Thursday, May 25, 2006

The 4AD war...

I thought I would touch on this question that has been posted by many people whenever I start talking about it. This thing is the 4A-4D war that has been going on from last year. So without further ado:

Q: What in the world is the 4A-4D war, how did it start, and what is the current condition now???
A: Hey, I'm using the Q&A format that I used for my last post. As I had said, I would be occasionally using this format to write my post. This would be a sort of intermission before I get started on my Frequently Asked Question (Part 2), so don't worry, there will be more questions com-

Q: Can you get on with it?!
A: Okok, just wanted to type some intro. Stop poking me...
Anyway, the 4A-4D war started sometime in January this year. We did have a small little conflict during our combined chemistry remedial where my class people (4D) started creating clouds of smoke by blowing prickly heat into the air. 4A people, as you can expect, aren't exactly too happy about it...

Anyway, the war officially started in January. On that day, we were enduring a rather boring lesson and everyone was trying to keep themselves awake. Boyuan, who was most likely bored stiff, was in control of the remote control that controls the air-conditioning. Before I continue the story, the layout of the area around our classroom should be observed:
|-------|---|--------|
|....B....|.....|....C.....|
|..........|.....|............|
|------ |.....|--------|
|..........|.....|............|
|.....A..|.....|.....D....|
|..........|.....|............|
|-------|---|--------|
*The letters represent the classes and how they are positioned. Notice that windows are only present on the right and left of the classroom. The blank area in the middle is the corridor...

Anyway, Boyuan was bored. He casually flicked the air-con remote at the window and pressed the on-off button. He than slowly turned to face the opposite class and realised that 4A air-con has been switched off...

Anyway, the rest of the boys in class was deeply interested in the revelation that we can actually control all the air-con in the classrooms in the area. At that point in time, the 4 classes that are shown here have their recess at the same time. During recess, our class people started sniping at 4A with our remote control, whenever the air-con was switched off or on, we responded with uncontrollable laughter, the funniest part being that the 4A people did not realised that their air-con has been switched off.

Have you ever played CS? Seen those pro snipers play before? Ya, we were something like that. Jump up, shoot, duck, and laugh...

After a while, 4A people eventually noticed, but they did not really do much. Now that 4A people had noticed, we decided to do it in a way to avoid detection. Heard of the OHP? Three people will be needed to do the below mentioned method of the "switching off air-con without being detected":
-The first person is the shooter and he is responsible for aiming the remote so that it would shoot at the mirror of the OHP to be reflected to the air-con of the neighbouring class.
-The second person is the aimer and is responsible for adjusting the tilt of the mirror to accomodate the shooter.
-The third person is the spotter, and his job is to announce to everyone one else whether or not the lights on the air-con flashed and whether or not the air-con is switched off, which will usually send everyone into racous laughter...

Very soon, we were thinking of using mirrors to reflect their shots should 4A decide to retaliate by switching our air-con as well. So it would be like, shoot, duck, raise the mirror...

This was the start of the famous air-con war...

Of course, it didn't end there..
Boyuan, getting a bit bored of only attacking 4A classroom, took our class remote, walked up and down the corridor, came back and reported that all other classes air-cons are now off...
After a while, a person from our class went to 4B classroom, and switched off 4C air-con. 4C, thinking that 4B has attacked them, started an air-con war with 4B. This started the air-con war between 4C and 4B..

Not long after, a person from 4A came into our class and asked us to stop aiming their air-con, and also commented on the fact that our classroom is very smelly, which brought in another fresh round of racous laughter. Well, its quite true that our air freshener tends to make the class smelly instead, but what they probably don't know is that earlier on that day, someone from 4C had taken our air freshener and sprayed it all over their air-con filter. So technically, their classroom will be even more smelly...

Much later, Tang Wei Guo, president of the student councillor and member of class 4A, strode boldly into our class and asked for his class air-con remote back. In case you are wondering, the air-con remote is originally ours, so, Wei Guo? asking for his air-con remote back?!
Anyway, that provoked us to write things on paper and paste them on the window facing 4A classroom as a sort of protest. This included things like:
"One Classroom, One Remote"
"We switch off air-con as we conserve the environment"
"The air-con remote belongs to us"
"That is our air-con remote, not yours..."

