OG outing

yesterday: went to my first ever OG outing, quite reluctantly. only a couple of ppl from my OG (namely – hui yan, michelle, faizal, zi hui, cui fen, kah wang…that’s all)� went, including all the OGLs (bestia, ren wei, zhi han & ho tat)…

anyways, we went to settler’s cafe at holland village. it was pretty boring there cos we didn’t really play much at all — just 2 very short matches of uno stacko. however, despite that, we still racked up a hefty bill exceeding $100 (including the food and drinks)…

after which, we sat on the ground at the playground to play handiplus (whatever it’s spelt as). it was truly an amazingly, extremely, drastically, maniacally, supremely, intensely (just showing off the words i know) painful game where we got to slap one another on the lap really really really really really hard. thanks to zhi han and ren wei, my lap is now quite bruised.

but i think bestia and kah wang got the worst injuries. haha.. saw kah wang’s lap ytd night and not only was it bruised, it was swollen too. and that was mostly the work of zhi han. anyways, it was just a game, so…no hard feelings.. =)

ponned school today, so i’m slacking at home right now, with a long weekend break to look forward to…

Edited: Friday, 1 February 20082:42 pm

new design!

spent the last five hours redesigning the whole website — stuff like editing hundreds and hundreds of lines of cascading stylesheets and php programming. hey! look at the new banner – it’s my own photoshop creation! haha..nice right..?

anyways, the shoutbox has been upgraded to a more advanced one which is way better than the previous one.

if u encounter any errors while surfing, just add a comment under this post to let me know cos i didn’t bother to recheck my php files to see if i made any mistakes…

Edited: Friday, 1 February 20087:04 pm

michael moore, rock on!

it’s total slacking for me today..well, not entirely actually. i did my general paper evaluation response homework on Michael Moore’s documentary “Bowling for Columbine” in the morning. that was mostly because i was quite bored and didn’t know what else to do.

anyway, i think Michael Moore is a great filmmaker. his documentaries are completely unbiased and very liberal. he dares to challenge and express what he thinks is inappropriate, especially in the case where it’s against the US government (which a totally applaud him for that). i went to see his latest film “Sicko” when it was released last year. it was probably one of the best documentaries i’ve ever seen. the film was completely worth every single cent that i’d paid for, and i hereby urge all of you who hadn’t seen it to just GO watch it. it’s about the US health care system and health insurance companies which is documented in a relatively controversial manner.

michael moore, rock on!

Edited: Sunday, 3 February 20086:36 pm

feel like blogging, yet don’t know what to blog about.

that’s probably the lamest thing that i’ve ever said…lol!

anyways, ade just gave me an idea of what to post on.. =)

now….for the REAL title of this post….*drum roll please..*

STUFF THAT I LIKE

I LOVE….
- music
my fav genres are pop, rock, alternative and mando-pop, but i also listen to jazz, hip hop, rap, r&b, country, easy listening, metal (yes, i do listen to metal), classical and electronic, gothic rock.

hey.. that’s about almost all the genres out there. surprised right..? lol..

some of my fav artists are (hold on, let me scroll through my iTunes list)…
okay, the list will most probably be a VERY long one.

+ alicia keys (no one..no one…no one…)
+ switchfoot (we were meant to live…)
+ MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE (teenagers scare, the living SHIT out of you..)
+ britney spears (yes..it’s britney, bitch)
+ sugababes
+ arctic monkeys
+ carrie underwood (she’s probably the best country singer ever..)
+ THE CLICK FIVE
+ colbie caillat
+ COLDPLAY
+ the cranberries
+ dashboard confessional
+ dixie chicks
+ eminem
+ enrique iglesias
+ jessica simpson
+ JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (zOMG! he’s one of my top favs)
+ KEANE (also one of my top favs)
+ kelly clarkson (for the record, i think her new album My December is not as good as her previous ones…*not to say it’s totally not good either*)
+ KT TUNSTALL (she rocks man! btw, do u know she’s half-chinese, half-irish..?)
+ LINKIN PARK (this is DEFINITELY the best band of the lot)
+ MAROON 5 (second best band)
+ MATCHBOX TWENTY (probably third best band)
+ MICHELLE BRANCH
+ natalie imbruglia
+ RADIOHEAD!
+ U2 (4th best band)
+ the veronicas
+ symphony x (metal stuff)
+ trivium (metal stuff)
+ JAY CHOU (the BEST MANDO-POP artist EVER)
+ rainie yang
+ angela chang

i think that’s about it…lol. of course i like many other artists but i think if i put them all down here, it’ll flood my entire site. LOL. btw, those in CAPS are the ones i particularly like…=)

hmm…u must be thinking what weird and lousy taste i have…but frankly speaking, i don’t really care what you think cos this is what i like. i won’t fake that i love paris hilton or backstreet boys to get my blog ratings up…so. lol. that’s all..

