Acting at Nanyang Polytechnic, with a very beautiful and gorgeous girl.

Okay, the pictures finally arrived, and I can finally blog this wonderful event.


It happened a few weeks ago, when Jeremy and I went to Nanyang Polytechnic to appeal etc, we were approached by 2 3rd-year-students who are in the Film and Media. We had to act at the Polytechnic's compound, for their projects.

The story was simple: The girl went to contact another guy, betraying his boyfriend. In the end, the girl decided to leave the boyfriend to be with the guy.


The girl= I don't have her name but I decided to call her Jennifer here.
The another guy= Jeremy.
The boyfriend= Me. (I know some of you would start laughing by now.)

The girl involved is the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, and when we were acting during the scenes, I was COMPLETELY smitten by her.

Her beautiful lips, her electrocuting eyes, her hour-glass figure and her intelligence. (She scored like 11 for L1R4 and 15 for L1r5 I think.)

I'm sure you will be thinking whether is she that perfect. Yes. And I have pictorial evidence to show:

I'm infatuated with her.

Look at my eyes. As you can see, Jennifer realised she has electrocuted me, but she couldn't help it.

The couple, unfortunately it isn't real. *Sniffs*

I am really totally infatuated with her. Oh well..

I will try my best to complete the story with the pictures (with Jeremy in it):

The backview of the lovely couple.

(By the way, I know we don't look compatible here, but when you really like someone, you don't really care right?)

Jennifer is secretly meeting Jeremy.

Exchange numbers and secretly contact each other.

I was watching behind their back.

Got together, yet she messaged Jeremy behind my back.

Talked a while..

Decides to break up with me.

And she left..

And it's THE END.

Sigh, I don't think I can meet this girl. She's not from Nanyang Polytechnic; she's enrolled into Temasek Polytechnic's Retail and Hospitality Management. Aw.. if you're reading this, I hope we can be friends. :)

I suddenly realise today was April Fool's Day when some of my friends played a stupid prank call on me.

Sigh, I am suffering terrible pain from my jaw when I start to chew or bite. I'm going to see the dentist tomorrow. Hopefully, it will not be something serious.

After a vegetarian of over a week..

I forgot how meat tastes like. Seriously, during this 2 weeks I had to fulfilled my promise to God for being a vegetarian. And I didn't know there were many strings attached. Or that's what I think. I promised God to be a vegetarian, and the interpretation was consuming food without meat.

And guess what? People told me I had to eat stalls that caters for fully vegetarians, and some friends who told me that I couldn't eat eggs.


For goodness sake, why are you deciding my diet? I told God that I'm going to be a vegetarian for 2 weeks, and that means no meat to me. And I've been fulfilling it ever since.

By the way, the only food I like was eggs.



ATTENTION:

This applies to close friends, friends and acquaintances. I believe you will see a change in me, especially my attitude. For the past few years, I've always been the target of bullying and teasing. No longer anymore. If anyone smacks me from behind, you might see me lunge at him. If anyone disturbs me, you will be sure it's tit for tat.

I'm right damn serious, especially yesterday's outing to watch a movie, and almost everyone pushed the blame on me for not inviting them, be it jokingly or not. It simply shows that when I keep quiet when I get bullied, people gets more daring. I have to defend myself. No one else will defend for me.

I don't want to ruin any friendship. Please put yourself in my shoes. I just want you guys to stop targeting me. That's all.

If you're asking why there's this sudden change in me, it's because enough is enough, and there is limit to my toleration, and people should know that it's been on for years, not months or days. You must realise that I am not your toy, your puppet or whatsoever. I'm will not be one to be trifled with.

I'm not your ordinary blogger.

I realised that I'm very unique, and I don't know if it's for a good cause.

At the age of 17+, I'm already questioning my existence in life, and why life sucks. I'm already thinking how being a human being is hard, and being a modern human being is even harder.

And I believe I'm the only one thinking about these things except my peers.


After reading many of my friends' blogs, I realise I'm the only one talking about these things in my blog once in a while.


I will try to use another template, with the help of my brother.

I will introduce new webpages/categories to the blog once I finish with the template.

