Bilingual Fingers//双语手指

I'm Back for more actions

2007-12-31T01:05:00.000+08:00

I'm Back for more actions!

New blog @ http://sgedulab.com/blog

Time

2007-05-12T16:27:00.000+08:00

It has been a long time since my last update of this blog.

And don’t worry. This is not a goodbye entry.

As time goes, things changed - The people, the environment, and the surrounding changes as time goes by.

Recently, I had been busy over competition, studies and exams. Time doesn’t wait for people. It’s May now, and December 2006 countdown party seems to happen as if it is just yesterday.

Recently, had been too busy and didn’t manage to rest well. Sleep less than 3 hours a day, sometimes didn’t have to chance to have my meals, health finally gives me a warning signal.

Last Sunday, my body could not take it any more and I fall into serious ill and Monday have some exams papers. It’s my mid-year period and only gods knows how important it is to me. Finally, a person like me who doesn’t like to see doctor have to drag himself to the doctor and guess what? I am seriously ill and unfit to do the exams.

I did the mid year after all. My last paper will be next Monday. I know I didn’t do well. Image my horror when I vomited blood, image my head felt as if it is floating in the air.

Took some time to rest recently; Aim of resting is not to be lazy, but to walk a further distant of life. During this period of time, I had thought about a lot of thing. Words just cannot describe the feeling deep inside my heart. Only I know what does the world means to me.

Perfectionist, aim to get everything perfect, even thought people told it is impossible. He told others, “Nothing is impossible, the impossible just take a longer time to be possible.” No one understands him, nor does no one understand what he really wants. Being too quite and everything keep to him, he surfer a lot, a lot.

A blog, set up by him wanted for him to air his views, but due to his thinking, he keeps hiding away.

I had enough! My life has to go on.

I am trying to change myself, let’s accept the fact that I did not forget the purpose of stating writing a blog and name this blog Bilingual fingers. To be a bilingual person and let’s others know better about me.

Just wait for a moment while I clear up some stuff leave undone. I will back in action soon.

Love,
Cockroach
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Discrimination against National Serving Singaporeans

2007-02-21T00:12:00.000+08:00

Via Hardwarezone Forum

The poster, 26, have a late enlistment due SAF had missed out his enlistment, looking for jobs yet faced discrimination when he had his job interview.

Last Friday I went for an interview at this Fabrication plant U..i at Pasir Ris. The fab claims itself as the 2nd largest in the world.

It was a 1 to 1 interview with a fat Taiwanese manager. The Very First thing the manager asked me after my introduction is

Taiwanese Pig Manager: "I see you are a Singaporean. Do you need to go back to serve NS every year?"

I replied Yes, I do need to go back

Taiwanese Pig Manager: "Oh, so you have been going back even during your uni studies?"

Me: "Yes, at least once per year.

Then came the f-up remarks
Taiwanese Pig Manager: "How long do you need to go back every year? You Know, I once have this Singaporean Subordinate. He every year need to go back for like 2 weeks of in camp training, then still need to apply leave every now and then for some kind of briefing talks by NS."

"Worse, he needs to pass some kind of physical test every Year, so when he trains for his test by running in the night, he will have no energy to do work in the morning, Affect Job Performance. Then if he fails, need to attend RT, waste of company time."

"If every Singaporean needs to do all this, then I rather don't hire you all then. 1 year you all will have like a few months no need to work due to NS, And you also are quite old compare to other graduates"

Read this from hardwarezone.com and got some feelings towards it. I remember few months ago Uncle ZZZ faced similar discrimination from the job interview. In the end, he didn’t get the job; maybe given to female or foreign talent.

Sometimes, it troubled me. I wonder if the government had done enough to help male Singaporean to overcome those discrimination and disadvantage. Yes, maybe the reservist year is shorter; laws had implemented to protect the male Singaporeans. But within the community and public itself, there are still many discrimination towards male Singaporean when comes to working. Companies would also prefer not to hire the reservists. I also understand that small companies would not able to bear the cost of their staff going back for reservist. But does that mean that all males have to work at big companies?

It’s another reason why female and foreign talent should serve National Service too. :)

Boring Pig Year

2007-02-18T23:54:00.000+08:00

It has been a boring piggy year for me…

I stayed at home to complete some assignment. Teachers had been crazy giving assignment because of the long break. Well, students are not supposed to have break I guess. The job of the student is to study, study, STUDY!

I had completed English assignment and some Math assignment today. Wasted a lot of time sleeping. I fall asleep while doing locus for Math. Locus is boring. I mean, locus can be fun, but doing so much can be quite scary. Image you almost complete the question and at the last part you found that you do not have enough space, or maybe your answer is 0.02 different from the answer given, it can be quite frustrating.

A lot of assignments have to be done. Oh... why don’t my teachers think like this? ...

What are the 5 things you would do if you are the Government of Singapore?

2007-02-17T00:08:00.000+08:00

This morning, aunties at the wet market had been cursing and swearing at the government over the Budget 2007. Basically, they were unhappy about the GST, but were happy about government giving them money again.

Think again, is the government doing enough to help its people? Not just about the Budget 2007, but other issues that people are concern as well. What would YOU do if you are the government? Thus, I came out with this “mimi” which allows you to be the government of Singapore.

What are the 5 things you would do if you are the Government of Singapore?

1. I would want female to serve National Service too. Males had wasted a lot of chances compared to females because of National Service. Some have to give up their scholarship; some have to get stuck in Singapore, separated with their family. Female get to work earlier than the males. Unfair isn’t it? Please don’t tell me life is unfair or female are too girly to be in the National Service. Females can be the National Service cook for the guy (the food still sucks), help with office work. Isn’t it great? I didn’t say ask them to march for 24km! After all, everyone have a part to play in defending Singapore.

2. I would also want to change education system and policy. Current system and policy, I can’t say it is not good, but there are rooms for improvement. I would also want students to study in Hi-Tech environment, using computers/ laptops to study. But of course it might lead to other problems, which I don’t really care much.

3. I would want to improve the working condition here. Nowadays people are lowly paid compared with our foreign talent. Local people overworked yet underpaid. I will implement some laws so that more jobs would be created and unload people’s work so that they have more time to spend with their family.

4. I would also implement a law that all married couples are to have sex every week no matter what. Okay, not exactly to have sex but to have at least a child after 5 years of marriage. This is to solve the population in Singapore. If not, we really have to ask foreign talent to have sex here in Singapore.

5. Last but not least, I would give Singaporean the freedom of speech. I don’t care their comments is directly shooting at my party (If I have one), but I believe comments will help my government to work harder and give the best to its people.

So, what are the 5 things you would do if you are the Government of Singapore?

National Service - I am crazy over it

2007-02-02T23:50:00.000+08:00

I went to the library today, took a book from the shelf and start reading the book – The Army Daze. My teacher had been staring at me, most likely wondering why am I so interested in National Service.

I don’t know. I am somehow very excited to get enlisted to National Service. Ever since I got my first letter telling me I now no longer can run away from NS, I had been reading a lot of stuff related to NS. I had been talking to classmate about National Service, telling them some interesting stories I read online and heard from my friends. But none of them very interested. Most likely they might think cockroach is a crazy guy who love NS so much where else others hate it so much.

Don’t get me wrong. I am a guy who has been failing NAFA test in my secondary school life. If I enlist into NS, I might have problem doing even 1 pushup. I might have problem overcome the SOC, or maybe I can’t even pass my IPPT forever in my NS life. I might need to start training now to get myself a little fit. But at the end of the day, no words can describe the feeling I am having now regarding about National Service. I am just super duper excited.

Crazy as you might say. But I really looking forward to be get enlisted. Maybe just few more months, I might apply for early enlistment. Or maybe two to three years later when I finish my JC or Poly courses I will enter a new chapter of my life.

Last year, my mum had a conversation with my old neighbour who holding Singapore PR. They went to cancel their son’s PR because of the NS thing. My mum said this,

“National Service good what. Let them know how to become man.”

I don’t know how mum feels when she know I received my first National Service Letter. It makes me wonder, will my mum would let me go for my National Service with a peace of mind and not like others who cry or nag at their son when sending their son off. Maybe she dying to send me off but for sure – I will miss my mum and my home.

National Service, I wonder why I am crazy over you…

Mum, you can't eat money

2007-02-01T23:24:00.000+08:00

Phone rang and mum picked up the phone.

Dad: Want to have supper for tonight?
Mum: I want $12 but nothing else.
Dad: Huh?
Mum: Since you so rich, can buy supper. Might as well give me the money. Each packet of noodle cost $3. You going to buy 4 packets for the family, that would cost $12. Give me that $12.
Me: Mum, you can’t eat money.

That happens when ‘someone’ had went shopping almost everyday.

How to do well for Social Studies and History?

2007-01-28T12:59:00.000+08:00

From time to time, people had been jealous about me for being able to do well for my humanities subjects. They assuming that I memories everything word by word. They assuming that I read the whole textbook in order to do well for my exam. They assuming that – Cockroach is a hardworking boy.

But, the fact is that I don’t really like the way people study for humanities. I find it a bit wrong by using those methods to study. I know someone who memories the whole textbook, I know someone who write out the notes again and again. I also know someone learn with a unique way – sleeping on the history textbook, hoping information can goes into the head.

To be honest, I don’t really like to study history or social studies. Why should we study dead people? But we have no choice; I made myself love humanities by study further. Sorry, I don’t like using textbook. If I have a choice, I would not want to buy any textbook. I would want to go to the library to find out all the information.

Yes. I guess I do well because I read more than what I need to. I don’t memories the whole junk of facts into my head. Maybe I did, but for the important factor. Most of the time, during exam, I write out answers by using my own English, my own words, my own expression. I use my own feeling to handle the essay questions. Something which I guess not many of my classmates did that. They memories the whole model essay book hopping the exact question would come out, which hardly will.

The problem is that many people thought that textbooks or guide books had all the information that needed for exam. But, I find that information from those books is too condensing until people would not be able to know more about the topic. They are trapped in this maze, the maze which prevents them to know more and expand their knowledge.

They have to walk out this maze in order to do well for exam I guess. I don’t know. Different people have different ways to study for their exam. But one thing I know for sure is that – studying is not for the “Paper” we getting, but to know more about the world and expand our knowledge. No harm to know more than what is required for exam.

I guess I shall stop here. If not publisher of textbooks and guide book will sue me for slander. You see, I don’t want to be the next blogger who got sued. ^^

Prejudice

2007-01-27T15:00:00.000+08:00

Prejudice by Cockroach

I moved into my new house wanted to start a new life. I was accused for molesting and was in prison for two years. I wanted to let go of my past and wanted to get a job as soon as possible. My family had left me; my friends had been avoiding me. All I ask was that the society to give me a second chance. My life was grimed because of my past…

I had faced many problems while looking for jobs. People had rejected me when they knew I was an ex-convict. I started to get used to those discrimination. I believed that one day, someone will accept me. The neighbours also had shown their concern about me being joblessness. I did not dare to tell them the reason. I was afraid that they would avoid me if they knew my past. But things could not be avoided. Somehow, they knew about my past and started to avoid me when they saw me.

Few months passed, I managed to get an accountant job in the bank, but my neighbours were still avoiding me. I did not know what I should do to ask them to accept me. I wanted to start a new life, yet people were not giving me the chance. Until a new neighbour moved in, I thought she might not know anything and we could be friends.

But that was not the case. The new neighbour did not talk to me after a few days even though we met each other in the lift a couple of times. I sensed that she was avoiding me; most likely she knew my past from the other neighbours. I felt so sad, angry yet helpless. I needed friends, I needed people to accept me, I needed people to leave my past behind and to trust me that I had turned into a new leaf. But I guessed that would not happen.

One day, as I was walking home, I heard,

“Girl! Do not stand so close to that guy. You would not know will he want to molest you,” said one of my neighbours.

I felt so hurt and disappointed. I did not know what to say nor either did I know what I should do at that time. People began to crowd around me whispering among themselves. I felt so unwelcome and hurt. I held my tears. Then I heard someone shouted,

“Enough!”

Everyone looked at her, the new neighbour, wondering what happened. And she continues,

“Someone might make a mistake in the past. But we should not discriminate them,” she said.

I looked at her and she gave me a wink. She walked to me and whisper into my ears,

“People might discriminate you, but I never will.”

I looked at her with tears in my eyes. Finally I got to know someone who was willing to leave my past behind and accept me for being who I am.

“Thank you for unlocking my second prison,” I said to my new neighbour, Jolin, who is now my wife.

Get to know myself better

2007-01-20T00:08:00.000+08:00

Saw this personality test at 小心's blog and thought it would be fun if I try it. This is my result:

Your view on yourself:

You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:

You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:

You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

The seriousness of your love:

Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.

Your views on education

Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

The right job for you:

You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:

You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of:

You are afraid of having no one to rely on in times of trouble. You don't ever want to be unable to take care of yourself. Independence is important to you.

Who is your true self:

You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.
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Quite true. Except that no one find my straightforwardness attractive and I don't have plenty of dates.

I want to sleep

2007-01-12T06:18:00.000+08:00

I didn’t manage to sleep last night because I was rushing to finish some stuff that need to be handed in by today. And I just finished few minutes ago.

Tired. But no choice. Had to finish it.

Sometimes I wonder why teacher treat us like superman and superwomen. I mean, we need to sleep too.

Hope to catch some sleep in school latter between breaks or something. I had drank 18 cups of coffee already!

Got to wash up now and rush to school. Hopefully can get back by noon and have a nap.

How wish I am a superman >.<

National Service - A change of life

2007-01-10T15:36:00.000+08:00

On the another day, Mum and I went home by taxi because it was late at night. We and the taxi driver got to chat a little bit as the journey was long. The topic – National Service.

The taxi driver was complaining about how his son turn bad during National Service. Well, not bad actually in my opinion. Well, maybe the son used to be a very obedient, thus the taxi driver, the father, not used to it.

His son “turned bad” in the following ways (The Taxi diver assume that National Service taught his son those things):

1. Learn how to smoke.

2. Always went out.

3. Learn how to spend money.

4. Learn how to drink beer.

Well, I might ended up in the same situation too. I might able to learn how to make more friends in NS, I might know how to drink beer in NS, I might learn how to spend money in NS, I might learn how to smoke in NS(though I don’t think I will ever like the smell of cigarette)

Sometimes, I feel that parent must learn how to let go. I know, parent’s kids will always remain as a kids to the parents no matter how old the kids were. But parents should know that it is part of their child growing up and should put too much restriction on their child especially when the kid had grown up.

For me, I got restriction because of my family. I got my family duty to do. It’s part of my duty to play a part in the family. But because of this, I don’t really get the chance to interact with other people outside my house. This made me a very introvert person.

As much as I want to interact with other people in real life, I just find it difficult to do so. I just simply don’t know how to.

Had been reading Mr. Dew’s National Service posts. From Medical Check up to ORD left 5 months plus away. I enjoy reading army and National Service related stuff. I believe that National Service can change my life. I want, and need to get out of this comfort zone. I trust that National Service will able to teach me skill that I am not equip now, for example: social skills.

I think those social skills that I will equip in National service will labeled as “Bad” by my parents. But I believe that it will help me with my offline social network.

Sometimes wish to enter National Service as soon as possible.

First day of school in 2007

2007-01-03T21:24:00.000+08:00

Went to school today, nothing much happen. Meet old classmates, meet new teachers. A New year with new goals.

Had found that I had forgotten most of my work. Had problem with some homework now. And I don’t feel like studying for today. Rest one more day and more work coming soon! WHOOH!

Had a chat with principal (Surprise, surprise – Principal still know my name… Not a very good thing isn’t?) and history teacher. Thanks for their concern about my English. I will work on it and do well for my English. In fact I got some plans now. Need to work it out though.

Got my Service Award today. Hehehe… SGD$150 going to say “HI” in my bank. Went to stage, shake hand with principal, and got the money. Sometimes I wonder why don’t they just give us the money. I feel quite embarrassing on stage.

Also took some photo for the school magazine. School wants to put my photo due to last year my photo appear on Straits Times. Just hope that the text will be just a few words, photo will be small enough to make it unnoticeable.

New Year, New Starts. All the best everyone!

School Starts

2007-01-03T06:40:00.000+08:00

Just a quick post.

I don't know should I say "I am looking forward today, the brand new year of school starts!"

Sometimes, I feel nervous, worry about it. I am afraid of school. It's going to start of my nightmare!

Okay, not as bad as what I think. I do love study. (Study and reading is my hobby anyway) But problem lies on the school which had overloaded me. >.<

Today, first day of school, yet I wonder what time I should report to school >.< It used to be 7.15am, but I just got my timetable and lesson start at 7.45am and 8.45am, but no flag raising period?

Em...better start to prepare myself for the new battle of the year! Whooh! Wish me all the best in all tests and exam, ya?

Better shutdown my laptop now and go to school. See ya!

Happy New Year!

End of 2006

2006-12-31T16:19:00.000+08:00

Hi all!

In a few hours time will be the end of 2006.

2006 isn’t a easy year for me. Stressing over studies and website, SGEduLab.com.

Not easy, but I made it. Remember people were telling me I won’t able to make it in ‘N’ level because of my English, yet I proved to them I can do it. Remember people were telling me SGEduLab won’t works, but it still working alright.

But, personally, I still feel that I am not doing well this year. I failed to do something – interact with other people. I had been staying at home taking care of kids for years. People around my age most properly will go out for shopping and etc after school, but I didn’t. I didn’t enjoy my teenage life at all. All I do is stay at home looking after kids. During holiday, I went to work, and found that because I had stayed at home for too long, I didn’t know how to interact with other people. I don’t know how to talk to other people. I don’t know how, how to make friends with other people. I had stuck in the online social network and totally unable to handle offline connection.

This is my weakness, my biggest weakness and road block in my life. My aim – to clear this blockage to make more friends offline and explore the wonders of life. I hope, I am able to make it in 2007.

Wish everyone have a good year ahead!

Love,
Cockroach//蟑螂

Six Sense Dream, Trouble

2006-12-31T00:11:00.000+08:00

People who know me well enough will know this.

I have “Six Sense Dream”.

