bunch of kids.

The rule:
Year1 guys: five items today, 2.4km run next week,
Year1 girls: 2.4km run today, five items next week,
Year2 girls: 2.4km run today, five items next week,
Year2 guys: all six items today.

So only 12 males ran six rounds on the track today, under a light drizzle and the eyes of the legendary civics tutor.

This. Is. The. Toughest. Run. I. Ever. Had. To. Endure.

My lungs were tearing apart by the fourth round, and I seriously wanted to walk. But I couldn't, and didn't want to, because I know I would get into trouble if I did. Yet I can't slow down, because more trouble will come if my timing is bad.

I was moltivated enough to run as fast as my lungs could take it, but the timing is nothing to shout about.

The highlight of the run was the horizontally-challenged guy in my class, who had the "honour" to train under, who else, but our CT, in college and at Turf City. He did a very impressive run today, improving by one minute and for the first time, not occupying the last position.

And I realised I got E for sit-and-reach. Which means I have to retake everything again. Congrats to me.

Argh. I need to exercise more.

Went to Nanyang Polytechnic today for a talk on the development of games.

The speaker was Mr Yuji Yasuhara, a programmer who single-handedly programmed a game for PS, and now part of a team that created Gran Turismo 3 and 4 for PS2.

Listen to him talked, was haha, abit uncomfortable, because he's a Japanese and his English isn't good. He spent all the time talking about how he designed and created his game for PS, everything from scope of vision to Assembly code that accesses the register. He even went into the ever-so-familiar C, talking about floating point operations (or rather, the fact that PS lacked floating operation and everything have to be done using integers).

Later he showed us the game, using a PS2 plugged in there, then pressing cheat codes that unlocks all the levels (he told us only he knows the cheat code), and explaining to us the game.

Running out of time, he gave a quick description on the production of GT4, like about him going home only 3 to 4 days in a month, taking only 3-4 days leave in 6 months, 60 people spending 3 years on the game etc etc.

A Q&A session followed after that, with a panel consisting of him, and people from local game companies.

Well, I have learnt abit from this talk, and I guess its not easy to whether set up my own game company, or joining a game company and working under the noses of others. Still, a career in this field is not bad, and I shall seriously consider that.

He revealed something interesting. Although CPU and memory speeds are getting faster and faster, acessing registers is getting slower and slower, because of the fact that CPU speeds are increasing much faster than memory speeds (err something along this line la).

Time taken:
PS1: 16 cycles
PS2: 50 cycles
PS3: x000 cycles (he declined to reveal the actual figure haha)

NAPFA's tomorrow! AH!

As the incident is being continously blown up, with words of "Liar!" and "Cheat!" and "making a molehill out of a mountain" flying between the parties, elections are getting more and more exciting!

Well, its not everyday that we can see wayang shows in the Singapore politics scene, which are just short of exchanging blows (aka Taiwan Parliamant), where politicians criticise contesting parties like they are murderers. Haha.

When a particular politician went to a certain place to meet residents to try to win votes, the news reported that no resident asked him about the incident which happened recently. So the claim was that the people of Singapore have already understood what had happened.

I wonder has it occurred to him that the reason why no one asked anything is because we (hmm..maybe only me) do not find it as important and as serious as what they made it out to be? Has it occurred to them that perhaps they are about the only people in Singapore who are creating this mountain out of that molehill?

On the other hand, I wonder why the national newspapers have to specially put up one BIG page on the ruling party talking about the incident and how he should be sued and sacked and whatever.

Also, the news kept saying that whether the citizens of Singapore support him or condemn him, we shall wait for results on Polling Day. Given their reputation, I wonder why they can't do a survey on it or grab some people on the streets to ask them instead of waiting for Polling Day results?

(Perhaps they are afraid that everyone they asked did not think of that mistake as something major, thereby after that they have nothing else to report on?)

Perhaps I'm thinking too much, but the posters put up by the ruling party looks weird, especially the one with The One smiling happily and sticking his palm out in the "air". Weird as in...hypnosis effect or something......

Election activity started long before I woke up this morning. Lorries carrying party flags and posters and loud speakers were making its way round the neighbourhood, trying to attract people's attention. Those lorries remind me of the propaganda truck that I have to destroy in Red Alert 2. Except the one in the game used loudspeakers, while the real-life ones used loud hailers.

Late morning a bunch of people were seen gathering at a particular shop opposite my house, and I thought they were from the opposition because all of them were dressed in white tops and black bottoms, until I finally saw the main character, dressed in white from top to bottom, shaking people's hands as they walked by. The propaganda lorry slowed down and waved at each other when i drove past.

Finally in late afternoon I saw (and heard) the lorry from the opposition. Surprisingly the opposition had better loud hailers and I could hear their voice messages better. The one from the ruling party was very muffled.

Elections aside, yesterday I stayed back after school to watch the Drama Nite. The show wasn't too bad, the quality was still there, but the second play was rather profound and I could figure what the story was about. The actors, I guess being young and relatively inexperienced, were rather soft in their voices. The first play was splendid.

Backtracking to Wednesday it ws Feeling Fab where we could sign up for a variety of activities. I signed up for yoga the first time round, so this time I signed up for muay thai lol.

Actually it wasn't too bad; learnt some basic punches and kicks. But the session was too short to be deemed useful.

Next week will be an exciting week. Monday is a public holiday, Tuesday will be the Students' Council Investiture which will result in my chem test being postponed to the following week, and NAFPA test on friday. My class will be especially stressful thanks to our especially sporty civics tutor.

Or should I call him my discipline tutor instead?

From him:
To improve performance, you have to start by fortifying the mind:

1. Start each day with a declaration of intent: "I am going to enjoy this day".

2. You can run; many cannot and will not run. Some have never known what it is like to run. Make the most of it while you can.

3. You can train every day for at least one hour. There is no excuse not to.

4. Train with a goal in mind.

5. The method of achieving this goal must involve rehearsing the activity and aids to that activity.

6. Competition must not only include the specific event but other events which will test endurance and speed.

7. Exercise your will specifically by devoting time daily to the task you dislike most in training - or to a known weakness. Start small and progress.

A competition is a competition; if you have trained diligently and intelligently and done your best, you have succeeded. You are only a failure if you have not done these things.

- Frank Horwill

They love to say that their opponents have no experience in serving, do not have the capability to carry out what they promise, write blank cheques make empty promises. But I wonder how one can expect the opponents to gain experience or carry out what they have promised if they are not given a chance to do so in the first place?

Elections is here!

Before I begin, I know that I'm not supposed to blog anything that indicates my support of any party or candidate, so I shall not name names ya?

Not that I support any political party though. For now.

On the other hand, if I have broken any rules, please let me off on account that I am only 18 years old ok? Haha.

I'm looking forward to the Elections, not because I want to know who will win (argh, I'm not saying I'm politically apathetic. Why should I know who will win since I can't vote now? Don't worry I will vote carefully when the time comes), but because it adds excitement to my otherwise boring monotonous life. Haha.

I would have looked forward to it even more if they have assigned my college to be one of the Nomination Centres, instead of the primary school a few roads down. It could have been a holiday for me!

The only memories I had for GE 2001 were the lorries that went round my house carpark screaming dialects at us to vote for...I forgot who, then accompanying my mother to the school behind my house and looking at I-forgot-what noticeboard while my mother voted, and lastly watching the news and seeing the ruling party with all smiles and happiness at the stadium.

I was only in Sec1 then.

Now having fully grown into a "young adult", I am slightly more aware of what's happening around me, and so, finally making sense about the importance of elections.

What a politically correct answer =X

This time round the opposition party is definitely more prepared, with more united fronts, clearer goals, and better presentation. The ruling party isn't slacking either, sticking faces of new candidates on my newspapers almost everyday and seeing the same three letters over and over again.

ME. A so-called new generation citizen. Personally, just like fellow other new generation citizens, I think that it will be better if more opposition get elected into Parliament, so Parliament sittings will be more exciting and we may even see them pulling each other's hair and throwing punches and kicks all over!

Lol. Just kidding.

I guess opposition parties can be a watchdog in the government to ensure that they are indeed corruption-free and more goodies will come our way. After all, we have been taught that competition will bring out the best in us isn't it so? Therefore if there is more competition in Parliament, our wishes of having more holidays and less homework may come true earlier!

Yet, I can't help but agree that there is still some way before our opposition can reach the first-class status. There seems to be a lack in eagerness and enthusiasm in helping us the citizens. Perhaps they are highly controlled by the government, they cannot make their voices and opinions known. I can see that they have really made alot of efforts in trying to form good teams and fight for the welfare of the citizens, but they seem to be more engrossed in trying to topple the ruling party rather than serving the people.