The air-con war ended when the diplomats (teacher) of each country decided that if further conflict occur having anything to do with air-con, terrible things will happen. Something like UN will send in troops to take all necessary actions...

Q: Are there any other [fun] conflicts that has happened?
A: Ya. Around May, during lesson time. One councillor was placing our cleanliness grades up for the month of April and she was doing it outside our classroom. Our exams were over so the teachers were pretty relaxed than. Anyway, CYX opened the door to show us our cleanliness grade to great applause as we got a 'B'. We then noticed the councillor placed a 'C' for 4A...
Which you can expect, a great celebration occured inside the class...

The comment during our celebration by dear Zhi Peng of my class:
"If they get F, we get C. If they get C, we get B. If they get B, we get A. If they get A, we get........ A*"

Q: Are there any other [fun] conflicts coming up?
A: Yup. We are scheduled to have a few chemistry remedial with 4A. Thus if we are able to find a can of prickly heat somewhere, clouds would probably be sent into the air again...

Q: Wow, this is a really long post... Just like a typical post length. Why do you have to write this long?
A: I thought I explained about it before? or do you want me to retype the whole answer in long form here?

Q: Eh... No thanks...
A: That's more like the way you should treat the author of this post

Q: Who's the author?
A: ....

Discmon

Monday, May 22, 2006

Frequently Asked Questions (Part 1)

I thought I would post a rather lame post. This post would be much lamer compared to my normal post, which are serious and talks about things that are usually accumulation of thoughts all thrown out in one shot.

Because of the fact that I decided to allow people to link my blog (which is mainly due to the fact that a bunch of people had linked my blog without "sort of" asking me) and also because quite a new bunch of people just learnt about my blog, I thought a Q&A session would be a great thing to do right now.

This will become the FAQ section of this blog, and I think I will occasionally come back to this Q&A format when I feel like it or when it becomes necessary for me. Most of the questions below has been asked from time to time, and some are questions that I thought you all would be interested to know, although you might be too embarrassed to ask:

Q: When did you start the blog?
A: Start the blog?! You mean you didn't read this right from the beginning...
Anyway, the blog officially started on 31st December 2004. I got the motivation to start this blog around October 2004 cause I thought it would be a good way for me to express some of my thoughts and ideas, but I did not manage to get myself in front of the computer to type things until around 30th Decemeber 2004. So officially, this blog started on 31st December 2004.

Q: Why is it on this date, 31/12/2004?
A: Well, it just happens to be a coincidence. Actually, it isn't. I wanted the date of my blog to be something for me to easily remembered. Anyway, the most easily remembered date around December would be either Christmas or the eve of the New Year. I missed Christmas, so I thought might as well do it on the eve of december. That's how it came to be...

Q: Why is your name Discmon?
A: Really really really long story. In fact, I already talked about it once... You can just click here

Q: Wow, what a nice name...
A: Thanks a lot :) (Ok, that was me complimenting myself, ok?)

Q: How often do you post to your blog?
A: You should see the pattern by now don't you? There is obviously a definite pattern...
If you can't see the pattern, well, the pattern of posting is indefinite. Usually, I'll post something when big things happen in my life or when I'm freaking piss off with somebody. Unless you happen to the target of criticism, you probably would never know when I would get the feeling to post something.

Q: Why are you post so lengthy? Its driving me mad...
A: Cause I feel that short post don't exactly bring my points across. Usually when I write a post, I really got a lot of things to talk about on that subject, so writing short post would technically be impossible. Also, different people have different styles of writing. So you'll just have to bear with it. Thanks...

Q: Erm, what happened to your Advance War thingy????
A: Hey, you remembered it?! WOW!!! Anyway, I ran out of people to try out my strategies on, and also, I got a bit sick of that game (I can't get past the freaking last campaign mission). So I sorta discontinued it. You probably will not be able to see another post on that sort of strategy again...

