[[* More 'Anglo' Than Chinese* ]] By Joseph
Hmm, wonder if any of you notice that in ACS, public enemy number 1 is always the Chinese teachers, not mainly because their personalties are boring (some are), but because most of the pupils HATE Chinese. Now you all know HATE is a strong word, so when I say HATE i mean HATE. They don't even listen to Chinese songs, nice as they are... You ask them who is FIR or Zhang Dong Liang, they either give you a blank look or a 'dots' look. In my class if you talk in Mandarin to anyone except Jacky Kong Bang Kiat (Malaysian Scholar who talks so fast you can't hear what he's saying. P.S He is 1 metre tall, comparable to Emily Ong), you are very lame because English is the only language that is favoured. Being in ACS, it's so tiring and boring with everyone speaking in English, they don't even say the Chinese pledge as often. We say it like, what, 2 times a month? Compared to the Tamil Pledge every Monday and Malay Pledge on one day of the week. English is for the rest of the days. So you can see how much Chinese is hated by ACS. Although this is supposedly supposed to be comfortable for me, the pressure on my Chinese and other subjects in TNS, is what I really miss. Call me crazy. But without the peer pressure, I feel that after being in a pressure cooked in 5I, 6I under the tutelage of Miss Koh, now being too relaxed makes me feel somewhat uncomfortable.

[[*Supernatural Protection in Hotels...*]]
By Joseph

OK, here's some beliefs of the hoteliers:Every single hotel, there shall be at least apermanent room which should be left vacant at all times. No matter how full the hotel is, they are not to sell that room(s) to any guest. It was said that special room? was "reserved" for those "special visitors".So, if you plan to stay in some hotel, always book in advance. Try to avoid walk in. If the receptionist told you there's no more room available, do not insist on it anymore or try to bribe them to give you a room. If you do that, most of the time the room you have will be that "special room".Sometimes those "special visitors" might go to other rooms also, so here's some tips on how to protect yourself:Before entering your room, always knock on the door first, even you know the room is vacant.After you enter the room, if you felt very cold suddenly and have "chicken spore", leave the room quietly immediately and go to reception to request to change room. Most of the time the receptionist will understand what's happening.After you enter the room, immediately switch on all of the lights, and open the curtain to let the sun light in.Before you go to bed, arrange your shoes so that one of them is upside down. Some say this is representing yin & yang to protect you while you're asleep.Always leave at least a lamp on while you're sleeping, preferably the toilet's lamp.

If you're staying alone and they have give you a twin bed, do not sleep with the other bed vacant, try to put your things like luggage on the other bed before you sleep.

[[*6I Class Gathering*]] (By Joseph)

Ello, back to post again... Been busy trying to improve the Class blog, but the thing doesnt seem to work after Hiok Yang changed something. Now the music has disappeared... -.= Anyway we had our class gathering (w00t) at Chuo Li's house, which I must say, with all due respect had too many mosquitoes that it could handle. Most people went home with their fair share of mosquito bites. Anyway seeing everyone after so long was a great thing for me. I really miss TNS so much, especially with a class of CANNOT-BE-BOTHERED people from a CANNOT-BE-BOTHERED-ABOUT-PRIMARY-SCHOOL-PEOPLE-AND-WE-ARE-NOW-FREE school... Well, the day started pretty badly, considering that it rained, and worse when we were 'chased' out of the house after we made noise. In my opinion, we weren't that noisy at all.( Come to my class) After a game of Captains Ball and after everyone was reminiscing old days and excahnging phone numbers, we were finally 'welcomed' back into the house to have dinner. Before that, we were upsetting the residents at the Siglap park because we kicked the ball too high, and some of the girls ( you know who you are ) went to go and touch the dogs again -.= Same thing happened during PFT in 2005.It was KFC and Canadian 241 pizza for dinner, which most of us enjoyed. One interesting thing to note that next to the Table Tennis table, there was a wall because the table was outside. There was a cockroach there, who comically only moved one feeler and one leg. We decided to call it Xiao Qiang and the thing was that it stayed there throughout the whole gathering. It did not crawl off the wall and start chasing people around. After dinner, some people hoarded the Table Tennis table, while others went to play card games or just sit around and chat. There were others who went to the computer room to surf for S.H.E and Jay Chou songs and other interesting flash animations. I was really just walking around aimlessly, very bored, until Hiok Yang came to me and said something about my bag, something about it being in a room, but I knew that it was some kind of trap because he was not being himself (See, this is how well we know each other). I knew was going to happen. THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE ME SING UNTITLED -.= in case all of you don't know what happened, Hui Ying had failed in trying to get me to sing to the class the last gathering. Anyway after walking around aimlessly for another 20 minutes, I decided that I would just sastify the small audience in the room la. Because if I don't, I will probably get bombareded the next gathering anyway. So after a few gulps of air, I started singing while Hui Ying played the piano. I can't really remember who was in the room, because I was closing my eyes to try to see the lyrics in my mind. Anyway, I must say I did quite well la, and got the ENCORE and bla bla bla stuff to try to make me sing again...So while I was starting haflway, people tried to barge into the room by banging the door and making a lot of noise...Therefore I obviously stopped singing and held the door. Then there was quite a crowd outside, but I decided that my 'concert' should be only be heard by the select few who had waited the whole gathering for this o.0 Although some people said that I could be heard from the next room, I suspect that it was just a ploy to get into the room. Anyway, there were too many disruptions and then Hui Ying disappeared so there was no more concert...The rest of the gathering was spent either playing TAITI, which I played only 1 match due to a Table Tennis Match with Cherie, singing chinese songs with lyrics from the internet (spent some time here...) or just slacking around and seeing people leave. Well, the more interesting part was the Table Tennis, where Beatrice was standing near Xiao Qiang, but as she was standing near the wall, she thought we called the wall Xiao Qiang. In case you didn't know, 'Qiang' is mandarin for 'wall'. Then I decided to tell her and she screamed as though she had been bitten by a cobra. However I think it was either our bats swinging around or that the mosquitoes had gone to sleep, for I did not see any more mosquitoes (w00t). Well, I guess that's all there is to say, unless you guys got any more to add, tell me.

A class gathring was held like yesterday...actually nth to tok abt it just a gathering...haha

6i u rock!