Here are a few of them:

Death Note

FAQs

My Life



I will need time to edit and type them out, and hopefully when you've finished reading them, you have reached a certain depth of my thinking, understand me better and most importantly, understand the logic and my point of view.


I know some of you will think that the Death Note category may imply that I will do something foolish like suicide. No. The reason why I introduce the Death Note category will be told once I finished them up. I would like to think that my maturity is faster than the age of a 17+ year-old.


So there you are, I'm James. And I'm not your ordinary blogger.

It's "our" fault. (An unbiased opinion.)

Well, a friend of mine was lamenting about how students who qualify for Junior College (JC)decide to go to Polytechnic, and therefore snatches the vacancies of many students who scored average grades and unable to get a place in polytechnic. She's still waiting for an appeal, and blamed people like me.


Come to think of it, on hindsight, it is true. JC qualifiers are flocking to polytechnics to pursue their studies, rather than junior college. Because they enrolled into the courses, the standard is higher, and competition is stiff. Therefore, students scoring average marks are deprived of a place in polytechnic, and they have to either wait for an appeal, go to the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) or retake 'O' levels.

Therefore, these students blame JC qualifiers. It's very understandable.

But let's be painfully honest here: Who would expect SO MANY of them coming to polytechnics this year?


Which brings even more questions like:

1. Is there anything wrong with the education system?
2. What makes these people not to choose JC?


Well, that's up to the Ministry of Education to find out.


But back to the topic. People who did well have a choice to choose whether they want to enroll into a Junior College or a Polytechnic. In an unbiased view, it is unfair that they must go to Junior College just because of their results. They have a choice.


Allow me to quote one Sunday Times reader, who gave an analogy: The rich can dine at a restaurant. The poor can only dine at coffeeshops. But the rich can have a choice of whether they want to dine at a restaurant or a coffeeshop.


It is simply the case here.



Please note that I'm not trying to direct anyone here. I'm giving an unbiased opinion here. I hope everyone understands.

Choir, I'm proud of you.

After the visit to North Vista Secondary School to see my beloved choir with Felicia, I'm really proud of them.

They were singing their set piece and chosen pieces for the Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) competition. They were of Silver standard, and they're aiming for a Gold. I have to say this batch's calibre were better than ours, and they really sang well. The pitch, the tune were pretty good and most importantly, I felt they really sang with gusto.

And among the 3 pieces, 2 of them sounded really nice. I really like the arrangement of the pieces.

And choir, I really believed all of you will soar like eagles and falcons, just like what Mr Francis Liew said. Shine your light for all to see. And most importantly, shine your brightest light on SYF day itself, impress the 7 judges AND DO YOUR BEST.

Hopefully, if my schedule permits, I hope to go down and support all of you. All the best!

2 weeks of being a vegetarian.

Just when I thought the promise of being a vegetarian for 2 weeks was already something big, my mom had to be one for 1 month.

If you tell me my past life is a lion, I will believe you. My body twitches to convulsion when there isn't meat. Haha just kidding, but seriously, I hope these 2 weeks will pass quickly, and fulfill my promise to God.


Who knows I might lose a kg or so from refraining from meat?

Scuba diving trip at Pulau Aur/Pulau Dayang.

Before I blog, I shall mention that if my mind serves me right, Pulau Aur is the area we went to, and Pulau Dayang is the island we stayed.

Okay, this diving trip wasn't too bad, but the island we lived in doesn't have any nightlife. But still, I really wished I could live there, and never return to the hectic schedule of urban life in Singapore. Pulau Dayang is simply the island where you're 'disconnected' from the world, because there is no reception.

This diving trip comprises of 10 leisure divers (including Ms Audrey Tan and Mr Ho (Another teacher.)), and around 5-7 instructors, and the others all Open Water diver students, including several teachers and one vice-principal, bringing the total amount of 32 people.

On the way to Malaysia..

Upon entering Malaysia, we needed to go to Mersing to get take a boat to Pulau Dayang. Malaysia is filled with countless palm trees, it is no wonder that Malaysia is the world's no.1 exporter of palm oil. There were very few cars on the road, and our bus driver was speeding very fast. Wow, it is the fastest and bumpest bus ride I've ever taken.

