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Qifa.Commonwealth.Hwa Chong.
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Ren.Ray.Jan.Yu
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For 2007, I hope to...
:Enrich myself as much as possible before Uni:
:Do well in Uni:
:Visit Hong Kong or Taiwan:
:Learn hip-hop dancing:
:Not involve my car in any accident:
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That aside, today was a very happy day... morning went back to CSS... wanted to have breakfast and play the swing at the playground but stupid ray was LATE AGAIN!!! MUST SLAP! But we still made it at last cuz the concert this year started very late... poor css-ians still got lessons today summore... all thanks to that DOROTHY TAY THE LAO WU GUI... lol. Budden see some teachers also still a bit akward and dunno wad to say... sai hong also. But ruth low and aileen leong still got chat with them for some time. Too bad dorothy tan take long MC (again, dunno what happen to her this time) so cannot chat with her.
Also, today's mugging marathon was a success!!! Finished VJC paper 2 n 3 for chem so very happy :). Tml a few more MCQs and revise for GP can liao. Then can PLAY! Muhahahaha :D:D:D
Terence pens his legacy at 9:52 PM Yet another mugging marathon. This time not so successful tho. Attempted the RJC prelim paper 2003. IT SUX MAN! I WONDER HOW THE RJC TEACHERS CAN SET SUCH JIAN4 QUESTIONS AND HOW THE STUDENTS DO IT!!!! Maybe that's why they get so many As... Anyway all ppl interested in a challenging (but undo-able, well to me at least) paper can go try... the MCQ is killer enuf (try to do it in one hour)
That aside, I was quite happy today. Played cards with frens as usual and also went to the see-saw and chatted our hearts out again. Tml is teachers' day and me and some of my pals are going back to CSS... we are also meeting at the old market to have breakfast and also playing at the playground, esp the SWING! But not too many ppl so cannot play colour catcher and block catching... but all these memories are so nice to keep... really miss tose carefree days. Sigh.
Anyway happy teacher's day to all hardworking teachers!
Terence pens his legacy at 9:33 PM
Yay I finally came to blog... wanted to on saturday but was too tired... wanted to blog yesterday night but my specs sort of came loose and I couldn't see nuts. Anyway here I am
Saturday went to 2 scholarship talks... first one was FIREfly's at Biopolis... I tell u ar that place is so weird. Their buildings never label wan so a group of lost ppl and I just kept walking ard the place up and down up and down until we finally saw a lot of ppl entering one building and we followed. Anyway there were like SWARMS of ppl there la... and we had to register summore. But because they dun have enuf ppl and time was running so they just pushed us a piece of paper (a small A3 sized programme sheet) and asked us to go in... such POOR ORGANISATION!
Anyway the talk was mainly German, Japanese and Chinese representatives introducing to us about studying abroad... I learnt so much about Germany. But there was no France... sad :(Anyway, afetr the talk I went out and talked to the DAAD reps (Germany ones) and I think after the long talk I had it sort of reaffirmed my decision to go there to study. No need for SAT, no double degrees but all courses go straight to Masters level... which is quite cool. Plus the unique thing is that the timetable is planned by urself, so u can decide it u wanna have it packed or slacked. Heh :) But I may wanna like do till a degree only then go to US for masters or sth... dunno
Then the FIREfly agencies gave their own mini talks... only heard EDb and IE ones' before so this time I learnt more about SPRING (which is so boring btw) and STB (whcih is real cool!!!) I think I wanna chiong for STB now... hahahahaha
Then went to Suntec for the PSC talk. Also SWARMED by ppl and their PARENTS (SO MANY KIASU PARENTS OMG!) It was very high class and tech-savvy and everything but somehow I wasn't impressed. I am only interested in MFA and nothing else. But I'll probably still apply and see how... they gave good goodies tho haha
Then yesterday was mugging marathon again. I am so glad to have finished the NJC prelim 2003 paper 2 and 3!! Yay! At least got do sth. Today still gotta mug but I still gotta go settle some things I think... Seriously wonder if I should go and register for SAT II and get the US uni forms or not... now that I more or less have decided to wanna go to Germany...
