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The LOOOOOOOONG Post

2008-05-15T17:46:00.000-07:00

BOO!

Sorry for not posting for more than 2 months, was busy, and contrary to what Han Yang is saying, i don't have a girlfriend, at least not yet (a girlfriend is not an accessory ok?). Just curious....why are you so interested in my love life, my dear Han Yang? HAHA!

Anyway, i was rather busy recently, and just for people who had lived in a cave 5 hundred miles away from Singapore, POLYTECHNICS started SCHOOL. I so hate education...

Bridging the gap in Chee Kwong's life's storyline...i soon left my job at the evil warehouse, and the week after someone from the recruitment agency called me and said i breach the contract, blah blah blah... and say i must pay $630, WOOHOOO! Really made my day, and it was 9 in the morning by the way. i just argued back for about 15 mins, talking some Contract Law in Singapore stuff i am not even sure of. He backed off after 15 mins, saying he will call me back, but its May now...so WHATEVER!

That's not the end of my troubles though. On March 25 i got an sms from my school saying that i am NOT ENROLLED into the school, because i never paid SCHOOL FEES, after all the online enrollment procedures congratulate me repeatedly how grateful they are that i choosed this school. Receiving that message was like having someone telling you that you won 1st prize for a lucky draw, then call you a few days later saying you 'forfeit' that prize because you never turn yourself clockwise three times, four times anti clockwise, run to the moon, get a piece of moonrock, eat it, and then sing the Happy Birthday song backwards and forward again 5 times. Yup...thats about it. Luckily, i gotten that message on my way to the school to buy my laptop, so i rushed to the administration office, clear some doubts, and then paid my school fees the next day.

I went on to take my Adult 1st Aid course at the St John's branch at Jurong East, and suprisingly i learned a lot more than i thought. i learned a couple of bandages, like this...

Look at my hand, even though my face is so handsomely distracting. By the way, this bandage is for people who got 4 of their fingers amputated.Ouch.

Attending the course made me clashed with my course orientation day, and i missed the chance to get my school of Life Science and Chemical Tech t-shirt. D'oh! Plus i was so blur on my 1st day in the school. But me, being ever so lucky, got to know the people in my class in the end...BECAUSE my 1st week in school is Orientation week! Muahahahahahaha.(!)

But school still sucks though. i thought i am DONE with maths for like FOREVER. But (contrary to what i hoped for) to graduate from my course, i have to take 3 module of maths, 1 module in 1 semster, and they are creatively called Engineering Maths 1, 2 and, of course, 3. WOOHOO! I LURVE maths! I am also required to do Chemistry (duh), Physics (wtf?) and Biomolecular Science (gg). i feel like i'm in secondary school all over again. So boys and girls, before you put down your choice for your courses, go online and READ THE FREAKING modules. Yup.

Going school is also like secondary school, because other than Chemistry, which is IPC (Inorganic Physical Chemistry) to me, other teachers for my other modules talking in ACCENTS! Not being racist please? But i seriously learn all my stuff from their powerpoint slides at home, and in school i just read about Iron Man from Wikipedia. i just popped into school to fill up attendance, and look out for pretty girls...hahaha.

I completed 1 module already by the way, in that module i have to pick a topic to research on, interview people, and then give a presentation on it to the class. We picked shoplifting, and we 'interviewed' people in front of a mirror, if you get my drift. Yup, we faked out interviews...all but 1 friend of mine. WHEEE! I have a friend that shoplifted a tube of Mentos! LOL!

For CCA, i joined DRAGONBOAT! MUAHAHAHAHA!

HOWEVER, i quitted after the 4th training. Guess the tough times lasted longer than me...rather disappointed because i never see it through, and i pang seh Bingy...Someone like me can't just do 80+ push-ups after 6 mths of inactivity in 1 day. Plus the trainings are too frequent and long for me to take it. I will try it again next year, i swear on Chad's cat's life. LOL!

