a very bad start to the day...but a satisfying ending to it

got back my maths test on monday got an A2 but was very disappointed with myself for making a really careless mistake which cost me my A1. For a qn which i shld have got correct, i wrote my final ans as 216 + 1384 - 1384 = 1384 T.T!! That cost me one mark and i got 18/25 in the end. Haix such mistake i think pri sch students also won make lo. 或许真的是天意吧。Its fated i cannot get my A1 for this test....nvm i still made a huge improvment and Ms choo was happy with my result. I shall work extra hard for the nxt test and make sure i get my A1!

Today really had a bad start to my day. Seconds after i woke up i got scolded by my dad. (reason shall not be revealed) Then becos of that i was almost late for sch ( made yangyi wait for me at traffic junction vry long sry yangyi!). On my way to sch i suddenly realised i left my eom, kelly's eom and tseng wei's eom AT HOME! i am suppose to collect their work by today and submit in helaoshi's pigeon hole as it was to be graded and if nvr submit by today STRAIGHT ZERO! I was seriously dam angry with myself at that point of time. For being so careless. If i cost myself to be in trouble still nvm but if i cost my friends to be in trouble i will seriously regret it. Therefore after racial harmony activities i ran back home and collect the eoms with louis. Haha thanks louis for accompanying me XD. From sch to lakeside back and forth took around 20mins lol gd training! Nvr eat lunch went straight to open dance studio and then go for ndp meeting. Wow mr gan really has some great ideas for ndp concert haha he say he day dream a lot. This time it shall be a really fun and different ndp :D

First CIP session at jwps was a really great one i would say! WELL DONE DANCERS! :D:D i believe most of them enjoyed the cip and gained some really valuable experiences. They learnt some class room management skills and as their first time doing it i would say they did quite fine. Looking at the primary 2 kids really reminds me of my pri sch days haha today they wore ethnic costumes and looked DAM CUTE! haha some of them were wearing the same chinese outfit i wore when i was as young as them. Most of them were dam enthu and were eagerly trying to answer to our qns. Huge contrast to the present situation in RV. Always when teachers in class or during assembly ask qn, no one raise up hand to answer lol. I really wonder when these kids get to secondary school will they continue to answer qns or ask qns so enthusiastically?

After the cip i had all my energy drained. But the sense of satisfactory in me really make my day turn out to be very gd. I really saw a lot and gain a lot of valuable experiences through this cip. It boost my confidence level too. Today when i brief the p2 students in the hall I totally impromptu. LOL cost a lot of things didn went according to plan. I felt that i handled it pretty well above my expectations.

Shall go mug physics now.Hope to score an a1 for this practical test so as to pull up my physics grade. Jiayous to those who have test tmr!

WELL DONE south africa!! Spain make history!

The world cup has ended for around 5 days but due to the loads of hw and test i had this week i did not have the time to post my thoughts abt it.

SPAIN are world champions ! i would say it wasn't a surprise looking at the huge amount of talent the spain squad has. U guys just look at the spain squad bench. Players like cesc fabregas, fernando torres, lorente, marchena have to sit on the bench and watch their teammates play. This already shows the quality of the spain squad. I would say their squad is the best in the world at the moment. They have david villa and torres who are world class players making their front line. They have the BEST MIDFIELD in the world having the likes of players like xavi, iniesta, busquets, alonso, silva, fabregas. Regarding their defence, it is evident from the small amount of goals spain had conceded. what can other teams do to break their defence when they have sergio ramos, pique, puyol and capdevila who are like 4 rocks sitting at their backline. Their last man is even one of the world's best goal keeper. His name is Iker Casillas. The guy who made the save against arjen robben in the finals. I would say this is one of the best world cup squads ever. Spain would be rmb for their smooth and fast flowing attacking football. I like them as they play a similar style of football as arsenal. Possession football. Their players have fantastic technique, which enables them to pass the ball around like it is as easy as primary school maths.

