One, Two, Thr3e

Bad jokes prior to NS

2008-12-10T11:55:00.002+08:00

Hey guys. Guess this will be my last time posting here for a very, very , very looooooong time, as I depart across the seas to a greener land.

And since words can barely begin to express the heartfelt joy that I feel at the prospect of my new life, I thought that it would be appropriate to share the overwhelming happiness I have with the class, in the only outlet known to me:

Bad jokes.

1) Why is it that Yifei and Gerald Toh are more likely to vote for barack obama?
Ans: They are colour-blind. (No offense or slight intended)

2) Why is Shih Ee an ace marksman?
Ans: He likes shooting (No points why)

3) Can I think of a joke for Kian Wee?
Ans: I just ki-an.

4) What do you get if you cross an alien with mark?
Ans: A mark-et

5) What do you get if they send the resultant F1 offspring for adoption?
Ans: A free mark-et

6) Why is it that Andy dreads answering questions?
Ans: People keep asking: And-y, ah?

7) Why am I so lame?
Ans: I got an incredibly rare abnormal W chromosome instead of the normal X chromosome, initially

8) Who is the least important member of the class?
Ans: Marese. (Because 'shuying' 输赢并不重要）

9) Who is most likely to look the same in our reunion twenty years later?
Ans: Yichen. Because 一尘不变

10) Why will Moses make a great hairstylist?
Ans: If he can part the red sea, he can part any fringe in the world.

11) Who among us will ahve a great career as a teacher?
Ans: Liting. Liting the future ahead for students.

12) Recruits, there is a minefield ahead. I want you all to be careful. Now, Samuel Chong!
SC: Yes sir! (Runs forward and get blasted)

13) Who should never travel to Papua New Guinea?
Ans: Priscilla. Cannibals will find her too "mei wei" to resist.

14) Who should I not think of when I enter NS?
Ans: Yunyi. 想YY isn't a very good idea in bmt.

15) Whose handphone is always busy?
Ans: Waihan. Every time you call him you get the wong number.

16) Who will make an excellent interogator?
Ans: Shida. He wang/wrung the truth out of the suspect.

17) What company should Yifei and Shalini set up together?
Ans: Sha lini-men-t. Sure make money one.

As some of you are undoubtably sharpening your knifes and axes and pencils and what not to throw at me, remember! I won't be in Singapore when you see this! I will have departed to a place where the grass is greener and so are the uniforms!

Anyway, thanks to everyone for enduring my bad (and not very funny) jokes throughout the 2 years. See you on MSN on christmas! (When I finally return) By then, I am certain I will have thought of more bad jokes involving the remaining people in the class.

Till then, bye bye. Have a happy holiday!

Post- Settlers' Outing

2008-09-24T14:43:00.008+08:00

Heyhey it's been so long since i last blogged here lol. i shall accede to gerald's request to blog bout yesterday's super amazing class outing (sorry ah my vocab is limited...nice, amazing, wonderful..u get the idea)

Anw yesterday was, in my opinion, the best class outing we've had. haha thats imo, i may be biased (just like how systematic sampling can be biased if sampling units follow a periodic or cyclic pattern). 8 of us met at clarke quay mrt at noon and proceeded to waraku jap restaurant for lunch, where yichen exploited the restaurant of 2 pieces of chicken and naichien ate 1 bowl of noodles and 1 bowl of rice with beef all by himself (and subsequently went on to devour the veggies on my tray).

Then we met up with victor, derek, shuting and shih ee. Walked to settlers cafe. Hmmm it wasnt really how I expected it to be. It was cosier..and more homey i guess. Split into 2 groups and played random board games. My group began with this game called "You Must Be An Idiot!" which i guess Moses picked (for obvious reasons). Hmmm it was followed by Cranium, Charades with props, some miner game and a pirate game called "Loot" which is my personal favourite. As cliche as it may sound, I dun think it was the games that mattered, but more of the people whom I had a great time with =) Really...

After settlers ended at 6, a small group of us went to the nearby Fisherman's Wharf for fish and chips. And as the sun was setting, we strolled along the Singapore River. For some inexplicable reason, i really really liked the river. And I suddenly remembered these verses:

Life is like a river which

Flows through many turns,

But even when that river takes us

In different directions,

We will always find each other again -

Just around the next bend;

For our friendship is forever,

And that which runs strong and deep.

Settler's Outing Updates

2008-09-19T16:23:00.015+08:00

Day and Date:
Tuesday 23 September 2008

Time:
12noon if you want to have lunch
1.30pm if you don't want lunch
can join us anytime from 2-6pm though

Venue:
Central Settler's Cafe
Assemble at Clarke Quay MRT

Price:
$6+ (Student's Package from 2-6)

Live Update of Attendance

Confirm Going

Gerald Toh
Moses
Wei Yang
Ada
Darling (aka HP aka peipei)
Lester
Yi Chien
Yunyi
Liting
Nai Chien
Shuting
Derek
Victor

Confirm Not Going

Shida
Gerald Koh
Si En
Marese
Yi Fei
Shalini
Si Xian
Wai Han

Haven't Replied

Amelia
Samuel
Xiao Qing
Shih Ee
Mark
Andy
Priscilla
Kian Wee

Ponderings of the Grandmaster and I

2008-09-19T12:29:00.005+08:00

Some people should get a life-- Moses Tan, supreme commander of god-knows-what and who is, coincidentally, just as tall as the one in North Korea.

I strongly agree with his opinion here, so in my bid to get a life, I shall release two weeks of pent up lame humour to you lucky readers. Keep in note that all references, pointed or not, are in the name of fun so please don't come up to me and poke me with a bloody pencil.

Grandmaster: Don't forget about me...

Wei Yang: What the! Who... Who are you?

Grandmaster: I am...

Wei Yang: Not my father, that's for certain.

Grandmaster: Insolence! I am the master of chess, manga reading and everything else! In fact some call me TEH GRANDMASTER!

Wei Yang: Cool. I want tarik with less sugar, more milk and give it a good pull please.

Grandmaster: Silence you cur! Or do you want me to kick you across the ocean to the UK?

Shida: How about sending me instead? Maybe two weeks from now?

Waihan: Wei Yang, you shouldn't't keep suaning Shida. (Turns to Shida with a copy of Men's health) Nah, Shida, flip to page 17 and see the black guy there.

Shida: (Foames and collaspe)

Grandmaster: Rotten brats! (Takes up an Obama doll and points it at them)

Shida and Waihan: Ah! (They disappear)

Wei Yang: OMG! What happen?

Grandmaster: They were (pause for dramatic effect) polarised.

Wei Yang: Huh? But they were wearing white collars! Not blue!

Grandmaster: Er... (Suddenly Ada pops out, due to a miscalculation by the particle acclerator of CERN)

Ada: Cause Obama got high charge density, idiot.

Grandmaster: What she said.

Wei Yang: ... Coordinate your jokes better please.

Derek: Yah lor. Like how thiosulphate has coordinate bonds.

Wei Yang: Get away from this blog post. Can't you see the title?

Derek: Meanie. I go get my Sextuplet friends to beat you up.

Grandmaster: That's a long word. Who are your friends?

Derek: Oh. They are called Ian. Together they are called six-ian. Anyway, I am going off now. Go to have ice tea imported from England. Tata! (He exits the scne, with Ada following behind)

Wei Yang: Anyway, I was just about to talk about my school life today... (Yichen crawls into the scene)

Yichen: (Gasping) Wei yang... return me... my... balls.

Wei Yang: (Embarassed) Oops, sorry, here are your tennis balls back. (Yichen exits the scene)

Wei Yang: Alright, back to my story. I went to school today. I took a test. Finish.

Grandmaster: That's all? What a life you got.

