Last post until EOYS are over.

Shall let my blog hibernate for a month. eoys are a month away i have decided not to use my com for a month other than for writing reports. During this period i am determined to concentrate on my studies and let myself have plenty of rest. This few days i have adopted a different way of spending my time. The first thing i do when i reach home i sleep. Then i wake up at like 1am, fill my stomache, then get to work. I find it a very efficient way of spending my time. This allows me t0 ensure that i have at least 6hrs of sleep and after i wake up i will feel charged and ready to start mugging and doing my work. At the same time i won have problems waking up in the morning, and i can go to school early to discuss some work with my friends and do some exercise either with my ccamates or at home b4 leaving for school. 

Yesterday had year 5 subject combination briefing. Hmm wan take 4 H2s need gpa of 3.2. My first semester gpa was 3.2 not very safe so i must ensure that this term and eoys i can maintain and do even better. Heard from a lot of teachers that KI (knowledge and inquiry) is much much harder than GP. A lot of ppl are already struggling with GP and i think my english standard is really poor so i guess most likely i will aim for HISTORY/CHINA STUDIES IN CHINESE/MATHS/ECONOMICS. After eoys will have to really do some hw on the subjects and the courses offered in universities before deciding my subject combination. Like many teachers have said, this is a really important decision to make which will affect our future. So i really take it very seriously. All the teachers we have spoken to advised us to follow our interest. I strongly agree. Who says physics chem maths econs is the most popular combination in RV means we must follow suit and take that combination? Who says only take sciences then can get jobs or have a future? Who say take humanities or arts stream very dangerous, no future! Like what Huanglaoshi said a lot of students really have the wrong mindset! Doesn't mean a lot of people choose to take science or a particular combination means its the best route for us to take. Nowadays in order to be special, to be different from others, we should pick subjects or pick a route that nobody or very little people want to take. This will allow us to have more opportunities compared to the others in this highly competitive world. And most importantly we should follow our interest. Yes its impt to look far, to think for our future. However if we pick subjects just in order to ensure we can get a job, or have a future and do not consider our interests, it might result in worser consequences. We might end up struggling with the subject or even hating the subject after a few months. This would result in even worser consequences and that is failing or doing badly in that subject. Thus i strongly urge all who are going to be choosing subjects for nxt year to think carefully. Don make a wrong decision and regret for the rest of your life! 别一失足成千古恨！

Ok i gonna sleep le BYE PPL JIAYOUS TO ALL TAKING O LEVELS AND EOYS!! SHAll be back soon, don miss me XD.

Thank you Ms Teo!!!

Ms teo thanks so much. Talking to you really helped me a lot :D

Lesson was as usual today. Woke up to find it raining ON A FRIDAY MORNING AGAIN! :( PE lesson could not play soccer on the field. This is the 5th time this happened in around 6 weeks. Don know why we so suay :(

Cca was awesome today. Had PT with the guys then went for the DANCE FANTASIA syf concert. All the performances were of very high standard! We are really not in the same level as them. Hmm we need to work harder. Jy dancers! Especially year two dancers! Congrats on recieving the chance to dance acceleration :D You all can do it :D

This weekend have so much hw and things to do argh!!!!

Thank you Liheng!

Thank you liheng! For reminding me that "sometimes it is like tat la....u cant get everyone's understanding and appreciation". Haix was really hurt. I spent a lot of effort on writing a long letter on facebook for my p5 cousin. I gave him some really sincere comments hoping that he will take it to heart, hoping that he will benefit from it. In the end he told me to stop writing stupid comments on his wall.....Maybe i shldn have wrote the word girlrome( his nickname) on his wall. He told me that his friends are starting to call him by this nickname. Nevertheless i am still angry at him for deleting my post. I really 是一片好意咯。Nvm....

Today got interviewed by Yun Nan press...... they came my house to interview my parents as well as to learn more about our singapore education system, and our bicultural program.

Tmr must wake up early go sch again ARGH!! nitez ppl.

AYLC

hmm...this few days busy with asian young leaders convention. I am in the press committee, so my job is to go around and take pictures of people, make video and write article. Yesterday i was the emcee for the opening ceremony. I would say of the few emcee jobs i have taken up, yesterday was the most successful one :D Thank you Wei lin for being such an awesome partner ;) Thank you Miss Yim and Zhang Mei Li laoshi for your guidance and support :D

Today slept till 10 plus then wake up read bks, play piano before going to school. Don know why after sleeping for 7 hours i still so tired.....In the afternoon went around the school take pictures of aylc participants with Bella. Took quite a lot of unglam pictures and pictures of sian faces...

