The Morning Benders, Loose Change.

Be my mirror, show me what I can change
Don't go, I know that you know
Don't let me down softly

Well, this all happened on a sunny day
You still couldn't see it
When it was just a half an inch away
Staring you right in the face saying,
"Why can't you just say what you mean?
Why can't you say what you mean, baby?"

Shuffling sideways
There's no way to get home
You're so slippery, frozen, ice cold, alone

Now I see that your expression has changed
Are you wishing you saved my place?
You're standing on the ocean floor
Wondering what you could have said before
But why can't you just say what you mean?
Why can't you say what you mean, baby?

Well I've been working too many hours
Only for your loose change
The place is messy, complicated
And it only gets you back out
And I want out
Why can't you just say what you mean?
Why can't you say what you mean?
Why can't you say what you mean, baby?

Higher hopes, greater disappointments. I think I'm judging too much - but that's only because you're not just anyone else. Am I thinking too much, are those meant for me, is this reciprocated? Questions, uncertainty, I'm not strong-willed enough for this. Gawd what am I doing?

I'm a failure. I managed the half an hour plan yesterday, but fell asleep from like 5plus to 8.30pm instead. Still feeling rather stressed out, I think I'm a real bad stress taker. I can't really handle stress and a huge workload well. Anyway I'm a bit convinced to do my own pace and heck CTs for now. How now brown cow this isn't good news.

I'm watching an episode of Down With Love after this cause I need to give myself some time to relax. Not in a good mood today. I just can't really get myself to be motivated, repeating to myself that I'm 2 weeks (SHIT OR IS IT A WEEK?) away from CTs not helping much. Today, Kelly introduced me to her pet rock. I'm going to get a pet rock too. I'll name him Fred and we'll be good friends. He shall serve to watch after me and motivate me to study. I'll introduce him to you on the next post alright? :)



Took around 3 hours to complete drawing that for my mum's birthday card. Her birthday's today, and I think it's kind of sad cause it's just me and her at home, and there's no celebration and such. Plus my bastard granddad's brother (not repeating the story if you haven't heard) got a lawyer to threaten to check my granddad's company's accounts and what-nots. Too free, seriously.

Everybody's completely stressed out these days, and I'm certainly not cheery. Every little thing just gets on my nerves, and homework is unlimited. I had a hell of a time trudging through volume just a day or two ago, and now Miss Ding Yih's (read out aloud - no offense lah :)) completed it and moving on to DE tomorrow. This is super unhealthy okay it doesn't give you the motivation to try and keep up with tutorial pace at all. Plus I'm worried about seasons. CCHMS's new teacher-in-charge's kinda malicious and powerful and disallows VJ to train with them anymore, though that's been the tradition since forever. So we're having 1 training a week, which means 4 trainings to seasons, which means something a little less than death. I might just go back to DHS for training, if they allow me to, that is. Saw that venn diagram from (Teh) Wenxin's, reblogging cause it totally applies right now. Training's an extra consideration for me in the venn diagram though.


Went Sengkang for dinner with mum today, realise I hardly ever do that. Like just me and her. She found a new job today, like finally. Previously she was just watching gold prices all day long and then she still ends up losing money from it. She's going to be a bookshop auntie in Holy Innocents (Secondary) with effect from next Monday. Yeah lah no glamour no shit and low pay but seriously fuck it already. She told me about it, and I calculated it to be like around $4.70/hr, $5.30/hr after 3 months. Not great pay but after that she convinced me that it was worth it. She's 45 and honestly nobody likes to hire old people, then she's not great at computers, so her previous 135525 years of accounting experience is not absolutely useful. And working hours are pretty good, 7am to 2pm on weekdays, 9am to 1pm on Saturday. Her concern's basically family time, cause my bro's in NS and one year later I'll be the same, and the only time we'll get to see her is the weekends so she definitely doesn't want any job which would consume those days. So touched, I love my mum.

But anyway she was talking to me about all these and it motivated me by an extra 5%. Like her bookshop pay is a measly $750/850 while she compares to one of my cousin who entered the workforce for 2 years and her pay is like 10% of his. So what she earns in 10 months, he does in 1. Yes, so for that, I've brewed a mighty grand plan. From tomorrow onwards, half an hour of Facebook a day. I'm on an official blog hiatus, so even if I've a life-and-death thing to share with you, I'll heck and not tell you about it. I'll just talk to... my Fred Perry wallet and get it off my chest. On the bus. No time to have "quality time" with it at home. I'll use today, tomorrow (wushu training) and thursday to finish up everything that I need to do. And on Friday I'll be officially left with 2 days for each of the core subjects to revise for CTs before March holidays. Oh yeah shit and Thursday's my mum's birthday I haven't got her anything yet. More stress.

