The first 2 screwed up tries

OK! After I finally passed, think it's time to dish out the dirt on all the lousy and screwed up testers-the whole freakin reason why I failed TWICE! URGH! Juz thinking about it makes my blood boil.... hehe.. ok.. let's go

Try 1:
Reason for failure-turned at a traffic junction without letting pedestrians pass first. Immediate failure. Demerit points: less than 20.
Urgh!!! Ok... here's my version of the reason why I failed. U noe right.. at those traffic junctions.. these pedestrians like to take their own sweet time and stroll slowly across the road, like models catwalking. Come on man.. I was the first in line to turn left lor. Hey.. like.. if I dun turn quickly, those lousy cars at the back gonna start honking.. which means immediate failure too. So I thought.. since those lousy pedestrians were still at the opposite side of the road, it's pretty safe to turn. And it is! To be doubly sure, I stuck my hand out the window and signalled to the pedestrians to stop walking where my car is driving past! Yep. And hey! They saw it! And they DID stop! And fact is, I didn't knock anyone down! But somehow the tester seems to think that i was supposed to stop instead. Hey.... no fair! We drivers and pedestrians are all road users! We have equal rights can?! If drivers have to stop for pedestrians how come pedestrians can't stop for drivers?! Esp drivers having their driving tests! They have special rights can?! That's why I say, these testers... seriously got something against cute girls like me. Sigh. All my mum's fault.. give birth to such an adorable girl.

Ok on to try 2.

Try 2:
Reason for failure-the tester once again got pissed off by my adorable face. Demerit points: 50.
FIFTY!! See my point?! No good being too cute.. hard to survive in a place like Singapore.. too many un-cute pple jealous of pple like us cuties. Sucks.

Guess where the points came from. Bet u can never get it right. Cos it's so freakin ridiculous!
Ok.. U noe.. I was driving at like, 40+km/h on the normal roads. Speed limit's 50. And that lousy tester said I was driving tooooo slowly for the road conditions! Like... wat road conditions?! Early morning rush hour traffic??? I took my test at that time can?! How to drive fast?! @#$%$%@#$#!!!! Mad shit..
Ok.. then next ridiculous thing.. he expected me to memorise the route. Like....... how?!?!? MAD!!!!! Once we started moving out of BBDC, he asked me," Do u noe where the U-turn at CCK rd is?" Ok.. I mean, I DO KNOW that road.. juz that I didn't know it's called CCK rd. Ok? So, to be safe, I juz said no lar.. cos I did not expect him to think that I should memorise the route (which is total crap all u prospective learner drivers.. u r not required to memorise). Anyway, his reply was," Then it's too bad, u have to learn to look for it yourself."
Like.. HOW SHITTY!!! URGH!!!! So I was like, struggling along the road.. looking for a U-turn. When I finally found it, there was SUCH a sense achievement..... but.... it was all destroyed later when he said I signalled right too late.. and thus I had to change lanes abruptly. Like.. whose fault is it lar?! Urgh!!!!!! He told me I had to look for the U turn myself, which I did, and succeeded, and after that he said I signalled too late. Like, at least gimme some credit lar! I managed to find the U turn can!? Sucks.
Another time was at this left turn. He told me, "There's a temple in front. Turn left before the temple." Ok. So like, normal people would expect the left turn to be coming soon rite? So I signalled left. And guess what?! This time, he said I signalled too early!!!!! Cos the temple was still quite far away. Like.......... how lousy can he get?! It's all his own fault and he makes it seem as though it were mine! URGH!
And on that 70km/h semi-highway right, I was driving at 60+km/h... and once again he deducted points for me driving too slowly. Kaoz.. and they complain about Singaporeans being speed demons.. they should start checking with their testers why that is the case!!!

Sigh... And guess what.. I had to bear with all this shit buried deep in my heart and can't write a letter to complain to BBDC juz in case I get blacklisted and never ever will pass my driving test in Singapore in my entire lifetime. Sigh. I'm juz a lousy humster. BUT!!!! NOW! I can complain with no fear! Haha.. juz waiting for my license to be sent to my doorstep. Then.. that tester... hehe.. he will get his retribution!!!! Hehe.. (OK.. I'm kidding.. I'm still a humster.. how can I complain!? My bro has yet to take his driving lessons. What if they have this system that can check all your family members etc etc... and if HE gets blacklisted HOW?! I'm such a nice sis.. Can't believe it.)

Ok.. talking about my bro.. his link is up. Yeah. The most irritating brother in the world. His blogsite is cool too. Toiletbowl. 不亏是我武林盟主的弟弟。Ja.. muz learn to be more avant garde like him! Goeatshitndie.blogspot.com is a nice blog add! See? Me JX and Jing all agree. It's juz u now! Yeah! Ok.. back to my brother. Juz now he was telling me about all the lousy shitty programming things he learned back in Communist High in sec 1 and 2... and how zai how zai his computer skills are.. apparently that was the only subject he got exempted for! In Communist High! But...... he threw all his HTML notes away liao.. sucks.. if not he can teach me all about how to make my blog nice.. hehe.. Oh yes.. he was telling me about this computing proj last time they had to do in TCHS. It was something like, u have to create ur own webbie, and set up a counter to see the number of people who viewed ur page. Then being the bo liao Communist students they are, they had this competition to see who has the highest viewership. Then those stupid ones will go home and keep clicking on their own sites to increase the counts of views. And the smarter ones will juz change their html code to show a 5 digit figure on their counter. Hehe.. Verce.. is that what u do? Haha

Ok.. now on to this Verce. He advertised me on his blog, so now muz return him the favor.
Ok.. who is Verce?!
He's this commando, from TCHS and RJC last time, and his blog is really quite cool I gotta say. So... if u pple are free... go visit his site. U won't regret. There're songs, clips, and my chiobu pic.. haha. Errr.. and I seriously think he deserves to be in Xiaxue's place! Yeah! Haha.. one day if we combine forces we will beat her! Haha. Oh yar.. He's currently studying in NUS Chem engine. Cool fac. *crosses fingers and toes*

Ok.. think that's all for today.
Oh yar! B4 I forget.. back to the driving topic. U noe.. yesterday while I was waiting for my final shuttle bus ride out of BBDC, I overheard these instructors talking among themselves in hokkien. One of them was tokking abt this female driving student he had. This lady was at a traffic junction, and the lights had juz turned red. Seemingly blind to the traffic lights, she continued driving and turned right. The instructor was struck dumb. So he asked her," What are u doing!? Didn't u see the red lights?!"
She happily replied," Yes I did! But they said 'left turn on red' rite?"
OMG!!! Pls.. for heavens sake.. female drivers stop xia suaying urselves!!! Sigh.. K gtg practise my driving in case I ever become like her!

Anyone game to go for a spin on a 7-seater with a newly-qualified driver at the wheel?

Haha yes!!! I passed!!!!! Haha.. ok let's start from the morning.
I was suffering from an unusual attack of nerves!!!! Why?!?! Cos... despite promising me like, 20 times yesterday that he will wake me up at 10am this morning, my dad totally absolutely forgot abt it!!!!!!! URGH!!!!!!! Lucky I woke up by myself, using my body clock, at 9.30am.. if I waited for my dad=die (he finally remembered to call at like, 11.45am? Juz before I stepped out the door for my coffee at the kopitiam... Sigh.. called and kept saying sorry cos he was too bz with work.. lucky I got an accurate body clock)
Yepz! Anyway, after I woke up, the rest was a rather good start. I put on my nice hot pink tube top and my sexy micro mini denim skirt and started walking out the door.. then I suddenly remembered Tie's blog entry.. that one about the Avril before and after makeup pictures!! How could I have forgotten!? I rushed back into the house and started to slap on loads and loads of foundation, then lip gloss, then blusher and mascara. Ok. Think I'm starting to look like Avril. So I walked out the door again......... wait!!! There's something missing!!!! Oh! I remember now! Eyeliner! So I rushed back into the house and started to draw on thick thick black lines above my eyelids. HAHA!! Tadaaaa Avril Lim KS!!! Hehe.. even as I walked out of my house and down the road towards the kopitiam I could hear like, a zillion wolf whistles!!! Woo hoo!! The day was off to a good start!

Ok.. the top paragraph was 90% fiction. Now for the non-fiction version.

Sigh... not exciting at all this version. Anyway, I remembered the past few times I failed.. mym mum kept telling me.. is probably cos I look too geenah... like.. a kid. So the testers might not dare to let me pass. Yep. So I decided, today I shall shed my cute image and exchange it for an auntie image! Yes!!! It works! It really does! Btw rite, think all that shit about mini skirts and tube tops are really not accurate. Saw this girl at BBDC... wearing a micro mini skirt, trying to gek sexy. Anyway, didn't see her at the rd safety talk after that. Means.. she did not pass lar. So.. take KS's advice... go for driving test-opt for the auntie look. Testers, at their ah pek age, prefer aunties. Hahahaha.. OOooooooOOOOh super high!! Haha.. think I'm gonna be super crap today. Sigh. Haha..

K anyway, on to the test. Cos during the practise session, I was damn kancheong. Buay steady leh.. cos my instructor thot he made a mistake with the test timings... gave me a huge fright. But somehow during the duration of the test, I was quite zai.. haha.. Think muz be some people and gods in heaven protecting me. Muz go thank Guanyin niang niang (the one at si ma lu temple) soon. Hehehe... And I think the good luck charm Kayan lent me helped too (her driving license. Tudi said that it's an age-long belief that having a driving license in ur pocket brings u good luck when having driving test). Ok.. anyway rite, the test was not all smooth sailing. I was blessed with a good tester that managed to close one eye despite some of the cocked-up incidents on the road. Like when I juz went out onto the main road from BBDC. This freaking irritating driver juz simply REFUSED to give way to me and let me change lanes despite my flashing signal. He kept accelerating!!! Urgh! (All u drivers out there, pls.. if u ever see some poor soul having their driving tests, give way to them lar!) Anyway rite.. I was in gear 2.. but cos that irritating freak didn't want to give way, I had no choice but to keep accelerating to change lane. When I finally had free eye-time to check the speedometer, KAOZ!! OMG!! The speed was like, hovering somewhere past the 50 km/h point!!!! Urgh! I quickly released the accelerator. Hehe.. lucky the instructor understood that I had to change lanes.. so he closed one eye. Yep. And another lucky thing that happened to me, was that I was allocated route 2... which means I did not even have to go onto Bukit Batok Rd! (the 70km/h highway, a.k.a semi-highway at Bukit Batok). Great! Haha.. all in all, I only had 2 demerit points!!!! WOW!!!!! COOOOOoooOOOOL!! Btw those 2 demerit pts came from moving off in the wrong gear, gear 2... yeah.. think he really can't think of where to deduct points liao.. cos I was too zai. I did not move off in the wrong gear btw if u are wondering.. I was juz slow in changing into gear 1. Hehe...