Anyway prelims are coming... dun wan anymore additional stress... Shrug. SO many days never play com games liao (I think like wad? one week already?) :@
Terence pens his legacy at 10:36 AM Dunno wad's wrong with my come these few days... always cannot shut down, and show this blue screen then reboot itself... then I have to shut the power directly. Anyway, dunno wad's happening to my body too. Wanted to study with friends today but fell asleep from 2 to 7 liddat. Die...
Anyway the cheap-thrill guys of our class finally walked the talk today... so funny haha :D
Terence pens his legacy at 8:00 PM Had a very meanignful chat with some of my classmates today... was thinking hard about what i wanted to achieve in my tertiary education... really want something different, something life-changing, something fun...
But it seems so many decisions hinge on whether I do get a scholarship or not... which leaves me feeling damn lost and not in control... and I HATE this feeling. but what can I do? This world is never fair rite? Anyway thinking about all the SAT II, uni application forms, courses, jobs, and everything is making me so stressed out... and it isn't helping that my migraines are coming again. Liddat next time I dunno how... everytime stress will liddat will die
Watched AvP today. Pretty good cinematics I must say, tho chan eng and peh were rite that it wasn't a very fantastic show... plot and story a bit lame, Or should I say no story even... but village was worse I think lol
Anyway I'm getting so tired these few days. Really messing up my revision plans... not good.
Terence pens his legacy at 9:44 PM I was looking thru some old emails and also reading others' blogs... did lots of reflecting about how I have spent my life, in particular my two years in HC...
Jan, maybe u're right about the long long arguments we had... we only leave our legacy behind when we walk out of people's lives... tho I'm still not a 100% certain what I want others to think of me when I exit their stage... True, I think I would most definitely want someone to talk to when I'm old, someone who shares my passion, my aspirations and my dreams (wo see the world and eat good food btw :D), but at the same time we never know if we can find that one person or not... and true sometimes even if we make mistakes it's ok because we learn... but some things are probably too painful to recover from once the can of worms is opened...
I would still keep my future as bright and cheery as Joe's... although I fear that all the evils of the world and the power of money I have seen has desensitised me of most love, of most feelings and of most emotions I once probably had... Many a times I feel like I am really just acting on stage, pleasing my friends, pleasing my family, pleasing and meeting expectations and yet, have I pleased myself? I can't find this answer in the textbook...
Anyway back to my HC journey... I guess it was a very tumultous one... All the way from my first day where I wandered around the (then to me) large campus looking for something to identify myself with cuz I only had like so few friends then... to the second day when I guess I made my first (non-css, non-qifa) friend, Chun Kit form S64, cuz he was the only anderson sec 2nd intaker I guess, and my unique uniform sort of told him that I was the only one from my kind in LT4 so we became friends this way...
...to my fourth day when I was posted to S65 and tried desperately to make friends (esp with the 2nd intakers, one of whom was named Terence too... Terence Ong and also another CatHigh guy, Jie Ren) but of course looking at what they have become now I probably wouldn't have stuck out as a gang wiht them either... then being devastated when I was "nicely asked" to transfer to S63 where one of the 1st ppl I saw was Ivan (and CCY was telling me how Ivan would beat ppl up if they irritate him too much... but he turned out to be one of the nicer people I have met in HC), and was also introduced to all the pai4s (cliques) in 63... so interesting that the OC (acty chee yang who was anti-CHS like me haha) were trying to "recruit members" and I was their temp??