I also enjoyed this world cup because it wasn dominated by the usual teams and football stars The defending champions Italy and runner up France were kik out early in the competition. Brazil, England, Portugal and Argentina also followed their footsteps. Through this competition i saw a huge improvement in the standards of Asian football with Korea and Japan both making it to the knock out stages. I also saw many emerging young football talents with most of them coming from Germany. Germany showcast their bright future by sending an extremely young and inexperienced side to this world cup. They did not disgrace their country as they saw off australia, argentina, england and uraguay in style scoring at 4 goals in 3 of those matches and 3 goals against uraguay. Their counter-attacking football was superb and entertaining catching teams like england and argentina off guard.

Something that shocked me was that none of the premier league stars or spanish stars from europe impressed in this world cup. Players like rooney, lampard, gerrard, torres, fabregas (other than the assist in the world cup final ), van persie, drogba......all did not impress. Players like cristiano ronaldo and messi also did not make much of an impact. This shows that european countries can no longer dominate world football as south american countries and african countries are all on the rise. This will only be good for the development of world football as more stars and countries impress :D

questions to ponder for world cup :

1. should video technology be added into football after the many mistakes referees have committed in the past few seasons and this world cup? ( england goal ruled out )

2. Shld countries start to adopt policies similar to arsenal by developing and trusting their youngsters more? Recently some news reported england are discussing on whether to adopt wenger's policy regarding youngsters. As we can see through this world cup countries like Germany and Ghana who sent out a young squad were quite successful in this world cup.

*Thomas Muller from Germany gets the Golden Boot with 5 goals. He also gets the young player of the tournament.

*Diego Forlan is awarded the Golden Ball (best player) In 2006, it was Zinedine Zidane who grabbed the award.

*145 goals were scored in 64 games.

Updated FIFA rankings: Spain are number 1, Holland are second, 3. Brazil, 4. Germany, 5. Argentina, Uruguay move up ten places to 6th, 7. England, Italy drop to 11th, and France drop to 21st.

So far in the transfer window, Arsenal have brought in two new faces. 1. Marouane Chamakh (striker)- free transfer from bordeux 2. Laurent Koscielny (central defender )- transfer fee of around 10million. Wenger has stated that he will wave his magic wand again and bring in at least one more new face to add to the current defensive line. I hope it will a goal keeper with mark schwarzer( one of the best goal keepers in epl helping fulham last season to get into europa league finals ) stating his interest to come to Arsenal.

Arsenal will start their preseason friendlies this coming saturday going to barnet fc. Hope to see the two new players making their debut and chamakh to score his first goal for the club :D

Coming to the end of the week le. Had chinese test and maths test today. Both okok la but i am quite satisfied with myself having put in so much hard work this few days to prepare for the tests. So even if the results are not really gd i won feel bad :D today for c lit had to evaluate two poems. I really love one of the poems let me share it with you guys.

《 一棵开花的树 》

如何让我遇见你

　　在这最美丽的时刻

　　为这

　　我已在佛前求了五百年

　　求佛让我们结一段尘缘

　　佛于是把我化做一棵树

　　长在你必经的路旁

　　阳光下

　　慎重地开满了花

　　朵朵都是我前世的盼望

　　当你走近

　　请你细听

　　那颤抖的叶

　　是我等待的热情

　　而当你终于无视地走过

　　在你身后落了一地的

　　朋友啊

　　那不是花瓣

　　那是我凋零的心

这首诗当真是堪称绝妙。 它把爱情的伟大之处和现实无限的残酷表现得如鱼得水。爱情真的是让人又爱又恨之。它有时候能带给你无限的希望和力量，但它可以在一瞬间给你致命的一击，使你一蹶不振，失掉所有信心..........

bicult trip/ syf mass display

continued from last post.

