Update

Havent updated in a long long time...
Well first of all i came back from US, went to California. The different parts of California, LA, San Diego, Anaheim, San Francisco, Richmond and Redding...
In LA, we went to Universal studios to ride the rides, then to sea world. At San Diego, we went to the zoo... ZZZ I'll post the pics some other time...
so just 3 days after i touched down back in Singapore I went to Youth Camp 07 at Rompin Malaysia! It was an awesome time there, awesome worship, awesome message and awesome games!... ok la the pics i will upload another day...

Imeem Sucks

Well just decided to put a new playlist here... all punk rock songs... and metal... well just to liven up my site... Went for a movie with the guys yesterday... watched the movie 'stardust'. Not too bad, cos of the humour, but the whole story was quite crappy and it was something like a classic fairy tale... But it was worth watching i guess... haiz and broke another guitar string so cant play guitar... feeling dam sian at home...

After O'level activities

Well now that the exams are over i feel super bored... So met up with nicholas and kang lun today to go find clothes for prom nite.... Met up at AMK hub den took a bus down to vivocity... walked around there for like 2 hours and decided to take a rest and eat lunch... After that we felt bored so we wanted to go down to sim lim square cos nic sai he wanted to buy a new graphic card for his com... We over shot and ended up in little india instead... So met up with asri at little india MRT station, after that we WALKED to sim lim square... But turns out we walked in the wrong direction and ended up at KK hospital instead... so had to turn around to walk back toward sim lim square... We spent about an hour an a half looking at the offers that the different stores had but finally we still left empty handed... Lol I think its better than staying at home doing nothing all day...

O levels are over!

Yup. The title says it all. Bring out the party, noise and chaos!

O'levels

Well managed to find time to blog today... since there's no paper... A math, quite ok for me, screwed up chemistry, and screwed up map reading for geography... sigh... but the rest for geography was quite ok. I think i can pass... anyway feeling real bored cos i broke a guitar string and i don't have a spare... T-T feel like just smashing my guitar... anyway 6th of November, I'm free

Graduation

Blood. Sweat. Tears.

Four years of sweat, 1 moment of tears...

Sweet memories. Bitter hardships.

Friendships. Betrayal.

All amounts to one thing. Graduation.

Four years of being emo, four years of non stop studying, four years of building reputation and social status finally coming to an end. After O levels we're free... And it all comes back to sqaure one when we go our separate ways next year... A new beginning, make the best of our time left of this year, make the prom nite the best memory of our secondary school life. Cause after that we won't have a clue on what happens next.

Thank You my friends for being there when i was lonely, thank you for helping me in my studies, thank you for the fond memories we shared together, I hope we can move on being friends forever, 'brothers' to the very end.

And now the time has finally come to set aside all matters and focus on the most important part of secondary school life. The O'levels. The deciding factor to your future, hopes, dreams and aspirations. Don't waste it. Do it well and celebrate like there's no tomorrow. Enjoy the life in our new school. Look forward and never look back, take everything and give nothing back. Thats the meaning of graduation to me.

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Fine.... So I wont be so EMO now that I have a new guitar....

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gotta study. gotta study. gotta study. gotta study. gotta study. gotta study. gotta study. gotta study. gotta study. gotta study. gotta study. gotta study. gotta study. gotta study. gotta study.

ThE wOrLd

Everyone has desires... Some people desire fame, some fortune, others desire love... But I have one desire, and once I achieve it, I'd die in peace... The is my desire for a purpose... My existence in this world is insignificant, as a minor in society, I don't get respect and recognition, and I don't feel that my presence brings enough importance to anyone. I just need a purpose, as God shapes everbody's destiny specifically, making every single person have their own unique abilties, and no two persons on this earth are identical, there may be similar people, but their will never be two people of earth possesing the same physical appearance and having the same intellectual skills... Anyway all i need to do is find my purpose in life, and get it over and done with, so I can die a contented man, boy, human, whatever?

So anyway I got to see most of my prelim result, and I gotta say it has sucked to the max so far, it is so near, yet so far, so see an A1 on my results slip, intelligence and diligence work hand in hand to bring a person success, and without either, no one can make it big in this world, some say intelligence is earned, others say it is inherited, while some just go with the fact that hard work beats all...

