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2010-02-06T18:05:00.002+08:00

The Jungle Hat
Lol, too long never post anything, and now a big milestone in my life, so I shall talk about it. Finally, the rough part is over. I got the well respected Jungle Hat and my 3SG rank will soon follow. Talk about, finally! After almost a year of being an SCT! Haha. I guess the theory aspect was easy for me, so I scored a lot of points, making me the Silver Bayonet. I don't think my Recce skills are that good actually, lol. Made lots of good friends from other units. Took some nice pictures. Will miss them. They have lucky NS lives.

Joke of the Post
What do you get when you react Calcium with Nitric Acid?
2Ca + 2HNO3 -> 2NaCO3 + H2
Sodium Carbonate and Hydrogen gas. It balances.

2009-04-09T22:42:00.006+08:00

Reflections
Suddenly felt like writing my thoughts after my 2nd field camp. Look at the tagboard, the last thing I said was when I was going for the first field camp lol. Field camp is just horrible, my most hated thing inside there! No bathe, no lights, and also, heat rash!! waaaaa! Oh but well, we do learn many things inside, including how we behanve when we are tired, who are the nice guys, and most importantly, team bonding! Because we can chat before we sleep! haha!

I am so really happy that I have such a nice bed buddy Eric Tay. He helps other people so much, preparing for the field camp and during the field cap as well. I am glad that he helps other people, so nice :D. He helped me a lot, both helping me with action and also with thought, the though of, my good jc friend is with me in field camp together through this shit. My section is very cool too, I know much more about them through this field camp, especially our password. Anyway this is over, the next big thing to look forward to is our weeeew poom grandslam, where we will do more missions, grrr, can already feel the tiredness.

Joke of the Post
Q: What did the thermometer say to the graduated cylinder?
A: "You may have graduated but I've got many degrees."

2008-10-03T14:45:00.005+08:00

Farewell Assembly 2008
As I was thinking about the past, 2 years has indeed gone by very quickly. From Orientation, all the way till now, where A levels are staring at us. I may not be so much of an emotional person, but yet, there was this sense of longing.

Maybe too much have happened. Maybe it's the teachers? They were excellent teachers really! Miss Wu, was a really great teacher who never fails help us in many ways. She has really did a lot for us! Also, I'm glad that I belong to a wonderful class, 07S41.

Do you remember the time when I propose the topic "07S41:Class of Talents" It's really true, if you think back carefully. We have talents in all aspects! Just look, firstly, on the academic side, our class has done well for math and chem, congratulations! :D We have our Mr Genius Erik, who will never fail to outsmart, hahas. Then we'll go to arts. There's Mark, geographer of the 07 batch! And Eric Tay has got the Geog H1 subject prize woohoo! For more arts, we can also look at the wonderful music makers, we have Eric Ng, Daniel, Beatrice and Charissa, who plays National Anthem and Victoria Anthem for the school, impressive! Also, not to mention Li Ying and Stepfanie, in String and CO respectively, making good music! We also have our very own Super Star Keely!!! As for great thinkers and philosophers, we have Shannon, who never fails to come up with brilliant argument points that stumbles the class, and me, in a GP discussion. There is also very kind hearted people, Cheryl from First Aid, and Ivie. They donated blood for 2 years consecutive years! Now, that makes me feel guilty... Over to sports, the best runner in VJC, and (perhaps) in Singapore! We also have Freddie, wow, man! Best Track and Field player in VJC too! Don't forget our sportswoman Natassia. Wow, her soccer just roxxx! Then, we have leadership. Qian Yu from Student's council, Nicole for CT council, and our class also have the most people in house comm, Keely and Aaron! Sorry if I have not mentioned your name, I'm sure that everyone has a talent that will be recognised someday, and I really mean everyone of you!

Now, thinking back... many memories indeed, wonder how much I will forget when I grow older... Now, it is the time for us to work hard for you know what. I wish you all the best, but of course, you have to study hard in order to do it! :D

Joke of the Post
Q: If both a bear in Yosemite and one in Alaska fall into the water, which one disolves faster?
A: The one in Alaska. It is Polar.

2008-07-28T18:39:00.002+08:00

VJC College Day 2008
Hmm, lol. Stuff not to be proud of actually, but I got a subject prize for being top in cohort in H1 geography, umm, talk about some luck there, haha! This year, I will not get anything at all, sadly. To get the subject prize, one has to be top in cohort and get either an A or B in that subject. My condolences to Mark who got C for H1 Chemistry, but he possess a very applausable quality of honesty for admitting he didn't get A. Nice, my mum and my aunt went and took some pics, but I shall not upload them Zzz, lol. They both thought the performances were very nice, especially the Band's performance, and I totally agree with them. This year has this years targets and goals, and we all will work hard together towards our ultimate goal of our JC life.

Joke of the Post
A professor was giving a big test one day to his students. He handed out all of the tests and went back to his desk to wait. Once the test was over the students all handed the tests back in. The professor noticed that one of the students had attached a $100 bill to his test with a note saying "A dollar per point." The next class the professor handed the tests back out. This student got back his test and $64 change...

2008-06-21T21:05:00.002+08:00

Holidays
How time flies, the holidays are already ending. The preparation of exams... I'm not quite confident, lol. Let's see. Hmm, my parents are giving me the ULTIMATE test man, they are going overseas while we are taking exams ... Aww man, I can't play 24 hours while they are gone >.<>

Birthday
Again, how time flies, I'm now already 18, like wow. I didn't have a major celebration like other people, but it is fine. A big meal is all that would please me :). Made a few wishes etc, kinda not so nice birthday actually, lols.

Joke of the Post
Q: how many times can you subtract 7 from 83, and what is left afterwards?
A: I can subtract it as many times as I want, and it leaves 76 everytime.

2008-05-31T14:17:00.002+08:00

School
It's like wow! It's already mid year and we are taking A' levels so soon, zomg. Anyways, I'm so happy, I have 2 H3 modules... finished! :D. Now all that's left is just the real A'levels itself. Hmm, talk about fast.

Holidays
Is not like holidays considering the fact that I had a PSC PAE test, followed by a H3 exam yesterday. More to come is a SAT test next sat (pun not intended), and last but not least, the final finishing is the Common Test 2, which I have no reason not to do well for ><. So I'll study for CT2 well.

Life
Nowadays, I keep looking at people with pessimisic views about life, and the most funny was the thinking that we cannot define life because it is meaningless. Life is something that is precious, and we should all cherish it because we were granted such a wonderful gift. Thus, you have to use it to the fullest, enjoy it at times, and of course, when it is time to struggle, do so. If you are in hell and you don't keep moving, you get stuck there. So, for those who are struggling, you still have to take some time out to enjy a bit okies? Don't just keep on going, it's not good for the spirit. Must remember this. Oh, and hope you all get the joke :D.

Joke of the Post
Q: What did the Nuclear Physicist have for lunch?
A: Fission Chips

2008-05-03T13:07:00.002+08:00

School
Finishing up my lab report. But, how are you going to calculate percentage yield when you don't even know how much you are going to get? lol. Work is done quite quickly nowadays, that I have time, mhh, Chemistry review test coming up. Oh, and how many times must the report that they won so many prizes for ssef!

Flyff
Flyff has its ups and downs. Recently, I'm going back to flyff. A friend is in need. I have to help. Being back to my Ringmaster really feels good :) Gonna play flyff, gotta like it even though it makes it hard to play.

Joke of the Post
We were oxidizing ethanol to ethanoic acid. If I remember rightly, you reflux it for twenty minutes with dilute HCl to get it to go to an aldehyde first, then bash it with conc. sulphuric and sodium dichromate for another twenty minutes to make it go the rest of the way. Anyhow, there I was carefully following the instructions in the textbook. I got as far as the aldehyde. At this point the book said "Add 5g of Na2Cr2O7." I did that. Then it said "Now using a dropper pippette add 10ml of conc. sulphuric acid..." I did that. Then I read the rest of the line, and it said: "CAREFULLY, drop by drop over 10 minutes." I lifted my heead to see evil looking bubbles spewing forth from my pear-shaped flask beneath a growing tower of thick orange fumes. It looked like something off the set for Jeckyll and Hyde.

2008-04-12T21:06:00.003+08:00

School
Yes, I finally bother to spend some time to put up a post. School hasn't been so good, it must be because I flopped my H3 test. Grr. To make it up, I have to pia for normal stream studies... and be sure to own the last test. Other that that, I did less well than normal for CT, so I would expect a good improvement for CT2. So, enough anbout academics.

Virtual World
It's the virtual world I'm talking about. Some of you won't know about this. I'm a gamer, lol. I specialise in MMORPG, so that's why I speak of the virtual world. Being in the virtual world has really taought me some things, how to be nice to others etc, and most importantly, understanding myself. In the net, I can be what the inside of me tells me to do, which can't be done in real. People should try out actually, to be what they want to be. Though only virtually, it still allows you to test it out 'virtually' too. There are actually more things to be said here, but I guess I shouldn't, hehe.

Others
Recently, I've got a new phone, yay, after nearly a year of using an old lau gu dong handphone. It is as I wanted, a music phone. :))) Yea, so it was good. I started taking some pictures and try to give some interesting names to them too, haha. Lookies, a Quantum Physics 3 joke, only understandable after you read the notes.

Joke of the Post
If you never do your assignment, say this to your professor.
Professor: Where is your assignment?
Student: Oh, I know its momentum so precisely that it could be almost anywhere in the universe.

2008-03-07T20:08:00.003+08:00

School
Hmm... SSEF is finally over. Now it's time to study for Common Test and H3 Assessment. I can predict that I won't do so well ><.

Singapore Science and Engineering Fair
Somehow, I quite liked it. It wasn't fun, but it gave me a chance to show my project. On the judging day, I was not really bothered about getting any awards one, so I just anyhow whack. Then in the end, they gave me a merit award, then I thought... ohh, I should've just tried harder la. The motivation came at the wrong time ><. It was good though, winning something is quite good already. Nice people there too. Really hope I can see them again.

Joke of the Post
Thesaurus: ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary.

2008-02-29T21:02:00.002+08:00

School
Heh... school work huh? I'm like... I will underperform for my CT. Why is that so ><. The timing for this Common Test is seriously just wrong. I have my H3 NAV Oral Defence so close to the CT, also the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair clashes with CT. What's worse? I also have a H3 assessment on that week's saturday. Oh and something even more worse! H1 Geog people have to study more than H2 students for the geog CT!? What kind of law is this?
Hehe, but think on the better side, I completed my H3 Oral Defence today and I think I did fairly well haha. The judges I kena is also one of the judges for SSEF. I went into the room and recognised his face, the SSEF associate professor, like wow... an I lucky to kena him? lol. And also, the other judge actually guessed that my mentor is someone... and that someone is actually my real mentor's research group leader, there must be some sort of link there. But anyways I'm really happy that a H3 is done for, and a job well done indeed :)

Others
On Wednesday, we had this stress management talk yes? Then they gave us this test to see how 'optimistic' you are. Kinda inaccurate to a large extent, but I got 6/8. Does it really reflect that I'm a optimist? Well maybe? Cos even Miss Wu said that I'm an optimistic person haha. Yes, I tend to look at stuff in the positive light and when something goes wrong I do not panic like siao like that. Maybe.. just maybe. Today is 29th Feb. And you know that Leap Year movie, one of their quote is "To have love and lost, is better than never to have loved at all." I used it before haha. Relatively interesting. Also seen more meaningful quotes, but can't really remember now. This post has an interesting joke, read it :D.

Joke of the Post
An elderly lady with several pets called to say that her telephone failed to ring when her friends called; and that on the few occasions when it did ring, her dog always barked first. The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog. He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring. He tried again. The dog barked loudly, followed by a ringing telephone. Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman found:
1. A dog was tied to the telephone system's ground post via an iron chain and collar.
2. The dog was receiving a 90 volt signalling current.
3. After several such jolts, the dog would start barking and urinating on the ground.
4. The wet ground now completed the circuit and the phone would ring.
This shows you that some problems can be fixed by just pissing on them.

