da raine's family

Am at raine's house studying, together with kevin and ting. Came over like 8am, cos raine called me to buy breakfast over. She rang me up at 7am. That was early, since we actually planned to meet at around 11am. So i bought mac breakfast over, and that's the first time i saw her parents. Kevin and ting hasn't arrived since it was still pretty early. Her mum was like so shocked to see me , and i was also probably reacting the same way. I didn't know anyone was at home since everytime i went over, i've only seen the brother. The mum was pretty corny, she was like.. 'ohh.. raine! how come you didn't tell me there's a guest around? i'm still in my pyjamas!' and the next min she ran upstairs. Nvm that, so i went to the toilet, when i came out from the toilet, raine's dad was about to go in. He was still kinda sleepy looking, and i think he got a shock too. He said ' raine! is he your fren? i thought how come boy has become like that' and he luffs. boy refers to raine's brother. Quite hilarious i thought..haha. So after breakfast, we went to booked tennis court and after which head to the study room. That was around 9am. After an hour plus, her mum knocked on the door and ask if we wanetd any drinks or snacks. That was when she came up to talk to me. Her mum asked about what sch i was in, etc.. then ask if i go to beach often cos of my tanned complexion, she even took a chair and sat beside me. It was only till raine begged her mum to go out , that she stopped. haha.. so @ around 11am , kevin and ting was here... study continues.. and @ around 1pm, her parents came in again and shouted ' lunch time, pens down' They drove us out for lunch buffet. On the way, her mum ask if i wanted to stay over ( raine had told her abt my situtation i guess ) . She said there's an extra room, all i've to do is to help her carry some stuffs to the store room, no rents or payments of expenses required. That's pretty nice of her. She wanted me to accompany raine to study , since her brother will be going abroad for 6 mths training and her parents only have time for her during weekends. But we'll see how.. i'll be staying tonight with the rest of my friends. Her parents are very friendly, warming.. right now they're preparing for dinner tonight. I'm so lucky! got good food the whole day.

-Saturday
Met daven for breakfast, then went for tuition. After which went to meet my aunt, cos she's got some meeting or wat, so i got to help look after my cousin. Aunt asked me to bring him to buy clothes? so brought him to takashimaya, there's giodano there? yapp... the giokids clothes are so nice! much more nicer than the adults range of shirts or pants. It so fun dressing him up and he look so hip-hop with this pull-over sweater and 3/4s.. The rest of my day was spend doing the project.

* i managed to squeeze into the top100! I'll do my best for the semi finals! :)

Winamp playing : Leigh Nash - Need To Be Next To You

wazz up

Been totally busy last weekend.

-Saturday

Had a speech seminar cum competition. Feeling totally excited if i've any chance to squeeze in to the top for the next round. Results gonna be out. In the afternoon, went to Sentosa for volleyball challenge. Was playing volleyball with dav, jeremy, james, nick, weiming and the gals. was really fun, after so long since i've a good game. What adds to that excitement was the game with Ix.S. That's like quite happening! He's well built, tanned, totally cool with his sunglasses, the girls' melting there.. haha..

-Sunday

Had training, totally tired, considering that i've had volleyball the previous day. freak out. coach was in a bad mood, no long breaks, no chances off extra laps, no escape from physical. Receive a call from my friend, to help him out at his wedding in the evening. There was two parts to it, one i've to sing as well as play the piano. Obviously that has got to be those love songs , wat else? Ok i was allowed to choose, Dan hill- sometimes when we touch, seems the more familiar of all.. Second part , was quite easy for me, just to play the piano while everyone's waiting for the dinner to start. Was in a pretty nervous state initially cos i can't imagine myself singing, especially i've to force myself to be enthusiastic about it when i'm all so shag. So before the event, i try practising the lines, msg vivian as well. She said smt like 'maybe u can think of it as you singing the song to someone special' probably that would calm yourself down. Alright it did help abit.. was glad that simply lasted for a few minutes. I'm sure the pple there were more glad. Dad's back. Time for me to go.

studying hours : 0800pm - 530am

-Monday

Crazily waste of my 3 hours, just to be doing some sort of hair model. yes HAIR. they're so disorganised, when i was there i've to wait like 30 minutes for them to arrange their stuffs, then i've to sit there for another 45 mins or more, just for them to discuss how things are gonna be done. The end results, nothing fascinating, no stylish hairstyle, overall poor performance i would rate. Lucky for me, they didn't really cut my hair, it's still a little long now, will be going for a proper haircut! Oh and heard Jean Yip at novena's having trainees to cut at $4. Shall just try, since money's kinda tight now. worse come to worse, i'll just be bore. Dad called to scold me for not helping my mum at work since she was sick. Start of prelims for many of my friends. Good luck guys.

studying hours : 1am-6.30am

-Tuesday

Had project meetings during lunch. Everything was pretty organised as i've expected. Project's on biometrics.

