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For I am engulfed in the flames of study fever...

Strange. Mr. Thien (Math Tutor) cited three electrical appliances at home which served as the most successful distractions from studying for the promotional exams - telephone, refrigerator and the television. Curiouser and curiouser. To think I spend virtually all my time on the computer and the Internet.

Things have been settling down quite well though. I've started revising for the exams since last week and with my current endurence I should be able to scrape through. I'm pushing myself to get distinctions and hopefully I'll make it.

Many [and I mean it] things have happened ever since the last time I added a new journal entry. I'll try to summerise everything down for future references (I will be backdating after the promos so there's more to remember 1999 by).

The National Software Competition was held on the 18th of September 1999 at Singapore Polytechnic. I met up with Kaijie in the morning at MOE(Kay Siang Road) to submit our respective entries for the APEC Education Ministerial Meeting 1999 Website competition. Nevertheless to say, I was late. I guess that wasn't the way to meet a friend whom I've not seen in person since December last year. Donned in Anderson JC uniform, Kaijie looked different. Not to mention his parting which in a way enhanced his image. Augh. What else, apart from Photoshop, did he use for manipulation? [Read: Just Kidding. Do not take it to mind Kaijie.]

Admist our journey to Singapore Polytechnic, a pair of tourists came up to us and asked for directions to Sentosa. Ever wondered what irony is? Albeit the lack of knowledge of road directions, we managed to make our way to Singapore Polytecnic, leaving the pair in the middle of nowhere. Well, we really didn't know the directions. [To be continued]

Sidetracking.... Slimcea has this terrible fetish for Valen Hsu... so much so that he has splattered the class journal with loads of her photos.... Eks.

The news of the "retirement" of my alma mater's (The Chinese High School) Principal and Deputy Principals broke out a day after. Received a mail about it when I returned home from Kelvin's birthday dinner. There was this natural feeling of sunken heart. Mr. Tooh retiring at this point of time? Anxious to grab hold of more information, I entered channel #tchs and found heaps of nicknames on the sidebar. Great. To think that it was midnight. Near exams period. Rages flew, speculations spread like wild fire. [To be continued - look forward to a series of entries dedicated to this saga.]

So... I've started on my revision for the promotional exams. Everything went really well for the first few days until I started bearing symtoms of pre-exam stress. My nose ran wild and blocked itself, my throat went dry very often and all these accrued and culminated to immense asthmatic coughs and a phlegm-full throat. I had to stay bed-ridden (well, not really) for two days. A blessing in disguise perhaps, for I get to spend more time on my revision? [To be continued]

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Revision Status
[OOOOOOOOOO.........................] 20.0%

Overweight Status
[OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO] 98.0%

Hiak. The doctor says I should be working out more often, if not prepare for the arduous sufferings ahead. I am thinking twice about deferment from National Service. That means I'll need to earn a PSC Scholarship... Oh well, guess I should concentrate on the promos for now. No new journal entry till the end of it all. Definitely.