31 May 10

Ah... The end of May. And the start of my exam week for me. I had PRSP exam today and it was freaking easy, albeit a little tedious. I think confirm and A grade, but I dunno if I can get a Z cuz it's so easy, so I dunno how many people will do well. I skated to school, so it was a good day. Had a little discussion about class party this Saturday and we decide to have a dinner and movie instead of a BBQ. Yay! This make it much simpler and cheaper. Only problem: what to watch?Several people suggested Prince of Persia, but I wonder if the Chinese (meaning those from China in my class) will understand and/or appreciate it fully. The best option I have now is to find a good Chinese show with English subtitles, like IP Man 2, but some would have already seen it. Hmm... Decisions, decisions...

30 May 10

Finally! A nice normal boring day. Here's what I did:
Wake up
Eat
Study 
Eat
Study
Slack
Study
Eat
Slack
Bathe
Sleep

Yep. How exciting.

29 May 10

Went to Sentosa today. Dad managed to get a family bonding thing from NTU Alumni. 3 rides on the Luge, 3 rides on the skylift, lunch and admission fee all for just $10 per person. They subsidized alot of it. I really like the Luge and the Skylift. Although the Luge is a bit short. Or maybe I was going fast. Lol. Anyway, the skylift is so romantic. I kept imagining myself with (ahem) a certain girl on the skylift. (longing sigh...) 

After that we went on the Segway. I don't know if it's pronunced seg-way or sedge-way. I hate inaccurate information. It was fun, but I really prefer skates. 

Then we came home and I conked out. Pretty straightforward.

28 May 10

What a weird day. I did my mindmaps for PRSP and BBFin. I wanted to go skating after that at about 3pm but I heard thunder so I decided not to go. I felt really tired from yesterday's 4 sessions of skating and I conked out on my beanbag til dinner. The main thing I wanna talk about is a show called: The Island.

It's a story about a facility that makes clones. Human clones. It's set in the near future and it's only for rich people who want to live longer or need new organs or want a baby without going through childbirth. Whatever they need, they take from the clones. Each one costs about 5 million USD. Anyway, the clients are under the impression that the clones are kept in a vegetative state, never gaining consiousness. This is to show the clients that there is no ethical issue, as the clones are "not human". However, that is a lie. The clones are consious and are under the impression that a mass infection has hit the world, and they are the only survivors. They are also told that there is an Island, a pathogen free island for them to re-populate, and they only can go there if they win a lottery. The story follows Lincoln 6 Echo, a clone for Tom Lincoln, who has a terminal illness. Lincoln 6 Echo meets Jordan 2D in the facility. Both escape and find out the truth. Eventually, both clones go back and free the other clones.

My point is that, with cloning technology just round the corner, would we give up our humanity to save ourselves? Let me put it from this perspective: if the you clone yourself, the clone is you. Therefore, if you take organs from the clone, you kill the clone and you survive. Isn't that the same as killing yourself? Isn't that suicide, in a very real sense? What would you say if you met yourself, and you know he/she would die to save you?

I, personally, will not give up my humanity just like that. If I should die, so be it. I'm now against cloning humans, even if they ARE kept in a vegetative state. Organ growing, sure, but cloning, making a whole new human, no.

27 May 10

Another weird day today. I can't decide if it's good or bad...

So ticked off today with Basic Business Finance (BBFin). I hate it when there are 2 answers. I'm talking about Future Value and Preset Value calculations. We have 2 options: use manual calculations or use the tables provided. The problem I have is that the tables round off the figures to 3dps. I like my figures to be accurate. Grr.

I went skating alone after that. I had to remove that discomfort that came with the inaccurate figures. It's a small difference, but it's different. Maybe I have a bit of OCD.

I went to BBFin lecture and nearly fell asleep. Sigh... After lecture finished I immediately left for the street soccer court to practice slalom some more. My Sun and Mega are both improving. Sun has proved dizzying. But I'm getting the hang of it, getting the feel of how the momentum is transferred.

I had a total of 4 skating sessions today. Skate to school, 2 sessions of practice, and skating with Brendan and Kenta. Man I'm tired. But I'm getting better at Sun and Mega, so I'm happy.

