Log for the weekend

It's been a wonderful weekend after the JCTs, but guess after the short rest its time to buck up, pull up my socks and mug like i have never mug before... But anyway, here's what i have done this weekend after JCTs

Thrusday:

• End of Bio, end of JCTs, time to celebreate !
• Went to seoul garden at marina square with the class to have lunch, haha, it was a day of contemporary music, haha, dunno why seoul garden keep playing those 'oldies' from a few years back, but good choice of songs!
• After that, went to golden village to watch movie. Class split into 2 groups, i joned the group that watched 'wanted' while the other grp watched KungFu Panda. Angelina Jolie was hot... the action scenes and the curving of bullets were ubercool, and the twist in the storyline was not bad, but the ending kinda suck.

Friay:

• Went to the gym to workout, haha, nafa coming, i need to pass pullups!!!
• Then pack my room to clear up the mess from the aftermath of JCTs... room was like a diaseter zone, with paper, stationary, notes strewn all over the place!
• Then study for my upcoming basic theory test for drivings... memoriesed lots and lots of road signs and road regulations, then went for the mock test at the Comfort delgro driving centre, haha, i got 96%!

Saturday:

• Went for the actual theory test, finally passed the test... haha, then went to queue up to get mp provisonal driving license
• After 2 grulling hours... due to some system breakdown... i finally got my provisional driving license!!! Now, i am licensed to drive... And my future car plate should reali be 007...
• Went to my grandma house in the evening...as usual, everyone was glued onto the tv aft dinner, due to some korean show on channel 8 at 7.30pm... lol, played foosball with m cousins... the remaining ones who were not glued onto the tv screen...

Sunday:

• Did, chem hw tis morning...
• Then went out with Mei Yee and Zhi Qing to buy Jolyn's present cus our pw grp sharing...went to Sun Tec convention hall... First stop, the Singapore toy and comics convention!
• Wa, the convention centre there hor, the crowded, just like IT fair like that... went to join the wrong queue, then found the booth for the passport for the fair...Lol
• Saw alot of ppl cosplaying as anime characters, it was rather cool,, gt deathnote, gundam seed, final fantasy... and more, even saw lightsabers sticking out form the crowd and two random guys wih rifles posing like the counter terrorist fromcounter strike game...
• Then visited alot of booths, including Gundam booth! Haha, no special offers though, so nv buy anything, but took couple of pics of the gundams. Other booths sold stuff like manga, figurines and designer toys... Mei Yee was the photographer of the day with her handy digicam
• In, the end we felt tat it was quite crowded, so we left, took afew pic to show tat we had 'been there and done that', then wandered around Sun Tec to look for carefour... apparently, i am nt the only one bad with directions...
• Then finally settled at shop x and y and found what we like to buy for jolyn, Zh Qing then left to join her junior for her shoping trip... so me and Mei Yee went to eat at the asian kitchen b4 making our way home.
• Well, i did nt reali went hm though, took a bus to my grandma hse, this time my mother' side, to have dinner... but missed the bus stop and ended up on an expressway...
• After tat, it was hm sweet hm and blogging time!!! And whoohoo, my father finally bought a new com to replace our 6 yr old one, will get them tml! So i ca finally go online without begging to use his work laptop :)
• Going to watch pushing dasies after this, for anyone who s free on a sunday night, tune into pushing dasies on 10.30pm, channel 5. Damn funny show, ure make u luagh want, perfect way to relax so that u can face the brave new world tml...

Urgh...PC's down !!!

Oh drats... my home PC is spoit again, apparently there is smthing wrong with the motherboard... so basically, no playing computer games, no surfing and no blogging... and i tot JCTs was just over...

So now i am stuck to using my Dad's laptop... problem is it is his work laptop and i can only use it after he comes hom at night. Then he dosent allow me to play any online games or pc games online cus he is afraid that i might damage his laptop... which is kinda absurd. But what a coincindence... hius laptop broke down 2 days ago and he just switched his motherbard so tha reali impedes my ability to negioate with him about playing that online games... Hack even my web surfing time is now limited...tis rite after JCTs, what a life...

Haiz, guess i just have to focus my time on other stuff then... like wathing tv programes to wind down an relax... or to i dunno...go to the library to borrow some comics to read, haha, love thier wide selection of marvel and DC comics available for loan there...maybe i will make a trip down tml, after my basic theory test to get my provisional drivin lessons. Lol, apparently, after passin a MCQ test of 50 questions regarding road signs, safety and directions, i will be given provision to drive on the road... which is kinda cool accept that the only car i have driven so far is the mario kart or daytona machines at the arcade and perhaps the GO-Karts at esccape theme park...but that is another story...