2008-01-25T21:05:00.000+08:00

School
Hmm... Long ime no post again... Seems like it's gettinga bit redundant to blog, but today, I wanted to put up a post, hehe. School has started and everything went back to normal, with some differences. Alan have been really busy with his Science Research, and now it's done (for the time being) he can finally take a rest :). Time now goes to Chingay ><" His weekend is lost to it... ahh well who ask him so dumb to go sign up. Hehe, this is sooo cute... Alan likes Wei Ting's idea, haha!

My Brother
Some of you might have already knew, I have a brother who is 1 year younger than me. Lucky enough for us after 10 years, we are finally in the same school!!! He got L1R5 of 4 with bonuses already counted. Zomg, this unity is undescribable, learning the same things and sharing all the same fun stuff in the same school. Too bad it will only last a year :(.

Others
There was this talk by CPM today for certain people. which I unfortunately got in. That talk actually have some point, after thinking back about it (Omg la, please, not about the 'free flow' of chicken nuggets and plain water! :D) Maybe he is right... Does an introvert like Alan have the ability to make a difference? Thinking back, he won the unsung hero award in NPCC. His contribution though small, was recognised. So here comes the question.. what can he do now? His ambition is to become a medical researcher/surgeon/doctor. He really like science research, he actually got some compliments from the researchers at IBN, he can do relatively well in studies. Maybe he can help other people with their studies? Maybe he should study hard and gain more knowledge such that he can 'possibly' find a cure for AIDS? Can't forget the One Life catchline: Fight AIDS, fight the hate, you got one life, do something. Lolols. He shall try to help others... in an attempt. There is a kind inner heart in everyone of us, the other side of homo sapiens. Actually I do have a new year resolution, one which I will only keep to myself. Why am I always like that, say something, but don't actually saying it. Does this actually piss people off? I hope not. It's me... and I only want to be nice. The joke this week not so funny.

Joke of the Post
Lightest element award: Hydrogen
Most versatile award: Carbon
Most electronegative award: Fluoride
Most diamagnetic award: Bismuth
Lowest thermal conductivity: Mercury
Most autistic element award:Helium
Most Noble award: Helium

2007-12-07T21:09:00.000+08:00

Introduction
Oh haha, I thought this was necesary cos I haven't post anything for ages. I remember the last time I posted was before the busy part of PW starts, so I can blame PW for taking so much of my time that I couldn't blog anymore. But anyways, I have accumulated a lot of things to post about.

Holidays
Some people out there just stay at home throughout the holidays and do nothing. I used to do that, but I found out that actually doing something useful can be quite enjoyable too! :D I haven't wasted my time on my attachment programme after all. I would say, so far, I've been enjoying my holidays and having a fruitfu time. I'm not resting, I'm learning, and I might start next year tired, but it's all worth it for a H3. Yes.

Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
is a great place, lol. :D I can still remember the first time I went to biopolis for attachment. I was expecting something very seh. However, I found that biopolis is a very human place! They slack around quite a bit and enjoy having lunch outside biopolis a lot. There are nice food nearby. But that's not the point. I feel that I'm so lucky to have a chance to get attached to this wonderful institute that let me try out such an interesting project and giving me a 'stipend' of $30 a day, lol. Get paid and acquire good knowledge :D Is nice!. I really learnt a lot there, and these experiences could not be gained in VJ. I'm like... enjoying my attachment there, cos science research is really fun! :D

My Project
is a hard one indeed. In fact it is imba. My mentor presented me 5 choices and I just chose the one that I'm most interested in, that is, culturing rat liver cells in 2D and 3D methods. How did it turn out? I just found out that this kind of project is done by PhD students!!! I had to work overtime for so many of my days that I got used to it by now. But I'm quite glad that I got the hardest project cause it gives me room to prove myself. Even my co-mentor says hat I'm handling the project quite well. Oh, I have a mentor who does administrative stuff, and a co-mentor who trains and teaches me to do the project. Both of them got their PhD, lol. I feel so fortunate to work with these imba people. I really have to thank them when my project ends. I really enjoy doing my project a lot, though my cells die like so easily. They are so fragile, some physical disturbance like bubble bursting can kill them all, lol. Must treat life with care, ya know :D! But I think, I also like the part when I do my assays, they're so fun and colourful. All my 3 types of assays have colours :D. Fun coloured experiments indeed.

My IBN Friends
I really have to isolate this part rom the rest. Reminiscing the past, I can still remember that week when my new friends came my student room. Especially the third week, when Theodore came and shared room with Ada, Derek and me. Oh apparently, Ada and Derek are my dear friend Moses' classmates! Speak about coincidence! These friends are really good people, easily sociable and all. They know how to treat people. We can socialise and entertain each other when experiments get boring (do happen sometimes though). We go pantry in big groups and talk and eat together. These friends are rare, people who are so nice, and share the same passion as me in science. Is like wow, I'm making friends who are just like me, really wonderful people really. Really like science research too, like me. Ada even had exactly the same ambition as me, that is really stunning. I want to be a Medical Researcher or a Surgeon, and someone can actually share the same 2 ambitions, lol. I would miss my lab days a lot when the school reopens, really, a lot. I really enjoyed myself even when I have to sacrifice my holidays to do a H3.

Joke of the... Watch your Language in Biochemistry
The Sciences are very jargon oriented and this can cause problems when over-excited scientists carry on conversations in the real world... you know, the ones without the pipettes and shakers and chemical bottles. Thefollowing are three true stories.

Politically Corrects

Two young scientists, a student and a post-doc, had left the lab afteranother succesful day. As they rode the local transit on their way home, they began a rather animated discussion about the day's results and more specifically about the success that one had with her gel retardation or mobility shift assays. On and on they went about the "retards" doing this and the "retards" doing that when a woman across the aisle from them finally turned in disgust and said: "The word is mentally handicapped and it's not very nice to call them retards." The two scientist were shocked by this sudden outburst and the woman got off of the train before the two could correct her on the subject to which they were referring.

The Cutting Edge
In a protein lab, it is common for people to set up their proteins as a fusion with other domains which are easily purified through their affinity to ligands attached to resin beads. One of the most common of these domains is the glutathione S-transferase protein or GST. Typically, thereis a small linker region between the protein of interest and the fusion parner and this amino acid sequence contains recognition sequences for proteases. After months in the lab, having limited success with her proteolysis reactions, a young female grad student finally had her patience and perseverence pay off when she destained yet another gel and saw that her protein had indeed been cut by the protease. In her joy, the young woman ran out into the hallway, proclaiming proudly to all: "I've got cleavage. I've got cleavage. Come over here. Look at my cleavage."

A Graphic Plot
In another lab, on another day, yet another young, female graduate student was working on a poster for presentation at an upcoming meeting. She had been using fluorescence to study the binding of a protein to its ligand andhad spent quite a bit of time getting just the right distribution of datapoints for her graph. After several days in front of the fluorimeter and hours in front of the computer, plotting her data, she sat back in satisfaction at her accomplishments. Seeing one of the guys from her lab passing in the hallway, she called out to him in a loud voice, "Hey come look at my figure. Are these outstanding curves or what?" They were nice curves and she had a really nice figure.

(Maybe only my labmates would understand these...)

2007-10-12T12:27:00.000+08:00

School
It is over. Now what''s left for us is just some essential small lessons and of course, we cannot forget all our time has went to: PW! So... How's my results? lol. I haven't get back everything yet, but it's good, I think :D.

Other
Played too much I forgot to post yesterday... Anyways, I'm happy that V7 glows are back, nice~ I'll continue to be my happy happy Ringmaster :D

Joke of the Week
Old Thermodynamicists never die, they just achieve their state of maximum entropy.

2007-09-29T23:38:00.000+08:00

School
Exams are over hooray XD. I guess I was too engrossed in playing I forgot to post on Friday, lol. Hope you will do well for your exams :D. I hope myself can be too. Nothing much to say now... I want go play :D.

Joke of the Week
The Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: Watt's Pots Never Boyle.
The Fifth Law of Thermodynamics: Things Get Worse Under Pressure.
The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics? Don't play with fire.

2007-09-23T20:36:00.000+08:00

Examinations
Are coming! That's probably why I forgot to post on friday, oops. Good luck for exams, you all! :D Remember, study smart, and not spent so many hours studying, but actually gained nothing. Time should also be spent on destress, best on sports or running. Jia you, you all, hehe.

Joke of the Week
Student: What have I done wrong here? (puzzled)
Teacher: You have cancelled 4/9 to get 1/3
Student: Yeah...
Teacher: Which is well... wrong.

2007-09-14T19:58:00.000+08:00

School
Okay, this is time of crisis. Just study. However, time spent studying is not necessarity proportonate to the things that you will learn. Quality time spent studying is what I value more.

Flyff
Gala-net came up with their new version 9. So what are my feelings? Most have already been covered by others. The minisite they made only highlights the good points and disguised all the bad points. Take 2 examples: pet and coloured buffs. Those pets loses 1 hp every second and are thus shortlived. Buffs are only limited to 14 at a time in V9. Also, I don't mind losing 6% exp everytime I die if there were no pk in all servers. What I am most sad about is that flyff is degenerating in the social way. Last time, I thought flyff was a game for civilised people. They HAD the best community, the best socially developed with all being polite to each other. This is possibly due to the assist class and their buffs, which I really like. However, flyff has socially degenerated. You will now not see Ringmasters hanging out at Bangs and helping people level. But, the flyff community has turned to the dark side as flyff goes to the dark side. PKing in all servers. I am really sad to see flyff becoming like this. Give us back our safety in non pk servers is you wanna earn money, gala-net, or we will not spend real money and lose it to other evil players.What I will now do: permanently stay in town and hang out with my friends who are still playing flyff. I stress: who are STILL playing flyff.

Joke of the Week
The Engineer walks in her office and finds her trash can on fire. She gets the fire extinguisher and puts out the fire. The Mathematician walks in his office and finds his trash can on fire. He gets the fire extinguisher and puts out the fire.
The following day: The Engineer walks in her office and finds the trash can on fire on top of her desk. She gets the fire extinguisher and put out the fire. The Mathematician walks in his office and finds the trash can on fire on top of his desk. He takes the trash can and puts it on the floor. He has reduced the problem to a previously solved state.

2007-09-07T23:44:00.000+08:00

Holidays
Hmm, so mostly, I'm been enjoying my holidays :D. Though I completed all my work and completed chem revision as of now. Must really study when school reopens le. Holidays ending, to be happy. HappyHappy :D.

Others
I actually wanted to write something really stupid here, but as it was late now (oops, I went in to flyff to wait for Andy and lost the time), forget it. It's really stupid anyways, lol.

Joke of the Week
How to stop the school operate for at least several days:
1) Obtain a piece of potassium metal large enought to obtain REAL effect
2) Wrap the potassium in newspaper paper good enough not to let water to reach it immediately
3) Throw the wrappred potassium into the toilet and flush it down so it would go down the pipes
(Imagine what will happen if the potassium only reactes after some time due to the newspaper)
This idea was never implemented.

2007-08-31T15:31:00.000+08:00

School
Hehe, the school term has ended. But that doesn't mean the end of our mugging, aaaaarrrr. Lol, like it matters. Time to study hard for exams. Understand all the concepts and practice them! As for GP and Geog arr... I don't know how, just study them :D. Time for holidays, take a small break, and choing for promos liao lar!

Teachers' Day 2006
VJC's teachers' day is very highly humourous, that's all I can say. It's total LOLNESS! Anyways, a visit back to DHS gave me a chance to see my Sec 4 teachers, those that helped me got my A1. Didn't manage to see my physics and form (biology) teacher, waaaa sad.

Joke of the Week
You enter the laboratory and see an experiment. How will you know which class is it?
If it's green and wiggles, it's biology.
If it stinks, it's chemistry.
If it doesn't work, it's physics.

2007-08-24T21:03:00.000+08:00

School
As the promos draw near... Hmm, better start studying lots, you people! Got a ton of tutorials to do this week, argh. PW is gonna interfere with the promos. My method, gotta know everything beforehand already and not do last minute learnings, this is baaad, lol. I found our Math totur's joke is quite funny, haha, so I decided to post it.

