Had prac paper on the 28th, 4 titrations(acid-base) in three hours -_- ... It was really boring but at least it was do-able. Broke a pipette accidentally while trying to fit the pipette filler on it, oooopsss ... but I wasn't required to pay for it, lol ... Calculations were pretty easy as well, not as hard as that of complexometric titration.

Went to chalet right after that, lol played chess, DoTA, citadels, bridge and big two on the first day, slept only at 3am. Citadels was kinda fun, though I got niaoed pretty badly --- got assassinated 2 times in a row and during one turn I was robbed and assassinated at the same time, poor me ... It was only till the next day when Jian Ting found out that you can't assassinate and rob the same person in one turn, thanks man ...

Went to NYDC on the next day for a short while, spent $8 on e=mc2 (including GST and service tax), ouch .... haha anyway congrats to seniors who completed their A lvls!! Suppose it's ha lay lu ya for them now. Missed going to escape theme park thanks to class lunch, but lucky I didn't miss much coze Zi Xian told me the pirate's ship was down o.O.

Got to know a really nice senior as well, her name is Xueying and she's really friendly. She really knows a lot of stuff (gossips) and people, lol ... She invited my friend to K-box tmr and asked for his number, haha my friend was still considering then I just told her his number HAHA feel so evil ... Well she turned to me after that and said since I betrayed my friend I have to go as well >< ?!?! Heard it's 12 bucks ... argh spending too much these few days, already spent $38 on a bag and $35 on a card game and there's still so many things I wanna buy --- a new memory card for my phone and PSP FF7 Crisis Core, dunno if I shld go out to work )= ...

Finally can get started on hol hw and I better do since half the hols has been eaten up by olympiad. Been watching D-gray man the past few days, it's damn nice haha, currently at episode 36, trying to catch up to arts central which is at episode 52 >< .

Hope my friend and I won't be the only J1s there tmr, heard jinxiang's going, I hope he does.

{/5:16 AM}

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Went for church yesterday afternoon, well it was really different from my impression of church. It was the city harvest church at paya lebar and the moment I went in, there was this really cool studio and comfy seats o.O

Everyone was unusually friendly there, kept asking me and zixian for our names, think it was the day I set the record number of times of saying out my own name >< . The session began with a concert thingy where they sang sermons but with hip-hop style, everyone was damn high and kept jumping to the extent where the concrete floor was vibrating ...

After that there was a man who gave his "holy" speech, it was rather weird, he kept going "aye men!" and "Ha Lay Lu Ya" throughout his speech and the audience would also keep going "men!" and "yes!" throughout his speech. His speech was mainly on animals, which was referred to as the creation of god, he talked abt the cheetah, lion, elephant, rhinoceros. Think the one which left the deepest impression on me was his speech on the ant, saying on how god created small and insignificant creatures like the ant to inspire us to be hardworking, lol ...

Got to know a lot of people there, like marcus --- yolanda's nephew, haha getting to know more of mingwei's family tree. He was a pretty nice guy and was pretty concerned abt how I found the session, I told him the things I found weird, especially the speech session, and he explained everything to me, linking everything to the Bible.

Well, must say that Church isn't really my thing, so that's probably the last time I would go there. Nevertheless, it has been an eye-opener...

Been out the whole day, went to friend's house to play citadels, a really fun card game!! Played bridge as well. Went out to West Mall after that, played substandard quality pool and bought a new zinc bag for $38.60. Haha, thought I pampered myself for a bit since I have been using the same bag for 8 years. Went to watch "enchanted" with marcus, jieying and connie at jurong point after that, must say it pawns "Belwulf" upside down. Played arcade after that and had supper, jieying and connie kept making marcus and me treat them >< .

Haven't studied for prac paper yet )= , I think I am so dead ... Mock prac paper tmr, think I will just explode. Have to chiong everything tmr and tuesday then )= , well at least there's not as much things to study now as compared to the theoretical paper. May olympiad end soon, it's just 3 more days ...

Well temporary peace has settled in the house with my dad away, but really dreading how things will continue to develop ...

Chalet in 3 days time, at least there's something to look forward to, can't wait to play citadels again haha... Dunno if I can make it for Lunch@NYDC since it clashes with the chalet, but I really dun want to miss it, aahh what bad timing ...

