TooHardToBeOrdinary

Happy New Year

2010-01-23T09:27:00.000-08:00

I'm finally saying 'happy new year' to my blog.
I always tell myself that "i should really blog TOMORROW" and surprising enough, tomorrow did came eventually. funny huh?
Well, though long-awaited, rest assured that this post will be a long one.
Okay, lets just pray that my stamina serves me well.

First of all, let me report a bit on myself.
1) IELTS wasn't good enough. Could have done better. Nonetheless it's >=8.0, so let it be.
2) Finished undang and bengkel. Now waiting for my L license and i can start learning how to drive a manual kancil. why is this such a drag. I want to get this over and done with as soon as possible!
3) Didn't find a job and had given up looking for one. No progress on my promise to exercise as well.
Other than the aforementioned, i'm just rotting. Feeling extremely bored at home but don't bother to find something to do either.

Now let's talking about other things that i would like to blog about.
Heng came back to spend his holiday here in Selangor.
but he didn't stay at my place.
I felt as if he had never come back for the holiday.
Did something change?
Or maybe it wasn't his main objective?
either way, i just wish that he had fun.

Last week, i went to Ipoh and stayed at JiaJun's house.
Let me start with the night JiaJun came over to my house to pick me up.
It was last Saturday. Thanks for fetching me man.
I went over to his apartment in KL for a sleepover so as to attend a spiritual talk the morning next day.
And this stupid JiaJun. Never tell me that there were more people in his apartment.
I kept thinking that there were only his parents, his sister, him and myself in that apartment.
But after we talked for quite some time, he suddenly told me that there was actually a person who's his sister's friend living inside the room beside the bathroom.
I was like, "oh, okay..."
After being in the apartment for so long then only i knew that there was another person. Fine, i accepted that and it thought that was all.
Then, after a moment of silence, JiaJun told me that there was actually another person sleeping in a room behind a kitchen who's his maid.
I was like, "huh??"
How many more people was he hiding in the apartment that i was still unaware of?
I didn't want to wake up the next day and get the shock of my life, thinking that someone broke into the apartment or something.

Okay, enough of that. Let's continue.
The next morning, we went to the spiritual talk that lasted till evening.
Before that i kept asking him what kind of talk was that exactly but he couldn't answer me at all.
Actually, neither did his family member knew how to explain what the talk is about and all they said was i have to really keep an open mind.
Well that's what i always do, open mind.
I knew JiaJun was quite worried that the talk wasn't to my taste.
Don't worry JiaJun. You didn't waste my time by bringing me there and i didn't waste your time for bringing me there as well.
So, as a proof, i would blog here about all the enlightenments that i gained from the talk.
To be honest, actually i would be quite disgusted if the talk was about preaching for a certain religion and my mom was quite worried for me because that day was just the day after 3 churches had been torched.
Fortunately, it wasn't at all the kind that i thought.

This is what i learned.
Before the talk, i was truly a free thinker but now i think i can say that i have adopted a new stand.
I DO BELIEVE IN GOD"S WORDS BUT I DON'T BELONG TO ANY RELIGION.
Even so, i have yet to accept the idea of God wholeheartedly.
Maybe somebody can help me attain such wisdom soon.
Everyone of us who believes in God agrees that God is almighty, God is all merciful, God does not judge/discriminate and there is only one God. The God that create everything in the universe. No matter what you do, God is still greater. This is what all the holy readings say. Sadly, many people nowadays misinterpreted the true meaning of God's words and some religious groups even mislead others. To think of it, there is actually only one God and through several prophets that God chose to bring across His message. Back to the origin of all religions, aren't all religions basically teaching the same thing? People started understanding God many many years ago, and they invented this so called religion so as to spread their wisdom to the rest and as an avenue to worship God. So what's the difference between all the established religions? aren't they worshiping the same God? The one and only God that created everything in the universe. We agreed on that at first, didn't we? Do you mean that there are multiple Gods? One to each religion? and each one of them creates some part of the universe? Then God wouldn't be almighty anymore. There are clones of him. The difference between all religions is simply the place where it originated. At different places, different prophets are chosen, the languages that they used to remember God's words are also different. And that's is why they are so many religions but the fundamental thing that they are teaching is all the same. So what's with you cannot call your Allah Allah? Isn't the Allah that you pray to and the God that i pray to the same one and only. The only difference is that the religion originated from an Arabic place and in the Arab language, God is known as Allah. It's just like saying, you can't call your God God, awak tak boleh panggil Tuhan awak Tuhan, 你不可以称呼你的上帝上帝，.... Funny isn't it? This is all because that people are selfish. People like to group, associate themselves to certain religious groups and exclude non-believers, to be exact, non-conformers. Since when has God taught you to be exclusive? Isn't God almighty all merciful and all inclusive? Would He choose who to like and who to dislike? Aren't we all His creations? and that makes us all sons of God, isn't it? Why would He dislike His sons and why would He be biased? If He's biased, is He still almighty? Is He of any difference from us after all? Since when has God told us that we are born a sinner? Why would He create something that is sinned? Doesn't He love us? And how is it even possible for Him to create something that is sinned? Is He tainted? Isn't He God ALMIGHTY? There is no sin, there are just mistakes that we make and those can be forgiven because God is all merciful. Who said that if you do not believe in a particular religion, heaven will have no place for you. Why would God almighty be selective? Did God direct you people to preach that way? That's more like threatening than spreading God's words. Do you mean God is a gangster? Think of all these. There is nothing wrong belonging to any one of the religions. It's just whether you truly understand God's words and did what he really wanted. We are all actually worshiping the same God. And God's words is the same in all religions. The difference is just the way different religious groups worship God. Go for the one that you think suits you the most. Frankly speaking, if you want to communicate with God, just find a quiet place where nothing else could interfere you will do. God is omnipresent remember? You don't have to repeat some wordings for billions of times or do anything stupid that wastes time and energy. Love everyone from the bottom of your heart, that's one thing that God truly wants us to do.
Okay, so much for religion. JiaJun, now you see how much insights have i gained from the talk? No worries anymore right? Eh, No offense intended. Anyone of you reader who thinks that what i said is bullshit, you can just ignore it. but i do think that it's something worth reflecting on no matter which religion you come from. I have had the benefit of receiving such wisdom without the need to work it out myself and that's why i hope to share it with the rest of you so that you can all benefit from it as well.

Now, let's move on to the Ipoh trip.
Following the day, we headed straight back to JiaJun's home in Ipoh.
The road from KL to Ipoh is narrow and worn out. Moreover, it's a two-way road.
It was so dark at night and I can feel that JiaJun's dad was driving relatively fast.
And so, i couldn't help but stay awake and attentive for the night and made sure that i had buckled up.
Nevertheless, we did reached safely.
I went up to JiaJun bedroom to put my stuff and we spent our time that night watching Moulin Rouge. This movie is fantastic! Everybody go watch. I know I should have watched this long ago. It's just classic.
Oh before i forget, along the way to Ipoh. I was like being interrogated. Nah jk. JiaJun's parent's were quite interested with how we met each other and with all my future plans.
It was only then i knew that JiaJun is planning to do business, although i am no longer sure if it's still his choice after listening so some people's opinions.
Nonetheless, i do hope that he would stick to his choice if this is really his passion.

Okay this is how far my stamina could go.
I think i should really rest and continue this tomorrow. 5.13 am d.
Good night. Ooops it's good morning.

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CONTINUE
Arghh..i'm feeling very lonely and depressed now :(
Just realized that i have missed an entirely wonderful class outing!
Grrr...i must get this off my head and focus on blogging...

So, back to Ipoh.
The next day, it was Monday.
We woke up quite early in the morning to meet one of JiaJun's friend so that we could have breakfast together.
His name is David. We called him by the nickname Burger. Not that he looks like a burger. Nothing to with his physical appearance or diet really. I have no idea how that name came about. This one you would surely have to ask JiaJun who was his secondary school's classmate. Generally he was a nice guy.
When we saw him, he was with his cousin. I am not sure if that's true but at the least that was how he introduced her. To me, they looked more like couple than cousin. Whichever they are, it's just three letters different, so it doesn't really matter right? haha
Eh, i didn't know the name of the girl throughout the entire trip until she added me on facebook after i came back home. Err, or maybe i did caught her name somewhere between conversations. I don't know. Don't intend to challenge my memory.
We had our breakfast in a place where most residents are senior citizens?
I expected the food there to be cheap but apparently they charged us rm6plus for a small bowl of mee i dont know what to call it and a cup of soya bean! Clearly the evil auntie was scamming us but at that time i didn't bother to argue because i was busy settling something in my head. Quite regretted it actually.
After that, we went to a huge Jusco shopping mall, which i forgot what it called even though i have got the name from JiaJun, to catch a movie. JiaJun and i wanted to watch Sherlock Holmes quite badly but the movie wasn't screened in Ipoh. Anyway, we settled with Old Dogs which is the earliest movie on the schedule. A hilarious movie.
There was still a little bit of time before the show and so JiaJun and Burger went to play the arcade basketball. After the movie, we were quite bored and went to play two games of pool. Lastly, we headed back to JiaJun's house to play mahjong until LooTing and ZiAng arrived in Ipoh from Johor.
Today was the first time i verified JiaJun's driving skill. He's a very focused driver i would say. He could hardly hear anything that you said while he was driving. So focused on the front road such that I was a bit worried that he might forget to check the rear and side mirrors.
We were saying that we would go fetch LooTing and ZiAng after JiaJun managed to win a game of mahjong but sadly he still didn't win any after LooTing called.
That night, the six of us plus JiaJun's parents went to 碳世界 to have buffet steamboat as dinner. They all agreed that i ate the most. I wasn't really sure of that before i wasn't full tank yet after the dinner but i can say that i didn't stop eating all the way and maybe that gave the impression that i ate the most. heehee
After that we went back home to plan for the following day's activities before we slept.
Strange enough, JiaJun's room has no ceiling fan but only air-con. Actually, to think of it, why do you need fan and air-con in the same room? aren't they substitute. However so, i still prefer fan plus air-con so that i can switch if i wish to. The feeling is different right? Honestly, i am now ore used to using fan after 6 years of air-conless room living in the boarding school.

OKay, actually i think that writing this way is very time-consuming, i think i would like to cut it shorter.
For the next day, initial plan was to go Lost World of Tambun. I have no idea why i just like to call it the Lost World of TamTung(cantonese). I think it sounds quite appropriate. haha. Anyway, it is a water theme park but we realised on internet only the night before that it's not opened on every Tuesday. Weird huh?
So, change of plan. We headed straight to Pulau Pangkor. Crazy huh? 2 hours ride from Ipoh. Burger drove. I'm quite confident with his driving and i have no idea why.
We had a picnic at a random place near the jetty before going over to Pangkor. Someone made spaghetti. It tasted quite okay but someone talked rubbish that disgusted us and made us lose our appetite. haha.
We rented a car after we took a ship over to Pangkor.
JiaJun drove us around the entire island once so that we could decide at which beach we would like to go down and play. Great job JiaJun i must say. The roads where steep and winding but he made it through. I bet he felt the sense of achievement as well. haha. After one round, he couldn't take it anymore and Burger took over. Pangkor really has nothing much to play. My mom said i should have bought the 香饼 there cause it's very tasty but she didn't know that i was going there and therefore she didn't remind me to buy. Too bad.
We chose the best beach around the island and went down to swim in the sea. We then played beach soccer. It was very fun playing soccer at the beach but i got tired very soon. Must be the effect of my long non-active lifestyle.
Before six, we caught a ship back to the jetty at Lumut. This time the ship was open-aired. I indulged in the sea wind. It felt so relaxing. I also enjoyed the scenery as well. The colour gradient between mountains nearer and mountains further away was beautiful. Greyer and greyer and finally blended with the sky.
That night, we wanted to have seafood at a place Burger recommended but unfortunately we couldn't find the place after driving countless times around Sitiawan until i could actually remember the roads can you believe that? We then settled at a restaurant JiaJun and Burger went before. We had a bet on the amount we ate and jokingly said that the one with the furthest guess would have to stay back and clean the dishes while the rest of us leave. JiaJun was so lucky that he made an exact guess. rm66 in total. he should have bought the lottery huh?

The next day, we went to TamTung. I got a serious sunburn after that. My skin is just starting to peel off now. Of course it wasn't as good as Sunway Lagoon as it is of smaller scale but i'm sure all of us enjoyed ourselves. What i liked about TamTung in particular is that it has an mini-zoo with a lot of animals. Sunway Lagoon does not have that. I love animals. There even have tigers. I didn't know that initially and i was even imagining that we might shockingly meet a tiger since the place is within some sort of jungle. Next thing i know, we see tigers. haha. The funniest part was that we thought we could safely walk pass a group of geese and suddenly they were making sounds and doing actions as if they are preparing to attack us. In the end, all of us flee like a peanut, as if we are running away from a tiger =.=
After TamTung, we went to buy food and had barbecue at JiaJun's house at night.

On Thursday, we wanted to go to some cave but we ended up playing poker, showhand and mahjong at home till evening. Surprisingly, i won all the games. haha. JiaJun's luck had gone to me. My time to buy lottery. Or just become a professional gambler will do right? At night, we ate the leftovers from last night's barbecue. A friend of JiaJun's dad came and we had a really long chat. Weirdly, i found it quite enjoyable. After that we rushed to the pasar malam to see if we could get smelly taufu but unfortunately it was sold out when we reached. OH, JiaJun's dad told us a story about the origin of smelly taufu while we were having dinner previously. I did't know whether to buy the story or not but it sounded logical. We ended up buying two DVDs and when back to watched the Producers and American Pie 7 for the night. I didn't really enjoy the Producers because the storyline was very simple but i did thought that they were a few wonderful quotes from the movie. For example, "if you are trying to shoot an arrow through my heart, congratulation, bull's eye(he said it in a very sissy tone)" and "even though we are sitting down here, we are giving you standing ovation". Those who watched would understand what i meant. JiaJun fell asleep for the Producers but he "amazingly" stayed through the entire second movie. haha

On Friday, we went to ChengKiat's mansion to play basketball in his house. Said hi to both his dogs Speedy and Harry. People were busy faking stunt with ChengKiat's slightly-shorter-than-standard basket. We had fun. Should have gone to ChengKiat's place earlier so that we can spend more time with him. Our train back to KL is at six. We left ChengKiat's house only after 5.30pm. We thought we would definitely be late because we still have to go back to JiaJun's house to get our stuffs before going to the train station. Fortunately, we reached on time. It's actually early by a few minutes to be exact. I wonder how did we made it. The ride back to KL was 3 hours. When i reached KL Sentral, i straight away bought the ticket to Subang Jaya but haplessly i missed the immediate train. Candy was going to fetch me at the Subang station so that we could have some very delicious burgers that she said. IN the end, i reached Subang only at 10. By that time, she was just there with the burgers bought. We headed straight to Eleena's place. Poor Eleena waited long for us to arrive so that we can have spaghetti but it was already very late when we reached. So spaghetti was cancelled. Only burgers. The burger was indeed delicious. It's with egg, beef, cheese, mayo, chili sauce, cucumber, green apple slice, ... Wonderful man.
The next day, three of us went swimming at the clubhouse at Candy's living area. For me, yeah water again. Pangkor, TamTung, Clubhouse. I think i fell in love with swimming after 3 three times dating with water.

I think this will be all that i want to blog about in this post.
hmm.. what else am i doing at the moment.
Finished watching another HK drama, reading a book "Obsession" (almost complete), learning Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven(at second page of the score),...
Hopefully something interesting would happen to me in the near future. I'm dying of boredom...

If you really have read this entire post from the top till bottom, believe me you are insane.

