1:11 PM
Monday, July 30, 2007
whee~
This morning was my first time going up to the gallery to receive prize (college’s essay writing contest. Best Literature Award.) from the principal. Kinda excited. x)
The view from above was indeed intimidating… Having 800++ pairs of eyes fixed upon you doesn’t sound like an enjoyable thing yea. Glad I wasn’t wearing specs. Hahas.
Apart from that, mr kong also informed me that I’ve won the overall champion as well as the 最佳文采 for that iblog competition. Wah. *excited excited* ^_________^
Hmm…that’s a total of 200块钱的奖金外加100块钱的奖卷，还有2座奖杯。Ahem ahem. 不应该这么见钱眼开的hor??
应该说... “我从这个比赛中学到了很多宝贵的经验与课本上学不到的知识，对新加坡的文化也有了更深层的认识，发现岛国风光无限好，多元种族文化水乳交融，前景光明欣欣向荣国泰民安一帆风顺富裕昌盛鸿运当头艳阳高照心想事成大吉大利笑口常开身体健康恭喜发财新年快乐红包拿来....etc etc”
乖小孩的model answer. Lols.
But then but then. It was really really very bery unexpected!! I’ve never imagined myself winning the champion cos I felt that Wintersky has done a much much better job!! And her language is superb! I was almost 100% certain that she would walk away with the 最佳文采 loh.
http://iblog07.new-media-arts.com/wintersky/ that's hers
http://iblog07.new-media-arts.com/singaporelah/ and this is mine
Why me?! -.- 评审被鬼遮眼了吗？lols. I need to find this out man. 不可思议不可思议。*shake head*
Argh…but why cheque and Not CASH??!! hmm.. hope they can give me some book vouchers. Heehee. x)
btw...my cutey cute freeloader fell sick!! =( just like her owner huh? lols. need to go get her a doctor. but that dolldoll website is not functioning well!! and now some random ugly doll came to dominate her room! so rude. :x
12:40 PM
上周的i周刊有一篇让我觉得好好笑的文章。大致就是讲远在天边的阿呆给近在眼前的阿谁写了一封让人觉得很好笑的信。哈哈。must have some brains to appreciate the joke. xp 阿呆的信
亲爱的阿谁，你还好吗？还活着没死吧？最近的身体如何？知道你看华文字不是很快，所以我在写这封信的速度是很~慢~很~慢~的~我搬家已经快半年了，不过地址没变，就是因为怕亲戚朋友找不到我，所以在搬家的时候顺便把门牌也拆了一起带来。你们那里现在应该是下雨季节，天天都下雨吧？哈哈。。。我们这里可比你们幸运多了，这个星期总共就下了两次雨，第一场雨下了3天，第二场雨下了4天，很羡慕吧？昨天我到必胜客去打包比萨，那个店员很无聊咧！问我要切成8块还是12快？我说他神经病啊！当然是切成8块啦！12块那么多一个人怎么吃得完啊？你让我给你寄去的外套我已经照办了，可是因为怕邮寄时超重，所以把扣子剪下来放入外套口袋里，越来越觉得自己聪明了。你念的书少，记得要多看点书，多用成语，免得被别人笑你没水平。现在赚钱困难，什么东西都起价了，你也得节约点别乱花钱。本来想给你寄些钱的，无奈想到的时候，信封已经封上了。下次吧。。。祝安好。PS：以后别忘了给儿孙们讲我们很久很久以前的事：让他们知道那时候的天是蔚蓝的，草原是绿色的，庄稼是长在地里的，猪肉是可以放心吃的，鸟类从来没听说过禽流感的，强盗是怕警察的，法庭是讲理的，杀人是要偿命的，结婚是先谈恋爱的，发廊只是管理发的，药是可以治病的，医生是救死扶伤的，拍电影是不需要陪导演睡觉的，拍照是要穿衣服的，欠钱是要还的，银行是一言九鼎的，学校是不图挣钱的，白痴是不能当官的，结了婚是不能泡美眉的，买东西是要付钱的！最后，身为父母的，不是要帮子女抵挡风雨，而是要教他们如何面对风雨的。。。 ( I like the above part. n___n)
你的挚友阿呆上
12:04 PM
Monday, July 23, 2007
Praise the Boss! Hallelujah~
Waaaaaaaaa~~~~
Dear Boss got Mascot Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!!!!! *SCREAMS!!*
AH AH AH AH AH!!! *speechless* omg omg OMG!! *big hug big hug!!*
The entire process was like a roller-coaster ride man. Hahas. (fellow monsters: or izzit that you’re just stupid )
I really really DID believe that he went back to refund it and the mug was given to him for free and that the lady had forgotten to ask it back!! I swear I believed it without a single trace of doubt!!
