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....

last day of the year

hmm... its now 31st dec 2004. The last day of the year. The tsunami din come at a good time. This is a very bad thing to end the year with.. its so sad.. over 80, 000 dead now.. i sincerely pray for all those out there.

Thinking back of the past 1 year.. i really wonder what i've accomplished. Sigh.. sad to announce but its really nothing much. Or can say there's nothing great that i've done which will make me remember this year. What have i done? I feel so useless and helpless. I seem to be very busy during the past one year, but come to think of it, i did not do anything great. Nothing for anyone. Wat a sad case...

My new year resolution: MAKE an impact on someone's life!

I hope i can succeed.

earthquake

oh my.... i got home from st john last night and read about the earthquake which hit asia.. its so bad... as of jus now on channel newsasia.. death toll is up to 22,000 with more injured and with more to come. Sri Lanka was so badly hit.. oh my... and more is expected to come with the afterwaves and more tsunami. It reminds me of my geography classes and how we were learning about earthquakes and stuff. Cannot believe that this is happening so close to home. I have always thought that Singapore will be affected by such things sooner or later coz plates are constantly moving. But i nv expect it to be so fast.

I was jus watching the channel newsasia on TV and saw all the pictures of dead people and its so sad. I see family members crying coz their loved ones are dead. Or worried ones who are unable to find their loved ones. Sigh.. life is really so unpredictable. A holiday turned into a nightmare for so many people. We should really treasure our loved ones right now. I cannot imagine wat will happen to me if any of my friends or loved ones were right in the disaster. I will probably jus collapse if anything happen to them.

Let's pray for those not found and those who are badly hit. God bless....

my day as the emcee

another day as the emcee. Bad ailing dun want to help me den only got me. (",) i know no need 2 people to talk but she also nv offer to help. bad girl. but anyway, my voice did not sound as bad as i thought it would. Nothing was wrong with my script or my voice.. except for all the silly last minute changes that made me very confused. BUTTTTT... the big problem was... the silly emcee me said the wrong thing. I read chet yen's name as sir yong's. OMG... all the guests started laughing loh. i dunno why i said the wrong thing.. was not thinking right.. sigh.. den after that, everyone started teasing me like mad... sian... but hopefully after this, they wun get me to be emcee anymore.. (",)

christmas

i shall make this a short one... still not feeling well enough to sit down n write something nice...

Been back in sg since sun but haven got time to really sit down n write anything abt the camp.. But jus 1 word.. GREAT!! Esp with the other 2 pigs.. make my world brighter.. despite all the stupid sun and now i am sick again... next time i got energy i should write more...

Anyway, its now Christmas.. so fast.. sigh.. n school's starting soon.. sigh... but it oso mean presents n cards.. haha.. thanks jov n ailing for ur great present!! next yr i will buy something nice for you gals..

siblings

I jus heard a complain from a fren. Been hearing it for very long liao. Jus tot i could share it with you guys. Made me think a bit.

My fren is called A lah and her sister is called B. The two of them used to be very very close until it got to a point in time when B started to be too busy to spend time with A. A started to look for new company and gradually they drifted apart.

B is a very nice girl and dotes a lot on A. But the big problem with B is that she has a very bad temper. She thinks that the whole world owes her something. Always pick a fight with A over the smallest thing.

My fren has always thought that the real reason why her sister keep fighting with her was because her sister is jealous of her. Since young, A has always been the high achiever in school. She went to a good secondary school(top 10), a good JC(top 5) and went on to pursue a degree. In terms of other stuff, A is better than her sister in a way. Like A is highly involved with her CCA and held an impt appointment and A has a stable and long relationship. On the other hand, B do not perform as well academically. But B is good in other stuff like languages and cooking etc. And her last relationship was a big blow to her and B has yet to overcome it till today.

Whenever they quarrel, B always like to say things like "Go good school very big deal lah" and "Got degree very liao3 bu4 qi3 lah" when it has nothing to do with wat they are arguing about. A always get very irritated when her sister starts to bring up such things. She thinks that her sister still blame her mother for not letting her take higher chinese in pri sch. B thinks that if her mum had allowed her to take then her life will be much better now. She held so much resentment that she is such a grumpy and inconsiderate girl. B likes to think that A is spoilt and always want things her way by arguing her way out.

There have been many times when B caused A to argue with her bf. Coz her bf dun like ppl to interrupt when he is talking and B always like to pick a fight with A in the middle of her conversation. Den when they started quarelling and A blamed B for it, B jus said like "My fault ah?"

Sigh... after having heard so many times from my fren.. i can memorise liao lah...

