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HC Econs notes ftw..
Monday. 9.15.09 1:16 am


My school's Econs notes. What a.. nice analogy. Haha. Thanks Aaron for pointing that out on Twitter - seriously I have never noticed it before.. probably because I have never read through that tutorial answer (kind of lost mine >.<)

Well, speaking of Econs, we finished both papers earlier in the day. 3 essays and 2 case studies in a little more than 4 hours of total writing time is no joke. I did 2 micro essays though, wonder if it was advisable..

Am currently in no mood to revise through Maths for the paper later. The good thing is that Wed is an off-day for us. The only downside is.. another 3 hours of writing, thinking, and squeezing the life out of every single brain cell in me.

I told William that I would blame Stephenie Meyer if I screwed up my Prelims. She wrote the series that got me addicted for 3 days during the Sept break reading instead of studying.

Mid-Autumn Festival's coming once again.. 19th Sept in HC and 2nd Oct in NH. Wonder if there's anyone who would be interested to go.. we could go together. Haha.

Just wondering.. Where did the Millenial Orchestra get their percussion and other instruments? Haha. The start-up cost must be huge man.. Lol!

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I can't believe I'd actually (since its so close to exams) ..
Friday. 9.12.09 1:22 am
Finished the whole Twilight series earlier in the night. Just like what Liting, and Kymm previously mentioned - its hard not to get addicted to the whole plot. Spent 3 days on it though, which equates to roughly the same amount of time not studying. (guilty pangs strick again).

I'm sincerely sorry that I couldn't break free of the whole plot to mug like what someone told me to >.< I had been so antisocial over the past 2 days, not even receiving or sending smses, not even to someone. =/

3 more days, ok, actually 2. I. Haven't. Started. On. Econs. I'm so so dead. Haha.

Miracles do happen, don't they?

The past week just flew by quickly. I wish that I didn't need to speak at night so that I could catch up on everything. Sleeping at nearly 5 every morning for the past 8 days or so (even went without sleep one night - the Tuesday night) does have its drawbacks as well - I couldn't force myself awake earlier.

Mock Physics paper on Monday and I surprised myself. I just hope that my good luck endures until the real thing. Maybe I'll have a shot of getting my first A in 2 years ironically in my worst subject. The irony of it all.. Just forces a smile on my face.

Hopefully this feelgood confidence will last for the next 3 weeks or so. I almost forgot how I screwed the GP, but who really cares really. I won't bet against the same few people top scoring again. Its getting so boring trying to anticipate the grades since it only sort of deviate a few marks from the mean most of the time.

Being hurled back into reality after the wonderful vacation, if you can call it that, over the past three days is quite disorientating. I haven't read a single book/ebook in full for i-dunno-how-many-years prior to this.

And the US Open got postponed for another hour again due to rain. From 1700 to 1800 and now to 1900 BST.

Sian, just realised the Flickr images really look hideous with the border around them in Firefox. Use IE or Chrome (prefer the latter) to see it without irritating white lines.

Maybe part romantic/comedy/action/fantasy stuff excite me. Twilight probably ranks up there with my other favourites like Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter (I don't have the last one. Waiting for it to fall below $10. Fat chance, I know - but still worth anticipating for (: )

Does anyone have any nice ebooks to share (No, not LKH's JC romance thingy without an ending because you have to buy it) Haha.

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CHC 20th Anniversary (020809)
Tuesday. 9.8.09 1:14 am
I did not post this up in my previous blog so I'll do it here.. Haha.

Ta-da, the photos from this very very special event - my 4th spiritual birthday, as well as CHC's 20th anniversary. Cheers for another twenty years to come, as well as for all of us to continue to grow stronger and mature in God along with the church (:

(Mostly from Yankai's camera again.. I did not take much photos as my camera was not as good as hers. LOL.)

20th Anniversary!
On the big screen: CHC's 20th Anniversary!

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Waiting outside the Indoor Stadium.. We reached early at about 7.30am to queue. Melvin and Wayne queued overnight, hence we were near the front. (:

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Sarah, Wayne and I

FOP
FOP was held on the same weekend, in the evenings.. (: Heard it was great.. I din't attend it though =/

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Wishes pouring in via Twitter. Lucky to have caught my first CG's tweet. Guess which one is it..

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The Indoor Stadium starts to fill up with people. There was only space for around 15000 people though.

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In the midst of the service.. Having a church service in an indoor stadium - truly wonderful and novel. Imagine this happening every week.. Haha!

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During the interval.. 3 hour mark! (:

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W515 at the end of the celebration service. 6 hours is not enough.. really!

