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Saturday, January 25
taday's update will be a shorter 1 than yesterday's.
went to school this morning and arrived late - as usual - but then again, there wasn't anyone of "big" status around =). so I ended up taking charge of the CCA for about an hour this morning in a rather loose manner. i was obviously happy when my sir arrived 'cos i really didn't know what to do. they were playing ice-breakers and i didn't get myself stuck in with the sec1s, which numbered about 28 out of around 80 who signed up on the open house. i would say that number easily beats all our previous open house day results for like the past few years hands down and i'm happy with that even though only like around 25% of the people who signed up actually turned up.
from my point of view, i would say it's rather hard to gauge whether the sec1s actually enjoyed themselves but that may be because i was tired and didn't do much after sir arrived! i just hope that at least 28 will join us eventually because we really need the people. alanK was rather surprised when i told him we didn't have an interview process. we can't afford it you see given our small number.
had a really horrible afternoon just now.
i lost $1 to the stupid newspaper lady who insisted i had not paid her. i don't know if she was out to cheat me but i wasn't going to argue with her and just gave her another 60c for the newspaper. i then made alanK and me stand for a seat at Long John Silvers for a long time mainly because i didn't spot available seats on 3 occasions and they were taken by other people. we eventually left fed up and went to eat at some cafe. there i think i lost another $8 when i think i handed her a $10 note and she keyed in the cashier as a $2. I couldn't remember whether it was a $10 or $2 note but given my tiredness, i wasn't going to start an arguement and let it be. went home tired and half dead and slept until a few minutes ago. my luck didn't really improve as i tried some pinball on the computer and didn't really do well in it.
just read that singapore was unhappy with flippant comments by malaysia about going to war. oh PLEEEEASE stop it. there's always a bone to pick on and why do they never stop bickering! there's always something like train tracks, water, muslim people, land reclamation, some island that doesn't really have any importance to either country and whatever nonsense that we and malaysia cannot agree on. Obviously from Singapore's point of view Malaysia is in the wrong and from Malaysia's point of view Singapore are wrong. however, even a neutral would have felt that Malaysia are being rather unreasonable with public protests, condemnings from ministers and blown-up stories in newspapers. it's also obvious that they're using one of their physical advantages which is country size to attempt to spite us. words like dwarf and small dot and whatever acronym are being used by them, obviously to belittle us. they compete with us by setting up a port we don't do anything. but they even go and criticise us. that well, is plain unreasonable and i do hope that when they go to the International Court Of Justice to settle the Pedra Branca issue (which was the worthless island i was referring to) i hope that the people there will seriously listen to both sides and decide on the rightful winner. it malaysia wins, singapore should learn not to try and too big for its own good. if singapore wins, malaysia would be well, humiliated since they brought it up and that would be what they deserve.
why can't we stop arguing and cooperate on more serious issues like terrorism? why can't we settle these issues peacefully?
don't really feel like typing the usuals. vivian didn't look very happy today but then again, she's always been like that. she asked me about some people - meiyan and gana - meiyan i remember but gana i can't recall. maybe i have to look through the yearbooks again. you just have to move on once you lose touch with your friends. and i'm losing touch of some of them now.
Friday, January 24
started typing on friday 24th january 'cos this will be a long update and may stretch until saturday. literally. so...prepare yourself mentally 'COS IT"S GONNA BE LONG....AND YOU BETTA READ EVERY WORD!!!
haven't been updating recently mainly because everyday's become routine...wake up at around 10 in the morning...go for lessons...and try and waste the night away watching TV and/or playing games. Nothing much special on weekdays, maybe the odd sighting of a friend or two (i saw farishah, meena, tubby, lakesh and yong cheng today) but that's all about what's special on weekdays. Lessons are relatively okay, the teacher's terrific in terms of discipline (she dosen't care about discipline).
