Tuesday, September 30, 2003
I passed math! Yeah so I got an "E" grade, but so what.... At least I din fail math again. Got back one half of the set of Chemistry papers. Chemistry... hmmm, its gone for all I know, I'm prepared for the inevitable "F"

"F" is for Fiasco......


Sneaked a peek at the calendar just now, 40 days left to the A levels..... Bummer...

Allah, Buddha, Jesus! Help me! ! ! (*Momentarily expecting to be struck down dead*)


If only we were born to enjoy life, instead of working hard to enjoy life, an enjoyment in which we put price tags on. When all life ceases on Earth, everything we'd achieved would not matter anymore. Our lifetime, our accomplishments, our religion, our culture, our traditions, our beliefs, our superstitions, are nothing but mere echoes in the infinite world of time and space...





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Monday, September 29, 2003



28 Days Later... Caught this show 3 hours ago. I think its fantastic. Something different from what we usually see in movies. What happens when you wake up and found out that everyone is dead? What are you gonna do now?
There's an alternate ending after the credits..... remember to watch it.


The End Is Extremely Fucking Nigh!



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Friday, September 26, 2003

A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.

From Anacreon, vii. Gold


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Thursday, September 25, 2003

Prelims are over. Borrowed Band of Brothers VCD from my friend to watch. Spent the whole of last night watching the ten 1-hour CDs. Band of brothers is a damn good show, go watch it if you haven't *grinz*
Saw the Mercedes SLR in the Straits Times today. God its gorgeous, looks more like a plane than a car.
Had a soccer match yesterday. Thighs got cramped, both of em! After the match was over, me and my friends were walking out of school. I haven't even left the foyer when both my thighs cramped up, i just couldn't stand properly and could only lie on the floor, it was quite a sight lying in the middle of the concourse. Anyway a PE teacher came and helped out, took a taxi home later (can't imagine what would happen if i cramped up crossing the road)
No school today, what shall i do.........

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Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Maths is over! I think i will be able to get an E or D. hopefully...ha. MCQ for Bio and Chem is all that's left.
Din realise that so many great shows are shown on STAR World. Simpsons at 6pm everyday, Dharma and greg, drew carrey show and whose line...Superb shows..... Better than the screwy Brothers 4...... yucks what's up with that, that show has totally zero meaning. They should make more local shows like Money. If you guys remembered..... pierre png starred in it. Talk about world class people, we can't even make decent entertaining shows... jeeez
Janice is back in Singapore, what a pleasant surprise, seems like she has holidays every few weeks.. haha
That's all folks. Shan't pretend that my day was interesting, cos it isn't, so there's practically nothing else to write
Ciaoz..

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Monday, September 22, 2003

Brand new week, same old stuff. How many of us can actually do something different each week? Maybe you, but not me, not yet anyway. Everything's the same: Taking the same old bus to school, seeing the same "strangers" over and over. Home, school, home. Bah
Seriously need to do something refreshing after prelims. Heck that my prelims are gonna be screwed, heck that A levels are 1 month away. Heck that i've not been working as hard as i hoped to. Screw all =$

Prelim's ending soon. Three more papers, two more days.

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Sunday, September 21, 2003

Caught Italian Job late last night, it was a great show. Besides sizzling hot Charlize Theron, the minis were also great to watch... The heist itself was superb too
Came back from band alumni meeting, committee's gonna be reshuffled, things are going to be changed. Meeting was held at Holland v crystal jade. Its been such a long time since I last went out, let alone Holland v (eh wasn't I out yesterday...). I took the opportunity to eat something different, topping it up with steamed roast pork buns. After the meeting, some of us went to the nearby LAN shop and played FIFA 2003 and battlefield 19something... LOL it was fun.. The place had only about 4 people playing, so me and my friends took this section where there was no body playing. We played one game on a set of coms and swivled our chairs and played another game on the computers behind us, heh heh luckily the owner was too busy playing to take notice..... Trashed paul and chiyu at FIFA2003, it was so damn fun, haven't played games for such a long time
Nothing much else happened, gotta go bathe now

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Friday, September 19, 2003

Its official, i'm dead. i'm gonna fail chem, i barely passed math( was 1 out of the 17 in my class in the "risk" group).
Holland V is on now, that woman pastor is acting. Sometimes i really can't stand her, she's so fake. Along with her followers... oh well :O/

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Thursday, September 18, 2003

Tired. Real tired.
Studying everyday is a chore, it really is. Haven got much sleep, been eating the wrong stuff, stuffing myself with junk food. I bet by the end of this week i'll have an illness of some sort.
Bio and math are over.. at least half of it is.