Merry Christmas

2009-12-25T09:40:00.001-08:00

Nothing special happened for my Christmas this year.
I spent the night with my family members,
enjoying the cheese cake that my mom made.I feel like i'm just rotting at home.
I want to do something special yet i have nobody to do with.
Even so, i think i have not much time left to slack as work is creeping near.
I have to start
1)exercising,
2)learn driving
3)get a job
4)prepare for school.
I didn't want to start school so early.
It's a little bit stressful because everything seems so rushed.
but i guess it's not really that bad since it hinders me from slacking further.
I received conditional offer by IMU and school is starting on 22Feb.
Apart from worrying that my actual results might not meet their requirements, i now have to start sending them the necessary documents and get immunized for whatever diseases that they stated.
Worst thing is that i don't think i'll be able to get my driving license very soon and my mom would not be able to fetch me since she has to fetch my brother and sisters...
How do i attend school then?
Should i apply to stay in the hostel?
but once my application is accepted, i would have to stay at the hostel for at least 1 semester..
Should i wait for the semester 1 timetable to be out first?
but by then it might be too late for me to secure a place at the hostel...
Sian, how i wish i could drive..

Anyway, i am still free now and i'm going to enjoy the holiday that i have left.
Anybody wants to hang out???

New Plans

2009-12-19T10:00:00.000-08:00

Finally done with IELTS.
Please give me a >8.0 or i will really suffer in hell.

I'm now officially free
and i'm going to start chasing my dreams,
turning back into who i really was.
I should stop slacking and waiting,
and start working towards what i really want.
Baby, wait for me!
I swear i'll come for you!

This is my 100th post.
A new start.

My Hair

2009-12-14T10:41:00.000-08:00

Actually i was quite lazy and decided not to blog about my hair since it had already grown back to normal but now that i have nothing to do, blog lor..

Okay, so what happened was this.
I went to a saloon which i should not name it.
Then i was attended by this sissy hairstylist.
Apparently their hairstylists are categorized into the "hairstylist" as well as the "CREATIVE hairstylist" and the latter being more expensive of course.
So i was wondering what's the difference? is it that the "hairstylists" aren't creative? =.=
Erm, not so, i opted for a "hairstylist" and he appeared quite creative...
I told him that i wanted to cut my hair for prom and asked him if he has any suggestion.
And this was what he did.
As he was cutting my hair, he suddenly shaved off one of my sideburns completely and murmured with his gay voice, "No side burn please, side burn is like so old-fashioned!"
Then in my head i was like "OMG, WTH, i want my side burns!!!T.T"
And no choice, one side gone, kiss goodbye to the other side...
Shouldn't he has the courtesy to just ask me whether i want my sideburns murdered before he actually shaves it off?!!
Okay, fine with this. Then i let him continue with his "masterpiece".
When it is almost done, i thought =.= it's just the same hairstyle as his.
and there came the scary part.
his gay voice is heard again, "and this is my personal favourite.."
PERSONAL FAVOURITE!!!
I wasn't wearing my glasses and i couldn't see what exactly was he doing at one of my side but i did sensed that something is wrong.
Oh ya, and before that he even asked me, "Do you like fashion?"
I replied, "err, yeeaaa..."
then he said "really?!!" followed by a gay laughter.
OMG, i can't stand it.
And when i looked into the mirror after i put on my glasses, TA-DA, wonderful! he tatooed lines on it. "impressive" isn't it?
He even tried to persuade me to dye my hair, but it would cost S$100 over and so i rejected.
My friends were there laughing their lungs out and i couldn't bear to scold that "not creative hairstylist" since i didn't specify what i wanted in the first place. so yea...
What is worse, he even said, "you walk out now and people see you, they would want to cut here".
.....personal favourite, arghhhh!

Resuscitated

2009-12-11T10:40:00.000-08:00

Hihi my sexy blog!
I'm finally back.
Do you miss me?
I miss you so much!
I believe we have a huge gap to catch up with one another,
but i'm really very lazy to fill in the blanks,
so i will just tell you whatever i recall as i blog.
No guarantee that i can remember everything that i have done while i'm not at home but i promise i'll try my best.

First of all, i'm back in Malaysia
and this time it's for long
because i have already graduated from my junior college
and next step is probably studying in Malaysia.
Okay, suddenly i feel that i miss Singapore a lot,
like i have never felt this way before.
Whatever.These were the things that i brought back to Malaysia on the last day that i was allowed to stay in HCIBS.
And you want to know how superman i was?
I brought all these back alone
and by bus.
So, you ought to be feeling remorseful now if you have contributed to all the weight that i have to carry :P
I feel surprised even thinking about it now.
How was it possible?
I don't know. i just did it.
I bet the custom officers as well as the cab and bus driver would remember me forever.
What a crazy fellow.
But too bad, they won't get to see me bringing so much stuff back to Malaysia ever again.
My friends in Singapore, don't worry, this does not mean that i will never ever go over to Singapore and visit all of you. I will.

Next, A level's is finally over.
Although my last paper was on the 3rd of December, frankly speaking, in my heart it was already over after my second last paper on the 23rd of November.
I seriously don't understand why they want to make us suffer by arranging such "wonderful" schedule.
Anyway, i thought A level's was quite manageable, in fact way easier than our school's prelims.
Eh, all i hope for now is that i will be able to get a decent grade for GP.
Post A level's was fun.
I went shopping everyday from day till night all around Singapore.
And you can see christmas trees everywhere.

inner view of the christmas tree.

What else did i do?
I went botanical garden for a walk one of the nights with two of my friends.
Then I attended the graduation prom also.
Lazy to talk about it.
The next day i sent ChengKiat to the airport before going karaoke with 单身贵族帮 and finally went to sim lim to buy a 1 terabyte external harddisk and then went island creamery to have a mud pie slice.
Of course, the next day i came back here to Malaysia.

Okay, actually i'm very tired now.
I think i should go to sleep.
The rest i will update tomorrow.
Oh yea, next post i will talk about how i got my new haircut.
i tatooed lines on one side.....

will be updated...

2009-10-07T04:41:00.000-07:00

End of Prelims

2009-09-30T01:16:00.001-07:00

Yesterday marked the end of prelims.
Took the last paper which is Chemistry paper 1.
Really don't want to talk about it.
Not even want to think about it.
Never have i felt so screwed up for paper 1.

Staright away after the paper, i went back to boarding school to shower and play a bit of guitar before joining three of my friends on the 单身贵族 outing.
Although the outing is named this way, i am quite suspicious with all of their status.
I am probably the only one remaining single :PWe went to ION Orchard after eating BK since we have never really visited there before.These are the three people i went with.
They are about the height as seemed to me.
I think the can form 1XX Club using their height.After that, we went to watch a movie.Inglourious Basterds.
It's M18. After watching it, i could understand why they rated it M18.
Some of the scenes were really gory.
Besides, it's still a nice movie.I enjoyed the humour they put in the movie.
I think Brad Pitt's acting is remarkable. Loved it.
Each chapters in the movie are interestingly plotted.

In the evening, we came back and boarded the bus to the scholars' farewell dinner.
Seafood steamboat sponsored by school.
It was quite a memorable night, at least for HueyJeen i guess.
We sang a bit of Karaoke there before heading back to boarding school.
This is still not the end of our post prelims celebration.
After that, we played bridge until around 3am as if we have no school the next day.
Wheee, it has really been a long time since i really played without any burden.
Enjoyed myself to the fullest!

不过,本少爷如今实在非常空虚!
Prelims are over and i seriously have no idea what to do now.
Sien...

27-9

2009-09-26T18:13:00.000-07:00

eh, i remember saving this post on the correct date
but it turns out to be a day earlier
i think blogger has a different time setting
anyway, it's not a big problem

this post is to wish AndyLauHAPPY BIRTHDAY!

He was the reason why i started buying albums.
Apart from being talented and handsome,
i like him because he makes a good role model.
The stupid scandal of him lying about his marriage was a total crap.
I think there was nothing wrong for him to keep it secret.
He has a choice whether to announce it to the whole world.

IMBA

2009-09-21T10:38:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Eleena!

i hope i got the date right
:D

Prelims

2009-09-18T02:38:00.000-07:00

I really have no time to blog
yet i'm still blogging
in the middle of my prelims
Hmm...let's talk about how well have prelims gone
For every paper that i have taken so far,
none of them is satisfactory
I couldn't finish any of my papers
All of them have at least 20 to 50 marks left undone
and many of them are marks that can be easily secured
Why am i getting worse for every exam?
There is something wrong with me
and i don't know how to fix it
I should really work harder for my subsequent papers
in hope that they might pull my overall grade back to an A
Difficult but not impossible

Okay, what else?
I bought a secondhand phone from my friend
K850
Shall start thinking of what handphone to invest on next
And hopefully this 2ndhand phone can last till i have enough money to buy my next phone

TripleNine

2009-09-09T08:44:00.001-07:00

oh nine oh nine oh nine
what a special day to remember huh?

Disney just bought over Marvel
Seriously, what is wrong with Disney?
i can still accept their acquisition of Pixar
but Marvel and Disney are of completely different style
I really cannot imagine how these two blend
All i hope for is that Marvel comic will not be suppressed
The world of entertainment is clearly shrinking
with a few big players dominating the entire market
As a result, we are losing the variety we once enjoyed
and certain uniqueness dies off along the way

09-09-09

Patriotism

2009-08-31T00:59:00.000-07:00

Okay, so what's going on here?
I'm competing with LooTing to see who is more patriotic!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MALAYSIA!!!

Malaysia is 52 years old this year i guess.
I have not been really celebrating Hari Kebangsaan for years.Merdeka!
I love Malaysia!
but please don't ask me why
It is a lot easier for me to tell you why i hate herRemove the few reasons why i hate her would be all the reasons why i love her so much <3

And to show how much i love her, i am gonna stop using my computer for a week.
Beat that, LooTing!

I must really post this up because i think Wenger is utterly funny:So what?! i still like him! 有个性！
We were the better team but lost the game.
Sorry Wenger, welcome to life...

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Girl,
You really have no idea how much your words mean to me.
For you,
I will study hard.
-封电脑-

Clock's ticking

2009-08-29T08:52:00.000-07:00

Arsenal lost to Manchester United in a game that was a total crap :(
Those who watched it will understand what i am saying
I really don't know what to say
Just hope that this will not hit hard on Arsenal's morale

Prelims are starting in less than a week
I think i should really settle down and study
No idea how i'm going to force myself into it
but it's just going to happen

Today is Michael Jackson's birthday
but sadly he is no longer alive
still, happy birthday

My greatest idol AndyLau has finally announced his relationship with Carole Chu to the publicGlad that they need not be so secretive anymore
but seriously, can the media please spare them some privacy
What's wrong with Andy Lau having girlfriend?
Why must they make it like the greatest discovery of the century?
I think it's really not easy being the woman behind such a successful man
and also for a superstar to protect his family from the disturbance of media
Wish them all the best!

Lastly, i would like to recommend 2 movies that i watched recently
1) GattacaIt's a science fiction about this guy who did everything that he could just to achieve his dream in a world where the majortity of the poeple is genetically modified to eliminate any inborn defects and where the natural people are discriminated against.
I don't really enjoy science fiction movies
but this one strikes an impression on me
because it includes strong emotions in it
I think a good science fiction movie
especially those dealing with ethical issues
should convey more of the emotions involved
Another sci fi movie that i appreciate is Artificial Intelligence
Watch both the movies if you want to know what i am talking about

2) RockNRollaI wanted to watch this movie since very long ago and i finally got the chance to
It's by my favourite director Guy Ritchie
This movie is relatively easier to understand
I like the way the movie is done
Very artistic
If you like stories about how things work in the underworld,
try this movie!

I don't like you

2009-08-18T00:35:00.000-07:00

Past weeks have been really hectic
Initially i thought i could rejuvenate after sleeping for the entire national day make up holiday
then there came all the work
There wasn't a day without bio homework
All i could remember is that i was doing bio homework till late night everyday
leaving me with less than 4 hours of rest per day
And my pimples are flourishing as if i applied fertilizers
Of course, homework wasn't the sole reason why i was sleeping late
My indulgence in playing guitar and mousehunt took up most of my time
I was so busy that i even forgot my sister's birthday on the 12 of August
I am so so so sorry
I will make it up in whatever way that i could in the future

Okay, here's something funny to share
[facebook conversation]
wensen: reply this to receive a surprise
yihang: "this"
wensen: "surprise"
=.=
i thought i was lame enough but this guy was lamer

Next, congratulations to Arsenal
for their dominating performance of 6-1 against EvertonIt's really a good start to EPL.
Besides, they have also won their first match in champions league.
2-0 Celtic.
I think Arsene Wenger is a daring, visionary and generous manager.He said he has a project to be completed and that's why he rejected moving over to real madrid.
I really hope he can see some results this season.

Lastly, i am addicted to EminemI used to dislike him and never really listened to his songs
because i think his songs are too noisy and vulgar
Strangely, i started to appreciate him lately after paying attention to his songs
One thing i must say is that he is really very talented
His rapping style is one of a kind
and i realised that he is actually the producer of many albums by other rappers
Slim Shady

11 August

2009-08-11T10:02:00.001-07:00

posted on 18/8:
I like this post
and i am sure YuRong will like it MORE

Let me first start off by saying

Happy Birthday

to YuRong a.k.a Mr FedriksenDon't they just look alike?

Mr. Fedriksen is a character of this animated film by pixarUp
This movie is very nice
because I SAID SO!
but seriously, cross my heart, it's worth watching
although i still think it's better to buy the DVD than watching in cinema
I watched it with my class after Sg national day celebration
Kind of regretted that i didn't watch the 3D version..

7 August

2009-08-07T05:40:00.000-07:00

posted on 18/8:
I always wanted to update my blog
but failed all the time
because i wasted a lot of time doing something else
and in the end i had to rush my homework instead
As a result, i saved a lot of empty drafts with different dates

Okay, so what happened on this day?

Happy Birthday LooTing!

I think this picture looks very cool
I accidentally took it while i was testing out the camera effects when i first bought my k810i
He looks like some kind of psycho!

Hmm...okay, i should end this post here.
I probably had much more that i wanted to blog about back then
but i really couldn't remember what were they
so too bad..

Perspective

2009-07-31T09:42:00.000-07:00

Wooh! yesterday i made my first contribution to the society at the age of 18
I used to think that i don't want to grow up so quickly
because once i'm considered an adult
i'll be stripped of many privileges
That's quite true
but you do gain certain freedom at the same time
Just yesterday, the day after my birthday
there was a blood donation drive in my school
I only knew of the event on the day itself
They had it at the start of the year as well
and similarly, i only noticed it on that day
but what was different is that
i had to print out a consent form
and look for my guardian to sign it
so in the end i didn't make it through the donation
whereas this time, muahaha, i don't need anyone's consent
so i just went there right after my lessons ended
and proceeded with the blood donation
I felt so lucky that my birthday was just the day before
It was my first time so it appeared quite exciting!
I think being an adult means that you should start giving back to the society.

The ComeBack

2009-07-29T06:52:00.000-07:00

Once again, i didn't do well for my block tests
I felt very bad
because many of my teachers had come to me
and all that they were saying to me was
"you could have done well easily
what happen to you?"
and then they would ask "are you encountering this problem that problem..."
Why couldn't they just scold me for not working hard enough?!
because that would make me feel a lot better...
So what do all these mean?
It means that I'm going to START STUDYING!I don't know if you would agree with me
but i think it's still not too late
I'm not going to let my teachers down again
otherwise i really don't deserve to have such good teachers
Also, for the sake of my own future,
there is no reason why i should slack anymore
So, please forgive me if i'm not updating my blog very often
as that will really save me quite some time
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July 29
My birthday
First of all, i would like to thank LooTing, JiaJun and ZhiTao
for their birthday performance for me at 12am
Although both the guitarist and the singer were out of tune
i really did appreciate what you guys had done for me
I love the card also (:
Thank you so much!
Next, thank you to everyone else that had sent me birthday wishes
My famiily, my classmates, my friends...
I love all of you!
There is one person that i would like to specially mention
She is Jaci
It really surprised me that she could still remember my birthday
I was so touched by that
and i promise i will never forget her birthday!

19July

2009-07-19T05:38:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday Mummy!

Stay heathy and pretty :D
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Found a wonderful quote:

Sound The Horn

2009-07-18T09:04:00.000-07:00

YESTERDAY
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TODAY
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It's NOT right!

