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Merry X'mas! (although this might be too early) Happy going-back-to-school festival!

Well, i've got nothing to say, except that going-back-to-school festival is making me very depressed.

Let's not talk about going-back-to-school festival, what about x'mas? I bet you guys will receive a lot of presents, unlike me. Because my family doesn't celebrate x'mas, and that we don't have relatives in Singapore, thus i cannot expect to receive presents, right. At least there is a gift exchange among fellow tong-xiu, who have also qiu-dao. Hmm, how can i phrase it? We are like buddhists but slightly different. I will introduce my religion to you if you are interested.

It seems like the atmosphere is getting boring. I would better end here. Bye.

P.S. (In my religion) not= (must be vegetarian) =)

bored

Although i finally get to maple every day, i think i'm getting bored of playing. Haiz, why is it like that. When i want to play, i can only play once a week. When i get bored of it, there's nothing much else to do. Haha.

Today played badminton with Ben and Aston and Astley. It's like so long since i go out with my friends. And during these days most of the time was spent on maple (4hrs), tv (3-4hrs), sleep (duh, 9-10hrs), and slacking (the rest). How did you guys spent your holidays? Haiz, don't even know if there are any people viewing my blog? If so, tag please, i will be very grateful.

4 days ago i forced myself to do 100 sit-ups everyday, hoping to have a better tummy, but now i have a debt of 52 times sit-ups...and i haven't do any today. I really have to train hard during this holidays. My stamina, arm, legs....everything.

Today is the first time i log on to msn since holidays, haha. Now i think i will msn more often to de-bored of maple. Ya, and more blogging too, perhaps. Okay, bb everyone. Don't get bored.

Bronze award..gotcha!

Yes, finally i got my bronze award for swimming! But now i am still learning, maybe i should get a silver?

The terrifying BSP scholarship interview had passed too. Now i really don't care if i get the scholarship, i just enjoy the holidays. I believe this is the same for everyone.

Haiz....really don't have much to talk about. But i am getting bored being at home for almost the whole day (except mornings when i exercise). Whoever is going out, can you bring me along? Haha. Anyway i am not sure what how you guys spent the holidays.

Ok, gtg. Mapling time.

Next year...

Finally the long awaited holidays! I can now play maple more often. lol. I wonder who is taking BSP? Is it that i will be in China for five months next year? It is so hard to imagine. Fancy living in a foreign land for about half a year! I will miss my family and friends and home so much =(. For the homeroom policy (i.e. no class), is it that we can choose our own groupmates? Let's pray that we won't be assigned into groups =), otherwise we might have to work with people that we don't like for TWO years.

How will next year be like? It will be a big transition, and i think in order to cope with the great pressure, it will be better to forget about maple and computer games =(. Haiz...

Luckily the holidays are really holidays, as in i only go to school 8 times for choir practices xD. I think my cca really has the least number of practices. Eh, actually not, librarians will be the slackest. Haha, good for them. Or is it a bad thing?

Enough crapping, i am about to go to JP to buy a laptop, as the principal Mr Hon says that we will need to use a laptop very often... Bye.

Back From OBS

I think this title might be quite cliched in blogs already, haha.

Anyway, i would say that although it is tiring and tough, it is fun, especially for the following activities:

Most Interesting Activity: Tri-yaking
Brief description: It is just a kayak that allows three person to sit in. Before the actual tri-yaking the fun thing is the capsize drill. How to describe the fun? Experience it yourselves=).

Most Shiok Activity: A dip in a quarry
Brief description: The warm freshwater, together with the ease of doing whatever i want in the water because of the life jacket, makes the dip a fabulous activity. One will feel jing shen bai bei (felt invigorated 100 times more) after a hike.

Nothing much to write about OBS actually, and everyone will be bored to death by the time i finish telling my experience. But i really encourage everyone to participate in this course when you have the chance. You will be toughened up physically abd mentally after it.

Now i'm still waiting for the day that i can maple with my brother, and the criteria is that we are of the same level and my second computer is working. zzz..

I really wonder how you guys spend the days. Play computer games? Shopping? Watching TV?

Tomorrow there is the Festival of Sports and Health, and i have no choice but to participate in basketball. I really suck in that game, die le.

Sometimes i really don't want to stress up myself but there is the NYAA booklet waiting for me to complete. Sianz...can all these vanish immediately?

zZz...

These days are still quite boring. zzz... But at least there is something fun. Today morning my primary school friends and i played badminton because today is one of my friend's birthday. It's been a long time since i meet up with them, and i think i ought to do a lot to preserve those precious friendships. =)

Having said that, class 2I will be separated next year, and it seems that the day is coming closer and closer... :( Sigh, why must the school shuffle everyone into different classes? I hope that the class will more or less be intact, though, as the class's 2 years of unity and bond is so precious and valuable.

