Review

Why am I here again? I have stuff that is too long to share on facebook. I just finished 俺妹. First of all, I thank the producers for making the public turn their heads when the characters cause a commotion. Not a lot of anime actually have this kind of moving background. For a moment I thought that 俺妹 also beared the theme of incest, as there was this form of vaguely shown bro-con, but since nothing "weird" happened, I shan't criticise it too much on this aspect. I was also rather surprised that some of the common techniques in romantic media actually work pretty well. I was being touched while knowing that it was way too exaggerated at the same time. Such things aren't even likely to happen in real life. This was also a deviation from the original theme of otaku-ness. I do like the anime on the whole, and I am rotting at home while waiting for the next season.

Another flaming post

Now I shall disclose another fact about myself. I suffer from a inferiority complex. So I came back again to flame the same school that made the mistake on the previous chem paper.

OK, notice the propanoic acid part. Then count the number of carbons. Damn fail right? And there's another problem to this question. It assumes that by stating adding con. sulfuric acid, we should know that it's a dehydrating reaction. But the problem here is, the compound has both a carboxylic acid group and an alcohol group. Hence, the first thing that I thought about was that it'll form an ester by itself (or a more complicated carboxylic acid since it has the higher priority in naming). There's also another possibility that this thing goes through condensation polymerisation and forms a macromolecule. :O Hence, I never understood why this is actually regarded as a more challenging question that can come out for higher paper. My chem teacher went, "Why you question (name of school) so much?", when I first showed some doubts about how weird some questions were. However, she gave in by saying "Aiya (name of school) la (name of school) la", when I showed her this question. She should take some stuff from the JC and let us try.

My record of today's laughter

Today, we were going through the 2008 EOY paper in bio class, and one question was about protection of the foetus in the mother's uterus. We has to name a part and describe its function.

Teacher: Can anyone name 1 part?
Someone (I can't rmb): Mucus Plug
Teacher: What's its function? (and 曾死鸡 had to answer)
曾死鸡: To protect the foetus from bacteria.
Teacher: From?
曾死鸡: External environment
Teacher: You don't know the female anatomy?!!

We were also learning new vocabulary and aquiring new information during IHC, which was typical, but I decided to write it here today. Of course, by request of the teacher, I don't think I can write explicitly here, but to give a rough idea, we were talking about ________.

(To fill in the blank, you've got to think of one word that fits this scenario. You are watching anime at home. There's a girl in the anime. A strong gust of wind blows past, but the girl remains stationary.)

OK, but that word isn't the new vocabulary. It's more about some special occasions during such occasions, when there is an extra line in the scene. The line is somewhere such that it's easily noticed, and a two-word noun describes the blend of this extra line with its surroundings. Half the class actually didn't know, while I learnt it from Scary Movie (can't rmb which series) when I watched it in 北京.

Stupid Mistake

This is seriously a stupid mistake, and I can't believe that the EOY paper of this school actually got printed out like this. But to thank them for giving us the paper, this should just be some insider joke that's not disclosed to the public.

Study Source A

Source A: A screenshot of a school EOY paper

Qns 1a: Why is there a white patch?

Study Source B

Source B: Another screenshot of the same page

Study Source C

Source C: Now a ruler is added as a reference to the same screenshot

Qns 1b: Compare sources B and C. What are the sources trying to say?

Highest level answer:
1a) Source A has a white patch because it censors the school name. This can be seen in source B, where the school name is at the location of the white patch, which shows that the school name is censored in Source A. The purpose of the source is to show everyone what the EOY paper looked like, but at the same time, do not spoil the school's reputation. This is known because the setter of this question received the EOY paper from another school and feels very grateful to the school. Hence, he censors the bit.

1b) Sources B and C differ as Source B has no ruler whereas Source C has a ruler placed on it. This is clearly true as we do not find any trace of a ruler on Source B. This proves that it is impossible to have a ruler in source B, be it transparent, invisible or whatever forms of a ruler that does not block your vision. However, there is a distinct ruler on Source C. This proves the existence of the ruler in source C, and not because the setter of this question used illusionary effects or any form of magic trick. Source B and C differ in purpose. Source B shows the stupid mistake which is mentioned in the background information. However, some people may claim that this was due to scanning errors. Source C supports source B by having a ruler, this ruler traces the straightline down to the words below, some of which are covered by the ruler, showing that there are no scanning errors. Hence, sources B and C differ in purpose because source B shows the mistake and source C supports source B.

