Simply Quackers

Because ducks are awesome.

Today was the photography field trip to the botanics.And... it was an interesting experiance.

Ehh.....Hm. Yeah.

It rained, and rained, and rained. Even though it had been thundering with boiling black broths of stormclouds since the morning, whoever up there who controls the weather only decided to unleash the floodgates at around 12. Lasting all the way to about 6 in the evening.

Even though we got rained out and were stuck at the visitor center for quite a while, I am pleased to say that I have hardy juniors, hardy, humerous juniors, who simply take everything in their stride and take photos, no matter what the weather. Photography juniors, I am proud of you!

They simply strode out through the rain (when it got light enough for the cameras to not short out) and had fun. The light was super diffused, the place was wet and soggy, but you all simply laughed at it all and just appriciated the fact that we were out of school. Your laughter was so loud that I could hear it across symphony lake. Seriously.

We laughed, we shot, and we ate. I could not ask for more, and I throughly enjoyed myself, even if it was not in a laugh-madly-and-crazily sort of way. It was a nice change of pace, to be peaceful and slow-going. I got to know all of the photography members better, took some nice shots, and ate some of Darrelle's awesome cookies. I am completely at peace with myself now (:

Some shots from today:

Rain makes everything intresting.

A plant that looks like a firework. Now, it is a wet firework. XD

The brown thing is a seed. And wet seeds on leaves are oddly photogenic.

The bird is STARING AT JOO IN HORROR.

Hairy plants + water + Black and white = a creepy thing. Looks kinda like an alien foreleg.

Aaah, I think I will sleep now.

Freestyle!

Life is odd and amusing.
Full of crazy things that pop out at you.
Like random cats that follow you all the way from the bus stop.
and an entire hoard of snails crowding your garden because your sister says they needed 'exercise', only to see a mynah come and eat five of them.
As well as the sudden discovery of really ancient protractors that belonged to your father YONKS AGO still in pristine condition.

This has been a most fruitful day.

Hmm. I shall now do the 50 reactions meme stolen from sham's blog because it looks fun P:

This is called 50 FIRST REACTIONS. Type what comes to your mind FIRST whenever you see these 50 words. Don't think and don't go back and change. Doesn't matter how random it is, just type it! Repost it for all of your (bored) friends. Consider yourself tagged if you are reading this!(50 is missing!)
1. Beer: Yeast. (LOL BIO ANAEROBIC RESPIRATION!)
2. Food: Steak.
3. Relationships: Are fun to analyze.
4. Your CRUSH: Mango + Ice + Blender = mango crush. Good for hot days! (CURSE YOU DRY SEASON)
5. Power Rangers: DINO FORCE!
6. Life: The most amusing thing around.
7. The President: OF AMERICAAA
8. Yummy: Tofu. Especially the smelly kind.
9. Cars: Mercedes (SEE LAH KONG KONG, YOU INFLUENCE ME ONE.)
10. Movies: Monsters Vs Aliens (I want to watch!) {Yes, I posses the mind of a five-year old. :D}
11. Halloween: Frankenstiennn
12. Sex: Gender. :D
13. Religion: Freethinker?
14. Hate: Homework.
15. Fear: heights.
16. Marriage: Photography-paying oppertunity >:D
17. Blondes: ARE SCARY.
18. Slippers: *FlipFlopFlipFlop*
19. Shoes: are falling apart
20. Asians: HUA YU KU.
21. Pass time: Doing memes like this.
22. One night stand: Lamp.
23. My Cell Phone: Is too noisy
24. Smoke: smells bad
25. Fantasy: Add a 'FINAL' in front.
26. College: Far, far away.
27. High school life: Spastic?
28. Pajamas: as a hole.
29. Stars: Leo
30. Center: of the earth
31. Alcohol: Is also made with yeast.
32. The word love: "LORD WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE."
33. Friends: Are AWESOME CRAZY
34. Money: makes the world go round $$
35. Heartache: SEE A CARDIOLOGIST
36. Time: Is money.
37. Divorce: is annoying
38. Dogs: are smelly and require a bath soon. (Must wash them tomorrow.)
39. Undies: Are Down Under.
40. Parents: DONT SWITCH OFF THE INTERNET YET PLEASE
41. Babies: Noisy and smelly. Also require baths regularly. But I still like dogs better.
42. Ex: pensive?
43. Song: Ong Siang (LOL SCHOOL FOUNDER)
44. Color: Green
45. Weddings: More money-photography oppertunities!
46. Pizza: HUT.
47. Hangout: On a noose?
48. Rest: GO MY POKEMONS. USE REST TO HEAL AND BEAT ALL THEM OPPONENTS.
49. Goal: 6A1s!
50. ???: A MYSTERIOUS POKEMON APPEARED AND KO'ED YOU FOR MESSING UP THIS MEME.

