Does mooty.net or mooty.org sound nicer?

Anyway, out of extreme boredom and serious contemplation on what CCA I’m going to take up in RJC, a subject I have been thinking about for awhile (maybe out of “frustration at lack of first-team opportunities”, haha…) I went to the RJC website.

Turns out that the guy who told me there was a cybergaming club was right! And yep, there’s also canoeing. I shall aim for that! Or maybe even table tennis. (Which sounds like a female-dominated sport somehow o_0.) Here’s the website: http://www.rjc.edu.sg/newrjc/sd_cca.htm

Today, I noticed this Interact Club Recruitment Drive notice, and out of extreme extra-ness, I decided to take an application form! Awww… I used to mock this CCA as being the domain of losers and stuff. But after two years, I notice the difference in CIP hours between me, a normal cruiser/slacker, and someone else, an Interact Club member. Plus, the idea of having two merit CCAs sounds cool for some reason. Then I can delude myself into thinking I’m a very accomplished Rafflesian!

My interest prolly sparked because in RJC, I saw this Interact Club Recruitment noticeboard. It’s super popular! Apparently 300+ students applied and there were *only* 60 positions. It’s like such a wanted CCA! Maybe if I join now, I’ll have a better chance of joining in RJ.”

This is so bloody cool!

I get lots of spam in my Gmail, but I just ignore them and open the others. But while I was opening some other mail, I saw this mail by “South Africa Web Lottery Organization” and it is titled “Notification of lottery winning, congratulations“.

Cool! I received the Nigerian lottery scam!

Wonder how they choose who to send this to.

So for the unenlightened, this is how the message goes:

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SOUTH AFRICAN LOTTERY DEPARTMENT
105 2ND AVE. SANDTON, 1892
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.

NOTIFICATION OF PRIZE WINNING

This email confirms that you have been notified by SOUTH AFRICAN LOTTERY
BOARD, of your winnings for the Month of January WEB LOTTERY PROMO -Wheel
E-games

We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email coupon number,
which was selected among the 45 lucky consolation prize winners. Your email
ID identified with Coupon No.ZA132478 and was selected by Electronic Random
Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email
addresses enrolled for the Lotto-Wheel E-game. Your email ID included among
the 50,000 different email addresses where submitted by our partner
international email provider companies. In view of that, you email ID has
won the grand prize of $1 000.000.00 (One million united state dollars).
Congratulations.

To begin you claim, you are requested to contact our claim department and
provide them with the following information; your secret pin code. x90pwyz
2006 and your reference number BWBI: 2451256005/24.

Claims Requirements:

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You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by contacting
the Lottery Claims Processing Officer with your winning
information provided below within the next 14 working days.

Mr. Steve Lutuli
Director, Claim
Department SA Web
Organization
Tel: +27-72-540-9839
Fax: +27-86-516-0636
Email: saweb_claimdept@hotmail.com

Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your consolation prize
winning.

Yours truly,
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the Lottery Claims Processing Officer with your winning
information provided below within the next 14 working days.

Mr. Steve Lutuli
Director, Claim
Department SA Web
Organization
Tel: +27-72-540-9839
Fax: +27-86-516-0636
Email: saweb_claimdept@hotmail.com

Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your consolation prize
winning.

Yours truly,
Mrs. Susan Nkosi
(Lottery Coordinator

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Yeah man, the sender uses Hotmail. I think I shall send a Gmail invite to him.

Oh, and feel free to “claim” the prize. I don’t think I’m not that interested in it.
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This has inspired me to create a fraud letter! I think I shall make a cross of a fraudster and a chain mail! Like,

“We need more people to help collect the dead man’s money! If you send this to 10-15 people, your life will be smooth sailing ….”

BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK ATTACK!

Sorry. Couldn’t help it.

Then again, Bayley has a lousier cheer, so they say. It goes like: Imba-imba-imba-imba-imba- imba-imba-imba-imba-imba-ley! Like, Im-ba-ley and Bayley, get it?

But at least theirs is just plain stupid. Unlike ours, which have thickly layered racist connotations.

Um, why can’t we be the White House instead of being Black? Why are we so anomalous, opting for a BLACK house when most schools only have redbluegreenyellow? White House could be cool. As George Bush once said in response to a boy’s question regarding the White House, “It’s white.” Then we can pretend to be whites and speak in exaggerated American accents and spout Bushisms!

