Sanctum of the Hierarchs

2008-07-17T03:50:00.001-07:00

Holy crap on a stick. I haven't been posting for a loooong time.

Sorry but my phone can't connect to the computer right now. So no pictures but i'll try to get them up.

So much has happened and so much is happening right now. It's seriously a really busy time.

I went to the Henry Park Primary School Scouts Sixer Training camp last last week. Its my old primary school so i thought going back there to help would be fun. I went in the capacity of a service scout. So my jobs were basically to guide the pri 6s and be a big brother to them. The camp was held at a really ulu spot in sembawang so at night you could see so many stars.
Oh and being a service scout is the SLACKEST job in the entire world. You get a dorm with beds, while others sleep in tents and you can stay in it playing PSP and DS until your services are needed. Its that simple. So Dominique, Steven and Wei Long from New Town came along, as did Clement and Dinh from NUSHS. Dominique brought a PSP and Wei Long brought his DS, so we played PSP and DS the entire way.

The Henry Park Scouts weren't too bad either. Being primary school kids, they were easy to amuse. And being the only person to bother to amuse them, everyone started sidling up to me. By the bus ride back, everyone knew my name. 2 people even got my phone number, and i have no idea how that happened. Anyway, the highlight activity was the 7km hike. It took 5 bloody hours (Primary school kids). But at the end of the hike, we were at the Sembawang hot springs, which i only knew because of reading Neil Humprey's book. It was just a bunch of old wrinky men and a few taps and a lot of buckets. The spring was about 80 degrees hot and contained sulphur from the earth underground, which smelled like rotten eggs O.O The kids loved it, playing with the extremely hot water, and being in charge of their safety, i got burned quite a few times. In the end the camp was quite fun, ending with a water slide game. And the kids are still calling me...

Oh and I'm now a Team Leader for the upcoming DSA NUS high selection test, in charge of Blue 5. Benard got Blue 6, which was my original group and he doesn't want to switch with me :( Lol. With the HPPS scouts camp a success, i hope the new generation of NUS High will like me. And this time i'm not giving out my phone number...

2008-06-27T03:44:00.000-07:00

Day 3

We landed in Vancouver. After getting over our Jet lag for the time being, we went to explore Vancouver by ourselves. We went to rent 4 bicycles and went to ride in Stanley Park. Its the largest park in Vancouver and has really breathtaking sights. Mistake. The air outside the city, is only survivable by polar bears and the local hobo population. It is so cold, that you get iced water in your backpack. Combine that with riding against the wind, and you have a temperature of about -4 degrees C. By the end of the trip, my hands were frozen on the bike handles.

But even so, we saw great sights along the trip.

Vancouver (:

Native American carved totem poles, salvaged from the early 19th century. Each totem pole is supposed to tell a story, but to me, it looks like all the deprived animals decided to get together. In a very personal way.

The Lion Gate bridge. It links Stanley park to Vancouver city. Stanley park is actually an island that no one is allowed to have commerce on. This keeps it pollution free and green. This bridge is 600m long and reaches 7 storeys in height.

And of course, the Maple Tree. Canada's national pride, and Maplestory's mascot.

Later, we went to the aquarium. In Stanley Park. There is actually a huge aquarium in Stanley park. The place is really big, about the size of Singapore Science Center. Its actually a really good place, especially in America, because unlike Singapore, it only get minimum funding from the government. The rest of it comes from donors.

Stoning...

After the aquarium, we headed to town and found that parking cost around 8 dollars for 2 hours O: and also hobos could identify us as tourists, which in any country, is bad. I also discovered a use for chinese, saying things without any one knowing. :D We all had dinner before collasping on the bed at 7pm, cos of jet lag. I woke up at 11.30pm and took this pic

Sunset in vancouver. 11.30pm

2008-06-24T05:01:00.001-07:00

Scroll down for the travel log. Its listed under 30th May, can't get it fixed. Hmm.

2008-06-21T05:10:00.001-07:00

Sorry, but i can't do the whole Alaska Travel-log right now. I'm swamped with last minute tasks from scouts, school and TaeKwon Do at the same time. With school opening in two days, the earliest i can promise is Tuesday. Check back then!

Sorry everyone.

Ernest

2008-06-19T01:16:00.000-07:00

I'm back from the dead.

For those of you who don't know, i was in Alaska on vacation. I took a 19 day tour of Alaska, Canada, and Seattle. I'll be posting on a day by day basis throughout the next 19 days as a travel log of what i did on the trip. Tell your friends!

Here's a starter:

Jet lagged like crazy now. 15 hours difference XP I'll take a while to recover.

I'm gonna sleep now, even though its like 10 am.