26 May 10

Hmm I can't decide if it's a normal day or a fun day.

In ISOFun lesson we each had to do a powerpoint presentation, which we each had prepare 2 weeks earlier on any topic that interests us. I did skating. I was second to present, after Zi Xuan. I think I did well, although I exceeded the time limit. Our class started at 10am and was supposed to end at 12pm but we overran til 12.45pm. Which means we more or less missed lunch. We were also suppose to vote best presenter but there wasn't time. Ah well.

The guys ran down to get sanwiches and bao and chicken-on-a-stick. But most of the girls didn't. And we were all still so hungry during lecture. Zzz. 

At 8.30 Llyod called me and asked me to return his Abyssal Persecutor this night. So I was like okay fine. I went down to bedok central and since JY was there, we started making fun of Lloyd and his size. Lol. I managed to sell some cards and made a nice haul of $6. Not bad. 

25 May 10

I love Tuesdays. It has all the fun lessons!!! PRSP, BPM and then SKATING!!! Über fun.

PRSP: I really like programming. It's so fixed, so easy, so smooth! But I felt like a fool today. The last piece of classwork we wer supposed to do was to create a PHP program to calculate the discount at a shop, then calculate GST. Ms Nami (my teacher) had just uploaded the HTML file onto OLIVE, our student portal. I didn't realise she had done so at that point, and assumed we were supposed to create the HTML file ourselves. So I was like, okay, no problem. Right click, select "New HTML file". Then I opened up the HTML file of a previous assignment, and began copying the format, editing it to my needs. Then I created a PHP file to link to the HTML file and the program ran smoothly, except for one minor glitch. I usually enter the address as ".htm", but since I created this file, I had to type '.html' instead. I didn't know until I asked her for help. After that it ran smoothly. I felt proud of myself, until I asked Hui Min if she managed to create the HTML file. That's when I found out I could have just downloaded it off the Internet, and I felt like such a fool. No wonder everyone else finished faster than me. Zzz.

BPM: We played stock rush again. Da Wei made a profit of around $900,000 including assets. That was amazing cuz we each started with 20 Grand. It was also not fair cuz he bought a lot of stocks for just $1 per stock, then the stock price increased and so did his wealth. Grr. Stroke of luck.

Now on the the most exciting part: SKATING!!!

Omg I'm so happy. I almost mastered Back Cross and Back Snake. I was taught Sun and Mega too. Very difficult. I also started work on Crazy.

Here's a list of what I've mastered or almost mastered so far. I like to keep making this list to watch my progress.

Fish
Snake
Front Cross
One Foot
Nelson Cross
Nelson Eagle
Back Snake
Back Cross

Learning:
Sun
Mega
Crazy

Yeah! Woohoo! Lol. 

24 May 10

Boring day. School as usual. Nothing much to say.

Elliott is okay, Uncle Van said so far so good. I'll check again tomorrow.

Had a chat with mummy. Very productive. We talked about the JA competition, and my role as VP Marketing. And some ideas too. I'm gonna propose event and party planning. It will be targeted at youths, and my main selling points will be that we can save them the hassle, find the best deals and are very efficient. 

23 May 10

Urgh. Today was a extremely discomforting day, to say the very least.

I managed to extract all the important points from PRSP, BBFin and BPM. Gonna convert them to Mindmap or Cluster Maps tomorrow. I'm trading notes with David, who did SAS and ISOFun. 

I skated over to Grandma's house today. And got into trouble. After showing off to grandma, I followed my toddler cousin, Elliott, on my skates. I was going slow and I thought I could stop in time. But he stopped suddenly and I didn't react fast enough, so I knocked him down. As if that wasn't bad enough, he lifted his head just as my knee went over him, and I knocked him again. He banged his head on the floor and now there's a cut above his left eye. It's very swollen as well.

What's wrong with me? This is the second time I've hurt him. The first time was at a restaurant, and Uncle Van sat Elliot on a waist high ledge, then told me to watch him. No sooner had I said okay and turned to Elliott, he (Elliott) lurched forward and nearly fell off the ledge. Lucky Uncle Van reacted faster than I and caught him. 

Me + Kids below 10 years old
= TROUBLE.

I can't be near Elliot anymore. After he stopped crying, he kept staring at me so accusingly.

