Friday, May 30, 2008
ah today we had a maths lesson.
and i think i pissed the teacher off quite a few times. maybe i shouldn't have made my entrance so loud :/ and maybe talking too loudly doesn't help either.
and sometimes i wonder. am i attracting too much unnecessary attention to myself? i mean like class can (and it does) get boring at some times, but just because the teacher doesn't show it doesn't mean that he (and maybe some others) are irritated when i speak up/shout something random/make a very funny comment. ok fine maybe it isn't funny all the time.
then i guess the idea of audience and context comes into play. i guess as a CT rep making noise and getting the class to react/become more lively might help the class. but as a CT rep i guess i have to find a balance between attracting attention and making the class more lively.
i guess trying to make noise goes two ways. i admit, i am rather attention seeking. ok maybe not rather. maybe very. but this also leads to alienation. and i'm sure not everyone thinks im funny. in fact, sometimes i dont think i'm funny either.
i have to get it in my head this this class is not 4P. not 4P with seetow and hiok and ben and merrill and all the crazy people that collectively make lots of noise and irritate fong say fong and niu yi and almost all the other teachers. 3I is way different from this. and that's what makes us special.
class cip is coming up next week. hopefully this will be a good opportunity for us to bond together as a class. that would be something to look forward to (:
and happy birthday to ben and dan! i know it's a week late, but i think we can safely consider the chalet celebration your real party.
Well you turn when I talk Run when I walk Rise when I fall Burn when I shiver Smile when I frown Go when I come around
posted @6:22 PM
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
today is the first monday of the school holidays.
i won't say i did alot. actually, i didn't do anything except shorten 10 stories and send 3 more emails out to people for pw. i do hope they reply soon.
today i read somewhere that myanmar has finally opened up and allowed relief workers to come into the country, regardless of nationality. finally. just last week, they were saying nonsense about banning US aid because it came with "strings attached". seriously. which is more important? the lives of the people affected by Nargis, or "strings"?
then to make matters worse, they go and hold a referrendum which is actually pointless since its outcome is already more or less set in stone.
ah well. i am thankful that I live in Singapore.
tomorrow i shall look forward to a day of sitting down and doing some work. for once! jiayou me!
posted @1:38 AM
Saturday, May 24, 2008
class camp is over. term 2 is over. GP CT is over. holidays are here. and i'm not cheering.
class camp was, well, our class camp. 2 days of extra holiday. i can't say much about that.
so anyway we got to school at 7.45. like any ordinary school day. then we went for the ropes course. it's a high elements thing, where we basically transverse stuff 30+ metres above ground. i found it pretty normal, but i think most people didnt like it. ah. 2 days in ubin would have been a lot more enjoyable, of course.
then we went to ubin and trekked 3km to the NPCC campsite. then we pitched our tents.
the girls cooked dinner. and it tasted quite nice haha. thanks for not poisoning us :D. and thanks for cooking too (:
after dinner we went to the tent to play. then the girls came over and we played truth or dare. or truth and truth mostly. and found out some interesting things. I am not bi! no no no!
went for nightwalk after that. mostly it was just walk on the path and not get lost. but then we went to this beach where we stopped to think. and i was thinking about lots of stuff. first i was thinking about 2I/4P. seems like we're still quite united after half a year in RJC which is quite a good thing. then i started thinking about class. and what i should be doing as CT rep. it's been 2 days and i havent done much. muquan says i need to be more proactive. in a way i know where he's going. i guess as a CTrep i should be taking responsibility for what the class does. and find ways for the class to bond better. then i started to think about barbecues. i don't really know why, but the last few barbecues i have had were with my BB friends and my 4P classmates. it seems like most of the stuff i do i do with really close friends.
my class is... not my home yet. really, i think of 4P as a really really bonded class. i won't ever forget 4P for what it has done for me, and for what we have done together. given the huge difference in population demographics of 3I, i know this is quite hard, if not impossible to replicate. but then, if we all work together, i'm quite sure that we can achieve something that we can remember each other for.
then after the walk we went to talk. went to the girl's basha to talk. haha ended up listening alot. stuff about playing politics and other stuff. never mind about it.
went to sleep but realized we were sleeping on wet tarp. oh, how OBS-like. so we turned around and slept. i have to admit, i havent slept so well in a tent for a long time. then again, the last camp i was at was PC, and it was a good rest, so i really don't have that much to compare with haha.