Got woke up by calls at 3+am, only to realised i've missed 30+calls. Look, how tired i was. Results from 2 days of sleepless nights. Managed to get some sleep after work. Was pretty cold sitting at the void deck, but it doesnt really affect me since i was already in dreamland. Raine called to ask me physics? She's having the paper on Wednesday. Paper 3 that is.. tried answering her questions, so obvious that she ask the wrong person. Yea, physics may be one of my strengths but you're asking someone who hasn't exactly study physics for the As.

studying hours : 4+am - 630am

Am in school now, doing my project on biometrics. Glad that i didn't go to work today, heard from my colleague that snobbish senior of mine's there. i'm gonna stay in school till say 10pm? Tomorrow more project guidelines will be out. There goes my time for revision. Getting headaches from facing the computer. Friends went for dinner break, i'm gonna take mine soon. wanted to go mel's house but am stuck in the lab now. maybe i should just do my lab report first. They'll probably take a long time eating.

Raine just sms-ed me about her physics paper today. That's what she said. " I'm praying for a passing grade or maybe just not the last in class. HELP. :( " Look at how stress everyone is. Exam's probably the enemy of every students.

gonna meet my dad after project later. can't view my blog in sch now, no idea why. will reply to any msg when i can..

Get the picture?

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

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[8.20pm] tuition was great, managed to revise physics with her and for the first time she's actually listening to me. A good beginning!

gonna start studying , since i'm not working today. shall not waste time! Thanks raine and kevin for the stack of notes! really appreciate the effort you guys took to help me photocopy! :):)

Winamp playing : stephanie sun - yu jian :):)

Common test is here again.

Common tests this week, one of my obstacle to cross. Now that my semestral exams are about a month away, my As probably just 2 more months or lesser, and i'm already estranged with studying. I'm lacking the entire motivation and concentration, considering how difficult it is to start picking up my notes and start revising after a long day at work, in school etc. My concentration has been on my mum all these while, ever since she fell sick last week. She never fall sick that easily. I was pretty worried when i knew about her fainting at work today. She looks pretty alright when i saw her walking out of the gate this morning. The whole day at work left me thinking if she's alright, and felt the urge to rush home immediately. Now that i'm back, i felt so helpless to what i can. Perhaps i should just pick up my notes and start revising for the papers.. wake up wake up!!

Winamp playing : stephanie sun - the moment :):)

A challenge is on!

Mum's sick this week. Ya who's next? So these few days have been taking care of her, hope she's feeling better. what's more, something cropped up at work, and i guess my parents had a slight arguement. I don't know if things are any better now, but i know i'm able to stay for another week as my dad's not returning singapore this week, which is good so i can spend more time with my mum.

One week of break ended just like tat, common tests gonna start. It'll be a difficult week for me like i've said, too many obstacles i pictured. This is gonna be a tough time. argh i seriously fear the challenges coming next week. Come end of next week, i'm gonna give myself a break. A short break.

Winamp playing : Oasis - stand by me

Match-making students in Singapore

Students rush for free movie tickets aimed at helping them find their match

Boy meets girl on a bridge and they line up for tickets to watch a romantic movie, "Turn Left Turn Right."

Well, that was the plan organisers had in mind to bring students of the opposite sex together.

Students from neighbouring schools, Hwa Chong and National Junior Colleges as well as Chinese High and Nanyang Girls' gathered to queue for one of 500 free movie tickets.

Although it was a crush, there was hardly any mingling amongst the students as they focussed on getting their hands on the tickets.

Boys and girls had to join separate queues to ensure no one of the same sex will sit next to each other.

But will they stick to the arrangement next Wednesday?

Here are some reactions from some students:

"I wouldn't mind if I know the guy."

"But if they choose to change the arrangement, then it defeats the purpose."

"We get tickets with friends so we sit together but there are some people who really don't mind as it's a free movie."

The movie will debut next Thursday but before that it is hoped that some of the students will find their match at their preview screening.

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Extracted from the news. Wow! I'm surprised. There's some fun over there! And my friends from hcjc and njc manage to get the tix. Hahha they were so excited and this gonna continue till wednesday when they actually koe who they are sitting with! Quite fun though, shall wait for them to tell me more about it..

Perfection

Extracted from Dav's blog

In darkness we strive to find perfection
In it's own perfection perfection is lost and it mutilated
To fit our minds and views of the world.
It's unfair to say it has one set meaning,
That every time I perfect you, I perfect you like they want you to be perfected.
I perfect you in my mind,
To hide all your flaws.
To bring them all out, as well, and coat you in a beautiful armor
One that I can't penetrate, but I love for all I'm worth.
I make your flaws seem beautiful
Because nothing in you could be ugly.