{/7:32 AM}

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I dunno where to begin... but my house is getting less and less peaceful these days )= . That's right, my parents quarelled again ... day in fact but I wasn't at home for most of yesterday so my sis filled me in.

The reason why they have been fighting well, is pretty lame ... My Dad has been returning home late as he keeps having dinner at his friend's house and after that he would sit around and chat with his friend. Therefore, he knocks off at around 7 but returns home at about 10. My mum just feels that there is something SOOOO wrong with that and kicks up a really big fuss about it and haizzz ...

In my opinion, my mum is the one being unreasonable here ... my dad obviously didn't do something wrong since he doesn't come home drunk or reeking of perfume or something. They had a quarrel again yesterday morning, sided with my dad ... but she still doesn't get the point.

In fact it's no point reasoning with my mum becoze she's beyond reason. For example, she objects to my sis buying clothes EVEN if my sis used her own money because there are not enough hangers (!@#^&*) and to my sis collecting postcards because she can never finish collecting everything!! (*&^^%$#!). There's something seriously wrong with her thinking and most of the time we just put up with it, but sometimes she just crosses the line. In the case when we are arguing with her, she usually uses emotional blackmail like "我死给你看啊!" when she feels that she has run out of valid points(not that she has any), the whole family is at a loss of what to do with her ):

The quarrels are getting worse, there was a significant event which strained their relationship even further. My dad's friend called yesterday afternoon and my mum happened to pick up the phone and there she goes, venting everything on my father's friend and blaming him for the family breaking apart. I think that was really too much, in fact it is she who's breaking the family apart ...

It's my dad's birthday today, haven't gotten him anything yet, have a habit of getting late birthday presents >< ... Dad went to Bintan for holiday with his friend, then haizz ... heard my mum threatening to tag along with my dad the next time my dad goes on a holiday with his friend, OH PLEASE, just how bloody UNREASONABLE can she get?!?!? Saw my dad holding his face in his hands, wonder if he was crying, he didn't even really bother to retort, think he has given up talking sense into my mum.

{/5:31 AM}

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Did complexometric titration today, the expt itself isn't hard though I overshot )= ... but the calculations are just as the name suggests, really complex ... still dun really understand how to calculate even though weiyang tried to explain to me )= ...

They did say they would announce the results by friday ... but didn't realise that it does not mean that they will announce it on Friday.

Well, it was quite random actually, some guy asked if he can be excused from tmr's training session if he isn't selected, then someone else said results will only be out tmr. Sam Lee was like, "Hmm, may not be the case", then he went to the lab computer and checked the NUS website and wow, the results were out!!

Our school's olympiad team did pretty well, 16 out of 20 made it past the first round (=. HCI pawns!!! There are 52 people who have been invited to take part in the theoretical paper and almost one-third of them are from HCI, hahaha. Yup, I made it to the prac round, along with Jian Ting and Weiyang (= . Non-STP power!! Haha ...

Well that's that, must get back to reality, starting to feel sad again ... dunno how I am gonna 熬 till next wednesday. Come to think of it, there's less than one week to prepare for it )= ... Speaking of preparation, it's not really easy to prepare for it since it is more skill-based now. In my opinion, something which you cannot mug for is more scary than something which you can mug for. On the very day of prac itself, I may well just freak out and dunno how to do the expt or the calculations just like today ...

Watched Belwulf today, not really my type of movie, ending wasn't like an ending at all ... Haizz

Doing Thin Layer Chromatography and Column Chromatography tmr ... gonna be a long day. Well, tmr's probably the last time all 20 of us are gonna be tgt... On the bright side, 4 people are gonna treat the entire team due to special circumstances (birthdays and stuff) (= and we are gonna have to return everything tmr including the biochem booklet, clayden, wade and the molecular model kit. However, for clayden and wade, the non-STP people can choose to return them next yr, LOL ... Last but not least, there's gonna be a phototaking session (=

This month has been really tough but I am happy that it's all gonna come to an end, good luck to all Hwa Chongians taking the prac paper (= , though I must say I really need it.

Chess and bridge chalet coming up!! In fact it starts on the 28th, so going straight to the chalet after the pracs (= ... Can't wait for that moment to arrive.

{/2:28 AM}

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Had prac training session today, organic and physical. Have to say I enjoy the prac training sessions more than the theory sessions (= . Prepared dibenzylacetone today, did loads of stuff which I nvr did before like suction filtration and recrystallisation. Looking forward to Thin Layer Chromatography and Column Chromatography this Friday.

