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Pharmacy Year 3 Sem 1

2009-12-01T23:20:00.003+08:00

I have nearly vanished from the face of this blog for the past 4 to 5 months, and have turned my active face onto facebook. How interesting...

Year 3 sem 1 in pharmacy was defined by a stream of mugging, where the flow never cease.

"Failure to flap your fins in this flow forces further frowns on the face, and fancy fellow friends flying flawlessly with fleeting fury. Upon finishing, then you realised that you have fell into the fanatic fandom of furious mugging. Free from the frank feelings of fury and fuzz, yet you have fleed from the fun of the flourishing life ahead of you."

My ten-cents worth on being litty.

I need to break myself from this flow and channel myself to the stream of Life that can only come from Him.

Which reminds me of this song:

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after thee
You alone are my hearts desire
And I long to worship thee

Chorus
You alone are my strength my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my hearts desire
And I long to worship thee

You're my friend and You are my brother,
Even though you are a king.
I love you more thank any other,
So much more than anything.

I want You more than gold or silver,
Only You can satisfy.
You alone are the real joy Giver,
And the apple of my eye.

Aside from Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology II, Pathology and Dosage Form Design II, I also took Intro to English Literature. At first the thought of taking literature was intimidating, but at the end after my lit paper (which was the last one), i felt that I have the ability to expressed myself better, in English, which explains why that chunk of Fs above.

Louis, you can be emo, but you must not forget the great plans ahead of you, which is full of life.

Post mortem KEWOC 0910

2009-08-15T23:32:00.004+08:00

After working with KEWOC 09/10 (yes the last KEWOC event was held last night!!!!!) , this is the first test that i wanted to do... Wait for more updates about what has happened to me for the past 2 months.

Louis

Your Working Style

You are friendly, adaptable realists. You rely on what you see, hear, and know first-hand. You good-naturedly accept and use the facts around you. You look for a satisfying solution instead of trying to impose any "should" or "must" of your own. You are sure a satisfying solution will turn up once you have grasped all the facts.

You solve problems by being adaptable, and often can get other to adapt, too. People generally like you well enough to consider any compromise you suggest. You are unprejudiced open-minded, and tolerant of most everyone--including yourself. You take things as they are and thus may be very good at easing a tense situation and pulling conflicting factions together.

With your focus on the current situation and realistic acceptance of what exists, you can be a gifted problem solver. Because you are not necessarily bound by a need to follow standard procedures or preferred methods, you are often able to see ways of achieving a goal by "using" the existing rules, systems, or circumstances in new ways, rather than allowing them to be roadblocks.

You are actively curious about people, activities, food, objects, scenery, or anything new presented to your senses. Your expert abilities in using your senses may show in:

a continuous ability to see the need of the moment and turn easily to meet it
the ability to absorb, apply and remember great numbers of facts
an artistic taste and judgement
the handling of tools and materials

You make your decisions by using the personal values of feeling rather than the logical analysis of thinking. Your feeling makes you tactful, sympathetic, interested in people, and especially good at handling human contacts. You may be too easy in matters of discipline. You learn far more from first-hand experience than from books, and do better in actual situations than on written tests. Abstract ideas and theories are not likely to be trusted by you until you have been tested in experience. You may have to work harder than other people to achieve in school, but can do so when you see the relevance.

You do best in careers needing realism, action, and adaptability. Examples are health services, sales, design, transportation, entertainment, secretarial or office work, food service, supervising work groups, machine operation, and many kinds of troubleshooting.

You are strong in the art of living. You get a lot of fun out of life, which makes you good company. You enjoy your material possessions and take the time to acquire you. You find much enjoyment in good food, clothes, music, and art. You enjoy physical exercise and sports, and usually are good at these.

How effective you are depends on how much judgment you acquire. You may need to develop your feeling so that they can use your values to provide standards for your behavior, and direction and purpose in your lives. If your judgment is not developed enough to give you any character or stick-to-it-iveness, you are in danger of adapting mainly to your own love of a good time.

Some interesting happenings at Unity that I forgot to blog about

2009-06-20T01:46:00.009+08:00

Zuellig Pharma Trip

I am fortunate to have the chance to visit a pharmaceutical distributor company called Zuellig Pharma. Though the company do not make the medicine from scratch, the humongous number of types of pharmaceutical products of different shape and sizes definitely requires a certain system to store them. The warehouse was SOOO large and there were conveyer belts here and there to transport products from their respective shelves to the collection point. It's rather complicated and sadly, no photos allowed. :( But oh well, at least now I know how a Purchase Order (PO) is being processed and translated into the arrival of the product into our pharmacy. And we got goodie bags too!!

The Proper Way to Dispose Medicine

Once you received this bag of expired or used medications from the customer, thou shall
1) open the bag

2) Empty all solid medicines into this bag

3) Empty the liquid medicine into the bag... And here's what you get!!!!
( and because of this i get to see what is the color of the bottle of Nurofen.. It's orange!)
Outing with the following old ppl last sunday (14/6)

Unity Fun Outing (UFO)

It was a night of fun and laughter with both the preceptors and preceptees of the Unity Pharmacies!! Yes, it took place at a McDonalds at Toa Payoh. If you minus the kiddy element of the venue, it was a good place for gathering! We had loads of fun playing Zoom-in and Charades/taboo, all done in Pharmacy style, i.e. try acting Regaine 5% using just gestures but no talking.

And... my embarassing moment came when they found out that it was my birthday the day before... and I couldn't run away from that kiddy mcD hat!!!

Yups... that's about it.

Malay Tag from Louis

2009-06-20T00:33:00.002+08:00

Answer only in MALAY!

1. Bekas kekasih saya adalah:
tRahsia

2. Saya sedang mendengar:
Perbualan orang dari Float di bilik KEWOC

3. Mungkin saya patut:
Gunakan Hypotears... Mataku kering and letih

4. Saya suka: makan dan nyanyi

5.Sahabat-sahabat baik saya :
satu di Edinburgh, satu di Cambridge, satu di Osaka, Jepun, dan banyak di Singapura

6.Saya tak paham :
banyak benda. Tapi ingin cuba paham

7.Saya kehilangan :
Rambut?

8.Ramai yang berkata :
saya mudah dibuli

malangnya aku ni tak banyak ilmu, pun taklah pandai berdamai-damai denngan orang.

9.Makna nama saya :
Louis: maksud tak tau leh...
Lim: hutan,
Kian: sihat
Huat: kaya

10.Cinta itu adalah :
Cinta siapa? walao, soalan ini tak bererti punya

11.Di suatu tempat, seseorang sedang
mendengar musik

12.Saya akan cuba :
menuju KEWOC ke arah kejayaan

13.Ayat SELAMANYA membawa maksud :
selamanya loh.... apa soalan ini?

14.Telefon bimbit saya :
dah jadi buruk. Hendak beli yang baru..

15.Bila saya terjaga dari tidur :
aku akan tekan butang 'snooze'

16.Saya paling meluat apabila :
minum ipecac

17.Pesta/Parti adalah :
masa yang baik untuk bertemu dengan kawan

18.Haiwan yang paling comel yang saya pernah temui ialah :
anjing saya yang bernama Burger

19.Peringkat umur yang paling menyeronokkan bagi saya ialah :
JC?

20.Hari ini :
adalah hari terakhir aku berkerja di Plaza Singapura

21.Malam ini saya akan :
merancang jadual bagi KEWOC

22.Esok pula saya akan :
terus merancang jadual bagi KEWOC

23.Saya betul-betul inginkan :
Kerehatan

24.Ketika anda lihat wajah anda di hadapan cermin pagi ini :
saya akan kata: "wah... rupanya saya cantik sekali"

25.Pusat membeli-belah atau arked permainan :
dua pun tak suka

26.Makanan Barat atau Jepun :
tentu JEPUN! Tapi kadang-kala saya suka makanan barat

27.Bilik yang terang atau gelap :
bila baca buku tentulah terang.. tidur pula mestilah gelap

28.Makanan segera adalah :
tak baik untuk kesihatan

29.Ayat terakhir yang anda katakan pada seseorang?
Bagaimana nak kata "tak baik untuk kesihatan" dalam Bahasa Melayu

30.Siapa yang anda nak Tag?
erm.. tak nak teruskan. Malu lah nak tunjuk orang... tak ada muka.

My 21st Birthday

2009-06-16T22:55:00.006+08:00

It all started last night at about 11+ when I was in the midst of a programme meeting with Adrian and Jian Sheng and Ken Juin (the laptop)..

Hui Ning came all the way from Harbour Front to give me this :D

That was how I was touched the first time.

Then came a beautiful electronic voice from Ken Juin through Skype :D

That was how I was touched the second time.

The next morning, while working halfway at the pharmacy, my Dad called me to wish me Happy Birthday! Haha, my old man is very proud that I'm no longer a boy but a man!! I love my Daddy!

And further at about 5 plus, my preceptor (the pharmacist) bought me a cake and celebrated birthday with me!!

How many people can celebrate their birthdays in a PHARMACY? I must be the most blessed preceptee in the whole world!! Look at the background! Not only my newly-made friends in Unity Pharmacy, but I have medicines to celebrate with me too :D Say hi to Dalacin-T and Zocor and Regaine!

That was how I was touched the 3rd time.

Next, after work at the pharmacy, Zichun and Peng Siang came over to Plaza Singapura to have dinner with me :D Then they got me to choose my present and i bought "The ultimate collection of Carpenters"! And Zichun showed me how he can play the arcade for about 20 mins with just one 50 cent-worth of token :P (again, forgot to take picture!!! HOW COME!!)

That was how I was touched the 4th time.

On my way back, my mum called me up and wished me Happy Birthday! :D It's been quite a while since I last talked to her for such a long time. I love my Mummy! :)

And upon my arrival at the doorstep of my room, this appeared at my door knob.

And upon entering my room, this was found at my study desk.

Well-wishes from Adrian, Xiao Shuang, Xu Su, Priscillia, Gavin, Yunlan, Chun Keat, Wendy and Wenqing!

That was how I was touched the 5th time.

When I open my gmail, i had like 62 wishes from facebook. Getting spammed with blessings :)

What a birthday!!!

Even though my birthday did not involve any alcohol or big grand parties with loads of people attending it, I am glad that God has planned it so perfect that He has allowed me to cherish the small little things in my life and it made me flushed (I mean it). I was feeling so warm and happy throughout the whole day today!

I am so thankful :D

My Wish List

2009-06-13T22:19:00.004+08:00

Usually I don't do this for birthdays, but after hearing from Peng Siang, I should do this! Because I know from experience, that birthday gift shopping could be such a pain sometimes :P So here goes!

1) Sports Shoes (size 42)
2) Sling bag (big enough to put my 1L fat water bottle, umbrella, tissue paper...)
3) Minoxidil 5% (Regaine, Growell, Minoxi5... anything that can get "them" started)
4) Small but foldable bible (those with zip) with study guide
5) Water bottle (preferably BROS with super colourful designs but not purple or pink!)
6) Watch (I realised that without a watch it could be quite troublesome during preceptorship, and i think i prefer digital to analogue)
7) Carpenter's album (suddenly fell in love with them again)
8) Latest Hillsong Albums (dunno which one is the latest)
9) Bedsheet (anything bright will do! Single bed)
10) British National Formulary (BNF - it will be good to have a copy of this book!)

That's all I can think of!!

Aiyoh... feel so paiseh :P but deep down in my heart I am really happy :) I have never celebrated my birthday in Singapore on my real birthday proper. Wonder how would it be this year.... hehehe

Unity @ Jurong Point

2009-06-09T21:48:00.005+08:00

Aiyah!!!! Why didn't I take picture?!?!??!??!?! Only realised that when I felt like blogging about it....

Anyways, due to time constraint, here are some interesting happenings at JRP!

1) My 2-day preceptor, Ting Ting: She's such a nice lady and I really treat her like my jiejie! Always enjoy learning together with her!! ( I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN A PICTURE WITH HER!!!!! Why are all the female pharmacists in Unity so pretty???? :P)

2) It was there that I had the chance to counsel a patient in MALAY! There was this Malay uncle who came to look for some eye drops. He couldn't really understand my English and so i began the conversation by saying "sakit?". Yeah at that instance, he sort of fell in love with me and started telling me everything in Malay. While I can understand what he was saying, replying him took me quite some time but it was done rather smoothly!! *pats myself*

"Pak Cik... yang ini.... selepas dibuka, cuma boleh simpan 1 bulan.... yang ini boleh membasahkan mata kering...."

Haha so proud of myself :D

3) There was this lady who came to my counter and started smsing. I offered her help by saying "hi mam, how may i help you". But she stood there, eyes focused on her handphone as she was smsing her way through. So, I ignored her for a while. After about 30 seconds, she showed me her phone.

"You have Vitamin E cream for a girl who has just recovered from chicken pox"

Wow... then i went directly to Ting Ting. And she entertained them. Through writing on the piece of paper! Subsuquently, the lady went to approach her husband who was nearby and they started communicating in sign language!

Although I always see silent people in my church, this was actually my first time communicating with them! It was eye-opening :D

More to come.... :)

Preceptorship 3

2009-06-06T23:57:00.002+08:00

Continued from last post on my preceptorship...

Yes finally I took a picture with my preceptor and also with all the staff in the new store!!!!

Here's the pretty preceptor whom I was taking about! She's Jasmine and she is just 4 years older than me! So young and capable!

Friendly staff attached to the PSG branch. Somehow people who are working in Unity are just so warm and amiable :)

Next week, I will be transferred over to Jurong Point (at Boon Lay) for 2 days to experience life at a different outlet with a different customer base; the 3rd day will be back to Tanglin Mall to collect more prescriptions; the 4th day will be a field trip to Zuellig Pharma, a pharmaceutical company!

Looking forward to it!

2 more weeks left... and
When one works in a pharmacy, one feels that time flies like no one cares..
My preceptorship will end in 2 weeks' time and wait awaits me after that are challanges beyond my imagination... we'll see....

:D

In the midst of busyness...

2009-06-03T23:40:00.002+08:00

Ning tagged me on this!

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 100 Truths about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you.

(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, copy and paste this note, erase my answers and enter your own, tag people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

WHAT WAS YOUR:

1. Last beverage: barley lemon
2. Last phone call: Kenneth
3. Last text message: Jasmine (my preceptor)
4. Last song you listened to: My Heart Will Trust (hillsong)
5. Last time you cried: erm... just now?

HAVE YOU EVER:

6. Dated someone twice: nope
7. Been cheated on: not that i know of
8. Kissed someone & regretted it: nope
9. Lost someone special: nope
10. Been depressed: Oh yes....
11. Been drunk and threw up: Yes.. unfortunately....