2009-07-16T00:25:00.000-07:00

Whee! KennSiang just threw me a KitKat.
I wonder when was the last time a had KitKat.
It tasted extremely nice but my favourite is still TimTam (:

Got a stupid demerit for late-coming today
It's funny to even think about it.
They told us that we are not having flag-raising in the morning as a H1N1 preventive measure
By common sense, it naturally means that we can go to school later
It was the practice all along
What's the matter as long as we reach school before 7.50am for the first lesson?
However, to my surprise, she said she was instructed to "hunt" for the scholars who arrive at school later that 7.30am
WOW, impressive man.
what should i say? Bravo! you had a wonderful yield today.
she caught 100 to 200 scholars this morning
How astonishing! Why so sudden? No warning at all?
I didn't even notice that i was actually breaking the "school rule"
I bet many of the other scholars were the same
otherwise she wouldn't have had such a "huge success"
So, why doing this instead of telling us that we have to come to school before 7.30am?
Is that the way of doing things?
because that's exactly the message that the school is sending to ths students
What disgusted me more was that my local friends told me that they came at 7.45am but they weren't caught for late-coming
So what's this now?
They purposely targeted on the scholars?
whytheDISCRIMINATION?
I simply think that they are making a fool of themselves.

Speaking of my boarding school, it's worse.
We already have a confirmed case of H1N1.
The person's just staying a level above me
He uses the same elevator that i use everyday
And yet, the boarding school isn't alerting the boarders of this
why is this so? what are you people waiting for?
are you going to wait until the entire block gets infected?
It's weird how they manage situation like this.

Okay, enough of these.
I bought the "mugger handbook" of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry.
All because i lost to peer pressure!
All the guys in my class bought it.
It's S$6!!!
Apart form the fact that it's overpriced, I am quite worry that my "investment" will go into waste since there is a high possibility that i will not read the booklet and just put it on my shelf to collect dust
Arghh...hopefully i will not
BECAUSE the opportunity cost is an absolutely mesmerizing cup of starbucks coffee ):

I watched this movie yesterday:The Notebook
you seriously must watch this if you are a fan of romance
the plot is super nice!
I would say that this is classic!

To ShiHuan:
I don't want to play with you anymore.
There is no fun playing a game that the opponent has absolute advantage in.
They call me sneaky, that's not my name! :@

MayBe

2009-07-13T02:27:00.000-07:00

OMG, i finally found someone who thinks the same way i thought!
LaToya Jackson believes that her brother Michael Jackson was murdered for his money in a conspiracy by shadowy hangers-on.
This was exactly the theory that i told JiaJun right when i was back in Singapore 2 days after Michael's death.
What came into my mind straight after i heard about his death was that it's too well-timed.
The immediate disappearance of his personal doctor further raised my suspicion.
Indeed, I agree that Micheal worth more dead than alive.

"I believe Michael was murdered," LaToya said. "I felt that from the start. Not just one person was involved, rather it was a conspiracy of people. He was surrounded by a bad circle. Michael was a very meek, quiet, loving person. People took advantage of that. People fought to be close to him, people who weren’t always on his side."

[for more information]
"I am going to get down to the bottom of this," she added. "I am not going to stop until I find out who is responsible. Why did they keep the family away? It’s not about money. I want justice for Michael. I won’t rest until I find out what -- and who -- killed my brother."

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我要快乐
我要能睡得安稳
有些人
不抱了才温暖
离开了才不恨
我早应该割舍

《我要快乐》- 张惠妹

Stop Existing and Start Living

2009-07-07T23:32:00.001-07:00

I just watched MichaelJackson's memorial.
It made me cried like crazy.
I really want to salute Michael Jackson once again
and this time, not for the talent that he had impressed on us
but for being such a great humanitarian.
He was magnanimous.
He had a big heart and had never stopped giving.
He saw things with his heart.
He was pure, honest and caring.
His music is starting to make more and more sense to me.
From now on, i must make that change,
living what the man really meant with his music
and making his life worth living.
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Finally completed block tests 2.
Chemistry papers 1&2 were okay
although i didn't managed to finish both the papers.
Have to improve on time management next time.

I'm quite happy at the moment. Yeah man!

What's next?

2009-07-04T11:04:00.001-07:00

OMG i just saw michael jackson's "this is it" rehersal footage.
It's evident that he put in a lot of effort to make the concert a fantastic one for his fans.
Ah...so wasted! Why is life so unfair?
It really makes me want to cry.

It's just one day after my last paper for last week and i have watched 4 movies in total - 保持通话(Connected), Night at The Musuem 2, 赤壁(Red Cliff)1 & 2.
赤壁1 & 2 lone took my about 6 hours. Nice man.
Regarding my block tests, i am not doing well.
I feel so sorry to disappoint my teachers again.
GP was difficult. Hopefully i can pass. Not likely though.
Econs was a mess. Usually when i get this kind of feeling after the test, my grade is not going to turn out nice.
Bio was all my fault. I left some of the topics unrevised and how unlucky they appeared on the essay section.
Math was the only one that i could score an A for consolation but i lost it already because i did the test very slowly and in the end i left out sufficient marks to deny myself of an A.
Chem is my only hope now. I still have 3 days before taking Chemistry paper1&2. I must get an A for this to regain some self-worth.
Argh...when would i start getting back to normal?!!!
It getting very near to A lvls already.
Must peak at the right time!
In search of an ordinary life, i realise that i don't like to be an ordinary person. Not at all and this is it!

Enough said, let me introduce some songs :)
I have been listening to the radio over the holidays, so i am quite updated now.
1) 天后 - 陈势安
i know there are better voices than his but i think his voice is good enough for the song. I just wouldn't get bored listening to this song repeatedly. For your information, his album isn't out yet.
2) 如果我变成回忆 - Tank
3) 寂寞先生 - 曹格
Sorry, i don't like his latest album "Supermarket". I will to listen to the album again soon. This is probably the best song in the album.

Lastly, i am very obsessed with this song lately
Unbreakable - WestlifeWeatlife's MVs are always very elegantly filmed.
This MV is quite touching.
Okay that's all for today.
I will have to readjust my biological clock.
Nowadays, i couldn't fall asleep at night and i couldn't stay awake in the afternoon.
Very disturbing.

Life Moves On

2009-06-26T08:44:00.000-07:00

i'm very sad right now
but i've no time to blog about it now
will update as soon as possible
MJ i'll always miss you

(4/7)Cont...
Well, i finally have the time and mood to blog
Just endured a week of block tests
Left with Chemistry paper1&2
It's on Wednesday, so i practically have 4 days off
Okay, back to what i am supposed to blog about
Why am i so miserable on this day back then

1)Spain lost! and it's losing to USA. Their winning streak had so been ended. How could that happen? It shattered my heart :(

2) I got back my SAT results and it was not up to my expectation.
Although it wasn't really bad considering this was my first time taking it, not to mention without much preparation, i was quite quite disappointed with myself because i knew i could do better. So what now? Do i just accept the result gracefully or work harder and try taking it once more? haih...

3) It was so near to exams and i knew that i would not be able to finish studying everything in time. This naturally signified that i was going to underperform for a second time in block tests and it was totally against what i had vowed to achieve.
Why why why? I'm just an individual who are incapable of self-discupline, am i?

4) Shockingly, Michael Jackson had just passed away so suddenly. My heart nearly skipped a beat when i heard that. It's really a great lost to the world. Extremely talented he was, undeniably, or else he wouldn't be so successful. Exceedingly successul. My heart goes out to all his family members and all his fans who are also affected by his death. He's now in a better place.He was the first person that i admired since i was young, after i watched his MV and concert at my grandma house. I could still remember i used to watch it using video tape because during that time VCDs weren't so popular or maybe VCD weren't even out yet. That was the first time i witnessed a concert that's so large in scale and with a "sea" of people. He was so stylish and i was utterly amazed by his moon walk at that time. I couldn't figure out how he did it. Everything seemed so magical.Actually to think of it, he really did died at the right time. Although he still had an unaccomplished wish of doing his last concert "This Is It", we all know that his performace will not be as good as before and most probably one that's not up to standard. Now that he had left, he could bringing away with him all the glory and remained as a flawless legend in our hearts. No regrets. I just don't understand why geniuses always die young.I think all his album and concert titles are super cool. Also, his music is all-time nice. His voice is one of its kind. My favourite MJ songs are BillieJean, YouAreNotAlone, Dangerous, DirtyDiana, ManInTheMirror and TheyDon'tCareAboutUs.Michael Jackson, you will always be in my heart because you are unparalleled, unrivalled, unsurpassed.

A Normal Day

2009-06-10T09:45:00.001-07:00

what an achievement - i woke up at 7.45am today
waited for candy to come fetch me
she came at 8.30am with eleena who was just back from NS
we then went for a "breakfast date" like how candy phrased it
glad that i'm not forgotten
eleena said NS was fun and i didn't doubt that
i know of people who wanted to stay longer
it's just like an outdoor camp after all
and you make a lot of new friends
eleena said she met a person there with a "T" grade for BM because he went fishing on that day and didn't take note of the time, so he just missed it.. WOW
anyway, all the best for all your coming assessments candy
we can hang out after everything's finished

after breakfast, i went home and my mom asked me whether i want to fry 4 eggs for my brother, sisters and her
Sure i said. after all, i am not the one eating them :)
so i cooked and wow
i didn't know how they tasted
but ahem, they looked like roti telur? instead of only telur
my bro and my sis fought for the better egg
i supposed the 3rd and the 4th eggs looked more like food
since my cooking got gradually better with more attemps
i'll upload the pic when i'm free
it's not really that bad i think
at least the eggs are unique in their own way
even if the the taste is only 20%
my love is 80% okay

i finally completed a HongKong Drama and a storybook today
the drama was 老婆大人II, quite funny and touching
the book was The Garden ofEden and Other Criminal Delights by Faye Kellerman
i didn't know what's so interesting about this book but i just managed to finish it
I also played a James Bond PS game with my bro and sis, quite fun
once again, i still haven't started studying
and i hope that i can wake up really soon
2 weeks gone!!!

Tiring Day

2009-06-06T07:01:00.001-07:00

I took my SAT today
For some reason, i went to the test center an hour earlier
then i saw a street soccer court there
tempting me to play but i couldn't find a ball
Anyway, i saw a lot of international students there
mostly Koreans
then i met this girl who could speak so fluently
with the kind of accent
haih, felt so inferior
It was overall a great experience for me
i didn't do any practice test before this
so i somehow got a shock by the format and the timing of the exam
but it's just a minor one, not a big problem
in fact, it made the exam a bit more exciting for me
or maybe it's just because that it was my first time
yea, as you know, first time is alwasys that exciting
So how did i do for the exam?
I am not exactly sure
but i think the maths section can score full marks if nothing goes wrong :P
as for the english section
ahem... i think i kind of guessed a little too many of the questions
should have left them blank since wrong answers will cause your marks to be deducted
Nevermind, it's over
just pray that i would get a high score
i don't want to waste the money

LaughOutLoud

2009-06-05T01:29:00.001-07:00

I was fooling around with my sis today
We were trying to form 俱形容意义的表达
then i realized that the desciptiive phrase 全面性 is very useful
for example, my sister is 全面性地愚蠢 haha
Speaking of 全面性, we then thought of 全角度
So we started forming stupid sentences like
今天早上，我来到了五月银行(maybank =.=)，看到了一个栩栩如生的不倒翁。她全面性充气，全角度肥胖！ -.-
We also found out that some descriptive phrases can be translated directly from english phrases
for instance, "to a certain extent" is 在某一程度上
Lastly, something to make you laugh whole long:
How do you translate "this is a false statement!"?
Ans: 这是一个的虚假的陈述句! OMG...

Another day wasted, and counting...

2009-06-04T09:48:00.001-07:00

I am happy today
even at the very beginning of today
Don't ask me why
because i'm not going to tell you. yeah!

Basically, i did nothing except observing the clock ticked for today
i still have not started any revision yet...
and SAT is on SATurday but where is preparation?
i went to a lawyer's mansion in the morning
i wanted to play soccer but ended up juggling the ball myself at the front yard
i started watching HK drama again..
i went to my aunt's house at night
and i played some lame PS2 games with my sister
eg. Tom and Jerry, over the hedge, ... -.-okay now you know why there's a Tom and Jerry pic at the start of my post
please try your best to appreciate my vain attempt in beatifying my blog
i think i have successfully convinced my sis that Tom is a better character to use

oh, before i forget
to my Sg friends,
i went BaLaBabBaBa~ and ate big mac
big mac here costs only rm 8
which is < S$4
hehe! envy not?
that's all, bye!

First day of June

2009-06-01T08:51:00.000-07:00

Deadis my phone!
Sent it for operation today
and the surgeon said,
"It's actually a hardware problem, the software is fine."
So the advice was to buy a new phone
because reviving it certainly cost a lot.
Hence, a death cert was issued.

T.T I love the phone a lot!!!
i bought it for RM1k+ last year
and now it's gone
as if i have just thrown the money into the sea because the fishes needed it to buy food
:@ i am already trying my best not to curse
Lets paint a smile on our face and embrace the uncertainties in life as they are precisely the little things that make our life so meaningful and wonderful......
GOSH!!!

okay, forget it. let's talk about something else.
after talking to a friend on msn, i thought that handphone could be a very good analogy for relationship
it started with my friend asking me whether i have repaired my phone
then i told her that the phone is dead and i really really do love that phone
after that she asked, "so sentimental?"
i replied, "yea, cos my ex gave it to me"
of course that was not true
so i added, "nah, JK. it was my dream phone back then"
then she said, "i'm sure that you will have another dream phone now. Go for it!"
"but i cant forget my ex", i said.
She said, "then you can just have 2 phones, or best, put a lanyard on it and hang it over your chest"
and i replied, "2 at a time? i cant multitask well and i am very 专一(loyal)"
"haha, 一脚踏两船"，she said =.=
hmm... so i was thinking maybe i should really go get a new phone
do you get the analogy?
okay, anyway, i think i am not so into a new phone now
i will get a temporary phone
so anyone who wants to sell his/her phone (must be in good condition) at a reasonable (preferably cheap) price please come and look for me
and please don't get me wrong. i am talking about the real phone here.
Nothing related to the analogy anymore. think straight!

To ziang:
i knew that you had a wonderful day yesterday
i am so jealous of you
it was indeed a simple yet meaningful birthday celebration
hopefully everyone will be able to experience a birthday celebration of this kind in their life

okay, that's all for today
sorry for the diffuse post
i appreciate brevity also
but this is likely going to be the kind of post you will see in the near future
thanks to my "ex" :S
no phone means no photo
please bear with it
or you can just quit visiting my blog
i wont blame you
see ya

31 May

2009-05-31T07:07:00.001-07:00

志昂，生日快乐！
i dont have a photo of him
you can just go facebook him
hope you enjoy your day
although i'm not there to celebrate with you
you have LooTing so nothing to worry about

Distracted
basically did nothing productive today
yihang, stay focus!
forget about ...

PS: sorry for the lack of photos in recent posts

我回来了!

