TODAY

Today was quite slack. Me and Benjamin were singing our batch song during science because we were sooooooo bored. Then played some random 1980 song during guitar lesson, and now my hands hurt.

Yesterday was also quite fun, because we had match support for the C (or B) Division Basketball South Zone finals. CHS coach super funny. Firstly, he is FAT. He had one gigantic paunch sticking out of him. He was so fat his paunch looked like one of his six pacs. The other five were stored elsewhere in his body o.0.

The CHS coach is seriously an epic fail as well as an epic loser as well as an epic failure in life. At the start, CHS was six points down and he was uber :@. Shouting and swearing and shaking his fat paunch and stamping the ground like an unintelligible, uneducated bulldog brought up by bulls. He was manhandling his players. The CHS basketball players probably weren't fighting for the trophy, rather for their lives, judging from the epic failness and angryness of the epic fail coach.

"Our basketballers fought hard, eventually emerging champions of the South Zone by a convincing scoreline of 69-47. May I now invite Mrs. Lim up on stage to congratulate the players. Mrs. Lim, please."

Blog title?

thisisaweirdblog.blogspot.com doesn't really fit the theme and purpose of this blog. Shouldn't it be, thisisanindianblogaswellasanemoblog.blogspot.com?

Geography test today was ok. Within 1 minute of the ending of the test, there were about 4-5 debates going on about the last question. This House Believes That the diagram for the last question should be a transform boundary. I am the opposition.

Good evening judiscators (or whatever it is) and members of the desktop, I am the first and only speaker from the opposition team. Firstly, it is important to realise that the question was asking for the cross section of the North American Plate and JUAN DE FUCA PLATE, not the Pacific plate. In the atlas, it states that the JDF plate and the NA plate converge. If the question was asking about the Pacific Plate and the NA plate, then it would be true that the diagram should be of a transform boundary.

For my second substantiate, a subduction zone would be the area where a denser plate (in this case the oceanic plate) subducts. In Figure 2, the line where the cross section should be drawn indicates that the subduction zone should be included in the diagram. How would a transform boundary have a subduction zone?

Therefore, this argument cannot stand.

01 Campfire

Campfire was ossum. I sang ok and everyone was like clapping along and screaming and stuff, but they did that for every song -_-. Everyone in 01 must now epic suan Jun Xiang. He was mike spamming stuff like "Justin, don't forget your lyrics!" into the mike backstage where everyone could here and they were like o.0?????????

Then Qie Hua forgot his lyrics, but it was ok cause everyone kept saying, "so cuuuuuuuuute" o.0.o.0.o.0.o.0

Then today Terence said that in Jamaican farewell, me and Jia Sheng were not singing in time to the music so he cut off the last part so it wouldn't be so paisehhhh. HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAAHHAHHHHAHAH

Animal Abuse

During assembly we had a talk by the founding member or ACRES, or *somethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomething*. He was talking about stuff like animal testing, how in 40 minutes, 8000+ sharks would have been killed and whale sharks.

My point is, I am actually quite disgusted with people like these who abuse all these animals. A question posed to us by the guy was, "Do animals have rights"? My answer would be, "why not?"

Even though animals may not be as intelligent as us, why should it mean that they are given less or no rights? They were put in this earth for a reason. Should humans be so blind and ignorant as to not see that?

Maybe because I'm quite different from others. I don't really know how to explain because I don't really know myself, but why must humans be so self centered? Is it really hard to imagine if you were kidnapped, brought to a country on the other side of the world and made to do something you dislike for the rest of your living life?

And the case about sharks. 8000 sharks killed, slaughtered, every 40 minutes. In one year thats about a 100 million sharks killed, or should I say, murdered. Just a thought, if 100 million people were murdered every year, would the world take action? Would there be an outcry? Naturally there would be. Not saying this is a bad thing. But if the people were replaced with animals like sharks, would the reaction be the same? Why should it be different? Aren't they living, sentient beings like humans?

What should make homo sapiens so special?

01 campfire

Just received email from Yan Wei. According to the email, we will be staying back in school up to 6pm because we have another campfire reheseal. That sounds bad. The rest of the email was covering details of the campfire. We report at Choa Chu Kang MRT station at 7:30am. That is total shit. Firstly, if my parents drive me there, we will have to leave at 7am. If I take MRT I will have to leave at 6-6:30 am. Then we have to stay over night up to 11am the next day. Firstly, that means that I would be missing my last catechism lesson of the term. And I still have not fully recovered from my illness last week. AND I would have to perform during the campfire.

Would I dare to say that I regret a little joining 01?

Just a thought

Just a thought. I hate it when people say, "don't waste my time". Firstly, what makes their time so much more important than others? Why can't they just be a little nicer and less self-important? Why must they be so selfish and self-scented till they can't find their butts with both hands? Why must they be so arrogant that they only see the tips of their noses? Why am I asking so many whys?