Nitez

2008-05-30T21:57:00.000-07:00

Day 1.
Our flight was from the brand new Terminal 3 of Changi Airport. Its building design was awesome. But it feels more like a mall than really an airport. You see more people with shopping bags than with lugagge.

Oh and Terminal 3 had the new biometric passport system, which is completely automatic. We were quite impressed when we got through customs in 10 mins, instead of the usual 40 mins. But my mom got stuck in the system cos the machine couldn't read her fingerprints, and had to get manually checked. It turned out that she was pressing too hard on the glass.

My mom's the one at the desk. Her elbow's is up so high its pressing down like crazy.
Airplane ride was uneventful. It was a red eye flight from singapore to seoul Korea. A 6 hour flight to Korea, followed by a 12 hour flight across the Pacific Ocean to Vancouver. The flight was pretty fun. I watched Iron Man 4 times XD and the guy beside me played territory war with me. Cos there was two of us and only 1 armrest :D Everytime he turned the page of his newspaper, i would sneakily slip my arm onto the armrest and he couldn't use it. Then my sis woud do something stupid. Then i would lift my arm and he would quickly put his arm there. Oh and i tried to order a Singapore Sling cocktail on the plane, and the steward was like "Uhh.. Sure" Then my sis HAD to open her mouth and say "But he's only 15!" and the steward said "maybe next time kiddo" GAHH. stupid sister.

Day 2.

We reached Vancouver Canada at 12.22 pm, 29 May. Bearing in mind that we left Singapore at 8am 29 May. We crossed the international date line, meaning we went back 1 day. 22,000 km in 18 hours. Of course, that meant massive jet lag. Which i have. -.o When we got out of the airport, the cold was unbelievable. It doesn't creep upon you like the heat of Singapore, its just wham, like you walked into a solid wall of cold. We specially came at the height of Canada's summer to escape the cold. The heat reached skin boiling temperatures of 9 degrees Celsius in the afternoon.If you're reading this in your air conned room, its 3 times colder here =P Also the air here is super dry. That means your skin cracks, which is really painful. I already have a few cracks in various places. -.^ we went to the hotel and crashed even though it was 3 in the afternoon. Jet Lag.

2008-05-20T03:54:00.000-07:00

Wow. I've realised i haven't posted in a long time. woah.

I'm now an internationally recognized senior black belt in TaeKwonDo! I took the test on Vesak Day on the 19th of May. It was 7 hours of HELL. The physical exercise got me aching all over. I did, 1000 push ups, 1000 situps, and 30 minutes of continuous skipping. That and 16 more items. But in the end, I got my reward. :D My name on the list of honor and on a black belt.

Before that, we went to a campfire at Singapore Chinese Girls School. As part of a effort to get NUS High's name to be recognized around the island, we were obliged to attend. And we were the only boys in there with SJI and RI. The RI boys were a joke. Running out and embarrassing themselves in front of the guest of honor. Damn, those guys were drunk or something. SCGS pulled of a pretty good campfire. Their theme was... questionable. But the rest was solid, and didn't suffer from any problems. I enjoyed it, save for the very immature remarks from Teck Chye and Dao Han, who both have to really grow up. But the games and everything was so sexist! The girls won all the time -.- even though the boys sometimes were better, the MCs always let the girls win. And when we complained, they asked us to be gentlemanly. Why bother to have a game when you know who the winner is? But I managed to win a game out of 4. It was a water drinking contest :D But other than that, the MCs were girls, the items were performed by girls and the campfire was done by girls. We just had to watch lolz.

Igniting the fire!

All girls o.O Anyway their theme was a Sea kinda theme, so the MCs were in sailor suits.

Today we did costal clean up as part of our CIP programme. More like an excuse to get us out of the school while the SIMC goes on. -.- Dr Hang was on 6.30 chinese news today btw. You won't believe the kind of trash you'll find on the beach. Kallang river was full of strange stuff. We found: A dead sea snake kinda thing, an empty Olay facial whitening cream bottle, 4 condoms and a construction worker's helmet o.O The place smells like rotten eggs doused in sweat socks and set alight.

After that, we all went to a nearby hawker centre to try the chocolate fondue there. Bernard says it gives you wings. I think his fondue got spiked with LSD :D Zi Yang, Winston, Elijah and Bing Jie tagged along for no good reason. But Bernard was right, it was good.

The whole set! The chocolate looks good. :P

Rachel dipping the waffle into chocolate while Bernard is drinking.

Tommorow is the sandcastle building at East Coast Park, so i bet it'll be pretty interesting. Until then, i shall end this post off on a random note.

All hail the mighty SPORK. The very awkward offspring of two very drunk cutlery. Found at Taka.

2008-05-08T05:05:00.000-07:00

Lol. Long weekend. Long post.

