two weeks of non-official school reopening has finally passed, and we've been bombed with loads of lectures daily, although with lengthy breaks in between. lectures have proven to be rather useful so far i guess, at least they've motivated me to start revision and to catch up with work which i've long forgotten, no matter how useless they might turn up to be. i'm still hoping this will keep up, so i'll be able to perservere till the end of two years with good results (:

today's a day off from school as well, probably cause of posting results. however, all the bio olympiad people had to go visit the zoo early in the morning when everyone, animals included, were all sleepy D: i lazed in bed for fifteen minutes, causing everyone to wait for me :X

we reached the zoo at 0810, which was even earlier than the zoo's opening hours. it didn't help that when our half of the group was heading around to the proboscis monkey, all of them were still asleep somewhere and out of sight. fortunately, some animals were already awoken, thus it wasn't that monotonous.

oh and we were privileged enough to visit the usually out-of-bound areas of the zoo, namely the animal kitchen and the animal hospital/research centre. was quite cool i guess, possibly the most interesting portion of the visit itself. i'll describe the place here, since photography was banned within the premises ><

the hospital's only used for smaller animals, although animals as large as a leopard have been brought in before. the animals are sedated with isoflurane, before treated their wounds in the surgical theatre. the door is supposed to be shut at all times to keep whatever germs inside within, and to prevent other bacteria to be brought in. the irony was that the door was opened for us to peek within, which is totally the same thing as walking in :X (OMG thank God for blogger's autosave, else this would have totally disappeared when i accidentally went back) oh, and there's an xray room as well, where the images can be stored in an internal database in the computer as well for easy reference. in other words, it's just like our hospitals (:

there was also a post-mortem room, where the vets investigate the cause of death. two animals died today, while another three died during the CNY period! apparently they have this whiteboard where they update the gender, species and id (if any) of the animal, and the cause of the death. there was this poor bird which crash landed head first and died, possibly cause its neck broke D: the fridge where they store the carcasses was also opened for us just to take a peek, and the smell was rather pungent, and could be smelt even from outside the PM room. apparently the internal organs under suspicion will have a small fraction sliced off, before being imbued with wax and further thinning it to be able to be scrutinized under the microscope.

animal wards (segregated cages) were also present. there was this cute cotton top tamarin inside one, and it was running around D: apparently it was reared illegally by an owner, and so it thought itself to be a human. when the owner found it too difficult to rear and donated it to the zoo, it couldn't blend in with its peers, thus it had to be isolated D: poor thing. some cages also have movable walls, for larger and more dangerous animals like lions. this wall allows the vet to investigate and apply medication to the animals, without the risk of being attacked.

last but not least, there was also a viewing gallery which provided a birds-eye view of the hospital, as well as some information on the type of darts for tranquilizers for different animals, as well as vaccination and other random rubbish (: after i reached back to school, i totally had no appetite so i nibbled some lunch and ko-ed on the way home :/

Labels: jc

sorry i don't title my posts (:

Do this and repost it with the title:
I’ve done — out of the 132 stupid things.

Level 1
( ) Smoked A Cigarette
( ) Smoked A Cigar
( ) Kissed A Member Of The Same Sex
(x) Drank Alcohol

SO FAR: 1

Level 2
(x) Are / Been In Love
( ) Been Dumped
( ) Shoplifted
( ) Been Fired
( ) Been In A Fist Fight

SO FAR: 2

Level 4
(x) Had A Crush On An Older Person
(x) Skipped School
( ) Slept With A Co-worker
( ) Seen Someone / Something Die

SO FAR: 4

Level 5
( ) Had / Have A Crush On One Of Your Facebook Friends
( ) Been To Paris
( ) Been To Spain
(x) Been On A Plane
( ) Thrown Up From Drinking

SO FAR: 5

Level 6
(x) Eaten Sushi
( ) Been Snowboarding
( ) Met Someone BECAUSE Of Facebook
( ) Been in a Mosh Pit

SO FAR: 6

Level 7
( ) Been In An Abusive Relationship
( ) Taken Pain Killers (Tylenol counts)
(x) Love/loved Someone Who You Cant Have
(x) Laid On Your Back And Watched Cloud Shapes Go By
( ) Made A Snow Angel

SO FAR: 8

Level 8
( ) Had A Tea Party
(x) Flown A Kite
(x) Built A Sand Castle
( ) Gone mudding (offroading)
( ) Played Dress Up

SO FAR: 10

Level 9
(x) Jumped Into A Pile Of Leaves
( ) Gone Sledging
(x) Cheated While Playing A Game
(x) Been Lonely
(x) Fallen Asleep At Work / School

SO FAR: 14

Level 10
(x) Watched The Sun Set
( ) Felt An Earthquake
( ) Killed A Snake

SO FAR: 15

Level 11
(x) Been Tickled
( ) Been Robbed / Vandalized
( ) Been cheated on
(x) Been Misunderstood

SO FAR: 17

Level 12
( ) Won A Contest
( ) Been Suspended From School
(x) Had Detention
(x) Been In A Car / Motorcycle Accident

