Dots .....

2011-08-27T19:27:00.002+08:00

Whooo almost 2months... Havent really felt like posting anything for a long long time. Probably cause of the precious book out time that i have. Sigh...going back in an hour's time, all the way to JooKoon. Almost done with foundation term yeah! Next week will be my last week there. There's still a 28km route march for me to do though. Soooo not looking forward to that.

Oh yeah...yesterday was my birthday! yay! Officially 19years old. Not that it makes any difference to my life in general...but oh well. Went to hard rock cafe for a company organised social night where they made me do dumb stuff like drink some extremely alcoholic drink. I got all dizzy after like...5mins for awhile... I was fine after like another few more mins though, didnt get drunk or anything niether.

The past few days in SCS was pretty fun. Someone uploaded dota into the shared hard drive so....its been like a lan shop for awhile. Whole bunch of people playing and stuff. Uhhuh, tis awesome.

Argh...my time booking out is too short...gotta go get ready...

im not perfect, but i keep trying
brendon...

2011-07-17T18:34:00.003+08:00

Well its sunday, guess what that means. Yes, it's book in day *sigh*. Me the army boy is done with BMT and is now in SCS (specialist command school, a.k.a learning to be a sergeant). First week was just over yeah, and i actually did have some fun, at least on friday anyway. Managed to get a full 7hrs of sleep cause there wasnt anything to do the night before, which was awesome. Oh and i can finally grow hair! :D to some extent anyway. Another 7 more weeks till this course is over and i'll get posted to a new unit (hopefully), either that or continue in infantry (of which i really dont want to be in). Meh, whatever comes will come.

Anyway, during this 48hr+ book out, decided to try my hand at arranging a song. Chose "Just a Dream" by Nelly, but i think the kurt schnieder version was nicer than the original so...yeah gonna go with that one. Got the tune and the chords figured out already, just gotta touch up on the arrangement. Sounds...weird haha, for now anyway.

Kay, gotta prepare for book in again...great. *sigh*

into forests once again...
brendon...

2011-06-19T19:05:00.002+08:00

WOW! Been a really long time *checks previous post date*, one full month to be exact. That also means im one month closer to POP! Yay!

I have 2 more weeks till BMT is done (a.k.a 2 more weeks to block leave wahahaha), and hopefully can go to SCS and a good unit (preferably at tekong). Been really busy the past few weekends, spending most of my time eating...and playing stuff. Schedule is gonna be quite downhill from this week onwards i think, booking out on friday morning next week :D which is like the most awesome thing ever. Had recruits night this wednesday. Performed with a few people from my platoon up on stage, just a short medley of songs where i used jerry cans as drums. Genius! But it wasnt me who thought of it. Heh. SIT test and field camp all done, so dont have to like...not bathe anymore.

Looking back at the past 1 and a half months in BMT, i learned a lot of things. For example, being able to sit on chairs is a privilege. Its virtually non-existent in the world of a recruit (a.k.a. me). Most of the time we'd be sitting on the floor.
I have also learnt how to slack off in a way such that people dont notice. Which i think i can apply to daily life haha.
Oh, and i really really cant wait to go back to studying. Seriously. Right now i can safely say that i love studying. I would rather retake A levels for two years than go for army for two years. Oh well, sucks to have to defend my country, but no choice so just gotta live with it.

Didnt get to watch french open finals (tennis) last week or something, so didnt get to watch nadal thrash federer hehheh. Dont think i'll be watching wimbledon this year either. Dammit.

Booking in very soon at 8.10pm. Only 50 more mins! Gotta go get ready...crap.

grrr.
brendon....

2011-05-17T12:17:00.000+08:00

Been a loooong time since i last posted omg. Finally got enlisted into BMT on may 6th...and finally booked out yesterday night at 9pm :D im happy. Yeah so now i have no hair and my muscles hurt from intense exercise...urgh. I survived the 11 day confinement period wahahaha. Feeling so deprived of stuff now, like warm water for bathing, facebook, games, music, cars, HAIR, to name a few.

For those that are curious, i'm in mohawk company. Quite welfare i think (or so says the others anyway), since we always have 7hrs of sleep and decent admin time to do our own stuff. The commanders dont actually fault us for too many things either. But since the schedule for my batch is apparently quite packed, and that the sun at this time of the year is so damn hot, its still pretty tough.

The food is honestly better than i expected. Abit too much msg yeah, but other than that quite balanced i would say. Balanced as in it helps to regain lost energy. Totally generous on the carbohydrates. One thing that i find odd about army is that we have to either march or run everywhere, walking is like... totally not an option. Even when going for meals we have to march. Im actually finding it quite irritating.

Anyway, im going back in again today at 9pm, about 5 more hours left T.T feels like im going back to a jail or something. Gonna cherish wat little time i have left and start playing my piano and comp and stuff.

purple light, in the valley...
brendon...

2011-04-06T00:54:00.003+08:00

I...AM...BORED!
(Well considering that i'm not working, it isnt much of a surprise, but still...)
I have gotten tired of most of the games that i've been playing the past few months, surprisingly, and since lotsa guys are in NS right now, there isnt anyone to be random to. Which is quite sad.

So to ease my boredom, i've been reading econs (gotta remember that i dont take econs at all so its something new), and financial reports, for fun. Yes...for fun. That is how bored i am now. And after all that reading, i've realised that lotsa american firms have pretty much sucky management, and singapore companies are much better. But thats my opinion...which has absolutely no real value whatsoever, oh well. Not that anyone cares anyway.

Ok so, sides filling my head with price elasticity and other microecons stuff, still playing the piano every once in awhile. Kinda happy with my arrangement of Taeyang's Wedding Dress, sorta. Always room for improvement...its quite a simple song to arrange, which surprised me. Thought it was gonna be like...some imba difficult piece.
Oh yeah, been reading a new jap book to improve my vocab. Maybe i'll be able to speak in somewhat fluent japanese after im done with it (if im ever done with it that is =.=). As of now, after 3 days of reading, i have fully understood 6 pages of the book. Yay me...urgh...

Anyway, submitted my university applications a couple of weeks ago i think. Took me awhile to figure out what courses to place priority on a.k.a first choice. Went for the open house too, which was awesome. NTU had free tau huey :) of which i didnt get to eat...cause it ran out. Curses. Well i would prefer to get into NUS rather than NTU, since my focus is more of R&D rather than business and stuff like that so...yeah. Its all science subjects that i applied for. Bioengineering as first choice for NUS and biological sciences for NTU if anyone was wondering. Hopefully its the right choice, put a lot of thought into it.

Recently it seems as though quite a few people have received some letter or something that shows that they were accepted into NUS/NTU/SMU. I havent got any D: which is quite worrying. Hmm...well not so much actually. As a guy, i have the privilege of having 2 more chances to apply for a course in uni, which is less worrying *wipes sweat off forehead*.

As a side note, my hair is really long. Like...really, really long. Like rapunzel long...orrr maybe not. Its still quite long though. I can tie the back with a rubber band, which is awesome (i am easily amused). Too bad it'll be gone soon, in like a month or so. Actually, in exactly a month's time. Crap...wanted to find out how it would be like to have waist-long hair, then i would know how the shampoo commercial people swish their hair. *Swish* o.o

swish?
brendon...

2011-03-04T17:33:00.002+08:00

Results day! Totally nervous, cant stop thinking about it either. Well it came out at like 2.30pm today so technically i do have my results with me now. It's...not good. Which really sucks. Contrary to what most people might think, i actually studied quite hard the last 4 months or so...that was after i got back my prelim results i think. Theres always the "if i did something extra, then maybe i would get better results" thing, but i think i just messed up the exam itself...crap. Sigh...so disappointed, mostly cause lotsa people did sooo much better...like 3As, 4As, 5As and stuff. Oh well...try again next time then.

Back to emoing...

crap...
brendon...

2011-02-13T20:30:00.003+08:00

Festive filled week hahaha. Its still technically part of the 15 days of chinese new year, and so im eating yu sheng, of which i'm apparently highly deprived of this new year. My aunt made it...it is awesome :D sauce and all. Brought back one huge box it. Dont know if can finish by tomorrow though...

Anyway, chinese new year was the same as usual. Went around visiting cousins who i only see every once a year. Went to malaysia to visit relatives from my mother's side, and stayed there for awhile. Doesnt seem all that interesting once you think about it. The angpaos dont matter much, since i dont get as much as anyone else does anyway, but who cares.

Went to milly's house for more chinese new year fun last sunday at the longkang *cough* i mean at serangoon. Played mahjong the whole time hahaha, while others were playing sabotuer. Dinner was nice, kinda liked the spicy curry. And to go with the gambling, there were even mahjong cupcakes. Note that i still think gambling is bad, just that its a fun game to play (and the grandaunts in my family that play arent very good at it). Oh well...so anyway yeah it was fun.

Well zan and asraf went to join the police force on tuesday. Good luck! See you guys 2 weeks later :D maybe over a game of tennis hahaha. A few other people went in this week too, though seems abit scattered based on what they're going in for. Still a loooong way for me...should start on training...

Yeah...so thats about it for now. Maybe i'll go get somemore yu sheng...

CNYCNYCNY
brendon...

2011-01-29T20:56:00.001+08:00

Havent been in the blogging mood recently. Playing too many computer games maybe...*yawn*.
Chinese New Year coming around, lotsa stuff to do (mostly to clean up my messy room before anyone gets here). Who knows what i'll find in this pile of junk thats on my table *gasp* maybe...a new game! Wishful thinking...highly doubt that'll ever happen.

Yeah so, went to genting quite some time ago...I actually was typing halfway before i so unconsciously fell asleep. That was like...about 2weeks ago? I'll just copy and paste whatever i typed before...cause i'll have a memory lapse for some time.
Starting from here..

Back from genting! Was really fun haha, but really tiring. Been having a lack of sleep for the whole 3 days that i was there. Met sam, zan and asraf on monday at lavender to take the coach up the mountain at 6+. Coach ride was like soooo long...6hrs or something...had some movies showing though. Mostly slept or read my book. Reached at...about 1? But only could check in at 2, so walked around and stuff. First day was kinda a look around day haha. Went around buying souvenirs and stuff, looking at the entry fare for the rides and what we could do around the place. Sorta played cards before we slept...of which i keep losing at bridge so...yeah. AKA my cards are always crap. *sigh* my poor partner.

Went on the rides the next day. Some werent too bad, some *cough* space shoot *cough* we're awful. I would never wanna take that again...well considering that i hardly ever take rides on theme parks and such. Not much of an adrenaline junkie. Still cant believe zan persuaded me to go on that thing. Yes...THAT thing. Well it was fun in a way i guess. Managed to try all the rides that were open that day, some even a few times.

Last day, bus leaves at 12noon. Went for the buffet breakfast :D twas awesome. Was really tired by then though...totally sleepy. Ate quite alot till about 10? I think. Then packed our bags to check out of our room (of which some people still went to sleep first). Looooong coach ride back home, then went to eat lunch. And...yep thats about it.

End.

Now for 0924 (sorta) chalet. Chris booked a chalet at pasir ris for us for 3days. Some only came for 2 though. Meh...oh well. As usual didnt sleep very much, not the 2nd night anyway. Actually didnt even sleep at all during the 2nd night. Paid the price the following morning. Slept the whole journey back home. BBQ on the 2nd day haha, while some of us were starting the all important flames of cooking proness, others were happily playing saboteur (some card game thing that milly brought). Managed to get it done in about...15mins? Ate all the way till 10+ i think. I forget. Played cards, watched movies on tele, stared at barry's laptop blahblah...

So thats everything summarised i think...might have missed out a huge chunk of important details but...oh well. Oh i still havent uploaded my london photos to facebook. Tsk...oh no.

Well its raining now, as it has been for the past few days of the week. Rather gloomy weather i must say. Gloomy but cooling, of which i have no qualms about. Probably a necessary evil...
Back to gaming or something.

notd?
brendon...

2011-01-08T12:45:00.002+08:00

First week through 2011. Been feeling rather musical recently...playing guitar and piano, abit lacking on the drums bit thats fine. Wouldnt want the neighbours to complain about anything. For some reason i cant seem to wake up before 11am everyday. Which means that i have been sleeping for...9 to 10 hours? Thats awesome...or maybe not. Oh well..

Ok so, holidays are getting boring. The "go work" option is sorta unavailable since i have to help my father with stuff on a random basis, though helping out may be considered as work already. Anyway, what better way to spend the holidays than to go out with friends :D
Going genting with sam, asraf and zan on the 10th to 12th, which is...next monday. How am i gonna bring all my clothes without looking like i'm santa claus with his red bag of presents (although i'll be a very skinny santa claus)...ack, really gotta think of something.

Went bowling yesterday. Ahhh been so long since i last bowled, so expensive in places like marina. Didnt start out very well, got better after awhile though. But there were these singapore team people? Striked for almost every frame. Omg...like so pro. Well technically they are pros but...yeah whatever.

Went to SAFRA to eat dinner, food got mixed up with sam's. Sigh...no wonder my fries disappeared. The cheese on my baked fish was so awesome that...ok wait i didnt eat it all cause there was too much cheese. But it was still nice. Off to popular, where someone wanted to get something for a certain someone :D but in the end didnt get that something for that someone, awww. Tsktsk...

Yup so thats about it...back to playing california gurls on my (sis's) guitar.

green tea...
brendon...

2011-01-01T20:45:00.002+08:00

Its the new year! New goals, new stuff to do, new beginnings and what not. Anyone made some new year resolutions yet?

First day of 2011, I didnt sleep till 4am in the morning wahahahaha. Totally went out to a friend's house for the new year from 7pm yesterday till about 3.30am today. Hardly a surprise that i only woke up at 3pm. Half the new year day gone...sigh. Had fun playing rock band though. Played about 2hrs of basketball too. Yup...

Ok so...right now im hoping that this year would be a great year for me (especially since i have army to go for, so have to start training now). Looking forward to the trip to genting :D will be my first time in KL. I doubt it'll be as cold as london though haha. My trusty black striped sweater will get me through anything above -5 degrees. Hehheh...

Oh which reminds me...i havent uploaded my london pictures yet. Should i do it now...*thinks* nah, maybe some other time.

Yup so, have a great year ahead everyone. All the best to your future endeavors

its one more year...
brendon...

2010-12-25T08:32:00.002+08:00

Merry Christmas everyone!!! Its the time of year when people get presents and stuff (though should be celebrating the birth of christ but not everyone out there are christians), eat turkey (mmm...turkey), and sing merry songs that havent changed for the past...i dunno...100 years? A time when snow is supposed to fall and REAL christmas trees are put up in the house. Hmm...christmas sure has changed over the years, but a wonderful holiday nonetheless.

Oh yeah, i'm back from london (actually been back for 4 days, just lazy to post anything). Didnt get stuck in heathrow airport for too long a time so thats fine. I should recount the 10 days i spent there before i forget.

Day 1: Reached london in the morning (london is 8hrs behind), checked into the hotel somewhere along kensington, near the imperial college. Went to walk around, to hyde park, big ben, buckingham palace. Saw the change of guard, with the royal music and everything. Sis took alot of pictures of squirrels and birds...she thinks theyre cute. Saw stuff like the london telephone booth, mailbox and buses, which was like...quite interesting cause usually you would see all of that in cartoons or movies. Well its as iconic thing... Got to see horses, lots of horses, cause theres this royal calvary thing somewhere and everytime they have the change of guard (which is like every other day) they would display the horses. It was really cool.

Day 2: Met my cousin who was studying in imperial college to give him some stuff (LED monitor for his laptop), and he gave us a tour of the campus and the surrounding area. Can totally see the difference between the engineering faculty and the arts faculty...oh and apparently people party alot in uni. Campus was pretty scattered and seemingly quite big so took quite some time to walk the whole length. Which reminds me...i still have no idea where i'm gonna go after army. Went to the natural history museum too. They have this huuuuge rock collection which was totally awesome (sigh...i'm a geography student after all), and also a skeleton of the dodo bird among other extinct species.

Day 3: Left for kent which is a totally different city haha. Was an hour plus drive south east of london (parents rented a car). Had to get a gps to get there...roads in the UK are really really confusing. Alot of roundabouts too...totally reminded me of mr bean. After much awkward turns and going the wrong way, finally managed to reach the place we were supposed to stay. Not really a hotel, more like an inn, or a tavern like thing. I love british architecture haha, look like those medieval kind of thing. There was free internet too. Oh on this day, temperatures went to about 1 degree so it was pretty cold. Was still only wearing my jacket though...my windbreaker was of no use in this trip.

Day 4: Went to WIMBLEDON!!! Yayyy. Only tennis fans would actually be so excited actually...the only Grand Slam on grass courts, where thousands have participated but only a few have won. Hahahaha i was seriously very ecstatic when i went there. Toured the whole compound, even areas not usually open to the public (cause the tour guide was nice). Centre court seemed smaller than on tele though. I was expecting it to be bigger than the one in school, but its actually the same size, or about there anyway. Tickets also much cheaper than expected...only 20 pounds for everything besides centre court and court 1. Man...i really wanna watch a match there someday. Bought a few souvenirs (sam zan and asraf, you'll get yours soon), took a look around the museum there. Got to see the actual trophy :D

Day 5: Drove to Cambridge to get back my exam papers...or not. Did go to cambridge though, even went to the cambridge university foreign exams campus. Maybe i shouldve jumped in to take a look lol. Ironically its opposite a cathedral...for people who regretted taking the exams in the first place and want to repent i guess. Mrs Tan was right...its super dark in winter. Shouldve written more legibly...oh well. As a side note, KFC in the UK doesnt taste as good as the ones back home. Fries are huge though...

Day 6: Parents found a castle to go to. Think it was called Leeds castle...apparently its quite well known and its used quite alot for meetings of presidents or stuff like that. Was kinda spooky in a way i guess, but they decorated the place with disney characters dressed in christmas clothing, so it was more on the weird side. I love the library there though...its gigantic...took up a whole room. The books were really old too, seemed like centuries old. Hundred plus rooms in total but only about 50 opened to the public. People still live there apparently.

Day 7: IT STARTED SNOWING! OMG first time seeing falling snow in my life. First thing i did was to make a snowball to throw at my sis hehheh, first blood. Wasnt too much though, so couldnt do much else. Didnt want to go out cause was afraid the car might skid and crash into something. Parents said i was too paranoid...so they went out themselves. Guess what, car skidded and almost hit a bench. Tsktsk...

Day 8: There was a blizzard halfway through the morning so there was snow till about ankle height. Pretty high...or thats what i thought at least. Played the whole day in the snow. Made a snowman, threw and got thrown snowballs with my sis and dad, lifted large blocks of compacted snow. To my surprise, snow is actually pretty heavy. The bottom ball of my snowman was like...10kg or something. Wasnt actually very cold when it snowed...felt colder before it did actually.

Day 9: Had to get ready to leave for london again. Was quite worried that i couldnt get home cause heathrow airport was closed cause british airways were ill prepared for the frost. Packed stuff and headed back to stay along trafalgar square. Was basically walking the whole monopoly board. Saw regent street, whitehall and all that. No free parking though...damn. Wish i could find GO so that i can collect 200 pounds from some random place.

Day 10: Flight was at night (at least i hoped it was at night, since the whole thing about flights being delayed or cancelled was getting on my nerves) so went to walk around first. Went to the national art museum. The paintings were really cool, the brush strokes and blending and everything. Some were life-like...especially the venetian section. The ideas of the artists who drew the pictures were really deep, like the way they express the subject is so difficult to be interpreted well. Im glad i went for art lessons in NAFA during primary school...

Yup so the flight was 13hrs. Managed to watch quite a few movies and not sleep so much, though its not really a good thing. Jet lagged for the next 2 days... Oh and SIA is awesome. They were the few flights who actually left the airport. Lucky me. Got delayed an hour though, and delayed once again cause the flight crew was stuck in a traffic jam...found that funny. Yeah...all in all, got to see lots of stuff haha. First time in europe, wheeee.

Ye Olde Great Britain
brendon...

2010-12-11T14:11:00.003+08:00

And I'm off to the UK for 10 days :D will be back on the 21st! See ya then everyone! Oh and happy birthday to kel and barry (abit early since i wont be here hahaha).

london bridge, big ben and wimbledon here i come~
brendon....

2010-12-09T20:06:00.003+08:00

Yay Prom!! Yesterday night at Raffles Town Club, lotsa people, well dressed people, turned up. Blazers, ties, dresses, all for that one night. So cooooool! hahaha
The theme was dinner and dance but cant say there was much dancing though. Probably cause the only people who dance were those who were going to dance at post prom already. Dinner was some Thai style buffet, didnt suit the tastes of some people though, since there were some super spicy food (I didnt mind it at all haha).

Went to sam's house before prom to get stuff ready. I went really early, cause i knew that i would screw up someway. His grandma cooks some awesome food by the way. Kel, chris, shixun and barry came later to fix themselves up too. I cant believe chris's hair was $40. Yeah so, i brought along the wrong pair of pants. Didnt really fit quite right, so had to get the cab to take a detour back to my house to get the other pair before heading to RTC. Was soooo far...the taxi driver must be thanking me...i gave him like some dinner income. Eventually met the rest outside the ballroom. Well, yeah, lots of people looked damn fancy. Oh side note, yesterday was the 2nd time in my life that i styled my own hair. Glad it turned out awesome. I have talent in styling :O

Opening entertainment was a J1 group performing some mix of songs (some is an understatement...ALOT of songs). Well i thought it was a bit messy cause of all the transitions, so did zan, but overall was nice (not that i know anything much about dancing). Then was the early bird draw, of which no one in my class won anything *sigh*. Then was food for 40mins :D theres always time for food. Went around taking pics with people wahahaha, *grins*, ate some food *grins*, then the first half of the prom king/queen pageant began. Well they all sang stuff, so...easy to compare haha. Cant dance easily in high heels i suppose.

