All of a sudden (oops! Please whoever who is marking my blog don't be as critical as Mdm Lim and censure my blog for using these forbidden words) I just realised that my titles never appear as a title!! Grr! It must be my blogskin! so here's today's title:

NOTHING MUCH FOR TODAY only wishes to get ace points for blog OH YEAH AND MATHS QUESTION ANSWERS OUT FOR GRABS

So lets start harping on something. What should it be? OKay then, since today for some reason I have a drought of ideas for this post let me comment on yesterday's very busy life from 1.30-. Firstly, obviously i don't read the class blog so i did not know that the letter from Afghanistan was due. And since I was content to leave it living in my file waiting for a chance to leave the file to live in Mdm Lim's Language Arts file, (GREAT ALLITERATION! =) a smiley if you dont recognise says Mr Krison), I had no chance to do it and for some reason when Mdm Lim told us to hand it up, I had not taken the chance to do it but instead placed it back into the file to let it wait for another eternity to live his dream of leaving the file. Only when it was 1.30 that Han Wei was screaming for that worksheet that Mdm Lim's sacred words came to mind: Late worksheets will not be entertained that I started rushing it. And to pile onto my worries, I had not labelled the dividers on my yellow file because I had no stickers and stuff like that. And besides that I had to bring the yellow files to 房老师's table with the temporarily elusive Darrel. So you can imagine the stress that was on me when my stomach reminded my that it was goaning for a lunch.

As I never wanted to be on a blacklist of any teacher, I decided to sacrifice my lunch to finish my worksheet. Luckily, Zhu Cheng was nearby; Unluckily, he was hooked on PES (damn my brother for sending him that); but our responsible chairman did not fail to help me and I finished the worksheet and transorted the yellow files to 房老师's desk in a short timing of 30 minutes. Of course, my CCA started at 2.oo and when I rushed to the room my CCA members were waiting outside the room and my stomach was like going mad so after asking Ming En "Should I go and eat?" and hearing him reply "I finished in 4 minutes" I rushed away to the canteen, ignoring Ming En's futile cries of "Oi! Don't go!"

In 4-5 minutes I finished my big plate of 菜饭 and dashed back to the room, only to find that everyone had gone into the room. Without further ado, I went into the room and sat at the far side, listening to Ms Gwee talking about the our CCA open house activities. 2.50 came very soon and I left 5 minutes late, arriving at the track and was in time to see our class win the 4x100 m relay! Somehow I observed that those on the outside of the track always got first/second while those at the inner ring were significantly slower. 

After that was the 12x200 relay and we got second! However, we can forgive Samuel because he is a sprinter and can dash like super fast for 100 m but not so fast at the next 100 m. Anyway, a silver medal is better than nothing. And even with a bandaged hand Justin still did quite well.

So thats like everything that went on. 

Since the math question was posted 50 minutes before, I guess that noone had the chance to try it so I have decided to post the answer the next time! continue reading my blog and bye!

Yi Pin.

Remembering that it is essential to post about Animal Farm, I have decided to do this in addition to something I had wanted to post but did not want to make my post too long so I have decided to post it in a new post which is this one (try saying this sentence in one breath) and post some other things (e.g. multimedia).

Firstly, lets discuss about Animal Farm. It seems to be very lame to summarise this story which has been summarised so much times it is more abridged than an abridged dictionary (what?) so i have decided to talk about the flaws of all the animals which caused the downfall of Animal Farm as it transformed back to Manor (Man or) Farm even though it turned out to be very prosperous with the farmers commenting on its efficiency and cruelty.

So let us start with the top baddies, Napoleon and Squealer. Napoleon was obviously too greedy for power and thirsted for money, therefore bringing Animalism to an end, by adopting the vice of the lust for money by humans. Besides, he was the one who brought the collapse of Animal Farm so he is the main culprit.

Squealer is just Napoleon's mouthpiece and an eloquent way of turning Napoleon's unfair actions into great deeds that show Napoleon's "love" for the animals. Besides, he was the one who changed all the commandments to suit his own needs and explained away all the breaking of the commandments, thus corrupting the values of Animalism. This led to th collapse of Animalism as an ideal and the colapse of the "brainchild" －Animal Farm.

Next are the ignorant animals. Boxer was instrumental in keeping the power of Napoleon in check as his own motto was that "Napoleon ia always right", thus showing the way he blindly followed and worked his way into a knacker's van. This loyalty was obviously not appreciated as Boxer was done away after he got injured. 

