Caroling 2009

It's that time of the ear again... it's Christmas! Such a blissful and fun time doing Christmas carols. :) Yup, caroling is perhaps the best time i have every year. Going to houses, eating the great food, singing with friends, Christmas drama, it's all worth it.

Caroling this year... 2 nights and four houses/places only compared to other years. First night, a restaurant called 'Hainan Chef' at Taipan, Subang. Oh, the food there is really, really awesome... the stew in particular. Haha~ Well, this restaurant is one of my church members relatives restaurant. :) That's just the first night. The second night, three houses! All the fun and food and singing! The first place was a condo unit, so we had to go up the elevator... about 20 of us. The food was awesome as well! Haha~ There are quite a few good cooks from my church it seems. :) Second house... it is said that there were 100 people there but i don't think there were 100... well, there were many people, skip the counting. Didn't eat much food there cause we have stuffed ourselves with the great food from the previous house. :) Met familiar faces there. :P Third and final house of the night, we spent the most time there. Let's see, i think about 11p.m. till almost 1 a.m. Watched the football match there... though not quite a football fan. (ManU lost!) Went back to church, Benjamin couldn't wait to try out the double base drums and the new China cymbals! Wow! Haha~

Well, that about sums it all up. Really, really short summary. It was a great time and i sure can't just say it to you, you've just gotta experience it yourself. Get into the Christmas mood! Jingle bells, jingle bells~

Oh~ The new computer just arrived. Gotta get used to it... gotta do everything right back from the start. :)

-jsoncx signing out-

i think the hols are taking it's tol on me... well, haven't it on you either?

So much to do, so little time

So... SPM is over.

Where to now?

Suddenly i am a little confused with what i want to be. Haha~ I know that i should follow what i have always wanted to be... an inventor.... but it seems so complex. What course should i take to be an inventor?

E&E, Mechanical Eng., Mechatronics, Robotics, Biochemical, Chemical, Biomedical Eng.... well, the world of engineering seems so vast! Sometimes i just wonder... can do more than one?

Some other courses also seem interesting.... well, everything seems quite interesting to me.... except for law and politics i guess.

So much to do, so little time.

SPM!

Hey! SPM is here! Haha~ what am i doing here?? Err... wait... i'm not supposed to be here at all! Err.. haha~ Well, it's the first day of SPM. :) Many more days to go~ I won't blog here though :P if you know what i mean. :P Alright gonna sleep now. Bye!

Really cold these days don't you think? Weather forecast says that it'll rain everyday!

Driving test

Well, well, i was supposed to blog this yesterday. Just couldn’t find the time. Haha~

Woke up early in the morning to prepare for driving test. Not to say i could sleep well… at least i slept. I was very nervous in the morning, waiting for my instructor to come pick me up. It was 8.30 a.m. and he still wasn’t here. Got a sms from Joseph early that morning. He said that he was there already. Haha~ looks like he got the first session. Well, i wished him all the best and hope that i’ll meet him there. 8.50 a.m. My instructor arrived. My nervousness was gone with all that waiting. I was the only one in the car. When i saw the car i said, ‘Wow, so big?’ It was an Unser. Usually he drives a Kancil. Well, i thought he would send me straight to SDC but no, he went to pick up another 6 people from one end of PJ to the other. Oh my~ it was like one and a half hours on the road. From my place to DU to TTDI to BU to PJU then to SDC. My, my… that long wait really tire me out… even though i wasn’t doing anything.

Finally reached SDC and i saw Joseph just about to go on the road for the second part of the test. Hmm… if i’m not mistaken he’s tester was a woman… well, i wished him all the best in my heart. Haha~ He was like so concentrated on the road in front of him. I wonder whether he saw me walked across the road in front of his car. Well, off he goes. And here i come to take the test.

Registered first at the counter. While waiting in line, i saw Joseph arrive back. Well, at least he was still sitting in the driver’s sit, which means he didn’t fail. Wondered whether he passed. Took notice of his car number: 6. Hmm… Later i met him in line. He was going off. He saw me. Haha~ Later he would help me lots by giving me some tips. :P

Later i waited for my turn for the first part of the test. Slope, parking and 3-point turn. Now i was really nervous… afraid that that i got some lousy car and i didn’t know how to drive it. You know, i’m already used to my instructor’s car. Well, in the end i got a red Kancil…. the old version. Gosh, the accelerator was a little ‘cacat’ and there was no RPM meter! I was counting on it to go over the slope. Oh well, gotta improvise. Used my ears instead. Got up the slope, stopped on the line, put my hand up. Then the JPJ officer asked me to put on the safety belt. I was like, ‘Huh? Need meh??’ Well, during my lessons at SDC, my instructor asked me to take off my safety belt. Oh well, at least i didn’t fail there. Cleared the slope and on to the parking. I was a little to the right when i started. I was afraid i wouldn’t be able to park fully inside the box. In the end, i managed to. Lucky me. Then i went on to 3-point turn. Did it swiftly and finished it well. Great, i passed the first test.

After that, i waited for my turn for the second test. How unfortunate i was when they stopped at number 32 and went for their lunch break. Haiz~ i was number 35. After lunch, i came back and waited. Not long after, i was called. Oh~ i got the number 6 car too! Haha~ Err… oh no, a woman tester. (No, i’m not a sexist) I heard that the women testers were strict and failed many people. Well, just my luck. Said, ‘Selamat petang’ and started off. A bumpy start at first. Gotta get used to the clutch first. Okay, my first blunder, i mati enjin at the first traffic light. ‘Oh gosh! I’ve failed!’ i thought to myself. The tester quickly pulled the hand break for me. Well, i was pressing the foot break anyway. Then… a short pause. ‘Okay, no word. Guess i’ll just continue on’. Then i restarted the engine and went off. Even made it pass the traffic light before it turned red. I was lucky not to fail there. Thank God. My second mistake, i was driving too left and she said, ‘Nak langgar tepi ke?’ Aik, my mistake. Silently said sorry. My third error, i stopped on in yellow box. Guess i was too nervous. Didn’t even realise there was a yellow box there. She said, ‘Kotak kuning boleh berhenti ke?’ Aik, my bad. Then i prayed that i would pass despite the mistakes. And i did! Haha~ Even said ‘Terima kasih’ before i left.

Well, that was a relief. At least i wouldn’t need to retake the test. Thank God once again. Finally gonna get my driver’s license after all the barriers. Long lectures, failed my Undang once, the early driving lessons, post-poning the test once. Haiz~ i actually really feel so geram and i actually hated driving… well, there’s other reasons. I thought about having it after SPM but… err… don’t need to know the details. :P Haha~

After the driving test… well, going home right? Yeah, i knew that i should have taken the LRT instead. But no, i did not! Well, followed my instructor who picked up some people from the computer test centre and fetched 6 people home before me. Went from SDC to Subang to PJU to BU to Mutiara Damansara to BU then home. Two long hours on the road. Haiz~ should have jumped out of the car when he passed KJ LRT station. Total time out since i left my house… 8 hours. Gosh, so tiring. Came back home and went to bed immediately. Had a headache due to the weather and smokers. Ah well, at least it’s all over now. :)

Yay, gonna get my license next Monday. :D

194th blog entry

Hmm... what to do, what to do??? Not doing so well in my exams... err... do you consider all A's so far, one B and one D bad? Well, i do... because of that miserable D!! Haha~ well, long time no blog. This will be my 194th blog entry! Gonna be 200th soon! Haha~ Didn't know i blog so much. It all started a long time ago in Form 3.... :)

...OMG!!! I didn't know i could insert a photo publishing through this blog till now!!! What!!!!! I thought it couldn't be done!!! All this year!!! No photos!! Argh!!!!! By the way, all if you see a photo till now in my blog entry, it's because i'm using Windows Live Writer. Ahhhhhh!!!!!!! Darn... why i didn't see that little button 'Add photos' right donwn there. They should make it more prominent. Dang!

The endless studying… how do you people cope?

