All of a sudden -

Today marks the passing of music's most loved pop icon , Michael Jackson

The King of Pop.

Rest in peace , the world remembers you .

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Assumption

I forgot to prepare my SJAM uniform last night because I forgot and partly because me and Shafiq pakat-ed to wear the Team Johor shirt to show our pride in being Johorian :D
(because SJAM Johor rocks)

First person I met at the gate , Sean : he was wearing team Malaysia .
Then I saw Edwin ! " SEE , LIM ALSO WEARING! "
Justin assumed Ivan wouldnt let us wear..

nvm then , today was Hari koperasi's launching day so they called some fellows from outside and had a big ceremony etc etc .. Form6 girls performed a choir , what song I couldn't hear because they didn't use the mike and the crowd was too noisy .

Saw Ms. Shyamala at the door , and we all thought , " wow now she's training a choir?? "

So I asked her , ( previously maybe none of us would dare to approach her with such a question because we assumed she was really terrifying but with all the time in close proximity with teachers we begin to understand them .. plus judging from the bus ride home from segamat , teacher is a very sporting person )

" Teacher, did you train the choir?"

her reply : (with intonation)

" Me?? No! If I trained them they wouldnt be so bad ,would they. "

HAHAHAHHAAH and almost everyone at the back who heard and understood laughed , but personally I dont know how to judge choir but they weren't that bad considering they probably had a few hours of last minute training , very much like the Combined Adult Team in the District level which trained for , at most , 10 hours and mashed SMK JJ Which we ASSUME , have been training for months..

Next , two meetings lined up : LDDS BoD meeting and Interact Meeting/interview.

While waiting for LDDS , we lepak in class and did a bit of NCO training . Isaac clarified the intonation :

*rising tone* selamat pagi TUAN! * inflect voice higher * * isaac swings hand up*


Went for Interact first , filled in the interview form :

* post preffered , areas of interest , 3 ways to improve IC , 3 suggested activities , 2 other comments*

asked for early interview and alas, I was first to go in ( what to do , got LDDS at 2pm)

Grilled by 3/4 of the BoD , plus Shan , Honorary Ex-President (as Kumaresh puts it )

turned out okay , maybe I was mentally prepared , it's something like what happened on Monday for 7 people.. Commitment commitment commitment!

Time to commit to your studies or you'll commit suicide when your results come out.

* oh ya, WHAT'S OMSSSFEEE ???? *

Shafiq / Sean : Operation MiStakeS FrEE

why the extra S and E ? If johor keeps up the presence and quality it has , in later years we'll have THIS on the shirt!

OMFGITSAAACNAACJHRWTFOMGGTPWNED

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Singapore - Malaysia St John Ambulance Competiition.

February 18th - A decision was made to form a combined Adult Ambulance team, SMK TP , and EC.
That team : Zhi Hao , Alex, Jethro , Sean and Le Bin made it through district level and won state .
Eventually , Zhen Wei ( SSI) replaced Le Bin , making it a 3-school team !
That team went on to win the Nationals..and on to SingMal!

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Supporters gathered at JB Sentral . Took a bus to Singapore . With the H1n1 flu , there was a white tent at the immigration (singapore side of course , Malaysia's not taking precautions >_> ) , and they checked our temperature as we walked past . That's Once .

Immigration check >> Bus Stop >>> wait for bus >> found the right one
>>> managed to squeeze ALLL the supporters into the bus >>> me and shaarvin gave up our seats to old folks >> got down at some bus stop
>> bus 74 came late so we watched a kayu punya football match >> bus finally came
>>> sat on upper deck , again bus is filled with SJAM members and a few SArmedForces men
>> finally reached Xinmin PRIMARY 's entrance
>> heard commanding , walked around to find the entrance to SECONDARY
>> Ivan saw a few SJAB members , and shouted " EXCUSE ME! CAN OPEN THE GATE" and the pointed *there there*
>> walked like 3/4 around the perimeter
>> Entered and surrounded by SJAB members which checked our temperature and gave us a red sticker to wear
>> walked in and saw an SJAB(St.John Ambulance Brigade) Ambulance team starting to march .

Okay so we're here. Met Perng who commented on the SJAB's footdrill . Went up to the Hall to watch cases.

