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Friday, September 30, 2005


Okay, I've been meaning to blog about this issue for quite a long while, that is, about the prevalence of local blogs and bloggers.After reading a recent article from Newsweek, "Criticism In An Uncritical Age" by John Simon, I realise that most people's blogs (mine included) are of utterly no critical value, in the strictest sense of the word. Sure, everyone has different experiences and some can even claim certain expertise in various areas. But when it comes to blogs, the sole or main purpose of the writer, undoubtedly, would be to express his or her own opinion. That is of course justified since blogs are considered "private" weblogs anyway, "private" enough to be placed on the Internet for millions of readers, known and unknown, to access. Of course, to do that is personal choice, and I'm sure the exhibitionist in all of us (hidden or otherwise) would not deny that we (I) enjoy having people read our blogs because of the attention it means. Especially for those with tagboards, leaving another form of communication available between you and your reader. =) But anyway, back to what I was saying about the article, he quotes T.S. Eliot as having observed that a critic, must be "very intelligent". This is what some of the blogs that have been reported in the news papers so far lack. Okay, maybe they don't even intentionally mean to be critical, or a critic, but to unfairly condemn other racial groups or religions due to sheer prejudice strikes me as nothing more than utter stupidity.

Besides that, since everyone is sharing their own personal opinion online, it just means that a floodgate has been opened. This means that like any huge body of water (pardon the inaccurate geographical assumptions), it comes with it's fair share of debris. As such it is definitely up to the reader to discern between what is worth taking seriously and what is not. Certain blogs, to me, are overly peppered with vulgarities and crude language, the purpose? Perhaps to adequately convey what the writer feels cannot be properly carried out across to the reader in any other form. Of course everyone does what he or she wants, mainly because they can. Freedom of speech should be a right given to those who know not to abuse it. Or at least not in the public eye. Like so many have told me before, people can get away with almost anything, as long as they don't get caught. Defaming a person, be it a teacher, group or maybe even a classmate, is certainly not beneficial to either party. It firstly feeds your hate and causes it to swell and grow, into some gargantuan bulbous sac of pus. (Utterly gross I know, much like hatred isn't it? Poisonous and it keeps accumulating until one day it bursts!) And of course, if and when you get caught (because people in high positions are becoming oh-so-very tech savvy now), so you probably will, you'd be the only one who gets into trouble. So is it all worth it? This expression of freedom and our thoughts simply because we can?

Saying so, all the above are purely of my own creation and hold no/little critical value at all. After all, I'm just another presumptuous little self centered teenage blogger in these tumultuous time of ours. =)



"Might is right." Discuss.

might1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mt)n.
The power, force, or influence held by a person or group.
Physical strength.
Strength or ability to do something. See Synonyms at strength. See Regional Note at powerful.
[Middle English, from Old English meaht, miht. See magh- in Indo-European Roots.][Download Now or Buy the Book]
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right ( P ) Pronunciation Key (rt)adj. right·er, right·est
1. Conforming with or conformable to justice, law, or morality: do the right thing and confess.
2. In accordance with fact, reason, or truth; correct: the right answer.
3. Fitting, proper, or appropriate: It is not right to leave the party without saying goodbye.
4. Most favorable, desirable, or convenient: the right time to act.
5. In or into a satisfactory state or condition: put things right.
6. In good mental or physical health or order.


n.
1. That which is just, morally good, legal, proper, or fitting.
2. Something that is due to a person or governmental body by law, tradition, or nature.
3. Something, especially humane treatment, claimed to be due to animals by moral principle.
4. A just or legal claim or title.
According to law, morality, or justice.

Hmm...


Monday, September 26, 2005


I was actually quite proud that I hadn't touched the com at all today... Then I had to come online and blog about it. XD Okay this is horrible. -smacks self- Must have self control! Which means I'll try to come online less and less... Till after promos and during the weekends anyway. But I've decided to come do a survey from pei pei's blog anyway, cos I just watched Pride just now (hard to believe promos start this Friday right?) and 木村拓哉 is very shuai! XD

Seven things you plan to do before you die:
1. fall in love
2. affect someone's life in a good way
3. tell everyone i care about that i care about them
4. hmm, get a dream job
5. go bungee jumping or something like that
6. go to a nice foreign country far away
7. keep in contact with my friends...

Seven things I could do:
could or can?
1. i can abstain from the computer for a (long) while (hopefully)
2. i can sleep for more than 12 hours at a time
3. i can stay up for more than 24 hours if I have people to talk to
4. i can very easily be annoying =)
5. i can multi task! but not that everything gets the same amount of attention -> not equal quality of products
6. i can bake! without burning down anything
7. i can erm...talk a lot of crap at certain (in)appropriate times...