"If you truly want to serve the people, you don't have to be in Parliament to do so." -- me

What a sucky quote.

Of course, I can't accept people who hurl abuses at their competitors. I do admire their courage (Not many people dare to scold the government in their face leh!) , but admiration =/= support.

Still, the ruling party should be careful not to get too complacent. They can't really win people's votes if they shake our hands and offer to build some mechanical blocks that stop every 10m upwards only when Elections is coming.

Then again, I (and my parents I guess) find the Lift Upgrading Programme which was recently offered to us too attractive to resist. Got lift stop outside my floor leh. It sounds so good lol.

Opinions aside, this time round all the parties and candidates are very fast leh. Immediately after the Nomination thingy they are already trooping all over town hanging up banners and killing poor little grass as they plunged sharp-ended flags into the ground. There are already some on the grass patch in front of my house, and a few more across the road.

Good luck to the candidates; may the best men win.

A very neutral entry huh? Haha.

If you have inferred from the tone of my entry that I am someone who treats the Elections like a game, please take note I'm not. I do visit websites belonging to the various parties and read their manifestos, understanding what they are doing at the very least.

Email me at brotherhoodofnod24@hotmail.com if I have typed something that I shouldn't have typed. I will answer to it asap. (I'm socially responsible ok!)

I am very, very sorry. It was all my fault. It was my mistake.

It was your initative; I should have consulted you first before I carried out my action.

Go ahead and scold me..don't keep quiet..for I will feel even more guilty.

But, everything can be reserved to the original state. Just tell me, and I will see to it.

Again, I'm very sorry. Forgive me.

Blogging is an implusive action. Now I'm wondering why i blogged the previous entry. Haha.

Finally another week has come to an end. This week has been quite peaceful, except for a chain of emails that doesn't sound too friendly.

Initially I was thinking of staying back in school to watch the Dance concert. Not to say I'm interested in dance, but there's nothing to do at home. Then in the end I still came home, because I don't want to go home late at night in uniform with a bag and file. Haha.

Had a ride in the back of the lorry to Tampines, thanks to a friend. This ride was not too enjoyable, because the dark clouds were looming overhead and it seemed like rain was going to fall anytime soon. Then I couldn't help but relate those dark clouds to lightnings striking me on my head or tonardos blowing me away. Haha.

Luckily I reached home well before it rained, just in time to catch the rare event of the setting sun casting bright red light onto every single thing.

Finally today, I'm sitting on the cupboard with my back resting against the window.

Last year around this time, i was a quiet individual sitting on the chair at a corner, watching my peers giving speeches why we should choose them to be in the exco.

Now, I'm one of the seniors in the room, listening to juniors giving their speeches on why they should be in the exco.

The reason why I did not apply for any post in the exco is simply because I cannot lead a bunch of people. That fateful day back in Sec 3 when my seniors arrowed me to be the President, I quietly accepted the role. Thinking back, I should have rejected it. For I may just be the reason causing the downfall of the computer club.

Finally, after 2 struggling years, I had stepped down. When I got into VJC and eventually picked iCOMP as my CCA, I had decided that I will not take up any exco post again. I have already caused enough trouble.

Thankfully, in my peers there existed someone capable enough to lead a cca, and iCOMP is still going strong today. The exco was a perfect combo. Technical skills, communications skills, Leadership skills, organisational skills, you name it, they have it.

However, this new batch of juniors leaves much to be desired. While its a bumper batch this year, with record number of people joining iCOMP (all thanks to the principal), their technical skills are far from standard. In their speeches, and the interviews made in the past 2 days, most were commenting how they have no technical skills, but instead having the passion to lead the club blah blah etc.

Ok, its true technical skills are not the most important skills one needs to be in the exco. But one cannot know nothing about computers and want to be the exco of a computing club! How can a president lead a nation if he cannot speak the people's language?

I personally believe that one must have the technical skills. It is very very very important. Sigh.

On the other hand, there are some with the skills, but they lack all the other skills needed to be an exco member. At least they didn't protray that during their speeches and interviews.

I see myself in them.

Of course, I'm not going to overturn the entire ship. There are people with qualities required to lead a computing club.

I usually don't believe in interviews and speeches, because I believe that one should not be judged by first impression. I just can't help but feel a little worried how they are going to take over when the seniors have retired. Seriously, i dunwan to see yet another cca collapse.

Hopefully, things will change as they start to know the seriousness of leading a cca like iCOMP, and not follow in my footsteps.

I know I should be studying, but i still took out some time to try out the Fedora Core 5 i downloaded not too long ago.


Don't you think its beautiful? Haha. Actually the login screen is even more beautiful, but I couldn't get a screenshot of it.

The setup process is much more user-friendly and easier to apprehend than the Core 3 setup. Everything is laid out neatly and complicated details are removed. But then, perhaps they have removed too many things.

The new layout is a pleasant surprise. The new design and logo are cool looking. However, the functions are still pretty much the same as in Core 3.


Above: The loading screen after logging in.

Since Core 5 is optimised for Pentium 4 computers and I installed it on a Pentium 3, it can't help but was abit slow. But the speed is still acceptable overall, even slightly faster, in my opinion, when compared to Core 3.

I spent abit of time today trying to mount my Windows hard disk onto it, so I can access the Windows hard disk from Core.

Haha.

Of course its not without its problems. After mounting the Windows hard disk on Core, the login screen and a mstask error keeps appearing when i use Windows, and apparently there's no Flash player that supports Firefox 1.5/ Fedora Core 5 combo. Website text was a problem until I imported fonts in from Windows. Even then, there's still a problem with the formatting.

Whatever it is, Fedora Core 5 will be here to stay, in my computer. Haha.

I shall end this entry with an image. Have you ever seen text-based Internet browsing?

The release of Project Work results last Thursday leaves me rather doubtful about the way it was marked.

While the problem is not so serious in my college, I have heard and read of other junior colleges with ridiculously low grades. Students of particular jcs are complaining that the number of band 1s and 2s are exceptionally low, when compared to other jcs.

Even in my school, I have at least two friends who got lower grades than I thought they should get. They are supposedly good speakers, hardworking people who have put in alot of effort in their projects.

Yet there are jcs that registers unusually high "good" grades, with only a mere less-than-one-percent scoring less than "good" grades.

[There are claims that some students who slacked through their projects got good grades while students who have sloughed their guts out got low bands instead. This I shall not comment, since "amount of work put in" differs from person to person.]

This seriously makes me question the creditability with regards of the marking of our projects.

According to stuff I read on the Net, our projects are marked by our college teachers and thereafter, moderated by Cambridge markers. However we students have absolutely no idea how our projects were being marked. Were the grades given by a single teacher who marked our projects by his moods? Was there any fixed marking scheme that the markers adhered to?

Perhaps there is no ground for questioning if the grades were sort of standardised across the entire Singapore, or at least the entire college. But it doesn't make sense when a supposedly fantastic project was marked down and the students were not duly rewarded for the work they put in. Also, the percentage of the different bands across the different jcs differs by significant amounts.

In short, there are too many analomous points.

I personally think that the marking scheme, our exact grades, our exact marks, how they marked our projects, where we have gone right, where we have gone wrong, and comments, should be released to us students instead of throwing us a grade and not telling us how we have gotten the grade.

Its like dropping dead after being hit by something and not knowing what hit you!

I think that will be seriously unfair to us students, given the fact that we have all put in alot of time and effort into our projects, doing surveys, conducting interviews, running around Singapore doing case studies, carrying out experiments, combing throught books and the Internet and whatever, and spending hours and hours compiling our information together into a file.

Not forgetting all the time spent in doing nice Powerpoint presentations, and rehearsing and rehearsing over and over again to ensure we can do the best presentation ever.

Complaints aside, our project work is already over and there is no use trying to change the way it came out. Hopefully the next batch of students will be treated with more fairness and there will be more transparancy with their marking.

Isn't that what the government is supposed to do?

So it was our Sports Day yesterday.

Sports Day is one of the very few events where we can don our house tees and throw VJC into a bright sea of colours. At least 1 out of 365 days where one won't see the same beige colour everywhere he goes.
[seriously I think we should make our house tees an official attire to wear in school]

But then, wtf our juniors get house tees made of better material.

Early in the morning during maths tutorial my classmate asked the probability that it will rain yesterday.The moment he said that, it started raining. Luckily it stopped soon.

Heard a pretty surprising piece of information from my maths teacher. It turned out that the college was prepared to cancel lessons and pushed Sports Day up to the morning if the cross country team had won the previous day.
But they didn't, so we still gotta go through half a day of lessons.

