我可以输入华文了！

我可以输入华文了！

OK for non-chinese readers, no worries as this entry is basically about my "discovery" of having different language input on XP FOR FREE, no installation required!!!! Alright alright, some of you must be wondering what's the big deal. Well, you may have to put yourself in the shoes of a computer noob.

Here we go, 昨天，我爸正忙着赶完一份双语通告，但发现我家电脑并没有‘中文之星’或其他能输入华文的软件。所以我上网查询，看是否能够下载有免费试用期的软件(what you called trial versions)。就这样让我发现原来XP使用者并不需要下载任何软件就可在电脑输入各种不同语言，如，日文，韩文，印度文等等。。

好啦，我的华文水准有限，有兴趣知道怎样输入其他语言的话，欢迎询问！！

STUPID ITE COMMUTER

An ITE Commuter

1st observation, noon seems to be a time old aunties go shopping. So many old ladies board the train throughout my journey home! And of course, I gave up my seat to one I saw.. unlike some others.. !@£$%... After I gave up my seat, I saw this old Indian lady standing in front of this ITE student, who's on the phone and obviously couldn't be bothered to give up his seat.

She's such a poor thing! I can really see she needed a seat and both her hands were grabbing the pole tight. I really felt like walking over to ask him to give his seat to this poor lady, in a polite manner of course. But it was quite a distance and I didn't dare! So I tried to look around me to see if there's anyone alighting, so I can help her 'chop' one. And I guess my actions were a little bit too obvious to a fello school mate (whom I do not know) and she offered her seat when the lady walked pass her.

I have a reason to hate those people really (you know who I'm refering to). After that indian lady incident, another old aunty came in and happened to stand in front of him again..

When I mean old, it's about 60-70++ yrs old, not 40-50. THAT stupid boy, he didn't give a damn!!!!!!!!!!! Shame on other people on board too, she has to stand until an old man offered his seat! Pathetic really.. *rolls eyes*

I don't believe the ITE boy hasn't been taught to give up seats to the needy when he was in primary school. And even if he really hasn't, there're signs everywhere reminding us to do so! Those ladies were standing in front of him OKAY?? IN FRONT, RIGHT IN FRONT.

Thus, my conclusion is, He's too difficult to be taught. He can't comprehend the words and pictures printed on the sign boards.

PERFORMANCE AT THE 2007 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIADS FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

PERFORMANCE AT THE 2007 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIADS FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

Total of 18 medals clinched. As expected, most of them were from Raffles and Hwa Chong.

Ok let's put this aside. You know, Singapore's standard of mathematics and sciences is kindda high as compared internationally. I guess most people know that, including foreign students that receive education here.

However, I have a few Indonesian friends that INSISTED that their mathematics are sooooo much harder. Two of which, from my secondary school. Let's just say, Singapore's mathematics is sooooo easy that one got only A2 and the other, F9 for Elementary Maths at 'O' level! *laugh out very loud* E-Maths you know? I'm not a clever kid at all, but I got better results. So how exactly easy was Singapore's standard of maths as compared to theirs, in their shoes?

Maybe it's because they have bigger numbers. If we have to write only the number "S$126", they have to write "809385710310278317 ruppiah" ????

By the way. F9. Can you imagine this happening to a guy that claimed that SG's standard of math = easy?? And don't try to be stupid saying I do not know how to convert currencies. I just really can't be bothered.

So if we can write a number in 1 second, they have to spend about 5 seconds? 5 times our duration. So their JC standand's paper should have a duration of 15hrs (3hrs*5).Exaggerated though..

I'll illustrate the case about this particular friend of mine who used to be under my parent's guardianship.

I used to be extremely apathetic toward my studies, and it happened that I'm not those 'no-need-to-study-AT-ALL-but can score' kind of kids. Well some of my ex-school mates tried hintting they're of those kind though. Anyway, the natural consequence of being so unconcerned was getting shit results. My friend happened to be very hardworking as compared to me then, so without doubt, she got better results than me... until I start to love mathematics.

My friend: "Singapore's mathematics is so easy. Indo's very very hard."

Many thanks to my mum, else I wouldn't be where I'm at now. She creates miracles, even up till now. OK back to subject. Let's call my friend 'V' from now. There was once, I topped the class without much expectation of it (was posted to a lousy class cos I didn't study for streaming), apparently, within top 5 or 8 in level (I forgot). And she, obviously didn't make it. HAHAHA. Please do not say I'm evil ok, cos in fact she's a bloody backstabber, one of the most extreme backstabbing cases that I've ever encountered/heard I swear. Hate her? Of course. Despise? Yesssss.

