Here am I taking break out of my pseudo mug life to blog. Sometimes I seriously lack the motivation to do anything and its getting really out of hand. Days pass before me and at the end of the day, I ask myself: What have I accomplished today? And most of the time the answer is: Nothing.
I think I'm fairly screwed, if there's a scale for how screwed up your life is.
There are three tests tomorrow. I have no idea what the teachers are trying to do. Three tests? Like get a life?
But I really have to appreciate some of the threejayrian teachers. Sometimes I think I'm goddamned lucky to have such great teachers. I don't have a royal flush (ah! I demean my teachers to mere playing cards!) but I really think most of them rock.
So yeah, the exams excluding English are in SEVEN days time and I really have zero confidence right now. I get stressed that I'm not doing anything to make my revision better and I really thank God that I have such cool people around me to keep me going. Thanks to all (you know who you are!) although the blog readership is like zero now haha.
I think I shall make a list of all the things to look forward to after exams, just to help me treat life with a better perspective:
RMUN Conference
Church Camp
Threejayrian Chalet
Trips to Rochor Beancurd
My nascent first Backpacking trip
Hanging out at Borders
MC Camp
12pm Wake-up times
Life has got to get better.
I think I'm fairly screwed, if there's a scale for how screwed up your life is.
There are three tests tomorrow. I have no idea what the teachers are trying to do. Three tests? Like get a life?
But I really have to appreciate some of the threejayrian teachers. Sometimes I think I'm goddamned lucky to have such great teachers. I don't have a royal flush (ah! I demean my teachers to mere playing cards!) but I really think most of them rock.
So yeah, the exams excluding English are in SEVEN days time and I really have zero confidence right now. I get stressed that I'm not doing anything to make my revision better and I really thank God that I have such cool people around me to keep me going. Thanks to all (you know who you are!) although the blog readership is like zero now haha.
I think I shall make a list of all the things to look forward to after exams, just to help me treat life with a better perspective:
RMUN Conference
Church Camp
Threejayrian Chalet
Trips to Rochor Beancurd
My nascent first Backpacking trip
Hanging out at Borders
MC Camp
12pm Wake-up times
Life has got to get better.
Labels: HOPE, school life
Eewkzams are coming. Hence BigFatSmiles will be less frequently updated as usual. This is the sad life of Singaporean students. Because we are so wealth-centred as a country, this largely influenced by you-know-who, our students are hence overworked and all supposedly dedicated and geared towards making Singapore more prosperous than it already is.
I long to lie on a hammock by the beautiful beaches in Thailand.
I long to lie on a hammock by the beautiful beaches in Thailand.
Response to a Tag (AKA Vicious Cycle)
3 Comments Published by wengkeong on Friday, April 20, 2007 at 11:36 PM.
Okay I shall stop procrastinating and do Danial's and Linus' crappy tag.
“This is what you are supposed to do - cut and paste if you decide to participate in the tagging game.. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things about themselves as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. After you do that, leave them each a comment letting them know you tagged them and to read your blog.”
1. I subscribe to Dictionary.com's Word of the Day in an attempt to improve my English but I always (always!) end up trashing that email.
2. I have resolved thousands of times never to lose my bottle. I have lost expensive Nike bottles, found them, and lost them again. Now, I tell myself I'd never lose my cheapo plastic bottles but I still lose them anyway. My record is 6 days.
3. I think Friendster is totally overrated because tons of people whom I haven't spoke more than a minute of conversation in my entire life adds me as a "friend" when they are not even an acquaintance.
4. I still use Friendster anyway.
5. I put my Gene (my MacBook) in her MacBook sleeve every time I finish using her even though I'm not bringing her anywhere but just depositing her in my drawer.
6. I always hope lifts have mirrors or highly reflective surfaces on them. I enjoy looking at myself there. Oh, and I also enjoy looking at myself from the windows of MRTs when they're underground and from anywhere else.
I tag: Nigel (CHUA), Zeng An, Ernest Puey, Abigail Ho, Jonathan Tan and ZHIXIANRRR!
“This is what you are supposed to do - cut and paste if you decide to participate in the tagging game.. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things about themselves as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. After you do that, leave them each a comment letting them know you tagged them and to read your blog.”
1. I subscribe to Dictionary.com's Word of the Day in an attempt to improve my English but I always (always!) end up trashing that email.
2. I have resolved thousands of times never to lose my bottle. I have lost expensive Nike bottles, found them, and lost them again. Now, I tell myself I'd never lose my cheapo plastic bottles but I still lose them anyway. My record is 6 days.
3. I think Friendster is totally overrated because tons of people whom I haven't spoke more than a minute of conversation in my entire life adds me as a "friend" when they are not even an acquaintance.
4. I still use Friendster anyway.
5. I put my Gene (my MacBook) in her MacBook sleeve every time I finish using her even though I'm not bringing her anywhere but just depositing her in my drawer.
6. I always hope lifts have mirrors or highly reflective surfaces on them. I enjoy looking at myself there. Oh, and I also enjoy looking at myself from the windows of MRTs when they're underground and from anywhere else.