Joke of the Week
If you are not going to learn integration properly in JC1, your life next year will disintegrate.

2007-08-17T19:34:00.000+08:00

School
Another full week has passed, a fine one, I think. Lol, my homework for the weekends is all maths. :D

Flyff
I wanna write about PhoenixRising. After being there for 10 months, it hasn't really improved a lot. I'm still having low members here and there. The main reason is that people leave flyff, it's hard to come across people who stay in flyff for 1 year and 8 months and stays in the guild. It's really hard to keep a guild active with relatively lots of high level people. Ringmaster is still the funnest for me, lol.

Joke of the Week
Have fun with Chemical Equilibrium 1, lol.
Buffer Region: Range of the buff (especially GT)
Buffer Capacity: Amount of buffs an assist can give
Buffer preparation: Training a Ringmaster
Weak acid Buffer: Low int Billposters
Weak Base Buffer: Low int Ringmasters

2007-08-10T21:01:00.000+08:00

School
What is there to say about a 2 day week? Lols. The National Day Celebrations in VJC is quite unique, if I were to say so myself.

National Day 2007
Really cool. Different from the past few years because of the new stadium. I say, that stadium really is imba, using many techniques to manipulate water. This year's climax, the fireworks, was unique too, although quite short, lol. I cannot see the fireworks from my house anymore!

Other
If you receive a zip file from your friends that is titled "pictures" or something like that, DO NOT receive and unzip it. Lucky I didn't kena the virus, lol. Still enjoying the fun of a rm, guess it will be hard to get sick of a rm because it really is fun. Going to get my Geburah Tipreth now :D! I put this joke before, but I still felt it was funny, so I decided to put it again.

Joke of the Week
Q: How does a mathematician induce good behavior in her children?
A: "I've told you n times, I've told you n+1 times..."

2007-08-03T19:01:00.000+08:00

School
What do we get this week? Spam of tutorials! Omg, lol. Have fun la, I not that happy, lol. Thankfully, our PW group's WR is finishing. 2 day weekend for the enjoyment and catching up on tutorials, quite nice :D

Flyff
The guild is like... lol. I'll reinvite more people when my RM reaches a higher level :D! Ringmaster is a very very fun class! I'm always so happy with my RM, lol. More happiness for the happy Gemicer!

Joke of the Week
Most prime numbers are even.
Proof: pick up any math text and look for a prime number. The first one you find will probably be even.

2007-07-27T18:48:00.000+08:00

School
More PW... But that's okay, the school work load is still fine. I still do my tutorials, and will continur to be. Got back my results for Mid-Years. I wonder any 07S41 got higher than 70? If not, me and Erik ties for the first :D!

Flyff
The guild upsets over the loss of a nice guildmate. It's okay, I think. Just leave her alone and she will come back soon. The guild needs a revamp! Time for kicking and recruiting! Time to get the guild hyperactive again! Lol. Spam guild chat man! The joke not that funny la, just puns and puns.

Joke of the Week
"Welcome to Entropy Burgers -- may I take your order?"
"I put in disorder a long time ago. The service here is getting worse all the time."
"My experience Gibbs me reason to believe you.""I know the waitress who asked that, too. Her name's Ellen Omega. She really made me thermally dynamic. So, I asked her out. I tell you, when she don't like you, she really Boltz, man. Women like that are never distributed normally among the population."

2007-07-20T21:05:00.000+08:00

School
This is bad. My weekends are eaten up by PW. Sian, faster finish our WR first draft, lol. School continues to be okay. Lol at today's chemistry end lesson.

Others
Perfect Cherry Blossom rox! The game with the excitement, enjoyment, music! Omg, you've got to think it's music owns!

Joke of the Week
Q: What is the chemical symbol for diarrhea?
A: (CO(NH2)2)2
E: (Co(NH2)2)2 is a dimer and urea is the molecule CO(NH2)2

2007-07-13T21:03:00.001+08:00

School
So like, wow. All the subjects I'm pro in are back. I shall not say it, in case anyone thinks what I'm not. Urgh. PW!!! Time to start writing the Written Report. Siao liao lor. The work load in school continues to be the same.

Others
I suddenly interested in playing piano. Actually, only interested in mastering a piece: Eternity ~Memories of Lightwaves~. Lol, playing with 2 hands is hard, but I can do it, because I think I can. I will try my best to learn it. It's very nice! Ringmaster life is starting soon!

Joke of the Week
A physics student once got the following question in an exam: "You are given an accurate
barometer. How would you use it to determine the height of a skyscraper?"
He answered, "Go to the top floor, tie a long piece of string to the barometer, let it down utill it touches the ground and measure the length of the string." The examiner wasn't satisfied, so they decided to interview the guy:
"Can you give us another method, one which demonstrates your knowledge of Physics?"
"Sure, go to the top floor, drop the barometer off, and measure how long before it hits the
ground..."
"Not, quite what we wanted, care to try again?"
"Make a pendulum of the barometer, measure its period at the bottom, then measure its
period at the top..."
"...another try?...."
"Measure the length of the barometer, then mount it vertically on the ground on a sunny day
and measure its shadow, measure the shadow of theskyscraper..."
"...and again?..."
"walk up the stairs and use the barometer as a ruler to measure the height of the walls in the
stairwells."
"...One more try?"
"Find where the janitor lives, knock on his door and say 'Please, Mr. Janitor, if I give you
this nice barometer, will you tell me the height of this building?'"
(Real method being finding the pressure difference)

2007-07-06T21:06:00.000+08:00

School
Heh. Now school, back, and is full spam liao. I have 3 main areas of focuses now. 1st and most important: School work. This one is no doubt. 2nd is my pw, urgh, pw is back and is really taking up a big part in my mind. 3rd is my H3 Science Reserch! This thingy requires a lot of my time man. I might just havea little bit time for recreation.

Others
The sudden love of Yasunori Mitsuda's music. Darn I can't put up my Trans-port Cis-tem joke!

Joke of the Week
Three statisticians go out hunting together. After a while they spot a solitary rabbit. The first statistician takes aim and overshoots. The second aims and undershoots. The third shouts out "We got him!"

2007-07-03T21:05:00.000+08:00

The only place I can scream and not get heard.

Right, I try to be the best, kindest guild leader there ever can be, but mayb e I'm just a bad person. I've played flyff for so long, I had faced problems my members will face. Why didn't I learn from the mistakes of my old guildmates and prevent myself from making mistakes causing hurt to my guildmates? Maybe, I'm just not up to it.

So Guild Leaders are supposed to take care for all their guildmates and not to be cared for by anyone. Blame it on myself for being the longest player of flyff in the guild, and being the guild leader. Now I got myself a daunting task. I had always knew that managing a guild is not easy, especially guilds that are neither noob or pro, but in between, such as our guild.

If those emo people say that they appear hard on the outside, but soft inside their hearts, I'm a totally emo crap person. A guy's way of speech, but a girl's heart and thoughts. It's either I'm really like this or I'm just a very sick and perverse person.

When I meet wihth such conflicts, I will always bring myself to look on d3y/dx3 mode, that is, look at the overview and make a judgement based on everyone's viewpoint. I tend to blame myseelf for conflicts, as it takes two to create a conflict, and I'm one of them. I've been brought up to think like this.

That night, I told him: "I hate you, all you know is show off." I said this because I understand that showing off pisses one off. I don't want him to piss anyone else off. That is the reason why I don't show off anymore. Or maybe it is because I have made him feel upset many times the past few days already.

Just after I got my blue name, I didn't call on anyone to show off/compare shades, or whatsoever. But he did, and that somehow got onto my nerve, so I decided not to see him. He got pissed and said that his presence and contributions are not felt. If this was true, he would be a rookie/supporter and not a Kingpin. I actually taught him a lot of stuff and made him what he is in flyff today (He did the later developments himself), but now he says he is a nobody. My guildmate went to comfort him, and not me, because he seems more emotionally unstable than I was, or maybe because I'm in the wrong. I don't resort to saying stuff like "Okay, so I'm a wooden block, a leecher in the guild, my contributions were nothing, etc" because I really thought they were childish and does not help the situation. But my guildmate actually went to comfort him!!! I could have done a lot of silly things, but I controlled myself. So, you people are right, I'm in the wrong. As the Guild Leader, a 17 year old, brought up in a weird family, I should have tried to prevent stuff like this which have happened to me, and hurt me, so that other people do not have to face what I have faced, and not get hurt. I guess I'm not sure mature after all, because I want actions that I think is mature to be known.

Now I understand. Adults are really difficult to be. They absorb all the feelings of anger, sadness, feeling of being wronged, guilt, and more, and can still act as if they are alright. That should be the right kind of person I shall be, from now on, die to my position in the guild. I have to be the most understanding, thoughtful, caring, helpful guild leader and to expect nothing in return, the perfect guild leader, in the perfect guild where my members wishes to be in. I came a long way, I will not give up on my guild. I founded it and will continue to love it and the people in it, make it rise.

A guild where everyone's presence is felt, requires the help of everyone.

Right, I have destressed, time to go to flyff and patch things up.

Flyff Special Report

2007-06-29T21:01:00.000+08:00

School
The Mid-years ended like, in a blink. Some random observations. In JC, only 5 topics are in exams, and this makes the exams really short, however, each paper is mind boggling and requires a lot of thinking! I'm currently suffering for a mild fever withh headache. Must be the weather dammit. Now, it's time to go back to school and study. I don't know why I actually look forward to it. Aww, forget that long Joke, it's really too long to post here.

Joke of the Week
A mathematician is showing a new proof he came up with to a large group ofpeers. After he's gone through most of it, one of the mathematicians says,"Wait! That's not true. I have a counter-example!"He replies, "That's okay. I have two proofs."

2007-06-22T21:06:00.000+08:00

Holidays
Lol. The holidays are ending. Hope everyone studied up and are getting ready for exams. For myself, I left GP to study, deliberately left it for last as I'm the crappiest in it. Soooo, goood luck for your exams.

New Computer!
Yes! I got a new comp finally! Missed my last weeks's post as I have no functioning computer, lol. My new comp owns! Core 2 duo (1,87GHz) with graphics card Asus EN 8500 GT. Think it will last quite some time before my comp gets out of date.

Birthdays
I've been quite lucky to have friends sharing birthdays that are sooooo close to mine. Here they are. On 20th June 1990, Eric Tay of 07S41 was born! After a day, that's my birthday, lol. On 22th June 1990, Boon Wei, DHSNPCC NCO squad 05,06 was brought to this world! Then on 23th June 1990, the very shuai Leon Gaw of 07S41 was born! Lol, to think I met these guys! 4 birthdays in a row! Here's wishing happy birthday to all the ones listed above! May your wishes come true!

Joke of the Week
Studying expands knowledge,
Knowledge is power,
Power corrupts,
Corruption is a crime,
Crime doesn't pay.
Why study?
(P.S. I got an imba long joke for next week!)

2007-06-08T23:30:00.000+08:00

Home
Got most of my Chemistry covered that's all. Still enjoying my holidays :)

Joke of the Week
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Issac Newton1: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road.
Issac Newton2: It was pushed on the road.
Issac Newton3: It was pushed on the road by another chicken, which went away from the road.
Issac Newton4: It was attracted to a chicken on the other side of the road.

2007-06-01T21:06:00.000+08:00

Home
Hmm, looks like no one comes to by blog except Andy, lol. In a way, that's good. :D. Completed all my work, now, start to revise for Mid years. The week was spent slacking, or at least most of it. Never mind, I had fun!

Joke of the Week
Q: What is the simplest way to observe the optical Doppler effect?
A: Go out at and look at cars. The lights of the ones approaching you are white, while the lights of the ones moving away from you are red.

