RANDOM

be4 i begin, let me say this: XING JI IS HILARIOUS!!

anyway...
i wanna contribute something too!!

1)How much do you think you're worth?

You can't put one's worth into monetary sense; one moment someone is employed and one moment someone is retrenched..does this mean the person suddenly become worthless coz no one is willing to pay him to work??

Monetary worth is such a random unpredictable thing...one moment you are a millionaire and the next moment, u are bankrupt.

Which is y.. a persons's worth is only determined by his KNOWLEDGE..

2) Quote:

It is lonely at the top.
Victory stinks.
In order to be victorious, you need to sweat it out.
and sweat stinks(for most of us anyway),
hence, victory stinks.

yay i just wasted 20 minutes of my time, and 3 minutes of yours. Thanks.

A reply (of sorts)

Gosh, I have no idea why I'm feeling so hyper right now. Maybe it's because I've been having too much fun lately, meeting up with lots of old pals (people whom I can totally be myself with)... or maybe it's because I've been sleeping at 7am and waking up at 3 for the past few days, chasing the ridiculously sacharrine sweet manga of Ichigo 100% (which will definitely put a smile on your face, even if only because it's ecchi, well, mainly because it's ecchi)... or maybe it's because I just found out Jordan has a girlfriend (oops) and my busy-body-gauge-bar is overflowing (not to mention my imagination).... Life is great, if not exactly organised... HAHAHA

Ok, moving on in a non-linear and nonsensical manner:

1. Value: Am I worth RM 5/hour? Hopefully not, I prefer to be worth less and get overpaid. Exacting economic inefficiencies is decidedly delicious, if only because I'm sadistic that way.

2. Forgive and Forget: Confucious he says, forgiveness is virtue worth cultivating (if only for the fantastic make up sex)

3.
a) Am I happy? Obscenely so, for reasons I cannot fathom. See above
b) Do I have a zest for living? Yes, because I'm waiting for Season 13 of South Park
c) Are you socially adjusted? Wha wha wha?
d) Do you have unity and balance? Last I checked, I could walk in a straight line for 30 metres without ....(Loud crash and tumble)
e) Can you deal with each problem in your life as it arises? If there's something strange, in your neighbourhood...who you gonna call...(dumdumdumdumdumdumdumdum: background music): GHOSTBUSTERS!
f) Do you have insight: (Rolls dice) *Wisdom check failed* Goddamnit
g) Do you have a confidential relationship with someone else? I'll have to consult my lawyer on this one, NEXT
h) Do I have a sense of the ridiculous? *Sniffs air* Smells like teen spirit....oh wait, bad DOG! BAD DOG! (piteous dog whining)
i) Are you engaged in satisfying work? Allahuak *KABOOM*
j) Do you worry effectively? KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL! *KABOOM*

business

BFFs are overrated, DAFs FTW!

P.S. DAF: Diamonds are forever
P.P.S. This is just a joke, don't get mad rachel
P.P.P.S I think I had one too many drinks tonight... oooh... nice glowing flying piggy
P.P.P.P.S Mayor: (Dying breath) To get home to reality, just click your heels 3 times.
Butters: Really?
Mayor: No you fucking dipshit! That was a joke.

Even entitling this is difficult

So I was visiting this site for the first time since our last gathering, and I'm blown away. Swept off my feet, gripping-tightly-onto-nearest-lamp-post-for-dear-life blown away.

I totally agree with xj and yn on the pressure to produce an interesting, thought-provoking or at least MATURE-sounding post here, considering the posts li hong and xing ji have been churning out.

So I sat in front of my screen and thought for a long time what wisdom had i gathered so far in this year that was actually worth sharing.

Still thinking. Haha.

Value. How much do you think you're worth? We agree to RM5 an hour in McD's. Are you worth that RM5? Or more? Or less?

Forgive and forget. Are you sure you've forgiven that someone? Or did you just try your best to forget the pain and convince yourself it's forgiveness? My psychology lecture dictates 5 steps to dealing with -ve emotions:
-Recall the hurt
-Empathise
-Altruistic gift of forgiveness
-Commit yourself to forgiveness
-Hold onto the forgiveness i.e. not forgetting

We're busy people. How would you score on this test?
-Are you happy?
-Do you have a zest for living?
-Are you socially adjusted?
-Do you have unity and balance?
-Can you deal with each problem in your life as it arises?
-Do you have insight?
-Do you have a confidential relationship with some other person?
-Do you have a sense of the ridiculous?
-Are you engaged in satisfying work?
-Do you worry effectively?

Hope your busyness (if there's such a word) isn't for naught. Purpose.

We've all made BFF promises. When's the last time you sent him/her an sms/email just because?

A visiting unchurched child in my church hugged me tightly and asked, "Teacher if I miss you then how?" When's the last time you were this frank?

Dang now I feel like I'm some naggy mum with an apron and a cane. I hope this doesn't come off as a lecture. Cuz I felt as though I was being lectured to when I typed this. Painful.

Christmas is beckoning =)

Without the way there is no going,
Without the truth there is no knowing,
Without the life there is no living.
~Thomas Kempis~

Will continue thinking =)

Love you all.

P.S. BFF= Best Friends Forever
P.P.S Xing Ji, Li Hong- you two are my current only sources of political education. Just so you know =)

Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly

So, yesterday, I really, *reaaaally* wanted to post something up over here, had a bunch of great ideas on what to post, but as usual, when Procrastination sets in, there goes the mood. :)

It's getting quite Christmassy over here... we've had snow last weekend, and it was jolly thick. I'm looking forward for more though. It only makes sense to be so cold when there's some white slush on the ground to pelter someone with. :0)

Tests here are getting more and more frequent. It's good in a way - get us to study more. But bad in the sense that after we're done with tests for the week, we're so burned out and bored that we tend to slack even more on the following week. :-S

I wonder how is everyone doing now. I've done a little photo collage and stuck it up in front of my desk. It's supposed to motivate me to give my all since I've been addicted to the Internet for the longest time, and I suppose it is working somewhat.

*feels like wasting time*

*looks up and sees Nick giving me a grim smile*

*feelings of wasting time diminish, POOF!*

:-D

But yeah... how *is* everyone doing now? I feel super distant on this side of the earth, disconnected from everyone. And now that blogging and Facebook and MSN has lost its allure on me (blame it on previous Internet addiction - too much of anything will eventually get boring).. it's like, hmm, watching the lives of others on TV or something. Maybe I should really get back to email-writing and start bothering everyone all over again.

Which reminds me of a funny incident today... We were talking about drug metabolism (how the body processes drugs) and my professor said,

"So, in the case of renal failure, what is the most buttering?"

"Huh? Buh-what?"

"Buttering."

*English native speakers look at each other*

"Buttering? Like, butter?"

"Yeah. Like, annoying."

"Ohhhhh, bothering!"

:-D

Speaking of language, the choir will be singing a traditional Czech mass. Which will be sung interestingly fast, crazy consonants and all. Fun. :P

And then there was two

Oh and while I'm on a roll, I recommend two comics (ahem), ok fine "Graphic Novels" which if you can get your hands on, get your hands on (ok, that sounded weird). Me being the regular but lucky cheapskate that I am, rip them off my neighbour.