Ah, they joy of life (:

EARTH DAAAAY

Switch off your lights. Sacrifice your air-con. Put your laptop on power-save. Because today is EARTH DAY :D

Today was most amusing. We had a rather pointless marriage talk today for CE. It was actually quite enjoyable, and not quite as trauma-inducing as I expected it to be. We got to see what the teachers looked like from 20 years + ago on their wedding day, and I have just really realized what 20 years can do to a person. Its really quite amazing. In a rather odd-slightly-surprising sort of way.

Also, (YES NADIYAH, I ENJOY LAUGHING AT MISERY) the reactions from most of the level to the talk was entertaining to no end. Unfortunate teachers had to stand up to talk about marriage and commitment, and one poor soul had to talk about being single. I SALUTE THEE. Being single HAS its advantages, so HAH therestofthegirlyschoolpopulation, I HAS PROOF. >:D Marriage is NOT a ruddy must, so dont look so horrified whenever I answer "WTFISH NO" whenever you all ask about all these silly relationship questions.

Anyway, it should be quite obvious that I am probably the worst person to ask anyway, because I will simply laugh at all of the silly things people do for love, and pull a puck on you all, and simply step back to watch. ("Lord, what fools these mortals be.:D")

-SHOT-

In other news, I have discovered that accoustic guitar blocks out quite a lot of noise. NONE BUT THE EAGLES CAN MAKE THE GUITAR SING ITS SOUL OUT. Seriously. *happily stocking up on anti-noise music to use*

JACREMEMBERDAMMIT

REFLECTION WEBSITE
www.reflection.yolo.sg

SNAP WEBSITE
http://njps-snap2009.org/

DEADLINE BY 24 APRIL D8<

To do list.

as a stark reminder. (this is for my own referance. You guys dont have to read it.)

Also, I will be refering and holding a conversation with myself in this post. Because I am just that fail :D

IN SCHOOL.
1.Pay attention more often. Even if its super boring. Even if I know it already. I may actually learn something. Supposedly.
2.Stop getting so distracted. FOCUS ON ONE TASK AT A TIME. multitasking gets NOTHING done. as compared to doing one thing at a time, which may actually accomplish something.
3.Stop procrestinating. Tomorrow may never come when deadlines are concerned!
4.WRITE THINGS DOWN. TO REMEMBER. SERIOUSLY. JAC, YOU HAVE A BLOODY SHORT TERM MEMORY. YOU CANT REMEMBER THINGS FOR MORE THAN TEN MINUTES AT MOST. DEAL WITH IT.

IN CCA.
1.Hand things over to juniors.You will not be around forever, jac. Give up all duties by end april. This includes photo-coverage. Give. It. Up.
2.Finish the exhibition stuff. TIME TO SHOW THE WORLD OUR WORTH, YO.
3.Plan potential !photofest! Can it really come true?! (IF IT DOES I WILL DIE WITH NO REGRETS. AT ALL.)
4.STOP FRETTING AND ENJOY WHAT YOU LOVE FOR ONCE (:

....that is all.

I SMELL LAMB CHOPS.

PARALLELLLLLLS

D.Gray-man fans;

Look at this link.

http://www.onemanga.com/D.Gray-Man/185/04/

Does this kinda remind you of anyone? Anyone at all?

