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Tuesday, August 31, 2004


Quotable quote (I heard from somewhere):

You're like a star... A starfish.

...Incidentally did you happen to know that starfishes have no brains?


Monday, August 30, 2004


This is to all the people who adore giving running commentaries on the public bus to TV mobile programmes:

Please, SHUT UP!

No one enjoys listening to your running commentaries on the programme, and I'd be damned if anyone at all gives a hell about what you think with regards to the programme on the screen. It doesn't concern me at all (what you think), and as much as I'd like to, you don't seem to have a volume knob, so the persistantly annoying volume is a tad difficult to ignore. However if you have no sense of propriety or half a shred of decency to spend just that much effort shutting up, then you have my sympathies for having minimal brain matter and a almost certain lack of mind mouth coordination.

Thank you.


Wednesday, August 25, 2004


In an effort to spread the lameness, and in the spirit of sciences and biology on monday...

Q:What did one DNA say to another DNA?

A:Do these genes make me look fat?

-insert laughter-

Coincidentally Q and A put together form Qualitative Analysis... Oh well I'm reading too much into things.




I have decided that cucumbers and tomatoes are both very cute, and I sincerely hope that they come out for biology practical on Monday, because they are relatively easier to draw than compared to an orange or apple, and I certainly have much lesser practice on things like longitudinal tomato diagrams and legumes. And bananas are icky... Even though most of the time we don't get ripe ones, but it's still sticky and squishy and ugh *shudders* Then you still have to mash it up for reducing sugar tests and starch tests... Or maybe an onion or potato would come out... But actually I'm worrying prematurely because biology practical is on Monday, whilst physics is tomorrow and erm physics is quite unpreparable? So that's that...


Tuesday, August 24, 2004


Bleh, I shouldn't be blogging any more today, but I'm here to whine about a great big dragonfly that happened to visit my room just now. Okay, in my grandmother's words, hen xiao zhi er yi la... But in any case, it was happily flitting around my room, while I was trying to draw y=|3cos (x-90)| which is impossibly hard to draw when you're half wondering if the dragonfly will land on you. So I scurried outside and got my grandmother in to rescue me, because no matter how often people tell me that the biggest bugs are still smaller than the smallest humans, it's still a big bug. And the noise it makes, utterly distracting.... In came my grandmother with a broom trying to direct it in the general way of the window and it simply refused. It flew onto the ceiling, into the fan (past the grilles), behind my picture frame (got stuck there) and at one point I was quite freaked out about it actually landing on my bed, so I brought in Monday's edition of the classified ads and happily spread it on my bed. Then I decided if I didn't see it landing there I wouldn't get so disgusted, so I ran out to the kitchen to seek refuge and didn't come back in until my grandma said she tossed it out the window. Which isn't exactly inhumane, because it knows how to fly... And I'm entirely curious, how come insects (without wings) don't die when dropped from a great height? (in comparison to their body length anyway) It doesn't really seem quite probable, because an ant dropping from the table top would be equivalent to about at least a thousand storey building for a human? Unless their exoskeletons are really that tough... And once again I'm rambling about non syllabus related subjects.

On another more optimistic note, I got a B for my mock exam! History mock! *runs around* Okay, I'm about 5 more marks away from an A, and if I study enough for Malayan History it might hu bu and then I can get my A! But as usual, must du shu first...



ahem, mini announcement, I've finally got qing gong yan photos, some are quite blur, some have people looking off in another direction, but mostly normal, so I'll erm bring it around to co sometime soon to let you all see k? And erm next time take photos must remind me not to hunch... I'm short enough already
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*points to first post* I'm a big fat liar. So there.

Oral was less intimidating than expected, I slipped over a few words for reading, but I went really slowly this time, and tried to read it properly with expression, so I'm just hoping for the best. The passage was about Mr Min from the Day Care Centre and his knee problem, so he approached a Mrs Harrison ( who was married to an Englishman and spend PART of her time in the country) who was a REFLEXOLOGY specialist to help him treat his foot. Then later they talked about LASER surgery, ULTRASOUND, ACUPUNCTURE etc and about Mrs Harrison's cousin, Lily, who was a reflexologist wannabe and decided to compromise and use Mr Min as a practice subject.

The picture was of this nursing home for the disabled, with three women (facing the camera) helping one wheelchair bound man and another senior citizen with a cane massage their feet.

Conversation was fun though, they asked about an accident I had been involved in, so I recounted about the time when I smashed my chin on the floor and got taken to the hospital to have it stitched up. Then they asked if I believed in alternative medicine, so I sort of narrowed it down to Chinese medicine and said yes, because it didn't just cure symptoms, but rather went to the root of the problem. Then they asked if I knew of anyone who goes for these treatments and I brought up my grandma who has rheumatism and goes for acupuncture sessions, and I think it went quite well, because they were sort of laughing and wincing a bit when I recounted the smashed chin incident. Oh well, I hope I did okay, because I felt like I did okay, since the teachers were smiling and I was trying to maintain eye contact etc...

