lol. why does the blog look like it's dying? i am starting to suspect that no one even visits this place anymore, since the tag board is stagnant too. =( hopefully it's not because i posted and then everyone got too bored.
anyway, when once again reminiscing my wonderful life 1 to 2 years ago, i got this urge to revisit some of the adv. lit stuff we did in sec 3. so here are some works that i recommend. haha.
1. neuromancer and the 2 following books by william gibson 2. do androids dream of electric sheep by philip k dick i think 3. bladerunner, a film adaption of 2 4. existenz, an extremely interesting movie that unfortunately came out in the same year as the matrix, got trashed commercially and slipped into oblivion =(
alright. hope everyone's enjoying hols. and if you happened to have some time on your hands, try the stuff above. =)
By: shida | Friday, 30 November 2007 at 5:52 pm | |
in order to prevent the class blog from dying, i shall just randomly boast. haha.
super proud of myself now. i just obtained evidence that sleeping early boosts your creativity and productivity. guess what. i slept at 9.30 last night and woke up at 5.30 this morning. and the amazing thing: i composed a chinese poem while dreaming. and the best thing is that it rhymes and all the formats and stuff are correct! whee! but i shall not share it here lest it embarrasses me since i must concede that it's of pretty low quality if you were to look at the content. but still, this is the first step. if everyone were to sleep early on a daily basis, we may collectively dream up a full theatre production! haha.
By: shida | Tuesday, 27 November 2007 at 7:25 am | |
since gerald complained to me that the class blog is dead, i shall write something short to cheer him up. haha.
everyone should try to enjoy school. it's really one of the easier phases in life i think. as a student, we are simply enjoying the fruits of others'(teachers, parents) labour. work's so different. you become the person who needs to do stuff, and you'd have to make sure that your labour's useful in some way. lol. alright. i think all these would seem pretty hollow and irrelevant. so nvm about that.
oh. and after a recent chat with don tan(my ex-classmate, my current boss at RECAS), i learnt a few more things. hard to put them into words though. but gerald normally gets such ideas and is able to express them nicely in words so i shall not embarrass myself here.
it's sad that in the pursuit for efficiency and so- callled higher standards of living, we seemed to have forgotten what higher standards of living really mean in the first place. i am not saying that i know for sure what that encompass. but i would like to ask everyone to really think about why you are doing the particular combi of things at this moment in your life. and really think about the root cause, not just something like i felt like it and i wanted to have fun. lolz.
alright. shall turn in early and try to salvage my devastated conditions tmr. bye and enjoy your hols! =)
By: shida | Friday, 16 November 2007 at 11:40 pm | |
Anyway, just wanna ask if anyone wants to catch a movie this weekend. Before we catch the movie, I propose we catch a bus, or catch some fishies first. However, if that idea sounds bad, lets just go catch a movie.
Movies Showing that I don't mind watching to watch:
Beowulf
Saw IV (Yangtze Cinema anyone?)
11th Hour
The Bee Movie
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
Actually anything is fine :)
People I don't mind watching the movie with:
Everyone! :)
Everyone, please tag whether you are free this weekend or next weekend or this weekday nights (cos people are on attachment and internships) and which moo-vie you might want to watch, if you want to watch any at all.
We can have fun after the moo-vie doing things like eating dinner or spending the night on orchard road if its too late.
By: Gerald | Monday, 12 November 2007 at 10:06 pm | |
2 more days to the start of Bio O 1 more day to the end of O levels 0.5 more day to the Reading-Arsenal Match 0 days to Gerald blowing up and dying of boredom
GERALD IS BORED. GERALD ALMOST COMPLETED ZELDA ON WII. GERALD IS NOT MEMORISING ANYTHING FOR BIO O. GERALD IS HARDLY GOING OUT. GERALD IS NOT DOING ANY TUTORIAL. GERALD IS (WAS) NOT BLOGGING. GERALD IS TYPING IN THIRD PERSON.
