oh, before i forget. would you believe in living history? the refugees we met were kmt members who came over from china during the purge, fought with the shan rebels against the drug lords and are now refugees from burma. i met a sargeant, and he speaks "kmt chinese", or rather, mandarin with a strong accent, possibly from yunnan. and many of the refugees come from yunnan. it's really fascinating.

i miss the kids, though.

on an unrelated note, a strange (as in unfamiliar) indian man talked to me on the train. considering what he was doing before that, i am highly disturbed. ok, maybe strange as in the other way too.

YAARG.UGH.

so i'm back from thailand. and gods the first damn thing i do is run 21.1 km. joy of joys, i feel so accomplished. well, i would if my knees wouldn't stop hurting. as it is, i just feel like crap, especially my knees. they feel like they're popping out sideways.

in any case, the trip's been interesting. already i miss the orphans. if they've taught me anything, its that now i can laugh more. dont sweat the small stuff. piggybacks are always appreciated. communication transcends words. not to say that learning a bit helps. i can now count to 100 in thai (marvellous accomplishment, that. thai sounds like a mix between hokkien [mostly], cantonese and malay). its simply amazing, their independance and tenacity, and how they cooperate. i dont think a 2 year old toddler in singapore will be able to fall down in the mud, toddle down a 50 degree slope, wash self and come back up to play more soccer. it'd probably cry itself silly.

and the bonding was fun. i really liked the group that went up. coke-rum is highly amusing, to say the least. and my wrists still smell of jpg and l'oreal (i think) perfume. it's been good.

i saw shooting stars!! *happy*

when i pixellate my thoughts, they never come out right

22k. 22 f***ing k. so painful.

and i shall be away helping refugees and orphans up north (no, further north) so will not be around until the 4th. night. and will run on the 5th. morning. diediediediedie.

every body needs to know.

la da da da da da da...

woohoohoohoo! PLAY THIS!! unless you're having exams. in which case, DON'T.

if you want more go FUNKY.

THIS is why you should buy/not buy non-pirated games, depending on your view.

so i'm running down portsdown road feeling crappy because i've snot flowing down the nasal passage and phlegm coming up the throat and suffocating the mouth (yug.) somehow or the other my ankle gives way. now this has happened before - i get lucky, flow with the fall and just end up with a temporary pain. so i figure its the same thing. WRONGO. have been hobbling around ntu with leg in wrap. yesterday was CRAP. today better. tomorrow, who knows? pfft.

now have 2 weeks of sitting down to do. if i havent fractured something. if you get back and tell your mom you twisted your ankle and she says "serves you right", it gives you this feeling of utter solidarity and happiness with your fellow men.

on the other hand, had fun with soldering iron today. even soldered hair. wheee. now finger is sore from drilling and scraping off copper from solderboard thing. but soldering is fun. unless you burn yourself. which, klutz that i am, i promptly did.

i am a walking mucus machine. how can one nose produce so much snot?!?!

in other words, i have discovered that the ability of the mouth to multitask is severely limited by your nose. talking and eating is fine. talking and breathing is fine. breathing and eating isn't. obviously breathing, eating and talking isn't.

needless to say i nearly suffocated during dinner.

as of tonight, i have taken no less than 4 different types of medicine. my table is so full of tissue paper i can't even find my volume control. someone called up and thought i was my brother. i have pw tomorrow, and i'm a walking chemical factory. joy of joys. and it's cold.

don't we all love to pity ourselves.

am pissed at results. ok, i'm pissed at me.

but am not too bad off because finally found the funky soundtrack. so i think i've saved myself from eternal damnation.

i'm running on empty, and this is my will, because it feels like the last thing i'll ever write. you know you're tired when you cannot take even the littlest things, when a disappointment can mean a battle with tears that you are on the brink of losing, and a loss of your humanity. not the humanity of compassion, that is something you must never lose (but still do, at some point), but the humanity of yourself, the little bit that makes you you. the walking death lives, it does, and you know it. society says elsewise we are changing the system, changing it such that no one will ever feel pain, the burden of work, the pressure to conform, the depth of death and the meaning of life. kahlil gibran got it right, and the only other one i have ever seen to understand is orson scott card. how do you think ender felt, destroying the enemy he loved? how do you feel, when the enemy is you? and all thise while i understood, really understood, but the sham that i am (the suess that i was) knows i left that long ago.

