Saturday, February 26, 2005
Firstly, I’d like to kick SPH’s GC thing. All we studied didn’t come out during the bloody MCQ thing at all! It’s was more of EU having a spiff with China, and then this bunch of people moving from low-income housing to higher income then to the low-density housing and then back
again to the low-income housing and then the whole process repeats itself over again; stuff like ‘Singapore has some wafer fabrication plants. Find them.’
And then more things like a graph on erosion. Okay I was supposed to know that. But I acted silly and chose the wrong one. And then there’s this question on the Airbus some number thing. Anyone know anything about the Airbus? No? I thought so.
One more thing! What hazardous chemical is transported by air- Mercury, sodium cyanide, uranium, hydrogen or nitrogen?
Thinking logically now, hydrogen is explosive, flammable, etc. If the plane catches fire, its goodbye to hydrogen. Nitrogen looks too cute to be dangerous. Uranium is used in nuclear technology and stuff, so should be rather reactive and mercury will cause mercury poisoning if someone punctures the hull of the plane. So I just took sodium cyanide. Anyone know what that is?
My point exactly.
Next stop, the great Prefects Investiture I owe… *counts* ummm… well…
some people anyway…
It was okay. I can’t remember much. Prefects’ dance was gay, the whole thing was mad, it looked all wrong. And we sat behind the guests before being hustled to the back and then being scrutinized by Gan, and then basically slept through the thing.
Adeline caused this huge scandal by being friendly to her CHS friend. Hahaha. Basically, she acted as herself, talked to them enthusiastically and her prefect friends mistook it as… umm… more. Yes.
She missed a meeting because she was talking to them…’enthusiastically’. She was spotted
a million times because she was stupid enough to choose a very obvious place to talk to her friend.
Yess.. That’s basically about it… now Adeline is more worried about her reputation going down the drain and such and how she’s going to be afflicted with schools like HCI, ACS, and of all things, RI.
Ho ho ho ho.
I just realized HCI looks like hydrochloric acid. Oh no.
I am officially mad.
Uhh… what else?
Actually I wanted to start this off with a solemn note but… naaah, forget it. I can never start things off in a solemn note.
No one comments on my blog posts! Why! Why!
Ah, yes… the NUS thing which invariably added up to my downfall from any debate thing in this year.
Watched the Finals for zome debate. Saw Terence and Iggie.
They won anyway. RJC won too.
I saw Jingsong, and Auyong who both look weird. I can’t remember how they look like anyway. :D
Also, Adeline told me on Monday that her coaches thought Adam was cute.
Right.
Anyway, whatever.
Anything else? No. Oh well.
I am Old.
I want to see Howl's Moving Castle!
Posted by norbert at 2/26/2005 12:23:00 AM
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Heya world! It’s been awhile since I posted, and I know I’ve been really slow on everything. I am evil!
Every one of my friends has said that to me. I rock.
I scare Janice Chen out of her wits too.
Anyway, that’s not my point today.
Today I am here to blog about the NUS SPH Geog Challenge thing, which is suicidal, mad and insane. Which is not good.
Anyway, got there quite late I think. Adeline’s dad’s car’s tire decided that that day would be a good day to blast a hole in its vulcanized rubber mad thing and went full steam ahead with the plan.
Of course, it DIDN’T consider how mad Adeline would be when she found out. Anyway, get there in time, my dad acted mad, for some obscure reason, driving me to North Buena Vista and then pointing out some Biotechnology Faculty to me and telling me that that should be the place I should go then almost stopping in front of the NBV MRT station and asking me if this was where I was supposed to go.
‘Err… no? It’s Clementi remember?’
‘Oh! But this is so much nearer!’
‘I don’t know! Ask Adeline!’
‘Okay.’
He drove to Clementi anyway.
So then we got there and then we were early and spent some time colouring and quizzing each other on Capitals, it’s really cool, like you screech out any Capital or country, and have people telling you the names back.
Eg.
Kathmandu!
Quito!
