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30 January 2008 - First of all, I apologize for not updating my blog for quite a long time. It is not because of my insufficient time or busy schedule. I am not lazy or does not have anything to post either. Gosh, I have a lot of things running through my mind. But for now, I keep it short, simple and (un)light-hearted.

January of a brand new year tend to link with new hope, opportunity and fresh new happenings. But the end of the month this year is associated with the Chinese New Year. First day of new year is the same as usual. I went to my grandma's house to enjoy the simple yet delicious fiesta. It was not until late night that cold and stomach ache attack me. My whole body was shievering even without the fans on. Rush to hospital out-patient clinic for a check up. Everything was fine. Minor fever with a little stomach discomfort. What else can make Ivan fall for it?

Not to describe the environment during CNY. Nobody else will care and read what am I blogging here. Thoughts running through my mind for a million times. Which path to choose after my SPM. Not many people same age as me will think about their future, what they wants or when to fulfill their dreams. Pressure and stress will not be excuses for me to spoil myself. I have to determine what I want and how to achieve it. It is not because I am too optimist or overjoy, great man in the olden days think before they do, not do while they are thinking. I learned to grow up.

Electro Fantasy. Fantasy is something that is unrealistic and normally generated by science fiction or other supernatural power. But by combining Electrical energy and Fantasy, we can make it real and believe me, I will. Electro Fantasy for my blog basically means the hope and dreams that I am and I will achieve will come true. As I have explained earlier on my previous blog post, 2009 is full of challenges and the undecided paths which lies underneath. Different people look at the same picture through different perspective. Welcome to my perspective.

If you played through Need for Speed: Undercover (which most of you will never touch or heard of that game), the sudden betrayal of Chase Linh to you will become a sudden loss of direction and you are left to play freely, which you never like it that way. What I emphasize here is the friends of our choices affects most of our lifestyle and daily attitude. I have a friend who is funny and friendly when I met him, but grown up to become a lost children of the shadow. That kind of person will never get to know the path that he will be going to. Goodbye!

Flowers will attract butterflies while cow dunk will attract flies and worms. You are what you made of. By observing the friends that mixed with you, you can get a simple picture on how you looks like. Needless to mention, the way you grumbles on why the rotten doughnuts (I like doughnuts instead of apples) mix with you all the time is because you are one of them too. Wake up!

A blog post is just a person typing words on the world wide web. But how the blog post will affect your life depends on the way you look at me. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to influence anyone and I don't think I have the ability to do so. Till next time. TQ

P.S: Whoever spam my CBox please stop doing so. Grow up!

One of the Great Michaelian's post...

6 January 2009 - Today is the second day of schooling and the second post for my blog this year. Time flies when you did not notice it. Looking back at the years, I can't help but wonder how much have I grown, how much have I learnt, how much have I tried doing, how much have I done and how much have I achieved. Who am I today, I am a teenager struggling for survival in this cruel year of SPM like anyone else does. Welcome to 2009. This may be the last year of my schooling life in St. Michael's Institution. Yesterday was the first day of school. Despite the boring and non-spirited speech by Mr Phoon Chong Chee, he announced the school theme for the year 2009.

UPHOLDING

THE

GREAT MICHAELIAN ETHOS

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We, Michaelians, Aspire To Establish A School Community Characterised By Integrity, Accountability and Mutual Respect. We Hold True To The Distinctive Brand Of The La Sallian Tradition Which Stands For High Personal And Academic Standards, Excellent Moral Tone And Discipline. These Are Achieved Through A Strong Spirit Of Faith, Zeal and Service To The Community.