i grew up, i guess. no more playing in gardens with the sun, waiting for the prince and the plum to come up from the depths of the pool, carried by two copper orbs that blinked at me and waited for my response. to kiss or not to kiss, and i chose the path less travelled. it made the difference. regret? i think not. i forgot the sun, the moon and the stars in my hubris - it is hubris now, that i write this. it was the pride that scoffed at my fall, and it was the broken relics that i picked up from the bottom of the cliff, where elijah cast me for failing them (he held not his hands - his sons ran away to the battle and both fell, and for that he cast his staff out, no more, no more.). the passage to the burning bush is long and narrow, and i have lost my sandals (no need to take them off now, then!), and the ember has died.

it is sad to note that we can never pity those greater than ourselves, only aspire to. and yet, who needs more pity? pity is an indulgence that we can have, being able to concentrate on such a "need" for the "compassion" we all live for, the farce that stops you from remembering and learning, for the knowledge that "someone understands me, somebody does". no more time for them, no more. ruthlessness is the way to go, to live, to survive.

but algernon taught us something to. the quality of mercy is not strained; it drippeth as the gentle rain from heaven onto the ground beneath, it is twice blessed - it blesseth him that giveth, and him that recives, the crown of kings, the scepter of authority, and weak and the strong pay it both, and a thousand deaths are a mere statistic, but one, for one the hero stops, for it is a tragedy. weep not for me - i am presumptious in presuming i deserve it, for the thought to cross my mind is mere self-censure the minilove will get you, minitruth will eat you alive!, but for yourself, because you cannot save your own until you understand, but vincent, oh vincent, they never did, and they never will.

these days have been an education into the mentality of little prebubescent boys. i get home after fun class dinner, and the first thing i hear is "there's a snake in dad's room". so far so good. ok. maybe dad's slightly afraid of snakes. but that's fine - he's a big boy, he can handle it. then: "we tried to use a hamster to lure it out".

i suppose it's logical, but what part of "snakes eat hamsters" and "snakes are fast" dont you understand????

in anycase, managed to fufil our nkf criteria of "do not embarrass the school by having it host a round without it's own team in it" and "do not lose to scgs". lost to uwc, but that's ok. we'll survive. yesterday's debates were crappy - i dont wanna ever have to do something of that standard EVER again. but today's was not too bad. so i'm happy: it wasn't a washout. good enough. and we've the rest of the week free.

on another note. do not conduct pw in a room full of computers and more specifically computer games. bad for concentration.

on the same note. screw. i have pw.

i fucked up my promos.

gods know how i did it. i think it was complacency, arrogance and cockiness. everything gets ladled to me on a silver platter i forget what a spoon is for.

so today i try to outrun my mistakes during training. i think i could have run forever, just so i could forget my demons, to keep the wind blowing in my ears to block out the sounds of my guilt and people discussing grades. self-disappointment is the hardest to take, and the most necessary.

i feel human. but you need to be superhuman.

friday was an almost epiphanic rach 2. i had a lot to say about it, but now i don't have that much. while it wasn't perfect, it was better than the other 2 i've heard before. the sso still has this annoying habit of drowning out the soloist. apart from the shostakovich no. 5, which was fascinating (hear the second movement). the third movement was very...vivid. i could see images...*shiver*

and the exams are over. somehow i don't feel very relieved. i think it's the oppressive feeling that you get when you KNOW you've screwed up but you dont know just HOW badly.

well, i'm back.

You are ...on crack.


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mwahahahha. FWAAAAAAAH.

"The other great blot on American democracy—redistricting—has already made a nonsense of elections to Congress...In 2002, four out of five congressmen won their races by more than 20 points. This is because most states allow their politicians to determine the boundaries. The result is gerrymandering on a grotesque scale, with incumbents stitching up safe seats by drawing absurd districts that look like doughnuts, sandwiches and Rorschach tests."

WAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!! sounds familiar? i live in a doughnut!

y'know, in the fine tradition of slackers, i shall outsource a revolution. i will get fanatics from the poor developing countries and get them to be my army and overthrow a government or invade and conquer my own island and usher in a realm of despotism and benevolence.

or i could just do my work.

blogsurfing can be pretty depressing.

well, rather i go around and see people making differences in others' lives, discussing, using brain cells for more meaningful things than regurgitating dead facts for a forgotten wasteland of learning, and i wonder, what the hell am I doing. i mean, i just sit here on the chair and feel like a potato on plastic, maybe a guilty one for eating too much and currently feeling stuffed (haha, would you believe it, with potatoes. me cannibal.) and also for not doing work when promos are barely 18 days away. and there are people living and influencing others and discussing and retrospecting and navel-gazing (i dont know if that's a good thing. dont really care somehow) and here's me working at being slob of the year. and now i'm feeling stupid and guilty for whining. blearGH.

i feel like the jack of all friends and master of none. in more ways than one.

