Four Bollywood

Hey, dun hide!

2007-06-27T00:10:00.000-07:00

Wah, dun juz vanish leh, all come out and let's have sth! Ct all tt are over nw, get some life come on. talk talk talk more!

2007-02-13T08:19:00.000-08:00

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE! :D

ya. no matter what yr results were, cheerupx and move on with life man! haha. yaaa... if u want to stay, hope u get to stay, if u want to leave, hope u go to a JC of yr choice :D cheers!! (:

The limits of reason

2007-02-13T07:00:00.000-08:00

The day you say that evolution is only possible is the day that reason stopped ticking in your head. Evolution isn't just some hypothesis that Charles Darwin made up from nothing, it is truly the only logic that we can be sure of anywhere in life, even more certain than gravity, or e=mc^2, or that the sun will rise the next day, or any other truths that we know about the world. Why? Because evolution is purely locigical, and with it the results that proves it. Wherever life exist, there is bound to be evolution 100%, be it terrestrial or extra-terrestrial, from the tinest of RNA viruses to aliens from outer space, for no other paths is able, or even the sliglest bit feasible, for life to emerge (when considering this, stability, copying fidelity, interactions with the native environment and the changing environment as a product of the replication, and a host of other factors have to be taken into considerations - this is why energy cannot provide a basis of life, neither can large blocks of crystals) other than the replication of chemicals.

Should anyone insist that evolution is only a possible theory, I would strongly recommend for such people to tell everyone else before they starts a conversation that they have a high likelihood of being illogical in whatever they going to speak, and that others are not to take them seriously. If you refuse to see the beautiful logic and reason behind evolution leading it to be an answer so clear and true (countless numbers of times better than Lamark's theory which is in turn countless numbers of times better than anything religion have ever proposed), you deserve no right to be considered a reasoned person who can use the human ability of logic, a product of life.

2007-01-22T07:26:00.000-08:00

I MISS YOU GUYS and GALS!!! =(
sigh. a few more weeks to release of o level results.
whatever it is, i hope you guys and gals will enjoy your jc life.
mug hard, play even harder!!! J1 is meant to enjoy life MORE!!! =)

I STILL MISS YOU GUYS and GALS!!!

JC life!

2007-01-03T05:17:00.000-08:00

Happy new year everyone! How's your first day of school today? No matter where we go, i just hope that we would still be able to gather for an outing or something. Hope you guys enjoy your orientation and of course get adapted to jc life fast=) Don't forget about one another please.

Why evolution is a theory

2006-12-22T13:08:00.000-08:00

That’s the last straw.

"Evolution is just a theory,"

Darwin's critics point out, as if theory meant lack of knowledge, some kind of guess. Scientists, however, use the word theory in a very different sense than the general public does. Theories are the solid ground of science, that of which we are most certain. Few of us doubt the theory of gravity because it is "just a theory."

- http://www.txtwriter.com/Backgrounders/Evolution/EVpage16.html

The champion of modern science in the late 20^th century, the well-known author Isaac Asimov (best known for popularising the modern robot) said that “No matter how many times a theory meets its tests successfully, there can be no certainty that it will not be overthrown by the next observation.” And that is why gravity is said to be a theory, why it is called quantum theory and not quantum fact, and why Albert Einstein theorised relativity but not prove relativity. Theories work on the broad base, explaining effects in general. Unless you can find evidence that can disprove the theories, the theories remain true. (And if you think that the evidence to disprove evolution is like how floating in space can disprove gravity, then you are more dim-witted than I give you credit for.)

Telling the world that because evolution is a theory and that is why it has not been proven shows your utter contempt of reality and your love for ignorance. Your statement about it not having been shown to be true is also completely nonsensical. The process of natural selection had been shown time and time again in laboratories and in the environment. You have probably been so blind in your entire life that you simply disregard any evidence in front of you!

And to think that you call my English bad, apparently you haven’t been exposed to enough of it to understand, or even hear of, the second meaning of the word ‘materialistic’.

As for the rest of you idiots, I am disgusted by all of you. I have not been commenting for so long and you regard the next person who comes along and agree with me to be me. I suppose this isn’t the first time either. For all I know that person might not be in our school, maybe not even in Singapore, and there you go accusing that person of being me. You people deserve all the titles of prejudiced and plain ignorance that you could possibly think off.
I stopped writing because all you people have done was to keep changing subjects, switching from one to another when you have nothing else to say. And furthermore, trying to ridicule me though exploiting any loophole you can find in what I write even when you very well know what I meant, and then going on to exclaim my unintelligence. That is perhaps the most absurd way of proving anything.

As Thomas Henry Huxley, an eminent biologist, puts it “If, then, the question is put to me, would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather, or a man highly endowed by nature and possessing great means and influence, and yet who employs those faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion – I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.”

last class outing 4 2006!!!

2006-12-19T01:16:00.000-08:00

who wans to go sentosa??? pls lik state u wan weekday or weekends.. either here or sms me thx.. currently it's on 31 dec sunday but a lot of ppl haven reply.. those replied mostly cnt.. so quick reply

2006-12-05T03:27:00.000-08:00

seriously... this blog is so dead.
wahah~! im like bored until i've decided to post here (:

how's everyone? =/

anyway if u have the time, go watch one litre of tears.
it's this jap drama abt this 15 yr old gal( she's one yr younger than us) who got this incurable disease called spinocerebellar degeneration or SCD for short. true story. and it's really saddd...
it's not her disease that makes me wanna cry. it's her courage to live on. (:
shant say more. go watch it!
FYI: if u have cable, it's showing on some channel la... not sure which though. or u can always go youtube (:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBF94V9bRuo

one of the episodes la...
(the doc's cool!) xP

WooOOoooHooOOOoo!!!

