It's been a year since I fractured my right ankle on the hockey field of Girton College. Till now I am still not sure exactly how I actually managed this "feat". The seriousness of the problem wasn't discovered until we came back, and now I have a transition metal "bonded" to my bone. Mr. Sam Lee actually tried to get a copy of my x ray films to use during the lecture, but unfortunately I only have those taken before the operation so you people are spared the details.

Many thanks to all of you for showing so much care and concern at Cambridge as well as after we came back. Thanks for the get well note that was pinned on my room's (D14A) noticeboard, the bandages, the Zambak medication, the many offers to help me get stuff, the many queries on how my leg is, and not to forget the get well board and the visit to my place while I was still on the wheelchair. You will be happy to know that I am still well, and no problems have surfaced from the many checks I had to go for at TTSH. (I wonder how much radiation my ankle has absorbed from all those X rays) And in case you are curious, that injury dropped my PES down to C9L2, a status valid until 6 months after I enlist.

Once again, thank you for all the care and concern. May all your activities be safe and injury free.

Yong Lin
SQ888

Exactly 365 days ago, 18 people gathered at Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 2, for flight SQ308 to London Heathrow Airport. Many of them didn't know each other, some had several friends, others had none. 2 teachers accompanied the 18 people on their journey across the Indian Ocean and over the continents of Asia and Europe. Finally, 13.5 hours later, the group was back on Terra Ferma, waiting to start an exciting adventure.

A coach ride later, the 18 people arrived at the beautiful City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 50 miles away from London. The halls of Girton College welcomed them and provided shelter for the night.

Soon, these 18 people became good friends. They found a place to gather and have fun, a place they called Room 17. There, they could chat, play cards, or sleep in weird tight corners. A place so secret, no one outside the exclusive group knew where it is. A Jie Mei Bang was formed, so were several special relationships.

Then disaster struck. Several people got injured. The remainding people rallied around them and showered them with care and concern. Before long, everyone was well again, well enough to participate in the daily evening activities of soccer or basketball. Even the teachers joined in the fun.

A casino soon came by. The 18 friends pooled their chips. Several of them reached the target of 10000 pounds, but unfortunately, none were to return to Girton with the grand prize.

2 weeks flew by. The 18 friends knew they had to leave Girton soon. They gathered at the hockey field to watch the meteor shower. Each had their wishes, while college songs, national song and pop filled the air. Despite the freezing cold weather, no one ever felt too cold for comfort, for a friend nearby was sure to help, and a kind friend went off to make garlic bread. As dawn broke, the 18 friends packed their bags, and prepared to say goodbye to the people who took charge of their programme. After a last lunch at the Japanese restaurant in the town centre, the 18 friends and their teachers left for Heathrow and boarded SQ319 bound for their island country homeland.

In the year that followed, the 18 friends never parted. There were numerous outings, and even a chalet booked for them. They studied together and encourage each other. And they all got promoted. Now here they are, fighting for the best prelims and A Levels results.

As the juniors prepare to embark on their own adventure in 5 days time, and while SQ308 and SQ319 flew on to ferry passengers, all the best to the 18 people. May all your wishes come true.

This post is dedicated to all 18 friends and the 2 teachers of Reach Cambridge 2007. HAPPY BIRTHDAY REACH CAMBRIDGE 2007!

Hi all. Below are some important dates which you should keep free. Support your friends who will be putting up their best performances during their concerts. Another outing opportunity?

Strings
Date: 10th May
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Audi
People Involved: Tian Yi

Arts Fest
Date: 21st May
Time: Not Known Yet
Venue: Audi
People Involved: Tian Yi, Ding Fang, Yishan, Peng Rong and me

Harmonica
Date: 26th May
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Hwa Chong Drama Centre @ High School Section
People Involved: Ding Fang

Band
Date: 30th May
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Victoria Concert Hall
People Involved: Yishan

CO
Date: 1st June
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Singapore Conference Hall
People Involved: Peng Rong and me

See you all there!

Yong Lin
SQ888

Good luck for the block test! A's for all reach cam people.

As a followup of a really strange question Jin Xiang asked me at the Singapore Airshow, I shall post a few videos. The question: Will you die if you stand behind an A380 engine running at full power? It seems like no one has ever tried that with a real A380 yet, but there are some videos made using 747s and other smaller jets. It is interesting to note that the A380 is much heavier than the 747, so scale up the power/damage as you deem necessary.




The above airport is Princess Juliana airport, this is where most of the photos where jets fly over just above your head are taken.

Yong Lin
SQ888

Sine Sine Cosine Sine, Three Point One Four One Five Nine
Avogrado R T P, Six Point O Two Ten Two Three
V Square U Square Two A S, Reach Cam Reach Cam Is The Best.

