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What a fucking waste of time

I’ve got E-Learning tomorrow and the day after, all the way from 8am to 1.40pm.

Pros-
1. I don’t need to wake up at freaking 6am in the morning. Thus I don’t need to sleep at freaking 10+
2. I don’t need to travel to school
3. I don’t need to endure pointless lessons in school
4. I don’t need to tire myself out from trying to understand the pointless lessons
5. I don’t need to pretend that I’m paying attention because there won’t be anyone checking me

Cons-
1. I won’t be constantly doing my work
2. I won’t learn anything
3. I won’t have people to chat with when I get bored (except on msn which isn’t as fun)
4. I won’t be able to eat my canteen’s food during recess (damnit, I’ll miss the blue plate stall….)

After weighing the pros and cons, I still don’t know if E-learning is gonna be a blessing or a curse. I can slack, yet that won’t help my prelims. Yet I’m not sure which one I prefer: slacking or studying.

But one thing I know for sure is that the next 2 days aren’t gonna be very productive for me. Cuz there’s no chance in hell I’m going to religiously study throughout the entire e-learning for the next 2 days. For heaven’s sake, I got a computer that has access to the internet, my whole music library, and quite a few games. You’re telling me I’d rather spend my time in front of it studying why the cold war occured? Fat hope.

Still, I have to put in SOME effort, which is why my history revision kits are on my lap right now as I type this, but it sucks to keep on studying about stuff that happened before I was born, because I don’t really actually care what happened. I’m instead much more interested in what’s gonna happen in the future than in the past, for eg. how many remdial lessons I’ll have to attend after prelim 1 is over….

Valentines

I know I know this is like 12 days late. Still, I’m at a lost as to what to blog about. Today was pretty boring, so I’m posting this youtube video. This guy is actually pretty good, for someone on youtube, and yes he wrote the song.

This goes out to anyone who was lonely on the 14 feb (like me), or anyone that is going to be lonely on any other 14 feb.

Valentines by David Choi

I see a couple strollin down the street
They’re so in love, there’s not a worry
and to the clock they said goodbye, they ain’t in a hurry

And sometimes I feel kind of lonely
ask myself where is my one and only
until she comes to me, I’ll wait
until then I shouldn’t be feeling this way

Won’t let no Valentines get me down
or when Christmas time comes around
just cuz I’m alone right now
don’t’ mean I should hold a frown

oh in the meantime love is here you’ll find
the simple things that slip your mind
the joy of hope for better days
you know that love can find it’s ways

When you finally find the one who you can call your own
you can tell yourself the wait was worth it all
cuz you got something to last forever

I can smile cuz there’s so much in store
the futures holds for me more than I will ever know
shouldn’t make no room for feeling sad

Won’t let no Valentines get me down
or when Christmas time comes around
just cuz I’m alone right now
don’t’ mean I should hold a frown

oh in the meantime love is here you’ll find
the simple things that slip your mind
the joy of hope for better days
you know that love can find it’s ways

sick and tired of this…

Tomorrow comes. Sorrow becomes his soul mate.

The damage is done. The prodigal son is too late.

Old doors are closed but he’s always open,

To relive time in his mind.

Oh Billy.

This is killing me….

From static electricity, to DC cicuits, to current electricity, I’m getting shocked to death. Shocked by how much stuff I still have to learn. And it’s not only physics. I still haven’t completely memorised everything in bio, still need to read through cold war and china history again, haven’t payed attention to a single lesson about development for elec geog yet, and I still don’t understand A LOT of maths. It’s really quite funny to see sec 3s complaining about how difficult logarithms and vector diagrams are. My physics guidebook is right in front of me now, but I still don’t get static electricity at all, and I still got to revise the force and heat capacity and all that other stupid crap from last year.

To think that my first prelim paper is goin got be on this friday. Time sure does fly. 20% of my prelim marks depend on this friday and the whole of next week. Argh, why the heck did the school place our first prelims in the first term of school? So damn early, and then they “won’t touch us” in the second term at all. Why? Because they want us to do well for SYF. Which is quite dumb, that they place so much importance on it. If they regard SYF so highly, then why aren’t they bothering about my JGs?

We’re going to get the second round motion this friday, after a one month long break, it’s time to continue finishing up my debating career. My last few competitive matches are here, and the exact number can range from only 2 more to 5 more, if we manage to reach the finals. Problem with the second round is that, well, we get the second round motion this friday, WHICH IS THE DAY MY FREAKING O LEVEL PRELIMS START. That means, the one whole week of prep time is exactly the same week with my prelims. I really have no idea how I’m going to do well in this prelim. Not that I really mind not doing well, it’s just that I’ll have to go for all sorts of remedial classes and the like because my teachers will all be afraid that I woin’t do well for O’s. Not really a waste of time, but it will be damn bloody tiring.

