The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us, may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads.

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer. He will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings, and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.

If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies. And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by the graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death.

George Graham Vest - c. 1855

"For the time will come, where rivers will flow with blood, where lands will be scattered with corpses, where the air will reek of death and despair, and the future will look to the past, wondering where everything went wrong."

Humans are known for their superior intelligence, no?

what explanation, then, can there be for the actions humans carry out?

destroying the environment, their home, their earth? unique to humans, i doubt other animals make it a conscious effort to destroy their own home.

fighting alongside their own species to destroy and kill their own species? unusual, but remarkably stupid once you think it over. humans fighing alongside other humans, their "brothers-in-war" to kill other humans, their "hated-enemy". simply astounding logic, on par with einstein's theory of relativity.

1st person: you kill MY brother, i kill YOUR brother
2nd person: you killed MY brother, so i killed YOUR brother.

simply astounding, dont you think?


hunting animals to extinction, burning acres of trees, polluting the environment like free, killing their own kind with the same.

humanity will be its own downfall. and believe it, when the time comes when ppl are on the verge of death, they'll be blaming everyone around them for not doing smth to prevent it in the first place. and everyone will be thinking the same thing.

humans are intellignet. yah right, if humans are smart, my dog is a genius bordering on godlike.

back after 2 months, what with all the answered tags and stuff. mah i'll jus reply all here ( in a show of pure utter lazniess).
(in chronological order:
marj: haha yeah, sorry bout replying after the 2nd hiatus

jek: lol not completely true, merely removed a layer, only to have another 2 more replace it

jiayi: what on earth gave you that idea that i was innocent? (atually i AM innocent), dont get me wrong though, i'm totally straight and i do NOT go around checking out guys. thanks

shannon: what an "astute" observation made once again... and yes, i finally came back and cleared up some webs.. so proud of myself now

nick: haha thanks. and a prediction for the week: nick will top the level for bio, and possibly 1 more subject. nick the chao mugger and super genius =) [jus realised i made a huge error. it was supposed to be chem, but ah heck knowing the genius i'm not surprised if nick tops chem AND bio..]

/back to the topic/

Ain't life just evil. having to put up with a month of nothing but chinese after a killer round of EOYS.

chinese (the subject) . a common enemy, perhaps? just the word makes my blood boil, as it does to a large majority of Singaporean students. (8 in 10 ppl agreed when asked.. 0.0)

sure, doing cloze passage is a great way to test your linguistic capabilities, (and a good way to test your luck when you dun understand the passage), doing comprehension aids in your understanding and analysis skills, (and is the single greatest hand & finger muscle exercise ever invented by man, and therefore equipping most, if not all students with the strength to crush other people's hands - during a not so friendly handshake... self defence mechanism, yeah?). oh and lets not forget all those "morals" and "lessons" learned from the passages that we have been bombarded with since primary school.

ah yes, who can forget about all those "nothing comes for free, we must work hard to reap rewards" and whatnot lessons, having read them for almost 10 years now. surely the ministry of education have better resources, and the supposed organs needed
 (i.e. eyes to see the student's sufferings, ears to hear the student's curses and brains to 
understand these not so subtle signs given off by generations of students).

and so here we are, the current generation taking the new exam format, which delightfully spares us the need to memorise 4 years of chinese words, and also delightfully gives us more hand and finger muscle exercises. (all hail chinese...). and after this month, we will regrettably leave these hand and brain exercises behind and continue on with our life, while wishing the new generation of chinese studying students all the best.

but enough of that. the chinese o levels are not over yet, we still have plently of exercises to overcome, and until that time comes, just hang in there =). remember, it is all thanks to chinese that we are able to crush the hands of other people in a handshake. and laugh at the look of agony on their faces.