XD

-shot and killed-

To speak is to voice; and to voice is power.

Today was oral. And today was most amusing. It's a friday, after all. The last day of the work/schoolweek (: otherwise known as 'TGIF (THANKGODITSFRIDAY) AFTER SCHOOL I CAN SLACK' day.

Chinese oral, was of course, an epic fail. But nevermind, you live and learn. Like today, I learnt that not eating lunch and drinking a huge bottle of water before oral gives you gas, and gas makes one stutter. Hence and thereforth, I have learnt not to drink water on an empty stomach before oral. 8D;; (INSERT GREAT, GASSY ENLIGHTENMENT HERE.)

(AhahahIbetIcanBURPmychineseoralnexttime)

By english oral though, most of the gas had gone. Ah well. I enjoyed myself quite a lot during the test by reciting great, long chunks of photography rubbish. Its amazing how one can twist conversations in every which way when one understands what is going on (UNLIKECHINESECOUGHCOUGH).

I think all the teachers now assume my life revolves around my camera.

Well, it sort of does to a certain extent. But oh well.

Hey, that reminded me. Of CE this morning.Its a bad rememberance. Honestly, I understand the need to educate teenage girls on physical intimacy, but that dosent mean I have to like it. And yes sham, if you are reading this, I AM a lost, hormoneless cause. And yes, I still fail to see the logic in all these foolish actions brought about by 'love'. In my world, when guys try to take advantage of girls, there will be a big red emergancy button the girls could press to summon a hoard of ninjas to solve the problem. See? no need for anymore embarrasing CE lessons :D Aaaah, such a brillient plan. I bet I could start a company and sell the idea.

"JAC'S NINJAS-FOR-HIRE. WE BEAT UP BAD GUYS FOR A LOW LOW PRICE. INSTANT PROTECTION AT THE PRESS OF A BUTTON. HACKING,SLASHING,SMASHING SERVICES OFFERED!"

And the slogan would be:

"HACKETY-SLASH AND POOF! PROBLEM SOLVED. BECAUSE NINJAS PWN ALL."

I will make millions.

Music is the universal language

If one man with a will is a force
then a group of people can change the world.

Check out Playing for change: http://playingforchange.com
They want to use music to raise funds and bring the world together; for peace, for equality, and for the sake of all mankind.

lets get together and feeel alright (:
Oh my goodness, the guy from chennai in 'dont worry' is awesome.

People are not so bad after all.

GRR.

Sorry guys. I just really need to vent anger right now. you can ignore this post if you like. Im not going to be specific. Its just to let off steam. I'm just going to refer to the idiot as 'you', so if you tend to take things to heart if someone uses the term 'you', I suggest you shut this window now.
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WHAT IS ALL THIS ABOUT?

Do you want me to whack you?

Make up your mind. I am 16.I have an education. I understand the english language. I think I can think for myself.

You have no right to tell me how to live my life.

You have no right to make stupid comments about my family.

And you certainly have no right to insult me as a person.

I don't care if you are more senior than me.
I woulden't care if you ruled the world.

I would still punch your brains out.

NOBODY INSULTS MY FAMILY. NOBODY.

So what if I am not the housewife you expect me to be? Do you think females are ment to stay chaine to the kitchen, cooking for the men? Times have changed. Women are now as, if not more, powerful than men now. Don't judge me by my bloody gender.

So what if I am not even a typical girl? I enjoy wearing pants. I dislike anything girlish. I get mistaken for a guy. So what? That dosen't mean you can shame my family like that. You have no right whatsoever.

You. Are. an insult. To anyone. That has any honour. At all.

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For those people who read this rubbish, its fine. I won't go around killing anyone. And no, I can't really talk about it/solve the problem as of yet. But I am not going to let idiots like this pull me down.

Not when I can soar so high.

Pfft.

Sometimes when life throws rubbish at you, there is nothing else to do but stand and face it like a man.

Because nothing is stronger than the will of one who is determind.