LIST THREE FAVORITE COLOURS:

12. green
13. yellow
14. orange

THIS YEAR HAVE YOU: (2009)

15. Made a new friend: yup. many!
16. Fallen out of love: dunno
17. Laughed until you cried: yup
18. Met someone who changed you: Yup
19. Found out who your true friends were: Found out long time ago :P
20. Found out someone was talking about you: Love to
21. Kissed anyone on your friend's list: My toothbrush
22. How many people on your friends list do you know in real life: >90% of them?
23. How many kids do you want to have: 4!!!
24. Do you have any pets: Yes!! My maltese dog named BURGER!
25. Do you want to change your name: Nope. But I would prefer the name LOUIS to be in my IC
26. What did you do for your last birthday: Calling t-shirt companies for KEWOC
27. What time did you wake up today: 7am!
28. What were you doing at midnight last night: Doing my preceptor's homework
29. Name something you CANNOT wait for: any malaysian food
30. Last time you saw your Mother: Beginning of last month?
31. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life : to have a much stronger faith
32. What are you listening to right now: nothing
33. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: Yes!!! Ansley THOMAS Winata!
34. What's getting on your nerves right now: I'm so busy yet i'm still doing this!
35. Most visited webpage: Youtube, facebook, Gmail, Hotmail
36. Whats your real name: LOUIS!
37. Nicknames: Loo loo, fatimah, fa ge, jianfa, louisa, lou-ooi-cy
38. Maritial Status: Single and very available
39. Zodiac sign: Not into this kind of thing
40. Male or female : What do you think?
41. Elementary?: SJK (C) Nan Kai
42. Middle School?: The Chinese High School
43. High school/college?: National Junior College
44. Hair colour: black with slight tinge of brown
45. Long or short: Short but hates fringe
46. Height: 169cm
47. Do you have a crush on someone?: erm... 微妙ですね。。。
48: What do you like about yourself?: my randomness and spontaneity
49. Piercings: none, wonder what will happen if i get one..
50. Tattoos: nope...
51. Righty or lefty: righty

FIRSTS :

52. First surgery: N/A
53. First piercing: N/A
54. First best friend: Dorcas Lam
55. First sport you joined: badminton/table tennis
56. First vacation: Perth, Australia
58. First pair of trainers: walao how to remember la

RIGHT NOW

59. Eating: Strepsils Orange
60. Drinking: Water
61. I'm about to: Reply my KEWOC emails
62. Listening to: Mighty to save (Hillsong)
63. Waiting for: God to send someone down for me

YOUR FUTURE :

64. Want kids?: Oh yes!
65. Get Married?: Refer to question 63
66. Career?: Pharmacist but dunno which area...

WHICH IS BETTER :

67. Lips or eyes: Eyes (i don't want zichun's lips!!!)
68. Hugs or kisses: Hugs!
69. Shorter or taller: Taller
70. Older or Younger: Younger
71. Romantic or spontaneous: Both.
72. Nice stomach or nice arms: Can rephrase the question?
73. Sensitive or loud: Loud!
74. Hook-up or relationship: I dun understand this question
75. Trouble maker or hesitant: are you refering to me or my partner? So vague.. silly questions

HAVE YOU EVER :

76. Kissed a stranger: siao..
77. Drank hard liquor: Yes
78. Lost glasses/contacts: Nope.. but i cracked it numerous times
79. Sex on first date: Never believe in this kind of thing
80. Broken someone's heart: oh yes, quite a lot
82. Been arrested: Nope
83. Turned someone down: on what issue?
84. Cried when someone died: Yes
85. Fallen for a friend?: Erm... yes?

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

86. Yourself: Not really
87. Miracles: Yes
88. Love at first sight: If God wills
89. Heaven: Of course
90. Santa Claus: Don't compete with Jesus' Birthday can?
91. Kiss on the first date: nope
92. Angels: Oh yes!

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:

94. Had more than 1 girlfriend/boyfriend at a time: If that happens, good time to repent!
95. Did you sing today?: Yup!! With kenneth and my whole church!
96. Ever cheated on somebody?: On what issue?
97. If you could go back in time, how far would you go?: Erm... all the way!!! The moment when I was conceived!
98. If you could pick a day from last year and relive it, what would it be?: Tough question.. too many days.
99. Are you afraid of falling in love?: Depends... but so far not afraid yet..
100. Posting this as 100 truths?: ???????????

Preceptorship 2

2009-05-31T21:48:00.003+08:00

Have you seen a totally brand new empty pharmacy before?

Well, I did! (dunno whether it something that can be boasted :P)

Yes, I am one of the few privileged ones to be able to help in merchandising all the products and medicines you can find in a typical pharmacy. It's like building a pharmacy from scratch! And the type of products you can find inside there is simply insane! I can barely name more than 15% of all the products there? That's why most of the time when costumers come in asking for products that are not OTCs or P medicines, I will just go blank and get from the Pharmacy Assistants.

Grand opening of the Branch in Plaza Singapura!!! Do drop by if you happen to be there. It's located at basement 2 opposite Sakae Sushi.

My current working hours:
10:00am to 6:30pm (Monday to Saturday)
More updates to come!

Preceptorship 1

2009-05-31T19:01:00.005+08:00

Wow... been rather emo for the past few weeks (well, that's what you get when you only get to go back home for less than 4 days after slaving in Singapore for such a looong time) so didn't have the mood to blog until NOW! Just came back from a jog and a cooling bath and I am totally refreshed now :D

Yups, here goes my preceptorship report!

For the 1st two days, we're lucky to have a Preceptorship Orientation conducted by our NTUC healthcare Chief Preceptor, Mariam! She's such a sweet lady! We've been introduced to the structure of the NTUC healthcare and all the different aspects of Unity Pharmacies. Well, all of those made more sense to when we went to the "Living Pharmacy" at Tampines One Mall and Suntec City. All the drugs that we've studied in the notes suddenly became so real to us!

(tips to juniors: if you want to score well for Pharmacy Practice II next year, please visit the pharmacy and don't just hide in your room or library, trust me... I regretted not doing that and hence a B- for my PPII :(..... oh wells)

On the third day, I travelled to "the Living Pharmacy" at Tanglin Mall where I was attached there for the next 3 weeks. The costumer base there consists mostly of Caucasians and I really mean it! 9 out of 10 costumers have blonde hair with their superbly adorable children!! Here's the layout of the pharmacy.

And yes, I got to know a lot of people there.

Me and the superbly "Genki" Sales lady, Susanna

Caiyun, my preceptor's Poly Student who was also attached in the same pharmacy as me! She's super hardworking and knows so much about the drugs in the store!

(From left) Joan, the executive manager of the store and Helen, the super experienced Pharmacy Assistant

Florence, another super experienced Pharmacy Assistant

Last but not least, my co-preceptor, Darren (aka Sze Guan) who is super super clever and really shoots me a lot of question (yeah i know it's for my own good)

Strangely, I have yet to take a picture with my real preceptor!!!! Need to take with her!!

My experience in Tanglin Mall branch was really pleasant. The staff there are really warm and very enthusiastic in their work too! Everyone gets to learn from each other, really akin to a big family. I can feel the warmth :D Occasionally I get treats from the staff there too!!

My working hours are as follows:
AM shift - 9:00am to 5:30pm
PM shift - 1:00pm to 9:30pm

But since last wednesday, i was transfered to another branch at Plaza Singapore (it's a new store!). That will be covered in my second blog post!

Preceptorship Preview

2009-05-17T22:57:00.003+08:00

Wow... Couldn't believe that it's already Week 3 for preceptorship and i haven't even blogged anything about it until Geri ngiamed me to do it :S

Well, it really takes discipline to blog about our everyday lives in our little pharmacies... But the thing is i haven't even taken any pictures of my pharmacy!!! Never fear, I will do so today! And you know what, today's my last day in Tanglin Mall and I will be transferred to Plaza Singapura tomorrow!!

Shall spam my blog when i have more pictures!

Pharmacology revision 2

2009-05-04T00:09:00.001+08:00

Let's memorise Pharmacology!

2009-05-03T22:55:00.004+08:00

When you see M1 students, you will say: "sigh.. M1s these days..."
M1 mAChR activation leads to stimulation of gastric acid secretion and reproductive system

When you see M2 students, you will fall in love with them because....
M2 mAChR activation leads to:
1) SAN leading to decreased heart rate
2) Decreased contractility of atria
3) Decreased conduction velocity and AV block at AVN

When you see M3 students, they look like that!
M3 mAChR activation leads to
1) stimulation of constrictor pupillae muscle --> constriction of pupil
2) Contraction of ciliar muscle --> relaxation of lens
3) stimulation of exocrine glands and hence secretion (e.g. saliva)
4) activates bronchi smooth muscle --> airway constriction

Happy Birthday Mummy!

2009-04-28T22:28:00.001+08:00

Hi Mum

If you're reading this... just wanna say a Big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to YOU!!!!

Just wanna thank God for you because you have conceived me and given birth to me 21 years ago and showering your love to me for the past 21 years. I know this sounds mushy and girly but I don't and i'm going to say that it's important to let you know that I LOVE YOU!

My mum is the best cook in the world! She can fight with my popo (her mum) for that. Everytime when I come back home, she will always cook for me and make sure that I'm comfortable at home! When I back in Sg again, she will still call me over the phone and ask me whether I want to buy hawaiian pants or not. And tell you a secret... SHE STARTED THE HAWAIIAN PANTS TREND!!! (I totally got her genes!) She called me up last sunday to check whether I want 2 extra new hawaiian pants and of course I said yes.

Thank you mummy!! (i always call her mee..... short form for mummy)

I have not been celebrating my Dad and Mum's birthday for the pass 9 years :( Cos there birthdays always clash with my academic time table. I need to do something about it!!

Honour thy parents!! and count your bleassing because of them!!

3 papers down and 2 more to go. Will not comment much on the papers since they have quite a high hematocrit percentage. Haha..

God bless those who are still clinging on to Him for exams!

頭が痛い！

2009-04-24T10:08:00.003+08:00

実は、今頭が痛くないよ。でも、頭痛(ずうつ)について勉強してるけど、ブログで書くと、もっとよく覚えられるようになる！この絵、可愛いなあ。。。：D

Actually i'm not having headache. Just wanna blog about it remember this chapter better! This picture is so cute!

Learnt the following vocab from Jelvin's assorted color pen which he's using right now to produce his microscopic help sheet!

滑らか（なめらか） - smooth
滲む（にじむ） - smear
粘度（ねんど） - viscosity
極細（ごくほそ）- superfine

Man... why am I so free to blog about this when I'm supposed to study?

STUDY!!!!!!

Exam stress

2009-04-23T14:49:00.003+08:00

Some people just couldn't stand studying anymore and they just want to relief themselves.. by doing crazy things like this...

How come it didn't happen in Science library! I also wanna see him!

(thanks chun keat for sharing!)

Pharmacy Year 2 Sem 2 Exam Preparation

2009-04-21T08:53:00.002+08:00

Onto my 2nd day of mugging in library. So far, productivity has been acceptable... But the risk of dosing off on your chair with your mouth wide open is high...

My exam schedule...

27/04/2009 (Mon)
PR3107 PHARMACY PRACTICE II (did badly for CAs for this module :( Hope to buck up for this one!)

28/04/2009 (Tue)
PR2105 PHARMACEUTICAL MICROBIOLOGY (too small cannot see)
LAJ2202 JAPANESE 3 （メチャメチャ難しいと思うよ！！！！）

30/04/2009 (Thu)
PR3104 PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (crazy paper!!!)

06/05/2009 (Wed)
PP2106 PHARMACOLOGY 1 (memorising paper)

Please pray for me for the above papers :) Hoping to see a breakthrough in my results. Though current circumstances might not seem to be favorable from the eyes of a mortal, I will still labor for the greater good!

Can't wait for the exams to end!

But at least after my last paper, there's something I can look forward to! And 4 day's worth of holiday :P of which, one day includes an unexpected visit from Yasu!

Time is really tight even after exams.... How I wish time dilation works here!

God's Masterpiece 神様によって設計されたマスターピース

2009-04-18T14:51:00.004+08:00

嬉しいね！

2009-04-16T10:43:00.002+08:00

Room draw results: I'm staying at E712 with Kok Pun next year!! Although E7 is the second highest floor in KE, I prefer E7 to E8 because E8 is a bit high up and secluded!!

Anyways, very happy now :) cause just now during Japanese Presentation, Geraldine and I were voted the best presenters for our Japanese Project! And the thing is we only started preparing yesterday night at 9pm! Praise the Lord!! Thank you Zichun and Patrick for praying before we went for the presentation! :D

AHhh!!! My first Japanese certificate in my life!!!!!!

My New Found 友達

2009-04-14T01:08:00.006+08:00

Recently I got to know a friend who came from Kobe, Japan!! Well, for some reason, I was ecstatic! Cos he's the very first Japanese that I got comfortable speaking to (in half Japanese and half English, either way broken :S) His name is Yasu Hiro (康弘) and he's a year 6 medicine student in Kobe University!

Last Saturday, a few of my medicine friends gave him a short tour in Singapore. Although my Microbiology and Pharmacology notes were "tempting" me not to since I have 2 CAs going on the following monday and wednesday, I went ahead!

We went trekking at this beautiful bridge that is actually built based on a mathematical equation called the at Mount Faber. I felt like a tourist once again after 8 years of stay in Singapore!

Along the way, I chatted with him. Oh man, I must say that the joy of speaking Japanese language that I have been studying for the past 1 and a half years to a native Japanese without the fear of being laughed at is simply wonderful! I can finally apply what I have studied! I feel so blessed!

After the trek we had lunch over at Vivocity. Then off we went to the Singapore Museum after much discussion.

At night we had Lerk Thai and I think we laughed more than we ate :S

Having been stuck in University for the past few months (except for Sunday to attend church), such outing is rare and with Yasu's presence, it made this trip possible. Thank God for his presence :D He really made my day!

やすくん！

シンガポールへようこそ！やすくんが来たのは楽しみだ！試験が終わったあとで、きっともっといろいろなところへ案内してあげるよ！！

Pharmacology and Faith

2009-04-07T16:42:00.006+08:00

This is an interesting comic that I found out while googling Pharmacology and it provoked me into thinking deeper...

Some times drugs work because we believe that they will, assuming that they take the correct drug. Simple things like taking drugs requires faith.

And God says "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. (Matthew 17:20) "

As seen in the photo. They are so tiny! Yet, when mustard seed germinates, it will grow into a humongous tree like this!!