2007-05-25T14:04:00.000+08:00

School
Yay VJ gave us full day today! However our class outing failed, lol, nvm. I came back home to face my shitty comp again. Okay, the holidays are here, hope all of you can have fun, but also, not forgetting to study for the mid-years, haiz sian (for you guys). I gotta choing for my GP. My GP teacher asks me to stop writing a geog essay, you are going to get an A if it's a geog essay. The sad part is, I havent passed a single human geog essay in both my tries, though my physical goeg is lol. Maybe physical geog is easier to score. Urgh, I got double killed again (Last time was chi and eng). You have to reflect on your previous mistakes in order to get better next time. Chem SPA today is total ownage. My friend asked me why I took so long. My reason: I'm perfecting it. Though my report is only 2 sides long, it's good. Straight to the point is my style. Oh, did you guys enjoy your full days? I certainly hope so. :) (though I didn't really) (Err, wait. No one reads my posts, if anyone reads till here, tag something, I literally mean something, please).

Others
It's high time to change my blog music, it has been Longfall for months. Time for a Yasunori Mitsuda, I suppose. Let's choose one of the best of Yasunori Mitsuda's songs which has a nice melody.

Joke of the Week
Life is complex: it has both real and imaginary components.

2007-05-18T18:52:00.000+08:00

School
Since I forgot to post anything last week, I decide to do a special double week report. Yes nice... it's gonna be long. School: Very cool, fun Physics test came up and own us. Why are JC tests so hiong?! I left 2 marks blank, argh. Must choing for all JC tests, fast. I like the volume of iceberg question :D. Lots of "imba"lance stuff came up for both GP and Geog, maybe I shall just put up my viewpoint here, no biasedness and what so ever. First, gender imbalance. I believe ( I typed believer, then backspaced the r away, not deliberate) that this exists from the start of human race. This exists because since then, man has donimance over women because they were physically stronger and can thus gain power, and thus this mindset has long formed and passed down generations. It is hard to change this viewpoint. However, I believe the ideal is that both gender have equal power. Now, social imbalance. I believe that this exists because of the different abilities of each person. A more capable person will tend to earn more money. The human race is becoming smarter, possibly because of Natural Selection. Those who are smart are chosen by nature and would be entitled to more power and enjoy a better quality of life. For those who are poor, do not expect an income distribution or anything, but to look back and think why you can't earn more money.

Important Date
Well, look at the date man! It's my father's birthday! lol, this might not mean much to anyone of you reading this, or even my father as we don't celebrate birthdays now. But still, today is more special than a normal day and I wish my father a highly pleasing future where everything will go smoothly with no troubles. May you have yet an even higher salary... :D!

Joke of the Week
Prove that y = d4y/dx4
Let y = sin x
dy/dx = cos x
d2y/dx2 = -sin x
d3y/dx3 = -cos x
d4y/dx4 = sin x
therefore y = d4y/dx4
(Qualitatively and Easily Done) (QED)

2007-05-04T21:09:00.000+08:00

School
The week was a mess, but it ended nicely. Fridays are long but pleasant, as always. IBN, please find me a mentor! Wow, I got nothing else to say. This week went past so fast.

Joke of the Week
What do you get if you react Calcium with Nitric Acid?
Answer: Sodium Carbonate and Hydrogen
2Ca + 2HNO3 => 2NaCO3 + H2
Check to see if it balances.

2007-04-27T22:26:00.000+08:00

School
Workload is increasing and PW is starting to go full force. Hmm, yes, very busy and all, but still can handle. My first IBN interview has passed, and now for the final interview. I hope I can get in, it's my life leh, cannot get in then haiz, sian liao. Still, I hope everyone can handle their work well.

Others
Recently, the "weather" has changed. During the days from January till now, my new friends have been seeing me in my Gemini state. I can't help this, but... As the year carries on, Cancer is becoming more dominant of me. The above doesn't sound like what I believe in, but, it can provide an "excuse" for my current anti-socialness. Oh and you should realise I rarely use lol in my posts, while you can find plenty in the older ones. Forgive me. Wish that I turn back.

Joke of the Week
Somebody wrote a paper about how this chemical, dihydrogenoxide, has killed over 100,000 people world wide, usually through inhalation. The story also went on that even if you wash your food you can never get this chemical off. No matter what you do you will be exposed to this very dangerous chemical every day of your life until you die. The story finished by claiming that there needs to be a government research group founded to find a solution. yada yada yada...anyhow, a local press guy got a hold of this joke, if you haven't figured it out di-hydrogen-oxide is the correct name for H2O or water. The deaths that he was quoting were from drownings. Anyhow, this local guy ran the article in a paper and started a big outcry for a government study before they realized what the story was about.

2007-04-20T21:56:00.000+08:00

School
Another full week has came and gone. Precious half day on Thursday was celebrated at my grandma's house playing Mahjong and I really did show out my true powers, lol. Completed most of my stuff, I like.

Others
If you lose something in Singapore, you most probably, won't get it back again, because, Singapore did not achieve lu bu shi yi. I actually came out with an idea for the class, posted on my clas blog.

Joke of the Week
In a psychiatrist's waiting room two patients are having a conversation. One says to the other, "Why are you here?"The second answers, "I'm Napoleon, so the doctor told me to come here." The first is curious and asks, "How do you know that you're Napoleon?" The second responds, "God told me I was." At this point, a patient on the other side of the room shouts, "NO I DIDN'T!"

2007-04-13T20:20:00.000+08:00

School
Wonderful week. Although I have been flooded with work, I sort of enjoyed them, lol, I'm kinda different, I shall say. I just realised Science Research is competitive. But I can make it, I think. Hehe, let's own it man. I will study even harder for the sake of my science research now. I got a interview at Institude of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) next Monday. Whoa, very scary, hope I can get in, if I can, I would be quite safe at the H3 level. Biology joke today, only for those who took bio before. Yes, may your quest to gain more knowledge be entertaining~

Joke of the Week
When you breathe, you inspire. When you do not breathe, you expire.

2007-04-06T21:10:00.000+08:00

School
We went deeper into the year. It was really fast, the first day when I am in S41 was like yesterday, but now I know everyone already, lol. First time in a JC taking a Chem test. I was like, what the heck? So little time? Lucky I still can choing the whole thing. Yes, I'm enjoying my life here, haha.

Others
My computer is really laggy and old. It is 7 years old, I hope to get a new one soon, super laggy sia, I took a long time to post this. I really miss the old times. Very very.

Joke of the Week
It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger than the previous record.

2007-03-30T19:59:00.000+08:00

School
It has been interesting. I've been enjoying my life in a JC. It's just how you look at things. Or maybe I'm different. It's sports day today. Just a normal one. From all my short sentences, you should be able to see that I'm quite sian today. Wasted today. The whole week have been fun though. Monday, the take chinese people's first 3 period break, went to PP. Vj uniform is nice. Oh, and a side note: Science Research is really fun!

Joke of the Week
We have an algebraic pattern, however, it's not an arithmetic progression. What does (x-a)(x-b)(x-c)...(x-z) equal to? [Hint: check out the 24th factor.]

2007-03-23T20:20:00.000+08:00

School
Studying/mugging/chionging/whateva officially starts. What's most overwhelming is GP. What the heck sia, it's H1 and yet it takes up the bulk of my time. But yes, full time studying is gonna start, whether you are prepared or not. You should make it a effort to understand stuff right in the lectures, so that you can learn better, and DO YOUR TUTORIALS! It will mean more when your tutor goes through the stuff. Oh and, PW starts, and I somehow dread it. But never mind, we can team up and I hope I will have fun with my groupmates, yea, haha. Side note: 07S41 owns.

Joke of the Week
A braggart says 2222 + 2222 = 4444
A wimp say 0.002 + 0.002 = 0.004
A mathematician says 2 + 2 = 2*2 = 2^2
An artist saysfrom two to two to two two = too two
A physicist says 2.000 + 2.000 = 4.000 +- 0.0001
A statistician says 2 + 2 = 4 with 99.98% assurance.

2007-03-17T22:02:00.001+08:00

Holidays
I went to Genting with almost the whole of my father's side, the trip there was super song. My family take the whole coach, lol! Transtar gave us the whole coach to our family. But it wasn't so song for the return trip. The room we stayed was big, bigger than what we always did. Ok, experienced some coolness and dreamy mists, but as a whole, it was a total waste of time. On the trip back, science got better of me. How can it be possible for clouds to exist at 20 degrees plus minus only? I didn't even need cold wear. Plus, Genting isn't really so high (it's reachable by bus). But then again, the bus took 50 mins for the DECEND (I'm not exaggerating, really). Other than these, the others were not worth remembering.

Joke of the Week
"Paper or plastic?"
"Not paper AND not plastic.'"

2007-03-10T12:28:00.000+08:00

School
For many, this week might be a smooth and easy week. For me it has been a tough one. You wouldn't know how's the feeling of not being able to study with your jc friends again until you realise it is gonna happen. For me, I tried very hard to get back what belonged to me before the JAE, and this is a very hard process. Ok, first, I have to appeal back to vjc, that's quite a simple one, just hand in the appeal form and wait. Next, when I come back to vjc, I'm posted to 07S55. I knew I had to come back, because all my friends are there and they want me to come back, especially you, (if you are the one reading this and is from 07S41). So, I went to the HOD room to appeal back to S41. Mrs Foo said I have to find someone to change from S41 to S55, then I can change back to S41, so I went to find. I found someone who was transferred out from S55 to S41, that's my luck to find her. We changed back and YAY, I'm back to S41. And I thought it's all done, sadly, hours later, I was forced back to S55 because someone from S55 wants to take KI and is not available in S55. So I went to the HOD room again. There, I met the boy who wanted to take KI, and so Mrs Foo asked us to talk. This boy is very nice! He gave up KI for me to go back to S41, I really have to thank him a lot! He went back to S55 without taking KI, and I'm finally back to S41! Yay, Woohoo! Whoa, sounds very drama, as a whole, lol, but it makes a good story of my current msn message. Yes, I'm back in S41 people!

Others
Yesterday, me and some S41 peeps went to play Mah Jong and I reached home super late, so I only posted this today. Whoa, very bad luck sia, maybe I should start refining my tactics and reconsider some stuff.

Joke of the Week
Q: What weapon can you make from the chemicals Potassium, Nickel and Iron?
A: KNiFe.

2007-03-02T19:58:00.000+08:00

School
Nice and pleasant week. It's time to see our JAE results soon. Facing the probability of not re-entering vjc, but if I appeal, I should be able to get in. S41 peeps, I'll see you guys again.

Joke of the Week
Question: A cannonball was shot at 50 degrees with a velocity of 12.0 m/s. At the top of it's parabolic path, it hits a plane. Find time taken for the cannonball to hit the plane.
Solution: Let x be the time taken to hit the plane. The answer is x.

2007-02-24T00:26:00.000+08:00

School
No major events this week except for the "Junior Treat Senior". It turned out to be quite nice, excpet the fact that we will have a hole in our pockets. Lol, whose great idea is it to treat the Swensens....
Major muscle aches due to real over-exertion. Tues: Badminton with family, Wed: X-country run + 20km cycling, Thurs: PE + Badminton with class, Fri: PE again.

Others
The mood of Chinese New Year continues and we'll be having a family dinner tomorrow, or actually it's today, the time I'm posting at is already considered Saturday. Getting sick of the current blog BGM.

Joke of the Week
A ten year old boy was failing math. His parents tried everything from tutors to hypnosis, but to no avail. Finally, at the insistence of a family friend, they decided to enroll their son in a private Catholic school. After the first day, the boy's parents were surprised when he walked in after school with a stern, focused and very determined expression on his face, and went right past them straight to his room, where he quietly closed the door. For nearly two hours he toiled away in his room, with math books strewn about his desk and the surrounding floor. He emerged long enough to eat, and after quickly cleaning his plate, went straight back to his room, closed the door, and worked feverishly at his studies until bedtime. This pattern continued ceaselessly until it was time for the first quarter report card. The boy walked in with his report card -- unopened -- laid it on the dinner table and went straight to his room. Cautiously, his mother opened it, and to her amazement, she saw a bright red "A" under the subject of Math. Overjoyed, she and her husband rushed into their son's room, thrilled at his remarkable progress.
"Was it the nuns that did it?", the father asked. The boy only shook his head and said, "No."
"Was it the one-on-one tutoring? The peer-mentoring?" "No."
"The textbooks? The teachers? The curriculum?"
"Nope," said the son. "On that first day, when I walked in the front door and saw that guy they nailed to the 'plus sign', I just knew they meant business!"

