. [a] . [b] . [c] . [d] .

Lol. Naruto 440 and Bleach 350 is out.

Naruto meets his dad, refrains from unlocking the nineth tail and prepares to meet pain again, heads on in the next issue. And for Bleach... lol it's all simply so expected. Ichigo meets a near death experience, he evolves, now we'll be finding out how he managed to evolve. And before they tell us more about that, they show us that Kurosagi now most probably doesn't know how to pronounce intelligent words (sounds like the Joker) and is ultra fast and strong.

Anyway it was my birthday today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!

Family celebrated with me at zhenfa steamboat. It was rather nice :D especially the prawns and the banana chocolate ECLAIRS!!!!

Haha I wanna go zhenfa again soon. Anyway most probably there will be tahan dinner tomorrow, weiqi YC dinner on Sat, P6 dinner on Sun! Yay

13032009 (Fri)
The trip started on Friday. I spent morning preparing, going NTUC to buy eggs and stuff. Then after packing my bag I went sch. 15 J1s and 6 J2s went with me and Eugene (my batchmate, captain for my batch), as well as 2 teacher chaperones. Thats 25 persons in all.

I reached sch at 1430, realized tahan room wasn't open yet, then I went to weiqi to say hi to yanglaoshi and the weiqi jrs, and at 1530 I went back to tahan. Packed stuff, said hi to jrs, YongKai the Captain Cook even came! and he was shocked at my bringing the big heavy frying wok. Anyway he wished us luck and told Eugene and I (the only laolaos on the trip) we were to look after everyone. ARGH.

We left Singapore at around 6. The coach brought us to Singapore and JB checkpoints and it left. We had dinner at near the new JB checkpoint. Then we took this other coach to Kelantan, DABONG Town.

14032009 (Sat) DAY ONE
Reached this petrol station place in the morning where we had breakfast (bread and orange juice for me). Coach continued on the Dabong.

Finally reached Dabong at around 12. Had lunch (energy bars) and started trek. Walked in from some main road into Stong Resort, registered our names and started the real trek :D
Jrs where screwed up more or less. Slow here, complain there, this forget, that missing. But its good that they do cheer and sing most of the time for day 1.

Anyway we went up to Bahas Base Camp via the waterfall path. Uber dangerous but breathtaking :D:D:D Love it! Look up and see the majestic Stong waterfall, look back and see a long way down !!!! :D AHAHA So anyway the J1s complained its too dangerous. ONE SAID HE WAS SCARED IF HE DIED HE WOULD BE DAMN SIAN. AHAHAHAHAHA Cannot stop laughing.

Reached Base Camp at around 3, they gave J1s 30mins to pitch tent, they took 2 hrs. Anyway most of us went to play water first. I went back at 4.30 to start cooking. YAM RICE!!! Peeled and sliced yam, cut dried pork sausages, cooked rice and waited and waited and waited. All the way until 7.30. Rice still wasn't 100% soft and fluffy; yam wasn't soft. Epic failure... But many said it was nice! Haha maybe they haven't eaten imba yam rice yet.

Lesson learnt: don't cook yam rice if you don't have a rice cooker.

15032009 (Sun) DAY TWO
Jrs started cooking at 6.20. They were to finish by 7.45. Hahas that was super early, but I think rather necessary for noob cooks. I started at around 6.40 la. So we finished eating everything at approx 7.45 and lazed around for a while.

Set off at 9, after tentmen packed everything and we warmed up. Path up today was rather easy until it rained. Reached Bahas Summit (1450m) at approx 3, continued on to Ayam Summit (1500m). Reached there at around 5 (after the horrible collecting water experience at spring source where we all waited damn long in the cold weather combined with the rain). I borrowed jr's tiny pot, came up with hot water for everybody, hopefully that made everybody better. Hahas Kai Ni (J1 Cook) wonderful phrase "where to get hot water?" made all of us amused on saturday night.

Cooked Instant Noodles (curry flavour). Added egg, sausages, luncheon. After finishing up some were still hungry, then we realized Lutheng's bag still had some of today's dinner. ARGH. Anyway I was rather full. So the rest suffered from hunger (a bit only la) and lutheng suffered from additional 400g of wait. Ha.

