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Sunday, July 01, 2007 11:58 PM

hi guys
havent updated for a long time
guess some of your might have lost interest in my blog

anyways, i wont be blogging for quite a long time to come
cos got to really put aside many extra stuff to save time
and concentrate on mugging for the prelims and Os

oh well
the next time i post would be when im really free
so do look out for the next post maybe two months from now? hah
till next time, bye!

simplicity ;
thats the way things should be

*****

Friday, June 15, 2007 12:33 AM

guess wad?
the blank post you see below,
is the result of 30mins of typing and thinking through

when i published the extra long post,
all that came out was blank
hmph. i thought my drafts will be saved automatically?!?

i've learnt it the hard way and you shouldnt

lesson learnt: copy what you've written so far as often as you can to avoid losing everything
and i mean everything!
sigh

simplicity ;
thats the way things should be

*****

12:02 AM

simplicity ;
thats the way things should be

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:18 PM

oh well
guess i'll update my blog since sinli is asking. heh

yesterday

went to school early in the morning for chem practical
met danson and we did titration with 405
it was quite funny that he was testing my english in the lesson
he was getting me to pronounce some words and guess their meanings

the titration was okay
the more i did it, the more i enjoyed it!
cos it was fun getting a change in colour at the endpoint
good thing no purple KMnO4 spilled on my shirt
cos mr. lim shared a humorous story
about how a student tried to remove KMnO4 stain on his shirt by titrating it off
and when the shirt was put in the washing machine,
it tore pieces of cloth due to the chemicals weakening the fibres of the shirt
as for me, i didnt have to risk getting my shirt ripped into pieces. phew!

when i got home, i could use the comp cos it was finally fixed. yay!
it was updated, faster, less irritating without those ' do you want to debug?' windows, etc
so i downloaded maple! haha
played my character for while
but soon got bored
then went to help my sis train her runescape character's magic
was spending away lots of her money to buy runes, much to her dismay
but i continued and reasoned that sooner or later she'll have to spend the money. lol
well, the games may be lame
but they're good outlets to destress

in the evening, i was in a dilemma
whether or not to go for 1hr of chemistry tuition
but in the end decided to stay at home and rest
and that decision really paid off
cos i slept for almost 5hrs until 10pm

then when i got up, i found my sis playing comp
i asked her, 'you played computer all this time i was sleeping!?!'
she said, 'no la, i just started. was watching tv before this'
lol. no matter wad, 5hrs of doing these two things was alot!

then later in the night i read 1 Samuel in the rainbow bible
and i must say that the colours do help keep me going
oh! thank God for colours!
so read about 7 chapters, i think
then went to sleep
it was 2am by then

today

i woke up early today, at about 10.30am
and wanted to continue from where i left off last night
i was really interested in reading about Samuel
cos i've got the same name as him. obvious isn't it?
how he grew up in the Lord was amazing
cos Hannah, his mum, handed his life over to God from young
and Samuel grew up to be one of the best leaders of the Israelites

when i finished i went to turn on the comp
and found that my sis had already turned it on the moment she got up
that was the very first thing she did today before brushing her teeth. haha
i played maple for a while
and was glad it was still early in the day
soon, i let her take over

then it was down to some serious work
took out the a-maths tys to do the nov/oct 2006 paper
cos i had to get the papers done by thu for mrs. lim's a-maths remedial
for those of you who know her, it's best to get your work done before her class. haha

i must admit i found it hard to start off
was sitting in the same room as my sis
i kept looking over at the computer screen. heh
and she levelled up our perfect mage to level 29
i even tried to convince her to continue training up to level 30
but she decided to do quests. hah

as i persisted on with the a-maths paper 1 and 2, i took many breaks
sometimes went to play the guitar, lie on the bed and walk around
i just finished the last question about 15mins ago
and left quite a number blank
cos duno how to do

so wad meant to be a total of 4hrs spent on the 2 papers turned out to be 8hours!! hehe
and actually i was supposed to time myself but i didnt
so i guess i'll have to be more focused next time
hope i'll really be tml

anyway, practising a-maths questions and other subjects is something i GOT to do
cos my mid-year results weren't good
hmm. will spare you the details of the results. heh

i must say that the mid-year exam was a good wakeup call for me
the results have made me more determined to work hard for the Os
so i'm gona go full speed forward from this month onwards
not only mugging but also studying smart
of cos there's God behind me
He said last year in june that He'll help me in mastering maths and science without struggle
so A1s, here i come!