2007-02-17T23:21:00.000+08:00

School
Quite some stuff happened. Valentine's day was like... whoa! I ate too much sweets and chocolates, lol, just like always. Then there's Chinese New Year celebrations, which we just sit in the hall and watch performances :D, damn slack.

Others
Eh Andy, that's a very bad thing to say. Oh yea, I posted late this week. Anyways, happy Chinese New Year to all. I wish you all be able to get the H3 you want to study (if any), as for Andy, I wish you can get your internet connection soon, and hope to see you in flyff as my bf again :D!!! I'll have good buffs for you!

Joke of the Week
Q: What kind of star is dangerous?
A: A shooting star.

2007-02-09T22:54:00.000+08:00

School
Just some thoughts after watching the movie showed by Medical society. Okay, doctors need good social skills, I don't have, so what? I shall not be a doctor, I shall change my ambition to Medical Researcher, and hope I can find new breakthroughs in medicine. The week is fine, haha, Friday is the longest day and VJC gave us this day off for collecting results. Yes, the research class would be good, I'll stay till the end!

Results
My results are actually not bad, but maybe because my results aren't good compared to others, I don't really feel happy. I should be congratulating everyone now right? Eh wait, do I sound sad here? No lols around this post. But hey, my humanities actually got A2, and my hcl got B3, which is actually not bad for my chinese standard. I will remain in VJC, I WILL! Oh yea, and congrats to all who done well :D. For those who haven't, this is my message to you guys: Exam results doesn't really measure how intellegent you are, you might have a crappy L1R5 now, but you are actually very intellegent in your own way. Like me, I got a L1R5 of 9, this score actually hides my ability in math and sciences, so don't really feel sad, you can do it in your A'levels.

Joke of the Week
Some of my freshman math students are so clueless. They think General Calculus was a famous war hero! Here is a follow up: If General Calculus actually did exist, he will probably know how to integrate his troops together and differentiate between his enemies and his allies.

2007-02-02T20:26:00.000+08:00

School
It has been a nice week, and it really makes me wonder why JC people are so nice to their classmates. Decided to take the NUS A* VJC H3 Science Research and stay till the end, it's gonna take me hell lots of time, but I think I can make it. O'level results coming soon, just hope Dunman High can get the best results, though I think not likely, lol. Can't think of any nice quotes now, the current one is super old. Shall change my blog song. Damn long joke, but super funny.

Joke of the Week
[Taken away due to its imba length.]

2007-01-26T20:22:00.000+08:00

Others
Yes, I've switched to posting weekly.

School
Whoa, lectures sux compared to sec school classroom studyings. They lecturer just goes on and on and he can't possibly pay attention to so many people, and that makes learning difficult. Ahhh, well. Things are starting to get bad, time to study hard soon, must jia you. 2 more weeks to results. Jokes is only for those who understand and are pro in Physics, I bet you don't understand it :D It's reflection and refraction.

Joke of the Week
When light passes from one medium to another, it obeys a set of partial differential equations (which "optimize" the path as it were). The light "slows down" for the amount of time it takes for it to solve the equations. But if the light is experienced enough, it can solve the equations faster than when it first started out.Truly retarded light has so much trouble solving the equations that it just gives up and bounces back into the original medium.

2007-01-20T00:27:00.000+08:00

School
Shooting stars were spotted at East Coast. An ambience of 20 people surrounding a concrete table with handphone lights. Voices of laughter filling the air. This is what you will experience if you were part of Viene. Our OG was so special, we have our own crewlette bbq. What were the shooting stars? lol. Flying sparklers were flung into the sea when it was about to finish. The scene is NICE. More people from dhs transferred to my class, apparently, PCMG is a popular dhs choice. Economics must be very boring, haha. Now we have 3 Erics... Tay, Ng, and an Indo-chinese I've yet to know his surname.

Joke of the Week
Take a mathematician, a physicist and a theologian and locks each of them in their own room with a can of spinach, but withouth a can opener. After a week open the doors. What has happened?
With the theologian: Bumps in the can, scratches on the wall, everywhere spinach.=> He threw the can so long against the wall till it broke - He survived.
With the physicist: On the wall are calculations and in a corner a small scratch with spinach.=> He calculated the force and the angel needed to open the can. - He survived.
With the mathematician: Dead! On the wall a text: "I define: The can is open."

2007-01-12T20:18:00.000+08:00

School
Yo VJC! Vjc super nice sia, hope you guys can come too. Started with JC study. I say whoa. The topics are the same, but super hard, needs a lot of intellectual power. Flashback: Electronic configuration of O is 2.8.6, now what? 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p4, lol, don't listen to me talk crap of you don't understand. I like my class a lot, got 9 people with DHS history, 5 came by prelims, 4 by IP. 07S41, huat ar!

Self Intro
The more deep version. If any of my new classmates comes here, ah then good. What I said in class was crap. Please don't say I'm proud, cos this is real. I have high intellectual power and this allows me to do Maths like... I do a lot of stuff in my brain then write on the paper, so you hardly see workings on my paper and you most probably don't understand what I'm doing. I am a really weird person, according to all. I behave differently everyday, might be because of my 2-fold character. My handwriting is nice, yea, haha. I HATE pop music for some reason. Many people tried to make me like it, but to no avail. Yes, instrumentals rock, just listen to my blog background music, haha. Yes, it's my favourite Home Galdove. For the rest, find out as time passes.

Joke of the Day
Customer: "How much is a large order of Fibonaccos?"
Cashier: "It's the price of a small order plus the price of a medium order."
[Extra credit question: Which Fibonaccos size is the worst rip-off?
[Extra credit answer: The smallest; it costs as much as the next larger size...]

2006-11-16T20:14:00.000+08:00

Fly For Fun
Well, the exams are over, so its time to play. For those who have no games to play, here's a very good game which you can try. Please do not be distracted by the cheesy name, as we should not judge the book by its cover. Ok, basically, it's a MMORPG, better than Maplestory, according to someone who had tried both games. Introduction time. To get your interest going, I shall introduce the classes. Everyonr starts out as a vagrant. At lv 15, it's time for a job change. Chosse from Acrobat, Assist, Mage or Mercenary. Acrobats uses ranged weapons to whack from afar. Assists can choose from being a full support assist (preferred) or a battle assist. Mages... yea, you know it, cast magic. Mercenary goes in front of the enemy and whacks them hard. At lv 60, it's time for a further job change. Acrobats choose from Rangers or Jesters. Rangers use bow and arrows. Jesters use yoyos, they prefer to use a bow and has near 100% critical hits. Assists can choose from Ringmasters or Billposters. Ringmasters have very very good buffs that can make other people a lot stronger. Billposters are selfish self buffers and kills stuff themselves. Mages choose from Elementor and Psykeeper. Elementors uses weaknesses of enemies to cast magic and deal a shit load of damage. Psykeepers are the "cheaters" who can cause enemies to get stuck in their positions or preventiong them from reaching you with a psychic wall. Mercenaries choose from Blade and Knight. Blade kills fast and Knights have imba hp and defence. There are 4 stats to add. Strength is for higher physical damage. Stamina is for hp and defence. Dexterity is for attack speed, crit rate, block rate and avoid rate. Intellegence is for better magics and magic defence. Oops too long, haha, hope you play. If you play flyff, please join my guild. Add our igns: either serados (junwei, duh!) or me (Charilzard). Lol. The BGM you are hearing is Flyff's main theme, you will never get to hear it in the game anyway. End of report. Enjoy your 1 month of freedom please.

2006-10-01T10:24:00.000+08:00

Personal
Haven't been posting for many many days. Why? I went to FlyFF. I also don't know why I decided to write something today. Yesterday has been a gloomy day, and it seems that today it's going to be the same. Haiz, why am I so imbalanced? I am too good in maths and science and my language and humanitites suffers. I know very well of my weaknesses and yet everytime, the same mistakes happen. As for maths and science, it was a total ownage. Overshot A1 by 10+ marks is, erm, too crazy. So how now? How to pia English? lol. Ok, I will introduce Flyff after O'levels. Be happy even if your prelims sux, because you have another chance.

Joke of the Day
All numbers are equal to zero.
Proof:
Suppose that a=b.
Then,
a^2 = ab
a^2 - b^2 = ab - b^2
(a + b)(a - b) = b(a - b)
a + b = b
a = 0

2006-09-20T21:57:00.000+08:00

School
Bad biology paper. I have a bad feeling about it though I only know I minus 3 marks. EMaths time. Should be easy. I just did 3 practice papers, they're all so easy, lol. I should be able to OWN!

Personal
Changed the music beforehand. Arche! Lol, very merry tune for the merry after exam mood. Enjoy your days before the arrival of O'levels. I'm gonna play, so why not you?

Joke of the Day
Statement: pi * r^2
Reaction: Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square.

2006-09-19T21:19:00.000+08:00

School
The chinese exam was easier than expected... good! I can ensure a pass. I really hope I can get A2.. wishful thinking. Biology time. I studied for more than 8 hours today. Ask me how I have benefitted? I tell you, practically nothing. I have this feeling I never study enough.

Personal
Am I supposed to be sad now? Perhaps. Yea, I should be drowning in eternal sorrow. Guess why I am still so cheerful in school? Maybe is because I have went through too much of this crap, that has caused me to be numb. I am now totally unmovable emotionally, or am I? I'm not sure. Excreta! Today is a poem, relevant one indeed.

My Cold
You became part of me,
just when I'm not quite sure.
Most likely in the subway,
where the air is not so pure.

Borne by airborne droplets,
sprayed out by some sneeze,
from some afflicted victim,
then carried by the breeze.

First my throat was sore,
now my nose is streaming.
Viri in my head and chest,
their numbers must be teeming.

It seems unthinkable
that such a tiny sphere
300 Angstroms wide
has left me lying here.

But I know this is an old war
my body's fought before.
Little does this virus know
what there is in store.

In my spleen the leucocytes
issued with their warrant,
spill out into my blood
and are carried by the torrent.

Into all capillaries
and annexes they stray,
seeking virus O-1-4
until they find their prey.

"Feed a cold" someone said.
I ate and drank my fill.
Knowing that more leucocytes
would go in for the kill.

Now I am much better.
My head is feeling clear.
A day in bed to sweat it out
has brought the end quite near.

Here is the epilogue:
Just when I thought I'd won,
I looked up at Fabienne
and knew I'd passed it on!

Credits: Adrian Thompson 1996 -1999

2006-09-18T21:01:00.000+08:00

School
Chemistry so easy, but I can't predict what I will get, though.

Personal
Haiya very sian. Can't seem to get things right. Haiz, die, sad, whoa how? Regret for the times I never treasure, now that they are gone. The Gemicer combination is a strange one. With my small researches, I see that these to astrological signs are totally different. They say Geminis are highly intellegent and can go with the opposite gender easily, are quite easily distracted. They are cheerful and sunny people. Gemini's favourite colour is yellow. They say Cancer are the most emotionally weak, are witty too and likes to "cling". Cancer's favourite colour is blue. Well, I'm probably a combination. My favourite colour is green. Well, statistics DO work to some extent. My best matches? Hehe. Gemini's best matches are Aquarius and Libra. Cancer's best matches are Pisces and Scorpio. See the pattern? Aquarius is before Pisces and Libra is before Scorpio. I presume my best matches are Aquasces and Libio, if any. Their respective birth dates are Feb 18 and Oct 22.

Joke of the Day
A seventh grade Biology teacher arranged a demonstration for his class. He took two earth worms and in front of the class he did the following:He dropped the first worm into a beaker of water where it dropped to the bottom and wriggled about. He dropped the second worm into a beaker of Ethyl alchohol and it immediately shriveled up and died. He asked the class if anyone knew what this demonstration was intended to show them. A boy in the second row immediately shot his arm up and, when called on said:"You're showing us that if you drink alcohol, you won't have worms."