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At least the sentences above was the ONLY thing I have been concentrating on throughout the assembly and I have memorized it successfully. 'Thank you' Mr Phoon. Mentioning about 5sc4 - The same class I have been for one year now, it has transformed from a dull and unattractive crow to a striking and blazing phoenix, at least that was what I have been thinking. There are 2 reasons for me to mention that:

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1) My class teacher has been changed from Puan Wan Norliza to Cik Siti Noraisyah. So....? Well, Puan Norliza has a liking to talk non-stop during Physics classes and most of the student were either fishing (sleeping) or becoming deaf temporary (doing their own work). Whose fault is it..? OURS! We are so unlucky to have her as our class teacher. Although she is a very nice person, but by the end of the day, results, flexibility and effectiveness come first. And let's hope that Cik Siti Noraisyah with a never-ending smile on her face will handle our class well.

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2) Several subject teacher has been changed. Puan Nor Hamisah has taken over Mr Woon Fook Sim's job as the Add Maths teacher for my class. The first lesson from her was not that bad after all. Besides that, Puan Shaw Wanni has replaced Puan Azura as the class' Sejarah teacher. Since she taught me when I was form 3, I knew that she is a responsible and caring teacher who will educate the class well. Puan Wong Chin Fui has gone! She was my Moral teacher for almost half year in form 4. Famous for her boring-ness and known for her ineffective teaching skills, she was replaced by Mr Panir. Last but not least, Mr Chong, our discipline master has replaced my former class teacher for Physics. OMG! Is this a bad or good news? Let's hope that he won't skip our classes in the future because of some discipline case.

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These 2 reasons are good enough for me to carry out my form 5 live peacefully, or at least I think so. Good luck and God bless in 2009. Thanks for reading, and do leave a comment.

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Speech from teachers that will make you say the word: SWEAT =.='' for the year 2009 goes to...

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''Someone must have wished me during christmas to be your class teacher this year. Congratulations, your wish came true,''

- Cik Siti Noraisyah -

St John Ambulance SMI on the web!

3 January 2009 - Access and know more about the St John Ambulance of St Michael's Institution anywhere you like. At your house, in your room, at your nearby cybercafes! A new friendster profile and a new blog in Blogger™ have been created towards this new year of 2009. Can't explain much here, check it out yourselves, and do leave a comment!

Friendster Profile - www.friendster.com/sjamsmi4ever

Blog at Blogger™ - http://www.sjamsmi4ever.blogspot.com/

Oh yeah, we do have a group - SMI ST JOHN on friendster too. But I don't think you have much interest on it. Haha, members only.

100 Years SJAM Celebration @ Dataran Merdeka

~ Pusat Latihan Polis (PULAPOL) ~

14 December 2008 - I love adventure. That's why I joined the 100 years celebration of St John Ambulance in Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur on the 14th December 2008. We departed from St John headquarters by bus at approximately 6.45am on 12th December.

The journey to the training ground, or known as Pusat Latihan Polis (PULAPOL) took 3 hours. St John members from various states were also participating in this meaningful and historical centennial celebration. Around 40 members and 3 officers from our state were participating.

~A Picturesque View from PULAPOL~

First Day (12th December 2008):
We arrived at PULAPOL around 10.30am. From what I can observe there, the police training center is a place where police trainee are carrying out their training. We were not allowed to walk on the huge training center and were forced to march, haiz. The president of this 100 years celebration event was Mr V.S. Maniam.

~ Free water! Anyone? ~

A brief introduction was given by the strict-looking, middle age man. He emphasized on the discipline and cooperation among the members from different states with the organizing team *yawn*. After lunch, rehearsal was done in the guidance of an ex-army officer, Mr C.S. Chandran, Head of Training for SJAM. Well, guess what? Teik Sum 'blackout' during the 3-hour rehearsal *^^*, HEY YOU, stop teasing! Dinner was quite good, unlimited rice and curry chicken up for grabs, apple is a must for every meal *yummy*. After dinner was briefing again from Mr Maniam. He thank us for supporting this celebration and express his delightment for our burning spirit during the rehearsal. We were supposed to spend our night at the hostel at PULAPOL but due to insufficient beds *swt*, we have to walked to Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), which is located next to the training center, for our accomodation at the hostel. My roommates were Donivald and Kin Ho. Before sleeping, we even play cards with Kar Chun, a from 3 members from SMK Jalan Pasir Puteh *haha* (JPP). Lights out - 12.oo midnight.

