Da Vinci Exhibition @ S'pore Sci Centre

Hey, do you recall what I said on the earlier post on "11 June 2009"?
(Update: I shift the posting date for this, so sorry if it seems that I posted in the future)
Well, the photos for the "Da Vinci Exhibition @ S'pore Sci Centre" have finally arrived. Without further ado...*

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First and foremost, I would like to thank our photographer, Emelia Tang, who so generously passed me the pictures! ^^

In this picture, she's listening to an Ipod. :)

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Right, on the way to the Science Centre from the MRT station nearby, we have no idea how to reach the Science Centre. So we sort of consulted the guide. :p

This is the map nearby the MRT station. This map proved very useful to us! ^^


Useful to an extent, though we walked to the Science Centre in the end...


And that's us judging the distance from the MRT Station to the Science Centre. That was when we're deciding whether to take a bus there or just walk.

Emelia commented that we looked like tourists in the photo. :o



This picture was taken secretly by Emelia!!! O.o

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So we walked and the first thing we saw when we reached the Science Centre was...

Some kind of display, huh? But wait! What is that?...


Ah...kind of self-explanatory, right?


Woah! A T-rex! Sound included too! How cool is that? Pity it can turn its head to face you. (that would be way scary...hahas)


Walking up, we saw something amusing...

Behold! At first glance, you see children playing in there(which is nothing wrong). But I doubt anyone would notice that no one is allowed to play in the water containers....O.o

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Entering the building which contains the exhibition hall, we saw a preview of what's in store for us...

This is an Wooden Bridge designed by Leonardo Da Vinci himself. :o
(Notice the smaller version next to it, so cute...)


The Vitruvian Man displayed at the Entrance. Read up on the Internet if you have no idea what that is! ^^


And so we go! Into the Exhibition Hall!!!

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Unfortunately, no photo-taking are allowed inside, so we just have to skip to photos that were taken after we left the exhibition hall...

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This is proof of our entry into the exhibition! Fear the fellowship of "DV"!!! lols....


The compound when you exit.


Took a photo with Johnston and Ronald! How nice of him to pose for us! (lols...)


It is spoiled. Pity.


That's where we went after the exhibition.


I think this is supposed to work when the sun is up, but I don't think it's working.


A Hydro-Pump that requires you to rotate it to work. Be careful though, Johnston turned it too fast and accidentally splashed out water onto Emelia. LOL!


Water Mill. No water coming out from above though. Wonder what went wrong.


Following the Water Mill, gives you this.


Figured this would be spinning if the Mill is working.


Erm...I forgot what is this...(opps!)


That would be Johnston and I walking or exploring around...


Did you know SunDials can be used for Pull-up? I didn't. :p


Even so, it's fun to do so. ^^


A massive network of sound pipes which leads to everywhere and nowhere. Hahas...


A bigger version(without the pipes) would be this! :D


Up-close picture of Johnston listening. O.o


That would be me.


You should try this, if you can pedal without getting exhausted. I would say you're Pro!


Emelia standing on a rolling wheel!!!


Finally, this is called the "Fireball". I can see why. Call a couple of your friends to spin you and lift up a leg! You will thrown out like a fireball! (That's what happened to me, spit out from the vortex)

Johnston was safe, he did not lift his leg up. :p
Emelia was taking picture, and hence the safest. Hahas...

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This concludes our journey in Singapore Science center. I hope you enjoyed reading this! ^^

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Note:*Click on image to enlarge.

Secret War Journal[2 June 2009]

1st Post for June 2009! Yeah, I know, it is not a week since my last post yet so why post now? The reason being is that I can't wait to talk about the Holidays! ^^ (okay, that was a lame reason)

Anyway, your second question might be why I did not post yesterday(when Chinese "O" Levels Examinations was held). The reason being is (no, not because I was lazy =.=') that I was deciding between posting after a week or post now or post daily for holidays. As you can see, I decided against posting daily during the holidays(I'm not that free...)

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Moving on...

I don't really wish to talk about "O" Level Chinese Examination.

But personally, I don't feel much difficulty from doing the paper except for the letter writing for Paper 1. Which could be a bad sign because that might mean that I was so stupid to not be able to feel the challenge(given my pathetic standard at Chinese...)