Hmm...what comes after that...oh some games. Prizes were some SUPER ULTRA WONDERFUL SPECTACULAR BORDERS VOUCHERS!! *tsktsk* alot of people were not amused. I guess only people like me who go to borders very often to buy books would want it though. Im sure weijie was dying to get his hands on one of those, which is why he went up on stage. Dammit weijie i cant believe you're a geography student...africa is a bloody continent, not a country.

Then was the second half of the pageant. More singing, some not very good...but oh well, good try anyway. Then more stuff of which i dont remember...voting i think. Finally the winners were announced. Grats to grace (oh and farid) :D i got to wear the tiara.
Went home after that. Really tired. Stayed online till about 3.30 though. Was playing a few games of dota, of which i really dont do very well at, but heck...its fun. Gotta go start packing for my trip to london like now or something...will be off very soon, till the 21st. So long...so cold, but i dont really mind...think im used to it already especially after the trip to canberra. Cant hurt to bring an extra layer though. Gonna be there for about...10 or 11 days? Depending on the time i leave singapore. Havent really asked about it yet.

Oh well...packing packing...

gonna speak me some Bri'ish
brendon...

2010-12-02T09:36:00.002+08:00

Omigad! A's are finally OVER! Woohooo. Can start playing all the games that have been saved up over the past year hehheh. Been a really tiring year...study study study... Not very sure if i'll do as well as i want but, i'll worry about that next year when i collect my results.

Been going out everyday since As ended. Everyday reach home at 10+ or 11+. Buying prom clothes seems to be a staple for this week. Walking around orchard everyday for hours...dont know how people can do it.

Went to vivo to celebrate liyan's birthday yesterday afternoon. Didnt have much time to buy ingredients for anything...so had a last minute decision to just cook a batch of fried rice. My most accomplished dish haha, since i cook it whenever i feel hungry, so have lots of practice. Milly made chicken wings, barry brought apple strudel :D which is awesome cause i love apple strudel, shixun brought cookies (oreo and famous amos), sam had the utensils and other picnicing stuff, fel made jelly, joanna bought noodles, elton brought CHAMPAGNE whoa...(non-alcoholic of course, some people havent reach that age yet), liyan made shepherd's pie and pop cornflakes haha and kelmond bought the cake. Didnt finish everything though..the cake was really filling for some reason (must be the peanut butter..). Well...it was fun.

Went to kbox with sec3 classmates after that. Clar, aaron, weile, oscar, shiwee, camy, then jessica, zifeng and pearline came in later. Sang a few songs (which of course i totally ruined cause i suck like that) for 3hrs, most of them were chinese and i never actually heard before, then went to have dinner around orchard. Zifeng had tuition...so we waited for him to finish. Took hell lotta long time though. Couldnt decide what to eat after either...walked a really long time before finally deciding to go to taka basement to eat. Walked around abit, but seemed like was gonna close, so left for home.

Today going out to buy more stuff for prom...not that i bought anything the first time i walked around anyway. Hope i dont reach home too late today.

gaming time...
brendon...

2010-11-06T12:49:00.003+08:00

A's are just round the corner...like seriously. Starts next monday for me (tuesday for most other people...) and ends on the 30th, once again for me (yes yes all you people who end on the 29th/22nd...I GET IT). Been a tiring month really, chionging papers and all.

Yup so, been studying geography the past few days. Head's cramped with info on atmosphere and hydrology. Havent finished yet...too many damn examples. Well theres probably 1/3 left, cause theres only lithosphere, which is good...cause its like my best topic, so probably dont gotta study too much...hopefully. Decided to take a break yesterday to do maths (since mine really sucks). Challenged myself (huuuuuge challenge), so did HCI prelims. ARGHH...cause of that i feel sooooo stressed out right now. Well i passed...got a D (i see improvement), but its sooo difficult.

Ok so here i am, not studying, even though i should be. Gotta take breaks occasionally ya know. Dont want my brain to explode...ewww...

Exams for next week are geog paper 1 (physical), chem paper 3, GP (both papers), maths paper 1, maths paper 2. All of them are in the morning cept for chem i think. Note that i'll be done with maths by the first week! Awesome! Thats like my most intense week in any case. The other weeks are rather...spaced out. Enough time to study each subject. Yay!

Anyway, good luck to everyone taking A's this year! Looking forward to meeting up/playing after the torment is over. Oh...nows a good time to pray too (if you wanna).

*prays for As*
brendon...

2010-10-17T23:40:00.002+08:00

This is probably one of the few days you'll actually see me online so late at night when theres school tomorrow...for some reason i just dont wanna sleep. Hmm...

Ok so friday was graduation day. Havent actually graduated (i.e. havent finished A's yet). I'm supposing the school is telling us something like "you better graduate next month" or something. In any case, graduation was awesome. Talk by an alumni who was kinda funny, a short speech from a lawyer. They had videos of teachers made by the different subject departments (chem, maths, physics etc), lots of funny in all (or most) of them. Chem was (as usual) the most lame...apparently the chem teachers want us to keep our grades dry. Dry meaning above "C" level...yes...feel the lameness. Ahlim was really funny in the video too, together with the other chem teachers (well they did stuff i never wouldve expected them to do, so im amused). Lots of totally random funny stuff for gp and physics too. Maths department did a lyrics change for sorry sorry by super junior o.o

Took lots of pictures with classmates (including ex-classmates) and updog (the band). Didnt even cross my mind to bring a camera though...oh well they're uploaded on facebook now anyway. Picture with mr heng was nice. iphone/itouch spammage. Multiplying iphones...even mr heng has one now...gen 4 somemore sia.

Now that i think about it, the two years have really gone by really fast. Really wouldnt mind if i had more time left in JC (more multiple reasons...one of which is cause i dont have much time till A's). Will really miss the times once this is all over...well, all things end sometime or another.

Changing topic...been playing neopets for the past few days...totally didnt study during the weekends. Thats really baaad. My computer addiction is grabbing hold of me again. I should really lock it up somewhere and throw the key into a safe that will automatically open after A's. I wish i had something like that...timer safe...sadly it hasnt been invented yet. Got a cover for my itouch today. Was the only one i could find...the rest were for iphones. Dammit.

Wow after re-reading the past few paragraphs, i sorta find that my thought process is extremely jumpy. Its like theres no actual flow of thought...explains the comments i get when i write my essay. Oh yeah, right now im like...reading chuck norris jokes. Kinda funny, if you get it. Apparently im getting almost every one of it, and im only down to about 15. Omg...have a long way to go.

Back to reading...feeling tired, gonna sleep soon too.

Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door
brendon...

2010-10-08T06:13:00.002+08:00

Been so long since i last came to this page filled with the tabs and stuff. So busy lately...only 30 days left till A's...die die die. Actually i shouldnt even have the time to be doing this since i woke up late and i gotta leave in like 15mins or so (since i live ever so far away from the school, right?). Not getting enough sleep recently, sigh.

Ok so prelims sorta just ended. Wouldnt say i improved in any way...since the overall grades seem to remain the same. Finally passed maths though (finally after 1.5years) so thats a good thing. Grades dropped since midyear for chem and geog...argh...thats what you get if you screw up one paper i guess. Oh well...looks like i have more to study. Great, just wonderful.

Yesterday was zan's birthday! =D Bought a cake, signed a card, gave a present (that sam ran the amazing race orchard for). Well he didnt seem all that happy at the beginning cause of some unforseen circumstance, but it turned out all right in the end i guess. Somehow being 18 doesnt seem like it makes a difference, wait...or is it just me. Well...

Hmm...cant really think very much right now...lack of sleep caused me to sleep during gp lecture. Well i wasnt really paying attention anyway, since they were going through questions that i would probably almost never do. Sooo lonely during H1 lecture period yesterday. So guess what, decided to go for H1 econs lecture, and do physics (well obviously i wont listen...they were going through essays). The lecturer was damn funny... Oh and she asked everyone to do essay outlines so that she could pick 2 people to go present. Obviously that was a bad thing for me...i havent a grain of econs in me besides comparative advantage and demand-supply. I was frantically trying to think of some econs to write down so that if *ahem* they would so incidentally pick me, at least i could show something and then stare at the teacher with some blank look on my face. Yup...that was the plan. Didnt have to though. Phew

Ok...im gonna be late. This is bad

oh no...
brendon...

2010-09-12T12:49:00.002+08:00

Holidays are almost over!! Thats never a good thing...always means exams. Well its prelims this time so, gotta study real hard...hopefully will do well enough. Taking a break, away from all the geography notes that i've been trying to squeeze into the folders in my head. I think they reached bankfull discharge a long time ago. Oh...i have recently realised that i'm allergic to mussels...those green-black shelled and orange coloured shellfish for some reason brings out a rejection reaction from my stomach. Ewww...

Anyway, i just got that retarded vocational assessment test letter yesterday or something. Thats baaaaad....reaaaal baaaaaad. In any case, its gonna clash with the math paper on wednesday so i cant go. Yay. Hopefully they cant reschedule..hehheh (*prays*). Well if they actually expect me to skip a prelim paper to go running around, its kinda irresponsible in any case.

Ok so i played tennis with my dad, as usual. Played a match with him this round. Best out of 3 sets. Well....didnt turn out very well. Got thrashed 6-2 6-0 (dammit...). At least theres the 2 though...
In a better light, Federer was ousted by Djokovich in the semi's hehhehheh...too bad all you Federer fans. So its Nadal and Djoko in the finals...man...tough competition.

Yup...gonna get back to studying (stuffing info).

cram cram cram...
brendon...

2010-08-26T21:53:00.007+08:00

OMG today was like soooo awesome! First, Happy Birthday to my triplets (milly and of course zhengxuan), my senior simon and shuyi, born on this ever wonderful day of the year.
A big THANK YOU to everyone who happy birthday-ed me and celebrated my birthday with me! All of you who contributed to the 63 facebook notifications and 12 smses that were sent to me (and i dont think it ends there cause im still getting some). Thank you to weijie, samuel, kelmond, liyan, barry, joanna, felicia, chaochao, yuxi, weikee and xueyuan. I was, in all honesty (you can get me a lie-detector test if you want), touched with everything that went on. The poets that ever walked the earth probably couldnt express how happy i am right now. Theres even fireworks in the background for me (the extras went to the closure for YOG). Im loving the presents people!!

Ok so yesterday, i was like so tired by the time i reached home that i totally forgot about my own birthday. Im serious...i wasnt even thinking about what would happen the next day. When i woke up, i was like...whoa...so many smses (more than i've ever seen in one go anyway, which really isnt much) then was like thinking what could be the occasion. Then it suddenly dawned on me, as if an elephant suddenly dropped from the sky and crashed onto my head.

So i went to school, in a slightly joyous mood...duh, wondering what the first lesson was. Sent back thankyou's along the way to school. Was finding it amusing that other people slept at 12am to send me an sms yet i slept at 11pm the night before. Shows how much you people care right? :D
Yup so normal lessons till 12.30, thankyou to simon for the cheesecake that filled me till then, then went to the container class for the usual night study preps. Of course i was like the only one there all the way till 2pm. Then milly came in. "Something is very wrong" she said. Yup...i totally agree. Usually the classroom would be relatively filled with econs people after their lecture, but both of us were the only two people there. Decided to sleep first and figure out something later. Was like dreaming of something weird...then suddenly someone like bang open the door. Was seriously shocked =.= give me a heart attack on my birthday haha. Turned around to see a whole group of people walking in with a cake. Sooo cool!

Then was photo taking session. We (milly and i), had to smile for like...soo many photos. Jaw abit sore. Listened to the confession of LIES that people created on monday to organise the whole celebration. Some were convincing...as in like totally believable, but some were...just funny. Sadly had to go for geog supplementary for a test, but came back straight after. Studied, well sorta...talked alot more haha.
Was seriously going crazy after awhile. 18 years old going crazy. Woohooo...

Once again, thank you everyone!! Those who celebrated, those who remembered, those who forgot, those who remembered cause they saw the facebook notifications, I thank you all! (Gosh i feel like i just won some award)

Like leaves in the wind,
like ephemeral streams,
though years may pass and days may fly.
I will always remember the times
of joy and laugher,
no matter when, no matter the disaster.
I thank you all, friends or not,
for being here so high and free,
life is always beautiful, when you are all with me.

<:D
brendon...

2010-08-21T22:00:00.003+08:00

Phew..finally saturday, which means...rest. Been a tiring week with all the studying and tests. Speaking of which i still cant pass maths for one reason or another, so definitely...no mathematician. I am severely mathophobic. Oh, just went to hougang to cut my hair today. The difference in the bulk of it is obvious...unlike some people...i think. Met clarissa and adrian at hougang mrt to do our bi/tri-monthly trip to the barber. So heres the jist of it. Took mrt to hougang, met them at hougang, took bus from hougang, cut hair at hougang, ate lunch at hougang, went back home from hougang. So technically i didnt go anywhere today except hougang (duh...), well and sentosa for tennis at 5pm.

Ok so i've been staying back in school every (school) day for night study aaaaaall the way till 9pm. I think its taking a toll on the amount of sleep (and thus my sanity) that im getting during regular school hours. I can literally feel the energy being sapped from me everytime i have to wake up for 7.30 lessons, which may i add are at least 3 times a week. Well for people who live nearby, its not such a big deal but...i gotta wake at 5am for it so...im complaining, and you shouldnt :D

Yup so the few people who night study with me usually book one of them container classrooms somewhere in the nether regions *ahem* i mean near the back of the school, for our daily studying needs. Usually have to dump bags there really early cause by around 3 all the classrooms would be booked (notice kiasuism...it works). So milly and liyan says that container classroom 1 is like our second home right now...sounds kinda true. I probably spend more time in there than i spend time at home (excluding saturdays, sundays and public holidays, and also the time i spend sleeping). Lotsa stuff go on in there when people go crazy studying...and barry's usually the cause. Well...now you know where to find me if you need me. If you hear people screaming or shouting, its not me...its the people behind.

Rested for a day, should get ready for some physics spam tomorrow. Oscillations revision notes...i will scratch graphite on you.

mugging...has recently appeared in my dictionary
brendon...

2010-08-14T22:25:00.002+08:00

Hehheh...the weeks been awesome. National Day, then prepping for sam's birthday on wednesday, then sam's actually birthday on thursday, now YOG! Woohooo singapore!

Ok so i'll start with wednesday. Common lunch break before gp remedial, went to serangoon central with liyan and milly to prepare sam's birthday "cake". Haha inverted commas. Wasnt really a cake...more like peanut butter sandwiches carved to sam's name with candles and mini umbrellas sticking out of it. Anyway, we went to buy the peanut butter and bread for it, but then it started raining. Got him this super weird birthday glasses too. Then walked to the soya bean drink shop (a.k.a. F&B) for some peanut butter jelly time (without the jelly). Then some bread carving =D Since it was raining, got a slight bit wet. Ran a mere 10m in the rain or something...at least we protected the breadcake. Managed to sneak into LT1 even though we were late, so thats fine.
Went to get sam's present after gp, at j8. Looked around, and around, saw a really nice jacket (which he definitely needs), then had to model the jacket for him, hahahaha...though the width abit different ah. My size divide by 2.

Thursday, celebrated in the container classroom. Happy birthday samuel! Kudos to azizan who, under all odds, distracted sam away from the container classroom hahahaha. Barry was essentially the alarm to alert us...screaming and shouting da da da da (as in shooting a gun) =.=
Well, it was fun.

YOG performance was, debatably awesome. Rough start but...the idea was there. I suppose a small country having only 2 years to prepare did really well. The flaming vortex of doom at the end of the whole thing was spectacularly awesome! Its like...charizard's fire spin hahahahaha. Not planning to watch any of the games. Wanted to get tickets for tennis but...weekends are all fully booked. The others are on weekdays...cant really watch if the timing clashes with school now can i. Oh well...though this is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity...sadly i have As to prepare for.

Time to go back to what i was doing before i guess, resting my head from the many days if night studying in school till 8pm. I want my straight As!!

motivation...
brendon...

2010-08-09T20:29:00.002+08:00

National Day!!! Happy 45th Birthday Singapore! Was watching NDP parade since 5.30. Well, it was kinda great to me, definitely better than last year's at least. Though the fighting lobsters we're kinda dumb (the SAF people in their ultraman looking suits...spandex...), other performances werent bad. Singing was good, didnt pay attention to the rapping part though... This year's NDP song was ok i guess, though i cant say i like the lyrics very much...but well its supposed to be patriotic so...meh. Home is definitely one of the best so far (hail dick lee and his songwriting). Lots of fireworks this year too (unlike last year...like boom boom boom for a minute then no more). Still hearing some fireworks go off as im typing this, the parade ended 5mins ago too (its 8.35 now fyi).
Feeling rather patriotic at the moment...even sang the national anthem and said the pledge. Cool. Too bad once I start studying again it'll disappear like food on shixun's plate (i.e. very fast).

Played tennis in the morning at like..10am. Kinda hot out...not as bad as 2 months ago though. The sun was seriously burning during that period of time. The new tennis balls made my timing slightly off...hit some very odd shots. Oh well. This is the second time this long weekend that i've played tennis...once on saturday, once today. Arm getting kinda sore, considering that i played handball on friday during the sports carnival.

Ah in any case...better get back to doing physics...probably gonna get stuck again. Gotta find someone on wednesday to help me hahahaha.

fireworks o.o
brendon...

2010-08-06T15:18:00.002+08:00

It's gonna be national day soon! Long break ahead of me. 4 and a half days of no school...i bet its gonna be really unproductive.

Ok went to school today for national day celebration. House exco j1s organised a sports carnival thing again and we had no choice but to participate. My class played handball and...unlike all the other times that we participated in sports, we got passed the first round. What an accomplishment =p i mean its like...seriously everytime theres some interclass sports competition, we step on the court once then we're out right then. Well we got second this time, so thats totally awesome. Good job people! Econs people had lecture test right after, so the others either went to the library, or go home (like me).

Been kinda tired the past few days...this whole weeks been 7.30 lessons all the way. Its gonna get worse next week...maths tutorial on thursday just got moved to 7.30...dont get to go home earlier either cause theres geography supplementary after that. Argh...there goes the one day that i get to wake up at 6.30 and still reach school on time. Stayed in school till 9.30pm the past 2 days too, to study. I suddenly feel so much more hardworking now...haha. Its like so much more productive to sit in the container classrooms with the aircon and (almost) no distractions. At home its like...computer, piano, tv, drums, err...computer...totally cant bring myself to study. Not to mention the intense incoming solar insolation with its longwave radiation penetrating into my room. So hot...not as hot as last month though, which is great. See? August is a good month.

So, i think i may study in school at night almost every day from now on. Not alone of course; theres always kel, sam, barry, zan, asraf, milly, liyan (like not much difference between school and home), joanna, possibly chris (possibly...), who are as hardworking as me haha, or more.

Oh AhLim apparently smsed my parents yesterday morning at around 10+ am cause he didnt have time to call them and talk to them. My mom was in a meeting when she received it... o.o
Apparently i have to work on my physics, but surprisingly he didnt mention anything about my maths...wow. Oh had integration test yesterday during maths lecture. I seem to be getting better, but maybe some odd mistakes here and there. I can do it! =D

Yup, maybe i'll go force myself to study right now, even though the environment (natural and physical) is totally trying to get me to not do so...

stars on my table...
brendon...

2010-08-01T22:27:00.002+08:00

Ahh...feeling really ill right now (not that im actually really ill, i hope...). My nose is running (dont mention anything about catching it, i know someone will), and its irritating my throat making me cough and sneeze. Its also putting some pressure on my brain...i can seriously feel it right now. Practically used a whole box of tissues today. Cant forget yesterday either. During maths test, i was ermmm making lots of noise at the last row of LT4. Used 2 packets of tissues in the hour...nice.

Ok...other than my nose trying to leak me to death, something interesting happened to me on friday. On my way home from school, i fell down at the bus stop near paya lebar mrt. It was damn funny, to me at least. Well the floor was slippery cause of the rain, and i was chasing after bus 13. So i ran, carefully, and ran, and slipped. Imagine the typical cartoonish banana peel slip with the person flying in the air for a second; it was something like that. Didnt sustain any serious injuries. It was rather ironic that i fell while trying not to fall...wasnt it. Best of all, i caught my bus! You see, this was all part of this secret plot of mine. I knew that i couldnt reach the bus on time, so i feigned the accident. This will grab the drivers attention who, because of the nature of the situation, would be shocked and thus leave the door open and forget to drive off from the bus stop. Amongst the confusion, i would swiftly pick myself up and rush towards the bus before the door closes, before the driver realises that im perfectly fine. Elaborate plan isnt it.

Played tennis with samuel, azizan and asraf yesterday after the maths test. School tennis courts were being used by the tennis team (evil J1 tennis people keep using the courts so much that it seems like they dont need to study at all), so we went to play at liyans house. Glad its only a 5min walk from school. *sigh* 5mins... Couldnt play till 11am though, so we had and hour to do random stuff. Played cards for awhile then went to change into our tennis gear (aka not school clothes). The girls (note: barry is a girl. He admitted it himself), went out to a-place-that-is-not-known-to-me-at-this-point and left us guys to do out guyish stuff. Didnt play very well for some reason...got better at the end though. Ran around for 2 whole hours and more....soooo tiring. Sam had tuition so we left the courts (if not we probably wouldve played for another 2 more hours), and went to have lunch.