I tag: Nigel (CHUA), Zeng An, Ernest Puey, Abigail Ho, Jonathan Tan and ZHIXIANRRR!
Labels: a tag
I think our "Hope for a Better Age" have painted an extremely disgusting picture of themselves.
If your runners don't collapse, where were they in the last 19 years?
Tripping our fastest runner just 10m before the finishing line? If you guys build sportsmen like this, and you guys are our "Hope for a Better Age", I think we're doomed.
"We ingrain into our runners that champions don't collapse."
-Raffles Cross-Country Coach
If your runners don't collapse, where were they in the last 19 years?
Tripping our fastest runner just 10m before the finishing line? If you guys build sportsmen like this, and you guys are our "Hope for a Better Age", I think we're doomed.
I'll leave tags to another day yea? Sorta when I have no inspiration to post anything yada yada.
I think its pretty cool to hear people bitch about their life. It makes you feel that what you're going through is much smoother. And that although life seems hard, someone always has it harder. I guess it's a vicious cycle, God made everyone good at different things so we each can adapt differently to the problems we face.
Life this weeks has been pretty hectic although I'm proud to say that I'm now homework-debt free. Every single piece of owed homework is handed up and all that's left is homework that is due a few days from now. I swear to myself I'm gonna do them and never be in debt again.
SAs are in a months time and I really need to study. Sometimes I ponder at our student life we have in Singapore, wondering why there is so much pressure and stress to perform at so many different areas in school life. Then I think about how so many people are desperate to get into school- then I feel better.
Right now, I seriously must start revision. Wednesday's the big day for Cross Country boys. I will seriously cry if we don't win both championships this time. Viva Victoria!
I think its pretty cool to hear people bitch about their life. It makes you feel that what you're going through is much smoother. And that although life seems hard, someone always has it harder. I guess it's a vicious cycle, God made everyone good at different things so we each can adapt differently to the problems we face.
Life this weeks has been pretty hectic although I'm proud to say that I'm now homework-debt free. Every single piece of owed homework is handed up and all that's left is homework that is due a few days from now. I swear to myself I'm gonna do them and never be in debt again.
SAs are in a months time and I really need to study. Sometimes I ponder at our student life we have in Singapore, wondering why there is so much pressure and stress to perform at so many different areas in school life. Then I think about how so many people are desperate to get into school- then I feel better.
Right now, I seriously must start revision. Wednesday's the big day for Cross Country boys. I will seriously cry if we don't win both championships this time. Viva Victoria!
I really have nothing to say. Except that I'm awed and humbled.
This is me, at Eleven Thirty-six in the night, typing a blog entry. You think I'm crazy, but, I have: Pokka Ice Lemon Tea!
Go figure! I took that long to discover something caffeine-d in school. There were the canned Nescafes crap but they didn't help at all (plus they carried exorbitantly un-worth-it price tags. The school soon realized the dangers of students drinking coffee (perfectly alright I did mention?) and removed it from the vendor's inventory.
For the past few weeks my reliance was on Milo although they were just energy boosters. They didn't exactly keep me awake but were a great way to start the day. Lizhi also enlightened me on buying the correct type of Milo- the canned kind or the packet kind. The canned one was one dollar while the packet was seventy cents. The canned one had 240ml of energy boosting Milo and the packet one had 250ml of energy boosting Milo.
Yeshhh. I kenna conned.
Whatever, so it's Ice Lemon Tea from Pokka tomorrow! Plus Sports Day and ultimate threejay bonding!
Oh, and to Nico if you're reading this: Thanks for those songs! Love it!
Go figure! I took that long to discover something caffeine-d in school. There were the canned Nescafes crap but they didn't help at all (plus they carried exorbitantly un-worth-it price tags. The school soon realized the dangers of students drinking coffee (perfectly alright I did mention?) and removed it from the vendor's inventory.
For the past few weeks my reliance was on Milo although they were just energy boosters. They didn't exactly keep me awake but were a great way to start the day. Lizhi also enlightened me on buying the correct type of Milo- the canned kind or the packet kind. The canned one was one dollar while the packet was seventy cents. The canned one had 240ml of energy boosting Milo and the packet one had 250ml of energy boosting Milo.
Yeshhh. I kenna conned.
Whatever, so it's Ice Lemon Tea from Pokka tomorrow! Plus Sports Day and ultimate threejay bonding!
Oh, and to Nico if you're reading this: Thanks for those songs! Love it!
Labels: threejay, Victorianism
Spent half an hour making a card for THREEJAY's dear Wilgene who is down with the utterly gross chicken pox. Let's just hope he comes back without any scars on him:)So rest well Wilgene! We await your return and your (inexistant) naggings to switch off our phones!
P/s I have yet to take any shots for the pasar malam yet! Utterly disappointed with self!
