The kitty

Friday marked the last day of A levels. It was supposed to be the day of NY’s dinner and dance but my class decided to skip it =P Instead we had our class chalet!

I was looking around for satay suppliers a few days before chalet. Junjie recommended the supplier which we ordered from last year, city satay. So I went to their webby and picked the shopping cart and was going to finish the form only to find that they don’t deliver to Sentosa. Since I didn’t know what address to put for the delivery, I decided to call the helpline the next day.

City Satay helpline was an epic failure. I was transferred through 4 people. The first couldn’t speak English. The second didn’t know anything about delivery services. The third wasn’t sure about delivery near Sentosa. Luckily they were saved by their manager.
A day before chalet I went in search for sparklers. The thing about sparklers is that cheap ones may not work well if they are spoilt due to getting caught in water and the ones with smoke isn’t really nice to play with. Went to AMK Hub’s ntuc to get it.

Reached home and received a shocking sms from ZP. He told me that his mum couldn’t get sotongs and stingray, so we may need to get some substitutes. I suggested the bacon wrapped with the golden enoki mushrooms so we did get it in the end. Anyway this was one day before chalet and also one day before computing paper 2. Essentially I didn’t really study much for paper 2 ._.

Matt almost gave me a heart attack when he said he left his stuff outside my house. It wasn’t there when I got home. In the end he mistook my floor number for 15 instead of 16 and his bag and guitar was tucked nicely behind the gate of my neighbour one floor down...

Computing paper ended and matt followed me back home to get all our stuff before heading to ZP’s house in tpy. Met ZP and Jaslyn at tpy interchange. ZP was all wet even though he bought an umbrella from 7-11. He totally got ripped off from 7-11. Paid almost twice the price for vodka.
Bus down to his place at tpy. His dog still as fierce as ever. Started to wrap the enoki mushrooms in bacon with matt, zp and jas. We were stingy with the bacon at first, only using about ¼ length to wrap the enoki. In the end there were too much bacon so made fatter ones with more bacon used.

ZP’s mum and dad got back, we packed all the food stuff and got our way to vivo in two separate cars. Matt fell asleep while I failed at directing ZP’s dad to vivo. I didn’t know where to alight at vivo. Lucky ZP’s grandpa car was ahead so met up with him in the vivo carpark.
Met up with the rest of the class from their shopping at the Sentosa train and trained down. This time we stopped at beach station, not imbiah. Checked in to a super small room and a man came with another tv and started installing it coz the one in the room was spoilt.
The fridge was a mini fridge so it was impossible to store the food stuff in there. Got some ice from 7-11 with dansu, junjie and Clarence and walked back to pack the food. The ice was all stuck to each other so dansu started smashing it with smaller ice pieces and when that failed tossed the big pieces into the bag and smashed them against the wall. It worked and so we managed to preserve the food from rotting.

After walking down the beach of Sentosa, we finally decided to have dinner at Café del Mar. I had some sort of seafood spaghetti and a hot mocha. The seafood was fresh and the mocha was good. SJJ had some sort of seafood stew which was quite unique... only thing was that his potato was downright horrible. Bill came to about 330 in total.

After dinner some of them left. After sending them off, junjie and I were discussing about the bell that rang the previous time we came to Sentosa. I suggested that it could have been some sort of motion or pressure sensor, so we headed to the bell to test it out. I was so wrong. The first group consisted of ZP, jas, dansu, junjie and I. We walked everywhere under the bell, near the bell to no avail. We were about to give up. Junjie was just saying a line in Chinese that if we were to leave now and that if the bell rang when we went down, we will definitely regret not waiting another 5 more minutes. Just as he finished that sentence the bell rang. It was such a surprise, like someone answering junjie’s prayers.

We stayed for another 15 minutes and the bell rang again. We got the timing and decided to come again at 12am. This was because the other time the bell rang 3 different songs during 12.30 and we felt that the longest bell would most probably be at 12am or so.

So the plan was suppose to be camp at coffee bean at 11.30 until sometime near 12 before heading up to the bells. ZP and jas got stuck to the Wii playing raving rabbits so in the end only Junjie, tricia and I went for the second round. We were really late, only leaving the chalet some time near 12. We managed to get on the tram and arrived at beach station with 4 minutes left on the clock. We rushed up through the beautiful lighted path to the bells with about a minute left. The time was up but nothing sounded. We waited another while more but nothing happened. It was disappointing. We went down and wanted to have some supper at coffee bean only to find that it was closed. One by one the girls went back.