- next up, food!
i love SUSHI. i don’t know how to explain it…but i just love sushi…haha.
hmmm…maybe pizzas also.
and probably some typical singaporean hawker food..

- and on…people
well, to be frank, i don’t really take a particular liking to anyone or any group of people as of now (er…maybe i do have someone in mind — i love the people who invented the INTERNET!). nonetheless, there’s a group of people i dislike — this group includes mainly people like backstabbers, hypocrites, ppl with attp (attitude problem) & ppl with no sense of sensitivity. btw, for the record, i may appear to be quite insociable at times. that would be because i’m simply too TIRED or moody or just don’t feel like being sociable… so i hereby apologise to those of you who think you’ve been offended by me. haha…(i said that mostly because i don’t want to have a group of haters chasing after me..lol).

- other things that i love
1. my cellphone!
2. my iPod!! (must have!)
3. my computer
4. the internet
5. my psp
6. well, this category is quite general, so i think i’m gonna stop here.

FINALLY! i’ve reached the end of my LONG post. haha. and to actually think i didn’t know what to blog about at the beginning…

zOMG…this is 1000x more detailed than my friendster profile! lolxx!

and pardon me for any spelling or grammatical errors that i may have made (thair got bwound to be have sarm sarmware)…

Edited: Monday, 4 February 20089:53 pm

chris’ new computer

okay. school today was pretty much as usual – boring. that malay chemistry ****ing *hee *ye was damn *u*king pms. haha. maybe not that bad lah..but still she’s still damn pms and act cute.

my apologies to hannah, who crashed JJ today, for being unable to welcome her graciously into our *ahem* wonderful school . well, i was playing worms on psp with janson and wilson when melissa came over and brought hannah along with her. i looked up at her for a second, then i had to look back down again cos my worm’s time was running out. lol. then i looked back up again, and back down. it took me a while before i registered hannah, even after melissa said her name. i’m quite dumb, seriously. haha. anyways, jj is not very fun to crash lah. it’s so boring!

btw, i went to sim lim with chris tham after school today to help him get his new com parts and be an expert advisor. he bought a supercomputer lah. quad core cpu, the graphics card that had the biggest box in the whole store (and the price too), the biggest chassis in the entire store (zomg, it was damn stylo and expensive)….in brief, his $3000 com is blazing fast. anyways, while i was at sim lim, i bought myself a psp game medal of honor (the new one) for $55. that guy at the shop said it’s damn fun so i can’t wait to try it later. =)

in fact, i just came home from chris tham’s house. missed the bus cos i was too engrossed with my nfs game. lol. luckily it was only 1 stop… but i had to walk all the way back home.

basically, that’s all the main stuff that happened today…so now, i’ve reached the end of my post. =)

Edited: Tuesday, 5 February 200810:14 pm

happy chinese new year!

okay, celebrations at school today was kinda pointless. first of all, it was so short! less than 1 hour!! zOMG – that’s the time taken for me to travel to school…!

anyways, even the programme itself was kinda boring. . apart from the yu sheng thingy, there was chinese new year song singing, mass (read: mess) dance, and more mess dance. so it was a total waste of time. shouldn’t have came to school today.

but anyway, a very HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR to all of you out there!

Edited: Wednesday, 6 February 20087:03 pm

add me!

hey guys…add me on your blog. (only if i know you and you know me…). haha. =)

Edited: Wednesday, 6 February 20087:45 pm

cny day 2

well, i stayed at home today, and that’s kinda boring. didn’t receive much cash this year…and that sucks too. haha. what else can i expect…been to only 2 ppl’s house so far (my grandparents’). but i reckon i’ll be visiting many many more houses this week, so that’ll be fun and i’m certainly looking forward to that!

anyways, happy new year! and thanks to everyone for your new year greetings.. =)

Edited: Friday, 8 February 20087:53 pm

first time i totally ponned lessons for the whole day!

okay… my title has said it all. can’t believe i actually ponned every single lectures and tutorials today. haha.

anyways, i woke up early in the morning today and realised that i had overslept for like…10 mins? 10 mins makes a big difference okay! i’m going to miss my bus and be late for school. naturally, i panicked but….. after i regained my composure, i happily and conveniently decided to relax at home until 7:15am, thereby completely missing morning assembly.

when i reached school, i couldn’t use the main entrance cos the guard there will stop and book me (for being late). so i used the unofficial entrance (i won’t tell you where it is…). while i was trying to enter the unofficial entrance, my pants got stuck — stubbornly, so i was struggling like a retard for a full 5 seconds or so. there were a hell lot of cars passing by and they would’ve probably seen me in my awkward position. hope no one took a pic of me and put it on stomp. i’ll be a complete joke and will be seriously f.cked. lol!

nevermind that, i finally met joel today. he’s that guy who randomly added me on msn and said i’m his competition for a place in CJC..lol. he did reconnaissance on those who applied for CJC (not just names and stuff but also msn and friendster okay!). that’s quite scary. haha. anyways, he is a JJ crasher, so we (referring to zen, joel, joel’s friend vincent and i) played tennis right after breakfast time (aka physical conditioning lesson). we sucked so much! haha. but nevertheless, it was still time better spent than on lectures.

btw, i’m going to crash ACJC tomorrow! seriously man, JJC is soooo boring. (no offense to JJcians).