Isn't it amazing? It's important to hold on to what you believe in because you are what you believe in.

For now, even as I pray to God, I believe that I will do will do well in my coming Pharmacy Practice II, Pharmacology and Microbiology CAs and finally my finals!! Faith has to be translated into action as well and hence, mug Louis!! MUG!!

Good Friday is coming! What does this day mean to you?

Japanese　日本語の勉強

2009-04-06T19:10:00.004+08:00

Why do I study Japanese?　どして日本語を勉強する？
Well, to be frank, I have no direct answer to that. Somehow, I just like that language. I've been exposed to Japanese cultural products as early as when I was a young kid. I have learned how to sing Japanese songs before I can understand the lyrics.

I guess it's the expressiveness that the Japanese Language allowed that attracted me. It could amplify my feelings :D

How do I apply my Japanese Language in life?　どうやってぼくの生活に日本語を使う？ At least in my cell group, the "Japaneseness" that I exude could break the ice really easily.

I will try as much as I could, to speak to my sister in Japanese! Cos she's the only one at home that understands Japanese afterall.

In my hall, will try to speak to my Japanese-studying friends!! and sometimes to irritate my non-Japanese speaking friends also!! heeheehee.

So far not a lot of Japanese friends leh :( Oh well, they will come soon :D

Till what level do I intend to study Japanese?　何階日本語を勉強するつもり？
Hmm... Enough for me to read and understand the entire Japanese Bible, able to communicate my feelings in Japanese and even share the gospel in Japanese? That would be awesome!!!

I think I might need a JLPT2 for that? Not sure yet.... see how far it goes.

But surely, I know that it is going to be very very very useful one day! :)

すべて今勉強してる皆さんに神様の恵みを！

Life goes on

2009-04-01T22:34:00.006+08:00

Seems that time has passed rather quickly.... Yesterday my grandma was cremated and the funeral is over. I was sad that I wasn't there to bid my final farewell to her. It could be a blessing in disguise because I heard from both of my sisters that there were heavy wailing.

Over here, my emotions were sometimes diluted by my busy life. Just now was reading my sister's blog, and that there was a tinge of sorrow and gloom.

Life has to move on....

Well for a start, let me tell you a bit more about my life in NUS Pharmacy! Yups, that's me in my microbiology lab. I like microbiology lab :) Although it's one of the most stressful lab sessions ever, I get to culture bacteria and fungi!! Last tuesday was my microB test and I think I might have forgotten certain steps here and there... Pray that my bacteria will be obedient and grow properly so that when I come back this Friday, they will be happily swimming in their liquid inoculation broth or spreading on agar (assuming that they are motile).

There were some hiccups here and there in the KEWOC (King Edward VII Orientation Committee) that I'm heading. Although I might complain sometimes, I am happy that this year the people that I have recruited along with Hui Ning and Adrian are a bunch of fantastic people. I hope to get to know them much better :)

Ok... Now time to go back to mugging for Pharmacy Practice II CA3m, which requires memorisation of 24 drugs. (Every CA has 24 drugs each, I've been through 2, this is the 3rd one)

Speaking of mugging,

This design is COOL!! It will appear on the mug that I will be buying in support of my pharmacy rag (an annual NUS float parade).

Don't play play, cos I do drugs!!

My Mama

2009-03-28T15:12:00.007+08:00

Today was a sad day.

While I was catching a nap from my Microbiology mugging, I was woken up by my handphone. My sister called to inform me that Mama (my dad's mum) passed away just now.

I was sitting by my bed. Started to wonder a lot. Heart started to ache a bit. Then pipe burst a bit... I wet my pillow a bit.

When my dad asked me to scan this photo, I'm glad that he did.

Mama has been a wonderful grandma to me. Her way of showing love to me was through food and I grew up enjoy her "Pok Ngi" - hokkien style fried mince meat balls with turnips and carrots. That's her secret weapon.

Whenever she knows that I'm back from Singapore, she will start feeding me with all the goodies. Every morning, she would go Pasar and dabao some kuihs for me while I was in deep sleep. And she would also insist treating me dim sum once in a week.

She had Parkinson's and some other medical complications which back then I do not know. But this was the last photo I took with her. She was not in good shape but still she could happily draw out a cute smile from her face.

I felt my heart ached whenever I see her going through all the needle poking and tablets swallowing. Now that she's gone. I will miss her even more.

While my heart is aching still and there might be a lot of questions, I know that God is my stronghold and He still here and He still remembers me.

"Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God."

-Psalms 43:5

(the funny thing is that during the breaking of this news, Adrian and Kelvin were knocking at my door after they had come back from collecting sponsored stuff for KEWOC marketing. Haha, anyways, good job KEWOC :D)

(thanks geri for the bubble tea :D)

Inertia

2009-03-27T10:26:00.007+08:00

That is what caused ning to injure her ankle.

Last night after jogging with Adrian, I played BBall with Ning, Hui Ann and Michael for about less than 20 minutes and guess what? My inertia sprained her ankle. :(

It's my inertia, not me k...

How did that happen:
I think i was chasing after her to receive the ball from Michael, or is it Hui Ann, then... I think she tried to intercept. Or is it the reverse? Can't remember liao... the thing is.. I didn't even realise that my stationary position could result in her spraining her ankle!!!!

"With more power, comes with greater responsibility" - Spiderman's Uncle

More reason for me to shed my INERTIA power (physics major people you could rebuke me for the misuse of all these physics terms all you want)

More reasons for me to lose weight.....

Called her just now and her ankle has swollen!!!!!!!!

On behalf of my inertia, I sincerely apologise for causing such a misfortune to you!
(Inertia ah... how many times I've told you NOT to be so stubborn!!! See!! Now Hui Ning's ankle swollen liao!! You tell me how)

Will be praying for her that she heals fast!!

Sleepy

2009-03-26T10:16:00.006+08:00

It's now my 2 hour break before my next lesson. While waiting to cool down myself before my 1 hour power nap, thought of updating my blog.

I am quite amazed at how I have gotten used to sleeping very very late at night and waking up very early in the morning. 4 hours of sleep has become my norm. More than 7 hours of sleep is classified as a luxury. Really. Maybe God is stretching me in this aspect... haha...

Still, sleeping during lecture is still a big problem to me. Countless times i have been shot by innocent friends during my sleep. Here's an example.

Also, being known as "the KIAN HUAT who always look tired", it's very easy for Prof Chan to catch me dosing off or nearly doing so. :( Well, at least I'm trying :D

Instead of whining and comment negatively, I should set a new direction to myself. Like what Pastor Caesar has been doing, be positive in everything you do. Yeah, it's almost impossible if you're so active in hall and a student who aims to excel at the same time. And NUS is really good at that stretching students "indirectly". That's why I need more faith!

Yeah I need to work on that. Go Louis!!

Ok, I'm quite cool now. Need to nap. じゃね！

P.S. Hope my mum doesn't see this :S

Making a come back

2009-03-24T03:27:00.004+08:00

REVIVAL

It's been 2 years since I last blogged.

Don't know why I stopped.

But on this very night, my determination for blogging made a come back. I realised that it is very necessary for me to blog because the process itself forces me to reflect on my life and from there I am able to see what's right and what's not. Perhaps the past 2 years, I have not been reflecting. Just labouring and labouring... chasing after winds??

So many things have passed and even as I read through my past blog entries, it never failed to make me laugh at myself. The things that I blogged about 2 years ago were so trivial compared to now.

2 years... not a very long period of time, but enough to make me grow... so much that I couldn't even believe it, which made me thank God even more because I'm what I am now because I'm part of His plans :)

In an attempt to revive old blog, I hope to discover more of myself.

"An unreflected life is one that is not worth living" - Anonymous

I believe that my blog entries are not always as serious as this. As for now, there's nothing much in my mind that I want to share considering the fact that it's 3:40am in the morning and I'll be having my Pharmacy Practice II CA this wednesday. However, sometimes when Louis feels that life is not just about work and study, Louis will switch on his com and start blogging. (at least better than doing other time-killing things online)

お楽しみにしてください！

my NUS application results

2007-05-24T07:34:00.000+08:00

after months of painful waiting, I got my NUS application results... I was quite prepared to accept whatever offers NUS gives me... so yeah I got into

That also means that Medicine and Dentistry have rejected me :( but since it's part of God's plan, I must learn to submit my ambitions to Him. (Maybe this is part of the breaking process haha..)

I must still thank all my teachers who have one way or another rushed the letters of recommendation for me within a very short period of time: namely, Mrs. Ke, Mr. Charles Low (both from HCI) and Ms. Chua (from NJC)!!!

I thank all my brothers and sisters-in-Christ for praying for me during this period of waiting.

To all my friends who have received offers from their desired faculty, CONGRATS!! and have fun and enjoy your new stage of life :)

To those who got rejected, dun be too sad k? You may find that the course that was offered to you is going to be a better one :)

ALL THE BEST!!! God bless :)

3B/3C last session

2007-05-23T09:19:00.001+08:00

Hey people,

Yeah... I think Eugene is going to kill me because I upload this.... What's wrong with taking photos!!! anyways, yeah this is the 3B/3C Non-Bio students mixture class that I have been "taking care". Always get bullied by them, but they are a bunch of really fun people :)

It's been really nice knowing you guys!!!!

Ohio!!!

2007-05-22T07:46:00.000+08:00

Hello!!! It's been 2 months since I last posted something here... gosh it's really rotting and I think I should do something about the blogskin.. haha

yup yup, this is my last week in Hwa Chong.. I had a mixture of feelings... To be honest, I do enjoy talking to my students individually or as a small group, but as a whole class.. wow.... I couldn't control.. it's like locking me up in an EXOTIC mini jungle-in-the-classroom.. you will see the whole class screeching in extreme excitement the moment they caught me entering their classrooms... haha shall not name names but you know who you are... Ya.. they are very 'lovely' indeed.. but hey they are really a creative batch.. they never fail to remind me of my old days.. I was in 3B 4 years ago.. Yes, boys being in a boy school have not many reasons not to break the school rules.. It's a period of significant change for them both physically and psychologically... you will definitely not see a bunch of JC dudes behaving like that.. ahha.. understandable.. :)

I must say that I do enjoy teaching though the opportunity given to me was limited since I'm a Teacher Assistant and not Relief Teacher...

---(bell rings.. gotta go for lesson) ---

Back, just came back from 2B.. Since they will be taking their Chem exam tomorrow I got them to play with Chemistry.. haha gave them QA diagrams and we even played hang-man until all of a sudden their Chem teacher is outside of the classroom. It is always my desire to make full use of their lesson time or free period so that they will not slack away:)

---(end of just-came-back-from-lesson talk)---

I thank God for putting me back in Hwa Chong :)

I thank Mrs. Ke for being such a wonderful boss who have taken care of me greatly.. even though you are the boss, you exhibit such humility that deserves respect from all your employee :)

I thank Mr. Sim and Miss Pek for their company most of the time... for letting me join in their 'gang' and go have tea and flourish me with food :P .. for their jokes and juicy news.. for making my life in Hwa Chong colourful and fruitful :)

I also wanna thank all other teachers, including my former form teacher Mrs. Seck for guiding me when I was new to the school :)

Not forgetting Mr. Charles Low who have taken precious time to review and vet my letter of recommendation for Medicine faculty application :)

Now I am still waiting for my NUS posting... it should be up by this week.. if not next week.. praying really hard now... it's either Medicine, Dentistry or Pharmacy.. Dear God please choose which one suits me best for Your plan :)

Release of the A Level Results

2007-03-05T08:37:00.000+08:00

I thank God that He gave me 4As (triple science and math), B3 for GP, distinction for Bio S and Merit for Chem S :) This is something that i have never expected because my prelim grades were like BBCD and D7 for gp, merit for Bio S and ungraded for Chem S!!!

to friends who have done up to their expectation: CONGRATS :):):) You have fought the war well and rejoice!!!!

to friends who didn't do up to their expectation: no matter what the outcome is, there's always new morning waiting for you ahead.

All the very best in life to all my JC friends :)

february updates :)

2007-02-12T13:31:00.000+08:00

Hi there... Louis is here to update his old blog.. i think i should change my blogskin.. aha.. it's like so old now. I should learn how to design one too :P

for the time being:
I miss my JC days. I miss all my friends... namely: 05s16, NJChoir, ASEAN friends, 05S7A, rioHC and all the people from my batch whom I knew :( oh man i really really miss you guys :(

these past few weeks were not too bad for me... work wasn't too busy or too slack.. At the beginning of last week, I was suffering quite a bit cos I was very broke. My cheque came in only on monday and I can only get my money on wednesday... I know how it feels to be broke... but upon receiving the money, I felt great :) and generous too :P haha..

The first thing I did to the money I have withdrawn was to clear my debts... which amounted to about S$100 ++... I had been very desperate the past few weeks :P Blue tea, the sundary (is this how you spell it) shop from my boarding school has been earning quite a lot from me upon my new affluence :P and I have gained some fats. I need to EXERCISE... it seems that self-motivation is not enough for me.. i need ppl to run with me. anyone available? that being said, I could not really afford much time for that :( my after-work schedule for this week:

mon: andrew's(my church junior?) tuition at marine parade from 5.00++pm to 6:45pm... and have to rush back for boarding school study time duty from 7:45pm to 10 pm
tues: study time
wed: study time
thurs: tuition at potong pasir from 6 to 8pm
friday: pack stuff to go back + at 6:30pm there will be a phone interview from Cardiff University, UK + after interview, i have to perform for the boarding school's CNY dinner
sat morning: bye bye singapore
sat afternoon to next tues evening: ANGPOW!!
next tues night: hi singapore

to all my friends and family,
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR :)

sino7

Aural test

2007-01-29T08:22:00.000+08:00

This is something random that Nick Toh suggested I should do :P

http://tonometric.com/

Pitch test: 0.4875 Hz + 94th percentile

Rhythm test: 72.0% Correct + 44th percentile

Tone deaf test: 83.3% Correct + 79th Percentile

Oh man.. this has proven to me that I am such an unrhythmic person :S

sino7

Complaint choirs

2007-01-26T13:29:00.000+08:00

This is something that i have never seen b4 and it is crazily interesting!!!!

check it out!!!

Mr. Lim :)

2007-01-23T15:13:00.000+08:00

Hi guys.. bet you guys dun even feel like reading my blog anymore due to the super low frequency of updates :( haha ... Well, firstly the connection wasn't really good and secondly, time doesn't allow me to! I've started working as a Teacher Assistant for the Aphelion Consortium of the Hwa Chong Institution (High School section) since 3rd Jan and it's 23rd Jan now :) WOO 20 days already!! will be getting my pay quite soon.. maybe in 10 day's time!