Talking about driving lessons, there is this movie starring Rupert Grint A.K.A Ron Weasly that is tittled 'Driving Lessons'... Haha, it is about this coming of age young teen trying who comes form a traitional and conservative family who one day meets this retired to actress who shows him what the real world is like... with booze etc...which then challenges the boy's beliefs and forces him to choose between his old life or the more exciting one he could possibily have out there. Apparently the Driving lessons thing comes in to the story some where... but of course the Key star of the show is Rupert Grint, given that this is first ever movie with hime acting as the main character outside of the harry pottere movies. From the reviews i saw on the net, it is not bad so fans of Rupert Grint can go check it out...

Got to go now before my fathers starts complaining... Lol, hope i will pass the basic theory test tomorrow... after all if Ron Weasly could get his driving license at the epilogue of the deathly hallows, i am sure i can too! Though you got to admit he did use a little bit of magic to help him...

Woot...Jct is over !!!

Haha, so glad it is finally over!

Can't believe it though, haha, though i am glad that it is finally over, kinda regreted not studying hard enough for the JCTs. In the end onli went into battle with barely more than half of my syllubus... kinda know what kind of results to expect...

But wha's past is past, and it is no use to keep reminding myself of my failures.. Guess i have to look on the positive side of life... to look forwards and not badwards and perhaps to reflect and try to formulate a better 'Grand Plan' next time and stick to it! I may have lost the batle this time, but with determination and perseverance and, i want to and i am sure i can win the war!!!

I have a dream...

Rite, i dreamt that i was Martin Luther King... jus kidding... :)

But seriously, i have been having dreams everyday for the past week which was kinda cool. Actually, read a report somewhere that a normal person have like 2-3 dreams every nite, it is just that we can't remember all of them...

So, when i say i had a dream, it just meant that i had a particular dream that i could remember after i wake up. Actually, i like having dreams... esp the type that take u to some adventure in some faraway land that u never seen before in your life. Then also like the type of dreams that take you along with your frens to say solve a weird mystery in school... And the most hilarious thing about this type is tat often ur frens whom may not know each other actually know each other in the dream. For example, in a particular dream, i had frens from my primary school days, my secondary school days and my junior college days coming together laughing and playing like they had known each other for ages... It was certainly amusing.

In dreamland, the most unlikely thing could also be reality, at least in the dream. Once, i dreamt that i was Kira Yamato from the anime Gundam Seed and i was piloting my strike Gundam to save the earth from Zaft forces... There were like a squadron of Enemy Zakus heading towards a particular areas i was guarding and the only backup i had was a crazy old Sky grasper fighter Jet. Then, jus i was engaging the enemy, the scene suddenly switched to one where me and the crew onboard the archangel feeling from the enemy. I know this may sound absurd, but it was as i had remember in my dreams.

Guess, i had been watching too much anime. But i have also read somewhere that researchers that study how dreams work have a theory that the brain is made up of thousands of thousands of compartments and all the daily experiences, all that we see, hear, are broken down into small parts and randomly placed in the random comaprtments. Then when we enter REM(Rapid eye movement) Stage, that is geek speak for the period of our sleep where dreams most frequently appear, our brain randomly rearrange the images experienced by us when we are awake and this explains how our dreams can be so weird...
For example, the brain may take an image from our primary school years, one from our secondary school years and then mix them together. In the brains desperate attempt to interpret the mixmash of images, it somehow finds a way to link them up, so in that dream, it may seem that our friends from various times of our life who dunno each pother can suddenly be best of pals... This may also explain why in our dreams, we can suddenly transit from one scene to another without any proper linkage. I suspect this also explains how we are able to time travel in our dreams...

Lol, i know i sound very geekish here, but this sort of dreams are some of the things that really engage my attention. For more information on how dreams work and dreams interpretation, you can go wiki it... Found alot of interesting stuff there... Like how you can differentiate a dream from reality... there are actually proven methods to tell if you are dreaming or awake! Or for those with nightmares that keep recurring, there are actually methods to confront the nightmares in your dreams!( Its true!)

