Oh, I haven't touched on Maths yet...hehe. (must constantly tell myself not to be complacent) Look thru tutorials lor...what else? And ya...attempt those promo questions from other JCs... Somehow I dun think doing the TYS questions will help a lot cos the difficulty of the promos will surely surpass that of the A lvls. IMO the purpose of doing TYS is just for motivation and familiarisation...a compliation of different JCs qns will make a better "TYS". Btw I haven't looked thru the lecture notes for all the subjects yet...hehe. Everything is done based on my knowledge by reading reference books (for science) and tutorials (for maths). I will only read thru the notes on the eve of the exam to memorise definitions and stuff.

Ok enough of all these crappy plans for the next two weeks (I'm eagerly waiting to resume my Star Ocean), let's start the entry proper. Have you heard of sth like "Attitude, not aptitude, will bring altitude."? (can't remember the exact statement) Nvm...I just want to say that it's rubbish to a certain extent. Who says aptitude cannot bring altitude? Like the Chinese proverb/idiom qin2 neng2 bu3 zhuo2, it's just a mere consolation for stupid ppl. It's true that attitude plays a part in achieving success, however it cannot stand alone. Aptitude helps to boost one's morale and confidence, and thus determines interest in a particular subject, which in turn generates the required attitude to bring altitude. So it just boils down to whether one has the natural ability to excel in a subject as well as the motivation to do well in it. There was a topic in the forum discussing abt why ppl who do well in exams are those who do not study at home. This is obviously not true...and I believe nobody can totally claim that he/she does not practise self-revision outside school hours and yet obtain good grades.  I'll worship that person if there's really one...  And of course, different ppl has aptitudes for different subjects. This is what I observed abt the link between aptitudes for each subjects: (Note that the converse does not necessary hold, ie. X implies Y doesn't mean Y also implies X...*the first chpt of Analysis....*)

Generally ppl with aptitude in language usually have aptitude in humanities.
Generally ppl with aptitude in maths usually have aptitude in sciences.
Ppl with aptitude in humanities usually have poor aptitude in maths.
Ppl with aptitude in physics usually have aptitude in maths.
Ppl with aptitude in biology usually have aptitude in chemistry.
Ppl with aptitude in chemistry usually have poor aptitude in physics.
Ppl with aptitude in chemistry usually have aptitude in maths.

Personally I'm not a language person so I dun really know what is going on between languages and humanities. All these are just from my observations so they might not be totally true. But feel free to comment on them.

But now, Mooncake Festival to me is just like yesterday and tomorrow, nothing special (partly becos it's not a public holiday) except that I get to eat mooncakes during this period. After I shifted house from Jurong to Bukit Panjang, I see no enjoyment in such activity of lighting candles and burning stuff. Firstly, the playground below my flat is not as bustling as the one at my old estate. And the facilities are constantly being damaged, then repaired, then damaged again, then repaired and damaged again. (Must be due those destructive, delinquent, red-black uniformed Zhenghua Secondary School students...hmph!) The town council must be getting fed up already cos currently the entire site is excavated, blocked off, and nothing seems to be done abt it. It's just full of soil and rocks. Sigh... However this does not stop ppl from playing in the site today, cos just now I see quite a few ppl breaking thru the barrier and lighting candles, playing sparklers, like the previous years. (They even threw the sparklers into the pile of stones...haiz...why can't they just spare the playground's graveyard?) I think it is always the same few ppl who are doing this every year...those very enthu and traditional ppl who die die must play with candles and sparklers during Mooncake Festival....    Secondly, (there was a "firstly" btw if you noticed earlier...) my old neighbour isn't here to play with me anymore...and my new neighbour is a Malay.............

There is a box of mooncake waiting for me at the dining table...I think I'll go and attack it now. Btw I prefer mooncakes with yolks so it will not be too sweet. One or two is enough...four is just too much... Anyway I'm referring to those traditional mooncakes, not those kind with fillings like red bean, yam, kaya, butter, chocolate, ice-cream, bird nest, etc. Gotta continue my revision soon...wasted a lot of time taking afternoon naps liao.

Dunno why I met a lot of them this year, esp in buses. Ranging from those who talk to themselves so loudly... shout at strangers for nothing....doing weird actions...to those who claim that they are mental patients and require financial assistance from me....

