- Thanks Young.

 

I think most of my entries are categorised as "Life"... Do I really have that much to say about Life?

1. Determination, and I'm not afraid to emphasise it.

 

2. Love.

 

Mr. Dawe was, and still is, one of the best teachers at my school. He just recently died (11th of July, 2007) from cardiac arrest (simply put: heart suddenly stopped beating). From what I know, this is due to one of the long-running diseases he has had and the last thing he told me about this disease was that it is nothing fatal, nothing problematic. Regardless, Rest In Peace, the much appreciated Mr. Malcolm Dawe. I regret having never told you you are the best physics teacher I have ever had, and top of that, amongst the best teachers at school. I did not choose my Extended Essay just because I like physics. I like physics because you are a great teacher, and so I dedicated part of my final year 12 mark on studying physics as a subject and as an extended essay - the motion of a shuttlecock - because you are a great teacher. If it were not for you, I would not have come top of class for so long in my two-year physics course which is not over just yet. Physics is currently my favorite subject of the 6 subjects I have chosen. Whoever physics teacher we will have in place of you from now on will never be as good as you. The way you make sure your students understand has made me understand what dedication is. Unlike other teachers, you would not slack off, you would work very hard and I am sure that is why you have such a good history in our school - Deputy Director of Studies and Careers Officer. You were appointed Careers Officer because you could relate to students and therefore would be best to direct students in whatever direction they should head.

I have never in my life, until today, shed a tear for a dead person and was not prepared to for a teacher, but you were not just a teacher to me, you were closer to being my 1-on-1 tutor. In fact, you were even closer than that, so much so I do not have a word to describe how much respect I have for you. You would spend any length of your free time just to explain one single question to me so that I would understand it to its utmost depth despite the fact that you DON'T have that much free time. You would always be busy with something, always either in your room marking or out of your room photocopying sheets for the students.

The last thing you have taught me is Astrophysics, about stars. Aside from the physics of stars, there is a legend that people will eventually become stars after death. The more you are respected in your living years, the brighter you will shine. May your brightness be as bright as the sun as seen on earth, with the apparent magnitude of -26.5. You taught us to look up into the night sky and observe the stars, and now we look up at the stars and wish you've become one of them.

I promise that I will use whatever dedication you have taught me to end my school year this year before I go into uni. I will get a merit (7/7) for Physics and I will dedicate it to you.

RIP, from one of your students who most respects you - Vincent Cheung

The problem with this is, it's so boring. I mean, you see this in Maths (sine/cosine curves), you see this in Physics (waves) and you see this in Economics (business cycle)!!!
I mean.. wtf?

Are we, as humans, really that bored?

SHINSENGUMI.

 

(Forum Logo of SHINSENGUMI)

 

New comers would not know about SHINSENGUMI. I'm just here to give a brief introduction of SHINSENGUMI as it has lost huge popularity after a change in URL from s to z.

SHINSENGUMI is our internet clan. Currently, it forum part of SHINSENGUMI dominates the glory in the name of SHINSENGUMI. In general terms, SHINSENGUMI is a community of people who are interested in 'being in a community'. It is almost like a large group of people together and all standing on the same side. Occassionally, and almost rarely, we have wars against those who SHINSENGUMI members all agree to defy on.

The forum covers a large part of all the discussions possible in life. Such includes:

 

Animes (Mainly Naruto/Bleach/Blood+)

Manga

Music (Mostly Jpop)

Movies (More on new movies)

Gaming (All the new and upcoming consoles)

Television

Jokes (In our case, the chicken didn't cross the road)

Food & Drink

 

The above being more of the theme of entertainment, there are also things more theory like such as poetry and philosophy. We also have a temporarily small tech crew that may help in smaller problems.

 

All our members are decent when it comes to welcoming newcomers. Our forum signatures are of high quality and several of the members would be willing to produce personal signatures for people.

 

Our ranking system is an elite one. Although we look at every member with the same pair of eyes, we have different titles and ranks for members. Members who have contributed much will obtain higher respect amongst their peers and a better view of the whole system of SHINSENGUMI.

 

The leading team:
TOD-The Online Devil

Kbdgod

Sabakunogaara

 

So without anymore delay, our new Forum URL:

I welcome ALL to join!

 

There's no doubt. Best dog in the world. Your favorite.

28/04/06 (In the CAS journal for IB)

Today is my birthday and I spent the afternoon with the residents at JF once again. Today is the last day of my week in volunteer service at JF. Today, we volunteers were given forms to fill in for the IB CAS and JF itself. The questions asked on the sheets were not exceptionally challenging to answer, neither were they meant to be, but I took a long time to complete. I did not know what to write, either because we did relatively few things compared to the previous groups of volunteers or that I really did not learn anything much. I did not want to put down something just because we had to, otherwise known as lying. I did not learn anything because I basically walked into the JF building on the first day with the same state of mind as when I left today. Knowledge may have improved, such as the understanding of diseases, generic or not, and their symptoms. However, patience or communication or sympathy but not empathy, these things that were meant to be improved from this whole experience did not change at all. Have I not extended myself enough or is this experience just not enough to bring change in me?

