life.of mine.

2009-07-04T07:45:00.000-07:00

and finally, it's my blog to be updated.

hey guys!

i JUST updated my other two blogs, the harry potter one, and my class blog. oh which reminds me, i gotta link it.. hmm.. remind me if i forgot..

okay, well, apart from my other blogs, it's great to let you guys know that i'm updating that im updating this one again!

shocker, huh?

well anyway, i've been taking lots of photos in my absence. so, i guess, my new hobby, together with photoshop and cycling, is photography. it's a good bundle, you know, and i'm very appreciative to it. i can go out cycling and take photos, and come back and edit the photos to make it look great. most of my pics, which aren't REALLY that great are on my Facebook.

and i started twitting as well! follow me, here! :) it's kinda fun, actually. i can even twit from my phone, which is cool, cos i even do it in school sometimes. SOMETIMES. :P

i have a line up of stuff to accomplish this weekend:
1. complete my homework. they're written on my class blog, by me, of course.
2. 6 month overdue class logo, upsized. wish me luck on this one.

oh, i'm also back in my harry-potter-craze-mood! the website is AWESOMME. go to my other blog, i updated it about it!

and i'm missing eldds like crazy. after all the fiascos, i wanna go back and relive the days i love. and hated. so many memories, so many memories..

well then, apart from those, i think that's about it.

take care, peeps. :)

It's Been A While

2009-06-22T10:27:00.000-07:00

hey peeps.

yes, i know, ive been updating this blog too often. what can i do??

Hehe.

k, on a serious not, by sincere apologies for not updating. well you know, you have these out-of-mood kinda moods, or i'm jus plain lazy.

ok, i'm jus plain lazy.

well, sorry folks, im updating just for th sake of it. It's 1.30 at night and im not in the mood to blog (as usual *rolls eyes*). but as a simple recap, A LOT of things happened in my absence.

i'm so sorry, but with that, byes people. :)

The Camp Which Made Me Cry A River

2009-03-15T23:52:00.000-07:00

hey peeps.

just came back from the student council camp 09 yesterday.

and DAMN it was AMAZING! :D

lets start from the begining...

FIRST DAY

first embarked on the camp around 245++ , cos had to go for prayers. well, my group was brainstorming for a group name and stuff, and being a crazy guy i was, i began pouring in the wierdest names i got. namely, retardiots, milo, CSI, etc. LOL, in the end, we settled for MILO.

the
Mighty
Intelligent of the
Leaders
Organisation of BVSS

wohoo.. so after that, we did something which i forgot, and proceeded to the field for some activites. ladies and gentlemen, believe it or not, BVSS Council Board managed to accomplished a whopping number of 600 success/buddha claps straight on. success/buddha claps are claps where u gotta:
1) spread out your hands 90degrees frm your body
2) raise it all the way up and clap over you head. arms must remain straight.
3) arms caom back to 90 degrees position. not anywhere lower.

YOU try do 50 first, you'll understand the 'success' of it. well, im proud we all accomplished it. :D

then came the station games. consist of 4 stations (all in field)
1) blindfoldedly go to a tray and grab a blue ball to proceed
2) crawl on your elbows under 'barbed' wire (some string) on wet grass with the instructors spraying water over you
3) grab a ring and pass it person to person in your group. the last person would have to throw the ring to a cone. ring has to enter the cone, if not go back to start. 3 tries.
4) throw a ball at one of four board to knock them down. boards placed a few metres in front of you, balls are unreasonably light. -.-

my group screwed up a lot at stations 3 and 4. we went through station 2 for a total of 12 times. my clothes were soaked in water and grass.

well, activities after that weren't much memorable till at night at 10.
we started doing suicides. you dont wanna know what the are, and how many we did.

>>>fast forward>>>

SECOND DAY

heck. amazing race.

the line in blue is the route we took.

an overwhelming 60km, people.

ok, since i don't have much time, i'll just briefly dictate the various places we had to walk to.

1st stop : BVSS
2nd : Bukit Timah Hill
3rd : A playground somewhere in Clamenti
4th : NUS
5th : Kent Ridge PArk
6th : Henderson Waves
7th : Botanic Gardens
8th : King Albert's Park McDonalds
9th : BVSS

14 hours in total. amazing but true! :D

we had a good dinner after that crazy race; spaghetti with meatballs and stuff. and we ate half-watermelons simply off our own spoons. it was fun, until we forgot to pack it after we ate and went for debrief, coming back one and a half hours' later to an ant-filled watermelon.

so yea.

that night, in the guys sleeping quarters.. well.. simply put, stories were exchanged and things happened.. ;)

THIRD DAY

ok, so this is what we had to do, as motivation.

STEP 1 : write our dreams and goals down on a piece of paper.
STEP 2 : hold it up in front of us, our arms outstretched straight and 90degrees to our body.
STEP 3: hold it up there for 55 minutes, each minute representing a year in our lives to come.

yeah, what you read was write, you werent dreaming. 55 minutes of holding your goals in front of you and staring at it till your arms hurt and your brain scream in protest.

but did we give in?

no.

it was probably one of the wierdest motivating training experience i ever had, but hell. im just 14.

and after that crazy hour, it was time to earn our badges from our trainers. and that's when i cried.

the badges were simple, they were just simple ribbons with the words "you are who which makes a difference in me" . or something. sorry, lost it. :P

so we were supposed to go up to our trainers, grasp hands, and exchange thoughts/thank yous with each other. trainers first, then students. and that was when i finally cried, past all those emotional moments we had, after walking 60 km, after watching my fellow friends' opinions and thoughts being shared as they cried, after everything, i learnt on that day, that a simple thank you could be one with such emotion.

and yes, i said thank you to my trainer and i teared up. i couldn't take it. 'thank you' was all that i managed.

also, i want to thank these following people for everything in the camp:
Naufal
Brian
Leonard
Farid
Jeremiah
Shiva
Fathihah
Gowri
Isabelle
Suharti
my teammates, whose names and special dedications would be typed out once i have the chance and i have reached home. im in my granny's house now :D
my trainer, Ken
and many others, whose names may not be here but they still make a difference to me.

so, with this i end this post.

and thank you very much.

