HELLO I FEEL SO ACCOMPLISHED (:

ok so today early morning walked over to loyang to hitch a hike from jolene's father to go to the F1 pit building. reached there after a little detour. collected our bikes, adjust wdv needed to be adjusted and waited for the race to begin. even before we started, the 50km people come back alrdy which is like 1 half hr? o.o

ok so the cycling it was fine for the first few km. cos it was open road, so there were sceneries to look at. but when we entered the ecp area, it became all trees and trees and trees. so i got pretty sianed and bored and my ass was hurting like mad. but i continued cos got momentum. a little after the halfway 20km mark, this woman lost control of her bicycle and banged into me. i escaped with this 5mm scratch on my finger -.- she was rather badly hurt though. so i helped her like get a marshall cos it was a stretch of road where there was very little volunteers. then yah gave her my water cos she ran out of water and the next drink station was quite far. i am so nice. ok and after that, i couldnt get back my momentum so i started cycling like half leisurely. and when the ecp part ended and it was back on the roads again, i started gaining back my momentum. ok so i finished the 40km challenge in about 2hrs plus. faster than my estimated 2 half so im pretty pleased with it and i feel so accomplished. i can tell my grandchildren next time that their ah ma cycle 40km before on a bruised ass.

ok the week so far has been really tiring.

let's start on valentine's day. erm it was cs production's first lian pai. it was quite eye-opening la cos i nv take part in this kind of stuff before ma. and somemore all chinese. though i communicated with jolene and everybody else in english la. heh. and i think jolene and me are so efficient. sidenote: please remind me to get red corrugated plastic board. ok and i didn't have a date. went for dinner with my family and relatives who came back.

sunday went out with relatives and family also i think. aiya went out la.

ok school again on monday. didn't run cos need take cs picture. ok i think nth much happened cos i can't rmb.

weds sailing was cool. got wind got tide got current. just everything too strong. and i bruised my ass. explains the above (in cycling part). but it was a pretty cool sailing session. i capped many many times and i was tired from getting back up my boat. lol.

thursday i didn't go for the seminar that we all volunteered for cos i had h3 lab session at ntu. me and jochebed got lost at ntu but this kind man led us to the correct place. pretty straightforward kind of experiment. just got really tedious calculations. and i'm partner A so i need to do a formal lab report which i hv no idea how to but i will find out. i hv to cos the report is 10% of a lvls.

friday was a lethargic day. i was jogging at snail's pace during pe and the weather was so hot. june thaddeus and qy were absent. i went home after gp cos my head was aching and i was feeling damn giddy. the taxi driver was so talkative i had to ask him to ssshhh. went home slept, overslept and rushed to slumdog.

pretty good movie i must say. it's rather like a documentary but presented in a movie/drama kinda way to attract more pple to watch it. but then, the director was trained in documentaries so i guess the documentary training aspect came through.

saturday i went to watch benjamin buttons. the movie was quite draggy at the starting. and i think 3hrs is too long, especially for someone with a bruised ass. so i was practically lying down to watch it. the theatre was rather empty. but then, i went to klp, how crowded can it be? ok im not gng to say much abt bb cos i knw many pple want to and hv not watched it yet. but overall, its a pretty nice movie with excellent makeup. really really good. just a tad too long.

i wanna watch role model and marley & me next week.

ok back to maths ):

Some people just don't know when to shut the hell up.

i am tired. i am going to sleep after i finish typing this chunk of rubbish. tmr is gna be a long day, but nvm because my brother is coming back tmr :)

byebye goodnight.

OMG IT'S LIKE 4 AND I AM HOME!

ha. actly i was home at 3. but i walked my dog and went for a run. run ok. not jog. RUN. but short run. and during my run, jiaqi called me to ask me about thermal and she could tell that i was running. lol.

ok so since the last time i updated, nth much happened. school as normal.

sailing was great ytd. there was wind, a bit erratic but there was wind. need to hike out kind of wind ok. long time dun hv liddat alrdy. there was current, though it wasnt to our advantage but nvm. haha. apparantly, cos wad full moon then tide dunno wad or wad la. anyway it was before a rain so we moved. jolene moved :D haha.