Studying… hmmm… how do you study? Don’t know why but some people can stay up till early morning to study. It’s like, don’t you need to sleep? Wow, some people are just awesome. How do they do it? Well, i can’t. If i stayed up till like 2a.m., i’d go high… or lose my concentration… and would most probably be a zombie the next morning. Some of my friends can do that… study super duper long. I heard they drink chicken essence or coffee… hmmm… chicken essence… not sure what it is. Coffee? Err… i do drink coffee… kind of like the taste…. but i’m not addicted to it. Unfortunately if i drink coffee, i’d be unable to sleep… therefore i’d be zombie next morning. Another side-effect of coffee to me is, i’d go high! Yes, high. Imagine being high when studying… (imagine). Haha~ it makes studying very interesting. :) After some time… approximately 3 hours, my mood would drop drastically from high to low. Then studying would seem dull. But the next morning… i’d most probably be high again. Yes, i’m weird, am i not? You know, once i drank coffee… err… different brand from my usual one (cause it was cheaper… yes, i buy coffe, i don’t make coffee) i couldn’t sleep at night! It was a horror! A nightmare! I felt like strangling myself so that i would suffocate and faint. Tried to hold my breath till i pass out but it’ll be impossible cause reflex action would kick in and i’d involuntarily breath in… err… it’s to do with science. Haha~ Yeah… almost killed myself then. Well, the only time i drank coffee during this trials was the day before Bio paper 1 and 2. And you know what? I managed to study 7 chapters in one day… and slept at 12a.m… haha~ Okay, back to the point. Studying… actually, exams are not all about studying… experience is important too. Like what i say when i don’t feel like studying, ‘Aiya, i don’t care already lah. Whatever happpens, happens. I’ll leave it to my experience… and my general knowledge.’ :P Rest is also essential. Must sleep lots! Yeah, so why you people don’t sleep?? Sleep is important for your BRAIN to process all that you have studied. Kasihan your brain lah, all that hard work. Gotta give it a rest. Besides, your brain would be tired after you did your exam paper in school. So, you people should really sleep. I feel tired after everyday during the exams… that’s why i sleep a lot in the afternoon… not to say that i sleep late at night. I sleep around 1a.m. The latest i’ve slept during school days is at 2a.m. to 3a.m. and i didn’t sleep late because i was studying… i was doing secretary work. At least that’s a thing of the past now. :) Haha~ Well, what’s with all the endless studying? Studying too much at a time is really not good for you. You might even get sick! Well, some people are just desperate to get straight A’s for SPM… so… does that mean i’m not?? Haha~
Here’s a joke… let’s say you have a 500 page college text book. If you ask a professor, ‘How long would you take to finish reading this book?’ The professor would say, ‘1 month’. If you ask a student taking an exam the next day that same question, the student would reply, ‘1 day’. Get the joke?
-just some of my random thoughts… randomness-

The start of the hols…

Hmmm… the hols have started… Actually, i don’t look forward to it. I object tomorrow being a holiday! Why can’t we just finish the exam first!!!

Anyway… it’s the hols… it’s the Raya hols… time to balik kampung. Going Penang. Well, at least i’ll get to enjoy the food. :)

Okay, Add. Maths paper today…. firstly, how was it? Can do? Can finish? Enough time? (pause) Hmmm… i decided that it is better that you people don’t know my story about Add. Maths today. (don’t want anyone killing me, do i?) :)

Focus?

Hello people! Haven’t blogged since the start of trials. So here i am blogging now. :)

Just something that happened last Friday…

It was the exams… PJK actually. I was doing it. I tried to do it as slow as possible, delaying time, cause i know that if i finish early, there’ll be a super duper long boring time with nothing to do but stare… So, i did the questions slowly and talked to myself… inside my head of course. Talked about the questions… and other stuff… nothing that you need to know. :) Then as i looked at the metal cabinet (err.. don’t know what to call it), i saw… guess what i saw. I saw a bottle! Not just any bottle… a bottle with some words on it. And the words were, ‘FOCUS’. I was like, ‘What!' You telling me to focus?’. Then i laughed to myself. ‘Who would want to buy that bottle? Wonder whose one it is'. Yeah, really very… err… haha~ :)

Oh, and last Friday was Happy S.A.D. Haha~ A paradox eh? Nope, it’s Happy Sisters Appreciation Day at CF! Haha~ What did you think. :)

Well, that’s about all i’m gonna blog now. :) You guys out there, don’t study too much. It’s a holiday tomorrow. Relax sikit can or not? You guys studying make me worry. :P Haha~ All the best in your exams. :D

Can’t believe exam starts TOMORROW!

I can’t believe exam starts after this hols!!! Ahhhhhhh! And this hols end TOMORROW!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Oh no! What to do? What to do? I feel so panicked… i feel scared~ It’s so really scary you know, knowing that exam is like tomorrow and you’re not studying… well, i believe you guys are studying but I’M NOT! I’m so totally not prepared for this!

…

Well, when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. Yeah~… sounds like a good plan to run now so RUN! Where to??? Err… i guess i could take a cab to KLIA now and get a plane ticket to erm… err… Singapore? Australia? Russia? Well, anywhere but here! Wait… i know! I’ll travel at the speed of light and slow time down! Then i’ll have more time to study. News flash: –Technology to travel at the speed of light doesn’t exist yet-. Err… okay… well, guess that won’t work. (a moment of silence) NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Yes, i’m going crazy! Bet you i won’t have a good nights sleep tonight… i’d be like a zombie at school. "’I have come to eat your brains!’ Wait… that tagline is more appropriate with Ming Soon. –randomness-

(sigh)x10^infinity

Well, better pray lots more… and smile lots more too… and do something stupid at school… like read a Form 3 reference book in the midst of trial for SPM. Haha~ Yes, i am going crazy.

Hahax10^infinity :D

-jsooncx signing off-

Exams starts on Tuesday??

Err… haha~ Just something random i wanted to blog about. You know… i didn’t know exam is going to start on Tuesday. :P I thought it is going to start on Monday. :P Haha~ Just something i found out in tuition today. It was like, ‘Monday got BM paper lah’. Then my friend said, ‘No lah, Monday public holiday’. Then i said, ‘Really?’ Then my friend said, ‘Ya lah, Merdeka mah. You want to go to school to take exam meh?’ Err… haha, i was like so blur. Guess i didn’t read the timetable properly. :P Well, one extra day to relax before exams… haha~

Well, it has been raining quite a lot lately…

Holidays! Haha~

Hey! It’s the holidays! Time for some rest and relaxation. Ahh~ the beach~ The cool sea breeze that sweeps the shore. The sound of the waves crashing in the beach. Paradise~ Haha~ I really, really, wish that would be true~ Going out for some vacation or holiday now isn’t such a bad idea… or is it?

Hmm… it seems like i haven’t been blogging for quite some time now. Hmm… what to blog about??? Well, i have a story about a mosquito. I was studying History one morning in my ‘study’ room. Yeah, it was such a nice day, cooling and relaxing~ Ahh~ I was enjoying my time reading my history book when some mosquito for some no good reason came by and start biting me. I was like, ‘Grrrr! Stupid mosquito! If i see you, i’ll KILL YOU!!!’ So i kept a watchful eye on my surrounding on a lookout for the mosquito. Some time passed and i said, ‘Cis! What lah you mosquito, i bet you are now just relaxing, enjoying and digesting your huge feast of my blood!’ Then a moment later, ‘Aha! Found ya!’ I took my History book and WHAM, WHAM, WHAM! Three hits! Not sure whether i hit it but i noticed something else. ‘OH NO!’ I saw that the book wrapper has torn! Yikes! Too much strength i think. :P But i was like so geram the mosquito bit be and got away with it. Grrr…

So yeah, that’s some funny thing that happened today. :P Hmm… i was also thinking… i made up some philosophy about myself. :P

I am NOT smart, I just THINK i am smart so i ACT smart. People saying that i am smart has made my conscience to believe so. My mind cannot live up to the standards set my conscience.

Bottom line is, i’m really just an average person who is supposed to score average marks. Maybe get 15th or the 20th position in class but somehow or another i became different when i thought myself as somebody that is smarter than an average person. Me believing in who i am not has changed me into that person which i am not. A so called SMART person.

Err… that’s just random. Haha~ Should that be an encouragement or an insult to others? Err… i don’t know. Guess it’s just better to ignore me. My mind is going haywire like some rat got tangled in my delicate wiring of my brain. Err… that’s weird. Why am i saying all this. Am i going crazy?

Okay well, all the best in your studies… Hey wait! Stop studying so much. Have a break people! Err… another random thing. I’m going NUTS!

Such a fun day at school!