Wei Yang: Then I decided to go to the library but it was not open, so I went to McDonalds for. breakfast. Oh, and I met Liting, Shalini, Prsicilla, and Yuny.

Grandmaster: OH, and then?

Wei Yang: I then saw Shih Ee and Shuting walking pass MD. They didn't see me. Maybe because it was how I was cunningly camouflauged into the white background, and you know, they weren't.

Grandmaster: Is that all? I was almost expecting the rest of the class to turn up suddenly and perfom a muscial involving song and dance, preferably with lots of snow. Winter is my favourite season, you know.

Wei Yang: Hmm, I prefer soy sauce and pepper.

Grandmaster: (Faints)

Part 1 ends here. Sorry if any felt gravely insulted after reading the post. I promise to bring Kellogg's next time. See you guys on tuesday! (If you want to kill me, at least let it be in risk, ok?)

P.S. Can you spot how many people from the class did I mention or suan? (Subtle references count too)

Post Prelim Celebrations!

2008-09-17T21:09:00.005+08:00

*Apologies for the poor humour induced by the slight flu and a sugar rush last night*

In light of the Raffles Junior College Preliminary Examinations, POST (the breakfast cereal brand) has happily decided to come up with a series of events to celebrate these two weeks of fun filled regurgitation of knowledge!

*ooh that was pretty lame =]*

Randomness aside, its time for the real thing now!

More than a month ago, we had our third class outing of all time at Ada's house and after that, Moses posted a blog post (look below) about a post prelim outing to which there were no replies. Zilch. Zero. Kosong. Don't want sugar, don't want egg.

Hee hee. Anyway, now that prelims are actually going to be over, its more likely that we make an irrational choice of going out to play therefore I have the following proposal for everyone:

3E Class Outing Number 4.

Date:

23rd September 2008

Day:

Tuesday

Time:

12noon for those who want to lunch
1.30pm for those who dont want to lunch

Place:

Settler's Central

Assembly Area:

Clarke Quay MRT

Activity:

Boardgames that involve screaming, shouting, random accusations, guessing, basic knowledge of organic chemistry

Cost:

$6+ for 2-6pm

See, everything's planned out already so everyone should hurry and
tag yes, you want to go

Even if you don't want to go, tag no ok?

*The above details are subjected to change to fit everyone's tastes and preferences. (No jokes about econs please. Thank you.)

If you want to go out on friday instead, you might consider the following:

hey wanna go bishan gym on fri after chem? Since the shops arent open yet. And all that studying has made me fatter. - Ada

BBQ at Ada's House

2008-08-09T00:41:00.005+08:00

Hey everyone. Wasn't today fun?

For memories sake I shall do a short summary here. Feel free to add on stuff!

In total, a whopping 22 people turned up for today's outing!

Some of us met first at Dover MRT at 1pm to buy stuff from NTUC, then we proceeded to Ada's house. Before the BBQ commenced at about 6, some of us played tennis, card games like bridge, and this board game (It has a name that has something to do with a magazine) that was really funny. It was unfortunate that the security guard couldn't find a table tennis ball so we couldn't play table tennis. Quite a few people were looking forward to it actually.

The BBQ commenced at 5-ish 6, where we went through a hard time trying to get the fire started. Poisonous and irritating fumes spewed forth from the monster that we created, but we managed to tame it enough to receive cooked satay, chicken wings, sausages and more food from its jaws! Thanks to all those who put in effort BBQ-ing the food and starting the fire.

We kind of divided into 2 groups of people - the ones BBQing food and the ones who were doing something else because too many cooks would have spoilt the broth, quite literally. Once again, thanks to those who BBQed the food while the rest of us only ate. We played funny random games such as concentration and a weird game with weird sounds that I can't put in words. Ooong ji ji wu ji?! Never mind.

After that we moved to near the jacuzzi, where the light was too dim, to the table-tennis table area where we played Taboo to our heart's content! It was so funny to hear what people associate with some words. Such as "what we do after PW" with "celebrations". It wasn't too funny to hear "what does Moses always say" with "nonsense" though. HMM.

Anyway, people started leaving halfway, and the end the final people left were Ada, Liting, Yunyi, Shalini, Shuting, Shih Ee, Victor and myself. We went to clear up and realised that shovelling charcoal into a plastic bag and a styrofoam box wasn't exactly the smartest idea because the charcoal burnt a hole through both of them. Here's hoping that we cleaned up the mess enough with our improvisation.

Ada's parents were kind enough to drive us to the MRT station and we went home.

This summarised today, but words can't express the feelings of warmth and happiness that we felt!

Okay anyway I'm here to propose another idea, since today was so enjoyable.

How does a post-prelim party sound to everyone? This time we won't have a BBQ, we can have like a buffet or something (everyone pays around $10?) at someone's function room. This time there'll be no need for people to cook the food. We can just take our food and sit around, there'll be so much more time for interaction and fun games. We can have it on the 23rd Sept (1st marking day) because some people have H3 examinations on the 22nd (Monday). Yes it may be relatively close to A levels (actually a little more than 1 month away from that date), but everybody needs a few days of rest after the rigours of prelims, so why don't we reserve 23rd September as a day with 08S03E? Hmm those who think that this is a good idea please tag! Then from there we can confirm more stuff like the venue, caterer and stuff like that.

Oh and we should have a post-prom party. So just think about it and those with good ideas just tag too. Hotel room (s)? Chalet?

Oh and one last thing. Those who took photos today pleaseplease put it on our class egroup or Facebook for everyone! Thanks a lot!

Thanks for making today so enjoyable. See all of you again on Tuesday, and meanwhile enjoy this long weekend. (Oh and pleaseplease remember to tag, the last time I said that there was a pathetic response.)

Back to watching the delayed telecast of the Olympics.

Class Outing?

2008-07-17T19:33:00.008+08:00

We have a long weekend (Thu to Sun) from 7 - 10 Aug 2008! And that makes one of those days a perfect time for...

A CLASS OUTING on 8th August!

Please reserve that date NOW! It's 3 weeks before that day, you can't possibly have scheduled anything this early and 08S03E is booking YOU for a CLASS OUTING (Project Bonding). Come down and support your class! There will be buses outside the general office which will leave at...

I think Council will be proud of me.

But seriously. Yes we're having a class outing. And everyone has to turn up (because if everyone turns up I can beg Shida to let me use money from our class fund so that I do not need to collect $ individually) . Please reply "SURE!" on the tagboard with your name and IC if you're going to support our class in its 3rd outing in 2 longlong years, which somehow hurtled past us in a flash if you look back now.

Give more ideas on what you want to do for this outing, because this outing in NOTHING without the people! *cue shrieks* Oh and please don't suggest stuff like a movie because we'll end up sitting down and eating popcorn and NOT interacting with each other which totally isn't the point of the outing.

Okay if you all don't mind (and if I don't get suggestions), this is what we're going to do on the 8th of August.

10 am - 1 pm
Buy BBQ food and eat lunch

1 pm - 5 pm
Go to Ada's house and play random games (e.g. tennis, table-tennis, swimming, board games, card games)

5 pm - (depends on how long you want to stay)
Start BBQ, BBQ, and eat BBQed food

And at all times, we're supposed to mingle with everybody, have lots of fun, and most importantly, at all times, PRAY FOR NO RAIN.

08S03E!

Do we want to remember the 2 years of our JC life as mindless mugging? Or do we want to remember it for the happy memories? It's such a waste that we went through JC1 basically having only 2 outings - 1 at Liting's house and the other our 2D1N class chalet.

We've been in the same class for about 1.5 years now and we're about 3/4 through our JC life - what many survivors call the worst years of your schooling life due to the sheer competitiveness and the need to study... and study... and study... you get the point. So many have said that it's almost impossible to make true friends in JC because time hurtles past you so quickly; will we still remember 08S03E 10 years down the road?

