Just read leroy's post and...

posted by Justin D. Pereira

Haha, i get what he means when he says the promos (Exams) are taking its toll.

Here's what I spotted in his commentary :

1. "shrewd facade turned out to be one of arrogance and silence" - the word 'shrewd' carries by itself a negative and witty conatation. So, how it links to arrogance and silence, I do not know. *Though i think he was trying to replace the word 'clever'.

2. "pick yourself up and try, try again" - Ok, now how in the world do I do that? hmmm...let's see. First you place your right hand on your head....

3. "sea of delocalised words" - I sense a strong presence of Chemistry here. Sea of delocalised electrons maybe....hmmm

4. "I'm a loud thinker, and I think as I type" - If I were a loud thinker and I think as I typed, I would possibly be mad talking to myself in front of the computer. *Reads each letter as it is typed.

5. " safely vent my thoughts" - interesting concept on using a PUBLIC blog to vent your thoughts SAFELY. A mere juxtaposition I presume?

No offence meant of course ;)

Top 20 Church Bulletin Mistakes!

posted by Justin D. Pereira

I grabbed it from the same website as below. REAL COOL STUFF. Visit it when you can! Promos is like 5 days away and I am still doing this...arrgh...but a laugh is a laugh... *rolls on the floor laughing in madness for the first time in seven months.

20. The service will close with "Little Drops of Water." One of the ladies will start quietly and the rest of the congregation will join in

19. This afternoon there will be a meeting in the South and North ends of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends.

18. The eighth graders will be presenting Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in the church basement on Friday at 7 p.m. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

17. Thursday night - Potluck supper. Prayer and medication to follow.

16. Tuesday at 4:00 PM there will be an ice cream social. All ladies giving milk will please come early.

15. This being Easter Sunday, we will ask Mrs. Lewis to come forward and lay an egg on the altar.

14. Next Sunday a special collection will be taken to defray the cost of the new carpet. All those wishing to do something on the new carpet will come forward and do so.

13. bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.

12. The rosebud on the altar this morning is to announce the birth of David Alan Belzer, the sin of Rev. and Mrs. Julius Belzer.

11. At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.

10. The preacher will preach his farewell message, after which the choir will sing, "Break Forth With Joy."

9. During the absence of our pastor, we enjoyed the rare privilege of hearing a good sermon when A. B. Doe supplied our pulpit.

8. Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our church and community.

7. The church is glad to have with us today as our guest minister the Rev. Shirley Green who has Mrs. Green with him. After the service, we request that all remain in the sanctuary for the Hanging of the Greens.

6. Thursday at 5:00 PM there will be a meeting of the Little Mothers Club. All ladies wishing to be "Little Mothers" will meet with the Pastor in his private study.

5. For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

4. The Rev. Adams spoke briefly, much to the delight of his audience.

3. Don't let worry kill you -- let the church help.

2. Wednesday the ladies liturgy will meet. Mrs. Johnson will sing "Put me in my little bed" accompanied by the pastor.

1. The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every kind. They can be seen in the church basement Saturday.

Top 20 Completely USELESS Inventions

posted by Justin D. Pereira

Page grabbed from http://www.brainofbrian.com/topten4.html

Top 20
Completely Useless Inventions
20. Non stick Cellotape(Scotch tape)

19. Solar Powered Flash Light (torch)

18. A black highlighter pen

17. Glow in the dark sunglasses

16. Inflatable Anchor

15. Smooth Sandpaper

14. Waterproof sponge

13. Waterproof Teabags

12. AC adapter for Solar powered calculators

11. Fireproof Matches

10. Fireproof Cigarettes

9. Battery powered Battery Charger

8. Seatbelts for Motorbikes

7. Hand powered Chainsaw

6. Inflatable Dartboard

5. Silent Alarm Clock

4. A Pedal powered wheelchair

3. Braille Drivers Manual

2. Double sided playing cards

1. Ejector seats for Helicopters

Short and sweet...I hope

posted by c0mb0kick | LeRoy

Just dropping by to update on this supposedly "active" blog. Owing to the fact that there are suppose to be 3 people updating this cyberspace diary...lol. Looks like the promo is really taking its toll.

