This is gonna be a long post.

Day 4 (Saturday, 26/12)
Went to the Eurasian Community House in the morning.
Been there once before... Sec 2 I think...
After which we proceed to lunch and tok along the way...
Sherry was attempting to learn some Canto phrases.
Felt quite left out of the conversations...
Perhaps it was due to home stay on the previous day...
Try to fit in somehow...

Proceed to Esplanade after lunch.
Never know that the backstage of the theatre is so freaking HUGE!
Also, there are lots of sophisticated equipments to make sound quality better.

Heritage tour was boring...
Our HK guests were even better at shopping than us.
Vivian was able to buy a few T-shirt from Chinatown in 15 min O.o
Someone was lost after Chinatown stop but luckily, everything turn out fine in the end.

Arriving at Night Safari, we had murtabak (Worst I had ever eaten)
There were hell lots of ppl there at Night Safari.
Shouldn't everyone be resting after Christmas Day?
Prices there was a rip off:
Chicken Rice - $17
Ice Mountain mineral water - $2.50
On our way home, I got myself a scandal.
Thank a lot Amos, I will remember this.
Dr was leaving the next day and we bid farewall to her.

Day 5 (Sunday, 27/12)
St Mary of the Angels church was not like church I had seen before.
It seems veri modern like.
No wonder there are more and more Christians nowadays.
To keep up with time, thats the key.
After which, there was a sharing session by EiF Facilitators.
Many of our HK guests K.O at this stage.
I nearly fell into dreamland like them, but managed to hang in there.
It will be a more challenging day tmr, with more toks.

At Marina Barrage, we flew kites.
Wind was awesome there, as it was about to rain.
After the tour, I gave out my durian cakes (Credit to dad and mom =D)
We thought that since our HK guests like to take photo veri much,
We should shout "Photo!" instead to lead them to move from point A to point B.

Day 6 (Monday, 28/12)
SMU was not as small as I thought.
Our tour guide in SMU was actually my sister primary school friend, Chay Ling.
A small world after all...
It looks like our guests were fascinated by SMU facilities.
They should tour NTU instead haha.
SMU was not in my choice of University and it will nv be.

As expected, our HK guests was defeated during NYC tok.
Unglam photos of those who slept were taken and posted in facebook haha.
Of all include Winnie, who was suppose to present a token of appreciation to the NYC ppl.
And she was still in denial, claiming that she was thinking veri deeply lol.

Depart for Malay Youth Literary Association (4PM)
I slept on the bus, as I was too, tired in NYC tok.
Unglam photos were taken once more on the bus, but somehow I escaped =D

After 4PM sharing session, I sat on the bus with this new friend I made: Fanny
In the short span of less than a week, there are still ppl who I did not hang out with.
Also, she helped me to take a photo.
"Is it nice?"
"Of course! The photo will not be too bad because of my handsome face."
"I also took a photo with my host family. Can you spot me?"
"This one?"
"Yes la. You can find me so fast because I am veri pretty ar."
Haha.
"Why you dun have English name ar?"
"I dunno, Maybe I am not a Christian? You should ask my parents."
"Many of our English names are made by ourselves. You dun need to be a Christian to have English name ar"
Can't imagine someone calling me by my English name haha.
After which we played polar bear at the back of the bus.

YOG learning centre was like another NE session all over haha.
Phototaking as usual.

Back to the hotel, we kill sometime before dinner by playing cards.
Riduan the fireman, Sherry and Tommy were all dressed up so formally.
Especially Tommy, who wore a suit with a blazer and tie.
He took a scandal picture with four gals around him.
We all speculate that his Vietnam girlfriend will kill him if she saw that photo.

Before entering the Grand Hall, I shook hand with a guy name Stanley.
After which I asked Jin Feng about his identity.
"Who is he?"
"What is his name? Did not really catch it."
"Stanley."
"OMG he is one of the big shot"
"Really ar?"
"Ya, he is the general manager of South East CDC!"

Dinner was ok... And we played the number game.
"If 1 is 4, 2 is 5... What is 15?"
Really got the guests at my table puzzled haha...
"We will tell you the answer when we visit HK."

Our guests put up a video and a performance for us that night.
After which, we spammed countless number of photos.
Where are all my photos ppl?
Most were taken with our HK guests cameras.
Tag in fb pls.
Not to say exchanging emails.
We were having too much fun that we refuse to leave the room.
Wonderful night we had. But all good things come to an end.

