timooo computing March 3, 2007 - Subscribe

common tests start in 3 days time and i'm still not very prepared. but i'll still blog anyway. i seriously doubt how much difference it can make if i blog and i dont blog. so i was trying to study computing just now when i realised i was doing more of filing all my stuff rather than actually studying. cos computing is like the most disorganised subject since i just dump everything into one big paper folder, regardless of whether they're notes, tutorials, crap or more crap. please dont think that i'm suggesting that computing is a crap subject, cos its not! it's the most wonderful subject ive ever taken in my entire life! *tries hard not to roll eyes at myself* anyway, since we have 4 computing teachers, i decided to sort my notes into 4 piles. below is a graphical representation of the amount of notes that each pile has (not to scale). pile A: |||||||||| pile B: ||||||| pile C: | pile D: ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| okay so obviously one teacher does not like to give out handouts, while another teacher has such great handouts (really.). if you all know who my computing teacher is, you'll probably know who represents pile C. its not that he doesnt have any handouts to give, but its just that he has this really unconventional teaching style that promotes more freestyle exploration and independent learning. i don't think its a bad thing, just that its probably too ahead of our time. maybe the next next generation of kids would be more suitable for it. no matter how hard the people up there try to change the education system by revamping - calling S papers H3 instead, scraping streaming for primary school, introducing DSA etc. - there's no quick fix to it. and as much as i admire the sentiments of people who want more creativity and expressiveness and self-learning, i really prefer spoonfeeding since the current system is still so rigid and inflexible. SPOONFEED ME! the fact that our education system is still so rigid and inflexible makes creative learning methods utterly useless and redundant wad.. for WAT? and its really stupid that the people who are trying to change our education system are those who had received the old style of education and probably dont know what they're doing to us now anyway. they're jus making things appear more dynamic when in fact its the same old dosh tosh. to people who's gonna quote me something about how "spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon", well, i rather have a nice round spoon in my mouth than a stupid fork poking me in my mouth =) damn how did i digress this much? bah maybe i should get back to organising my computing notes now. adios. (: P.S. an appeal to everyone: PLEASE update your blogs! i'm running out of content to read! :s

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timooo ants March 5, 2007 - Subscribe

its actually supposed to be a pretty happy day today since vj got a full day off. but what's the use when common tests only start tmr? its like giving us an extra day to kill ourselves with all the studying we hafta do. but at least it meant that there werent lessons lah. anyway i was friggin pissed at the people in vs today. not the students, but the adults. or rather, more specifically, om chia and that receptionist chubie. both of them were like giving me attitude when i went back today la. like as if i owed them something. and i was like so damn polite to them even tho they didnt deserve any of my good manners. hnh. i can already feel that this week is gonna be damn hectic. first, and obviously, there's common tests. i'll be seriously happy if i get to pass all my subjects. second, i hafta finish up my application for the bb award thingy. there's still 1 essay left to do and the powerpoint presentation, and i still hafta find time between all my exams to run down to hq and deliver it. arghhhh. its hard not to go insane when you're faced with all these stuff, and to top the day off, an entire legion of ants invade your friggin room to feed on a dead lizard which is behind the cupboard, meaning you cant remove it or do anything. and it gets worse when you find out that actually these ants have marched around half of your room, passing by the bed that you sleep on and jus sneaking through on of my cupboards. woah i hate ants. and dead lizards. dumb sh*t.

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timooo deja vu March 6, 2007 - Subscribe

usually when im feeling down, i'll go shop. when i cant shop, i'll eat. oh boy did i eat alot after econs paper today. burger king would be happy. actually the essays werent too hard, just that everything leaked out of my head after the case study stunned me. the sense of deja vu, as i (again) left part one of my second question blank, just like the promos. ahh.

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timooo last paper March 8, 2007 - Subscribe

ok just one last paper tmr. so far, i've had 2 disastrous papers and 2 ok papers. computing is a 90% fail kind of thing cos the only studying i did was reviewing some notes last week (once) and trying to get something into my brain one hour before the exam. we were supposed to use one sheet of paper for each question. total 11 questions and i submitted only 8 sheets of paper. meaning 3 questions happily gone, one of which was a dead giveaway question which everyone probably got correct since its like just a "STATE" kind of question. econs was another screwup; refer to previous post. maths and gp have been ok, hope i'll pass gp. maths is just a matter of whether its an E or D. nothing more, nothing less (i hope) went to study at coffee bean just now, tried their belgian choc ice blended and its not worth a single cent. too chocolatey, not smooth enough, not much coffee taste. thought it tasted more like hot chocolate blended with ice. still prefer the caramel ice blended i think. shall go now. adios