SO FAR: 19

Level 13
( ) Had / Have Braces
( ) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
( ) Danced in the moonlight

SO FAR: 19

Level 14
(x) Hated The Way You Look
( ) Witnessed A Crime
( ) Pole Danced
(x) Questioned Your Heart
( ) Been obsessed with post-it notes

SO FAR: 21

Level 15
( ) Squished Barefoot Through The Mud
(x) Been Lost
(x) Been To The Opposite Side Of The World
(x) Swam In The Ocean
(x) Felt Like You Were Dying

SO FAR: 25

Level 16
(x) Cried Yourself To Sleep
(x) Played Cops And Robbers
( ) Recently Colored With Crayons / Colored Pencils / Markers
(x) Sang Karaoke
(x) Paid For A Meal With Only Coins

SO FAR: 29

Level 17
(x) Done Something You Told Yourself You Wouldn’t
(x) Made a Prank Phone Call
( ) Laughed Until Some Kind Of Beverage Came Out Of Your Nose
( ) Kissed In The Rain

SO FAR: 31

Level 18
( ) Written A Letter To Santa Claus
(x) Watched The Sun Set/ sun rise With Someone You Care/Cared About
(x) Blown Bubbles
( ) Made A Bonfire On The Beach or anywhere

SO FAR: 33

Level 19
( ) Crashed A Party
( ) Have Traveled More Than 5 Days With A Car Full Of People
(x) Gone Rollerskating / Blading
(x) Had A Wish Come True
( ) Been Humped By A Monkey

SO FAR: 35

Level 20
( ) Worn Pearls
(x) Jumped Off A Bridge
( ) Screamed “Penis” or “Vagina”
( ) Swam With Dolphins..

SO FAR: 36

Level 22
( ) Got Your Tongue Stuck To A Pole/Freezer/ice Cube
( ) Kissed A Fish
(x) Worn The Opposite Sex’s Clothes
( ) Sat On A Roof Top

SO FAR: 37

Level 23
(x) Screamed At The Top Of Your Lungs
( ) Done / Attempted A One-Handed Cartwheel
( ) Talked On The Phone For More Than 6 Hours
(x) Recently stayed Up for a while talking to someone you care about

SO FAR: 39

Level 24
( ) Picked And Ate An Apple Right Off The Tree
( ) Climbed A Tree
( ) Had/Been In A Tree House
( ) Been scared To Watch Scary Movies Alone

SO FAR: 39

Level 25
(x) Believed In Ghosts
( ) Have had More Then 30 Pairs Of Shoes
( ) Gone Streaking
( ) Visited Jail

SO FAR: 39

Level 26
( ) Played Chicken
( ) Been Pushed into a pool with all your clothes on
( ) Been Told You’re Hot By A Complete Stranger
( ) Broken A Bone
(x) Been Easily Amused

SO FAR: 40

Level 27
( ) Caught A Fish Then Ate It Later
( ) Made A Porn Video/got asked to make one
( ) Caught A Butterfly
(x) Laughed So Hard You Cried
(x) Cried So Hard You Laughed

SO FAR: 42

Level 28
( ) Mooned/Flashed Someone
( ) Had Someone Moon/Flash You
(x) Cheated On A Test
(x) Forgotten Someone’s Name
( ) French Braided Someones Hair
( ) Gone Skinny Dipping
(x) Been Kicked Out Of Your House
(x) Tried to hurt yourself

SO FAR: 46

Level 29
(x) Rode A Roller Coaster
(x) Went Scuba-Diving/Snorkeling
( ) Had A Cavity
(x) Black-Mailed Someone
(x) Been Black Mailed

SO FAR: 51

Level 31
( ) Been Used
(x) Fell Going Up The Stairs
( ) Licked A Cat
(x) Bitten Someone
(x) Licked Someone

SO FAR: 54

Level 32
( ) Been shot at/or at gunpoint
( ) Had sex in the rain
( ) Flattened someones tires
( ) Rode your car/truck until the gas light came on
( ) Got five dollars or less worth of gas

TOTAL: 54

HAHA yay i've done less stupid stuff than deb :D

Labels: quiz

yep it's cny, so happy cny to everyone (:

i quite hope people will stop the 'happy niu year' thing, cause it's just so AHH. cold and punny. and it gets quite sickening after it's being repeated all over everywhere! i admit i laughed at it when i first heard of it, but since then it's turned all dry and boring and lame, all a result of overusage.

cny eve and eve's eve was spent on reunion dinners! had steamboat and aunt's homecooked dishes respectively (: haha esp at cousin's house, where we all played guitar heroes x) i think the drums were really good for helping me to train tempo, but it's still horribly confusing and difficult!

and in a flash, it's chinese new year day itself already, and there was a solar eclipse today, which was kinda cool :D it's kinda deceiving actually, without any form of equipment which shields light from your eyes, the sun still looks full cause it's just bright. however, aided by sunglasses/x-ray film, you can actually see that the sun is masked until it's just like a crescent moon! snapped a few pictures, all of which aren't with me (: oh, and the day was just visiting paternal side, before heading down to cousin's house to play mahjong (:

i suddenly have an urge to splurge on new shirts, cause i quite like my new shirt which i bought in hk :D and since my shirt stock is extremely limited, i should totally purchase new ones to decrease the monotony :D

edit: my fux deluxe arrived from australia on monday, and it's REALLY HUGE. i think i should have got The Complete Seed instead, but oh well, something struck off my wishlist! :D

Labels: chillout, family

it's ironic how sometimes causes of problems can eventually turn out to be the very solutions.