Then again, I wasn't in the mood of lessons yesterday, partially because of Sports Day, partially because of the release of Project Work results.

While the whole world ended lessons at 1210, the 5 of us made our way to the computer lab for our coursework. After one hour of non-stop typing, then panicking that I have only 3 1/2 hours left with so much else to do, we made our way to the field to meet our civics tutor.

I got a Band 1! =D

With no time to celebrate, I made my way to the grandstand, and soon after, the Sports Day started off with the mascot race.

Sports Day is generally the same as all sports day in the world, nothing special.

There were some extraordinary events. There was a 200m caterpillar run where each house sent out a team of people, form a queue, hands on the shoulders infront like a train, with all their left legs tied by a string, and led by their mascots to the finishing line.

As the name suggested, it was at catepillar speed, whether the actual race itself or the preparations before that. It was amusing though.

There was also a teachers-vs-students tug-of-war. That was interesting. 12 students fought it out with 12 teachers at the field, one race per gender.

The female tug-of-war was more interesting. The teachers won one, the students won one. But students lost out in the deciding match.

The male teachers[plus the guest of honour] thrashed the male students in 2 matches. No fight at all -.-''

As usual there was cheer-leading competition. I find that the performances were all about the same. Shake pom pom, run here run there, jump here jump there, throw here throw there. I'm not biased, but Aquila's performance was slightly more refreshing. Haha.

As for the races, not of much surprise. The winners were mostly, if not all, sports players.

Aquila was champion house for Sports Day!

To conclude, I like Sports Day. Its a tad boring sitting in the grandstand for a few good hours, but its fun just to be part of the event, to feel the atmosphere, to look at people having fun.

Hello World.

Absence of an entry lately is due to a lack of time and motivation to bring myself to this page. Haha.

Last week was relatively peaceful..except that it marked the end of all my Science SPAs. After 1year 4 months and 14 gruelling SPAs later, its all over. [Actually I have already lost count of the number of SPAs I have done.]

Last week also received the confirmation slip of my A levels exams...by accepting that I am going to pay 493 bucks for 5 subjects, there is no turning back now. I can't drop anything, but have to continue till the end. Haix.

*******
"Are there any financial assistance available?"

"Oh yes there is, but you should note that the more subjects you take, the more you have to pay. So if you are unable to get financial assistance because your family income is over the cap limit, you can always go and see *."

(* => my 20th Jan 2006 entry)

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Although Science SPAs are over, we the computing students are in the midst of Coursework 2. The task is to create a website, and I only have 4 and a half hours left with nothing much to show. Haix. Its getting on my nerves. Haha.

Just completed my NS registration last night..after receiving an reminder sms from them over the weekend. There was a hell lot of things to fill in. Have to spend so much time on it. And the earliest free date for medical appointment is in mid-June. Sianx.

Tomorrow is Sports Day! No I'm not running haha, I'm just happy that something is happening in the otherwise uneventful week. Haha.

But then, tomorrow is also the release of PW results. The entire year of hard work is still rather unforgettable. I just hope I can get a not-too-bad grade.

Yet we the computing students have to wait later than the rest. For our coursework, originally on Friday, is pushed up to tomorrow. While the rest of the school is released at 1210, we have to face the monitor screen for another hour.

On the other hand, some of my classmates are guessing that our CT will only give back our results after Sports Day. Its not the first time my class is the last in the entire level to receive something. =X

Mugging season has already started for many year2s...many people are hogging the library tables during free time to study. Even my normally-slack- : p -classmates are burying their heads in books now...which includes me. Haha.

Fairly normal entry, fairly boring entry, fairly boring me.

Its very frustrating when I stare at a string of letters and numbers and symbols and I don't understand why is the formula written this way, how it is derived, and the concept behind.

I used to be complacent, accepting whatever formulas and equations the textbook gave me. Now? I am stumped by the simplest concepts, and I can't answer my own question when I ask "why is it this way?"

I can just sit down and read through every single piece of notes all over again, but I don't have the time.

Good News:

My handphone is repaired and back in my hands! The battery and some internal part is spoilt. The hp was back home today, and after charging it for 6 hours, I'm using it again. =)

Bad News:

Everything inside is erased. That will include all my smses, some pictures that I took with the camera, some pictures my friends had sent me, and each and every single of my contacts.
Perhaps its a good thing to start anew. People I have already lost contact with shall be erased, and in my phone remains only people that I'm still in contact with.

Meanwhile, my apologies if anyone smses me and I reply asking who you are.

Another Good News:

I have transferred all my data from the spoilt computer to a working computer!
Turned out its a easy job. I just plugged the hard disk into the computer as a slave and it worked fine as a secondary drive. Initially I thought the computer will get confused with two Windows.

Yet Another Good News:

Well, my mother says if its spoilt, then buy a new one.(haha so generous)
Haven't told my father that the computer is spoilt. Because if I told him, most probably he will try to fix the computer rather than agreeing to buy a new one. I am still considering my options.
But then at this weird time, it doesn't make much sense if I buy a new computer. I will (most probably) be mugging, and after that I have to enter NS for two bloody years. And there's also the laptops becoming more and more powerful these days.

Yet Again Another Good News:

I've finally downloaded Fedora Core 5! Total of 6 iso images, each taking 30-50mins to download (I picked a Singapore mirror ftp haha) Now they are eating up 3gb of my disk space (my this hard disk only got 7gb of space =( )
Shall find one fine day to burn them all into cds, then delete FC3 before installing FC5.

I signed up for a trip to Silicon Valley. Was informed that I only need to write an essay and whether I get selected will be based on my essay.

Then came the news that there were too many people signing up for it and thus, an interview has to be conducted to select the final students.

Well, I didn't get through it, so I have to stay put in Singapore.

No reason was given, though I guess its because of my late submission of my essay, my sucky performance during interview. And sheer bad luck.

Being an iCOMP member has alot of advantages.

For example, going into a concert free while others pay $10 for it. Haha.

I volunteered for filming duty for this year's Musicfest..one reason is to go for an event where every other Victorian is dying to go before I graduate from the college, while the other reason is to see if Musicfest is really worth $10 per ticket (by going through the balloting) or $20 (by going through the underground black market).

Rotted in school from 11.35am till 5pm, after which I went for a very important meeting, before trooping off with friends to Parkway Parade for dinner. On the way back it started raining heavily when we were mere steps from the canteen, and ended up running for shelter.

Got into the PT after we assured the SCs that we would not sit on the seats. (This is perhaps the only bad thing about going in as part of iCOMP. I have to sit on the stairs.) Set up the camera and tripod, waited for the PT to fill up, waited for guest-of-honour Felicia Chin to arrive, waited for emcees to tell us that she will be late, before the performance started.

Musicfest was spilt into solo, vocal group, dance and band, with 3 person(or group) fighting out in each. I must say that Musicfest is indeed a highly impressive event, because it gathered the best singers into one single event, and the singers were really damn good la. Although there were slight mistakes, like going off-beat and some lack of coordination, the songs were all well sung.

No wonder people were rubbing ultraviolet stamps on their friends' (or so I heard) so as to try to get past the SCs during the intermission.

Interestingly, the black horses were the ones who caught the judges' eyes tonight, while those who received the most cheers did not win. A friend of mine in a duet did not win, although I thought they sang real well, while 2 of my classmates won in the band category. Their group was not bad; I think because the hot favourites Camels were abit too rock for comfort. At least to me.

As for filming, I stationed myself with two others at one side of the PT, raising the tripod to a level where we could film without standing up. So I settled myself comfortably by the side against the wall.

Free coca-colas were given out during intermission, which was a pleasant surprise. Haha.

So my conclusion? Overall Musicfest is one of the better performances out of the many that I see. It is definitely worth going for, even if one has to sit on the stairs. But I still think $10 for a ticket is way too much. Of course, $20 for one in the black market is outragous. So if I was not assigned the job tonight, I may not have gone for it.

Musicfest aside, the eve of April's Fool Day was seen as a major event for Victorians. Early in the morning the plasma screens directed students to gather at the koi pond or drink's stall for assembly, chairs and tables and dustbins were deliberately displaced in weird positions, senseless announcements were made during assembly, and even a Tamil pledge. Fake Musicfest tickets ( $100 free standing Musicfeast tickets) were given out, and booths set up at the canteen to trick people into buying underwear and lucky draws.

-.-''''''''

Today was also the launch of Artery. Basically they hung up some pictures in the concourse, and changed it into a art gallery of sorts. There were even performances to accompany this launch.

