Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow.

Let It Snow - Dean Martin
Oh the weather outside is frightful, oh the fire is so delightful. Haha i love that song. Hehe the snow really makes you get into that christmas feeling. I'm sorry i had to put it on autoplay. I couldn't resist. pardon me. But screw you i like it! =DD

Woke up this morning to find it snowing really heavily. So had a nice breakfast and slacked alot at home. It was really impossible to go out. In the end we couldnt resist going into the snow so we stepped outside the apartment to just play around.

Took some pictures and had quite alot of fun just running around doing stupid stuff like attempting to build a snowman which failed horribly.

Oh and a Rock Band update if i haven't said already: Bought a new drum pedal here so yeah! WE can play again!!!

I'll just leave you with some pictures. I won't expect to be posting until i return to Singapore. I'll be leaving Vancouver for Sunny Singapore. from -10 degrees to 30 degrees. It's about time. I can't wair for the warm heat. lol. So i'll be leaving on the 23rd and arriving on the 23rd midnight.
Anyone wanna go out on the 25th/26th should be able to. I also have to do homework. RawrR! Grrr!

The view from the apartment in the morning. As you can see, the snow has covered everything possible.

How to throw a snow ball. Step 1: Mould and shape. and take your aim.

Step 2: Throw!

Sirong, Si Xuan and Zong Yu

Lol.

Lol. Yet Again.

Yeah. Lying down in the snow. It's just great!

Snow Angels. Or so i was tring to make one.

I told you lying down in the snow was nice.

Zong he and Me

Me, Si Rong and Si Xuan.Zong He

Si Rong puting his face into the snow.The besxt way to experience the snow. Face First.

And I just liked it there. So soft. and i fell asleep? haha. lol.

Yeah. Snow. It tastes...erm...cold.

Zong Yu. What a pose. hahaha

Si Rong and Me.

Si Rong and Zong He.

Lol.

Me, Si Rong ,Si Xuan, Zong Yu, Si Han.

Snow. Snow. Snowboard!

Just uploading some pictures! hehe.

The pictures of me on the snowboards are not on my camera, so it's kinda hard to upload now. so later!

Up on the ski lift, yeah hanging on a chair with no bars going up a mountain...kinda scary.

The view at the end of the intermediate slope. Yep! i made it down! hehe.

Auzzie teacher. He wasnt really that good, didnt teach us much, we learnt more on our own.

Si Rong and me on the Ski lift.

Snowboarding in the SubZero

I just had a really good time snowboarding up on Grouse Mountain just awhile ago. I'm freaking tired right now. Snowboarding was fun man. Spent 2hrs learning and then i kinda got the hang of it after awhile. I mastered the beginners slope and the intermediate slope which was quite crazy. You end up going so crazyily fast it was shit fun!! I'm leaving on the 23rd Singapore time. and will arrive sometime before the 24th but really late i think....
I will post all the pictures soon. The canyons and all.

It was -18 degrees just now and right now it's -6 i think. Freaking cold.

It's Vegas.

I'll be leaving for Vegas tomorrow morning from Seattle. No idea what i'm gonna do there though but i know that we'll be seeing the Grand Canyon.

So the las few days, we've been taking it easy and trying to recover from jetlag. haha.
I caught Prison Break on Fox on Monday. For once i didnt have to watch it online. hahaha.
So 11 of us, my family and my cousins family all came to Seattle and we are crashing at my uncle's place. hahaha.

We haven't done anything very interesting yet except for the visit to the Boeing Factory. Boeing started in Seattle so we took a tour around their factory. The hangars, where the boeing planes were being constructed was the biggest building in the world by volume as claimed by the Guinness World Records. The employees have to go around the building on bicycles. and there's a speed limit on that too. :P hahahaha.

Boeing Factory, in the far centre, you can see a huge weirdly shaped aircraft called the Dream Lifter. Apparently it's used to transport parts of the 787 Dreamliner to the plant here.

This was on the flight to Vancouver. Someone got restless....

Sirong, Me, Zonghe @ my uncle's place. That camera there isn't mine. I ain't so crazy.

Si Xuan, Sirong, Me. @ my uncle's place.