2006-11-16T04:43:00.000-08:00

Dear Bollywoodees,
Finally we've come to this moment. Having gone through what we didn't enjoy, or whatever, it's finally over by now. We finished our O'Levels, YEAH! No matter what the results would turn out to be, we shall unleash our potential energy which has been stored up for so long. We can have our happy hours, show the true spirits within us, and "explosively" release that potential energy under intense pressure. Haha, Let's just give ourselves this pleasant surprise before any other surprises come into play=)
Woohoo, let your hair down and once again, let's go have our fun, laughter, dance and of course, our Maeeiveh.

Abang Xing(=)

2006-11-01T06:27:00.000-08:00

woots!
how's everyone?
hahaha i decided to slack a while.
just a while =X
anyway...
found this interesting.
hahahahahahah...
not all really true for me... what about you??
you are supposed to spell your name then like each letter match with the following.

A-Damn good kisser.
B- Good all around person.
C- You're wild & crazy.
D- You have one of the best personalities ever.
E-You have a nice ass
F- People totally adore you.
G- You never let people tell you what to do.
H- You have a very good personality and looks.
I- You get hyper easily.
J- Everyone loves you.
K- You like to try new things.
L- You live to have fun.
M- Success comes easily to you.
N- You are absolutely beautiful.
O- You're an awesome person.
P- You are popular with all types of people.
Q- You are a hypocrite.
R- Sexy!
S- Easy to fall in love with.
T- You're loyal to those you love.
U- You really like to chill.
V- You are not judgemental.
W- You are very broad minded.
X- You never let people tell you what to do.
Y- One of the best bfs/gfs anyone could ask for.
Z- You're a little too hard to find.

e.g. K- You like to try new things. (erm... quite)
W- You are very broad minded. (hmm =X)
A-Damn good kisser. (Whoa! hahah that's a secret =P)
N- You are absolutely beautiful. (erm. no.)

hahahahhaha have fun during o's!
study hard play hard
^_____________^

i know most ppl most prob will read this after o's...
so well... nvm -______-
heh.
jiayou anyway xD

Quotable Quotes 2

2006-10-19T07:37:00.001-07:00

"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilites-always see them for they're always there"

-Norman Vincent Peale

Quotable Quotes 1

2006-10-19T07:37:00.000-07:00

"There is little difference in people,

but that little difference makes a big difference.

The little difference is attitude.

The big difference is whether it is positive or negative"

-Clement stone

from me to you

2006-10-17T21:40:00.000-07:00

2 days after graduation
im starting to miss 4B.
honestly if it was last year, i wouldnt have so much memories.
i regret not getting to know everyone better last year.
i thought i wouldnt shed a tear on grad day.
but well... haha... things do change.
what makes this class special is that everyone is different
clashes of personalities
i don't care what the others think of us.
we may be boring muggers in others' eyes
but i don't think we are.
we had a great share of fun times
in and outside class.
(read my blog for more la...)
i will miss the times we shared.
even though sometimes a bit noisy in class...
but that's what liven up the cls.
isnt it?
i really do hope we can stay in touch.
that u guys will rmb that 4bollywood exists forever.
things will change when we step into JC.
it will be the start of smth new.
just like how it all started when 36 strangers sat in this class together.
2 years later, the guys will be off for NS.
girls will be waiting for university admission.
i really hope we can meet up just before everyone leave.
im sure some will go overseas.
so yeaa... keep in touch yea?
it will be fun reminiscing.
it will be fun seeing how everyone will be doing then.

anw all the best in your o levels! =)

forever fourbollywood.

END OF RV

2006-10-17T07:01:00.000-07:00

haiz. abit anti climax but ytd pia bio so no time to write... well, gonna miss u ppl alot alot.. we'll nvr sit as a class for lessons again... hear funny noises, listen to sarcastic remarks blah. sad lah. but life goes on. abit dint haf mood 2 study at 1st but cant juz go on n on thinkig abt this rite? haha. when reading e prac on e saliva, i was rmbering e funny actions of ours trying to generate more saliva out of e mouth... i oso rmb e boiling of potatoes, prawn... haha. well, 4b really has a weird combi of ppl wif diff personalities but tt's wad makes me love 4b so much.. dont u/ haha... for now, let's jiayou for O's ba... pls all go for chalet... current date is 22-24 cos 25 is fully booked =)
jeannnnn

Parting gift

2006-10-16T01:10:00.000-07:00

“Give me order and time, and I will give you Design.” – Charles Darwin

From the statement alone, Charles Darwin has found the link from the inorganic to the organic, the mechanical world to the living world.

Now why is this so important that I can qualify it as a gift to you? This statement has inverted the entire Cosmic Pyramid. (or rather the Pyramid of existence) It showed that to build a complex thing, there is no requirement for an even more complex thing or being. Instead of being built down upon, life is actually being built upwards through mechanical automation. The mind did not have to be present first to allow for Design to be created. All that is required was simpler bodies which develop towards it, and these bodies in turn were formed from even simpler bodies.

The power of the above sentence is that it can/will/has changed or destroyed every tradition that is present, as well as any values on humanity, equality, morality or purpose. The idea that Charles Darwin brought forth is not confined within the wall of biology, it spreads outwards to philosophy, sociology, economics and even to our very behaviors. The implications of the evolutionary theory are both immense and far-reaching.

