In Memory.Pacita 1946-2003

2 days of Archives service learning ends...Van,Joce and Doreen...looks like i won't know what you guys would be doing for AVA,but I think CY,Ci,Rara and SK have just did our part for the archiving of art history in Singapore.it's like,with every video watched,we got insights of how much that Pacita Abad have contributed to the art scene in Singapore

unfortunately though,all the vibrant colours and unique media Pacita has worked on,all inspired from her trips around the world,would be only seen on video.if she hadn't worked on the bridge at clarke quay,if not for the collaboration with the Singapore Tyler Print Institute,Singapore's visual arts scene would have been like a desert,much less a melting pot of cultures.though she's Filipino,her contributions to the arts scene deserves to be better appreciated by the public.i find that all of us were questioning who the heck is Pacita Abad,but the videos have more or less rubbed off the art connoiseur in some of us

actually i'm not an insider myself,but the Archives are also doing their part in keeping art history.this stint have been extremely fruitful although I heard tt gary and the guys from Accession got to wield katanas and other artefacts.hehe will leave here for now

ever sian diaoz

these few days have been well...exciting not because of the obvious fun,but the inherent fun that is inside

Friday:since life is so sian diaoz I actually went to school just for 12 minutes for SL briefing and then it's off to orchard.the teowwww gang ppl from 28 are going to watch harry potter but then i knew my time was up when i saw amoz board the 162.in fact harry potter is so well received,i showed up at ps and the 2 logical slots are...you guessed it...sold out.since wenz told me later that she can't make it on the next day,so sian diao double lor.go cut hair at least something

Sat:super sian diao at home again.my plan to pass Wini the presents got delayed yet again,but then she showed up online and then time just ticked by slowly.more organic stuff to sink my teeth into

Sunday:the saw at the Harry Potter game reminds me of...Saw II...i think i'll watch it the next day after i finished Harry Potter.on a more serious note,the 2nd last week at jurong west was a time for greater messages and visions(i'm not supposed to act like an atheist).

night time is the best:going to pan pacific to eat japanese food(fyi my sis having prom now,same time same place),and it's madly ex.the kaiseki that's $85 per person booked without me,which is a good thing actually.the food is...the best quality thinkable after St Pierre's.the fishes are sweet!!haha but the show stopper was the cod(teriyaki style that got charred).the oysters too,are king(much fresher than that at tonkichi.oh heh here's a warning:eating too much fried stuff adds to a bonfire)...so much and still not full..

Monday:Service Learning!!woohoo!erm,lest you think it's quite a glam looking place,the relative obscureness makes it good enough to hide all the repository stuff(no one can go in actually).those accession guys have it better and worse because they have to cart stuff to the third floor for practical while the AVA guys ended up looking at some videos(VCR,DVD,VCD,tape) of somebody called pacita abad...an artist?even those arty farty cognoscenti didn't quite know the name...but ask that in the philippines and you get alot of replies(if that's true)

looking forward to 'slack' tomorrow and wednesday

p.s:i'm broke once again

3505 and the Absolut blasters

OMG 35/05 class chalet was a blast...got so wacky it's an unpredecented 2 days after 2am...it's so late...omg haha careful get scolded.in fact giving you a day by day rant is so passe it's time to describe how mad we can get.

1)Gary's playstation.
2)Arcade games at 1234 am.i suck at street fighter,as always
3)Mahjong.Raine wins most of the time!!argh
4)Absolut Raspberri.purported Harry's one.had to borrow my shotglass
5)Remy Martin.sipping it from a small glass is more stylish.and a good cognac can stand being exposed to air for 2 hours
6)barbecue.part one involves my flaming steak(more about that later)
7)white hot coals.so much Eternal Loop was complaining
8)Poker Cards.Indian Poker instead of Daidee...

