Friday, October 28, 2005
to all batch07ers (if u even read my blog):
refer to my lastlast post.
yup i'm sorry.
that post... i dun deserve to write that post.
haven't been setting a good example
haven't been a good senior
yeah who am i to write that post yeah.
so
i'm sorry.
but to make things clear.
i stand by whatever i said in that entry.
was just writing what i felt
doesnt have to be true though.
somemore its being written by a slacker senior.
its up to you all lah.
just be happy.
and whatever you do...
don't have any regrets cos regrets aren't fun to have.
words of wisdom from hil!
and i admit that i wrote that last entry to try make pple guilty.
i'm sorry.
have no right to.
forgive me.
as in seriously.
yup.
ciao.
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haha these few days had a few interesting convos. first one was tues i think. going to school for netball prac. in orchard mrt, i took a copy of today. then this malay guy approached me. and i wasnt in a very good mood that day so my face was quite black. haha poor guy.
guy: hello err excuse me, is the newspaper free or must pay ah?
me: free.
guy: oh okay, hey wait just a while ah, i'm from this (can't rmb) association and... can i please know your name?
me: dun tell you.
guy: err excuse me?
me: dun tell you.
guy: why? just tell me your name lah
me: no.
guy: err okay nevermind i'll just call you sweet girl cos you look so sweet. can?
me: *stare*
guy: yes anyway my organisation is against the use of drugs in teenagers. we are collecting donations to help fight against teens who take drugs.
me: *stare*
guy: oh ya sweet girl, thanks for stopping ah, i dunno why today also no business, people don't want to stop.
me: *stare*
guy: okay sweet girl, dun mind i ask you a personal question ah. do you smoke?
me: no.
guy: ah finally a response! okay good good. do you take drugs?
me: no.
guy: yes i see. now anyway, each donation is about $3 but some nice people just now donated more, about $6 dollars like that. you have no obligation lah, just sign your name here and you will help in our campaign against teens taking drugs-
me: i don't wanna donate. no money.
guy: but i thought you wanted to. you sweet girl lah you, its just $3...
me: what makes you think i'm sweet.
guy: cos you stopped what but anyway no obligation at all. yeah sweet girl, thanks for stopping. bye!
yup. haha. that was the convo between me and the malay guy.
then on wed... was out with charmaine trying to find a present for mich. then was trying to think on how to write the note. so decided to tie it on the soldier's back. and we were at burgerking. and i was searching for string... so i looked in my wallet. haha inside got thread so i used it. then was wondering how to cut the thread. so char said use a needle. i said cannot lah. then char used the needle to cut it. then was figuring how to cut the paper. for me of course just tear lah. but char... she used the needle to cut it. haha. thats all.
oh... and now i think rg girls are nearly crazy with boredom... we have resorted to playing very nice primary school games! its really v fun lor... let me list.
-the animal game. this one super fun. i'm always the moose.
-hei1zi1ma3bai2zi1ma3
-xi3shua1shua1
-hai3dai4
-the superhero one (ahaha i love it! spiderman ah spiderman, batman batman, superman superman... haha!)
-jiaxi's game which consists of a lot of hissing...
-the tapping hand one...
haha so fun! today netball prac... stayed back to practise. then was playing with jukie grace liting... and it was super fun... anywhere just throw. haha ge said it looked more than bball than netball lol. then aft that went to play a game vs 307... that wynnetang is a super pro GA la! haha... wahh it was super hot. play until feet burning. then someone called timeout. haha my finger got hit! so pain.
ciao.
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
well.
batch07.
i thought a lot of things.
i thought wrong i guess.
batch06...
let's pray! haha...
ciao.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
haha. these have been quite interesting days.
sat was band prac! sun was serving... yayy the guit is nice. but everytime when i play the guit for service... i restrict myself haha. have to play my best in that particular style that the WM plays in... a house has its rules and so does the church! lol. i think i like acoustic guits better. not used to semi-acoustic. wahh when i get my hands on a good acoustic guit i go wild!
then monday. HUIYI bday! yayy pngteh went to jieshi house. haha pngteh still so bonded even after one year... still meeting up, talking crap, chilling at jieshi's house, teasing ge bout hweem, yeah and just pngteh-ing! haha. went to jess house in advance to prepare... wahh wrapped and wrapped and wrapped huiyi's present. bout six-seven layers. each layer have a task for huiyi to complete before can take out the next layer. huiyi cheat! try to take out 2 at one time. haha!