Marvelous

Because life just amazes me everyday (:

This morning, I was taking my grandpa for a walk in the NUH hospital gardens. And suddenly, he looked up, and saw these two blue kingfishers. I have no idea what they were doing there, but the way they just shimmered in the early morning light pleased my grandpa to no end.

It has been a long time since he was happy like that.

Then my grandpa told me about how they got their blue capes. Long ago, the kingfishers were the envoys from the spirit of the sky, messengers to the spirit of water. They were so charming, the spirit of water asked them to stay a while. Then suddenly, a demon came, threatening to fill in the lake the water spirit lived in.

The kingfishers dived onto the demon, attacking it with their beaks. They fought with such ferocity, the demon pulled out all of their back feathers in an attempt to protect itself.

After the demon had fled, the kingfishers slumped to the ground, in pain and almost bare of feathers.

The water spirit felt their pain, and used it as a thread to weave a cape of water, to cloak the kingfishers, for them to wear as a badge of honour.Henceforth, they were named the protector of water bodies,darting around with their shimmering capes of blue, sharing the water's bounty, protecting the water spirit forevermore.

(:

Bow down to the humble kingfisher; for it symbolises peace, happiness, and a bountiful catch.

Brains?

Your Brain is 40% Female, 60% Male

You have a total boy brain Logical and detailed, you tend to look at the facts And while your emotions do sway you sometimes... You never like to get feelings too involved

What Gender Is Your Brain?

Lulz. Kinda knew that it was true all along. 8D

/EDIT/ I think Ive revived the blogthings trend P:

Found the link to this highly amusing one on SJ's blog.

You Are 26% Feminine, 74% Masculine

You are in touch with your masculine side. You are not overly sensitive and not easily moved. Occasionally, though, something will get through and touch your heart!

Are You Masculine or Feminine?

LOL. No wonder people mistake me for a boy! XD;;;
Blogthings be most amusing. XD

SPORTS IS A PASSION FOR THE NATION TO UPHOLD

(shot of sylvia running for class relay. FEEL THE POWER OF 4DY.)

SOME CALL IT A WAY OF LIFE BUT THERE IS A STORY TO BE TOLD.
-above line + title copyright to shameera!

One word to describe yesterday.

EPIC.

It was hot. It was stressful. It was chaotic. but it was EPIC.

(yes, epic is one of my new favourite words :P)

9th of April. My very last sports day. And the very first that had it's entire photo coverage co-

ordinated by students. I was afraid that we will mess up. I was scared that I wouldn't be able to do as well as previous years in producing magazine-worthy shots. I feared the potential accidents that seem to plauge the photographers that go on assignment. and most of all, I doubted myself.

but in the end;

PHOTOGRAPHY SECTION 2009. YOU GUYS MADE IT NOT ONLY ALL RIGHT, BUT YOU MADE IT AWESOME.

Thank you for standing by me when I was panicking my head off in the morning.

Thank you for enduring my badly-planned lessons in an attempt to prep you guys for sports day.

And thank you, for making me proud.

You guys were awesome. You not only handled the event cooly and calmly, you followed protocol, you delt with the little hiccups that came in waves during that day without breaking a sweat, and with all your running around just to get that onse shot, you guys were the best atheletes there of them all.

Laura Khoo- Thank you for your awesome memory card opening skills. If it wern't for you, we would have two DSLRs down for the count. (and thanks for the sweets :P)

Darrelle: Thank you for managing the snipers and my mass hysteria. Thank you for taking over one sports day lesson. And thank you, for being an Epic RUNNER :D

Kelly: Thank you for taking over the sports day lesson with Darrelle. Thank you for being there when I needed yu. and thank you for being the brillient starter that led our club to VICTORY IN THE CCA RACE!

The sec1/sec2 juniors: THANK YOU for being the awesome that you all are!

The Seniors:

Nadiyah: Thank you for being so cool and calm, even when I was tearing my hair out because of rubbish. Thank you for tolerating my nonsense. Thank you for handling the videography team. And Thank you for caring so much about me :) ( WE MUST HAVE ANOTHER DAY OF NOTHING AGAIN)

Shun Jing: Thank you for being the sensible person that helped me with handling all the little problems on sports day. Thank you for all the running around in the sweltering hot sun in your jacket, just to take photos. Thank you for worrying about my foot and offering to be my walking stick! (REALLY, MY FOOT IS A LOT BETTER NOW)

Nicole Yap: Thank you for handling all the juniors and for your encouragement!

