There was not very little things to say about except that the gp teacher commented that she could not understand what I am saying, hence, I am going to be a bit low profile for the next few days. Anyway, tommorrow will be a day that I take back my Chinese 'AO' results and Project Work. Hopefully, I could scored very well which could aid me into what I always wanted...... study medicine in the University.

Phew.... Today, I had all the surprise test and managed to scrap through them. Thank you oh Lord!!!! I had this Mathematics surprise test, hockey theory test, and also NARFA test (I think I spell wrongly). It was a close shave and I nearly failed for all the test and barely scrapped through them. Finally, I had my personal best at long jump which is 215cm, 5cm short of a silver and I had improved from the previous of not even 200cm. Sooner or later, I should be able to scrap through them. I have decided to do tuck jumps everyday 20 times and now, my legs are sored. I could understand why basketballers are so physically fit now. Today, I also learned something..... zero eq. I think it is inferred form my blog, so I gladly appreciate it. Anyway, got to run now as I have physics questions to do. I have learned to be positive now and even if noone is on my side, there is always something good come out of it. I could have peace and quiet!!!! HEHE!!!!

Today, I have some kind of cip in the library doing it with Michelle Neo. I did some revision on organic chemistry reagents and conditions and have finally done my physics and general paper tutorials and mindmap. Anyway, I did not really revise for my subjects so I am worried that I could not finish my revision in time. Hence, perhaps tommorrow, I would be able to finish them.

As a Singaporean, I should have a tribute to one of our pioneers that shaped Singapore today, Mr Rajartnam. He was a father and architect of independent Singapore. He believes in his idealism and the need for multi racialism. He is also the one who wrote our pledge. I thanked him for all our good fortune and blessed life is partly due to his policies. He was praised for his selflessness and 'no matter what, I would do it' helpfulness. I also thanked him for helping Singapore to be recognised by many countries due to his important role in shaping the foreign policies in Singapore. He had been a foreign minster for 25 years and helped to lead Singapore in International recognition. He was known for his SINGAPOREAN attitude and does not believe in a Chinese, Indian or Tamil. I thanked him for it is his idealism that everyone praised and with this idealism, the direction is clear and the goal of success is very near to us. I salute him!!!!!!!!!!

It is two weeks before my actual common test. I hoped I would do it well and not to let anyone else down. I had finally eaten my long awaiting yi mee today. I had been waiting for it for months and craved for it. Sorry, I had forgotten to take a picture of it. Anyway, I have been saving money to buy mp3 player and getting all the things I wanted. Today, I had been revising some kind of stuff that Miss Kelly Chong has given to us. The assignment is to do the mindmap of different topics. I think it is to help us in our essay writing because if we have a mental picture of this topics, we need not need to spent so much time thinking for ideas. It is also to help us organise stuff, so I did put in effort in doing it and made a mental note in capturing this mindmap. Anyway, I am a visual and auditory input person, hence remembering things is by capturing images, seeing the words and also hearing what people have to say. However, I am a kinesthetic output person. It means I need to practise to perfect it. Hence, I need to do more to get my results so I need to practise. Hence, I need to revise and practise more now~!

I was having archery today and I shot my worst off record of 30 out of 60 because I kept shaking my hand while I released my bow. It was so messed up although I had a personal best of 49 though which was a great success to me. After that, someone had missed the board and we had to search for an arrow out of the field. Imagine that!!!! Anyway, it was great today though, as I had my energy charged up like a bullet, as I had slept more than 12 hours from 5 to 5 plus. I managed to do my homework and stuff!!!! I shall revise my work today!!!!!

At last, I am ignoring him and for the first time, I had my peace. I hoped this continues and I could concentrate on my work, and it is time to study now!!!! I have planned my timetable so those people who want to go out, there is absolutely no way you can ask me out........ YEAH!!!!!!

