PCB Syndicate

Part 2 of trip to China

2007-12-18T00:23:00.000+08:00

As you can probably tell, the previous post on the trip to China was unfinished. That was due to the fatigue, and also the cold that had crept into my fingers due to the less than warm heating provided by the air conditioner.

Now I'm back in Singapore, and the rashes have almost disappeared. The skin peeling due to dryness is also better. Truly, I must be allergic to China or whatever it has to offer.

I was speaking of the "Bao Jian" shop. So anyway we went in and soaked our feet in some sludge, which had precipitated when some packet of powder was poured into some water. It was brown and all, much like Jello. So anyway as we were soaking our feet a promoter came in and described all the products the shop sold. It sold burns cream, the packet of mud-forming powder, some medicated plaster and cordyceps.

So he began doing the usual - describing the miraculous properties of each of his products. The one that attracted the most attention was the burns cream. He boasted that when applied to a burn which hadn't swelled yet, the area would not swell and would heal much faster.

To demostrate his point, he brought in a heated metal chain. Heated meaning having a jet of flame directed at it till it was red hot at the centre. The jet of flame originated from a burner(thus termed due to a lack of a better term" carried on a cart, as was the chain. As they brought it into the room where we were idyllically soaking our feet, I could heard the "voooo" sound made as the jet of gas streaming out. It came as quite a shock to me, as I was expecting something less extreme, plus I could feel the heat emanating from the flame as it passed by my seat.

I had seen such a display before, during a trip to another part of China; they were selling a burns cream too, whether it was the same brand I cannot remember. However, this time I had front row seats, right in front of the guy who was going to burn his own hand just to cinch the deal. Previously, the act was done in front of something resembling a lecture theatre, and I was seated way back, far enough the dismiss the act as a sham due to lack of observed details. This time, with the person barely a body length away from me, I could detect no false trickery, and felt quite sorry for him. To prove that the chain was indeed going to cause a burn, he took a piece of paper and stuck it towards the red hot area of the chain, and it caught fire.

He didn't touch the red hot area, which was understandable as his flesh would probably have melted and stuck there. He didn't grab the chain, but scraped the lower part of his palm against an area close to the red hot area.

Ouch! He looked to be pain, and probably was. After his stunt, a attendant nearby lathered a generous amount of "Bao Ling" burns cream on the affected area. The thing is, he used his right hand. Assuming he was right handed, that is not very clever, unless of course it did not really hurt. After 15 minutes, he showed us the affected area, and it was blackened, but not swollen.

Thus he proved his point. However, seeing as how he used his right hand, I had a few doubts even though my eye did not observe any falsehood. He did not touch the red hot area, which was understandable, but since it was a metal chain, could the heat not have conducted that well to the other part of the chain which he touched, resulting in a lower temperature? Also, the affected area of his palm was blackened. Could the chain have been covered with a layer of soot or other things such that the area he touched would have not burnt him?

Even as I list my doubts, I have to admit that it was pretty convincing then and now. I have no idea whether it was for real or not.

After his stunt, it was time to remove my feet from the jello that it was soaking in and let some workers massage my feet. The massager who was going to massage my feet was a young lady, and she kept sighing for some reason. I suspect that they earned their bread based on commission and she wasn't all too pleased that she was going to massage the foot of a person who would probably buy nothing and earn her nothing. Anyway I had already decided I would decline the offer, as I felt the whole thing was a con and I didn't want to be part of it. So I told her there was no need and proceeded to wait outside.

I went to the toilet and saw Mr Stuntman in it. I wonder if he was running his hand under the ice cold tap water to soothe the pain. Anyway, as I waited outside the room, another "vrooo" sound preceded what was another "fire-dealing" cart - another batch of tourists had arrived and they would be treated to the "spectacle" as well.

Chinaaargh

2007-12-14T19:28:00.000+08:00

China... Ah. Land of the conmen. Mayhaps con is too strong a word, but it will do.

I've been here for 5 days, and so far I ain't seen nothing worth my bloody time. Sure, there are many mountains, some of them snow-capped, and plenty of rivers, but I can see all these on the discovery channel. It just ain't worth it braving the cold just to see some hills and water.

It's fucking frigid here, though the worst should be over since the trip to Shangri-la is over and that's the highest point (literally and otherwise). For those who don't know, at higher altitudes it's supposed to get colder.

The road so far...

The first thing you notice when you step into Kun Ming is...

Well actually bloody nothing. When you step out into the airport from the plane, nothing strikes you. Ok maybe there are faces with more chinese features. No doubt, the airport is not as grandiose as Changi, but it does its job.

The second thing you notice, as you step out of the airport. The gratuitous use of the honks by chinese drivers. It simply just grabs your attention, and sure as hell not in a pleasant way. It's as if there was a nipple on every car's steering wheel, and the deranged drivers couldn't wait to press it. Maybe honking gives them a sense of pleasure or superiority? Could it be the irritating assault on one's hearing reminds them of a certain bedroom sound? Whatever the hell the case is, the problem exists in Beijing and Shanghai, and I have no doubt in most of China.

Then I stepped into the toilet. My nose was running (since the morning, probably a natural reflex to warn me against coming since I've been to China around 3 times, none of it I liked), from whatever I am not sure, and it was kinda blocked.

But the smell of the toilet got past whatever was blocking my nose, and I could smell the usual dried piss on the ground smell. Which was expected, since even in Singapore such things are common. Then you turn on the tap to wash your hands, which I have observed to be uncommon behaviour for people here. The water is ice-cold. Maybe that's the reason people don't wash their hands after handling their penises? Well I don't think it's a very good reason.

So after finding the local tour guide, me, my brother and mother got into a coach. A small one, probably fits 30? Our tour group had 14 people including us. On the bus, there were 7. So where were the rest?

Much to my displeasure, I realised that the people were arriving from Xiamen since they had gone to visit their relatives. Their flight was due to arrive at 1.30 pm, and I was in the bus at around 12.30 pm. What an abso-fucking-lutely brilliant way to start a tour - by waiting for other people from your tour group for an hour. As you can tell, I'm not exactly a patient man.

There was a wee bit of amusement since 2 of the people with us on the bus had lost their luggage as they had checked in at the wrong counter due to miscommunication between them and the Singaporean who had overseen the checking in and distributed the tickets.

I felt ripped off, since waiting in a bus for others for an hour does not exactly fit the idea of fun to me. Retarded motherflippers at the tour agency who thought it would be ok to keep some of the group waiting, well they were wrong. Well they sure as hell ain't getting business from me in the future.

After the others arrived, we set off - meaning a coach ride that lasted a few hours. Which I hadn't planned for. An oversight on my part, and a cunning move that those mofos at the tour agency left out. Whoresons. As a result, I didn't bring anything along to entertain myself. No violent books, musik or anything. Which meant having to stare outside at the scenery. Granted, there were high mountains that dwarf Bukit Timah Hill and verdant farmlands full of green crops that look like the cow grass you find everywhere in Singapore. Also, there were rivers that aren't like those in Singapore.

However, I've seen those before, or at least I think so. So it was entertaining. For like 30 minutes. Also, there was the tour guide rabbling. It was interesting sometimes, as she talked about the ethnic tribes around Yunnan, and their practices. Most times it was not. She talked about how "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" kinda crap. Basically we were not supposed to call the people Xiao Jie, cause that was derogatory and was used to refer to harlots. Supposed to call the females Ah Si Ma and guys Ah Hei Ge.

I didn't really give a hoot about it, since I figured as long as the person is close enough to you, you don't need to address them. Just cut straight to the chase and tell them what you want. Saves the trouble of memorising terms, and also eradicating your self-felt sense of ridicule at having to call people unfamiliar terms. She also warned of altitude sickness, the extra UV rays due to the closer proximity to the sun, and the dryness of the air due to the thinner air. I didn't pay much notice to the last, but as I'm on medication the effect is compounded, and the result is not a pretty sight. My skin is scaly now, and goodness is it disgusting.

After she stopped yakking, I tried to sleep, and when that failed, I mused. Mused on how the fuck did I get there in the first place, and vowing never to make the same mistake.

FUCK IT. I'm allergic to china. Just took a shower and there are rashes and it fucking itches. Like some STD, it's disgusting. Had it 3 days ago but it didn't itch this much. Thought it was due to the dryness, but now I'm not so sure. It's scaly and full of bumps. What I do know is that I'm in China and this happened. Now I'm pissed. This is day 5 by the way.

So back to day 1.

After a torturous journey, we arrived at the place where we had lunch. Surprisingly, lunch was decent. Tasted like normal food, with steamed egg, fish, roasted duck and sweet and sour pork. There was also booze, which tasted normal. So no complaints there. For the moment.

With lunch over, we travelled to some temple in Kunming. Another great coach ride. I observed that the buildings in China look the same everywhere. Bejing, Shanghai, and Kunming. Buildings look pretty much the same to me. Maybe it's just me, maybe it's their architects or city planners.

Stepping out of the bus and walking along the streets to the temple, my olfactory senses picked up something familiar.

The fucking china stink. In Shanghai and Beijing, I had detected this offensive odour. I have never really figured what emits it, and neither am I very curious about it. It is just a idiosyncracy of China to be dealt with. My mother said that it emits from people who don't bathe, due to the winter and sarcity of water. That's not a good enough reason for me. If this is true, they need to be purged. As for myself, I think it's the streets themselves, but it doesn't matter. A stink is a stink and if possible it should always be avoided.

Back to the temple. Well I'm not a buddhist so I can't judge. One thing I learnt from the trip there was the difference between luo han, fou and pu sha. Basically just different ranks of immortality or something to that extent.

Fou > pu sha > luo han

Ooo but the temple stank too. Guess it's a local thing. Think the China tourists and locals spit inside it too.

After the temple trip was another marvellous coach ride to a place where they sold pu-er and "shan qi" (literally translated 37 but it's tian qi the chinese herb) tea leaves among other elixir ingredients. According to them anyway.

The way I see it, it's con shop number 1, out of many. The shop is set up by the Yunnan University of Agriculture, so it was supposed to be "authentic" and not overpriced. Maybe not set up by the Uni but just endorsed, but who the fuck cares as far as I can tell they're just part of the con.

They basically prey on tourists, providing a place to shelter from the cold, and letting them sample the different teas one by one, explaining the miraculous effects of each as we sample each cup of tea. Pu-er tea leaves from Yunnan is supposed to be better cause they are grow at high altitudes or something along that line, and their Pu-er leaves are harvested from trees rather than shrubs unlike other plantations. Pu-er is supposed to be kind to the stomach, and be good for many other damn reasons. The shan qi tea is supposed to be good for anti swelling properties and altitude sickness. I could have messed up the magikal properties of the teas, but can anyone blame me after the plethora of buffs they attritube to like 5 kinds of teas? If I didn't know any better, I'll say chewing on tea leaves every day grants immortality after their little educational talk. Oh wait, maybe it does? They are good, these promotors. I guess they have to be, since China is filled with so many people and the competition is intense.

After that's done, they pounce. Did you know that Pu-er tea leaves make better tea as it ages? As long as it doesn't spoil, according to them anyway. Well neither did I, nor do I care. There were 3 or more grades of Pu-er tea leaves that were sold. One was kept for one year, another for 2 or 3 and the last kept by 9 years or more.

The 1 year one did taste different from the rest, had a grass kind of taste to it, but the 2 or 3 year one and the 9 year ones tasted like the Pu-er you get served in Singapore. This did nothing to explain its price, which was like 200 yuan for a 2-3 year tea "biscuit", which in my opinion is BS. I'll take my english tea over that any day. My family didn't buy any, but others in our tour group fell for it. It's ok to buy one or two I guess, but the problem is, once you start showing interest, the promotors don't let up. They keep offering you better deals just to increase your purchase, and weak-willed or toonice people just fold under the intense pressure. Say you want to buy a single Pu-er tea "biscuit". The promoter aka conman/woman then proceeds to tell you you that buying 3 will grant you a free Pu-er tea biscuit.

