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kahswee — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:37:00 +0000

Gosh. It has been so long since I updated.

Had a superb holiday with family at Genting and Kuantan. Lots of photos taken. Went to Lake Chini in Kuantan, ate SUPERB bak kut teh in Kuantan, sat on Space Shot 5 times (damn, should have sat on it 15 times to make it memorable) and ALMOST sat on the Flying Coaster. And also came to my own reasoning why Genting won't win the Sentosa IR bid, in my humble opinion.

That's that. Just had a great time relaxing and re-energizing after this year's whole load of projects. From the sucky (won't name) to the great (Grad Nite and Closure Day).

Now at my cousin's house. Staying here since FRIDAY night. Goodness, this is even longer than my Malaysia vacation. Main purpose is to help my aunt update her website, but appears that most of my time is just rotting my life away. Like now. Haha.

Seriously, I've been living a no-lifer's life by auditioning non-stop until 6am. From 11pm. Non stop. Just to experiment. And I hated it. Yuck. :P Should go out more often. Then my cousin's apprently addicted to Maplesea's Delph server. Eeeek. MAPLE IS SO BORING. :x

Going home tomorrow and will start to have a proper life. Like doing Maths homework (cue laugh track).

And guess what we are doing as part of our no-life project? MSN conversation with people in the same room.

Grad Nite 2006!

kahswee — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:09:00 +0000

Yesterday was GRAD NITE! Finally my most-close-to-the-heart event has arrived! Been lookin' forward to this day for quite some time, especially since Pracomp (company) gave us the invitation cards.

It was rather great on the overall, and many remarks commented that this year's grad nite is better than 2005. (heh, too bad Grad Nite 2005 comm). Besides the person using the mic most of the time, the rest of the event is quite great. Also ignoring those minor minor cock ups that made me rather frantic (including the thought that I had LOST my laptop!)

[And in case you are so evil to think that I really lost my laptop, I'm using it now. Heh. Too bad.]

It has been an exhausting day yesterday. From 9am to around 11.45pm, it was all grad nite, grad nite, and more grad nite. Met Shu Xuan, Hui Shan, Felice and Yao Zhong at school and lugged everything from school to The Pines. It was really amazing - we only forgot to bring the glue! =)

We reached the Pines and found out that the Sec 2s, with Russ, are already there. Then time flew as Russ and I test printed on his DAMN cool (though slow) portable PictBridge printer. However we didn't use PictBridge technology as we edited the photos in Photoshop before printing them out.

When the Sec 4s start to stream in, we are just getting ready for everything. So when they did come, it was quite smooth going and all. Except for the fact that my photo booth "instant print" thing was not so popular.

It was indeed a memorable night. =D

Hope next year's comm will live up to this year's standards! Hahaha.

Mr and Ms NH 06 - Michelle and Leonard! Ignore that Ms Nan Hua 06 there. Haha.

GRAD NITE 2006 COMMITTEE! WHOO!!

P.S: Going off to family vacation tomorrow! YAY! Hope Open House would be a huge success for those involved (especially Council)! :)

Free Vista

kahswee — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:44:00 +0000

Received an email from Microsoft this morning, and it generated the same buzz and excitement as the original invitation to join the Longhorn (now Vista) beta programme. Read the excerpt and you'll know why:

We would like to take a moment to thank you for your contribution to Microsoft Windows Vista. Quite simply, it would not be the product it is today without your time, dedication and thoughtful feedback. You should be proud to have helped us develop the highest quality, most secure and most reliable Windows to date. To say "thank you" we would like to provide you with a complimentary copy of Windows Vista for your use.

Oh my gosh? And the best part is it's NOT any ol' cheapskate Windows version ala Windows Vista Home Basic.

We would like to offer you a copy of the software and a product key for Windows Vista Business Edition or, if you are eligible Ultimate Edition. You are eligible to choose Ultimate Edition if the machine on which you intend to install Windows Vista already has a DVD drive and is currently licensed for DVD playback, i.e., you have already licensed one or more pieces of software for playing back DVDs

Well, I DO have a DVD-ROM drive, so I picked Ultimate. That's it. A product key worth US$399 will be sent my way in a week's time.

Boom. Boom. Wow.

Will be using the key on my future computer. Cuz my current one's outdated.
:)

Blangah Rise

kahswee — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:31:00 +0000

The past 2 days have been really special, as part of an attachment thingie with the people at Synergy, those coaches who brought the NH Intl Summer Camp. So obviously Hui Shan was ecstatic (no surprise).