my uncle and aunt came back from holland and they are sleeping in my room so im sleeping in my brother's room and when my brother returns from thailand on sat he can sleep on the sofa. my hse got a lot of sofa let him choose. yay my brother coming back :D

u knw when my brother first left for ns, it felt weird not having him ard in the hse. like sth was missing. then i got used to it but there are times that i will miss him one. aww so sweet. heh.

oh and i was reflecting ytd why i dun like some teachers and i got my conclusion. because the teachers cannot teach me what i dunno. i dun like those teachers that just teach us wad we need to knw then dun make sure we understand. all they care is we knw how to apply and score for a lvls. i want to understand wad im supposed to knw. and plus the way the teacher carries himself or herself and how he or she communicates with the students also very important. if the moe advert (u knw the one wad study history test geog study geog test history passion is children that one) interview me i will thank mr nigel koh.

ok and i was watching cna (which is wad the school canteen tv shld be showing) just now and all the news are like australia big fire death toll 191 and expected to rise, or people die in iraq cos of dunno wad shooting, or earthquake magnitude 7.0 in indonesia which activated tsunami warning, or pyongyang dunno wad nuclear test which dunno wad (basically sth bad), or some company lost over a 100 million USD in dunno which quarter. like all bad news u knw. if i only watch news, i will be a very pessimistic person. oh and i saw this news title but didnt read it cos the newspaper wasnt mine and its sth abt gum disease triggering aids.

that's a reason why i dun want kids. ok partially. i dun think i will make a good mother with my temper and yah u knw la har. and yah the world is a place gng downhill. oooh gp gp. discuss -.-

and i will share with u a piece of news regarding the australia fire.

SYDNEY - ONE turtle's shell melted and fused to its body, while a baby wallaby's ears were fried to a crisp. Kangaroos seared their feet, and birds scorched by Australia's worst-ever wildfires plummeted from the sky.

More than 180 people were killed in the weekend's fires, and on Wednesday, the scope of the devastation to Australia's wildlife began to emerge with officials estimating millions of animals also perished in the inferno.

'It's just horrific,' said Neil Morgan, president of the Statewide Wildlife Rescue Emergency Service in Victoria, the state where the raging fires were still burning. 'It's disaster all around for humans and animals as well.'

Animal shelters and clinics across the region have been inundated with hundreds of burned and blistered creatures who escaped the fires.

Many of the kangaroos rescuers found were suffering from burned feet, a result of their territorial behavior, one rescuer said. After escaping the initial flames, the creatures - which like to stay in one area - likely circled back to their homes, singeing their feet on the smoldering ground.

Already one furry survivor has emerged a star: a koala, nicknamed 'Sam' by her rescuers, was found moving gingerly on scorched paws by a fire patrol on Sunday. Firefighter David Tree offered the creature a bottle of water, which she eagerly accepted, holding Tree's hand as he poured water into her mouth. A photograph of the encounter has now been seen around the world.

Sam was being treated at the Mountain Ash Wildlife Shelter in Rawson, 170 kilometres east of Melbourne, where she has attracted the attention of a male koala, nicknamed 'Bob,' manager Coleen Wood said. The two have been inseparable for the past few days, with Bob keeping a protective watch over his new friend, she said.

Meanwhile, workers at the shelter were scrambling to salve the wounds of possums, kangaroos, lizards -'everything and anything,' she added.

'We had a turtle come through that was just about melted - still alive,' Ms Wood said. 'The whole thing was just fused toether - it was just horrendous. It just goes to show how intense (the fire) was in the area.'

The animals arriving appear stressed, but generally seem to understand the veterinarians are trying to help them, Ms Wood said. Kangaroos and koalas are widespread in Australia and are not particularly scared of humans.

Wildlife Victoria, a wildlife rescue group, has teams in place at several staging areas near the worst-hit regions, with volunteers seeing a range of injuries from burned lungs and smoke inhalation to singed paws.

Rescuers were just being allowed to venture into the blackened zones on Wednesday, and while the scope of the impact on wildlife was still unclear, it was likely to be enormous, Wildlife Victoria president Jon Rowdon said.

'We've got a wallaby joey at the moment that has crispy fried ears because he stuck his head out of his mum's pouch and lost all his whiskers and cooked up his nose,' he said. 'They're the ones your hearts really go out to.'