Well my fingers are tired... The post ends here

Questions

This whole year has been an enriching and fun time, both in school and outside school... But throughout the year I can sense that there has been this question about me : 'Is Arthur Phua EMO???'... Well I can say to you guys who think I am emo, I can assure you that I a not close to being emo... I just don't desire attention, and prefer to remain a thinker. I can be boring, thats why people avoid me, but maybe sometimes I just prefer to be left alone, to think... and maybe when I'm thinking I look as though I'm sad and maybe it gives the impression that I am EMO... or maybe the previous night i was up late studying and didn't get enough sleep, so i get the eye bags, and makes me look emo as well, maybe the hairstyle also causes me to look EMO, but I shall end my post here by saying that I AM NOT EMO!

No Title

Well so yesterday managed to get out and destress... Caught a movie with the church youths... We watched hairspray, good movie, funny, retro and weird... it was seriously hilarious as we knew that John Travolta was acting as the main character's fat mother. After that went to eat... My parents have really gotta stop worrying so much about me, cos as soon as there's no sign of me by 11pm, they panic and call me up... *sigh*... O'levels has really torn apart my love for many things such as sports, lan gaming, music, even reading!!! O'levels just turns everyone into robots who have to either study and become successful or become the rejects of society in the future, which I think is stupid... People should not be judged and valued by their jobs and certs... They should be free to pursue their dreams and not just focus all our attention on money... anyway, thats what i think...

I think I'm gonna start playin the piano again... guitar, maybe after o levels im gonna learn ELECTRIC GUITAR!!! haha well we'll just have to wait and see... destiny awaits...

No holidays

Well the 'holidays' have started... but it wont be much of a holiday cos i have to go back on most of the days.... DNT is starting to annoy me but it will soon end... been studyin like crazy the past few weeks... the only way for me to destress is to watch videos like this

Wahaha

Here is Jeremy Tan dancing at the youth net rally! Watch the reaction of the audience!

This is in reference from my July 23rd post

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Shouldn't be blogging so late.... having e math remedial in like 8 hours... cant sleep... stressed out... anyway went with my parents to watch rush hour 3 yesterday, or was it the day before? Watched in on 9th August so it should be the day before... The movie was good, funny with quite a lot of action just that it was a little short... Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan just gets funnier and funnier... Went to Sakae Sushi for dinner after that... den yesterday or this afternoon went for tuition from 2.30 to 6.30... crazy? yup... Im half conscious but i cant sleep.... its an awful feeling... if you find a cure the first person to call is me thanks... well im gonna try to get to bed soon... nid to be fresh for tmr's e math remedial... yawn... zzzZZZZZZZZZZ

All night cycling

Oops almost forgot... All night cycling was on 20th to 21st July... It was really fun but was extremely tiring cos the route was like twice as long as last year.... At about 5.30am i was already nodding off on my bike... Could've just knocked out there should i have waited any longer to drink my last can of coffee... And finally at 6.45am we reached the East Coast MacDonalds... Yes we made it and I didn't even have to give up... From Yishun to Sembawang to Woodlands to Mandai to Newton and finally East Coast... Thank God I didn't die... My mind was cloudy and was barely conscious as I parked my bike... Oh and before that we had the Youth Net Rally... The Nubian Gents, a famous dance group from USA came to perform for us... WOW they said it was their first performance done in Asia in their lives... Talk about having such a popular dance group have their first performance in Asia right there in our church... Haha for the last dance they needed volunteers so our region pushed Jeremy Tan, who didn't know a thing about dancing, to volunteer.... Haha he couldn't dance so he humiliated himself by doing some crazy actions and therefore making the whole church burst out laughing... Trust me, I laughed till I nearly swallowed my chewing gum... Thats how funny it was... Well thats it for tonight... Butt still hurts from the cycling... Good Night!

:Long Post:

Haven't been blogging in quite a while.... Didn't have the enthusiasm and feeling to get in front of the keyboard to type... Well this is what happened throughout the month so far....

13th July 2007 Friday - Douglas had to clear the plates and cups for three tables... Just because he lost a game of scissors, paper, stone... Well it was Friday the 13th after all...
18th July 2007 Wednesday - Had fun in school.... Edmund again obviously... Forgot
what he did... So cant say much... After that went for tuition... Then met Aron and the guys to play a match of Dota before meeting up with Mr Phua to go to Little India to buy ethnic costumes for Racial Harmony Day... Had fun at Little India... Unfortunately Kar Hao had to experience certain humiliation right in the middle of Little India thanks to Edmund... Then Edmund had to be stripped half in the middle of Little India... LOL After that went to AMK hub to take some photos...