here's the script for Wednesday

1)I went to Orchard to get organic steak
2)scouring Bukit Timah for gourmet sausages ended fruitless
3)marinated and prepared the special butter as outlined
4)go back and wait for BBQ to start
5)wait till no one is looking,then flame the gin+raspberry vodka+cherry+raisin mix and see what happens

when 5 goes wrong,Van was alerting everyone and my dear coffee cup of liquor flamed prematurely.forced to take out the meat and douse the flaming liquor on it.then recooked it on the metal plate,more flaming and more leaks!as the goblet of fire burns in a pale blue flame,it's got all its juices concentrated and the taste of the organic ribeye is great,with a hit on raspberry.mmm yummy.and the medium rare meat transports one to culinary nirvana...ooh nice

slept at 5 am,and cognac is always good...better than vodka.but i noticed that alcohol will also make one less alert of surroundings.i slept at dunno wad time and woke up at 9...wonder what happened to the rest who shot vodka down...but I just fantasised about chiobus

heh signing off

getting my damned wings clipped is but one thing I didn't quite want to do,so sian diao the whole week reading Harry Potter from 1 till 5,and i'm watching the movie soon,away from the frenzied crowd of the first few days.the teowwww gang isn't quite free actually...so let me c...

juz finished making the mixed candied peel,but just one thing though,i think i'll regret putting all the grapefruit,orange and lemon peels in one pot,and those kaffir limes as well,which turned a ghastly greyish green colour,yucks

but trust me,the peels look like crystal,and is great as a sweet(a warning though:these peels are highly addictive).here's the method for doing it

citrus peels(lemon,ruby grapefruit or orange)
sugar syrup enough to cover peels,1g per ml(duh)
2 pandan leaves

boil citrus peels in water and rinse,repeat thrice to remove bitterness(do more times for grapefruit).heat to dissolve sugar and water with pandan leaf,float peels on syrup,cook for 1h,leave to cool and then drain out syrup to dry on rack.tastes well after 2 days at most.just let the sugar dry out and/or crystallise

good for a digestif with coffee,or for cakes and pastries

Joseph the cook will leave you with more recipes,in the meanwhile I'm off to chalet tomorrow...yippee

Gotterdammerung

11/11 is the most unfortunate day ever...a series of unfortunate events have made 11/11 far more potent than those friday the 13th crap.this is what happened in quick succession

14XX:a simple plan to deliver presents turned disaster
15XX:absolutely devastated,so rushed to botanic gardens
16XX:wasted money going to the botanic gardens juz 2 talk with Matt 4 de good portion of the hour
17XX:finally bought the presents.but felt bittersweet after that
18XX:I can't blame fate,but if 2 people aren't meant to be frenz,the worst treatment is to have a bad reception and the other one went off in a train
19XX:missed EternaLoop because of some cockout train
20XX:vegetating in the 'express' bus and found out it was a prank
21XX:bloody hell.go there juz to end up being too late
22XX:felt very crap after that

I hope such a thing don't happen anymore,cuz I feel so bad after that

YAY IT'S THE END OF PW

champagne please...noooo we're underage...yar wadever...OP is the most gritty of the PW experience to date...screwed up my loud rapidfire rap with a few pauses and 2 beg your pardons in quick succession,but overall it was quite a good performance...3605 doing some Wild Pets thingy is damn zai lor...got brochure somemore...actually no one ever did Natural Forces but them...everyone do NP and then alot of ppl do stuff such as Young at Heart...sounds a bit cliched but I don't care.just get the grades will do

(talks about PW grades..to the tune of Ricky Martin's new single)

(me)
yea yea

(PW ST)
Crack Crack Crack!!
I don't care that's what Josey said

(me)
I don't care,
I just wanna be yours
I know I told you
I'd Never love you the way that I did again
After all that you did to me

But I got to say I don't care,
I just wanna be yours
And I am tryin' everything in my power
To never ever say
Please come back to me .
But I got to say

the rest of the lyrics doesn't pertain to PW...but it's just as crappy...ahahaha Ricky Martin rox...oh yeahs I don't care anymore...don't talk about PW...it hurts,a lot...

heh it's time to buzz off and so I'm getting my present soon...

juz went to print my I&R just now...yay tomorrow is the end of all the crappy systems that the MOE hopes to see yet is contradictory

whatever the case I'm addicted to kawaks and rom games...and those emulators as well,but downloading and loading them is such a chore!yucks,especially for a noobie.but then there's a goddamn kickass manual for playing DOTA in school...note very carefully how this works

you must have a prompt called NT4...download from jpsoft.com...then the following thingy is very important.