Some pictures I took while on the bus:

After hours of bus ride, we finally reached Mersing!


Selamat Datang!

First day

Getting ready to put all the dive gears in the boat.

Resting and catching up with each other..

Took the chance to rest and sun tan..

The sea..

After the first dive, we reached Pulau Dayang at night.




Night at Pulau Dayang.

Quite nice..

We had our dinner before Han Wen, Jeremy, Wei Chong and I shared a room.

Second Day

With my artistic and some amateur pictures, I will show you why Pulau Dayang is such a beautiful place, and that if there's a chance, I would not want to leave there.

Now that I've seen these pictures again, it makes me want to go there again.. Sigh.

And now for the clear waters:

Crystal clear water, and beneath the water are live corals.

Getting ready to dive..

Second day was the day where we had the most dives. During the dives, I was both saddened and happy. The waters around Pulau Dayang is a fine example of destruction of the underwater world. I was saddened because more than half of the corals during the dives were dead, and that it was mankind whom were responsible for it. I'm happy because despite the destruction, there were still some restoration from Mother Nature. Fishes are picking themselves up.

There were a few rubber wheels in the seabed, thanks to the combined stupidity of some people who thought that wheels could attract corals to breed on it like the same for ship wrecks, only to know that the plan had failed.

Some people saw interesting sea creatures like sting ray, sea turtles, barracudas, lionfishes and some beautiful and colourful fishes like wrasses, angelfishes, blue devils etc.

There was this really big pufferfish staring at each and everyone of us when we went past it.

I tried my best not damage any of the remaining live corals.

No underwater photos on the second day.

During the night, I had the MOST MAGNIFICIENT VIEW OF MY ENTIRE LIFE. I was with a few of my friends, and we were lying on the beach chairs which sitted neatly on the coarse sand, and in front of us was the sea. The air was cooling and it was perfectly relaxing. When I looked up, the sky was filled with PLENTY OF GLOWING STARS. I kept thinking if I was in some paradise or something. VERY VERY BEAUTIFUL. I would like to go there again! It was definitely the best night ever!

Third day

It was the final day, and we had our last dive. Nothing much, but there were still very beautiful fishes.

Note: Special thanks to Michael Ng for helping to take those underwater shots and JiaYi for scanning the pictures into the computer. The underwater photos are all from the last dive of our trip.

That's me.. Haha..

Hello fellow divers!

Heehee..

That's me diving..

Solidarity Starfish!

Is that a sea cucumber?

A moray eel protuding its head out from the cave.

Corals..

Fishes crowding around the big coral reef..

It's finally the end of the trip, and here are the photos taken with instructors and fellow friends..

With almost all the leisure divers:

Daniel and I.

Wei Chong and I.

Clarence and I.

Han Wen and I.

Soon Hwa and I.




Clement and I.

And with the instructors/pro-divers:

With Instructor Roy Foo.

The first impression when I see him: Very pro diver. And up till now, I still think he is. He's quite a nice guy, and very down-to-earth.

With Mario. He's promoting Fishermenscuba. Haha!

Mario is a VERY funny guy. Every single leisure diver enjoys his company, and that he's very down-to-earth and easy to get along with. He treats everyone as friends and you'll feel no boundary. His gesture of giving up his room for us and sleep outside the room really touched me. After knowing him better, he really gets my respect and that he's a nice guy. Can ask him out next time. Do keep in contact.

With Michael.

Michael has got to be one of the most friendliest person with Mario at Fishermenscuba. He's affable, friendly and down-to-earth. He takes care of everyone during dives. And the thing about him is that he likes to joke around. I was diving underwater halfway when he tapped my shoulder, and took out his regulator and showed me his set of teeth. Super lame. And some time, without any reason he could crack some very cold and lame joke. That's the best thing about him. Next time can call him out..Do keep in contact.

Michael and Mario are 2 people that I never regret knowing. Super jokers, and happy-go-lucky people.