I'm not gonna go within 2 meters of any small child from now on, especially with my skates. It's better and safer. For the child and for me.

I dunno what's gonna happen to Elliott now. Uncle Van said he'd monitor Elliott for the next 48 hours.

Maybe I'm not destined to be with any small child. You know what that means.

Why do I keep doing these things??

Why do I have this curse upon me?

22 May 10

Woah. Long day today. I went for a seminar (?) from 9am til 7pm. It was a series of speakers. This event was organized by Adam Khoo, and it was designed for the speakers to share their experience and opinions on the economy in the near future. Well, not just the ecomony, but other wealth making opportunities too. I found some of the l speakers like Adam, Conrad, Joey Yap and Patrick Liew very humorous and informative, but some of the speakers were kinda boring.

I think the highlight today (in my opinion) was Joey Yap's presentation. I found it the most interesting. He did a talk on Bazi, Chinese astrology and stuff. I learnt a few things from him. I'm quite balanced, 4 Yin characters and 4 Yang characters. My main element is water, specifically the Yang Water, although I do have the Yin Water on the Bazi chart. This was all done in relation to wealth. So apparently, Yang Water people are good at obtaining capital. Warren Buffet and Bill gates are both Yang Water too!! Whoo!!! Lol. Joey Yap said that most of the richest people in the world are Yang Water people. I'm definitely be among those. Hopefully I'll be featured on the front page of Forbes Magazine... 

Ahh enough dreaming, time to REALLY dream. Imma sleep now. 'Nights.

21 May 10

Yeah today was an awesome day!!! Two main points: skating and JA company. Let's start with JA Company.

I was voted VP Marketing!!! Yay!!! I'm so honored. I'm the only year one among the VPs. So happy!!! Definitely gonna put in my 100% for this competition. We. Will. WIN!!!

Skating. Wow every time I go for training, I learn something new. That's just awesome. Marcus taught me how to do back cross, but I haven't got the feel for it yet. I taught myself back snake. Not mastered, but it's better than my back cross. So here is what I can do now.

Fish
Snake
Front Cross
One Foot
Back Snake
Nelson Cross

I tell you, eagle Nelson is frigging difficult. My weight is totally off balance. At least, by learning the back snake, I can start to feel the back cross. 

Oh I got my wheels rockered today!!! It was $8 a wheel, but because Marcus and I bought 4 each, they gave us a discount. So I spent $28.50, which works out to be $7.125 per wheel. I also got a pair of wrist guards. They were $19.90 but Hyper sold it to me at $19. And they look damn sexy. Lol.

20 May 10

Another relatively boring day. I'm beginning to regard non-skating days as boring days. Lol. I'm mainly prepareing for my speech tomorrow. Reading Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing The Sale. Yeah. I'm learning too. I just learnt the difference between price and cost. Price is a one time deal. Cost could go on forever. Let me explain using the example in the book. Okay I'm gonna modify that a bit, because I wanna do this from memory. I'm confident that the basic principle is still there. Say you wanted to buy a bicycle. The bicycle costs $300, but it's a good bicycle, and you really want it. Then you find out that there's a bicycle selling at $100, which looks like the same bicycle. You're overjoyed at this bargain, and buy the $100 bicycle. Now, this is a difference of PRICE. So you proudly go home with your new bicycle. After 2 weeks, you replace the handlebars because they came loose. Another 2 weeks and the pedals fall off. Soon, you're repairing or replacing the brake system, the tires, the seat etc etc. And each time, the new component costs you money. Over time, that amount accumulates, and the total cost of that, plus the original $100 for the bicycle, grows to more than $300. If you had taken the $300 bicycle, you'd only need to service it once every year. So you see, the COST of the $100 bicycle was really $100 plus the cost of replacing and/or repairing each piece. This, is the difference between PRICE and COST.

19 May 10

Today was quite boring. Yeah.

Still thinking about that girl with the flower in her hair. Hopefully she'll come on Friday.

I did my 200 skips today. Note: wear shoes to skip. I burned the big toe on my right foot. I didn't do my lunges though. I fell on the couch and slept. Couldn't wake up till dinner.