most funny one was playing hai3dai4 i think... huiyi's task was to beat all of us at hai3dai4! and she must beat all in a row. if she gets thru 4 of us but gets defeated by the fifth person... start from the beginning lol. haha and pngteh went high! was like continuous laughter... first is eva, grace, ge, hil, jess! wahh we play and play and play until super tired liao. then finally came to jess and huiyi LOST. again. so we just let her play and win jess then can go and open.
haha pngteh when playing haidai or bai2zhi1ma3hei1zhi1ma3 got different style one! for eva... the elbows don't move, the hands swing around... and when she plays bai2zhi1ma3hei1zhi1ma3 she follows the other person one lor! then grace... wahh like fighting for her life like that... arms swing everywhere. jess plays it normally. xinge and huiyi play haidai with their fingers. i... i dunno! haha.
oh and one of the tasks was for huiyi to hold clocks and ask the security guard wats the time. guess who came up with it. haha in the end ended up asking some pesticide sprayer. and another task... tie her hair into 5 ponytails and hop around the swimming pool singing the alphabet song. LOL. and still got have to call hweem, ask her to wish her a happy bday. that one backfired a bit. heehee.
then we ate the cake! whoa xinge culinary skills not bad ah! the cake looked so nice lah! got the word pngteh across it in green and red letters... then got all our blbs. gelb, squarb, tribe, hearb, (err should be a treeb lah but eva changed it to a droob) and starb! thats where the starbo comes from haha! yup the cake was creamy... and VERY filling haha.
after that we were so full we went to play table tennis. then it started raining. so we went back in. then we were all hungry. so we went down to buy stuff. ge and me bought udon. huiyi bought beef pho. ahhhh i think i'm addicted to udon! that nice salty taste... that soft white noodle... its soooo nice!
yeah then we went up and watched some weird taiwanese gameshow. bout these girls doing stuff and competing to get some guy. mann its so lowdown! the way some girls dance and throw their arms about... if cannot dance then why go and make a fool out of yourself? over some guy who is just choosing out of 6 girls? not worth it lah. and that guy look very she4 also. haha with the triangular eyebrows.
then the show became SHE in japan! actually only hebe and selina. haha so funny... in that room... wanna go there someday :)
then i went home.
tuesday! netball prac. wahh okay at least i not so scared of the ball anymore. over my head i won't close my eyes will jump and catch. kinda getting it alr lah but sometimes still miss. but if you chest pass to me... those kinda direct and fast balls... will close my eyes one. haha fear of the ball! yeah did some passes with jiaxi... wahh that girl very scary! the passes pass like wanna kill you like that. haha!
today. i was the first person to wish mich happy bday! haha yayy. then i went to sleep.
and today was a tiring day. quite bad also lah. ohwells.
lalala.
ciao.
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Saturday, October 22, 2005
EXAMS ARE OVER. somehow i dun really feel a thing. yesterday immediately aft exams i felt happy. haha. oh yah before i forget.
THANK YOU GOD!!! haha looking at the state of unpreparedness i was in for papers like chinese chem physics math... the fact that i could actually do the papers was by the grace of God methinks. haha that's been roughly the state i was in. like i study and mug and cram until cannot cram alr, then give the paper to God and its up to Him what He wants to do with it. yay. do your best and give God the rest.
yup yesterday went out with pngteh! i think we havent really gone out and chilled for very long... took some time to get used to talking. but haha going out with pngteh is FUN! grace and huiyi brought their digicams. hmm lets start from the beginning. in the morning was physics! that one haha amazing how i could rmb moments when i last did them a month ago. and pressure... it was okay lah. quite easy eh. realised that physics papers are quite basic. but haha the glory is God's! then... math. hohoho. i was quite stressed over math. so many things havent studied yet... couldnt cram in all the night before so cram before exam. then i just gave up and went to pray at the staircase. haha up to His will my math paper!
although i got one question wrong. like the height of the tower other pple get 10+m, i get 555m. a bit off huh.