So I'm here once again to just plant in a piece of my mind, before it gets lost in the ever-hectic and tight schedule of mine.

I think I can finally safely say that I have settled down in JC, not only emotionally but mentally and physically as well. This may be due to the fact that I'm not as petty as I used to be and am finally able to be myself once again. Many would think I'm tactless, having took so long to settle down and just before promos. For me, this was a journey of tackling my insecurities and being able to be myself in spite of the many constrains faced everyday.

Come on lets face it, why try be someone else to escape reality and screw everything up rather than being yourself which you took your whole life to build? I mean, which one is more alien to you? Yourself or a shrewd facade you tried to manifest in those few days?!

So as it seems, my shrewd facade turned out to be one of arrogance and silence, which caused me a class and nearly the whole year in JC1. Still, we all make mistakes and the real challenge in life is to pick yourself up and try, try again. Many times it will be tough, and that's when friends come into the picture. And even if they cant always be there for you, you still have yourself. So my message is, LOVE yourself to bits first before loving others. At least you already have evidence that you can portray some form of love, so that others can see and appreciate and are more confident of the love you can provide for them.

And for those who are already lost in this sea of delocalised words, I'm a loud thinker, and I think as I type. So any and every thought that comes to my mind during these sessions just seem to make their way into the posts and are scrutinised unmercifully by your criticising eyes...LOL. Therefore, do spare me that frown and do something useful for a change, like leave some constructive criticism in the "comments box" on your immediate left. Unless you dont even know where left is, then just press that [X] on your immediate right and be done with it... Hold on, if you don't know where left is, how would you know where right is?!...LOL

P.S... mind my incoherent babbling, I'm just fully utilising the blog to safely vent my thoughts...LOL...the purpose and wonder of the blog.

Grandma Birthday 2

posted by Justin D. Pereira

 

 

 

 

Grandma's Birthday 1

posted by Justin D. Pereira

 

 

 

 

Tech Review : Windows Live Writer

posted by Justin D. Pereira

 

I just downloaded the Windows Live Suite, and inside it contains this nifty little app called Windows Live Writer. ( It's what I am using to blog right now! ). The program supports quite a number of the popular blog hosting servers and since I am using blogger, it was relatively easy to set up. I was up running within 10 minutes.

 

Anyway, the program allows you to facilitate the insertion of hyperlinks, pictures, tables, maps, tags and videos. Though I have little idea what Map and tags are ( and also not planning to use them just as yet ). In the freedom of editing, you can also change the HTML code if you are more comfortable in working in that format for your post.

 

Formatting includes the general options of bold, underline and itallicise though I would prefer if colour combinations and more HTML tags such as line inclusion (<hr>) tag could be included. This would truly make Windows Live Writer a fully functional multipurpose blog cum HTML editing software. Comparable to what I have seen around, this is certainly one of the best.

 

Get Windows Live Suite now!

Posting from beyond this time

posted by Justin D. Pereira

Work work work. Simply synonymous with JC life. But first things first, congratulations to Michel for joining the blog. I will update your status to "active" in a few days too. ( or when I find the time )

 

Well, life has been pretty much decent of late, with work going smoothly and each day has been a real joy. I don't know why but these days I find that I appreciate life more and more. My goals also have very positive of late, with the sight of scoring As for my promotional exams. I know I can do it! The funny thing is that while life so far is without its hiccups, I have been sleeping later and later. Just for the Written Report for my group's Project Work, I stayed up till 4am on Tuesday night to edit it and compile them together. Not to say that the team's work is not good, its just needs a little flow, and those who know my perfectionist nature ( which is both good and bad ), I tend to work myself to death (not literally I hope)

 