I really want JGs to be over with asap, so that I can concentrate on my studies. Yet, at the same time, I’d rather the O’s never ever come at all, because currently, I’d take debates over schoolwork anytime.

NUS Challenge Shield 2007

I didn’t want to blog about NCS on the day of the prelims. I was really too bored and sad to do so. But today I think I’m finally going to blog about it. This competition definately has to end up on my blog somehow or another.

 9th Feb:

Eve of prelim rounds of NCS. It was a Friday, I still remember. I was already bloody sick because I had stayed up till late at night on the previous Sunday to complete the fucking commonwealth essay that caused my eventual illness, and I didn’t get enough sleep for the entire week. So I was sick and tired by Friday. We just got our JGs motion that morning. Found out we had a stupid motion (THBT cartoons have a negative influence on children) when the other 2 motions were much better ones. Didn’t really like it, but then again it’s not like we had a choice. We sparred ACS I in the afternoon, for training purposes only of course. We had to go over to their school, because Kevin wanted us to get used to more “hostile environments”, and boy was it hostile. We had no lights at all in the room, but yet we had air-con. Strange. Anyhow, we finished sparring them, then went to Thomson Plaza to eat, then went to Kevin’s house for the first time. The first thing that happened there was that Jun Hui spilled some soft drink on Kevin’s floor. I’ll always remember that the first thing we did at our coach’s house was to clean his floor with toilet paper. Ha. We debriefed on the earlier debate, watched the spar against RI through the video camera that we used to record it on the previous Tuesday. And not forgetting that we discussed the beginning of JGs first prelim round too.  I left his house only at around 10pm at night, so I didn’t get to sleep early that night either.

So what does this have got to do with NCS? Well…. it compounded my illness, which really lead to my style screwing up on the next day.

10th Feb:

Day of the prelim rounds for NCS. I was bloody tired when I woke up, but I was definately the one that was going to speak. Because unless I was on my death bed, there’s no chance in hell I’m letting any of the juniors take my place on the team. So yeah, I had to speak even though I was bloody sick. Even at the start of the day during prep for the first match against MGS, I already told my team that I was definately going to be sick on the next day. Motion against MGS was something like “THW teach abstinance only in secondary school sex education”, we were prop. I was prop 1. Prop 1 needs style. I had no style. Really too tired to even think straight most of the time, let alone speak stylistically, and the fact that my case didn’t exactly prove the motion didn’t help matters. At the end Kevin said that it was damn fucking bad that we had a prop 1 who didn’t prove the motion at all, but it was “damn good” that arianto and tk managed to turn it all around. The 3 adjudicators took one whole long hour to decide the winner, and they finally gave it to MGS, though Arianto got best speaker. I wasn’t really angry that they gave it to MGS, because I know that we didn’t do all that well. However, the problem is that they didn’t even give good reasons as to why they gave the debate to MGS, I forgot what the exact reasons are now, but i knew they were quite off.

Still, nothing to do except to hope and pray that we win the next 2 matches. So we went to eat lunch, while the seniors went out to eat. All of us were pretty silent throughout the meal, talking only when we needed to. Second round, we were up against SCGS, motion was “THW pay reperations to families of victims killed by US soldiers in Iraq”, we were opposition. During the second round prep I was really fucking sleepy. I almost wished that we finished prepping slightly earlier so that I could lie down for awhile or something. But of course, that was not to be, as it has always never been. I still remembered we ended up prepping the the stairwell most of the time, because it was quieter and easier to think in. Still, it was quite funny. Luckily we ended up winning this round (after a faster adjudication this time) and best speaker went to tze kai (if I remember correctly, because the score sheets I got aren’t reflecting exactly who got it). Of course we were relieved that we won our second match, so there was still a glimer of hope for us. However SCGS lost their first round already, so they were out of the competition.

I don’t really remember what happened in between the second and third match. I think the usual debrief and stuff. Third round’s motion was “THBT Japan’s military should remain purely a defensive force”, we were prop against ACS I. Prep was a lot more frantic this time around, because even tze kai didn’t really know everything about this particuar topic. So he spent the first 10 - 15 mins reading a book to learn about it. Surprisingly I wasn’t as tired this time around, even though I still felt sick, I was basically running on adrenaline, because i really wanted to win this round so that we would break through the prelims. Even after the match was over, our seniors were all pretty certain that we’d won, not because we did well or anything, but basically we all felt (including me) that they conceded so much in their case. Unfortunately, the adjudicators didn’t share similar thoughts, and they ended up giving the match to ACS I. I forgot the reasons already, but it didn’t really matter. We were out of the competition, first time we didn’t break for NCS in quite a long time I think. I cried quite a lot that day. For various reasons that I’m too lazy to elaborate upon.