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Finally...(yes, I wish this to be a short post ^^)

The situation at my school is getting pretty grim for graduating students(that includes me...)

Our science teachers are like trying to convince us to drop to "Combined Science" which is in every way depressing(I believe I have discussed this topic before so let us move on)

Now, the next pressing issue would be our Science Practical Assessment which is very worrying because for some reason I lost the skills since last year(AHH~!)

I'm very worried, screwing this up and I will have to drop. And I don't feel prepared! Actually, no one is.

I mean, having such a test right after mass-brainwashing of Chinese is plain nuts. Haiz...

And worst, today, Mr Goh told us some pretty bad statistics for last year's batch: 90 students took Pure Sciences, 75% Distinction(so far so good), only around 10 A1 (horrid face), 50+ A2, the rest lower(oh god...)

How much worse can it be now? [Someone (please) just shoot them dead....]
The cruel reality of life...

Of course, I prefer to stick to my "Pure" Status. So I must work hard! Onwards to good results(I hope...)

Okay, so much for the morale boost. Lolz

Wish me luck!

Secret War Journal[30 May 2009]

What a week! I could have sworn this was the most boring week I ever experienced in my entire life! I will tell you why in a few moments but first...

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Results[Part 2]
Guess what? I forgot that students are given back their result slips on the last day of school (partly because I was not aware the school term was ending...)

So to make things convenient for you and myself, I decided to show you the finalized results of all my subjects. There have been some changes to my marks since the last time I posted. :o

NOTE: Click on image to enlarge.



So as you can see, my L1R5 is 13. Even though I got 3rd in Class and 15th in school, my performance for most subjects have dropped, with only Chemistry, E.maths, and Chinese improved. Like I said last time, my A.Maths was tragic. Not to mention English now...

Anyway, being 3rd in class symbolise nothing except the addition of stress of maintaining that ranking. (With many plotting to overtake me now, and I cannot be complacent as there are still many Prelims to go and most importantly the "O" Levels)

So, all in all, my life just got more complicated and less enjoyable but the feeling is good, though not as good as I thought. I don't exactly feel a sense of accomplishment, maybe I will only get that if I score well for my "O" Levels Examinations...

Meanwhile, life goes on, upcoming would be my Chinese "O" Levels Examination(the one I least confident about) which will fall on the very first day of June Holidays(this Monday...). This is then followed up by several Science Practical Assessment Practices on that very same day(Practically screaming now).
On the fourth day of my Holidays would be my Physics Science Practical Assessment. On the sixth day of my Holidays would be my Chemistry Science Practical Assessment. My life is getting sadder by the month.

If you ask me why I sound so depressed, I believe I had been hearing too many bad news. Science Teachers are pressing those who did not score well for the examinations(though I'm not one of them) to drop to combined Science. The way they preach was like they want the entire class to drop, which is depressing. And another blow to morale would be some of my class 'elites' are also considering to drop to Combined Science. =.=
Actually, I feel that the more 'elites' that are dropping to Combined Science, all the more you should not drop, because there would be fierce competition there. (ha!)

But case in mind, I cannot afford to drop. Yes, I'm in a perilous situation, if I ever drop to Combined Science, I'm as good as dead. And here comes the element of risk, if I do not score well for Pure Sciences for my "O" Levels Examination, I'm as good as dead too.
Ah, the irony.

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Now, to explain why this week had been boring.

Because of the upcoming Chinese "O" Levels Examination, I have been revising Chinese for the entire week! I mean, I actually revised! First time for my entire lifetime! Wow.

And the time used was not exactly wasted, I feel that I am finally of the Primary School Chinese Standard! Woot! I feel so accomplished! But yeah, I'm a secondary student which means I'm so screwed through and through. Sigh.

My Chinese Teachers wants the entire class(including me) to get A1 but personally, I'm aiming for A2. Getting that would be best marks for Chinese since I stepped into Secondary School Life. O.o

Why can't life be without obstacles and challenges? I guess that what makes life so fun...

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Sometimes, I can't help but wonder what will happen after taking my "O" Levels Examination. To many, it is the end of the dark tunnel they had been in. But it seems to me that the exit is just as grey(uncertain). So my question after taking the last paper would be: "Okay, now what?"

