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Finally Os over. yippee

Wow. that was tiring and fun. Who in the right state of mind would think that Os was fun? Well i guess i know the answer now. haha

Well it was fun studying, "playing" n teasing each other. Especially Quang Son LOL. well he was irritating. haha. anyway Os was sooo fun. N boy am i glad its all over.
Argh as to how i did, well no hopes yea but i think i did ok for most of the papers. The only paper that i feel i screwed up ironically is my Amath paper. Argh life true sux. haha

Who cares its over. haha

I thought i had written enough till i saw this!

These are from a book called "Disorder in the American Courts." They are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who endured the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

Q: Are you sexually active? A: No, I just lie there.

Q: What is your date of birth? A: July 15th. Q: What year? A: Every year.

Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact? A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

Q: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all? A: Yes. Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory? A: I forget. Q: You forget? Can you give us an example of something that you've forgotten?

Q: How old is your son, the one living with you? A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which. Q: How long has he lived with you? A: Forty-five years.

Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning? A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?" Q: And why did that upset you? A: My name is Susan.

Q: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo or the occult? A: We both do. Q: Voodoo? A: We do. Q: You do? A: Yes, voodoo.

Q: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning? A: Did you actually pass the bar exam?

Q: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?

Q: Were you present when your picture was taken?

Q: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th? A: Yes. Q: And what were you doing at that time?

Q: She had three children, right? A: Yes. Q: How many were boys? A: None. Q: Were there any girls?

Q: How was your first marriage terminated? A: By death. Q: And by whose death was it terminated?

Q: Can you describe the individual? A: He was about medium height and had a beard. Q: Was this a male, or a female?

Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney? A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.

Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people? A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.

Q: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to? A: Oral.

Q: Do you recall the time that you examined the body? A: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m. Q: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time? A: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy.

Q: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?

Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? A: No. Q: Did you check for blood pressure? A: No. Q: Did you check for breathing? A: No. Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? A: No. Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor? A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless? A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.

Interesting stories.

Geese Facts

Next fall when you see geese heading south for the winter... flying along in V formation...you might consider what science has discovered as to why they fly that way:

As each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in V formation the whole flock adds at least 71% greater flying range, than if each bird flew on its own.

People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going more quickly and easily because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.

When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to go it alone... and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird in front. If we have as much sense as a goose, we will stay in formation with those who are headed the same way we are.

When the head goose gets tired it rotates back in the wing and another goose flies point. It is sensible to take turns doing demanding jobs...with people or with geese flying south.

Geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed. What do we say when we honk from behind?

Finally...and this is important...when a goose gets sick or is wounded by gunshots, and falls out of formation, two other geese fall out with that goose and follow it down to lend help and protection. They stay with the fallen goose until it is able to fly or until it dies, and only then do they launch out on their own, or with another formation to catch up with their group.

If we have the sense of a goose, we will stand by each other like that.










Great Moments in Physics

The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen.

"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."

One student replied:

"You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."

This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case. The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics.

For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use.

On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:

"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer."

"Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper."

"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqroot (l / g)."

"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up."

"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building."

"But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'."

The student was Niels Bohr, the only person from Denmark to win the Nobel prize for Physics.








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Ex Boyfriend

Two high school sweethearts who went out together for four years in high school were both virgins; they enjoyed losing their virginity to each other in 10th grade. When they graduated, they wanted both to go to the same college but, the girl was accepted to a college on the East Coast, and the guy went to a college on the West Coast. They agreed to be faithful to each other and to spend anytime they could together. As time went on, the guy would call the girl and she would never be home.

When he wrote she would take weeks to return the letters. Even when he emailed her, she took days to return his messages. Finally, she confessed to him that she wanted to date around. He didn't take this very well and increased his calls, letters, and emails trying to win back her love. She soon became very annoyed with his persistence and now with a new boyfriend, she wanted to get him off her back. So, what she did is this: She took a Polaroid picture of her sucking her new boyfriend's unmentionables and sent it to her old boyfriend with a note reading, "I found a new boyfriend, leave me alone."

Well, needless to say, this guy was heartbroken but, even more so, he was pissed. So, what he did next was awesome. He wrote on the back of the photo the following: "Dear Mom and Dad, Having a great time at college, please send more money! I'm getting pretty desperate!" and mailed the picture to her parents

(Paybacks a Bitch ain't it!!?!!)