In order to fulfil Jie Yee the little baby cow's 20 (or if you like, 1 repeated 20 times) aims, I shall recount our crazy tuan yuan fan and sleepover, held on 5th Feb 2008. Hopefully those who didn't go with us or didn't manage to stay over can share the fun with us. Sorry, no photos from me, and I don't think anyone took pics anyway.

Apparently Lerong was forced to go home because he was so forgetful loh, forgetting all sorts of funny stuff. He wanted to slip out of home without meeting his mum, but him, wanting to complete his forgotten jobs to perfection did it slowly. so slowly he had to meet his mum loh. so sad right? got niaoed and made to run some funny errand for his mum. which he refused to tell us about. hmm...i wonder what it was. anyways, he was offered a ride from his mum in exchange for the errand. a ride...to the nearest MRT station. from his house that is. wow, he made us wait a grand total of 1 hour. but we were smart enough to start eating first loh. :)

oh, and Jie Yee was quite pissed he didn't tell her he was heading for home. i dont know why also. because none of them told me anything. how come they dont tell me anything de! yeah...leave it to my imagination huh?

The Long Wait. We had to wait a super super long time just to get everyone together, because of various reasons. chao tong had to lao yu sheng with his huang cheng peeps. which he claimed would take a few minutes. but his FEW minutes meant about half an hour lah! made us wait for so freaking long. argh...all for a yu sheng which does not contain fish. yeah, but he managed to catch us at the bus stop loh. not because we wanted to wait for him. but because the 170 bus driver wanted us to wait. he just refused to come loh. why do we need to pay so much for such lousy service ar? maybe jam at johor checkpoint there lah... or maybe it was chao tong. using his ultra sloot powers to cause the bus to come only after he arrives. too bad he is too sloot le. the bus didnt even appear even when he came to the bus stop. hahax.

Bus Ride + MRT Ride. Finally, we gave up waiting for the slowpoke 170, which chao tong cursed. we decided to head for Newton MRT instead. we dont know if we were faster, or if some 170 actually came when we boarded the bus to newton. 67 came first followed immediately by 171. Only Cao Lei, Peng Rong and me took 67, because someone said 171 was faster or something. In the end, the 3 of us still arrived before them. i wonder who jinxed the 171 lah. direct bus being slower than one which needed some distance of walking. and in a bid to get a position report from those on 171, Cao Lei accidentally called Suat Lay causing a little confusion. the transport system of singapore just cant accomodate our already puny population. and we had to squeeze terribly just to get into the train. squeezing in through 3 different doors. and argh...bugis just had to open on the opposite side. then we had to snuggle our way through this throng of people to get out into the station. we were like lucky to get out of the train unscathed. okok, maybe that is exaggerated... but still, getting out the train was such an adventure. hahax.

Tuan Yuan Fan. We took a walk from Bugis MRT through Bugis Junction, passing the National Library to the Steamboat Restaurant. Halfway through Bugis Junction, we lost several people who got washed away in the crowd. some people really need to walk faster lah. or else need to waste precious eating time looking for lost cows. Moral of the story, just keep up. Finally we arrived at the restaurant, come to think of it now, I realised we could have walked easily from City Hall MRT and it may be even shorter than the Bugis route, plus it is safer as we don't have to jaywalk. The traffic light is right where we needed it, and the 2 small streets we will have to cross on that route doesn't have much traffic, unlike at Bugis. but blah, we got there, and we got to our table. I wonder what Jie Yee and Mel will say... OK, at the restaurant, Cao Lei gave us a crash course on the restaurant.. she was quite knowledgeable of the place, must have frequented the place lah. but she claimed she only went there a few times. We took up 12 seats, with 3 steamboats, the Yuan Yang type with 2 different soup bases. We had a bit of trouble with the spicy soup base. it was not that spicy lah. it just burned your lip so much that even one jug of iced water cant help your lips from being totally fried. For the table with special dietary restriction (Mel, Jie Yee, Lerong and me) I ended up eating anything that dropped into the spicy side of the steamboat provided I can eat it, since Lerong wasn't around yet. Then Jie Yee discovered that she wasn't really good at placing stuff into the steamboat. I got hit with hot soup for a total of 3 times and resorted to ducking under the table whenever they wanted to top up the thing with food. Besides, she dropped some of the food stuff into the spicy side of the steamboat. One of them was a quail egg and the two "brothers" requested I eat it up. So Jie Yee transferred the egg not into my bowl but into the non-spicy side of the steamboat. As I watched the ring of red oil float up, I announced that my assumption is that the soup is a buffer solution. but the broth did turn out slightly spicy after that. i really wonder what they put into the ma la soup lah. imba flavour loh. Next, Jie Yee and Mel found the fish paste which was squeezed out like icing quite fun, and I had to get them to clean the stuff up from the surface of the soup by eating them so that I can get at the vegetables at the bottom. Lerong was sort of bullied once he arrived at the restaurant, as Mel and Jie Yee did rather silly stuff and kept calling him boy, which was actually how I addressed him when he called me on the phone.