2009-05-30T10:28:00.001-07:00

In the morning, i still managed to play an hour of soccer before i left for my bus.
I was drenched thoroughly after the game.
People at the mrt/ on the bus must be thinking that this crazy guy had run 10km with his baggage because God knows he was sweating not because of the extremely heavy baggage that could cause earthquake if dropped.
Even the security personnel at the Malaysian checkpoint demanded that i open up my baggage for her to examine.
Oh come on, it's just a harmful pile of notes!
Or did i look like a bad guy with some big plan to you?
anyway, i looked at myself in mirror and found that i became sturdier.
then i said, wow! after all these, at least there's still something good about carrying all my notes back isn't it?
hmmm...happy? well, my brain was telling me that it's juat a psychological effect dude
ahh, whatever... :S

okay, lets see what did i do after i was back in malaysia
my mom brought me to get a new pair of spectacles after we spent some time at one of the tables in McD eating what? ice-cream :)
Couldn't make up my mind on two of the chosen specs but in the end picked the one that the salesgirl said looked nice on me
hopefully it really does
After that, we went to Summit to fix my phone
I was totally pissed
the techinician said that the software of my phone's gone
so there goes everything that's stored in my phone too
WTH!
the only way to fix it is by re-installing the software
and re-installing it cost $80 and no less
bullshit! you want to con me for such an easy job, i will just look for someone cheaper or do it myself
there's a comprehensive guideline online on how to reflash your phone =.=
furthermore they told me that sony ericsson's phones always encounter such a problem
and when the software is gone, it's just gone
there is no way that the software will wave byebye at you before leaving
so what now? i will just keep paying $80 to fix it over and over again if the software is in a vacation mood that it decides travel overseas frequently?
another technician then told me that it must be that i unplug the battery when the phone is on
but i was sure that i didn't!
when would be the time that i take out the battery?
it's only when i need to change the sim card and i always do turn it off before i do so
then i recall that one of my stupid friends once sent me a file that caused my phone to turn off by itself for many subsequent days
i dont know how that file works
but i suspect that it has something to do with the death of my phone
whatever it is, i'm going make sure that i save everything in my memory card next time and never to accept any unknown file even from my friend
following that, my mom went to look for another technician who offered a cheaper rate but he then claimed that my charging board was spoilt too
so the software couldn't be transferred to my phone
Arghhh.....nice try man
i didn't let him fix it
i will go back to him on monday and make sure that the thing works after he replaces a "working" charging board or i will not be paying him a single cent

That concluded my day and my mood can only be described by one word
Pissed

Words

2009-05-29T07:57:00.000-07:00

Hollow
Well, I haven't been blogging these few days because i really couldn't think of anything interesting to blog about.
Today is the last day of school for term 2.
I am supposed to feel excited but apparently i am not.
Weird isn't it?
what's wrong with me...

On wednesday, choir performed for ArtsFest.
It was the last performance for the 08/09 batch together.
we stayed back after that and sang a few of the old pieces
Lullaby sounded extremely touching on that day
perhaps it's because everybody sang from the bottom of their hearts
i always wanted choir to end as soon as possible
but i totally felt the other way round at that moment
by the way, 08 batch has officially graduated from choir today
and we voted for the new committee members

also, our math tutor MrsYap bought us a cake today to show her appreciation towards us - the most supportive class
how lovely isn't it
she is no longer our form teacher this year but she still treats us as if we are her form class :)
oh, and fortunate enough, it didn't turn into a cake smashing session this time

i am going back to Malaysia tomorrow for my one month holiday
haven't finish packing my stuff yet
my baggage is gonna be super heavy since i am bringing all my notes back
hopefully i can endure the journey to the bus station
i seriously don't understand why i am still feeling so unprepared to go home
i think i am missing something in Singapore
and i couldn't even stay to play soccer with my friends tomorrow morning because i am going back so early :(
MoXiang is coming to play....grrr
okay nevermind...that's not important
hmm... actually i already have a few things in mind that i would like to do during the holidays:
1) Grow as FAT as possible
2) Rest well
3) Study
4) Fix my phone/ buy a new one (the former is preferred)
5) buy a pair of new specs
6) Get a new haircut
7) Karaoke
8) Eat happily
9) Play soccer
and more

arghhh, okay i shall stop here
i am really running out of things to say
let me end off with an example of inconvenience caused by lousy handphones:
today, i went to retrieve my approved leave letter from the teacher's desk so that i can apply leave from boarding school and i saw that JiaJun's approved letter was there too
i hesitated whether to take for him and i chose not to since i didn't have a functional phone to inform him about it
what if he comes to search for it without knowing that i have taken for him and so he can't find it?
Later after school, i met him and he told me that he couldn't find his letter at the pigeonhole when he was actually supposed to look for it at the teacher's table instead
okay that's not the point
the main point was that he wanted to call me and asked me to collect his letter for him if i see it when i am getting mine
but unfortunately he knew that my phone was spoilt so he couldn't contact me
hence, the letter was actually there all the while and we could have save all the trouble if my phone wasn't spoilt
in the end, we both went to the staff room to get the letter together
so funny right? =.=

Dilemma

2009-05-25T06:09:00.000-07:00

HOTCan you believe this?
I just woke up with a pool of water underneath my head!!!
OH God, what kind of weather is this?!
you mean i had been sweating profusely while i was sleeping?
i thought the only way a person could wet his/her pillow was by tears
now i would have to wash my pillowcase :@

By the way, i have been surviving without a phone for a week!
Congratulate me man!
My apologies to everyone who has wanted to contact me over the week
i promise to get my phone fixed as soon as possible
i myself couldn't sms and call also okay, it's toturing
and super inconvenient

Another thing
i want to go home for my entire june holiday
but i am facing a dilemma here
i am extremely worried that i will not be studying
it has always been the case when i'm at home
i don't want to let anybody down anymore
but i don't trust myself
How? :S

And today
part of the skin of my index finger peeled off thanks to the floorball stick
now i cant do any pull up..
please recover as soon as possible
i still need to carry my incredibly heavy baggage back home

Last thing
i am having a Spanish exam on thursday
wish me luck!
i am gonna start studying for it later
yeah!

Saturday Morning

2009-05-22T20:14:00.000-07:00

I'm currently living without an alarm clock
and it's so surprising that i can still wake up in the morning

Yesterday, my class was selected to watch the girls and boys basketball finals
based on minimal lesson disruption as the school phrased it =.=
Our school won both the matches.
Hoefully they are giving us a half-day holiday next week. heehee
HongYao was totally awesome!
His basketball skills are super pro!
I like him man.

After that, i went to watch DanceNight
how was it really? sorry i couldn't tell
i think i was too tired at that time
but overall i think the dancers did a good job
oh ya, i remember
i particularly like the solo part at the starting of the first chinese dance
the dancer was so expressive and she shaped the dance so beautifully
i dont know how to explain it
it's just 很有古典美
besides, i like the senior's item and the dancing cleaner too, so funny
and lastly, i also did something that i never thought i would be brave enough to do
so proud of myself haha

okay now it's time to introduce a new movie:Robert Downey Jr (the ironman guy) and Jude Law are starring in it!
And most importantly, the movie is directed by my favourite Guy Ritchie!
you can watch the trailer:Frankly speaking, the trailer didn't impress me
but i will still watch it i think
maybe the movie itself is nice
disclaimer: i have never mentioned in any way that the movie is good
so if you decide to watch it and it isn't good
please do not blame me

19 May

2009-05-19T05:22:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday to RuiXian!
A picture of him will be updated after my phone is fixed.
Hmm...actually i think i will just use this one :)Disappeared right after school ended.
Must have gone to celebrate with his girlfriend ^_-

K810i

2009-05-18T04:49:00.000-07:00

Hey, i was watching Britain's Got Talent Episode 6.
Totally impressed by this 11-year-old boy - Aidan Davis.
Watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rrlhw4Y4DA
Too bad i cant put it here. Embedding's disabled.
His dance was fantastic.

Next, a very very little girl with a very very big voice:Okay, other than the little girl's good.
I actually have another point to make here.
Kelly Brook, the new judge, is very pretty... :)

还有，我的手机今早起就无缘无故开不了
我也不知道是什么一回事，昨晚还好好的
反正就是为我带来一大堆麻烦
现在我除了不能与别人通电话、传简讯
连唯一的起床工具都没了
再加上我还得将它领取修
实在是气死人了！
darling啊！我才跟你相处不久，刚刚才对你产生感觉
你不要那么快逼我移情别恋好不好？
我还不想换手机！！！

17 May

2009-05-17T01:02:00.000-07:00

A few things to blog about today

1st: Happy Birthday to Calvin :)His birthday was yesterday though.
I knew i had something to blog for yesterday but i just couldn't recall.
Anyway, hopefully Calvin will visit my blog and see his handsome face here.

2nd: Today is LeeHom's Birthday!Happy Birthday man!
Continue to make good music.
You Rock!

3rd: Watched Angels and Demons with LooTing and JiaJun today.I haven't read the book before watching the movie.
I couldn't judge whether the movie is good in terms of the filming
because i was quite overwhelmed by the information that i had to absorb from the story
but what i can say is that the storyline was fantastic!
I finally know why it's called the Angels and Demons.
Fortuntely i didn't read the book before watching it or i would have missed all the thrill.
Thumbs up for the author.

4th: I had my chemistry SPA skill A paper yesterday.
Surprisingly, i was quite satisfied with it.
Usually, you will have at least some regrets after a SPA assessment
but for yesterday's paper i finished it 20 minutes before.
The only thing that i felt imperfect was my handwriting.
I was afraid that i might not be able to finish in time,
so i sped through it since the beginning and as a result my handwriting was horrible but still legible i think :]

OKay, i will update further if there is anymore interesting things happening to me at night. Whee!

Titleless

2009-05-15T08:50:00.000-07:00

First of all, correction to my previous post.
Ronaldo is not moving to Real Madrid anymore.
People claimed that he's expensive
and that he will disrupt locker room peace.
So sad, poor Ronaldo now has nowhere to belong.

An abum to recommend:周传雄 - 恋人创世纪

I only listened briefly to the album except for one song.
So cannot really comment on it yet
but 伤心酒杯 is really very nice.
His singing style is extraordinary.
Like what YuHeng said, "他唱歌很悠闲，很随便，但却很有技巧！"
and i think this is precisely what makes his songs so emotional.
Furthermore, his voice is very high.
I agree to YuHeng that he can be one of the 歌神s.
So check it out!

Cristiano Ronaldo

2009-05-13T08:54:00.000-07:00

Cristiano Ronaldo is going over to Real Madrid after Dominic's birthday (1st July)!
Must be that he was unhappy with Ferguson's move of substituting him out during the match against Man City.
I knew it all back then while he was shaking his head watching the match after being substituted, the only thing that was on his mind must be to transfer to Real Madrid straight.
Haha, okay, actually we all know that he wanted to go over all along.
His keen interest was unconcealed the previous time.
SO yea, Man U is no longer Ronaldo FC in 2 months time....

P/S: Arsenal please please please buck up! this season's perfomance was really disappointing and disheartening...
and Liverpool, can you quit being 后劲不足! :@

Boring Day

2009-05-11T08:18:00.000-07:00

Today was the make-up holiday for Vesak day.
I was supposed to be doing my homework
but instead i went out with my friends for a 5-hour karaoke :S
Who went?Ziang and Cheo + Wilfred (not in photo)
Expected the kbox rate to be lower as the holiday wasn't a public one
but apparently it doesn't make any difference...
A sad thing to note was that my voice's still broken
but since that i would have no more choir practice
perhaps it's now really a good time for me to train back my singing style for pop songs now

OKay, other random things that i want to blog about:this is the memorial mug to celebrate the tenth year my primary school (lick hung) has shifted
this is the cup that i have been using all the while
and this is also my favourite cup!
cause it is big enough?
Anyway, it was bought back in the year 2001

Next is photo that i took some time backJingbin (the one holding on to 2 soft toys) and my retarded roommate KennSiang...
err...dunno what to add on about them
they are both from 6C =.=

On saturday, choir had a performance
that was probably my last peformance in the choir
and it's definitely my last performance in VCHOnce again, presenting to you, the Basses.

Lastly, another photo that i took in the morning
can you recognise this cute guy?he is none other than LooTing (^-^)V

Happy Mother's Day

2009-05-10T08:10:00.000-07:00

愿天下母亲早日享福

5 May

2009-05-05T05:21:00.000-07:00

I'm proud to say that we did not let anyone of you down.
We made it!
It's a relief. everything has finally come to an end.
It's time to REVIVE.

Us
BBBBBasses

All or Nothing

2009-05-04T05:51:00.000-07:00

Okay. i acually didn't want to blog but since that i have so much to tell, i'll just spend a little time writing.
Tomorrow will be the day.
The day when all our sufferrings finally yield results.
And i sincerely hope that everyone of us will give our best tomorrow.
Everything is simply determined by how well we perform tomorrow.
Our effort all along is equivalent to nothing if we are not on form tomorrow.
Who knows how hard you have worked or how well you have sung before if you are not showing it tomorrow.
我问你们，你们甘心吗?
Although we always say that the result is not important, but deep down our hearts, we all know that we want it all or nothing.
So, the main thing is to have no regrets.
And this can only be achieved by having no reservations for tomorrow.
Even if we really didn't meet our desired goal, we know that we have done our best and we are satisfied no matter what.
Don't turn it into something that you would like to alter if you could reverse time.
For the sake of our conductor, our teachers, our seniors, our friends and ourselves, we cannot afford to lose tomorrow.
Please sell all your souls to the music!
Over here, i would like to thank our conductor, our teachers and our seniors for going that extra mile to help us in acheiving our goal.
We will not let you down!
There is one thing that i must agree with my conductor, she admits to and apologizes for her mistakes and this isn't something that many other conductors can do.
I respect her fully for that.
Her only weakness is that she is rather bad-tempered and sad to say this largely determines whether our practice is good or bad. haha
Besides, i would like to thank all my friends who delivered their encouragements and last but not least i would like to tell all the choir members how much i LOVE you all.
so TOMORROW watch us make music!

reflection

2009-05-02T11:02:00.000-07:00

Out of boredom, I read through my entire blog starting from the first post and a few things caught my atention.
I think it's really time for some reflection.

First thing, time flies. Everything in my blog is still fresh in my memory as though they have just happened yesterday but the truth is more than half a year have passed. Wow!

Next, i find that my english is ineffably poor. I feel so embarassed when i am reading my own blog :( please help me, i want to improve!

Also, i notice that i seldom capture the joyous moments of my life in the blog and on the contrary full of emo posts. So, from now on i'm going to change this.

Other than these, i also realise that i seldom talk about my choir. For a simple reason, my conductor does not like people to talk about it in blog. I love the choir as much as i hate it. So, it's only wise that i don't speak about it or else i might get into trouble. It's 2 days to SYF. I am not sure how well we can do but i am accepting whatever results that we are going to achieve. To be honest, what i think is that we are both equally responsible for the quality of the choir now. On our part, we did not do our best, there wasn't a clear leader and sectionals weren't put into place to ensure that we are technically firm. However, on her part, she focused on us only at a very late stage, she didn't know the score well before this and she was quite fickle-minded as she always didn't know what she really wanted. Despite all these, i still think that she is a very nice person and i love every single one of you in the choir.

The last thing that i find it interesting is my very second post. I was talking about getting the worst results in my life and was analyzing why did it occured. The funniest part was i said that i must change. And here i am, 6 months later, mourning over my poor results and letting my family, friends and teachers down. Have i changed? Everyone around me now is a smarter opponent. Why is this happening? I reflected on it and the major reason that i can think of is that i am no longer thinking. I couldn't remember when but i had acquired this attitude of seeing thinking as labourous chore and i should just avoid any occasion that requires it. This is probably why i couldn't analyse things properly nowadays. I am no longer conscious. This explains why i am constantly making the wrong choices lately.

Okay, apart from all that i have said above, my main point for this post is to tell everyone of you that this is all going to end right at this post and i mean it! yeah!

movie

2009-05-01T08:17:00.000-07:00

Yo!
Managed to get LooTing, ZhiTao, JonLoong, HueyJeen and Wilfred to watch a movie together today.
We watched X-men origins: Wolverine
Fortunately, it was nice!
I was still worrying whether it will be a waste of time as i am the kind of person who is quite particular when it comes to watching movie.
I don't like to spend time watching crap.
I was especially touched by his love story.
I shall not spoil anyone of you.
Go watch it and you will understand.
I didn't really like the ending because it was like everything that shaped wolverine into who he is now has gone into waste.
It feels as if everything has never happened before.
But no choice, it has to be that way so that it can be linked to X-men 1.
Apart from this, there were a few more touching scenes involving his brother as well as an elderly couple.
Of course, not to mention that there were many other cool moments and you get to watch the super hot hugh jackman.
So, go and watch it because i don't anyhow praise a superhero movie.
Talking about superhero movies, ironman and punisher 1 are the nice ones that i would recommend to you all if you all are interested.

