It's been a while since I last slept at 3am. Due to the stupid PI which is due today, I spent all night + morning cutting my 1k+ PI into something as short as 500 words... Worse still I totally forgot to have lunch or dinner yesterday => super hungry today =]

Didn't feel as tired as I expected to be. PW period was almost totally wasted, with half of the class rushing to edit their PI and stuff. Failed computing test yet again, argh!!! I must seriously start working much much harder. BerWong lost his temper halfway through his lesson and it made me realize how crappy the education scheme for JC students is. He pointed out that since we came to jc, we must not aim for passing but for As or we won't have much of a future. Dammit. Juz dammit. Almost half the class was falling asleep in his lesson - probably because of PI... blah blah blah.

GP was fine. Assembly was long and boring. I actually slept during half of the session.. Just too tired. Made me super hungry. Had drum meeting after that. It was the J1 welcome party today so there was some food provided. Ck and I finished 1 whole packet of wafers =p.

Today marked the first tennis lesson as well. There's 2 korean man and lots of women in my class. Luckily I met someone my age in the class, SQ. SQ studies in AJC hahaz... and cool lol... we are like both totally noob at tennis =] Learned how to serve the ball and do a forehand return today.

I'm so glad tmr is a holiday. Finally I don't have to wake up at 6am ^^. sEriOusly speaking.. i think i'll fare much better in my grades if we had more study breaks instead of stupid lectures where i understand almost nth of what the teacher is saying...

Went to mac's for breakfast at serangoon central with my classmates. Had mcgriddles again =p
Wanted to play bball before peer tutoring started but it rained... T-T

After peer tutoring, went with Matthew for our last lesson of 1 star kayaking. My parents decided to give us a lift to kallang thus we were half an hour early. Feeling hungry, I decided to head towards kallang mrt to get a snack from old chang kee or mr bean. On the way there, we saw a commotion at the road in front of the Kallang MRT station. On closer inspection, it was an accident that had taken place. A taxi could be seen in the middle lane of the road, while there were bags behind the taxi on the ground. There were some people at the side of the road on their knees saying some words of prayers as if someone had passed away.

All of a sudden a woman's shout of despair could be heard.
“我不能没有爸爸！”

I wonder what really happened. Missed the channel 5 and channel newsasia news... wonder whether it will be in the papers tomorrow... I give my greatest condolences to any party who have been hurt by this accident.

Just found the lyrics for Aloha by cool, which is also the first song in my list.Pretty touching in a sense. Watch the MTV to get the full gists of the song. Here's the English translation:

Candle under the dark light

I passed computing test! Phew. =3="
I hate Mondays. Maths morningmare followed by physics lullaby of the human busybody's.
Chinese presentation was super impromptu. Didn't prepare for it at all cause my weekend was burned.
PI and GPP is really making me feel the stress build.
There'll be probably a trial run again for Nightlight followed by the actual event on Friday. This week is so busy as well...
Tests and more tests this week. Econs, Maths and Computing. No confidence of passing either of the three. x_x

The first lesson of one star Kayaking was held today. Just a few minutes walk away from Kallang Mrt, we had our lesson along Kallang River. Learned how to capsize, the capsize drill and the forward pedal and back pedal, J Draw, etc... Capsizing was super fun! I went through the test for 4 times before my instructor passed me. The capsize drill involved 3 people. The saver, assistant and the victim.

In a nutshell, it was fun, no sunburn (yay!) and also very exhausting. =]

Homework homework homework.... I wonder when I can ever get them all done...

Long day as expected since a long time ago. Woke up at 8.20am and met up with SJJ, Andy & Jia Hui at Serangoon central Mac's for breakfast. McGriddles Rocks! I recommend everyone to try it. =D After that we walked to school and met Qian Ying, Lee Keat and Shu Hui halfway. I lent Qian Ying my school pin since she didn't have hers. We split outside the art room where SJJ and andy headed to the hall while I headed to the tables outside the LT4.