It's Vegas tomorrow and I doubt we will have internet connection. So yeah. No posts for the next 3 days i guess...haha! Till then!

The 1st Hour

Hi!! Just touched down in vancouver intl airport. at the airport now waiting for my uncle. We transitted through korea. Lol flight was damn boring. Kk talk later.

Sunburned.

Had dinner with Edwin yesterday at Plaza Sing. We went to Pastamania, and i can safely say that it was the worst pasta i have tasted in my life. yet. The pizza wasn't that great either. Yuck!
Then we talked and talked and talked and walked and walked. lol and went home. haha.

2 days ago, 11 of us went to Sentosa! Apparently we wanted at least 20-25 people to come. But 11 + Mr Ng was a good number. Just nice, not too much, not too little. We played from like 10.30 to 5pm. Played soccer, frisbee, volleyball and just lay in the sun.

We found a can of Gatsby spray on hair dye and this was the result:

After Sentosa, we went to Vivo to catch Bolt not in 3D. Which wasn't all that great. I mean the only funny character was the Hamster guy and i can't even remember his name. hahaha.
Then had dinner with Clayton and Mervin and followed Mervin to go buy a necklace for his special one. LOL!

The other day I caught Cape No.7 which was some show set in Taiwan in Chinese, hokkien and Japanese. Was a very good movie. Almost cried at one part of the show. It's a romantic drama kind of thing. After that went with Jerald to Gramaphone to buy Jason Mraz's We Sing, WE Dance, We Steal Thing limited edition!!! Mwahahaha!!! It has 3 discs including a live concert which was damn nice.

I will post one more before i leave for the US tomorrow morning.

In This World I'm Building

I'm going to post the Manila pictures another time. I freaking busy!

I'm building the world myself and putting new hats on everybody one by one...
Before I go out, I'm gonna have people in tutus,
Cops wearing stockings,
Stockbrokers wearing viking hats,
Priests wearing penties on their head.

In this world I'm building, everybody shouts hello to everybody else from their windows, from the street, from the car windows.
People have speakers attached to their chests and have music pouring out so you can tell from a distance what mood they are in.
And people won't be a chicken too get naked and dance when the rain comes.

To be continued...hehehe.

P.S It's a celebration of life!

Busy. Busy. Busy

I'm sorry. Been too busy lately to even make a good post, or at least one of acceptable length. haha. I've been editing some photos of the Manila trip and found this to be the best picture so far. or at least the best group photo.'
I boosted or "enriched" the colour detail. haha. I was just experimenting.

Time of Our Lives

I came back from Manila a few days ago with my class. It would be an understatement to say that it was excellent. It was a whole lot better and an experience. It was the time of our lives. yet.
The trip really showed that WE, 3SA were more than just a class. WE are a band of brothers. The trip also really taught me alot. And how lucky we are to be here in Singapore. Where none of us are poor. I'm gonna post in parts. Each part for each day on the tour.

Tomorrow will be my first post. I'm too tired now. Or maybe just lazy. I can't tell.

Manila Vanilla

By the time you read this post. I would be either in Manila or on the plane there. I can't wait. Yet, i'm still a little nervous. 7 days of fun/community service/ class bonding. It's gonna be awesome? i hope so. And i think the experience will be great. I will post pictures when i get back!

In the meantime, just go do something. anything.

A New Target, A New Race Starts

I got my report book back on Saturday. Went to school early in the morning around 8.30am with a few classmates to get ready the car wash equipment. Yep we have to wash cars to raise funds. Also had to set up the booth to sell our t-shirts that has the print "a hand that gives, recieves" and at the bottom "SAINTS" with a hand. lol. Quite nice. Anyone want one? its 20 bucks a piece. I can show you some pictures.haha.

There was a tour briefing and the PTC but my parents didnt want to come. lol. Anyways i got my report book. Although i didnt meet my targets which i had set earlier a few months ago, i think i did fairly well compared to the rest of the level and my class. So stayed in school until around like 7.30pm. Made 751 bucks that day. Wow!

The grade in the bracket was my target. The other is my actual grade. These grades are the overall grade for the whole year.

