Random 2

I showered in a record time of one commercial break so that I can watch Emergency Room 24 hours in peace. Not one of those splash-water showers though.

Later!

The Eagles-Tequila Sunrise

The Scalpel And The Potato

Biology practical today was simply awful.

Picture a basket of about 70 potatoes handed out to 26 students [2 each].

Cork borer[1 per 2 students].

Number 4 scalpel[student's own].

Aim: To cut up the potatoes with extreme precision such that 12 chips of dimensions 30m by 5mm by 5mm are obtained [within the time limit of 1 hour 15 minutes inclusive of a report].

Just imagine the frustration of unskilled students untrained in the ways of the scalpel in medical school trying to use it so precisely so that the potato chips can be immersed in sucrose solution of different concentration. The ultimate aim is to plot a graph to find out the concentration of the potato tissue.

Considering that 353 Year 1s take Biology in TJC, 706 potatoes were chopped up and thrown into the rubbish bin within a week. Biology practicals are always a waste of food. In 2004, the O level practical paper saw a nationwide drawing competition of prawns, with the adventurous few roasting the prawns provided with the Bunsen burner on the bench.

Oh well the price to pay for advances in science.

For the curious-Alien and the Scalpel. How alien abductions lead to unusual items implanted into the bodies of victims.

Later!

The Observatory-Waste Your Life

Little Splinter Of Wisdom

Experiment:

1. Stretch your tongue to reach the upper right corner of the roof of your mouth [the part where your wisdom tooth is/will be].
2. Move your tongue along the surface of that area of gum.

By the chance that I am online now, you will feel nothing strange.

For me though, I can easily open this flap of flesh that bacame dislodged from the rest of the gum when my dearest wisdom tooth decided to pop its head out.

Since waking up today, I realised that that area of the gum is 'swollen' and there is this discomfort in the back of my mouth all the way to lunch. It felt 'swollen' from what the tongue felt.

After lunch, fearing that particles of food might get stuck in the little gaps, I used the tongue again and this time, I was harder on my gums. How horrified would you be if you realised that your gum has formed a splinter and the splinter of flesh is still hanging off the gums with it covering a [stupid] wisdom tooth ? I was rather disturbed by this discovery.

My wisdom teeth have all agreed on seasonal growth and I will always experience swollen gums at the back for 2 to 3 days everynow and then [very random]. I wonder if there would come a time when I need to go for the operation to remove them all for some reason or another. If I do go for the operation though, I would miss a lot of school, which is quite bad now to think of it as you would have to borrow other's lecture notes and tutorials to copy down what you have missed [so thanks Jaryl, Melissa for trusting me with your notes overnight!].

After awhile that splinter I realised that splinter is actually quite fun to play with. So if you see me around in school looking like I am looking for something in my mouth with my tongue, I am playing!

Not exactly very fun since it comes with a little pain.

I do not want this to happen to me.

Later!

'NSync-I'll Never Stop

A Little Addiction

I have been surviving on coffee for the past few days, consuming 4 cans just for today. Will I become caffeine dependent and need a cup of coffee every morning to start the day? I do not know yet, but judging from the pile of work I have accumulated [10 maths tutorials, a chapter of chemistry tutorial, 8 chapters of physics tutorial and my favourite GP], I guess I might very well become an addict by the end of this month.

Anyway, do not even think of laughing at my pathetic state now as I know that you did. Well cannot be bothered with this now as I got to go and sleep to make up for Hypnos' absence yesterday.

Yawn. Later..

The Beatles-Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Vive Le Lance

He won the race again.

*yoohoo! sing shout dance jump spin hop skip wavearms jumpjump glaresatthepersonstaringatme*

The magic of the 7th victory though it also signals his retirement professionally.

If only I could acheive some of his determination and fighting spirit and channel them into my studies *groans* but this is one man worth respecting totally!3607km in 86:02:52 accounting to an average of 11.64m/s or 41.92km/hr.

Winning the Tour de France 3 years after being diagnosed with cancer and subsequently going on to win the title 5 more times [excluding this year's], he also set up Lance Armstrong Foundation [and along came the yellow wristband that some could be wearing].

If he can overcome cancer, learn to live and cycle to championship all within 3 years, anything is possible for me.

I just need my bike back now.

Well others might think that it's no big deal, just another person winning another sports event but this is not the case for me as I am one big fan.

Admiration for everything he is that I am not [his bikes also play a little part though].WOW bike. i will get myself one of these if I score well for promos coming up real soon [don't worry I am not going to start whining].