Finally, I could get a win win solution for myself. I am so glad that this incident happened and that I could finally breakaway from Zhi Hao that really ignoring. Today we went and use this permanent marker to write on my pencilbox. This is not the first time we had taken my stuff to do something nasty. I warned him in the beginning of the lesson when he unscrewed the key chain of my thumbdrive that if you damaged it, you have to paid for it. He did not learned his lessons. He highlighted someone's spectacles and ignored him. It can be erased off. After that, he decided to do vandalised my pencilbox. It got worse when he tried to eradicate. Do you think I should get mad? I did not do so though because he is not worth it. Anyway, I decided that he should paid for his actions and went to ask me to buy me a new pencilbox. Anyway, I wanted to buy a new one but he is there and I happened to take this chance to ask him to buy a new one. If he did not which he would definitely do so, I would just have to ignore him for as long as I want and finally, I could get rid of him. He is very very ignoring although he is quite smart. SO much so for a brain. He takes everything as his play thing and did not think of the consequences. I am definitely glad that I could shake him off after this incident and if you are reading this, please do not disturb me because, seriously, I have enough of him. He is a guy that have the lowest EQ and never think of anyone. Yeah, he is smart but he is going to get it in the end. It is not a loss to lose him as a friend though, I would think it is more like a relief that I could actually get rid of him for as long as I wanted to. I should be pissed off right for he has done wrong to me but why I am not feel frustrated or pissed or even sadness?? Very strange. Maybe I take it that jc friends are not worth any emotions of mine. God, please forgive me and help to me to be free from this person. I just hoped that it would last forever and I lose him as a friend and he would not disturb me for the rest of my life and that is what I always wanted. Anyway, I shot a 38 out of 60 for my traget shooting. I even shoot a black. I was so depressed by it. However, I had not been shooting for a week or two so I could not be blamed for it totally but I am glad that I for least passed. That is all for now.

If you guessed right, I had recently bought Kelly Clarkson's album and today, I shall give my personal views about this album.
Breakaway, as it called it, is an album that Kelly Clarkson is trying to breakaway from her first album, Thankful. In this album, it is more rock/ pop influence and more 'I am me' affair. In truth, I think this is her 'first' album since Thankful is more a American Idol affair. In this album, she co-write and write half of her album, writing what she think of life, love and many of her personal stuff.
In this album, I love and adore the way she handle her song. Although her songs may not be 'perfect' but she had covered it up with her on record charisma and it is funny because some of her songs are quite 'melodrama' yet producing an effect that is endearing. Perhaps, I liked drama. Anyway, in this album, I favoured her number one hits like Breakaway, Since You Been Gone, Behind These Hazel Eye and Because of You. Let me break down these album and what I think of some of these songs in the album.
First of all, Breakaway is something more 'Amercia Idol' song and I think she should not since she was made from America Idol. This song is very light and showcase more of Kelly Claskson soulful sight unlike her other songs. It is about growing and it is like of like when you are not doing anything and lazing around, you will feel that this song is very pleasant to hear. This is also a song when you feel very sad and want to breakaway from reality, listen to this song and you will come back to earth, just kidding!!! It is more of a song that I really enjoyed most as compared to other songs.
Since you been gone and behind these hazel eyes is more rock influence song and more demanding of Kelly Clarkson's high pitched voice. It is more of a venge of frustrations and anger on her fallen love life. This is definitely a song when you break up with your boyfriend or girlfriend and wanted to venge your frustrations. It is also a song when you want to curse someone and your friend when he is a bastard or something. You can sing this song and in your mind, you think of that person. Like, you think of your enemy, and it really work for since you been gone but not really for behind these hazel eyes. Eg, I would think of Kia Joon, Zhi Hao, Long Zhao and maybe a bit of daniel when I sing this song. It is an effective source of releaser of anger and furthermore, you did not delibrately hurt anyone and yet still get the same effective. Anyway, for above mentioned, I was not kidding but anyway, this two song show the real rock edge of Kelly Clarkson and bring out why she is still so successful till today despite many pitfalls in her career.
Because of you is more like a kid in a dysfunctional family and grow up to be an adult thinking of the negativities of her marriage. I think this song is trying to bring up the message that whatever you do infront of your kids, your kids will be influence by it and this would pose problems for their emotional growth. Because of you is more like when you saw your parents fight and quarrel and everything else fails, this is a perfect song for you.
Besides the four hits, I also like addicted. It is very 'evil' and very low pitched and showed a different side of Kelly Clarkson. I was very attracted to this song and I classified this as one of the better songs in this album as it showed that no matter what Kelly sings, it would sounds great. This is a perfect song when you feel very evil and want to take drugs or something (literally) or even depressed, use this song to help you to relive it and the best of all, you need not need to take drugs but feel the essence of taking it.
Lastly, I like where is your heart. It is more like a song that you really wanted to hear when you are quiet and feel abit sad, not depressed, you want the song to move you or to help to relieve you pain a little bit, then it is the song that you really want to hear. I love to listen to this song when the sun sets and then you became a bit sad. This is a beauitful love song although some may think that it is boring but it is certainly a good song to listen to when you put your worries behind and listen to it.
Forgive me for this is my first time writing as a critic for an album!

