Wednesday, 26 September 2007

A short entry, flaming free :)

Hmm... this is not a flaming post I think...

First of all, congratulation to our buck-tooth friend, Rabbit (nick) who got his I-Phone today, and start showing off in his MSN display picture. "Yay....i got my iphone......hahahaha" is what he said.
Nah... just kidding about the showing off part, but it is indeed in his display picture. Quite huge actually, kinda like a smaller version of N90.

It is said that there is a computer games competition, held by Sam Tet High. Well, I'm not sure whether they let outsiders to take part, but it's a good chance to play with other schools friends. DotA and Counter-Strike is included.

My usual update about our basketball news. Today, my team: Hon Yee (2), Devva (2), Ah Pang (2), Ah Beng (0), and me (4) win the rojak + school team surprisingly, score 10:8. Well, one thing for sure is they didn't take us seriously, I'm suppose. Otherwise I don't think I and Ah Pang will got the chance to shoot. That Devva take PointGuard position which give us a headache. =.='''
Of course, I must thanks Jacky who guide me in my self-training. Well, I do improve a bit, at least I can be a Point Guard of my own.
Oh yea... and today Jacky injured his own leg during the match ; yet came into the court later and tried to do pointless rebound... lol

In my previous too crowded post, I forgot to mention that, at last, I found contacts of some of the active members in my primary school. It's cool to chat with them together... some of them doesn't change much, while some of them become more mature. Me? Still the same old David. :P
Hope that this year's gathering will be held in Bercham.

And we have some interesting affairs at class. The usual "shooting" occurs everyday at the back of the class where Jacky got hit much. Each of his sentences is cut off by a joke about his love, usually by Chun Xian - which Chee Hong enjoys a lot because he is not the target.
When he talks about driving, we would say that he drives to SanPoTong, or cave.
By the way, we do discover a big weak-point of Jacky. He is VERY afraid of tickles, in our great surprise. At least now we can counter him if he is too annoying.
And Kah Ho is getting more annoying and trouble-making in class. It's good that he always annoys Jacky, which we enjoy watching it. :)

Oh, and I had just watched a record of Linkin Park in my uncle's house (or rather, grandma's). It's damn cool to see how the 6 of them cooperate and be a successful band. And they are quite funny. I still remember Chester got bitten by a spider in his butt before a concert. LOL
It seems that their fashion had changed a lot - the record I'd watched is when they produce "Hybrid Theory".
One thing that is very cool is the bus they travel around. It's damn complex and there are a lot of TVs in the bus, including a wide screen.

Well, I think this is the end of this post. A short one will do after the loooooooong one. ;)


Aftermath.

PS: I will be off to KL this Saturday and I don't know when I will be back on Sunday. So it's very likely that you won't see me online on those 2 days. Of course, I will try my very best to avoid that trip because it isn't fun and I dislike long-distance journey. I will get dizzy.
PSS: I wanna play w@n mei... :P Can't play much now... don't have holidays. Maybe I should concentrate a bit in DotA. At least I can reach 25 levels in an hour. Haha...

Monday, 24 September 2007

A voice of a secondary boy

I don't care if it is okay to say this, but this is my blog and I have my every right to post what I want here...

Back to business - my parents is pushing hard on me and I'm kinda having a row with them nowadays.
You might say that children should listen to their parents. Yea, that's only apply when it is damn reasonable.

I must clarify something first before speaking anything. I don't think many students from private school, especially Poi Lam High, will go home and study. No really, who will go and study the text book when the exam is weeks (that means more than 2 weeks) away, even months! Alright, some revision done once or twice a week may be fine, but everyday... watdahell...

You must know one thing, we, private school students is different from government school's. We study from 8am till 3pm average, and Saturday is an official school day for us.
Let's do some maths (since my mother wanted me to score so badly):
Mon-Fri: 8.00-15.00 - That's 7hours x 5 = 35hours
Saturday: 8.00-12.35 - That's 4h35min
Total: 39hours 35min per week = 2375 minutes per week
Let's see what time does government school student studies in school:
Mon-Fri: Average time - 7.20-13.40 = 6h20min per day x 5
Total = 1900 minutes per week
That's 475minutes (7hours 55 minutes ~ 8hours!) different each week!!
And I didn't even include our Thursday's ECA time.
Don't try to argue with me about extra classes after school - private schools DO have extra classes after school. And extra time for ECA too. Thursday alone really isn't enough for uniformed society like Scouts or whatever band.