I'M BACK!! :D

2009-03-11T20:59:00.000-07:00

hey guys!!

i JUST came back from KL last night, landed at around 10.30ish plus. spent 5 days there doing religous stuff and clebrations and everything, so if anyone who wants to know how my trip was, i gotta say that it is DEFINITELY enriching for me in religion and spiritually. but i cant say i lived the time of my life there though, cos i was staying at a kampung area. :S but im not complaining. it was a learning experience. :)

i guess this was ALMOST a record. 5 days with no internet, computers, chatting, and smsing. the only tiny little exception was songs.. :X i couldnt take it. i HAD to... but what else could i do?? i was freaking bored killing time for 5 days..

anyway. i missed LOADS of people over those 5 days.. here's a 'dedication' thingy of memorial of thingy of me missing you guys thingy. sorry, i cant find the right word.. :S

3E3! - rocker class
inclusive of especially:
Naufal
Hannan
Brandon
Brian
LOL Leonard also i guess..
and those non ex-2e1s but still crazy guys like:
Jin Gen
Yu Zheng
Lynette
Bridget
LOL again for leonard, Clarabelle

next, ELDDS - rocker CCA/Family
literally everybody:
Pooja :D
Afiqah :D
Cheng Ying
Jason
Gowri
Nasri
Khaliesa
Daren
Millisa
Gail
Mdm Maz
and everyone else..

and finally, the other BVSS dudes.
Nhita
Chelsea
shucks, i think of anyone else... but 'everyone else' here also anyway..

HAHA k that took a while...

well peeps i wanna go finish overdue homework.. the ones i didnt hand up last week.. before another pile comes tomorrow.. :'(

be back online l8r on again.. hopfully.. if i dont have anything else my mom wants me to do..

take care! :D :D :D

February Update!

2009-02-28T07:45:00.000-08:00

as those of you who actually bother reading through my blog would know, i update once a month. nowadays only anyway. so here is the update for the month of february..

well, its STILL been a long 'year' so far. 8 subjects isnt that easy to cope with you know. and for the sake of writing, i shall write out the 8 subjects and how im doing with them..

english - normal as usual. the only difference is that the comprehension passages got more 'chim'
e maths - thank god for tuition. or i'll die. now we don;t want that to happen do we?
tamil - horrible as usual
social studies - somth like history. manageable if you memorise facts and understand well.
geography - simple so far....
a maths - similar to the e maths story
biology - its something new, but the teachers expect us to get more knowledge on our own.. i mean, com on.. like we have the time..
chemistry - more or less whatever we've learnt last year. so understandable.
finally.. physics - holds my record of sleepin 3 times in one lesson

so yeah, those are me and my 8 subjects..

common tests are over. thank god. but i really think i should work harder to buck up. i mean, this's just the start of two year's worth of torture. TWO FREAKINN YEARS!! and it seemed like the whole of infinty!!

ok, studies aside, teachers. well, our new teachers havent really comfortably settled with us yet. ok fine, i'll list down the gist of it as well..

mdm irni - i still find her abit wierd. i donno.. i guess i should give it a bit more time..
mdm lock - LOL i shall not elaborate on her.. um... attributes..
mr aw - a super boring guy. physics.
mrs ong - amazingly friendly. she's really a good and likeable teacher.

the rest are still.. okay..

my class isnt as hyper as 2E1 '08. but hey, which class is and will ever be? haha.. jin gen has actually typed a little something about each of us.. i think you can check it out here .. enjoy..

and anyway, we had our cheer practice the other day. the 5 of us (lynette, bridget, hannan, naufal and me) were at the front trying to motivate the class to yell. i figured yelling at them to yell back doesnt help, so i stated playing different camp games with them. and really, they are SOO unenthu. only a handful yell back. lynette got fed up, hong sing got pissed, and i realise i cant be present on the actual cheer date because i'll be going KL. i'll elaborate later.

ELDDS is getting more and more worrying for me. as of now, we got about 10 hours of rehearsals left to the freaking SYF. and we just saw a video of ourselves acting. oh man oh man oh man. we SERIOUSLY gotta improve. and its no use just using words. we really gotta get improvements. or else. C.O.P.

and, before i end this post, the last topic i shall blog about now (im freakinn sleepy) is our new batch of secondary 1 students. they're probably the most ENTHUSIASTIC and ANNOYING (some only) batch ive seen!! they love it here at bukit view!

the most amazing thing is that, we just had a record number of new sec 1s joining ELDDS this year. we got a ZOMG number of 63 members in total, 25 - 30 of whom are secondary 1s. and yeah, for the first time, ELDDS is having an induction camp for them! and guess who's in charge? ME! (omgee more work.. haha not complaining though..)

and i made a new best friend! nhita! woohooo you rock ms milo! and i know you'll think the only reason im typing this is because you mentioned me in your blog. and if you REALLY are thinking that, you're right. hahas.. but seriously man. :D

and yeah, here's my coming 2-week schedule:
3 - 5 Mar [wed - fri] - Sec 3 camp :)
6- 11 Mar [sat - wed] - going to KL
13 - 15 Mar [fri - sun] - student coucillor camp
17 - 18 Mar [ tue - wed] - ELDDS camp

three camps, and a 5-day long trip overseas. i have NO IDEA how i'm going to live through this.

wow. i feel thirsty as though i jus had to present this post for SUSO or something.. well, that's that people. a 1 month 2 week review of the BASIC (emphasis on the basic) overview of what happened in my life. take care..