Sam was late, so he rushed off first...wonder how the new specs look like...well i'll see it tomorrow. So me, azizan and asraf had to decide where to eat...on our own...thats bad. In the end went to kfc at j8 cause i live too far away from woodlands and the limited choice of food of the muslim religion. Im so glad im not muslim, wouldnt be able to randomly eat anything anywhere i go. Just saying. No offence if there is any hint of it anywhere that i dont see.
Azizan ate...faster than usual. Only took him about 30mins...which is wow. Well of course he felt horrible after that...dont understand why though. Physically unable to eat fast o.o Cool

Just started to make the class graduation video in the afternoon. Searched the whole of facebook to find class pictures to put in...videos too if possible. Some people have looooots of photos...made it really tough to sift through. If anyone has any class pictures that they wanna put into the video (or videos that they wanna put into the video), just pass it to me. As of now i still have a lack of content...

Yup i should really be sleeping now, a sick person needs his rest. Have chemistry lecture at 7.30am tomorrow (just knew about it thanks to sam, like 3hours ago). Urghh...hope i feel better tomorrow...

*sniff sniff*
brendon...

2010-07-23T23:30:00.002+08:00

OMGOMGOMG im suuuper high now...tired but like...cannot sleep at all.
Managed to get into viva la music =D thats great hahahaha of course. Today was the performance!!! Thanks everyone who came to watch and support me!!! Especially those from my class =p Thanks to those who didnt come but still supported me anyway hahahaha. Ok seriously very excited. I practically feel like jumping up and down right now but i cant cause that'll wake my grandma/neighbours up.

Im kinda glad about the performance even though we didnt win. Was really fun, both the process and the performance itself. Sorta gives me a sense of achievement somewhat i guess. A lot of people said that my drum solo at the end was nice. Hahahaha thanks! Kel would probably say my ears are turning red or something...it probably did...
Great to play with the band (Julian, Hanlong, Shengling, Barrie), all the hours of going to chinatown to practice was kinda a good experience. All great people to be with, though maybe sometimes abit ermm...sick...but still great people. Hope to play with you guys again =D
Note: Shengling is epic on the piano...totally owned delvis during rehearsal hahahaha

Xplicit was awesome as usual (they won again...duh...), awesomeness X infinity lol. Watched them practice quite a few times, didnt think it was as good as the previous one at first but...i was TOTALLY wrong. 100% pawned BeatsPerMinute (even though they were pretty good too).

Well everyone who performed today was great. No matter win or lose. All had their good points and bad points but, overall still really good.
Of course this was all thanks to the AVA crew, cause without them this wouldnt be possible (well they did set up this whole thing...which is cool).

Im totally curious to see how my solo sounded...so im gonna watch it now. Thanks again!

jump jump jump MARIO!!!
brendon...

2010-07-15T19:40:00.004+08:00

ARGGHHHHH I SCREWED UPPPP!!!!

Today was viva la music auditions. As you all can see, it didnt go that smoothly. I EPIC FAILED!!! BADLY!!! Gaahhh...so many screwy things happened. Cant really blame the ava peeps either.
I shall now list out what failed.

Fail one, didnt place a carpet under the drum, so the bass drum and toms were free to move as they please when i stepped on the bass. As a visual aid, picture this. The drums in front of me was so far away that i had to full stretch to hit it.

Fail two, couldnt hear the other instruments (including singer barrie), so had to play by feeling. Didnt get the ava to up the volume either...

Fail three, messed up my beat in the beginning...that, im sure, was damn obvious

Fail four, since i couldnt hear anything at all, i ended the song too early. Obviously my "feeling" aint that great.

Fail five, i didnt feel like i was nervous...till the drums walked away, like my GP essay paper.

ARGGHHHH....I sucked, dont try to tell me otherwise, cause i didnt meet my own expectations.

In any case, cant turn back the clock now, now can i. Best to look forward.
Anyway, at least i learnt what to look out for if i ever bring myself to play in public ever again... (looking on the bright side).
Well it was a fun experience in all. Wouldnt say i did my best but...sometimes stuff happens. Just gotta make sure it doesnt happen ever again...

On a side note, thanks everyone who came to support me (be it if you actually knew i was going to be there or not) on my first band group performance. It really means alot. If you didnt come, its fine too, sorta gives me less pressure if i play in front of an unknown audience. If i disappointed you, im sorry. If you thought it was ok/great, then it was a pleasure to play for you.

*sigh* suuuuper emo post i know...but tomorrow is a new day.

ARGHHHH....seriously...
brendon...

2010-07-14T20:18:00.002+08:00

Sigh...didnt do well for mid years. Doesnt seem like i did well in any case. Probably only did well for chem and geog. Oh well, lamentations aside, all's well hahaha. Tooootally in holiday mood right now...playing psp and all.
Ok so today, everyone in the class got back their gp essays...except me. Reason? My paper is floating around somewhere, *ahem* quote mrs tan SL. I was like...wha... After coming to terms with my missing essay, i came up with 2 possible reasons. One, my essay was sooo awesome that every single gp teacher wanted to make a copy of it, and since most (if not all) of them have this bad karma thing with computers, they all had to write it out by hand, hence the delay. Or two, my essay totally sucked and the teacher who marked it mistook it for trash and accidentally dumped it into the paper shredder, soaked it in cold water, made it into pulp and used it to make recycled paper which her dog (also accidentally) ate.

Anyway, school was usual sides that. Walked around, had lessons from 7.30, flag raising, lessons (math lecture where the horrible news of only 25% passing maths came into view, of course i was naturally one of the 75%), break, lessons, home. Yup.

Viva la Music auditions are tomorrow...getting nervous just thinking about it. Better not to think about it then eh... Wouldnt say i have much confidence in getting past the auditions though. Oh well, whatever will be will be. Wish me luck.
P.S. coming to support makes me more nervous, if i see you that is (which i probably wont).

lax-ing
brendon...

2010-07-01T14:27:00.007+08:00

Whoa...havent been here for a really long time. Holidays and exams ya know...

Went to Canberra and Sydney in aussie for a geography trip during the 2nd week of the hols. Was really fun there (and cold...ok maybe not that cold...ermmm lukewarm? hahahaha ok it was abt 4degrees in Canberra and 14 in Sydney...). Walked around the bush (not to be confused with beat around the bush). Not really a bush...literally...its the foresty and outbackishy kind. Looked at granitic landforms and stuff (geog people will know...or at least the H2 ones), went to a fish market to eat reeaaaaalllly nice seafood pizzas. Went up blue mountains to the jenolan caves, again, from the time i went with my parents like 4 years back or something. Bought a few souvenirs (and hoping that i didnt miss out anyone. just didnt know what to buy for others..so no offense if you dont get any). Had a mass study session on one of the days...which was...tiring. Seriously think i cant handle sleeping less than 6hrs...was like tired for more than half the trip. Went searching around for glowworms in a small foresty place at night with a single torchlight..floor was wet, almost slipped. Yup. Bought food back home to feed my ever-hungry sister *chomp chomp*, aaaaand thats it in a nutshell.

As it is now, im having exams this week and the next...so once again i really should be studying. But...i cant seem to get myself to read physics (which i have tomorrow *gasp*), so here i am procratinating. Very tired from reading/memorising stuff which didnt come out yesterday night. Maybe i should sleep an hour or something then wake up to study...

Oh while procrasti...*ahem* i mean, inquiring over the internet search function, i so happened to come across this compound.
C_{169 723} H_{270 464} N_{45 688}O_{52 243} S_{912
Its the longest polypeptide found so far and has a total of 189819 letters...wonder which mad scientist managed to name the whole thing. Yeah so i was like trying to read whatever it said about the compound and...well...i stopped (or gave up).
Theres even a place in Wales called}Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Imagine someone asked...hey where are you from, and you had to say this...nice.
_{Yup...i think i'll go sleep a sec. Physics is really mindbreaking....

exams...be over soon...
brendon...}

2010-05-26T15:05:00.002+08:00

I WILL STUDY HARD DURING THE HOLIDAYS!!! I will 100% hit my straight Bs target for mid years. Next will come honor roll for A's. Im sure i can do it.
Its like so very very hot now though...even though i wanna study, the heat is distracting me from my reading. Probably due to increased angle of insolation causing intensity to be higher, and also due to the lack of vegetation cover for shade. Large amounts of shortwave radiation entering the troposphere and stuff. Meh...geography...glad its of use.

Ok seriously, whats with all the advert spamming on my tagboard...its getting annoying. All i see are links that i would never ever ever go to...ever.

For some reason, been really sleepy the past few days. Definitely due to a lack of sleep but its not that i dont sleep early, more like i wake up too early. Yeah so you people know that i sleep at 9-10pm everyday and probably are thinking to yourself, "what the hell...i sleep at 12pm or later everyday" or something like that. Well...i wake up at 5am usually. Early aint it. Thats not the problem though. Problem is, now i wake up even earlier...like 2am or 3am...when SOME PEOPLE havent even slept yet or just started to lie on their beds. So essentially i dont get enough sleep. If you read one of the previous posts, you would know that sleeping less than 6hrs is bad...really bad. So i try to sleep again after i wake up...but that takes around 30mins...till i wake up an hour later. Rinse and repeat. By the time i wake up to get ready for school, my eyes are like wide open...till i actually reach school, then it closes every once in a lecture. Insomnia...

Oh wait...im supposed to be studying...

good luck for tomorrow people...
brendon...

2010-05-24T19:26:00.003+08:00

Omg...for some reason, im feeling bored even before the holidays start. This is bad...reeaaally bad.

Ok, so i spent my weekends slacking at home (most of the time), played abit (well....) of facebook here and there. Played a few songs on the piano that i havent touched for who knows how long. Totally not productive...was supposed to write my sgc but couldnt bring myself to do it (a.k.a procratinating). Parents have been on a korean drama watching spree recently (i think they finally realise why i watch anime for hours on end, and i finally realise how difficult it is to scrape people's eyes off the screen). Well...parents not walking randomly into my room, so its been pretty quiet. Theyre like sooo into this korean thing that my dad suddenly decided to have a hotplate dinner thing. Basically is a flat metal pan on a heating coil but yeah...the usual korean bbq thing. Oh well...still food.

Sunday was equally non-productive...though relatively more productive haha. Went out to get new jeans for auzzie trip. Took a long time...went to orchard and all that, walked around, then walked back. Ate some fried chicken for dinner (parents had a craving for KFC but i didnt let them), then went to play tennis at 8pm at night. *sigh* tired, couldnt see the tennis ball properly either. No idea why. Reached home at like...10pm? Which explains why i was falling asleep during lessons today. Crap.

Ok...planned to do proteins tutorial like...13mins ago. Should really start like now...

work work...
brendon...

2010-05-07T20:06:00.002+08:00

I finally passed napfa...damn pull ups... =.=
Wouldve done it last friday, if i didnt eat nasi lemak in the morning and felt queasy while running 2.4. Glad to say i learnt my lesson hahaha, ate a few slices of bread only. If only i had some paos to eat...then will have energy like the photons. Meh...
Still figuring out what i should do for next week's pe lessons...sadly still have to go for them. Roller blading sounds good...somehow. I could always continue doing pull ups though...maybe will be able to do it in a more relaxed way...like today.

Yup. Ended lessons at 12.30 today wahahaha...gp teacher didnt come, had 1.5hr break from 12.30 to gp lesson. Well...usually i would go home right away, but the call of tennis (and samuel) lured me to the courts. Reeaaally hate the school rackets (which is why i usually bring mine), but no choice in the matter since it was kinda a last minute decision. Played tennis for about 2hrs after eating lunch. Feel so active now...hahaha. Morning napfa, afternoon tennis. Tired.

Im like, reading geography notes now cause im too lazy to do any tutorials...sigh...especially maths. Just realised that i cant do a thing on exponential complex (aka tutorial 16D). Not gonna give up there though...just doing something else while i feel the drive to do it. Im lagging behind...oh noooo

Kay...back to hydrology and its 59 pages of lecture notes...(excluding those covered in J1). Great

Oh...i just read somewhere that sleeping less than 6 hrs or more than 9 hrs makes your lifespan shorter. Im glad theres no more PW...or CO.

working hard...
brendon...

2010-05-02T22:53:00.002+08:00

The past week's been a rollercoaster of emotions, not just for me, but also for the rest of the class i guess. First there was bad news, then no news, then slightly hopeful news, then the worst news. Some didnt take it very well, some (like me) probably showed no emotion but was also breaking up inside. We tried our best, there was nothing more we could have done. So raise your head high, for you have helped out with the best of your ability, and be proud of that.

Somehow, i feel so devoid of emotions, at least compared to the others. They cried their hearts out. Whoever said the phrase "cry me a river" must be damn happy right now, cause i think it actually happened. I wouldnt be surprised if the headlines one tomorrow's newspaper showed a new river in singapore (or if they show kallang river flooding). As for me, i did what i do best. Stone. Though this type of stoning is not your average stoning. This time a lot of things flashed through my tiny skull while i stoned. One thing i concluded was that, i should live my life as if today was my last day. Then, and only then, will i really be happy with what i've done at any point in time.

Ok...too much emo. Time to switch frequencies *cough* planck's constant or maybe just end. For those people who we're worried about me, thank you. I assure you that i'm perfectly fine, no weird thoughts in my head, no verge of breaking down kinda thing. I'm quite sure that i'm mentally fit to revise for geography test on tuesday (though i may not guarantee a good score, considering what i've been doing the past week).

Yup...since i gotta wake up quite early tomorrow (yes yes i know its a holiday, but what can i say, i'm a busy guy), i should sleep soon. Ok maybe now.

you will always be my friend. may you find peace, wherever you are...
brendon...

2010-04-25T01:13:00.002+08:00

WOOHOOO!!! Super high from CO concert due to a multitude of reasons.
After many weeks/months of practice, its finally over. Over. Over. Over. No more CO!!! As much as i would love to whack the drums, i dont have to anymore hahahahahahahaa.

Everyone did their best, cant deny that. May not have sounded as good as we wanted it to be but still...its pretty good already. Thanks to all those who went for the concert, and also to those who wanted to go but have no time/got persuaded by me to not go ahahaha (well...its my fault im sorry). Seriously didnt think it would go this smoothly. Meh...

Yup...so...its now 1am in the morning. I rarely stay online till 1am in the morning...hmmm. Im really tired now though...all the instruments sooo heavy. The lorry ride back to school was abit too...ermm...thrilling too. Imagine theres this huge instrument (aka marimba) that could move side to side cause someone only locked one side of the wheels, AND the lorry driver driving faster than a sports car. Literally. We overtook at least 5 sports cars on the way back...including bumps on the road. Omg...

Well...im gonna catch up on some sleep, and a well deserved rest.

Stepping down...as of today
brendon...

2010-04-17T19:58:00.002+08:00

OMGGGG!!! Paya Lebar station for circle line opens today! After 1 year and 2 months...its finally open, my travel time to school has been cut by 20mins, can wake up sliiightly later. Its like sooo fast now. If i could i would name this day paya lebar yellow line day...seriously. Went to school for CO and took the mrt (for once), took it back too. =D

Oh yeah...pw results out yesterday. Smiles and frowns all around. I know some classes had like all As which is...really good. Apparently my school did better than MJ this year, improved by 27% from last year (and MJ did worse). Still...seems like all the cchms people that i asked got As, haha. Niiice. Well, for those who didnt get As, its not the end. Other subjects matter alot too. Shouldnt fret too much, what matters is where to get to, not how you get there.

Hmm...i should really be studying right now. Gotta work hard for A levels...especially for maths. Dont want the H-effect to come about for me again now would i. Then again...been soooo tired recently (thanks to CO). Seems like other ccas have stepped down already, more and more people being really free nowadays.
Kay, guess i'll think of something to do...

CIRCLE LINNEEEEE
brendon...

2010-04-12T17:46:00.002+08:00

Been so long since i last posted haha. Couldnt bring myself to move the mouse to log into blogger...
Really tired recently, last week was like...hectic. Dont reach home till at least 6pm everyday with 4 days starting at 7.30am (which means waking up at 5am...as usual). Kinda thought that i would be used to it by now...guess not. At least theres the weekends for me to play a few games lol.

Yeah sooo...having test after test, lectures of course. Doesnt seem like anythings changed the past few weeks that i've been studying...still failing maths tests. Well...the fruits of my labour wont come so fast i guess, either that or im still considered as slacking. Great...

NS checkup registration date coming to a close...how how how...still havent fixed a date yet. Gonna go with class, but havent decided yet (even though we chose 14th june). Wonder what they'll test for...

CO/Guzheng concert coming up too, 24th Apr at...haha dont know where, oops. Anyway, to anyone who is reading this, come and support k? Well dont really have to (cause i may screw up), but if theres anyone who wants to see me screw up on stage in front of a live studio audience (evil people...) then yeah, youre welcome to come too.
Im finding this amusing though. They fixed the date at 24th Apr when Filmfest is on the 23rd. I reaaaalllly dont think its such a wonderful idea. People who go to filmfest probably (unless super enthu) wont go for the concert...meh, oh well...im just the-percussionist-who-is-waiting-to-step-down =D

Ohman...this post seems very random. Jumping from one topic to another....

CO concert!!!
brendon...

2010-03-30T18:57:00.002+08:00

Maaan...im really bored now. Totally dont feel like doing any work. I suppose one day of slacking shouldnt be a problem, now should it. Well...yeah, so here I am posting...

Okok...so today was the usual 7.30 lessons with mr chia for geography. As usual not very productive cause only the people in my class were like...talking, and by talking I mean giving answers to the tutorials (not random stuff...ok not that much anyway). Still on hydrology, not too difficult I guess, though I hope im not wrong.

Then was maths and physics lectures for a grand total of 2hrs. Nothing much...usual stuff. People sleeping, people talking, people copying, people scribbling, people talking, people talking, people talking....

Ct and Assembly, some i-created-a-company-from-bottom-up people came to give a talk on choices of jobs that are related to the environment. Didnt help much though...considering the fact that I basically already went to NUS for a geography seminar about job opportunities. Ahlim sorta took ct to "persuade" us to study harder. Yup...I should be studying harder...hey it helped.

Anyway, maths tutorial, went through integration assignment to prepare for lecture test next wednesday. Mr heng gave me the feeling that its gonna be reeaaaalllly tough. I think it really is gonna be rreeeeaaaaalllly tough...crap. Next was chem supplementary, halogenoalkanes quiz, which I totally didnt prepare for cause I only knew about the test like...5mins after walking into the lecture hall. Didnt do that bad though, 12/15.

Oh yeah...ive been very very curious recently. Practically searching google about anything that I think of, mostly about health though...dont know why. Hahahaha shows that my intelligence is increasing =D

Hmm....what should I do now....
Kay i'll go read a book or something. Probably geography

*reading in progress*
brendon...

2010-03-27T15:17:00.002+08:00

Haha today was NAPFA ahhhhhhh. Actually wasnt too bad, just that couldnt do enough pullups, only did 1. Sadded. I blame it on the 1.5hrs of tennis that i played yesterday. That and the lack of practice that i usually do. Oh well...retest. The others was quite ok though, 245 for standing broad jump especially...still have a slight spring with me. Shaved off 30secs for 2.4 since last years timing too, which isnt half bad, now at 11.55. So...now (expectedly), my arms and legs hurt. Maybe i'll go play tennis again tomorrow, hmmm...

Been working hard on homework the past week or so, did tutorials and stuff, sooo hardworking rightttt? Cmon ya know ya wanna say it. Lol yeah soooo, went through like maths tutorials till 16A, chem almost done with H-X (halogenoalkenes), done with electromag for physics, well...for geog like, no homework. But was reading a book about globalisation, so yeah i think that counts.

Ok hardworkingness aside, seems that i dont really have that much time during school days. Should like...skip co every once in awhile or something to go home early to relieve stress (a.k.a. SLACK) or something. Well once the circle line opens at paya lebar i'll be going to school and back faster (yeeaaaahhhh like 20mins), totally cant wait for that.

Ohhh nice, my dads making that crispy pork thing. Sam cham bak or something...dont know how to spell. Meh...whatever.

oh happy days~
brendon...

2010-03-11T17:09:00.002+08:00

Woohooo cant wait for holidays to finally arrive!!! Finally. Recently holidays has just been a time to catch up on tutorials and additional homework though...hopefully will be able to finish all of them within the 1 week. Target : Honour roll =D yeah right...its like still sooooo far away.
Been feeling hardworking recently. Finished physics electric fields tutorial yesterday ahaha...im finding this amusing. Gonna do maths tutorial 14B after dinner too.

Oh theres this geography trip for H2 geog peeps coming up during the june hols from 4th to 11th so gotta keep myself free during that week. Some immersion programme at the university of australia in canberra. First time going to that state of aussie so im sorta kinda little excited hahahaha (watch the slackers in action).

Ok so, went for adopt a wish yesterday after school which was like...at 2.30 with yuxi, fel and two j1s from 1024. Basically all we gotta do is give the old people the stuff that they asked for a month ago, and its supposed to make them reeeaaaally happy cause they cant afford it, and we're giving it to them. Yeah. Gotta say they didnt actually seem to care about the gifts though...they even forgot what they asked for. Or rather they sorta preferred the company cause they're like all holed up in their homes and stuff. Was kinda awkward when we gave them their gifts then they had this puzzled look on their faces lol. Oh well...

Went off to this dessert shop near amk mrt after that. Got myself a cuppa durian moose (not a fruity animal thing), since i dont really like cakes all that much. Walked around the area for awhile eating it, then went to take the mrt home.

