Musings

Alright, it's been long since I've posted anything here. Seems I always start every post with that line eh? But anyway, it's pretty true. So, one week of the As have concluded and there's 3 more weeks to go. But that's beside the point. Today, I've decided to talk about happiness. Yep, I realized the most important thing in life is being happy.

Now what exactly is happiness? Honestly, no dictionary definition would accurately describe happiness but I believe happiness is a state of mind. It's not something which one can actively seek for. Then again, people don't ask for happiness. They would ask for money, gadgets, grades, etc. something which would make them happy. Which is kind of strange because isn't happiness what we really want? People say, "Oh if only I had this, or that then I would be really happy." Now that's a really misguided statement. The object alone doesn't make one happy. Therefore, the first thing to note is having something won't make one happy.

What then would bring happiness? For me, I find that having new stuff or good grades don't make me happy. Yea maybe for a day or less there's that feeling of euphoria… Until I discover someone else has something newer or someone else did better than me and then I feel sad. Lol and believe me, it's pretty damn true. And why don't I feel happy anymore? Cos I ain't satisfied. Maybe it's just me but I don't like to lose out on anything. Maybe it's my personality or my star sign or what not or maybe it's just something about humans and satisfaction. So the key point here is being satisfied that is, being contented with what one has. And it's only when one is fully contented with what one has then can one happy. Sounds real simple but in reality it's hard.

Alright, as usual given my lazy nature, I shall just leave this post hanging here. It's not directed towards anyone but more towards myself actually so don't mind me. It's just that sometimes when we get too caught up in something; we actually forget what we were there for in the first place. And that's very dangerous because we lose sight of the original purpose and in doing so, have lost our ability to be happy. So when something seems to be drawing you in too deep take a step back and think about the situation; whether or not your current objectives were the same as when you first stepped in. That would be in itself an ideal benchmark to see how far you've deviated and perhaps it's time to come on home.

Reflections

Yes, the time has finally come. Tomorrow's the day I officially graduate from AC or in AC's more fanciful terms, the Baccalaureate Service. Either way, it's the day we say bye bye. And so, I'm here today to muse for one last time, my life at AC.

For one, I realized it's the people who make the school. Not the 'culture' or the 'school spirit' or whatever. So obviously, AC last year was a pretty bad time for me given the sudden uproot from familiar ground and being thrown into a sea of unfamiliar faces. But over time, things did get better. Also, AC had some shit ass rules last year which somehow appear less hiong (slang for tough) this year. Either the D comm decided to cut us some slack (highly unlikely) or I somehow managed to find ways to circumvent the rules. And since it's the last day of school, I think I shall cut the school some slack too and avoid poking too much fun at them. And since I'm feeling nice, maybe I'll say some nice things 'bout AC too.

For one, not all AC people are f(^&ed up and in this regard, not all ACS(I) and ACS(B) are pain in the asses (PITA) either. Granted, there appears to be a higher ratio of f(^&ers here but no, the ACS schools aren't always the main contributors. But this piece isn't about where AC gets all it's f(^&ers from. What I want to say is, having been in AC for the better of 2 years, I can safely conclude that it's not all happy and sundry. Yes, people fight, party, hate Chinese (language), discriminate, etc. But don't all schools experience them too? In fact, AC has a fair number of muggers too! Unlike yours truly who's spent the better of 2 years doing nothing but Dota. Well we'll come to that in just abit.

Ah yes, Dota, the game which unites many ACSians. Yep, I'm proud to say I've gotten to know more of my schoolmates over a game or 2 or more of Dota. So you see, computer games do have their benefits too. But playing too much does have detrimental effects, like failing Physics. But then again there's more to failing Physics. See, AC's Physics department is like the Defence of the Dark Arts in Hogwarts. The teachers are well, comparable to those in Potter land. And for the uninitiated, we're talking werewolves, lunatics, psychos and many other 'dark' things. And well, basically the subject itself plain sucks. I mean why would we ever want to know whether a ball will ever go through a wall if you throw it enough times, or say determine the amount of force needed to be exerted by our body to do a pull up. Physics is just plain weird and I'm sure many will agree. But of course, there'll be the usual detractors who would say Physics is applied Maths blah blah blah. Well face it, you guys are the anomaly. Ah yes, the only Physics term I've ever learnt. Anomaly. Meaning, them strange people who get aroused by lamda, F=ma and the like.

Alright, I shall stop here for now. Can't really bear to have the D comm come a calling at this time of the year.

Now before I end, I shall need to have my thank you speech which is customary whenever one leaves an organization for another.