and i wonder WHY i keep blogging when i feel guilty for whining. it's like those weird drama serials or things where someone suddenly says that "doesn't this seem like we're in a recurring drama serial?"
if the world's a taproom, the drinks and jokes are on me.

story time: i was walking along orchard road when this guy comes up to me and says "you know, your eyebrows need plucking. i'm steven lim the famous eyebrow plucker and you can see me in this article *gestures to big blown up poster of newspaper article*...etc". all this delivered at breakneck speed. so i say no thanks and get the hell out of there. not that i have anything against the guy, just that i'm not used to getting told i need a sudden facial hair trimming.

and then i saw www.stevenlim.net. my eyes my EYES. gods i need to scrub my history. and my hard disk. and my retinas. they BURNNN with horror at the invasion of the ego. it was the photos. *twitch*.

anyways. PIANO EXAM OVER. phew. nearly had a seizure through the waiting. the actual thing wasn't too bad, it was the torture of anticipation, the ice-cold feeling you get when your brain comes up with much, much worse tortures than what could possibly happen to you within the bounds of the geneva conventions. but it's over. so yay.

i have a bright orange fender and 2andahalf cups of beer. this is a relatively good day. as long as you don't mention the 4 more days to go LALALALALAAAA WHAT ARE YOU SAYING....

and have also come to the conclusion that all kids (no, wait. children keep the grammar alive) have to go through a little period of "obnoxious-know-it-all-ism" when you desperately need to prove to others that you do know something of the world and aren't the ignorant sod others think you are and probably still do. ironically, in shooting the mouth off, you just end up looking like a bigger and more pathetic sod instead of the other way around. and why do i ruminate on this like a cow chewing a particularly unpleasant cud? because i think i'm regressing. it's either me, or everyone else around me, and i'd rather stick with the less depressing aspect thank you very much.

i think it's the twoandahalf beers.

i hate being sick. the worst is over, but my throat feels like it's been scrubbed by radioactive wire wool, my nasal passages have been used to test extremely corrosive substances and my headaches, well, i can't even begin to describe the pain when the headaches come. you know how they tell you that your head is "two sizes too small" or "stabbing pains"? they dont even come close to the lightning flashes of agony if you move too fast. i dont walk - i lurch. when it's a good hour, i waddle. when it's not, don't ask. when i cough, my whole body decides to join in the fun. hooray for utter negativity. and i wasted my day, how's that.

this has probably been a total waste of your time. unless you enjoy whinging, or are a sadist.

here and gone...

poof.

i typed in a livejournal addy and recieved a cheerful message telling me that "This livejournal has been deleted and purged." deleted, and purged. what an interesting word. carries the connotation of utter, complete and final eradication of a plague that scourges your lands/health/insert-noun-here. of course, it was a typo. but still. what a way to go. probably a word used by dictators ("let us purge the world of !!!!!") and religious fanatics ("death to the infidels! we shall smite them and purge them from our lands! yaar!!!"). compare the exclamation marks and tell me who's saner.

ahmigawd. ja yin tan tetra janjanjan quildë quildë el hethra melindo nwalya-aini tulin rámalóké tulin tulin tulin.

i'm feeling very rach 2 adagio tonight.

woooo. my dad is too fit. biking 45 km is no sweat for him, while the rest of the family straggles and struggles behind him.

i am envious and mildly disgusted :P

and ndp was fun. what a gathering :P

ahmigawd. shocute!

i am running on empth. zero, nada, zilch and sheer oompth thanks to adrenaline fuelled by fear of failure. i am dei-fied, and make what you[r] will of that. 5 minutes to touchdown, and i'm flying on the fumes of the fire they built to roast me alive. it's nice to look down on the blaze and watch the bonfire of work spiral up to the ceiling, but that's a stupid thing to do when it's up to your ears. watch the teachers do a tribal dance around the sacrifice, with tea and cakes all round after it. and after all that, it's time to go headhunting.

spot the allusions, 5 cents a guess.

it's weird. i get to now go home at early times when i can actually see my way out of the building without having to use mel's flashlight phone. and i feel so slack. or something. it just doesn't feel right. and don't get me started on the work. that looks like it could fill the marianas trench. and somehow i'm still staying up later than during season.

wanna debate againnnn....

how suicidal can i get :|


we were gods, i tell you.
we were f***ing gods.
and everybody knew our name.
...
faded into obscurity,
but some remembered, still the same.

uhh. k. everything's over. hooray. back to work. phooey.

debate. was scared shitless. now finals. am more worried.