OK... on to my first accident. I mean.. mini accident. Haha.. My dad was too high after I told him I passed. After I met him at his workplace at Bukit Batok, he drove me to the top carpark floor to let me test drive his 7-seater (Toyota Wish.. sucky) Yeah. Auto car.. hard to control. Basically, there were no cars on the top floor unless u count a lone motorcycle parked at a sorry corner. So he told me to keep going in circles. Like how no kick lar!!! Urgh!!! Gimme some credit man.. I passed my test k?! So I started to act smart.. suggested that he lemme try parking his car. Cos his car was rather huge compared to my instructor's Lancer, I told him to tell me to stop reversing when the car was roughly in place. Cos I was not used to the dimensions of the car, some more auto gear.. not easy to control. And Wish has a weird design that puts the handbrake where the clutch of a manual gear car is. (there's so obviously a reason why they are called handbrakes rite? I mean, if they are meant to be leg-operated, why are they called handbrakes?!) So... all the elements add up=langgah the pillar when I was reversing. Cos while I told my dad to tell me to stop, all he did was juz sit there and enjoyed the ride. Lucky I was a super safe driver and I was reversing real slow. That's why.. only got this small scratch and a slight dent in the bumper. Haha.. and lucky my dad's a nice guy, didn't scold me in case next time I totally lose confidence in driving.
But.. can't say the same for my mum. Cos she's the typical female driver, always drive slow slow, change lanes w/o checking, drive in the middle of 2 lanes, and always cursing and swearing at other vehicles as she was driving even though she was damn obviously the one at fault (oops! Haha.. later I kena struck by lightning). Anyway rite.. being the type of driver that she is, she's obviously very concerned abt my driving skills (or shall I say lack of it). The minute she came into the car she started nagging n nagging... told me I better not drive during the 1-yr probation in case my license gets revoked... and all that shit lar.. u noe.. sigh.. I where got so buay zai?! Chao chao also a license holder liao can?! Haha.. My dad took his test like, 10 times can?! Oops... I'm revealing all their secrets here... hehe.
Anywayz, went to meet JX and Jingz to celebrate. Thot JX would probably suggest somewhere like Ikea or Marche.. (no prizes for guessing what she'll eat at these 2 places) But... she suggested somewhere sooooooo........... close to our hearts. Chinatown!!!! The claypot rice there! The one where u have to queue for like, half an hour to eat a bowl of rice! Oh wait.. correction. Is JX suggest that me and Jing go there to order and chope seats for her. So when she arrives, the nice hot steaming claypot rice is ready and waiting for her to eat. Kaoz. Now I finally understand the downside of living close to chinatown. Yep. So we ate claypot rice and stingray.. and also talked a lot of cock.. including the super happening maths lect. Haha. Oh yar.. sucks!!! I have a feeling JX and Jing and Ja are ganging up on a conspiracy to cheat me! AGAIN!!!! Urgh! This time the title goes by something like Weijun. Sucky... sigh......
Ok.. think that's about it! OoooOOOOh!!! I gtg!!! Need to buy p-plates!!!! Bye!!!!!!

Ja is BACK!!!

YES!!! After being MIA for sooooo long, our dearest Ja is back from Spain!!! And she bought me a purple and pink hairclip from Madrid!!! I LOVE U JA!!!! Hehe.. Liddat u muz buy me more things than JX and Jing k?! Haha.. Oh yar!! Pls send us ur Spain pics!!! Hehe... wanna see! So cooollll!!!! Not fair!! Haha... Remember k? If not no Lee Hom I-Weekly and U-Weekly for u.

Oh btw rite.. I added another blog link on my blog! This link is Mabel's! She's the girl in my fac who's shorter than me!!! Hehe.. Mabel the Hobbit. Check out her link!

K now the interesting things that happened to me in school today. Hmm.. today I wore a skirt to school. Hehe.. hey u people should know.. it's not like I never wear skirts b4 lor. It's juz that this sem, 4 day week, 2 days we have labs. U know labs u can't wear skirts rite... so.. Anywayz last sem I always wore skirt lor! And tomorrow is a big day!!! I muz practise walking in skirt.. lack of practise.. tomorrow gonna wear those micro mini skirt.. then throw on a tube top. Hehe.. sucky... urgh!!! Oh yes! Another paiseh thing happened to me today. Haha.. Kayan was sitting to my right, and Gracie to my left, and Shiqin was sitting to Kayan's right today in BS 108 and BS 109 tutorials. Arrangement: Gracie-KS-Kayan-Shiqin.
Then Kayan started talking," Hey.. tomorrow wat time's ur test huh?"
So I replied," Errr.. 2.55pm."
Kayan," Where is it?"
Then Gracie started laughing.................

Guess what!? Kayan was actually talking to Shiqin!!!! Cos they are having a psycho test tmr!!! Urgh! And Shiqin was mumbling her replies.. so I thought she was talking to me!!! And it was after 5 minutes when Gracie was laughing non-stop that we finally realised what had happened. Urgh!!! How come paiseh things keep happening to me these few days?! Sigh...... NTU muz have bad fengshui......

K shall keep u guys updated tomorrow... if I'm free shall upload the nose-bleed chiobu in miniskirt and tube top pic. Hehe..

The retribution evil people will get.. sigh...

Urgh! Yesterday slept too late.. and woke up too freakin early today.. all in all, slept only 4 hours! (ok.. that's excluding the time I slept in my dad's car and in school.... but... those don't count! do they?) Yeah. So cos I was so damn tired, I kept sleeping in school, despite drowning myself in coffee. And anyway, today's lecture was how useless... revision lecture... (yeah eat your hearts out u NUS kias and u NTU kias from other facs.. this is the last week of school for Bio Sci students b4 exams!) Prof Bose was supposed to give us tips!!! OK.. well.. he pretended to be real nice.. even outlining what's gonna come out for each qn.. so it's like, there are 10 qn altogether. And there were 10 lects in all for this sem. So... conclusion.. juz study EVERYTHING! How useful is that!!!!! Urgh.. entire lect lasted for less than an hour.. I correct myself.. less than half an hour... OK.. anyway, to make my time in school more productive, I saved the past yr papers in my thumb drive and then proceeded to mug.
Yeah.. I was sitting in the resource room mugging happily.. then Kayan came along. Not that I have any grievances about her.. haha.. I mean, if it was juz her.. then the 2 of us would probably be mugging away happily. Yeah. Ok.. I mean.. her mugging away happily. Cos like, about one half hour into mugging, I decided I juz had to take a nap if I do not want to fall asleep during lab later on.. which can be quite dangerous.. I mean.. who wants to end up like, eating bacteria or wat not? Ok.. so at first I was quite happy. Cos managed to get the sofa seats... good place to sleep!!! Like hell. OK.. I mean, sofa seats are good to sleep on if u can lie down rite? But not if u have to sleep upright. Cos that defeats the whole purpose of the sofa seats! Rite?! Well, to give myself some credit, I did try to keep my body in a gravity-defying position. But after like, 15 minutes, I decided (in my half awake state, so it's forgiveable).. what the heck.. I shall juz lie down.. Yeah.. sigh.. now I regret.. so no 形象!! Even my tudi sitting like, quite far away was laughing at me when I woke up... Ok.. yeah.. So freakin paiseh. And if I managed to even get a good sleep, it would probably be worth it. That's where the Kayan part comes in. That group of guy sitting opposite us (one of whom has a humongous crush on her) kept talking damn loudly... obviously trying to catch her attention. URGH!!!! After trying to sleep for like, 30 min, I gave up. Moral of the story.. If u want to sleep in the resource room and that bunch of guys are there, make sure Kayan is nowhere around u.
OK.. on to the next person. This time it's my new found good fren.. she's called Mabel!!!! Can't believe it.. think in the whole of Bio Sci.. she's the only girl who's shorter than me!!!! Haha.. yeah.. and that's the sole reason why she's my good fren. My best fren is Yingjie.. and dun even try to ask me why she's my best fren.. haha.. too paiseh to disclose publicly. Ok.. so tokking abt this good fren of mine rite. She kept saying she's gonna undergo her 2nd puberty soon.. and she will grow taller than me soon! Like real. But anyway, juz in case, I kept pressing down on her shoulders every chance I had to make sure the probability of her growing taller than me is zero. Yeah. Hehe.. once she asked me to do something for her.. my reply was... "I will do it for u."
"Only if u grow taller than me!" Hehe... People dun understand why with my very slightly vertically challenged self, I had to keep making fun of her. Hehe.. tudi and Shiqin were still saying that I'm damn evil in the morning. But rite.. U all muz understand.. it's hard for me to find someone shorter than 168 wat.. so muz make use of every chance I have to make fun of that person!!!! Haha...
Oh yar.. and anywayz, evil people will somehow juz get their just deserts. I got mine during lab. Shit... I was happily looking at some onion root tip cells and I dunno what rubbish yeast cells (they are called Saccharomyce Pombe... repeat after me Sa-cha-ro-my-ce Pom-Be) Yeah... then suddenly... my wisdom tooth started hurting like hell!!!! Urgh!!!!!!! Anyway, due to extreme discomfort, I started complaining to my lab partner Wani and those girls opposite us.. Peiru, Amanda and Zureena. Yeah.. then the guys beside us overheard too lar. And one of them was really really evil... Linus... Urgh.. instead of trying to console me like Peiru and Gracie, he started telling me about how the dentist will use some electric saw to saw thru ur teeth and blah blah blah (Jing! U told me it's gonna be pulled out and not sawed out!!) And then it's best to opt for the general anaesthetic and not local.. cos rite.. it's not very nice to see that saw going into ur mouth and hear the dentist sawing out ur wisdom tooth.... Damn! Urgh... Anyway, Peiru's grew out all damn fine and nice!!! I even forced her to open her mouth to let me inspect juz how wisdom tooth were supposed to look like. And they look juz fine! Like normal tooth!!! Urgh.. Ok.. my wisdom tooth are not hurting anymore. I shall zuo xian for the next few days and not eat any solid food... Until the pain goes away.

Why some dedicated teachers call it a day

Copied and pasted this from Jialin's email... in case u guys didn't bother to read. Yep. Our dearest Mrs Toh wrote in the ST forum!! About teaching.. and her grievances. Yeah. She's not teaching anymore.. sadz... OK.. so this is it.