在此次的旅程中，我们也有幸去参观上海世博会，见证中国又一门盛事。虽然只有一天的时间参观，时间紧迫，而且大多数时间都花在了排队和等待。但我还是参观了十二个场馆，看到了一些精彩的表演和展览，对很多国家的文化有更深一层的了解。那一天的活动也锻炼了我的体力和耐力，让我觉得自己比以前更健壮更成熟或者说，更能吃苦。

这次的上海之旅让我感到最满意的就是我融入了上海的民间生活。我每天都有和上海的百姓交流，接触，观察他们的生活。我每天都尽量用很标准的华语与身边的朋友和当地的百姓沟通。我也在这个过程中有很深的体会。我们差不多每天都到复旦大学的步行街吃饭，买东西，尝遍那儿的美食。多亏有杨老师这个地头蛇带我们到处吃好的，给我们介绍好门路，帮我们，教我们杀价，以免被诈。你们有没有听过烧的寿司？在这次的旅途之前我可没听说过，但这次我竟然吃到这种寿司。 它是一大条的，够我们吃一顿，里头的米饭量大约等于一碗饭，而里头包的东西任我们选择。寿司里头还有放甜酱和 一点辣椒酱。吃起来美味可口，我们几个中四的同学一连吃了七天都不厌。它的价格少过十块人民币，又省时，能让我们边购物边吃，实在方便。我们还尝了很多上海的街边小吃。以前我根本不敢吃街边小吃，认为他们不卫生,不美味，但经过这次的旅程，我突然发现我喜欢上街边小吃。我发现街边小吃并没有我想象的那么差。因此很多东西我们不能只看表面，而要找它的内在美。此次的旅程，我发现很多便宜，看似简单的东西，能给我们带来很多喜悦。比如一杯两块钱人民币的葡萄粥，还是少过三块钱人民币的扇。这些东西都不怎么昂贵，但却能给我们带来许多欢乐。

我在上海的十四天里头看到了上海温馨，美丽的一面，也看到了上海丑陋的一面。在上海，我亲自体验到当地学生的热情，当我向他们分发调查问卷，请求他们帮忙完成，他们都毫不犹豫地答应了。这使我非常感动。但同时我也看到了上海人很多不文明的举动。比如在世博会时，我看到他们随地扔垃圾，推挤，相骂，插队，大声嚷嚷等等。我也看到一些上海男性光天化日在马路边撒尿，德士司机在酒店外吵架等等。这些事情都反映上海人的文明程度还有待改善。

离开上海的那天，我满载而归，买了很多书和光碟。然而我指的不只是物质方面的满足，在精神上我也感到很充实。从这次的旅程当中，我学到了很多的生活技巧，开阔了视野，也脱离了父母的怀抱，学会独立，在这两个星期里照顾自己的各种需要。在此旅程里头的许多收获都无法从课本里头得到的，这两个星期像一场梦，我过得很轻松很愉快，但也获益匪浅。当真是行万里路，胜读万卷书，我们不能永远做井底之蛙，只待在自己的国家，或只对着课本和书。到外面的世界看看，真的会让一个人更加成熟，懂事。因为，这种感受我深有体会。

在上海机场，我喝下在这次旅程中的最后一口农夫山泉水。我细细品尝了那一口水，我要记住它的味道，我要永远记住在上海的那些美好的回忆。过了那一时刻，我不知何年何月才能又回到上海。过了那一天，我又得开始数没有农夫山泉水的日子了。

因此我期待年底的双文化之旅，也想感谢四位带队的老师，感谢他们的辛苦付出，感谢他们这两个星期对我们的呵护。若不是他们，这次的旅程根本无法圆满结束。

this few days when everybody were busy having lessons in school, we the dancers and the whole year two cohort were busy with our syf mass display rehearsals, preview and the actual performance yesterday.