Edited: Tuesday, 12 February 20088:55 pm

crashed acjc and acs (i)

ACJC is quite interesting. especially the gym, which is also known as the SUPERGYM (literally). the f&b in the cafe is so expensive (fyi, one of the cheaper food in there is the carrot cake, which costs $2.50). btw, saha, the chindian friend of mine, risked a demerit point to be our tour guide. there are 2 swimming pools in ACJC (same as acs indep). anyways, in conclusion, i can only say that JJC is greatly inferior as compared to ACJC.

i am now blogging away (with zen tan) in the comfort of acs indep library while waiting for saha, who went for his chem lesson at ACJC. i’m surprised that my login name is still present in the library computer database, therefore enabling me to blog away freely.

Edited: Wednesday, 13 February 20081:00 pm

crashing of acjc (a proper post)

today, zen and i went to crash acjc. we met at JJC in the morning to take attendance and see if anyone else wanted to join us. sadly, due to the very short notice, no one came with us. so, the 2 of us used the unofficial exit right after assembly and took a cab to ACJC (and that ride costed us $16 – for which zen still owes me $8.).

the guard at ACJC was kind enough to let us enter although he scared the living shit out of me initially when he stopped the cab and asked us to step out. anyways, the point is…we managed to step into ACJC. we made our way to the lobby to meet up with saha, our chindian ex-classmate and tour guide for the day. my word — the lobby is almost like an entrance to some MNC HQ lah. there’s a lift lobby, plasma tv and marble floor (i think).

plasma tv for announcements

marble flooring, automated sliding doors, spiral staircase.

lift lobby.

anyways, the first thing saha brought us to was the gym (formally known as the SUPERGYM). as the name already implies, this gym is super in almost every aspect — size, equipment etc.

saha showing off his biceps.

look – that must be 100+kg.? seriously, i’m so strong.

-ignore the picture above and the crap that i just said-

and they have 2 swimming pools…

after which, we went to the cafeteria to relax and catch up with one another…

the food there is very pricey. a bowl of udon can go up to $6 and we ate a plate of carrot cake which cost $2.50 (fyi, it is one of the cheapest food there).

we checked out the library at ACJC. it was quite ordinary. they have cosy sofas there for ppl to sleep in and a dozen of scrabble sets. we played scrabble, which was quite fun at first but utterly mind-boggling towards the end.

more photos of ACJC….
their track and field (i would greatly prefer the synthetic field at JJC or ACS (i))

their spectator stand (which has a stylo name which i forgot).

we toured the school till 11 plus, where we left by climbing over the back gate…haha.
after which, we made our way to ACS (I) to get our testimonials.

i would still prefer the acs (i) campus to acjc. the facilities in acs (i) are much better and the canteen (aka SAC) is air-conditioned! couldn’t help but take some photos back at acs (i) lol.

the classroom block.. very nice view right..?

lunch @ acs. this is one more thing i like abt acs (i) – the wide variety of food available.

and…there’s a new street soccer court at acs (i).

we didn’t manage to get our testimonials because we couldn’t find jamin jeow or any of our pcts. however, we did bump into our teachers like FIONA HO, PAUL TAN, chew kah wai. ms chew was surprised we haven’t got our testimonials yet. according to her, we were supposed to have received it on the results day. i think our class is kinda screwed up. always last in everything.

To: anyone from our class…
can u call jamin to pester him for the ACS STORY (we paid $10 for it ages ago) and our testimonials. his number is 68700685 (school extension). call him non-stop ok…

that’s all for today. perhaps going to crash CJC next monday. still tentative.

BTW, take a look at this!

(this image has been removed at the request of Dr Gan).

This is Dr Gan, my current chem teacher at JJC. she totally resembles LYDIA YAP right..?
for those who don’t know, lydia yap was my chem teacher for sec 3 and 4. she’s the best teacher the class has ever had. (note the extreme sarcasm here). i was quite startled when i saw this photo at JJ. lol

Edited: Wednesday, 13 February 20083:55 pm

happy valentine’s day!

a very happy valentine’s day to all out there!

school today would have been very boring if i hadn’t ponned lessons like crazy.
this is my actual timetable for today –

>> Physical Conditioning (1 hour) – played worms on psp in a vacant classroom.
>> Physics Practical (1.5 hour) – slacked in the canteen, went to play badminton , then played bridge
>> Civics (1 hour) – can’t pon because of shirley chan, but lesson was quite relaxing cos we watched a movie (Hotel Rwanda) — although i’ve already watched it at the cinema years ago and on star movies not too long ago…
>> GP (1 hour) – can’t pon because it’s still shirley chan’s lesson, but we watched blood diamond (halfway).
>> Chinese (1.5 hour) – played bridge for a while, then went home…

anyways, it was really nice of melissa to give me a flower today. =) thanks.

