i'm wondering if anyone is still using this blog..
just want to show u all the wedding photo of our chinese teacher LUO YU SI..
http://www.lyricalmoments.net/yh/
quite a nice slideshow
I AM ZIXI AND I LOVE XINA.
HAHAHAHAHA.
Thursday, 24 January 2008
Saturday, 5 January 2008
ADMIN
HI I JUST REALISED I HAVE ADMIN PRIVILEGES!
I am awesome, I can turn any of your posts into some Xina-proaganda now. I am king of this blog now hahahaha.
Anyway, I hope you all are having a swell time with your orientation at your respective JCs, and for those who didn't go JC for PAE, I hope you all are having a swell time too. My orientation lasts all the way until next week, and it's FOC.
Hehehe.
So long!
I am awesome, I can turn any of your posts into some Xina-proaganda now. I am king of this blog now hahahaha.
Anyway, I hope you all are having a swell time with your orientation at your respective JCs, and for those who didn't go JC for PAE, I hope you all are having a swell time too. My orientation lasts all the way until next week, and it's FOC.
Hehehe.
So long!
Sunday, 18 November 2007
Closing the year
Dear denizens of 4J,
I set up the class blog for two main reasons - as a language learning tool as well as a platform for the class to air their views or just to touch base with one another. Whether these aims/ objectives have been met is a different story altogether BUT on to more important stuff ... as I won't be teaching you English anymore, it is time for us to decide on the fate of this class blog.
So here are our options:
1) I leave the blog up and running until 31st December (so you can salvage whatever memories you want) after which I would delete it.
2)I transfer the administrator / moderator status to someone else (You have to guide me along how to do this though :P~) so the blog will not be deleted in cyberspace and will be kept for posterity for eternity. If this is the chosen option, do nominate your new moderator.
So let me know okie people? I shall set in motion Option #1 if I don't hear anything by end December.
Enjoy what's left of your holidays (it's school again in 1 1/2 months time! *evil laughter*)
Regards,
Mr Faizad.
p/s anyone who's addicted to facebook too?
I set up the class blog for two main reasons - as a language learning tool as well as a platform for the class to air their views or just to touch base with one another. Whether these aims/ objectives have been met is a different story altogether BUT on to more important stuff ... as I won't be teaching you English anymore, it is time for us to decide on the fate of this class blog.
So here are our options:
1) I leave the blog up and running until 31st December (so you can salvage whatever memories you want) after which I would delete it.
2)I transfer the administrator / moderator status to someone else (You have to guide me along how to do this though :P~) so the blog will not be deleted in cyberspace and will be kept for posterity for eternity. If this is the chosen option, do nominate your new moderator.
So let me know okie people? I shall set in motion Option #1 if I don't hear anything by end December.
Enjoy what's left of your holidays (it's school again in 1 1/2 months time! *evil laughter*)
Regards,
Mr Faizad.
p/s anyone who's addicted to facebook too?
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
graduated.
hey... a really really BIG thank you to all 33 of you, who made my last 2 years in rv a fantastic one. ok, that's a gross understatement. therefore i shall give each of you a personalised comment. of course, it isn't very detailed cos this is the class blog after all! [i'm very sorry it turned out this long]
i know it's cliche and all, but this really is the last lap. i hope all of us will do as well as [if not BETTER!] than our MODERATED prelims. JIAYOU!
#02 ying2
lame. first thing that comes to my mind is that you're very lame. i mean, who on earth [you, duh] will pop something like "do you know cockroaches can swim?" out of the blue?! thanks for being reg #02, and my in-front-tablemate!
#03 mer-paper-fish
hmm... 4 years in rv with you and i still haven't really found out how to get along well with you. jiayou for Os!
#04 chrystal
hey! chairperson! although only for a year and a term lah, but thanks! [really not easy leh] my diagonal-tablemate for a term. actually i don't know you very well lah, because we seldom talk alot. you prob have alot more to talk with jingni than me...
