Little Black Clouds

2004-03-07T12:03:00.000+08:00

I've moved. Misembittered

2004-01-24T02:00:00.000+08:00

Well I wouldn't be doing this blog justice if I left it to decay would I? Here's a summary of my life, from the 10th of December 2003 to now. 10 Dec 2003 In Singapore, we have compulsary national service. Thus on that day, I was enlisted in BMTC at Pulau Tekong, in Taurus Company. I'm in platoon 1 section 4. PTP batch, which means it's pure physical training from then on, supposedly... 11 - 19

2004-01-11T04:25:00.000+08:00

I can whine and bitch and moan about the things that have been happenning, but of course, it'd be nicer if I keep it all in and in this way retain my dignity. All I'm gonna blog from now on will have nothing to do with my personal life.

2004-01-11T04:08:00.000+08:00

Third Eye Blind - Slow Motion From the album "Blue" Miss Jones taught me English but I think I just shot her son cause he owed me money with a bullet in the chest you cannot run now he's bleeding in a vacant lot the one in the summer where we used to smoke pot, I guess I didn't mean it but man you should have seen it his flesh explode slow motion, see me let go we tend to die young

KC's list of essential items to bring to army

2004-01-01T00:14:00.000+08:00

Cannot do without: 1. 10 clothes hangers, 20 clothes pegs 2. nail clipper 3. lock with 2 keys (not combination lock, not too big) 4. toothpaste/brush 5. soap with box 6. lots of underwear 7. slippers 8. black pen 9. foot+body powder 10. extra battery for phone (charger is not allowed) 11. shaver May do without but must get eventually: 12. lighter 13. black electrical tape 14. soap powder 15.

2003-12-09T21:15:00.000+08:00

Grad Photos

2003-12-09T18:18:00.000+08:00

*gone*

Millencolin - No Cigar

2003-12-06T15:52:00.000+08:00

Tell us where you’re from What you want to become And we’ll say if you’re ok Where did you go to school? Right answer and you’re cool Yeah, you’re the kid the whole day You get a sticker in your face Information about the case So you know your potential Don’t think you can extend Don’t think you can extend, just comprehend But I don’t wana hear it No, it’s more than I accept ’cause I don’t

The Essential Tracks of late

2003-12-05T09:46:00.000+08:00

1. The Darkness - Love On The Rocks - it reeks of the Freddie Mercury era of rock, but really, it captures the spirit of the 80s really well, well, they're The Darkness, the best 80s retro band so far! The guitar parts are really strong. I've read an interview of them in some guitar magazine - they said; if you play a Gibson+Marshall setup and it doesn't sound nice without FX, then something is

2003-12-03T12:08:00.000+08:00

I'm into heavy nu-metal and hip-hop music these days. Lostprophets, RATM, Rammstein, Public Enemy. Any recommendations?

2003-12-03T00:14:00.000+08:00

Sunday - slacked Monday - stupid bike ride to ECP (rather intense), only to end up slacking at 10+ kmh, then chionged home in the night. lame Tuesday - Body Worlds exhibition, nice, but too expensive. And it's not gross like they say. Touched the plastinised brain and liver. Watched Princess Mononoke at home, very good. Very engaging, you'll never know what happens next. Soundtrack, artwork all

Togoparts.com Mass Ride!

2003-11-30T21:45:00.000+08:00

It was a cloudy afternoon. I filled my water bottles, fitted the light, and set off to Macritchie. Rammed my way down Marymount road, at quite a nice speed as it was mainly downhill (which isn' a good thing, as I had to climb it the opposite direction about 10 hours later.) Idled there for a long while, since I'm like a total newbie there, and didn't know anyone there. Then people came, talked a

2003-11-30T03:20:00.000+08:00

Watch out for the new entry to be put up on this space. Features: - Fast and bumpy downhills - Mud, sweat and blood - A broken saddle - Pouring rain - Really helpful and nice people

2003-11-29T02:40:00.000+08:00

It's over. Three weeks of crappy exams, finally over, and I've struggled through. Dunno about the grades though, it has been so tiring I didn't really try to predict them. But, but do we get the feeling of relief? Not really. No. We're all alone. The school made us this way. Self centered, and shallow. And there's no one to share our joy with. Can we really feel happiness if all there is is

2003-11-26T23:03:00.000+08:00

Burning the candle at both ends? Nopes. Just tossed myself into the pyres.

