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some funny stuff i came across in a random book i found:

are we going to sit back and take this lying down?

every director bites the hand that lays the egg
- Sam Goldwyn

West Berlin is an oasis of democracy in a sea of communism
- John Hosken

Mr Speaker, i smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I'll nip him in the butt (??!!)
- The Oxford Book of Quotations

that man in the wheelchair is always jumping to conclusions

your insurance claim is proceeding like a house on fire

and finally...

for a man with a moustache, drinking soup can be quite a strain

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
i'm tired

where's question 2

3. What's a word that rhymes with "DOOR"?
four

4. Favorite planet?
earth i suppose..

5. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your mobile?
me leave phone at ding's house

6. What is your favorite ringtone on your phone?
none - motorola is dumps

7. What kinda shirt you have on?
er... coastal 94 shirt. woot

Describe yourself in one phrase.
sporty and lazy but those don't really go together!

9. Name the brand of shoes you're currently wearing?
like chia and most people, i don't wear shoes at home

10. Bright or Dark Room?
bright room

11. What do you think about the person who took this survey before you?
she really IS miss brightside

12. If you're alone in a room with two beds, which one do you sleep on?
the comfortable-r

What were you doing at midnight last night?
sleeping woohoo

14. What did your last text message say that you received on your mobile?
i said i lost my phone...

15. Where is your letter box?
at my gate

16. What's a word that you say a lot?
dunno

17. Who told you he/she loved you last?
mommy

18. Last furry thing you touched?
ding's dog

19. How many drugs have you done in the last three days?
i don't do drugs. i take antibiotics

20.How many rolls of film do you need to get developed?
photos are not my thing

21. Favorite age you have been so far?
9, 12 and now?

22.Your worst enemy?
satan.........

23. What is your current desktop picture?
funny nike thing

24. What was the last thing you said to someone?
discounting msn it's 'bye'

25. If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to fly?
who doesn't want to bypass the foulness of the aeroplane..

26. Do you like someone?
yes (i am not gay friend)

27. The last song you listened to?
L.O.V.E by ashlee simpson... how apt

28. If the last person you spoke to was getting shot at, would you jump in front of the bullet?
oh... i really wouldn't know

29. If you could punch one person in the face who would it be?
michael brown. how can he stamp on giggs like that? i'd punch him elsewhere too if i could

30. What is the closest object to your left foot?
my toe? the floor? some drawer

jay chou! his new song was aired on radio yesterday and it's nice! i think shan hu hai (which i'm listening to now) is still the nicest, but this song is original cos he colloborates with an old guy called fei yu qing. strange choice but i guess he knows best. i used to think jay chou was lousy and just popular cos of his hair and all, but he's actually a really good composer! his singing's not the best but i get to improve my chinese by listening to his songs... marvellous.

www.lastfm.com if you like music!

recently we've been having a module called language, gender and power. and it's fun, for various reasons jozy should know. anyway our assignment is to record a conversation and analyse its dynamics, as in pick out the kind of language being used and who dominates the conversation blabla. so, today (actually just now) me jozy ding and sambor held a conversation over msn! kinda cheating but nvm. here are a few excerpts of the very amusing conversation, it may be kinda hard to read.

DISCLAIMER: please do not take anything that is said here at face value, what we say does not entail who we are, what we do and who we like. most of all, the vulgarities are there for a PURPOSE and NO OFFENCE MEANT

TOPIC: 4 guys talking about boy-girl relationships (simple enough you would think... but no)


DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

Ya like you take so slow....


gareth ·· nevele

stupid phone joystick, ...., DiDi

slow to what?

DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

Why don't you tell her?


....

stupid phone joystick, gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

i cant


stupid phone joystick

...., gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

crazy weirdos


DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

STFU GAY


....

stupid phone joystick, gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

i have my difficulties


gareth ·· nevele

stupid phone joystick, ...., DiDi

i think he talking bout me idiot


stupid phone joystick

...., gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

no abbreviations you moron


....

stupid phone joystick, gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

oh right sory

DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

yeah both of you are too slow...


....

stupid phone joystick, gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

which both


gareth ·· nevele

stupid phone joystick, ...., DiDi

u fag


DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

now now gays talk more gayly u know


gareth ·· nevele

stupid phone joystick, ...., DiDi

me and you


stupid phone joystick

...., gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

thsi is getting nowhere


....

stupid phone joystick, gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

i hereby announce that I am a SNAG!


DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

WOOOOW

DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

Erm

DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

Wussy


....

stupid phone joystick, gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

ding, tell us why we should be fast


gareth ·· nevele

stupid phone joystick, ...., DiDi

fast?


DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

Coz your too slow!


....

stupid phone joystick, gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

what you mean by fast?


DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

I mean tomorrow


....

stupid phone joystick, gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

what should I do if I like one girl


gareth ·· nevele

stupid phone joystick, ...., DiDi

stop interrupting him


DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

You know you should hurry coz you like people older than you...


gareth ·· nevele

stupid phone joystick, ...., DiDi

faggot


gareth ·· nevele

stupid phone joystick, ...., DiDi

why the hell you tease him like that?


stupid phone joystick

...., gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

oh dear


gareth ·· nevele

stupid phone joystick, ...., DiDi

think you very cool isit?


DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?


....

stupid phone joystick, gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

stop swearing gareth, its bad


DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

YEAH


DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

F*** YOU
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....

stupid phone joystick, gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

ok i admit, i want to know more about girls

stupid phone joystick

...., gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

girls have great personalities!

DiDi

stupid phone joystick, ...., gareth ·· nevele

Like you?


stupid phone joystick

...., gareth ·· nevele, DiDi

totally!


gareth ·· nevele

stupid phone joystick, ...., DiDi

but youre gay it doesnt matter
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ok... if you've made it until here (without just scrolling down of course) without being confusedi salute you. anyway once again i emphasise that the bad language is to portray the characteristics of the alpha-male (me and ding). btw jozy is the SNAG (sensitive new-age guy) and sambor is just gay. fine... effeminate

YES, fleet feet are back!

ri lost to acs(i) 10-15 in rugby... quite saddening. the game itself was quite fair (as in no fighting), but given the bad blood between us two schools, there were bound to be words exchanged. haha. it's fun supporting such matches cos of the adrenaline rush you get when you see your school score or whatever. i like the feeling. too bad i don't get it during table tennis cos it's such a me-against-myself sport. like golf and all that (but obviously table tennis is more interesting... hehe).

phonemics ^

bilingual teaching applies not only to chinese and english, but extends to french and hokkien...

monsieur quenot: c'est son stylo (is this his pen)?
edwin: er...
monsieur quenot: think of something boring
class: SIAN
edwin: ah... c'est le sien (it's his)

today in the very interesting phonemics class i started singing 'everybody wants to be a cat' without realising it. then ding said... wth??? and then i realised how weird the song actually is!

Everybody Wants to be a Cat

Everybody wants to be a cat,
because a cat's the only cat
who knows where it's at.
Everybody's pickin' up on that feline beat,
'cause everything else is obsolete.
Now a square with a horn,
can make you wish you weren't born,
ever'time he plays;
and with a square in the act,
he can set music back to the caveman days.
I've heard some corny birds who tried to sing,
but a cat's the only catwho knows how to swing.
Who wants to diga long-haired gigor stuff like that?
When everybody wants to be a cat.
A square with that horn,
makes you wish you weren't born,
ever'time he plays;
and with a square in the act,
he's gonna set this music back
to the Stone Age days.
Everybody wants to be a cat,
because a cat's the only cat
who knows where it's at;
while playin' jazz you always has a Welcome mat,
'cause everybody digs a swingin' cat.
Everybody digs a swingin' cat.

i wanted to say something else but i forgot. ...

11.44 am? shouldn't i be in school? NO! cos of DMPs, i get to slack today. actually it's also cos my RE mentor didn't come today, and since it's the last 2 periods, and my module was at the start of the day, i got to go home! i still have to go back for training later though... but life is good for now.

YAY i've discovered how to edit videos. actually the problem was getting the video into my com, and now that's been solved. how, you ask. well last time i would insert the usb cable into the port, and wait for it to load. nothing would happen. so, today i took the great initiative to actually turn my video camera ON first. and lo and behold, it worked! it's really quite fun editing videos, maybe i'll upload some soon.

today i went to the cage to play soccer, and it would have been fun had i not gotten a baaaad headache. i've been doing some research and i think i had what's called a migraine with aura. sounds cool but trust me, it isn't!!! the cage, being, well, a cage, doesn't really have good circulation. so... i guess i was inhaling all the CO2 expelled by my friends without much oxygen intake. soon... i started to have visual disturbances. whoo... not hallucinating or anything, just feeling that what i was seeing was weird. yea, then i got sick :(. at least now i know about headaches and what pain in the heads they are.

ah well...

yay i managed to upload a song, but i can't get it to play automatically so you will have to press the little player on the left if you wish to hear it (which you do).

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1002234057604838621&q=palleno one's legs are supposed to be that fast!!! woot.

national day celebrations are over; i can finally slack. ate some malt candy today and i think it affected my brain a lil... feeling high! can't type coherently

and maybe i'll change my blogskin, although one that i like has these gay-looking hearts. grr. and how do i upload a song to my blog?

so it-unsavvy

ergh... the stinking lit test i mentioned before has become all the more stinking cos it takes place tomorrow, and i happen to have the whole day free besides the first block of lesson!!!

never mind... the bright side of it is that i'll have more time to study for lit. but since when is studying a bright prospect?

while i was playing soccer today, someone stepped on my precious boot and now it's splitting. as in the sole and the not-sole. grrr. well actually the bright side of this really is bright, cos i can get new boots. woohoo

potential ones...

