It is inherently contradictory for Sec Threes to be relocated to the junior block. And Sec 1s are at the senior block.
How absurd!
POSTED AT 9:16 PM
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006
Learning journey @ Little India was fun, I took 171 MB worth of photos but each one was at 5 MP, so that amounts to 82 photos.
Anyway we were given little envelopes and clues à la Amazing Race, each containing tasks we had to perform or pastries we had to consume or items we have to buy and use camera phones to take photos and MMS back to our CT, which will give us the cue to proceed to the next clue. 9 tasks in all, total budget 20 bucks (ie. no taxi ): just WALKING and loads of asking for directions from shopkeepers/pedestrians), and final destination was a.. somewhat nice 7-course Indian dinner. Levels of adrenaline ran high and we got to savour nice nice stuff like the sweets and the Asala Khulfi which was some herbal tea omg so nice so nice. Felt like a tourist myself cos everything was so foreign.
Then after that some of us went to Chinatown together with CT and walked around for abt 30 minutes lol but it was already 11pm so had to go home.
Tiring but nice day!
POSTED AT 9:02 PM
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006
The classical prisoner's dilemma (PD) is as follows:
Two suspects, A and B, are arrested by the police. The police have insufficient evidence for a conviction, and having separated both prisoners, visit each of them and offer the same deal: if one testifies for the prosecution (turns Queen's Evidence) against the other and the other remains silent, the silent accomplice receives the full 10-year sentence and the betrayer goes free. If both stay silent, the police can only give both prisoners 6 months for a minor charge. If both betray each other, they receive a 2-year sentence each. Each prisoner must make a choice - to betray the other, or to remain silent. However, neither prisoner knows for sure what choice the other prisoner will make. What will happen?
The dilemma arises when one assumes that both prisoners only care about minimizing their own jail terms. Each prisoner has two options: to cooperate with his accomplice and stay quiet, or to betray his accomplice and give evidence. The outcome of each choice depends on the choice of the accomplice. However, neither prisoner knows the choice of his accomplice. Even if they were able to talk to each other, neither could be sure that he could trust the other.
Let's assume the protagonist prisoner is working out his best move. If his partner stays quiet, his best move is to betray as he then walks free instead of receiving the minor sentence. If his partner betrays, his best move is still to betray, as by doing it he receives a relatively lesser sentence than staying silent. At the same time, the other prisoner thinking would also have arrived at the same conclusion and would therefore also betray.
If reasoned from the perspective of the optimal outcome for the group (of two prisoners), the correct choice would be for both prisoners to cooperate with each other, as this would reduce the total jail time served by the group to one year total. Any other decision would be worse for the two prisoners considered together. When the prisoners both betray each other, each prisoner achieves a worse outcome than if they had cooperated. This demonstrates very elegantly that in a non-zero sum game the Pareto optimum and the Nash Equilibrium can be opposite.
POSTED AT 10:33 AM
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
kingkong from kenny's blog. LOL.
(OKAY LA i dunno their names lets just name naomi as NW and adrian as AB)
NW: hi, im a comedian. har har.
AB: hi, im a writer. i fall in love veh easily with actresses.
JB: hey, lets go singapore and guang jie.
NW, AB: okay lor no choice wad.
JB: heeheex i lied.
NW, AB: KNN TMD WHAT IS THIS ISLAND?
NW: KNN GOT SO BIG GORILLA AHHH (SCREAMS)
KK (king kong): i lubs you so i jiggle you like shit
NW: AHHH
KK: lubs u muacks muacks so i flick u and u fall down and stand up and i flick u and repeat again.
NW: AHHHH GO AWAY I SAID NO I HATE YOU HEI HEI REN.
KK: HEY YOU'RE MY BITCH SO LISTEN TO ME. IM YO PIMP YO GEDDIT WHITE TRASH?