then we got CLASS TEE! i love our class tee! so nice and comfy... was wearing it then it got too hot so i took it off.
then pngteh went to plazasing. and we started walking up and down. first walk up to cinema to see if corpse bride was showing. it wasnt showing. so we walked down and went to the basement and jess and i ate bk. then we split up a bit... and walked one level up to carrefour. relieved a bit of pngteh memories in there! whoa so long since we went to carrefour... approx one year ago. cos they were using the same halloween decor as last year when we last went there. time flies man. then we felt hungry so we went up to the sushi shop to eat sushi. then went to the foodcourt and sat down. and the digicams were takne out.
very fun! we were posing here and posing there... jess made a comic strip about her pringles chips lol. then grace tried to pai1 huiyi and jess kissing the pringles can but they always started laughing and what came out was some excruciating expression.
THEN. we started shooting videos! first was jess i think but can't remember what was it. then grace. her tongue. haha FUNNY! like lizard and slug like that. really cool. then xinge the bobbing head! kept bobbing up and down up and down up and down... HAHA. then eva and me did a stoning video. we just stared off into space and stoned. while jess and grace were doing stupid actions to make us laugh. first try i lost! i laughed first. then 2nd try eva lost! she laughed. haha so wuliao pngteh is but its FUN.
then. huiyi and grace had a crying competition to see who cried first... haha throughout sec1 orientation they were doing it. LOL. grace was the winner! whoa very scary know. see them just staring in front, trying to make themselves cry... haha yup grace cried after two and a half minutes. huiyi then cried after 3min! haha...
then we went home. grace and me. went home and slept. then had to wake up to go for my aunty's 60th bday... got kinda lost in raffles place... i was reading the street directory and mum was yelling at me to find the place... hey i can read the street directory k i'm a very good geogger. but in order to know how to get to a place on the directory one must FIND the place on the map first right! and so if i couldn't find that place on the map how to demonstrate my excellent map-reading skills? haihai. then there was this bus which broke down in the middle of the junction. so had this huge jam.
dinner was nice. :D
got home at about 12.30. haha.
sigh. i think i'm becoming a dominant D. noooooo. i don't want. but yeah. although i was still my quiet S self during the dinner... i realised why i ws so short compared to my other cousins. they were all wearing HEELS! haha. i shall try to curb my bluntness.
which reminds me. sometime during the exam week i asked rachel wat was wrong with me. and she said...
"you're very blunt. and... you're very sharp."
haha so contradictory rite! basically wat she meant was because i am so blunt, my words are very sharp.
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hmmmmm. about that matter. haha i dunno wat to say. its kinda settled alr? yup yesterday. haha yup it has finally ended. for me at least. yayy. its a nice ending. and to the other parties involved... don't worry bout it. as hard as it may to believe it, i'm quite satisfied with the way things are now. was already satisfied like a few months ago? only this thing cropped up and had to go deal with it lor. haha.
ohyah i've never purposely stared at you before eh. so amusing. no need to be scared of meeee....
ciao.
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Thursday, October 20, 2005
today was a nice day... stayed back to study, the weather was so cool! at the pavilion... just sitting there taking my time to do physics... feeling that sense of satisfaction everytime i get a question right... haha i wouldnt mind doing it everyday. lol. yayy i love the weather nowadays... esp at my house its always cool. :D
saw lots of nice teachers today haha. ahmiin misswu gracelim and MRS HO! haha! yayy i like talking to teachers. at least teachers that i like. mrs ho purposely dao me! wave like siao to her she turn her head away, somemore go and wave very obviously to sandy and charmaine. haha. i miss sec2. then char and i were walking up and down... first to photocopy shop then to my locker to get my stuff... and saw misswu twice. lol. misslim was just walking here and there with her yellow bag. i see a lot of teachers go down the stairs and i shout to them and wave like crazy and they wave back haha. so sad misswu leaving.
aft that yeah went to pavilion to study a bit. then feel hungry, went out w char to far east eat my fav chicken rice. then went to bk to study. i am so easily hungered. after lunch we went to look in the stores a bit then we went down bk. and i bought large fries. ate a bit and suddenly i got hungry again. haha.