did something different today - on a week day - went to honghoon/cloud/tree/whatever-she-wants-me-to-call-her's birthday party. i can tell you i was surprised she held it at a pub, mainly 'cos i honestly didn't expect to enter such a place. gaga, alanK and dorothy ane even zhihan, with whom i went to the party with didn't seem that surprised. actually i was more bothered about finding the pub than thinking about walking into a pub. gaga made us wait for like half an hour before he showed up at Jurong East and previously alanK and me had rushed to there from Choa Chu Kang to pick up a present from cherie tang. anyway, i can honestly tell you that we had one hell of a time trying to get to that place. the bus at clementi took eternity to arrive, we went to the wrong unit thanks to alanK (how did he confuse #02-07 with #03-04?) and had a torrid time trying to get to the second storey. apparently there's only 1 lift and staircase out of like 6 that leads to the second storey and i got the wrong ESCALATOR that went to the third storey and i had to find my way down again. eventually found the elevator but took the stairs and i must say we had a bit of luck meeting the birthday girl who took us to the place personally. cloud/tree/wswmtch, honestly, looked rather different in appearance but not in character 'cos she was giggling for quite a period of time i was there. didn't like the pub very much 'cos it was far too noisy and there were too many people smoking for my liking. didn't do much there except eat, spill all of my friends drinks and embarassing myself by playing very poor pool. ended up leaving early due to committments for tommorrow and had to endure rather long waits to get back to Clementi. clementi's a place i've grown used too, although not attached, and i must say i was very relieved to see the clementi bus interchange again. and just in case you were wondering what the horrific place that was so hard to navigate was, it was an old gallery of a racecouse that had been converted to a shopping mall called Turf City. horrific, horrible, horrifying place. and this is one helluva long paragraph.
was my cranky natural self at the party mainly because i was with friends and i'm happy about that. people say i've changed in appearance but i don't really think so. i only think i've changed in character and become more of an introvert AT THE PRIVATE SCHOOL mainly because i don't really know anyone there. but throw in a friend and i'll be my old eccentric self again. one thing that puzzles me is why the teacher there(shanti) calls me Ryan. Ryan??? i've had weird nicknames like ostrich, rat, cockroach, "some vulgar word", k2, beanpole but RYAN? i don't really mind it but nobody has even given me a nickname which is well, a name. i mean nobody's called rat smith or ostrich lee but i'm not really used to being called by a proper name. i somehow prefer being called nonsensical names. something's wrong with her. and me.
kinda felt my mind being relaxed a lot and thoughts released when i went to the CCA open house last saturday. went there to help out 'cos i was requested to. i was definitely quite surprised to see quite a large number of students from my batch turning up and i can tell you that a lot of i-miss-you thoughts were forgotten. definitely helped me to a large extent as i find myself not thinking so much on friendships these days. you just have to move on. obviously there are some whom i still see frequently like alanK and mushroom but there are some whom you may never see again and i was kinda thinking about these people quite frequently during the first few days of 2003 and that really drained me mentally. i can tell you i was honestly happy that people still acknowledged me by screaming at me and calling me nonsensical names (like kik-kik-kok-kok...duh) and i was terribly delighted to know that some people missed me and were obviously pleased at my presence. one thing that didn't really get on the good side of me though was a certain person's seemingly unwillingness to help out. i understand the need to socialize and catch up with friends but we called her back to help out as we didn't have enough manpower but she ended up socializing. the manpower we have wasn't enough and i would have appreciated it if she had even helped out a bit more other that making last minute posters. no hard feelings, however.
saw around 10 of my ex-classmates that day and quite a few friendly faces and teachers. mr loh, seriously looked like a drunkard and was rather unkempt but then again, that's the way he's always been. anyway i called him "handsome" and he was quite modest about it. didn't spent much time socializing unlike some people because i was busy with the recruitment and having friendly arguments with gabriel and other ccas over students. around 60 people joined by the end of the open house but i doubt that much number will turn up tommorrow. however, i will be delighted if at least 30 do decide to join us mainly because my cca is in serious threat of closing down if we do not get enough people (which explains why i was harping about certain people socializing too much) and you now how loyal i am to people who treat me well (like my sir) and 30 would be excellent for us both in the short and long term.