The attachment was quite fun and enriching into seeing how the trainer handles a primary 3 class effectively and we had our try too (Hann Qian, Yueli and I took a primary 3 class). The kids kinda like us and we like them too. Haha.

Had maths lesson today about permutations and combinations. Found that it's an interesting topic (compared to the other A Maths topics). Kinda liked it as it was more LOGIC than MATHS. (aka Sudoku)

Delighted to see my grad nite card design come out today. I felt that it was very pretty on paper. It has a dual function too, to be announced on grad nite itself (it's a pretty simple idea; yet I feel it's superb)

Tomorrow is Saturday. Haha. Have nothing to do. Lookin forward to seeing the kids from Blangah Rise on Monday. ;)

Waiting

kahswee — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:27:00 +0000

Waiting is the most ridiculous thing that you can do on a Wednesday evening.

It's stupid.

It's dumb.

When Sony has a software for its Handycam camcorder that "features automatic music video creation" but does not have basic import functionality. What do we have? WMM! Yay!

Liwen: And also that we waited 2 hours for YOUR PRESENCE, Kah Swee. WHATEVER.

Back to Kah Swee.

That is seriously lame. Anything there is a stupid thing at Blangah Rise Primary tomorrow. We're going to be faciliators for something stupid for little kiddies. And 19 suay councillors will be with me.

And Liwen has snatched to type that lame phrase from me. Really.

Vista Boxshot

kahswee — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:32:00 +0000

One word.

WOW.

Hopefully Microsoft will be nice and send free copies to its beta testers (those who are "official" and can download builds from Microsoft Connect). ;)

Eventful.

kahswee — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:44:00 +0000

Super eventful since Closure Day.

So eventful I don't know where to start.

Let's start from Friday.

Friday
Went to Pines with Yao Zhong on the good ol' 170 for food tasting for Grad Nite. There, with Ms Wassan, Mrs Lip, Shu Xuan, Hui Shan, Yao Zhong, Russell and me, we ate the 8 courses that were supposed to be served on Grad Nite itself. Rather satisfactory, no major complaints.

After food tasting we surveyed the (small) Grand Ballroom and talked about "plans" with the teachers (and we almost threw away our grad nite identity thanks to someone - won't mention who). After the "discussion", YZ, Hui Shan, Shu Xuan and me went to Vivo (thankfully) to watch Death Note. Guess what? All the times suck so I have to go home.

Since it was HS's first time at Vivo we walked around Vivo's "harbourfront" and HS and I suddenly had the urge to eat Swensen's. Hahaha. Yeah, so we wasted Russell's $30 treat for us to watch movies on a Regular Earthquake (my first!).

After which, Hui Shan and I shared a chocolate fondue while Yao Zhong and Shu Xuan had their Banana Split (and were obviously jealous as our fondue looked SO much better).

On the trip home felt damn happy. Must be the chocolate.

Saturday
Cousin came over to my house and stayed overnight. Rather slacky day. Went to Newton to eat BBQ chicken wings and cheng tng.

Sunday
Woke up in a particularly hungry and tired state. Was so hungry that I had to take those (yucky-tasting) lemon flavoured biscuits. Even so, the biscuits didn't make me less hungry and I still felt especially tired.

Something was wrong.

Went with family + cousin to Ghim Moh hawker centre where I felt really unwell and uneasy (too tired). Didn't join family for breakfast as I went out of hawker centre and into some block's void deck and rested on the cooling marble bench. Wanted to puke but can't force myself to puke.

After reaching home, slept for around one hour (had to wait for clinic to open). Soon I felt a fever arising and again, felt so sick I was so weak (can't support the weight of my body; dunno why).

Went to doctor, on way home vomitted everything out (including that yucky tasting lemon flavoured biscuits). Since it has been a damn long time since I vommitted, the cramp of the stomach when one vomits seemed to fade off from my memory and suddenly came back due to this illness (virus).

Went home, ate medicine, slept for 3 more hours while family went out for tuition and other stuff. Woke up, felt much better, but pathetically tired still. But I insisted on going out with my family for dinner outside.

The trip outside improved my spirits and I felt real better but again, was super tired. Never felt so tired before. Felt like sleeping everywhere we go. But I did met Ji Peng and some others at JE library where I borrowed some books.

Once I reached home I SLEPT, but did study some O level Chinese. And slept. And hoped that I will feel better tomorrow.