Oh yeah...theres this ecareer quiz that everyones supposed to take. Its supposed to give a selection on jobs that would interest or best suit you. Anyway, so i took it, and guess what was one of the options... Mathematician. Which is the most ironic job that they could EVER have given me, well since i havent seemed to have passed any maths tests (cept for 2 class tests) since the beginning of my JC life. Thus i can safely conclude that, this ecareer thing is a total waste of time. Another example why it is. Barry, mr H3 physics guy, got taxi driver and fireman as 2 of the choices. Seriously...there is no way that its helpful.

*sigh* kinda bored now. Reached home rather early today...at 3+. Would usually be like...9pm or something. Meh...guess i'll go do maths. Hope it doesnt fry my brain. I think i'll either go crazy or be braindead by tomorrow.

honour roll honour roll
brendon...

2010-03-06T22:26:00.003+08:00

1000X10000 Grats to Xplizit for being THE ONE! (ok since theres actually 6 members its not really the "one" anymore...more like the many). Jumped on a last minute decision to go for the one concert at lt4 yesterday night. Soooo totally didnt regret it (cept for the fact that i reached home at what...10.30?).

Got chinese A level results yesterday too. I wouldnt say its like...awesome or anything, though since when is my chinese ever awesome. Chinese...yeeesh. Anyway, managed to scrape out a C from the infinite depths of the steamboat pot. Was really happy with it when i looked at the result slip, literally jumped for joy (and screamed, and jumped around somemore, some people might have heard me 6 classes away but i dont guarantee that). The final resolution is...NO MORE CHINESE. Well until i have to go to china to work or something in the future, so i probably shouldnt stop using it.

Yep...today was sports carnival, kindly hosted by the house exco to take me away from another episode of pokemon. Dont worry i didnt hold a grudge from that. Maths trail was interesting...in a really nerdy sorta way. Me, the guy who hasnt passed a single H2 maths exam paper since the start of the JC1 year, decided to join maths trail. This...is so ironic (yes i know i've said this like...countless times for the past week or so but, its true). Wanted to slack during this event, since the frisbee slots were all taken up already.
Went to suntec to eat with shixun, barry, fel, milly, faisal and xueyuan. Liyan and kel joined up later. Ate at just noodles or something i think. Went to walk around and around after that, looked at tennis rackets while kel was busy buying a bag. Walked more, round and round, then went home.

Lotsa things going through my mind right now, so many questions that are gonna be left unanswered. *sigh* nothing is ever simple is it. No easy path lies from the start to the finish. There is always some distance to go before everything is left behind. Someone to help may appear, though odd or even, no one would know. Lines can never be perfectly straight, circles never perfectly round, sky not always blue, pitch not absolutely black. Up on the podium, the winner will laugh, at the expense of the relative losers. Even if everything were to be real, there is no knowing when it would turn unreal.

smile,like you always do...even if the world turns upside down

brendon...

2010-02-27T00:33:00.002+08:00

Waaahhh...havent posted for so long...even forgot what i wanted to post. Crap. Kay i'm gonna wing it. Oh yeah, its derricks birthday today. Happy 18th birthday!!! I'll celebrate with the rest of the eliteteam.

Went for NUS dialog session today with parents, met them at amk hub cause was there buying stuff for MoL. Ate pepper lunch, though not really lunch so should just be called pepper, cause...theres no lunch, just dinner. So maybe its called pepper dinner now. Why dont they just call it pepper meal to save the confusion. Ok yeah so, sat in LT4 listening to admin people from NUS NTU and SMU talk. The NTU guy talked sooooo slow...its like he. was. doing. this. every. time. he. answers. a. question. =.= Then there was this parent, keep asking weird questions that dont really relate much to the whole point of the dialog session (attitude like AYL hahahaha). Relatively pointless, though got to pick up some interesting stuff. Not much though.

Went for a talk on emotional support (another welfare thing that vice-chairs have to go to to save anyone in the class who is or will be in danger) about dealing with people who may/are attempting suicide. *sigh* its a tough job being a vice-chair. Ok fine maybe it was sorta educational. Well, initially had CO from 3 but couldnt go till the talk was over (this was wed btw). By the time i walked into the CO room, i hit a drum once, then i could go home. So essentially, i didnt do anything at all (unless you count hitting the snare ONCE). Meh...

Going back to CNY, well and valentines day, since this is like a reeeaaally rare occasion. Im still single though so doesnt bother me much. Visited relatives, some who im not so familiar with, some who i am more familiar with. Seems like im not very close with most of my cousins though. Dont go out with them much, only see them once a year kinda thing. Tried to make progress but couldnt cause didnt actually meet anyone this year. Wouldnt say i got alot of angpaos either.

Went to millys house (thanks milly) with classmates, azizan, shawn (right?), and FoC herself of course (really...FoC seems better here for some reason). Played mahjong, which i had absolutely no luck at all cause i didnt win a single round. Played wii where my luck was awesome. Made me look pro hahaha. Played blackjack and other card games that i have never heard of in my life...dont even remember what its called now.
Oh the most significant thing was that, while waiting at the bus stop for the bus home, a huge tree branch (branch sounds so insignificant though...ok think of it as a huge huuuuge tree branch) fell on the road like 50 metres away and blocked 2/3 of the road. From that i really believe that my luck was either so great that i managed to lose every single round of mahjong, or my luck was really really bad on that specific day.

1am in the morning...really tired. I should sleep now. Gonna play more mahjong tomorrow, err...i mean today. Lets see if i can be so "lucky" again.

as the cold wind blows...
brendon...

2010-02-13T14:43:00.002+08:00

Its 初夕 (or however you write it...), which means that tomorrow is a time of visiting, and today is a time for eating =D FOOOODDDDDDD. As it is, im already eating a bowl of noodles with soup as im typing this *chomp*. Last strand.

Yep ok so...yesterday reached school at 7am to carry instruments onto the stage for the performance (chinese new year...duh). Slacked alot after, walked around and around, played with the remaining drums in the co room, tried to get un-nervous. Usually nervousness is not something i would get, but thats only IF i dont have to lead the performance. This time...well...lets just say that the whole section was depending on the rhythm that i started off with. Great. Skipping ahead to the performance. Went up on stage, put instruments in place with 1800 people staring at us, bowed. Well that much everyone saw right? What you didnt see was my left hand and leg shaking uncontrollably after i hit the first beat. It was kinda funny. Look like some guy spazzing hahahaha....Yeah so anyway, didnt think it was that great but...its over. Phew.

Met up with the class in the hall to watch the rest of the performance got a few gifts cause of valentines day (thanks to liyan, fel (the day before), and 2/3 of my triplets ahahaha), then went to the canteen to celebrate fel's birthday. Happy birthday o.o one more person who's older than me lol. I feel soooo young.

Yup. Getting ready for steamboat later. Really really free now...apparently my dad is too. He's like playing red alert 3 in his room while waiting for the soup to finish. Oh...ok he's asking for help again...

waiting for the fooooood...
brendon...

2010-02-08T06:45:00.003+08:00

Nice...seems like I have time in the morning to do this. Yeah so as you can see it's like almost 7am, which technically is almost the time that I should be on my way to school, so gotta make this a quick one.

Went to play tennis with parents yesterday (ok parent, since my mother is overseas), cant say I played very well...my backhand was much better than the last time though (I think only sam fully understands what i'm talking about ahahaha). Went to get new clothes for the new year, forced of course, by my mother. Well her complaint was that I had to wear totally new clothes when I go to visit people...cant argue with that though. The last time I had any new clothes was like last year...late Oct? I think. Yeah anyway, went shopping with my sis at bugis, walked around, bought a shirt, then bought takoyaki. Didnt see anything else so went to chinatown cause sis wanted to get a lace for the costume she's sewing. Then went all the way back to paya lebar...sis bought clothes there, I bought another shirt. So in conclusion, it took me a total of 5hrs to get 2 shirts. Yep...highly efficient.

Oh, I just noticed something. Because of all the walking around, I didnt have any time to do any homework. Crap. Well at least it's not urgent...yet.

Ok, so now I'm like checking the bus guide for the timing of the next bus. I think I just missed one though...

*sigh*...
brendon...

2010-01-29T23:00:00.002+08:00

Phew...first week of post block test. Also been the first 2 days of orientation for the J1s. Tiring...

Ever since after block test, been having lots and lots of co practice. So basically its like till 8 three times this week, which means that i dont get home till almost 10pm, which means that i dont get enough sleep everyday since i wake up at 5am to get to school in time for 7.30 lessons...everyday. The troubles of having h2s when the class takes h1s.

Ok so because of the orientation, i'm being left alone during geog lessons (lonely...) since the other 2 geogies are involved in orientation. So for now the geog tutorial class has dropped to around 8 people...including the teacher, and lectures often show me sitting alone in the second row within the middle column in lt3. Oh well...its quiet. So far i noticed the class has also become more quiet recently. No conflicts between kel and barry, no random comments from liyan, no comments on random comments from milly, no tennis updates from sam. Just...silence. Well theres barry, but that aint enough.

Had a really silent maths lesson today. Wonder if everyones too afraid of mr heng to speak out...oh wait, silent is normal. Maths was never a lively lesson apparently.

Juniors came to co today for a err...trial practice. Ones from maris, the other from zhonghua, both guys. One smiles too much, the other too little (or thats what the SL thinks). Had some conversation with the usual questions...whats your score, what combination, how was orientation, blah blah blah. They seem nice enough in any case. Well, just wanna welcome them to nyjc (barry says its hell. i agree to a small extent, and pw really takes a huge portion of the cake). Go for lectures, dont implode halfway, and stay clear of pw as much as you can. Yep.

some leisure time...
brendon...

2010-01-23T19:12:00.002+08:00

Urgh...block test is OVER!!! Yes...finally, after one whole week of torturous exams and weeks of torturous preparations. Hopefully didnt do too badly, wouldnt want to lose the 4H2s i worked so hard during promos to maintain (well...ok fine maybe not that hard). I kept my hair too, didnt pull off as much as i thought i did.

I gotta say, i've been really really tired the past few days. Not cause of the studying, definitely not cause of that. It's cause of the 7.30 that i gotta reach school at...cause of frag raising *ahem* flag raising. It's like...i have to wake up at 5am everyday, to say the pledge =.= which i find is really quite dumb.
Oh well...it's over. Should think of this as practice...no, not for A's. For normal school days...cause my wonderful timetable says that i have 7.30 lessons everyday cept for monday (thank you teachers for having contact time. I would never get my sleep without you).

Which reminds me, actual lessons are gonna start, with all the homework and stuff...and since this year's A lvl year, i doubt it's gonna just be 10 pages of readings to err...read. In short, probably gonna be busier than ever. Glad there's no PW...i dont wanna think about what would happen if there was. Oh...i havent dont mcClaurins tutorial yet. New maths teacher gonna kill me...thats bad, no more slacking for maths =.=

Ok so, now that exams are over, i'm doing the usual computer more study less thing. Well at least i stopped watching so much anime, for now. Oh yeah, Fate/stay night movie has come out. Thanks to barry for telling me. Listening to the opening and ending song as i'm typing, quite ok actually.

Yeah...back to watching food being cooked on tv. Maybe i'll learn something and try it out...

so...tired...
brendon...

2010-01-14T07:18:00.002+08:00

Well...just finished gp homework so i have nothing to do this early in the morning. School has (for the worst) opened. It's a...good thing and a bad thing i guess. Good cause i was reeeaaaallly getting bored at home...sitting around not doing anything, but bad cause i was sitting around not doing anything. Well at least i managed to finish most of my homework in time...unlike most people who, during the start of holidays, made me think that everyone was chionging homework, then in the end didnt finish any. Meh...

Anyway anyway, open house was on tuesday...which was....2 days ago. Guess what i did. Basically just sat at the CO booth for like...i dunno...4+ hours? Yeah about there. Well on the bright side, the booth was right in front of the stage at the atrium so got to watch the performances in the HUGE amount of free time that i had. *sigh* Oh well... Open house didnt seem very exciting other than the performances and stuff. Like...no one actually came to the stall.

Oh crap...i think i'm gonna be late for school...

in a rush now...
brendon...

2009-12-28T08:18:00.002+08:00

Woohoo...Hey peoples, I'm back in singapore! And japan was niiiice. Went to japan for the first time the past few days, from 23rd till this morning at 12.25am when the plane landed at terminal 1, but you should've known that now shouldn't you.

Day 1
Ok so, on the first day, after the plane landed, i was like...omg its japan o.o Cleared immigrations, met up with the tour group (yes i went on a tour), stayed at a hotel at narita (a.k.a. become field cause its 成田 in japanese). Temperature was about 8 degrees, wind made it colder though. Seriously not used to cold weather (not on the first day anyway) so was like shivering abit cause i didnt wanna wear the thicker jacket (just wore my sweater which was really thin i suppose) cause then it would be too warm. Yeah so, i was like...so thrilled that the walkways around japan looked exactly like those drawn in animes. Even took a picture of it. Really. So cool. Went to a shopping centre to get some snacks and have dinner (hehheh...sushi, very nice. Like 1x10^10000 times better than sakae, and just slightly more expensive). Kept looking at the jap guy's hairstyles cause all look like anime...defying gravity, but damn cool. Then i noticed that my hair started to stick to my head for some reason. There was this one piece "strong world" promotion going on, then alot of people queueing up for collectibles. Didnt bother to join though...probably wont know what the guy tells me. Yeah so thats about it for the first day.

Day 2
Ate breakfast at the hotel, orange eggs (very very orange yolk...interesting), rice (basically every meal of the day im eating the jap rice), sausages, miso soup (much less salty than whatever here = yummm), some fish...dunno what kind though, but its full of bones. Thats the buffet. Left for some sulphur cespool somewhere near mt fuji. All i can say is that...it stinks. Some guy on the tour got nauseous somewhere up the trip on the mountain cause of the smell...ewww. Well it was interesting to see H2S gas bubble from vents at the side of a dormant volcano, and piles of blackish solidified andesitic lava. They sold hot spring eggs there yeah, with black shells and stuff. Dunno if they stank as bad as the cespool though, didnt wanna get one. Tried the wasabi and egg flavoured ice creams though. Wasabi wasnt that strong...duh...the egg flavoured one tasted like egg tarts, both not bad, but i still dont like egg tarts. Oh yeah...maybe i shouldntve eaten ice cream though...now that i think about it, eating ice cream during winter with only one sweater at a temperature of 8+ degrees is sorta crazy now isnt it. Oh well.

Freshwater spring next, which was supposed to give you longevity if you drank the spring water. Hmm...nothing much done there. Looked at huge oversized koi, puffy ducks. There were lotsa people selling stuff like miso or sweet beans and stuff. I think my dad bought a packet.

Went to a factory outlet store after that for some shopping. Got me new shoes ahahaha (i got those tennis shoes samuel, cheaper too), got a jacket for my sis, took pictures pictures and more pictures of mt fuji. Oh...i bought something else also. Ah...where is it.

After that went to a really really really cool place. Its called, a hot spring resort. Which means...theres hot springs and yukatas, wheeee. Sat in the hot spring (which was...at an all high of 42 degrees...which is damn hot but you get used to it after awhile) for like...half an hour? Not an open air one though so no bamboo fence all around. After about 10mins my face was very red...too much blood circulation lol. Ate sashimi for dinner, alot of stuff that normally wouldnt eat in sashimi appeared ahaha. Ever ate raw lobster before? or...raw scallops or raw prawns? Tasted quite good actually. Probably will never get to eat this kinda thing until the next time i go to japan...sadded.

Day 3
Got up early to go to the hot springs one more time before leaving for mt fuji (or fuji-san as the japs call it). Didnt think there would be anyone in the hot springs at 5am in the morning...but well, i was wrong. In fact...there were more people than when i went the previous night...a grand total of 5 people. Heh. Anyway, went to mt fuji's 5th lookout (which juuuust opened right as we got there. Was closed earlier cause of weather i think...or something like that. Then closed again soon after we passed. Sooo lucky), a very very high place covered with snow. Tour guide said it was roughly -16 degrees i think. Man thats cold. Kinda glad i got to see some real, non-snowcity snow, finally...after 17 long years. Managed to make small balls of snow ahaha.

Went to a place called Asakusa after that for some temple sightseeing (no, didnt see any mikos. If you dont know whats that, nevermind), talked to this extremely hyper guy who was advertising rickshaw services to...tourists like me i guess. Funny guy. Anyway, asakusa was full of...shopping...again. Then went to eat dinner and went to another hotel somewhere.

Day 4
The most shopping-ful and anime-ful day. My sis went crazy. Went to harajuku for some clothes shopping for my sis. Went to macs for lunch, got a pokemon poster there =D yay pokemon. Saw lot of those ermm...visual kei clothing, which are...sorta like punk+gothic kinda stuff. Also alot of PINK stuff. Though like for girls only.

Went to Ginza, also shopping, but very expensive shopping. Went to this toy shop somewhere down the street. One of the floors sold all sortsa anime stuff, so got me 2 FFXIII cans, which are right now on my shelf together with the rest of my displays. Cant wait for it to come out. Bought onigiris at the nearby convenience store for a snack. I think i can survive on onigiris if i ever go to japan...cheap and quite nice.

Next was...Akihabara. Whooo manga heaven lol. One piece first book in japanese. Im very happy. Sis bought some KHR doujinshi *sigh*. Went to this place called the tokyo animation museum store or somewhere along those lines. More stuff that i wanted but...oh well, didnt get anything there in the end. There was a life sized pikachu and saber model there though. Never knew pikachu was that big...hmm. Found a hmv-like store around the corner. Glad i can read jap...cause all the titles were in jap (of course...), wouldnt have been able to find an ikimonogakari album if i didnt.

Day 5
Wouldnt say i did very much on this day. Just walked around, looked at stuff, tried a bottle of melon cream soda, went to the airport, took a 7hr flight back to singapore, got a nosebleed halfway through the night for some reason. Got a nosebleed when i woke up this morning for some reason. Yeah...nothing much.

Now...back to studying...man. Still havent finished holiday homework yet...hope i havent lagged too much behind the past 5 days.

back, and more tired than ever before...
brendon...

2009-12-23T00:08:00.002+08:00

Hey hey...going to japan today ahahaha. Wont be back till the 27th which is a...errrcant think of what day it is. Well if you look at the time on this post it'll probably say 12.20am or something. Yeah its the right time. Flight's at 8+ though, just meeting my cousins-from-america-who-I-havent-met-in-a-long-time-but-have-come-to-visit-on-the-same-day-that-Im-going-on-my-trip. Hmm...wonder what we gonna do for 5hrs though...cant possibly be talking for that whole time... =.=

Oh well...gonna go soon. See ya peoples!!!

and im off...(to tokyo FYI)
brendon...

2009-12-16T03:22:00.002+08:00

Ahhh...tired. Its like...almost 3.30 in the morning and havent slept a wink. Why? Dunno. Having a sleepover right now, though kinda ironic that people dont let you sleep at sleepovers...considering the sleep part that is. Oh well...at least theres mahjong to pass the time.

Anyway, went to 313 (the shopping mall) with kel, sam, ly, marion n FOC, sorta celebrate kel's bday again i guess. Walked around and around shops, addidas, addidas and errr...addidas. Yeah, addidas people. Anyway, we walked, and walked, and didnt buy anything. Then HMV, wanted to get a jap album by uverworld but...the price scared me off. Seriously...it was in its 70s. Meh...

Walked...somemore...to cineplex to have lunch, some korean BBQ or something. Well it isnt like seoul garden if thats what you're thinking. More like the recipes are korean and they BBQ the chops, hence korean BBQ. Had this...jamaican something something...well starting letters spelt jerk...so lets just call it jerk. Not bad, tv behind was entertaining too. Korean...duh.

Yeah...so after that went home, got some of my stuff (the remainding) then, off to a random house =.= where i got force fed tomyam flavoured beehoon and "salty" sausages (which of course i dont really think are salty, note open and close inverted commas).

Man...sleep, but...mahjong...ahhhh.

omg...
brendon...

2009-12-07T19:19:00.002+08:00

Whooo...book sorting/distribution SL ended today. NTUC used textbook programme a.k.a. cheap labour. Experience i had was sorta good, compared to whatever other people experienced. No angry parents, no irritating/kiasu parents, no totally blur parents/students, which is good, for me at least. I really gotta say...some of the people who were taking the books are sooooo selfish/ungrateful. They shout at you if you give them the wrong book, knowing that its not actually our job (we're just volunteers, its not like we work there or anything) to help them get the right books, they hoard (stockpile can also be used, but i'll use the less degenerative version so as to not make them look too bad) books into large boxes (yes boxes, not just plastic bags, or those trolleys that people use when going to the market), some people guess to sell but im gonna give them the benefit of the doubt and say that theyre using it for tuition purposes. Of course there are the kiasu parents who grab a whole armful of assessment books (i pity the children) to be used at home. Im glad my parents dont hoard assessment books for me to do (especially chinese), if not i'll probably be somewhere between life and death. And of course some of the other volunteers were...err...complaining? Though i suppose who wouldnt.

Well, of course like in every good essay there must be some form of balance, and of course not all parents are that evil (notice "that"). Most were really quite nice, chatting and joking and all that. Not all were kiasu, not wanting to take more than what they needed, maybe one or two guidebooks for chemistry but nothing significant. A lot couldnt find the books they wanted though, especially for the less popular subs like...combined science for sec 2s? or some publishers of music/dnt/english/home econs. It was confusing. Too many publishers, too many subjects, too many levels to sift through. No one took any tertiary books though, even though they should be worth the most money (if they wanted to sell the books that is...). Oh yeah, some people just came in for fun, just to look at books (*cough* kaypo *cough*), then look look look, take like 1 or 2, then leave. Like got nothing better to do like that...lol.

