Hello!

CTs are over!

But we are getting our soon...

But for this few days, I am very happy. Before the CTs, i was like this

But now that the CTs are over i am like this

and when terms starts, we would all be busy with work, cca and crappy things like that and we would all be glum for the rest of the term... One thing i always felt was a very bad decision was to have Common Tests (or any tests) right after the holidays. Cause the orignial purpose of holidays i believe was to allow people to rest and more importantly be re-energized for the new term. (like in my Sec 4 class where only 5 people are awake during bio lessons, we managed to keep awake for the first week or so) So when CTs are held before the holidays, everyone is bored and tired of schoolwork already, so everything we learn doesn't go in at all.

Yeah. so having CTs are bad. very bad. but what is worse is when you get back your results and you have to be ranked in your cohort. For those who haven't heard about this dastardly deviously conniving plan this is what happens.

Assume student X gets back his maths paper.
he would see his mark (say 0/100)
then he would receive a slip telling him what percentile he is in the cohort (100 percentile)
after releasing he is last in school, student X walks to the window and jumps down.
the school would then wonder why student X attempted to commit suicide and hire 50 consuellors to solve the problem, when they could just remove this perverse ranking system.

But my mum has this gem of insight

"you see right, the person who gets 100th percentile should be happy. cause now he free tuition, lecture fall asleep now got free alarm clock. I think the person who gets 100th percentile should jump on a canteen table and declare that he is going to treat the school to lunch cause he is 100th percentile.

and the 99th percentile people should be very sad cause they are not lousy enough to be in the 100th percentile"

i think my mum is very cool. She say if i get 100th percentile, she will throw a party for me.

Class blog

I am very conflicted about the blog! the old design looked very nice but don't have archives! so i also don't know.

And i realized that i am a tech noob, cause i didn't try to give myself permission to post pictres, but just whined about it! sigh... i guess blogdrive is good! yeah

I am being very incoherent.

Blogsearch!

I have realized this cool function available on the internet. being a tech noob, i have never known of existence of this cool device, called blogsearch (blogsearch.google.com) but now that i know what it is, i decided to search my name and see what people have been blogging about me. To my horror there was much stuff i couldn't understand, until i realized that

there was more than one Hong Quan.  

but here is a sampling of what i found (with comments as brackets)

Not referring about me

WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON THAT...
1. Made you smile:
hongquan :D :D [i never knew i made people smile] remember what you promised, poopoo boy [wtf is the nickname poopoo boy? what a descaration to the great name of "hongquan". and i hope whatever he promised is not something from the toilet]

2. Hongquan look so beng =x [my secret identity of being a gang leader has been exposed]

3. I AM NOT FROM WHAT THE HONGQUAN PRIMARY SCHOOL (Some Jap blog)
[got primary school named after me? so cool! but why is this jap blogger not wanting to be associated with hongquan primary school? it has a very cool name]

4. i hate hongquan(bastard).. i hate zaijun(scumbag)..i hate
dingwei(asshole).. [i never knew someone hated me so badly. but at least i am not as bad as dingwei, asshole > bastard]

5. many people's shocked at hongquan's new hairstyle! it's funny i think and it's totally un-fitting [at the end of last year, my friends asked me out on my birthday to cut a mohawk, so as to be cool and hip-pening when school reopens. But i had a chalet on that day so... :(
6. mr hardi force us to move to exam seating..and he also threatened to cut hongquan long fringe with a penknife [long hair! i never had that :(

7. In my month of training I somehow managed to learn all of Xiao Hong Quan, (so what, i have learnt all of Da Hong Quan. Da (big) is better than Xiao (small). if not why got Da Chang Jing, and no Xiao Chang Jing?)

8. Hong Quan also got back into the maple mood now that he has a level 101 warrior [obviously not updated. i am now a level 999999 spellcaster.]

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Blogs about me

1. Crawshaw went out to bugger some presenting people, including poor Hongquan, who was my IC during GE camp [it is nice that someone remembers me! cause all i remember from running GE camp was that 3/4 of the time i needed to leave my group to serve food and to wash pails. Essentially my job in GE camp was a dishwasher. and i taugh the Sec 1s how to eat as well.]

