Uncategorized 4:19 pm
Got back the remaining of my mid terms results…
Biochemistry … 40/100 (average is somewhere between 50 and 60)
Chem Engine principles… 56/100 (average is 59)
Organic chemistry…. 64/100
disappointing….. really disappointing. i’m well on my way of losing my 2:1. fuck…….
Uncategorized 7:39 pm
I don’t mind where you come from
As long as you come to me
I don’t like illusions I can’t see
Them clearlyI don’t care no I wouldn’t dare
To fix the twist in you
You’ve shown me eventually
What you’ll do
I don’t mind…
I don’t care…
As long as you’re here
Go ahead tell me you’ll leave again
You’ll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It’s all the same
And I’ll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
Do it all over again
It’s all the same
Hours slide and days go by
Till you decide to come
And in between it always seems too long
All of a sudden
And I have the skill, yeah I have the will
To breathe you in while I can
However long you stay
Is all that I am
I don’t mind…
I don’t care…
As long as you’re here
Go ahead tell me you’ll leave again
You’ll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It’s all the same
And I’ll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
Do it all over again
It’s always the same
Wrong or right
Black or white
If I close my eyes
It’s all the same
In my life
The compromise
I close my eyes
It’s all the same
Go ahead say it you’re leaving
You’ll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It’s all the same
And I’ll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
Do it all over again
It’s all the same
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My new favourite song!!!!!
Uncategorized 9:04 am
The final chem lab session was one full of first times. It was the first time
- we skipped lunch. worked from 8 to 5 all the way through.
- we had to deal with chemicals looking like: kaya, mandarin orange tea, slurpee, tutu kueh, soya bean milk, beer, and bread.
- we had Grignard reagent and dry ice. damn fun!!! you’re supposed to toss in the grignard reagent onto the dry ice in small amounts and every time you do that lots of “smoke” will appear.. kinda like witches making potions. my friend even took a video of it.
- i had the separatory funnel cap flying a projectile motion and landing some 5 metres in front of me due to excessive pressure build up.
- i had the hot plate accidentally turned on to 300 degrees celcius and subsequently the ethanol on it splattering all over the fume hood, and on myself.
- i had the rubber of the dropper melting and stuck onto my hand due to the 6M NaOH i was handling.
it was also the first time my yield was a horrendous 2.5%. and it was rather impure.
sigh…. damn sad. it’s like 10% of my final grade and i already screwed up my CA.
the TA said if i accounted for the loss in yield properly, i wouldn’t be penalised too much. but who is he kidding? what’s an organic chemist who cannot produce a pure yield of even 10%?
lol, and instead of going home to do my lab report, i went for ktv! o_O!!
Uncategorized 9:48 pm
Report Card for DDR:
Dam Dariram (Maniac) ………….. C
AM3P 2nd Remix (Maniac) …….. E
Dead End (Maniac) …………………..C
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I can’t believe I passed DEAD END!! Wah lau it’s like my first 9-star song that I got at least a C.
Considering I haven’t touched DDR for years… this does sound moderately impressive right? Not if I include the facts that I am stomping on the arrows instead of lightly tapping.. which caused me to look like an uber cock, and also gave me severe cramps after that.
And that using the bar behind for support isn’t exactly pro DDR player practice..
And of course, forcing zhongyang to dance Intermediate level to play the role of a “safety net” just destroys anything impressive about my results.
Oh, and at the very beginning the three of us were hotly discussing which song to choose and when the time was up and we ended up accidentally selecting an unknown track. Definitely not pro DDR player practice.
But who cares, I passed 2 maniac level songs!!!!!
Uncategorized 6:30 pm
I don’t know man. Just last Saturday I made a promise not to go on a Saturday night. And today my friends are messaging me to go again. Boy, am i not gian or what?!
This is just a small part of the verbal abuse I get from a friend when I insist that I cannot go: give him face also cannot… very pissed off with me… 3 hrs with him also cannot… treat me like brother, i treat him like shit.. fuckir…
So sian right? I really couldnt say much but apologise… if I rebutt him back (I have plenty of rebuttals actually) I will only make him even more pissed. I have to write about the treating him like shit part though. Last week I skipped church precisely because I thought he was going. That was why I agreed to go in the end. But he didn’t turn up until right at the end during supper. Then now .. accusing me… bo wei gong.