18 May 10

Wow today was super fun. We played a game in BPM lesson, had a half an hour lecture and I wore my skates from 4.30pm to 9.30pm. 

Oky let's start with BPM and the lecture. We played a board game called Stock Rush. It's a trading game where one can buy and sell stocks, franchises and gold. It was damn fun. I found the equivalant of 13 gold nuggets, which I could sell for 100 times the amount I rolled. Each. We had a 12-sided die and I rolled a 12!!! OMG instant $13300!!! Woohoo!! Lol. I was sad we had to leave for lecture, but we'll play again next week. Ms Rita said this was just a warm up. Anyway. Short lecture. Yeah. That's about all I can say about it. 

Nevermind, on to skating! I intended to go down to the street soccer court to read, if nobody was there, but Leonard was there practicing slaloming, so I joined him. This was at 4.30pm. I practiced my front cross. Getting better. During training, I was taught how to generate speed for one foot, because after a while I lose momentum an can't clear the 20cones. Grr. Anyway, I found the trick: bend your knee when you go in, an straighten when you exit the cones. It works!!! I was so happy. Then after that they taught us Nelson Cross. I picked it up quite easily. I felt it was quite easy. I took a water break, and saw some beginners learning T-brake and back skating. So I helped them and eventually ended up teaching them instead of practice slaloming. Ah well. They asked me to show them power slide and a pulled it off!!! Yay. I feel good.. Lol.

Oh one more thing. I saw this girl who was doing back skating. She had a white flower in her hair and was quite cute. I kicked myself cuz I didn't find out her name, and when I wanted to, she'd left. Well, she has her own skates (Seba FRX, just like mine, except she has green laces I think) so she may come back on Friday. I hope she does.

17 May 10

Back to school. My sunburn hurts. Over my shoulders, back and back of my neck. Oww.... I could barely wear my bag. Ah well. I hope it heals fast. Anyway. Today: we learnt more advance programming today. Not playing around with Alice anymore. Alice is a program, not a person. Don't think sick. Tomorrow morning we'll be doing more programming. I've already done a bit of tomorrow's class work. Quite simple, actually.

I did my problem matrix for SAS today.  Came up with only 4 problems. My dad helped me with the last 2. I figured, hey, if everyone came up with 4 problems, we'd have 20 problems. Lol. After that I started work on my speech. After I write it out and present it this Friday, I'll put it up on this blog. ("I have a dream!") Lol. I'll get someone to video me too. I have 3 main points: personal experience, reading books, and that sales and marketing are the 2 pillars of a company. 

I started my personal physical training today. It's not much, but at least I started. I did 200 skips and 50 lunges. I was supposed to do 100, but my thighs were just too weak. I will slowly increase 10 lunges every week. I think I'll increase 50 skips every week too. Also, I will wear the sandbag weights around my ankles to imitate the weight of the skates, whenever I'm outside and not skating. Soon I'll be used to the weight and the skates will be just an extension of my feet.

16 May 10

Sunday. Yeah. Had a great frikin day today!!! Party at sentosa!!! Lol. Outing with (part of) the TP Skate Club. Yuan Yuan, Amanda, Gordon, Vance, Yu Heng, Shen Long, Leonard, Esther, Randall and me! Lol. Got sunburnt. Back and shoulders burning. Played a bit of volleyball and soccer. Then had dinner at Carl's Jr, Vivocity. Free flow of 100+!! Yummy. Then went to Kovan for bowling session. I didn't strike at all, but I did hit a few spares. Lol. Yup that's it.