P.S. Today I felt so stressed during Physics lecture, it was the first time I wrote a bloody "FUCK" on my lecture notes. Cover page somemore. Applause please. The person sitting in front of me, completing an extremely scribbled-all-over DE notes and tutorial, multi-tasking Quantum Physics at the same time while I was struggling extremely hard to keep awake didn't help one bit. I'm just really easily-irritated today, don't even know why I'm being such a bastard.

GOD I SWEAR I DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING EVIL TOWARDS YOU ON THE BLOGPOST OKAY, I THINK YOU MIGHT NOT BE READING THIS CAUSE YOU ALREADY HATE ME SO MUCH BUT I WAS JUST EXPRESSING THAT IT'S WEIRD TO LOOK LIKE A GIRL. (I MEAN FOR YOU TOO AS WELL? - LIKE A GUY) SERIOUSLY NO OFFENSE, IT WASN'T ANYTHING PERSONAL AGAINST YOU I SWEAR. WINSTON TOLD ME ABOUT IT AND I REALLY DIDN'T MEAN IT THAT WAY, HUGE MISUNDERSTANDING OKAY! I'M SO SORRY I'M REALLY DAMN GUILTY ALREADY :(



To everyone else:


So I spent last night watching three episodes of Down With Love (3, 4, 5) on Youtube cause this girl uploaded everything (till episode 7, last time I checked) from the VCD set she got. I was damn scared Youtube'll remove the videos soon cause I read comments and found out that Taiwan news reported that on news, and blames the uploader as she will affect viewer counts/ ratings when the episode is aired in Taiwan, cause people have watched it on Youtube. So I convinced myself to watch, till 8pm when my mum scolded me damn badly. I'm not only watching dramas when I'm supposed to be studying, I completely forgot about dinner. Which made me kind of guilty as well. Oh plus I browsed many Tumblrs on creative stuff and interior home design, lots of pictures to share so I won't blog about it yet. I'm trying to figure out how to do a Blogger-cut, like what you do in Livejournals. Yes, it's possible.

Seen from Tzuhsiang's tumblr. I think tumblrs are awesome to read/browse, lots of real creative things reblogged and shared. I like it.

Mental note to self: finish up with VJ Knight's blogskin and a Rude Boy-inspired blogskin after CT1s during March holidays. Perle I'm sorry I'm taking so long on that!

GP was last three periods in school today, had a real bad struggle in my head (and Jolene's, and Robin's, and Fanghui's, and many others) deciding whether or not to go for GP. I mean, it's morally wrong, but I clearly know that I'm not going to be taking home anything from the lesson. It's a great deal of difference - reaching home at 2pm v. reaching home at 4pm. And whether I will do anything constructive with that additional time at home, is another matter. All of us ended up going, cause we really don't want to get into any shit from skipping lessons. Class spirit huh.



GP lesson was pretty boring as usual. Oh, saw Lionel in the morning at the bus stop, and he said DHS previously had 7 hours of GP a week, and this year they used GP to replace the PW periods last year? I'd die. Anyway, I gotta whine about GP. Singapore's making GP become a science, I swear. GP was never about memorizing, never "studying more = higher marks", never like science. But now every lesson or resource created is heading in that direction. VJC GP department has recently rolled out this series of online resources - a GP Wordpress and this wiki [meaning an interactive informational site based on multi-sharing, for those who immediately relate the word wiki to wikipedia and get all confused]. Categorised into chapters like gender, religion, media, family - in a complete textbook-y fashion. And now it's losing every single fraction of it's "language" appeal to me. You memorise more model essays, more impressive vocabulary, more practices, you win. This is the second major time I'm getting this feeling, and I secretly suspect that towards the A' levels I would become a hypocrite and end up making use of these resources as well, but this is nevertheless infuriating!




The first time I got the feeling was about a month ago, when I opened the pages of a sample copy of Broader Perspectives. The hype about it being a great read for GP was brought to my attention since the start of J1, but I never took a close look at it. So yeah, first look at the sample copy given, I liked it. I like its unconventional layout. I like its use of fonts/colours. I like the way their paper feels more matte than glossy, that's always a great turn-on for me. Till I read the second article, and realised how much the articles are structured to be like GP model essays. The topic of the article, vocabulary used and all. What's worse, the last few pages of the magazine ARE ACTUALLY DEDICATED TO A COMPREHENSION PRACTICE! How obvious could it be huh. I got so pissed at it, I stopped reading it even though the design attracts me. And it didn't help AT ALL when I confirmed my suspicions that it's a Singapore publication. Instead, I've just reinvigorated my hatred through blogging about it, I'm going to call it a textbook now, instead of a magazine. Seriously, you guys are spoiling all the fun of GP!