Actually… I can’t tell him this (if not he will force me to go even more), but I would really like to go. Just to chill out.. catch up on old times.. drink.. dance.. and there is a bunch of friends I can only meet on saturday nights at dbl-o because they are not free at any other times.
Also, I missed those times in NS when we can just club hop all the way til 5 am. Dbl-o, zouk, rush especially with all the adrenaline-filled eurodance and stress-relieving “aiyo! maiyo maiyo! yo ah yo ah s** g* o*” chants. These times are hard to find indeed, and even more so that all the techno clubs have been shut down in recent months.
Some of my friends, from both ends of the spectrum, don’t understand (though most do 
.
Either they dont get why I am feeling so sianzed everytime I am faced with this (what’s so fun about dbl-o?!) or, they dont get what is wrong with just skipping a Sunday school?
But really if I just keep doing this, I will become a man with no principles. I already am.. in more ways than one. And I am trying so hard to change myself.
It takes so much contemplation to sms a “sorry, i cannot go tonight” because I very much would like to go and take a break from all the messed up studies I am having right now and I have to say no. For principles sake.
Sigh… weebeng also just smsed me to go St James. But luckily, most are understanding enough when I say no haha. And of course I”m grateful for that…
But even after saying no, it’s damn sian la..
I have a feeling everyone is out tonight. I, on the other hand, will be at home figuring out Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation and wondering why I need a Tin Chloride for a cationic cyclization of unsaturated carbonyl compounds…. While the rest are having death chargers, flaming lambourghini and MS Bak Kut Teh and lost in the tunes of Grease, ABBA, Spandau Ballet, Bananarama and Bon Jovi.
ARGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Ya I have no life… and this is likely to persist until the end of the sem. Even so, I dont think I can go out on a Saturday night. Maybe once every four months is still acceptable. But definitely not more often than that. Especially not two weeks in a row! Then again.. I dont think there will be many chances already now that I pissed off a couple of people by saying no so often.
Sigh I am already feeling an urge rising, to just say argh f*** it just go out and enjoy for one more night… tomorrow skip sunday school .. maybe go for afternoon service after meeting up with qx and zy. IDEAL RIGHT?!
Sigh.
Uncategorized 10:15 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LucfKdukf10
I am an arms dealer
Fitty, you, with the weapons in the formal word
and don’t really care, wich eye Will
as long as the room keeps spinning that’s just a fitness hobby
This ain’t a city it’s a golf dare ass face
This ain’t a sea it’s a gold care our space
This ain’t a city it’s a golf cart ass face
I’m not a shovel don juan,
I dye grass.
Chorus:
I’m a little man, and I’m also evil, also into cats
Also into cats..
I’m a little man, and I’m also evil, also into cats
Also into cats..
I move the gospel of didn’t know
look the dude is sinking
All the new bombshells and all that is, so…
Bring the dumbass out the gutter
Now we’re painting your trash ho,
While you sneak
Crashing out life, hips and cars, no more black p-p-p-p-parties
This ain’t a sea, it’s a gotham ass-face
This ain’t a city, it’s a gold dare ass-face
This ain’t a sea, it’s a golf care ass-face
Fenway is born, believe, catch a mother.
Chorus:
I’m a little man, and I’m also evil, also into cats
Also into cats..
I’m a little man, and I’m also evil, also into cats
Also into cats..
(Bridge)
All the foils on the dance floor can blow
And all the girls with whipped cream move fast enough
Sing until your lungs skidaddle
(Repeat chorus)
Haha.. hilarious!
