Conclusion to hibernation

The society is rotting. People are degenerating to what they aren't. I should start to blog again.

Brother go, brother gone

Ah, so my brother set off for France today, for two years. Not sure whether he will come back anytime in between.

Honestly, all of us feel a little at loss. My parents, my sister, my cousin, me, and even my brother too. Being his brother all my life, it wasn't hard to detect the tinge of uncertainty in his air, in the words he speak, in his eyes. So now my sister has one good mathsciencewhatevertutor/reminder/brother/adviser/confidant wanting, I having my at-home PCM tutor missing, and my parents relieved of all the domestic disorderedness caused by my brother.

Btw room for rent!

My brother is from Toa Payoh
Now gone far away aiyoyo
Missed by family
To go and study
When he comes back we're gonna say 'yo'

Better come home once next year, I need your help for A levels and testimonials.
Well, thanks folks who still take the effort to click on my url from wherever. Will update on a more regular frequency, maybe some overdue posts coming up. Blogging is cathartic, so stay tuned!

POP Today

Ah, it was pop today. Met up with old buddies to do all kinds of stuff. (Land the helicopter onto the top of the shelter, playing facebook games with a laptop at parkway macs). Walked out of the long stretch of road once again, when the sky is already dark and our stomachs already growling.

Bumped into Sunny and Hongwei in parkway, and some other ex-schoolmates(I never failed to meet someone I know there), crashed macs till 10+pm. Returned home with a lil bit of nostalgia, just finished watching The Kite Runner. And intending to sleep now.

Goodnight.

Rachmaninov had big Hands

This is cool.

RANDOM POST

Hihihihi people a random post after being MIA for so long!


A scene in school today, while giving back maths test papers .......

Can come ask me if ya don't know what's DA, it's an inside joke XD

Teacher(DA): ehhh... Lau Yong Yi

Me: Yes Sir.

Teacher: So above average or below average?

Me: Er, below average ah.

Teacher: Wah congratulations you know yourself very well.

Me: AHAHAHAHAHAHA


AND


I texted Katie and YiXin good luck for SYF, only after it's over. All schools got silver, how screwed is that.


Just another day of mine. ;)

Class OutingS

I swear that I am going no where near pizza hut for the next 6 months, at least.

After faithfully returning to primary school twice a year(cny eve and teachers' day) for four years, I have this feeling of visiting old patients with Alzheimer's, because most of the time they can no longer remember who we are, with sufficient details.

Seeing the familiar faces still there, alive and teaching, suffices.

For pictures go to facebook.

If you can understand

Instructions:

1. Read the passage carefully
2. Grade yourself with the grading system at the end of the passage after reading.
3. Not that difficult, chin chai do lah !

Section A: Orrler Exeminetion (60 marks)

Question: Singalella why become rich ?

Koo zhar wu chee ay char bor kia, Singalella.

She got two sisters, but the stepmarder and the sisters all damn kuai-lan, so she quite zhia-lat oso.

Last time Singalella got own maid, but now she become the amah.

Everyday must cook lah, clean lah, simi sai mah bao-kah-liao.

If her sister say liak kar zhuak, she liak.

Tak jit zho kah tau-hin.

CPF poon boh.

But then, kay piak eh ah-pek got one son call Ah Ming got party.

So he say, 'oeh, long chong lai ah.'

Singalella very happy because she never go party before but then her step-marder say, 'Lee Mana eh-sai kee, this one bahru lu eh sisters wu standard.'

Then Singalella must zho sui-sui for her sisters and step-marder.

Tap pai how, buay zhia, buay koon and buay pang-sai.

That night she only can wave bye bye and then she go back to the kitchen and cook Maggi mee.

Her neighbour came over and ask, 'Eh, an-zhua lu boh kee party?'

So Singaalella kong, 'I-wan, lau-bu kong buay-sai, so boh pian.'

She never expect but the neighbour say, 'Aiyah, kee lah, I give you money.'

So singalella brush teef and zhang-zhui, chen-kor, after that look very different.

She quickly run to opposite of the beh-chia-lor, already 11 o'clock.

At the party, Ah Ming also quite sian because the char bor all boh sui one.

Dance floor even got one ah pek dancing.

Just as Ah Ming told himself, 'Aiyah see-pay zhia-lat', Singalella came in.

Ah Ming straight away lau nuar.

'Wah-lau eh, see-pay heng ah, chee kor buay pai.'

Ah Ming say to Singalella, 'eh, sui eh, wah ai kah lee zho flen!'

Singalella say ok but Ah Ming like octopus, touch here touch there.

But then just it was 12 o'clock, one ah pek die on the dance floor.

He become ghost and tell Singalella all the good 4D number.

So after that Singalella quickly go and buy 4D, and then tiok tau-pio, zhit-pak ban.

So she pay back the kay-piak eh lau-kay-poh and then kah kee cho sen-lee.

Simi kuan eh sen-lee wah mana eh zhai.