Some of the other animals, such as the chickens who were directly affected did rebel but it was futile and more of the other animals who realised they were heading in the wrong direction suicided by confessing to "crimes" with Snowball. However, Snowball easily deflected these threats by weaving untruths with his glib tongue.

Benjamin was the most useless one, not doing anyhting constructive to make the animals realise what was happening. However, it was clear he wanted to stay silent or risk his life, or he just saw no point in doing anything because based on him, poverty and starvation were the unchangeable way of life.

Clover did realise something but was too late, and her memory was rendered useless as she never trusted it, instead trusting Squealer and his false truths.  Therefore, Animal Farm collapsed.

The dogs were in the same league of Napoleon and are not worthy enough to be discussed.

So that is all for the discussion of Animal Farm and surely this is longer than 150 words.

Just some miscellaneous multimedia for something we watched today but could not catch the last part－斗琴,

I wanted to post a maths question but it seems that there is no time...

well here it is:)(For those who read this post be4 10.31 a.m. 9 may 2009, you will not see this because I edited this post at  10.32 a.m. 9 May 2009.)

Find the nth term of this sequence and predict the 6th term...

19, 4, 1, 4, 7, ?

Any ideas? Your answer can be counted as a comment and to make it over 50 words, I can give you an idea to lengthen it. You can post like:"In a response to Yi Pin's post about Animal Farm (after he remembered that it is essential to post about Animal Farm)which is in addition to something he had wanted to post but did not want to make his post too long so he had decided to post it in a new post which is this one (try saying this sentence in one breath) and post some other things too(e.g. multimedia), I have an answer to his maths question :" So heres how you can do it.

Stumped? If you want the answer, I can post it in a new post, but I hope someone will try it. And if you really can't think of anything, you can relate to Mr Tan's pattern and another hint is that the 6th term is 4 for those who really 放弃了.

So bye!

Yi Pin.

every dog has its day (although i am not a dog) cont.

Based on Han Wei, my font size is too straining on the eye so I have decided to make the font size large. Yup. And for miscellaneous purposes, I would like to announce that this post is not really related to the previous one and I had not planned for this. Oh yeah. I will keep this short for the reader's comfort.

Firstly, let me comment on the whole day. Firstly, it has been a GREAT day for me! thus the title. It started when I read the newspapers about Manchester United winning Arsenal (WooHOO! Sorry for hurting your feelings though, Justin) and continued when I got my maths results back. Finally, I have gotten full marks without the bonus question! Muahahaha! I congratulate Ming En on carrying on your constantly consisistent consecutive (yeah, alliteration) full mark streak for the math tests.  (Suddenly I realise math period was the last. This whole order is screwed.)

After that was the com lab experience when we watched the Chinese movie which was in English and it was very nice, though we could not get to watch the "精彩的部分" as quoted from 房老师 since the bell had rang and the 1i2 class were starting to rush in. BTW, everybody who has read this blog PLEASE bring your chinese files ALL ELSE. However, I would like to apologise for the fact that I have not taken the "少年文摘" yet. Please remind me for whoever is reading this blog post, though I believe that responsible Chun Jie will remind me again as he did the past time.

The english essay marks were okay too because I got A1 but it is not the best because there were like 7 people ahead of me. I hope that I can get exemption from Literature exams though.

And what is Mrs Ann's obsession with Nasi Lemak? Not that I am implying anything mean, she is quite a good teacher.

Finally, the last great things about this great day was our prelim Two and the soccer match, although I was really angered when the JC students refused to move and even after that, the referee let the 1i4-2i3? match start first. It just struck me that since the 1i4-2i3? match was scheduled to be from 2-2.40, the sec 2 students shouldn't have argued that they had to go at 2.00 as they should had already known that IF their match had started from 2-2.40, they wouldn't have played (still).

Though we stll won though Wei Ren and myself only played like 2 minutes? and had to rush off though we still saw Timothy Lung score that brilliant goal which most likely arose from his proness at basketball throwing. He was agreat goalkeeper to the end, though I must say that the sec 2s were shooting not into the empty areas but into Timothy Lung. Justin rocks too, for scoring four goals. I was so relieved when Jin Yang said you could play once you replaced the ball. And it turned out to be a great decision. Though again, it seems like this is a bad day after getting his hand mutilated and his soccer teams' dreams being mutilated too.

And for the prelim two, we like sailed through the finals like a sailfish because of a decisive statement one of the judges said,"Why are you in prelim two?" And at that, our hearts leapt with joy and all the judges were like smiling especially the one who just spoke the previous statement. And she ended off with "0kay, no more questions? Thank you!"

So, as I conclude yet again, as I did for the previous post, but in a lighter tone, every Yi  Pin has his day.