The end of exams marked the new beginning. Straight after that we went to IMM. Bernard, Rachel, Ming Yan and I. We roamed around the place a bit, having no idea what to give Ji Eun, cos her birthday was during the exams. So we went to the Body shop, cos Rachel thinks she would like it. The Body shop is the type of shop which you smell before you see it. Like Famous Amos. Anyway, we went inside, and I having never been inside before, started touching stuff. And I found that a carrier bag in there cost $12 o.O Wow. We bought her a nice box of soaps and perfume but I thought they smelled rly strong. I had a headache when i came out.

Hellgate has been proving a great game. I'm a level 12 marksman now. I found a perfect combo of weapons to make sure any monster is dead within 10m of me. Hellgate is owning, except for some random hiccups from a 1.6 GHz com.

We celebrated on Tuesday, as Ming Yan had her last paper in Tuesday due to her being sick for the first 2 days. As Ming Yan couldn't make it in the morning, and Yan Ling was being lazy, and Ji Eun woke up late. Wow. So in the end only Bernard, Rachel and I went bowling at the country club at Bukit Batok. I played a fair game, could have been better, but in the end i lost to bernard by 23 points, having 233 after 3 games.

Rachel's super mana shot :O

Bernard super speed shot. He's a blur even for a Sony Ericson phone lolz.

Rachel ran out of mana at the end. XD and according to her, we were all Bowling for Soup. o.O

And on that day, the "White Shirt, Black Pants Stalkers" came out into open. They stalked me. From my house bus stop, to clementi MRT, to Jurong East MRT, to Bukit Batok MRT, to West Mall and even the bowling alley. OMG. THEY ARE STALKING ME. In groups of 4 to 5, they follow me around the island. Even at Vivocity and the Iron Man movie. Wow. Keep looking over your shoulder...

After that we went to see Iron Man. :D This is the best movie i've seen in the year. Iron man owns. I even got a cool Iron Man figure from the popcorn XD

Its kinda blur. o.O

Oh and Tae Kwon Do is seriously exhausting me. I'm going 3 times a week now, for like 3 hours each. Phew. But at the end, an Internationally recognized Senior Black Belt. Wow.

To end the post on a random note. I've found this little thing in the Clementi Town centre Bargain Bin.

Its the FUNSTATION! Its super high tech gaming experience will amaze you! Just look at its features!

1. Experience unsurpassed 64 - Bit graphics and CD quality sounds running at an awesome 94Hz

2. Reach new levels of accuracy and play control with the ergonomically controller featuring 8 buttons and a high tech analog stick!

3. Graphics put you in a real time 3-D environments! Get ready for speed and excitement in an endless array of perspectives!

4. Its only $29.90!

lol 1980s

2008-05-02T08:03:00.000-07:00

YAY EXAMS ARE OVERRRRRRRRRRR.

Long post *cracks knuckles*

Finally. I thought it was never going to end. The Math and Bio papers were kinda ok. I expected them to be much harder, what with Ms Sie's dark attitude towards us. "You're not going to leave this place alive" was the kinda cheerful encouraging message she gave us. Yup. Oh and Bio was like guaranteed to be hard. But luckily its all those memorize and vomit questions, which were very unlike earlier Bio exams.

Physics and Chem was... Cold. Seriously. I was sitting right under the air con. And at the end i was shivering, even under the jacket and long pants. I pity Ming Yan, she didn't bring a jacket and girls can't wear long pants. I offered her my jacket. But she refused. Well, can't blame me.

Chem is seriously getting harder. The questions came completely out of nowhere. It was really unlike the previous tests and quizzes. Gahh. And here i thought i would ace chem. Damn.

But History is the complete opposite. All the questions for the exam were like done in class. It was more of memorizing then actually thinking. The Application question was even given for an assignment. Which i completely failed. Oh well.

Oh and labour day was a very strange day. My family went to McDonalds to have breakfast. And when we got there, the place was like, the Russian Revolution.

Thats like, 15 people deep, with people queuing on the stairs even o.O If you look closely, you can see my mom in the top left hand corner looking like, "Where did Ernest go?" . I slipped away to take this picture and then went back to help with the trays. Lol i imagined at 11am, the McDonalds staff are going to stand on the counter and say "Breakfast is closed!" And all the people waiting in the lines will start the Singapore Revolution. History repeats itself, especially with revolutions.

Oh and I managed to install Hellgate London. Thanks Qu Zhi! So i guess i'll be playing for a bit. Marksman ftw.

Oh and on a random note. This bus again. It keeps following me.

The bar bus. 151A

I will miss emo poetry.

2008-04-28T06:44:00.000-07:00

oooo. Exams today weren't that bad. At least chinese proved less of a shocker than usual. I could actually undersatnd some of the stuff :D So i don't think i will fail. But i've been proved wrong before ): English was... Simple... I don't believe they give us 1 hour for 14 simple 1-2 mark questions.