Day 7 (Tuesday, 29/12)
I joined everyone at the airport, in MJ uniform and my guitar.
Last moment we spent together...
Before sending them off to the departure gate.
Prisca cried before going in, till her nose and eyes turned red ='(
Yea, we were sad too.
Luckily the situation was under control before the whole bunch of us broke into tears.
Don't worry, we will see you guys in HK soon!

Went out for dinner at Just Acia Marina branch with a few of my sec sch mates.
Tok a lot and spammed a lot of ice cream.
One of Kent's school mate was there.
And we were trying to expose him haha.
We played 敲敲杯after everyone was so full up with ice cream and drinks.
Took a walk to esplanade and guess who I saw.
Sherry! He was bringing another HK girl around the city area.
After which we went to Uni Quo and I got myself a cheap jacket at $9.90

Today (Wednesday, 30/12)
Went NTU with my sis.
Ate cheap food and tour around the school.
Got foolscap pads with NTU logo!
I had forgotten when did I came up with this idea of collecting foolscap pads =D

Below are all my personal opinion not directed to anything:
NTU is so much better than NUS campus.
The whole place look a whole lot newer.
Especially the chemical and biological science building.
The whole NUS campus is like so rundown and haunted.
NTU is comparable to SMU campus, but jus a little older.
Big library, enough books to fill my house.
I am so going NTU.
Unless, honourable scholarship to oversea university.

Spend hell lots of time typing this post.
Time which I can use to finish up my math package.
Hence I should come back to reality - miserable life of a JC system.
11 more days to school reopen!
1 more year in this prison before going into another!
And I am looking foward to university life 4 years from now!

After returning from Vietnam,
I am currently engaged in my "class CIP"
Which is essentially to host Hong Kong ppl for exchange program.
Vietnam was not tat spectacular.
Communist, weird ppl (I mean those in the tour group, not locals there) and shopping.
That will veri much sum up the trip.

There are two reasons why I place inverted commas for "class CIP"
1) No even half the class turn up on any single day so far.
2) A one of a kind experience that is nothing like any of the CIP I had done so far.
I will elaborate on point 2 further.

Day 1 (Wednesday, 23/12)
Arrived in the airport at approximately 12.25pm
Waited till abt 2pm (A long wait...) for them to collect their luggage from belt 19.
Depart for hotel. Check-in.
Then we wait for them to gather at some "Grand Hall" in the hotel.

While the hall was filling up,
Firdaus tried to start a conversation with one of the few early birds.
"Are you one of the exchange student?"
I looked down onto her name tag, which wrote "Dr Carol Ma..."
" Err, she's a doctor..."
Yea, we had a good laugh.
I think tat tat really made her day, making her feel much younger.

Next we have some introduction.
Onli then did I realised almost all of them are taking art subjects in the university.
Not long before we leave for Pasir Ris.
On the bus trip, I tried to tok to those behind my seat.
It did not went veri well until...
"Can you speak chinese?"
"会啊"
"原来你会说普通话，不早讲！"
Right, newer generation of HK ppl speak chinese.
Dad's advice was not right everytime.
Apparently, they have better chinese than some Singaporeans.
I should thank her (Sorry, not good wif names!) for enlightening me.

Prawn fishing, which I caught nothing.
Dinner and some "entertainment", ruined by the soft volume of the mics.
And Dr got my socks for gift exchange, my new Esprit socks.
Guess all of them are tired on the first day.

Day 2 (Thursday, 24/12)
Reached Payar Lebar SouthEast CDC at 9.45am
Did not know that we need not meet so early.
Mayor tok... Blah Blah...
Quote from Jin Feng: At least I can use it for GP.

Talk to Vivian over lunch...
She 's quite a nice lady who is slight better at communicating in English.
Learn quite a bit on the educational system there.

After lunch, we went for an "amazing race"
$50 for transport wow =D
And I showed them what we can do with Mr Yusof Ishak on the $50 bill.
Group 1,2 and 4 decided to join up and screw the original race plan.
Instead, we brought them for Roti Prata, Mutton soup, Malay Kue and Teh Tarik.
Cabs to Chinatown where they tasted the square egg tarts.
Gosh I did not even know that such thing exists in Chinatown.

MRT to Orchard.
Running late and we did not do our amazing race ws =P
Char Kway Teow for dinner.
Obviously our groups did not eat much...
Our CDC youths tried to say the cantonese phase of "你吃饱吗？" in threatening manner.
Wanton leftover was the bomb.
It can at least feed someone for 3 meals.

View Christmas lighting after dinner.
Walked along Orchard road all the way back to hotel.
Which makes me wonder how long since I last hang out there...