Just recently also got a new phone as my contract was going to expire. Now, all calls and messages will be made from the Samsung Ultra Edition 13.8 or Z720. Fairly decent for a phone though it can get quite hot at times. I have still not found a way to install games via USB or the equivalent instead of downloading it through WAP which is $$$. The camera with it is quite good at 3 megapixels though it exists without a flash system. Battery life is also average for a user like me (I don't do much with the phone except talking, messaging, the occasional music, video and snapshot) and it can last me for about two days. Charging is via USB cable or the direct power plug. Though I yearn for more features on this phone, it is still better then the previous one I had.  Now, all I have to do is drool at the ipod Touch ( drool...slurrrp ** )

Taken with my Samsung Ultra Edition 13.8

 

Well got to go, still have lots of homework to do and I have barely started ands its already 5pm! Omigosh. I will be posting more pictures with my phone, so look out for it!

Is it me or is time just moving by so quickly?

posted by c0mb0kick | LeRoy

Finally!! Some other life-form on this blog other than Justin and Me, and since this would be Michel's debut to the blogging world(I hope) why not give him a BIG, ROUND of applause to welcome this fantastic agent...LOL

Okay...that's enough, my turn now...

I think the usual whining will come into play about how short the holiday is and how promo is just a month away..blah, blah, blah....I think, if you were to go to any other blog which belongs to someone from a JC...you'll receive the same whining. So I don't think I should bore anyone with more whining of that kind.

But, I will complain on how fast this year has passed... It is going to be the 4th term soon( in like 3 days) and it's pretty shocking on how fast this year has gone by. It seems like only yesterday that we were still just only ready to collect our O lvl results and having to go through JC 1 was indeed a rude awakening call to the realities of life. It was simply hard to move on after being with your sec sch peeps for the better part of your teenage life where we still could pretend( LOL) to be innocent. It just seems a whole lot older once one reaches the age of 17, where such realities do not readily exist anymore. So ,even after having been in JC for these 9 months, I still feel a bit awkward. The transition was really too abrupt. But come to think of it, life is like that.

I feel, from here on, life is just going to get even faster, and before you know it, you're going to have children of your own experiencing almost the same thing. Thus I think it is crucial we make the right decisions from now on. Not because it is wrong to make mistakes, but maybe cause life is too short and fast for one to dwell.

So, do treasure this sacred era of our life now, where one still can be ''innocent'' and be able to get away with it. =D

So having said that much about life, I think it is time for a more interesting topic: ME....( haha, am imagining the cursors all zooming to the "X" button ..lol)

I think it really is high time I take my health into my own hands and stop the procrastination of exercising. Well, many of you would agree that I need to loose weight. If not I might eventually become a big, round BALL...LOL considering my 'tallness'..if there ever was such a word. But the main factor here would be my family's history of heart conditions. Though it is not a hundred percent thing that I'll get a heart condition, but thanks to my wonderful genes( and i really mean wonderful in a good way) the chances of contracting a heart condition is higher, thus I really need to seriously scrutinise my weight so much more now. So being an avid baker, its hard to not indugle in my goodies...haha. So maybe I might just resort back to clicking instead of baking...

Now, lets once again put our hands together to welcome Agent#4 with his face looking down at all the other post before him...LOL( he is sooo going to kill me for that comment). And let us all bask in the hope for future decent materials in this electronic, cyberspace diary where anyone and everyone has the right to read and critisize..LOL and here I was thinking that a diary used to be a personal thing.

praying for the day that you'll eventually turn around and take me into your arms to rid my world of evil...as only you have that power

A very warm welcome to me!

posted by Anonymous

Haha! Hello everyone! This will be my first official posting to this Detective website, where we are all called Agents.

My first discovery: Leroy wrote an essay for his previous post. Wow! Leroy way to go! -.- haha.

My second discovery: Justin is as solemn as ever! He tries so hard to conceal it but he obviously
fails to. Its like convering an elephant with an A4 size sheet of paper. How amazing!

My third discovery: Anthony and Heng Kai! Waqke up from your slumber and post something!