24 Feb (Yesterday):

Woke up early in the morning after cross country, movie, and studying the previous day. I wanted to go watch the semis and finals of NCS. Both tze kai and arianto didn’t want to go, so I ended up going with Charis. Who for some strange reason or another keeps on going to watch so many different tournaments, even though it was her ct week. I got no idea why, then again I wasn’t complaining, since at least I had someone to accompany me. Reached there relatively early, and we started studying for 30 mins (both of us brought our books of course) before she got invited to play bridge with the RI guys. After awhile longer of watching 4 people play a game which I have no idea how to play, the semis were finally starting. Went to watch The ACS I vs RI match, motion was something like “THW give terminally ill patients access to experimental drugs”, ACS prop RI op of course. The match was an OK one I guess. RI ended up winning and proceeded on to the finals, with Crawshaw getting best speaker. However, in my opinion it was quite a wrong judgement, because ACS obviously won that match. They had a much clearer stance (RI wanted “drug trials” in their policy for some reason, which really complicated their case as a whole), slightly more extensions, better arguments. Of course that’s just my opinion, and it doesn’t change anything. MGS won Nanyang in the other semi, so it was a RI vs MGS final.

In between the 2 matches, we went to eat lunch and study awhile longer before the RI guys were finally done with listening to the debrief and finally came down. So they ended up playing bridge again, while I studied my bio right next to them. Even the RI guy was surprised I was studying, then again, he doesn’t have prelims OR O levels. Still, they changed the game halfway through to Bluff so I ended up playing with them too, and pretty much neglected my bio for that period of time. However it was not long before the finals started. RI prop, MGS op, motion: “THW elect our judges”. This debate wasn’t really as good or interesting as the semis in my opinion. Both teams just got really mixed up and the debate was quite confusing after awhile. At the end, I thought that RI had bagged the trophy. But results weren’t announced until after the JC finals, and I was forced into watching it by Charis, because surprisingly she had never seen a JC debate before. JC finals were RJC prop vs HCJC op, and the motion was something along the lines of “THW stop Turkey from joining the European Union”. It ended up to be quite a waste of time for both of us, since neither of us really knew what was going on with Turkey and the EU. So she started studying her physics while I took out my bio book again and started studying during the match.

After JC finals were over, prize presentation occured not too long after. Considering how no one else from Cat High was there, I ended up being the only representative. First went up to collect our certificates of participation, then collected Arianto’s 5th best speaker of series, and tze kai’s 4th best speaker of series (their certs and medals). Some St nicks girl (forgot her name) got 3rd, Crawshaw got 2nd, and Debra (from SN again) got best speaker of series. Then, Rebecca (MGS) got best speaker of Finals, and MGS ended up winning NUS Challenge Shield 2007, with RI as runners up. As for the JC finals, HCJC won, with RJC being the runners up.

And so this is how NCS went this year. A totally unexciting tournament for cat high, but still, there’s still JGs for us.

Pictures:

4th (Tze Kai) and 5th (Arianto) Best Speaker of Series Medals

Our certificates of participation (All of them don’t have our names filled up for some strange reason)

Not exactly what I was expecting/hoping for…

Just Follow Law (2007)

From wiki:
Directed by Jack Neo, the film takes a satirical look at the inflexibility of outdated governmental rules and regulations and the rigid mindsets of civil servants who follow rules to a fault, charming and delighting audiences with its humorous and perceptive insights.

After looking at the title of the film, and all the promotion that has been going on for it, I have been waiting to watch this show for a long time, hoping to be entertained. Walking in, I was hoping to see Jack Neo’s imagination run wild all over Singapore’s political system. Walking out, I was just disappointed.

It had a promising starting, showing how even laws like crossing the road were obediently abided by Singaporeans. But then the plot of the show just spiralled downhill all the way. The 2 main characters, a crude technician (Gurmit) and a law abiding department manager (Fann), basically just swapped bodies. Which is honestly pretty lame. Almost the whole show just portrayed how the 2 of them realised what they themselves were actually doing in their life when they could see it through an outsider’s point of view. Very little of it really portrayed red tape or law or that sort of things, which is the biggest letdown for me, as I was really hoping to see that theme constantly being portrayed in practically every single sentence in the film.