The Straits Times 17 March

Why some dedicated teachers call it a day

FOR a long time, my husband and I have kept our grievances as teachers to dinners with our colleagues.
It is difficult to share our woes and sorrows with non-teachers, who assume that we have long holidays, short working hours and a fat pay cheque. It just does not appear to those outside our circle that our job is anything but that.
Having left teaching after five years of service, I think it is time to set the record straight. It is true that a handful of teachers do get away with doing very little work. These are the ones who skive and squirm their way out of any responsibility bestowed upon them. In every profession, there is bound to be black sheep and teaching is no exception. The truth is, for the rest of us, teaching is a lot of hard work and heartache.
Planning lessons that are engaging, effective and still 'cover' the syllabus is challenging for a 35-period week with three or four classes a day. Research needs to be done, resources compiled, notes and worksheets prepared and printed.
The actual lesson itself is more draining than the preparation. Teachers are always on 'high alert' in the classroom - discipline problems to handle (ranging from not doing homework to defiance, stealing and, in very rare cases, fighting); rapport to build, which is ongoing (students are not going to learn if they all hate us!).
Having to handle different sets of 40 or more students in a day's work -where we need to punish and reward, scold and joke with, teach and ensure learning takes place, enforce rules and impart moral values, rein in the egoistic students and give the shy ones confidence - is a daunting task.
Every comment we make may affect a student's self-esteem, desire to learn, willingness to cooperate with us, goals and ambitions for the future. The truth is we would never know the impact of our reprimands or words of encouragement.
Beyond the classroom, there are still the CCAs, department and committee work that demand our time and energy to plan, coordinate, implement and monitor.
School programmes and events like camps and concerts are essential to the holistic development of our students but these add on to our already very heavy workload, which is teaching itself. Parents are a whole new category of problems for teachers. Most are supportive but a few problematic ones can cause a lot of pain for us. Some expect teachers to be on call 24/7; others threaten and abuse us when they do not get their way. Some think that we are miracle workers who can turn failures into distinctions overnight; others just treat us as agony aunts.
On top of all these, we need to answer to our heads of department and principals when it comes to 'producing' the number of passes or distinctions. Teachers teaching the graduating classes are often made out to be the heroes or sinners when the results are released. The pressure is overwhelming. 'Results are not everything' is a myth!
Despite all these woes, I had no regrets going into teaching. I have had the privilege of getting to know a few batches of fantastic students at Hwa Chong Junior College and Fuhua Secondary School, who still keep in touch with me. They were the reason I decided to teach in the first place and they were definitely the highlight of my teaching career.
The truth is, teachers are no saints. They have only 24 hours a day just like any one of us, yet their responsibilities and duties are so demanding that their family life and their physical and emotional health are sometimes compromised.
And I believe that, at the end of the day, teachers who left did so not because they stopped believing in what they did but rather they believed in it so strongly that they did not think they could accomplish all that without making any compromise in the other areas of their lives.
Elaine Toh-Tan Yee Lin (Mrs)

*clap clap* let's all applaud her bravery in daring to stand up against the screwed-up education system and air all her grievances!!! And anyway, despite the screwed up system, she's all in all still a remarkable teacher.. and that's how Jing and I managed to get B3 for GP in our A levels despite scraping past with many Cs and sometimes even Ds for block tests, promos and prelims. Yep. Even Mrs Toh herself could not believe we got B3. Hehe

Lost the battle!!!

Urgh!! How could I have lost the battle!? To the sleep demon!? Noooo!! This is the first time I ever went to meet uncle Chow for a game of chess like, in the evening!!! Damn! The game almost lasted till morning. Thank god.. I had the determination and willpower to end the game early!!! This sucks. Anyway, to prevent myself from being drawn into another game of chess, I decided to come online... only to be drawn into a game of sonic and tails and I dunno what else u call those other characters! URGH!!!! This is no good... it is evil to load games onto blogs.. especially during exam periods. And especially when those games bring back memories of Sega addiction.. during the sec sch days... when my bro and I would sit in front of the tv and challenge each other till there was no day no night. Of cos.. I always won! Oh but that's beside the point..
Yeah.. and then later I ventured into Tie's blog. Haha.. and read abt the Mulberry bag thing. Hey seriously rite.. pls.. that bag.. I dun see where the attraction lies! OK.. pardon me for having the taste of an immature teenager.. but.. that bag looks seriously seriously auntie can?! Oops. hehe.. And anyway rite.. come on man.. for that price, if I were u.. I would go get a Dior or LV can? Looks much nicer.. and LV has some nice designs this season.. there's this cherry design I saw somewhere. Rather than some Mulberry.. with huge and ugly pockets everywhere and I dunno what not.. yeah. u get the picture.
And as for the wedge heels rite... errrr.. u noe what they suddenly remind me of? Hmmm.. haha... I dunno.. but I always picture some PRC lady wearing a long flowery flowing obiang dress and wearing these kind of wedge heels and wearing...... yeah u get the idea. It's juz.... a very typical... PRC fashion sense....... hehe.. okok. I know.. wedges are in this season. But hmmm.... think it's good not to try to be too fashionable this season.. especially in a place like Melbourne where those ang mohs think every chinese looking person comes from China.. oops.. hope no PRC ever gets to read this blog.. if not... think they will wear their Mao Zedong tee and tie a red band around their forehead then get out their gun (dated back to the revolution era) and shoot me with it. And if by some weird twist of luck, their gun together with the bullets are still functional, think that's it.. Tie.. u can say bye bye to me. Yeah.

Oh right.. that said.. after correcting ur fashion disaster.. think it's time for me to get back to my books. Lousy Jing went to the confucius temple to pray and get sweets and didn't bother to take some extras for me. No wonder my results are super damn CMI..
Oh and shit... I seriously think my English levels are reaching new time lows.... muz be due to the recent over-exposure to the TCHS (The Communist High School) alumni style of English... urgh.. this is bad.. especially at a time where Sylvester is no longer the coolest Beng icon around.. I'm starting to pick up more and more Beng English... damn... next time muz learn to speak like an Aussie.. Tie shall be my teacher.

K shall end with this favourite quote of mine.. (saw it somewhere and got reminded of it)
Some people see things and ask, "Why?"
Others dream of things that never were, and ask, "Why not?"
~~ George Bernard Shaw

Parents Keep Watch Over Dying Schiavo

Just up from yahoo news.
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - After another round of losses in the courts, Terri Schiavo's parents kept watch over their dying daughter Saturday, trying in vain to give her Easter communion as their attorneys acknowledged the fight to reconnect the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube was nearing an end.
Attorneys for Bob and Mary Schindler decided not to file another motion with a federal appeals court, essentially ending their effort to persuade federal judges to intervene — something allowed by an extraordinary law passed by Congress.
Late Saturday, the Florida Supreme Court dismissed a request from the parents' attorney to have their daughter's feeding tube reinserted, turning aside an emergency petition arguing that a Pinellas County judge ignored new evidence of Schiavo's wishes and her medical condition.
At least two more appeals loomed by the state and Gov. Jeb Bush, but those challenges were before the state 2nd District Court of Appeal, which has rebuffed the governor's previous efforts in the case.
Family supporters said Schiavo's breathing became increasingly labored during the day. An attorney for the Schindlers, Barbara Weller, said hospice workers began giving morphine to Schiavo to ease pain brought on by her body's failure.
Schiavo's husband, Michael, has said she would not want to be kept alive artificially. The Schindlers believe their daughter could improve and say she laughs, cries, responds to them and tries to talk.
Weller said Terri cried when her mother hugged her Saturday night. "She knows what's going on. She was trying to vocalize something with Mary."
"The governor should know that Terri still knows who her mother is, and she's extremely distressed," Weller said. "She's not a vegetable who doesn't know what is happening."
Earlier, Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer rejected the family's latest motion. The family claimed Schiavo tried to say "I want to live" hours before her tube was removed, saying "AHHHHH" and "WAAAAAAA" when asked to repeat the phrase.
Doctors have said her previous utterances weren't speech, but were involuntary moans consistent with someone in a vegetative state. Greer agreed.
Scott Schiavo, the brother of Schiavo's husband said the family was pleased to see the Schindlers' efforts nearing an end.
"He knows in his heart he is doing the right thing, he is doing what Terri wanted," Scott Schiavo said. "He's having a hard time understanding why people are fighting him on this, why they are calling him a murderer. It's very tough on him."
Doctors have said she would probably die within a week or two of her feeding tube being pulled, which was done March 18 after Greer sided with her husband. Her body wracked by dehydration, attorneys for her parents said she may not last through the weekend.
"She's doing remarkably well under the circumstances," said Schiavo's father, Bob Schindler, after visiting her inside the hospice Saturday afternoon. "She has put up a tremendous battle to live. She's not throwing in the towel."
Michael Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, denied reports by the parents' attorneys that her tongue and eyes were bleeding.
"She is calm. She is peaceful. She is resting comfortably," Felos told reporters Saturday as four sheriff's deputies stood by to protect him.
Terri Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, called that "absurd" and challenged Felos to allow videos and photos to be released, so the public can see Terri's condition. "They're mischaracterizing the condition today, just as they have been ... It's sick. It's heinous," he said.
Felos said earlier that allowing videos to be recorded inside Terri Schiavo's room during her death process would violate her privacy rights.
Outside the hospice, about 60 protesters maintained a subdued vigil and, like her parents, hoped for a miracle. Some said they believed it was not a coincidence that the woman would lay dying during the Easter weekend.
Late Saturday the Schindlers asked protesters to go home to celebrate Easter with their families.
"Be with your children. Hold them close and cherish every moment you have with them," O'Donnell said, speaking for the couple. "Tomorrow, as we celebrate Easter, they pray that you gather in the churches of your own denomination and, if you would, offer a prayer for their daughter."
Terri Schiavo has been without food and water longer than she was in 2003, when the tube was removed for six days before Gov. Jeb Bush pushed through a law to have it reinserted. The law was later thrown out by the state Supreme Court.
Many supporters of the Schindlers say Bush could simply ignore the courts and take emergency custody of Schiavo. But Bush, himself a convert to Roman Catholicism, has said he's not willing to go beyond the boundaries of his powers.
Terri Schiavo suffered brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped briefly from a chemical imbalance believed to have been brought on by an eating disorder. She left no living will.

OK.. I bet most of u have read about this lady and her story. Yep. It's a bit like euthanasia.... but hey.. remember, euthanasia, they die a quick and relatively painless death.. by something like, maybe lethal injection and what not.. They do not die by starvation... definitely not.. that's something only third world country people die from. And for euthanasia, the people are generally terminally ill, and not just brain-damaged. If brain damaged people deserve to die just for the simple reason that they have brain damage, many people in this world should have already gone to meet their maker. Highly probably including someone by the name of George W Bush, and also not forgetting the millions of airheads and bimbos around us, people like my idol Paris, or Pamela Anderson. I can't believe they are actually permitting this act.. allowing the feeding tube of a brain damaged lady to be pulled out.. someone who has no way of communicating her thoughts or feelings. She's NOT a vegetable. Those who have seen her on TV would have seen her moving her head and smiling and blinking. True, she cannot speak coherently.. but that does not make her a vegetable. Sometimes, it really makes us wonder.. what kind of people a society like America is producing... they can pass such a law, allowing a harmless defenseless nice young lady to be cut off from her lifeline.
My verdict- this is MURDER!