At night it was super cold and raining wet. So all the overland tents leaked, Walrus leaked quite a lot and REI astonishingly leaked too. Everybody had a bad night. I slept 3 hrs lying down then got up (couldn't bear the cold ground despite my waterproof thick jacket) and slept sitting up. Everybody was just sitting up and trying to cuddle together for warmth.

16032009 (Mon)
Woke up at around 4 again. Talked and stoned until around 5.50 then we got out. Cooked milo for everybody (jrs decided to free their jr cooks of the duty, which would have made everybody suffer had I not cooked warm milo). Got the powder and pot from Jrs, then started cooking. It took damn long to warm up (and I was super cold lor) and finally we drank to our heart's content :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D I believe everybody should have been satisfied. Oh yea Lutheng said yesterday night some girls complained and said they were considering quiting tahan. Haha be my guest :D

Set off at 8. Seniors and laolaos warmed up to pumping and starjumps HAHA NICE ONE I LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT "YAYA PAPAYA" starjump!
I went in front today. At the start I was in front of Kai Ni, telling her how to walk. She seemed fine. So they appointed me to guide Bernice. So we walked and walked and walked (climbed downwards). Rather slow pace I must say. At a certain point, Fiona's toe decided to bang into her larger than supposed boot and it was hurting like hell so they decided to stop. Jrs carried her load and David supported her down. When we reached the entrance to Bahas Base Camp, Zi Tao (Jr Waterman) decided he was super urgent and rushed to shit.

When we were all ready again the guide piggybacked-supported-guided Fiona down all the way. I carried the guide's haversack, JX carried his daypack. At this super muddy area it was too slippery for me to walk with 2 haversacks. So I just took the easy way out. SLIDE!! Ahahaha but it wasn't really fun. Quite painful on my butt. Hahas. Anyway when I reached the bottom of the super muddy path I stood up and continued walking. Quite a weird feeling though. Hahas. Its like, you have to watch your step in front, but whatever you see comes 1 second later to your feet since it isn't the immediate front due to the stupid haversack blocking the sight. Hahas. Anyway I progressed rather safely.

Returned the haversack to the guide after some time, took his daypack from JX and continued walking, it was much easier then. And after some time the guide took his daypack back. Then we reached Stong Resort finally after a short while. YAY.

Washed up, then took a van to Dabong train station. Dinner there, then we took coach back.

17032009 (Tue)
SAFELY ARRIVED AT SINGAPORE HWA CHONG INSTITUTION AT 1200HRS !!!!!!!!!

Hahas. I just realized that my results are worse than I thought. I originally thought it meant BBC/A as I misunderstood that the H1 subject considered would be something like GP. Its actually the H1 content subject, or in my case the worst H2 subject. So my results are actually BBC/C. Haiz...

Hahas I'll be applying for scholarships and NUS Archi and ID and perhaps the new course Comm and Media, as well as NTU ADM. Now all I'm relying on are my below average results and my portfolio, which Ivan Lee says is actually pretty good (since I have represented the nation for weiqi quite a few times!). That pretty much comforted me and gave me much more hope hahas :D. But still I'll work on my art portfolio as CMY advised. Anyone knows if SAT is of any use for local universities? If so I'll go take SAT (originally already planning to do so).

Hmm. Yam rice for dinner today. But my aunt didn't use the sauce provided (bought), all she did was fry yam and onion and mushroom and pork and when yam was somewhat soft she added rice to stir around in the mix and then put into the rice cooker to let it cook. It was quite nice, only that YS complained that ONLY YAM RICE FOR DINNER WAS NOT ENOUGH!!! I thought he's on diet. Lol. In the end he biked out to buy some roast chicken (super oily).

GUNUNG AYAM TRIP BEGINS TOMORROW. HOPE I'LL IMPRESS THE J1S WITH MY CULINARY SKILLS!!!! WAHAHA.

lol

I'll be going to my aunt's place tomorrow to learn how to cook yam rice (although the instructions are already written on the Chng Kee bottle thingy). Must buy yam (obviously), fried onion bits, garlic, dried mushrooms, dried sausages, shrimps. HAHA I'LL BE COOKING THIS ON AYAM!!!

Luckily we will have almost the entire afternoon resting at stong waterfall campsite on Saturday. So now I'll have time to peel yam, chop garlic and prepare everything. Ahhhh super looking forward to Ayam trip :D:D:D It'll be 90hrs of peace and quietness from my lousy results. HAHA YAY YAY YAYYAYAYAY Shit I sound like a runaway from IMH!