What a day. And tomorrow I am going to school for an interview. An important one. And I'm scared.

I'm tired.

Yo.

Luckily ViCOMP 2006 was quite successful. Except for a few hiccups here and there, otherwise it was (surprisingly?) peaceful this year. Rehearsal the day before was horrible, as the emcees were inexperienced and not up to the job, while many others were not even present. But everything just pieced together on the actual day and it worked out well. Maybe my CT "motivating" speech spurred them on? Haha.

xI (where x=R) won this year...ending yCI (where y =H)'s 3 year champion run. During the final round, three of the schools were actually swtiching the champion position at every other question in the fastest finger round, but in the end xI and zCS(I) (where z=A) broke off from yCI.

Programming round wasn't too bad...except that the rules were not clear thus leading to some confusion. Shall take note of that.

Felt abit sad for the yCI kids though..because they did not get the champion they were scolded by their senior for a full 45 mins outside the LT.

"I have seen you all since sec 1......you all did not do your best......."

Aiyo competition only mah....why stress them until liddat....

AHS as usual didn't do well...lol don't know what to say.

I received a birthday card from my class on monday...well after my brithday was over. There was no surprise, as they passed the card right under my nose (or eyes, or mouth, whatever). I even held it once. Haha. Finally on monday it was sneaked into my bag and into my chem tys.

I liked the big words on the front of the card: Anything is possible with a willing heart. Haha.

My friends wrote very interesting and nice comments in my card....I feel rather guilty because usually I only write "happy birthday!" on my friends' cards, but I got a card full of words in return. Haix.

There were the usual stuff on my card..what me being very funny la, me being lame la, me bringing laughter and joy to the class la, wanting to see my face on Time magazine etc etc. A friend even wrote I am the most funny person she ever met. Haha she haven't meet G**.

The comment I liked most will be this: When you talk BIG and we laugh yet we sincerely believe you can do it! ....and continue to dream BIG!

BIG dreams I have talked about before:
1) Beating Bill and making his company collapse
2) Racing Michael and his F1 car using a bus and winning him.
3) Opening a food stall in VJC selling quality food, anything from roti prata to kuay chap to ban mian to ramen
4) Driving a taxi
5) Forgot others liaox.

Haha which one do you people think I can do? Haha.

Tomorrow is Musicfest! And I get to go (I think) as part of filming duty. Some people think Musicfest is a signature VJC event which cannot be missed, as seen by the huge underground black market for Musicfest tickets. Yet many also think that Musicfest is an overrated activity, as it is not as good as it seems to be. Well I shall find out for myself.

Sports season has started! Wonder if I will still get the chance to go to National Stadium this year? Haha.

While many science students are rejoicing over the fact that science SPA will be ending soon, computing students across Singapore have just received their second coursework -.-''. For the next four to five weeks the little heard of community in Singapore will be tearing their hair out trying to create a website within 9 hours. Good luck to them (and me).

I wonder if I have blogged more than I should blog. Blogging seems a sensitive activity these days.

Two of the worst things that can ever happen to me happened today.

My handphone crashed.

My computer crashed.

AAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

My phone has been behaving weirdly since not too long ago. Pictures stored inside my phone can mysteriously turn black or get distorted to beyond regconition. White lines appear behind my phone menu. It crashes when one browses through the camera picture folder. Smses also become distorted that the phone returns failure to open them when i try to.

Today after smsing a friend, I placed it on my table and went out of my room. When I returned, the phone has turned itself off and refused to be turned on. The screen does not appear even when I charge it, and no charging appeared to take place because the battery did not warm up.

And the worst of all is that all my phone contacts are inside the phone.

When signs of failing first appeared I have already thought of recording them down on paper, but i kept delaying it because I was busy. Now that it crashed, I cant even do anything.

I'm very sad leh....not just because I may have lost some of those precious phone contacts, but also I loved that phone alot.

Haix.

My computer suffered a similiar fate. The monitor throws out a "no signal input" when I switched on the computer, and nothing else. Once the boot up screen came on, but the memory test did not run and the screen just froze there.

My many years of stuff are all inside that computer...but I'm not as worried since the problem does not lie with the hard disk, meaning my stuff are safe for now.

But with Win XP inside, I don't know if it will still run if I change a new component inside.

Haix. Suddenly the whole world is failing on me.

I have just submitted a very important essay....if I get selected it shall be a life-changing experience for me. Hope I get in, together with my friends.

I watched the table-tennis finals where it was Singapore vs Singapore. I wonder what their minds were thinking of when they have to play against their partners. From the looks on their faces, it seems like friends-turned-enemies where they refuse to regconise each other.

Or maybe they are just too engrossed in their games.

ViCOMP quiz is coming this wednesday and I just realised alot of things are still not done. At least for the programming round. Argh.

Not in blogging mood now. Blog another day.

Sorry for the absence in the past week. Was too drained out after each day to do anything.

Monday and Tuesday were spent first getting back rubbish common test papers, enduring a scolding from the chemistry teacher because the highest scorer in my class got 74, followed by 66, then 60, then 56...... Late afternoons were spent in the robotics lab doing some half-hearted preparations for micromouse.

Spent Wednesday at Ngee Ann Polytechnic participating in Singapore Robotics Games. Watched AJC and ITEs thrash the rest of us with their heavily modified mice and programs, wow-ing at RJC showing off their mouse-sized micromouse, before chey-ing when they crashed into a wall for going too fast. Went back to college for CCA, teaching the juniors how to use Director so they can start creating something for the Chinese Current Affairs Quiz next month, at the same time starting preparations for the ViCOMP 2006 programming round next week.

Spent Thursday afternoon in V23 installing Pascal and C/C++ compliers on some twenty computers, then restarting every single computer to ensure they still exist (because I installed using student account), then testing out each complier on each computer to make sure they do compile.

Spent most of today doing work, before going to a pathetic robotics meeting where only 7 year1s came (out of which only 3 are 2nd intakers -.-''), before ending off with the year2s being blamed for not doing enough to get more year1s in.

What a week!

Year 1 mid year: ADOO C5
Year 1 promos: DOEO C5
Re-papers: -O-E -
Year 2 march common test: CECO C5
Year 2 block test: What optimistic can I go?

Haix.

我的家沦落到这个地步, 真是失敗.........

NOoooooooooooooooooooo..........................

I lost again....................i want to cry................yet another setback......I should have continued, i should not have given up. Haix. Now my heart aches...really aches....

ARGH. I cannot give up. I must continue to fight on...i must presevere................

Ok, so I finally fixed up my links. Removed the non-existent ones, put in new ones, edited some of them.

Haha sometimes I wonder why I link up to some of them. I don't think they even know I read their blogs, let alone linking me!

As for a couple of them who chose to keep a low profile, I shall respect that too.

Have a nice day ahead!

Maybe its just me, but Blogger servers are getting slower and slower. Sometimes even accessing Friendster is faster than accessing blogs. -.-''

Post-birthday entry!

Rounding up, i received ~30 smses (I have a friend who sent me an sms but I didn't receive it, so i use a appox value la hor)

Some interesting smses I have received:

1) Hey the nation celebrates qing wei's birthday!
-- -.-'''

2) Congrats! You're finally 18 n can watch m18 movie le.
-- Haha who wants to join me? =D

3) Stay lame! x2
-- I wonder what wrong have I done that my friends want to curse me to lose a limb. Haix.

4) you first good deed turning 18 will be to give this equally gd friend a massage =P
-- -.-'''

5) i lk forward to seeing ur face in 50yrs' time on the cover of some bigshot magazine.
-- (Haha i told my friends to do look out for me in 50 years time on the cover of last issue of Time
magazine as their Person of the Year.) Well i too look forward to seeing my face in 50yrs' time on the
cover of some bigshot magazine.

6) May sharks b wif u... (and later in a second sms, SHARK UNITE!!!)
-- -.-'''

7) Wah lao, nv tell us today, or not whole of icomp can celebrate for u!
-- That's precisely what I don't want! With a crazy chairman and crazy vice chairman and crazy video
head I'm afraid I cant step out of school alive!

8) you're of legal age to club now.
-- Ahh....who wants to join me? =D

I have collected all my friends' wishes. Hopefully this year will really be a good year for me.

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I spent a little bit of time thinking about my future. Looked through some brochures I have gotten from the NUS open house and I still have not decided what I wanted. I have quite a few problems:

Problem 1: Local or overseas?

I'm a typical Singaporean who thinks that there's a better future to studying in overseas universities. Haha. But the major problem stopping me from thinking of going overseas is $$$$$. Overseas is darn expensive, near to the point of me pointing a knife at my parents forcing them to sell the house. So if I were to go overseas, the only way is to get a scholarship. That shall bring me to Problem 2.