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timooo computing! March 8, 2007 - Subscribe

ARGHHHHH I FAILED COMPUTING! cries. (click to open in new window) though i expected it, it still hurts i failed computing for the first (and it shall be the last) time of my life. darn. other names have been blacked out to protect their privacy, though you can easily guess who got the highest in class and who has that super long name after mine. if you're observant enough, you'll notice i'm the lowest in class! wheeeeeeeeeee. (the two zeroes dont count cos they havent taken the paper yet, but i'm sure they'll score more than me) you might say, "wait a minute! still got section A! there's hope!" (crap im rolling my eyes at myself for thinking of this dumb line) however, i'll need 23/40 for that section to get a measly pass. and that is mathematically not possible. cos, i left 6 marks worth of questions blank; also, i got 12 marks which are confirmed gone cos i wrote what i knew were wrong answers. so, 40 - 6 - 12 = 22 and i need a 23. now you get it? haha

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timooo dadadee March 12, 2007 - Subscribe

its the school hols! finally. its really like the first time it actually feels like a real school holiday lah. no holiday hmwk to do, no need to study for any stupid exam after hols (which happened like during the last 3 holidays), no serious commitments (only fun ones! =)). this should be how life is like. not mugging and eating and sleeping and mugging and eating and sleeping. actually i'm all for eating and sleeping; i'm just against the mugging part. spent a day out with me, myself and i. wonder why some people think its wrong to just be alone and do things by yourself. its not really being antisocial, but its just we all need some solitude sometimes. anyway, i went to swim in the morning at like 9. usually im never awake by choice at this kind of time, especially during school holidays, but i figured it'll be better to go early and avoid sharing the pool with kids and kids and kids. and the lifeguard there was hot sia. hahah tink she's probably around 18 or so. she made it totally worth it waking up early. heh went to window shop around tm after lunch. frigging crowded lah. fled the crowds after walking around for abt half an hour to meet mei at long john's at century sq. i simply LOVE their mustard sauce. rocks la. walked around awhile after that. decided to go rent some movies to watch during the hols. anyway sth happened on my bus ride that made me frown all the way back. i was taking bus 3, then there was this little boy and his mother sitting opposite me. then the boy suddenly sneezed. right onto the seats and the armrest in front of him. i could see his spittles of saliva fly out of his mouth and land on the seat lah. then after sneezing, there was still some saliva trailing at the side of his mouth. and what did the mother do? she jus "tsk tsk"-ed and acted as though nothing happened! even though all the saliva could be seen right in front of her! like wtf la. even dog owners clean up if their dogs shit on the ground, and this mother doesnt even take a tissue and wipe the spit off the fucking armrest? then i was like frowning and shaking my head at her. and she just refused to look my way and take considerate and wipe the seat and armrest. does it take THAT much effort to jus reach into ur damn handbag and take out a piece of fucking tissue paper to wipe your son's spit off the seat? tink of all the poor people who are gonna rest their arms on that boy's bacteria and germs! if you're a frequent passenger of bus service 3 and you're concerned about all that leftover spit on the seat and armrest, the bus plate is SBS 3646, and the affected seats are the 3-seater seats which are placed parallel to the aisle at the front of the bus, behind the driver's seat. oh, and leaving the best for the last, the final computing common test results are out! :) (click to see it clearly in a new window!) happy holidays ppl! (: adios. tag (i realised i havent been replying tags for a long time.. OOPS) s1771m: haha that wasnt the total marks yet.. but the total marks are out now.. not much diff tho yw: heh im glad u understand my sense of humour. some people jus dont get it (i really dunno why :( ) glad ur not like them :) chris: thanks! haha n the flame thrower method wldnt have worked cos i'd prolly burn my cupboard while doing it! :s yf: thanks! =) u still model student or not.. can be my role model! hehx clemmy: nah. but he's the only one who got A. his next competitor got an.... E. lol van: nods in agreement.. i tink he's still laughing about stealing your seat for the physics paper that day! hahahah khyrul: huh? ive always been in the club wad :) khyrul: who says? uve got ur female best fren leh. haha and im a fren too! but i tink eve enough alr lah. :)

