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Freaky Friday!

2009-08-30T10:56:00.004+08:00

I did have a rather long previous post mostly about how tiring it was being busy. This one is about how FUN it is being busy! :D

All CCA activities for us JC1s have been stopped in preparation for the promotional exam, meaning there was no choir practice last Friday. Thanks to this, I got to pay full attention to our Art booth for Humanities Week :) though I would still have to leave school earlier for the breaking of fast event going on at Tampines East CC.

The setting up process for our Art stations started at 12 noon. Oh yes, I skipped the last half hour of my Physics lesson, and I feel good about it! :P Before the secondary school kids arrived at around 3pm, we had a whole lot of fun painting our own faces and talking nonsense :D Xiao Li had his entire left arm painted with his own tribal designs, Azri grew a beard and an eye on his left hand, Charissa turned Hitler, Trivia and Joy had cat faces, and I got myself a gothic pair of lips and white fangs :P

The first batch of kids that I took was girls, I forgot which school they were from, and they froze the moment they were assigned to my station, because of my huge pair of eyes and the scary makeup. Dude, they stopped a few meters away from me and gave me this 'The freak is gonna eat us alive' look xD

Well at least I was still able to deliver the content of my presentation on Art and identities, and explain to the girls how our Photoshop-edited pictures and paintings portray different identities. I don't care if I looked like a serial killer. >:) Haha

Azri manned his own station, too. An identical one to mine.

The face painting station Trivia was in charge was the main source of fun for the kids, where they get to sabotage their friends and scar their faces! no, not for life, only for the hour :P Though some were more reserved than others, kids from every school that came enjoyed the activity.

I was supposed to be in this final group shot, but unfortunately I'd already left for the IFTAR event at Tampines East CC by then :(

Yeah, so I had to rush down to Tampines East CC at around 5pm, together with Leo and Nam, two teachers, and 4 other civics councilors to witness the breaking of fast of the Muslims. The teachers had a really swell method of socializing :o 'Now that you have some time before the guest of honor's arrival, take out your tutorials and finish them!', 'Who's your teacher for ___ subject?', 'What did you all get for your SAs?'. haha :P

Mister guest of honor gave his speech, and the one after him explained the meaning behind fasting, as well as the importance of staying in good shape by fasting. While waiting for the speeches to END, we sat in silence looking at each other! :P haha.

At 712pm, we were allowed to break our fast! Man I was waiting for this since I was starved and thirsty for the whole day, especially after my Humanities Week presentations :P Would you look at THAT! :D

And here's a group photo, as an evidence to our dearest Ms Choo the principal that nobody ran away from their duty :P wait, no, Nam did :|

And my activity-packed day ended with the hostel anniversary dinner :) I was able to return in time for the last hour of the event, watch some magic tricks and dance crazily to the music with my friends at the end of it :P

Next Monday is Teachers' Day. We boys are ready for the performance that we've practiced hard for :D and I am ready for the holiday on Tuesday! I'm gonna be revising my subjects on that day! Get the wheels rolling :D and go out for dinner with Linh's friends :)

Still addicted to Dream Theater's music. Listening to the melodies alone makes you feel, a thousand and one different feelings. Listening to the lyrics makes you think of the world and things that are happening around you, to you.

I was talking to my friend yesterday, about poverty alleviation and how we could contribute.

She was driven and ambitious, she wanted to be known and respected for what she did best, so her voice and power would be recognized by everyone. So her hands could reach places she would never have been able to as an ordinary individual. So she could accomplish things selfish authorities have failed to do. So the help she could provide would make a real change.

My take was different. I would rather be an insignificant one among a thousand others working towards that common goal. As an ordinary individual, the hundreds of achievements I may be able to obtain might not even be of so much help as one single thing a powerful individual could do. But I would actually get stuff done on my own. I would see change with my own eyes, by my own hands. You want something, you go and get it by yourself. That's what I think.

But. In my opinion, when it comes to solving global issues, the world needs all the help it can get. Regardless of how you are willing to contribute, we are all working in an organization of global scale. If you're the boss of the organization, you need men to carry out your plans. If you're among the men, you've got to work hard with the others in order to realize your boss's plans. If you're your own boss, you're your own men as well, and you've got to work hard with yourself to get your own plans done. That's the way I see it.

