Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Author’s Note: Erm, signing in for the first time in about two weeks, I have discovered a new blog under my name. I am vaguely miffed and amused. Who says it’s Gerard?

After about two weeks of inactivity, my blog LIVES!
(Cue evil laughter, lightning, the works.)
This year has been rather okay so far, not much friends in the same JC as me, Loretta’s really nice and good, and she’s the one who helps me out, meets me in the morning where I am snoozing in the canteen, while Joyce drinks her milk happily.
I swear Joyce comes to school just to drink HL milk.
But she’s really funny and we talk about much things like our screwy timetable, wondering about homework in general and how much we really want milk at 6.30 in the morning.
Mostly, I’ve been moving around, technically not eating anything during break, reading Calvin and Hobbes in the library, sneaking drawings here and there, and basically not really studying.
Okay, I got study la.
Here and there, the mad Biology test which Mani got everyone hyped up for, then was a slight let-down and I was damned for not recognising the Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum, and thought it was vesicles.
Bleah, and she said Golgi body was not wrong and I considered it but rejected it as the body was long and thin and made of cisternae or whatever.
And to think I actually wrote out SER in pencil when considering what the heck that picture of many Blobs was.
I got 7.5/10. Wow! A-grade!
My poor friend from India was supposed to get 8 but because she didn’t put her MCQ answers in the brackets, she got 4 marks off and she got all the answers correct for the MCQ!
She was utterly depressed.
That’s one bit.
And our class is quite quiet, there’s like only 4 guys out of 23 people, which means everyone else is a girl. We don’t know each other well yet, but we still stick together when it comes to PE and the coaches grill us and make us run 8 rounds every time just to train for the Cross-Country marathon next, next week.
I am depressed with Chemistry. Actually stoichiometry isn’t that hard, because even though I’m not too sure of the formulae, I mysteriously get correct answers. Woot.
Well, most of the time that is. We’re learning how to do Redox reaction equations. Something about an acidic medium, then another medium, and then you add electrons, then you mash them together like simultaneous equations and voila, you get the whole equation thingy.
So yes, I am okay with that.
And I think our library’s a rather interesting place. They’ve got cool textbooks and even cooler books, and comics, which is ultimately cool.
The biology textbook is about one and a half times our Sec 4 Chem book and some of my friends are considering the notion of buying it. And I still haven’t gotten the deposit for my Graphic Calculator. One of my classmate has brought it.
It looks bulky.
Oh and my Math is like argh. Our teacher is Doreen Lau on testosterone and steroids. He is fast, he loves it when kids ask questions and jokes about the fact that his name is Tham and thus born to love Math, which is another spelling for his name.
Binomial Theorems are scary!
Now on to more happy stuff.
I’ve been getting DNAngel manga online, and XL I guarantee you, they are much, much, much better than the anime! There’s more Dark and Riku evidence for one, and there’s some really hilarious scenes like when Daisuke’s father comes home and Dark is currently residing in Daisuke’s physical space, Daisuke having retreated really far back and refusing to talk to anyone. Kosuke was really confused for a while, thinking that Dark was Daisuke and that Daisuke was technically fourteen and Dark didn’t look fourteen… Or the fact that Dark got to spend one day, most coincidentally White Day, as Daisuke in his body and pretty much wrecked havoc to the entire female population in school before going to Riku’s rescue, who was trying to get away from the scary Student President…
Yeah, and I’ve gotten slightly hooked on FMA, and Bleach and such…
And someone wants the DVDs from me…?
The songs are nice~!
Oh, today I had this rather long break, and I read this book called the Encyclopaedia on Mythology or something. Very cool. Recognised a lot of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, and wondered briefly about why Jupiter (the planet) is called Jupiter, not Zeus, when Zeus is a much cooler name, and then some.
And I discovered something. I knew that Achilles, the guy who was invulnerable with his weak left heel and everything, was really attached to this friend of his, Patroclus but I never, ever knew or suspected that Achilles was gay!
The book was very clear about it, because they mentioned something about being companion and another word which didn’t make me doubt his relationship… oh they used the word relationship.
I think I can guess why he’s gay.
See, Achilles had a very cool mum, called Thetis and she was some really pretty sea nymph which the gods were like arguing on who should marry her or something. In the end, she chose some mortal king and all the gods were like ‘Damn we lost to a human?’
So Thetis gave birth to Achilles and she heard of a prediction from Chiron, was it? I don’t know, can’t remember but anyway, she heard a prediction that her son would die in battle and was afraid for her son and thus, wanted to make him immortal. She dipped him in the underworld river Styx which flowed over his body, making it invulnerable except for where she held his left heel, the only bit of him that was still mortal and weak.
So then once, Odysseus, this really smart and witty king, wanted Achilles to help him in a battle. Thetis was scared of the prediction and hid her son Achilles amongst this bunch of girls, disguising him as a girl as well. Odysseus, being the smart fellow, tricked Achilles into revealing himself by pretending to be a merchant of wares. He displayed stuff like jewellery and gems and then had this section on swords and armour. When all the other women were admiring the gems and such, Achilles ran straight for the weaponry, forgetting that he was a girl and thus revealing himself.
Odysseus is smart, man.
Thus, I feel that that was what started Achilles’ funny behaviour with his… companion, Patroclus. The Greeks have very, very weird relationships. I mean, there’s this queen who had an affair with a bull! I ask you.
And there was something about Hermaphrodite, who is some goddess’s son… Oh some nymph fell for Hermaphrodite, who’s this really pretty boy and while he was bathing, she was there watching him (pervert) and wished that she could be with him forever and erm the gods granted her wish and she was together with him…physically.
Or Artemis, who’s this virgin goddess who runs and hunts and plays and hates hunters who kill stags, her sacred animal and once cursed this hunter who saw her bathing, changing him into a stag and letting him get torn apart by his own hounds.
They are very free, and very scary.
And Zeus is this really sick playboy. He goes after women; I understand that- he actually had a reason for going after Heracles’ mum (Hercules’ mum) which was to find a mortal hero who could beat the giants. And then he just had to go after this pretty boy (again) called Ganymede.
Who became his cupbearer.
As if Hebe wasn’t enough already.
Anyone lost yet?
I am currently very high on DNAngel manga, FMA ending song, and erm… fanfiction in general. Go me!