Please indicate your assent on the class tagboard NOW and think of what you can do to contribute to the outing in general like bringing more food and games or outingish stuff.

See you on the 8th of August.
This is OUR LAST STAND.

CT2 WHOO! (It rhymes)

2008-06-22T00:11:00.003+08:00

Since the last post was posted during CT1, I thought I would post something right before CT2. Here's a few exam-related jokes to cheer everybody up (I hope) right before D-day.

Dumb Blonde
The blonde reported for her University final examination which consists of "yes/no" type questions.

She takes her seat in the examination hall, stares at the question paper for five minutes, and then in a fit of inspiration takes her purse out, removes a coin and starts tossing the coin and marking the answer sheet - Yes for Heads and No for Tails. Within a half an hour, she is all done whereas the rest of the class is sweating it out.

During the last few minutes, she is seen desperately throwing the coin, swearing and sweating.

The moderator, alarmed, approaches her and asks what is going on...

She replied, "I finished the exam in half and hour. But, I am rechecking my answers!!"

Thank God we don't take KI
An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one question final exam after a semester dealing with a broad array of topics.

The class was already seated and ready to go when the professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk and wrote on the board: "Using everything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair does not exist."

Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour attempting to refute the existence of the chair. One member of the class however, was up and finished in less than a minute.

Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest of the group wondered how he could have gotten an "A" when he had barely written anything at all. His answer consisted of two words: "What chair?"

We don't have the guts to do this
It was the final examination for an introductory English course at the local university. The examination was two hours long, and exam booklets were provided. The professor was very strict and told the class that any exam that was not on his desk in exactly two hours would not be accepted and the student would fail. A half hour into the exam, a student came rushing in and asked the professor for an exam booklet.

"You're not going to have time to finish this," the professor stated sarcastically as he handed the student a booklet.

"Yes I will," replied the student. He then took a seat and began writing. After two hours, the professor called for the exams, and the students filed up and handed them in. All except the late student, who continued writing. A half hour later, the last student came up to the professor who was sitting at his desk preparing for his next class. He attempted to put his exam on the stack of exam booklets already there.

"No you don't, I'm not going to accept that. It's late." The student looked incredulous and angry.

"Do you know WHO I am?"
"No, as a matter of fact I don't," replied the professor.
"DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" the student asked again.
"No, and I don't care." replied the professor with an air of superiority.

"Good," replied the student, who quickly lifted the stack of completed exams, stuffed his in the middle, and walked out of the room.

Okay I'm not exactly a very positive person, but let's be optimistic and look forward to Thursday instead of dreading Monday. Good luck everyone, let's just do our best.

common test 1

2008-03-16T22:04:00.001+08:00

good luck to everyone for the common test. hope we all do well. =)

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!! =)

2008-02-07T09:12:00.000+08:00

hope everyone gets a bumper crop of ang pows. =D

Adventure of 3E--part 2

2008-02-03T10:31:00.000+08:00

Hi.

I am sure many of you have been weeping over the prolonged delays for the ever popular series [Adventure of 3E]. Alas, the author has to contend with H3, chess training, and various other 'mini sand grains', that he has no time till now to post.

But fret not, fans, because the author is posting now

As our heroes chatted not-so-happily with one another regarding the advent of the h0t springs session, the footsteps of the two figures slowly approached. Silently, the doorknob was turned, and it revealed:

Victor and Yichen.

Art Critic: What an anticlimax! You should have made their introduction better!

Author: Sorry, will get to work on it right now.

As we were saying, our heroes were chatting not-so-happily with one another regarding the advent of the h0t springs session, without hearing the footsteps of the two figures slowly approaching. Silently, the doorknob was turned, and it revealed:

Yichen and Victor. (There. Isn't this much better?)

Yichen and Victor: ... ... (Sorry, most people don't speak much in the morning)

A short tidbit of information regarding Victor. As his name suggests, Victor wins often, simply because his name rhymes with 'victory' and also because his once ihc bridge partner was an imba, amazing and fantastic person, who is none other than me. Of course, loyal readers will notice that another yet to be introduced character, Moses, has a name that rhymes with 'loses' and is hence... (fill in your blanks lah huh)

Anyway, as more of our characters gather within the homeroom, they are soon summoned by the bell for a compulsory song singing session.

Finally, the time of reckoning has arrived. Hot spring time is here. As members of the class work assiduously at their task, budding scientist Uncle Wang, (who once tried to centrifuge my water bottle, as some should know) tried constructing a bomb made of paper. As with some china made products, the bomb self destructed, causing class 3E to blast off--for the first out of many times.

Adventure of 3E--part 1

2008-01-30T18:05:00.000+08:00

In times like this, when Adam Smith is dead, when Mr Loo's pet fighting fish is dead, and most importantly, when our class blog is dead, you know you have to give the kiss of life in order to ensure a revival. (I may do a bad job though, not being trained in first aid and all that)

Now, as you are no doubt thinking right now, can this random loser possibly post to revive the class blog? I shall be blogging in regards to an issue that lies deeply within our hearts: Our ventricles.

Haha. Not.

Instead of blogging about some random part within your heart which I am sure you can always examine in your own free time, I will be blogging about the Adventures of Class 3E-- During the morning.

The scene is set, with Priscilla and Gerald Toh ALONE in the classroom, Gerald Toh pacing around as if awaiting the birth of his child (Ducks Toh's shoes and Priscilla's... What ever do girls throw?)

Anyway, back to the story.

It was hot spring day for 3E, and some were prepared, some were preparing, and some just couldn't be bothered. Now, revel in the tale as our main protagonist steps in:

Wei Yang:... ... (Puts bag down)

GP (i.e. Gerald and Priscilla [OMG, you two are really compatible] ) :... ...

Art Critic: Wow, what a creative scene! Using silence to represent the tension present within the room! And it serves too as a perfect waste of space!

Gerald: Hey, you sitting there ah? Good. Chances are Moses will sit next to me right? Then I don't need to sit next to either Ada or Shida.

Wei Yang: Orh, ok. (Paiseh, man of few words)

Gerald: What difficulties do we anticipate for today's hot sauna?

Wei Yang: (Rattles off a long list of stuff)

Priscilla: (Rattles off an even longer list of stuff)

(For convenience and artistic sake, since the rest of that conversation was quite boring, lets skip that and go to the exciting parts)

While our heroes were chatting 'excitedly' with each other(who else?) in anticipation of the coming sauna, two figures were slowly making their way towards the safe haven that our heroes were talking in. From the distance, one was clearly a human, while the other, well, it was quite dark and he blended in too well with the surroundings, so we can't tell for certain.

Are the figures friend or foe? Are they even human? Want to know more? Call this number : 61234567. Couldn't reach the line? Aiyah, must be the story so popular that too many people call already.

Stay tuned for the continuation of [Adventures of 3E--During the Morning] !

CIP and class chalet

2007-12-15T20:43:00.000+08:00

Hi fellow 08S03E-ers!

This is my first (and probably last go) at writing on the class blog, so yay. I actually suspect the class blog is dead, but whattheheck let's give it a go.

IMH CIP is like, totally dead! Ok so most of us are in holiday mode but you know what? That's all the more reason to spread a little love and joy, peeps! We have permission to help plan the Christmas celebrations for the residents in the IMH CIP. So I'm plugging here for the IMH CIP and asking you lot to help out =D

Yup so please email/SMS me asap thanks! We desperately need ideas for games and gifts for the residents so please do contribute!

***

Class chalet, 13 - 14 th December. For those of you who missed it, due to competition / being overseas / hibernating at home, here's the update.