Overall, I would say it was a success. It was a great and unforgettable experience for everyone.Perhaps its the last time all the year 4 dancers can put up a performance together like this. Haix really can't bear to part with them. Through this performance i also made quite a few cat high friends. They were really polite and friendly. Some of them were quite cute and handsome attracting quite a number of RV girls ;) haha. 天下没有不散的筵席, though we cannot bear to part but life has to go on. Hope we will have a chance to meet again :D

However as we carry on with life, i feel that there are some things, some points that we should ponder through this syf mass display experience.This few days, i have seen a lot, heard a lot. There are some things that keep me thinking.

Firstly, through conversations with my teacher in charge, i discover that just for that few minutes of performance out there, the school has spent large sums of money. The transportation fees this few days cost the school at least 10k plus.The food that the school provide to us also cost around that amount too. The platform that the dancers used cost 6k plus. Each costume that the dancers and sec2s wear cost 100plus dollars.Each head gear the year2s wear cost 40 dollars! When we multiply it by the number of participants that took part in this event, the amount is really huge. This makes me wonder whether it is worth it a not. Though its not my money, i can don really care so much however, i feel that its a little 奢侈. The money spent is just for that FEW MINUTES! For the past few days and just now we were still talking about what will happen to the 6k platform and the hear gears after this event? The head gears are mostly damaged and useless. After the event they are just equal to rubbish! As for the platform,they are so huge, taking up so much space, where can we leave it in the school? Will we still use it in the near future? We all doubt so! They are too huge for the stage, therefore its not possible that we will use it for our future performances. Our teacher in charge was suggesting to throw it, which means throwing away 6 thousand dollars, i mean i am less concern about the money.钱只是一种形式上的东西，它只是一个数据。 Its the resources used to built the platforms and headgears that i am more concerned and worried about.A lot of resources were used just for this event, for that few minutes, and after that most of them become rubbish, causing a lot of harm and pollution to the environment.....Is it worth it?

This few days after every meal, i witness a lot of food being thrown away, a lot of bottles of water that are drank halfway being thrown away, a lot of plastic cutlery being thrown away. We generate A LOT of rubbish after each meal. 看了很令人心酸,teenagers nowadays take things for granted, they throw away food that they dislike, that they are unable to finish.难道他们不知道浪费食物会遭天谴吗？Moreover, they are also harming and polluting the environment with their irresponsible acts.Haix all these just for one event,for that few minutes.Is it worth it?

I really hope that most of the participants learnt some values, gained some impt experiences through the event then it would make all those wasteful acts "more worth it". However, i still feel that its wrong to spend so much resources and money for that few minutes of performance and glory.Its really not environmental friendly.....

Its 2.25am now i better go to sleep. I will post more thoughts of this event within the next few days.

Gd nite guys :D

行万里路，胜读万卷书

刚从中国上海回来，又是一次难忘的旅途，所得到人生经验，能终身受用。时光匆匆，还记得两个星期前还在Changi Airport terminal 3 笑 desmond 走路没长眼睛撞上一排椅子，但很快又和大家在terminal 2 告别了。我们都非常舍不得离开那美丽的现代化城市，因为在这两个星期的日子里我们共享天伦之乐。上海就像我们的天堂一样，要什么有什么，它能满足我们的食欲，购物欲，在那里花钱太值得了，因为在中国什么东西都很便宜。更令这次的旅程变得更难忘的是能够和几个要好的朋友共同在酒店里观看世界杯。这是多么难得的机会呀！能在上海无忧无虑，做自己爱做的事情，享受着一段日子的清静，自由是我一直以来都渴望的，等待着的。

从去年年底的北京西安之旅，至6月8日离开前往上海，我经过170天漫长的等待，终于又尝到农夫山泉水了。当我和desmond又再一次尝到农夫山泉水，心情都非常激动。你们不要误会，并不是因为它真的像 holy water 才使我们一直想着它。 这水贵在于它藏着我们在中国的所有回忆，它陪伴着我们与我们一起渡过在中国的日子。它代表着我和desmond 深厚的友谊，包含着很深的意义。因此一提起农夫山泉水，我们就能回想起在中国所有难忘的经历。