Second Day (13th December 2008):

I'll make it short. Woke up at 5.00am because we must be ready to walk to PULAPOL at 5.30am. Breakfast was splendid, char kuetiaw and hard boiled eggs plus orange juice. Well, actually the orange juices is not for us, we sat on the bench for the police*haha*. The second rehearsal was quite fun, it was held at Merdeka Square aka Dataran Merdeka.

~ National Sergeant Major - Chandran ~

After the rehearsal, we went back to PULAPOL for some rest and lunch. Kinda boring this day, rehearsal after rehearsal. As usual, nothing will make a marching rehearsal perfect without a few soft-nuts dropping down.

~Believe me, it's Different When you Look Directly Onto It~

After dinner was 8.00pm. That means we still have plenty of time before lights out. Sir Leong, our officer in charge, decided to let us enjoy by going to KLCC *yay*! 1 hour shopping and loitering there makes everyone feel better.

Action Day (14th December 2008):

It's the 14th December! It's the reason why we are here! It's action day! We changed to our uniform after cleaning up and get ready for the journey to Dataran Merdeka once again. Like what we've done for the rehearsal, we marched towards the parade full of pride and excitement. The deputy health minister and a few high ranking officer including Dato' Low Bin Tick, Pemerintah Agung SJAM were invited to witness this meaningful event.

~The Historical Clock Tower located Opposite Dataran Merdeka~

The national anthem and St John song were sang. Before that, 26 buses from the International Cadet Camp (ICC) drove in and joined us for tis celebration, Can you imagine that? It's approximately 1000+ members from Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and a few countries. After the march pass, speech were given by the deputy health minister and Dato' Low Bin Tick. The celebration was officially over at 10.00am *phew*. We changed to our casual and went to Time Square to enjoy after 3 tiring days. Oh, did I mention that Sir Leong fainted during the celebration? He fell straight backwards and has to be carried out with a stretcher.

Overall:
I like the meals served at PULAPOL! it's unlimited and tasty. Can i have more? I witnessed the different types of uniform and badges from various states. The 4 commanders' voice were amazing. I can't describe it. It's like he's shouting command from Old Town Kopitiam opposite SMI and you can hear it clearly on the basketball court. History has been made and this signify the 100 years celebration of St John Ambulance in Malaysia.

~ CPR Demonstration ~

The 9 person participating from my school were:
Cheah Wai Hoong
Looi Hong Wei
Wong Joe Hang
Fong Teik Sum
Ivan Tan Tek Ming (ME)
Lim Kin Ho
Looi Hong Tat
Donivald Tham Kam Loy

Cham Swee Wen

~Look What I've Found~

Happy Birthday Vincent!

~ Birthday Boy (left), Vincent Tang Choon Beng ~

HaPpY BirThDaY

MAY ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE

5 December 2008 - That's all from me! Went to Ipoh Parade KBox to celebrate Vincent's birthday which falls on 7th December. Guess what? A so call 'chocolate cake' was bought by Soon. That cake was.. ahem, DAB (read it backwards!).

taGGeD!

Got this tag from Yoong Xiang and Sze Ngau's blog and I found it was quite interesting . xD

So here's the rules :

Choose 7 friends, upload individual pictures of them, type out their names and write the 7 things you love or hate about them! Tag 7 people after that! ( I chose as many friends as I like! )

Alan Beh Peng Cheng

Love: Friendly, Caring, A friend you can trust, Simple
Hate: Too emotional (sometimes), Can be easily fooled! , Curious

Vincent Tang Choon Beng

Love: Friendly, Funny, Simple
Hate: Always fong fei kei, His don't care about everything attitude, yamjin face!