Here is the trailer:I think the movie itself is a lot better than the trailer.

Liam Neeson

2009-04-29T08:29:00.000-07:00

He has showed remarkable professionalism in returning to Toronto for a couple of days' work to complete his scenes for the thriller "Chloe" directed by Atom Egoyan the week after the death of his wife Natasha Richardson. Neeson was "unspeakably generous" as described by Egoyan. His wife passed away two days after sustaining a head injury in a fall during a skiing lesson in Quebec. I send him my deepest condolescence and i salute him for his professionalism.

For those who don't know who is he,
he acted as the main character of the movie "Taken".

full-day practice

2009-04-25T05:46:00.000-07:00

had a full-day practice today
extremely tired now
our performance was disappointing
conductor was so upset that she disowned us

anyway, i watched Taken
it was quite nice
it would be the proudest thing in your life to have a father like the main character

Watch this:

To Ziang

2009-04-22T08:38:00.001-07:00

There was an accident while playing soccer
he knocked his head onto the wall
and now he suffers a crack in his skull
a little brain damage and internal bleeding
he has a lot of medication to take
and no sports for half a year
get well soon
don't worry to much
all the best for everything

they are full of crap

2009-04-20T05:32:00.000-07:00

they blasted us right after the practice
with the unprecedented fury
and what was the matter?
they accused that the practice was a total bullshit
they claimed that while we were practising inside the theater,
they were worrying outside as to how should they explain to our conductor about today's bad practice
i was totally annoyed by what they had said
here i was, already so tired after the long day,
putting in effort to make something out of the practice
and there they were, telling us that the 3 hours we spent was a waste of time
okay, i would like to ask them then
since it was a waste of time,
what for having the practice
i might as well just go back and rest
i still have a lot of homework to prepare for tomorrow
what exactly disturbed me wasn't just them being unappreciative
i actually found it very ridiculous that they were scolding us only after the practice
when they mentioned that they had already realised that our practice wasn't good halfway through the practice
why couldn't they rectify the situation at the moment when they noticed it
so they just let it be
and took the opportunity after the practice to scold us?
what was their problem?
what was wrong with their mind?
what were they trying to achieve?
i don't understand!
so what now?
you two were trying to show that you all, being at the top of the hierachy, could exercise power over us and could produce result?
i do agree that leaders sometimes have to exert a little power
but with this kind of irrelevant reason at this inappropriate moment?!
you two were simply inconsiderate
what you two said had made me felt that all the more i should be sleeping at home
aren't we a team?
why can't we voice out our opinion right at the point when things do not go well and sort things out so that the practice will not go into waste?
why must it be the case where you two realised that there was a problem but kept quiet and took the opportunity to blame us after everything is over?
we are all in this together
we need to have a common goal in our minds
some members might need reminders
why can't you just kindly remind them
i am sure most of the members were evidently putting in their efforts
what you two did today was extremely uncalled for
very disappointing, my presidents!

HAHA

2009-04-18T08:49:00.000-07:00

Maybe nice movies

2009-04-16T00:17:00.000-07:00

Taken

Crossing Over

50th post

2009-04-14T08:21:00.001-07:00

Torres

RollerCoaster

2009-04-08T04:22:00.000-07:00

Have you ever experienced being in a roller coaster?
Do you remember clearly the thrill when it plunges?My chemistry grade fell from A to E
MY Biology grade fell from B to S
I will never forgive myself for this
and i am gonna be the best improving student for both the subjects in block test 2
Wait and see!

7April

2009-04-07T06:04:00.000-07:00

I don't know who came out with the idea
but apparently today's class birthday
because my class is 7A =.=

Someone prepared a cake
and the celebration turned into a
Cake-smashing Fiasco!

Our initial plan was only to smash YuRong
then Dominic's failed attempt had spurred a sense of caution in YuRong
so he changed his target to RuiXian
then the exciting part started

RuiXian was there cutting the cake for everyone
as everyone else were standing around the bench waiting.
Then Dominic, with a cake, aproached him and painted it on his face
and without hesitation, RuiXian straight away threw the cake in his hand towards Dominic who was just next to him.
But guess what, the cake totally missed Dominic
and flew to ShiHuan's head,
broke into smaller pieces
before a huge piece of it scattered onto Jolene's shirt,
not to mention that it fell onto Jolene's skirt then only to the ground.
Poor Jolene who suffered from two patches of purple stain
just because of being at the wrong place at the wong time. haha

This is still not the end.
The furious ShiHuan then took a piece of cake
and smashed it directly onto RuiXian's face for revenge
and in the process broke his glasses =(
RuiXian, feeling unhappy or unfair,
also smashed back with another piece of cake

Wow wow wow, easy!
So everyone cooled down and went to clean up their wonderful faces.
And now, if you were observant enough, you would have noticed that YuRong was going "Haha, luckily they shifted target. I'm safe!"
As he became reckless, I took a piece of cake and walked up to him.
I must say that it was totally unwise to ignore what's coming.
So, happy birthday YuRong!
I whacked the cake onto his cheeks point blank. hehe
---Mission Accomplished---

OKay, that's all.
It was quite a messy birthday celebration but i'm sure that it's a memorable one for 7A :D

Unacceptable

2009-04-02T23:36:00.000-07:00

I must first say a big thank you to Candy!
I didn't know what was your intention of asking me to watch this video
but with or without you knowing it
the video had helped me solve a major porblem surrounding me recently
I used to possess "the secret"
and that's probably why my life was so easy in the past
but disappointedly i lost it somehow, sometime
The video had reminded me of this unusually familiar "secret" that was once an intimate part of me
I'm gonna bring you back!
Certainly, it will take time to readjust
but i have lost you once and i'm not gonna lose you twice
If you ask me whether it works, it worked!

Will you?

2009-03-25T08:04:00.000-07:00

At last

2009-03-24T08:01:00.000-07:00

Whee...finally over!
Block tests are over!
I have had severe headaches for the entire day.
Need lots of rest at the moment.

Anyway, lets talk about my one week holiday.
As expected, without failure, once again,
i didn't study much when I'm in Malaysia.
I had this wonderful schedule for revision that i failed to adhere to. haha
Over the term break,
I went to my aunt's new home and my grandparents house
I watched 3 movies in total, of which one is in the cinema (Race to Witch Mountain).
I watched 2 hongkong drama (盛世人杰 & 学警狙击). The latter is super nice and not all episodes are out yet. I only watched 19 episodes. Can't wait to finish it.I went shopping four times.
I went karaoke.
I cut my hair.
I bought 4 books (fiction).
I bought presents for my angel and mortal.
I ate sushi king.

Somebody commented that a few of my previous posts were very emo.
very very sorry.
i will try not to let that happen anymore.
thanks for all the encouragements from my friends who tagged.
love you all

Bad Day

2009-03-12T05:26:00.000-07:00

I'm feeling grey today

I didn't manage to finish my Econs test
So careless
Worse is I know i could write a good essay for that question
but still, i left myself with insufficient time
Moereover, the weightage of the question is 26/100!

I also didn't win any award for SSEF
I don't actually care if i win any award
but what bothers me is that
even though i'm aware that judging is sometimes quite subjective
and the judging criteria for the competition is vastly different
I'm afraid that this might be reflective of my H3 results =(
Worse still, the rest of the students under my mentor all obtained silver award
and i was the only one who got nothing, not even bronze or merit
They had invited me to treat our mentor together one day
How do i face my mentor? I'm such a disappointment to her!

Haih... failure seemed to knock on my door very frequently nowadays
I'm pissed! I'm not gonna let this happens anymore again!

090309

2009-03-09T09:03:00.000-07:00

Arghhh...
I'm veryvery stress now
Too many things that I have to concentrate on!
I have to
apply for leave from my CCA which my teacher i/c seemed very reluctant to approve,
then ask my mom to fax my holiday leave to school,
then find time out of my tight schedule to go buy my bus tickets,
still have to go set up poster for SSEF at Science Center,
prepare for SSEF judging on Wednesday,
most importantly, i have to prepare for my econs test on thursday,
after that, i have to find out the shortest route to my bus station,
then Saturday need to attend NTU open house but at the same time,
must take note of the time so that i wont miss my bus back to Malaysia,
have to study for bio, chem and math test during the hols too.

Wah!!!!!
by right, i should only be bothered by SSEF and econs test at this moment
but then, as you can see, they are many other trivial stuffs to settle
and things don't seem to be working out as desired
troubles are spawning here and there
it's really hard for me to concentrate like this!
save me
why is it so difficult for me just to go back and spend time with my family?
is that ONE practice really so crucial?
i am quite sure it's not!
furthermore, i seldom apply for leave
definitely not for trivial reasons that you approved for others
and i rarely have the opportunity to go back
i want to cry! T.T

anyway, impressive goal by Eduardor:

Bionic eye gives blind man sight

2009-03-06T08:24:00.000-08:00

A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light, follow white lines on the road, and even sort socks, after being fitted with the bionic eye, known as Argus II.

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7919645.stm

How does the bionic eye work:
It uses a camera and video processor mounted on sunglasses to send captured images wirelessly to a tiny receiver on the outside of the eye. In turn, the receiver passes on the data via a tiny cable to an array of electrodes which sit on the retina - the layer of specialised cells that normally respond to light found at the back of the eye. When these electrodes are stimulated they send messages along the optic nerve to the brain, which is able to perceive patterns of light and dark spots corresponding to which electrodes have been stimulated. The hope is that patients will learn to interpret the visual patterns produced into meaningful images.

承你贵言

2009-03-05T07:31:00.000-08:00

Finally completed my H3 assessment.
Everything went quite well today.
Finally can settle down and start studying for Block tests.
Suddenly forget what i wanted to blog,
will add on when i recall (:

Rest in Peace

2009-03-03T07:56:00.001-08:00

My great grandfather passed away yesterday night at 11.50pm
Although our relationship is not very close
He always remembers me
He is a stong person
I will always remember him
Sometimes, although you seldom talk to a person
His presence is what you treasure the most

A Generous Gesture coupled with Humility

2009-02-26T07:33:00.000-08:00

Leonard Abess Jr.
A Miami banker who quietly shared US$60 million out of his own pocket with 399 of his current staff and even 72 former workers after selling his bank to a Spanish bank, with each receiving an average of about US$127,000. He was singled out for praise by President Barack Obama in his congressional address Tuesday. Abess and his wife attended as Obama's guest.

"I think everybody was surprised. But knowing Leonard,
the type of person he is, I can believe him giving it away,"

"It was like a lottery, only better,"

"Because it came from someone's heart."

Abess' father founded the bank in 1946 and he began his career in the print shop, working his way up the corporate ladder. His family sold the bank in the early 1980s to an investment group, which in turn sold it to a Colombian coffee magnate. When the magnate was convicted of fraud, Abess bought a majority stake out of bankruptcy in 1985 for $21 million, all of it borrowed, and then acquired the rest for $6 million. The bank, under his ownership, grew from $400 million in assets and seven offices to $2.75 billion in assets and 18 offices.

Sharing the wealth with staffers came naturally. Abess and his wife, Jayne, have long been big contributors to local organizations, such as the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and Mount Sinai Medical Center. In 2006, the Abesses gave $5 million to the University of Miami to promote environmental studies.

Abess never wanted to make a big deal out of his largesse; he didn't even show up at the bank when the envelopes were distributed in November. It wasn't until he mentioned the bonuses in a recent interview with The Miami Herald that they became publicly known. Asked later what motivated him, Abess said he had long dreamed of a way to reward employees. He had been thinking of creating an employee stock option plan before he decided to sell the bank.

"Those people who joined me and stayed with me
at the bank with no promise of equity - I always
thought some day I'm going to surprise them,"

"I knew some of these people since I was 7 years old.
I didn't feel right getting the money myself,"

sources:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29396039/
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/904842.html

A Beautiful Day

2009-02-25T07:25:00.000-08:00

Stood like a Rooster!
Saw this up in the sky today.
It was almost a complete semi-circle.
Look closer, there were actually 2 rainbows.
A better day=)

Gravity

2009-02-22T06:18:00.000-08:00

"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
Aristotle

H3 OP Assessment

2009-02-21T01:56:00.000-08:00

Today is the judging day for oral presentation of my research project
hence it's supposedly the day my H3 research is finally completed.
I woke up at 5plus in the morning so that i could catch the first bus
because near to 1.5 hour is needed to reach NTU from my boarding school.
When i got onto the bus, the retarded driver deliberately bent my poster for some unknown reason and that crumpled the board of my poster.
I was seriously wondering what's wrong with him.
Can you imagine someone damaging your work just right before the assessment?
It's my A levels H3 research oral presentation assessment okay!!!!!
lucky enough, I laminated my poster :P
Anyway, one of my assessors wasn't able to be present today
and therefore, i will have to go down to NTU again on the 5th of March for my second assessment
The rest of my friends have already ended their H3 research officially =(
Besides, thanks for your encouragement so early in the morning, Dominic.
I was so touched. ^.-
Strangely, it really helped a lot.
It gave my strength to present confidently today.
Also, I realised today that the participation of H3 related projects in SSEF2009 are now reallowed.
So, Shi Huan, we will work hard together.
I think there is still much in my poster that has to be improved.
After the assessment, i went straight to my school to take a look at how's the choir orientation for j1s going.
I was totally exhausted today
to a point that my eyelid could automatically close by itself.
I am gonna sleep directly after my dinner until tomorrow (:

MISSION FAILED!

2009-02-19T03:49:00.000-08:00

呼风焕宇 did not went pass audition.
Nonetheless, i think we have tried our best
and we certainly performed something of substance.
Perhaps more improvement and preparation needed
or the judging criteria were just too superficial
for instance, appearance, voting system that requires supporters to purchase overpriced sandwiches before they can vote..... :S
Anyway, I am overall satisfied with our performance
and i hope that Shi Huan will not be pulled back by this
Seriously, i think your voice is nice and you sing very well
Forgive me for any part of the performance that i might have jeopardised
And most importantly, don't give up your passion!

This week has been a really tiring week for me,
Monday - PE + Bio SPA + choir practice
Tuesday - Econs test
Wednesday - talentime audition + choir practice
Thursday - Book review presentation + printing of super huge poster
Friday - Math assignment + H3 oral presentation rehersal
Saturday - H3 oral presentation examination
Homework to be completed before next week: Math, Chem, Econs and Bio tutorials...
Also, i must write back to my angel so that his/her effort is not wasted
otherwise i would feel really bad for myself
Can i breath, please?

18Feb

2009-02-18T07:47:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday!
to
Andy Yow Seng Hon
my best friend since primary school
and forever will be
May all your wishes come true(:

yesterday, today, tomorrow

2009-02-17T08:11:00.000-08:00

Had Bio SPA yesterday
as usual, it didn't go smoothly
it never did, i bet this applies to everyone else too

Results for SSEF2009 came out today
my research has been shorlisted
unfortunately, have no choice but to withdraw from competition
as the research paper is considered examination material under H3 subject
not bad, at least it sheds light in my H3 grade
because it must be of a certain standard for it to be shortlisted

Talentime2009 audition tomorrow
finally confirmed the song: 男人不该让女人流泪 - 苏永康
hopefully we will pull an impressive performance

15Feb

2009-02-15T04:08:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday!

Cheng Kiat

Good luck for bio SPA tmr=)
and all your future endeavors!

Nur für Jaci

2009-02-10T07:24:00.000-08:00

9Feb

2009-02-09T07:02:00.000-08:00

今天
我正式宣布《呼风焕宇》的成立
组员：郑世焕 + 陈宇航
我们即将参加 TalentTime2009
希望能晋级至决赛吧

a song

2009-02-03T03:53:00.000-08:00

蓝天 - 满江浤

a very meaningful song

α´- β´

2009-01-31T22:37:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday!