So now I've buried it under all the rest of my unread TIME magazines (glossy pages = turn-off) in the cupboard. If I've ever the time to read, I'll read Monocle instead. My brother introduced it to me more than a year ago, we bought a few consecutive issues but stopped thereafter cause we started feeling the pinch from the economic recession. Kind of. It has everything about it to like, intelligent articles, great travel recommendations, UK published and so much more. Also the three good things about Broader Perspectives I've listed above. Instead, Monocle came out with that layout so much earlier, now I'm starting to suspect Broader Perspectives made some "references". Compare the photos I took above.


You know I still can't believe I actually went through all the trouble to pick up my brother's DSLR and take photos of the Monocle magazine and that textbook (HEHE :D) so that I could show my point. Okay, I think I'm going to go on a semi-hiatus from now on, cause my Macintosh's extremely addictive and I told myself I'd stop using the computer at 6pm, but now it's 7.12pm and I'm still blogging. So yeah, (I hope) this would be the last post for a while, don't forget to check back once in a while for updates though! THANKS TEEHEE

I want to go to Bhutan next. Came home from CNY visit at Daniel's house, his maid's a decent cook, so the food was quite good. And Ian, Daniel were forced to tell us more about... (da-dang) so it was quite eventful. At least now we know each other so much more right? Oh anyway I was supposed to work on the econs discussion online, contribute something before the deadline tomorrow morning. But as usual I got distracted.

The Kingdom of Bhutan (pronounced /buːˈtɑːn/) - en.wikipedia.org

A landlocked nation in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by Tibet, China. Bhutan has balanced modernization with its ancient culture and traditions under the guiding philosophy of Gross National Happiness (GNH). Rampant destruction of the environment has been avoided. The government takes great measures to preserve the nation's traditional culture, identity and the environment. In 2006, Business Week magazine rated Bhutan the happiest country in Asia and the eighth-happiest in the world, citing a global survey conducted by the University of Leicester in 2006 called the "World Map of Happiness".

COOL BEANS! I ditch whatever strong urge I used to have to travel out of Asia for the first time in my life for Bhutan. Skins' helped me appreciate the wild yet serene nature in villages and far away places. And I think it'd really be an eye-opener to see how people in Asia's happiest country communicate, interact and live. Top 3 places I want to go now: a culturally rich place somewhere in Europe (eg. France, Italy) or the UK, or finally Bhutan. Someone bring me there please. Okay back to econs.

就想賴著妳, Down With Love starring Ella and Jerry Yan. It's almost 3.30am on the first day of Chinese New Year (technically second) and I'm watching dramas midnight. I've caught up to episode 2 by now. Great show though, totally worth staying up for and totally worth the time. I just wish I was as serious about catching up with the tutorials in school than watching dramas and sticking around on Facebook doing nothing all day. Ella's really extremely cute, I think the show's great. Don't know why though each episode's 90 minutes [without intervals], but that's surprisingly pleasant, can watch more.

Instead of staring into the picture to see if I've really got a resemblance to that freshmen from Alphaeus - and hurting me a bit more by telling me that there really is some resemblance - why not visit this link. Saw it off Tzuhsiang's tumblr.

World's 50 Freakiest Animals. First on the list Seapig makes me feel like vomiting already, looks like a piece of moving kidney or something. Go visit, really quite a lot of interesting images, sometimes videos. Axolotl looks like a potential Pokemon I swear, like as if it just appeared out of some preschool kid's imagination.

Sick through the weekend, didn't even have time to take a breather before that cause everyday was just oozing with fun(ness). Before the fever came, of course. Oh for the sake of those who don't have Facebook, or those who didn't see, I was highest 40.8 deg during the weekends, I had throat inflammation, dizzyness, cough, phlegm and everything else you hate. You don't want to experience that I swear. I sat around the house through the weekends, sitting on my bed, lying down, getting back up, walking down, walking back up... I couldn't sleep cause I've did that for more than half my day, so I took 20 minute naps, woke up, fever got worse, and walked around and shit. Not literal shit, but yeah I did shit nothing and my fever was just wavering around 40 deg.

