It's near...

Gosh, the exams are just 3 days away. The first paper will be GP and Maths on Thursday, then Chinese on Friday. I've been pounding myself hard into Maths, hoping to ingrain all the formulae and become fluent in the "Math Language". I've been struggling with Chemistry too. I aim to iron out the things I don't know during the next few days of study leave.

I attended the YFC orientation yesterday. The orientation package had a cool YFC shirt with study notes. I'll just have to bear with four Saturdays of boring theory lessons before I can go on to the exciting practical. :D I've not had a CCA for the past 6 months, the new addition to my schedule will definitely spice up things. Fortunately everything happens after the exams and mostly during the Nov/Dec holidays. I'll just have to get over Project Work Oral Presentation before I can really fully concentrate my time on the flying course.

NBA Live 2006 game has already been released in Australia. I was hoping it'd be available in Singapore too, but found out that it'd be available some time next week. when I went down to the game shop to ask. It's rare that I'd want to purchase an original game, but since the game is not here yet, its just too bad for the publishers. :D

Anyway, good luck to all having their exams! Carpe Diem!

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The promotional exams are coming and I'm struggling with the new chapters which were lectured in a rush. I still cannot fully grasp Chemistry's organic chemistry and Physics superposition topics. I just hope I can somehow do the questions in the exam. Project work has been a chore as well. My group got back the 3rd draft after the teacher read through it. There're still more editing to be done. =
After PW today, my group stayed back a little while more to finish our discussion. The discussion somehow swung to ghost stories. Everyone shared their encounters with ghost. My hair stood up. Freaky.

Tomorrow's the last PE lesson of this year, I wonder what we're going to do. Hopefully it'll be fun stuff. We are not able to play badminton cause the hall is being used for the J2 prelims. In two weeks time, it'll be my turn to take the exams in the hall.

Air India

* This is meant to be a joke.

WELCOME TO AIR INDIA!

"Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen. This is your captain PATEL ( Boniface )

Welcoming both seated and standing passenders on board Air India


We apologize for the four-day delay in taking off, it was due to bad weather

and some overtime I had to put in at the bakery.


This is flight 717 to Mumbai. Landing there is not guaranteed, but we will

end up somewhere in India. And, if luck is in our favour, we may even be

landing on your village!


Air India has an excellent safety-record. In fact, our safety standarads are

so high, that even terrorists are afraid to fly with us


It is with pleasure, I announce that, starting this year, over 30% of our

passenders have reached their destination


If our engines are too noisy for you, on the passenger request, we can arrange

to turn them off


To make your free fall to earth pleasant and memorable, we serve

complimenntary DHARU and Wada pavw.


For our not-so-religious passengers, we are the only airline who can help

you find out if there really is a God!


We regret to inform you, that today's in-flight movie will not be shown as

we forgot to record it from the television. However, for our movie buffs, we

will be flying right next to Emirates Airline, where their movie will be

visible from the right side of the cabin window


There is no smoking allowed in this airplane. Any smoke you see in the

cabin in only the early warning system on the engines telling us to slow down!


In order to catch important landmarks, we try to fly as close as possible

for the best view. If however, we go a little too cloase, do let us know.


Our enthusiastic co-pilot sometimes flies right through the landmark!


Kindly be seated, keep your seat in an upright position for take-off and

fasten your seat-belt. For those of you who can't find a seat-belt, kindly

fasten your own belt to the arm of your seat. And, for those of you who

can't fint a seat, do not hesitate to get in touch with a stewardess who will

explain hou to fasten yourself to your suitcase."


ENJOY AIR INDIA

September, the happening month

There're so many events I'm looking forward to in September. There's the promotional exams and the start of my YFC flying course. Also, the release of several games I love to play such as NBA Live & FIFA 2006, and probably Half-Life 2 Aftermath.

I just received the confirmation letter for my YFC course today. I'm in the 139th batch of the YFC flying course. Each batch has about 15 students I think, I cannot imagine the number of students who had undergone the course before me. Whatever it is, I'm looking forward so much to flying a plane with an instructor for the first time. :D

On Monday I met up with TRP to celebrate BY and JM's birthdays. The celebration was fun, had food, cake and movies. The birthdays of 3 of TRP members (including mine :D) falls on next month. Really quite a coincidence.

I went to Funan IT Mall yesterday to shop around. The place is so much different from Sim Lim Square, the atmosphere and standard is so much higher. I'll probably shop for games @ Funan next time if I have to, as the price difference is small and the service is good. I bought Half-Life for $17 there, and added to my list Steam games.

...The school holidays are ending soon...

PW Hell

My PW group came over to do project work today. We started at around 11am, and worked till 4.30pm with little 10-min breaks in between. PW is really a crappy chore, worse than doing maths and chemistry tutorials. I hope the final written report would be a good one after we spent 5 hours on it!

Comex 2005

I went to Comex 2005 @ Suntec with Wilson today. The place was extremely packed! It was the most crowded IT Show that I've ever been too. It seems that Singaporeans are getting more tech-savvy and many more visit such exhibitions. Wilson wanted to buy a new system. In the end, got an AMD system. Had lunch at Pasta Mania, the Seafood pasta was not very nice, I got sick of the tomato sauce after a few scoops.

I then went to Wilson's house to help him fix up the system. It was the first time I help a friend fix up a DIY computer system, I had always fix up my own system. It was a successful attempt. :D

Going to celebrate Jiamin and Baoyuan's birthday tomorrow, definitely an exciting event.:D My birthday is still more than a month away...

Chinese test tomorrow! Sheesh, a test on the first day of the Sept holidays. There'll be additional lectures on Tuesday and Wednesday too... Three days of the 7-day holidays are taken up just like that! :(

Well, the Hurricane Katrina that hit US has been hitting the headlines recently. "it's every man for himself" quote from a police officer in New Orleans. The storm revealed true colours of mankind. In times of trouble, "I" always comes first. The storm has results in a huge surge in oil prices and it will definitely dent the world's economy. I'm just waiting for the day when the world moves away from US currency pegging to the China Yuan's currency pegging. :) It'll probably take decades to become reality.

Happy Teacher's Day!

"Let's all pay our tributes to teachers this Teacher's Day!"

Yesterday's Teacher's Day celebration in college was quite a quiet affair. The ACES day dance sucked (I wonder who suggested it) I did not even feel that I'd exercised. There were few performances. I expected the student councillors to put up a better event. Later on there was a food fair in the canteen. Our class was supposed to order pizza from Canadian Pizza, but later found out it opens after 11am.

I went back to Deyi later on. It was great to meet my good old friends and wonderful teachers. But I feel it's a pity that I had mixed with the wrong group of people during my Secondary school days, and now our supposedly close clique is slowly breaking up. I envy the 2/7 and 2/8 cliques who are still so close even after being posted to different colleges and polys. I try to turn the situation around by attempting to join other groups of people, but it's just too difficult for me. I still love everyone though. :)

It was at KFC where the cliques began to form. Supposedly a class-lunch, it turned into group gatherings. I feel really sad that it has turned out this way. I don't blame anyone though. I blame myself for choosing to be with the wrong people in the first place during Sec Sch. Now I'm beginning to select the right people to mix with in JC. Better late than never, they say. :)

On the way back from KFC, I met my econs tutor with his son at a mosque. I greeted him and he returned with a smile. :) He's a great tutor, his lessons are usually interactive and he shares his life experiences for us to learn from.

Sheesh, the Teacher's Day holiday is over in just a flash. A long day tomorrow at school again...


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