First up, I wanna thank my friends who made my 2 years in AC not only bearable but fun too. It was an amazing journey and hopefully in future, we'll meet up again. So to, Thumb, EP, Jotham, KH, Corny, Kwok, Wes, Jason, Ming Hua, Chen, Si Jay, Julian, Muzz, Onwin, and the many more whom I may have left out, (I mean I couldn't just have known 14 people in AC eh?) thanks for the memories and all the best in your future endeavors. And then of course, my teachers who surprisingly were pretty nice people. I mean compared to some teachers in the past, AC's teachers (At least those who taught me) are almost like Mother Theresa. Pretty amazing eh, that the day would come when I finally found teachers who are really qualified to be teachers. Respect. Besides that, well probably gotta thank the other students in the library for bearing with our noisy ways. Lol. Oh and before I forgot, the new school librarians! Yep, even though I don't know your names, you guys have definitely done everything and more that librarians could ever do. Well, I'm feeling pretty tired now, so it's time to stop. 2 years have come and gone, I've probably, hopefully, become wiser and somehow or other straightened out my thinking. In 2 weeks time, it would be the start of the As and yet another life changing experience awaits. Well as always, in the oft quoted though seldom fully understood AC trademark, the best is yet to be. In the case probably the worse since 2 weeks to cramp 2 years of work is a little tight. AHahaahhha. Whoever said life was a bed of roses. Well it is but no one mentioned the thorns beneath.

Prelims

Well, well here we are at the end of the week. And this week is prelim week, so is next week and the week after. So as previously mentioned, I said I would report on the prelim happenings so here I am. First up, on Tuesday there was GP and Physics paper 3. GP was more like a joke with everyone sitting all over and everyone not bringing the entry proof and stuff. It's almost like as if it were at customs you know, no passport, no ticket etc. Lol then what the hell are you doing there anyway? Similarly, those clowns who keep forgetting their IC or entry proof, you guys seriously shouldn't be here. It's bloody irritating to have to wait for these jokers and they never seem to learn do they? Also, some people think the prelims are free seating. Apparently, 11 years and counting of education has not led them to read seating plans or even conceptualize the idea of one. So to those idiots who can't figure where they're seated, try the benches outside the swimming pool. I heard there's a pretty nice breeze and best of all, it's free seating.

Alright enough of the little eccentricities, moving on to the real thing. Physics was well as usual, Physics. You know, it's that weird feeling that Physics gives you when you didn't study? Well you guys probably wouldn't cos you all studied. Well MUGGERS! Muahaahahah, I'm too cool for school! Lol. But anyway, Physics pretty much sucked as usual but unlike someone I know, as least I didn't hand in a blank piece of paper. Seriously, I can't imagine me being returned my script the next day. Heh. And on Wednesday there was Econs which somehow tested everything that I didn't learn. Fantastic, just fantastic. Inflation, unemployment, recession, foreign exchange are all part of macro economy but no, global trade just had to pop out instead. But it's cool, Econs always is. Even if you didn't study, just do it and hope for the best. It's no lie but it ain't all truth either. So, yesterday was Maths and today was Chem paper 3. What can I say? Well nothing much given my lack of preparation as usual and the unpredictable nature of results. It's like I always come out of the hall full of hope that I did fine even if I didn't know shit bout the subject. And so I would collect my results with expectation in my heart and then, BAM! No A is bad enough but a mere scrap or a subpass, now that's the unpredictable nature of results for you. Delusions they call it, but let's just keep the status quo eh?

That must have been all the papers I've taken well unless I forgot to attend any which I highly doubt. So onto another issue. Odex. Yes, for all you anime lovers and people who read the newspapers, Odex has been quite a jerk recently. Firstly, let me say something. C'mon you cheap bastards, what the hell do you gain from slapping kids with $5000 fines? Cheap, cheap, cheap. No warning whatsoever, just the fine straight. You guys SUCK. No balls and bloody underhand. There are innocent parties out there and you press charges irregardless knowing full well most of them would be unable to afford the appeal costs. Well even if they did, I bet you would rather they pay the extra to you anyway. Seriously, that's no way to do business man. And forcing the ISPs' hands. You guys win lah, get the courts behind you so you can abuse consumers confidentiality. Get a life man. Let' see what you can do with those few thousands. Maybe arrange a nice funeral for yourselves? So, to all you anime lovers out there, even though I don't watch it and I don't see what's so nice about it, my sympathies with you. And if ever you tire of anime do come to Bnet and play dota with me. Make sure your CD is original too. Lol.

And that must be about all I have to say because it's time I go play dota. So till then, continue mugging and remember ODEX not downloading is BAD.