Went helping out at my uncle's shop today. Halfway I cycled over to Serau Lorong Kampong Buangkok, the last kampong in Singapore (according to Wikipedia). Lol it's really small and squeezy. But looks cozy and antiqity. Dunno.

Anyway the Ing Cup Photoblog template is FINISHED YAY. But I don't have time to make my own. So it'll have to wait till after Ayam.

And I just realized that taking photos is somewhat a waste of time (as long as other people are taking photos too). Reason number one: You compete for space while attempting to take your best photo (found out after looking at the 10 mins media time just at the start of the games during Ing Cup). Reason number two: In the end, your photo will just be about the same as another person's photo. Reason number three: Someone else definitely has a more powerful camera/better photo taking skills than you. Reason number four: You waste time after that as you have to upload photos to your computer and then upload it online for all to see. In the end, the most convenient method is simply to wait till others take the photos then you go to kope!!!

HAHA I'm smart right? Okay I know I'm not. GAHHSDSDG

Mum's repeatedly telling me to retake 'A' Levels. Problem is, I'm enlisting in April. Can I both mug for retaken 'A' Levels + survive NS at the same time? I actually also wish to get into OCS... Seems like I'll have to scrape that dream and be content with being normal infantry or even storeman. Maybe clerk, so that I will have more time to mug. Haiz...

Mr R said on the class blog that results we (hc students) may be disappointed with may actually make other JC students really proud to achieve. Its because we've been too conditioned, by the school, to believe that everybody gets 4 'A's. So in the end, did I do badly because 70% of the entire cohort have received at least 3 H2 'A's, or did I do well by improving from a SSSU/D to a BBCC/A?

I really don't know what my mindset now should be. NTU ADM accepts DDD/D grades on its 10th percentile, NUS Archi accepts BCC/C, NUS ID accepts CCC/C... Will my BBC/A be sufficient to enter these courses, since I don't really have much portfolio? Other people may not need to worry (eg. XTY being in AEP) about portfolio, but I don't have much other than the various T-Shirt designs and blog designs and banner designs which I have come up with. I don't have oil paintings, many sketches, films and videos which the general art student have to back them up; all I have is an art background from P1 to S4 in NAFA Junior Art. Is that sufficient? Will they accept me?

Hahas I've begin to realize that other people (high achievers, eg CMY) begin having bad dreams regarding results BEFORE the results are actually out. People like me who have been receiving poor results for a long long time only begin their nightmare AFTER results are out, thinking about whether they will be able to get into that so-and-so course or whatsoever. All in all, I've come to the conclusion that results are still the most important issue in this society and I've begun to regret my action (not mugging hard) during pre-u-student-time. I don't believe I'll get a second chance (with the exception of a reincarnation, that means that I have to die first) at scoring better, unless MINDEF allows me to take more time off NS life so that I can mug for retaken A levels.

So do I retake? Or not. Sigh... I've till the end of March to ponder on this question. Don't know if I can come up with a certain answer by then...

Results were out on Friday. Disappointed that I didn't get the A I know I could have for Maths, but elsewise I really don't know if I'm glad I didn't repeat my Us from Prelims and before for the other subjects.

BBCC/A. Is that cause for celebration, or should I retake 'A's? Quite a few of my friends have been advised (from parents, not teachers) to retake. Myself included. However the 2 Cs really have been a huge grade jump from U or S during Prelims and before, so I think I should be somewhat satisfied?

Anyhow, 06/03/2009 still marks the end of my six years of IP. I'm hoping to be able to get into Architecture or ID or ADM. According to the COP shown on NUS and NTU websites, I do have chance as the previous intake had also accepted BCC/Cs and even DDD for ADM (NTU). I'll have to work on portfolio then...

OKAY. The Ing's Cup (Singapore Lap) has finally concluded. Choi is now at an advantage with 2:1 on Lee. I'm hoping that Choi will win :D. Haha according to Mr Tan, Choi was super elated on Saturday after winning, such that even after most people left the main hall Choi still raised his arms in victory, displaying the "V" symbols happily! Haha when I relayed the news to Suat Yee today at DHS she even said he was so cute!

