i'm watching 'the bone collector' now. it is full of shit. like i can almost hear the producers saying, 'say, let's make a thriller. lemme see, let's send a lady police officer into the crime scene unescorted and armed with a small pistol. plus, let's make every crime scene dark and scary, so it always has to be at night or in a new york sewer.'
how gullible do you think we'll get?
lord of the rings was the second best movie of the year, after my sweet spidey of course. but it was breathtaking, wish we could learn how to do that in computing lessons instead of C++, haha.

i'm watching 'the bone collector' now. it is full of shit. like i can almost hear the producers saying, 'say, let's make a thriller. lemme see, let's send a lady police officer into the crime scene unescorted and armed with a small pistol. plus, let's make every crime scene dark and scary, so it always has to be at night or in a new york sewer.'
how gullible do you think we'll get?
lord of the rings was the second best movie of the year, after my sweet spidey of course. but it was breathtaking, wish we could learn how to do that in computing lessons instead of C++, haha.

i'm so excited, i'm watching LOTR tomorrow. can't remember what service my comments is under, so i don't know why it's suddenly 'poseurs' instead of 'say something now'. oh well, it sounds more sophisticated.

i've just got myself a job. it's at UOMO, this place which sells men's suits and stuff. getting a job was easier than i thought. i was really nervous when i went in, cause it was a walk in interview thing. i was thinking the people in there would be pretty rude and stuff. but when i asked about the job, the woman there acted as if i was godsend and asked me when i could start, straight away. so i'm starting on monday, the pay's so-so, 40 ringgit for 9 hours. working part time first cause in jan i've gotta go to singapore and langkawi. wish me luck.

hey krit, jh and yan! thanks for the cards! i got them all at once, cool eh? did you all send it together? came two days after christmas but what the heck? it's the thought that counts right? did you guys get my card?
well to answer your questions, no, i'm not working right now. i'm rotting at home, really. my parents are driving me up the wall, and not the other way round. met up with some old friends last night, but i guess the closer friends are all overseas which really makes me wanna go too.
oh, i'm discontinuing the month by month recount cause i've lost interest and every month just sounds the same. i guess it wasn't what i was doing this year that really made me happy, it was who i was aaround i guess, and that's most probably you guys! yup, i'll really miss notworks and singapore! :)
till the 15th of jan.

june


most of june was spent on the holidays, i was home for 2 weeks, 2 very eventful weeks. well, some scholar friends of mine came to KL and i was occupied with bringing them around, and we had a lot of fun. can't speak for them though but i know i had quite a lot of fun with them, and i really missed them after they left. and then most of the holidays was spent with me trying to study, but really studying back home is pretty impossible. so after 2 weeks, i decided to go back to singapore and i got some studying done. on the last week of hols, i went for a church camp and it was the best. i really really had a blast, not because of the people, partly because of the people but mostly cause of god. it was a really life changing experience.

may


this was a great month because firstly, it's my birth month!! and secondly, the holidays start at the end of the month. my birthday was a real blast cause i had not one, but 2 celebrations. the first one was with some hostel friends, courtesy of emil, and the second one was with my cell group. it was really fun. and notworks gave me y back underwear! cool or what? but besides that things were pretty much the same. i scored pretty well on the SATs so i was quite satisfied, but other than that, nothing much to say. oh yeah i think the national schools soccer tournament was on at around this time, and VJ won! yup, the finals was a superb affair, nail biting throughout. wow, i really thought that JJC would win at some points. yan kept messaging me throughout the match asking me the score. tsk tsk. and the world cup started at the end of the month, just went i arrived home.

Here is the custom report of your personality that led our team of geeks to conclude (with confidence) that you are resourceful, sly, and guaranteed to get away with everything:

"The subject shows an astounding level of intelligence, and his sense of observation is one of his best qualities. Considering this, he shows a lot of potential, but that's only part of the equation.

"Also, as much as we hate violence, an occasional mauling is one way to solve day-to-day problems like unpleasant coworkers or pesky door-to-door salesmen; he just isn't tough enough, sir, and he avoids any solution that involves violence.

