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Sunday, April 29, 2007

wheehee i finally went for taekwondo today.

we started off kicking the black black thingy. hwang-sir keep trying to correct me but the more he correct, the lousier i became. so in the end, during break time, emily and me borrowed the black kicking thingy and started trying to get me to do the right turning kick properly. BUT in the end, my kicks were so lousy that hwang sir had to come over and take a look at my kicks, and almost fainted. O_O woohoo. he then spent a large amount of time trying to correct me, but you know the result.
THEN the know it all came and tried to correct me. teehee. that was my kicking standard, lousy. i promise im going to practise my kick nicely when i get the black black thingy. maybe i should ask hwang sir to lend it to me... do you think he will? i really doubt so.

i sparred with sylvia today. i think i accidentally kicked her too hard. eeps. ohwells. i bet she will take revenge next week. im sad~ there's no taekwondo lesson on tuesday. ohwells.

there's csm tomorrow AND im doing 2 events. there's one problem though. i dunno the timings to report. sucks man. haha ohwells. trust me to be this weird strange person who dont really get timings right.

I LOVE MYSELF. and i support myself.

i'll upload pictures when i have the chance. (pictures from the strange family outing on saturday)

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

11:01 PM

Thursday, April 26, 2007

this morning started out horribly.

lee shan2 came into class and asked me if i studied for bio because my bio results are rotten. T.T and to think i spent like almost close to 2 weeks studying for it. in the end arh, still the same. then chem i totally dunno what i was doing, i got quite good marks! ARGHasdfghjkl i cursed myself with bio T.T i AM GOING TO PASS BIO THE NEXT TERM. i dont care if i have to start studying now. in fact that is what im going to do! SINCE TWO WEEKS IS NOT ENOUGH I SHALL PREPARE ONE MONTH AHEAD WITH SCARY AND EXTREMELY CONSTANT REVISION. if i still fail... then i have nothing to say.

jiayou everyone who have test tomorrow!

and CONGRATZ TO ALL PERFORMING ARTS THAT GOD GWH!
=( nycb is still a GOOD GOLD BAND. no matter what anyone else says.

and a certain someone is getting a little too despo. and im turning a little gossipy. ee so evil. ohwells. its chem sia time. say hello to chem sia and baibai to my good night sleep!


You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

11:01 PM

Saturday, April 21, 2007

wahaha it's blogging time. yet again im supposed to be studying bio. but i am doing everything but that. im really scared that i'll fail bio but at the same time im resigning myself to the fact that learning and learning and memorizing bio is just doing nothing for me. my brain just can't store any of these stuff. not that i know why. =) i rather like write some compos or something... all thanks to diana sim my english marks has dropped drastically.

GOOD CHARLOTTE'S new album is out! it's called GOOD MORNING REVIVAL. funnily, i cannot find it anywhere O_O nevermind. JUST YOU WAIT! i'll find it one day. i dont care. wheehee good charlotte rawks my socks off. i LOVE their new album. but i dunno their style has kinda changed. okay the type of lyrics has not really change but the singing style has changed. but strangely this album sounds waaaaaay nicer than the other 2 albums. IM GOING TO HUNT IT DOWN. i must get it. victims of love is SO NICE. so is ALL BLACK. and and break apart her heart. okay it's kinda gender discrimination and it spreads the wrong message but who cares. it still rawks. lookie lookie!

lyrics of "all black"
Take a look at my life, all black
Take a look at my clothes, all black
Like Johnny Cash, all black
Like The Rolling Stones wanna paint it black

Like the night that we met, all black
Like the colour of your dress, all black
Like the seats in my Cadillac
I used to see red, now it's just all black

As long as I could remember I dreamed in black and white
As I grew up and the sun went down, I never felt more alright
My mother she use to tell me: Son you better get to church
It's a dark, dark world and it's evil out there and you know it's only getting worse
Yeah, I've never been much for weddings or anniversaries but
I go to a funeral if I'm invited any day of the week
Some people say that I sound strange, some say that I'm not right
But I find beauty in this world every single night

Take a look at my life, all black
Take a look at my clothes, all black
Like Johnny Cash, all black
Like The Rolling Stones wanna paint it black