Saw a lot of books that i used last time. The whole time i was like, hey i used that book, cool, then i would flip through abit, them put it back. Saw pokemon books o.o brings back memories. The others section was the most interesting, a lot of random stuff like well...pokemon books (yes they are interesting. Go read them), Digimon books, game guidebooks, really old dictionaries, really new dictionaries, storybooks, and...other stuff.

Anyway, after all of the book-ing, went to novena to have some lunch (no catered chicken rice for me) with kel, sam, ly and FOC. Ate donuts wheeee, and other stuff. Took a reeaaaalllllly long time, yup. Bought more donuts to bring home then went to some adidas store to check out shoes (cause i really need tennis shoes). Didnt buy anything though, all the shoes that i chose didnt have my size... This shows that i made the right choice, cause no size means its popular, which means that the design and colour of the shoe is niiice. Took awhile cause kel and sam bought stuff too, then went home after.

Oh, my room like...doesnt have much light now, so im practically ruining my eyesight while using the computer. Theres something wrong with my room light, it just wont turn on. The bulb didnt blow, so must be the sparking mechanism...which means that i wont have much light for a few more...days? or a week i guess. Crap.

Ah yeah, then theres holiday homework. LOTS and LOTS of it. Not just one or two pages, no..., MILLIONS of em. Ok not really...trying to make an impact. But yes there is alot of homework, and im not even halfway done. In fact, i barely even started. Its sooooo difficult to do...omg. Its like all challenging questions. Its gonna be a loooooong holiday...
Oh well, im slacking now anyway.

*sigh* how many mercedes/bmws drove up the slope today...
brendon...

2009-12-01T01:25:00.002+08:00

Yes yes...i know its 1am in the morning already but why leave blogging to another day huh? (or more specifically later in the day). Yep anyway, I FINALLY FINISHED MY 2000 PIECE PUZZLE. Omg...that took a really long time. I learnt something from all this. When doing a puzzle with many many pieces, they all look the same. Imagine this, im looking for a green puzzle piece for the grass section of the jigsaw puzzle so I look for distinguishing stuff that i can use to help me find the right piece. Then i look at the box where all the puzzle pieces are, and...see a whole bunch of green stuff (like maybe 400 pieces?). Its...frustrating. Well, there is that sense of accomplishment when i finally put in the last piece...it was fun though, but very time consuming. Gotta get a frame to frame it up soon, gonna be expensive. Glad i have a sponsor, thanks mom. Well, it was the only way to get me to voluntarily clean my table, so...yup.

Ok...so im doing chores this whole month since no ones cleaning the house on a daily basis (maid back in indonesia visiting). Did lotsa housework that i havent really done much of in a long long time e.g. wash/iron my clothes. Had to mop the whole house too (broke a mop in the process...luckily i came prepared. Had a new mop ready) and those people who have come to my house before will know that it's not a simple task. *sigh*...the problem with stairs. Anywho...yes i know im rather sheltered, BUT i do know how to do housework ok...

On to another topic. Went to CO on saturday from 9am-1pm and today from 6-8pm (yes...6-8 =.= its retarded). Didnt do anything, nuff said. Was reading my book throughout the whole practice cause im not going for the hongkong trip and the conductor wanted to practice the songs for the trip. Was really bored...duh. Only went for attendance (and cause SL will kill me, again, if i dont go). Meh...

"Holidays" so far been fun, since obviously i havent started studying, much, at all (read physics : superposition abit but thats all). Dad bought Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 for himself (and effectively me) to play. He wasnt good at it, as usual, so while i was busy doing stuff in my room he would call me down and get me to complete the mission for him or something. I actually didnt wanna play it initially, since its a FPS, but...yeah. Oh well.

study? ok. After i sleep.
brendon...

2009-11-25T23:47:00.002+08:00

Wah...yesterday...go to school for only 30mins. Meet next year's gp teacher, took gp homework, then go home. Wow, shortest school day of my life. The bus ride there took me twice as long as i stayed in school. Well, of course then i was supposed to go for co at 6.30 but...i forgot. More like didnt see the sms cause i was at home, playing. Feel so free for once.

Holidays coming soon, like tomorrow is the last day of school (last day to slack...then the real holiday starts, with all the holiday homework. It now comes in stacks, get your copy now). Had all my 4h2s today = tiring. Not as tiring as normal school days though, so easily handled. Been noticing that less and less people in my class, wait no...in the school, coming for lectures. Its like, people are slowly disappearing. Probably about half my class came for maths lecture. Out of which, 5 or so were late.

Had service learning again today, book sorting, but didnt do anything at all cause of geog lecture. By the time lecture finish, the books also sorted finish. Yay. Played blockus with a few people after that cause was really bored, then went for co. Sadly, no percussion people were there at all, so i was basically the only one in my section there. Jun an came after awhile though so not that bad, but i was like...reading a book while waiting to play my part, which barely surfaced. Yup, oh well.

Wow...so late. Time to sleep. 2...wait no 3 lectures tomorrow. Almost forgot my h1, ECONS! Ahahahahahaha...ha..ha...

4h2 1h1 =D
brendon...

2009-11-23T22:31:00.002+08:00

Been rather busy the past 2 days...all i can say about it is that, i survived afa09. Yay!
Went to suntec on saturday and sunday for the yearly anime convention..again. This time didnt seem to be as great as the last time though. Oh well, still had lotsa fun. By fun i mean standing and walking around the convention centre looking at mini models of anime characters (gundams inclusive), walking into shops and not buying anything, walking into shops and buying something, and just more random walking. Went on saturday with keokfei and oscar, and sunday with just keokfei (cause there was no one else to go with...its lonely going there by yourself).

Bought tickets at 11am on saturday (initially pre-booked though, but no time to collect), though my sis was supposed to help me get one =.= but obviously she didnt. Queued for like 40mins? Before finally getting one. Walked in, looked around, took pictures with adrians camera (borrowed of course, not begged or stolen). Probably got like 20+ or 30 shots in before going to meet oscar. When he got his tickets, queued somemore at the KKnM stall again, thanks to keokfei for queuing up earlier so it was sorta faster. Looked around the stall, this time not really as nice las the last time, selection not as wide.

Walked somemore. Walked even more. Took pictures. Walked. Took more pictures. Walked. Stood somewhere watching this guy demo a really nice drawing using photoshop for awhile. Walked. (Yes...alot of walking. Explains why my feet hurt after the 5 and a half hours i was there, each day of course). Oh yes...adrian didnt come cause he had councillor. Sad.

There was this karaoke booth with japanese songs, with lotsa crazy people singing. There was this group of guys acting really high and keep singing a really upbeat song with "conviction". Then saw...jake, the one from 4ep last year. The very same one. And...he was singing... Yes singing. *ahem* well...it wasnt...that...great, but definitely better than some others. There was this person though, sang really well. Lotsa people gave an ovation after that, cool. But that was for one song...then came the piercing screech of nails on a blackboard. *sigh* back to wandering the streets of the convention hall. There is not a one in a million chance that i will try to sing, not there not ever. At least not in public.

Oh yeah...oscar bought, three pillows. Wow. They each cost almost $30... The covers on the pillows were cute, yes, but its just too expensivie for me. Wouldve bought if i could afford it though, the allen walker one looked sooo nice. まぁいいか

Wandered around once again, bought a really cool looking D Gray notebook (of which i will never bear to use) and a fate/stay night card booster pack (for barry-suanning purposes. Oh did i mention that i have an archer card? and a saber card). The K-On seiyu (the people who voice the characters of the anime K-On) came to give a live recording for the anime. Really interesting. Their normal voices already sound like the anime characters, as in even without trying. Sooooo interesting. Wanted to take a picture but the guards wouldnt let me. Dammit.

Sadly (not really la), had to go meet derrick and huiqi at toa payoh at 5pm to get ready clarissa's bday surprise (on both days). So left the convention centre, took a mrt there (got to sit down), went to giant to buy ingredients for the dinner and cheesecake we were making on sunday. Walked around, bought more stuff, ate dinner, walked around, met with adrian, went to huiqis house, made cheesecake, marinated prawns, made a mini-movie (funny of course), then went home. That was saturday. On sunday, went to huiqis house, alone, cause derrick forgot to bring the edited movie, got ready ingredients for the making of the dinner, derrick came, started cooking (head-chef derrick, assistant chef me). Menu was: Mushroom sauce/soup (portabello), fried rice (my specialty =D of course as usual i just threw in random leftover junk), mushroom omelette, boiled cabbages and baked butter n garlic prawns.

Took a long time to prepare. Luckily clarissa came up slightly late, if not cannot finish in time. Surprised her, ate dinner. All i can say is that...it was good. Especially the mushroom sauce (and now i know how to make it). Played around, did random stuff, then went home. Yup...thats about it. Now just gotta sleep to make sure i wake up for tomorrow's 30min school day. =.= retarded. The bus ride there already 2 times longer than the time that i will stay in school.

really dont wanna go to school tomorrow...but still have to
brendon...

2009-11-14T21:45:00.002+08:00

Ahahaha...no more PW!!! OP just finished on wednesday. Practiced sooo hard just for that one day, guess it was ok though. Went out with samuel, kelmond, liyan, marion, felicia and milly after that to err...marina square for lunch (and to celebrate of course). Ate at Breeks, first time i go there... While orders were being taken, the waitress asked what flavour of ice cream we wanted, then i didnt hear properly. So i said, 6 lime and chilli and 1 black pepper (cause thought asked what sauce we want on our chicken). So everyone started laughing...and i didnt know what was happening till the waitress said "no, no, no...what ice cream. Vanilla or chocolate" =.= *sigh*. Walked around marina after that. Walk walk walk...then decided to go to this puzzle shop. JIG-SAW PUZZLES. Havent done for sooo long, since pri school i think. Helped (disturbed) my mother while she was doing. Looked around and around, samuel wanted pokemon. Was tempted to get something too. Saw all the one piece, naruto and kingdom hearts puzzles...but no money. Sad. In the end only milly bought something though.

But...that wasnt enough. After not finding anything we wanted to buy we didnt just stop there. We went to suntec to look at the other outlet to see if there was any more interesting puzzles that we could get, cause the person at the counter gave us a list of outlets to go to. Ya so...we went there...busy searching again. Yet...no money = no money so...nope didnt get anything. Sat down for a while outside the shop, a long long long while...long long while (legs abit tired, abit only ah abit).

Then thursday, went to play tennis with samuel and kelmond at school *ahem* no i mean liyan's house. Drizzled when we reached the court but...a little bit of rain wouldnt hurt anyone. Played quite ok i think. Stopped at 4 then started playing card games till 6+.

Friday, got class outing to plaza sing haha. But only 9 people came, and quite unexpected, some at least, barry (got tricked and thought ayl coming also), elton, nicholson (last minute then come), christopher (without his gf). Then got...samuel, kelmond, joanna, liyan and of course...me. Watched 2012. Its an emo show...why would people wanna watch a movie about how they will die =.= weird. Then went to arcade awhile, played the usual. Then to look at puzzles again (yup again). This time...i was prepared. My mother said she will sponsor if i clean up my desk, hehheh, and if i choose a 2k piece puzzle. So...i chose a 2k piece puzzle ahaha. Doing it now. Samuel also bought one. 1k piece one only though...but with frame so like...very expensive. Wonder if he got his mom to sponsor...

Went for SL today. NYAA again. Helped organisers to get the small kids (really small kids...like 5 to 12 yrs old) registered and bring them to the track so that they...dont get lost? Dunno... Anyway, was really tiring. Had to walk/run 80m many times. Well that wasnt tiring actually, not as tiring as trying to get the small kids to stay in line. Oh well...

Going back to my 2k piece puzzle...i think its gonna take me a long time to finish it. My mom is voluntarily helping me with it, though i didnt actually want her to volunteer. Just feel that doing it myself brings greater satisfaction. Meh..

ok so...which piece was i trying to "place"
brendon...

2009-10-28T19:46:00.003+08:00

Whoa...got promo results back a couple of weeks ago i think...is it? Dunno, forgot already. Anyway, i managed to scrape past it...somehow. In short, im promoted =D (should be ahaha). Well...comments on my results. Im sorta happy i guess, though not content. Seriously. Oh well...you get what you work for i guess. Compared to some people, my "hard work" seems like their usual everyday stuff. Gotta congratulate them for being so consistent...
Ok so...had to spam WR for a week all the way till the recent monday...sooo tired. Managed to get past that too hahahahaa, somehow. Like all somehow somehow hoh. Yeah so, cause of that, i still havent changed my outlook on PW. It...fries...my...brain... =.= My group is probably on the top 10 most rejected WR list. It's like we didnt even actually start our current topic till a few weeks before promos. Thats a really really short time to do a WR. But...the bright side is, it's over, and it was sorta good. I knew we could do it *claps*. Thanks for sticking together and not giving up when faced with sooooo (note the number of o's) many rejections from the evil fussy ng.
Now theres OP. The last stretch of PWness till the void is filled. Once this is over...i never ever (ever ever ever ever ever ever) wanna hear a P and a W put side by side as a word ever again. Done with the slides and all...reached my goal of only putting a max of 10 words per slide waahahaha. Now just gotta put away with my nervousness. Maybe i should /headbang to relieve some of the stress (*ahem* Le Chatelier's Principle lol. Remnants of studying).

On a lighter note...went to Junction 8 with the class today. Really a HUGE group lol. Only the really really uninteractive people didnt come, excluding those not taking PW of course (you know who...+2). I means its like...even those usually relatively quiet people came. Thats...extremely shocking. Its a really good sign. Ate pizza hut students meal, $7 each. Sat in front of Barry...had a lot of laughs, lol...always interesting. Listened to him talk about the many ways to kill AYL. Took a few class photos too. Its on fb =D

Went back to school to continue doing OP, though spent most of the time looking at the others play sims2 (*cough* for manipulative people only *cough*). Decided on colours for the class t which the class has yet to make...though i must say the shirt design is really nice, wonder how shixun came up with it. Didnt make it today cause was kinda late, soo....tomorrow or friday i guess. Cant wait to wear it.

Now...time for some games. Restaurant city and stuff like that...fb applications. Maybe a dash of dota and a sprinkle of runescape to blend it all together.

*sigh*
brendon...

2009-10-13T20:35:00.002+08:00

WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH
This marks the END of my promos *claps*. Thank you thank you *waves hand*. Yup...officially promo-free (class tests not included). Well...its been a rough ride, so many decisions, so many distractions. Whether to play dota, runescape, facebook, or to study (ratio is 3 : 1, guess which i spent more time on). Studied really hard, i think..., so hopefully will get my time's worth. Difficulty of papers...quite high, higher than i expected (and past year promos) so...yeah maybe didnt go as well as planned, but hey...looking on the bright side, i managed to do some. Maybe that some is enough.

Went to cut hair with adrian and clarissa again. Took the wrong bus...then go till highway...again. Why does this keep happening to me...like 3rd time or something already. Had to take another bus back to eunos mrt then take mrt to aljunied, waste money lol, lucky still student fare. Walk walk walk, then cut cut cut, then got dragged by the both of them to watch phobia 2 (some paranormal movie). It..was...scary...despite all (or anyone) of you who say that its funny/boring/watever adjectives you can think of, its scary. To me anyway. Ahhhh this is why i really hate watching these kinda shows =.= now i wont be able to sleep.

Ok...changing topics so that i dont remember anything from that show, cant wait for tomorrow. Gonna play tennis with some of the fg guys (though im probably the only one who can? maybe. Hoping someone else plays better than me though) at oscar's place. Wooohoo. Oh well...time to spam games which i have been lacking for so long (about a week or so).

*...*
brendon...

2009-09-10T10:57:00.002+08:00

Ahahaha holiday week...recently been noticing that holidays arent really holidays no more. Promos in another 2 more weeks, more like a study (mugging) break. Ahh...when can i ever enjoy my holidays ever again...probably after A's...crap. Ohh well.

Ok, went back to chung cheng during teacher's day a week ago or something i think. Found aaron, met james at the bus stop. First thing they walked to was...the canteen =.= Come back to chung cheng to eat lunch haha. Noticed that they had this cool new attendance marking thing. Just tap the ezlink and put fingerprint then will take attendance...so simple. So we the jc people who have never seen this kinda thing before, went to play with it (keep taking fingerprints although it keeps saying access denied).

So after aaron and james ate finish (which took forever), we went to find some teachers and say hi. Met davamoni, apparently he still remembers me o.o niiccceee, but as a very quiet boy which...i dont think i was, was i? Anyway, there was veronica tan and loong lay na. Veronica tan couldnt recognise me till i took off my glasses...this proves that, glasses make me look unrecognisable. Cool. All i gotta do to sneak off if put on my glasses then no one will know who i am. Looks like the logic about superman wearing just a pair of glasses as a disguise really does work. Walked around more, met lotsa friends around, then went to meet up with the rest of the class, as in our sec4 class. Went to play netball ahahaha, after looking for teachers that is. Play for dunno how long...in the sun...almost gave me a sunburn. Went to parkway after that to eat lunch and stuff, then went home (walked hehheh...20mins nia).

Went out with oscar, zifeng, yawonn, jer, tianming and zunwei at night for steamboat at kallang again. Something like a catching up session i guess. Ate alot as usual, they spammed oil again as usual, and someone (this time zifeng) played with the food again as usual. Ahhh good times gooood times... How i miss the sec sch days.

Moving on. Dont remember anything interesting recently...hmm. Had to go back to school on monday for extra lessons. Maths lecture on...vectors. Sooo confusing. Can only understand after i do the tutorial (wait..before anyone says anything, yes peoples, im actually doing the tutorial). Then had physics, went through lecture test on circles and thermal (omg i actually got a B for it...1 more mark to A o.o *currently in shock*). Then was maths (again..) tutorial with the psycho...ahem...i mean mr tam, the ever eccentric maths teacher. Vectors...again. Its really gonna be my most hated maths topic very soon (ok not soon...NOW). K..i've taken too long a break...going back to, guess what, VECTORS. *yawn*

a.b=|a||b|cos(insert angle here)
brendon...

2009-08-26T18:58:00.002+08:00

Happy birthday to zhengxuan, milly, simon and shuyi ahahaha. Oh and of course.............ME!!! tytyty. I would like to thank everyone who wished me a happy birthday, on facebook, in school, by sms, by msn, no matter how or when, so touched that you all remembered *wipes tears from eyes* sniff. I would list down all your names but theres like too many, and im afraid that i'll miss someone out so...no listing. I would especially like to thank my classmates, who gave me such a niiicccee present (seriously like the hp strap), celebrated OUR birthday (ok zhengxuan? didnt forget), and smeared my face with cream (that i could still smell 2hrs after washing it off). Also, all the co people who celebrated AGAIN, with qimian almost pressing my head into the cake when i was taking out the candle with my mouth =.= And to those who sorta forgot my birthday: its ok, cause 16 to 17 really doesnt make me feel that much different. Just slightly older...which is bad ahaha. Besides, theres always next year, and the next year, and the next year, and the next year, cause next year tends to infinity.

Anyway, im still finding it really cool that zhengxuan, milly and i (perfect english hehhehheh), all share the exact same birthday and came out from the same hospital. I mean its like the person in the cot next to me in the baby ward could have been them. Shocking isnt it. Yes i think so too.

Well..gonna go out to eat satay as a birthday meal. Ahahaha...though come back still need to pack up my maths file and do the tutorials that i havent finished (which...is quite a few). As much as i wish my birthday landed on a holiday (so that theres no homework or studying involved), i suppose there are still perks to having it in august. One, no exam (not in jc anyway). Two, you get to celebrate it with friends. Oh well...

=D =D =D (one for each triplet haha)
brendon...

2009-08-18T20:16:00.002+08:00

Soooo tired now...ahhh. Havent blogged for the past few days. Not really cause i was busy, more like...lazy to blog.
Ok, so saturday and sunday i went with adrian to the comics convention at suntec. His friend keokfei and manchung came too. Had geog lecture in the morn till 11am so met them at 2, of which adrian...was late, by like 20mins or something. Yeah anyway, when we went into the convention hall and took a look around, adrian kept saying that this year wasnt as good as last year...great. Im guessing financial crisis ahaha. There was this dota poster (the one in the loading screen) which looked really nice. It was like laminated and colour printed...sadly it cost $50. Sooo expensive. Walked around then saw these hatsune miku ezlink stickers, which was quite nice (and cheap), so i bought like...2 of them. There goes $3. There were all these comic artists signing autographs at a booth somewhere, with many many comic collectors holding their little cardboard protected comics wrapped in plastic walking around and queueing up. Expected. Walked around somemore then got abit bored i think, so we went to eat macs cause adrian wanted to. Went to sunshine plaza (somewhere in bugis) to find the kknm shop (sells anime stuff), didnt get anything cause they were half closed (seriously half closed...one side was barricaded). Went home after that i think...

Sunday, went again. This time there was a cosplay competiton. I dont really have much interest in it...just like to look at the sword props that the cosplayers make (cause they're soooo nice, specifically swords btw). Booked a seat (being kiasu) 2hrs before it started, then waited there playing psp and reading manga. Some were good some were just embarrassing...seriously embarrassing. After it was over, like already 5+. Went to walk around, bought a few more stuff, then went home. Very waste time hoh...

Yesterday, had lessons...bleh. Couldnt find my class during flag raising ahahaha. Then during the announcements, found out that my class was being quarantined in the atrium...oh yeah during the weekends, someone in my class (barry) had h1n1. So...if within the next 10days i fall ill with a fever, well...good luck to adrian. Anyway, study study study...didnt have a break cause my physics got pushed up to fill in my 1hr break in the morning. Ended school at like..2.30? Played tennis with samuel and kelmond before i went home. For like, 2hours or something. Total 2hrs...the first 30mins was plagued with lightning warning systems. Got a slight blister after that but its fine, doesnt hurt now.