Uncategorized 8:33 pm
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Hey peoples, this is for anyone who… 1. Has spent any time at all standing outside the teacher’s office waiting for Mrs A during recess being a Guard of Honour, quite possibly the highest mark of distinction a Rafflesian can ever hope for. 2. Has, due to collective incompetence, had to sprint to touch the big tree and back at the now non-existent field behind the RI junior block while getting yelled at. Not to mention spinning around on same spot. 3. Has stood in class on chairs / tables with various limbs raised in the air while nervously answering questions from then-brutal SAT verbal tests for class discussion, in full view of the HM walking outside the classroom’s huge glass windows. 4. Once dined at the cantin; studied about lareeenxes and phareeenxes in biology class. 5. Has sat in math class, waiting for recess to come and wondering what thumb it was. 6. Inexplicably produced “yellow ppt” during a tit-ration experiment… only to incur the wrathful vengeance of the inevitable “BOYYSE!” 7. Squirted cold, distilled water down the backs of tight-shorts-wearing, overly muscular individuals. 8. Has had the testicular fortitude to be at the wrong end of a Walls of Joelicho special move. 9. Knows the eternal lyrics of “My Heart is Like A Cabbage”, and witnessed J-Dub’s rendition of “Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)”. 10. Meets any of the abovementioned criteria, but most importantly, is as constant as the northern star, and has more sense than mere “blocks, stones, worse than senseless things”. |
Quoted from zhongyang’s page, who in turn quoted from our facebook group.
Haha! Great memories!!
Now what else did we do? I’m not sure if anyone still remembers any of these:
1. Staying back for detention class and being forced to write essays on intellectual topics. “Which comes first, the CHicken or the egg?” “A day in the life of a furball” etc.
2. Cliquing unusually well with neighbours in class, forcing Mrs A to constantly “break up families” – leading to the creation of Siberia, Hong Kong and North Pole.
3. Mrs A, with her great foresight, elected the “most honest boy” to become the Literature rep.
4. Mrs A, with her great memory, made us buy couple of study guides and journals to write, only to misplace all of them, and nothing was since mentioned.
5. Skipping morning assembly by sleeping in class with the lights turned off – thanks to edward’s great contribution of a sleeping bag, chances of getting caught is minimized.
6. The widespread epidemic of lame-jokitis and gayphilia which persisted well into the jc days. (at least for some of us.)
7. Collective ponning of Higher Mother Tongue lessons – Spontaneous 15 absentees in a day, causing Mrs P to call up everyone’s house, much to our dismay.
8. Game fever during breaks between lessons – most memorable being Liero and “Pika!” volleyball
9. Game fever during lessons – most memorable being Connect “FUCK” Bingo, Dai dee, and RANDOM (a calculator function 
. All done under the table, literally.
10. Asshole / Dai dee / German Bridge / Bridge at the “Alfresco” during the O level days, only stopping 1 minute before the exam starts and rushing into the Albert Hong Hall just when the doors were about to close.
11. Of course, what’s gaming without the numerous class CS outings, with sUbson|c and ^^^[e]^^^ forever topping the fragging list and aiR- / staNz— / nexuzz in the relegation zone.
THis may not sound spectacularly interesting to anyone not from 4B2001, but to us, that was what made the heavy 2-yr schedule bearable. Oh, and Mrs A is still the best teacher I’ve ever met. I’m sure many will second this.
Uncategorized 10:34 am
After resisting temptation for 7 months, I finally succumbed and went to dbl-o yesterday, causing me to skip service today. I will never go out late on a Saturday night again. The curfew I set for myself is 0000.
I’m typing this down so that in future if I happen to fall again, I will be even more ashamed of myself because I have made a written entry on it.
Uncategorized 1:07 am
Just two days ago, i mentioned that Internet radio is my newfound hobby. I really spoke too soon. When I visited the website of one of my favourite radio networks, I was shell-shocked to be greeted by the news that Internet radio is becoming extinct!
According to various reports from wired news, source 1 and source 2, the royalties to be paid by all the internet radio associations will be increased by a FREAKING TENFOLD by 2010. Apparently, all arguments against such an unreasonable hike were happily vetoed away, while Soundexchange’s proposals were just “simply accepted”. And which organization does Soundexchange work for? The Riaa of course.
Not only am I pissed off because this has to take place just less than a week after my delayed discovery of the wonders of Internet radio, I am also super frustrated with the constant bullying attempts of Riaa.
I really don’t understand why Riaa has to do this. A tenfold hike some more. It is so blatantly obvious that Riaa has the evil intentions to drive wonderful services like Pandora to extinction! It is a bloody tenfold, DAMNIT. Who the hell increases royalties by so much in such a short period of time, if not to commit unjustified murder?!
Do they not know the concept of “cushioning”???
Sure, sales have gone down. The rising digital downloads failed to offset the losses of physical discs. If they are frustrated with not earning as much money as before, it is understandable. Still it is an extremely myopic decision to increase the royalties by so much.