13th December
1 pm: People deciding where to eat lunch.
1.30 pm: Meet at some random shopping centre at Jurong MRT, where we eat at some obscenely over-priced restaurant. One bowl of Sichuan sweet and sour soup costs $6.90 without service and GST charge.
2 pm: Weiyang arrives on scene, where everyone has squeezed into a 4-person booth. 7 people now occupy the table.
3 pm: Board shuttle bus to Coasta Sands. Everyone insists that it's a long, long distance to walk.
3.30 pm: Yichen, Lester, Victor and Gerald decide to go cycling. Moses, Weiyang, Liting and I play Frisbee on the beach, where the wind amusingly blows the frisbee everywhere but where we're standing.
4.30 pm: Go to pick up food. 7 people turn up to collect 3 boxes. Delivery guy makes wisecrack about how the girls can cheer the guys on.
5.30 pm: People start arriving. Mia, Sixian and Yi Fei start the bbq fire.
6.00 pm: People play cards. Bridge, taitee and mahjong gets underway. Not that it wasn't before. ;) Sausages, chicken wings and satay is burnt into a carcinogenic state.
9 pm: People start going home. Clearup of bbq completed. Liting, Moses, Yunyi and I play Indian poker upstairs. Suspect people downstairs still happily playing Hedbandz.

14th December
1 am: Decide to go for a walk, and the whole lot of us end up going to some convenience store at Downtown East. The guys buy instant noodles, whilst Moses decides to be different and healthy, and buys bread and Milo.
1.30 am: Play Heart attack and Smack jack. Smack Moses on arm by accident. Laugh hysterically. Everyone decides to switch to Jenga. Doze off.
4.00 am: Wake up to play Hedbandz briefly and doze off again. Brain doesn't operate too smoothly and "Adam and ---?" (Eve) becomes "Adam and Steve". End up being pushed back a square.
7 am: Wake up to sound of people talking. Join in. Decide to go to McDonalds' for breakfast.
7.30 am: Find out egg mcmuffin is 280 kcals. Join in the travel monologue kindly provided by Liting.
10 am: Book out.

If I haven't completely bored you lot, I'll make one final plug for IMH CIP. Please help out by providing ideas for games the residents can play!

Can Rotten Reading survive the Relegation battle?

2007-12-11T16:38:00.000+08:00

Screw You.

Royals end Reds' run

2007-12-09T09:56:00.000+08:00

3-1.

haha.

Guess Who's Back?

2007-12-01T17:41:00.000+08:00

Shida has ~~illegally~~ hijacked (can you hijack legally? Of course, but only with my permission) this blog for personal posts, just like how he took over the 2klever class blog, and thus will be fined $20 dollars for this first time offence.

...

I think that people only try to contact me when I am overseas because they know I don't have free incoming and they want me to be murdered by Singtel. (I got 5 calls and replied 50 million smses.) Anyway, I was in KL the last three days practising and performing for ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies and I just returned today, so I am here =)

KL was a fun place because:

Firstly, there are no traffic lights, so you have to cross anywhere but the cool thing is that cars stop to let you cross as if you were sacred cows.

Secondly, the boutiques are incredibly expensive. Giordano sells jackets for 460 ringgets, Espirit sells plain tshirts for 119 ringgets and polo tees cost 229 ringgets at some sportswear place. Best thing is, you can get all these in Singapore for a better price.

Thirdly and most importantly, the whole trip was free and it costed the sponsors quite a bit I think.

...

KL is an expensive place for alcohol. Unlike WH who got his cheap vodka in Philippines, we had to order from 1) Hotel Lounge, 2) Karaoke joint. In the end, I figured out it wasn't worth the money, not at all.

100ml of rum was finished in 1 mouthful and costs SGD11 and had no effect on the drinker. (no, I didn't even recover 10hp or refill my mana)
100ml of tequila costs the same and had the same effect.
There were also cocktails which need not be mentioned at all, since it would require me to repeat the above effects.

Well, now I wonder, how much must a person spend to get drunk?

...

Lastly, most people signed up for the SATS paper today right? Hope everyone did really well and best of luck for the results.

lit?

2007-11-30T17:52:00.000+08:00

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. =)

hihi

2007-11-27T07:25:00.001+08:00

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.

life's tough

2007-11-16T23:40:00.000+08:00

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! =)

Moo-vie Outing!!!

2007-11-12T22:06:00.000+08:00

HELLO ITS ME AGAIN! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D

I am blogging like a girl. THAT is not good.

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.

Fuse

2007-11-12T12:55:00.000+08:00

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.

Quizzes at Midnight

2007-11-07T00:15:00.000+08:00

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.

holidays!

2007-11-02T11:56:00.000+08:00

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

Happy Belated Halloween!

2007-11-01T22:14:00.000+08:00

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.

...

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 :)

a suggestion for monday

2007-10-19T19:14:00.000+08:00

hi people! =D i thought of an ingenious idea for monday! everyone should bring beer / wine / hard liquor to school! lol. cos if you get nice results, you can drink to celebrate! and if you get lousy results(touch tons of wood), you'd at least be too drunk to climb stairs / climb over railings. yeah. finally, if you get average results, you can just drink with the rest and strengthen intra-class bonding. lol.

just joking. good luck to everyone for monday! =D

Cerca Trova

2007-10-17T22:03:00.000+08:00

Cerca Trova
Seek and You Will Find

This is funny. Everyone update their blogs at the same time, about the same thing - Civics Homework. I have two options:

Do the same and retreat into my blog and emo about reflections.
Emo about reflections on the class blog

Apparently, I picked option 2...

Why is reflection such a pain?

"JC life is so much more detached, there's less spirit, less passion, just more empty i guess." - Moses
"Two words can sum up my JC life for the past 9 months. They are “plainness” and “mediocrity”. " - Wai Han
"I suppose I will get back to writing my CV. Ah, how wonderful." - Wei Yang
"Sian, I doubt I know what to write..." - Yunyi

Cerca Trova - seek and you will find...

Why do we resist from looking into ourselves properly?
Why do we stare at the bottomless pit but not look up at the pretty blue sky above us?
Why why why?

If we seek to see the better part of ourself, there is no reason for us to be hurt, to feel lost, to feel left out in the dark, to be kicked when we're down and feel like we've been pushed around. Ok, some people might tell me, there is no sky to look at, there is no light at the end of the tunnel, there's nothing worth writing, nothing worth reflecting, nothing worth remembering. That, i assure you, is not true. I wrote 1 self evaluation and 3 peer evaluation thing in the past 3 hours. I found nice things to write about everyone, including myself, even though this year is not the best I ever had. There is always a light somewhere, just whether you want to see it :) Be happy and read what others have to say about you tomorrow :D :D :D

...

By the way, Sister Garden is really very nice, very very nice...

《逆风》歌词：
演唱:Garden Sister

用独特的关键字眼我搜寻著世界
只想找到一个空间布置我的宣言

梦想已存放许多不在乎被谁偷走
我只有一个感受我真的真的我真的受伤过

黑夜逆风细雨梦想热情和我
痛苦却又甜蜜 Why should I care at all?
At all...

我不管别人的看法却又想被人看见
你总是说出了盲点有时候真是讨厌

信心已存放了许多你不在却不好过
我只有一个感受你真的真的你真的够爱我

黑夜逆风细雨梦想热情和我
痛苦却又甜蜜 Why should I care, Why should I care,
Why should I care at all? At all...

每个选择路口我就挑难的路走
每次你放弃我我突然回头你却还跟著我

黑夜逆风细雨梦想热情和我
痛苦却又甜蜜 Why should I care, Why should I care,
Why should I care at all? At all...

Oh Pee Dry Run

2007-10-12T19:13:00.000+08:00

Today was Oh Pee Dry Run (I assure you that it has nothing to do with the Citi Milkrun marathon thingy or bodily waste). It was quite fun, other than the duration, the number of presentations, the number of repetitions, the weather, the temperature of the room, etc. Ok, now that I mentioned all this, it wasn't that fun after all.

