Friday, July 13, 2007

My post starts on the next line. Hahaha.
Really. It hasn’t been THAT long since I last blogged. Siti, you’re exaggerating. There’s absolutely no need for you to yell across the computer room in Lit class to tell me to update my blog. Like seriously.
Anyway, after the initial Bleach craze/insanity/randomness, I’ve decided to stop again for now. I’ve stopped at episode 109. I don’t feel like continuing because it’s the beginning of another arc which hasn’t been completed yet and I only have watched arcs that are completed. Well. Mostly completed. Thing is, I’ve stopped again and I know a lot of Bleach fans are going to kick me really hard.
‘Nellyn! You’ve been watching Bleach for like what, 3 years?! Why are you still slower than people who started like, last year?!’
Ah well. Anyway…
That’s just one thing. Bleah.
My results came back and they aren’t really that pretty la. At least I failed like only Math, which is a constant. Literature is like, not enough time to write and wasn’t really very organised so the teacher sub-passed me. Bah.
According to Aggie however, apparently something I wrote in my GP paper was like broadcasted to the entire school today during lectures. I laugh in delight.
It’s the ‘I don’t know. Maybe they’re being modest?’ thing. Maybe the teachers were really amused.
Also! Siti showed us a friend’s friend’s blog. That person had also taken the CTs and had come up with very amusing answers for questions that he/she didn’t know the answers for in the Chemistry paper.
There was this question where they had to calculate the concentration of Clˉ ions from this bunch of reactions. So the answer was worth 3 marks.
‘Take a ninja turtle and drop it into the solution and hope that the powerpuff girls will rescue him after he has finished counting the Clˉ ions in the solution. Then we torture the powerpuff girls for the answer.’
That’s the gist of what my friend’s friend’s friend wrote. Also in his paper, he had to calculate something to do with anodes and didn’t know how to do it, so he just wrote the word ‘SPONGEBOB!’ in the space provided and left it as that. The teacher wrote the word ‘crazy!’ in red beside it.
So yes, this is what desperate students or students with too much time in their hands do during their papers. Apparently someone in our level did really badly for Math so that he could get the ‘Good Progress Award’ at the end of the year. Like… excuse me.
I think exams bring out the best and the worst in people.
This week we have been terribly random. Because of someone being terribly random in class, we’ve been going around with food names. I am now apparently, a really big Chocolate Pocky stick. Ummm.
This week, I also watched one episode of the documentary, Life at the Undergrowth. It’s really quite a good documentary, especially after you get over the gross and disgusting bits. It’s a series about bugs in general. This week they had done the bugs taking to the air, which is pretty cool and nice to watch. Sir David Attenborough narrated the series, with this week’s episode covering mayflies, dragonflies, damselflies, flies, butterflies, moths, beetles, bumble bees, hover flies and finally, cicadas.
I shall forever remember this line which he had said:
‘Flies are excellent fliers.’
But really, watching the episode has been an enlightening and vastly amusing experience. He had this segment on the Titan beetle, which is the largest beetle in the world, where they were filming the beetle crawling on the ground before he just walked over, talking and describing and grabbed the beetle with his bare hand. It was like larger than his palm.
And he was just grasping it and talking at the same time.
I feel in awe of that guy.
But you’ve got to admit, their filming is good. They did a bit on mayflies in the beginning and I was all appreciating how the flies would float like above the surface of the water when a fish just jumped up and ate one.
And damselflies are really very pretty creatures, with their beautiful wings that really dazzle.
And his segment on the bumblebee was priceless, he was saying how difficult it was for them to take to the air as they were so big and all and had shown some scenes where the bumblebee was just taking off and it was just too funny how they did it in slow motion and we could actually feel the bee’s grunts of effort in lifting itself up into the air.
He also tricked a male cicada into believing that he was a female cicada by mimicking the sounds female cicadas make. The male was really fooled by his finger snapping and flew onto him.
But truly, aside from the sheer humour and fun of the show, it’s really very informative. Next week they’re doing spiders! It’s really very nice. One should go and watch it.
And today I watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, because our school organised it with some random cinema. The film is okay; one would probably go and see it if one has the time but it’s not really a must to catch the film. It’s okay if you miss it though.
And I saw the Simpsons Movie advertisement. Now I know where ‘Spider pig’ comes from.
Hence I still feel that the 3rd movie is the best, filmed by the Alphonse person – the Mexican guy.
Daniel Radcliffe’s hair looked the best there and the director really went all out with the film and the effects. I had liked how he had focused on using the Whomping Willow to depict the passing of the seasons and his little transition bits like how Hedwig’s flight brought along winter with it.
In this one Daniel Radcliffe’s hair just looks sad. It looks like some sad crew cut. At least Tom Felton looks better now. Directing was alright, there was no serious loss in plot or whatever, though there was absolutely no mention of Quidditch in this film. It was still quite alright, though a bit jerky here and there. Tonks was quite good, I liked how they did her.
Though there were some priceless lines in the film, like ‘Sorry Professor. But I must not tell lies.’ One has to see it to understand the context of the film though.
Gary Oldman is a wonderful Sirius. He looked better here. It was really nice to hear him speak; he’s got a nice voice to hear. Especially when he drawled to Malfoy: ‘Get your hands off my godson.’
And Dolores Umbridge was a steal. Her kittens were priceless kittens with their annoying meowing and gambolling around in her office. Her smile was so sinister and creepy – her voice was excellent, with the high clear girlish voice, and the pinkness of her character totally brought out. She is one creepy woman.
It’s not really that bad la. Go and watch it if you want to. I’m cool with watching it again, I want to see some parts better and remember more things.