LOL EDMUND HALF NAKED IN LITTLE INDIA

20th July 2007 Friday -Racial Harmony Day... Many students dressed in ethnic costumes from different race groups... Everyone was taking photos like crazy... Im not the type who takes photos but I got one picture taken of me... These are my good friends in school... Always hang out together to joke and have fun!

This is probably the end of this post... Well seeya...

YAN REN OWNS LOL!

I'm going nuts...

Had my O level Chinese oral yesterday... Must say that I ought to be proud of myself... Though the topic was quite difficult and I was quite nervous myself, I just felt that I had done the best i could and thats what matters the most to me... All this studying, tuition and remedials have me going crazy... I have been feeling sick for the pass week with a non stop running nose 24/7 there to bug me, occasional fevers, cough, headache, dizzyness.... The doctor I went to see said that there wasn't much wrong with me... But I can feel that I've been infected with something... Now my mum has it too... But her symptoms are different... Instead, she has ulcers all over her tongue and has a pretty bad sore throat(pray for us).... And to top it all off dad's flying off to Rome tonight... Wow...

Well nothin much happened in school today, but something went wrong with Vincent... He wasn't feeling well and later he felt numbness throughout his body... He was shivering and he looked like he was in great pain... He was sent home by one of the teachers I think... Not sure if he went to see a doctor or went straight home... Well pray for him too... Then came E maths remedial... Boring... Not sure if I'm going to sign up for all night cycling... And looking forward to the weekends! Cya

Some nice music vids

nothin much to post about

Nothin to post about yet... My life is not a movie so dun expect exciting stuff to be posted here... Just come here to enjoy the music... especially the last song on my playlist... well thats all

School holidays

Have been too lazy to blog for the last few days.... Screwed up my mid year exams big time... Chinese O'levels was yesterday... Everybody said it was extremely difficult... But I was like whatever la... Anyway Im not gonna change blog skin... Too lazy as usual... Had a soccer match yesterday... Haiz lost to them 1 goal... The score ended at 10-9... so close... Sherwin scored llke 5 goals, brandon scored the rest I think... Kenneth and I were running up and down doing both support and defence... Leonard and Calvin.... nothin to say... well thats all...

New Skin

Gonna change blog skin soon... Not sure wad to change it to... Any ideas please tag me... yeah thats about it... lazy to type more and to change the skin immediately... Maybe after O'level chinese...

End of exams

Should have posted this like 2 days ago... The exams are over! Except for chinese listening compre and english oral. Nvm about that.
Its mother's day today... Bought my mum a card, a piece of wood with her name and a bible verse carved on it and a key chain.
At church we had a dedication to all the mothers... They church band played you 'raised me up' and a few children and youth came up on stage to thank their mothers...

NEW PARAGRAPH (THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH END OF EXAMS)
I was just thinking the other day... Time passes so quickly... It was like just yesterday when I was in Melaka with the Lim family, consisting of Uncle Paul, Auntie Cherlene, David and Esther.... Laughing along with David at the face and pose of Malay superhero cicak man, to playing bowling in the mall.... Then it was Hong Kong... Or was Hong Kong before the Melaka trip? Hmmm... Anyway, just remembering the thrill rides in Hong Kong disneyland, the surprise of seeing two Peirceans in Hong Kong disneyland, the roller coasters of some other theme park... then came youth camp... surviving the smell of salted fish in the unpleasant chalet of Desaru... out on the beach playing team games and having to squeeze with 7 others in the tiny chalet... that all beats coming to school to study... Wish there was a way to go back and experience those moments, most of it which were good and some bad... But it was all fun, and thats why i love my life during the holidays....

OK better stop here.... Cant think of any other thing to type about...

Exams

Exams finally here.... Nothin much to post about... Chinese is a lost cause... I'm sure i can make it for English... so far its only these 2 papers... Studying everyday bores me... I wanna get out and have fun!!! No point being EMO at home like my brother... I need to breathe fresh air! Need to be more sociable... Argh my parents are damaging my social life... The more I turn people down the more they will think that I'm anti-social and they won't ask me to go out with them anymore.... I feel so sorry for myself... I just wanna have fun!!!

DUH....

After days/weeks/months or maybe even years of constant experimentation with my weekly tuition and study schedules, I have finally come to the conclusion that Sunday was never meant for studying academics, at all. In the BIBLE in the book of Genesis Chapter 2 verse 2-3 it says that 'By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating he had done.'

So I have only want thing to say about Sunday. Rest. Most students probably use Sundays to study. But I say as a christian I should use Sundays to learn more about God, by attending classes before or after church, and also by going to evening church service, which I hardly do so because of tuition.