2006-09-15T12:21:00.000+08:00

School
Yet another ownage. Let me make an optimistic guess, I can get 85% for A Maths overall. Ha, earliest post. Hmm, weekend time, enjoy the break! I will only start studying tomorrow. Chemistry, lol.

Other
I'm actually not very fine. I am now lost. Lost for actions. I dunno how to act. Don't know what I should do, dunno their consequences. You know everything. Watched the 9 show. Lol, got my name, haha. Anyway, I think that guy has around the same personality as me. How they know?

Joke of the Day
Activation Energy: The useful quantity of energy available in one cup of coffee.

2006-09-14T21:12:00.000+08:00

School
Today, the most hectic exam day is finally over. The physics paper is so well set, lol. Another day having fun today (doing A Maths, not playing). Hope I can enjoy myself tomorrow.

Joke of the Day
'oo' is for infinity
lim x->oo -> x^2 = oo
Therefore,
lim x->oo -> x^3 = ooo

2006-09-12T20:46:00.000+08:00

School
Another ownage day. Ok, the A Maths paper, on the whole is easy. There isn't any major killer questions, except maybe the vector question. I did the first part and automatically gave up on the second part, so I skipped it, then I forgot to come back to the question. That's the only place I flopped, the rest is... haha.Hmm, tomorrow is Biology practical. How did I study? Looking through the boigy practical notes, notes on biological drawings and scheming through the text book for the try this out and looking through our past practicals should be enough, but I have this feeling that I studied nothing. There isn't must lessons to learn from, I don't know how to score higher points and blah. Hope they don't come out on plants. Hate 'em.

Joke of the Day
A normal human being is talking to a narrowminded science-o-holic Cell Biologist.
Human being: "You are so narrowminded, only preoccupied with your cells.You don't know anything about the world you are living in. For instance, what do you know about culture?"
Science-o-holic: "You mean CELL cultures?"

2006-09-11T21:10:00.000+08:00

Personal
No school, so what I did. Stayed home and revise/practise A Maths. Another fun day man. I hope tomorrow's 2.5h will be fun too. A Maths is more fun than E Maths. A Maths requires you to think, while most E Maths questions is just count. Fun man! =D

Other
I only just read it today, and whoa. Okay, yes, I know them already. You know? Sometimes, it is hard to disagree. Most of the stuff you said, I agree. You are right, as always. I actually planned to do the same, but I only think, and I always fail, you DO. Since you have started long, I shall cooperate.

Joke of the Day
The Romans didn't find algebra very challenging, because X was always 10.

2006-09-10T21:24:00.000+08:00

Personal
Started with A Maths today, wow, nice day, man. I had a fun time while revising maths, lol. Gentle reminder to 4B people: Tomorrow no school, =D. Start practising tomorrow. Changed blog song. This song has lots of meaning to me.

Joke of the Day
Recent statistics says that 3 out of 4 Americans make up 75% of the US population.

2006-09-09T20:31:00.000+08:00

Personal
After month of successful of posting everyday, I forgot to post yesterday... what does this prove? I'm getting sick of this. Waste of time. Still have nothing to say, guess I will just post for major events now, no more jokes on days without posts, boo hoo. Covered biology today. Got back my knowledge on excretion. Lol, I forgot what is malpighian body, until just now. Must study hard now.

Joke of the Day
As we took notes, out anatomy instructor labored through a lecture on the way nerve cells transmit impulses. "Who can tell me how nerve cells communicate with one another?" he asked, expecting someone to explain the phenomenon of neurotransmission between synapses.After a few muffled whispers, one student finally spoke up. "With cellular phones?"

2006-09-07T21:36:00.000+08:00

Personal
Today is a day woth celebrating, for myself only. Guess what? My blog is 1 month old! Hmm, but I don't know how and what to celebrate leh, never mind lah, lol. Flashbacks of today... Studied in a not so hot oven today in oven. First time beginning to sweat in the auditorium, lol. Them the chem mock, I don't know how she mark the paper one, lol. She cancelled some phrasing that is exactly the same as hers for no reason, btw, it is "which extends throughout the whole structure", weird. I still can't forget it what I learnt today on the acid rain. "Acid rain is used in general that not only describes acid rain, but also acid mist, acid fog and acid snow. Ha, acid snow.I wonder how it is like. Well, the joke below is I think myself one. I know it is lame, but I think its funny, LOL, so...

Joke of the Day
Hey! It's snowing acid outside! I want to make an acid snowman! We can play acid snowball fight! (Assuming the acid is corrosive, the person who gets hit first loses? Hey but how you pick up...)

2006-09-06T21:22:00.000+08:00

Personal
It's Wednesday and time to start spam study soon.

Joke of the Day
"The Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: Watt's Pots Never Boyle".
"The Fifth Law of Thermodynamics: Things Get Worse Under Pressure".

2006-09-05T21:38:00.000+08:00

Personal
Another nothing to say day, haiya, don't waste time here liao lar. Holidays got nothing to say one. No one is interested in what I do anyway. Joke.

Joke of the Day
If H2O is water, what is H2O4?
Drinking, bathing, washing, swimming, transport and many more.

2006-09-04T21:10:00.000+08:00

Personal
Nothing to say, another day studying and playing. It is so great without my brother stealing the comp from me haha. Got nothing much to say in the holidays. Another short entry, lol. Today's joke very very science, see if you understand.

Joke of the Day
Robert Milliken, who measured a charge of electron, in his Nobel speech (1923) told, that he knew nothing about "last essence of electron". In that case there is one old joke. One professor asked a student: "What is an electron?" "Ah, God damn it! I have forgotten. And in fact even in the morning I knew it, " the student answered." You should recollect it without fail," professor said "because you were the unique person who knew, what electron was, and you had suddenly forgotten!" And till today, the question: "What is the electron?" remains without answer. How the electron looks? Nobody knows.

2006-09-03T21:22:00.000+08:00

Personal
Another day cooped up in my house. At least I get to play and study at the same time. Maybe other people just played all the way, haha, but for me no, studying is important, yes, especially now we in prelims, don't think this break can be used to spam playing, lol. Spam playing is after O'levels. Hmm, though it is at home, I still think today is not bad. Haha, guess what? My brother is off to climb Mount Ophir!!! LOL!!! I get to use comp 24 hours a day! (If I wanted to) that's the good news. The bad news is, my phone is with him, please don't send messages to me till Thursday. Can't even bring my phone to Thursday's lesson. Hope he doesn't sopil it, or worse if he even loses it. Yar, joke time.

Joke of the Day
Q: Why are there no asprin in the jungle?
A: Because the parrots-eat-them-all.

2006-09-02T21:15:00.000+08:00

Personal
More studyings, studied faster today covering all the useless tourism of Singapore and Malaysia, probably not going to touch them anymore. On the whole, today was quite good, studied and played, lol. Nothing much today, distraction kept low.

Joke of the Day
A man camped in a national park, and noticed Mr. Snake and Mrs. Snake slithering by. "Where are all the little snakes?" he asked. Mr.Snake replied, "We are adders, so we cannot multiply."The following year, the man returned to the same camping spot. This time there were a whole batch of little snakes. "I thought you said you could not multiply," he said to Mr. Snake. "Well, the park ranger came by and built a log table, so now we can multiply by adding!"

2006-09-01T21:01:00.000+08:00

Teachers' Day 2006
Sec 4 is an important year and I'm very grateful to have such good teachers teaching my class. I must thank all teachers in Dunman High School which has taught me stuff in one way or another, especially teachers who teach my class. I wll try my best in ALL subjects! Thank you all so much!

Personal
Studied for the whole afternoon, but did not absorb much, maybe because my heart was somewhere else, trying to find my lost friend. Haiz, feel sian lately, like something is missing like that. Urgh, focus! A note to myself: Wake up! No one likes you, only you can help yourself now!

Joke of the Day
A guy decided to go to the brain transplant clinic to refreshen his supply of brains. The secretary informed him that they had three kinds of brains available at that time. Doctors' brains were going for $20 per ounce and lawyers' brains were getting $30 per ounce. And then there were mathematicians' brains which were currently fetching $1000 per ounce. "1000 dollars an ounce!" he cried. "Why are they so expensive?" It takes more mathematicians to get an ounce of brains," she explained.

2006-08-31T23:44:00.000+08:00

School
The Teachers' celebrations was not bad, especially the party in the canteen. I must really thank those who prepared the food for the class, thanks a lot! Too bad in these years, the celebrations do not have Band or CO performances already.

Personal
Almost forgot to post today. I've been doing quite well for my prelims, my studies were unaffected to a large exrent although I'm still bugged. This shows that I'm a balanced person, lol. You are right, last time was very fun and now the fun ends, that is because I've changed to the serious mode already. But since time is so qiang, I will esteem it. As the time passes, I will regain the funness in me, lol! Everyone needs freedom. You shall have all the freedom to do whatever you like. No one is weird, everyone is special and that is what makes someone him/her.

Joke of the Day
Is the square root of ab absurd?

2006-08-30T21:12:00.000+08:00

School
Quite easy physics practical, the lens one was harder. Lol, I pity Junwei for counting wrong gradient. I got 0.132cm, who got something near mine? The experiment planning was quite simple too. I think you can either change the voltage or introduce a rheostat in, I chose the latter bacuase I think it is better. Well, there are some stuff I can't do, yet, I need more time. Lol, I seem to fully recover le, great, but every time... my heart...

Joke of the Day
I want to share a newspaper article I saw yesterday, I forgot about it when posting for yesterday. Someone want to abandon their baby, and they placed it in front of an altar, and guess what? People actually give milk powder as if the baby was god and ask for 4-digit numbers from the baby! OMGLOLROFLMAO! Typical Singaporeans huh?

2006-08-29T22:16:00.000+08:00

School
Ehh.. another exam day lor, haha, used quite a lot of cheng yus, both easy and difficult ones. Think I died for my gong han, but never mind, my compo should be quite good. Whoa, the E Maths paper, I must admit, isn't easy, lol, but on the overall, I'm happy. I think I got the last part of vector qn and folder qn wrong, haiz sad.

Personal
Changed the blog bgm to Corridors of Time, but that doesn't mean I'm sick of Longfall. Didn't study much for physics, I mean, what is there to study? Just seen through all my past practicals and learn from mistakes. Erm, it is still too early to say goodbye. I hate people daoing me, I just can't stand it no longer. There are some stuff that is beyond our control, beyond my control.

Joke of the Day
Seen on the door to a light-wave lab: "Do not look into laser with remaining good eye."

2006-08-28T19:38:00.000+08:00

School
Haha, another ownage day. Saw that Y is a yellow solution and I was already thinking, it may be K2CrO4, and I was right! Was so damn happy when the yellow solution turned orange upon adding the acid. Anyway that solution T is H2O2, I think, and it is acting as a reducing agent here, explanation? I was quite confused over the change in colour of the iodine stuff in test 2, so heck that one. For test 6, the orange solution turned green right? Equation is Cr6+ -> Cr3+ , so it is a reducing agent, I know many people will disagree with me... Titration got 20.6cm3, and that is the most hot answer! lol. Siao liao, must study chinese le, I think I gg for Chinese... All is hidden beneath today.

Joke of the Day
Question: how many times can you subtract 7 from 83, and what is left afterwards?
Answer: I can subtract it as many times as I want, and it leaves 76 everytime.

2006-08-27T20:24:00.000+08:00

Personal
Spent the entire day reading from Miss Ng's 7 sources... like it is of any use, I know them liao, lol, I just read for fun, to get them in my brain better. Haiz, the stupid lead colour stuff and the thiosulphate stuff, it is sick man. Oh and some other stuffs. I am 70% to my recovery. It is useless for me to say out everything here, I know information would not be gotten across. In person is still the best, hope I have a chance. I can never recover fully if the last question is not answered. But you guys can be sure you will be meeting a happy, intellectual Gemini helping you in class very soon. :) Anyway, enough of this shit. Here's another hilarious Chem practical incident.

