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so, i'll know the decisions on april fools' day

拍下照片的时候，战士已经死去

a cool one

the other idol

My IdOl --- TrAcY McGrAdY

sembcorp interview

heard from zhipeng that his sembcorp interview lasted for 5 minutes. for me, it was 2 minutes longer.

i think they just want to see our faces. the two interviewers are quite young, ladies in their late 20s. and they tend to hide their faces behind the laptop monitors.

i was asked about my apparent lack of leadership positions held in singapore, about my home city in wuxi (sembcorp engineering and constructions built an industrial park there, but the interviewers obviously had no knowledge of that), about how i learn english (they thought i had no idea of ABC back in china), about my TKD green belt, about my study plan. about my proposed working life in sembcorp (subsidiaries and so on) any other questions? initiall i planned to ask them about their company structure, the bankrupting SMOE, the Solitair legal conflict, the divestment of pacific internet and so on... but since they didn't even have the idea of the wuxi industrial park, i didn't bother to ask such stuff. so i asked them what will happen after this round of interview. okz, the selected ones will be called next week.

btw by interview's supposed to start at 11, but ended up at 12. heard from he fang that the afternoon interviews are made into group interviews instead of individuals. obviously they are running out of time.... is it because some crappy people has crapped too long? dunno what nonsense they can mangae to crap.... the guy before me virtually went in and out of the interview room in 2 minutes time.

yups, and many of the guys are post-NS men. only saw two gals today. one is from rj. we stoned there for an hour, occasionally cursing the low efficiency of sembcorp. she went in half an hour before me. the other one came 10 minutes before i went in. luckily kok hao came in later, so at least i got someone to talk to, for about half an hour.

collecting my extended passport from china embassy tml. later's gonna extend my social visit pass. and probably more interviews are on the way. hehe. i have a very reasonable employers and supervisers, who allow me to sneak out 2 or 3 hours a day without deducting my pay.

yes, that is the hwa chong spirit.....

work's going back to normal after the holidays. relief classes are flooding in. projects are flooding in as well. luckily the singaporean kids have given a warm response to singapore government's gamble on life sciences. i'm having a slack time now at environmental learning and research centre, typing this post entry. next door at biology learning and research centre, a chaos is going on....

see, the benefit of not taking bio.

attended the founder's day dinner yesterday. the food was delicious. better still there were only 4 of us at the ten-people-table... so basically we ate double the average quantity. there's a new teacher sitting at my table. he's an ex-student from tchs and hc. was taught by my guardian. was from s2. was taught by mdm yeo and mr yeo....

and our dear CEO and principal wished hwa chong “永垂不朽”, in front of the one thousand guests

wth....

flying without wings

一周前，读燕雯同学的blog,无语，关窗口。今天，再读新的，还是无语，再到HC049转了一遭，原来这件事已经小起波澜了。

郑重声明，我不是到燕雯同学blog上涂鸦的人。我也不知道他/她是谁。

不过，我的确有不同意见。

首先，在我眼中，在华初，03s34的这两年，并没有那么糟糕。明蕾同学已经列举了许多值得回忆的事情。而事实上，还有很多。体育节上羽毛球和乒乓球的成功，运动会上的4乘100接力，甚至于A水准成绩上的表现。这些都是我们值得喜悦和留恋的吧。或许你没有在球场上拼杀，没有在跑道上驰骋，没有上台的机会，但是，你也会为自己同学的表现而骄傲吧。当03s34的名字被一次次的唤起的时候，你的心中，就不会有那么一丁点的欣喜吗？

的确，我们来自不同的国家，有着不同的家庭背景，有着不同的想法。各个人对于班级的活动，也是有着不同的热忱。有人花更多的时间和课外活动的伙伴在一起，有人更愿意陪在自己喜欢的人身旁，有人与宿舍的伙伴更亲密。这些都是无可厚非的。我们都有各自的生活，要为着自己的目标打拼，前进的路上，有些人希望能有朋友的依靠，也有人更依赖自己。不同的生活方式而已。我们需要尊重彼此的选择。毕竟，我们不能强求别人和自己有着同样的想法和兴趣。我们是学数学的人，也应该知道，26条直线相交于一点的概率是多么的微小。