Meaning, I have Six Sense in the dream. Or in other words, I will dream about further. Not happen that frequently, and its totally random.

Believe it or not, sometimes I got into depression because of Six Sense Dream. I got to know someone going to pass away, I got to know someone will be in trouble in the future, but I don’t know where and when will it happen. Nor, I know how to prevent it to happen.

Few months ago, Car[Not his real name] quit Poly and went to National Service all of the sudden. Suddenly, I felt worried and lost for no reason. I am not that close to him. Until one day, I dreamed about army and someone got injured. First person come to my mind was Car. Since Car and GeckoZ are buddy since secondary school, I had been telling GeckoZ to tell Car to be careful while in Army. I got into depression because of this. I even have the urge to go for National Service.

Recently my dream had been telling me that the person who got injured is not Car. Not Car, but someone else. Glad that yesterday had confirm that that thing will not happen to him. What a relief! Wasted my energy worry about him. (Really, I had used a lot of energy on worrying for Car)

So, who is the one who got injured? I know the answer, I know who. But I am not going to say it. It shall take it as nature.

Six Sense Dream, how I wish to get rid of you.

Pervert, Aunties

2006-12-30T12:21:00.000+08:00

I have not been blogging lately. Hopefully I got more time to blog in the further. I miss those days when I have fun blogging, have fun cracking my brain for my content in blog. I really miss those days, really.

Few days ago, when I was having my dinner, my mum throw me a question.

Mum: The second floor aunty (Aunty living at second floor)ask me whether you got watch R or not.
Me: Huh? What R?
Mum: Second floor aunty ask me you got surf R website lah!
Me: Huh? What R website?
Mum: Ai yo! Like that also don’t get what I mean. The second floor aunty ask me you got surf RA website or not!
Me: Huh? RA website? What RA website?
MUM: Aunty want to know you got surf porn or not lah!
Me: Don’t know…eh.. no…Starhub blocks it.

I got stunt. I mean, why suddenly ask me this question while I having my dinner? I don’t think anyone will be so honest to their parent when it come to this topic. Anyway, I have been a good boy because I have not surf any porn website as Starhub blocks it. (But here, I do admit I watched video before)

Then I recalled one accident related to porn also.

I always went to wet market with my mum and got to know a lot of shop owner there. One day one of the aunty who own a shop at the wet market have a chat session with me and my mum.

Aunty: Oi…ah boy, when you getting girlfriend for your mum?
Me: Don’t know.
Mum: Ai ya…He always stay at home, how to get girlfriend?
Aunty (Whisper to my mum, but loud enough for me to hear it): Cannot like that say one. Nowadays teenagers everyday watch and surf from internet. Don’t see your ah boy innocent looking, he might know everything!

I swear that from that days onwards, I am really afraid of walking pass that shop that own by that aunty.

Suddenly, feel that all aunties are a bit pervert.

Cockroach Update

2006-11-19T14:34:00.000+08:00

I have not been writing blogs entries recently. Mainly because busy with SGEduLab’s stuff and my work. But internet never left my life, I still online most of the time.

Waiting for my GCE ‘N’ level result is a killer! I wonder how badly I did for it. Will I fail my English? Gods knows. Well, whatever had been done are done. No point worrying now. If fail, maybe go take as private candidate for O levels?

Guess what I am working as during my long holidays? Nope, I did not want to rot myself at home doing nothing nor wasting my time at shopping malls shop for new technology gadgets. Cockroach now working in travel industry as…eh…. Sorry, I am not sure my job title. Ha! Ha! I do quite a lot of things and learn quite a lot of things too! I had been kept inside house for years for taking care of kids, now working in the society, I find that I got a lot of things to catch up, learn, see, do and experience it.

Some people who I know also have been asking about my pay. Well, my answer “I don’t know anything about pay. I start working without knowing my pay.” Sound stupid, but true. Till now I still don’t know about my pay’s details. One thoughts: “What happen if I got cheated and do free labour?” Well, one thing I can say is “If got cheated, take it as lesson. The experience I got, cannot buy using money.”

(But still, I am still afraid I will get cheated >.<)

Had a short chat with Peggy, and she was telling me to be careful while working in travel industry. Didn’t know that she worked in Travel Industry before. Surprise, Surprise…

Well, got to work on the SGEduLab Template. Keep your guys updated soon! :D

Why?

2006-09-23T00:30:00.000+08:00

I have not been writing much this year due to my busy in my life.

Cockroach physically live in the world call earth but physiology live in the world called internet. In fact, I have more friends in the internet compared with the real world. And when there is a sudden change in the internet social life, I became helpless.

Today, I got to know that one of them suddenly quitted school and joined National Service. Today, Lizard acted quite weird just now in Instance Messenger. I do not know why, I sudden felt the world I used to belong started to be away from me. “What happened?” I asked myself. Is it because I am over acting like a person who talks a lot of rubbish or because I am already a person who I am not used to be?

I wish, I wish to return back to the older times where by I am a normal person, surfing website as my leisure, playing Neopets like a kid, a normal blogger who blog about his daily life and joke. A person in real life looks harmless and innocent.

Nowadays, I am busy with SGEduLab.com and my studies. SGEduLab currently undergoes changes and I am currently competing with others in my studies. I want to get promoted, get scholarship, to prove to others I can do it. I do not have much time with my friends in the internet. Is it because of lack of communication?

I really wish to go back to the world I used to belong, where I knew friends who taught and help me a lot in my life.

Study crazy, crazy study

2006-08-15T21:35:00.000+08:00

I used to not believe that study will make people crazy despite how my parent told me not to study so hard, just do my best will do.

I started to feel the force of the examination, I started to smell the smell of test paper whenever I step into the school. Image cockroach surfer from “Examination fear” due to we have test given out by every teachers that walk into the room. Cockroach scare of school now, really.

Cockroach have decided not to do well for the coming prelims as I need a rest now. Probably just read through the important points will do. (This is what cockroach’s mom suggests). Cockroach is very sick right now, too sick to even think properly, so sick until the brain is as if it is flying.

Learning for the future, learning for the knowledge, but teacher seem to put us into the situation whereby learning is to get good grades and move on which make learning pointless and meaningless.

Sing for Singapore!

2006-08-08T22:14:00.000+08:00

Cockroach personal thinks that he can’t sing. Cockroach never dare to sing in the public. However, since it is National Day, I shall sing for Singapore in the public, in the internet!

Okay, what cockroach had done over the weekend was to record “My Island Home”, NDP 2006 song, and ask for comments. Because this is not an easy song to sing, but here it is! English and Chinese version of “My Island Home”. But the top concern is, will your computer catch fire after listen to my singing?

English Version “My Island Home” 2.73MB 02:58

Chinese Version “幸福的图形” 2.71MB 02:58

Disclaimer: Cockroach is not in responsible of any side effect after listening to Cockroach singing. Listen At Your Own Risk!

Mistake in NDP2006 website

2006-08-08T00:33:00.000+08:00

It is sad to know that our government don’t know when is Singapore’s National Day.

Why? What make cockroach said that?! Cockroach not afraid to go to jail?!

Cockroach got evidence to support my inference okay! (See cockroach brings in Social studies and History SBQ skills)

Inference: Singapore government don’t know Singapore Birthday

Support:

That white space “Happy National Day!” Suppose to be a countdown timer to counter down days to National Day. However, it seem that they made a mistake in the countdown and make National Day one day earlier.

Okay, “To err is nature, to rectify is glory”. Human do made mistake. Hope NDP EXCO team won’t made such mistake again.

Weekend

2006-08-05T00:45:00.000+08:00

Its another weekend which I will be staying at home studying and take care of kids. Doctor gave me an 1 week MC on Thursday because my “machine” is “overheated”. Parents, friends, teachers asked me to rest, but I got no time left. GCE is just around the corner.

I now need to do something with my English, especially spelling, grammar and sentence structure. Because, if I don’t do anything, cockroach will ended up failing the GCE exam. Singapore education made me living in fear because of my English standard. No one helped me in my English when I was young, I don’t have god English foundation, I need to start from the basic. I can score A1s for all my subject but F9 for my English. Study so hard yet in the end because of English, I can’t go anywhere. Sometimes, it make me feel that “study so hard also no use, in the end will also fail the exam.” Lizard said that it is unfair if I got just fail my English and can’t move on. But what can we do? To make my English much better.

Cockroach had tried reading storybooks, newspaper and etc to brush up my English. But the problem is, the words that I learnt can’t go into the brain. The spelling, how people memorize the spelling? How? How? Cockroach is going to be crazy one day because of the failure I made in my studies, pass all subject but English.

Please don’t say cockroach being negative. Even teachers thinks I can’t pass my GCE because of my English. Cockroach is preparing for the worst, where should I go if I fail my GCE?
Cockroach plan:

Work, save up money and go to British Council. Meantime, study for O level in a private school or get a tutor to teach me O level stuff and take exam as private candidates next year.
Or maybe, follow my parent idea, go to ITE.

Which plan is better? Cockroach don’t want to go to ITE, never. I know what I want to achieve in my life, what is my goals, going ITE might just ruin my future.

Can anyone give me advise?

蟑螂的名字：永远坚强

2006-07-30T13:10:00.000+08:00

蟑螂有时会想放弃，因为我实在太累了。做了那么多事，到头来是自己找麻烦。不过，蟑螂每次会告诉自己，“我要永远坚强。”

蟑螂有个特别的中文名字叫陈永坚。永远的永，坚强的坚。

蟑螂会永远坚强，坚持到底，不要放弃。

Are Singaporeans too busy?

2006-07-29T03:23:00.000+08:00

Till now, I haven’t seen much like SGEduLab which help the community in Singapore. Are Singaporeans too busy thinking of ways to make more money and had forgotten that everyone have to play a part in the community regardless of race, language or religion(okay, I got this from Singapore pledge)? Or they, like what those ang moh say, Singaporeans are selfish and only think for themselves.

As Singapore keep improving and making more money (For the next progress package in the next election), many people tend to forgot that we have to help one another. Since when the last time you lend your egg to your neighbor, since when the last time help someone to get something for him or her, since when your last time help the community by doing community service? Student often do community service for their CIP, when they are out of their school, they had forgotten about the purpose and too busy with their work and studies. We cannot wait until one day when there is war, any people got killed because of our selfishness and then after the war we have “Help one another campaign”.

Many people work for money, they often not willing to work or contribute for free. This is what I learn from after setting up SGEduLab.com. My idea of creating SGEduLab is that to allow students to contribute their notes they have and to share with other students who taking GCE ‘N’ and ‘O’ level. But somehow, it don’t really work. Instead, 9 out of 10 email I got is demanding for more notes, the another 1 person is the only person out of 10 people contribute the notes they have. When asking the another 9 people to contribute also, here is their reply:

Sorry, I got no time.

I believe, living in a community is like playing a community game. Everyone must play a part so that everyone can make the game keep going. If no one or many people won’t want to play a part, the game will end very soon, which everyone will be the loser of the game.

Cockroach here would like to say something, people must help one another before something can success. Take SGEduLab for example, if no one contribute, there is no notes for us, the student, to download. Everyone will just demand for new notes to upload and new subject to open. In the end, everyone loss out in this community game because we don’t get what we wanted.

Cockroach hope to see more people stand out and help the community and not stay at home watch TV or stay in the office thinking of ways to get promoted and get more money. Spend one day and contribute to the community and I believe you can feel the feeling of being a helping hand.

Cockroach is the founder of SGEduLab.com, a website which allows student to send in notes and share with the others. Currently SGEduLab are lack of helpers and contributors. Cockroach is not angry about lacking of helpers and contributors but hoping that Singaporeans can play a part in the community so that Singapore can be a better place to be in!

In the public

2006-07-27T08:09:00.000+08:00

I don’t know why, I don’t know how, someone recognize me in the public last night. Someone who I don’t know her, someone I never seen her before.

When queuing for coffee…

Girl: Hi!
Cockroach: Hi, do I know you?
Girl: You are the person who created the study portal right?
Cockroach: SGEduLab?
Girl: Yea…that one. So cool man.
Cockroach: Ha! Ha! Nice to meet you.
Girl: Same here, you look very different from the newspaper, more handsome.
Cockroach: Eh…thanks. Actually I am not good looking. So you post in the forum?Girl: Eh…no… no time you see, got so many test. Anyway, why you call yourself cockroach? And you got time to manage a big website?
Cockroach: Ha! Ha! Time management is very important. And being called a cockroach, lizard give the name, not me.
Girl: I see, I see. I got to go, see ya!
Cockroach: Bye! Thanks!

This is not the first time, but last night was a surprise when queuing for starbuck coffee. Thanks to the person who recognize me last night, you made my day because you say I look handsome.

Study

2006-07-22T23:36:00.000+08:00

It has been a long time since my last entry of this blog. No, not because I loss interest in blogging nor I have no topic to blog about. It is because that I am busy with my studies. I didn’t even have much time for SGEduLab.com.

To be honest, I am now afraid of books and studies. Image I am staying in school more than 12 hours just for studying, I think I will turn crazy one day. Thank goodness my hobby is studying (I know I am a weirdo) if not I think I will be unable to crop the stress and jump off the building.

Singapore, a knowledge based society. Sometimes make me wonder – in future, will we able to apply the stuff we learn in school in our life. What make that certificate so special that it will able to make you find a stable job. Sometimes I wonder why, why the syllabus objective is to make we, the student, to have interest in that particular subject but however, it turn out to be we are afraid of that subject.

Some of them said to me that I am good in my studies already. I no need to give myself so much stress. A person must know how to relax. But how to when Singapore system just only recognize the certificate and discriminate people who don’t do well in the studies but able to do much better things than those “educated people”. I sometimes pity them, cause every effort they made are not recognized.

That’s made me study harder, trying to get through it because I think that’s the only way of surviving in Singapore and hope one day through my dreams, I will change this system and made a better life for the students.

The job of a student: Study

(This blog post is posted directly by Microsoft Office 2007 using Word 2007, blogging function)

Sex

2006-06-14T23:41:00.000+08:00

Cockroach now a bit (a bit only lah) regret taking biology as a subject. Cause the topic we are doing now keep making me super horny.

Yes, we are in the topic call “Sexual Reproduction In Man”. We got to label the parts of the body, we got to draw, we got to answer some question that sometimes cockroach don’t know how to answer it in a scientific way.

Q: Why may this method (rhythm method) of birth control be unreliable?
Cockroach answer: Because sometimes egg release latter then expected then the guy do that thing. Then latter the sperm meet the egg, then got baby develop.

I know it doesn’t make sense, but I don’t know how to make it into the point.

Q: Explain why cutting tube A (sperm duct) would prevent a man from fathering children?
Cockroach answer: Because when the tube got cut, the guy cannot shot the sperm out of his thing when he doing that thing.

My answer is correct, but I wonder will the teacher understand what is this thing, that thing.

Question that related to guys, I almost can answer all (including labelling). Not because I am gay, but because I am a guy! But problem is, for question that related to ladies. I have problem with it. I got problem in answering menstruation questions and labelling of the parts. No, not because I am not interested in ladies, but their parts are very complicated. But on other hand, every time I reach an question related to ladies, I am dying to answer. Not because I am sex pervert, because I am interested in it. Okay?

No, I didn’t surf porn. Don’t forget that I have this powerful filter that anyhow block website and porn. But I had been talking about sex in MSN. Cockroach turning to sex pervert cockroach. All those pervert topic fault!

I know, this kind of thing is part of growing up. One day, I need to know all these. One day, after I married, I will even have “practical” on this topic. But, can it don’t be part of my syllabus? Its is too pervert to answer those type of question in examination!

Will this topic make me a sex pervert? Or, am I already a sex pervert?

I am stress

2006-06-13T23:35:00.000+08:00

Your Stress Level is:
62%

You are prone to stress, and you're
probably even pretty stressed right now.
Life's problems seem to pile up on
you, and this often makes you feel depressed and burned out.
Learn to take
time to relax and enjoy life, even if things are stressful. It's the only wa
you'll get through the bad times.
How Stressed Are You?

I am stress, learn to take time to relax? Sorry, I am running againist the time.

World Cup Fever - Singapore not in?!?!

2006-06-10T17:49:00.000+08:00

After I read about Mr. dew post about world cup, it reminds me of what happen few days ago…

I was reading newspaper, special report on world cup 2006.

Cockroach: Why got all sort of funny, funny flag but don’t have Singapore flag?
Ah Kao: You live at the mountain is it? How can Singapore in world cup? Singapore in world cup sure first one to got kick out one.
Cockroach: So Singapore not in world cup? I thought Singapore top in everything and anything.

So, Singapore not in world cup. But why so many coffee shop uncle still watch late at night at 24 hours coffee shop screaming, shouting and jeering? As if tomorrow no need to work.

Anyway, I like this year mascot. It look cute and adorable. I guess the two devils kids saw it will ask me to buy for them. Anyway, I planned to buy for that that lion mascot – to put beside their bed. Wait a minute, I don’t think Singapore got sell. Singapore not in world cup, also Singapore tourism board will scared tourist will buy that mascot and not Singapore Merlion, which will lead to fall in revenue to Singapore, which will lead to: no Progress Package in the next General Election (to buy people vote). Have to order online, I guess.

V.S

P.S: Singapore no mountain to live, there is only hill - which can't even camp there.

Should laugh or should not laugh?

2006-06-09T10:52:00.000+08:00

Click here if cannot watch the video

You shouldn’t laugh when people got injured, but sometimes – you just can’t help it.

Question: How come that baby know how to…know how to do “that thing” where I only learn in through science when I was 14 years old?

I think the baby watch too much porn.

Cockroach - Confess?

2006-05-30T23:33:00.000+08:00

Cockroach, a timid guy – image how he going to confess to someone he love.

Actually should be…

Cockroach: Em…Hi!
Girl: Hi!
Cockroach: Em…we know each other very long already right?
Girl: Yea
Cockroach: You know…I got a crush on you. I like you. Do you like me?Do you want to be my girlfriend?

Above is just my imagination and what I learn from drama series. But IT IS JUST IMAGINATION. Just take a look what will really happen during confess to a girl.

