Sunday, December 30, 2007


its that time of the year everyone dreads. as we come to an end of year, we look forward to something new in the next, hoping it will be good but we dread going back to school. as of now its 30/12/2007 at 4 55 pm. i am left with half of maths and many pages of gp thing plus my initial plans of revision is an absolute zero. if you are in a similar state as me, do not worry because this is where resolutions for the next year come into place!

you see its so amazing that by setting resolutions, you feel less guilty that you wasted your life in the previous year because you aim to do better in the next. guilt is such a powerful emotion and no one likes feeling it.

having said this though, out of 100 people who set resolutions, maybe 1/2 a person fulfills it. but no need to despair, although it is saddening we never fulfill them, it sort of gives us a direction in our life for the next year. i am sorely tempted to write a mega summary of my life this year but 1)i am too lazy and 2)i need to continue on homework later. but i think i did blog about significant events for the year so thats the summary of my life-in my blog archives.

without further ado, on to my resolutions for the year 2008

1) study hard for A levels and score at least 4 As and a B in 5 subjects
2)go out less often
3)listen during lectures
4)spend more time with my family
5)be more appreciative of my mother
6)be committed during the final stretch of council term
7)study every week with wg and javier

now to set resolutions you must have a reason for doing so and not just set for the sake for setting.for 1)it is obvious is to do something good in my life and not waste my 12 years of education and not be able to make it into a university. for 2), i have been going quite a lot this year and in the process spending lots of money. i could spend these time and money on other more productive things. 3)i have not learned anything from lectures this year and i think if i start learning something, i will save a lot of time on re reading the lecture notes to understand.4)i have neglected my family quite a bit, refusing to go for outings and eveyrthing rather spending time with my friends or sleeping at home. afterall blood is thicker than water and family should be my first priority.5) i am not proud of this but i am rude to my mother at times and always fail to appreciate all she does for me. i think it is high time i repay my mother for all she has done for me and the first step is to appreciate her. 6) next year will be when everyone will be busy since its an A level year but i think i should not let this be an excuse to slack off. i made a commitment to council last year and i should go all out until investiture. 7) this is just a dumb idea wg came up with but i guess revision will be important next year.

may 2007 be a good for year for you all and let 2008 be a better one!

Twistin' at 12:49 AM
Thursday, December 27, 2007


its been hectic the past 1 1/2 weeks. i think i only got 1 night of at least 8 hours sleep if u exclude tonight cause i am free tomorrow!!! WOO! I AM FREE! NO OGL STUFF! NO GOING SCHOOL!NO WAKING UP AT UNEARTHLY HOURS LIKE 7 am or earlier. BUT.......got homework to do. i have been putting it off so much and continuously reassuring myself i have time which i dont of course. so now basically in a nutshell i am screwed for homework. lets hope i can finish it in 2 days.

on a more festive note, merry 3rd day of christmas people and happy 17th birthday to huiqing and jermyn.

Twistin' at 7:12 AM
Friday, December 21, 2007


too tired to post anything much so just some small updates. today's ogl training camp was quite fun. haha i think we cheered the explosion cheer so many 1000 times that every og knows it already. but i still think its cool nevertheless.

then after that me and the lame one chin hao crashed the vhall. cannot tell anyone if not later ___ will get into trouble. but it was only to bathe cause i have no idea why the school is so dumb as to lock the toilets. so anyway we went to mike's house for a 433 gathering. met quite a number of my classmates, turnout was great.had a great time crapping around usual and we dwelled into many unthinkable topics rated r-21 of course. then ms chia came and we had to talk about other things.LOL. i really miss life in sji so so much. though teachers have left in the short one year. quite a number of teachers that taught me have left the school including mrs martina chan who was me and mark's favorite teacher last time. it was quite shocking to be honest. mara has left too and i guess sji feels different? but what it has taught me for the past 4 years and how it moulded me into the person i am will definitely not be forgotten. ora et labora!

random but this is my favorite valour cheer

EXPLOSION!!!!
ARGHHHHHH
BOOM BOOM SHAKE SHAKE THE ROOM(x3)
VALOUR VALOUR
FLASH OF DOOM!