But of course, to these people, they'll probably think "She studied harder and was lucky what". Oh, not forgetting to mention, she's one of many who're afraid to let people know they studied for exams. I'm not. When I did study, I'll like my efforts to be recognised. SHE continued to create 'jokes'.

V: "Raffles sec's A maths paper is actually not hard at all. I did it and got B3. It's not as hard as I thought."

Hello?? Rafflesians spend only a few hours doing that paper in exam conditions and YOU spent like centuries on a question? To be exact, a few days, attempting few questions a day. Now who's the stupid one?

Actually, from what I realised, the intelligent Indonesians can distinct hard and easy very accurately and those that are not will insist that Indo's maths= very hard. I'm damn serious. To be fair, I'm not taking those that came to Singapore at very young age into consideration, cos obviously there's not much diff between P1 and 2 syllabuses of diff countries. Students that came as teenagers. For those that got A1? "Singapore's standard is definitely higher."

So, Singapore's mathematics was sooooo easy cos you got better results among the dirt of Singapore? Well yea, I admit I was a dirt with that kindda results.. Or Singapore's mathematics was sooo easy cos you can even achieve B3 after completing an A maths paper from one of Singapore's top schools in 3 days?

OK, if you happen to say I'm bullshitting. Here's some lil thing that may allow you to see the harsh reality. *evil*

The statistics of International Maths Olympiad *notice: inverted rank*:

Indonesia:

http://www.imo-official.org/country_team_r.asp?code=IDN

And I can see that Indonesia nearly "topped" in the position during a period of time.

Singapore:

http://www.imo-official.org/country_team_r.asp?code=SGP

Results showed.

NUS RAG Day

NUS RAG Day

Saboed by my sis, I thought this would be fun for Caesar and me. BUT the weather was so hot!! As usual, Caesar has got ALL the attention he wanted. Throughout the whole event, we hid under the shed behind the crowd. We can't walk about, cos it's really so hot, after 5 minutes, all the water supply I brought went out. Luckily we met my sis's OGL, Cowen.. unique name I know. He had access to the bottled water, and offered us 2 bottles.

To make sure Caesar doesn't get over-heated, I sprinkled water onto him, wet his tummy, paws, and dabbed water on the inner side of the ears (for him to lose heat).. I fed him water of course. And *ta-dah* after 30 minutes, 1 litre of water was gone.

Couldn't get Cow then.. oh sorry, Cowen. So luckily this guy came along. He's a typical nerdy-looking guy that NO girls will ever take a second glance. But he has my vote among all the guys we've met today! Cos he's a Mr Nice. He was asking about Caesar and my sis thought that he's just a guy trying to get to know us by starting off with a topic about Caesar.

I asked him if he has access to the bottled water but he isn't. And I said: "Oh no, I think Caesar's going to dehydrate!" *heeee heeee heeee*

Mr Nice: "Dehydrate?! Ok you wait here. *put down his bag* Take care of my bag!"

I appreciated it really. Especially for people who're concern about animals. He was away for quite a long time. My sis and I sort of forgot about him as we started "entertaining" other "Caesar Magnets".. until we saw him running, but empty handed. Continued talking to others and forgot about him again. "Where's that guy??"

Minutes later he came running to us with about 6 bottles of water. When he reached, he was panting so hard and all he did was to place the bottles nicely on the grass, and busy telling us where to get it. By right, he had no access to those bottles you know. Like I've said, Mr Nice. Best thing is:

Me: Thank you so much!!
Him: *panting, nods his head, with the "you're welcome" hand gesture*.
Me: *Hands him a bottle* You better have one for ourself too.
Him: Oh ya I'm very thirsty too.

LOL. It's so funny right?? He forgot to drink! Intending to introduce this guy to my friend. My advice: Try as much not to look at his face. Character is such a plus plus point. There's quite a few handsome ones but this particular nerd-with-blue braces got my vote!

Without mentioning, you guys should have known that many, i mean many many people took photos of Caesar, including people from the photographic society. This leads me to the idea of setting up a "$1/photo" booth. I can easily earn $50 base on that alone.

Though there're so many "nice nice" people around, there's always this 0.000001% idiots that exist in this world with the only and main purpose/ability in life, that is, to spoil your wonderful day.

This trying-too-hard-to-be-clever security guard stopped us while we're taking the only route to the place we entered Padang. Obviously Caesar isn't a problem cos the I've actually confirmed with the guards at the entrance that pets are allowed.