NW: hmph. (runs away)
(NW meets 1. some giant lizard. runs into trunk. finds giant centipedes. runs away. finds giant v-rex. runs away. finds another giant v-rex. runs away. finds many giant v-rexes. GGXX!)
KK: yo yo wassup dudez dont mess wit my ho' she mine and only mine u fratboy. id take u to the candy shop. id give u (what?) one thousand lollipops?
NW: wah, u damn man, damn hiong, i lubs you.
AB: eh oh naomi, naomi, where art thou?
JB: use chloroform lah knn.
AB: okay lorxz.
(captures KK. transports to radiocity in NYC)
JB: this is KK HE WUN ESCAPE WANZ DON WARRI PEOPLE.
(KK breaks free)
JB: tmd my career is ruined.
KK: WHERE THE **** IS MY HO?
NW: i must not engage in bestiality...i must not i must not...i go back to be actress at some louaypok place.
(dances on stage)
NW: oh tmd i am veh veh bad in acting. all i did in first half of show was to scream and scream and act scared. okay la i go see KK.
KK: (picks up random peroxide blonde) ARE U MY HO? URE NOT (flicks away)
(picks up another random peroxide blonde) ARE U MY HO? URE NOT (flicks away)
NW: hello i am here and i look like a tmd angel.
KK: i lubs you muacks muacks lets go play in snow.
NW: whee so fun big hei hei thing carrying me around.
KK: oh noxzxzxz they exploding me come come lets go highest point.
(on top of empire state building)
KK: RAWWRRR!!! I PAY 29 US BUCKS COME UP HERE LOOK AT WHAT SAI WHAT SAI PLEASE TELL ME!!! RAWRRR (beats chest)
(plane shoots. blahblah i offed the dvd)
KK: oh tmd i died.
NW: boohoo i lubs u muacks muacks.
KK: NW...look out for part 2....King Watts...our baby son...
NW: .....ggxx
-the end-
POSTED AT 8:47 PM
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
I canNOT solve the latest sudoku puzzle except for the number '1'.
i feel pathetic -.-
POSTED AT 8:37 PM
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006
I positively think it looks like my bio tutor!
And today during maths lecture, HISTORY REPLAYED. (scroll down.)
HA HA HA HA HAHAHA.
POSTED AT 7:15 PM
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006
LECTURES WHIZ BY FRENETICALLY.
I frankly have NO INKLING OF WHAT LOBULES ARE, I DONT KNOW HOW TO ULTRAFILTRATE BLOOD
OR COMPUTE ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
i'm seriously screwed.
and there's still SATs.
bye.
POSTED AT 10:22 PM
Monday, Jan. 16, 2006
and i see you standing there,
wanting more from me;
and all i can do is..
try,
try.
POSTED AT 8:22 PM
Monday, Jan. 16, 2006
It is the sad truth that when you return to RI nowadays you don't recognize half of the school - the lower secondary, that is; and it is even sadder that the other half you know refuses to acknowledge your presence.
Exceptions, of course: Japheth, who has since advanced to Secondary Three and is hence wearing long pants. He seemed unhappy about growing up. And Jotham was yelling wildly about something about getting Maths paper back :/ I could't discern the details.
Anyway, I received an absurd series of SMS-es today, reproduced as follows:
Unknown number: Nothing just scared. So how, any gp notes on friday? I don't understand chem n bio.. I think i'm gonna drop out of school soon.
Me: sorry er who's this :/
Unknown number: Sorry. Friend was playing wif my phone.
Me: .. okay lol, so you have my contact but I don't know you?
Unknown number: Cos last time my friend send nonsense (to) this number then all the time i dont know who this person is but i kept the number in case this person reply.
Me: haha okay so who's this.
Unknown number: Someone you dont need to know.
Me: ... :S someone from rj?
Unknown number: Haha, sorry, I don't have free messages.
Me: fine.. delete my number okay? bye.
Unknown number: Ya, if i remember
*** end of conversation ***
I sure hope he/she did delete my number. On hindsight I felt like I was a bit kaypoh, but never mind.