will be seeing alanK tommorrow again. he's got npcc and i've got my stuff. i won't be expecting many mates to turn up but nonetheless i'll be keeping fingers crossed. for those of you who read every single word, i'm immensely proud of you because i know how tiring it can get to read huge chunks of text that dosen't really concern you. i can't really put pictures and stuff to spice it up and i'm sorry if this long paragraph did you any harm like eye damage or whatever. if you did suffer any strain or damage to your body while reading this, i suggest you look away from your computer for a moment or see a doctor. i'm saying this mainly because i myself am feeling the strain of typing a long update. anyway, if you're tired, rest, because there's still a little bit to go.
regarding my spoilt speakers, i ended up buying a new speakers that cost like $40 and i can tell you i was extremely relieved when i heard the computer making sounds again. $40 is a huge difference from $400 you know. my house's also become a mini zoo as i now have hamsters. put it with a rabbit, turtles, fishes, flies, a bird that flies in occasionally even though i live so high up and i have something like a mini-zoo. duh.
19. Wilson Ng or 'son
been with me throughout my 4 (or 4++ now that i'm back at the school helping out) years in CTSS. didn't like me personally in sec1 but be bonded well in sec 2. was my classroom partner for quite a part of my sec 2. got on really well in sec 3 and sec 4 and he says he likes me 'cos i'm eccentric. not afraid to stand up to gangsters, and really one who you really want as a bodyguard, as he's big sized.(even though he's not that macho). extremely good natured and a bit dirty minded at times. one person that will always remain a friend with you. and he's rich too.
Words of wisdom: Duh.
Tuesday, January 14
...some people really have too much time on their hands.....complaining complaning and complaining...i was reading the straits times forum page earlier today and i have to feel some people were really blowing up a small little matter. i truly feel sorry for these people as
I THINK THEY ARE DISGUSTING FOOLS. there was one who didn't like his neighbour putting up religious items and complained. and then he wasn't happy with the reply and complained again. IDIOT. there was another one who obviously didn't use her brain and open her eyes big enough when she said officers should be stationed on MRT platforms. HELLO, there ARE people standing around and there ARE officers at peak hours. Go stand there yourself the whole day, brainless fool. People who write to newspaper forums with complaints are idiots.
feelin rather angry 'cos my rabbit managed to squeeze into the study room just now and single-pawedly destroyed the sound system by biting at the wires. Its not the computer i'm using now BUT THE NEW COMPUTER!!! the sound system cost like $500!!! what am i going to do! i tried joining the wires but i'm not good at electric wires. i even got electrocuted. Now i don't dare to tell my father 'cos he's not very happy with the rabbit and he'll only punish the rabbit further which i don't want (even though deep down i sometimes wish that i could BEAT THE RABBIT UP). it spoilt the mouse but the mouse was saved by my father joining the wires. now the sound system is down and i don't dare to tell him...guess i have to find about $200 to buy another system...albeit smaller 1...unless i can find another similar wire or manage to repair it (which is unlikely given my terrible DIY skills). sigh.....where do i find $200...or a spare wire...
Thursday, January 2
well, not gonna write on anything much today although i will demonstrate my shallow of knowledge of HTML today!
i'm not into this HTML thingy but then again you do need to refresh yourself once in a while about these things and I just attended a lesson on these junk today. Hah!
A break and a line. I know this is stupid but hey i'm new to these things...
Mr Kok fell sick and went to see Doctor Kok who referred him to Madam Kok for no particular reason
Nothing spectucular. just a phrase which is (b), (i), (u), yellow and big. Hey, the phrase IS spectucular....
Mr Kok fell sick again and went to see Doctor Kok again who now referred him to Super Kok for no particular reason yet again
Some variation...and continuation of the erm...ongoing saga between Mr and Doctor Kok
¥500 was eventually to Doctor Kok. However Doctor Kok requested it be converted to £100 as he could only accept £ from males and ¥ from females ¡
Testing of some symbols.
Words of wisdom: In the end, Mr Kok decided he was not sick at all and decided to go home and sleep. (I know it's a poor ending.)
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