1. Lucifer (Vertigo): The fallen prince of hell hatches a plan to escape from God's predestination tyranny once and fall.

2. Fables (Vertigo): Goldilocks and the three bears don't play nice. But then again, it's New York.

Lalalalalala

Well well whadya know

Ok, just random shit. If you're feeling bored or you know that deep down (very deep down) you're actually Mariah Carey and the world is just about ready to receive the full glory of your angelic voice, but you decide (most wisely of course) to do a lil' practice first, check out www.karaokeparty.com . You'll need a mike, and tolerant neighbours to pull this off. Granted, the song selections aren't great, plus they're not sung by the original singers (never a plus point in my book) but hey, it's free, plus I can guarantee you, it's fucking (oh shit, I swore, oh wait, there I go again) addictive.

RE: Chatterbox death

And here I was thinking that it died because well...it was too old

In any case, well yeah, ppl are busy... but I feel the main reason the blog is dying is because people are "growing up" and I don't mean it in a good way.

The sad truth is that no one really bothers to do this anymore and the few that do try to update it get discouraged because well...it all seems rather pointless

And once u stop blogging for some time...well, it gets hard to restart

Because you feel that in order to post something up

It has to be "special"... and then you don't really wanna write anything...because well...life's just normal...peachy even...nothing extraordinary....and nothing goes up...

But oddly enough, everytime a new post comes up, you have no idea how excited it makes me..no matter how "mundane" the topic...

Like so...

Right...load of tosh

Our Chatterbox Died!!!

Oh, the horror of horrors!!! A dead chatterbox is the definitive turnaround for a blog. Either it:

(a) is replaced by a new clean chatterbox which

(i) dies, too, eventually
(ii) lives for a while and then dies
(iii) lives pathetically during dormant phases throughout the schooling year.

or

(b) is never replaced. The primary symptom to look out for in a necrotic blog.

*sniff* Goodbye, dear chatterbox. You have lived us well. Your memories we shall cherish, forever and ever.

From letter to letter, and byte to byte.

Farewell...

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On another note, since I'm not blogging regularly in my own personal blog, maybe I'd haunt this space for a bit. But I'm wondering how and what I should post here, since, after all, this blog is really meant for class activities and occasionally sublime articles from XingJi and LiHong.

Maybe I'll just post up random thoughts. Anything to keep this site from vanishing altogether as the years go by, eh?

Any brilliant ideas?

And should we get a new chatterbox? Although it seems pretty redundant for NOW because we're all such busy people, hehe.. It seems more appropriate to wait for the hols to restart one.

Malaysia, politics, the rule of law and other cool stuff

Hello, here's a brief (I'm using the word loosely here) summary of a cool forum which I just attended and which I think you all should know about (i.e. read this and think)

Right, the forum was held at my campus (law faculty NUS) from 2 to 6 and was about the social, political and legal consequences within the Malaysian landscape post March 8 GE 08. The panel of speakers were Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, Rita Sim, Elizabeth Wong, Nurul Izzah Anwar and Tony Pua.

The MC, one prof Tang, categorically stated at the start of the forum that in no way was the forum politically motivated even though the entire panel did not contain a single BN man. He clarified that they had indeed extended invitations to BN to send speakers down for the conference but "they unfortunately could not be here with us". I'm not complaining. It's not as if they (BN) ever had anything useful to say anyway, and it sure made everyone there way more comfortable in speaking their mind.

Anyway, first up was Rita Sim (executive director of Sin Chew publications and deputy chairman of the Institute of Strategic Analysis & Policy Research). She gave a brief intro of Malaysian political history, from Mahathir's transition of power to Abdullah in 04 right up to the present scenario. Important points highlighted during the speech was the fact that the Malays would remain the dominant political power in Msia in the forseeable future (come 2020, they'll make up 70 % of the total population) and other cool stats like how the opposition actually won the popular vote in the peninsular, meaning if not for Sabah and Sarawak, BN would most certainly have lost. Interestingly enough, in GE 08, Sabah and Sarawak voters numbered some 1 million out of 10 million registered voters in Msia (a total of 4 million voters did not register, of which 60% were Malay) but under the Federation of Malaysia agreement, the two states would have a minimum of 25% seats in parliament. So yes, some votes are more equal than others.

After Rita Sim concluded her introduction into the Msian political scenario, Elizabeth Wong (former secretary general of HAKAM and current state assemblyman for Bukit Lanjan under the PKR banner) continued with a speech on federalism in Malaysia and the future political scenario envisaged (ie most optimistic scenario): a two party democracy. She suggested that reformasi and the current political revolution in Msia was really kickstarted way back during the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 - way before the sacking of Anwar really. While the official reason for the severe economic downturn back then was blamed on Soros and his band of evil speculators, a public disquiet started to circulate about the general mismanagement of our nation under BN (which was probably a better explanation of why our country was as f***ed as it was).

Anyway, the moment we were waiting for: Q n A. First question: what is the future of ISA in our country? Tony Pua, not one to miss an oppurtunity to score political points categorically stated that the future pakatan rakyat government would unequivocally reject the ISA in its entirety. The answer was quickly shot down as political rhetoric by the panel of mostly legal and public policy students and staff and the thorny issue of anti-terrorism was raised. Malik Imtiaz further went on to say that the current ISA was very much in breach of our constitution and that however, our penal code and criminal sentencing procedure had been amended to reflect the current international support for anti-terror preemptive action. Rita Sim suggested that if the current ISA is removed, most likely an anti-terror preemptive arrest related legislation would be passed and Malik Imtiaz said he was wondering why the opposition wasn't already pressing for such a position (perhaps something we might be looking forward to? Or not) Anyway, to sum things up: Current ISA = abuse of human rights not in line with constitution. But we will most likely need a similar anti-terror law (perhaps subjected to judicial review?)

Next Question: What of the schism between the two rather conflicting ideology of PAS and DAP. Are they just going to shelf the Islamic State idea and the Malaysian Malaysia idea aside? Wouldn't such rifts create problems down the line if they were to continue to work together. At this juncture, Nurul Izzah (on a side note, she's pretty good looking) pointed out how the act of actually getting the 3 opposition parties to avoid 3 corner fights during this GE was already a mean feat in itself. She pointed out how PKR had many a sleepness night during the PAS-UMNO talks. She however concluded that it was probably better to get stuff like this out of the way early in the relationship than later. Malik Imtiaz suggested that public bickering amongst PAS and DAP might even be a good thing, after all, we wouldn't like another BN where UMNO says something offensive and MCA and MIC is told to shut up and accept it. Tony Pua also added that it is unlikely that either party will shelf their core ideologies but as a matter of pragmatism and democratic evolution, they have agreed to concentrate on the common goals, rather than let their differences sweep them aside. It must be noted that leaders on both side probably have a tough job on their hands placating their hardcore grassroots supporters and to give them credit, they have so far done a pretty decent job of cooperation.