2003-11-25T00:59:00.000+08:00

Today I didn't study at all, have lost the will, but it's not going to matter as much as the past 2 weeks. Technically, I've revised for everything that's gonna come out already. So I went to Bugis Sim Lim and bought the ink cartridge. Epson T29. Tri-coloured juice for the thirsty beast. $35, a bargain considering that the other shops were selling it for $40 or $39.50. It helps to go visit every

2003-11-23T11:27:00.000+08:00

I have a diarrhoea, a sore throat and the headache. But the weather's nice. *Stares at the bike with great indecision*

2003-11-23T11:03:00.000+08:00

Lostprophets is a great band! And it's not Lost Prophets, it's Lostprophets! Five Is a Four Letter Word Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja Still Laughing Ode to Summer and best of all.... The Fake Sound of Progress! They're a break away from the pretentiousness of Linkin Park, the incoherence of At The Drive-In, the indecipherable lyrics of Rammstein, and RATM's good-but-heard-too-many-times. It's just

2003-11-22T23:55:00.000+08:00

When girls wear blue, they are cool. When guys wear pink they are gay. When girls ride motorcycles they are adventurous. When guys sew or bake, they are girlies. When girls wear shirts and jeans, they have attitude. When guys wear skirts and blouses, they are transvestites. When girls dabble with computers, they are intellectual. When guys are passionate about fashion they are weird. When

2003-11-22T23:41:00.000+08:00

Ok, finally got to watch Matrix Revolutions, and I didn't like it. (Obligatory 10-line spoiler alert. Includes detailed description and analysis of the plot, including its ending.) The problem with movies these days is that, any director can shy away from admitting the plot holes that they've made by overhyping it as a postmodern, artistic flick that is intentionally written to provoke

2003-11-21T20:31:00.000+08:00

End of second wave of exams! 3 papers, last ended at 5.45pm. Dead beat. Too tired to really blog.

2003-11-20T14:21:00.000+08:00

Yawn. Kick me.

2003-11-19T22:23:00.000+08:00

I almost died today. Fucking car decided to speed at 60 on a winding road meant for 30. Fuck it. And in the middle of the fucking 1-lane road. Had to swerve to save myself. And of course, I fell. (The laws of Physics won't permit any other way.) I was doing about 25 myself. (kmh for all values) And the fucking driver just stopped there, waited for me to pick up my lights and speedometer which

2003-11-17T20:25:00.000+08:00

OK Biotech was surprisingly smooth. Went to GHC despite the Chem exam tomorrow, I'm mad. It was damn hard to find, considering that I remembered that it was behind Art Museum, but then it was obscured by some crappy construction, and the roads were blocked everywhere, so took like forever to find it. Ended up almost at Bugis before heading backwards to there. I hate directions. Thus I bought a

2003-11-16T18:50:00.000+08:00

Relistened to X-Japan, and now I finally have a concrete opinion on what I like - and what I don't like - about their music. Firstly, they have good musical skills, especially Hideto Matsumoto's guitar playing (too bad he passed away.) The drummer's quite OK too, and all. But what I don't like are the vocals. And the phoney English parts, since they can't really pronounce the words in the first

2003-11-15T02:39:00.000+08:00

I'd never get to watch Matrix. Fact 1: Almost everyone has already watched it, and I haven't been invited. There really isn't anyone else I can ask. I mean, I do have friends and all, but they've formed their own cliques and so on. I don't belong in a clique. Fact 2: They would rather watch it with someone else. They give excuses not to watch with me, and then promptly watch it with others. You

Adamantium - suitable for bicycle frames?