Although I have to say that the acting is quite good. Fann easily slipped into the personna of a crude, “Ah-Bengy” technician, while Gurmit just became a very docile female. None of it was really over exaggerated, and it proved to be quite funny for practically everyone in the cinema. It’s not often you see Fann searching for a male’s privates by digging into her pants and then, upon finding it absent, simply saying, “Nah Bei”. And Gurmit’s very “Ah-Guaish” acting fit in quite well I think. The humor was basically just the “in-your-face” type of humor, instead of sarcasm or satire, which is what I was hoping to see.

However, the parts that portrayed bureaucracy and the like in Singapore really cracked me up. From needing to write in to switch on the air-con, and then CC-ing it to another person, her boss, HR department, Finance department, etc. to a security guard putting a wheel clamp on a fire engine because it had parked in the VIP lot. These were really the more entertaining parts of the movie for me. However, such scenes are really too rare and few for a movie whose title is “Just Follow Law”

At the end, if you were to ask me which movie is most like this one, I’d have to pick “Freaky Friday”. For those of you who have never heard of it (I’m quite sure a huge number of you haven’t), it’s this lame “Made for TV” movie that is constantly being re-run on the Disney Channel. The basic plot is that a girl and her mother switch bodies, and they get to experience each other’s life first hand. That’s basically the main focus in this movie too, which is a really lame plot in my opinion. The only difference in the overall plot of “Just Follow Law” and “Freaky Friday” is that Gurmit and Fann don’t manage to change back unlike in “Freaky Friday”. But that’s basically it. The plot of the movie just really really really outright sucks. No doubt about it.

What’s going to save this movie (if you can really ignore the horrible plot) is it’s really “in-your-face” humor that is really quite funny at times, pretty good acting (though most characters just had to play the typical Singaporean role), and the rare moments when the film takes a satirical look at Singapore’s inflexible laws and its civil servants. Most importantly, many Singaporeans will be able to identify themselves with the characters of this film, it being a Singaporean production. However, I really doubt it’s going to be even a moderate success overseas.

In a nutshell: Bad plot and overall theme (has the words “Channel 8 Production” written all over it), but the acting, comedy and satire partially saved the film (for me at least)

Overall score: 6/10

As expected…

… cross country was boring. Usual stuff. Had to wake up slightly earlier, because had to take a bus there. Turns out the bus ride took more than an hour so I was still late. No biggie though, teachers didn’t really care if you were late or not.

It was only until today that I truly appreciated my in ear headphones. Sure, they usually block out the noise from everyone else on a mrt who are talking right next to me, but today, I was so bored when I reached turf city that I just sat down and began listening to my iPod shuffle with my in ear headphones. They totally blocked out all the stupid cheering from everyone, so I just sat there and practically fell asleep. Haha. Thank god they were in ear ones or else I wouldn’t have heard my music over the lower sec’s screeching and the upper sec’s bellowing.

Mass run was pretty OK. I didn’t even stop to take a breath or start walking throughout the entire 3.5km. Just kept running and running, and it turned out fun. I finished it in 18 minutes, which is really quite fast for me. Those idiots near the finishing line kept on counting down 10 seconds and then recounting them when they reached 0. Still it did serve its purpose of spurring me on to the finishing line, becuase I got so damn pissed with them and their stupid counting. Surprisingly, I didn’t feel as tired after running 3.5km compared to after running my usual 2.4km. Got no idea why.

Anyway, I finally managed to find something to do this afternoon, gonna watch “Just Follow Law” with MapHacker and possibly Clement. Then going MH house to study. My whole body is aching even worse now though, after running. While running I kept feeling like my legs were gonna cramp at any moment, thank god they didn’t. But now, I got blisters on both my feet. They don’t really hurt, but they are a pain in the neck.. or rather foot. Gotta go now since the movie starts in like 15 minutes.

-kangan

Warning: this post contains slightly more expletives than usual

I’m so damn bloody fucking hell fucked up bored….

k that was way too many expletives. Let me try to reprase:

I’m really really really fucking fucking fucking bored.

Forget it i can’t do it..

My whole body is damn tired right now. And so is my brain. I’m in a really bad mood. Had 2 periods in the morning, then went to play basketball for a few hours. Was fucking tiring. Then as I was about to leave school, saw a few friends playing table tennis and decided to join in. I haven’t touched a TT paddle in more than a year, and the way I played showed it. Still, it was fun to play TT again. But it only made me even more tired. Then finally left the school after changing and went to J8 with meng wei. When he left went to library to study with charis to study again. Was more productive today I think. But in the end we stopped doing work early because she “felt guilty” for letting some RI boy search for her in the library for almost an hour. So she ended up finding him and began talking while I waited. She ended up talking for almost an hour, and then went home halfway through. Thank god I met Clement there, or else I would have been bored to death for 1 hour. That RI debater is honestly quite funny, he obviously has a crush on Charis. He searched for her for an hour, and then when he had hockey training at 5.30 he was even willing to forgo it to continue talking to her. Amazing really. “Charis, you look quite pale.” Haha, classic….