这次的团队很大，有中三，中四，和高一同学再加上四位老师，共五十多个人。但整体来说，大家都很安分守己，很配合老师，也没给老师太大的麻烦因此整个旅程非常顺利，没出什么大乱子。新加入我们的中三同学给我的印象很不错，我觉得他们也是一群非常优秀的学生，可惜我们并没有多少交流，谈话的机会。希望在接下来的日子里能够有更多机会与他们接触，认识他们，多结交几个朋友 ;)

这次在复旦附中和复旦大学上课也有不同的感受。讲座的课题都非常有趣，但我们都认为有些讲师可能因为年轻，缺乏教学经验，授课方式有些沉闷。因此到头来都无法吸引我们的注意力，很多人到最后都在发呆，发白日梦，或做些其它的事情。相比起来，去年的讲座，讲师都比较好，因为给我们讲课的都是大学教授，而那些教授都知识渊博，很幽默，很真诚，也常以很特别的方式来授课，使几个小时的课程不会很沉闷。不过复旦的校园还是给我们留下了不错的印象，跟其它中国大学校园风格差不多，它的校区古色古香，环境优美，建筑风格也很独特。我们上课的光华楼更是复旦的标志性建筑物。我从来没见过一所大学有那么高的建筑，我在电梯里看，光滑楼至少有三十多层楼高! 我们还参观了复旦大学的新校区，目前只完成了第一期的工程，但已经花了6亿多人民币建设，这是多么庞大的一笔数目。当然他们的钱并没有白费，新校区非常美丽迷人，很多参观后的学生都想到复旦留学。他们把校区绿化，建筑的风格也都很独特，让人有一种踏入 cambridge 的感觉。嗨立化呢？花了那么多钱却建了个令很多人不满意的校园，整天漏水，颜色也不好看，问题一大堆。

这次的上海之旅让我感到最满意的就是我融入了上海的民间生活，我每天都有和上海的百姓交流，接触。我也在这个过程中有很深的体会。我们差不多每天都到复旦大学的步行街吃饭，买东西，尝遍那儿的美食。多亏有杨老师这个地头蛇带我们到处吃好的，给我们介绍好lobang，帮我们杀价。你们有没有听过烧的sushi？在这次的旅途之前我可没听说过，但这次我竟然吃到这种sushi。 它是一大条的够我们吃一顿，里头的米饭量大约等于一碗饭，而里头包的东西任你选择。buffet style。还有放tatar sauce 和 一点辣椒。吃起来美味可口，我们几个中四的同学一连吃了7天都不厌。它的价格少过10rmb，又省时，能让我们边购物边吃，实在方便。

to be continued...

today started to go back sch for dance le. i step down as vice president le suddenly feel much relaxed, feel much more comfortable. i guess i am more suited to work without pressure, as an assistant to offer some ideas and solutions.

today played my yamaha piano for the last time. tmr my new german piano will be arriving at my house in the morning but i have cca tmr as well so i guess i can only play it in the evening. i am quite excited to seeing it. the touch and sound quality is much better than my current piano ;)

gtg its 10 mins past 12am! bye ppl....

screwed up world

came back from medan last night.

played the piano for half a day today....i wanted to dedicate the song endless love to my family, my friends, and my buddies in Medan. Though most of them may not be able to hear it, i just hoped they could feel how appreciative i was towards them.

The medan was very meaningful. Made many new friends, had lots of exciting and fun experiences. I thoroughly enjoyed it. 我真的开阔视野了。Through the trip we really learn to appreciate the people and things around us. We discovered how fortunate we were in Singapore, we manage to experience how life is like in some of the poorest districts in Indonesia.

I felt that the trip was very well organised, i really want to thank the teachers Mr liu, Mr Imran, Mr Oh, Mr Yeo, Ms Choo, and Ms Lee. They made the trip very enjoyable and special for us. I love how the reflections were carried out for us. It really benefited us helping us to learn a lot of things.