Labels: threejay, Victorianism
Seems like June is the "it" month for Apple to release Leopard. So while everyone is clamoring that Leopard is going to be a revolutionary product with more WOW than the irritating copycats, here is my list of hopes in the new Leopard :)
1) Dual operating system- to work Windows and Mac OS together without rebooting computer or virtualizing the system (AKA running two native systems alongside)
2) Spaces to be integrated into double screens, so I can have 2 LCDs and each LCD will show me one space.
3) Fancy new UI and new Graphics that will knock Microsoft's socks off yet with super fast loading speeds even with lousy graphics cards because of Apple's Core Animation coding technology.
4) iWork and iLife to be bundled into Leopard and sold together at extremely affordable student prices.
Okay. That's all I can think of. I think it's even stupid of me to try to think I have Apple's creativity in doing amazing stuff. Oh well, its 3 more months to go and we have yet another revolutions. In Apple World, revolutions are part of daily life.
1) Dual operating system- to work Windows and Mac OS together without rebooting computer or virtualizing the system (AKA running two native systems alongside)
2) Spaces to be integrated into double screens, so I can have 2 LCDs and each LCD will show me one space.
3) Fancy new UI and new Graphics that will knock Microsoft's socks off yet with super fast loading speeds even with lousy graphics cards because of Apple's Core Animation coding technology.
4) iWork and iLife to be bundled into Leopard and sold together at extremely affordable student prices.
Okay. That's all I can think of. I think it's even stupid of me to try to think I have Apple's creativity in doing amazing stuff. Oh well, its 3 more months to go and we have yet another revolutions. In Apple World, revolutions are part of daily life.
The end of the day chat with Elaine prompted me to write a second entry (something I haven't done in a long long time) just for ECHO because I knew that if I didn't I would probably never.On the left is a beautiful portrait of the beautiful relationships forged at the beautiful PSC. (It's PEE ASS SEE! OH PEE ASS SEE... Peer Support is SOSO part of me!) I probably won't be as emo as you guys, crying and all. But this event has definitely forged an imprint in my heart. For other ad-hocs, it's taken subtle reminders for us to remain in contact although that never happened. PSC has not taken any reminders (only "hopes" haha) that we would stay in contact. Because they aren't needed. We want to.
I'm pretty convinced that our bonds have transcended beyond gender- I hugged two girls- something usually very very taboo and the post-PSC blues lingered longer than anyone imagined. I guess everyone really appreciated the wonders of MSN after that.
The BBQ was awesome. I ate more than I usually did at barbeques- not that I didn't enjoy the food or thought it was unhealthy whatsoever but I wasn't usually the person standing around the pit waiting for those glorious chicken wings to be cooked. Yesterday's fire (kudos to whoever set it up) was awesome! The heat was marvelous and the food was cooked like so fast.
So like I managed to eat quite a lot since they passed the food around.
Oh, and ZHIXIANRRR. How could I miss you out in such a pivotal entry???
Well, the picture says it all I guess! Loves to you!
(AND all other PSC-ers out there of course! Photos courtesy of Becky and thanks to Elaine who referred me to them)
Labels: Convention, Peer Support, PGF, RGS, Victorianism
BIG FAT SMILES has no April Fools for you- not really a tradition here. A quick check on the last two April Fools at BFS showed *embarrassing laughs* no entries posted at all. Ah-huh ah-huh.
I am now lap blogging. Gene just woke up so she isn't too hot yet, thus my lap is not (yet) suffering from being overly roasted.
A more important event today would be that Apple has turned thirty one! My Uncle, a Linux supporter and non-apple fan proclaimed a few weeks before I purchased Gene that Apple will be gone from the computer industry in a decade.
So it's two years down,eight many years to go. And Apple's market share for Macintosh computers have a growth of 66% every quarter and that was at last year's WWDC so who knows how much faster it's growing now. Rumours of iPod killers and their eventual introduction did nothing to dent the iPod's powerful market share which still rides high. 13 out of 20 of Amazon.com's Best Selling MP3 players are iPods though I did not bother to check the actual market share (which at last year's iPod event was at around two thirds of the MP3 market).
iTunes has also sold 2 billion songs, a remarkable achievement for an online music store and more importantly, a legal online music store. In a world where pirates thrive, this achievement is definitely commendable. The iTunes Store is also the 4th best-selling music store in the United States- the others in the top five all being physical stores whilst iTunes is online.
Great job Apple.
I am now lap blogging. Gene just woke up so she isn't too hot yet, thus my lap is not (yet) suffering from being overly roasted.
A more important event today would be that Apple has turned thirty one! My Uncle, a Linux supporter and non-apple fan proclaimed a few weeks before I purchased Gene that Apple will be gone from the computer industry in a decade.
So it's two years down,
iTunes has also sold 2 billion songs, a remarkable achievement for an online music store and more importantly, a legal online music store. In a world where pirates thrive, this achievement is definitely commendable. The iTunes Store is also the 4th best-selling music store in the United States- the others in the top five all being physical stores whilst iTunes is online.
Great job Apple.
Labels: Apple, April Fools, Computers, Macintosh