One problem i discovered for this AYLC is that due to the many different nationalities of the participants they all speak different languages so there are some communication breakdown between the participants themselves and between the facils and participants. So quite a lot of participants were like left out or not really getting themselves involve in the activities. I think the facils should speak to them in at least chinese and english since a large number of the participants are from China.

Haix..my weekend is gone. Have to go school for the next few days. After AYLC, i will have a stack of homework and a few tests and projects to clear. Wish myself gd luck man.....

Haix......

wow i haven been posting for quite some time le. hmm this two weeks a lot had happened. haha everyday when i log in msn tok to desmond first word is "haix". i have comments for everything i have thoughts on everything but lately i have became speechless. Not that i have nothing to say but i realise i already don feel like commenting. I have lost the motivation to. Is it because i have lost faith in everything? Is it because i have lost faith in the world? Perhaps...I have seen a lot of things that made me 心灰意冷. The disasters and conflict happening all over the world are just increasing and becoming worser day by day. After hearing huanglaoshi sharing about her experiences in china this few weeks i have no doubt about that. But how many of us really bother about all this environmental threats? We seem to be living in our own world. We just continue with our routine lifestyle. Wasting resources, polluting our environment and hurting the people around us.

2 weeks ago i suddenly recieved news that my aunt who visited me during June hols from America has discovered that she has gotten breast cancer...I was totally stunt. From my impression of her, she has a healthy lifestyle and she is very concious of her diet, and her health conditions. She and her husband decided to live in America in order to have quality life. They have two kids there, they have a big house there and their income is also good. But their quality life turn out to be like that. It really makes me ponder what is quality life? Can the so called luxurious quality life really bring us happiness and health? What is the best way of life? hmm i think its really hard to find out an answer for these questions. I really hope my aunty will recover from this, luckily her breast cancer still belong to the early stages. I will keep praying for her. 我阿姨得癌症这件事情真的让我感觉到生命的脆弱，和渺小。我奉劝大家开始珍惜身边的人吧。每一个人的命运都深不可测，不要等到失去他们才忏悔。

Last week i had a one to one session with my history teacher Ms Serene Teo for one hour. Talking to her is really very enjoyable. There is no pressure, no intensity, and we can really talk our hearts out. Before that i had missed a few history lessons due to some reasons which i have forgotten. However within half an hour with Ms Teo, all my concepts were clear, she taught me some really important skills on how to tackle study all sources questions. I am really grateful to her. For the remaining time i shared with her about how i am coping with my studies and life now. I also discussed with her about my nxt year subject combination. Maths, History, China studies in Chinese and Econs/ Knowledge and Inquiry. I asked Ms Teo about KI and i managed to find out that our school actually offers KI just that no one apply or rather a lot of our students don even know of this subject in our school. At first i was pretty sure i wanted Econs. However after conversing with Ms Teo about what is taught in KI, it got me very excited. KI is a much higher level of GP and the things we get to learn and analyze in this subject is lots of general knowledge. We will get to learn about religion, politics, history, social science. So its lots of current affairs and it covers a lot of areas. The method of testing is very similar to other humanities subject. Essay and Analysis. For econs though there are some humanities stuff in it but i have to be very strong in maths and i also need to be very passionate in in which i doubt so for both requirements. Haix see how lo currently if let me choose i will want to take KI but Ms Teo say need at least around 10 students then can open this course. So year 4s who are interested in KI please approach me ah :D

Last Sat after bicult talk and yishun junior college, i went to orchid country club gym and sat down at a corner with table and chairs to do homework and enjoy sometime on my own. I discover the environment there really suits me. Very little people, not noisy, no distractions. In two hours i completed an history assignment and a 报章读后感。Haha after that i gymed for 45 minutes as well. It was really a very satisfying afternoon for me :D I have decided to do that more often, if possible every week. Maybe on sundays. Now i every sunday go orchid country club with my cousin to study and gym he is preparing for his o levels as well. I also need to start to mug and prepare myself for the horrifying end of year exams......

Today was ndp concert, felt that i pretty much screwed up my emcee job....haix. Had another satisfying afternoon with Liheng, Peiyao and Zixin. Though did not manage to join them plus other yr 3 guys in the movie due to AYLC rehearsal -.- but we still had an afternoon of fun! Haha we shld play badminton and table tennis in the school hall more often! ;0 FOC somemore lol.

Long weekend YAY! shall end my post here haha some ppl say my posts always dam long.

Nitez ppl.

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..........