Finally! It's over!!

Finally, after one month of cramming the brain with useless knowledge, IGCSE is over!! YEAH!!
No more sitting in the gloomy exam hall....

Can you feel the aura? The wave of despair emanating from the execution ground. Some have cried, laughed and cracked in this very place. But this is nothing compared to the scene during Additional Mathematics examination. When the students read the questions, most turn pale and deathly silence ensued after that... One student actually laughed during the exam (That poor guy must be cracking under the pressure, understandable, since we have not even completed the syllabus yet -_-)

I just noticed that my finger developed a blue tinge after that arduous economics exam (I really hate this subject). The economics exam has always been more of an endurance test - whether or not you can withstand writing nonsense for 2 hours non-stop.





No more of those boring and dusty textbooks too! By the way, during one of the million times when my mind wandered away from the economics notes, I just thought of burning and tearing the textbooks.
"Burn business books!!! Burn !!! Bwahaha!" (Then I will tear the notes into scraps of papers. Nope, paper shredder machines just won't give you the same level of satisfaction :p)
Whew, the pressure of the exam is getting into me.


Surprising as it was, I missed those times I spent reading the boring textbooks and doodling on them. (Suddenly remembered the economics textbook) Wait, I meant, I -almost- did, but not quite.
I think I will still keep my Amath textbooks for keepsake, but the rest can burn into ashes and decompose, heheh..

IGCSE!!

I apologize for not posting anything since the last two or maybe three weeks because I'm having my IGCSE ( and partly because I'm too lazy to update the blog :p).
Anyway, the first two weeks have been somehow relaxing for me and it is because I realized that I'm not going to use my IGCSE results for my college application! That doesn't mean that I don't care about my results though...
Anyway, I learnt a few things during my preparations and I would like to share some of them with you (Nope, it's not about complex mathematical formulas)

1. Study Group proves to be unsuccessful.
first 30 mins: Unnecessary conversations like "Hey I just watched this movie yesterday and it was really kewl!" or "Have you ever eaten in Bali Jimbaran? I ate there yesterday and it was so good!"
then .. "Oh no, we haven't studied anything. Stop talking and start studying!"
1 minute later: "I'm hungry, do you have anything to eat?" "Oh sure, lets take a short break"
30 minutes later: "Wow, that's a really cute dog! Can I play with it?" "Oh sure!"
and the pattern repeats itself until the day of the exam.

2. No Snacks! Yes, pringles are not allowed too!
This happened the other day I bought lots of snacks..
"So the chemical formula for Hydrochloric .."
"Munch Munch"
".. acid is.."
"Munch Munch"
"Oh crap! the crisps fell on the texbook!"

3. Job rotation
When I feel tired of studying, I either play my nintendo ds or play cards with my brother.
This is my studying pattern during IGCSE...
45 minutes -- study
15-30 or 1 hour --- play ds
15 minutes- play cards
45 minutes -- back to study
I'm not saying that taking a break is bad, but "taking a break" from taking a break can be hard to do.. especially if you have an RPG game to want to play so bad...

4. Don't be greedy
During the science practical, I put a lot of hydrochloric acid into my test tube (the more the better!) , thinking that this will speed up the reaction rate. Suddenly, my test tube was quickly filled up by white foams and the foams poured out from the tube. So in the end, I have to repeat the experiment again.

Okay, gotta study again! Two more weeks til freedom! Yeah!!

Feedback Form Filled!

I just got a feedback form from my school and usually, these forms end up in the rubbish bin (my parents are too lazy to fill them in) Out of boredom, I decided to fill them in myself.
1. Our School leaders (Principal--Mr Wilson)
Comment: What more can I ask for than an hour of wake-up call every morning? Some will probably fall asleep during the wake-up call..
Quote from friend: "Wilson, will he ever listen?"
2. Our School Compound
Comment: Our School=1building , Neighboring School= 3 buildings, with lifts, parking area and incoming indoor swimming pool.
3.Our Internal areas
Comment: You call failing AC's good?
4.Canteen
Comment: I would have a lot to say about the prices and the quality had it not been for the wonderful ice-cream machine.
5.Events in the school
Comment: If you call a Rp 5 mil donation cost-effective, then yeah..
6.Level of communication for these events
Comment: Excellent! When my parents read the bold words "Family Day Bazaar", the paper will magically find its way into the paper shredder machine.
7. The level of discipline
Comment: Excellent! (from the students' point of view)
8. The manner in which the schools' discipline policy is communicated to you
Comment: You mean those paper planes in the rubbish bin?
9.Our newsletters
Comment: The students' sole source of enjoyment and creativity. Very few of these papers survive without any doodles or lovely embellishments on them.
10.Our general letters to parents
Comment: Some of us make sure that these tattle tale papers do not get into the wrong hands (Our parents, that is) , including this feedback form of course!
11. Our use of the communication books
Comment: Oh! you mean my friend's diary with doodles on it?
12.Homework
Comment: Yay! (Cold stare from classmates) *gasp* I mean.. oh no!