Like the night that we met, all black
Like the colour of your dress, all black
Like the seats in my Cadillac
I used to see red, now it's just all black

I sat down at her table at the end of the night
She was having black coffee and a cigarette, she wasn't wearing white
She said, people tell me that I'm strange, they say that I am not right
She said, the only time I feel alive is in the dead of night
I think I found the one for me

Take a look at my life, all black
Take a look at my clothes, all black
Like Johnny Cash, all black
Like The Rolling Stones wanna paint it black

Like the night that we met, all black
Like the colour of your dress, all black
Like the seats in my Cadillac
I used to see red, now it's just all black

I remember feeling so alive
The night I looked into her eyes

and "break apart her heart"
When you call she doesn't answer, when you write she doesn't answer
You go out you see him with her, she told you she was sick at home
The ring you gave her thrown away with all the letters
And when you see him with her, he doesn't even care at all

As she follows him around like you follow her around
And he doesn't even care and your figuring out
The only way your gonna keep somebody around
Well I'm about to let you know

There's something I don't wanna understand
The only way a woman is gonna want a man
The only way you'll ever keep her in your hands
Is breaking apart her heart
Don't tell her she is the reason that you live
Don't give her everything that you got to give
If you want to keep the girl for as long as you live
Just break it apart her heart

Can't you see the way she's crying
Well that's what keeps her trying, she knew that she could have you
And he don't give her what she wants
There's truth about this, you say you want to be noticed
Well if you want to be noticed you gotta learn to break some hearts
Don't try to understand

There's something I don't wanna understand
The only way a woman is gonna want a man
The only way you'll ever keep her in your hands
Is breaking apart her heart
Don't tell her she is the reason that you live
Don't give her everything that you got to give
If you want to keep the girl for as long as you live
Just break it apart her heart

Can't you see what you've done?
What I've become, what I've become
Can't you see? Can't you see?

I don't understand this cruelty
I don't understand but now I see

There's something I don't wanna understand
The only way a woman is gonna want a man
The only way you'll ever keep her in your hands
Is breaking apart her heart
Don't tell her she is the reason that you live
Don't give her everything that you got to give
If you want to keep the girl for as long as you live
Just break it apart her heart

I don't understand this cruelty
I don't understand... its just not me
I don't understand this cruelty
But now I see

IM GOING TO PASS BIO. and im going to throw well.
=\

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

4:17 PM

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

zomg. so many days never blog already.

i just failed my math and physics test (= that's a great accomplishment... i guess.

ORH today i saw mrs koh! yay! it has been a really long time since i last saw her! and she still recognised me~ yay happy! now mrs koh has this really short hair and this weird hairstyle that makes her look strange. IM JEALOUS OF WANDONG. she's her english teacher! i want mrs koh back as my english teacher so that my english marks would at least be higher and i'll at least develope some HEALTHY interest in some english texts. not like our current english teacher, diana sim who talks about nothing but child sex and sexual stuff in class. hear until you can like die or something.
I WANT MRS SIVA KOH BACK!

during lunch - at the SAC
we drifted. me and siwei.
AND I LOST TO HER FOUR TIMES.
im really bad in playing xbox! just you wait and see siwei! I WILL BEAT YOU ONE DAY.

im supposed to go for csm and sci project tomorrow or something but i think the science project will be postponed to monday yep! yay
like is not bad...

JIAYOU for my other tests!
i scared i fail everything or something

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

10:53 PM

Sunday, April 15, 2007

haven't been blogging the last two days.
it's been a long time since i really sat down to relax. what has life been? studying and studying. and studying. 呆在家裏讓媽媽罵,讓爸爸出氣,讓妹妹不爽的時候打。what more can i ask for other than this?
oh ya and im supposed to be happier.

today... i had physics lesson and i think it went quite well. except that i think that i might not live up to my teacher's expectations. haha.

OH YA. nats jrs. i think chang-e threw very nicely =D she threw 8.6+? i think so. HAHA. it's further than yvonne and pei jia (((((((((((=
must jiayou to be like her.
i wonder how zexin and claire did... zexin's throws must be super good. haha so different from last year. she's damn pro now. unlike someone that i know very well. never improve at all. sucks man.
and that person is me.

