where is the ladder?

This is so funny. My mother asked m1 and me to look for a ladder in the house. Apparently she took a very long time before she found it as it was in such an inconspicuous place. So, as a challenge I suppose, she put up $10 for the person who could find it first. Seeing it as such an easy task, (how hard is it to find a ladder in the house?), I immediately began the search. 1 second after walking out to the living room, I found it- right behind the thick curtains. The curtains were bulging so unnaturally especially from where I was coming from. And this is how I am now $10 richer. =DDDD

i want to donate my blood, take it! i have read about the shortage of blood in the blood bank many times this year and everytime i read about it i would feel a huge sense of urgency that i had to donate my blood really soon or else a person might die or something. and so this huge opportunity to fulfill my dream comes and the organisation comes to our school to collect blood. whee, of course i felt so excited and i happily skipped to the english resource room during break. however, i was rejected because of my fever last week! ahhh, i felt so disappointed after that.

fortunately i didnt wait for 3 and a half hours like m1 did. muahaha.

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on a side note, i am certainly getting lazier. here's a solution to avoid washing your water bottle, buy a new bottle everyday or alternatively, USE A STRAW!

also, if you are lazy to type in a title for your blog post, type it as the 1st few words in your post.

Was extremely negative towards the end of the day, felt restless and that everything was pointless. hmmm. no idea why. i feel that my attitude is very bad nowadays, and although i can always pinpoint in what way i am behaving incorrectly but i just cannot seem to stop myself. for example: i have many criticizes for everything else but not myself. Also, when i do sense that i am in the wrong, i will always have excuses for it. like how i am reflecting now shows that i still have control over my behaviour and so it should not be too alarming. look, another excuse.

anyway, my apologies to all those in the S and T centre today after PE. after checking with Marj when it ended, i confirmed my suspicion that i was over critical and negative. My comments probably steered everyone away from the discussion and dampened everyone’s mood rather than being constructive.

Ahhh, I must really really change!

Paddlers

We won Hwa Chong 4:1. WOOOOOO! =D

busy busy

chinese compo
bio assignment
lit task (done!)
chemistry presentation script (done!)
rmbr report (finished preliminary editing)

my birthday

thank you everyone for y0ur birthday wishes! thanks to sarah, wuyue, jiayi, ruiqi and nick for the wallet. i will start using it now =D

something really funny happened today. being really bad at handicrafty stuff, i stupidly cut the diameter of an upright piece of wood (exactly like a chopstick) using a penknife while my left hand was clutching the wood. of course, i cut myself. the penknife cut my 2nd finger of my left hand at almost a right angle leaving behind a 1cm gash. i freaked out opon seeing the blood flowing out. thanks to wing yan who attended to my wound, she was extremely calm and she knew just what to do with my finger. if not i would have just continued sitting there and stared at my cut in disbelief. and then wu yue said, this is your birthday cut. of course she meant "cut", but all of us heard "card". lol, it was all really funny.



happy birthday to marjorie too!

return from taiwan

mum and dad came back from taiwan yesterday.

i know i am very bad to say this but i wasnt very happy with her return because i was upset with the things she bought back for us. the shoes, the wallets, the shirts ect were ugly. dont know what she is going to do with all those stuff that i dont want. argh, i think i expressed my displeasure too explicitly. hm, i have been telling her that i am glad that she is back and that is all that matters and i really hope i sound sincere. she is flying off again on my birthday with dad and i will be so sad again.

Thursday-

Training from 4-8 because competitions start on Monday. I went from 5 to 8. As it was raining, the entire hall was packed with people from track, basketball, volleyball and us table tennis. Every now and then we would see the hall illuminating because of random lightning bolts. The massive number of people (and the noise produced) and how everybody was really focused on their game influenced me, suddenly I felt really competitive too. Perhaps that is the long lost feeling of playing in a competition, which I haven’t experienced since sec 2.

Friday-

Rushed to NIE by taxi with nick right after electives ended at 3.10, the taxi driver was really chatty. He asked us how we wanted to reach there, by pie or aye or ecp, and obviously we (or just me) didnt know. When we finally reached there, Mr Tan brought us to see the giant freshwater prawns, Macrobrachium rosenbergii, we would be working with. The project is briefly about finding the chemical compositions of its moulted skeleton- calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate. But first, Mr Tan wanted us to change the water of 8 tanks. We then had a brief introduction on what the tanks contained and the conditions in which the prawns survive in. the oldest prawn, around 2 years old, was almost 50 cm long and we were really lucky as the female prawn had just moulted and they do so every month or so. as she had just lost her skeleton and was really vulnerable, the male had a claw over her body to protect it from enemies. These prawns have really long blue claws so that they can protect their territory, by moving their claws alone would draw out a huge area. Ended at around 7 and reached home at 8.30.

Saturday-
cashflow101. The game was really fun, although we didnt have much time to play as the facilitator kept talking. Very privileged to have Mr Bellum Tan speak to us as he is a close friend of Robert Kiyosaki, however I felt that his hour long introduction was really unnecessary. By being there, we were already a converted audience, and so there was no need for him to spend so much time talking about why we needed to be financially literate. The time could be spent on the game! The facilitator was good, but as we had too little time to play, I could not bring myself to concentrate on what he was saying and wanted to carry on with the game asap. In the end, I had the most cash in hand for my table - $ 282 520. The winner of the entire half of the cohort had 13 million so I really pale in comparison. The main idea of the game was to invest as much of your money as possible when the opportunity comes. Our group mainly bought stocks when the price was low and sold it when the price rose. However, the $1/ share card only came at the last 2 minutes or so and we had no chance to make use of that opportunity. Overall, my main take away was that we should invest our money, wisely but not overly cautiously. Maybe I should join Biz club and play the game every week. I certainly enjoy competitive games like that. =D