Those who talk to themselves so loudly:

A middle-aged man in the bus was talking/yelling at the top of his voice every now and then. That man was sitting down in a still manner and no one would expect him to suddenly boom out words that I no understand. That freaked out everyone in the bus, but they could do nothing, including the bus driver. Not only once, he did that during intervals throughout my whole bus journey.

Shout at strangers for nothing:

It happened at the pedestrian path by the roadside below my flat. A middle-age man was walking and shouting very verrrrrry loudly (to the heavens) in dunnowat language, and was brandishing his umbrella to innocent ppl across the road. That frightened the primary school kids who were going home at that time. Furthermore he pointed his umbrella at those ppl and screamed at them too. His voice can be heard from many blocks away.

Doing weird actions:

In the bus, a middle-age woman with ultra-big spectacles and a triangular hairstyle, was waggling her hands with a pointed index finger (the action when you scold someone) and going "shew shew shew...". She did it with much force and fury as if she's cursing someone (I think she is). A kid sitting behind tried to imitate her actions but was stopped by his grandmother. She kept doing the same action until she alighted from the bus.

Those who claim that they are mental patients and require financial assistance from me:

I was having my meal in MacDonalds when a middle-age Indian man came up to me and said, "I have mental problems. I have no money......... I shall not elaborate this further.

I find such ppl very mentally disturbing and hope that Singapore will ban crazy ppl and eradicate them from the country.

From Passage A:
a) instinctively (line 2) - naturally
b) spontaneous (line 4) - natural

I won't be surprised if anyone really wrote that cos according to my Oxford dictionary it is correct. I really wonder what the GP teachers were thinking when they set the paper...the meanings of these two words are soooo close lor. First time seeing such qns....  Actually I was very tempted to write "natural" for part b) but I thought the GP teachers won't be so stupid to set questions that yield the same answer, so I wrote "active" instead (which is not very correct I think). If the correct ans is indeed what I typed above (which is unlikely cos in the passage "spontaneous" is followed by another "natural") , I think I'm going to sue the GP department for misleading me.  Either the passages has very few chim words or the teachers are just too lazy....cos both words are taken from the 1st paragraph and are merely 1 line apart...-___-

No lesson after that, unlike the poor S7s...hehe. 

Then Chem SPA...accidentally spilled H₂O₂ on Mr Lee's paper...so careless of me... (You shld have seen the look on his face....haha.) Hopefully I dun get marked down for that : P  Aiyah...H₂O₂ only mah...will eventually decompose to form water and oxygen...then it will smell very fresh...hehe. If want to speed up the reaction, then dip the paper into a solution of sodium hydroxide and iron chloride. I'm sure the paper will become very clean after that....  First time reading an inverted burette, and plotting an inverted graph...I strongly suspect that some of the values I read are wrong... But since I can draw a "smooth" curve (more like a forced curve) with my free hand, I guess it doesn't really matter. Didn't pin much hope on Skill B anyway... I'm just not suited for practicals...

I hereby declare that our batch is the most "screwed-up" batch of students under the MOE:  2nd batch taking Social Studies (which I heard is going to be abolished soon), 2nd last batch taking O lvls, last batch taking F Maths (if it disappears by 2006), 1st batch taking SPA, 2nd and last batch taking PW (rumour...), first half of JC life experiencing faculty system, and another half in cluster system. It seems that we are in the middle of all the transition and changes of the education system. Ya... I suddenly got the motivation to study F Maths liao...haha.   

Promos start tmr...GP first...the paper that determines my promotion and eligibility to take S-papers. Yet I'm not a bit concerned...dunno why. Good luck to all for GP tmr!

S33 and S34 will be clustered with odd classes of S6 (S61, 63, 65....). And the worst thing is I dun even know anyone from these classes!!! In the whole of S6 I can only recognise quite a few faces from S60 and S62 (I think they are very prominent....) but both are even classes...-___-  Zhe Han is in S66 right? Haiz... is it a coincidence or what? I looked at the band member list and realised that there are only 3 ppl in the band who is in odd classes of S6. In addition to Eugene in S33 and me, it adds up to 5 band members in Cluster B. Compared to whole S3 fac where there are 4 band members, there isn't much difference... From what I observed, the cluster with most band members would be Cluster D (odd classes of S7) consisting of most ppl from S73 (2), S75 (5), S77 (2) and S79 (2). Btw there are no Arts ppl in the band...majority of band members are S7s.