Rescuers had set up vaporising tents to help creatures whose lungs were burned by the searing heat and smoke.

'There will probably be a significant number which probably can only be euthanised to end their suffering,' Mr Rowdon said. 'And my heart goes out to the people who are given that task.' -- AP

from straits times interactive.

happy birthday to the many people whose bday is today, sieuping, kk, kennard and chinyi (though i dunno u but nvm). and abraham lincoln and charles darwin. today google got a lot of birds.

hello.

cny was boring. like seriously. cny eve ate steamboat at home. chu yi went to my third aunt's hse for potluck. i cooked on behalf of my mummy and everyone said good :D i didn't gamble cos i didn't feel like gambling. eat. watched a bit of tv.eat. watched people gamble. eat.eat.eat. no angpaos. chu er i can't rmb what i did. i think i stayed at home and watched the stupid cny shows. but i can't really rmb. chu san stupidly went back to school for the celebrations. but since it was on the way to my next destination, i took it as a long detour.

friday my brother went to thailand for trng but i couldn't send him off cos i had h3. i missed the chance to see jason. my mother say he is as tall as my brother and looks pleasant. i shall go to the airport to welcome my brother home.

then sch 2 days. then chu liu daphne, qy, ly, wl, jolene and andy came to my hse. before tht they went to andy's hse but i cannot go cos andy's family bai tian gong. then daph's hse then ly's hse where we thought the not very smart weiliang how to play mahjong and he just died without ly's help.

then... school lor. busy busy busy. i decided to finish all hw given on the day itself so i won't drag and pile everything up since my only early day is thursday. monday until 545. and when cardio starts, monday will end at 8.15. tues h3 until 6.30 at hwachong. weds sailing. fri h3 until 7 at hwachong -.- and now sat will be taken up by cs productions. so yay i love thursday.

ok speaking of cardio, it's supposed to start tmr but it has been postponed ):

ok and the code of conduct is getting anal. like seriously. i really dun see what is wrong with 3 black stripes. but anyway, i got my running shoes.

weds had the first sailing session of the year. apparantly we all passed lvl 1 but we haven't apply for the license -.- and me and jolene got promoted. last year, jhing sailed us out. this year, we sailed the yr5s out. haha. and then they had to jump off and swim back while we sail back. in my case, i was pulled back by the power boat cos there was no wind -.-

oh ytd went to my father's colleague's hse for a bbq. i was bored cos all uncles and aunties. but it was interesting listening to them analyse why ho ching stepped down from temasek holdings.

oh i went for cs meeting ytd. in chinese ok. though i asked qns in english but...

oh my. my life sounds boring.

Google glitch sparks confusion

WASHINGTON - THE search engine Google sparked online confusion on Saturday when a glitch in its security program temporarily warned users that websites from all search results were potentially harmful.

Between 1430 and 1525 GMT (10.30pm and 11.25pm Singapore time), sites turned up in search results were marked as harmful and users received the message: 'Warning! This site may harm your computer.'

'What happened? Very simply, human error,' Goggle vice-president for search products and user experience Marissa Mayer said on the company's official blog.

Google receives regular updates to a list of malicious websites from StopBadware.org, which investigates consumer complaints.

'We periodically receive updates to that list and received one such update to release on the site this morning,' Ms Mayer explained.

'Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs.' Users who tried to access the site were blocked by Google, which directed them to StopBadware.org. The firm works with Google to determine which sites are dangerous.

'This led to a denial of service of our website as millions of Google users attempted to visit our site for more information,' StopBadware.org said in a statement.

Google was back to normal between 1510 and 1525 GMT (11.10pm and 11.25pm Singapore time).

The company expressed 'apologies to any of you who were inconvenienced this morning, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectly labelled.'

The Mountain View, California-based company said it 'will carefully investigate this incident and put more robust file checks in place to prevent it from happening again.'

The outage, widely discussed on Internet blogs and forums, did not affect Google's news search service.

Google controls about 70 per cent of Internet searches, a market share that has grown steadily in recent years. -- AFP

[Taken from Straits Times Interactive]

-.- no wonder openoffice.org was a malicious site last night. i was so frustrated cos i needed to open ppt -.-