Anyway I was like delirious cause the heat probably got to my brain, I think I said a lot of ridiculous things in front of my relatives. I was sleeping when suddenly both my baby cousins were on my bed crawling towards me. My parents invited the close maternal relatives over, and when I went down after a bath several hours later, I realised they gathered to bake pineapple tarts. I'll skip the clinic visit cause it was horrible - vomited, 3 closed clinics before we finally got to one. But by the time I reached home I saw a table full of pineapple tarts through my cloudy vision, but nevertheless bid farewell and enclosed myself in my room goodnight. --- BUT HOLYCRAP. A table full of pineapple tarts? Okay if you were reading my blog last year you might have seen me post a picture, it became like a family tradition. But the table's like my height and three times my fatness! Imagine, three bolong(s) side by side of pineapple tarts! You wish you could just grab a little blanket, dive into the pineapple paste, get all cosy and die there~ Yeah so lots of great food piling up at my house already, I'd better get this throat inflammation out of my before the weekends come again!



Okay so rewind back to the previous week! Saturday was Yuting's birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY YUTING! I know, the wall seems to be the foreground on the second photo, cause I wanted to take a picture of the wall when Yuting and Sandra's head popped below HAHA. But yeah nice wall huh. Celebrated an early one on Friday evening at this restaurant called With A Pinch of Salt at Tanjong Katong Road, outside CCHMS/TKGS. Enjoyed the shop interface, a bit childish and cartoon-like, an obvious target at girls, but I applaud the shop for it's design and colours. I think it's really nice, though I don't understand their motto of "It's only a cafe, don't take it so seriously..."


Food there was good too. Jieting tried out tom yam noodles/pasta which sounded gross but ended up with a nice twist of flavours. I tried the Hawaiian pizza cause I couldn't afford much, it wasn't so awesome but that might be cause it got cold. I'll give it four stars, it really has potential to thrive, but IMO shops like these should maintain their slight-anonymity, sucks when too many are visiting it. Becomes more like a concept restaurant and completely destroys the homely feeling attached to it.




I love my freshmen. They surprised us OGLs with gifts at the end of Suntec Mass Dance that day, when we least expected it. I'm really super proud of my OG, going to celebrate ah beng's birthday tomorrow, and that's awesome! I wish A6 was like that too huh, guess it's just a tad too little initiatives. A printed mug, an adorable card plus a nicely drawn Creudor silhouette with messages! The latter's one and only for me (subOG IC) okay! HAHAHA. Marcus the ah beng drew it, I think not too bad can pass off as my disciple - seen the original Creudor I created?

I guess all good things really have to come to an end sometime. Yesterday was the end of OG Orientation. At least there was a great closure for all of us in Creudor, after being ranked 8th (last) for the past days, cause somehow we were pretty invisible in the eyes of the SC, everything picked up on the last day. SC started being nicer to us, giving us more points cause we worked (extremely) hard but could never get out of last placing. Points didn't matter, placing didn't matter, but Creudor worked hard and at least we saw some results. We jumped from last place to 3rd placing on the last day of orientation. My subOG freshmen had something against cheering and dancing too much, but even so at least they broke out of it on the last day, and I really felt good. Damn proud of my subOG now cause they really still damn enthu even after orientation ended, they went for CCA Walkabout in their OG! Happy face!

OMG 09S65 doesn't have a junior class! Heard people saying that this year VJ's intake is like girls:guys 3:1. And they say girls usually hate physics and prefer biology. So PCME classes are quite rare now. BCME exceeded the usual, so now BCME classes are like: S30 S31 S32 S33 S34 S35 S36 S37 S38 S39 S3A S3B S3C cause they ran out of numbers to use. Cause we sadpoks in the physics faculty don't have junior classes, we were assigned 10S3C to be our junior class. At least better than nothing huh. Oh man lessons started today. Going to have lessons again tomorrow, but then thank god we've a break on Friday cause OGLs gotta bring the junior class out to Sea Regatta, however you spell it. By the way, Sea Regatta = sea carnival, it's just a name carried on by tradition.

Okay today must study. Bath, study, sleep.

Work time overrun. At 9.30pm, I told myself I'll finish the poster by an hour, but now it's 2.30am and I've only just finished it. But I like the end product. I wanted to add more details, make it like some video console fight with cartoon explosions, laser beams and all, but time is of the essence so I'll leave it like that. I'm sorry Jeline I don't think I'll be able to design the TOUCH shirt anymore cause the poster's CCA commitment I put it first. :( So there went my Sunday, waking up at 2pm (cause my OG chatted till 2am the previous night) and then going out with family and Facebooking till dinner. Okay I shall squeeze in Probability in the next 2 days of orientation nights.