ORH AND WHEEEEEEEEE I GOT NEW WHITE SPECS. AND AND AND WOOHOO SIWEI LENT ME THE KO ONE CD. the show very nice. wahahaha but the er props when fighting very lame~~

華岡高一時期16
so cute!!

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

8:13 PM

Thursday, April 12, 2007

WHAT IS EMO!

how come simple plan is emo. and how come i'm emo!

haha i just learned how to file my nails nicely today (= zongbin taught me WHEEHEE
and physics and maths are coming up.

a short post here, consisting absolutely nothin' (=

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

10:33 PM

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

我小時後都喝克林 所以長的跟大樹一樣高 飛高高 飛高高 高飛也很高
so amazing

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

10:09 PM


wahaha the glenn lim thingy was a success today! at first we went out 15 minutes early because we arranged to meet him at 11.00
in the end when we rushed to the audie place, they weren't there.

or so we thought.

so being the person that i was, the frantic person that i was, i was going in and out of the LT to check if they were there. finally on one fine occasion, i spotted them! meaning glenn and marcus. yep so i called the rest. and they said that they were here really on time meaning 11.00 ohwow. so meaning we had no one to receive them T.T we failed in this aspect boo...

but in the end the speech was quite good AND the people listening to it were actually interested not like in the other speeches that they were just trying to be polite. coz this time you could really feel their enthusiasm and their JOY! and their willingness to miss their recess! okay maybe not all of them but we got MOST OF THEM IN THE BAG!

i would like to thank yihui for making this a success haha without her i think we'd be screwed to dunno what place already. she made ALL the AV stuff possible. wahaha

okay i think my posts are getting shorter and shorter because im lacking of an interest to blog because of the tests and such that are coming up. first one up on monday! PHYSICS. then MATH.

jiayou!

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

9:40 PM


=( i am going to denature like a protein soon.

PRAY THAT TODAY GLENN LIM THINGY WONT SCREW UP.

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

7:05 AM

Sunday, April 08, 2007


i need oranges for my er bio and chem sia.

just finished grading and guess what. i was super freaked out during the whole grading and was trembling when i was doing.
AND WONG SIR SAID THAT ONE PERSON FROM OUR CC FAILED. hurrah to the cc.

scared~ what if it's me.

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

6:42 PM

Saturday, April 07, 2007

I am sorry for the last post. i didnt really mean anything. Hatred was inspired bu the 'out-of-control' being that i was. Actually i really didnt mean any of that. That stuff that i said and stuff like that im so sorry. Especially for the part where i said that i hated you guys. Suddenly im very regretful of my actions. Trying to change now, trying to be the daughter you always wanted. Usually im not like that, but i'll still try. Dunno if i should like apologise to you guys or what, ohwells. Yelling, shouting and stuff like that, i would try not to do anymore (= I am going to TRY. Not confirmed results so if i dont change immediately, dont blame me. Good.

FAILING ALL MY SUBJ, HELP HELP! AM GOING TO FAIL PHYSIC, MATH AND BIO AND MAYBE IH AND CHEM OMG IM SO DEAD. SUDDENLY I FEEL SO STUPID T.T! I think that arh, i must study harder. Like crap, like sth, i dunno. But then im not sure if studying really helps i've been studying like crap the last few days like no result like that haha. I think it's coz i dunno how to study O_O. Okay...

link up the 1st letters of the post!

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

5:45 PM

Friday, April 06, 2007

已經不知道什麽是愛了,生活是多麽的邪惡,多麽的不公平。爲什麽每次被罵的人是我?爲什麽妹妹做什麽都是對的,而我做什麽事都是錯的。不懂他們在想什麽,罵了我還要打人?那是愛嗎?接受這种對待是我生活中都做不到的一件事。他們爲什麽要把我們之間的感情弄成這樣的底部,我又不是很頑皮,或很不負責任。覺得自己還是挺好的,只是笨了一點而已。我知道在這個省活裏,我永遠都比不上他們最愛的孩子。這是公平嗎?不想笑了,覺得在這种地方笑只是在朗菲力氣,誰會看到我的笑容?不想做任何東西了,如果做了,什麽事都會做錯。只剩下我和吉他了。