Took a bath. The heater was spoilt but luckily the cold water was quite refreshing. Tricia was going out so Wh and I accompanied her to the taxi stand. We tried the button to open the gate but there was no response. In the end we travelled through the other ‘shortcut’. It was pitched black and I didn’t realise it was so long during the other visit. The tree with the tube top could be seen in the moonlight and after a while pass that tree we were out. Saw the taxi at the stand and Tricia cabbed out of Sentosa.

The remaining guys and jas in the chalet were playing wii. Clarence, matt and I were tired so we turned in earlier but didn’t really manage to sleep until the wii party ended around 5am. Matt got himself tooth pasted by ted and zp. Ted was speaking in a ridiculous low voice during the operation. We slept for a while before breakfast.

Woke up and realised that Clarence was back already from skating. After some washing up, we headed towards the bus stop and boarded the bus to subway. My right leg was all itchy, having bites all the way waist down. Had bacon and eggs bread from subway which wasn’t half bad before going over to coffee bean to get a white choc ice blended. The view was great, akin to another country. I guess the new theme park would be quite popular for a period of time after its opening.

After breakfast we walked around the beach and was trying to decide whether to get a package deal for wavehouse + luge + some indoor shooting game. We decided to go cycling in the end. We rented a $5/hr bike and started cycling towards beach station. According to the uncle there should have been a route about 4km in the direction of beach station but couldn’t find it so decided to turn back and go the other route. I had initially wanted to bring them to the dragon trial but missed it and continued up the road. After realising that there would be no way to loop back to the start, we decided to turn back. On the way back we found the dragon trail that I blindly missed before and so we went in. It is so different in the day from when it is in the night. The terrain was tough as there was lots of upslope. Wh and ted skidded and fell on the way out of the trial as it was really slippery. Overall I guess that was the only activity we did in Sentosa.
We returned the bike and got back to the chalet. I got a call from city satay. The guy said he was 10 minutes away from vivo. The person told me that they were going to deliver from the time 3-6pm but in the end it was 1-3pm on the delivery guy’s paper. Tricia just got to the chalet not too long ago and tagged along. We found the delivery guy in the carpark and I realised that they gave me an extra 1kg of satay sauce. We took a train back to chalet and by the time we got back most of the girls were there already. As it was still raining we skipped lunch and played games indoor. Played raving rabbits for the first time with lee keat, shu hui and andy. It was fun =P The rain stopped and we finally got moving for bbq. Went to pick up the aluminium tray and walked over to the pavilion near chalet. I felt it was a good place for a bbq but didn’t realise that there was no lights there in the night. Started stacking charcoal and lighting the firestarter. It took a long time before the fire was up. Walked back and forth from the pavilion to the chalet about 4 times as we either forgot some food stuff or needed some other equipment. Bargained with the lady to borrow a knife to get the pineapple sliced.

Jiajin’s hammock looked great and even managed to hold matthew. I never got to try it though as it rained halfway. Wh and I were fretting over untying the hammock as someone tied a dead knot. We used lots of satay sticks to loosen the knot and finally wh managed to get the knot undone. Did some cooking of satay and fish. The fish tasted just like stingray. Fired started to lose too much heat so ted and Clarence went to get more charcoal. The new batch of charcoal was so sooty. After lots of fanning we finally manage to get back to cooking. Halfway celebrated the birthdays that we had missed from dansu’s to mine. I was dehydrated so went to 7-11 to buy a drink. When I came out I saw zp and Jas. Jas was leaving but the train service had already stopped. I noticed the shuttle bus out so took it out together with them. The bus uncle was so nice. He told another bus uncle to let us sit back free as I asked him for that favour upon getting on. Zp and I got back a while later and caught junjie, lqy and his girl taking a taxi. Said bye and took a tram after zp bought a big gulp from 7-11. We passed by the pavilion, only to find the class making their way back to the chalet. Called some of them and the tram uncle waited as some of them got on.

Somehow I felt the bbq ended too early. There were some remaining food. Now that I think of it they were actually the prawns and sotongs... totally wasted.
Clarence got a mastermind for his birthday. He opened it and he tricia and I started to play. It was pretty fun guessing what the colors were.

I got a billabong bag which was really nice. It’s so handy as I don’t really have a decent bag for outing. SJJ got a black knight set which was just so hilarious. It suited him so much =P
We borrowed the majong table and some of them played it. I on the other hand was dead tired so I went to sleep after mastermind.