Twistin' at 8:25 AM
Sunday, December 16, 2007


you know something i really wish i can turn back time and relive my life from secondary 4 to now another 1 million times before i go into j2.this is because from the time i enter j2, my life will whiz by so quickly i will not have time to think about the times i enjoy in the past.

i really think i am wasting my life away this holidays. i must be one of the few slackers who did nothing productive this holidays. 5 weeks of rotting in china has been continued by more rotting at home. i am so lazy that i dont even want to go out with my family. my attempts to do homework are all half-hearted and i at the rate i am going i will never finish my homework. people around me all have done something useful this holidays such as going for attachments or going for OCIP/immersion trips etc and the only thing i can say i achieved is watching finish 297 episodes of dragonball =.=

when wang guan was telling me on what he wants to do in the future and what he wants to study, i do not even know what to reply him when he ask me what i want to study. in fact i am really impressed by what he wants to achieve and everything. he even has his ideal job in his mind. my gosh i have no goals in life now. so what if i get 5 As in A levels if i do not know what i want to study. i would be better off bumming now and quitting school and trying to make ends meet by working as a cleaner or something. no skills or education required.

haiz really dont know what the fuck is going on with me these few days. i keep thinking that my life has no purpose. zzz. i sort of know what i want my life to be like in the future but without knowing what i want to be i think its just useless. i want to study medicine but its difficult to get in and i need to waste 10 years of my life studying if i ever want to earn a reasonable salary and be a somebody. i cant even survive another year of intense studying let alone 10. i think i might be interested in aerospace engineering but with taking physics being the biggest mistake in my jc life, i cant see how i can excel in studying that. i want to travel around the world but i cant think of any job that pays well and allows me to travel around except being a pilot and my dad is not exactly very supportive of this idea. my childhood ambition of being a lawyer is also way out. i cant even piece a proper english or chinese sentence together now. this is very shocking cause i always consider myself to be relatively fluent in both my languages. i dont know why this is happening. i can just join the people who speak neither english or chinese but a mix of both broken of course.

well the good news is i still have around 1 year to know what i want to do and also 1 mroe year to achieve something in VJC. i should start reading more to improve my chinese and english.

on a really random side note welcome back javier!

Twistin' at 1:20 AM
Saturday, December 15, 2007


today's banner painting was quite lame actually.i was super sian and had the dont wanna do anything syndrome. we had 50000 people painting. i ending up giving morale support to everyone. then me and jeanne were deceived by aravind. but in the end i helped with the touching up and stuff when most of the people left so i guess i was not entirely useless.

was tired to the max. slept 2 hours and woke up. i am still feeling tired. i have no idea why.band concert yesterday was quite entertaining. me aravind and hangs were the only representatives from 07s42.(taima and dhilshad do not count cause they got free tickets so they cannot be considered supporters) i really miss band a lot seeing all the trumpeters playing. the vj concert layout is about the same as that of SJIMB and i will always take the extreme right seat in any concert i perform in. i can even remember who i sat with. oh well but i was telling darren ho that joining council was not a bad thing, in fact its great being in council but perhaps not continuing band will be one of my regrets.

i want to go for AJ and CJ combined concert but got nobody to go with because most of the SJIMB people from the batch who will be interested are performing =.= so i am praying that the fat thing does not suffer from severe lack of sleep after his camp so he can go.

life is getting pointless now. i have nothing to look forward. ok maybe orientation but i do hope i get a rocking OG like IRHUMBA! because if i get a real boooooring OG, i will just cry.but then again being an OGL we are supposed to prevent such things and turn the most boring OG into a crazy one. next week is going to be a crazy week with OGL activities/irhumba outing/maybe class outing?/cam's and jeanne's concert/stayover at javier house/christmas party at gwen's
with that said i should continue with homework before i run out of time. perhaps life is not so pointless for me after all. oh the irony. guess its all in the mind