I was directed to Group 1 by Ophy, new head of the project cause I didn't have a group or have any friends in the project at all. Sadly my buddy last week was assigned to Group 3 so I was assigned to a new buddy. Darryl was his name. Heard stories that he was super playful and very hard to control. He wasn't all that bad. In fact I found him super creative. He was trying to learn his 听写 so that when he get back home he can play his computer games. He likes drawing skulls, starting from the teeth to the eyes and finally circling the head. Why did I say he was creative? He remembered "请求原谅" 的 "谅" by depicting it as a wizard (staff; hat, head, body , arms) Anyway he was always butting into his classmates' English spelling by spelling the words before his mate while I was testing him his spelling =[ In the end only managed to remember 9 words out of the 15 words in his list. 真失败！

We were dismissed at 12pm and I ran to the mrt station and took the train to Hougang Station. Dalvin and Xuan Yi was late. We headed of eventually upon the arrival of Xuan Yi at around 12.40pm towards the PAP centre. Kidsread program is much harder than Yang Zheng's peer tutoring. The J2s started out with a little story about a man with a stack of different colour hats on his head. Nothing interesting about the story, only felt that some of the J2s felt very paiseh while the story was read ( dunno why ). After that we were suppose to teach the kids colours and shapes. I joined Gabriela's table and she introduced me to the kids as a very naughty boy. (WTH? What did I do? =p Must be that day at Nightlight gave her a lot of problem ba =X) OMG! It was super hard to teach the kids as most of them didn't even know their ABCs... Luckily one hour went by like the wind and the kids were picked up by their parents. One of the boy's parent was late though and Mei Yan (I think) started playing rock paper with him. I joined in halfway and got totally bored so wanted to teach him chopstick but was given the blank face look =_=" Changed to the school uniform shirt and started using the face blotter only to be advised not to use it by my seniors as according to them a face blotter removes oil but your face will produce even more oil after that. As how Jeremy puts it, "Law of equilibrium distribution" =.="

We left the place at around 2.35pm or so and walked to the MRT station and Dalvin and I tooked the train back to Serangoon Station. We were "late" by almost 45min but when we got to St Gabs nothing much had taken place. I chatted with my pals and realised that those who went to the JC's wrote their PI's based on Dr William Tan...

After the parade, we started of with the usual prayer, following by the band performance. The principal made his annual report following by the Guest of Honour, Brigadier General Lowrence Chua, Commander, 2nd People's Defense Force Command, MINDEF, and also a former Gabrielite. He started of his speech repeating much of the information that Mr Lee said during his report and I dozed of halfway. The new CCA group guitar ensemble gave a performance after the speech. Next up was the speech by Valedictorian, top scorer of the school, Filbert Lee. He was wearing the NJC blazer which really stood out in the crowd. His speech was quite entertaining and I noticed that he had a bad habit of not being able to keep still while speaking, starting each of his sentence with a gentle sway of his body from side to side. He pointed out something which really got me thinking. "I met many of my primary school mates in NJC. Those who were good back then were even better while those who were bad back then were much worse now." Certain keywords flew into my mind instantaneously- Elitism, Morality, Values, Education.

After his speech it was time for the prize presentation for the non academic matters aka Service awards and CCA colours awards. I received the same cert as last year lol..

The buffet was quite a spread i must say. I ate dinner with my pals and left hurriedly, turning down the offer to play pool at kovan with the plan to meet my mates at vivo. In the end I didn't since I finished pretty late and they were already done with dinner so I went to J8 with my parents in the end. Bought a new G shock watch and a nike running shoe since my shoes were all quite worn out. Met Desmond and friends in J8. Desmond has become a giant only after a few months since I last saw him.. what in the world did he do to grow so much in such a short time??

62 words

Speedtest

Hmm yea I type 62 wpm =) Pretty good no? Today's computer test went horribly wrong. First question just wanted us to write a program to output the largest of the 3 numbers inputed by the user. Stupid me read the question as print out the largest and smallest value and ended up wasting precious time. I couldn't remember the shortcut either so wrote my inefficient code once again.

Question 2 was a nightmare. I wrote so many loops that I got confused while looking at my code. Even though there were no errors, my program didn't work out the way I wanted it to or meet the question requirement. So yea another question screwed.