Ok...enough of my analysis...I better go and study liao...         

GP...haha...last lesson...so happy!! ^_^

Chem lecture was on a new topic - Arenes - lectured by Holy. I think ppl have become bolder towards her liao...make so much noise... Holy tried to control the noise level, but of no avail. Then she gave up and said those who want to listen can listen. Sigh...    Right after that was chem tutorial...conducted in the audi!...haha. Sat on a VIP seat...quite comfortable but the table very small leh...I wonder how those ppl sitting there usually do their work...

No PE cos there was no teachers in the PE staff room...the teachers even slackier than us...

A chem qn to ponder (for those who are interested): Elements of the same group exhibit similar properties. Then why does SiO₂ form macromolecules while CO₂ form simple covalent molecules?  

Walked around with ZH for a while before we settled at the space near the rock-climbing tower to chat. Chatted abt A lvl subjects and its value. Walked around a little more before ZH went to pack up his stall and I went home. Thanks a lot to ZH for making me feel less bored. I shld have met him earlier so ppl won't get to see my pitiful state...haiz. The only thing I can comment abt the programme is "The lightings were great!" Yup, that's all. Dun bother to ask me whether I enjoyed MAF or how I think abt MAF.

Actually I'm rather excited abt this news as I've been supporting the idea of merger ever since MM Lee raised the matter some months ago. I grew up with the TV and watched it transform from SBC, to TCS, then to the current Mediacorp, which received quite a few criticisms regarding the way they manage their programmes as compared to Mediaworks. The most flourishing TV-age is during the TCS era where the best programmes were produced and I really enjoyed watching those shows at that time. But ever since the rise of Mediacorp, quality of TV shows started to deteriorate as a desperate attempt to cut costs, keep ratings by producing cheaply-made shows. I really wish that this merger can bring the TV industry back to the TCS period...

Nothing much happened today except the perpetually boring GP lessons (glad that Dawes is aware that he is boring us to death...) and the time wasted in staying back and waiting for a cancelled chem o session. Stupid lah....dun have training but we weren't informed lor! The teachers dun even bother to make an announcement or sth...make us wait so long in the AVA room in suspense, wondering if the lecturer has met with a car accident and passed away or sth.     

Do not fear, Bishan is here. The ideal place where only peace can achieved amongst the hectic lifestyle of Singapore. Take a jump from the platform located in Bishan MRT and all your worries shall vanish into thin air. The MRT system, opened in 1987, has only realised its hidden potential recently, all thanks to someone who took the plunge and started the ball rolling. Now, Bishan MRT is the chosen station, whose purpose is to relieve stress of all Singaporeans. The unique location of the station - half above ground and half underground - has made its role possible. Though some would prefer other stations which are closer to their school or office, it's ok, as long as the station isn't built underground.

The steps are easy! Sit down and wait until the display screen alerts you of an incoming train. You may want to bring along a pen and paper to note down your final wishes to your family and friends, or whine about people who had once offended you, making sure that you will drop in on them as soon as the ritual ends. Before the train reaches the station, hop onto the tracks and position yourself in such a way that pain will be kept to the minimum. Once the pain stops, you will find yourself floating over the horizon, watching the crowd of onlookers who have gathered at the area where you jumped, transfixed in terror over the grisly mess that you've left behind. In addition, you have the privilege of getting a once-of-a-lifetime opportunity to meet with the renowned Mr Yan Luo Wang!

So what are you waiting for? Come to Bishan MRT station and you won't be disappointed! See you in the news!    

This brings me to something else... why am I so free as compared to others? Why am I involved in so little things? The good thing is I can slack a lot. But the bad thing is I will not get much company during school events like MAF. Everyone is so excited in doing their duties for this event...but I can only feel lonely walking around the school alone, looking at things that will only interest me provided I'm with someone else. What is the fun of going for such events but cannot share the excitement with your friends? I dun really want a repeat of what happened during Homecoming Carnival. I became the wandering ghost, drifting from one place to another seeking solo enjoyment, but ended up disturbing ppl who are busy tending to their own stalls... Another example is National Day Celebrations where I sat alone in the hall, watching the interesting programme but was unable to share my feelings with anyone.