Now i managed to find time to do some reflection on my current job, which means i have to tell you what i have been doing for the past 20 days.. The tasks that I have performed: photo-taking of all students from Aphelion, collating and keying in of parent support group data, reventing and regular updating of the Aphelion Webpage (www.hci.edu.sg/aphelion) and APMOPS webpage (coming soon) and the most regular task of all.. relieve classes for teachers who are not available for the day.

I find the web-designing and updating tasks somewhat satisfying. It makes you feel good when the webpages, specially designed by you, are uploaded. Coupled with my tiny loyalty to Aphelion (I was from Aphelion last time), working on the webpages is in fact a pleasure! At the beginning, I was totally dumb-founded when my consortium director, Mrs. Ke asked me to revent the webpage :P Luckily Dewei was on my mind when that happened and I saught help from him during a Saturday. My IT skills were quite limited but now.. I am slightly more confident now :) THNX DEWEI!

the collating and keying in of the data from the Aphelion Parent support group was a big project that required lots of time and effort. Mr. Joseph Sim, assistant Aphelion director, who is the overall in charge for this PSG, saught help from Bumin, my senior who is in NUS now. Together we keyed in 4 x 3 + 3 = 15 classes' students' parents' data into an excel file.. (the file was 1.7 MB btw) haha.. the other hard part comes when we find out missing forms from students. we had to literally hunt them down to get their forms filled and signed.. some students.. yeah i understand that they are secondary school students., but they lack certain parts of their brains. They can actually submits forms that are unsigned. Their blurness could be too much a huge pain for teachers and admin staff to tolerate, which brings me to my experience in relieving the classes:

So far I have relieved all the sec 1,2 and sec 3 classes and only one sec 4 class. I was given the opportunity to spend more time with 3B and 3C non-Bio students. During their individual class Bio lessons, these non-Bio students are supposed to proceed to the Aphelion Room to either complete any available work or read any materials. I know in nature, sec 3s - 15 years of age is the golden age where they know what it takes to rebel, not to conform and sometimes a bit anti-establishment. They LOVE to make noise!! The more I treat them as adults, the more childish i get. That's the sad part :(

Being tame and 'guai' in nature, I was susceptible to their criticism or insults or what we commonly say 'niao'ings... They treat me more like their friend than a teacher. I was quite happy with that, until they got out of control :S How? speaking vulgarities in front of me, copying homework like no buddy's business and chatting on a phone during class!! I believed i have shouted at them more frequently than i do so in HuaGang. and i dun like to shout... but i have to.. which is sad..

there was once I was so pissed with the class that i just sat down and stared at them regardless of the time. and this method worked on them.. they noticed that i am pissed and i need their attention. Complete silence returned the class shortly.

I think I was too nice a teacher for this month and I began to think that if i let this super-very-mr-nice-guy-teacher spirit in me prevail, I could eventually spoil them and I certainly do not want that to happen. As much as I want to relate with them, I want them to know that teachers are people who have devoted their lives to mould people so that they will be in good condition to face the challenges of tomorrow's world. It is NEVER easy being a teacher.

I do hope that my students will learn to grow up. It's not that they are bad, in fact, there are some students whose virtuous action caught my attention. Simple things like telling friend who was on MC about what the teachers have said while he was away, helping the teacher quieten down the class, and a simple but sincere 'thank you' from them (individually) will make the teacher's day. The fact that they shush after my very serious talk to them shows that they are matured to a certain level and I am hoping to see them reaching much higher levels. I'm very glad to see them and I thank God for them as they help me learn how to deal with them :) This job has been a blessing to me and I hope I can be a blessing to the students and the teachers!

shall end here.. think it's a bit long haha :) All the best!!!

sino7

First post of the year

2007-01-04T11:46:00.000+08:00

Hey people.. i'm sorry i have not been updating my blog for ages... no broadband connection while i was back in malaysia.. I'm currently working as a Teacher Assistant in Hwa Chong (High School) so yeah i get free internet :) and it's quite fast too :) haha so happys... A recent picture of mine:

Oh ya what has happened to me during the holidays? i wonder.. aha.. i ate a lot and i played a lot!!! had dinners and dinners and went on trips with both my paternal and maternal immediate families :) i thank God for such a blessing... i was nearly spoilt by the family warmth that i have gained during the hols :) oh ya. i also learnt how to cook yong tau fu and slice onions and garlics (not easy k)!! quite a fruitful holiday i would say!!!

My working experience? shall tell you next time i post.. stay tuned :)

NJChoir Camp 2006

2006-12-02T15:23:00.000+08:00

Hey Guys!! Like i said.. i wanna thank you everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody and EVERYBODY for the camp :) It is indeed one of the most memorable moments that i have with NJChoir..

Thank you:
The teachers who spent 2 nights with us :) Mr. Chia and Miss Tan!! They have proven themselves to be very sporty and fun-loving and also very patient with us. YOU GUYS ROCK!!! :)

Thank you:
All the non-com members :) SOPPIES, ALTOES, my beloved, crazy but sane TENORES and Booooo..... do BASSOs!!! You guys are a bunch of active and fun-loving group of people and without your enthusiam, this camp will not be as fun as it turns out!!! Let me try to name all of them: [SOPs: Felicia (my DAUGHTER!), Chuwen (CHUCHU!), Ah Luan (My DAUGHTER again!!!) , Bi Fang (superenthu girl), Yueh Hsin (My daughter AGAIN!!), claudia (bao za tou :P)] [ALTOs: Rachael, Wan Yun, Celine, Su Min, Trudy, Sheena, Xue Min, Hongyi, Adeline] [TENORs: Xian Yong (HC!), Gabriel(CHS!), John(chapteh mate 1), Eugene (my human sketch pad)] [BASSOs: ]

Thank you:
the J2s who came whether to stay or to play :) : Mavis, Xiao Hui, Sophie, Rhoda, Siewy, Simy, AH GONG, CheeJ, Royston, Beng, Andrew and me (must I thank myself too?) :P haha... they make me feel young again :P ahha... (do i feel OLD in front of the juniors?)

and most importantly, Thank you!!!:
THE J1 Com members!!!! Deborah, Tammy, Xing Qun, Xiang Ting (DTXX successor of CCCD :P), Zhi Rui, Jia Hao, Jia Yun, Linus, Si Xuan, Jensen, Emile, Cil, Lay Wang, Agnes - YOU GUYS ROCK MY SOCKS!!!!!! haha it is extremely heart-warming to see you guys work so closely together, doing sometime that is cutting-edge and original... you guys are ______ (insert a strongly positive adjective here) !!!!!!! haha... without you guys doing all the planning and worrying and stuff... we'll be like.. so ... sian after A levels :P (thank you JiaHao for not banning me)

I enjoyed every single game you planned for us and played with us...
I enjoyed every single cup of cereal drink you prepared for us...
I enjoyed every single grain of rice from our lunch + dinner...
I enjoyed every picosecond, microsecond, millisecond, second, minute, hour and day of the camo

YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:) :) :)

P.S. please forgive me if i left out any names above... PLEASE!!!!!!!!! haha and must tell me k.. cos everyone of you is unique and important to me that it will be a waste if i dunno you :)

P.P.S. I brought my camera to camp and i didn't use it at all.. :P haha must upload your photos k :)

OUTING!!

2006-11-29T23:03:00.000+08:00

Yay.. today i went out with silly royston cos he got no one to go shopping with.. ahha.. he finally bought his prom suit from Far East Plaza!!! very nice!!! haha on the way I saw Shi wei and Vincent Ngik.. haha thot they are "together" then later realised that they are not :P I also saw wei shyuan too!! oh man on the way i saw so many people that i know.. haha expected.. post A levels... :)

AH.. now i dunno what to wear for my prom. Since i will be wearing a dark blue blazer and a pair of black pants.. i dunno what kind of shirt i should wear :( my mum suggested orange (like cooked prawns) haha i think it's quite nice.. but i can't try them out until this sunday !! cos they will be bringing them to me on that day.. oh wells.. i shall trust my parents' taste :P

Choir CAMP tmr!!! and intensive TTBB practice + carolling!!! so exciting!

oh ya.. i finally plan out my holiday:

4 dec.. go back malaysia
21 dec (afternoon).. come back singapore for class chalet !!
22 dec (morning).. CAROLLING
23 dec (afternoon).. going back malaysia again :P (so fast)
30 dec.. come back singapore again to start working!!! AH!!!

2-year worth of notes

2006-11-27T20:39:00.001+08:00

what a masterpiece :)

2006-11-27T20:39:00.000+08:00

RELIEF

2006-11-27T11:18:00.000+08:00

warning: bio A level content below

When the examiner says, "Please write down your last sentence", I was literally writing down my last sentence of the last essay for Bio S. After which, I tied up my script and wrote down the question number and submitted the essay.

At this instance, one part of my brain started producing endorphins non stop which stimulates my 'happiness' and 'excitatory' neurons to keep on firing action potential because at the post-synaptic membrane of these neurons, there was no longer inhibitatory post-synaptic potential (ipsp), only excitatory post-synaptic potential (epsp) are being produced. The sino-atrial node (SAN), aka the pacemaker, under the influence of the symphathetic nerve, fasten it's pace and the rate of electrical impulse conduction through the atrial-ventricular node, the Bundle of His and later spreading through the Perkinje fibre is increased. My heart was pumping much faster! As a result, I was SO HAPPY and EXCITED that when Ferdi turned his head back at me, he can detect my insane cum relieved smile and as usual, he gave me that oh-it's-louis-in-his-excited-state-again look!!! haha.. well I am TRULY EXCITED!!! cos... A LEVEL is OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Bio A level content ends here -

In fact, the night before the exam, I went for Mpact's concert with CJ, CK, BH(squared)! Mpact is by far the BEST a cappella group I have ever seen live on stage (not alive on stage). Every chord, and mostly jazzy, clashy, out-of-this-world chord is PERFECT. The blending was SUPERB, much better than the blender I saw in youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OmpnfL5PCw). They have redefine the limits of human voice: ranging from a high high high C to a low low low B, all sung using REAL voices. They have proven trumpet and drums to be useless to them simply because they ARE the trumpets and drums. Never have I seen such real imitation of instruments. They are CRAZY!!!! Mpact has definitely pushed the benchmark for a cappella singing to a MUGH HIGHER HORIZON!! My eyes are So-Opened after seeing them performed. Trust me, they can make all the a cappella groups in Singapore cry! Oh man what more can I say, GO BUY THERE CDs!!!!

I am ecstatic now!!! ARGH!!!!!

sino7

3 more papers!!

2006-11-20T19:40:00.000+08:00

Yo!! Been away from the computer for quite sometime... due to reasons that are not really nice but anyway, I am quite happy for the past few days!! The papers that I have sat were quite do-able and i had a great time sleeping over at my 'friend's place' for 5 consecutive days without the "warden" finding out!! It is something worth remembering because this is something that I have never done!!

Oh mans. 3 more papers.. namely Bio MCQ, Chem S and Bio S.. i think i am set to cheong for S papers given that i have a new plan ahead of me... ZW and Ant prompted me to think about possibilities to study overseas after As.. I was blur throughout the whole year and was indifferent to what the teachers said about applying to overseas university + my parents cannot afford a "overseas parental scholarship".. I gave up in the beginning but considering the fact that I'm doing S papers now and if I pray and ask God hard enought, I might stand a chance to get a scholarship to go UK.. but medicine is no longer an option so i am considering pharmacy :) haha.. I am happy that Ant and ZW told me about that if not, i can't even hope for it :P

these few days have been rainy and chilly.. even my hairy legs cannot stand the breeze.. haha .. must wear more clothing!!!

to
PCME (S-less): yaya.. go play and have fun :)
Bio students (S-less): actually you can relak already hahah... but wait until the last paper then go out more shiok!
S-ers: haha depends on you.. whether you wanna cheong or relak :P whichever the case is, you dun have to panick so much alr!!! Good luck!!!!

Oh man i miss singing SO MUCH!!!!! After As, i'll be singing everyday!!! LALALA!!! hope my sore throat goes away ASAP.. hhaha.. going KBOX soon too!!!

sino7

sino7

Week of physics and chem

2006-11-14T10:16:00.002+08:00

The more i anticipate posts from my friends' blogs.. the more i realised that i have not been updating mine.... therefore, I shall do so!

Random comment: I like Cheej's writing style.. it flows very well.. elegant and not erudite.. oh how i wish i could write like him.. hahas... he gave me GP remedial 3 weeks ago!!

What a week...the week of physics and chemistry... full of suprises!!! and lesson learnt: NEVER UNDER-ESTIMATE the standard of A level PHYSICS papers. In paper 2, questions like "Define radian" can come out!!! there are also a lot of graphy questions and what... Campton theory (which sounds very similar to quantum theory) which is supposedly beyond the scope the A levels, CAME OUT!!! and glancing collision is ALSO not in syllabus but, it CAME OUT!!! ohmans... i better depend on my paper 3 to get my A.

Chem was relatively easy!!! that's something to be happy about!! :)

Physics paper 3 tomorrow!!! BETTER CHIONG FOR IT!!!

My roommate is whining like a donkey-cat hybrid (can't find a suitable animal that whines like him) because his econs paper is at 2:00pm later. abuzige!!

oh wells, according to CJ, this is the death week for arts students.. my roomie, whose subject combi is history, lit, econs and maths, have papers almost everyday. The same goes for the rest of my arts friends.. ahha.. but then ho... trip science students also very busy loh... everyday got paper except for friday.. haha.. whichever the case is... most importantly everyone must have sufficient rest before exam and get good control over your anxiety!!!!

ADD TRANS-FAT!!!!
(for ppl who don't chem: trans-fat is a type of oil that KFC has stopped using due to it's potential to induce heart problems, but it's still OIL anyway... haha another way of saying JIAYOU!!!)

sino7

ONE MORE!!!

2006-11-08T17:38:00.000+08:00

ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST

Count every " F" in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...
(scroll down for answer)

WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke.
READ IT AGAIN !
Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down.

The reasoning behind is further down.

The brain cannot process "OF".

Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius!

MORE!

2006-11-08T17:34:00.000+08:00

O lny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.

cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,

it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs psas it on !!

A levels: Bio, Math and Chem (GP's History!)

2006-11-08T17:04:00.000+08:00

Heys... have not been blogging for a while.. haha guess i have devouted too much time for mugging BIO.. and yeah.. i didn't really study a lot for chemistry, which i kinda regret it, but OH WELLS whatever that has been done will not change... so... JIAYOU for the remaining papers :)

interesting for you to use your brain! (My primary school friend sent me this and i found it VERY VERY INTERESTING!)