Later!

Norah Jones-Sunrise

Sad Case

Headlines: Egypt Bomb Attacks Kill At Least 75, Wound 120

Why are there so many bombs exploding nowadays?

Can human beings ever stop treating other human beings like crash test dummies?

When will people realise that we are all the same?

Sarah McLachlan-Angel

Random

Sometimes things just do not seem to want to go according to how you want them to. Well they usually behave like this.

Lesson learnt: Even if one thinks that one is thoroughly prepared for something, one is never prepared enough [like how I expected to get this vowel but got another vowel instead].

Already went to see 2 tutors who gave contrasting advice. I will follow the advice of my Maths tutor. 6 weeks left!

Beginning to miss 'band magic' already. A lot of factors contributed to this. With this mistake I realised that I could have made much more friends who actually care about my very existence and has something more in common with me other than studying in the same college. So even if you think you have no friends, you are not the only one.

I need more time. Myabe I should just stop wasting them instead.

The only item common to both a successful man and a loser are 24 hours a day

I did not update recently but i haven't been updating regularly anyway.

You either fight back or go home

I hope he wins the tour again.

I miss my bike.

This is all very random.

Travis-Flowers In The Window

Human Fluid

Health Sciences Authority came over to TJC for a blood donation drive.

I never thought that I actually would donate blood but after hearing that it does not hurt as much as most people think [i admit hesitating because of this], i signed up for it [and end up forging my mother's signature].

Tension begins to build up as the turn for me to donate appoaches. While queueing I saw many of my friends being 'manhandled' [don't worry the nurses are very caring and gentle], I tried to relax myself for fear of tension which would result in pain [believe me I tried acupuncture].

I ended up on the station beside where Trevor was already donating his blood [which was a good thing as I had someone to talk to]. The nurse then proceeded to smearing this 'highlighter' fluid on my forearm nearer to the elbow [funky disinfectant]. A syringe full of anaesthetics were half injected right below the skin, which resulted in a lump forming on the skin. Then the 'scariest' part came. The nurse proceeded to remove the plastic cap of this rubber tube to reveal a pencil-thick metal tube that is taper so it is sharper on one end and pierced it into the lump on my skin. No pain at all [seriously]. Blood began flowing into the collection bag rather quickly at first.

Then it stopped! The nurse came over to check, and pulled out the tube a little. Blood flowed for awhile, but slower this time. It stopped again soon after. So she pulled out the tube that bit more, but there's this limit as to how much the tube can be pulled pulled out before it is completely separated from the arm. What did she do? She pushed it back in, and pulled it out again bit by bit. The blood for some reason clotted at the other end of the tube and stops flowing totally. The nurse ask whether I am feeling well [but I am not since I have already used the amount of time 2 person used to finish donating and I felt the anaesthetic wearing off already] and I told her that I am not and is feeling a little giddy with the discomfort felt. The senior nurse then said that it has to be taken out and they snipped off the tube without taking 4 tubes of blood for testing! Result: I lost 3/4 of a bag of blood and I would never know my blood type, haemoglobin content etc as they are not going to use my blood! sigh

Superhero Power: Extreme Healing
Blood clots at superhuman speed and close all open wounds leaving bearer free from injuries.

I guess I am addicted to donating blood already since it is really painless [some might feel that it is a little excrutiating to see one's own skin being impaled by a pencil-sized object slowly.

So those of you under 45kg please eat more!

Those under 16..

Grow up.

This strikes my interest.

Later!

Embrace-Gravity

Discovery

Due to AO level Chinese Listening Examinations today, I was dismissed very early at about 3 pm. Since I have the time, decided to go and collect my webcam that came free with my Broadband subscription with Singtel.

These things always happen to me. As described earlier in 'Good Service Equals Happy Customers', it happened to me again. First thing I saw on the door of the Prolink Customer Service Centre was a piece of paper apologising to the customers as the webcam is currently out of stock! After all the trouble I took to rush down from Bedok to Boon Keng before its closing time. SIGH.. [nvm]

With bad things come good things too.

With quite a bit of time before the meeting time with 2 of my friends, I decided to walk to Bugis, and I found gold!
Along the way of Jalan Besar [not a place that anyone would go without a purpose], I saw this road sign. Not just any sign but Foch Road. Could it be linked to this person here? Well I have no idea, but this caused me to become very fascinated with street names and the next time I talk another of my walks I will find out more about the naming of Singapore streets big and small.