the only reason why im still surviving in this house because there's still a possibility to lose myself in music. why lose myself in music? or would you rather i be depressed and lose myself in cutting. why dont you? ya, and STOP your endless yapping because NO ONE wants to hear them. you think everyone is so interested in you because you talk so much? let me tell you the truth, i hate both of you. i wish i was grown up already. im not supposed to feel like this, but the way you view me is how you view a piece of dirt! is it my fault that i ended up in nanyang and dont do very well in this school? IM NOT SMART YOU KNOW. how many time must i tell you that! why dont you just shut up or something! once you shut up them you'll manage to hear the faint helpless cries all around you. you're not the only one who has been betrayed and who is angry! think of the people around you! you think they are alright, and then you go around telling the success of that person and then tell people that im a failure and im stupid and IM FAILING MY MATH? ya right! im stupid okay? AND WHEN I FINALLY ADMIT THAT IM STUPID YOU SCOLD ME? what on earth is that.

maybe i should just die or something then you would be happy right? shit! i really hate you.
the three of you.

" 笑容 是生活中最可口的快樂調味料
你多久沒微笑了? 你多久沒有因為一件小事而哄堂大笑了?
你多久 沒起笑了
來 笑一個 =)"
-R.Chord

累了,嘴唇不能動了。

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

3:52 PM

Thursday, April 05, 2007

i feel stressed hahaha
esp with grading and common tests coming up. i suddenly feel the pressure of studying for common tests.
and i shall put this is some other colour because of the incredible IH stuff i have to read =( HAHAHA
ohwells.

yes and i must jiayou!
GO FUTURE ME!!
click future me and you will see sth really kewl

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

10:56 PM


Background

The South Thailand insurgency is a separatist campaign centered in the Pattani region, three southern provinces of Thailand, with violence increasingly spilling over into neighbouring provinces and threatening to extend up to the national capital in Bangkok. A long series of conflicts has resulted in over 2000 deaths in the past decade, with more than 1000 occurring since an escalation of violence in January of 2004. In July of 2005 the Prime Minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, assumed wide-ranging emergency powers to deal with the insurgency. In September 2006, Army Commander Sonthi Boonyaratkalin was granted an extraordinary increase in executive powers to combat the unrest.[1] On 19 September, Sonthi and the Thai military seized power from Thaksin. Despite reconciliatory gestures from the junta, the insurgency has continued.