The first few weeks of school... (ONLY!!! :( .. )

2009-01-23T01:38:00.000-08:00

okay. i realise i update every month. once. or twice. its not my fault you know. i'm busy nowadays.

well here i am, updating my blog for the month of january. and trust me when i say this, A LOT OF THINGS happened the past one month and fourteen days. lots of emotions, incidents, fedupness, stress, and work.

basically, i've been working on the school newsletter a lot nowadays. and its taking up A LOT of my time. i'm not complaining though. i have been enjoying going home late and stuff, and hey, at least got something to do, right? so now, my usual routine after school is simply going to the artroom to have lunch, put on some headphones to blast music, and slacking. ok fine not really. i'll be working on my newsletter as well.

also, i just realised we're a short two months away from SYF. which adds to the stress im getting amounted in my head now. emotions are really running high nowadays, and we're being even more serious about this thing. personally, i feel nervous already. really. ok tell you guys what. i wont talk about this now. i dont wanna ruin my mood.

and guess what??

the super long weekend is here!! hooray!!

i really need this break man. ive been grinding my brain out the past three weeks for the newsletter, and, thankfully, ive FINALLY printed the first set out for editing, which means i got a break from mr nonis's annoying bugging.. no offence man... and i dont think it'll last long... sigh...

so, for this weekend i've already got a list of things to do:
- a one day camp tomorrow. so there goes my saturday. im not complaining again.
- the class logo board thingy. that's artwork.
- shucks. just remembered. class and eldds t-shirts.
- councillor picture thingy for the BVSS Student Council board wordpress thing. overdue for three weeks. hehe.. sorry haniff..
- HOMEWORK!! curse you pooja, you just reminded me...
- and continue with my newsletter.
- finally, im planning to go cycle one of these four days. take a few more shots here and there.. you know.. enjoy myself. cycling is one of my favourite (actually my super favourite) things to do to simply get my mind off things.. away from all my troubles.. and maybe this world..

well that's more or less it. a simple wrap up of my first few weeks of school. sigh.. it seems like two months.. GOD!!

well, take care. see you guys soon.. around school or something..

bye!

the holidays...

2008-12-14T18:06:00.000-08:00

well, i figured i should blog once every 'memorable' phase in my life. And the 'memorable' phase happening now is the December holidays in 2008.

well, i can't really say that it sucks and its boring and stuff like what a lot of other people are saying, because im rather active during the holidays.

but, before i bore you guys with the crappy details of my holiday life, i'll have to inform the world of something:

i'm going to 3e3!

yeah, its so wierd.... i even forget which classes are for double and stuff man... whats up with this school??

yeah so, back to my holidays. like i said, its not SOO boring, but its not SOO entertaining either.. but the sad thing is, ive to wake up at 8 plus like almost everyday and go down to lavender for a religous class im having there... i'm not complaining though...

my birthday's coming up in a week! well, i'm not really expecting anything big, but its good to know when you're a year elder than you were the day before.. you know..

the holidays have been rather productive actually.. but im too lazy to elaborate here... :S

well, thats my 'update' for the past month. if you guys actually understood what i wrote, because i don't, leave a tag on my tagboard..

see you.. soon...

a two-week recap...

2008-11-14T01:00:00.000-08:00

hi people.

long time no post. so, due to overwhelming respose (actually just from pooja), i am finally updating my bog!

3 cheers!

anyway, a lot has happened since i las updated. but the most important thing is the piece of news which i just recieved today:

I'M GOING TO TRIPLE SCIENCE BAYBEH!!!

ok, thank you for the applause... now for the wrap up of the past few weeks....

firstly, the two camps:

- Student Councillor cum PSL Induction Camp 2008 (whoa, that's a mouthful)
- Performing Arts Camp

they were loads of fun! really enjoyed it, man!

i realise being the media crew in a camp is funner!! really enjoyed those four days, especially with the great ELDDS pals on the first camp (pooja, milissa and khaliesa) and the other ELDDS mates in the second one (jason and daren and everybody)...

and we should have ELDDS overnight more often. its so damn fun!! and, guys, i don't know why but i was exceptionally disturbed that day...

also, over the last two weeks, i watched two movies:

- Madagascar 2 in GV Yishun
- Quantem of Solace in Lot 1

Madagascar is HILARIOUS!!! anyone's gotta admit, it has some of the corniest and craziest jokes in there. really. and truthfully, i've never watched a single Bond movie. so i didn't know what to expect of it.

it was rather disappointing. the storyline sucks, but the stunts and effects RULE!!!

also, there's a BIG mishap between jin soo and a certain someone... which is causing a lot of problems... which keep making the ELDDS dudes go for emergency meetings... which is annoying... ok just ignore what i'm sayin here....

anyway,

TAKE CARE JIN SOO!! NICE KNOWING YOU FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS!!!! WE SAT THROUGH CRAP TOGETHER, STOOD THROUGH CRAP TOGETHER, AND SAT THROUGH EVEN MORE CRAP TOGETHER!! TAKE CARE MAN!!!