I also would like to thank the Singapore Piaget Academy students who 招待 us. They were very very friendly, helpful and respectful. Throughout the journeys they were our translators helping us to solve the problem with our language barrier. I really admire them, they can speak malay, english, chinese and hokkien VERY fluently. DAM PRO right? Habert, Andrew, Kenny, Nadia, Nathania, Sherlyn, Griselda, THANKS for helping us and spending so much time with us these few days. Cya in Singapore!

During this trip the cip experience really left a deep impression in me. The environment the orphans were living in, the way they treasured what they get ( clappers from big walk which we throw away.), the way the treasured pepsi like holy water. I was really touched and shameful. All these just left me with a lot of things to ponder with.

This trip to medan, i witness the low standard of living that many indonesians are experiencing. The frequent blackouts at our resort, the dirty streets of Medan that are covered with litter, the polluted rivers, our bus that was polluting the air with the huge amount of carbon monoxide it was excreting, and the list goes on.

I also visited a museum containing more than a thousand species of animals. Take note not living animals ah all dead ones. Though the exhibits look real, only the skins are real. The skins are taken from dead animals or those killed by hunters. I saw the many pictures of the owner of the museum with the dead bodies of many animals that were killed by him. I do not know why he find killing them such a glory. In fact i find it pathetic that nowadays we have to go to the museum to look at all these non-living animal exhibits as the number of living animal species in the world is decreasing fast due to the non-stop killing of wild life by humans.

Then in the newspapers i read back in singapore, the news i watched on tv, reports of oil spills, explosions, volcano erruptions, floods, kids under age of 3 smoking, the non-stop killing of whales happening in Japan. AND THE LIST GOES ON TOO!

I really feel that the world is seriously screwed up now. If we do not start to seriously protect wild life, protect our environment, we will get our retribution and that is end of the world!

really want to discuss more issues and reveal more of my thoughts but its late now i gtg le so i shall end my post here gd nitez and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to myself! :D

once again thanks to all for the happy memories you all gave me in medan i miss you guys :D:D

hols are here but i am not happy at all

i could not control my feelings at parent-teacher meeting today....i just let my tears flow in front of huanglaoshi and my mum.....

leaving for medan tmr morning. will be back on the 28th. haix becos of this trip i have to miss 三步一拜. i did not expect to miss it. How i know the trip suddenly push back one day. Or else i surely go for the event. Its once a year and its so meaningful. For the past few years i have been attending it and i really enjoy the experience.

sch hols have arrive but don noe y i am not excited at all. Maybe is the thought of not being able to see her for almost a month.....

Have to work hard on my maths and physics during the hols le cannot disappoint my parents and teachers anymore. I wish everyone an enjoyable and fruitful holiday. Hope that medan no earthquake no volcano erruption for nxt 7 days ;) cya guys.....

Exercise the whole day

Today was our school's YOG carnival. 4B did very well got first for frisbee competition, second for relay run and recieved an excellence award. I played the first frisbee match which we lost and took part in the relay run. I sprint through out the 450m and to me, its the most exhausting 450m i have ever run before.

In the afternoon, yingfeng was quite slack, we did not even dance yingfeng just revised mass display moves. After we were dismissed at around 3pm, me, junming, vincent, ruyan and shaun went to play basketball till 5. Then, zixin and peiyao joined us, we went mama shop ate some food and chitchat. After that we played soccer with a ball we found lying around till 6.30. We suspect is the ball used for water soccer today. Sianzz mentioning water soccer, i did not have the chance to play it today, what a waste i can see that its very fun and would be a great experience since its the first time i heard of water soccer as a football fan.

Haha today dismissed at 12.30 but went home at 6.30. Regardless of the time, regardless of how tired i feel now, i feel that today was quite fun, especially hanging out with the dance guys, bonding with them really feels shiok. We treat each other with respect, we care for one another, we are true towards each other. This is really the type of behaviour, type of culture i want to spread to everyone.

Gotta go to do hw le nitez ppl.