Sigh.. it rained today all the time when I was on my bike, and when I was near house it stopped raining. Stupid weather. Lols. Anyway when I got to DHS at 4 for weiqi lessons today I was like wet through like a chicken in the soup! (luo tang ji) Hahas. The security guard at DHS didn't really seem to believe that I was here as a coach. Haha.

Now I'm busy coming up with the template for the Ing Cup Blog which Chuanling is creating. I'll do my own template soon (maybe after Gunung Ayam trip with Tahanners this weekend?)

Lol. Blacked out twice today (3/3). Heard from Hsien Yu that Lee Chang-Ho dao-ed the first one, but stunned at the second one. Those inside mostly thought it was GG, so when the lights came back on Hsien Yu was waving "NO!!!" at Lee Chang-Ho, wanting to tell him to stop game and resume on another day or something. But Lee Chang-Ho daoed him too.

Mr Wu Qing Yuan (Go Seigen) calligraphised a few words yesterday during the Welcome Dinner. "河山一局棋" (Literally, all the rivers and mountains are but a simple game of chess). Figuratively, it simply means Life is but a game. Hahas. Nice.
And I was running all around in the rain, from SWA to Bras Basah Complex, back, and forth, and back, and to Bugis Junction Ajisen for lunch, and back and to BBC and back and forth and ... Sian.

Finally managed to get a "satisfactory" result. We FINALLY put up the photostated version of Go Seigen's words!! YAY.

Dinner at No Signboard Seafood Restaurant at Geylang. Yao ahyi (Hsien Yu's godmum, ING Foundation General Secreteriat) actually came by MRT!! Hahas.
Dinner today was much better than that yesterday at Tiong Bahru Plaza Lao Beijing (Welcome Dinner). Haiz.. lol. Its IMBA. and IMBA Expensive ($800 for 19 persons)

osh kosh begosh
P.osh, oh-gosh! rosh(an)
19 yrs old
aitongprimary
hwachong
hcwq chairperson
swayc recre coord
pure singaporean

cheerful most of the time
sometimes serious
tendency for violence
"immune to pain"
previous line comes from "eh sai tahan!"
weiqi fanatic
designer

HNG hikaru no go
KGNE kimi ga nozomu eien
ST shingetsutan tsukihime
HS hellsing
STUDIO GHIBLI
EL elfen lied

零
恋爱ING
少年
知足
夜曲
一生绝望
Lilium
this list is outdated

AT LEAST 3Bs 1A FOR 'A's
GET INTO ARCH@NUS
rep sg in wagc
rep in asiangames 2010
stronger at weiqi
master photoshop?
become a chef
stand on the peak of everest

Lol. Naruto 440 and Bleach 350 is out.

Naruto meets his dad, refrains from unlocking the nineth tail and prepares to meet pain again, heads on in the next issue. And for Bleach... lol it's all simply so expected. Ichigo meets a near death experience, he evolves, now we'll be finding out how he managed to evolve. And before they tell us more about that, they show us that Kurosagi now most probably doesn't know how to pronounce intelligent words (sounds like the Joker) and is ultra fast and strong.

Anyway it was my birthday today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!

Family celebrated with me at zhenfa steamboat. It was rather nice :D especially the prawns and the banana chocolate ECLAIRS!!!!

Haha I wanna go zhenfa again soon. Anyway most probably there will be tahan dinner tomorrow, weiqi YC dinner on Sat, P6 dinner on Sun! Yay

13032009 (Fri)
The trip started on Friday. I spent morning preparing, going NTUC to buy eggs and stuff. Then after packing my bag I went sch. 15 J1s and 6 J2s went with me and Eugene (my batchmate, captain for my batch), as well as 2 teacher chaperones. Thats 25 persons in all.

I reached sch at 1430, realized tahan room wasn't open yet, then I went to weiqi to say hi to yanglaoshi and the weiqi jrs, and at 1530 I went back to tahan. Packed stuff, said hi to jrs, YongKai the Captain Cook even came! and he was shocked at my bringing the big heavy frying wok. Anyway he wished us luck and told Eugene and I (the only laolaos on the trip) we were to look after everyone. ARGH.

We left Singapore at around 6. The coach brought us to Singapore and JB checkpoints and it left. We had dinner at near the new JB checkpoint. Then we took this other coach to Kelantan, DABONG Town.