Would I panic over the potential risk of me not scoring well or would I be pleased with my performance and enjoying life? I guess it's about my mentality then...

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Oh great, I feeling even more sad now. I'm starting to feel a cloud of 'DOOM' above me. (I was kidding, serious!)

Oh, before I forget. My school is organising a prom night for us after our examinations! How cool is that?
Okay, being me, I'm not exactly very happy some details about the prom night(which is why I'm undecided on whether to attend). We read much about Prom Night in Foxtrot but whatever.

I'm not happy about:

1. The food - they seriously need to amend, the food selections are a disaster.
2. The time - it's too early for me to decide! What if something coped up?
3. The Venue - the cool management team still could not decide on a venue *Roll eyes*
4. The Dress Code - no one knows, it's a grey area. *Roll eyes*
5. The Games - Once again, no one knows, yet another grey area. *Roll eyes*
6. Money - like everything, money is a factor. It cost a whopping SGD$60 for entrance fee(ouch.) Not to mention the clothings that I may need to buy. Thankfully, as of now, money is not an important factor (yet)
7. The prizes - I don't need prizes, so why am I paying for the prizes? *Roll eyes*
8. Too many unknowns - as shown above, there are many things that...no one knows...

So yeah. 'Wow', just plain 'wow'. You got to love the Management for this. 'Seriously'. *Roll eyes*

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I so hope I did not waste my 60 dollars in the event I decided to attend.

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Alright, this post is getting too lengthy, so I'm ending it with this:

TO ALL SINGAPORE SECONDARY GRADUATING STUDENTS THIS YEAR,
I WISH YOU GUYS GOOD LUCK FOR CHINESE "O" LEVELS EXAMINATION!!!

P.S: That includes me ;)

With that, I thank you for reading this super-unusually-long post. =]

Secret War Journal [23 May 2009]

End of Mid-Year Examinations 2009 cum Prelims One

Wee! It finally ended! It felt like an eternity for it to just end. Not to mention the further extension of examinations with the inclusion of Chinese Mock Examination during Marking Day.


Just plain horrible.

Nevertheless, it took me so long to finally give you this post, so I am able to give my results for some of the papers that I took back. ;)

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Results[Part 1]
They are sorted by chronologically order.
Chinese

1. Paper 1 -> 46/70
2. Paper 2 -> 44.5/70
3. Paper 3 -> 14/20
   

Total => 65.3/100 [B3]
Additional Mathematics

1. Paper 1 -> 61/80
2. Paper 2 -> 56/100

Total => 64.9/100 [B4]
Physics

1. Paper 1 -> 31/40
2. Paper 2 -> 62/80

Total => 77.5/100 [A1]
Chemistry

1. Paper 1 -> 27/40
2. Paper 2, Section A -> 39+1/50
   
3. Paper 2, Section B -> 23/30
   

Total => 75.0/100 [A1]

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So yeah, my maths was done extremely badly, I completely screwed up my paper 2. Horrible. So right now, I 'm hoping for English to have B4; E.maths, Combined.Humans to have A1 so as to maintain my L1R5 of 11. Wish me luck! ;)

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Return of Parents

Just for background information: My parents recently flew to Hong Kong(yes I'm aware that there have Swine Flu, beats me why they still want to go) just to collect some goods and have a vacation.

And after so many days, they're coming back this night. Not any night, but tonight(Yeah, I'm being lame)
And guess what? I'm supposed to tag along with my younger siblings to watch some pathetic dog cartoon movie. (It better be worthwhile.)

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In other news, The last book to the Pendragon Adventures is out! Go buy and let me read. Hahas!

I wonder when will I ever have the time to enjoy life again. The "O" Levels took so much time of our life. Haiz...Anyway, good luck to all students taking exams!(including myself :P)

Til Next week! Hahas. ;)

Secret War Journal[10 May 2009]

For some unknown reasons, I feeling more and more depressed. I hope it's just the prospect of incoming examinations but I feel that maybe I feeling kind of lonely, being not able to call my close friends to chat and stuffs. It will not be the right thing to call at this period of time no matter how bored I may be as everyone's having examinations now and I would only disturb them so I guess I have to bear with it. [Sigh]

Okay, we're not moving to happier stuffs yet so brace yourself...

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Holiday, good or bad?