wahh all my papers gonna die alr... all so little time to prepare! physics and math... haha just discovered got something called alternate segment theorum. lol. something to do with tangents. the two tangents from the point to the circle have the same length. and all their angles the same one. thats about it. mymy i'm so unprepared. and here am i slacking. ohwells. haha.
if i get good marks... all through God's grace haha.
i think mich's phone has conked out on her again.
i napped. and i had a dream. i dreamt that mich's phone was okay, and i somehow took her phone home. wanted to tell her that i had her phone, but couldnt sms so i didnt know wat to do. and all the time i was worrying bout wat her mother would say. surely very angry one. so scary. haha my paranoia and fear of aunty yonghua is getting to extremely high levels! she even occupies my dreams haha.
yup at bk... char and i studied. i finished up my physics stuff more or less. haha concepts are kinda there alr... ahhhhhh i wanna revise somemore but i'm blogging! lol.
just... ONE... more... day... to... freedom..........
ciao.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
haha i'm tired. the thing that keeps me going is the thought that exams will be over soon... just two more days... can hang on must hang on!
yeah study chemistry until its the only thing i'm thinking about now... haha. just now when i was napping... throughout i was just thinking of chemical formulas and stuff... woke up thinking bout zinc oxide and aluminium sulphate haha. my brain is saturated with chem facts!!! and if u leave it to cool, crystals will form. be sure not to heat the crystals, or else it will lose its water of crystallization and go to its anyhydrous state.
i don't wanna dream about chem today. ahhhhhhhhh.
yup today was in a relatively bad mood. kinda caused by learning bout someone... hmms. then went home thinking about it... and tried to nap. BUT. one of my sister's friends who calls her 5 times a day called! and the stupid phone rang! just when i was gonna doze off! so i was super moody. then tried to go back to sleep. then sister came up and started shouting bout how she hated math and wanted to sleep. woke me up lor. super bad mood.
then studied chem for a while. did that horrible ws. couldnt do. so bad mood worsened. went to nap. nap was full of chem facts. woke up feeling yuck. then went down. ate dinner, mood got better haha! then went up study chem again. studystudystudy mugmugmug.
haha then did qt. lalala.
"but we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. we are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed." 2Corinthians4:7-9
"Therefore do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. for our light an dmomentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. so we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. for what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2Corinthians4:16-18
"we live by faith, not by sight" 2Corinthians5:7
ciao.
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hmm why am i getting so bothered over what i don't even know is true? waste time.
ahhhhhh i'm UNFOCUSSED i need to mug with CONCENTRATION! someone add more solute into me! ahahaha.
amphoteric oxides- lead, aluminium and zinc oxides.
all nitrates are soluble.
all chlorides are soluble except lead and aluminium.
all sulphates are soluble except lead, calcium and barium. and silver?
all hydroxides are insoluble except for ammonium, sodium and potassium. calcium hydroxide is partially soluble.
all carbonates are insoluble excet for ammonium, sodium and potassium. calcium carbonate is partially soluble.
monobasic acid: where one hydrogen ion per molecule is produced when the acid dissociates into ions.
must add excess solid when reacting with acid so as to ensure that all the acid has reacted with the solid, and the salt produced will not be contaminated by the acid.
is salt soluble?
no- ionic precipitation
yes- is the starting material soluble?
yes- titration
no- react with acids.
acid test: put acid with carbonate. carbon dioxide will be released.
alkali test: heat alkali with ammonium salt, place moist red litmus paper. gas produced is ammonium.
ionic precipitation:
1. mix two aqueous solutions together... both contain soluble salts
2. an insoluble salt will be formed. crystallize solution.
3. collect crystals and rinse with distilled water.
titration:
1. pour 25cmcube of alkali into conical flask.
2. add indicator
3. slowly titrate the acid into the alkali until endpoint is reached.
4. record.
5. repeat the experiment, this time without the indicator.
6. collect the solution and heat it up to saturate the solution
7. collect the crystals.
reaction with acids:
1. add access solid into acid
2. stir mixture, making sure that all the acid has reacted.
3. filter the excess solid
4. heat the filtrate and crystallize it.
5. collect crystals, wash with distilled water.
ciao.