I hope everyone had fun reading this.

"Not entitled to foreigners"

I just saw how much I have to pay for my Japan trip today. It was $600 more than what locals had to pay. Well, that's not a lot more, althought relatively it is. However, I do wonder why there isn't any internal subsidy. Some malaysian scholar had to pay $5000 for his math camp at cambridge, and according to insider's information there was internal subsidy for locals, if any of them went. But I doubt so. I mean, they are the people that actually win stuff for the school, compared to msot of the school population, but just not entitled to the same stuff. Weird eh? Well, I think the school probably thinks that the boarding school fees are already a great investment on them. $600+ of school fees + $800 boarding school fees per month isn't a small sum. Then, it comes to people like PRs, the only thing I get is the $400 govt subsidy for school fees. I had to pay full sum for my OBS trip aka half Singapore propaganda. Well, personally I don't think that it's a great deal because I'm not the one paying, and this kinda subsidies only exist in Singapore. My cousin also paid full sum of 38000RMB for her trip to UK, (Nice scamming of foreigners' money) which was only 11 days long. Which was more ex. I think, compared to the one-month US math camp which my classmate went. So paying full sum is like no gain rather than a loss. Well, my mom's more worried about my safety, 'cos the recent Sino-Jap relationship is a bit screwed, but I think the situation would die down in 2 month's time. Even the USA's govt's efforts to raise the RMB isn't receiving a lot of attention now despite the authorities being very noisy.

Back to the point, I seriously don't get why the JC practises this kinda discrimination aganist foreigners. Maybe there is a lack of foreign teachers or sth. But I still thank the school for giving me this kinda opportunity, not everyone gets to pay this $1200 for a trip you know.

Joke

The joke of last tuesday was the epic inflation of Jap Prelim. I got +6 for my compo compared to my average score.

The joke of yesterday was Chan Wei drawing a curve for a linear law question.

The jokes of today was Dr. Tan insisting that the resistance of a variable resistor varies in a way in which he isn't certain of himself, and also Dr. Wang giving free marks for CSC to inflate our scores.

Personally I think that school shouldn't be such a joke. Things should be done properly. I do not see how my additional knowledge was on the same level as all those others who copied from the passage. I also do not see why physics teachers insist that they are correct although they are sometimes wrong, especially in the context of setting a question that has a solution that contradicts the value given in the question. In other words, this shows a lack of ENGINEERING. Jun Wei uses this term, and so shall I. Well, I know that Dr. Wang is a very kind-hearted soul, otherwise he wouldn't be teacher of the year. As for others, they use the term "don't think so much" to cover up for their mistakes in the questions. Just like a question which I found in Prof. Xu's booklet for Year 4, which implied something contradictory.

School is fun because of some of these jokes though (I am sure we had a good laugh at CW after he drew the curve), but others are plain stupid and some are meant for you to screw the teacher and get yourself counter-screwed. And too much screwing screws up the content of my posts as well. I think it has been some time since the pitiful reader actually got to read some optimistic/interesting stuff.

Maybe I record down the jokes here more often to create more laughter. Let me think of another one, hmm... go see the last four words on 现代汉语词典 in the explanation of 手淫。

Wonder when I'll actually persuade myself to start mugging

Exams are nearing, and I shouldn't be thinking too much about it because I get more nervous if I do. For some reason I am actually somewhat worried about physics, that I can't hit 80%. Well I think there is always some random reason why I could not get so high for physics. There has to be this mugging component that gives the teacher a chance to penalise me. The worst is definitely biology. So pressurizing zzz. and so stressful. I took it because I wanted to waste less time slacking in school and maximise time usage. But it simply ended up giving me more stress because there are so many topics to study. It's probably time to let go of what I have, which is always a painful experience. However, it's sth that is inevitable because I have too many opportunities now = more responsibilities and more stress. I actually wonder how meaningful is getting a good MSG requirement, but probably it reflects greatly on one's personality, which deteremines one's fate. I've realised that adaptablility is not enough for a very long time now, and I need sth more, that can bring about change so that people don't have to suffer like me in the future, by that's another 10 more years!!!