Prelims prelude

Alright, prelims are 2 days away and I can barely wait. You see unlike most of my friends who are dreading the prelims 'cos they're afraid of messing it up, I honestly can't be bothered anymore. All that the prelims have done was to make me one pissed off fella who has been stuck at home for the longest time ever, been unable to play dota freely and anytime I'm not revising which is most of the time, there's that little niggling warning at the back of my head. So as one can see, the prelims are a thorn in my side and therefore I simply can't wait for it to be over. And now just for the fun of it, let’s see how many ways I can pass my prelims. Assuming grades of A, B, C, D and E to be pass grades and the fact that I would still like to pass all my subjects, that means 5 different grades for 5 subjects each! So it'll probably be 5^5 because every subject is independent of the other, and the grades can be repeated and order doesn’t matter. So yea, 5*5*5*5*5 = 5^5. Woots! I've just revised permutations! And based on that, the probability of me getting 5 As is 1/3125 but the probability of me passing with any other grades is 3124/3125 which is 99.968%! Thus, one can see that aiming for 5 As is an inefficient allocation of resources. Hence, I should simply aim to pass because the chances of doing so are higher and this translates into more slack for me (I.e. Higher margin for error.) So folks, don't pressure yourselves too hard for prelims, as I've proven somewhat, passing isn't all that hard. In fact according to my (flawed) theory, one has a 99.968% chance of passing! But (in the words of some advertisement) why take my word for it? Try it for yourselves! Oh not to mention there'll probably be moderation too if enough people screw up. That means, your chances of passing is close to a 100%. Alright, enough for now, the real deal is in 2 days time. Till then, have fun mugging!

Prelims!

Alright it's been so long since I've posted anything here that I almost forgot about this space. So anyway, prelims are coming up and to celebrate this joyous occasion, I shall ensure that I document my prelims preparation to end as well as I can. And for all you other people in the school where I come from, apparently there's only 41 more days to prelims! That's like a little shy of 6 weeks which IMO is still a long, long time. To put things in perspective, try counting down in seconds. Last I tried I had in excess of 4 million seconds and it made me feel so at ease with myself. After all 4 million seconds is a long, long time until you realize that the seconds literally tick by. Muahaahhahaah.

Musings

PW

Hmm, I've no idea which week of Term 2 this is but I figured we still have many more weeks before the hols because the teachers haven't started dishing out holiday homework. Well maybe they have but I wasn't listening. Anyway, the holidays will come either way so no worry. What I am worried about is my screwed up PW results. Yes, like half the cohort of students out there in every JC except HC, I'm wondering what the hell happened to my PW. Now since this is a public domain and everyone's all sensitive and stuff, I cannot start on my highly vulgar rant about PW here, again. So, I shall have to talk nicely about PW.

Now, I'm still in favour of PW (Don't get me wrong, this ain't no MOE propaganda.). But I personally think PW has its purpose. For one it allows you to work in a team and unlike IPW in Secondary School where it didn't count for anything so no one gave a shit, PW in JC matters so everyone's taking it more seriously and teamwork abounds. That's what I like about PW. Cos everyone in the group actually does something and we all get to learn to work together. So, you see if the grading was taken away, I guess PW would be just like IPW and it would defeat the whole purpose. But then seeing that PW counts for 10% of our admission to Local Us, the grade would matter quite a bit especially for those aiming to enter the more competitive courses. So how? On one hand grading ensures we do work, but then who's to say the grading is entirely reflective of the effort we've put in? This is especially true for assholes who didn't do anything and still got a decent grade. Now, now I’m not pointing fingers but you guys know who you are. Also, isn't the learning process more important than a grade? So there you have it, the great dilemma the MOE is in. Of course there're many other factors for them to consider but the way I see it, grading keeps us from slacking but the grading system is flawed and it has a significant impact on our future. So maybe PW isn't such a good idea and what's even funnier is the teacher from a certain JC who started this whole PW thing going has one of the least number of As this year. LOL. It's really damn funny and I take my hat off to that JC for coming up with such a scheme.

But after all that's said and done, we can't really do anything about the grades can we? All we can do is bitch about it and curse and swear at anything and everything related to PW. And that I'll do with pleasure.

