mootcanwrite.wordpress.com – my new writing blog! Dunno who has read it besides pizzat. By writing blog, I don’t mean “fake cheem and fake emphathetic environment-centric posts for the sake of higher marks”, but a collection of my various stories and articles (shall post my RT articles). Comment on the appropriate pages and posts, thank you! So far, only one story up. And it’s retarded. I mean, really.

I just remembered about my Pokemon fanfic! Uh, for fans of Pokemon or otherwise: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3239640/1/ it received rave reviews but I stopped it sometime. Maybe I shall continue with it and post it on mootcanwrite for permanence.

http://mootcanwrite.wordpress.com/articles/a-criticism-of-ris-newly-erected-ra-system/ posted my RA article here. Please comment.

Hello. I wonder why I’m still blogging when there are English personal narrative and Math tests tomorrow. Maybe the secret masochistic side of me.

I shall do a special feature about subjects and such.

The workload is not something to be happy about. There is hardly any time for true slacking! Well, there are subjects that make life sort of fun and lessen the “stress” part of homework. And then there are subjects that SUCK, AND HAVE WORK THAT SEEMS LIKE A LOT. I shall go through each subject.

English – Pretty okay. Nice teacher. Workload… nothing more than comprehensions and going through personal narrative stuff, which only require reading and analyses of random passages. But the personal narrative test – whoops, timed assessment – is going to kill me! I have such a boring life and a poor memory. However, this is a fun and quite slack subject. 4.5 stars.

Chinese – I know many Chinese-haters out there, but the truth is, Chinese is super straightforward. When you want to mug, all you have to do is look at the exercises, the textbook, the worksheets, the ci yu shou ce, which is a godsend to all Chinese students! In fact, the sucky parts about Chinese are the non-muggable ones, like cloze and compre, which usually comprise boring “inspirational” passages, instead of those remotely interesting story ones they used to have in primary school. All in all, a simple subject. (REALLY!) 3 stars.

Math – I want to skip this part. But I can’t. It would be slightly better if this didn’t have double weightage. Then we would only have 2 maths lessons a week, instead of ALMOST EVERYDAY. It would also be much better if this was an elective, droppable subject. It would be easier if my teacher was remotely interesting and/or had an okay and approachable teaching style, like Mr. Jee. (can’t believe I’m saying this, but heck.) But none of this is true. And I have a math test tomorrow which I’m gonna fail. 1.5 stars.

Physics – Pretty fun! Get to do all those cool lab experiments. I expected all the mathsy stuff, but we are on the chapter Light, which is immensely fun! Refraction and reflection and all. Unlike pure undiluted math, this actually has some practical applications. Like, before this I thought the sea was blue because of reflection from the sky. But our physics teacher (who is rather okay) told us it’s because water was slightly blue in itself. WTF?? And lots of other “light” stuff. 3 stars. (minus 0.5 because of the math)

Chem – This is slightly funner than physics, since lab lessons are more common and always interesting.The teacher is more tolerant than physics teacher, haha. I fear it might get harder, though… chem has always sounded forbidding and hard. 3.5 stars.

Bio – Wouldn’t know.

Lit RA – Fun! I like reading the books. And we recently did a skit thingy. But everyone in Lit RA are like, so pro. Hope I don’t fail or get the lowest in class, don’t even know grading system of Lit RA. Hope I become a better writer as a consequence. 4 stars.

SS – Bearable. Don’t really like teacher, even though he is rather competent. Topics covered, like ethnicity and race, are quite interesting, though. 3 stars.

History – Sad to say that this is quite boring. I took this in the belief that I could score. I suppose. LORMS is rather straightforward, really. Nothing much to history except to justify your points well. 3 stars.

Philo – Yay! I like the teacher. Always lets us off early for recess. Philo itself… fallacies are rather interesting, if hard. Hope there’re no boring topics. Wish I had remembered last year’s abortion discussions, because I needed it for my English blog article response 1. 3.5 stars.

CLE – Boring. But no work. And the teacher is the same let-us-off-early teacher. 3.5 stars.

