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Monday, April 20, 2009 ♥ 10:52:00 PM
Another update I really wanted to post.
10 year ago, on this date, shit happened.
I remembered I was still in secondary one when this was broadcast all over the news.
I was wondering what the big fuss is about until I actually saw the moving images in the news.
A school kid, bloodied, dropping from the window as SWAT team members rescued him with a van.
The headlines were screaming COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTOUT and oh my God, did I finally realize what was going on.
For the exact information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre
But I am just going to summarize here.
2 boys, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, school outcasts, went on a rampage this very day 10 years ago and killed 12 of their school mates and a teacher. The motives behind their attack were still being debated till this day but the many innocent lives that were lost, are just too shocking.
The people that they killed did not do anything to them but it was the culture and the beliefs back in their school in those days that lead them to become outcasts and later, killers.
I kept a close eye on this news for the next 10 years. It was an interesting topic as it shows how the school culture in US was like. It was revealed that there were lots of bullying, fighting, racism and other really unpleasant stuff going on.
Oh yes the thing that pissed me off the most till this day is that the news blamed the games that might have possibly influence the 2 boys.
GOSH HOW I HATE THAT! QUIT BLAMING OTHERS FOR YOUR F**KED UP MISTAKES!
My church friend, Isaac even loaned me a diary written by a girl, Rachel Scott, shortly before her end on that tragic day. It was compiled by her parents and the contents inside were really tear jerking.
I furiously read each and every news that come along every year about the anniversary of the massacre.
Finally, as I read the news on Yahoo! A few minutes ago, there were quite a lot of updates on that school, 10 years later.
Here are the links:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090420/ap_on_re_us/columbine_vigil;_ylt=AtvWpzxeyOKgI7ttgTWz6OxvzwcF
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/columbine_active_shooter;_ylt=Ao8CcniouhU9ifPMY3C6gdhH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTE2ZnFrbWVhBHBvcwMyBHNlYwN5bi1yLWItbGVmdARzbGsDLXNob290Zmlyc3Q6
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/columbine_survivors_and_family;_ylt=AosXJ5Fzikt5QnDhzp5SdV1H2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTE2aWZubDE4BHBvcwMzBHNlYwN5bi1yLWItbGVmdARzbGsDLWNvbHVtYmluZWZh
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/columbine_s_survivors_vignettes;_ylt=AoaUIQLOzQmpCyEpDNWbQrBH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTE2cmk5anJuBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bi1yLWItbGVmdARzbGsDLWNvbHVtYmluZXN1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090420/ap_on_re_us/columbine_s_survivors;_ylt=AvETdRklblvBzDfiBBTAoMtvzwcF
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090420/ap_on_re_us/columbine_the_principal;_ylt=As8b0qIsJEAsei22UiWxVHtvzwcF
I was glad that after such a long time, everybody had move on. Wounds have healed and survivors have moved on and became successful in life.
Words can’t express how touching it was to see how they have struggled and lived on and that everything was alright now.
God bless them all and I pray that such a thing will never happen again.
♥ 9:49:00 PM
Orientation Camp is over and here I am, officially in Temasek Polytechnic.
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~!
Orientation Camp is quite ok but a little boring.
Guess I have grown out of that kind of thing, LOL.
I went to school today, the first day of school, with an excited heart.
Excited at what I am going to learn and also fulfilling my dream of becoming a game programmer.
However, lurking somewhere in my heart is also the crap and slacking attitude that I obtained from army.
Hmm…I must pray and get rid of it, before it takes over and run me down.
The first lesson was some communication skill subject, something like the CARE lessons back in ITE.
The teacher was cool, got a cool slang and generally speaks excellent English, just like Cindy and Felia from CARE lessons that I had back in ITE. Audrey, the teacher, was quite friendly and interacts quite well with us, after my observation of her. But she talks a little…too much LOL.
Even she herself admits it because she explained that she is literature trained, you know, those types that think in terms of words and generally fall in love with a superb piece of poem and go crazy over famous writers instead of pop singers.
After her lesson I met up with my good buddy back in ITE, Wei Zhi, for a time of fellowship. He brought me to the laptop fair and I think I spotted one of Eng Koon’s friends who happen to be a promoter for Fujitsu. I didn’t call out to her cause there were too many people mobbing her it seems, LOL.
