Had a great week last week. A little late in posting this, but on Thursday, I got to see Sheng Hui again for the first time in a really long time! Yay! Its quite the chance encounter, really. Was walking to school on Tuesday when Amie caught up to me (she was looking really down, and as usual, I didn't know quite what to do in situations like that, so I behaved normally and tried to give forth a positive attitude. As to why she's down, only those who have the right to know would know.) She told me that she would be meeting up with SH on Thursday to collect money from him (oooo, a loan shark). Of course, I jumped at the chance.

However, as things turned out, fate has other plans for me. My chemistry teacher jumped into my class and told us that we would be having remedial lessons on Thursday. And quite out of the blue too. Thought that I would miss the chance, but as it appears, Lady Fate is quite the devious one. She plans wheels within wheels within wheels, and has all of us running round Her little finger like rats after a chunk of cheese. It appears that Amie and SH has changed their plans to meet up at the Expo (which is not very far at all from TPJC), instead of City Hall (which is very far indeed...for me anyway). So as soon as my lesson ended, I hopped on bus 12 managed to get there in time to pick up SH. Had a good time catching up with him and Amie, talking about past times (helped in part by SH's not-very small collection of past letters and stuff). Met Amie's friend there too, can't remember her name now for the sake of me. But that's just me, I can't remember names and faces very well. They just go right pass me. After all, everyone looks alike - two eyes, one nose, one mouth, and so on and so on. You know what I mean.

A few days after that, managed to have a fruitful QT session with Amie, JL, and WC. Actually, I was quite surprised that Amie showed up. Wasn't expecting her to. Anyway, after the boring College Day we had (made not so boring by the amazing performances of the Fusion band led by Chang Yu and the dance performance at the end {Ardi sure can dance well}. Without these two events, the crowd would probably have died from boredom. Now that is something that I would like to see. Headlines: TPJC students found dead in their seats during presentation. Police have ruled out foul play, and are pending investigations.), went over to EEFC for Foundation. Wanted to come home to study after that, but WC and JS tried to stop me, with annoying lines like "Oh, which is more important, your As or God?" and "How far can your As take you?"

Look, its our final year alright? If we don't start working hard now, we would get good results, and where would we be then? I do not wish to come out from JC with grades like C,C,E. That would get me nowhere, and I would have wasted 2 years of my life for a mindless pursuit for a piece of paper that is worth next to nothing. Where's the sense in that? If you want to do well, you've got to start work. Like, now? Hello? I don't see how you can get good grades if you spend every waking hour at church (unless you plan to quit school and join a Bible school like Ai Zhu, but that's another story altogether). You win some, you lose some. For now, getting my As is the main goal at this point in my life. And you aren't going to stop me from getting them. Nothing will stand in my way. Haha.

Well, I don't have a topic to talk about today. Will be posting one tomorrow. I will be talking about globalization and stuff then.

I have been conducting a small social experiment around school lately. Everytime I'm near the library door, and i see someone heading towards the door, I open it for them and see what they do. At this time, the person in question usually has 2 chocies, to either thank me (awww, how nice) or just walk through the door. You would think that most people would thank the person opening the door for them, yes?

WRONG! That is what my social experiment of about 20 people proved. These people were tested at different times of the day, and on different days as well, so as to ensure fairness and that there's no random mean streak going round in the school population. All efforts were taken to ensure that the result of each individual observation are indepentant of each other.

Here are my results: of the 20 people I opened the door for, I had 17 who just walk right through without giving me a 2nd look, as if it is their right for doors to be opened for them. That's like having a 85% failure rate! The other 3 were kind enough to thank me. :) I would be sure to thank those who open the doors for me, through the students in school don't really give me a chance to, as they open the door just wide enough for them to squeeze through and let it swing shut in the faces of those behind them.

If you say that the results of my experiment is unqiue only to the students of my college, you are wrong too. It seems to be something that is prevalent all over Singapore. I once tried standing at the doorway of a Mac and opening the door for those coming in or out. Didn't do it for long, as it sure is embrassing to have so many people looking at your strangely. But I got the results I wanted.

Of the 7 people who are unknowing victems of my experiment, only 2 said thanks, nodded at me and acknowledged my being. The other walked through the door as if it opened on its own.

Another thing I've noticed through my experiment: Those who thanked me while I was opening doors at MacDornals were old people, those above 60. The others, whos age ranged between 15 to 45, walked right through. This has led me to conqude that the older people in our society are more polite and probably had a better upbringing, as compared to the younger members of our society, who mostly led a pampered life and are used to having things done their way, for their benefit.

Just gives you a warm fuzzy feeling aboutSingaporeans, huh?

Lol Alright, alright, I’ll post some stuff just for the sake of it. And you’re welcome for everything, Amie. See you around in school!

Didn't post last week as I was studying, and when I was done, all the computers up here in the library were already booked, so I can't accesss the Internet. Bugger. Oh well, nothing I can do about that. Ha.

Started watching FMA, which I had borrowed from a friend of mine, who also shares my interest in anime watching. For those of you who don’t watch anime, FMA stands for Full Metal Alchemist, one of the best animes that was released in 2005.

Won’t be posting a review here. Instead, I would be posting my review, as well as a summary of each episode over in my upcoming anime blog, which would be set up soon after the A levels. So do wait for it.

As a sidenote, it is my belief that the music section here is getting a little dry, yes? As such, I will be changing the songs here to some of the newer songs I’ve gotten. Of course, that would be done during the June holidays, when we have time aplenty…Or we would have if we didn’t have 2 exam papers right after the holidays. Well, at least it gives us the whole month to study, something that we won’t have if the folks on top didn’t plan it out that way…But its stupid, I think.