The thing about parents is that they do not want their children to waste any time when it comes to studying. "Every second counts". That line was quoted by someone very big and important to my life and my personal well being. He is currently known as my father. Of course every second counts, but we should take time to enjoy the peace and serenity of the outdoors, enjoy every moment of life, from the time are born till the time we die.

One thing that made me angry was the fact that my father wants me to be studying every moment I'm awake. Here's a conversation I had with him once this week.
Dad: Arthur, why aren't you studying?
Me: I've been studying the whole day... In school, at tuition and at home, now I'm really tired... please let me have some rest...
Dad: So? As long as you have nothing else to do you should be using the time to study.
Me: Wa lao sian la dun liddat leh I damn tired liao la ( I use this language when I'm pissed off)
Dad: So you go to sleep now. Don't waste anymore time or I'll make you put another hour of studying.
Me: Ok la.

See? My dad sometimes pisses me off like that. But I know he means well. But just once I would like to do things on my own, without the constant, never ending nagging of both my parents. So sometimes when my eyes get tired after studying for a long period of time, I sometimes take a nap, or play the guitar or even go downstairs to play soccer with my friends.

And one more thing before I end this post. Since most working parents don't have to work on Sundays, why should students be forced beyond their control to study or work on Sundays? Its really seems unfair to me that they get a day off and we don't. Anything to comment? Please feel free to do so on my tagboard. Thanks.

Long time no post

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Today school was as usual... Boring lessons boring life... After school went with Zhang Yi and Asri to Thomson Plaza to eat at BK, we met Alexis and Erny there... After that went back to school to meet Aron, Vincent and Daren... They wanted to go to AMK central to eat so I followed them... When we were walking out of the school, we saw this man running across the street, shortly after, Im not so sure of the full details, but Daren told me he knocked onto a van and fell. Behind him were 2 policemen who soon caught up with him and pinned him onto the road. Then one of them handcuffed him and then shortly after that the police van came along and the man was brought to a nearby police station ( I guess )... Well thats all... Got homework to do so gdnite

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Had quite some fun during the week...
Monday - quite fun.... after school went to the nearby MacDonalds before IT media, and i saw someone who used to be in the same class as me in Anderson Primary School... I din notice at first until I heard the group of girls behind Zhang Yi start spelling A-R-T-H-U-R... den i was like HUH??? So i looked over and saw her... After that i met up with my classmates, they told me they going to watch movie, but i couldn't tag along cos had CCA... and that Vincent skip CCa just to follow them go watch...
Tuesday - Came back to school and the few who went to watch movie told me that they had watched 'The Messengers'... Wow, a horror flick... they said the whole movie was very scary with many sudden shocks but they only went to watch for 1 purpose... They felt the main actress was very 'HOT'.... (diao)
Wednesday - After school went to eat at pizza hut with Daren, Shawn, Liang Chin, Ting Yuan and Annie... Not the group that i usually hang out with, but i went cos i had tuition with Daren that day, so might as well... At tuition Daren keep on talk so much crap den make the teacher quite pissed off lor... Haiz...
Thursday - Not fun... stay back for remedial den went home and den later went out for tuition...
Friday - The same, remedial den tuition but at least at night got net group... Net group was fun, we played the game called 'telephone line' which requires the players to pass a message to the person next to him and at the end we would see if the message was the same as the original message... But too bad Jie Jie Evie had to make the short messages toungue twisters... so usually at the 3rd person the whole message would have been screwed up... (we suspect David to be behind it) haha... so thats it for the long week... PEACE!

Sad Things

Haiz sian la on Friday got the parent teacher meeting... Supposed to play guitar for net but because of that then must miss net group... Darn... Then my parents after that keep on nagging at me to do so many things... Study this, study that... I feel like just giving up lor... Study so hard for a !@#&%$* O'level cert... Now also for the next three months not allowed to go edge.... Its as if my social life stops now... everyday after school go remedial, after that tuition... come home still must study somemore.... I now really hate my life more than ever!!!!

Synergize

Been too busy to post the last few days cos i was in the Youth Conference Synergize! It was an awesome time there. The band from US was really good and the lead singer Jeff Deyo was a great vocalist. The messages were good, I especially liked pastor Matthew Barnett's messages. Jeanne Mayo was also a good preacher and knew how to catch her audience's attention and helped the audience to understand her message usually by asking members of the churches to act out a skit which was really entertaining and funny. Their speeches were inspiring and many non believers got saved during those 3 days! Praise God!

