Seriously, what the fuck?

Don't forget Dec 25 2005...

Haha I intended to scratch the title ^^ onto the inside cover of my handphone or something. Something like Fullmetal Alchemist where Ed had scratched 'Don't forget Oct 10 1010' or something like that into his state alchemist watch thinger to remember when he left Rizenbull to become a state level alchemist.

It's been a month since I've left home, and seriously I've no complaints what so ever (save for the lack of roti canai here lah). Singapore is exactly as I envisioned it in that the JC syllabus isn't cheesecake but hell yea I'm having fun here. Can I help having fun? After all I'm the blardey fool who keeps making the most noise. What to do le, Old Skool ppl wajib membuat bising lor...

Speaking of which Setan School is a lot like Old Skool - both are missionary schools, the secondary and primary schools are boys' schools, there's a lot of tradition and history intwined into the institution, and it isn't the best college around but still well known. Oh, and yea I like the SS uniform for gals ... XD XD

Mmm gals. Yeap, I'm finally in a co-ed school after boyz school my whole life. No big deal la, it's only a lil different from boyz school. Now it isn't completely wrong to fancy a classmate lol. But gal la of course!! Think wadd, come 300km south after surviving 11 years of boy school to turn ghey arr?? Use your blain!!

*cough* Seriously, not many people here speak like Phua Chu Kang actually.

Anyway, on Saturday's Chinese new year, so my parents are coming down on Sunday. Yeap, I'm quite stuck here until March. Ishh everyone else in my hostel is going back!! I don't really miss home le, but still I want mai roti canaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii....................

Weekends + Singapore + laziness....

OMFG, since xx (cf previous posts) is an advanced subject that only an elite 11 psychotic people can take, we've got homework already! There's a half-page essay about the pros and cons of Socratic dialogue. WTF you say? You got Google right?? Go search for yourself, cos I'm too lazy to type another paragraph about it here.

Well, either way I procrastinated doing the essay until today. Why? Lazy mah... Instead I spent my time going out with the MCA (this acronym you should know) of McNair hostel. Damn fun, we run around and talk some shit, scaring the poor hapless locals. Almost reminds me of home...

Random list of things I miss about home:

1. My best friends ;)
2. My dog - hope my brother bathes him properly...!
3. My cat =3 
4. My family (actually no, cos they can't nag me no more :P)
5. ROTI CANAI!! TEH TARIK!! There's ferkin' few mamak stalls here weyh!
6. Ambiquitous cyber cafes (unlike what you think, Sg has very few lan shops!)
7. My bedroom!! It's at least 1.5x the size of the 5 pax room here...
8. My bed of course! Shitty hostel foam mattress...
9. My computer + all the mp3's on it
10. All them shopping malls I used to lepak (MV, OU, KLCC, Amcorp Mall!!!)

The main reason ambiquitous cyber cafes is on the list is because the hostel computers are(to steal a metaphor from a friend) like hawt chicks in that they're always taken. Thus I can rarely get online to bla bla with the people back home. Oh yea, speaking of bla bla, if you can waste 20 sen/SMS I'm contactable at NUMBER HIDDEN. (subtle hint, wink wink)

That's all for now, until I can steal a comp again at a later juncture.

Orientation Week: Done and Gone

Orientation week for Setan School is done. It was sorta tiring will all kinds of crazy shit activities, but it was definitely fun. Here's some pics for the entire week, courtesy of the Setan School photographic society.

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Yea laaa, I know you guys are gonna check out the chiqs. Whatever, you can see only and nothing else cos you''re all 300km away. *ebil laffter*

On Friday, I sat for the xx interview. This follows the selection test that was on Wednesday. Basically, I had to talk some shite with 3 other people in front of Mr Potassium Chlorate and Mr N00b (it's how his name is pronounced...).

Wonders of wonders, I got it! How the heck you ask? Well the previous few days KC (hostel mate) and I have been constantly cracking Mr Potato jokes. You see, that man speaks with some snooty Brit accent, so we copied that along with his psychotic xx-speak.

"And how did you come to that conclusion? Which method of inquiry did you use? Can you be sure that scientific inquiry is the best method to obtain the truth? What is truth? Isn't it but a widely accepted view on a subject? How can you be sure what you have read in the Bible is true? Faith? Give me your proof, your evidence of the existance of the figures in the Bible!"

And et cetera. We didn't do that Bible part. That I got from Mr Potato during the interview. Question everything is probably the principle behind xx, and that includes questioning societal norms and the Bible.

Pretty damn much fine by me, including the fact that I'll have to write 1000 word essays about it.

Stuck Down South

Yeap, I'm stuck down south, in a fairly crappy hostel (compared with others - they're grand 4 star establishments), with computers where I cannot install anything and rooms with 6 people to them and only 1 bathroom.

Kinda makes me wonder why I decided to sign off two of my years away to study here?

Well because I wanna damnit! Things here are much better run than back home. Read the news about some moronic government cronies who gave out contracts to only 3 bumiputera contractors to supply street lamps? Here in Singapore, government sponsored monopolies are about as common as a pig flying with 20,000 tonnes of weight pinned on it's miserably squashed body. It just doesn't happen here.

Here, the govt creates bodies and companies to regulate prices and ensure there's no monopoly in the markets. Fair Price and SPC (Spore Petroleum Company I think) are govt operated organizations that offer the lowest prices to create competition. Drives down the market prices for the people, and hell yea that's great. Corrupt government officers are the exception here, unlike in where they're the norm.

The thing sucks here are the property prices and cost to own a vehicle. You've got to be pretty damn loaded to own a nice landed property and a big BMW. No matter really, the public transportation here is excellent and you can get to just about anywhere on this puny island.

Now enough about economics and poly-ticks; onwards with things more related to the reason I'm here (and that's education). A little about the syllabus here. I'm the first batch for a new syllabus, revamped to cope with globalization and bla bla bla. You're required to take:

• GP (General Paper)
• MTL (Mother Tongue Language)
• PW (Project Work)
• 3 subjects from your stream (Sciences or Arts)
• 1 contrasting subject (opposite stream lor)

Note that Sg people have a serious appetite for acronyms XD

Most knowledge subjects (the Sci or Art stream subs) have 3 levels: H1, H2, or H3. H2 is the standard A levels. H1 is the same as H2 in depth, but you've got less topics to cover. H3 on the other hand, is a fairly different syllabus from H2, and it really goes in depth. A lot of work, but if you love the subject, you're going to like it a lot.

You'll need 3 H2's and 1 H1 or something, doesn't matter which subjects you apply it to, whether Sciences or Arts.

[MATERIAL REMOVED] It sounds interesting since it involves some thinking outside the box and creative writing or something.

Aside from the usual muggin' (studying and stuff), you are encouraged to join co-curricular activities (CCA). There's quite a few here, and I suppose it'll be fun. It'll help a lot to have some good CCA on your certs if you're to apply to a local university. Erm by local
I mean Sg la, I can never enter a M'sian public uni now. Not that I'll want to enter some useless 189th or something ranked uni. National University of Singapore (NUS) is ranked among the top hundred, and is definite better than Malaya Uni.

Oh yea, that was the main reason why I'm here. (I forgot lol between all my ranting)Because I don't wanna end up at some rank 20,341st university, wasting 4 years getting a degree that's worth more as toilet paper. I'd rather go through 6 years of hell and come through with valueble certs and experience than take the easy way and collect some asswipe. And well who knows? I'm sure as hell having fun in hell :D