Cockroach: Hi!
Girl: Hi!
Cockroach: Em…we know each other very long already right?
Girl: Yea
Cockroach: Em…Em…I got something to ask you.
Girl: What thing?
Cockroach: Em…Em…Em…
Girl: Why are you stuttering?
Cockroach: Em…nothing. I got one question to ask you. Must answer honestly, okay?
Girl: Sure!
Cockroach: Em…Em…Have you eaten your dinner?

You see, cockroach don’t have that braveness. What happen last night was I dreamt that I confess to a girl. But when I wake up, I asked myself – will this ever happen to this super ugly and disgusting cockroach? Plus, I have a high tendency to end up asking other question like “Have you eaten?” “Have you bathed?” or maybe “How is your mother?”

Just a random thought, I am not getting any girlfriend yet. Studies and my baby (SGEduLab) are more important in my life.

Get well soon, sister!

2006-05-28T16:38:00.000+08:00

My younger sister had injured her hand on Friday in school during recess because of playing money bar. Sent to hospital, had operation [Yup, that serious] and see her lie on the bed, my eye were wetted by tears. First time, I don’t have to shout at her to ask her to sleep; first time, her room is so quite; first time, not able to teach her at night. See her lied on her bed, crying because her hand was still pain, I can’t take it anymore, turn to one side and my tears roll out of my eyes. She did a very great job; she is brave during the operation. She - made me proud.

Today she discharges from hospital, having a smile on her face even though she still surfer from pain. Now she is sleeping quietly, soundly.

Hope you get well soon, sister. I will wait in your room to teach you new topic very soon. Best wish. – From your super fierce brother, who every time teach you with a cane beside me.

Happy Birthday to myself.

2006-05-25T23:03:00.000+08:00

Happy birthday to cockroach. Now finally can watch NC16 movies.

Just an update

2006-05-16T01:49:00.000+08:00

I have been busy recently, that’s why I have been missing in action in my blog.

I guess I will be back in action soon with photos, with new template, maybe with Podcast too! Don’t ask me do I have the time or not, doctor says need to do things I want to do.

I went to Genting over the last long weekends. Quite fun actually and manage to “update” myself, I had really opened my eyes, really. Maybe will post some photos soon, I think I will.

But for now, let you see some “rainbow” of my medicine:

Isn’t it colourful?

As cockroach knew it...

2006-05-06T02:08:00.000+08:00

I think I had done very badly for my English paper.

Marker: YongKian, you had waste a lot of my red ink for your composition……
Cockroach: Oh, don’t worry. Teacher’s Day I buy for you one whole bunch of red pen for you.

You know, I know, everyone knows it. I know, deep inside my heart, I had done very badly for my English paper. I must really do something to my English, especially my spelling. (During exam no Microsoft Word to Spell Check for me like what I had done for blogging)

I shouldn’t give up. I know a lot of people is trying their best t help me in my English. I won’t make them disappointed. Blogging – one of my ways to improve my English is helping me a lot. I hope it can continue thought.

Pray hard for my exams… don’t look at the past, look at the future – look what you will going to have.

‘Family War’

2006-05-01T22:00:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow will be my English paper, yet there is so much trouble in my heart.

I and my parents are having ‘family war’.

Too many stuff happen recently, and I am busy preparing for my exams. I feel that my family don’t understand me, don’t understand what I need.

It all started today when I am revising my work and my mom came to my room.

Mom: Go to M1 shop and check can I get new phone or not. And help me see which phone is good, I want the latest phone. Can take photos, listen to music and etc.
Cockroach: But I am studying now.
Mom: Ask you to do little things also like that. Got time make website but no time to help me go down and check. Yesterday go and buy printer run so fast, now ask you to do little things also like that.

After a while…
Mom (to dad): You son, waste $100 plus on making website never discuss with us. Spend so much helping people for what? We help other people who help us. And you know what, you son follow his bad friend say June want to buy new clothes, like at home no clothes for him to wear like that. Haven’t start earning money already start spending money. Then ask him to check something say want study, got time make website no time to help me is it? (This time round, she start throwing my clothes everywhere.)

I don’t know why, my heart sink. I feel that she is not supporting me. I agree that I am in the wrong for not discussing with them of using my saving to pay for the hosting. But I just wanted to help people, did I do anything wrong?

Seri (who is not a bad friend but a very good friend with listening ears) suggest that I need a makeover, which I agree with it. I had spent a lot of time at home taking care of this house due to both parents are working. I had been taking care of the two devils for long, I need a break. I don’t have much clothes, most of them are given by other people. And some are what my dad used to wear. I just wanted to have a taste on how is it feel when I am wearing clothes that I brought myself. I didn’t ask much, I had my haircut at a house for just $2 while others went for over $10. I don’t look great while present myself in front of other people.

All I ask is a break, understanding, and give me a little bit of freedom.

I really want to shout our loud all my unhappiness. I need someone to talk to, but who? Tears starts to roll out from my eyes, I don’t want it to affect my studies. Did I do everything right in the first place? I started to ask myself again, did I make the right decision.

Every decision you made, you have to pay the price.

2006-04-30T03:35:00.000+08:00

Every decision may be hard to make, but once you made the decision, you have to pay the consequences. In life, decision making is not easy, and you never know, something that unexpected will happen to you.

SGEduLab, one of my crazy idea I thought of one day while surfing the internet, and thinking of someone who had changed my life from a person who is not so confident it his life to a person who much confident in his life. Time flies, things happen just like a blink of eyes, everything seem to be so dramatic to me.

I am a person who thinks he is a hero to send letters and complain about the school 2 years ago. The school found out not too long after that, I got into trouble because of it. From that day onwards, I told myself, not to be too close to anybody, not to be noisy in anything, not to be helping anyone out, just isolate myself. I became a person with no confident in his life, not sure where he is going, not sure what my goal in my life. That might be the price I paid of the decision of sending that letter.

Someone had changed my life, Miss JC, who had helped me along not just in English alone. She is the one who make me know where I am going, what is my goal in my life, and also, got back my confident. I now might still be a person who not talk a lo, but some how, I started to learn how to express myself; just like a new born baby now learning how to walk.

If someone asked me, what is my greatest achievement in my life? I might reply “My greatest achievement perhaps is the change in my life from a person who lack with confident to a person with much confident.” SGEduLab is not my greatest achievement, I must say. But I think that my greatest achievement is the change in me.

SGEduLab have a dramatic change since its opening. From it got tomorrow-ed to The Strait Times Interview, to it published and the site got over 1,000 memberships. I sometimes wonder did I make the right decision from the being. Sometimes I wonder can I continue to handle the website, or should I ask some people to help me along. How can I make all notes available before people needs it, how long will it last? Maybe it is the price I pay for the decision I made. I did not regret on the decision I made, I am happy with it.

Why? Because, I am helping the others in the same community and I believe in my decision.

WTF!

2006-04-27T22:18:00.000+08:00

Everybody is talking about elections! And we are not allowed to do blogging and Podcast during election. Let’s break the laws, I should show you something:

WTF! (Wah…That’s Funny…)

People who eligible don’t want to vote, but people who cannot vote…dieing to vote.

Side track: I heard some information that my school will be one of the polling stations, I can’t wait to have extra holiday. Information might be rumors but hope it is true.

Sleep

2006-04-27T04:19:00.000+08:00

Sometimes when you got so many things to do, you can eventually forget to sleep. Yea, right, 4am now…how to sleep?!?!

SGEduLab Withdraw Symptoms

2006-04-25T20:46:00.000+08:00

I am now currently suffer form SGEduLab withdraw symptoms.

SGEduLab is Down =(

The Straits Times: Published

2006-04-20T23:54:00.000+08:00

As some of you already know that the interview got published on Tuesday, under The Straits Time, Home Section, page H7. Everything is quite big actually, got a big shock when I saw the interview.

Everything was so sudden! Miss Chew came to me and said “The article publish today, under home.” And I got one big reaction: “Really?!?! I haven’t brought today newspaper yet!” Anyway, I got to know that the reporter did email me, but to my G-mail which I don’t check it much as I do for hotmail.

Now, membership of the website had hit 1,000! Believe it or not, I only expected only 100 user sign up only. We also got sponsored by OpenCube to host or website for MUCH CHEAPER PRICE and more sponsors coming soon I guess. I received quite a number of E-Mail, which I don’t really have time to reply them. If you are one of them, wait for my reply, okay?

Everything seems to be so sudden, so surprise.

From now on, email me at yongkian@gmail.com, I will read email from there everyday also from now on.

P.S: Click here to take a look at scanned article by Brennan.

The Straits Times: Interview

2006-04-12T05:58:00.000+08:00

On Monday, I and GeckoZ went to here:

In case you don’t know where this place is, this is News center of Singapore Press Holding.

We go there and got interview by one of The Straits Times journalist and went there for photoshoot because of SGEduLab.

The process is quite fun, anyway, ones in a lifetime. I mean where got so easily people contact you and said want to interview you and your friends? It is fun as we got to see how their office looks like, totally different from my imagination I used to have. We can’t take any photo of the office because of security reasons and we can’t get the photoshoot and post them here because of copyright.

Not many people knew that I and GeckoZ went for the interview even my parents! In class only 3 people know about this, online about 5, plus 2 teachers know about this. I don’t want the whole know, it will be very scary one. You see, I only told some of the people and some can ask the same question again and again: “How was it har? Fun or not har? What they ask har? When publish har? Etc, etc…” I myself didn’t even ask this good question “When will it be published?” but I guess it will take some time because of this and that. The lesser I know, the better it is. I don’t think I even dare to look at newspaper on that day. Eh…not really that bad, just feel weird if I see what I said before appear in the newspaper.

Okay, when it got publish we tell your okay? Also hor, if you are a teacher, student or ex-~~victim~~ student of secondary school and still got notes with you, please send us, help us, share with us and help other student also. Thank you.

Wah!

2006-04-09T08:35:00.000+08:00

Prime Minister Tony Blair and MSN Messenger teamed up to take Prime Minister’s Question Time online in a unique competition that gave five members of the public the chance to put questions live to the Prime Minister through MSN Messenger!

Power right? Fierce right? Can zhng or not?!?!

Just image if Singaporean chat with our Prime Minister online, what will happen? (I just can’t image that…)Anyway, will it happen at the first place? We can’t even pod casting about our election, and maybe, when someone brought this idea of chatting with PM Lee, the government say “Singaporeans is still not an open society to do this. We will have a lot of negative impact… blah blah blah”

Anyway, just to share with your, click here to watch the video of chatting with PM Tony Blair and their citizen.

SGEduLab

2006-04-01T23:13:00.000+08:00

I think today blogs from all over the whole will have April fool jokes, just like brennan.sg, claim that his blog got hacked. The following post is NOT AN APRIL FOOL JOKES. I wish to have one, but no time to think of any joke that can make everyone fall into the trap.
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Recently, I and GeckoZ have been busy with setting up website, that’s why we can’t post blog post as much as in the past. And we named it SGEduLab.

Image this: Tomorrow you will going to have a test and you don’t have any studies notes with you for revision. What to do next? Hack care and just went to sleep or try to get notes from someone, or maybe, read the whole textbook for your test (that would be crazy!)

SGEduLab, still in development stage, provides online studies notes for Singapore-Cambridge GCE ‘N’ and ‘O’ Level examination students. We also encourage people to edit our notes and send back to us so that our notes will be better, with much more useful information inside. We also have forum that students can post their problems with studies, rambling of their schools works, and talk everything under the sun!

Our Mission is to gives tips and hints who wishes to excel and to let students in Singapore not only excel in studies, but to have a chance to show case their talent to the public through the internet and also allows students to give their own views on Singapore topics.

You need an account to access SGEduLab, which is 100% free. Everyone is welcome to have an account with us even if you are parent or teachers and not forgetting students! Please click here to sign up.

We hope SGEduLab will be success and we hope everyone can support us by using our website and forum!

Links:
SGEduLab Studies Notes Homepage
SGEduLab Forum
SGEduLab Team Blog

As Cockroach got his TA1 Result...

2006-03-25T01:14:00.000+08:00

Cockroach, together with cockroach’s mom had just checked my Term Assignment result online. My result is totally ridiculous.

Mom: Ai yo, ah boy, your result got improved and you did very well this time. Mama so proud of you… (Yes, she really said that)
Cockroach: I can do better than this!
Mom: Ai ya, can pass can liao lah. Why stress yourself? Latter all your white hair and pimple all come out.

Sometimes, other classmates and friends wish to have a parent like mine, who don’t give them stress and happy with all kind of result unless you bring them back an egg back home. But for me, I wish to have parent who will give me stress in my studies, will force me to do my homework and also, will not be happy with my result unless I get top in level. A parent who will send me to tuition from day to night with no resting unless I can prove that I can get 100/100 for all my exams, a parent who will take away my laptop and ban me from surfing blog until I get top in level. But sad to say, my parent is not what I wanted.

I still need improvement in order for me to climb to the top. I don’t want to fall; I don’t want to be a failure. I want to prove to others who said I cannot make it that I CAN DO IT! I need to do something to my English, Chinese and also do more practice on my accounts.

After talking for so long, I still haven’t told you’re my result. Click here or below to view the result.

校长吃饭

2006-03-11T00:30:00.000+08:00

那天和李老师走过食堂时看到校长在吃饭。蟑螂可是第一次看到校长吃饭；还以为校长不吃学校的“下等”（low class）食物，所以就兴奋得说。。。

蟑螂：“哇！原来校长是吃饭的哦！”
李老师：当然啦，要不然校长可以吃什么？校长很讲究健康，每次准时12点吃饭的。
蟑螂：原来如此，她是healthy person。妈的，她要healthy 就healthy到够，为什么要ban 掉我最喜欢的French Fries？（以前学校有卖French Fries，现在被校长禁止卖油腻食物）她可以Healthy 那老师的学生要从早忙到晚，像一头牛一样。有时忙到只有夜宵可以吃。
李老师：小心啊，等一下校长听到。。。

蟑螂想了又想，如果校长听到蟑螂问候她的妈妈，那蟑螂不是死定了？（Note：我骂“妈的”also consider as “他妈的”。）如果她一气之下把蟑螂踢出学校，那蟑螂下半辈子不是只能吃杯杯面？谢天谢地，校长至今还没找蟑螂麻烦。

还有还有，蟑螂那天还够白痴的。校长不吃饭，难道校长吃狗屎meh？唉哟，蟑螂啊，蟑螂~~~ 你的脑到地跑去了哪里？

好啦，停笔了。要不然我不知道会把校长写成不懂什么鬼东西就死了。后会有期！

感谢：

壁虎 – 华文顾问

不要忘蟑螂本身！- 勇敢地把这件事打出来！

Children Stress

2006-03-05T02:51:00.000+08:00

“Ai yo…you see, my ah boy got talent in drawing. Must send him to go for art class”
Her mother said that when his son, age 6 draw a carton character but doesn’t look like one to me.

“Wah…I just now heard my ah girl singing quite nice leh…you know which music school is good? I want to send her for music classes.”
His father said, as he heard her girl singing nursery rhymes in class.

Parents often thought their children have talent on certain things when the children actually don’t. Kids actually have some skills on certain things like singing, dancing, drawing is actually taught by teachers in the per-school classes. Parents often mistaken those skills as talent and send them to enrichment classes and force to learn stuff they don’t want to.

Mother: Ah boy, I send you to learn piano want or not?
Ah boy: Don’t want!
Mother: Want lah…your classmate zhu zhu got learnt leh. Go and learnt also lah.
Ah boy: Don’t want!
Mother: (getting angry) I tell you har…you better go and learnt and don’t make me lose face I tell you. You want to eat Chao Kuay Tiao (cane) is it?
Ah boy: I go…I go…

Because of competition and/or kiasu Singapore parent, parents see others kid go to what lesson; they also send their kids to learn those things regardless the kids have the interest or not. Children don’t have the choice, children have been use to be a tool where parents can show off with. Poor Singapore kids…

But again, sometimes it is because of influencing. You know teenage influent their friend to smoke right? Our Singapore Parents also influent each other too:

Mama 007: Ai yo…I just send my ah boy to learn the don’t know what Drama thing, you want your ah girl to go or not?
Mama 1800: Don’t want lah, Ah girl primary 3 got a lot of spelling and homework, I don’t want to give them stress. That time got send her to the Drama thing then she not interested also, don’t force her.
Mama 007: Ai yo, like that where got force her? Last time we want also don’t have, now we should give our children what we don’t have. Nowadays children don’t know how to treasure what they have and they don’t show interest in it. Until they grow up then they know what we gave them when they are young. You want or not, I sure your ah girl will know you do all those things for her own good when she grow up.
Mama 1800: Okay, give me to number, latter I call and sign up.

As Singapore’s economic is growing from time to time, the way parents treat their children is different as Singapore can afford better things for the children compared with parents in 1965. Parents tend to give what they don’t used to have to their children nowadays which led to more stress to the children.
Sometimes, kids attend enrichment classes basic on their interest, but however somehow the parents can give stress in it:

Papa: Ah boy, why you learn piano for so long still in grade 3? You want learn piano, I let you learn but must faster get piano diploma and let papa and mama see mah.
Ah boy: But learn piano not just practical, also got theory.
Papa: Nonsense! You better practice your piano everyday and get your piano diploma and make us feel proud of it. If not, you don’t go and learnt piano anymore!

Ah boy: But...I really like to play piano

Dear parents, let your children do what they want basic on their interest and don’t make their interest a source of stress for them.

Golden Injection

2006-02-28T21:08:00.000+08:00

I never know, injection can cost $40, I thought it cost like hawker center food, $2.50 per injection. I got myself injection just now; doctor suggested giving an injection to the body.

Cockroach: Wah…I pain until cannot take it anymore.
Doctor: You need an injection.
Cockroach: How much is the injection cost?
Doctor: $40.
Cockroach: Wah! What needle you use? Not golden needle right? Then why so expensive?!?!

But Cockroach got no choice; when a person is sick, he will follow the doctor advice no matter what. If doctor said want to open the stomach, the patient have to nod the head. If the doctor said want to open the chest and take out the heart out, the patient still have to nod their head.