Next week's my common test, and i know that the Primary School, Secondary School, Kindergartens and Nurseries are on freaking holidays, a fact that i'm reminded every day by my Sec 3 brother, and 2 cousins, sadly my holidays are only 2 weeks long...D'oh! SCREW YOU! (WHOEVER IS IN CHARGE)

Hope this post is long enough for you. Whoever you are.

POOF!

A post to placate the masses...

2008-03-13T06:08:00.000-07:00

BOO!

Sorry for the loooooong time between the posts. I was 'busy' again. By 'busy' i mean balancing a funeral, work, my OTC, polytechnic admission stuff and keeping my sanity intact.

Lets talk about my job, a topic that many adults like to talk to hapless young adolescents like Yours Truly, when they already know we don't really two hoots about their working conditions and their overbearing manager or boss, whose job titles are often replace with 2 rude, rude words that both, coincidentally, start with 'B'.

Anyway, you came to my blog, i shall naturally assume that you wish to read what i typed, so i shall now talk about my job.

I currently work in a warehouse of an evil corporation storing evil artefacts known as 'Textbooks'......Now you know why the US cannot find the WMDs in 'I-rack' when they are stored in such a secret location like Jurong. The journey there can numb the butts of even the toughest man. Why? Its a freaking 30 mins long bus ride from Jurong East Mrt Station. However, the job is the slackest i've ever had. My days are mostly spent playing trolley racing and find dark, airy corners in the warehouse. I will post pictures of the evil warehouse in the next post, hopefully tomorrow. Hopefully.

Now, about my OTC. I started the 1st day on the wrong footing i think. I believed i was too...enthusiastic. I had thought that everyone was told in their school to raise up their hands whenever someone asked for a volunteer, and to answer a question on an audible level. BUT, i found that i was the only one shouting 'Lead With Honour, SIR!' when the officer asked for the course motto. Not once, but TWICE. ALONE. You could say i got all the attention i wanted that day.

Another thing that happened was i got the post of Division I/C, even though i volunteered for the post of Course I/C, twice, with only the Sir saying 'Anybody ELSE?' Only 1 word to describe me that day...糗.

Last thing to type about. My Poly admission. I gotten my enrolment package last Friday, and for 3 days i only looked at the laptop models, and missed the deadline to hand in the request letter for the tuition grant. Oops...i gotten scared and handed in everything that needs to be sent by post yesterday. That was the biggest Oops i did this week...so far. Hope it ends there. Going soon, need sleep for the Great Trolley Race Tournament tomorrow. Haha.

POOF~!

March forth, to the FUTURE!

2008-02-19T05:44:00.000-08:00

JAE results popped out today!

Here's what i submitted for JAE

1 - S70 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING (SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC)
2 - N56 CHEMICAL & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING (NGEE ANN POLYTECHNIC)
3 - T33 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING (TEMASEK POLYTECHNIC)
4 - T31 BIOTECHNOLOGY (TEMASEK POLYTECHNIC)
5 - S72 BIOTECHNOLOGY (SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC)
6 - S63 MARINE ENGINEERING (SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC)
7 - N51 ACCOUNTANCY (NGEE ANN POLYTECHNIC)
8 - N49 MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY (NGEE ANN POLYTECHNIC)
9 - S45 CLEAN ENERGY (SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC)
10 - S64 CHEMICAL PROCESS TECHNOLOGY (SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC)
11 - NIL
12 - NIL

Yeah, i forfeited choice no. 11 & 12. What's the use of filling it all up? If you can see, i already started playing at choice no. 7. If you know me, i can hardly count the number of toes i have, so accountancy ain't the road for me. Seriously.

Anyway, i gotten into choice no. 2, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Ngee Ann Poly(!). Considering that its COP is 15 and i got 16. So i ain't appealing, on account of the 1 point 'discount' i gotten. What puzzled me was that my 1st choice COP is 16 and i never got in...

NOW, i've got a 'map' and a 'road' to walk on. I would'nt be lost anymore.