Then today, probably the most tiring day. had a 2 and a half hr break cause didnt have geog lecture (geog teachers on strike ahaha, no la. Teachers not in school). Played tennis again for 2hrs. Then during pe, played tennis again for another hr with elton (man...school team one ok). Played badminton after that for 15mins in the hall cause gonna go for badminton interclass, so sorta have to get used to the whole doubles thing with nicholson. Learnt a few doubles tactics too ahaha. Rested for about half an hour talking to derrick, samuel and liyan in the canteen...then went to play basketball cause yuxi asked me to (not a very good reason i know). Played for about an hour...THEN went home. So now...my ankles really hurt. So does my right arm. Oh yeah...i currently look like a brownish apple. Think i got a slight sunburn or something. Oh well...it was fun any case.

Gonna have chem spa on thurs...great. Gotta go remember the anomalous results thing and the table for burette readings. Grrr...
At least im gonna stay back for night study again tomorrow, as with the other past wednesdays. It works...so why not.

study hard. play much much much harder.
brendon...

2009-08-07T19:40:00.002+08:00

Woohoo, went for a night of night study in school on wednesday after co. At first it was supposed to be together with some of my classmates, samuel, liyan, kelmond, and a few others but they didnt go in the end. So i figured since i already brought my curry rice dinner that i made ffrom home the night before, might as well stay. Lucky for me some of the co people were gonna stay back so i went to study with them instead. Thanks to that, i FINALLY know how to do mathematical induction =.= Took me 1 and a half hrs to figure out the steps involved and understand it. Maths is like...so confusing... Reached home at 10.30+ on that day if i remember correctly...so sleepy when i reached home.

Ok then yesterday was my usual longest day for the week. 7.30 to 5.30 as usual. Missed my bus...cause i was playing psp at the bus stop. Was in the middle of fighting a few monsters when 155 went past...only noticed when i felt the shadow of the bus covering me, obviously by then abit too late. Went for maths tutorial late cause of that. Had to take an alternative...which was longer. Openly walked into the room while my teacher was teaching functions...i think he was in a good mood or something...didnt say anything. Either that or he got fed up with no one coming, cause like half the class was missing.

Then today was the national day celebration thing...something like a games day. Played in the inter-class captains ball section...first round, other team forfeited cause they didnt come. Second round, well...we lost. Oh well. Walked around random places cause had lotsa time...went to the canteen to get a drink, met adrian who dragged me to the atrium to play a few games, where i didnt do all that well after all. Then...went to watch my class run the 4x100m relay woohooo~ Sadly didnt do too well, but they give it their best so its fine. Played basketball for an hour or something till chem lecture started after that. Electrochemistry lecture at lt3 from 11.30 till 1...quite interesting but the aircon like not working...so very warm. I was sweating for almost the first 45mins so very humid around me ahaha. Had ct investiture rehearsal after chem lecture...so sian, cant even go home early during halfday. Ended at 4...sad. So its like a normal day of school cept with no lessons, no homework, cept for the fact that i had to do eom on thursday night till 1am in the morn...grrr pw. Not that im complaining or anything...

just another 19 more days =D
brendon...

2009-08-01T23:07:00.002+08:00

Ahhh...no tennis tomorrow, gonna feel so bored. My dad thinks i should study tomorrow instead of playing, so yeah. Oh well, i already played tennis on thursday with samuel in school before pe for like...30mins? The school racket really isnt very good...no vibration control, afraid that if i play too long my bones will shatter or something (it will you know). Maybe i'll get to play again next week during pe since the teacher not coming anyway. Can sneak away to the tennis courts or something hehheh *plots escape route*.

Ok, so i went for the syf presentation ceremony performance thing on thursday after pe which was at 4pm. So excited haha...esplanade leh. Can go backstage wander around, though the inside of the durian makes it feel like a hospital ward =.= but other than that, it was really nice. Drinks provided. Met some of my tjc friends, yaoxiang, jingwen and sianlin backstage, went to explore the room allocated to their school. Walked around somemore after that cause i had to get out when all the other tjc people came. Then performance time. The whole theatre was filled la omg...even those on the top seats. For some reason i didnt get nervous...which is good. Normally i would be panicking and having stage fright by then. Anyway, it was a really great experience. Kept my esplanade pass as a memento for the day when i got back to the co room.

Then then then, today ahhh, there was an impromptu performance at east coast the big splash there. Some red cross charity drive thing or something is it? Yeah then practiced (learnt) 2 songs in the morning for about 3hours for the performance. So...imagine that...practice for 3hrs then can perform 2 songs liao. Sooo pro right? Hahaha... Ok fine it wasnt very good, but like no choice cause no time to practice. Alot of people in co got sick also...like more than 10+ people at once. Like epidemic like that...hopefully not h1n1, if not i probably kena also. But seriously...how is it possible that 10+ people can fall sick on the same day. So im taking all precautionary measures...eating lotsa fruits and drinking lotsa water. Staying healthy man...

Oh and about h1n1, my chem and physics teachers teach in the class that got that h1n1 case. So...dangerous dangerous. Whats worse is that i sit with my chem teacher on the bus very often...so if he gets a fever within the next 7days or something...you get the idea. Great...they should jsut quarantine the whole school or something.

achooo...
brendon...

2009-07-28T22:07:00.002+08:00

Wah...so busy. Saturday, went for kids athletics event (some service learning thing) to watch small kids run round and round. So fun... Ok before that, met with samuel, liyan and joanna at dhoby ghaut mrt at supposedly 10.30. Reached an hour early cause my mom was going there anyway so she sent me there (shun bian mah). Sat at some food shop drinking lemontea with my mom talking about some random stuff and reading newsweek the whole time, then went to find the rest when samuel called. Then...found both of them sitting in a corner playing solitare on an ipod =.=

Then...then then...went to find joanna who was err...roaming around somewhere outside plaza sing. Went to this place called err...something acia or something like that. Dunno dunno. Had some teriyaki chicken i think, and free flow of ice cream, though didnt eat that much. Ok...now for the mrt ride. Long long ride...from dhoby all the way to bukit gombak. Stood at the doors (the ones that dont keep opening of course) when we hit redhill...enjoying the smaller things in life ahahaha. Samuel joined me a short while later. We like basically just stood there staring at the scenery for most of the trip. Felicia found us when we reached jurong east...after much searching.

Saw marion at bukit gombak. Apparently she reached at like...11+ or something i think. Or was that 12...ahh nvm. Found our way to the stadium, where we sat, and talked. I went to be the timer for the runs, so slack ahahaha (not that i chose it cause of that. they just asked for 3 people then i went), and sat in the umpires chair (with shade of course) for most of the day just pressing buttons. Was kinda fun...and quite funny at some parts. Small kids...funny people. Had a huge break some time in the middle of the event, so i took the time to be hardworking o.o and studied reaction kinetics.

Went to city hall after the whole thing was over to meet my parents and my aunts and grandparents (mother's side). Granddad's birthday woohooo. 76 years. Went to the NUS clubhouse at suntec...bbq bbq buffet somemore. Soooooo nice. Got beef, lamb, sotong...baked potato... Yeah so was out till really late.

Played tennis again on sunday for an hour and a half. Practiced my serve...havent played in a long long time. Forehand not hitting right anymore...gotta set it straight. Didnt do much other than that.

Went to esplanade yesterday cause of co. Syf presentation ceremony or something. Gonna have to perform on thursday...at night yeah. Leaving school at 4 on that day i think...so tiring, hope i dont screw up. Oh yeah, im really high about this pass i got from the esplande that allows me to go to random places. Looks sooo...errr...ok its a normal entry pass but its my first normal entry pass ahahaha. Ok siao liao...

mugging like theres no tmr
brendon...

2009-07-23T23:51:00.002+08:00

Ahhh...so tired. Been sleeping so late the past few days cause of that wretched WR =.= Tomorrow's the deadline for the second draft, omg...havent ironed out the little creases in my paper yet *takes an iron out* .

Anyway, today was chinese listening compre. Hopefully my ears were receiving the right signals from the radio thing, if not...well im dead. It was generally ok, cept for the part after the paper where everyone had like...different answers for a few of the questions. Which means that, it wasnt that good after all haha.

Ok...on a side note, im studying...yes studying. Something that i havent done since O's, something that im still so not used to. Setting goals now, 70 for the coming chem test and 60 for the coming maths one. Watch me reach it peoples!!! Ahahahahaha...

Gonna go for that service learning thing this saturday. That...err...wazzat called again? Something about student athletics or something. Saturday's gonna be packed with stuff. First CO then service learning then grandpa's birthday. Not gonna be home for the whole day...great. At least i get to eat nice food hehheh.

sleepysleepy
brendon...

2009-07-16T23:32:00.002+08:00

Watched half blood prince today with weijie and darren. Yes it just came out today, so im basically watching on premiere night. Had to book the tickets like a week in advance...then had to go to one of the most unused cinemas...i think. AMK hub...like not many people go there to watch movies or something. HBP was well...disappointing, but thats what i usually say for most of the hp movies. They cut too much and focus on the wrong aspect, thats all i gotta say. But like no choice, cause if not wouldnt have been just 154 minutes. Meh...at least i got to play an hour of arcade before the movie.

Oh yeah...got exam papers back. It was a torture, as if someone repeatedly drove a tractor full of cows over you over and over again. In short...im sooo dead. Ok fine, so there are lotsa people who failed subs, more than one even. My grades...SSUU for my 4H2 subs. Omg...cannot get promoted if this continues. As for GP and chinese, my grades were a little more forgiving. Wont show them here, so ask me if you really wanna know. So basically i passed my 2H1s but failed all my 4H2s. Wonderful aint it...

Then theres the WR for projectwork. Once again...full of problems, all the substantiation stuff. Which means, i gotta spend time doing WR again. Great...and i thought it was quite good too. Gotta reach school at 7.30 tomorrow again...not for lessons, for pw. Oh well, at least my group members are enthu about it, sorta.

Tired...been studying sooo hard o.o (ya really studying. You people dont laugh, this is not a joke). Will finish off gases notes tomorrow...if i dont get distracted that is.

PV=nRT chem mugger
brendon...

2009-07-04T23:18:00.002+08:00

Ahahaha 4 days of no sch~ started yesterday. Jealous peoples? Yes? Awww too bad. Kay i shall stop being a jerk, rubbing it into ur faces. Yeah so...gonna go out the first 3 days out of the 4. Which means...i went out yesterday =D and today. All cause my exams are officially over (and cause i think all my subs wont make it to anywhere above 50%).

Went to marina with derrick and clarissa...to...walk around. Played the ufo catcher thing...the game where you gotta grab the toy with the claw...yeah that thing. I think the 2 spent like...alot...on that stuff. 20+ maybe? All i spent my money on was arcade... They...siao liao. Clarissa went all crazy with the little elmos...then keep putting in money trying to get the big bird (yes the sesame street one). So...that took up like...an hour or 2...or 3...

For today...went to orchard with oscar to collect my jap cert...which i found out that they need time to print so i gotta go back there 2 weeks later. Yeesh.. Then met up with kendall and zunwei, went to suntec convention centre to watch some wcg games. Dota... But saw lotsa cosplayers too. Was wondering why my sis wasnt there...till i got home and she told me that she was. Yeah so i was there for like 2+ hrs and i didnt see her...nice. Got bored looking at the people playing dota and tekken 6, so went down. Met tianming and jerald (and emily...) downstairs. Then went up again...cause tianming wanted to see the competition...i think. So stayed there for another like...hour or so.

Went to watch transformers : revenge of the fallen after that. Dunno why people say not very nice...thought very very action packed. Soooo cool haha. The way the transformers transform also like soooo cool. Oh yeah...they like to stab optimus in the heart. Did it 3 times in the whole movie...then optimus took revenge and stabbed another guy in the heart. Keep a lookout for it ahahaha. All i can say is that...the autobots look so much more colourful than the deceptacons. No wonder they're the good guys.

woohoooo~
brendon...

2009-06-29T23:42:00.002+08:00

Omg...MJ has kicked the bucket...ok fine that was on like the 25th or something...but still quite shocking. Watched his vids on youtube for the past 2 days...man...he dances really well. My dad went all hyper talking about him..he says its pop culture that i should learn or something. Apparently i still have one of his records...the one for gramaphone one...cool. If you wanna listen to MJs songs, i recommend Beat It, Thriller, Bad, You are not alone and Billy Jean =D

Oh yeah...school just started today. The moment i walked into the school gate...got people start questioning about trips overseas. Lucky the only place i went was malaysia...to visit grandparents. Of course like shun bian kope some durians back...durian season...weather so hot somemore. Hot weather equals alot of really nice durians. Bought a whole box of durians for like S$10...i think there were like 12 whole durians in that box...eat till sian haha. Took me a whole 4 days to eat finish them all...eat after lunch and dinner for 4 days...at least didnt get nose bleed.

Anyway back to school...yeah. Exams first thing in the morning...geography and maths today. Met mr lim on the bus...becoming a regular occurrence liao. Studied geog in the bus and before the exam...migration and fertility...a lot of words. Took the test...almost fell asleep cause i was thinking too hard o.o

Dunno how well i'll actually do...hopefully a B...or C....or D...ok maybe not D.
Maths was a torture...like sure die kinda thing...but will definitely be better than the other 2 lecture tests which i so plainly flunked. Know why it'll be better? cause i studied...finally...after about 4 months in school. Well..wish me luck...im definitely gonna need it

RIP MJ from singapore
brendon...

2009-06-20T09:40:00.002+08:00

Woooo join Darigan Citadel!!! Haha...playing neopets now cause theres the altador cup. Gotta get darigan to first place this year again...haha dont think alot of people will know what im talking about. RO2 private servers are fun too...though would prefer if the actual one is released...makes training my character more meaningful.

Anyway, i just finished my summation tutorial for maths...what good progress... =.= Done with physics and chem, i think. I just flipped through the lecture notes and did a few questions...can do = done. Heh... I dont think i'll do well for mid yrs at this rate...but im trying out something...its an experiment to see how i should study for EOYs. Using mid years as a test subject.

Oh yeah...heard holidays may be extended by a week...it would be a good thing...if the december holidays wouldnt be cut short by a week. I like my december holidays too much to give it up to some evil H1N1 virus that gives people dihorrea, vomiting, high fever and the usual flu symptoms. Uhhh...now about PW...gpp still not spproved...great. Getting better though...maybe the next time my group meets mr lim it'll be done. Maybe... Still dont like pw though...

Well...my rank is gonna increase soon...time to grind somemore yooyuballs

layton vickles =D
brendon...

2009-06-09T14:06:00.002+08:00

Omg...no more fever...nice. Like 3hrs cured...wahahahaha...now 37.7 degrees...
i think i have an overactive immune system or something...

die bacteria die...
brendon...

2009-06-09T11:57:00.002+08:00

Whooo...so fun...i have H1N1!!! No la..just kidding...thought i do have a fever. Yesterday too much BBQ liao...says my dad. 39.8 degrees this morning when i took my temperature...high sia...almost high fever liao. but wats interesting is that im not sneezing or coughing. No sore throat either...like got no symptoms besides high temperature, headache and loss of feeling in my arms and legs...ok maybe not so bad.

Ok...see im such a faithful blogger...have fever still can blog haha. So i have a ice cold towel on my head now...cant see the keyboard, put my head down will drop. Have to use my hands memory of the keys...so troublesome. Oh yeah...was supposed to have gpp meeting today...so with this...how i go...sry people.

Anyway yesterday had co chalet...only went for the BBQ...so fun..stand there cook food. Rode bikes with percussion section then go eat and eat. Black pepper fish was niiicce...though only ate one.

Ok i think im not thinking straight now...my organisation of paragraphs are like totally off...

my good friend the panadol...
brendon

2009-06-02T20:10:00.002+08:00

Wahahaha i passed my jap!! whooo 80/100...its an A. Got the marks yesterday while mr lim was talking to my group about gpp. Haha...

Anyway, today right...i walked out to the main road from my house right...then then, for those people who came to my house before, you know that bus stop nearest to my house? Err yeah the one that has bus 13 that one. Yeah anyway, that bus stop got smashed this morning. (not by angry mobs holding pitchforks and torches but...) cause of some car accident. There was like parts of a car in the debris...then like half of the bus stop was taken down. You know those safety poles put in front of the bus stop, with the reflective strip to protect the people in the bus stop? Yeah...that was completely obliterated. At first there was like 5 i think...then now theres 1 left (last man standing). Then one of those long seats were destroyed... Glad it happened in the middle of the night probably after 12 or something...dont think anyone would be sitting there waiting for a bus at that time. Meh...only saw the aftermath when going to eat breakfast with my dad. He was driving then i was at the window staring...

Ok...changing topics...went to the national library (the bugis one) to do gpp. Reached there then realised that the library is not a place for discussion...(now why didnt i think of that earlier...) so went to raffles city the burger king there to do. Talk talk talk for awhile then finish ahahaha...so fast. Then walked around for awhile...look here look there...then went home. Oh yeah...saw tianming when walking from bugis mrt station to the library...still wonder what he was doing there...meh...who knows.

やったぜ
brendon...

2009-05-31T09:52:00.002+08:00

Ahhhh...no more exams till after hols...finally. GP ended on friday...i think im sooo dead...dunno if write compo till off topic or not. Compre was like...seemingly simple. Deceptive...give me a sense of hope then when get back paper that time see that i fail...teachers are evil. Reached school at 10.30 on friday...supposed to do gpp in the morning, then walk to canteen to buy drinks and saw marion who told me that the ms ng (pw hod) who we were supposed to consult say that not confirmed so in the end dun have to meet. Met weikee then went to library to study...err not study, should be "study". Flipped through 2 newsweek magazines, read the sample essays then played psp...im soo hardworking...heh. After that like nothing much happened...just play play eat play then go for exam.

Ok...then yesterday had jap exam also. Scary...some questions like trick questions like that...purposely made to kill me. But overall i think can pass...i hope. By right some should be able to get...but like so tired yesterday...had to drink coffee before the exam to wake me up. Tired cause in the morning got that dumb leadership training thing for vice-chairs. Make me wake up at 6.30 when i sleep at 1...grrr... Luckily i got to leave early cause of my jap lesson.

Oh yeah...on a random note...my sis is soo dead this year. She failed every single subject that she took besides art elect and english. Sad aint it. The day my parents saw her report book they went beserk...so now my sis has to study...for some reason in my room =.= Study also have to study in my room...

no more EXAMS
brendon...

2009-05-28T19:28:00.002+08:00

Tomorrows GP exam...how to study for it...i have no idea watsoever. So...good luck peeps...have fun doing essay tomorrow...i think im as good as dead. Meh.. well look on the bright side, at least the HOLIDAYS are starting after that. Yeah...holidays wahahaha. I gotta finish all my maths, physics and chem tutorials over a period of a month. Lucky no CO for the time being...if not maybe no time to do liao. Oh yeah...i passed geog wahahaha. Thank you physical geog.

PW is torture as always...havent been sleeping much cause of it... At least i learnt something from that, i talk alot of crap when i dont have enough sleep...in short...get high. Why? No idea...maybe cause i dont think. But then again since when do i think in the first place...

Ok...so the circle line opens today, the yellow part...dunno wats it called, but why should i care. Maybe more convenient for some people =.= but for me...if i take i will have to change mrt lines twice...no point. Wish there was a faster way to get to school...1hr 15mins is quite a long time (ok maybe cause im comparing with sec school...30mins to get to school is actually quite fast). Maybe i can persuade my parents to send me to school (though highly impossible since my dad doesnt wanna get out of bed that early).

Anyway...back to doing gpp...lotsa research to do. Damn pw...i will condemn you for the rest of my jc life.

need...sleep...
brendon...

2009-05-22T20:05:00.003+08:00

Wahahaha....my group's gpp got REJECTED!!! hahahahaha...so not funny =.=

Great...now gotta find another area to conserve cause the previous one wasnt feasible enough. Grrr...damn pw...me and pw is like bittergourd and orange juice...they dont mix. Oh speaking about orange juice...i think i'll go drink some. Ahh anyway, written report is like...coming up...havent even passed gpp then next week or something have to submit report outline. To all you poly people reading this...i hope ya'll are happy now, cause im not.

Ok enough complaining. Jap lessons end next week with an exam...which is the day after gp exams. Which means...i have 2 exams instead of 1...ouch. Luckily all the other exams are after june holidays...means i have time to study everything that i havent done tutorials for...which is like almost everything. Have to hand in files also...with the tutorials inside...and i havent done much, which means im soo sooo dead.

Oh yeah...i passed my Napfa (which, in my school means getting a silver btw), so can finally start playing games. Played badminton for 2hrs yesterday...so sore now. On a totally random note, co japan trip was cancelled due to the damn swine flu...though it doesnt really kill anyone, not sars. Was looking forward to it too...ohh well...

polar bears...ok random...
brendon...

2009-05-17T14:54:00.002+08:00

Well...now that the GWH thing had kinda died down...(ok actually died down some time ago liao...) im really bored.
Gonna have a physics test tomorrow i think...yeah should be. Great...then my answers to the maths test is probably the same as junk paper. Meh...good luck to me...