Seven celebrity crushes:
1. 木村拓哉!!! XD
2. Daniel Wu!!!!
3. Johnny Depp!!
4. Orlando Bloom
5. Jake Gyllenhaal
6. Christian Coulson
7. Spike from Buffy! =)

Seven often-repeated words:
1. huh
2. what
3. erm
4. why
5. oops
6. the
7. but

Seven physical traits I look for in the opposite sex:
1. height (must be taller than me! but that's not too bad wad right? I concede that I'm quite short...)
2. hmm... hair? I think guys with long hair look odd.. =X
3. must be warm! or have warm dry hands that are nice to hold...
4. er.. nice shoulders? ok this is starting to get weird...
5. haiz two eyes, two ears, one nose... the normal stuff!
6. a nice heart =) physical wad right? actually not really... but oh well
7. brains!

Seven tags go to:
1. ame
2. jiching (then finally there'll be something i understand...)
3. beng
4. zhu zhang
5. shell
6. cheegake
7. bong


Monday, September 19, 2005


Okay, this is going to be a hopefully quite short personal recount/narrative post about yesterday, mainly revolving around xue lang hu. This is due to the very real but sudden realisation about my severe lack of time for studying for my promotional exams, which reflected in the previous entry, is of utmost importance in ensuring I get promoted to J2 and not stuck doing some new syllabus or the old syllabus at another school. Anyway, without going off tangent, let's see what happened yesterday...

Woke up in the morning as usual, perhaps later than usual, but still didn't help very much. I'm someone who needs a lot a lot of sleep, and alarms normally annoy me to no end. But in circumstances as such (i.e. we are dictated by time and schedules not vice versa) I had no choice but to set such an alarm to rouse me from my peaceful slumber. Lugging my notes and stuff out, I set out to mug BIO! I was overestimating myself by bringing 2 extra papers out in case I finished my biology stuff and wanted to switch topic. Unfortunately I took nearly the entire day to figure out and memorise my respiration stuff (i.e. glycolysis and kreb's cycle), but it felt rather nice to accomplish such a feat. Except, that in order to recall the (long lengthy tedious) 10 steps of glycolysis and pretty kreb's cycle, I have to write down everything in order. That of course is a major inconvenience, but I highly doubt that they will ask you for like the 7.5th step of glycolysis or something right? I mean they can be evil, but sadistic to such an extent? I think I should keep my big mouth shut in case they really do that. But anyway, so I finished mugging lovely bio and trooped off to city hall to meet beng for dinner!

Arriving earlier than expected, and having been requested by my brother to buy the new Fish Leong cd (which is really good by the way), I went to HMV to look around. Then I decided that looking around at HMV was much more interesting than stoning at the MRT station, so I happily smsed beng to tell her to look for me at HMV when she came. Not till like practically 20 minutes-half an hour later did it finally occur to me that beng still doesn't have her phone! In that sudden flash of brillance, I paid for the cd and rushed off back to the MRT station where poor beng was waiting patiently for horrid little me.

But at least we found each other in the end, and proceeded to have an interesting albeit niao-y lunch at...Thai Express! (insider joke yea? -wink-) They have quite nice er soft shell crab and curry and tom yam soup, if you're feeling rich enough to pay that is... After which we proceeded on our quest, pilgrimmage to be more exact, to the indoor stadium to watch the very impressive Jacky Cheung! Or rather his musical, Snow.Wolf.Lake aka XueLangHu. But the road was long and fraught with dangers! We travelled along winding deserted roads, on the expressway (due to the pathway beside it being fenced up for renovations), climbed across barriers (in the middle of the expressway), crossed the expressway (twice to be exact), walked along traffic on the expressway (and consequently getting honked at everytime we stopped to see if we had a chance to cross the road), etc. Essentially it was a extremely nerve-wrecking experience and something that although was thrilling once, but I never want to go through again. <- I suddenly missed my dad's car a lot!

Anyway, once we got there, and past the throngs of people and smoke, we entered the indoor stadium... And I for one, was awed by the seating capacity of the stadium as well as the fact that the stage was erm open at 3 sides? Like |____| can be seen, only the er ---- or top/back part can't. We were both trying to be trigger happy and yet at the same time not get caught... Camera phones are nice little things, but they take small photos (i.e. moon -> lightbulb arh? -shakes head-) They have relatively passable recording systems too, but small memory capacity! Haiz, my phone has nice functions, but none of them are of that good a standard (obviously) as something that is built specifically for that function only, like a camera, recorder etc. Oh well, I'm quite content with it for the moment. =) Nice phone.