Le Paz!
Jamaica!
Addis Ababas!
Brussels!
Sofia!
Bueno Aires!
Greenland!
Islamabad!
Uhhh…
Dhaka!
Canberra!
Stockholm!
Colombo!
Dakar!
http://s4.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=086RF9RIPCL6U3UHJYL75E8LAVThanks Gerard!
Hahahahah
Anyway, uh…
Point is, the stupid quiz was so hard to do, don’t know how to do so many, and we were supposed to do 30 questions in 30 minutes and it was scary and irritating and I hate that bloody stupid blur map that doesn’t help much in reading the map with the bloody symbols put BEHIND the entire map making it hard to read it and it being so bloody small and…
We took such a long time to find out seats that the English lecturer seeing us maneuver so slowly like big bustling galleons of gold that he commented:
‘Isn’t it a bit ironic if you’re taking part in a Geography competition and as Geography students and you can’t even find your seats?’
So then we did the quiz and I freaked out when the lecturer said ‘Ten more minutes’ and I was only at question 17!
Waaa so many I don’t know how to do!!
I think I’ll leave it for today… so evil… can’t stay long on the net… So don’t miss me!
(a + b)^n = a^n + (nC1)(a^n-1)(b) + (nC2)(a^n-2)(b^2) +….b^n
Yeah!
Posted by norbert at 2/22/2005 11:35:00 PM
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Unrehearsed and insane, I cometh to thee. I am mad!
I like their introduction. I know I’m supposed to blog about it like Adeline said I should be I’m lazy. I’ll do it another day.
Oh alright.
Introduction
The introduction in any kind of report is the first thing a person would read. It has to be eye catching, raises curiosity, and makes it not just another piece of paper. We have tried very hard to think of one such introduction, almost as hard as we have spent thinking of our device, as this section takes up a pretty decent portion of our marks. So, we want to start off with a really big bang, by saying what we think of all of the other group’s devices.
Our cooling device is way cooler than yours.
With that said, you can now proceed on to the rest of the report. In it, you will find how our device works, how it’s assembled, and how it is so much cooler than everyone else’s. We are so going to freeze the hot water.
Yes. Credited to Jinghan and Jerome, who are uber lamers. Oh wait, it was written by Isaac, Tiong and Benz. whoever they are.
Whooooo I like their introduction! Okay. Today my mom organised this huge thing at my house. i am terrified of my younger cousin who is secondary one and is a phenomenal chinese chess player. I just learnt the game today and he thrashed me 2-0. We played 2 games only. He saw Diablo 2 and was lost.
I was like going, 'I am so uber thrashed....'
And then he tells me, 'I haven't even started my thrashing yet.'
Waaaa!!!!!
Okay okay, fiiiiinne the Prefect’s Installation thing, the Prefect’s Investiture, etc etc etc
The day dawned bright and shiny. Hell no, with Chem and Add Math on that day, nothing dawns bright and shiny. If I remembered correctly, it was a Thursday. (Gerard if you’re reading this, scan my letter over and email it to me. I need the info on it ASAP.)
Anyway, all I can remember about it was that I was at the back, where 1, I could see everything. 2, I was behind the worst classes of all where May Ying was, 3, I was with XL who was probably in a bad mood and 4, because I was in a Gan-hotspot.
May Ying is mad in a way I can almost be mad.
Almost.
She waved to the walking strange prefects! May Ying! Don’t kill our school!!
Hahahaa
Anyway, the thing was rather okay I guess, aside from the fact I saw everything the day before that, Adeline lost track of time and beat her own time to the song, and then what else, oh yes.
We had to stay back for class decoration.
We were doing rather nicely, cutting up the roosters I drew, they are not phoenixes! And doing stuff to the classroom.
Oh. Have to go now. Shall post about it later. Night: P
Posted by norbert at 2/13/2005 11:54:00 PM
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Before I start on anything, I’d just like to quote Sheryl Tay on something she said some day. Some time during English. We were doing Ah Ba’s Money, something in our English Resource File, and were discussing mothers, because Ah Ba’s mother was a cheating scum.