2. on a side note, this happened on the way home after open house yesterday and i was accompanied by willy and shermond. some guy from behind shouts: "Hey Hong Quan!" and so we instictively turn our heads around to see......a girl. as in seriously the girl was called hong quan.
okok hq, ur XXY chromosomes are realli acting up man. wednesday nite was the blood-on-pants thingy and now this. must have been the oysters. (so they dunmake u more man la neville) [i don't have blood-on-pants. it was milo, that somehow turned reddish. and i am secretly a female. but don't tell anyone. it is a secret]

3. So the knights of the BB Tea shop - pason, muthu, teddy, willy, me and pang-seh king lock hong quan ( the guy who believes that fisherman friends can cure fever, the guy who drinks up his whole bottle of water knowing very well that i added 3 packs of mamee seasoning to it, the guy who fell down the stairs today), went back as the sec 5 squad [seriously, fisherman friends cure fevers. If not why is it called fisherman's friends? cause when they fish out at sea, then they have fever, and they eat fisherman's friends lah. the cure is actually eating half a pack consecutively, really. it works}

4. Sam Tan likened me to Hong Quan. I'm in a way, honoured by the comparison. The reason him drawing this comparison I take a neutral stand to. It can be summarised by a nice rhethoric question he posed about me and HQ.

"WHERE ARE YOUR HORMONES."

[i also don't know where my hormones are. I think it explains why i still dont' have any girlfriend or the slightest possibility of ever getting a girlfriend currently. I have a few suggestions as to why i have no hormones and why i am not going out.

1. Hormones like testerones are produced in the endocrine gland. So i have no horomones. I have defective endocrine glands.

2. I think marriage/getting into a relationship is bad now, cause it can screw up your life. I know this cause my mum watch all the Channel 8 and Japanese drama serials. Everytime i walk past the TV right, always got someone crying because of relationship problems one. Cry also cry anywhere. In Stairway to heaven, they don't cry on the stairway but inside a public shower.

yeah, then everytime they always attempt to commit suicide when their girlfriend/boyfriend dumps them. So right, going out is bad!! later i start crying and want to commit suicide then how?

3. The most important reason is that I am a noob (means newbie, which is something like loser) and girls will NEVER like me (romantically). Cause i am just too lousy lah, going out with them would degrade them. So if girls don't like me, I can never go out or get married or anything.

This can be effectively summarized into one sticker zilin gave me

Sigh.......................

happy~

cts are over and the results havent come out yet, enjoy ourselves while we can.

~ArgentumObscurum~

my ie died, what can i do...

HA! i KNEW that if i had denied instantly, hq wld come up with something to frame alwyn and me.. his previous post is THE evidence for his devious plot.   

and NO. alwyn and i dun like each other that way. ABOSOLUTELY NO. as zilin said long long long ago, there is such a thing as friendship between a guy and a girl. i dun like him cuz i love someone else, and he wont like me cuz he knows(from very early on) who that someone else is. so yar... not possible.

~ArgentumObscurum~

i think everyone who visits the class blog would be somewhat shocked by the sudden change in layout. but after hearing so many complaints about the layout, such as the box for the entries being too small and so on, i decided to change the layout to a no-frills one, so that now, you all can see everything.

don't worry sarah, i saved your template, but i'm sure you did as well, as any decent template maker would (:

and hq was complaining about blogdrive's lack of archives as one of the reasons why we should leave blogdrive, so i switched the layout, which brought back the option of viewing archives. there's 2 options too. you can select the date from the calendar on the left, or scroll to the end of the page for "next page".

also, i've added file uploading ability to hq's account so that he can upload all the pictures that he wants even though he could have added that ability himself. as well as all of you too. all of you have the pw to the main control account of this blog, hidden somewhere in your mailboxes and the class yahoo! groups, where you will be able to add abilities to your accounts such that you can even delete the class blog. if you all so wish to even though there's nothing wrong with blogdrive, especially since layout problems and archiving problems have nothing to do with blogdrive.

furthermore, i've checked it out on googlefight as suggested by hongquan, and internet explorer wins firefox hands down. so if the tagboard works on internet explorer and not firefox, i don't see why we have to shift to blogger. if we shift to blogger, we have to apply for an external tagboard. external tagboards are quite unreliable and they take a long time to load. blogdrive comes ready with a tagboard which allows for easy editing of tags, which will come useful when we are attacked by spam.