Today was suppose to be home stay program for them.
Sadly my parents were in Malaysia for de weekend and hence I hosted nobody.
As I was saying, this CIP was nothing like wat I had done before.
And definitely, the best CIP ever =D
Can't wait for tmr: Day 4

NUS - Bristol Chemistry workshop day 2
Today is slightly better than yesterday.

First experiment was making an azo dye called Orange II.
Yea, jus mixing up chemicals because I was told to do so.
There is a part when the solution look like orange ice tea in a conical flask.
Little did I know that the dye stained my right thumb orange.
And it is still a little orangy right now.

Second experiment was making the 'oil of winter green'
Basically it is esterification of salicyclic acid wif methanol.
Finally something I am familiar with.
After heating under reflux for 40 min, our solution looks different from the rest.
We got a clear solution while others get some cloudy mixture.
I thought that since ester is insoluble, this experiment will be yet another failure =(
But surprisingly, we obtained a molten substance after cooling it down.
And we managed to obtain the oil, which smells like root beer.
I swear that the smell is addictive.
This session seems to be the best practical session.
In conclusion, practical session should not be held in isolation without theory.

Lecture in the afternoon was even better.
We had got live demonstrations in the LT.
Fun wif N2(l), H2O2, CO2(s), combustion of H2 balloons and CH3OH
Why can't lectures in MJ be like this?
Right, lack of budget from MOE.

However, this is still not worth S$267.50
And this was reflected in my feedback form =D

Actually I am quite reluctant to blog due to my laziness.
But here it goes.

Guitar camp was fun but I will skip the nitty little details of it.
The onli thing worth highlighting is that there is an AWESOME staff lounge in MJC.
Massage chairs in it are great and Mr Chia is veri kind to us ^^

NUS - Bristol Chemistry workshop day 1
Half the time while I am doing practical, I have no idea what a hell an I doing.
The theory behind the lab session was not strong enough.
We threw away what we made during the practical sessions =.=
And I will say that I benefited little from this, at least for today.
Definitely, S$ 267.50 is not worth at all.

In order to feel better, Cheng Boon and I decided to spam things there.
For example, we use filter paper jus to dry our apparatus ^^
And I threw one magnetic follower into the "non-chlorinated waste" box.
I shall think of more ideas to spam tmr...

However, there are still takeaways from today session.
- Magnetic follower is dam fun =D
- TLC is more of an improved version of paper chromatography.
- University food is CHEAP! (Actually I found this out long ago)
- Chanel #5 perfume contain some chemical that smells horrible.

I will grow up to be like the prof. from Bristol.
So that I can rip others off during Summer and Winter vacations.
But to reach that Ph.d seems far......

I will be back with mroe updates tmr.

P.S Mr Chong hasn't eat the chocolate we gave him hmm...

After much thoughts today...
I have came to a conclusion:
To choose Chemistry instead of Chemical Engineering in University.
Preferably, NTU.

With this in mind, I drafted out two possible plan:

A) Best scenario ever
- Gp tuition works well
- AAA/A
Get myself a scholarship to some pro college oversea (MIT =D)

B) Not so good a plan
- Gp screwed up
- Grades filled wif Bs or not able to get a scholarship
School of Chemistry and Biological Science, NTU.

This is jus a draft, I will improve on it.
PS: I shouldn't even make plan B; always landed up in the backup plan B =(

2012 - The Apocalypse
End of the world? Or jus a myth?
There is many debates over this issue, which side are you on?

For me, I believe that this whole "end of the world" is jus crap.
Even NASA believe that there is nothing special regarding the date 12 December 2012.

I have jus watched a documentary on 2012 this morning on History.
Prophet Nostradamus was a great man I must say.
A man with wits and wisdom.
But does that mean that his prediction will be true?
For start, many prophets predicted dates for the return of christ.
But none of them got it right.
Human make mistakes.
We should base the truth on facts and calculations instead.
And not believing something jus because many others think the same way.
God gave mankind brain for a reason.
I am not here to convince everyone that 2012 is not true.
But, more important, to convince everyone to think for yourself.

Of course we cannot rule out the possibility of disasters created by man.
Some country may decide to nuke the whole world, maybe?
But at least it will not be a chain of natural disasters so significant to wipe out Earth.
Again, these factors have no direct relation with the specific date in 2012.
I mean, it can occur anytime right?

I seriously hate the movie 2012.
It is exaggerating the issue when there are no real concrete evidences at all.
And this convinces more people to buy the story.
Perhaps all Hollywood films are like this.
But I felt strongly for this one.
And I will NEVER watch it.