Tomorrow is inorganic session for me, which ends by noon (yeah!!). Dunno if will be doing anything tmr afternoon like pool or movie, haven't had such activities since fac outing >< ...

Theoretical Paper results out by friday, haizz will be sad no matter what the results are. Passing the first round means more mugging for me while failing it would just mean the end of everything ... This is the second time I am faced with a lose-lose situation )= , sianzzzz.

Finally can get back to playing chess (=, miss the feeling of chess pieces and the board. Can't believe I sacrificed 2 chess lessons and 1 competition due to chem o. Really sad about missing the competition, missed a great chance to play pros. Whatever, recently got intel that imba people congregate at a coffeeshop near boon lay cc during Saturday night, including Xu Xin and Yee Hong. Xu Xin was once the national champion and is known as the 单蹄马王. Yee Hong is a national player and also the guy who sort of raped me during the last open competition >< ...

Mock prac paper next monday, but may not have to take it depending on the results which will be released on Friday. Well, no matter what, everything will truly be over by next wednesday (= and I can finally start on the hol hw and go out with my friends.

Gtg bathe now, DoTA-ing with Marcus later, sian skills really deproved thnx to chem o. Can't believe Prophet managed to kill me even though I was an Anti-Mage ><. Must brush up my skills ...

{/6:31 AM}

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The whole year's effort was invested in today's test, hopefully can make it to second round, though I did not think I fared too well ... but nvm it's over!! Can say goodbye to Clayden, Wade and Silberberg (:

Met a familiar face there --- Joshua. Lol, ex cat high student and now currently studying in NJ. If I am not wrong, he got 9 or 10 A1s for his O lvl, wow ... Got to know him through chess haha ... well the first thing he said to me was "进去就是考天才了..." Took me quite a while to understand what he meant haha, only realised it when he told me he didn't study for it, quite unexpected of him.

Haizz, this yr's paper was imba ... 100 MCQs and 4 structured in 4 hours. Total 200 marks. The MCQs was pretty hard at first, then biochem came in and it was smooth sailing. The structured simply raped me, the only question I managed to do was question 3, the rest was ... haizzz. Was so tired near the end of the paper that I could not find the mass of the sun despite having been given the diameter of the Sun and its density!! Haha, feel so stupid ...

Going to church this Saturday, well I suppose there is a first time to everything. Wonder how it's going to be like.

Reinstalling my Warcraft (: Yeah, itching to play ... Prac training on wednesday but who cares, haha. Play tonight and then prepare tmr (: Haha, sounding less and less like myself ...

{/4:46 AM}

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Missed the competition today after all, felt quite bad at pulling out at the last moment, well wouldn't have played well even if I did, Haizz. In the end, my coach also didn't play for the team as well, so Queenstown did not get into top 3 positions which was what they aimed for. Got sixth in the end, out of 11 teams. Quite an okay result I guess ... our team got 20 points out of 40, just passed lol ...

Seemed that it was quite an imba competition, zixian and leslie lost both their matches o.O. Haiz, wished I could have been there, rather lose two matches than study alone in the library. Sian, still left another 3 chapters for biochem and still need to prepare notes for manganese, copper and silver ... Bedtime reading of organic chem later and studying chromatographic techniques tmr morning ><. This is crazy, mugging even harder than I did for promos ...

gtg already ... Feeling really happy at the thought at getting my life back tmr =)

{/3:42 AM}

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Had the 5 hour mock paper today, AHHH, if the real paper is gonna be as hard as this then I am afraid it will all end on the 19th ... Haizz.

Received a shock when I received the 2nd part of the paper, it was supposed to be structured questions but it was labelled as "Problem Solving" on the front page ... True enough, the questions were based more on problem solving skills rather than your knowledge, sad to say my problem solving skills are still not yet up to mark )= ...

Sort of demoralised after today but shall chiong harder for the next 3 days ... hopefully I will be able to do the questions on monday. Yeah, just a few more days to the end of mugging ....

{/6:36 AM}

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Had CIP today, quite fun (= , looking forward to wednesday's session but before that I need to go through a full day of mugging ... Had lunch with huifang, jieying, joce and daniel, lol they were all planning to make me treat them at sakae even though I only had $25, in the end we just settled our lunch at Yoshinoya and in the end everyone ended up paying for their own food.