After a brief tea break, the session continued with Nurul Izzah downplaying the idea of protest votes and suggesting instead that to a certain extent, voters were now genuinely receptive of the opposition ideals (a notion that Rita Sim snorts at). She elaborated more about the demography of the urban Malay, their role in politics, the recent Permatang Pauh by-elections and the importance of young people seeking change amongst other things. Tony Pua further elaborated on the accidental rise of civil discourse and civil liberty movement in Malaysia which he credited to a large extent to the BN leadership's incompetency at being authoritarian. Failure to crack down hard enough on dissent led to expose after damaging expose which ultimately discredited BN to the point of no return, at least in the urban belt. There was also talk about the growing awareness among the Sultans of their role as future King-makers (the irony) and Sabah's frog and money politics. In particular, the frank political portrayal of money politics in Sabah and Sarawak highlights the difficulty the opposition will have even if they manage to woo them over, especially given their (the politicians from Sabah and Sarawak) increasing awarness of their political clout in deciding who gets to rule Malaysia. On a side note, Tony Pua is one hell of a sarcastic bastard and a dangerous man to let loose in a forum. Anyway, they probably said alot of other interesting things which I've now forgotten because I lacked the foresight of taking down notes. But the important thing is this: Malaysian politics is changing, and no one knows where we're heading.

Final (and IMO the best) speaker: Malik Imtiaz Shawar. The guy's a famous human rights lawyer, currently representing one Raja Petra Kamaruddin. He was threatened with death when he was legal observer for the Lina Joy case. Malik commented dryly that the other panelists had shunted all the unwanted topics unto his shoulder, mainly issues concerning the state of the judiciary and state of human rights. Anyway, his frank, almost brutal protrayal of Malaysia was scary. Picture this: mass media which were essentially propaganda machines. A compliant judiciary that pays no attention to principles of legal precedence. A police force akin to a private militia. And they fucked GE 08 up. UMNO is shocked, scared and most worrying of all, fighting for survival. More so in light of the horrifying allegations made against Najib. The PM-to-be will not just be fighting for a political career once he takes over the helm of UMNO. Rest assured, he knows that if the opposition ever come to power (and Malik Imtiaz and quite alot of Malaysians aren't exactly holding their breath), he could probably end up in jail if investigations turn up anything nasty. This is his last chance to wield and consolidate power, and the only way BN knows how to do it is to either make people like them or take away people who dislike them in the scariest manner possible. Shock and awe. He (Malik) then proceeded to cite the numerous examples from our colourful history of the government doing just that. Interestingly, we learn that a man (Abdul Malik Hussin) detained during the reformasi movement of 98' was awarded RM2.5 million in damages for torture suffered at the hands of the former IGP while under ISA detention. He then highlighted the very real danger that all those present among the panelists were likely to be detained anytime under the ISA, given the growing desperation of the ruling regime.

What does this mean for us? Simple. We cannot take things lying down. It is in our best interests to keep ourselves well-informed and educated so that we know what are our rights and how to protect them. When push comes to shove and crackdowns are imminent, we must resist. Change does not happen to people sitting in their armchairs. If we relent, the government will then be justified in employing their fear tactics and we risk sliding back to another 50 years of misrule. I'm not saying Pakatan Rakyat is great. I'm arguing that BN is so bad, we can't get any worse. Our country has probably reached the lowest ebb in terms of national development and it is up to us to make our stand here and now.

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Things you should do:

1. Be interested in what's going on, it's in your best interests.
2. Do not be afraid to speak up.
3. Support the people who speak up.
4. Get involved in public activism: participate in debates and discussions, blog or publish your views, anything, so long as you do something.
5. Register as a voter when you can.
6. Vote.

I apologise if my writing is rather incoherent, I'm just darn tired after a long day but I really want to write all this down before I forget. Oh, and here's something interesting which I learnt from Rita Sim. When Sin Chew reporter Tan Hoon Cheng was arrested under the ISA for publishing a racist remark by Ahmad Ismail, Dato' Seri Ong Ka Ting personally called Pak Lah and Najib and informed them that should she not be released, the groundswell of anger following her arrest would be likely to force him to sever MCA from BN. So now we know...

Check This Out

Made purely from scrap metal. As seen in a shopping mall in Berlin.

Recycle your waste. Think before you throw. ;)

A good read!!

A good post from non other than Tun Mahathir himself =p

click here.

Don't Forget...

http://uniting-diversity-contactlist.blogspot.com/

If your details are missing, please email them to either Sui Yuan or me, thanks! That way we can keep in track with each other's whereabouts and contact each other as desired.

I've sent out invites... if you didn't get invited, pls tell me, and I'll get onto it.

Take care, people. :)

I know its more than "kinda late" but oh well, better late than never

our CHS school song..from my phone's point of view

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FLORENCE

BYE BYE TEENAGEHOOD!

Happy 3rd Birthday 5s1

... the reunion... was amazing. Even though I came late and left early.


I love the way we can just be ourselves and talk freely.

I love the way we still care after so many years.

I love the way we sang the school song.

I love the way we've grown and yet can still connect.


In my opinion la...
We can never be the 5s1 we once were,
but the 5s1 we are now is even cooler than before.

Take care.

And make sure you attend the next reunion. =)

Love you all. (This is not a mere gushy statement)

PAINBALL (sic)

Damn...i've got sores in places I didn't even know existed...anyways...pics are in my camera...I don't have a multiply site and uploading onto facebook is kinda painful with my broadband...especially since I should be getting ready to leave my home (nooooo.....)...ie I shouldn't be online 24/7 yadaaa... so yup...maybe when i go to sg i'll put them up somewhere? favebook, multiply? privacy issues anyone? (oh wait...this is the internet we're talking about...what privacy? haha)

P.S. Campfire was so so...but damn were the jokes good...hehe

Reunion: Map to Venue

THIS IS THE MAP:

http://www.map.com.my/map-search-detail.php?mapID=6326d4a73dcefcf4c0aac40331a53a97



AND THIS IS THE ADDRESS:

(pls check your emails for the address for privacy reasons... if you didn't get the emails, just call 016 248 0088 or 8076 7737)


FOR THOSE DRIVING CARS:

According to Tim's mom you have to park in Uptown opposite the house. Parking is free on Sunday. Parking around OCBC and Starbucks should be ok.

I told our dear host that we'll be invading his house from 7pm onwards. Just a reminder - the potbless is THIS Sunday. That's the 20th of July.



FOR THOSE WHO ARE GOING FOR PAINTBALL:

Have fun! And make sure you aim for Sui Yuan. Ask Xing Ji why if you don't know yet. Haha! Remember that we want him to come for the potbless in one piece, though.

Now, if you'll excuse me... I'll have to figure out a way to arrange for transport for myself! Anyone from Puchong willing to hitch me a ride? I'll tell you Prague stories in exchange! And I won't comment on your driving skills! And err... err... *desperate* I'll wash your car!

Take care, all. :-)


FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T MAKE IT TO BOTH EVENTS:

We'll miss you. *hugs*

I know this would be 6 hours in advance, but...