It will probably appear to be a very lucrative offer. Say you relent. You'd think the promoter would be satisfied. But NooooOOo, she just keeps going. What about changing that free Pu-er biscuit to a more expensive one? Or maybe to the shan qi tea leaves? You just have to top up the difference. And on it goes, till even the strongest-willed buckle. Some guy in my tour group bought over 700 yuan of tea leaves, thanks to the "persuasion" of the promoters.

After conshop 1, another marvelous ride on the coach to dinner. It was pretty much more or less the same food as lunch. After dinner they dropped us off at a local shopping area, as the 2 people who lost their luggage had to go get clothes lest they freeze to death.

My family didn't have much to shop for, except for some sunblock. So we had extra time, since the tour guide left us to shop ourselves and meet at a arranged location at 10.15 p.m. So after wasting time at Mac's we went back to the trusty coach and headed for our hotel.

Boy was the road back an eye-opener. Some of the roads were actually dirt roads, and since the coach was small, its suspension system was not really all there. Up and down we went, like some bumper car ride. Except it wasn't all that enjoyable. And some parts weren't lit at all.

The hotel was not bad, but it was a 5 star hotel so no surprise. I caught certain parts of Mr and Mrs Smith on TV, though the show was quite lame it was a little entertaining.

Day 2

Woke up in the morning to go to some Peacock Park. Which was totally fucking stupid cause it was so fucking early and it was damn bloody cold, and all that trouble just to catch some bloody peacocks, which is something you can see at Siloso beach. And the peacocks were all caged up, had quite a few of them. Apparantly they were caged up cause some tourists (mainland ones according to our tour guide) plucked their feathers, and some peacocks became roadkill after wandering out of the park. Cocks with peabrains eh.

I didn't realise it at first, but beside the Peacock Park was a large herb hall, which was highly "coincidental" seeing that the trip the the Peacock Park was a "gift" from the tour agency as we were unable to obtain tickets to some performance by the minority tribes in Yunnan, as it was booked by the government. That suited me just fine, cause seeing people dance to musik I detest is really not my cup of tea.

Of course, with the tour guide on the previous day extolling the virtues of some locally procured herbs, like shan qi, who could resist? According to her shan qi when uncooked and eaten in powder form can prevent high chlorestol. And when cooked it helps to "bu xue" or improve blood flow or something like that. Whatever. So everyone bought something, and it wasn't cheap. The tian qi in Singapore is cheaper, but according to the worker there it doesn't have the uncooked properties, meaning it doesn't have high chlorestol prevention effect.

So after the Peacock Park or herb hall visit, we went for lunch. It was mostly Same shit, different day. I think it was fine though. Then we went to another Yunnan University endorsed or whatever "Bao Jian" (health mantainence) shop. According to our tour guide, it offered free foot massages, and was planned due to the ardous coach journey we had ahead to Dali. She told us not to worry about the foot masseues not letting go of our foots unless we buy something, which was what some other joints did. It was highly amusing.

Happy Chewren's Day!

2007-10-01T20:06:00.000+08:00

Well everyone happy chewren's day! May we celebrate this joyous occasion yearly and forever be YOUNG AND INNOCENT.

Thanks for the snazzy wallet and the works of arts! Not forgetting the well-wishers! And to YJ full marks for your oral tomorrow! And to everyone full marks for everything!

Oui!

P.S THE MAHONE HOLD IS VERY NICEe!

PWN

2007-06-24T20:57:00.000+08:00

LOCK AND LOAD, GET INTO BATTLE MOOD
WE'RE HUNGRY LIONS, CTS ARE OUR FOOD
WITH THE MERCILESS VIOLENCE OF PCB
WE CONFIRM BAO JIA THIS CT!

RAWRR!

PCB Secures Sporting Victories at Sentosa

2007-06-12T23:32:00.000+08:00

Hello all!

PCB members, Goon , Dom, Chew, Jingzhou and Mq , took to the sunny island of Sentosa today for some sporting action.

First up was a team of 5 guys, aged 17. Having warmed up adequately after a friendly match of basketball among themsleves, team PCB was all primed to take on the Rest.

The game started with a sluggish pace, with each team unable to produce enough quality in the final delivery. The Rest's keeper was seemingly unbeatable, denying Team PCB of many a early goal. The break came for Team PCB when Mq broke down the flanks to produce a low ball across the goal mouth. The unpredictable bounce of the ball, owing to the uneven surface of the beach, allowed the pass to skip pass the Rest. Commander Chew, had made a striker's run down to the far post, and finished the play off with an instinctive tap-in with the keeper stranded. 1-0

The deadlock was finally broken, forcing the Rest to attack deeper, leaving their defense vulnerable. With superior physical prowess and superlative passing, Team PCB punished the Rest with fast breaks and counterattacks. All PCB members had their names on the scoreboard as PCB stomped to a 7-0 victory, with Goon scoring the last goal with exquisite precision. The Rest's keeper could all but stare helplessly as the ball sailed past him. To quote Goon, " I just softly kick only, " .

After such an overwhelming victory, Team PCB was euphoric. The rain could hardly dampen Team PCB's high spirits as they were resting. Then, They came. A group of 5 guys, 3 malays and 2 chinese, whom I shall refer to as ... ... the Rest2. The Rest2 were playing soccer in close vicinity to us, infringing upon our territory. It was a direct provocation, and one that Team PCB cannot take lying down. It's on.

As the champions stood up, representative Mq went on to negotiate for a game. Surprisingly, the Rest2 agreed, much to the delectation of Team PCB.
The game started. Like the first game, this game started slow, filled with dissipation of chances by both sides. However,Lady Luck was on Team PCB's side, as she always has been. Alone on the right flank with little support, Dom took a wild shot. It seemed doomed for the sidelines. Miraculously, the ball struck the Rest2's last man, who deflected the ball into the goal. 1-0 to Team PCB.

Another own goal by the Rest2 and a brilliant tap in by Commander Chew quickly brought Team PCB 3-0 up. Victory seemed like an ineluctable destiny. For a moment, Team PCB was questioning the initial display of skill in the provocation by the Rest2. Then, it started. The Rest2 stepped up their game, and quick passing followed by clinical finishing closed the lead down to all but zilch. During the Rest2's revival, Goon was struck with an injury. A reckless tackle by a member of the Rest2 resulted in Goon spraining his ankle. It was explicit to all that he was going for the legs. The Rest2 were not without losses of course, in an attempt to win the ball, Mq unintentionally kicked an opposing player with much velocity in the shin.
It seemed the game was getting more physical.

As the game went on to and fro, both teams were scoring and conceding. Finally as Team PCB scored the last goal, the Rest2 gave up and called for a break. We had won 5-4.
It was a Pyrrhic Victory however, for Goon's ankle was very swollen.

After taking a well deserved break and replenished our body fluids with 100plus from 7-11, we took the on next bunch of challengers, the Rest3.
In this challenge, Team PCB was split up for they had only 3 at one point of the game. Hence, after random selection, Commander Chew had to go over. Team PCB was dismayed, our influential figure is now against us. However, we held on to our faiths, and eventually emerged victorious with a score of 7-4. It must be noted that Commander Chew had a big part to play in the 4 points that the Rest3 scored.

And that is all for today's sporting events at the beach.
A 3 for 3 result has indeed been heartening.

I look forward to more sporting events by PCB in the future.

We hit'em hard!

The Humblers

2007-06-12T20:17:00.000+08:00

Quest for Pleasure
We asked for volunteers for this hedonistic undertaking, and few were those who answered the call. But a quest is a quest, and even if our party was pretty paltry, what matters most is quality and not quantity. And in that aspect we could not complain, for Odin is kind and those who did answer the call were of staunch quality.

Journal Log
Today was a stupendous day. It started off on a pretty low note, but ended on a crescendo, quite literally.

When I woke up this morning, the sun was wimpled by low, creeping clouds. I was tired and thought that naught would come out of our planned expedition to Sentosa. I called Goon and he didn't answer. My doubts about the trip were growing, but I already gave my word so I had to be there. I was worried that it would be called off, but my query to associate Chan was replied with a curious "It's great weather on the train, is it raining over at your side?" Me of little faith, was doubtful. I prepared myself and as luck would have it, I caught the bus 190 just in time. And as I got on I smsed Goon who replied that he was just walking to his bus stop. Terrific timing. A superb start to a spiffy day, though I doubt I realised it at that moment.

Manquan reached the harborfront MRT first, with JZ second, then Goon and me followed by Dom. We met Seetoh at the MRT station, as he was meeting some guy there for a handphone deal. Dom arrived as we were feeding ourselves at the harbourfront hawker centre. None of us brought a volleyball, with JZ and Dom flummoxed about who was supposed to bring it. That wasn't promising, because then our arsenal only consisted of:

1 basketball, brought by associate Chan.

Feeding

I had 1 plain and 1 egg prata. The fare was nothing to write home about, but I was hungry and as they say hunger is the best seasoning. But my palate wasn't entirely satisfied so I went further and fed on Kaya Toast. Then I was full, too full in fact and feeling sluggish. I wished I had stayed in bed, and jokingly suggested going home to sleep, but the norns beneath Yggdrasil had evidently decided otherwise.

Sublime Time

After feeding, we bought our tickets and got to our destination. Siloso beach. It was pretty empty, probably as it was early - 10 plus. We went to the item shop near the beach shack to add to our arsenal, unfortunately the equipment was too low level for us, and the high level gear was out of stock. Dismayed but undaunted, we decided to start working with our most familiar and only available tool - the basketball. We got to the pavilion nearest to the court, put down the stuff and started.

We played among ourselves, 2 v 3 as nobody came along just yet. We saw some potential challengers who were playing around with a soccer ball, but we were quite into our game, and so we bidded our time. We played, and the rain fell steadily. I think that was preferable to a scorching sun, and by then my body was waking up and I was beginning to appreciate the day. After a few fun games, we decided to get out of the rain as it was getting heavier, and the treacherous combination of sand and rainwater on the basketball court was getting too slippery even for SEALs.

We were warmed up, and ready for some shieldwall action. The previous raiding party we spotted were still around, so we issued a challenge to them. And they unfortunately for them, they were too polite to decline.

The Slaughter
Rules - Goalkeeper, 5 on 5
I volunteered to be the custodian of our might troop, and pretty soon got bored of the inaction at our side. A few shots of ours were saved by demented dives by the daring keeper, and I was displeased that one man should stop our forays. I decided to strike deep, and formed the spearhead of our incursion into their shieldwall. Goon took over the role of custodian. (meaning i tried to be sneaky and went offside to strike, but hey, it's beach soccer this ain't no EPL so why not?) Within a few minutes, we broke through, and first blood was drawn. A beautiful stroke that cleaved through their defenders appeared in front of me, and instincts took over as I hammered in the blow at the last second.

1-0, to us.

Then Goon went up, and within another few minutes, 2-0 to us. We were all amused at this Super-Sub phenomena, and so we rotated our keeper in the hopes of keeping 1 man fresh to deliver the mortal blow over and over again. And to our credit, it worked. Everyone on our team scored.

We struck again and again, but the enemy put up a valiant struggle, till at last our efforts exhausted us, and they took the chance to counter attack. They were desparate men, and cornered men are dangerous. Fortunately for us, our shieldwall held, held strong it did, and we suffered no casualties. There were a few close shaves, like when a bolt hit the outside of our shields(long range shot hit outside post), but Lady Luck was on our side, and everyone escaped unscathed.

I can't remember many of the brilliant goals, so I have to leave it up to my squad to re-enact the scenes for all of you. Needless to say, it was an exceptional display of teamwork, and it would not have been possible with the absence of of any of us. Everybody did their part, and the results reflect that well. The weather conditions were blessed indeed, thank Thor, for the winds and rain cooled our battle hardened muscles and the slaughter could thus continue at an increased rate.

Final score - 7-0. Goon ended it with a blistering blast from a distance away, and the enemy keeper was hapless as he watched the bullet burn past him.

After the resounding victory, we rested, for even though the mightiest cannot fight beyond his strength. The bloodlust was still upon us, and we were eager for more annihilation, but no lambs come willingly to the slaughter. After the rest, the sun came out, as if the very heavens were smiling upon our victory, and I whipped out my notes and tried to absorb what I could, while the rest went went to shoot hoops. After they tired of it, we rested again. Then they came...