Ended up eating dinner with Clement and his sis at the overpriced cafe in bishan library, chatted with him for awhile before finally heading home myself. So here I am, typing in front of my computer, my eyes hurting, my legs aching, my arms tired, my back sore. Every single muscle in my body feels like it’s going to cramp up if i tense it up too tightly. I haven’t cramped yet, but I think it’s only a matter of time. But regardless of that, I’m really honestly fucking bored right now. I got absolutely nothing to do, and I don’t wanna sleep that early. I can’t study because my brain can’t think, I can’t play because I’m too tired to. Argh.

And then when I think of what’s happening tomorrow I get even more depressed. Stupid cross country. A whole day worth of lessons are cancelled for a stupid cross country run at turf city. Amazing that the school is actually doing this really. And worse thing is I don’t have a MC to get myself out of it. So I have to reach fucking turf city and fucking 7.30 am in the morn, to run a few kilometres, and then dismissed. Fucking dumb. I got no idea WTF I’m going to do tomorrow afternoon. The thing will probably end before 12pm, and I can’t think of anything to do at all. I’m already so tired now, I’m not sure if I can even survive the few kilometres tomorrow, let alone play basketball or any other sports after that. So that’s ruled out. I can’t come home to play on my comp because my mother won’t let me, so that’s not possible either. I really really really honestly wanna study tomorrow. But charis wants to sleep and I hate doing work with my classmates because they’re all faster than me, and it gets really irritating when they can breeze through the questions so easily when I have to stumble every few minutes. I can’t study by myself either because i can’t fucking concentrate for some reason. I can’t come home to sleep because my mother won’t let me do that either. Argh. And I got no one to go out with because everyone I know will be doing one of the above, all of which I can’t do.

So I guess I’ll just take it one second at a time, and see where I end up at, doing what. But it still feels really fucked up that I can’t seem to do anything I wanna do. Guess I’ll be sleeping soon due to my bodyache. And of course due to the fact that I got nothing else to do..

Feels like Tonight

Really relishing the fact that my parents aren’t home now. It’s SO PEACEFUL AND QUIET. And I’m about to go to bed soon, but since I got nothing else to do might as well just ramble onnnnnnnnn.

For people reading this please help me with buying a new phone, scroll down to the previous post, one paragraph there about it.. Please, I really need advice. heh

Anyway it’s quite funny that people are searching for “xinmin arena” to reach my blog. Lol it only helped remember how hilarious yesterday’s episode of “The Arena” was. Loyang vs Xinmin. I only watched like 15 mins of it, but it was more than enough to serve as catharsis.

They were talking about teenage pregnancy (not sure why) and then Xinmin Poi’ed something about the teenagers being able to confide with counselers or doctors. And Loyang’s amazing reply to that was that the doctors wouldn’t keep it a secret because the doctors would advise the teenagers to tell their parents. Haha, joke number 1 I witnessed.

Next, after that second round was over, the judges each had to give their comments. The guest judge (I got no idea who it was) said something like, “I think both of you did a pretty fine job. But the supporters of Loyang are much more supportive compared to Xinmin’s supporters and basically drowned them out. So I’m hoping that in future rounds, Xinmin supporters will be more lively” or something like that. Then he proceeded to give the round to Loyang, and it seemed like his only reason for doing so was because their supporters were “more supportive’. Lol. Joke number 2 I witnessed.

Finally, the next round was the wonderful “Rebuttal Round”. Now, immediately after every single Xinmin speaker gave a point (which lasted for like 10 seconds each on average), their supporters cheered. Haha. The judges didn’t release the results for that round until at 10pm, and I didn’t watch that show, and neither did I watch their comments. Didn’t bother wasting my time, I had had enough of The Arena. Joke number 3 I saw.

So yeah, 3 jokes in 15 mins, which averages out to about 1 joke every 5 minutes. Which means that if I had watched the whole show there would have been more than 10 jokes. Which is a totally feasible number for a show like this.

I still wanna continue blogging, but it’s really getting too late. I’m playing basketball tomorrow so better get to bed now. nitez all..

-spvn/kangan

EDIT: Oh and I just realised this is post no. 200. Just making a note