I met Liru on the bus on the way home, so we talked about our hopes and dreams and our lofty visions of the future taking SATs and tuition and how I got lost and had to take the long way home by taking 112 instead of my usual 82 or 117.
POSTED AT 8:06 PM
Monday, Jan. 16, 2006
I saw En&Hou today. Or at least one of them, I don't know which.
School's starting again.. I've barely taken a break. Been to Chinatown today to soak in the convivial atmosphere.
I am stressed.
POSTED AT 12:26 AM
Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006
expect a paucity of blog entries.
i am very busy
sorry
either that or i'm just lazy to come out with intelligent stuff.
POSTED AT 6:22 PM
Friday, Jan. 13, 2006
Today must have been a horrible day for paraskavedekatriaphobes. Well, at least, it was a bad one for me last year, during the O-level english orals which I had completely screwed up :/
Nice and cute people deserve to DIE and vanish. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM. ARGH. THEY INDUCE TOO MUCH MISERY. Sinners they are.
And today I managed to befuddle the Stall 8 auntie by asking for a "pair of pears" :P
POSTED AT 7:51 PM
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006
Okay this thing really cracked me up. Chong Ren was musing about how they started to implement uniforms for the Math department. And how they looked like cleaners/bus drivers.
Lectures are becoming entertaining.
POSTED AT 10:31 PM
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006
Today during GP we were given a nice short story called Harrison Bergeron to read, which was a nice sad little humorous (what an amalgam of adjectives) piece of dystopian fiction redolent of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. Basically it asserts some exaggerated notions of egalitarian beliefs with social oppression as a main means of political control. Egalitarianism is most of the time used in the positive connotation (gender equality being one of its tenets) BUT too extreme measures often lead to a full-fledged Leftist political climate -- like that of the familiar Animal Farm. Okay, anyway, being a little more retarded than everyone else, I didn't manage to finish the story before everyone else in class did. (Hey, maybe that's why I always run out of time for the Application Question.) So I ended up a little lost during the class discussion.
Halfway, I asked my GP teacher, "Ma'am, is what Harrison is trying to implement a direct opposite to the current political climate?" She looked back at me in semi-wide-eyed horror, and said "Well, that's the question, isn't it?" I replied, "Er, yeah.. that's the question."
Well, anyway you should really go read the story cos it's very nice, it's one of the longest prose pieces I've read in a long time, having not once in my life had the tenacity to finish a novel except for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in Secondary 2. For other book reviews I often read the first chapter and then online synopses and manage to crap out something.
Next, during PE lesson, we were made to practise goal-setting by setting out what we want to achieve for our NAPFA tests. I put down ACEFFF. The PE teacher looked me in the eye, and said "Don't worry. We'll make it happen this year, okay." Not wanting to be rude, I replied with a semi-cynical "okay" instead of "yessir, I've heard that for the 27,684th time, nothing ever did happen."
In other news, one of our homegrown carps was pronounced dead last evening. A preliminary post mortem done by my maid revealed signs of asphyxiation. It is primarily conjectured that its suicidal tendencies had motivated it to jump out of the 5/6th-full pond and gambol its way 5 metres away towards the grass of the garden, where it was found dead. This sudden bereavement has plunged the family in a cloud of black depression. It has been classified as a case of unnatural death. We don't rule out murder.
Okay. I ought to go and do something constructive. OMG I SAY THAT EVERYDAY and I never end up doing anything. Cos I have afternoon naps and I wake up at an unearthly hour of 9pm and after I bathe and blog it's already 9:45 pm and I still have to do SAT Prep and tutorials of every subject.
No timeeeeeee.
POSTED AT 9:18 PM
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006
and.
today i got caught by someone i was trying to spycam =
FREAKING. MALOOOOOO ):
POSTED AT 10:10 PM
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006
Currently I'm living life by the principles of
"If it's meant to be, it will be" and
"There's good and bad in everyone".