Not so good for my family. Last night, my younger brother started vomiting. My parents brought him to a hospital as clinics are not open during Public Holidays(yesterday being Vesak Day)
A fundamental flaw, if you ask me. But we must understand that doctors are humans too, they need rest so I guess it can't be helped.
Anyway, our wonderful dinner was cancelled and I had to make dinner for my younger sister. So that night we have some sort of home cooked TV Dinner. Hahas. By the way, we had porridge with sliced fish and lean meat. (And some vegetables though I seriously doubt my younger sister even ate it)
Well, the good thing is that my younger brother just have some gut infection so it's nothing serious. Poor him, he can't eat all the good food we have for holidays now.

Which reminds me. We had western food for lunch! Personally prepared by my father himself. :D
Second time eating his western meals. Mmm!

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Revised big time today! I finished last year's Additional Mathematics Paper! I feel so accomplished! And guess what? Johnston called! I thought he finished his examinations. This is because my school started examinations late so I assumed that most of my friends have already taken all their papers. (Some of my friends really had taken all)

Anyway, Emelia had some 'doubts' as claimed by Johnston. The whole idea was funny. It's just another misidentification.
You see, Emelia has this friend who know someone in my school called "Leroy" who is a Prefect, member of NCC(BTW, the guy he/she was talking about was in NPCC, not NCC) and etc.

This "Leroy" is obviously not me. (DUH!?) The guy mentioned is Leroy Tan in my school so don't get the wrong guy again!
I mean so many people are mistaking me for the other Leroy and vice versa.

That's it for today. See ya!

Secret War Journal[9 May 2009]

Happy Mother's Day 2009~!

Well, my family celebrated Mother's Day last week.

Sidenote:

To be frank, I did not even know Mother's day was near until I was informed by my father. And I thought last week was Mother's Day. Cynthia said I was evil. Even Penny agrees. Hahas. Hey, I am a crude guy who don't bother to remember Father's or Mother's Day. Why bother showing filial piety to your parents on only one day? Shouldn't you be exercising it every single day?

Anyway, last week's celebration was rather fun. The main thing funny that happened there was Qi Xian purposely mixing up the crabs and prawns.
So there we are, saying prawns are crabs and vice versa. This started off when Qi Xian kept saying every single dish coming up would be crab and on one occasion, it turned out to be prawns. Of course, being 'cruel' cousins we are, we laughed at him and throughout the entire meal, we referred the prawns as crabs and crab as prawns.

And we were like saying, "The prawns nowadays are so large and the crabs so small now"

Really funny. ^^

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Now for updates on school affairs: Exams --> Prelims

I had two papers recently:

1. Chinese
   
   1. Paper 1 was challenging
   2. Paper 2 seemed easy but utterly no confidence
   3. Paper 3 was just confusing
      
   
   
2. English
   
   1. Paper 1 was average, slightly nervous. I wrote about 'Acceptance'
      
   2. Paper 2 was finished too fast to my liking, I had spare time even after rewriting my summary 2 times. I believe I have insufficient points for my summary. So overall, Paper 2 was difficult.
      

And I got back some of my tests before the official launch of Prelims:

• A.Maths Paper -> 70/100 (Pity I did not get A1)
• Physics -> 20.5/50 (Yes, I'm aware I wrote that I got 20/50 from my previous post)
• History -> 11/12 (WohoO!)

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Now to something more about current affairs.

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Swine Flu
Okay, I know that this is not its official name anymore but I think "Swine Flu" sounds more cool that H1N1 Influenza A.
Overall, I'm glad that Swine Flu acts much more like seasonal flu than deadly. That changes things a lot down here. Several drastic measures had been taken in my school which shifted our examination from the Examination Hall to our respective classrooms. It's a disappointment, I like the feeling of being the Examination Hall despite it being too cold and other stuffs.
However, it is a good thing that Singapore was not affected. The measures taken by the Government and involved communities proved to be successful and prevent the spread of Swine Flu.
They also succeeded in not causing general public panic during the crisis. For that, I believe that they deserve praise.

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Arrest of Mas Salamat
This is really recent and I feel that his arrest is a great morale boost to those combating terrorism. This shows that despite some being able to escape, they would eventually be captured once more.
But this issue is a rather sensitive one. Hence, I will not go too in-depth on this subject.