15 May 10

Wow. Long day today. I got up at 7am.  And got my stuff ready for the day ahead. My parents sent me to ECP. And then I met Zhi Hong on the way. Lol what a coincidence. I had a whole day of mostly skating. From 8.30am to 12.50pm (4 and a half hours) I didn't take off my skates at all. That's so awesome. I can last in my skates for longer and longer hours. Anyway, I was supposed to go for the couple relay, but they replaced all the guys at the last minute. I got kinda pissed cuz the team kept changing and also because I really wanted to skate. They did let me go as a photographer, so I felt better after that. I was feeling kinda dissatisfied with the whole thing, but after I started skating, that feeling left me. Hmm. Anyway after that we Had lunch. That's when I took off my skates. Not because they were painful, but because I didn't wanna carry food on skates. After lunch we played ultimate frisbee. I played barefoot in the second match (which we won). Lol this was funny. Before the first match, Daryl put me in cuz of my body build. Second match someone wanted to sub me out but someone (I can't remember if it was Daryl, Toshi, Andrew or Yu Heng) forcfully said: "No. Wesley's good." Wow when I heard that I was thrilled!!! In the second match I played better, faster, utilizing all the footwork I learned in tennis. Next game: photo hunt. We were in a team of 6. Marcus, Yuan Yuan, Natasha and 2 other girls (I dunno their names pai se) and me. We skated very far. The clues were tough and I just didint feel good about the whole thing. I kept making mistakes and was angry at myself for it. At least it looked damn good: 2 guys and 4 girls. Woohoo. 

Some things I forgot to add yesterday: I'm running primarily for VP Marketing and for VP Finanance. This is for the JA company. I have to prepare a one minute speech on why I should be hired for the position.

14 May 10

Wow a good busy day today. Let's go by two main topics: skates and JA competition.

Okay skates. I feel wonderful!!! I think I've brokne into my skates already! 2 straight hours of slaloming and no pain. Well, not much anyway. I feel great! I finally mastered the fish and viper. I found that the trick to do viper is to swing your front leg first before your back leg, not swing them together. Yuan Yuan says it looks as if I'm doing front cross when I go fast. That's awesome. I can also do one leg. But after a while I lose momentum which means I lose balance which means I swing away from the cones. I can't do a full 20 cones on one leg, but I can do about 7 cones. That's good enough for me now! I also started learning front cross, which was not as hard as I expected. I haven't mastered it yet, but I can do about 10 cones without knocking any over. I left at 8 for dinner with my family, so I missed abit. Marcus was lucky enough to start learning Crazy. I'm gonna force him to teach me the technique today. Then I'm gonna practice and be able to do it better than him. Mwahahaha.

Ok JA Competition. I'm so embarressed. JA stands for Junior Achievers, not Junior Associates. Pai se pai se. We had our first meeting today. 24 of us. 4 people came to train us. An Australian, an Indian, a Scotsman and an Ang mor. I dunno where she is from. Quite diverse. Anyhow. We played a game about leaders. Everyone had a post-it stuck to his or her back, and everyone could see it except them. What we had to do was play 20 questions. And you have to ask yes/no questions. To find out who you are. So I asked smart questions. Here is the list.

Am I a politician? No
Am I a sportsperson? Yes
Do I live in America? No
Do I live in Asia? No
Do I live in Europe? Yes
Do I play soccer? Yes

Basically that was just my list of questions I asked. After the last question I groaned because I wasn't a soccer fan and I only had the name Rolnaldo (is that how you spell it?) running through my head. Then Da Wei said, very easy one. And something clicked: I'm David Beckham!

I was the first one to solve it and I proudly pasted my post-it on the board. Lol. Da Wei was Bruce Lee, but he couldn't guess it within the time given.

We came up with our company's name and core values too. We came up with some funny names:
Likit: it's actually Like It combined, but it looks like Lick It. Which just sounded wrong. So we scratched that.
Another group came up with MicroHard. Which also sounded REALLY wrong. Think about it.

Anyway, that's all for now. I'm gonna have a full day of skating tomorrow! Woohoo!!!

13 May 10

Ah okay I practiced skating abit today. Class ended early like at 10.30am, so we went to print our notes and have lunch. At 12 Da Wei and I went to the basketball court. I practiced my slaloming and he practiced his basketball shots. I made a bit of progress: able to do fish now. Viper is still a challenge for me cuz I keep falling into front crossover. Ah well I'm gonna establish a training routine for myself tomorrow.