The Pyrrhic Victory
Mq said they looked pro. I scoffed. Looked. Only that. And fortunately I was right.
Rules - Last Man, 5 on 5
They were around our age, similar to the previous team, but there 4 malays, who have a natural affinity with soccer. Thankfully, our affinity with soccer was stronger. For the first 15 minutes (may be inaccurate as we don't keep time when we cut our enemies down), there was a dry spell. No blood was shed, but we persevered. Then Dom broke through. He hammered a shot towards the enemy's last man, and he deflected it in towards his own goal. Own goal, as the ball was going out, but in his haste the enemy misjudged and gave us the advantage. However, the battle could still swing either way, so we kept at it.

And fortune favours the bold, and we were rewarded. A second goal by us was scored, and then I knew the battle was ours. Knew and rejoiced in it. And then the norns at Yggdrasil mocked us. Goon was injured by a reckless tackle, which left him no choice but to rest his ankle. One of our squad injured! We were dismayed, but held fast. The enemy, to their credit, scored a few goals. However, this was due in part to the weather no longer being as favourable as that in the previous battle - it was slightly humid with the sun slightly out and a slight drizzle falling, and this took a toll on our tired bodies. We scored as many as them, and this was when the numerical odds were against us. However, good ol' Chan was so kind as to take one of them out of the game with a perfectly legal shin hit, and the numbers were even once again.

And then we scored and so did they and I lost count of the goals, but needless to say we won. Dom made them concede a few more own goals, and I tapped in some and MQ and JZ slugged a few through them too. The last goal was ours, and both sides were tired and we decided to end it. However, victory had come at a high price. Goon's ankle was awkward, and we don' tknow whether it will turn out to the a bad sprain. It didn't hurt then, but it could flare up later. So we rested, and by then it was 12 plus or 1. We were dehydrated, and went to get drinks from 7-11.

When we got back, there were new challengers. This time for basketball. Needless to say, Goon showed them. I got switched to their team as they were lacking a man, and tried my best, but alas my best was not good enough and the outsiders team plus me lost, though at least there was decent resistance.

After that we washed up. I saw the math teacher Mr Benjamin Tan at the beach toilet. Well he's a nice guy so I greeted him.

Then we went to the harbourfront hawker centre and feeded again. YJ joined us there. He had something on in the morning, so couldn't partake in the quest. The duck rice was not bad, $2.50, pretty reasonable.

After we fed we went to walk around in Vivocity. Nothing much to be said about that, and after that we all went home.

Which brings me to another part of the journal.

The Long Trek Home
Goon and I went home via the 190, and along the way Goon was lamenting that he hated 190. Why, I enquired. Cause he's been taking it too long, he answered. Hehe. Well I couldn't argue against that.

My mood was exuberant as I went home, because never have I gone to the beach and found so many challengers in a day. Challengers we vanquished, which was probably the main reason I was so pleased.

So we boarded the 190 to go home. A bendy one. The middle part stank like a swamp(though I've never been to one), and noise greeted us when we moved to the back. And I mean noise. Well some fucktards might call it techno, but to me it IS and will always be noise. So me and Goon were annoyed. We identified the source, and we realised that the fucko was sitting with his mother. Now I was disturbed. The sorry excuse for musik was very loud, and the fucko was with his mum, and they were having a conversation as if the clangor was nothing out of the ordinary. Which it probably was, but for the usual commuter I don't think it is anything pleasant, and the fucko's mum didn't even have the decency to tell his son to can it. They definitely were not deaf, as they were having an audible conversation, so it confounds me as to why they could stand such a din.

I was in a good mood, so I was ridiculing the person blasting the noise through his handphone, and his mother who didn't have the civility of reining in his son. The guy was some fat fool, maybe he was hoping the loud decibels would dissolve some of his fats, but I don't think it works that way. Then Goon's sharp ears picked out that there was another source of disturbance. From the backseat of the bus, we realised, when we moved further back into the bus. (The first fucko and his mum were seated right behind the exit) like 5 seats in front of the second fucko.

Our ears were constantly assailed by the base percussion emitting from the bowels of the 2 fuckos' handphone, and as we moved towards the back of the bus it got worst. The second fucko was playing something right from the bowels of hell I would think, some kinda rap with no music or rhyme to it. Basically, I think he was reflecting his true nature. Dregs of excretion. And that's putting it kindly. I diverted my attention to him now, as the assault on my ears was getting unbearable. I suggested aloud that he probably didn't have money for earphones, which I would assume to be not too far from the truth.

I wondered aloud to Goon why nobody had the moral courage to ask him to shut his bowels, and asked Goon whether he did. Goon said yes, but he wasn't peeved enough yet.

Then the person sitting beside fucko 2 couldn't stand the din, and she got out of the seat and told us she couldn't stand the unholy percussion, to which I laughed and asked her why not tell the source of it. Which she obviously didn't dare to. Goon took the seat, and I watched, tickled by this unexpected event. The lady who couldn't take the shit had earphones on herself, but such was the intensity of the bowel movement from fucko 2 that earphones didn't help. Then we realised the 2 fuckos knew each other, as the mother of fucko 1 turned around and spoke to fucko 2. Surprise, surprise! Not really but still mildly satisfying to know that crap forms bonds with itself.

I took out my phone to lend Goon for the music to block out most of the criminal cacophony, and while reaching for the bag which was on the fall, the bus jerked suddenly.

Yet another great display of driving skills by the Formula One bus drivers, and I just fell into the crowd behind me. And the young lady behind I fell on gave me an annoyed look. Bitch. It was her lucky day I fell on her, and she had the audacity to gave me any annoyed look. But I was magnanimous, and let it slide. Goon plugged in his earphones, but it didn't work as well as well as he thought and he decided to ask the guy to stop his hell-raising machination. He asked politely enough, and the guy just ignored him. Goon was the man. Courageous! And I got peeved at the piece of crap's attitude. Like you're a piece of crap and you're irritating the people around you, and people ask you nicely you don't respond. This is the kind of people to crush and their spines would be put to better use as target practice.

I didn't have the guts to tell him off, but I really wished I did. After he ignored Goon the Courageous, I laughed cause I knew that would piss him off. I've found that laughing is a very good way for pissing people off, and I like laughing. Laughter is the best medicine, but unfortunately the fucko bacteria just wouldn't die. I was using motherfucker to dub him when discussing him and his antics, and I spoke loudly enough for him to understand that I was calling him that. I was trying to shame him enough so he would turn off his trash, but I guess he just had oxhide epidermis.

So fucko 2 just suddenly got out of his seat before Stevens Road, and we thought he was getting off. To hell, I hoped. I wanted to take the seat, but I remembered falling on the lady and felt sorry, and I let that bitch take the seat. So we got the PIE and fucko 2 didn't get off and slinked in front to fucko 1, and me and Goon the Courageous were wondering why did he leave his seat, and thought our jibes worked, but it appeared there was another reason, which we found out later.

So on the highway home, Goon the Courageous was gesticulating to the bitch I gave my seat to. Apparently the old man beside her was sleeping, and his head kept touching her shoulder and his hands strayed. I found out when the lady got out of the seat immediately after the highway, and even on the highway I could see she was annoyed already with her constipated look. So anyway as I sat down after the highway journey I realised the 2 fuckos were still on board. And I took out my phone and took his picture. Tried anyway, got 2 decent shots of his face. I'll post it soon, just so everyone can have a good laugh. After I sat down the old man made a "nck" sound of displeasure, I presume so anyway. I gave him a stare after I sat down, and he didn't try to pull any stunts with me.

I would think he noticed, as fucko 1 kept turning around to look at me, and I presumed the he would have told fucko 2. But I didn't give a damn. Before I got off, I stayed at the exit and turned around to take fucko 2's picture, and it was pretty obvious. I heard a "cb kia" from him, and I don't think he was describing himself, though it would be a most apt term. And to my horror fucko 1 and his mother got off at the same stop as me. Fortunately, they crossed the road. At least I'm separated from the retardos by a 4 lane road.

I sincerely hope if they try to venture over they can knocked down. Maybe then some sense will be knocked into them. Oh, and the cuntish cacophony was still playing as I left the bus.

Holiday plans and latest news

2007-06-07T23:05:00.000+08:00

If you are in the mood to spot questions along with the rest of PCB, don't hesitate to fix a study date. We will always welcome you as long as you have the adventurous spirit of picking out topics to study or certain aspects of topics to study, since everyone knows what topics are coming out DUHH.

Anyway also in the pipeline is a trip to Sentosa. Check this space or contact the Sentosa coordinator CHEW who will plan a fantastic trip for all PCB members to the sunny island set in the sea where we'll have seasons in the sun! However, be warned that the trip is not for the faint-hearted because set at the southernmost tip of Asia, the tropical island happens to be bloody near the Equator and sunblock is highly recommended if the weather does not screw up.

Another notable event which PCB has been engaging in is the basketball throwabouts in school. After a tiring day of studying (or a slack day of sleeping, whichever applies), one needs some recreation to either calm one's nerves (because studying is unnerving) and to sweat it out since sleeping too much makes you a pig. We don't run a farm here, and note that seals aren't farm animals.

In the latest Sports news, the PCB team comprising of Paul, MQ and YJ has notched two consecutive victories despite playing against formidable opponents Adnaan, Narpal, Kah Wei and later Bambang. The tenacity illustrated by the PCB trio was typical of the never-say-die spirit of the syndicate, like how we study for these Common Tests even though it's highly likely to be yet another suicide mission.

The first match was easily won 7-2 even though it was a three on three match. Paul's forays into the centre and MQ's outside shots proved highly valuable in this win. YJ was just hanging around trying to bug the other players into losing the ball, with a success rate decent enough to supply a few passes.

The second match where PCB were playing together was far more exciting, with the four-member opposition upping their standard of play to avenge the earlier loss. YJ sneaked a sly, admittedly tyco first shot and Paul followed up shortly with a breathtaking shot that saw PCB race to a short-lived 2-0 lead.

However, The Rest did not allow themselves to rest on their laurels because being behind, they obviously couldn't do that. With excellent one-twos by Narpal and Kah Wei and the occasional touch of Adnaan, they clawed back into the game 4-2. Amid all the confusion, PCB somehow managed to pump one in but it was not long before The Rest took a 5-3 lead due to some careless defending and YJ's profligacy in front of the basket.

The score stayed that way for quite a bit as both sides were frayed with tension and were turning violent as every second trickled by. The Rest had some golden opportunities, though they were needlessly squandered away due to fatigue and stamina. They tried to emulate positive traits from the Kouzes-Posner by Encouraging The Heart, but as the Leadership Model is arguably glorified bullshit, it did fuck all to help the situation.

An interception outside the box, poor marking by The Rest and sleek moves by PCB soon saw the lead being cut down to one. Paul was back up with a bit of magic and his shots against the board (and into the basket) were simply sublime. The Rest and the rest of his team could only spectate in awe.

MQ was highly instrumental in the comeback of PCB as well because with only three members, obviously all of them had to be on form for the team to make a credible comeback. A superb shot from the byline from point guard MQ saw the scores being levelled, and towards the end, spurts of energy from the PCB team saw them pull ahead 6-5.

The final nail into The Rest's coffin was MQ's final shot. After starting the ball, a quick pass to a team member saw a quick return to MQ, who drove in just behind the penalty line to release a quality shot. As the ball hit both sides of the rim and lolled around the edge, every player's heart was in their mouth but it was to be PCB's day as the ball finally settled in the basket and fell onto the court with final fatality.

Indeed, it has been an exciting day for PCB's sportsmen. Would you like to be part of the glory? You can register with any of us on MSN. We welcome you with open arms. Challengers are also accepted, even if you are from the CCA itself it's okay because we constantly seek to improve!

Hit 'em hard.

The World Needs Help

2007-04-27T21:16:00.000+08:00

The world is in dire need of help. Today I witnessed the cold harsh truth for myself, when I went down to support the table-tennis finals.

After realising there was no PE, I went to the canteen, and there Boon called out to me. What did he have in store for me?

