_In A State Of Trance

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Haha..... ok... hehe... i didnt think i would screw my prelims up so badly but nvm its not the end of the world... as i fruitlessly try to tell myself that. Bio was extremely demoralising though. Its like a totally wasted effort to mug. Everytime when the bio results come back i question my wisdom in choosing to take bio in the first place. O whatever now's not the time for this. Maths was totally wrecked by my lack of stats practice and my extreme carelessness, the same trait that has caused me to lose a record ten water bottles since jc. Yup just lost the transparent one. Vow to stick to the free plastic bottles from now. Chem was a gonner given my lack of activity of chem in the last 2 weeks before the exam.
I am looking for inspiration. I will find it later at 230am when Man U take on Benfica, i hope. 3 draws and 1 defeat in the last 4 matches is totally unacceptable and we must respond. All i ask for is for every player to show the typical united fighting spirit, the never say die attitude. Whether they get the 3 points or not, it doesnt matter as long as they have tried their best. I need to rise together with United again.

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Saturday, September 24, 2005

This should be one of the last major outings before the A's. Sentosa today! I was wearing my ah pek slippers and i cant help but notice the many stares i received from passers-by at my feet ha. Once again the expected turn out of 7 ppl: Dan, me, jeff, xue, peng, chun and meng( in order of arrival). We volleyed some balls first. It was kinda empty there today, easy to find courts. Think after mugging too much all of us have lost our midas touch for volley ball. We hardly had any rallies lasting more than 2 shots. O and nobody brought sunblock so we are freaking burnt! Though it was not that bad for me. We then dipped into the sea when the sun became too scorching hot, while the girls went to the shelter to take their loads of pics.
Then it was time for some kayaking! heh. 3 doubles(me meng, jeff xue, dan chun) 1 single(peng). So u think this arrangement will last? I mean viruses are around, phagocytes are around. So set off normally, getting into our strides then the 3 doubles linked up. It soon became apparrent that the the single kayak is a virus! We needed to get rid of him! It was my job as a phagocyte! A fierce battle ensued. I was swinging my paddle everywhere. Alas peng escaped, but the phagocyte went a bit.. mad. Autolysis began. I began attacking the red bloodcell( xue jeff). Smashed their kayak then climbed in. Was trying to hit peng at the same time. All the rocking movement capsized the red blood cell! Then I swam towards peng to capture him. So i became the virus while peng joined with meng. So i see the 3 doubles linked up. And i began attack. I managed to infiltrate a host cell!(Dan chun). Took over the host cell, and chun went to the singles. Dan became a viral partner. The virus has become stronger. We chased up with the rest. And captured their paddles. One each from the doubles. Even managed to capture a small bucket! The virus was at the peak of its power, with 4 paddles and a bucket. But the other 3 kayaks were surrounding us and attacked from all angles! We lost the bucket but managed to escape as the rest have all lost their mobility. hehe. Now thats what i call kayaking in a group.
We then got back up and slacked on a bench. Chilled to music and some snacks. Played some poka games, loser had to eat delicious biscuits and mentos. Then volleyed balled and tried some frisbie too. As we were roaming about, we came across a secret door! So we dug a hole and put a mikasa volley ball inside then covered with the door. Then we shot a video of lost+survivor+harry potter. Before we left we buried the bottle containing a scorpion and two big ants in the secret door and buried it with sand. We can only hope that those creatures dont evolve or mutate given the isolation... I mean we dont want a scorpion island... O didnt know that an indian guy actually approached the girls while we were washing up! Woo lucky girls! That **** sure had guts. I do hope the girls are ok. I mean if it was me i would be traumatised... Infer this whatever way u want. I am not making any direct statements, dont bring me to court! And o pls my roasted skin tastes too good for xue la. Cant believe she actually went to bite my beautiful skin!
Left the group to meet gr, whom sort of dragged me to watch the myth, I am like whatever la. Thought it would be crap but turns out quite ok, except for some flaws in the plot.
Quite a day. Feeling burnt. Its the same feeling everytime after sentosa, like dont feel like doing much besides slacking and sleeping, but at the same time a bit hyper. Hmm.