12 May 10

OMG. This is HUGE. During ISOFun today, Miss Chen held 4 of us back to talk to us. Us being Da Wei, Jie Ni, Johnathan. And me. Why? There's this competition coming up, by Junoir Associates. It's an entreprenarial competition, more on that later. Credit Suisse offered to train one class of 24 people from TP. Now, usually this is offered only to year 2s and 3s, but this time the teachers wanted to see if year ones could do it. We are sort of the guinea pigs. Anyway, only 7 year ones were selected. HAND PICKED. And of the 3 from the other class selected, I know at least 2 of them. I'm so honored. So, on to what this competition is about:

We are a team of 24 year ones and twos. This is an inter-school tournament and what we're supposed to do is this: create a company and sell a product or service. We will be judged on the amount of money made, human impact and some other stuff I forgot. Credit Suisse is training us 24 over 12 Fridays, teaching us how to make and maintain a company. Oh did I mention that we have to make a REAL product or a REAL service? And that we will ACTUALLY be selling it? And that we'll get REAL MONEY? At the end of the competition, which is near the end of this year, the company will be liquidated. I'm going into Accounts Department, Marketing and Sales Department or R&D Department. The experience I will gain from this will be INVALUABLE.

This. Is. AWESOME!!!

11 May 10

I GOT MY SKATES!!! Seba FRX!!! It cost $186, is black and is totally sexy!!! I also got cones. Yay yay yay yay yay!!!! I'm so happy!!!

My skates came late, around 9ish, so the people were nice enough to let me rent skates from them free of charge!!! That's so awesome of them. Anyway, not that I'm ungrateful, but I didn't like the rental skates cuz I couldn't slalom in them. We finally started learning basics. I picked up the fish very fast, but had problems with the snake cuz I'm right dominant and my brake was a hindrance. My left foot kept knocking into it and I kept tripping. Tsk. Ah well. I got my new skates so I can practice now. Yay!!! Lol I'm just so excited!!! Next thing to get: gloves. Oh I'm also very sad. I made a hole in my favourite pants... I fell and slid. I wa also wearing a knee brace underneath my pants leg. So I slid, tore the pants, tore the knee brace and tore my skin. Now I've got a battlescar. Damn.

Next morning update: my knee hurts. Not the skin, the bone. I think I may have awakened my old injury abit. I can walk normally, but bending my knee is a problem. I'm gonna wear shorts today and be extremely careful with it.

10 May 10

Okay I didn't put up a post yesterday cuz I was super busy. Well I was busy at night, talking to my dad about Systems Analysis. He's studied it before so he can help me. He was helping me prepare to conduct an interview today, which turned out to be much better than last week's failure. Lol. During the day I was still really lethargic and sluggish. I couldn't and wouldn't do work. Ah well, my loss. Anyway, onwards to today!

I made a decision to speak in proper sentences and use uncommon synonyms wherever possible. Yesterday, my family and I watched Race to Witch Mountain, so I decided to speak like the aliens Seth and Sarah. I managed to maintain this style of speech, until Da Wei arrived at our pre-determined destination. Only then did I realise I would only be able to speak like this through a non-verbal medium, not face to face with a person. 

Ah well, so much for that. In any case,  today was a good day. I felt much better. Maybe because I woke up early, or maybe because I had a walk to school. Maybe I need to exercise before I work. Hmm.

There will be skates rental tomorrow, so I'm happy. I hope we can get our skates tomorrow. I doubt it though, because the seller said he's call to confirm our order, and he has yet to do so. Aww... I'm getting cones too. I'm gonna ask for a discount, then split the discounted cost with my friend Zhi Hong. We're gonna take 10 cones each. It comes in a set of 20, but as we are beginners, I doubt we can fully utilize all 20 cones. Now I'm beginning to have some doubts about this. I may want to keep the 20 cones. I'll talk to Zhi Hong tomorrow and make a decision.

I just felt really awesome!!! I went to my facebook friends and one by one, I said: "You're awesome!" Then when they reply, I say:
"I'm awesomely vandalizing the awesome walls of all the awesomely awesome people in my awesome life.

Translation: I'm awesome."

I only made it up to M though. My dad said to go and bathe so I did, and when I came out, he'd switched off the Internet. Ah well. Tomorrow!! Spread the awesomeness!!!

8 May 10

I feel so disconnected. From everything. So lethargic, sluggish. I wanted to do work today, but I just couldn't get the drive to do so. I've decided to give up reading storybooks, and going for Coach Training. At least for now. Maybe I'll coach in December. There's just too many projects to do. Tomorrow is my last day to sort my work out. I have to do it. I just feel so empty inside. Like I don't have a purpose. Argh...