I woke up only to find that the girls had already left and that I had missed some interesting proposals. Packed up the room and went for breakfast at the in house café with ted, Clarence, sjj, zp and matt. I had mee siam which was pretty good. That pretty much ends the 3days 2 nights at Sentosa.

I will really miss all the times I have with this class as this is probably the one of the best class I’ve been in. The future ahead is still as foggy as ever but I guess I’ll take it a step at a time.
Gonna work 9-21 dec at suntec. I’ll be able to recover my spending this chalet by Christmas! =D

There goes the first week of As. In a blink of an eye I no longer have to look at pure maths any longer nor worry after writing a good essay for GP. The only subjects bugging me now are physics and economics (and also computing but that is still so far away).

I can't believe yoonha85's old youtube accounted was deleted by youtube!!! Darn the best hwa shin piano piece I like is gone...gone!!! Then again I stumbled across this guy with who adapted the same intro as yoonha and some parts in the middle so I guess not all is loss.


I recently got addicted to listening to Yanni's compositions. He's got such a great style of composition that is gentle yet powerful in meaning. One of the composition I like is "One Man's Dream". I'll just share it here for anyone who comes to enjoy =D

Well it's almost 1 month b4 A level's and there's still so much more room for improvement for my part before I can get a good pass for most subjects.. haiz

This is my first post in months and I really don't have much to comment so I'll just post some useful information for peeps interested in taking their driving license.

Basic Theory Test(BTT)
Requirements: at least 18 years old

1. Open a account at one of the 3 centres (which is valid for six months)

Bukit Batok Driving Centre Ltd
815 Bukit Batok West Avenue 5
Singapore 659085

Tel : 65611233 Fax : 66656923
Internet : http://www.bbdc.com.sg

Comfort Driving Centre Pte Ltd
205 Ubi Avenue 4 Singapore 408805
Tel : 68418900 Fax : 68418913
Internet : http:// http://www.comfortdrivingcentre.com.sg

Singapore Safety Driving Centre Ltd
3 Ang Mo Kio Street 62 Ang Mo Kio Industrial Park 3 Singapore 569139
Tel : 64826060 Fax : 64828808
Internet : http://www.ssdcl.com.sg
Note: At time of print, SSDC is the only driving centre where you can open an account and book for your Basic Theory Test online. Check this link out.

Final Theory Test(FTT)
The FTT has to be taken before obtaining a Provisional Driving Licence (PDL) which allows you to drive on public roads as an "L" Plate learner with a qualified driving instructor.

The FTT is conducted by the Singapore Traffic Police at any of the driving centres.

Marina Barrage Pictures Here!
0830's photo blog Here! (credits to Jun Jie )

A very quick and short post this shall be. NE trip was to Marina Barrage and I think the whole class really got lots of nice pics there. Singaporeans are really pretty clever eh? No wonder we must be so stressed even at this age. So time to destress. Today I'm gonna teach how to make your own chocolate fondue!! =]

Ingredients:
1. Fruits!! Lots of them. I recommend strawberries, bananas, apples, mango,etc
2. Pure Dark Couverture. Get them from Phoon Huat(cheapest there). A big packet for about $9
Check out the nearest Phoon Huat Shop from you here!!

3. Milk. Low Fat milk for those who mind their weight ._.


Steps:
1. Pour couverture into a bowl.
Note: I'm not using phoon huat's converture this time


2. Put the bowl into a pot of boiling water
3. Add milk. Don't add water. Pour bit by bit.
4. Keep stirring. If you don't like it too thick stir and add milk till the texture suits your preference
5. Make sure your fruits are nicely cut and ready for the chocolate. If you don't have a fondue set don't panick. U hardly even need it! Mine's for display only lol. For reheating of fondue just put it back into the pan to heat up and melt more chocolate if u desire.
6. So tadaaaa!! Chocolate Fondue ready and served!

Time is ticking. Time is ticking ticking... too fast!