Well he just asked me to go support/watch the table-tennis finals with him. I couldn't make up my mind, and dilly-dallied for quite a while. Which was not a very smart idea. Because the sky was looking ominous, and by the time I had made up my mind to acquiesce, it was raining cats and dogs. To help me in my decision-making process, I relied on the trusty old coin. And once the coin has spoken, there will be NO OTHER OPTIONS. Which was kinda unfortunate because the coin told me to go.

So we had to get a cab, and since it was raining so heavily, the only sensible choice was the 410 bus stop near the canteen. It was raining so heavily we actually got wet from walking there from the canteen, considering the minute distance. When we reached the bus stop, we realised there we weren't the only ones waiting for a cab. There were at least 2-3 other groups of people waiting for one. And one of them was Marcus Neo Jik Wang with his archery associates.

Hopeless as the wait for the elusive taxi was, we stayed on at the bus stop because we didn't want to walk back to the school and get wet. So we stayed. Stayed and got wet. At least below the knees. Boon Shing's classmate and her friends managed to get a cab, and I told him to get on it since they were going to the same place, but Boon was kind enough to stay around with me. But at least there was an amusing moment. Marcus and his archery associates called a cab, and they got on it. But I pulled Marcus back, since he was bragging that the next cab that came along would be his. I pulled him back, and his archery pals closed the door on him. He got flustered, and I got tickled. It was pretty funny cause he was shouting "Oei!" at them when they closed the door.

Ok so after a while Boon and I decided to retreat back to the school to regroup and rethink our plans. Back at the school, the clock was ticking. We were expecting the table tennis team to win at any moment, so we were thinking twice about going. But follow the coin we did, and we called a cab.

The cab went to RI first, then the driver called me to ask whether I was there. I told him he made a wrong turn and after a while he came to the right place. When we got on the cab, he remarked :"Fucking guard tell me left is RJ" I was wondering whether I heard wrong, but I don't think so. Vulgar but NICEEEE.

So we got there and braved the rain again. We got to where Goon was sitting and joined them. It was pretty exciting at first. Then it got pretty boring. All the while, the noise level was too high. To our right, there were supporters from NYJC. Some of the female councillors keep screaming whether their guy won a point. And they were banging plastic bottles.

Basically they were making noise. Unnecessary noise. And obviously they were irritating me. I mean, how base is that? Totally barbaric. Not that I have anything against barbarians, but they were annoying. Banging plastik bottles, screaming. I was really wishing they would drop dead. Or that their lungs would burst. Whatever. Anything to stop the noise.

And in the end, all their noise was for naught. They got pwnt, and they balik kampung. Which was expected. This begs the questions "WHY THE FUCK DID THEY MAKE SO MUCH NOISE FOR IF IN THE END THEY KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO LOSE?" I mean, if you go make noise in the kampung, I don't give a fuck, cause it's a kampung. But hello you're in a stadium, people come here to watch the game not to hear you trying out your fucking vocals. This ain't a fucking Linkin Park concert, so shove it you bloody slatterns and trollops. I don't think the players would in the least bit be heartened and play any better just cause they heard some previously-unheard-before frequency in your bitchass irritating screams.

There were councillors from our school behind as well, and they were cheering very loudly as well. That was very irksome too, but at least not as bad as the screams. Still, it would have been much better without them. I don't know why they are so bloody enthusiastic, cheering throughout the game. I think it's excessive, and doesn't add to the game at all. It's as though they get paid by the school on a per cheer basis. I think these people need help. They really need to go see a shrink or something. Shouting louder than the other school won't make your players play any better. It's just distracting and dumb.

Oh and there was this councillor, j1 I think. She looked like ugly betty. And she was definitely not a pretty sight. With every cheer, you could really see her cheering her guts or lungs or whatever out. It was as though she was on drugs, and her mouth would open so bloody wide to shout that it was pretty unbelievable. And it was disgusting. SICK sums it up. Dunno how she managed to open her mouth so wide, must have had practised from a young age. With what I don't know, but my guess is that it's something to do with hotdogs. And before you ask why I kept looking at such a sore sight, it was because I was kind of morbidly curious.

For the final game we moved to another side of the stadium. And there we witnessed a more idiotic sight. Whenever the players scored a point the person would jump in the air and wave his hands. Hello wtf are you crack or something? That guy seriously needs help. I think the amount of exertion he went through probably was greater than that of the players. He was sweating after the game. Like ok, so we win. So what do you get from shouting your lungs and waving your hands in the air? A half day off? NO. NOTHING. ZERO. ZILCH. So stop distracting people with your fucking antics and behave, bloody bitch, before I get the asylum workers to catch you.

In conclusion. Many people need help. I was thinking, I should go get name cards from psychiatrists. Then when I see such people again, I'll give them the cards.

pcb goes talent time

2007-02-11T18:59:00.000+08:00

a member of pcb has reach talent time dance finals.
go take 5 scream and shout.
support

and on behalf of sam and me
big thanks to all fellow pcb members for
voting...

multiple times hahahaha

time to pwn @ finals.

pcb ftw~!

DIALECT WEEK

2007-01-21T23:06:00.000+08:00

da gai PCB ho!

ma jik si bai yik, dan si yi eh si DIALECT WEEK gai doi yik jik! si, zhei gai lui bai jiu si DIALECT WEEK. le tor zhi zheh ta le gai weh boon. le si teo chew nang lai ta teo chew weh. le si hok kien nang ke gong hok kien weh! tak gai nang ta tak gai nang gai weh. ah neh kuan buay kang kou!

bai yik ah bai ngo, buay sai da si mi eng boon. ai eng HOK KIEN or si TEO CHEW weh. le oi hio tia bo? buay hio ta ai ke OR! buay hio or ma si ai PIA! sing ga por, BO BEI ZHAO ah! hahahaha!

lai, zhor bu hua hee ah! DIALECT WEEK, PCB si bao ya gai! sibei song! bo bei zhao!

wa, wa toi wa si jing hua hee. haha.

School Starts Tomorrow.

2007-01-02T19:28:00.000+08:00

Hello All!

School Starts Tomorrow and I am sure we all wish for a miracle to occur, i.e school gets flooded overnight.

But that aside.

Let's look forward to 1 more year of fun as pcb members in the same campus!
After this year, we'll all going to be soldiers!
So, this year.

PCB PLAY HARD, STUDY HARD AND HIT'EM HARD!

pcb spreads to maple

2006-12-21T21:35:00.000+08:00

looks like the term PCB has spread to
many parts of south east asia.
people are using it in maple too...
o.o

ftw~ lol

VIDEOS!

2006-10-24T21:29:00.000+08:00

VIDEOS FROM SENTOSA!
INCLUDSE FIGHTS. KOPING OF MATS AS WELL!

Koping MATS , i.e brouchures

ROYAL RUMBLE ROUND 1!

MORE TO COME WHEN THEY ARE UPLOADED!

oh and sexay pictures.

WE HIT'EM HARD!

2006-10-24T21:21:00.000+08:00

pics from today... vids shall come tomorrow because my internet is fking lagged now. just ask mq.

here they are. [click to enlarge]

chilling out in the sea!

keefe got owned! LOL.

chiam getting owned.

boon trying to get away lol.

stoning by the sea.

pics in reverse chronological order lol. because that's the order they are on my photobucket. lol.

Long Live the PCB

2006-10-06T22:59:00.000+08:00

Today the official PCB jersey was collected. And will soon be distributed to all members who purchased it.

Wear it with pride, wear it with passion and wear it, not because you have to, but because you WANT to.

Remember, we hit'em hard.

THE WAR ENDS

2006-10-02T09:47:00.000+08:00

Unscathed, scathed or seriously injured, the war ends!

And PCB lives!

Today we party to commemmorate this joyous occasion!

WOOHOO!

In recognition for the members' efforts in the war against Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Mathematics, Economics and French - they will be promoted !!

Anyone who fights with PCB is GG! GOGO PROMOS FTW!

PROMOS

2006-09-26T20:59:00.000+08:00

PROMOS!!!

3 PAPERS LEFT! WARRHHH!

pcb will promo. and promo we will.
go go go good luck everyone!

RAWWRRR!!!

SINGAPORE

2006-08-08T12:20:00.000+08:00

Good day!
ran away from school and went to airport to pick up kelvin ge yesterday with mq dom and chew
after 2 years in canada he's finally back to serve ns!
the wait was long at the airport but when we saw the same old familiar face we started waving frantically! LOL but guess what he brought along with him to singapore? HIS ACCENT! It was shocking then funny then weird then dunno what to say. did some catching up at his house and went for dinner after that. nice to know that our ole kelvin is finally back, he'll probably get used to singapore soon! excitinggg

Friday sports update

2006-08-04T23:08:00.000+08:00

Good evening!

Today was a good day (and evening and night), for the PCB members took to the courts to show off their sporting prowess against.. each other. Of course, with such talented members playing in the PCB and if the only way to improve is by playing against a stronger team, it's only logical we play ourselves. Not many can match the high standards of the PCB Syndicate. Especially when it comes to fitness.

At 5:30pm sharp, Navy Seals + Aikkwan was seen warming up outside the Council Room by tossing Frisbees violently. A few cars got stopped by MQ's spinning projectiles. Oh and not to mention it shaved off a small branch of leaves. Seems like Frisbees can be made into WMD. Weapons Manquan uses to Destroy!

Nevertheless after that n00b warmup H3 Chemistry got dismissed and the real action began. After fooling around a bit outside Mugger's Corner (outside Council Room), we proceeded to the basketball courts for a tournament. The deciding of the teams were purely by finger games but as fate would have had it, the Navy Seals all landed up on the same side.

So we played and played and played! The game was pretty exciting with both teams sharing almost equal possession, and with different teams taking the lead at different intervals. Though Fishing Division took an early lead, Navy Seals made a comeback to draw level and then the lead was passed on from team to team before Navy Seals pushed forth for a final hurrah to win the match 69-67! Good job Seals!

As dusk had already settled by the time we finished our basketball, we had to quickly start our next tournament - the PCB Soccer Tournament! Once again, the Navy Seals came out tops, stretching our legs to the limit and then bending the tables' legs to the limit. Navy Seals won with a 3-2 victory and by then PCB was tired and hungry so we went off for dinner!

In any case good job PCB, particularly the Seals!

Strength present today: SL, Goon, MQ, Aikkwan, Kenneth Kong, Chew, Benny, Paul, Keefe, myself!

Man I can't wait for next Friday hohoho! Maybe since Kelvin will be in town by then can get him to join the festivities! OH YES PCB SPORTS CARN FTW! =)

diet coke + mentos experiment

2006-07-31T21:38:00.000+08:00

at 3 o clock, during our break,
me, leon khee and sheng lin go j8 to purchase
these items:

price of 1.5 litre diet coke = 2.05 x 2
price of 0.5litre diet coke = 1.20
price of 3-pack mentos = 1.90
price of scotch tape = 0.60
to try the....
*drum rolls*
diet coke + mentos experiment
hahaha. XD

total price of experiment = 7.80. =P

enjoyment? priceless.
for everything else, there's mastercard. XD

me, sl, keefe, mq goon were there
and goon managed to do the rocket skyhigh into the air.
lol

anyway here is edited video of the whole
experiment. =P

enjoy. XD

BAYLEY

2006-07-28T23:55:00.000+08:00

B est
A drenline
Y outhful
L egendary
E xcitiiiinnnngggg
Y ellow

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Don't you doubt it

2006-07-15T15:26:00.000+08:00

Okayyy seems as if I used up ALL MY LUCK on Econs paper since Maths as expected was just pass and Chem as expected was fuck fail LIKE MAD. I've probably hit rock bottom for all PCB members, taking 1% off every 4% offered in the Chemistry paper. Well if you'd think carefully, you'd find that I have a wondrous 25% for Chem CT! WOOTS seems like my luck just ran out?

The PCB Navy Seals Division have decided on one thing - that this cannot continue. We envision a great future for our all-rounded seals. We plan to own promos Chem paper. On every slideshow in every LT for every Chem lecture after the Promos when they do the debrief.. you'll see this.

JC1 PROMOTIONAL EXAMINATION
TOP 20 STUDENTS FOR CHEM
(in no order of merit, cos all are fucking good)
CHAN MANQUAN 07S03E
STEWARD LEE 07S03E
LIM YEJIE 07S07B

never mind the rest so long we inside = win already!

pcb ftw!