Monday
GCE O Levels Chinese exam. Thankfully I felt alright (although a bit tired) when I woke up. Was relieved. Exam was okay. In fact, the period from morning to night is okay. Hahaha.

After O levels, Yi Yang and Yan Wei came to my house to eat lunch and play Xbox. Was funny when I kena squashed by YW in Halo 2 (I had NO idea that that would happen). Went back to school with them for Physics remedial where we had some fun. =)

Tuesday
Woke up feeling 100% okay. But mother still worried for me so I didn't go out for sheeshers' movie outing. Slacky day. Went to play TSR Sims 2 Challenges and was rather addicted to it. Yeah. Did some A Maths and physics homework.

:)

Closure 2006

kahswee — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:21:00 +0000

today was the second last day of school and there's a closure assembly. seems that most people have enjoyed it, especially watching the videos.

- From a sheesher's blog :)

It's over.

It's my first school event that I'm overall i/c in... and I personally felt that today's closure assembly was a smashing hit (read the quote above).

All my effort and hard work (including the painful waiting for the video to render) have paid off with a thunderous applause at the end of the last (the 5th) video. Thanks to the applause from the audience, I felt that my hard work for the school has paid off. And I could sense that the school enjoyed the videos that I've made. Thank you so much! :)

[And in case you think that subtitling is a simple job, please think again.]

Would like to thank the various members of the Nan Hua family who were agreeable on being recorded using my digital camera. The video won't be there without your contribution and help. Thank you!

Would like to thank the Council as well, for dancing so superbly today during the closure assembly. It was a great job, and the 3 cheers were simply deafening. May the Council Spirit last until Orientation Camp (by then, the spirit would be higher. Haha)

I would like to thank ITMC (my dearest CCA, haha) for the PA assistance and the instantenous (really) response of volume requests. Thanks for putting up with me for these two days... especially the Computer Audio! Thanks to Cheng Yi and Jonathan especially.

Lastly, but MOST importantly, I would like to thank my fellow EXCO, especially Enna (my 2nd i/c) for making those beautiful hearts that we gave to the teachers and support staff. Would like to thank Ji Wei (and Enna) for accompanying me in taking the different videos, and helping me in the persuading process. I would like to thank Shu Xuan (tho' you're not in EXCO, you are much treasured in Council), Yi Hui and Si Ian for helping out with the dance. Thanks a lot.

Thank you so much. I really hoped that I have set a high standard for next year's closure, which should be taken over by the 15th Council EXCO. ;)

Closure Madness

kahswee — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:30:00 +0000

There's this cool little thing called School Closure Day, and it is on Wednesday. Our favourite Council in charge told the Council EXCO about this wonderful and exciting event just a few days ago.

And the thing is like... a few more days away?

The basic idea is to ask everyone to thank everyone, and to share their gratitude. Like thanksgiving, only on a way bigger extent. (The bigger the extent, the more tired the council will be)

Told on Wednesday. The real thing is on next Wednesday.

Isn't that superb? We just LOVE last minute challeges. Makes us awake (literally).

Anyway I've been so focused on this supposedly easy and small project until I have been losing sleep (thus I'm awake, haha) and me getting the nice little flu virus going around, supposedly in some secondary school AVA room where I started to sneeze real badly.

Going around the whole school the whole day to get people to be recorded for Closure Day. Tiring experience, definitely, and THANKFULLY most of the people we approached are great (special special thanks go out to canteen aunties, Mdm Atun from G.O, and the security guard auntie. Thanks so much!)

Now that the day's over (thank god), the year's toughest deadline project lies in the next 2 days. I'm taking this night off to properly REST (I'm seriously sick) and be energetic for next day's "work".

Also went to Commonwealth Sec yesterday for a Cyber Wellness presentation in their AVA room (hmm, why is the phrase AVA room so familiar? Oh yeah, read above). Met Shun Jie and horror of horrors, SJ totally changed 180 degrees compared to primary school. Just like me.

Even though we went seperate ways, we were still very great friends and nothing beats seeing him on a tiring day. And yet, even as he changed, I changed as well. So now we are rather similar again.

Just like in primary school.

Awww.

Anyway, got to go and sleep soon. Must get rest! :)

The Shock

kahswee — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:39:00 +0000

First off, the shocky web-thing. I'm considering moving this Blogger database to a WordPress one. Yes, yes, you may be asking - why in the world do I love to change so much? It wasn't so long ago since I regretted using WP and went back to Blogger. Still thinking about this... but main thing is that the address won't be changed and no crap bookmarks will have to be re-bookmarked (or favorites, whatever - I prefer using Firefox terms)

Next, I receieved a shocking result for English. So shocking that I have NEVER thought of getting such a score for English overall. Of course was happy with the result. Brought a nice ending to the HORRENDOUS results I've gotten during EOYs.

