1159

i promised to update you on the 1159 thingy.

I had this CA exercise which i had to hand in at 1159am. At first the prof said 12pm and everyone was wondering if its midnight or afternoon. So someone emailed him and ask. Here's his reply:

Dear all,

Apologies for the confusion. I should not have used 12 am (or 12 pm) as they are both meaningless. As you may know, the expressions pm and am come from Latin. "Ante" means before and "post" means after. Meri-diem means half (meri) of the day (diem), ie, 12 noon. Therefore 12 am or 12 pm is a totally ambiguous expression. For example, 12 midnight is both 12 h before and 12 after the meridiem (12 noon), so is both 12 am and 12 pm, whereas 12 noon is neither 12 am or 12 pm, it is just "m".

I guess what I meant is 11.59 am. Some Latin for you today

Regards,

JT (Jaume Torres)

Interesting right? Learnt something from him... Quite an interesting prof but gives a lot of homework.

Hwa Chong Junior College

The famous 4 arrows. You will not get to see this logo on students anymore. History... Some back ground regarding the arrow: The college philosophy is symbolised by the college motto, which is made up of four ascending arrows and a link, all in the colour of red. The soaring arrows focus our attention on the dynamic process of education, with each arrow being representative of a single characteristic depicted by our philosophy, whereas the linking of these arrows (being emblematic of good harvest) implies the need for a balanced personality in a community of shared ideas.

I wanted to write about how funny my lab session was today until i saw a friend's blog. She posted her favourite Hwa Chong songs and as i was singing one of the songs, tears jus came to my eyes. I like this song a lot too. Here's the lyrics. A very beautiful song.

<<只为那爱我原>>

原我能把华初之光点燃

原黄城之爱于心中滋长

原友谊能把你心温暖

原我有完成心愿的力量

没有瀑布于岩石的阻挡

溪水就悦耳的歌唱

不愿途中无波浪无挑战

愈经挫折生命愈灿烂

之为那爱 我原与你同行万里路

之为那爱 我原与你携手向前迈步

短暂相聚多急促 既然碰上了又岂能虚度

之为那爱 我原与你同行万里路

之为那爱 我原与你携手向前迈步

黄城两载多短促 既然爱上又为何不付出

I spend 1 and 3/4 years with Hwa Chong Junior College. Although i missed O1 and i really hated the first few months with Hwa Chong, i gradually grew to love the place. I do not have a great CCA but i had great classmates and friends and of course teachers. They are the ones who have been with me through the horrible period of A'levels. Really hated that super stressed period. Luckily i have my friends who laughed, cried, mugged, play basketball and swam with me. Miss you guys!! I missed all the school events then will sing all the super nice songs and have mass dance. No regrets leaving NJC.

Now that Hwa Chong has merged with Chinese High, Hwa Chong Junior College is now history. Will forever miss the place and the 4 arrows.

shopping

Today I went shopping with my brother today at far east. Trying to get some new year clothes. At first like not much accomplished then later, we managed to buy a pair of jeans, 3 t-shirts for my brother and a skirt for myself. All done under 4 hours. Pretty amazing right? After shopping, we walked all the way to heeren's to eat marche. Really walked until very tired. My brother and sister were both very tired too. Wait till i get a digi cam den i can show you guys the fruits of my day.

Talking about my skirt. I bought the long one at Red 2.. haha.. was thinking about that skirt for a very long time liao.. since i first saw it at jurong pretty long ago. It was love at first sight! Then after trying out for many times, i finally bought it!! So happy!! haha... That time i wanted to buy at JP den my uni friends say not nice coz my butt not big enough.. haha.. first time ppl say my butt not big enough.. what a nice compliment. Actually i wanted to ask huimin to go try and let me see the diff coz huimin has universally recognised big butt. (",) anyway, before i could get to meet her, i decided to buy the skirt before they start running out of stock.

Another reason for buying a long skirt is because my aunt says that my skirts are too short. I bought 2 skirts at Causeway point yesterday and after showing my mum and my aunt, they said it was too short. So to spike my aunt, i decided to turn up in a long skirt for new year this year.. haha.. but actually, i also know that my skirt is getting shorter.. dunno wat happen oso...

time for bed... very tired after a day of lectures and shopping.. blog tmr..

school

today's the 3rd week of school. Pretty boring with all the tut. I haven really done any tut yet. I mean seriously sit down and do my tut. Com'on.. the school is mad loh. They put 2 lectures on Monday, giving me monday blues and put 4 tut on thurs!!! Madness. And i have tuitions on Wednesday, so meaning i got no time to do on wed. And Yanling will NEVER do homework earlier one loh.. sian.. den in the end i always nv do homework go tut. So guilty...