This thought actually came a while after SUTC, which, as some of you may know if you have been loyal to me and reading this fail blog, is one of the toughest (after GTC since GTC is twice as hard) camp ever to exist on the face of this universe. It aimed to teach us batch bonding, discipline and others before self, and it sucsseded (however you spell it). Maybe SUTC was more worth the 3 days spent on it then I thought o.0

Sunday

Can't really think about what to blog about at the moment. The past few days have been quite crazy. 5 hours of activity on saturday has caused the rest of the day to be tired and headache-inducing. I was exhausted. After that I had to have tuition, and I was falling asleep.

So, today (sunday), I have to chiong the work for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 3 days of work smashed into one. =(

I'll post another later.

Something extremely serious and important

It's official. I am unwell. This has led to $59.50 of medical bills as well as an MC to miss two days of school. It may sound good but I still feel like crap so there's nothing much to enjoy =(. In addition to missing two days of school, I have also missed 01 campfire preparation, so I don't know how my groups progressing and whether they have finished making the birch tree.

Stupid illness.

It started on Good (GOOD) Friday.

Jia Sheng, I Hate You.

Batch bonding fail.

But, Jia Sheng did not go for SUTC.

He said he had to go to Failaysia.

Yes, it is a word I just came up with.

Yesterday

Yesterday was 1337. Went to Marc's house at 12.30. Played Halo 3 until I had to be interrupted to go for tuition. =( After 2 hours, went back to Marc's house again at 5.30, then played Halo 3 again until 10.40. Actually we were supposed to finish at 9pm but it dragged on for 1 hr 40 minutes more :D. SHIOK.

Then Liverpool beat Blackburn 4-0. The day could have been better if Manchester United had drawn. =(

Notice this post is full of emoticons.

01 :: Dreading or looking forward?

Just realised that before acts I would be very "dready". Can't find a word for it. I ask myself why. "Why?" I asked. "Well, I just cannot summon up any enthusiasm to be enthusiastic about 01 acts," I replied.

Maybe because I've been feeling very sian and emo for this 2009 year. I don't really know.

Campfire Prep

My group has been preparing for the song, "Land of the Silver Birch". I just found out that I would not be acting as originally planned, so yay. I'll just be moving props around, but aside from that there is also a huge amount of preparation to do.

Today actually was full of crap. I failed my Chinese CCT. 21 half / 50. Lowest in class, but thankfully got a 2.8 for GPA. Still lowest in class though.

My name

Just looked through a few of the blogs from my class. It seems that almost everyone of them spells my name with 2 Ls instead of 1. I suppose I have my parents to blame for that. They liked 1L instead of 2 o.0

For MU/AR we learnt guitar. Which was 41208937401283470128930471238 times better than using the MAC. Not because I disliked it, but because I can get out of the group with Gabriel *vomits* and Dean *vomits more*. Heng ka lau sai.

Today was quite a slack day compared to others. Nothing special.

Yay at slackingness

A problem with my blog

Whenever I tried to type in the URL into the browser, I reached the page called 403 Forbidden. It is weird.

Anyway, for 01 today, we had 75th annual campfire briefing and preperation. Basic stuff, like preparing for the performances and stuff.

Here's a breakdown of the next few days.

Thursday: Formal letter writing assesment to Daniel Keyes (who might be dead o.O)
Friday: Submission of Science Report. Preperation for camp and chionging homework =(
Saturday and Sunday: Camp at Lorong 2 Low Koon. Where is that??
Monday: I have no idea
Tuesday: I have no idea too.
Wed: etcetcetc.

Yay to a completely hectic, jam-packed, "fun-filled", busy, less-sleep nights and crap.

The World and its Unfairness

As you may notice, this is actually my second post in about 5 minutes. This is because "Mugging" has absolutely nothing to do with "The World". Anyway.

I read in a book before. "It seemed to Rick that one half of the world was on fire, and the other half got out their sticks and marshmallows as though it were a nice campfire".

I can't help but think this is true. I mean, in poor and starving countries like South America, where people are skinny and make a living through begging, and then people on the other side of the world are talking about sports and beauty. I am also rather angry that these well-off people don't seem to care much about poor people. When people are talking about beautifying themselves, people are desperately fighting to support themselves and their families. It is really unfair to the poor people.

In the official music video to "What I've Done" by Linkin Park, it showed a picture of a starving person in Africa. The next picture was an obese American stuffing himself grossly with hamburgers.

Says it all, really.

Mugging

I have begun to realise that this blog has not become a random blog anymore, but more about what happens in my life as an 01 and a guy in school. I should change my blog name, shouldn't I? I also will try to improve on my spelling, grammer and punctuation so that it becomes easier when I am typing out a composition or report.