Was also then introduced to the "albert" story, and was initially a little anti-albert but now it appears he is best buddy and pal in 63... probably someone I would call up to ask how he's doing when we're all going on 30... Also remember when I first came I was a little sian-diaoed and maybe a little afraid to see so many CHS guys (who in my impression were super-fit and very act guys... and my impression has not changed much btw haha) cuz I couldn't do a single pull-up!! Haha... Very very relieved that most 63 guys couldn;t do it then too... (I guess I din show it much then but I was so afraid to be the odd duckling out leh haha) and look today, we all stuck out and trained our way from nil to like 9? 12? (for some over-enthu ones)
Then I came in thinking of how my sec sch has put me in a disposition to do well... and one of the aims I came into HC with is to get into a mugger class where we could all spur each other on in grades (honest... tho I guess 63 does provide some competition in this aspect too... if u noe what I mean...) but I was a little "shocked" after BT1... not only with the class' grades but also the actions and behaviours of some ppl... (yin ngai should noe... haha) And another interesting experience would probably be the cheap-thrill-ness of the class... always blowing up storms in set tea cups... I mean any single wrong move could get you into a lot of "trouble" for the next few months? Haha... I would definitely leave HC with some of such "fond" memories...
Also another life-changing experience for me would be in my CCA... met all the rich and wealthy and THE powerful of HC in the humanities classes... I culd say I learnt a lot about the "lifestyles of the rich and the famous" if it be apt to use, and also I have tapped into their vast knowledge of economics and US unis... Although I hate to admit it, I still have to... that I learnt a lot from the humanz ppl no matter how much I show or don't show I "hate" them... I formed a few friendships that I too would take with me away from HC fondly... Had so much fun in LD too...doing Dramafeste and Production... eating pizza at the canteen in like 15 mins only with Sheryl, Hui Xin, Johnny, and the two emcees... having so much fun discussing "Traumafeste" with Chris and Estelle... And also times with the tall tall cheng wei and pet and short short (oops) Jane... Tho sometimes u all always suan me but I guess that coming from science makes me unique in that desert too eh? Haha... And also thank you, guys, for giving me the confidence to speak english confidently around u "ang-moh" people... I guess u have "trained" me much in a way, just like I have "trained" your chinese I hope... And to think that my first LD meeting (painting of a banner) I hardly spoke a word cuz I do not know u guys... until production where I started to talk to others and people started to talk to me
Things have changed so much for me during these 1.75 years in HC... and I guess I am very glad that I have lived through such an experience... And I am not going to childishly say my heart is still with NJ after these 1.75 years here because I now truly realise and embrace the fact that my JC life is here in HC and I did have a roaring good time! I thank all of you guys who have made this experience fun and memorable for me... and I do hope that if I have, unintentionally or otherwise, left unmemorable footsteps in anyone's lives, that you all would forgive my immature? childish? ways and may everyone have a bright and well-lit future ahead!
And IF I ever make it into politics please vote for me k?? LOL
Terence pens his legacy at 8:27 PM
Din blog these few days cuz too tired /too lazy / juz forgot heh...
Sat and Sun were intense mugging days... even yesterday too... and I have FINISHED ECONS!!! (Well at least I think I sort of have covered it liao la haha)
Luckily today got no rudy lee remedial... then can come home and rest n relax n remember to blog haha... migraines acting up again. Think I will excuse myself from school tml...
Terence pens his legacy at 5:43 PM Yay today my internet and blogger nv sua pi qi... dunno why past few days they have been
Left school early and embarked on mugging marathon at JE... guess wad??? I only covered P&C!!!! Din even reach market structure.... why? Cuz my frens keep asking me maths questions that THEY SHOULD ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DO!!! :@ &*^%*0
So my productivity went dooooooown... but had fun. JE's LJS SUX BIG TIME and is DOMINATED BY MINAHS WITH BAD ATTITUDE!!! Please avoid where possible... Played cards at new usual void deck... KEPT losing... dunno what's wrong with my luck today... spammed lots of 7th lunar month related stories and tales... scared ray so much lol... myslf also getting just a little jittery too lol
TML MUST MUG MORE!!!!!