The worse thing is tomorrow. Math and Bio. If they didn't take out history, i would scream and rage. Then i would sit down and revise. All this is really getting under my skin. I realised i haven't gotten off my seat for 4 hours since 6 pm. I even missed Simpsons for this ): GAAA math... Bio is kinda ok. I found a secret weapon. Cheat sheets written by Mr Tham in Espace.

As a proof of my hardworkingness. My temperature has gone up from 36.7 to 38.4 C
My brain overheated 2 C in an air conned room. wow. Man the other exams seem cake after tomorrow.

2 down, 6 to go.

2008-04-27T06:19:00.000-07:00

This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang,
but with a whimper
Gongs sound for the end of the world.
The fiery skies draws to a close.
Gale winds of fears,
Sweep the scorched plains.
The wave of time goes inexorably by,
Sweeping those in its path
into the flames of Eternity.
We all march on undaunted.

T minus 123.78 hours.

2008-04-26T07:03:00.000-07:00

Whoops! Forgot to post on my Birthday yesterday! YAY I'm 15! ... Now what?

Anyway, my revision is all done i guess. Except chinese :P But people keep telling me i can't revise chinese and i really really want to believe them. But if i fail the paper, which i probably would, i want to feel as if i did my best. And not hang around watching bleach. I'm now just leafing through various subjects of interest. This is my table:

From left: Bio textbook, with chem textbook underneath, history file, chem file, bio file, my GC, physics file, my headphones and a "Spectrum" programme guide (don't ask, i'm lazy to throw :P) and my cube.

Yup. Thats how bad my revision is. I'll be sooo happy when this is over.

- The guy who's 15 now!

2008-04-24T04:15:00.000-07:00

There is a tiredness scale.

stage 1 - not tired at all
stage 2 - minor loss of motor functions
stage 3 - walking into a room and forgetting why
stage 4 - mental numbness
stage 5 - slurring words
stage 6 - hallucinations and paranoia
stage 7 - death

I'm somewhere near stage 5. Strange. I slept till 11am today. It must be the trying to study 3 subjects at once.

Quote of the day:

My head feels like there's a Frenchman living in it

2008-04-23T06:04:00.000-07:00

Yay! Speech day today. Not very interesting. I just stood at the back for 3 hours letting in the right people, and not letting the wrong people get out. Everyone was gathered in the new AIR CON HALL! No more sweating over exams. Literally :D Speeches, long, boring, and saying nothing. Award ceremonies, i'm not in any, so yawn too. The performance part was nice. The choir was good, so were the dance. the dance song was weird o.O Some remixed techno fairy tale kinda song. And the "interpretive" dancing, was quite frankly, creepy. But nice, considering the hard work put into it.

Exhibition and balloon popping in the concourse!

I got my Birthday present today :D AND ITS A RAZER! OMG ITS WHAT I'VE ALWAYS WANTED! :D:D:D Thanks to: Bernard, Rachel, Ming Yan, Gerlynn, Ji Eun and Yan Ling for it! Its so nice!!!

Razer Krait O:

oooo... Razer! i thought this was a mousepad. Until i felt it and found out it was made of paper. And it had instructions inside XD

Razer on my table. It matches! I think.

Thanks to everyone! Last week to go! 100m stretch. The end is nigh!

PS I promised myself i wouldn't install it till after the exams. Kind of a reward thing :D

2008-04-20T06:00:00.001-07:00

YAY. MY BIRTHDAY!

Went to my grandmother's place to celebrate my birthday today. Got a nice big hongbao and a cake! Everyone was there to celebrate.

FIFTEEN!

Celebrated my favourite way. Halo 3 multiplayer

Lengendary edition O:

I love Halo the same way Rachel loves Simple Plan. Weird today. Darren wasn't in form. We played suicide and bull rush XD Suicide is a self invented game mode where the other player has to make the other player commit suicide. Add rocket launchers and you get hours of fun :D Bull rush is one player gets on a Warthog/Ghost/Brute chopper and tries to run over the other player. Other player has to dodge for 2 mins before both parties can use weapons. I suck at this mode, so i'm always the bull :D

Exam revision going as planned, but i lost some time celebrating, so i'll do some work tomorrow. Actually, i did chem, bio and physics so that i can clarify on Monday. But it looks like physics will have to wait ):

BL3101 (check)

CM3103 (check)

CM3105 (check)

PC3101 (half check)

MA3112

HY3103

EL3101

CL3101

2008-04-19T03:38:00.000-07:00

As a way to destress during this period, i have taken up emo poetry. Here is one of my better poems.