I had saved up 50 dollars to buy a sling bag which cost around this price. This morning, I went out with Jeslyn, YeeTing, Ruben, Minxiang and Huiqin to Huiqin's friend's house to 'bai nian'. After that, we went to play cards which I lost a total of three to five dollars odd. Meanwhile, Huiqin's friend's mother distributed hong bao to us which was unexpected. My luck had been pretty lousy and therefore, I stand no chance of winning, so I decided to either (a)don't bet or (b)bet small. To be honest, I do not believe, you can be a millionaire through betting or win big time. What goes around comes around; you might win a lot this time but you might eventually lose all your money if you are not careful. Anyway, after that, I went out with Kia Joon to buy my sling bag. I went to bugis street, bugis junction, city link, marina square, suntec city and lot one to get what I wanted but to no avail. It was either (a)too small, (b)design not nice, (c)not for me or (d)too expensive. Poor Kia Joon had to accompany all the way from here to there. To make up for my loss, I decided to buy a Digimon to play with, to kill time and not to be hooted onto the computer. We went from one to six and even the labels like Billabong and Op did not have what I wanted. I wanted a sling bag that have straps onto it, bigger than A4 size and plain or no design. However, none fullfilled all the criteria, such that I was disappointed.
At night, I went home sadly and 'lao yu sen', saying all the things I wanted like grow taller, get good results, concentrate and focus, and finally, to do well in all I had done. This is accompanied by my small aunt (the one that had something bounce into her clothes) and my second uncle. We had a very small, light dinner and play fire sparklers later on. These was followed by my house chorues as I mopped and swept the floor. After that, my second uncle showed us her girlfriend photograph and told us her age which was 20-year-old china girl. My second uncle wanted to bring her to let all of us see but he needed to apply visa. Although there is an age gap of twenty five years old, I think that it would work well if both of them give in to each other, respect each other and most importantly LoVE each other. I hoped that it would not be a tragedy although my grandmother and aunt raised concern about the age as she was only twenty and might not be ready to marry yet. Anyway, I wished him all the best and hopefully, he would have a blessed marriage. After that we went to play daidee and after sometime, my aunt went to the toilet and broke our family history of being the first person to make the whole toilet door fell. I did not know how she did that and she did it anyway and everyone was so shocked and laughed over it. Despite the fact that out door had been faulty sometimes but it had never ever collasped before and my aunt did it. Anyway, she was apologetic over it and we had fixed it anyway. My father went back home drunk, face very red. Even his body was red too and I was so shocked, very shocked that what alcohol could do to my father. Finally, my aunt and her family went home at 12 plus and I could finally typed these events that I had. What A DAY!!!!! I am still looking for something.........