Bad toilet experience

This morning I had a very bad stomachache. Very bad indeed. I was squeezing my anus shut on the bus all the way to JP just so that I didn't shit in my pants. Well, the point is, I realised that SG people required some toilet training. Yes, it was really that bad. I think none of the cubicals had a flushed toilet bowl, and you can see the solid brown remains of the person who went before you. But I had to clear my load no matter what, so I had to tolerate the shit and the used toilet paper, until I cleared off most of my load and discovered how to flush it away. Now, I feel much more grateful for the boarding school toilet to be so clean. Although there's someone that doesn't aim properly every morning, it is still tolerable to a great extent. It is also a lot better after the school decided to put soda lime into the urinals recently. Even the toilets in Beijing isn't so bad, with 17 million people sharing the limited toilets in the city area, I really can't seem to understand why the condition in SG toilets could actually be so bad. OK, back to the point, SG people needs toilet training, maybe they should put some sign that says “方便后冲水，文明一大步” or something of the sort to actually help train people for going to the toilet. I wonder why parents stop toilet-training their children after knowing that their children is 50% trained or something. Like when their children knows how to go to the toilet but can't aim properly yet, they don't really seem to care anymore. Random thought: If toilet training skills ever come out for 公函, I know I have a lot of content to write. LawL!

PS: I decided not to put a pic for this post because they are worse than Fanny's unglam photos

Joke

This is just some super sexist joke which someone said at Chem-O when Bomberleer (<--This is to prevent Google Search from working) told the HC dudes to reflect on ourselves for not letting the girls across the bridge add the chemicals first.

Bomberleer: Don't you guys understand the idea of "ladies first"?

Some smart guy (I forgot who that was): Of course! Ladies wait first.

Shows our school tradition of discrimination aganist the opposite gender. LoL! And the girls also took our flask with the bit of remaining extract (I forgot which component of black tea that was because I don't remember these kinda names), causing my group to end up with a little less than the original amount. Maybe Funny (this is pronounced as 'slut') has a pic to show.

Haven't had a lame joke blog post for some time. Hope this revives this place a bit.

来年のこと

今はもう深夜だ。最近は来年のこととテストのことを考えたばかりだ。確かに大事だけど、どの科目を選ぶか今までも悩んでる。好きな科目だけを取りたいが、取らなきゃならないのがある。そして、とらなければ、大学に入るのによくないかもしれない。取ろうと思うのは：

J1
物理H2
科学H2
数学H2
日本語H2
GPH1
PWH1
経済H1

そしてJ2の時、H3取りたければ、経済学を捨てる。実は学校で勉強している余計な科目はたくさんある。H2の三つとH1の一つでいい点数取れればもう十分だが、何でこんなに大変な生活をしなきゃならないかわからない。

二番目の日本語のポストだ。拍手！

Forgetfulness kills

I just lost 100 AUD today because I was forgetful! AIMO was so easy and I could do everything, which meant I could have won a prize, but I forgot to multiply the values back after dividing them by the common factor for easier calculation. Forgetfulness kills :O. I was in a rush to go for Chem-O which was after AIMO, which made me end up staring at the sample waiting for the reaction. If only I rmbed to check! If only... This is one of the few times that forgetting hit me hard. Ouch! The only good news I got today was that I got into the 2nd round of SJPO, which I paid my bio term grades for. I better do well next round too, but there's barely time to study, there's Jap test before that. I can't look down on Cambridge more after looking at the way they set the papers, although it may be the nature of all exams. The reason why I hate everything now is probably because I knew of the virtual world which was heaven to most people, giving people the life which they dream of, but reality is always waiting, and killing you when you forget some stuff.