"Finally, the subject displayed a healthy (better than most net freaks anyway) sense of humor, a fair and productive sense of morality, and a barbaric self-confidence. The balance of these three traits is important; high levels of confidence, medium levels of morality, and a good level of humor make for the strongest individuals."

Final Score: 75% Un-telligent

april


bah more common tests. but common test 2 was the only test that offered me a glimmer of hope. i passed everything and managed to do really well on most of them. and i watched spider-man, which was the absolute best movie of the year. yeah, i could be biased but trust me, it was way better than in the bedroom and a beautiful mind. really. and i gave the scorpion king a really good movie earlier on cause i wanted everyone to waste their money on the stinky movie cause nardev tricked me into watching it with him. it stinks. april was a pretty tough year because there was a tremendous amount of pressure on me to do well, to show improvement. i think it was this stress that made me fall ill just before econs ct, so i had 3 tests in a week, econs, sats then computing. boy, i wouldn't want to go through that period again.

why does it seem easier to read someone else's blog than to write in your own blog
march

well again, nothing much to report except i had this major resolve to study my brains out. oh and then there was the term holidays which i spent half the time in singapore for the interact camp. the interact camp was interesting and pretty fun. we had an old exco vs wannabe excos captain's ball game, and guess who won? us of course. but i lost my precious calculator and i was mighty mad cause i remember this particular someone taking it and later she denied taking it. i don't think she stole it, rather misplaced it and too chicken to admit.
i went back with may yee by train and we really had a fun time on the way back. the train we took was 3/4 empty so we were just talking the night away....i really got to know her a lot better then.

blessed christmas everyone. *yawn*

so i got conditional offers from UCL and York. didn't tell my parents about it. not like they care. i think i spoke loudly enough when i was telling a friend. they couldn't be bothered. they really want me to save their precious money and study in NUS. &%#@.

really too tired today although i'm supposed to recap march. sorry, maybe tomorrow. have been inundated with loads of uni applications. there's more work than i thought. i got my hair highlighted. i wanted blonde streaks but on the way there my dad was like you better not get blonde, pink,purple....hair....so i had to settle for subtle brown. on hindsight, my hairdresser says that after awhile the dye might fade to reveal....blonde hair!! i'll try to wash my hair as often as possible. good night peeps.

february
hmm, this month doesn't seem to be an eventful month cause i can't seem to remember much. i know i quit the tennis team. and there was the junior treat senior thing. and then there was a whole lot of mugging cause i was damned scared after failing 2 common test in a row. there weren't any common tests this month. well, i joined a cell group, and got pretty involved in it. i came back home for chinese new year and i spent it in taiping, my mum's hometown. it was nice getting together with my cousins again.
skipped a few days of school this month cause i was watching the grammys and slacking. hah.
skipped skool today cause i didn't feel like writing a gp essay and i really need to study for my TWO common tests on saturday, of which i think i'll fail one.
i went for a church conference in feb too, and i guess it changed my outlook on life, a bit.

okay, as promised, i'm going to recap the year month by month since it's been such an eventful year.
january
first day of school, rather first week of school was really boring. didn't do anything much since lectures were cancelled and some tutorials were called off too. notworks sat at the concourse, trying to do work, but most of the time, we just made yanling eat an eraser. yup, we told her it was a sweet, and she believed us. so lesson learnt: never trust the notworks people.
something i found from an entry in january.
i am now in 3 ccas which eat a hell lot of my time. and i have common tests every weekend!
yup, pretty much summed up january. i remember going for tennis training nearly everyday, and of course subsequently flunking maths and physics common tests. january started my year with a real big bang.

i'm finding it really hard to be a christian in front of my parents. they are getting on my nerves. actually make that everyone around me. as in everyone around me are getting on my nerves.

check out some of my prom photos courtesy of krit.
my mum's screwy...she thinks that if i leave the com on for too long, it'll blow up. but the com is screwed up already.