So I gracefully accepted the mug until I saw this elegantly wrapped present resting peacefully in my locker. At that moment I was still wondering what could it be. lols. Gosh. And yes, to my greatest greatest greatest surprise it was INDEED the book that I have been craving for!!
Wah wah wah wah…...
“You are the easiest to fool…” there came the godly voice of my dear Boss. Hahas. Okok…you won.
OH MY GOD. Someone come and pinch my awake! It's still very bery unbelievable!! Ah and I feel so bad now… it was expensive k… To take it or to turn it down? I suppose I couldn’t achieve any of them. Thank you yisheng. Thank you so. so. much.
Shit. And now I have to start saving for playstation already. *winks* Hahahaha.
Praise the Boss, Hallelujah! ^___________^
10:17 AM
Friday, July 20, 2007
Mr Chan showed us some interesting stuff during Bio lecture. lemme just copy and paste here. heehee.
I dont wanna put the cockroach's pic here!! yeeeeeerrr~~~ >____<
Ahem ahem ahem.... censored!! lol
Lols....
Mr Chan's lectures are simply engaging and fun!! x)
9:37 AM
Transformers!!!!!!!!!
Haha my first action movie. x) Actions actions and lotsa actions. big massive action scenes. I was thrilled to see this lumbering mass exhibit!
Oh and a must-mention: the effects were beyond amazing! They were absolutely fantastic! The first 10 mins of the film really got me into it, so cool so cool!! =D
As nice as Harry Potter!! wheee~~ ^____^
I find that Sam really stupid though. haha. hmm..perhaps michael bay is a feminist.. (Mikaela is reeeeally cool!) lols. xp But i feel that the show would be even better if they could place more emphasis on the robots... heh. Nonetheless it's awesome!
Im gonna watch it again. definitely.
9:32 AM
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Im blogging in the sch's com lab now haha. xp.
Flipping through my planner and I felt the rush of adrenaline. Im getting busier with each passing day! Well well. But the past week had been really enjoyable~
Firstly…no GSC for 3 weeks! (hope mr kong will slim down after his reservice lols) Huiqin’s 18th bday on Tuesday…haha I must remind this young lady to get her blood donated! Lols dun ever try to run away ah…
Went Ms Clarity on yisheng’s birthday. Mud Ooze is still super oishi~~ though this time there was more mud than ooze haha. We sat there and talked for duno how many hours until the boss came to chase us away! In a very courteous and indirect way of course. LOLS. I think he’s gonna blacklist us alr… xP
Saturday simin and I went kino to hunt for my books!
Gulliver’s Travels
Pride & Prejudice
1984
And that was a total of 41 bucks (haha with the sch sponsoring me 30 ;p). Wah recently I've spent over $60 on books! broke alr...
God. Simin is soooo funny! While I was searching for George Orwell’s books, I asked simin if the author’s still alive (what a disrespectful question…lols)
“Dunnoe leh…wait I help you check............ 死 liao,” she replied with a big grin.
Hahah then we burst out, without knowing that we had just disgraced ourselves in a holy place… xp
And wow. There was a food fest in Taka!! *eyes widened* People mountain people sea sia~ we marched out way through and got ourselves some Korean ice-cream and pan-fried kimchi! Oishi oishi OISHI!!!!!!! Should have taken some photos of those yummies…too engrossed with eating you see. =P
lessons learnt from this trip: I can forget about my image when going out simin next time. Lols. And I should start wearing porcupine’s skin (if I can find one)…just in case she clinches herself onto me again…ahem. im not a lesbian k. hahahaha.
I fell sick right after I got back home… such a good timing haha! Runny nose, burning throat and an aching head. So sick. T_______T My throat was so dry that I thought I was gonna be suffocated to death in the late midnight. Have I eaten too much of the kimchi pancake?? 2 slices only what… *innocent*
Hoho~ watched Harry Potter And The Order of The Phoenix with Huiqin yesterday!!!! wheeeee~~~~~
Actually we wanted to pon ms ye’s "tiah-bo" lecture and watch it today de...heehee... but since there was no cca ytd...give her face loh. Lols.
WAAAAAAAA the movie is damn damn nice!! It's definitely darker, leaner and meaner... but the new director did a great job capturing the spirit of the book and the effects were stunning!!
The 3 leading actors grown up really fast!! Especially Daniel.
But arrrgh. cho chang doesnt belong to the show at all!!
Scroll the cursor up and down for 100 times and you'll see some similarities between them..LOL just kidding ;p;p. Ok lah..she's not ugly at all actually. it's just that somehow she doesn't have the "i'm cho chang" look lah. Disclaimer: my fave character in the story is not harry potter. I perfer professor Dumbledore!
Met up with Kluang mates after the movie. ah.. weiyang's leaving tonight~ Bon Voyage!