Short Case :

Guy 1 and Guy 2 are fighting.
guy 1 : " I HATE YOU! " *whack guy 2 with a metal pole. *

Guy 2 collapses and Guy1 goes into fits .

:D
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Saw Malaysia AC ( from SSI) 's foot drill. All the spectators especially the SJAB people were really really terbengang because it was like , sharp and precise.

we missed AA's foot drill ! They were marching when we just reached Xinmin . So if we didnt walk the wrong way and bus 74 wasn't late we could have watched it!

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AA 's Short case and Long Case .

Jethro treated an open chest wound. After the case the victim was seen walking around. Incredible!
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The canteen has vending machines , so Shaarvin bought nachos. See the pics.
Buffet lunch was provided , and THIS OFFICER told us that we can eat at 12, but " eat in a group" . Eat la .
Sekali have to wait for VIPs! Screw it , throw the plates away later . Gwee told bapok stories while yoke perng ate jelly without a spoon.

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Results : It was all over in a matter of minutes. No suspense whatever! hahahah.
Ambulance Cadet won too !

The chief judge's comments :

" I was impressed by the foot drill performed by the Malaysian ambulance teams. Their standard is on par with some of the best in the SAF . "

Imagine that!!! And he's Lt.Col in the SAF , commander of the Medical Training Institute.

" For selecting the best leader , we had a hard time because both ( Zhi Hao and Kuok Zhen) were too good . "

The best leader award went to Kuok Zhen ( SSI ) . Congratulations!

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After that , we all got together as SJAM , and cheered.
Mr Perba : " Let us shout it out loud, let them hear who we are! "
Who are we?
We are the best!
who are we?
We are the champions!
Who are we?
We are the SingMal Champions!
All for one
One for all!

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Their victory is our pride and inspiration. They did it not only for themselves , but for the glory of our country (Malaysia) , state ( Johor) and area ( Johor Bahru) .

Berbanggalah , Malaysia Boleh , Johor Membolehkan! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Happy Father's Day !

Happy Father's Day ! A big thank you to my dad and all the dads out there!
Now, I feel like talking a bit about my dad.


there are many ways to describe my dad and for that you can ask my mum ! HAHAHA . To me , my dad is a really patient and diligent person . He is a real-life example , success comes only with hard work and determination . And with success , never forget your roots and where you are from, always be compassionate and charitable .

Happy Father's Day!!!

Failure to Launch

And as a team we joined hands to be lifted together in the event of victory ...

but we lost to Batu Pahat and we accepted this defeat.

prizes : 2nd Place overall , best script award.

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Arrived at school at about 5.30 am. I was kinda "late" because Piravin had asked me to go early for a Ghost Hunt . Got there and soon everything was settled edwin last to arrive etc etc got on the bus and OFF to SEGAMAT.

the journey to segamat by bus typically takes 3 hours . I forgot how long we took :D
what did I do ? listened to iPod( listened to Dream Theater , Joe Satriani's If I Could Fly alot of times because Shafiq suddenly liked the song so much ) , talked crap .

What Edwin did :

in pic: Edwin , Shaarvin , Isaac, Keshan

Playing PSP. Today's game of the day is Tekken .
"WOWWW SAW THAT OR NOT. "
" BABPAK NICE HUAR HUAR HUAR K. O !! "
"WOW ANNA ROCKS I LOVE ANNA "

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Reached the school , Smk Sri Kenangan . Quote someone who said ;

" Damn the school looks better than the rest of Segamat "

It's big , those type of new school , yknow like lots of stairs etcetc.

toilets were bad , no doors. What did they do with the doors ? broke them off and put them on the cubicle to prevent water dripping on your head from the leaky roof :D

edwin saw this team idk from where. This guy was carrying what seemed to be a tower?

Edwin : " woii kau , props macam tahi bodohhh " ( we were in the bus)

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found a classroom marked "JOHOR BAHRU " and "MERSING"

entered it , empty . dumped our stuff and camped there.

"screw mersing if they come they'll just have to find another room.."

Practiced our lines a bit , and joked around while teacher briefed us a little bit.
Edwin borrowed my phone and fussed over his hair..and see what happens when you lend your phone to edwin!




Edwin and Justin, taken by Isaac i think . Edwin is lecturing Justin?





Guess the Hair. Which is Edwin which is Justin ?



Looks wrong doesn't it. Isaac the photographer.