The people who do not believe that just one theory can cause such a large change is like believing that the Sun is still revolving round the Earth. They are in denial that Science have replaced so much of their lives and so choose to believe in traditions. They want to hear things like people are born equal, that life has a purpose for its creation, that Science will not provide an answer to the never-ending questions of ‘Why?’ (Actually, there will be a point where the questions end, where a formula or equation that is able to describe and link everything together – time, mass, energy and space – a foundation so solid that it can never be disputed, and the final answer to all questions.) These are the people who are afraid to give up all the beliefs that they love and cherish to the mechanical hand of Science, and hate to see Science win.

However the idea of evolution is like the process of evolution itself. Once it is started, it will keep on improving and surviving and can never return back to its simplified origins again. The idea of evolution would not rest until it has completely changed the world’s view, or at least what is left on the world.

After more that 2 ½ millenniums, Science have finally come one full circle. From the time when Socrates separated Science from beliefs and assumptions so as to seek the truth, Science has now returned as the force of truth that influences our beliefs. And I would settle for nothing less than the truth.

To put it simply, evolution had forced us to transcend over our old original ideas On Life and About Life

In 4 years of secondary school, and in 2 years in the class, the theory of evolution might very well be the most important thing that we have learnt in school. It is here that I leave you, as my parting gift, a more in depth version of evolution, yet a summarized version of its implications. I hope that you have all learnt something useful in your time at River Valley.

Four Bollywood

2006-10-14T10:27:00.000-07:00

After two years together as a class, it's finally come to an end...all the great times we had together...all the scoldings we endured and all the memories we shared will forever be cherished by all of us. It's been great being in 4B. Although sometimes we may seem disunited, I am sure after 2 years as a class a special bond has been formed between all of us...one that will never be broken. I am proud to be in 4B and I am sure all of you are too. Tomorrow is graduation day, let's all have a great time together as a class one last time. Prelims are over, now we have to give our all for our 'O' levels and achieve our best. Let's all prove the teachers wrong and achieve together as a class. Let's show them that 4B can do it...that we are the best! Good luck for the 'O' levels and all your future endaevours. Once again, thanks for everything we shared as a class, it's been great knowing you all. Timothy signing off

2006-09-24T02:27:00.000-07:00

read this (:
i know it's long, but yea take some time off to read? (:

某天，大雄如往常般，忘了做作业在学校被老师骂，
也如往常般被技安、阿福他们欺负。
未来的老婆宜静也答应要先嫁给别人。
总之，对大雄来讲，生活就是一连串类似事件的反复。
今天跟昨天没什么两样。

唯一的变化是，小叮当突然变成植物机器。
不论大雄怎样踢、打、骂，小叮当都没有反应。
大雄不知道小叮当到底发生了什么事，只伤心得哭了整晚。
可是，无论大雄再伤心透顶，小叮当也只是闻几不动地坐柱子前。
大雄也伸手到口袋内试试，但口袋也豪无任何动静。
然后大雄想起抽屉里的时候飞行机，
就穿着睡衣飞到22世纪去打小叮当的妹妹小叮铃。
小叮铃还没完全听完说明，就被大雄催着坐上飞行机飞回20世纪。
小叮铃一看哥哥动也不动，马上知道是电池用完了。
正想换电池时，小叮铃想起一个非常重大的事。
没有备用电源……大雄不懂得其中意思，只在一旁催。

小叮铃只好问大雄：
你愿意让歌跟你的回忆都消失吗？
原来旧型的猫机器人的耳朵里，装有备用电源，
以便充电时能保持至今为止的记忆。
可是，……小叮当没有耳朵！（这是众所皆知的吧）
大雄终于理解了事情的困难。
种种回忆在大雄的脑海奔腾……大雄跟小叮当曾飞到到过去、未来，也曾到恐怖世界、海底世界，更在宇宙打过
小叮铃拼命解释给大雄听。
若要装新电池，小叮当醒来时会失去一切与大雄曾有过的回忆。
若保持现状，记忆不会消失。
结果，大雄选择保持现状。
此时，大雄还是小学六年级。

十数年很……
从海外归国的大雄，已成找为英俊迷人的青年，
并就职于某家尖端科技的企业。
他身边的新娘，正是宜静。

当年，小叮铃回到22世纪后，大雄只跟身边的人们说，
小叮当回到未来的世界去了。
时日一久，也就没人再提小叮当的事。
不过，小叮当其实一直被保管在大雄家的壁橱里。
大雄为了修好小叮当，拼命用功读书，
然后国中、高中、大学，成绩逐年升腾。
最后大学留学。
现在，大雄身在他自己的研究室中。
他叫来平日严禁其出入研究室的妻子宜静。对她说：
你看好，我要按开关了。
说完，大雄颊上情不自禁流下雨串泪珠。
他就是为了这一刻，苦学了十几年……
为了这一刻，从一个老是忘了做作业、
成绩坐倒数起算比较快的笨学生，爬到今天的地位……

开关按下后，久久一阵静寂，
静寂……终于，小叮当开口了：
“大雄，我等你很久了。”