I have somehow lost the concept of time and think it's Wednesday (wendsday) when it's in actual fact Tuesday (teusday) and that prelims start next Wednesday (wendsday) instead of Thursday (tHursday) which is it's actual date. In any case, prelims seem very surreal, like I'm having an out of body experience (which I am not) and it just feels strange... That 4 years have gone by so fast, but there's more time for reminiscing later, after I finish mugging my stuff for the day.


Monday, August 23, 2004


Chemistry practical

V.A. was erm contaminated copper (II) sulphate solution with sodium chloride, under going a test tube full of reduction by potassium iodide (brown ppt), then being titrated with sodium thiosulphate for a while (until it turns yellow) then add 8 drops of starch (blue black solution) solution and titrate some more to get cream/off white ppt suspended in clear solution.

Unfortunately the first time, I didn't know how yellow was yellow, so I happily titrated all the way until the end point without having to add starch solution. Of course I redid it, at least 3 more times and got like 22.6, 22.7 and 23.0, so just took 22.65 lohz, which is coincidentally what someone else in class got, so I'm hoping it's okay, because the results I heard ranged from 23. something tp 22. something...

Anyway Q.A. was also okay I guess, except halfway I got confused between R(residue) and F (filtrate) and A(soluble compound) and B(insoluble compound), which are incidentally all the same thing from a white powder M. But besides that there was a lot of ammonia gas, which I discovered because I was annoyed at not getting white ppt, so I started sniffing my test tubes only to discover lots and lots of stinky ammonia gas, and in excess there was even more stinky ammonia gas, so that's that.

Practicals can be fun, before we went for chem prac, someone was sharing a story that someone told her, about 2 guys from a certain school who were doing chem prac and was trying to sniff for chlorine gas. Unfortunately, they took such generous sniffs that they promptly fainted on the spot and were sent to the hospital... *shakes head*

Another was biology practical, where someone put a burning peanut too close to a filter paper (in filter funnel) soaked in ethanol, and as it can be inferred, the paper caught fire. Despite valiant efforts to blow it out, it continued burning, so he threw it in the sink, which promptly caught fire too...

The endings of all three characters are quite unknown, except that they are probably safe and well tucked somewhere in the sunny little island we call home. And of course there are morals to the stories yes? So go find them out yourselves :P



In order to remain successfully omnivorous, I should stop peering at seafood tanks out of curiousity.

Fish tanks show fish in overcrowded tanks, jostling past each other in an attempt to remain alive, stagnating near the bottom of the tank, about as lifeless as one can get before actual death. Prawn tanks show ten or fifteen medium sized prawns hopping about the tank, avoiding prodding fat fingers of various precocious children, while moving around, sometimes straying too close to an ex companion's decapitated head. Eel tanks are bad too, the water level is low, the eels are convulated around the tank, being so compact that most of their heads are pointing in the same upward direction, unable to be differentiated if they are dead or alive, then suddenly something starts to move, and a slow rise of bodies can be seen, as the eel tries to find its own space somewhere. The impassive, lifeless face fixates you, causing you to wonder why on earth don't they get to even enjoy their last few moments before death. Crabs are probably the worst off, their claws and feet are tightly bound together, unable to move anywhere at all, their place of captivity not having even enough water to ensure that they are breathing. Their last bid of life captured only in the bubbles that foam at their mouths, showing their lack of oxygen as they are slowly aphyxiated.

*shudder* I thought science proved that if animals die a horrible death, they will release toxins in their bodies? Meaning if they aren't happy when they die, we'll be poisoned? Reminds me of dignity in death, something we discussed in literature last week, that no matter how a person has lived his/her life, they deserve to die with dignity, be it criminals, patients etc. But then again, can animals and people be compared on the same level? Watching a news programme just now, if the gorilla had not ventured to protect the boy, but showed signs of agression, he would most certainly have been sacrificed to protect the boy, but is it fair? Put an animal lover in that situation and he would have most likely hesitated, much like anyone else around, because no one should be given the right to judge a person's life. That's denying the person's right to live, and although I'm not some animal activist, but I think it stands for something.

But despite all the hoity-toity mentioned above, I am still (currently) a very contented omnivore and I doubt it will change any time soon...


Sunday, August 22, 2004


Anyway a little something about the concert cd we heard...

There's a lot we can improve on, and there are somethings we are good at, so no matter how you judge it, it cannot be entirely black and white. The spirit is there, the atmosphere and passion we have for our music can be felt, the technicalities are not as good, but that can be improved upon with practise. I'd rather you all have spirit and bad skills than have skills and no spirit (NOT that it means you all can don't lian le), for without spirit, the music has no soul, and everything is shallow, artificial and on the surface. It can only be taken to reflect the people within the orchestra as well, which is not true, because everyone in the orchestra has soul, spirit and passion.

So bu yao qi nei, you're all improving already, just have to know where to focus, and the juniors are doing well too, their yinse is getting better, so just make sure they practise more and focus as well, then will it be effective. :P But in any case, must have confidence in yourself, as well as the people in your group, I shall be prepared to be pleasantly surprised when I go back to watch huibao end of this year...



Decided to make a public blog, because... Well you can go think of the reasons for me, anyway have to mug now, so it will probably remain sparse and unupdated/rarely updated until I can get a break in between somewhere.