Happy Birthday, Sui Yuan! :-)

5S1 Reunion '2008 - Last Update

Hi guys... this will be my last update about sunday's event.

Day/date: Sunday, 20th July 2008
Venue: Tim's house: 8, Jalan 21/1, Damansara Utama, 47400 Petaling Jaya
Time: 7pm
Event: Potbless.

Someone will be calling you soon to find out what you wish to contribute (food/drink/etc).

If anything, pls call me at 80767737 or 0162480088. My computer's giving me a bad time, so no emails if possible.

Thanks, yining, xing ji, yentink and jordan who have offered to help with calling everyone.

See you there. :)

P.S. For those who are going for paintball, have fun. Thanks, Sui Yuan for organising.

Paintball Event

Ok, so I've confirmed the place to be TT Sports Park at Subang. The price will be around RM50 per pax but bring around RM 70 then we'll have all the fun we can. So far the people that have confirmed are :

1. Zhen Yuan
2. Sue Bee
3. Li Hong
4. Shu Haur
5. Ji Hang
6. Xing Ji
7 . Tim
8. Chun Wei
9. Me

Where are the gals ? Seriously... just come and have fun. And you guys can finally have your chance to get back at us guys. After that we'll probably go for lunch and then meet up on Sunday night. Anyone need directions please contact me.

Cheers

5S1 REUNION '2008

19th July, morning - Paintball

and then...

20th July, evening - Potbless - Million thanks to Tim for offering his house once again! :-)

Hopefully the majority will be okay with that...

So, once again, please confirm your attendance with me by sending me an email at florenceinthemiddle@gmail.com or posting a comment below/in the chatterbox beside a.s.a.p. especially for the 19th July paintball activity, because Suiyuan has to book the place in advance! And then we can start thinking of what to cook for the potbless.

Take care, everyone!

Love,
Flo.

5S1 '2005 REUNION 2008 UPDATE

Ok guys... Since most that have responded were in favour of a certain weekend, so we have narrowed it down to:

DAY/DATE:
19th July, Saturday

or

20th July, Sunday

Time most likely afternoon/evening.

ACTIVITY:
Shu Haur has offered his house if he's around at that time.. Sui Yuan, too... but his is in Bangsar. Thanks, guys.

Or...

Paintball + dinner somewhere (provided Sui Yuan can book the place.. apparently we need at least 20 people, so pls pls pls reply A.S.A.P if you agree with this and can make it on that weekend!!!)

So, pls pls pls A.S.A.P. R.S.V.P. me whether you want:

(A) 19th July, potbless dinner

(B) 20th July, potbless dinner

(C) 19th July, paintball + dinner at restaurant somewhere

(D) 20th July, paintball + dinner at restaurant somewhere

Majority wins!

Love,
Flo

P.S. Some of you haven't sent the contact list details!!! :-)

Perks of attending this reunion!

1. You get to see Li Hong and Xing Ji before they leave for Singapore.
2. You get to see them do some interesting stuff. Li Hong will be performing some magic tricks and Xing Ji will be conducting a puppet show.
3. Then after that Li Hong and Xing Ji will sing a song for you.
4. I can play the guitar so that they won't sing off-key and harm your pseudounipolar cells in your cochlear ganglion.
5. Then they will bow and collect money.
6. And then I will curtsie.
7. The amount of money will go into their education fund.
8. Oh wait, half of the money will go to me, as their promoting agent.
9. And then we'll have some food.
10. And then you have sweet dreams of Li Hong pulling rabbits out of tall black hats and Xing Ji making funny noises and waving sock puppets all about.

And then you will be extremely happy.

Please don't sue me!!! *runs for cover*

Okay guys.

Here we go again.

All in favour that we reunite, breathe.

Okay, since *that's* settled...

5S1 CLASS REUNION '2008

Date/Day:

Start suggesting dates!!! I'm vouching for either 19 / 20 / 26 / 27 of July. Please tell me if these dates are alright, or whether we should meet up in August, instead. (I'll only be free up to 2nd/3rd of August... coming home for a study break actually. Long story. So I really won't be able to help organize any date beyond those I've mentioned... cos I still got to study!!! I chose weekends because I'm not sure if some people have classes during weekdays.)

Place:
Since Tim has moved out from the vicinity of SS17 (was it? can't remember...) anyone willing to offer up their house? Once again, we promise to take out the trash and mop the floor if we have to. Otherwise, we can just meet up at some restaurant. I'm in favour of a house, actually... because it means we come early and leave late... I mean, at a reasonable time, and keep to a good budget and exhibit some cooking skills they gained from living away from good home-cooked food. So. If really nobody can offer up their house or , I'll just have to ask my parents whether I can offer mine.

But it'd be awfully cramped.

But then again, it depends on how many of us *can* turn up.

Or I was thinking... another option is to go for that paintball thingy and then go for a meal somewhere if you guys want.

It's really up to the majority vote.

Or if there are other ideas, pls suggest!

That's all from me now.

And once more, it's up to us to make this a successful meet up. ;-)

I mean, surely all the budak-budak asing have some stories to trade with the budak-budak local, am I not right? :-P

SO, PLS REPLY!!! A.S.A.P. I WILL BUG YOU IF I HAVE TO BY CLOUDING UP YOUR INBOXES UNTIL I GET REPLIES.

(Provided my mom doesn't ground me from touching all forms of entertainment, since I'm really back to study, and enjoy some family time to prepare for my last paper of the term.)

Much love and hoping for good feedback,
Flo.

Revamped!

Hope you guys like the new look! I was getting bored of the old black and white one... so now we're going green! :D

Coming Up!

http://uniting-diversity-contactlist.blogspot.com/

If you didn't get my email about it:

Dear dudes and duddetes of 5S1 '05

How is everybody? I know some of you overseas people are already back in the motherland enjoying good food, family and being soaked in sweat (which will be pretty much the same for me, now that the Sun is blazing most furiously!)

First of all, I'd like to apologize for not being able to follow up with completing the class contact list as I've planned last year.

Right now, since I'm still gonna be stuck in Europe with only one subject left (Anatomy finals)... I might as well be of some other good use, and really, really complete that list! I know Mei Wen has been asking since last year (so sorry!!!) and a couple of other people.

So, once again, please send me your details:

NAME:
MSIAN ADDRESS:
HSE NO:
HP NO. (LOCAL):
HP NO. (OVERSEAS):
EMAIL:
MSN:
BLOG ADDRESS:
D.O.B.:
PLACE OF STUDY:
COURSE OF STUDY:

Please also include a 500-word essay to let me know how you are doing, so that I can evaluate your mental state of mind.

Just kidding. :-P

Hopefully I'll be able to complete the list before I get back to Msia (which will be around mid August to early September, depending on how the paperwork and all goes. Here ahh... terlalu banyak bureaucracy. :-S)

For those who are done with exams... GOOD FOR YOU!!! Have a nice, good, well-deserved (I hope!) holiday. :-)

For those who are still struggling with me with late nights of eleventh-hour cramming, YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!

Take care, everyone.

Love, Flo.