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Right, I need to sleep now. My next paper would be on Additional Mathematics, wish me luck! ^^

Here's an Video on Machale, D.J., the great author of "The Pendragon Adventures", enjoy!!!

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Seriously, I think it is funny, here's a quote(SPOILER ALERT):

"I think everything is funny"

LOLS!? Some like us. Hahas. We're not alone~!

Secret War Journal[1 May 2009]

Kites on May Day

Happy belated MAY DAY to all!

Yesterday angeline, bernice, yvonne, yz, leloy, donovan, chris,
jt, laiyin and me(sorry if i miss out anyone) went for kite-flying.
It was rather fun except that the ants kept biting me cos we were out
in the open field. Some of the better kite flyers were bernice
and yanzhi. hahas! they flew the kite so high all by themselves!
Angeline brought her lucky and yz brought his twinkle. i took
afew unglams of people but i cannot upload! T.T =(
but nevermind. they are all in facebook already! muahahahahas!!!

After that, went for dinner at bk. Donovan very funny luh! it
took 1 donovan to finish 1 cup of bbq sauce. but it took jt, yz
and me to finish the other cup. LOLS!

I was almost locked out of the house yesterday! my mother
wants me reach home by 9 or else, she is going to lock me out.
luckily, i reached home by 8.59. OMG! that was really lucky!
MAybe thats cos i saw lucky in the afternoon? hahas!

- Vanessa Lim on 02 May 2009, 2:05 PM

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I'm so lazy that I even quote someone who came with us. Hahas. But unlike her, I have pictures to share. Ha! But anyway, we must thank her for letting me quote her. ^^

There were a lot of pictures taken that day. For obviously reasons, I cannot show you all of them. And I'm very sorry for not writing the descriptions here because that would take too long for me to finish this post. So yeah, here comes the carnage:
Note: Clicking on picture will direct you to a page where I written Title w/o description.

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I'm not sure if I miss anything. But I'm super tired from the typing and uploading of pictures. So I will end it here, I will add content if needed. See ya!

Secret War Journal[1 May 2009]

Today is Labour Day cum May Day.

Ah, the sweet, bitter, sour taste of air. I wonder why.

Sweet -> Today's a public holiday
Bitter -> Tons and tons of homework in store for me.
Sour -> Exams are super duper near.

The sad reality of life, isn't it?

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Moving on, I took some tests for this week and frankly, I don't feel confident that I will ace the papers at all. Haiz...I want to know why...


A.MAths Test:

• Did not finish the paper in time
• Did not know Q9 existed until the end of test.
• Lost 17 marks from blank questions
• Not counting careless mistakes(if any)

History Test:

• Spent most of my time revising on maths.
• Personally feel that my second paragraph was too short

So how? I am not sure in any way. Pray for me. Many thanks!

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Moving on, I came across some interesting articles on Movie Reviews. Here's one!

Note: Click to enlarge, and file size is 2.03MB (yes, ouch) The price of being in full colour...

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Oopsie! Look at the time, I need to go down to meet Jing Ting, Yan Zhi, Christopher, Lai Yin, Vanessa, Angeline, Bernice, Donovan, Bernice, and Yvonne to play Kite. Will update some time later about what happened. :p

Secret War Journal[28 April 2009]

Hi! My Prelims are coming soon so this will one of few last(most likely) posts before I start revising for exams massively.

Hahas. Anyway, the reason that prompt me to post today is that I got several stuffs to share with you guys. =]

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First up, my class recently had several tests(and more this week, =.=). Some of the results are back! They are:

1. Chemistry Test -> 20/25
2. A.Maths Test -> 94/100 (Top in class! Tie with Dolly!)
3. Physics Test -> 20/25(as claimed by Mr Goh)

And my class won first place for International Friendship Day Noticeboard Decoration Competition for Secondary 4/5! Special Congratulations to class 4D!!!(that's my class ;)

Hey, I helped out too, albeit just some. So I, as do the rest, get some share of the prize! :D

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And today's Photo-taking for CCA!

I wonder how am I going to get hold of the pictures but I assure, I got a feeling that the picture would be either comical or nice! =]

Wanna know why? Mr Goh recently came back with a fractured arm and the whole club(alright, I admit, I co-administrated it) decided to act as if we had an fractured arm and took the picture for the candid shot. What fun!

