it was an eventful day of ups and downs.
But the first team guys still trashed hwa chong in the end!!
by a score of 172 to 105. A remarkable feat, i must say:) All their efforts paid off! and rj brought back the challenge trophy.
Yes!! sweet victory:)
Posted by aquariusblues at 9:09 PM 0 comments
i have been complaining a lot about my life and the things around me recently.
Every little thing seems to irritate me.
Like how irregular buses come -- have you ever noticed that you can wait a whole 20 minutes, and the bus just doesn't come. When it finally comes, you see 2 buses.
And how some people just like blasting the music from their walkmans or mp3 players. I pity their ear drums.
and my mom is sick and tired of me ranting and raving
Posted by aquariusblues at 9:04 PM 0 comments
Fan Wei Qi
如果骄傲没被现实大海冷冷拍下
又怎会懂得要多努力才走得到远方
如果梦想不曾坠落悬崖千钧一发
又怎会晓得执着的人拥有隐形翅牓
把眼泪装在心上,会开出勇敢的花
可以在疲惫的时光闭上眼睛闻到一种芬芳
就像好好睡了一夜直到天亮
又能边走着边哼着歌用轻快的步伐
沮丧时总会明显感到孤独的重量
多渴望懂得的人给些温暖借个肩膀
很高兴一路上我们的默契那么长
穿过风又绕个弯心还连着像往常一样
最初的梦想紧握在手上
最想要去的地方
怎么能在半路就返航
最初的梦想绝对会到达
实现了真的渴望
才能够算到过了天堂
Posted by aquariusblues at 9:06 PM 0 comments
I was just looking at the subjects that I am currently taking, and I realised how science has now become such a major part of my life. How could this be possible, considering the fact that when I was in primary school, my science was really lousy, always bordering 70-80. And science then was supposed to be considered easy. Sigh. I guess my mind was not very coherent then.
Well anyway, I particularly remembered one question from one of the continual assessments. It goes something like this: Mrs. Lim went to buy fishballs. The fishball seller told her that the fishballs were made purely from fish meat, and no flour was added. How does Mrs. Lim test if what he was saying is true?
Haha, it seems like an easy question right? But at that point in time, I was really stumped. I was thinking along the line of tasting the fishball. But unless she is a real connoisseur, how would she be able to taste that 0.1% of flour added? Haha.. The solution is to add iodine.
Sigh... But I guess somehow, somewhere, I got better:) which was a good thing:) I cannot imagine myself mugging some humanities subject for A levels, because I just don't have the flair for it.
Posted by aquariusblues at 9:03 PM 0 comments
Common tests are really drawing near now, and I am starting to hyperventilate. looking back at my june holidays, I realise that I have been slacking through it, indulging in television, and doing anything but studying for cts ( e.g cross stitch) which was a waste of time. But surprisingly I haven't been surfing the net for a while, thanks to my internet connection, which screwed up of all times...
Went to Kbox on Tuesday with Jiaqi, Vic, Peifen and Bernice. Had a good time singing our hearts out for some 4 hours. And thanks to you guys for putting up with my substandard singing -_- heh. But Jiaqi was really impressive, singing music of the night and phantom of the opera. Haha… Probably brought back some fond memories for her:D
Had mediquiz training today. No prizes for guessing how many people turned up for training today. Haha. 2 – me and chin wern. A new record. Everyone mugging for cts... And to make things worse, the room was locked when we got there. Sigh. I really cannot stand it already. I made the booking through the general office, and they don't open the room for us. Then why have the stupid student's booking system in place? We should just go through teachers…
Enough of complaining for now. I guess its time to start mugging. Real hard.
Posted by aquariusblues at 9:00 PM 0 comments
Sunny side up! Was a wonderful experience. But I was really exhausted by the end of the day. Mentally exhausted, I guess.