2003-11-15T00:21:00.000+08:00

After reading up on materials online, I think I know what Adamantium (the alloy used for Wolverine's skeleton) is. Firstly, 'adamantite' is an ore of titanium, so by similarity of words it's probably a titanium alloy. However, which titanium alloy? Firstly, we know that Wolverine is magnetically affected by Magneto, thus there must be a significant component of ferromagnetic metal in the

2003-11-14T12:05:00.000+08:00

No music to go with this, if I have the time I'll think it up 1: We never knew how it would end The days, when we crammed our hearts with silver mirror images of content 2: We had the the whites still in our eyes As friends, we never meant to hurt We had no daggers behind our backs Bridge: The stars, they have fallen from the skies, Like the glitter from your eyes. Sometimes we have to

2003-11-13T14:26:00.000+08:00

INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.Introverted (I) 56% Extroverted (E) 44%Intuitive (N) 64.86% Sensing (S) 35.14%Thinking (T) 60% Feeling (F) 40%Perceiving (P) 73.53% Judging (J) 26.47% Take Free Myers-Briggs

2003-11-13T12:55:00.000+08:00

Lim peh ka li kong ah, don't work so hard until you lose sight of life itself. Watch matrix with me lah. 4 days, and sure got time one, no need to study so much, play a bit, relax, it helps you study better. Lim peh ka li kong ah, life is more than study study study.

2003-11-12T19:03:00.000+08:00

Advanced Big Five Personality Test Results Sociability |||||| 30% Gregariousness |||||||||||||||| 62% Assertiveness |||||||||||| 42% Activity Level |||||||||||| 46% Excitement-Seeking |||||||||||||||||| 78% Cheerfulness |||||||||||| 46% Extroversion |||||||||||| 50% Trust |||||||||||| 46% Morality |||||||||||||||||||| 82% Altruism |||||||||||||||| 66% Cooperation ||||||

2003-11-11T19:58:00.000+08:00

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the very doable maths paper, it was the terribly difficult chemistry paper. I feel like crap. I feel fucking stupid. So how? I tried as hard as my effort could take me. But.... but..... sigh.

2003-11-10T23:15:00.000+08:00

Personality Disorder Test Results Paranoid |||||||||||| 50% Schizoid |||||||||||||||| 66% Schizotypal |||||||||||||||| 70% Antisocial |||||||||||||||||||| 82% Borderline |||||||||||||||| 70% Histrionic |||||||||||| 50% Narcissistic |||||||||||| 42% Avoidant |||||||||||||||| 62% Dependent |||||||||||||| 54% Obsessive-Compulsive |||||||||| 38% Take Free

2003-11-10T18:11:00.000+08:00

How shalt I describe the rather painless struggle of the battle of numbers? Like a knife into cold butter, though not too hot a knife. It's like, a little slippery, but once you get the blace through - there you have it, a cleanly-sliced sliver of butter. I knew how to do everything, which is a Good Thing for someone as unaccquainted with nummbers as I am. There were little struggles here and

2003-11-09T11:23:00.000+08:00

Blogger isn't publishing posts properly again. Maths tomorrow. Wish me luck. Weird things is, I dreamt that I was trying to do the A level Physics Practical, and ended up not doing the paper cause I didn't know anything and I was panicking and all. There were questions I saw but didn't understand at all. Then it was like, I awoke, fell asleep, then dreamt part II, where I was like, trying to

2003-11-08T18:38:00.000+08:00

Today is Chem and Bio day. Yesterday was stats and bio. So yeah, slow but steady. Sigh. The world will be better someday. And my PC too. Defragmenting doesn't help any. Still as slow. What's the price of a low-end PC? I need to earn that moolah in NS. Parents won't pay. And I still owe them about $80.

2003-11-07T02:18:00.000+08:00

Today. Woke up at 12. Am becoming nocturnal. Rained. And rained. Then rained again. At 1pm the sun was at its strongest, and in minutes it was a downpour. Wonder what had made the skies so mad. Slacked around, couldn't concentrate on Physics. Gee. Rain stopped, dirtied my bike riding it through the endless puddles and the post-rain fog and darkness was really depressing. Fogged up air, fogged

2003-11-05T12:21:00.000+08:00

Whatever. I've ended the record, but then I feel better now. It's so loserish but I do what I have to. Today I'm gonna mug all the way, time is running out tick tick tick. Rammaging the fridge for some semblance of a lunch again. Life will get better, I hope. I hope.