Have you ever watched a movie or a concert all by yourself? Do you why giveaway tickets (won from lucky draws, competitions, quiz, etc...) usually come in pairs?

Sigh...I'll continue to ask some more ppl and if I really can't find anyone to accompany me, it will depend on my mood on sat....

Chem test today was quite ok. It has the weirdest set of qns I've ever seen...asking for name of scientist, name of lab attendant and there were so many typo errors in the paper. Holy haven't return us the previous test yet, which is so many weeks ago already lor...haiz. Did abseiling for PE today...quite fun lah, but I find it very difficult to control the legs and keep my body in L-shape since I'm hanging in mid air. Much easier than rock climbing hehe...gravity does all the work...              

New topic for today: Differential Equations. (reminds me of the chem o kinetics...) Hope it would be easy...

CT session was pure boredom! A speaker from the Ministry was invited to give a talk on governance (SS...). Never heard of her before...seems that she aren't so great after all. From her first sentence I knew that the talk is not going to be any interesting. Listening to her monotonous voice made me fall asleep lor. I think the teachers were also very bored as they started to become restless, walking around to patrol or chatting with students. After the talk...got scolded....as expected...that teacher was actually watching the students from the PA room and he spotted many misbehaviours. Luckily my class is sitting far back at the audi, cannot be seen from the PA room...hehe.    

Was almost late for sch today...and the bench area was super crowded too!...With all those excited J2s who were preparing for their prelims. Good luck to them! The lectures today were rather slack (for me)...teaching things that I have known already. Then Mdm Yeo was absent cos she sprained her leg...and some acted as if they were so concerned liddat. What a hypocrite! Some ppl wanted to pon GP last period...fortunately watching the video tape abt abortion made the lesson slightly more tolerable (but still very boring). I expected the video to be enjoyable that I could pay attention to and watch but it was an utter disappointment. Firstly the video was soooooo old and dated (produced in 1987...my year of birth...hoho...). Observed that many wore those large square-ish specs which made them look very ugly, esp for girls. I used to wore those type of specs also lah....abt 10 years ago...must admit that I really look very nerd and geeky...hehe.   Secondly, the video went a bit off topic...talking abt sex education and stuff...  After that there was another show about a woman who tok tok tok tok in front of the camera and trying to act cool at the same time...-__- It is abt euthanasia I think... Pls lah! If she wants to talk abt this topic, dress up so pretty for what?? Trying to attract all those Chee Goh Pek to believe in her pitiful story issit... what the hell is the programmers thinking when they made this show?? I think the entire thing might just be a fake. It's just some kind of mei3 ren2 ji4 lah.

Met an old band section mate in the bus today...chatted a lot with him...seems that he's having great fun in his present class now...  I've come up with a conclusion: Band is so SIANZZZZ!!!         

Ok, some ppl think that I'm getting very niao already. But dun worry lah...in real person I'm still the same, the niao thing only applies when I'm in the net. Learnt all those niao languages from a message board which I frequent daily (those who know me well shld know which msg board...). Ppl there like to niao a lot so er ru mu ran I also picked up a few techniques lor. It really challenges your language skills cos it takes good vocabulary and logical thinking to put up a good niao. (Vocabulary is for the use of the most appropriate words to describe scenarios or exaggerate facts while logical thinking is to prevent the NO LINK factor) Judging from my English standard, I doubt it would be possible for me to achieve such high proficiency in niaoing like those ppl in the boards. Nvm lah...actually Singlish can also be used to niao but not as effective due to the limited vocabulary which can cause overusage of certain terms. It doesn't work well on those pro-English ppl, and is often not appreciated in debates and arguments cos it is usually seen as a crude (or even barbaric) language used in dire situations when one can no longer provide good supporting statements. I find difficult to niao with Chinese...maybe becos the language is made to be more straightforward than English? The most common one I heard is "ru guo ni bu kai kou mei ren hui shuo ni shi ya ba" (If you dun open your mouth nobody will say you a mute). I find this statement rather disturbing cos it doesn't seem to be directed at talkative ppl, but more targeted at mutes instead...haha.  