Hmmm…Started on my first book attempt. Coming up with a reasonable fantasy storyline isn’t easy, but I think I have the basic idea now. The general storyline is in my head, and now all I have to do is to transfer it to paper, and to add in the details. Now that’s the tough part. The devil’s in the details, as they say. Remember that 2500 words short story I wrote a little while back? Yeah, that took me about 2 weeks to finish, and its only 2500 words. How about a novel? The time taken is going to be immeasurable. O.O But sooner or later, its going to be completed. And then I will pass it to my GP teachers for reviewing and improvements! Yay! Lol

Don’t really have a topic to discuss today, so I guess I will just end it here. After all, I have other things to do, such as working on my novel. But rest assured, I will be posting here again soon enough. Till that time.

Well, one week has passed again, and once again I am posting in school. Not that I have anything else better to do. This is becoming a habit, really. Haha. Well, I suppose that that is a good thing for you, since now you don't have to check every day to see if I post, since I will be posting on Tuesdays. Ha.

The long weekend has come and gone, and I must say that it didn't turn out as well as I had planned. Orginially, I wanted to spent those three days fruitfully, studying for my upcoming mid-year exams. Though I cannot deny the fact that I have studied (somewhat), its not as productive as I had hoped...Mainly due to the fact that there are other thing on my mind. Like the computer. And anime. And music. Can't forget that. Torrenting totally rocks, I tell you. Know the correct sites, and you can get whatever anime and music and games that you want. But be careful - you won't want to end up on the wrong side of the law. Only torrent things that are not licienced yet.

lol I think that I should heed my own advice. After all, I am torrenting Bleach everyweek, and a whole host of other anime as well. And they are licienced, or at least in America anyway. Of course, there is no way for you to get any of those show in Singapore. And even if you can get them, the quality would suck. The Chinese dubbing doesn't sound good, the subtitles are way off, and sometimes the dubs totally mess up the show. Ask Jun Liang about it. He has bought for himself a couple of Naruto VCDs, and he claims that there are some dubs which totally remove all background music. That stinks, man. So until they are able to produce something that is halfway worthwhile, I will keep torrenting. Take that, evil liciencing companies.

Well, let me now get to the post proper. This week, I will be talking about the upcoming Singapore elections. As you know, the Singapore 2006 elections will be held this friday, the 6th of May. Walk about on the streets, and you will be able to see any posters and adverts calling for people to vote for their respective parties. And most promeiantly, you will be able to see the PAP's adverts everywhere. Like, turn round a corner, and you see PM Lee smiling and waving at you, with all the other *coughlowlycough* followers standing behind him. Or you see the faces of your respective PAP representatives of your area. And if you compare them to the posters of the WP, you notice one thing. The PAP's adverts are very big. o.O

Yeah, like that has to do with anything. So its bigger. Big deal. Being big is not everything. I know that I am using the word "big" alot here, but who cares? Haha. Its my blog, and I can very well type whatever I like. :P

But one thing it does show, or at least that's how I feel, is that it shows just how much money the PAP has. Just imagine how much it would cost to print all those cardboard photos. Its not cheap, I tell you.

I don't know about you, but there's alsot this annyoying lorry that's being going around my area this past few days. And its always playing the same irritarating message via its loudspeakers. "For an honest and blahblahblahblah...vote PAP. Thank you." And then it goes on to play the same message in Chinese, Malay, and Tamil (I think). And it does that every hour. Every day. Like we can't get the message. I have half a mind to vote for the WP's just to spite them. Haha.

Sure, I know that the government (aka the PAP) has been calling for the populance to vote for those who they think will being the nation to greater heights. Easy to say, but difficult to do. Speaking as a youth, I must say that I have NO IDEA WHAT THE OTHER PARTIES ARE TRYING TO DO FOR SINGAPORE!!! GET IT? Haha.

Okay, that was uncalled for, especially more so since I didn't brother to read the newspapers for what the other parties are saying. That's my own fault, really.

Anyway, I must say that the PAP's pretty confident of having a landside victory (as usual) again this year for them to say something like that. After all, they have quite the impressive track record. Reducing unemployment, providing food and water and what not.

That is not to say that the other parties can't nuts. They just haven't had the chance to be in power yet. The PAP has been sitting on the hot seat for years. Ever since 1965 (correct me if i'm wrong). So the other dudes can't really prove themselves. What they need is an area which they are able to run. Then (if they are any good) they would be able to show to Singapore just how capable they area.

Of course, they would have to win themselves a GRC or a consituatancy first. The only team I think i capable of doing that is the WP. The other guy, the SDP, sucks. I won't vote for someone like Dr. Chee. He's just making himself look bad, IMO. And I think that all that talk about wanting to share the truth is him justifing that he is doing. Continuing to sell that newspaper is utter folly. He's going to get his whole group into trouble if he keeps this up. Better for a part of the body to go then for the whole body to die, that's what I say. Haha.

Well, now, look at the time. How it flies. It really goes by very quickly when you are having fun blasting your policital parties. You really should try it sometime.

As a disclaimer, this post here is not meant to promote any party. Nope, not at all. If you read it, you would be able to tell. So don't go around saying that I am promoting anyone. I won't want to get in trouble with the law, and you are not going to get me in trouble with the law. Ha.

Well, time to study now. Till next week, or maybe earlier, if I happen to have the mind for it.

Oh, wait, before I forget, do come over for our TPJC's concert, probably happening in late May. For more details, give Amie a call. Really miss her much. Even though we are in the same school I can't get to see her, or any of my old friends, often. Kind of sad, huh? Well, that's life. You just have to deal with what you get.