so tmr's the beginning. i've shaven my head in commitment to the government as monks do in commitment to the temple. O Holy Mighty Meandeaf, i am your humble servant.

anyway thanks to dar ws jem n mloclam for having a 'last meal' with me. thx jem for introing to us the parkview sq! i think i'll hardly forget how tt place looks like :D

relief teaching stint was quite an experience no doubt... but no matter how much teachers think of students in that light (u know what kinda light), humans are humans, and we are all pretty much the same... as i observed the teachers' meeting from the back of the AVA room.

One, two, three... twelve. I'll be out in twelve.
if there's anything, i'd be happy to return ur sms from under my blanket in the dark in the middle of the night. Cya ppl!

this is an example of what i did recently when i was bored to the bone. i took a 4B pencil, a piece of paper, closed my eyes n drew a random line:


then i opened my eyes, thought abt it for awhile, then added in the rest of the pencilwork.


now dont get the wrong idea. thats neither 'the girl of my dreams' nor a portrait of anyone i have a crush on, cuz that girl is physically and logically impossible (im not talking abt her lack of feet- laziness on my part) if u happen to realize... just a figment of imagination, a result of my underactive left brain n overactive right brain. maybe i'll do more of these 'one-liner' series... if my activity level drops too far down again.

went to play badminton/table tennis with siblings today. surprising how many ppl r into sports on sunday... it was fun, no doubt. haha

school's also getting abit sian... perhaps teaching's not really my cuppa tea. though i know i may have gotten the wrong impression of the occupation... but its hard to disregard the first impression. the uncertainty in the mornings, my semi-validity in the classroom (or nursery?), the trepidation in school, all of it la. to tell the truth, i've never been in a better mood for enlistment... actually im quite looking forward to friday... at least it'll take my mind off nothing. it'll give me some engagement of my senses. at least it'll give me back my sense of orientation.

wow. i really didnt believe there was an opposite of elitism, but now i'm a convert. i sure as hell believe in that now cuz i happened to swap classes with another relief teacher n ended up standing in a PARTICULAR sec2 normal technical class.

some eye-opener i got... its really hell man. they're the worst lot seriously. exactly like those monkeys' behaviour in the zoo, just that... no wait, there's no bloody difference. freaking ITE-bound students... no brains in the first place, still wanna throw away their character. IF u dont want to change ur attitude like many others have done, for god's n society's sake just remain in ur ugly, stupid condemned world of ur own n dont call for help. you'd be better off in the casket. actually they wouldn't even be reading this. they're most probably out smoking/ gangfighting somewhere.

i think it'll be interesting if schs like this had exchange programme with a grp of RI n RG students (stereotyped, but u get my drift). they'd be wondering what kind of mudhole they fell into. ha, ha. but undeniably true.

maybe singapore shud bring army forward. its already a consensus tt sec2 is the beginning of nonconformist-tendencies. then after 2 yrs they'll b better 16 yr olds. then continue studying for O levels. then 'A's. shouldn't tt b the better way... like an experiment needs proper conditions for success. whats the use of bombarding those ppl with information when they dont digest it? waste of time, manpower, resources... whatever.
but then thinking back, VS was a military camp that came with lessons. i rmb complaining abt this back then... but now i thank god for that.

ok. i'm done ventilating. argh.

what a crappy day in school. there's seriously something- er- different -about gv. i heard its song cuz today's tuesday. the song was really thought-provoking. as i listened images floated into my mind... a purple creature... yellow front, with little red hearts all over...

then, curriculum time. i went into this sec1 class n did my usual stuff. then sometime in between one of the boys started taking out his umbrella n playing with it at his table. after a while he opened it n shortened the handle, sticked it down his uniform at the back n started crowing, "i'm a mushroom!"

talk about idiosyncratic sec1s.

n its not like the class was perfectly still n quiet n the boy acted out of the blue or sth. Chaos-meter already quite high yet they all stopped to enjoy the show... THEN he closed his eyes n started to perform an impromptu pantomime abt a subservient zombie n an exotic meal of pizza. i was sitting there -_-"ing n saying to myself heng its not upper sec. but for his age his imagination quite gd.

i rmb he mimed putting a dash of some sauce on the "pizza", then putting it down, doing a whole lot of other random shit, then suddenly picking up the "sauce" bottle frm the exact same spot on the table where he put it down a moment ago. like he pictured the whole thing in his minds eye.

and so just by writing a single word on the board, i substantially taught the class the true meaning of it: "Retarded"

making sec 4 n 5s understand binomial theorem i think i can handle.
explaining indices n surds to sec3s, still okok lah.
talking abt number lines n integers with crazy sec1s... whoa. now that needs some real good explanation skills man.

i wonder. would anyone who'd seen one before recognize the other?