Anyway, i was jus thinkg what i will actually do if my sister is jealous of me. My sister sounds like her sister. But i really think that its very sad that a sister should be jealous of her own sister. She should be proud of her instead leh. Why should there be jealousy? sigh.. women...

anyway, i m leaving for M'sia for a few days of nomad life. Will be back on 19th and will update you guys regarding the camp..

what's gg to happen?

hmm... seems like after jolin's concert.. i have nothing really interesting to look forward to.. maybe the release of my results yesterday. i was so scared to check my results that i decided not to bother checking at 1pm... i only checked it at night at around 9pm. Luckily the results not too bad lah.. i expected a worst results for some.. but i expected a better one for another... nvm.. they balanced out each other.. think i have to go back to bugis to thanks guan ying niang niang already.. but still waiting for my finance results den everything will be over. But the results will only be out on 17th and i m still in M'sia!! sian.. gotta wait till i m back loh..

anyway, talking about m'sia.. so scary.. wonder what the camp will be like leh.. hope wun be too sian.. i am having regrets going liao leh.... i am leaving right in the middle of my proj... and i haven finish my proj.. sigh.. hope i wil enjoy the camp.

gotta get back to doing my proj liao.. sian..

jolin's concert

i finally went for her concert today!!!! My long awaited concert. Oh my... she's so good!!! Singing great, n dancing even better.... I really gave her full marks for the performance. I jumped ard like mad.. haha...

But her audience sucks meh.. Her fan club nv even stand during the concert until she told everyone to stand.. At first only got me, my fren and another gal we jus got to know who sat in front of us stood. Wah.. this gal looks like stella and we exchange numbers. Whole stadium only 3 ppl!!! Can u believe it? Sigh.. her songs all so fast.. how can ppl just sit n listen?? Dun understand.. If more ppl stand den everyone will stand liao mah... And she was very sad leh.. She even cried during the encore.. and she only encore once.. so sad.. I was so angry i jus went to post a msg on their forum...

And the speakers sucks loh.. the management never check the equipment properly. The speakers are very noisy.. got too much feedback.. And she was quite sad with the sound. At first i tot her throat got something wrong.. Sian... I think she wun want to come back to Singapore for concert liao. But if she comes back i want to watch her dance again!!

Sigh.. but i dun get to take photos.. my camera got caught... borrowed cam from huimin for nothing.. i only managed to take a few with my fren's cam. Sigh.. this time security super strict... so sian.. hope i can find nice ones online or wat..

blood donation

sighhhhh... again.... cannot donate blood. Today i was rotting at Jurong Point coz hz's meeting his fren to go sim lim den i go very extra... Den i saw this blood donation drive and decided to go n donate blood. BUT they reject me again. Coz i was sick last week den u need to recover for at least 3 weeks b4 u r able to make any donations. So sian liao.. dun want to donate liao lah...

nice quote

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

-Dr. Seuss

updates about the epidemic at home

wow.. i realised that a total of 3 more people got sick after my aunt while my family were in Thailand. Talking abt Thailand, i quite regreting not going go them. The stuff are so super cheapppppppppppppppppp. My sister bought me a handbag for like 6 dollars? Oh my.. sigh.. nvm.. i shall go another time with my shopping gang! haha... any takers?

Sigh..since we are at the topic of being sick.. i was sick again... in the space of a week. I developed a high fever again last night. All thanks to the snacks at K-box. Sick...Never going to eat again their snack ever again. I was there with Ting, Eli, Jen and Wenjia(who left earlier). Den after that we met Jolin but only got to talk a little while. Coz i started trembling very badly.. den in the end took cab and went to the 24hrs clinic yesterday. Spent 70 bucks. OMG.. sigh...

I hope this stupid bacteria will go away soon.. I dun want to spend so much money on medical bills lah. Already more den a hundred dollars liao.. jus because of a stupid infection..

quite interesting right? 

this thing is called Helicobacter pylori. We used to like to call it helicopter. It is responsible for peptic ulcer disease. Very pretty hor? but a very bad bacteria..

bacteria

I truly experience the power of bacteria today. I have this little cousin who came over to my hse to stay for a few days coz her maid went back home. Den on Saturday, she had a high fever. A few days back, my little cousin and her sister was down with fever and sore throat too.

Yesterday it was me. Registered a high fever of 39.4 last night. Took some panadol (ewwww... i hate panadols but i din took it voluntarily, my mum stuffed it into my mouth) and the fever subsided this morn. In the afternoon it came back to around 38.2 again. Sigh.. My immune system not good enough... In the end i went to see the doctor and got TWO antibiotics. OMG.. is it really that bad? He still want to give me MC for tmr...

sigh.. den when i got home.. i realise that my auntie was sick too. She's the mum of my 2 cousins who were sick. Looks like the bacteria has infected quite a bit of people. Sounds like an epidemic. And my auntie they all are supposed to go to Thailand tmr. Sigh.. hope she gets well.. if not go overseas den still sick quite sad one...