What I'm trying to show is, WE HAD ALREADY STUDY MORE, SPEND MUCH MORE TIME THAN normal government school. What's more? Our lesson is harder than government's! You can't deny it, it's true. When did government school start to have Add-Maths and the 3 Sciences in Form 3? Even UEC, gives more challenge than government's lesson, especially during Senior classes. In Form 6, UEC's paper is far more harder than SPM, and GCE O'level students might have difficulties in answering them. I don't think you can really take our private school's result to compare with government's. Damn, average students in english that studies in government school might as well fail GCE's English.

My dear parents, I'm having enough of this. I admit that I might able to score more in exams, especially the 3 sciences, but for Add-maths and Chinese Literature, really, I'm out of it. You might able to give a lot of 'reasons' about why I fail it, but reality is reality.
"Oh, you use too much time in computer." "Oh, everyday play basketball..."

ENOUGH!!

These are all made-up reasons. Who say I didn't study before exams? I did! Damn, I'm not that kind of person that can walk calmly into the exam hall without any information in my brains. Too much time in computer... you might say that... well, around 3 to 4 hours (sometimes even less) per day, too much? I don't know. There is no standard about it, but by comparing (oh... maths again), along with my friends, this is normal. There are a lot of manics that use, or playing games with computer, with A LOT MORE TIME than me! Time had changed. It's a whole new era. Computers, internet, chatting messengers, blogging, forums, reading articles from net, these are all normal activities among teenagers nowadays! And many of them even have their benefits!

COMPUTERS ARE NOT ONLY FOR GAMES YOU IDIOTS!
Really, they always think that computer is bad. I don't know, but they really like to watch the bad side of every-single-damn-thing.
Don't they ever wonder why I have so many extra knowledges in life?
Don't they ever wonder why I'm much better efficient in computers than some of those who owns a computer much more longer than me?
Don't they ever wonder why I can type fast (not very, and without style, but it is fast enough for normal use), even I didn't take typing course?
Don't they ever wonder why I can do wonders with computer?
Don't they ever wonder why my English is getting better, apart from my novel reading?
Don't they...

Man... you guys should know, I always follow my mother's promise: Games - only during Sat and Sunday, plus holidays. What did I do with my computers normally?
Oh... a lot of things... And good stuffs too!
Blogging, as you might aware of it when you read this.
Webpage/Forums design, publishing, and managing.
HTML codings, although still not quite good at it, need a lot of time to memorizes it.
Reading articles from encyclopedia or information sites.
Design pictures and stuffs with my Photoshop and other Software (thanks to all my previous computer teachers that teaches me these... I had took some course about it during a holiday).
Remix musics!
And a bit of entertainment with some MMORPG (Role Playing) sites, it does teach you a lot how to get along with people. And of course, some of my favourite game sites or fan sites (Harry Potter, for example).

Are they BAD?

Oh... and why don't my dear mother say that computer is bad when she ask me to help her, doing some school document or exam papers?

And about playing basketball... OMG! That's my hobby! That's my way to relief my tension in school works (you might say no, but yes, there is, less or more), or other things. Oh... I will explain this in detail later, a small secret I wanted to share with my fellow friends.
You want me to be a bookworm (or bag, in chinese)? Well, I don't. 2 hours of sports everyday won't hurts, I suppose. Don't tell me you didn't play, running around the countryside when you were still small. I'm not gonna believe it.
Sports! It's a damn good activity for our free time! It's damn better for those less beneficial activities! I don't know why they can have a damn with this.
Oh yea... it's damn ALRIGHT when she chases her Korea Drama series...

Alright, you might wanted to ask why don't I revise a lot in normal days. Here is my answer. Everyone has their own way of studying. I enjoy studying during night, mainly because it is less noisy and it's usually cooler. And why I only start revising a week before exam? The reason is simple. Anything that requires hard memorizing, I will really forget it real fast, maybe a day or two. That explain why subjects like history is bad to me. I don't know why, but this happens even when I'm a little kid in primary school. Unless I really like that thing, or it can be memorize lively, that piece of information, or part of it, will be thrown into the recycle bin, within 3 days, cash guaranty. I found that listening to the teachers in class help more in studying. That's why I don't really revise a lot. The general information is already learned during lesson. Well, maybe not all lesson, but subjects like maths and chemist, I think that you guys will agree with me that we all DO listen those in class.

Alright... it seems that my anger about it has ease a lot at the end of this article. That's... great.
Well, before I end it, I will tell you a story of my past, as I promised above.