After school had EXCO meeting. First half was Orientation Camp meeting with Mr Ng and Mrs Lip (also working with both for Grad Nite - gosh), and second half was just loads of talking and updating on the various different things coming up real soon. Had a nice time in the SAC discussing with the rest of the EXCO about many stuff.

READ MORE CHINESE, people. I may be considering to change my posts to all chinese so that we can practise ~~typing~~ writing Chinese and reading Chinese for the O levels in 2 weeks.

VivoCity

kahswee — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:04:00 +0000

Firstly, I'm not going to the Thailand Service Learning Trip anymore, if anyone would still be asking me. Reason is due to poor results (of course, there are many other reasons behind the decision). So yeah. Those who are going, have fun =D

So... my family and I went to VivoCity today and just spent around 2 hours there. Not that we intended to spend such a long time there (time is a subjective matter; for me, 2 hours is quite long), but the deals at Giant were too good to resist.

So we did some unexpected grocery shopping. Best thing yet: Spend $20 and get free loaf of bread. Real good deal, IMHO. Yeah. But the mall is real huge and real cool. I like those groovy curves going all around the place.

Curvy...

As I've said, it's huge, and it's also buzzing with people. ESPECIALLY the food court (oh, why wasn't that a major surprise?), which was split into the halal (Banquet) and non-halal (Kopitiam) areas.

And the Kopitiam card is a novel idea... in fact it's rather genius. Cash-free and all, and stallholders don't have to find any change. AND you get a 10% discount with the card (the blue one). But if you have a huge family, or a huge crowd or group of people, one card will not be enough (we found that out today). But it will be rather stupid to have 2 cards and waste some extra money just for convinence.

So it's a good and bad thing, if you look at it with a larger group. But then again, it will be the path to the future food court... and the future world, where there's only contactless cash cards and such.

And the haze is getting bad again. Up and down. Up and down.

Just like life.

Up and down.

Jun He's B'day

kahswee — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:24:00 +0000

Jun He's birthday today. Went to Jurong East KBox in the morning with Jun He (duh), Yi Yang and Yi Hui. Had a great fun time. So funny and excited. Saw some Sec 2 councillors at JEC having ice skating. Good to see them bonding during our school's marking day. Hehe.

After the KBox thing, which I have found out that their meals have improved tremendously (even got mango pudding!), went to Jun He's house to play Maple, Audi, and Winning Eleven (THE PENGUINS ARE SO CUTE!)

By the way, last Saturday, had Mid Autumn Festival at Nan Hua and also had a Hanyu Shui Ping thing at River Valley. Got Writing, Listening, Speaking and Reading tests. The more interesting one is the oral one. Since they can't afford to slowly have oral tests with every single person. So they are "smart", kind of.

Everybody gets a tape recorder. They play a pre-recorded tape asking the questions, and you just answer straight into the tape recorder. Simple, but it feels odd at first. Very odd. Speaking into a recorder in the presence of many people was real odd. But it was rather okay in the end.

Oh, and Mid Autumn was great.

Results back tomorrow. Sigh.

No Haze

kahswee — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:47:00 +0000

Yesterday night. PSI was 150. Now: 35. Also known as the haze just flown away from Singapore overnight. And I don't know why NEA is still insisting that the air quality is unhealthy. I feel that the air is fresh now!

Normal day... cousins came to overnight and they have made so much noise until I'm positively irritated. Shout here shout there... at least DON'T shout in the lift "I'M DROPPING I'M DROPPING!". But they just went back and our house is so quiet and peaceful.

At Jiang today, got 2 boys mistaken me as a Sec 1 kiddo. Goodness! I so boy face is it? Never mind lah, take that as compliment. :)

Marking day tomorrow.

Hazy

kahswee — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:50:00 +0000

101. That's how bad it is. Can smell the burning smell in the air.

Anyway, didnt' realise that it was Mid Autumn Festival yesterday until dinner time. Took some photos of the event. ;)

Haze

kahswee — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:33:00 +0000

Gawd, it's so hazy.

PSI of 80, can you believe it?

Highest so far this year in Singapore.

Super hazy at my area. Bleah.