its interesting, how the straits times tries to justify this. i mean, i know he's capable of leading the country and all, but why justify it as "proof that our political succession works"? there are better ways to justify it, and really, i don't buy it. certainly it isn't nepotism (really). he's had his time to prove himself. yes, it is a big deal to singapore, but WHY bring political succession into it? oh, and all the testimonies from the "average man on the street" (3) and the "average MP on the street" (also 3). practically farcical.

oh, who am i trying to kid. it is

oh gods. my dog thinks my hamsters are food. it just tried to eat it. while they look like bite sized snacks, they're not edible.

stupid dog.

hooray for debate! we won everything, and i do mean everything :D 'twas fantastic, the coordination and the analysis and stuff..let's keep it up! despite flower sniffing...>P

rmun fashion parade was painful. i mean, it just didn't seem as funny as my years. maybe it's just me, but it just was..draggy. gah. spent 14 bucks on a cab down too because i was scared i was gonna be late...>( they'd better recompense me for that! >P

ugh. brain dead. guess why.

so cool/freaky (to be played at 1 am in the morning).

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. computing pwned everyone. possibly because we were tested on things we weren't taught yet. graah.

on the bright side, brudder is now a metalmouth. conversation goes something like this.
me: "say 'ee'."
bro: "go 'way. i can't eat english food now. rare steak i hear you calling..."
-short pause-
"well, we could mash them."
"shut up."
"i mean, what about steak tartare? soft and non-chewy-ish."
"shut up."
"or we could have mashed potatoes. that fits the bill."
*thump*
"ow. or...wait for it...shepard's pie! two in one! bonus! owowow..."

heehee.

omg. i just got down to looking at the World of Warcraft screenshots (having given up on my midyears) and OMG they PWN j00r 455. +0+4||y. AAAAAAAAaa.

i think i'm in love.

WAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA! PWNAGE!!!!

i slapped my brother. he slammed the door. and windows. i suppose it was justifiable in a way. both ways. tell me, what do you do with recalcitrant little buggers who refuse to sleep? and believe in giggling as the main form of entertainment, along with randomly playing with the intercom and reading books?

then again, what right do i have?

hello world. am back from conquering ophir with battle scars. my blisters have blisters (apparently), and my muscles are attempting to put me through yoga, even though i don't want to. blister on arm and palm are related, thanks to a reflex action which sees me slamming my hand on hot oil that lands on my arm during camping before the ophir trip. so i go climbing mudhills with open wounds. unfun. but the actual climbing was quite fun, surprisingly. everyone was supremely uncomfortable, but happy nonetheless. unless you were sleeping next to my brothers, in which you risked a knee in the ribs somewhere around 2 am in the night if you were lucky. if not, you wouldn't sleep because they'd hog the sleeping bag we use for blankets, and this would probably spoil your whole morning. the situation was not helped either by the fact that little brothers are motormouths, and do not stop talking. ever. even when you're attempting to navigate a vertical cliff face and feeling like little bugs are stabbing you with knives, they persist in pretending to be stuck in a war zone. which is partly true. getting them to stop deserves a purple heart for compassion to fellow human beings.

ok screw this. the fact that i can sleep in a proper bed after 1 week means more to me right now. will continue later.

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goobyeworld. off to ophir. if i dont come back alive i've been sucked dry by leeches.

ahmagawd. just came back from count basie's orchestra. WHOOOO. funfunfunfunfun :D was really good. from the vocalist to the drummer. butch miles owns as a drummer, and james leary is an AMAZING bassist. great stuff.

ahh, preusem. its been one day and already i miss the group. after all the stuff we did, its hard to forget the bonds forged. i mean, i doubt any of us will forget vidhi's wonderful eccentricity and her "coy" rendition of "wo yao ni de ai", or mark's rendition of the same and his "little boy's" shampoo ad. or benjamin's pool jumping. or eddie's bridge. and peiling's laugh. how about our slo vladimir johannes ("djugashvili") cute indonesian accent that got better as the days went on (just like the food)? how about CHUBBY BUNNY!!! and our friendly neighbourhood murderer sudeshna with her mouth full of marshmallows. and pooja's multiple names and handphone conversations. viknesh's and ben's 69 enquiries. whee...it was just really really fun. just like the cheers. and staying up late on the last night, bribing the guards and watching the sketch show while playing bridge and chinese chess. priceless.

i also now know that speaking to xxx newspaper reporters is bloody hazardous for one's health. they will misquote you and get everything wrong while subverting objective reporting. gods, that was bad. though the presentation was fun :D all the innuendoes and mistaken identities..;p oh, and trying to avoid teachers on the last night puts you at risk for a heart attack from anything. and swearing was extremely excessive that night, i know.

maan. preusem. for all those involved, participants and slos and all those i know, i salute you.

i wondered where i could get a life. then i realised i didn't have time for it.

i think i took on too much. it's the problem of not just being a jack of all trades, but trying to be good at it with the problem of procrastination compounding the work.