And our cheers are the epitome of suck. The whole cheer is accompanied by the thigh slap and the clap, a la Unite cheer, a la We Will Rock You. I mean, there’s only this many times you can use the thigh slap+clap thing before it gets OLD.

And this year, we have a make-fun-of-other-house-colours cheer!

“Morrison is smothered by the deep blue sea,
Buckley is left hanging from the big green tree,
Bayley caught fire, Moor got less and less,
H-U-L-L-E-T-T, Hullett’s still the best!”

Wow. So we will win just because we are represented by a colour that means nothing?

Noooooooooo! mooty.com has been bought by a site pimp!

I wonder how you buy a website from a site pimp.

I have no idea why the most boring subject in life, called Maths, can be held four times a week and have double weightage. They ought to make it an elective subject. Then maths teachers will be out of job. Which is why they don’t want to make it an elective subject, I guess.
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The Story of Canteen Stall-Naming, Playful Students and Insensitivity

One day, the school decided to try to be hip and happening and down to earth and “connect with the students”, so they asked students to suggest names for the new canteen stalls. They passed a sheet of paper to every class.

And 3K are very humorous. So the Vegetarian Stall column was vandalized. “Fake Meat” and “Sagar” were just some names put forward. (um, Sagar is the name of one of our Indian scholars). And the Halal stall: “Hahahalal” and “Halalolol” and “Halal Pork”. Etc etc.

Then we blanked out all the offensive ones (I think Fake Meat was still there though, and I think it’s a very honest title, frankly) and we passed it to the two Indian scholars. And when they returned us the sheet of paper, the Veggie stall had a new addition: “Indian meals”. WTF? I have come up with a few suspicions:

1. They think only Indians eat vegetarian. Which is wrong, because Chinese eat it too. (though with the RI students, it’s mostly because all of the other queues are super long and the Veggie queue is like 1/3 of them. Also, I think veggie is cheaper?) I’ve also seen dishes there that look like normal Chinese dishes except the conspicuous lack of meat.
2. They wrote that to rebuff our somewhat offensive suggestions. In whatever way.
3. They are SUPER SUPER devious! They know that if the teachers read it, they will think the Chinese students wrote it because the Chinese students are racist and want to make a joke about this. Then we’ll all have to say sorry to Hrishikesh, Sagar and all the Indians in the school. That is pretty smart, but I wouldn’t put it past them because they’re pretty smart in math (albeit a little showoff)
4. They were feeling rather hungry at the time and were thinking of Indian home-cooked food. Which is pretty sad because they probably cook instant mee, basic dishes with rice or eat at J8 all the time.
5. They think that the list was for suggesting what food the students wanted in the stalls. Because they saw stuff like “Fake meat” and “Halal Pork”.

Meanwhile, I was busy crapping up the other columns, like “Giant Variety Giant Savings” and “Rafflesian Rice” (for Variety Rice) and 10 over other names that I have forgotten.

(Oh wait. I also added “Look Ma, No Meat!” for Veggie. And “Look Ma, No Pork!” for Halal.)

Auspicium Melioris Aevi.
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BLACK ATTACK!

How many of you think this is a mindless racist ejaculation?

I would have. But the Hullett committee came up with it, and we have to cheer it.

So it goes like “Black Black Black Black Black Attack! *clap clap*” (as many times as the Higher-Ups want.)

It was already one of the best. Apparently this year the theme is “The New Black”. Just makes everyone want to break out in nigger talk. I mean, it’s true. The committee should have given the theme more thought. Like, maybe, the fact that some oversensitive Indian/Malay students might have an issue with it? This is what’s going to happen:

1. The Hullett theme gets known.
2. Next day, the ST headline reads: “Is Raffles a racist school?”
3. Hullett Head has to make a public apology.

More about the cheers.

Wishlist 2007

- My own mooty.com! (before someone else snatches the name! I can post all sorts of egoistical and narcissistic stuff about myself. Or my stories and comics! I was searching and I found this cool webhost that gives 200GB for $4.95 a month! I’m guessing US dollars, so that would be like $7? Better than buying MS prepaid cards –> rationalism to make self feel better about spending) [if I really get it, I might decide to give away free @mooty.com email accounts! Which will be, like, so cool. So start sponsoring me!]

- A MAN U JERSEY FTW!!!! I think it costs more than $100. But assuming I can get it… what jersey should I get? Ronaldo, Giggs or Scholes or Rooney? Rooney’s too fat, Ronaldo is too common… most probably Scholes, since not many people get Scholes and because I like the fact that he’s British. But jersey number-wise, Ronaldo (7) and Giggs (11) are nicer numbers!