PE – :) Hockey was good, floorball rocked. Swimming/polo is going to OWN!!!11 (I hope.) 5 stars.

RE – Retarded subject. I mean, RI is probably doing this just to keep up appearances that we are empathetic, environment-centric dwellers of the universe. How many people actually care about the research we do? Service learning, bah, a way to pretend we are concerned. We probably did it because there were no other projects left, or because it was the most straightforward. Surveys, interviews…. the same old stuff every year which is done only to get more marks, not for the sake of the trivial knowledge we will get back at the end of the year. And the workload is A LOT, like proposals and stuff. 1 star.

I spent the WHOLE day doing some RT admin stuff and doing ONE (1) article for my blog. And it isn’t even done.

The content is there, of course. But I have nearly 700 words! Word limit = 500. Every 5 words over = 1 mark deducted. Um, -40,thankyew thankyew. The word limit is really very trying! I can’t even elaborate on anything. Instead, we are forced to adhere to some crappy “Five Facets of Understanding” (six, actually, but one was deemed irrelevant), and the worksheet lists down like twenty guiding questions, half of which don’t even apply to my article. So I left a few out, and I have 700 words.

(YH has 2500 and 1000 for his articles respectively. And the best/worst part is, he didn’t even write them in response to ANY article. So he gets zero marks! But the articles are good, stand-alone.)

http://publicservicemessage.blogspot.com – please visit and comment on the article! I like the skin. Maybe I shall change to that in the near future. So simple and cute!

I shall try to clear my backlog of work!

I had made my file resemble a file, by stuffing all the worksheets into their respective compartments. So instead of the front part of the file bursting, the whole file is now trying to explode into millions of plastic pieces. Shall file them subject by subject later. I must not disappoint myself! Must improve!

Yay! I finished writing my article about the Raffles Academies and how the system sucks, for RT. Haha! It has lots of minor contradictions and maybe even FALLACIES, but who cares. It’ll be a perfect read for bitter people who didn’t get into the RA, and they’ll come to my blog to fan-tag! (I shall try to squeeze my blog URL in size 5 somewhere! Muhaha.) I didn’t mention the fact that I am an RA student. Most readers will prolly think I am a sour grapes Sec 3. Buy RT in Week 10, pleeeeeease! I hope my name is like on the Editorial Team. That be rox0r. I shall try to chiong another article. Because the idea of having two published articles is cool!

Bitch rant of the day
We had a talk with a 109 year old woman for RE period the other day (wow! She is so Blessed. She can talk better than most old 70+ people, and she can even walk. But she calls everyone her Brother or Sister. Either Christian or Communist or some funny New Age religion.). Then Shawn Tay sat in front of me. I think he is gay. He wore his shorts (shorts are for posers! Haha, Brent) SUPER LOW. And he bent forward for long periods at a time, leaving his butt crack for the person behind him, ie me, to see in all its glory. So fat somemore.

Oh. Today was Scouts Day. You know, the day where some chosen few wear a green uniform adorned with badges and scarf and beret. Then the head scout in front says a pledge, the Scouts repeat. So the head scout referred to the founder several times, and I thought it was “Lord Vader Power”, and was laughing about it. But I came home and wikipediaed Scouts. It’s actually Robert Baden-Powell. Ah well. Close enough. Anyway Scouts is so much cooler than waterpolo. You get to camp, unlike polo, and your CCA-mates don’t have attitude problem and aren’t mainly emo, unlike polo.

I shall post about random stuff as quick as I can, so I can do my other blog. The one that actually affects GPA.

One day when I was queuing up in the RI canteen, the two JUNIORS in front of me, obviously spastic, were arguing about house cheers.

A: Blah blah blah
B: Have you heard about the Hullett house cheer? Insult people one leh!
A: Yah lor! It say something like “Morrison drown in the sea, then Buckley hang on the tree”.

Their high level of spasm – PROVEN.
High level of spasm of our “hurtful” cheer – PROVEN. But at least people talk about it.