Musings

Ah, it's now the time of the year known as the calm before the storm. In a few more weeks, (months if you're a slacker, any longer don't bother.) before the preparations for the great prelims start. And I'm not too excited about it, obviously. Anyway, the Terms are just over and amazingly I don't have to attend remedial for everything! LOL. It would really suck having remedial for every subject. But if you have lots to catch up, then I guess remedial would help to a certain the extent. The extent of which one cannot be certain of, even the certainty of which one is certain that the remedial would be helpful to any extent cannot be ascertained. I digress. But remedial is supposed to help, right...
So, today I must talk about something which has been annoying me for the past weeks. It's the share a tune on the bus syndrome. It's a chronic illness where the sufferers who have been living off Pedra Branca and haven't seen a handphone since forever, pick up one and much to their amazement realise it can generate noise too very much like the birds from the island they came from. And these sufferers are really pitiful. Having not used a handphone before, it's certainly normal to find out what great functions the device has. But having a brain and some common sense, they should realise that unlike the birds off Perdra Branca, we humans on the bus do not need to hear some awful techno song being blasted from the pathetic little speaker which is probably not designed to output sound at such a volume which probably explains the great distortion in the sound. And why techno? Why can't you play something more radio friendly? Or at least something more quiet? It certainly isn't my idea of entertainment to be onboard a bus at eight plus, jammed with many other passengers, with the aircon either too cold or not working and having some clown(s) in the seat(s) behind me legs propped up against the back of my seat playing some shit music and talking in such loud voice(s) that even my ck9 cannot possibly isolate. And being the nice Singaporeans that most of the passengers are, we respect these deprived individuals and choose not to tell them to stfu in their faces. So we be all nice and courteous about it, shooting them the look every now and them, attempting to communicate the idea of bus etiquette to them. But no those idiots just don't get it do they. So, I've decided to post a list of dos and don'ts here just in case those fellas discover the Internet in the near future and maybe chance upon this space and learn how they should behave aboard the bus.

Nofing's guide to commuting on Singapore's public transport.
For buses:
As long as it is a public bus and not lim peh's (your father's) bus, treat it as public property. That means keep that pen knife/marker/screw driver/wrench away from the bus seats. If you've a screw loose, taking one more screw from the bus seat won't help. And don't proclaim your undying love for someone on the bus seat. The person would never find out and it shows how bloody atrocious your English is. We have Design and Technology (D&T) in school for a reason. It's to keep you from taking your carpentry to the bus.
Next, since it's a public bus, there are other individuals in the bus known as strangers to you. For that reason, don't talk so loudly on the bus so as to maintain the status quo of strangers. There is no need for anyone but yourself to know why Ah Hui left you for another girl, or whether you should pon (skip) school tomorrow to go to K (An entertainment outlet-Karaoke.)
Thirdly, much as loud voices are not tolerated on the bus, so are loud ringtones and music. If you're using stock iBuds (aka cheap white apple earphones), please go change them. You're not hearing your music because it's leaking out and now everyone but yourself can hear Jolin Tsai or Metallica or whatever it is you're listening to. If you for some reason have no earphones and really need to listen to your music, blaring it from the in built speakers is not an option. We already have TV mobile on board and it's bad enough therefore please don't add to it. Rather, position the speaker to your ear as if you're having a conversation and play the music softly. Granted it's not stereo so take your khaki's phone and place it against your other ear. Ok, it's dual mono but who cares?
Fourthly, for those trishaw riders/coffeeshop uncles wannabes, the bus is not your trishaw/coffeeshop. That means no propping up of legs against the back of the seat in front of you. Sounds confusing? Never mind, it means just keep your feet on the ground. However, if you insist, then when boarding bus, and there're two two empty rows of seats one behind the other, take the one behind so that the seat in front is unoccupied and you can prop your legs up until someone seats down. So we have a formula here. For all leg proppers out there. Let N be the seat you want to sit on, where N>1, and take the N+1 seat. If the N+1 seat does not exist or is occupied, it means you have to take the N seat and you cannot prop up your legs unless the N-1 seat is vacated. It's really simple right? Don't prop your legs up and save yourself the Maths.
Fifthly, as mentioned earlier, the bus is public property and not your second home. (The second home is your school not the bus.) That means no lying down to sleep on the bus. This especially applies during peak hours when the buses are packed and you're the sleepy asshole occupying 2 seats. It only serves to piss the other passengers off so much so that they will block your way and prevent you from alighting.
Ok, that must be about all for buses. For trains, well since I don't take it often, it means 2 things. 1, I don't know all the nonsense people do on trains. Most importantly, I don't encounter it often enough so I'm not too affected by it. So, I'll leave the train guide to later.
Alright, that must be all for now. Until next time, please do keep the bus rules in mind.