AND DAMMIT, YOU BETTER READ THIS.

and yes, that was the recap of what happened the past two weeks.

my results are out!!

2008-10-25T00:58:00.000-07:00

yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for me to release my results for the public to see...

english........... 71 A2 (highest in class!)
mathematics... 83 A1
science.......... 74 A2 (a close one!! aargh!!)
geography..... 79 A1
history........... 80 A1
design&tech.. 78 A1
visual arts...... 74 A2 (a close one!! aargh!!)
home ec......... 67 B3
literature........ 63 B4
tamil.............. 53 C6 (don't care!)

class position: 11/37
level position: 35/193
percentage: 72.2%

wooohooo!!! it turns out my mom is not overemotional about my tamil, probably because the first thing i told her was that i got 7 As out of 10 subjects. she just wants me to change tamil tuition! hopefully i can get to triple science stream next year... even ms reeena said, "Oh GOD, i've to see you next year also ah??!"

hahas...

bloody jin soo got highest in class again..

for those of you who are jealous of my grades : WHO CARES??

for those of you who would like to congratulate me : THANK YOU!!!

for those who think you're better : SHUT UP LAH!!!

well, that;s it for blogging now. i'm planning out my holidays schedule in google calendar.. it's gonna be quite packed...

byes!

AAAAAARGH!!!

2008-10-05T22:20:00.000-07:00

im still halfway through the exams and i can't take it!!!

i need the exams to end!!!

i've already made a list if what to do after the exams:

update contacts in phone (haven't done. i'm carrying two phones around.)
upload singapore street directory 08 to my mothers HTC Touch Diamond
school diary 09 cover
OSL logo which i owe Haniff since Feb.
go mountain biking at Bkt Timah (and further)
other stuff i can't think of now
oh yeah. and EAT.

you know, no matter how much i eat, i can never, ever gain weight! really...i got some kind of unique disease...

*sigh* now gotta go study for tomorrow...

see you guys around...

the start of doomsday is arriving....

2008-09-24T01:12:00.000-07:00

*sigh*

end of year exams are gonna start tomorrow, but i've really no mood to sit down and study. what's more, i've been wasting my time for the past hour or so...

firstly, i had the mindset of bloggin something...when i opened iTunes. then, i remembered that i wanted to find all the album art in my iTunes library. of course, then, i started...

and after about an hour, i finished about half the library.

well, i gotta go now to start revising for the darn exams...

see you guys around..

recap of what happened...

2008-09-05T02:31:00.000-07:00

wow. it's been a whole month since i posted.

well, yeah, to wrap whatever happened in the past month, i got my results back (they weren't that bad), been updating the eldds blog frequently (sadly), am fasting currently, acted in teachers' day skit (which a lot of people liked suprisingly, because ms ang was the one who wrote the skit), started on my filming, and my room has finally finished its makeover.

come to think of it... that's quite a lot!

it's the holidays now, and i'm supposed to be revising, but i feel exceptionally lazy today. i've been revising the past few days you know! and like i mentioned above, i've been updating the eldds blog a lot. check it out.

ok, got to go now. i feel guilty for not updating much, but it's getting late here.

bye.

P.S. please add me in facebook!

a waste of my time.

2008-08-02T07:12:00.000-07:00

what a day.

half of it was a waste of my time. no offence to the the people of the handicaps welfare association but, the flag day we had just now was a waste of my time. it' late (according to MY watch - though it's only 10:15), and i'm tired, because i had to get up early in the morning (6:30 in the morning to be exact - no difference compared to the times i am waking up to school nowadays). thus, at 7, i called jin soo and told him i was still at yew tee. it turns out that i wasn't the latest guy - jun bin came 5 minutes later and leonard came to yishun itself at around 8 plus.

so, just now in the morning, i told hannan 'i'm already pissed today. it's saturday in the morning and i'm still running to school..!' he laughed because i was there cursing and saying that i've been running to school and i won't do it again the whole week and still no difference.

i don't wanna elaborate on the flag day - for more details on it you can go to jin soo's blog and check it out...

anyway, the new harry potter trailer has been released! it's just the overview of one of the memories Harry finds out in Dumbledore's 'special lessons' ... i'll be updating my blog soon, so be sure to check it out to watch the r=trailer if you don't know where else to go and watch it...

ok, goodnight guys. wanna sleep now, im bloody exhausted.

bye.

newsletter...

2008-07-26T23:54:00.000-07:00

hi guys.

another sneak peek of the newsletter....yeah, i know, the old layout which i did was for fun, but i still gotta use the basic layout we had. i wanna get this done quickly so i'll be able to see my hardwork in print.

anyway, gtg now, doing tamil compo...-.-

byes

hahas, i gotta macbook!

2008-07-23T03:49:00.000-07:00

it seems that i blog whenever i have the macbook. i love it.

it's fun to type in the macbook, you know. you don't need to press so hard, and you can bring it wherever you go. it's fun.

well, it has been exactly 17 days since i last posted in my blog. so here i am updating.

obviously, many things have happened the past 17 days. but i won't be typing about all that. i'm just to lazy to type. the only thing which i wanna highlight i the new filmmaking workshop i am attending. i am the director, obviously. which means i am the one coming up with the storyline. but don worry, i won't let the cat out of the bag so soon.

i would only tell you guys one thing - it's about amnesia.

ok, i've typed a lot. and i gotta go do some work.

bye.

and im tired, by the way.

an important thing to note in life.