ShiHuan
1Feb

Donate some weight to me!! =)

You will like her

2009-01-28T08:19:00.000-08:00

Remember my "you will like him" post?
Now, i am going to present to you a "her".
Young, Talented and Pretty.邓紫棋 aka G.E.M.(Get Everyone Moving)

Her original name was 邓诗颖 (Gloria Tang).
She is younger than me! 16August1991
She started composing music at the age of 5,
participating in different singing competitions at the age of 10,
and finished piano grade 8 at the age of 13.
She is only 17 this year.

I noticed her only during the CNY holiday when i was watching 第31屆十大中文金曲頒獎音乐会. She sang a duet with Hins and her voice was amazing. Initially i wasn't really paying much attention to the song, but i was utterly impressed and attracted when i heard her voice.

This was the part:

Enjoy other performances by her:

Love her, don't ya?

Happy Chinese New Year!

2009-01-28T06:32:00.000-08:00

Happy Chinese 牛 year!

Malaysia one-week holiday
Singapore two-day holiday
I'm back here for school while my family, relatives and friends are still celebrating CNY.
Why the difference?
I prefer longer festival break over longer term break actually.

Okay, lets see what have i done over these few days.
OH ya, i brought my handphone cable back, so photos are available.
Photos taken during December holiday first:These are found in Singapore even one month before December!
One of the passengers of Candy's car.
My cousins.
I went to New Zealand. It's actually a shop nearby my house.
Trust me, those are mine and my sis's.
Teddy and Coco.
Teh, Cham(Cantonese)=mix, Kopi. 冰
Pavilion.

And now, i realised that i didn't take photo for the entire CNY.
This is the only one i found:
My Class: 08S7A.

Basically, for the entire CNY holiday.
I watched my mom and my sisters baked lots and lots of different kinds of cookies.
I watched Tuxedo in the midnight at TV2.
I watched Conan again.
I watched 家有喜事2009. 吴君如实在太敢丑化自己了.
The most memorable of this holliday are the three meals cooked by my grandma, my grandpa and my mom. They were wonderful.
The only regret is that i haven't got the chance to play firecrackers for this CNY. It never happen in the past...anyway, it's okay.

Ok, let me just introduce a few songs and end this post.
Can't wait to introduce somebody in my next post.
I will have a special announcement in my future post too.
囍帖街 - 谢安琪
单车 - 陈奕迅
黑色礼服 - 苏永康
That's all, bye!

Wordy

2009-01-20T08:43:00.000-08:00

If you are wondering why am i taking so long to update my blog,
having no time is definitely an excuse,
as i believe nothing can hinder a determined soul.
The truth is i find myself losing momentum in blogging,
I am back to square one.
Why is this happening?
Perhaps it's because I have stopped blogging for quite some time,
or more accurately i think is because my mind has started tuning to the rote learning mode,
as A levels are already near within sight,
and this leaves me with less time to enjoy and reflect on my daily life.

Actually, there isn't much interesting stuff that happened to me recently,
unless you find homework, homework and homework particularly thrilling to you in some uncomprehensible ways.
The most interesting of all was probably the birthday celebration we had on Saturday for a number of malaysian scholars who were December and January babies.
1 day = 24 hours is not enough for me!
I am person who believe that study hard and play hard must coexist.
I do live up to that.
I allocate time for myself to relax everday apart from the time fixed for studying but with this i find myself sacrificing much of my sleeping hours.
There is certainly a problem with our current education system but i shall not discuss on that or i will be writing an extremely long essay.
My advice to all of you is to follow your heart.
It might not be easy given our real life situation but try to strike a balance between them, your will have a more delightful life and trust me, you won't regret.

As for my studies, I am certainly underperforming based on my potential but it will be soon that i "revive".
For now, I just can't wait for Friday to come as it will be the day when i go back to my hometown for Chinese New Year celebration!
This period of time will also be the time when i can relax to the fullest, meet my friends and relatives, consume any food that tastes, smells or looks delicious...hahaha
Lastly, a song to recommend: 坏人 - 方炯镔. JiaJun introduced me the song and it is quite nice.
By the way, there was this hero, Captain Sullenberger, that you all can go find out more about him. I was totally impressed by his skills and calmness.

13Jan

2009-01-13T06:56:00.000-08:00

WenXia owns my entire post today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Somebody was so high today such that she said:
"I SO CHIO EVERY PIC ALSO NICE LOR"
haha
那就祝你永远都那么漂亮
~~不能变更漂亮!~~ :P

HeartBeat

2009-01-10T09:37:00.000-08:00

Hey, 我回来了！

Argh...i really dunno how to start my post.
I feel so empty now,
It's like walking on the street alone in the midnight
I can't even feel my heart beating
I did have a lot to post about the past one month
so much so that i have no idea where to start
but unfortunately, I have no internet access
and strangely, i know i want to blog but i don't have the urge to write
Maybe because of my undone homework
Actually, i haven't touched much of my homework
I was busy completing my reserach paper for the past few days
and weird enough, i am not worried about my homework
Maybe because they are within my ability to complete by tommorow
or just because i know that no matter how much i rush, i just wouldn't get them completed in time.
School is starting after the end of tomorrow
and Chinese New Year is in 2 weeks time
I hope that this 2 weeks can be quick and easy
And i will have to plan my year soon..
it's going to be BUSY

Anyway, let me try to summarise my short holiday:
Wait! at this moment, i just realised that i forgot to bring my handphone cable back.
so sad, no photos for this post
I celebrated my brother's and sister's birthday.
I watched Twilight, High School Musical 3 and Ip Man.
I played soccer twice at U one futsal court.
I went redbox thrice.
I went to sunway pyramid, subang parade, summit, 1utama, the curve, ikano and pavilion.
I played dota, mahjong, card games and 动词tempo.
I watched grey's anatomy, conan's movies, 家好月圆 and 珠光宝气.
I went to candy's and andy's mansions.
I ate a lot, especially my mom's fantastic cookings.
I have a great time with Heng.
.....

Okay, i really dunno how to continue my post
I think this will be all
Happy New Year to everyone!
Let me introduce some of the songs that i listened to lately before i golatest album: 心·跳 - 王力宏

If you ask me whether the songs are nice, sorry to say that i still cannot tell you
I haven't had the right mood to listen closely to music yet
but i can tell you which are the songs that i enjoyed according to my feeling
the one that i like the most is 春雨里洗过的太阳
我完全没有任何理由理你, 另一个天堂 are also nice
Other songs that I listened to include:
爱不疚 - 林峰
一句话 - 卓文宣
阴天假期 - 卫兰
草戒指 - 神木与瞳
三岔口 - 满江浤
你好吗 - 李玖哲/周笔畅
别再哭了 - 罗亿诗

bye=)

真无奈，被点中了！

2008-11-28T11:23:00.000-08:00

没办法，原本还打算等明天得空时才update的
现在唯有在百忙中抽空先完成这个吧

第一被點者請在自己的部落格裡寫下答案
第二請傳給10個人
第三傳閱人請在於這10個人的留言板告知他被點名了
第四這10個人不能拒絕
第五被點者請注明被誰點了在哪接到再傳給下10位
第六這些被點名者你們會得到幸福並且願望會實現哦

【幸福套餐】開始囖~~~

---幸福套餐No.1---
01 你的綽號 - 靓仔，摆摊子买东西的都那么说的=.= 高佬算吗？
02 年齡 - 17歲
03 生日 - 91年7月29日
04 星座 - 狮子座
05 興趣 - 唱歌、踢球、看电影
06 專長 - 讲废话、审美

---幸福套餐No.2---
01 你有沒有喜歡的人 - 有
02 你是否在交往 - 没有
03 現在幸福嗎 - 知足
04 如果上天給你勇氣，最想做什麽事情 - 只修我喜欢的科目
05 如果有天，你喜歡的人跟你告白的話 - 证明你的幸福套餐管用

---幸福套餐No.3---
01 點你的人是 - 慧美
02 他是你的 - 朋友，是她，不是他
03 他的個性 - 开朗活泼，但表面看起来有点忧郁
04 認識他多久 - 今年是第二年了吧
05 你覺得他怎樣 - 人不错啊
你想對他說什麽 - 谢谢你，我会报仇的

---幸福套餐No.4---
01 最愛的節目 - grey's anatomy
02 最愛的音樂 - 慢歌
03 最愛的季節 - 秋
04 最愛的卡通 - 柯南
05 最愛的人 - 家人
06 最愛的顏色 - 白
07 最愛的國家 - 奥地利
08 最愛的天氣 - 多云

---幸福套餐No.5---
01 如果上天給你三個願望 - 家人身体健康，生活愉快
- 去我想要得大学，完成我的志愿
- 不贪心，就只要多三个愿望吧
02 你是很專一的人嗎？ - 无可否认
03 最深刻的影響 - 他的教导
04 你是很有信心的人嗎？ - 曾经
05 你是愛微笑的人嗎？ - 应该不是
06 如果要你放棄現在的生活你要嗎？- 未满一岁时你问我也许我会考虑
07 妄想什麽樣的生活 - 万人拥戴
08 是否橫刀博愛才是愛？ - 何方道理？

調卷到此結束，點人者請置於被點著的留言板告知被點名了

* 點名名單 *
Candy
Eleena
JiaJun
Justin
ChingMing
LooTing
ShinWei
Xia
YeongZiang
ZhiTao
不好意思，我就只有你们可以点。
Everyone I linked.

9 days more

2008-11-20T06:31:00.000-08:00

Arghh...
I am down with a running nose=(
Can you imagine how annoying it is to pipette out 60 tubes of cocktail for real-time PCR along with a nose that is draining out fluid non-stop?
Also, you must constantly refrain yourself from rubbing your nose with your gloved hands that might be contaminated with all sorts of bacteria or hazardous substances.
Not to mention that your eyes are also tearing badly as a result of the running nose.
It really challenged my ability to concentrate!
Seriously, out of all the illnesses, I hate running nose the most.
I know I look like Roudoff, thanks a lot KennSiang=.=

Anyway, Hugh Jackman crowned People's "Sexiest Man Alive" for 2008! yeah
"You can't go wrong" with Jackman, People.com On-Air Correspondent Michelle Beadle told Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez after revealing the selection. "He's Australian, first of all. He's adorable. He's got one of the best bodies ever. And he's a family man. We all love that. He doesn't -- he's not on the party scene. He loves his kids, he loves his wife. He likes to stay home and make pancakes. He's almost too perfect!"

Next up,
There was a breakthrough surgery: World’s first tailor-made windpipe transplant.
A paper published in the Lancet Medical journal online yesterday described the cutting-edge collaboration involving doctors in three countries — Spain, Britain and Italy. Scientists hailed the procedure as a breakthrough.
Scientists removed all the cells from the windpipe of a 51-year-old donor by scrubbing it clean with a high-tech detergent.
The next steps were to reconstitute the living tissue using Mrs Castillo’s own stem cells and graft them onto the windpipe. The new windpipe was transplanted into her in June.
Because the new windpipe was made from Mrs Castillo’s cells, she has not needed powerful drugs to prevent her body rejecting the organ. - TODAYonline
Mrs Castillo is now leading a normal life again!
Her damaged trachea on the left was replaced with a tailor-made trachea build using donor's cartilage grafted with her own stem cells.
So cool, isn't it?
You now do not have to wait in the transplant list to get a trachea.
However, as far as I know, they are still working towards building an organ entirely, without the need of a donor.
And also, scientists are still unable to construct other organs using this method.
Perhaps this is still a one-off success. More effort should be put in.

Besides, my research mentor is also on the newspaper today!
Under Stem Cell Research - Hope for diabetics.
Singapore team able to produce insulin in mice; humans next.
So happy that I am contributing to this.
It's a meaningful research.

Lastly, I also subscribed TIME from a girl from TJC who is now interning at EmitAsia.
She said she is offerring me a price cheaper than what the school will charge me if the school is helping me to order them.
Well, I thought I will have to order them next year anyway and they will be delivered directly to where I live.
Why not do her a favour?
So I trusted her.
I know the commission is hard to earn :P

TigerAttack

2008-11-17T04:14:00.000-08:00

Days before, a malaysian who worked as a zoo keeper in the Singapore Zoo was mauled to death by three white tigers.
How so?
He deliberately jumped into the tiger enclosure with the full intention of dying.
He said goodbye to his fellow zoo keepers before approaching the tigers.
What happened was he later realised that dying is actually not something that he really wanted but unfortunately he couldn't manage to escape from the tigers even if he wanted it so much.
Licensed shooters were going over to the area after being alerted of the attack.
However, when they reached, the tigers were nowhere in sight as they had retreated back into their den.
By that time, the man's breathing was already very shallow and he subsequently lost his life despite the first aid provided by veterinarian.
You know how tigers attack.
They bite at the neck.
I feel so sorry for that man.
Even if he wanted to die, there were so many better ways of dying and why chose this.

Anyway, what disturbed me was that a discussion on whether the tigers should be "removed" as a punishment was raised.
Why would people even think of killing the animals in the first place?
What had the tigers done wrong?
They are not like human.
They can't think cognitively like us.
They do not know that we humans are so superior that we cannot afford to be harmed.
It's their nature of hunting down perceived enemy or prey.
They might also do it out of curiosity.
So, why is the blame on them?
I understand that some people might think that the man changed his mind.
He wanted to live but if the tigers weren't that wild, perhaps he might still escaped.
Hence, they came to this conclusion that the tigers deserve the punishment.
First of all, I would like to say that at the very first second he stepped into the enclosure, he had to be all prepared to die.
There was no guarantee that you would escape alive.
It's no joke.
Well, the tiger might see you as a deer? a zebra? I don't know.
You can't just say that once you change your mind that you don't want to die anymore, the blame will now be on the tigers if you couldn't escape.
That doesn't make sense at all.
Moreover, it is expected that he will change his mind.
It's basic instinct to stay alive.
No matter what, people struggle to survive.
I am sure even those who wanted to commit suicide, at the point when they are that near to death, they will be overwhelmed by fear and start to struggle for survival.
Poeple will only want to die when they think that they are better off dead based on the simple fact that no one knows what is going to happen after death and I am sure not everyone go for euthanasia sincerely feel that they should die, if not all.
Their state of mind must have been influence by their false perception on the suffering of intolerable pain, the unnecessary burden caused to the family memebers, the unbearable quality of life and so on.
Therefore, it is not justifiable, given the above reasons, that the tigers should be killed.
If the tigers were killed on the spot so as to stop them from attacking the man at that time, then it is still reasonable.
But after the incident people are still thinking of whether or not to kill them is ridiculous.
In additional, just a bonus point, those are rare white tigers.
It's funny to see that poeple are not looking into other more important areas and instead, focusing on what is totally irrelevant.

Questions on the safety measures that the zoo prescribes were also raised.
This I think is a good point although I think that we cannot possibly stop everyone who tries to commit suicide.
At least we can put in more effort on eliminating all or most of the opportunities that can allow such incident to happen.
From what I understood, the zoo's security was quite well but definitely, there are still rooms for improvement.
Working on this certainly yields no harm but benefits.

By the way, from the report I got to know that the man was actually a family person.
He placed family first in everything.
For this, I respect him.
He called back to his Malaysian home every morning, and up to 4 times in a day.
He even kept his family photos in his wallet which his family also did not know.
He came over to work in Singapore so that he could earn some money and send back to his family.
He was also a very helpful and dilligent worker.
What a waste that he died.
It's still unknown as to what triggered him to commit suicide.
Rest in peace.

Arsenal's Rookies

2008-11-15T01:08:00.000-08:00

"If he [Capello] wants to have a good selection now he wants to come to our Carling Cup games," joked the Arsenal manager, Arsène Wenger, after the 3-0 victory which progressed his teenage team to the quarter-finals. "We have a competitive future," Wenger added. "Gavin Hoyte, Kieran Gibbs, Mark Randall, Jack Wilshere. The four are top class. Jay Simpson, too. On the bench there was Emmanuel Frimpong, Henri Lansbury. All are top class. If you give me time I will bring a few of them through."