Cold blackness pools
on the brink of my thought
Each a gripping vice of pain
The clock strikes midnight
and darkness engulfs...
drenches...
drowns...
Voices crawl from the abyss
screechings that fills a soul
with the hatred of a thousand generations
each more brutal than the last
Ghosts of a happier time
Crowded out by the tortures of the present
Grinding my bones to dust
Which scatters on the wind
Fading...
A light.
The warmth of your hand
The comfort of friends
pulling me back
I open my eyes...

BL3101 (check)
CM3103 (check)
CM3105
PC3101
MA3112
HY3103
EL3101
CL3101

2008-04-18T04:14:00.000-07:00

sorry i haven't been blogging for a while. I'm knee deep in revision. I'll post more during the holidays. But until then, i'll use this blog as a sort of revision timetable. Sorry to all my regular readers. But exams are exams. And failure is failure. Go check them out, i found it on Bern's blog. It destresses me :D

2008-04-13T01:39:00.000-07:00

I've decided to combine Saturdays and Sundays together, since Sundays are always boring

Bowling on Saturday! We went to the SAFRA bowling alley at Mount Faber. Me, Teck chye, Dao Han, Chong Wei, Jimmy, Mathias and Zhang Yao went. Sadly, NUS High got owned ): We came in 5th i think. But Mathias got the best individual score! We played pretty ok, its just that other schools played better. Especially ACS(I), they go bowling EVERY WEEKEND! Awww, better luck next year!

5th Clementi District Bowling event! Our own reserved place.

Everyone is bowling so fast. They don't even stop to watch their ball.
We had about 300 Scouts there. So the public didn't get to play. We could hear them grumbling from behind us :D In the end, ACS(I) won the overall competition.

Went to the arcade later, and played ParaParaParadise. Although it looks easy, its actually pretty hard. I tried a few songs, and made up for my lack of skill by swinging my arms harder. That actually worked until I smacked a Clementi Woods Scout in the face. Still got a A for that song though :D

Mastering Physics is gay as usual. All my other homework done. History, Physics, and Math tests to study for. Exams are 3 weeks away. Damn.

2008-04-11T06:39:00.000-07:00

Fridays are Fridays.

Not much today. Ms Sie was in a horribly corny mood today. She told us all such corny jokes, Dylan was like: "Ms Sie, are you a vegetable? Cos you're very corny today." And then, as if to prove the point, Ms Sie said:" I ate cornflakes for breakfast" Lol.

English was even funnier. Someone wrote Sundeep on the board, and under it wrote the reverse, Peednus. Try pronouncing it, i dare ya. So Ms Kong went up to the board and said "whose is this?" And several people said me, then Ms Kong said, "Its mine, not me." How we laughed.

I promise a longer post tommorow. There's a Troop Bowling competition in Mount Faber SAFRA, and i'm expected to attend. Wish me luck!

2008-04-10T06:31:00.000-07:00

Whoops, forgot to post yesterday.

Anyway Wednesday was quite interesting. Chem test first, which turned out to surprisingly easy. I got 24/30 :D And then we went to the auditorium, where we got a talk about relieving stress by the Singapore Broadway Association. Those guys are bloody funny. And the guy who was supposed to be depressed, was so emo, i thought he was going to start cutting himself. Their props were so funny. This is supposed to be the guy sleeping in bed emoing about stuff, while his "friends" echo his thoughts.

WTF are you doing in my bed? Lolz

Moot Parliament is getting from bad to worse -o- Its like we're not even a team anymore, Winston keeps going off somewhere, Yeow is doing math file, Tian Lu is doing who knows what and Bernard is doing math file too. Gah, it feels like i'm the only one doing something...

Spent the rest of MPP practising. I can do a crab now!

Damn it my eyes are closed.

Nothing much else, except for the looming threat of exams. English quiz/letter/homework to do. Bye!

2008-04-08T04:47:00.000-07:00

I've realised that every single day in my life can't be exciting.

And so should you.

Chem test tmr. Good luck everyone.
And thanks to Rachel, for lending me her math file.

2008-04-07T04:02:00.000-07:00

EXAMS ARE COMING.

I feel the pressure already. Time is ticking. I may not have enough time to blog long posts of the great quality you're used to :D

Monday again. I have just realised that i will probably have to go back for physics remedial. My mouth is starting to drop in class when Ms Fong starts writing. O: It doesn't help that Xiang Wen keeps looking over my shoulder saying "I dun geddit" even though his physics is better than mine...

Bernard gave us a SNEAK PREVIEW of his 1337 cooking skillz today! He baked a chocolate cake :O Not bad, needed more chocolate and less butter. Great job Bernard!

Chinese was... Fun. OMG I DIDN'T JUST SAY THAT...