On to the main story... The plot was sadly typical, but I already knew that before hand and came looking forward to the music more than the plot. Thankfully the music didn't disappoint and it was really enjoyable. Zhang Xue You's voice can really rang ni ting chu er you... The duets were sweet, although Xu Hui Xin seemed a bit young in comparison and so her voice was of a slightly more childlike(?), definitely higher but er saccharine sweet sort. But they sounded good together... I quite enjoyed myself and the experience was...good =) I'm trying to see if I have enough cash to go for the Mayday concert at the end of the year. XD Should be a totally different experience altogether, and more audience participation? So more fun ba... Rather than passively sitting in the chair and being unable to interact or share in the emotions of the actors on stage as directly.

The most dreaded thing after that was the ride home. This was when I truly started missing having private transport... The entire situation was chaotic, all the taxi phonelines were busy and the bus was crammed full of people! Plus it was close to 12 and so there wouldn't be any MRT trains left? And of course me, being the quite geographically challenged person I am, had absolutely no idea how to get home except via MRT or cab. So cab it was. Worse of all, I think the taxi companies hate me now... Whenever I call, I never seem to know where I am or where I want the cab to come and pick me. So it's always a battle to try and decipher road signs, find significant land marks and such. Not only did my heart feel the pinch (sheer stupidity for lack of direction + lack of sleep + reaching home LATE at night) my wallet felt the most impact... -piang- That was the sound of my heart shattering due to the added stress of being affected by the weight of my wallet. (Where the weight of my wallet [i.e. monetary value of it's contents] is inversely proportionate to the negative impact on my heart) Xin tong arH!!!

Okay, that more or less sums up my Sunday, because after that I was so tired I just plonked on my bed and slept (after brushing my teeth and changing of course). And today I woke up most unwillingly due to the feeling of cold fingers on my cheek, after the first attempt at waking me up (by my mother) failed.


Tuesday, September 13, 2005


Promos look quite bleak at the moment. Heh. They'll probably look bleaker as the days go by. 2 weeks plus a few days left to promos. For a moment I thought I had 9 subjects to deal with again, then I remembered I had 4. Which evens out to about 3 days per subject, and they aren't even full days? More like little bits of time I squeeze out from after classes, from studying spa, doing tutorials (yes I still do tutorials), studying for lecture/small tests etc. And the interesting bit is that in order for me to do relatively well for my overall grade, I have to get extremely high As for 3/4 of my subjects? The other subject I have to do tremendously well in to get a decent A level pass. <- Guess the subject!

From this I realise that firstly, messing up your block tests is baaad... Even if you do fantastically well for lecture tests, it won't help much. Not that you shouldn't do well for lecture tests. In fact you should aim to do well for everything. Aim. Heh, whether or not you eventually do well is another matter all together. Anyway, secondly, promos are very very heavy! So doing badly is not a preferred alternative at all. =( High As for promos? -shakes head-


Sunday, September 11, 2005


I think I was having a hyper hangover from last night? Thank goodness I put tuition yesterday morning... Don't think I would have been in the mood to study or do work at all, not to mention how sleepy I would be... Tried mugging for chemistry lecture test tomorrow, but I was sleepy! I mean I would read my notes, blink. Blink. Close my eyes. Then wake up and continue reading. In the end I still managed to finish reading my notes, though I wasn't focusing very well. In addition to the fact that my nose was alternating between running and being blocked. I think I was quite an annoyance in the library today. Haiz, but it's a very miserable feeling, being cold, having a running nose... And not having enough tissue! I feel quite bad about the number of trees I've been killing the past few days, printing papers, answer sheets, taking care of my leaky nose... Maybe it's just the not getting proper rest, plus cold, dry air conditioning and sensitive nose. Oh well, school again tomorrow. Remind me never to lament about our tests to seniors/juniors who have prelims. It always seems so much less important in comparison.



Heh, this is going to be a relatively weird entry with lots of spontaneous hypernes! Okay, back to the entry...

MAF MAF!!! XD HC maf is so fun! Pretty lights (very pretty lights), nice people, good atmosphere... It's just really cool! I think I got to run around quite a lot? Took part as a performer, helped out at the stall for a while, although I felt pretty useless.. Took part in dance! No song though, except for hua chu de ge and er the other one whose title I can't remember. But it's just really nice, since you see the entire school (past and present) doing the song and dances so enthusiastically, the huge crowd, so much activity going on!

But I think I wouldn't have enjoyed it that much if it didn't end on a good note? I'm quite glad that the class went somewhere after that, even if it was just the pavement outside 711? It's fun and spontaneous! And the ice cream got me on a sort of high.. XD

Didn't really flop the performance says some people, but apparently people caught me laughing, when I don't even remember laughing lahz! Which is bad, cos normally I'd remember... And I forgot to play one part of xiao ding dang cos I was stunned/nervous cos long teng was er... fast. And xiao ding dang wasn't quite like we rehearsed... Plus the lights were so bright! So I was kind of stunned for quite a while after the performance ended... I was kind of afraid that I would have nothing to do, so I wandered around, and watched the light up! It was so pretty! And I managed to get a photo of it on my phone! Okay, phone photos aren't that pretty, so all those with photos, post them up!