Question 3 was just a waste of time. I wrote 90 line of codes and made the stupidest mistake of not leaving indentations. "Minus mark" was Mr Wong's answer.

Played bball with the class during common lunch break even though I wanted to revise and attend the computer assembly class in the Computer lab 2. Poor Andy got his specs in a mess though it didn't matter much whether he was wearing his spectacles or not. Once a pro, always a pro? =p

After the stupid test went to eat tau huay with zhi peng at central. The auntie added too much syrup for me and the bottom part was just not to my liking as it was just too sweet.

My upcoming weekend is totally burned with activities all day >.< I wonder whether I can pass anything anymore... Speech day is on Saturday. Kids week is on Saturday, Peer tutoring also on Saturday, 1 Star Kayaking on Sunday and the following Saturday.... I have to stop taking anymore extra activities for a while... BTW bad news too NYJCians. The Drum's upcoming event has no more vacancies left for participants, though you may leave your group names at the drum just in case there is any dropouts.

Was super busy yesterday... I had the runs for the whole night yesterday which resulted in only a few hours of rest.

Today was feeling better though I had to visit the washroom quite a few times in school. I guess I have a weak stomach. BBQ foods are great but it seems like I've to abstain from it. Computing questions are really making me loose my precious sleep. Homework keeps piling up from before and that is something frightening. Kudos to my weekends indeed which are so busily occupied with events for causing the mountain load of work. x.x

I've just included imeem's widget to the bottom of this page with a few songs. All of the songs were from audition before they were removed. Still looking for Winter Story by Can.. somehow I didn't manage to get that song..

Pain is an understatement for what my legs are going through now. It feels as if its going to dislocate any moment now... =[

Today's Zhi Peng's birthday party. Was suppose to meet up with Andy, CK, Wangyu and Matt at Yio Chu Kang Mrt station at 2.30pm. In the end at 2.30pm, all but Matt had arrived. The joker made the journey from Bishan to Yio Chu Kang almost an half an hour long journey. He missed the Yio Chu Kang station as he was sleeping, alighted at Khatib and took another train back. It was 3.10pm by then time he arrived. Worse still it started to drizzle.

Luckily the rain was short lived as it stopped after we reached peng's house. Andy, CK, Wai Hern, Peng and I played bball in the super squeezy half court inside seletar springs.

Got Zhi Peng a leather wilson bball from royal sporting house for $40. Argh another hole in my pocket!! Wait I don't think there's any pocket left... x.x

More of his friends slowly dropped by by evening and we managed to play a bball with some of his other school mates. And oh yeah I got thrased by a small gina when playing A- Z =.="

Ah the photos stinks but oh well...







Ah I will write more tomorrow. Still have maths to complete now >< tata

Yesterday's PE was a torture session. We started with 2 warm up jogs around the track and then went to the pull up bar at the side of the canteen. Breaking news - If you fail any station you can say goodbye to any games throughout the whole year during PE. 3 weeks is all I got to get myself in the groove for pull ups. So after doing some pull ups we headed to the area outside LT4 to do as many sit ups as we can. I stopped at 48 since I anticipated that there will be more vigorous training soon after.

Indeed to my anticipation, we had to do 3 sets of 20 speed jumps while doing 2 sets of push ups in between each set of speed jump. My legs went jelly at the second set and almost lost balance a few times. After completing those it was time for shuttle run. I couldn't feel my legs at all while running. That all happened in one hour and I was totally drained. Had to rest for more than half an hour in the canteen before being able to walk without feeling any drowsiness.

Lesson of the day: Never play bball on the same day as PE. Vote for A6! lol

Today was the first day of peer tutoring for project inspiring lives. Matthew had debate competition so that made me think thrice whether to actually show up at 9am in school. Those who joined in the project were mostly girls, and not more than a handful of boys (2/3). I coached Tyzz En, a primary 4 student from Yang Zheng Primary. Quite a nice kid. He needed help in math and English. The maths questions were a breeze but it didn't apply for the English part though. Couldn't manage to clearly explain how to convert a singular noun to a plural noun. (e.g house---> houses, mouse---> mice (why not mouses?))