It happened long ago, when I'm Primary 4. Some people from Sam Chai Primary or Yuk Choy Primary might knew it.
Anyway, last time, due to my family, I don't really has a lot of hobbies or activities. My first sport is badminton, and I've learned chess when I'm 6. But I don't really did these activities in normal days because first of all, I don't have people to play with me that time. Even now, I don't have neighbors! Both house beside me is always empty, and those people don't really communicate and only care about themselves (this explain why I had thieves in my house for so many time).
The main point is, I don't have others activities for my daily life. My everyday life that time was: wake up - go to school - extra classes - back home - tuitions - homework - sleep. Maybe around 1-2 hours for watching some TV programs and News Report. And sometimes, swimming, or playing "outdoor badminton" (you all should know that it is not really fun doing it, but I have no choice, it's better than nothing) with my neighbor, who is 3 years older than me. My brothers? Oh... they are too young to understand it that time.
What's more? School tension is really high that time, especially for a small schoolboy that time, P4 only! A lot of student already having problems about it. Some even trying to commit suicide (fail of course... what can a P4 student do?)! And I'm always in the first class, the working load is really high! Plus my working speed is really high. You know why I can stay till late night everyday and still manage to do with my normal daily activities (around 4 hour of sleep daily)? Although I'm trying to change it (yea thx to Joyce, who always tell, or maybe nag me to sleep earlier... lol :P), but that's the reason why I can do it - Homework was done till late night everyday!
And during exam time... OMG... each mistake done in Maths will be "rewarded". You know what I mean. Plus some other subjects too.
In the end, I break up. Really, I vomit during one recesses time. Vomit hard, and fainted. Luckily my friend's mother was there to help me. I can't imagine what will happen if he was not there. I was quickly sent to a clinic and the doctor had proved that I had shown some sign in the early stages of getting over-tension. If this continue, I might have some mental problem or so on. I do always got headache that time. That's when I'm studying in Yuk Choy.

What can my mother do? She changed me from Yuk Choy to Sam Chai primary. It the school at Pasir Putih, and that's how I know about Poi Lam High and wanted to go there. Oh by the way, in Sam Chai, the lessons are completely different! There is not much tension in homework. The work load is suitable, good enough.
The most important is, I've changed. I started to involve more in ECA. Badminton, Football, Ping-pong, everything I can find in my school, I try it. And I made a lot of good friends here who are willing share happiness and sadness together. My life had never been that happy, especially when I first join the class. They are just so friendly that I know them the first day (maybe not names), even the girls mix with the boys.
Oh yea, some teachers in Yuk Choy looked down on me. What they say: can't cope with their steps. So what, I get 7A's in UPSR. The only different is, my childhood is not that hard, completely full with books, books, and more homeworks.
I will never forget that. Oh, and our holiday trip. I still miss my friends.

Hope that everyone of us will have a good future, whatever way you want to go! Every right job is a good job.

HAPPY MOONCAKE FESTIVAL GUYS AND GALS!

Peace. :)

Aftermath.

PS: Thanks for reading all those rubbish I wrote. :) Thanks a lot.

Tuesday, 18 September 2007

Some balance in real life.

Back to the school, invited by friends after a 2-day holidays because of our fun-fair, I feel good for the day. It seems to be true at first. After some usual duties of scouts, clearing the scenes and moving the tables (mind that, it's those 80's - 90's solid hard wood table, plus metal surface, very heavy), we were given few stacks of coconuts and some vegetable as 'reward'. Well, the coconut did did a good thing to my throat (oh yea... I got sore-throat ), it feels much better now.

Moving to the canteen, we gave away our vegetables to the canteen aunty, we had our second reward: a cup of free drinks. Sounds cool, yea?

Then we went back to our classes. The first thing that I encounter is our usual discipline from our dear form teacher. But that is nothing, then only I notice that there is some changes to our sitting position. Oh damn... our form teacher's clever idea again of shutting us off, although it doesn't works for each time. And this is damn unlucky... I got called to change place, and my new position is: beside Kah Ho. Not a big deal, but I decided to put up a fight with him, see if I got a better option. And then, one of my good friends, Chun Xian decided to swap me, changing him instead of me. Well, he is 10cm taller than me and his new position is the front of the line. There will be problem soon. We will wait and see...

OK... after my bad luck, it seems that my luck is getting better now. Just after school, I play basketball with my friends. And I'm 'godlike' in 3 point. LOL
I'm not saying that it is completely luck balls (or chicken ball, as we refer). I do practice a lot in shooting 3 points, but about 10 3-point balls scored does need some luck. :)

Lesson learnt: There will be always a balance in the life. Whether it is good or bad, just go through it. You might face troubles in your wonderful life, yet there is still lightness in the dark outer space if you mind to find it. Friends, for example. I find their present's a great pleasure in life.