Yes, that's right. The Thanksgiving and Celebration Services lasted about 6 hours in total - from 9am to 3pm! Almost lost my voice after singing so many songs.

The Celebration Service can be viewed HERE. Not sure how long the link will last though, probably another 2 weeks or so. Haha. (Best viewed with IE and Chrome, Firefox tends to mess up WMA in the browser)

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The week after the last week of school >.<
Sunday. 9.6.09 2:25 am
Was thinking of what to post when someone was watching Corpse Bride on Chnl 5 earlier on for a chance to win free movie tickets. (:

The past week was just whiled away trying to cram as much Physics as it is humanely possible. And I'm not even done yet. Lol.

HC celebrated Teachers' Day on Monday. As expected, very little J2s turned up - and only 3 from our class. KAP-ed and went to the Hub (the newer one) to destress by window-shopping. (YES I'M NOT LYING. =/) and ended up burning 45 bucks on a new game just 4 days before exams.

Tuesday was the day itself, and the quintet had their first rehearsal in the band room. It was all going very well until some random Judo lass came along and said we were noisy. Apparently we were lucky enough to be told of by THE ONLY PERSON IN SIGHT IN THE WHOLE FREAKING SCHOOL. So that wasn't very nice. And we were hence confined to the room which was especially stuffy that morning.

It rained soon after, and it was a mad dash to the bus stop with only a paper bag as cover. Headed to Vivo to mug with Kymm at Superdog. Good way to spend an afternoon at a fast food joint that was rather empty. Buisness was so good that some of the staff were fast asleep or reading the papers. The food's good though.

GP was on Friday, and I'm positively sure I flunked it - the second last essay and compre of my entire life. Had our second rehearsal at 4pm. Chilling at the band room at random intervals - the guys watched too much Bruno. Was blown away by WQ's and Val's essays. Their language and use of examples were succinct and varied (esp. the ones on Musics). And they're only J1s =/ Wow.

I never knew Beethoven's Eroica Symphony was about Napoleon. That's rather interesting.. Haha.

AND AND the juniors are going overseas =/ I'll only be there to send them off at the airport. My future is shrouded in uncertainty. Sighs. I'm not even sure whether I can make it for Prom and Noel, not to say the Thailand trip. WHY WHY DID THE RED SHIRTS HAVE TO CLOSE THE AIRPOST LAST DECEMBER =/ I haven't been overseas for nearly 3 years. Yes, not even Malaysia. Is Sentosa counted? >.<

Just one last thing, do have a read through yesterday's (5/9) ST. The Saturday section featured an interesting writeup on the PAP's formative years, personalities and mysteries.

If you're bored (from let's say.. hm.. arranging your GP stuff) or just want to take a breather from studies,
try pronouncing the names of the Poles (Courtesy of BBC Live Text)

1937: Ridiculously late and for that we apologise, but Poland v Northern Ireland line-ups:
Poland:
Boruc, Golanski, Dudka, Roger, Murawski, Krzynowek, Zewlakow, Obraniak, Blaszczykowski, Mariusz Lewandowski, Brozek.
Subs: Zaluska, Bosacki, Gancarczyk, Smolarek, Tralka, Lobodzinski, Robert Lewandowski.
Northern Ireland: Taylor, McAuley, Craigan, Hughes, Evans, Johnson, Clingan, McCann, Davis, Lafferty, Healy.
Subs: Tuffey, McGivern, Coates, McGinn, Paterson, Ward.
Referee: Manuel Enrique Mejuto Gonzalez (Spain).

Oh wow, its now only 2047 (BST) in the UK. Try working the maths and deduce how long I actually took to type out this entry. Lol. (Hint: BST is set at GMT +1:00)

Ok, back to the Tennis, Football and the Revision Packages. =/

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29th August 2009..
Saturday. 8.30.09 1:05 am
mood: ambivalent still.
reading: (Daily Devotion) - Hope in God - Kong Hee

(Updated 3.45am, 31/8)
Anyway, this was how I spent my birthday.

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Yeah I was mugging like a typical-Singaporean-student-from-a-top-JC-who's-rather-lousy-in-his-class. . I attended Supervised Self Study along with sY, Silu, Haw and Samuel. Thanks for bring us lunch (: And I spent some time studying Friends for the very first time when Silu 'lectured' us on tt on the big screen using her laptop. All I can say is that the Americans really make better dramas last time.