BTW – jae posting results is going to released really soon – to be exact – on next monday (19 feb) which so happens to be my 4th anniversary of blogging — yes i do keep track of such dates okay! having said that, do NOT read my old posts. they’re damn lame and you insist on reading, you will be permanently blinded!!

Edited: Thursday, 14 February 20085:59 pm

my name

while zen tan and i were at acs (i) using the library com yesterday (after crashing acjc), we were damn bo liao – so we searched for my name in different languages.

so my name is….
ديريك وليم in arabic
デレクイム in jap
데릭 임 in korean

we’re quite lame.

Edited: Thursday, 14 February 20087:38 pm

met my long forgotten ex-classmate

played bridge in school, yet again. we (nicholas, zen, wilson and i) started playing right after assembly all the way to 10am. after which zen, nicholas and i used the unofficial exit to leave school.

zen and i (along with joel and vincent who caught up later) went to jurong point to catch jumper, a new movie that was released just yesterday.
first and foremost — the movie, being so unoriginal, is relatively disappointing. the plot mainly revolves around jumpers (who are able to teleport) and the paladins (who are jealous that the jumpers have such god-like abilities and hunts them down). along with the usual romance-and-setbacks thing, this makes jumper more or less tantamount to those regular, run of the mill teenage romance action movies. *omg. i feel like i’m doing some kinda gp response thing*

while in school, i met winifred, my ex-classmate from PRIMARY 2 who remembered me as the boy who laughed at her when she had chicken pox *lol*. i’m really surprised she was able to recognise me after so long. honestly speaking, i don’t even have any impression of her or anything that happened in pei tong primary school (well – not exactly, i still remember sunny chye, the kids central celeb who never failed to strip in class during PE)!! haha. nonetheless, it’s either her memory is remarkable, or i’m quite dumb.

anyways, i went home to browse through my pei tong primary school yearbook and indeed, i found her right there in the class 3G photo.

Edited: Friday, 15 February 20086:14 pm

OG gathering at huiyan’s house

yesterday: went for OG outing at huiyan’s house.

we met up at boon lay mrt station and that was where i hurriedly got her a really really really really belated birthday “present” (which she still whines that it’s damn expensive…)

anyways, her house is on land (i meant to say landed property). and it is big. we spent most of the time playing bridge, a$$hole taiti, and sending ppl off. occasionally, we stoned. oh btw, her dad is some big shot — can see pictures of him shaking hands with nathan all over the house (oops. too rude – should be the great and worthy President S R Nathan who sits in his istana all day shaking his leg, contributing to the nation’s wealth and progress).

i was intending to leave at 6:30pm but decided to stay on cos i felt like it. so i canceled my piano and stayed. we played more a$$hole taiti, and then, the much dreaded “truth or dare”, where i confessed to loads of embarrassing stuff and kah wang sang a chorus for like…1 minute?

but still, nothing beats huiyan, who had to stuff her mouth full of biscuits, and dance for 30 secs, where she did some stuff which if-i-write-it-on-my-blog-i-think-she-will-kill-me — so, let’s just cut that part of the story.

shi hao is damn racist in a very amusing way. i don’t know if that’s a good thing or not…

anyways, school today is almost the same as last week. i ponned everything except civics (shirley chan), but we continued watching the movie blood diamond, which is quite violent but i like it.

got to hang out with huiyan and zi hui today. theoretically, they made me pon physics lecture cos i had made up my mind to go and was on my way when they called me. so just blame them for making me such a slacker if you want. btw, i’m quite “wols”.

DISCLAIMER: this post is not meant to be insulting to anyone in any way. and no derogatory remarks nor sarcasm has been used against any local political figures.