The kids were really hyper. It was difficult to keep up with them. But they were really fun and adorable:) wanted to pinch their cheeks and ruffle their hair. Haha. Jiaqi called me a pedophile because I kept commenting about how cute the kids were. Nevermind. Lol.
Hmm… the most memorable was the charades. The kids were really "shen" at it. They guessed every single word that the facilitators had. We had to rack our brains to come up with more words, like "Casper". That was really funny. Lol. The facilitator acted like a ghost. Then he gave a silly smile. And the amazing thing was that the kids actually guessed it correctly. Then we decided to give them killer questions like "Draco Malfoy". Haha. They took a while before getting it. But they are good! Credit must also be given to Brian, who gamely agreed to act out the terms like powerpuff girls. He was good at it, and I guess he really had that connection with the kids.
During our lunch break, Jun Xu gave an animated description about the illustrations in his storybook. He was so cute. He was enthusiastically describing the pictures in the book, which were really illustrated to the most intricate detail. He even topped it up with sound effects like "whoosh", "bang", "bong", plus his star laughter:D It was so entertaining to listen as the whole scene was vivdly painted out in front of us. Cool.
It was heartening to see most of the kids open up over the course of the day. And I guess all of them, even the few who were quite unenthusiastic about the whole thing at first, were happy at the end of the day. Yeah! :D
Posted by aquariusblues at 8:52 PM 0 comments
hmm... i tend to 'join' 2 words together if the last and first letters of the 2 consecutive words are the same e.g "so odd" becomes "so dd" haha:D u get the idea.
this is bad. Must be the effects of Newater.
Posted by aquariusblues at 8:49 PM 0 comments
today was unexpectedly a nice day (despite it being a long one)
I had a good laugh listening to how Jiaxin was trying to translate jiaqi's and her own name into hokkien. she would be "chua kah sin" and jiaqi would be "kok kah kee". lol
It just sounds very funny, especially for a girl's name... Haha.. maybe it is just me.
We started to trying to translate other names and had a certain sense of achievement and a real good laugh when we managed to stumble upon a suitable hokkien name for a certain someone, making jiaqi go red in the face...
Posted by aquariusblues at 8:47 PM 0 comments
first of all, if you haven't already realised, the tagboard is down. And I cannot be bothered to download another one for now. bear with it for now:)
hmm. I don't understand anything that is going on during physics s lectures.
Somehow, I feel i should not be there at all.
Sigh.
I don't think my physics is half as good as most of the people there.
And I am not putting in the effort to do the tutorials properly, getting even the most basic of concepts wrong.
Sometimes, I really wonder if I should continue with Mediquiz.
Why I am still investing so much time and effort in it?
And sacrificing a whole lot of other things.
I think I am stupid.
It was a mistake right from the very start to join Medquiz.
Seriously.
I was indecisive as to whether I should drop it or not.
Then came a whole turn of events.
That seemed to seal my fate.
Or did it?
I guess I could have still dropped out.
But I chose not to.
Nonetheless, I am very tempted to do so.
I am torn apart within.
And why must there be unofficial and official match support events?!
And to think that we weren't even informed of such a policy.
Aren't they ALL match support?
Supporting your fellow peers?
me vic peifen and cheryl went down for rugby match support at RI.
And we stayed there long enough to realise that there were no councilor's ard.
we went to ask ard, and it was only then we found out that no match support points will be given for this match.
whatever man
Posted by aquariusblues at 8:42 PM 0 comments
one term has passed.
already.
i don't really know what i have been doing.
Just being pushed with the tide of time.
Mediquiz trainings have started to intensify.
i am lost in lectures, and falling behind my tutorials.
I guess this is because I don't prioritise and plan my time properly - like updating this blog when i haven't started studying for common tests...
SSEF is finally over.
and the results were quite predictable actually...
Went home empty-handed.
Wasn't expecting to win anything in the first place
Since my results were not conclusive.
And there were flaws in the procedure, which I realised only 1 day before the judging.
But it was quite sad that people like Joshua, who came up with the project all by himself did not win anything.