P/S: How come no news about the paintball thingy wannn??? I may not be around to bug around to join, but still... do go for it if you can! ;-) Thanks to Sui Yuan for effort. :-)

Paintball Friendly

Ok, this came up last week. The suggested details are below.

Event : PAINTBALL FRIENDLY
Venue : (to be confirmed - either Bukit Jalil, Subang or Astaka)
Date : 19th July (suggest other dates too)
Who : Any 5s1 2005 students. Boys AND girls, especially girls actually.

Spread the word.

Thanks. Anything you can post in the comments box or contact me at adralnikea@gmail.com

Sui Yuan

Schrodinger's Cat

The story of Schrödinger's cat

Dear Cecil:

Cecil, you're my final hope
Of finding out the true Straight Dope
For I have been reading of Schrödinger's cat
But none of my cats are at all like that.
This unusual animal (so it is said)
Is simultaneously live and dead!
What I don't understand is just why he
Can't be one or other, unquestionably.
My future now hangs in between eigenstates.
In one I'm enlightened, the other I ain't.
If you understand, Cecil, then show me the way
And rescue my psyche from quantum decay.
But if this queer thing has perplexed even you,
Then I will and won't see you in Schrödinger's zoo.

--Randy F., Chicago

Dear Randy

Schrödinger, Erwin! Professor of physics!
Wrote daring equations! Confounded his critics!
(Not bad, eh? Don't worry. This part of the verse
Starts off pretty good, but it gets a lot worse.)
Win saw that the theory that Newton'd invented
By Einstein's discov'ries had been badly dented.
What now? wailed his colleagues. Said Erwin, "Don't panic,
No grease monkey I, but a quantum mechanic.
Consider electrons. Now, these teeny articles
Are sometimes like waves, and then sometimes like particles.
If that's not confusing, the nuclear dance
Of electrons and suchlike is governed by chance!
No sweat, though--my theory permits us to judge
Where some of 'em is and the rest of 'em was."
Not everyone bought this. It threatened to wreck
The comforting linkage of cause and effect.
E'en Einstein had doubts, and so Schrödinger tried
To tell him what quantum mechanics implied.
Said Win to Al, "Brother, suppose we've a cat,
And inside a tube we have put that cat at--
Along with a solitaire deck and some Fritos,
A bottle of Night Train, a couple mosquitoes
(Or something else rhyming) and, oh, if you got 'em,
One vial prussic acid, one decaying ottom
Or atom--whatever--but when it emits,
A trigger device blasts the vial into bits
Which snuffs our poor kitty. The odds of this crime
Are 50 to 50 per hour each time.
The cylinder's sealed. The hour's passed away. Is
Our pussy still purring--or pushing up daisies?
Now, you'd say the cat either lives or it don't
But quantum mechanics is stubborn and won't.
Statistically speaking, the cat (goes the joke),
Is half a cat breathing and half a cat croaked.
To some this may seem a ridiculous split,
But quantum mechanics must answer, "Tough @#&!
We may not know much, but one thing's fo' sho':
There's things in the cosmos that we cannot know.
Shine light on electrons--you'll cause them to swerve.
The act of observing disturbs the observed--
Which ruins your test. But then if there's no testing
To see if a particle's moving or resting
Why try to conjecture? Pure useless endeavor!
We know probability--certainty, never.'
The effect of this notion? I very much fear
'Twill make doubtful all things that were formerly clear.
Till soon the cat doctors will say in reports,
"We've just flipped a coin and we've learned he's a corpse."'
So saith Herr Erwin. Quoth Albert, "You're nuts.
God doesn't play dice with the universe, putz.
I'll prove it!" he said, and the Lord knows he tried--
In vain--until fin'ly he more or less died.
Win spoke at the funeral: "Listen, dear friends,
Sweet Al was my buddy. I must make amends.
Though he doubted my theory, I'll say of this saint:
Ten-to-one he's in heaven--but five bucks says he ain't."


Oh uncylopedia, what would I do for comedy if not for you... most likely Sinfest

of Prices and Petrol

I bet that:

Car ownership rate will increase tremendously over these few years(if this RM650 rebate thing continues)...

Then when this car rebate things is over, then there will be a sudden tremendous drop in car ownership in Malaysia...

But the traffic will obviously still remain the same even after this miraculous drop in car ownership lar, because the actual number cars used in the country is still the same...

We will see for ourselves first hand how ppl respond to economic incentive..and how the policies distort/influence markets..

Let the wheels roll.......

=p

Modern Minds and Pastimes

Gay

More Gay

Mostest Gayerest

Free some more.... hehe

Wei Ken's turn to act gay

Buffet lunch at Resort Cafe

A happy Wei Ken

An equally happy Xing Ji

Good photography gives you wings

Bad photography makes you look retarded (sorry Wei Ken)

Fan girls wating to be the first (some were they since we reached Genting at 12...wtf)

The crowd gets bigger...oh well...tis' dinnertime for us =)

Typical Malaysians...fill 5 saucers full of ketchup and then don't finish...

Pre-Concert Arena of Stars

Introducing - Joe Guese

Ethan Mentzer

Ben Romans

Joey Zehr

Kyle Patrick

And together they form MEGAZORD! I mean The Click Five...I always get those mixed up

How not to pose at a concert

Peace Brother Ken!

The morning after

Looking out the window

Hey kids...it's the cookie monster!

A puffed bag of chips

Another scenic Genting pic...the bottom left pile of rubble looks like a bomb site

Wei Ken's face as we go down Genting in a car with no brakes

My expression...remember hor...buckle up behind...or get fined!

Of prices and hydrocarbons

As they say at Mastercard

Old Petrol Price : RM 1.92

New Petrol Price : RM 2.70 (effective midnight today)

Reaction by Malaysian public :

Pics were taken at the two petrol kiosks outside my house....the queue was so badass...ppl living in my area couldn't leave their houses...lol...the quality of the pics are so crummy because i didn't dare to use flash and didn't dare to go near...the drivers looked angry enough already...on the plus side...Ramly burger did a roaring trade....mmmmm...Ramly....

Copy Sketching!

This is what I've been up to...when i'm not dotaing =)

I call it copy sketching...obviously it involves ripping off other people's creative designs as fast as possible...naturally I chose only the sexiest concept art to copy from...hehe

All above designs by James Hawkins...check out his wicked site http://www.hawkprey.com/mainpage.htm

Anyway...I tried my hand at some original drawing...and came up with this two pieces of uh...less than stellar crap..or just plain crap...whatever...nuff' said.

Girls have absolute advantage over boys!!

read this article..

Girls are becoming as good as boys at mathematics, and are still better at reading

TRADITION has it that boys are good at counting and girls are good at reading. So much so that Mattel once produced a talking Barbie doll whose stock of phrases included “Math class is tough!”

Although much is made of differences between the brains of adult males and females, the sources of these differences are a matter of controversy. Some people put forward cultural explanations and note, for example, that when girls are taught separately from boys they often do better in subjects such as maths than if classes are mixed. Others claim that the differences are rooted in biology, are there from birth, and exist because girls' and boys' brains have evolved to handle information in different ways

Luigi Guiso of the European University Institute in Florence and his colleagues have just published the results of a study which suggests that culture explains most of the difference in maths, at least. In this week's Science, they show that the gap in mathematics scores between boys and girls virtually disappears in countries with high levels of sexual equality, though the reading gap remains.