3 weeks just doesn't seem enough.

bloody term exams.

things to talk about...a lot. for one, i managed to procure saki. for the unenlightened, saki is quite possibly one of the best authors of short stories, period. who can forget sredni vashtar, or the children who clamoured for an "improper story". say what you want about modern realist novels that believe sales are directly proportionate to the vulgarities present in the book, there's something that has to be said for recalcitrant authoritarian nannies, bigoted upper class english lords and ladies and subtle, satrical wit. saki and wodehouse. if you haven't read them...WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WAITING FOR.

which brings me to the next random topic of conversation - acoustics. specifically in my house. i just realised that it's got echoes that manage to subtly smooth out the squawks in anyone's voice. instant bathroom baritone. just add water. if you ever hear a disembodied voice wandering around the house and perforating everyone's eardrums, no worries. it's just me. unfortunately, like everything else there is a downside, and in this case it's hard to a) hear when people are calling you and b) hear when people are replying, at least the issue of "hear clearly". muffled sounds like "grnfgrnfgrfnarg" only make more sense when you get within 5 steps and can see that brother is flailing hand with embedded hamster teeth in.

this is basically for those who complain i dont post....:|

and does ANYONE want hamsters. please. i think i've another lot coming.

gmail is nifty. send mail there if possible. for those who know it, it's the friendly aztec god again. for those who don't, ask those who do. :D

somatic markers

your generation is fed
on birth control, rock and roll
and bytes of a bygone era
when gripping trees was the only exercise we had for our
fingers, that now grasp canes and tremble
helplessly, in the face of the internet.

you say you know of iraq, and reel
off statutes, figures and names on your
fingers that wave so confidently with your
arrogance (it seems almost blinding,
your transition from gelem to golem that
i bet you can't see the gleam
you have become of a machine)
it's in your eyes.

i bet you can't feel when the images
flicker past you like so many pictures
you see in the papers (but you always turn to the funnies
don't you?)
carnage flickers past quickly, filed into storage, ready for
recall, but really, they mean nothing to one accustomed in thinking
in ones and zeroeths. (the computer thinks not of its files, it just
is).
emotions, hah! an anachronism
in the 30th century! and the world today is
fastfastfast, we want speedspeed, more t1, t2, t3
gigabytes of information pouring down thy eyes -
from truth to death,
you know everything, and yet you know nothing.

you know not of the rain on your face, or the joy it is to
run free, or the power that a tree's crown can give you.
your sunlight only falls on your face, only your mind runs
free[d] in your mind on the information superhighway,
and your crown of viruses stops all traffic.
progress is a good thing, we shall not miss the old,
you say, with quiet confidence
and who are we to argue with the future?
your jungle is concretized, your seabed electrified
we are interconnected
and that is good.

you will not miss us, we are the misshapen clay.
creators shall go back to the shadows, you are the next
step in a world that cloned dolly,
you myelinated sheaths overrule our emotional heartbeat,
cogitational machinery rules the world.
we are your fastfast-frankenstein, your stitched-together zombie
we are what you made us,
and we will rule the world we built,
plugged-in, spell-bound,
and numb.

i'll go saaaiiiillin'..,

mood of the moment - remniscing
music of the moment - robbie williams - beyond the sea

oh. i think it seems to be appropriate somehow.

Don't Forget The Sonia, Mum.

Time To Make The Sonia.

what. that sounds wrong. as does this

Ask the Man From the Sonia.

or this

Sonia Wanted.

its either subliminal messages, or the damn thing just doesnt like me :|

Graaaagh.

so yeah, heheh. swimming to finish what i left off. ache from rugby, but hell it was fun :D zhi looked like the esplanade/durian when kt spiked his hair. highly amusing inter-cca - hissoc came first (the irony), we came third (more irony). well, they say we were fourth, but we maintain third. sounds better, especially since we were swimming with 6 people (4girls2guys) because the boys cant swim. the girls are more sporty than the guys. something's wrong :P next stop - track and fields. this time marcus had better be around.

i am very happy. NEW COMPUTER!!! ahahahaha!!!! whee! its very fast. veryveryfast. well, compared to my previous one it is, and at least it doesnt crash when you try to play stupid games from zone.com on it. 512 ram and a radeon 9600PRO. and it can scan 80gigs in about 7 mins. would probably be happier if parents would allow me to install games on it (tis a bloody sin to not utilise this to the max) but that's another campaign. wheeeee!!!

