Aug 25
2006

Screwability

Posted by HELiX

The prelim has barely started — in fact, the written papers hasn’t started — and it is only into the 2nd day of the period where you can rightfully say ‘I screwed up bad’. However, this is has not stop us from starting the unstarted prelims with a poor mentality.

Is it just me, or why is it that only ST members give a damn about screwing their practicals? Or is it… maybe only ST members screw up?

ST FTW! ^^

Comments(0) 9:43 AM 8 August 2006



Aug 24
2006

Honey, They Shrunk the Solar System

Posted by HELiX

Yay. It’s official! One less planet to remember.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted to demote Pluto from the ranks of the solar system’s now 8 planets. The decision comes as Pluto no longer fits the newly ratified definition of a planet decided upon by the IAU this week. The new definition states that a planet is “a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.”

Pluto does not clear the neighborhood around its orbit because its orbit overlaps with its much larger neighbor Neptune. This therefore disqualifies it from planet status according to the IAU. Instead, Pluto will be classified as a dwarf planet and join the ranks of other dwarf planets such as Ceres, which lies between Mars and Jupiter and 2003 UB313 or ‘Xena’ as discoverer Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology has nicknamed it. ‘Xena’ is an icy object that lies after Pluto and is slightly larger than the now dwarf planet.

Comments(0) 5:28 PM 8 August 2006



Aug 24
2006

Prelim Physics Practical: Aftermath

Posted by HELiX

Today’s prelim’s physics practical didn’t went too well at all.

Well, I mean, following instructions and performing the experiment wasn’t difficult at all just like any other physics practical, but the results of my experiment were so damn screwed.

For sec 4s who wish to know, my guess is that the heat capacity of the pendulum bob is probably between 0.3 to 0.4 J/gK, as it is probably made of brass or copper — Which is so damn different from my results. The final temperature should be about 34.5 or 35 degrees centigrade from reverse calculations. The graph should be a curve without any drops, as that would mean that the heat is loss to the surroundings and blah blah blah.

Speed reading wasn’t a good idea at all, with me reading ‘Remove the thermometer and place the pendulum bob in the boiling water for at least 1 minute’ as ‘Remove the thermometer and the pendulum bob from the boiling water for at least 1 minute’.

And a minute later, after quite a fair bit of heat is loss to the table as I left it lying there, my final temperature still managed to reach an astounding 36 degrees, which is like wtf. I mean, if I left the bob there to lose heat to the surroundings for a minute, the final temperature of the water should be lower than the expected 34.5 degrees and NOT higher. Blah. And to make things worse, after recording the value of 36 degrees as the final temperature, I thought to make up for the heat loss as I left the bob lying on the table for that one minute, I decided to alter my results and bring the values higher. ARGH @#%$.

As far as I’ve worked out, I loss:

-1 mark for not having at least 8 value of t and the corresponding value of T.
-1 mark for unsightly un-smooth curve which I redrew at the dying seconds after altering my values
-1 for incorrect specific heat capacity (I think they’ll most likely accept anything from 0.2 to 0.4)
Probably -1/2 for not showing the dotted lines of how I got my value of the Final Temperature from the graph

And that’s being rather optimistic already, assuming that they don’t deduct marks for ridiculously high values of T which I made up recorded.

Ohh and — being so engrossed in plotting your graph with a cup of hot water next to you, and unknowningly knocking it over, inevitably getting your question paper half-soaked in the middle of the practical probably isn’t such a good idea.

Comments(0) 6:51 AM 8 August 2006



Aug 23
2006

Prelim Physics Practical!

Posted by HELiX

Prelim Physics Practical is tomorrow, and because some people just can’t stop asking me the same unintelligent questions of “What to study?” and “How to study?” and even “Physics Practical cannot study right?”, I have decided to put up my handwritten notes which has my trademarked All-In-One-A4-Page style. Yupp, that’s the entire physics practical stuffages condensed into a miserable page with even more miserable handwriting that only I can decipher. Not that I expect anyone to be able to read my handwriting, but really, it isn’t that bad at all for my standard. (Only slightly over a few teachers threw my work back at me, no biggie)

Oh and pls, can y’all stop bugging me to scan all the notes that I have ‘cos the rest of them are really insignificant and the important stuffs are down in my miserable handwriting already. kthxbye.

Eh, Warning: Terribly Atrocious and Horrendously Miserable Handwriting Ahead. Please reconsider scrolling down. No, I mean, reconsider twic– thrice.

And a little bit on today… Apparently, regarding my absence yesterday, you-know-who didn’t really care about it. lol, so much for worrying.

Comments(0) 12:27 PM 8 August 2006



Aug 22
2006

Blah.

