Star Awards tonight! At least something to look forward to after listening to lectures this afternoon. Sat night was damn sianz, mediacorp getting more and more bullshit. It seems like an international channel, channel 8 showing taiwan and channel U on korean. -_-

Mindef has been contacting me quite often of late. Its really damn irritating, they always like to bomb u with "surprises" during exam period. Now i got recall manning right after exams on 24 may to 7 june, this time confirm will tio, another excuse for me not to find 2 week job during that period...

Blogging at the slackest time of this sem! Friday morning! Things have gone quite well this week, completed lab report with some help and HW210! Deardear's luck also improving, finding her 'long' lost wallet and winning any match she predicted. Youth and Id stopped for exam break, which means its the real exam period now. Maybe to others, the whole sem, or maybe right after recess week is considered exam period, cos they are always equally busy. It really impossible to differentiate their workload before exam and during exam, it seemed equally heavy. But for me its the period after lab, EID, CCAs has ended. More nights and weekends of mugging in school. Thermo is really the killer subject, shall spend more time with it but i cant seemed to understand it like i cant understand girls. :x

Life has been rather monotonous recently...sleep late, rush for afternoon lecture, finish sch, go home flip notes and realised oh shit, im lagging by half a sem! i think i really should take a short break after my lab report and HW presentation. Break doesnt mean relax...its taking a break from sleeping too much. Maybe go gym, go running, try getting up early to prepare breakfast and skip schooool! so that i would not be so sianz of seeing shafts and alloys. But first, i still got to finish lab report! haizzz....

Wah! so long never touch this blog le! time to dust off this poor thing! Quiz week ended!!! yay! and im relatively unscathed! target to do up lab report by this friday and continue the momentum of mugging...

Breakup season now...perhaps its the pressure from sch work which made everyone more frustrated to deal with relationship problems. lets count...theres abt 1,2,3,4! so many couples breaking up at one time, and it took a year for 3 couples to form in rspid and none so far in youth! Goes to show that its tough to get together but could be easy for a couple to break! Hopefully mine will stay long and sweet! its not without its problems but which r/s doesn't?

youth elections next week. im seriously not having any hopes on it since last year's disappointment. Just hope that the next person would keep up the cohesion and inject more ideas to spice up the yr ahead. I hate to say this, but frankly i think that rspid comm did not inject new ideas...they were committed to the cause but its like jogging on the same spot.

Someone just didn't understand from my point of view.

It's not simply i didn't trust you,

but can't i trust myself more than you??

I dun know wads pissing you off,

but i rather go to sleep than think about it...

1990's!

Cikgu talking about the games he played when he's young on Monday because of our project about doing anything Malay, including games. Marbles, bola hamtam, glass thread wayang-wayang and five stones seems too old for me. But we do have our own generation of games! Maybe less ingenious but definitely equally exciting!

1. Block Catching

Most of us have played this before, the whole block turned into a maze! Its really fun being a catcher cos u get to run ard, unlike a hider who could only stay at a place and pray that the catcher wouldn't pass by. The structure of the old HDB are different from the ones we have now...there's a staircase in front of every apartment and u could hide on the staircase and no one can see you from the corridor. There's also 2 separate lifts at 2 different parts of the block, which made it more challenging. I can still rmb vividly the adrenaline rush when catcher bump into the hider, both will run like no tomorrow and jumping down the flight of stairs, literally! we dun walk down it, i can jump 8 steps at one go...reaching the ground floor would take only 30secs. In order to escape successfully, either pray that the catcher is breathless, the lift door closes just before the catcher managed to open it or hide somewhere intelligently without the catcher knowledge.

2.Playground catching

Same concept, except now is more of running instead of hiding. Frequent injuries will result from it. The younger boys always get bullied in this game...well, too bad! You have to grow up anyway! ;>

3. Go-li

Ours is a varied version, theres no large white marble as they are difficult to purchase. I rmb buying a few at a minimart in teck whye and treated them like gems. The objective is to hit the glass marbles out of the box with your own. Everyone first contributed 1 marble in the box, then the game starts and if you successfully knock the marble out of the box and your hitting marble didnt remain in the box, u took both! if any one lands in the box, GAME OVER...your marble is stuck in the box for others to claim. Marbles cost $0.20 for 5 at that time and we were super happy winning a few for that day. Its certainly a good social game, i made lots of friends playing this.

4. Styrofoam planes

These planes can be easily bought from minimarts, ranging from $0.50 to $3.00 depending on the quality. We also made some alterations to it, like cut and fold, hopefully to make it fly better. We got tired of flying it in the corridor, so we went up to the 12th(highest) floor and flew it down! The plane could fly quite a distance and sometimes the unfortunate plane made it to the road! Kena flattened of cos. Some of them had rotating blades in front but i rmb the best plane doesn't have one and is blue in colour, a japanese fighter plane. Its not easy to buy a good plane...the kids know the goods and the best ones would get sold faster, leaving behind the CUI planes.