Gareth -- [noun]: A person who likes to steal tins of tuna 'How" will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

right on.

i'm really really really bored now, but no, i don't want to do homework. nighttime is not for homework. i think i really really really want to play soccer, but no, nighttime is not for soccer. soccer is not for nighttime. whatever. oh today andrew scored a great goal during soccer, too bad he'll be gone by the time there's interclass. AND ri lost to hci today in the friendly match that we are supposed to organise next year. we better get to play in it (not like this year)... grrr

good video bout ronaldo (the fat one). and i don't see how he can be good-looking, even with his mouth closed. haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FJKYovcCA

1 more day of school to...

4 more weeks of school! but what's so special bout the next 4 weeks? national day? no. EPL starting? no. actually that is quite special... never mind.

what i want to say is that after a tough 2 weeks, we at ri can look forward to a slack (i hope) 4 weeks of DMPs. this means no tests, although unfortunately we have one stinking lit test on monday. other than, it's potential free periods (more soccer) and time to chit-chat with friends. better days...

since singapore idol is commencing in a minute or so, i shall say that you, yes you, should vote for hady. so that i don't need to vote for him.

here is an excerpt from a set of physics notes, supplied kindly by our very random teacher:

Scalar addition is very difficult. See the example below:

Example
1 grapefruit + 1 grapefruit = 2 grapefruits

Nonsensically large equations
v = u + a t
v2 = u2 + 2 a s
s = u t + 0.5a t2

The large font is to aid your memorisation. I hear repetition also helps, so:
v = u + a tv2 = u2 + 2 a ss = u t + ! a t2v = u + a tv2 = u2 + 2 a ss = u t + ! a t2v = u + a tv2 = u2 + 2 a ss = u t + ! a t2v = u + a tv2 = u2 + 2 a ss = u t + ! a t2v = u + a tv2 = u2 + 2 a ss = u t + ! a t2v = u + a tv2 = u2 + 2 a ss = u t + ! a t2v = u + a tv2 = u2 + 2 a ss = u t + ! a t2v = u + a tv2 = u2 + 2 a ss = u t + ! a t2v = u + a tv2 = u2 + 2 a ss = u t + ! a t2v = u + a tv2 = u2 + 2 a ss = u t + ! a t2v = u + a tv2 = u2 + 2 a ss = u t + ! a t2v = u + a tv2 = u2 + 2 a ss = u t + ! a t2

i doubt i will forgot the equations now, so i guess it's effective. woohoo?

look both ways before you cross the road.

oh yes road reminds me of cross country, because we had to run on the roadside and the smell of exhuast was really putting me off. i think it made me run even quicker to get back to the lush greenery and unpolluted air of macritchie reservoir, so that's why i beat jozy (right...) [and yes i had to mention it].

i've noticed and have been told that alot of my posts are related to soccer. well can't help it cos soccer is THE best sport. in my opinion at least.

i do not like logarithms because i do not know how to operate the stupid button on the calculator. isn't a calculator supposed to make life easier...

anyway, cross country's tomorrow, or so it's called. i mean running at macritchie can't really be considered cross country right? whatever it is, i must beat jozy!!! jozy if you read this before tomorrow, be afraid!!! haha it's just friendly rivalry, but the pride of our CCAs is at stake. in fact he's real fit now la, cos of all the PT he does at squash while i rot (fitness-wise) at table tennis. no issues with that though.

another golden oldie:

All I Have to Do is Dream by The Everly Brothers

When I want you in my arms
When I want you and all your charms
Whenever I want you
All I have to do
Is Dream... Dream Dream Dream
When I feel blue
In the night
When I need you
To hold me tight
Whenever I want you
All I have to do
Is Dream... Dream Dream Dream
Of trees
Swayin' in the summer breeze
Showin' off the silver leaves
As we waltz by
Soft kisses on a summers day
Laughin' all our cares away
Just you and I
I can make you mine
Taste your lips of wine
Any time, night or day
Only trouble is
Gee Whiz
I'm dreamin' my life away
Oh I need you so
That I could die
I love you so
And that is why
Whenever I want you
All I have to do
Is Dream... Dream Dream Dream
Dream
I can make you mine
Taste your lips of wine
Any time, night or day
Only trouble is
Gee Whiz
I'm dreamin' my life away
And when the rain
Beats against my window pane
I think of summer days again
And Dream of you
And Dream of you
And Dream of you
And Dream of you
(Mr Sandman, send me a dream)
And Dream of you
(Mr Sandman, send me a dream)
And Dream of you
(Mr Sandman, send me a dream)