Anyway, Oh Pee Dry Run saw many outstanding speakers doing their best to try to capture the attention of their fellow classmates and as such, I see the need to reward everyone with some very special awards. But like all other famous awards, I shall only name the nominees for each award and it is up to each one of you reading this blog to decide the winner.

To vote, please sms the code number beside each nominee to 91522766. Each sms requires you to pay Gerald $1 on Tuesday. Voters below the age of 16 need to seek parental consent.

...

~~Most Outstanding Speaker~~
~~Nominees:~~

~~Gerald Toh~~
~~Gerald Toh~~
~~Gerald Toh~~
~~The Ego Dude who wrote his own name three times above~~

Most Manly Voice
Nominees:

Samuel Chong
Yeow Kian Wee
Lester Juay

Most Australian Voice
Nominees:

Marese Ong

Most Bouncy Speaker
Nominees:

Andy Neo

Most Passionate Speaker
Nominees:

Wei Shuting
Yeat Nai Chien
Wong Wai Han
(How come everyone of them is in the same group?)

Fastest Speaker
Nominees:

Moses Tan
Hoe Si En
Wang Shi Da

Most Serious Speaker
Nominees:

Lim Wei Yang (Seriously!)
Yeat Nai Chien

Most Amusing Extra Time Presentation
Nominees:

Ada Teo being unable to blow out candle
Wei Yang being some Ang Moh who tells us that humming birds are humming birds because they hum
Feifei, Victor and Kian Wee lip syncing Lester
Shuting, Nai Chien turning around in circles while Moses and Wai Han rap

This event is still open for nominations. Please do not hesitate to nominate yourself for any awards :P

just to break the silence

2007-10-12T17:29:00.000+08:00

yeah. to prevent the class blog from dying prematurely, i shall post something.

yeah. i guess for quite a lot of us, post-promos period is actually tougher than expected. but i am not going to say anything motivational, since everyone knows those things and it'd be terribly redundant. instead, i'd just like to say that... erm.. can't think of anything non-motivational to say. nvm. =P

okok. oh yah. we still have about 100 odd bucks left for class fund, which i doubt will be used up before the end of the year. so we have two choices. 1. keep the money for next year. 2. return the money to everyone and collect afresh next yeah. personally, of course i'd prefer the first choice. but if anyone has violent objections, pls tell me. lol.

ok. wanted to shall a story here but can't remember the story anymore. it's something along the lines of when life hands you a lemon, suck it till its dry so that you can all the vitamin C there is, then move on and hope that it gives you some honey next. ok. i guess that didn't make a lot of sense, but i shall leave it to each reader to decide the meaning for himself / herself.

2007-09-30T08:30:00.000+08:00

NO MORE NO MORE NO MORE YAYYYYYY.
DOES ANYONE HAVE A CRAVING FOR shopping WANNA GO WITH MEMEMEME? WHY IS EVERYONE BUSY WITH OPEN HSE SIGH SIGH (including me hahahahahhaa) BUT DON'T CARE LET'S GO SHOPPING:D WALK FROM FAR EAST TO BUGIS OMGOMGOMG<33333

i sound crazy haha.

mid-point

2007-09-26T09:57:00.000+08:00

since we are only tested on 5 subjects, it's quite hard to set an exact mid-point. so i shall just take it as the morning before bio. hope everyone's done performed relatively up to each person's own standards so far. =)

just 3 more papers left and 2 more subjects to study for! yay! and it will be a long break after that so everyone can go play. lol.

alright. enough random comments. i think studying for bio is getting to me. lol. good luck for the rest of the papers. =)

2007-09-23T19:59:00.001+08:00

)@(*#$(@#&%(*#(*&#$(*@#&@#

!!!!

jiayou for promos:D

Winterbells 2

2007-09-19T00:19:00.001+08:00

Okay I was really bored so I went to play the game. after trying for a while i finally broke gerald's record (and my own previous one) :P

And I realise they can only show up to 10 digits in the "new high score place"! (compare above and below)

ok lameness aside.. good luck everyone for promos! :)

Winterbells

2007-09-18T16:50:00.000+08:00

A Record A Day Keeps the Doctor Away. Go Play!

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm

I am bored
I am boared
I am boored
I am a board
I ate from a bowl
I can't find a bow
I got hit by a bough
I got run over by a boulder
I never got any bolder
I... I... I...
I... I...
I...

(Hey look, its an arrow pointing towards this bracket)

Zero Hour

2007-09-17T19:40:00.000+08:00

In military planning, Zero Hour refers to the time at which a raid, assault or attack is about to begin...

That's where we are right now - a mere 6 days from the battlefront, a mere 144 hours before our preparations are going to be tested, a mere 8640 minutes before we find out whether our training can stand up to the challenges ahead. Before you can count to 518400 (that's the number of seconds in 6 days), promos will be firing rounds of ammunition through your body and your bullet proof vest will be tested. Hehe =D =D

(ok that tone was totally different from the start of the passage but please ignore it so we can be serious for a while)

This post was actually motivated by a re-run of "Zero Hour - The Last Hour of Flight 11" aired on Discovery Channel this afternoon. The documentary was not the most realistic or touching re-enactment of events before the plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, but it was the stories of individuals, of heroes, who did everything they could while they were alive that reminded me how weak we were.

Moses (not the prophet) said: "Who has the courage to give up... We take it on the chin of course, what other choices do we have..." It is amazing and wonderful that Moses is becoming positive, but yet, at the same time, we ask ourselves: "Is it enough to have the courage to give up? Is it sufficient to just take things in our stride? Do we have the courage to push on? Do we have the strength to make a difference?"

When American Airlines Flight 11 was hijacked, the passengers and flight attendents knew that death was imminent. While all of them took up the courage to accept the truth and remain calm, many of them went far beyond that, stepping up to the occassion, doing their best to treat the injured passengers and warn fellow Americans of the risk through the phone, despite the possibility of being executed by the terrorists. After the collapse of the World Trade Center, Americans did more than just to grief and forget. They learnt from this lesson and swore to prevent another tragedy from happening ever again.

As Singaporeans, we will probably never ever experience anything like this, but does it take a stare into death's face before we finally decide to pick up the courage to push on? Why would we want to learn to accept failure when we can prevent failure? After typing all this chunk of text, there are still 6 days before promos so why not give yourself a little prod. If you eventually fail, then you can learn to accept it, but more likely than not, you will never need to find guts to give up because you will succeed and achieve your goals.

Jiayous for Promos! =D

Now that I think of it, our class is so motivated to study, so I guess the post was more or less for myself and myself to read only. Anyway, if you think the post was not nice at all, it could be worse. I was watching 2 documentaries on 2 different channels at the same time - "Zero Hour - The Last Hour of Flight 11" on Discovery Channel and "UFO Files - The Gray's Agenda" on History Channel. As such, I could possibly be writing about aliens coming down to Earth and kidnapping us for scientific experiments, which will not be useful in any way.

Finally, to end off, I just want to tell everyone I played a round of winterbells for 8 minutes and I got a score of 140 million =D Do try it if you are bored and don't feel like mugging!

ourHeritage

2007-08-31T14:14:00.000+08:00

Just some trivia before I begin:

The Cheetah is the wrongly regarded fastest land mammal, just because it can travel at a top speed of 70mph.
The fastest mammal is actually a Moses rushing off to teacher's day celebration at Dunman High. Moses travels so fast (faster than the speed of light) such that he goes back in time to be punctual for the start of Dunman's teacher's day celebration.

The Sloth is regarded by many as the slowest mammal, travelling at a mere 0.15 mph. This is also a common misunderstanding.
The slowest land mammal is an Ada Teo. This is especially evident after Wei Yang tells her a lame joke because she will take an eternity to get the joke before co-ordinating her jaw, throat, head, etc to produce a laugh.