The Morning Benders, Loose Change.

Be my mirror, show me what I can change
Don't go, I know that you know
Don't let me down softly

Well, this all happened on a sunny day
You still couldn't see it
When it was just a half an inch away
Staring you right in the face saying,
"Why can't you just say what you mean?
Why can't you say what you mean, baby?"

Shuffling sideways
There's no way to get home
You're so slippery, frozen, ice cold, alone

Now I see that your expression has changed
Are you wishing you saved my place?
You're standing on the ocean floor
Wondering what you could have said before
But why can't you just say what you mean?
Why can't you say what you mean, baby?

Well I've been working too many hours
Only for your loose change
The place is messy, complicated
And it only gets you back out
And I want out
Why can't you just say what you mean?
Why can't you say what you mean?
Why can't you say what you mean, baby?

Higher hopes, greater disappointments. I think I'm judging too much - but that's only because you're not just anyone else. Am I thinking too much, are those meant for me, is this reciprocated? Questions, uncertainty, I'm not strong-willed enough for this. Gawd what am I doing?

I'm a failure. I managed the half an hour plan yesterday, but fell asleep from like 5plus to 8.30pm instead. Still feeling rather stressed out, I think I'm a real bad stress taker. I can't really handle stress and a huge workload well. Anyway I'm a bit convinced to do my own pace and heck CTs for now. How now brown cow this isn't good news.

I'm watching an episode of Down With Love after this cause I need to give myself some time to relax. Not in a good mood today. I just can't really get myself to be motivated, repeating to myself that I'm 2 weeks (SHIT OR IS IT A WEEK?) away from CTs not helping much. Today, Kelly introduced me to her pet rock. I'm going to get a pet rock too. I'll name him Fred and we'll be good friends. He shall serve to watch after me and motivate me to study. I'll introduce him to you on the next post alright? :)



Took around 3 hours to complete drawing that for my mum's birthday card. Her birthday's today, and I think it's kind of sad cause it's just me and her at home, and there's no celebration and such. Plus my bastard granddad's brother (not repeating the story if you haven't heard) got a lawyer to threaten to check my granddad's company's accounts and what-nots. Too free, seriously.

Everybody's completely stressed out these days, and I'm certainly not cheery. Every little thing just gets on my nerves, and homework is unlimited. I had a hell of a time trudging through volume just a day or two ago, and now Miss Ding Yih's (read out aloud - no offense lah :)) completed it and moving on to DE tomorrow. This is super unhealthy okay it doesn't give you the motivation to try and keep up with tutorial pace at all. Plus I'm worried about seasons. CCHMS's new teacher-in-charge's kinda malicious and powerful and disallows VJ to train with them anymore, though that's been the tradition since forever. So we're having 1 training a week, which means 4 trainings to seasons, which means something a little less than death. I might just go back to DHS for training, if they allow me to, that is. Saw that venn diagram from (Teh) Wenxin's, reblogging cause it totally applies right now. Training's an extra consideration for me in the venn diagram though.


Went Sengkang for dinner with mum today, realise I hardly ever do that. Like just me and her. She found a new job today, like finally. Previously she was just watching gold prices all day long and then she still ends up losing money from it. She's going to be a bookshop auntie in Holy Innocents (Secondary) with effect from next Monday. Yeah lah no glamour no shit and low pay but seriously fuck it already. She told me about it, and I calculated it to be like around $4.70/hr, $5.30/hr after 3 months. Not great pay but after that she convinced me that it was worth it. She's 45 and honestly nobody likes to hire old people, then she's not great at computers, so her previous 135525 years of accounting experience is not absolutely useful. And working hours are pretty good, 7am to 2pm on weekdays, 9am to 1pm on Saturday. Her concern's basically family time, cause my bro's in NS and one year later I'll be the same, and the only time we'll get to see her is the weekends so she definitely doesn't want any job which would consume those days. So touched, I love my mum.

But anyway she was talking to me about all these and it motivated me by an extra 5%. Like her bookshop pay is a measly $750/850 while she compares to one of my cousin who entered the workforce for 2 years and her pay is like 10% of his. So what she earns in 10 months, he does in 1. Yes, so for that, I've brewed a mighty grand plan. From tomorrow onwards, half an hour of Facebook a day. I'm on an official blog hiatus, so even if I've a life-and-death thing to share with you, I'll heck and not tell you about it. I'll just talk to... my Fred Perry wallet and get it off my chest. On the bus. No time to have "quality time" with it at home. I'll use today, tomorrow (wushu training) and thursday to finish up everything that I need to do. And on Friday I'll be officially left with 2 days for each of the core subjects to revise for CTs before March holidays. Oh yeah shit and Thursday's my mum's birthday I haven't got her anything yet. More stress.