viruses spread damn fast. i dont protect my comp for 1-2 days because, well, avg wouldnt download. and POOM. 144 infected files thanks to 2 worm/viruses. gods, it's depressing to see a new comp violated so quickly.

havent posted due to many things such as debate and new comp, and stupid blackout. blackouts are romantic, inconvenient, and handphones are...handy, although teh image of a humanoid figure tottering around with two handphones in hand lighting the way spoils the mood dramatically. candles gutter too fast, and tend to run out pretty quickly. they're romantic, yes, but eminently un-practical when it comes to providing light (albeit better than handphones). scraping wax off the floor is not entirely pleasant when it's done in the dark, and enough wax spilled onto my hand for me to make a wax glove complete with fingerprints. bond would have been proud.

tomorrow is swim meet. i find it amusing that the debaters will be swimming in the inter-cca event. the mantra is "at least we'll beat the chess club/go green/insert-singularly-un-sporty-cca-here-apart-from-debate". here's hoping we dont end up last.

hamsters, anyone?

urk. does anyone want hamsters? please? they are being prolific. i now have 10.

uggh. have entered ultra-stoned state of apathy that results after an extremely bad sugar high. and bad as in "half-a-pint-of-ben-and-jerrys-one-sweet-whirled-ie-caramel-and-coffee-stuff-and-one-and-a-half-bars-of-chocolate" bad. and not good after running cross. i.e. body absorbs sugar very fast. me and brother were bouncing around the busstop. literally. and brother suffered spasms. and because of eating too much ice cream at one go, was also feeling sick. which is not a good feeling when feeling very, very hyper. how do people finish one pint all by themselves!!! crazy.

on a lighter note. i now have a potential 4 future furballs that are currently 4 very nerve-wracking pink squirming thingys.

anyone got that letter advertising the "GEP Alumni Association"? that super elitist thing that makes all readers choke on their incredulity? well, it was also plugging the "GEP Funfair", which was supposed to raise funds for charity. so 4 of us went down, 3 after debate, presumably to laugh at it.

it was horribly bombastic. for one, it took up the whole moe grange road field, and thank to the rain the field was very muddy, so you can imagine the problems that caused. it ended up with the 4 of us watching our steps instead of the stalls or (relatively non-existent) scenery. after making a gingerous (? what do you term the adjective of gingerly...) circuit of the field, we exited rather quickly and spent the rest of the day around books in orchard.

i dont know what exactly gets me about it, the fact that there were so many small kids around, the fact that there were so many parents around, or probably the fact that it was organised in the first place. if you see the "aims of the funfair", they're to "promote the understanding of the GEP". well i dont know about you, but organising a "GEP funfair" isn't exactly the best way to go about doing it. for one, it smacks of elitism of the highest degree. and there's the rub. it's a sad irony that all this 20 years of "education of the highest order" isn't really gonna mean anything any more. a careful analysis of the parents there would reveal a disproportionate amount of "taitais", swinging LV handbags and strutting bright blue pants (ok i generalise here), practically oozing the "my-child-is-so-much-better-than-yours-he's-in-GEP-can-you-beat-that" kind of mentality. the saddest irony is that this isnt gonna mean anything anymore. 5 years down the road, the new "elitist, die-die-must-get-my-child-in-there" will be the through-train programme or the IB, and the GEP will be an anachronism. in addition, considering the fact that these kids are "the future of the nation", and that these little primary school "future of the nation"s are holding mommy's hand as they trot everywhere, and that the number of GEP schools have practically doubled since its initiation (dare i even say tripled?), one starts to worry for the future of our dot at the end of the malaysian peninsula.

then again, there's something to be said for having such a damn big funfair. they even had an elephant bouncy castle thing, spinning alice in wonderland cups and even a small train. and a lot of mud, which the kids didnt seem to mind. for one, its obscene. all those little kids wearing orange shirts with "GEDP" on the back (gods above), teachers wearing red GEDP shirts, and us wearing disgusted expressions. maybe its just us with our own class of predjudices against the conspiracy to phase out the GEP, maybe we're being irrational and close minded and just can't stand kids, maybe we're even being traitors to our own kind. but why don't you see the pictures we took and hear the subsequent conversation about government conspiracy policies and see for yourself.

music of the moment - gnawing
mood of the moment - unsettled

somehow when reading all those fascinating arguments going on about religion in that other school about 2km away from me i feel...disconsolate :|

twenty-four fishes in the deep blue sea and you forget to turn off the light so i'm flying in the marianas thinking of you and blue hamsters turning over end and ends in my mind, convoluted swirls like the flash of lantern light and just as indirect as chopin going in one ear and smoke over water spreading throughout my senses so are you ok or are you playing possum? i can't tell, you won't tell, and so i drown here wondering why fish burrow.