hey i'm back again. sorry for being irregular but got loads to do. like my uni applications. and moaning about not getting to go overseas. i think i got rejected by everything except warwick in the UK. and i'm watching the amazing race finale now. i wonder who won. it's such a pain to go for dinner with people who have just returned from overseas. tonight, my parents friends invited us for dinner and their daughters had just returned from melbourne, resplendent in their hipster jeans, piercings and highlighted hair and not to forget, that western twang. and they really are having a blast over there, sharing an apartment and all. my parents on the other hand can afford nuts, and still make so much noise. just today, i wrote a accompanying letter for some financial proof for messiah college cause the danged computer is screwed up, i can't find the power cable for the printer. my mother, of course, had to give me a whole shitload about writing a proper letter, and including my registration number(there isn't one) and to state the course that i'm applying to (^&%, it's a liberal arts college b*tch). they really have no knowledge whatsoever, and yet they've got a tonne to say. can't wait for 9 months to be over.

okay sorry for being MIA for awhile.
i dislike people who aren't honest about friendship.
yeah, sorry for the dampener.
gentings and pangkor were nice, but i didn't have fun there i guess.

the amazing race is the worst show on earth!!!!!
derek and drew deserved to get in the top 3 and not the stinking teri and ian. the world is not fair.

i've just watched 2 episodes of 'six feet under' and i'm hooked. downloading 6 more episodes now. broadband is truly great. anyway, great thing about downloading the episodes is that you get to watch the uncensored version. the episode i watched was about this woman who was a porn star and had breast implants. they showed her boobies! haha....and she was supposed to be dead! yeah and one of the lead actors is gay and they show him sleeping and kissing his partner....something you don't get to see on local telly in this part of the world eh? oh and lance, all the best in pre ns! at least you'll get a picture of what ns is like before you're actually enlisted right?

okay, i got the pictures that lance developed the other day...hey, only one nice photo with my camera(the kungfu one) and you all had to make me look like i wasn't supposed to be in the picture :P . oh and my application essays are really sucky...sigh..don't know what i'm going to do now.

my parents are really getting on my nerves.

i've been back for 24 hours and around my parents for 48 hours and already i can't stand it. and i won't sit down, sorry.

i dont know what is wrong with some people. a certain bunnybuck is being really nasty to me cause he claims i was drunk one night and was cursing him. i really don't know what i've done to deserve such animosity from him. it's just plain hurtful.