D:...]-type C:/ This slash is extremely important,because this is the lubricant
then in succession type the following and press enter

\"Documents and Settings"\0705_Student"\"My Documents"\"My Music"war3.

A warning though:not all computers work.don't bother to try this anywhere except at the free access room.All AJCians are bound to know where's the FAR

whatever the case being a DOTA noob is a very hard life indeed.there are some ways you can learn how to play DOTA

1)join a clan.clans vary,but often charge membership fees.better for multiplayer
2)play on public servers.you need a good know how on IT,and be prepared to take a long time to master DOTA
3)don't play.that's for hopeless noobs

yar wadeva...you never know.now let's fire

3 days 2 OP left,and it's time for intensive prep and pract.serious van,succinct vinifred,stern PX,strict norma,slacker SH/Jo/Me,we'll miss being in the most crappy PW group together...good luck 4 our OP on thus...and then we'll go watch EternaLoop on fri

and good luck to Wini too...for ur OP tomolo...hahz I wished I can end that tomolo,but u lucky girl!awesome la...i think I need enough money to go to Orchard right after OP and then buy you ur bdae present...I think I'm goin 2 buy u a Pooh Plush and a dog tag that will become a birthday card...ooh not quite sweet but it would haf been so millitant enough...haha!

whatever the case I'm getting more and more into the Express Boy drama shown on ch 54.it seems that this is just about the only idol drama I'm prepared to watch,complete with all the hakka,hokkien and all the 'vulgar' gang lingo(this is taiwan,mind you) and these reformed gangsters are quite zai

oops...now signing off

watching rambo 3 to while time away isn't the best option available,but what can you do when you get excited easily by all the one man heroics.at least I've resolved my OP time overshot probs and most of it is ok...except for the look at the mirror practices...can't wait for the EternaLoop gig next fri...

so it's better to sign off and wait for better stuff to write

ok today is goddamn sian diao...yeah no more conservation crap for me.instead it's some funny AVA thingy that's chicken feet!!listen to transcripts...hohoho...quite good.never wanted to go to accession with that nerd machine...and PW is a long drawn out bore,made better only by the hand droppers of Vinifred a la Yan An and the dictatorial finger.crapos wad de heck...oh yeah lucky there's EternaLoop gig next fri...or I sian diao

and haha I'm getting someone to teach me DOTA and touch rug.heh who say touch rug only for girls...huh?it's for rugger noobs like me la haha...of course there's the rambo 3 on star movies this afternoon...yippee I can't wait for Rambo 4 and Rocky 6...see more exploding planes and boxers...terbaboom!of course not missing harry potter next next week...and my dear fren's bdae a few days before tt...i can't wait 2 give her de present soon...yikes...i'm gettin broke!

dragged back to cell and so i've to stop

absolut crapp

this is one of the posts which I think i'm going gibberish...yikes

It is really true that in love,there's no gain if there's no pain.much less I don't want to be heartbroken,sometimes the best thing to do is temporarily occupy yourself with other thoughts.But escaping isn't an option for me.somehow I would have taken a vow of chastity,if not for the fact that there's nothing that could occupy my thoughts for the long term.philosophically speaking you can actually give excuses to say you're busy,or you're just not fated for it...but when everythings smooth and then you feel your empty heart,it really makes people feel painful,the void of the mental state that isn't filled easily or quickly.