Edited: Monday, 18 February 20085:22 pm

today’s og outing was a FAILURE

“MOE: CONGRATS, you are posted to JURONG JC, SCIENCE (25S) under 2008 JAE”

zOMG. “congrats” some more. *rendered speechless*.

anyways, went to CJC with joel early in the morning to appeal. BUT WE FORGOT TO BRING THE JAE CONFIRMATION SLIP! wasted trip.

anyways…

i hereby announce that i will step down as the co-organiser for future outings.

firstly, less than half the OG came. we were all supposed to meet at 12pm and watch movie at 1pm. anyways, hui yi, michelle, kah wang, qiao yi, fangqi and i spent 2 hours at macdonald’s stoning, awaiting the grand arrival of huiyan 公主 and her entourage. in the end, only shi hao came — at 2:30pm. the next available slot for our movie was at 3:10pm, which was too late for michelle, so she left. being the “co-organiser”, i kinda feel guilty that she came for the outing just to stone at macdonalds.

nevertheless, the rest of us proceeded to watch the movie. guess what we watched..?
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JUMPER!!!!

i swore that was the only time i slept at the movies. the first time watching it is already damn sian le, but second time…..

anyways, after the wonderful, exciting, captivating and action-packed movie, we continued stoning. then kah wang left. then bestia joined us. then qiao yi waited for her friend. then she left. then huiyan came. then we stoned. then we walked round and round jurongpoint. then we watched bestia eat. then hui yi and fangqi left.

enough “then”s already i think…anyways, huiyan was supposed to be grounded but she told her parents she’s going jp to buy chinese textbook. lol. so we ended up tagging along with her to popular to look for chinese textbooks. there wasn’t any so we went home after that.

this is the worst og outing ever — and some more i’m the co-organiser!!
sian.

Edited: Tuesday, 19 February 20089:26 pm

orientation number 2

if you are an OGL for 2nd batch orientation, please do not read this post. instead visit my number 1 top favourite website here: http://www.jurongjc.moe.edu.sg/. for others, you may proceed to read on.

okay, i’ll be very frank and admit — OG11 sucks, despite the fact that there are ppl like shou yan from my class (08S07) and fangqi and shi hao from my OG. my ogl is an a$$hole, seriously. luckily, the OG they assigned me is just temporary. i’m now in OG22 which has most ppl from 1st batch OG12, but sadly with the exception of raymond and huiyan. i just feel that first batch OG12 was and will always be way better.

orientation day 1 is as boring as ever.

btw, they (the mr handsome gang) tried to brainwash all the first batch who have already been through orientation today.
glad to announce that they were very successful. now i feel even more attached to jjc. (read: intense sarcasm)

the only thing worth staying for in jjc is the people i befriended there.

was browsing through the news online when i came across this and i lmfao:

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Aussie penis artist bids for top art prize

SYDNEY – A CHEEKY artist who uses his penis as a brush has entered a racy self-portrait for Australia’s top art prize. Australian Tim Patch, who calls himself Pricasso, usually exposes his talents at sex product fairs around the world, but has decided to go upmarket by entering a painting for Australia’s Archibald Prize – the nation’s top award for portraiture.

In a unique painting style, Patch does not use paint brushes, but his penis to apply paint to the canvas.

‘I had to use my bum to paint in the background, because you have to have the occasional break,’ Patch told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on Wednesday.

Patch entered a painting of a plastic surgeon in last year’s Archibald Prize, but failed to impress the judges. This year’s entry depicts a nude Patch, wearing only a hat, holding a blank canvas to hide his ‘brush’.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney expects up to 700 portraits to be entered for the 2008 Archibald Prize, with the finalists to be announced in March. — REUTERS

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omg, seriously man. wtf is wrong with these people. got brush don’t use brush. maybe next this patch guy will come out with a new product called the dickhead3000-superpainter or something. *rofl*

anyways, after school, i hung out with zen tan in the canteen. we were briefly discussing about the new course SM11. then i decided that we should just call up our ex-teachers at acs for recommendation letter to help in our appeal to other JCs. first, we called fiona ho, our sec 2 english teacher. she’s the best teacher i had at acs. and despite the fact that i kept giving her trouble in sec 2, she agreed to write the letter for us. i was contemplating whether we should call jamin jeow. i know he has a really bad impression of me (as in – almost kinda hatred). nevertheless, i called him eventually.

me: hi sir, this is derek from 4.5.
jamin: what do you want?
me: i’ve a request to make…er…do you mind writing a recommendation letter for me?
jamin: no.
me: huh?
jamin: no.
me: okay…
jamin: you still have the cheek to ask me to write a recommendation letter for you? tell me why should i write it? give me 3 reasons.
me: er…
jamin: *started scolding me for the next 5 mins — kept hearing things like “eating in class..”, “taking chances for granted”, “annoyance to teachers”…*

i felt like hanging up on him lah! but i decided to show some courtesy and respect given the fact that he was after all my ex-class teacher.

anyways, there was this incident on the bus today that pissed me off (as in really really really pissed me off).