Then I thought about the future of my school for no reason (I was surprised why I did that too). In the illustrations below the 2 neighboring schools are B and S, with S being mine.
Long time ago...
There were four empty regions as shown below
[ S ] [ ] [ ]
[ B ]
S and B are two schools (in this illustration, countries)
Each school occupies one area and there are 2 empty fields left.
S commander: "We are going to expand our territory! Towards greater heights!!!!!!!" ----2006
3 years later
[S] [B] [B]
[B]
B has conquered 75% of the region and S has only 25% or even less!
While the war rages on, I will have fleed to another country! (Evil laughter)
Ehm, anyway, I have read from some job forums and found out that some of the "soldiers" from country S have escaped in the middle of the night!

Funny pick-up lines

I browsed through the internet and I found some funny pick-up lines, handpicked by me, so you can be sure that there are no corny ones! Enjoy
1.God loves everyone, but I'm his favourite.

2.Jesus loves you...everyone else thinks you're an asshole!

3.The seafood diet: See food and eat it

4.Nobody is perfect, I am the nobody.

5.Do you want...
Coffee? Tea? Me?

6.Do you like water?(yes)then you already like 70 percent of me!

7.Hey, Laura! (Big hug). I haven't seen you for so long!! (huge kiss) Wow, you've really changed! (I'm not Laura) What? Oh my God, you even changed your name!

8.A gamer desperate for love:
"I really need to find a new girlfriend, hopefully one who boosts the attack power of adjacent allies."

9.Gorgeous, intelligent, kind, sweet, charming, witty, hilarious, friendly...well enough about ME! How are you?

10.If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Here are some actual newspaper headlines!


1.Miners Refuse to Work after Death
2.Lung Cancer in Women Mushrooms
3.Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years
4.Include your Children when Baking Cookies
5.Sex Education Delayed, Teachers Request Training

Good Tricks Gone Bad

The other day, I just saw my cousin perform a great magic trick on me, where he predicted 4 cards and asked me to pick 3 cards and he would pick one card. To my surprise, they all matched his prediction! I was so curious that I spent the whole day searching in the internet for that trick but I still couldn't find it.

In the end, I am stuck with a magic trick which involves suggestions and I thought that it was pretty cool. I couldn't wait to show my friends and I was full of hope.... at least at that time...
The next day, I tried it on my friends and THEY DON'T WORK!!
I got honest remarks like "That's a stupid trick!". Some even laughed at my failure! .... Exactly the moral support I was looking for!
Later on that evening, I searched for more tricks to amaze my friends and I ended up reading the viewers' comments of another suggestion trick.
This suggestion trick stated that the person listening to the suggestions will end up thinking the number 68 and I thought that was pretty cool. I decided to scroll down to see the endless list of comments and here is one of them:
"I tried the trick on my rat, and it squeaked 68! Amazing trick, really!"
There are a lot of profanities there too and if censored , it will appear like this:
"That *peep* must have been *peep* *peep* *peep*. Stupid *peep"."
Whoa, being unpopular has its own advantages too, I guess.

Anyway, here is a suggestion trick. Let me try one on you and see if it works:
Think of two geometrical shapes (square, triangle, circle, etc.) and draw one inside another. Draw only two, and not THREE. And also, no square!
Did you just think of a circle inside a triangle?
If it doesn't work, let's just pretend that I have a rat which can draw.

Baskin Robbin

Finally!! It's the end of the month!! This calls for an ice cream party! (Baskin Robbin offered a whooping 50% discount for one quart of ice cream at the end of each month, in Indonesia at least.)

Oh boy, it seems that many people shared my thought too.
I was biding my time patiently when a lady tried to cut the line.
She had the nerve to force her way through!!
Maybe she thought that I looked rather shy and defenseless, and she was dead wrong!! She deserved public humiliation, I thought..
I said (intentionally rather loudly) "Just get in line and wait for your turn!"
Then she used the generic Oh-I'm-sorry-I-only-wanted-to-see-the-available-flavors excuse. Yeah right, this is the waiting line for taking orders, and the menu was posted on the left wall! Have you turned so senile that you don't even notice such a big and colorful poster? And there she was, a moment later, queuing too.
The unfair treatment doesn't end here...

I ordered cookies and cream (It's my favourite) and observed that the waiter just keeps stuffing the ice-cream without pushing it all the way down. This way, the ice cream will look big but underneath it, there will be a lot of empty spaces.
He later weighed it and I saw 1.7 lb clearly shown on the scale!! Then he said, "Here you go" and I said "Oh no you don't! I want my 1.8 lb of cookies and cream!!! He's like "Excuse me?" I was so pissed by his reaction. He played dumb in front of me to get that 0.1 lb of ice-cream! That 0.1 lb is only for me to eat!!
I told him to weigh it again, and he quickly stuffed more ice-cream before weighing it. To my delight, I saw 1.9 lb on it. Then he said, "There, 0.1 lb extra for you." I sweetly replied "Why thank you, that's so nice of you!"
Now that's what I call good customer service!

Cryptography Craze (2)

1. emordnilap
____ of ____ = _O_

2. I wanna see "hey" on the upper left corner!
Hmm... Something is inside that sling bag...
clue: Similar to number one

3. "dam mi timmad" (1) (2) (5) (17) (20) (21) (26)
clue : It's in the blog... and nope, they are not hidden...

4. I don't want control over shapeshifting powers, nor do I want the LOCKS.
Large spaces disgust me, and so does the comma at the top.
What do I want then?
clue: keyboard

5. (tredcvb) (uytgbnmj) (cdert) (vfrty) (ghytrfvbn) (ewqazxc) (werdc)
clue : keyboar (cdergv)
nope, it's not a typo..