If I do go overseas, I will have to think of which university to go to. That I put aside first.

So no money, (most probably) no scholarship, so how? Stay in Singapore lor. In Singapore there are 3 universities to choose from. I'm not considering UNSW, although its near my house the school fees will mean pointing knife at parents again.
Most prob I won't consider the one in town too, so that leaves me with the remaining two.

Well, both offer very good courses, which all the more makes me difficult to choose!
I for one is siding towards the one in Kent Ridge though, because its nearer to my house (err, relatively), and it offers a solution to Problem 3.

Conclusion: I don't know which university to go to. -.-''

Problem 2: Scholarship

Thanks to myself for slacking throught the entire Year 1, I have no S papers, and that leaves me with almost zero chance of getting a scholarship. Only a few do not require S papers, but without S papers is like going to war without a gun. Still can fight with fists, no problem, but others got guns leh. How many bullets can my hands catch?

However, I have still given my name for the infocomm scholarship; shall wait to see what happens first. Signing up for it throws me with more problems.

First, I'm not sure what's their criteria for their first round of short-listing. If its based solely on academics, I can kiss my ass goodbye liaox. If they look at everything, including my CCA records, maybe I still stand a chance. Another good news is that they will be giving out many more scholarships as compared to previous years, meaning more people can eat the pie.

Second, the infocomm scholarship offers only courses related to computing, which is rather narrow and I have not decided if I want to take or not.

Another scholarship I can try for is the DSTA scholarship. S papers are not required, but are preferred (can bang wall liao). A job in DSTA is very stable and dynamic too...but I haven't decided yet.

Then again, after reading G**'s blog, I wonder if I should even take up a scholarship at all. I don't want to be tied down in a company; secretly (no longer anymore haha) I'm playing around with the idea of starting my own business.

Conclusion: I don't know if I should (or should not) take up which scholarship. -.-''

Problem 3: Course to take

After using the elimination method my primary school teacher taught me to handle MCQs, I am left with the School of Computing -.-''. Even within SoC I haven't not decided which course to take. This is only considering the Kent Ridge university. I haven't even look at the others.

Within SoC two courses I can take are Communication and Media, and Computer Science. CM is definitely more interesting, because they offer stuff like Web technologies and creating games (!). CS is damn boring, or at least in my opinion. Its like repeating my computing A level subject and olympiad training! Then again, almost any Tom, Dick and Harry can create web pages now; web design doesn't seem very important nowadays.

Also I'm considering the possibility of taking a double degree (heh heh),maybe in CM and Mathematics. But after reading the Straits Times article on the Kent Ridge campus only offering double degrees to students with excellent A Level results (bang wall again), and that double degree is very hectic work, I have my reservations now.

I have the option of taking a minor in mathematics as SoC offers it, but then, minor doesn't sound very nice =p

I cannot anyhow choose a course leh...cos it will affect what career I can take in future. The reason why I have not decided to take up computing is because I don't want to be a nerdy programmer who does nothing but typing out text 24/7. -.-'' And my poor performance in NOI is giving me second thoughts on whether I can really do a good job in the IT field.

Then again, what other course can I take up in university? Engineering?

Conclusion: I don't know which course I should take. -.-''

Then again, I think before we think about what course we should take in university, or what scholarship we should sign up for, or what career we should dream for, we should first think whether we can survive

1) the bird flu,
2) a war between US and Iran or North Korea, or both,
3) rising sea levels and air temperatures.

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Its interesting to see a sudden increase in non- politicians being hauled up to court when elections are round the corner. Coincidence or strategy?

WARNING: A geeky post!

Its not easy to learn how to use a new operating system from scratch, with no one to teach.

I felt like I was back in primary school days, when I got my first PC, a 80486 IPC running on Win 3.1. I still remembered I just came home from school that day when I saw the PC in the living room. It was switched on and showing the desktop, which was left there for testing to ensure it did not crash. I was curious and clicked on an icon. A window popped up and my heart skipped a beat because I did not know how to close the window. Haha I thought I did some irreversible changes to the computer so i quickly ran off.

Its the same nervous feeling now that I'm playing (or rather, trying to play) around with Fedora Core. I'm afraid a wrong move i make will harm the system. Haha.

Firstly, the documentation is full of words and that puts me off.

Secondly. the help system embedded in the terminal is greek to me, so I could not understand half of what its saying.

Thirdly, Linux is different from Windows in terms of concept; Linux is a multi-user environment and it runs on a tree-like system where everything else, from normal text files to entire hard drives, are nodes linked to the root. So I dunno where all the important system files are located for me to explore.

Fourthly, there's a whole new lot of extensions, so instead of .exe or .bmp or whatever, they are now .out or .rpm.

Fifthly(is there such a word?), the strength of Linux seems to lie in the terminal (aka the DOS-like screen) rather than the GUI. I have no complaints about it, just that its difficult to learn when I can see nothing but text.

I'm not touching Linux for now, primarily because I need to do my homework. Haha. But then again, there are some problems with the updating of my Fedora Core. Two of the components cannot be updated because of "package dependency" problems, then it hung at the updating screen a few times, and now it hangs at the installation screen. I give up.

I don't blame it actually. Its not easy to handle 243 updates.

Good news is that the latest stable version of Fedora Core, the fifth version, will be out next monday. I shall then take out some time to play with it. This shall be my first step to coming up with my own OS. Muahaha.

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http://kevan.org/johari?name=thewestdoor

Err yes I have one too! Haha just do for fun la hor. Thanks ah!

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Hello everyone!

Well today is my birthday. Haha.

[It feels kinda weird cos i usually don't announce my birthday to others. Haha.]

Had icomp today...well I was afraid my icomp friends would know about my birthday and do unexpected things to me, so i came up with some stupid excuse to remove the tagboard. I also changed my friendster profile and refrained from taking out my pencil case today, all in the hope that I can keep as low a profile as possible. =P

Luckily cca went on smoothly.

But I think someone told my class about today, resulting in me suddenly being flooded with a stream of smses while I was lunching. Very sorry I could not reply to all, cos i smsed too much liaox.

All in all, i have received (so far):
21 smses (which includes one on united sharks -.-''),
2 dedicated blog entries (haha),
2 tags from tagboard,
1 msn conversation,
1 angbao,
1 email.

Thanks to all! Really appreciate all the effort in pressing out all the sms texts and uploading of photos and tags and so on. =D

Birthday aside, cca is quite busy these days.

Besides preparing for micromouse competition, icomp will be hosting its annual vicomp quiz, and helping out in the various maths/science/humanities/chinese current affairs quizzes. Since I have done the chinese quiz last year, this year I have to help guide the juniors along.
For vicomp quiz I am helping out in the programming round, and they are thinking of using Linux...so I have to help ensure everything runs smoothly. Argh.

Oops. Was trying to do something drastic when things went horribly wrong. Will try to fix it another day.

I'm getting more and more uncomfortable by the minute.

I deeply admire my friend for his sheer determination and patience to fix his micromouse. The only antique top-sensing micromouse left in the arsenal, it has already being sent for repairs many times, but it still doesn't work properly, especially the motors. The place to repair the mouse is very far and ulu, so my friend had to DIY.

Since a month ago (he started doing his mouse way earlier than me) he has been permuting the 10 plus motors, chips, circuit boards, sensor boards, frames etc which he dug out from the cupboard, removing the circuit boards, turning the screws, removing the tires, the frames, changing the motors, then putting everything back together again, only to see the mouse crashing again.

On top of that, he has to endure the other 2 teams using the new-er (and the new-est) side-sensing mice running through the diagonals and overcoming long straights without any problem, plus the occasional tease. Thankfully he's a cheerful guy.

He is always the first to reach the lab and the last (at least later than me) to leave the lab.

He was (finally?) on the verge of giving up today, until i sympathise with him and decided to give him a helping hand.

[ I had thought of letting him take my mouse and I take over his mouse, since I have used a side-sensing mouse before and they hadn't, but my selfishness to hold on to my working mouse and unwillingness to use a half-spoilt mouse overcame my generosity. Argh. =( ]

Still, the problem is not quite fixed, for I'm no hardware expert, so he and his teammate are going down to AI tomorrow. Seriously I hope that will be the last time we have anything to do with them (at least for my batch).

I am totally impressed by his endurance to continue and not giving up, despite all these challenges. I don't think I would have survived for so long if I were him. I felt rather sorry for him and i myself feel quite bad, because I thought I could have done much more to help him.