Dr Guiso took data from the 2003 OECD Programme for International Student Assessment. Some 276,000 15-year-olds from 40 countries sat the same maths and reading tests. The researchers compared the results, by country, with each other and with a number of different measures of social sexual equality. One measure was the World Economic Forum's gender-gap index, which reflects economic and political opportunities, education and well-being for women. Another was based on an index of cultural attitudes towards women. A third was the rate of female economic activity in a country, and the fourth measure looked at women's political participation.

On average, girls' maths scores were, as expected, lower than those of boys. However, the gap was largest in countries with the least equality between the sexes (by any score), such as Turkey. It vanished in countries such as Norway and Sweden, where the sexes are more or less on a par with one another. The researchers also did some additional statistical checks to ensure the correlation was material, and not generated by another, third variable that is correlated with sexual equality, such as GDP per person. They say their data therefore show that improvements in maths scores are related not to economic development, but directly to improvements in the social position of women.

The one mathematical gap that did not disappear was the differences between girls and boys in geometry. This seems to have no relation to sexual equality, and may allow men to cling on to their famed claim to be better at navigating than women are. However, the gap in reading scores not only remained, but got bigger as the sexes became more equal. Average reading scores were higher for girls than for boys in all countries. But in more equal societies, not only were the girls as good at maths as the boys, their advantage in reading had increased.

This suggests an interesting paradox. At first sight, girls' rise to mathematical equality suggests they should be invading maths-heavy professions such as engineering—and that if they are not, the implication might be that prejudice is keeping them out. However, as David Ricardo observed almost 200 years ago, economic optimisation is about comparative advantage. The rise in female reading scores alongside their maths scores suggests that female comparative advantage in this area has not changed. According to Paola Sapienza, a professor of finance at Northwestern University in Illinois who is one of the paper's authors, that is just what has happened. Other studies of gifted girls, she says, show that even though the girls had the ability, fewer than expected ended up reading maths and sciences at university. Instead, they went on to be become successful in areas such as law.

In other words, girls may acquire an absolute advantage over boys as a result of equal treatment. This is something that society, more broadly, has not yet taken on board. Mattel may wish to take note that among Teen Talk Barbie's 270 phrases concerning shopping, parties and clothes, at least one might usefully have been, “Dostoevsky rocks!”

from : http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11449804

btw..as expected from anything controversial, there are many criticism towards this particular research published in Science..but well, this makes into a good piece of dinner table discussion eh??

Supply and demand

Recently, the National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia condemned the Malaysian female school uniform (more specifically the white blouse) as being too darn sexy. Among other comments, the vice president of the association claimed that the blouses became a distraction to men whether they liked it or not and that it led to babies born out of wedlock and prostitution. Malaysian schoolgirls were also critized for using their darn sexy white blouses to "attract men to them" thus seeing them "getting molested, having premarital sex and all sorts of things".

On the other hand, we have the MP from Pasir Mas, Mr. Ibrahim Ali suggesting that a large campaign encouraging women to accept polygamy be held to end the increasing problem of divorce in Malaysia, or in his very own words , "Such problems (divorces) happen because women cannot accept polygamy. From a preventive point of view, what about doing a big campaign so that women can accept polygamy?" He further added that ," Women did not understand that when they were pregnant for nine months, or had "problems" when they hit their 50's, their men still wanted to "have fun". So the man wants to marry again, and the wife gets jealous and asks for divorce."

Two seperate problems you say? Not really, my economics training instantly detected the two cases above as a classic case of mismatch of information with regards to supply and demand. Lets see, in case two, men are demanding more sex, and in case one, those young nubile high school girls in their darn sexy white blouses who are out there attracting men are in effect, supplying sex. So somewhat akin to frictional unemployment, the right sex is not being supplied to the people who are demanding it, thus leading to molest, premarital sex and divorce!! The way I see it, students who are attracting men by employing their wily charms as well as their darn sexy white uniforms should be made to marry men who "wanna have fun". This effectively kills two birds with one stone (the above idiom was not chosen for the sake of sexual innuendo....yeah rite). You see, such horny young females would most likely be more receptive towards polygamy because (and I'm taking an extreme leap of faith here by stereotyping them as such, but politicians do it all the time anyway) this might even give them the chance to engage in legal orgies! Plus, if they get married to said men wanting more sex, then the problem of premarital sex would also be solved because by then, all sex would be strictly marital and legally wholesome. Furthermore, the relatively young age of these schoolgirls would guarantee a safe period of around 30+ years before they start having "problems" in their 50's ( product has good shelf life)

So you see, there's no need to change the uniforms or hold campaigns to encourage polygamy, just set up a matchmaking service between schoolgirls in sexy white uniforms and older married men who wanna "have fun" and Malaysia will be a much happier place to live in. Make love not war as they say. Peace out!

Always

V1:
No more in uniform
No more in pretty ponytails
No more the squeaky chairs
No more school blues and all that jazz

PC:
Where are we now?
We're chasing after stars within our reach
So we'll be
Somewhere out there living out our dreams

V2:
No more the innocent
No more the boy and girl naive
No more the wanderer
We all have found someone to be

C:
Years go by and yet
I still remember
How we held onto memories
Yet they will fade
Yet I remember
And I will always

V3:
So we're all grown up now
Make up and dress up and all that
Neckties and flowers
And all that jazz

-------

Written for all you guys out there. :-)

I don't think this will start the ball rolling, but...

Hello, everyone!

This is Florence here. I can see that we are all busy with our own lives, and that this blog is undoubtedly *ahem... koff... koff* resting in peace.

Nothing much to say, really. Just that I miss all of you people, and finally moving on with life is weird. Before yesterday, I had this weakness of holding on to good old memories, but I suppose all happy endings must come to an end, whatever that means.

Anyways. :-) To all those who are taking exams soon, study hard! You can do it, like, duh! cos you're Science One material. Just keep at the books, people! (I sound like a horse-driver but nevermind...)

And to those people who are having spring breaks or Easter breaks or honeymoon breaks or whatever breaks,

LUCKY YOU!!!

You better enjoy them to the max on my behalf, because I only got 2 measly... I mean, marvelous days off. Oh, well. One mustn't complain. :-P

Take care, everyone.

Don't grow up too fast. I might not recognize you when we meet again!

XOXOXOXO
Flo.

Food for Thought

Food for thought 1:
Rachel once asked me:" what if tomorrow u're going to die....."

What if tomorrow you ARE going to die??
What will you do??