Termzzzz

This week is Terms week here where I am. Terms is actually a good thing because Terms means no lessons and we all get to go home early. And Terms also means no attire check. Well at least I haven't kenna any yet. But the d-comm just had to announce that there's an attire check this Friday! So nice of them to warn us in advance. But yea, appreciate it. Anyway, damn the J1s! I bet they're the cause of this attire check. See, the J1s after JAE seem to have forgotten that they're still in school. So, the girls shorten those skirts and wear those drawstrings on their blouses to look like Saints. Not that I'm complaining, but do try to be more original? Maybe instead of lengthening the blouse, hitch it up and tie a knot? Lol. That would surely put the school back into the limelight and the d-comm would most certainly have a field day catching them. Ahaahhah. And the issue with hair colour. I seriously don't understand. As long as it's not pink or some outlandish colour, surely it's ok right? Maybe if you colour your hair with the school colours it'll be fine? Red, blue, gold watch it unfold. My ass. Anyway, there's nothing much that can be done 'bout the hair check 'cept hope that it's a random one and I don't run into the d-comm. Hah.
Back to Terms now. Today was Physics, yesterday was Maths and the day before was Econs. Tomorrow is Chemistry. Well what do they have in common? I screwed them all and they're going to be my ticket to ssp! Woots! SSP isn't some Secret Service Program. In fact it's the opposite. Everyone knows what SSP is. Kinda like the Diamond Club back in ASS. Lol. SSP is Self Study or Supplementary Study or something study program. It's rather like having perma detention cos you gotta go down to the library a few times a week sign in like the dc people and sit down and study. But it's a bit better I suppose. Least you can listen to your mp3s. But it still sucks. But if I do strike the lottery and kenna SSP, it's not all too bad. High time I hit the books anyway. So, for the past three days, well at least yesterday and today, I had to do my papers in the badminton hall. How cool is that? It's actually kinda cool with a stage, aircon, lousy PA system and highly entertaining teacher antics. I think the only reason I go for exams is to see the highly entertaining teacher antics. They make it all worthwhile, very much like a circus act, highly recommended, 5 stars. Anyway, these two days, I must say I didn't perform well for my papers. But, but it's not all my fault. Granted, I should have tried harder but it was the birds' fault. See starting yesterday, 2 birds (Mynah birds, those medium size black birds, abit scrawny but they're strong. They're the good stuff ya hear me? Nothing like some big black birds.) somehow flew into the badminton hall and they didn't want to get out! Well they couldn't since the doors were closed but there were the windows were there not? Anyway it was fine to have 2 birds. I mean it's like moral support to know 2 birds are perched up there ready to shit on you the minute you answer a question wrong. Especially for MCQs. But the birds didn't shit, at least not on me. Maybe they should shit on the CPE and then he'll have to make a report and send it to SEAB. Something along the lines of birds attempting to cheat. Terminated. So, those 2 stupid birds decided to have a chit chat session on the rafters or whatever you call those high beams in the hall. And since the hall is rather big, the chirping was amplified and it resonated around the hall. Ok, amplified yes, resonated I don't know. What's resonate anyway? Lol. And the chirping was really disturbing. It really disrupts my train of thought especially when I'm cracking those damn problems. And because of that, I could not concentrate during the paper hence if I fail, I'm going to appeal and the birds be my witnesses.

Musings: Holidays my ass

These holidays have certainly been most meaningful with me spending the first 3 days participating in school based activities. Quite a feat given the only school based activity I ever do is, well attend school, and reluctantly doing so at that. So, now that I've wasted three days away, that leaves me with 4 more before the Terms arrive. And I must say that having Terms after the hols really suck. But I can't imagine having them before the hols either. Therefore we should just scrape the idea of Terms altogether and just wait for the big As. Makes life less stressful anyway. Alright, I don't feel like typing anymore, cursing and swearing at people online requires vigorous use of the keyboard and what's worse is that there's no spell check for it so I gotta type carefully. Super waste time. But then the people on the receiving end deserve it. Shame I don't have a microphone set else I would yell at them. And notice it's just the microphone and not the headset. So they can't yell back. Well they can but I won't hear them. Ahaahaha.

Musings

It's been forever since I posted anything here. And no I've not been banned form the computer. In fact I think I've been spending more time in front of it than ever! Doing what else? Homework of course! Bullshit. But yea spending more time at computer but not doing work. Anyway, Chinese New Year is over, attire check is coming, Terms are coming, all those damn tutorials which I didn't hand in have resulted in the various subject teachers threatening me with detention. Oh well, might as well then, serve all the detentions in one sitting. I.e. to kill all the detention slips with one detention. Probably won't work if the teachers have half a brain working. Which I'm sure they do.