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Thursday, September 22, 2005

This is some fantastic bangla stuff from peng.
http://media.putfile.com/bangla47

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Woo its been quite a day. Great for letting off all the steam and crap stuffed inside. Last paper, bio mcq. Think ms choong si bei sia lan. Last week never wear tie also nvm. Other schools never wear also can. We wear the freaking tie for assembly day and this is the freaking exams and not a proper school day. So we had to scavage the school for jc 1s for ties. They were all snapped up pretty quickly and me peng and leon were like the remaining ones without ties. We scouted around for available jc 1s and only found 3 of them at 810. We rushed to the hall, started our paper at 815. Luckily the paper was not too difficult, finished 20 questions by 830. finished at 9. Still had time to check!
So came the hard part of deciding where to go. 04s1a/2 gathered at the fountain area and stoned. After that, the five departed while we dudes hit town in our lanterns, eager to uphold the nanyang tradition. We sang to our hearts content about lanterns and mooncakes as we marched though orchard proudly displaying our lanterns. K box first. Almost lost my voice to the rock tunes and feminine tunes we sang. James was as usual the best singer, backed up with superb songs from artise like fei yu qing and many unknown oldies. We went caving next. Had to convince james and xx that it wasnt a horror show before they agreed to watch. The movie kinda disppointed la. It wasnt that bad but the plot wasnt strong enough. Went to walk around at heeren next. Saw some interesting stuff. Jeff was looking for his type of jeans. Ha didnt he just buy one levis one not too long ago. Then we left.
Was supposed to kick balls, 6 at bishan. Ppl either cannot make it or ps so only me alex and ka hong. Alex was filthy rich la. He sold his maple story account items for a total of 500 bugs! Nothing to do then he decided to have a bbq! So stormed j8 ntuc for the stuff. We got satay, sausage, potato, corn, otar etc. Then we decided we just needed a tray with the railing thing and we can bbq anywhere we like. This is the simplest bbq ever man. Alex totally refuted suggestions for butter, brush and tongs to put charcoal. He said use sticks and toilet paper can liao. Backed up by a super rich guy, i initially went on a mad frenzy. We passed by the potato chips section with our trolley. In one sweeping move, i swept the row of potato chips all into the trolley as we sped past and everyone around just stared at us. heh. Heard some aunties saying crazy in dialect. Ok so we got our stuff. We could bbq anywhere. Decided to do it at the amphi area. But, we had quite a long way to walk from j8. So came the usefulness of the trolley! we stacked our stuff into the trolley and made our way out of j8 all the way to amphi. Crossed a couple of roads with our trolley, with quite a few stares. Hey we 'bought' the trolley for one dollar k. So now needed to get the peeps for this last minute bbq ha. Bob came down first to join us. He was a great help indeed, setting up the fire pretty efficiently. After the charcoal was burning hot we fucked him off for he had dinner at home already. Wah last minute bbq hard to get ppl sia, but bam and sam cycled down to join us. hehe. Sam had like bio paper 1 and 3 the next day and he hasnt touched options. The food was ok, the environment not bad eh, open, tranquil, and a huge space for our activities. Ha we burned this sausage til it was totally black like a charcoal bar and inserted it into the centre of a toilet roll as we burned them on our tray. Super cool. The toilet roll was like a ball of fuel man. The sausage kept going in and out of the toilet roll, like intercourse so the toilet roll became chao tar chee bye in no time. Was tossing alex about in the trolley and played a pretty crazy game of frisbie. Left for home before it was too late.

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Sunday, September 18, 2005

Sia la... Man U wont win the epl this season la. Look at our midfield.... so damn weak. Scholes, Keane, Fletcher, Smith. Scholes is good but he cant tackle and run. Keane is still influential but too old means too old la. Fletcher's passing not bad but so damn light weight. Smith has potential but he is still in experimental phase. Compare this to Liverpool: Gerrard, Alonso, Sissoko, Hamann. Spurs: Davids, Jenas, Carrick,Lennon etc. The most fearsome chelsea: Essien, Lampard, Makelele, Geremi. Which is why we should be happy if Man U gets second place this season. We will win the epl only when we have truly replaced Keane and Scholes, the best midfield pairing in the late 90s. Seriously, i have never seen a United midfield so weak before. That is the final piece of jigsaw in ferguson's rebuilding of the team.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Here's a middle finger for any blogging censors in singapore. Fuck off man.
Racism is an inevitable part of any society la. It will remain in man kind forever even among animals. Some races are simply more inferior and it is a fact. People should be allowed to air their views freely on this issue. Whats the point of just using the law to kill off ppl who voice their more direct views? We are just avoiding the problem. Yes it may stir up conflicts but we are a maturing society and really such comments by bloggers should encourage healthy rebuttals and discussion instead of any riots in singapore today. We are far off from democracy.