Joke of the Day
Students were to investigate with science experiments on properties of different alcohols: The residue of each test was tipped down the sinks, which were grouped in threes. There were no U-bends, but each group of sinks emptied into a singlebox, which overflowed into the mains sewers. Presumably this was intended to retain things like droplets of mercury, which was not banned from use when I was 16. During the session, my bunsen went out, so I re-lit it with a splint lit from the teacher's bunsen. For safety's sake (!) I dropped the burning splint into the sink, intending to extinguish it with water, instead of waving it around in the alcohol fumes. A small blue flame disappeared down the plug hole. Hum, thinks I, I wonder where that's going? I opened the cupboard beneath the sink, only to find the drain box, full of alcohol, a roaring mass of flame. Shutting the doors, I called out, "Er, Sir...?" just as the inch-thick wooden lids blew off the adjacent un-used sinks. Fortunately, the back-blast extinguished the flames under the cupboard, so the box only sagged slightly.

2006-08-26T21:33:00.000+08:00

Personal
Bought a cool shirt today, lol. Wasted one whole day, studied a little only. Nothing much to say today, except hmm, time is imba. Just post today for the joke, since people like it so much.

Joke of the Day
In Alaska, where it gets very cold, pi is only 3.00. As you know,everything shrinks in the cold. They call it Eskimo pi.

2006-08-25T20:37:00.000+08:00

School
Whahaha ownage man. The English is okay on the overall. The SS was, I owned the SEQ, think I did not bad for the SBQs too. Nice day, quite happy, lol.

Personal
New breakthrough! I hope I can survive this. Woot, lol. I shall not be distracted, no I WILL NOT get distracted. Everyone, go and own! Hope everyone can win. Shall DHS own all! Lol, looks like I have many joke readers, but I still feel, to a large extent that I should not be blogging everyday, and even to a larger extent that I should not put 2 jokes of the day as I am running out of jokes le. You will laugh when I tell you the source of the jokes, use google search, LOL!

Joke of the Day
On this particular chemistry practical, students are required to oxidize ethanol to ethanoic acid. They have to reflux it for twenty minutes with dilute HCl to get into go to an aldehyde and then bash it with conc. sulphuric and potassuim dichromate(VI) for another twenty minutes to make it go the rest of the way. A student was carefully following the instructions on the paper. He got as far as the aldehyde. At this point, the paper said "Add 5cm3 of K2Cr2O7." He did that. Then it said "Now using a dropper, add 10ml of conc. sulphuric acid..." He did that. Then he read the rest of the line, and it said: "...CAREFULLY, drop by drop over 10 minutes." he lifted my head to see evil looking bubbles spewing forth from the pear-shaped flask beneath a growing tower of thick orange fumes. It looked like something off the set for Jeckyll and Hyde. The boy had a pleased look on his face. He was fortunate the mixture did not explode.

2006-08-24T20:49:00.000+08:00

School
Sian day, very sian. Very cold too.

Personal
It has been a great time revising at my own pace. Except for some time when I will get distracted and begin thinking of something else, I was practically studying the whole day, whoa, time for a bit of relax now. I would not be so despo in using the word chiong. Remain calm is the best policy. I am not engulfed in sadness, it's just that I don't want to talk. Very sian.

Other
To all: Hope you would study hard and get results you desire, just remember: There is no other way, but study hard. You can play after O' levels. However, I would not be posting everyday from today onwards as I'm not as imba as you all think. I am very blur one. My blog is becoming like a place for exam tips, lol.

Joke of the Day
What is 2 x 2?
(1st year student): says `4', without any thinking.
(2nd year student): says `4', exactly', after a moment of thinking.
(3rd year student): takes a pocket calculator, presses some buttons and says `4'.
(4th year student): writes a program of about 100 lines, debugs it, run sit and says: `4.0e+00'.
(5th year student): designs a new programming language that perfectly fits for solving such problems, implemets it, writes a program, and answers: `It says "4", but I doubt if I really fixed that ugly bug last night...'
(student just before the final graduation exams) cries in desperation:`Why, why do you think I must know all that bloody constants by heart?!'

2006-08-23T21:00:00.000+08:00

School
Long and sian day.

Personal
Getting better. I am going to overcome it soon. I got sick of studying le, this is usually a sign that means you have studied too much, at least for me.

Joke of the Day
A mathematician and another man was stranded on an island. Their only source of food available was 2 coconut trees on the island and on each tree, there is a coconut. The man climbed up one of the coconut trees and plucked the coconut and they ate it. The mathematician then climbed up the next coconut, plucked it and placed it on the previous coconut tree, and says, "Now we've simplified the problem to one we can solve!"

2006-08-22T21:09:00.001+08:00

School
Got cheered up by school. Went back home and drown back to sorrow.

Personal
Yes, continue to pia man, this would never end after O's. And I got used to it le. I use pia-ings to hide my feelings, but failed utterly.

Other
The torture will never end until eternity. If only... If only I can forget, but it always get out of my control, and I thought I can abide by my decisions.
It happened again today. No..!

Joke of the Day
An engineer, a chemist and a mathematician are staying in three adjoining cabins at an old motel. First the engineer's coffee maker catches fire. He smells the smoke, wakes up, unplugs the coffee maker, throws it out the window, and goes back to sleep.
Later that night the chemist smells smoke too. He wakes up and sees that a cigarette butt has set the trash can on fire. He says to himself, "Hmm. How does one put out a fire? One can reduce the temperature of the fuel below the flash point, isolate the burning material from oxygen, or both. This could be accomplished by applying water." So he picks up the trash can, puts it in the shower stall, turns on the water, and, when the fire is out, goes back to sleep.
The mathematician, of course, has been watching all this out the window. So later, when he finds that his pipe ashes have set the bedsheet on fire, he is not in the least taken aback. He says: "Aha! A solution exists!" and goes back to sleep.

2006-08-21T21:26:00.000+08:00

School
Okay day. Boring day. More pia-ings. More studying.

Personal
Nothing to post today. Just study hard and stay focused on what you do if not it would be a waste of time.

Other
No pressure today, or at least I did not notice. If things can turn out weird, I know what it means. No plans, just be happy for now. Hand future to fate. If it does happen... then say. I'm not sensitive, I am correct. Haiz, I have no where to hide my sadness as it is leaking out from me, here.

Joke of the Day
The Salary Theorem
We all know that
Knowledge is power, so Knowledge = Power
Time is money Time = Money
We know in Physics
Work Done = Power x Time
therefore
Work Done = Knowledge x Money
Making Money the subject, we get
Money = Work Done / Knowledge
As knowledge approaches 0, Money reaches infinity regardless of amount of work done. Therefore, to get a high salary, be knowledgeless. You would not need to do anything either.

2006-08-20T20:58:00.000+08:00

Personal
Another Day studying lor. Yes! Geared up for prelims le, and perhaps not able to blog everyday le, lol. All subjects completed. Come on man!

Home
Bad day, got angry, haiz, its not everyday I get angry.

Other
First is all the differences popping out. Now is all the similarities coming in. Err.. still stranded. Unconfirmed. But, ya, I will still enjoy.

Joke of the Day
The chef instructs his apprentice: "You take two thirds of water, one third of cream, one third of broth..."
The apprentice: "But that makes four thirds already!"
"Well - just take a larger pot!"

2006-08-19T21:08:00.000+08:00

Personal
A boring day at home. But it was a good day to study ss, lol. Studied 100 pages, but due to noisy auctions below my flat, haiz, I give up studying, can't absorb anymore. It is important to note that when you cannot absorb any more information, stop your studying as you are just wasting time, do not force yourself.

Other
I still feel the same. Coldness hidden beneath the warmth. After a long day thinking (I did not neglect my ss), I have decided. Decide on what? haha. I will still enjoy it. But on the long term, I won't. Let fate decide it ba...

Joke of the Day
Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them.

2006-08-18T22:03:00.000+08:00

School
Another nice day. Nothing much to say.

Personal
Just practice more practice papers lor. Haiz, I might be wrong leh, the energy change question. Haiz, Miss Ng's notes is self contradicting! The first part she say energy is taken in during bond forming, then at the later part she say energy is taken in during bond breaking... so, which is correct?! Sian diao, I may be wrong.

Other
I am assuming it and I don't know whether I am correct, but it seems that there is hope for me. Or maybe not... Cold disguised by warmth, or am I too demanding and sensitive? Hmm, I can't bear it any longer. Lol, mixed up, I'm talking crap. This is interlinked, too messy, for even me to understand, so don't even try to.

Joke of the Day
Top five excuses for not doing Maths homework
I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.
I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook. I couldn't actually reach it.
I have the proof, but there isn't room to write it in this margin.
I have a solar powered calculator and it was cloudy.
I locked the paper in my trunk but a four-dimensional dog got in and ate it.

2006-08-17T20:44:00.000+08:00

School
Nice day, happy day, sian day, all at the same time.

Personal
Completed E Geography revision and I think I did okay for the time practice. Doning practice papers now, try chemistry first.

Other
Haiyo, more and more unindentified taggers, lol. Just to tell you, I am emotionally stranded! I shall cut explaining. Below are just assumptions, if I get the wrong message please tell me. My messages got to the wrong person, lol... and for you, do you mean me? Shit, asking stupid questions liao, can it be me? I can't really tell, but have some hope. I admit I am still MAD! Well there ARE keys to my heart, think of it yourself. As for other people, don't try and understand what I am talking here as you will make wrong asumptions! But yea, I'm having mixed emotions now. Happy, sad, must continue to stay focused.

Joke of the Day
A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer are asked to test the following hypothesis: All odd numbers greater than one are prime.
The mathematician: "Three is a prime, five is a prime, seven is a prime, but nine is not a prime. Therefore, the hypothesis is false."
The physicist: "Three is a prime, five is a prime, seven is a prime, nine is not a prime, eleven is a prime, and thirteen is a prime. Hence, five out of six experiments support the hypothesis. It must be true."
The engineer: "Three is a prime, five's a prime, seven's a prime, nine's a prime..."

2006-08-16T21:37:00.000+08:00

School
Quite a nice day today. Slack Chinese test, haha, I was right not to bother studying for it. Another dragged lesson into recess because of Miss Ng, haiz, Miss Ng, do you know what time it is now? Nothing much to say today.

Other
Why has it always have to be so complicated? Words means more than actions this time, I cannot really tell what you are thinking or am I assuming it? If only you are the one reading this.

Joke of the Day
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules.
Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

2006-08-15T21:32:00.000+08:00

School
Ehh.. quite a good day. Haha, English oral finally finished. Guess what is our topic? History and the ARTS! Lol, ggnore, but I think I did okay... Some of the weird questions the examiner asked me was: What do you think the boy is going to do after an hour? lol, really inane.

Personal
More Geography chapters covered, finishing soon liao, and my brother still haven't bring back my Sec 3 SSTB! How to study SS like this? I think I'm gonna flop the Chinese test tomorrow, and it will not affect me!

Music
Longfall up! Please turn up your volumes. I don't know why it sounds so soft on my blog... I've uploaded Home Galdove, my all time favourite. I may change my blog song to that when I get sick of Longfall, haha, but that would take...

Other
Another crazy story, but reminiscence of such things are pleasant. Hurts too. Eyes on you and Anoyomous should be people from our class. Or just some people who knows who serados is...

Joke of the Day
Math problems? Call 1-800-[(10x)(13i)2]-[sin(xy)/2.362x].

2006-08-14T20:37:00.000+08:00

School
Not a bad day, an okay day. The only thing to say today is the Chem Mock. Too easy, not worth taling about except the calculate the bond energy of ICl. If you have got 202 as your answer, I'm sad to say, you are wrong. It's 191. Why? Here's the best explanation I can give. Let's talk about the forward reaction. I2 and Cl2 reacts to form 2ICl, giving off 11kJ of heat energy (think about this properly. In order to make sure that the energy level in RHS is equal to LHS, 11kJ of energy must be added to the ICl side to balance and make the equation valid since ICl has lost energy. Think of this, I2 and Cl2 has a higher energy level than ICl, so how can you minus 11kJ from the ICl side again? It does not make the equation true! For more confirmation, check out NYGH 2004 Paper 2 Question A5(b)(ii).Still unconvinced? Draw out the elergy level diagram and put in all the bond energies. Does your products supposed to have more energy than the reactants when the reaction is exothermic?