2008-07-05T02:50:00.000-07:00

hi guys....

let me warn you of something:

never ever sleep in tight pants after cycling relatively long distances. you'll get damn painful crams.

trust me.

yesterday, i went cycling with naufal and his bro again, from yew tee too all the way to jin soo's condo in upper bukit timah road. man it was crazy cycling there. the hot sun made all of us sweat like dogs, and st***d naufal kept saying we'll be going downhill, which, in the end, made us go uphill. you can imagine, how fed-up i was. i simply got off and started pushing myself uphill. but my mood changed from grumpy to happy on the way up as naufal saw a lizard and started running with his bike up the hill, and said something hilarious. naufal has a phobia of lizards by the way...

in the end, after going uphill, there was indeed a downhill slope, so we enjoyed the rush of wind at us. we reached jin soo's condo soon after that. that genius took like ten to fifteen minutes to come down and fetch us and guess what was his reason for being late?

he thought he was dreaming when i called him to tell him we were coming there.

yeah, i know. WHAT THE HELL. so after laughing my head off and being pissed for a while, we played soccer at the mini soccer court at his condo for an hour.

after that hour, we were still sweating like dogs, but at least we had refreshments. but, we were deeply depressened at the idea of cycling back home. but we did it nevertheless, with jin soo following us until the rail mall. the trip back was rather faster and less tiring for some reason.

anyway, here's the statistics of yesterday's cylcing trip:

- i took about 3hours and 15 minutes.

- it took us about twenty minutes to cycle the distance from ten mile junction to jin soo's condo.

- i cycled about 13.2 km. calculations thanks to google earth.

- i sweat like a dog (for the third time) and was VERY HUNGRY when i reached home.

pushing away yesterday, here's what happened today.

basically went to religous class and tamil tuition. tution was at toa payoah, so took the mrt with my best friend, omar, who was going to the MOE ExCEL fest at suntec. i did him a poster in the mrt...

yeah....he did say i SHOULD be a graphic designer...=P

this is another one done on the way back....

well, gotta go..

bye..

harry potter blog updated.

2008-07-01T01:21:00.000-07:00

ok i've finally updated my blog. check it out here.

bored again.

2008-06-18T00:01:00.000-07:00

hi all.

guess what i'm using to blog now?

a macbook. well, it's not mine of course...i'm using it to design the school newsletter. which means i get to keep it for a whole week. but of course, no pain, no gain. it's not easy designing the school newsletter. it took me two days to think up of a basic design for each page. here's some grabs of the screen..

!!! WARNING-SPOILERS AHEAD !!!

-cheer competition picture of 2e1 i found-

-random picture of me i took using the mac-

-snapshot of me blogging-

-me doing the designing of the coverpage (green)-

-more designing of other pages-

horrors. and fun.

2008-06-11T22:49:00.000-07:00

wow. it's been a long time since i've posted in this blog, if you don't count yesterday's one. i think almost a whole month. and a lot of things had been happenin durin the whole month. A LOT. here's the list:

- exam results

- parent-teacher meeting(S)

- shell eco challenge with ms reena

- late for the learning journey

- 3D animation workshop

ok, i know its only 5. but it spanned over three weeks.

firstly, the exam results. got C6 for tamil, B4 for lit, B3 for english (guess why), and A1s for the other four subjects. not bad, right? but noooo, the parent-teacher meeting had to come in extra. so, as you all can imagine, things got dirty. i don wanna elaborate further.

then, the week after, had the shell eco challenge with riyaas, jason, daren, and ms reena. that day was definately fun and enjoyable. especially to ms reena. lol. first, the flag-off was at science centre. we had to finish to finidh a challenge at each station, of course. it's something like an amazing race.

so after science centre, we went to republic polytechnic. and after that to orchard. and after that to telok blangah. and after that to west coast park. and after that to hort park along alexendria road. and after that finally back to the science centre. it was fun finishing the challenges, and the place which really caught my eye was the temple off telok blangah road. it was TOTALLY eco friendly. it was amazing to know even a temple is making an effort to be eco friendly. wow.

after the temple was fun also. we began takin lots of pics of ms reena. lol. pissed her off. i only have one. most of them were taken by daren, and one with a certain someone...=P

so that was about the eco challenge. the next day, there was a learning journey to the changi meuseum. guess what had happened? i came about one and a half hour's late! i mistook the consent form and came at about 0830. even so, when i reached the mrt station at about 0800, calmly, i found out i forgotten to bring my ez link card. i dashed home, only to be attacked by countless of calls from ms angf, my mom and the tour guide. damn. my sis came down and gave me money for a taxi ride, and the irritating part was that the taxi took about 15 minutes to come. to cap it all, it was raining heavily.

now you know what a day i had then. =(

ok, sad times pushed aside. the week after that, i had the 3D animation workshop. enjoyed my self like hell man! check out the full story at the ELDDS blog. i'll try to upload a few more pics about that soon.

well, that's what happened the whole month of absence. hop i'll update soon...

update!

2008-06-10T22:24:00.000-07:00

its been a loooonng tome, since i've posted, but sorry guys, its gonna be longer! i was planning to update today but i have to go out somewhere now...

i've updated the eldds blog, check it out here...

see you tomorrow....hopefully..

skipping school...

2008-05-15T19:58:00.000-07:00

guess what.

my room is still in a mess. this time, the whole computer unit is crammed on the table, and my bed is in the middle of the room.

oh yeah, forgot to say something really important.