so i'll be the first person from notworks to talk about prom, or rather senior dinner and dance. i had fun last night, thanks guys, but prob not as much fun as i would have imagined. i thought all you guys looked really nice dressed up, and that we're one cool group. i mean we're smart(!), cool and fun. okay that might have come out egotistical but so what? nobody reads this blog anyway..haha.
so the first part of the afternoon went like me finding out that my belt was too tight (my whole outfit was borrowed) so i followed lance around orchard and finally bought a belt at isetan for $19(original price $79 okay). lance got his pants, which was really velvety, did any of you guys get to touch it, i touched it when it still wasn't on him la, so that made it still nice. not making sense but moving along, since we had time to kill, lance suggested we go sit by the pool and relax. little did i know that like 90% of the year 2s would be at a salon, guys included, getting their hair, nails, makeup, and whatever done. so at 5 30, me and lance went back to the room, took turns to shower. actually lance showered first, and then when it was my turn to shower, lynette came with her aunt so all the girls left, and they turned off the bathroom light. i came out of the bathroom and was like..huh? where's everyone...so i took my time, put on my clothes and my eau de toilette and then thought that i looked pretty good cause there was this full lenght mirror in the room. but then i hadn't started on my hair. my hair is the death of me, it never does what i want it to do, rebellious only la.
lance and me took a cab to ritz and reached around 650, only to find that the friend who was supposed to bring my ticket had not arrived. in fact, he was still in the salon, having his hair highlighted when he had said so many times that he wouldn't colour his hair. argh....why does everyone have to look so good at the last minute and not tell me!! it's okay, i'm cool and calm. so while bumming around waiting for my ticket to come, we took pictures outside the ballroom. oh, and get this, louis knows my name..haha...for the record, we were in the same OG. and then when we bumped into each other once in school, he was like, i can't remember your name but i know it has two rhyming syllables. big help that is....well, he didn't want to take a picture with me :( .... but small setback...at least he learned my name ..woo hoo.
as i said, the entire ballroom was filled with koreans, whoops, year 2s, with all shades of not black, most of them looking pretty good, so i tried to blend in with the walls. i made this remark to lynette before the thing started which i still don't quite get, i told her that the amount of bleach and hair colour used to colour the hair in the ballroom was enough to colour a river(?).
after that it was just more picture taking. nobody really paid much attention to what was happening on stage, but one thing i know for sure, i didn't win a lucky draw prize! that totally sucked shit cause there were 60 prizes and about 700 people, so that made it about a 1 in 10 chance to win a prize, and our table had 11 people and no one won a prize. so unfair...i tell you, it was rigged. i demand a recount! glenn ong wasn't too good, but was sufficiently entertaining, yamaha-ha? but i think we could have hired a lesser know emcee who was equally well spoken no?
after about 40 flashes of bright light in my face, i started to get a bit dizzy, and sleepy. plus i was gorging on the food so i was really full, and the live music was .... not too good ... to say the least. the whole thing ended at about 1 am, with a dance after that but i reckon only the arts fac people would have stayed back for that....okay or the more onz people like the councillors. notworks people walked to the esplanade took some photos and decided that it was really tiring so we hopped into 2 cabs and went back to the hotel where we chilled before ruiqi and gang came. and then giri came. and then giri had this idea that it would be fun to walk down orchard road at 4 am, so we relented. it was fun, for the first 300 metres or so, until lynette said that she was very tired and kept lagging behind. being the gentlemen that we were, we walked back to the hotel, noticing that lanet was many paces in front of her prompting giri to come to the conclusion that tiredness depends on the direction you're walking in, in other words, it's a vector. nothing much happened after that. really tired from typing out stuff..well, it would have been better if we had gone clubbing, but then again, maybe not.

no question about which pooh would prefer

mrs liew emailed me! it's liew mania! she lost the slip of paper that contained all the deadlines for my applications. i hope she's sent in the one who'd deadline is gone already....please god....
she says she's bent out with stress...pity her...feel so sorry..and i want to tell her but then she'd be like ...then why are you applying to so many universities...but imagine the other teachers who have more than 5 people applying abroad...and i applied to a modest number of universities. i heard of this SIA scholar who applied to more than 10, and mind you they were all top universities with really detailed questions. i think mrs liew is spending more time on my application than i am...i really hope i get in.

okay two things.....
1) Mrs Liew called me again, and this time it was a much longer and much more detailed conversation. especially since it was right after econs s and i was still in concussion mode. anyway, just like krit, she wanted to know why i wanted to do econs, and what i've done for econs so far. she wanted to know what i've been reading, and how that would help in the uni application. i'm sure she's doing this for fun to laugh at me being terrified and going like "uhm..." every 5 seconds. so anyway she didn't sound too impressed with what i told her, which was like nothing much, and told me to call her back if i suddenly get some inspiration to tell her something important. scary or what? may yee who was beside me at that time said that i sounded like i was being interviewed and she thought it was the people from oxford. well, so much for interview skills. oxford test kind of resolved. i can take the test in KL but i'll be slightly late for the trip. i hope my bugger friends wait for me at least, don't want to travel alone.
2) i've got my prom suit, and may i say i look absolutely fab, pardon my gayness for awhile. the best part of it is that i didn't pay a cent for it except the shoes. the suit fits really well and the cut is really nice. i even borrowed the belt. so all i'll be wearing on that day that are mine will be the shoes, socks and underpants(granny panties)....haha. so what's the plan you guys for that day? what time do we meet. oh and did lance ask you guys whether you wanted to go to st john's island on friday to chill?