Haix.

One bloody bronze was all I got.

I have not blogged for one whole week.

Short as it seems, the past week has been a *very* eventful week.

Besides all the unexpected stuff that (unfortunately) happened, there was also the release of my common test results, the promise letter i wrote, the NUS open house and the NOI results.

I didn't do exactly very well for my common test..got E for my physics, a C for maths, and 20/33 for section A of my computing.

I must work harder.

Went to NUS early in the morning with a friend to attend the open house. We were late for the computing talk, so all I heard was the salaries one can earn in the infocomm industry.

The hall was only a quarter filled during the computing talk, but the numbers swelled to a full house when the talk on the NUS Business School started after that.

After listening half the talk on Law I made my way down to SoC for the NOI prize presentation ceremony.

I was still feeling sore after sitting through the 2 hours listening and watching the Raffles and Hwa Chong clans wiping off all the top prizes (for the record, i meant all 7 golds, top 4 contestants, top sec sch contestants, top sec schs and top JCs). And as if I wasn't feeling bad enough, the top four each received a Mac Mini.

I have made my trainer disappointed; I have made my senior disappointed; I have made my teacher disappointed; I have made myself disappointed. I felt that I could have done better if I have trained harder for it, because this year's questions were not exactly too difficult. I could have solved more questions.

And so, I shall declare that I am NOT giving up in competitive programming. I must take part in NSC, I must win something, no less than the top 3. No one can stop me. This is no longer an issue about what bullshit accepting challenges or what crap about the experience is all that matters. This is about personal honour; this is about glory for the college.

As i have written in my promise letter, I have promised not to participate in any more competitions (the Singapore Robotics Games being the last) until I have proven that I can handle my studies well. Therefore, in order to earn a place in NSC, I must first get good results for JCT.

Last but not least, to the distant yet near friends, rest in peace.

I went in so relaxed, no stress, no worries.

As I read the questions, they seem ever so familiar, ever so do-able.

One question down, in less than 15 mins. So relieved I was. So delighted I was.

Yet as i continued, i got more and more stuck.

Irritating bugs are in the way.

Stopping me from submitting any more questions.

And no, they refuse to go away.

Demoralisation. Disappointment. Devastation. All settling in. Slowly and steadily.

As if to play a joke on me, I realised my mistake when there was only five minutes left.

Five minutes. What can I do?

The torture wasn't enough. A guy had to be sent to come and bug me.

Oh how many questions did you solved?

Oh I solved this question!

Oh have you participated in this before?

Oh.

Poof! And all was gone.

All gone. All gone.

Its not over. Yet. More are coming, or rather, going, real soon......

WARNING: LONG POST!

Breaking out of the hiberation earlier than usual...cos tomorrow is a holiday!

Yesterday I had the chance to watch the seniors getting back their results. Same as last year, nothing special. First the powerpoint slides, then the top students went up on stage to shake hands, take a photo, then the rest get back from their CTs.
Those who went up on stage were those with 8 or 9 distinctions..I want to go up the stage and see and hear people applauding me leh, but I have no S paper or A1 for chinese.

So the only way is that I do something drastic.

Like topping Singapore for physics.

Somehow people's dress sense have improved alot since graduation from jc, or maybe just that I have only seen them in uniform. Most were very well-dressed, though there were some slippers around too.

Next year I will be doing the same thing too.

I mean getting back the results, not wearing slippers.

VJC did okay for the A levels....though preformance was a slight dip from last year. According to the principal last year's batch complained that the questions were "unusual". As in unusually difficult. That panicked her and she called the RJC principal, who reported the same thing happening too.

So she told us that since our batch is the last batch doing the old syllabus, we can expect "unusual" questions too.

Shit man.

After announcing the A levels' results to us the principal declared today a holiday.....for the year1s. Tomorrow will be holiday for them too..cos "vjc don't have so many computers for them to check their posting results".

For us the year2s, it was as usual, chem in the morning and fmaths and literature in the afternoon. For more than 7/8 of the year2 population today will be the last day of their common test. So the teachers say today take common test, so tomorrow holiday.

Therefore, tomorrow's tests (whom the remaining 1/8 will be taking) will be pushed to monday.

And those 7/8 of them do no need to come on monday (unless they are helping out with the cca walkabout for the year1s).

I belong to the remaining 1/8.

Not too bad also la, because this way I have time to prepare for NOI before chionging computing on sunday.

The only problem is that thanks to a friend who told me today may be a full day off, my mind totally slackened out and my soul was gone when i was studying chem. I know i shouldn't believe in rumours (i'm not blaming my friend either, before that i was already having this illusion), but then given my optimistic nature, i couldnt help but..haha.

And so, chemistry was a complete disaster. Probability of passing it is 0.

Not that i did fantastically well for my maths and physics.

I still remembered my CT saying that there will be no second chance. If i fail any subject again, I will have to drop one subject. So i know i will be facing him next week, with the merciless question of which one to drop (or which poly to go to).

However listen (or rather, read) carefully everyone: I am not giving up!

Hey I know myself best. I know I can handle four subjects, even the S papers if I was given the chance to. Its just that i slacked a little too much last year. This year on I have worked rather hard (my friends can vouch for that! Last week I was already chanting the reagents and conditions necessary to prepare the various organic compounds le leh!)

And according (ya again) to my dear principal the previous students council president got BOOO for his june common test (june leh!) , but managed to get AAAA for his A levels.

I believe I should be given the chance to fight back too right? I just need...more time.

And so I shall try to keep my 4 dear subjects, in a bid to stick to my 2006 new year resolution. I'm secretly (cant do that now) hoping I can bypass my CT and go straight to the HOD Econs, the teacher in charge of dropping subjects. She's better.

What right does the JC has to get students to drop subjects huh!?!?!?! HUH!??! (haha just kidding)

On the other hand if I can secure something good this saturday, maybe *maybe* I can use that as an excuse for my poor grades. *Maybe*

People in my class are dropping subjects...i'm the only one going against the stream.

Please support me when the time comes ok? Help me write a petition or something haha.

I always wonder why my mother doesn't like computers. When she saw me holding two algorithm books I've gotten from the library she got agitated and said I should be studying for my last paper. Instead of wasting my breath explaining it was for NOI (and furthur agitating her), i just told her it was for my computing paper.

Today i went to the barber to have my haircut.

While waiting for my turn an old man carrying a black handheld bag came in. He settled down in a corner, quite near to me. After sitting down for a while, the old man left the barber, leaving the black bag on the floor.

The black bag immediately caught my attention. You know, since 9/11, and subsequently the bombings in trains and buses and pubs and god-knows-what-other-places, people around the world have been very sensitive over black-coloured bags.

No i'm not over sensitive, but i just couldnt help but stare at the bag, with images of ka-boom replaying in my mind, at the same time wondering if something explosive is going to happen soon.

Cannot blame me mah, but then i was sitting only about half-a-metre away from the bag. If it really explodes, I am sure to be the first to die.

Imagine, my body being ripped off into bits and pieces, scattered all over the place, some of them still burning, others charred to beyond recognition.

A seventeen-soon-to-be-eighteen-year-old-boy died, so many things still undone. Haven't got his 4 As, havent got his NOI medal (maybe gold leh! maybe top 4 then can rep singapore leh! maybe can get scholarship maybe can go overseas study maybe can work in some research institution maybe can invent some mind blowing thing maybe can become world famous leh!!!), haven't earn my first million (maybe i start a company then become famous and earn alot of money leh!), haven't dated a girl, haven't buy a car, haven't buy a new computer etc etc etc etc etc.

To say the truth, I did thought of running out of the barber shop. Haha.

Luckily, I was able to balance reality and imagination. Eventually I got my hair cut.

And for the security people who may have been alarmed by my imagination, halfway through the haircut the old man came back.

(As i'm typing this, suddenly i thought: what if the bomb goes off while my hair is being cut? I will die with a horrible hair-style!)

Before I end this entry I shall declare the start of the hibernation of my blog, which shall last for a week. Good luck to all in anything and everything they will be facing this coming week.

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~noi/result2006_prelim.html

VJ's team is complete! All 5 of us are in to the final stage!

And interestingly there's a familar name in the list, other than the 2 I know.

The battle is becoming more exciting...~

I shall KILL!!!!

I wonder why people back then have so much passion and patriotism for their country. They can actually spend their entire lifetime throwing their mind and soul into building up the country.

[And they were not even born there!]