Two more days to OBS. I am feeling quite apprehensive now. What activities are there? Will it be fun? It should be the case, and probably one's attitude plays a big role in the enjoyment one will get from this camp. Anyway why don't they give us the timetable for OBS? To keep the suspense? zzz...

Here wishing everyone an enjoyable experience. =)

The Boredom of Post-exams Period

From now until next year school reopens, it is unlikely that my lifestyle will change. Except perhaps during EOYA and OBS.

This is, of course, due to mapling. Other than playing, i could not think of what i can do. Very boring. Read books? Do some exercices? Well, sometimes i do. Not that i maple whole day long--in fact i only play 1.5h everyday----yet i seemed to be obsessed in this game: I can't clear it off my mind.

I feel that after exams, there is always an emptiness in my heart: my goals of this year are already done. What should i do? Plan for what to do next year? Read Sec 3 textbooks? Only when i am mapling, then the emptiness disappeared temporarily. Really hope you guys can give suggestions. Because if this continues...

Anyway i should not be so pessimistic, and create such a gloomy atmosphere...so sorry.=) OBS is approaching, same as the holidays. Let's hope that these will happen soon and will be meaningful.=)

Hectic Week

I am so sorry that i have not posted anything for a long time, =( but there is really too much work these days. I would not mention those horrible amount of homework once more, in case everyone became siantified. Haha.

There is something really wrong about my new computer's USB ports. The keyboard can be usable this time, and the next time it could not work again. Strangely, after i changed the USB port of the keyboard, it worked! So frustrating. Despite all these, i still managed to maple during the holidays, and my cleric (not exactly mine) finally levelled up (37)!

After exams i will be able to play as long as i want=), and i am really looking forward to that day. Haiz... Final year exams...

I got to do my work now. Bye! Good luck for the exams. =)

Holidays again

Well, holidays are not only supposed for one to take the opportunity to revise for their exams, but also to have a break. However, i couldn't play maple with any of my two computers! Why must this happen to me?! Argh!

So what could i do? Mug whole day? Haiz...

2 weeks ago i took my swimming test-bronze only, sigh, and i haven't get my certificate. I only started learning this year, so much slower than most people. I wonder how many certificates do we need to go for NS? Hope bronze is enough. =)

There's lots of homework too. =( I think i should finish them asap so that i will have time to prepare for my final year exams. Do you agree?

Rashes!

This is the worst thing one can have.

Yesterday my body started to develop rashes all over the place, and the itch could not stop. Only after i saw a doctor and took the medicine then the situation started to improve. However, during the middle of the night my whole body began to itch again. I checked my handphone-12mn! What the hell, how to sleep with this itchiness? I tried to go back to sleep, but the itch is simply killing me. Thus i woke up-already 1am. Ate some food and took the medicine again. Applied vinegar to my body (special remedy). Still itchy. But i really have to sleep, having to wake up at 5:20 am. Lying on the bed, tormented by the stubborn itch that clung onto my skin. Then i finally doze off (miraculously).

This morning i woke up-wow all the rashes are gone! But after i return home from school the itch started again! Why must this happen to me? Oh man. Only that this time it is only a small area suffering. It just seems like once i return home from school the scary itch starts to pester me. At this point of time the itch had finally subsided, only now and then the itch will start tingling on my arms or legs or neck.

I am not sure how i contracted this tormenting disease, but i really have to pray very hard not to get this ever again. Grrr..

Free from computer problems (hopefully)

Finally, my new computer will stop giving me trouble (hopefully.) Whew...having changed the CPU, it should be working well, otherwise this just proves that i am too unlucky. I remember i can wait for my new computer going through disk check, startup repair, for as long as TWENTY minutes! Is this the performance of a brand new (problems arose during my SECOND time switching on the computer) Acer Window Vista computer?

Today, i went to someone's house to do Maths ace, given a time limit of 2 hours. (yes, a time limit) In the end, within my expectation, i played computer after 1 hour of "hard work". I played maple, lol. So that proves how weak is my self-discipline, haha. (i am only allowed to play one hour a week, though)

Conclusion: Almost tasteless day, except for the sweetness of playing maple for half an hour. =)

This is my Chinese essay, and i hope that you guys will help me in improving it. One thing that i must say is that this story is entirely fictional. It is not true. =)

Feeling tired...

One and a half hours of sports, and one whole day of revision and homework! These make me both physically and mentally exhausted.

At about 8:45 am, i played badminton with my younger brother. Miraculously, our skills did not impair, instead i think there is improvement! The weather is just nice: not sweltering but not windy as well. We brothers surely had a great time!

After that i started writing my Chinese fictional essay entitled "背影".

Having completed my essay, i continued on my History revision. I had gotten a C6 last term (very bad, right?), thus i am determine to do well this term. I am thinking if i have time to summarise some of the key points of the topics tested. This is because Literature revision is awaiting me, and i am left with only one day to revise! What's more...'Dear Sec 2 Ortus gentlemen (who must now be frantically preparing for the upcoming Literature test)'...