2003-11-05T02:05:00.000+08:00

It's been days since I've blogged about myself (read: whined and bitched and moaned) so it's a good sign, I hope. So I've finished organic chem (I think) and am gonna start on physics, and inorg chem, and the rest of stats, and maybe calculus again. Sad to say my pace is rather disappointing, not being able to concentrate and all. Yup, not enough of those neurotransmitters diffusing across the

2003-11-04T11:19:00.000+08:00

Suprisingly, the furore over the medical decisions made over Lee Kuan Yew's wife's stroke seems rather subdued, despite the sheer gravity of the situation. The wife of Singapore's Senior Minister, Mdm Kwa Geok Choo had suffered a stroke in the United Kingdom on the night of October 25, and was given what can only be considered to be special VIP treatment, before being flown by aeroplane back to

2003-11-03T23:53:00.000+08:00

In reply to some internet forum topic about the disgusting facts of raw meat preparation (cow eyeballs and noses are used in meat patties, low-grade meat is often made from using water jets to scrape off meat from bones which ends up as a gooey grey paste coloured red artificially, large fractions of hamburger patties testing positive for bacterial forms, etc): Anyway you have to admit, not many

2003-11-02T19:37:00.000+08:00

"The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself" - Mary Schmich, better known as the original author of Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen).

2003-11-01T23:55:00.000+08:00

Let us put our heads down and be gloomy around you.You are one morbid, perhaps depressingcharacter. Your dark mind causes you to talkabout things of the same subject. Others(myself included) may not mind your talk andfind it interesting to talk to you since deathis just a natural thing. Yes, death fascinatesyou, but there is no need to keep bringing itupon people about their own demise. You may

2003-11-01T16:20:00.000+08:00

I'm unwell. As in physically. My GI tract is acting up.

2003-11-01T02:08:00.000+08:00

I hate waiting. It's always me who waits, me being one of those few who still believes in punctuality and niceness and all. Most importantly of all, I know how much it sucks to be waiting. Just waited 45 minutes today for some self-absorbed girl who's too involved in her own world to show understanding that the world is more than just a sanctuary for her whims and fancies. Everyone tries to

2003-10-31T02:26:00.000+08:00

If you're a Singaporean student taking the Biology A-levels this year, then you probably already know. The practical paper is the most fucked-uped, screwded, crappiest paper ever done in recent history of JC students here. Experiment 1 was undoable, and the whole school was in a frentic panic. Irregularity reports galore. Dead beans, beans respiring too fast, everything possible. Respiratory

2003-10-29T18:54:00.000+08:00

Crammed about two thirds of what I have to today already, another 1/3 tonite. *I'm proud of myself. Who can study as hard as me in just one afternoon? All the theory topics I've covered already (they are IMPORTANT! Even in practicals.) So I'm left with a little animal histo and most of plant histo (much shorter than animal histo), and biochem (no toughie). They played The Darkness's I Believe

2003-10-28T12:21:00.000+08:00

Must. Make. Self. Study. Damn. Need concentration. Anyway this blog is slowly evolving into some music review thingie. (e.g. yesterday's sort-of-a Nick Hornby's 31 Songs, all literalists love music-- Philip Larkin's was a rabid jazz addict, Stephen King refers to songs of his era all over his books, so many books refer to various songs, and many go the whole nine yards to quote them.) Oh well.

2003-10-27T23:27:00.000+08:00

By chance, while I was looking for the latest songs of The Beautiful South (a British band that prides itself with its quirky lyrics, most notably that in the anti-anorexia Perfect 10), I sumbled across the song Song for Whoever which I recognised as one of those songs I grew up listening to. (The radio was perpetually switched on to Class 95, and I grew up on music. And radio. I was one of those

KC's guide to overhauling bicycle pedals

2003-10-27T20:46:00.000+08:00

Notes: The alloy or plastic in the middle of the pedal is the pedal body. The long steel rod that goes through this is the spindle. Tools required: Philips screwdriver (large head) Flat screwdriver (small head) 15mm long spanner 12mm socket spanner Grease Tweezers Rags and old newspapers Detergent/dishwashing liquid/degreaser (choose one) bath 1. Remove pedals. This is done using a long 15mm

2003-10-27T01:53:00.000+08:00

Hmm no one reads my blog. Cause everyone's busy mugging! Yaay what am I doing here. If you read this, leave a message so I know you're not as hardcore a mugger as the rest. Okies. Over and out!