English: B3 (A1)
Chinese: C5 (C6)
Biology : A1 (A1) yes success!!
Physics : A2 (A1) my final year paper was an A1 but i got pulled down by the 1st semester.
Chemistry : B3 (A2)
A Maths : A1 (A1)
E Maths : A1 (A1)
Comb. H (SS & Hist) : A2 (A2)

L1 R5: 10 (8)
Class position :14/43
Level position :14/197

Although i had aimed to be in the top 10, it was a very close battle and i actually beat some of the top 10 people in L1R5. haha lol. My target for the O's will be simple. 6 pts. Yes, that may sound like a crazy. But i think i'm up for it.

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Onto a different page. Haha.

I just realized that i need new clothes. Been wearing the same stuff over and over again till some people actually say "haha i knew you'd wear that" and "why you always wear..." you get the picture.

new pair of jeans, preferably slim or skinnies.
new pair of black jeans slim/skinnies
new t-shirts/shirts and berms
new shoes?

I also want to buy Red Alert 3!!! But i have yet to play Spore finish so i guess i'll wait.

I also have yet to play GTA IV finish. hmm.

Leaving for Manila next monday. For 7 days. Can't wait. Also got alot of stuff left to do.

You Win Some, You Lose Some

It's been awhile since the last post. The manila stuff has been taking up a lot of my time. I got my Xbox 360 replaced! Can't wait to start Rock Banding again. I also got no time to Spore. haha

Today's SGCC prize ceremony showed me alot. I was quite emotional when we didn't win. So much hardwork and effort put in and we didn't win anything. But i was very touched by the support of my friends who were there to console me and my teachers too. Showed me that i have great friends and that life isn't all about winning. Although i wish we did win but what the hell. Thanks guys for showing your support and going down to support us! and to all those who voted! I guess sometimes you can't win everything. And when you lose, it's the lesson behind it that counts.

Term break has started. yet we got so much happening. Manila planning and school. Yes, we have to return back to school for one (insert suitable adjective here) week. Yes. And there's Chem class tomorrow. Great! sense the sarcasm.

I won't be getting my report card back until this Satureday. I really hope i can finish in the top 10. Never did it before. Wish and hope i can. It's quite possible and i won't rule that out just yet.

Today was an experience. sometimes you win sometimes you lose. it's all part of the game.

Judgment Day II

Well today was quite a good day. The moment when i picked up my physics paper. I saw an A1 and i wanted to cry. lol. tears of joy. I was really not expecting an A1. I was expecting a B3.
Anyways here's the final tally.

English : B3
Chinese: D7
Comb. Humans : A2
Physics : A1
Biology : A1
Chemistry : B3
A Maths : A1
E Maths : A2

L1 R5 : 10 pts

Although i was aiming for single digit, considering the rest of the class i think i did quite well and beyond my own expectations.

To all those who didnt do as well as me. My close friends, we got to be strong and take this as a opportunity to reflect and so it won't happen again. It may be too late to change the results now. But we can always start now and change the ending. We can work towards our 7 pt target for O's and take this as a lesson. We make these mistakes now so we don't make them again.

Judgement Day I

Chemistry : B3 (missed A2 by 2 marks ahh!)
E Maths : A2
A Maths : A1
Chinese : D7
Biology : A1

Rock Band Hoopla

So exams ended last Friday. Biology paper was alright. After that had our OCIP meeting with Mr. Ng. Edwin and I are heading the trip as head and vice. After meeting went to join Solo, andre, adam, mervin to play pool. Wasn't that fun. Didnt really feel like it was after exams. Sigh.
Then my mum picked me and Edwin up and dropped edwin off at the MRT at bedok. Lol let's fast forward to approx 18 hrs later. The next day

In the morning went to Funaa to checkout some local shops selling Rock Band for the 360.
In the end found a shop selling it for S$385.

1 drum set
2 guitars
1 mic.

It's effing awesome!!! I'm addicted to it already.

Let's fast forward again to today. approx 18 hrs again. Or so i think. Monday was a holiday for our school. But had to go sch with the exco of the trip to start planning stuff. Quite fun and stuff. hehe. After that around 2.30 went to play futsal at east coast. Then after that Solo and adam came over to play rockband!!! YEAH! haha. Anyways, i'm trying to organize a rock band party soon. Can't wait.