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timooo another day March 13, 2007 - Subscribe

time flies when you're really enjoying yourself. the holidays have jus been slipping away! cant believe how school days seem to drag on forever and then holidays jus flash past in the blink of an eye. irritates me lah. but still, got holidays better than no holidays (: brunched today with qweeeeks minus trev, who's down with a cold. (tsk if ure reading this, u better get well soon..those 2 little girls were so lost without you!) anyway mei jus came back from her whirlwind trip to melbourne with presents! :) its been some time since ive received stuff from ppl who'd gone overseas. she bought me this rabbit thingy made using wires.. pretty exquisite stuff :) tangy got a swan and trev got a dog. she says its purely for bai sui purposes, but i tink there shld be some use for it. hmmm. still trying to figure out wat to use it for though. heh. went to watch music and lyrics after eating. quite a light-hearted, sweet show.. even though u'll know what's gonna happen in the end, how the story will play out, etc, its still a good movie cos its like a heartwarming kinda story thingy. ahh u noe what i mean la. and the theme song's quite nice.. still trying to dl it :x went home after that and watched confession of pain, which i rented ytd .. didnt watch it when it came out in dec cos i wasnt in singapore n hk had already finished screening that. slept a while, then walked around at white sands to kill boredom (and to stop myself from getting stuck to the tv with another vcd) shall go now. adios (: i've been living with a shadow, over head i've been sleeping with a cloud, above my bed i've been lonely for so long trapped in the past, i just can't seem to move on i've been hiding all my hopes and dreams away just in case i ever need them again someday i've been setting aside time to clear a little space in the corners of my mind all i wanna do is find a way back into love i can’t make through without a way back into love

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timooo how a day gets ruined March 14, 2007 - Subscribe

this was supposed to be a happy post about how my wednesday went right. well, almost. but anyway that happy mood's gone. my parents dad jus ruined my mood for this brand new thursday morning. i think from now on i shld jus keep my mouth shut when im at home and never tell them anything. full of crap. i shld never have told them i flunked computing. now they're getting on all shitty about me going out so much during the holidays. for fuck's sake its the fucking holidays lah. and its not like i have common tests after the march holidays.. they're like over already! and in the first place i havent even gone out alot this week. jus cos i came home a little late ytd and today they're asking me inane questions which they think are rhetorical questions. like: (dad opens the door to my room and sees me sitting in front of the com) me: what? dad: you're playing com again? me: where got again? i jus started like 5 minutes ago. dad: (pauses for a while) where did you go and play jus now? me: i where got play? go friend's house only wad dad: go do what? me: (dumbstruck at the stupidity of the question) like, catch up with friends/ exclassmates. chat. play game for a while. you think i go there and study ah? dad: (pauses. for some time) dont you think you've been playing a lot more this year than last year? (he thinks this is a rhetorical question where i'm supposed to silently reflect and shrug in defeat) me: (says flatly, in a end of discussion tone) no. dad: (pauses and thinks since his rhetorical question didnt work) dont you come and give us (meaning him and mum) excuses about not having enough time to study later when the results come out.. always going out and playing these days (mutters) me: (ignores - the best way to end the discussion) (actually usually im referring to not having enough time to study BEFORE the friggin exams, dammit. no one studies AFTER exams are over) he probably didnt notice that i usually went out at least once or twice a week last year since he thinks ive been out a lot this year when i havent been. and jus because when he reaches home at night and sees me using the com he thinks im stuck on it the whole day playing games. jus because mum told him i failed computing (which i only casually mentioned before) he thinks i havent been studying this year. seriously, ive been studying more this year compared to last year. its just that he doesnt see it. all the times i had to pangseh somebody because i had to study, all the frappuccinos ive been drinking this year as a result of studying more outside, all the higher phone bills as a result of keeping in touch via smses and calls rather than meeting people face to face. they jus focus on all the negative stuff, the things i "dont" do, the things i "should be doing but dont" do. they're he's not in the least encouraging or anything, jus plain critical. i wonder how i managed to have completed 18 years of my life like that. not to be bad or anything, but in 8 years time he'll probably wish my younger brother was jus half as good as i was when i was 17 years old. at least mum sort of understands that at this age, i need to get out more and spend time with friends and not jus become some fucking mugger who doesnt have a life. though she still doesnt like it when i come home past midnight. i think i should give them a book with something like "21st century parenting for dummies" or "how NOT to treat your 18 year old son as a kid" for their next wedding anniversery. it probably wont be very useful since dad never rarely (if ever) takes advice from other people and mum doesnt have time to read. it'll probably get thrown into the storeroom to gather dust. ugh. shall blog more later when im in a better mood about what a nice day i actually had on wed (with a minor blip). adios.