music of the moment - deep blue something - breakfast at tiffany's
mood of the moment - resigned.

if you feel bored:
1. go to google
2. type in "weapons of mass destruction"
3. click "I'm Feeling Lucky"
4. grin a lot

:D

spent the whole day playing guitar. skin on tips of left fingers probably grown about half a cm thicker :P

ooh. and jan gabarek is very very nice. though i think i didn't really do justice to the ticket, because i was so tired from ntus i found myself falling asleep. i hope subliminal hearing works, because what i heard was very...full-bodied? the saxaphone tone was absolutely beautiful, and it could range from an irish fiddle to a plaintive cry, and the pianist seemed simple at first because he was playing the accompaniment but once they got to their solo sections they really shone. i couldn't even track his improvisation, and he used quite a bit of modern techniques (like playing in the piano. as in, in.) the bassist too...playing below the bridge. but this most..impressive was the percussionist. well, for one, her setup looked like a while wall of...metallic things. the only way you could see her was because she was wearing a bright yellow outfit. and she was very animated. but..maan. i've never seen anyone play the percussion like her before. practically a whirling dervish. whoooo. good stuff :D

hmm.

and i'm staying. next stop - which class :|-

random thoughts of the day,

i wonder how many users, especially in singapore, actually utilise more than a quarter of the preset words in their t9 dictionary. what with all the "alwaizzzzz" and "hahaz" and "frens" and all...*twitch*

the reason why kids are so confident is because they havent seen the real world yet. to them everything's possible because they haven't experienced failure, and they just dont know how hard things can get. the trick is to get them to keep the innocence without knowing it, and then you get your entrepreneur. or boss. or successful artist. or whatever.

man am i STUFFED. i think i should stop eating so much. like at buffets. at ponderosa. wow.

well, vcs turned out fine :D congrats to the team ending a 5 year title drought. the guys were over the moon...especially our resident german. and mr ngoei was so happy he gave us a treat ^^. so now i'm stuffed. ugh.

and yay for longdistance calls woohoo!! if you guys wanna get something to jinin send it to me quick quick by next week.

i seem to be very...succint. heck.

and raising victor vargas is a very nice show

wargh. so lets see. results. well...if you really want to know, ask me. i dont really feel like posting it up here because i think it'd probably be damn inappropriate. so now the question that has been kicking its heels at the back of my mind comes into focus - where next? this chapter's closed, finished, kaput. wahey, but no time to stay, the train's moving on, time waits for no man etc etc. and there really is no interim time...decisions should be like lightning, and like lightning they dont strike twice (supposedly) and they're bloody dangerous if you happen to be unlucky. TELL ME. someone PLEASE dictate my life for once. i'm sick of being my own scapegoat, and i know how bloody hypocritical it is to be asking someone else to be my scapegoat, but dammit...though in the end, i'll probably still blame myself.

please, tell me what your school is like.

hidden headaches, comfortable sciences/silences and glucose-ridden kids.

well i guess i should post about funorama. but seriously, what's there to say? it was fun, i met up with lots of people, i found out i suck at soccer (big surprise there), i got another bear (and ANOTHER one today so i think i can finally shut my brothers cries for a bear up). the games stall wasn't too great, but it was a slow turnover rate. and it was relatively fun :D slacking with hong and gang rules too. and i wouldnt be surprised if i contracted diabetes on that day. ate a LOT of sugar. i [heart] haagen daaz's cinnamon caramel! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

staying back when everyone goes off for an early day of fun is kinda demoralizing, really. training is TIRING. both debates and cross. but cross was relatively slack. but i got home STONED. as in, poleaxed-stoned.

waaaaaaaa. tired.

i love this. it rules. the art is great, the storyline amazing, the descriptions fantastic.

standing in a lava waste
a salt and empty earth.
dream a release from pain and barren land
your opiate to the world around you
put your trust not in princes, but in paupers,
trust,
the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

valentines day is a big thing in acjc. the night before, balloons are hung up in the lobby and around the school, dedications are played in the void deck, flowers are sold at obscene prices (and worse, people are actually paying for them and everyone is laden with flowers, chocolates, munchies and random objects of affection. unremarkably, my class was pretty apathetic towards valentines day, with pretty much the only indication that it was a special occasion being when the thoughtful girls of the class gave people flowers, notes, chocolates etc (hooray for white chocolate covered strawberries ^^) and when celene's boyfriend trotted in to give her a balloon heart and flower, earning cheers from the amused crowd.

