Lots of Matters

The National Schools competition is now ongoing.. tomorrow is doubles. Like Qwhee said.. "No targets".. There will not be any targets set. We will just go there, have fun and be give our best.

Next week is abit worrying. It will be the last week of school before the June Holidays. However, I will be missing school everyday except Tuesday due to competition. That adds up to alot of lessons lost. Thankfully the last few days will be the sports carnival.

Trying to psych (psyche) myself out of all worries. Wednesday I will also have an interview with the NYF panel. Don't know how what will be the outcome.

NO TARGETS!!! =)

Microsoft making it free?? Wow

In a press release by micorsoft corporation, they have announced during the launch of the newest upgrades to their visual studio products that the line of "express software" (i.e. Visual studio express ranch of software) will become free permanently.

This move has definitely been well-recieved especially by the hobbyist community who relish the power of Visual Studio but don't beed all the development power offered by the professional and enterprise versions of the development software.

Article:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/apr06/04-19VSExpressFreePR.mspx

and here's something interesting I found on my friend's blog. It is on Google Video:

Microsoft Redesigns the iPod

I'm Beat.

Wah!!! Swimming for PE (Physical Education) in the morning then PDP (CCA) training in the afternoon..

Got make-up practical somemore... by the time I step out of the college it was like 7+ pm already.

This is just nuts.

And the horror is not over yet... Next week:

Monday: got PE then afternoon got Economics (m-u) lecture after school till 5.25

Tuesday: morning swimming then afternoon PDP training @ Safra (Tampines)

Wednesday: PDP training @ Hougang

Thursday: Maths lecture test, College event from 7pm onwards, and stay over at fren's place.

Friday: phew... good friday!! yea.

Saturday: PDP training @ Safra (yishun)

FULL!! FULL!! OVERLOAD!

(p.s. seems my tagboard is giving problems again. and there are some spam tagboard messages again....)

Sheesh.. sick again

Sheesh... fell sick again. NO thanks to the hot weather which we had in the past few days.

Just some recent news:

Opposition Party Member Mr Chee was found guilty for contempt of court. He was jailed a day and fined $6000. But because he failed to pay up by 5pm yesterday, he will serve and additional 7 days in jail.

The General Election is coming soon. Wonder if the current ward will have a walkover.... I am still ignorant of the details.

Sianz...

NO mood at all...

sick.

maybe next time.

cya.

Holidays?? what holidays??

Holidays?? what holidays?? is there a holiday? I wouldn't call going back to school almost everyday during a school holiday for lessons a holiday.

But anyway, been very busy. New School, new environment, new rules and new friends and so on. Didn't expect to meet my kindergarten friends in school, but I actually did. haha...

Even more surprising, the school has a mesh Wi-Fi wireless network too..... lolx. But other than that, the lectures has been Ok... All the teachers using tablets to teach nowadays. Only a handfull still use the good 'ol whiteboard. Although it is nearly impossible to see what they are writing if they use the whiteboard in big place like the Lecture Theatre or the Auditorium.

Choosing of PDP(CCA)s will commence after school reopen I think. Still unsure what PDP to join.

Well thats all.. have to settle some of my stuff....
oh and Happy Birthday to Jov. Cya tomorrow.

Don't think it (petition) will work..

Went to the temple at eh.. (I don't know the name of the road in english..).
However, was quite surprised when I saw there was an appeal to sign a peition nearby. It was about the "Huang Na" case. They were petitioning for the president to spare Took's from the gallows..

I could see that they have quite a number of people who signed, but I seriously doubt that will actually help. In most cases, this will only count as "public feedback" and will never be taken into account.

In any case, we'll just have to wish them luck.

Discrimination.. disorders

Did you read the article in today's "mind your body"??
Well, it was on the tourette disorder, a neurological disorder which causes sufferers to haave frequent tics and other complex motor tics. It may even cause some to utter swear words frequently and uncontrollably.

The article featured an interview with a person who has this disorder. As I was reading the story, it occured to me that society has not completely abandon the word "discrimination". A modern society, more highly educated, but discrimination is still not eradicate. Probably discrimination is not very wide spread here, but what about other places??

It was especially hard for him in school. He mentioned his high school, which turns out to be my school... Are we actually do that? That really goes against the culture and tolerance of the school... Probably his time was different from what the school is now....

To him, a simple question like "whats wrong with you?" is taken to be embrassing to him and a sort of discimination and feeling of awkwardness which many would not understand. This display of "care" may instead turn out to have opposite effect.

From here, we must realise that we may, at some point, discriminated against someone, or even cause someone to feel rejected without ever knowing about it.....

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