The world spins at a constant speed, but if we stop spinning together with it, we're left behind. Tiring as it sounds, we need to be working constantly. At least, we humans have the advantage of existing in a great quantity. We've got one another to hang on to.

It's great to do things when you're in good mood :)

Packed!

2009-08-26T11:39:00.003+08:00

First actual post after a ridiculously long time. About how busy I am with my life lately.

It's pretty fun re-reading the few old entries I'd posted in here over two years ago :D if anything has changed about me since then, it's my English. It's gotten much worse :P

Oh, right, the main topic. So I was complaining life was hectic, for myself at least.

I like how things work here in JC. Stuff happens in ways you can hardly imagine, opportunities lying all around waiting for you to grab hold of, a little more freedom in choosing what and when you want to study. Plus a whole lot of workload and responsibilities piling on your shoulders. Oh, and before you know it, you've slacked off for too long and catching up is what you'll have to do!

My academic results have been average so far.

Which are not up to par, yet.

5 more weeks until promotional examinations.

Oh yeah, that's right, the main topic. I've been busy lately. Choir, events and performances that I'm involved in are starting to clash with one another. Well, it is the general school policy that non-academic stuff happens only on Wednesday and Friday, so when all those things that I'm tied to are lumped together on the same days, I need to make sacrifices. Then again, making sacrifices is even harder than it sounds, since anyone of it that I make would adversely affect other people. But hey, I did mention I liked it here in JC: every bit of these things I've been doing help keep my days exciting, my mind on track, and eyes on the ball. I think :P

Besides, I'm enjoying myself quite a bit too! :D National Day Celebration at school was enjoyable :)

I've watched quite a number of movies recently, from the adrenaline-rushing action-packed though slightly disappointing Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a cinematographically brilliant G.I. Joe full of brainless fun, to the dark, disturbing Public Enemies and the extremely heartwarming Up which is magical, musical and beautifully crafted, though a bit predictable plot-wise :)

I've been hanging out with my friends frequently too, playing games, telling jokes, looking silly, laugh and sing. These were taken on the day Ethel and I went to watch Up.

Paintings are being produced on a regular basis.

Relationship went through a lot of ups and downs. Well, more downs than ups. But I'm glad certain things have been straightened out :)

Linh and I celebrated her birthday yesterday :) We had a nice dinner and a relaxing night. Happy happy 19th. Stay on the top yeah :)

Woot!

2009-08-25T19:01:00.001+08:00

Heyyyyy :D I haven't touched this blog for nearly 2 years! :D

I intend to keep it alive.

Cya around.

Holiday...yep, holiday

2007-09-02T11:34:00.001+08:00

Ermm...wow, didn't notice I haven't touched this blog for over a month. Yeah but it's understandable right, 'cuz we had common test, and then before that we had National Day Celebration and OBS. So I guess I'll use this entry to cover up everything last month.

Ok the National Day Celebration was not that important of an occasion, to me personally, 'cuz I'm not a local here in Singapore, but at least I did enjoy the fairly long break from school. Yeah the break went quite well especially because right after the break we would be going for OBS, which meant we had no burden of homework once the following week started. I went to watch "Perfect Strangers" (hehe NC16 stuff :P you guys are not old enough yet rite :P) with one of my friends on the second day of the celebration, not sure which date it was but anyway the movie was really cool :D It was intense, and the twists really surprised me. Guess the writer did a great job with the plot :) However because of this movie I was unable to have a look at "Disturbia", which I was looking forward to watching. Noval watched it on the same night I watched "Perfect Strangers" and he told me it was terrific when we got back to the hostel.

One word about OBS: fun. Actually there's more to it than just fun. I learned a lot from the instructors and my teammates. I bet they also learned the same things I did so that's why by the end of the 5 days our teamwork had improved dramatically. There're a lot of memorable things about OBS like the wall climbing part, and then the kayaking part, and then pitching and sleeping in tents, playing games, cooking meals,...everything. This whole OBS was a very wonderful opportunity that was given to us and I believed we've somehow made good use of it.

Common tests came right after we returned from OBS. Ok I'm not sure how well I prepared for the tests but hopefully my preparations were not too bad. I think I'm probably gonna score much better than I did last time. Well, yeah, I've still got a lot of work to do.