Introducing to you:
50 Jay Simpson(19)
19 Jack Wilshere(16)
40 Kieran Gibbs(19)
41 Gavin Hoyte(18)
47 Mark Randall(19)
56 Emmanuel Frimpong(16)
42 Henri Lansbury(18)

I'm not going to comment on them because I really know nothing much about them, except that they scored quite a number of goals for the past matches.

BoyBands

2008-11-14T07:25:00.000-08:00

Which is your favourite?
Westlife

Backstreet Boys

N'sync

Boyzone

O-town

Blue

IlDivo

Try listening to how all of them do the harmony at parts of their songs.
They are so nice!

LooTing is going to be so envious of me

2008-11-13T05:58:00.001-08:00

Ask me why=)

All style, no substance?

2008-11-12T07:05:00.000-08:00

This guy:

Michael Essien
Chelsea's midfielder
Commented that Arsenal is all style and no substance.
In other words, they are all crap besides looking good.

His exact words were:
"Everybody likes to watch beautiful football, but to play beautiful football without points is… I don’t think it’s worth it. Arsenal is one of those teams that just plays beautiful football, but at the end of the day they don’t get the points that they want to."

Also, he said, "For me, I don’t care. To be rough and get three points, or play well and get three points—win ugly or beautifully—I don’t care."

Do you agree with him?
I don't.

Firstly, I think Essien's perception of substance is way too shallow.
Substance is not just about winning the title and scoring.
It includes how well is your defense, how well the team coordinated in terms of creating chances or grabbing opportunities and so on.
And frankly speaking, you certainly require a certain unassailable level of substance to be able to play with style.
Does it mean that your team is full of substance if you can score plenty of goals but you have never played a nice game because the goals were just plain lucky or through dirty tricks?
If Chelsea can play like Arsenal and still scoring that well, then I have nothing to say.

Secondly, Essien made his judgement based on the assumption that Arsenal compromised on their scoring performance due to the emphasis on skills.
Playing a beautiful game is actually a sign respect to the soccer fans as well as to the team itself.
Essien would probably never able to understand this.
You will have no regrets although you have lost in the end because you know that you have given your best and you played it impressively.
Furthermore, Wenger has just managed to silence the critics by the triumph over Manchester United in the recent game.
Style can be side by side with Substance.
Does this mean that Manchester United has no substance?
Certainly not!
Why so?
because we know it deep in our hearts, they have played a great game.
Sometimes, maybe, maybe it's just not your time yet.

Lastly, I don't think that Arsenal have it wrong as suggested by Essien.
Instead, "Wenger deserves huge admiration for the way he insists his team goes about its business," as agreed Phil McNulty.
Look at the youngsters that Wenger has trained.
The skills and vision that they possess.
They are the playmakers in every game.
So, what's wrong now with playing a beautiful game without points?
Although I must admit that winning the title is also very important,
this is something that Arsenal can work towards perfecting the team,
every team has its own way of playing,
and the Style is what makes Arsenal stands out from the rest.

Keep it up and go all the way!

The gunners.

SPM

2008-11-09T17:27:00.001-08:00

All the best to all my malaysian friends who are taking their SPM tomorrow!
I know this is kind of late but I hope that you all can see this.
Rest early so that you can be absolutely focused for tomorrow's paper.
And most importantly, be confident!
It is either you have prepared or the other way round.
If you are fully prepared, all the more that you have nothing to worry about.
You can never say that you have studied EVERYTHING, you know it.
So, please not let your unnecessary emotions penalise you even before you begin on the paper.
Else, if you have not prepared, you also should not worry because you have nothing more to lose.
All that you gain from the exams will just be bonus to you.
So stay confident, and see how much extra bonus can you gain=)
The more the merrier, so aim high!
Unexpected events always occur, you will never know.
Oh ya, and don't you think that exams are more fun to you all compared to those that have fully prepared because there is this additional excitement in it where either you spot on the questions or you get something totally alien to you which is challenging=) We all love challenging stuff, don't you agree?
OKay, so in other words, you all have no reason not to do well, at least within expectations and it must be the highest attainable point.

By the way, 我强调：一分耕耘，一分收获。
这还是最基本且无可否决的原理。
虽说运气与临场表现也有份主宰你的成绩结果，
世上没有免费的午餐，
如何在变数中掌握至多的控制权，
关键就在于你是否明白这道理，
不劳而获并不是大自然的一部分=)
认命吧！

FacOuting

2008-11-07T06:39:00.002-08:00

Yesterday night, I went to alloha Changi for faculty outing.
Theme: scary.
Around ten from our class were present there.
Went there late because YuRong and I waited for RuiXian and ShiHuan who were having Biology Olympiad competition that ended rather late.
Luckily YuRong was together with me at the Bouna Vista MRT.
Okay, back to the outing, a chalet was booked for the event.
Then, inside there are rooms where I suppose games designed to scare you were going on.
We arrived late, so couldn't really play the games.
Luckily there was still food.
Otherwise RuiXian would have to treat all of us.
Did I see any ghost? No, but there were countless pretty girls :P
Nevertheless, there were still people dressing in weird costumes.
I simply wore a black shirt because I was doing my research in the morning.
How dis I feel about the outing?
Maybe due to the fact that I went there late, I basically did not get the fun of it.
It felt like the event just ended not long after we arrived, not even warmed up.
Till now, I still don't see the meaning why I am blogging about all these.
I just feel like writing something.

Nevermind, Here is another thing that I can talk about:
昨天，我在报纸上读到一则相当可笑的新闻。
标题写着：
马国现任首相阿都拉认为
在马来西亚，来自少数民族也可担任首相。
我究竟该说他极度肤浅抑或是过度自信呢？
凭他的言行举措，想必答案明显只有那个。
他们何时才会成熟独立仍是个未知数，
还说什么掌权者有机会是非马来人!
要达到美国般的开放与民主程度？
我不说不可能啦，只是难如登天而已嘛。
恳请他别再作出类似的发表，
声望已被自己的办事与领导能力左右了，
别再为自己德愚昧加分，雪上加霜。

Change has come to America

2008-11-05T07:04:00.000-08:00

First of all, congratulation to the new owner of this house:

All of you must have known who is he.
Barrack Obama
The newly-elected 44th president of the United States.

He has won my vote simply through his skin colour.
I can feel the meaning of him being elected to the US and also to the rest of the world.
I can sense hope and freedom.
The world is changing, for the better.
"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer," he said in the first sentence of his speech.
With him being the history defying proof, I totally agree with what he has said.
Sadly, I probably would not live long enough to see this level of democracy attained in my country.
Or perhaps, it will always be a myth.
Barack Obama has committed himself to doing more on global warming and wants greenhouse gases reduced by 80% by 2050.
This will be one of the most important issues of his presidency, as the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 and negotiations about a follow-up have stalled.
I hope that he will do a great job in this aspect.
Lets enjoy his wonderful and inspiring speech:

He is the first ever African-American to be elected as the president.
Years back, who would even think that this might happen?
But, before our eyes, he made it.
With the fullest respect, I present to you the Black Man in the White House, president Barrack Obama!

ProjectWork

2008-11-04T09:39:00.000-08:00

Today was the assesment day for PW Oral Presentation.
So glad that PW finally ended!
Can you believe that? It is ended!
It was a great relief=)
And most importantly, all our effort have not been put into waste.
The unlimited time that we have spent in completing our project and rehersing on our OP has eventually been paid off handsomely.
The enormous change in the first draft of our work, be it written report or the presentation slides, compared to our final product is so unbelievable.
I really couldn't expressed in words how grateful I am towards my group members at this point in time.
Also, not to forget, our beloved mentor Mr ChrisHo!
I am sure we all love him=)
All I want to say now is that I cherish the bond that we have forged within our group.
I sincerely want to thank every single one of you for making PW so memorable and enjoyable to me.
I agree to Steffi, it is hard to imagine anyone of us missing from the group as every single one of us contributed in our own way to the synergy that our group possesses.
Without any one of our unique characters, our group spirit might not even exist anymore.
Thanks everyone for making me more discipline XD
Forgive me for all my disruptions during discussions as sometimes I just couldn't stand it but to joke around so as to cheer the group up :P

Today, after our OP, I asked a question: So, what do we do after PW?
JuatYing then replied: Go and eat.
But what I was actually trying to refer to was our PW group.
Since that now our OP has ended, where do we go from here?
Does it mean that we are not going to work together as a group anymore?
Does it mean that our bond is going to weaken as time passed by?
Does it mean that we will just disband?
I asked the question because I suddenly feel a gust of emptiness in me.
Long live Wild Wild WE!

OKay, after that. we went t Bukit Timah Plaza to have Pizza Hut with the other groups that have presented at the morning timeslot.
These are the people:

Bryan, I, YuTong, RuiXian, ZongNing(top)
Joelynn, Steffi, Jolene, Denyse(middle)
Eleanor, JuatYing(Front)
We played 终极密码.
Bingo will taste the "delicious soup" with pepper, cheese, pepsi, cili and what not added.
It looked more like some evil-looking concoction to me.
I got the number twice.
Trust me, you will puke if you taste the soup.
Then, in some unknown ways, ZongNing was asked to perform a dare.
After resisting for quite some time, he finally did it.
He went over the to table beside where someone elses were eating there and sat there for 3 seconds..haha

My PW group also took some picture together there:

Next, I was dragged to Orchard Road by the guys.
Initial plan was to watch Tropic Thunder.
Then somebody said he wanted to save some money.
So in the end, after a long debate, we did nothing but stone outside the cinema.
Afterwhich, we walked to the Borders to look around and see if there was any interesting books.
I then went to Kinokuniya with RuiXian to look for some SAT reference book.
There were 3 different types due to different publishers.
The contents were quite different too.
So I couldn't make up my mind as to which one is the right choice.
And I shall seek opinion from others who are more knowledgable about this.
Lastly, we went to HMV to look at and listen to some of the new albums.

That's still not the end of my day...
We then went over to YuJie's house at Seragoon.
So far....
Anyway, I enjoyed my time there=)
Many others from our class went too.
We played cards and mahjong.
Some of the rest were playing the XBOX or some boardgame.
And I 自摸清一色 today. muahahaha
YuJie's mom was so nice, brought us towel because we were drenched by the rain while walking to her house=)
We also had apple, green tea and oreo.
Moreover, no 10% service charge like the pizza hut=)
It took me 1 hour to get back from YuJie's house

Today was tiring but fun!
Starting from tomorrow, I will resume my research at IMB.
Hopefully it can be completed within this month.

Wonderful Animation

2008-11-02T10:25:00.000-08:00

Found a nice animation on youtube that I thought of sharing with you all:
The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello

I particularly enjoyed the sounds and music that make you expereience and feel as though you are really present in that place, the storyline as well as the use of animated silhouttes.

Background information on the animation:
Nominated for an Oscar and for a BAFTA award, Jasper Morello is a short feature made in a unique style of silhouette animation developed by director Anthony Lucas and inspired by the work of authors Edgar Alan Poe and Jules Verne.
In the frontier city of Carpathia, Jasper Morello discovers that his former adversary Doctor Claude Belgon has returned from the grave. When Claude reveals that he knows the location of the ancient city of Alto Mea where the secrets of life have been discovered, Jasper cannot resist the temptation to bring his own dead wife Amelia back. But they are captured by Armand Forgette, leader of the radical Horizontalist anti-technology movement, who is determined to reanimate his terrorist father Vasco. As lightning energises the arcane machineries of life in the floating castle of Alto Mea, Jasper must choose between having his beloved restored or seeing the government of Gothia destroyed. Set in a world of iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, this gothic horror mystery tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his Plague-ridden home on a desperate voyage to redeem himself.
Also winner of the Grand Prix award at the Annecy Animation Festival, Jasper has also won the top honours at the Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival, Best Animation at Flickerfest 2005, Best Animation at the Sydney Film Festival Dendy awards and Best Animation at Toronto worldwide shorts.

This animation made me recall a short snimation that I watched long long ago:

There isn't a word spoken but the emotions are elegantly and thoroughly conveyed.

For what is a man? What has he got?

2008-11-02T00:26:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I watched a horror movie: 4biaIn my opinion, this is the best horror movie of the year.

So all horror fans, this is a must-see.

It is composed of 4 differrent but related stories.

This is not the main point as I personally find the link between them quite superfluous.

Apart from that, it has fantastic sound and visual effects (one of the most important elements required for horror movie), brilliant camera shooting angles and marvelous storyline.

Additionally, the director is very good at cost-cutting.

For the first story, a girl, a room and a phone, done!

For the second story, it has the best camera maneuvers. The film is elegant with digital effects.

For the third story, four men, a tent and a river, done. Best plot with a shocking twist.

For the four story, sorry to say that this is the least appealing to me perhaps due to high expectations that have built in me by the previous 3 stories. Nevertheless, it has a few scary moments. Oh ya, not to mention, just a plane was used for this story and obviously they do not really need a real plane and fly them in the air.

Next, the day before yesterday, I watched Cellular.

If you ask me, what makes a man?

I will tell you that the main character in this movie is the answer!

The movie started with the portrayal of this guy who is dumped by his girlfriend due to his levity.

To prove himself, he took on a simple task suggested by his girlfiriend.

Suddenly, while was halfway doing his task, he received a random call from a kidnapped woman asking for help using a shattered phone and he happened to be her only source of help.

Also, he must do everything to ensure that the line is not disconnected, otherwise the woman might not be able to get back to anybody for help.

It took him some time to put down his task on hand and decided to help the woman.

He then got involved, committed and finally determined to save the woman and her entire family.

He risked everything just to save the family even tough he was scared at times.

And what more can a victim like the woman ask for?

He is her only hope.

What did the man do in details, why was the woman kidnapped and what's the ending.

I am not going to spoil you, so go and watch yourself.

Actually, there is a remake of this movie in Chinese version this year: Connected
Comments so far is that the Chinese version is better.

I think they probably expanded on the emotion component if I am not wrong.

For that's the only thing that I can think of changing.

No worries if you haven't get a chance to watch Connected as I think watching cellular is already good enough.

The most memorable scene in the movie to me is the part where he was negotiating with the culprits whether to release the family first or to surrender them what they want first.

And this guy, trying to act smart, telling them that they lose and cut off the line as they refused to release the family first.

He was so worried that he had made the wrong choice and that they would not call back and straight away kill the family.

Fortunately, it was worth risking, they called him back as the thing they wanted is really very important to them.

I like the way he acted out the emotions while he was waiting for them to call back, or rather hoping that they will call back. It's so real and funny.

And you just can't wait to say "nice one" because that's indeed not a bad tactic to use.

OKay, lastly, I would like to recommend a song: 我还想她 - 林俊杰

It's a song in his latest album, JJ陆 Sixology

31st Oct: Treat or Trick?

2008-10-31T07:25:00.000-07:00

First of all, Happy Halloween!!!

Treat:
Today is also one of my friends' birthday!

Happy Birthday to KennSiang!

He must be super pissed at me for putting his photo up=)

He kept avoiding my camera today:

1st attempt

2nd attempt
3rd attempt

4th atempt5th attempt
All failed=(

We went to Orchard Road to celebrate

Ate at Delifrance

and I had this:

I should not comment about its tastiness..

All the following people went:

Don't understand why the are so obssessed with the "Loser" sign...

CalvinSim here with a charming pose=)
We even saw Andy Lau in the 瘦身男女version. Look at the guy in the background...

I am not kidding. He seriously looks alike to that version of Andy Lau

We then went to watch the Coffin
Karren Mok starred in it

Not going to comment on it also

More about KennSiang, he is a smart guy, naturally

5 years my roommate.
All the best in earning his 5As

and getting into MIT!!!

You can definitely do it.

If you can't, who else can?

Eh, eh, know you are happy now.

But don't be overwhelmed with hubris and turn complacent.

Trick:

Today is also the day where SAW V is available on the big screen

Rated R21 in Singapore.

So, couldn't watch it.

Next, we walked along Orchard Road after the movie and saw this guy waiting for a cab.
Then, I requested to take a photo with him=)
Scary?

That's not real okay? it's just him costume!

There are several other ghosts walking around Orchard Road too. So cool!