Edwin camwhoring and checking his hair. Notice the vein on his forehead , it pops out when he's laughing or trying really hard to do something




Edwin : " HAHAHAH YOU SEE JLOW SCRATCHING HIS CCK HAHAHHA " *turns around look at teacher *


Isaac Culas a.k.a Poison Ivy !!! HAHAHAH :D great job Isaac!



After our performance. Isaac becomes a man again , off with the fake eyelashes! stick them on keshan and Heil Hitler!

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Performance :

Stage setting was a little delayed . Audience wow-ed at the smoke machine :D:D:D
everything went smoothly , edwin's skirt didn't fall off ! Yoges(dracula) slipped on the leaves but he made it look like part of his routine and it was convincing, yeah!
Somehow didn't feel as shiok as district level .

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lepak at class, edwin played PSP coz they found the charger! OH NO!
one malay girl asked for edwin's number:D
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Prize giving , being a team with honor , we went on to congratulate the winning team and wish them best of luck for nationals.
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Left as 2nd place but felt like champions (cheh) should see us in the damn bus making helluva noise and our awesome teachers didn't come and sound us or something !! thank you teacher!
Pictures and videos will be on facebook probably in a few days. Edwin dancing topless , smacking his butt , all you never wanted to see , coming right up .

over-acting

So finally after months of NOT training ..
We resumed drama practice last week , and we didn't stop there.
Trained everyday after school , and we skipped school yesterday and today .

faced obstacles , like Shafiq falling sick , and a very worried shaarvin having to stand in for shafiq .
"DAMN YOU SHAFIQ DONT BE SICK LA "
But now shafiq's okay and shaarvin feels senang hati .

Practiced extra long today to clear up loose ends and grand-ify our performance.

Will it pay off tomorrow? state level ? On the nationals ?? Singmal? ??

no singmal for us , but all the best to St John Ambulance Team Malaysia !

Zhi Hao ( Smk TP ) , Alex , Jethro , Sean (EC) , Zhen Wei ( ssi )

Going Singapore as a supporter on Sunday .
Well there's woodhul's tuition which I was supposed to replace today but today i had practice , So I can't go tomorrow either , so sorry but screw the tuition because Singmal is biannual and mrs. woodhul's class is weekly :D

All the best , EC drama team . We carry a heavy burden , or as Ms. Shyamala puts it , we all have our own cross to carry .

" Premier , Kluster " << Fancy titles unless we can prove our worth .


Onward , Shafiq - "Panglima Gagak Hitam" , Justin " Jin " , Edwin " Gladiator " , Isaac "Poison Ivy" , Yoges " Dracula " , Keshan " The Godly Voice of the Ring " , Shaarvin " The Godly voice Narrating the Story " , Dalvinder " The Hand Which Raises the Ring" , Mogan& Theeban " The Raj Brothers In Charge of Audio " , and the rest of the Stage Crew : the Smoke Machine Man , Lights Man , and Prop Placers!

Stars

Back to school , and that means exam results .. PLUS
drama training.

So far got back BM , BI and Math . Happy for all 3 , but BM i shaded wrongly. Maths one careless mistake , and 3 for BI .. or else.. :D

Our Moral teacher's on maternity leave . Replaced by another teacher , but our old teacher's marking our papers.. DAMN .

Our state level competition will be this Friday , so we're training hard :D
Started training during the holidays :


Justin getting his lines right. See Shafiq on the right , at the back there , hanging on to the ladder rungs and getting a workout. Talk about multitasking/time management.


Edwin and Isaac chilling out with the latest DotA gossip ..

Edwin : " PWOWWW ATTACK FREAKING PAIN WEI. "
Isaac : " YA IF YOU GOOD AT USING THEN YOU OWN THE MAP "


Test shots with camera : [click to enlarge like always ]

Location : around the house

*protect * I am Optimus Primate
Shaarvin forced to wear the helmet.

Had st john training today , alex was supposed to come but he couldn't make it, so we trained ourselves and went through perba's and the basics with shafiq as TEACHER.

after that decided to go DCM and have a look at the art expo before it's over.



Shaarvin Likes *thumbs up* this .





Eunice agrees that the fella in the pic looks like shafiq and that shafiq should see it for himself.
Here he is with his celebrity likeness whom we do not know the name.



