Looking Back Ain't No Way Forward.

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“Within the truth hides the lie... within the lie hides the truth.”

- Mukuro Rokudo, Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, Chapter 165

Hurray for graphics tablets!

This entry was created on Monday, November 30, 2009, at 3:49 PM.

I've been wanting one for quite a long while now, so yipee!!

Bilingual policy: primo.

This entry was created on Thursday, November 26, 2009, at 4:33 PM.

"Successive generations of students paid a heavy price, because of my ignorance, by my insistence on bilingualism."

- MM Lee Kuan Yew

Gee, thanks for realising that only when I've just completed 10 years of education. Thanks for realising that only after I had to become one of those who had "paid a heavy price". I'm feeling quite exasperated now since I've practically been a sort of guinea pig for those up there to discover that their education policy was entirely wrong.

Not that I'm blaming MM Lee, of course. I respect him immensely and I suppose we ought to excuse him for his slip in judgment, as after all, he is only human. An exceptional one, but nonetheless, human. Now that he has admitted to his mistake, I now have yet another valid and wonderful excuse for my lack of expected competence in Mandarin.

"Why is your Chinese like that?"
"Can't help it. Lee Kuan Yew made me learn Chinese the wrong way."

How marvellous! I think I like Lee Kuan Yew even more now.

Our favourite chief disciplinarian.

This entry was created on Wednesday, November 25, 2009, at 3:51 PM.

So cheesy but I love it!

For the pursuit of happiness.

This entry was created on Tuesday, November 24, 2009, at 8:41 PM.

A little piece of happiness, a little piece of heaven.
My most indulgent purchase in quite a while. It's in traditional Chinese and I can't fathom like 90% of the text in it but never you mind - I shall brave through it with a Chinese electronic dictionary by my side and a steely resolve.

Arrivederci's halfheartedness.

This entry was created on Monday, November 23, 2009, at 2:05 AM.

I hardly ever visit my own blog these days. I think I'm afraid. Afraid of the emptiness it now holds due to the blatant negligence of the owner. I'm sorry, I think I am becoming an extremely lazy blogger. Wait, maybe I already was starting from several months ago. I've long lost the touch. I can no longer blog as casually as I did two years ago. It isn't easy (at least for me) to vomit out a chunk of text as you'd think. It takes time and dedication and most of those two now are spent idling on MSN and browsing through miscellaneous websites.

I think I might try to put in more effort for the next few days. Might.

Les Miserables.

This entry was created on Thursday, November 12, 2009, at 10:19 PM.

There is a growing group in Facebook that is most worthy of my mention! It's name? I Studied Venice For O levels 2009 but never come out for O levels 2009!

The following are a series of comments on the group's wall made by some very sad individuals whose misery is our entertainment. The bigger the font, the funnier I reckon it is.

"Doge Pietro II Orseolo, Doge Enrico Dandolo, Doge Pietro Ziani, Doge Ludovico Manin. Screw you guys with your incomprehensible names that took me a week to memorise."

"screw venice la...dogz....study so hard then nvr come out"

"F*** LA. SERIOUS. VENICE CAME OUT FOR EVERY FCKING PRELIM PAPER I SEE. AND IT DIDNT F**ING COME OUT FOR O's. I STUDY, MAKE NOTES , RECITE , STILL DREAM OF IT SIA!"

"lesson learnt, don't just bank on one chapter/ one chapter plus backup

one reply: but the backup also never come out lol"

i studied governance, healthcare, srilanka northern ireland, deterence diplomacy , and lastly VENICE... 5 bloody chapters... in the end..... OTHER 3.....

Probably one of the more depressing cases of the lot. But in the first place one is supposed to study themes not chapters. One theme consists of either two chapters or one very large and extensive chapter.

"lol"

"i studied,i memorised every heading for rise and fall of
venice,leadership,government reforms,development in industry and
trade;corrupted government,external threat,social and political
problems,what came after the headings,i had no idea!"

"my most sincere sympathy for all those who only studied venice and nothing else."

"b4 i went into exam hall i was like cramming venice into my head
when i went in i open to last page
then i told the examiner they gave me wrong one, supposed to give me 2007 paper"

"Stupid chapter took such a long time to clear. Thank goodness for globalisation tho. Or i would have stabbed myself to death with a pen right on the spot."

"love this group."

"not gna go venice for holidays in the future"

"I WANTED to reach for the EXIT, when i flip to the SEQ's page. Thanks for all the.."THIS ONE CONFIRM COME OUT!""

"We all learnt something.Pietro ll Orseolo,Dandolo Enrico and Pietro Ziani are douchebags."

"no wonder venice fell. It caused so many students to fall."

"I studied venice till I vomit blood."

"My teacher said "healthcare and venice sure come out, die die must study!" and Yes! they "CAME OUT" and I wrote my essays "FLAWLESSLY", so flawless until there was only my name on it xD"

"Have what, Venice question 5."

Just so you know, the SS paper consists of only 4 questions.

"The last words my humans teacher told me was, ''Wow, You're a risk-taker for studying Venice only.''"

"$20 for mdm *****'s head"

I feel a tinge of pity those people, but don't think it's unfair of me to say that those who had studied Vernice only really had it coming for them. You don't just study one out of five themes for your 'O' levels and expect it to come out when chances are, it won't.

Dignity starts with (her) choice.

This entry was created on Saturday, November 07, 2009, at 2:15 AM.

4 papers and 7 days more to absolute freedom. At least, for about two wholly months. My days have been rather uneventful, and with all the examinations going on, it would seem prudent for me to have embarked on a prolonged absence online. Since I've had only 5 hours of sleep, I might not be as coherent as I'd like to be.

I was going to tuck myself in at 1am last night when I was hit by a sudden and spontaneous urge to check my entry proof's timetable for the Literature papers, which I had presumed would commence at 8.00am and 2.30pm, like the rest of the days before when there would be 2 papers on the same day. Lo and behold, the goddamn paper revealed, to my great horror, that paper 2 was to take place at 10.25am instead. That then gives me approximately between 10 to 20 minutes to study the whole book of 'Whose Life Is It Anyway?', which I, depressingly, had not revised for at all. I had thoroughly believed that the paper would be held at 2.30pm, and if it does, then I would have had ample time to read through the notes and text so why bother to study the day before?

I honestly have never felt so cheated in my life before. Of all times, must it occur during the 'O' Level Examinations?

Thus, I was left with no other option or choice but to cram whatever 'Whose Life Is It Anyway?' I can into head for 15 minutes. Then off to bed I went. Bo pian.