Hope you enjoyed those tales as much as i did.

Check out this site..

Um i was walking home with Le Jun when i came up with this stupid idea i told him about it and he just nodded.. now its done... sry ppl i know it sux.. i need to centralise the thing properly. Anyway most of my contacts info it inside and some i couldnt extract so um its not there.. anyway jus tell me if you want yours or your pals inside. (ps they dont need to be related to me)

The idea is that one can just go to one page and check out numerous tagboards at one time and post on more than one. this will save time for the people who have a large number of contacts. anyway for those who are interested in finding out more check out this page.

Random Post

This is a pretty random post. Today was the 2nd paper for the A-maths test and the test was pretty ok till i got to question 5. It was a trigo question rather easy i thought after all in secondary school we are only expected to know two identities. OK so here is what was written on the piece of paper. (1/cosec x) + (1/(cosec x +1))= 2tan x sec x. ok so i did what i thought was a easy question.

I thought it would be rather tricky based on the 3 mark weighting it had how ever i was in for a surprize. After trying the question for 30min and still not getting the answer i tried to substitue values for x to test if the question was correct. Then i thought that my calculator must have had some virus for it showed the question was wrong.

Ok so i finally skipped the question after spending a full 30min on it. (the test is only 2 hours so i effectively wasted 30 min on a three mark question). Ok so i was damn annoyed with myself for not being able to solve a rather easy question in one of my favourite topics. Next, the question was a combination and permutation once again i was stuck(this time it was my fault). I misinterpreted the question and thought it was more difficult than it really was.

Ok, after seeing that i didnt know how to solve it, i skipped it and went on to the next question. Then, i carried on doing the paper.

So here I was wasted 30min on an unsolvable question and then had no idea that the stupid question was wrong. Ok, maybe a typo or somthing i thought and the proceeded to solve the obvious question (1/(cosec x -1))+(1/cosec x +1) = 2tan x sec x. Thats when i guess Mr Chye shoudnt have spoken, he said this :"I wrote it into the computer, the printer printed it wrongly" ARGH now i have a stupid machiene to blame for not having enough time all for just one stupid 3 mark question which wasnt even correct. ARGH BYE BYE FULL MARKS FOR A-MATHS.. SAD. CRY..

NJC!

Yay! finally formally invited to jion NJC.. Feel damn good. anyway so after school we(son, weihong and i) spent a few hours wating time and listening to some mr brown podfiles. after that we got onto a bus to get to nj. we were the last three to arrive there as we expected the frequency and speed of the bus ro be faster.

Ok so we went into the lecture theater and sat down and the presentation started. They started off by introducing the school and how happy they were that "we" were the special ones that were allowed to go for dsa into.

Then it proceeded into how many of the leaders in singapore were from that particular jc. Mr Lee Hsian Long, Mr Lee Hsian Yang, Mr Vivian Balakrishnan just to name a few. Then they started talking about how it was the first JC in Singapore and that they didnt want it to be the first but it was just that no other person was as daring to start a JC.

Soon, we were told about our subject combination possibilities(similar for all JCS). In all JC's a student can choose H1,H2 or H3 subjects. Even though most people dont know this, there is actually a restriction on the number of subjects that one can take. OK, this is what i managed to remember (TET:"his literal brain failed to grasp anthing when there were no figures"). All have to take 3 H2 subjects and that will determine the if its a Science or Arts combination. All H1 subjects are 1 pt. All H2 are 2 and all H3 1. we have a cap on the maximum number of points we can have and that cap is 11 w/o MT. that means those with MT have an extra subject(which is MT). OK and then they said something like.. The DSA people will have to do EXTREMELY well in prelims if they want the cap of 11. or else te best they can get is 10. Now say that ones combination is (this is the most common 1) PMCE physcis, mathematics, chemistry and econs. So that contributes to 8 pts. next we have GP and PW(project work) both compulsary and so we have used up 10 "units" so most will have one unit left and that can be used for the H3 subject in J2. The catch is that DSA students who fail to do well in prelims practially have cut their throat in the sence that no matter how welll they do in Os will most probably make no difference and thus it would be very difficult to get a H3 subject. I dont know if this is allowed, but i think it should be, anyway here goes, Take ECONS at H1 level, and then try for 2 H3 subjects. That way you will have greater chance of doing well.