It’s a Saturday! A fun one despite it being a school day. :) Haha~ For those of you who came you know la~ :) Right there was school today. My bus didn’t come to pick me up so in the end my father sent me to school… that was like at 6.50 a.m. or so. So very early! Well, i arrived at school at 7.00 a.m. So empty and dark. I was greeted by a frog (or toad) on the way in. Haha~ Greg… if you know what i mean. :P So yeah, very early at school. So i sat at the bench and read my book. FYI i did not read a revision book. Wonder why everyone… or most people think i study a whole lot. The fact is i don’t. I keep telling them but they don’t believe me. Anywayz, so yeah, i was reading a novel… erm… science fiction. There was Wei Sheong there sleeping. So i read and read, took the buku ponteng, then waited for the grill to open. Kinda late. So, i expected about 10 or more people but it turned up to be 4! F.O.U.R only! Pei Ning, Shu Ning, Ming Soon and me! Well, what do you expect from a Saturday school day when exams are just behind the corner. :) So, the class was so empty. In the end we combined classes with 5A, which had 10 people i think. 5C got 8, 5D got 8, 5I got 2. These three classes combined. So, it almost seemed to be like a typical Saturday school day… until~ Haha~ well, first, i took out a Add. Maths. workbook to do some work… (as if i did)… i did one question and said, ‘Okay, i am done studying’. LoL. :P Then i went to the 5A group at the other side of the class. They had Rubik’s! So i watched them play and played a little. Then i got bored and went back to my place. Took out my Add. Maths workbook and did some work… (as if i did)… i did one question and said, ‘Okay, studied finished. Time to play’. LoL. So i went back to the 5A group and saw Parvin playing Tower Blocks! Oh, i have that in my handphone too! Seems that you could reach the moon! Even see a satelite and a wishing star! Never reached that high before… err… don’t think you understand what i’m saying. Okay, moving on, Shu Ning came asking some Bio question. Right~ flexor muscle. ‘Upper’ flexor muscle contract and pulls the leg toward the body. ‘UPPER’ mean ‘UP’! What else could it mean?? So i took my marker pen and illustrated.

Something like that...

Right~ okay, so after that we played hangman, since the marker was already out. Yeah… after that came the fun part. Err… not sure but i think i started it. :P Okay, i found some paper on the floor so i decided to do something with it. ‘Hmm… long time haven’t played with paper planes…’. It was a great idea! Haha~ yeah, so surely you could guess what happened next. I made a paper plane! Then others followed. Then we started throwing it around the class. Then it went from inside the class to outside the class. People start throwing paper planes down from the first floor. :P Pei Ning’s plane flew onto the roof of the covered walkway like 3 times?! Haha~ First time she climbed out onto the roof to get it! It was like what is she doing!!! Actually, i don’t mind her doing that but if a teacher saw that… err… you’d know what will happen. :P Second time, Wei Sheong helped (i was too short :P couldn’t reach). Then it happened a third time~ Haiz, this time i was smart enough to climb~ err… you woudn’t know what i mean unless you were there. Haha~ yeah, then in back in class we were throwing paper planes at each other. Haha~ Actually, only the BR people were doing that. :P After that, we played some ooooooold game. You know the flower-like-paper origami where you write stuff inside and say, ‘which colour do you want?’. Yeah, that one. Nothing to do mah. Well, we ‘studied’ through that! Wrote some questions on Bio, Chemistry and Physics. :P Haha~ well, basically that was the whole day at school. Lots of stuff we did, lots of fun we had, no revision done at all! Haha~ Then it was bye bye to all. What an exciting Saturday it was. The best Saturday school day i could say. :) Oh yeah, one more thing… i’m proud to say (or am i) that we beat out 'ponteng record! 39 absentees and only 4 present. LoL Xp.

And so it was done…

Alright, it’s finally August after a long, long wait. You know what that means. Hehe~ I am finally retired! Yippie! Scouts AGM on the 1st of August… i skipped it to go for BK Quiz. Haha~ At least don’t need to get ‘tembak’ed. Hopefully my assistant who represented me didn’t ‘kena’ anything. :P Right i finally passed down my Secretary title in Scouts to: Bryan Ooi. Don’t know much about him but anyone replacing me is surely good enough for me. :P Still got to pass down all the secretary stuff to him. Haha~ sorry but i’m gonna leave some unfinished stuff with you… err… let me see, attendance. Haha~ Shouldn’t be a problem. Don’t come and find me ah. LoL.

As for CF, i was Secretary from 08.08.08 to 07.08.09 (cool numbers). Now i have stepped down. Also got some unfinished stuff but i’m gonna finish it before i pass it down to the new Secretary.

Persatuan Ketua Tingkatan… err… i don’t do much work there. I’m Secretary 2 (kind of demoted :P). Reason why i got demoted (my opinion): I don’t do much for PKT. Reason why i don’t do much for PKT: Nobody gave me any work in the first place! Not that i’m complaining. :P

Right… retirement… hmmmm… i feel so… old? Haha~ The word ‘retire’ makes me feel old. So, time to go see the world? Have a vacation? Haha~

Exams

Exams are merely means of gauging our knowledge
We should not only study, but learn through studying
We are to know, not just to simply memorise

By knowing, exams will be a breeze~

 What’s the use of studying if we don’t mean to study?

Just a food for thought… or maybe some hallucination made by my delusional mind. Currently having a mild fever~

Random…

Right, just something random i thought of in school today. :P

Why are some to-may-toes called to-mah-toes and why are some to-mah-toes called to-may-toes??

Same goes with po-tay-toes and po-tah-toes.

Haha~ :P

-joel siging out-

SPM BK ‘09 Oral Quiz

Hello! Well, actually i wanted to blog about the SPM BK ‘09 Oral Quiz since a long time ago but kinda not time lately. Haha, well, can’t write too long though so i’ll try to talk with pictures. (though there are only 4 :P)
Alright, last Saturday, on the 1st of August 2009, SPM BK ‘09 Oral Quiz was held at SMK (P) Assunta. It’s the first time i’ve been there and the first time it was held there since i came to secondary school. Right, straight to the events. Woke up real early… well actually i woke up late. Set the alarm clock at 4.50 a.m. but woke up at 5.20 a.m.! Rushed to wash up and eat breakfast. Met at Taman Bahagia LRT station. Hmm… the first batch of people left but i decided to leave with the second batch. More time to study. :P Had a 1km walk to Assunta. Passed a lot of large gigantic enormous houses on the way. (which i will tell something about it later) Got a little lost. :P Haha~ Eventually, we made it to Assunta. After all the registration and speeches, we, the SPM BK participants went to the hall to take the first part of the quiz, the MCQ questions. Hmm… at least i knew how to do most of it. After the quiz, it was the first elimination. Different than last year where there was no elimination for the first round. Cut down to 60 teams from Selangor and KL. My team, TS8 managed to proceed with a total of 67 marks! (maximum marks are 80, 40 for each person) Along with 7 other teams… i think. Altogether, my school sent 11 teams and 1 team from my school represented their church. Oh, by the way, if you don’t know, we go in pairs, two per team.
Then i was the second round. The Quiz Masters will ask the question and we are to write it on a piece of paper and show it to the Recorders… Err… you’d probably not know what are Recorders and Runners… well, basically, Recorders record marks while Runners run! LoL :P Okay, back to the competition. Unlike last year where there were 5 Q’s on Luke and 5 Q’s on Acts, it was all Luke!!! I was no help at all! Really~ Didn’t actuallt study Luke… Anyway, my partner, Tian Xiong was superb! Well, good thing i have a good partner. :) Later it was the 2nd elimination. Total marks from part 1 and part 2. It was a tense moment… Then, it was a moment of joy! I was so shocked and happy. It was like i got my SPM results. :P Haha~ Well, we managed to enter the 3rd round. Our placing: 23rd out of 25 teams from Selangor and KL! Really, really shocked and truly amazed. :)
Okay, the 3rd part of the competition, semifinals. Scores reset to zero. 4 teams from my school managed to enter part 3. Among them was a Form 4 team with exceptional marks. Really, really good. I was very extremely nervous. Haven’t been this far before. This time, there is no conferring with your partner. Tian Xiong chose Luke and i chose Acts. Really nervous i was. Tian Xiong did really great by getting 13 out of 15! It was like WOW! Then it was my turn. I was really, really sad at the end of the third round. I did so badly. Only managed to get 3 out of 15… so discouraged. I have failed my partner! Anyway, you know what happened next. We failed to enter the finals. It was like minimum 20 marks from part 3 to tie with the other 5 teams. We only got 16. Haiz, i really failed. Could have done better… Anyway, good job Tian Xiong. :)
1 team from our school almost managed to enter the finals. The Form 4 team!!! TS10! They got a tie but lost in the tie-breaker. Three out of five teams proceeded to the finals from the tie-breaker. Despite the failure to enter the finals, we managed to obtain the David Boler challenge trophy. It’s now 3 years in a row! Haha~ Well, be back for it next year. There is chance to get the MCSC challenge trophy, the Form 4 team was truly remarkable. Defeated the Form 5 teams. :P

Some of us checking our marks for part 1. I got 34!  