P.S. Today I felt so stressed during Physics lecture, it was the first time I wrote a bloody "FUCK" on my lecture notes. Cover page somemore. Applause please. The person sitting in front of me, completing an extremely scribbled-all-over DE notes and tutorial, multi-tasking Quantum Physics at the same time while I was struggling extremely hard to keep awake didn't help one bit. I'm just really easily-irritated today, don't even know why I'm being such a bastard.

GOD I SWEAR I DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING EVIL TOWARDS YOU ON THE BLOGPOST OKAY, I THINK YOU MIGHT NOT BE READING THIS CAUSE YOU ALREADY HATE ME SO MUCH BUT I WAS JUST EXPRESSING THAT IT'S WEIRD TO LOOK LIKE A GIRL. (I MEAN FOR YOU TOO AS WELL? - LIKE A GUY) SERIOUSLY NO OFFENSE, IT WASN'T ANYTHING PERSONAL AGAINST YOU I SWEAR. WINSTON TOLD ME ABOUT IT AND I REALLY DIDN'T MEAN IT THAT WAY, HUGE MISUNDERSTANDING OKAY! I'M SO SORRY I'M REALLY DAMN GUILTY ALREADY :(



To everyone else:


So I spent last night watching three episodes of Down With Love (3, 4, 5) on Youtube cause this girl uploaded everything (till episode 7, last time I checked) from the VCD set she got. I was damn scared Youtube'll remove the videos soon cause I read comments and found out that Taiwan news reported that on news, and blames the uploader as she will affect viewer counts/ ratings when the episode is aired in Taiwan, cause people have watched it on Youtube. So I convinced myself to watch, till 8pm when my mum scolded me damn badly. I'm not only watching dramas when I'm supposed to be studying, I completely forgot about dinner. Which made me kind of guilty as well. Oh plus I browsed many Tumblrs on creative stuff and interior home design, lots of pictures to share so I won't blog about it yet. I'm trying to figure out how to do a Blogger-cut, like what you do in Livejournals. Yes, it's possible.

Seen from Tzuhsiang's tumblr. I think tumblrs are awesome to read/browse, lots of real creative things reblogged and shared. I like it.

Mental note to self: finish up with VJ Knight's blogskin and a Rude Boy-inspired blogskin after CT1s during March holidays. Perle I'm sorry I'm taking so long on that!

GP was last three periods in school today, had a real bad struggle in my head (and Jolene's, and Robin's, and Fanghui's, and many others) deciding whether or not to go for GP. I mean, it's morally wrong, but I clearly know that I'm not going to be taking home anything from the lesson. It's a great deal of difference - reaching home at 2pm v. reaching home at 4pm. And whether I will do anything constructive with that additional time at home, is another matter. All of us ended up going, cause we really don't want to get into any shit from skipping lessons. Class spirit huh.



GP lesson was pretty boring as usual. Oh, saw Lionel in the morning at the bus stop, and he said DHS previously had 7 hours of GP a week, and this year they used GP to replace the PW periods last year? I'd die. Anyway, I gotta whine about GP. Singapore's making GP become a science, I swear. GP was never about memorizing, never "studying more = higher marks", never like science. But now every lesson or resource created is heading in that direction. VJC GP department has recently rolled out this series of online resources - a GP Wordpress and this wiki [meaning an interactive informational site based on multi-sharing, for those who immediately relate the word wiki to wikipedia and get all confused]. Categorised into chapters like gender, religion, media, family - in a complete textbook-y fashion. And now it's losing every single fraction of it's "language" appeal to me. You memorise more model essays, more impressive vocabulary, more practices, you win. This is the second major time I'm getting this feeling, and I secretly suspect that towards the A' levels I would become a hypocrite and end up making use of these resources as well, but this is nevertheless infuriating!




The first time I got the feeling was about a month ago, when I opened the pages of a sample copy of Broader Perspectives. The hype about it being a great read for GP was brought to my attention since the start of J1, but I never took a close look at it. So yeah, first look at the sample copy given, I liked it. I like its unconventional layout. I like its use of fonts/colours. I like the way their paper feels more matte than glossy, that's always a great turn-on for me. Till I read the second article, and realised how much the articles are structured to be like GP model essays. The topic of the article, vocabulary used and all. What's worse, the last few pages of the magazine ARE ACTUALLY DEDICATED TO A COMPREHENSION PRACTICE! How obvious could it be huh. I got so pissed at it, I stopped reading it even though the design attracts me. And it didn't help AT ALL when I confirmed my suspicions that it's a Singapore publication. Instead, I've just reinvigorated my hatred through blogging about it, I'm going to call it a textbook now, instead of a magazine. Seriously, you guys are spoiling all the fun of GP!




