Just Jie Yang now.

Dear one and all,

If you all have ever gotten the idea that Hwa Chong Institution hates me or anything along that idea, or that I am one big naughty boy in school, you are about 3/4 parts wrong.

To clarify some stuff in case I get carried away to some weird corner of the school for solitary confinement (if the newspaper report turns out to be defamatory), I shall state some stuff.

1. I love my school (as much as half the bad stuff happen to me when I’m in school)
2. I have no intention of defaming the school and all.
3. All posts are commentary and sarcastic remarks should not be taken too seriously (to the point where I can get punished.)
4. I am absolutely sorry for any inconvenience caused to my old teacher, and I still respect her despite being rejected.
5. I know the chances of me getting rejected was high, and I’ve accepted it but the disappointment was only natural.
6. I said thanks to my teacher for at least reading my blog before rejecting me.
7. I am hereby distraught over what will be said in the article.

In case you’re wondering what I am talking about, a reporter from Xinmin Daily called me to ask about my blog not being endorsed by Hwa Chong, which is posted on Omy.Sg. I was totally worried about it now, but I realised that the only way I could clarify stuff would be to answer the interview, and not allow the reporter to interpret what I said on my blog.

Please don’t chase after my blood, I swear I’m freaking innocent.

As the title goes, what on earth are these boys doing?

It requires the fingers to move at eye-blurring speeds. (No, it’s not a magic trick)

Good memory is one the requirements too. Iype looks like he’s studying, isn’t he?

But can studying and remembering facts actually make you happy? Hmmmmm.

Let’s reveal the secret behind the yellow cards (literally).

It’s poker cards!

We were being lame yesterday at the Fishtank, so a deck was constructed from those free postcards. I assure you we played enough to make the 52 postcards worthwhile.

I had dental appointments as my co-curricular activities for these two days, the first included the placement of three fillings at prime spots in my mouth, the molars, and the second was polishing, scaling, and fluoride treatment.

I swear my mouth has never been cleaner, in both sense of the word (I didn’t spew anything voulgar, the dentist was kinda cute), but the whole affair cost me 281 bucks.

No wonder the dentistry field attracts so many people every year.

Hi. Today is the 4th last day that you can help me win the coveted title of Best Youth Blogger in Singapore.

You can do so by going http://sgblogawards.omy.sg/vote/?blogCat=youth&blogId=youth02 to vote for me.

I thank you so very much for your support.

It was a hot Friday afternoon, and after a rigorous floorball session followed by light jogging and short gym session, there was the Apollo faculty event, I scream for ice cream.

The first empty tub you see in the photo above was eaten by me and two/three of my classmates (they eating one two scoops each and me, the rest). I won second in the ice cream competition, and after they saw the tub, I ran to the toilet to puke. Understandably.

This is Athena’s faculty event. Pretty paltry. Although they had a nice banner, long and cold announcements to publicize their event, KFC (Knockout Fac Comm), obviously it wasn’t very much a knockout, but rather just a physical game where you throw a ball at the bucket to knock down and splash water on your dear friend at the end.

But it wasn’t a total failure cause Apollo and other faculties graced the event. Such as Andre from Ares, and Wee Shang (above), plus many other sadistic Apollo guys.

No prizes for guessing who tied the structures. I bet it was Guo Dan who did most of the structures.

Zijie seating in the happy chair. He had it up against a Athena Fac comm member, I think it was a girl named Woon Lue, and he sinked the shot pretty fast. Talk about ball sense man.

After waiting tremendously long periods of time for Wei Sheng to clean up, we finally went down to eat at Suki @ Cineleisure. You are a winner, Martin Widjaja.

Leroy discovers the wonders of the common peasant dish of Chawanmushi, introduced to him by Jie Yang the kind one. He messed up the table loads, spilling soya sauce and cream puffs all over.
I think there’s a conspiracy at Suki not to clear the tables for students, so as to make the table so packed that they cannot take any more food that will bankrupt the restaurant.

Get what I mean?

We went to watch Dark Knight next. I liked the way they rounded up the movie with the narration of why is Batman referred to as the Dark Knight, which is because he does all the shitty grimy work, free of charge, gets hated for it, and yet continues to do it, in contrast to Harvey Dent the District Attorney, who is well-liked for sweeping criminals into jails, and referred to as the White Knight.

It’s pretty sad to watch Two Face die in the same sequel he appeared. It only means Aaron Eckhart will not appear again, and since Heath Ledger is gone, the original cast up till the second movie only has 3 out of 6 still in the movie. That’s Batman, Alfred and Lucius Fox.

And Leroy disappointed me severely when he told me he didn’t know who was Two-Face. And he laughed at several scenes where it was funny but totally wrong to laugh at.

Heath Ledger’s performance is just haunting, haunting and haunting. It was not just pee-inducing as Tianyu has said, but leg numbing and hand throbbing too. Just when you thought the climax had been reached and the plot has been revealed, you are thrusted into the second part of the movie. Think along two epic battles in one Lord of the Rings movie.

But the movie was really great overall.

I think they should start filming Batman of the Future, with Steve Carrell as the lead. It will be so comedic.

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I really don’t know what to blog about. There are just so many things gushing in, and flowing out of my mind at the same speed, and none of them catching my attention.

Perhaps I shall talk about how I feel about being hated today.

To those who have poor literacy levels (as I discover to my horror that one of my classmates don’t know what’s the meaning of “amputee”), to hate simply means

1. to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
2. to be unwilling; dislike: I hate to do it.

You can be hated for simple things such as not contributing to your project work, being a total despondent loser, a failure in life, or for offending people, I don’t know, people around the world get hated for various reasons. In my case, I think if I ever am hated right now, it’ll probably be due to my insensitivity and apparent immaturity at times.