Simple Life, season finale!! That's hot! haha

Oh right. This is it.. I will have to go into Paris withdrawal... shit.. haha.. Simple Life 2 juz ended!!! And the season finale was like... wow!!! The scenes we were not allowed to show u. Haha.. OK.. for those Paris addicts who missed it.. let's have a summary of the most interesting/dumb/no-brainer that those 2 bimbos did in this season finale.

Ok.. first... recall one of the first few episodes they went to this farm place, the place where Paris was thrown off the horse.. remember? That time where she had to call for a helicopter to fly her to hospital. Yep. That place. Like, after she was thrown off the horse, she fell into this pile of stinging nettles.. or at least that's what the guy at the farm called them. Yeah.. so basically they are these nettles on the ground that will cut your feet and will of cos hurt like hell. So Paris had the luck to be thrown off the horse, right into a patch of these nettles thing. Yeah haha.. I dunno how many of those anti-Paris people out there are cheering. But anyway, that was one of the reasons why she called for the helicopter.. cos they sting so much (yep.. and the 2nd reason why she called for the helicopter when most pple like us wun is cos her daddy is like probably 10 million times richer than our daddies.) Yeah.. so she got those stinging nettles all over her body, on her hands, her feet, her face... everywhere! And if it were us, we would most probably have learned the lesson (the hard way!!) and never go anywhere near those stinging nettles thing again. Yeah.. but I guess the hard way is juz not hard enough for some rich kids (and may I add dumb).. especially those who have an army of helicopters at their beck n call whenever they meet with the slightest accident. So the next day, Paris juz happily wore sandals and wandered right into a patch of those stinging nettles again... think this time round, even the helicopter pilot didn't want to waste his time flying there to save his dumbsel in distress.. Sometimes I wonder... when her mum gave birth to her, did she leave half her brain inside her mummy's womb... (that's giving her face liao.. I said half a brain.. I didn't say the whole brain).

OK.. anyway right.. the 2nd unforgettable thing that they did.. haha... I would classify this under interesting.. and not dumb. Haha.. That's at the mermaid show place.. Remember.. this place where Paris and Nicole were supposed to perform for some mermaid show? Er.. ok.. I mean, Paris is the mermaid and Nicole is the turtle.. yeah.. the ugly green turtle.. remember?? Yepz.. apparently, the performers held a meeting with those 2 before they started training and asked them for their suggestions about how to improve the show. Yeah.. and being the typical bimbos that they were, all their suggestions hovered around the dressing of the mermaids.. or rather.. err.... the undressing of the mermaids. Yep.. they felt that the tiny bikini top was juz not sexy enough.. not for mermaids.. and they decided that these tiny patches of I dunno wat metal thing covering the bare essentials was enough. Ok.. maybe I'm slow or suaku or wat.. but.. how do these metal things stay in place?! OK.. masking tape? Scotch tape? Nipple tape? But.. they are gonna be swimming in water!!!! Kaoz.. wat kind of glue or adhesive can stay sticky for so long underwater?! If u ever notice, whenever we swim or bathe with plasters on our bodies, these plasters tend to come out easily rite?! Errr.. or maybe that's the whole intention? Hmm... ok... guys.. dun u juz wish u were there?! Haha..

Ok.. next interesting thing they did.. that's at the police station. Remember.. this episode where they had a stint with the local police as deputies? The episode where they went around arresting innocent people and sounding the police siren going after cars on the highways? Yep.. that episode. Haha.. apparently they were supposed to wear these ugly brown pants that were part of the deputies' uniforms. But they refused to change out of their designer pants. Yeah. So they had this rather tense standoff with the sheriff, who refused to budge on that issue. So, in the end, to make sure that they can never be made to wear those pants, they cut holes in the crotch area, and then accused the sheriff of doing it then forcing them to wear it. Urgh!!! ok... even after reading this paragraph myself I dun find it as funny anymore.. but.. when u watch the show.. it is seriously damn freaking funny!

Oh well.. that said.. I guess everything is forgiveable.. cos... Paris is chio. Haha.. at least, she can officially be called a bimbo.. cos bimbo=chio but dumb. Yeah.. so.. at least she's not like.. ugly and dumb.. then I really dunno who can save her. Haha.. oh well.. and yes.. one more impt thing.. she's bloody freaking rich! Sigh.. if only she were a les... I dun mind her as my sugar mummy! Haha..

Oh right.. now.. it's time for the awards! Sometimes, I really think doing this show is doing them lots and lots of good. They are becoming smarter with each season!!! Yeah! And.. I seriously think Nicole deserves a prize.. a Great Improvement Award. She's starting to speak with some sense! Do u all remember that part.. where they ran out of gas at some remote countryside? Well, that Paris, dumb as ever (ok.. but she's still chio.. so nvm), went down to open the hood to check wat's wrong. And my god.. Nicole said this sentence of such wisdom and wit (by their stds) that my jaw dropped and almost could not be fixed back. She said,"Paris, there's nothing wrong with the engine. If there's something wrong with the engine, u open the hood. But there's nothing wrong with it. We've ran out of gas." (Or something along that line). Yeah!!!! *clap clap* Can u believe it?! She actually knows the parts of a vehicle and how they work!!!!! Gosh!!!!!! Woo hoo!!! Dun she juz rightfully deserve the award?!!!

Ok.. shit.. now back to my lab reports and my mugging... and also muz ZzzzzZZZ at a very ungodly hour tonite... the earliest I've ever slept on a saturday nite... cos I've driving lessons at 7am tomorrow morning!!! 7!!!! If u calculate in the time that I take to wake up, brush my teeth, wash my face (I'll bathe after I come back from there), drink my coffee and travel there, means I have to wake up at like, latest 5.30am!!!! On a Sunday morning!!! That's madness.. I wonder why I even agreed when my instructor suggested that timing... Urgh... too bad.. can't regret now. And I'm still stuck at the same set of notes for 3 days.... going on 4... shitty.. I hate chaperone proteins and what shitty quality control they have for us... sucks. Urgh!

Oh yar.. btw.. before I forget.. muz add another coffee outlet to the list I created in my last last last last last last last entry! Juz now I went for dinner at Ikea.. had meatballs (JX's fav wahahaha).. and also drank the coffee there! I dunno why.. the coffee is machine brewed.. but they also brew the milk together with it.. so the temperature is controlled very well. And the sugar u add yourself. But.. the coffee there... only one word-heavenly!!!!! Seriously shiok.. I drank dunno how many cups.. lucky it's free flow.. almost didn't want to leave. Haha..

Ok.. I muz end! Tataz!!!! If u pple are free, muz really go try that coffee!!!!

A visit to the dentist

OK... I know all about that shit about not going to blog for how long how long etc etc.. ok.. yar. but anyway, remember that thing I said about unless interesting things happen to me?! Yeah.. I shall deem the thing that happened to me today interesting!!! Or rather, hmm.. not what happens to everyone everyday lar.. ok.. it's interesting enough in my boring life for me to want to blog about it... ok.. fine.. I'm juz addicted to blogging.. yeah. Haha.. shit... mug till damn damn sian..
Ok.. anyway, what happened to me today?! Ok.. let's start from a few days ago. Cos I was complaining to my mum about these wisdom teeth of mine, growing out. Cos they hurt a little bit, just a little bit... I was wondering, if I needed to extract them. OK.. but anyway, if pain means have to extract, in front of the dentist I die die also won't say pain.. Don't we all have childhood nightmares about dentists wielding all sorts of weird metal weapons, putting them into our mouths, and the next thing we know, there is blood everywhere, mixed with saliva and dunno what sort of weird tasting poison they put into our mouths. Yeah... dentists=monsters in Kah Suan's dictionary.. Ok.. but that's not the point.. yet...........
OK so anyway rite, my mum decided to take a look inside my mouth to see if she could see the white bumps coming out, to determine if indeed my wisdom teeth were coming out (right side, upper and lower). But then she noticed something else.. something even more ominous and terrifying than the wisdom tooth (at least to me at the moment).... something that made my blood run cold..... something that .... that ........ left me at a loss for words..... something..... something................ that is................... TOOTH DECAY!!!!!! Oh shit... urgh!!!!! Tooth decay!!!! remember when we were young, they always told us, don't eat so much sweets, don't eat so much chocolates, don't eat so much blah blah blah... and I never heeded their advice!!!!!! Now, finally, my chocolate addiction is coming back to haunt me!!!! Urgh!!!!!!
I told u.. brothers are no good.. seriously.. and this incident really juz proves it even more true. U noe.. after seeing the look of utter horror on my face after learning of the terrible truth, instead of comforting me, he just came over, patted me on my back, and started telling me the story of his own tooth extraction a few years ago before he had his braces. Yar..... how the dentist cut up the gum, saw off the tooth, then sew up the gum again. Oh.. btw, he did add that local anaesthesia will be administered... but yep.. that said, he added again that u could still feel the dentist cutting away your gum, burning up the excess (u can even smell your own barbequed flesh), sawing thru your tooth, poking the needle thru your gum again, yada yada yada.. yeah.. u get the picture. Yep.. so anyway, he also cheerfully reminded me that the anaesthetic will last only for at most a few hours.. and after that the wound will start hurting like a bitch and then u will have to be kept on a liquid diet for I dunno how many million years. Oh but he also kindly told me that it would help me lose weight. Yeah
So.. hands up. Who's inside the fellowship to smack all the brother's butts?! *raises hands and feets*.
Yar. Ok anyway, back to the dentist. Yep.. so... given the dire circumstances, I had no choice but to go to the dentist (btw, my dad booked the appointment for me and forcefully drove me right up to the front door and pushed me inside...). Sucky... yeah.. Ok
Anyway rite, once inside, I saw that the dentist was occupied with this other girl before me (ok. at first I did not see her face, only heard her voice and saw her mum walking in and out of the room). I heard her mum saying something to her dad about her having to extract this molar.. and I was like... ooohhh great!!! Here's another girl who's having her wisdom tooth extracted!!! (Ok.. not like I'm extracting my wisdom tooth.. but there's this chance that my decayed tooth will be extracted rite????!) Yar. so I was a bit 幸灾乐祸. Yar.. I know.. evil... but.. it's like, I feel like there's company!!! Even if I have to extract my decayed tooth eventually, I will have company!!! Yay!!!! So right, suddenly I felt so much braver.. Haha.. cos I heard that girl screaming away.. and I was like..come on u chicken.. tooth extraction only wat.. scream wat scream..... yeah..
Ok.. anyway rite.. If I tell u wat happen later, think u all will hoot me. Yeah.. so I was happily laughing away inside and all.... thinking of all the evil taunts towards the poor girl inside.. when she finally came out, pengz!!! I realised that all the while, she was not extracting her wisdom tooth... she was extracting her molar yes.. but it's her milk teeth molar.... yar.. ok.. geddit?! It's this little girl of about 10 years old... and I was busy laughing away at her.... shit... anyway it's gonna be my turn...
So I entered the room, feeling as lousy as shit, and also remorseful.. for thinking evil thots of a 10 year old girl who was probably braver than me. Anyway, the dentist, this young chap, sat me down and started chatting with me lar.. probably to make me relax and all.. but all I could think of was... shit.. this young guy... does he know what he's doing?! He looks like he's probably only looking at others teeth for the 3rd time! (giving him the benefit of the doubt.. cos I only saw one other patient.. the girl). Ok.. so he was fiddling around with his suspicious looking metal weapons, and poking them around in my mouth.. looking at this tooth and that tooth... finally he decided... I did not have to have any extraction!! All he's gonna do is to clean and fill up 2 of my decays. Anyway rite, he proceeded to do the cleaning. Ok... at first it was all fine and dandy.. cos I was really relieved that I need not have any tooth extraction. But then, he had to start that whirring machine thingee... u noe.. that thing that sound which we always hear in our childhood dentist nightmares?? Yes!!! That!!! Then my goosebumps started coming out.. and cold sweat started to bead on my forehead... and I did not realise this at first.. but my fists became tightly clenched. The next thing that happened really made me super duper paiseh..... That dentist looked down at my hands, then gave me a worried look. At first I was still wondering why. He kept asking me.. is it very painful? Am I hurting u? Just relax.. Blah blah blah... Yep.. cos in actual fact it was not really painful at all.... so I just shook my head. Yep.. It was after that that he told me.. my fists were so tightly clenched!!!! He thot he was doing something wrong or there was something wrong with the machine.. cos u know.. the cleaning process is not supposed to be painful!!!!! Shit.. so much for laughing at that little girl... sigh...
Hopefully, after this, I will have overcome my dentist phobia!!!!