So now I've buried it under all the rest of my unread TIME magazines (glossy pages = turn-off) in the cupboard. If I've ever the time to read, I'll read Monocle instead. My brother introduced it to me more than a year ago, we bought a few consecutive issues but stopped thereafter cause we started feeling the pinch from the economic recession. Kind of. It has everything about it to like, intelligent articles, great travel recommendations, UK published and so much more. Also the three good things about Broader Perspectives I've listed above. Instead, Monocle came out with that layout so much earlier, now I'm starting to suspect Broader Perspectives made some "references". Compare the photos I took above.


You know I still can't believe I actually went through all the trouble to pick up my brother's DSLR and take photos of the Monocle magazine and that textbook (HEHE :D) so that I could show my point. Okay, I think I'm going to go on a semi-hiatus from now on, cause my Macintosh's extremely addictive and I told myself I'd stop using the computer at 6pm, but now it's 7.12pm and I'm still blogging. So yeah, (I hope) this would be the last post for a while, don't forget to check back once in a while for updates though! THANKS TEEHEE

I want to go to Bhutan next. Came home from CNY visit at Daniel's house, his maid's a decent cook, so the food was quite good. And Ian, Daniel were forced to tell us more about... (da-dang) so it was quite eventful. At least now we know each other so much more right? Oh anyway I was supposed to work on the econs discussion online, contribute something before the deadline tomorrow morning. But as usual I got distracted.

The Kingdom of Bhutan (pronounced /buːˈtɑːn/) - en.wikipedia.org

A landlocked nation in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by Tibet, China. Bhutan has balanced modernization with its ancient culture and traditions under the guiding philosophy of Gross National Happiness (GNH). Rampant destruction of the environment has been avoided. The government takes great measures to preserve the nation's traditional culture, identity and the environment. In 2006, Business Week magazine rated Bhutan the happiest country in Asia and the eighth-happiest in the world, citing a global survey conducted by the University of Leicester in 2006 called the "World Map of Happiness".

COOL BEANS! I ditch whatever strong urge I used to have to travel out of Asia for the first time in my life for Bhutan. Skins' helped me appreciate the wild yet serene nature in villages and far away places. And I think it'd really be an eye-opener to see how people in Asia's happiest country communicate, interact and live. Top 3 places I want to go now: a culturally rich place somewhere in Europe (eg. France, Italy) or the UK, or finally Bhutan. Someone bring me there please. Okay back to econs.

就想賴著妳, Down With Love starring Ella and Jerry Yan. It's almost 3.30am on the first day of Chinese New Year (technically second) and I'm watching dramas midnight. I've caught up to episode 2 by now. Great show though, totally worth staying up for and totally worth the time. I just wish I was as serious about catching up with the tutorials in school than watching dramas and sticking around on Facebook doing nothing all day. Ella's really extremely cute, I think the show's great. Don't know why though each episode's 90 minutes [without intervals], but that's surprisingly pleasant, can watch more.

Instead of staring into the picture to see if I've really got a resemblance to that freshmen from Alphaeus - and hurting me a bit more by telling me that there really is some resemblance - why not visit this link. Saw it off Tzuhsiang's tumblr.

World's 50 Freakiest Animals. First on the list Seapig makes me feel like vomiting already, looks like a piece of moving kidney or something. Go visit, really quite a lot of interesting images, sometimes videos. Axolotl looks like a potential Pokemon I swear, like as if it just appeared out of some preschool kid's imagination.

Sick through the weekend, didn't even have time to take a breather before that cause everyday was just oozing with fun(ness). Before the fever came, of course. Oh for the sake of those who don't have Facebook, or those who didn't see, I was highest 40.8 deg during the weekends, I had throat inflammation, dizzyness, cough, phlegm and everything else you hate. You don't want to experience that I swear. I sat around the house through the weekends, sitting on my bed, lying down, getting back up, walking down, walking back up... I couldn't sleep cause I've did that for more than half my day, so I took 20 minute naps, woke up, fever got worse, and walked around and shit. Not literal shit, but yeah I did shit nothing and my fever was just wavering around 40 deg.