after all that blog stuff, i've got a few comments to make bout hq's post.

uh. contrary to hq's belief, teenage couples do try to play hard to get. which means that you don't go "i call you la" instead, teenage couples would rather pine and pine and pine until the other person makes the first move cause it makes the person somehow feel loved.

and the pre u sem issue... hq, the more you explain, the worse it becomes! you must have been sleepy and thinking of zhangfan... wow.

oh yeah. and the last thing is...

it's separate,

not seperate.

good luck to everyone for cts on monday. hm. i won't be in school though (:

Hi all!

hope everyone is still alive from excessive CT

Mugging......

Mug, mug mug. one mug for every meal. breakfast mug, lunch mug, dinner mug. whole day mug mug mug. tomorrow wake up also mug. go toilet also mug.

Mug, mUg, muG.

As Wang Rui said, this is a very very sad way to spend your holidays, and i am really despairing, cause i am two full days off schedule for my mugging. and there are two days left for the holidays. So that means that if i continue my mugging, I would have no time to revise econ, and if i revise econs, my history, maths and bio is screwed.

Sigh....

And also, there is some very convoluted system in RJC that actually ranks the students on how they do. so you would get a ranking slip that would say like you are XXX/1400 students for the CTs. While it is all fine and good for the person who gets 1/1400, how about me? the school needs to stop focusing on the pro muggers over at O7SO6R, and pity me! Sigh... i am really really scared for CTs....

But on a happier note!

yeah! we got our class scandal! but the problem is that so many people haven't voted, so it is more like a scandal of the "portion of the class who visit the class blog"... and I also don't have anything to write for the Alwyn and Wang Rui... Cause i expected to start my scandal about two unwilling people who eventually cannot help it and fall in love with each other.

But both of them are so willing (as seen on the class blog!)... You see right, instead of denying that she doesn't like Alwyn, Wang Rui is denying that Alwyn recognizing her post does not show that they are both going out! (but she didn't deny that they are both going out, just the causal link between recognizing and going out!) You see they are so willing! so must rethink of how to write a scandal for a willing couple!

In fairness however, i must say that recognizing the post doesn't mean much lah, cause i can recognize a lot of people on our blog, like zhang fan and kenneth! but that doesn't mean i am gay with Kenneth or anything... but still Wang Rui and Alwyn do not show much resistance to the idea of them being together! Extremely suspicious! but i guess it would be really really cool if we had a class couple, and they eventually end up marrying each other and the class gets invited down for the wedding... cause it is all our hard work that made them get together!

So Wang Rui and Alwyn, if you all ever get married right, it is all thanks to us okay! :)

On a seperate note... There is NOTHING going on between Zhang Fan and I

To clarify any malicious rumours and false doubts planted in the heads of the econs people, there is absolutely nothing going on between Zhang Fan and I. We were just talking about something important only! and if we were going out with each other, we would be fighting to call each other, not fighting over who should call the other person! yeah!

You see, if a couple was actually in love, this is how they would argue....

A: I call you lah
B: I call you lah darling
A: No lah, later your fingers touch the phone would tarnish your perfectly smooth fingers. I call you lah *muack*
B: You are so nice! I call you lah, it is the least i can do for you as your girlfriend *muack muack*
A: oh sweetheart, my heart pains if you have to labour to call me. Let me call you *muack muack muack*

A & B: Lets call each other together okay? That would be so romantic right (start to kiss each other)
Random passerby: But if you all call each other, wouldn't both phones be engaged?
A & B: SHUT UP LAH!

Yeah that is how they argue, in contrast, this is how Zhang Fan and I argue (not an accurate representation of what happened, but somewhere along the lines)... but still the complete difference shows there is no scandal!

ZF: hong quan, you call me
Me: no you call me
ZF: why! you call me lah! if not I would be angry.
Me: But this whole thing is not my fault. I don't care, you call me
ZF: No! You call me or else...