Ok those stuff aside, went for this first aid training for vice chairs and health reps last wednesday. Learnt about basic first aid...like how to tend to cuts, wounds, even bigger wounds...burns and stuff like that. Also learnt CPR...ahah...dont even know what im learning all this for. Looks like vice chairs have to save lives... Anyway, this whole thing took 3hrs...and co was having some celebration...of which i couldnt go. So...during the break between CPR training and fire fighting, me and qimian went to the co room to take some food to eat. Fire fighting was really dumb. They showed us how to use a fire extinguisher, we tried, sprayed on a makeshift fire, then that was the end of it...*yawn*. Went to co room to take pics with section after that...wonder how many pics they took...like so many. Oh yaaaa....send me the pics plzkthx!!

Just finished 5 items yesterday...the napfa test that one. I actually managed to do 3 pullups...wow. Which means....all thats left is the 2.4....gotta pass that...then i dont gotta retake. Yay. Dont think ive been very active lately...maybe should go play basketball more or something. Ahh...so many things to do...so much time...just dont wanna do it..haha.

conservation topic...momentum
brendon...

2009-05-07T17:58:00.002+08:00

OMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOLLLDDDD WWWIIIIITTTTTHHHHHH HOOONNNNOOOOUUUURRRRRRSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

So high now hahahahahaha...seriously cant believe it. Grats to NYCO for getting GWH! Everyone worked sooooo hard...endured soooo much err...scolding (toture), but well...it paid off. *applause for all* Actually i dont find i did very much...haha just very glad and relieved. Oh well...good job everyone

Ok...just a recap of yesterday...reached school at 6.40 thanks to my dad for fetching me...cause buses around my house didnt run that early. Went to the co room to find it locked...walked around then saw qimian. Waited till co room open then went to change to performance uniform. Practiced a few times then started to move instuments...so tiring....lucky didnt have to bring timpani or xylo. Went to SCH, sleeping on the bus...sleepy... then unloaded, saw tjc people like jingwen/yaoxiang/sianlin, talked with them for awhile. Then apparently i was supposed to go move the instruments...haha but no one could find me. (i like whole day keep MIA...says pohyih...). Was backstage listening to...i think pjc perform. They were...err...ok la. Then there was a lunch break, then performance time. Didnt feel nervous till i actually walked on stage...didnt have to do anything during the first song...just stand at one side like statue.

Next song, got really nervous then. glad i didnt mess up by accidentaly hitting when im not supposed to...or getting dynamics wrong. My arms and legs were practically shaking...almost hit wrong...cause of the way i have to hit the cymbals. Anyway...it was a relief after it ended. Went back to school, went to AMK hub with most of the percussion people and teachers for lunch. Many thanks to the teachers for treating ichiban sushi =D

Walked around and around...then went back to SCH to listen to results. Sat outside the concert room cause cannot go in... Was shocked when i heard the results...everyone was like screaming...then i realised i was screaming too..i think.

Went back to school to celebrate...sorta paraded back to the co room...so funny. Chatted, played basketball and marimba till like 9.50+ or something...then went home. Didnt slp till 12.30...watching anime hahaha. Yeah...so tired now...this morning still had chinese test...*yawn* well...at least im more free now. Can wake up later on saturdays also...

GWHGWHGWHGWHGWHGWH
brendon...

2009-04-25T23:43:00.003+08:00

Ahhh....sooooo busy these few weeks...all thanks to syf *yawn*
Ok once again i met my chem teacher on the bus....seems like its becoming a very common occurrence...gaah. That was on...when ah...tuesday i think. Yeah, tuesday morning at 7+ at paya lebar mrt. Moving on...to wednesday. The day that i overslept...(not my fault...alarm clock seemingly didnt ring...) and went to chinese lesson like...15mins late. Absolutely wonderful...hope i didnt miss much...

Ohh yeah...wanna know why co is tiring me? Cause i always reach home really late...like 10+pm...on tuesdays, wednesdays and for this week...friday. Problem is, i dont get to play my part at all...cause the conductor keeps going through the song that doesnt have my part. Meh... Anyway, got to skip gp lecture and tutorial on wednesday cause of the performance during the assembly period (not that i wanted to in the first place)...im sure some people *ahem ahem* were sniggering...cause of it =.= You people know who you are...

Now for a recap of today. Which...is...saturday. Reached school at 8am cause my mom sent me, had co "practice" till 11+ (played basketball with yuxi and qimian...cause i had nothing to do...) then went back to the co room to finally play the song that i get to play. Walking into the co room after a basketball match was awkward...cause everyone was like staring at the 3 of us when we walked though the door...the seniors (renyi to be exact) were like...clapping... Played the song twice or something then went for break. Got ready for the college day performance (carried instruments and stuff...blah blah...) then slacked somemore. Did a few pull ups then went to change into performance costume which looks quite nice haha... Despite the slight mess ups, i think the performance went relatively well...i hope. Ahh ya then...rushed for jap lesson...of which i was late by 30mins. Yes 30mins...

Didnt reach home till like...11pm...which was an hour ago...so...yeah. Im still blogging though...hehheh...soooo tired. Think im gonna fall asleep on the keyboard...i sacrafice so much to blog...all you readers should be happy wahahahaha. Jkjk

Ohh yeah....almost forgot...me is the class vice-chair. Looks like i wont have time in the months to come...at all.

pw is fun...when pigs fly...
brendon...

2009-04-17T21:32:00.002+08:00

Whoo today so slack...3 lessons only...PE, chem tutorial and chinese. I love even week fridays =D

Ok yesterday right...when i was going to school, i saw mr dennis lim on the bus again...omgomg. I was playing my psp at the paya lebar busstop waiting for 24/135 to come...then when i got up 135, i saw this guy walking to the back of the bus in front of me. I was like thinking "hey...this guy looks familiar...oh no...is it who i think it is? cant be la...so early in the morn" then...he turn around to sit down... =.= Then i waved...with my err..ok look (ahh...you know the one i always give) and said err....hi. Sat in the seat right in front of him...seriously wondering what he was thinking...watching me play my psp the whole time haha. Well...he didnt ask me to do chem with him...not even awake so early in the morning do chem. Yeah anyway, after we got down he like...questioned me about my chem test mark...so i told him i didnt study blahblah...yeah. Then go for lessons...wasnt too bad...i think.

Lessons were sorta the usual, boring stuff...finding chem even more fun with all the bonding structures and dipole stuff. Dont we all love chem? hahahahaha...kay nvm back to today. Revised chem by teaching faisal...hopefully i didnt get anything wrong...sorry in advance if i did =p Err...yeah...then frisbee for pe, chinese...same old textbook stuff. Chem was well...very tutorialish. Yeah. Watched teachers get dunked during the colours of hope carnival thing. Hmm...oh yeah thanks to zhengxuan for buying me a drink using barrys coupons (means im sorta indirectly thanking barry...i think). Played basketball with yuxi and other people while walking past the basketball court...excercise is good for your health...but its damn tiring.

Well yeah thats it...besides the fact that i met my sis on the way home...havent interrogated her for that...cause shes not supposed to be able to meet me on my way home. Hmm...guess i'll do it now.

me likes tetrahedral structures...
brendon...

2009-04-10T17:30:00.002+08:00

Man...so tired of doing PI...at first didnt even know what topic to do about...so sian. Finally figured out then still gotta do research...even more sian. Then researching that time cant find a single thing...even more sian. Research finish liao then gotta type it out...sian. So in short...PI is sian. Anyway...im doing conservaton...my topic...dunno if acceptable or not...ahhhh so frustrating *hits head on keyboard* Ok so...im really bored. My PI is currently 33 words short and i find...totally lacking in A&E. Oh well...first draft anyway...wonder what kinda comments my teacher will have for me.

Ahh...jc life isn't that stressful for me...know why? Cause cause...i havent been doing anything that stresses me out. Wow...wonderful isnt it. Actually its not...cause i havent been doing anything at all...which means not studying (cause basically if you do anything is jc, its stressful). Its a miracle i passed my physics test...but failing chem is kinda to be expected...dammit. First time failing chem...i really gotta go study...but arrgghhh damn this PI. Its not the PI's fault...well ok maybe it is...partly. Anyway, after i got back my chem test, i found out i knew how to do the questions...every one of them. My secret? I studied right after i got home on the day of the test...weird arnt I...before the test dont study...after the test then bother to open my chem notes =.= Yeah so...i gotta tell myself...study first...not after.

Lets change the subject shall we...im taking jap lessons again. Just started like...last sat. Its not that i have too much time...i just find it fun haha (cause no one can understand me hehhehheh). Nah kidding. I gotta find someone whos good at the language so that i can practice...lacking jap speaking buddies...maybe i should put up a sign that says "help wanted" or something like that. Ok nvm...that was lame...

Going to Japan on the 4th of June for a CO trip...wheee. (note to self...i gotta figure out how to sound enthusiastic when i type...) Yeah...im excited...kinda. Never been there before...its like pluto to me. Butbutbut...gotta get past syf first. Of which...i think i'll be fine...cause i hardly do anything anyway.

Oh yeah...SC elections are over. Congrats to all those who made it (especially those i voted for, cause all got in) namely, adrian, clarissa and marion...and another 2, of which i think i randomly clicked. Now theres the ExCo elections...(more sweets to take =D , i support bribery). My class has like 4 nominees...but each person has only 1 vote...so i have totally no idea who to vote for. Well...i think i have a slight idea who to not vote for but...oh well...for me to know and all you nominees to never find out *snigger snigger*.

Oh crap...its 11 already...havent done finish PI...that last 33 words...shit. Okokok...busy busy...

P.S. Theres something wrong with my msn...i cant start conversations for some reason...and if i dont reply for a long time, i cant continue messaging either. *grumbles* Ahhh yeah...so if i dont answer for a long time...its cause i cant...so just type some random thing like every 10mins. Plzty.

time to conserve...food hehheh...feeling hungry already
brendon...

2009-04-02T20:52:00.002+08:00

Hmm ok...been having lotsa tests lately. There's like maths, geog and physics so far....then next monday got chem test on the first 2 chapters or something. Gaaahh... Actually most people at this point would say it's very tiring or something along those lines...but for me...no. Know why? Cause i havent been studying...wonder how i'll do. I think i did ok for geog and physics...can get quite ok marks. But for maths...well all i can say is gg. Gg to AP/GP, gg to my maths test and gg to me... Not something to be proud about i know...but...yeah.

Well...the tough part is finally over for this week. Alotta free time tomorrow to catch up (or play patapon 2 hehhehheh...). Gonna have a total of i think...almost 3hrs of break, so will be in the library like almost the whole time. Come find me if you're free haha.

Finally remembered to vote for the SC thing...adrian, clarissa, marion, say thx plz. Kay...err...now what...oh yeah. On a random note, i got lotsa people in class addicted to patapon. Pata pata pata pon hahaha...so catchy.

atomic structure...so fun
brendon...

2009-03-27T20:03:00.003+08:00

Okok...first i would like to say something. Hello to all the new random people who just found my blog cause of my stupidity and carelessness...*mumble mumble* ahem yeah...so have fun looking around.

Yeah...been quite busy the past few days cause of something...walked round parkway searching for straws for folding stuff on tuesday i think..after co. Waste my time...go to giant, cold storage, ntuc, isetan and all those random shop along the way there...couldnt find at all. Went back on wednesday to check again after that...finally found some straws. Fold fold fold till so late...fold in during chem lecture also. Fold halfway that chem teacher stare at me like she see alien like that...got that "kua simi" face. Cause i like almost got no time.

Then on wednesday, stared at my dad's recipie book for a long long long long time. Totally dont understand instructions. Cant believe i pulled it off. Took like 3hrs or something like that. First one like accidentaly messed up abit...so i made another. Ahh..ya.

Thursday probably worst...cause had pe for last period. Then...=.= during pe do pt. Sian...first ask all the guys to do a total of 15 pull-ups, then jump left jump right 100 times (jump left + right = 1 time). Not enough...still gotta do squats...100 of them...reaaalllyy slowly. Yeah...then got lunges...200m. After that cant even feel my legs...cant climb stairs. Cross overhead bridge need to hold onto the railings haha. Then...at night...i found out the bottle hold too small...cannot fit my straws. So...walked to parkway...to buy stuff. Tiring... *yawn*

But but but...im satisfied...kinda. Need to catch up on my sleep...but oh well. Theres time for that tomorrow in co when the conductor rehearses the parts that i dont have to play...which will probably take up the whole 4hrs that i would be there. Hmm yes...dont mind me...just talking crap as usual. I still gotta figure out wat to do with the junk i have lying on my table, and i gotta figure out how to do the maths stuff since i've been sleeping alot in lectures lately...

Ohh yeah ohh yeah...on wednesday when i was going home from school right, i went on bus 24 as usual, then i saw my chem teacher...(actually he saw me...but lets not care about the details shall we). Then after like 6 stops or something he sms me...and ask me to go to the back of the bus to........do chem. All the way till i reach payalebar mrt...so fun. Note...actual msg was "Oi brendon, wat are you doing standing there, come behind and do chem" (i was standing at the front of the bus...he was behind). And so i turned....and the rest is history.

happy birthday
always remember...しあわせ
brendon...

2009-03-13T22:19:00.002+08:00

Just ate finish some really nice german food that my parents brought home. Sauerkraut is really sour...think its preserved cabbages or something. Wonder how those people eat it every meal...like rice for them haha. Mashed potatoes was really soft and err....fluffy..i think...cant find the right word for it. Then theres the sausages...*speechless* =p

Ok...so first period of the day was PE...played captain's ball. Was all right at first, being the captain and all...caught a lot of balls, then when time almost up, i decided to jump to reach for the last ball...bad choice. I fell...with my palm taking all the impact. I think i hit a nerve or something...hand was like shaking for the next 30mins after...yeah...was quite pain. Even now when i move my arm to certain positions till hurt... Anyway, after i fell, the game ended...i feel so honoured...all stop cause of me...heh.

Had a 2hr break after that, then went for chinese. Teacher got sore throat...cannot teach...so she use powerpoint to teach. Silent lessons haha...feel so awkward. Then my class realised it was friday the 13th...then started to discuss how suay i was...

Chem was after. Teacher make a joke...though it didnt sound like one...but was funny. Man...my chem teacher rocks. Went through double indicator titration and back titration (slept in lecture...didnt know what was going on...) then i finally understood...

Last lesson was geog...took out the only geog worksheet in the whole class that was done...nice. Sadly teacher went to show my scribbles on the OHP then told the class that it was illegible...technically only i was supposed to read it...cause i was gonna type it out when i got home, but nooo...

Oh yeah...didnt go for TheOne today...(talentime...for those not in nyjc). It finished at 9...which meant that if i went...i wouldnt reach home till 10.30...which sucks. Cause thats like 15 mins ago...sorry to all those who wanted me to go but didnt see me there... Just finished compiling geog notes also...so i'll make it up to you guys by sending them to you if u take h2 geog =D

rhyolitic processes...andesitic volcanoes
brendon...

2009-03-09T22:42:00.002+08:00

Ok...i finally finished both my MRP and my PI yesterday...at like 12 or something. Thats probably the reason why i slept in lectures again today...sooooo tired. Then i found out today that MRP only had to be handed up on wednesday...and my teacher didnt actually check my PI. Great...just great.

Oh yeah...i finally got the last book of twilight last friday. Started reading yesterday cause got sports carnival (a 3km run) on saturday, but it was canceled cause of rain but i had a class outing to watch marley and me. Hmm...the show's not too bad... Anyway, i just read the book finish about 10mins ago. Sooo glad it was a happy ending...would seriously hate it if the ending was sad.

On a totally random note, my class asked me (of all the people in the world...) to design my class t. Wow...i'm shocked. And i have no idea wat kinda design to draw out. I think my head is gonna melt soon cause of how much i'm actually thinking right now as compared to before...you know brains are made up of fat...so...yeah...it's actually possible.

Holidays coming up soon...i think it's next week if i'm not wrong. My friends in poly are already helping me make plans...think they're too bored or something... Can't wait to catch up...and get my harddisk back, together with a few more psp games to add to my extremely miniature collection. Oh well...time to sleep...again...

as always...
brendon...

2009-03-05T22:07:00.002+08:00

Wahahaha I'm blogging cause I have free time now...well it just seems that way cause I'm not doing anything. Still have MRP and PI to do...deadline is next monday...crap crap. I havent even typed a single thing...omg i'm soooo dead.

Moving on, I had this chinese compo practice today...wah i have never written more than 400 words...now ask me to write 500. No bao zhang to use to anyhow write also...like all gotta write narrative. Arggghhh...chinese...why does you be torturing me so... Great now my english is going down the drain. Anyway, i sorta wrote 622 words in total...hehheh...narrative can write so much. All translated from english to chinese while i was writing...lucky got dictionary...if not will minus all 8 marks for writing wrong words =.=

Chem lecture...i slept...omg. For some reason i've been sleeping in lectures...even chem. I only woke up when i realised i didnt know how to do the practice questions. Wow...i didnt know how to do chem...not even the easy questions. At least i think i got the hang of it before the lecture ended. I think...

Geog lecture was somewhat...ermmm...i dont know how to describe. Learnt about fertility rates and what affects it...well...
I printed 51 pages of geog lecture notes the previous night for nothing...man. Human geog topic...and i printed physical geog.

Then came PE...at first thought had to run 3.2km again. Then dont need cause got PE project...yes I have a PE project. Something to do with my school being the training field for the Austrian youth olympic team next year...have to do research somemore. I think the teachers like too lazy or something...then delegate to us people...scheming teachers.

Oh yeah...now my classmates are calling me casper's best friend for some reason. They say its cause whereever i sit, theres always an empty seat next to me...and that i keep staring in random directions...i find it sorta creepy actually.

Ahh..time to go sleep...waking up at 6.45 tomorrow...dammit.

*yawn*
brendon...

2009-03-01T21:59:00.002+08:00

Man...JC life is soooo tiring...and CO doesnt make it any easier. Wake up at 5.15...reach home at 6-7pm...sometimes at 9+

Ok...so i went to orchard on thursday after school to sign up for more jap lessons. End sch at 6pm still need to meet oscar at orchard mrt...sian. After signing up, walked with him around orchard...went to eat dinner since i didnt have any after school, then drank some coffee. Couldnt find the mrt station after that though...then walk walk walk...walk till dhoby ghaut mrt. Reached home at 10.30....so tired...

Luckily on friday i only had to reach sch at 10...went early anyway though. Reached at 9...see i so on one hehheh. Helped with my class project work abit before going for pe. Wah then pe run 3.2km...after that soooo tired. Wats worse is that i havent actually ran long distance since the cross country last august...so my legs hurt alot now...

Ahh...my dad made satay today, all chicken. And, by experience, the only way to cook satay is by bbqing it. Had to start fire, blow blow blow the charcoal...but the satay was delicious, as always. Arrgghhh...just remembered that im gonna have pe tomorrow...so im probably gonna have to run again....great. Oh yeah....theres a uniform check tomorrow too...have to wear the belt that i havent been wearing since...ever...if not...good luck to me.

arrrgghhh...
brendon...

2009-02-18T18:29:00.002+08:00

Ahh....dont feel well the past few days...dunno if caught the flu or something. Head like perpetually dizzy and keep coughing...making me more tired than i already am.

Ok so JC life has officially started (JC life as in with the homework and stuff) and i've been really busy. 4H2s really no joke...everyday end sch at at least 4pm...damn chinese lessons keep making me have to reach school at 7.30. Sick still no time to rest...damn sian. Luckily i have huge 1.5hr breaks for certain days...the only reason why all my homework is done now. Seriously cant find anything else to do other than homework...
A note to poly people...have fun while it lasts...

I have very interesting teachers in my class...first is my h2maths teacher... He...emphasises his words on the wrong syllables...and he seems senile haha. Makes maths tutorials a whole lot more interesting... Other teachers all SEEM pretty nice...from past experience i seriously doubt it's true though...

Anyway...i should be resting...have to wake up at 5.15 again tomorrow...today missed the bus cause i slept at the bus stop. Heng wasn't late...

brendon...

2009-02-11T20:11:00.005+08:00

Orientation!!! Whooooo....so hyper now...
First day, my class was like...so dead, but after that...like overly hyper. Guess it isnt such a bad thing. There's this mass dance thing...dance till soooo tired...gotta do it again tomorrow...2 days liao. Oh well... CCA orientation was today wahahahaha. Went to check out the tennis team first thing...doesnt seem too bad. Guess i'll be joining them then...gonna have tryouts on friday.

Okok...there was this telematch today...cheer cheer cheer so much, run so much oso. The OGLs like to keep asking us to cheer louder...then keep teaching so many cheers. Learn all the cheer till head pain....cause always like...last minute say okok i teach u all this new cheer ah, then must ad-hoc learn. It was fun though...

Think i'll sleep early today...tomorrow still have disco night...wont be home till 10+

brendon...

2009-02-05T19:08:00.002+08:00

Ahhh first wk in nanyang...doesnt seem too bad actually. Full of lectures, got to see how things are taught around here...quite a lot of free time to revise and such. CO there trying to drag me in...at least go for syf they say...actually kinda hoping to join tennis since i was deprived of it during the holidays. Bought the whole set of school uniform yesterday...so heavy...together with the graphic calc. Totally cannot figure out how to use...gotta play around with it more i think. If anyone's wondering, i picked my subjects already. I think its Phy, Chem, Maths, Geog...everyone's like asking me...why geog...why not econs. Dunno...just like geog.

Well...just came back from collecting my glasses...yes glasses. So tomorrow the people in nanyang will see me having four eyes during lectures...prob will start laughing too...everyone always says i look very toot in glasses =.= not used to wearing them...eyes feel weird...

Ok...so...better rest my eyes for abit...getting abit dizzy i think...

brendon...