Q: Are you going to change your blog template? It's really boring/not nice/____[please fill in the blanks]
A: Lets see... NO.
Various reasons for me not changing my blogskin:
  1. I'm lazy and refuses to design my own template
  2. I'm sick of checking blogskin.com for templates, which none of them ever fits my blog theme...
  3. I don't like to use a chatbox..
  4. I decided not to make your life harder when you can't find the buttons to navigate my blog when I change my blogskin
Q: Why do you not like to use a chatbox?
A: I did consider on getting a cbox for my blog, but in the end, I decided not to get it.
My reasons are that, I prefer to have comments permanently on post so that people who digs up the archives (as if anyone is ever interested in my blog history...) will be able to know the discussion that sparked off over that post. Also, I had heard of many nasty experiences from various people whose cbox got spammed pretty badly with all sorts of crazy stuff, and for one thing, I hate spammers whom spam my comments section with comments that do not in anyway relate to the post...

Q: Crazy Stuff?!
A: Ya, just look around the net for blogs that are maintained by 13-year olds or are visited by people round that age-group...

Q: Do you hate people who does advertisements on your blog?
A: Oh yes I do. I delete those advertisments whenever I see it. They post things that are not in anyway related to your post and they make your blog look unmaintained when they spam your comments section with advertisments.
I would like to post a message to this group of people:
WOW, what a nice way for you all to advertise for your college, university, products, blah. If you want to do that here, pay me. Heard of Google ads? Can't you afford it... Hang on, am I joking, you are already on the internet... Of course you can afford it...
So to all those spammers out there who advertise products on blogs all over the world: GET A LIFE and use GOOGLE ADS...

Q: Why do you post 1 post per page? it gets really tiring to navigate the blog...
A: Be rest assured, this isn't the most hard to naviagate blog. Have you ever seen one where it has a separate homepage for every post and you have to go through it everytime you dig up one post? Yup, that's called hard...
But you should be pretty glad that it is one post per page. Its already tiring enough to scroll the browser up and down to finish one of my post, so imagine putting two together......

Q: Why do you not have a links section?
A: When I started this blog, I wanted it to be not too open with others...This is because of the nature of the post on my blog, which you can see is pretty much criticism. Now, I am too lazy to maintain a links section.

Q: Why is your blog not as exciting/interesting/___[insert your own word] as shadowkat blog?
A: Lots of reasons:
  1. Shadowkat english grade is usually A1, mine is usually B4
  2. Shadowkat grew up in an English family, I grew up in a Chinese family
  3. Shadowkat spent his life talking in English, I spent my life talking more Chinese than English
  4. Shadowkat organised his blog in the form of a story in the word of Erath in a country called Pingasore(as if anyone can't see through the anagram). Mine is a post by post account of modern world with proper names
  5. Read Shadowkat response to idiots who post crap on his cbox...
  6. Shadowkat style is more exciting and interesting than my style...
  7. Do I still need to explain?!
Q: Yes...
A: -.-"

Q: Then why didn't you write your blog in Chinese?
A: Maybe I should make it clearer to you all. Both my languages are bad... Also, I would probably die if you ask me to post a Chinese post that is as long as my typical post as HanYuPinYin is something that I have problems with...


Q: So is this all the question you'll be answering today?
A: Yes, I'm tired. I thought I would tackle all the technical questions on my blog before launching into questions on individual post and various other miscellanous stuff. I hope that this FAQ would answer some questions that various people have on their minds, but if it haven't, please don't spam my e-mail inbox (like two friends whom started a really fiery debate on some thing and spammed my e-mail inbox with 4 consecutive post) mass nudge/pm me on msn...

Cause you'll never know if you'll get featured on the next FAQ...
And this is not an empty threat, trust me on that...

Discmon

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Writing on people I wrote before...

I'm pretty glad that today is a holiday, which is mainly due to the fact that election day was on a Saturday.
To all you people out there who don't understand why we have a holiday in lieu of the election day, well, its because now we are in a Five-Day work week(?!)(I don't think that exists) and thus they have to give us a holiday as the election day fell on a Saturday.