Enough of the discussion abt niao...I'd better go and play SO3 as much as possible before the term starts...     

I want to comment on some things I saw in the bus today. A Chinese High boy was sitting on the outer seat when a couple got off the bus, leaving an empty two-seater. Just as another student, who was initially standing up, was walking to the seat, the Chinese High guy immediately switched places and occupied that two-seater. That student had no choice but to take up the seat that the tchs guy once occupied. The worse thing is, the tchs guy placed his butt on the inner seat and used the outer seat to support (and show off) his "sexy" leg. Wah...trying to act beng issit? Or issit becos his piece of leg is just a boneless flesh and needs a soft surface to support it? Or perhaps he is trying to display his beautiful leg so that everyone can ogle at it? Fortunately that didn't last long as someone else requested for the outer seat, so that guy has no choice to draw his leg back... I think that person shld just sit on his leg instead.

On the same bus, a few stops after the leg-incident, a guy got up the bus and immediately found himself a place to seat, without tapping his ezlink on the reader! Wow...this is wonderful...another dua pai person who thinks his grandfather owns the bus or sth. Still dare to walk in such a feng1 guang1 manner somemore... I tot tapping the card shld be already a habit for most ppl liao...esp after years of implementing this ezlink system. And (almost) everyone knows that bus fares have to be paid upon boarding. That means......tsk tsk...so poor thing...must be the first time taking a bus in his life... Maybe I shld forgive him after all, since he has been living under a rock for his whole life and didn't know that there is such thing as paying the fare in public buses. Ya...we shld also teach him to press the bell when he wants to alight, if not he'll just jump off the window, or smash thru the emergency exit. And of course lah...the bus driver is not stupid...he told that guy to pay before he continued driving.

Oh...I can form a combo with these two incidents. Imagine this scenario... I walk into the bus without paying and immediately sit on an empty 2-seater, placing my leg on the outer seat...and shake it (to enhance the effect mah!). See, that's would be so cool dun you think so?         

What a tormenting chem o training today! The first topic on thermo practically killed my day...the next topic on MO was quite interesting...it is like another theory like VSEPR...then periodicity of transition elements...also interesting. Somehow I like periodicity...haha.

Ok, that's for the morning...after that I went to buy Star Ocean 3 (Till the end of time). Wah...the game has 2 disc somemore...it will really really take a long time to finish playing...can last me up till beginning of year-end holidays. Another good news is, I've just finished most of the available tutorials left to complete! Finished Analysis A22 (Mean and Centroid), A23 (Maclaurin...it was really easy...read the lecture examples then can do liao) as well as Roots of Unity tutorial (I find it rather difficult) and Alkanes, DC circuits (nuff said). This is the result of pia-ing non-stop for the past 3 days just after the holidays began. I think it is a rather remarkable feat and I'm very proud of myself...for having such a motivation to do so...heheee. Actually there are also a lot of things that I haven't complete...like Intro to Organic (Nah...not going to do), Fluids (lect haven't finish yet), GP publications (I will either use the papers as clean my backside or file it into the almost-going-to-burst GP file and leave it to rot...I never read them anyway), and last but not least...PW (no comments...).

Going to play SO3 liao...see ya! Buye Buye!  

Ok so this is what happened: I did my last minute work for PW in the morning and ended up setting out for sch late. Worse, my mum and I realised that there was a massive jam in BKE towards PIE (which is exactly where we were heading for) just as we passed the last traffic junction leading to the expressway. There is no chance to U-turn anymore as the road only leads to the congested expressway. However there was another way out...that is to travel in the north direction towards Woodlands. (as you know expressways always have two directions) We took that way and exited at Mandai. (ya...that's even even further from the sch) Then travelled down Woodlands Rd to reach Bukit Panjang again, from where we started from. But....it's the WORST choice ever made...cos the bottom stretch of Woodlands Rd as well as the entire Upper Bukit Timah Rd were terribly congested, up until KAP. (due to the large no. of cars exiting into Upp Bt Timah Rd from BKE) Sadly, I was stuck in the jam for more than 45 min...and when I finally reached sch, it was 8.30 and the first period was already ending. (Luckily I'm not caught cos J2s had study leave for prelims and they were allowed to return to sch at any time...hehe) First 2 periods was GP and I dun want to see Mr Dawes anymore, so I decided to stay at the class bench until the 3rd period. You can say me "pon lesson...bad boy...tsk tsk" or anything...I dun care...I also dun think it's my fault. Firstly, it's the stupid PW subject that dunnowho came up with. Secondly, the irresponsible driver that created the accident in BKE. Thirdly, our wonderful GP teacher who has the speciality in boring students.  