Yi Pin (not Yipin)

Ps. I guess this isn't really a short post. look out for the next post posted on the same day and about same time.

every dog has its day

As seen in the title, every dog has its day. This includes the converse which is definitely true, after the various proofs i went through on thursday. Maybe fate was forcing myself to rest on labour day. 

Anyway, here are the itsy bitsy details. Firstly, on thursday, we had the street soccer match (iLeague, not PES2008/2009 as some of you might wrongly mistake, which was precisely what my brother did so i added this message) at 1.30 pm. Excited as  a dog can be on its day (what day?), we bounded to the jc court, with myself rushing to the staff room and handing up the scarce amount of chinese worksheets to fang lao shi, then changing into P.E. attire and rushing to catch up with the others, all the while holding precariously to Aloy Oh's precious phone with the internazionale vs ? match paused. When we reached there, no one was in sight and they started training, with myself squinting at the tiny screen fated to cause myopia, furiously jabbing at the buttons and groaning intermittently. (Obviously i missed a goal).

Then the match started. At first, i was not in the team and we started quite well, although they scored a goal and justin came bounding back to score one more, equalising. After that, eeberything spiralled downhill and when i entered the pitch, our side had concede 6 goals and was losing 6-1. And that was like only half-half time. When i entered, everything turned for the better. For a while, nobody scored(exactly 1.58720064 seconds) and then...

they scored.

oops.

heehehehe.

ok, nothing funny in reality. So the match progressed, and jin yang was subbed in, the goalie was changed several times from Wei Ren to Adrian to Wei Ren to Adrian and to me (for exactly 0.0000001 nanosecond and this can be counted as nothing even as small and infitessimal it seems) then to Adrian and to Wei Ren. So we conceded goals like...a pool ball into their holes? like...a pinball into the wormholes? like... a ball into a net?

Never mind. But the good thing was, we scored another goal with our great Justin who would prove to be a source of great chagrin for us. At the end, we were thrashed 11-2 but i would say that Jin Yang, Aloy oh , wei ren, and me were instrumental in getting the ball out (to the opponents, as i say, bowing my head in failure). Justin was good at dribbling, and adrian was great, but daniel sng from 1i4 was better. As we watched on, he saved many goals by using his hands and placing himself in front of the speeding ball, something i would not dare. This must have been why we lost so terribly(11-2) and they lost so terrificly (3-1).

Then Justin had to kick the ball up the tree, giving himself a red card off the pitch and suspension for the next game. This is spoken without any bad or ill feelings, mind you. 

The good thing was that when walking back for lunch, me, adrian, justin and wei ren saw a snake.

A REAL LIFE SNAKE, slithering on the ground! Based on justin and wei ren, they saw the snake fall from a tree. It was slithering into the drain and as we crept closer, i could see that it was orange, with black, yellow and some red specks o its body. It was about 30-40 cm long and had a small head (like ermmm, three beans put together. You weren't expecting a name , were you?) 

So now on to the bad things and since it is super late for me, 12.07 am, i will make it very short. Firstly, during baton passing, i scratched myself above the ankleswith my shoes. Then, i banged my head on the wall and slipped while walking back home. Worst, i left my plastic bag of uniform in class and returned home to a bad scolding.

So there you have it! Every dog has his day and bad day. Just for yu le xing, Justin's worst day is this day too. 

Bye!

Yi Pin.

Hi, I am back with a fifth post and this time, i will be free from the homework which has been grabbing me and pulling me down into the dark dumps of homework! Muahahahahahahahahaha! Hopefully the word I just posted on the previous sentence will be counted two words due to its large bulk size. To take advantage of the situation, let me add one more of this super-large, super long files (in case of emergency, i will zip it and you will be able to see it). SSSSSIIIIIIGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

Now why am i sighing? Firstly,  it is due to the epic failures of all our projects during projects day. Firstly, a significant change of mood was present at the room (4A4). Firstly, one of nervousness, then relieved, then worried, then borrrred. Bored takes up 99.999 percent of it. of course, the feelings before it are important too, because they are all due to the epic fail of our project!!!

Firstly, we did not have any reflections, because we had not gone to the care corner. What? You don't know what my project is about? Well, we are supposed to go to Toa Payoh Care Corner to do service by teaching the old folks basic English and in turn, let them teach us dialects. This is to let them have more meaningful lives. So, after this presenting on my project, our dillemma is that we had not gone to the care corner yet!!! It was scheduled on 4th april, a monday, but when i phoned the organisation they said that the elderly were not in at the moment. LUCKILY, we had not gone yet. Besides, i had "pon"ed my malay lesson to go to the care corner but it was canceled in the end!!! By the way, 'pon'ed means skipped a lesson. And more ironically, 'pon'ed comes from pontek which means skip a lesson in malay! Which was what i done, except that I skipped the malay lesson!