Peace!


PS: Alright, I got some information from my other classmates that it's the "singing group" that suggest the idea of changing place. Sorry for blaming all to our form teacher.

Tuesday, 11 September 2007

Fun Fair isn't really that FAIR.

Alright... fun fair frenzy is on again and we managed to kill off Tuesday and use half of the time decorating... well, the earlier we start, the better. The main reason is we ALL don't want to study at this mood... lol

Back to the main point.

Anyway, one thing that really makes me angry is the attitude of some of the S1S1 students. I'm not pin-pointing at anyone of you, you should know if you do this. I'm not really sure who is wrong, but there seems to be some mistake in between us. Ever since we separate in 2J3 and 3J4, this kind of feeling/idea is getting stronger and stronger: "S1S2s are brainys that are bad in anything except studying. And they are proud and lan si."[*] < Remember this icon

I REPEAT, I DO NOT PIN-POINT ON ANY OF YOU. You know it yourself. If you do this, you will know.
Hint: Don't go around shouting if you are the one. This will only telling people: 'Hey, I'm the Mr S1S1 he's talking about!'

Come on, all people in our class should know what is going on. We think those ideas long ago in a Form Teacher period. All those ideas came out last-minuted. I don't know how the girls get their ideas from, but we boys (or I should say, teams with mainly boys) all think their ideas on the spot. You all should know that we boys aren't that pro in planning, and I bet we won't gather information before the meeting. Do you think that we are that hard working? Great.

Some more, we didn't even had the faintest idea on what S1S1 will do, not a single resources told us that. I don't know about the girls, but we boys won't hang around talking this I think. Our ideas are raw, totally canon! So don't give me a damn saying that we 'stole' your idea and trying to make ourself 'rich' with that.

This is really unfair to us.

You might say that "Oh, this is your own speaking!" Yea, this is my speaking and this is what's true. Guys, I'm not going to stand on any side - neither S1S2 nor S1S1. I want this to be fair. I don't know who is wrong, but please make it clear before blaming each other. We are friends you know! You had known each other since Junior 1 and many of us even study in a same class before! Why are you all flaming others just for this little misunderstanding?

Lastly, I would like to quote a part of the song Kawanku, sang by Wong Ming Zhi, singer of Negarakuku.
We are friends but we are making mistakes, I don't understand you and you don't understand me.
We are friends and we are making mistakes, if we solve the problems, then everything will be FREE!
Peace. :)

Oh, and one thing about our own class (S1S2). Can the girls stop being a bit too bossy? I meant it. Stop commanding us around and think that you are damn good. No offense, but that will only make us even angrier.

Aftermath, out.

PS: Hope our fun fair will goes on smoothly.

[*] too bad this aren't true. We got Hong who is damn pro in basketball, Kah Ming who is damn geng is football, Chun Xian who is a DotA freak, Jacky who is a good sportsman, Rabbit who is damn creative and rich, Devva who is so tall (although Jacky say he is useless under the net =.='''), our forums team who always win, Neo and Kah Ho who pros in singing (although some of the time is dreadful), our girls who are so hot (dunno) in dancing, Elize who is so geng is kicking people (lol, juz kidding)... etc. etc...
Oh... and you can say I'm a noob in creating this tread. No problem, I'm used to it.

Tuesday, 4 September 2007

One thing, I really don't know why...

This song lyrics I write for fun one ar... want read don't dulan... =.='''

It starts with....
one thing I dunno why
it doesn't even matter how hard you try
you are a boy
and you can't change it for life (I'm sure)
All I know...
Girls always get special privileges
especially in Ha Mou classes
in the lab this is even more clearer and dirtier
So unfair...
Always scold without the brain
Scolding seems to be a favourite hobby
Even when he is wrong, he still wan to say that he is right (and W.T.F.)
I can't even think what will happen, even how hard I try, it all fall apart
Well, eventually we will and must get used to it and now
I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR
IN THE END, IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER
BOYS ARE USELESS, NO USEes ONE
SO BEWARE, DON'T EVEN DARE TO TELL US TO HELP YOU.

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Girls, no offense. This song is about the people who treat girls differently, not about how bad are you all.
Afterall, I warn you before:
This song lyrics I write for fun one ar... want read don't dulan... =.='''