14032009 (Sat) DAY ONE
Reached this petrol station place in the morning where we had breakfast (bread and orange juice for me). Coach continued on the Dabong.

Finally reached Dabong at around 12. Had lunch (energy bars) and started trek. Walked in from some main road into Stong Resort, registered our names and started the real trek :D
Jrs where screwed up more or less. Slow here, complain there, this forget, that missing. But its good that they do cheer and sing most of the time for day 1.

Anyway we went up to Bahas Base Camp via the waterfall path. Uber dangerous but breathtaking :D:D:D Love it! Look up and see the majestic Stong waterfall, look back and see a long way down !!!! :D AHAHA So anyway the J1s complained its too dangerous. ONE SAID HE WAS SCARED IF HE DIED HE WOULD BE DAMN SIAN. AHAHAHAHAHA Cannot stop laughing.

Reached Base Camp at around 3, they gave J1s 30mins to pitch tent, they took 2 hrs. Anyway most of us went to play water first. I went back at 4.30 to start cooking. YAM RICE!!! Peeled and sliced yam, cut dried pork sausages, cooked rice and waited and waited and waited. All the way until 7.30. Rice still wasn't 100% soft and fluffy; yam wasn't soft. Epic failure... But many said it was nice! Haha maybe they haven't eaten imba yam rice yet.

Lesson learnt: don't cook yam rice if you don't have a rice cooker.

15032009 (Sun) DAY TWO
Jrs started cooking at 6.20. They were to finish by 7.45. Hahas that was super early, but I think rather necessary for noob cooks. I started at around 6.40 la. So we finished eating everything at approx 7.45 and lazed around for a while.

Set off at 9, after tentmen packed everything and we warmed up. Path up today was rather easy until it rained. Reached Bahas Summit (1450m) at approx 3, continued on to Ayam Summit (1500m). Reached there at around 5 (after the horrible collecting water experience at spring source where we all waited damn long in the cold weather combined with the rain). I borrowed jr's tiny pot, came up with hot water for everybody, hopefully that made everybody better. Hahas Kai Ni (J1 Cook) wonderful phrase "where to get hot water?" made all of us amused on saturday night.

Cooked Instant Noodles (curry flavour). Added egg, sausages, luncheon. After finishing up some were still hungry, then we realized Lutheng's bag still had some of today's dinner. ARGH. Anyway I was rather full. So the rest suffered from hunger (a bit only la) and lutheng suffered from additional 400g of wait. Ha.

At night it was super cold and raining wet. So all the overland tents leaked, Walrus leaked quite a lot and REI astonishingly leaked too. Everybody had a bad night. I slept 3 hrs lying down then got up (couldn't bear the cold ground despite my waterproof thick jacket) and slept sitting up. Everybody was just sitting up and trying to cuddle together for warmth.

16032009 (Mon)
Woke up at around 4 again. Talked and stoned until around 5.50 then we got out. Cooked milo for everybody (jrs decided to free their jr cooks of the duty, which would have made everybody suffer had I not cooked warm milo). Got the powder and pot from Jrs, then started cooking. It took damn long to warm up (and I was super cold lor) and finally we drank to our heart's content :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D I believe everybody should have been satisfied. Oh yea Lutheng said yesterday night some girls complained and said they were considering quiting tahan. Haha be my guest :D

Set off at 8. Seniors and laolaos warmed up to pumping and starjumps HAHA NICE ONE I LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT "YAYA PAPAYA" starjump!
I went in front today. At the start I was in front of Kai Ni, telling her how to walk. She seemed fine. So they appointed me to guide Bernice. So we walked and walked and walked (climbed downwards). Rather slow pace I must say. At a certain point, Fiona's toe decided to bang into her larger than supposed boot and it was hurting like hell so they decided to stop. Jrs carried her load and David supported her down. When we reached the entrance to Bahas Base Camp, Zi Tao (Jr Waterman) decided he was super urgent and rushed to shit.

When we were all ready again the guide piggybacked-supported-guided Fiona down all the way. I carried the guide's haversack, JX carried his daypack. At this super muddy area it was too slippery for me to walk with 2 haversacks. So I just took the easy way out. SLIDE!! Ahahaha but it wasn't really fun. Quite painful on my butt. Hahas. Anyway when I reached the bottom of the super muddy path I stood up and continued walking. Quite a weird feeling though. Hahas. Its like, you have to watch your step in front, but whatever you see comes 1 second later to your feet since it isn't the immediate front due to the stupid haversack blocking the sight. Hahas. Anyway I progressed rather safely.