i was so tired and was sleeping on the bus home when a group of people started blaring yalam techno “hits” on their phones a few rows behind me. i was jolted up from my peaceful slumber, with great disgust. what the f.ck man! are they trying to show that they’ve got the latest model handphone which can blast music at 200 decibels, or do they think they were damn cool m*ddy people listening to their techno songs..? personally, i’ve nothing against techno songs, but this really pissed me off — totally. and zOMG – i haven’t even touched on the worst part yet. they started SINGING at the top of their voices! what the effing hell!! are there even lyrics to techno songs..? whatever tune they were singing to, i can assure u 1000% that u’ll never want to be there. i swear they could have started a long range broadcasting radio station from the bus. anyways, i was wondering…have they ever heard of a great invention called the earphones..?? now i’m getting to fully understand shi hao’s feelings…

and so, with still a long 40 mins journey ahead. i had no choice but to turn up my ipod volume to a fatal level never-before-reached to wash away the m*d. seriously hoping i’m not deaf now.

omg, after reading through my post today, i feel so bad. i think this post will offend a whole truckload of ppl. but still this is something i would like to express..(as in a form of stress release). so if you are offended, please don’t come after me. i’m just an innocent guy pouring out his heart’s contents.

PS: pls don’t take me to court for using such racial slurs. as you’ve noticed, i’ve taken the trouble to censor them.

Edited: Wednesday, 20 February 20083:44 pm

dead. totally.

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Singapore wins bid to host 2010 YOG

Singapore wins bid to host 2010 YOG
PM Lee on Singapore’s winning bid
Special Report
• 2010 Youth Olympic Games

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Singapore will host the inaugural Youth Olympics in 2010, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Thursday.

It won the right to stage the Games in a straight contest up against Moscow. It will be the first time that the Asian city-state has hosted a multi-disciplinary sporting event of such a magnitude.

The brainchild of IOC chief Jacques Rogge, the Youth Olympics will feature traditional sports such as athletics and swimming, but also some innovative events such as beach-wrestling and BMX bike riding.

Rogge made the announcement himself from the IOC headquarters in Lausanne.

The Games will see 3,500 athletes aged between 14 and 18 competing in 26 sports.

Singapore is proposing 24 venues, with four being built as temporary facilities, including one large cluster of 13 in its Marina-Kallang area.

The Youth Olympic Village would be located at a new student residential complex at the National University of Singapore, slated for completion months before the event. – AFP

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congrats to team jj supporters who were down at padang.

okay. i’ll be f.cking screwed tomorrow. after dismissal today, zen and i tried to exit at 12 plus and nearly got caught by mr handsome. we ran away when he got out of his car. he’ll most probably start questioning and threatening the cohort tomorrow. i don’t know what to do now, really. i’m in deep shit!! God, save me!

anyways, we used the exit today cos we were in a rush to head back to acs(i) to look for teachers to help us with our appeal. praying hard i won’t get expelled. that’s the last damn thing i would want.

and sorry for the post yesterday. i was in a really bad mood that’s why i was 损-ing everyone like crazy. JJC campus is not as bad as how i had described it to be. at least they have a synthetic field and air-conditioned classrooms. and J1 OGLs are not that bad either. heard they’ve put in a lot of hard work and effort during their training. orientation admin day, although boring, is not retarded. pearlyn and the J1 emcee, you’re not fat, you’re just fleshy (haha. that’s the same thing but put in a nicer term).

i’m saying all these because i’m going to die tomorrow…

thanks to ms au , ms fiona ho and mr kan at acs(i) for agreeing to write a recommendation letter for me. i’m grateful for that.

goodbye everyone.

Edited: Thursday, 21 February 20088:31 pm

i hate JJC

i don’t feel attached to JJC at all even after having spent my PAE days there. today’s lectures and talks made me even more disgusted at the JJcian’s way of life.

firstly, the teacher (in charge of orientation) is such a loser. he thinks he’s so cool to be using teenager’s lingo and acting like a cool student. his so-called jokes are satirical and distasteful to the extent it makes me feel disgusted that he even finds it amusing.

furthermore, i was quite surprised that the teacher (the guy who pretended to be an RI student during 1st intake orientation) searched online for blogs worshiping JJC and depicting the college as a wonderful and most sought-after school. personally, i wondered how many hours he had to waste and how many blogs he had to scour through before finding one like that. he read an excerpt to the entire J1 cohort in a very mocking and distasteful tone today, and the brainwashed J1s and even the teachers were cheering him on as he read. i don’t blame him anyway. after all, this is the only best thing that JJ can do to boost it’s own reputation — through sarcasm, mocking and crazy cheering. that’s the JJ spirit right there. JJC, you totally impressed me.

as i’ve said before, the only reason for me wanting to stay at JJC is the friends i made there. but now, i doubt if that is a good enough reason for me to stay, although it’s not as if i’ve got a choice given my o level results. nevertheless, i’ve got a point to make — let me ask the J1s which one of you honestly and truly like the school (as in the school itself and not for reasons such as location and friends)..?