Before I end this post which I blogged for a whopping 3 hours+, instructors/pro-divers, friends, teachers and juniors.. PLEASE STAY IN CONTACT!

The Pursuit Of Happyness.

The movie, The Pursuit of Happyness had so much impact on me that I want to blog about it.

Allow me to recap the quotes that I will not forget:


"You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do it themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period."

"Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something."


The above quotes are so, so true..

The Pursuit of Happyness was a movie that was well-spent, as it taught me valuable things in life, especially during the period when I struggled with my unhappiness in Junior College.


Things I've learnt about this movie:

1. The perils of having a low education.
2. If you want something, go get it.
3. Nobody should influence you, not even your parents.
4. The harsh reality of present life.
5. Desperation leads to things that you've never knew you would do.


Speaking of desperation, I did something during the dark period which I thought I'll never do in my life.

At that point of time, with my desperation to leave Junior College and enter a polytechnic, I played truancy.

I was absent during the second day of orientation to go to various polytechnics to check out the courses and asked more about them. (I was supposed to leave officially on the first day of orientation, but due to some things which happened, I couldn't leave.)

In order to cover up, I went to a family clinic and cooked up some stories and got an Medical Certificate.

I absented myself from school and I had a very heavy heart and guilt, because it was the first time I played truancy in my whole life, and I wasn't genuinely sick.

But I asked myself this question, which only I could answer:

"Do you want to follow school rules for this time and HOPE that they will release you to go appeal to other institutions and risk not being able to ask for valuable information about courses and that it is the LAST DAY for the appeal, or do you want to be absent and be SURE that you will go to appeal to other institutions?"


I chose the second choice, and up till now I haven't regret that decision. But I told myself that this will be the first and last time I play truancy, unless for desperate and understanding situations.

I still can't believe I did all these things.


The movie taught me how life can force us into a desperate corner, and you have to juggle things wisely to turn tables around.


And I know I mentioned about nobody can influence you, not even your parents above the lessons I've learnt. People may disagree, but what I really meant was that parents can teach you ethnics and values, but they shouldn't tell you what you cannot do, and that they shouldn't tell you what occupation you should aim next time etc.

You still make decisions yourself ultimately, and the path is only yours. Allow me to give you an analogy: If a patient sees a doctor, and if the doctor prescribes medicine, it is still ultimately the choice whether the patient wants to consume the medicine or not. The medicine may or may not be effective towards you.


My mum regretted that she let me choose my own choice of schools, and that she should interfere with it.

No. If I choose my school and if anything goes wrong, I only have myself to blame. I might be fated to become a designer, but I can take other alternatives to achieve higher education. For me, I still say that once you're Primary 6, you should choose your own secondary school, your subject combinations and so on and so forth.


And yes, no one, not even my parents influenced my decision of going to a polytechnic. I only choose what I deem fit.



I will most likely blog about the scuba diving trip tomorrow. Those who receive pictures, I would appreciate if you put credit to me if you use the various scenery shots that I've took in some other websites. Thanks.

Helping out at Fishermenscuba.

I was intending to blog about the scuba diving trip, but this one happened today, so I thought I just blog it first.

I just returned and I'm feeling really tired and before I start to blog, I'm would like to thank all of those who showed their care and concern over me. Thank you very much, and most importantly, a special thanks to Mr David Chin.

Okay, Alex from Fishermenscuba asked me if I could come over today to help out with the course called Discover Scuba. I said yes, and I met up with 2 other friends. I wasn't exactly sure of what we're supposed to do, until I learnt that we were instructors to some secondary school students, and that secondary school is Yishun Town Secondary School.

But I was mainly the cameraman. And my job was to take photos of the event, and to help out whenever is necessary.

Preparing the tanks for the students.

The students finally arrived, and Alex introduced the sport of Scuba Diving.

Looking very excited!

Nice formation right?

Strolling in..

Michael and Mario were the main instructors for diving.

Speaking to them, giving instructions.

Testing scuba equipment, in this case, a regulator.

Demonstrations.

Teaching again..

I really hope that they enjoy scuba diving during today's session. And I wish them all the best.

All the best Yishun Town Secondary! Hope you like today's session!