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Rushed to catch Zexian's water baptism before having BS with Sarah and attending service which was helmed by our 'favourite pastor from down under' Pst Phil Pringle, head of Christian City Church in Sydney, Australia, who preached about the key to unlocking our lives, and hence gain our freedom. It was a largely evangelistic message which I guess was laying the foundation for the other 3 services, given that the Sat 3.30pm one is the first service.

The resulting altar call was quite massive though. And and, I love the praise song 'Together Stronger'. Very very catchy tune - too bad it can't be found anywhere online yet.

W515 got me a shirt and a very very nice card (: Thank you! Celebrated both mine and Sarah's birthday.. blowing the candles on smudged 'anointed' cakes (Nicolas said they were squashed in the crowd during water baptism earlier in the day - and boy was it hot at the rooftop too). Haha..

W515 @ Water Baptism
W515 @ rooftop for ZX's baptism (:

Blessed (:
And God is blessing us now!~~

Candles..
Getting ready to blow the candles..

W515
W515! Which includes also the two other NH peeps who had been in the same CGs as me for 4 years - Jojo and Sarah (: (My hair sucks >.<)

W515 guys
The guys.. Haha. That will easily be the coolest shirt in my wardrobe (I'm not into buying shirts.. Last bought a shirt 2 years ago) - And Melvin finally had his eyes open during the shot.. it was retaken thrice. LOL.

With Liting (:
With Liting!

With Sarah (:
Sarah and I (: Yay NH ftw! xD All proud to be 18!

Thanks Yankai for the photos! All photos are from her Photobucket album, re-uploaded onto Flickr by me.. (:

Went to Imperial Treasure Nan Bei Restaurant in Ngee Ann City for dinner. That'll be up in another post though.

Overall, I feel that this birthday ranks up there along with last year's as the best I've ever had (: Am grateful to everyone who bothered to wish and celebrate this day with me. Haha.

29th August was The King of Pop MJ's birthday as well. Did not know that we shared the same day until after his passing. He was a guy who shaped an entire generation in his lifetime, and well continue to do so through his music in the years to come. I'm quite honoured to be associated with him this way (:

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The 18th
Saturday. 8.30.09 12:02 am
Hi everyone, thanks for all your wishes and messages! They really mean the world to me, and I replied each individually.. Haha! (: Thank you once again for making my 18th such a memorable one!

Special thanks to those who wished me on/by -
MSN:
Someone who was 1 hour late but made it up by wishing me ten times, Josie,
Jasmine (special thanks - its hard to keep track of time when there's a 7 hours time difference), Jasper!

SMS:
Josie (first one at 12:03.. haha!), Nicolas, Kymm, Jiaying, Sharon (Wan), Jojo, Amelia, Tian^2, Liangsai!

Facebook:
Sheryl (a few days early), Mr Pang, Ashley, Jontay, Jojo, Louis, Yihuang, Houpang, Shuyi, Amelia, Marcus, Weipin, Daren, Bina, Sharon (Tan), Waimin, Quinza, Desmond, Chunye, Lorraine, Kaiqin, Aaron, Yuanxi, Weiqi, Jewel, Qianwen, Mariko!

Twitter:
Mr Chow! (last one at 11:59pm. Haha!)

I realise I do use a lot of social networking tools.. LOL. Anw, there was someone from M'sia who messaged me but did not leave his/her name. You may not read this but I express my thanks to you too!

I also want to thank both O8S6A and W515 for birthday cards! And also balloons and a super super nice shirt and anointed cake =P

In 18 years.. and its just the beginning of greater things to come. I've experienced many breakthroughs and learnt many lessons along the way.

To a few of you: There were times in the past when I thought I cannot make it this far. Yet, with all of your help, I've picked up the pieces and moved on. Thank you for not giving up on me! (:

Enough emo stuff.. Haha.

How fitting is it that the last day of school has to correspond with the last day of my 17th. Our teachers all left us with nuggets of inspiration and memories on this day.. Especially Mr How! His lecture dedication was super hilarious, and what he shared during tutorial just made all of us wanna rewind back to the first econs tut of last year, and relieve the journey all over again. Thank you teachers! And here's a big early HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY shoutout to all you teachers out there! (Even Mr Pang dropped by specially just to hand us chocolates).

Mr R gave us random goodies and a lollipop, Mrs Koh chocolates and Mr Chan gave us 1/2 hour off. Yet Mr How sums it up nicely. He said that he doesn't have chocolates to give us, he can give us tips on how to lead our lives. And he duly shared his story with us again. Furthermore he screened scenes from Dead Poets' Society and a photo montage accompany Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World.

