Saturday, July 31, 2010

Just woke up.

Went to school for English remedial and Physics Olympiad today. Boring life. Usual fat old man speaking, trying to make the class boring and yet expecting us to listen. Hundreds of hours of my life had gone down to drain just like that in the past three years, all thanks to the school and my freaking English grade. Well, on the other hand, Physics is the usual crash course pace. Terrible. I just hope I'll be lucky enough to get a HM.

Being told by Ms. Kuck that there will be a math competition coming up in August organised by Hwa Chong JC, and I will be representing the school together with Zu Yao and Joy. Omg terrible, I hope the competition is not on a weekday - I dun wanna skip school.

So many competitions coming up. AMC and ICAS are on this week. Didn't prepare for them. But who cares? I dun have time anyway. Whoever said that you can always find time if you want to is freaking despo trying to live in the fake world and decide not to be more scientific and realistic. 1 day has only 24 hours, and human will die. Dun talk rubbish man!

Friday, July 30, 2010

Drama Night 2010!!!

Woohoo... Success!!!

Running and perspiring since 1.30pm today. Even at the end when people were cheering, we were packing up and all. I remembered Edel saying "I pity you" while I was trying to use my only two hands to sort the equipment properly, so I was thinking after all I was more or less correct - other departments probably run and sweat less to get the equal CIP hours as we are. Wow, we are

I felt that AVA did a good job for today, although there were some minor mistakes here and there. I wasn't too sure about how obvious those mistakes were, but I hoped most of them didn't notice anything that had gone wrong. Okay, after comments contributed by people like Mr Sean Foo, Fred, Song En etc, we concluded that our efforts and stresses didn't gone down to drain just like that. At the least, during a sort-of brainstorming, I provided a funny idea which was supposed to serve as a joke, but ended up being pieced and completed by Jonathan to become a solution. We only tried out the plan today, but it served its purpose just exactly as we want it to be, so it's a successful risk after all. Yay!

Of course, I wanted to say that Damien was like going against the lights because he kept on walking to the wrong sides of the stage, which was totally different from what was planned. I just hoped they could really improve on their acting skills as well as the plot if they want a Gold Award for SYF next year. There will not be special effects dedicated to them by then, so good game.

Anyways, another event down. Finally, after one month, which somewhat seems like a year, the moving lights recorded file for this event can be sent to the Archives folder - with relieve.

Dammit I missed the AGM today. I guessed it was fun - okay, at least not so busy like us in Hall Control. I missed the photoshoot, the videos, speeches etc, but not the food of course.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

今天从《读者》2010年第1期读到一片极为出色的作文,标题为《我有一双隐形的翅膀》,是去年中国高考的“零分作文”。作者来自北京,使这篇作文的影响力更高。

这篇作文基本上在讲述北京学生和外地学生的差异。他说,北京学生都有“一双隐形的翅膀”,享有的福利比中国其他地方来得幸运。但他并不感到骄傲,反而时时感到自卑。我相信他把现实说得太透底了,导致这片原本能够得满分七十分的作文完全得不到一分。再加上他最后两句:“有一本书说过,所有动物一律平等,但有些动物比其他物更加平等。这“有些动物”,就是有一双隐形的翅膀的人?”更是把中国形容成和前苏联全无二样。

我想,如果它能写成隐喻、讽刺性的文章,可能还可以升级为满分作文。

人类最大的缺点是不愿承认自己的错误或缺点。惭愧!人类本可以变成更加成功的高级生物。

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Exhausted.

This Friday is Drama Night, and today’s rehearsal ended at eight thirty. I could not even manage to get my clothes back from the laundry service. Sacrificed like 15 hours just to get CIP hours of only 1.5 isn’t much of a fun, so I just hope there will not be major changes after this, not with the lightings changed at least. However, I knew very well there things can just change whenever they want to torture us even at the last minute, and I meant it literally. Maybe not for this complicated event, but who knows what might happen.

Anyway, Mr Kevin Cheng resigned as a teacher today because he decided to go study law in NUS (I could not imagine a person his age was still willing to “study lo”, although he argued that he is in his early twenties). This is saddening as another great teacher decided to leave Xinmin. Mr. Cheng's humor and sarcasm never fail to make us laugh. Suddenly, I felt that Xinmin is losing more and more experienced teachers, and especially for this year, there was already too many new teachers joining Xinmin. I refused to imagine the standard of Xinmin in near future. Hopefully new teachers have better teaching style that, you know, was easier for us to learn.

And there's CCA tomorrow. Ohmggoddammit terrible. :x

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Just woke up...

Just woke up...

N2D2 was quite fun and tiring, but in the Hall after the run it was a total different thing.