Walking on, within a fenced up area sprouted umbrellas. On closer look I found Singapore's Flea Market [or is it even known as a flea market]! Did not know that it is so close to Bugis [will be part of 28 km itinerary]. really wonder how people actually make a living setting up little stalls here.

The Beatles-Twist And Shout

The Yellow Movement

"You either fight back or go home,"said Lance Armstrong.

Tour de France 2005 next stage is Stage 16 which is about 180.5km of mountains and roads. Too bad I cannot access ESPN or some other sports channel. Well, it may be a good thing since I would be too engrossed watching the Tour and its commentaries, interviews etc which would end up with me not touching my books. Everything is in the site, so would not write about the tour here.

In view of my horrendous results, tutors adviced my to drop a subject or risk failing promos altogether. I promised 4 Cs to Mrs Pang [HOD Maths] but I am really not sure of myself. I do not wish to see any word with the alphabets D, E, O, F, in my result slip at the end of the year and to have to take up 4 subjects with brand new syllabus next year.

Adopting new motto-You either fight back or go home.

Personal message to F. OFF. I will never see you again. Also, I am not going to 'go home' as yet. So you better watch out.

Been feeling a little restless nowadays and I cannot seem to sit still without either falling asleep or fidget. I think it most probably is due to the lack of cycling [last time was 3 July] when I went to the lovely beach with Yong Sen. I suppose we cycled about 6km before stopping to talk about people. haha!
The rented bikes and my ugly feet

Speaking of bikes, my dear bike is still at my cousin's house hopefully well maintained [i.e. not exposed and collecting dust]. Wilson if by any chance you are reading this I'll be down to collect it very soon. Better make sure it is well [hahaha].

Really got to do some studying for the entire weekend [or what is left of the weekend]. Later!

Moulin Rouge-Spectacular Spectacular!

A Mouse Without A Tail

Realised that my absence lasted for a week but was a little busy.

Anyway I am now without the use of a mouse. Just a keyboard.

This optical mouse that came with my computer 3 months ago is on the verge of dying. Battery replacements, battery removal and replacing again and again.. Still the mouse does not seem to revive.It looks perfectly fine right? Just wondering why it always die on me and cause me to have to resort to

Slamming against the desk, moving it up and down rapidly, scolding [not mad yet] restarting computer and trying to reconnecting it to the CPU.


Would the cat work on you? [just another random cat photo by my phone]

I know I dream of working in a hospital, but this is just not it.

Channel 8-Emergency Room 24 Hours

Superhero Confessions

I am a superhero with special powers.

1.Time Warp
If you have ever asked me out for anything at all, had me in any meetings or anything at all that involved me stepping out of my flat to meet you anywhere, you might have the impression that to meet me, you can be 2 hours late and might still be early.

There are many examples of this great display of power that I feel that is one of my superhuman abilities. I mean, how many people actually can achieve this feat?

This ability has caused me a Physics paper, a meeting [HRC meeting yesterday. I even caused my vice-captain to be late as I told her the wrong time. What a idiot. I woke up at 7am, only to have fallen asleep again and waking up at 9.30am. I still thought that I was late by 30 minutes but fact is that I was late for 1 hour 30minutes already. If you have not already guessed the meeting starts at 8am not 9am like what Mr Dreamland here thhought.], many many outings, gatherings and the such. You get the idea.

[Sincere apologies to Benjamin, Arvin, Raimi, Yong Qi, Liesel, Ain, Edwin, Rui Long, Zhao Xiu, Shi Min and Melissa. Yesterday is the last time I promise.]

2.Superhuman abilities
Considering that a large proportion of the human population habour little white sticks of dried grass on them, I have a huge advantage over them, which makes me rather extraordinary, and hence, a superhuman.

Firstly, I have considerably much more strength than this portion of the race. For example, just now as I was walking to the local 7-11 in my commoner disguise [shattered left spectacle lens, bad fitting white tee, old shorts, slippers, messy hair], a lady [deserving of it?] was standing beside the rubbish bin [wonder why they like to associate themselves with that] with a smouldering white stick in her mouth. She was done with her white stick and tossed her butt [or so I hear from Superheroes HQ] into the drain [littering!]. She turned to enter the store, or rather, try to.

She was dragging on the handle and trying to open the door! What has that white stick done to her? Just because she lost her butt in the drain she lost her strength? Hmm so I realised she was using her butt strength to go about everyday actions. Anyway, being the superhero that I am, I stepped behind her and open the door with ease.