Found time

Finally bothered to revive this place a bit. Last post was in June, some time before SMO, which I failed considerably this year again. I just got C5 for my bio test last week, and yet I am not the slightest bit worried, because I thought that maybe I was just too tired during the test that my mind wasn't in a very good condition. Plus, that week was hell for me. The ups and downs in life, rather distracting I should say. Ups distract you by giving you a false sense of achievement (in fact you have done nothing at all), because things such as mugging for test doesn't mean that you won't forget the facts in the future, it just means that you have remembered it momentarily. People who had only ups in their life realise that they turn into nothing when they look back in the future (and to mention, they would go oh gosh, that's not my purpose in life). Downs on the other hand, are to upset you, make you jealous, etc.. Aren't there always times when you've felt that others were better than you? Truth is, there are too many factors to be compared, people just have to believe that they are the best in life. Now I think I've explained well enough why I am not upset about by bio grades after the drastic decrease. DC says that grades are the responsibility of students, but I think that it's how we maximise our learning in school rather than maxing out our grades. Lastly, not buying to Hon's policies is another reason. We shouldn't be bothered by something that doesn't affect us even if it's screwed. Looks like I can't stop crapping about school. There's simply so much other stuff that I have but can't write it here because it's too personal XD, rather philosophical I should say, and I can't face the dissonance either. Ends here.

假期

离上次写博克有几个月了。由于繁忙的生活，这个地方常从我的脑海中消失。今年并不是很忙的一年，但压力却很大，尤其是两个O水准考试。虽然只是两个，且我也有充足的时间准备，但它们给我的压力可使异常的大。与校内的成绩相比，这可是来得重要，可是校长却整天在校内搞一些乱七八糟的东西，使得我们无法静下心来学习。回想起这四年度过的时光，我不得不痛恨这种精英教育。低年级时，繁忙的生活，的确让我明白了许多道理。做了那么多，得到了那么多，但许多都不是我想要的，都是一些帮助自己吹牛的证书罢了。可是，学校里仍然还有许多这样的人，怀着贪婪的心态，去把握眼前的一切。只懂得为自己的成就感到骄傲，而最后变得目中无人，忘记了“谦虚”。这种人也是我最恨的。可惜学校里这样的人太多，都聚集在一个班里，使得一个普通学生为了面对同学之间的压力，不得不与他人竞争，否则将感到自卑。此外，竞争者多，则朋友少，生活变得寂寞、单调。记得上次凤凰卫视播着关于加藤智大在秋叶原的伤人事件，体现出了一个精英学校里的种种问题。一步不慎，满盘皆输，每个人都必须稳健的踏下下一步。这或许是在亚洲的学历社会中的共同问题。想寻求改变，就必须先爬到顶峰，而不竞争是不行的，也足以说明为什么两个考试能给我这么大的压力。

Sec 4 and onwards

奥化课开始了，没有我想象得轻松，只是因刚开始而正在复习以前学过的东西罢了。今年上奥数班也比以往辛苦，学的东西都没那么容易理解，周末还得复习。快乐的度过了一个学段，到了忙碌的时候。这一学段的主要目标就是考好奥数，毕竟是花了我不少精力的东西啊。校方见到多数学生下午无所事事，想尽办法把我们的课程表堆得满满的，对非游手好闲者的我，实在是天大的不公，这些辅助课程并无太大帮助，没有让我对科研有更深刻的了解，或培养我对科学的兴趣，而且还妨碍我学习自己喜欢的东西。校长也没有发现，我们现在各个方面比不过其他学校，就是应为应付校内的压力就已经不容易的，如果还需要为其他事情感到烦恼，估计多数人早已崩溃。自己学这么多东西，其实也只是因为有好胜的心态，不认同别人比我强。在人生的道路上走了这么久，终于又到了另一个难关，找到了新的挑战。心里感到兴奋，又烦恼，只知道在渡过这一个难关后，更艰险的还在后头等待着我。该信服道教了，“无为而制”无疑在某些情况下是最好的解决方法。

Reviving this place

Just felt like showing some nice use of language, and of course it's because it's posted by our well-liked teacher Mr Tan Chibi (aka 陈矮人老师 or チビタン).



And some other thing which niaos KFC on facebook. Putting stuff like this in JPG prevents people from googling them out.


But just to niao the writer, his "萃" and KFC's "恺" is typed wrongly.