Nike Phang Yee Lim

Love: Friendly, Extremely-funny, Understanding, His good-to-everyone attitude
Hate: When I figure it out only tell you ..

Donivald Tham Kam Loy

Love: Funny, Simple, Good leader, Capable of doing 'anything', Always smile
Hate: Proud of himself sometimes ( which make others talk bad about him, not me! )

Calvin Tan Sze Ngau

Love: Friendly (sometimes), Cool?
Hate: Play truant frequently, Serious when he is not funny, Rules-breaker

Tikuz Wong Yoong Xiang

Love: Helpful, Responsible?
Hate: Selfish (sometimes), Face problem?

Wong Joe Hang

Love: Funny, Caring
Hate: Pessimist, Suspicious mind, Hard to predict, Angry because of minor stuff, Bully

Fong Teik Sum

Love: Friendly, Good in studies, Know how to differentiate good and bad (which many don't)Hate: yet to be discovered...

Jason Lim Kin Ho
Love: Friendly, Funny, Optimist, Simple

Hate: His so called DkDc (dont know dont care) attitude

Chuah Teong Hui

Love: Friendly, Cool, Brave at doing stupid and funny things
Hate: Bossy, Play truant frequently, lazy

The beginning of holidays, the beginning of sufferings

~ Where is my Nike Phang 妹妹? ~

16 November 2008 - The beginning of holidays, the beginning of sufferings. That's what it is for me. It is mainly because of,

1) St John Training. No holidays again for me this year because I'm involved in the competition team trainings.
2) Boring. What can I do during the holidays at home? I can't be reading and revising my form 4 syllabus the whole day...
3) Friends. Can't meet my friends in school. Less talking and enjoying time with them. I'm sure all of you miss your friends too..

Nothing else, no mood for blogging.

Primary School Class of 2004 Reunion Dinner

~ Memories Alive ~

~ Me, Anthony, Kah Keen, Sze Ngau, Kit Kei ~

1 November 2008 - This is the first reunion dinner from Class 6(1) to 6(8). You guess, we are the batch of class 2004 from SJK(c) Yuk Choy. That means it has been 4 long years after we've graduated from primary school 4 years ago. The venue for this reunion is Greentown MP, the restaurant located near Ipoh Parade. A few of my friends and I walked there from Ipoh Parade at approximately 5.50pm and we arrived at 6.05pm. I expected some of my old classmates to arrive early but when we reached there, no one has arrive yet.. I saw plenty old friend there, boys and girls, but most of the boys are from my school. We entered a room inside MP at 7.30pm. The price per person + tax is around RM31.00, Ouch! After dinner, we had a small chat outside MP, then I followed some of my friends to Junction Kopitiam @ Ipoh Parade. We went home quite late.. swt!

Here are some of my old friends that I've met (excluding SMI) :
1) Chin Kah Keen
2) Seng Choon
3) Anthong Chong
4) Wu Wei Ming
5) Phon Kit Kei
6) Lee Hoi Yen
7) Ooi V-tjen
8) Yi Xinn
9) Lee Elynn
10) Many many more friends that I can't remember their names....

P.S: Yi Xin told us that she like someone from my class, 4sc4, the person is a band member, I wonder who was that person.. hmm

~ We are from the same class when we were standard 5, Oh, next year I will be form 5, OMG! ~

~ Freaks from SMI, where is Ong Jin Hong? ~

~ Oh, here he is ~

~ They were from 6(7), who is that person laughing behind? ~

~ LOLZ, lucky Woei Hong ~

GameAxis October Letter of the Month

~ CABAL Online Limited Edition Box Set ~

22 October 2008 - I received my GameAxis magazine for this month. Not bad after all, there are approximately 11 reviews for this month's hot games. What really grab my attention was the game 'Spore, the origin of species'. The same creator of The Sims. It told us how fun a game can be when you can create your own creatures and modify them according to your liking. There are some gamers who shape the creature just like Starwars series and animal-like creature. I will definitely purchase the game when it hits the store. I've entered a contest for a chance to get a free CD on GameAxis August issue and I found out that I was among the 10 lucky winners who get the prize. My friend, Yee Yang managed to get the prize too with the nickname: Deric Lee. Well, the letter of the month gifts will be claimed by my parents when they are going to KL this month. Below is the letter, let's see..

