30 December 2010:
How many of you drink coffee?
剛剛喝了從雲南帶回新加坡的咖啡。一個多月了，還捨不得喝完它，所以每幾天才喝幾次。（那時真應該多買幾罐）咖啡本身的味道是甘苦的。可是它熱的時候，我喝起來，覺得甘多過苦。不知道是因為熱的關係，還是因為咖啡的化學本性是這樣。
喝了幾口熱咖啡后，我把它放到一邊，去完成功課。做著做著遇到難題，就停下來，喝了一大口的咖啡。到這個時候，咖啡已經冷了。好苦哦！我在嘴裡含了一大口的咖啡，覺得頗為難受，趕緊吞下。
到現在我還不知道，究竟爲什麽我會覺得熱的咖啡會比冷的咖啡來的甘些，苦的成份似乎少些。不過，這讓我聯想到另外一件事。
從咖啡，我聯想到人們處理事情的做法。
咖啡就好像一個問題。咖啡剛出爐的時候，熱的，若趕緊喝完，就不會覺得幾多苦。問題要是一出現就馬上被解決，就會輕鬆多了，沒那麼辛苦。
可是，有多少人會馬上行動呢？他們選擇把問題擺在一旁，讓它「冷去」。
接著，想解決的時候，沒那麼簡單了。咖啡（問題）的苦開始多了起來，代表著麻煩也越來越多了。
到最後，人們就只會草草了事，就像他們怎麼快快地吞下不怎麼好吃的東西。當然，這也只不過是一種逃避。
你也知道是一種逃避，可是為何你卻偏偏繼續逃避呢？
28 December 2010:
Someone asked me why I like Forensics.
I know it seems like a random post, but I decided to blog about Forensics because I am now watching Forensic Heroes 2. Yes, it was released in 2008, but it's only now that I'm watching it. Still, even after the lag, I think it's a real nice show. (The only bad part was the rather fake autopsy scenes.)I don't know since when I started liking Forensics, but it definitely wasn't after I watched CSI. In fact, I haven't watched a single episode of CSI, and have no intention to. According to majority of Forensic books that I have read, the authors unanimously crticised CSI. If I remember correctly, one of the biggest mistake that CSI producers make is portaying the time taken to solve cases. It was too good to be true.
My first impression of forensics was that it only involves dissecting of bodies to get evidence. It was only after that that I realised forensics also handle material evidence, and etc. I really am impressed about the wonder that forensics can do.
Till today, there are two forensic phrases that I still remember: "Every contact leaves a trace", and "the dead do talk". The former was by Edmond Locard, who devised an exchange principle which states that everyone leaves behind some form of evidence, while taking away yet another kind of evidence. This principle has helped forensic officers solve countless cases.
I forgot who said the second phrase, but it is also very meaningful. Really, the dead do talk. By dissecting a corpse and doing relevant tests, forensic pathologists are able to deduce what happened to a body, and from there, find the murderer (if it was murder). Of course, the main objective is to find out the cause of death.
I admire two people: (late) Dr. Chao Tzee Cheng, and Dr. Pornthip Rojanasunand. Both have been forensic heroes, former in Singapore, latter in Thailand. Dr. Chao has helped Singapore solve many ground-breaking murder cases, mainly during the 70s and 80s. He was the man that raised Singapore's level of professionalism in this area. Sadly, he died on 21 Feb 2000. In his lifetime, he had conducted more than 25000 autopsies.
Dr. Pornthip Rojanasunand is a brave woman. She used forensics to challenge the corruption of the Thai police force. She once said that she rather worked on dead bodies, because you need not be afraid of causing their death. She was the main forensic pathologist responsible for identifying victims of the Aceh tsunami in 2004, which was a huge feat.
Being a forensic pathologist is the closest one get in the medico-legal field, which is what I want. A bit of medicine, a bit of law. The best of both worlds.
24 December 2010:
I heard Fish Leong's new song over the radio.
今年對梁靜茹來說，真的是個豐收年。二月時嫁給老公的她，又在六月的時候被環球音樂簽下當旗下藝人。在最新專輯《情歌沒有告訴你》中，她也首次挑戰專輯製作人。今天的報紙提到，梁靜茹成了「聖母峰天后」。意思是，把她十一年來賣出的一千七百二十萬專輯疊起來的話，高度達19.5個珠穆朗瑪山。她的成就沒人可以否認。
電臺已經首播了她的兩首歌：第一主打《情歌沒有告訴你》和第二主打《你會不會》。我聽著這兩首歌，真的覺得梁靜茹在成為人妻后，有了另一種蛻變。還有另一種之前沒有的韻味。
《情歌沒有告訴你》。這是梁靜茹給誰的告誡嗎？我不懂，不過從歌詞中我能夠感受到一種堅強。曲的部份鏗鏘有力，有點搖滾但也沒有過於搖滾的感覺，恰到好處。第一句「有些事你不必問／有些人你不必等」表達了一種稱霸的感覺。梁靜茹的唱腔也漸強，說明「愛恨忐忑」、一種回望的心情。本人很喜歡三分多鐘時，有一段近乎喊唱出來。
《你會不會》。以溫柔的曲，帶出歌詞中的不安。梁靜茹一直在歌曲中問問題。她是在等誰回覆嗎？這首歌非常好記，饒善強的曲讓我聽得如癡如醉。歌曲播完後，有種想念會讓我在去聽。
梁靜茹變了，for the better。
23 December 2010:
How many bloggers look back at the stuff they have posted?