- To get into CAP and win the mentorship. So, they’ll pick the better people in CAP and get a writer to mentor them! I’d better get chosen. I’ve wasted 16 pieces of paper, lots of ink, and 3 files for my submitted portfolio.

- More DS games. Some of the best: Pokemon Ranger, Pokemon D/P and Advance Wars (which is a cool game similar to Ancient Empires on the phone)

- For Man U to win the league this year and to be the winter champs again in the end of this year. For Rooney to break his scoring duck, mature and start banging in the goals together with Ronaldo. For Ronaldo to win the Golden Boot. For Mourinho to leave Chelsea as rumoured. Then Chelsea will become unsettled. Lampard will join Barcelona, Terry will go Milan and everyone else will go Wycombe Wanderers. Then Abramovich will sell the club and take over Hull City, bringing them to the Premiership by signing Sheva first thing.

Woohoo! I have taggers! I’m so popular… haiz.

Right now I’m trying to rush out CAP. Due on Monday.

And then, I found out that I’m in the Rafflesian Times EXCO! “OMGWTF” is right. According to the teacher I/Cs this is the first time sec 3s get to make up an exco. I don’t have many PMSsy issues with that, especially when I get two years of leadership points for rushing out papers every three months. And best of all, there’re like 30 people under us (not including the sec 1 members-to-be!) Yay!

Michael Chee came to waterpolo today to try out. Then at the end, the coach said that the B’div was too full and he was not good enough, or something. Ouch. So he left, having wasted an afternoon. And Yu Hsuen (his first training in three months! Clapclapclap!) said something like “If Michael can’t get into polo, I don’t think I can get into tennis. I shall resign myself to my fate.” Emo kid! Michael should take his place, since Michael would appreciate it more than YH will.

When I go to JC, I’m probably taking up another CCA. Like canoeing/kayaking. At least it’s a sport where most people would have no prior experience in. And it’s still a water sport.

I think my blogging skills are in a state of entropy from lack of bloggable topics. I shall probably forget all about this, concentrate on studies (and FM!) and when I get to know the class more, I’ll start blogging again.

Holy Toledo!

OBS is over! Dunno how I’m supposed to be feeling. I would have been happy with OBS if my stupid skin hadn’t been peeling like dandruff. Skin of the FACE. Nooooo… my tan will gone!

I was contemplating not coming to school. But I came to school and I saw so many people who looked the same. So it was okay.

During the camp Chester kept singing/humming the song “Tong Hua”. And he was my kayak partner, wtf. So I would be super pissed because he was being irritating and the waves blowing us off course already sorta pissed me. Then I came back, and found out that I had “Tong Hua” stuck in my head! So I went to download the song and replay it for about two hours. Good thing I’m not in Chester’s class.

Anyway, I’ve still not forgotten my quest to be the writer of a cool bestseller. Like Chris Paolini, I would have to draw some ideas from more established works. Tell me how you find this story idea:

Haris Pilton and the Frozen Throne: The Fellowship of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Long title, I know, but the plot is going to be awwwsome! This male socialite (slightly gay) called Haris Pilton finds out that his dead parents were actually Sentinels of a Long Lost Time. And somehow, their wedding ring is the spawn of evil, so Haris Pilton has to, like, discard the wedding ring into a dustbin. But there are no dustbins anywhere in his country, so he has to travel to Singapore, where there’re lots and lots of dustbins. Then along the way, a lion (who was tamed in a zoo), a witch, and a wardrobe decides to join him. So at the end, the wardrobe falls into the dustbin and dies, and this makes Haris Pilton discover the true meaning of life, and he marries the Witch. Then the Lion roars and jumps onto the mountains and becomes wild, which for some reason is his “lifelong desire”. Then he meets 101 Lions (who are all unique and have names) and he joins their tribe.

Man, it’s such a philosophical and touching story. Sounds like classic movie material. (the purpose of the 101 Lions is so that we can come up with more merchandise… then they’ll have to spend all their money to collect them! Woohoo!)

Wow. I just noticed that this blog has exactly two more posts than my old blog (which is called earthworm happy meal and which I stopped in end-05.) I guess I won’t be stopping this blog.

Today was the first day of lessons. Which was actually quite good since there weren’t actually any lessons other than math. Bleargh.