Every now and then, I tend to study different perspectives of life and and perceived based on what I have learnt or known about issues that are happening in my life. Perhaps, many may say that what I have written might be wrong or what I have written has no meaning to you but it was what I perceive as.
I wonder that do anyone has aim in life? If they do, what they do in order to reach their aim? For instance, if you want to be a superstar in chinese music industry, you would have done a couple of things to reach your aim such as signing up for auctions in all types of competitions, getting vocal lessons with a well-known teacher, or even sent your own tapes to producers in various music companies. This is what you will do if your aim is to become a superstar. Do correct me if you get me wrong. Different people have different aims in life whether be it to become a superstar, a lawyer, an entreprenuer, a musician, an artist etc. Different aims will have different directions to follow and different directions will make you a different person from the other. However different your aims are, the types of qualities that you use in order to achieve may be the same. For instance, you will run the extra mile if your passion lies in running and become an atheletic, you will dream big and dream the impossible in the passion that you have undertaken. You will feel good about the things you do and thought maybe noone could beat you in that passion. You will perhaps be jealous of people who are better in that passion of yours. Everyone has that gift of doing something, however you must learn to cultivate that gift, be on the right path, nuture that gift and learn to find that gift that you have. Everyday, we learn to use a gift we have all the while. This gift is specially for you and you only and noone is able to take it away from it. Learn to use it well!
Anyway, on Friday, our vice principal announced that we had our own pioneer superstar, which is a good friend of a classmate of mine. It prompted me to ask a question. Is mainstream schools supporting musicians to develope their talents? I thought it was a good thing though as music is something we appreciate; it is a form of recreation. It is also a talent that is so unique that only certain people could master it. Personally, for me, I could not even carry a note, let alone sing a song. However, it prompt me to ask... is this one of the key areas that education want to niche in especially in a junior college context? Are schools now heavily advertising the need of a 'superstar' in the school? In my opinion, a junior college education is to provide the neccessary skills and knowledge to make us effective in going to an university. Of course, there is a music course in universities. However, the key point is this, are school emphasing musical talents or 'popularising' them? Take for example, superstar stuff and idol competition, do you see them going back to schools perhaps to get popularity in their alumni? Sometimes, do you ever wonder about the things that haven been going on and what are their motives behind it? Do you feel manipulated if for instance, your school has been advertising so and so and you should vote for them? I would certainly feel manipulated by these actions for instance, in a case whereby I was asked to take out my mobile phone to vote in to support so and so, I would feel manipulated that the outcome is not due to talents, rather it is the popularity. Perhaps, it is not for popularity, it might be a gratitude, or a showcase of their talent. Whatever it is, I certainly hope that whatever the school is emphasizing, it is for our own good and no unneccessary negativity is done to us.

On chinese new year day itself, my family as always visit my maternal grandma's house to pay respect to my aunties and uncles. Luckily for me, I had always been this guai kia and therefore, they would not pick on me and would pick on others. (haha!) In almost all the adults' eye, I am a good boy and this give me an advantage over a whole lot of people. Anyway, I receive many hongbao and went home after three hours of doing nothing except reading the chemistry book that I borrowed from the school library. Perhaps, I do not feel that close to the maternal side than to my paternal side. I tends to feel more insecure like I did in the junior college than when I am with my paternal side. I was more than being cautious and sometimes I got into people's bad side but the introvert side of me gets better of me than being the bad one. Anyway, after that, I went home and played a few rounds of daidee with my aunt. My big aunt do not know how to play and make a joke out of it. Everyone laughed when my aunt decided to play all her three black cards(same colour) and asked why she cannot put it. Obviously! Anyway, I won a couple of dollar or two and everyone went home at about ten thirty! On the second day, my family and I went to this temple to pay a visit to my great grand mother. Meanwhile, we get to eat vegetarian food in this temple and we saw this woman who was wearing so skimpy. She was wearing a skirt so short that we almost could see her erhem and she was wearing this seductive shirt and the socks was like so long although it is kawaii. I was like 'helloh??? This is supposed to be a temple where you should not try to sin and you have break one of the seven deadly sin - lust." Anyway, after that, we went to my maternal grandmother's house again for my mother wanted to gamble at that house and we went up to my cousin's room to study. Unfortunately for me, I decided to take on the notes Miss Kelly Chong had handled out to and after reading all her notes, I dozed off and slept. Do not get me wrong for it was not the notes that made me felt asleep; rather, it was the insufficient amount of sleep that had contributed these two days that made me dozed off immediately. Anyway, after that, we went to my second maternal auntie's house and she offered me lots of food. I love food!!! Anyway, eating is almost my pasttime. After that, I was one of my cousin that come back from NS and he seemed to put on a great deal of weight. This reminds me not to eat too much during NS. A point to note is that I tended to observe rather than engagaing conservation with others. Finally, we went to our finally destination, my BIG AUNT's house. It is a semidetached which I empahsized big. Anyway, we went to the house and I started to take as many drinks as I could. I loved my big aunt's house for she had everything and always brought extra food. I kept eating non stop and can be easily labelled as the big eater. Meanwhile, my small aunt decided to take a prawn and apparently, it bounced and some food went into her clothes (erhem) and I burst out laughing the loudest. It was so funny the way she screamed and the situation became a comedy. I am still fortunate to have them to serve my the chicken which they sliced, the prawns which they peeled off the skin and the dishes that they helped me take. Yummy!!! I ate as much as I wanted and after that being full, I went to play with my relatives- daidee. Anyway, although I kept winning rounds, I won little money. On the other hand, I seemed to be on the losing end and all my aunts and sister won my dollar plus coins. Anyway, there is again another joke of the day. My big aunt had four twos and she almost lost to me. She could have won us one thirty each but she did not know that was it; she continued playing and half the time, we were like, why our hand is so bad. Anyway, everyone burst into laughter once again.