Ok, now I shall begin. Despite the tremendous speeds I mentioned earlier on, it is undeniable that Time is the second fastest thing in the universe (travelling at 1 second per second). The fastest thing in the universe, just in case you don't know, is bad news. Nothing travels faster than bad news (Adams, D., Mostly Harmless).

Time travels quite quickly, and now its already the end of august. We are only 23 days away from Promos and it will hit you hard in the face, knock you out, bring you into a coma before you know it. Because of that, I have decided to stop blogging in the past week so I can concentrate and keep a lookout for Promos and duck when it comes round the corner so I won't get hit.

Here's what made me start to blog again:

We just received our class photo and I can use myHeritage on it ;D

Ok so I tried to use the whole friggin photo on myHeritage and it didn't work, at least not for me. Couldn't find a single face on it. Stupid myHeritage, that means I have to make another collage again.

I tried to be creative and I came up with:

WOW! It says 3E if no one notices. I know its really ugly but who cares, as long as the stupid program can recognise faces I dont care where the faces are.

Anyway, the results are at:
Here
for those who are too lazy to download the photo and run the myHeritage thing yourself.

Now is the time for revenge lol (Sam returns as Hugo Chevez)

But this stupid thing cannot recognise Waihan and Lester and Shuting on this photo. Eeyer, so I made another collage using the same pictures (which was quite a stupid thing to do):

Apparently it worked a bit, Waihan and Lester and now recognisable but Shuting is still not recognisable. The similarity thing is also different for each person now so you guys can have fun seeing whos who.

Link here:
Here

The links should die in a few hours so just download the photos and go to myHeritage to check out who you look like.

Early...

2007-08-31T13:28:00.002+08:00

Teacher's Dae Celebrations!

We wish you a merry teacher's day.
We wish you a merry teacher's day.
We wish you a merry teacher's day and happy promos.
(Go! Go! RJ Teachers!)

A Big

Thank You

to Mr. Eric Hui for all the efforts he put into this class, for without him we would not have been so bonded, so strong in economics, so aware of the impacts of global warming.

to (Oops I forgot the other time) our favourite Ms Sharon Chan for being, I would believe, the most tolerant teacher on earth. Thank you for being so patient and nice to us, despite the fact that we always try to joke around and mess up your lessons. The stories about your son and daugther, Pictionary, Taboo, and the dictionary-cum-hangman game machine that you bring into class really livens it up a lot a lot a lot.

to Ms. Nicole Liaw for discreetly guiding us along towards achieving greater heights in biology. You have imparted a wealth of knowledge to us even though they are outside syllabus. Not only that, we have learnt the lifeskills of being exam smart too :P

to Mr. Jimmy McTay for making chemistry lesson so happy for all of us. You are able to make even the stonest people in class laugh out loud under the tense atmosphere during practical sessions. Wearing safety goggles is cool? Which other teacher would have thought of that?

to Mr. Chan for being very approachable and nice, making the usual boring math tutorials a joy to attend.

to Ms. Poh for reading all our PW reports at least 4 times and guiding us towards creating a better report. Your effort is greatly appreciated by all of us and we are very happy to have you as our PW teacher.

to Ms. Jeanne Tan for her wonderful pedagogy, making chemistry a fun subject for all to enjoy. Your resignation is a great loss for the Singapore Education system but with the government pushing for privatisation, being a private tutor is definitely a way you can help educate the youths of the nation.

to Mr. Ariff Chan for his dedication towards the class, helping us in every possible way. You will definitely be a great help for the J2s, given your experience and teaching skills, to bring them to glory in the new 'A' levels.

A Short Interview with Moses

2007-08-19T15:53:00.000+08:00

Yesterday at IMH, I had the rare opportunity to get close to our class's hottest celebrity Moses Tan Yong Qiang to ask him a few questions about his love life. Here's how it goes:

Gerald: Sooo... Who's your first crush?
Moses: Why should I tell you?
Gerald: Come on, tell me who your first crush was?
Moses: Why should I tell you? Not that you will know her anyway...
Gerald: Erm, maybe because I won't know her so it doesn't matter if you tell me or not
Moses: Go Away!

Ada: Why don't you ask Gerald who his first crush is?
Moses: Why would I want to know?
Gerald: Ya, why would he want to know? How about asking about your first crush?
Moses: Maybe her first crush is you...
Gerald: If she crushed me, I would be in the hospital with broken bones and stuff.
Moses: Wahlao that's damn mean

After a while...

Gerald: Sooo... Who's your first love?
Moses: Why should I tell you?
Gerald: Why not?
Moses: Because you won't know her anyway...
Gerald: So I wouldn't know either your first crush or love... Do you think I will find anything in your blog's archive? Maybe that's why you chose to hide it from everyone.
Moses: No way, my blog only started in sec 2

*Silence*

Gerald: Does that mean you had your first love when you were younger than sec 2
Ada: Ya, maybe its in primary 2
Moses: Oh ya, did you know Sharon Chan has a daugther who's 11 months old?

*More Silence*

Moses: Her son always pinches her daugther.
Gerald: Erm how did we come to talk about her daugther?
Moses: Dunno, lets think.
Moses: Orh, we were talking about my first love being in primary 2 and I thought about her son and then her daugther.

*More Silence*

The interview ended there because I forgot what happened after that... But this short interview comes to show Moses is a very popular boy who started dating in nursery but he has weird trains of thoughts that connect randomly and his vocab is quite limited ("Why should I tell you" is a standard reply to most questions).

a promise

2007-08-16T18:41:00.000+08:00

well. since i said i will blog, i shall. yeah. as everyone knows, i am not too bright. so i shall just offer my 2 cents worth here and hopefully 'throw brick attract jade'.

alright. firstly, i think our class has been great this year. i mean, together, we went through all the tutorials and lectures and things are going on pretty well. we definitely had a lot of great teachers at the start of the year but right now their replacements are definitely not bad either. so looks like we are all doing ok and getting along well.

secondly, i would think that sometimes, when something is on auction or is something that's like limited edition, we should buy it, even if it means at a higher price / allowing the producer to practise price discrimination such that there's no consumer surplus but only producer surplus. (for details, pls refer to econs lecture notes on market structure) yeah. it's like i wanted to buy super nice mechanical clock. but then at that time i was like 'aiya too ex. maybe next time.' then now when i check again, gg, the model is no longer in production. lol. so it's like lost. bleahz.

thirdly, i shall describe the class outing we had on national day week. the one on last friday. the following people participated: weiyang, gerald toh, waihan, moses, samuel, liting and yunyi. of course i was there too, being an extremely active member of the class. =P yeah. so we ate our lunch and sang some songs and played a bit of pool and went home. i am being very brief here since words simply cannot describe how fun the outing was. yupyup. sooooooooooooooo, if you want it for yourself, come for the next class outing! =)

alright. i have done a pretty long post so i think i shall stop here before you all get so bored that you want to suan me for entertainment. yeah.

p.s. one last thing. for those people who have yet to pay class funds. pls pls pls pay by tmr then i can settle all the accounts by the weekend and update the class e-group's accounts. thanks lots. =D

Class Outing

2007-08-08T11:17:00.000+08:00

08S03E will be having her National Day Celebrations on the 10th of August 2007. All are welcomed.

Details as follows:

Venue:
Teo Heng Karaoke Music Centre, Katong Shopping Centre

Time:
12 noon - Lunch, 1pm to 4pm - Karaoke, 4pm onwards - Free and Easy (LAN, pool, chicken rice, go for tuition, get a maid)

Transport:
Buses - 10, 12, 14, 32, 40
MRT - Take 12 or 32 from Kallang MRT or Take 40 from Aljunied MRT

Meet at Katong Shopping Centre at 12 noon for lunch. If you can't make it, then just crash anytime.