NTUC Fairprice was playing an uncensored version of Liz Phair's Why Can't I today.
Tsk.
POSTED AT 10:08 PM
Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006
life has been below the x-axis of late. first its flu+cough.
then i realized my tutor punctuates his sentences with okayalright 147 times during a 1-hour tutorial. it was incredibly distracting.
POSTED AT 1:12 PM
Saturday, Jan. 07, 2006
I'm so weak I can't even stand up. And my nose has become a free-flow mucus dispenser.
I didn't even go for ORIENTATION NIGHT ):
POSTED AT 10:46 AM
Thursday, Jan. 05, 2006
Thursdays are hellish.
I get (4 hours) (break) (5 hours) all the way to 5pm.
And the penultimate hour is actually spent at PE.
ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGHH
ARGH TO THE POWER OF INFINITY.
POSTED AT 1:03 AM
Thursday, Jan. 05, 2006
"To hell with stares."
POSTED AT 12:06 AM
Tuesday, Jan. 03, 2006
Oh, another thing. School is a place where the words "status", "authority" and "worthiness" often come into play.
And it's damn awkward to be trapped in the same bus with a person whom you know but don't want to say hi to.
POSTED AT 10:06 PM
Tuesday, Jan. 03, 2006
Today during Maths Lecture I really couldn't control myself so I fell asleep on the tablet. Then I had a strange dream.
I dreamt that a genie floated into LT1 from the left entrance, dressed in a very weird glittery costume and then grabbed the mike from the Differentiation lecturer and started battering him to death with the mike.
Blood, fluid, organs, brains splattered all over SO3.
I almost screamed.
POSTED AT 9:14 PM
Monday, Jan. 02, 2006
School is a place where for the large part you pretend to befriend certain people and curse them behind their backs and hope for their future wives to give birth to incongruent pieces of chewy muahchee.
School is a place where you may get lambasted for behaviour "unbecoming of a senior".
School is a place where social retards are despised and looked down upon. Social retards are people who do not follow the mainstream definition of stylishness and subscribe to their very own individualized theories of what constitutes "looking good". To their detriment, of course.
School is a place where you gamble with the risk that you might be caught staring at the person whom you like. School is a playground for tit-for-tat staring games.
And the games continue for the lecture despite the teacher's constant droning.
School is a place to hate.
School is a place to get jealous of the J1s because they have an additional year at RJC.
School's re-opening soon, and I don't know what to feel about it.
POSTED AT 4:11 PM
Monday, Jan. 02, 2006
Along a windy school corridor.
Their eyes met in an unspoken connection too powerful to ignore.
POSTED AT 4:03 PM
Monday, Jan. 02, 2006
I am not adept at posting long, well-argued and well-contemplated blog entries, and my incapability to follow logical progression of thought adds to the difficulty of presenting long and well-written argumentative essays and blog entries, characteristic of other people which I'm insanely jealous of.
This explains the high frequency of spurts of short entries in my blog, because writing too much would only further expose my writing inadequacies to the readers.
Consult online journals like this if you're looking for intelligently written pieces.
Meanwhile I hope I'm entertaining you enough already.
POSTED AT 1:53 PM
Monday, Jan. 02, 2006
one day left. i haven't done my gp and chem homework, not like i planned to.. anyway.
argh this is bad, i must do all my homework from now on and be a good boy. no more blank tutorials, okay.
(maniacal scream)
POSTED AT 1:38 PM
Sunday, Jan. 01, 2006
William Hung makes my blood boil.
Er, anyway, happy new year people!
2006 better be good, because 2007 won't be.
POSTED AT 1:48 PM
Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005
"During lecture, the
whole dept's teachers will be at lecture theatre giving out white slip to
anyone who talked."
(Details in full at jeffrey's blog.)