Anyway, i have already told my co-ordinator that i dun want to take the P3 science class already. I dun like to travel so far in the middle of the week. Oh please, hougang is so FAR from Boon Lay. I dun like to take train and even when i left school in time today. i took 2 hours and 15 mins to get to hougang. MADNESSS.... i travel until i get very pek chek. Silly bus and silly ppl.

Sigh.. dunno why i am taking so many tuitions for. Do i really need the money to much? Yes and no. i really need the money for bills and transport and food. But i dun need THAT much money right? But who will think that money is too much one. I admit that i am a pretty materialistic girl. And i like the idea of having money to spend when i need it. And i like to splurge. Very bad financial management right? I need a course!!

Sometimes I really tuition until i very tired and my dear sometimes very not understanding. I know he is concerned about me but he always show it in a wrong way. Anyway, he's sucha nice guy ( i hear puking). Did something very sweet for me a few days back. LOVE YA! He wun see this so i guess i am going to get a lot of puking from my friends out there.

Sigh.. gotta go back to do my homework. Got an assigment to hand in tmr. at 1159am. He really said 1159am. Will tell you all the story about this 1159 thing another time. Good luck to me!!

quote of the day

Dreams are invisible strings that keep people from sinking - Anonymous

so my dear friends.. hold on to your dream.

2nd blog

hmm.. decided to blog a bit today... nothing really much exciting happened.. even if something did.. i guess i was too excited to blog abt it... (",)

anyway, i had dinner with pey yng n qiulin today at bugis. While we were walking from restaurant to restaurant, i realised that we always meet at bugis. Coz we were saying things like " that thing is nice, the other time we came here we had that". Anyway, we decided to settle for Terra coz we decided that its the only choice that only Bugis has.

Terra is this cafe right at the end of the MacDonald's row. Right opposite Addidas. Pey Yng said their fish n chips are famous so i tried that. Really very nice. The coleslaw was quite nice and the fish too. But everything was very thick n rich and the fish was a little too oily. Felt so fat. And after eating, we sat there dor like 3 hrs jus chatting. Felt so good. Very long nv talk to them for so much. Den after Terra, we went Swenson's, wanting to try their crumble. In the end sold out and we ordered 2 ice creams instead. And we continue talking for 2 hrs at Swenson's b4 we went home.

What a fulfilling day!

My first blog of the year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!

haha.. today is officially the first blog of the year 2005. Going to start a great new year!! but the first few days of the new year wasn't very happy. Started the year with a quarrel and ended it in a horrible way. Sian...

But the first day of new year was quite good. Went out shopping with ailing in a super horrible attitude problem and a super bad mood. But towards the end of the day... hmm.. felt quite good. Dunno if its ailing or the shopping but anyway.. thanks ailing!! =) We accomplished quite a lot that day. Managed to settle 3 ppl's birthday presents and ailing bought a pair of shoes and a shirt for herself.

Den spent the last day of my holiday having tuition.. the only highlight of the day was ying hwee's birthday party. Felt so good coz i met up with all the long-lost st john ppl.. Really misses the days with them..

Started school with a bad mood. Dun feel like going to school. Sian.. first day got 2 lectures summore.. I slept thru 50% of the 2nd one.

Same thing for the 2nd day. Except that there is only 1 lect and i slept thru 50% of it. So effectively in only listened to 2 lectures in 2 days.

3rd day not too bad.. i had my law class (took consumer and marketing law this sem). But i only managed to get to the class after a lot of poor orientation ard S3. Coz there was a clash in locations and our class changed venue but we din know.. so was 'chased' out by the other instructor and a bunch of lost sheep has to go n look for our correct class. Anyway, i got my acc proj back today. Sigh.. sad.. very horrible grades.. nv got so horrible grades for any of my assignments or even class tests.

Today's the 4th day. Lecture was quite okay. A very interesting lecturer with very boring content. Was wondering how am i going to survive this sem. At night met ailing n matt for meeting. Finally got to the place after much agony. OH.. n i lost my nalgene bottle......OMG.. i think its cursed.. Rena oso.. i hope i will get it back.. sigh....