Tomorrow have to go school again. And it's gonna be an emotional day for some and a happy day for a few. You that day. It's D-Day. The day where we find out how well/bad we did. A day where we start to reflect on how everything went. What we did and what went wrong/right. I just hope i did well. Actually I already got back my Biology Paper results. I got an A1 and overall for the year of 85%. Let's hope thats a sign of better things to come.

Will post more next time. Later.

It's 3a.m.

It's 3am on a Sunday morning. this is the state of my study table

2 Down Some More To Come

The State of My Study Table

WARNING!

DO NOT EXPECT ANY POSTS FROM NOW TILL THE 10th OF OCTOBER.

THE OWNER OF THIS BLOG HAS GONE ON A STUDY HIATUS PRE-DETERMINED TO LAST 2-3 WEEKS.

The Pressure Begins to Mount

the exams are in 19 days. i have 3 tests in the next 3 days. I just finished studying for a Biology test tomorrow. This sucks. I haven't been able to keep up with my revision schedule so it's kind of getting a bit nerve wrecking here. I think i need to reschedule and re-organize everything. I just hope i have enough time.

The Tavern. the english extended essay that i wrote. haha i got highest in class for it. 24/30. Yay!

Days have been going faster and faster. Teachers are trying to cram all the final chapters in the 2 weeks. If they can't teach it in time why the hell do they bother to add it into the fye's? that's gay man.

I need my Java chip from starbucks.

A Well Overdue Apology

As life goes on I’m starting to learn more and more about my friendships, my friends, how others see me and then I realized that everything I do affects the people around me. And I know that sometimes i may be a jack in the ass at times.

So I want to take this time out to apologize for things I have done
And things that have not occurred yet. Because i'm only human, i make mistakes and as much as i try not to, it still happens but i make the most effort in trying to solve them and try as hard to prevent them from happening again.

I just want to apologize to everyone i ever did wrong to and i hope u accept this apology. You know who you are.

It's Time For MugFest08

MugFest08. An annual event that happens every September. Yup it's time to mug!
Just came back home from studying with Josiah and Arvind. Lol! Still have to finish all the homework.

It hasn't started yet and I'm already wishing its over. Sigh.

So the voting for SGCC is up already.








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That's all for today i guess.

It's Finally Over. Another Has Already Begun

I'm writing this right now and its 1:34 am on friday morning. In a few hours time, We will be presenting our SGCC game to the judges and vying for the top prize. I hope all goes well.
I've sacrificed the whole september holidays where i could be studying for the EOY's. But nvm i have already done this, i might as well end it well. So hopefully all goes well.

Just when i thought i could take a break and relax, i realize that the EOY's are around the corner. Actually i knew this all along but somehow u just want to take a break from working up till 1.30 am in the morning. But i know that i have to sacrifice in order to achieve the results. So BRING ON THE EOYs!

Teachers' Day Pictures

Teachers' Day : An Unforgettable Experience (In a Good Way)

You are probably wondering what the title means. Haha. Yup today was truly an unforgettable experience.

I along with Edwin, Arvind, Zamiq and Zul were the emcees for the teachers' day celebrations. Yep that meant talking and cracking lame jokes to the WHOLE school and ALL the teachers. Haha. Got good comments on my first ever emceeing although i actually emceed the Principal's forum before but that was different as in the principal's forum it was a more formal, follow a script thing.

This time we were doing impromptu lines and jokes and stuff. Prepared an awful lot for this though. Had to stay back after school for the 3 days before the show itself and on the day before the show, we stayed back till 8pm. After that i had to rush to parkway before any shops close to buy presents for the teachers on behalf of the class.

An idea me and Joel came up with; to buy presents for all the teachers that teach 3SA. We had a 177 bucks. So here's wat we decided to do with the money. Female teachers get a bouqet of flowers each, which meant 5 bouqets and the 2 male teachers got a Nalgene 1.0L water bottle. Mr Ng, of course got 2 Adidas shirts which amounted to quite a fair bit. haha.