Ok.. latest entertainment news update--Juz for Ja

Touched not?! Haha.
Ok anyway rite.. the latest latest news I think u would be most interested in is, Lee Hom is in Singapore!!!!!! Hehe... he sang at some anti-drug concert with a lot of other singers... but I missed it cos I was not at home.. damn!!! Haha... then rite.. he's on the cover of this issue of I weekly!!!! Hehe... I bought it!!!! Hmm.. if u treat me really well, I might juz consider giving it to u!!! Hahaha...
Next up, that's the supposedly news creating the greatest buzz around us in Singapore now. Yes u guessed it. That Sylvester and Maia thing. Yar.. the 2 Singapore Idol finalists. Apparently they went ROM to get a date to register their marriage.. sucks.. I beginning to hate Sly.. he's indeed a sly one. And they were still insisting there was nothng between them at first. According to Maia, they officially got attached on the day where she got eliminated. And then things progressed very well, so they decided to get married. Then like, after the news was out, they called off the whole thing. That's how shitty.... Ok.. It's not juz Maia.. I gotta admit.. Sylvester really did it this time.. he totally disgusted me!!! Kaoz.. to think I used to treat him as my idol. Apparently, when the news broke, the both of them were in Taiwan, Sylvester was recording his album, Maia was on a "holiday" with frens. Then when they realised their little secret was out of the bag, they decided to break up. -_____- how nice.. how convenient. And according to the pple who spotted them at ROM, they were not exactly dressed very inconspicuously.. And the timing's juz so perfect.. right before Sly is about to release his new album. Didn't expect him to stoop so low for publicity!!!!! Kaoz.. U disappoint me, Sly... >_<
Next up, another one of my idols.. sucky.. haha... this time it's Edison!!!! Shit.. heard he was caught trying to engage this girl in some cybersex thing.... n even sent her his nude pics... ok.... this one, I'm taking with a pinch of salt... I will reserve my comments till I see the nude pics!!!! Wahahahahaha..

Oh yar.. btw.. to all 武林盟主 blog addicts....:
NOTICE OF ABSENCE
Yeah.. haha.. due to overload of tutorials, lab reports and of cos impending exams, 武林盟主 shall have to take a 1 month break from blogspot. :p
This does not mean that the 武林盟主 blog will not be updated tho. It juz means that personally written blogs from her will be fewer and further in btwn. But she will always search for hilarious jokes n inspirational articles to fill up her meaningful blog!!!! Hahahahaha
武林盟主 will be back-- on the 29th April!!!!! Look forward to her return!!!! (provided she does not go out, have fun and get high for 3 days 3 nights after the exams :p)

A series of events-an eventful day!

Hey Ja.. wassup? Why suddenly so homesick? Miss me issit!? Haha.. dun worry.. here I am to update u more abt myself, so u can miss me less! =p
Yep.. on a more serious note, u should be counting down the time! Gonna be home soon!!! Yippee! Then we can go ktv, go eat laksa, go do lots of rubbishy things!!! Yay!!!! K.. so muz look forward k?!!?!?!
Ok! Anyway, now muz tell u about all the things that happened today.. haha..
Starting from the morning. In the morning, went NUS to look for Wandai.. Cos she was lending me this textbook that they did not need this sem, while I do. Then she passed me my first surprise of the day!! The present Tie had for me! Haha.. it was a real cute and nice bag!! I was juz staring at it in shock and joy.. then this Wendy had to spoil it by saying,"It's ugly.." Sigh.... Tie.. we should really do something about this Wendy u noe.. we really should.. sigh.. Hey and btw.. ur taste is so like my taste!!! Next time u come back to Singapore, I will get u some nice nice cute cute bag too!!! And that reminds me.. though $$ was running out for u at the end of the holidays, u still went and got me a gift... sobz.. I feel like crying now.. touched.. hehe.. oh and btw rite.. I hold u by word for that Ronny guy thing... hehe.. does it still stand? I shall find ways n means to get rid of the VW beetle lady if it still does!!! Haha...
Ok.. on to the next event. Yep.. and that would be the most embarassing moment of my life! Shit. Ok.. u know rite... all these flag day people they are juz plain irritating lar.. u noe... they are everywhere!!!!! Ok.. as I was saying.. I was walking from my home to the MRT station.. then this boy was holding the flag day can and juz blocking the escalator leading to the MRT station. So I was real irritated lor.. normally I would have donated. Ok.. normally I MIGHT have donated.. ok.. normally I wun donate.. Yar.. since I'm such an evil soul rite.. I was trying to siam this even more evil soul. Then I really dunno what happened.. it has never ever happened b4 in my 3 yrs after moving to this home. Anyway, some devil took over my soul.. and in my haste to siam the flag seller, I rushed to take the escalator.. and took the wrong one!!!! As in, I was supposed to take the one going downward.. but I took the one going upward!!! And the thing is, I din even realise it! I kept thinking there's something wrong with this escalator!!!! Like, so, for 5 seconds I was juz there, trying to walk against the direction of the escalator before it finally hit me.. Shit.. lucky it's at the side entrance of Somerset, and not at the entrance facing Orchard... and the boy was the only person who saw it.. If not I really dunno how I'm gonna live it down!!!! But anyway, I bet the boy muz be laughing his head off, cursing this evil person who refuse to even give a single cent.. sigh.. moral of the story.. next time u see some kids selling flag, juz donate lar.. dun try to siam.. if not, might lead to more embarrassing things.
Yeah.. that was the highlight of this entry. Haha.. read on if u wanna noe more abt the less interesting things that happened to me today. Yep.. Ok.. I went for driving lessons. Then I was at this traffic junction somewhere near Gombak station.. and I saw TF!!! Hehe.. she brought Mugen out for a run!!! Thot she should be in hall.. so I kept staring to confirm if it's her. Yeah.. but come to think of it, I was pretty dumb lar.. that dog confirm muz be Mugen rite.. But somehow I did not think of it at that point of time. Haha.. anyway after that I msged her, she told me tues and wed no school, so she went home to stay! Such a coincidence rite! Haha.. She asked me why I did not horn her.. come on man.. I will kena hoot by my instructor can?! Sit in car anyhow horn pple.. Haha anyway I find it real interesting.. cos it's such a coincidence!!! hehe..
Yep. Next interesting thing. Haha.. this one was after I reached home.. Yep.. I was slacking around as usual, reading this interesting article in Zaobao about coffee making by these specially trained pple called Barristas.. Yeah.. dunno if I spelt correctly. But anyway that's not the point. The point is, I was reading halfway.. then my 徒弟 called me.. and let me hear the "Live" version of 童话!!! 光良 was at NTU!!! For a concert!!! Damnit.. then 徒弟 didn't tell me earlier lar!! And also didn't get tickets for me!!! Actually he called me when 光良 was singing that song 童话 to let me hear it live lar.. BUT!!!! Hello.. of cos hearing him thru the phone and hearing him at the place where he's singing is different!!!! Sigh.. but at least I got to hear his voice thru the phone lar. So.. I guess, u could call that interesting too! Sucks.. lucky it's not Lee Hom.. if not.. 徒弟 u die.... hehe.. sound like such an ingrate rite.. haha.. Anyway Ja.. yar.. u heard that song before? Yeah.. quite cool rite?! When u come back I muz go check check see if there are anymore upcoming concerts in NTU.. then can bring u in! Haha.

My 94 year old distant relative

Haha.. yesterday, my grandma came over to my place, cos this 94 year old distant relative of mine wanted to visit her, and she was afraid the climb down to her house (which is not on a lift landing floor) might be too hard the old lady to take. So she asked the old lady to come to my place instead.
The minute I heard that I had this 94 year old relative, I was like.. oh great.. wonderful.. now this weird antique is coming over to my place and I don't even know what to do to entertain her. The most terrible thing is that, my parents don't know her or the people bringing her to my place at all! They had never seen these relatives ever before, but yet I have.. cos there was this once I accompanied my grandma to this wedding.. and I met all these distant distant and more distant relatives.. so much so that I dunno how to call 90% of their names. But my point is, since I'm the only person in the whole entire family who even have a notion of who these people are, the job of entertaining them fell nicely into my lab. Great.. just great.. Haha.. the minute they stepped into the house, I started to dread how I should entertain these antiques. However, the very first impression that the oldest antique gave me was surprisingly good. She could still stand and walk by herself despite her age. And she was real jovial and had a grandmotherly face. Ok. Good impression. Then she started talking to my grandma.. great! 2nd good impression.. cos she understands that we young ones have difficulty communicating with the old ones.. so she's giving us an easy way out. Then the younger antiques started chatting.. with me.. sucks.. cos I was the only person they had ever met other than my grandma. But oh well, I've to admit, they were real nice people.. maybe juz cos of our age gap, it was harder for us to communicate. Then suddenly I remembered... this was the couple with the real outstanding kids! Oh shit.. great.. now the parents are really gonna start comparing their kids performance. Damn.. being the not-that-dumb kid that I am, I siam to my room and decided to sleep.. time is better spent that way. Adults can communicate better than adults talking to us kids.