Hitting the road again. We left the restaurant rather late, and were the only group of people left. The staff were also having a celebration on their own and they only managed to start when we were about ready to leave. After that, we had a bit of trouble finding the right bus stop to head to Dairy Farm Estate where Mel and Yuan Chang lives. In case I didn't phrase that properly enough, Mel lives in Blk21 while Yuan Chang lives in Blk 23. We got a little disorientated but still found the bus stop and squeeze aboard the bendy bus which just happened to be waiting. The whole bus trip was spent talking crap about a certain musical instrument and other crap. Once again I had to act as a buffer to block people from losing their balance. Yuan Chang got a bit too excited (i dont know about what lah, but yeah) and told us to alight one stop too early, so we walked to a better bus stop and waited. Fortunately, this one was much emptier so we managed to sit and Yuan Chang managed to nail the right bus stop. Who would expect Dairy Farm Estate to have more than one gate, so we walked all the way down this quiet road...this long stretch of road actually. all these to reach the North Gate (so many freaking gates lah! why cant they just make it a little smaller, and build those apartments a little taller and save us all the walking!?) and arrived at Mel's Block. Respecting Mel's tradition of using the lift to get from B1 (the carpark) to Level 1 (her unit's level) we all squeezed into the tiny lift except Yuan Chang who decided stairs = better. and what the heck, the lift was like... so small! it seemed to be only for one person at a time lah. but we squeezed in 6 people nevertheless. Don't worry, the lift never overloaded.

Mel's Place. Having found Mel's unit, Yuan Chang left for his own block so that he can drop his stuff and return later to confirm wakeup time. Maybe because we all ate alot, so the atmosphere was rather dead. Mel almost fell asleep immediately on her hot pink bed. By the way, her room is filled with different shades of pink, pink walls, pink ceiling etc. Jie Yee discovered to her amazement that Mel owned the same phone and clock. After settling cleanliness issues, we started playing cards and Lerong declared he was going to mug. totally mug lah. go home dunno do what (maybe mug?) then go for sleepover also mug! He got "scolded" so he decided to use Mel's computer to go online. Some interesting conversations took place in the room as a result. Finally, Lerong gave up fiddling with the computer so as to allow Mel to play a game like Dance Dance Revolution with Jie Yee and Yuan Chang. (Now you can see how good my memory is... I have forgotten so much...) In an attempt to feed all of us, Mel brought up a whole basket of snacks from downstairs and then returned the basket back down with a large bag of chips missing. A few rounds of Dai Di and bridge later, Mel fell asleep first followed by Jie Yee soon after. Lerong managed to coax the remaining 3 (Yuan Chang went back) to play poker, using another 2 incomplete decks of cards as chips. Chao Tong won in the end when we all decided to just be funny and use up all the chips in the last game. I would have folded if it wasn't the last game. So we turned off the lights at 2am in the morning. Tian Yi got a mattress beside the door and Mel's Cupboard. Lerong and Chao Tong shared the other mattress near the computer. Tian Yi was supposed to share Mel's Queen size bed (it can fit two people, but isn't King size I think.. correct me if I am wrong) but Jie Yee fell asleep on her spot. I was the only one to be on the floor in one of Lerong's silk sleeping bags mainly because I volunteered to do so. It wasn't bad at all since I could use the corner of Lerong and Chao Tong's mattress as a pillow. Wakeup time was set at 5.30am...

7th Feb 5.30am. Lerong's Handphone alarm was the first to go off. It did make a rather loud noise as "advertised". but zong ting bu zong yong (中听不中用）Unfortunately, it only managed to wake up one person. Next, my watch alarm went off, and still, only one person awake out of 6. So I washed up and reset my handphone alarm to 5.45am. Once done, I kicked Lerong awake, since normal methods of waking someone didn't work. I believe I did the same to Chao Tong too, since it was too dark to see clearly which leg belonged to who. Having them hidden in the sleeping bag just made the problem worse. Finally, the handphone screen light managed to wake Lerong and Tian Yi when the alarm went off. After some shuffling about and whispering, we managed to wake Jie Yee as well. As no one was quite ready to be up and about, yet time was running short, I had to resort to an extreme method, switching half the room lights on. Mel declared this was the earliest she had woken up (camp time is not considered)

Morning. We wasted a rather large amount of time getting up and running at normal power. Lerong fell asleep again while waiting for his turn in the toilet, so you can sort of guess how long that was. So Mel didn't manage to fulfil her wish of taking a bus to school. Yuan Chang couldn't be ready in time too, so we all had to squeeze into Mel's Dad's car. That was one person too many but well, we still managed to do it. On the way down, Lerong and Chao Tong took the stairs, but this time, the lift beat them. Mel's car's dashboard reminds me of the A380. Once you go into reverse gear, the GPS screen immdiately switches to the feed from the rear mounted camera, much like the ground steering camera mounted on the giant airbus' tail. Breakfast was bought at KAP through the drive through. We didn't really arrive early enough to eat it in the canteen so they decided to leave it with ME at the terraces. That's the result when you are absent from the decision making meeting just because you have to report to the Music Practice Hall. The rest of the day everyone is dispersed, so I shall end here.