Everything went on quite smoothly after that...except that the PW files that I saved on the disk cannot be opened...all my efforts spent in the morning wasted... Surprisingly Mdm Yeo didn't even know I was absent during assembly (or extremely late). She won't suspect me anyway...cos me so guai...hehe. Btw I got 43/50 for Section A Maths Test...more than expected...see...she so lenient, so fortunate so let her mark our promo papers.... Anyway there was early dismissal from Mr Lee today. But cannot go home...stil have to stay back...haiz. Learnt hybridisation (still very blur abt it), inductive effect and mesomeric effect of organic ions...quite interesting though.

Then on the way home in the bus, I was once again pissed off by an inconsiderate passenger. The person kept making puking sounds like "Orrryyyhh....Yuurekkhh", giving that kind of "I-AM-GOING-TO-VOMIT-ANYTIME-TAKE-COVER!-AVALANCHE!" signal... That's so sick, disgusting, gross and super super disturbing. I could see that the woman sitting in front of that person was extremely annoyed by the noise. That disgusting person was none other than...A Filthy Old Woman! ...Hello? That's a bus, not your mobile lavatory...It's 2004 and not the olden times where ppl just spit/vomit/puke anywhere on the streets and no one gives a damn. I know you once enjoyed vomiting at public places during your younger days when "hygiene" was still non-existent in the vocabulary. Thank you very much for creating such a nostalgic scene for the older generations in the bus. And pls, Singapore is not like India where passengers just anyhow shit and urine in public transport for convenience. If you want to vomit then you can kindly hold it till you reach Chinatown/Kampong Glam/Kampong Chulia or whatever and the night soil can cater to your puking desire. Or you may consider bringing a chamber pot with you next time or even better, do it on your grandchildren's face and see if they'll happily accept the "gift" that you bestowed to them.

Phew...feeling much better now... it indeed feels great after chiding someone!      

I would like to clarify something: I'M NOT AUTISTIC! After so many years of schooling, communication with classmates and friends, I was asked by Kaizhi today if I'm autistic... Plsssss lah...I attended Nursery and Kindergarten before and didn't cry for the whole day ok? I can talk to friends and socialise with them and besides I dun carry my bolster around. What makes you think I'm autistic? Just becos I'm quiet? Oh there are soooo many ppl around as quiet as me, are you suspecting all of them to be suffering from autism? I see someone coughing badly, I think he has tuberculosis...I also see someone with red rashes...he must be suffering from HIV. Yeah...very funny.

Realised that there are more ppl reading my blog than I thought...thanks a lot to those who read but seldom/never leave any comments...as for those who always comment, double the gratitude! Anyway have you heard abt the most popular blog by a Singaporean which attracted abt 20000 (forgot the figure liao) viewers daily? It is the blog of a girl named Wendy Cheng and she was interviewed by Straits Times not long ago (It was published in the Sunday Times) and her blog address has been "publicised" in the newspaper a few times. I've visited her blog before and it was quite interesting lah...esp when she thinks she's very pretty and likes to bash/criticise ugly behaviours of ppl that she encountered in her life. However her style of writing may easily offend ppl, and that's what makes her blog so popular. Most ppl like to read criticisms and complaints right? Anyway for those who usually go online and do nothing but reading other ppl's blogs, here's the address: http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/   Enjoy!

To make my blog more interesting to read, maybe I shld try to criticise more abt the things that I come across which made me very bu shuang. Anyway I've already done a bit of that in the recent entries if anyone notices...  Dun be surprised if you see any harsh words appearing in my web. If you cannot take it, perhaps you may consider jumping onto the MRT tracks and wait for an incoming train. It's the trend nowadays wat! What's more, the whole country will know who you are and you won't die in loneliness. Ppl are seeking new ways to die now...and on seeing that jumping off a building is outdated and overused, they have begun to make use of the MRT as a suicide tool...well done!