Labels: rants

dumdeedum. i gymed yesterday, which is my first exercise in around a month and half. as a result, i'm aching all over. at least it feels really good to stretch those old weary muscles every now and then, and feel the strain :D

and so school's being going on as usual, at least it's been better now with reduced duration and frequency of breaks, and slightly better content. like today's math lecture on proportion, it wasn't covered in s4 but it wasn't a major topic too, thus the lecturers were able to touch on something actually new for once. physics lectures are still completely unappealing, partially cause of my lack of interest in the dry topic. on the contrary, bio ones have been great :D there were real engaging activities like the 'blood' mystery, and sms contest!!

not to mention i've suddenly become extremely hardworking. i spent approximately eight hours on math tutorial just for practice, when i didn't even spend two hours on homework in the past. let's just hope it holds. for a start, i can tackle my nygh papers and chem tutorials ><

caught inkheart too (: was a sweet movie i guess, definitely worth the money to watch. well-written and directed, with its fairytale-ish storyline. if you're interested to find out more you can go read movie reviews online! thanks for company too :D

Labels: chillout, jc

haha yay!! second day of unofficial school is over, and today's the third already. i've spent my whole afternoon/evening/night doing math tutorial which isn't even required, just for practice, and I FEEL SUPER ACCOMPLISHED. i'm horribly happy about it, and i think i'm going crazy cause i spent around eight full hours doing math math and only math!

today has been a happy day, short hours in school, and math almost complete with two subquestions remaining, which i'm abit lazy to tackle cause i'm stumped (: oh, and also cause school started at like 1130, so i had plenty of rest to catch to make up for the first day! and so this means that i should totally go sleep now, after all the tedious brainwork i've done. goodnights (:

Labels: jc

and so today was the first day of school since two months ago! i can only say it was really really exhausting, not cause of the packed back-to-back lectures, but because the breaks were really really long. in fact they were longer than the lectures themselves!

0745 was the international science youth forum opening in the high school auditorium, and involved some nobel laureates, overseas science delegates, and of course, us students just to fill the place. it was horribly packed, which meant that i got the prime seats: the stairs. and due the exceptional planning, we ended an hour early and had two whole hours to kill before our welcome speech.

the welcome speech/opening speech was far from welcome, and it was really just a display of poor grammar and language by the discipline master. oh, and more importantly informing us of our lecture locations. lectures were uhm, mainly just recaps of what we learnt, and since most lecturers laid down ground rules today, hardly any time was spent on the lesson itself.

and the first day of school required me to attend school frm 0800-1500, which is a total of seven hours! however, four hours were breaks... which i spent most of it in the college library reading.

Labels: jc

dumdeedum. i was reminded last night that my blog is dying soon, and since i have faithful visitors calling for updates, i will uhm, update! okay.

guess what, school's like reopening on monday already, and i think i have to be there at 0745 if my memory doesn't fail me. and then certain people can afford to go to school at like 1100, like completely unfair. D: i think i'm quite looking forward to jc life, since i've heard it's like where you play hard and mug hard, but at the same time abit apprehensive cause of the huge challenge that's gonna really sink in only next year, the As.

okay i have no idea why i'm even bothering myself with As like when i haven't even started school. and another thing is what cca to join i guess. currently in mind is interact, provided i can get myself through the interviews. otherwise, idk what else to join! school's gonna start with just some weird science forum thing, following by lectures, lectures and.. you guessed it, more lectures. but i don't see a point in going for subjects you've already made up your mind to drop!!

okay shucks, i realised I TOTALLY GOT DISTRACTED. i'm like ironing my uniform halfway and i came to blog?!

Labels: school

i'm thankful for the amazing friends i have, and the support i receive (:

Labels: friends

was just thinking about how amazing it was that on the very first day i stepped into church, i accepted the Lord. since then, been growing slowly in my spiritual life. more amazingly, the person who brought me to church wasn't someone whom i knew much about at that time, but someone i barely knew much about!

i think it was more than a coincidence at that time. it was all laid out, for me to just decide to go to church with an almost complete stranger. for me to just raise my hand to accept Christ into my life, even though i knew absolutely nothing. it was all planned from the start, on the 26th Feb 2007.

my life was changed that very day, because i chose to accept the Lord's plan for my life. are you willing to take a step of faith and believe in Him too?

feel free to contact me any way you wish if you're interested (:

Labels: God

back from china, will post updates (:

Labels: misc

ENCHANTED
hidden beneath, in those eyes of mine.

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nel
hwa chong institution
16 years old
nov 06 1992
christian