Who wants to go out tomorrow? Gerald wants to buy a book from Kinokuniya or Borders or anywhere that sells the book. Alternatively, anyone with that book can give it to Gerald and Gerald will be really happy.
Before Gerald forgets, Happy Birthday Mr. Sun Yat Sen! (edit:Do dead people celebrate birthdays)
~END OF POST~
Ranting starts here:
Who the hell cares about biodiversity, especially little things that we can't even see with the naked eye. Of course some of you are going to beg to differ, that there ARE indeed prokaryotes that we can see with our eyes without the aid of microscopes. But honestly, who cares about something that small. I don't care whether they are Photoautotrophs, Chemoautotrophs, Photoheterotrophs or Chemoheterotrophs. I don't care whether they are bacteria or archaea, paedophiles or extremophiles. I don't even need to know that there are so many types of eukaryotes on Earth and just the protists can be classified as diplomonads, parabasalids, euglenozoans, alveotes, stramenopila, cercozoa, radiolaria, amoebozoa, rhodophyta and chlorophyta...
That was just less than 1% of what I have to remember if I am really going to study for Bio O because if I really bother to, I might even try to memorise the characteristics and how they sort the little cells out. But I am not going to. I am going to screw up Bio O, really badly.
Yay, its midnight, I am a bit on the high side so I decided to do Moses' quiz and post it on the class blog. Readers beware! Mwhahahahaha!
List out your top 5 birthday presents you wish for: 1) A Car 2) A House 3) A Girl 4) A Lot of Money 5) 5 more options so I can say things like making the world happier, wishing everyone to be in the best of health, etc.
Answer the following questions:
1. The person/people who tagged you is/are? * Tan Yong Qiang Moses
2. Your relationship with him/her is… * My Gay Buddy :P Nah, just kidding, erm... frankly, I dunno what's my relationship with him :/
3. Your 5 impressions of him/her… * Short * Irritable * Depressed * Irritable * Short
4. The most memorable thing he/she had done for you… * Some of my tutorials (or at least lemme copy :P)
5. The most memorable words he/she had said to you… * Life Sucks
6. If he/she becomes your lover, he/she will… * Probably ask for a breakup
7. If he/she becomes your lover, things he/she has to improve on will be… * Become female * Grow taller * Be more optimistic
8. If he/she becomes your enemy, you will… * Ask him to be my friend :)
9. If he/she becomes your enemy, the reason will be… * He got BAAAA for his promos (Oh wait, he did get BAAAA, darn) * I don't want to friend him
10. The most desired thing you want to do for him/her now is… * Hope the class manages to organise a chalet and he doesn't tear a ligament the day before the chalet
11. Your overall impression of him/her is… * A short, irritable, depressed, irritable, short boy
12. How you think people around you feel about you? * They worship me!
13. The character that you love of yourself are… * I am worshipped by many
14. On the contrary, the character that you hate of yourself are… * I am overly worshipped
15. The most ideal person you want to be is… * Getting worshipped in the right amounts
16. For people that care and like you, say something to them… * Thank you for worshipping me! Please remember to vote for me during the next general elections :)
17. Pass this quiz to 10 persons that you wish to know how they feel about you…
Moses (So you can do it again and again and again)
Wei Yang
Wai Han
Samuel
Huang Pei
Si En
Yi Chen
Ada
Shida
Nai Chien
Who is No.6 having relationship with? * Nicole
Is No.9 a male or female? * Not too sure
If No.7 and 10 are together, will it be a good thing? * Yeah Man!
How about No.8 and 5? * They are already together
What is No.2 studying about? * Chinese Chess
When was the last time you had a chat with No.3? * Quite long ago
What kind of music band does No.8 like? * Random Chinese Gay Boybands
Does No.1 have any siblings ? * Erm yes, I think, oh ya, he has
How about No.7 ? * Wait, I don't know this. Do you have a sibling, yichen?