5.Bicycle Racing

This is simply racing with bicycles! It evolved from racing at the corridor to racing circuit below our blocks. Its close to F1, the circuit has slopes and there are parts of it which is easier to overtake. Of course, there's obstacles which are the pedestrians. This activity is dangerous as a slip or collision would result in serious wounds due to the high speed nature. Never see kids playing this now, i think their parents would most likely screw their kids upside down when they see the injury. My mum just shake her head when she saw mine :)

6. RC car racing

Another racing event, but much safer. It started when RC cars are super hot and almost everyone have one! Its not cheap though, mine costs $40 and its considered low budget. RC cars now costs $20 and no one is buying it...

7. PS1 and arcades

Starting to have more pocket $$! Able to invest on PS1 and play arcade games at home! 1990s classics have Marvel vs Capcom series, DDR, Metal Slug, time crisis...hours of fun with it and best of all, the games are real cheap(u know wad i mean). PS1 attracts my neighbours to my house until my mum had to chase them away. Arcades at that time were also crowded with ppl. I went there almost every week and had to lie to my parents im doing project at cck library with my classmates. HeeHee. Daytona and the fighting video machines are everybody's favourite. You could see people crowding around a video game watching the guy play.

8.PC games

This electronic gadget changes a generation of leisure. Gone are toys, games and playgrounds. In comes Red alert, Need for speed 2, IRC, the sims and Neopets! Even today kids are still obsessed with this gadget. My cousins are fighting for it when they come to my house on cny. My first pc was an acer and it has 56k dial-up with limited 25hrs of internet!

9.Digimon and Proyo's

The craze for gadgets started around the late 1990's. Parents were forced to buy one for their kids if not their kids would miss out on what their friends are talking about. I had D1 and D2 cos the latest versions were more expensive and came at a later time. Cheat code were made by using plastic farecard strips to screw up the electronic board and voila! A teddy-mon appears on the screen! D6 had a rather stupid device which requires users to shake the gadget. 1 shake is 1 step and the more u shake the faster it would grow...i tot its pretty dumb!

10.Pokemon Cards

Who could forget Pikachu? I still regret on spending my pocket $$ on these cards. The starter pack costs $70 and the booster costs $5 for like 7? The card shop at CCK MRT station is always full of traders who are students. The foil cards like Charlizard were super rare and going for $25 a piece. I think my best foil card is butterfree, no luck in getting the big 3.

Teck Whye estate is really a great kampong to live in. I would not have experience so much if i stayed in Choa Chu Kang. Teck Whye was supposed to be a temporary living place as my parents were eying for a flat in Sembawang. Think Teck Whye is one of the last "kampongs" in Sg. Nowadays people stayed in their flats and closed their doors. The only "door" which is opened is MSN...applies to me also.

Sidetrack, Cikgu mentioned that he heard a pontian** when little, and said that it sounded exactly like a duck. Beware if you heard a duck quacking, DO NOT TURN AROUND!

wk 5...

Seems like i only blog when im in sch library...haha. skipped hmm2 for ST recruitment talk later...felt a bit guilty as i should be skipping the recruitment talk for hmm2. only 5 weeks and i had skipped 2 lessons. Projects are starting to run this week, with EID reports starting work and HW210 experiment starting. Lab project is gonna start next wk and omg....there's quiz on wk 7 :x Earned a dinner from someone today! coz im a guai guai kid who comes to sch!

V-day surprise failed. Got counter by gf who wants to give me surprise. Should had guessed she was coming over to find me, maybe im too bothered by wad im going to do. Give each other handmade presents, none of it was too expensive but its personal and romantic! I felt the process of making handmade gifts for loved ones is a good reflection of the relationship so far, and that wad vday is all about...reflecting and appreciating. Dinner at bakerzin. Even though we beat the queue, we couldn't beat the kitchen! The chef was taking hours to cook the dish. Every restaurant was accompanied by queues of couples! But seriously, i felt the dinner was nothing different from dinner on other days, it still the same loving company. Then took polaroid at Deardear's void deck, forgot to took it during dinner. Just nice igc sold some polaroid picture holder and brought 2! Now She's beside me everyday!

Youth session was great! Everyone contributed to the success of it. Im still proud that we could do it without planning...haha. who said meetings are impt. As long as everyone in the grp is willing to make some effort towards the cause, the session would run. the boys looked like they enjoyed the challenges as well as the prizes of coz. But they were also sporty when they were asked to do forfeit :) Felt relieved as my workloads for RSPID and youth are minimised! now only attend session nia.

Watched black swan on Friday...not as chim as expected and could understand it. But i still felt watch too much of those would make u more negative. Sleague action at night, teams are disappointing me this weekend, Tampines and Man u...argghhh. Irritating to watch them lose my money without making an effort.