EUSG = Extremely Unintelligent Security Guard

EUSG: "HELLO! HELLO!" (they can't learn to be more polite, can they?) Where are you going?

I was like thinking what on Earth has this got to do with you? "To the other exit?"

EUSG: "Where? Which exit?"

ME: "there"

EUISG: "DON'T bring to the crowd ar?" With a finger pointing.

He didn't dare to come near obviously, cos he doesn't know that Caesar only feeds on high-quality meat from animals with intelligence.

ME: "No why would I?" *mocking, with 'are-you-stupid??' stare*

He's so irritating. I felt disgusted with the thought that I've actually had a conversation with such a RUDE and STUPID person.**

Cannot bring to the crowd?? Many crowds were formed around Caesar throughout our stay there okay. BESIDES, there was actually a serious plan that Caesar will be brought up to the stage if it's not too hot. Trying to be smart. Who was he to make that decision when the group of organizers have decided to bring him up on stage?? Let alone the fact, that Caesar must pass through a crowd before reaching the stage?? Stupid.

Now I start to agree with Jack Neo's "Just follow Law" film. Really damn disgusted, I'm glad that the conversation wasn't any longer than that. I just hope that these brainless people die off completely! They didn't contribute well in being a security guard either.

It's also kindda obvious that the reason behind his display of "intelligence" was that he doesn't like dogs. Religions do not teach us to hate animals and go against them, do they?

**I have no prejudice against security guards at all. I'm only attacking this particular one I met earlier today.

Judith the talented girl!

A friend named Judith

I've known her for less than 3 months I guess, but it seems like she's so easy to clique with!! She's a very very pleasant girl, and whenever she's around, your day will seem to be brightened by a little. Don't ask me why, it's just her. She's not a reader of my blog though! Bet she doesn't even know the existence of this blog!

She looks gorgeous and makes other girls pretty too! I must say she's really really talented. Hong, another friend of mine, did her make-up in Jean Yip for her sec 4 graduation night and I thought it didn't look quite good on her.. in fact, heee, sorry Hong, it didn't look nice at all! A good and nice make-up for a pretty-looking girl should have some emphasis on those already-looking-good features, but Jean Yip ALTERED hers! Altered. She looked like somebody else.. worse, somebody not even comparable to herself when she's without make-up at all. I'm serious.

I introduced Judith to her to do her make up for her choir concert, and Hong's more than just happy with Judith's artwork. Hahaha, not even her, she received compliments from many of her friends, including the conductor who said "Please send my compliments to your make-up artist."

To think Hong paid more to look worse than she normally does in Jean Yip. Hahahahaha, no offence ya? I thought she attracts more attention on a street without make-up. No joke, she has flawless skin. FLAWLESS and PERFECT. Good enough for me to be envious/jealous of. Maybe I shouldn't have introduced Judith to her. *giggles*

Other than that, Judith does webbie and name card designing. HAHAHA~ so good to know of someone like that right? If ever I need help in these areas, I can get it from her, paying her of course! These are professional services and I think she should be rewarded for the excellent end products. I don't take advantage of my friends ok.. if it's a win-win situation, why not?

As for me, I haven't got the chance to 'hire' her to do make up for me. I was thinking of my 21st birthday party next year and I suddenly remembered something.. COLIN & PHOEBE'S WEDDING at the end of this year!!! Woo-hoooo! Yay~ So I can look pretty by the end of 2007.

There are a few pictures taken while I was modeling for her. Will upload those when get it!

I will highly recommend Judith if you're looking for a make-up artist. It's really worth your money too.

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Brought Judith's cat to the vet today, cos she's working. Well to be exact, I helped transfer her cat from Mount Pleasant to Animal Recovery Centre. Reasons for the transfer - negative, you think about it. Anyway, the vet did mention that most cats die from this illness, at that stage - liver damage. But upon hearing that Neiva (her cat) has actually become more alert and active as compared to the few days before, the vet told us then there may be hope - cos it proves that the liver isn't complete disfunctional, something like that.

It appears that it was caused by the toxin in a fungal treatment medication, and it is known that some cats have high risks of getting liver damage (so cat owners beware). The best thing is, the vet that prescribed this medication DID NOT even mention about the risks involved!!! !@#$% *curse him* *curse him to rot* *curse him to burn in hell*.

No worries, it's not Mt Pleasant, but the other one near Judith's place.

Talking Cat

Was browsing through youtube yesterday and I saw this! Among the talking dogs and cats, I love this most!! Though all are very very cute.. Enjoy!