After a while, the adults decided to go to Goodwood Park for lunch.. there's this chinese restaurant there that's apparently rather good (not that I think so, think Crystal Jade is better). Yeah.. anyway, during lunch, that's when the old old antique showed a side of her that started to make me seriously fall in love with her. Haha.. She started speaking to me in English. Apparently, when she was young, she came from a very well-to-do family, and was English-educated. And my oh my.. she was so cute! She specially went to do her hair at a salon juz so she could look pretty for this gathering. And then she was rather vain too.. liked to dress up. She looked so happy when my grandma commented that her clothes and hair were pretty. Haha. And she was rather well mannered too. When food accidentally came out from her mouth cos she was talking, she looked so traumatised and kept saying, "Excuse me excuse me." Haha.. And when she saw my camera phone, she insisted that I take a picture of her and my grandma together, and made me show her the picture. After we finished lunch, her legs were a bit numb from sitting for too long.. so she started shaking her legs and dancing around to get them moving again.. man.. how I wish I could be as cute as her when I grow old. Haha..

Ok anyway rite, after that we went to my other relative's place, the relative who brought this old lady here (this old lady is my great grandma's cousin-in-law, and the relative who brought her here is the grandson of the old lady's sister), yes, the outstanding relative with even more outstanding kids. The minute we walked into his home, we were held in awe. Ok.. I mean.. not like we haven't seen a lot of rich kids in RG and HC lar.. but.. I really never knew I had a relative who was this rich.. ok.. maybe the standard of wealth is not as high as the richest kids in HC and RG.. but.. the achievements definitely are! The home itself is huge, and the design is real cool.. minimalist, the latest interior design style. Yeah.. and then, parked in the porch is not 1, but 2 Toyota Camry 2.4! Apparently one of them belonged to his son. OK.. on to his kids. His son first. He's 26 this year, had only stepped into the working world for 1 and a half years, and has already gotten the Best Journalist of the Year Award from The Business Times (yes he works as a Business Times journalist). He was formally a student in the Gifted programme, and yes, he's the type who do not need to study to get good results.. the type we would juz love to bash up. And his wife, also in her twenties, is on an A Star scholarship, studying for her Economics PhD! No wonder at their age they are able to afford a condo and a Toyota Camry 2.4! Ok... on to his sister. His sister is equally outstanding. She's currently studying for her MBA at Fudan university in China! And for all u ulu kids who dunno, that is one of the top universities in China, something like an Ivy League university of China. And their parents were also really outstanding. The dad is a really successful businessmen.. and is rather loaded. But the most important thing why I really look up to this family is that, despite their impressive laurels, they are not people who keep showing off these achievements. In fact, they are really sentimental people and treat all their relatives well. There was once, though we had never seen them before, we brought our grandparents out to dinner, and met them. They recognised my grandparents and greeted them. But that was not all. They quietly went to settle our bills for us, and then left after saying bye. We did not even know till we went to settle the bill. And that's when we don't even know who they are! Sigh.. ok.. yeah.. guess I've totally and absolutely succeeded in boring u guys rite.. k.. shall continue doing my lab reports. Tata!!!!

KTV fever!

Shit sia.. I know all of u are like, addicted to my blog and u all miss me damn a lot a lot.. but.. dun stress me liddat leh.. I really can't think of so much stuff to entertain u all in my very very boring life at ntu... k lar.. not very boring.. got a lot of INTERESTING gossip.. haha.. budden rite.. juz in case the people involved are reading this, I can't write it all out here!!! =p
And anyway rite.. hmm.. if I keep writing about my life at ntu, sure gonna be damn boring for all those reading this lar.. so I thot juz write about gatherings and outings with Jing and JX and the others lor.. haha.. n then somehow these will entries will get me started on an advert-like promotion of something. Haha.. yep.. so it's not my fault! =p
Yeah.. anyway rite.. since u all really wanna know so much about my life, shall tell u the most interesting thing that I did yesterday.. I went ktv!!!! Ok.. told u my life is not very interesting liao.. force me to write.. bo bian... even this type of bo liao things also muz write.
Yep.. anyway I went with my uni friends, Shuhui, Shiqin, Tingfeng and Wing Yan. Hehe.. Wing Yan came late, and Shiqin left early.. so they thought there were only 4 of us singing yesterday.. haha.. and they charged us only the price of 4 people! Anyway, we went for Kstudent, which was rather reasonably priced.. though the ktv facilities at kbox really sucked.. and yes, we went back to the kbox at Jurong Entertainment Centre. Dun ask me why... ask those who chose to go there again.. haha. Yeah.. hey and guess what I discovered!!! U know.. kbox actually has rather new English songs! Not juz those weird songs that Kenneth likes to sing.. (like Top of the world etc..) but actually songs by Black Eyed Peas etc.. Sucks.. next time muz memorise their rap b4 going.. then can show off.. haha.. like last time I showed off Jolin and Jay's raps. Haha.. sometimes I think I'm born to be a rapper.. haha. Oh.. and I also tried Machi's hokkien raps.. but they were a failure too.. sigh... really muz try to learn more hokkien.. eh u army kias.. muz learn more from ur hokkien pings and then teach me!! Haha.. Oh!!!! And I saw the 王力宏 心中的日月 mv!!!! Damn damn nice!!! Haha.. even better than 你不在.. though he did not take off his clothes for this new mv.. but at least, he did not go around hugging other girls too! Haha.. and the mv was beautifully filmed! Eh Jacinth.. when u come back we muz really go K again... then the 4 of us will sit there and play his mv n juz listen to him sing again.. muahahaha. If Jing and JX dun wanna go, then juz the 2 of us go! Like last time!! Wah that was damn shiok. Haha.. only the 2 of us.
Yesterday tried a lot of new songs too. Like 光良 童话.. yeah.. and btw the mv is really nice too. And I even sang a 邓丽君 song with Wing Yan!! Haha.. bet my mum will be shocked. Oh and I sang First Love!!! My Utada's first hit!! Haha.. Hey guess what.. sobz.. u know Shuhui, Shiqin and Wing Yan dun seem to like my Lee Hom leh... Sigh.. guess only the 4 of us know how to appreciate him. Haha.. Oh eh btw.. U know he's coming to Singapore!!! On the 20th March! My ex-colleague Doris told me! Hehe.. dunno if she's reading this. If she is.. haha.. I did write something about u! Anyway Doris told me he's going to J8 for an autograph session!! Awwwww.... dun u juz wish u were back here Ja? Haha.. Hmm.. I shall see if I'm free and if I'm happy.. then maybe I go squeeze for a few hours and take some pics home for u.. hehe.. but I doubt so lar.. got too many lab reports to rush.. which is why I don't have much time to blog recently. Yeah.. anyway, keep leaving me constructive comments yar? I'll try to see what I can do about them. And yeah.. btw.. that Creative Apple entry was really informative lor... quite a lot of people used it to weigh their options and decide which mp3 player to get k.. Dun believe.. ask Tie Han.. haha
K shall end here! Tatazzz!!!

What everyone really wants - a Creative Apple

Yoo.. juz came back from the IT fair at Suntec convention hall! Went there with Jing and JX cos they wanted to check out some IT products, and I decided I could update myself about some of the latest gadgets as well. Yeah.. after browsing thru all the laptops, cameras, printers, handphones.... there came the highlight-mp3 players! At least that was the case for JX and Jing who are desperately searching for a nice mp3 player after discovering how fun my ipod was.. ahem. =) Anyway, for the ill-informed friends out there who are looking for a nice mp3 player like them, I've decided to give a low-down on all the latest mp3 players out there in the market right now. Yepz.

Being the proud owner of an ipod (10 GB, which means I'm holding the ipod ancestor.. long b4 u suakoos out there even know what an ipod is), and being the sister of the proud owner of a Creative Zen (20 GB), I think these are the 2 brands I can safely compare and give informative insights about. Yepz.. so let's start with ipod.

What's the great draw about ipod? It's classy design of cos. Somehow, Apple designers always seem to have a knack for designing all the latest gadgets to look space-age and cool, and yet not lose its funky touch as well. The ipod is slim, white (with a damn classy feel to it), has a cool touchpad (which Creative is desperately trying to imitate), and to top it all off, the back is chrome.. which means when u r outside and u forgot to bring your mirror, u can always check your hairdo or your makeup whatever by just turning your ipod around. Sometimes, I really feel they would do so much better if they market their products as "for ladies only". =p
It is the first mp3 player on the market with such a huge capacity and it is always at the forefront of technology in the field. Like how it came up with the ipod photo, which I feel is really ingenius! I bet one day we can upload our fav mtvs into our ipods and watch them on the go.. or even short clips.. like Mr Bean clips, or Spongebob square pants, or....whatever.. yeah.. u get my drift. On the technology front, Creative seems to always be lagging behind, just by that little bit.

However, Creative seems to be making up for it by digging up all the loopholes in ipod, which, in its haste for technological progress, seems to have overseen. Ok.. so the touchpad on Zen and the white colour design etc seems to be really a ripoff of ipod (even the Zen micro colours and the ipod mini colours are really similar). However, Zen has many strong points over ipod. Firstly, the Zen micro has an inbuilt radio. It also has a voice recorder and a radio recorder. All these are lacking in my ipod. It also has a spare battery, unlike ipod, which has an inbuilt rechargeable battery. This means that when u r outside and your battery gets used up, u r not able to change the battery and continue listening to your songs. And also, most importantly, we all know that rechargeable batteries have a limited lifespan. With an inbuilt rechargeable battery, the lifespan of the battery inadvertantly becomes the lifespan of the ipod. Which sucks, obviously.
And another important point.. the Zen earphones are really much better than the ipod earphones. Firstly, there's the material they use to make the wire covering of the earphone wires. In the case of ipod, the material is not very durable and gets torn rather easily, exposing the wires inside, which are then in danger of breaking. Yeah.. in case u r wondering, that's what happened to my ipod earphones. Which is how I found out Zen had much better earphones. Cos my earphones were really kind of spoilt beyond repair, I borrowed my brother's Zen earphones to listen to my ipod (ok, more like snatched it from him.. but that's beside the point.. and that's the privilege of being the elder sibling). Suddenly, I found that the bass of the music became very clear. At first, I thought it was due to my ipod earphones being spoilt, that's why even with the bass booster on, the bass still did not sound very loud. However, after I stupidly went to buy new ipod earphones (@#%$#@%!!! should have bought Zen!!!) and listened again, the bass still remained terribly soft as compared to the Zen earphones! If u r listening to music, that's what u r looking for.. a good and solid sound system in the earphones. If they can't even give u good earphones, then I guess, nothing else really matters... sigh..