Real tired... Just typing this makes me feel sleepy.

There is something i'll like y'all to see. Please, take some time off to read it. Before you do, clear your mind of any doubt, read the whole article, then make a sound conclusion. This article parallels with what i have been thinking these past months.....
Ready? If you are, then click here

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Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Saw this babe at the train station. Tall, slim, wearing a white spag top, long purplish cloth skirt, square frame shiny shades, beautiful long hair. Supermodel material. As my had friend mentioned its weird how some street girls look more supermodel-ish than the supermodels(singapore) we see on tv.......

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Tuesday, September 16, 2003

Finished studying the majority of the stuff i have not gone thru... Where's the point in all of these.. Hopefully i can answer all ten questions tomorrow, not only answer but answer well.

Meanwhile check this out!!!

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Monday, September 15, 2003

I feel dumb. I think I am stupid.
If only life was about doing things that you are good at, it would be so much easier and satisfying to make thy parents proud. Be realistic!!! THIS IS THE REAL WORLD..... HELLO!!!!
I have not been getting my priorities right, I have not been working as hard as I promised, you shouldn't even be seeing this message
Everytime i think about my future i feel scared, real scared. My parents aren't gonna be around to spoonfeed me forever, one day i'll have to spoonfeed them. I hope everything works out, i really do...

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Saturday, September 13, 2003

There's too much blind faith in the world.
We believe too much in things we hear, hardly any of us bother to verify its authenticity.
We dun dare question because we accept things as they are. We are fearful of punishment, chiding or being termed a rebel. We tell ourselves to believe in something because our mothers, teachers, friends say so and because we can "feel" that "something".
We believe what the "higher authoritative figures" tells, teaches and wants us to believe. We ignore contradictions, obvious nonsense, logic in pursue of this "greater good".

This story has been told to many of my friends...

Once on Ripley's Believe it or not, they were featuring a particular tribe in South America. The people of this tribe had an unusual custom. They'd cut off one finger everytime someone in their family enters mortality. They believe that they must suffer pain so that their deceased can go to a better place.
Now imagine you, an explorer, seeing all these. You know it is crazy, stupid even. You can't see how cutting off fingers could possibly have any links with going to heaven or hell. So you, being the good samaritan, set out and try to change the tribes' thinking, explaining how illogical their beliefs are.

Stop now and think. Do you think you will be successful? I hardly think so. Its hard to change mindsets. These tribal people believe in whatever they do because they have been brought up that way. This is their world, nothing else matters, this is the only world they know of.

Now think of ourselves as belonging to different tribes around the world. We have our customs, beliefs and traditions. We believe too much in things we hear, or are taught. We refuse to accept logic, preferring to accept the mysterious, magical and comforting. We believe that what we believe is correct. We believe we are smart enough. This is the world we live in, this is our "tribe".Nothing, no matter how logical or profound, can make us change our minds.

I hope you get my drift. There are so many things in our lives that are in need of being questioned, but they are not. When we just accept things as they are, it reinforces that idea/belief in our minds. Over time, we end up falling deeper into this trap, we cannot not believe in it anymore, it becomes part of us.
This post is not meant to ask any of you to stop believing in your gods or the health benefits of bird's nest. This is just my personal opinion on my life and the countless beliefs of people around me. Hope you'd have enjoyed reading this.

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Friday, September 12, 2003

There was a dysfunctional family sitting in front of me in the train today

Overheard a handphone conversation on the bus home. "If he got sacked that's the end of him"



I think most of us are fortunate. Sometimes we complain how unsatisfied or unfortunate we are, without realising how lucky we actually are to have a normal family or receiving an education.


Biology mock exam was easy today. Did the 2002 A Level paper, only had difficulty doing the option topic, which we'd just studied.
Made a new friend today, or rather, got to know someone better. I can't remember the last time i felt comfortable talking to someone whom i've just been introduced to.