有一种朋友，跟他在一起的时候，心里完全没有负担，
不需要刻意地讨好他；无论何时都觉得很自在。
不在一起的时候，你知道他没忘了你，他关心着你；
他不见得天天与你见面或通电话，
但你知道你们的友谊不会有什么变化，
为什么呢？因为只要你有了为难的事，他永远在那儿，
在一个令你放心的位置、不变的位置，等着你。
甚至不需要开口，你已经嗅到了某些端端倪，主动把温暖的手伸过来！
他用一颗诚心与你交往。
能结为朋友，你便拥有一项珍贵的宝物。
不管是分离的云淡风轻也好，相聚时的风云际会也罢；拥有这样的朋友，你会感到很温暖。

very true indeed =D extracted from http://www.iniky.com/love/love157.htm

2006-09-05T06:31:00.000-07:00

hey people!!!
all the best in the rest of the prelims!!!
and of course...
the O levels!
() ()
o(^^ )o

anyone wants to go out for a day right after prelims?
go recharge!! :D
then time to mug AGAIN!

creation=)

2006-07-25T05:00:00.000-07:00

Hey ppl, i juz got this website recently..
www.CreationOn TheWeb.com
Tells u abt creation... Anw, i'm not trying to propagate anythg but juz wan to tell u all tt by looking thru "bibical glasses" everythg will seem clearer. ok, juz smethg u might be interested in.. do u noe tt fossils do not require millions of yrs to form? they only require e right conditons n a lot of water. ppl have done experiments b4 and can fossilize thgs in a few days or wks. as long not millions of yrs correct le. prove: Heard of Noah's Ark? e global flood tt occured? well, fossils of fishes have been found n some show fishes giving birth n eating... wad does this show? time is not a factor here. futher more, when u find one fossil of a fish, there tends to be a whole load of them in one rock. i've seen n touched e real thg... my fren bought it on line. anw, u guys go find out more on your own.. but juz to leave u a qu, if fossils are of dead organisms, how do u get them when dead fishes for eg float when they die? and r there no other org to eat them? also, if evolution really takes place lik fishes into cows etc, they suld start frm e simplest org rite? but den, Trilobites , got a fossil of it la, has e most complex eyes.. u can see it online n i haf seen e fossil my fren bought. juz go search for fossils n u can see them plus e one got a fish eating another. i noe i sound lik janlin juz tt it's e opposing view, but i got proof so it's diff. go find out more la. 4B: i got a magazine any1 interested i can pass on =) thx 4 spendign time to read hope it got u thinking

On science, religion and the future

2006-07-03T07:08:00.000-07:00

Hey, I’m back! I finally found some time to write a continuation of the previous entry.

As we travel into the 19^th century, we see Science and Religion taking on a different role. While they still are the antagonists of each other, the Church and other religious institution finally began accepting the role that science play in the world. Religion now seems to take a more ethical stand against Science, questioning its humanity among other aspects.

The Church was no longer persecuting scientists, although some of them received much criticism for their work such as the now accepted theory of natural selection by Charles Darwin. However, around this time, the Church started doubting that the Sun revolves round the Earth, probably as there was overwhelming evidence to prove otherwise.

Today, the Church continue its centuries-long dispute with Science over ethics. As you probably would know, they are against stem cell research. What is so important about stem cells is that they give scientist better understanding of how cells work, how they divide and differentiate. However the Church argue that we are destroying life and using life for experiments. I ask you then, since stem cells can be found in our body, when we die, aren't we destroying life too, after all those stem cells will die together with us? Then what is wrong with letting Science have some stem cells? Letting reseach continue on this subject would probably yield a cure for aging in about 30 years, while not doing so might prolong that advancement till another century later. Unfortunately the Church hold more influence than you think and most governments had already banned reseach on it. Another example of its influence is in the 1900s when the Church argued with someone for teaching about the evolutionary theory in a university. In the end, the country banned the idea of evolution in schools. It was not to be for another 40 years that they decided to reverse the decision.

Science today is still winning the minds of people all over the world. Science give us something concrete to believe in, something that is certain and proven. One of the two most noticeable ways of observing this is by looking at the growing proportion and number of atheists (non-believer of deities, gods and other religious ideas) around the world. During the 16^th century almost everyone was religious, even famous scientists such as Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci and Newton (or perhaps they were afraid to admit otherwise). However, only about a quarter of scientists remain so today. The world also has a significant number of atheists, significant enough to match most religions, and definitely significant enough to not be discriminated by others (unlike how they were four centuries ago).

The other way is by seeing a divisive split resulting in most religions. In the world there are these types of people:

- Believing in religion for the parts of which Science can’t explain

- Denying the theory of evolution and believing that god(s)/deities created the Earth

- Believing that the Earth was created only a few thousand years ago as written in the Bible and other religious text and the above

- Believing that the Earth is in the center of the universe and the above

- Not believing that the Earth is spherical and the above (few if any still exist today, especially after Magellan’s expedition round the Earth)

Of course, Science can never explain everything. It can’t explain how energy was first created in the universe, it can’t explain why intermolecular forces exist and it can’t explain everything about how life could come about from simple molecules on Earth. Whether or not there is a supernatural being behind all these had never been proven and probably would never be, but let me draw out a scenario.

After the big bang, particles moved away and formed the universe today. For example, if at that time, a particle happened to move in a different direction, a chain effect could occur that might maybe cause the Earth to be further from the Sun. Let us call this hypothetical planet Darth. So evolution takes in own different course in a colder Darth (perhaps they use some other chemicals to form their genetic structure instead of proteins) and finally results in intelligence life forms. Since that particle was the difference between their existence and non-existence, would the people of Darth go and worship that particle if they found it to be so? Would we worship that particle for traveling in our favour if we could prove so?

Well you know what? I think that that is ridiculous, not just that, it’s utter rubbish. Are we going to find and name every single particle known in the universe and thank supernatural being(s) for arranging them in this way? Or perhaps we would like to call every particle in the Sun a god and pray to them?