Ok rephrase that. Chinese PERIOD is fun without CHINESE

Ms Mai didn't come today. Probably got a heart attack after marking our chinese tests :\

So we did a small 15 min xie zi exercise, and the relief teacher left. Learnt Yu Gi Oh from Yuan Wei, watched them argue about soccer. And mostly did math file and play handphone games. With Dylan cracking jokes in the background, it was better than expected from chinese.

Bio was boring today. Sawed a tennis ball in half for fun. Have you ever wondered what was inside a tennis ball? I did.

Dissection :D not very interesting...

Got history quiz and english letter writing tmr. Chem test and Math file check on Wednesday. AHHHHHHHHH.

2008-04-06T06:21:00.000-07:00

13th post o.O

Sundays have little material. Nothing much today. Found a donut at MunchyDonuts that is called the "Simpsons Donut"

Lol. It tastes great too.

Spotted something in the mall today. On a small folding stool, $5.99

Made in China of course.

6 year old B-Boy. Owned the open section of a breakdance competition. He's out doing all the 30 year olds who come in and challenge him! Will probably gain inspiration from him.

2008-04-05T06:49:00.000-07:00

Scouts mostly for today.

It was a glorious day. We were going to attempt to build the biggest structure ever attempted in NUS High's history. I was the project In Charge and i had planned and designed the structure for weeks now. As pioneering goes, its never easy. You can draw a straight line on paper, but in real life it may be slanted. On paper you can just erase it and draw a new one, but in real life you have to correct it for tension and strain. Needless to say, it was a lot of hard work.

Building the frame... Attaching guidelines to hoist it up later.

Frame fully erected! No pun intended.

Building platforms for observation, scouting and mapmaking.

Epic shot with hostel in the background. Halfway there!

Due to time constraints, we had to end it off in the middle. No map making platform. But still looks pretty good.

The entire thing was 30 feet tall, which is 10m, which is over 2 overhead bridges. In the end, people made excuses to go off and stuff, and it was left with me, Chong Wei, Pan Cheun, Clement, Zhang Yao and Chee Guan. And then diaster struck.

The estate department came. NO NO NO. CANNOT BUILD HERE.

"why?"

NO NO NO. CANNOT BUILD HERE.

"Dude, start making sense."

BECAUSE YOU CANNOT BUILD WITHOUT PERMIT.

In the end, it turned out that Ms Loh, our CCA teacher, didn't get a permit from the school to build the structure on the field. We told her, but it seems she forgot and we assumed she got a permit and we built it anyway. So the bottom line was: Tear it down.

OMG tear it down?! It took 6 hours of hard, back-breaking work in the baking sun, and TEAR IT DOWN? sigh. In the end we had too. So you won't see it on Monday...

But at least one thing brightened my day. Our year 1s passed outdoor cooking with real fire :D

2008-04-04T06:14:00.000-07:00

YAY. Today is a HAPPY DAY.

Free period today. Everyone was tuning up their physics projects for the final test, making final adjustments here and there. Our project was already quite solid, unless we touched it. Other than that, the equations wouldn't lie. And they didn't :D

Our physics project OWNED. We got a BULLSEYE! And the other one was like 3cm away from the bullseye! But We didn't really have an aiming system, more of guess and check, so Ms Fong marked us down for that ): But overall we got 63/80! 78% ITS AN "A"!!!!!!!! My physics is gonna own this sem :D

Oh and Bernard made art today. Abstract form, type: Milo, medium: Wen Xiang.

Scouts today was boring. It was more of an equipment check for tomorrow's pioneering (building big structures made of wood held together by rope in 5 hours for no other reason than for fun). We just sat there and whipped rope. But luckly, the NCC entertained us! They had outdoor cooking today, and if you know NCC, their outdoor cooking is, well, rather funny. But their cooking turned out to be really good. Their Part As (Year 1s) were cooking on solid fuel, no excitement there. But the Part Cs (Year 3s) were attempting real firewood! They did much better than i thought. But it drizzled, so they moved in, which for solid fuel makes no difference.

Why are you fanning solid fuel? Its not like its gonna go out o.O

Don't get me wrong, i think the NCC are a great bunch of guys, its just that this is like Scouts doing drill. We all gotta laugh at ourselves once in a while right? Anyway, weekend homework + pioneering tomorrow = do work today. Sigh

2008-04-03T04:46:00.000-07:00

PE was sooo fun today!

We did Chaptek as our new sport. It sounds kinda stupid, but its actually much harder than you think. My personal best was 12, after a gazillion tries. Aik Ann was the best, with 47 in one go! And he kicked all the way from the concourse to the bio labs :D Ka Shing was really funny. He kept kicking back to our PE teacher. After PE i was sweating like crazy. Then, me, Bernard, Wen Xiang, Raghav, Sandeep, Dylan and Stuart made a circle and started playing, our record was 14! Oh and i kicked a chaptek into a benzene ring on the concourse ceiling. Moving on...

nothing else much today, unless you count doing breakdancing while Mrs Soong was teaching a supplementary class.