i wonder, though, is vday as big a thing is other jcs? like, say, rj? or hc? or nj? here it's practically a school holiday, because for one i doubt anyone gets anything done. simply too many distractions. there's only so much you can do when a purple balloon is bobbing just behind you and balloon flowers are strewn around the place and people are trying to imitate micky mouse with the aid of helium.

still, it is fun. for the doubles, it's vday. nuff said.for the singles, you get to watch the goings-on and laugh at the antics. that is, unless you're one of those who suffer from brokenheartitis, or lonlinessism. in which case, there's really nothing much you CAN do except get really drunk and wake up feeling like you oughta have felt when you started.

but there's nothing to mark him as the devil's own.

chubby bunny should not be played with: a) soup, b) papayas, and c) dried apricots, the latter because it's just pointless. even with a pointless game. but chubby bunny with marshmellows, ah, now, that's something. *grin* very funny photos. someone can stuff 9, crazy boy. and if you're squeamish, dont do it. you get powdered sugar all over. liquid powdered sugar, if you get what i mean.

uggy unny.

as you can tell from the frequency of the posts, i currently find myself suffering from einstienitis, where the theory of relativity is negatively applied relatively here and time drags out like too much treacle. moms and dads happy upstairs, my brother's sleeping, my other brother's probably in prep and my other brother is playing sim farm, of all things. yet again, another boring rant on the state of my unused brain. i suppose it's a good thing others have not found my blog, really. though even if they do, there's nothing to see. i should probably post on how acjc is like, but everyone's kinda said everything, like how it's "cool" and "fun" and "exciting" and whatever else, which kind of leaves nothing else for me to say. debate is cool, love the people, x-ctry is great, and the people are great too (plus i'm getting fitter as in i could run my x-ctry without choking too badly), but heck you have to choose one or the other. i hate responsibility. mr ang is kind enough to let me come only once a week, but really i dont see how i'm gonna take him up on that. probably am. have this fascination for running 20 rounds. must keep fit.

feeling very keenly absence. one is a person, other is an idea. the person you all know. communicating by email and tagboards and stuff just isnt the same as ringing up and yelling "shnoo!". damn long distance calls. being in ac (or more specificaly co-ed) tends to screw up my system. half the time i feel i should belong to the guys, but obviously i can't really fit in. and i like my class, but really, i can't talk about clothes, shopping for me you know consists of 5 minutes in a good shirt shop or 2 hours in a com shop with demos and free plays unless parents are around, and guys..well..dammit they're good hot water bottles for lts and things, and i can guy spot if i really have to, but heck when you start sitting around in circles admitting to crushes, i'm getting the hell outta there. guess i haven't changed much. but hell, like everyone else i miss 4/12. plus it's hard to adjust when you're used to hanging off people's necks, giving spontaneous hugs and stuff you know i do. i keep having to rein myself in because reputation, apparently, is everything and even if i dont care squat, i still have to worry about others. for one, guys i think dont like the idea of girls suddenly grabbing their forearms with cold fingers. screws the reputation. yes, i know j's done it before (though i doubt to guys), but the lts are freezing and it's works, unless there's necks around, which is better. i'm starting to feel like a victim in the german experiments where they take babies away from their moms and the babies go all suicidal on them. and it even isn't a month yet. and people seem to drop out of my life left right and centre. and i keep meeting others who remind me of them. life be damn easy yay. hooray for mild selfish depression. pdas be banned.

my gods i'm so tired and yet i can't get off the com. i'm not even doing work. i'm not even doing research. i'm not even PRETENDING to do work. i think i'm addicted. hooray for computing. i think i've got chem.

squeeble.

i wub hamsters.

and the world watches the shatter
the crash of a thousand paper cranes.

You are Form 9, Vampire: The Undying.

"And The Vampire was all that remained on
the blood drowned creation. She attempted to
regrow life from the dead. But as she was
about to give the breath of life, she was
consumed in the flame of The Phoenix and the
cycle began again."

Some examples of the Vampire Form are Hades (Greek)
and Isis (Egyptian).
The Vampire is associated with the concept of
death, the number 9, and the element of fire.
Her sign is the eclipsed moon.

As a member of Form 9, you are a very realistic
individual. You may be a little idealistic,
but you are very grounded and down to earth.
You realize that not everything lasts, but you
savor every minute of the good times. While
you may sometimes find yourself lonely, you
have strong ties with people that will never be
broken. Vampires are the best friends to have
because they are sensible.


Which Mythological Form Are You?
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you'd think i'd end up with quetzalcoatl :P

we now have ANOTHER little addition to the menengerie, however you spell it. a nice little golden labrador named sammi. very cute, very bouncy, and another excuse or reason to go running. whoopee. =D

have decided that the world runs on hamster power. at least, all the mechanical bits of it.