I just did, for one.I think it's a good way to learn. To learn from your previous posts. Because everytime you post, you reveal something about yourself. It could just an emotion, if it's a short post. If it's a long post, you might be able to even pick out maybe some ideas of yours that weren't actually correct.
Many times we say things or do things or post stuff in a haste. No doubt, people today do not have much time. Unless they make use of their blog as their income source, they won't normally scrutinise their blogs. But if you do, there might be certain stuff that you can find.
Maybe it's the way you used to look at things. Were you more optimistic then? Or have you changed since then to be more optimistic now? There might be other discoveries. You might reminiscent about perhaps some memories that you stored on this virtual database, left untouched. People read it, and forget. You too.
There are always different kinds of feelings when bloggers read back on their stuff. I don't know about you, but I think this works for me. Like when I read back, I discover how increasingly impatient at others, compared to lesser posts of those last time. Or it could be what you never posted, but nearly did.
What made the change in mind? I don't know, it's all in you. A blog has this purpose too: to remind one of previous episodes in life. It may be seen by others, or not. But still, you did experience it. It's still a part of your life.
A blog pieces up a life.
19 December 2010:
After two short posts, I finally have something to say.
Recently, my dad was feeling unwell. After visiting a medium, he was told that he had stepped on "stuff".In other news, a saw a guy's blog. He looked so handsome till he looked sissy.
There was actually a longer version of this post. For some reasons, I am not allowed to post it.
18 December 2010:
I am confused about what I am feeling now.
I am suddenly into a lack of blogging ideas. I think it's one of the times where I should go into hiatus mode.Sing Zeon will go into hiatus mode soon, and hopefully there'll be good news. In the meantime, I shall think of other things to enhance my blog with.
16 December 2010:
Finally back from the camp.
這個月真的好忙哦。對比前幾年的假期，今年的假期是最充實的。所以雖然假期很忙，不過是忙得開心。前幾天，我呆在了武坊那裡。連續三天的太極：太棒了。不過，我發覺我的太極比起其他人差很多很多。所以我真的需要進步很多。
教練在最後一次的訓練中問了一句：「到底學了什麽？」
幸好，我覺得我能回答這個問題。迫不及待想要回去學校練太極；這是我第一次會為太極而那麼興奮。待回到學校，我就有一些提議啦。希望我的學校的太極力量能夠總的提高！
10 December 2010:
Didn't blog yesterday, had section outing!
Yep. Section 3 Section Outing. Damn fun. Met YS and JL and S first at 1125. Then waited for about an hour before finally everyone came. Though it was a long wait, it was worth it lah, since we all had fun.Yesterday was the first time I learnt to cycle. Hahah actually it was just cycling with LY, YS, and LH on a four seater bike ... I suppose it's something like that. Along the way my shin hit the pedal, swollen in few seconds. Luckily by today it's not that bad, just pain when touched, which is normal.
Had great time yesterday, with all of us so bonded.
Can I use 'bonded'?
8 December 2010:
Finally gotten my English textbook for next year.
We have to do 10 weeks worth of practices. From what I tried out yesterday, it wasn't too bad. It's just whether I can remember all that words. Hopefully by today I can finish 10 weeks worth; mega compression.Today shall be a short post; I have limited myself to only an hour of usage, so I still need to complete other things.
On a side note:
I hate people who lie when they boast. People do boast occasionally, but why lie just to boast? If you have nothing to boast about, don't. Wait till there's substance before boasting.
6 December 2010:
Saw an article on a website asking people to air their views whether Jeffrey Xu should have won Star Search 2010.
在我決定說下去之前，我想要澄清：以下的文字純粹是我個人的意見。我是憑著幾年的經驗這麼說的。當然有更多的人是能夠發表更準確的意見，所以如果你要是看到了一些你認為不正確的意見時，請不要小題大做。
某網站上，就有這麼一篇文章，是針對最新出爐的《才華》冠軍徐鳴杰該不該得到冠軍。當中，有很多我覺得不合適的留言。
有個人就說，他贏了，是因為新加坡要跟中國打好關係。他還說，這也正是爲什麽冠亞軍都是上海人。真的是這樣嗎？我不知道。這個可能是有的，不過我認為可能性比較小。
比賽的形式是這樣：演戲回合當中，所有的選手都要進行抽籤，來選擇他們要飾演的角色。有人就說，徐鳴杰只是幸運罷了，能夠抽到這麼一個很好發揮的角色。這個人還說，相信每位選手都能夠把這個角色演好。從選手們昨天的表現來看，我否認。對我來說，一些相當容易融入的角色卻沒被演好。照這個道理來說，容易的角色都演不好啦，難道不容易的角色反而能演好它嗎？
另一個人說，他／她心目中的冠軍Ｘ很衰，抽到一個「爛」角色。這根本不能這樣說呀。沒有一個角色是爛的。它可能只是比較少東西可以發揮，但其實這反而就能夠試探出該名選手能否想出一些東西，讓角色能夠更為精彩。主持人都說了，評分準則不在於模仿功力，而在於選手本人的演繹功力。如果Ｘ真有那麼好，他照樣也可以把角色演得很好。
有個人更直接：「徐鳴杰沒有明星臉。」（？）什麽叫做明星臉？說真的，你只要有幸被某貴人發現，他們肯定讓你變得有「明星臉」。
《才華》證明了：黑馬也有勝出的時候。
4 December 2010:
Experience from the Yunnan Trip is still impacting me.