Something about Supermoms came up on how she could hide her feeling so well and deal with Ah Ba’s father as well. Then Sheryl was heard saying: ‘That’s why ah, if you want to be a superhero, never ever be the telepathic or the telekinetic ones. They are always the weakest. See X-Men’s Jean Grey for example, she’s always going ‘Oh it’s too heavy and aaahhh this and eeekkk that…’
The whole class erupted with laughter at that.
On Saturday, I went to Gerard’s concert.
Part 1:
Reached Dhoby Ghaut MRT at 1.45pm, breaking all records of mudmeets. Couldn’t find anyone there and then finally had the bright idea to go to Plaza Singapura, where everyone was supposed to be and went down towards the MRT station again. Found Chuntsen, Bernice and Elbert who shot up a couple of inches from when I had last seen him.
Either that or he was always tall and the birthday chalet last year did nothing for my height and weight memory.
Chuntsen led me there via handphone after we spent a few minutes figuring out that I was at the wrong entrance. They were there, playing five stones which Bernice had brought. After I arrived, we spent a bit more time there, throwing Bernice’s stones everywhere, citing that day to be ‘Abuse Bernice’s Five Stones Day’.
We then left the MRT station and went to the X-Square and the other shop which provided lanning services or something… whatever. We just went to that area there. We were sitting down and about to continue play five stones when Ryan D appeared. Or had we already started playing the thing then Ryan D appeared…
Whatever.
The point is that, they were talking about some competition and something about how Ryan D wanted to join. Elbert was swearing upon his life that the would play DoA with Ryan D and reduce his ego. Bernice and I were saying that you don’t reduce egos; you poke them with a needle and watch them deflate very nicely.
Anyway, Elbert had to heed to his Call of Pride and disappeared into X-Square or something with Ryan D and proceeded to trash each other.
With a rather needless sigh, Bernice, Chuntsen and I sat down somewhere near the place and decided to play Five Stones.
I knew five stones had levels and such but I hadn’t been playing them for such a long time that I’m like kinda rusty. Hahah Chuntsen, with his big square, spade like hands obviously pwnzed me, while Bernice had a close tie or something. Either that or they both pwnzed me. Hahahah
I gave up and decided to watch them play; until Bernice asked me and I joined them.
After that, we had ‘Abuse Chuntsen’s Shoelaces Day’.
It was rather fun, started off with ABFSD, please look up, and then I decided to pull his shoelaces, seeing how nice and long and generally untied they were, and tugged at them.
Wa haha!!
They came of so easily! That started off ACSD, where we cornered Chuntsen, who let himself get cornered for some obscure reason and tormented him. He threw five stones to distract us, igniting Bernice’s anger more, which naturally spelt his doom. Pulled his shoelaces out, and then we had a truce where he put his shoelaces back. He poked at mine, wondered at their triple-knot knots and didn’t pull Bernice’s shoelaces.
That’s amazing. No one pulls Bernice’s shoelaces.
Everyone is probably too frightened to do so.
Then we started ACSD again, and then talked nonsense, until we realized that the time was about 4 plus and we had just wasted 2 hours doing nothing.
We decided to call Elbert out of his DoA daze, and just watched them for a while. When we came, Ryan D was trashing Elbert and when we left a few minutes later, Elbert came out, claiming that he had trashed Ryan D 25-24 or something like that, either that or a 24-21.
Doesn’t matter; we left Ryan D alone, who was probably still in the X-Square, concentrating his powers and plotting his next face off with Elbert who went around proclaiming that he pwnzed Ryan D.
We then played Bridge. Learnt a little of it during the cycling trip but was still a noob, how does one bid for No Trumps? Ryan D had come out with Elbert for a while and then went back…
Errr…
I can’t really remember here now because I know he was there with us for some time, he was behind CT, who was sitting opposite me, listening to his discman. He also disappeared for a while, and then came back… and stuff.