Shafiq in the " room of the apes " and being professor monkey in the middle.


DAMN HOLIDAYS ARE ALMOST OVER.

Lyrics

" So pop it lock it drop it like birthday cake "

Sean Kingston : "Fire Burning" << "shorty fire burning on the dance floor" that song

How does a birthday cake pop, lock and drop?

Diyana : " Maybe birthday cake is the butt you know "

Butt? well they have booty and peaches for that so idk ,

Anyway today I'm gonna feature this song, it's in Malay , so I dont think many of you have heard of it.
I heard it cause Azad kept on playing it on his phone! Diyana says it's like the first/only malay song which she likes ( even though now she say "takde feeling" )


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Dan Sebenarnya - Yuna

Dan Sebenarnya ( And Actually 0.o) by Yuna ( Yuna is a french name yknow 0.o)

anyway she's like, Colbie callait + corrine bailey rae + acoustic indie guitar kind of artist. The song's not bad . Check out the lyrics :

Oh bulan, enggan melayan diriku lagi
pabila,
air mata membasahi pipi
dan lagu2 di radio seolah2 memerli aku
pabila,
kau bersama yg lain

what's "Pabila" supposed to be ?

Diyana: pabila is apabila in indon . NOT BABILAH IDIOT

OHHH.

I seriously seriously thought it was BABILAH , because the song's like benci benci. I'll translate a bit,

" Oh Moon! I don't wanna care about myself , when the tears wet my cheeks and the songs on
( layan = serve, but that would be assuming she wants a maid.. )
the radio seem to mock me, when you are with another.. "


adakah perasaaan benci ini sebenarnya cinta
yang masih bersemadi untukmu
dan sebenarnya ku mengharapkan
di sebalik senyuman mu itu
kau juga merindui aku

" Is this feeling of hate actually love for you , which is still inside me ( bersemadi?! idk la)
and actually I hope , that behind that smile , you miss me too"

what, Hate That I Love You? :D

ku enggan
berpura pura ku bahagia
ku enggan
melihat kau bersama si dia
oh ku akui cemburu
mula menular dalam diri
pabila
kau bersama yang lain

" I'm unwilling , to pretend that I'm happy. I'm unwilling to see you with her. Yes I admit, the jealousy in me , when you are with another"

* hey hey you you I dont want your girlfriend? *

adakah perasaaan benci ini sebenarnya cinta
yang masih bersemadi untukmu
dan sebenarya ku mengharapkan
di sebalik senyuman mu itu
kau juga merindui aku

*my favourite part*
pabila kau merenung matanya
ku rebah,
jatuh ke bumi..........
di saat kau benar-benar mahu pergi
seperti ku bernafas dalam air

" When you stare into her eyes, I collapse to the ground , the moment you really wanna leave ,it's like breathing underwater. "

Okayy.. The stare of death . HAHA . Breathe underwater.

"head underwater , and you tell me , to breathe easy for a while "
Sara Bareillis - love song .

adakah perasaaan benci ini sebenarnya cinta
yang masih bersemadi untukmu
dan sebenarnya ku mengharapkan
di sebalik senyuman mu itu kau juga merindui aku
oh
dan sebenarnya...
aku rindu......
dan sebenarnya....
dan sebenarnya....
aku tak mampu...

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no offence to yuna's fans, I dont mean it :D It is quite a good song , and we should be proud to have great local artists yknow . Estranged, One Buck Short , Pop Shuvit etc etc.

recently Zee Avi , check her songs out .

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wow, patriotik seh . HAHAHHAHA.

Last Watch!

Last Watch , by Sergei Lukyanenko.

What would you expect from an author who is a psychiatrist by training? Dark , thought-provoking and powerful urban fantasy .The Twilight , a world parallel to ours , inhabited by those with Power , called the Others. Full of plots , conspiracies and twists.
Last Watch is the fourth and final book in the Watch series , preceded by Night, Day and Twilight . It kinda ties up the loose ends of the book , revealing the secrets of the Fifth , Sixth and Seventh levels of the Twilight .
Read Twilight Watch and wondered what the heck the White Mist was? Or the Shades of Masters/ Rulers? All will be revealed in this book . Old and new characters , Merlin, Rustam ,Edgar, Saushkin ( didn't mention if it was Kostya .. ) etc etc.

***** 5 stars for the Watch series .