So, I'm not here to talk about CNY or any of that shit. Nah, that's more like some diary entry. No I must talk about something new and revolutionary; well it seems that way to me at least. See an unknown student in my school (unknown to you of course) decided that he would pull a fast one on the teachers. The student apparently did his subject test paper asleep and was called up by the lecturer who referred the matter to his tutor. He failed the test anyway but that's not the point. What was interesting were the excuses he gave to the lecturer and the tutor. To the lecturer, he said the tutor didn't teach in class and was rubbish. To the tutor, he said the lecturer was so fierce and he couldn't understand a word and because the lecturer was so fierce, he daren't approach her to clarify his doubts. Well honestly, it's a pile of nonsense. Seriously, if it were me, lecturer fierce or not, understand the lecture or not, I would probably sleep through the whole thing and be the first out of the door minute the lecture's over. Same goes for the tutor. But then cannot explain away a U grade like that right? Must smoke the teachers again. Smoke your way through or rather sleep your way through the test cannot make it right, well try again. The point is if you freaking screwed up the test, don't go blame the whole world man. Take responsibility, tell the teacher you're tired of living, that you want to fail your As, kenna sign on in army then you'll wake up. Or else just be like me and sleep your way through lessons, come home and pia(Singlish: The act of rushing and putting yourself under extremely stressful conditions which more often than not results in you ditching the whole effort altogether.)

Of course this is not the right way. In fact everything I say or do is not politically, socially, morally, etc every other benchmark in society correct. In that case I don't know how else I can be correct. I digress. So lesson learnt today, don't go badmouth a teacher in front of another teacher especially if they're from the same school in the same department. It doesn't earn you any credit ya know. Because teachers as I mentioned earlier have at least half a brain working (I.e. Working brain > Grey matter in numb skull) and they know if you tell them some bad stuff about another teacher, you might just do the same to them. Well you don't need to be a teacher to know that but since teaching is a job, unlike Hollywood, any rumor is more likely to result in a sack than a lucky break to stardom.

Alright, I must end here and if anyone reads this going away thinking I'm talking about you whatsoever, no. The point of this entry is to highlight the fact that studying and passing tests are part and parcel of being a student. If you don't want to study and choose to pass the blame around, then please have some brains lah. Don't go blame the teachers. It's not ALWAYS their fault you know. Alternatively arrange for consultation with moi, the master guru in one on one, student to teacher confrontations. Joking only, I am a model student after all. Heh.

Musings

Recently the Ashley treatment saga popped up again. For those who don’t know what the Ashley treatment is about, it's about this 9 year old girl in America called Ashley (duh) who is "profoundly retarded" and is receiving hormone treatment to keep her permanently small. Now, what's the fuss 'bout giving someone hormonal treatment? After all some women have it during menopause and some guys have it to go either way. But for Ashley, it's different. See the problem is people are saying it's unethical and selfish of her parents to keep her small. After all her growth does not impede her quality of life and neither does it cause her harm. But the parents argue that if she continues growing, then one day she'll be too big for them to manage. And I agree with them. For all those critics out there who blast Ashley's parents for being selfish and wanting to maintain their current lifestyle, I say screw off. Why don't you guys go have some retarded kid and try caring for him or her for the rest of your damned life? Why is it that what other people do concern you so much? Will keeping Ashley small cause the sky to fall down? Or she not having boobs destroys your pedophilic fantasies? Seriously, I don't know shit 'bout caring for kids, but I do know I probably gave my folks hell bringing me up. And I'm not handicapped. Imagine having to care for a handicapped child then. And those parents of disabled children who criticized Ashley's parents. Well so you guys are what? Holier than thou? Maybe you could manage your kid but that don't mean everyone is like you. So where does one draw the line between family matters and society? Ashley is at the end of the day her parent's responsibility. No one else is going to replace them to care for Ashley. And as it is, I applaud them for caring for their daughter for the years she's been here rather than opting for the easy way out and sending her to a nursing home. Or worse just abandoning her altogether. Doesn't their courage and determination to care for their daughter deserve some commendation? So why the hell must everyone focus on the one point of hormone treatment? Is it wrong? Honestly the parents aren't exactly young, and to continue to care for their growing daughter is certainly no easy task. At the very least, they're trying their best to care for her. And if it means keeping her small, by all means. Don't come and tell me they're being selfish and all that bullshit. Come on you guys should know better. Ok, even if she continues growing, what good does it do? She's paralyzed for goodness sake. Does having a full grown paralyzed child make things any better? So to all you bastards out there blasting Ashley's parents, go get a life will ya? It's her parent's choice after all since her daughter is unable to decide. And as her parents, surely whatever decision they make will have her interests at heart. By personally caring for Ashley all along, it shows their sincerity and love for their child. That alone is enough evidence that whatever treatment Ashley receives, it will definitely be for the good of her. And that ends my thoughts about the Ashley treatment. That is until some great guy has some other ridiculous comment to make about the case.