Hmm been visiting some showhouses and then came across one with some unique facilities.
Located near Simei MRT, Double Bay Residence really provide both convienience to the park connectors and also luxury to the residence living there. I'll just quote some of the facilities:

DOUBLE BAY RESIDENCES (Sports deck):
· Sports Deck (on roof top of carparks)
· Gym
· Aerobics/Yoga room
· Table Tennis room
· Kids’ play room
· Golf Practice corner
· Outdoor fitness
· Half-basketball practice court
· Jogging track
· BBQ pavilion
· Male/Female changing rooms with steam-room facilities

DOUBLE BAY RESIDENCES (Large clubhouse with special facilities):
· Impressive facilities not easily found in other condos.....
· Library
· 2 function rooms
· 2 karaoke rooms
· Band room (acoustically treated, equipped with drum set, electric guitar, amplifiers etc)
· Piano room (for piano classes, equipped baby-grand piano)
· Pool table and table-soccer room
· Games room (for mah-jong and card games etc)





I was really refreshed of the idea of having a band room and piano room as facilities for residence. Hmm oh well never will be able to afford such a place anyway so there's no use dreaming about this place anyway ._.

Ah back to reality homework has really been piling up fast. During the parents meeting Mr Kooi pointed out something which really made me wonder. Am I really taking the right subjects? He noticed that I was more arts inclined or at least more interested in arts as compared to the science subjects. Well I guess that's the truth but I'll just have to live with the fact that I'm taking science subjects now.

I failed 2.4km run like for the first time in my life. -.- Can't believe I'm so unfit this year. From 11.36min last year to like 13.50min this year. I think I'm really short of breath. Having been really living healthly with all the extra help from teachers. Haiz. Now no more PE games for me again. Back to the gym workouts. Damn.

Anyway badminton fever has hit 0830. Just played around 2 hours of badminton yesterday at the central's CC with the rest of 0830. CK booked one court but we managed to use both courts ! 2 for the price of 1 xD. I finally can scoop the shuttle from the floor =] Took me one night when I was bored and 1hr of practise to get it right. On the same topic, the maths teachers in nyjc are all badminton pros! Damn saw Mr Foo played the other day with the other math department teachers. He was amazing!

O right then there was Zhi Peng's BBQ. HAHA He got dunked again and this time someone else got dunked too(unplanned). We got him a XBOX game and well it was wrapped up nicely. Really nicely!! 12 layers of newspaper laid underneath the wrapping paper. He was like unwrapping and unwrapping for nearly 5mins muahhahahahahaa. Thx to my sis for helping me wrap the top 8 layers.

Pictures HERE


Oh yea and the release date of FFXIII is out for Japan. Coming out in fourth quarter of this year. The high quality demos have been released on youtube. Go check them out

Ok I've been delaying this post for way long. March has really been pretty busy hahaz.

Firstly gonna wish Shu Hui a Happy 18th Birthday =]

Well lets start with the more recent events first.

Fencing was on the menu for PE enrichment, so I decided to sign up for it since it was charged at a pretty decent fee of $20(after school subsidy)
So the day finally came yesterday and today where the enrichment finally took place.

Fencing is really pretty fun. The coach taught us Épeé fencing as it was the easiest to pick up in 2 days, compared to the other 2 types of fencing, namely the Sabre and the Foil.

Well the first day was mainly learning how to parry and some basic footwork, and not forgetting the rules for all 3 types of fencing, which I never really fully understood( mainly the right of way part in foil and sabre fencing ).

The second day was sparring time. We were split into 2 groups with equal number of males and females in each group( actually my group was short of one boy ). We were told to number of, and I was number 6. Coach then decided that the first person to spar would be no.7, and that was lucky ZP lol( that meant I was last lol ).
He lost lol. Oh well girls got 2 bonus points to start with so can't really blame him yeah?

Well I was last, the score in the opponents favour 68-70. Oh anyway how one round ends is when a team reaches a point which is a multiple of 5, while this number should be 5 more than the previous round.( So a round 1 ends when a team reaches 5points, round 2 ends when 10points reached, etc. )

ZP took a vid for me but not gonna post it since uploading it takes so long... In the end I manage to win with a final score of 76-75, after both me and my opponent scored a double point, 75-75. Ah anyway my opponent was a girl so yea I guessed it was easier in a way to win. It was fun ._. I missed and "stoned" a couple of times cause i thought I already landed a hit.

After that the 3 ex maris boys wanted to duel with their friend, who was a student from CJC taking lessons there who was also from maris. Ended up the 3 boys were defeated easily? lol

More pictures of fencing here


I finally got my new com set up, thanks to matt for helping me choosing the parts at Suntec IT fair last Sat.
So yay finally I can surf the web without using my phones wifi.( and sadly finish up my computing hw )

Went Night cycling with SJJ, ZP, LQ & Keith last sunday to monday morning. I think we cycled more than 46km, starting from East Coast Park Area C to Changi Beach to Changi Village to Pasir Ris Park to some link missed the Bedok link, taking a flyover or sorts to get back to East Coast Park at around 6am.
More pictures here

We stopped for prata at Changi Village, and man their prata was way good. Great experience and worth doing it again. Next time no more taking the path beside camp camelot. Total darkness is really really frightening lol.