Causes of the insurgency

A resurgence in violence by Pattani separatist groups began in 2001. The identity of the actors pushing conflict remain mostly obscure. Many local and regional experts have implicated the region's traditional separatist groups, such as PULO, BRN and GMIP, and particularly the BRN-Coordinate (a faction of BRN). Others have suggested the violence is being driven by new, more overtly religious networks. Some experts contend this occurred under the influence of foreign Islamist groups such as al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah, though the evidence for such connections is flimsy at best and such claims remain highly contentious. Some reports suggest that a number of Pattani Muslims have received training at al-Qaida centres in Pakistan, though many experts believe, to the contrary, that the Pattani separatism has little or nothing to do with global jihadism. Others have claimed that the Pattani insurgents have forged links with groups such as the religious-nationalist Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines and the quasi-secular Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in Indonesia.
At first the government blamed the attacks on "bandits," and indeed many outside observers believe that local clan, commercial or criminal rivalries do play some part in the violence in the region. As recently as July of 2002 in the wake of over 14 policemen dying in separate attacks since the beginning of the year, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra publicly denied the role of religion in the attacks, when quoted as saying he did not "think religion was the cause of the problems down there because several of the policemen killed were Muslim" [1]. Interior Minister Purachai Piemsomboon attributed the attacks on the police to the issue of drug control, as the "police are making serious efforts to make arrests over drugs trafficking."
In 2002, Shinawatra stated, "There's no separatism, no ideological terrorists, just common bandits." By 2004 he had reversed his position, and has come to regard the insurgency as the local front in the global War on Terrorism. Martial law was [2] instituted in Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat in January of 2004, and violence increased, with 200 Muslims killed by troops during the year. In April, troops killed over 100 Muslim men in Yala province who attacked well-defended police stations with only light weapons, in what police described as "suicidal" attacks.
In 2005, Bangkok Senator Sophon Supapong accused the United States of being the mastermind behind bombings in Hat Yai. His accusation was seconded by Perayot Rahimmula, Democrat MP and professor at Prince of Songkhla University (Pattani campus), though they could provide no convincing evidence to back up their accusation.[2]
In 2006, Thai Army chief Sonthi Boonyaratglin suggested that former communist insurgents might be playing a role in the unrest.[3] Governors of the southern provinces showed some skepticism over his suggestion, but investigated the connection.
A striking aspect of the South Thailand insurgency is the anonymity of the people behind it and the absence of concrete demands. Thailand had held relatively free elections in February of 2005, and no secessionist candidates contested the results in the south. However, requests of cultural and religious freedom and the right to use the Yawi language have been presented numerous times. In July, the chairman of the Narathiwat Islamic Committee was quoted as saying, "The attacks look like they are well-organized, but we do not know what group of people is behind them."
Since the 2006 coup that replaced Thaksin, the Thai government has taken a more conciliatory approach to the insurgency, avoiding excessive uses of force and beginning negotiations with known separatist groups. The government has not been able to stop the violence altogether. This likely backs the assertion that there are several groups involved in the violence, only some of whom have been placated by the government's change of strategy.[4]
Escalation of violence
Attacks after 2001 concentrated on installations of the police and military, schools and other symbols of Thai authority in the region were burned. Local police officers of all ranks and government officials were the primary targets of seemingly random assassinations, with 19 policemen killed and 50 insurgency-related incidents in the three provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat by the end of 2001.
While earlier attacks were typified by drive-by shootings in which patrolling policemen were shot by gunmen on passing motorcycles, this quickly escalated to well coordinated attacks on police establishments, with police stations and outposts ambushed by well-armed groups who subsequently flee with stolen arms and ammunition. In 2002, 75 insurgency-linked attacks amounted to 50 deaths among police and army personnel. In 2003, officials counted 119 incidents. The mounting scale and sophistication of the insurgency eventually prompted the government into a recognition that there was a serious issue in the southern provinces.
On January 4, 2004, unidentified gunmen raided an army ammunition depot in Narathiwat Province in the early morning, and made off with over 100 rifles and other ammunition. In the midst of doing so, all four senior-ranking soldiers guarding the installation were murdered. This incident quickly escalated into large scale violence, with insurgents killing 600 people in a series of bombings and shootings aimed mainly at the police and the military, but also many civilians. Some bombings were directed at non-Muslim Thai residents of the area, leading to an exodus which has damaged the regional economy and increased its isolation from the rest of Thailand.
The Thai response to the insurgency was hampered by a lack of training in counter-insurgency methods, lack of understanding of local culture, and rivalries between the police and the army. Many local police are involved in the local drug trade and other criminal activities, and army commanders from Bangkok treat them with disdain. The army responded to insurgent attacks with heavy-handed raids on Muslim villages, which only resulted in reprisals. Insurgents provoke the inexperienced Thai government into disproportionate responses, generating sympathy among the Muslim populace.
Estimates of the strength of the insurgency vary greatly. In 2004 General Panlop Pinmanee said that there were only 500 hard-core insurgents. Other estimates say there as many as 15,000 armed insurgents. Some Thai analysts believe that foreign Islamist groups are infiltrating the area, and that foreign funds and arms are being brought in, though again, such claims are balanced by an equally large body of opinion suggesting this remains a distinctly local conflict.
The insurgency escalated, with a series of bomb attacks in Songkhla on April 3, 2005, and a major attack being launched on the provincial capital of Yala in July. In response, Thaksin issued a decree giving himself sweeping powers to direct military operations, suspend civil liberties, and censor the press. This action sparked protests from liberal sections of the Thai media and opposition parties.
In 2005, 131 civilians from the south fled to neighbouring Malaysia seeking refuge from the Thai authorities. Thailand immediately accused the refugees of being insurgents (even though women and children were in the group) and demanded that they be returned, sparking a diplomatic spat. Currently, the people are still in Malaysia.
On June 15, 2006, during the 60th anniversary of the accession of Bhumibol Adulyadej to the Thai throne, well coordinated bomb-attacks against at least 40 government and official buildings occurred. Two police officials died and 11 others were injured. Experts say that the bomb attacks were a message to the Thai authorities, rather than an attempt to do real damage, as the bombs were loaded with small amounts of explosives. Had the devices been larger, the casualties and injuries would have been notably greater. The Thai media was late in reporting the incident, and only did so after the BBC and other international broadcasters announced it.
On 22 November 2006, Wan Kadir Che Wan, leader of Bersatu, an umbrella organization for southern separatist groups, told Al Jazeera television that the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist network was helping local insurgents stage attacks in Thailand.