Movie Screening. Emcees sucks, no laptop provided, bla bla bla. Even till the last minute I couldn't agree more that this event was seriously epic fail organised by them. LG touchscreen with three buttons huh? I thought the school is not responsible for any lost item? Waste time, drag time. If on Monday they tell the whole school it was a success, Idk how thick their skin really was.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

N2D2 tmr...

N2D2 tmr. Got duty.

Intending to bring laptop and spam =D. Hall Control is like "麻雀虽小,五脏俱全", power supply, aircon etc everything have alrdy. The probable negative part is that the wireless connection is weak, if not totally not existing. Sadded. But I dun care la. I'm just gonna treat it as another Movie Marathon type of event - I mean it really is a so-called photocopied event to me.

Anyway whatever, there's no crash course lesson on the following day, and i'm guessing there'll be no remedial. So, good!

I kinda screw my SS test today :o

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Today I broke a personal record - I ran back from school to hostel to and fro within 20 minutes. I did this just to change to my Media shirt which I had forgotten to bring. And I just realised how stupid I am.

Anw, today CCA session was not too bad, but I wasn't too satisfied with the situation where other people just took away my time slots last minute and severely affected my plan. And despite wasting so much time, there was someone complaining and arguing about the session, and even said I'm crazy in front of the juniors. She was so bloody daring. I'll make sure the bingo book has her name on it the next time she dare complain about anything.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Screwing up a small event to not screwing up a big event.

Crap... Sorta screw up the XGT Finals today.

Dun wanna talk about it anymore. Looking forward to Drama Night, which will be held next Friday. I am not going to screw up that one - although that was a harder event to do. I am going to succeed. I am going to let people feel every single cent that will be spent on this show was worth it. I will make no mistake.

I better not, or I fail, and that means I wasted three years in the club learning nothing more than what I had learned since I joined in.

I hope that 11 days later I would be posting a good news.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Opening this page for what seems like hours, but nothing comes into mind despite having the urge to post.

Being busy. XGT rehearsal, Drama Night Rehearsals, and more things to revise in preparation for EOY. A busy term. Not sure whether there will be more to come. Too many commitments isn't a good thing after all huh? No turning back now, gotta grab them tighter and move on.

Getting more used to the moving lights in our school hall. I'm striving to gain the most out of it before stepping down nine months later. And the freaking manual insisted to be done by Mr Kang and was not finished yet, how am I going to complete it?

I may not be the best, but I am trying my best.

Friday, July 16, 2010

I don't understand. Why do people abused power and not being punished, whereas people who merely express their anger towards somebody who jb and gl them will be warned. I don't wish to live in this kind of situation anymore, so I'm going to change.

With the effects starting from this badge, we cannot issue punishment towards them. Apparently those outsiders proposed it. My best guess would be that they want us to train a bunch of hyperactive monkeys and uncooperative humans like dolphins who would always listen to instructions. I am not going to adhere to those stupid rules, I am going to stick to the tradition. Of course, taking into consideration that you all are peers, we give face a bit. Now, punishment will be done indirectly.

You better give me an answer. I hate not being myself. Yes, I am not fierce - that's probably what you think. Wait till you see. I could turn the entire thing upside down if I want to. Trust me.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

沉思、久思、日夜思。

沉思、久思、日夜思。究竟该如何改变一个少年对事物的观念——难听点就是态度?事实上,说“一个”是出于无意夸大其词之故,况且如有答案,数量已不成问题。

事实上,答案很简单,且一直都在脑上。那答案便是自己的观念。当然,这个世界是由困难建立的,此时难就难在如何运用正确的自此来转变对方的观念。

依旧沉思、久思、日夜思。

CMI - can or cannot I make it? Hmm...

Dammit, keep losing things. Even when I am grabbing it so tightly and that I realised it was gone probably just after a few seconds.

Was fate trying to play tricks with me?

Anw, gonna be really busy for some weeks mainly cuz of Drama Night, and Im on duty. Not confident with my lighting skills - I hate screwing events up. And there's gonna be a rehearsal on Thursday. Friday there is an XGT rehearsal in preparation for next Monday. I guess Im gonna use those few opportunities to brush up my skills. I want myself to be as professional as those people doing lighting for the National Day Parade (whoever those people are), they're really awesome, and my performance - as in how well I will be doing my lighting - will tell me whether I pass my own test. Nobody who will be going to Drama Night is going to see me screwing up.

Hope I could make it. Although "God doesn't require me to succeed; he only requires that I try", but "saya yakin saya boleh!" (bukan 'boleh kalah' :x)

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Choice of paths...

Pondering long enough...

"We all have two choices: to accept who or what we are in life OR to strive for what we can become and where that can take us." A person called Mark Stevens said it, and it got me thinking when I read this sentence today.

So, I was wondering which path to choose...