And besides, such dreams also adds a nice touch to our otherwise mundane life of mugging as students and can help us escape the pressures of reality every now and then, so go on, lets all have a dream... Who knows maybe you will be able to meet this writer in your dreams... Jus kidding :)

Rantings of a despreado Kid

Well, kind of realized that, i have one more week left , and boy , i still have like more than 60% of my syllabus to cover! Urgh...
Dunno why, whenever i try to set targets like to actually work hard for once and to actually complete 100% of my syllubus b4 a major exam, i always fail to do so. Kind of demoralizing. In fact from last year's JCT, promos and tis year's MCT, i have always set for the exams without completing my syllubus and i reali wanted to push myself to at least not skip any topics or chapters for this JCT, but i guess my plan is gg down the drain...
Sigh, despite my best efforts to actually come up with a 'grand plan', the plan was a failure as i still could not manage my time properly in the end and found it mission impossible to follow through the grand plan. In fact, my Grand plan is now lying hidden somewhere around my cupboard, so i guess the next time i come up with a grand plan, to ensure that i am constantly reminded to follow through it, i should perhaps tattoo it on my body... just like tat smart guy from Fox River State prison.

Anyway, saw the news on the net on sat...that a 1000 inmates including 400 or so taliban warriors broke out of a major prison following a massive attack on the prison involving a truck bomb, dozens of suicide bombers and rocket strikes. The damage was so extensive that it tore up the main gate and blew up almost the entire rooftop of the prison complex. This is i think one of the biggest or the BIGGEST prison break out in history! Not even the break out by the fox river 8 or Mas Selamat or even the death eaters in Azkaban could have matched that. Hmm, maybe prison break season 4 could get some ideas from there... Lol But seriously, there has to be questions to why the security of a complex holding 100s of wanted taliban fighters was guarded in such a lax manner. After the coliation forces spend years trying to capture these fighters in the 'war against terrorism' all it took is for a few dozen of fighters to break out 1000 wanted criminals. Now, the same forces have to spent years to track down these men again...

Well, so enough of the ranting by the Desprerado Kid, it is time for dinner and after dinner, i have a war to fight. The ongoing war to scape though the JCTs! Movie coming to a lecture theater near you this summer, premiers on June 23rd ,end on 28th, 'book/mug' ur tickets before it is too late!

Happy Father's Day

Yesterday was father's day... Woot!
Was listening to some Chinese radio station yesterday, and this guest speaker by the name of Gao Ling Feng mentioned that fathers are often forgotten despite showing equal love to their children. He mentioned that the sad thing about fathers nowadays is that they in their 20s and 30s they often work so as to support their families and sacrifice their time with their children. Then when they reach their 40s, they often fell guilty and decide to wind down on their career and spent more time with their teens. But by then, there will often be a gap between the father and the teen so the father will find it hard to communicate with the child despite his best efforts. And unlike mothers who show more emotions and physical caring to their child, fathers, being male often hide their emotions and do not express their love physically, although their love for the child is equal to that of the mother. So this is kinda sad... But anyway, my father is almost like what that singer described. I can tell that he realli works very hard to provide for the family, sometimes coming back hm at late hours. Although, he used to be very strict when i was young and use to yell at me and my bro, as i grew older, he began to tone down and started talking rather than just yelling. However, there is still this barrier between me and him, i tend not to approach him on matters i deem too unimportant and sensitive to talk about and prefer to keep them to myself. But despite this, i know that he loves me alot, and he tends to put it across through his actions rather than words. Like when i had to go though the trauma of circumsition, like when he nagged or chided me for being so forgetful, it is through the collection of this various actions, that you see the true love of a father, a love that cannot be expressed in words alone. So, dad, though i will never say this to you( cause i find it too uncomfortable to day it out loud), i just want to thank you for all the times that you have been there for me and yes, i love you.

The Great YCMA Sale !!!

Well, so sat was our sales day to raise funds for YMCA. To keep matters short, we did lots of persuading and marketing to convince ppl to buy our goods which are literally all second hand gds. Thanks to everyone who helped out in one way or another by donating the old items! It was put to gd use to raise funds in support of YMCA and to conserve the environment! LoL

Realize that big crowds may nt always bode well for business especially in busy areas like TM. In fact we managed to sell more stuff in the morning where there were lesser ppl! So maybe 'too many customers spoil the business'... Ah... damn the spoof! Anyway, realized that alot ppl bought our gds not bcus of the charity factor but bcus they needed the goods so it was kinda sad... But all in all, the sales was quite good and together with the balloon stall, we surpassed the targets for the day! Yep, jus wanna thank everyone who came down to support us on Sat, that AHS teacher tat generously donated 10 bucks without buying anything, and all wqho contributed the second hand items. Also must thank my team members and the AHS helpers for a job well done and Nick the organise for always being the nice guy and for doing such a good job for this whole event.