(btw want to make pcb jersey..? eh fishing division pls confirm your response haha.)

Change in hp no.

2006-07-09T14:48:00.000+08:00

hey i'm changing my hp no. to 96202680 so in case you need to contact me please call/sms this no. thanks!

It's all about luck

2006-07-06T21:06:00.000+08:00

LOL today was perfect proof CTs is all about luck!!

Econs case study.. unfinished.
Score.. 19/25!!!!!!

wth bbq?!!!!! lol where did that come from i dunno but i'm not complaining.

i got enough luck to get a lenient marker. hence CTs IS ALL ABOUT LUCK!! think promos also. okayyyyyyy...~

now hope chem can also tyco 50%.

CT After MATH

2006-07-05T21:12:00.000+08:00

Greetings PCB!!

Well after Math, I had no more papers, but the Bio students slogged it out for one more day before they had some fun playing soccer. PCB Navy Seals Division had a great game against the Canoeists, beating them by a convincing, manly score of 8-4. Goon and I had a hat-trick each, while MQ the unselfish playmaker had a brace plus loads of assists. Think the Navy Seals could stand a great chance in the World Cup, but no we've got better things to do.

So that was that for our post-CT celebrations.

Back to the real world, the situation does not look all that promising. Certain PCB members have already started getting back their papers, and we can assure you that some of them aren't that BAO JIA after all..

Ling Mong World Championships first-time champion and Commander of the PCB Navy Seals Division Allah Chew brought home the most frags so far - taking a beating in Econs and a smashing in Chemistry. Though he claims that the Chemistry score was pretty bad, it was actually a measly half-mark away from an "O" level pass. So no, perhaps it's not that BAO JIA at all. Due to Allah Chew's request, I will not post his marks up here.

And the reason why he brought home the most frags is because I haven't got back any results. And from what I've been (not) hearing neither have the other members. Still, worry not, for tomorrow brings excitement and Econs case study scores. Nevertheless, we all know BAO JIA scores will soon be coming our way.

Today I notched the first success of the CTs by passing French, which I took more than a month ago. So cheers to not failing all subjects - because the rest look to be menacing.

Subject Review

Mathematics (Threat: Moderate)
With so many sketches being called for and so little experience in using pencils and rulers, there is much difficulty in completing the paper. However, experience from Chemistry led to quick question-hopping, which might well be a saving grace. But also might not be so WTF.

General Paper (Threat: Moderate)
Half the level failed GP. Mass moderation was encouraged. Still, with PCB members' best language being swear and English coming a distant second, it certainly isn't safe betting on a pass.

Economics (Threat: High)
Having failed everything and anything Economics so far, this subject is an eternal bogey. Plus the case study was so bloody gay it was difficult to finish it. Certain classes who got their papers back all complain of high failure rates. Doubt there'll be an exception here.

Chemistry (Threat: Not a threat since it's already carried out)
Fuck fail fuck fail fuck fail fuck fail!! Violent scribblings and benzene rantings has led to certain PCB members coming down with severe depression over this paper. The fact that Lady Luck didn't seem to be with us for MCQ only aggravates the fact. There can be no denial, there can be no regret. Expect one-digit marks and a rude wake up call. Oh and plus a meeting with the Chemistry teacher. Fuck fail fuck fail.

SkyBridge = Nothing

2006-06-30T20:29:00.000+08:00

Hello.

Well the day before Bio Common Tests, 2 Pcb members decides to stay in school to study for that dreaded paper. Of course the identity of those 2 members are kept confidential in order to protect their privacy.

Anyways, despite taking in large amount of snacks ( pronounce : snakes ) and doing crazy stuff like killing plants, the stress was still too overwhelming. We needed a rush of blood. And we looked. And we looked. and then we saw, the sky bridge.

The immediate reaction.

" LET'S CROSS THE SKY BRIDGE!! "

and of course there would be no objections, the PCB does what it likes, noone stops them.
And this was wad followed. It was fun and thrilling. All PCB members should take a walk across that noobcake of a bridge. seriously.

We hit'em hard

Ling Mong

2006-06-29T01:19:00.000+08:00

Hello all.

This is the results of the latest Ling Mong World Championship

Winner : Commander Chew with a whooping 17 Ling Mong tablets eaten.

Congratulations to Chew!! He won himself another 17 Ling Mong tablets which he can enjoy at his own leisure.

Stay tuned for more updates on the LMWC. and remember, Ling Mong is fucking cheap, which is why you dont eat just one.

We hit'em hard.

PCB Navy Seals Division

2006-06-28T21:18:00.000+08:00

Greetings to all PCB members!!

PCB Navy Seals Division would like to extend an invitation to all of you to join this prestigious club of.. seals. We have joy, we have fun, we have seasons in the sun. Although sometimes it rains, we go to foodcourts to mug. We are not just brawn without brains (sportsmen), we are not just brains without brawn (muggers), but we are ALL-ROUNDERS!!

Here's an insight on what we do:
- Swim at CCK Swimming Complex.
- Train at CCK Swimming Complex. (Underwater endurance, velocity races, impact training, violent swimming, water kungfu, diving lessons and many other physical activities which are set to challenge you and train your body.)
- Buy loads of snacks, including ling mong tablets which is, according to a certain Navy Seal, "fucking cheap" and delightful to eat. Especially if you pop seven at one go.
- Eat loads of snacks (pronounced "snakes").
- Chopping up ling mong tablets with bare hands/knuckles, Commander Chew-style. Oh wait, only Commander Chew does that.

And of course there's much more, but you never know till you have tried our regime. Like the Singapore Navy says, if your life is a movie, will it be an interesting one? If it's not, we'll make it interesting for you. And we might look to incorporate movie-watching to part of our programmes.

Meanwhile, we'd prefer to have fun in the sun and train like manly seals.

The current members of the PCB Navy Seals Division are Manquan, Goon, Commander Chew and myself. We'll be looking forward to your participation in such exciting activities.

We hit 'em hard.

Even in water.

chem paper

2006-06-28T13:49:00.000+08:00

there was this one question about some element on planet X.

planet X?

lj la find a planet A to W then come and talk to me about planet X.

unrealistic chem teachers.

CTS begins

2006-06-26T22:12:00.000+08:00

hell has been unleashed

cts begins today,
econs was quite a blow
diff people diff kinds..

3 more to go..

go pcb.!

PCB preparations for CTs underway!

2006-06-26T10:22:00.000+08:00

PCB began its preparations for CTs in style, only beginning at the last week of the holidays and mugging in strategic commercial locations like Mos in Sembawang, Food Junction in Lot 1, Choa Chu Kang Swimming Complex, on the MRT and some stupid shopping centre beside Northpoint. Key members of the PCB were seen hunched over their notes, exclaiming violent expletives as they found out the limitations of their knowledge.

On Saturday, we took a trip down to the stupid shopping centre beside Northpoint to find out how MQ, Goon and YJ were mugging. MQ first bought an overpriced jasmine green tea so he was busy effing for a bit, and then he started listening to his mp3 for a bit while staying on the same page of Bio notes. YJ was slightly better off, within the hour in the Burger King outlet he moved from page 16 to page 17 of his Chem notes, and is by the way still on the same page.

Goon was trying out mock Chem papers, and it must be said that he must be the most industrious member of the PCB - for he made far more progress than any other member present (not like there were that many, anyway). Mock Test 2005 yielded a result of 3/9, a great achievement for someone who didn't really mug for CT. Mock Test 2004 saw Goon garner the same stupendous wonderful result of 3/9.

To prove his theory that "it's (CTs) all about luck" - he had to do a control on Mock Test 2003. With completely random permutations of A, B, C and D - he achieved a grand total score of 3/9 as well! Proving that CTs IS indeed all about luck, and mugging only serves to confuse and depress. Goon, with mugging, could only garner a mark equal to lucky guesses. That really proves a point.

YJ later went home to try the mock tests himself, and he actually found a possible amendment to Goon's theory. Because he found out that his lucky guesses got him a 4/9, while doing it properly gave him only half the marks!! Well, well, so much for mugging - guess we all know that our luck is better than our mug. Therefore, keep in mind that mugging might not be the best solution - it's good to try your luck.

So PCB preparations for CTs underway!
You all better start to pray!

hohoho

2006-06-25T18:23:00.000+08:00

amithabha school and common tests starts tomorrow
remember its all about luck and we shall be lucky

pcb anglers

2006-06-02T18:53:00.000+08:00

this is my first post here in pcb

anywayZ..

there is a pcb fishing trip for all pcb anglers
on the 7 jun
that is a wednesday..
venue is paris ris beach, the usual bridge.

me, sl, paul, des, aik kwan, goon going

and many more..

if u wanna go. tell me..
cya peeps there

Let's go PCB!

2006-05-21T23:42:00.000+08:00

Lol yesssssssss holidays coming I LIKE!!

yo!

2006-05-03T00:28:00.000+08:00

hi i know abit anticlimax after reading the adventures of allahchew and supergoon but yo everyone!! how about a party next wednesday lunch?

Adventures of Allahchew and Supergoon

2006-05-02T20:22:00.000+08:00

Back in the remote town of bishan, it was just an ordinary afternoon where i was waiting for the bus home. Was it coincidence or fate?
It all started when i met fellow comrade Allahchew and Mr.x. We decided to have prata at one of the roadside stalls at bukit timah. After feasting on some rubber, we wanted to take the bus home.

But it just so happens that all the buses are packed and the retarted drivers refused to stop so Allahchew and me decided to embark on our new journey by foot. Mr.x proving too weak for us gave up after a miserly few hundred meters.

Firstly, we went to the oil kiosk to top up our fuel tanks. Upon browsing the shelves this can caught our attention. Without hesitation we bought it. After finishing the contents, the can started to glow. Immediately we thought of a new game. We call it " Zam the Can". Do not belittle an empty can. It was a challenge to kick it throughout the rocky terrains we were trekking on, the dangerous roads and treacherous paths we were crossing.

Finally after some vigourous kicking the can spiltted in to half. However this doesn't stop us, it was just another hurdle to overcome. we pressed on zamming the half cans along. The tingles from the rolling and flying of the can was pure magick to our ears.

True enough, there was more excitment to come in our journey. Suddenly, right ahead we spotted a carcrash. It was hard for Allahchew and me to stop laughing however we composed ourselves and ventured forward. We even risked our lives to obtain a picture as evidence. Rest assured those shady characters have been dealt with by me and my fellow delinquent.

Time passes fast while we are having fun and before we knew it, it was soon the end of our voyage. We spent the last mile having seasons in the sun while listening and singing songs. The day was well worth it. Although we occasionally get weird glances from passer-bys we can tell that they are just jealous of the fun. Once again the day is saved by us. Soon we'll embark on a new journey to infinity and beyond!

keefe's first pcb post

2006-04-26T22:46:00.000+08:00

okay this is my first post. i am very hyped up abt tmr's BW Party. PCB will HAVE FUN TMR and i will bring my digicam to capture priceless moments.

there better be priceless moments, or we can just create them!

=D

Calling all PCB!

2006-04-25T22:45:00.000+08:00

Calling all PCB members!

please come down to Toa Payoh Sports Hall on Friday, 28th april at 2pm to support the table tennis team.

We have a good chance of clinching the double gold.

so we need all the support we can get.

rmb.

we hit'em hard.

WAKE UP PCB

2006-04-25T22:41:00.000+08:00

let's have some fun!!

anyway got BW Hot Chick party this thursday, its at 4th floor outside LT1.. supposedly you can watch the sunset, but who the fuck is interested in the sunset when you've 90 litres of FREE FLOW ice cream!! admission is free, dunno if you gotta pay $1 for the ice cream but err.. it's still good la. i think.

pls go and bring a container or something. $1 FREE FLOW. over 15 flavours.

all come and KOPE KOPE KOPE!!

ya right

2006-04-24T22:47:00.000+08:00

if you read mq post carefully "good luck to all pcb members having comps now"..

..referring to HIMSELF? SHAMELESS!

a.n.y.w.a.y.
his match is on friday afternoon 1pm.
so just go down and support since can pon class.