Seedling Montessori Alexandra Concert!!!!

2006-11-03T22:24:00.000+08:00

Heys...

I was so embarrassed when i receive a call from Vincent Ma during my dinner with Anthony and Zhao Wei.

"where are you now?" he says

"boarding school loh" I answered.

"wah you win already loh!!!" he claimed... why? COS I'M SUPPOSED TO BE AT COMMONWEALTH MRT STATION AT 6:15pm for the Seedling Montessori Alexandra Year-End Concert!! it was already 6:36 pm when i received his call!! haha..

Yes i cheong my way there.. I saught help from Anthony for directory through my phone and i ended up stopping 3 or 4 stops earlier... probably the bus driver whom i asked direction from heard "Margaret Drive" as "Market Drive".. ahaha.. anyways... Vincent Ma eventually guide me to the correct place! haha.. yeah... i was only 16 minutes late! not that bad aye...

Oh yes.. the kids ARE SO CUTE!!! oh man.. it's been ages still i last saw kids, around 3 to 6 years old, performing.. or being themselves on stage!!! it is very interesting to see and guess what are they thinking... the innocence and purity that they still possess can make people jealous.. sigh.. i wish i can become young and innocent again :S

Oh wells... back to reality... GP was.. better not talk about it.. since it's over.. which means... I can now... SPEK not good EnglaSH!! I is not very care for gamma now... and spelling two... and i find bad writing english very hard.. can't really twist my grammar well.. NEVERMIND.. back to normal english.. hahah

better get back to mugging now... ALL THE BEST TO ALL MATH AND BIO STUDENTS for your papers next tues :)

sino7

Worth of my blog

2006-10-31T13:14:00.000+08:00

My blog is worth $1,129.08.
How much is your blog worth?

Hmm.. my blog not really cheap but also not very expensive :S

Preparation for GP!!!

2006-10-30T19:21:00.000+08:00

Yo... today i had the longest GP consultation in my LIFE... ahah... literally half of a day!!! ahaha.. yeah.. Chee Jun has kindly accepted my request.. considering the fact that his english is of ACS standard and he's got the BRAIN (not limited to only GP but also.. other things..) ahah.. He worked on my inability to choose the RIGHT question for essay.. and yes.. after a day of hard work.. I no longer, as prashanth claims, JUMP EXCITELY into doing the one and only questions without considering the rest!! Hhaha.. besides CJ, there was Cherie too!! helping me to think critically!!! haha.. Thank you CJ and Cherie for all your help and maybe Prash for adding to the noise :P

I am quite exhausted now :S hhahaa.. need sleep!!!! so that tmr i can cheong again!!! I plan to focus on GP for the next few days :)

To all the J2s in Singapore: CHEONG FOR GP :)

and also... HAPPY BIRTHDAY to ROYSTON!!!! :)

sino7

Class Outing in the midst of preparation for As!?!?!?!

2006-10-27T23:38:00.000+08:00

Oh. yes :) sounds quite fun :) we went to cartel at j8, bishan to celebrate Joceyln's Birthday :) I was dumbfounded when i realised that the camera that i brought ran out of batteries so.. :( no photos here :( Anyway, I went to city hall to shop for her present and yeah..I found her a purple wrist band with the word "princess" and a scripture reference crafted on it ;) haha.. Thank you peck for providing me the info!!

after dinner, as usual, our class lagged around outside the restaurant for about mroe than 10 minutes i guess to decide where to go next! i took this time to look for an atm machine and in the course of waiting, Sia See, Wan Zhen, Alicia and Qi Han went to help directing a blind old lady to a cd shop after witnessing her walking towards a wall before that. I am very touched by the class!! I am happy to see that my classmates are such kind-hearted people and live in action!! haha

we lagged around more in the mall and then we strolled to a C.C. we sat outside there and played Mafia!! our class fav game!! the last time we played was when we send ferdi off haha :)

thens... everyone went home.. I went back with Ferdi and i realised, from him, that he has 2 brothers!! haha.. so random!! shall blog again next time! BYE!

Lollipop!!!!

2006-10-25T22:21:00.000+08:00

This wonderful song never fails to remind me of all the teachers from the last generation who have taught me :) namely, Mrs. Teo, my lower secondary science teacher and my current chem teacher, Mrs, YEO :)

so cute!!! haha

The meaning of Reminiscence

2006-10-23T21:04:00.000+08:00

My apologies to those who have taken a great deal of time to load the photos in my blog :P I shall spare you the agony with this post :) I think i truly believe that picture speaks a thousands words, but too many pictures speaks to much :P

My days are mundane... Go school for consultation, then mug in library.. come back.. mug in study room. For a breather, i may come online to chat or watch bleach. Oh man this sucks... I wanna get out of this boarding school and see the world!!! I know my hopes for going overseas to study is in fact getting lower and lower since the first intake for the Australian Universities is in next year Feb. I dun want to start school so early cos I've decided to work as a Teacher Assistant in Chinese High (can't be bother typing the long form of HCI(HSS)) for about 5 months to gain work experience until the term for NUS starts at August.

I'm quite sure that I will stay in NUS already and I hope to pursue Medicine or Dentistry or Pharmacy. If I lack the luck and merit to be accepted into any of the course above... well, I may have other plans... which i have yet to plan! whatever..

Fig 1.0 the current state of my room (hope my mum doesn't see this, if not i'm so gonna-get-it from her :P)

Just now while i was digging for my N2004 Physics paper 3 from all the corners of my room (yes my room is in a mess now - terrible mess), the Verona reflection booklet caught my attention. (a compilation of reflections from the NJ Choristers who went for the Verona Choral competition in April this year) My first reaction to it was to open it and to read every single entry again.. and this gave me another form of understanding to the word reminiscence.

The booklet brought me back to the warmth I used to have from NJChoir. All the good time spent in Verona appeared vividly in front of my eyes. All the gelatos and pastas and singing and fellowship... they are so precious to me.

However, it is very sad, i realised ,only now, that things around me are moving so fast that you do not have time to allow my brain to reflect on events that i have been through in this past 2 years :( and in the course of that, I've lost the ability to treasure them and I have only regained it recently (because of study breaks). that's the not-so-good thing about living in Singapore. I thank God that I am aware of that and I will now take things slowly. The song "Ordinary people" by John Legend struck me a few days ago. (my roommate was playing it so many times that I fell in love with it!!!) The lyrics are so relevent to what I'm trying to say now.

Take it slow...

I hope to take things slowly from now on. I know it can be quite hard because I am so used to this fast-pace lifestyle but it is something that i want to learn.

I think I have grown the most, in terms of maturity, this year. Not that I'm boasting but there are so many things that have happened to me this year. Happy ones, not-so-happy ones. Life is not easy, but I know that God is making it fruitful for me :)

I know that this period is tough for me. 11 days to my first A level paper. Press on... :)

TTBB caught mugging in action!!

2006-10-20T01:07:00.000+08:00

Before the farewell, we, TTBB and some choir friends mugged together.. and my 'cam whore' desire came and i took photos :) i realised that i spelt 'cam whore' as 'chem whore'.. oh mans.. that sounded so wrong.... no offence to any female chem teachers :S

Somemore photos

2006-10-20T01:02:00.000+08:00

Sorry i left out some more ppl!!! Hope i dun forget anyone!!!

Update 1

2006-10-20T00:39:00.000+08:00

wow... have not been updating this blog regularly.. but i forgive myself! in A level mode now.. doing prelim papers like no body's business :P I've been doing a lot of math and bio this week... but i left out bio and physics and most importantly GP, which i failed terribly in my prelims... I'll be seeing Ms. Ho for consultation tmr afternoon .. I hope it rings the dormant bell in me... GP is making me worry SICK! I am so.. EMPTY for GP!!! God help me fill it!!! if not i have nothing to squeeze out during GP exam !!

ranting aside, recently i was entitled the 'chem whore' due to my obsession with taking photos with my camera, be it in the room or in class or in the library.

It was J2 Farewell party last monday. I tried to take picture with everyone in my class :)

*Aaron Gan and RV gang are excellent photo spoilers!!!!!

*I even took a photo with Mrs. Yeo :) so happy!!!
*Ferdi tried very hard to smile like me :)

sino7

Upset Stomach and OVERLOAD OF PRELIM PAPERS!

2006-10-11T23:15:00.000+08:00

Hellos... I tried blogging 2 days ago!! but darn.. cannot republish.. maybe blogger.com was down or something... to summerise what i tried to blog 2 days ago... I had a 2-dollar worth Hokkien Mee 3 days ago. I finished it. And this was follow by a series of shallow burping, rhythmic contraction of my stomach and the disgusting feeling of bloatedness - the symptoms of indigestion. And this lasted until yesterday!!! Last night at almost 10pm, I was about to go consult a doctor until my Cluster Mentor stop me, telling me that it's too late..... not that i'm gonna die but most clinics are closed :P... haha.. so i heed his advice and took some ??? (Feng Sha Wan) (not Yuan, i notice almost all Singaporeans like to pronounce ? as yuan, so unCHINA :P) .. and wow it worked :) i'm quite ok now... :) RAWR!

All my tutors, aside from Mrs. Yeo (chem teacher), have printed this year's prelim papers for us to "try".. and Bio was the most outstanding pile among the piles :) we've spent more than 13 bucks just for printing bio papers!! :) talking about saving trees!!

Oh wells.. few more weeks to go :) better MUG up!!!

UPSET STOMACH!

2006-10-09T23:03:00.000+08:00

I had a 2 dollar worth of Hokkien Mee for lunch this afternoon and the result is:

- bloated stomach
- occasional contraction of the stomach (like got baby kicking me in the stomach)
- occasional shallow burping
- constipation
- slight urge to vomit

I HATE THIS KIND OF FEELING!!! It's like.. SO WEIRD. It's not painful but it troubles me!! Is it gastric flu since this flu bug is around? or is it just simple indigestion?

MAF

2006-10-07T23:25:00.000+08:00

Yups :) MAF 2006 at Hwa Chong College Section :) Well Nothing special... the same old performances and lightings and fireballs.. but I had a wonderful time with my classmates from 7A :) even though they were late :S haha lucky got company from Anthony.. If not I think I will feel damn weird :P haha... but once a Hwachongian... always a Hwachongian.... :) But I'm also an Njcian.. ahha.. so dun worry :) (oh mans.. i think i'm gonna get bashed up by NJ people who read my blog, on mon !!!)

Went out with them to KAP for a super short supper.. and I saw Qihan, Melvin and friends mugging :) that spurred me instantly into mugging mode and I quickly come back and bathe and prepare mugging liaos :P ahha :) But I am really happy to see Qihan so willingly helping Melvin and friends!!! I respect RV people :)

going into the mugging journey again!! Cheerios!!

sino7

Joke for the intellectuals

2006-10-04T20:14:00.000+08:00

This particular joke won an award for the best joke in a competition> >organized in Britain. Now we see who's the practical one! Enjoy! :D

An MBA and an Engineer went on a camping trip. They set up their tent, and soon fell asleep.

Some hours later, the Engineer woke his MBA friend and said,

"Look up at the sky and tell me what you see."

The MBA replied, "I see millions of stars."

The Engineer asked, "So.... what does that tell you?"

The MBA pondered for a minute. Wanting to prove his resourcefulness, he replied the
following

"Astronomically speaking, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets."

"Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo."

"Time wise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three

"Theologically, it is evident the Lord is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant."

"Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow."

"What does it tell you?" asked the MBA, proud that he could interpret it in so many ways.

The Engineer friend was silent for a moment, then replied,

"Practically... Someone has stolen our tent".

Should we go to prison?

2006-10-03T23:24:00.000+08:00

IN PRISON......you spend the majority of your time in a 10X10 cell.
AT WORK........you spend the majority of your time in an 8X8 cubicle.

IN PRISON.......you get three meals a day.
AT WORK.........you get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it.

IN PRISON..........you get time off for good behavior.
AT WORK............you get more work for good behavior.

IN PRISON..........the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
AT WORK............you're often required to carry a security card and open all the doors yourself.

IN PRISON.........you can watch TV and play games.
AT WORK........... you get fired for watching TV and playing games.

IN PRISON........you get your own toilet.
AT WORK..........you share the toilet with some people who pee on the seat.

IN PRISON..........they allow your family and friends to visit.
AT WORK............you're not supposed to even speak to your family.

IN PRISON.........all expenses are paid by the taxpayers. AT WORK...........you pay all your expenses to get to work, and then they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.

IN PRISON ........you must deal with sadistic wardens.
AT WORK...........they're called managers.

IN PRISON.....you spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out.
AT WORK ......you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars.

Prelim results

2006-09-27T14:38:00.001+08:00

Got back my results for all the subjects except for GP essay.

Math C - B (68%)
Chemistry - B (68%)
Physics - C (58%)
Biology - D (51%)

GP compre - 21/50

Analysis
Mood: a bit disappointed
Things you wanna tell yourself: "Is this what you can get?"

Level of confidence during the course of preparation for prelims: 6/10
Level of complacency during the course of preparation for prelims: 3/10

What do you think are the distractions during the course of preparation: Naruto, MSN
What causes the hiccups in your papers: Bad time management, lack of understanding of topics
What SHOULD be done from now on: Heed Zhao Wei's advice - MUG EVERY TINY DETAILS of your subject and practice questions ONLY if you know your stuff

Goal for A levels: AAAA, GP = B3

To all other people who will be taking their exams soon, do not slack... and mug really smart!!! i.e. Mug your notes b4 attempting question

To those who did not perform up to their expectation, there is still time! Intense revision required!

To those who performed well, congratulations! :) Hang in there all the way till the A levels end!

Sentosa Trip

2006-09-26T21:46:00.001+08:00

My class went on a trip to Sentosa yesterday and oh man, we had a whole lot of fun playing!!!

Some of the nice phots taken during the
trip

Wee Kim helping Xiang Long getting rid of sand grain from his eyes

resting at shelter!

whole class in water!

Posing with Queen Vivien who was heavily buried by us (camera by Melvin!!)

Melvin got thrown into the air!!!

More photos available at this place

SMILE!!!!

2006-09-18T14:04:00.000+08:00

MY OBSESSION WITH THIS PHOTO!!!!!
(this photo was taken from Nique Toh's Blog.. sorry i love this so much that i kobbed it!!!!!!)

Prelims are ALMOST over... while you guys are still being stressed by the upcoming papers... SMILE! cos the baby is SMILING at you :)

sino7

2006-09-14T13:22:00.000+08:00

You Are 40% Normal

While some of your behavior is quite normal...
Other things you do are downright strange
You've got a little of your freak going on
But you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself

How Normal Are You?