It was definitely a memorable event for me, not just the sales day itself but the long hours spent on preparation for this 2 day event! Now, perhaps it is time to go back to mugging! Urgh! All da best everyone! :)

Friday: Cakeday + A lesson learnt

Woke up super early today, went sch and met Wan Ting to 'ka pok' some of her pushcaert items for our sales day cip on sat. (Thanks Wan Ting, for making yourway down to sch!) Then lugged back 4 huge bags of socks and hp pouches back home with the help of CY. Gosh, nearly broke my finger as i attempted a finger grip while sipping on soymilk with the other hand. Jus kidding...

Then, went out with CY and the rest to celebrate stephanie's reali belated birthday. Lol, met super early at 11.30am at bedok mrt, but only had lunch at ard 2.30pm. Haha, the 3 hrs we went to bk movie tickets, had a debate between Kung Fu panda( fighting) or Narnia( even more fighting), shop ard taka, bought a cake( whcih was a piece of cake as there were cake shops every where )and wander ard orchard looking for the holy grill... erm i mean the perfect place to eat since every where was super crowded! Finally settled on Fish and Co at paragon and guess waht 8 out of the 9 of us ordered the classic fish and chips... haha, guess we were to hungry to choose other wise...Then had a great time catching up again and chatting with on and all. Coincidentally, at the table nxt to us, there whose birthday was on this day and we witnessed the signature tribal influenced birthday chant by the staff members of fish and co and the poor dude standing on the chair with a sparkler to boot. It was hilarious !!! Then after that, steph was like 'you had better not ask the staff members to sing that song!', but fortunately( unfortunately for us though) the tribal birthday song is only invoked on the date of the person's birthday, or 3 days before or after...

Anyway. after feasting on the cake and the food and settling the bills, we realized that it was 3.50... and our movie was supposed to start at 3.50! So, it was a mad rush to cathay cineleisure, as we sought to make it before the 15 min deadline. Fortunately for us, the staff outside allowed us entry and had to squeeze, duck, and creep our way thought the packed hall to locate dour seats. Well, the movie was kind of hilarious and the graphics were quite good, but i was kinda of hoping for more action as there was only this crazy snow tiger villain, and a host of good guys vieing to stop him after his amazing prison break from some prison carved out in the mountains. Kind of liked the part where the rhino prison chief said that the prison had " 1 way in, 1 prisoner, 1000 guards and 1 way out!" So basically, it is sucidal to attempt a break out... But nevertheless, the villian managed to outsmart, outwit and outplay the guards and fought his way out of prison. Kinda like Micheal Scotfield and Mas Selamat, but with special powers!

So what was the lesson learnt... No, definitely not breaking out of prison is the 'in' thing, though i loved prison break( And there is gonna be a season 4!!!). It was the part where the 'dragon warrior', the Panda finally realized that he did not need do something special to be special! He was the dragon warrior because he believed that he could be the dragon warrior. When he looked at his reflection in the empty dragon scroll, what he saw was his own face, not the face of warriors that he taught were better than him! So that was the lessons that i learnt that day: We do not have to always strive to be special, to be unique, we are special by virtue of us being unique individuals with our own failings and strengths. So do not always look at people whom you think are better than you and be envious of them, we are all special in one way or another!
Yep, i dunno if it sounds cliche or what, but i feel it is true. Like when the panda's father finally revealed to his son that there is no secret to his famed noodles that is best in the village, the secret is that there is no secret! People simply think that the noodles are special and perceive it to taste better than ordinary noodles. Yep, so all in all, it was a really memorable day for me!