Music
Urgh, have to wait till tomorrow for Longfall. Eyes on Me isn't cheesy. The milkman does not like cheese.

Other
Who the heck is Eyes on You? What do you mean by putting yourself as Eyes on You? Why am I asking this? Because I'm stupid! So there ARE people who read my blog. I am surprised! But I'm quite happy at the same time too. Ivan Lau said my blog is damn nice, haha. Yea, nice skin. I love my Snow Angel.

Joke of the Day
What is the most erotic number?
2110593!
Why?
When 2 are 1 and don't pay at10tion, they'll know within 5 weeks whether or not, after 9 months, they'll be 3...

2006-08-13T20:59:00.000+08:00

Personal
Pausing studies on E Geography for tomorrow's Chemisty Mock. Seen through ALL the practice papers and complied an OWNAGE file. Reading it now.

Home
Guess it was not meals that calmed my mother down. It was time. I realised how qiang time actually is. It really is the best weapon in the world. Tag if disagree.

Music
Haiya, I give Junwei face lar. I put Star of Tears into my phone already, and listened to it quite many times already. Compared to Eyes on Me, Star of Tears isn't nice. Eyes on Me is nicer, many times nicer. (Maybe I was swayed by the lyrics, haha) Eyes on Me moved me on the first time I listened to it on headphones. Apparently, that's not the case for Star of Tears. But I still have to admit that Star of Tears have its nice parts, BUT, its nice parts take up 35% of the whole song. As for Eyes on Me, 77% of the song is the beautiful tune. I also feel that the singer in Eyes on Me can handle higher notes that that in Star in Tears. On the whole, I think Eyes on Me is nicer. But apologies, I really was moved by the lyrics plus tune. It's a perfect love song. Tomorrow is Longfall Day. 3 more days to Flyff songs.

Other
Do you believe in fate? For the more sentimental half of me, yes. Finally got the time right.

Joke of the Day
How do you divide 14 sugar cubes into 3 cups of coffee so that eachcup has an odd number of sugar cubes? Ans: 1,1,12 Riposte: 12 isn't odd! Ans: It's an odd number of cubes to put in a cup of coffee! (groan)

2006-08-12T21:46:00.000+08:00

Personal
Completed some chapters on E Geog and targeting to move to Chemistry as there is a mock exam on Monday. Prelim orals coming! Feel the tension?

Music
After a many days of hardwork, my music project is complete! It is chosen parts of Chrono Symphonic and cutting and pasting them together. There is a storyline for it. It starts formally, then changing mood to a deadly battle. The main character then loses the fight and goes deep into depression. He decides to train himself again. After much training, he goes back to face him again. After a struggle between life and death, of course he won haha, then happy songs. The back part is super nice, so if I send you, be sure to listen the song till the end! Nowadays, I was so super affected by piano music that I put a piano piece as the finale, lol. Enjoy.

Other
I have to declare than I am dense and quite blur. Don't expect me to understand what you have been cluing. Give more explicit explanations. Clear explanations is the best, haha. Am I stupid? Yea, I'm stupid.

Joke of the Day
Teacher: "Who can tell me what 7 times 6 is?"
Student: "It's 42!"
Teacher: "Very good! - And who can tell me what 6 times 7 is?"
Same student: "It's 24!"

2006-08-11T19:53:00.000+08:00

School
Not bad a day, except for the Chinese test. I flopped my Comprehension totally... Oh ya, Miss Ng! Imagine listening to a song lasting 5 minutes, suddenly when you are about to finish listening to the song, the meter becomes 4:57/6:00. Then after one minute, the meter shows 5:57/7:00. (Joke by Andy) When will it end? Once she starts, she can't stop man! Still can't believe tomorrow is the start of weekends...

Personal
After the Chinese test, it is time to embark on a new journey: E Geography! Nice man, I always liked Geography since Sec 1, dislike it a bit at Sec 3, but now getting the hang of it liao.

CCA
Another week without NPCC, say, do I miss NPCC? Quite. Miss the my lower sec training years. Wonder how is Testing Board doing...

Music
Can't wait for flyff songs to come. They rock man! 3 more days to Longfall, my soon to be blog BGM.

Other
Losing hope, but still hanging on to the possibility. Coldness. Great! I so hope I can put down these useless stuff and remove my emotions. I want to do well for my O' levels one okay? Or maybe I am thinking and assuming too much? Also realised this: Who is going to be so stupid to read my blog everyday? But if you read until here, thanks so much! So blogging is just about venting fustrations into nothingness?

Joke of the Day
What keeps a square from moving? Square roots, of course.

2006-08-10T21:21:00.000+08:00

Personal
Another boring and sian day. Finished my Chem Paper early in the morning and slacked in the afternoon. Then, realised tomorrow have a Chinese test, so I went to study for it. Saw all the familiar phrases, lol. Haiz, I just rememorise them lor.

Home
I realised that food really have a phycological effect. My mother was angry with my brother and after lunch, she calmed down. She was angry with us again before dinner but also calmed down after dinner. I can't start to introduce my mother, for she is weird.

Music
What you are currently listening to is the piano version of Eyes on Me. It is just a placeholder song la, I know it isn't very nice, but I have no choice but to wait for 4 more days before I can upload songs above 750kb. I can't put my all time favourite song: Home Galdove and my new favourite song: Longfall. My music project is finishing soon, realised it kinda sux at the transitions, but anyway... Haiz, got sick of pop songs the fastest, but oh well...

Other
Realised new things, but I don't care, still waiting for an answer, lost for directions. Wow, misty moon tonight. We are looking at the same moon, so, you can see whether it is misty or not. To someone: To someone: Well, I've received enough. If you are not gonna admit it, I will not do anything. (or am I assuming it?)

Joke of the Day
Statistics shows that most people are abnormal!
According to statistics, a normal person has one breast and one testicle..."

2006-08-09T20:35:00.000+08:00

National Day 2006
"Our Global City, Our Home." I still think last year's theme is better. Anyway, today I did not feel as if today is National Day until 6pm. The streets were already quiet when I looked outside at around 6:30, this proves that Singaporeans have the country spirit and want to go home and watch the NDP parade. The parade, although almost the same every year, owns! Especially the finale where many colours were lit up in the sky. Just like every year, I was captivated by the bright colours. It's National Day today, and I don't want to say anything bad about Singapore, so... yar.. Happy Birthday, my country, my home!

Personal
While everybody was excited about celebrating National Day, I was... haha, enjoying myself doing A Maths and Chemistry Paper. Yes! I finally finished A Maths! except Relative Velocity. To give Miss Ng face, I decided to do the Chem Prac Paper. I was half doing Chem Paper and half watching the NDP Parade.

Other
Not a very nice day for me today. A very sian one, woke up and realised it was already 11am! Still waiting and thinking.

Joke of the Day
A mathematician is in Africa trying to capture a lion. When he spots one he proceeds to build a fence around himself and says, "I define this to be outside!"

2006-08-08T19:25:00.000+08:00

Personal
Well, same as yesterday, just some more A Maths. Haha, I actually enjoying doing A Maths, am I sadistic? I dunno, lol. I actually was bored by Junwei's new game and chose to go home. The graphics is nice, that's all.

School
So many things to say, I shall start with National Day celebrations. Just like every year, sing National Anthem more loud than any other day, then listen to the Recollections. Okay it is a recollection. I was actually very sentimental today. Usually, I am not, I'm only sentimental and super sensitive when it comes to music. I realised many things that I never did. To many, National Day is just a day to celebrate the nation's birthday, but to us future leaders, it means that Singapore has embarked on a newer route towards the future. Will Singapore be successful, or will the economy break down? It is really up to us. I still feel last year's quote "The Future is Ours to Make" is great. Do you want Singapore to be more prosperous in the future? It will be up to us, you know? It is a big responsibility! Why was the performances in the hall called a concert when there isn't any good music? The only concert like performance is Eva's singing.
Then, it is the performances by teachers to make us study harder. Okay, it is really useful, but I think I am working hard enough already, so... The one with the the four male teachers singing owns! Mr Koh's cartoon is super qiang! No doubt about it being his favourite, but I just felt that the songs and performances and stuff are all boys. The cartoon is mostly about the boy, how can her wife die first? Females are supposed to live longer than males! But on the whole, this programme really has a big impact. The Auditorium was cold, but I felt very warm in my heart.

Home
For those who knows what the chinese have to do on the 15th of the 7th month, good for you, you will understand what I say. My mother brought home food that has been prayed for us to eat from my grandmother's house (mother's side). She told us the roasted duck is one of my aunt (her husband is my grandmother's son) give us one, because my aunt saw that my grandmother was discriminative and gave my mother a lousy part of a chicken. To my aunt, thanks a lot, a whole bunch, you are great, you have such a good heart! As for my grandmother... please stop your thoughts on gender discrimination! Do you know what generation we are in already? Your wai4 sun1 is smater than any of your nei4 sun1 nv3s. Haiz, I cannot blame their outdated thinking too. Ok, for my family, my mother admitted subconsciously that she showed favouritism. She treated my bother better than me. I actually didn't feel it for 15 years. When I told her that I can't feel that I am being treated lousier than my brother, she said she felt super comforted. Guess, she felt guilty, lol. Haiz, like mother, like daughter.

Other
Now, I need some links. Who can offer? The theme of songs in my phone has also changed to pop, to give someone face, I'm gonna put it for 1 week. I've just thought of some mysteries that I cannot solve. But according to my theory, I will wait for time to pass to find my answer. What is the mystery? Sorry, no clues. But if I wait for 10 years plus, I may find my answer.

Joke of the Day
How does a mathematician induce good behavior in her children?
"I've told you n times, I've told you n+1 times..."

2006-08-07T21:12:00.000+08:00

Personal
Currently at A Maths. You may say this.. "lol?! Alan is studying A Maths? Does he need it?" But I tell you this, don't ever think I'm good at A Maths. It comes with practice. I covered P&C, Binomial Theorem and some other crappishly easy topics. Then I came across the soccer player question.. why must divide by two? I figured it myself today.. FINALLY! For those who don't understand, here's an explanation. Let the ten children be A, B, C... If you take 10C5, there will be a case where a team would comprise of A,B,C,D,E and the other, F,G,H,I,J. There will also be a time where the team is F,G,H,I,J and the other A,B,C,D,E, which is actually the same as the above, so you have to divide by two. The people around me still keep saying, you can't play against yourself... no link! Then, Binomial Theorem, I can't do the first 3 Questions in the book! Oh no?! how now, but I can do 4,5,6 at least, LOL. So, I tell you this, I am not as smart as you all think, treat me as some lousy people and stop saying that I am smart! I have a lower IQ than Andy! (according to the tickle test) But I am changing my mood for the big exam. I dunno why, but it comes up naturally. I can study until no day no night without feeling the urge to play recently. My brother was playing and I was totally unaffected. Hope you were like me, huh? Or you think I have no life? It is not the time to enjoy life now.

School
Haha, nice day today... Free and nice. Nothing much happened today. I finished an English letter today, who wants to compare productivity with me? Before assembly, it's another detress moment where boys shout in the toilet! This is one of the funny things than happened. Then, we got back our test papers. The CO people are playing their songs, which dunno why, were super hilarious! I mean, it wasn't so funny, but only god knows why we were laughing like mad. I only got 36/50 for my A Maths test. Say, am I dissapointed? Yes. Sorry if I provoked anyone, but this really is a lousy score for me. Forgetting the stat. pt. 0,0 in Qn 5 and "verifying" cos (1/3) costed me 10+m. And I thought I could get very high for this test. What is this?

Joke of the Day
What do you get then you cross a mosquito and a mountain climber?
You can't cross a vector and a scalar.