Right, now, after i lost the 3rd round, some of us went out to A&W for lunch. So, i didn’t watch the finals this year. I heard that the top 3 places was taken by Sri Sempurna. They are really, really good. Anyway, on the way there, yeah, about the large houses. It was white and large. Lot’s of them. Here’s some pics:

Look, a large ‘white’ house. Parvin was joking about it.

Malaysian White House. Haha~

Right, A&W… i ate waffle! It was so filling. Truly, waffles are not meant to be eaten alone. Must share with others. Still, it was cheaper than the Coney Dog. I’m kinda trying to save money. Then, Alan, Parvin and me went to Amcorp Mall. Wow, it’s like a bazaar there. Well, i’ve never been there before… maybe once but that’s it. There, we jalan-jalan and followed Alan shopping. Haha~ We admired his shopping skills such as bargaining. Well, he helped me reduce the price of my ‘rice dumpling’. Haha~ if you know what’s that. :P
Then, we proceeded home. Met the other group of CF’ers who stayed behind till it ended at the Taman Jaya LRT station. Went back home from there with Tian Xiong. Alan, Parvin and me stopped at Taman Bahagia. The CF’ers were behind us. Alan and Parvin left and i waited for the LRT with the CF’ers. It was then i heard the announcement that the LRT won’t stop at Masjid Jamek station cause there was a ‘perhimpunan haram’. Didn’t know what it was till the next day. :P Later, i met back up with Tian Xiong and went back home. Phew, it was a tiring day indeed. :)
Okay, that’s all for now. It’s late already and i actually have a History test tomorrow. ‘Supposed’ to study but i got bored and stopped with 7 pages left to finish. Hopefully it won’t come out tomorrow. :P Haha~

Physics Olympiad

Oh, what a day~ Hmmm… don’t know what was wrong with me in the morning. A little down and moody. No idea what caused it… hmm… maybe i do know what caused it but better not want to come to any conclusions. :) A bad start to the day… furthermore a sudden BM test. Felt so discouraged when i did it so slowly. Not myself at all! Luckily, Riley was there to cheer me up. :) Haha, guess you wouldn’t know who is Riley (try guessing). :P Then it was a supposedly early recess cause i’m taking the Physics Olympiad. Unfortunately, i got called by teacher. Suddenly i became busy. Haiz~ Went all the way to the teacher’s room, came all the way back, had to arrange some files, got to find who was the seemingly missing person in class, then had to go all the way back to the teacher’s room, then got an extra task by teacher. Haiz~ failed to do the extra task but i asked somebody to help me do it. Oh, i wanna thank Tho Hong for helping me arrange those files. :) In the end i was late for the Physics Olympiad… err… about 5 minutes late i think. I was panting a little and sweating too! Kinda hard to concentrate… I’m so unfortunate~
The quiz was indisputably hard! Super tough! Challenging! Super duper lot of questions too! 70 Q’s in two and a half hours! Well, i had a slow start at first but later on i speeded up a lot. It’s like i increased in ‘velocity’, ‘acceleration’. Haha~ Guess the more pressured i am, the better i think. My Chemistry teacher said last year that, ‘Boys tend to do better when pressured’. Maybe it’s true after all. :) When i did the paper, all the formulas and law's that i once learnt was totally shut off, locked somewhere in my head where i couldn’t find it! In the end, i had to rely on my logical thinking and tembak’ing skills. :) It’s like i used about 80% of my right brain and 20 % of my left brain. Haha~ I was like not even sure of any of my answers at all! Well, i prayed to God in the middle of all that, that i may at least finish the paper though i may have done a whole lot of mistakes. I keep telling myself, ‘Half way more! Must do faster!, ‘Aiya, spend so much time on this already still can’t get an answer. Just tembak lah’, ‘Must finish the paper even if i have no choice but to tembak all!’. People started to leave so early. I was even more pressured then. I was like the last two who were there in the Physics lab. I finished just on time. Really thank God. Then i realise Riley was with me in my pocket too! :) Overall, it was so tough that i said, ‘Thank God SPM is easier than this.’ Haha~
Hmm… just when i came back to class i had to go out again for the matriculation briefing. It’s like i was out the whole day. Well, isn’t that a good thing? Well maybe, that is if there weren’t any homework! Haha~ Came back for the last period for Add. Maths. Oh, before i went out for the briefing, i entrusted Tho Hong to jaga Riley. When i came back… it was like… (censored)… what have you guys been doing to RILEY!!! He’s so soft now! Have you been pulling him a lot! Who did it!!! Someone even made Riley dirty!!! Oi! What’s with you guys!!! You’d better find a way to fix Riley… you almost murdered him!!! I hope i can fix Riley~
(sigh) Well, that was my day at school today. Another hectic day… Nonetheless, gotta enjoy myself or another day will go to waste with all the moodiness. Got myself an ice-cream! :P Haha> :)

Knowledge is power… i’ve not mastered the knowledge yet… so guess i’m not eligible of wielding power. :)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Hi everyone! Well, a little delayed post cause i’ve not been online for about 2 days. :)
Well, have you guys watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?

Haha, so happen i got free tickets from KDU so i went to GSC 1 Utama to watch it on Thursday. I had to rush to get to 1U by 2 p.m. School ands at 1.05 p.m. So, here’s my story of my journey to 1U.
Started of from school at 1.05 p.m. Rushed all the way home… i walked by the way, and took the LRT from Taman Bahagia to KJ. Reached home at 1.30 p.m. Took a bathe and changed. Left my house at 1.40 p.m. (wow, so fast? Yes, can’t believe it myself either) Walked to the taxi stand at KJ LRT station. Took a taxi to 1U. Oh, by the way, actually i don’t know how to take a taxi. :P So happen there was somebody there at the same time taking a taxi so i observed what she did and i did the same. I opened the back passenger door of the taxi and asked the taxi driver, ‘Ke 1 Utama boleh?’ Haha, then i got in the cab and proceeded to 1U. Guess that’s the first time i took a cab by myself. :) On the way, i say the RapidKL bus to 1U. Darn, looks like i missed it by a couple of minutes. Anyway, the taxi was much faster. Reached 1U at 1.50 p.m. Still on time. Haha, i wonder how i got to school, back home, took a bathe, and arrive at 1U under an hour. :)
A little excited getting free tickets. There were other people from Taman SEA there too. Let me recall, Elyssia, Chiau Hui, Megan, Rachel, Melody, Sureen, Yu Ming, 2 other girls and another boy. Sorry that i don’t know you guys. :P Before the movie, i went to eat my lunch. Elyssia and Chiau Hui followed me. Then, a little pool. Though it was a little waste cause we couldn’t finish the game. We then proceeded into the theater. It seems that KDU booked one of the theaters so the whole theater was filled with students. You know, before the movie started there’s those ads right? Haha, suddenly the KDU ad was on the movie screen. :P Seems desperate to promote their college by giving us free tickets. :) Then i was sit back, relax and enjoy the movie. Oh yeah, there were popcorns too! Long time no eat. :P I had one small sized popcorn box for myself. :)
The movie actually started at 3 p.m. but had to be there earlier to collect the tickets. The movie ended at 5.30 p.m. Two and a half hours. After the movie, i went on my own. Walked around 1U by myself carrying my bag. Haha, after much deliberation, i finally had the courage to step into a gift shop and buy something cute for myself. Before, i was like afraid of buying stuff from a gift shop. Too many girls. Won’t it be weird if a guy bought something cute for himself?? Haha, anyway, i finally got the cute, squishy thing i wanted. :)
Well, that was my Thursday. So fun and exciting rushing to 1U. New experience taking a cab. Got to watch Harry Potter. Haha, not so good with movie reviews but i’d say it was funny and there was lots of love scenes. So tired at the end of the day. What an adventure. :)

Memoirs #1

Hello! How’s your day? :) Well, just some random blogging… haha~

Well, as you can see, there is a picture here… guess what it is?? You won’t or might not believe it but it is actually a toilet. Haha, don’t believe me? Have you been to Thailand? You know, the toilets there are EXTREMELY clean. Not the indoor toilets in the hotel, the outdoor public toilets. Haha~ compared to Malaysia. :P If Malaysia is 1 star, i’d rate Thailand toilets 7 stars. :) Really, super duper clean. By the way, i took this picture when i went to Thailand last year.