物以类聚，人以群分。因为相同的兴趣也好，相似的想法也好，或是共同的经历，自然而然会出现要好的几小帮人，形影不离，讲着自己人的话，如果别人不小心插了进去，反而会尴尬（最起码我是这样的）。我为这些clique的人感到高兴。他们/她们找到了知心的朋友，能有所依靠。但同时，并不是每个人都有如此强烈的欲望要socialise，或者是他们已经有了自己的朋友圈子，而不想再分多心。对于我自己来说，君子之交淡如水是我自己的想法。套一句毛主席的话，‘党外无党，帝王思想；党内无派，稀奇古怪’。我们没有必要责怪人们在自己的圈子里。如果你硬要打破，别人反而会不高兴。

我也不同意以班级聚会活动的出席率来衡量一个班的团结程度。在此我要感谢所有组织班级活动的同学们，但是class outing的出席程度取决于很多因素，包括地点，时间，经济能力，节目内容，等等等等。地点上来说，我个人不觉得我们应该强求一个人从boonlay跑到changi去outing。时间上来说，在行程冲突的情况下，二者必须取其一，个人也自由个人的取舍标准。对于我们这些住宿舍的人，还有curfew的限制。经济能力上来说，我相信每个人都不希望花太多的钱，毕竟我们还不算有完全的经济基础，用的还是家长的钱。节目内容是重中之重。我们班组织的outing不算少，但缺乏详细的安排，大家有不同意见的时候，又难以妥协。除此之外，还有很多细节性的东西，比如迟到，临时取消不来，等等。由于clique的存在，往往是一个人不来就几个人一起不来了。这也是可以理解的，毕竟没有熟人说话也是很难过的一件事。以我来说，我自认参加的class outing是很多了，出席率应该至少有80%吧，但说实话，我是一次比一次失望。每一次我们在MRT里面面相觑拿不定主意的时候，我都会后悔为什么要出来。我曾经不止一次地对自己说下一次class outing千万不要出来了，但到头来还是不了了之。

诚如明蕾同学所例，我们班里还是有几次比较成功的外出活动的。但无一例外，这些活动都是有着很好的组织性，才得以成功的。对于我个人来说，与其到chalet熬个晚上不睡觉，不如在hostel里跟人联机打游戏。机会成本的问题。

我忘记是燕雯还是明蕾同学提到，在别人眼里我们是一个团结的班级，但我们自己知道是一盘散沙。我觉得，或许别的班的人也有着同样的想法呢。我们为什么一定要妄自菲薄，只看到不足，却看不到成功的地方呢？比我们班的情况要好的班级当然有，但我们也没有必要把自己看的这么扁。写了这些东西，其实也是在挫伤自己同学对于班级的信心啊。说实话，我读着那两篇post,觉得很痛心。自己本来还是有那么一点点期望，自己的同学却大晴天里泼冷水。

我们何必在伤害与被伤害中挣扎而不能自拔呢？我相信，我们两年的黄城生活，在03s34的700多个日日夜夜，也并不是一无是处的吧。

事实上， 我们是共过患难的。抵制carnival T-shirt。当然，直到现在我对于那件事的看法并没有改变。我保留自己的意见，但我也尊重大家的看法与决定。

什么是class spirit的表现？如果20年后，我们还能微笑着娓娓念出我们班上每个人的名字，还记得我们做过的一件件小事，也是一种spirit。

在我看来，class spirit，归根结底，是两件东西，宽容，与博爱。我们宽容别人的过失，坦然接纳彼此的不同，却以博爱的精神去求同存异，互相依靠。

everybody's looking for that something
one thing that makes it all complete
you find it in the strangest places
places you never knew it could be

some find it in the face of their children
some find it in their lovers' eyes
who can deny the joy it brings
when you find that special thing
you're flying without wings

some find it sharing every morning
some in their solitary lives
you find it in the works of others
a simple line can make you laugh or cry

you find it in the deepest freindships
the kind you cherish all your life
and when you kknow how much that means
you've found that special thing
you're flying without wings
...