2003-10-26T17:44:00.000+08:00

Update of the juicy scandalous truth of how some 18 year-olds of our generation think: Him: no need you to reply to this. i dun bother to read your reply also. just think abt it : arent you disgusting too - you trying to bring my self esteem down by saying im ugly etc...... isnt tt childish too? and its disgusting....where got pple say liddat. i've nv came across someone like you. yah...n i

2003-10-26T13:21:00.000+08:00

The reason I posted that song below, is that I don't know what the fuck it means, not having done unseen poetry (a.k.a. practical criticism) for two whole years. Is it about drugs? Or a father dependent on his son financially? Or a son lost in drug addiction? I dunno. And I've changed the template to black. Why? I'm sick of grey. White doesn't match the rest of the template. Black, however,

2003-10-25T23:59:00.000+08:00

elliot smith - needle in the hay your hand on his arm the hay stack charm around your neck strung out and thin calling some friend trying to cash some check he's acting dumb that's what you've come to expect needle in the hay needle in the hay needle in the hay needle in the hay he's wearing yr clothes head down to toes a reaction to you you say you know what he did but you idiot kid you don't

2003-10-25T02:48:00.000+08:00

Most boringest factoid of the day: Svedberg units are non-additive. Which means, a unit made up of several subunits does not necessarily have the sum of the Svedberg units of the subunits. 70S ribosomes are made of 50S and 80S ribosomes, in prokaryotic cells. (Courtesy of Mr Nah Seang Chew) I'm hooked on friendster. If you want me to connect you tag something in my tagboard! I hope the friends

2003-10-24T01:25:00.000+08:00

Feeder - My Perfect Day Got this dagger in my back The blade inside me burning Change these colours in my head Turn to face the real thing So what about me? (I can't take it) What I wanna be? (I won't make it) What about me? (I can't take it) Hear me when I speak (I won't make it) But sometimes I feel it, you know how it is Wake up in the morning, everything fits I'm still hoping tomorrow feels

2003-10-23T23:56:00.000+08:00

Rest in Peace Elliot Smith (1969-2003) I didn't know your songs till today. But I see what you mean. And if it's what you wanted then I wish you the best.

2003-10-23T00:24:00.000+08:00

Of course I want to be happy. Don't be stupid; we're all programmed the same way. Happiness triggers serotonin, noradrenaline (and other neurotransmitters) production, and naturally, the neurones crave that. No one wants to be unhappy. Everyone wants to be happy. And to do happy things. And to read happy stories. And to see all the ones they know happy, as vicarious experiences of joy never fail

2003-10-21T18:45:00.000+08:00

Yup Physics was ok, though my results might be off or something. I will survive. (Though no referrence to that gay/feminist/whatever anthem , if you're wondering.) Went to the new bikeshop at Ghim Moh, met this guy there - who I talked to on IRC yesterday - for the first time. Hmm cool. Yeah it's a nice bike shop, the owner's real friendly and all but too bad the stocks haven't arrived. He says

2003-10-20T22:28:00.000+08:00

I'm mentally scarred for life. I cycled into a mass orgy this afternoon. 10 individuals fondling each other and everything. OK. They were monkeys, but still it's sick. OK it's not that bad, I'm not exactly traumatised, more like shocked in a curious way. Damn too bad I didn't have a camera with me. I've got new shoes Reebok. $50. It's going to be my beater shoes. They look like they can shed mud

2003-10-20T16:27:00.000+08:00

Feeling bloody fat. Am going to be on bike for the rest of the afternoon, then I'll mug after dinner. Everything's roughly A-ok (except my fatness, and studies etc...) and nothing special happened. I won't be blogging until something shakes the world out of its usual dormancy.

2003-10-19T15:58:00.000+08:00

Damnit. Can't get myself to mug. Anyway today I keh kiang (acting smart, in Singlish-speak) tried to straighten my chainrings on my bicycle by tightening bolts, even though the wobble is rather insignificant (less significant that the flexing that occurs due to heavy pedalling), and it didn't really work. Oh well... my cranks are rather sucky. I want those Race Face Prodigy ones, but they're

2003-10-18T15:11:00.000+08:00

Breathless. Tired. Weak. Fatigued. And only after 33km. That's what they call bonking out, when the blood glucose drops too low to sustain any more heavy exertion. That is usually caused by a lack of intake of carbohydrates, and constant replenishment of sugars are often recommended to prevent this. In cycling terms, that means eating a snack or something every now and then. Another problem

2003-10-18T00:34:00.000+08:00

1. Sleep strikes me at the most unknown moments, i.e. lying on the sofa. My last memory before I remembered was planning to go upstairs to mug Bio. 2. My phone never fails to register a SMS when I sleep. Then I wake up to reply, and fall asleep in ten seconds flat. The ability to switch states so rapidly intrigues me. 3. Everytime I fall asleep at imopportune times my coffee stays undrunk -

2003-10-17T19:57:00.000+08:00

I feel like a failure. Oh wait I am one. If I were to be judged by my achievements in school, I am a failure. I'm not good enough at anything. Chemistry Olympiad was a mere Bronze. And the Engineering project? It did not amount to anything at all. One year, and nothing came out of it. My academics are crap, and I can't even score for GP anymore. It shows in the CCA records draft we got back.