Chem paper 3

2006-09-11T12:40:00.000+08:00

ARGH! have to blog about my chem test!! haha.. it was tough! very vigorous... especially on Organic Chem. I nearly gave way to the identification question because it was very deceiving! but i have done my best!!

I thank God that Weide actually brought 2 calculators to school. for some very silly reasons, i DIDN'T BRING MY CALCULTOR TO SCHOOL!!! maybe i was ignorant, or maybe complacent... anyway.. i'm really really GLAD that i'm blessed with such a class :) THANKS WEIDE!!! you saved my CHEM !!!!

going to pia HC math prelim now.. since they had it today :)

sino7

something funny

2006-09-10T21:51:00.000+08:00

Mandarin
Paul Chan - Bankrupt
Anne Chang - Dirty
Faye Chen - Dusty
Anne Chin - Keep quiet
Henry Mah - Hate your mum
Jane Tan - Frying eggs
Nelson Tan - Bird laying eggs
Leslie Tong - Rubbish bin

Hokkien

Carl Cheng - Buttock
Monica Cheng - Touching your buttocks
Lucy Leow - You are dead
Suzie Leow - Lost till death
Lim Yew Lin - Drink urine
Lim Teh Peng - Drink iced tea
Danny See - Squeeze you to death
Corrine Tai - Poor fellow
Rosie Teng - Screws and nails
Carmen Tng - Leg hair long
Pete Tsai - Nose droppings

Cantonese
Connie Mah - Call your mother
Macy Koh - Never die before

think most of us have seen this but i still wanna put this up!!! :P

The problem with the XX chromosomes :P

2006-09-10T00:01:00.000+08:00

Something to destress :) No offence to girls hor :P

mugging spree and the quest for the ideal corn remover!!1

2006-09-08T21:07:00.000+08:00

Yo people!!!!

Been mugging for the past whole week!!! haha.. why i still wanna blog? cos i've not been updating it for very long and quite sick of mugging and today, something interesting happened!!!

just now, about 7:30 pm.. i was so sick of mugging suddenly i had this sudden urge to go out and shop. i have to shop in the first place because recently there was a corn at the bottom of my big toe and it was getting more painful. my mum was like WAH!!! why wait until so long then seek treatment!! actually i did seek treatment, i bought a packet of corn remover but just that i didn't treat it seriously. i only put it on on alternate days and that's why it got worse! anyway..

I went to the first cold storage, at sixth avenue.. cannot find.

I went to the second cold storage, at King's Albert Park, where i got my first corn remover in my life.. that place was being renovated... cannot find

I went to Bukit Timah Plaza.. yea on the way i saw Dai Xuan!! haha.. there was a guardian there.. and i went there.. can find but not the correct type. (i need those with longer straps or with bigger surface area)

(anyway the one that i got is not of this brand.. mine was 'carnation')

So the lady at guardian told me to check out Fair price at BTP, the pharmacy called UNITY and wow.. i found it! a cheap and nice one :)

after all these trouble... sigh.. ahha. but i was contented.

anyway i have to get out of this boarding school for a while to catch some fresh air. After all, I've been 'locked up' in this place for 4 consecutive days!!!! haha

Louis

HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY!!

2006-08-31T20:02:00.000+08:00

heyo it's teachers' day today and it happens to coincide with Malaysia's National day too... haha :)

today it was very wet... torrential rain came down like no body's business and wow.. by the time i reached school.. my bottom half was soaked! haha.. but it's ok :) cos i manage to keep the teachers' day thank you board dry! yays!

today's performers were not too bad! Kudos for the IP1 a cap group!! haha.. as usual NJ mikes really put people down.. but can tell that you guys can create music on stage! vp was a bit soft tho.. but i assume it's the mikes again... the skit was.. oh mans... so lame.. ahha... and didn't know that mr. chris ho can be so happening haha.. her ip2 class must be spoilt!!!

anyways.. went back to chinese high after celebration and yays i saw mrs. ooi, mrs. seck, shen lao shi and mrs. ke!! i even saw mrs. teo!! my sec 2 science teacher... wah she still look very young. :P haha... interesting fact: i told her that she's my science teacher's science teacher cos she taught mr. chew my sec 3 chem teacher and similarly in NJ, mrs Yeo, my current chem teacher taught mr. chew b4!!! haha... it's a small world indeed !!!! but for the rest of the teachers, i didn't really get a chance to meet them :P oh wells. surely miss them! haha so happy taht they look the same!!

it was a perfect day to sleep .. the weather's so cooling!! wow.. slept from 1 to 5 :P so shuang!!! dun intend to mug today .. so starting tomorrow.. mugging mode on turbo :)

btw this morning b4 i zao for school i took pictures of the thank you boards :) For Mrs. Yeo, Ms. Chee, Mr. Teo and Mrs. Thia!

The Super Aaron Gan Comic

2006-08-26T20:30:00.000+08:00

Somemore

2006-08-26T20:26:00.000+08:00

05S16 class photos :)

2006-08-26T19:44:00.000+08:00

HEY!!! my class photos are up! YAY!!! thank you wan zhen!!! :)

here they are :) hmm.. quite a lot may take some time to load :P

NARUTO!!!!

2006-08-23T19:56:00.000+08:00

wow... guess I'm joining the Naruto gang in my class now, together with XL, aaron, Hongtuck and .. who else har? hahah.. well it's certainly not the correct time to be addicted to such an anime but it's good for destressing tho :) but LOUIS you need to SLEEP!!!! haha... :)

sian... almost everyday i mug in school until very late... made an attempt to enjoy mugging... well it's friends that keep you going.. so ... i love study group :)

when i came back from school just now, wow.. there was a letter on my table.. oh man it's a warning letter for my debt.. haha.. i owe the school a lot of money!! i.e. miscellaneous fees unpaid since march 2005. can you imagine that.. haha so i went off straight to coro to withdraw money and hope i can settle this by tomorrow if not.. they will expel me or something! YIKES!!!

Louis

tag replies:

Gabriel: haha.. oh wells. i can't get addicted to 2 animes ..i will die!!! one is enough :P oh wells.

nik: oh no! forgot to add her.. btw what's her blog add? and.. hmm.. i MAY be going NUS depending on the availability of the courses i want namely medicine, pharmacy.. but i hope to go aussie :)

cheej: ya.. mugging's really hard.. :(

Mug free day

2006-08-19T22:55:00.000+08:00

today's a special day... i didn't mug at all!!! yays!!! the whole day can be summarised as below:
cell.. naruto... carpenter's tool concert.. dinner with andrew at Thai Express .. and more Naruto! :)

ahha.. so slack.. but it's good to slack :)

Grr.. why the connection so slow.. still waiting for the whole of the episode to finish loading.. AH!! can't wait liao!!! anyway... i only started Naruto like 2 days ago? aha.. i reach the 16th episode already!!! so cools :)

I'm very happy today!!!

Louis

Fun day!

2006-08-17T18:45:00.000+08:00

i enjoyed PE today very very much and i really think that i have a super happening class with so many fun-loving people :) i always enjoy every single moment with them. be it mugging or sports or fellowship at the canteen... it's a good thing that i can speak to everyone in the class. Thank you God for putting me in NJC 05S16.

maybe njchoir has like pulled me away from class a little .. but yeah... 05S16 is so funky!!!! love it :)

later of the day went to meet Ka Yi!! She'll be leaving for the US tomorrow and gosh... i'm glad that she still bother to come and look for me :) i treasure this friendship very much :) Take care over there and all the best K :)

I am obsessed with smiley faces... hmm... i think i have drawn at least a smiley face on the lecture notes of almost everyone in the class.. (except jerry or ferdi or vivien..) hmm.. what's stopping me? shall do so b4 i leave nj.. YAYS!!! but today.. I DIDN'T! cos i was so sleepy during chem lect.. it was food chem.. so boring.. haha..

OH ya!! heard from my roommie that Ting Hui, my super great friend in England, did superbly well for the A levels!!! 3As and 1 B and that is like so cool!!!!!!! knowing her quite ok.... she got an A for math!!!!! this is very very inspiring!! must motivate myself to do as well as her :)

need more beauty sleep for me.. J2s mug hard and mug smart k :)

Louis

happy blog

2006-08-16T22:28:00.000+08:00

some people may use the blog as an outlet to rid their sorrows and bitterness.

some only put up happy memories.

i was unhappy yesterday. if life's like a computer.. i'll drag it into the recycle bin, right click empty recycle bin.

i want my blog to be a happy one.

be happy :)

the problem of overpopulation in the pond and the big black plastic bag

2006-08-15T19:45:00.000+08:00

today was a really.... cold day... torrential rains came 'running down amain' (hmm is this correct usage :P) wow.. haha... loads of water around... and a lot of lectures too... should have brought my jacket!

something interesting: on my way out form LT5., i happened to see some pool maintenance worker maintaining the pool. duh. and guess what.. it was a fishie massacre!! they were removing fishes or 'kois' from the pond at NJ's central plaza. The nicer looking ones were the placed in a big blue tank temporarily and the rest.. wow.. they ended up in a big black plastic bag. (tongue twister) i saw the poor fishies bouncing and jumping on the floor till their deaths. reminds me of how a magikarp is. but isn't cruel to solve the problem of overpopulation of the pond? was there other ways?

btw for those who don't know. there's this legendary dolphine-sized koi or some kind of fish dwelling in that pond. i saw it frantically struggling for survival when the pond water level was low... Its current condition is unknown to me.. is it still alive living there? or is it already in fishie heaven?

Louis

Tough day

2006-08-14T23:16:00.000+08:00

MRS TEAI is back from the US!!! haha so happy to see her :) haha.. actually tan wei not that bad lah.. it's just that he needs more experience :) dunno why.. so happy to see mrs. Teai smile.. hhaha but the funny thing is , mrs yeo was sent to the US attending some similar course that mrs. Teai attended :P Then we have this new teacher called Mr. Foo relief teaching us, haha.. heard that he's from Imperial College! so zai... shall see what he has.

the most memorial thing for the day is... BIO S test!!! oh man 2.5 half hours of brain cracking and continuous writing.. this is seriously no joke.. considering the fact that i'm noit the s paper type.. i was just unfortunate to not get out of the system early enough.. AHH!! but have to admit it was a crazy experience... i see double immediately after the test. haha :Pand it ends at 720pm! gosh.. and i missed the Grad Night Audition loh!!! haha.. but happy to see that there are so many choir groups performing :) SENIORS ARE SO PROUD OF YOU GUYS! but i hope ttbb can get in if not... DUN GET A CHANCE TO PERFORM for the year :(

haha STATS test tmr and inorganic chem test on wed... mug mug mug :)

Louis

what a blast!

2006-08-10T20:06:00.000+08:00

national day was a blast!!!!! so is post national day holiday :)

finish reading "the five people you meet in heaven" by Mitch Albom this morning. a very cool book and sometimes thought-provoking book that reminds us that we are all inter-related in one way or another :) i wouldnt go into details since i am not really capable of but it just make my life happier after reading the book :)

then i went out with Zhao Wei (he's a guy k.. one of my closest friend in chinese high). watched "click". LOVE IT! not because i enjoy the parts where Adam Sandler's dog did something weird, but i like to see the consequence of a man controlling the speed of his own life. Sometimes life moves so fast that you will miss the essential parts and you'll regret eventually. haha.. the main thing i learn from this show is that FAMILY always comes before work :)

oh haha.. went deep with him in our conversation. we are all growing and we are facing problems. sharing them with friends is a good thing to do...

Louis

the day b4 Singapore's 41st Bday

2006-08-09T01:19:00.000+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE :)

waht a day... for the first time in my JC life... I was LATE... i woke up at 7:33 a m this morning and wow.. i nearly had a heart attack. haha.. Of course i cheonged to school immediately after changing my clothes. my mouths stank... :P oh wells. i manage to be there on time :)

on my way cheonging to school. suddenly this big guy came to me, called me 'Kian Huat' and hugged me... It was Kevin Chow! he was my schoolmate back two years ago.. he had gone back to KL to complete his A levels 2 years ago and now he's back ! haha.. another heart attack.. but i jsut told him that i was late for school and siam immediately :( I felt bad!! now i dun even noe where he is!!!! he doesnt have a phone with him i suppose.. ARGH! shall try to find him tmr :)

anyway.. NJ's National Day Celebration was like.. erm.. not too bad.. even though some of classmates really dose off :S The bands are .. ok... but for me...i'm not the band type... couldn't stnad the soloists shouting their lines... :S the drums, the guitars and the keyboard are GOOD :) (haha good job airbus : trudy and sheena!!) .. i noe that the results were shocking but i think the third band was more deserving because they have a more decent soloist (not that she is very very good, but just acceptable).. oh well... it's not that bad lah :) so i'm quite happy :)

quite impressed at what the councillors from different houses did for their cheers :) kudos for solaris and aqua :)

after the celebration, went back to my hostel to bathe while the class was deciding on where to go (haha.. s16's is always slow at deciding where to have class outing :P) in the end we went douby ghout and had pepper lunch that XL recommended.. had beef rice with curry powder on hot plate.. when served, the beef they provide is still raw. you have to cook them yourself! interesting.. ya.. so i had a fun time mixing the raw beef with the rice and some special soya sauce. OISHI!

went back to sleep after lunch, all the way until 5 plus. then follow my cell to this Love Singapore prayer concert at Singapore INdoor Stadium. haha.. prayed for Singapore in different aspects: the church, the government, the market and the media. It's touching to see so many ppl from different churches coming together to pray for the revival of Singapore!

had supper at geylang. wow i saw real prostitutes there! scary.. haha.. now i can see for myself the red light district.. but the main focus should be on the food. We had fried beef hor fun, you tiao and taiwanese mian xian. phew.. i didn;t know that singaporean food can be so uniquely delicious! must bring my family there next time!

haha... good enough for one day!! what a happy day and Thank God that I'm happy today :)

Happy happy green blog :)

2006-08-08T00:35:00.000+08:00

AHH!!! i am so happY!!! i gave my blog a new breath of life!!!!!!! so excited!!!!.. gosh.. i get so hyped up about things :) haha.. i shall blog whenever i'm sick of mugging.. gee.. mugging really sucks.. but oh well.. i think i over decorated my blog :S abuzige!!!

ANOTHER ONE :)

2006-08-07T17:49:00.000+08:00

Global Personality Test Results

Stability (73%) high which suggests you are very relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic..
Orderliness (70%) high which suggests you are overly organized, reliable, neat, and hard working at the expense too often of flexibility, efficiency, spontaneity, and fun.
Extraversion (63%) moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.