This is just so ridiculous. This is either to make RJC a laughing stock in front of the J1s or a no-holds-barred attempt at introducing fascism in the scholastic environment with rules reminiscent of Orwellian states in order to put a stop to any hint of anarchy during assemblies and lectures. Or maybe both. Snort.
Seriously, what's the deal about white slips anyway? Ha. "An accumulation of four white slips will automatically downgrade your conduct to a "fair"." I'm going to dismiss that with a derisive point-at-headmaster's-nose laugh (:
Since when did a premier junior college in the bishan-angmokio area subscribe to such dogmatic theories? Thinking about 2006 conjures up images of teachers with austere countenances, belting out white slips to the slightest murmur. Pindrop silence. Think Animal Farm.
Seriously -- I hope all that stuff that Jeffrey wrote are just rumours. Because junior colleges that endorse such ridiculous measures are inherently a failure, School Excellence Award or not.
suck all that, baby.
(And, oh yeah, by reading this entry you acquiesce to refrain from using any of the content against me or my affiliates, because if you do your wife will give birth to a muahchee.)
POSTED AT 7:43 PM
Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005
yeah, time flies. i really wish i could grasp at every second of it and arrest its progression. and i've never really wished for that to happen as much as now, because 2006 is a swift year, where terms 1 and 2 go by in an instant before the frenetic mugging weeks set in. and after that is you-know-what.
and you-know-what is terrible, very wtfishly terrible. i cannot possibly recount all the lovely anecdotes my dad told me about the horrors and terrors within pulau tekong. and my impression of it is already dabbed with negative images of cleaning toilets, being "poked in the ass by a rifle", copious amounts of physical training.. gah.
i know i speak as if i'm facing it with immediate effect but trust me, 2005 flew past SO QUICKLY and 2006 will do so with the same speed, if not faster.
new year resolutions? oh, yes. i will try to draw all my valence electrons on my outer principal quantum shells. no, really. i've lost all too many marks for failing to do so already.
and, uh. i will try not to waste any time next year, and treat everyone nicely, and love indiscrimately (because love multiplies when it divides); and uh, i will put in an extra ounce of effort for my studies because of the damned S Papers.
I also have the wild, unimaginable dream of passing 2.4. One can always hope.
yeah, so happy new year everyone.
and happy new year to me as well, with stark emphasis on the word "happy", because i think this is the only time where it is possible to be valid in many years to come. (not least due to you-know-what.)
POSTED AT 6:38 PM
Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005
here are some raw, unabridged, and trenchantly revealing excerpts from bernard's 876-word tirade on his first week at PTP:
1. "why must the Perm Staff (permanent staff -- sergeants, anyone with a rank above the recruits') toilet be cleaned by recruits? Why? it's not the recruits who introduce the mud and sand and one million other Unwashables and Unpluggables into that toilet, so WHY must we clean it? This makes no sense!"
2. "fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!"
3. "some of the sergeants suka suka punctuate their sentences with 'chao cheebye' 'kanina' 'lan jiao' to the extent that their message gets drowned in the sea of rude swearwords."
4. "The entire thing is WTF. I mean, you don't even feel like wanking in camp. I wake up in the morning, fold my blanket, fill my waterbottle, brush my teeth, take a leak or a dump, and think -- should i wank? And immediately the muscles in my right hand creak a loud 'NAH'. It's that sad, I tell you."
5. "ARGH this morning we were punished and made to clean the entire company building..."
6. "So I booked out this morning, have to be back at the freaking ferry terminal at 2300 tonight while every instinct and muscle in my body tells me to head towards any crowded street in town to bop and mosey around a countdown party instead of squishing around trying to find a comfortable position that won't make my ass sting the next morning in some smelly seat on some condemned laoyapok boat."
7. "ARGHHH1AGH15~@%~gb!#^"
8. "WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFF."
9. "this is too depressing. fuck 2006."
Enough said, isn't it?
POSTED AT 5:51 PM
Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005
The latest craze: Potterpuffs!
POSTED AT 5:24 PM
Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Insanity is my only means of relaxation.