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timooo a happy post March 15, 2007 - Subscribe

this is gonna be a happy post yesterday, before the dadsucks saga started, i had such a great day i couldnt believe it! (: ok im exaggerating. but hey! it really was a great day. willingly woke up at 8 o clock, which is like super super super early for me. actually i was like committing a crime by waking up so early cos i think its a crime to wake up before 10am! but ahhh heck. even my alarm tone sounded nice ytd morning. met mei, ying, ron, junliang, rach at tamp mrt before taking 21 to jan's house. the view from her house is like damn nice la.. can see the whole of bedok reservoir. anw then the guys jus started on the xbox while the most of the gals + junliang played mahjong. ron owned everyone in nba live lah. not my kind of game really. haha winning eleven was much better and surprisingly ying can drive lah. wah lau beat ron and me at project gotham. kena stunned sia. ordered pizza for lunch + salad from jan's fridge. played cards a while then the drinks started coming out. played a few rounds of zong ji mi ma. seriously, vodka + ribena + ketchup + coke does NOT mix well. you can trust me on that cos i had to drink it once. ughhhhhhhhhhh. started having this splitting headache after that so i went home to sleep awhile. sianz. went down to tamp after that to buy some stuff. thats when my day turned sour. oh well but this is a happy post. shant talk about it. anyway was on my way home when the 4h boys called and told me they left me pizza. wasnt planning to go to willis' house to meet them originally but aiya, decided to go in the end cos we havent gotten together for some time and yeah i missed the class ppl. cos its like the best class i ever had (and probably will ever have too)! ate this super hot wasabi nut thingy. woah thrilling. had pizza + chris' cake too. played winning eleven too. talked alot too. had fun too. no drinks cos i was supposed to buy it but i didnt cos i came errr, 7 hours late. and then there was the big fish small fry saga where 9 boys stared intently at a fish tank, waiting for the inevitable to happen. lol and that, was how i spent my happy wednesday. (: adios. [for ppl who prefer to read not-so-happy posts, refer to previous post below.]

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timooo games games March 16, 2007 - Subscribe

spent most of today at home. been playing alot of sim games recently there's a victorian mansion in simcity4! sounds cool. plus its high-wealth. kinda like the feeling of playing city planner.. could be an interesting job anyway its quite good knowing english and chinese while playing second life. cos alot of the noobs there knew english or chinese. tho it was abit weird talking in hanyu pinyin. got a chance to try out my spanish too cos there were some spanish ppl playing as well. haha but i still cant get my character to dress up properly. and he looks too big sized too. then there's this particular mission in swat 4 that gets on my nerves. hates it when i hafta arrest those idiots alive rather than jus shoot them. the downside of being from a law enforcement agency. originally wanted to go swimming in the afternoon, but it looked like it was gonna rain anytime, so i scrapped plans. went to work out at tamp instead. returned my rented vcd, then went to help my brother some stuff from white sands. its getting abit boring now since ive been going there almost everyday this week since i hafta pass by it if i take bus or mrt. wanted to get earphones for my ds lite after i realised that it doesnt use normal earphones.. but comics connection only had psp stuff mostly. been playing advance wars on my ds lite these few days. gets quite addictive after a while.. which is bad since its a level year just about given up on nfsU2. jus cant get past this particular place. screwish. that's about it for the games ive been playing so far. i doubt there'll be much time to play for the rest of the year once school starts again :(

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timooo impatience is a virtue March 17, 2007 - Subscribe