Can’t remember much already.
Thing is we played Bridge, where I had no agenda except getting through the game without getting pwnzed. Played stupidly, didn’t put out the cards I should, forgot bids (which is suicidal) and went for ‘Overkill’ as quoted by Elbert.
Chuntsen threw some piece of paper at me and I threw it back, and then we started Abuse Elbert’s Shoelaces Day, which were also nice and sport shoe like, thick and long. Bernice and I pulled his shoelaces out again, until he was totally freaking out and then we gave up on him, focusing more on the game while Ryan D appeared and disappeared at intervals.
Elbert couldn’t get my name right.
It’s Nellyn! Not Nelly! Or whatever sick twisted evil names you think of.
‘I thought everyone calls you Nelly.’
‘No only you.’
‘Oh.’
Ah yes. Adeline’s on the phone now, and I’m sick with a runny nose and a splitting headache and I can only move my fingers properly… my limbs can’t move waaaaaaa.
Yes now we continue.
So then we were like thinking, ‘cause I needed to buy flowers for Gerard and Bernice also felt that she should have bought him some flowers so we both decided to go to PS and look for flowers. Elbert, Chuntsen and Ryan D were talking about buying a bra for someone, I just don’t know who, it’s probably a guy anyway, yes and so they were looking for a bra.
Went to Marks and Spencers, the cheapest bras there were like $45 and they weren’t even padded and frilly enough. The guys saw us heading for the bra section to look for a bra for the birthday guy and backed off as a whole group, refusing to come near the bra section. They wandered around the toiletries section; looking for some perfumed stuff which made me sneeze, hate perfume and such… bah. And Stupid M and S.
Then Bernice and I then went to this lingerie shop called Ero. We found a $9.90 bra! The guys were outside, refusing to enter again, and Elbert refused to buy the bra! Awww!
We continued looking for a place to buy flowers and then on inspiration, went to Carrefour!
While walking towards Carrefour, Elbert, being Elbert was taunting Ryan D on the fact that he trashed Ryan D. Bernice and I were looking on and going ‘Awww’ about how they couldn’t get their hands off each other and such. Spent a few futile minutes looking for a florist but failed so decided on Carrefour.
Bernice was talking about losing the guys as they were so irritating and such and how we couldn’t stand their lovey-dovey ness as they tried to murder each other’s guts out… so we went to Carrefour and split up to look for flowers.
‘Shit!’
It was very amusing, to disappear and finally find some peace again without all the guys arguing behind us, Thank God, and looked for flowers in peace. Went to the basement as I couldn’t find the flowers on the first level, then asked around and found out that flowers were found in the first level and then went up again, saw Bernice and we brought the flowers and the guys were STILL lost even though we passed them several times grinning madly at them.
The guys gave up and went outside to wait for us as we brought the flowers.
Hahaha…
Bernice is a very violent girl. She slapped Elbert God knows how many times on his neck/cheek/anywhere on his autonomy she could get her hands on. Shall learn from you Bernice! Yay!
We then went to City Hall MRT where we met Allison, Gerard’s mom, Isaac, Xinrui who shot up, Nivek, Myst, QX, Karmen, and more people who I don’t know their names. Yes.
Allison tried to guess my name.
‘I know I know who you are… you’re umm…’
‘Nelly! Nelly!’
‘No it’s Nellyn…’
‘You’re Nellyn!’
She told me later that she thought I was a Christie. I look like a Christie or a Christine?
They also played five stones on Chuntsen’s big hands.
‘You keep digging your nails into my hands!’
‘The floor’s not supposed to complain you know.’
Allison had heels. She grew taller but still not tall enough. She saw the flowers we got Gerard and was shocked because she had forgotten to get flowers for him. We then went to Raffles City and had BK for dinner. Well, some had BK, others went to Subway.
By the time everyone was done with dinner, most of the girls had flowers already, having bought them from some nearby super-ex florist. Hahaha
Then the whole lot of us trouped off to VCH.