2008-04-02T22:38:00.000-07:00

YAY! I leveled up. Now i'm a BLUE BELT at Hapkido. Extremely tired, the test took 3 hours. now its only 3 more ranks to Black!

In other news, i'm panicking. Cos the 1st Dan Adult Black Belt for Taekwondo is in 2 months time. I'm Advanced Junior Black now, cos i was only 14 last year. Oh noes. Got so much to do and learn, its like the Chuunin exam ): May have to go every Wednesday and Friday ):

Not much today, so this will be a short post. Today was MAD. Music Appreciation Day. Sat us in the Audi for 1 and a half hours. And 1 hour of that was SPEECHES. And one of the speeches was more of a lecture, like Year 2 Physics. AHHH why are all Singaporean speakers so boringggggg. The conservatory peoples' performance was nice, especially the guy on the drums. And Dr Wong playing the violin like an electric guitar :D And the best performance goes to... the Music Ambassadors! They managed to say their pledge wrongly :D How can you screw up clicking forward on a powerpoint? Ownage.

Oh and Chong Wei managed to keep me waiting for 2 hours until 5pm for a non existant scout meeting. Thanks a lot.

Really tired. And got PE tmr!!!!!! ): Gotta sleep. Bye!

2008-04-01T05:15:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YAN LING.

Tired today. So I won't post.

APRIL FOOLS.

I'm posting everyday. You can count on that.

We gave Yan Ling her present today! Ming Yan kinda spoiled it by telling her where we hid it. But she looked quite happy today, and was like "SO CUTE" and hugging it. I will never understand why girls like overstuffed baby cartoon characters with creepy staring eyes. Oh and Michael did the best thing today. He baked COOKIES! And not just any ordinary cookies. They're FROM HEAVEN. It tastes so nice, he should sell them! Michael claimed that it took him 5 batches to get the recipe right. Way to go Michael! And he also added a nice lettering on it.

There's light reflecting, so it says "Happy Bday Yan Ling"

Chinese test was gay. Nuff said.

History Project OWNED! We were like the best group EVAR. And Ms Chua said that our idea was so creative and we OWNED. A++++++ at least! It was at least better than that other group, they just did a black slideshow with NO MUSIC. Gawd, whats the point of a video with no music? Mary's group's concept was interesting, but the audio was a bit messed up. Couldn't hear a thing.

Oh and we had a mascot during history, Ming Yan's Eeyore!

I dun get why Eeyore is so popular these days, the real eeyore isn't even blue. He's just a sad, depressed old donkey to me.

Anyway gotta churn out a report for Moot Parliament tmr. Bye!

2008-03-31T05:24:00.000-07:00

mindMonday again... The worst day of the week.

Physics, was badddddddd. 29/50 only :( But for physics we played with a really fun applet, which featured a skater doing flips in zero gravity! I created a track that the skater would shoot out of solid wall after 3 seconds. Jing Min bounced his up and down. Poor guy :D

Oh and the music ambassidors invaded today. In my opinion, they are the most useless board of leaders ever. If the school wants to cut leaders, cut them first, they're a liability. They gave a folding paper, which we refolded to make other phrases, I came up with:

Yay Mr Yee! I hope you get the PTA!

Today we had Eeyore! Its Bernard's stuffed toy! of Eeyore.

But in an epic struggle between Bernard and Qu Zhi, *something bad happened*. Oh noes! ): But Bernard fixed it. Yay Bernard and Eeyore.

We later went to buy a present for Yan Ling's Bday tmr. Me, Bernard and Ming Yan went to the Mini Toons shop in IMM to buy it. Of course, Ming Yan was "CUTE!" all the way, but we finally decided on a giant stuffed Chip, from Chip & Dale. Ming Yan took it home, poor guy :D Its nice, but it burned a hole in my pocket.

And finally on an unrelated note, Ben & Jerrys is featuring a new flavor!

Gotta study for gay chinese test tmr... Bye!

2008-03-30T05:53:00.000-07:00

Not much happened today. Learned two new moves. The Modified handstand freeze, aka the ass freeze. And the double C. I'll probably introduce my crew, my master Joel. But i don't have a pic of him now. He's semi pro. And taught me some of his tricks. And then there's Gerald.

He's Yellow/Purple, 2 ranks below me. And he breakdances better than me. He teaches me moves that he invents. The double C was his invention :D

Me doing an ass freeze XD

Going up into a handstand, with Gerald supervising.

They're awesome.

To end off in a random note. Here's a parody of Mac Vs PC. Its Mex(ican) Vs BC (Born Citizen)

2008-03-29T05:28:00.000-07:00

YAYY. SATURDAY!!!!!!!!