I summarised the long talk(only what ever i got from it) and i wonder what else he had said that i dont remember. anyway going on there was a short talk by the IT head and i cant remember what he said but i do rmb that his presentation was quite short.

Ok so next we has some light snacks, weihong and i felt it was stupid to carry a plate while eating so we forced son to go and get us food wahaha. Son was complaining all along about the quantity of the food being insufficient for him alone but none the less, there was still food left over.

So after the light refreshments, we proceeded to a tour around the school. The main focus of the school is their science research labs. S$700,000, was the amount the VP kept repeating. Later before moving on to another room he made a comment that stunned most people. "If you know of any suppliers who sell these things at a lower price look for me later". WOW, i dont wish to state my interpretation of it, but...
Then, he proceeded to show us a room with hexagonal tables and things and made us guess what the room was for.. none knew and noone dared guessing. OK so we waited for an answer.. the answer,... d.r.u.m.r.o.l.l ... for primary school kids!! ok so then came the giving back so soceity thinggy and yadayada.. ok. then came a exibition of memory, he asked if anyone did not receive his email and some one raised his hand. The VP asked for his name and the latter replied his christian name. The immidiate response threw the whole lot of us into dispair we were stunned bewond words and i bet at least 10 mouths fell wide open. The VP recalled the full name of the person and then even commented that he(the poor fellow who had become a VPs pet in our eyes) should have received the email because the distinctly remembered sending the email to the pupil.
one personal comment, i expected a IMCB kind of Lab but was rather disappointed once i walked into the lab. IMCB is still uncomparable.

Ok next we had a birds eye view of the school field and a small lecture about how one could do anything one wanted in a JC like NJ(after a few girls shouted "we love you(pointing at another girl running towards them)")

Next we went to a butter fly garden. YAY BUTTERFLY GARDEN i thought. I probably shouldnt think it kills too many braincells of mine. Thats why i have very few left. Ok so we went to a butterfly garden that had no butterflies(aww.. disappointing) ok ant thats when we were told about the work going into creating a butterfly garden.

Then we went to the archives of NJ. Um didnt really have a chance to read but there were plenty of photos of people i knew from the TV screen. so that was that. the tour had to come to an end. Anyway i must say the Archives at anderson is much nicer than the one at NJ, i just dont know why i feel that way but i just know it.

Ok next was the cert presentation. We sat down, waited for our names to be called and then proceeded to go and collect our certs.. all the time during the process, the VP tried to get as many people as possible to sign up on the spot. (whats the hurry dude.. chill we still have time).

After the presentation, it was 1905 and we made our way out. On my way home, i took the same bus as Jing Jie (hope i spelt it right) and asked him a bit about NJ and he was greatfully telling me all about JC life. Well it sounds fun but now lets think about Prelims. Talking aboout prelims, the prep prelim geog is tomorrow and i havent prepared adequetely.. argh i dun want to fail not again.

People actually hate maths!! check this out..

Hi was browsing and I think I influenced this person to hate maths by trying to show her the true beauty. I think her teacher spoilt it for her by giving low marks.. marks do not reflect a subject. I have never done well for exams in mathematics.. but none the less i knew that maths was and is a beautiful subject. Dont ever hate mathematics. You will regret.



My docter told me yesterday that mathematics was only for mathematicians and that arithimatic was for normal average people. Oh boy do i beg to differ but who cares he is more respected than me.. argh the world has to change and i wonder who is going to make it change but it had better happen fast. Pythagoruses quest for knowledge led us to know many facts and now we are disregarding them? why did our ancestors work so hard then. Its not that everything is known that we can forget about it.

That particular blogskin is one i have see a lot of i wonder what about it makes people want it. the surprising think is that most people dont even know what those simbols mean why then use that as a skin.. i wonder maybe we will never know what drives people to hate maths.. maybe one day they will realise its beauty.. one day..

NJC DSA

Yesterday i received a call and the person on the other side confirmed my name twice. After being 99% sure that she was talking to me, she told me that i had got through to NJC via the DSA scheme.
Yippee now i can concentrate fully on 'O' level without having to worry much about which JC i have to go to and how well i need to do.
On Monday there is some official presentation of the letter that says that i got into NJ so i will be goint there on Monday to get my cert. Yay filled with joy!!