Anyway, I have been mugging and staying up late for many nights as a sec 1 in RI. This is actually a rather humongous surprise, especially since TNS was seriously slack. I have just finished the "discussion" part of the Science Report and I am extremely relieved that today is over. I have finished my Chinese Composition/Essay, and it is something that I am very proud of. Firstly, I wrote 700+ words, which is twice my usual. Secondly, my father actually said that he was surprised (pleasantly).

I have also completed the mindmap and first draft of my English Individual Short Story, which I am also very happy about. One piece of work done means one less thing to worry/mug/foam about.

Yay to a completely weird day. Especially doing work on the MRT o.O

Reflection

Just some thoughts about SUTC. Firstly, the only bad things about it were the spam pumping and the endless rushing about. It was actually quite a good camp because in other camps, its quite slack, allowing me to have time to be emo and homesick and stuff. This time, because i was rushing about RI, it was jampacked with stuff so that i cant be emo. so, overall, 8/10.

Job Week and SUTC

Firstly, about Job Week. Saturday and Sunday were taken up for job week, which i have to say is quite a new experience. as in, its my first time ringing doorbells/knocking on doors of strangers, saying my big script and trying to get a job/donation/contribution. Of everyone who didnt wave me away, 97.3719% donated. I had a total of 3 jobs -_-.

Saturday was a good day. We were brought by one of the J1s (thanks zhi xuan!) to buangkok where its job week paradise. i got like $40 from 1 block? pro.

Sunday was crap. $25 total. luckily $60 got pumped in and i had a final total of $205.

Now for SUTC. It was actually a lot funner than i expected, especially since zhixuan was like, "this will probably be the toughest experience of your life" and zhang ren was "don't worry, its only a few thousand pushups". We actually did something close to that, but it was in the form of pushups, crunches, situps, squats and all the random stuff the J1s could think of.

The first day. Inspection sucks. Taking out every single thing from the bag and dumping it in a roughly formatted manner on a groundsheet, then rolling it up again, folding it and dumping it into our bags. Try to do this about 8 times. During that, we added about 2500+++++++++++++++to our original count of 500. Then we did some first aid revision stuff with SS, then lunch. CHEEBOH CALL FTW. yimingemingyimingemingyimingemingyimingeming. their strong. then some random stuff until dark. Night orienteering. We got hopelessly lost because i navigated lol. From Yoa Chu Kang MRT, we got lost for 30min, in which we could have completed like 2 more checkpoints. of a total of 8 checkpoints, my patrol completed 2 -_-'. Seriously EPIC FAIL.

The second day. Im tired of typing so much so i will just put the events down. Nightcall, pumping, footdrill, sleep, horseshoe, changing many times, collasping tents, random stuff which i cant remember, hands burnt on basketball court, random stuff, first aid testing, mystery activity, caterpillar walk, dirty pants underwear and legs, dinner, nighthike at macritchie blindfolded, sleep.

The third day. Nightcall, packing tents, pushups, PT, batch forum, clearing our count, changing, horseshoe, clearing counts again, flag lowering, end of camp yay :D. Now im tired with first-second degree burns on both hands and 2 blisters on my right hand. sigh.

The March Holidays

14-15 march, job week. whole day gone. =(
16-18 march, SUTC. wed dismissed at 12 noon. only half a day. =(
21 march, go to benjamins house to discuss science project, then chinese tution. nearly the whole day gone, although i can play Halo 3 at benjamins house.

what a great march holiday. nearly half of it is taken up by 01, but im not complaining. i am actually quite looking forward to the camp :D

01 stuff

Does anyone like doing push-ups in mud? If you do then click the red cross in the right hand corner of the screen and go away. We (sec 2s and sec 1s or "trainees") had to do like 23 in the mud? with rain? i cry liao.

Besides that, it was an OK day. Thankfully, we dont have any work today so thats 1337.

best for last, we dont have school on friday coz our 1337 principle decided that the 1337 JC students had 1337 results so we have a 1337 holiday plus 1 extra 1337 march holiday. 1337

RE lesson on Friday

re lesson was damn retarded. like, the discussion started with the group giving ideas and contributing, and it looked like it would be a peacful day, then i could choing home and slack for 3274102837470912834 picoseconds. The discussion ended with jeremiah in tears and pissed off, andre extremely pissed off, and the rest of the group pissed off and upset, and also near zero work done. how productive.

about some 01 stuff. TMR will be the briefing for SUTC. as it seems, Job week is just before SUTC. and i also happen to have a cathecism camp on 28-29 march. like, 3 camps in one month? fail.

Im not actually looking forward to SUTC coz someone in my patrol (thanks a lot zhang ren) was like, Dont worry about SUTC, it will only be a few thousand push ups. like wth? so yeah, it basically sucks.