2003-10-16T23:58:00.000+08:00

"Race doctor Gerard Porte estimates that the cyclists drink around six litres per day " - www.cyclingnews.com about the Tour de France. That's not surprising at all. In fact, I think that's a low figure for the pros, considering that I myself had downed six litres of water today myself.

2003-10-16T23:54:00.000+08:00

The problem with cycling is, it's hard to stop. I wanted to have a short morning cycle of about 30 km so I set off, and on a whim I decided to go to the Fort Road trail. But due to the previous days of rain and all, it was all muddied up and impassable, and I had to turn back. Made the mike and my shoes really muddy in the process - as in, REALLY muddy. Then realised that my little baggie was

2003-10-15T18:53:00.000+08:00

I'm giving up on blogspot. It's down like half the time. So any suggestions for a new host? I've looked through these: Diaryland - stable, reliable, but multiple page system is rudimentary, and archives are a pain to access Pitas - Lack of prefab templates, not popular Blogger + Tripod (my old blog used that, and so does Shawn's) - 2-3 popups every load. No go. Used to be 1-2 but it got

2003-10-13T13:43:00.000+08:00

My ankle's better. Just regreased my bike hubs and chain this morning, always wanted to make that stiff front wheel spin better. So I can go on on my regime to make myself a better cyclist. Yesterday I thought about her... I was listening to New Radical's Someday You'll Know, and as some of you know, Mandy Moore once did a cover of it. She used to like Mandy Moore's songs I remember, though I

2003-10-12T22:07:00.000+08:00

Ouch. Hobbling around the house. Destroyed my left ankle due to a failed attempt to cycle up a 20+% hill using a 42-12 gear ratio - sheer idiocy. Wasn't really hurting until today, and the self-prescribed mefenamic acid doesn't seem to be effective in anything except making me sleepy. I've walk with my heel sort of raised, and that sucks. So I'm slacking again, which is very disappointing,

2003-10-12T10:48:00.000+08:00

2 more days to Chem Pract and I haven't really started touching the Chem stuff. Boy I'm screwed; gonna force myself to magically become familiar with the stuff again. Actually, I'm not in too bad a shape w.r.t. Chem Pract, but still I'd feel guilty if I don't put in my best, so there, I'm going to mug evisceratively (i.e. mug my guts out) until Tuesday. Yea I've just invented a new word. I'm

2003-10-11T15:51:00.000+08:00

I tap my skull and it sounds hollow.

2003-10-11T13:41:00.000+08:00

As we get ushered into the new millennium people get busier and more hurried and more anxious thus the are no breaks just automations working day into night and night into day with no concern for rest as rest is costly in these days where time is money and money is an absloute necessity we slog day after day without looking forward as our eyes are too accustomed to the bleak future of hunger and

2003-10-10T13:47:00.000+08:00

People live, people die. People love, people hate. People are born, people are killed. People live in the bliss of their childhood, people lie waiting in hospices. People fight for their lives, people forsake their own lives. People laugh, people cry. And really, are exams that important afterall?