Posted by norbert at 1/24/2006 11:10:00 PM

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Ah it’s the end of the year and I haven’t done my Hong Kong post yet! Ah well. I guess I’ll shove it into the folder known as ‘The Missing Blog Posts’ and laugh evilly when people ask me for it…
Well but I guess this year deserves a sort of post… for reflections and what not. Besides, everyone seems to be demanding one.
Sheesh. Demanding people… you ask too much!
And I’ve still got stories to write! Baaah
Well, starting off, it’s the end of my Secondary Life for me and on to JC from now on…
Many things have been said and done, and there have been much events to which we have been witnesses to and ummm…
Okay I can’t end it very philosophically and wonderfully. Ah haha
So… it has been a great year hasn’t it?
All the times we had together, all the times we laughed and all the times we tried to mug together… it’s been all very wonderful isn’t it?
I will miss all of you; Elizabeth, Xian Ling, Adeline, and Vanessa… everyone else from out class…
This year has been a fast one isn’t it… we can’t remember anything other than studying, the textbook, classrooms, Adeline freaking, XL’s lost alphabets, Liew’s manga madness and my insanity with orange and a Pear.
Today is umm the second day of Orientation. I am slow.
Anyway, I have to add this small point in.
Today my mom cooked a proded soup for us, some soup of traditional Chinese herbs called ‘Si Shen’ or something, Four Gods. So she cooked it for three hours, and switched off the fire and went to work.
Then my younger sister did something even more proded: she came home, glanced at the soup, thought it was last night’s soup and poured it down the drain.
Woot!
Even better, she was the one who did the dishes last night!
Then when I called back using my dad’s phone at aroundish seven, she still had the gall to say that there wasn’t much stuff to cook soup with. Wow. She is teh amazing.
Going to school is weird now, without you all. Going to school with boys in it feels distinctively wrong.
I shall have to mention that my few friends are girls.
And when I bob happily to Do As Infinity’s Shinjitsu No Uta today while waiting, it suddenly dawned onto my what people would see as they walked past me: a near seventeen year old girl acting like a little child.
That sort-of made me stop bobbing my head and smiling aimlessly.
And that hurt.
I miss Liew. I miss XL. I don’t really miss Adeline as she’s probably very happy where she is now.
Hee. I remember on the last day of O Levels, we all gathered at the library to study Chem together for the last time. Then Liew surprised us with her little gifts, which were very very cute… and we talked more than we actually studied.
I don’t really care about that now. I’m so sad that it’s lost. We will never be the same again.
Also, that day when we went bowling, where we said the longest goodbye we had ever said to each other. Even though we were only going to two different lines, it still felt like another universe. Another world. And it was sad, and painful…
I nearly cried then.
Then on New Year’s Day when I was sms-ing Liew New Year wishes, just seeing her smses made me cry. Again.
And I have strangely been signed up for KI! A mystery indeed!
Shocking business. I hope I don’t get in. I don’t know; there’s this side that says: Go man, woot! Obviously my more adventurous and less-caring about my grades side, and there’s another that says: Woot you wanna die?
Ooh, Channel 5’s showing PotC soon!

Sunset on the mountain
Come out, come out Momiji
Frogs and lizards
Say hello~
Koi and herring roe
Look like a horse

I was erm watching Fruits Basket. Thus the poem thing.
I am depressed. It’s weird to go to school alone, and wait until some person from another school who knows me erm, randomly, comes and talks to me.
Waaah.
Liew! See you on Saturday for CCA fair!

Posted by norbert at 1/04/2006 10:05:00 PM