OKay, that's it for today.

Hope that you have also enjoyed your 31st of October=)

H3

2008-10-29T02:03:00.000-07:00

After much consideration, I have changed my mind of applying for a second H3 subject which will require me to downgrade one of my H2 subjects into a H1 due to the cap on academic units.
Initially, I thought of applying for it and see if I am accepted since I am eligible for applying another H3 on Biology or Chemistry.
If successful, I will downgrade my H2 Economics into H1.
However, there was this dilemma in me all the while.
Because, I felt rather reluctant to downgrade any of my subjects and also if I were to reject the offer after I am accepted, I would have denied someone else who is interested the place.
So, I went to seek advice from my civic tutor and she said that actually one H3 is already good enough.
If I am not taking another one, perhaps I can spend more time on my weaker subjects like GP and also avoid the trouble of adapting to a new schedule with the change of H2 to H1.
Unless I am really so passionate about that particular H3 or else she would advice that I stick to the status quo.
Honestly, I do think that I need to allocate more time for my GP.
So, I gave up on applying finally.
Since that I have made up my mind not to take the H3, I might as well just not apply for it since that it might possibly take up someone else's place.
Furthermore, I have already got the H3 that I wanted which is in biological research and I am currently enjoying it.
Not that I am not passionate about the H3 that I thought of applying, just hope that this sacrification can be translated into high grade for GP as well as A for all other subjects.

Okay, enough of H3.
Today, I read in the newspaper that on 27 October, a French professor and leading heart transplant specialist Alain F. Carpentier announced that a fully implantable artificial heart will be ready for clinical trial by 2011, and for alternative transplant in 2013.
This prosthetic device beats almost exactly like the real thing using electronic sensors to regulate heart rate and blood flow.
"If you showed the electrocardiogram to a cardiologist he would say 'that's a human heart.' Well no, it isn't: it's a prosthesis," they said.
Alain Carpentier said it had taken him 15 years to perfect and claimed his device overcomes some of the drawbacks with other prototypes.

Heart disease claims some 17 million lives a year. Existing pneumatic heart implants are intended only to be used as a stop-gap during transplant operations or while patients await a donor organ.

The new heart is covered with specially treated tissue to avoid rejection by the body's immune system and the formation of blood clots, and can respond instantly to blood pressure changes thanks to guided missile technology.
Prof Carpentier cites their use of sterilised ‘bioprosthetic’ pig cartilage and exactly replicating human heart blood flow – hemodynamics – to overcome the biggest stumbling block to artificial hearts: blood clots.

3Things

2008-10-28T11:19:00.000-07:00

1st
Today I attended the HC Idol competition in the evening, where every faculty sends two representatives for it.
It was amusing.
I went for the audition but couldn't make it through=(
Reason: Too nervous and so did not prepare well for my high notes
Anyway, the competition was totally owned by Timothy.
He is such a natural performer.
I seriously admire the kind of composure, equanimity he has on the stage.
To him, the mindset was like there is never a problem but only situtation.
And so, what's the big deal?
Microphone producing a sharp sound, peak fell on the gound, unsure of lyrics, fingers cramp.....
All these had not affected his overall performance.
Why? Because he simply moved on wisely and effortlessly without showing any panic.
He made it so enjoyable with all his humour and creativity invested when situtations arised.
I really wonder when can I attain this kind of standards O.o

2nd
My Project Work group had our third oral presentation rehersal in the morning.
My tutor said that he is perfectly happy with my speech this time.
And that I have had a great improvement compared to the previous rehersal.
I was so elated when he said "great improvement".
Strange enough, I wouldn't be as happy if he had said something like "you are the best presenter today!"
The word "improvement" just sounded more meaningful to me.
Moreover, it was a "GREAT improvement". =)
Perhaps it's the encouragement that comes along with the phrase.
I do believe that continuous desire for improvement spurs creativity.

3rd
I let a golden opportunity slipped by.
It passed by in front of my eyes, walking in slow motion and at the same time, mocking at my cowardice.
All that I had in me was just fear and certainly adrenaline rush.
Fear of what? I don't exactly know but I just couldn't do it.
And tomorrow is the last day of school.
Lets see if something interesting will happen.
Why my school work doesn't end with the school semester?

Happy Deepavali

2008-10-27T10:17:00.000-07:00

First of all,
Happy Deepavali to those that have not received my wishes.
The atmosphere here in Singapore is definitely not as bustling as that in Malaysia.
I bet there are fireworks for celebration in Malaysia.

Next,
One of my friends told me that people would rather know more about me instead of the cats.
So I should write more about myself.
Quite true I guess but at least you now know what's my favourite animal.
That's a valuable piece of information, don't you think so? =)
maybe not, whatever.

OKay, so what I have been doing for the pst few days?
Mostly playing dotA.
and the gamer name that I use for dotA is Mr. Muggles
Who is Mr. Muggles?
Those who watch Heroes will know who
Besides, my gamer name for CounterStrike is also a chracter from Heroes - Sylar
Cool? he has the unstoppable ability of headshot =)
And yesterday, I also went out with a number of my friends to a studio that we rented.
We kind of formed a rock band and made music there.
We played Cantonese, Chinese as well as English songs, all in rock version =)
I don't really know all of them actually.
We just get people who can sing or play different instruments and group ourselves together
There formed the band=)
The was an Indian Indian among us. I mean he is really from India.
He is a very humorous person.
We then went to a stall nearby to have some Indian food.
There, he told us about how different food that are regarded as Indian food but not truly Indian food are originated.
I do love Indian food actually.

Lastly, I can only go back after 29Nov due to Choir pactices.
How sad=(
Miss my family and friends a lot.
Our choir is ranked 7th in the world currently.
We have just became the champion of the 5th World Choir Games held in Graz.
With an incredibly high score, as mentioned.
Although much has to be sacrificed, it all worths it.
This was when they were announcing our results:

Proud to be part of it!

Okay, that's all.
I have been thinking very hard of what to blog for the past few days actually and I finally gave up.
Let the creativity unleashes naturally.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
—Edgar Degas

My favourite animal

2008-10-25T06:55:00.001-07:00

Today, I am going to talk about my favourite animal=)
It is under the biological family: Felidae, in layman terms, the cat family.
There are 40 known species of felids in the world today.
Extant felids belong one of the two sub-families: Felinae and Pantherinae.
Under Felinae, there are Genus Prionailurus, Puma, Acinonyx, Lynx, Leopardus, Leptailurus, Caracal, Profelis, Catopuma and Pardofelis.
Under Pantherinae, there are Genus Neofelis, Panthera and Uncia.
However, I am just going to feature some the prominent ones.

First, lets talk about one that is already extinct.
Smilodon剑齿虎, also known as saber-toothed tiger.
They belong to an extinct genus of large machairodontine saber-toothed cats.
They possess extremely long maxillary canines.
They became extinct around 10,000 BC.
It is hypothesised that their extinction is due to the end of the ice age.
Nowadays, you can still see them actually.
But where? In the museum,
In this form:

Next in the list, the King Of JUngle, lion (Panthera leo), one of the four species of big cats under Genus Panthera.
Eight subspecies of it is recognized today.
They are the tallest of the felines.
They are predatory carnivores who manifest two types of social organization.
Some are residents, living in groups, called prides.
Some are labeled nomads, who range widely and move about sporadically, either singularly or in pairs.
Lion sounds include snarling, purring, hissing, coughing, miaowing, woofing and roaring.
They most often roar at night; the sound, which can be heard from a distance of 8 kilometres, is used to advertise the animal's presence.
Singapore derives her name from lion, in malay, Singa.
Given by a fourteenth century Sumatran Malay prince named Sang Nila Utama, who alighting the island after a thunderstorm, spotted an auspicious beast on shore that his chief minister identified as a lion.
However, recent studies shows that lions have never lived there, so the beast that he saw was most likely a tiger instead=)

Another species under Genus Panthera is the tiger (Panthera tigris).
They are the heaviest cats.
Reaching up to 4 metres (13 ft) in total length and weighing up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds).
The pattern of their stripes is unique to each animal, and thus could potentially be used to identify individuals, much in the same way as fingerprints are used to identify people.
Recently, there are nine subspecies of tigers.In my opinion, Sumatran tigers are the most handsome tigers out of the nine subspecies.
In a poll conducted by Animal Planet, the Tiger was voted the world's favourite animal, narrowly beating man's best friend, the dog.

Third species under Genus Panthera is the jaguar (Panthera onca).
It is strongly associated with the presence of water and is notable, along with the tiger, as a feline that enjoys swimming.
The jaguar is a largely solitary, stalk-and-ambush predator, and is opportunistic in prey selection.
They have developed an exceptionally powerful bite, even relative to the other big cats.
This allows them to pierce the shells of armoured reptiles and to employ an unusual killing method: it bites directly through the skull of prey between the ears to deliver a fatal blow to the brain.
Like most cats, the jaguar is solitary outside mother-cub groups.

Lastly under Genus Panthera is the leopard (Panthera pardus).The smallest of the four roaring cats.
The leopard has relatively short legs and a long body, with a large skull.
Physically, it most closely resembles the jaguar, although it is usually smaller and of slighter build.
Its fur is marked with rosettes which lack internal spots, unlike those of the jaguar.
The rosettes on a jaguar's coat are larger, fewer in number, usually darker, and have thicker lines and small spots in the middle that the leopard lacks.
Jaguars also have rounder heads and shorter, stockier limbs compared to leopards.
The leopard is an agile and stealthy predator.
They are known for their ability in climbing, and it has been observed resting on tree branches during the day and descending from trees headfirst.
The leopard is primarily a nocturnal creature, and many of its operations are done by night.
This is to avoid other competing large predators.

Now, here comes my favourite animal:
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
Why so?
1) Unique due to its speedIt is the fastest land animal, reaching speeds between 112 and 120 km/h (70 and 75 mph)[3] in short bursts covering distances up to 460 m (1,500 ft), and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to 110 km/h (68 mph) in three seconds, greater than most supercars.
It lacks climbing abilities though.
The cheetah's paws have semi-retractable claws (known only in three other cat species - the Fishing Cat, the Flat-headed Cat and the Iriomote Cat) offering the cat extra grip in its high-speed pursuits.
Adaptations that enable the cheetah to run as fast as it does include large nostrils that allow for increased oxygen intake, and an enlarged heart and lungs that work together to circulate oxygen efficiently.
Cheetah also uses its tail as a rudder-like means of steering to allow it to make sharp turns, necessary to outflank prey who often make such turns to escape.
2) Beautiful skinThe coarse, short fur of the cheetah is tan with round black spots measuring from 2 to 3 cm (0.79 to 1.2 in) across, affording it some camouflage while hunting.
There are no spots on its white underside, but the tail has spots, which merge to form four to six dark rings at the end.
The tail usually ends in a bushy white tuft.
3) Slim body and striking featuresLook at her legs...
The cheetah has a small head with high-set eyes.
Black "tear marks" run from the corner of its eyes down the sides of the nose to its mouth to keep sunlight out of its eyes and to aid in hunting and seeing long distances.
The cheetah's chest is deep and its waist is narrow.
4) It looks more humble.If you ask me why choose cheetah over jaguar or leopard, I must say that cheetah has a more humble look, unlike jaguar and leopard that look much like a tiger=)
5) They have cute cubs:
Other facts:
Unlike "true" big cats, the cheetah can purr as it inhales, but cannot roar.
By contrast, the big cats can roar but cannot purr, except while exhaling.
Males are very sociable and will group together for life, usually with their brothers in the same litter; although if a cub is the only male in the litter then two or three lone males may group up, or a lone male may join an existing group. These groups are called coalitions.
However, females always hunt alone, although cubs will accompany their mothers to learn to hunt once they reach the age of five to six weeks.
For a short time it was thought that there were six subspecies of cheetah, but Acinonyx rex - the king cheetah - was abandoned after it was discovered the variation was only a recessive gene.
The king cheetah is a rare mutation of cheetah characterized by a distinct pelt pattern with larger, blotchy, merged spots.
Actually cheetah looks nicer with this coat.

Besides, we also have Cougar (Puma concolor) under Genus Puma.
Also a capable stalk-and-ambush predator.
Aside from humans, no species preys upon mature cougars in the wild.

Furthermore, we have Eurasian lynx and margay.Eurasian lynx
margay
they have the biggest eyes=)

Cutest among them we have the snow leopard (Uncia uncia):

We do also have hybrids, usually breed by the zoo:Liger - the offspring of a female tiger and male lion
Jaglion - jaguar and lion hybrid
Pumapard - a union between a cougar and a leopard

I dont really like the idea of cross-breeding, mainly because it sometimes leads to dwarfism and it also contaminates the pureness of species.

Lastly, due to melanism and albinism, leucism or the chinchilla mutation we also have cats that are totally black or entirely white respectively:
White tiger
White lion
White Leopard
Black Jaguar
Black Panther
I first see this animal in the Zoo Negara.
okay fine, who doesn't see wild animals like this only in zoo.
I always thought that it was another species called the panther.
Now i know actually they are just melanistic leopards=)

Another recessive gene may create a very unusual "golden tabby" colour variation.
Golden tabby tigers have light gold fur, pale legs and faint orange stripes.
Their fur tends to be much thicker than normal.

Cool or not? There are even sightings of blue tiger - the Maltese tiger.
"The markings of the beast are strikingly beautiful. The ground color is of a delicate shade of maltese, changing into light gray-blue on the underparts. The stripes are well defined and like those of the ordinary yellow tiger."
-- Caldwell in Chapman (1925)
Up to you to believe it=)

Information from wikipedia.

I took one day to complete this post!
Waste of time? Not really..
I feel like I am an expert on cats now
By the way, one important thing,all the animals above are endangered, at least near threatened... how sad
I realized that you will always have countless reasons, usually excuses for the things that you like to do
So, do the things that you really like
and apply this mindset to the things that you do everyday
Your life will be a lot easier and happier!

You Will Like Him

2008-10-23T04:02:00.000-07:00

Found someone young, handsome and talented

Sebastian Krantz

Movies

2008-10-22T10:47:00.000-07:00

Again, I took another 2 days for my 3rd post.
I must force myself to write just anything.

So, let's talk about the movie that I can't wait any longer to watch.
RocknRolla

It's written and directed by Guy Ritchie.
Recently he has some issues with his wife, Madonna. Splitting I guess.
His previous movie, Revolver(2005), was a brilliant work.

It took him 3 years to write this movie.
Unfortunately, it was not well-received, which in my opinion, due to the reason that it is difficult to understand.
There are mainly 3 stories going on at the same time in the movie.
Frankly speaking, I watched it twice before I could actually understand the movie.
Normal audience most probably saw just the surface story and it left them in doubt as it never reveals who Sam Gold, one of the characters in the movie, is.
There is actually an underlying meaning that this movie comprises, with all the characters representing different aspects of a person.
I wouldn't have gotten the correct interpretation if I had not experienced similar events during the period when I watched the movie.
It was enlightening=)
Seriously, it requires you to watched it over and over again before you can appreciate the essence of it.
I like the way he dealt with the theories of con in the movie.
Anyway, back to RocknRolla, congrats to him as he made a comeback.
It's easier to understand as he promised=)
His is now in the midst of his next movie, Sherlock Holmes!

Oh yea, if you all do not know, watching movies is something that I love to do when I have free time.
But I am quite particular about movies because I only watch nice movies.
I really hate spending a couple of hours on something that I get nothing out of it but a waste of time.
Nowadays, many commercial movies are just meant for public consumption and thus lack substance.
If you ask what is a good movie to me, I cannot give you a certain answer as to what defines a good movie because different movies are good at different aspects.
However, the movies that I consider nice are those that are enlightening - widen your perpectives on everything in life, those that end with a twist or even multiple twists as well as those that are humourous - note the difference between funny and humourous.
Strangely, I do like to watch horror movies too.
Although they are not of any value, they do satisfy a part of me that is curious about everything.
The scarier the movie, the more I desire to watch it=)

For horror movie fans, a Thai horror movie The Coffin is coming out soon.