Taylor’s Science Competition

Oh my goodness~ the blog entry i just wrote just disappeared! Some error occurred. Gotta write it again~(sigh)
Anyway, it' starts like this: Hello… haha, just felt like laughing……… then there’s a long long long long talk. Let me try to remember. I was very tired yesterday. Came home after school, meetings and mamak. Was about to bathe but fell asleep on my bed. :P Sooo very tired. Couldn’t concentrate on studying at night. (ahh! why must all my hardwork disappear all of a sudden… erm, anywayz…) Had to study (note the had). Got a competition the next day, Taylor’s Science Competition to be exact. A brief account: woke up early, went to Taylor’s College, did the competition (MCQ and practical), tea in between (so it was called there), lunch, moment of truth, the results (duh~), byebyefarewellgohome. 3rd place was Hin Hwa (some private school), 2nd place was Bintang Utara (if’ i’m not mistaken… or maybe Utama), 1st place was SMK Seafield. At least there’s the word ‘SEA’ there. :P (why?why?why must it disappear?… FYI, i’m using a new program to type this blog entry) Wanna know more? Gotta ask me. Haha~

Okay, next was… everybody seems to have FFK’ed Bon Odori. Alan, supposedly my transport there, decided to go watch MU vs Our countries football team. MU vs our country??? Well, it’s just… you know… if you get it then good, can’t say it out loud. :P So~ was planning to go Bon Odori but can’t anymore. Bon Odori last year was fun! Had a great though lonely time there last year. Got to dance. Haha~ (i’m sooo wasting my time doing this entry again~) Anyway… i think that’s all… though it’s supposed to be longer. Well, here’s a random picture i took from last year’s Bon Odori. :)

Smiles. :D

Thank you for the wishes~

Well, it's my birthday today! Quite an exciting or rather say different and interesting day today... Oh no! I forgot who was the first to wish me 'Happie Burfday'... well, sorry if i didn't take notice but there were lots of birthday wishes this year, miraculously. Very interesting... actually, i didn't want my birthday to be known by the whole world but my 'good' friends came to my class and shouted aloud, 'Happie Burfday Joel!'. Gosh, there goes, now everyone knows my birthday. Then many more wishes came. Jennifer and Xin Wei even came and sang the birthday song for me. At first i was shocked as it was illegal to sing it at school (due to some circumstances) but thank you, i really appreciate it. :) Hmm... okay, let me count the number of birthday wishes.................. 23 i think. :) Well, thank you all for the wishes. Oh, some even gave me presents. Ming Soon gave me a marker pen, Shu Ning gave me something (dunno, haven't opened yet), Geber gave me two little midget bananas and Khai Sern gave me some cempedak kuih. Haha~ looks like most of them are food stuff. Still, i like bananas and that cempedak kuih was quite nice, though i didn't know what it was at first. :P So thank you once again.
Later, i was held back after school for a while so i missed my bus. Anyway, i was planning to walk back cause i've got some stuff to get at the book store. There i saw something unbelievable, it was a 5x5 cube for only RM25.90! Oh my, oh my, oh my goodness! It's so very, very, extraordinarily, superbly, unbelievably cheap! Though not sure of its quality as it is ciplak. :P
Alright, now how will my day be? Still got about 8 and a half hours left. Actually, i'm not officially 17 yet till 11.15p.m.... Haha~

Rain~

Showers from heaven,
So calming and relaxing,
Makes me want to sleep.

Haha~ well this is just a haiku i made up as it was rained in the morning. Love the morning rain! Do you?

Of undang test and a new car...

Well, i took my undang driving test today. Guess what, i failed... really, i F.A.I.L.E.D. I got 40/50, just 2 marks short of the passing mark of 42/50. Haha... yes, i can laugh about it. :) Not to say i'm sad or anything, just that my parents are gonna nag at me for not studying enough. I admit, i didn't study seriously. Just read through once and read through another time briefly. At least i went in there and prayed to God to guide me and trust in him in whatever results i would get. Guess this is a lesson that i should take studying more seriously before sitting for any test or exam. Anyway, despite my failure, i thank God for his guidance and comfort. :)
The car... yes, my brother now has a car for himself. It's a Proton Saga, the new model. Not bad. Very spacious. Interior is okay. Safety is good. Only thing i don't like is the cylindrical lock and the alarm system. It's so difficult to open the lock... okay not so but still a little tough. There's like no grip! The alarm system uses the horn, which has a very high-pitched sound. Very irritating. Other than that it's quite good.

175th blog entry!

Haha, this is my 175th blog entry. Gotta keep a reminder to myself cause i have to painstakingly count one by one. By the way, it's July! My birthday is coming soon! Haha~ Keep on smiling those of you out there. :)

RKA Day and blood donation drive...

Hello, today was RKA day where parents meet teachers for their child's report card. Well, i feel happier today. I walked to school! This means i was extra early today. :) Did i say that i do not like my bus? Always late or reach school right when the bell is going to ring. Hate it when i have to pay for collecting the buku ponteng late. However, despite the fact that i came to school early, i did not collect the buku ponteng. :P Haha, didn't know whether i need to collect it or not. It's RKA, why must i collect it. Anyway, i had to pay RM2 for not collecting the buku ponteng. At least i didn't feel sad or anything parting with my money cause it was my fault after all.
Haha, i now know my position in class. I was really unhappy that my Moral marks was wrong! I was supposed to get 55% not 65%! Then my position was not valid. I 'kononnya' got 5th place when i actually got 7th. (sigh) Well, don't know what can be done~ Anyway, time for analysis... 1st was Mei Yi (expected, really smart and hardworking), 2nd was Shu Ning (smart too, but it's kind of hidden), 3rd was Shi Min (another smart one, aiya, everyone in my class is smart lah). 4th was Sasvin (always studying, surely, hard work paid of), 5th was Pei Ning, (not in the 'official list' but it is supposed to be her not me... anyway, she is smart too!), 6th was Saranya (a new competitor... not bad, hidden smartness), 7th was me!, 8th was Renesh (too smart to be true but don't know why he got 8th...), 9th was Sharon (hmm... not sure what to say, don't know her that well) and finally 10th was Ming Soon (congrats to you! you did a great job getting in to the top 10! congrats, congrats :D). So that's about it for today's RKA. There was a blood donation drive too but i didn't participate. Would be interesting though...
Next, National Service... haha, it seems that everyone knows whether they got accepted or not by sms or through the official website. It was all about 'Tahniah' or 'Maaf'. Haha~ I just recently checked mine... if you want to know whether i got accepted or not you'll just have to ask me. :p Okay, that's it for now.

Just something...

Hello, i've not blogged for a long time so i thought i should just add this post... actually, i don't know what to blog about. Let's see... anything interesting...(thinking)... well, there was once i found a cat in teacher's table's drawer in class. It was last Thursday, i wanted to get the rubbish bag from the drawer. When i opened it i leaped backwards in shock. I saw something moved... definitely organic. It took my brain like 3 seconds to process what it was, a kitten. Well, actually two kittens. How did they get there? Since when? At that time Teck Yan was there so i told him, 'Hey, there are kittens in the drawer!' Then he looked. Haha, after that the whole class (or what's left of the class... school was just over) came to see. Some were afraid... like they have phobia of cats. Some were adoring them. Yes, they were cute. So tiny and soft... look so fragile and cuddly. It's innocent blue eyes staring back at you... Yes, cute indeed. In the end, we decided to leave it there so the mother won't get worried where her kittens might have gone. Hmm.... the next day was Sports Day... don't feel like blogging about it. Quite long. Maybe i'll make it short. Came to school at 6.20a.m., exercise, practice, march, speeches, events, free socks, prize giving, moment of truth, disperse, went to KFC, walked to McD, walked home, squashed doughnut and sandwich... guess that's about it. Then on Saturday. Attendance terrible as usual. Guess it was the worse this Saturday. Only 9 present. My favourite number. We checked the drawer and the cats were still there! In fact, now there were 3! Wow, where did the extra one come from. Then some people got so afraid so we had to take it out of class. Left it near the boys toilet. Then transfered it to the bushes near the 'rumah sampah'. During recess, we went to check them out... unfortunately we attracted attention. No idea what happened later but after school the kittens were gone. It's either i didn't check properly, the mother has taken them away or something bad happened to them... better not mention what might. Oh well, hope the cute little kittens are in good hands now. Okay, guess this will be it. I don't know why but i feel so~ i don't know what i feel. Suddenly, i feel different since last week. Hope it'll go away soon. Am i going crazy?

Tagged by DJ...

My second tag... by Joseph. :)

(where's no.1??) :P

2. How did you feel when you woke up this morning?
Well, i woke up early this morning... oh, school is reopening soon.. Haha...