We were basically this very loose big group. Having not much of a clue where VCH is, we decided to follow this bunch of girls in front of us. Elbert was singing his Mountbatten High School song in Chinese, and he was holding up Bernice’s daisies in his hands like some baton. I can’t really remember the words but in English, it roughly translates to:
‘We are students from Mountbatten High; we know how to brush our hair, wear our school uniform correctly and keep our nails clean…’
I think it’s something like that. Karmen was talking about how DHS’ school song and TaoNan’s school song were uber-lame and how MGS’ school song sounded like a National Day Song.
Bernice had chuffed in her daisies into Chuntsen’s bag. Elbert took them out and waved them about while singing his Mountbatten High school song.
We reached the place and saw a huge amount of people milling about the entrance. Nivek gave us our tickets and we trouped up the stairs, actually we thundered, and disappeared into the Main Hall.
Part 2:
We were at the second floor where we could get this really nice view of everything, ie Gerard.
Walking around in the semi-darkness, hell no, bright lights, doesn’t do well for your psychomotor. I hate my legs hahaha I fell down at the second floor; I missed a stupid step and crumpled on the ground! This is so déjà vu, like during some church’s musical where I also crumpled down the stairs in bright light! Hahahahah I am such a loser.
Everyone panicked for a while y’know…
…
I am doing Geography essay now. This just came out of my twisted mind.
‘Part of the plan to encourage more children, the Five-Day week was implemented in 2005, for families to have more time to bond and for more couples to copulate!! Wa ahahahha!!!!! Working singles now had no excuse for working so damned hard and better go out and make friends or else.’
Digression!
This is six pages long! Congratulate me! I am mad!
Now for a nice earned break from my Geography essay. The concert was rather nice. There were plenty of songs I had no idea existed, and most in which I just hummed along and were easily forgettable.
There were three columns of people on the second floor. I was sitting at the first column, from the stage’s point of view, not that the stage has a point of view anyway, being hello, a stage… but! Whatever, so yes, sitting at the first column. I was right at the front with Myst and QX, who invariably had surround sound when he sat in between Myst and some other RI guy who was kind of like Myst, ie: knows his songs well, know who and what I am without me knowing who and what the hell he is.
I say, being Gerard’s girlfriends has several perks. You have complete strangers who go up to you and say, ‘Hey! You’re Gerard’s girlfriend!’ or at the entire end of the spectrum, complete idiots like Elbert who say, ‘Hey, did you know Nellyn is Gerard’s girlfriend?’ after meeting me at least twice, once during ets’ birthday chalet bash and Saturday, ie, today, ie, that day, and having the knowledge told to you during the birthday bash LAST YEAR and it finally registering in your head THIS YEAR.
Elbert is a complete genius who rubs out the line to stupidity.
Am I being too vicious here? Hell yes.
Anyway, the concert as I said was pretty nice. Sitting there was nice. Listening to the RI/RJC choir was nice- RJC choirgirls’ uniform is awful! - And seeing Gerard who did something funny to his hair is also nice.
Gerard said he couldn’t see me. So sad. Hahah. Anyway, he said he could see Allison who was waving madly at him. I smsed him that Myst and I were the only two people who placed flowers in front of them. He still couldn’t see us. Waaaaa….
Okay the concert was basically really really nice and everything but as with all Raffles stuff, they ended it with their… well what do you know, their school song!
The moment the song came on, the second floor just exploded with standing people. Myst and I were almost the only two people in our entire column that didn’t stand up to sing the Raffles school song. QX stood up while snapping away at his camera.
There was this bunch of juniors behind us, especially this idiotic junior Raffles boy who DAOED me when I told him to shut up after screeching his head off at the songs, and then he sang so bloody loud and so bloody high that my eardrums nearly burst. WTH!
Elbert said later that when he tried to stand up, everyone else pushed him down.
But, from another point of view, to the heart of those most patriotic, the sight of almost the entire VCH, standing up to sing the school song must be one of the most heartwarming sights of all time.