the next day we woke up and carried rafts and things to the beach for the rafting session. i ended up steering 6 rafts roped together. at first it was quite un-coordinated, and i wasnt steering properly. but eventually it became better and we managed to get a fair distance from the beach. then later we came back and returned the rafts. darn. i would have liked to capsize one of them.
we ended up having alot of extra water in our jerry cans when we got back. so victor tew germaine and i ended up pouring it out. on ourselves. and made the whole place wet. then later we ate tuna.
walked back to the jetty, shared a 1.5 litre bottle of 100plus with victor. then we took the boat back. ate chicken chop hor fun and drank pineapple juice. haha first time i didn't eat nasi lemak when i was there. then went back to school in a bus that felt more like a roller coaster. ended up at school with a horrrrible headache. then went for bubble tea and went home with mq zhengjun tew germaine and suchin.
ah well class camp has been a good experience. even though nothing much really happened to change our class dymanics greatly, i guess we are on our way. germaine is right, our class is a work in progress.
today went to school to celebrate ben and daniel's birthday. ended up cutting a cake only. the cake was good (: then went home with zhengjun tew and hongye.
it's the end of 2 terms in RJC. have i changed much? before 07 ended i was thinking about how much i wanted 4P never to end. and how i would be crazy and do dumb things for the rest of my life. but then now as i think back, i guess sometimes i just have to learn to let things go. people change. things change. i guess life has changed for pretty much everyone i know. and trying to keep life as how it is is never going to work out.
lunch tmw is somewhere nice. ha!
posted @2:56 PM
Monday, May 19, 2008
i realize that keeping a blog is harder than it seems. i mean, at first i was busy posting all sorts of crap, but now with all the stuff going on, blogging really seems like abit of a chore.
but i shall be positive. and push on!
anyway this last week has been quite interesting for me. monday. well, it really wasnt anything different.
tuesday, i went for lunch with muquan, victor, jiahui, tew, suchin and yiusum. were supposed to eat zi char but things turned out differently. oh well. after that, talked with bentay for a long long time. i really havent talked to him for quite a while, but strangely, we spent most of the time talking about our separate classes. i think my class is cool, anyway.
wednesday i was supposed to go to the airport to send off the hilary challenge ppl. but i couldnt go. so i spent my time in school attempting to study chem and eat ice cream. in the process i got a very bad headache. ah well.
thursday. chem test! this is the first test in which i'm quite sure i can pass! :D yay! after school we had 2 hours of bio, and poor muquan was called to draw out the calvin cycle :/. then we went to get paper to write stuff for gwee, whos leaving at the end of the term. bleh mr gwee has been quite a nice teacher. i wonder if the replacement will be as good, or as bad as some other teachers i know.
friday. CO concert! we went to buy flowers at far-east flora, and we spent like half an hour in this freezingly cold room there where i tried to see my cold air (but failed). ah heck. we decided to take the first bus that came opposite the road, so we got onto 167 and ended up at carl's jr at far east plaza. hmm i broke my one month fast food abstainence promise. but ha! better to break it at carl's jr than at KFC! besides. the food there really is good.
CO concert was cool too haha. went there to support victor jiahui suchin and yiusum. haha i havent really listened to chinese music before so i thought the music was quite cool. the only song i actually had any impression of was the POTC one though :/
today went to school for econs lessons. and it's a public holiday! yay to me.
ah well. GP CT in 2 days time and class camp in 3. looks like there's stuff to look forward to this week!
Confucius say:
man who fall off cliff jump to conclusion. yay.
posted @8:24 PM
Monday, May 12, 2008
i feel confused. maybe i don't think i think i'm going anywhere. maybe i dont have a sense of direction in my life now.
i know i want to stay committed in bb, but somehow i dont think i'm doing enough?
oh well. so here i go looking for that balance where i can be more satisfied with what i do.
anyway today was a relatively peaceful day. had blackbelt interview. i guess i said what i felt, and well, i'll pray for the best.
today was our second last lesson with mr gwee :( mr gwee is a cool teacher. and he's always smiling, which is much more than what i can say for some other teachers.
so i guess it was quite an ordinary day. ah well. life goes on.
if you love me, won't you let me know.
haha! coldplay's new album comes out in exactly one month!
posted @11:05 PM
Sunday, May 11, 2008
well today i realized that i haven't posted in 2 weeks. oh well. time to post then.
anyway over the course of these 2 weeks i have come across alot of interesting things. I have eaten good food in strange places, done strange things in even stranger places and even managed to get a decent amount of sleep!
wow me!
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