2003-10-09T23:17:00.000+08:00

Farewell assembly today. And guess what. Guest-of-honour is none other than our beloved RI Headmaster Mr. Wong Siew Hoong. Somehow, today, I'm missing RI more than RJ, when I'm supposed to miss RJ. In ihis usual style, he started the speech with a 'story', which is his trademark for all RI assemblies. And of course, such stories try to be humourous but often end up being lame. Lame, as in,

2003-10-08T17:33:00.000+08:00

Song of the pebbles We're all pebbles in a stack, Born with the waves for a soundtrack, Where the winds and skies are surreal art, But they hurt us and wash us apart. A pebble sinking slowly into the azure blue, Pebbles losing each other without any cue, Drifting into the oceans we'll all be alone, Or dead on the caked sand, if luck would condone. We know what becomes of our friends, We know

2003-10-07T22:31:00.000+08:00

Afternoon naps are great. But being the weird me, I got a leg cramp while asleep in a position even a contortionist would fear. Ouch. Now I walk in a limp. I'm prone to cramps. I just read this book Logic for Beginners, one of a series of graphic nonfiction that explains philosophies, etc. Was a rather interesting read, gives you insight into what's really logical and what's not. The human brain

2003-10-07T14:36:00.000+08:00

Yaay. Stained my shirt with a small spot of blood this morning, don't ask. Anyway this morning we had to do this crappy survey by the National Institiute of Education (NIE) about the concerns of JC students. They asked crap about family particulars, how I get along with my family, my future aspirations and how I find school. 28 pages' worth of survey questions. Glad I got to missed part of GP,

2003-10-06T18:48:00.000+08:00

OK so here goes. In chronological order. Bio - a low B. Yaay. I'm supposed to be good at Bio, and it's one of my better papers this time. But about the whole class scored higher Bs. Or an A. The essay questions I sucked at, the structured questions I sucked at> I used to be good at them. GP - A very low A2. So now I no longer get good grades for GP. Teh whole class generally improved

2003-10-05T21:40:00.000+08:00

I think, chatting on IRC to fellow cyclists is one of the best ways to pass time. It gets funny often, crazily funny sometimes (www.bash.org type of funny) and it's relaxed. Man, this is nice. I'm listening to Dido. WTH? I never expected myself to end up liking Dido. Or Starsailor. Or the New Radicals. I think, if you listen to any music often enough, you will inevitably notice its nice points.

2003-10-05T16:10:00.000+08:00

Just finished reading Fahrenheit 451, wasn't really thrilled with it; couldn't identify well with it plus I'm rather sick of those themes already. And the melodramatic style of the 1950s, I don't really appreciate that. The weather's screwed up, as hot as erm... what's 451 degrees F in Celsuis? Seriously, it's so terrible I'm think I'm not going to go cycling this evening, if it's still hot at

2003-10-05T13:50:00.000+08:00

Some excerpts: ......I don’t want to fall asleep. If I do, It’ll probably be the end of it all. Or at least, that is the word that goes around...... ......It’s just an old wives’ tale, but really, when you’re lying on the gurney on top of the blood-soaked gauze, looking at the shredded stump which used to be your left arm, clasping the rusty metal rod that had punctured your lung with your

2003-10-04T21:31:00.000+08:00

I hate the thought of Monday, and it's only Saturday. You see, Prelims results are going to be out. And I know I screwed them up. And I mean it. I'm not one of those who acts humble/lies/deceives/whatever and I'd tell you if I know I'm going to ace a subject. Perhaps I'll come out alive for Bio, but the rest are plain sad. Reason? They were hard papers, I couldn't get myself to really focus to

2003-10-04T15:56:00.000+08:00

Great. I wasted all my time making this silly label for my bike. I'm a winner, man. Sigh.

2003-10-03T11:12:00.000+08:00

Let's see, was thinking how poor I am and now let's see what I would buy if I had infinite amounts of money at my disposal: 1. A better computer 2. All of Stereophonic's, Starsailors's, Oasis's, Staind's, Feeder's albums, and the New Radicals album. And concert tickets to any band I want to watch, and air tickets to the venues 3. A nice country house in Scotland 4. A Jaguar or a Lamborghini or a

2003-10-02T22:07:00.000+08:00

Today I went out again, better to go out than to lose my sanity sitting in a corner at home and doing crazy shit. Went out with another bunch of friends - Weizhen, Shijia, Tze Guan, Zhiyong. We went Kino@Bugis and read crappy Japanese language humour book - they had one called Making Out in Japanese, they had these phrases (English and japanese equivalents side-by-side) that could conceivably (

2003-10-01T23:54:00.000+08:00

Infernal Affairs 2 isn't as good as the first, but admittedly it's decent, despite it not having any real focus - it doesn't develop on any clear theme and does nothing much more than to tell a story. Towards the end the writers seemed to have run out of ideas, and continuity suffered, and there were a couple of glaring cases where they used miracles and coincidences to wrap an idea up, the

2003-10-01T13:43:00.000+08:00

OK so I'm not watching Pirates of the Caribbean but Infernal Affairs 2 later this afternoon. Hope nobody backs out, or I'm going to personally maul all of them to death. Yaay. I need a Lizardskin chainstay protector for my bike! Any cheap lobang?