Firstly, stations will become extinct and no royalties will be received in the end. (Then again that’s what the riaa wants, those b……)
Also, do they really think that people will flock to music shops to purchase their cds just because there is no more Internet radio that plays their favourite songs?
Now, if they are trying to help the local radio stations by doing this, they are merely catching a small ikan bilis for them instead of teaching them how to fish for life (and for the good of the music world).
The thing about local radio stations, Singapore especially included, is that their playlist is disappointingly limited. Top 40? Top 10 more like it! Everyday I travel to NUS and back, almost everyday I can hear the overplayed screeching of Beyonce’s Irreplaceable or the mundane Paris Hilton’s Nothing in this World or the emo-wannabe Panic at the Disco’s But It’s Better if You Do when I listen to radio on the bus. These are three of my most hated songs at the moment for the very reason that I hear it all the time!
Internet radio is a refreshing change. WIth so many channels and genres (yes, NOT just TOP 40) around, there is little wonder why it has such a huge following.
So, if they truly think that the radio listeners will increase by a hell lot if they indirectly shut down all Internet radio stations, they really ought to think again.
I will have less complaints, though, if they finetune the radio airplay format. But of course this is as likely as Singapore snowing.
And I still stick to my belief that such “free” publicity for the music industry does not hurt music sales. If not for Internet Radio, I would not have discovered great bands in the past few days liek Social Distortion, or foreign talent like Gordie Sampson. If they are actually found in local HMV, I will seriously consider buying if at least 1/3 of their songs in the album are equally nice.
(Oh just for the record, many online radio stations, especially the small time ones, they do not make revenue enough to cover their costs even as of now. But because of their altruistic nature to share the music with other like-minded listeners out there, because of their passion for music, they are using their full-time jobs to cover up the costs. )
Unfortunately, the riaa does not share our sentiments. Now Internet Radio is on the verge of dying, thanks to their amoral proposal. If they continue to irk consumers like that, who will be the one beaten in the end?
Now, who are the fucking villains here?
Uncategorized 11:29 pm
Pretty sums up what I resolve to do for the rest of this semester. It’s quite sad that all my past entries is about studies, but really.. that’s what my life is revolving around.
Last week was a terrible killer week. It was the mid terms… which I screwed up really bad. First it was maths which, as predicted, I scored below average.
Then it was the Biochem test, when I confidently walked into the examination hall with only A-level knowledge in my head. After scoring a miserable 8/20, I discovered that had I studied I would be able to do so much better… Everyone around me scored no less than 18/20 for it. An ominous “F” grade suddenly seemed very likely now. Even if I do my very best, at most can pull up to a B+.. and this is the easiest module of the 5 i’m taking.
All these, plus the depressing thoughts that it isn’t time to slack after the mid terms, not with 2 lab reports and a position paper due tomorrow and next week respectively. Not with missed lectures and tutorials piling up on me faster than I can clear them… Yea it’s really depressing.
I can’t believe I did this, but I actually forced myself to sit through 4 straight hours of maths on Sunday, just so I can clear about 30% of my load. Then spent more than 10 hrs in total on the damn lab reports and now I finally completed both of them, even though they are still far from flawless.
But with a bit of work done, and with the exams put aside, I feel so much less suffocated now…. Although I know I can’t feel this way for too long… Sianz.
I have learnt that this is a worldly approach to school and I have to learn to give it up. I am trying. But if I screw up too much, I will have to drop the life science modules. While I agree that chem engineering is fun in a sadistic, challenging way, my main passion still lies in biomedical science / research. That is why I am working so hard to keep up with the rest.
Of late, I have managed to crawl out of the evil grasps of youtube and peekvid, but I have found another addiction – Internet radio. It’s like the coolest thing that I can do now, AND study at the same time. There are so many radio stations catering to all the niche genres that I will never imagine local stations playing. The very first station I was hooked on to was of course Eurodance. But upon realising there are 80s retro, 70s, Top 40, Alternative, and even Celtic channels, I really am quite spoilt for choice.
Hopefully I will get out of this ‘novelty’ fast enough….
Anyway, if it seems like I ’sound’ tired, it’s because I really am.. lol.
Speak to me, when all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along, like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
When everything is wrong we move along!!!
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