blogger conked. we had a good session today. last session before the exams and rockerfella crew's first session. oh the irony. yuan hao came and did splits to flares. good stuff. i can session in 2 more weeks. ahhh i'll survive. i'll be so caught up in F=ma, mol=mass/Mr, factors that affect temperature, intercostal muscles and cranial reflexes, basis of comparison and not to mention stupid old Macbeth. oh well. 14 more days and i'm gonna session like there's no tomorrow. i have to study first though.

i'll leave you with a video. forget the French. Korean bboys were the best, are the best and forever will be the best.

the best of the best. bye!

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hm i had an astonishing appetite today. 4 ham sandwhiches and 2 glasses of chocolate milk for breakfasts. then i downed 2 packets of hi-chews. btw i think apple hi-chews have drugs in them cos i can't seem to stop eating those lovely little treats. then i had 2 bowls of fruits for my before-lunch snack. and then i had boon tong key chicken rice, followed by a kaya puff thingy from esso and a tuna puff. and i'm still a very light 45kg. hur hur. i covered a lot of x-men comics today. sigh. if only they were tested for exams. then i may be reading geog and physics for leisure! . that future is too unbearable to imagine. agh 8 more days till the exam begins. and i should be worried. but i'm not. i guess God has given me peace. which is good. ok for my stressed freinds, here's one of the best shows of all time: Whose Line Is It Anyway

it maybe a bit crude, but funny nonetheless!

i love this show

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friday's session was really good. got a whole new toprock, longer nikes, 3 solars and a one-handed forearm hanstand! haha i find sessioning in sch much better than doing so at home. yes yes. had tuition today and read my x-men comics. i'll do bio tmr lah. surprisingly, i have no feeling of anxiety or stress. yet. oh well i guess that's good. i can't wait for the exams to be over! i can session everyday after that! argh study now play later. one chapter of bio today. tmr i'm going to finish half the geog syllabus. hm funny this afternoon i thought i had a lot to blog about. turns out i don't.

well only one person solved the puzzle. and i have unknown people/ people posing as other people/ siblings posing as other people tagging my tagboard. haha gives it a kick doesn't it? anyway here's a picture of me on the cruise altered to look like one of my favourite x-men. as i was going through my vast collection just now, i realized why i loved the comics so much. the newer one has better artwork, but the simplicity and the feel of the old one is just better. colossus wasn't dead, archangel didn't have metallic wings and magneto was the coolest villain. then the movies had to come and mess it all up. those were the days. man i love that comic. anyways thanks for tagging guys! stace commented that the angle of the optic blast was wrong. haha yeah it is a bit off. in my defence, try drawing straight with a very rough mousepad. haha till next time then. enjoy!

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i'm starting to feel the pressure. and it's increasing with everyday. people are becoming more frantic. more short-fused. and i've started studying bio. one chapter. in like 20mins. i spent the rest of the afternoon reading comics. heh. today was quite fun. the physics test was ok. played 'zha' during PC with ben chong, lampy and nic ng. quite fun haha. then our PCT gave us a talk on com camp at the end of the year. the whole class almost wet their pants. very scary. kick starts the adrenaline and makes you want to study right? oh well. i'm looking forward to tmr's session. it'll be a great stress-reliever. btw one person has solved the puzzle! hurry hurry! get those brain juices (or your lack of) working! ok byee!

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hiya. well thanx for tagging! even all the anonymous ones i guess. haha anyway today even though we had 2 free periods, it had to be one of the most stressful school days ever. we had to 'chong' 2 SS essays in under 40 mins, plus a.maths homework and an english essay under 30 mins. yikes. not very nice. on a brighter note, i finished one chapter of geog yesterday! i still have a mountain of work above me. and the next 3 weeks will not be very pleasant. haha anyway i'm gonna session at the Pine Tree Club dance studio on the 12th. cliff is booking a studio there. kewl my very first time in a dance studio! but for now i just wanna do well for my physics test tmr. forget bio. physics is the new bane of my existence. oh wells. i'll take it as it comes. i met my prefect understudies today. nice guys.

ok onto puzzle no. 2. if you can decode what i'm saying the first time you entered my blog, you'll be let in on a valuable secret! chris, dwayne, joash and charlotte don't have to bother. the puzzle is on the opening page, so hit refresh and get cracking! it may come down any moment. have fun!