Terence pens his legacy at 10:34 PM Dunno what's wrong with my internet today... so laggy!!! ANd my whole com too... I hope it's not the wireless connection... or else my life would suck :(
Anyway I think Joanna Dong from SG Idol rox... she so totally changed her image and looks so different from the past... and I was very touvhed by the song she was singing even though I dunno wad song it was... Very nice voice I like!!! :)
2 weeks to prelims... my SA frens worse... next week...
Terence pens his legacy at 9:46 PM Blogger is down again wth... have to retype
Screwed up big time during econs S today... my part of presentation was super blur and I tripped over my points so many times lor haha. Think all can guess that i din really do much research haha... but I dun really care :p
Realised that I am super late in taking SATs I and II... now have to rush and make tough choices... I just hope that everything will turn out fine at last...
I hope...
Terence pens his legacy at 9:50 PM Very bad evening today. Morning study was good... finished almost all of wad i wanted to cover.
Wanted to watch fireworks in the evening. Went with Jan to Newton Circus to eat 1st, led me the wrong way -.-''' then later when we got there, my food took a very long time to come. So we left Newton at only 7.45. Thought fireworks would start at 8.15 according to wad the newspapers reported, but when we rushed down in a cab I saw the fireworks reflected off some glass panels of a building b4 we reached there. SO sian diao...
Went home with nth...
Terence pens his legacy at 9:50 PM Recently like a lot of ppl updating their blog skins or even chaging them totally... maybe I should shop for one too hor... lol Especially with some of my class ppl complaining wad very diff to read and the background sux and all LOL
Wanna play DOTA but too tired. Tml still gotta mug... :S
Terence pens his legacy at 12:11 AM Hmm blogger now-sa-day always so lag... must run it twice before it can lemme blog.
Anyway I am in a spiritual high today... very happy. Received some letters yesterday night and am seriously starting to consider certain prospects and unis for my future... glad that I am finally starting to take control of my future. :D
Prelims are coming. Must jia you. [Revision not started yet] lol
Terence pens his legacy at 8:53 PM Very tired today. But very relieved. With the handing up of my econs S essay, it signals the end of my commitments there. Maths S has ended too. Tutorials are 77-88 completed. Now I can finally set my mind on revision.
Happy Bday to the August babies in 63... hope ur bday luck will wash over all of us during prelims haha...
Terence pens his legacy at 9:11 PM Yesh!!! After long hours of toiling (I even missed Sg Idol for this) I finally finished my econs S essay which has to be submitted tml... YAY :D
Anyway attended a undergrad foreign uni forum today where ex-HCJC-ians currently studying in foreign unis were invited back to share their experiences bla bla... so I was listening and all and after the sharing ended it was tea. Was talking to this guy at LSE (London School of Economics) which is like a super zhai uni... anyway he was doing law (whcih I am also considering) and he was like telling a grp of us how law in LSE is different from other UK and US unis per se. I also asked about the econs there, and again he said sth like if u wanna do econs either go to US or LSE, not like Cambridge or Oxford or wadvea else there is.
Before I spoke to tt guy I was thinking that actually it doesn't really matter which uni u go to do ur course be it local or overseas or whereever cuz the content u do is largely the same... just a few modules here n there that are different. But he was telling me like almost all law undergrads there graduate with a job awaiting (excluding scholarship bond-holders) them simply cuz of the branding of LSE. And ya, let's face it, this IS a materialistic world. NUS and LSE makes a world of difference... so now I'm in a whirl of confusion.... dunno what my priorities for choosing unis shld be. Also asked him whether Brits are dao1 to Asians or not... cuz my dad once had a really bad experiecne there with the Brits. He said it's not the case in London cuz it's super-cosmopolitan and the ppl there are very tolerant... Hopefully it's true... but things there are also so ex... Maybe any kind soul out there who know the UK environment well can like advice me?? Haha...
Then US unis... wah another whirlpool... so many names like UPenn, Stanford, Cornell (spelt correctly?), MIT, UCL, John Hopkins... shucks I can't even name 10 la... but got so many also... HOW TO DECIDE????