Life is not about looking back at the past and wasting our time on thanking the world to be there for us. Life, including evolution, not just human life, is about looking into the future and use things from past and present to create a more advanced world. That is what life is about, no matter how much you would want to believe that is untrue (which I do not know for what reason), no matter what you want to do to change that, it is the truth, you cannot escape from it, it is happening all around you, all throughout history and will happen throughout the future.

Thus I stand here in this world, not to look back at what had happen, but to look forward to what will happen. This is also what Science is truly about: to find knowledge, to understand the knowledge and finally to apply the knowledge for inventions, discoveries or to gather even more knowledge. For all the things that Science looks back into the past, they will have an application for the future.

It is with this that I urge you not to continue looking back at what could never be proven, to abandon those old ideas and to embrace the future.

New term has begun...

2006-06-28T05:34:00.000-07:00

Term 3 is here liao! woot! Still haven't finish holiday hw yet. From nw on we'll be experiencing more and more stress. The workload will definitely be much more than ever. So, juz take care of urselves. Study of course, but also remember to put aside some time for relax or fun. Some of us went bowling today, not bad. Keep up the gd work. Btw, hope we can do a fanta job for the racial harmony food selling thingy(=

2006-06-25T05:24:00.000-07:00

this blog seems so dead!!

ah nvm
if u have the time.... try this out!!!
hahahhaa... maybe u can discover smth more abt yrself and yr future! :D

http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=164749

2006-06-19T06:42:00.000-07:00

hey peeps!

how's holidays?
anyway... tmr's the start of prelims oral examinations!
All the best!

wish you luck =)

2006-05-21T06:40:00.000-07:00

read this from welfare blog (: it's meaningful. Friends are for life =D
while it takes a minute to have a crush on someone,
a hour to like someone
a day to love someone
but a life time to forget someone =D
i wont ever forget 3/4B =)

Mouse Story

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.

"What food might this contain?" the mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard,the mouse proclaimed the warning, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The pig sympathized, but said,"I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow and said, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them,the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well and she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

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So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember that when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

One of the best things to hold on to in this world is a friend.

=P yi qi jia you for o levels bah (:

2006-05-07T00:08:00.000-07:00

went to sentosa=) hope those ppl who went had fun la. more den half e class went=) oh man.. tt time 5 only=) lol. but still splited up anw. n yar, jeffrey's bdae tt day. hapy bdae=) if u read this la anw. stayed till 4 plus anw.. still not black. errrs. no fair. anw, mid yrs over le so every1, LAGGG!!!

2006-05-06T07:46:00.000-07:00

heex (:
today's outing at sentosa was fun. haha can say so la...
at least the turnup rate was better xP

okie whatever.

mid year examinations are over! hahaha... (:

o well.

anyway, PLAY!

2006-04-08T06:17:00.000-07:00

hey!

kind of lag these few days.
midyear examinations are about 2 weeks away.
mug mug mug! =D

heh. then after that can go play a while! then it's time for prelims and o levels (:

haha
u all also know what happened on napfa that day la.
7 of us have to retake the entire test. yea *shrugs*

hmm was just wondering.
what do u all think of what ms loh and mrs yeow said that day?

haha i think they are partially right la.. but i just feel that since they always say that we are from the top 8% of our PSLE cohort. why are we more pampered? lol. i dont know la. but i think we should be responsible for ourselves. okay, i know that it's not easy answering to our parents if smth happens to us, but... hmmm okiee.. maybe it isnt that simple understanding each other.
what do u think? (:

2006-03-19T05:23:00.000-08:00

yay people! new term! new chapter of our sec4 lives! hahaha it will be great yea?

hahaha how's holidays?
xP

yea im in a crazy mood now and so filled with love...

hahahahaha so...

love you guys man! xP

lol. 4B rawks! =D

cheers!

2006-03-13T09:21:00.000-08:00

wooohooooo!

Juz Blogging

2006-03-03T05:57:00.000-08:00

It's juz blogging, post ath would be fine...but juz dun post too much of the same things. Or else results in unhappiness again, perhaps. Dun like it then juz dun read it. It may be reali boring anyway. Nevertheless a blog is simply juz a blog.

hello?

2006-02-26T06:37:00.000-08:00

what's this blog for?
posting comments on science facts eh?
where's this blog heading to?

it sucks.
isn't there anything else to talk about?

On science and religion

2006-02-25T22:54:00.000-08:00

"During the middle ages, religion dominated most of how people think. The Roman Catholic Church in Rome was the centre for culture arts and learning. However in the 17th century, the power and influence of the church waned. Humans stepped into a new era in history, a time when we believed in Science." Quoted from my Commonwealth Essay.

Why does the sun rise from the East? Why do volcanoes erupt? Why do rivers flood? These are some of the questions that had been left unanswered for millenniums since the dawn of civilisation until only recently. Humans are curious creatures and have never stop asking the question "why?". However in the times so long ago, there were no means to answer these questions, thus came the birth of religion. Religion was then how humans could explain all these strange occurance. They believed that some superior being(s) was causing these natural phenomenon. Natural disasters were then, not suprisingly, associated with these beings being angry. For centuries many people belived in this idea without question even to the extent of starting wars over conflicting religions, that is before science came into play.