Anyway, i decided to fight with Zhang Fan over who should call the other person! but since there is no instant video replay of the fight, i would introduce a program called GoogleFight! (www.googlefight.com) it telecasts instant replays of fights that take place all over the world, and this was the verdict from Lock Hong Quan Vs Zhang Fan

Totally and utterly crushed. the moral of the story is don't fight with Zhang Fan (seriously 45100???? Zhang Fan must have thousands of fan sites and web shrines from secret admirers)

Anyway, no scandal at all! yes and i know there are some false claims of a scandal, but i shall quash the only evidence of a scandal (by showing there is no such scandal!)

Essentially, this was a perfectly innocent incident that happened during pre-u sem

Context: Zhang Fan has been calling me to discuss PW. But since i am at seminar stuff, she can only call me late at night (around midnight and one am). So that night I was waiting for her to call, so I could discuss PW

Scene: The dingy small 2.5 * 2.5 metre prison cell

Me: I am very tired. I want to sleep

I was very tired so my eyes couldn't open properly right! So i saw on the Caller ID that the caller starts with a Z. Although it reminds me to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz soon, I still picked up the phone
Me: Hello Zhang Fan? (cause it starts with a Z, and Zhang Fan is going to call me)

Zilin: HONG QUAN!!!! I AM NOT ZHANG FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To summarize my reaction, I was

But still! it was because I was sleepy you see! So yeah! no scandal at all!

Blogdrive Cannot make it!

Haiyah! i don't know lah, but i don't like blogdrive! :) cause i can't upload pictures with my account, or copy and paste properly. So what i have to do now is to use blogger, and then copy and paste the entire entry! Hmm and then the box also very small, but i guess that is not so important! (but if we could somehow make the box bigger and the blog look nice..) but most importantly

There is no archive! Then how we read the previous posts! ahaahahhahahahahahahhaha

I dont' know, but i wouldn't mind switching to blogger! (it is not that bad!) unless we can at least see archives on blogdrive! :)

haha, I need to get back to mugging, but as a final point, i happened to listen to an old Chinese song (i used to listen to lots of chinese songs, but i stopped now) that would have fitted Alwyn and Wang Rui if they were a reluctant couple! but they aren't so..... but in any case, i don't know why but i really really like the song. (especially the MTV which is very funny). It is very suprising, cause i generally hate romantic stuff, but this is one of the very rare romantic songs I like. if you guys have time, watch the MTV at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubMndDdy7fM

Yeah! It is very funny really! it is Harlem Yu's Qing Fei De Yi... But i realized that Sarah and Elysa wouldn't understand! So i decided to expose my lousy Chinese and provide a very rough translation of the song... (my translation is very lousy, so Chinese pros like Wang Rui please correct :)... but yeah, go and watch the MTV, it is very funny!)

Verse 1
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I cannot forget the first time I say you
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A mesmerizing pair of eyes
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In my mind, your image (appearence)
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is embedded in my mind

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holding your hands
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and feeling your gentleness
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makes me lose my breath
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I want to cherish your angelic character
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When I see you being bullied/in trouble, I would be very sad

Chorus
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I am afraid that I would fall in love with you
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I don't dare to be too close to you
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afraid that I have nothing to offer you
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loving you takes a lot of courage

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I am afraid that I would fall in love with you
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Perhaps one day, I can't control my feelings
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To think of you only makes me feel worse
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My heart gives me no choice but to fall in love with you (very bad translation!)

Repeat Verse 1
Repeat Chorus

Verse 2
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What reason
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made me meet you again
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I really really don't want to
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fall into the trap of love

Repeat Chorus

Well, it is a really really really horrible translation (please help to edit :P) but really, the MTV is really good, and when you actually hear the song, it somehow tugs at you and gives you a very fuzzy feeling. I don't know! but for me it does i guess.... so go and watch it at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubMndDdy7fM (highly highly recommended!)

Yeah, thats all! see you guys soon (Week 2 i guess, cause during CT week, we would be like zombies that would be..