Is No.4 single? * Not one, Not two, around 1.5, I guess...
What is the surname of no.5? * Huang
What is the nickname of no.10? * Handsome
What is the hobby of no.4? * Bombing Africa
Do no.5 and 9 get along well? * Erm, now that's challenging... I guess not
Where is no.2 studying at? * RJC
Talk something casually about no.1? * He is short, irritable and depressed
Have you tried developing feelings for no.8? * Ya, harsh violent feelings that may result in me chopping her into 20 parts and dumping them around Singapore before organising a PW project event to look for her body parts.
By: Gerald | Wednesday, 7 November 2007 at 12:15 am | |
yay! finally holidays! OP is OVER! haha. i think everyone's done except ada's group right? anyway, thought i'd just update everyone for class fund. we still have quite a bit of money left. around 50 dollars i think. so we can just carry that over to next year. =D
hope everyone's enjoying your well-deserved holiday. happy holidays to everyone!
for those who have tons of stuff to do during holidays, don't feel sad. adopt my school of thought - life always rox! haha. yeah. regardless of what happens, just try your best to psycho yourself into thinking that, and you'd realise that things aren't so bad and there are still plenty of fun stuff waiting for you. =D
btw, i am thinking of collaborating with waihan and gerald toh to publish a book(or rather a word document) to raise funds for class fund. title: wise words and their implications - a groundbreaking collection of the wisdom of three men. the document will be sold @ just $2. projected publication date: december 2008. taking advanced orders now! if you order now, we can give you a discount of 10%! so, place your orders now! the sheer anticipation for the document's publication will give you something to look forward to in the otherwise potentially bleak jc life. =D
By: shida | Friday, 2 November 2007 at 11:56 am | |
Disclaimer: Continue reading at your own risk. This post is written in the name of good harmless humor with no evil intentions so please read it with an open mind. The author sincerely apologises for any tensions, misery, trauma, bodily cramps, sore throats, fevers, etc caused by reading this post.
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BOO! Yesterday was Halloween and it was totally freaky.
Firstly, there was oral presentation. Everyone was scared initially while Moses was scared throughout the whole presentation, ending off with a knee shaking exercise during the Q&A portion. Beyond that, everyone then proceeded with freaking the examiners out with their outstanding presentation skills while the examiners freaked everyone else by giving everyone insanely high marks :D
Next freaky thing on the list was the outing we had after OP. It was quite fun, except for the number of people who turned up and the people who fall asleep while everyone is singing.
People who fall asleep during karaoke
As usual, Wai Han and I sang super high pitched songs and we ended up sounding like howling thingies, fitting perfectly into the Halloween mood. We sang everything ranging from 张惠妹 to 曹格 to Tata Young, in a bid to end up with a sore throat and sounding sexy. We failed, luckily because I haven't had my OP yet and I don't really want to sound sexy on that day.
The stars of the afternoon weren't us though. It was a bit more unexpected and really freaky. The stars were...
I know I am courting death by doing this but... well it is in the halloween spirit to be dead :P Anyway, these two stars sang duets after duets after duets after duets... you get my point. Below is a short noisy poorly filmed clip of them singing 今天你要嫁给我.
We also sang Mandy by Westlife except that we replaced "Mandy" with "Shida"s and "Ada"s. Below is the chorus of the actual song. Try replacing "mandy" yourself and have fun singing :P
...oh Mandy Well you came and you gave without taking But I sent you away, oh Mandy Well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking And I need you today, oh Mandy...
Before we left, we were presented with another shock - the bill. Stupid fruits cost so much and wet napkins cost 1 dollar per pack?! Stupid partyworld.
Ok, I am sleepy now and I shall stop posting nonsense that are gramatically unsound and poorly organised.
Happy Holidays :)
By: Gerald | Thursday, 1 November 2007 at 10:14 pm | |