No choice, spend $40 on that stupid injection, $40+ on medicine, $20 on consultation fee.

*beep**beep**beep**beep**beep**beep* stupid doctor! I spend stupid $40 on that stupid expensive golden injection; it didn’t relive my stupid pain!

I WANT MY MONEY BACK!

But… but… why this stupid cockroach doesn’t take care of his health in the first place?

Serve me right.

Got to rest, I think I have a long time didn’t have my sleep before 10pm.

Good Night, take care.

I want to go to other schools!!!

2006-02-25T12:44:00.000+08:00

Cockroach these days was dragged by XXX to accompany her to visit some schools. Not very fun, but as I see more school have better things than my school, Cockroach get jealousy.

ABC Secondary School in North-East side of Singapore:
More than 80% of their teachers have their own personal website! And they will use their website to give homework over the weekends and etc. For example, a teacher:
Every Friday post a History Essay Question online and student are to answer as a draft with the answer template provided over the weekends, the teacher can comment back of the essay answer using the template as well. Cool right? Maybe your don’t get it, if you look at how they make it a success, I think you will said “WOW!” with me together.

DEF Secondary School in ZZZ area:
Their canteen is 2 times bigger than mine!!!! Not only that, their canteen sells fries, ice cream, soft drinks and etc. Cockroach current school sold fries and soft drinks before but it was banned by the school.

GGG Secondary School:
Their Hall has air-con installed. Student will no longer complain the hall is hot and stuffy. Sad to say that will not happen in Cockroach school.

BYD Secondary School:
The school prints notes for their student and make it into booklet for free!!! FRRE!!! They even give Cockroach one copy of it. Will this ever happen to my school? No, no, no. our teachers don’t even have enough paper to use, why still print notes and even make into a booklet? According to QQQ teacher from my school, our principal gives teachers limited use of paper.

YYY Secondary School:
They start school 45 minutes latter than mine and ends school 45 minutes earlier than mine! Wah… seem like Cockroach’s school have longer school hours. Because they start their school late, they don’t have the problem of late coming also.

I visited more school and found lots of things, above is just some of the things I wish to have. Of course I visited school that have studio in it and student can compose song and record them in their school’s studio. If I am not wrong, that school also selected one of their young student song composers and makes it into new school songs of theirs.

I wish I was them, I hope they will treasure what the school did for them because Cockroach doesn’t have the chance to experience it or maybe, Cockroach never sanctified what my school had done for me.

Mr. Super Cockroach

2006-02-20T23:35:00.000+08:00

I suddenly feel that I am like a superman, not because I wear my underwear outside, but just take a look at my schedule tomorrow:

Wake up at 6.00AM – Wash up, Bath, Change clothes, off to school
School from 7.15AM to 6.30PM – Lessons and etc.
Rush to night lesson from 6.30PM to 7.00PM
Night Lesson from 7.00PM to 9.30PM
Go back home, should reach home by 10.15PM

The only break I can get is 10.35AM to 11.15AM, after that, I will be busy until 10.15PM. I got no lunch, no dinner, only Breakfast and supper which will make me fat. Not forgetting, I got homework to do also.

I know, I am not the busiest person in this world, but tomorrow is someone birthday, I wish I can be with her, yet I can’t. I feel more neglected from the family because I spend less time with them. I got busier because I haven’t finish preparing Math Worksheet for the Primary 2. Thank goodness my holiday is just 9 months away (I hope so).

I think I can call myself Mr. Super Cockroach from now on with underwear drawn outside.

Teacher...Please don't come

2006-02-19T10:27:00.000+08:00

“Jia lat lah…I haven’t complete my tonight lecture’s homework yet!”
I keep chanting this on Friday, from morning in school to afternoon at home.

Not I don’t want to do the homework, is I don’t have the time. You see, I have test in school everyday this week, the government look at my school result, not my night lecture’s one, so on the way to the night lecture (takes me 20 minutes to cycle there):

“I wish, I wish, I wish the lecturer met car incident today. I wish lecturer’s children want to commit suicide so he don’t have the time to come. I wish he fall into the drain when he walking towards the lecture hall. I wish he trip and fall down the stair while coming up to the lecture hall. I wish…”
As you can see, I cursed that lecturer until….*wordless*

Anyway, it ended up having a good ending:
*rush to the admin manger.”
Cockroach: Eh…today Adrian (my lecturer) got come?
Admin Manger: Oh…today he got course, so there will be a relief.
Cockroach: Chey…scare me.
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Be it in school or night enrichment courses, whenever student didn’t do the homework or on that particular day is a test, the students will wish, pray and curse something will happen to that teacher so he or she can’t come to the classroom to collect the homework or give test to the student:

Student Ah Boy 444: Jia lat, Jia lat, haven’t do History Essay!!! Die, die, die….I wish today Miss Pig never come.
Student Ah Girl 333: Eh….today I saw her talking to principal leh… Jia lat! Other class yesterday got surprise test!!! We haven’t got our test yet! Don’t tell me…today we got test!
Student Ah Boy 444: Wah…today Valentine Day leh… I want to catch movie with my dear today! Latter she like last time punish us and stay back until 6pm then cannot watch movie!
Student Ah Girl 333: Eh…she so old liao … still ‘Miss’, sure no guy want to be with her. Latter mental problem become crazy women, want us to stay with her on Valentine Day, we die lah!
Student Ah Beng 999: Don’t worry, take a look outside.

*the whole class looked outside and saw a relief teacher stand on the door, looking the class-code*

The whole class chants:
Come in… Come in… Come in… Come in…

*And the teacher walks in =) *
Relief Teacher: Is this 4E2?
Whole class: Yay!!! Woohoo!
Relief Teacher: My name is Mr. Tock, your teacher today takes half-day leave and I am doing relief for the next two periods. Good Morning Class.
Whole Class: GOOD MORNING MR TOCK!!!
Class Bookworm: Wah…greet Relief teacher greet so loud. Never see your greet Miss Pig greet so loud before.
Whole Class: Shut up lah!
Relief Teacher: Ok, Ok…eh… your teacher never give your work to do so your may do your own stuff.
Whole Class: Double Woohoo!
Relief Teacher: Shhhh… you may talk, I am not going to stop you but try to talk softly. Okay?
Whole Class: Triple Woohoo! This teacher allows us to talk!!!

Sound familiar to you? Because you, me, your children, your grandchildren do it whenever we don’t do our homework. =)

My Wife is...

2006-02-17T00:26:00.000+08:00

No, No, No…my wife is not a pillow (even though I hope it is) nor my wife is a human. Cockroach is a weird guy…her wife is his…

LAPTOP!

Ai ya, my wife accompany me for so long, now must give her a title, must be a responsible guy since I had molest her for so long already. (Molest = use, touch) Cannot touch, used and leave her alone right?

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I know is lame.

Cockroach shall now explain the post on Valentine Day to clear those dirty minded people.

“You never fail to stay late at night with me in my bedroom until the next morning.”

Not to have sex, but to do work.
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“Thank you for providing services that I need everyday.”

My wife don’t sell her body, she gives services such as PowerPoint, Microsoft Word and etc.
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“Together, both of us only, we strive to produce good quality product every night.”

Not to have a football team after sex that but good quality of work done, must get perfect for everything!

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Hope, just HOPE that this will stop dirty minded people to make their imagination run too wild but if this explanation still didn’t stop your dirty thoughts, meaning you are hopeless.

(More blogging topic such as “Singapore Student Life”, “老师。。。坏了！” Coming soon. I know I had not been blogging much but…my wife and I working very hard every night until no more strength left and too tired after everything. Please refer to above if you start to think about dirty things again.)

Message to my wife

2006-02-14T23:20:00.000+08:00

Dear wife,

I got thousand of words to say today, yet I don’t know how to put them in words.

I would like to thank you for day and night, accompany me no matter what.

You never fail to stay late at night with me in my bedroom until the next morning.

Thank you for providing services that I need everyday.

I think you are now part of my body.

Because I can’t live without you.

Together, both of us only, we strive to produce good quality product every night.

Thank you wife, thanks for accompany tonight with me again in my bedroom to make my valentine’s night not a lonely one.

Happy Valentine Day

Your Faithful Husband,
Cockroach//蟑螂

KTV聚会 Photo Video

2006-02-12T23:56:00.000+08:00

你拍了照片会做什么？有些人喜欢做Photo collage，有人喜欢做Photo Album。蟑螂喜欢做 Photo Video。把音乐和照片放在一起，感觉不同。

蟑螂吃饱没事做（其实不是，是要减压）昨晚做了上次KTV的Photo Video。虽然做的不是很好，不过还可以看！这是我第一次做Photo Video到要疯了。没有很多照片，照片不清楚，不够美眉的照片。。。请大家多多原谅！

大家可以点击以下来下载Photo Video。请大家Save it to your computer，以免吃掉我的Bandwidth。

KTV Photo Video – 25.5MB, 04:37 Minutes

(Link will be taken down after 7 days.)

制作：Cockroach//蟑螂

摄影：蟑螂队 & 壁虎队

P/S: 如果Link doesn’t work，可以叫我用电邮发送给你。

在想：“各位美眉们，看了Photo Video后有没有一点点地后悔，没让蟑螂队 & 壁虎队拍多一点你们的照片？！？！”

KTV聚会

2006-02-11T02:56:00.000+08:00

蟑螂这几天好忙哦。。。今天还忙到连晚餐也忘了吃。没办法。。只好跑去楼下的KFC买Cheese Fries 来吃。

如果人家有事，他们会找蟑螂，要蟑螂become their listening ears。一旦问题解决了，他们又回到他们的朋友的身边，离开了蟑螂。蟑螂在现实生活是很少朋友的。老实说，蟑螂在现实生活里根博客里的蟑螂是不一样。蟑螂带着面具，在每一分，每一秒在人群里找自己的灵魂。

蟑螂就在上个星期天和一些博客朋友一起去KTV一起唱K。蟑螂知道那时很静，没唱歌。。。不过我有唱《甜蜜蜜》。。。算是很好了啦。（我还在想为什么我会唱那首歌）这个现实世界只有我一个人听过我唱歌。。。以后有机会，蟑螂大胆一点，唱多几首给你们听。

可能是因为前几年发生的事，把我很想放弃，很不喜欢Mix with other people。不过，这次蟑螂踏出第一步和人家出去。谢谢大家，蟑螂玩得很开心。也让蟑螂认识到你们朋友的友谊。

当天拍了满多照片。（What else does Blogger do? ）点击这里去看看。（壁虎上载的。也有壁虎拍的照片）蟑螂很开心。。。很relax 。从没有那么relax过了，再一次，谢谢你们。

最后还是要回去现实的世界里，面对将来，面对一大堆功课。

P/S：蟑螂现在超级喜欢FIR的歌。小嫒唱《Fly Away》很。。。哈哈哈。。。还可以啦。

很期待下次的聚会。。。也希望会见到更多人。：）

Chinese New Year?

2006-02-05T11:54:00.000+08:00

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! I hope everyone enjoy taking their red packet, or maybe have their four long holiday to get body recharged.

Cockroach here, from day to night during Chinese New Year looked at the laptop with Microsoft Word screen. *sigh* this year no red packet (not even from dad and mom) relative all go oversea, me this year got big exam, cockroach don’t even dare to play so much. So its lead me a boring yet meaning Chinese New Year… (Like real…-_-)

Actually not cerebrating Chinese New Year is good also. I mean I save the trouble go house to house from east to west and visit people. Once more, people gossip about me when I was at the house. Last year…

Around the table having lunch together:
Relative 7777: Ai yo…Ah Jian (cockroach) har. Why you so big liao still no girlfriend? You see Ah Wa (my cousin) 2 years younger than you now already have third girlfriend liao. Guys must take initiative; you expect girls to go to you and said ‘I love you’ meh?
Cockroach: Ya…Ya….Ya…Ya…Ya…

When I want to get a girlfriend…is none of your business. Sometimes, I think their parent is proud of their son when they got girlfriend at such a young age…

And sometimes, to show off their son’s school:
Relative 3434: Hey! Wah, one year never see you, you still as short as before.
Cockroach: Ya…I know Ah Po grow taller…
Relative 3434: Now what school you studying?
Cockroach: Junyuan Secondary School.
Relative 3434: Huh? Which school is that? Never heard before leh…
Cockroach: Is a school located at Singapore.
Relative 3434: Your PSLE result not good is it? Go to a school that I never heard before. You see my ah boy, ai yo…I also don’t want to said har, he got into Dunman High leh. You sure heard of the school right? Top 10 school in Singapore. Blah…Blah…Blah…
Cockroach: Ya…Ya….Ya…Ya…Ya…

I hate it! I hate people said I go to neighbourhood school! What’s wrong with neighbourhood school?!?!

Besides comparing which school their child goes to, during Chinese New Year, they also compare their child’s last year End of Year Result and also not forgetting “parent teach parent how to give their child stress”:
Mother 1111: Hey! Happy New Year!!! Hey, last year your child results good or not?
Mother 8844: Eh…English 60+, Math 70+, Chinese 80+. English not very well done, but can pass can liao lah.
Mother 1111: Ai yo…so badly done?!?! You see my ah girl English get 80+, Math get 100. They primary 1 must give stress one, if not next time they won’t study one…
Mother 8844: But they still quite young, I don’t want to give them so much stress, latter they loss interest in studying.
Mother 1111: Cannot like that said…you must build up their basic, if not in primary 2 or 3 they don’t know how to do the more challenging questions. You must learn from me, I ask the tutor every time give ah girl 3 math papers to do, 4 English assignment books to do. This is call good stress, is for their own good. You want me to introduce tutor for you. Mine one is $300 per 8 lesson, very good…
Mother 8844: Eh…no need. I got tutor at home for $120 per 8 lessons.
Mother 1111: Ai yo, that tutor good meh? My teacher teach don’t know what school one leh, very famous one…want to get tutor must get this type one. Want or not? Very good, she gives a lot of homework and stuff, and my ah girl score so well…
Mother 8844: Eh…no thanks….
Mother 1111: Ai yo you… You want your child have bright future or not? I tell you har…if your child die die cannot study, cane sure works one. Some kids need to see cane then their mind start working. My Ah girl also like that…Blah…Blah…Blah…

I seriously pity my cousin who is now Primary 3. If I was she, I think I am the first one to jump off the building.

Anyway, beside things that got to do with kids, studies and school, recent years with hand phones and etc. Not much people send Chinese New Year greeting cards anymore. They turn to E-Greeting cards or just SMS to said “Happy Chinese New Year!”
This is the SMS I got early the morning of the first day of Chinese New Year:
“性年到，性年到，快乐性年人人要。安全套，避孕药，大街小巷买到笑。脱光衣，抱一抱，享受做爱多美妙。通通枪，通通枪，通通枪到洞洞痒。。。新版性年歌。”
Basically, a direct translation will goes like this:
“Sex Year come, Sex Year come, Happy Sex Year everyone wants. Condom, Contraceptive pills, every shop sell until siao (crazy). Take off clothes, hug and hug, enjoy having sex very fun. (I don’t know how to translate the last sentence “通通枪，通通枪，通通枪到洞洞痒。。。新版性年歌。”)

It is original a Chinese New Year song, but rewritten and become a “sex year song”. Oh…Singapore government still said Singaporeans not creative enough….this still call not creative?!?!

Okay, shall stop here, once again:

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

Reunion Dinner

2006-01-28T11:02:00.000+08:00

Hello! Happy Chinese New Year Everyone! Cockroach now is busying preparing reunion dinner. Yes, we start eating in the afternoon, continue until midnight.

Yes, BBQ plus steamboat.

Food!!!

Cockroach won’t cerebrate Chinese New Year, only papa and mama give ah bao. Since recent years a lot of people I know online got marry, why not give this poor cockroach red packet?

Anyway hor, my Chinese New Year got lots of things to do. Enjoy your holidays! I will be in front of my computer and enjoy my work. (This also means that I got more time to blog when I have done with my work.)

Work... :(

MSN - Talented cook

2006-01-26T00:57:00.000+08:00

For some of people who know me well, they should know that cockroach can cook well. Well enough to come out with his recipe.

Cockroach: Cheese Bread! I invented it!

GeckoZ: Wah! You very good at cooking.

Cockroach: Ha! Ha! Ha! You too! You every time eat, eat, eat. Sure know how to cook a lot of things. Don’t forget to share your recipe….

GeckoZ: I know how to cook different favor of maggi mee!

Cockroach: -___________-|||

Soon, GeckoZ changed his MSN nick to: “I think I’m a talented cook. I can whip out seafood flavoured; tomyam flavoured and curry flavored maggi mee!!!”

I didn’t tell GeckoZ about it, I think everyone is a talented cook also, because everyone knows how to bake Chocolate Cake in the toile.

At here:

Blogging

2006-01-24T23:30:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, I planed to blog. But I am too tired after my 7.15AM to 2.05PM, and 6.30 PM to 9.30 PM lessons. I fall asleep while typing the blog post.

Today, I wanted to blog, but I am too sick to blog. Fever when up and up and never goes now.

I promise, tomorrow, no matter what I will put up the post that I wanted to. Even I die, I post it first then I die.

Singapore Parent interfere too much

2006-01-21T03:57:00.000+08:00

, Last Saturday, the alarm clock rang at about 6AM.

Cockroach: “Ai yo, today Saturday, Why must I go back to school to entertain those parents?!?!”

Fair enough, I drag my foot to the school thinking “Maybe I should go, because there will be a lot of parents coming and that might have inspiration for my blog!” there; I took my camera and head to the school. (What else Blogger do? Only know how to take photos for blog…)

Singapore Parents, never fail to make me laugh. They are worry on their child which school they got into. What stream they got into. Now, they also worry about what CCA their child got into. Sometimes, I think they just interfere too much…

Case 1:
Student (Boy) handsome 1111: Mama, can join NCC or not?
Mama: Don’t want lah. March, March, March where got good? Some more you see they paint their face. Latter your skin spoil. Cannot, cannot.
Student (Boy) handsome 1111: The basketball?
Mama: Cannot… play so much basketball for what? See, your skin so dark. Latter you sweat so much latter got body odour.

