I think I just did something stupid again...

OK, regarding the previous post. The reason is rather clear why it's in Japanese - to prevent readers from understanding it of course. Well, after checking with Google translate, there were a little more which I had to censor, but it should be alright now. Unless someone is free enough to find out enough information about what happened to me that day. Hmm, perhaps I should test it out with my friends and see if they can understand it. If they do, I think I better remove it to prevent random people from reading it. MQ is exception of course.

このポストは期待されたかな？

　しばらく前に、僕はクラスメートと僕のブログについて話した。URLを知りたがっていたが、僕は教えなかった。「僕の悲しいことしか書いてない」って。結局、ここにも僕の秘密も書いてある。まあ、それについて書こう。
　二週間前ぐらいのことだ。僕は新しいクラスを知って、クラスメートたちと教室で集まった。そして、この目の大きい女の子が教室に入った。その他に特別なところはあまりなかった。しかし、僕は自己紹介をした時、日本語を勉強してるって。（ここは34字を省く）偶然に、その子はさっきに一瞬見据えた女の子だった。僕は手を振った。そして、先生は「同じバスに乗るんじゃない」って。僕は一瞬驚いて、「まあ」と答えた。
　数日後、僕たちはなんとなくお互いを避けていた。でも、偶然に視線は合う。そして、気づく前に、僕はその子のことを他のことよりもう少し考えてる。それは恋愛感情かな。自分は色欲だと思うけれど。
　時間はとても早く過ぎて、知る前に、もう今日のPOPだった。
　もう「気のせいかな」とは言えない。僕たちの視線は確かに何度も合った。だって、彼女は踊ってほしいと書いてある視線で僕を見た。でも、僕はもう一回その視線を避けた。
　しかし、チャンスはまた来た、一人で立ってた時、（ここは16字を省く）。僕はやはり馬鹿だね。せっかくのチャンスなのに、僕はもう一度チャンスを失った。（ここは30字を省く）結局、うちへ帰って、MSNでちゃんと謝った。
　まあ、彼女がほしいのに、いつも自分は子供で、まだ恋愛を求める年齢じゃないと思う。2つの気持ちは矛盾だ。自然に従えばいいかもしれない。

End of my extravertism

I suppose that the theory of MBTI remaining the same for one's life isn't false. A few days ago, I thought that I had a sudden change in MBTI (Wow!), due to me being too high due to orientation. Just one week later, I am back to my old, introverted self again. Well, today was my classmates birthday and I didn't really wish her a happy birthday. (Or at least do a proper one despite not knowing o.O) Neither did I do that last year on a male classmates birthday, proving that my unwillingness to do so wasn't due to the slight gynophobia which I have. Instead, it is just something which I don't do. Maybe I should disclose a fact to no one here (please understand the deeper meaning of this diction), I'm an extreme I, N, T and a borderline J. It's just that I was trying hard to use my E during orientation that made me seem a little less anti-social. When the orientation ends, I continue my search for true friends.

Stupid mistakes

A little correction of the mistakes on the student handbook.

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。