If there are any mistakes, please edit thanks. As my language skills are not that powerful, if it sounds boring, I apologise. Do tian you jia cu if needed and fill in any missing bits. Finally, Happy Chinese New Year Everyone!

oh...chao tong did edit within the paragraphs. he wonders if you people actually notice...

SQ888

Edit: I realised I missed out a point. Chao Tong was playing this strange game when he woke up and was waiting for his turn at the toilet. In the game, you have to shoot zombies and when you score a hit, a significant amount of blood is spilled. His reason: it is a good way to de-stress and wake himself up. Well, I am sure no one wants to see Chao Tong with a gun in the morning, who knows what he will do.

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yups... so a LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG list of aims and objectives... so we must jiayou!!!! 20 objectives must be met!!!! MUAHAHHAHA MUAHAHHAHA MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! *lightning flashes across the sky*

>>>ZAPPP!!!!!!<<<

>>>ZAPPP!!!!!!<<<

theme of slpover: slp well eat well play well.. or (slp + eat + play)(well)..

omg i cant believe it actuali wrote that!!!!! im getting more and more genious and mathematical these days!!!!

wahahahahahhahaahaha!!!! *lightning flashes across the sky*

>>>ZAPPP!!!!!!<<<

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so first to slp well... u must slp as soundly as:

then eat well:

and play well and be happy as her!!! =)

and him.. ahem i mean them

oh well.s thats all for now!!!! gotta eat le.. n for those who takes econ!!! rmb to do ur timed assignment!!! *growls* i haven done!!! was abt to do when i was distracted and here i am!!!! n now im off to eat!!! yums!!! =)

ps.. if any of u find any photos offending, please alert the author of this post so she can remove it asap..

~ jie yee

Hello all. Tian Yi suggests that we go for Tuan Yuan Fan as a group. So is 5th Feb ok with everyone? It is a tuesday, but the next day is going to be CNY celebrations, so no need to worry about going home late. Also it shouldn't clash with anyone's tuan yuan fan at home or any visiting. Therefore, if anyone has any objections with the date or cannot make it then, please inform our organising secretary (tian yi of course).

Yong Lin
SQ888

Hi all, remember the virus Lerong sent you all in an attempt to infect all your computers? We have found several bugs in it so maybe it will help your antivirus software remove it? Here they are, so make sure that you change your "source codes"!

P and C Q4 part ii: The answer should be 2/5, and the method is typed wrongly. Try to fix it yourself, my method is too complex to type out here. It should not be too difficult to debug this.

Differentiation Q9: The 2nd derivative is wrong! It should be -4(pi) - 6(pi)x < 0. Since it is a maximum point the 2nd derivative cannot be positive.

DE Q1: y=ux should be y=vx as given in the question. The variable u is just a typo error. A loophole for your antivirus?

DE Q4: The integration part should be integrate(1/(2400-S))dS = integrate(1/40)dt and not what is there. And when t=0, S=400 and not 2400. The rest of the code is correct though.

Happy New Year Everyone!
Yong Lin
SQ888

Merry Christmas Everyone. Have a good holiday and enjoy Ding Fang's Theme Song!

hmmm... after hearing so much on the incident when lerong ( permernantly a horse coz of df) tries to impersonate a lion ( for dunno wad reason), i realised that im in great danger!!!! esp when my bro, mel is being threatened of her life too!!!!

this is sad... =( tdy i just realised the evils in the world... pple can fight over religion and races, pple can fight over money cos of greed, pple can fight over power and authority...
whilst, animals will KILL for food. n when pple start to act like animals, they kill animals for food not coz they want to eat them, but for fun and yups... reduce the competition for food. =(

let me ask a ques,
What has e world come to?

just one thought, would it be better for mel n i to be killed and escape from this evil place? this is such a saddening thought, i have never imagined myself pondering over such ques... but after ytd nite.. things have changed i saw terrible things i didnt want to see. =(

to all animals in cambridge zoo.. i love u guys and if one day a HORSE tries to kill me and eat me up, please release my ashes on the top of a mountain so that i can roam free across borders and continents..

love you guys alot, just want to say this before any animal try to kill me. ='(

ps. to dingfang, dont worry, lerong will always be a horse and u both can roam free... hoof in hoof across the grass field!

moooooooooooooooooooomooooooooooooooooooooomooooooooooooooooooooomooooooooooooooooooooomooooooooooooooooooooomooooooooooooooooooooomooooooooooooooooooooo

sincerely,
jie yee the little baby cow... =(

HELLOH EVERYONE ! i promised to blog today so HERE I AM! how's everyone this holidays? happy ?? ((: !

ahah ... YAYS ! we're having chalet SOON, like .. REALLY SOON!! THIS WEEKEND! (even tho i dont know how long i can be there.. BUT WELL !:D) hope everyone has fun! haha, and we have to watch a movie one day kae ?? shall we watch next week ?? BUT im only free in the NIGHT. HAHA.. BUT i really want to watch a movie lah !! my miserable no life state.. hai .. i cant wait until im FREEE !! ahah BUT holidays is going to end liao right?