我覺得，這個感覺真的會持續很久。真的，這次的經驗非筆墨能形容的。說的這裡，我就想到一點。最近一直拖欠補習功課，通常是沒去做作文。補習老師知道我去雲南后，要我寫有關雲南的事情。
好吧，我也不應該再拖下去了。所以今天我決定寫完這篇作文，然後爽爽的交上去。希望幾個月沒有寫作的我，還能寫出個東西來。
最近終於搞定了這個小欄目。之前不知道爲什麽一直不能顯示出來。
2 December 2010:
Seems like lots of people are having problems with their Chinese online homework.
For those of you that know me, this may come as a surprise, butThis time Chinese homework sucks.
There, I've said it. Seriously, it does. I've have been and am still passionate about Chinese (until friends are slightly irked off), so I suppose for me to say it sucks means ... it really does.
It's not that I have something against "the use of technology", a.k.a. giving us online homework instead of those on paper. I'm perfectly alright with it. What made me so angry is that the system is very faulty!
For my oral segment, I tried 6 times before finally succeding. The instructional video wasn't of any help at all, might as well not record it. The listening part was not as bad, but it wasn't good either. I shan't explain anymore, it just makes this post very suck-ish. LOL
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Recently my dreams were all very "freaky", in a way. They were mainly negative outlooks of things that happened somewhere around this time. This was what made it so scary, the timeframe of all these events and dreams. For example, the event happened yesterday, then today I would have a dream of how the event failed badly, and stuff like that. Although I have been telling myself not to get so affected, but I am still feeling the "freakiness".
I can only hope that things would not be like it is in my dreams.
In other news, I haven't been very faithful. No, not to a girl or anyone. I haven't been faithful to myself; since everyone can be a Buddha sooner or later. Some people just have to go through reincarnation then achieve it.
I had set a few (achievable) tasks for myself, since I broke some "rules". Till now, I have not accomplished them. Although strictly speaking I did not set any deadlines, but I can't cheat myself: I still am not faithful.
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For the first time since I started my blog, I wanna tell you of some videos. :)
All these are videos that I quite like, since they always make ROFL. Okay, maybe not that bad but at least my stomach would hurt.
JimmyKimmelLive is the channel of Jimmy Kimmel, who is an American host and comedian. I first got to know of his show segment actually, which is called Unnecessary Censorship. (Now it's called This Week in Unnecessary Censorship.) But it's still as funny, where his crew "bleeps and blurs" things. They are actually harmless content, but the bleeps and blurs made it wrong. There are also other segments that are funny, which you can watch them one by one.
Shane Dawson TV is another channel, this one by Shane Dawson. He's a comedian and actor, and releases new videos periodically on Youtube. His videos are great, but some may find it a bit disgusting, and the content isn't that appropriate. Anyways, his shows are also very funny to watch, so long as you are okay with it.
1 December 2010:
Started reading up History textbook.
It really is interesting.I really hope that next year, my History can improve much more. Upper Sec History seems more like Political Studies already. LOL.
The only thing I don't like would have to be that I now have to remember all the funny funny names that these ang mohs have. Alright, I can't complain much cos at least it isn't like Geog. It was just that learning Singapore history was much easier since the names were all local and I could witness it.
Yesterday, I was packing my room. (Sure was refreshing after that. I now have no junk.) Anyway, words can't describe the feeling of happiness when I placed all my Geog textbooks and file and worksheets in a box. Finally, I need not study Geography!
Okay, well, not exactly true. I realised that in History there is a skill called 'reading maps'. -.- Aw well, it's still not that killing. I still have to read maps since I need to understand the territories and all that.
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So many things have happened during this few days. 之前，我猶如一顆草，根蒂牢固地種在溫室里。（我知道這個比喻不恰當。）但最近這幾天，就好像有好多好多奇怪的力量，拼命地想要把我拔出溫室。
LOL okay so much for sian-ing. Wonder what I should do for the rest of the day, since I have completed Chinese homework (or at least what I could have done till now), and Math homework will be done by the end of the week. I don't know when I can start on my Eng homework, but hope it won't be too much. If I'm not wrong, I have to write a paragraph? Yea, I suppose so.