Bad points about Zen are really more physical than functional. Ok.. we all gotta admit.. when a Zen and an ipod are put together, in terms of looks, the ipod win hands down. Especially so for ladies (with a free vanity mirror thrown into the package). Even though Creative has tried to imitate very closely the aesthetic qualities of the ipod, I must say, it has failed terribly. I mean, if u look at a Zen all by itself, it is probably passable.. maybe even skimming the line of "cool" and "funky". However, when placed together with an ipod... it's like, putting a swan together with a chick. By itself, the chick might look ok, and can even be described as cute. However, when u put it beside a swan.... yeah.. u get the picture. And also, the 20 GB Zen is relatively thick and heavy as compared to an ipod of comparative storage size. Another really intolerable thing about the 20 GB Zen is that they come with inset songs! Songs like Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bach.. and even chinese intrumental pieces... ok.. not that I have any thing against these songs.. in fact I even have a Mozart and some Tchaikovsky pieces in my ipod (ask JX if u don't believe me!).. but.. the thing is, u can't delete these songs! And they take up space too! OK.. I know all about the government trying to make us more cultured and all and Sim Wong Hoo trying to help them along and all.. but.. I really prefer if they let us choose the songs we deem as cultured and those we deem as not! I mean.. dun u feel cheated?! U get a supposedly 20 GB mp3 player, and after buying it u find that like, 1 GB of it is already used up to save songs that u might not have even heard of!? Ok.. I know the proportion seems small.. but my point is, they cheated us!!!! Sigh... If only the good points of Creative and Apple could combine.. then we get the PERFECT mp3 player!!!

And that's what I call a Creative Apple. =)

Test over!!!

Yay!!!!! Finally!!! The lousy shitty BS109 test is over!!!!!!! Whee!!! No more cell bio!!! Till the next test of cos.. but.. my point is, now can relax!!!! Haha. even if it's only for a while!

K anyway ritez, the test sucked big time.. absolutely.. U know how the profs function by now don't u. They will tell u, "It's gonna be an MCQ test, 30 questions, 45 minutes." U know.. how we students' brains work rite.. once we hear the word "MCQ" our brain juz go into "half-shut-down" mode. Sneaky profs I tell u... sigh.. give us the impression that juz a brief glance through the notes will be sufficient. Then, meanwhile, they will be sharpening their knives behind their backs and prepare to strike us when we are least prepared!! Anyway, let's go into detail about how a seemingly simple and innocent MCQ test can kill u with one strike. Firstly, unlike the conventional O levels MCQ, they have 5 options instead of 4. Just that alone will decrease the probability of u guessing the correct answer randomly from 25% to 20%. And then, out of the 5, there will be probably 2 or 3 acceptable answers. But here's the catch.. in the question, they say give the BEST answer. So u have to go back and weigh the various acceptable answers and try to decide which is the BEST answer. As if all that were not enough. They juz had to put one last nail into the coffin. Out of all the choices, for many of the questions, there will be the choice "none of the above"! So, if like, u already have in your mind, after much deliberation, which is the most probable answer. But after u reach the final choice, u see "none of the above"!!!! Which means, u will most probably find urself inclining towards that answer! Because, u had to think thru so much to decide which was the best ans from (a) to (d), suddenly, it juz seems like they are all not true!! Sigh.. there's where u get trapped. U noe, if u had thot thru so much to arrive at that ans, dun let a "none of the above" mislead u!!! Too late.. I guess I'm done for.. sigh.... evil profs..

Anyway, that's not the end of a lousy day.. sigh.. after the test, I had driving lessons, at 8pm. "Ohh.. great!" I thought.. I juz looove night driving!!! Cos I get to turn on the headlights!! A novel experience!!!! Ok cheap thrill.. I know.. but I like lar.. haha. Anyway, wrong wrong wrong.. night driving sucks.. esp when everyone seems to be wearing black on that night. Funny.. last time I drove at night, no one seemed to be wearing black!!! Anyway, back to the terrible experience. Yeah.. at this tiny meandering road at some HDB estate.. I was trying to show off my terrific driving skills.. by driving as fast as the speed limit permits. And then, I saw these 2 cats. One called Stupid the other called Dumb. U noe.. I mean, I can understand how we sometimes miss our partners so much that juz a tiny stretch of road seems like an endless ocean, and we juz had to go over as soon as possible to meet our partners. Which was the case for Stupid and Dumb. Stupid was at one side of the road, Dumb was at the other. And they were staring at each other, meowing and flirting, their eyeballs turning into heart-shapes. And then, Dumb decided to go over to Stupid's side of the road, to try his luck and see if anything would become of this flirting. And Dumb, being Dumb, could stare at my car approaching him at breakneck speed, and still decide that he JUST HAD TO cross the road AT THAT VERY MOMENT my car is driving past that stretch!!! Damnit. Being the very nice and kind animal-lover that I was, I decided to sacrifice the car tyres and executed an emergency brake. I heard something.. dunno whether it was coming from the tyres or the cats. Then I saw one of the cats run back to the other side of the road, but didn't bother to try to look for the other one before I drove off. Sigh.. traumatised!!!! Spent the rest of the drive with pale lips and chattering teeth. Let's hope Stupid and Dumb survived! But let's hope they do not mate.. if not their kid will have to be named Retard.

Sucky... now I wanna watch Hitch, but no one to watch with.. lousy Jing went to watch with her uni frens.. dump me and JX... sigh... I wan watch Hitch!!!!! Grrrrrr...... nvm.. shall buy the vcd from the Ah Beng at the pasar malam! Muahahaha..

Have a laugh!

Chemistry final in the University of Alabama
Two guys were taking Chemistry at the University of Alabama. They did pretty well on all of the quizzes and the midterms and labs, such that going into the final they had a solid "A". These two friends were so confident going into the final that the weekend before finals week (even though the Chemistry final was on Monday), they decided to go up to the University of Tennessee and party with some friends.
They had a great time. However, with hangovers and everything, they overslept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Alabama until early Monday morning.
Rather than taking the final then, they found their professor after the final to explain to him why they missed the final. They told him that they went up to the University of Tennessee for the weekend, and had planned to come back in time to study, but that they had a flat tire on the way back, and didn't have a spare, and couldn't get help for a long time, so they were late in getting back to campus.
The professor thought this over and told them they could make up the final on the following day. The two guys were elated and relieved. They studied that night and went in the next day for the final.
The professor placed them in separate rooms, and handed each of them a test booklet and told them to begin. They looked at the first problem, which was worth 5 Points. It was something simple about Molarity & Solutions.
"Cool," they thought. "This is going to be easy." They did that problem and then turned the page.
They were not prepared, however, for what they saw on this page.

It said: (95 Points)- Which tire was it?

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At the start of every Mass, the priest would make the sign of the cross, followed as usual by the entrance song and the blessing, after which the congregation responded, "And also with you."

One Sunday, after making the sign of the cross, our priest appeared to be having difficulty with the sound system during the singing of the entrance hymn. At the conclusion of the song, the priest said, "There seems to be something wrong with the mike."

The congregation automatically responded, "And also with you."

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A Christian was thrown into the Coliseum with a lion. Terrified, he fell on his knees and started praying. At the same time, the lion drops down on its knees and starts to pray, too.

The Christian, overjoyed, exclaims, "Oh, thank God! Another Christian!"

The lion replies, "I don't know about you, but I'm saying grace."

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A highway patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway. Glancing at the car, he was astounded to see that the blonde behind the wheel was knitting! Realizing that she was oblivious to his flashing lights and siren, the trooper cranked down his window, turned on his bullhorn and yelled, "Pull Over!" "No!" the blonde yelled back, " It's A Scarf!"

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A blonde was playing Trivial Pursuit one night. It was her turn. She rolled the dice and she landed on Science & Nature. Her question was, "If you are in a vacuum and someone calls your name, can you hear it?" She thought for a time and then asked, "Is it on or off?"
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A blonde is on board a small two-seater plane when suddenly the pilot dies. Not knowing how to fly a plane she grabs the radio. "Mayday, Mayday! My pilot just died!" she screams. Ground control receives her call for help and answers back: "Don't worry, Madam. I'll talk you down; just do as I say. First I need you to give me your height and position." "I'm 5"2' and sitting in the front."

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A blonde and a redhead met in a bar after work for a drink and were watching the 6 o'clock news. A man was shown threatening to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge. The blonde bet the redhead $50 that he wouldn't jump, and the redhead replied, "I'll take that bet!" Anyway, sure enough, he jumped, so the blonde gave the redhead the $50. The redhead said, "I can't take this, you're my friend." The blonde said, "No. A bet's a bet". So the redhead said, "Listen, I have to admit, I saw this on the 5 o'clock news, so I can't take your money." "Well, so did I, but I never thought he'd jump again!"

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On a plane bound for New York the flight attendant approached a blonde sitting in the first class section and requested that she move to coach since she did not have a first class ticket. The blonde replied, "I'm blonde; I'm beautiful; I'm going to New York; and I'm not moving." Not wanting to argue with a customer, the flight attendant asked the co-pilot to speak with her. He went to talk with the woman, asking her to please move out of the first class section. Again, the blonde replied, "I'm blonde; I'm beautiful; I'm going to New York, and I'm not moving." The co-pilot returned to the cockpit and asked the captain what he should do. The captain said, "I'm married to a blonde, and I know how to handle this." He went to the first class section and whispered in the blonde's ear. She immediately jumped up and ran to the coach section mumbling to herself, "Why didn't someone just say so?" Surprised, the flight attendant and the co-pilot asked what he said to her that finally convinced her to move from her seat. He said, "I told her the first class section wasn't going to New York."