the first 2 weeks of the june holidays have been well spent
went for emerge, then a church camp
so now i've got 12 days of june holiday left
glad i've started planning a schedule
so i wana make full use of it
to practise maths and science questions
to practise guitar for the guitar assessment in 2 weeks' time
and to seek God

ok. i guess i'll stop here
thinking of changing this dull blogskin
will post next time, hopefully soon

simplicity ;
thats the way things should be

*****

Monday, May 28, 2007 2:28 PM

yeah!
the chinese Os are half done
still left with LC and oral

although i couldnt really complete the papers
i must say that God has helped me through this whole exam and the weeks leading up to it
some of you may know, chinese isnt my strong subject (erm. language rather)
here's a simile to describe what chinese is like to me,
it's like what russian is to a singaporean

at home i dun read, write, hear and speak chinese
the only time i come into contact with it is in school
and i must say that when i first learnt chinese in kindergarten,
it was really tough

in primary school, i dreaded chinese lessons
i remember how i would purposely ask to go to the toilet to escape from chinese lessons
even those minutes of being away from the classroom brought lots of relief to me
i would stroll to the toilet and then stroll back,
hoping to delay going back to the classroom

at the end of each year,
i would worry about who the chinese teacher would be the following year
and i wondered whether or not he or she would be understanding

then came psle
i was blown away when i saw 'A' for chinese on the report card
it was an absolute miracle

in sec 1, things were not easy
i sat through chinese lessons understanding almost nothing
to make things more difficult, 田老师 was from china and spoke with an accent

sec 2 was neither easy too
then it was sec 3 was when i started to be have a better understanding
but still i copied words was on the board without knowing what they meant
also, chinese was the lowest in priority amongst the other subjects

then this year, things finally became clearer
in the recent months, i've found myself breaking through
my understanding of the words has strengthen greatly
and i have improved leaps and bounds since kindergarten

well, God has seen me through all these years
i must thank Him for giving me the ability to memorise chinese characters easily
and also of cos more recently,
a sustained interest in the language despite some occasions of frustration

hmm. the next few days are going to be exciting
will be serving in chorus board for two emerge events
and i cant wait for emerge to come!
then after emerge will be going to KL with mum and sis

oh well, guess i'll stop here
wonder what to do, now that the exam is over......

simplicity ;
thats the way things should be

*****

Saturday, May 26, 2007 5:23 PM

oh well
im here to salvage this rotting blog once again

chinese Os are in 2 days' time
and im qionging
jus started reading the notes only now. lol

today there was chinese intensive
but i decided not to go
cos i really needed to catch up on sleep
soon kiang even called me at about 830am
but i put my hp on silent mode last night
so i didnt hear anything

oh ya. fyi, n344 is no more in existence
2 sundays ago, hb announced that we'll be going to diff cgs
all of us didnt know who was going where

but we found out last sun
chenli, chengyu and belinda to vivien's cg
me, my sis, yangxuan and wenjie went bee leng and cindy's cg

on sun, the new cg welcomed us warmly
they went to bedok to eat
but i couldnt join them cos i had to meet daniel and yongwei

we went to peninsular to buy some guitar stuff
dan bought strings and i bought a tuner
finally a tuner after so many weeks
in those weeks without a tuner, i had to tune my guitar using the piano
i found out later when i borrowed a guitar classmate's tuner,
that the piano was 'flatted'. lol

now to talk about today
too bad i couldnt go with my new cg for the sentosa outing
acutally i really wanted to go but decided not to
bcos im not really prepared for chinese Os

oh ya. earlier i was reading some 报章报道 notes
surprisingly, i find myself liking chinese the more i study it
thank God for placing that interest in me
guess i'll continue to learn chinese even after chinese Os

hmm. better go back to studying
i've taken a long enough break already

btw, im at the comp bcos im waiting for zihong on msn
he's gona tell me what i missed earlier in intensive
first he said to meet online at 5pm
then said he changed the meeting time to 540pm
its 541pm now and he's not online yet. heh

think i better stop now
will post again next time (hopefully not too long from now)
bye

simplicity ;
thats the way things should be

*****

Friday, May 11, 2007 7:34 PM

yay!
the mid-years are finally over
can slack big time

after the last paper i went out with danson and andrew
danson's laptop was spoilt after he lent me
dont know wad happened to it actually
the repair centre is at kallang sector
some ulu place in potong pasir

before that we went to eat a very very very old hawker centre
the stores were really wierd
the first one we walked passed sold frog dishes. yuck!
then there was another that sold mutton dishes
and no customers were queuing up
definitely a clear sign of how 'profitable' mutton dishes are. heh
at that point i wondered whether there was a store selling pig organs and stuff
too bad i could not find one looking around

then there was a high ceiling that was really filthy
there were dirt marks and even the hanging lamps were rusting
ever heard of lamps rusting?
think they should have used some other material like stainless steel or something. lol

i went to buy chicken rice for $2
thought at first that $2 was sooo cheap
but good deals are hard to come by
cos it turned out to be a really small portion

then we went to buy dessert
somehow andrew told the auntie, '我要第12号'
and guess wad?
the auntie replied, '第12是什么啊?'
which store owner doesnt know her signboard? lol
so andrew had to read out the whole name. haha

oh well i got to stop now
bye

simplicity ;
thats the way things should be

*****

Wednesday, May 09, 2007 3:30 PM

oh well
guess i better post something to revive this rotting blog

i'm in the midst of mid year
tml there's chem pap 1
and haven studied
dun feel like actually

come to think of it
blogging is indeed a passing fad
most people are not updating their blogs

oh ya
got my braces removed last thu. yay!
but got to wear a retainer :(

guitar lessons have been great
with little practice i can play alright
it's cool being able to play all the chords, barre chords, songs and stuff

chinese o-levels on 28 may
really got to do some serious study

two more days of exams
and 4 more papers to go
cant wait for the mid years to be over!

simplicity ;
thats the way things should be

*****