Nonetheless, I guess the experience was a good one.
At least now I know how 'pro' other projects are.
And I met up with classmates from 6H'99 NHPS.
And I got to know people better and made new friends:)
Posted by aquariusblues at 8:41 PM 0 comments
Too many things are just happening.
Simultaneously.
There are so many alternatives.
I have to make choices.
But I don't know how.
Think win-win is what we learn.
But I don't see how.
I hate decision making.
But the first step in living life to the fullest is knowing and deciding what you want.
Do I know what I want?
Will decision making be so tough then?
There are so many things to do.
But there is so little time
Should I give up some of my commitments?
Victoria and jiaqi gave me some invaluable advice. [Thanks:)]
And I think I know the direction I should be headed to now.
Posted by aquariusblues at 8:38 PM 0 comments
was quite nice... except towards the end when we all became quite stoned.
It started off with Lion dance.. which started off well enough. As we were all sitting in front (in anticipation of Jiaqi's performance), we had a very nice view of the lion dance performance. the movements of the lion were very cute... with the shaking of the tail etc. then the performers wanted to jump onto 2 benches... but they missed and... ouch... it must have been painful, especially for the guy in front. But they got onto their feet again, and tried the stunt again.. and succeeded eventually:) Nice!
Sad to say.. because of the 4 permanent bands at the parade square, there wasn't enough time for Jiaqi's performance:( sigh... we all wanted to see her perform... i think the organising committee should have screened out some performances that CMI, instead of accepting everything... it was torture...
anyway.. things ended well enough.
Posted by aquariusblues at 8:34 PM 0 comments
members : jiaxin, jiaqi, victoria, peifen and me
honourary member: xunqi :D
courtesy of terence
Jiaxin was quite bothered by the name, but especially uncomfortable with the 'gang' part. So she said maybe we should not stick together so often. victoria and I were quite surprised, and we started laughing, as we were more disturbed by the "mugger" part to the name...
Victoria said that terence was nice enough not to call us "mugger toads" haha... i still laugh at this term now... Don't u think it is funny... Try saying "mugger toad" out loud, and think of the toad, possibly a bespectacled one... lol. it is probably just me...
Anyway, I think all of us don't deserve the honour. I must agree with Jiaxin's analysis that we all look like muggers, in a way, because we are all bespectacled, 'quiet', always sit in front and appear very serious and what not... but i guess looks can be deceiving. For one, though I would very much like to be a mugger this year, i am sadly not one yet... :(
have to go back to spring cleaning... bye for now =)
Posted by aquariusblues at 8:32 PM 0 comments
the worse is over, and now, I can finally sit back and relax :) and help in spring cleaning and stuff.
Looking forward to CNY celebrations in school. I want to hear jiaqi sing "chao1 kuai4 gan1". I think she sings very well... go jiaqi! i think the school is doing its best to bring in the festive mood, like all the decorations around the school by the different factions. I think the decorations outside LT2 are the nicest. The ones at the parade square, which is sadly by Med Fac, is really pathetic. But the little decorations here and there in the huge campus is really insufficient to bring about an impact...
Posted by aquariusblues at 8:30 PM 0 comments
and yes, that is me.
Sigh.. thursday was a terribly terribly bad day, at least for me. We had 2 SPA assessments in a row, back-to-back, literally. And guess what? No reward for guessing correctly. I screwed both SPAs, being the loser that I am. If you don't believe me, read on.