7 May 10

Sorry I couldn't put up a post yesterday. I slept at 9+pm cuz I had a really bad headache. Took 2 panadol and slept. Wah damn shiok sia. This morning I totally didn't feel like waking up. The blankets felt SO GOOD. Ah well what happened today:

Woke up at 7am to have breakfast with daddy. The bought ice an went to TP. Today was Campus Care Network (CCN) day, where each class is supposed to set up a stall and sell products or services to raise money for the needy students in TP. My class sold drinks, the idea curtesy of Jie Ni. She suggested selling mixed drinks, i.e. Sprite + Ribena, Pink Guava + 7-Up and Coke + Lime Cordial. The first 2 were successful, but the lime coke just did not taste good. Before I go on, lemme tell you our unofficial roles. 

Jie Ni: Mix Master (drinks)
Johnathan: Marketing and Logistics
Kai Yiu: Financial Manager
Me: Unofficial Consultant and anything-I-can-help-with guy

The rest were in teams to walk around and sell drinks, or just be extra labour if needed.

It was quite fun. We eventually managed to get an ROI of about 65%, all the profit going to charity, of course. We had revenue of $167, so minus the $101 we started off with, we have $66 profit. Not for our first time. John was oozing awesomeness today. First, when he and Zhan Hui went up to get the drinks, he took 2 bags. In each hand. Wow. Then during the day, he paid for drinks and gave them to us. We also actually only had $65.50 profit, so he threw in 50 cents to make it even. And he was the one who brought in the most orders. This isn't to say that the rest wern't awesome as well, it's just that today he was the most awesome. Even more than me. Lol. Oh when we got an order for 12 cups, he made enough to fill 9 and a bit. Then when he made a bit more, his estimation was excellent, and the amour he made was EXACTLY enough to fill the last 2 and a half cups. Woah.

Jie Ni wasn't too far behind John herself (in terms of awesomeness). She mixed the drinks and then stepped in front of the tables to sell to passers-by. And brought in a tidy sum of money. I think John and Jie Ni both win employee-of-the-day awards. If we had any. 

Today was also TP's 20th aniversary. So they gave all of us a free buffet dinner at 4.30. We (half my class) decided to stay a bit til 5pm so that the ques wouldn't be so long. At 5pm I went to check the trays and they were ALL EMPTY. WTF??? I'm so sad we didn't get any food. My class didn't even have a single bite.

Oh well.

Anyway, I know who I'm gonna target. I see abit of me in her: enthusiastic, learns fast, and is natural leader. She's cute too. I only hope I'm fast enough. 

5 May 10

Today was Epic. I'm in my jokester mode again. Okay I'm usually joking around alot anyway, but what I mean is that, I was telling my so-called lame jokes today, and to my surprise, most were well appreciated. See, what I did wa just type them out in big font on a word document, then turned the laptop towards my groupmates to let them read. All 3 of them (Zhan Hui, Ying Wei and David) automatically leaned forward to look, and when they finished they started sniggering. It was fun and it felt good to recieve these hard-to-come-by-when-I-was-in-secondary-school laughs. The most epic funny thing that happened today was at ISOFun class, when we discussed the tutorial questions in a group. Ying Wei pulled out her Word Document and we had a look. There was a picture of Robert Pattison on the second page, and we were all like, WTF??? Then I said, at least she didn't choose Zac Effron. She was confused as she didn't know who Zac Effron was. David said to show her and I immediately Googled him in the pictures mode. The page that came out showed a series of pictures of him, some bare chested and some with him in the process of taking off his shirt. I then turned the laptop to face Ying Wei. Now here is the most epic part: She leaned forward and after 2 seconds, smiled and said "heh heh". Can you imagine what that looke like from my point of view???? It look and sounded like she was so turned on and I could almost see her beginning to drool. Oh my GOD!!!! I quickly turned the lappie back to face me and closed the window before nearly falling off my chair with laughter. That would really have been a ROFLMAO. That girl is scary. It's as if she'd been deprived. And I think I should end my blog here.