POOF!

Oops...

2008-02-07T07:27:00.000-08:00

BOO!

Sorry for not blogging for so long, i can think up an excuse, but i feel like being honest in this post, so lets just say i'm too bloody lazy.

Anyway, a lot of things happened to me since 18 Jan till now. I got back my Os with a rather 'ok' score of 19 for L1R5 and 16 for L1R4. Not the most ideal score, but i could do a lot more worse, so i would rather not complain. Amazingly i got B3 for maths. So, for those who are failing your maths now...there is hope for MathHaters like you and me. Haha

I applied for Chemical Engineering at Singapore Poly through the JAE thing, and their cut-off point is exactly 16. Now i can only hope that the 'contributions' i gave SJAB during my four-years 'stint' can help me in this.

By the way, i quitted my job the day before i got my Os results. Finally, i can stop seeing 'Terminators' shoppers who browse through your goods and say 'I will be BACK.', they don't exactly brighten up my day, you see. Got my pay at the 1st day of Feb (i think...), and got $354 for slacking for 7 days. Lol?

Anyway, today is the 1st day of CNY, or maybe the 2nd, as the clock is moving ever closer to the 12 mark as i type away in my half-lit living room. Today i was just sickened at the number of times i 'transformed' into a record player. I trust that this happened in the living room of most families that celebrate CNY to relatives that took the Os last year.

Unknown Relative: Hey, xxxxx! Happy CNY!

Student: Hello, Happy CNY, and _______(insert own auspicious chinese phrase)

Unknown Relative: I heard you took your O-levels last year.How did you fare?

Student: Oh, i got ____for R5 and ____for R4.

Unknown Relative: Wah! (short and loud means approval, long and soft means opposite...usually) So where are you planning to go?

Student: I'm planning to....blah blah blah.

Seems easy? Well, just do that for 6 times in a day. Yeah.

Went back to school yesterday just to say 'hi' to the teachers, it just feels so strange to be in the school so carefree and not worry about the teachers breathing down your neck. Talked to Mr Victor Tan and was told that going to Chemical Engineering has a bright future, while Pauline is told that her choice of Applied Food Science has limited career prospects. yay!

Oh, almost forgotten to make this announcement. Boon Keong and me went to an interview for OTC hopefuls. So...most probably me and him will stay around CCHY. Now you would'nt have a reason to miss us. You do want us to come back...do you my dear juniors?

Its a new year, and it started last night. Its about time i let go of my attachments to people and things i lost last year tonight. So...GOODBYE unhappy memories! I will still keep you in my mind, but only in the deepest darkest corners.

POOF! to a new START and a better tommorrow!

Week in review.

2008-01-17T18:14:00.000-08:00

BOO!

Lots of crazy things happen last week, and sorry that i can only write about this now, because i got another job this week.(and yes, this counts as one of the crazy things that happened)

Crazy Thing #1: Last week was CCA orientation (12 Jan). I found myself explaining to students and parents what Transportation Of Casualty is about, and DAMN, its boring. Replies from them is often nothing more than disgruntled grunts and 'Oh's. Anyway, hope more of the new Sec 1 recruits can stay. If my batch is any example...haha.

Crazy Thing #2: I'M DEMOTED! I'm a Staff Sergeant now...BUT, cadets call me by Sir. Don't worry if you can't make sense of this. i had some difficulties as well. Congratulations to Nazurah and Hon Qi for your promotion to CL, and to the other Year 4s, i only have one thing to say. Ranks don't denote a person's worth, one can be a Private but have the qualities comparable to a Sergeant.

Crazy Thing #3: Went for First Aid duty after CCA Orientation...which is a night cycling activity organized by Temasek Poly. Experienced a lot of Firsts in this duty, such as cycling in the night (duh), eating at Lao Par Sah at 2am, being at Vivo at 3 in the morning, sleeping in an ambulance, sleeping at the Padang...ya, thats about it. Oh, by the way the journey was from East Coast to Vivo City and back.(Why they pick Vivo as a destination is beyond me.)