Anyway I was like delirious cause the heat probably got to my brain, I think I said a lot of ridiculous things in front of my relatives. I was sleeping when suddenly both my baby cousins were on my bed crawling towards me. My parents invited the close maternal relatives over, and when I went down after a bath several hours later, I realised they gathered to bake pineapple tarts. I'll skip the clinic visit cause it was horrible - vomited, 3 closed clinics before we finally got to one. But by the time I reached home I saw a table full of pineapple tarts through my cloudy vision, but nevertheless bid farewell and enclosed myself in my room goodnight. --- BUT HOLYCRAP. A table full of pineapple tarts? Okay if you were reading my blog last year you might have seen me post a picture, it became like a family tradition. But the table's like my height and three times my fatness! Imagine, three bolong(s) side by side of pineapple tarts! You wish you could just grab a little blanket, dive into the pineapple paste, get all cosy and die there~ Yeah so lots of great food piling up at my house already, I'd better get this throat inflammation out of my before the weekends come again!



Okay so rewind back to the previous week! Saturday was Yuting's birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY YUTING! I know, the wall seems to be the foreground on the second photo, cause I wanted to take a picture of the wall when Yuting and Sandra's head popped below HAHA. But yeah nice wall huh. Celebrated an early one on Friday evening at this restaurant called With A Pinch of Salt at Tanjong Katong Road, outside CCHMS/TKGS. Enjoyed the shop interface, a bit childish and cartoon-like, an obvious target at girls, but I applaud the shop for it's design and colours. I think it's really nice, though I don't understand their motto of "It's only a cafe, don't take it so seriously..."


Food there was good too. Jieting tried out tom yam noodles/pasta which sounded gross but ended up with a nice twist of flavours. I tried the Hawaiian pizza cause I couldn't afford much, it wasn't so awesome but that might be cause it got cold. I'll give it four stars, it really has potential to thrive, but IMO shops like these should maintain their slight-anonymity, sucks when too many are visiting it. Becomes more like a concept restaurant and completely destroys the homely feeling attached to it.




I love my freshmen. They surprised us OGLs with gifts at the end of Suntec Mass Dance that day, when we least expected it. I'm really super proud of my OG, going to celebrate ah beng's birthday tomorrow, and that's awesome! I wish A6 was like that too huh, guess it's just a tad too little initiatives. A printed mug, an adorable card plus a nicely drawn Creudor silhouette with messages! The latter's one and only for me (subOG IC) okay! HAHAHA. Marcus the ah beng drew it, I think not too bad can pass off as my disciple - seen the original Creudor I created?

I guess all good things really have to come to an end sometime. Yesterday was the end of OG Orientation. At least there was a great closure for all of us in Creudor, after being ranked 8th (last) for the past days, cause somehow we were pretty invisible in the eyes of the SC, everything picked up on the last day. SC started being nicer to us, giving us more points cause we worked (extremely) hard but could never get out of last placing. Points didn't matter, placing didn't matter, but Creudor worked hard and at least we saw some results. We jumped from last place to 3rd placing on the last day of orientation. My subOG freshmen had something against cheering and dancing too much, but even so at least they broke out of it on the last day, and I really felt good. Damn proud of my subOG now cause they really still damn enthu even after orientation ended, they went for CCA Walkabout in their OG! Happy face!

OMG 09S65 doesn't have a junior class! Heard people saying that this year VJ's intake is like girls:guys 3:1. And they say girls usually hate physics and prefer biology. So PCME classes are quite rare now. BCME exceeded the usual, so now BCME classes are like: S30 S31 S32 S33 S34 S35 S36 S37 S38 S39 S3A S3B S3C cause they ran out of numbers to use. Cause we sadpoks in the physics faculty don't have junior classes, we were assigned 10S3C to be our junior class. At least better than nothing huh. Oh man lessons started today. Going to have lessons again tomorrow, but then thank god we've a break on Friday cause OGLs gotta bring the junior class out to Sea Regatta, however you spell it. By the way, Sea Regatta = sea carnival, it's just a name carried on by tradition.

Okay today must study. Bath, study, sleep.

Work time overrun. At 9.30pm, I told myself I'll finish the poster by an hour, but now it's 2.30am and I've only just finished it. But I like the end product. I wanted to add more details, make it like some video console fight with cartoon explosions, laser beams and all, but time is of the essence so I'll leave it like that. I'm sorry Jeline I don't think I'll be able to design the TOUCH shirt anymore cause the poster's CCA commitment I put it first. :( So there went my Sunday, waking up at 2pm (cause my OG chatted till 2am the previous night) and then going out with family and Facebooking till dinner. Okay I shall squeeze in Probability in the next 2 days of orientation nights.

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