Then again, houses are kinda useless. I know, it fosters competition and stuff, but do you actually expect me to be proud of the house? I mean, when people know you’re from Raffles, they’ll go like, “Woah! Premier school, man!” But if you wear a Hullett T-shirt, people won’t be all “OMG it’s Hullett they got second place in inter-house championship last year they won the track and field meet for 6 years in a row lol all bow to them the New Black the Eclipse whatever”. Which was why I was genuinely puzzled why Moor was so ecstatic over winning the CNY concert thing back last Friday, even when most of them didn’t even participate in the events. Ah well. Maybe it’s just something about being a winner. I’ll never understand how it feels.

Then today I was taking the bus after training, and standing in front of this old man and some woman who were sitting. Then the old man, without moving, just spat at the middle aisle. I didn’t even notice him, except that I saw this barely translucent projectile originate from somewhere on him, and I also saw some other guy at the other side of the aisle turn his head, maybe in disgust. Then the over-phlegmed old man did some elaborate arm-stretching movement and looked in the other direction, maybe to distract others from the heinous sin he had just done. I think he had a smug expression on his face.

The old man’s infidelity to the cause of keeping public areas clean: PROVEN
The old man’s over-phlegmness: PROVEN

Whee. So many people in class want to get a DS, just like me! Very soon I shall have people to play with…

Happy CNY!

My pockets are significantly filled, although disappointing for the number of maternal relatives I have. Gee. Everyone’s so calculative. Aside from a few kind relatives, most of them with one child deems fit to give less money, because it’s “not worth it” for them. Next time when I grow up, I think I’ll have 10 children, just to piss the relatives off during Chinese New Year.

I wonder what would happen if someone gives a $1 hongbao.

Random aunt: Gong Xi Fa Cai, Boy Boy!
Boy Boy: Yay, thank you aunty! Wahlao, why this hongbao so heavy one… like got coin inside… OMG! IT IS ONE COIN! (opens it in front of aunt) ONE DOLLAR? Uh, aunty, good things come in pairs leh!

Random aunt is shamed. But she plots for next year.

Random aunt: Gong Xi Fa Cai, Boy Boy!
Boy Boy: Yay, thank you aunty! Wahlao, why this hongbao is like super heavy. (opens) OMG it is one dollar AGAIN! Aunty, good things come in pairs!
Random aunt: Haha, it is pairs what. Got two fifty-cent coins!
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Argh. I feel like spending my hongbao money on random DS game. Advance Wars DS / Hotel Dusk!
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On a separate note, I’ve been playing Neopets the past few days! Since HWJ decided to create a new account. Fact is, some of the games there are quite fun, and there’s nothing like having a good online browser game to earn money and stuff. And the plots are fun and constantly updated… what I don’t like are the large banner ads, but I suppose they’re tolerable.

Haha had a fun CNY go-back-to-primary-sch day. Sort of.

This year is super screwed up, because RGS were having a full day, for some reason. And that turned off many many RI people from going back. Ah well. And Nanyang, being retarded, does not let “random visitors” in before 1.30pm. By then, the teachers will be hidden in the “out-of-bounds” staff room. Wow, so much purpose and meaning. And none of us had oranges.

So many people ponned it, the people I went with planned to go Pek Wen Jie’s house to play, and Jonathan decided to be a loser and go with Nan Hua friends to Nan Hua. Hahaha. He got jacked, so he says.

I went with Kenneth Goh, Pek, Joshua, Pay and HWJ (who decided not to go back to TNS). So we met the HCI guys (lawl. Still wearing shorts.) and NYGH girls. And later, we just went to Pek’s house to playyyyy! Pek is crazy. He has PS2 and Xbox and stacks and cases of games. And at 1.30, none of us wanted to go back to Nanyang. So we played until 5+. Fun! I want Fifa…. I shan’t miss out on Fifa 08 this year! Or I can get it on DS, haha…

Shall not do ANY work today since I’m in high spirits. Um, shame that RGS didn’t get to come.