However, this issue is not entirely bad.
A little scare is good once in a while.
Does the world really give a damn about environmental issues?
What about peace? Iraq war, anybody?
And all of a sudden people are rushing to mend these dire situations.
Why? Influence from the possibility of a major apocalypse of course.
To some extent, the scare does influence society as a whole, in a good way.

But, I will like to ask:
Will people continue their effort after 12 December 2012?
Will we learn our lesson?
Onli time will tell.

Today marks the official end of PW.
I will like to take this opportunity to thank my group mates.
For it won't be such a smooth route if not for everyone's contribution.
And also, I will like to thank Ms Sarina.
For marking through countless drafts of all relevant documents.
For your advices from time to time.
I really appreciate that.
1 subject down, 5 more to go!

Next up on the calendar is Singapore Chemistry Olympiad 2009
Few more days to go...
Hope I do well and make the school proud.
And I might skip school on Tuesday haha.

2 more weeks of school till December break.
Notice that I use the word "break" instead of "holiday".
This December break will be filled with lots of activities.
For starters:
-Guitar camp on 8-9 december
-Briston-NUS chemistry camp on 10-11 december
-Class CIP
-Class chalet in the last week of break
P.S:Not inclusive of CCA practices
Good thing that I have a week holiday in Vietnam.
That leaves me wif veri little time to revisit and master my J1 topics.
O well...

"Singtel is currently the only distributor of iphone. Hence we must collaberate with them."
Yea, this is what I told the assessor.
Little did I noe that hub will be selling iPhone until the moment I on the com =.=

Powerpoint slides ready.
Sound cable in.
Projector working.
Everyone siting comfortably.
Light's on, its showtime!

Slides are more or less done.
Scripts out.
Dry run tmr.
Everything seems to go pretty fast.
I can't seems to memorise my script =.=
Or maybe I have not put in the effort to do so =(

Chem olympiad is fun today.
All I can say is that ALCOHOL ROCKS!
It seems like any compound under the organic family tree can be synthesize from alcohol.
Pyridinium chlorochromate haha

Got a call from Mr Nair today.
I have completely forgotten about the NUS enrichment.
Yea, my edusave was drained and I need to pay cash =(
Someone hacked my edusave account and drained its content like a black hole.
Mr Nair seems veri pissed about my payment.
I have a feeling that NUS is conning my money...
Jus some chemicals and it cost $200+
Daylight robbery.
It better worth the money.
If not I will leave a veri bad impression of NUS school of science.

Another week had passed.
That will leave me with 2 more weeks till OP.
2 more weeks to endure.

I really hate doing pw.
Who will like it anyway?
Rumours say it will be abolish next year.
Maybe this is some scheming tactic to trick those who are retaining this year.
We will nv know till next year...

Now I really feel sick going to school tmr.
School hours are shorter, with no lessons but I still feel sick.
Sick of pw.
I will nv regret to choose studies if i am given a choice between that and pw.
This will be the longest two weeks of my lilfe.

Happy B'day Jansen ~
May you be wiser, fitter and more importantly, wealthier.

I am back with something to share =D
A little comic strip I had created (for pw) - Love Story
Enjoy! (and remember to abstain!)

This post shall be dedicated to my promo result.
In increasing order:

Gp: 45, E
I am actually quite happy that I have passed it.
I still remembered that I was convinced that I would definitely fail this time for GP.
Going for School of Thoughts tuition next year.
Hope it helps.

History: 58, C
Despite spending so much more time on history this round time,
Score was similar to that of mid year.
Wasted, should have spent more time on chem, which I will elaborate.

Chemistry: 58.5, C
This was sacrifice for history, which did not really pay off.
I expected this grade after I did the paper.
Nevertheless, there is still some disappointment, both myself and Mr Goh.
Sometimes we make the wrong decision, don't we?

Physic: 62, B
I will say this was within my expectation.
Did not put in as much effort for physic this time round.
Did not even do the revision package given to me (which I thought I had lost it).
I could have gotten a higher B hmm...

Mathematics: 88, A
I thought that math grade will be of the following inequality:
70 < x < 80, where x is the marks I gotten. Far lesser careless mistake than I expected. At least it is something I do right in promo. General comments: Very much this result is something I deserved. If onli I was not so lazy after mid years. And that I had not fall sick for a week due to suspected H1N1 . Things might turn out differently. Oh well...

Await my promotion to J2, where life will be even tougher.
Marks don't define me, I define my mark.