PCB outing: mq suggests steamboat. one of these weekends/sch hols.

sch hols seem so far away zzzzzzzz

NVM ANY TIME. HIT 'EM HARD!

Tagboard

2006-04-23T23:25:00.000+08:00

We should get the tagboard up and running.

so at least the blog wun be so dead! yep. Yj shud be getting the tagboard up anytime now. since he already has the source code.

long live PCB!! oh. and good luck to all PCB members having comps now. Hit 'EM HARD!

Circus

2006-04-23T20:51:00.000+08:00

yoyoyo.. i finally decided to post cos the blog is dying and its pathetic!!

let's have a pcb outing someday damn sad le RJ so damn boringggggg..

miss those fun carefree pcb days. now can we pls have an outing?

thanks buhbye!!

oh another thing: let's set up gunbound club.

haha yay that's it buhbye!!

2006-03-19T19:25:00.000+08:00

LOL its the end of holidays... back to circus tomorrow sad yet excitingggg

PCB Sports Dept

2006-02-25T13:59:00.000+08:00

Welcome to the Sports Dept of the PCB!

Presenting to you our playground.. THE SHAW FOUNDATION LIBRARY! Fondly known as "playground" or "circuit stations" for short, this is where we have our workouts. Beats the gym flat any day. MQ's the campaign head of the SFL Project, for it is there that we have seasons in the sun. =)

Circuit training includes:
1) High jump (with handlebars as jump-aids)
2) 2.4 training (round and round)
3) Leg raise (going down the stairs)
4) Finger muscle training (flicking *ahem* down)

At PCB, we train to make you the all-rounder athlete! Having covered so many physical aspects, your overall fitness is bound to improve! So what you waiting for? Come have seasons in the sun with us every Tuesday afternoon from 2:30pm! Woots!

okay!

2006-01-17T21:08:00.000+08:00

then every free period, we move up to our z'cove!

perfect

2006-01-13T21:12:00.000+08:00

great z'cove! I say. WE MAKE IT OFFICIAL!

2006-01-12T21:46:00.000+08:00

z'cove = 3rd floor of library!

The PCB Z'cove

2006-01-11T21:43:00.000+08:00

Gerdev alle,

I'm posting this as a request of certain members. Err they wanted a PCB Z'cove so I guess we could have one.. any suggestions welcome. I dunno, I'm just UPDATING BEFORE EVERYONE TOTALLY IGNORES THIS BLOG!!

Oh and by the way we do have certain other visitors taking a look at this haha.. and in case there's any misunderstanding, PCB stands for Prestigious Courageous Boys. Of course, some people decided to make a variation and call it Polite Chinese Boys - but it really doesn't matter does it?

Our subject combinations are all the same. Physics Chemistry Biology.

Such is PCB. That's all. Back to tutorial.

The PCB Rule

2005-12-16T20:48:00.000+08:00

The PCB Rule says that whenever you board a train, please do so at the carriage to your EXTREME LEFT at the platform because that will increase the chances of meeting fellow members. That is if everyone abides by the rule.

It might sound silly but it raises the probability of fellow members meeting and I think the idea's damn good, if you please.

Haha it's not compulsory because people might not know of it, so just spread the word and hopefully we'll have more coincidences.

PCB moves to RJC!

2005-11-24T17:03:00.000+08:00

PCB bids goodbye to RI, having spent 4 years trying its best to ~~demolish the school~~.

We haven't had much success, though. In fact, none was ever reported.

Except maybe one can of air freshener somewhere near the gardener's shed.

Of course, we have had the odd activity and the random outing.

So we will hopefully look to improve on that.

We've come a long way, my members.

------------

Since 2003, when PCB Gang was established, we've tried to:
- Make Jai Singh give us full marks for our English compos
- Chase away Leong Siew Fong
- Pay attention in Greg Goh's lesson
- Tell Phua Peck Hong to shut the hell up

Not to mention our very famous..

(First picture is the original human pyramid in 2003,
the second is the "re-make" in Grad Night, 2005.)

And just to prove that every member of PCB is fit enough to carry out the above feat..:

We had various missions in these two years, including:
- Lincoln Luk smear (2004)
- Waterlog Benny (2004) - he's now a member of PCB hohoho
- The silencing of haram (2004)
- The silencing of GEPs (2004)
- Playing with air fresheners (2004)
- Piscibish (2005)
- Allah Chew's Navy Seals Training (2005)
- Making pyramids (all the while)

It was always memorable, even if we failed in most of our missions.

Because we learn from every failure, and we don't fail as badly in the next mission.

And success is not important. Having fun is.

Because we're PCB.

------------

So as we move on to RJC..

..don't forget that you are part of us.

Get a girlfriend like ___________ if you must..

..but at least get a pretty one.

I don't think the time in RI was wasted. I think it was very well used.

The legacy will continue in RJC..

..as PCB moves on to greater things (maybe more air fresheners).

More fun, more vulgarities, more violence.

We hit 'em hard.

2005-11-03T22:33:00.000+08:00

sorry ah couldn't make it for outing today i'll try to make it for next one lol

if you intend to have one soon la

random

2005-10-26T23:38:00.000+08:00

Cute gals ftw

(ftw = for the win , incase you noobs are wondering)

this is obviously a post for the sake of posting, as requested by yj.

Hi all..

2005-10-14T22:50:00.000+08:00

Just want you all to know it's damn exasperating not going on MSN.

Today is Day Six for me - and I'm hoping I can survive the weekend. Anyone want to mug Chemistry on Saturday or Sunday just give me a call. I need help anyway.

And in case you were wondering, I think we should call for a PCB celebration on Wednesday after CTs. Except poor MQ who has got one more day to go ahaha.

Well good luck to all yet again. Make sure you do very well for CTs!

Jacked!

2005-10-04T21:31:00.000+08:00

LOL MISSION FAIL!

WTF HAHAHAHA

Tomorrow..

2005-10-03T20:28:00.000+08:00

tomorrow, tomorrow
i love you tomorrow
where we can all boo the gay

2 days.

2005-10-02T18:15:00.000+08:00

be prepared!!

hurhurhurhurhur.

elections '05

2005-09-29T23:08:00.000+08:00

cos of my position i don't think i can say too much

but i think today was pretty lame and mark definitely isn't my perfect prefect nominee

why spam so much.. spam asknlearn enough lar
anyhow
everyday see his posters in the toilet
'piss' me off lar (joking only please don't hurt me)
later don't get in jacked
everyone took a piss at him alr
+ use a lot of paper..

ok nvm

good luck mark! go go

disclaimer - all malicious content was merely for fun

the fucktard nominees

2005-09-28T22:12:00.000+08:00

this is a true account of how irritating and fucking nominees can get over their dumb little posters.

barney shivi and i were in 4j after sch. this guy suddenly opened the door and asked if we were from this class. so we were like why whats it to you. he suddenly say someone has been removing chris kwan posters from the pillar outside class.

i asked him, "are you chris kwan, then?"

he said "yes"

i told him, "well then we're not from this class."

he wasn't quite happy so he walked out, slamming the door. now what sort of a fucking attitude is that from a prefect nominee? i mean first he walks in and speaks to us in an accusatory tone and questions us like he's a big shot? does he not know that i'm number one and he's got no fucking right to just barge in without knocking and plus question us like that? we humoured him. but the moment he went out barney started yelling.

barney: "fuck you! you think you very big ah. fuck you man!" or something to that effect.
shivi was like: "haha you brave la. why didn't you say that in front of him just now?"

well the back door was flung open suddenly. that ljb shouted, "which hole?"

WHAT THE FUCK?!

barney: huh?
ljb ck: you said you wanted to f me. so which hole you want?
barney: what the fuck is your problem la?
ljb ck: which hole?
barney: we didn't take down any of your fucking posters. so fuck off
shivi and i: .........?!

the bloody idiot left in the end. crazy. 1) he's a perverted bastard and 2) he's one looney who's either very desperate for attention or VERY VERY DESPERATE for attention. it's like he's a prefect nominee and i don't think "calm" is in his vocabulary. he jumps to conclusions and obviously fails philo.

his logic is something like premise-premise-conclusion, where the conclusion is not even related.
premise: we're in 4j classroom.
premise: we're 4j students.
premise: his poster was tore at the pillar outside class.
conclusion: we're the fucking culprits.

then he come to talk about holes with us. polluting our clean little minds. is this what you call a prefect? if he gets in ripb i don't think it would be much of a surprise. after all with certain events going on it seems like bloody murphy is correct. what can go wrong will go wrong.

but we'll curb this anyway. all pcb members blanket ban on voting CHRIS KWAN. spread the word and anyway i doubt if you all intended to vote him in the first place anyway. just for precautions no one fucking votes him.

and as an extra if you want tear down his posters. ever heard of "never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you"? he's the fucking trouble. now we trouble him. but then again it might be a waste of effort touching his trash. so maybe we shouldn't waste our time and energy. might as well go do integration.

pcb press conference

2005-09-27T21:25:00.000+08:00

we have had overwhelming response about yesterday's post. therefore i deemed it fit to hold a little press conference to find out what others thought about the current scandals.

chris: "damn manly.. damn grace chong"
goon: "seriously cannot imagine.. wa lan"
sl: "chew finds her chio.. dunno y"

all on various issues. open to interpretation.

but as 老大 i think i'm supposed to remain objective and neutral. therefore i'll keep my personal comments to myself as well as certain restricted pcb members.

2005-09-26T21:06:00.000+08:00

wow this year we got major poster spam from some candidate named mark... and what person (other than him) would want people to piss on their own names?

besides, RIPB elections are getting crappier by the year... people will be voting for the candidates who can make the best pun out of their names... MARK my words...

we have to do something!

2005-09-25T21:45:00.000+08:00

If you try and don't succeed. Cheat, repeat until caught, then lie.

got this off some forum. i like.

Physics Reflective

2005-09-25T18:17:00.000+08:00

Type of activity: Movie – “The Core”

Date of activity: 25th July 2005

Key ideas:
Well, as a no-life, you are right that I don’t really watch movies very often. In fact, I think that watching this movie is something that I won’t normally do, especially since when I watch movies, I tend to watch GOOD ones. Therefore, I think my main idea would be: How did this movie even come into existence? After all, producers would be unwilling to waste money on a lousy plot and even lousier screenplay. I think a hell lot of money would have been wasted in making this rather senseless movie. Unless, of course, it’s been done with the purpose of making us do silly reviews and making us suffer, then in your sadist point of view it might have been well worth the money.

I get a feeling that someone might be copying my work, and those who usually do are coolios who watch movies half the time. I would like to say that if they do, you should fail them and declare their work invalid because as coolios, they would watch movies very often and thus watching yet another movie would not be quite different from what they would normally do.

Questions:
- Seeing the destruction in the movie, does it look very likely to happen into real life someday?
- Are the scientists really so suicidal that they actually are so crazy to go right down to the Earth’s core to search for death? (I know, they claim to be searching for the truth but we all know that all you get down there is extreme heat and death.)
- Which is more important, religion or science?
- How do we know that we are actually living in a world with a core? For all you know the Earth might be based on nothing, like how you Physics teachers tend to give out homework just for nothing.
- Why should we bother if the electromagnetic field of the earth is disrupted? We won’t be attracted anyway.

Answers:
- It will happen. Murphy’s Law says that if anything bad can happen, it will. And I think Murphy is ten times smarter than either Fleming or Lenz.
- Yes, they are. If not why do you think they became scientists in the first place?!
- I’d say science. That’s if you’ll give me the marks for this reflective.
- Actually, they never said they knew. It’s a movie and anything goes in a movie.
- We should bother because it is in human nature to be inquisitive, and we should not interfere with human nature. Therefore it is because of our ignorance of our inquisitiveness that has brought us to meddling with the electromagnetic field of the Earth.

Thoughts:
I only have 52 words left, so I’ll just quickly conclude what I have to say. Movies are fake. They are made up of the director’s beliefs and his imagination. For all we know, the idiot who made this movie could have been hallucinating about Physics! No more words left, so bye!

(500 words)

Schedule for RIPB elections

2005-09-13T23:07:00.000+08:00

Might be very useful for us.

Week 1,2: Interviews
Week 3,4: CAMPAIGNS
Week 5,6: CTs, Campaign supposed to stop (we'll help them)
Week 7: Election Day.