#05 debbra
over-achiever! the part about my friendship with you i remember most vividly are the nights we spent before exams burning the midnight oil, esp for ss. and then you're this figure whom i really want to compete with, therefore i can safely say you're one of the reasons why i was so motivated to study. so, yup, thanks! hopefully i won't miss you cos we'll end up in the same school (:
#06 e.t.
don't have much impression of you... err... to me, you've always stuck with farhanah, nat etc so i don't know you very well... sorry >.< OH YA! your results are GOOD lah! jiayou! and i hope you retain your out-of-this-world unique personality!
#07 farhanah
english & humans pro. i mean, really very pro. how do you write such pertinent stuff?!?! and your humour, too! umm... nothing much to say to you >.< i loved your english speech! the one that xina read today. jiayou with your humans scholarship!!
#08 janice
hey! duck-rice-stall-1-chilli lover! first thing i want to say is jiayou for Os cos i BELIEVE you can go RJ de! don't let whatever you see in your report book discourage you ok? you're a really great friend. i don't know why, but i feel very comfortable talking to you. and thanks for listening!
#09 julia
jiayou! don't give up on yourself, because no one can help you if you do. [dunno how to do can always bug jinni]
#10 huimin
"you're insufferable," says the one who scored top in level for lit.
i beg to differ. YOU are insufferable, because how else would you describe a person who gets perfect score for essays [even the hardest ones that weren't meant to be chosen at all] and scores 19 for a poem chosen ONLY due to a lack of time?! your bickering with kaijun AND XINA, are hilarious. how you guys manage to keep on a straight face is really a wonder. you can get your single digit de, jiayou!
#11 CHEN!
weird. i like you alot but i have nothing to say to you. except that you have BIG hands so you don't have to slit between your fingers like mozart had to. don't be too upset over prelims. Os are what's impt. (:
#12 xiwen
apart from the fact that you love korean stuff and colour-penciled rainbows, i don't know much about you at all. oh yes, and you're a VERY good imitator of others!
#13 zijing
umm... not very close to you, so except that you're a chinese pro [who sings out of tune :P] i don't know much about you. and you're really funny in your own way! good luck for Os!
#14 nat
i love the wired name you made. very nice (: thanks for tolerating the notes jingni and i kept passing to and fro!
#15 shiyan
cca mates for 4 years. your contagious bouts of laughter and sneezes and everything else i learnt about you when we were diagonal-mates are truly unforgettable.
#16 tiffy
your drawings are cute. ok, i'm sorry you're constantly on the receiving end of my very lame [sometimes to the point of cynical] comments. you're a very great friend lah, i love you <3
#17 mavis
umm... nothing much to say to you. i remember you were our classchairperson with peiqi in sec 3. not much impression of you otherwise. sorry...
#18 siewhwee
hmm. manuka honey lover, and my table-mate for 1.5 terms. don't sleep so much in class ok? jiayou for Os!
#19 pearlyn
left-hander. GREAT artist. i love your works lah, esp your handwriting. which is why you always end up being the scribe for our group works :P
#20 xina
absolutely chatty and hilarious person. thanks for your witty and humourous inserts into our otherwise boring classes. [but i'm really sorry you can only entertain 4J, if mdm chia is to be taken seriously :P]
#21 huaypeng
tablemate for this last term and i feel we haven't known each other very well [but certainly better than before] i love your red sotong! jiayou for Os! (:
#22 jing3 ni1
wahaha. my very own foc private tutor! shall not say much because everything i want to say is with you already (: remember our pact hor!
#23 peishi
future first female prime minister! i first knew you from tong's holiday maths remedial classes, through chuanmin. you're a really sweet girl who i have little impression of. nevertheless, jiayou and i hope to see your name on the ballot sheet in future!
#24 jocelyn
fellow chess player! extremely dramatic and self-proclaimed genius! good luck for everything you do (:
#25 zixi
umm. we sat together for like half a term. don't know much about you, so i don't have much to say... sorry >.<
#26 peiqi
don't waste food! and jiayou for everything you aim for!
#27 mel
i knew you through ying2, if my memory didn't fail me. really enjoyed discussing maths qns with you these past few weeks. (:
#28 renzhi
umm... no one thing you need to do is improve your handwriting lah. don't have much to say to you, so all the best!
