SMO

Tomorrow is quite an important day for me. It is the SMO competition. I plan to get at least a bronze award for this year SMO. So, I have to work hard for it.

For today's SLP, it is quite fun although I am late for this program. I merely just dance and have fun listening to the music don't stop and hey now. The two music are quite nice and I like the music hey now especially because it has the essence of making me feel touched. So now, I have to resume my studying. Bye.

Holidays :)

Oh!!! Holidays have arrived. Finally, I can take a break and have a Kit kat. Just joking. Anyway, just recently, I have gone to the guitar and the harmonica concert on 29th of May 2005. The concert was not too bad except for one thing that happens on that day which a fierce lady keep venting her anger on our class because we booked the seats in one part of the auditorium. I feel amazed by her reactions to this trival matter to me. More shocked rather than awed. Sigh!!!! This causes Joanne to be very sad. I just ponder about the rationale of making a big fuss about this.

Upon reflecting on this incident, I feel that it is quite inconsiderate to sort of reserve seats in the auditorium but I think she should not have shouted and making a din here because she can indirectly hurt someone by her verbal abuse and tone. Besides, upon further analysing, on that day, I see many seats available at other parts of the auditorium and so she can sit on any available seats. It is not as if there are no seats available in the auditorium and we are still reserving the seats for our friends. That act to me is considered inconsiderate.

I went to Orchard with my family last Saturday. As usual, my cousins and I went to a bookstore to read some books. I read about self improvement books about making friends and I have jotted some points in the books.

Handling people
1. Don't condemn, complain or criticise others.
2. Give honest and sincere appreciation.
3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Ways to make people like you
1. Become genuinely interested in other people.
2. Smile
3. Remember that a person's name is the few words that that person likes best.
4. Be a good listener.

All these things seem familiar to me but yet I am not practising it. Sigh!!! I have to improve on his skill.

Holidays coming

It has been almost a month since I have updated my blog. My computer has been spoilt for two weeks and this is one of the reasons of why I have not been updating my blog for a month.

My term 2 common tests have already been over and the results in my opinion are fairly poor although I have some improvement in my general paper. Phew! What a relief. This implies that environment is really my niche topic in the gp essay as the teacher commented that the points in the essay are quite well supported.

Let me write in my blog about the problem of my computer. This time, the problem that I have initially faced when I switched on my computer is that one of the system files is corrupted and therefore, the windows cannot be loaded properly. Thus, I can only load the windows in safe mode. I attempt to load the windows using normal mode but my efforts are futile. Next, I try to reformat my hard disk and install windows in my harddisk so as to refresh the whole thing and to reinstall the corrupted file using my two recovery disks. However, at about 72% of the whole recovery process, a message comes out and says that the disk in drive N is not correct. The drive N here I think refers to the cd rom drive. I try to change the recovery disk 1 to recovery disk 2 but the message still pops out. I have no choice but to cancel the whole process. After cancelling the whole process and restarting the computer, a message comes out and says that the operating system is not found and press any keys to try again. I try of course and still that message comes out.
I ask my uncle about this excerbating problem and he commented that the harddisk of my computer is corrupted. In other words, the computer is spoilt and I have to buy a new one. Then, my uncle lists down the available choices that I have when buying computer. First, I can buy the whole computer package at around 900 dollars including the CPU, monitor, mouse, keyboard. Second, I can buy only the CPU at around 600 dollars but at a better performance. I choose the second choice since my monitor and the keyboard and the mouse are still working. So I went with my uncle to buy a CPU on Saturday 21st of May 2005 at Sim Lim Square. I bought the CPU at around $665. I felt that the price is quite worth it for 384 RAM and 80 Gb harddisk space. The computer processing speed is 2.4 GHz which is already not bad. However, there is no floppy drive and so I have to install the floppy drive by myself from the old computer to this new one.
I spend the whole day 24 hours just to install the hardware and the software into this new computer. It was a tiring task and it was only me to be blamed for not taking care of my computer properly. Once bitten, twice shy. I know now and taste the consequences of not protecting my computer well enough. The process is really tiring. On Saturday and Monday, I spend about 24 hours in total to settle with my computer. After going out with my uncle to Sim Lim Square, I learned quite a lot from him. Besides, he also treated me to a meal. That is quite nice of him. I attempt to learn more about computers as much as I can from him so that I am able to repair my computer or to upgrade my computer by myself.
On Saturday, I went for college day. It was a rather boring event and the only thing that I do there is to clap my two hands to generate loud clapping sounds for the prize winners. I think that it is not easy to be a prize winners of the college day as it takes utmost efforts and that the person must be really hardworking to score good grades. For that Saturday, I arrived to school in a nick of time and luckily my uncle gave me a lift to Toa Payoh MRT Station. If I have chosen to board bus 851, I would have been late for college day. Ya, I remember something, for that day, I think that the choir performance is really cool. They make use of rhymes, stomping on the ground and trying to make background music to create the sense of atmosphere required for the song. They are really pro because they are not only just singing the song. I feel that the rhymes and the stomping of the feet on the floor and the making of music just coordinates well to form a masterpiece.
On Sunday, I went for the Big Walk. Wow. When I board bus 70 from my house to National Stadium, almost half of the passengers in the bus were also going for the Big Walk. For that event, my younger brother and I went to the Big Walk and I could say that walking 10 kilometres is certainly not an easy task. The route is from National Stadium to Esplanade Drive and back to National Stadium. My brother and I walked for about 75% of the 10 kilometres and ran for the remaining 25 %. The Big Walk event had a high turnout of nearly 50000 people. When the Big Walk event commenced, my brother and I waited for about 3 minutes until we really walked at our walking speed. My whole body felt refreshed after the walk and I was very satisfied with myself that I was able to complete a 10 km walk. After the walk, my feet had some blisters and mud as the ground there was muddy.
On that same day in the evening, I went to the Esplanade to watch the band and co concert. The concert is quite successful and I feel that the music played by the band and the co is really good. One can see that the band and the co have practised really hard for this concert. Besides, what is impressive is one of the performances by the co where one student from 03/04 performed solo. The thing that impressed me is that he didn't read scripts when he was playing with his musical instrument. Furhtermore, on that day, I witnessed how people dressed themselves up to watch a show in the esplanade. Some of them dressed formally with nice clothes and pants and dresses. It was a fashion show to me on that day.