Tired of life

4 years in junior high, 3 years of repetition, feeling so tired of the never-ending work that comes. 1 thing is that they've got nothing to do with our results, for tests test people on whether they are exam smart, rather than whether they study. The undeniable facts in the sciences does give a reason to do those homework as they help remember the facts better, but for humanities and languages? No way. Why should we even do case studies of outdated cases when there are so much stuff on the newspapers for us to read? Plus, the teacher didn't even prepare her own resources, and simply provided a link to another teacher's online learning portal. Nevertheless, Chinese is still the most boring subject, there are so much stuff that are worth doing in my life that can improve my Chinese but MOE and the Chinese teachers just chose to waste our class time by telling us to do 理解问答，应用文 and 作文, all of which have retarded marking schemes that never tests on a student's Chinese standards. Furthermore, the government even came to a conclusion that students cannot learn Chinese properly because "CHINESE IS TAUGHT IN CHINESE"! What a joke. If we were to get some of 金庸's books and talk about every bit in detail, like what we did for English literature, I am quite sure that no one would be bored of Chinese anymore. So in the end it simply boils down to MOE's stupidity. Even IP schools that supposedly escaped the control of MOE that reflected nothing good but stupidity, there is still Chinese O Levels, which getting an A at would not help the slightest bit in simply giving us some hope at answering one question at the interview conducted by Peking University. When Singaporeans blame their low standard in languages on education, it just ends up with the government assuming about what went wrong and adding more stupid policies that make Singapore's language education more stupid, and probably one of the reasons why I hate Singapore so much. These crap homework that I am doing is just inhibiting me from doing other stuff, like MOP. Loving school so much more than e-learning, when I am already hating school so much.

Reincarnation

Posting during Geog lesson now because the teacher didn't come and I need something to kill time. Well, I really can't believe that my grades are becoming more extreme (languages are still fine, but the difference in humanities and sciences are showing). I was happy for some time for being the top few in class for Bio and Chem, but after I did the Geog and Physics test, I wasn't even slightly confident that I would not fail. LaLa~ Another weekend of slacking I suppose, after all the tests, and retrain my DotA skills a bit after failing so much, and figuring out the main problem about why I failed. Main thing that I wasn't happy about was that I was despised by JLoh. I just don't see why I am not given a chance to host any Jap students despite my Jap results topping the whole school every year. Sec 4 life has been rather boring until now, because of me. I can't really find something that can continue entertaining me for now. Songs? Books? Does that make a person's life more interesting? Or the super patriotic stuff on all the NCC ppl's blogs? Uh, personally I think achievements and superiority are the foundations of my life, but the constant failing last year somehow hit me hard. I can't ensure that my life would be smooth this year, like all the even years that I have gone through, which were all so fruitful. People has came up with different definitions to how life should be lead, but in the end, it's just another game which we see in computers. Level up, and fight your way through, or you would become inferior and be the slave of others. However, at the rate at which I am going at, it would be rather unlikely that I would be able to outperform others, because there are just so many things that I wouldn't want to self-study because they seem so lame. I've endured through 3 weeks of 20+ ChengYu, 20+ English terms and 2-4 pages of Wolf and Spice per day during the holidays, but none of them can keep me studying other than Math. Aiming higher in life, is it something wrong? Well, I think that there are somethings that I should not be committing to, but although these stuff may seem useless because I can only make one choice of University, at least I could choose if I continue the endless workload which I am subjected to, which would be a lot better than those who got chosen. Quite surprised at how I am still able to maintain my optimism after so much futile efforts, but I don't think I would be able to endure anymore major ones to come. Wishing that I would no longer feel that something is lacking.

从北京而归

离上次写博客至少有一个半月了。没办法，北京不能使用Blogger，就连我的作业也是用Wordpress写的。为了从BSC的朋友们得到一些照片，我不得不注册一个Facebook的帐号，但搞了半个小时后还是没搞清它到底有多少功能。每次一出国，就会感到自己的无知，原来世界是那么的大，有无穷的东西等着我去摸索。生在福中，似乎有一种浪费生命的感觉，消耗着地球上的资源。两个月前，我的想法则完全不同，估计是由于看动漫看得过多而造成的。成就与幸福这两者就不能合为一体吗？在期待着幸福的同时，我发现我真正要的是成就。尽管我多么的想放弃它，最后仍紧握着不松手。但随心所欲是否是正确的呢？