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Half way through. Haiz but... its not been particularly good. Monday was a double wammy. Bio paper 2 first then maths paper 1 in afternoon. I had the facts for once in my head for bio but... there was no time! Think effectively half my marks are gone for the essay questions. Maths i think i did better hopefully. there were quite a few tough questions le. Tues chem paper 3. Was thinking mon night can mug everything for chem. but i was too mentally drained. Decided to sleep first. Supposed to wake up at 4am to mug. Turns out i woke up from my dream at 6 am. Some crazy weird dream with totally unrelated ppl and events as always. Ah it is indeed regretful. I thought i had kinda sorted out my physical chem a few weeks before. I just had to mug the content in. My lackadaisical attitude led me to leave that to one day before the chem paper! Man i must try to salvage my chem with papers 1 and 2 on fri! And today was maths paper 2. The paper i had pinned my hopes on for getting a respectable grade. It turned out quite the opposite though. I was stumped by the first question already. Took damn long for those first few questions. So i thought section A difficult cos the stats part must be quite easy. Haha. I think i couldnt even complete a question without at least one part missing. But, whatever the grade i get for maths, i would like to think i have made some progress. I mean compared to my mids this should be way better.

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Wednesday, September 07, 2005

The bus stopped. 2 sa students were boarding and one thug like adult was alighting from the front, which in the first place is not appropriate. So there was congestion and squeezing. The thug scolded them for not giving way. They said he should give way. In an instant, the thug ran up the bus again, grabbed one of them and punched his head real hard. My god, it was a knock with full power. Amazed he was still standing up. The people around just froze and looked, including us of course. No one did anything, being singaporeans typically... U could be sure if this was in the west ppl would have apprehended the thug or the least muttered some form of objection. Esp given it took place at quite a packed bus stop.
Anyhow, west coast is a nice environment. They fenced up the beach though. The mac is good. The playgrounds bring out the kid in me!

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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

The wake me up when september ends video is pretty good stuff. Though its been out quite long ago, just watched it.
http://music.yahoo.com/ar-315915-videos--Green-Day

Did that guy die in the end? Think he did after remembering what the girl told him?

I laud green day not just for a terrific rock album, but for their political awareness man

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Sunday, September 04, 2005

As Hurricane Katrina devastates america, we see the mighty superpower reduced to third world conditions in New Orleans. Inevitably it will make headlines all over the world with thousands dead. Even the death of one american is enough to make some headlines. We mourn for their deaths but we ask: tragedy or retribution? For the countless number of civilians dead since the invasion of iraq, does anyone care? Not bush definitely. For all the conditions america attach with sending aid to other countries, now it is requesting aid from EU and NATO. I say make them eat the humble pie. Make them feel what is it like to be exploited. Bring the arrogant and witless cowboy down to earth i say.
I must say the government has done a terrible job at providing relief aid for those affected though. It took them almost a week before they sent helicopters to airlift victims out. Afterall this is america u know.
"I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community or the black urban community, you see that the resources have been sucked up into the war and tax cuts for the rich." -- Congressman Charles B. Rangel

The NL was freezing today man! Its now easier to get seats on level 7-13 hehe. But it wont be long before more ppl manage to infiltrate security to study. Saw a few fellow perpetrators today.