Post It Like Ada

2007-08-08T10:35:00.000+08:00

This post is just an attempt to imitate Ada's blog writing techniques and predict the content of her next post. Any similarities to the actual next post is purely coincidental and unintended.

Title: National Day Celebrations and Concluding of IHCs

Hey,

Its the National Day holidays and we had National Day celebrations in school yesterday. There were loads of fun events and I really don't know where to being with. But never mind, I will walk you through the WHOLE of yesterday.

I came to school and went for assembly. While singing the national day anthem, a sense of pride swelled up within me. Being just 2 days away from National Day and 9 hours away from National Day celebrations, I can really feel the Singaporean inside me awaking and roaring with enthusiasm about the upcoming celebrations. Unfortunately, I was soaked in emotions and thoughts and didn't actually sing the anthem or recite the pledge. What a pity it was.

Anw, I went for PW after that... [removed for the well-being of the readers] ... before we were finally released for lunch.

Had lunch with mark, gerald and weiyang yesterday. How often was it that our class is able to come up with a consensus to where to eat lunch in less than a minute...

After lunch, we went to look for partyworld. The place was so far away and I walked for so long that I must have torn a ligament . Well, what happened there taught me a bit about life - that life is full of surprises. We were just standing in front of the counter at partyworld when a man popped up from behind it. We were all surprised!

We went back to school for celebrations after that. The record breaking booths were all so exciting! I wanted to do this, I wanted to play that but in the end, I didn't do anything at all. Before long, it was 6.30pm and our class went to the track to gather for national day celebrations after we took our share of the unlimited food.

National Day Celebrations was a great success! There were songs and dances, Mr and Mrs Singapores, teachers and students. I really appreciated what the national day committee has done for us. Thank you 27th! At the end of the event was the most anticipated part of yesterday - IHC RESULTS! After a year of hard work, of blood and tears, BW has emerged victorious! Great Job BW!

Really happy about yesterday's celebrations. Wish me luck for piano exams today.

7 Miracles of 08S03E

2007-08-02T19:58:00.000+08:00

Hi, thought I will blog here since chem spa is over...

Since I am bored, I decide to use this blog as an avenue for lameness. Here are the 7 miracles of 08S03E, in no particular order of "miracleness".

1. SD getting a comment on his progress report saying that "he is well-liked by his classmates". Lol, must have been an opinion poll done by one person only. Kudos for guessing who.

2. GT managing to swallow his water down his windpipe, vomit it out, and drink it back in the normal way (that is, as normal as he can go). Impressive control of your windpipe, Gerald. You might consider playing the pipe organ in future.

3. WY's (That's me) water bottle contains certain sediments which fascinate two budding young scientists, Uncle Wang and SC so much that they have taken to shaking it (under guise of centrifuging it), predicting its nutritional values, and guessing when I will die from drinking. Fortunately, I am far from dead, though I am a bit crippled in one foot.

4. YQ, despite his pessimistic outlook to life, looks forward to mondays, wednesdays and fridays, because "got prawn mee". Almost as if prawn mee is some kind of holy grail for this guy.

5. Lullabies are out of fashion. A SRP research done by the eminent scientist GT shows that National day songs are fantastic for causing sleep. Forget about warm milk or sleeping pills man, N day songs are the fad.

6. SD is actually a death eater sent by You-Know-Who. Constantly stunts YQ with incantations disguised as phrases like "I love RECAS" and "I can come for RECAS today". Be wary, people.

7. SE invented a new maths formula today during maths test today and promises that the formula will have an enormous impact on the world. Great job, SE. I predict that the formula will make a revolutionary breakthrough in the making of artificial crutches for lame people like me. Can't thank you enough.

Apologies to any one offended by the above post. All characters mentioned are fictional.

Really fictional.

Completely fictional.

Not.

10th August 2007

2007-08-01T21:50:00.000+08:00

Class Outing. 不见不散.

Friends Forever?

2007-07-30T14:51:00.000+08:00

It's time for an emo post, seeing how our teachers are all leaving us one by one. Ok, that was just an excuse, I was just being unhappy about staying at home today to do AP-GP tutorial when its a school holiday.

***
And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives
Where we're gonna be when we turn 25
I keep thinking times will never change
Keep on thinking things will always be the same
***

Times will change, that's for sure, seeing how time has already devoured four years of RI life and seven months of RJ life. But how come things are still the same for us, or perhaps even worse than before. Will we forget about each other after 'A' Levels? Will we be strangers when we see each other on the streets eight years later? Sorry, but I think we will...

***
But when we leave this year we won't be coming back
No more hanging out cause we're on a different track
And if you got something that you need to say
You better say it right now cause you don't have another day
***

When we leave school next year, does anyone think we will try to meet up ten, twenty years from now? Frankly, I wouldn't know what to say during the gathering if there was one and by then anything will be too late anyway. So if any of you have anything to say, to confess to other classmates, I think this year is your last chance as next year would be a busier year.

***
So if we get the big jobs
And we make the big money
When we look back now
Will our jokes still be funny?
***

Let's say thirty years down the road, when Moses becomes PM, Shi Da becomes chair of Temasek (and they get married), Ada becomes some random doctor and Samuel is in charge of defence, will they still be able to seat down together and play bridge? Will Ada still lose a hand of seven no trump and will Shi Da continue to bid no trump and call Ada for a partner? Or will they refer to this blogpost and sue me for something random?

***
Will the past be a shadow that will follow us 'round?
Will these memories fade when I leave this town
***

Weirdly enough, the past six months seem to be a void in my memory.

What happened the first time our class met up?
Oh I wasn't there lol

What did we do during our first break together?
The class was kinda split, we couldn't find 1/4 of the class or something and when we eventually did, we sat down in the MR lodge to play 2 rounds of polarbear. What followed? We dispersed to our OGs and did our own stuff right?

Class Gathering?
Hmm I wasn't there again, oh gosh. I missed out on so many things... Can we have another gathering to make up for the one I didn't go? *tries to remain hopeful*

Oh darn, can't remember anything else...

***
I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
***

I understand we are not kids anymore, we can't just wish to play and have fun all day long. To this highly capable class of 3E, here's wishing everyone all the best in promos, A levels and any future endeavour.

2007-07-04T18:57:00.000+08:00

hihi. the blog is like dying so i decided to post something. most importantly, the following people pls do rmb to bring money for class fund: amelia, shih ee, samuel, victor, myself (=P), waihan, and ada teo pls send a cheque over. thanks lots. lolz.

anyway, congrats to all the people who have done well for the CTs so far. for those who didn't do so well, for one reason or another, don't feel discouraged. most likely it just means you didn't practise / mug enough. hopefully we will all get nice marks for bio tmr. econs will be given out like sometime next week. talking about saving the 'best' for the last huh. lolz.

alright, hope everyone has a happy post CT week.

Surveys

2007-06-18T09:27:00.000+08:00

PW Surveys! PW Surveys!

Aww, it seems that everyone has been caught up in a PW survey frenzy, where everyone wants to do each other's surveys, how sweet.

Anyway, here are the compiled links so the blog doesn't look too shabby, I hope, with links sticking outside the column and multiple posts on the same things:

Marese, Samuel, Shih Ee, Xiao Qing, Wei Yang's PW Survey:
Click Here

Mia, Lester, Victor, Yifei and Kianwee's PW Survey:
Click Here

Message from Victor:
Another survey to do! :D Thanks and happy mugging! :)

Ada, Gerald, Sixian, Si En, Andy's PW Survey:
Click Here

Ada's Friend's Solar Energy Survey (I wonder what's with solar power than makes it adults only hmm...):
Don't Click Here (For Parents Only)
Nor Here (Parents Only Too)

Other groups who want to publicise their surveys can just create a new post then I will shift the link here.