Twistin' at 5:07 AM
Monday, December 10, 2007

PICTURES!


me and ah ma relaxing at the foot massage thing

me and sis

ah ma!

me and ah ma b4 she left china =(

WUXI


the buddha hand thing

some lotus statue thing

the laughing buddha

birds

a kid was crying when asking his mum to carry him up on the elephant after i took this.LOL

the super huge buddha statue



EMO

the lotus thing opened up

WENZHOU


long flight of steep steps we had to climb

mum and dad struggling

a forced smile cos i was tired to the max

CANNON!

more climbing at the 'great' wall



never heard of this person

1400 yr old tree(whats left of it)

YAN DANG SAN


a crocodile's mouth

2 mad people doing some balancing thing on a thin rope 10000000000000m above the ground

same mountain in a different angle(now its a woodpecker)

me and my mum

me and my sister

drunk in the beautiful scenery.LOL

family!



the plunge pool



me mum and sis

me and dad

DUCKS!

mountain again

ensure safety

me and sis again

waterfall(whats left of the pathetic thing)

the guanyin which squirts

at the top





mum and dad















Twistin' at 9:04 PM
Tuesday, December 04, 2007


i changed my msn nick. after close to 4 years. goodbye thenotso1~vanhelsing . i realised i am abit too old for such a childish nickname. so now i have changed it to wayneteo(till i can find a better name). lol

Twistin' at 8:01 AM
Monday, December 03, 2007

mountains, mountains and mountains

its been quite an interesting trip in china so far. all my weekends have been spent sightseeing at places around where i stay. its quite amazing that china has so many rivers/mountains/islands/great walls for you to see. i have been to at least 5 places to see atractions already =.= but the place i went to wenzhou 2 days ago was definitely the best. i originally intended to post some visuals namely pictures and videos(wow OP line lol) however due to the fact that blogger in china takes about close to 9 years to upload one picture, i have strongly decided against doing so since i will probably take a lifetime to finish uploading pictures.so...that will wait till when i get back.

with my intention to write my longest post ever on blogger disrupted by the inability to blog pictures i shall narrate my story of the trip to wenzhou instead. my mum was really enthusiastic to see another mountain attraction though she has been to at least 2 mountain attractions in china prior to this but she went ahead to book the tour anyway. so on saturday at 6 am, we left our home to go to some pick up point for the long ride to wenzhou. even though wenzhou is in the same province, it took us almost 6 hours to get there. and considering china has a lot of provinces it probably takes about 1 million singapores to fill all the provinces. at an unearthly early morning, it was already very bright and i wanted to sleep on the bus considering i slept at almost 2 earlier that morning. but alas, when the bus came i was shocked. i was not expecting much as there were only 10 of us on the 'tour' but the tattered looking bus was signs of things to come. i sat on a seat which could not be adjusted and when the driver sped off at a speed of 100 km/h, the intense vibration on the bus probably led to resonance which is actually the phenomenon where there is maximum transfer of energy from the driving force to the driven force or something like that. so with an intense vibration on my butt, it did not take long for it to first become uncomfortable then numb. so i was once again deprived of sleep.

after what seemed like an eternity we stopped at some place before wenzhou to see the great wall of something. unlike the great wall of beijing, it is a mere fraction of the size of the one in beijing but i guess its the same.you see the same brick walls, get amazed by how they manage to build such a thing back then in the olden days. you climb and walk till you die and when you finally reach the top, you look out and see the scenery, snap a few pictures, then make your way down again.

with the "great" wall conquered, there was another challenge ahead of us, enduring the remaining 3 hour ride to our next destination. i manage to sleep for a while i think and we arrived at this jing qu which is actually pretty famous. there are like many many stretches of mountains with stories and the very anticipated waterfall. we went to see this particular mountain where at 8 different angles, you are able to see 8 different things. its totally cool and amazing how we manage to see from a crocodile's open mouth to a woodpecker. the tour guide was quite good and she managed to get us to see what we are supposed to visualise. when we finished the 8 angles thing, we proceeded to the waterfall. WOO. i was dam excited cause i have never seen a real waterfall. but i was greatly disappointed. the tour guide told us that due to a lack of rain for the past month, the great da long qiu(the waterfall) is a pale shadow of its actual beauty. so as expected we saw no shit waterfall but treated to a sight which can be visualised as a person peeing on a urinal and slowly trickling down. its so unfair cause on some display photos they had, the waterfall was just chio. but either way to plunge pool there was still a good place for pictures and we took quite a bit of pictures there.