We went to the cafeteria belonging to the Design school and oh my God, had a super duper excellent western meal man!
Kudos for the introductions, Wei Zhi!
We proceed to Cheers at the Business school after our meal to get my Red Bull, you know, its afternoon and my eyes starts to get sleepy so in order to keep myself awake, I drank it!
Off to the library after that and I was pretty impressed by the books available. Very very useful books that I can utilized for my projects. Didn’t have such a great library back in ITE and thank God I found one in Temasek Polytechnic.
My lesson starts at 1pm and I bid farewell to Wei Zhi at around 12.30pm and made my way towards the classroom.
I was early and there were NOBODY from my class. Damn and I was a little nervous as I wondered whether I had gone to the correct class.
Do you know why I was nervous?
It’s because students were outright playing all kinds of games in the lab!
For a moment I forgot that I was learning about making games man!
Gosh.
Seriously sometimes I still can’t believe I am doing what I love.
Everybody came and my teacher too so lesson starts right away.
Oh yeah my teacher is an ANG MO!
LOL yeah got a cool slang and heard that he is one of the developers of GTA4! Couldn’t confirm that but he was pretty cool as he knows his stuff!
The lesson was basically quite a paradigm shift from ITE and secondary school. We were given assignments right on the first day and poof! We dived right into tutorials.
Garry, that was the name of the Ang Mo, told us to think of 3-4 ideas for a board game.
Gosh, that was the COOLEST thing I ever heard!
Imagine! I AM REALLY PLANNING FOR A GAME!!!!
No longer going through boring lessons but we are going to start throwing ideas around to make a game!
However, it must come with an educational theme in it and honestly speaking, it was really tough. Thinking of 3-4 ideas on the spot isn’t easy. Imagine you have to think of the rules and gameplay and also not forgetting the educational theme. I and my group of 3, who were sitted beside me, brainstormed for ideas and we fully utilized the time that Garry gave us.
When it was time for presentation, I panicked, because the first 3 groups’ presentation was quite good and I didn’t expect them to cram so much information in the slide, whereas I had only a few words! I was planning to talk instead of letting the class read the slides but I didn’t expect Garry wanted us to pass up the slides!
Thank God he allowed us to email him, so therefore I went back home and added more words and sent him, feeling satisfied.
Truly, I still have much to learn. Most importantly, getting rid of the f**k up army lifestyle and back to a student/civilian.
Ah well I don’t have any homework but I am not going to do nothing so I am going to read some stuff.
Well I hope you enjoyed my little update, heh.
So till the next post, God bless!
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 ♥ 1:06:00 PM
4 months and 4 days has elapsed since my last post. Gosh. Sorry cause I was too busy.
Well…how should I do this man….so many things have happened since the last post.
Well let’s start off with the month of January. Had a great Chinese New Year, yeah was one of the best in my whole life cause I took additional off days after the main public holiday so I had 1 week of Chinese New Year, lol. Went visiting and socializing through the entire week and was glad that I make the right decision in taking off. Anyway I had too much off unclear anyway.
February huh…nothing much except the daily routine of wake up, eat, PSP and sleep. Stayed at home on Valentine’s Day cause I don’t have anyone at the moment to date, lol.
March was a month full of excitement. I was eagerly waiting for my confirmation to Temasek Polytechnic, which I had finally decided to go to, and gotten a confirmation that I had enrolled! There was quite a lot of stuff to do before I can become a student, namely from the military side. Can’t reveal much but all I can say that there was lots of hassle getting it done.
April! March has slipped away quietly and I did not notice the significant of April arriving.
1 MORE MONTH TO ORD!
WOHOOOOOOOOOOOO~!
I didn’t realize this until Clara pointed it out during last week’s cell group meeting.
OH MY GOD I AM SO FREAKING EXCITED!!!!
But alas I can’t really jump around in joy for I am currently not feeling that well…yes I am having off today but I am not feeling well. I can’t sleep well in bunk too cause those buggers tend to make a lot of noise and sleeps late in the night. I actually wanted to continue typing my story but my head is getting too dizzy. Therefore instead I choose to update this little blog of mine. Well, got to go sleep now, till the next post! I still own you the 25 random things Felia! Don’t worry I won’t forget!
God bless!