At 5pm, i went for my 1hour-swimming lesson. I have missed 3 lessons (due to: unwell, performance, conjunctivitis (take note of the spelling of this word, it it CONjunctivitis), fortunately i can still swim (dur? =)).

Conclusion: Tiring but enriching. Sweet day!

Conjunctivitis alert!

Beware of the conjunctivitis disease!

However, it is perhaps too late for me. And all my family members. Now i feel very dizzy, lethargic, and nauseous whenever i drink or eat something very bland. Whenever i lower down my head, my eyes hurt. It certainly sounds weird, but these are indeed the terrible symptoms of conjunctivitis (at least in my case).

Now i cannot do my homework or revision for a long period of time, and this is definitely not the time to rest----exams are around the corner. I could only hope that i will feel better tomorrow.

Conclusion: A very bitter day. However, this incident teaches me to be careful not to spread contagious diseases.

New blog name, new blogskin, new topic

Sometimes, certain events in your life make you come to realise many things, like the value of life, the reality of life and so forth. Thus, i decided to have 'thedifferenttastesoflife' to be my new blog name.

Your life may be tasting very sweet now: your studies/career has been going on smoothly, and you feel healthy and energetic everyday. You get to spend many happy moments with your family, and probably, your lover too. Everything you do has been successful, and you are always ready to take on the challenges of the next day. Isn't this the best scenario of a sweet, peaceful and satisfying life?

Perhaps, you may feel that your life is very bitter. Too bitter for you to overcome: you could not concentrate in class, and you find your workload increasingly heavy. You dread for the next day to start, and your relationship with your beloved has not been very smooth. However, does this mean that you can do nothing to improve the situation?

I hope that what i write will be encouraging enough. Change your life into a sweet one today!

Ms Hoa...

My English teacher is leaving us!

She will be leaving at the start of May:( A new teacher called Ms Huang is now slowly taking over Ms Hoa's lesson. Many people like Ms Hoa, as she is approachable, cheerful and always make us interested in learning. Ms Huang, on the other hand, is much hated, as she is relatively cold and her tone is so monotonous that i can fall asleep.

I don't really hate anyone but i am worried for Ms Huang. Our class is always quite talkative even when the teacher is talking, and considering the fact that people do not like her, she might resign (oops). Then what will our class be like?

Now i'm also worried about our choir. Will we get at least a bronze? Furthermore, i realised that my workload is getting more and more and i can't really manage my time well. Haiz... This is life.

SYF Choir...

The competition is just around the corner. Sadly to say, It is a feat to get a gold because we only started learning the competition songs this year vs other schools which probably started last year. Moreover, about 40% of us just joined choir this year and we only have a strength of around 30 people...

Despite the difficulties, we will still work very hard to the best of our abilities. (dur!) One thing we can/must do is to avoid iced drinks, fried food and spicy food etc. amap (as much as possible) to protect our throat. This not very easy for me, but i think everyone will admit that this is no easy task.

Next thing is to practise singing the correct way. There are a few conditions in order to sing at home: 1. your family don't mind your singing 2. your neighbours don't feel irritated 3. you really love singing so much that you will spend your time for leisure to practise. How many people have all these conditions?

Anyway, jiayou for the incoming SYF! (to myself...)

Finally Made The Right Choice

I am finally out of Chinese Orchestra.

Actually, i have been thinking about quitting CO long ago. However, i don't know where else i can go.

Although i like to play erhu, i cannot play well. I have been practicing, but i don't know what went wrong. The melody just came out without feelings.

I always feel that my skills are far from others, everybody can play very fast (kuai gong), but i can't. I can't learn as fast as the others, as they have an external teacher. It is not that i don't have confidence in myself, but i have tried. I am only suitable to learn slowly from the fundamentals. However, we are expected to learn the basics within a month (estimated). Then we started to play kuai gong. Like learning language, the fundamental is very important, otherwise it is hard to be good in it.

Some people may think that i joined choir because i want to slack (only once per week, 1.5 hours). However this is not the case. I really liked to sing, even when i am only a small child. When i am in Secondary school, i always sing whenever i am sad or bored (not in the sense that i sing for the whole day or an hour without stopping). So i am sure that i really liked singing. I really liked choir.

Before i changed cca, i was afraid that people will say/exclaim, "What? Choir? It is so xxx lah!" when they knew i joined choir. This is a big misunderstanding!!! However, i don't care what people think about me now. I am always moody in CO, but it is totally different in choir. Anyway, a friend will always support his friend, regardless of whatever decisions he make...

Sorry, people reading this post may be extremely bored (perhaps you are already yawning now), but i just have to say out the unhappy things and clear any misunderstandings about me.