I slept till 12pm today. Had a lazy day. Did chem WS, and went out for my sister's chinese tuition. Bought some formal clothes for "formal" occasions. It looks like pajamas... o.O

On the way i saw a really random bag.

Lol, I want it :D

Then i went outside the mall, and heard a few DJs advertising for some credit card. They're so common along orchard road nowadays. Using that not even convincing american accent and playing music 3 years out of date, while people around there give out flyers. But this time, it was different, they had a breakdance crew! I stopped to gain some inspiration for a while.

Couldn't get a decent picture cause people were pushing me. Bloody Singaporeans.

My sis and mum joined us later at the mall. We were shopping for luggage, so me and my sis were bored. Fashioned a mutant fish out of two hand brushes and scared my sister with it.

Drama queen...

Saturdays are random.

Boring day...

2008-03-28T02:25:00.000-07:00

Friday's free periods are always interesting...

This week is chiong project week and many groups were doing it.

Physics as usual, although some groups are already finished

But some groups still had a long way to go...

Lol thats Xiang Wen. Our project is almost done. I did calibration during CCA today, which was convienently cancelled. But its still a bit... erratic...

Dylan's group was still doing history, but somehow they roped Ming Yan and me into it, and we became part of their show! I hope we get extra credit for it :D

I changed my blog template today with the help of Bernard and his programming skillz. The background image is the real Sanctum of the Hierarchs, which is in Halo 2. the original template was from Gerlynn's blog, but i gave it an extreme makeover, and it looks way better now :D

Oh and on the way home, I sat in the weirdest bus ever. It was shaped like a bar. Seriously.

It really is a bus. Its 151A, from the main gate.

Too bad i only took it for four stops. Lol. Finally, its the first weekend in a month i can relax, no scouts, no camps, no nothing. I'm gonna enjoy it now. Bye!

Thursdays as usual

2008-03-27T03:50:00.000-07:00

Today was nice. The day started with PE, but our PE teacher was sick today, so 2 rounds around the track and we could leave :D Spent the extra time doing my *cough* *overdue* chinese homework. =\ Played Truth or Dare with Gerlynn, Rachel, Yan Ling, Ji Eun, Bernard and Ming Yan. Ming Yan said dare, and then bernard was like "Go rub Ray's cheeks and say cute!" So Ming Yan went up to Ray, IN FRONT OF HIM... and reached toward his face, and Ray jumped back, like OMG WTF kinda jumped back. Needless to say, this was the result:

Lol. We laughed so hard.

After that we had physics, when Ms Fong told us this story about the Nazi Concentration camps, we were all, *silence*. It didn't feel the same after that.

After school on Thursdays are now for late projects and chionging homework. Everyone was doing their thing. Dylan's group was filming their history project video:

Stuart as the abused Hitler... o.O

Physics project is all the rage now. 303 classroom smells like wood. And 304 smells like PVC.

Ping Liang's group was hard at work

And so were we

I'm so proud of it! Our hard work, but the credit goes to Bernard and Qu Zhi for building it, while minimal credit goes to Terry, as usual. As for me, i got the project started, and helped think of this idea XD

I had chinese remedial class later, and accidentally made Bernard wait for 2 hours... I'm so sorry about that Bern... Ahhh gotta do math tutorials now. Later.

2008-03-26T04:39:00.000-07:00

I have decided to make daily posts, as far as possible. Yay. AHHHH today's physics test was gayyyyy. It was so bloody difficult, and i thought it would be easy... But math was the other way around, with Ms Sie's looks i thought it was going to be from HELL. But it turned out to be more from the shop that sells air fresheners. I think i got at least 25/30, if i don't make stupid mistakes. Which i always do...

Lol for MPP today Mr Loke made us watch a video about Al Gore and his Global warming. We couldn't see or hear anything, so we were bored...

Lol. You can't see anything at all.

Bernard and I did physics project later. But the damn board kept breaking. So we breakdanced instead. And I invented a routine!

It goes like: Left thinker, Right thinker, Sink, spin, drift right then left, drift right and point, full thinker, horizontal freeze, 3 step, 6 step, baby freeze, coffee grinder, windmill, pop up, drop down, worm, back pop and DONE! Goes to Low by Flo Rider.

Frontlines: Fuel of War looks good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c28AduI09cQ

The first 2 seconds of this blog's life.

2008-03-25T04:11:00.000-07:00

Hi. The blog is up. Looks shitty. I'll get Bernard to help me code it later. Chionging physics and math right now. Projectile motion is hopelessly screwed. OMG MASTERING PHYSICS IS SCREWED. They said 24 March 1 am. But its 23 March 1 am, like after midnight its 24 march? o.0 God, need to focus. 3 Tests in 1 week. Slow torture by working to the death isn't the way to go.