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Monday, October 17, 2005
haha today was english! and looking back at the previous days where i was super stressed, whoa today was rather slack. haha i wanna THANK GOD for giving me a clear mind today... and for taking away that horrible stressed feeling. yup. yayy to God be the glory!
you see my dinosaurish friend, i'm blogging now.
haha yup today was pretty slack. went to school, went for assembly, went for paper 1, went for recess, went for paper2, went home. haha.
and this morning was feeling slightly tense... so i let it out by trying to laugh! haha and rshl was in a smiley mood today. yup we were all acting rather childish. haha! stupid rshl was eating honeydew sago... then she scooped out all the icecubes and plopped them on the table. all with this stupid grin on her face and weird sounds coming out of her. then after she finished, she started scooping all of them back. the things we do haha...
yup we were all in a laughy mood today! lalala~
and. i went home and napped for 3hrs. then i woke up. and had that overdue phonecall (since last night haha) and i went to eat lunch at 5. lol.
haha thanks to those who wished me all the best thru sms this morning! yayy u brightened up my day. :)
i just discovered that the dalmation screensaver on my com has sound. it was barking at me.
mug on everybahdee!
ciao.
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
was looking through some past mails in the bencg yahoogroups... haha and sth caught my eye. it was sth bout being satisfied with the gifts God has given you... focussing on using them rather than asking for more. haha. don't really agree with it abit.
for one i do not think that we should be satisfied with the gifts God has given us. yes, we should be thankful, but it is dangerous to be satisfied. with satisfaction comes the loss of the desire to improve. i may be generalising that when people are satisfied they lose the desire to improve, i do not know. but i think that we should always chase after God's blessings as jacob so nicely demonstrated to us in the bible. he wrestled with God in the bible, refusing to let God go until He blessed him. and God did bless him. haha.
however i do agree with the concept in that we should too focus on using what we already have, and not to just be so concerned with asking for more. we can always use what we have, asking for more at the same time can't we? haha!
yup and i learnt sth from that... about being thankful and working with what God has already given me.
lately those in school and those close to me would have been able to notice that i have been feeling quite stressed. more stressed than normal anyway. and i have identified several reasons to why i have been feeling stressed. aiyah actually i wrote sth down in one of my many notebooks just now so i shall just reproduce it here. and it starts here.
God has blessed us greatly. He may have given us a small gift or talent. Instead of asking for more should we not be happy with it and try to make full use of it? yup. I guess that I've been seeking God's blessings so much that i have neglected what He has already given me. In terms of studies, I've been so obsessed with scoring well, so worried about not being able to do the paper properly, so stressed out over thinking that mugging will not help me or guarantee a good score that I have totally wrecked my own selfconfidence where studies are concerned.
One thing that contributed to it was the low marks i got for english and social studies. That brought the possibility of me doing badly uncomfortably near. But upon reflection, that probably happened with the purpose of jolting me out of my selfassured complacency. Now i know that if I had maintained that air of immunity against failure so to speak, it would probably have caused me to not study as hard as i would have if i didnt have that pressing thought of doing badly to push me.
Back to the topic. After suffering from that bout of low self-confidence and that feeling of anxiety and helplessness i have woken up! God has blessed me academically- one gauge of that could be the fact that i'm actually in raffles. And with that blessing, I should move on with the confidence that i do have the capabilities to do my papers and do them well. There is always a possibility of failure but the point in that God has given me a gift, and I should do what i can with it. Of course i constantly ask for more; it is dangerous to be satisfied with what one has. However instead of focussing on that, should my efforts not be trained on using what i have?
So now with that knowledge in mind i shall continue studying and mugging! God has been faithful. He has given me brains, for that which i am thankful. It is now the time to use it! haha! I have everything that could help me to pass and do well. Make use of it! Whatever happens in the exam room next week is really out of my control. I'm giving it to the LORD in prayer! Whatever happens, I have done my best, made use of what He has given me and given everything to Him. Let His will be done.
haha. whooo. that was done in english! as in proper english! somehow i think that studying has changed the way i write. hahahahaha!!!
ohwells. if God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
so weird. when i was reading sth... suddenly black spots appeared on my com screen. followed by a dalmation. which then proceeded to walk across the screen. it then disappeared. however it appeared again, dragging some kinda brush thing across, wiping my com screen black. haha and i was staring at it with an incredulous look on my face. ahhhh english on mon! read read read the dictionary!
ciao.
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