Posted by HELiX

BLAH.

“`＊ v¡ZÁrÐ ty© ＊“ [how i wish i have the death note] says (8:18 PM):
u pon sch
“`＊ v¡ZÁrÐ ty© ＊“ [how i wish i have the death note] says (8:18 PM):
lol
“`＊ v¡ZÁrÐ ty© ＊“ [how i wish i have the death note] says (8:19 PM):
lol
“`＊ v¡ZÁrÐ ty© ＊“ [how i wish i have the death note] says (8:19 PM):
ure dead man
“`＊ v¡ZÁrÐ ty© ＊“ [how i wish i have the death note] says (8:19 PM):
vlee found out
dereklow.exe™ | HEL¡X says (8:19 PM):
ya i heard
“`＊ v¡ZÁrÐ ty© ＊“ [how i wish i have the death note] says (8:20 PM):
GG man

Yup. GG to me.

(And everyone pls stop reminding me kthxbye)

Comments(0) 12:47 PM 8 August 2006



Aug 22
2006

A Blogging Cookie & A Grand Master Plan

Posted by HELiX

If you told me that the world is flat, I would have momentarily believed it yesterday, when I found out that Sujay has a blog. ‘Had a reallyyyyy good laugh =D

Today morning was one of the most productive weekday mornings I had in a looooooong time, because I was at home, er, sleeping =) And no, I’m not sick or whatsoever, maybe except having this minor flu. So we-ell, you can say that… I lied to my parents =___=

But it was for a good flawless logically reasonable purpose: To skip A Math lesson! =P

Ok, to make the short story long, what happened was that yesterday, some of my classmates were bored enough to examine the time tables and schedules and related stuffages, and found out that tomorrow would be the last A Math lesson we would be having in a pretty long time. How long? Well, this week his lessons are eaten up by the Prelim Science Practicals, and next week, Prelim English and Social Studies papers, and followed by the Teacher’s Day celebrations and holiday. And following which, it’ll be the Sept 1 Week holiday (which would be the most horrendous holiday I will be having in my life), and immediately after the holidays, there will be the rest of the Prelim papers… If all goes well, I won’t be seeing him again in 3 weeks, and maybe only once or twice for another 2 weeks following that.

Soo… back to the point, these bunch of bored people were going around getting people to follow them in skipping (or in XJ’s words, pon) tomorrow’s school.

Apparently, my class owes him quite a lot of homework, which includes the much-dreaded A Math Files. Two uber files with the thickness more than the sum of all the other subject’s files’ thickness. That might sound do-able, but well, all the corrections are suppose to be completed, which is — er — impossible. So I thought that skipping the tomorrow’s lesson by lying to my parents makes much more sense than getting a detention just before my Prelims + Teacher’s Day + 1 week Sept holidays.

And so I did.

But well, it was fun while it lasted, until XJ came back and broke the news to me =___=

d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says:
yur whole class pon a maths?

d(^_^)b—- Bleh! just sent you a Nudge!

d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says (5:25 PM):
guess wat
dereklow.exe™ | HEL¡X says (5:25 PM):
?
d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says (5:25 PM):
during vlees period
dereklow.exe™ | HEL¡X says (5:25 PM):
what happened?
d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says (5:25 PM):
i tot u know?
dereklow.exe™ | HEL¡X says (5:25 PM):
huh??
d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says (5:25 PM):
kk i shall tell u
d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says (5:25 PM):
during vlees period
d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says (5:25 PM):
zhong shun did not switch his phone to slient
d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says (5:26 PM):
and an sms came in
d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says (5:26 PM):
from teck liang
dereklow.exe™ | HEL¡X says (5:26 PM):
nice one.
dereklow.exe™ | HEL¡X says (5:26 PM):
then?
d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says (5:26 PM):
vlee read
d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says (5:26 PM):
Did every 1 pon a maths todae?
d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says (5:26 PM):
that was the msg
dereklow.exe™ | HEL¡X says (5:26 PM):
omg
dereklow.exe™ | HEL¡X says (5:26 PM):
then what happened
d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says (5:26 PM):
eh u say leh
d(^_^)b—- Bleh! says (5:26 PM):
he was pissed la duh

Ahh @#$%. Master plan indeed.

=___=

Comments(0) 11:04 AM 8 August 2006



Aug 21
2006

Tagness. Again.

Posted by HELiX

1. Highlight the whole questionaire.
2. Copy and paste this in a new post.
3. Change all the answers so that they apply to you.
4. Tag your friends.