for the first time ever, i got tired of buses and took mrt instead. though i still had to take a bus in the end. was waiting for my bus after leaving church. waited. and waited. and waited. 40 minutes wasted waiting for that frigging bus. and it still hadnt come! decided to jus take a bus to bring me to take mrt instead. mrt ride wasnt too bad, the aircon was turned on nicely and there wasnt alot of ppl. AND for the first time ever i saw someone playing a ds lite in public! she's probably the third person ive seen playing ds, besides phoebe and billy. its pretty irritating looking at all those psp owners with that smug look on their faces, thinking that their psp is king of the world. which is a huge misconception. the best selling handheld console in the world is actually the ds lite. HAH. while i was in hongkong, jus step onto a crowded train in the morning and you'll probably be able to count 20 ds lites and maybe 5 psps. not kidding! but in singapore, you'll probably see 3 psps and 0 ds lites. maybe 1 ds lite if you're lucky. anyway, more amazingly, that person was playing the very same game i was playing right then..yoshi's island! really sorry to disappoint those testosterone filled ppl who buy psps to play gta.. i really prefer my com screen for such games. have fun with your 4 inch psp screen :) ahh ive digressed. this is supposed to be about my mrt ride. anyway, when i reached interchange, i still had to wait 15 mins for my bus home. which i realised later, is frigging stupid. cos if i had waited for another 15 minutes or so in the first place, i would most likely have taken my direct bus home from church and reached home earlier than if i took mrt and then switched to bus. its just that i hate sitting still and doing nothing.. i need to be on the move! if i wait for too long, i'll just simply lose enthusiasm for the whole thing. which is probably why i like buses.. its always on the move! unlike mrts where it just simply has to stop every 2 minutes when it reaches the next station. yeah i guess you could say im just pure impatient.

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timooo resolutions March 20, 2007 - Subscribe

wanted to blog ytd but my stupid connection was down for almost the whole day. argh cant believe im paying singnet 50 bucks a month to get this kind of crap. anyway its a new term, less than 8 months to As. its probably time to get going. new term resolutions! 1) dont miss more than 3 lectures this term (but if the aircon isnt working it doesnt count.. like today's physics lect) 2) dont go out (town) more than once a week (or simply put, dont take 518 more than once a week) 3) do at least half of the tutorials 4) spend less than 2 hours on the com per day (unless doing computing stuff) 5) lock up my ds lite while im at home 6) double my tally of pull-ups (its quite a small number to begin with, so it shldnt be too difficult) 7) stop reduce the snacking while studying that's all. sounds pretty simple actually.. its just a matter of whether i can keep it up throughout the whole term :/ adios (: tag khyrul well at least ur parents dont really pressure you to becoming a mugger. lol not that i'll ever become one though chris heh thanks for the compliment. (: yw hard then challenging mah. dont you love things that really intrigue you (such as h3 physics)? chris hmm true. though i still rarely see them around weijie haha think you go back to playing CM better lah.. more suitable for u s1771m ya try! maybe you'll find doing urban geog more interesting after that.. haha thank me when you get your A! cs hmm true but that makes bus rides more unpredictable.. and interesting! wif mrts, everything is the same old thang. defends buses (:

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timooo o _ r March 23, 2007 - Subscribe

sometimes you dont really know if you want something, but certain things happen that forces you to have to make up your mind quickly before the something gets claimed by someone else. but if i decide to go for it, would it be because i really want to, or because i dont want the other person to get it? fulfilment vs selfishness

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timooo forget me not March 26, 2007 - Subscribe

havent blogged for a while due to my screwed up internet connection. gonna switch to starhub after this month.. singnet is totally horrible to me :( anyway went to ying's housewarming party at her new house.. near aljunied there. quite nice la, though i didnt noe alot of ppl there besides rach, jl and ron. just sat at the pool with them chatting for almost the entire evening, sipping my vodka ribena (which wasnt that nice). left at about 9 plus. physics spa A today wasnt too bad, but i have this feeling i forgot something somewhere somehow. when this kinda "i-forgot-something" feeling comes to me, its usually right. like when i walk out of my house every morning to go to school, sometimes there's that feeling, and hey hey! an hour later i remember i forgot to bring my file. so yeah, i trust these instincts of mine. good luck for the chem spa ppl tmr! adios. tag cs do all is too difficult.. must set something more achievable first. slowly slowly. heh shuaige it is NOT 2 x 0 :\ bec hmm see first lah. i'll try my best (: khyrul that's the way. and where's your boyband video? im still waiting for it... =) xl heh thanks. i like it too. lol chris cos there's this lt's aircon thats always not working.. so i had to exclude it. anw 2 x 4 = 8. not hiong for you lah.. haha nicole HELLO! i thought you migrated to north pole or something.. still have a blog? :) weijie haha ask and you shall receive. lol