1 month more.. hahas.. EVERYONE, time to start using ur brain cells before they all start wasting away .. like mine.. unless of course! you've been very hardworking and diligently studying or finishing up your holiday homework ! then im sure your brain cells has been fully utilised and maximised wahahas...

and everyone go watch HEROES! (: its a nice show!! ahah i like claire the cheerleader, hiphiphurray ! haha ... or you can watch taiwan dramas :D :D ahah ... :) romantic princess is IN now...

hmms, im VERY VERY full now because i just had a YUMMY breakfast ! ahah !

I LOVE BAO! haha

oh yes and this is one of my favourite japanese actress ! haha ! isnt she so cute =) ahah ...

and other photos i randomly put :) but i like all of them :)

one of my fav drama :)!!!

OKAY enough spamm ... HAHAHAHA..hmms 1 more month before we become j2s! ahah can u imagine... WE ARE SENIORS! we must set good examples for our juniors heeheehee

wellwell movieeee next weeeeek anyoonnneeee? :)

Hello all, I am here once again to try and keep this blog alive. Let's hope that it will revive when all those people who went/are going overseas come back with pictures of their experiences. As this is the peak season for air travel and so many of you are flying out, here are some videos for you. They demonstrate the power of the things that take you out and back safely as well as the skill of the team up front flying the jets. You will see how much power a 747 packs in its engines, planes landing safely in strong winds gusting across the runway and how safe you will be even if your fully loaded plane has to brake hard due to an emergency. So all those going out, have a great flight and enjoy yourselves. Trust those up front flying, they are really qualified to be there.







Yong Lin
SQ888

I shall work to keep the blog alive. Remember the presentation we all did at the SRC LT that day (which no one was actually paying much attention)? Well, thanks to Mr Hon Bo Xuan otherwise known as Hon Box ( if you don't know who he is, he is the one with the camera that has a HUGE lens attached from my class), here are some pictures.

Finally for those of you who missed the mass convo that day, recall the 747 that flew us to london for reach cam? Well, it is a special plane in that it was the 1000th boeing 747 to be produced. This is what it used to look like before SIA removed the special design for unknown reasons.

This was brought to you by Yong Lin, SQ888

WOOTZ how come i like 1 mth nvr check liao den the msg still abt the same one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

According to the dashboard, this is post number 30... yay (quoting ding fang)! I notice most of the recent posts are by me but nevermind, here I am again. Below is a very funny video HI141 wanted to use for OP, but in the end didn't because of various reasons (yes, Jie Yee and Ding Fang you both didn't get the luxury to see it first). So here it is... hope you all enjoy it. But before you watch it, ask yourself this question: One day you are driving down one of our expressways say ECP since it is nearest Changi Airport, and in your rear-view mirror, a jet pops up and appears as if it is going to land on top of you.. what do you do??? After you are satisfied with your own answer, check out what our dear friend in this clip did.



Enjoy!

Yong Lin
SQ888

PS. I hope none of you ever encounter such a scenario...

Hey! Hope WR did not drive you all crazy and that you had a good time after it is over and done with. Here are some cartoons I found for my WR, thought I would share it with you all. These cartoons are taken from caglecartoons.com and cartoonstock.com

Hey, Tian Yi suggested we create a photo montage of our 2 weeks of madness in Cambridge, and since I happen to have the most photos at the current moment, I have gotten the job. So anyone of you who still wishes to contribute photos, be it scandalous or not, do pass me your CDs ASAP. The special segment of the photo montage is being worked on with the current set of photos, and the preview video file has been created, so if you are curious about what this segment holds, pop over between 8am to 9am on Tuesday. A hint is that it was inspired by the Band's performance during Open House so what it holds should be rather obvious. Have a good weekend!

Yong Lin
SQ888

Hey heys... this is so cool ... hahas ... must open your eyes bigbig....

whheeeee....

Behind the success of every man there is a woman ...
Hmmm... not sure if you can see this one though... but press CTRL+A to select all and you will know why it is so. ..
Mingwei and Chao Tong ... you shld get the hint... go thank someone... hahas








Are you drunk???