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

10:45 AM


PATTANI, Thailand: Some are already calling it war, a brutal Muslim separatist insurgency in southern Thailand that has taken as many as 2,000 lives in three years, with almost- daily bombings, drive-by shootings, arson and beheadings.

It is a conflict the government admits it is losing. A harsh crackdown and martial law in recent years seem only to have fueled the insurgency, generating fear and anger and undermining moderate Muslim voices.

A new policy of conciliation pursued by Thailand's junta since it took power in a coup five months ago has been met by increased violence, including a barrage of 28 coordinated bombings in the south that killed or injured about 60 people a week ago.

"The momentum of violence is now beyond the control of government policy," said Srisompob Jitpiromsri, a political scientist at Prince of Songkhla University here.

"The separatists can pick and choose the time and place of the violence without any effective resistance," he said. "They have the upper hand."

The insurgents seem to be taking their war to a new stage, pitting local Buddhists against Muslims by attacking symbols of Buddhism — Thailand's dominant faith — with flamboyant brutality.

The two religions had coexisted through the years, although often in separate villages. Observers say this mutual tolerance is breaking down and there are fears of a sectarian conflict that could flare out of control.

"Buddhist monks have been hacked to death, clubbed to death, bombed and burned to death," said Sunai Phasuk, a political analyst with the Human Rights Watch monitoring group. "This has never happened before. This is a new aspect of violence in the south."

Some remote areas in the south have become, in effect, no-go zones for the police or military, according to Francesca Lawe-Davies, an analyst with the International Crisis Group.
"It appears in the last year or so that insurgent groups are actually starting to control territory in a more conventional sense," she said.

Some Buddhist and Muslim villages have begun sealing themselves off from one another. People say that old friendships and patterns of cooperation are being undermined by mistrust.
In a report published last month, Zachary Abuza, the author of "Militant Islam in Southeast Asia," said that entire Buddhist communities have fled in a "de facto ethnic cleansing."
"The social fabric of the south has been irreparably damaged," he said.

In an effort to weaken central control, the insurgents also target Muslims who cooperate with the government. About half the victims in the conflict have been Muslim. These include not only village chiefs and suspected collaborators, but those who work in government offices, government-funded schools or even critical economic sectors like rubber tapping.

All of this adds up to war, said Srisompob. The military has flooded the region with up to 20,000 new troops, checkpoints have been set up along the roads and soldiers travel in convoys of armored vehicles.

"In the local communities in the red zones, it already is a war situation," Srisompob said. "It is different now from last year, from the last two years."

About 1.3 million ethnic-Malay Muslims form a majority in Thailand's three southernmost provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani, accounting for a tiny percentage of Thailand's overwhelmingly Buddhist population of 65 million.

The Muslims have complained of discrimination and attempts at forced assimilation since Thailand annexed the former Sultanate of Pattani a century ago. Armed insurgencies have risen and subsided over the past four decades, but the government may now be facing its most dangerous challenge.

"What is new about the current conflict is the level and degree of violence, the Islamist agenda of the insurgents, and their unprecedented degree of cooperation and coordination," Abuza said.
"The level of violence in Thailand's south has never been higher," he said. "Nor has it been more brutal."

He said there had been more than 24 beheadings in the past three years and as many as 60 attempted beheadings.

Human Rights Watch counted more than 6,000 violent incidents over the past three years. It said that more than 60 teachers and 10 students had been killed and 110 schools — the most visible signs of central government authority in many places — had been set ablaze.
The insurgency is all the more difficult to combat because it does not show its face. Unlike similar movements around the world, this one has not set out its demands or published a manifesto. It is a collection of violent groups without an identifiable central leadership.

