garden city: revisited

tomorrow i shall travel across time and space from one island to another…

okay, cut that crap. tomorrow i’ll be going back to singapore to spend my summer holidays! it’s both a yay and a boo thing. i feel kinda lethargic right now. the fact that i need to pack my luggage makes this trip lose some of its appeal. richard’s right about the constant  feeling that you’ve left something behind while packing. at the back of my mind the thought of missing out something keeps bugging me and i’m beginning to feel rather irritated. i wonder if i should bring my guitar. argh.

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a year ago i was doing my mid-year exams like the bunch of jackasses still stuck in singapore. HAHA.

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a year from now i’ll probably be stoning. maybe catching up with the pc games i wasn’t able to play during the exam period. but i don’t know where i will be. that’s rather scary. somehow i know i’ll be wishing i can stay in the IB course a little longer. even better if i can do so without studying a subject which.. err.. examines the effects of Stalin’s (my ex-idol) 5-year plans.

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i better enjoy the polluted air while i can. i’m gonna be stuck in a clean environment for the next one and a half months.

later,

jeff

‘06 – ‘07

its almost the end of a school year. so soon…

it seems as though i was in ACS IB for a much longer time than i am in YCIS. oh well. it’s been a pretty fun year in this school. a really refreshing change to the rather insulated environment in singapore plus a chance to get to know lots of new people. perhaps one of the most fun and unfun and happy and unhappy and bleak and unique thing about this year is having to stay alone. hmm… i’m surprised i’m still confused with how quickly this year has gone by. it started off in late august. 3 and a half months later it was the winter holidays. then came 2007. i remember january and february vaguely. march was okay. i went back to singapore in april. may has ceased to exist. the next thing i knew the end year exams were over. now i’m sitting here with nothing much to do wondering how all the time had slipped through my fingers. guess i’m still a stranger to the academic timetable of hong kong. it’s june now and it feels as though only a semester has passed.

that’s bad isn’t it? it means the IB exams are just dangling around the corner.

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anyway, why didn’t i check my award before putting it in my bag?

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i’m gonna miss richard when he leaves… =( that’s one less person to mess around with when i can retire as a prefect.

later,

jeff

pwnzors

yay, for once i’m pretty pleased with my results..

as always, i’ll say i could have done better. but i’ll say it softly this time.

math sl – 98%

chem hl – 92%

eng a1 hl – 90%

econ hl – 86%

chin b sl – 80%

hist sl…

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umm.. history sl..

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hist sl – 58%

oh heck, that still gives an average of 83.83 which beats my P6 PSLE average of 83.33. lol.

later,

jeff

happy

as far as i remember, the last time i got such scores for the end of year exams was in primary 5.

oOo.. OoO..

i like.

later,

jeff

there’s a problem with wordpress. i’m annoyed.

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i’m not sure what exactly i experienced today. something along the lines of some bad mandarin, some jokers tuning traditional chinese noise emitting devices for not less than 10 minutes, some continuous mindless bowing/greeting/laughing, some stoning and more stoning. quite unlike what i had expected from a band which performs in the name of celebrating the 10th anniversary of the return of a small island to a bigger island.

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i just realised tomorrow will be a once-in-a-school-year kind of day. for a long time i’ve never had the privilege to encounter a sunday free of homework or commitments. yay. i’m telling myself i should treasure it more than yesterday, but i’m still pretty uncertain of how i should use the time. maybe i could use it to plan my holidays. how i should deal with the work (ARGH), how i should spend time with my girlfriend and my dad, and maybe even find time to take music lessons. at the moment i’m quite keen on finding out what i’ve been playing all along in terms of music. before that i should find out which 4 notes lie between both E strings. and why are they both called E strings when they clearly sound different?

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red bull DOES NOT give you wings. drinking four cans within a span of 20 minutes at night prolongs your consciousness for about 10 minutes in total. hardly enough to have an effect on wing growth.

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search “how to play like an asshole” on youtube and watch mick thomson from slipknot play like an asshole.

later,

jeff

back!

hah! i’m back from a long break.

for a long time i’ve had these little thoughts which come to my mind and i’d think “oh, i gotta put this down on my blog”, but i never did. guess it was partly due to the end-year exams. okay, maybe not… i’m sure i didn’t study till a week before the exams started. more like 4 days actually. heh. but anyway, EXAMS ARE OVER!

guess i’m back to my usual self. craving for a new guitar, nice food, new underwear and fishing (gay!).

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time for IB group 4 project! i recall doing some hilarious ‘investigating the vit c content in different brands of orange juice” experiment the last time. and i think some teacher saw me drinking the orange juice from a (unwashed) beaker. drink marigold peelfresh orange juice if you’re a fan of vitamin c (not that singer ages ago).

this time its a lil’ more complex. it actually involves lots of chemistry QA stuff and even some wacky experiments to determine the velocity of water from a water cooler. yeah, dont laugh.

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i’ll be going back to singapore on the first of july!

later,

jeff

whenever i feel the slightest hint of high-ness, i’d tend to wanna hide somewhere and do some headbanging for 20 seconds. after that i’d feel a little dizzy and i won’t feel like sleeping for another 2 hours. it’s 1.40am and i’m feeling high having had 3 cups of coffee. yay.

later,

jeff

scythe guitar

 i want…

yeah, you might ask me why it’s Edwards and not ESP. well, it’s because i’ve got no money for an ESP. the price of this is far more reasonable. and the components aren’t exactly different either. can someone buy it for me? pleassseeee?

later

jeff

sat the SAT!

something about this picture amuses me. especially with the price tag and the fact that it is on the cover of a pack of guitar strings. malmsteen looks fat these days…

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ahh… i’ve finally completed my SAT I paper. i haven’t been looking forward to this day since january and now its over. i don’t think it was as difficult this time. but then it just means it’s tougher to score well. i might have screwed up the essay part a little. for some reason i’ve never been confident about any essay that i’ve written. probably because i can’t decipher my own handwriting when i write in a rush. at the end of it i felt as if i sketched a lot but wrote nothing. on the other hand, the other sections were less challenging (or so hard that i don’t realise it’s hard at all). as for the math section, i feel confused. it appears as if the questions on practice tests are much easier. i could get all the answers right on several occasions while practicing but i know i won’t get everything correct this time. damn…

later,

jeff