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Hmmm... is this test accurate? :P

2006-08-07T17:45:00.000+08:00

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Louis' EQ :)

2006-08-07T17:39:00.000+08:00

Your EQ is 127

50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick!
51-70: When it comes to understanding human emotions, you'd have better luck understanding Chinese.
71-90: You've got more emotional intelligence than the average frat boy. Barely.
91-110: You're average. It's easy to predict how you'll react to things. But anyone could have guessed that.
111-130: You usually have it going on emotionally, but roadblocks tend to land you on your butt.
131-150: You are remarkable when it comes to relating with others. Only the biggest losers get under your skin.
150+: Two possibilities - you've either out "Dr. Phil-ed" Dr. Phil... or you're a dirty liar.

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The problem with profanities

2006-08-03T22:02:00.000+08:00

Just an opinion of mine about the "problem with profanities"

I realised that i am a person who is strongly against people swearing or cursing or leaking yucky comments. No offence to those who are like that but... what is the point of doing so?

Some people just do it out of anger.. that one i can understand .. but a person who truly knows how to control his or her emotions and image will understand that.

But some people are just.. so used to it that it seems nothing.. yes.. in this world that we are living today, the F word and all the offensive terms are no longer tabooed. It like universal... It reflects how poorly educated you are as a person!! I really cannot stand vulgarities... what is the point?

It's such an unrefined, coarse thing to do...

Maybe you grew out in that kind of unfriendly environment, but if you really put in effort to "de-profanitise" yourself, the world will be a slightly better place (not that the world is very nice.. heaven is! :) )

so to all my frens, no offence to you guys but, yeah... changing early is much better than doing so late.. haha... :)

I know that my writing really sucks :S can't write as eloquently and persuasively as other very zai people.. wow really admire their writing skills :)

Anyway. to all the J2s... must jiayou for Prelims k :)

Louis

the situation now

2006-08-02T18:46:00.000+08:00

Hey people... wow... Louis has not been updating his blog for like.. hmm.. 3 months? Louis needs to update!!!!! grr..

prelim's around the corner and as every njcians do.. they either go back and mug or they mug in school. I'm more to the mugging-in-school type!! Life after choir sucks... you have no reasons to ignore your school work, you have no reasons to not score well for exams. My voice is getting rusty :S

Somemore, my class is a stream class.. ahha with all the zai people like qihan, aaron, weekim, wanzhen, jerry, ferdi.. and so many more zao people in the same class as you, you cannot afford to lose out... Somemore S papers are giving me a headache, especially with Bio S. I was super depressed when i received my Bio CT2 results.. a lousy O8... i have never get that kind of results for Bio before.. :( but it's better to receive it now though... motivation :)

Hmmm... at least now i have more time to catch up :) and now... I'm in the beatbox craze with xianglong.. :P actually i'm more to Vocal purcussion then beat box.. Still trying to perfect my snare but haha.. :P saliva keeps coming out in droplets ... my classmates complained about it too :P haha someone said that i'm just making random noises!!! haha... sad!!!

there's so many thing i want to learn. i wanna learn guitar. although i only know how to play one song. and i only know how to play 4 different chords!! very shallow.. shall buck up after A levels!!

i realised that i start to have mood swings.. on day where i'm high.. i'm REALLY high.. can detect from my pitch even when i'm talking to mrs. yeo :) but there are some days when i feel very lonely and quiet.. ahha.. guess i'm entering the angsty period of growth now.. a bit slow but at least i'm in it now :)

Louis

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2006-08-02T18:42:00.000+08:00

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Reflection

2006-04-28T00:29:00.001+08:00

Fig. 1.1 The whole choir with Ms Lim at Milan

Yo.. this is what i have written for reflection that i have to submit.. ahha.. sunbian can upload here :)

Reflection: NJChoir Trip to Verona, Italy (17/4/2006 – 24/4/2006)

I always enjoy singing. No matter where I go, I sing. Singing is in me.

Last week, I have spent one whole of week of my time with a bunch of people who shared the same passion with me, the NJChoir, in a land far, far away from Singapore, the land of gelato, pasta and pizza – Italy J. This is my first time visiting Europe. At first, I thought that spending a week in a foreign place, with a bunch of people whom you like doing things that we love to do is exciting and enjoyable. At times when we are high, we can be like the Muppets, making all sorts of noise even at places that we are supposed to keep our voices down and it is up to the committee members to shush or sometimes scold the choir so that everything will go back to the normal reference point. This resembles that of a biological process called homeostasis.

However, I asked myself, do I really need to do all the shushing? Must I be the ‘hormone’ that has to bring the body’s condition back to its reference point? Why is it that the choir does not have the self-discipline and self-control that Ms. Lim has always wanted? Throughout the whole trip, I tried very hard not to be myself at appropriate times because I believe as leaders, we have to discipline ourselves before do so to our members. Also, we leaders should, in any case, never be affected by negative emotions during setbacks. There was a setback. It happened on the day before the competition and this worried Miss Teo, Mr. Chia as well as the committee. Ms. Lim was so angry with the choir that her scolding has deeply affected many people, especially to the girls. I felt scared, too. We had a meeting immediately after the unfruitful practice to discuss how to bring out the best of the choir in the worst of their condition.

Fig 1.2 The NJChoir EXCO (Prashanth & Tammy not in photo but we never forget you!) + Music Com + Ms Lim

I do agree that even though our type of choir is not the type that works best under pressure, we should give our very best using the correct method even during practices at the basement of the hotel where the acoustic was terrible. I firmly believe that this choir can do wonders if we can focus better in terrible conditions. I think Ms. Lim’s way of making us to become independent singers is rather effective even though the price we paid was emotions. Knowing that Ms. Lim’s mood is like a see-saw which oscillates unpredictably, I was glad that in the end Ms. Lim calmed the choir down and lifted their morale high up once again. I can sense Ms. Lim’s deep love for the choir. Despite her age and her physical condition (she was down with cough), she gave all she had – scolding, harsh guidance and patience. I adore her perseverance.

On the day of competition, a Thursday, the choir seems to remember what Ms. Chua had said before we left for Italy: to sing with head, body and everybody. It was amazing enough to pull through all the 5 songs (in order: As Vesta Was Descending, Ave Verum Corpus, El Hambo, Lay A Garland and finally, Janger). When we were on stage, I can sense the focus that Ms. Lim has even wanted. When we open our mouths and start singing, we cannot really hear ourselves due to the terrible acoustics in Teatro Nuovo. We continued and we tried, to communicate with Ms. Lim. I could not tell whether we sang well as a choir on stage but when I was singing, my mind was only focusing on one thing: that is to make music and enjoy together. The anxiety that I had went away instantly.

After the competition, we were relieved instantly. We got into holiday mode after that until Saturday came. Seated at the balcony of Teatro Filarmonico, I was longing to see Ms. Lim and Cheryl to coming up onstage to receive the gold award. The participating choirs were being called up to receive their award in the order of increasing merit. First it was Bronze, then Silver and then Gold. When the Silver choirs were being called up, we were hoping and praying very hard that we will not be called. Eventually, our prayers were answered. J We are the 1st runner up of the competition with a Gold Award. In addition, and also to my surprise, we obtained the distinction award for the set piece (Ave Verum Corpus). I thank God for everything that has happened.

Fig. 1.3 The Gold award that we have been longing for...

As soon as the competition has ended, we got to perform once again onstage and we performed ‘El Hambo’ which has earned us the trademark of a cute Asian choir and our authentic ‘Janger’ which stirred the audiences.

There is more for me to say but words alone can never express my feelings. This trip has such a huge blessing to me. There are many things that I have learnt both consciously and unconsciously and I am still exploring them. I am thankful that I am in NJChoir, singing with this bunch of lovely people and being conducted by a wonderful conductor. Singing with NJChoir in Italy is a memory worth keeping for eternity.

Louis Lim (Tenor)
27/4/2006

A trip worth remembering

2006-04-25T20:59:00.000+08:00

Yo hoo.. it's been a VERY VERY VERY LONG time since i last blogged (about half a year?).. wow that's disgusting. but oh well. Year 2 is busier than expected..

Just as you may have known, i joined my choir on a trip to Verona, Italy from 17/4 to 24/4 :) for an international choral competition. This is my first trip to a European country and i tell you it's the best trip that i have ever been..

The land of pasta, pizza and gelato . that's how my ah ma lee min describe the land of Italy. After a painful journey of about 14 to 16 hours by Thai airways (most of the time i spent watching movies and sleeping.. MIss Lim demanded us to sleep immediately after dinner and asked all the com members to PATROL to ensure that their members are sleeping), my choir reached Milano-Melpensa airport. I could feel the significance difference in the temperature of the air ... it was COOL!! can see fog coming out of our mouths the moment we talk or breathe. but sadly that was the only time that i witness such phenomena :( but oh well moving on....

The custom was full of people upon our entry (duh there are 50+ of us) haa... everyone was estatic!! as if jet lag has not bothered us at all... which reminds me of a choir of muppets :P but i can only sense the muppetness in their hearts, not physically visible. We can;t afford to exhibit our NJ rahrahness and brainlessness in that place! haa.. if not Miss Lim, Miss Teo and perhaps maybe Mr. Chia may digest ALL of us!!! As soon as we were out of the airport, we were led into a bus by Zwannette our local tour guide :) she's a very nice LADY!!! aha... she led all the muppets into the bus. Another thing i notice is that all the guys(including myself of course :P) are very ZI DONG, (takes initiative) .. cos all of them volunteered themselves to transfer all our luggages into the bus, which i find it delightful. All the girls in the choir should consider themselves lucky :P

I very lazy to describe what i see on the way to Milan so haha... if you want to see photos, do visit http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j143/louisino7/

Milan is a nice place. Many ancient buildings lying around. haha... Andrew was crazy over that place because on that day there is a soccer competition btw A.C. Milan and BArcelona. haha... he went to buy a AC milan jersey and a scraf-like momento for the event. ahha.. and i didn't buy anything :P oh well... what i dun like italy is that most of the people there SMOKE.. everywhere i go.. i see smokers... it was terrible and i felt disgusted to see even young ladies smoking away through their lives. and terrible enough, i saw cigarettes vending machine too... pity them. ohya. i was in my group.. togheter with Chu wen, Claudia and Andrew.

hmm... shall continue my story in italy tmr :P

stay tuned :)

LOuis

alone.....

2005-12-09T15:50:00.000+08:00

life after NJ choir camp was like..... the life after rioHC choir trip to Malaysia (no offence to NJcians :P )... so boring!!! let me tell you what happened to me yesterday..

Yesterday i was IMREing all the way from morning to late noon... then by the time i reached the boarding school.. after dinner and a warm bath... i watched this hong kong drama series "the war and the beauty" or in chinese "jin zhi yu ni" or in cantonese "gam ji yoke yip".. dunno whether you know or not but well .. i loved the episodes!!! they were in the form of CDs. but sadly i only borrowed 10 of them from my friend and there are a total of 12 of them!!! grr... and he's not in singapore now!!! ZHAO WEI!!!! PLS REPLY ME!. ya.. he;s the guy.. oh well.. which is why this morning i started doing my bio and physics homework .. and i really cannot stand Electromagnetic Induction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! moving on... ya.. yesterday.. after watching the tenth episode.. i went to sleep... and it was 8:30 pm!!!!!!!! i seldom sleep so early but dunno why that night very tired.. so i slept all the way until 11:36 pm i woke up feeling that it was 2:30 a.m. .. then i heard the bell chime from the boarding school which indicated lights out time... whaha.. and i was in a blur blur state...

I woke up and hydrate myself and i went back to sleep.. but i was only in slumberland one hour later.. :( guess it was the heat.... but i fell into a deep sleep again..

i woke up again at 6:06 a.m. feeling cold and sweaty at the same time.. yeah .. i had a nightmare.. can't really recall what was it but i know that it was a very chim and scary one.. why can't i remember all my dreams? I can only remember some.. like the ones i had b4 O levels.. ahahha.. the night b4 E.Geo paper: fell asleep during the exam and suddenly the whole class was flooded :P... one of the days during my sec 1 year: migrating to japan with Anthony and Zhao Wei ILLEGALLY.. weird right? wil tell you more if have time :P

but one thing fascinates me that most is the human mind.. ahha... it's like a pot of dream juice.. and these juices can take form in anything.. virtually anything that i can imagine whether it's pure or corrupted... in the day you can control the formation but at night when you dreaming.. it will take control of itself.. amazing isn't it..? ya.. i'm trying to be literary here.. but i guess i fail... never really do well for literature in my secondary school days :P

i'll end here now.. gtg do my lab stuff .. tata.. sorry for ending this blog so abruptly :P

Louis

Long time no see

2005-12-05T11:54:00.000+08:00

er hem.. sorry.. the last time i posted was during the OP days.. haha.. for now.. OP does not exist in me ANYMORE!!! wahahahaha

grr.. just a summary of what has happened and what's going to happen:
OP -> IMRE -> IMRE -> IMRE -> IMRE -> IMRE -> IMRE -> IMRE -> IMRE -> IMRE -> IMRE -> IMRE -> IMRE -> IMRE -> IMRE -> home -> langkawi for one week -> IMRE -> choir camp -> IMRE -> IMRE -> Carol -> IMRE -> IMRE -> Carol (and my parents will be coming!!! -> class chalet -> recording!!!! -> NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!

wow.. that's brief... ahha.. dun think you'll be interested in the IMRE days .. hsha.. cos.. it's kinda boring . . :( just came back from langkawi and penang.. and man... i tell you.. i ATE as if i have not eaten before.. supper after supper... dinner after dinner.. wow... i was such a rubbish bin!!!! i have prawn mee and char kway diao for almost every day!!!!!!!!!! fattening isn't it.. well i didn't care.. all i cared was to eat and eat and eat.. and POOF!!!!!!!! 3kgs of FATS!!!!!!!! hhaha.. ya.. gained weight... :( .. must start jogging again :P

oh ya.. on the way back.. passed by IPOH.. and WOW!!!!!the famous ipoh sha hor fun was a killer!!!!!!! it was so silky and soft and ... AH!!!!!!!!!!!!! the chicken was the BEST!!!!!!!! i have never eaten such heavenly tasty chicken b4!!! wow... it was a fantastic experience!!! the restaurant itself was frequented by many hong kong and malaysian celebrities.. i give 5 stars out of 5!!!