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

10:44 AM

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

YES! LINKIN PARK'S NEW SINGLE IS OUT! WOOTS.
one bad thing though, i haven't heard it =X
NOOOOO I MUST AND I WILL BUY THE ALBUM

im feeling rather happy today!
yay thanks for all the encouragement! (=


thinking about it, i have nothing much to blog about today. ohyes there's one thing though. i feel suer regretful, coz i had chinese remedial this afternoon, and it so happens that lee shan2 had a bio lesson at the same time (like extra lesson after school). and i didnt go for the bio lesson. i think it's partially because i didn't know about it (actually to tell the truth, none of the 3fivers knew about the bio thingy until like 20 min after school ended), and because i also knew of it too late )= so i couldnt like blow my chinese teacher off or something and go to bio, coz that would just be treacherous, evil and insane )= like you already promise the teacher and now you are blowing her off.
back to the bio thingy. i heard lee shan2 was quite upset with us. i sent her an apology sms already but she never responded.

now im depressed thinking about it =(

AND SEALEVEL IS BREAKING UP.
im sad. very sad.

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

11:18 PM


websites for the IH presentation on Thailand Insurgency
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/thailand2.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Thailand_insurgency
http://www.photius.com/countries/thailand/national_security/thailand_national_security_insurgency.html
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369876
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370279
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/11/asia/AS-FEA-GEN-Thailand-Beyond-the-Border.php
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/25/news/thailand.php
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=361995

jomain is the most spastic person i've ever seen hahaha

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

12:05 PM

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

it seems like a really long time since i last turned on the computer and find that i actually have no more homework to do. actually for today, i still have math to do, i tried to do everything and didn't know how to do like 80% of the questions. It's been such a long time since i actually knew how to do my math properly and have it in a neat and tidy presentation. it's been such a long time since i actually sat down with my friends and have a good good lunch with no disruptions of school work or studying for a test/quiz. it's been such a long time since i actually passed my chinese 填寫漢字 with flying colours. (i failed it miserably today, actually it's not very bad, i had five wrong. but now i have chinese remedial T.T)
well, it has been a long time.

tkd was quite fun today. not because doing my pattern over and over again was fun but because i got help for my math! (= so i think the 1st question should be correct if not i shall go and kill those who taught me. =( haha emily taught me... 佩服佩服!she actually remembers sec 3 stuff when she is already 19. not even j2 anymore LOL. and 佩服佩服, although that twin/brother (actually i dunno who im asking... well lets just call him the green belter) looks super young, like sec 1 or sec 2, he's actually quite smart. T.T smarter than me. he helped me also! and gina and xinyi also tried to help but they haven't learnt it yet. 加油for that topic, it sucks.
yesyes coordinate geometry is so horrid.
but i got nice friends. if you can call them friends. LOL

i hope i dont fail my quiz tomorrow. so tired.

wenqi and audrey came for training today. it's been a long time since i stepped into the throwing area in nygh LOL, and stepping into our dear field for the first time in many months, i realised how infinitely small our field is compared to the field in hci LOL. oh man i feel so depressed.
AND i realized that im putting a lot of faith in guo, it's like im sacrificing quite a lot of a distance to make my technique nice, by not switching foot. so if i dont hit 8m by the end of may... i am so dead (=
i don't think i'll get anything out of csm or national juniors. it'll probably just be an experience for me =X
coz my distance sucks.

OKAY JIAYOU ME. it's grading day on sun. (=

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

11:00 PM

Sunday, April 01, 2007

i realised that everything is piling up now. even the work at school, the tuition work that i have to do, the number of tuitions, the number of trainings, the nearing of grading, the nearing of tests, the grumbling of parents. im not sure but everything is just wearing me out slowly. i should need some encouragement, i feel so slack that i dont even think im studying at all. i must start revising bio now, i think it is now one of my most terrible subjects because i dont really understand like a lot of things in the topics.
okay
jiayou me.

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

11:01 PM


i thought of using a pink tagboard suddenly....

You took the fall;
And thought of me;
Above all

2:28 PM