#29 xianghui
tablemates for a term. you, me, shiyan, ying2. i really enjoyed that term ALOT. thanks! (:
#30 jiayi
err... the one vivid impression i have of you was when you flipped the ruler into your own face. ok, i admit i don't know you at all. sorry!
#31 hendy
hey! have you ever seriously considered working in the media as a stand-up comedian before? because given your body's flexibility and your humour, it really isn't too difficult to qualify! and not to forget the balloon craze you started! thanks alot for injecting fun and humour into 4J :D
#32 alex
umm... good luck for Os and whatever you do!
#33 woonshin
very very sorry to keep making you change places with me, and thanks for being tolerant!
#34 kay-juin
don't blow your head too big or it'll burst, seriously. 4 years your classmate and you haven't seemed to changed very much lah. and seriously, if you stop provoking me so much i won't retaliate loh... one more thing, a master chess player. jiayou! i'm sure you can get into NJ so i don't have to wish you good luck - you don't need it!
# mr faizad
in case you're reading this, thank you very very very much for being the best english teacher i've ever had in rv. and thanks for not giving up 4J to leave for RJ in june! we'd have missed alot of fun during english. you inspired me to consider taking a degree in english!
i know it's cliche and all, but this really is the last lap. i hope all of us will do as well as [if not BETTER!] than our MODERATED prelims. JIAYOU!
#02 ying2
lame. first thing that comes to my mind is that you're very lame. i mean, who on earth [you, duh] will pop something like "do you know cockroaches can swim?" out of the blue?! thanks for being reg #02, and my in-front-tablemate!
#03 mer-paper-fish
hmm... 4 years in rv with you and i still haven't really found out how to get along well with you. jiayou for Os!
#04 chrystal
hey! chairperson! although only for a year and a term lah, but thanks! [really not easy leh] my diagonal-tablemate for a term. actually i don't know you very well lah, because we seldom talk alot. you prob have alot more to talk with jingni than me...
#05 debbra
over-achiever! the part about my friendship with you i remember most vividly are the nights we spent before exams burning the midnight oil, esp for ss. and then you're this figure whom i really want to compete with, therefore i can safely say you're one of the reasons why i was so motivated to study. so, yup, thanks! hopefully i won't miss you cos we'll end up in the same school (:
#06 e.t.
don't have much impression of you... err... to me, you've always stuck with farhanah, nat etc so i don't know you very well... sorry >.< OH YA! your results are GOOD lah! jiayou! and i hope you retain your out-of-this-world unique personality!
#07 farhanah
english & humans pro. i mean, really very pro. how do you write such pertinent stuff?!?! and your humour, too! umm... nothing much to say to you >.< i loved your english speech! the one that xina read today. jiayou with your humans scholarship!!
#08 janice
hey! duck-rice-stall-1-chilli lover! first thing i want to say is jiayou for Os cos i BELIEVE you can go RJ de! don't let whatever you see in your report book discourage you ok? you're a really great friend. i don't know why, but i feel very comfortable talking to you. and thanks for listening!
#09 julia
jiayou! don't give up on yourself, because no one can help you if you do. [dunno how to do can always bug jinni]
#10 huimin
"you're insufferable," says the one who scored top in level for lit.
i beg to differ. YOU are insufferable, because how else would you describe a person who gets perfect score for essays [even the hardest ones that weren't meant to be chosen at all] and scores 19 for a poem chosen ONLY due to a lack of time?! your bickering with kaijun AND XINA, are hilarious. how you guys manage to keep on a straight face is really a wonder. you can get your single digit de, jiayou!
#11 CHEN!
weird. i like you alot but i have nothing to say to you. except that you have BIG hands so you don't have to slit between your fingers like mozart had to. don't be too upset over prelims. Os are what's impt. (:
#12 xiwen
apart from the fact that you love korean stuff and colour-penciled rainbows, i don't know much about you at all. oh yes, and you're a VERY good imitator of others!
#13 zijing
umm... not very close to you, so except that you're a chinese pro [who sings out of tune :P] i don't know much about you. and you're really funny in your own way! good luck for Os!