In love there's basically 2 types of people.one who are always fortunate in his/her love life,one who wished he/she won't be bombarded by love messages from the opposite sex,but very few are those who have any good character to balance their looks.and there's another who might not be instantly attractive to the opposite sex,and could only look enviously as others walk around like a couple,delivering sweet nothings to each other while he/she deep down inside wondered how it would be nice to have the same thing happen.it is painful for them even to go out with the opposite sex,never mind getting anyone to really consider a serious relationship

they might suffer more pain when it comes to being steady with someone else,but there's a freaky twist to this story.somehow like the ugly duckling story there's always a swan in them and then one fine day,when least expected,someone saw through their otherwise dull outside to see in them a very nice person who is really quite underrated.but here's the catch,they tend to panic because this hadn't happened to them before.in the end it all boils down to patience,and it's a very happily ever after story

i don't know,and I won't know what would happen in the end

yeah from my prison cell here's a happy Deepavali and Hari Raya Puasa to the following 'felons'...sorry if it was put till Hari Puasa Night to greet you all...

Big Boss,Boss,Finn,Rahul,my Indian and Malay friends in AJC and other kakis in IJC and anywhere else I've met...sorry I forgot most of you guys....

whatever...Star Movies are so crazy for Stallone nowadays,Rocky 1,2,3(missing 4 & 5 because of PW tomorrow) and Rambo making my otherwise sian diao mornings bearable.too bad missed Rocky 1 and toy soldiers...i went back to sleep...ooh so lazy

but i dun think the vcd stores stock such stocks,so I'm looking forward to the next RealStarz Outing...I miss the 1s16 crew...boohoo!

gets dragged back to cell,so i shall stop writing

PW is getting more and more draggy nowadays.so much so that some of my frens are ponning this fri.I can't cause my bro kope my keys.I&R though,poses more probs...n don't tell the school technician.you can play DOTA and arcade games in the free access room.I'll post the command prompt to play free DOTA in school w/o getting caught...stay peeled to this screen for details

looking forward to the service learning project...whee the conservation wing rocks

This is not a slamming session.should it warrant any supervision from a school authority that operates like the East German Stasi I would say I got it from a site which I do not know the address.The gulags seem better than this living torture

I cried during the farewell ceremony and I could say I don't exactly know what I was crying for.happy that he's leaving or sad that he's leaving.Academically I do not deny that he has made the school improve,but the singlemindedness in basing academic excellence at the expense of CCAs have left a trail of uneven growth in CCAs.I do not deny that I love the choir alot,because they do well,and volleyball too...but a lot of the other CCAs become shortchanged as a result.

the proliferation of nerds,for example has left AJC in need of a revolutionary image makeover that does not promise to improve the situation even within a year.oh yeah this year aren't really full of nerds,but the image has stuck in the minds of many of our juniors and the stereotype isn't going to be erased anytime soon.the extent of which is that those who don't act like a nerd are either scraping thru,or retained.the exams are important in gauging the ability of students.no denial about that and I have to live with it.BUT the over emphasis on paper qualifications have lent a new dimension to AJC's oppression where personal expression is concerned.

in fact the most colourful people in AJC are the ones most likely to be retained.and worse still AJC looks more and more like Singapore's society nowadays,or maybe an oppressive dictatorship.in other places,i heard repeat students are more hip or at least acknowledged,in AJC it looks as if retainees are slapped with a criminal record.ugh

oh yeah it looks as if the clash of the old order and the new turks have ended in a checkmate that looks like a stalemate.the reason why AJC people looked so stuck up unlike the more relaxed people of the top 5 and AC and the more contented people of SA and Ny is because of the constant struggle between the old and the new.the old guard's influence,built on years of experience and in my opinion,stubbornness and the new guard's patient but ultimately futile struggle to make AJC vibrant,have turned this place into a hot bed for the most hardened of conservatives and the most extreme of revolutionaries.this is the only place where the council's hands are so tied some people resort to taking matters into their own hands,with disastrous consequences

in effect the retirement of the principal will burst the can of worms due to the pressure,or leak and then it is a new road from here.I doubt the ex Cedar principal will try to upset the old order,but if the greater emphasis on the needs of students is considered,it is likely that the pandora's box will be opened,inevitably leading to problems which in the old principal's view will be very difficult to resist.hence judgement is reserved for now

I empty my pride