the purpose of orientation is to let us make new friends and make us settle into the JC environment easily. orientation #2 in JJC defeats that purpose, especially for those 1st intakers. well, first of all, they grouped us into 1st intake ppl, 2nd intake ppl and 1st intake ppl with L1R5 score 10 or below into separate OGs and to think that they expected us, the 1st batch, to do crazy and pointless cheers once more as we did in during the first orientation..? that’s just bullshit. we’re fools to even do the stupid cheers during the 1st orientation. what is the point of such dumb cheers anyway? to make us forge bonds with fellow peers? to make us enjoy ourselves? to force us out of our comfort zone? to be frank, these cheers just make us look stupid. the teacher was repeatedly saying “everyone is doing it together so what are you embarrassed of? i’ll drag you up on stage if you don’t do it”. okay — frankly speaking, if only one person does the cheering, he will look like an asshole. if 1 group of people do the cheering, they will look like a bunch of assholes. if the whole J1 cohort do the cheering, the whole J1 level would look like assholes. if the entire school does the cheering, then, needless to say, the school is a central full of assholes. i wouldn’t mind cheering if they have sensible cheers, but seriously, those cheers at JJC are totally annoying to others, completely meaningless and self-derogatory. either way, the most important factor is to have a target audience to cheer for. ask yourselves, what do you plan to achieve by doing such stupid cheers? who are you doing the cheers for anyway? for the OGLs? the teachers? i can still vividly remember how we cheered for the entire block of HDB flats in front of JJC — the purpose of the cheer is to announce that we can shout so loud that echos can be heard bouncing off the HDB flats. how purposeful…

i’m a very pragmatic person. i would either put a 100% into what i’m doing, or nothing at all if i don’t even want to do it. since i do not wish to cheer at all, i won’t want to pretend that i’m cheering just to make the teachers and ogls satisfied that they’ve gotten me on. so my polite request to OGLs is to leave me alone. it is understandable if you put in the effort to try to get me going. but if i have the courtesy of politely asking you to not to bother me, i hope that you can just leave me alone. i understand that you’ve undergone training and have a job to do. but if you keep pestering me like maggots, i’ll have to choice but to ask you to fuck off. so please, just leave me, or anyone who’s sensible enough and really in no mood to go through 2nd round orientation ALONE. the J2 OGLs had already successfully gotten us to make new friends and i sincerely hope that, with the purpose of orientation achieved, leave US alone!!

CCA achievements list at JJC:
the only gold was for indian dance. 2 other ccas got silvers, but that was ages ago in 2003 and 2005. i was stunned when that teacher showed us the powerpoint slide.
he kept trying to impress by saying that many other ccas got into semifinals or quarterfinals but short of just a teeny-weeny bit from getting into the semifinals or finals. dear teacher, you don’t even have to waste your breath — the statistics are already lying there in black and white before everyone’s eyes.

JJC thanks for the wonderful memories that you’ve given me. i am certainly looking forward to my 2 yrs studying there. and forgive me for being so frank, i’m just being honest with everyone.

Edited: Friday, 22 February 20087:13 pm

clarification

my post entitled “i hate JJC” dated 22 Feb 2008 drew overwhelming responses, with both supportive and objective in nature. following that, i have temporarily shut down the site to prevent further verbal jousting. in addition to that, i have since received numerous emails containing strong offensive language (aka hate mail) and death threats. despite this, i would like to assert that i will still stand by what i have expressed earlier in the above-mentioned post.

however, i hereby apologize for the unnecessary use of harsh words in the attempt to express my strong views.

i feel that instead of using uncivilized means to express your disapproval, why not join in a healthy and creative rebuttal if you do have a point to make? since there are clearly people supportive of my views, it shows that i’m not completely unreasonable. so please, if you strongly disagree to my views, feel free to comment creatively — in the bid to change our mindset and not otherwise. i think it will work much better that way.

ps: jj_leader, i don’t think brainwashing us to love the school is the way to go. having a passion (for JJC in this case) is something that must come about naturally.

Edited: Sunday, 24 February 200811:41 am

to everyone

to the JJcians whom i’ve offended:
i apologise to you for the being excessively harsh and judgmental towards your school (and most probably mine). i hope that all this hype will die down soon so that we can all enjoy life in JJC in the days to come.

to all flamers:
stop it.

to the people who hate-mailed me:
thanks for rapidly filling up my inbox. i haven’t got the chance to read every single one of your emails due to the extensive quantity and the lack of time — i apologise for that. if you had requested a reply and have not received one yet, then most likely your email has been marked as junk – but fret not. you may want to resend your email — and if you wish to, i will truly appreciate if you could cut down on the use of profanities to prevent it from being re-caught as spam.

to christina:
thanks for your understanding and perceptive comments. it gives me much more insight to JJC as compared to the tons of other comments made. and i apologise to you for hurting your feelings. you’ve been and will always be a great OGL. =)

to ren wei:
thanks for being supportive and helping me out. (off the record, i think it would be better if you can cut down on emoing…haha).

to yanling:
no hard feelings okay…

to jj_leader:
haha. nice rebuttals. are you in debate club or something..?