I could'nt make it to the class outing cause I had to finish off some collation in the morning. Than, I went home, finished off the document, looked for some games and then reflected on people whom seemed to have changed a lot since you last met them...

For people whom read this blog since I started it about a year ago, you would know that I mass post about a certain person before. I originally intended never to bring this person up on this blog again, but the situation demands that I make a statement about it, right before the council comes to an end for us sec4s...

You all would remember me telling you all that the 26th disco was a very rocky one, with lots of people getting out and a person getting comm transfered. The beginning of 27th disco was also pretty rocky mainly due to the fact that almost the whole of disco was transformed, and the few remaining had to try to find means and methods to quickly train up the new people whom leaded us...

I'm writing this post to elaborate on Yu Jia, the person whom I mass post a year ago...
What prompted me to write this is the event that happened on 9/5/2006 and also various other events that ocurred before that date. You could say that the event on 9/5 was the trigger that caused me to gain this impules to write this...

The event is:
I was on my way home with a friend. Than we walked and saw Yu Jia. Yu Jia was not tucking in her shirt and anyway wearing PE T-Shirt home is against the school rules in the first place. I wasn't exactly in the mood to send people back to school to ask them to change back, other then that, she's an SC as well.
The following conversation ensues:
me:"Tuck in your shirt"
YJ:"Don't want, cause this way looks nicer"
You could guess my reaction can't you. I mean, Yu Jia was a disco councillor, and remind me again, what is a disco councillor job? Isn't it to maintain school rules. And for god sake, you're still in SC. SC is supposed to support disco in maintaining the rules, not go and find ways and means to make their life harder for your own benefit. By the way, she was with a friend as well... So what does that show?

And if this was the only incident, I won't be making a fuss out of this...
Another time, I was a bit pissed off as our class went on a learning journey to the ACM. About a few weeks earlier, the handphone rule was relaxed. During the journey to the ACM, I tried to stop people from using handphones cause handphone rule relaxing does not apply to learning journey as yet... Ok, I'm inflexible, I'm power-hungry, say what you want, but how does this relate to Yu Jia?

Simple, Rui Jie, somehow, went off to find Yu Jia and told her about this. Yu Jia than told Rui Jie that yes, you can use the handphone even during learning journey, when Mrs Look already explicitly stated that we cannot use handphones during learning journey during the meetings where the whole council discussed about the handphone rule...
Either she wasn't paying attention at all, or she's trying to allow his bf to break the rules...

And it isn't over. During one of the hall assembly, Yu Jia went on to tell me, in front of all the other people in my class that you can use the handphone during learning journey... I felt like a git, but more so, I felt that Yu Jia has changed a lot. She doesn't care about disco anymore, do I see her helping out disco, even passively? NO...
Do you think she still cares about school rules?

Even better, few weeks back, I asked Karen a question:
"Why do people like to wear ankle socks with sports shoes?"
"Cause ...."
Ok, I forgot the contents of the message, but I know that it isn't about fashion. Yu Jia, during the time when we went for our 2.4km run for NAPFA, wore ankle socks. Obviously, I was pissed and asked her to not wear ankle socks next time. She did not care about this... and wore it again...

I mean, its like, I can't imagine what would happen if you're still the exco of disco. Probably, disco would become redundant, and the teachers will have more and more reasons for our duties to be replaced by the other comms. I mean, what would disco be like when they have an exco whom don't even freaking care about the school rules? If I am going to regret what I said last time, it is now. Imagine what would happen if you're still the exco of disco? Just imagine?

Wait, do you even think after reading other people's blog. Lots of people from disco have blogged about you, lots of people are dissappointed. Lets see, Clara, Fung Min, Me... the others I am not sure, but I know that this few people are very dissapointed. I felt that I have never known you before. The leader in sc camp, the exco whom picked up the comm when Clara left. The exco whom abandoned us before we sort of brought her back, and now, a totally changed person, whom have never heard that once you're in disco, you're always in disco...

Its kind of sad isn't it, that you don't even think about where you were in the last two years. Wait, should I be sad when I write this... You're no longer the Yu Jia whom we know when you were in disco in 2003 anyway. You have changed as though disco has never made an impact in your life.