No apologies to that, you’ll just have to find your own formula to deal with me and get me to be a better man in front of you like how a student behaves differently in front of a teacher as compared to his friends.

Everyone hates to get hated. And everyone hates to be with someone hated, or hates to not share a common strong hatred for a person. It’s always easier to hate a person when others hate him, especially when you succumb to peer pressure easily, being an impressionist by nature. And to mix with him freely is even worse, as fraternising with the “enemy” may result in you being under the umbrella of hatred too.

It is sad to say that, at this point in time of life, where we are still in the midst of forging relationships such as those of a work nature, we are pragmatic, and fear getting hated by the majority due to a potential loss in networking.

I don’t really mind getting hated by people I am not close to, to be honest. It’s not so much about getting hated that irks me, it’s how people start to impress on others their opinions, and then most probably, me ending up with less friends than I had before.

I probably am getting disliked by my classgirls after the day after’s post, but I don’t exactly care much about it, since if we were to take it from an extremely extremely pragmatic point of view, I think all the work relationships that exist now and that are gonna matter is that existing within my PW group.

As for other forms of insignificant group work, I shall not hestitate to comment that I think, by far, I can solo most of the projects given, which is not an arrogant statement made to piss people off, but to simply state the bare truth.

A friend told me that he would care if his classmates hated him now, but not really later.

Is that hypocritical? Possibly, from some perspectives, but I think of it as a more pragmatic mindset, which I adore.

And I know, that I have already my group of close friends who will stay by me.

So take up this piece of advice. Don’t be afraid to get hated, because he who hates you ain’t a friend, and he who ain’t a friend ain’t worth your time.

“The only way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.”

Sometimes, I don’t know if girls are equipped with the abilities to read my email inbox. Omg.Sg told me to take photos of myself (camwhore) in different poses, and then upload it onto their facebook page.

So I took a photo of my du lan face.

Which came in handy, because my face was totally like that after I read my class blog.

They say cute girls camwhoring can help raise blog hits. What about them…?

Please visit my blog in spite of the for more lovely photos.

Today, as part of GEMS, or Great Enrichment of the Masses in School (actually I don’t know what it stands for), my class went with the sister class of 08S77 to iceskate.

I have no photos now, but I will try my best to illustrate the total disaster it has been for me. I mean success, since I probably learnt the most. You always learn something if you don’t know anything from the start.

No, I am not as noob as the girl in the video. I’m like just that tad more professional, with my tai-chi moves coming out like a natural. Think of the squatting positions and hands out to facilitate long and deep breathing.

Yeah. Get the idea? And while those blubbery people turn graceful on ice, I was just nothing but pure unglamness and uncouth postures man. Falling on your butt, then pulling Darren Wong Qing Wei down onto you is so uncool that your butt hurts like #@%$.

And the teasing of everyone whips your senses into overdrive, to the point you learn how to skate, although it looks like you have fits in one leg.

At the end of the day, what can I say?

I may not be like her.

But at least I’m not like this.

I know I am probably only 3rd now on the rankings, and the chances of winning are slim, but hey, I gotta get my mail interview done.

How long have you been blogging and why did you start blogging?
Well, to be exact, I’ve been blogging since Sec 2, with the earliest blog cursing my PE teacher for making me do push-ups as a punishment for talking during assembly. The first proper blog (with a skin) was in Sec 3, but it got closed down due to defamatory comments to my school. So up came a new blog, which was freaking emo, and expectedly got shut down (by myself this time). jieyang.wordpress.com was a “prototype” to the Sidelined Student, which I blog on now for coming 10 months. Blogging is both my way of de-stressing and kaopei-ing the stuff around me, so yeah, I suppose there’s the draw in blogging that keeps me there.

How do you feel to be in the running as one of the finalists in the first Singapore Blog Awards? What do you think is your chance of winning?
After seeing 113 nominations for the youth category, you can’t help but feel great that you made it into top 10. This is the last year I can enter the youth category too, so I really hope I can at least get top 3 for the exposure. To be honest, if the competition ended in the first week, I would have been one happy guy, but the competition drags on for 3 more weeks and now I’m number 3. It’s not a good feeling man. But I do hope I have a good chance of winning through content marks!

Who do you think are the strongest bloggers in the category you are nominated for and why?
I would say Victor Gan (Crazyhamster). Although he has a strange sense of humour, I like reading his posts a lot, and I really look up to him as my mentor. After he was the one to introduce me to the world of blogging. So yep. I do wish sometimes that he would post more though. But he’s always so busy. (Gan Yi Xiang!!!)

Name some of the bloggers whom you look up to and why (need not be in the running for the Singapore Blog Awards, and can mention overseas bloggers too)?
I really look up to Mr. Brown. Like really really. Who the !#$$#@% hell can think of so much stuff to talk about, podcast about, blog about everyday. He gave this super nice talk on media in my school one day in Sec 4, and really, I admire him for his brains man.

I don’t want to predict who’s gonna win in the seven categories. I don’t like speculation, but I do wish Miss Loi good luck in her category!

After I hurt my back during one of my gym sessions, the pain became unbearable yesterday during volleyball. So today, I went to see the sinseh for some good ol’ acupuncture.

According to the ancient Chinese practice, you never stick the needles where it hurts, you stick it where it doesn’t hurt, so as to make the whole body hurt.

Treatment for my back = poke needles in my abs.

And to think people do this.

What the hell man. Right now as I am typing, my abs still can’t contract normally. And I feel super unstable. The core muscles aren’t working properly at all.

I’m wondering if Da Chang Jin is fiction now.