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It was opening night at the Orpheum and the Amazing John was topping the bill. People came from miles around to see the famed hypnotist do his stuff. As John took to the stage, he announced, "Unlike most stage hypnotists who invite two or three people up onto the stage to be put into a trance, I intend to hypnotize each and every member of the audience." The excitement was almost electric as John withdrew a beautiful antique pocket watch from his coat. "I want each of you to keep your eye on this antique watch. It's a very special watch and has been in my family for six generations." He began to swing the watch gently back and forth while quietly chanting, "Watch the watch, watch the watch, watch the watch...."
The crowd become mesmerized as the watch swayed back and forth, light gleaming off its polished surface. Hundreds of pairs of eyes followed the swaying watch, until suddenly it slipped from the hypnotist's fingers and fell to the floor, breaking into a hundred pieces.
"S**t!" said the hypnotist.
It took three weeks to clean the seats in the theater.

How I miss those days.. haha

OOOhhhh. Just came back from dinner cum crapping and story telling session with JX, Jing, and Weijian. Haha... it's been such a long time since we've gone out with Weijian.. and of cos, since he's drawing such a neat salary, the meal is on him. Yeah.. and it's been such a long time since Weijian treated us to anything. Haha..

Remember last time in JC Weijian never fails to entertain us with his never ending stories, about girls, about his ex-es, about his family, his brothers.. haha.. and now, also about army. Hehe.. that guy has a way of making people interested in what he's saying lar.. no wonder last time can 骗 all the xiao mei mei.. haha. Eh brother.. about time u found another one.. haha.. now starting to hiam girls huh.. no wonder stayed single for such a record-breaking length of time.

Remember last time after major tests or exams, we will always go out, one big group of us, for a meal, then sit there talk cock for a v long time. Sigh.. now everyone's gone their own way.. Jing and JX had finished their mid terms. But not me! Grrr.. I've a test to study for!!! To think during their mid terms I even chased Jing offline once so she could study for her test, and this is what she does to me.. ask me out when I'm not even prepared for a test that's coming in, like, 2 days?! Grrrr... and then go watch Hitch with her uni frens n TJL and pang seh me!!! Juz cos I gotta study.. haha.. sucks..

Woooo.. really starting to look forward to hols.. muz start planning for the holiday!!! Which destination?!?! Hmmm.. cheap and fun.. M'sia? HK? Taiwan? Thailand?? Hehe.. hope 02s78 can go on a class outing again!!! Haha.. though I know it's pretty impossible.. sigh.. haha.. let's hope maybe at least me, Jing, JX, WJ, and maybe my xiao shuai ge UY, KX and KW, Wen Hann etc can make it!!! Haha.. it's our 02s78 onzzz clique!!! Yay!!!! Starting to countdown!!! =)

Unusual Life Forms Found in the Atlantic

Hey all!! Haha.. I dunno if anyone's interested in reading this... but after I read it I found it extremely interesting!!! Haha.. it's like a fantasy world of cute organisms have been discovered!!! So fun!!! Haha.. Anyway, I got this thru Yahoo news, 4th March 2005. Yep.. hope u all enjoy it!!

WASHINGTON - A strange world of see-through shrimp, crabs and other life forms teems around a newly explored field of thermal vents near the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, scientists report.
Towering white mineral chimneys mark the field, named the Lost City, a sharp contrast to the better-known black smoker vents that have been studied in recent years.
The discovery shows "how little we know about the ocean," lead researcher Deborah S. Kelley of the University of Washington said.
"I have been working on black smokers for about 20 years, and you sort of think you have a good idea what's going on," she said in a telephone interview. "But the ocean is a big place and there are still important opportunities for discovery."
The Lost City was discovered by accident in 2000 as Kelley and others studied undersea areas near the midocean ridge.
They returned to the area in 2003 to analyze what they had found and were startled to learn how different the new vent environment and its residents were from the ones studied before.
Black smokers are chimney-like structures that form when very hot water — reaching 700 degrees Fahrenheit — breaks through the ocean floor and comes into contact with frigid ocean water. The minerals that crystallize during the process give the chimneys their black color.
At Lost City, on the other hand, the temperature of the escaping fluids is 150 degrees to 170 degrees. The environment is extremely alkaline, compared to the high acid levels at black smokers.
A variety of unusual creatures have been discovered around black smoker vents, including tubeworms that can grow as long as eight feet.
At first the scientists thought there were few animals in Lost City. Then they vacuumed the surface of the white vents and found large numbers of tiny shrimp and crabs, mostly transparent or translucent and less than a half-inch in size, that had been hiding in nooks and crannies, Kelley said.
The total mass of life around the Lost City vents is less than at the black smokers but there is just as much variety, she added.
Microbes found in the chimneys at Lost City — named for the research vessel Atlantis — appear to live off large amounts of methane and hydrogen. There is little or no carbon dioxide, the key energy source for life at black-smoker vents.
There is also little hydrogen sulfide and only very low traces of metals, on which many of the microbes at the black smokers depend.
The report offers the first detailed portrayal of a new type of ecosystem that may be widespread. =)

JC lingo

Haha.. hey.. don't complain about me not updating the blog as often as last time lar.. Sigh.. these few days a bit busy.. and kind of ran out of inspiration on what to write. And btw.. did u know even after u deleted your comment I can still read it? Haha.. maybe cos this is my blog =p

Yepz and today's highlight..
This article appeared in The New Paper on Sunday (27th Feb). Haha.. thot u guys out there reading this might find it interesting.. HC kias and people from other JCs.

SIA LA*, JC LINGO IS QOOL!

* Wow, unbelievable

By Bryna Sim mailto: Simbrynasim@sph.com.sg

TAKE this reading test. Never come across some of these words?

Then you are probably (a) a mugger, (b) muggerish or (c) muggerified.

Which is to say, you are not in the know about the latest lingo in junior colleges here because you bury your head in your textbooks all day long.

Such terms are so common that when The New Paper asked several students from Meridien Junior College whether they know their school lingo, they chimed in unison: 'Ya balls!' (It means yes.)

A Victoria Junior College student who didn't want to be named said: 'Someone starts using a certain word, and you just keep hearing it. After a while, you naturally start using it.'

Nobody really knew how the words cropped up. They just spread.

However, trying to compile all the colleges' lingo was no easy task.

Some claimed their college was made up of a whole mish-mash of people, and so they they had no phrases unique to themselves.

Still, is it not fantabulous and qool, how such terms and phrases catch on so quickly?
Here's some JCspeak:

Anderson Junior College
'Non Mich Solum' (The school motto, which means 'Not for myself alone)

Anglo-Chinese Junior College
'Chat-Chat' (pronounced chart-chart, means lousy)

Catholic Junior College
'Shing Ga Them, Ga Them' (What's done is done)

Pioneer Junior College
Slack aah... (why so relaxed?)

Hwa Chong Institution
'Wake up your idea, Sian Diao' (Boring la!)

Innova Junior College
'Telly-Tubby Hill' (the hill near the campus where the students run during PE lessons)

Jurong Junior College
'JJ Spirit' (For example: Where's your JJ Spirit man! Where's your warm feeling)

Meridien Junior College
'Mer-lions and Mer-maids' (What the students call each other),'Lai-on's Den' (Principal is known as Ms Lai),'Qool la' (cooler version of cool)

Millenia Institute
'Duh!' (Oh yes!)'Our little playground': Their PE area.

Nanyang Junior College
'fantabulous' (fantastic and fabulous)

National Junior College
'chap-a-lang' (a mish-mash of everything), 'CMI' (cannot-make-it)

Raffles Junior College
That's so gay la (Wimpy)

Saint Andrew's Junior College
'100 per cent chop stamp confirmed guarantee plus warranty card' (for sure), 'AICK' (a term of exclamation that can be used for anything at all)

Temasek Junior College
'Mugger' (bookworm), 'Not so Lucky Heights' (Lucky Heights estate is where the students go for PE lessons)

Victoria Junior College
Sia la (Wow, unbelievable).

Haha.. btw, I included the email and name of the author of this article. In case u find it inaccurate, can go shoot him/her. Haha.. cos at least on my part, I find it pretty inaccurate lar. Hey, "slack" is universal speak lar.. not unique to PJ kias leh.. then I dunno abt this.. but any non-HC kias can enlighten me? "Sian diao" is unique to HC?? I never knew that.. haha..
Then things like "JJ spirit" also they count as unique lingo lar.. pls.. come on all u HC kias out there.. we have HC spirit too rite!??! And it's 10 times, no.. 100 times, no... 1000 times more than whatever other school spirit lar! Even though events like orientation, CNY and MAF etc seem to be forever marred by horrible looking "lanterns" and other decorations (recall the "phoenix" that we mistook to be a dragonfly?), we never fail to go back support rite?!?! Haha.. anyway.. back to the topic JC lingo..
Yar.. things like "duh", "chap-a-lang", "CMI", "gay", "mugger" and "sia la" seem like, universal language rite?! I mean, I was not from these schools, and I say these words too! Sigh.. trust all these old people to try to write an article abt Y-generation language.. and the contexts in which the words are used are also not very accurate! Oh wait.. talking abt old people.. suddenly I remember this incident.. 1 or 2 days ago.. my friend and I were saying something "CMI".. but it seems like, guys juz 2 years older than us dun seem to understand the word (or words) CMI! Sigh... the generation gap seems to be more serious than I used to think.. haha

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TOP 5 SMART ASS ANSWERS FOR 2004

Smart Ass Answer #5:

A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets. As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed her. Without missing a beat she said, "Sir, I need to see your ticket not your stub."

Smart Ass Answer #4:

A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but she couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy,"Do these turkeys get any bigger?" The stock boy replied, "No ma'am, they're dead."

Smart Ass Answer #3:

The cop got out of his car and the kid who was stopped for speeding rolled down his window. "I've been waiting for you all day," the cop said. The kid replied, "Yeah, well I got here as fast as I could." When the cop finally stopped laughing, he sent the kid on his way without a ticket.

Smart Ass Answer #2:

A truck driver was driving along on the freeway. A sign comes up that reads,

"Low Bridge Ahead." Before he knows it, the bridge is right ahead of him and he gets stuck under the bridge. Cars are backed up for miles. Finally, a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, "Got stuck, huh?"

The truck driver says, "No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of gas."


AND NOW........FOR ..................THE.......... #1 SMART ASS ANSWER OF THE YEAR 2004........................

A college teacher reminds her class of tomorrow's final exam. "Now class, I won't tolerate any excuses for you not being here tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury or illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that's it, no other excuses whatsoever!"

A smart ass guy in the back of the room raised his hand and asked, "What would you say if tomorrow I said I was suffering from complete and utter sexual exhaustion?" The entire class is reduced to laughter and snickering. When silence is restored, the teacher smiles
knowingly at the student, shakes her head and sweetly says.........

"Well, I guess you'd have to write the exam with your other hand."


Hehe.. got this in en email.. thot it was really good. =)