Oh yea I was a member of the band L6A which took part in THE ONE competition lol( Now it's L6D ).
Practise for the competition was really heavy on school work, or else it was pretty enjoying, except when the band decided to play a new song a day before the auditions. I played a minor role in the band, playing the keyboard( property of NYJC choir ). Ok so I had no exact score or anything which made things really challenging? Just 5 minutes before the tryouts clarence and I were transposing the keyboard part for sins, not really a good sign huh lol.
Picture taken after the competition ended. Thanks to our manager Chun Leong, for wasting so much time guiding us, the SC for helping us set up such a wonderful night and lastly 0830 for wasting ur money and time to listen to us play!!

It's valentine day and friendship day eve today. Well I screwed up SJJ's "perfect plan" for the valentine day part so yea my heartfelt apology lol.

Well aside from that thanks to everyone who gave me a chocolate and also to the few girls who gave me the remaining slice of Ivy's birthday cake(home made and super super chocholaty ). I've really had too much chocolate today. On my way back from school I even got a Cadbury Mcflurry from the drivethru Macs. ( I heard it as cranberries... )

Went to AMK Hub's pepperlunch for lunch with 0830. Well it seems that my face is still outside standford's display and I even found someone I knew when looking at the other testimonials. xD

Came back to school for maths. I really need to find a screwdriver which fits the screw of Integration formulas in my brain. Same goes for differentiation. Well at least that's something possible with more practice.

Played about 2 hours of basketball. I got mistaken as a J1 by a J1 while playing basketball with 2 guys I just met. They're pretty cool, taking PCME at H2 levels for all subjects ( GLHF to them ). Well I figured out a way to shoot even without looking at the net but it's not perfected yet =P Sprained my arm though while playing. Now I probably cant move it without feeling a bit of pain in the shoulder joints for a few days.

The most interesting thing that happened today would probably be the kitten stuck in the drain outside the canteen. Luckily for the kitten, a guy from the gym spotted it and soon the sc members and some other passerby were surrounding the drain where the kitten was. It was fierce, a natural instict when it is injured and thus none of the students dared to get the kitten out of the drain till the OM arrived. I called the SPCA and stuff, thx for all who helped me get the number ( dex, angie, nicholas )
Gosh the SPCA played us out. We waited a whole 1 1/2 hour to no avail. Ok they gave some horrible excuse in the end they didn't turn up. The cat seemed hungry and we had no idea what would be the best course of action. Oh yea let me define we: April from sc ( if i'm not wrong ), chun leong from sc, kuangwen also from sc erm omg I can't remember the other names lol. ok anyway it was 2 more other guys. ( One of the 2 wanted to keep the kitty lol )
Well we decided to bring the cat out in a box to a minimart outside school to get some catfood and milk for it and went back to school. Well we learnt later from louis when we were outside the sc rm that the kitten couldn't feed on those yet since it was still so young ( It's teeth was not fully grown yet ) Louis mistook me for a J1!! (2nd time today x_x ) The sc members are really friendly hahaz ._.

We were left in a diliema. One of the girls from the sc were sharing her stories of how a mother cat did not reconise it's kid when it went missing and the next day the kitten was torn into pieces. Well someone also mentioned about rabbits and hamsters having the same habit if it sense a different smell on it from what it smelled before.

Well I've seen it happen before my eyes during the 15th generation of hamsters I own where the baby hamster was eaten by it's mother. Totally cruel. We were left we little choice.

1. Bring it to SPCA, the cat would probably be put to sleep(eternally)
2. Let it go and hope that it's mother would find it and not tear it into pieces

We went with the 2nd choice. It was probably the best choice since it is not possible for any of us to feed the cat or look after it(since cats cannot be household pets in HDBs ) We left it in the school garden with the food and milk we bought spread out in front of it. I left it with a heavy heart but this has reminded me again of the reality of life- It is cruel.

Well I hope it does well and survives. This small and fragile life, let it live.

P.s: Happy Valentine and Friendship Day!

-All those for participated for the standard charted marathon check your emails for a Asian Youth Olympic Games 2009 email.
It seems that we are volunteers o_o lol. Don't ask me why though. I totally have no clue y we have this email.