First, Chem SPA Skill B and D. I have always hated skill B, and I always mess up my practicals. So during this SPA, I forgot to clamp the conical flask with the retort stand, despite constantly reminding myself to do so before the assessment. Guess I was too nervous. And if that wasn't bad enough, guess what, besides swirling the conical flsk at the beginning to ensure proper mixing, and swirled it throughout the experiment... as i did not understand the instructions about not swirling it continuously. So I happily (and yes, stupidly) swirled the conical flask, and was very happy when bubbles emerged so quickly. it was only later that i realised that we should not be doing that. So my experiment for FA4 was done correctly. Then I wanted to do the reaction for FA3 again, so, I tried to act smart. Whilst waiting for the reaction to complete, I multitasked. I prepared all the reagents, and told myself that I am supposed to add FA3. Apparently, I added FA4, because when I started the reaction, bubbles did not emerge as quickly as it is supposed to for FA3. I realised it, and I was very very pissed with myself. I wanted to cry... cry for being the fool I am.
Then it was physics SPA. I got everything right, at least I could not figure out what was wrong at first. Then I started discussing the paper with Victoria on the way to the bus-stop. I told her I used a 250ml beaker to contain the testtube, and she started laughing... of course I realised my mistake... how can the testtube which is supposed to fit 50g weights float in a 250ml beaker of water?! Sigh... It will be too heavy to float in that little miserable volume of water, much less bob up and down... sigh... Do u realise what a loser and what a peabrain i am now?
Sigh sigh sigh...what a lousy day.
Posted by aquariusblues at 8:27 PM 0 comments
had the first Physics S paper training on thurs, and it was quite bad, especially the last question that he went through - about the estimaton of thickness of the flat, spherical earth. He kept 'slicing' the crust into increasingly thinner slices, and i started laughing uncontrollably... many others did too. Don't know why also...But anyway, i think physics S is quite hard.
But I don't know what else to take. Not considering Maths S because I don't have the 'stamina' to sit through long questions... my mind tends to wander off after a while... and I know i cannot compete with the F maths people...
Anyway, on friday, there was mock Napfa. standing broad jump is my nemesis. enough said...
At the end of the day, we watched Farenheit 9/11. The film was very disturbing, as all the evidence in it seemed to point to 9/11 being part of a big money-spinning conspiracy...
Posted by aquariusblues at 8:23 PM 0 comments
one week of school has passed, once again. I am sure many would agree that Maths lectures had been the "highlight" of the week:D Not that I enjoy her "here in this case"s, but I find the things people do to empahsise this fact amusing.
Like during one of the lectures, there were some people who pasted "IN THIS CASE" on the wall of the LT. And as if that was not enough, they pasted a tally sheet beneath the banner. That was the last straw, and most people started laughing uncontrollably. I was guilty of laughing too. sigh... Apparently, the lecturer did not realise what the laughter was about (but my instincts tell me she knew what was going on, and choose to ignore it). Instead, she 'mistakingly' thought it was due to the santa claus hat soemone was wearing.
Anyway, during the next lecture, the issue sort of died off.. until this "brave" soul from some class asked a question, in which he injected "in this case"s. making his point... obviously. She then trademarked her "In this case". And I think she is quite proud of her trademark too.. no wonder she does not want to make an effort to change...
Posted by aquariusblues at 8:20 PM 0 comments
hello!
It has been a while since i updated this blog. Been rushing all my holiday homework, which, till date, have not been completed. haha.. whatever.. anyway, i guess the tutors will not be going through these till much later in the year:D
One week of school has passed, and it was like just a blink of an eye. I guess life in J2 is just more fast paced. I can't imagine how hectic it will be when s paper lectures and CCAs start...
But for now, I am loving the new RJ campus! although some people feel theold campus was more homely...but i like the new campus better... It is so cool! Spanking new, well equipped, sprawling, nice LTs and what not. Best still, we get a home room. The classrooms are bright and airy, more conducive for learning, as compared to the dull, dusty, dirty and old classrooms down at Mount Sinai. That's all for now...