Blah...

Wanted to post this few days, but cant find any time... Anyway today school got remedial. Actually I needed to report at 8am but i went at 9.30am instead cos i din wanna attend the first lesson cos it was a test. So i went for chem... Mr Yee teach i cant understand a word he said this morning... So im still wondering how i got an A for chem lor... ya den after that went mac to eat breakfast... before that when we still in school, Shawn and Kar Hao scold Nicholas for something about friendster (I wont post it here cos it wouldn't look nice) den something else happened with Aron (I also wont say here)... cos all of it is confidential and only people who know Aron and Nicholas well deserve to know... not that i will tell it openly... ya thats all lor. time to eat dinner...

Sian

Cant wait for holidays next week.... Although still need to go back to school, but at least dun nid to wake up so early... And finally my father's car repair finish so i dun hafta wake up so early in the morn.
Today went to Ngee An Poly to with my DNT class to attend some design seminar. Thought that only our school go but in the end got over 10 schools there also. Got free MacDonalds lunch la so not bad. Den i took 1 can of coke home for free (now drinking).... the seminar so sian... got 1 hour of presentation. den later 1 more hour we must make something... i and asri slack while everyone else did something. In the end got so many winners but our school never win... But our school got 3 entries went into second round so not bad also la.... Thats all i now very tired go sleep liao

Update

Too tired to post yesterday. So decided to post now....yesterday rain almost the whole day... then must keep on walking in the rain but thankfully i din fall sick. Went for tuition yesterday, go there got ang pao take sia not bad. Oh yeah and during lunch yesterday Daren had a 'debate' with Asri about any subject they could think of. Asri always in the end had nothing to say so he lost all the arguments... Haha, Vincent, Zhang Yi and I just sat there and kept laughing at their comments.... Oh and i took some photos with my handphone...

Finally!

Just bought a new handphone! Looks its a sony ericsson W810. Looks like this

Valentine's Day

Since today is Valentine's Day, let me tell a story.

One day, a girl felt bored so she decided to test her boyfriend's love for her. So she called up her boyfriend and asked him to come over to her place. He told her that he was working and wasn't free. She then threatened to commit suicide if he didn't come to look for her by half and hour, den she hung up. The boyfriend, afraid that she wasn't joking, left his workplace to rush to save his girlfriend. The girl then set up a rope and put a stool underneath it, then she calculated the time her boyfriend would make it up to her flat after arriving at her house. She told herself that if she were to hang herself right after her boyfriend came out of the lift.

Soon, she spotted her boyfriend's car parking under her block, and observed that he ran towards the lift. After a long while she heard the lift come up to the level that she was living in. So she set herself onto the rope, and kicked away the stool underneath. She felt the string rubbing against her skin but was sure that her boyfriend would arrive in time. After about 5 minutes, her boyfriend still hadn't shown himself, fearing for her own life, she tried to come out of the rope but did not have the to strength lift her body. She then began struggling and had difficulty breathing. Shortly after, her boyfriend came crawling to her doorstep, seeing that she had already hung herself, he said to her : " Dear, I'm sorry I couldn't arrive in time to save you, if the robber in the lift, hadn't stabbed me, I could have rescued you". With that, he collapsed unto the floor, tears streaming down his face. The girlfriend then realised that she was not going to have any hope of living. Both of them just muttered "I'm sorry" and then just like that, the both of them died.

Moral of the story, love is not to be tested, but make sure you cherish those you love, and those who love you, cos you never know when would be the time that they will leave you, forever.

Saying encouraging things

From tomorrow onwards I will start off the week by saying these few things
1. To my teacher : Your teaching is horrible, but at least you're good at it
2. To the canteen vendors : Your cooking might taste bad, but at least it looks edible
3. To the lan shop owners : Your computers are slow, but at least they look nice

Well thats all! Hope you all have a good week!

My new IC

The photo on my IC looks weird...
I'm not going to show it here...
Nor am I ever going to show it anyone but the police...
Hahahahahahahahahaha......

Good news / Bad news

Good news is that my laptop is finally repaired!
Bad news is that im still coughing...

Today Sick

Today i was sick so i went to a doctor. I missed school and net (sorry guys).
Well, thats all *cough*

Just To Post Some Photos

Happy New Year!

Happy new year!
Had really great fun last night at watchnight service and the movie mania!
But if it weren't for the delays we could have watched one more show... Haiz... Nvm
School is reopening on wednesday, O'levels in just about 10 months (except for chinese).
Well thats all... time to catch some sleep...