to misogynisticlady:
nice counter-rebuttals too..

to all those who supported my views:
glad to know that there were people who actually supported me though i was kinda overly explicit and harsh..

to my OG (#01 OG12):
appreciate that you guys are not pissed off with me for explicitly expressing my views.

to the teachers mentioned in the post:
i apologise for offending you. however, i still feel that it is socially incorrect to be mocking at others just for the amusement and pleasure of it. i’m sure you do not want other JCs to be doing likewise towards JJC.

to all J2 and J1 OGLs:
i do realize the astronomical amount of effort and sacrifices that you’ve put in to try make the orientation a success and i respect all of you for that.

to all cheerers at padang:
kudos for the enthusiasm and success.

to all the teachers who helped me in acs(i):
thanks for agreeing to write me recommendation letters. ms au pui fun, mr liang chew man, ms fiona ho, mr jarett kan (although you conveniently stripped down my template letter significantly), mdm lu xiang (for being such a good adviser and supportive) and ms lee ooi lian. without your testimonials, my appeal profile would have been quite empty.

to zen tan:
you still owe me $6

and lastly, to everyone:
think that’s enough comments and apologies for today. will post again soon.

Edited: Monday, 25 February 20087:23 pm

tired!!

omg! i just corrupted my entire blog database!

had to re-programme every single damn code and re-parse all the freaking mysql databases!! spent more than 5 hours on it and i’m finally more or less done. some stuff may not work for now but i’ll try to fix them asap. dead tired and very frustrated now.

THANK GOD i was able to recover everything.

Edited: Tuesday, 26 February 20086:25 pm

concerts!!

concerts in march!

Concert #1:
MAROON5 live — March 25 2008!

maroon5 totally rocks!! okay, there’s no need to consider for this.. i’m going.

Concert #2:
KT Tunstall — 27 March 2008

okay, KT Tunstall owns too. i’ll most likely be going for her concert.

omg, 2 concerts in 3 days! i’ll be flat broke after that…

anyways, i am quite 吃惊 that Dr Gan actually visited my blog. *surprised surprised*. she went up to me during assembly today and told me to remove her picture from my blog..lol. i think i should blog carefully from now on since i’m writing to a much wider scope of people than ever before. years ago (to be precise 4 years ago), only the closer of the closest of my friends would bother to read my blog. haha.

and u must be wondering why i’m using chinese words on my blog..? okay, it’s just me trying to blend into the JJC environment. JJC is actually quite china (read: cheenah) so i’m trying to fit in. i find it so uncomfortable to be speaking chinese (although i can speak it), to everyone. i haven’t interacted in chinese at all with my friends in acs, so it feels very very unnatural to be speaking in chinese to friends now. nevertheless, i’ll still give it a try, although i’m quite sure i’ll turn out to be a joke.

Edited: Wednesday, 27 February 20089:18 pm

i am 8% emo.

school today is boring, especially with the entrepreneurship course going on. we played the monopoly-like board game (which kah wang has so aptly called it a bored game) all day long.

bought all 4 JJC house t-shirts and the collar pin today. costed me $52 in all. still have to purchase the school uniform tomorrow…

haha..i took this “Are You Emo?” personality test and………….

You Are 8% Emo

You’re the furthest thing from emo. Sensitivity is not something you exactly cultivate… and you can’t imagine weeping over song lyrics.

Are You Emo?

anyways, to ren wei: take this test and tell me your score!

Edited: Thursday, 28 February 20085:04 pm

gamefactory + financial status = crappy post

school was okay. there was a presentation by gamefactory which was kinda draggy though. especially where they took almost 30 minutes just to demonstrate the very basics of adobe flash. but anyways, i thought the 3d animation segment, though complicated, was quite interesting. nevertheless, i won’t be joining any gamefactory courses simply because it is WAY to expensive. at $100 per course, they are overcharging us, especially since everything that they’re offering to teach can be easily self-taught online (and that was how i learnt php, html, mysql, javascript, visual basic, flash, c++ and whatnot). omg, just realized i’m portraying myself to be some extremely geeky computer programmer…lol. okay, let’s put it this way: i’m just mildly computer-proficient.

anyways, my point is — don’t waste money on such courses unless you’re really too lazy to log on to the internet to learn all these yourself, or you are really in need of expert’s supervision, or you just have too much money to spare, or all of the above.

i bought my school uniform today — costed me another $56. in total, i spent $108 on jjc attire. and omg, i’m such a spendthrift. i’ve just realized that i have spent over $3000 in just 2 months. that’s quite a sum considering i’m saving up for the 2 concerts in march. after that, i would be very much broke. and to think that i’ve just been through the entrepreneurship course which was supposed to educate us on financial planning…

guess i’ll have to start saving and spend less from now on…

Edited: Friday, 29 February 20083:15 pm