Went to sleep immediately after I reached home, damn tired ... Was given a rude awakening at 8pm by my parents shouting their heads off each other )= . Their rows are becoming more frequent and severe. The threat of divorce keeps showing up in their rows as well .. Feel rather helpless now, dunno if there's anything I can do to resolve this.

Feeling really sad now, looks like Nov is a very emo month for me... have no mood to study even though I have to, already lagging behind schedule like mad )= )= )= ... Haizzz, looks like I just have to press on ... must finish organic chem latest by tmr if not wednesday, then it's on to inorganic chem, physical chem and biochem ...

{/4:26 AM}

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Studied Oxymercuration, hydroboration, Lindlar's catalyst, formation of acetals and Wolff Kishner Reduction today. Not too shabby I guess ...

Just created a schedule for myself next week, it's not going to be an easy week. Seriously doubting if I can finish studying.

Mock Exam on 15th, haizz, 5-hour paper + going through the paper on the same day ... wonder how am I gonna survive that ...

Uninstalled my Frozen throne and Warcraft III, so that I dun stray off playing DoTA again ><. Always have that sinking feeling of guilt after playing ...

Feeling better now after some rounds of intensive mugging, thanks to everyone who was concerned.

{/8:29 AM}

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Spilled oreo over my clayden book )=, Huang Pei and his friends were chanting to me "Mr Lee is not going to be happy ..." Haizzz, been mugging quite hard these few days, although also got slack quite a lot, but new reactions just keep popping up, there seems to be no end to this. Even forgoing tmr's chess lesson just to study chem, my mind is so not on chess now anyway ...

Had a 4 hour problem solving session today, didn't have lunch so I was not only brain dead but also really hungry by the 3rd hour ... but I must say this was much better than the first training session, could understand most of the stuff. Haiz but got niaoed pretty badly when I drew newman's projection for a E1 reaction ... grrrr

Was feeling so hungry and pissed by the end of the session that I ate 2 bowls of 干捞面 for dinner. Really looking forward to the CIP on Mon and Wed, at least can take my mind off chem for a while ...

Right eyelid has been twitching for the past few days, is something bad going to happen??

Huang Pei agreed to help me with chem o stuff, yay!! That's so nice of him. I must pull through this difficult period. Go Alvin, you can do it!!

{/6:36 AM}

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Had fac outing at the butter factory today. I must say it's quite good, the activities were well thought out even though some of them were pretty lame. Made to say something really stupid today, HAIZ ... shall nvr play any games with clement and his gang again =( =( =( .

Matchmaking was perhaps the most interesting activity, but no one called me and I didn't bother to call the number given to me either. The first 5 couples were then made to say corny stuff and were judged by Mrs Tan. The prize for the winning couple (Huiping and some other guy I dunno) was funny --- two sets of T-shirts, one with the King of Hearts imprinted on it, the other with the Queen of Hearts.

Went out with the class after that. Watched "The Gameplan", LOL it was pretty funny. It's about some pro rugby player (who often idolizes himself) suddenly finding out that he had a daughter and the troubles he went through in trying to become a responsible father. I like the daughter, she's so cute and intelligent, haha ... Went to ben and jerry's after the movie but didn't eat anything thanks to my throat. Stupid Clement kept spiting me with his ice cream ... It was also only today that I found out that ben and jerry's sells ice cream ...

Got teased pretty badly today ... sian just what's wrong with living close to each other?? Haizz, fortunately it didn't get too out of hand.

This is about the last day I am gonna have fun )= . The rest of November is just gonna be mugging, mugging and even more mugging for me. Sian, feels damn sick to mug when everyone else is enjoying themselves. Looking forward to 12th and 14th Nov's CIP, which are gonna be the only breaks I will have from studying ...

Haiz, feels as though she is drifting further away from me, it always hurts whenever I think about it, perhaps it's better to just forget about her and focus on chem o. This is really a difficult period for me, mugging ridiculously difficult stuff while at the same time trying to keep my mind off her. I think I will just crack anytime ...

Really tired now, gonna go sleep and mug first thing tmr morning. Theory paper is only less than 2 weeks away )= )= )= ... Jiayou Alvin ...