Section B: Grades - Gauge Your command of Hokkien....

A1. Can understand the story and pronounce Hokkien correctly.

Hokkien eh sai, bo beh zao.

A2. Can understand half story and/or cannot pronounce Hokkien properly.

zhia lat

E8. Don't understand story and/or catch no ball.

leow leow, mai ka lang kong you is Hokkien Singabolean

F9. Don't understand rating.

kee see lah, wah mana eh zhai lee kong simi? ??

Subtle blight

Post O level results periods are times of degeneration, sloth and idleness. With the facebook window in firefox never closed, and the others on someone else's blogs, whether I know the person or not, you can roughly guess what I do online these few days. When night arrives, my stomach is either growling with voracious hunger or bloated by flatulence. Fatigue usually doesn't set in until I get my reasonable serving of food and when the time is beyond 1am.

Catching up with old friends is fun. More so when they're pretty girls and you get their new numbers :p.

RJ's in a hurry. For those who don't know, they already started auditioning people for different ccas, even before o level students like me get in. Panic not, there'll be a second round of auditions for o level students. But I'm going for piano ensemble's one this Wednesday. Lol I don't even know whether I'll end up in that school or not. Everybody seem to prefer rj over hc.

Anyway, the rj piano ensemble seems harder to get into than the school itself. I wonder if I'm the only alien going for audition.

Friday, I am going back to ChungCheng first. Noon, I'm going back to PeiChun. Class outing, see first.

Midnight reflections

Sitting before the laptop with a whole new life awaiting me, with the mood of chalet still not checked out of my blood, with an ironically subtle hungry stomach which was just filled with Indian supper, with a crippling concentration of poignancy precipitating in my head and heart, and talking to friends that are almost long forgotten, I can't describe the emotion I am feeling now.

Okay the last clause sounds weird, boys aren't good at expressing their feelings, especially when they're left brainers, like me.

Some disclaimers, I totally didn't expect my results to be this way, although it's a really pleasant surprise, I got a freaking 13 points after moderation for prelims.(It was 16 before mod). Thank you all for the congratulations and stuff.

For those who did well, congratulations and I advise that you do not become complacent even to the slightest extent. 骄兵必败, the haughty soldier is sure to lose.
For those who didn't do as well, think that this exam doesn't decide your life for you. You still have the chunk of your life in your hands now, don't screw it up this time.

I'm stoning and thinking about people, and when I am going to see them again.

Very soon, I hope it will be.

Screw it

I didn't know that I could use ms words to type a blog post.

Sentosa is quite officially a tourist trap. The IR there will be expansion and further manifestation of operation tourist trap(not the penguin one in Madagascar 2). Perhaps our people here think like the penguins.

That place certainly does well to suck the tourists' pockets to the maximum extent. Like you know, sucking on a straw until you can hear hollow sounding, but sentosa continues to suck.

Maybe the next thing we know is, the trams and shuttle buses require your ez-link too.

Behold the weirdness of the Holy Bible

Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to an alien living in any of your towns, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

-- Deuteronomy 14:21

Strange enough? How bout the next one?

1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel ^[c] —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

-- Genesis 11:1-9

I shall provide more examples when I have the mood to.

ocean olive OVER!

Yes, finally, after a month of answering questions in a literally mechanical manner, frantically scribbling and regurgitating social studies essays till my wrist muscles cried, and shading lozenges which safely guarantees 25% of the MCQ paper even if chosen at random, I am officially done with the screening-testing-assessing-predictable-ineffective-inefficacious-irrelevant-unreliable-useless-redundant-obsolete exams.

Some of us want to sleep, some of us want to play, and some of us will involuntarily live in fear till the day of truth.

Some will get a temp job and screw up the company, some will do housework, and some will rot at home till the day of truth.

Some will be worried sick, some can't give a damn, the others --- I don't know.

Until then, may we play, work, sleep, mess, crash, bash, flash, dash well.

Good luck to all,


IT'S HOLIDAY!

I love the whole world

And now I am using it

HIATUS

self explanatory, won't be back until exams are over, or when my long gone literal inspirations return.

That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.
Believing what we don't believe
Does not exhilarate.

That if it be, it be at best
An ablative estate —
This instigates an appetite
Precisely opposite.

-- Emily Dickson

Rest in peace, George

Folks, how 'bout taking a few minutes and listen to Carlin? He does make sense ya know. With him gone, the world has indeed lost one of the most effective spokesman for reason and critical thinking.

Think people, think.

As a conclusion

The pronunciation of men has been clarified.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/men

For man,

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/man

You can click on the little speaker icon, and listen to the pronunciation. According to this source(dictionary.com) and the oxford dictionaries in my handphone, the difference between the two words is, man is pronounced maan, a slightly longer vowel. Whereas for men, the vowel is short and brief.

You can listen for yourself, or figure out the pronunciation keys.







And,


George Carlin is dead.

So the moral of the story is,