Returned the haversack to the guide after some time, took his daypack from JX and continued walking, it was much easier then. And after some time the guide took his daypack back. Then we reached Stong Resort finally after a short while. YAY.

Washed up, then took a van to Dabong train station. Dinner there, then we took coach back.

17032009 (Tue)
SAFELY ARRIVED AT SINGAPORE HWA CHONG INSTITUTION AT 1200HRS !!!!!!!!!

Hahas. I just realized that my results are worse than I thought. I originally thought it meant BBC/A as I misunderstood that the H1 subject considered would be something like GP. Its actually the H1 content subject, or in my case the worst H2 subject. So my results are actually BBC/C. Haiz...

Hahas I'll be applying for scholarships and NUS Archi and ID and perhaps the new course Comm and Media, as well as NTU ADM. Now all I'm relying on are my below average results and my portfolio, which Ivan Lee says is actually pretty good (since I have represented the nation for weiqi quite a few times!). That pretty much comforted me and gave me much more hope hahas :D. But still I'll work on my art portfolio as CMY advised. Anyone knows if SAT is of any use for local universities? If so I'll go take SAT (originally already planning to do so).

Hmm. Yam rice for dinner today. But my aunt didn't use the sauce provided (bought), all she did was fry yam and onion and mushroom and pork and when yam was somewhat soft she added rice to stir around in the mix and then put into the rice cooker to let it cook. It was quite nice, only that YS complained that ONLY YAM RICE FOR DINNER WAS NOT ENOUGH!!! I thought he's on diet. Lol. In the end he biked out to buy some roast chicken (super oily).

GUNUNG AYAM TRIP BEGINS TOMORROW. HOPE I'LL IMPRESS THE J1S WITH MY CULINARY SKILLS!!!! WAHAHA.

lol

I'll be going to my aunt's place tomorrow to learn how to cook yam rice (although the instructions are already written on the Chng Kee bottle thingy). Must buy yam (obviously), fried onion bits, garlic, dried mushrooms, dried sausages, shrimps. HAHA I'LL BE COOKING THIS ON AYAM!!!

Luckily we will have almost the entire afternoon resting at stong waterfall campsite on Saturday. So now I'll have time to peel yam, chop garlic and prepare everything. Ahhhh super looking forward to Ayam trip :D:D:D It'll be 90hrs of peace and quietness from my lousy results. HAHA YAY YAY YAYYAYAYAY Shit I sound like a runaway from IMH!

Went helping out at my uncle's shop today. Halfway I cycled over to Serau Lorong Kampong Buangkok, the last kampong in Singapore (according to Wikipedia). Lol it's really small and squeezy. But looks cozy and antiqity. Dunno.

Anyway the Ing Cup Photoblog template is FINISHED YAY. But I don't have time to make my own. So it'll have to wait till after Ayam.

And I just realized that taking photos is somewhat a waste of time (as long as other people are taking photos too). Reason number one: You compete for space while attempting to take your best photo (found out after looking at the 10 mins media time just at the start of the games during Ing Cup). Reason number two: In the end, your photo will just be about the same as another person's photo. Reason number three: Someone else definitely has a more powerful camera/better photo taking skills than you. Reason number four: You waste time after that as you have to upload photos to your computer and then upload it online for all to see. In the end, the most convenient method is simply to wait till others take the photos then you go to kope!!!

HAHA I'm smart right? Okay I know I'm not. GAHHSDSDG

Mum's repeatedly telling me to retake 'A' Levels. Problem is, I'm enlisting in April. Can I both mug for retaken 'A' Levels + survive NS at the same time? I actually also wish to get into OCS... Seems like I'll have to scrape that dream and be content with being normal infantry or even storeman. Maybe clerk, so that I will have more time to mug. Haiz...

Mr R said on the class blog that results we (hc students) may be disappointed with may actually make other JC students really proud to achieve. Its because we've been too conditioned, by the school, to believe that everybody gets 4 'A's. So in the end, did I do badly because 70% of the entire cohort have received at least 3 H2 'A's, or did I do well by improving from a SSSU/D to a BBCC/A?