In the 1500s and 1600s, a series of events sparked off the scientific revolution. In 1543, Copernicus published his book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. The book changed the way on how people thought about the universe, especially about the once widely accepted view that the Earth is the centre of the universe. Descartes (1596-1650) introduced the idea of deduction, such as "I think therefore I am" he duduced that he existed because he was able to think and questioned anything that could be doubted. Galileo Galilei was known notably for the development of the telescope, the discovery that mass did not play a part in the falling of objects and one of the first to make accurate calculation of the positions of planets. The scientific revolution changed the meaning of science (before that science meant any systematic or exact knowledge) and the way scientists worked. However the Roman Catholic Church wasn't too please with some of this changes as it questioned the writings in the Bible that has been accepted for centuries. Galileo was one of the few unfortunate scientists being arrested by the Church for his work.

Issac Newton was another famous scientist who lived during the scientific revolution. His works on the theories of physics and mordern mathematics launched the world into the Age of Reason. The age of reason is a time when the ordinary person accepted the views on science. People belived that rationality, also known as reason and factual analysis, was needed to find out about the truth rather than faith and religious teachings. Scientific explanation was then needed to quench the never ending question of why things work. Numerous discoveries and inventions were the result of the quest for knowledge. Science guadually replaced religion as the explanation of events.

...To be continued

Well, I don't have all day to write on the blog, I still have homework to do.

On genetics and evolution

2006-02-21T05:40:00.000-08:00

Throughout the ages, not only man but all organisms have evolved through the years by natural selection. Through a process known as natural selection, only the best or the stongest or the more powerful would survive. Different species of plants, animal, etc. have come out and competition between the different derived species had cause some to be extinct and other to emerge victor in the evolutionary race. Each species had strived to gain dominance in the world and right now Homo sapiens are in the lead of the race.
However as humans progress into the Techonological Age, the evolvution of man had slowed down and perhaps even came to a standstill. In the mordern world, human genetics have stop varying so much. There is no longer a 'survival of the fittest' metality in the human society. After all, almost everyone in the world survives. The chance that someone who had born with a bad genetics would die is no longer valid. As a result there would be no change in human society as the same genes circulate the world over and over again. Humans would not become smarter, stonger, more immune to disease, or anything that would help in survival. Why? Everyone survives!
If for example, after every year, I can kill off half the human population that is considered not smart. Then after a few generations we would naturally find that the humans left on Earth would have a higher intelligence than before. This is called selective breeding. When this was tested on chickens, the fattest chickens of each batch were bred with each other and the skinnest chickens of each batch were also bred. The result was that after a few continuous cycles, there was two different types of chicken. One type would not stop eating no matter how fat they got unless you were to seperate them from food. Another type was so thin that it refuses to eat food. Thus if we can control what type of people were to die from 'natural' selection or get people of a certain trait to create new combinations of genes, then the human society would see improvements in its population.
However if humans chose not to contribute to this evolution then one day a sudden diesease might wipe the entire population out because they do not have much genetic variation. One day, the squids or dogs or some other animal would evolve to be smarter than humans and again they can get wiped out. Evolution is a dangerous thing, neither too much or too little of it is good. So how then can we counter this problem? Only time can tell what would happen to the end of the Homo sapien species. Only time will tell...

Oh, and can students from this class please write your entries in FULL setences? It would do much more good to all of you if the class can understand what you are saying.

"Do not squander time for that is the stuff that life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin
So neither should humans sqander life just like that, because of one lousy evolutionary phase! I hope to see an improvement in society when people realise the destruction they are causing to their survival.

I'm open to all suggestions on how we can help the human race overcome this problem of evolution. *Note: "Race" here can be both literaly or figuratively

2006-02-19T04:39:00.000-08:00

o mann...this isnt a very big prob la.
hahaha people just need to know what they shld do and shldnt do only mahh...
no need to make this until a "warzone" okay post yr comments...
but dont make it sound as if u are talking to yr enemy la...
just imagine u are telling yr good friend something sensible.
pls dont say u talk to yr frens like that... =(
and yaa... can people NOT from 4b pls KINDLY SHUT YR MOUTH?
it's just a form of politeness. do not interfere.
not your problem anyway.
and dont blame me when i get pissed with these people. xP

Winners in their own eyes, losers in others'

2006-02-17T07:16:00.000-08:00

G'day my myopic classmates. I'm here to clarify a few grave misconceptions that you all have about bullying.
In case your sense of logic is extremely warped, I shall humbly guide you all to have an objective view of an English word that you all seem to have problems with.
This entire entry would be fixated on bullying.
I would like to point out that bullying, in fact, is extremely subjective and relative. No one can be bullying anyone if the person in question doesn't feel bullied. For example, if you all taunt and tease me, poke fun at me like nobody's business, and I don't feel a thing, how can you say that I'm bullied?
Being bullied, by definition, is to feel offended and angry. If you all can take these words lightly, then I can forsee that there would not be any hatred and ill-feelings within our class. Unless you are guilty of committing these offences, why be affected by these comments?
We shall not sidetrack; return to the point on bullying. Bullying, in this case, can also mean offending someone. Let's go back to square one, if you do not feel offended by those snide remarks, would the initial comment be hurtful or offensive? The answer should be a direct no, unless you are drunk, biased against me, or retarded.
Thus, I hereby urge every one of my dyspeptic classmates to think twice before jumping to bigoted views. There is absolutely no malice intended, unless you feel offended. Then again, you would be perceived as one who haven't fully understood the point that I was trying to make since the beginning of this entry..

2006-02-14T02:10:00.000-08:00

Evidently some people in class are brimming with strong emotions , as seen in the previous posts.They express huge discontentment against some people in class , writing it in this blog, in the handouts written to miss dora lee. Let me make a crude comment on this.
These "protestors" don't have moral coarage.