Posted by aquariusblues at 8:11 PM 0 comments
Many things had happened this week, but i had not been blogging about it, bacause I was too lazy :D
Monday
The highlight of the day was a rare OG gathering. I had felt very very bad for arriving late for the previous OG dinner because I had overslept. So, I decided to arrrive early. no one was there yet...except for felicia, who was the host. Nevertheless, had fun playing Jenga. The ben woon and ben chen arrived. Ben chen actually brought a bottle of absolute vodka. But i did not dare drink it, even when it was mixed with coke... scared I would get drunk and then mumble nonsense..
i tried my hand at pool. sigh... it was quite a disaster. I realise that I could not hit with sufficient strength. The white ball was just rolling extremely slowly, then if I get lucky, it will touch the target lightly... nudge it so tt it rolls only slightly... Goodness.. haha! lol
I had a pleasant surprise when I saw Jiaqi outside the function room. realised that she lived there too. haha.. we talked and gossiped a lot, and i went to her house also, and watched the RSI vcd.. quite funny, and I bet that they really had a whale of a time there.
started home at around 1030pm, much later than what I had expected. The whole group of us trudged slowly down to clementi mrt station, and when I reached home, it was already 11.10pm. My parents were furious, not because of the time I came home, but more because I did not answer my phone when they were worried sick about my whereabouts. Seriously, my phone was on silent mode, and I forgot about it completely. I felt really bad about that, especially when I saw the number of missed calls.
Lesson learnt: Never leave your phone on silent mode!!!
Tuesday
Biosoc exco meeting.
Because of the 5 day week policy, we can't have meetings on Saturday anymore!!! and fieldtrips on Sat has to be preapproved by the school first.. Sighz.. That means we have to plan everything this year.. But this could actually be a blessing in disguise, so that future meetings would not be so boring and aimless anymore :) We had quite a fun time discussing the details of the CIP camp. because of this "toilet break/water break" thing after every 1 hour block.. Geez...But i am looking forward to the CIP camp. It will be very very enriching and fun ^o^
Wednesday
Much as i had been cynical about games like warcraft, Red Alert etc, I was surprisingly fascinated by how my brother was playing Diablo II.
Unbelievingly, I spent a few hours just watching him play that game.. It was really interesting. But of course, when i tried my hand at it, it wasn't as simple as it looked. hee hee. it is probably just me. Anyway, i was arguing with him about what he should be doing. Like how he should not be filling his inventory with all the healing potions and mana, when he can collect the weapon and shields for selling. And when I told him to sell some weapons, he was quite hesistant, because those were more powerful than his current one, but he had not attained the required strength and skill level to use it.. haha sigh.
And i was quite fascinated by this concept of there being a King amongst the group of bad guys that will attack you. You have to attack the king first, if not, the bad guys will rejuvenate etc. etc.
Anyway, taufik rocks!!! although Sylvester really improved a lot for the finals, Taufik is ultimately the better one. Although I was elated when Taufik was announced the winner, this feeling did not last long. I was saddened to learn how both were offered equal prizes, and that everything was already mapped out for sylvester, whilst the plans for Taufik were still hazy. Sigh.. I think this is really going to be like American idol, where the runner up does better than the winner, traditionally. It is really not fair for taufik.. but there is really nothing much we can do about it.
Thursday
Nothing much happened, except that I watched the Polar Express. It wasn't that nice. Not as awesome as what I thought it would be. Felt really stupid after the show. All the advertising gimmicks and packaging were really misleading... that's all i can say.
Friday
Mediquiz.
Then I tried to find the buzzer which the trainers wanted so we can train our reflexes. Sigh.. tried the shops in my neighbourhood, but it was to no avail.
Saturday
So, I went to Sim Lim square and Sim Lim towers. Can you imagine?! I could not find the buzzer at all. what I found was the electronic part of the buzzer. The shopkeeper said we had to assemble such things ourselves. Not very helpfu, considering the fact that i am not a technical person, and that I had forgotten all my electronics stuff. And so, the search continues... haha
Sunday
Passed the time learning and playing tai-ti with my father, brother and sister. Quite fun, and considering that I am still a rookie, i did quite well, thanks to beginner's luck :D Anyway, got laughed at quite a few times for making stupid moves, but still, I had a good time.
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