But at least tone down on the bloody volume, you idiotic brat who sat behind me!
Part 3:
After the gig, Allison was screaming her heart out, ‘GERARD!!!’ and stuff like that, hoping to get his attention. The entire choir then proceeded to walk off the stage. Allison then said to me, ‘Find him!’ I was like ‘What the hell?’ and then decided to just heck it and look for him.
I then just followed my instinct, ie, common sense, and found Gerard. Before that, saw Lian Sheng, mentally freaked out, cause I still remember him from China Trip, scary, evil looking guy, doooooooooooooommm reigns upon him!!!
Hahahahahaha
Saw Gerard. Gave him his flowers. He looks like he has a fan club from the way he received the flowers ^_^
Basically the end was when we went to supper. I was commending Bernice for being such a nice girl, waiting for her parents! :D
There was nothing much to say really, just that we went to BK, freaked people out there with our big group and then had fun. Then we all went home.
End! :D
Posted by norbert at 2/10/2005 10:13:00 PM
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Well, since now I am in a philosophical mood, I feel like crapping on about the show Charmed, since it’s ending its entire series thing next week. Technically it ended yesterday.
So, what made me watch Charmed? Or what made my entire family watch Charmed.
Anyway, the point is that, well… in the show, there is some similarity between us and the three Halliwell sisters. We understand what they go through, as siblings, though the witch bit adds a nice buzz to the either thing. At least they got their magic to rely on and thus invariably build up sisterly relations with each other.
I don’t think we’re that lucky though.
Prue is all older sibling material, where she heralded her siblings with an iron fist and went all out to kick butt. She found her siblings annoying but still stuck to them in the end, which ended up killing her anyway. The only one with real offensive powers, she’s the one who defends her family when the time comes.
Sherilyn’s like that too, she finds out annoying, at least she finds Joscelyn annoying, like Prue to Phoebe… but stuck with her in the end, and doesn’t mind the middle sister, ME! :D Still, she’s more fun than Prue who loves her job to bits and everything so… yes. If she was given a power, it’d be something along the lines of an offensive power too, maybe like a firestarter or something. She defends the younger ones and can be extremely protective when the time comes.
So then there’s Piper, the middle one, who found love first in the family and actually stuck to it. She’s the peacemaker between Prue and Phoebe and supports both sisters, like a pillar in the family and stuff. Snappy now and then, hahha but she’s a nice girl. :D Blessed with the power of freezing time, and then exploding it up into tiny pieces, she’s the one who gives birth to Wyatt who grows up to look like Chad Keroger, and gives birth to Christopher who died…. :’(
I don’t think I’m the pillar between the two. I’m the one that causes arguments, not that they need help in beginning anyway… hahahah but the point is that well, like the last episode said, nothing matters to Piper like her family and such, so Barnabas was able to use that to his advantage. Hah. I won’t say that family means all to me, oh no, it sure doesn’t… yet I think but whatever.
Pheobe, the wild the free one who doesn’t know where she wants to go in the future and ends up doing a column for a newspaper. The one who believed in the magic first- which landed all of them with the job of evil-butt dusters. Able to see the future, she steals the power to levitate from a Dragon demon and eventually gains the power of an empathy, one who can sense feelings.
Joscelyn? Sensitive? Easily led astray, (Samantha I will sue you within an inch of your life) she is the innocent one, the baby who looks scarily like everyone else in the family. Gawd we all look like carbon copies of each other. It’s damn scary.
Hahahaha depends most on family love, is very very demonstrative, and slightly inclined to the line of stupidity, which is unlike the line of insanity, which I am currently rubbing out, but still very emotional.
Yes, that should be about it… still, yes.
There’s this very nice phrase in French, which means ‘Go see if I’m not somewhere else.’ But I can’t remember it. All I can remember of it is: Va voir ailleurs si’jy suis or something.
But whatever. ^^
End!
Posted by norbert at 2/03/2005 09:57:00 PM