He took his A's Levels twice and studied for it at home armed with only a Sloman. He did well and chose to study Econs in Uni even though he could have took a course with better job prospects. He came into teaching even though he could earn more in a 9-to-5 job. (4th school in his 4th profession). He could have left halfway, yet he stayed for 10 years, and never looked back. He said it was his calling, and he challenged us all to find a job you're passionate for and which you feel is your calling - and that is more important than anything else; and love also what you do. He told us all to cherish every single moment - carpe diem - for one day we'll just be nothing but ashes and memories in another person's heart.

They gave and taught us all they could to the best of their abilities. "If you guys leran a little bit from me on how to live your life, its enough. Really, its enough". Poignant indeed.

Its all up to us now. We are the stars of our own shows.

What a time to turn 18. Time to take up the mantle, and lead from the front - be the head and not the tail; light and salt of the earth! (:

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Thank You..
Thursday. 8.27.09 3:25 pm
William and Samuel for the early balloon and card (: Not sure who else is involved though.. Haha. Feels weird to be carrying a pink helium balloon around school and on the way home. Was the odd one out on the train again - It just seems to be RIJC's own station.. with hardly any 'outsiders' at this time of the day. So.. received more stares.

Tweaked more modules by the side of the blog; there's a music player now. Nowadays it's not easy to find sites that stream music to your blog. First there were midi players, then they fell into oblivion and was replaced by imeem, which was itself mauled by the recond labels and impose a 30-sec limit on every track. I just hope now that Mixpod will be spared, especially since it streams audio from Youtube directly..

And I wonder why I'm talking about all this.

Today;s compre passage (the one on 'happiness', 2007 C2 BT1) really left me thinking and reflecting.

"These "positional goods" [elite schooling, top jobs, and so on], as they are called, are in fixed supply: you can enjoy them only if others do not. The amount of money and effort required to grab them depends on how much your rivals are putting in, which only forces everyone on the treadmill to run faster, incurring more stress for no greater rewards."

I guess I'm thankful just to be here in HC, whether or not I failed to get into any elite programmes or read H3 - There are many people out there who would give anything just for a chance to pursue higher education in the environment we all enjoy.

Looking at Silu filling up her Oxford interview form made me ponder what I really want, and am able and willing to pursue in Uni. Scholarships? Grants? Oxford PPE or NUS Econs/Law? Or maybe something else? Who knows.. I just know that there's still the A's left, and all these would just be a pipe dream if I don't do well for it.

Yet I feel as long as we know that we had tried our best, the end results, no matter good nor bad, don't really matter anymore. Not acheiving straight As isn't the end of the world. Its cliched, yes, but it is really really true. What doesn't kill you can only make you stronger... and happier?.

Once again, Happy Birthday Meiling! (the blue balloon suits you, haha)

All the best everyone, and ehhh don't so mug leh everyday stay at home =P (*hint at someone. LOL). Later no life than you know.. xD

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.
- Dr Edwin Louis Cole

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Communication (CGM - 15/9/06)
Monday. 8.24.09 9:50 pm
I guess its a timely reminder (:



Communication is a process of sharing information with another person in such a way that he or she understands what you are saying

Talking and listening and understanding are all involved in the process of communication.


COMMUNICATION IS MORE THAN JUST WORDS!

Most people wrongly thing that communication is synonymous with talking.
To "talk" is to utter words but to "communicate" is to transfer thoughts

We communicate by words, gestures and spirit!
- Researchers say that 55 percent of ALL communication is nonverbal.

THE NEED FOR ACTIVE LISTENING

James 1:19 - let every man be swift to hear...

The most basic communication skill needed is not talking but listening.

Prov. 18:13 - He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him

Active Listening means that when someone is talking:
- You are tuning in fully to what that person is saying
- You are actively seeking to understand what the other person really means.

THE FIVE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF COMMUNICATION (C.O.M.E.T.)

1. Level One: Cliche conversation
In this type of conversation, there is no personal sharing (shallow and superficial, each building invisible barriers, seeking to be safe)

2. Level Two: Reporting the facts of others

3. Level Three: My ideas and judgements
Real communication only begins here! (person willing to put down defences, but still wary)

4. Level Four: My emotions and feelings.
Now the person shares how he/she personally feels about the facts, ideas and judgements.

5. Level Five: Total, truthful open communication
All deep relationships, especially marriage relationships, must be based on absolute openness and honesty. (involves risk, but trust God to bring peace to you).

Hope this helps! Its may be three years old but its still relevant all the time!
All the best in communicating with your friends and loved ones (: God bless! xD

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