If you watch the below images from your seat in front of the computer, Mr.Angry is on the left, and Mrs.Calm is on the right. Get up from your seat, and move back 12 feet, and PRESTO!! They switch places!! Woo lala ... mel can do magic!!!

hahas!!!!

This is so fun ... hahas ...

-mel

n we all wonder who is mysterious cow who appeared in the mass convo just now.. n may smart jieyee unravel the mystery.....
the mysterious cow first made its appearance during the discussion on bridge when lerong asked:

It's time to smash those halogens says:
wanna join us for bridge, little baby cow?

n all at once, everyone was curious who is e baby cow? or cow for tt matter.
pple asked:

`summerbreeze ♥ hcse says:
cow?

`summerbreeze ♥ hcse says:
hahah

`summerbreeze ♥ hcse says:
why cow?

I WANT MY REVENGE! I SHALL OWN EVERYONE 4 JG! says:
whos little baby cow

curious jieyee went arnd collecting evidence and all the evidence point towards an obvious conclusion, which i would not state explicitly... =) for tt would be too insulting to your intelligence.

evidence collected:

It's time to smash those halogens says:
moo moo
It's time to smash those halogens says:
moo moo and moo moo moo

n now... everyone knows whos e cow. =)

chao tong reminds me of an owl esp when he has e stone look. haha but anw... i just read sth interesting online =)

A group of owls is called a parliament.. which means that alot of chaotong can make a paliament.. hmmm chao tong has hope already.. has hope to... *cough cough* =)

anw.. i found alist of interesting facts:

For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.
The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.
By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.
The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).
If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.
Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
Starfish have no brain.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
Bulls are color blind.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
"Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Lip stick contains fish scales.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.
A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.
The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
The first 100 numbers of Pi are: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi!
A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Emus can't walk backwards.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of bears is called a sleuth.
12 or more cows is called a flink.
A baby oyster is called a spat.
Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too!
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
There was once a town in West Virginia called "6".
Singapore only has one train station.
The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.
Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll.
If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
Popeye was 5'6".
Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay".
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.
The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.
The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.
There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
The average American eats 2 donuts a day.
The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.
The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.
It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.
2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.
A baby is born every 7 seconds.
10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.
On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.
Blue and white are the most common school colors.
Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?.
The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.
The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb
The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James.
It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.
American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.
Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.
Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
India has 50 million monkeys.
By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
You breathe about 10 million times a year.
The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.
The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
The most common time for a wake up call is 7am.
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.
The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.
The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.
Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.
The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
A squid has 10 tentacles.
A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible.
The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn".
The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465.
The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.
When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.
The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.
The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
4000 people are injured by teapots each year.
The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.
The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.
The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.
The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.
A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.
The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
An Oscar weighs seven pounds.
It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.
Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.
The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women.
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita.
Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work.
28 percent of Africa is wilderness.
38 percent of America is wilderness.
A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why.
It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11.
Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000.
70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World.
Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments.
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable."
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases.
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca Cola was originally green.
The Ten Commandments contain 297 words.
The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.
A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day.
Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
The world's youngest parents were 8 & 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin

~jieyee

During the last mass convo, Chao Tong declared that he was very sad, because a certain someone hinted to him that he didn't get into Chem O (Latest news: Chao Tong IS in Chem O). Therefore, a Chinese song had its lyrics edited and dedicated to him. Here we share the song with all of you not present in the convo. The other song you see below is requested by Ming Wei. Hope you all like it. For the tune or the original lyrics, you can go to baidu and search for the titles.

Song dedicated to Chao Tong (To be sung from his perspective)
曲调:你怎么说
我没忘记你生气我
连名字你都不说
证明你一切都是在骗我
看今天你怎么说
你说过两天告诉我
一等就是一年多
三百六十五个日子不好过
你list 里根本没有我
把我的CHEM O还给我

Song dedicated to Ming Wei (To be sung from his perspective)
曲调:马车夫之歌/达板城的姑娘
剑桥市的马路硬又平啊
香蕉呀大又甜
那里有个姑娘叫诗曼
两个眼睛真漂亮
如果你要嫁人不要嫁给别人
一定要你嫁给我
带着百万钱财领着你的妹妹
跟着明威回家来

Hello all, I have received news that imagestation, the place where a small portion of our photos currently live in, will shut down in about 5 months time and it is recommended we move to shutterfly. Therefore, I have moved these photos to shutterfly as instructed, since it offers unlimited storage space, meaning you all can upload your future sleepovers/outings/I-don't-know-what photos there as well instead of passing around CDs. I will tell you all the account info when our next mass convo comes up. All the best!

Yong Lin
SQ888

PS. I shall help those who have passed me their photos to upload the pics. Add any missing files later should you find any.