Claudia: thank you for training the runners and leading them to victory, even if the school didn't acknowledge it. I will make sure the school does, even if it means beating up certain people. >D

The non-photog people:

Lesley: Thanks for all the fun after sports day and coming along with us. And for cheering your head off for infocomm with me :D (CONGRATS ON GETTING YOUR GREEN-TIP!)

Kristen: Thank you for all the water! I would've dehydrated without it!

Everyone else that supported me/encouraged me/ made sure that I didnt kill myself: YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME IN YOUR OWN WAY. AND I THANK YOU ALL (:

Right. Now down to the actual day.

This is my sister. She is a huge supporter of green team. Hence the green teeth. GRIN AND BEAR IT, KIM. GREEN TEAM ALL THE WAY! :D


My sister was also the torch bearer. She is just that awesome. (:

OUR CLASS IS FOR SHIZZLE. D-I-G-N-I-T-Y.

4DY, you guys are FANTASTIC too!

Infocomm, when I get permission I shall post the epic photos of you all and your epic race here.

BECAUSE WE WON THE CLUBS AN SOCIETIES RACE. I AM. EXTREMELY PROUD AND HOARSE. BECAUSE I YELLED MY LUNGS OUT FOR YOU GUYS. AND I DONT REGRET A SINGLE MINUTE OF IT. AT ALL.

Friends, I will ask for permission to post your shots here too :) I do not have a death wish.

After sports day, Nadiyah, Lesley, SJ and I went to wander around toa payoh. It was fun rampaging around taking photos (:

Friends. Photography. Life. These are the things that make me live on, and on. (:

Epic life is EPIC

Life is like a washing machine. Sometimes it just spins around at full speed and makes you feel all clean and nice-smelling, and sometimes the door dosent latch properly and clothes come flying out. Even worse, someone puts a red shirt with white clothes and everything comes out pink (ugh.)

Tomorrow is sports day. I don't know whether to look forward to it or not. Photography tomorrow is going to be hot, chaotic and more stressful than previous years. Ever since my 2006, I have run with the photography section, sprinting around toa payoh staduim taking photos of everything and anything going on. Every year, I nearly get trampled by the marching contingent. Every year, I yell my lungs out during the CCA relay. And every year, I enjoy myself to no end.

Tomorrow will be my last sports day. And I am not going to let anything ruin it. NOTHING.

I will not let stupidity get in the way of my enjoyment.

Responsibilities will not hold me down from doing my fullest.

If it is not my fault and yet I get blamed, I will simply smash the offending person into the ground.

If horrible things happen or if I fall flat on my face, one day I will look back on al this and laugh. But for now, I will pick myself up, brush off the dirt, continue running, and fall down again. Failure is not a measure of uselessness, but the next step to success. (:

Photography, this is for you.

To all those

To all those that cared

to those I scared

to all the souls that touched mine

to the people that made life all-so-fine;

I wish to express my deepest thanks

for being there when times were bad

for standing by when things got mad

for laughing with me and at

all the things life threw at us and for that

I thank thee.

I thank you all for the little things

that made life shine in all it's glory

the random fail and laughter fits

made even reproduction seem funny in all its gory

And for that;

I thank thee.

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Thank you all for being there for me and tolerating my nonsense. :) Sorry for putting you all through this random whimsy. Its just that I'm high on painkillers and painkillers make people nostalgic, and nostalgia has suddenly reminded me that I never got around to thanking all the awesome people who have been with me for the past 4 years and more, people who have been suffering and laughing with me through this rollercoaster ride of life. I would thank you all individually, but I think you all know who you are for the moment. So, anyway,

THANK YOU, ALL THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE WHO MAKE MY LIFE THE AWESOME THAT IT IS. I KNOW THAT I'VE BEEN DEPRESSING AND STUPID AS OF LATE, BUT I WILL TRY AND AMMEND THAT. THANK YOU, FOR TOLERATING ME AND MY NONSENSE, AND THANK YOU, FOR BEING MY FRIENDS THROUGH AND THROUGH (:


When I am feeling a bit more sane without being drugged, I will do a proper thank-post. But for now, this will have to do.