3. Who was the last person/people you took a photo with?
Well, it would be the group photo at church camp last week... unless you count taking photos of myself. :P

4. Would you consider yourself spoiled?
Nope. Not at all.

5. Will you ever donate blood?
Sure, if i have a chance to.... so who wants some 'smartness' in my blood?

6. Have you ever had a best friend who was of the opposite sex?
Well.... guess i do have... i think.

7. Do you want someone to be dead?
Of course not. However, there would be less one competitor if it were so... haha, just joking, i'm not gonna kill anyone. :)

8. What does your last text message say?
Well, let's see... (checking)... well, nothing concerning you. If you want to know, it's about Add. Maths project so haha, i just reminded you guys that the dateline is really, really just around the corner.

9. What are you thinking right now?
What do you expect somebody like me to think about?

10. Do you want someone to be with you right now?
Of course... you know, i'm a very lonely guy. Haha... it would be good to have friends. :)

11. What was the time you went to bed last night?
12.00 a.m. Midnight in other words.

12. Where did you buy the tee you are wearing now?
How did you know i'm wearing a tee?? Anyway... no idea, i think it was passed down to me...

13. Is someone on your mind right now?
Yeah, 'someone' is on my mind... haha. :D

14. Who was the last person(s) who text you?
P&C. Why would you want to know anyway? Stalking me?

(there's still some more but i decided not to do it. haha)

Random writings of my unconcious mind...

Hmm.... firstly, it's late now... (pause)... hmm... i was browsing through my previous blog entries and i found an old self of me seemingly unfamiliar. Funny though... am i me? Haha... just had the urge of writing this blog entry so suddenly so late at night... actually, it's morning! Oh, and i'm gonna have a 3 hour BM tuition today... 3 hours... hmmm.... BM... hmm... 3 hours.... hmmmmm..... !! Ah! I think my thoughts are going haywire and my concentration too. If you know me i can get disoriented without sleep or blur late at night... (closing my eyes for awhile to 'reboot'.....) Yeah, i was talking about the old self... or is it old? As i read through my previous blog entries, i noticed that how i wrote my blog last time was.... erm... wait... haha, so random. :) Can't think straight. :) I see a different self in my old blog entries. Someone who seems familiar to me but not so at the same time. Contradicts... a paradox. Ah, why am i crapping around here so late when i should be sleeping... well, guess i'll just call this post 'Random writings of my unconcious mind'. Haha... (actually, i haven't thought of the title till now... darn, more crapping) @.@ Okay, guess i'd better get going or i'll crap a whole lot more... Hmm... i feel like this blog entry is so weird~

Marching practice... abandoned?

Haha... today was marching practice for purple house... supposedly. Instead, nobody showed up. -.-' In the end i just hung around for 2 hours with the blue house marching team and played a little basketball after that. Actually, i think it's kinda my fault that they didn't come... haha. I don't have their number (don't even have a list of the marchers :P), i informed 5, couldn't contact 1 and forgot 1. So.... not sure what to do about purple house marching. At least i had an idea for the formation during my 2 hours of hanging out in the playground training MYSELF!!! Oh well~

p.s. It's World Milk Day everyone! So drink your milk... unless your lactose intolerant. :)

Teacher's Day!

Yo! Had fun today? It was a superb Teacher's Day. At least almost half the class came today (21). Hahaha... had a great time today. Love all the performances. All done well. At least none of them was so called a 'wreck'. Great singing and dancing and the music was great too! Too bad for those who missed it. :P Anywayz, the hols are here now! So how are you gonna enjoy it it's up to you. Do enjoy it though. It's a time to rest and relax and unwind from all the exams before the exams start all over again. :) So smile and be happy and take care and enjoy your hols. :D

Mission: Mischievious

Haha... you may not know it but i actually have a mission in this mid-term exams. I was supposed to defeat a certain person in my class (can't tell... hahaha :P). Unfortunately i failed my mission. Oh well. What can i do? Nothing. At least i did considerably well knowing that i did not study much (too calm perhaps?). Looks like i've gotten lots of B's... and an A... which is a few marks away from B so i might as well loose some marks to get a B so that all my grades will be B's instead of ABBBBBB's... hahaha LoL :P.

Yay! End of exams!

Hahahahahaha.... it's the end of exams. Well, not to say i was all that stressed out during exams... Average two and a half hours of study a day, not much or no study at all in school (kinda like my habit :P) and too much talking in school. Well, it's over now so guess everything'll be back to normal... or so it seems. Okay, gotta admit that this is not the last we'll be seeing the exams. Lot's more to go and it's closer that you think! Oh well, gotta enjoy the hols! Yeah, exam's over!!!

S.M.I.L.E. :D

The time has come...

Today, my mindset has changed from relaxing into study overdrive! It's now the time to study! My whole body unanimously voted to start studying. Guess it's the pressure of competition that flipped my study switch.
> threat list activated...
>> scanning for new threats...
>>> new threats discovered...
>>>> mission 'berSMGTed' initiated...
>>>>> initiating offensive maneuvers...
>>>>>> EXECUTE mission directives!
LoL... just some random stuff. Anywayz, 'You who are worthy opponents, i challenge you to a duel!' It is time... i shall not hold back... i'm unleashing everything i have... i must... do my best... to achieve my goal!!! It is time...

p.s. don't take this seriously :P

The story of me and my day

Hello! :D As you may notice there's a super duper long blog entry below. Well, three in fact. Just felt like blogging on my thoughts so that you know me more... well, so that you know how i think. Start from the blog titled '16th April, On my way to school' and proceed on to '16th April, My day at school' and end with '16th April, A walk to remember'. It's like a short story in my point of view. I repeat, i just felt like writing this blog. It's an account of my thoughts today. It the first time i blog this way,xP most probably the last... too long. :) Enjoy reading!

16th April, A walk to remember

'Why am i so different than the other? I'm not smart'
Walking back home after school i had a detour from my original route. A change indeed. Well, i like to explore new places. The neighbourhood behind school is like an unknown in my 'map', a void. Exploring would be kinda fun and exciting for i may not know what may await me. I was shown the houses which i did not know existed there, banglo houses. Well, maybe i knew but i didn't take time to notice. While walking, i saw a dog, looks like a good dog to me, looks like it was trapped outside it's 'house'. Went for a walk perhaps?
That unfamiliar place makes me feel awkward. Felt a little lost and confused. Disoriented. I even had to get directions back to 'charted waters'. At the T-junction, i was unsure of where to go. Should i proceed ahead to a more familiar path or should i turn left to and unknown route. I decided to proceed left. As i walked, i took time to admire the humongous houses around. Walking through an unknown road, i chanced upon a familiar building at a dead-end.
'Oh, that's my kindergarten... it's still here. It still looks the same' The sight of it brings me back to my past. I remember, a time, i was punished for something i didn't do, i didn't defend myself... well, not sure how to anyway. I was standing outside with a friend of mine. I should be feeing sad but i cheered myself up and think positive thoughts. Talked to my friend to and encouraged him. 'Look over there, they are building something. What a nice view, right? So, it's not bad after all standing outside here, right?' Well, at least that's almost of what i said then. Maybe what i am today started from there, i always try to see the positive side of something. Oh, i reminisce the past and find myself trapped in the present that contradicts myself. What will the future be?
As i emerged from the unknown path, i came about the familiar field. So it seems. I was disoriented because i wasn't familiar with 'this' side of the field. 'So, where to next? that way should be to school, right? Hmmm... i guess i'm supposed to go that way?' I stood still while thinking where to go. Then i remembered a time when i was walking to school for CF on Friday when i was Form 2, i decided to take a new route and explore the area around school. I almost got lost. Made my way to the mosque and exited the other end of the field. 'Gosh, would have been faster if i'd take the usual route.'
Made my way out of unfamiliar ground, i walked though a quiet alley which i discovered a day earlier, where i met the unfriendly cat. Walking past the quiet alley, i emerged to the main road leading towards the traffic light. Then, the thought of the same old route makes me feel bored of it. I stopped by seven eleven to get a drink.
'Hmm... what should i buy?? I want 100 plus... but it's 10 cents more expensive than the other bottled drinks. Should i go for vanilla coke? Well, it's cheaper but less 'healthier'. 100 plus is so called more 'healthier' than coke right?? Hmm... well, gotta save money so i'll go for vanilla coke. I pray that i won't get diabetes in the future.'
This contradiction often visit me whenever i stop by the convenient store. Coffee? Milk? Soft drink? Fruit juice? Bottled? Canned? Cheaper one? The little more expensive one? (sigh) Hard to make up my mind. In the end, i spend much unneccesary time choosing what to buy.
I walked though my alternative route, so called the 'scenic route'. As i was walking, my feet stopped as i glanced upon a white hibiscus. 'Oh, a white hibiscus plant. Not so common... hmmm... should i plant it?' My hand reached out to pluck a shoot but stopped when i found it hard to do so. 'Hmm... don't want to hurt you unneccesarily, wait till i get a knife then i'll come back for you.'
I entered the seemingly large playgound. A stop in my journey. I was shocked when i was a red ant's nest up on the tree. The leaves were clumped together and made into a next. How amazing and fascinating but i cautioned myself not to approach it. 'Oh, look a mini flower on the ground. Looks like it's one in the peacock family... or so it seems. It's a weed... i think. But look at it's flower, how cute and lovely' I decided on taking it back to plant. Let's see what i would become.
As i approached my old school, i made another stop at the field outside the school. One of my frequent stops in my journey home, walking from school. I call it 'the place to where surprising treasure awaits'... well, it's because primary school students kinda leave stuff behind.... sometimes drop stuff. Please don't take me wrong. ^.^ Walked up to a table and saw remnants of an electric project done by primary school students.
Actually, it was there yesterday, still intact. There were interesting components that i might salvage. 'Should i take it?? It's still new... i could use some of these... but, the guy who left it here might come back for it' So with that i left it there.
Today, i'm back, still, no one claims it. in fact, i guess the kids were playing with it as all the components were scattered around. Oh well, better salvage what i can salvage before it's all gone. Took some time walking and searching. In the end i managed to salvage a battery holder, some 'bongkah penyambung', a LED and a potentiometer. What a treasure. I even found 2 marbles. That reminded me...
'Hmm... what's this? A marble. Wonder who dropped it. I usually find money but now a marble. Well, at least it seems precious enough.' So i took it. That was a few months ago as i walked back from school. Last month, i found another marble. So i had 2 marbles. Now, i found another 2, which make my collection 4. Hmm... what's with me and marbles? Just felt collecting it all of a sudden.
'It's past two, it's getting late, gotta get back for lunch. What an interesting day today.'
I walk with a cheerful heart, wanting to cherish every moment i had today in my journeys. I feel... free...