HAHA the wonder of facades... i dont think anyone would ever believe that societal antiphase juvenile delinquent standing next to in the mrt would be a relief 'cher. i just hope no gv student happens to see this :

and i realized the OM/dm of gvss is not at all the person he is when dealing with students... we were having lunch recently then he came n sat with us n joked n crapped n we ended up laughing until dunno wad time. mayb as alicia said... all DMs r actually like this. looking back at mr maran n mr chia in vs... possibly.
and i also realize there's one more thing abt working in the sch's staff room. hardly any office politics like some other- er- office. frm what i see at best the teachers r all like friends n at worst mayb just aloofness/ indifference... i dunno if my 6/6 could b failing me but it seems liddat.

we sent Keun Ho off to korea last night... hong keun ho, fellow korean victorian 1C2C3B4BAEP-ian! some rhymes... gd luck in ur future endeavours, remember to come back for holiday, and don't ever forget Victoria School yea! nil sine labore :)

2 more weeks for me. eugenen wm's in already hahaha gd luck n hope yall have a spanking gd time in There-with-a-capital-T!
i really hope army wont change our characters for the worse.. ive heard of many coming out a total barbarian due to the inside environment...

i can't wait for NS to end n uni to come.
i can definitely wait for NS to come n uni to end.

went to Chen Fu Ji at suntec for dinner yest... the food there is damn good yummy delicious sumptuous wadever. simply exquisite. just that the ppl r the absolutely china kind. they speak only chinese, n pronounce egg as eh-gu. then saw alot alot of vj ppl there i think they got some orientation thing... this time there's no mistaking cuz they were wearing their pe shirt. some tj ppl were also there in sch u n shirts.

anw, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!

omg... i survived the first day. thank god i didn't get into any kinda soup... but somehow now its a totally different perspective, literally or not. i could just picture my sec-self down there, wondering why a stupid teacher would find it so noisy even when we were talking under our breaths. now i realize why... its cuz of the summation of murmurs.

n somehow i felt so grown up standing there even though im only 18 (only?!) , n guess what, it sucks. i'd pay double what i earned for standing there just to move the clockhands backwards n swap places with them and become a sec sch student all over again.

but of course not greenview. VS.

oh my god. 2 more months and i'm gonna be freakin' 19. whenever did time speed up??

"Like a handless clock with numbers
an infinite of time
no not the forever found
only in the mind
forever always seems
to be around when things begin
but forever never seems
to be around when things end."

i realized the orientation grp i saw wasn't vj its mj. cuz the orientation shirt was white n black with the big words Vincintoire or sth liddat then the mjc small small somewhere within the mess. n i think only mj has this roaming activity for their orientation.

in any case. went to the zoo on sat! n i cant believe each of us 5 only paid 3bucks to get in... cuz thx to jemima i think her sis got some special card to admit 4 ppl. haha totally reminiscence cuz the last time i went was wad, pri sch. abit the sad i know but nvm updated alr my life!


the entrance.

went to kfc for lunch first then went in. saw all the animals i'd willingly keep as pets... lions tigers goats... n kangaroos HAHAh some lola... but all the while i was imagining these animals as domesticated animals. i think damn cool la ppl always keep dogs cats n critters... for once someone shud have these animals.







monkeys are super interesting to watch... cuz u can see Man in them, only- er- unconditioned.
we watched an elephant show n a dog stunt show.
we trained our noses at the Children's World (izit?)
saw inuka the polar bear. mayb its a marvel just to see tt big bear in real life, but other than tt the only thing he does is walk to n fro.


appetizing huh... yum


someday i'll talk to giraffes face-to-face.


zebras r so polite


i spotted 4 unknown herbivorous species on my way to toilet... wonder where they come frm


lola! hahaha

actually we were damn late, the ranger kept chasing us out... so in the end we ended up taking crap photos with the mannequin kangaroo near the entrance


beastility and kangaroo


kangaroo and bestiality

hahaha after tt walked ard abit more then went out already.
we had a budget bday celebration for darren at j8 cartel... we all chiong one rodeo combo in abt 10-15 min. power la... then we high knee to the top floor to catch...


this show is superb. just going by the storyline and acting alone its brilliant enough to make me hate the appearance of the credits at the end. unlike dn1 it had more comical parts n the strategies (esp light's) were totally more elaborate n interesting... its like they can solve alot of simultaneous eqns simultaneously. n there were so many pseudo-ends. aaaaaaagrhrhargharh i want their brains!!