Service 168 is now one of my most frequent boarded service. It plies from Bedok to Woodlands via Tampines. The reason is that it is now fast to take this service to Woodlands rather than taking MRT. The time required to reach Woodlands from my house is around 30 - 40 minutes depending on the waiting times of the buses.

The End

A new me

It has been almost three weeks since I have last blogged. These three weeks were filled with enriching experiences and very valuable lessons that I possibly could not learn in the classroom. First up is the Track and Field Meet 2005 in the 28th of April 2005. A few days before the actual meet, I have problems handling the recruitment of the participants involved in the March Pass as many students are not aware that they are in for March Pass. Perhaps, the House Captains just write down their names in the list of participants for the March Pass without informing them. Luckily, Mr.Alex Lee, our teacher has managed to help us avert this imminent and impending disaster. Luckily, the whole Track and Field Meet 2005 is a success and there are not much screw ups during the March Pass in the actual Track and Field Meet 2005. Everyone has laughter and fun at that time and of course many free drinks and free foods. This is one experience that I will probably never forget because this is the first time that I have organising this event and luckily it turns out to be successful. Through this thingy, I have witnessed my own flaws and my own weakness. Therefore, I shall strive to minimise my flaws and overcome my weakness and be a new me.
On the 30th of April 2005, I went out with my classmates to Alvin's church. That was quite a new experience for me because I had never attended a church and I had never known about what the atmosphere would be like. The songs that Alvin had sung were appealing to my ears. It was as though that a rock band was singing and the sounds produced there was simply terrific. Although I was not used to the fact that every sentence that they were singing were praising Jesus, I began to love the music and attempted to adapt to this new environment. The speech that Alvin and the youth leader have given is simply very convincing. They talked about opening up our hearts and trying out new things. In my mind, I was cogitating about what is my purpose of living in this earth where pollution already prevails and man are killing themselves. Til then, both of them are the keys to the treasure chest that has been locked for around 17 years. I realised what is the purpose of my life and there was one thing that was stemming me and that was my confidence. My low level of confidence was impeding me into directing myself towards that purpose of my life that I wish to have. I fear that I will take a risk because I have not attempted it yet. After going to the church, we went for a dinner and Alvin treated us to Swensens and I ate an ice cream.
Tests are around the corner as May approaches. I got 68% for my maths and I have this strong feeling that my love for maths has become more and more distant. I began to feel the struggle of the difficulty of grasping cerain concepts in certain chapters. I was feeling very down and weary after long hours of school. The burden that I was carrying everyday to school and back to home was simply too heavy for me. Luckily, there was this Labour Day on the 1st of May 2005 to provide me with a day of rest and a day to catch up. On this day, I went to Woodlands to accompany my friends for revisions and to do our homework. With friends, we all managed to study for 8 hours without rest. That was one miracle for me as I had never persevered for that long before.
As May approaches, I can feel the immense atmosphere of competitions approaching. SYFs and sports competitions have been on the topic in AJC as many students are chatting about the rigorous training schedules and their hardwork and utmost efforts put specially for their respective competitions.
Stopping here!!!!
Avoid scaracity thinking