While the vicious "atrocities" are being commited in the classroom , no one utters a word to reprimand these offenders.Yet behind their backs you have a lot to say.Would you dare to tell them in the face ," You are wrong. stop it." ? If you think that they are wrong, and they are disrupting the lessons, feel free to stand up and tell them off.

Do you think that just writing about it would change anything? Do you think that these "bullies"and "class disrupters" would even bother to drop by this blog? Even if they do , do you think they would go home and do reflection and feel guilty for their past "henious crimes" and turn over a new leaf?

Or are you all just afraid that your opinions expressed in class would be immediatly met with loads of cynical remarks and what not? If you fail to be vocal in class and speak up for yourselves, no one can help you. It is no wonder that it appears as if those boys are always bullying ; it is because the classroom dialouge is dominated by them.

So, those who really wish for these childish, immature, irresponsible , blah blah blah behaviour to stop, please feel free to stand up in class to speak. Miss Ek and teachers has defined moral coarage so many times . So if you think you have it, go ahead and exercise your freedom of speech . No one is stopping you.

meanwhile, i shall just sit on the fence and wait for these dear protestors to speak up .

2006-02-10T07:39:00.000-08:00

hey pple.
since we already reaceived our cl results, so no point thinking of it.
so let's all JIAYOU for this common test, and the next and the next and finally O LEVELS okay?
we will do it! heex (:

and i love 4B to the core! *muacks* <33

My Opinion

2006-02-09T05:19:00.000-08:00

How many time must the teachers repeat themselves for their message to sink in? Please. We are mostly around 15, 16 years-old. I trust that everyone in 4Bollywood has the mental capacity to allocate our own time.

Let's take the History Test as an example. 1 full hour, 2 Source-Based Questions, 1 Structured Essay Question. "So you mean half an hour SBQ, half an hour essay?". The is no correct answer to this question. It's a matter of your CHOICE. Eventually, you are taking the test, not Miss Chia. Therefore, it is up to you how you want to allocate your time during the test. It's not like the Source-Based Questions will dissappear after 30 minutes. Please. In the end, it's YOU who decide what you want to do. Be decisive. We are in Secondary Four. Not Primary School. We should be mature enough to make our own decisions, not spoon-fed by our teachers. It's up to you. It's your choice.

Bullying. It's kinda obvious, ain't it? I am in no position, because I admit that I am guilty to that offence.

Honestly, I do not want to calculate the amount of time we have wasted due to our inesscant chatting/grumbling/rambling/whatever. Pupil Development Programme eh? Is wasting our time on trival matters any help to developing our character. ~~It's a pity that Lee Lao Shi is not our form teacher, as we have a higher chance of listening to what she says.~~ It's a pity that Mdm Mak doesn't spend enough time with us talking about moral values. However, we MUST not forget that we still have a curriculum to cover. Now, with the change of the Higher Mother Tongue paper format, it does not mean that we have no need to finish our content. Does it mean that since we only need to pass our Higher Mother Tongue, we have no need to study for the subject? I think not. Then why are we so concerned about our 'O' Levels? Pass can already right? Go poly oso never mind right? Right? RIGHT?

Respect. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. That's what we need. That's what we lack. I've been critised for my lack of respect already. Teachers are older for a reason. We are students for a reason.

3Blindmice 4Bollywood

Let the legacy live on.

2006-02-09T04:32:00.000-08:00

yea agreed. her voice super power! :D
basically. a lot of us talked. a lot of us have a lot of comments. but do we get the chance?
hmm i dont know maybe we are supposed to create our own chances.
i was super pissed ytd. u can ask a lot of pple who know me.
can say that it was really unusual of me to be pissed with such stuff. but i dont know why.
everything retro mushroom said i totally agree.
like TOTALLY okay. but seriously. i dont want to hate this class. and im not going to do so. no matter how many bad impressions i have i will still ren3. will erase them.
but hey pls really reflect on the previous entries. really.
okay u may think i do not have the right to say this. but hey! at least i said it. at least u all will know it. but on whether u all will reflect that's not my business. it's up to u.

it has been 1yr and a month or so. ive seen many things, we have all seen many things in our cls. maybe some of u arent too happy with some ppl in our cls. but hey this is YOUR cls. OUR cls.
everyone will have different styles. we cant change them. but im just saying that we should reflect. this is our last year together. why not just make the best out of it? let the 4bollywood legacy live on!

and ya... some comments are really HURTFUL to the ear. and some are just NOT funny.
and being cynical is not funny. neither is sarcasm.

ATTITUDE is what that differentiates.

* im sorry if i used a lot of vulgarities in my own blog. it was just that moment that i felt pissed. sorry.*

CIP?=)

2006-02-09T02:59:00.000-08:00

Whoa.. long msg leh.. i'm sorry but i was admiring mdm mak's voice just now.. it was strong n full of power.. guo ran shi choir de ren=) the CIP was fun yep.. it wld be better if the whole class went but majority did anw so =).. hmm i agree some ppl sure did for the hours but haiz, it's not their fault la i tink. by doing more they'll finally get hooked n do it for the sake of helping others=).. I tink wad we discussed abt e ppl at chai chee was very true.. mayb e residents reali didnt enjoy e performance but i'm sure at least some wld haf=) their claps are enough la.. and it just felt so sweet to perform tog as a class=) once in a lifetime chance! i had a lot of fun=) dunno wad to say liao.
back to e class.. hmm.. i kind of agree tt sometimes asking e tcher to repeat stuf over n over again is v wad la. sometimes oso keep asking for more examples n repeated explanations may also seem unnecessary n a waste of time 2 e majority.. but i haf to admit when "those ppl" do tt, i dont mind cos i'm so slow n dumb tt i cant feel any happier for tcher to explain over again. but i tink if we reali dun ustand can find tcher aft class/ sch la.. den wont waste time moving on to nxt topic..
It's our last yr liao. If u ppl still dun lik 4b i haf nothing 2 say. i mean lik why not jus accept it tt u r in dis class n try liking it? if u say u've tried, i can only say pls try harder. ther r many nice ppl in dis class tt u've yet to discover tt's y u all dun lik e class. aiya, i dunno how 2 put it la but jus love 4b!!! cos it rox=)

Important-

2006-02-08T06:56:00.000-08:00

If you are part of the class, read, comment, explain. This post had been written to express the displeasure of many in the class.