{/7:55 AM}

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I remember a time not too long ago, there was a person by the name of Mingwei. He was a really hardworking and nice guy but JC life totally changed him, never did I imagine that there would be one day where he would play a bloody prank on me.

Today is just not my day, had exco meeting at 9am but I was late for 40 mins. Took 174 at 8.25am and reached school at 9.40am thanks to a traffic jam at Jurong Kechil and Dunearn Road. That was a 1h 15mins bus ride, more than double the usual 35mins bus ride ): Haizz, my right eyelid has been twitching the whole day, knew something bad was going to happen, and it did.

Went for CIP at Hougang after that. The activity was called "Cookies with Love". Went with Jian Ting and Mingwei. Along the way, Mingwei requested to look at my phone so we exchanged phones. Felt sort of cheated when his inbox only had 6 messages but that was not the worst part. He secretly changed his name on my contact list to that of another girl on my contact list and smsed me, posing as that girl. Totally fell for it, meng smsed throughout the whole CIP session only to realise that I have been smsing him instead. ARRGGHH!!

Haizz, felt really stupid after I found out what has been going on and wasted a lot of smses. I really dun appreciate being pranked like that, it isn't funny ...

Studied delocalisation and conjugation after I reached home at 8. Raahhh, really tired and brain dead le but still got abt 20 pages to go ;( . Perhaps I shld go slp early and chiong tmr. Hopefully can finish before fac outing (:

{/6:09 AM}

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Played with the queenstown people today, 1 win 1 lose. First match was against strongest player, dropped clock ): sian ... but we played on and I won in the end but still considered my loss. Second match was against their captain, was down 1 car and he blinded it back to me so I won in the end coze he didn't have enough time and didn't felt like continue playing.

Quite disappointed with myself today, although it's partly because of the screwed opening I chose to move today, dun even feel like going for the competition on the 18th, feel like I will just screw it up anyway.

Supposed to be mugging now but I can't coze I am falling sick, dun even have appetite for dinner ): . Jianting's mugging really hard for chem o and I haven't really started ... guess I should try to mug a bit later, hope the herbal tea works.

Seems like my friends are having their own troubles as well, particularly matters of the heart. Same goes for me here, sometimes I feel that the real reason I am committing myself to chem o is juz so that I can forget about her but somehow it just doesn't seem to work. It's neither here nor there for me, really confused now, just what should I do???

{/5:11 AM}

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Class chalet rocks!! The first night was bbq, Clement niaoed mi for not being good at practical stuff juz because I was fanning the smoke at him. The food was good but there was too much of it. Highlight of the night was the halloween party, felt pretty guilty for not preparing any costume though, really couldn't find anything at jurong pt tt day.

Played bridge with cheryl, jieying, marcus and connie that night until 4am, then changed to dai dee and played till 6am lolzzz. Also learnt how to play mahjong, won my first 3 games haha, was really lucky coze I won one of my games through zi mo.


Played street soccer the 2nd day, first time playing lolzz. They made me goalkeep, well still okay bah though I let in 2 goals. Maybe I will start playing with the guys next yr, provided there's time coze I heard tt we will be mugging like machines next yr ><. Went to karaoke next but got chased out not long after. Was looking forward to marcus's "yue liang dai biao wo de xin" until we got chased out coze they only paid for 6 people HAIZ ...


Watched house of wax and amittyville horror the second night, was smart enough to bathe first before watching or else dun dare to bathe le. Got frightened by the girls' screams more than the movies, it's always liddat. The chain reaction caused by Marcus was really funny, he juz made a random sound and the girls went screaming hahazzz. No one dared to go to the toilet alone after the movies, lol.


Clement almost lost his wallet, luckily it was found. Special thanks to him for making this chalet a success, the fireball thing was thoughtful but didn't really get to see it coze it went out so fast. Class T rocks too!!


All good things must come to an end, haizz, time really flies when one is enjoying oneself. Now it's back to mugging. Suppose the picture below most accurately shows how I am feeling now.

Even rejected my friend's invitation to pool tmr for the sake of mugging. Really wonder if there's any point in doing so, will still get owned anyways. HAIZZZZ.

Will be playing Queenstown players tmr, coach says it will be a hard fight, juz try my best bah. It will be them vs me, zixian, leslie and william. Wonder who shall prevail? Haiz but really no mood for chess currently, juz hope I dun screw up tmr.

{/5:14 AM}

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