That's quite possible, considering the fact that you sort of abandoned us when we were in the 26th disco so that at that time we sort of only had 1 exco and 1 figure-head and your complete heck care attitude about school rules and not supporting disco...

Talk about letting the other committees do our job...
Ya right, as if the other committees can do it in the first place, they would probably mess it up, allow more people to be confused with the school rules, and more people to get away with what they had done...

Yu Jia, I take back all I said in the post back than, especially this part:
i feel that my initial opinion that our comm. head does not "like" us had been too strong. After evaluating that point for some time, i feel that it could be because that this action could lead to a council spirit which is what the teacher had been emphasising all this while. Somehow, i feel different about our comm. head after such a long time and i am quite glad that i would be able to be under her leadership for another year, and thus i can repay all my misgiving to our head. So you could say that it is a happy ending.
Ya, I'll be happy... Over my dead body...

Discmon

Monday, May 08, 2006

Election and election

The election results are out...
Aljunied was really close, PAP only won by a small margin of about 1200 post and the percentage was the closest. It was so exciting waiting for the results to come out.

Uncoincidentally, our school sc election campaign has finally started...
The release of results for the nomination has been unpredictably late and I guess what this means is that there will be lots of people who will be rushed into their campaign speech...

Anyway, we won't be exactly expecting the sort of speech that we get from the 2006 parliamentary election. Things like:
"Since you say that I lied, sue me"-Liu Chen Qiang
"Vote for the party that will give you peace, prosperity and progress, or rather, prosperity and progress, PAP"-Lee Hsien Leong
"我们的国家是一国两制"- forgotten who said that.
"Are Singaporeans racist?" "NO"- Chairman of worker party
and various other things like mass turn-outs and stadiums and reciting the pledge in all official languages to wrap up the whole election campaign...

I mean, how possible is that to happen?
Well, we could possibly sing the school song, but that would really need a lot of motivation and effort to bring the spirits up for everyone to sing it...

Anyway, today's campaign speeches weren't too bad. Got one of them very animated and really draws the crowd attention. Unfortunately, we, disco people right at the back row, was not able to hear their speeches (as usual, as if we can HEAR announcement in the first place). Wished the PA system in SAJC, the new school campus we are moving to won't be too bad.

Anyway, thought I wanted to type this down before I forget the statements that are made when the election results are announced. Its quite nice:
Parliamentary Election, 2006
Results for the electoral division of ___________
_______, PAP.
Votes polled:_______
_______, Opposition party name.
Votes polled:_______
Rejected votes:________
Total votes casts:_________
I declare, according to clause ?? , paragraph (a) of the Parliamentary election act, that _______ is the representative of the electoral division of _________.

Please help me spot errors.
Maybe the student councillor election should do that as well...

Discmon

Saturday, May 06, 2006

Jokes of the Mid-Year exam...

Everyone, the exams are now officially over. In fact, I'm already in holiday mood and am not planning to study or do anything associated with that until, lets see, the first piece of homework comes in?
Yup, unfortunately, we will not really be celebrating throughly throughout the entire holidays because of planned remedials for the sec4s, various stupid activites to be held for the sec4s and if i remembered correctly, the O level oral exams is due to be held during the June Holidays...

The good news is that, the exams are over!!!
Another piece of good news is that, this mid-year exams is really hilarious due to various factors.
Lets go through it from day 1 to the very last day...

English Paper 1:
For section 2, we were told to write a letter as the President of the Student Council. Obviously, the Student Council exists and there is really such a person called the President of the Student Council. After the exams, we suggested to the real President of the Student Council to sign off on his exam paper like this:

Your sincerely,
Tang Wei Guo
The Authentic president of the Student Council

This is due to the fact that the rest of the school would also be saying that they are the president of the student council. Thus, Wei Guo would need to emphasise, or his rank could be destroyed...