Forgot exactly which date.

But take note of Week 3-6.

Also note that we are having MATHS CT.

And lastly, have fun.

Oh my..!!

2005-09-06T12:57:00.000+08:00

Is this the K Leong we know??

Right of the screen. Watch his left hand.

???!!

On a side note...

2005-09-03T23:06:00.001+08:00

congrats to hullett for beating buckley to last place... i didn't think it would be possible to actually do that however hard you try

2005-09-03T23:06:00.000+08:00

haha no prob.. gg all

Photography

2005-09-03T22:03:00.000+08:00

whoever has nice photos to submit pls do so cos we need the points (last event!!). after we win this year 2006 can go to lang and co. haha i'm selfish no offence lang.

House Carnival

2005-09-01T11:52:00.000+08:00

all bayleyeans please turn up for house carn this fri.

if you haven't already chosen what sport to join, join either softball or squash. squash has 2 places while softball has many to fill up. very impt okay!! thats for B div. for additional info just talk on msn. yea bb!

FIT!

2005-08-31T14:08:00.000+08:00

Congratulations to the following members who have won awards in NAPFA!

SL, Vice Captain, 23 reps for pullups!!

Dom, Member, FITTEST BOY IN SEC 4!!

The rest of us scored 28-30 points (gold). So whoever tries to kill us in RJC, try catching us first. After that you can try pinning us down. Then you can try stretching for us, etc. I don't think I need to say everything out. Hurhurhurhurhur!

"keefe the ri softball fag"?!

2005-08-29T18:21:00.000+08:00

?!

I am greatly disturbed.

Only The Truth

2005-08-27T21:29:00.000+08:00

Subsequent newstables of "Only The Truth" has surfaced in class 4B. I'm very glad to bring you the latest reports. Certain names will be censored due to extreme sensitivity in modern day PCB.

Edition 2, 29th July 2005

_______ spotted with _______________ in secret meeting!

"He toyed with my feelings.. again!" - ____ in tears after Timo's (second) rejection.

"Timo and I is impossible lor.." - ____ commenting on the possibility of patching up, we can all sense the sarcasm.

"She just went running back to him.. -shrugs- it's her loss.." Timo couldn't be bothered.

"I want S_____" - Timo talking on the (new) girl of his dream.

Edition 3, 17th August 2005

Timo shifts his target!!

"Stop raising my hopes la.." - Timo's remark to an unknown person's comment that (a certain) _______ is interested in him.

-

I'll leave you all to make out whatever you want of it. You can also play fill in the balnks if you wish.

shitty jap van

2005-08-26T17:52:00.000+08:00

lol one of these days we should go frag the jap van seriously. aik kwan found 2 or 3 cockroaches inside the soya bean container. to think that ive been drinking there quite regularly. but thats not the point. when he told the uncle, he even said "nevermind la, put inside die already, can drink" WTF?! he can go to jail la.

CCTs over!

2005-08-25T21:23:00.000+08:00

Now will some of you kindly take the time to POST here (ie blog!!)

And remember House Carnival 2 is coming up, so you all might want to try something funny. Maybe a mission to let us clean sweep everything. Don't know - up to you. By the way I've like loads of good working paper for Maths. They're all yellow in colour - message me if you need some. Haha.

Mugging break

2005-08-22T21:09:00.000+08:00

Well you might need some help with your Chem revision or better yet you might need a break from all that mugging so I'm here to help you. Eh wait you might be saying.. me? Jokes. Because since the history of RP began I've never been known to pass a Chem CT. And I haven't. But with the textbook around I don't think I can be that wrong. So yea here goes.

Endothermic reaction --> PCB
Where P = Positive (energy gain), C = Cold (surroundings and soln become cold), B = Breaking bonds

Which sounds pretty much like us! Because we're positive people who tell cold jokes, but are breaking slowly but surely because no one posts but me!! (that's 3 "buts" in a sentence - done on purpose for additional unknown effect).

RIPB elections

2005-08-21T22:00:00.000+08:00

Guys, we'll be having a mission soon..

Just the classics

2005-08-20T21:48:00.000+08:00

Who is the quietest saint?
St. Fu.

Why was x pissed at me?
Because I didn't differentiate with respect to it.

Where can you find a screwed up tiger, a screwed up toilet and screwed up people?
At a screwed up zoo.

Which PCB member cannot blow a recorder properly?
Typhoon Chew.

Why didn't Red went to fight Blue in Pokémon?
Because he was Cross.

Why doesn't Danny tell the truth?
Because he likes to tell lies!

Why doesn't PCB Syndicate keep their money in safes?
Because we have three vaults!

Why Chandru gets pissed off with Grace Chong?
Because Grace Chong teaches us how to write half-equations.

Why are physicists indirect people?
Because they use Fleming's left hand rule as an excuse to point middle fingers.

Why does haram not take Geography?
The physical part was too difficult for him.

How did I tell that all PCB members has been sleeping during SS class?
All not practising active citizenry - I'm the only one posting here!!

I owe you nothing

2005-08-19T23:52:00.000+08:00

Right you shitheads. I already did it, knowing full well you'll continue crapping if I don't. And I'm telling you now I'm betting no more so don't try making me because I won't.

The Differents

2005-08-19T22:03:00.000+08:00

You all must have heard of this GEP band in RI called The Differents. They probably got differentiated by Chandru or Sock Chia or Chiou Yen along the way and.. oh wait. They're GEPs. Meaning they probably got differentiated by Shaun Yap or Priscilla Lim or some GEP Maths teacher. Aha!

Well anyway I got inspired by their band - and decided to set up my own. As I oppose GEPs I will set up the band that is the reverse of them!! Which means I will call it The Integrals! Right we're so gonna pwn. So who wants to sign up? I already got some people who are willing to join and the others are MORE willing to join. We're looking at a dream team lineup.

I will be playing the recorder.
Daniel will be playing the harmonica.
Yuk Lun will be singing.
James will be blowing party horn (okay that idea was koped).

And we might face competition with The Jokers! Never mind that we'll try our best. So signups for our band anyone?

Technological Advancements

2005-08-17T21:00:00.000+08:00

Well now it seems like NEW Technology has made an impact in our local lives. Technology has indeed advanced to such a stage where its power cannot be doubted. Technology is now known to be able to differentiate and apply its techniques very cleverly. Although it isn't perfect yet (they say it scored 34/35 for a differentiation test) - we believe that in the near future it will be able to successfully accomplish that feat. Congratulations to this advancement, by the way.

Confession

2005-08-17T01:53:00.000+08:00

Well, well, to think that CZ who has denied so violently in the past that he has a girlfriend has finally told the truth.

Kuite Krazy Kuotes

2005-08-16T23:33:00.000+08:00

Okay I believe I've not had any quality posts for a while so hopefully you'll laugh your arse out after reading all these quotes by our two, no three, most quotable teachers in RI - namely Nathan Almighty (she's scary though), Chandru Mirpuri (his pop quizzes are scary) and Tan Puay Hock (okay he's real creepy..)!

Before I start posting let me remind you that they are direct quotes. No offence intended by me, but rather by the teachers. Value yourself. Value integration.

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The Chandru Segment

1. Board questions
"It's okay to make mistakes. Shawn, go make mistakes on the board!"

2. Noisy fans in the classroom (Chandru usually turns them off to our dismay)
Chandru walks to the centre of the class.
"The heat is hot here. But I'm not feeling hot still anyway.."

3. Chandru the fortune-teller
"Your future depends on calculus!"

4. Chandru your local doctor (actually mine because I think he was speaking to me)
"Never sleep last night right.. asking for trouble."

5. Chandru the curriculum planner
Adnaan: "Sir, what's after integration?"
Chandru: "September holidays."

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Nathan Almighty's Segment

1. A View from the Bridge (literature book)
"Any repression causes a form of tension-building inside a person."

2. Another View from the Bridge?
"Eddies in class exist." (With incestuous properties, that not said by her.)

3. Familiar..?
"You can't deny what you don't know. (V)eddie's in self-INTEREST, not self-DENIAL (yet)."

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Hock the Cock's Segment

Chong Zhi's reading was still as bad as ever, and TPH was kinda bemused that Zhang Rui, self-proclaimed Chinese talent, was his teacher. Zhang Rui denies any relation with CZ's pathetic reading.

Next, TPH picked on Melvin as another weak link in the Chinese class. Melvin does better than usual and Zhang Rui pipes up that it was because of his sitting beside Melvin that caused the improvement.

TPH then proceeds to say bad performance = not you but good performance = your credit?!

THEN HE SAID, "张锐，世界上所有的女人会生产。那他们的儿子难道都把你叫爸爸吗？"

Zhang Rui has stopped trying to offend Hock the Cock from then on.

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That's it. Heh.

Once again

2005-08-15T23:18:00.000+08:00

In case you all have not read the sidebar, let me put here one of the most important things you have to know when you are reading the entries here:

3. The information on this blog is not necessarily always true, accurate or updated.

Especially when it concerns ME! And especially if the person posting is not ME!!

And in case anyone needs clarification, I am here specially to tell you that *** is not handsome. It's a majority viewpoint and has gone through no fabrication. If you don't believe it you would kindly go ask around. It's the bloody truth and that's all I have to say.

Nothing to post

2005-08-15T22:11:00.000+08:00

Which is why I'm posting this.

Collecting lots of shit quotes though, and don't forget - The Best Is Yet To Be.

Waterpolo = Dota?!

2005-08-14T00:48:00.000+08:00

I realised how similar waterpolo can be to Dota. Today was "Raffles Recall", which, if you recall, is also known as Smith Cup. Also known as Elango Cup (you might have to ask Yuk about that). Or some other names which we came up with but are a little too.. unsuitable for here.

Anyway. There were 4 teams.

I played for RS3 because those poor little noobs did not have enough people. RBD, aka Raffles B Div, were like owning everyone so I just tried to make the situation a little more balanced. But as I was off-form, I imba the game and the game became imba. Though RS3 had a good chance to win they didn't take enough chances. I think RJC was very imba though - because they had two teams and they could switch them back and forth as and when they liked. However at the end I conclude it was GG NO RE.

Damn dota.

Illogical fallacies

2005-08-12T18:44:00.000+08:00

I think the Raffles Philosophy Course is very much off course. We are learning pretty useless things now such as different ruling systems (please that's soooo SS), whatever we did last term seems irrelevant (must be so irrelevant that I can't remember) and logical fallacies last year. Probably Eastern Philosophy next term! Well that's all they'll ever teach! All these trash are so unappealing.. and so out-of-date. Let me tell you what real philosophy is about. Something that you will never learn under Kennet Low or any respected philosopher.

Because what you are going to learn, is beyond any respected philosopher. And Kennet Low. Okay granted he might be a respected philosopher - but never mind that - today we will learn ILLOGICAL FALLACIES. As you can see, it's the opposite of logical fallacies. Because the world is made up of many illogical people anyway, it only makes sense to learn some illogical fallacies. There are quite a few of them, so sit up, read and have fun.

1. Dickto Simpliciter - To simplify everything to dirty thoughts
Example: "Oh.. honey stop it stop it!!" - Lincoln Luk, on Drama Feste night

2. Post Coc - To publish rubbish on a blog / To bang your cock against the post
Example: "xD" - Unknown, on his blog

OR Example2: "Ouch!" - Zhang Kahn, upon banging his cock against the post, which he claims only smart people are fit enough to do that

3. Hasty Gene-ralisation - To classify someone as a Gene (NOT GENETIC) too quickly / to insult someone gravely when the occasion does not call for it
Example: "WTF! You cheated! You bloody ***!" - Danny, during class when cheating is spotted

4. Slippery Slope (on hair) - To start predicting an undesirable chain of events just because someone starts to get suspicious
Example: "Oh shit. *** didn't gel his hair today, which means he suspects us of laughing at him. That means he might try to temper us!!" - Anonymous, when someone didn't gel his hair

5. False Anal-ogy - To compare two events which does not link up to each other
Example: "I did not cheat for the test. I did well for it." - ***, after getting back test results

OR Example2: "I like Oven. Oven likes me." - *** again

6. Poisoning The Class - To use traits of *** and thus in turn making the class a bad place
Example: "Barney! You cheated!" - Ming Sing, highlighting the point that Barney is indeed poisoning the class

OR Example2: "F*** OFF B****!" - Adnaan, in his temper, did not realise that he was poisoning the class by imitating a certain person's bad behaviour

OR Example3: "Look at my fins!" Clemens, after gelling his hair like some mad pineapple, was again poisoning the class with his super bad behaviour

This is real life philosophy, man! Who needs to learn all the nonsense in school?

ruthless aggression

2005-08-12T00:02:00.000+08:00

it's been official. since captain YJ lost the bet to CZ abt his maths test results, he will be attempting to date a certain someone. oh it certainly wun be a RUTHLESS day, opposite of ruthless = not ruthless =) gogo yj lmao.