16th April, A day at school

'Hmm... what's this? I can't believe it... it's only the first question! No, can't be... come on, i can do it'
Arghh... Sejarah test, i thought i could do it. Guess i thought wrong. Could have studied in school before it started but it's just not me... oh well. Maybe i could have done better without studying. Anyway, part of my brain was in Chemistry as i was teaching Parvin earlier. Well, at least i got to teach somebody to be better. Must encourage people to be better than myself.
'Oh, it's just past 8... got time left... maybe i should try to solve the Add. Maths question that i couldn't solve.'
I took out my paper and did the question. Not long after, the answer came forth. Ah great, shouldn't have done it, make me more dissapointed for not being able to do it during the test. Oh well, at least i know how to solve it.
As i marked each row of my answers, i covered the row before. Didn't wan't to be discouraged by seing all the crosses. In the end, i got 23 out of 40... not good, bad in fact. Well, what can i do. Not enough studying... or is it because i studied?? Well, it's done now. All the tests this week is completed. Yay, rejoice!
'Oh no, didn't cut my toenails!'
Playing football was kind of suffering. Ouch here, ouch there. Well at least no broken toenails. But there were cuts and grazes... and a bruise at my knee. Back in class being so sweaty i thought to myself,'What a good thing to sweat.... makes me feel healthier.' Come to think of it, i sweat'ed when i walked to school and sweat'ed after PJK... does that mean i feel double healthier? Nah, just joking. But i think it's good to be active... stay healthy, though i'm not so fond with sports cause i've no specialty in any sports.
Moral was a time to sit back and relax and have a break after PJK. Nothing much for me today but the test papers were given out. '24! A big fat bold 24 out of 50! Aww man, 1 more mark to 50% out of 100.' Well, after going round collecting the marks from other people, i realize that i was one of the highest... actually 'the' highest', same with Shi Min. 'Oh no, how will i fare in SPM? Hope i'll do okay...'
Oh, thristy was i during recess. Left class for a short while while i went ot the canteen for a drink. Met Geber and Alan there. I was quick and fast and i left unnoticed. Kinda like a ninja. Back in class i had R&R while waiting for the bell to ring.
Mod. Maths... nothing much for Variation. Kinda simple... at least simpler than Add. Maths Chapter 5 Trigonometric Functions! Well, i admit that i'm not so good at that chapter... kinda confusing. That's why i migrated to the front of the class. Better view, better hearing.... not to say that i can't hear form behind but front is better.
Had to go out looking for teacher and collecting books. Just another common task i do almost everyday. CAme back to class and there was word that the class wants to take part in drama tomorrow. I was like:
'What!? No, no, i shall not support them'. But then i thought to myself, 'Is it good for me just to abandon them? After all, i was tasked to write the script that i never wrote' My heart felt down. Angry and regretul. I didn't much bothered with what they said though i was hearing their plan for drama while doing my work.
'Why? Why must they take part in drama?' Well, teacher said it was compulsory. Actually, i'm not sure. Supposed to ask Pn. Zaini but i didn't. Well, Joseph's class is not taking part. Well, i guess our class is taking part so that we won't let our teacher down. But... still, we're not prepared, we were supposed to have Moral test tomorrow, we're suppose to submit our title for our drama and it's actually not compulsory (i think). (Sigh) Went to our moral teacher with Nashvin to ask that teacher change the date for our test. Well, at least with it now changed we need not worry about that. Still, i don't agree with the drama. Oh well, let them do what they want but i won't take part. Sorry guys.

16th April, On my way to school

'Where's the bus? Hmm... kind of late already (about 2 minutes), should i walk to school? Hmm... oh well, might as well do so.' So i walked to the LRT station from home. No idea why i did so but i felt a little 'semangat'ed' today. Maybe it's because i slept at 1 in the morning and woke up at 6.... that means 5 hours of sleep. To add on to that, Sejarah test today... well, at least i read through once. Kinda an easy chapter... i thought.
As i walk through a lorong carrying my heavy bag, i heard the sound of my bus passing by behind me. Not looking back, i head forward to the LRT station.
'Well, nothing wrong if i walk to school right? Doesn't Geber do this every school day? Well, just as long i don't get hit by some lorry or get robbed or something then it should be fine.'
The cats seemed friendly today. There was one cat i saw yesterday while walking home, so cautious when i was walking past by it. Gave a stare at me... i stared back... then i started to laugh. Oh my, what a cat, not like i'm gonna harm it... if only it knows. Reaching the overhead bridge i saw another student... not from our school, Catholic perhaps.
A little shocked to see a que early in the morning. Well at least not as long as the 8 o'clock que. The train arrived. The rows of people flock into the LRT. Then a lady in front of me stopped. Hmm... what's with her? Passed her and proceeded into the train. Saw another lady stopping right in front of the door as it was closing. A lady next to her asked, 'Not going in?' and the lady replied with a shake of her head. Came to realize that there are some people concerned for others. If everyone had entered the train, there wouldn't be space for the people at the later stations. My, how nice. Would have done that to but i'm exiting the next station... so not much difference.
The doors open, i the people outside started to enter the train. Had a hard time exiting the train with my large bag and the people pushing me back into the train. Made a left turn upon exiting the train and came to a one-way escalator... it was for people coming up. Oh my, how embarressing... and i call myself an LRT user.
'7.00a.m., well, not as early as i expected but at least earlier than my bus... right, i'll try to reach school by 7.10, at least i'll have 15 minutes to do whatever i want in school. Study perhaps? Well, maybe not, not my style to study right before a paper. Gotta be confident and have faith. Right, let's go.'
I headed for school as the clouds in the morning sky tainted with the red rays of the sun hung above me.
'Looks like it's gonna be a sunny day...' i said to myself.

Saturday school...

It's Saturday and there's school! Attendance really, really bad today. Less than 25% of the class came.... specifically, 10 people. Would have been 9 if Ming Long didn't show up at the last minute... he was late. So, the heroes/heroins were Ming Long, Khai Sern, Ying Jin, Sharon, Mei Ling, Shu Ning, Pei Ning, Yi Xuan, Teck Yan (unexpectedly) and me!
Well, nothing much today actually. For history, teacher taught the next chapter. For PJK... very boring... nothing to do so i played chess, five-in-a-row tick-tack-toe and conquer with Ming Long. For Moral, teacher asked us to write and sign some paper for our Moral project. For Mod. Maths, teacher gave us the past year 2007 SPM trial paper to do. For. Add. Maths, teacher gave us some exercises to do. BM.... teacher didn't come so free period.