Very nicely written poem. I like the part where it says " I make your flaws seem beautiful" . I guess if everyone's able to treat each other that way, there'll be peace and harmony. How many times do we point at others, with a mouthful of dislikes that follows? Why do couples break ups? Why do friends part? Sometimes the reason is simply we just can't accept each other flaws and slowly the ugly side of you will show. Perfection, How many perfectionist have you met? I met none. I don't wish to become one neither do i wanna meet one. It's too stressful. Life's about making mistakes, experiencing it, and growing from it, definitely not about being perfect.

Mr fish Jelly FISH

Recalling the last entry about dav being the sickly cat! Ohhh now's my turn. NO work, NO sch, NO tuition, NO training. Having a headache that's been for days, and at times my vision can be really blurred. gotta study , hmm not now. kinda just pop the pill into my mouth. Looks like i'm not alone, mel's sick too. Just got her sms. Looks like the outbreak of SARSII is coming again... in anyways, there's already a new case at ttsh now rite? gosh.. prays that we'll be well soon... :)

As practical will be in 39 days time. J2s should have by now finished their prelims! That would mean i've got to get those papers from them soon, so i can practice on them. Self- studying can be difficult, especially i've been working against the clock for the whole of this year. Come Dec, would give me a break from all this. Other than physics, none of the subjects interest me in JC, maybe GP. That's all. It's damn boring... For the up-coming months, seems to be like blurr shades of grey, can hardly imagine how i'm gonna handle my time. The most i'll get a day is 2 hours of sleep and that makes way for all the things i've, like my tuition, work, trainings, etc. wow! nono...this's not gonna work.. i can hardly breate.. arh.. how?

Next week's gonna be a difficult week to go on. God bless me.

Winamp playing : Jay zhou - dong feng po

Over the weekends

Just came back from work, will be going for 2 hours of tuition later. So glad to be home for this week. Yea just this week. It's a totally great feeling at home. It's been so long since i last step in, i'll treasure every moment of it. :) Dav was sick yesterday. Again. His fever was kinda running high, especially during the middle of the night. I wasn't able to sleep well, because i was afraid his temperature kept rising. At 2am, his temperature measures, 39.3. I thought this can't continue, call a cab and off we went to the 24 hour clinic. Glad he's fine now. Back to his normal crappy mood, which is good, brings me more laughter with his stupid crappy jokes.

On sunday, the nike run was quite fun, with a crowd of 5000 participants. The challenging and difficult part was running on the sand. I really dislike the feeling of running on the sand. But still managed to complete the run, although didn't emerged as one of the tops, but was rather satisfied with my performance. Immediately after that, Jeremy was telling me. Hey let's go take part in the benjamin sheares run! I was stoned. haa, because i heard the run is 21km or 42km right? That's like double of what i'm running now. It might be possible.. might, if i'm on a constant training everyday. But look at the time left. hmmm...

Yesterday afternoon went for tuition, and guess what? I've got a teacher's day present! hha.. that's for the first time! It's actually contained a hand-made card, with a key chain with my name on it. It's not a big or expensive kind of present, but i like it as much though. kinda suprising, especially when it comes from a boy. The card was nicely decorated with drawings and colors. I don't remember myself even giving anything on teacher's day to my teachers in school when i was in primary school. Being a defiant boy, teachers are always an irritant to me. But then my perception of it changes when i was in secondary school. The difference was in secondary school, the teachers are more understanding, they're more like a friend than a teacher. I believed, in everyone there's a mentor, an educator in any aspect, will there be a rare gem, that perhaps thought you more than what you can learn in school - Life. I find myself very fortunate to have come across two mentors, who greatly inspired me with words of wisdom and their strong passion in teaching. I'm just praying that my tuition later will be a smooth flowing one with the defiant girl. i'm all prepared with my shear from flying textbooks. haha.. and all ready from the countless questions she trying to challenge on me! finally work out my teaching strategy! I'm gonna tell myself i'll stay more than 3 mths! to least break the record.

Mum's returning home this late evening! I'm so happy! Will be going to the supermarket with Dav later in the evening, to get some food. I'm gonna prepared today's dinner. can't imagine what's like living with my mum again, even for a night. I'm so excited ! At least, I've something to look foward to...:)
Gonna prepared my books and off for tuition...

Winamp playing : Southern sons - you were there

Something wise to bear in mind..

Jacque was out walking with his grandfather in Paris. At one point, they saw a shoemaker being insulted by a customer who claimed that there was something wrong with his shoes. The shoemaker calmly listened to his complaints, apologised and promised to make good the mistake.

Jacque and his grandfather stopped to have a coffee. At the next table, the waiter asked a man if he would mind moving his chair slightly so that he could get by. The man erupted in a torrent of abuse and refused to move.

“Never forget what you have seen,” said Jacque’s grandfather. “The shoemaker accepted the customer’s complaint, while the man next to us did not want to move. Men who perform some useful task are not bothered if they are treated as if they were useless, but men who do no useful work at all always think themselves very important and hide their incompetence behind their authority.”

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[9.07pm] Ohhh... who wants to be a millionaire? if only its real money! lol..

Winamp playing : Leigh Nash - Need to be next to you