Case 2:
Student (Boy) handsome 2222: I want to join NPCC!
Mama: eh… don’t want lah. You see the uniform, latter very hard to wash and iron. Unless you wash the uniform by yourself if not you don’t join uniform groups.

Case 3:
Student (Girl) HOT 3333: I want to join Girl Guild.
Mama: Cannot. You see, they do marching, marching only for guys, not for girls. You join those Chinese Dance…better.
Student (Girl) HOT 3333: But I dance like chicken dance like that…!!!

Case 4:
Student (Boy) handsome 4444: Papa, I want to join band.
Papa: Band where got good? You see they play music so loud, latter not good for your ears. Why not you join uniform group, so next time you NS better…
Student (Boy) handsome 4444: Don’t want! Not nice one…not my type…

Case 5:
This one is funny to me, seem like parents don’t understand simple English.
Mama: Ah boy, you want to join Girl Brigade or not? Last time Mama also joins this one.
Student (Boy) handsome 5555: Ai yo, mother! This one for girls to join… Can’t you see is GIRL BRIGADE?!?!
Mama: got different meh? Never mind lah…still can join.

As you can see, parents are like a weird creature. Their kids want this, but parents don’t allow. The above is just a few cases only. I didn’t touch on why some parents want their kids to join Band, Choir. Parents think that Band and Choir is for those high class people. So join will give them pride!

Worst still, some parents don’t even like all the CCA that school offer. This cannot, that cannot…Cockroach here proudly introducing a club that parents will want their kids to join if they scare their kids will have: body odour because of sport, sun because of marching, music because scare their kids will go deaf… here…I introducing a club…that the kids just go into a air-con room, sit down on a chair, and start to…start to…shake leg! Here proudly introducing Shake Leg Club! Yea, it solves the problem, isn’t it? No body odour anymore because student is in air-con room plus you don’t have to run, not even walks! Muhahahaha!!! If Shake Leg Club really exists, I’m sure most students will choose it for their first choice of CCA.

-THE END-

Sorry Hor...

2006-01-16T01:16:00.000+08:00

A sincere apology to all my readers, I didn’t update my blog as often as before. Not because the blog is going to shutdown nor the Blogger of this blog had knock down by car (Touchwood!) it is because I am having lots of test and homework.

Test and homework is pilling up, up high up! It’s like the homework and test will not going to finish. Plus events that coming this few weeks, CCA Fair, Award prize presentation and etc is driving me crazy.

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Sorry once again. Next blog topic should be “Singapore Parent interfere too much” …Eh…why Singapore Parent again?!?! Because they makes us suffer. Ha! Ha! Ha!

Am I Fat?!?!

2006-01-14T02:24:00.000+08:00

I will make this a short post since I am hurry up to went to bed as I need to wake up early tomorrow and report to school. *sigh* Saturday leh!!!

Okay, I admit that the “Ah boy” in “Kaisu Singapore Parent” is me. Today, I am going to post what happen when I buy my PE T-shirt yesterday. (Sort of related….)

Being a Kaisu Singapore, I wanted to buy our school “newly released PE T-Shirt”. (Actually is because my old PE T-Shirt turn yellowish) I went to the place where they sell the new PE T-Shirt.

Cockroach: Auntie, PE T-Shirt how much?
Auntie: Depends on the size.
Cockroach: Then you see my body size should where which size of PE T-Shirt.
Auntie: Eh… XXL.
Cockroach: What?!?! Am I that fat?!?!
Auntie: You want or not?
Cockroach: then the pants? Also XXL?!?! Latter very loose…
Auntie: No…Is XXXL for your pants.
Cockroach: …eh…forget it… I never ever going to accept that I am going to wear “L” size with “X” in front some more…

Even though I keep saying that I am getting fatter, but I don’t think I fat until need to wear L size shirt and pants right? You will be the judge, Am I Fat?

Maybe because my camera isn’t good enough to show clear photos, it didn’t turn out as what I see from the mirror when taking the photos. I seem to be fatter in photo…., maybe I should ask one of my friends who have professional camera to lend me his camera. (To be fair, right?)

PS: Xiaoxin, if I am really fat, don’t drag me to KFC (Keep Fit Club)!!!

Cockroach is not dead yet

2006-01-12T00:53:00.000+08:00

Just wanted to let your know that Cockroach is not dead yet, Cockroach is sick right now. Having fever, cold, “bone-cold”, nothing got to do with insecticide. And nope, Cockroach didn’t use “Condom Ice-Bag”.

Hope Cockroach can get better soon. I think I better go back and study now and rest after that, I think I just need more rest…

-Cockroach

Kiasu Singapore Parents

2006-01-10T03:59:00.000+08:00

Sometimes teachers, principal and maybe the government are not happy about the kid’s height and weight. Every year, in January and July, (which both after a long school break), the teachers will measure the student’s height and weight just to make sure they don’t put too much weight over the holidays. If they do, they will ended up in KFC (Cockroach Language: Keep Fit Club) or Trim and Fit (As know as TAF Club) which they will run for 30 minutes during their recess and they don’t got the chance to take a break during recess (In my case).

Why am I talking about this? Because I want to tell you a story….Long time ago…

7:30PM…
Mother: Ah boy, faster eat. Kitchen still got some more.
Boy: But I finish one big plate of rice, I can’t eat anymore.
Mother: Nonsense! One plate where got enough? You now in puberty stage must so eat more. Faster, give me your plate.
Boy: But mom, I really cannot eat already. I now can’t even wear my clothes now. I must try to eat less.
Mother: Fatter nicer what…
Boy: But I will go TAF club.
Mother: Nonsense! You must be fortunate that you can eat, other country want to eat also don’t have. Faster, eat.

12:00AM…
Mother: Ah boy, come and eat humbugger for supper.
Ah boy: Just now I eat 3 plate of rice, still haven’t digest finish, I can’t eat anymore.
Mother: Nonsense! You now in puberty stage so must eat more.
Ah boy: but my PE teacher said eat supper not good, later will grow fat.
Mother: If guy fat a bit never mind. Guy should be a bit fat then look nice. Ah boy: Buy I am not just fat a bit. Latter school reopen I need to go TAF club.
Mother: Nonsense! The school asks you to go and die why not you go and die also. Follow the school for what? Eat is fortune, you better eat now or else next time don’t ask me to cook for you. Tomorrow won’t cook your dinner!
Boy: Ok, Ok, Ok. I eat, I eat, I eat…

As you can see, that ‘boy’ is in a difficult situation (That ‘boy’ don’t dare to talk back to his mom), he doesn’t want to eat anymore but parents were afraid that their kids don’t get enough nutrition, afraid their kids can’t grow well in their puberty stage and other kinds of reason that make them keep feeding their kids even thought the kids already very full. That’s explain why some kids are overweight, because parents over feed them, Kiasu Singapore Parents.

Buying condom

2006-01-08T02:46:00.000+08:00

Yea right, see the title? Buying condom! If you are heading for pervert stuff, beside go and read this and this post, there is no more pervert post for you, please go somewhere else for prevent stuffs.

Anyway, today topic will be about condom! Condom can not only use for sex, it can serve as a balloon and give it to a girlfriend. It can also serve as an ice bag when you are having high fever, like this:

from Louyau.net
You can buy condom everywhere in Singapore! Supermarket, 7-11 (24 hours convenient store) or maybe even the guy next door who buy himself XXL size condom when he need a XXS condom.

I was at 7-11 today to buy….eh… Ice-cream (If you think I am buying condom, you think too much) and there was a guy, who in his 60s hugging 3 to 4 super big size potato chip packets, in front of me, both me and that guy queuing to pay our items. I was thinking “Wah! That uncle very power! He can eat so many potato chips. I can’t even finish one packet of potato chip by myself.”

That uncle put all the potato chip carefully on the counter and said “Count everything, every single thing.” There, the potato chips were held up ready to be scanned, a packet of condom revealed itself at this point of time…

Cashier: Is this yours? (Holding the condom packet.)
Uncle: I said count every single thing right?
Cashier: So this is yours?
Uncle: Faster!!!!

And that Uncle left like the speed of light, so quick, so fast. After paying my Ice cream, I saw uncle at one Conner near the shop. Uncle asked me to go near him…

Uncle: Those potato chip give you eat.
Cockroach: eh…you don’t want?
Uncle: I got diabetes, cannot eat this potato chip.
Cockroach: Then why you buy?!?!
Uncle: Because I need to buy that thing, because embarrass so use potato chip to cover.
Cockroach: How much? I buy from you the potato chip.
Uncle: No need, treat you. (Pass the Plastic pack to Cockroach; take out the condom and left)

Eh…I don’t know about others. But I think this method of buying condom is really funny. Because of one condom, he ended up have to pay potato chips also. Is buying condom that embarrassing? Don’t tell me all Singapore guys buy condom in this method. Anyway, hope guys out there won’t have a “hard time” buying condom in Singapore. =)

Ugly Singaporeans

2006-01-05T00:40:00.000+08:00

Hello tree, I don’t know how you become trolley collection point.

I first saw this trolley on the first day of school while on the way to school. Actually there are 3 trolleys, but today somehow or rather, other 2 trolley went missing. Maybe some Singapore Aunties put 1 dollar coin and went wet market with the trolley to put their vegetables. And mind you, this trolley is from a toy store, Toys"R"Us, not from NTUC (One of the Singapore Supermarket). But again, how come 3 toy store’s trolley appeared? One, maybe someone kiasu use 3 trolley at the same time OR, two, maybe there were 3 different people using trolley and use the tree as trolley collection point.

Don’t you think it look like a trolley collection point?
No more 1 dollar coin, maybe someone dig it out.

Evident for trolley came from Toys"R"Us.
No matter what, this is “Ugly Singaporeans”.

POA Lesson, New Teacher

2006-01-04T01:53:00.000+08:00

How is your first day lesson? This year will be a challenging year since I am taking GCE exam. Not just challenging only, it make me nervous even though there is few month away. But today something happen makes me more nervous, and if this continues, I don't think can pass my GCE exam…

(Click to enlarge the pictures)

Guess how she reply....

What can I said? Pray hard, just have to pray hard.

Back To School

2006-01-03T00:51:00.000+08:00

In a few hours time, Cockroach will be going back to school!

Cockroach now is super excited! Why excited? Cockroach himself doesn’t know excited for what. Maybe, Cockroach is dieing to go back to school. Ha! Ha! Ha!

A new year, a new start! Tomorrow first day of school, got special edition of school Cockroach tomorrow. Why Special? Let’s see:

Special number 1: Hair style
Cockroach never styles his hair in school before. Tomorrow, since it is the first day of school, Cockroach break his own law and style his hair. But whether will it success or not is another story, just now Cockroach “rehears” to style the hair. You know what? The more I style, the worst result I get. Cockroach never use those wax before, don’t know how to use, ask a question, should the hair wet or dry when apply wax?

Special number 2: Bag
Cockroach always bring big bag to school. Reason is because Cockroach has many books to bring to school and I only put some books in school, the rest I bring it to school and bring it home. Tomorrow lesson won’t have much big books to carry, so Cockroach mange to put books into a small bag! Yah!!! No more people going to said Cockroach act good boy! Ha! Ha! Ha! But, small bags only for days when not many books, Cockroach will still carry books home every day.

Cockorach's tomorrow "Back To School" Bag
Special number 3: Changing image from time to time
Cockroach might change image from time to time. Like for example, morning you see Cockroach without spectacle, but in class you saw Cockroach with Black spectacle. At the next moment, you see Cockroach with Blue spectacle, so on and so for. This is just a scenario, Cockroach don’t have so many spectacle to change. So no more people going said Cockroach ugly guy! (That came from 2 people from my class, they think Cockroach most ugly person in the world.)

Another thing Cockroach is happy is about is Cockroach can have the right to sit in front! I mean, every time when teachers is changing sits, they sure put Cockroach at the back of the class. But Cockroach cannot concentrate when I am at the back; I will build castle in the air. But now, let’s image:

Teacher: Hey! You, go and change sit with XYZ.
Cockroach: Teacher, I cannot sit at the back. I cannot concentrate when I am at the back of the class.
Teacher: But they also cannot concentrate, just for my lesson.
Cockroach: I got another good reason why I cannot sit at the back.
Teacher: What reason?
Cockroach: Now I got eye problem, must sit at the front.
Teacher: …

Ha! Ha! Ha! I don’t think teachers is that bad when I said I cannot concentrate yet still want to put me at the back, but now I got more powerful reason why I should sit at the front, eye problem! Anyway, I don’t think anyone is going to snatch the front sit with me right? I think everyone will go to the back of the class so they can use hand phones during lesson.

Oh yea, Cockorach tomorrow will be naughty boy. Cockorach will secretly bring his dinosaur to school. Eh… because my dinosaur just born cannot make him die! I will ask dinosaur not to make noise even he had pass motion, want me to play with him and etc during lesson. Everything will do after lesson. Now just let’s hope that no one will know me bring dinosaur to school.

It’s late now, yet Cockroach is still excited on tomorrow lesson. How to sleep?!?! Okay, need to sleep now. Have fun with your lesson tomorrow with your students/ teachers!

A New Year, A Bad Start

2006-01-02T02:20:00.000+08:00

Really, I have a bad start at the being of the year.

Actually it is not a BIG matter, nor a small matter. It doesn’t really hurt me directly, but it causes inconvenient to me directly. All because of Starhub fault!

I am using Starhub Maxonline Ultimate. It came with a free iview and SafeSurf till 31 Dec 2005. I don’t really like SafeSurf a lot. SafeSurf is a Value-Added Service for MaxOnline monthly access plan customers has enhanced security features to ensure every members of your family is safeguarded whenever they go online. Parents can be assured of a safe and enriching surfing experience for their children. Meaning, the blocked site that is not mean for kids. I got no choice; my plan comes with a FREE SafeSurf and they don’t have an option form asking me want or not. In fact, when I was looking at the plan, I already said I don’t want the Value-Added Services free (both iview and SafeSurf) because I am not using it. But one Starhub Staff talked to me parents:

Starhub Staff: You know hor…Nowadays hor… Teenagers like you child hor… like to surf porn. Our SafeSurf can block all Porn sites so he won’t turn bad…A lot of teenager hor…turn bad because they surf porn at home and parents don’t know.
Mom: Really har? Ok lorh, let’s take Starhub Ultimate.

Your guys might be wondering, “why Cockroach not happy? If for your own good, Cockroach didn’t surf porn website now not happy is it?” Actually, I don’t mind Starhub blocking porn sites; in fact, I think porn is the most disgusting thing ever. I rather get a wife when I grow up and watch her body, and nobody else. But I DO MIND Starhub block blogs, services, education website, and Google Translator!

Yes, they blocked some good blogs that have no sexuality content, they block services like http://www.castpost.com/, they blocked some education website which I don’t know why and last by not least, they blocked a famous search engine company’s translator, Google Translator.

I don’t know why they block it. No sexuality content in it, nothing offensive, WHY THEY GOT BLOCKED?!?! Still remember there was one time I was looking for Peranakan information for my project. And this stupid SafeSurf blocked a website which contains lots of information. In the end, I have to beg someone to copy and paste the website and send it to me so I can do my project because other website isn’t informative enough. Anyway, Starhub in their FAQ says that they do not decide on which website to block out. The database of undesirable websites is taken from and maintained by StarHub's SafeSurf vendor, SmartFilter.

Yea right, it is over right, since it is till 31 Dec 2005. Are you thinking “Cockroach now sure very happy, besides using all the services that were blocked, now he can even surf porn.” No, you are wrong. They extended this “very good service” to 31 Dec 2006. Yea, there is one more year to go. Don’t believe me? See:

(Click for larger view.)
Poor Cockroach, have to suffer for another 1 year. I mean, I wish the day of ending this SafeSurf for ages! Now they let me wait another 1 year. 1 year, not 1 day. During the time between 2005 and 2006, my conversation between GeckoZ:

Cockroach: 5
Cockroach: 4
Cockroach: 3
Cockroach: 2
Cockroach: 1
Cockroach: 0
Cockroach: Happy New Year!!!
Cockroach: Quick, quick, quick, give a porn website, I finally free from SafeSurf!!!
GeckoZ: Ha! Ha! Ha!
Cockroach: Eh… no need, just Google Translator will do.
GeckoZ: http://www.google.com/language_tools
Cockroach: Still blocked…

I got nothing much to said, I have to suffer from Starhub SafeSurf for another one year, songs may express myself better:

Original by Kevin, from here.
Edited by Cockroach and sing by Cockroach.

(Old Macdonald tune)
Here block, that block,
Anyhow block, block.
Old Macdonald had a website,
It got block by Starhub!

Click here for the mp3 [0:09, 155 KB]. Feel free to use this song if you are also a victim of SafeSurf. If it does not work, please wait for an hour or so.

Maxonline Ultimate will continue this SafeSurf till 31 Dec 2006. While, Maxonline 6500 will start from 1 Feb 2006 to 31 Dec 2006. Seem like user for this both plan have to suffer. HELP!!!~~~
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Starhub: This is just my personal view; don’t sue me because of this. Your can E-Mail to yongkian@gmail.com to request the post to be taken down.

Reflect the year 2005

2005-12-31T23:41:00.000+08:00

Now time 6PM of 2005. In a few hours time, 2005 will be a history; we will enter the year 2006.

Thinking backs the ups and down, happiness and sadness in year 2005, it did give me a lot of memory. I should said, year 2005 is my turning point, I changed a lot, really a lot. From a guy who normally goes to school, listen to the teacher’s lesson, when school ends, he went back home, to a guy, who take up “English rap” in class, other people might “English rap only…” but to me, it is a great gift. I never have any position in class before. This, given me a chance, to change myself.

But that also changed how people think about me, they call me teacher dog, all sort of nicks they give me. I don’t have many friends; I have no one to talk to. In 13 April 2005, I wrote in my personal dairy “Should I give up? Why others don’t understand me. Should I end it now?” I was really down at that time. But I told myself, it is a gift, I shouldn’t give up. The teachers and other people might be disappointed; I must treasure this gift till the end.