just a bit

when most teachers are having their holidays this week, i'm going for work as usual in the labs. currently there are two environmental science groups under my supervision. one on the removal of nitrogenous compounds by some water weeds, and the other some extraction of anti-cancer compound from a plant called isodon(or sth like that) - a branch of a ph.d thesis at NTU... haha, sounds chim... but basically the work starts with removing all the leaves of that plant off the branches, dry the leaves and grind them to powders, add acetone and filter two times... blah blah blah. Mrs sow, my chem teacher in tchs and teacher mentor for this project, doesn't expect the students to reach the final stage of separating and extracting the anti-cancer substance... so we are doing anti-oxidant test first. i've done trials using spectrophotometer (just colourimeter) and the results are quite ok... except that the free radical solution which acts as the oxidising agent, prepared at 6*10^-5 mol/dm3, is so unstable that it's concentration drops by half over night. inaddition i deal with stuff like, 95% ethanol, methanol, ethyl acetate, etc... all organice ones... hehe... i'm losing interest in inorganic chem liao....

and carried the rotary evaporator from HC side.. bleh... arrange to meet on wednesday but the teacher suddenly disappeared and went for a course. so we approached the lab technician on that side... obviously they have never been using that 4000 bucks machine --- they cannot find the instruction booklet, neither did they know how to dismantle it... bleh... made me to sign a 'borrow note' some more.... hehe... mrs sow was quite pissed... our new one's coming in two months time... but as we are doing the extraction now, we have to borrow others..

anyway... the rotary evaporator appeared to be an old model... the water bath always indicate a temperature low than the actual one. we set the temperature to 40 degrees, but the real temperature in the water bath can actually boil an egg. and the vacuum pump is not working properly either. HC surly has wasted a lot of money buying all these stuff.

back to scholarship matters. i'm applying for 4: DBS, SEMBCORP, FIREfly & A*star. except A*star which has a deadline at mar31, i have submit applications to the rest 3. received a phone call from sembcorp, fixing an interview on 22nd, 11a.m. I'm quite excited over the interview invitation. finally, an interview has come to me.

watched huangcheng with kenny kq xx al yesterday. among the three plays i like the first one best. for it's idea. qin1 qing2, ai4 qing2 and you3 qing2, love is the eternal them for mankind. the rest two are sort of gao3 xiao4. they are trying to incorporate steven chous' wu2 li2 tou2, from my perspective. and there is the last commenmortion of chinese high khai khis shorts. from next year onwards tchs sec 4s will enter the college with pants liao.

just returned from china embassy for my extention of passport validity. second time already. but i still left some documents. anyone below 21 years old have to present the photocopies of hu4 kou3 ben3, a chinese characteristic document, and birth cirt... i don't know why they set the age mark of 21, since in china anyone above 18 is legally considered as an adult already. hehe, i it seems that i look quite mature, as the officer didn't give me any trouble at first. but i did not leave quickly enough, as i was called back... hehe... so after some bargain she agreed to let me submit the documents four days later when i come back to collect my renewed passport.

haix... just another week passes.

there's a MIT boy around

my colleague at chs lab, the legendary mr li zhipeng, got his MIT offer with financial aid today....

killing week

wrote a long post yesterday but when it comes to publishing.... shoooooo.... page error.... disappeared.

anyway, sabbatical week has been killing. luckily it's ending too. basically i have been dealing with reckless hci sec 3 boys, who broke beakers, spill chemicals and ignite table top fires....

heard that no pearls score nor cip hours for jc students from this years of batch of j1. well... sounds good. at least students won't be joining ccas for the sake of points of only. they can pursue their own interest at their will. but maybe it's not that a good thing either... who knows? the practical students may just want to mug for their results....

anyway, education is turning into a big challenge across societies all over the world. we are dealing with a whole new generation with the explosion of infomation and etc

killing week

wrote a long post yesterday but when it comes to publishing.... shoooooo.... page error.... disappeared.

anyway, sabbatical week has been killing. luckily it's ending too. basically i have been dealing with reckless hci sec 3 boys, who broke beakers, spill chemicals and ignite table top fires....