Picked up my new spec today. Can't believe its already ready. I was just choosing the frames yesterday and today I'm already wearing it. Talk about advancement in technology. =]

Firstly, I would like to help nyjc's drum advertise our upcoming event- "Night Light"!
As stated in the banner its going to be held on 25 April (Friday) at the above mentioned time.
Basically, participants are suppose to be in a team of 3. Registration cost is $10.00 which will most likely be refunded when the event ends. It would be spooky or should be spooky.

Yesterday was the second trial run for this event. I opine that it wasn't scary enough. I've already came up with some new tricks. To all nyjcians please do support this event!! Not only is the event free, your team stands to win Capita Land Vouchers!!! Spread the word!

Today's computing test upsets me the most. I knew the questions that were coming out. They were so obvious to be tested on. I did some studying already on them. But why can't I remember what I studied when the actual test is in front of me!!! Maybe it was because of bball before the test or maybe I have stm. My results now relies greatly on my practical test. Please let it be somewhat manageable!!

Did the first duty for drum today. It lasted for one hour. Nothing to do at all so I did my maths during my 1 hr duty... so slack rite? Then again tmr drum's nightlight trial 2 until 9pm+? tmd...

We were dismissed early today, to be exact we had a half day today due to the good grades by the J3s. In the end stayed back to try piano ensemble with andy. Lan lan and ling also joined piano. First lecture today on basics of theory. Great refresher course I guess. Many terms and names I have long forgotten was touched on today. Though boring its good to remember what I've known before.

I know I'm killing myself with activities. Tomorrow nightlight trial run, sat yang zheng pri peer tutoring, and speech day, next week college day and drum's own kids week. Arghhh....

Reached school at 7.15am, waited till 8am for wangyu and jia hui before looking for Mr Sim to sit for our Physics re-test. How ironic. The three partners in level camp all failed the first physics test and are sitting for the re-test one day after the release of the paper. I found the re-test ridiculous as it's the same test paper as the one we sat for previously. It would be much better if the re-test was a different paper. Seriously. Though I didn't memorise the answers the day before, the re-test was a breeze- then again why wouldn't it be?

Did some research on the stupid founder of the "journey" I'm working on. Alright.. he aint that stupid. His story is quite heart-wrenching and stuff... Somehow I'm not in the homework mood today. Most of the time slacking in front of the tv, or back to the com finishing up my practical. I got a bad feeling my lenses are going to be thicker the next time I visit the optician. @.@

Super tired... slept at around 3 am all because of physics tutorials and file... then at 6.10am alarm clock went off, wanted to off the alarm but instead got the air con remote, kept pressing the on/off button on the air con remote, failed to off alarm, got frustrated and finally woke up.

Suppose to collect 9 files and 9 sets of tutorials up to kinematics from the phy students. In the end only collected 4/9 files, tutorials weren't much better. Passed the files to Mr Sim after morning assembly and then headed to econs tutorial. Quite obvious that I'm quite a bad rep lol.

Tutorial was conducted by the new teacher Mr Peh ( if I'm not wrong) while Emily Lim observed at a corner. He set two scenarios and mete out the question to the class, which by then was split into 4 groups. Felt super blur coz still can't remember the difference between PED, PES, XED & YED. My group consisted of andy, tricia , matt, kao and I. I stoned almost throughout the whole thing larz. Lucky my group mates all econ pro de..muahaha.

PW was next. Went to the air con room and slacked for the whole period. Lucky Mr Chee not emo today... break then computing class. I was late because I waited for matt and guys to photocopy their notes. argh! Didn't noe it took up 5% of the total grades T-T... Failed my surprise test sia... lucky practical saved me. Chamz... want mug also hardly any time to...

Assembly was quite a bore. Needed to wear tie and stuff but no one brought anyway..

First drum meeting. Too many similarities with the zone le... hahaz .. exco selection soon.. hope can become exco lol... ... ... ... zzzzzz