A Scholar's Life

yep, maybe...just maybe this is the life the the singaporean ministry of education had in mind for us scholars when they openned their doors to us. but who gives half a shit? i tell you guys, this is absolutely sickening, having to cram the un-crammable, having to mug the mundane, and having to put up with MATH!!!! oh gosh...why do i have the feeling i'm not going to...ah, nevermind....

but as always, there's always a brighter side to things. like for example, cutting down on our pak-toh-ing, me and lipjeen stay in the hostel more often, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing. it brought me a lot closer to my neighbours and roommate! hahaha...seriously. like hokito! i mean, since the SJI days i've known him to be a (very) smart guy and quite a good football striker as well. but beyond that, i knew squat. it turns out that among many things, he's got a wealth of anecdotes up his sleeve (indonesian driving incidents, petroleum theft, fried ornamental fish) and yeah, i got to know him much better la. as for yeekiat, aiyah, lets just say yeekiat has been the (idiotic) yeekiat i knew back then. hahaha, just kidding, just kidding. his sense of humour is still as potent, just now it's bolstered with a more advanced vocabulary.

and then there's my roommate, armando. i've seen him around back in my days at CJCH, and to tell you (the readers) the truth, i was kind of jittery about being his roommate. i thought (wrongly) that he had a short fuse, because there was this one time i saw him blow off at this idiot called Edwin Das who tried to 'playfully' wrench armando's head of his shoulders, rambo-style. yeah, armando, he deserved it. edwin das was/is/always will be an arsehead with no visible neck. hahaha...actually, all in all, armando's a real great (comic-loving) roommate. haha...

suddenly it feels like CJCH again. and then even as i prepare myself for the end, i just know that my heart will be heavy when i leave this place. sighz....singapore, you've been my second home for four years already. what will it be like to leave you? what will it be like to say goodbye to the friends with whom i've grown so much with? what will it be like to embrace a whole new education system?

uncertainties plague the horizons. time to say goodbye, dear reader. for now...

There Are Cups and Glasses, But I Chose...

There Are Cups and Glasses, But I Chose...

to mug. bleahz.... the 'holidays' that i have is beginning to sicken me. i'm mugging, or rather always trying to, but to no real avail nowadays. like now! i'm supposed to go and do my biology past year papers that i purchased with my last cents in my wallet (at that time at least). but instead, here i am blogging. sheesssshhhh.....

anyway, i'm back in singapore already. i got back on sunday, and i've been tormented by this flu of mine. maybe it's because there's this sudden change in my environments, like cool and airconditioned bedrooms (at home) to stuffy and warm bedrooms (victoria hall la, where else?). and i find out that blowing my snot out is actually a pretty futile thing to do. after a while my nose fills up again. grr....at best it's a temporary comfort. but then, if you use that logic, eating and showering will get you nowhere too,'coz after that you're bound to get hungry and dirty again. so that's that, and enough of this useless ramble.

okay okay!! my driving experience!! i got back here on sunday and the wonders of malaysian transport authority allowed me my driving license and saturday and i managed to squeeze in a grand total of THREE TRIPS with be behind the steering wheel. hahaha... it was fun! it was fun being released on the roads with the four wheels under my control, it was fun as i felt like i had a breath independance and mobility, and of course, it was fun making my mum get stressed out by not really keeping a safe distance from the cars ahead of me. hahaha! "BRAKE, SON BRAKE...!!! LOOK AT THE CAR AHEAD OF YOU!! HE'S SLOWING DOWN ALREADY!!!"

alright, i really have to get back and study now. yeanching, thanks for linking me, and yeekiat, thanks for your laptop, although your spacebar is BLOODY HARD TO PRESS!!!

bye!!

Home Sweet....Home?

Home Sweet....Home?

wow, i've been back for quite some time and i haven't even blogged. psh...how irritating. the blog that i've set up here becomes more of a burden than and outlet. why do i even bother to write? not that a million people read it, right? but that's okay. only the people that matter do. my friends, my schoolmates, maybe some choir dudes (via gabriels very extensive link glossary) and my dear.

if school in singapore (well, at least in JC) has thought me one thing, i have to admit it came from our dear GP teacher, el choy. i remember sort of vaguely that in last year, there was a time when we didn't do homework or hand it up, and there were many a time he had to storm out in his bald-headed anger. but there were also times when he tried to rectify this by talking us out of it. it was the lesson of Resposibility.

it thought me that i should be responsible for the things i do, for example, if i take up a scholarship, i should fulfill my responsibility and not break that bond. if i decide to start a familly i should fulfill my responsibility and be prepared to work hard and be involved. if i decide to do well in the exams, i should fulfill my responsibility as a student and likewise, work hard to make that dream come true. i've learnt that responsibility not only comes from what you pledge alliance to, but what you aspire to be. you can't go around saying you want to be the president if you don't give two hoots about todays politics.

anyway, enough of that.

I PASSED MY DRIVVVVVVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!!

hahaha...well done minghui!!! (even if i say it myself) just a little taste of triumph before the exams. hope it doesn't stop there. boy, i tell you, the driving test was very scary. i thought i was doomed to fail (again). there was one junction (you have to disengage your gear and pull ze handbrake at 'junctions') where i stopped and for some reason i couldn't get the car going...! yikes!!! i panicked la, like what else is there to do? he shouted at me, "oi, can drive or not?!" "can, can..." was the shy, half scared-half panicked reply...

then came the totalling up of my scores...i needed 16 out of 20 to pass. i spied his pen in a downward stroke. okay, a '1', at least i don't get a single digit. then the next stroke stole a few hearbeats. a circular stroke! a TEN!! noo, that's even WORSE than my 14 the last time. but it was a SIXTEEEEEENNN!!!!! wheee!!!! so happy!!! s'more i didn't bribe them lorh! hahaha... ;)

can finally drive you all around now. hahaha.

have fun guys!!