In the end, I make it. Probable it is the greatest thing I achieved in my life. If JC didn’t give me the chance, I might never know I can do it. I might still be a person who gives up easily. Thanks, JC.

Beside that, two things that happened this year induced great emotional attack to me. One is my pass on of my grandmother. I know, “Born, Age, Sick, Die” is the human cycle. But I regret that I didn’t spend more time with my grandmother. I miss her, the moment she was pushed for cremate, I really wish things can be change; the time can turn back, so I can spend more time with her. But that will never happen.

Another thing that has a great emotional attack to me is the danger of me getting blind at age 18. Till now, I am still afraid that I will really go blind at age 18. I never show my feeling in real world, except my blog and my personal diary. What happen if I really go blind at age 18? Will I be happier than now? Will I miss the colour of the world? Age 18 is coming nearer, my next appointment is coming soon, and how everything is going, I don’t know. I really don’t know, maybe is just my luck…

I might look strong, but I am not strong in my own world. The Blog and the personal dairy spend my time together of my hardship and sweetness. Since life is unpredictable, if one day something happen to me that I will be leaving, ask my family member to look for my personal dairy. It included only truth, and my own feeling. Cockroach here have not much friends in real world, but I wish one day I do have a bunch of friends, chat together, play together, have fun together. And those friends I want are truth friends.

Seem like I make my last post of the year a sad post eh? Now time 11.45pm. Left 15 more minutes to the year 2006, 2006, a being of a new life, challenge and journey. Best wish everyone, Happy New Year. Hope in the New Year, your will have a good life, happy and no worries. Once again, Happy New Year.

Time-Table for 2006

2005-12-31T04:08:00.000+08:00

I don’t know how to express myself, I just simply don’t like my new time-table.

Click to have a larger view of my time table.

Basically, my school hour is longer, more lessons to attend. The school had changed my English, POA, SS and PE teachers. I don’t want to change English and POA teacher!!! I change teacher, I need time to adapt (I just learn this word …) the new environment. Oh please, I beg the school, can don’t change this two teachers?!?!

Conversation with Sam:
Sam: Why your have long school hours? Mine starts at 7:30am, ends at 1:30pm. I thought your school ends at 1:15pm.
Cockroach: That’s History. Remember I told you the school extends the ending time from 1:15pm to 1:45, and then shorten it to 1:35pm.
Sam: Oh yea, and that time you nag and nag and nag non-stop.
Cockroach: And now they happily add another 30 minutes.
Sam: Ha! Ha! Ha! And in year 2007, they add another 30 minutes. I wonder how your school teacher survival.
Cockroach: Touchwood! What how my school teacher survival? They still have to teach, teaching is their job, and we got pay money!!!
Sam: You got pay money your head, your only pay $10 to $18; the rest is pay by the government.
Cockroach: Yea, yea, yea, you clever, Mr. Sam. I hope next year your student not easy to teach, they create trouble for you.
Sam: Touchwood! My student always very good…Eh… you nothing to ask me?
Cockroach: Ask you what?
Sam: The meaning of Pastoral Care.
Cockroach: I asked Lizard this question. Ha! Ha! Ha!
Sam: … eh... Your school quite cute, your do have “Class Family Time”. Ha! Ha! Ha!
Cockroach: You said before, Class must act as a family, must understand each other, forgive each other, blah, blah, blah, so my school came out with this “Class Family Time”.
Sam: …

Anyway, I don’t think much people notice the time had extended to 2:05pm. Normally student will just grab the timetable, print it and leave it on the table. I told 10 people that the time had extended to 2:05pm, and out of the 10, all didn’t knew until I told them about it. See, Cockroach is a good boy.

And I think there is some mistake in the timetable. My CCA would never end at 5pm. They usually ends at 6.30pm, since performance is going to show up, I don’t think my CCA is going to be only Tuesday and Friday; there will be more. Plus, since when I went home early even not during CCA day? We do have extra lesson, this and that. Actually, I spend more time at school than home (awaken time). Maybe, properly 80% of my awaken time spend in school, meaning I don’t have time for my family. Is this what our Singapore Education wanted? No wonder so many people skip their CCA.

Okay, enough of my complaining. Let’s hope that the person who make this time table make a mistake on our school hours, make a mistake on the teachers who will going to teach us, mistake here and there to make my timetable perfect.

Anyway, since school is about to reopen, Cockroach actually excited!!! In fact, Cockroach already stat packing his bag; this is the sprit of Singaporean, a kiasu Singaporeans! Come on, I waited for this day until I have some grey hair on my head! And also, I find out that, some of my dear classmates haven’t brought their books yet. And our bookshop will not open until school reopen. Let’s pray for them. (Eh…actually first day of school if student never bring books, teachers won’t get angry right?)

Wish you Happy New Year!

Singapore Emergency Exercise

2005-12-30T04:03:00.000+08:00

This news is making me so excited. I first heard this news from the T.V, but I don’t get it so I went online and check what the hell it is. Here is the news report in Channel NewsAsia, read it by clicking here.

Whooh! I am so excited on this exercise, you tell me who will get the chance to walk in the tunnel, saw blackout in MRT. People like me sure want to see this rare scene.

But, lets image, what happen if on one of the day there is a REAL attack, people will thought that it is an exercise, and worst still, taking exclusive photos for our blog and try to get tomorrow-ed.

I, personal think that the MRT tunnel will be a romantic place. Why? Reason being that tunnel is quite a dark place (Not for North-East Line), perfect place for people who like to hug and kiss at public places.

Not forgetting our Singapore Uncles (Not all) who like to spit everywhere they go. Image they spit in the tunnel, on the railway, what happen if the MRT cannot move because of their sticky plus disgusting phlegm stick on the MRT’s wheel?

Eh…this won’t happen, let’s believe in our MRT system. And I don’t think our Singapore Uncles phlegm is so sticky until it will stick onto the MRT.

And on that day, people will have a great excuse for work, girlfriend and etc…

Scenarios 1 (Actually goes and has breakfast with girlfriend):
Boss: Why you are late again? Now what time? 12PM liao leh! You don’t want to work is it?
Staff 4444: Boss, today got Emergence Exercise, my car spoil so I take MRT. Kena so unlucky the MRT stop the service because of this. I wait the shuttle bus wait until I want to sleep. So today I late because of the stupid Emergence Exercise, you cannot blame me.
Boss: you always got 101 excuses, YOU ARE FIRED!
Staff 4444: Boss, you cannot fire me. If you fire me I can go to Manpower there and complain you.
Boss: …

Scenario 2 (Actually went shopping with girlfriend 2):
Girlfriend 1: Dear, why you are late again?
Boyfriend: The emergency exercise lorh. I got stuck inside the tunnel, have to walk out. !@#$%^&*
Girlfriend 1: Ai yo, so poor thing. Then you got take money back from the MRT or not?
Boyfriend: No…can take back meh?
Girlfriend 1: Can…come; give me your Ez-link card. I help you to claim.
Boyfriend: Eh…no need to claim, just a few cents only.
Girlfriend 1: Need to claim, can save up for our wedding money.
Boyfriend, eh…no need to claim, no need to claim. Actually I lied to you. I went shopping with my other girlfriend. None of the MRT business…Opps!
Girlfriend 1: What?!?!! *Give the boyfriend 2 tight slaps, one hard kick and run away*

Anyway, in the News 5 tonight on Tuesday, they said that they will put up notices about the Emergency Exercise in MRT stations and etc. Here is how the poster looks like:

Not much people notice the poster, in fact, Staff had put up the poster at a place where nobody will going to read it, The Notice Board. Some station putted along the underground walkway where people busy walking to the station. Here is my conversation in train on Wednesday with someone:

Cockroach: You know yesterday the news said there will be an Emergency Exercise?
123: Today har? Ai yo, if like that I don’t want to go out liao, Very troublesome one leh.
Cockroach: eh… Not today. Today they just put up notice to inform your. It is the first 2 weekend of next month.
123: never give date?
Cockroach: The emergency exercise is to surprise everyone and see how fast everybody reacts. Give you’re the day will have no fun.
123: Fun your head, very troublesome one. You think its fun you go and wait during the four days lorh.
Cockroach: I wish to, but I afraid if I wait at City Hall, it happen in Raffle Place. When my train comes out from the tunnel, the tunnel got attacked. If I wait at Tampines Bus Interchange, it happens at Jurong Bus Interchange.
123: …

Okay, enough of my nonsense. I bet that out of 10 Singaporeans, only about 5 know about this Singapore Emergency Exercise. So if you don’t know, now you know. Remember to stay clam, follow instruction given, don’t busy taking photos and don’t forget to help the handicapped, children and the aged. That’s it! If you are one of the “victims” in this emergency exercise, don’t forget to tell us your experience. :p

Blog tomorrow, but here a photo for you

2005-12-29T03:19:00.000+08:00

I will blog tomorrow with some drawing and etc. They are all done halfway and will try to get it doe by afternoon.

Anyway, here is a photo I taken today at a toy shop:

Singapore government trying very hard to teach kids to gamble, so when Casino open, the money will auto go into the Casino and the Government earn big money!

This is for aged 5+

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Facial

2005-12-27T05:08:00.000+08:00

Today someone comes to our house to help Cockroach do facial. Eh…yeah, nothing with your eyes, Cockroach today does facial. I don’t wish to call her auntie because she just got married not even one month, she don’t have child and she look beautiful. So, let’s call her “beauty”.

Beauty: Hey! You want to do facial? I just do it for my Hubby. You want?
Cockroach: Eh…where got guys do facial? Your hubby got do facial?!?! No wonder he so handsome….
Beauty: You want or not? Free of charge.
Cockroach: But I scare pain…
Beauty: Where got people do facial got pain? Very comfortable, not pain at all
Cockroach: But I never heard guys do facial before. Latter other people laugh at me.
Beauty: That won’t happen, my dear. Nobody will be laughing at you…

So, beauty went into my house and start doing facial for me. First, she uses something to apply on my face and wash it. Beauty says it helps to clean the face.

Beauty: Comfortable?
Cockroach: I didn’t feel anything. I only feel you hand moving round and round on my face.

Next, she applies something call “Exfoliating Gel”. Beauty says that it will remove “dead skin”

Cockroach: Remove skin?!?! Don’t want!!! I scare pain! Latter my face no skin!!!
Beauty: This won’t cause any pain. It gently removes aged, not pain at all.

In the end, Beauty had to force me to lie on the bed while she applies this thing call “Exfoliating Gel”. In the end, there are a lot of lumpy things coming out.

Cockroach: E…..what’s that?
Beauty: That’s your aged skin; it is not good for your skin if you leave it there. So we have to remove it. After remove it, your skin will become smoother. Not pain at all right? It won’t take off your whole skin…
Cockroach: I don’t feel anything, but the pain of my arms because of you forcing me lying on the bed…

Next, my favorite part, Ghost mask! Eh…the correct term for it is Facial mask, but in Cockroach term, it is call Ghost mask. After she put the mask on my face, she went back home to take a phone call.

Beauty: You lie down here, don’t move, Okay? I come back soon.
Cockroach: You are coming back right?
Beauty: Yea, I am coming back, you don’t move, just lie down.

And there goes the Beauty. You know, guys are a strange creature in the world. When you asked them not to move, they move. When you ask them to lie down, this dear Cockroach does sit up, jumping-jack and not forgetting taking photos for my blog!

Cockroach with Ghost mask; this will be perfect for the next Halloween Party.

That’s me!!! Is me!!! Taken in year 2004, compared with my face cover with “Ghost Mask” I think I should cover my face forever.
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Beauty comes back while I am doing jumping-jack…

Beauty: What are you doing?!?! Doing Jumping-jack with the facial mask on your face?!?!
Cockroach: Cannot? Oh…just now I did sit-up also.
Beauty: Wah….you…where got people do such things with facial mask on their face. They lie down, taking a short nap or whatever, and you are not to talk so much, if not the mask didn’t really stick to your face.
Cockroach: Ok, ok, don’t angry. I now go and lie down.

And at this point of time: the mask dropped onto the floor.

Beauty: You see, you see. Now the mask dropped on the floor. I know now teenagers want to get muscular, six packs and etc. But you must use your logic, where got people do workouts with facial mask on the face? My hubby got muscular in his NS, so you don’t have to be so hurry…
Cockroach: You hubby all the way. I know you love your hubby, your hubby very handsome, got six packs. But you must be careful, here got a lot of girls haven’t marry yet. And plus your hubby fly all over the world, you never know at Holland she got another wife there. He every time went out with those sexy clothes, Guys sees it will jealous, girls see it will crazy. Be careful… And...eh...maybe the mask trying to said that can move on to the next step, so it dropped onto the floor
Beauty: You jealous? Ha! Ha! Ha! Then you faster lie down and continue, and then you can be handsome also.

Next, Beauty applies a yellow solution call “Refining Serum” It hurts me a lot! Because my face got some skin comes off. So it hurts my face. Anyway, Beauty says that it will help my face go smoother and my skin will grow back faster.

Next, last by not least, a “Night Cream”. They call it “Night Cream” because it applies at night. There is a “Day Cream” with different function which applies during the day. Ha! What’s the different?!?! I like the smell of the Night Cream, it smell so~~~ no words can be descript it.

So it’s end of my torture! Finally, I learnt quite a number of skins caring (which I don’t care at all). Cockroach skin getting smoother, better after the whole session; it’s like the whole thing is like magic water and magic cream. So Cockroach asked “How much this whole set cost?” And Beauty replied: “Very cheap, $300+ only.”

Eh…I think only girls know how to spend that kind of money. I, only can see, cannot buy.

Christmas Special Post…

2005-12-25T23:02:00.000+08:00

Hello! How is everyone Christmas doing? Went shopping? Go to Christmas party? Eh…Cockroach still at home baking a rectangle pizza, typing my notes and sometimes read books that I had borrowed from the library few days ago.

Rectangle Pizza I baked this afternoon.

Anyway, I am very honored to get into a Photoshop contest whereby Cockroach (me), GeckoZ and Pigirl will using different photos, using ONLY Photoshop and make it into a NEW wonderful pictures with the theme “Christmas”. Quite fun actually, both Pigirl and GeckoZ taught me a lot of things in Photoshop.

Hey, come on, I only know how to use Photoshop and type words and etc to the picture and nothing else. And now, at least I know how to cut pictures, use some effect, its pretty fun. The following is our work, and we are not allowed to say which ones are ours. Why not you guess which one is mine, and don’t forget to vote for your favorite, if possible, please tell us the reason why and you may give us opinions.

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3

Thanks everyone for the support! Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

2005-12-24T23:07:00.000+08:00

Merry Christmas to everyone! Yea, I am not cerebrating Christmas this year. Eh…since when I got the chance to cerebrate? I don’t cerebrate Christmas, not I don’t want to but is I am a lonely person in the real world. Anyway, everyone I know will get an Oreal Cookie from me when you next time see me (provided my pocket got money).

Anyway, what will you think when it comes to Christmas? Santa? Turkey? Or…Snowman! I bet you have seen a snowman before at least on T.V or in the internet right? But have you ever seen a snowcockroach before? Here is a snowcockroach done by GeckoZ by using a website.

Cute or not? Click here to make your own snowman! (Since Singapore don’t have snow…)

I would like to wish everyone again:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I kena tomorrow-ed!

2005-12-24T02:18:00.000+08:00

Yes, I kena tomorrow-ed. I got this news from GeckoZ who told me this on MSN.

GeckoZ: Wah!
Cockroach: ?
GeckoZ: Your post kena tomorrow-ed leh.
Cockroach: Really or not?
GeckoZ: yea, at the top some more.

I went and check it out, and start thinking, “If GeckoZ bluffs me and makes me happy for nothing I will make sure I create a post about how to catch Lizard since he created a post on “How to catch Cockroach” a day before.”

Went to tomorrow.sg and really saw my disgusting name there with a quote of my post. I was like, “Am I dreaming? I-real-ly-got-to-mor-row-ed. (I really got tomorrow-ed) the editors understand my English?!”

It’s a surprise because I used wanted to get my post into tomorrow.sg since I found tomorrow.sg, but in the end I gave up this dream since write and write, wait and wait, I don’t get tomorrow-ed. But I got a numbers of readers. So I said, “Why not, just write whatever I want and forgets about getting tomorrow-ed.” Ha! Ha! And there, I go and wrote about some conversation dialog and etc. I still trying some blogging writing style to see which one I like the most. Anyway, after getting tomorrow-ed, Friday readers jump from everyday average of 10 to 50 readers to yesterday over 500 readers came to this blog. Thank you, the power of tomorrow is really very, powerful.

Eh… remember I wrote a post for GeckoZ when he first got tomorrow-ed? Forgot? Never mind, here is the post from here:

[translated from Chinese]
Chinese teacher: “Class, to improve your Chinese standard and now blog is so famous, I want all of you to go to Lizard’s blog.
*write on whiteboard: http://valeon.blogspot.com*

Class: Huh? Lizard cans blog one har? I thought Lizard is an animal…

Chinese teacher: Just go to that blog and find out yourself. I am sure your like that blog very much, it include a translator, just in case your don’t have Chinese basic.

Class: oh…

After the school bell rang, the whole class rush home, no going out with friends until they find out what the hack Lizard blog is. Why Lizard can blog….

In a girl home…
Girl 1: Ahhhh!!!!
*Quickly close lizard’s blog because there is one big Lizard each at both sides…*

In other girl home…
Girl 2: Wah…that Lizard so handsome, don’t know pretty girl like me take lift with him, he will talk to me or not. Will he ask which floor I am going or not…Wah…so handsome, want his number now.
*from that on, that girl Chinese improve, because everyday read Lizard’s Blog. Because Lizard is handsome mah…want to get number must read blog first*

In a boy home…
Boy: Wah…that Lizard still knows how to talk about pretty girls sia…don’t know got tips to give me or not…I want to date the girl next class leh.

*from that on, that boy improve his Chinese because of reading Lizard’s blog. Why read Lizard’s blog? Because want to get tips of getting pretty girls on hand.*

So if people in Singapore read Lizard’s blog, there will be 3 results. One is quickly close that window because scare of Lizard, or maybe even faint. Or maybe read his blog and improve the Chinese, know this handsome guy, or want to get to know how to get pretty girls. Ha! Ha!