The doughnuts at Taka's basement is not nice at all!! T__T
And hey...kimchi pancake is really nice k...what taste like otah...no respect to my food. -__- LOLS.
10:55 AM
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Just for laughs I read this gossip in a magazine…It was said that a superstar from HK (the writer gave a list of hints & I inferred our main character here to be Axxx Lau lols) has some difficulties in using the English language. And one fine day, this charming Mr Lau was on his way to another country. On the plane, some air hostess stood in his way. Mr lau, famous for his courtesy, said this in English, “Miss, could you let me pass away?” ~The end~
10:13 AM
Where's the Iron???
Where's the Iron???My father is flying off to china to visit my grandparents today. And the poor me have to wait till the end of the yr. T___T
Nvm, time passes really quickly. Im sure I don’t even have to pinch myself to realize that 7 mths have gone… arrgh.
Time really files. And with the advances in sci and tech, time can now teleport. tsk tsk. Scary.
Okay. Picture this now: 11+ last night, I was alone in the living room, ironing my father’s clothes. What running in my mind was actually 孟母’s <<游子吟>> .
临行密密缝
意恐迟迟归.... (fellow monsters: wrong context can...)
Then I went to sip a drink…and when I stepped out of my room, ahead of me I saw
nothing.
Pitch black!
Must be the heroic act of my dear sister’s. daily responsibility of the “省电侠” in the house.
But oi! My iron how?? Iron…oh YA the iron is still ON! Oh my tian! Where’s the iron?!!!
I was like “shit shit my iron my iron where’s my iron…” in the void of emptiness and darkness I cautiously tried to source for the heat generator.
And then I head an echo within me,
“WHY don’t you on the lights first?”
-___________-llll (fellow monsters chorused in union: DUMB~~~ )
3:37 PM
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
another story to share
I came across this short story from another lib book that i've borrowed and found it to be very inspirational! n______n
五官科诊室里同时来了两位病人，都是鼻子不舒服。在等待化验结果期间，A说，如果是癌，立即去旅行：首先是拉萨，再来是….B也如此表示。
结果出来了，A是鼻癌，B是鼻息肉。
A留下一张告别人生的计划表离开了医院，B却住了下来。
A的计划是：去一趟拉萨和敦煌；从攀枝花坐船一直到长江口；到海南的三亚以椰子树为背景拍一张照片；在哈尔滨过一个冬天；从大连坐船到广西的北海；登上天安门的城楼；读完莎士比亚的所以作品；力争亲临实地听一次瞎子阿炳的<<二月映月>>；成为北大的一名学生；写一本书……等等等等，共27条。
他在这生命的清单后面这样写道：我的一生有很多梦想，有的实现了，有的因为种种原因并没实现。现在上帝给我的时间不多了，为了不遗憾地离开这个世界，我打算用生命的最后几年去实现还剩下的27个梦想。
当年，A辞掉了公司的职务，去了拉萨和敦煌。
第二年，他又以惊人的毅力和韧性通过了成人考试，成了北大中文系的学生。这期间，他登上了天安门的城楼，去了内蒙古大草原，还在一户牧民家住了一个星期。
现在这位“病人” 正在实现他出一本书的心愿。
一天，B在报纸上看到A写的一篇有关生命的散文，便打电话问A的病情。
A说，我真的无法想像，要不是这场病，我的生命该是多么糟糕。是它提醒了我，去做自己想做的事，去实现自己想去实现的梦想。现在我才体会到什么是真正的生命和人生。你呢？生活的挺好的吧？
B没有回答。因为在医院时说的，去拉萨和敦煌的事，早在自己患的不是癌症时被抛到脑后了。
在这个世界上，其实我们每个人都患有一种癌症，那就是不可抗拒的死亡。我们之所以没有像A一样，列出一张生命的清单，抛开一切多余的东西，去实现梦想，去做自己想做的事情，也许是因为我们认为我们还会活得更久。
然而，也许正是这个‘量’的差别，使生命有了‘质’ 的不同；有些人把梦想变成了现实，有些则将它们带进了坟墓。
12:15 PM
lets see who can shower in 2 mins time! haha
Simin is such a devoted blogger! Hahas. That was a random statement… ;p
Hoho~ Happy Birthday to Huiqin!! x) wah her present is one of the hardest to find man…hope she’ll like it… she better. No second choice. LOLS.
Sister’s birthday was last sat. o7o7o7. what a pretty number! The day I set up this blog too. Hahas. They left me at home and went science centre & celebrate her bday. Before I starve to comma, father brought back a cold lasagna for me. Better than nothing lah, at least I could stuff sth into my big mouth while watching Condor Hero. Haha!
Oh ya oh ya. Went back to Nanhua in that morning to cover a forum. Coz i received 3 unexpected smses from my sec 1 maths teacher, Mr Chia, asking if I could help him cover tt young environmentalist forum for the school.