#14 nat
i love the wired name you made. very nice (: thanks for tolerating the notes jingni and i kept passing to and fro!
#15 shiyan
cca mates for 4 years. your contagious bouts of laughter and sneezes and everything else i learnt about you when we were diagonal-mates are truly unforgettable.
#16 tiffy
your drawings are cute. ok, i'm sorry you're constantly on the receiving end of my very lame [sometimes to the point of cynical] comments. you're a very great friend lah, i love you <3
#17 mavis
umm... nothing much to say to you. i remember you were our classchairperson with peiqi in sec 3. not much impression of you otherwise. sorry...
#18 siewhwee
hmm. manuka honey lover, and my table-mate for 1.5 terms. don't sleep so much in class ok? jiayou for Os!
#19 pearlyn
left-hander. GREAT artist. i love your works lah, esp your handwriting. which is why you always end up being the scribe for our group works :P
#20 xina
absolutely chatty and hilarious person. thanks for your witty and humourous inserts into our otherwise boring classes. [but i'm really sorry you can only entertain 4J, if mdm chia is to be taken seriously :P]
#21 huaypeng
tablemate for this last term and i feel we haven't known each other very well [but certainly better than before] i love your red sotong! jiayou for Os! (:
#22 jing3 ni1
wahaha. my very own foc private tutor! shall not say much because everything i want to say is with you already (: remember our pact hor!
#23 peishi
future first female prime minister! i first knew you from tong's holiday maths remedial classes, through chuanmin. you're a really sweet girl who i have little impression of. nevertheless, jiayou and i hope to see your name on the ballot sheet in future!
#24 jocelyn
fellow chess player! extremely dramatic and self-proclaimed genius! good luck for everything you do (:
#25 zixi
umm. we sat together for like half a term. don't know much about you, so i don't have much to say... sorry >.<
#26 peiqi
don't waste food! and jiayou for everything you aim for!
#27 mel
i knew you through ying2, if my memory didn't fail me. really enjoyed discussing maths qns with you these past few weeks. (:
#28 renzhi
umm... no one thing you need to do is improve your handwriting lah. don't have much to say to you, so all the best!
#29 xianghui
tablemates for a term. you, me, shiyan, ying2. i really enjoyed that term ALOT. thanks! (:
#30 jiayi
err... the one vivid impression i have of you was when you flipped the ruler into your own face. ok, i admit i don't know you at all. sorry!
#31 hendy
hey! have you ever seriously considered working in the media as a stand-up comedian before? because given your body's flexibility and your humour, it really isn't too difficult to qualify! and not to forget the balloon craze you started! thanks alot for injecting fun and humour into 4J :D
#32 alex
umm... good luck for Os and whatever you do!
#33 woonshin
very very sorry to keep making you change places with me, and thanks for being tolerant!
#34 kay-juin
don't blow your head too big or it'll burst, seriously. 4 years your classmate and you haven't seemed to changed very much lah. and seriously, if you stop provoking me so much i won't retaliate loh... one more thing, a master chess player. jiayou! i'm sure you can get into NJ so i don't have to wish you good luck - you don't need it!
# mr faizad
in case you're reading this, thank you very very very much for being the best english teacher i've ever had in rv. and thanks for not giving up 4J to leave for RJ in june! we'd have missed alot of fun during english. you inspired me to consider taking a degree in english!
Friday, 5 October 2007
Message from mr aloysius ong
every word here is written by him [he sent me an sms this morning at 7.35]
Hey pp, mr ong here! Congrats on ur grad n Best wishes 4 e 'O's! Send my best wishes 2 whole class n tell them i LUV u all n so proud 2 hv taught u all b4.
Hey pp, mr ong here! Congrats on ur grad n Best wishes 4 e 'O's! Send my best wishes 2 whole class n tell them i LUV u all n so proud 2 hv taught u all b4.
Sunday, 16 September 2007
PRELIMS ARE OVER
Hello all, prelims are over, thank goodness!
I was surfing the web and I came across a video of Miss Teen USA-South Carolina's answer during the contest, which is hilarious. And also very pertinent to our already-over oral exam: Never go off-tangent and start babbling, making everyone watching/listening go "Whuh?" If you do, try a winning smile.