Back from camp... Reflections

Whew, just came back from the eclub camp! So there were no immunity idols, no exile island, no tribal council... Lol, haha! Anyway, really enjoyed myself during the short 2D1N camp. Although there were some minor cock up during the camp such as too little food, in general, i would say that the camp was quite a success. A pity that the attendance by the Year ones were quite low though( The year twos actually outnumbered the year ones 2 to 1!). Nevertheless, i could see that the June Camp Comm put in alot of effort for the camp, and i would like to applaud them for that. Really enjoyed the night game... the scary atmosphere was there and the mystery to be solved were not too complex unlike previous night walks i attended so we could really enjoy ourselves. Then only slept for 3 hrs last night as we had movie screening and LF2 gaming on the projector screen until 3am where i finally went off to sleep. Station games were fun too, especially hilarious was the game where we had to play chicken captain's ball, using a real chicken(dead of cause!) as the ball instead. As expected, many team members 'chicken' out of the game, but it was really funny, especially when the chicken head flew off while we were tossing the poor chicken around!

Well other than the games and night walks, during the frequent ' slack and do nothing periods', we just played cards. Played Big 2, cheat, learnt a new game called 99, and tried but failed to learn bridge. Then, during other 'slack and do nothing periods", we also played numerous rounds of captain ball, monkey etc. Of cause, we used a proper ball and not a chicken though, otherwise, i guess we will have the SPCA breathing down our necks! Also finalized the lineup of the 7th Board of Directors during the numerous impromptu meetings called during the camp, though i must say that we spent hours pondering on on the 1001 possibilities of forming the new committee from th 12 highly talented nominees. Sad to say we had to eliminate some of them, but this is life right, sometimes you lose and sometimes you win. What's most important is how you pick yourself up after a setback and strive to be better! Yep, as our last 'reward' for our successors, we tricked them but getting our teacher, Miss Wong, to announce a fake lineup of the new committee, totally stunning some of them. It was hilarious to see the reactions on their faces though some of the smarter year 2s saw through our trick as the same trick was played on us by our seniors last year. But we all had a good laugh about it!

The final hand over was a mix of emotions though. On one hand, i felt relieved that i was no longer burdened as a comm member in my PDP. But seeing that there will no longer be any of the weekly Wednesday meetings, no more crazy BOD last minute chiong meetings, no more of the crazy antics that some of us are used to doing left me sort of empty somewhere. But the memories will always be with me somewhere, somehow... Yep, so now that this step of my life is over, perhaps it is time to "step up to the next step": it is perhaps time to mug for my JCTs...But in the mean time... Thank you, everyone who have made this camp a memorable one for me, and for the past 1.5 years that has changed me to a certain extent, as a person. Thanks to all... and to all, a big thank you! :)

Survivor Singapore: Pulau Temasek?

Yep, tis is the theme for the upcoming eclub camp tml! The actual name of the camp is called Survivor: Pulau Temasek. Temasek, as we are from TJC. Lol, i can feel my imagination running wild already. Maybe the exile island can be the scope area near the arts Hub, cus for all the legend of the 3 doors, it is supposingly haunted, and it will be the perfect spot to exile a fellow tribe mate to spend the nite with God knows what... Lol. Then there can be some sort of immunity amulet hidden somewhere in the 'Scope island', and this amulet not only confers upon the wearer immunity during tribal council, it also protects the unfortunate person from the GOD knows what floating around on scope island!

And there will definitely be station games and water games during the camp, so it can be like the reward challenge in survivor. For example for the first reward challenge, the winning tribe will get to slack around for one hour and the losing tribe will have to carry everyone's bags to our respective bunks. Then maybe for the subsequent challenges, the winning team will get to enjoy other camp comforts like access to a ps3 for 2 hrs, being allowed to bath first, permission to use mac delivery, ability to 'kidnap' stronger members from the losing tribe, sending members from the losing tribe to 'scope island' to spend the night there... Haha, i am so evil!

Then, there will be tribal council! But since this is a two day camp, there has to be a council every 1 hour or so i guess, since there are like 50 ppl in the camp. And since the juniors organizing this camp do not have the right to send us home after we are voted out, blindsided, backsteped or play the fake idol, resulting in our demise in the game, we will all stay on as the jury! So on the last one hour of the camp, the 2 or 3 last standing survivors will then have to address the 47 of us jury members, and listen to the 47 jury member's ' You don't deserve the 1 million dollars' argument. Lol, it will be the longest final tribal council ever...

Well, i just hope that i will be in the stronger tribe and we don't have to scavage for our own food... Lol, just kidding, packed meals will be provided rite? It was mentioned in the contract when we sign on for the game... so the juniors had better not tricked us. Lol, in the meantime, i should snap back to reality... my PA is beckoning me to start mugging, and i have to go interview the year one members running for ex-co later tis afternoon, so i guess i better start mugging. Until next time then!