“we’ll have 200+ student from 9 diff countries gathering together & discuss issues related to climate change and water conservation…” sounds interesting & meaningful.
Hmm…however. I spotted only a handful (out of the 200 odd ppl) had their eyes opened. And mostly were the GOHs and teachers…
On the brighter side though, I got to know this pretty young lady from Australia by the name of Ashleigh. So charismatic! Facing the entire hall of audience, she spoke like Hillary Clinton. Hahas…maybe that’s a bit exaggerative…… ;p
she told me tt Australia is actually the driest continent in the world (I’ve always thought it to be Africa of sth…haha) and is facing one of the most disastrous droughts in history! Their govt has implemented several measures to combat the droughts…things like the “4-min shower rule” and so on.
I was like, “what!?? So you’re trained to clean yourself head to toe in less than 4 mins time???”
To my surprise, their citizens are rather supportive of all the strict measures, and tts certainly a scene that can never appear in Singapore.
I went home with a heavy heart, just like the day I watched The Inconvenient Truth…SAVE THE EARTH BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!! >_____<Oh~ mr Chia is such a nicey person! He drove me home after the forum! It was not like his duties were completed leh, he still needed to conduct the closing ceremony an hour later! Wah…felt so honored and guilty… that was my 3rd time snuggling into a sparkling brand new car of his!! and this implies that he actually changed THREE cars within TWO years. o_O "mr chia…you changed your car again??!!" "heehee…被你发现liao…""你卖车的ah….??!!""wah 连这个你也懂oh?""真的假的........" -_____-lllll
5:29 PM
Monday, July 9, 2007
Went to JE lib ytd. A fruitful trip indeed! x)
Andrew David Hsu. A name we ought to know.
His biography is the most influential, interesting and motivating book that I’ve read this year.
Well… Andrew is a Taiwanese who lives in US. 16 this year. Yesh. Sixteen. When the book was published in 2005, he was in his forth yr in the University of Washington.
He stepped into the uni at the age of 12! o_O!! what was I doing when I was 12…?? Probably struggling with my PSLE.
okie... and here's some jaw-dropping info...
Age 2 : assembled LEGO to structures taller than himself. Started reading chapter book.
Age 3 : started doing math calculations
Age 4 : started playing golf and doing algebra
Age 5-6 : started playing piano & violin and started swimming under the coaching of professionals in a swimming team
Age 7-8 : skipped to P4, started Home School. (like what Thomas Edison did. lol ). Broke 4 swim records. (which had been kept for more than 30 years!) Started High School. (tsk tsk. I entered JC TEN years later than him.)
Age 9 : completed High Sch courses.
Age 10 : Held 8 Issaquah Swim Team records and won a Gold Medal during the King County Lake Wilderness Triathlon.
Co-founded the World Children’s Organisation with his brother Patrick (who is a genius too!)
Age 11 : Scored 99% on ACT and SAT. Won silver Grand Prize in Washington State Sci & Engineer Fair (the youngest person ever to win grand prize in WSSEF’s history. He did an in-depth research on Polymerase Chain Reaction, sth that I just came across this year…and is of the very superficial level -.-lll but HE actually started operating the machines at 11!)
Became an non-matriculated student in University of Washington (of course, again, youngest ever in history.)
Started public speaking and began a mission of helping needy children worldwide. x)
Age 12-13 : 1st place, 100m butterfly, Western Zone All-Star Swim Meet. Broke another 8 records. Ranked 4th in the entire USA for 100 yard butterfly swimming for age 12. Invited to present research result at American Association for Advancement of Sci. Entered university of Washington.
And just recently, (9th June) he graduated from the University of Washington with 3.5 degrees (B.S. in Neurobiology, B.S. in Biochemistry, B.S. in Chemistry, Minor in Mathematics). o_O It was said that others struggled like mad in order to complete just one of these.
It’s not only a book about a genius; it’s about an all-rounded genius who’s also actively involved in community works and helping children in third world countries.
Impressive huh.
I would strongly recommend this book to anyone. Coz it's not something tt one would read and forget; it really gives a purpose in life as well as the sense of urgency in daily life. Indirectly of course. Which is good!
I’ve read many other self-enriching and self-improvement kinda books that teach ppl how to handle difficulties and provide a step by step guideline on how to manage time wisely. Dont really like them… it’s always easier to learn from others’ successes and failures I think. Provides you a room for personal reflection as well.
Like I said, I would strongly recommend this bk to anyone. Parents, teachers, teenagers, schools…anyone and everyone!
The kind of parents that Andrew has, I would say, is perfect. They have never exerted any form of force onto their sons and their way of teaching…hmm…innovative and yet effective.
Hmm...A great book indeed!!