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Saturday, September 03, 2005

Was quite a fulfilling day actually. Got to kick balls with maroon after so long. We had not played for months but we acquinted ourselves well against the muds. Some couldnt make it so we drafted in ka hong, alongside me bob alex and alvin. Waited for bob and ka hong to come, so we sat down at the coffeeshop to talk cock. Turns out in a bid to get bob down faster, they tricked him into coming by taxi claiming they would pay for the fare. Bob wasnt too happy bout it hehe. Ka hong was.. not used to it at first so we had to cover more defensively. We won a few matches before getting beaten and then won a few again. We stopped playing while leading, cos almost got into a fight. This big malay bastard really has a problem with us or our race i think. It was drizzling and the ground was wet. Sliding tackles came in thick and fast, mostly acceptable ones which me and alex were able to evade constantly. Then that bastard came in two footed, totally upending alex and failing to get the ball, then like want to fight. He did it to alex once more. I suggested we make a triple team sliding effort to cripple that black rhino. But before i knew it a piece of shit came sliding between my legs too! Thats after i passed the ball lor. Resorting to physical means to try to salvage some pride for the earlier mud teams beaten by us i guess. Or was it revenge for a fellow mud who lost out to a 50-50 ball with me and went tumbling down injured. Alex was pissed, i was thinking of revenge, the rest didnt want trouble so we left. But this is what to expect from when u play at bishan street soccer court la. Super physical. The amk court is more on skill i guess. After the A's gotta hone a more collective spirit within the squad.
Went back to chs to look look. Within a year, I could hardly recognise most parts of the school. There are now 2 canteens and 2 halls, rock climbing wall, ponds, and many other decorative stuff. They put rocks everywhere, then got some trishaws around, dunno what image hak boon is trying to create. Then walking up the road can see chinese characters. The open students lounge is cool. I mean There is this jukebox machine where u can play any song available for 20 cents and it was hitting out linkin park tunes. Plus a pool room, room with tv hi five set bar counter and sofas. Then there is another area where students can use their lap tops wirelessly? And had sofas and a drinks counter. There is an aquarium too. Two gyms at least. Looks kinda happening... on the surface at least. Where the hell did hak get all the money from? But chs isnt the best place to be now. Its hard to even spot any student tucking out their shirts. All had their pants pretty high up too. The consequences of tucking out could mean detention or embarassment in front of whole school. There was this zero late coming day banner. One of hak boon's first policies implemented when he arrived was the late coming policy. Students late would be asked to do silly things like sleeping outside the general office if i am not wrong? detention and subsequently caning? not to mention crazy lectures by hak and toh? There is in fact dictatorship and intense muggerhood going on. Hak wants the best results, not for the school but for himself. Students are made to come back almost everyday during the hols for extra lessons. Just ask the J1 ch peeps. There is this elite group of students who excel in sports chosen and their average day lasts til evening i think, pushing them to their limits while having to balance school work. Fortunantly we only had to tolerate hak for one year before graduating. But damn the school looks pretty good now.
Was talking to ka hong for hours at bk over dinner. Catching up on each other's jc lives as well as that of the other peeps in other colleges. Life in sa seems pretty good huh. I would love an environment like that. Too bad though.

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Friday, September 02, 2005

Just watched project superstar. Was of course happy that kelvin won. Not just because he is blind of course. For those who find it absurd that a blind can become a 'superstar', think stevie wonder, ray etc. The fact is there isnt anybody else to support. The standard of this competition is quite appalling actually. Nothing more than a bunch of above average looking bengs and lians who make good karaoke singers. Talent wise no body comes close to being the so called super star. But effort wise and condition wise kelvin deserves it. He looks not bad too. If he wasnt blind the sky is the limit as to how far he can develope. Look at the other so called finalist kelly. Totally feel like puking when seeing her. Her behaviour is like so ****ing artificial. No doubt symphathy votes won it for kelvin. But if there was an outstanding talent more ppl would have voted for he/she. If there was someone as good as stefanie sun for example among the contestants he/she would have won.

Wah NL becoming damn sia lan. Cant bring yr stuff into 7-13 floors except blank paper and pencil box. No choice lor gotta use pr skills. Befriended the security guard and smiled here and there. Made a deal with him. He say as long as he saw 2 blank paper covering whatever i have i can go in. So i sandwiched my notes with 2 blank pieces of foolscap and went in. Was like quite empty? Siao one so many tables and chairs from 7-13 floor, if no one allowed to study, will just be for display lor.

Teachers day. Thought of going back to chs but seemed like no one going. Doesnt really matter la. Many of the teachers also gone under the dictatorship of hak boon. Its just to see the other ch peeps only.

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