Forget the health food; I need all the preservatives I can get.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets.
You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
Perhaps you know why women over 50 don't have babies: They would put them down somewhere and forget where they left them.
My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely.
Every time I think about exercise, I lie down till the thought goes away.
God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind, I will live forever.
It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
If you can remain calm, you just don't have all the facts.
Stress reducer: Put a bag on your head. Mark it "Closed for remodeling." Caution: Leave air holes.
I finally got my head together and my body fell apart.
There cannot be a crisis this week; my schedule is already full.
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
POSTED AT 4:32 PM
Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005
i swear, that by 2pm today
I SHALL GET DOWN TO MY GP COMPREHENSION
or i'll fail NAPFA next year.
like it matters. :P
POSTED AT 1:52 PM
Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005
minimal embellishment says:
do you think its possible to get silver within a year
minimal embellishment says:
time constraints, physical constraints, space constraints
keee; god hates techno. says:
yah definitely
keee; god hates techno. says:
but u must be super super shit disciplined
keee; god hates techno. says:
even more than hw
minimal embellishment says:
okay then forget it i guess im doomed for PTP.
POSTED AT 12:30 PM
Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005
oh, so here comes the last day of 2005.
i see the following in my crystal ball for 2006:
- Physical Training Phase,
- Mild bouts of dementia,
- Sickness,
- Being annoyed,
- Not being able to let go.
POSTED AT 12:27 PM
Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005
Yay, a nice blog template semi-completed. And this motivates me to blog!
I've just done a bit of packing for school. Nothing much, just sorting out my papers into different subjects. Next year's timetable looks shitty, even retarded at parts -- I have PE from 3-4 PM and Physics S from 4-5 on Thursday. So I don't get to bathe and will most probably be late for all the Physics S sessions. Most of the other classes get a 1-2 hour break before they start Physics S.
Until then the new school term augurs a sense of depression.
POSTED AT 11:33 AM
Friday, Dec. 30, 2005
so sick of being tired,
so tired of being sick.
practically speaking, for every complacent hare that takes a nap there are at least a million other hares that persist till the end.
who says i'm racing with the complacent one?
CHILDRENS FABLES ARE NOTHING BUT A PACK OF LIES.
POSTED AT 11:01 PM
Friday, Dec. 30, 2005
OKAY CRAP IM HAVING PE ON TUESDAY
NICE WAY TO BEGIN A SCHOOL TERM
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY
THIS IS THE CRUCIAL YEAR
THE LAST 200-OR-SO DAYS YOU GET TO
PROVE YOURSELF
PROVE YOUR INTELLIGENCE
SHOW OFF YOUR HOTBODS IN THE MALE CHANGING ROOM
AND KISS YOUR GIRLFRIEND IN THE CANTEEN
AND LAMBAST THE STALL THREE AUNTIE FOR HER RETARDED HAIRDO
AND SCORE 4As
THEN ITS OFF TO ARMY
AN UNEVENTFUL YEAR I'D RATHER SKIP
ARGHHHHHHHH
TIME VOID, TIME VOID
I DONT WANT TO ADVANCE TO 2006
BLOODY DISGUSTING HUMILIATION
HATE THE PEOPLE HATE THE SCHOOL HATE THE CLASSMATES TUTORS LECTURERS
AND CERTAIN PEOPLE FROM THE OTHER SECTION OF LT1
CONTINUE TO HAUNT ME LIKE THEY'VE NEVER DONE SO ALREADY!
POSTED AT 11:00 PM
Friday, Dec. 30, 2005
the layer of dust on the photograph, surge of memories,
psychedelia outbreak
a nightmare that took a break
resumes;
3rd January 2006.
POSTED AT 11:00 PM
Friday, Dec. 30, 2005
every tuesday and thursday;
(cue thunder/lightning with melancholic violin/erhu music)
just leave me alone.
POSTED AT 10:59 PM