I admire the determination and energy they have to keep the country going despite tough times. You know, building up a country from nothing is definitely not an easy task. Managing finances, building up defences, building up housing and parks and shopping centres and public transport and airport and seaport and schools and librarys and cinemas etc etc etc etc, creating jobs for the unemployed, setting up unions and boards and agencies, establishing friendly ties with countries all over the world etc etc etc.

That is hell of a work to do!

Comparing their generation with our new generation kids, we seem to be doing real bad in terms of sense of belonging for our country huh? Every other person you rubbed shoulders with everyday has at least said once that he wants to get out of his country and migrate to some other better(or so they claimed) country.

I'm not saying that I'm patriotic. (Sadly) I'm one of the many (i'm quite sure) young kids out there who don't really know who the guy who died today is and what contributions he has done for Singapore until I watched the news.

But then again, at least I don't work hard to try to get good SAT scores and S papers grades for the sole reason of leaving Singapore to live in some "First-World" country for good.

I guess the reason is that people back then do not have to get stressed up in school or workplace, and standards of livings are low such that they can meet their daily needs easily and so, have time for their dreams.

Maybe in today's world, stress levels and cost of living are replacing sense of belonging as the factors that one considers which country he wants to live in.

On the other hand, should I say that technological advances and economical well-growth is driving us greedy and asking for better and better and even better things? People back then are satisfied with a little 2-room flat and a bicycle. People nowadays? 5-room flats are too small, the brand Toyota is not 'high-class' enough, and they want plasma TVs in their bathrooms, dozen-core-CPU-powered computers (hmm i wished for one of that too) etc.

Maybe because the past generation have been through tough times, so the tortures they endured made them more determined to run the country themselves, and run well, so that the country does not have to go through tough times again.

So our generation have never been through tough times, which make us not as bonded to the country as compared to the older generation. So everyone is thinking of leaving.

Perhaps we should start hoping that xI and xJC (where x=R) will churn out passionate leaders who are willing to lay down their lives for Singapore.

Meanwhile, i salute Mr S. Rajaratnam for his determination in running the country.

And maybe, we should start paying a little more attention to the country that gave us food and warmth and family and education.

A little update here...since i'm *slightly* free now.

I was registered for the olympiad! Its just that, according to one source, my email was truncated, and according to another source, my email was wrongly typed in.

Regardless of the mistake, I'm happy to be back in the race. Muahaha.

Actually I think the best i can go is only a bronze. Maybe *maybe* I can get a sliver. Gold....if heaven is on my side...top 4...if the Sun rises from the west.

I just do my best la.

One competition aside I have another competition coming up in not so distant time. The teacher is breathing down my neck wanting me to find out if there are enough people to justify the purchase of a third micromouse.

The year2s badly want a new one to replace an old spoilt one, but our dear money-saving teacher thinks that if there are not enough people to form a third team, then don't buy.

He has cause for worry though. The number of new year1s this year is terribly low. Not enough people to "carry down the family line". Besides, each mouse does not cost just $2.

And I'm supposed to call the year1s to find out who is interested in taking up micromouse. But given my shy nature towards strangers I don't know how to do it.

"This is your job. Otherwise why do I put u as the head?"

CCAs aside, SPAs and common test are coming soon. The next 3 days are SPAs days, but mine is on Thursday and Friday, so tomorrow is free for me. I will still be going school, because if i stay at home I will be spending more time on my bed and with the computer rather than my books.

Next week is common test, and with the release of A level results predicted to happen that week (and therefore, a declared holiday if my seniors did well), exams on Friday may be pushed to Monday, which is computing.

Which makes me wonder where I'm going to find time to practise that last bit for olympiad and watch my friend's drama, which will happen on the same day.

Life. Or the lack of it.

It gets increasingly discouraging when competition's coming in two weeks' time and I am still getting many Wrong Answer and Time Limit Exceeded.

It doesn't help when everyone else have received an email from the organisers asking to verify their information and I haven't received mine.

The fact that common test is coming is adding on to the pressure. Haix.

Hello everyone!

It has been a little stressful this week. Ever since the "battle" has begun almost everyday has been busy and tiring..running between college and Macdonalds' and home.

Firstly was Valentine's Day (or rather, Friendship Day) on Tuesday. "Friendship" Day is a rather hyped-up event in vjc...with the house comm blasting love songs in the canteen throughout the day and balloons and presents and cards appearing everywhere in the school. It was one of the rare times of the year where the canteen is so noisy because everyone was hanging around giving out presents.

My haul:
4 chocolates
1 sweet
1 cookie
1 rubber
1 candle
2 letters
2 snacks
1 sunflower
(did i miss out anything?)

Muahaha. Thanks to all for the presents...though i never prepare anything for others lol.

Anyway walking through a park with a sunflower sticking out from your bag is not an easy task to do.

The next day was Total Defence Day...nothing special happened la...just a talk in the morning on Total Defence.
Highlight of the day was the retrieval of the college yearbook. Finally after so many months and so much money the yearbook is in my hands.

Lately there's this news about police asking kids under 17 to stay at home after 11pm. They will record down names of those under 17 spotted loitering around and send them home...maybe even writing letter to their parents.

Wah gg liaox...now those kids cannot go out late at night liaox. Luckily i'm already 17 hahaha.

Sians i tired liaox. Blog another day.

Yo!

Just reached home from JTS!

(Technically speaking should be JSS...junior subsidized senior...cos we helped pay abit.)

Ate at this place called Sakura at Parkway...a place i never heard and stepped into until a few hours ago. Haha.

Went for the buffet..and like last time at Seoul Garden, i ate until damn full so as to maximise the value. Except this time got people paying for my meal. Haha.

The dinner was nice...because many people were there, there was nice food, the environment was nice, the atmosphere was nice.

Not forgetting the lemon-juice-laced-cream puff then i fell victim to.

There aren't many chances where one can just put down everything and enjoy a nice meal in a relaxed mood, esp ever since we entered JC. So i enjoyed it very much.

Yay i have recouped all my losses from my JTS last year..muahaha.

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day...nice lovely day for the many couples out there who will be giving and receiving presents. Good day for a liitle date after school.

That is, if there's someone who will give him or her presents and someone whom he or she can give presents to.

And someone to hold hands with after school.

Well, at least three men in this world will be going through a lonely Valentine's Day. Haha. Not too bad also la, they have each other and their computers for company.

I have invited them to put messages up on my blog. So here it goes:

TEMPLE SAYS

THIS YEAR

DRAGONS BETTER TO NOT START DATING

WHY?

CAUSE DRAGONS HAVING A LEVELS

DRAGONS ARE THEREFORE ADVISED TO FOCUS ON STUDIES

AS THEY HAVE A LEVELS

Pls +- 1 horoscope year in the case of uncertaintities

Wiseman available for bidding to be v-day partner!!! Starting bid price: SGD$100

愿天下有情人终成眷属

Love is like brushing teeth. If unmanaged well, you bleed.

If you experience too little, you bleed also.

If you use too much forece, you bleed even more.

Conclusion?

Use a softer toothbrush.

wish everyone can be with their lovers

wish all the girls cherish their loved ones more and all the guys love their girls more

Happy Valentine's Day to all!

YeS! The feeling is back...the feelING is baCK...THE FEELING IS BACK!

Muahahaha...Qing Wei shall rule the world......Qing Wei shall conquer all! Kill all! Fight all!

I shall win the battle! I shall survive the fight! I shall be the last one standing! I shall receive the greatest honour!

Qing Wei shall ROCK this world!!!

Darn i was late for school today.

I was caught in heavy traffic at the Bedok North PIE bridge there..by the time i reached the school the student councillors have locked the latecomers out.

After that i had to write my name down at the general office.

"Today is the Hongbao Toto ah...thats y the queue so long ah~"

Reason for being late: Traffic jam

"Good morng mr sum r u in sch today?"

"Yes i'm late. In GO now."

Immediately after that was my mock napha...muahaha i passed all 3 stations! But then i nearly failed my 2.4k and my CT knew about it...so i may ba down for "healthy lifestyle". Haix.

Today was the release of the O' Levels results....the little kids were worried over the results. The seniors were pretty excited as well. During my one hour in the canteen i have heard countless times of "AHH!!!!!! (i-dunno-who) got 6!" "AHH!!!! (i-dunno-who) got 8!"

There was this girl who ran all the way down the canteen, came in the row of bench i was sitting in (If i didnt react fast enough and give way to her my legs would have been gone) and to a friend to proudly announce her junior got many A1s.

There were loads more who were yakking on their handphones asking their little brothers/sisters/juniors/cousins how they have fared.

I wonder if our seniors did anything similar when we took our results last year.><

Well, getting results back is indeed nerve wrecking. The process of waiting shouldnt be experienced too many times. Haha.