Will you meet up with friends, play and spend all your money??
Or will you finish up all the work that you have yet to do..like go CHS take your 1119 cert..like return all the books u borrowed from ppl..
or will you go like "what the hell man, whatever i do, it doesn't make any difference..so y do anything? just sleep slack until u die.."
actually, you can do something that will make a lot of difference..spend your last day buying LOTS of insurance =p

FOOD FOR THOUGHT 2:
Y on earth are the people producing the things most essential for our survival-- food --most often the ppl that are the poorest??
I know you will say: yeah..its demand and supply, almost everyone can be farmers...not everyone can be doctors bla bla bla..
but still..

y do financial traders, who we can totally live without, and who doesn't do much good(at least none that i know of) earn so DAMN MUCH!! while farmers(at least in the third world where there are less subsidies unlike the west) are struggling to survive!!
i mean..those ppl that worked be4...do u think those working as waiters, working in offices... deserve to earn more than construction workers??? or your maids???

Capitalism, i tell u..benefits ppl like us..

Review-New book on shelves {The boy, the STPM, and the adventure}

Preface
Once upon a time, there was a little boy. His name is insignificant. His personality is irrelevant. His growing-up stories is not important.

So, why worth mention it? This is because somewhere in the middle of his insignificant life, he has done something significant - Face the war of STPM

This book is a narrative story about the adventure of this little boy in the war of STPM....

(Warning: The book is not suitable for those with yawning and drowse problem)


"A super dull novel."
-The Dumpist Book Review

"[A] drab and dreary adventure"
-Bad Book Collection Journal

" Useless and Meaningless "
Publisher

" Its is amazing! The writer is manage to write something so drab into a book. Good job! "
A reader


Proven antidote for sleeping problem
Winner of the dummy Award
Winner of National Dull Book
An UWS best book for young adults
An UWS notable book
An UWS quick pick
PS UWS-(You will sleep)


Review
Ever since the release of this book , it has become a instant hit. Researches shown that the book has help to reduce the sleeping disorder among people by 55%.

The story is simple. And you can summarize it into a few words
The boy faced STPM exam.

The writer has use his unimaginable skills to lengthen it to such an extend that you will fall asleep halfway.

So, what are you waiting for? Grab 1 and have a nice sleep today.



By WL aka little boy

Just so to keep you occupied.

http://emiroradmiratio.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/so-i-was-talking-to-erin-today/

What Is Impedance?

Read full article here.

Make sure you read up to the end... that analogy cracked me up.

Malaysia truly Asia

Wow... this just keeps getting better and better...
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/SundayInterview/20071028074831/Article/index_html

The life cycle of an ex-con...i mean ex-student

Fun things you learn on the internet... I'm the owner of a mysterious Energy Enterprise that set up a blog but didn't bother putting up any posts (www.xingji.blogspot.com), plus my name is Sammy.

Anyway, I think I'll just give you a brief outline on how i'm killing time these days waiting for my A-level results to come out...

10.00 am : Wake up
10.30 am : Get out of bed (Ask no questions, tell no lies)
10.45 am : Brush teeth
10.50 am : Eat breakfast (Warning. May contain traces of egg and dairy products)
11.00 am : Activity*
13.00 pm : Lunch (Warning. May contain traces of animal fat)
13.30 pm : Activity**
17.00 pm : Accompany mum to pick up sister from work (Weekends not included)
18.00 pm : Dinner
19.00 pm : Activity***
20.00 pm : Evening news
20.30 pm : Yoo Hee the Witch/MTV
21.30 pm : Activity****
00.00 am : Go upstairs
00.05 am : Brush teeth
00.10 am : Turn off lights
00.11 am : Lie on bed
00.12 am : Think
01.30 am : Sleep
04.30 am : Wake up from nightmare*****

* Shopping/CNY prep/House maintenance/Sudden urgent chore (these pop up fairly often)
** Resumption of previous activity. Sometimes, if mum is not home, I dota till I throw up.
*** On weekdays, mum and sis watch Singaporean dramas. I sneak an hour online.
**** More house maintenance/CNY prep/something will crop up
***** Generally consists of exam nightmares regarding econs, physics, and oddly enough, pendidikan moral. Sometimes, disturbing childhood incidents resurface to haunt me...

In between my packed daily schedule (yeah rite), I have managed to run a grand total of three (3) times (adios muscleman), learn cooking from my mum, went for an undang seminar (lihong says only 6 hours wasted wor), fantasized about starting my own comic strip, bitch slapped myself out of it, and started fantasizing about other stuff instead. Sometimes I remember to bathe. I plan to watch Sweeney Todd and Meet the Spartans next. Any takers (I promise to bathe first)?

P.S. Wall's mini popper chocolate flavour tastes really good.
P.S.S. I need a haircut.
P.S.S.S. I tag Shu Haur, Nicholas and Chun Wei. Plus I retag all those who've already been tagged but not posted...you lazy ****** you

****** : people - Mammals of the species Homo Sapiens, sometimes bipedal. Part-time bloggers (they just need encouragement, like an AK-47 to the neck)

Rachel Ooi: My turn! =)

WOW. Suddenly there's a whole flurry of activity here!! No one can say we 5s1-ers aren't efficient people man!!

And hmmm.... I'm supposed to update about myself. Well, basically, *grins sheepishly*, I've been... around... for the last 6 months or so. Most of you whom I've kept in touch with already know most of it, but let's just refresh for those who don't alright?

June- Rachel finishes A-level at Taylor's.
July- Rachel goes on mission trip to Cambodia. Rachel volunteers at Kiwanis Down Syndrome Home.
August- Rachel goes to work as a temporary full-time telemarketer selling personal accident insurance(Those who don't know what's that, ask me. Heck, ask me about insurance! If my company did do their job properly, and I my homework, I have quite a bit of insurance knowledge in my head =D )
late September- Rachel stops work to study for SAT and to apply UCAS. (For those who're going to ask why didn't I apply the year before- long, complicated story.)
October- Rachel sits for SAT1. And she can't remember what she did for the rest of that month=)
November- Rachel can't remember anything productive she did for the month, except study for SAT2 (Do remember that it's almost 5 months since she did any real studying and that she has a very very short term memory). She recalls a myriad of movies, yumcha sessions, singing k sessions and blogging =)
December- Rachel slaves through US applications and essays, attends church camp and visits the whole of North-East China.
January- Rachel goes back to volunteering at Kiwanis as a quarter-time volunteer (that's what u call someone who volunteers less than what a part-timer would right?).

The future- foggy and uncertain. But Rachel will definitely be a medical student at the Monash Malaysia campus for the February semester. After that? My guess is as good as yours. =)

I don't think anyone posted up the December reunion photo here, so I shall do the honours =D

If you can't recognise some of the people, you know you're in DEEP trouble and should seek emergency treatment at this blog immediately. What treatment? Ask Flo =P

I'm done! OH yES, one last thing- see my name on your right? All it takes is one click. And you'll be on your way to my blog! One of the few wonders of technology I actually love... besides my handphone, msn, freely accessible Happy Tree Friends and other stuff I'm too lazy to mention. Maybe I don't love them enough...

Ah yes the only reason I did this tag in the first place- I TAG:
1) crap can't think of anyone- Timothy (if the busy man finds time to visit this site)
2) Li Hong (at least I'm certain he visits)
3) Sue Lynn ( no idea whether she visits or not)
4) Yin Shean ( She might visit )
5) Wai Lam ( I think he visits)
6) Sue Bee ( I have no idea)
7) Xin Ni (Likewise)
8) I know I'm cheating =)

YES I'm really done. Happy posting!!