Today is Valentine’s Day and my father’s birthday. Quite weird, yes. But then, I get used to it. Like how Ben Ooi has to get used to the fact of having a birthday on 29 Feb (aww, no birthday this year!) And 14 Feb is more known to me as a birthday than Vday. We went to this Chinese restaurant situated in a block of HDB flats. Um, since not many lovers would care to go there. There is always the problem of getting a restaurant at this time of year. Food was pretty good, but really expensive.. and the chopsticks bridge thing (whatever they call it) was a porcelain model of a naked woman lying down. What the shit! I took pictures of it, post them later.

Oh. And I am super stressed. (crumbles and cries, screaming for ten minutes about the irregularities of life and the pressures of Singaporean society, and of how I can’t buy Hotel Dusk: Room 215, this new awesome adventure story DS game. Broke.) There are like 11 subjects we have (SS and Philo have to be counted separately and stop masquerading as one subject), and if all of them have one worksheet every lesson, one test every two weeks, chances are we will die. And there’s freaking RE, where we have to plan this and that and write proposals. And so much for me joining Interact club. I’m feeling the stress before we even start mentoring those pesky primary school children. Every week, after school! Oh and I think I’m going to fail math.

Someone should tell the teachers: “You think it’s only one worksheet? If every teacher thinks like you, there will be a whole load of homework!” (modelled after the Shut The F*** Up rational argument invented by teachers) or even: “You think it’s only one worksheet? When I go home I have to do 30 worksheets, leh!” (modelled after the Students Do One Teachers Mark Thirthy argument)

Teehee. Radio playing THE corny Titanic song (it’s called My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion) now, minutes from midnight and 15 Feb. Cool. 15 Feb is Total Defence Day. *immediately feels patriotic and wants to fight the Jews.* Um, I meant, Singapore’s enemies. Which is currently almost a third of ASEAN?

So much for having a good rest.

I had 3 days of MC and I returned school on the SECOND! This would NEVER have happened in primary school. Primary school don’t need to study one. But secondary school, as earlier mentioned, goes at a super fast pace (even if a certain slow math teacher were to teach it. “B UNION Q!!!!”) Indeed. Today, I found out that I missed a super important physics lesson on refraction. Damn.

Uh, by popular demand (and because I didn’t quite know), a special educational feature on tonsilitis. (oh, everyone thought I had my tonsils removed when they heard tonsilitis. TouchwoodKevin’s-brain!) I shall ask Mr. Weekeepeedee A (pronounced Wikipedia) on the matter. Mr. Weekeepeedee, what is tonsilitis?

Mr. Weekeepeedee: Hey kids. Tonsillitis is an inflammation of the tonsils in the mouth and will often, but not necessarily, cause a sore throat and fever. Symptoms may also include pain in the tonsil area and inability to swallow and/or painful swallowing . White spots may also appear on the tonsils. Feel free to click on any of the above links, which will direct you to my website. Yes, I’m shameless that way. Bye!

Gory descriptions must come with more gory images! Also by our dear friend Weekeepeedee A. I reduced its size, because the original will scare off the pregnant and frail among us. Sort of. (I hope there’re pregnant and frail in my fanbase, anyway.)

I’m not going to school for the next few days! So instead of mugging for any test, I’m blog-surfing and watching Youtube music videos.. (I was watching Seize the Day by Avenged Sevenfold, the song Brent has on his blog, since he’s pretending to be emo.) It’s as emo as it gets. This gangster has a girlfriend who was preggers, but he went out with his gang to commit a robbery and got caught and jailed. Then the girlfriend visits him and gets all pissy, so she leaves, and she gets killed in a car accident. Then it ends with the gangster visiting the grave and this toddler comes. Apparently he’s the son of the woman. They did a Caesarian on her? MV aside, the song is nice, emo and exactly what the fake-emo Brent likes.

MVs are crucial. Songs don’t make sense most of the time. Like Wordplay and other weird songs.

I think I’m a biological freak. I’m 14 and have not shown any signs of puberty… maybe I’m just going to remain like this forever, then 10 years later when I visit relatives, they’ll ask my mother “Eh, your son primary five ah?” (like they do nowadays) Retarded. I hope all the sleeping I will be doing for the next few days will make me taller slightly. YH claimed that he grew 3cm in 2 weeks after falling ill. Then again, that’s probably his growth spurt.