I am sorry for putting blogging away for so long and now, I have to write the events that I vividly remembered again. Firstly, I would like to thank people like maple, seow huan, pei xuan and chun yu for joining me for movie. Guess what I watch on last friday? Memoirs of Geisha. On friday, I went to school as usual but with my new shirt. It was white and imprinted with red words. It was very provocative to me and this is the first time I worn a shirt like that. Anyway, after that, in school, we got this Jc 1 and Jc 2 get-to-gether session which was all cooled as they reminded me of the time I was in Jc1 first three months where I fooled, played around. It was also one of the times that I felt the strongest opposite attraction. Anyway, in that class, there is one whose cousin is Mr LBK, one all paikia and one yuen xiao lookalike, soundalike. Anyway, it was really funny . They danced and sang for us and we offered them some sweets and snacks. After that, we went to the hall for celebration and found out that our vice principal could have that moment of laughter for us. He danced for us!!!! Could you imagine that and everyone burst into laughter and applause on seeing him. Anyway, he was not that usual strict, concern person. Rather, he turn into a hmmm....... should I say, a limelight?? Haha. Anyway, after the celebration, I rejected my class invitation to cineleisure and went to west mall. I went there to meet up with chun yu and dan. Dan, I suppose, became more and more eccentric, perhaps due to the influence of the school. (Please do not infer from that statement!!!) Chun yu was still that girl next door. After that, we met up with kia joon at macdonalds before heading down to Dunearn Secondary School to meet up with the juniors. Appoint arriving, we heard Mr Raja's voice (God damm, I miss him!!!) and found out that the party is over. Therefore, we went to look for Maple and the rest. It was a transformation for Maple, in particular, as the girl next door had become the limelight and the once innocent girl turned herself into a popular one. Anyway, when we saw her, we saw something amiss. She was with another guy. That guy had his shirt unbuttoned to the maximum except that he has his shirt on. That guy was sort of in a mess and so do Maple. Her hair was untidy and her shirt was not properely tucked in. To add on, they were sort of 'hiding' at a corner of the balcony with noone in sight except them. (hmmmmmm.............!!!!) After that, I was informed that Maple was with this guy (steading!!!!). Anyway, after that we saw pei xuan, the chairman of the student council and seow huan whom dan claimed that is better looking than maple (obviously......maple is so fat now!!!). Anyway, point taken. Seow huan used to be that most popular, ethusiatic girl in the school but now, she was more laid back and lady-like. After that, we went to Causeway point and I saw Weiliang with his stead. Why do he, all of places, come to Causeway??? I was so shocked and surprised by his sudden apperance but,luckily, he did not see me. At least that is what I thought to be. Finally, memoirs of geisha. It was the most brillant chinese movie on screen. It was way better than the last movie I saw, Initial D. Although it was not really based on story but it was with originality and focus in the story. It was not that hard to follow up and was a thrill to watch. It was appealing and engaged me throughout the movie. Memoirs of geisha is all about this girl who was sold to a family whose fortune is based on the earning of the geisha. There is some truth in this movie and perhaps, if the movie could get more focus in lives of geisha, it would be perfect. After that, we went to get money form the ATM machine and met up with the rest in a shop that sells waffle. After that, we went home and that's all for friday's episode........to be continued......

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