If you're wondering why this is written and not spoken, the reason is simple. I, or rather, we didn't have a chance. This is definitely not because we didn't cherish the chances given to us. Today was a good example. I actually put up my hands for 15 minutes just to get mdm mak's attention to tell her about the air-con controller being 'missing' every other day. Why? Because she had to handle all the nonsense coming from the class. All the non-related stuff. Things that could be settled among ourselves easily. Things that didn't need the whole PDP lesson to discuss about. Trival things. And even after I got her attention, stupid and shallow ideas that shows the class has absolutely no integrity were given. In the end, mdm mak had to settle this herself. PDP=time wasting. No wonder half the class is doing their own things. There were really no place for discussion. Those with good ideas didn't even bother to speak since the other half of the class were making a whole lot of noise and just purely wanted to waste time.

Ask ourselves this question. Which of he subjects we're taking are not behind time. Maybe just 1 to 2. Why? Simple. Teachers who were 'kind' and 'easily bullied' were make use of. Unrelated and shallow were comments were made during their lessons and the whole class just digressed from learning. Let me giv you an example. History test is 1 hour, 2 SBQ and 1 Essay. Comments: "Huh? Repeat." Teacher repeats. Blah blah blah. Time wasted. "So you mean half an hour SBQ, half an hour essay?" . If everyone just keep their mouth shut when the teacher is speaking, you would have got her message clearly if you listen carefully. If you want to double check, check with the person next to you. Making LOUD comments such as these not only makes our class as noisy as a fish market, but also wastes EVERYBODY's time. Please don't be selfish. Everyone has the right to learn and their learning should not hindered because of the the things you do out of self-interest. We're a class and we should think for each other. Things like "So you mean half an hour SBQ, half an hour essay?" can be decided on your own, and there is absolutely no need to ask the teacher, wasting time again. I know very clearly that most of you disrupt the teacher from teaching because you find the lessons boring and just want the lesson to end quickly. True, i admit some of the lessons are indeed boring. But disrupting the lesson won't stop the teacher from teaching what needs to be taught. In the end, all we get is remedials and make-up lessons and an angry teacher. Why go through all the trouble to get all these. Think long-term, comrades.

"I've tolerated them for a year. If they still continue doing all these, what do you want me to do?" Quoted from a certain infamous classmate. Tolearate? First off, who tolerated who? Please do not be SHALLOW and think "Oh, poor pathetic me. Getting into a class such as 4B". Even if this is boring, i must still say "No one in the world is PERFECT." Therefore, you are not. This happens not only to ONE person, but to many. Everyone has their good and bad sides. Tolerance is not the way, acceptance is. If we could all accept each other, both our good and bad points, we will "truly have a peaceful and happy" class. Don't expect anybody to change just because of you. You are not the Sun. The world does not revolve around you. Even the Sun makes contributions. If you really cannot accept other people's way of life, you are FREE to IGNORE, unless their actions have highly affected your life. Thus, this post wasn't written because i wanted to be cynical and sacarstic, but because the actions of many in our class had affected the rest of the class badly.

I believe we've all been taught that bullying is wrong since we;re in primary school. But why is it that despite all the education, I still bullying n our class? Although not this is not done physically, it is still wrong. BULLYING IS WRONG. Ask yourself this question. If someone makes hurtful remarks about you, would you be hurt? Tears is not used to measure how hurt a person is. No tears, no crying does not mean one is not hurt. Even if there were really tears, I'm very sure those 'bullies' would never had saw them. Does it really give you the pleasure when you make jokes at the expense of others? Is this truly what we've learned after almost 10 years of education? And there is nothing called 'I don't mean it.' You meant it. You were out there to truly hurt this person. Kill someone and tell the police you didn't mean it.

CIP. I must say our class did a pretty good job. I must say I enjoyed and learned many things then. The disappointing thing was that many of us did it purely for the CIP hours. This statement wasn't conjoured up by my from thin air. Look at us. After the CIP, many of us were asking if we could do more bacause 'i want 100 hours' and 'I want the BIG HEARTS award'. If all these were jokes, I must say I and many others didn't find it funny at all.

Respect. That's what our class lacked. Respect our teachers, respect our classmates, respect ourselves and we'll receive the same too. Our teachers weren't born to be older than us. It is experience that they have that we don't that makes it a must for us to respect them and their decisions.

FYI, the above points were brought up not only by me. Many of us, especially the girls, haven't been very pleased with the things happening in class. I'm sure many of us out there still have a lot more to say. If you think I'm wrong, rebut. If you have more to add on, go ahead. If you're guilty, reflect. No vulgarities please, because it's our freedom of speech and it's rude. [Abolish the F word in your distionary]

CIP- AngBao Giving Day

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reflections

2006-02-07T19:17:00.000-08:00

4B,

post your reflections as comments. =)