Good, I am making a conscious effort to blog =D

PW meeting for 2 days, how nice =.=
Thought I could go for some outing but PW has taken over piority.
Sigh, come to think of it, this is jus the beginning of the PW nightmare.

We had learnt a valuable and important lesson yesterday.
THERE IS NO PLUG IN MAC.
Somehow we ended up in staff canteen of T2.

Guess who I saw during lunch hour?
There is a whole group of NAS teachers are eating beside our table.
Ms Jamie Tan, Ms Pauline Choi, Mr Alvin Tan and a few others.
Good thing tat they don't recognise me.
Reminds me of days in NAS, where life was beautiful.
Get back to reality! U still have a pw to work on!

U noe wat? I will rather study for promo than to do pw.

Promo's over!

Can't believe that one year past so quickly.
Not quite sure how well I did for promo.

Gut feeling tells me tat mid year result will be better =(

Let's not talk abt it shall we?

I am feeling quite excited today.

Partially because sch ends at 11+ =D
And the other reason:

Pokedex version 3.8, designed by me ^^

It was quite fun creating this thermochromic phone.

Although it took me a whole afternoon.

Still look quite decent isn't it =D

See, PW can be fun! (I must be braindead after staying up so late)

Anyone interested to buy this phone? I can give special offer.

Gonna catch some sleep, Goodnight.

I jus feel tired, tired of everything.

Currently stuck at home, unable to go anywhere.
Seems like a house arrest =(
The reason?
Well, this is a result of what happen 2 days again......

On Thursday:
I am feeling rather lethargic in school, with a really bad sore throat.
Went home 'early' before my last period PE.
Found out that I had a mild fever of 37.8...
Then to the doctor...
After examination, the doctor gave me a 5-DAYS-MC till monday.
I was like O.o and ask for the reason.
He suspected that I caught the H1N1 virus but my condition was mild.
This really freaking scare the hell out of me.
Then I went home all worried and quarantined from my family members.

Today is a special day because I no longer have sore throat! ^^
I guess most probably the doctor overreacted or something...
Yea, life sux when u cannot go anywhere out of ur house.

Perhaps this is a blessing in disguise...
I can spend more time studying myself at home rather than wasting time in school.
Tons of work haiz...

Finally got back all my results: BBCCE
Although it was quite unsatisfactory that I did not obtain an A for any subject,
This was considered good for many who unfortunately hit the jackpot with Us.
I shall aim higher... for H3? Or maybe not.... Still deciding.
Watch your back Mr Park =D

8 more weeks to promos.
Didn't realise that we have so little time to prepare for it.
For those who made full use of 'June holiday', good for u.
And those who wasted your 'June holiday', better start doing something now.
If not, you will be given a free ticket to stay with the school for memorable another year.

This whole weekend, I onli did TJ math n Chem paper.
That leave me with undone tutorial for next week lol.
Ionic equilibrium, summation assignment.....
Well... later ba....

CCA resume next week =(
I wanted more free time to do my own stuffs T-T
Well, guess MOE finally realise that they are being paranoid.
Scrap the 2nd temp taking exercise too pls =D

Work hard everyone~

One week after MYE.
Lessons resumed...
Back to the same old boring times....

Results will be out next week.
Although I noe that I got a B for chemistry and passed my GP paper 1.
Hoping to see good results...

Science research programme offered in our school.
I got dam hell pissed off wif this system.
Is it true that all researchers must have excellent command of its English language?
Must their English be totally flawless?
Niel Bohr had bad english and he still got his freaking Ph.D.
Not onli that, he even got a Nobel Prize.
So why must there be a requirement of distinction for O level EL in order to take the programme?
Discrimination!

New Divide - Linkin Park.
Yea transformer 2 song!
But the lyric have no meaning, at least to me.
That is y I dun really listen to english songs... o well...

I will update soon...

Another few more hours before 'June Holiday' ends.
Also, it marks the start of MYE horror......

First off is math + history, which is tmr.
Then a day off to mug...
Physic on wed and end off on thurs with chem.

Feel that I am still not prepared for Mid years, despite hours of investment into studying.
Especially history, when we did not have a single test on.
I nv felt this way before =(
Wonder what kind of grades will I get...

This whole 'holiday' was quite meaningful to me....
Especially when I can catch up with my work.
Nv really played and enjoy myself that much like before.
University entrance ticket is nv cheap.

Sometimes hardwork didn't pay off.
Like the screw up grades I got for O lvl?
I wonder why I still push myself so hard all this while.
Yea, this is one of my weakness: I cared too much many a time.

Begin MYE with the end in mind:
We should celebrate or something on friday =D