Diaoz.

And besides that, the judges also questioned our need for service: HOW do we answer that?Luckily, our dear friend Aloy Oh also suffered that humiliation so we can "you fu tong xiang, you nan tong dan". So sorry. Switching of languages can happen very often if you listen to the Chinese Rep speak.

BTW, i heard that Ernest's group had a super good project. Is that true? Please comment. I congratulate on it, anyway.

So there. BB. I mean Bye Bye.

PS: One of our projects day prelim round judges was Mr Tan BB. he lived up to his name by being very nice to us and did not question us at all.

Some extra thingies

Yesterday night was the chinese drama about Tan Kah Kee. However, I'm not blogging about it today, but about somewhere that I went to last Saturday, which is very near the location Victoria Theatre is at.

Okay, suspense is not working here. I went to the Asian Civilisation Museum last week to view the exhibition on the Kang Xi Emperor, the chinese emperor ruling for the longest period of 60 years. It was very informative, with exhibits on how enterprising, clever and great this emperor was. Based on memory, I have recollected some information about him.

1. He had over 60 children from his two wives and 55 concubines. (The exact number might not be correct.) He and his first wife (known to be kind) were paired ina planned marriage, meaning that their parents chose them to be together. However, it was said that they were a loving couple and when she died, the emperor was ver much grieved and was sad for eons. However, he married again, and his second wife was kind and caring like the first and if i am not wrong, brought pride to the royal family. The sad part is that she died soon afterwards. After that second disaster, Kang Xi emperor never married again. Sorry for the lack of pictures, because photography is strictly unallowed by the museum people, but a strange characteristic was that the wives of the emperor had two holes pierced in each ear for each of them, and from each hole hang an earring with two pearls. (I would like to reiterate that this information is strictly taken from memory and may not be correct. Sorry.)

2. He was knowledgeable in areas of writing, science, and even archery. For some reason, he had already had a rifle which was showcased and had a length of about 1.2 m. He was known to have killed hundreds of rabbits, tens of tigers, wolves and other game. His largest haul from one day was over 300 rabbits. He was good at all aspects of science too, owning many scientific  instruments including a globe brought by explorers in the 17th century and a mechanical calculator created by Blaise Pascal. He even had a Mathematical set consisting of a protractor and other 3D objects such as spheres, prisms, cuboids, pyramids etc.

3. Finally, he reached a ripe age with a rule of 60 years, dying a few weeks away from his 70th birthday. His grandson could have surpassed his record, but resigned from his post before a rule of 60 years, in respect of the Kang Xi emperor.

After hearing so much about the Emperor, here is the real Elements Song.

School life

Hello, this is yi pin back with a third post.For some reason, I feel like blgging but dont feel like having anything to say, so let me voice out all my comments for today as a day. Firstly, this morning, i had expected to run 2.4 km but guess what? Someone(i am not blaming you, whoever you are) announced that 2.4 km would have to wait. In a way, it is good news as i get more time to train for it but i had wanted to see how fast i could run!! The last time i ran a long distance like this was on a treadmill  as i had no chance on the track (I was down with a cough at that time).

However, I would say lessons were great, and Mdm Lim seemed to be in a great mood so the lesson went smoothly with hardly any scoldings and stuff like that. Only Art period brought some berating for wasting time wearing P.E shirt before coming (and wasting more time for scolding us) and who was that who told us to do that?? Hmmm... Good question...

Never mind Zhu Cheng, don't be sad, you are still a great chairman.

And P.E lesson was quite scientific, measuring the heartbeat with the pulse, although i measured it by cupping my chest (ahem, and not anything whatsoever, as CJ would say) with my palm to ensure that the heartbeats were accurately-counted. And it was hilarious when Wei Ren proclaimed that his heartbeat was 72 beats because he lost his position on his wrist. Overall, quite fun, not counting all the lame exercises that we had to do. This means it is not fun.

The spelling bee was another stupid mistake, which cost me much sweat and energy waiting outside the computer lab after running from the library to the wrong classroom to put my bag, then running back to that classroom to retrieve it and meeting Samuel on the way, telling me,"Never mind, you are not late."

Anyway, the spelling bee ended without us spelling anything because the computer could not display any questions. And we were supposed to go for Malay, not this spelling bee.

Enjoy the elements song, introduced by Ms Chen.