BE HONEST and have some fun today!It doesn’t take long. So please please, please do. Please? Read it all too.
________________________

1. Starting Time :: Eh, I didn’t start from the front.
2. Full Name :: HELiX
3. Best Friend(s) :: Hmm. Quite a few.
4. Sexiest Friend(s) :: Huh.
5. Funniest Friend(s) :: Eh? You can look at this positively or negatively…
6. Smartest friend(s) :: Born smart or smart by being a mugger/muggot/muglet/mugzor?
7. Dumbest Person :: People on the same wavelength as Mrs 103.
8. Shyest Friend(s) :: Not very nice…
9. Most boring people :: People who are most boring.
10. Who do you get advice from :: Hm, friends and, er, instinct.
11. Height :: About 170. Fineee, nothing to brag about k.
12. Date Of Birth :: 26th November 1990! Wahahaha holidays pwns your school term birthdays! =P
13. Righty / Lefty :: Righty
14. Shoe Size :: Umm… about 8.
15. Shoe Brand :: From pirated Converse to Nike.
16. Do you Crack any Body Parts :: Knuckles (And no, I don’t crack Hazel =___=).
17. Siblings :: 2 bros and 1 sis. At times, it seems like 3 bros.
18. Boyfriend/Girlfriend :: Nope.
19. Crush :: …
20. Liked a Teacher :: Some of ‘em.
21. Ate a Tub of Ice Cream :: Over a looong period of time, yes.
22. Ran Into a Glass Door :: I won’t attempt to bring down my house’s glass doors. Only Edrei would.
23. Gone Skinny Dipping :: Nah.
24. Nearly hit by a car :: Hmm… quite a couple of times.
25. Ran into a parked car :: Hm, not any that I can remember of.

For Girls To Fill Out About Guys
26. Boxers or Briefs ::
27. Tall or Short ::
28. Does size matter ::
29. Six-pack or Muscular Arms ::
30. Body or Personality :
31. Ear Pierced or Not ::
32. Sporty or Outdoorsy ::
33. Good or Bad guy ::

For Guys To Fill Out About Girls
34. G or hipster undies :: Huh.
35. Tall or Short :: Eh, shorter than me would do.
36. Long Hair or Short :: Umm… doesn’t matter, does it? … Finee, uh, long?
37. Dark or Light Eyes :: Hm. Dark I guess.
38. Light/Dark Hair :: Hm. I’m guessing again… dark.
39. Body or Personality :: Um, personality I’d say.
40. Ears Pierced or Not :: What’s the blardy difference?
41. Good Girl/Bad Girl :: Umm… I’d say… Good =)
42. Hair Up or Down :: Hm. Hair down.
43. Sporty or Classy :: Huh.
44. Chicken or Not Afraid :: Huh. Uh. Er. Neither.

Which One is Better
45. Coke or pepsi :: Either one i guess…
46. K.F.C or Mcdonalds :: Either again…
47. Cats or Dogs :: Either dammit, either.
48. Coffee or Tea :: I said either.
49. Eastside or westside :: Ahh finally, no either. Westside!
50. Vanilla or chocolate :: Umm… both.
51. Cake or Cookies :: Both again.
52. Purple striped lime socks or white socks :: Well, white.
53. Sunset or Sunrise :: Aren’t they both the same, except that one’s in the west and other’s in the east? But for sunrise I gotta wake up early, so, sunset!
54. Day or Night :: Day has school, and Night is for sleeping… somewhere in between I guess =P
55. Lights on or off :: Uh. Depending.
56. Summer or Winter :: A sane Equatorian would say winter.

Your favourite
57. Food :: Eclectic
58. Holiday destination :: US!
59. Radio Station :: Gold 90 sounds good.
60. Place :: The Internet!

In the future
61. Will you believe in God :: Maybe I’ll ask God.
62. What you want to be when you grow up :: Not directly answering the question but… Googleplex!

Random Questions
63. Define Love :: http://www.google.com/search?q=define:love
64. Favourite day(s) of the week :: Saturdays! ‘Cos there’s A Math on one (of the two) fridays…
65. Bedtime :: Umm… 12.30am to 2.30am.
66. Satan or God or Atheist :: Can I say, freethinker? =)

More questions
67. Do you love someone right now :: Hm, family and friends and all that.
68. Do you care about someone :: Love and care are linked, aren’t they?
69. Do you think of someone everyday :: I don’t think anyone can say no.
70. Do you think someone is special in any way : As long as their deoxyribonucleic acid differs.
71. Five people to tag :: Uh. 1nertia. 1nertia. 1nertia. Er, 1nertia. And… Ohh, 1nertia.
72. Finishing time :: 7.06PM
73. Date :: 21st August 2006

Comments(0) 11:09 AM 8 August 2006



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