erh.. 1 month since i even tot of coming here? hmmm i guess i even forgot the interface of blogger, took me 5 mins to figure out how to get to this page.. geez

why am i here, after 1 month of neglection, 1 month of ignoring the kaopehs of SOME PEOPLE, blah blah blah,

no i din get any inspiration. i'mjus here so i can escape the boredom of chionging SIP and RM at the same time. (which isn't even possible in the first place)

and i have, absolutely nothing to tok abt. wow. amazing. apart from passing my chinese test, and nearly failing my LA test, and i predict i will fail my SS test, there's nothing much. unless u wanna hear the ultra trilogy of a 16 year old kid at a sikh wedding.


yeah, i, for the 1st time in my life, led the buffet dinner charge. instead of being the last one. (its not my nature to charge when it comes to meals, unless its JUSTIFIED or i have a VALID reason to)

oh and i led it, coz i was SICK of waiting there for 5 min staring at the chiobu at the next table after the man announced tt dinner was open. and noone in the enitre ball room moved.

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eh wait, sry i was jus stoning, no chiobu... haiz..


anyway, ahem, back to earth, as usual i wun update for a heck of a long time, and oso since its jus 49 more days to EOY, u can forget abt seeing me in the next few weeks. maybe i'll update one more time after EOY to announce how i screw it up or aced it by a godly miracle. (my aim is to beat janice in this exams. and i'll be damned if i give up without a fight)

anyway since one ***************** said tt is was impolite to jus shut down my blog like that, heres the REPEAT statement.

i'll be shutting down this thingy at e end of this year. to mark the end of VIP.

sry, depression taking its toll. i cant continue this anymore

havent touched my blog for over a month now, and i'm surprised tt some ppl still come here in the first place. honestly, there are tons of blogs out there now. Besides, what do u expect me to say here? that my sucky-as-hell-life-is-screwed-and-so-am-i? hah my life is as boring as it gets, dunnid to kill others with the special "monologue of doom"

world cup is over, it'll be back in 4 yrs time, in Africa (i got it correct right?) and hell, i bet there are some tt are already suffering from WC withdrawl. basically, they are missing the balls, the red cards, the ankle attacking and yes the use of heads in various ways, like heading, scoring and headbutting, etc.

school life, basically hasn't varied a single bit. still the same wake-up-in-the-morning-and-curse-as-much-as-u-can style everyday of the week. lessons getting to be a real pain in the ass. sometimes, i jus feel like ponning school.

its july. cool. 5 more months till J1. not like i'm looking forward to it. end of year prom? oh god, i got a rather bad feeling abt it. bah, it would be good if i could be the invisible man. at least then it wun be so troublesome for me. invisibility paint anyone?

its e crunch period guys. the time where the only thing tt matters is not failing ur exams. so much for e teenage life. and i finally realised that the last june holidays of my life as a teen are officially gone. no more holidays as of next yr onwards. after that? who heard of june hols in army camp? 0-0

bleh. finally the tuesdays with morrie saga is over. stupid guy took damn long to die, but some rather interesting comments made in the movie. too bad i dun have a good memory.

talk abt coincidence, my dad was asking me smth, and i said "forget it". and at the same time, someone signed online with the nick "forget it". cool.

updating after god knows how long, and i havent visited my own blog for almost 2 weeks liao. (not that i care really, coz at e end of this year, i'm closing this blog. )

[i started at the start of VIP, and i will end it at the end of VIP] whether i start a new blog or not, i dunno, but i doubt many ppl will care anyway

by now everyone will be back from their respective trips, and i guess different ppl will have learnt different things.

me? mostly i learnt how to avoid stepping on shit and how to stone more effectively. i also learnt that wallabies are insane shit generators, as are swans and deers. i swear my shoe will never be the same again.

well the trip was fun in its own way, i learnt lots of other things, and saw lots of cool things.

too bad my photos won't be that good, most of the nice stuff were night shots, and blame it on my hand and my camera, the pics were blurred as hell. i swear that the next time i change my camera i need one with OIS.

still i dont know what i wanna do in my future, (one of the purposes of the OZ trip was "self discovery".) maybe i havent found it yet, maybe i might never find it, who knows..)

have nothing else to tok abt.
its late now, and i wanna sleep.
the world cup opening match has started.

adios, i probably wun update for another one to two weeks. jus have no mood to blog anymore

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