4 May 10

Wah SHIOK AH!!!! Skating again today. Super awesome. We were taught slides. The reverse power slide, actually. You begin by moving backward, then just pushing your right leg behind while tilting your body weight in front. Damn sweet. I also ordered my skates today. I'm gonna get the Sebas FRX, cuz it's the cheapest of all the Sebas skates. Discounted price = $199. I'm also gonna get the set of 20 cones. UP is $30 but their selling it at $26. Let's see if I can bargain the price down a bit more if I get both the skates and one set of cones.

Okay school stuff. We have to do a mini project for BPM: make a 3D model of a biz process. We decided to show how a blogshop works. The processes of buying, negotion of price, delivering the product and advertisments. I'm in charge of getting styrofoam. Lol.

3 May 10

Week 3 day 1. Still surviving. Had our first BPM and BBFin meeting today. Group consists of David, Johnathan, Jie Ni and Lisa. And me. And I'm the leader. Yay! I'm gonna put in my 100% for this group cuz it has the best potential to be the best. Look at the statistics:
David: 8pts for R4
Lisa: 9pts
John and Jie Ni: 10 pts each
And me: 12pts.
Okay okay so I'm the dumbest. But hey I'm leading a group of smart people. The other classes have kids getting 13, 14, 15 points. Our class has no one getting more than 12. And we 5 are the most outspoken, enthusiastic and adaptable people in the class. So yeah, we are gonna top the class. That's our goal, anyway. I'm gonna impart the things I've learned in IAG. Jie Ni and Lisa both have heard of Adam Khoo but haven't attended any of his courses. David has totally no clue. Johnathan and I both have gone through at least once each, so I'm gonna tap on him to back me up. I already started with banning the T word. Tomorrow I will show them the power of the T word. Then maybe I'll show the class. I have great plans for this team.

Oh small update on my love life. Or rather, lack of it. It's week 3 and although I don't have a girlfriend yet, I at least know who to target. I've got 2 possible girls, each having their own merits. Now the problem is deciding who to focus on... Their traits are incomparable, as they measure up on different scales, to put it crudely. Ah well. I'll cultivate both friendships first before deciding.

2 May 10

I got my pants!!! Finally. I have only 2 long pants that I like, and one is made for a bigger man than I, so I've to use a belt. The other one is my favourite one cuz it had 8 pockets, reaches my ankles and is made of thick material. Therefore, when I fall, especially when I'm on skates, I don't get scratches on my legs. I know chicks dig scars, but I don't. However, it's a problem too, as my mum bought it in Hong Kong, which means I'm unable to find a similar pair here in Singapore. Well, I'm sure there are, but I've gotta look hard. Anyway, mummy and I went to Bedok Central to find pants and we were partially successful. I got 2 pairs of pants (same design, diff colours) with many pockets, but they weren't as thick as I liked. They were the thickest I could find though, so I made do. I will be using them for skating. 

New topic: Collegehumour. Damn funny sia!!! Minesweeper, The Movie. PAC Man. Tetris. RPG guys are Jerks. Slumdog Price Is Right. These are awesome! I had a good laugh over them. Go check them out on YouTube. The Tetris and Pac Man weren't so funny though.

1 May 10

Ah slack. So slack. For the morning. I went skating with Johnathan an Brendan today. In the afternoon. My butt and my thighs and my feet ache now. It was a good workout. It was supposed to be Brendan, Johnathan, Zhan Hui, Han Lin, David, Kai Yiu and David's 2 friends. I think Kai Yiu forgot about today cuz he didn't call and he didn't answer my 2 calls. David and his friends came at 3.30pm and by that time I had to leave so we missed each other. Zhan Hui and Han Lin came on time but both rented bikes. John came abit later and rented skates so he, Brendan and I skated together while Zhan Hui and Han lin cycled ahead. It was fun, we skated to the jetty, then I showed off my skill in skating backwards in a circle. Brendan was not impressed, and he started crabwalking in a circle too. Lol. 

After I came home we, that is, my family and I, went to Downtown East Coasta Sands to celebrate Faith's birthday. I don't know Faith personally. She's the daughter of my parent's friend. I was so out of my element there. From now on, I'm not going to any party where I don't personally know the main person. I did abuse the food though. 12 chicken wings, 3 sausages, a piece of garlic bread and 2 cups of gassy grape cider. Lol.