Hmm... what a wierd day... some people were like... 'high'. :P

Tiredness...

Oh, gosh, i feel tired, aching, and sleepy. My eyes are about to close shut and it's only 10 p.m. Gosh. Is afternoon nap so seriously important. Well, reason why i don't get my siestas on Fridays is because i stay back in school for CF, sports practice, recess cell and then mamak. Gosh, so sleepeeeee... Some more got troop meeting tomorrow, gotta wake up early. Feeling tired. Want to sleep! Cannot unfortunately... trying to do some EST presentation. Arghh... so confusing. Lots of Word info gotta change to Powerpoint. Not sure which one to refer to cause they both have similarities. My brain is not functioning at full capacity now... kinda slow and gonna go rampant. Guess it's partially because of Alan who so annoyingly disturb me like a rodent/pest out of nowhere during the last two periods while i was doing my Add. Maths. Such a bugger. Went a little crazy singing song to ward him off... in the end i didn't manage to finish my Add. Maths work... FYI, i could have done it in no time but thanks to him i did it rediculously slow! Oh yeah, still got Add. Maths work. And RM5 from teachers... ah, just hate that job. Yeah, PBSM camp today. Good luck Li Ren but i really hope it'll rain tomorrow morning. Well, supposed to belanja your so called 'last heavenly meal' before camp but didn't get to. So tired... the Powerpoint presentation is time consuming... something that i can't do now... can't concentrate too. Just hope it'll be done. Sleeeppeee!

Earth Hour!

Yo, how was Earth Hour? An amazing, spectacular hour? Did you enjoy yourself? Truly, if you think about it, Earth Hour is truly amazing. Though lasting only an hour, many thing can change. A small change goes a long way you know. Think about it. At least we have done something, a tiny little thing for Earth, rather than nothing. Furthermore, i think the whole world knows about what's going on on Earth... well, at least maybe more than half the world.
Earth Hour... some to think of it, there's a lot of positive stuff that can come from it. For instance, at least people now know that earth is warming (for those super blur people out there) and we've gotta do something about it. You see, this Earth Hour was like everywhere in Malaysia, i mean on almost all the media. TV, radio, newspaper and on the internet. Who says one hour is not worth it? It is, you just have to think ahead.
Think like, through that one hour of darkness, we get to spend it with our family. Some quality time perhaps. Then you'll get to get closer with your family.
You know, i saw some groups out tonight. At the park, some people were barbecuing. Some were playing basketball. I saw like a group of friends parading on the streets. Also saw some people gathering a mini bonfire of candles. So cool right. You see, it's like this Earth Hour is everywhere. And it brings people together. And the thought of that makes it worth while.
So, my point is, Earth Hour, totally worth it. Just a little can go a long way. An hour makes difference. Difference counts.
Hope you had a fun time during Earth Hour. Though the lights may be on now, try to use electricity wisely. Think about Earth. Vote for Earth, save Earth for the future.

Vote Earth!

Hello, it's gonna be Earth Hour today. Show your support by switching off your lights  from 8.30p.m. till 9.30p.m. Let's vote for EARTH!!!

Jo.Kez.Jokez #11

Well, just a random joke i came up with on the way home from school:
What is the opposite of maturing???

Answer... kid-ing... kidding... get it?
Well, up to you to judge how funny it is.
*Reminder! Smile often! :)

CF camp '09

Hooray for CF camp '09 for it's a success! All glory goes to God. To sum it all up, it was EXTRAVAGANT. I am really thankful for CF camp... truly a wonderful camp. An experience with GOD. My G.O.D. is B.I.G.! Amen.

Just some random thing:
My group... well, GUESS what my games group is??? Well, can you GUESS what my group's name is? Keep on GUESSing... have you GUESSed it yet? So, what's your GUESS??? That's right! My group's name is G.U.E.S.S... GUESS!

LoL :P

Overwhelming worries

Worries, oh, it is so overwhelming. It is becoming intolerable. My mind tries to shut it out but the remnants of it keeps coming back, haunting me. I feel so powerless, i cannot fulfill my duty. I try to run away from it all, yet it returns twofold. Such a burden and a seemingly endless journey. I'm so discouraged. The weight is not getting less but more. Even my school bag is pulling me down. Negative thoughts fill my mind. But no, i shall not want. Such gloomy days ahead. I can't see a clear path. I'm lost. Stranded. I'm trying to find my way back. And i'm still trying. I want to release this burden. I wait for the time. Will it come?
(I'm just simply writing stuff to release stress...)

The rain

Oh, how nice the rain,
An occurrence of nature,
So delightful and elegant,
Such a wonderful creation it is.
 
Have you ever watched it closely?
Examine the tiny droplets falling from heaven,
Admire the creation of it with wonder and adoration,
Observe its ever so changing motion.

Have you heard the voices of the rain?
The comforting and peaceful assurance.

Have you experienced the calm sensation of the rain?
The hypnotizing sound of orchestrated splatter.

Oh, how nice the rain,
It never fails to amaze me,
One of the very things i enjoy watching,
One of which calms my feelings of anxieties.

Dilemma...

I just can't decide what to do... this or that. Next weekend, i have some activities going on... but i'm not sure which to choose. I have 3 options:
1. After sports practice on Friday, get back home ASAP and try to get some rest before going to scout camp until Sunday afternoon. Then gotta go for CF camp early Monday morning. I'll be extremely tired and sleep deficit. Most probably be like sleepy the whole CF camp.
2. After sports practice on Friday, get back home ASAP and try to get some rest before going to scout camp. Leave early on Saturday night so that i have one day to rest. Perhaps go to church on Sunday but i'd be sleepy. Then get to go CF camp without being so tired.
3 Don't go scout camp. Saturday, follow my church youths to FRIM. Sunday, go to church. Monday, go for CF camp.
I'd personally prefer option 3. But then, i have my own responsibilities that i shouldn't forsake. If possible, i'd like to do a little of both, scout camp and the trip to FRIM. CF camp is a must! However, i still am reluctant to go for scout camp, but i just don't want to simply abandon my friends. No idea what to do. Prayed to God for guidance. When i came across my horoscope it says that i'll be in a tough situation choosing something from another and the advice was to wait and see how it goes. Well, just gotta pray more, miracles happen through prayer.  

One little thing less

Well, it seems that ketua tingkatan orientation was called off.... so no orientation. Still, i'm reluctant to go for troop meeting... i just hate this worries ad burdens... want it to go away ASAP. Well, good night for now.

The crushing burden...

It seems that i have lots going on this month... well at least for this 2 weeks. Well, i just feel better just saying out what i have to do:
1. worship practice tonight for Friday's CF
2. finding teachers for permission to use their classrooms for camp
3. having to give out and collect all the permission forms for camp
4. gotta collect RM10 for scout fees from my patrol
5. supposedly in-charge (activities) for troop meeting this Saturday but not sure what to do. Terpaksa go...
6. ketua tingkatan orientation this Saturday... not sure what time starting... not sure whether clashing with troop
   meeting (most probably be -something bad- if i don't go for troop meeting, perhaps also if i leave early)
7. worship practice for church on Saturday afternoon... maybe going for youth also, but kinda tiring
8. supposed to have Patrol Leaders Training Course for scouts on Monday... not sure whether it's on or not... most
   probably yes
9. unfortunately, also have worship practice for CF camp from 10.30 a.m. on Monday... i'd be in big trouble with
   scouts...
10. before that, mod. maths/ add. maths tuition at 8 till 10 in the morning on Monday
11. canteen day... guess i'll be helping out...
12. scout camp next Friday till Sunday... i think i'll leave on Saturday night... again, more trouble with scouts
13. CF camp right after that from Monday till Wednesday... hopefully i'll find peace in Peacehaven!
...+ homework
...+ studying
...+ the canteen day forms that can't seem to stop coming... sorry but i'm not promoting or passing it around... also
      gotta worry about collecting money (sigh)
...not only that, there's some long term stuff that i'm supposed to do but not doing...

So, it's gonna be a tiring, bumpy, jaggedy, rough, depressing, aching, worrying and stressful 2 weeks. Hopefully it'll end with a 'BANG', and all the worries and troubles and burden would go away. Hopefully i'll get to relax after this 2 weeks. With all these stuff and tasks needed to be done, there's nothing much i can do but to seek God. And think of all these stuff i need to do almost everyday, it's a miracle i survive through all this all these years. All glory goes to God, for truly without him, i'd be like nowhere (poof). I pray that i'll triumph over all obstacles and pray that i'll have help in times of need...

-jsooncx signing out-