And now, on to something even more amazing. Yep it's the annual cross country meet. Initially, our school was supposed to have it at Mac Ritchie. But then they changed it to Turf City. And I thought it was because Mac Ritchie was having some renovation works. But I was wrong. The reason was, some other cooky with a capital C JC decided to have their cross country at Mac too. And they apparently got their application through. Damn. Because if we had our cross country at Mac then it would have been very convenient for me to sneak off and head home. But no we had to have our cross country at some ulu place in Upper Bukit Timah which even the horses have abandoned. And well, to say the least the event wasn't too bad after all simply because compared to Mac, there was a real Mac at Turf City. Not to mention a Giant and many car shops. But the car shops are irrelevant but I shall mention them anyway. So, probably the only memorable thing about this year's cross country was, I walked the entire route and still cheated along the way? Yep I did do that but no it's not memorable because as far as I can remember, I've been doing that since forever! What's memorable was the effective deployment of the d-comm. They were so effective they got me chased out of Mac. Well at least I finished all my fries and coke. Lol. See, for some reason or other, we were told to gather at Turf City at 2.30. And our mass run better known as the ACJC Big Walk only starts at 4. And in between, I have no idea what we're supposed to be doing but apparently whatever we were supposed to be doing did not include lunching at Mac. Wonderful. So for an hour half we walk around looking for horse turd? Maybe they should rename it Turd City. Anyway, the whole thing was pretty uneventful, didn't rain, didn't have no chariots, teachers didn't get captured by ape man in jungle. So that's about all that's been going on. And now, it's high time I go do something more productive. Like DoTA. Ahahaahahaha.

Musings don't know number how many

Am I up to it? Guess I'll find out tomorrow.

Anyway, it's been a great relief for me to know that Chinese New Year is just round the corner. It's an even greater relief that swim pe will be over come end of this week. However, it's become an even greater worry for me since the school, more specifically the discipline committee or d-comm for short has officially announced its intention to conduct a random attire check in the near future. My my sounds like they're bidding for the IR or something. But anyway, the prospect of an attire check will make life much more exciting now. Imagine constantly having to flatten your hair, tuck in your shirts, wear the correct shoes, etc. Sounds like great fun to me. That's about all that's happening in school now. Oh yes, the Valentine's Day flower delivery service! Before I forget. It seems that the junior colleges in Singapore have all come together to celebrate Valentine's Day. How nice. And they're going to go about it by having some inter jc flower delivery service. Imagine how exciting that would be! We could spam flowers and have it delivered to every Tom, Dick and Harry. Alas, the flowers aren't free and come at a fee of 4 bucks if I'm not wrong. Suckers. 4 bucks just to spam flowers? Hell I might as well chop a tree and deliver it myself. But flowers aside, what I found interesting was that not all the JCs were participating in this hare brained scheme. Raffles, HCI and if I'm not wrong SA (seems like SA is smart too eh?) have declined to be a part of this cheat the students of their money conspiracy. But then Valentine's Day has always been a cheat your money day ever since money came about. I digress. So, what happens if I want to deliver flowers to those JCs? Then how? Do I have to use Fedex? Then it would be Fedex, 3 rest of JCs 0. We live to deliver. Ahh, I think I am going mad. Because I for one would never ever pay to deliver flowers. Much less pay a bunch of councilors. Never. Ok enough talking here. It's time for me to go and sleep. And find out what happens tomorrow. Sucks.

Bored

It's amazing how I would rather rot away all evening in front of the computer doing stupid things like this instead of picking up my notes and studying something, well in this case everything since I haven't started on anything - The vices of the media which is coincidentally the GP topic for the half term. However this is not an addiction per se. Rather it just reflects how repulsive school work must be. And imo doing benzenes and SHM all night isn't my idea of fun. And SHM isn't some variant of FHM for those lucky bastards not taking Physics. From what I've gathered during the lectures, SHM is yet another nonsensical Physics theory used to explain something which doesn't really need explaining and which 90% of the world’s population would not care for just like what Physics has been for the whole of last year. I digress. Anyway, I do not know what I'm doing here but I shall just continue typing until I tire and then it's time to sleep after a fruitful evening’s work.