Hi there,

This is my first time writing to GameAxis. This magazine contains so much fun within. The magazine cover for September issue of GameAxis was awesome and attractive. SPORE, the origin of species, the game is not that bad after all, isn't it? From what I can see through the magazine, Spore is just another game of fantasy and adventure. It gives me the idea that this game is somehow.. a bit childish (suit me =.='). The characters are funny too. I think I will try it when the game release. Well, since GameAxis are looking forward for some improvement in this issue, please allow me to present my point of view towards this. (The game survey on page 40 does not allow readers to comment their own ideas -__-)

1) GameAxis should remind about the advantages readers will get when they subscribe to this magazine such as cheaper and the chances to get free gifts.

2) The magazine cover for GameAxis should be attractive all the times like this issue. The previous August issue's cover - Warhammer Online is dull and unattractive from the shelves.

3) Gameaxis.com does not contain much about Malaysia's GameAxis magazine. The search results are all from the Singapore version magazine. Although it contains many information about the games...

4) I agreed with the letter of the month saying that the game reviews are mostly from consoles like PS3 and Xbox 360. Are you telling us that there are no new games from PC too?? (I saw plenty of new games from PC Gamer magazine)

5) Gamers would be glad to receive FREE booklet or game disc from GameAxis. Just like the previous issue, we get free disc from Cabal Online and booklet about the World Cyber Games (WCG). Here's my idea, minus 2 page from the magazine and continue the poster giveaway that everyone loves. (xD)

Well, that's all I can comment about GameAxis survey. I'm looking forward to more improvements and updates from this magazine. Hope you guys will appreciate this.

Serena

P.S: Since I've won the letter of the month for GAX June issue using the email and nickname: HeartBreakKid, I'm using my sister's email to send this letter. xD

~ GameAxis October Issue ~

~ DVD Game Client, Magnificent Scroll of Neverath, Playing Cards, Graphic Art Book, Glittering Force Core ~

~ Dragon Throne PC Game, Piece of Love CD, N.E.R.D Seeing Sounds CD, Mariah Carey iPod Skin ~

SMI Co-curriculum Day 2008

23 October 2008 - Today was the annual Co-curriculum Day for my school. Varieties of uniformed unit, clubs and societies were displaying and presenting the uniqueness of their respective extramural activities. Class 3A9 was selected for the St John Ambulance. We had around an hour to prepare before the students started walking in at 9.00am. We divided the room into a few sections, mainly Simple Bandaging, CPR, Choking, Achievements, Theory, Photo Gallery and Case.


My team which consists of Donivald Tham, Lim Kin Ho, Teoh Jia Heng and me myself demonstrated around 5 to 8 short cases for the sea of spectators. We were not good for the cases mainly because we were lacking of training. Oh yea, Kin Ho and Hong Tat were in charged for first aid kit presentation too, here is the photo:

From what I can see today, the Chinese Language Society (CLS) did a very good job. They managed to equip their class with loads of stuff. Lanterns were hung inside the class, chinese calligraphy was placed outside the class with newspapers to allow other students to get their hands on. They even make 'tang yuan' and sold for RM1.00 per cup. Splendid! The Michaelian Military Band (MMB) displayed their precious instruments in Class 3A5 too. The instruments were put on the tables and brief explanation about them were printed out. They band members had their performance at approximately 11.00am. Well Done!

P.S: I did not take any photos during the Co-curriculum Day mainly because to show a good example for juniors by not playing with handphones.