It's now the so-called September holiday. It's just merely a one week break which should be used for revision and stuff. My mom has come and she is staying with me in my hostel for this one week so I've got to treasure the time I'm having in this holiday. End of year exams are just a matter of days away anyway.

Anything more...? Ermm...oh yeah. New featured friend. This time it's Noval the curly haired boy :P

Guess that's all for today.
Cya l8er guys :P Have fun with your holiday.

Relieved...! :D

2007-07-30T15:50:00.000+08:00

Wow...! After a long time like what, 2 weeks, I'm finally having a nice day. Ok maybe not that nice but at least all pressure is off for today :)

Ermmm let's see... I stayed up really late last night, until around 3:30 AM to finish up the Green Wave thing. It's really annoying when you have to waste a 700MB blank CD just to burn 5MB of content :( Not to mention I actually had to do the exact same thing the day before for my art competition (ok... my 8-page manga was actually 15MB but that doesn't make much of a difference :( ) Anyway it doesn't matter now.

The other problem that brought me so much stress has been eased down a little bit...and that's about good enough for me to breathe normally for the rest of the day :) I'm glad things seem to be going fine again :)

And I got an A2 for the Biology test on photosynthesis we took last time :) 21/30. Not something I should be bragging about since it's not as great of a result as compared to most of our other classmates...but it's good enough for me to relax myself just a little bit. Noval is happy with his result too :) He got an A1 after all :)

The Geography file check today wasn't too bad either :) I managed to have my file accepted by Ms Rashidah (don't even know how to spell her name actually :P) quite easily while Bruce and Noval suffered badly :P They've gotta do a dance next time as a forfeit while the other Vietnamese girls will have to sing :D Guess I was lucky today because Trang (who is supposed to be my Geog partner) wasn't around so Ms Rashidah couldn't easily find anyway to chop off my head hehe...

It's only been the second day since I submitted my manga and character design but I really want to know the result already. Hope it'll come soon.

Aahhh soooo hungry. Guess I'm gonna go do something else and then have dinner :P Later ppl :)

I'm lost....

2007-07-29T00:09:00.000+08:00

What am I supposed to do now..................I don't think I can stand this for another few months, or a few weeks, or maybe.......a few days..........I'm so miserable...completely lost...sooooo tiring

Anyway, I've finished both of my art club projects for the competition thing. Gotta go to Starbucks at Raffles City before 5 p.m. tomorrow to submit the manga though.....Ah by the way the name of the manga has been changed to "Music of Love" since the old name "Chameleon" didn't seem to fit the contents of the story. And this "love" is not a boy-girl kind of love btw.

Okay......since I've already completed what I had to do for the competition, the next thing to do now is to wait for the result and hope that it will turn out to be a positive result for me :)

Guess I'm going to sleep now. Gonna get up early tomorrow morning to go submit the manga thing. Just wish I could sleep normally......Even closing the eyes are hard when you are stressed...

Stress!

2007-07-26T00:51:00.000+08:00

Life is just so...stressful. Yeah really. The talk during assembly period today by ms whatever-her-name-was about stress management was only good to know. It just couldn't help me at all.
I'm under a lot of pressure right now. I've got....all kinds of problems.......and yeah, I also have 2 really tough art club projects that I must finish by tomorrow and hand up on Friday. On top of that we still have to finish the Green Wave thing in which I have to do a poster and the powerpoint slides starting tomorrow, and then I also have to revise for the Chemistry test, which is (most probably) also on Friday.
Besides........
*Sigh*
Yeah that's all. Nice dreams guys. I don't think I'm gonna have any like that....

First post !

2007-07-24T03:12:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone!
This is my first Blogger blog entry. I actually intended to write quite a bit but then everything was just erased away of my mind cuz' I'm too sleepy now. Ey don't think of me poorly ok, I usually sleep much earlier than this time :P
The next time I post it will be something that probably wouldn't annoy you this much hehe...
Till then, cya guys around :)

Wally

P.S : Oooh yeah. If interested, you guys can check out the other stuff down there *pointing down*. Ah and sorry if the colours are hurting your eyes :P

Thanks a lot :)
Take care