And this is really random. Khoped from Gerard's blog who khoped it from his friend's blog. It's like a check on which MRT stations you've been to before. Quite interesting. Hahaha. Crosses based on you actually taking the MRT there or back.

East-West
[X] Changi Airport - Going overseas, sending people off, eating food.
[X] Expo - a random exhibition.
[X] Pasir Ris - mudmeet outing. i get lost here.
[X] Tampines - mall =D
[ ] Simei -
[X] Tanah Merah - i got lost here before too for class outing.
[ ] Bedok -
[X] Kembangan - jocelyn's house :D
[X] Eunos - i oversleep on the bus and end up here.
[X] Paya Lebar - i live here. period.
[X] Aljunied - Joee's house
[X] Kallang - odac kayaking
[X] Lavender - IC, passport, ASEAN scholar orientation/army shop
[X] Bugis - bugis junction, yoga
[X] City Hall - esplanade, suntec, marina square
[X] Raffles Place - once to avoid the crowd. found a different crowd.
[X] Tanjong Pagar - oversleep on 70 and you end up here.
[X] Outram Park - ASEAN scholar orientation, getting home from NEL
[ ] Tiong Bahru -
[ ] Redhill -
[ ] Queenstown -
[ ] Commonwealth -
[ ] Buona Vista -
[ ] Dover -
[X] Clementi - nus, nus, nus, desmond's house.
[X] Jurong East - ice skating.
[ ] Chinese Garden -
[ ] Lakeside -
[X] Boon Lay - Pre u seminar.

North-South
[ ] Bukit Batok -
[X] Bukit Gombak - aggie's house
[X] Choa Chu Kang - uncle's house
[ ] Yew Tee -
[ ] Kranji -
[ ] Marsiling -
[ ] Woodlands -
[ ] Admiralty -
[ ] Sembawang -
[ ] Yishun -
[X] Khatib - math tuition
[X] Yio Chu Kang - school D=
[X] Ang Mo Kio - hub!
[X] Bishan - J8. hahaha movies
[ ] Braddell - (was always fascinated by the door switch though)
[X] Toa Payoh - gerard's house
[X] Novena - aunt's house, tts hospital, skin care centre
[ ] Newton -
[X] Orchard - taka, lucky plaza, wisma, scott's, paragon... umm.
[X] Somerset - more shopping places. usually for walking around.
[X] Dhoby Ghaut - mud meets, plaza sing
[X] Marina Bay - class outing(s)

North-East
[X] Harbourfront - class outing (twice)
[X] Chinatown - ASEAN scholar orientation
[ ] Clarke Quay -
[X] Little India - ASEAN scholar orientation (nearly died. dead tired)
[ ] Farrer Park -
[ ] Boon Keng-
[ ] Potong Pasir -
[X] Serangoon - church, yihui's house, winnie's house
[X] Kovan - heartland mall
[ ] Hougang -
[ ] Buangkok -
[X] Sengkang - library. chuntsen's house
[X] Punggol - punggol sea sports thing. volunteer work

Conclusion: more of an eastern, central person, rather than a northern western person. huh.

Posted by norbert at 7/13/2007 10:14:00 PM