heard that no pearls score nor cip hours for jc students from this years of batch of j1. well... sounds good. at least students won't be joining ccas for the sake of points of only. they can pursue their own interest at their will. but maybe it's not that a good thing either... who knows? the practical students may just want to mug for their results....

anyway, education is turning into a big challenge across societies all over the world. we are dealing with a whole new generation with the explosion of infomation and etc

should've posted this post long ago...

written 5/3

maybe it was because i had dreamed about it and thought about it, i was not that excited when i heard about my results from miss ng. i went up to the stage, but realised it was not that exciting as i had expected. oh well, it was just a shaking-hand session with mr ang. i was more happy to see yongxun jumped and 'yeahed' when he found out he got 4As later, and was saddened, as my roommate refused to tell me his results. obviously it was way below his expectation.
i actually expected some form of class dinner or outing after the release of the results... i'm very eager to treat u, hehe. but when i turned around after i had signed on the blue sheet of paper, i realised that quite a number of pple had gone out of my vision. well... that was still half expected. people should enjoy themselves after two years of hard work with, or seek support from, their dearest friends, instead of being 'formalistic' to stay with their own class.
then i decided to go back to hostel, and show the J3 scholars how to retrieve their letters. at least i saw my hard work of sorting hundreds of letter in hostel reaped its fruit. quite a sense of satisfaction as i saw my friends not missing their important letters on university admissions and personal stuff.
of course i called my parents. since they are probably still at work, i called on their 'xiao ling tong'- a mobile service with fix-line telephone rate. they were rather surprised getting an overseas call when they were still at work on their xiao ling tong. they were very happy.
btw as mr ang was introducing lim yi fan who got 8 distinctions and 1 s-paper merit, i was thinking, and probably complaining, why had the school set the criteria of taking 3 s-papers so high? what will happen if i'm allowed to take the math-s?
then eventuall i figured it out: i'll get the distinction of math s. as for gp, god knows......
the 1 from gp was really a bonus. i was expecting most likely an A2 or B3. B4 is the bottomline. if anything below that had come out i would put up a very long face. i was expecting a 25% of getting a 1 actually. i was having the same expectation before O-level results released two years ago, and it turned out to be a 2. this year i get a bit luckier.
anyway, thanks goes to my teachers and tutors who gave me the guidance, my friends and family for their support, and to the half of my mentality which had drived me to do my best. such a score would probably get me shortlisted by some scholarship agencies, but the score won't talk during the interviews and assessments...
i've got a highlighted comma, and i hope i can get a happy ending as well.

mistake made

either i'm absent-minded or too excited, i forgot to return the key to mdm leow... sobs...

before the results come out

i think i'd better leave something here before i go to get my results later.

but what can i say?

an exam of one month long cann't represent your endeavour in two years anyway.

and my destiny has already been decided, i wonder, four months ago when i sat for the papers, and when some british markers gave me tick or cross on my test paper.

now, we are going to get the belated happiness, or sorrow.

march 4th, special day

the day of release of A-level results
the birthday of S34, hehe

i'm wrong

sheesh, As coming out this friday. the day after tomorrown...

O-level 成绩出来之后，虽然成绩没有去年好，虽然今年全国21个状元华中都没有摊上一个，可是MR. Hon还是宣布了early dismissal，学生早放学，学校请老师吃饭。
不过跟我无关。我还是要坐到4点半下班。
研究了一下往年A-level出成绩的时间如O-level揭晓日期的关系，我推断有90%的可能性A-level成绩将会在下一个礼拜出来。
无锡人都回来了。王飞他们一大早跑到宿舍，被昂贵的住宿费吓倒。现在估计在歇脚找房子了吧。
gone are the old good days --- quote from some random nick on msn messenger

gmail?

anyone still wants gmail account? i have 100 invitations...... leave ur e-mail address here

strange dream

On sunday morning i had a strange dream. i dreamed that i got 42 points for chem s.... strange right? not distinction or merit, but an exact score.... wat does the number imply? is it because i'm too eagerly looking forward to a 4a2d result? wtf... i worry about gp most