Crazy Thing #4: I got a job...time to say WOAH! The job was recommended to me by Tian Jie, which is to act as translators for the artisans from China. Easy money, considering that the items they are selling cost so expensive.

Well, i will end my post now. Got to prepare to go back to school.

POOF!

DAMN !!

2008-01-08T18:30:00.000-08:00

BOO!

As i am writing this entry, i am eating beancurd while watching Little Einsteins on PLAYHOUSE DISNEY!

DAMN! So bored from staying at home 24/7. My weekday morning routine since school reopen is to occasionally take my 2 cousins to school, take them from school, and find ways to spend the rest of the day. ARGH!!! GOING MAD SOON!!!!

But luckily, before i lost the last vestiges of my sanity, relief came in the form of SJAB. I'm going back this saturday to help them in their CCA orientation performance. Haha, just 'guest-starring' in their 'production'. But still i must cut off my beatiful mane of hair. DAMN!

Contrary to others, i don't miss school life, or the school. I miss the people in it. Because they are the ones who made school enjoyable to me. I MISS 4F!!!!

POOF!

HERE COMES THE CAVEMAN!

2008-01-05T05:43:00.000-08:00

BOO!

Here comes the caveman of the 21st century!

Scientific Name: Homophobic Cheekidis
Habitat: Yishun, Singapore
Diet: Omnivore
Description: Long-haired. Size of this particular
specimen can be described as a mountain of flesh.
Habits: 'Typing' on a rectangular piece of plastic
named by the subject as a 'Keyboard' all day, while
facing a luminous screen. While not doing the above said
habits, the subject would be playing a portable plastic
contraption called a 'PSP'.
Interesting Note: The subject enjoys a seemingly symbiotic
relationship with tissue paper, claiming to be '...unable to live
without this miraculous creation of the Almighty.'

Picts frm these few days.

2007-12-26T18:49:00.000-08:00

How i spent my christmas eve...

i went vivo with Hezel and Farid. Paiseh that these photos sux, blame it on my phone. Now this Christmas tree looks nothing more but a shiny triangle.

and we had made a major discovery that night, that shoes can float on water. Lol?

How i spent my Christmas...

I went to play with the swing at Yishun Park, alone, again. I like playing with the swing because....its the cheapest way for me to get the feeling of being weightless.i took Hon Qi's advice of swinging with eyes closed this time though, and its erm...scary?

Later on at a corner of the park, i saw tis sad emo dustbin that had apparently cried black tears, i tried asking it what it was so sad about, but it never did answer me, and so i said to it... 'YOUR NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH ISSUES! And SCREW YOU!'

and a cool shot of the sky while i m on my way home. Interpret it anyway you like, because i will go off now.

POOF!

A story i would like to share

2007-12-14T09:02:00.000-08:00

i heard it in a CHINA tv show talking about virtues, and just thought of sharing it...

There once was a father who had a very bad-tempered son. He wanted to let his son realise the errors of his ways, and so 1 day he made a pact with his son, that everytime his son loses his temper, he will hammer a nail into a wall outside their house, so that he can keep a record of the number of times he lost his cool. The son agreed, believing that he was not hot-headed.

Faithfully, the son hammered the nails, and soon in less than 1 month, the wall was covered in nails.

The son now knew that he was wrong, and now the father made a pact with him again...that for each day that he did'nt lose his temper, he could remove a nail from the wall. However if he loses his cool again, he will have to hammer a new nail in. The son agreed once more.

What took him a little time to accomplish, took a much longer time for it to be undone. By the time all the nails were removed, almost 2 years had passed. The father came to his son again, and this time, told him that he had finally got his temper under control.

But after he said that, he pointed to the wall, which is now pockmarked with holes and said, even though his son had amended his ways, and apologised to others of his wrongs, the hurt he caused are like the holes, and could never be removed.