YAY EVERYONE GO FOR MAF AND WE'LL GO FOR DINNER BEFORE THAT K! YAY! :)

While mugging math today in E205, some of our friends came up with an alternative way to prove stuff instead of using induction or proof by contradiction etc. It is very fast and simple if you know what to do. Below is an example, but we hope you exercise caution when using this method. (No, it is not method of difference)

Definition: 会下棋的人简称会棋 (the abbreviation for someone who can play chess is 会棋)

To prove: Jin Xiang 什么都不会, 只会棋.

Normal Proof: Assuming Jin Xiang knows something blah blah blah.

Alternative Proof: It is a well known fact that this is true. (Shown) QED

HELLO! haha i had a fun time today ! even though i was tortured at burger king and its so BU ZHI DE ...

but ... apart from that, its great spending time with everyone ! haha ! yays !

so we shall go out a lot more after our promos. mug hard everyone ! haha ! oh no i dunno what i am talking, but there is very few ppl online now and i am very bored. whee~

yay ding is on my side. :D!

bye!

YOYOYO EVERYONE ! im here to add life into this blog. since no one wants to blog ! hehe.

and we should have picnic like that one day too ! :D hahaha.. we should do a lot a lot of things together ! after promos .. so that gives us about .. 26 days before we can all play and have fun. hip hip hurray!

tata. OH YA SAMM HERE :D

chao tong here!

due to dajie's constant pestering and begging (=P), i finally agreed to post my miserable post trip article that mrs ho/mr tang asked me to write (why me!?)... hahax

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A mere meeting of strangers at the airport, mingling around wondering what is in store for them in the following two weeks of their lives in the small town of Cambridge, and the small but elegant campus of Girton college. They had absolutely no idea that the fortnight they were going to spend together would be a beautiful memory that would stay etched in their minds.

That was what happened to a group of eighteen from Hwa Chong Institution (College Section), who were fortunate enough to be the select few to participate in this prestigious Reach Cambridge Summer School. What was initially thought to be just another academic programme, turned out to be a wonderful experience for all of us. Spending time away from school back in Singapore, we studied subjects that ranged from physics to biotechnology, philosophy to economics.

Our lessons in Cambridge University were conducted in the lecture-tutorial system, similar to the one we are so familiar with in junior college. However, it was a refreshing experience too, in a sense that tutorial is in such a laid back atmosphere, and can be conducted in places ranging from the classic classroom to the open spaces of the park in the college grounds. The unique teaching methods adopted by the professors there allowed for more intellectual investigation of various topics were something that we can never get in the classroom confinements of Singapore. We were also taken aback from the standard we were exposed to, although there was mental preparation for a rigorous time; curriculum varied from nuclear magnetic resonance to cancer genetics. However, we managed to comprehend them through discussions amongst ourselves and with the tutor assigned to us. Practical were conducted in world-class laboratories and departments to find out more about plant viruses and protein domain interactions, to find out how science can affect our lives directly.

Efforts were also put in to let us learn beyond the syllabus. Scientists from different fields were invited to give evening lectures to keep our mind enriched about current advancements of space exploration and aerial photography. We were given insights of a space rocket launch to Mars that took place 5 days into our programme.

What was more important, and heavily emphasized throughout the course, was the experience outside the classroom. We participated in activities such as astronomical observations, botanical garden visits to know more about the science in the heavens and around us on Earth. Scavenger hunts were also organized to let us know more about the place we spent a lovely two weeks in. Visits to London science museum was also another eye-opener. It introduced us to a wide array of amazing exhibits ranging from mathematics to biomedical science and aeronautics to space travel.

We also learnt about the culture of UK and the history of England from the unique gothic architecture which is an everyday scene when we walk around the college campus and in the town centre. Everyday after lecture, we would pile on to the bus that would bring us to the town centre, which never failed to intrigue us with its myriad of mysteries. River Cam, famous for its world renowned punts which brought us along the length of Cambridge, is the place we discovered more about the rivalry that existed between colleges, and the history of the numerous bridges that cross the river at near regular intervals.

The friendships which were forged in these two weeks together are, of course, the most valuable assets we managed to get out of the trip. The high walls that separated us from each other at the boarding of the plane crumbled after the second night, where we interacted with each other in a sentimental single-room d17. We soon became close friends who shared their own life stories every night together while playing cards, who huddled together freezing in the cold, looking at shooting stars while singing songs. We became sport partners, playing football and basketball against the tutors and other JCs.

This mere meeting at the airport was by no means coincidental. It has allowed a group of strangers to learn more about themselves, about others. Now, this group of students is no longer a group of strangers. It is now a group of close-knit friends, all of whom hope to keep this treasured friendship throughout their lives, along with the beautiful memories of the two weeks together etched in their minds…

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i wonder if we can stay in touch for a long time after this trip. i really hope so. i have experience of losing touch with a lot of people after graduating from primary school. and more recently, after coming to jc. although we are still in the same school, we rarely meet up and chat. i do hope that we can meet up at least once a week during term time (and maybe once a month during holidays for a meal or something?). i dont want to lose these friendships we have built up over the 2 weeks. considering that we get along so well, we must treasure these bonds made...