MISS YOU ALL!!!!
GOD BLESS YOU!!

With love,
Rachel Ooi

P.S. There yi ning... a long, long post, just the way you like it.

The 5S1 '05 Revival Tag - Caleb Passing The Baton

Me ar? Well, to find out more about me visit my blog . Why would you want to do so you ask? Well, because it's Visit cnxc323 '08. So pop along my blog to read about what I usually eat in the jolly ol' boring city of Southampton.


Well, if you don't want to read my blog even after that Visit adverts we are so exposed to, I can give you a summary: Basically what you can find in my blog is a gazillion photos of pasta as I eat that like, well, alot. Yea, sick of eating my own pasta already as nice as they taste. Muahaha.

So anyway, yesterday was my last paper for my semester one exam. Was horrid. But oh well, Hope I did good enough. For those of you not in the know, I'm doing Electronics Engineering in the University of Southampton. Why am I here? Well, coz it's THE best school for electronics, outside the US and I am just lazy to apply to the US. So there. I'm here. It takes about 1.5 hours to get to Southampton by train here and trains here costs two bombs or £22 to be exact, AFTER discount. Yea... I shan't be taking the train no more, I'll take the bus more often.

Haven't seen no snow yet since I got here. GLOBAL WARMING. Bah. Thanks to everyone and their wasteful habits I don't get no snow HERE in the YOO KAY. So yea. Stop being wasteful everyone. Global warming WILL destroy us all! Recycle, turn off lights if you don't need them, turn your aircond down to 23 degrees celcius and walk instead of drive.

Ok, now that I've got my ESC rant out of the way, I tag Xing Ji, Xing Ji, Xing Ji, Shaun, Sui Yuan, Si YI and heck, whoever name isn't here, you'll have to do it anyway. So please do. I tag 5S1.

P.S. I tag Yingxu also. And Elaine and Darell. But their presence on this blog is just.. non-existant.

Spreading the word

To all those who have ever wanted to do something against the speeding buses of malaysia...
http://jayelleenelial.com/?p=551

I've been tagged.

Well.

Where do I start?

You guys know I'm in Prague, yeah?

Yeah I'm probably the only CHS-ian studying in Prague, come to think of it.

I should feel so privileged. Hehe...

Yeah, so far, it's been a blessing... I'm learning a lot - about growing, about taking charge of your life, and currently I'm learning discipline and how not to depend so much on other people, though I like to sometimes.

Maybe this abroad thingymajigo experience is helping me with growing up and shaping me into someone... Growing up definitely. I bought my first lipstick today if you want a good example. :-P (I usually borrow my mom's.) And in other aspects too... there is this sense of freedom that if not properly controlled can rule your life. For example, I think I might have been going out too often and not sticking to my books when I should. Which has to change from today onwards... if I want to get home by this summer.

And the people I meet... It's amazing... well, besides a huge Malaysian group, I have met people from all over... from NZ right to Tanzania right to Slovakia right to China right to America right to Ukraine, etc. etc. Prague is like a melting pot of races. Especially in the city where the foreigners are many.. In the smaller towns, we rarely find foreigners, though. It's just amazing... and most of them I met at church.. I'm attending an International church which pretty much feels like home. And I've found a good group of friends whom I am able to blend with. :-) Thank God.

School is okay, too. I've got some pretty cool lecturers, and their English put some of ours to shame, I'd say. I wish I could speak Chinese as well as they can speak English. But oh well... that reminds me, I've really got to have some sort of coaching when I get back. I seriously HAVE TO LEARN MANDARIN. I know, I know... what with you guys speaking English half the time, I didn't learn much. XD

But I love you guys all the same. :-)

Otherwise... yeah. That's pretty much it for now, at least. I miss high school. I just came back from a choir by a congregation of more than 10 high schools from all over the world which blew me off my feet... I'll post the link on my blog sometime soon and you guys can go check youtube. And they did it all in 3 days, can you believe it. It really made me miss school and the chances that I had to be involved in the singing community.

Righto. Have fun y'all. And take care. I'll see you around. :-)

Lotsaluv,
Flo.

P.S. To those dears who have been keeping this blog alive... what would I do without you guys. *hugs*

1119 collection...2nd round

Right...i'll get straight to the point...who wants to go collect 1119 cert like some time soon? we can get our certs, harass the teachers and then climb the school gates all over again...actually, i've never climbed the...oh wait...i did...anyway...the point is if there's anyone who wants to collect the cert and at the same time meet up, drop a line here saying when u wanna collect, what u wanna do after collecting (movie, shopping, lunch, duck hunting etc.)

Cheers...and yes caleb...i've gone over to the dark side...

TA-DA

wooo lala.

finally i can post for the very first time for 5s1 =)
eh you guys should be proud of me okie? 1st up, i'm typing in perfect spelling.2nd, i'm doing this voluntarily. how RARE is that lah =) from the greatest TINk =)

ANYWAY. i have a great idea too. we should post CAMWHORE PICTURES of ourselves. to update each other on how we look =)

anyway. i should not start posting my camwhore pics just yet. let florence do the honours =)

by the way,

i MOVED. =) to ara damansara.
my cellnumber is still the same.
if you want to reach me. mail me. call me. zonifiedyen@gmail.com =)
and i'm heading to University of Sydney on valentine's to study economics =)

there.i updated myself =)

now its everyone elses turn.

and yi ning. you did not update youraelf lar. pffft. so i tag you LOLZ and flo and caleb and rachel. =D

by the way. was looking at our class picture.was wondering about this.over this 2 years, did xing ji grow any taller? XD i'm really curious =)

Revive 5s1 blog tag!

Alrite, this blog is DYING (if it's not already 99.9999% dead. wait, that still constitutes as dying. alrite) and we dun wanna see it 1200% dead do we? (like, um, what's with our facebook group??)

to think there were 50 of us people in 5s1, yet only less then half that number of blogposts. or those with a blogger account here, for that matter. sad :(

(those without blogger account, or have no idea how to blog here, leave your email address in a comment, will ya?)

So let's start a tag here. let's call it... The Revive 5s1 Blog Tag!

THE RULE: whoever who posted here after being tag, get to tag 3 people! And the tagged/tagee have to post here.

update people on what has been going on in your life, how you doing, k? i'm sure most of you started uni. or will soon. lots of thing to say, right right??

and don't even try to sneak out of your tag by posting some random words you string together half drunk/asleep/awake or just some random funny youtube video you found. think of it as a sort of open letter, if that helps. and pics! pics are goooood.

understand?

capisce?

oh, how about tagging a non blogger. get them addicted to the blogging bug!! yay!

oh and if someone was tagged, but never post, feel free to retag them again and again if you have to and bug them until they do ya? ^^

let the fun begin! i tag Flo, Rachel Ooi and Caleb!
(ha.. serve you people rite for trying to tag me in the chatbox in the 1st place :p)