2009-01-28T23:49:00.002+08:00

Sooo tired now...just came back from another FG outing...bbq at east coast. Went from 12 in the morn till now... First went sapfra to play those boardgames stuff...so fun. So many boardgames that i've never even seen or heard of... Played there for like...3hrs then went to east coast to get ready. Had to run from parkway to the pit cause we were like...late and the caterer was already there. Started the fire then started cooking for everyone...when everyone wanted to play games i was falling asleep already. Ran around...alot...*yawn*

Okok...now for cny. Came back from malaysia yesterday afternoon, just in time for lunch hehheh...so was able to eat my grandma's err...dunno wats it called...the thing is supposed to be a fungus but looks like hair... Anyway...it tasted great, thought i think i made it sound disgusting. Ahh...then went visiting to my 3rd grandaunt's home, with lotsa snacks...all homemade. Then went to another grandaunt's home. She has a pool table in her house...so i played a few rounds with my uncle there...losing miserably. Ate my grandaunt's wonderful tastyful (dunno if its a word...but it should be) beef soup. She was like...forcing me to eat stuff...as usual. Cousins came when i got home...so had quite some catching up to do. Especially with one who went to england when i was 3yrs old or something. He like...has a slight english accent and perfect pronunciation. Ooooohh... Chatted till they left...too much stuff to talk about.

Well...hope everyone gets as many angpaos as they want...weijie if u get that $1k again i'll personally go to your house and help you get rid of it.

cny cny
brendon...

2009-01-26T14:14:00.002+08:00

Ahh...happy chinese new year everyone!!! Most people are probably either out visiting or waiting for people to visit them at this time...

Right now there's some lion dance outside my house...so loud...so annoying...but well...its tradition. Theres one thing that i always look forward to during this festive occasion...the food. A few of my grandaunts cook really nice food...but i only visit them once every year. awww.

Well...im off to malaysia to visit the other half of my relatives...some i didnt even know existed apparently. Cause like every year go malaysia like...awhile...usually overnight though. Oh well...

brendon...

2009-01-17T13:10:00.002+08:00

Wahahaha...i sent in my JAE application already!!! Well of course...its already like...past the deadline...if by now havent sent yet i die liao. Been going out these few days with CO ppl...went to arcade on thurs and saw this new game...its called Jubeat. Really fun...theres like 16 squares and as they light up ya gotta press them in order and stuff...its like...addictive. Actually went to watch a movie...Ponyo...jingwen says that its in the guiness book of world records for the most handdrawn scenes or something. Anyway in the end we didnt watch it cause we were in the arcade and forgot the time...then the next movie would be too late.

Then yesterday went for a bbq with CO ppl...went to white sands to meet them. Found them at the arcade...again. Walked to pasir ris park after playing awhile...the wind was like soooo strong...light a match and it goes off. In the end had to use lighter to start the fire...after using up 2 boxes of matchsticks. After the fire starter caught fire, it was a breeze. The wind blow blow then the fire get bigger...dun need to fan...like auto like that. All the while...jingwen was flying a kite..."I go fly kite" quoted from him. So...ate, cooked, played, then went home. Was lucky enough to get the last train...heng heng... The last bus for that damn bus 15 left at 11pm...so couldnt take a bus home...

brendon...

2009-01-13T14:34:00.002+08:00

Omg results came out yesterday...
Woke up yesterday feeling really really tired...cause was playing games with friends to distract myself from thinking about it too much. Everyone was like...super nervous. I was super scared...yes scared...not nervous. With all the what if's popping up in my head every waking minute...really couldnt sleep till i was really tired.

Anyway, went to sch to collect results...reached at 1pm. caught up with classmates in the canteen, went to sit in the audi, then got annoyed at the adverts they were giving...waste of paper...no sense of eco-friendliness. Ahh...ok...then Mr Lo gave his one of his one in a million speeches...a summary on how well we did. Apparently many did well for english...almost 50% distinctions. Hmm...that lifted part of the tense atmosphere... Then...it was result collecting time...when it was almost my turn i could literally hear my heart beating...thought gonna have heart attack.

Then...thenthen...took my results...and stared at it for a long long while...really long... Well wasnt really what i was hoping for...but...suppose its not bad already. Just happy i actually managed to do well for chinese and combined....relatively. Looking on the bright side...i can go to a relatively ok JC, but not the jc that i was aiming for. Oh well...

Ok...so then everyone was asking each other for points, blah blah...tears of joy, tears of sadness, all there. Reminds me of psle all over again...just with less parents.
Well...whats done is done...hope i'll be able to go to the same jc as everyone else...dont wanna be like the only one in whereever i go.

happy...relatively
brendon...

2008-12-31T16:40:00.002+08:00

Well last day of the year...another 365 and 1/4 days. So tired... Ahh not thinking properly...so gonna be a short post.

Yesterday i dunno how many people came to my house...think about 20...sorry if there wasn't enough food though. At first i thought there was like only 15 people coming...then suddenly like...well... Thanks for the roast chicken and the cream puffs that jocelyn, shawn, weichen, darren, angeline and winee brought.

At first winee was like watching this "hard gay" thing on youtube on my comp. Seriously...like dunno what was that guy trying to do...he was like supposed to help the restaurant get more customers then was like chasing them away instead. Then weichen started playing dota...

Anyway i personally dunno how well the err...party went...thats for the guests to say. All were like...playing Wii, mario cart to be exact, and watching movies...first was sweeney todd, then the guys didnt wanna watch cause it was a musical, then they watched that escape from guantanamo bay thing. Glad i didnt watch...so sick...
At around 5pm i went to the kitchen to cook fried rice...cook halfway someone call me...then i had to go pick them up... *yawn*
Oh yeah...someone fed my dog some pizza crust or something...now she has dihorrea...

brendon...

2008-12-26T19:56:00.004+08:00

Just came back from FG class outing...(though not really many people came...about 8). Ok...so we we're supposed to meet at 12noon at bugis mrt to go to seoul garden (first time wahaha). Clarissa was like smsing everyone going repeatedly to be on time...blah blah...then...today, she overslept. Reached bugis mrt at 11.45, (punctual as usual...) then couldnt find anyone there...at all. Waited for 15mins then wanting came. Waited for another 15mins...then noticed jingwen and yawonn at a corner somewhere, so walked to them and waited somemore. All the while clarissa couldnt be contacted...so called jerald. He thought clarissa would be early so he wanted to be late...then after he realised clarissa was really really late, he rushed to the mrt to meet us. *yawn* Only at 1pm did we actually manage to go...adrian reached later cause he also left the house late...cause he had to send his bro to the airport or something.
Anywho...paid 14.10 and went in the eat eat eat =D Grabbed a plate and started pouring all sorts of marinated chicken on the plate...liked the curry one, and the teriyaki one wasnt half bad. Yeah...so ate and ate till about 2.30 or something, then weile came. So...we ate somemore. Eat till almost 4pm then went to the cathay to watch a movie. Intended to watch bedtime stories but was kinda sold out till 7...walked to plaza sing to check out the time there but also started quite late. So...the girls went back to the cathay to check out times for other movies, eventually decided on Ip Mun (pronounced eep-man or something) the guy who was really good in the chinese martial art of wing chun (and was bruce lee's teacher). Nice show...kinda full of violence though...waddya expect from a show who's main char is a martial artist. But he's like...so pro haha. Can fight 10 people at once without injury...
After that...the girls went to watch another movie...the bedtime stories that one...(like got too much time or something...) and the guys went home. Then...well here i am...

=D
brendon...

2008-12-25T00:05:00.002+08:00

Once again its the merriest time of the year....ITS CHRISTMAS!!!! wahahahahaha
First...i wanna wish everyone a very very very very merry merry christmas. May you live a long life blah blah blah...ok nevermind. Another year gone by already...still remember what happened during last christmas...where the ly ppl came to my house to err...party. Whoooo~ Time to make a wishlist for my presents...hmmm...lets make it simple shall we? I wish my internet would stop failing on me everytime i play a game. Simple enough, its all the present i need.
Oh yeah...since people like jocelyn and angeline have been bothering me about it the whole year, i shall host another err..pre new year's eve party (quoted from angeline), for ly ppl again =D Those who wanna come plz tell me...gotta prepare food and such ya know. Probably gonna be around dinner time again. (just don't make too much noise). Hmm...k thats about it.
Once again...have a merry christmas. Gonna eat turkey and roast ham and some nice nice food today ahahaha...cause my grandaunt cooks goood and i'm gonna visit her for lunch. Cant wait cant wait.

gonna wait for the santa to come
brendon...

2008-12-15T22:49:00.002+08:00

Hehhehhehheh...this is my 100th post =D congratulations to me haha.

Anyway, i sorta just came back from watching a movie with weijie. Its called...twilight. Sneak preview...actually supposed to come out tomorrow. Weijie won 2 free tickets from who knows where...again... =.= (how you get so lucky i'll never know). Met him at orchard mrt at 6pm...he forgot his ezlink... Walked to Lido to queue up to get the tickets together with a free gift then went to grab a bite at subway...which we didnt eat but instead stuffed it in our bags to eat during the movie. Queued more so that we could go into the cinema...free seating...wanted a good seat. The movie was...nice i suppose...though the Edward a bit stone stone...like constipated. A bit patchy too though...like all book-turned-movie stuff...always felt like stuff were missing...cause they were. But...overall quite nice. Watch it when it comes out tomorrow =D

Have been reading books since i came back from hongkong...just read finish the second book of the twilight series 2 days ago. Artemis fowl : the time paradox and the latest book of the power of five, necropolis was read yesterday, and was reading brisingr today. Which...is why im usually afk on msn. Well..back to reading...

brendon...

2008-12-12T23:18:00.003+08:00

Wahahaha im BACK from hongkong!!! Feels so nice to be back in singapore...
Hongkong was a blast...the food was great. I figured something out...go to a random place along the street and just try the food. It tastes very very good...no matter what you eat.Especially liked the porridge (or congee...watever) cause its like so smooth...not lumpy at all unlike the ones here. Okok...so on monday right...i reached hongkong (the kowloon part) at...12 i think. Checked in and slept almost instantly...plane rides are tiring. Tuesday, went to eat breakfast at a restaurant nearby. Had dim sum...with the siew mai, the har gao, the chee cheong fan, and all the stuff that comes in a circular wooden box. Then...went to walk around the area to familiarise myself abit so that i wouldnt get lost. Oh yeah...i found out one thing...if you find that you're lost in hongkong, just walk striaight. You will always eventually reach somewhere that has a form of transport for you to take back to the hotel (e.g. MTR, its called MTR...not MRT, or the buses). Went shopping for clothes that i seriously lack...my closet is highly underutilised, my parents have to add their stuff into it to make it look used. So, bought 2 shirts and a jacket from esprit...my sis bought...weird stuff, like a vest and a hat...no idea why. Yeah...so the shopping took up most of the day. Went to eat roast duck for lunch cause we just so happen to walk pass it. It goood. Had more porridge for dinner hehheh...me likes teh porridge.
Met up with oscar on wednesday cause he wanted to bring me around. Went to...causeway bay to play the arcade there haha. Its so inexpensive...he excahnged S$20 for like...countless coins... Played drummania till my arm hurt... Then, went to have lunch at a stall in an allyway. Beef brisket with noodles. Since i cant really speak fluent cantonese, oscar helped to order. Went to...err...sit on a tram. Those that go along the roads together with the cars and stuff. Reached the base of the victoria mountain after some time, then walked up to the sky tram or something to reach the top of the mountain. The skytram was like...going up at a 50 degree angle...so u can guess how the buildings actually looked like...slanted. Up on the mountain, the air felt really nice...so was the scenery. Walked around, and around, the whole time oscar kept asking me if i wanted to take a picture...saying that i was supposed to take a lot of pics cause im a tourist...blah blah. Got something for adrian there cause he asked me to get him a souvenir (i didnt forget...so dont say i did). Then after wandering aimlessly, went down again at the 50 degree angle... Went to the harbour after that cause oscar wanted to let me take a ride on the star ferry. But before that...went to this place called IFC and looked at stuff...literally stuff that i didnt really intend to get. Then bought a token for the ferry and sat it back to kowloon from hongkong island...wasnt as shaky as i thought i would be. On the other side, it so happened that the space museum had free admission on wednesday...so we went in to check it out. All about astronauts going to space, how china, the us and russia tested the rockets. They also had this chamber to let you feel how the gravity on the moon felt like. Interesting isnt it. Hmmm yes. Called my parents after that cause i was supposed to meet them for dinner. Went to zhongwan all by myself =D and found the restaurant they were in (all by myself). Had soup (which was like...mmmmm) and other stuff...mushrooms too i think.
Thursday, probably the last day i could go out and do stuff since i left the hotel at 6am this morn. Went to victoria mountain with my parents this time...i had to be the tour guide. Dad wanted to take a cab up though...so we did. Walked the mountain path for like...a few hundred metres then went back cause we felt we were lost. Used the computer at the top of the mountain...the only one with free internet access i've seen so far... Walked around, then went to causeway bay. Walked around looking for lou po beng (lau po bing) to bring home. Ate roasted goose there too. Apparently geese have a large layer of fat underneath their skin...spent more time getting it all off rather than eating it. Went back to kowloon for dinner. In hongkong, my meals are more...seperated. Or maybe just more. Usually i only have 3 meals a day...there i had 5... breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner, supper. Oh well...gonna miss the food there...

brendon...

2008-12-08T14:43:00.003+08:00

Gonna be in hongkong from 8th to 12th...and todays the 8th. Which means that i'm gonna be going to the airport soon...in about 1.5hrs actually. Excited yet not really that excited...cause i dont know wats there to do in hongkong. Not going to disneyland cause i've already been to the US one...and i'm kinda bored with mickey mouse. So...all thats left is shopping...great...just great. Theres no way i'm going shopping for 4days in a row... Lucky for me oscar and darren is in hongkong. I could probably meet up with them to walk around the place. I'm pretty sure that oscar will be taking me to lan...just a hunch. Well...off to prepare my stuff...namely psp, ds, a book or two or something...

be back soon
brendon

2008-12-05T08:12:00.002+08:00

Jap lessons finished on Wednesday...kinda ended with a final exam kinda thing. There was an oral test and a written one....got8/10 for oral, 92/100 for written haha. Which means...i really can speak jap now wahahahaha, well at least form simple sentences correctly. Oh yeah...there was a FG class outing on tuesday at kallang. The steamboat there. Was dipping everyting in mala...so during the jap test i had a stomachache...which sucks. Moral of the story...dont eat too much mala unless you're prepared for pain. After the dinner adrian lent me his thumbdrive...so i dont have any excuse for not playing carestory with everyone...crap. Too lazy to train another maple char anyway. While eating, there was like something wrong with zifeng's mouth...he kept complaining that this extremely numb sour taste had magically appeared in the confines of his mouth (well he didnt say it like that obviously). I was sorta laughing at him together with everyone else...then...that same sour taste appeared in my mouth... =.= felt really weird, it cant be washed off with a drink...and wouldnt go away at all. Tasted like those sour sour sweets...the warheads that one. Bleh.
Yesterday...i went for this play called snow white n the 7 dwarves. The storyline is relatively the same as the disney one...cept its like...joking about the singapore government. Really funny. It was like until 10.30...so i reached home really late after that.
Gotta go figure wat clothes im gonna bring for my trip to hongkong next monday...
それじゃ　さようなら　みんなさん heh

brendon...

2008-11-24T20:02:00.002+08:00

The anime convention finished yesterday!!! Reached the convention hall at 9.30...went straight to the queue to buy more stuff haha. At first i thought there wouldnt be anyone there cause the convention actually starts at 10...but...there were actually a lot of ppl already. Took longer this time to reach my turn...abt 50mins i guess. My sis actually went to cosplay as an anime char...(think its called loveless), with cat ears and tail =.= Well...at least people actually could relate the costume to the char...if not it'll be a bit weird. After awhile, adrian and keokfei came...didnt know till he smsed me. My sis was like...really happy to know a person (keokfei) who watches loveless...she was like smiling the whole time. After that 50mins, looked around the booth to buy stuff cause they had new stuff...namely the CCS mousepad which i bought...last one hehhehheh. Walked around taking pictures of stuff that i missed the first day...then found a place to sit for the cosplay competition, and cause adrian wanted to...watch...tamagochi... The show was boring...seriously...but apparently adrian has different tastes. My sis found her friend amongst the crowd so she left...thank goodness...
Anyway, oscar came quite soon after that cause he wanted to buy gundam00 stuff and vamp knight stuff from that same booth that we went to. So...i helped him queue...which took another 40mins. *yawn* Bought more stuff cause they restocked again...then went to watch the cosplay competition. I must say...quite a few had really nice costumes. The cosplayers had to have a short skit to display how their characters acted...some were really funny...some werent. Loved the props though (especially the kingdomhearts ones). Code Geass seems to be really popular...cause like 3 groups went to act. One group had the robot that the main char piloted...so nice!! But it got destroyed when the guy inside it climed the stairs on stage... Theres one group that cosplayed as ultraman...all the guy did was that weird ultraman pose...
Left the place when this group whos skit has seriously no link with the anime came to act...it was supposed to be about ff7...with tifa and cait sith. Was really weird...totally totally weird. Yeah... Went to the food court at tower 1 to eat after that. My sis came to find me cause her friend left...and she was still wearing her costume...great. So we went back...walked around more...queued up for the last time (another 40-50mins...) then decided to go home cause my hp batt was dead. Adrian was waiting for a friend though...so he didnt follow. Reached home at like..6+, just in time for dinner.
Now for today. Started watching anime again this morn...by morn i mean 12midnight++. Stopped to chat for awhile on msn then continued again. Woke up, watched more anime...haha. Oh yeah...my jap classes started today...almost late cause i misjudged the time needed to go to the place. Yeah...the teacher was really interesting though...he kept making us converse in jap. So he would like ask if we were going anywhere after lessons (in jap of course), then we had to answer, some could not find the jap word for the place so they just randomed from the board. Tiring really...still have some homework to do...so...jya na!

brendon...

2008-11-22T21:11:00.002+08:00

So many things to post about these past few days...really been posting quite often.
Yeah...anyway, woke up at 8.30 today to find out i slept in...rushed to get ready to go to the anime convention at suntec convention centre room4, together with my sis (cause she doesnt know how to go on her own). Queued up for the 2-day ticket for like...almost 20mins before i got bored and decided to find zongyang so that i could cut the queue (yes, that guy actually came)...glad i did....cause there was still like...another 10+metres of ppl left in front of me. The queue sorta snaked to the entrance of the toilet and back...so the length at first was kinda deceiving. So, got my tickets and went in. Walked around awhile then saw this really really nice booth selling posters, tablemats and other anime stuff, so i went to queue...again... Adrian and his friend keokfei (is her name spelled like this?) came to find me. Then they got bored of the queue and went to walk around. 20mins later, clarence came. Talked for awhile on what i was gonna get when i reached the booth, then he went to walk around too. So...alone i was for the next 10mins till keokfei came and asked if i could help her buy a poster. Decided to let her cut my queue. 10mins later...(yes...it was a really long time...) i finally reached the booth, and...the shakugan no shana poster that i wanted to buy was sold to the person in front of me...RAWR. No matter...bought a fate/stay night tablemat instead, and a hibari kyoya folder (hehhehheh...my sis loves hibari...she's pestering me to give it to her right now...). Happy with my purchase, i went to look at the gundam display. The life sized gundam was so cool!!! Took a pic of it but dont know how to put it here though...oh well. Went to this whole row of gachapon machines (you know...those things where you put coins in and turn till a capsule comes out). Got a naruto and neji figurine from there. Wanted a hinata one too but...well...got another naruto one instead. Clarence was like spending a lot of money just trying to get one he wanted...sadly he keeps getting the same one over and over again. Went to another booth where they were selling drawings and those metal badges with pictured on them. Got a yuki nagato one (from suzumiya haruhi). Watched the creator of gundam talk about stuff like how he managed to get the idea of gundams. Listened to the songs too, from the first gundam series to gundam 00. Current song sounds nicer...
Went to FG class outing at Sakae sushi at tanjong pagar with adrian. Clarissa's birthday o.O so we were celebrating it there. Ate the teatime buffet till really full...didnt even eat dinner, plus clarissa treated...thx clarissa!! Everyone was like making so much noise...then derrick kept saying that we were from dunman high... I mean like...some of us were screaming...
Took a few class photos and ate more food wahahaha. Oscar was eating all the mochi...think he ate more than 8...we actually managed to stay there from 3 to 5+. Went to arcade after that, played a bit of drummania with oscar. Others were playing either DDR or some shooting games around there. Left for home early cause i didnt wanna go watch a movie...so late...went home with adrian, talking about me helping him put FFIX into his thumbdrive of which is too full so i cant =.= 1kb more and it would've been fine.
I basically went out the whole day...so tired now...but gonna play psp before i go to bed. My sis is gonna cosplay tomorrow at the convention...i'm not staying anywhere near her...

brendon...

2008-11-21T20:18:00.002+08:00

Really really boring day today...absolutely nothing came up... So, what do i do? Play disgaea on my psp and do random stuff like walk to the kitchen to find some food to eat.
I actually got myself to clear up the mess on my table...looks so empty now, Like...some black hole just appeared to suck up everything. But...though my table is cleared, my floor isnt...cause i dumped my junk there. That, and some of the stuff is in my sis's room...so she's got some cleaning to do. Oh well...for her own good anyway...all my useful stuff collected over the last 2 years i gave to her, hope she takes care of it. Gotta wait for the karangguni to come tomorrow so that i can sell my pile to him...(my pocket money for the holidays).
Gonna start reading books soon...still havent read the latest artemis fowl and eragon books that i bought like...2months ago or something. Well...short post short post...time to do something else.

monkey madness =D
brendon...