Two days left to prelims....

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I dreamt the score for Duel of the fates

I dreamt about needing a chest x ray to enter school

i woke up asking myself if it was succinyl CoA or succinyl

Its raining and my dog is barking

i'm going crazy

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Thursday, September 11, 2003

Maths test was a flop.. 30/62...... wtf.....

Bio mock exam is tomorrow. What's up with that.... i haven't even finished revising my chemistry yet..... everything is coming apart.

i think i only have myself to blame

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Wednesday, September 10, 2003

"As i took the lift up, i can't help but feel remorseful. I had just killed a parent and her child, the thought of getting caught was just terrible and horrifying. When i reached my floor, i looked across towards the other block, looking through the window of that family that me and my friends had butchered"

That was what i dreamt last night. Somehow me and my friends had to kill this family of 5 to get to watch a cool movie (?!?!). And i had the "honour" of killing the mother and son. Mission accomplished. Blood was everywhere. It was so frightening, i woke up and breathed a sigh of relief. The feeling of fear and regret was just too great and it seemed so very real.
Must be because of all the crime stories that i have been reading lately :o/

Well that was the first segment of my dream, the rest weren't that exciting, but they were equally weird too, no time to chit-chat about it though, i still have 2 chapters remaining to study for math. Differentiation and Integration.
I have to get them done by today
fine

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Tuesday, September 09, 2003

I finally finished a few chapters of math. I feel motivated, and encouraged to go on. Studying is almost fun, studying alone isn't. But it seems to work, hopefully the stuff i crammed into my head will stay there until A levels. My dog can't stop barking. i dunno what's up with him, all i know is that he's dissing me off.
Somehow the cool weather makes it so much easier to study, along with the the tv . I can't study without abit of distraction. It feels weird. Better to have distractions on and studying than to study and think about the tv i guess........ *shrugs*

My mind seems to keep bringing back some questions that i have been asking myself, i guess there are no answers to these questions. no time to search for one, if there's one that is...... oh well

Math beckons and i have to go.....

Adieu

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Monday, September 08, 2003

The wonders of technology. My cable settings were mysteriously screwed last night, i couldn't log on and me being me got frustrated and pissed. Well anyway i called the Starhub cable people and they fixed it, without even needing to send anyone over..... they just fixed the problem from their "control center".... fantastic...

Went to school for chem this morning. Had a transition metal tutorial from 8-12...... 4 hrs!!! My teacher spent 3 hrs on the first 5 of then ten questions alone, she repeated the things over and over again, and sadly in the end, its somehow made us more confused. We ended at 12 as planned, but we only went over 6 questions.... gotta come back on thursday morning.... Speaking of which, i'll have a maths mock exam at 1pm on the same day, so yeah... its gonna be a hellish day for me.

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Sunday, September 07, 2003

Guys, can't believe what is happening now. My parents bought this cd writer and suddenly everything went wrong. My cable settings went haywire. I will not be back until god knows when. till then if you need to call or ask me anything call my handphone ok. I'm really really pissed ight now... dunno what to do...
hopefully i'll see you guys around soon. meanwhile 56k sucks, its like back to flintstone age you know waddya mean...... fuck

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Wow, Blogger's finally up and running again. It was down for like 12 hrs? Was trying in vain to access it yesterday.

Anybody heard about the Jocelyn Ong story? Apparently there's this girl called jocelyn who's being stalked by a person whom she met thru the internet (rather.. he was the one who first contacted her). This really really lovesick, or stupid or just plain sick guy set up a website detailing all the E-mails and messages that both he and the girl exchanged. You can read all about it here

For the more visually-stimulated among you here is one picture of the site.




Was watching the Euro qualifiers last night, England defeated Macedonia 2-1. England's lacklustre performance made for a disappointing match though.

For the benefit of those who couldn't watch, here are some of the other results:
  • France trashed Cyprus 5-0
  • Holland defeated Austria 3-1
  • Germany drew with minnows Iceland 0-0
  • Italy trashed Wales 4-0

Well that's it for now, its a beautiful Sunday morning, looking forward to the F1 race at Monza, Italy tonight. Hopefully Ferrari sorts out its chassis and tire problems. With less than 5 points separating the top 3 constructors, F1 looks set for it most exciting Constructor's Championship fight to date. Michael Schumacher's World Championship is at stake too, he leads 2nd placed Juan Pablo Montoya by just 1 point.