It was a real delight to see the expression on the teachers' face especially the female teachers, when we gave them flowers. I think we really pulled of the present idea thing really well.

Back to the emcee thing, after i got home from present hunting, i had to choose a suit or a set of clothes for emceeing the next day. The attire was smart-formal-casual kinda thing. So after rampaging through my older bro and my wardrobe, i tried on like blazer + pants + shirt = too formal. then i decided to try jeans to tone the formal thing down abit. So i decided to go with Blazer + jeans + a really tight fit black renoma tshirt. and it looked really good. really went well with the dress code. Got some good comments on the outfit. haha. Although i dun have any pics of the event yet, i shall post them up soon. All in all, the teachers' day thing went really well, i wasn't nervous but more of scared of having a blonde moment. It was REALLY fun and one heck of a experience. I think i learnt quite abit that you cant learn from textbooks. haha. Really useful skills and stuff.

So after that went to see my junior school teacher Miss Tan. got some photos on that too.


And also met later at school again to go to SENTOSA! haha. Me and russell organized this class outing, was really really fun, played volleyball and handball and soccer! was AWESOME! haha. I have only a few photos from the Sentosa as the rest are in Ben see's camera and i shall post them when i get them.

So here are the photos for the Sentosa outing. More to come though.

Peeranin with his Coconuts!

Nin and Me.

thats me trying to stretch out a cramp on my left thigh!

Nin, Arvind and Jerald

Andre taking a shot against shaunneh!

Andre again. Being marked by Cheng En.

From L to R (Aaron, Vivek, Kyaw Min, Daryl, Shaun,
Arvind, Joel, Solo, Me, Clayton, Cheng En and Bing Hui)

Ben See with PSP, and Mr Ng playing cards with Aaron and Chin Yan

It Isn't As Easy As It Seems

Sigh. School has been just a series of tests, tests and more tests. Last week alone we had 4 tests. Maths, Physics, Biology, Chemistry. This week we already did 2 tests. Both Chemistry. And another 2 more today if not for Mr Ng and Mrs Low postponing them. Phew.

With the tests and Soccer trainings. It's been hard to keep up with my self revision schedule. How the hell do we revise when we have to study for tests?!?! And with soccer trainings going Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. It's been a living hell.

The only possible solution now, would be to make full use of the weekends. Which i also need for my full weekend recovery. Since i've been up every school night till 12.30am either doing homework/studying for test/revising. It's like a vicious cycle. It really is.

The only thing that now motivates me is my L1R5 goal of 8pts. I read this somewhere. Focusing on your goal and imagining yourself achieving it will bring you closer to your goal.

It All Starts Now.

I'm not sure why or how it got started. But i feel i'm more motivated than ever to prove to myself that the best of me is still hiding up my sleeve. I want to do even better during this final years. Yes it is going to be hard, but i have what it takes, i've got the encouragement from my friends, and the fact that my competitive spirit drives me? haha.

Final Year exams are in 6 weeks. Yes 6 WEEKS. That's how close it is.It all begins now. The sudden inspiration to do better and to study, i have no idea where its coming from. Search me.
I know from the sound of the words here, it may sound like a piece of cake to me, but i know its going to be hard. But i'm gonna do it. Discipline, Sacrifice? Yes those are the words.

I'm just gonna set some personal targerts for myself as i always do.
Here's what i plan to get :

Level Position : Less than 10.
L1 R5 Agg : 8

English : A1
Chinese : C5
Biology : A1
Physics : A1
Chemistry : A2
A Maths : A1
E Maths : A1
SS & Hist : A2

And even if I don't get it, I hope that would just make me even more motivated for the next lap.
It all starts now. Its Time.

It's OK To Fail. Everyone Else Has.

So CTs ended. It's hard to explain this. Because our Science tests during the CTs were SPAs, we had additional tests which would add up to the progress report. And the test for physics was earlier in the year, was it the day after youth day? Ya it was. And i flunked it. I failed it.

For English - 58%
Chinese - 49%
Maths - 97.5%
Comb Humans - 73%

And theres the Science tests. For physics i failed. The rest are still being marked So yeah.
I'm gonna do better. And I will be back stronger than before. And thats a FACT.