Chem - The teacher will be teaching us for only Sem 1 or something. He’s an Old Boy in the Class of 2002! Only 20! And he just came out of NS in Nov. Then he told us interesting stories about his post during NS, something to do about explosives. Reminisced about OBS.
Math – Teacher is someone called Vijay Shankar. He went through a bit of the Set Theory worksheet I have to go search for later because good old “G” gave them out last year and I stuffed all the worksheets into plastic folders to store.
Philo - Nice teacher. Reminisced about OBS.
Lit - The teacher, whom I shall refer as henceforth as Kuangsy, is actually quite nice. She already remembers my name. (probably because I posted lots of crap on the Yahoogroup.)
Chinese - When the teacher walked in I found her strangely familiar. Then suddenly she was like (in Chinese): “I recognize one or two of you in this class from waterpolo.” Actually, she’s the new second teacher i/c of waterpolo whom I’ve only met 3 times or so.

Thank God for the good teachers.

Randomly-Generated Aims of the year (Strongly encouraged to accomplish):
- Get into CAP
- Win the Commonwealth Essay thingy (350 pounds! I can, like, buy a Wii! Or the next 20 years’ editions of FM/Fifa. LOL)
- Get a GPA of around 3.73
- Work much harder physically
- Get into RT exco somehow (bootlicking only as LAST RESORT)

And there was station games, and there was end of school — the first day.

Just a little tidbit. There was an RA briefing after school. Which sucked. Then there WAS the briefing itself. Which totally killed. (‘killed’ carrying a negative connotation, for those optimistic ones out there.) First of all, Head of Acad. Stud. repeated everything she said for the past, like, 3 RA “briefings”. Which sucked, pretty bad.

Then she said probably the only thing that was fresh news: “Your RE project must correspond to the RA subject you’re taking.” So…

Student: M’am, I’m in a Humans RA but I applied for SMP (Science Mentorship Programme).
Head of AS (HAS): Then you should drop it. You see, the point of RA is because you guys have passion for this subject! Why would you want to look anywhere else? [--> pointedly ignores fact that some people have passion for sciences but, because of their mugging, got allocated Humans instead, or vice versa]
Student: But I already applied.
HAS: How many of you have Student’s situation?
Approximately 5 put up their hands.
Some Student: I am in SMP with 4 others. 3 of those plus me are in Science RAs, but one is in Humans RA. If we were to drop that guy, we can’t form a team, and we can’t join SMP. So wouldn’t that be defeating the purpose of asking us to do the aforementioned?
Undercurrent of murmuring emerges.
HAS is disturbed. Consult consult.
Another Student (AS): Me and my friend took up this 2-year course on laser applications as RE in Sec 2. That means it carries on to sec 3. But we got Humans RA.
HAS: Then I strongly encourage you to drop the course.
AS: But we can continue right? Because it’s not compulsory, you only strongly encouraged me.
[Cheers and laughter and pandemonium broke. Well, as pandemoniumic as a school briefing could get. Woohoo for free speech and such!]
[Can't recall what HAS said immediately after, if she wasn't lost for words that a student actually kinda humiliated her.]
HAS: OK those who put up their hands see me afterwards. I will write down your names. Since this is the first year the system is implemented, you can carry on with whatever RE you want.

Disclaimer: Don’t sue me for anything. I was attempting a verbatim record of the event but obviously failed a little. I am not trying to portray so-and-so as bad or trying to suggest that so-and-so RA system is flawed or that so-and-so batch of RA students are actually guinea pigs for this system. I deliberately concealed names of students even if I know their names, so don’t be insulted that you’re being called Student or so.
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I Googled my RA teacher to-be, Kuang Ser Yee. This is something cool I found:
http://www.petitiononline.com/vincom2/petition.html

Sure gives us ideas, eh? I wonder what was the result of that effort.

I’m considering whether to, like, give up on this blog. And go anonymous with some other blog. Then no one will know who that crappy time-wasting guy is.

Seriously, this blog has had its highs. This is pretty low. And then 2P is gone, and I’m not likely to like my new classmates because I’m planning to go Sociopath Mode for the next 5 years (just kidding). And when I blog to people I know, I tend to blog about what I did, and pretend that people actually care about which shopping center I went or what food I consumed or what fiendish and irritating Chinese holiday homework I have been doing for the holidays.

If I go anonymous, I can actually post something more insightful. More soul-searching. More to-the-heart. Like commenting on George Bush quotes, posting updates on Xiaxue’s new nose, and discussing random Sunday Times comics with vigor.