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timooo being a victorian March 30, 2007 - Subscribe

http://www.ova.org.sg/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=31 http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,126059,00.html i meant to blog about this sooner, but singnet's been screwing around with my internet and now on a bright saturday morning im blogging when i shld be sleeping. but its an important issue. when rsaf first suggested the possibility of vs merging with vjc to form a "6-year programme" like how other "top institutions" have done, we heard a small chorus of "boo"s from around the hall. not only from victorians (no im not talking abat vjc-ians), but from girls too. though we have different reasons for opposing, it still shows that not only victorians are opposed to this idea. anyway, just for this special occasion, ive dug deeeeeeeeep into my old blog's archives to find this post dated 17 aug 2005 (the post is supposed to have been striked off, but i realised its too difficult to read): [edit: e post is striked out cos some ppl said it was too evil. so there] i dunno how to begin dis entry. i was thinking of using all e curse words tt i've learnt since i joined vs, but tt wont be a very good impression for any first time visitors (if there are any). anw, unless ure an idiot who doesnt read newspapers, or uve been holed up somewhere mugging, u shld noe abt ideas of VS going co-ed by now. for the benefit of the idiots who dunno where to find e article, its in page 5 of today's new paper.. and i believe its mentioned somewhere in e straits times as well. Victoria, thy Sons are we, and we will not forget. those who think that the "Sons" in our school song should be changed to respect girls should be killed. after all, its only symbolic. there's nothing literal about it..so what's the fucking problem? the fucking cb who even thought of the idea of turning VS into a co-ed skl shld be killed by torture. go sign the friggin petition to stop vs from becoming co-ed: HERE!.. if (choi!) vs becomes co-ed, there'll be no more freedom of speech (e.g. vulgarities, hand gestures, etc.) and school wont be fun anymore. and speaking of tradition, if vs turns co-ed (touch wood), we'll hafta strike off tradition from our skl's core values.. cos havin girls in VS is totally NOT traditional (except for tt short period of time in 1950s which doesnt count). and can u imagine girls in VS uniform.. oh man.. i dun even wanna think about wat their uniform will look lyk. anw, those faggots out there who support VS turning co-ed are probably the same ppl who are despo and are deprived of companionship from e opposite sex. in tt case, uve joined e wrong skl. and if i havent said it already, ang pow chew is crazy. i hope his plane crashes on his way back to singapore. girls in VS is totally un-Victorian. can u imagine girls in our yellow/black Victorian t-shirts? *pukes* totally gross. and all the screaming at competitions? i'm having second thoughts abt wanting to join VJ, now tt their stupid principal supports the changing of the school song. don't they realise tt they're trying to erase history and rewrite it in the worst possible manner? maybe i shld juz go to mj n let victoria rot happily ever after. and may ang pow chew rest in hell. but, until then, we will NEVER accept the idea of VS going co-ed. proud to be a victorian no more? i think i was abit too emotional about it then and wasnt really thinking properly but yeah i suppose you can see i was really opposed to it. anyway, 2 years later, i hope i can present my argument without getting overtly emotional about it. my reasons: no, cos girls are not part of being victorian. victoria school is a BOYS school. has always been, and will always be. if they really hafta merge, drop the name victoria school and dont tarnish its beautiful history. no, cos it doesnt mean the merger will bring about better results. you dont see RI and RGS and RJC merging, so why should we? HCI offers their 6 year programme to their BOYS, but HCI is only coed when it gets to JC level. plus, what is the likelihood that boys students will do better in a coed environment? i dont see any coed schools doing well apart from DHS. with all due respect, i dont want VS to become a DHS. its not a risk we want to take. if both principals love the idea of a 6-year coed institution, please submit your resumes to DHS, cos you dont know what you're doing with victoria. no, cos the meaning of being victorian will be lost. already, the term victorian is thrown around VJC freely and easily. do those people really know what being victorian is about? in my eyes (and this is a totally biased view), only people who come out from VS are victorians. cos VS and VJC are two totally different entities, even though they share the motto and school song. if you're not from VS, you dont know what it feels like to be victorian. its not simply changing a frigging light bulb with the rest of the school cheering for you (as seen in a tshirt).. victoria is something more. no, cos the idea of a fully co-ed victoria is disgusting. the thing is, IF victoria turns into a 6 year programme and even IF the coed victoria can still retain the victorian spirit (which i truly doubt), there'll still be people who join us after O Levels. then what's the point? they might as well just continue working separately as VS and VJC. if im speaking from the viewpoint of someone who's not from VJC, maybe you could just attribute it to jealousy or selfishness. but being from both VS and VJC, i can tell you the meaning of 'victorian' is lost on VJC. they dont deserve to use the term that we have used for 130 years. 131 this year, actually. VJ's been in existence for what, 23 years? please dont talk to me about VJ's history. its totally peanuts. LEAVE MY VICTORIA ALONE.

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