2003-09-30T15:07:00.000+08:00

Random points: 1. Prelims are over. I got cheated for Chem S. They tested stuff that doesn't usually come out which is almost never tested as a basis for a question in the actual exams. And there was no choice of questions. Ran out of questions I could do like 45 minutes before the end so I drew the devil and wrote crap on my question paper. Great. Guess what I'm getting - unclassified. 2.

2003-09-28T21:53:00.000+08:00

Some people are nuts: http://www.delphion.com/galleryarch Anyway today was a slack day, woke up at 7.30 am (supposed to be 6.30 but alarm set wrongly damn!) to have an early cycle, did my Sunday Morning Road Loop (Braddell Serangoon area) and the Bishan Park-Sin Ming Loop. I'm getting weak; I can't like cycle continuously at a reasonable road speed without taking rests. Especially uphills I die

2003-09-27T23:48:00.000+08:00

I'm halfway through my short story, actually more like 1/5 my way through it, and I hope I complete it by end of next week. Anyway goodnites, I've got lots to cycle tomorrow, from early morning onwards, gotta become stronger. If I build myself up physically and mentally by cycling maybe then life won't bring me down as much.

2003-09-26T21:42:00.000+08:00

The more I think, the more I find life pointless. I used to think that death is equally pointless, after having seen at close-up the aftermath of an intentional death. Now I'm not so sure anymore. I have to stop thinking about it. Gotta distract myself, gotta think about other stuff, gotta immerse myself in other thoughts, gotta knock myself out if all fails. But it's definitely not good to

2003-09-25T21:27:00.000+08:00

I have a good idea for a short story. I'm currently downing books on how to write fiction. I hope I'll come up with something decent.

2003-09-25T18:57:00.000+08:00

I have not been out in such a gloomy rainy day in quite a long time. Today, I was in Orchard Road with my friends. The last non S-paper was over today, Biology MCQ, by an unearthly time of 9.30 am. Then we decided to go somewhere special, and Orchard it was, after loads of hemming and hawing. It rained really heavily when we were on the bus, and it didn't end until much much later. I'm not a

2003-09-23T14:36:00.000+08:00

Stupid Blogspot refuses to work again, for the nth time. Anyway I screwed up Maths today, was totally lost in the whole paper, integration, statistics, didn't have much time to do everything since stats was unusually tough (yeah right Guanzheng, Stats is NOT always easy). Gonna get a low C or something like that, I'm terrible at Maths. By the time I took my bag from the locker most of those I

2003-09-22T18:55:00.000+08:00

Nice things always start with 'Hey, I've got a crazy idea.". Then it's like, the response slowly builds up, and a group of people decided to do that crazy idea, with some modifications to the idea. And it's fun. So today Xuanrong Weizhen Yaofeng and I (since we all lived no more than 2 MRT stations from Bishan) went to Bishan central to eat (originally I wanted RI but then we didn't feel like

2003-09-21T14:58:00.000+08:00

Ugliest bike in the world: Trek ProjectOne custom bike

2003-09-20T15:47:00.000+08:00

Pleased to meet you Hope you guess my name But what's puzzling you Is the nature of my game The Rolling Stones Evil lurks behind every intention. Evil and hate. It's the world new order, peace and logic is passe.

2003-09-20T01:54:00.000+08:00

Click on Homemade Pong on the right sidebar. I've debugged it and added a feature to silence the irritating BGM. First programmed two years back, it was left to languish in ruins, until I finally corrected the bug today. Enjoy! (I feel guilty doing this in the middle of prelims, but I need to unwind right?)

2003-09-19T23:32:00.000+08:00

Biotech was okay I suppose, slightly on the good side. Not that I'm good at Bio though. Yesterday was a crap day. Really wanted to cycle, but the weather was like, against me or something. It poured throughout the day, and drats I did not close the window upstairs properly. Result: Wet bed, wet paper on the floor, wet floor, dripping wall, CD covers dappled with raindrops. Spent a hell lot of