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hm today was quite productive. i finished coasts for geog. yay! i realized i had to make myself uncomfortable so i'll study. if not the comfort of air-con will tempt me to the luring hands of my drawer full of x-men comics. yeah so one chapter down, 8 more to go! with 2 weeks. i can make it!

ok now onto something serious. last time i used to bboy cos i had to. cos it was for performances. for the scout troop. and i thought 'breakdancing' as it was called was only for poseurs and bad boys. who smoked pot and were delinquents. but i realized the bad thing about stereotypes. it's an 'over-hasty generalization'. not all bboys are bad. some really are poseurs. right chris? anyway it's not chris. chris is better now. as in some people come to our session and wall run and do all sorts of things just to pose. and those guys are 'only in it for the tricks'. cos it looks cool. i really can't stand these type of people. these type of people give the real bboys a bad name. these people are the basis of the stereotypes. at first i thought edmund was very 'pai kia', cos he was a bboy. but i couldn't be more wrong. he is one of the most Godly people i know, who does everything for God. and he's someone i respect. so after some sessions, i realized it was a lot of fun. and that's where it all began. we would pray before each session to make it productive. and it always was. but we were scrutinised by a lot of people. in fact, one person said to me 'nataniel! you're such a good boy! how come you're involved in breakdancing?' i was really stung by her remark. but because she was a teacher, i explained it to her and now she knows that it's not true. bboys don't like the name 'breakdancer' cos it's poseur. as idiotic as this may sound, bboying is a form of expression. other people choose music. we choose bboying. despite it's obvious physical benefits, bboying is also another way to relieve stress. but we have to make sure our improvements do not go to our heads. if not we'll be no better than the poseurs. right? now i know how wrong i was. and i'll never judge a book by it's cover. to clear misconceptions, we session in the open and in sch cos thats the only place with adequate space and no obstructions for us to injure ourselves with. and a lot of people think we session there to show off. people also think we are very proud and snobbish. but the thing is, if you're willing to learn, and you want to do it cos you enjoy it and not just for an ego trip, we'll teach you all we know. and through bboying, i've met some really good people. like s0ng, edmund and yuan hao. and they're strong christians who devote every practice session, every performance and every move to Him. that's why they are so good. the poseurs just crash and burn. they don't last long. cos they're ego will get in the way. also, every battle is like a show. we put on a front for the opponent. we have to act very 'attitude' during battles, and that probably contributes to the poseur image. but it's not like that. that's only a front. it's because our world is a fallen world. people rather see bad news than good. if the first bboys acted all nice about it, no one would watch them. no one would take up bboying. battles are only a front. on the other hand, there are also the bboys who insult begginer bboys. like the other day. i wasn't there, but they insulted a friend. which is not very nice. that's what puts potential bboys off. it kills that spark. if confronted with something like that, we shouldn't insult them back. cos that will only prove that we are no better than them right? we should instead pray for them. and feel sorry for them. and we must remember no matter how good we get, it's all because of Him. and we can never ever let it go to our heads. as roosevelt once said, 'Walk quietly, but carry a big stick'. they'll never know what hit them.

P.S congratulations dwayne!! treat her well ;)

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hm. a very slow day today. 1 and a half hours of physics. and we only had like 20 mins of e.maths cos she came in 20 mins late and told us stories and spoke to avinash for another 20 mins. ha. the after chem i went to session. like the last one till the end of the exams. super fun today, cos like 3/4 of Kyensai came down. s0ng's toprock was as good as ever and it's seriously the best footwork i've ever seen. the best. we sessioned at the amphi for awhile and then we left for the new audi. lol edmund loves my high tops! haha the new audi floor was quite slippery. ka foo and frederic were trying handstands today. dwayne was a bit stoned today. and so was clifford. haha. it's the exams lah. 2 more weeks. and i've covered 8 pages of geog. nice. gah ok i'm gonna finish half the geo syllabus by sunday. yes. i'm so tired cos of today's session. fruitful albeit tiring. and that means i can't study. which means i have more work to cover tmr. so i'm just gonna do my sch hw. the tv's spoilt anyway so yeah. no distractions. other than the comp and myself. oh well. it's time to get cracking. bye!