Humanz frens were like "Oh u better go web and find out more or else later too late to apply..." but now studying so hard for prelims how to????
Pop Quiz: Rank the following in order of importance when choosing a Uni (your preference)
(a) Brand Name
(b) Social factors (pace of living, any social discrimination)
(c) Fun (maybe say more choices of non-acad course like scuba-diving or sailing etc)
(d) No of Singaporeans there
(e) How highly contested it is (assuming u hate highly contested ones)
(f) Cost of living (if no scholarship will die rite...)
(g) How famous a uni is for the course u wanna do...
Help me out k? Gimme some opinions. TAG at my board!!! Thanks... ----->
Terence pens his legacy at 11:16 PM I woke up very tired today... muz be last night play too much WC3 then sleep too late lol...
Anyway I dragged my dad along to HMV today, wanna "rob" him lol. But ended up only buying Elva's greatest hits album... Wanted to buy Maroon 5's album but bro had the songs in his com so din...
Helping this guy do his project now... met him thru GB... some guy from maris stella... so irritating u noe keep bugigng me from day to night. But I wasn't heartless enuf to block him on MSN lol.. trying to get it over n done with.
Tml is intense mugging day again. Shrug
Terence pens his legacy at 11:01 PM
Oh ya just wanted to add this in... it somehow slipped my mind juz now prob cuz I too tired.
Went for LD's ppp yesterday (saturday)... it was yvonne's house which was like super cool and super big. Apparently her family and her grandad's and her aunt's stay together, so they have like three bungalows built on this huge piece of land at Ladyhill road (near Shangri-La hotel). It's like WAH LAO u noe... they have this super large swimming pool and this super large 'meadow' in their land la... really not "obscenely rich" (to quote someone...)
It was nice... the food was catered so it was not bad, but the seniors had to pay like $6. We din even charge our seniors last year when we make all the food ourselves. Jane with her cookies, Jud with her brownies, I made sushi and Yvonne and Serene made spag. Even Sheryl made some kon-wadeva jelly (guo3 dong4). It was so fun last year when there were so many ppl including Perry, and the spoof script was so funny. I even got to scold Sheryl a bitch lol...
But this year, Perry was busy and couldn't come. The J2s also so sad... only me, Jane, Sheryl, Yvonne and Shawn. Ya, it is THAT sad. The j1s... only lkike half came, and all were humans juniors except one... WTH is happenign to LD!!! OMG So sad that my last LD gathering (save for JTS which is gonna be afetr prelims) is like so sad... very qi1 liang2... but I sure do hope that LD will continue to be successful after us.
Oh ya, the humanz ppl are like so smart... they never study also got like 1550-1570 for their SATs, and they're still complaining even! Then wad about me getting 1390?? Huh??!! Wanna SLAP them lol... keep complaing "Aiya I only got 1550 u noe..." 1550 U NOE!!!! SO GOOD STILL COMPLAIN ^&$%#(*+&*%$#
Then later in Yvonne's "poolhouse" (which has a shower bathroom like those in country club) the humanz ppl were still like "So which uni u wanna go? Stanford? Cornell? (some other never hear b4 wan)?" OMG... felt so out and %(&*^%#$#* ... I guess smart ppl will always be a league of their own eh? But no hard feelings to the humanz ppl la... it's not ur fault that u gys are SO smart heh... all the best to u all ar... make sure next time famous liao dun forget me...
Was reading someone's blog just now... she went to some American uni fair... dun even noe got such fairs... LOL die liao liddat how to choose a uni properly if I wanna go overseas rite?? Fill me in on Wed hor ok? (feels lag-ed behind... ahtes it *shrugs*)
MAROON 5's SONGS ABOUT JANE ROX UR SOX OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Terence pens his legacy at 12:48 AM
went to see fireworks... today's was very short but very explosive and eye-catching... dunno why so many people think it's no good... I loved it
Anyway there's still lots of stuff to do, but I feel like going out tml... damn... difficult choice.
