This is a test post made from Microsoft Word 2007 with its new blogging feature. Works pretty cool. I might want to add that I love the new User Interface for Office 2007.

School has begun again for year 2007. The orientation for the year ones is suspiciously similar to that of last year’s. The cheer is almost the same, the scoring system is somewhat the same, the groups system is almost a replica, and the games are so similar. It is, unfortunately, still pretty boring, even for a spectator for me, who unfortunately has to film the whole event from nearly the start till the end.

And with that I’ve spent these two days coming home feeling so tired I thought I would fall asleep in front of my computer.

Speaking of this, I think it’s time I start doing the long overdue holiday assignments. I should stop procrastinating.

And so we sent Mrs. Chan off with a concert (and a pretty rhyming song) and a video. I think some of you won’t know or understand what on at the start of the video. So, I thought I could do some justice to the video and explain a little. Oh yea, the contents of the video were decided by the teachers by the way.

(Fresh off Youtube; not even posted on cosiety yet.)

After the usual fanfare, you see all the teachers going “aiya”. Basically, they were imitating the way Mrs. Chan talks. That simple. Although you can’t hear it, the first three “aiyas” are, I think, synchronised to the “ayeyaeyai” of the background song, Butterfly. The original idea was to use the song to run through the whole video with the aiyas inserted here and there while photos are being shown. Oh yea, you should be able to see some butterflies fly across the screen, as attuned to the lyrics of the song.

The “machine-like” sound at the end of the video was because of the clip there being played at slow-motion.

Shiyun did most of the work so kudos to you! I feel bad not being able to help out that much. You can find the song being used here.

Anyway, after all of them, Mrs. Chan gave what could be the final full-day of VJC. *sobs* I wonder how the next principal will be. Will he go “shut up” after everyone cheer about a “half-day”? (not even going into the domain of a “full-day”) I don’t know.

Did Tan Thiam Hock receive these kind of treatment when he retired? I don’t think so. Mr. Sng was so much better. Speaking or Mr. Tan, for those of you still with that free chemistry guidebook he gave us, flip open to page 292. You see some organic compound being named “1,1,1,1-tetramethylmethane”. So much for being a Chemistry teacher.

Oh my life is changing everyday
in every possible way
And though my dreams
it’s never quite as it seems
Never quite as it seems

After the exams… we still have lessons. At this moment, I’m not in the mood of doing any studies-related work totally. Oh well, I still have to figure out the Probability tutorial by thursday.

We got back our 16PF analysis today. Interestingly, it’s pretty accurate. Apparnetly, I have almost no creativity (which I agree) and very reserved and private. The career options that I am recommended seem to fit my interests as well – physics, math etc. The only thing is… why am I recommended to be a farmer?!

In other news, I’ve managed to come up with some prototype interfaces of my latest “project”. I know some of you will exclaim it closely resembles that of WordPress – I know that because I modelled it after WordPress’s design. Can’t blame me for that can you – I’ve got no creativity.

Anyway, here’s some screens for you to preview:

Tags: PHP

“Thank you for your hard work It’s finally over!” That was what I placed on the plasma screen after everything was over. I wonder how many of you saw that.

Loads of technical hiccups along the way. There was the ubiquitous problem of not being able to receive the camera stream; there was a problem of approximately 10 seconds lag between the camera and the screen; there was the problem of the plasma screen computer suddenly going haywire. I ran around, attending to this, making sure that works and checking out why that doesn’t work. In the end, we were able to screen the closing ceremony mostly without problem save for some lag.

We definitely need to write some better documentation for the next batch. In the end, I didn’t get to see much of the open house and never spotted anyone worth mentioning.

Anyway, tonight was the 50th Anniversary for Dunman High. Happy Birthday =) Too bad I couldn’t bear to part with $70 to get there. There was some news coverage on it but most of it is about PM Lee’s speech anyway.

*Drools at this*! My goodness. I can’t take it anymore. I’m going to try my luck with the special edition at Kinokuniya (provided they import them).

*EDIT* Never mind. It’s too expensive. Apparently, there’s some extra charges incurred with the importing. $70.60 for crying out loud!

I remembered taking some time off last year and visiting the various open house at this time of the year. And this time round, I’m the one helping out with the open house instead.

What I did today was to test the computers and see if we can stream video from a mobile video camera to the plasma screen. It’s kind of complicated: at least 3 computers and 2 cameras are needed. And we did it all with VLC Player. Kinda cool – I never knew that the software was that powerful.

With that aside, I hope it works tomorrow, meaning no technical glitches, no screw up in the Wireless network etc.

When superstars and cannonballs are running through your head
A television freak show cops and robbers everywhere
Subway makes me nervous, people pushing me too far
I’ve got to break away
So take my hand now

If I had a meter showing my anger level, it must have hit the maximum a while ago.

I’ve had enough.

I received two emails containing sources that hell knows what I am supposed to do with.

I almost wanted to send him this email:

Please do not test my patience any further.

I explicitly told you to send me your Written Report PARTS NOT the sources. I don’t give a hell damn about the sources themselves. I WANT THE WRITTEN REPORT!

Tell me, from the bottom of your heart, HOW MUCH do you think you have contributed? You think having your EOM,I & R, etc, done well is going to earn you a straight A? Think again.

I think I have already given enough chances as it is. Good luck to whoever it is. If you are reading this, take heed, for your doom loss-of-grades is nigh.

Tags: a-levels, Woes of PW

Went swimming today and I was expecting the pool to be pretty much empty on a cloudy Friday afternoon, that is today if you ken. Not until did I reach the entrance of the swimming complex did I see a bunch of primary school kids, boys to be exact, from St Michael’s hanging out, apparently after a supposed-excursion-to-the-pool. I went in to see even MORE kids. Gosh. There goes the quiet pool.

The exams are coming. Are you prepared? Are you ready?

Long days and pleasant nights!

A pretty long post awaits.

Woke up to the sound of my mobile’s alarm at 8 am. That omnipresent “beep beep beep”.

On the way to school, the bus (31) I was on almost had a head-on collision with a turning lorry at a junction. The bus was travelling very fast, probably above the speed limit for buses and probably trying to beat the red light. At the junction, as a lorry was attempting to turn (or going forward; I can’t tell, for that matter), the bus almost collided with it.

The tale doesn’t end here. The bus driver, probably recovering from the shock of that near-accident, began driving at turtle speed and MISSED the bus stop which a few VJ people and I were supposed to get off. In case you were wondering, the “BUS STOPPING” sign was glowing red. And thus began my slogging to the school with my mind somewhat still in dream land.
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Tags: Bookmarks

“Your uniform is not just two pieces of cloth to cover your body.”

A major rewrite is needed. We need to do another survey and interview. Great.

The September holidays are so close and yet I don’t even feel like I’m actually going into the one week vacation. So much to do, so little time.

Yea!

Tags: a-levels, Woes of PW

One word to describe the Chemistry Lecture Assessment – screwed. Absolutely, not relatively, screwed. (I will elaborate this more later.)

Anyway, I’ve decided to buy the Dark Tower Series =) Gosh, I have become a hopeless fanboy. Halfway through the series. 4 more books to go!

“I said f*** you but if that puzzles you, I can make it clearer. No. The answer is no.” – Roland Deschain

There are some stuff I want to write, but they are not for the public’s eyes… So the next time you see a post requiring a password, ask me on MSN for it and I might give it to you if you are the intended reader.