This post may be deleted later if I deem it stupid and unworthy of thanking you all. (and I probably will.)

Darn you kids.

...I have now attained an entirely new level of old-man-ness.

I now have to use a freaking walking stick.

D:

Due to a sprained foot from yesterday's sparring, I now cannot walk anywhere without my stick, much less climb stairs.

It does not help that my room is on the second floor.

It also does not help that my now purple and swelling left foot is scaring everybody, and I cannot cover it up with shoes or socks because any more pressure and my foot will turn an even deeper shade of purple in protest.

Yes Shun Jing, all I need now is a beard and grey hair. The hair will take care of itself. But unless I get hormone injections or something, I cannot grow a beard :P

My grandpa is most amused by the largest lump on my foot. He says the entire thing kinda resembles and eggplant. Yes Kong Kong, I will put ice on it every two hours or so. Thank you for telling kimberly to remind me every ten minutes. *swats her*

And to all those in school, please dont assume that I will randomly fall and die or something. I can still move, and its going to take more than a fall to kill me. (:

Oh, and thank you all for all the well-wishing to my grandpa and I. He says thanks too. (:

LESLEY, I KNOW YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO READ THIS, BUT GOOD LUCK FOR GRADING TODAY. GO KNOCK EM DEAD, OKAY? AND DONT INJURE YOURSELF EVEN FURTHER. OR ELSE PEOPLE WILL TRY AND FORCE YOU ONTO CRUTCHES OR SOMETHING. GOOD LUCK!

SAVE THE WHALE (and dolphins)

Pfft. Before I selfishly type about my life, I would like to use the little awareness this blog has to spread this message:

/RANT START/

"There is a petition going around against the keeping of whale sharks by a casino operator in Singapore. have a look at the following link: http://www.whalesharkpetition.com/

The same operator is also going to keep up to 18 Bottlenose dolphins which have already been wild caught from the Solomons and is being held in Subic Bay, Philippines until the facility in Singapore is ready. "- An E-mail from my mum.

Fishing IRs and Casinos. We already are short of land space and they want to keep a WHALE SHARK here. What next? A herd of blue whales? Go sign the petition if you can. Its for a BIG, BIG cause. (:

/RANT END/

Anyway. I just came back from my Taekwondo Blackbelt grading. It was really quite the drama. Not only did I get wait around for about 3 hours just to do my grading, I got to watch the Poom-belts (blackbelts below 15 years of age) do their grading. Its really quite impressive. People fell down, sparring went awry, patterns were forgotten, and one guy even left the stadium on a stretcher.

While the other black-tips and I were watching all this unfold, we suddenly got the wonderful news that we were going to be tested on 4 patterns that we didn't learn because we were told that they were taken out of the grading.

10 minutes before the black-tips were supposed to go on.

Remember how I said that we waited around for roughly three hours? Well, yeah. You can imagine the immense rage and panic that swept through the stadium.

After a lot of scrambling by the coaches, mass hysteria from the taekwondo students and a lot of pleading later, patterns one to four were removed from the 'Lucky draw' of patterns, and peace was restored. Well, as peaceful as an extremely warm staduim full of overheating taekwondo pratictioners can get, anyway. Ah well. It was amusing while it lasted.

In the end, I survived my grading mostly intact, and alive. The only injuries I have are a sprained foot and a few bruises here and there. Im sorry if you didnt understand this post at all, but if you are bothered enough to find me, I would happily explain what all this hoo-ha was about. (:

Kong Kong, if your reading this, i want to say Im okay, and Yes, I WILL do better in my sparring to help protect everyone, okay? Dont worry. I hope you like your new laptop :D

Time to put ice on my foot, I think.