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

=D

Heard they were quite good today. Shall keep it up.

Today Mrs Peh, the Physics teacher came to our class and talked something about "02 always have most participate in SJPO, but now our class have 0 participation" etc. So some PRCs went up to sign up. Zu Yao and I decided that we must have "Wakil Malaysia", so we also signed up. Lol.

And today we were like crazy about the 7 times 13 = 28. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHZzObQUgE8 So anyway, due to sheer lameness and boringness, we decided to find other examples of such "rare cases". In the end, we found 21 other examples for all two-digit number dividing one-digit numbers. But for three-digit numbers divide 2-digit numbers we sort of found out a problem, so we didn't continue - or did we say we save it for tomorrow? XD

CCA was fine, just that I was forced to go to B@S when the juniors went for training. Dammit, always have more than one thing crash together.

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Random short post.

Racing with time. Awaiting the unimaginable tomorrow.

Monday, July 05, 2010

I have a dream...

I am rather desperate but still clinching a slight glimpse of hope to post this this moment in what will go down for another nine months, as the most difficult and tedious task I have ever done in probably my whole life.

Five score days ago, a teacher, in which we still fear of a little, announced the next generation. This shocking moment came as a great burden to at least me who had not had the experience. It came as a sudden thundershot to begin the darkness. Despite so, I still feel I could make it.

But, one hundred days later, nothing is done. One hundred days later, not a slightest change is made. One hundred days later, slackers and those that they have influenced remain passionless and unenthusiastic. One hundred days later, the entire department's standard has dropped from 50% to 5%. And so I've being irritated by the crucial and disheartening fact far enough to vomit out what was inside.

This is like an incomplete relay, and I knew I could not just stop like that. When I received the task, I did not know nightmare was approaching. After all these sessions, one after another failed sessions, something appropriate must be done.

Apparently, the heads refuse to believe the key problem is their attitude and not ours. They refuse the get themselves into our exact spot. Thus, we two poor soul are still suffering under the insufferable task that was beyond our hands.

I have also posted this in hope to express the actual fact, those that they could not understand. I dare say we two are having the worst task of the entire club, which they would not agree, but that's not the point, and I don't mind. They need to understand that they will not understand even half of the entire situation just by using humans' eyes and false or inaccurate judgement. They need to understand that to change a person's attitude, in the end, no one could change them except for themselves, considering the fact that their brains are almost fully grown.

It would be difficult to change them, but I had enough rice in this planet to know that brute force is definitely a fail plan. Discipline does not need to be that stupid. This is not the department's end, but a beginning. But every single member of the department have to regain their enthusiasm and passion and teamwork in order for things to work out smoothly like before. An event was not there for us to fail, but rather for us to overcome it.

But there is something more. To achieve this is not an easy thing. It must have the cooperation of every single member. Most of us are probably "forced" to join the department, even I myself. But, the thing is, this is not a slacker club. It was difficult to force ourselves into something that we do not wish to do, but if we could think of it as serving the school, that would definitely make life easier.

We shall not allow the wrong perception engulfed us into meaningless life and nothing of the nowhere. There was no turning back, unless you wish to be the small group that contributes nothing to the society tomorrow, instead being as a trash to make the government's life difficult.

I have a dream that one day the department will realise the true meaning of being in this department.

I have a dream that one day even those few you-know-who-you-are would change their attitude and perspective on things in life, and of course in this department.

I have a dream that one day the department would be like before.

With this faith, we will be able to have a pure success big event. With this faith, every crew will be able to communicate and cooperate with each other so well that everyone knows the event from head to tail. With this faith, fate would be too frightened to play a fool with us and try to screw up an event thoroughly.

Will this happen again like before?

Friday, July 02, 2010

Exhausted...

Quite tiring today.

Today got Kaleidoscope, and thus half of my classmates was gone. Lessons went pretty well, although I felt that Chemistry is boring ever since semester 2 starts, so I sort of never pay too much attention.

After school, went back hostel. Played basketball (Haven't played for ages). Went to Joshua's house to relax. Joshua sway sway never bring his house key. So we chiong back hostel, and back again after he got his key. And omg, I cant believe I am eating liquid egg white and egg yolk. It was supposed to be boiled but somehow it was not. At 1650 Jonathan and I walked to school for media duty.

SJAB camp requires some of our equipment, so 3 of us are supposed to bring those equipment to the Hall. I ran for dk how many times up and dwn, partly due to me keep on forgetting of some equipment that I haven't take. I left my perspiration in Hall Control - I literally saw my sweat dripped down (lol, i know this is random XD). Then set up, test sound, eat, and went back here. [Man, their food is a lot btr than media camp's, although their fruit punch is too sweet.] Hope no equipment spoiled when we got them back from SJAB on Tuesday.