Hope Lizard doesn’t sue me because of this blog post…

Lift Idea generated from his Chinese tag-board & this post.

That will never ever happen to me because…Cockroach not handsome, Cockroach don’t know how to talk about pretty girls. Worst, Cockroach is the most disgusting animal in the world. Plus, no teachers will not promote this blog because this blog using bad English and Chinese. Ha! Ha! Ha! I think if anyone found this blog, they first will use insecticide to spray at Cockroach. (Please don’t use insecticide and kill me, I am good Cockroach…)

Cockroach had selected some post in Bilingual Fingers for people who come back after reading the tomorrow-ed post so your can read some good post (which I think) I had wrote. (I know most people won’t come back…)

Singapore Aunties! 《新加坡阿嫂！》- This post is written base on real life accident.

NS in Singapore – the post is written because of many people complains about NS in Singapore.

Crazy Cockroach Ideas – A crazy idea by me to stop student forgetting about their homework.

... Got molested – Real life accident on me getting molested.

Not-That-Pervetic-Post – A very RA post talking about…. Readers under 18 years old are advice not to read it (even though the writer is under 18…)

说一说飞机。。。- A Chinese post that talk about the future experience of taking airplanes.

I think that’s it. Do come here as frequently as possible. You may even want to sign up Bilingual Fingers MSN Alert by clicking the button below. After signing up, you will get alert in MSN Messenger, Hotmail and etc whenever Bilingual Fingers got new post. Cool hor?

Eh…last thing, can anyone teach me how to pronounce “kena” so that I can I know how to said “I kena tomorrow-ed.” I try to find the pronunciation online but cannot find. So anyone know how to pronounce?

2005-12-24T01:46:00.000+08:00

Congratulations to Geckoz (Lizard, 壁虎) got kena tomorrow-ed! Time flies, didn’t realize that I had visiting your blog for so long. Now even chat with you in MSN, and introduce you tomorrow.sg. Now you kena tomorrow-ed, going to famous in one day, and maybe one day will bring Chinese blog fever. Image…

[translated from Chinese]
Chinese teacher: “Class, to improve your Chinese standard and now blog is so famous, I want all of you to go to Lizard’s blog.
*write on whiteboard: http://valeon.blogspot.com*

Class: Huh? Lizard cans blog one har? I thought Lizard is an animal…

Chinese teacher: Just go to that blog and find out yourself. I am sure your like that blog very much, it include a translator, just in case your don’t have Chinese basic.

Class: oh…

After the school bell rang, the whole class rush home, no going out with friends until they find out what the hack Lizard blog is. Why Lizard can blog….

In a girl home…
Girl 1: Ahhhh!!!!
*Quickly close lizard’s blog because there is one big Lizard each at both sides…*

In other girl home…
Girl 2: Wah…that Lizard so handsome, don’t know pretty girl like me take lift with him, he will talk to me or not. Will he ask which floor I am going or not…Wah…so handsome, want his number now.
*from that on, that girl Chinese improve, because everyday read Lizard’s Blog. Because Lizard is handsome mah…want to get number must read blog first*

In a boy home…
Boy: Wah…that Lizard still knows how to talk about pretty girls sia…don’t know got tips to give me or not…I want to date the girl next class leh.
*from that on, that boy improve his Chinese because of reading Lizard’s blog. Why read Lizard’s blog? Because want to get tips of getting pretty girls on hand.*

So if people in Singapore read Lizard’s blog, there will be 3 results. One is quickly close that window because scare of Lizard, or maybe even faint. Or maybe read his blog and improve the Chinese, know this handsome guy, or want to get to know how to get pretty girls. Ha! Ha!

Hope Lizard doesn’t sue me because of this blog post…

Lift Idea generated from his Chinese tag-board & this post.

Little Star

2005-12-23T03:36:00.000+08:00

Above 3 pictures says thousands words. I embarrass myself on the phone when I call Pizza Hun Home delivery. Little Star is their harsh brown come with the shape of the star. “Little Star” cute; it shows how creativity people are to grab the customer heart, soul and stomach. (心，灵，胃) 。 : )

Little Star

One Day Trip In Singapore! 新加坡一日游！

2005-12-21T04:57:00.000+08:00

Photos are clickable for lager views.
Click here, there are more photos and drawings can be found at Flickr photo set.

Cockroach had been busy since the holidays starts, so yesterday [20 December 2005] Cockroach gave himself one day off! So what Cockroach does during this one day? Well, Cockroach visited Singapore and has a One Day Trip In Singapore!

During this One Day Trip In Singapore, Cockroach saw a lot of stuff, see how really uniquely Singapore really is. Seriously, Singapore is really unique, especially how Singapore took MRT, it really surprise me.

It is early morning when Cockroach took MRT from Tampines to ICA building to renew passport. Here is what happens:

So what I had learned from taking MRT: Singaporeans have no basic courtesy. I thought schools have this thing call “Moral of Education”. Don’t tell me they teach the student that to rush into the train and not letting the passenger to alight first.

Anyway, there is other interesting thing happen in the train. There is a guy and a girl enters the train. Just right in front of an underage Cockroach (who is me), the guy kiss the girl’s head and mouth, and girl kiss the guy’s mouth and chest. Kiss here and kiss there, hug here hug there. Cockroach sees until move to other side. Can’t stand this free RA shows in front of me. I thought Singaporeans not very open minded as western people. But today what happen in MRT, I seen a different point of view.

First place to go in the morning: ICA Building

In the ICA building, Cockroach saw something which Singaporeans love and hate the most, cut queue. Eh…correct English is jump queue, not cut queue, maybe this is Singlish. Why love? Because some Singaporeans just can’t wait to be their turn so they jump the queue, but when other people jump their queue, they will not happy about it. Here is what happens:

!@#$%^&* Do Singapore have this law: “Jumping Queue will get fines up to $100” Since from what I know, Singapore is a FINE CITY!

Afternoon, Bugis:

I don’t know since how many donkey years I had last stepped to Bugis shopping Center, maybe just 4 or 5 years. Nothing much changes there. Just that there is one stall in the food court which sells soup with bread on top of it is now gone. Time flies, time changes things. Anyway, talking about Food Court, there is something happen there. There is this cleaner pushing a used plate trolley accidentally hit an age 30s lady’s leg. Its normal I guess since the space is small, but the lady keeps going “Ahhh….” As if there is a knife go through her stomach. The cleaner try to look at the leg to see how serious it is and keep apologizing but the lady ask the cleaner to move away, don’t touch her. Anyway, one of her family member came and brought her away, Cockroach being a busybody follow her and eavesdrop what she told to her family:

That lady: Cleaners are all low class people!
Boy 1: Next time don’t come to this type of low class food court.
(They says more, but I scare got sued by this “high class people” Cockroach just post part of it. If I continue posting the rest of their conversation, I think you might hate Singaporeans.)

Eh…Do Singapore have this “high class” and “low class” people? Cleaners are also human. How can you say them until like that?!?! Cleaners is also a job, they get pay for it. Just a small hit, cleaners says “Sorry.” You says “its ok, never mind.” That’s it! Why make your own life so miserable? I mean, we do need to respect each others, we never know, that old uncle who is now serving coffee in the coffee shop is one of the millionaire, now serving coffee for just one month to get a better idea of other people out there.

So from this accident, cockroach learnt: Singaporeans don’t respect each other. Some people look down on cleaners and etc. Some people consider the food court in the Bugis shopping center is for low class people. Anyway, the foods there taste great! They are the one who don’t know what nice food really is.

Next, we went to Bedok, it is somewhere in the east of Singapore. While I was there, I manage not to miss out some crazy sales going on:

(Please click)

Cockroach see that girl shout until no voice, go and support and buy 3 clothes.

Total cost $18, is this consider cheap in Singapore? I guess so…

The T-Shirt is quite nice, it is comfortable if you wear it in places like Singapore as Singapore weather is hot all the day. (Please don't bring winter clothes to Singapore) Anyway, I am quite surprise seeing someone shouting to attract attention, and how Singaporeans look for the clothes. They go like hunting money and throw the clothes everywhere, poor shop staff have to fold it and put it back.

From this shop I learnt: Shouting is a good way of attracting attention, people will tend to go to the shop that is shouting and crowed. Singaporeans find their clothes without thinking that the poor shop staffs have to fold it back nicely. Eh…this is calls Kiasu Singaporeans. Meaning, Singaporeans scare that they can’t get the clothes they want, they have to fight and hunt for it.

Next, we went to Orchard Road to look at the Singapore Christmas lights and have our dinner there. Sam told me that if we want to look at Christmas lights, we have to go to Orchard Road. But I don’t find those lights interesting as compare to other countries; I mean the lights are all the same pattern from the starting point to the ending point, nothing much seriously. I just don’t get the Christmas feeling. Is Singapore Christmas lights always like that, same pattern from the start to the end, or because Singapore not enough money to put on beautiful lights? Eh…shouldn’t be, because I heard Singapore government salary is one of the highest in the world…

There is a bus service in Singapore call hippopotamus bus, or in short, Hipo Bus. It cost…

And it looks like this:

I think it’s for you to look at the boring lights in the Orchard Road which I don’t think is worth it. Spending $23 to take a ride at Hipo Bus, I rather take SBS Bus!

Anyway, we went to this place call “避风塘” (Pi Feng Tang) for our dinner:

First, the service there is good. I was eating carrying my bag on my back, and this waitress came and gave us one chair to put our bags and said: “Want to eat, eat happily, and enjoy your meals.” I was surprise as Sam said that Singapore service isn’t good. I didn’t even bother to ask for a chair to put my bags, yet they give us chair to puts ours things on it so that we can eat properly. Highly recommend this place if you want to have dinner. Especially their Cereals Prawns taste great! But…it’s quite expensive, cost $57.90 for one meal, but I think it’s worth it for once a year.

The Building photo below is call “Singapore Visitor Center” where there is a lot of information can be found there. I do like the words of the building. It looks unique to me.

Nice or not?!?!

That’s the end of my journey of Singapore one day trip! But before I end my trip, how can I end without getting myself a souvenir?

Special Edition Uniquely Singapore Monopoly!

Yah right, it’s a very Uniquely Singapore and Singaporeans. Bye Singapore one day trip! See you next year!!!

Click here to look at 50+ photos and drawings at Flickr photo set.

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This post can’t be done without the following people helps:
Pigirl – Helped in this drawing. Click here to visit her cute Chinese site and her drawing is cute!
Kevin – Singlish and English consultant.
GeckoZ – Singlish, English & Chinese consultant.

Thanks guys! This posts really Kena Tomorrow-ed!

Sorry...

2005-12-21T02:21:00.000+08:00

I am blogging halfway and I need to sleep. Please check back tomorrow’s night(21 Dec 2005, around 11pm). Shall blog something that might be interesting to you, stay tune! Eh…tomorrow have pictures and drawing, so site might load a bit slower.

Your disgusting animal,
Cockroach

Donate Blood

2005-12-18T22:47:00.000+08:00

GeckoZ kena tomorrow-ed again yesterday, and this time round the post that got published in tomorrow.sg is about donating blood. For the benefit of non-Chinese reader, here is the translated version by cockroach and GeckoZ. Only main parts of the post are translated.

GeckoZ finally went for blood donation for the second time.

Got a free calendar, but isn’t as cute as compared to pigirl’s drawing.
Drank the Milo as well, still small cup like before!
Ah bel lied, where got
Milo one big packet?
Oh yea, still got one free puff,
Taste good, not like cheapskate stuff!

Let’s go straight to the main point.
He saw more people today as compared to the first time.
A bit surprised!
There are male and female, young and old, first timer and some experienced …

These kind souls who donated their blood only make up 1% of Singapore's total population.
But the number of people who needed blood is out of your imagination.
Blood, is not just what you see.
On average, one packet of blood can save 3 lives.
For instance, a leukemia patient need 10 packets of
blood every 5 days as only the platelets are required.
In addition, blood are grouped into 4 main types, this contributed to a lesser amount of suitable blood.

People were saying…
“You don't get paid for donating blood
but hospitals are charging patients who need blood, how unfair!”
How you
people actually felt?
Agree? Or the opposite?
If you disagree with it,
Thanks for your understanding.
Anyway, I don’t know who’s agreeing with this
statement.
But the fact is that, the money patients paid were not for the
blood.
Blood needs to undergo proper processes before transfusing into
patients.
These needs money.
If the blood wasn’t tested, would you dare to use it?
All these needs money!

Hope that in the future, instead
of seeing “only 1% of Singaporeans are blood donors”, “Number of blood donors has increased to 2% of Singapore's total population” could be seen.

You
might feel antsy seeing the needle penetrates into your skin, but if you look away from it, everything's going to be fine.
Even a 16 year-old girl could
bring a smile along, just how painful could it be?

If you are 18 and
above with a healthy body and acceptable weight, please, donate that one-tenth of your total blood.
If you are either 16 or 17, plead consent from your
parents.

For more information, click here and here.

And that’s the English version.

Well, you see, only 1% of Singaporeans are blood donors. Where is another 99%? Is it you, or you? People say: “Singaporeans very busy people, no time to donate, donate also no money take!” Busy, excuses right? Some times the company you working for will ask HSA to come to the company and let your donate blood, but did you sign up? They even come to your doorstep already and yet you don’t want to donate! Money? I know Singaporeans is money face, but you go and donate blood got free things to eat. Maybe can save you one meal.

No matter what, donating of blood, don’t just think of saving one meal money; and don’t think that you will waste your time there. After you had donated your blood, you will feel proud of it because you have save 3 lives from your blood. The satisfaction you get, is hardly explain through words. You never know, one day, you met an accident, went through operation, or your loves ones need the blood.

Look at the patients out there who need blood daily, they are suffering, they are in pain. Day and night, they might worry “Do I have tomorrow again? Can I see the sunshine again tomorrow?” Maybe you have seen those things on TV, but you don’t go through it. The worries, the suffering they going through, only them themselves know how hard it is.

Please, donate your blood now. I believe Singaporeans is a group of kind hearted people who will help no matter what. Spread the Singaporeans kindness, let’s make the 1% Singaporeans are blood donator to not only 2% but make it 3%, 4%, 5% or even more! Make the world know that Singaporeans is good people!

Red Blood Cells Says:
“Donate your blood now, they will save other people lives.”

(Cockroach isn’t good at expressing using words and languages, but I try and do my part. My aim in year 2006 is: On my 16th Birthday, 25th May 2006, I will donate my blood.)

Cannot see Chinese Words!!!

2005-12-17T23:05:00.000+08:00

Got quite a number E-Mailed me after the last post saying that they can’t see the Chinese words due to their computer did not have Chinese software, or even they have Chinese software, the browser (Internet Explore) did not shows Chinese words. In this post, it will teach how to install Chinese Software from Microsoft and troubleshooting of weird character shown in the browser.

Note: All pictures are clickable for larger view.

Installing Chinese Software:
Step By Step with pictures explanation, pictures says a thousands words! (Actually is because Cockroach doesn’t know how to explain…)

First, go to start -> Control Panel. In the Control Panel, Choose “Date, Time, Languages, and Regional Options”.

In the “Date, Time, Languages, and Regional Options” page, click “Add other languages”.

Check the option as shown below:

There will be an alert after you had checked the option as shown above. Read carefully, you need to have 230 MB or more of available disk space. Click OK if you are ready to install.

Then click apply.

After you have done with everything, it should ask you to restart your computer. Click OK to restart your computer so that the new setting will take effect. Please come back and continue reading after you have finish restarting

Now, you have finish restarting. Now, go to start -> Control Panel. In the Control Panel, Choose “Date, Time, Languages, and Regional Options”.

In the “Date, Time, Languages, and Regional Options” page, click “Add other languages”.

Click “Details” as shown below:

You will get a “Text Services and Input Languages” window. Click “ADD” at the right hand side as shown below:

Look for “Chinese (PRC)” as shown below. Then click OK.

Get ready to use your Chinese IME by Microsoft by clicking “Apply”!

Tada! Your languages option can be found in your taskbar or around your desktop. It should look something like this:

Now, I got Chinese Software but my browser didn’t show up Chinese words. What to do?!?!

Please note that for maximum viewing pleasure in Bilingual Finger; please encode your browser language to Unicode (UTF-8). For internet Explore, Go to View -> Encoding -> Unicode (UTF-8). Your browser should automatically switch to Unicode (UTF-8) if you had selected “Auto-Select”.

For Firefox user, go to View -> Character Encoding -> Unicode (UTF-8).

That’s it! Hope you can see the Chinese post now if you are a Chinese! For non-Chinese reader, some post will get translated soon.