If I can easily do the things that people with white sticks must do with difficulty, I must have an upperhand over them. As such, I have an upperhand over a huge portion of the population, and if the people with white sticks still can be considered human, I must be superhuman.

Also, we always observe these white stick people standing beside green cylinders placed nearly everywhere around Singapore. I only approach these cylinders to get rid of unwanted possession, and at most only steeping close to them. Really wonder why these white stick people like these cylinders so much. Could it be a way of communication with their secret cult of people who are similarly attracted to the charm of the white sticks about their plans to take over the world?

Since I am so different form them and they form up quite abit of the population I am therefore superhuman. My association will prevent them from taking over the world and turn everyone into one of them.

More on my superhuman powers next time. Anyway, every superhero deserves a moniker deserving of their ability [think The Flash, The Green Lantern etc] or related to anything that turned them into the superhero that they are [think Batman, Spiderman etc]

As such, I name myself

FOSSIL FUEL! You scored 74% SWEET, 66% CHUNKY, and 77% UNIQUE!

sweet cream ice cream with chocolate cookie pieces, fudge dinosaurs and a fudge swirl Rock out! You are quite the unique flavor with the added touch of yummy little dinosaurs and things. You're a nice person with a bit of a wild side, and very creative. Your mind works in wondrous ways and you have no problem sharing your unique thoughts with others. You know how to have fun without being an outright nuisance. Very nice.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 60% on SWEET You scored higher than 53% on CHUNKY You scored higher than 80% on UNIQUE

Link: The Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Flavor Test written by weered1 on OkCupid Free Online Dating

It might not have any relation to my power or anything but this is my 'flavour' according to the test. Maybe I can shoot chunks of charcoal, blobs of petrol etc. I will find out in time.

This is one superhuman I idolise, and as such the colour of this page. If I have that same determination that he has to fight cancer, I would not have gotten 26-15-0 [ask me personally, don't want to whine]

Oh and Emergency Room 24 Hours is coming up later. Cannot wait to see medical staff put aside worrying over the safety of family and friends to struggle to save that one more life in the wake of the earthquake. My weekly dose of inspiration and motivation.

Please comment more. I do not want more precious comments to be deleted by Tag-Boards forever. Please hold any debates with comments too [like the great how to make tea debate].

Later!

Finally

Finally uploaded this.

Love it.

But this was uploaded from PhotoBucket, not Blogger.

Strange.


This is who I want to be.

Nice movie. Very nice. Go catch it. Even if you are not a Batman fan.

You might want to skip Princess though.

Later!

Trouble Trouble

Dark Side

1.I still cannot load photos.

2.I hate my results but I hope I would not hate it more as more papers are given back.

Bright Side

1.Investiture went quite smoothly [thanks cuiyin!].

2.I dropped CLAO.

Let's just hope that things get better. I don't want this space to be occupied by anymore replicas of this.

Later!

Save The World

After having a whole load of a good time playing hard these past few days, it's time to go back to school. Guess all good things got to have an end. Well I'll be in school again 4 hours later and that is so dreadful. Meeting Mrs Trump again after like an entire month of not having to see her. Oh well.

Had a great time at the beach the other day with Yong Sen. 3 July. Not too bad, cause I was able to catch up with a great friend I had not been able to see for quite a while.

Anyway if there is a movie that you are wanting to watch, it is Batman Begins. Not your usual superhero movie, and greatly inspirational. Makes you really want to don a suit and go save the world. Fine, that is quite impossible. Try visiting my links instead, that might help a little.

Going to catch that bit of sleep. Will keep updated. Later!

Summary: Adventures Of The Sleepless And Hard Players

I just woke up from the first time I slept at 4.20+p.m. yesterday. I have not slept before this from 7.30a.m. on Thursday morning. That would make roughly about 56 hours and 55 minutes of non-sleep action. So some might ask,"What can one do in such a long period of time?"

It all beagn with waking up on Thursday morning. Some might recall the incident of the Missing Physics Paper from my previous post. Here's the full thing. Woke up at 7.30a.m. and had a little breakfast.
I tried to be good for once and study Physics [was it that stack of Gravitation notes?]. Deal is, I fell asleep after that [5 minutes I suppose] and only woke up at 12.30p.m. and cannot make it for the Physics paper. Well even if I did make it I would not be able to do any of the questions, nevermind about that.

To sort of make up for this loss, I continued studying for Biology for the rest of the day, leading to the tea incident.

The tea incident occured while I was studying late into the night for the dreaded but 'only-hope' subject known as Biology [refer to previous post].