I really don't know what my mindset now should be. NTU ADM accepts DDD/D grades on its 10th percentile, NUS Archi accepts BCC/C, NUS ID accepts CCC/C... Will my BBC/A be sufficient to enter these courses, since I don't really have much portfolio? Other people may not need to worry (eg. XTY being in AEP) about portfolio, but I don't have much other than the various T-Shirt designs and blog designs and banner designs which I have come up with. I don't have oil paintings, many sketches, films and videos which the general art student have to back them up; all I have is an art background from P1 to S4 in NAFA Junior Art. Is that sufficient? Will they accept me?

Hahas I've begin to realize that other people (high achievers, eg CMY) begin having bad dreams regarding results BEFORE the results are actually out. People like me who have been receiving poor results for a long long time only begin their nightmare AFTER results are out, thinking about whether they will be able to get into that so-and-so course or whatsoever. All in all, I've come to the conclusion that results are still the most important issue in this society and I've begun to regret my action (not mugging hard) during pre-u-student-time. I don't believe I'll get a second chance (with the exception of a reincarnation, that means that I have to die first) at scoring better, unless MINDEF allows me to take more time off NS life so that I can mug for retaken A levels.

So do I retake? Or not. Sigh... I've till the end of March to ponder on this question. Don't know if I can come up with a certain answer by then...

Results were out on Friday. Disappointed that I didn't get the A I know I could have for Maths, but elsewise I really don't know if I'm glad I didn't repeat my Us from Prelims and before for the other subjects.

BBCC/A. Is that cause for celebration, or should I retake 'A's? Quite a few of my friends have been advised (from parents, not teachers) to retake. Myself included. However the 2 Cs really have been a huge grade jump from U or S during Prelims and before, so I think I should be somewhat satisfied?

Anyhow, 06/03/2009 still marks the end of my six years of IP. I'm hoping to be able to get into Architecture or ID or ADM. According to the COP shown on NUS and NTU websites, I do have chance as the previous intake had also accepted BCC/Cs and even DDD for ADM (NTU). I'll have to work on portfolio then...

OKAY. The Ing's Cup (Singapore Lap) has finally concluded. Choi is now at an advantage with 2:1 on Lee. I'm hoping that Choi will win :D. Haha according to Mr Tan, Choi was super elated on Saturday after winning, such that even after most people left the main hall Choi still raised his arms in victory, displaying the "V" symbols happily! Haha when I relayed the news to Suat Yee today at DHS she even said he was so cute!

Sigh.. it rained today all the time when I was on my bike, and when I was near house it stopped raining. Stupid weather. Lols. Anyway when I got to DHS at 4 for weiqi lessons today I was like wet through like a chicken in the soup! (luo tang ji) Hahas. The security guard at DHS didn't really seem to believe that I was here as a coach. Haha.

Now I'm busy coming up with the template for the Ing Cup Blog which Chuanling is creating. I'll do my own template soon (maybe after Gunung Ayam trip with Tahanners this weekend?)

Lol. Blacked out twice today (3/3). Heard from Hsien Yu that Lee Chang-Ho dao-ed the first one, but stunned at the second one. Those inside mostly thought it was GG, so when the lights came back on Hsien Yu was waving "NO!!!" at Lee Chang-Ho, wanting to tell him to stop game and resume on another day or something. But Lee Chang-Ho daoed him too.

Mr Wu Qing Yuan (Go Seigen) calligraphised a few words yesterday during the Welcome Dinner. "河山一局棋" (Literally, all the rivers and mountains are but a simple game of chess). Figuratively, it simply means Life is but a game. Hahas. Nice.
And I was running all around in the rain, from SWA to Bras Basah Complex, back, and forth, and back, and to Bugis Junction Ajisen for lunch, and back and to BBC and back and forth and ... Sian.

Finally managed to get a "satisfactory" result. We FINALLY put up the photostated version of Go Seigen's words!! YAY.

Dinner at No Signboard Seafood Restaurant at Geylang. Yao ahyi (Hsien Yu's godmum, ING Foundation General Secreteriat) actually came by MRT!! Hahas.
Dinner today was much better than that yesterday at Tiong Bahru Plaza Lao Beijing (Welcome Dinner). Haiz.. lol. Its IMBA. and IMBA Expensive ($800 for 19 persons)