It has been slightly over a week (8 days to be exact) since the operation was done to fix SQ888's right landing gear (aka my right ankle). Thanks to all of you for expressing so much concern and here is an update about this piece of "equipment". I am currently off painkillers, which should be very good news, and the op area is no longer bleeding (it was until Monday). In case you are wondering, I am going back to TTSH for a check on it on 5th Sep, and the stitches should be removed at that time. After that, I am not sure if I will continue to be grounded or be moving around on crutches or perhaps learning how to put partial weight on that injured ankle. They expect it to take a month before I can start putting any weight on it, but if there is sufficient bone growth, I guess they would bring the date forward. So let's hope I have good news to share on the 5th.

Ok, keep the convos alive people, and happy mugging!

Yong Lin
Aviation Freak

PS. If you are wondering why I sometimes (or rather frequently) use SQ888 to replace my name, that's my callsign/flight number when I fly for Singapore Virtual Airlines.

HI UR TAGBOARD IS BACK! yays !

ahah.. anyway .. EVERYONE. SAVE UR PHOTOS INTO A CD. THEN WE EXCHANGE CDS K ? if ur photos are like more than what can fit into 1 cd.. then u make ur file size smaller lah !!!!!!!! LOL.

u know how ? u open it with paint.. then make it smaller la ! yay !

okay. BYEBYE :D :D :D

~SAM~

POST UR NAME K... yay!

haha in toilet desperately drying the glitter glue =S

and finally its done! yay! hahaha so nice rite? rite?

and finally

GET WELL SOON, YONG LIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHERE THE HELL IS THE TAGBOARD!!!! :S :S :S :S :S

WHEEEEEEE!!!! haha whnever i type sniff sniff i tink of jie yee... (*sniff sniff cry) lol... wah i shall stop thanking everyone 4 giving everyone such a nice experience cos like almost every post said tt lor... MY POINT IS HOW COME TONITE NO MASS CONVO!!!! :'( I RUSH HOME JUST FOR THE MASS CONVO LOR... DIDNT WAN TO BREAK MY NICE RECORD OF PERFECT ATTENDANCE SO FAR... (haha not like i nvr dao the convo but tts beside the pt)

hahas here wishing all of u the best in promos, dun mug too much, and go own everyone else! (including me most prob, i so suck...) haha JIAYOU!!!!!

AND GET WELL SOON YONGLIN!

whee...

hello! mel's typing super slowly cause there's a splinter in her finger.... darn it... hahas... i shall take photo of it and post... hmm... then everyone can see!!! yay!!!

hahas... YongLin... must get better soon k?? we make you get well soon card,then like the last time, you will get better!!! yay!!! then can come back to school and play and mug with us!!!yay!!!

yupyup... i really want to thank everyone for making the trip so fun and enjoyable.. hahas... i still rmb not knowing anyone when i first arrived can?? but now... wheee... got so many friends... yay.. hahas .... i miss cambridge.... sighsigh...

nevermind... we shall think happy... must be positive... yay!!!!

-mel

hello! jieyee here again!

bad news:


YONGLIN HAS BEEN HOSPITALISED COZ OF HIS FOOT!

i was thinking rite,since we r meeting on fri, y not we go visit him b4 we go for dinner? this is e visiting hours: 12-2 and 5-8pm.. hes in ward11b bed 58. haha but i forgot to ask him wad hospital..will be asking him soon =)

hmm.. wad do u all think? i bet hes lonely there.. so we must bring him lots of fun n laughter! =)
tell me wad u guys think! thanks! =)

~jieyee

anyway thanks everyone for making it such a great trip and i will always treasure the memories and we must always meet up okay yay!

i bet u guys are mugging like mad rite? hard core muggers! nice jieyee shall take e initiative to keep this blog alive! yay! =)



hmm... actuali i wanna thank u guys for making this trip enjoyable n fun!!!!!!! =)



i remember stepping into e airport feeling abit.. hmm.. sad. lonely. i remember talking on e fone with my fren e day b4 tt i wish i was going with my bunch of good frens. i only knew a few pple... hmm.. not a few just 2 or 3..



BUT after 2 weeks, i know so many pple. yay! it was a reali fruitful trip! haha but sadly, i tot i was also supposed to learn some cheem physics stuff.. but hahaha i think my knowledge hasnt reali increased much! =S



anw, it was damn fun to play cards in room 17 n talk crap sing song! n stupidly freeze ourselves in e cold just to catch e meteor shower. n pig out at nite just to empty our luggages n scandalise random people n destroy lerong's room n watch how mingwei burnt his ball ( im trying to say this in my straightest face =P)



these are just a few to name.. i reali enjoyed this trip. thanks u guys!



i cant seem to find a nice grp photo n everyone has gone offline to mug! so just make do with this..

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