So what's new? Well I really do not know. So I shall just have to go on typing till I tire. And that wouldn't be too hard would it. Just typing and typing and typing. Very soon I'd get bored of typing then I would publish this post then I would go to bed. And I think that would be soon. So in the mean time I shall just have to continue typing. And as I'm typing this it's becoming more and more like my "nothing" entry which I wrote during compulsory journal writing in lower secondary. And I bet it must have been the most famous journal entry ever written given that it was circulated all over the staffroom with the page folded and the word "Best!" scrawled on the top of the page in red obviously by whoever must have been my English teacher then. On top of that, I still had to re do that journal entry because writing about nothing was plain unacceptable. But why not? Given that my entry about nothing was far more substantial than some of classmate's entries about something. See, nothing is just like another Physics concept. It cannot be defined properly in words and must be represented in the form of squiggly lines and dx/dy. It really is very strange that I spend half my JC life looking at squiggly lines and writing grammatically wrong statements. And so here I go on typing and typing. By now you must be bored to shit and probably think I'm crazy. Well I think so too. The bored part I mean. But I must continue typing because I'm not tired yet and if I stop typing I'll have nothing to do. And when that happens I might just glance over at the stack of files atop my bag and feel guilty bout all the stress that I'll be putting my teachers through tomorrow. But it is not my fault is it not? If the teachers did not give me work which I would not do and which they would get pissed at me for then knowing the consequence of giving me the work why do they still bother giving me the work knowing full well the consequence of doing so and the inevitability of it happening. Ah the eccentricities of life just like Physics and Economics and Maths and Chemistry. Well that's all my subjects that I've listed here right. Great. Seems I don't really like school much. Surprise surprise. Ok I am getting tired of typing guess it's time to call it a day and go to sleep. Bye bye.

2nd post of '07 school year

One week of school has past and well that's one week closer to graduating? Yea. Anyway this has been a most wet start to the year but that don't seem to dampen the mood for anyone given that orientations all around ended well, the J1s didn't die and the As are still here. Damn the As and damn the J1s too. You see where I am studying the J1s are a weird bunch imo. Unlike previous batches of J1s, this batch has some sort of perverse mind. They enjoy going to the library! But of course since all they do is go there get on a sofa and sleep thereby denying me my rest. Seriously, these J1s do actually study and do whatever work they have or maybe finishing leftover A Maths papers or something. Lol. In fact I think they're studying more than me! Ah well, the bright eyed innocence of J1s. They think work is fun and having mass rallies is the greatest thing that happened in their lives. Not. Anyway, I'll just leave them to their stuff and see what they make out of it come JAE. Just make sure that whatever you do, your first 3 choices for JCs better be near your house.
Recently, more precisely round a week or so ago, the news of a blog - wearemean.blogspot.com, hit the headlines. So I went to check it out. But sadly they took down the stuff. Then I tried googling it for the archives. But those smarties offed the google function. Damn. But judging from what I've read, the blog owners some keyla and lesli or something like that certainly have no qualms flaming people online. But they're probably ball less or something cos now they've gone all quiet and are even removing comments left by readers. So, I'd encourage everyone to go to their space, once again wearemean.blogspot.com and drop a comment or two. Hopefully they wouldn't delete yours. Oh and do go to 0xymoronic.blogspot.com too. He's the guy who complained bout the wearemean people to the ST. I don't know why you should go to his blog but just go there and drop a comment too. Lol. I seem to be in a drop a comment mood. So now off I go to go drop some comments aka spam. Heh now you know what I'm getting at.

1st post of the school year 2007

It's been 3 days of school and I must say that things have changed quite a bit. Firstly, my class lost 3 members but gained 1 back. Not sure if it's good, bad or otherwise but shan't comment here anyway. And we've changed teachers. Apparently, all the classes I'm in are below college average. Lol. So the school decided to get us other teachers. And the implications? That our previous teachers weren't up to scratch? Or my classes are all plain screwed up. Whatever it is new teachers makes the New Year more exciting. And not forgetting the PAE people. How can I forget them? I was just like them a year ago; but in a different JC. Ahaahahaha. Well well what's there to say? Enjoy your time here and get out at JAE? Depends on them I guess but as someone once said, ac is an acquired taste. True. I haven't acquired the taste (don't think I ever will) but at least it doesn't leave a bitter feeling behind now.

1st '07 Post

Well well what can I say? Happy New Year! At long last I am finally going to be able to stop studying in 11 months time. And I really don't know if I'll ever pick up a textbook after that. But that remains to be seen. Right now, I believe it's highly appropriate for me to make my New Year resolutions like every other self righteous human being will be doing. And contrary to last year's resolution of not making another set this year, what the hell I'm just going to have to break one more resolution. So here's my New Year resolutions after yet another year of muddling around not making any headway but not exactly lost either.
New Year Resolutions
1. I will finish my final year in ac peacefully and try to graduate on a happy note.
2. I will try not to miss my lectures except under exceptional conditions.
- The lecture venue is too far away.
- The lecture is right after lunch.
- Going for the lecture just doesn’t feel right.
3. I will start working on my TYS and find those missing tutorials.
Well I'll leave it at 3 for now. When I can think of more then I'll add it. For now, just enjoy your hols and the first week of school which I find is generally even more unproductive than the hols.