The best part was that Mr Goh was kind enough to play along and helped made the movement a success. =]

And I said at that moment, we should change our club to the 'Disabled Club'. Mr Goh replied that it should be the 'one-hand club' LOLs?

And guess what? This is the first time I sat on the first row for photo-taking. Oh wait, was it really first time. Oh well, maybe second time. =]
I mean me being sort of tall, it's kind of amazing that I have the chance to sit at the first row and stand on the last row in my lifetime for photo-taking. ;)
Some kind of achievement, huh. Hahas, yeah, me and my ideas.

Moving on, our photo-taking session was super delayed. In fact, we took our photo roughly one hour and a half later from the time slot. All thanks to the NCC Uniformed Group who took an eternity to prepare for the photo-taking because of their sheer membership size.
Oh well...

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I will having History test and another A.Maths Test this Thursday. Wish me luck! ;)

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Man, how I wish I can get my hands on those photos.

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P.S: I wrote a funny song during my free time, please feel free to comment on it. Here goes:

This is sky
This is life
Everybody wants to cry
How we wonder we can lie
So that we can see them smile

This is wrong
It can't be
How we wish it would be
So that death isn't there
So that peace is always here

So this is it
This is fate
We can't change it after all
For things have always been
and always it will be
After all.....

And finally another weird thing I came up with:

STRESS = Super Terrifying Radiation Eroding Souls Syndrome.

So that's why having stress is bad for us. (lols!)

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->Additional Content<-

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Tribute to Starcraft fans, myself included:

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Secret War Journal[25 April 2009]

I was supposed to start this week's post with a happy tone. Guess my father totally ruined it for me.
Since I don't want to make myself even more angry and indirectly make your guys shake your heads after knowing how stupidity can be so easily be found, let us move on to my intended topic.
:D

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The Return of our Childhood when we were in Kovan...
A lame topic yeah..

I still can't believe I spent hours this afternoon playing in a playground. I don't know why myself.

Today, we had a mass lecture in school about common mistakes committed by Singaporeans during exams. (which prior to that someone made his first stupid thing for today at home)

I told my parents that I am not coming back to lunch(a wise move considering the stupidity of someone in the house)

So I tagged along with Yan Zhi, Jaytii, and Lai Yin to eat lunch together.

Christopher did not join us as his parents demanded him to return home.(well sort of)
Jie Sheng followed us to the MRT station though he was kind of quiet throughout the walk.

Which reminds me: What's with today? Some gloomy day?

Whatever the case, I don't want to care. We reached Compass Point and we still could not decide on what to eat and it took us around 1~2 hours to finally go to Kovan and eat some chicken rice(which Yan Zhi said was nice :)

On the way to board the train, I saw Mr.Goh. Actually he saw me first. I was like, "Why is that fellow staring at me, and closing to smiling???" Then I noticed that his hand was bandaged. Then realisation sat in, he is Mr Goh!!! OMG! His face is totally different since his hairstyle is unlike his in school. Even Yan Zhi, jaytii, Lai Yin can't recognise him until I was waving like some madman. Yan Zhi was wondering who I was waving to and look at Mr Goh, and thought he was his uncle! LOLs? Jaytii and Lai Yin was totally clueless until Yan Zhi told them. Hahas.

We ate Chicken Rice at some park. There, we conclude that the environment(setting) is very romantic, being serene and falling leaves and all.

Then we started being childish and played See-saw and Swings. Yeah, unbelievable.

Oh and there was an cat encounter while we settled down to eat lunch.

Fooled around for around 3 hours before we went home.

And guess what, I discovered something interesting!

Jaytii and Yan Zhi were classmates during Kindergarten! They're classmates during Secondary School and now schoolmates! Is this just wow or what?

And, and their primary school was just next to each other. Double WOW!!!

Very coincidental right? I wish something like that could happen to me. Haiz....lols...

Oh well, this post is sort of short simply because I'm tired, pressed for time.

So in short...

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I had several tests this week:

1. Maths Test
2. Chemistry Test
3. Geography Test
4. Nafa (Physical) Test

And next week I have Physics Test.

Oh dear...Need to study like some maniac now. Until next time then. Haiz...