I completed my Biology paper and hence ended the June Common Test. I do not want to talk about what happened during or before the last paper commenced but let's just say it was just a lot of mugging and shivering under the blizzard-producing machine.

After that, got to go out with Jaryl for a little bit. We went to Tampines Central and just shopped about. Met Kah Sing and Zhi Yong after that for lunch. With Jaryl's enlightenment, I realised that the $0.20 Potato Stars that are on sale at Burger King are simply 20cents without any other purchase. So purchasing 10 portions would get one 90 individual stars that would make for a good lunch at only $2.

Rushed back to Chung Cheng High for their record-setting event of the year. I'm still not very sure of what is going on but just check it out. Anyway I did not even step into the Concourse where the heart of the event is and instead I was at the old and dilapidated CCA block with the bandits. Got myself involved in teaching my dearest Sec 1 juniors who are just so interesting and different from the rest of the previous batches of Sec 1s. More will come later, and I will write about them again.

Went back to TJC after that for House Committee Investiture rehearsal. Alot of situations just pieced their together over there after a few enlightenments. Keeping it this way because more cannot be revealed. I also realised that what I thought was a temps de cuisse I cannot do. Thanks to Shu Jing. Time to train then [like I can].

Dinner was with the bandits again. If only I was back to the days of after band dinners. This is one of the rare reproductions. Anyway we had fun making fun of Nicholas as he was the only one there to not have been bornt in the 80s. We talked till near 10p.m. and decided to leave for home.

I was tempted to go to the Choir chalet and I did. Well managed to catch the last bus after going online for awhile. I thought the bus ride was going to be a short one but before I realised it I was already at Pasir Ris. Got lost for awhile [how could I ever?] when I overlooked the apartments in the Aranda and thought that they belonged to Downtown East. In the chalet, after certifying that I was the first person to reach for that day [12.15a.m. on 2 July] I got addicted to mahjong. The kakis were Timothy, Liling, Cheng Pei, Michelle and Yu Xuan who got knocked out halfway due to the water faucet in the middle of his face. So we played on and on throught the night and stopped at 5+a.m. when they wanted to go watch the sunrise [a little too early I thought].

Later, I went to Pasir Ris MRT to Tanah Merah to meet Mr Weldon Sng at 6.30 after watching a little morning television. Well Weldon was late and I was finally early [triumphant fanfare]. We proceeded to Singapore Polytechnic [a.k.a. Dover and I slept throughout the journey] and met the rest of them. The LEO activity was quite boring. Imagine that you are suppose to be the road marshall for this gate to guide them in the right direction. While you are waiting for your partner to return you sit by the gate, by the road in the blazing sun and falls asleep. That was what happened to me. My SP partner was shocked to find me sleeping in that position and he laughed at me [when we have only just met]. haha

Had free [fine, complentary] lunch provided by the nice organisers of this event, we left for a few games of pool at Katong Village with Jaryl, Kah Sing, Weldon, Amande, Elke. Jaryl just don't want to start on pool, saying he wants to keep himself a virgin and saving his first time. Oh well. I left earlier since I had this appointment with the family at 4p.m. at Orchard Cineleisure [my cousin's son celebrating his first month on Earth]. Guess what. I fell into deep sleep right after I showered, changed and decided to take a nap. Here I am just right after waking up. How nice of me.

I hope my cousin's son [is it nephew?] don't hate me for this, but I am just too tired. Felt that I had really played hard this two days. So hard that I had begun hallucinating and lost track of time [Jaryl said I wasn't the person he knew. Effects of not sleeping I guess?]. I would say that this adventure is quite well-deserved since I had try to study hard for that dreaded test. What's over is over. Long weekend coming. Got to be prepared for it. First by resting. I'm going back to sleep soon! Later!

Advices

I did not change the time. Yes it has been one stupid day altogether.

Advice #1- If your exam is at 11.15am, don't wake up at 7.30am and try to study if you had been sleeping late.

Yes, I missed my Physics JCT mostly because of this. Fell right back asleep and did not wake up until 12.30pm. According to examinations guideline I cannot take the paper. Oh well, I won't be able to do any of the questions anyway since I have never touched a single question from the tutorials.

Advice #2- If you are mugging late into the night and wants to drink tea, at least wait that few more minutes for the water to boil. It won't hurt.

I made a cup of tea just now with lukewarm water. It turned the colour of dirty drain water, and is totally tasteless. Yuck. Stupid stupid.
There you are. Master the art of making tea. Hmm..

Better go back to my Biology [my only hope of a pass]. Later!