Incidentally, she looks a bit like Britney Spears...?
Oh yes, and I would also like to ask what is the proper pronunciation for Iraq? Haha.
I was surfing the web and I came across a video of Miss Teen USA-South Carolina's answer during the contest, which is hilarious. And also very pertinent to our already-over oral exam: Never go off-tangent and start babbling, making everyone watching/listening go "Whuh?" If you do, try a winning smile.
Incidentally, she looks a bit like Britney Spears...?
Oh yes, and I would also like to ask what is the proper pronunciation for Iraq? Haha.
Friday, 29 June 2007
Paulo and Chuck
Heyyyy humans!
Farhanah asked for me to do a book review on the 4J blog again so here I am!
Read Paulo Coehlo's books. They're good. :D His stories are not really very heart-pumping, dramatic action filled (haha see I listen in english class) BUT you get this warm fuzzy feeling when you read them.
And I'm not just talking about The Alchemist, although that's probably the best starter since it's a popular bestseller. I do believe he has a new book called "The Witch of Portobello" and I think it has nothing to do with enchanted mushrooms, so it makes for safe reading.
I've personally read The Alchemist, Veronika Decides To Die, The Fifth Mountain, Eleven Minutes and I was halfway through The Zahir before my sister decides to take away my reading rights by bringing the book to America. ):
I can't remember much about Eleven Minutes, though. Does anyone else experience memory loss when you get through a thick book? Like Harry Potter and the HBP. I can't remember anything except the ending, climatic part. Ehehehe.
In accordance to my sister's words, she told me that a particularly interesting part was when some dude buttered his toast and it landed buttered side up.
As you know, buttered toast always lands buttered side down, so he was really amazed and he went to tell everyone about how this miracle happened, and they went off to see the village old man who was omniscient and wise and all that.
The next day, the old man told him that the toast lands as it should, he just buttered it the wrong way.
HAHAHA.
I don't know which book that one is from, probably Like The Flowing River. And my sister told me that, so don't quote me.
Yes, go read his books and fall in love with them.
I've also borrowed "Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk, who is the author of "Fight Club", which got made into a movie. Panic! At The Disco music fans might also want to know that P!ATD takes some of their song titles and stuff from his books, such as "The Only Difference Between Suicide And Martyrdom Is Press Coverage", taken from the abovementioned book.
It gets kind of disturbing, although it is really good hilarious satire. I'm only through a few pages, at the lobster part.
So okay. I'm going to do Chemistry now. What? I have nothing to say anymore, so I'm just going to say bye here. Bye.
P.S HARRY POTTER MOVIE/BOOK IN LESS THAN A MONTH!!!!
EDIT: I would like to say that Chuck Palahniuk writes excellently. But Survivor is probably not for hardcored Christians because it challenges the idea of God. It's not a book on religion (or rather, the lack of it) however, so if you've got a more or less open mind, read it! :D I love love this book for all its witty remarks.
To be honest the first few chapters were not that great for me, just more or less setting the background and characters for the story. You get to learn very interesting household skills like how to get bloodstains off fur coats and how to eat a lobster. Which is partly why I love this book.
It was only at about Chapter 30 when it started to pick up. BTW the chapters go in reverse order, so it starts with Chapter 47, so Chapter 30 isn't really very far into the book. Chuck Palahniuk's writing isn't exactly PG-13 though, in fact, it's kind of skimming the lines of M-18 or NC-16, but since we're not talking about a movie here, who cares?
I'm still not done, but I always spoil books for myself by finding out the ending. Hahaha. Bad habit. Oh well.
And quotes, one about the bloodstains and the others because I'm currently around that page. Read it and you'll know what I mean by challenging the idea of God. Then again, I think it has to be that way because the protagonist himself is quite jaded about this whole thing, but then I'm just not going to disclose who he is and why he's jaded and blah. Also because I'm so lazy that I don't want to type out this whole thing and turn it into a lit analysis essay.
"The secret is cornmeal and brushing the fur the wrong way. The tricky part is keeping your mouth shut."
"The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved?"