And so the moral of the story is...NEVER DO ANYTHING WHILE YOU'RE ANGRY, or you may cause irreparable damage before you know it.

(to Mr Tan Jun Liang, the postman came and left.)

POOF!

I NEED THE SUN !!!!!!!!!

2007-12-11T08:26:00.000-08:00

BOO!

I NEED THE DAMN SUN!
nana, everything just seem so gloomy without sunlight. Stupid monsoon season, I HATE YOU!

haha, the never ending rain is SO irritating, laundry never seems to dry, along with my sodden shoes. By the way, bus 171 is very exciting. i took it yesterday (after i was pang seh-ed by my juniors)

rainy day yesterday, can't see no sh**. The bus ride was uneventful until i was stop by some guy who checks ez-links...apparently i don't look much like a student...lol?

a picture i took while on the bus. HDB blocks now look like M&Ms nowadays, got dizzy staring at different hues of blue, green, and purple (of all colours). and i found out that the Salvation Army HQ is bulit like a ship, but the bus was moving too fast for me to snap a shot...damn it.

i alighted at Suntec and saw this huge lightsaber, and it was green...amazing.

and this four angels who had nothing better to do, and decided to pose around a water fountain (of all places).

and finally after 2 hrs of loitering around nowhere, i took the train home and lived happily everafter with no one for the nxt 14 hrs...

POOF!

FREEDOM!

2007-12-05T05:16:00.000-08:00

BOO!

haha...MY JOB CONTRACT FINALLY END TODAY!
Now all i will do is to spend the $500++ i earned till i get
another job at around mid-Dec. LIFE IS SWEEEEET!
PSP HERE I COME!!!

These two weeks all i had been doing is erm...

packing these....

to these. (over more than a hundred times a day)

What's in the picture is one of the 130+ pallets in the
1st floor ONLY, on the warehouse i work in, ALONG with
more than 50+ shelfs. NOW you know who killed the
rainforests haha.

ANYWAY, enough about my job now. i would like to
end my post by saying that...Jimmy DIED today...I
personally BLEW HIS BRAINS OUT into marina bay
(don't worry if you don't understand, i don't understand
myself nowadays...)

POOF!!!

My 1st Post...

2007-12-01T05:14:00.000-08:00

BOO!
Pop back to start posting at my blog.haha, was busying during the weekdays because of work, so only can find time to do my blog at weekends.

i finally know a BIT more about blogging, thx to my bro.

SO! i took a little walk around S'pore today. i began my 'journey' on bus number 130, with COMPLETELY no idea where it would take me. i dropped off at a bus stop outside of the old supreme court, and saw this...

turns out to be the memorial to Lim Bo Seng. i walked on further and saw de BIG durian

lol...ugliest piece of shit that i ever saw in my life...THE ESPLANADE!

i then continue to hang around the area for about 1 hr, don't ask me how, but somehow i was able to go into deep thought while looking at the sea.....i went on to Funan the IT mall where i played free Halo 3 wid some 6-7 yr old kid for like....1hr? lol the store attendant also like bochap me so...WADEVA!haha...by the time i left the place it was already 6 liao. Call me no life if u want, but i still made 2 little frens today...and i dunno their names...decided to went back home after my long day of journeying. so i took a little walk from city hall to raffles MRT...n i took a few more picts along the way...

a picture of S'pore skylines...

and one of the parliament which was beside it. lol...security was so tight there. security cameras EVERYWHERE. makes u worry about picking your nose there...

saw ANOTHER christmas tree at UOB plaza. this 1 was special though...there's GOH guarding it...

then i saw this stylish motorbike parked outside the plaza. haha...did'nt know police vehicles so nice nowadays...

i will end my post now...BB!POOF!

I CREATED A BLOG! Weeeeeeee!

2007-11-24T22:19:00.000-08:00

Lol...1st time create blog. need ask my bro for help...haha. feel a bit paiseh.
Give me sum more time to understand how 2 work tis tink arh...