Chinese Paper 1:
This one just got to eat the cake for joke of the week award for that week... As usual, we tend to look at the question that involves the newspaper report. This time, the report that we are supposed to talk about just got to eat the cake:

报章报道: 李敖说新加坡人笨, 引起了人们的热烈讨论.

Like a super diao eh... I mean, do you think I care about what the heck he is saying. Don't you feel that by just talking about it you are being stupid?
Anyway, the class reaction was an instant what the ____... someone even asked the teacher whether or not the question was typed wrongly...
So you get to see the big freaking joke...

Sub Geog Paper:
This paper was diao when you think about the freaking fact that you can't complete the paper. The good news is that map work didn't try to kill anyone this time with the usual:" From vertical gridlines ?? to ??, account for the industries there with reference to the relief, attitude and soil..." and the usual map work question that tends to be really long winded and eat your time...
Not much really funny things about sub geog paper, other then the fact that nearly everyone did not finish the paper...

Oh ya, got one funny thing. We were waved good-bye by the people whom had their exams in the morning, makes you feel a bit.... tagged..

Chemistry, both papers:
Was not funny. Good news is that most of us finished the papers.

E-Math Paper 1:
Was not funny as well. Its probably one of the easier papers that I've done...

E-math Paper 2:
Started with the whole sec4 level who knew who is Li Hai Yuan and Hu Xiao Bo laughing. They are featured in the first math question as people in the question. Its funny cause you don't expect them to be inside the math paper. The worst thing that could happen from this? li Hai Yuan can't do the question cause he cannot comprehend the fact that he had grown 4cm, from 165cm to 169cm. Any other people who also cannot comprehend the fact will also not be able to do the question...

Physics, both papers:
Were not lame in anyway or even funny...

Chinese Paper 2:
This paper was funny as in really simple question were given 4 freaking marks... Can you imagine, you finish writing a one line answer and than you look at the score and the score is 4 marks... and than, you will diao...
C-lit students started writing what they usually do in C-lit to fill up the space... and the rest prepares to fail...

Shadowkat, whom unfortunately took another paper cause he was forced to drop higher chinese, ended his exam about half an hour earlier. He spent the rest of the time in the canteen before coming back to walk the length of the window continuously, like this:
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and when the exam ended, he did the jump shot for assasin while our papers are collected...
Next time, he should just do heal...

English Paper 2:
Was not funny...

SS paper 1:
I was writing the answers than i asked the teacher for a paper. He gave me the paper, walked off, and declared that the exams is over.
I was an instant du diao. He gave me the paper and declared the exam over.
Like diao leh...
Oh ya, the invigilator is Mr Ng, so that's why the mood in the class is quite relaxed and receptive to humour...

At the beginning of the paper, someone seems ready to hand up a blank piece of paper and asked for only two piece of paper. That definitely won the gg award...

After that paper, revenge, as we waved good bye to those poor souls, whom can't go home yet...

Biology Paper 1:
The teacher came in the last 15 minutes to say this:
"As you all have noticed, ther is a typo error..."
I was instantly tagged...
The question originally did not make sense, luckily, the 'doesn't make sense part' is the scenario, so it didn't really affect us much. But you just got to applaud them, unsuccessful became successful...

Biology Paper 2:
Won the gg award for the exam paper that kills...
After the exam, we started a question by question analysis of why you will fail bio, and fail spectacularly. The questions are really questions that requires you to think really in depth into what you have studied.
The essay questions eat the cake for questions in which the answers are really long... and sometimes, you don't even know what you should talk about...

Oh ya, we remembered that Mrs Lim said:"I will make sure that Bio paper will kill you all, and those who haven't been handing in your assignments, don't think about asking for moderation" which added to the diao factor in class....

After that, laughed at people whom had to stay for another exam. Bye Bye...

A Math Paper:
Nearly as devastating as Biology, but its quite ok. In fact, its normal standard that I don't exactly finish the paper. I think its quite ok...

So, that wraps up the joke of the week award for mid year exams...
And yes, jokes can can really keep you going even in the worse of time
All this jokes were formed and used to keep our spirits up even during the worse time of the mid-year exams. Sometimes, you just need those bunch of people to keep your spirits up...

Discmon