Maths Test

2005-08-11T22:56:00.000+08:00

Hahahahahahahaha.

Whoever thought that koping my calculator would make me fail, you are SO wrong! But I didn't score that high anyway - so it's nothing to gloat about. Still I managed to beat a certain.. species of fruit so well I guess that's a little achievement to celebrate eh..?

Tomorrow's Napfa retest, 2.4km to be exact. I'll be there to encourage all you Bayleyeans and to discourage all you other Housians. Target is to lap haram three times. Doubt I can do it but I must have the William Tan spirit and determination. Romin said that it rained today on the track because tomorrow it will be filled with all your "fire" and "spirit" till the track will "burn with bright colours". Shit man - since when did he become so poetic and descriptive and so jokes and all? Can't believe it. Nevertheless we'll see tomorrow. Hope everything goes fine.

Gonna sleep early for once so goodnight. Shit this is becoming damn personal blog la. All you bloody slackers better start posting something soon!

Buckley

2005-08-10T23:25:00.000+08:00

Q: Why is Hope Chan the Buckley housemistress?

A: Because she hope after she become housemistress then Buckley got chan to win!

Testing..

2005-08-10T23:04:00.000+08:00

Testing 1 2 3 4..

You know, in case the overload on the tagboard has affected my ability to blog. Haha.

But no school nowadays so not much fun. If you get what I mean.

Tomorrow it's back to school! And RE!

Boy, I'm soooo loooooking forward to RE man.

Plus getting back Maths and Chinese tests! Ulp!

Oh well that's it. Bye.

National Day Eve

2005-08-08T14:33:00.000+08:00

This morning we had celebrations. No la no.

The Builder (I'm not giving any implications) was trying to be funny by scolding us for being very noisy. He started saying something about the seniors sitting "up there" also weren't showing the performance any respect.. you know how it goes la.

BUT! Surprise, surprise! Guess who were sitting upstairs! THE TEACHERS! Not a single Sec 4 in sight - maybe a few prefects but then again they're not much better than the teachers.

Haha so in effect when The Builder said that the people up there were pretty noisy - I guess he probably meant that those chatty teachers just talk too far much. And you know something? I agree. However The Builder soon realised his mistake and tried to take it back. Too late! He knew where the noise was coming from and he knew who to scold. Lolol very funny - I like!

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Anyway before you say you love Singapore please think thrice.

What if Singapore was a male? Then you'd be gay..

What if Singapore was a female? Then you'd be incest.. because some might call Singapore "the motherland".

Shit that was a rather stupid comment. Haha don't take offence because it was done light-heartedly.

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If you're happy and you know you clap your hands!
If you're happy and you know you clap your hands!
If you're happy and you know it, and you really want to show it,
If you're happy and you know you clap your hands!

That seems to be the Malay Cultural Club theme song. After all today that's about all they were doing. The performances were just getting worse and worse - because after the Indians (who did some funky stuff) came the rock band. Then the Malays came to lower the standard and finally the DRUMS were the ultimate worst (lots of noise and calligraphy on National Day?!). I would say this is the worst National Day celebration ever.

What's more there were no free gifts.

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Sigh I'm just bored la.

National Day Celebrations

2005-08-07T23:06:00.000+08:00

As you all know, tomorrow's a half day. Or actually it's 2 hours school - when Monday is supposed to be a 6-hour day. That means it's actually 2/6 day = One-Third Day. Oh my goodness! Chandru will be so proud of me!!

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Here's tomorrow's programme for Jarbone:

1. Complain about a certain person while in school celebrating N Day.
2. Leech to his best friend for a movie.
3. Go out with **** and give out more free ****!

WOWWWWWzzzzaAAAA!! That's so fucking exciting.

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Here's my programme tomorrow:

1. Sleep through the celebrations.
2. Collect stuff for recycling.
3. Go home and sleep or make another lame attempt at doing homework.

OMG! I JUST REALISED MY LIFE IS SO SAD COMPARED TO JARBONE'S!!

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Yea that's all for the National Day Eve's Eve celebrations on PCB Syndicate. Do stay tuned. I'm not exactly gonna change the blog to red and white but yea I'm tired so I'm going to sleep. Shit I just realised the previous sentence doesn't make sense. But the rest of the post above the "-" do so please do make it a point to read it. Though of course you would have read it already before reading this. Ugh. -.-"

WANTED: A girlfriend

2005-08-06T22:45:00.000+08:00

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1) Teach me Chemistry.

2) Teach me Physics.

3) Teach me Biology. (especially Genetics and Reproduction because even though I don't take Bio now I'd like to keep my options open when I go to JC)

4) Teach me Literature.

5) Teach me Chinese.

6) Teach me Mathematics. (integration!!)

7) Teach me CLE.

8) Teach me English.

9) Teach me Social Studies.

10) Must be pretty but not too pretty such that I would get distracted from my studies. (on second thoughts, too pretty also will do for me.)

11) Must stay with me until after Common Tests.

You might be thinking that I might as well advertise for a tutor. But NO! Tutors cost money, and don't you think having a girlfriend sounds so much cooler than having a tutor? Axe Dee!

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The world is changing

Same old cliché comment, "What is the world coming to nowadays?"

First up my six-year-old cousin had begun gelling his hair when I saw him today. Are we creating a generation of pineapples? Thankfully when I went to mess it up he didn't temper me. He just messed mine up as well (not that there was much to mess).

And his slightly older sister was commenting on how schools should allow designer earrings, coloured hair, etc. I think we might have to redefine schools and call them youth fashion studios.

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Getai Idol

It's the seventh month and there's a getai at my grandma's place. Well the emcee was really loud. No, let me rephrase that, the amplifiers were really loud because several storeys up I could hear the singing clearly. The Hokkien songs weren't that bad because you couldn't really make something bad even worse, but the Chinese songs were simply terrible.

Please, can we like get better getai singers? Especially if the objective is to make the whole neighbourhood hear them. My poor grandfather tried sleeping at 8pm but failed more than miserably.

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Barney is everyone's favourite dinosaur

Last but not least, another scandal. Barney was admitting today that his three girls (the oh-so-famous ones that came for Drama Feste) had HUGGED HIM!! While he was in hospital and supposed to rest! Oh man - let's all gasp!

Barney, however, was nonchalant. "Just hug only what.. not like kissing or anything."

Right.

Know what you're doing

2005-08-05T19:30:00.000+08:00

Chandru (when teaching integration): "It's better to write c = constant, because you do like that you're like telling the examiner - 'Don't play with me, I know what I'm doing!'"

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Oh my love, you are my star. Because everytime I go crazy, it's you that I see.

Beegenetics

2005-08-05T01:57:00.000+08:00

Don't ask so many questions. You'll enjoy our music.

Bad tuition!

2005-08-03T23:01:00.000+08:00

hi~~ ur resident pineapple here.

i think i'll freaking sack my tuition teacher... so stupid >.< but she IS STILL 1000 times smarter than me!! but why she fail >.<

omg.. think I'll sack my tuition teacher la *she's not blue*. to think she won a certain competition 4 me! well at least 9 is quite good xD cos i beat haram. haram score double also cannot beat me haha *grinz*. i feel very accomplished today.

gtg now... mum bugging me to get off the com *grinz*.. cya ltr.. xD

[Curtain call.]

Pineapple rises and bows. Grins to the appliances in the crowd.

Ancient Chinese Mythology

2005-08-03T22:41:00.000+08:00

As part of RE, I visited this Haw Par Villa website. Well just imagine if Mr. Yarbone had been living in the past - I really don't know how many times a man could die.

LIST OF SINS AND PUNISHMENTS

SIN: Robbery & inflicting physical pain / Gambling or Prostitution
PUNISHMENT: Thrown into a volcano pit or onto blocks of ice or drowned in pools of blood

SIN: Ingratitude / Disrespect / Drug addiction & trafficking
PUNISHMENT: Tied to a red hot copper pillar and grilled

SIN: Dodging taxes & business fraud / Lack of filial piety
PUNISHMENT: Body ground between 2 large stones

SIN: Money lending / Plotting against others for their property
PUNISHMENT: Thrown onto a hill of knives

SIN: Pornography / Cheating & swearing / Wasting food & misuse of books
PUNISHMENT: Body sawn into half or thrown onto a tree of knives

SIN: Rumour-mongering / Rapists & instigating suicide
PUNISHMENT: Tongue pulled out or thrown into boiling oil

SIN: Causing family discord / Cheating in examinations / Harming others
PUNISHMENT: Body dismembered & intestines pulled out

SIN: Robbery & rape / Neglect of old & young
PUNISHMENT: Limbs & head chopped off / Crushed under boulders

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I think if you put all RI students into Ancient China there might be none left to do any studying at all. What would Dear Chairman Mao say if he saw all these radical rules?! Chinese philosophers must have had a lot to debate in the past with questions like what is considered filial piety? What is considered harming others, causing family discord, etc.

And what would our Dear Veddie Yarbone say if he saw all this?

(He's bloody lucky there's no punishment for incest.. yet. Good luck when it comes out.)

Déjà vu?

2005-08-02T23:36:00.000+08:00

Mr Yap: So when can you make it for Exco meeting?

YJ: Let's see.. Friday?

Mr Yap: Okay. We'll have it on Wednesday then.

YJ: What?! I told you I can't have it on Wednesday!

Mr Yap: Oh, I heard you. But we'll have it on Wednesday.

YJ: Then what was the point of asking me in the first place?

Mr Yap: Why, because it shows I respect your feelings and opinions of course!

YJ: But you're not even considering them! What's the point?

Mr Yap: It's just something that has to be done. Take House Carnival for example, I'm going to make you check up on every single trial and call everyone up but it's pretty darn interesting to see what you have to say about it first.

YJ: I can't make it on Wednesday.

Mr Yap: Think positively! You just have to stop sending out all those negative vibes and be more proactive. Think "can do" instead. Half the battle is won if you believe you can do it! Just think of how much this means to Bayley, and what you are doing for your house! Don't waste this AMAZING opportunity to serve your house. Bayley needs you!

YJ: Erm.. okay.

Mr Yap: Great, I'll be off then. See you at the meeting. [walks off]

YJ: [stares blankly]

The Thief

2005-08-02T23:04:00.000+08:00

Someone stole my calculator right before Mathematics Test today in a lame attempt to make me fail. Perhaps you'd succeed, and perhaps I deserve it but that's so not the point.

Stealing is wrong. If you admit now it's not too late. You will be cured.

I have two suspects in mind. Is it the one with the sense of paranoia (ie what happens if one calculator breaks down and I don't have a spare) or is it Balga the Dwarf (with sudden bursts of temper and eccentricity?)

That's some digits for thought. Anyway we didn't catch Yarbone cheating today - very hard to believe. Meaning he must have some new malicious technology which the naked eye cannot catch. Quite sad - but never mind, there's always the next test!

Test tomorrow

2005-08-01T21:45:00.000+08:00

Just a few friendly reminders:

1) If you need to use tissue paper, please put it on the table.

2) If you need to use tissue paper, don't write notes on it beforehand.

3) If you are using foolscap, don't write cheat notes on it.

4) If you are sitting beside someone not that good in the subject, don't try to look in front at James.

5) If you are worried that you don't know much, ask your tuition teacher now.

6) If you want to get questions from other classes, drop the idea now.

7) If your name is Veddie Yarbone, I suggest you start mugging now instead of thinking of cheating.