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this guy is just mad. he holds the Guinness World Record for 20 1990s (spinning on one hand). although he doesn't have much style, the powermoves are extremely impressive and he will own Junior. in my opinion. good variations too. i didn't really like the editing though. looks a bit demonic. oh well. enjoy!

edmund will break that record one day. i know it.

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haha yeah today we had one of the most productive PE lessons everrrrrrrrrrr. we sessioned. for like 20mins. quite fun. cliff did his rollback handstand which was quite good. yeah i improved my nikes and frederic almost got hit by a soccer ball. yeah friday is like gonna be the last session till the end of the EOYs. i forgot the feeling of studying. it's not one of the nicest feelings to experience. 300 pages of geog. 300 pages of bio. 118 pages of SS. and a lot of chem and physics. gah i am NOT going to go to con camp at the end of the year. at least i'm praying i don't. forget about the IBA and all the other stuff. those are just secondary. i want to pass chinese, pass physics, and do well in the rest of the other subjects. man it's gonna be tough. 2 and a half more weeks. at least i have done a few pages of geog and i'm gonna 'chong' this weekend. like i'm gonna force myself to finish at least half the whole geog syllabus. the only problem is remembering it till the geog paper. biggest problem: information retention. aiyah i'm just gonna pray and do my best. i'll let my God do the rest:)! on a brighter note, once the exams end i'm gonna session every single day till like 5. and play xbox and hog the com. ooh man work hard play hard. time to work now. bye!

P.S chris foo ah. threading on thin ice! haha it's cool (geddit? ice? cool? man i need a life). just don't...divulge anything.

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9:32 PM;

just like that. the holidays are over. in a flash. with the EOYs looming it's ugly head around the corner. it's time to get cracking!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but not just yet. yeah pastor lian gave a short and sweet sermon today. quite good. then i came home and did my lit essay while listening to music. it's a piece of crap that essay. eh i'll work on it during recess. went out to bukit with my godpa for dinner. had quite a nice time.

so i was talking to fran this afternoon, and then i said that eric bana was handsome. and then she said i was the first guy that ever said that. haha anyways she was really understanding while most girls would like pounce and say 'OMG NAT YOU'RE SO FRIGGIN' GAY' and put it as their nickname or look at me weirdly. yeah thanx fran! anyway, what's wrong with saying that someone of the same sex is handsome? i mean it's just an observation right? haha i saw on friends once when joey wore panties and phoebe said it takes someone very sure of their masculinity to do that. same thing here. not that i'm a narcissist. i'm just saying that sometimes people are scared to voice what they feel cos of social pressure and that they'll be outcasted (if there's such a word). on the other hand saying 'ooh eric bana is so hot i want to eat him' is just plan WRONG. or william beckett for that matter. heard that jo? don't scare me. haha yeah but he's kidding. i hope. anyway yeah i think we should all be less image-conscious. yeah if an actor of the same sex is handsome/pretty on face value, don't be scared to say it. i know i'm not. have fun!

p.s to clear any misconceptions i'm not scolding anyone, especially francis. yeah cos i know it infuriates people if they get blamed for something they didn't do. well i know I don't like being wrongly acused. yesh ok bye!

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today was great! did some chem homework before i left for great world to meet up with my primary school friends. we watched singapore dreaming and had dinner. haha it was really fun to see everyone as they've grown so much since primary school. except neil. neil has remained the same since primary school. haha. it was really fun. i wonder how different we would be without friends like these. anyways, after that we went to the arcade for awhile and i played some ocean hunter ame and then house of the dead 4, which was quite....disturbing to say the least. then chris came to my house and we sessioned for a bit. ironically, it was the first time i had a serious session at my house. haha quote for the day is from joash wong: ' i'll study later'.

ok i'll leave you with one of my favourite cartoon characters from my childhood which i totally forgot about till this morning when i was watching cartoons: speedy gonzalez!