Playing with sparklers by the roadside, eating ice cream with classmates... Singing college songs, doing college dances... Mmm =)


Friday, September 09, 2005


梁静茹-丝路

词：阿信　曲：王力宏


如果流浪 是你的天赋
那麽你 一定是我最美的追逐
如果爱情 是你的游牧
拥有过 是不是该满足

谁带我踏上孤独的丝路 追逐你的脚步
谁带我离开孤独的丝路 感受你的温度

我将眼泪流成天山上面的湖
让你疲倦时能够扎营停驻
强敌深湖玄武
为你笑为你哭

爱上你的全部　放弃我的全部
爱上了你之後　我开始领悟
陪你走了一段　最唯美的国度
爱上了你之後　我从来不哭

谁是谁的幸福　我从来不在乎
谁是谁的旅途　我只要你记住

星星就是　穷人的珍珠
你的笑　支撑著我虔诚的最初

狂风沙是　我单薄衣服
穿越过亚细亚的迷雾

云破日出
你是那道光束　带著平凡的我
走过奇迹旅途


Thursday, September 08, 2005


Have you ever heard a song, then instantly reconnected it to some memory, a group of people or someone in your life? It's quite interesting really, the memories that you recollect because of a song. Like when I hear songs from Moulin Rouge, I think of 414, when I hear Jump (for your love) I think of alice and boon pin (cos of the pe module thing). Or when I hear 星睛, I think of ame and rachel, when I hear 半岛铁盒 I think of zhiyu, and actually when I hear 周杰伦 or 草蜢's 爱不怕 or 杜德伟's 脱掉 I will start to think of daoju at the amphi? Heh, then when I heard Can't fight the moonlight, Vitamin C's graduation or Bosson's One in a million I think of my p6 days? I think I was quite a pessimistic kid then, got quite sad about everything. Hmm, thankfully that's changed (I hope)... And now if I hear 屋顶 or 童话 I think of 73! Which kind of shows how much music is a part of my life, as well as for many other people as well.

Music can dictate our mood, make us feel better, make us feel worse? Help us sink deeper into a worse mood or get people hyper. Oh well, music is nice. Nice being a generic term but positive term to use. I don't think I'm in a right state of mind now. )= -pokes brain- I imagine it in a tofu like state, bobbing around in all the brain fluid stuff, not doing anything but float around. Which sounds completely messed up for a biology student. Oh well.


Tuesday, September 06, 2005


曲：彩虹眼泪
歌手：sweety 专辑：17岁 不温柔
词:陈熙 陈天佑 曲:陈熙

他总是不了解
我那些假装的无所谓
关于那些是是非非
爱的疲惫又有谁能陪
我总不够坚决
才会在爱里面绕圈圈
我学得会
口是心非不要流泪
天上的眼泪
他好像懂我的心碎
懂得轻轻给我一些安慰
我们应该要了解
伤了心有种爱的美
天上的彩虹
总出现在天晴雨过
我已经懂得轻轻的放手
就算我觉得难过
你会在我身边守候
陪我一起去看彩虹

你总是不自觉
才会在爱里面绕圈圈
让他去飞
留个泪水才能学会
擦干了成长的泪水
搭上了幸福的地铁
远方有个声音
那一定会是你


Sunday, September 04, 2005


I think I turn cold very quickly, especially my hands... Then my nose gets blocked and I can't breathe properly, then my feet freeze, etc. I would never be able to survive properly in cold habitat, I mean me, in an air conditioned room now, in Singapore, and I start shivering, even when I'm in jeans, T-shirt and pullover. When I get out of the air conditioned room, my nose is still blocked, and my feet are still cold. I think when I die, I'll turn cold very quickly... Oh well, morbid thoughts.


Thursday, September 01, 2005


Hmm, tomorrow's going to be the start of the exams for a lot of people, and it's a horrible day with 5 tests for us as well, so we all must jia you k? Good luck to everyone and must persevere hor, it'll be over soon. =)



Haiz, totally lacking efficiency in whatever I'm doing now. =( And this is terribly bad, since there's already quite little time left, and anymore procrastinating or dawdling of any sort will probably affect my studying quite badly as well as the results of my studying. Anyway, I just did something really stupid, like stuff my cd in the cd player and now it's stuck there. So being me, I tried to open the cover and to facilitate that I tried pulling out the plugs without turning off the power supply first. Good job right? I got electric shocks, and I didn't even realise why, since I just thought it was the edge of the shelf that was sharp. But after close inspection, the edge of the shelf was blunt, but the shelf was metal, and the wire was lying on the top of the metal shelf, conducting electricity via the shelf to me! Okay never mind, the cd is still stuck inside and I'm quite upset about that. Probably won't be in a good mood for the rest of the day, blasted weather too.