MUGGING

ah, i wanted to comment, but since i said BLOG when you want to comment, i shall have to blog (: lol.

contrary to what wangrui believes, my friend does not blog like me. the style is really quite different, i mean, come on, everyone has their own writing style. it's never going to be so alike.

oh, and let's see... the only way wangrui would have thought alwyn was mistaken cause the writing style was different would be that alwyn spent some time talking about his troubles! my gosh~ scandal alert!

cause there are quite a number of entries that weren't written by me, how did you guess which one it was?

actually i did understand kenneth's entry about the 1st 2nd 3rd one stuff. though i really think i was probably the only one cause i had to explain it to hongquan too. oh wells. kenneth! i understand you!!! (:

okay, this is like a really weird entry, but take note of the title (:

holiday is crappy, whats the point of holiday when the school puts the common tests right after it?! its such a immoral and evil thing to do, i am sure the school authorities are crackling away in evil laughter right now at our plight.

damn, i shld be studying... and what am i doing?!

sighz.

what has alwyn recognising my entry got to do with anything? cuz my style is different from the others who post here, but zilin's friend writes like she does. thats why he can recognise one and not the other...

just like anyone can recognise hq's entries. oh, and before i forget, i want to demand compensation for shock and extreme stomach muscle spasms due to laughter from hq.

i think we need a decoder for kenneth's cryptographic writings. is it just me that cant understand 90% of what kenneth writes?

Lastly, as the title says. i wanted to tag, but blogdrive wont work with firefox.

~ArgentumObscurum~

Angsty mood

GRRRRRRRR! today, at around 4/5 pm, my mood turned from  to . and it has stayed ever since.

Actually i was angsty yesterday, but i felt better after talking to zilin on the phone while watching Holland coast to victory over the Ivories. Then i became  late afternoon today.

I don't know why i became , which is what is most troubling. cause usually i try to keep  even when I am studying maths (brain bleeding towards a coma). Like after i solve a question, i would spark off a raucous victory celebration that involves running around the house and doing random dances. sometimes i even roll on the floor.

Then when i don't know how to do, I would lie down and fantasize about better days, when i had no admin work to do, no CTs to study and i could hang out with friends and just waste the entire day doing nothing. So i would feel

But now no matter what i do i remain . Actually i think i am no longer  but more like  + . It is not just the CTs but other stuff also, and it has been quite a while since i am in a prolonged state of  + .

Effects!

• It makes me very very very very very angsty. Like i would get angry at a maths question and start scolding it (the maths question)... mainly i would say something like "ARE YOU MAKING FUN OF ME" and then stomp off to get a cold drink. A very very cold drink.
• It makes me very anxious and worried. Like i dread logging on to MSN or getting a phone call, cause i dread getting an email or a phone call and not knowing how to respond (cause my brain has only space for angst)
• It makes me have no social skills, such that i can no longer read signals from the other party that they are no longer interested in chatting and talking, then i make them angry/annoyed as I keep talking to them, cause i didn't get the signal that they didn't want to talk/chat  

Aiyah i don't know lah! as you can see, this is not my usual happy post but an angsty post... sigh...really sorry to angst here, i promise a  post next! yeah!

Until then, i recommend we all go watch HARD GAY! it is very funny really! it is actually part of a real Japanese variety show! click this link

http://youtube.com/results?search=hard+gay+english+subtitles&search_type=search_videos&search=Search

or go to www.youtube.com and search "Hard Gay English Subtitles". very very funny! anyway here's a sample!

basically he does random stuff to people in his hard gay costume! very funny. the Japanese words by the way mean (Welcome to Hard Gay Gasoline Station)

Yeah lets all watch! and maybe we would all be

PS: Really really sorry to anyone who i may have been bad/angsty/irritating to today (saturday)... :(

to the first one:

Finally you say something.
World Cup Matches are also being screened in Raffles Institution

I'll send you more in email.

to the second one:

"iq-ly compatible" - not just by GPA alone but also by what you know that you've displayed so far too!

to the third one:

was this linked to the second whereby the second's opening applies too?

i just realised that i forgot to give the class an important piece of information with regards to the scandal between alwyn and wangrui! hahaha. shall tell you all now =P

it goes like this -

way below, not so far down actually, at wangrui's entry, alwyn commented that he knew it was wangrui just by reading the first sentence of her entry! i mean, isn't that already scandalous enough?!

ah, but some of you might think that it's just because alwyn is just good at some stuff. but that's obviously not true! cause he's only good at it when it's in reference to wangrui. cause there was once that my friend guest-blogged on my blog, and he mistook the ENTIRE entry as my entry! it's not even one sentence~ haha.

see what i mean?

they are just good at it. oh i mean, having a scandal with each other?