AREEBA AREEBA! this guy cracks me up. haha bye!

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9:53 PM;

so i watched barnyard today. at first i thought it would be another lame movie. like chicken little. that one was a COMPLETE disaster. the only thing as bad as that is high school musical. yeuck. barnyard actually turned out to be quite good, and it had a very good meaning. my dad, who usually hates animation films, said it was good. he left 15 minutes into chicken little. said it was a watse of time. lol. yeah so it turned out to be good. about 7 stars. saying inside man and v for vendetta is 10, and chicken little and high school musical is a big fat zero, this is like a 7. well i'll give HSM a 1. the bboys in the recess scene were decent. one. just for the bboys. ANYWAYS, i will start studying tomorrow. after i go SHOPPING!! well i'm not particularly fond of shopping, but the jeans i have are like 7 inches more than my waist size. thanx to my adoring sister. and all the shirts i have are terrible. like the infamous bright yellow las vegas ones i wore on OEP. or the well-known camou pants i wore through OEP. or the 'sportsgirl' one that was actually my sister's and i was wondering why they were so loose. yes so i'm going to embrace my feminine side tomorrow and go...SHOPPING! heeeeeeeeeeeee.

anyways onto something that irked me. i've attended a fair share of camps. and i have help run a fair share of camps. the thing is, when it comes to camps, ragging, or 'tekan-ing', is NOT the way to go. people give excuses that 'oh, it's to pressurize them cos facades are easy to put up'. no offence to you peiyi, and i feel you are right...about the facades part. facades are very easy to put up, and a fair amount of pressure is needed to break it. however, push ups are a very very undesirable pressure. having gone through that particular camp myself, i would know. and i would know the reasons behind it. and those reasons are justified. to a certain extent. there are other forms of pressure, like mental pressure. to make it or break it. i feel that dishing out punishments (or pushups) just shows your sadistic tendencies. for the camps which we planned, when pushups are dished out, we do TWICE as much as our juniors do. cos they're mistakes reflects our poor teaching. but knocking people down mid-sentence? scolding them during push-ups? that's just plain SADISTIC. i mean, they'll just hate you more. and more. and explaining it to them will not help. a very respectable person told me once that ' a good leader leads by example'. how are you supposed to get them to respect you if you don't suffer with them? i feel that all these punishments, although they claim it's for 'team-building' purposes, are just another way to compensate for what their seniors did to them. which is just silly. that's why i refused to attend these camps. cos it's just plain dumb. and it'll only give people a negative impression of you and that organization. so yeah. just my 2 cents.

on a totally different note, i completed mercenaries! for the 3rd time! and i managed to hijack the Allied YAH-56 Gunship. 1200 tank rounds. 38 unguided missiles. 8 guided anti-tank missiles. and the thing that puts that above all the other gunships: 4 guided anti-aircraft missiles. man it was so fun. but i hijacked like about 16 in all. and made tha Allies quite pissed at me. one was stolen by a north korean soldier, one i gave up for an NK chopper, which, in retrospect, was really silly of me. ne was crashed, and another was lost. well it was fun while it lasted. here's a picture of me catching the Ace of Spades a.k.a General Song (lol s0ng!). ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS if captured alive. 50 million if not. either way a lot of money. i captured him live and kicking. thrice. so that's $300 million. plus a couple more millions here and there with cheats and what not. a whole lot of fun. ok bye!