IM NOT IN SCHOOL!!!!!!
skipped school today. felt unwell anyway, nobody can blame me. im thinkin of going for eldds later on, but it would seem very wierd if someone catches me after school. its not like on speech day, when i did not go to school also but went for the speech day later on. there was school upto 1030 that day only..

so now, my MYE marks...*gulps*

english >>> no idea wats the overall
maths >>> 70 (whew. jus enough for a maths)
tamil >>> don wanna talk abt it)
science >>> 80.5 (cheers man!)
literature >>> amazingly, i forgot. don wanna take lit next year anyway.
d&t >>> 51/60. donno wats overall. highest in class anyway.
geography >>> 80 (cheers again! gonna take geo nxt year)

so this is it. i feel very wierd now telling the world about my marks. whew..

my room's changing!

2008-05-08T20:23:00.000-07:00

hi people.

you've no idea where in the world i am.

im on the floor.

why? 'cause my room is under the first stage of the room makeover: the process of moving the furniture in. the new cupboard for the study room is gonna come in later on today, so we gotta clear out the room first. my mom planned on moving the big study table (with the computer of course) into my room. unfortunately, the arrangement of the two tables did not get arranged as how we planned, so it is temporary against the wall with the computer in parts on the floor.

ladies and gentlemen, remember this day. or maybe yesterday. anyway, for the first time in five years, the power socket which keeps my pc running for 24 hours was finally switched off.

since i had to redesign my room in SketchUp, i had to fix my computer back together. since i had nowhere else to put it, i left the whole thing on the floor.

anyways, i missed a very important thing which i have to say which happened yesterday...

EXAMS ARE FINALLY OVER!!!!

yeah man!!! that's why my mom finally gave in and gave me the new password.

well anyway (how many times have i said 'anyway' so far??) gotta go soon...will update again maybe later or something..gotta get ready for friday prayers..

bye..

bored stiff.

2008-04-30T23:36:00.000-07:00

w'sup people...

jus posting for the sole sake of posting, cause havnt posted for a long time.

so hi everyone.

and hi blog.

guess what happened yesterday. guess. no, im serious, guess what happened yesterday. something happened which you all would not have guessed. my television was stolen.

yup, its true. this guy came into our house wearing this PHILIPS uniform claiming he can fix our television, but, after that, he said he has to bring it back to the workshop to change the display panel or something.

and with that, he took off with my 32" LCD TV.

so now, im alone at home, bored stiff from doing mathematics problems, and blogging. i asked my mom if she could give me the password for the computer, cause i needed some entertainment, and was literally being driven into madness being alone at home without a single form of entertainment.

strangely, my mother allowed me to use the computer. after calling me ten minutes later. and in that ten minutes something wierd happened. after hanging up, i went to the kitchen, took a packet of crisps, went back to the room, sat down, munched on a few crisps, suddenly had an urge of destroying something, switched on the computer, and jabbed in a few buttons.

lord, behold, it was the correct password. and then my mother called. and here i am.

so anyway, gotta go soon. best of luck for all your exams anyway.

bye!

overdrive.

2008-04-03T05:56:00.000-07:00

god, my mind is going crazy...

i mean, nowadays, i got those crazy times when i would think of a lot of stuff, all at once, which makes me soooo exhausted.

like, for example, blogging. i would think of blogging about the speech day rehearsal i had jus now, and my brain automatically thinks of pointers i should include in my post. then, i would think about another thing to blog about,the problems i am facing now, and brain starts automatically listing down all of them, which makes me feel down.

not only that, i had an inspiration to write about my yearning to have a cat, but that sends me to missing my uncle's cat and remembering enviously about naufal's and suharti's cats. i even began to design a poster on cats, but since i had no mood, it turned out horrible.

and just in blogging, i have three crazy things to think about. like, i have a life, and i would start thinking about EVERYTHING i do in life. OMG. i dont think i can take it.

but, im a guy, and most importantly, im basyar. i can control this.

i need sleep. its the only thing which works against this...

playing a guitar as a muslim - right or wrong?

2008-04-01T05:49:00.000-07:00

i got another question to think about...

i told my mom about riyaas lending me the guitar to bring home, and asked whether anything was wrong with playing musical instruments in islam. she just said (not blabber) something about the prophet only allowing the drum thing, but not stringed instruments. so i (actually my mom asked me) went to research about this topic online.

interestingly, the first website i got after searching in google is in wikipedia (click on the link to find out more). why wikipedia? a quote caught my attention: "Islamic views on the allowance of musical instruments and singing"

i got a lot of interisting information which gave me the idea to blog it out. first of all, a quote from the prophet himself: "There will be among my Ummah people who will regard as permissible adultery, silk, alcohol and musical instruments." Does this quote refer to instruments other than percussion ones? Or the whole variety of musical instruments? If the latter were true, what about the drumming stuff the prophet listened to, played by his fellow followers?

driven by these questions, i delved deeper....

i found out that there were different types of islamic music around the world. some such examples are the nasheed and sufi music. unfortunately, this doesn't answer my question.

so i delved even deeper. again.

i found out that some beleive that only vocal music is permissible and other instruments are forbidden. most muslim scholars say that since the Qur'an and the sayings of the prophet are against music, music should be forbidden.

some other muslims accept only drums.

yet others still say that instruments are allowed as long as it does not use any sinful acts or anything bad. this is agreed by modern muslim scholars.

in islam, the prophet mentioned that if there were to be anyhting a person is unsure of, about whether the thing is allowed or not, it is advised not to carry on with it.

weirdly, this does not answer my question. so is the playing of guitar allowed or not?????

what do you people think?