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Saturday, September 06, 2003

Something for the people who believe in horoscopes, fortune tellers, clairvoyants and ,yes, even sai baba....






By now, most people should be aware of the James Randi Educational Foundation's Million Dollar Challenge. A tireless advocate of critical thinking and skepticism, James Randi offers the prize, which will go "to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event."
That should be easy, considering not just the money, but also the vast, positive impact on humanity. But, although this is a fantastic offer, nobody has yet won it. Some try, all fail, and for the same reason: They cannot do what they claim to do
but wait there's more!

Lot's more!

By the combined offers of skeptical organizations all over the world, it is possible to cash in no less than (click on the figures)


$2,326,500!


Strangely enough, some of these people, when offered money, turn it down for various reasons. One of them is that the money is "tainted", has "bad karma", and "negative waves". Another is that they are not interested in money themselves, so why should they take these challenges?

why indeed?

What can you do with a mere $2,326,500, in this day and age?

Well, you can buy a Lamborghini, a really nice 2-bedroom co-op on the Upper East Side, Manhattan, or a few crates of caviar. You can go on a whopping shopping spree that would leave Ivana Trump positively green with envy.

Or, you could...



  • Feed 90,000 starving people with rice for one year.
  • Keep 25 hospitals, each with 100 beds, operational for one year, saving countless of lives.
  • Buy 145,406 pairs of crutches for people with their legs blown off by landmines.
  • Buy 15,510 wheelchairs or artificial limbs for landmine victims.
  • Buy 58,162,500 water purification tablets, capable of cleaning 581,625,000 liters.
    This will provide clean water for at least 227,641 people for one year.
  • Buy 46,530,000 packets of Oral Rehydration Salts to treat diarrhea, a leading cause of death among children.
  • Buy 7,755 school-in-a-box kits, with educational supplies for up to 80 children each.
    That's 620,400 children.
  • Buy new clothing for 36,351 children who have lost almost everything.
  • Provide 116,325 infants with formula or baby food for a week.
  • Pay for the removal of between 2,326 and 7,755 landmines.


It is hard to believe the claims of those who say they have paranormal powers, that is true. But it is even harder to believe that not one psychic, clairvoyant, dowser, astrologer, tarot-reader, crystal-bowl reader or what-have-you "feels" like doing what they claim to be able to. Even if they could do so much

Why, indeed?

www.skepticreport.com



Never belive in horoscopes or fortune tellers(its just entertaintment), it has the potential to destroy your life.

Savant at 9/06/2003 03:34:00 pm ; (0) comments

Friday, September 05, 2003

Wow i spent more than 2hrs tinkering with an image... talk about wasting time huh......
Woke up at 7 today, went to school for my bio practical. Spent 10 mins trying to explain to my frens that collenchyma has no lignin and is a living tissue.. *shakes head*
The exam was quite easy, though i made some stupid errors..... i put NADP+ instead of NAD+ for one answer... din even realise how wrong that was. People were also dropping and breaking test tubes, one person even broke two in succession... haha clumsy goof. Got a bit pissed at some people today, some people just dun realise the consequence of their actions. Right... 1 week to prelims, i'm sooo dead. haven "touched" math yet, bio too, i'm so unsure of the bio option topic (yes yes reproduction... :o/ ). that reminds me, i've got a mock math and bio test next week.... sheesh looks like i better do something this weekend...

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Thursday, September 04, 2003

argh this is the hundredth time that i've meddled with the stupid html thing. Okay, i am no expert in html codes.. but does it really have to be this hard.
Got a bio prac tomorrow, hopefully my brain hasn't been seared by this stupid site. okok cool down....
Abigail sin, child prodigy. She got her diploma for piano performance at the age of 10!!! *jealous*
but i've got to admit, she's a good role model for all of us pursuing musical excellence...
i miss playing the trumpet, now that i'm no longer in my college band, and my alumni band is in shambles.. *curses*
bloody fuc*ing b*tches of eastwick.....*$%&@%
... think i better go do some revision, i have like what, say 4 hrs left?

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