"You realized the agent was right. You've never seen a crucifix with a Jesus who wasn't almost naked. You've never seen a fat Jesus. Or a Jesus with body hair. Every crucifix you've seen, the Jesus could be shirtless and modeling designer jeans or men's cologne."
Though the last quote is kind of pushing it because Jesus must have been emaciated after being locked up and all that. Love the body hair part, though.
Farhanah asked for me to do a book review on the 4J blog again so here I am!
Read Paulo Coehlo's books. They're good. :D His stories are not really very heart-pumping, dramatic action filled (haha see I listen in english class) BUT you get this warm fuzzy feeling when you read them.
And I'm not just talking about The Alchemist, although that's probably the best starter since it's a popular bestseller. I do believe he has a new book called "The Witch of Portobello" and I think it has nothing to do with enchanted mushrooms, so it makes for safe reading.
I've personally read The Alchemist, Veronika Decides To Die, The Fifth Mountain, Eleven Minutes and I was halfway through The Zahir before my sister decides to take away my reading rights by bringing the book to America. ):
I can't remember much about Eleven Minutes, though. Does anyone else experience memory loss when you get through a thick book? Like Harry Potter and the HBP. I can't remember anything except the ending, climatic part. Ehehehe.
In accordance to my sister's words, she told me that a particularly interesting part was when some dude buttered his toast and it landed buttered side up.
As you know, buttered toast always lands buttered side down, so he was really amazed and he went to tell everyone about how this miracle happened, and they went off to see the village old man who was omniscient and wise and all that.
The next day, the old man told him that the toast lands as it should, he just buttered it the wrong way.
HAHAHA.
I don't know which book that one is from, probably Like The Flowing River. And my sister told me that, so don't quote me.
Yes, go read his books and fall in love with them.
I've also borrowed "Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk, who is the author of "Fight Club", which got made into a movie. Panic! At The Disco music fans might also want to know that P!ATD takes some of their song titles and stuff from his books, such as "The Only Difference Between Suicide And Martyrdom Is Press Coverage", taken from the abovementioned book.
It gets kind of disturbing, although it is really good hilarious satire. I'm only through a few pages, at the lobster part.
So okay. I'm going to do Chemistry now. What? I have nothing to say anymore, so I'm just going to say bye here. Bye.
P.S HARRY POTTER MOVIE/BOOK IN LESS THAN A MONTH!!!!
EDIT: I would like to say that Chuck Palahniuk writes excellently. But Survivor is probably not for hardcored Christians because it challenges the idea of God. It's not a book on religion (or rather, the lack of it) however, so if you've got a more or less open mind, read it! :D I love love this book for all its witty remarks.
To be honest the first few chapters were not that great for me, just more or less setting the background and characters for the story. You get to learn very interesting household skills like how to get bloodstains off fur coats and how to eat a lobster. Which is partly why I love this book.
It was only at about Chapter 30 when it started to pick up. BTW the chapters go in reverse order, so it starts with Chapter 47, so Chapter 30 isn't really very far into the book. Chuck Palahniuk's writing isn't exactly PG-13 though, in fact, it's kind of skimming the lines of M-18 or NC-16, but since we're not talking about a movie here, who cares?
I'm still not done, but I always spoil books for myself by finding out the ending. Hahaha. Bad habit. Oh well.
And quotes, one about the bloodstains and the others because I'm currently around that page. Read it and you'll know what I mean by challenging the idea of God. Then again, I think it has to be that way because the protagonist himself is quite jaded about this whole thing, but then I'm just not going to disclose who he is and why he's jaded and blah. Also because I'm so lazy that I don't want to type out this whole thing and turn it into a lit analysis essay.
"The secret is cornmeal and brushing the fur the wrong way. The tricky part is keeping your mouth shut."
"The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved?"
"You realized the agent was right. You've never seen a crucifix with a Jesus who wasn't almost naked. You've never seen a fat Jesus. Or a Jesus with body hair. Every crucifix you've seen, the Jesus could be shirtless and modeling designer jeans or men's cologne."
Though the last quote is kind of pushing it because Jesus must have been emaciated after being locked up and all that. Love the body hair part, though.
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