I have taken a few photos at JF but not enough. It was difficult to ask a resident to take a photo with me. Whenever I thought it would be nice to take a photo in that surrounding with a resident, there were other residents around. From our first day, we were shown several occasions of which residents, just like people, could get jealous. I did not want to take a photo with every resident as that would be very time consuming and using up too much space, but neither could I only take one photo as I had the feeling that I would have to do that with other residents. I could not do a group photo as that would require the permission from every resident and many have difficulties with verbal language and it would have been very difficult to gather everyone. All these considerations were to keep their privacy. So in the end, I only took several pictures of their surroundings.

Not likely. More so The Online Devil in the Centre. For convenience and slight secrecy, I'll call this special residence for people with permanent brain injury the JFC.
As part of my Community and Service (otherwise known as Creativity, Action & Service) component of the IB Diploma, I've volunteered in helping out at the JFC (realise letter J is next to letter K?) Today, being the first day of my volunteering, I was introduced to around the JFC building in the morning at around 9 to 12 and given an overview of the history of the JFC. During the orientation session, we were told to behave in several ways. Not that we are untrust-worthy, but that there are things to respect about these people who has brain injury. One of the multiple things we were told was that these people do not need us to feel sorry for them. Obvious as it was, it isn't to many. Plus also, why does this world need people to feel sorry anyway? Those emotions of feeling sorry are taking up precious space and time on this world.
"There is a guy I would really like you to meet." That was what the director of the JFS said. Perhaps not exactly. We met this guy (must not mention any names to remain credentials) and I found his story rather boring. That was all there is. A boring guy whom was meant to be interesting. However, by the time I got home, I reminded myself of what the director had said earlier that day. This guy was meant to be interesting... Oh wait, he was. Not his past, but the way he is now. His past isn't the interesting part about him, but the him that was shaped by his past.
:shivers: Sounds like something you often hear from speeches.
Other than that, it had been an average day. Haven't done much the next four hours following the somewhat meant-to-be lengthy lunch break. We played Uno and went to a gallery (Some art exhibition). Pretty average.

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	High
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	High
Level 7 (Violent)	High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	High

 

 

 

 

So after sleeping at 4 or 5 am last night or this morning, I woke up exactly at 10 am in the morning. This is the second time in my life of which it's a sunday and of which I haven't slept for more than 10 hours to have automatically waken up! Only 5 or 6 hours of sleep and I just automatically woke up. Come to think of it, I actually opened my eyes at 8 o'clock meaning I could've actually got up by then but I thought, WTF? So early. I would've expected it to be like 2 pm at that time.

 

This, however, is a good thing. I had to go to sleep last night or else my brain would've gone boom and then blaaam and kabooon! I guess waking up automatically after sleeping for only 5 ot 6 hours on a sunday, is caused by the almight power of an english essay and a mini maths assignment.

 

OK, now that I've spread my thoughts, stfu and get to work~.

I was just gone from the internet for no more than 25 days, and look at all that's happened!

25 days ago, there was this dispute between some of the SHINSENGUMI clan members, and now the forum is deader than ever. It's like when I first started recruiting members... With only myself and a few inactive moderators and some random members that came from somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

The online game (TOG?) where SHINSENGUMI started, Legend Arena, also changed a lot. Perhaps the biggest change there is SHIN doesn't exist on there anymore.

MSN spaces changed. From what I've heard, it's change from crap to shit, and from shit to slightly modified shit. I'm trying to customise my default name and stuff so that when commenting on others' blogs I don't have to retype my name.

 

In the past (2 months ago), I was still an active online devil, but now I'm appearing no where on the internet. Once I'm back home, I'll be too busy to get online as often as I used to be. Too busy to get the internet fixed to start with, which may require to change the position of my computer from room to room or lounge or whatever, and it'll give much frustration.

 

I've also not watched Naruto nor Bleach nor any other anime for a long time. (25 days) Luckily, I haven't missed out on a lot. Firstly, Naruto is not worth the time to watch. It's more than plain... boring these days. Bleach is just on its fillers, but will not last too long. I heard it's ending next week (The fillers).

 

I also realise there are a lot of old "TOD's latest news". I've got to find something else to talk about before they become history.

 

I'm back again, but this time I'm more powerful than ever!

 

 

Someone's waiting for me... It's my next goal...

 

I hope she's waiting.