Congrats to those who have achieved good results...for those who did not do well, it does not mean the end of the world, so stay optimistic =)

Internet Explorer users who suddenly find my sidebar missing, its at the bottom of my blog. I'm lazy to fix it.

Today went for my one-hour yoga course....

This yoga course was part of Feeling Fab 2006..so this morning the year2s went for courses that they have chosen earlier...besides yoga there's self-massage (they con people one..need two pple to massage), self defense, kick-boxing (aka muay thai), and non physical activities like personal grooming, business and enterprise, communication strategies (slack lor...just sit in LT listen) etc etc

Wah lau the yoga course was tiring la...stretching and twisting here and there, no difference from mass PE...there were weird postures that were impossible for me to do, what one hand go under a leg the other hand from behind the back then both hands have to touch each other.

LAst 5 minutes they have a "relax" posture...basically just lie down on the floor and keep eyes closed while they played some music. THe guy was there "Relax....relax your muscles....relax your back...relax your arms....relax..........................................................................................." They even switched off the lights so we could rest properly.

It was really relaxing..but because i watched too much tv, the whole time i was a little worried that we get too relaxed, they will inject something into us then make us their slaves. So i didnt really rest well, occassionally opening my eyes to make sure no one was near me. Haha.

Anyway the course isnt too bad...I think maybe they should make this a weeky event or something.

Tired.

I learnt something new yesterday.

Next time u all punch me hor, i won't get angry one. In fact i will treat you to a meal to thank you for only punching me once instead of punching me twice and kicking me.

Crap aside, i'm attending a yoga course tomorrow! Haha. Wish me good luck..i hope i will still be in one piece after the thingy tml.

Haha Valentine's Day is coming...interestingly our horticultural society is organising a flower delivery service not just within vj, but also to tj, for a mere delivery charge of 20cents.

Fearless!

Movie isn't too bad, though it fell slightly short of my expectations. I was expecting alot of fight scenes, but there were alot of talking.

Maybe the fighting weren't too "action" enough. Haha.

Anyway I thought it is too harsh to be tio a NC-16. Only a couple of fight scenes got bones breaking leh...parents can cover their children's eyes when watching that de ma. Otherwise there are alot of things little children can learn. Haha.

But overall its a good movie la. Worth watching.

Sianx holidays over liaox. No more holidays until march leh. Haiz.

*tHe BaTtLe HaS bEgUn...In ThE mOnTh Of FeBrUaRy...*

Good morning!

Before anything else, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL!

Its 初七人日 today..that makes it everyone's birthday!

My trainer took MC today..so I have the rare chance to stay at home instead of slogging my mind out in school.

Its nice weather today, not hot not cold. Sadly Year 2s don't have the fortune to enjoy it.

( In case anyone is still immersed in the CNY atmosphere, January has already passed. Its Feburary now. )

( Err yes, that brings us one month closer to A levels and one month lesser to preparing for A levels. )

( But then! We must be optimistic! That brings us one month closer to the end of A levels! )

In case you are thinking why I'm blogging rubbish again, this time I'm really blogging rubbish. Haha.
Because I want to delay doing my homework for as long as possible.

So the fact is that I'm wasting your time as your read this. Haha.

Sorry about that...have a nice day ahead.

( Actually you didnt waste all the time...because by reading this you have gotten a morning greeting, a birthday greeting and a "have a nice day" wish from me to you. )

( And I have just jolted you awake from your honeymoon. [Its Feburary!!!!!] )

( To a certain extent, I have just made you [slightly] more optimistic about life. Haha.)

Just one last statement..if this blog is giving you an impression that I am crazy, please allow me to loudly declare again: I AM NOT CRAZY!

-.-''

I'm damn tired today, so i shall just make a short post.

Today is the launch of Igloo, which is basically our students' lounge. They called it Igloo because it is a place for us to "chill out". Haha.

A huge launch party was organised...with some ice-breaking games (literally ice breaking), free food and drinks.

Basically the Igloo is a scaled down version of AHS's students' lounge (which they call Eagles' Nest haha). In Igloo there's a pool table, table soccer, a dartboard, a plasma tv hooked to a dvd player (i think), a PS2 hooked to a small lcd screen (there are two games currently), and a magazine rack with seats.

The ps2 and lcd screen are in a small little room. The principal told us that there's a sound proof room in the lounge where we can use to sing, and since it is the only room i saw, i guess that is the one ba. But there are no singing equipment leh. Correct me if i'm wrong.

I agree with one comment in cosiety that RPG games aren't very suitable to be put into students' lounge, since not many people can play at once.

In conclusion the Igloo is similar to the Eagles' Nest...but its abit too small to....attract many people?

I'm starting to not know what I'm typing. Haha. I shall stop here.

When the government announced the policy to ban smoking in public places I was rejoicing, because i thought i can finally breathe fresh air when i go out.

But so many months after the ban has been implemented, there isn't really much impact on the people huh? People still smoke freely on the streets, at the bus stops (despite the huge anti-smoking signs on the pillars), at the parks etc etc.

I hate most when i'm trying to enjoy a slow leisure walk along somewhere and then this guy must appear in front of me smoking (walking at the same pace and route as me somemore!). Then the puffs will fly backwards then i smell them -.-''

So i have to walk fast to get past the guy before i can enjoy my slow walk. But the fast walk past the guy and the puff that got into my nose already got me irritated.

They should ban cigarettes!

EDIT
I forgot to mention that the guest-of-honour today was the owner of Sakae Sushi (am i right?). He was a fellow Victorian.

Maybe 10 years later I become some famous guy then i also be the guest-of-honour of cross country, at the same time opening the new Sum Qing Wei Lecture Theatre. Haha.

Then i will create many false starts then make the good runners tired, so the normal people can win.

"Shock at VJC Cross Country - Top runners lose to gu niangs!"

Depending on what company i open i can donate some prizes also huh? If i open a computer company then i donate computers. If i open taxi company i offer discount coupons for taxi rides. Aren't these more practical? Lol.

END OF EDIT

So today was our annual cross country.

Nothing special about cross country this year, basically about the same every year:

-- The girls and teachers start running first, 3.2km
-- The guys run next, 4.8km

My CT came in first again, not just among the staff, but also among the girls. He has been doing so for the past 9 years -.-''

There were initially some talks about a threat from a girl. My CT expressed concern about this cross country girl who may be able to beat him, but alas, the threat didn't succeed. She came in after him...

While the girls started at the linkbridge, the guys started from the starting line of the stadium. As the race started, one can see crazy sportsmen running for their dear lives at the opposite side (its the truth man..they ran the 4.8km like they were running 100m)

Some ideas I came up with:
1) The first to reach the finishing line will be recarnated into the President of some country, second will be recarnated into Prime Minister etc etc
2) VJC kidnapped their girlfriends! They have to complete their race in a specific amount of time in order to save their girlfriends!

I'm talking cock.

Anyway i got a real nice position: 400. Muahaha.

At the last "fastest 100m stretch we ever ran in our lives" (i didnt run fast becos of the cheering girls -.-'', but the fact it is the finishing line) i was challenged by this guy. I tried to outrun him but he didnt want to lose out, so the two of us raced all the way down the stretch (at that point of time it appears i am the one who wants to get recarnated into the President or save my girlfriend haha)

In the end i outran him (yay!), but was overtaken by two other guys from my other side ><)

Cross country is one of the rare event where the prize presentation ceremony took a longer time than the actual competition. Got IP guys top 5, IP girls top 5, Staff top 10, guys top 20, girls top 20, the top 3 ccas, the top CTs, and the overall champion house.

Besides those there's also a whole range of lucky draw prizes..which includes (according to the emcee) *attractive* New Balance ........ socks!

-.-''

I didn't win anything (which is good also. I dunwan to stand up in the midst of the entire school and walk up the stage to receive $30 jean yip vouchers)

Finally the prize presentation was over after one freaking hour. I was totally drained of energy to do any mass dances.

Afternoon went to watch I Not Stupid Too with some friends.
I thought it was an excellent movie, because it accurately portrayed problems that families face today, though not so extreme but to a certain extent. [partially because i'm a teen myself so can relate to it]

Actually I don't expect my own parents to speak my lingo (serious, i cant imagine them yelling "So cool! So lame..") or to read my blog (No they mustn't see this!). But i will appreciate if they nag less often and praise me more =D (like passing my chem r)

Sometimes i wonder what will happen to me if my parents spent all their time working and neglect me. Will I still be studying in ahs and vjc or will I be helping my gang create webpage?

I realise that lately i'm writing alot of rubbish. Lol.