Keep to losing to my bro in DOTA... wth. Even my stealth assasin kenna OWNED
Terence pens his legacy at 12:38 AM Just came back after an intense mugging session with frens... ok not so intense la... only 12.30 to 8 liddat... but got many breaks in between. I shld study at JE library more... cuz I get bored so often that I can heed the HPB's advise to take a vision break every 30... no make that 20 minutes. Ya, keep stoning and looking at a faraway place when I am bored. Planned to finish the Vit/Min/Water?colloidal systems tutorial but couldn't... can't blame anyone I'm too sian-ed
Anyway after that loooooong mugging jan, ray and I went to a coffeshop in JE to eat. I ate this kind of like bamboo rice thingey, dunno if u all eat before or not, but they try to imitate the claypot rice concept using a bamboo container instead. And the rice and meat is so cramped and Fked up that I can't eat properly (=.=''''')
Anyway we headed over to some void deck to play cards and went to a playground after that where the 3 of us just sat on a see-saw rocking up and down and chatting our hearts away... it's these moments that make me feel life is living for... not the big money (ok not so much), not the good grades not the wadeva crap there is else including D2 (which by now I still dun have a CD key for btw grr), it's these moments where I can pour my heart out with my frens and just be myself and say wadeva I want and have to and not be pretentious and watch my back thinking what if someone else hears me and all... It really warms my heart when I can such hearty chats with u guys... ren n zy wish u could be with us next time... and to jan and ray, thx for always being there for me, always spurring me on and giving me hope when life seems so bleak... thanks
Terence pens his legacy at 10:53 PM
Heh din go to Nat Day celebrations in school today... woke up at 9 so it was a good and well-deserved rest my body had after so long...
Just want to ask the readers here... do you guys remember ur dreams if u have them... I had two consecutive nights of bad dreams this monday and tuesday... very bad ones. One involve my classmates trying to kill me off after I (a plastic surgeon apparently) accidentally disfigured someone I dun even know (a client perhaps?) and the second one involves a friend (dun remember who... just know that I wasn't alone on this on) and I living in this house up atop a quiet countryside hill and there were like killings and all leaving grey/black charred corpses lying all around the hill. Then a caucasian couple (from their voice they should be americans) came to settle here too and one day their dog ate one of the corpse and turned into this scary troll-like creature with which I had a few close encounters/fights with...
Ya the dreams were pretty scary when they did happen... but sometimes I wonder of they mean more than just mere illusions/images formed in your brain... subconsciousness? maybe... or maybe it's something more... something I probably don't and wouldn't want to comprehend...
Anyway yesterday in school, something happened which shocked me... it affirmed the beliefs of some ppl I had. Ok... maybe not so shocking since I have already had preconceptions about them due to their own unique natures... Totally and utterly disgusted by the actions of those ppl... "those we do not speak off...!" lol... DISGUSTED is the word... I think they have the misconception that they are very well-liked and popular in the class and so they have the power to manipulate ppl... NEWS FLASH: You only have a few dogs running around for you... don't expect anything else because only dogs of the same breed, form their own creed... these people should just rot in one quiet corner of the Earth and hope the stench of their rotting carcasses do not waft over to our side of the Earth...
Pissed.... Those who do not belong to that group, please have the courage to stand up for yourselves... ok maybe not make it too obvious who the doggies are but just ya don't give IN to them... We ROCK!
Terence pens his legacy at 10:09 AM Phew just got home after a short monday (and a very rare one at that...) Cuz today there were so many breaks and we were liek shifting every lesson up so the day offcially ended at 1.20 afetr which many left... but I had econs S =_=; The good news is that we shifted it up too so I am home about an hour and a half early avoiding all the evening jams...
And I just came home to find that my internet connection was changed to wireless one... wth. ALWAYS see nick MSN kenna d/c then he quickly desperately come back online... thx to wireless ar... *Shrugs* Hope this wireless doesn't give me too many problems in the future.
I feel good today... dunno why but just...... good.
Terence pens his legacy at 6:39 PM
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