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today was a sad day. the legendary Steve Irwin passed away. for those who haven't heard of him, which hole did you crawl out from? he's the famous Crocodile Hunter. he passed away and was pronounced dead on arrival because he was stabbed by a stingray in the heart. I thought he'd be eaten by a crocodile, but to be stabbed by a stingray, man that's just irony at it's fullest. i will always remember him as the very cheery presenter of the 'crocodile diaries' on animal planet. he struck me as a very light-hearted and jolly person, and one that loves his animals, and would go all out to help them and remove them from danger. the sight of him wrestling crocodiles for his own good, risking his own life for them, just to help them, will be etched in my memories forever. a naturalist second to none. steve irwin was a legend. is a legend. and forever will remain, in our hearts, a legend. peace :(

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so we had stef's farewell dinner last night. yeah she's a family friend and she went on holiday with us in june. had a lot of fun. on the holiday. yeah so we had a farewell dinner for her last night at keyaki. pics will be up later! she's going to Wickam Abbey in the UK to study:(. at least she'll be back in oct. that's that i guess. today i was like finishing all my holiday homework and then i had a sudden urge to play Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction again. and i will complete that game. again. for the 3rd time. and it's quite fun to play again, cos, now i know what's gonna happen. after i complete a game, i always play it again with cheats, to make it more fun. and it was really really fun, albeit tedious, but fun.

anyway if luke svasti happens to be reading this post then continue. if you are not luke svasti, then you will not understand what i'm about to say. please pass 'go', collect your $200 and move to paragraph 3! yeah anyway luke, i managed to hijack a north korean gunship. did you know how hard it was to do it?!! i was outside pyongyang airport and then the NK soldiers stole my chopper. then i was lookig and then i saw what i THOUGHT was the chinese transport. since there were no other choppers, i used my pocket artillery and lured it down. the ultimate tyco-ness was when it got stuck! in a mountain! so i ran up and hijacked it. then it turned out to be a gunship. 14 missiles, 8400 live rounds, and 8 anti-tank rockets! 8! anyway i have the infinite ammo cheat so it doesn't really mater. and then the stupid thing was i accidentally crashed it into the docks near the chinese HQ, which was a serious serious waste. so i walked back. and on the way i found an NK ARTILLERY BASE! yeah that's when my portable air-strike came out and i blitzed the whole place. just to vent my 'anger'. and earned money. then i completed 2 Aces in one day, and i got the indiana jones and han solo skins. then i spent the rest of the time outside the Allied MASH trying to hijack the best gunship in the whole game: the Allied YAH-56 Gunship! but alas, i couldn't as it kept on crashing into the mountains or the pilot kept on dying. yes so i'll try again and update you tmr.

ok sorry for that paragraph of gamer-ness. it's just so cool. haha yeah i've got a.maths tmr and the 6C 2003 outing is on friday! yay something to look forward to! btw zestin, i do not have an american accent. the only contact i have with the people i know who are near americans/ are americans are through MSN. so unless an accent can be passed through cyberspace, i rest my case. ohh CSI is on now. bye!

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haha yesterday was so much fun. after teacher's day in sch, i went to henry park to meet my friends! we hung out at the gym for awhile and that was really really fun, with trampolines and a sponge pit. then cliff and vince came, so then and chris and i sessioned in sch for like 20 mins and then we pretty much stoned the rest of the day. yeah then i came home and swam and the water was like seriously very very cold. haha yeah and then today at like 1400 i'm gonna go to some 'i love xiangsheng' thingy. 10 bucks. and frankly i'd rather stay at home. oh well. let's see how it turns out later.

onto something fascinating. yesterday ______ was talking to me about how when miss singapore universe reaches our year, it will be a tough call between _____ and ____. it was quite amusing the way he described it, and he mentioned that he wanted to get into a relationship. the thing that then popped into my mind was 'is it really logical to get into a relationship now?'. all around me, the people i know and some i know of have already had multiple relationships. in my opinion, it's really sillly to jump into something now, cos, to be frank, we're all very immature. it will be more on impulse or peer pressure since most people have girlfriends/ boyfriends. yeah although it's ok to like someone, for now, you should just remain friends, because usually getting into a relationship now will hurt both sides. in some cases, these failed relationships will leave emotional scars or phobias. yeah so to some of the friends i know, my 2 cents worth is not to get into a relationship. yet. at least not at this age. let's stick to, as JML quoted from our sch's Reverend, 'good wholesome fun'. haha ok bye!

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