Happy Holidaying (Miserable Mugging) [amazing alliteration]

Trivial 101

2007-06-09T19:40:00.001+08:00

Hello, the class blog is

DYING...

So I thought I would just post some random trivial about our class to liven it up.

3E is a very very capable class but it seems that every man (and woman) has their own weaknesses. I so happen to find out about these little things in the past two weeks. They are:

Ada CANNOT tell where is left and right
Moses CANNOT tie balloons or turn up for CIP next saturday
Wei Yang CANNOT blow or tie balloons
Priscilla CANNOT play checkers or turn up for CIP next saturday
Yunyi CANNOT turn up for CIP next saturday
Gerald (I mean myself) CANNOT keep his mouth shut at the right time
Si En CANNOT be stupid (so he claims)
The rest of the class CANNOT turn up for CIP today

Add on to the list if you want.

Class Outing: Shell Eco Village Challenge

2007-06-02T11:45:00.000+08:00

Heyy, its me again!

Holidays started 1 week ago and 3E decided to go do something meaningful and fun so half the class went for the CCAL camp and turned black while the other half went to the Science Centre and became Estate Managers for secondary school kids and watch over their hut building. Here's a roundup of what happened at the Science Center :)

Day 1:

As they always say, the early bird catches the worm, so 3E turned up super early in the morning to take part in the activity (To our disappointment, only one person caught the worm, that being Priscilla, who saw an earthworm in the pail of gravel and her group was lucky enough to get it in their bag). The rest of us were welcomed by Ada, the student IC (worm?), who acted really really bossy for the next two days.

Ada Acting Bossy

Well, we then sat down and waited for the event to start and while we waited, we saw schools arriving with their recycled materials - bamboo sticks, banana leaves, parts of chairs, trucks. Oh wait! Trucks are not recycled materials, but still, one school arrived with a truck - filled with recycled material. (Guess which school that was?)

Anyway, after all the schools arrived, they balloted for a plot of land to build their hut on. Most of us are satisfied with the schools we got, especially Mia :) After that, we sat there and watched the schools build their huts. We got bored really quickly so we started to aggregate into a lipid bilayer-like structure and talked to each other while ignoring the rest of the world.

Happy people at the start

Bored people 5 minutes after the event started

So the day went on like this and like that and like this and like that till it started raining and the day ended.

Day 2:

The second day was a lot more fun because it was half a day long only and we had plenty of time to roam around the Science Centre.

Science Centre is a really fun place. Really, I mean it. It has many gadgets that people can use to test how man they really are and 3E, being vain did not hesitate to try them out. There was this pedal thing which we can use to see how much work we are doing (time taken to move a load). We took turns to pedal and concluded that the machine was lame.

Ok I was trying to make the point that everyone tried.

After the pedaling thing, we also tried a "test your strength" thingy which requires you to use a hammer to whack something and you see how much you score. (I know my description is bad and my vocab is lacking but bear with me). In order the protect the people who tried it and showed unglam faces, I shall not post photos.

Science center also had this interactive projector where you can actually control projected images by moving your shadow against the item on the screen. We had plenty of fun but after looking at the photos, I also realised that it was just an attempt to trick us into getting into unglam positions.

The device at work

Unglam positions

After the free time was over, it was prize presentation ceremony. Mia was the usher who was to bring the guest of honour or very important people onto the stage so right before the presentation, she practiced to look cute:

Mia acting cute

Later on was the prize ceremony. To our surprise, we actually won a prize.

For that, we were able to take a photo with the usher.

OMG! What's happening!

I got eaten!

Ok that was the end of the 2 days. This blog post is soo long and I feel like a girl posting so many photos ><. Cya people soon!

Ms Tan's Farewell - We'll miss you!

2007-06-02T11:28:00.001+08:00

Reserved.

I know this is a bit late but we are still waiting for photos! Mia Mia Mia!

Seven No Trump

2007-05-25T20:24:00.000+08:00

Four ways to lose a Bridge Game:

Trump your partner when you are at the end of the line and your partner won
Out-trump your partner
Think that the partner has no Ace of Hearts when he called for King of Hearts as his partner
Partner someone (guess who?)

One way to win a Bridge Game:

Partner someone else (lol)

For memories' sake. :)

Blogging during PW

2007-05-21T09:12:00.000+08:00

Hello its my turn to post again :)

Alright! Friday was Blu-tality! We got pretty blue balloons, sexy blue badges, sang emo blue songs, drank cool blue sprite with lotsa food colouring. The whole school was covered in blue as we spilled things on the floor and let balloons fly off and get stuck on the ceiling. Yay, Hooray for MR! MMMMRrrrr!

Ok I won't be that selfish. Friday was also R-Project and Guitar Concert but I didn't attend either. Apparently the guitar concert was good while R-Project was better. Guess which event most of the class went for? They went for the good one, not the better one :P Congrats to Mia and Marese (M&Ms, cool) for their supposedly ok performance at R-Project. Pictures should be coming up, after I find someone who brought a camera.

Saturday was FA Cup Finals. Manchester United vs Chelsea at the new Wembley Stadium. We aren't much of soccer fans but since Friday was Blu-tality, I would say that I would support Chelsea since they are blue too. Moses is a Manchester United (City actually, he cant tell the difference) fan, so he supported Man Utd instead. Guess the result?

The Blue team won 1-0 after extra time. Quite a boring match actually. Haha.

Wednesday is GP Common Test. Happy Common Testing.

Post Number Four

2007-05-17T17:31:00.000+08:00

Ah I originally wanted to be the third to post so I could call it post number Thr-3e but Victor beat me to it, so... Oh well. Anyway what do you type on a class blog? I've never really posted anything on my previous class blogs, or rather blog. Anyway, class lunch today was really fun! Lets have more class lunches in future will we? Sorry for making this post so short but I shall do some research on what people post on class blogs then I will post!

<3E!

Post Number Thr-3e!

2007-05-16T21:08:00.000+08:00

3rd post! yay haha.

I know class adventure camp is like long over liao lah but to make this place more picture-ful I shall spam the photos from the camp! And all the photos are actually found on the yahoogroups > photos if anyone hasn't discovered yet. :)

Join the blog and post so we can have a lively blog! :D
ps. post renamed on derek's suggestion :P

2nd Post!

2007-05-15T21:52:00.000+08:00

Hey,

Why dont i have the honour of putting up the 1st post? Hrmph.

Ok anw, many thanks to gerald toh for creating this class blog =) Hope this will help in livening things up. Okie since now econs test is over, we can all contribute to this blog. Yepps just like gerald said, its already been 5 months since we got to know each other. And had many class lunches during this period. Looking back now, I think this 5 months was a good mix of work and play and u all contributed, each in your own special way. Lols i'm not good with words la, but you get the point. And its weird to blog on a class blog.

Btw, i closed down the mosesfanclub thing liao. Haha THANKS to andy and si en, the creators of the group and gerald who invited everyone. The 9 ppl who already joined, hope u guys are not too disappointed. ...Lols i dunno how this started haha.

I think we should meet up during the June hols. Class outing anyone?

First Post and Moses already has a Fan Club!

2007-05-14T21:59:00.000+08:00

Alright! This is the first post of our class blog and what better things are there to include than our class photo? Class collage at least, made from photos found in the deep ravines of RJC network drives. So sorry to Yi Chen, Wai Han, Marese and Shalini for not having your photos inside but we will soon get that fixed shan’t we? *evil grin*

We are reaching the end of May soon and its kinda hard to believe that we were classmates for 5 months already and, just to sidetrack, Moses has a fan club (I wonder if a Fan club is bigger than an Ace club). Moses's fan club was started by Ada (of all people) today and now consists of 5 members. Cool right? Maybe he will have a shrine to himself by the end of 2 years, at the courtesy of Ada :)