mayb tts wad everyone thinks. mass worship of a comic, a figment of someone's imagination. wise or unwise i dunno. but who gives a shit... its our nature to revel in fantasies. more if its singapore.

swam at the anchorage yest with jie. the bluddy pool so shallow the deepest only i think 1.4m... wth might as well play in a puddle... dunno how those ang mohs can bear it man. if only earth wasn't so big we'd b able to fly. logically.

watched this yest. i think its a hell of a good movie. gd plot (true story wadya expect) gd acting gd cinematography... visual, action-packed, intellectual, touching. all rolled into one damn gd movie. its abt the origin of the diamonds tt we see in shop windows... with the diamonds come bloodshed like we've never imagined n sorrow like we never experienced. a little more epic n its confirm a full five stars.

went to ikea just now w eugene ws jem to eat some balls... then i cant believe it. we actually spent abt 3 hrs in ikea admiring (yar, admiring) the model rooms n stuff... n of course abit of fooling ard. when i next renovate arh.. its ikea for me man. i think everyone also think liddat cuz the showrooms r really cool...

stuffed toys anyone? nt if they're stuffed like these yea.



Night At The Ikea. ok lame shit


jem trying to b a steve irwin. lucky got pillar to block off the ikea man's fov

life just before enlistment is totally nomadic. in a way im actually looking forward to uni... no, i can't wait for uni.

oh yes i finally found the lyrics to VBC's version of canon in d. totally angelic man.

Benedictus, Benedictus
qui venit in nomine Benedictus
In nomine
Domini

Benedictus, Benedictus
qui venit in nomine Benedictus
In nomine
Domini

Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabbaoth
Pleni sunt coeli et terra Gloria
Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabbaoth
Pleni sunt coeli gloria

its actually a prayer. i should have guessed.

tues. eugene dar yz ws came to do ms tan's farewell gift... turned out ok in the end. hope ms tan actually takes some time out to do it... n mayb decipher the parchment as well hahaha some extras... always nice to have some mystery

wed. sent ms tan off... nt bad she did well to hold back her eyes' salt water. maybe she practised alot of times at home. wonder when she'll b back in sg for holiday... then we all except rt n des went to katong. played pool w dar yz n mloclam for close to 5 hrs. quite song sia... learnt a few tricks haha... the rest went for a 5-hr DOTA session.
i think its the atmosphere at katong. gave me a sore throat immediately... but i went home n gulped down 2 bottles of water n some water chestnut+sugarcane then now im ok! but then i went to toilet alot also.

today went to the back to eat lunch with mum... then got one big OG (abt 20-30) frm vj were near the prata stall cheering n shouting... wah lao, i want to jump down! ah!

later gonna meet up with 4Bppl at tm... actually, i also dunno what we're doing there.

ok first thing HAPPY BIRTHDAY VIRGINITY! some stylomilopotatobirthday date hahaha

yesterday.
stupid bus no 10 ARGH! go die la SBS i hope u see this. wads with the announcement abt 'never letting ppl wait more than- wait is it 5 min or 10 min or 20 min? even if its half an hr, i waited a freakin 45 minutes for 1 bloody number 10!! i at the bus stop damn pissed n sian until i even counted other buses. three 2s n three 9s passed and at least two 10s passed the other side, yet no number 10 for me. crap la SBS stop bluffing la. still got room- no, a whole hotel for improvement...

anw 16 01ers became settlers again yesterday... drinking n playing games. haha pity the others couldn't come... but the NS ppl came n totally made yesterdays theme 'BMT' with their neverending story... or complaints? then went to parkway for some bk n arcade fun... cant believe i was technical enough to whack a 915 on the hammer thing hahhaa n some of them sat this simulator thing- visually n physically engaging enough for 3bucks

we met ms tan after tt, then we all sat down in mccafe n drank n talked... theres no longer any 'A's to make that slacking! slacking is now just the norm... must enjoy it while i can. n the waitress there abit the ocnisnyvrenytnobml dunno how to say. some goosebumps... mayb she happen to work as telemarketeer before. n the mccafe drink i might as well buy frm mcsupermarket.

well the nxt time s01 meets up again's gonna b ard june when ms tan comes back n the guys get back frm their botak session.

looking thru my folders.

The Persistence of Memory.
ah.


i rmb i drew this for a 10-sketch series assignment in sec2... when i was stressed out


n finally... i miss this place. not my photo though

zipadeedooda zipadeeay,
my oh my what a wonderful day :)

no, 2006!