This Isn’t An Emo Entry, By The Way

Posted by HELiX

This blog war isn’t working out. Not for now, at least.

Judging from the tags… I can’t bring in NJC; I can’t bring in KI; And I can’t even bring in my immaturity childhood. What else is there? :(

Don’t you think so, Cze-Piaroh?

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Like Cze-Piaroh himself… He had his fun from ripping me. It’s my turn. I’m gonna end like how he always does.

HELiX:

I thought we were friends :(

HAHAHA 

Comments(0) 12:58 AM 9 September 2007

18 Days

Posted by HELiX

It’s a mere 18 days to promos; Can somebody wake me up?

Today had its sucky moments and fun times.

It started off really bad when at 1.30am in the morning, when I discovered I totally forgotten about Economics Independent Learning. I needed to do well for this Econs IL; I’ve been failing Econs, the reason why I haven’t been meeting the 4H2 criteria. Today 4.30pm was the deadline, and Kok even scared me by saying that every hour late will result in the deduction of 1 mark.

I can probably quote you my conversation with Kok (who was nice enough to accompany me until the obscene hour of 3.30am, thank you. But you were freakin’ mugging chemistry. Mugger.) but that will include more expletives than 3 Eminem songs combined.

Maybe four.

I found some nonsense, typed down some nonsense and went to bed, with an angry Dad in the house at 4am. I did rubbish, in short.

Okay now, after catching 3 hours of sleep, I woke up feeling rather sloppy but receiving an SMS turned out to be a great cure.

Reaching school, ironically was a bit relieving.

Because, there ARE people of the same homework status as me! Meaning, whole holiday did NOTHING!

Man, I love my class. I don’t think you’ll find such wonderful mates in Kok’s class or James/Shaun’s class.

In the end, because a councillor wasn’t going to hand up the Econs IL, I decided to do what the school would want me to do: Follow his example. You gotta love Soe Min. We all voted him into Council for a reason.

Ah well, I’d better start redoing the IL proper… soon.

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School aside, this video is worth watching. Not for ACSians in general. For people who study and believe in astro. And that’s astronomy and not astrology, by the way.

It’s Family Guy: Carl Sagan´s Cosmos, Edited for Rednecks (for the ones in doubt, Carl Sagan was a famous astro… guy, who promoted astro really well to the public)

Meanwhile, while having an invalid/old/wrong link is seemingly agitating someone, I thought… no link might be better?

Maybe I’ll find time after Promos to add it back and continue. Just maybe.

Comments(0) 8:08 PM 9 September 2007

Grahh, School

Posted by HELiX

I think if I start ranting about school reopening, I’ll end up sleeping past 2am again.

But I decided to blog because Piaroh- I mean, Cze-Piaroh (sorry, my bad with the ordering there) challenged me to a blog…what? A blog war?

Seriously, just WTF is that?

I’m thinking, it involves writing professional world-class debate quality blog entries to poke fun at the opponent.

Now, what kind of idiot do you think I am, to go up against a guy with the following traits:

- NJCian/Muggerpolitan
- KI student
- …sorry I couldn’t list anything else great about him. But you know, it might be just me being hopelessly outdated.

Okay, really, I know NJC requires a mere DDSS grades to continue 4H2, but I’m not meeting the standard of CCDE to continue my 4th H2 at ACJC. So, can we hold on until after promos, Mr Cze? Or is it Mr Piaroh?

Comments(0) 12:51 AM 9 September 2007

An Attempt to Keep My Viewership

Posted by HELiX

First off, seems like my viewership has doubled since… uh, the last time I checked the statistics a month or two ago. I’m getting post-AstroChallenge views! 120-ish hits day, 70-80+ visitors. Almost double from the previous months :)

This bit is good news. Yay!

And as you can see, I’ve added a whole lot of ‘blog ranking’ thingies in the side bar on the left, because there’s this weird feeling of being popular and I need to know the ranks to deflate my ego.

This bit is… boring news.

The holidays are ending. No, I don’t wanna remind you. It’s a terrible thought. I hereby honestly proclaim that I have done:

30-40% of my PRE-holiday homework. Meaning, stuffs which are supposed to be done before the holiday even started.
0.0000% of my holiday homework. OH SHIT ECONOMICS INDEPENDENT LEARNING DAMMIT. It’s freaking graded!
0.0000% of any form of revision.

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… Anyone still reading this entry? >.>

Ah okay.

Now the better stuff. For those of you who made it through my nonsense.

In early August, NASA internally released its latest marketing campaign, designed to show its relevance and value to the American people. Its new slogan? “NASA explores for answers that power our future.” The campaign now seems to be aborted, why am I not surprised?

Because the slogan sucks.

NASA’s supposed to be cooler than that. Way cooler. I mean, come on! It deals with rocket science, the subject second most difficult to Chinese.

For reference, the previous NASA slogan, under the previous Administrator (new Administrator, new slogan) was “Explore, Discover, Understand.”

Someone from Wired Science is thus having a contest to get people to contribute their ideas for the slogan.

The writer of the best slogan will get a DVD of the space movie of their choice, From the Earth to the Moon, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, etc. and will be interviewed for a follow up posting on what it takes to engage the public with space. Other noteworthy submissions will get other small space swag.

Link here.

Some of my favourites:

(Some are quite hard to understand if you aren’t… well, geek enough >.<)

((Seems like the general trend is that the internet users are NOT taking it seriously. I like.))

NASA: All your space are belong to U.S.

NASA: Need Another Seven Astronauts.

NASA: Searching space for more oil.

NASA: Disproving your religion since 1958

NASA: Because sex in zero gravity will only happen if we let it

NASA: When the asteroid comes, do you really trust bruce willis?

NASA: Because faking a mars landing is going to be expensive.

NASA: Billions Of Dollars Spent and Still No Death Star

Comments(0) 1:59 AM 9 September 2007

Too Funny

Posted by HELiX

Okay, my bad for the geek content here, but it’s just too funny.

Look what this guy included in his bug report. Scroll through the top and to the bottom, towards the bottom of the bug report you may find… it’s a small chuckle at what not to include in your bug reports.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472370

A Shark’s Tale caught me off guard.

EDIT: Okay great. They removed the page and the link doesn’t work anymore. Oh well.

Comments(0) 1:56 AM 9 September 2007

Ah Well 2

Posted by HELiX

My apologies for the lack of entries here despite being a Top 50 blog in SingaporeBlogs.net. It’s freakin’ 46!

Mainly because I try to make up quality entries, rather than ridicule my close friends while stubbornly refuse to make changes upon aggressive request.

Some people need to grow up.

Not me. I’m fine :)

Comments(0) 8:10 PM 9 September 2007

Ah well

Posted by HELiX

Today’s trend in blogging is to quote some Chinese saying/poem/song/phrase/stuff.

It’s only normal for me to do the same:

So, I quote from

That we’ll all be cool and stay as friends when everything settles down.

So let’s move on. Just keep it cool…

PS. I love Chinese. I can make up whatever nonsense from any two Chinese words and no one can blame me.

Comments(0) 2:23 AM 9 September 2007