2008-03-30T06:29:00.000-07:00

hi all.

another two eldds logos. finally, these are gonna be the final ones. i did the white one first, and inverted the colours to get the black one. please comment and tell which one you like more.

you know what? i think i am turning this blog into more of a personal photo album...

hmmm...

i shouldn't be blogging.

2008-03-16T08:01:00.000-07:00

im mad. MAD. crazy. mental. MAD. but not retarded. and mad.

why? you may ask.

doing freaking literature homework, the 10-frame thing, listening to Rang de Basanti's Khalbali, and BLOGGING at 11 at night, when im supposed to be snoring my ears off. why? HOMEWORK just made me mad. MAD. crazy. mental. MAD. but not retarded. and mad.

im telling you, whoever who wants to read this, and i can't beleive you're reading this, im gonna be late for the morning-newspaper-reading thingy. im telling you, suharti is gonna be pisssed..unless she got herself late too...

my parents are asleep. obviously. my sister's beside me, playing with the rubik's cube and refusing to sleep. because she's scared to sleep alone. well, we had to go through that era once, when we were afraid of the dark..

and here i am listening to some crazy songs on my new speaker system. this thing made me realise how much ive been missing listening to things in my com. the sub-woofer is nice. NICE.

ok, now back to my work. the title for this post is 'I SHOULDN'T BE BLOGGING' . remember that.

well anyway, bye.

eldds logo.

2008-03-16T02:36:00.000-07:00

hi peeps.

another eldds logo. pls comment.

gotta go..my mom's hunting me down.

bye!

update!

2008-03-11T21:28:00.000-07:00

hi people!

the pics above are so-called ELDDS logos i made...they're nothing much, i just found some great fonts and decided to play around. oh yeah and see some funny mas selamat pictures here and here and here and here and here.

anyway, enough of pictures. let's read about me.

im basyar. muhammad basyar. it's the holidays now and i've jus got a chance to blog. so here i am blogging. had to go back to school yesterday and monday for rehearsals and supplementaries. rehearsals were fun, but the supplementaries were obviously boring. zzzZZZzz...

guess what? haven't done my homeworks yet...i know im gonna regret soon...

oh well, bye!

my new posters.

2008-03-03T04:23:00.000-08:00

hi everybody.

above are the two posters i have submitted for the poster design competition in school. the topic was 'reduce, reuse, recycle.'

please comment and tell me which one you guys prefer...

bye.

problem after problem after problem. dammit man.

2008-02-25T04:01:00.000-08:00

i have an important notice to tell you people out there.

my mom has put a password on the computer, which means i can't blog as and when i like. only on those rare moments when the computer is on. sad. i was beginning to blog frequently. maybe the habit will wear off as time goes by...

well you can't get anything in life. like getting back my rubik's cube stolen by ms ang. evil. and she says i have to stay back for an hour for it. fed-up, that's what i feel about her now.

sad.

and wat's more, we gotta hand-up our dnt project tomorrow when we are just half done. i donno how we are gonna cope with it.

alamak. jus remembered tomorrow got geography. which we will be getting back our common test papers i think. i feel scared. i can't quite remember a single thing in the paper, but i feel scared anyway. freakish scared. weirdly scared. now not anymore, 'cause im writing crap to kill time when im supposed to do my homework. better start doing it then.

well, bye.

p.s. i did quite well for science. yay!! =)

the dim sum dollie episode.

2008-02-21T19:55:00.000-08:00

hi people. im back from the esplande. went to watch dim sum dollies:a history of singapore with everyone else who went there to watch (duh). well basically, it's hilarious. funny. and PG. really, parental guidance is advised. i do not want to give examples though. i wanna keep my blog clean.

well the beginning of the story includes me and naufal, the two heroes, coming about fifteen minutes late. =P. but can we do? i had to satisfy my needs - had to go to bukit panjang plaza to get a chocolate milkshake from mcdonalds.

so we met at phoenix lrt and left for school. at six. when we were supposed to be there about ten minutes before. lol. but anyway, when we alighted at bukit batok, riyaas called and said about a hundred and sixty people were waiting for us. OMG.

well no, just joking. he just said we were the last two idiots who weren't there, so our bus could not leave. so, for the first time in history, naufal and i ran for school. literally. usually, our concept of running consists of us taking a half a step each second, but this time, we flew.

we soon reached the gate, panting like nobody's buisness, despite the distance we ran was just about 200m. we could see our class, cladded in casual clothes, shouting at us from the canteen. but anyway, we were there and that's it.

and so we got onto th bus and left for the esplanade, reached the esplanade and watched the show. it was then when everybody was wondering who won the youth olympic bid - singapore or moscow? but suprisingly, we found out during the show, when the fat dollie said in a singlish accent, 'singapore so kiasu, grab this, grab that, even grab and win the youth olympics lah!'

this is what i call, proffesionalism - to be able to act spontaneously.

after the hilarious comedy, we returned home, and i had a ride from naufal's parents. i reached home at about 11:30, and i quickly ate food and slept. im blogging now at home when im supposed to be suffering at school. lol.

anyway, as you can see, i uploaded the video of linkin park's 'in the end'. hope you enjoy it.

bye! =)

the new skin.