by then it was already close to 5 and we went to check in our hotel and have dinner. the hotel was a 2 star hotel but i think it was decently furnished. at least the things inside worked. we then went to another mountain range to view the night scenery there. unlike singapore, many countries choose to splurge on more important amenities other then lamps on the roads and it includes china. so with only the torch of the tour guide and sparing number of lights around, we depended on the stars to navigate and not stumble on the steps. but the scene was marvelous, it was really cool how we manage to see one mountain into an eagle,an old man, a pair of breasts =.=. its really cool and you wont able to imagine it unless you are there.

following that we headed back to the hotel to rest for the next day where we were supposed to wake up at 7. but despite my fatigue, i was not able to sleep till late once again. dam the screwed biological clock of mine. so the next morning when we went to yet another mountain range. its interesting that the entire place is called ling dang jing qu bu there are like at least 4-5 different areas within this entire place. so each time we went to see something different. the highlight of this attraction is definitely the cool lift that brings us up to 68 storeys up the mountain. its dam amazing how they manage to build a lift to bring us up 68 storeys and its built on the mountain also. super cool. the view up there was breathtaking. there was more hiking to do as we had to move across a thin bridge in midair supported only at the 2 ends. so if you drop down, its highly likely you will be unrecgonisable. this is where the unscrupulous merchants jian tactics come in handy. you see when you are high up in the mountain, you will want to go higher and see mroe things. so being the jian and smart merchants they are, they build a little attraction there then collect entry tickets which cost an additional 3 dollars to the initial entry ticket you pay at the start. so of course we paid the money to go higher and we had to climb up on wooden planks supported by a net below with air below it once again. so dawn and my mum were both really freaked out and took 10 years to climb up but they managed to in the end and we got to the other side. we saw a few lakes which had a mini statue in the middle. the intention of it was to earn more money. so basically there were places for you to throw coins in and when you hit the target, you get to see water squirting out of the statue. there were 4 in total. a guanyin one, a dragon, a ji gong and a snake. in case you had no money, the people at booths nearby were prepared with tons of 1 dollar coins(probably reused each time people throw the coins in) for you to change. i manage to make the guanyin and dragon squirt the water but by the time we reached the ji gong one, we ran out of coins.lol. took lots of photos before we went down to ground to watch a breathtaking performances. across 2 mountain peaks lied a rope. pretty much like those you see in the moscow circus. only difference the mountain one is about 200 storeys up and i witnessed something really spectacular. first, one person scaled down the entire mountain jumping around. then, another feng nv balanced on the thin rope doing stunts along the way doing 360 turns and stuff. thankfully neither of them fell and died and we witnessed a really good performance. of course the people there did not miss out on money making opportunities. before the show, they started inviting people to sit at what is the best place to view the show. so people starting flocking the area and sat down. then this lady will come and ask you what tea you want with different grades of course. the flask of water was already ready on the table and to sit down, every person needed to buy a cup with tea leaves. for first timers like myself, we wanted to watch the show and thus paid to see it. so technically although the show was a free performance, we had to pay in the end through the tea. how jian but i admire their money making ideas. its really no wonder china produce some great entrepreneurs such as ___ and ____. i dont know any of them actually but i am sure you get the idea.

it was time to go back after that and the long journey was more bearable since our butts were already immuned to the numbness. we arrived home at about 5 and we then went to dad's boss house for dinner(on his invitation of course).

something really irrelevant and out of point. i think next year euro 2008 will be real nice to watch especially the group of death. HOLLAND FTW!

Twistin' at 2:47 AM