Yahoo! Signing off, Damn i forgotten what agent i am.

Surreal...

posted by c0mb0kick | LeRoy

Finally...its the school holidays, but as usual the school is calling us back cause it just cannot bare to be empty. Really, sometimes I do wonder why they even call the school holidays "holidays"! Having almost always spend half the time in school during the holidays...*sigh*

Anyway, I think this is the part where I start start typing to my heart's content and have no worry in the world , what so ever, of who is reading this and so on and so forth....while you people just read...lol

I think I've finally come to realise that life has always been so surreal...
I know the many scoundrels out there thinking how naive am I to finally realise this fact...
But then again this fact usually differs from person to person, so I am happy I finally realise this...

Having always lived an "interesting" life, I had, and still have always been put through many events that has obviously change how I perceive life. That in mind, I'd daresay that my secondary school life was a rather pampered reality. Even though it was not perfect. but it was the best I could achieve. But ,alas, good things never ever last long. So as the days got shorter( sec sch days to be exact), my list of problems got longer.

Now, I'm living a JC life. Tough many would say, SOCIAL SUICIDE! others might add...for me those facts were indeed true...maybe even now, as I'm typing to my hearts content(hypocrite!). But I think a change is at hand. Having been suddenly riped away from that life I was so used to( though at that time I used to complain a lot) I was put through an era where I could hardly believe possible. This I would thank Mr Chew dearly and sincerely for having put me through such an experience once, at least I had a taste of what this was like...so in a way, I was prepared.

Sadly, all I did was taste but not appreciate. So from then on, I thought that no such thing would happen again, where one had to fend for one's sanity and that the world laid in your hands. Naive, I was, to think my world was perfect, having always only moan and grumble about "how life would be better if my dreams came to fruition". Thus, I lived my life by the days, tackling each day as it went by, always complaining how every single day is not worth it.

Now, however, after having been through so much, it is time to thoroughly reflect and think how the future is going to be made. Life has always been a surreal blur. With all its problems, solutions, happiness, sadness and the list goes on. I doubt anyone I've ever met ever daresay " My life is a clear picture, where I can clearly decipher all the colours, composition, and brush strokes." I think the only time where anyone who would be able to do that would be when they are breathing their last breathe.

Our life is a constant reality of hardcore painting, trying to see which colour combination fits best or how big a brush stroke will affect the entire master piece, it all in a matter of how much care and scrutiny you sacrifice to make your life a better picture.

I've for so long, complain too much on how life has always been unfair, how it is just so depressing and that the grass is always greener on the other side. But take a step back and realise this. The only reason why that grass is greener is either THAT person bothered to mow his lawn and kept his grass neater or YOU have not even bothered to realise that grass exist on your side, to the extent that is has became a jungle!

But that's just the wonder of life, everything you've ever wanted, everything you could ever dream of, is right here in your hands! As this one saying goes," The brave might not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all."

Destiny and Fate are usually used by those who could not comprehend and appreciate the full control and power one has over life. But please don't misunderstand this. I'm not talking about the whole entire world! I'm merely ramble for the last 15 mins your own life, MY own life. We have that power to make our life work for us. If not, who will? Only you know what you like and only you can put what you like on your plate. And to leave your future to time is just another death sentence to hell when you take your last breathe, to have that thought that you regretted not doing this and that.

Alas, we all only have one life to lead, though some wish to help lead the misguided ones or are leading 2 lifes which many would know as facades, but ultimately, we only have one life to live and if we do not maximise our fullest potential now, when will we ever be able to live it again?!

So, life is surreal even to those who are ready to pass on, still only a handful would be able to finally appreciate the masterpiece they took their whole life to paint.
Oh cmon, don't give me that look, we were the ones who deemed Picasso surreal paintings as ART!!! and stop drooling over your keyboard like that, this post has ended...sheesh...hard to get a decent audience nowadays...LOL

And as the paintbrush flows over the canvas of life, I can't help to think that you were once there to hold the brush steady...how I miss those times...