Sad me.. now back in singapore.. my line in the boarding school got cut off and the only way i can go online is through IMRE!!! hahah.. sigh.. .. yups using a com in IMRE now :P

can't believe that tmr's CHOIR CAMP!!!!1 and i haven;t start packing!!!! wow... i'm really gonna sing and play and eat and sing and play.. dun think i'm gonna sleep :P ahahah

Louis
Louis

OPopOPopOPop

2005-11-06T22:48:00.000+08:00

"the morning hangs above the sun, a golden streak on my breaktalk bun, with closing eyes and resting head, i know that OP is coming soon... "

Oh no.. OP.. two more days! and now while typing this, i was discussing with my PW mates thru MSN.. still deciding whether to meet in school or at Alicia's house.. no lap top what to do? hah.. i need a laptop.. a new , usable.. but since i will be going to Verona next year, think forget it le.. it's so expensive le. . dun wanna burn my parents' pocket too much:P

walao.. why does NJ only allow to go back on the 18th? my trip to langkawi's on the 16th!! and my bro, Herman;s birthday's on the 17th!.. i'm like gonna miss so many family outings.. the STaR programme.. too... drag me along.. poor me.....

haa.. now talking to my dad haha..

and my sis smsed me this morning at 0230h just to tell me how fun it was to karaoke at my Auntie's house with her cousin brothers!!!! OH MAN!!!! i miss them so much!!!!!! it's a pity that i can't go :( I MISS HOME!!!!!!!!!!

sino7

Holidaze...

2005-10-31T00:04:00.000+08:00

wow... hao jiu bu jian!!!!!

it's been a long time since i last post my entry.. i can see that it is rusting already... hah.a.. oh man i suck at this...

i had my 9 hours of sleep last night and another 3 hours of nap just now.. and i am totally recharged!!! well.. i am in fact stealing time to slack.. it;s not a very common thing for me to do.. try asking my friends and tell him that i'm slacking and they will definitely be like "oh my louis is slacking?" haa... i dun mean that i am a mugger but i think i have really piaed a lot.. recently the auntie from the sundarey shop commented on my figure.. she saide that i have slimmed down.. wow ,, that;s a good thing.. even though i dun really feel it... but i am 100% sure that two months later the SUMO LILI (as andrew would put it) will be back!! i dun wanna be fat!!! jsut wanna be acceptable can le :)

yeah!!! going HC this wed!! i am so fortunate to be in NJ :) thank GOD :) ahha.. at least can go back and crash that place whenever i have time.. oh ya.. i wanna crash HC the whole of WED!!! but not sure whether it's worthwhile or not.. heard that there will be a principal's talk and stuff.. haha.. FAMILY !!!! hah.. but i wanna see Mrs> Boo. Mrs. Cheng, Mr. Chow and CHoe, Miss Selva and Mrs Goh (if she's back) >... miss them :)

i supposed to feel stressed now because i have to start working on my experiment plan for STAR programme. That means i wil have to frequent IMRE like mad !!!! sigh.. choir too!! have to master so many songs.. but now OP is the most important!!! peck, shiyun. ngik and alicia must jiayoU k!! but i wanna thank you for putting in so much effort in PW :)

one more week to actual OP.. really have to brush up my presentation skills :) dun stone and smile always.. dun sing off tune.. and dun keep looking at the cue cards

i wil only be going back on the 15th of Nov. and i hope the school will allow this as my family wil lbe goign to LAngkawi for holiday!!!!! argh!!!! i still haven't get any reply yet !
i want a holiday!!!!

sino7

Welcome new NJC scholars

2005-10-08T22:03:00.000+08:00

today was a fruitful day...

firstly, there was no mugging
secondly, there was no PW
thirdly, there was no STAR programme
fourthly, there was TTBB but i CMI.. cos.... I went on a tour around Singapore with the new NJC scholars from Hwa Chong Boarding for half-a-day :)

The new NJC scholars include both PRC and Vietnamese students :) I signed up to be one of the group buddies, who will sort of lead them during the tour.. (but actually i didn't do much lah :)

We went to orchidville, where you will see nothing else except flowers and flowers :) nothing special.. though some of the flowers are really striking :)

then off we go to the NEWater plant.. yups.. i learnt the 4 main steps for NEWater production!!! ultrafiltration of used water, reverse osmosis, water conditioning, ultraviolet disinfection... yups... singapore is really clever in the sense that she really knows how to solve her problem and to suan malaysia for playing around the water price by drinking NEWater during the national day in 2003.. haha.. :)

crocodile farm was interesting.. saw gigantic crocos.. lying in ponds.. so lazy,,, they looked jurassic! haha.. but poor crocos.. will eventually end up their lives under the evil knife of the money-minded human beings as the crocos' skin were ripped off and are used for making bags and stuff.. yucks... why would they wanna do that!!!!!

made loads of new friends today :) think at least i noe who's wu di now :) thot he's a j2 but he's a j1.. why grow so tall? haha... the prcs made me feel like an acsian talking to hwachongians in chinese... i really need to brush up my chinese... Xu Lao Shi and Shen lao shi,, wo dui bu qi ni men!!!!

haha.. yeah!!! nice day !:)

Louis

NJ = HC, HC = NJ, NJ + HC = 2NJ or 2 HC

2005-10-06T23:29:00.000+08:00

hey guys.. suddenly feel like tabulating this list of relationships between the njcians and the hwachongians :) and here it goes :)

6a = 7a

RV : weide, hongtuck, aaron, wanzhen, qihan, ziping = joanna , yunmin (4C one)
CAT: wee kim = adam (not sure they know each other well)
Nanyang: nichola = wei shyuan (same class)
vanessa = crystal (tennis)
anderson: zhen hao = Guan zhi , zi hao
Chinese high: haotian, yanzhi, nick, alfred, zhihan, kaixiang, liangzhen = ME!
st nicks: melinda(my aunt !), karen = joceyln (mel's husband.. my uncle, yucks), pei yueng*, peck ying(duck)

ACS: kelvin = melvin (same class)

rioHC = NjChoir

valerie = cherie (my ah gong)
nicole = xiangteng
adora (ADDDA) = jiayun, tammy
yidan = dewei, royston
kenneth = andrew?
guowei, emmet, nick, sua, yihui, edmund, di junwei(- _ -) = ME!!!!

* sorry if i left out anyone!!! pls left me a comment for that :)

Louis

promo is over, promo is over, promo is over, promo is over, promo is over

2005-10-05T21:47:00.000+08:00

hey guys..

yups.. promos is over, promo is over, promo is over, promo is over...

wow.. i like that phrase so much.. let's do that again..promo is over, promo is over, promo is over

had load of fun today (though certain periods of time we were slacking.. loitering.. walking aimlessly).. spend the whole day at orchard..

we watched "corpse bride" .. even though it was short but it was enjoyable.. the plot is predictable and the ending a bit sui bian. but worth it lah :P

then off we go.. taka.. girls went shopping, guys went slcaking at kino.. quite boring during these few hours. buit oh well :P

lazy to type leh.. haha.. never midn then gd day :)

Louis

BIO!!!! WACHACHACHA

2005-10-03T18:37:00.000+08:00

Hey all, yeah bio and maths are over!!!! 2 more to go.. i shall tell you what i did and think today!!!!! yups.. i woke up at 6:30 am today despite Nj's is less than 630 meters (estimate one.. cos i can see NJ from my room and i can se HWA CHONG boarding from NJ) from HC boarding... too nervous mah.. can't help it... so i went to bathe.. and yah.. you dun need description for that.. yups... then at around 6:45pm, i'm already clad in NJ.. then pray for a while.. after all it's exam :) .. later i took up my bio file.. which is (measuring now..ok got it ) 5.1 cm thick.. if i were to include all my ex-HC notes.. it will be (measuring again) an additional 2.0 cm.. haha.. wow.. trees are indeed put into GOOD use... sigh.. and it weighs .. a fraction of prashan? haha.. joking :) yups.. it was damn heavy.. well can't help it.. a bio student's ordeal.. by the time i reach NJ. i was wet (quote from Priscilla)... it happens all the time.. yups .. then ast forward.... zup..... and here i was... in the classroom.. i was thinking that the math paper was going to be easy until i start staring at the paper and scratching my _______ (fill in the blanks yourself).. nj math paper.. can;t expect much.. a B should suffice.. but i'm not sure whether i can get that too.. where's my A?!? heaven? sigh... anyway, it was really really bad... blanks here and there.... irritating well, i didn;t want it to end.. cos i think i can solve them but.. bo si kan liao.. gin lah!!!! ya... well.. that's life.. you can never complete everything on time perfectly.. and that;'s when i hand in the paper "pissed"fully.. at least the chicken rice i had after that manage to cool me down.. after that.. start mugging mugging with my frens... i always enjoy mugging with frens.. yea :) haha.. nothing much to say unless you want me to regurgitate whatever that i have remembered.. "Non-cyclic phosphorylation ... amino-acyl-tRNA synthase... ".. sounds as esoteric as it sucks... well let;s zoom into the hall this time round.. at least it was air-conditioned. but the lightings w ere intimidating.. gives me the creeps. especially it promotes myopia as nitrate promotes the growth of algae.. which will block up the sunlight from reaching the sea weed and then they cannot photosynthesise and then they DIE.. this phenomenon is known as eutrophication.. whatever man let's go on.. no point mugging at taht time.. too late already.. whatever that is in your mind, you will just have to SQUEEZE everything out on the spot and ANSWER the question.. but instead i question myself when i look at the question paper.. MCQ.. 25 questions to be done in 30 minutes... what to do.. rush loh.. occasionally, questions that i was unsure of i will just put a tiny tick beside it.. and circle a possible answer first.. kept it in view and will refer back to it later.. however, in the end.. i didn;t have time to check them out again.. sigh... nevermind.. 15 minutes later, paper 2 came to my hand.. i hoped that it was doable.. and ya.. quite true.. and perhaps this is the first time in my life,, i can answer all the structured questions without MUCH doubt. but to my horror, the last disgusting page was the bane of my life - 3-choose-2 bloody essay questions! none of the questions made sense to me except for the last... which i have previously mugged really hard.. yups photosynthesis.. but it includes the endosymbiotic theory which was totally out of this world... the first one.. about some weird enzyme screwing into a weird looking cell membrane and some weird amino acids and alpha helices,, rubbish... oh ya.. the second question was EXTRA TERRESTIAL!! cos it was about ALIENS (and i'm totally not in the mood to kid now).. yes, it was about asking you how to verify whether the DNA was really ALIEN or was it from other organisms.. you tell me about this.. the only thing i like about this question is that it was set by a bio teacher in NJ who was previously from HWA CHONG.. and that's it :) i could barely finish the first question as i started by doing the last question first, which i was quite prepared for.. (who would want ME to attempt that ALIEN question? an ALIEN? or ALIENA?) yups.. when i finally put my pants.. er.. i mean pen down.. and i looked up, my vision was totally blurred!!!!! my neck was aching.. my back was make weird squeaky noise.. yups.. if you have ever heard the poem "dulce est decorum" or something like that by Wilson Owen or Owen Wilson (really can't remember.. this was Sec 2 work. and this is the only poem i know best).. i was really like the soldiers.. "bent double".... or something like that.. haha.. haha.. hahahaha....

as soon as i reached home and bathed, i lied down on my bed and i suddenly realised that my left vision is predominantly red and the other predominantly green.. i.e. i left eye see more green colour of the environment.. the other red... am i "evolving" to have this phenotype? Charles Darwin , what do you think?

well i guess it's because i have been mugging too hard for the past few weeks.. anyway, i will play like MAD after promos.. i'm going to TTBB, NJchoir, rioHC, 6a and 7a.. Nj and Hc.. and open day. and start planning for my holiday!!! ahah.. definitely not going to start mugging for next year's common test 1..

wow.. it's really lengthy. but it's ok :) it's my blog,, not yours!! HAHHAHA.. well i wanna thank God for help me realise my several last careless mistakes in the paper last minute.. i should not think too much about it.. CHEM TOMORROW!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!! GO MUG CHEM LAH!!
haha

okok.. my conscience is really scolding me le.. haha.. alright then.. good day! A

for those who will be having their papers tomorrow... e.g. me and me and me and me and nj and HC.. mug hard! and be smart! haha all the best! may God be with yoU :)

oh ya. chee jun :) thank you for reminding me to update my blog!!!!!! you are indeed my friendly neighbourhood blogwatcher :) (i think you coped this phrase from some marvel comics)

cheers :)

sino7

boing boing boing lalalala

2005-10-01T23:28:00.000+08:00

hey guys...

mug mug mug mug mug mug until i think 1 + 1 is equals to infinity already.. i find it really strange.. i have been mugging really really hard until today i lose the mugging spirit.. what has happened to me? maybe it's because of this morning's NJ bio promo paper that i have done.. it was so demoralising already.. what if i were to be in Hwa Chong, then ain't I a piece of dead meat? RAWR!!!!!! mugging doesn;t help, i need a clear mind with well-organised knowledge .. not a turbit mind with a mess of info.. .. should i start from scratch? no way man.. haha... siao... bio bio bio bio ... boi boi boi boi ... boing boing boing boing.. (evolution)

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help me GOD!!!!!

Louis

GP's over

2005-09-23T19:41:00.000+08:00

hey there..
wow GP was a killer.. sigh.. should tok much about it.. not confidently about my essay, i definitely screwed up compre.. sigh.. just have to pray hard that i can pass can le :)

a whole day of revision of GP can kill.. i can't say i'm relieved now.. bio and chem and maths and physics papers are still waiting for me.. really hope that i can get As for these subjects.. since i have done that b4 in o level, i'm sure that i can do the same for promos.. .

but i dun think i have done much revision esp for Bio and CHem.. i piaed physics and math during the september holidays.. never touched the rest.. feeling a bit guilty now... sigh.. i think this is what i call complacent.. topping the level for chem in sec 3 doesn;t mean you are very good in chem.. the only way to prove that this is false is by getting an A. but my burning passion for chem has gone somewhere above the sky.. dunno where is it now.. and in jc i found another one.. that is for TTBB and CHoir.. haha.. isn;t it weird.. if you are really N2 about something it should "haunt" you for the rest of your life! where is the chem ghost? sigh.... i hope this will never happen to TTBB and Choir..

went back to eat at chinese high today.. and wow.. the food there is so nice.. not because it taste nice but the memories are nice.. keep using nice, poor english... i'm so happy to see the canteen vendor :) she still remembers me .. haha.. miss her toufu very much but she never prepare today :p anyways.. saw gongyue in canteen .. she ponned maths lect "naughty girl". .haha hope i can do that in NJ too since Macclurine series is not tested.. i need time to study!@! and what am i doing now.. blogging.. ironic. haha.... that reminds me. i think i have to go le.. :)