2008-02-16T05:41:00.000-08:00

ok people, i'm back. as you may have realised, i changed the skin of my blog. why linkin park? no idea. the idea just came into my head, and after fifteen minutes of browsing, here i am with skin.

the first one to see the skin was naufal. he said it's too bright. but naufal, i'm telling you white is the next 'in' thing. other people might agree with him too, but in my opinion, i chose this skin as it has a sense of simplicity along with modern complex and style.

over the next few days or weeks or so, i'll be working on getting most of the three linkin park album's songs into this blog. as you can see at the bottom of the sidebar, i have already gotten four, and chose 'nobody's listening' as my favourite. i think there might be an error in listening to it, but like i said, i'm working on it.

"whoever wants to read through my blog, read it. whoever don't, get lost."

this is my motto for my blog. or maybe for you guys, really. nowadays, i think i am getting more and more tensed up over things. i think. i don't really know. but as one of my life mottos say, 'be happy, always,' i shall.

this brings me to another topic for my future posts featuring me - my life mottos, followed by what we do during ELDDS. but most probably the story about ELDDS will come first. so wait. those who don't bother, don't. thanks, anyway.

hi. again.

2008-02-15T05:05:00.000-08:00

as a lot of bloggers would type, 'i haven't been blogging in a while' , this term relates to me also. i haven't been blogging in a really LONG while. so thus, here i am blogging now.

as you may have realised, i haven't any picture in this post. unfortunately this spoils the tradition. i can't help it. im both too lazy and blogging just for the sake of blogging. but as i reflect back now, i realise there are many things i had done to be good enought to be type-writtened in a blog.

perhaps the reason to my unusual return to the blog is naufal. i dont know why he is so interested in blogging all of a sudden. i was talking to him through skype just now and i realised it is AWESOME! whoever who has a skype account, please leave your username in my tagboard.

two paragraphs up, i mentioned that i was lazy. maybe it is due to the fact that i ran the beep test just now. i got up to level six lap one, and it was the other half of the class's turn to do, i ran with them anyway and got up to level five lap five. i didn't stop due to tiredness in the first run. since i had run up to level five last week (due to a stitch in my stomach) i thought running another level would show mr tan i can do it. my feet mere left exhausted the rest of the day.

i have to say something about ELDDS. it's fun. the only thing i look forward to every wednesday and friday is ELDDS. we get to slack and have fun at the same time. unfortunately, my laziness kicks in again at this point of time. maybe i will blog about what we are doing for ELDDS some other time, 'cause it's getting late.

so alas, it it time for us to part. bye.

what happened to me today

2007-12-04T05:02:00.000-08:00

hello people! decided to blog today, cause i really wanna keep this blog going. so, as you can see, i made a picture for today, 4th december. spent half an hour doing it in photoshop, which i downloaded as a trial. a 30 day trial. well hope you like the pic anyway.

i cycled with naufal and his bro razim just now for around two hours. im rather exhausted now. i met them at the canal behind my house. then we cycled down the canal towards teck whye. they did'nt bring rollerblades llike yesterday, because half the route to teck whye is rather bumpy. it was then when naufal realised he did not switch off the computer and we had to cycle to his flat. and i met his cat again. god knows why it doesn't want to come near me. =( well anyway, after that we set off cycling again to mac, cause he and his bro had not had their lunch. the had a quick nip on a double-cheese and macChicken. and off we went to chua chu kang park.

there we played at the playgrounds - some adventure thing and a ropey thing. i got blisters when i played on the ropey things cause naufal and his bro kept shaking the rope ladder and i had to hold on to it for dear life. when we reached the top of the ropey playground, we spotted two kids playing soccer not far away (actually they were beside us), and naufal wanted to join them.

so we did.

naufal and i vs two kids and razim. we lost. damn. i don wanna give the details cause i was the keeper. but i was fed-up at their last goal.

after playing at the park, we went to the cck interchange to see if anyone had returned naufal's wallet. first they asked if naufal had already gave a report. he had. then they said they will call if they get anything. idiots. wasted my energy cycling there.

finally, we set off to the canal in yew tee, which is near my house. naufal fell down on the way. lol. his plastic bag snagged on his tyre. he's alive, don't worry. and we continued. once we had reached the canal, we had one last race. i won obviously.

i estimate that we cycled for more than 7 km. wow.

i reached home, weak to even carry my bike, ate some prata and used the computer for a while. found some brilliant drawings of harry potter characters. it is copyright protected, people. i am just publicising it. you can see the pics here and here.

and that's what happened to me today.

NFS ProStreet Pictures

2007-11-23T02:31:00.001-08:00

NFS ProStreet just came out

2007-11-22T00:19:00.000-08:00

hi guys. as you can see, i am updating this blog more than i am updating my other one. this shows that i am making an effort. anyway, Need For Speed ProStreet jus came out, and i have uploaded a video for you guys to see. hopefully, it loads fast enough on your computer. as you can see, the graphics in this beautiful game is AWESOME! it's soooo realistic. go on to NFS.com to check it out.

well anyway, back to my life. might be going out with my family later on, but my mom keeps putting it off. i got nothing to do nowadays!!!but whenever i think about it, i remember about my homework...

*guilty conscious*

sigh...

hi people!

2007-11-17T01:09:00.000-08:00

hellooooo guys...dis is the second blog i have done so far. took an hour editing the whole thing to my liking. or maybe two. well, who cares?! it's the holidays man. now my sis's bugging me to leave the computer. she wants to listen to some irritating high school musical song. i hate them. tooooooo much 'drama'. she loves it. sings and dances to it 27 times everyday. gosh. how much can i take? *sniff* well anyway i'll try to update this blog more often than my other one. you know the one here bye. see you soon.

p.s. hope you like the pic. from http://www.gregmartin.com/