说一说飞机。。。

2005-12-16T14:03:00.000+08:00

飞呀，飞呀，飞得高。

前几天和猪女一起聊天的時候，我们聊到了關於飞机。蟑螂可没有那么多钱去坐飞机啊，只能靠想象力坐飞机的感觉。猪女说当我服兵役（NS）的时候可能会有机会坐到飞机，不过蟑螂可不要坐到一半要领用降落伞跳下去。

搞不好被罚！哈！哈！哈！
您可以点击看看原本的大小。

说实在的，蟑螂有多么希望可以坐飞机。飞到天涯海角，飞到一个没人认识我的地方，过这无忧无虑的生活。不过，猪女说她有一次坐飞机遇到紧急气流失去飞行力，氧气筒就掉了下来。还以为飞机出事了，吓倒半死。有时飞机飞到一半会摇罷不停，还有飞到半空一半又飞回头。吓死人了。还又一次，飞机降落时差一点失去平衡，就像早前臺灣新聞飞机降落时失去平衡﹐飞机倒一边去了﹐然后就爆炸了！想了想，换成當時是蟑螂在飞机上的话，我会是活生生的比燒死！可能，或许，连我这条小命都没了。蟑螂不要坐飞机了！！！搞不好第一次坐飞机会变成在天上跟世界说声拜拜！不要啊！~

每次搭飞机的读者，飞机有时氧气筒有事没事掉下来可能对你们来说是家常便饭。不过对蟑螂来说，可能会吓倒半死。。。

您可以点击看看原本的大小。

话又说回来，人类没有翅膀可以在天空飞。人类，没有飞机的话就不可能会在天上吃东西，看电影，打電動，睡觉！怎样说呢？你在飞机上，不是有的吃，有的玩，有的看电影，走路去飞机的厕所在天上做你的“大事小事”吗？说不定现在的科技能让大家在飞机上写部落（Blog），搞video blogging, 也可也搞Podcast 呢。你说，飞机很伟大吧？

按：原本要用猪女用来画画的軟件“Adobe Illustrator CS”来画以上的图片。可是怎样画都画不好。最后只好用笔画在纸上然后扫描到电脑上。蟑螂知道画画不好。不过，我画的蟑螂因该够cute（可爱）了吧？

通告。

2005-12-16T03:07:00.000+08:00

明天会有中文部落另加图画！有读者电邮问我是不是没有在写中文部落。其实是我懒，懒得打中文字。蟑螂的汉语拼音不是说很好，打中文部落时会打很久。不像有些人，打中文好像在吃饭一样简单。对蟑螂来说，打中文好像要我的命！不过现在还好，最近跟猪女聊天时有是会以中文来聊天，所以现在打中文不比以前的慢。哈！哈！哈！

蟑螂读了从《双语手指》开站以来的部落，发现我真的没有很多中文部落。好啦！明天原本带利来陪罪。明天会有中文部落另加图画！虽然明天的部落不会有很多文字，可是明天的卖点是我的画画！虽然我的画画不比猪女的好，可是在这个世界上，哪有几位“幸福”的人看过我画的画画呢？明天，大家都有“眼福”了。可以看看蟑螂的画画！不是一张画而以哦，是两张！花了３０分钟画完，用了超过３０张纸。３０３０，大家可以买万字票了！中了别忘了蟑螂哦。～　

好啦，蟑螂要睡觉了。要不然明天以位“熊猫眼蟑螂”会在新加坡出现！

Edusave Award of “Eagles Award”

2005-12-15T03:41:00.000+08:00

Last night, I received another Edusave Awards letter, saying that I have awarded “Eagles Award” You know, I was so happy until I can’t sleep last night, ended up wake up at 12pm today (sleep until like pig).

Well, my mum isn’t the first one to know about this. She is sleeping while I got the letter (I open my mailbox at around 12Am last night). And she knew it when I wake up today. While, who got the first news of me getting Edusave Award of “Eagles Award”? Is it my girlfriend? No, I don’t have girlfriend yet. Then, who got to know it first? Ha! Ha! Ha! Give you a hint, it is a disgusting animal. It is Lizard! Ha! Ha! Ha! Because I was chatting with him last night so he is the first one to know.

When my mum got to know about it, she asked: “How much you want to give me?” and I nearly fainted because of this. I already told her that I will give her some money from Edusave and the rest will be my support for my English tuition. No money, no tuition. No tuition, fail English. Fail English, end of my world. But, still, how much should I give my mum? $50 or $100 or don’t tell me give $150 because I only get $150 from Edusave Award of “Eagles Award”.

Thanks to my CCA teacher who nominated me to get this award. JC, of course, who gave me a lot of chances, maybe if not JC, I won’t started to do much in CCA, and won’t get this award. Still remember, on the third day of End of year examination:

JC: YongKian, your CCA teacher and me nominated you for the Eagle Award.
Cockroach: Really?!?!?! Thank you. Thank you.
JC: Not confirm you will get it. We just submitted your name only.
Cockroach: You submit my name I already very happy.

The conversation is more or less like that. I can’t really remember the whole conversation. But I still remember is the third day of end of year exam.

Really, have to thank JC, because she started to give me chance, and I started from there.

THANK YOU!

Not-That-Pervetic-Post

2005-12-13T20:22:00.000+08:00

I actually don’t wish to blog about this but Kim on MSN said that she wants to know the reaction of your (my blog reader). So after thinking a while, I would take the risk of my blog getting block by Starhub SafeSurf and post this blog entry.

But before I start writing, I had seeks permission from Kim’s boyfriend who going to marry on 15 January next year, I don’t want next time Kim boyfriend next time see me want to box me. Anyway, he is “excited” to see this blog entry also.

It happened yesterday when Kim and I had a home visit to do. The house we are visiting is at the end of the corridor. So Kim and I had to walk this long corridor to reach the house. But while walking halfway at the corridor to the house we are visiting, something happen:

Kim *shake cockroach’s hand*: LOOK! (Pointed at the opposite block)
Cockroach: What?
Kim: You see, got someone strip!
*Cockroach looked at the opposite block “excitingly”*
Cockroach: A 13 or 14 year old boy you also want to see?!?!?! And why ask me to look? I underage! R 21 thing I cannot see!!!
*Quickly use one had and cover my eye*
*Cockroach roach grab Kim’s hand and walk faster*
Cockroach: Faster walk, faster walk. Don’t look, don’t look. You got boyfriend already. He is 26 year old guy with six packs. You want to see, go and see your boyfriend, don’t look at 13, 14 year old poor boy can?
Kim: Wah…walk slower, take a look only.
Kim: Why your faces turn red? You also strip in your room?
Cockroach: I do whatever things in the toilet!
[Edit]
Kim: Wah! His that one quite long, you now almost 16, should be longer right? [I make it not that specific; she actually said it in a very specific way]
Cockroach: I shorter…
Kim: Yours shorter?!?! *giving the shock look*
Cockroach: I haven’t finish! I said I shorter or longer got none of your business. Why not you ask your 26 year old boyfriend. Don’t ask me!
[/Edit]

Poor boy, luckily yesterday I never take my camera along, if not Kim will surely grab my camera and took photo of that poor boy!

I guess that boy just come out from the bathroom. From Kim “statement” that boy came out from kitchen with only tower cover his “bottom” and when he close his room’s door, he took off the tower then start wearing his underwear….etc, etc.

Another moral of the lesson to guys out that, Singapore HDB flats is build close together because Singapore land not enough, Singapore government let us live in the sky (HDB flat now build taller and taller) let us live close together to create friendship with other races (good idea! So that we don’t have much race riot like other countries), so when you want to change your clothes, do whatever you want, please, close your window, draw your curtain, close whatever thing or maybe learn from me, do whatever thing in the toile so that other people at the opposite block can’t see. You never know, next time Kim or me or maybe any other pervert uncle in Singapore see what you are doing, we take out camera and take photo! This goes to the ladies as well!

[Edit]
Yeah, as you can see, I had added some part of the conversation. I still censor some of them. But I think I putted that part in the conversation already very pervert. The added conversation is shown within [edit] and [/edit]. Well, bellow is my conversation between Richard (Kim boyfriend) in MSN after this post.

Richard: I never knew I got such pervert girlfriend. Ha! Ha! Ha!
Cockroach: I also never knew that I have such pervert person around me…
Richard: I must be careful with her.
Cockroach: I also, beside you, I am the second guy closer to her. I work with her, sometimes eat with her, but thank goodness I won’t sleep with her. Ha! Ha! Ha!
Richard: You dare, I box you!

Finish editing.
[/Edit]

I cannot go!

2005-12-12T16:45:00.000+08:00

I had been busy recently, not busy playing games but busy typing notes, study and prepare for next year lesson. (Yes, cockroach is hardworking boy…) actually is because I scare next year cannot make it and my “absorption” of my content is really slow so I a bit “kiasu” (afraid to lose) start study first since November. But…

Last night in my hotmail inbox, I saw this:

In the E-mail, it asked me to attend this monthly student/ youth meeting (I think I am still student right? So I think I still go under student meeting). And that meeting is something I have not attended for a long time. Since they didn’t make it compulsory, so Cockroach doesn’t go for it. I mean every first Sunday there is one global (where everyone around the world do the same thing) already. Then at the second or third weekends I have to attend the lecture (talk about this history, background and etc). These two things already had spent a lot of time already and if I still going for student meeting (talk about this history, background, and student life problem) I will waste more time on this thing which I doesn’t want it to happen.

After I saw the E-mail, I didn’t even get the chance to reply yet. Someone who call herself “May” phoned me at around 11pm (Hello, who call people at that time?!?!)

May: Hello, I am May I am looking for YongKian (me) please.
Cockroach: Eh…which May is this?
May: From PC.
Cockroach: oh…*know what she wants to talk about already…*
May: You know, on 26 Dec we have a student meeting at
Cockroach: Oh, I know, at the new building 3rd floor right? I knew about it already.
May: Oh… so are you going because…
Cockroach: oh, I know. Because need to register before Sunday which is today right? I know I know this already few days ago.
May: So are you going?
Cockroach: I am quite busy recently. I still have not confirmed yet because…
May: Busy is excuse right? Busy playing games right? I know people like you play maple, gunbone (spelling, I don’t know…) right?
Cockroach: Eh…sorry, I don’t really play games. I am busy…
May: Busy what? Go for the meeting is good. It is good for our Singapore next generation future (blah, blah, blah, cockroach didn’t understand what she talking about.)
Cockroach: But I really busy. I need to take care of my siblings.
May: Oh…you got siblings. How old?
Cockroach: 5 and 7.
May: oh…so cannot go? *sound disappointed*
Cockroach: Not confirm yet. I very time got last minute to do something. If I said I can go now, latter cannot go how? So eh…I said I cannot go.
May: Ok…
Cockroach: before you put down your phone, can I ask you one question?
May: Yes! *sound excited again*
Cockroach: eh…How you got my house number?
May: [reason she says…] (I don’t want to put it up here because quite mad about that.)

I think this may is my new student “head” who in charge me. Cool, finally someone some quite young had in charge me. And this one isn’t that bad, at least she speak politely, just that she called at the wrong time. And thanks for her understanding.

Why thank for her understanding? Because some of my past In-charge just simply won’t understand and will, let’s name that person superwoman:

Cockroach: I cannot go because I need to take care of siblings.
Superwomen: why not bring your brother and sister along?
Cockroach: *fainted*

Hello? I am only 15 year old poor guy can’t bring 2 devil out. Not because I don’t want. I tired it before and one of them almost gets lost. And I can’t be bringing the two devils cross the busy roads and etc. PLEASE UNDERSTAND!

Okay, if anyone of my head, student leaders read it. Please understand my situation. I got my own life…

Evidence of my laptop has no games:

(I try to make this post as funny as possible, but I failed to do so.)

Mad

2005-12-11T03:06:00.000+08:00

Today, quite a lot of things had made me mad about it. Not really a lot, but I seldom get mad.

Around 3PM, agent had come to our house, and I don’t why the agent need to touch the cable, our cable wire went some wrong after that. He said he want to check got cable to go online or not. I was like: “No cable how to watch T.V? Every house sure got cable what…” That’s why today we can’t watch T.V; I can’t go online since afternoon.

I am not really mad about the itchy hand agent…I was really mad about my mom that had just happen just now…

[Time: 11:30PM]
Mum: After dad had done with the cable, wake me up and I need to go to the 24 hours supermarket to buy stuffs for tomorrow. I go and sleep for a while first. I very tired.
Cockroach: Okay.

[Time: 12:25AM]
*ring, ring* the telephone rang.
Dad: ask mum to come down, I almost reaching home.
Cockroach: But mum said come up do cable first, then go and buy things.
Dad: But might do very long leh…
Cockroach: But mum taking nap. She said after you finish with the cable then wakes her up to buy things
Dad: Oh…ok then.
*went to the master bedroom and put the phone down.*
Mum: who call?
Cockroach: oh dad.
Mum: ask me to go down har?
Cockroach: But I told dad to come up and do cable first because you still sleeping. Go back and sleep, go back and sleep. After finish the cable I wake you up.

After a while…
*Mum come out of the room*
Cockroach: Not going to sleep? I though you said you very tired...
Mum (shouting): Why you ask dad to come up and do cable first? Now what time liao? I no need to sleep is it? I just now sleep a little while where got enough? Tomorrow still have to wake up early!
Cockroach: But you said after dad finish with the cable then wakes you up to buy things.
Mum (shouting): Is you said one okay? Tomorrow don’t want to cook curry liao lah! I go and sleep now, tomorrow no need to cook!
*Mum went back to the room*

[Time: 12:43AM]
*Dad came home*
*Cockroach rush to dad*
Cockroach: Eh…send mum to supermarket first.
Dad: Ai yo… your so troublesome. Quick, ask her to come out.
*went to the room*
*cockroach shaking mum*
Cockroach: wake up, dad waiting for you.
Mum: tomorrow don’t want to cook liao. Go out!
*shake mum*
Cockroach: wake up, wake up….

After a while, dad came into the room
Dad: Can go liao?
Cockroach: don’t know mum. She just now said after you finish with the cable then wakes her up to buy things, but now she angry.
*Mum suddenly got out of the bed, pointing at cockroach*
Mum (shouting): Is you said on okay? Tomorrow don’t cook liao lah. I now want to sleep, you don’t need to talk so much, get out.
*went to bed again*
Cockroach: faster wake up, dad waiting…

After while, dad make hand signal to ask me to go out of the room, he go and make the cable first.
Cockroach (shouting): I don’t know why I care so much on this family!
*Slam the master bedroom door*
*went to my room, slam my room door and kick the door 3 times.*
And haven’t gets out of the room until now.

I know I am wrong by raising my voice and slam the door. But I really don’t know what I had done wrong beside that. I follow what my mum says, but in the end I got scolded. I really don’t know what happen. My parents are working, I took care of this family, and I took care of my two little devils. Sometimes when I follow the instruction, I can even get scolded. I don’t know why, sometimes I really wish to give up taking care of the family because it is not easy, not easy at all. Because of taking care of the family, I don’t really interact with outside world; I don’t live like a teenager. All I do is after school, go home taking care of kid. Next day, same time and it got day after day with no changes. Really, I want to give up…

Okay, I feel better after typing out all this. Fell free to help my mum to scold me. Maybe you can find what’s wrong, because I don’t know what I had done wrong. Maybe, as a viewer, you might see what I had done wrong.

This post is written offline, starting writing on 11 December at 1:15AM and finish writing at 1:46AM.

Vote!

2005-12-09T15:43:00.000+08:00

Okay, I am going to help one school, 2 people (who you are familiar with) to ask for votes. So here we go!

Yesterday early the morning, when I sign in my MSN sub-account, someone talk to me. Let’s make that person name call donkey. The chat below had edited, added some things to make it more “lively”. You know, Donkey is a boring person, he don’t make jokes. If I just happily copy and paste our conversation, I doubt you will visit here again.

Donkey: YK (a.k.a Cockroach) can help to vote for the school?
Cockroach: Oh… for what?
Donkey: You never watch Kid central?
Cockroach: Excuse me, I’m not young already.
Donkey: Ha! Ha! Ha! Just put one vote and help us.
Cockroach: For what? You haven’t answered me. Now 7A.M, and can’t you see “DO NOT DISTURB” in my nick? I am busy typing notes.
Donkey: Ok, I know you busy person. The school is in kid central show. Need your vote! Please help…
Cockroach: how to vote? SMS, Call or what?
Cockroach: Need money or not?
Donkey: go to Kid central website vote. [Link]
Donkey: no need money, just pay your internet bill will do.
Cockroach: Then got money take?
Donkey: Money take your head! Got prize, but not money...
Cockroach: ok, ok, I got to go. I need to catch my first train. Bye, bye.
Donkey: Huh? What train? You are at oversea now?
Cockroach: Eh…I mean I want to watch news! Bye, bye!
Donkey: oh, ok. Bye, bye. Before you go, remember to vote, tell other people, you can win something. And,
*Cockroach went offline.*

Cockroach now very scares of that Donkey. Every time I go online, he will ask me to vote even though I already voted. Eh, if you wonder why I call news as train, there is some secret to it and I forgot only me and someone know about the secret only.

So, okay, I am now asking everyone here to vote! Click here to go to the voting page and vote for X-Games Club by JunYuan Primary. Help the three pretty girls and help me ex-school, can? Your vote will stand 30% of their total score. If my ex-school wins, you may even stand the chance to win $50 worth of KFC vouchers. You can buy a lot of Chicky Meals, a lot of chess fries, a lot of things! But please, you can only vote once, if not your votes will be disqualified.

Next, I will ask people here to vote for 2 Singapore Famous Blogger! Surprisingly, both famous starts with Mr. They are, Mr. Brown and Mr. Miyagi! Like what Mr. AhSoon said, maybe if I get an “English name”, Mr. Roach or Mr. Cockroach, maybe I can become a famous Blogger! Eh… but I don’t want my surname to be Cockroach in my birth certificate!!!

Click here to vote for Mr. Brown and Mr. Miyagi in Weblog Awards! You can place one vote everyday. Eh… one day vote Mr. Brown, one day vote for Mr. Miyagi, fair? Ha! Ha! Ha!

All voting for KFC and Weblog Awards will ends on 15 December 2005, place your vote now! I mean now, right now! Go and vote!

... got molested

2005-12-08T03:46:00.000+08:00

Advise: Ladies and immature readers don’t read it! Age, isn’t a thing, just see how mature you are.

Today when I was with the kids, I got…I got molested!!! This is what happens, should I, or should I not call the police?

Saw ah boy
Cockroach: why so sad?
Ah boy: my card lost.
Cockroach: oh…where you put it?
Ah boy: Don’t know.
Cockroach: Wait here, I help you find. Don’t run anywhere, stay here.

(When cockroach come back, saw ah girl and ah boy together)
Ah girl: I saw he take your cards (pointing cockroach)
Cockroach: I never take!
Ah girl: Got! Inside your pant!
(Cockroach quickly empties his pocket)
Cockroach: see, don’t have. I am finding ah boy cards, don’t anyhow said, ok?
Ah girl: See his pants, got something inside!

(Ah girl and Ah boy rush to cockroach and start touching his pant. That “area”, that “thing” only guy got, you know…what I mean?)
Cockroach: (Quickly lie on the floor to “protect”)
Cockroach: Don’t have!!!!
Ah boy: Got, got.
Cockroach: I help you find ok, it is not inside my pant!
Ah boy: Just now I saw, got.
Cockroach: that one is not your card!

That’s the problem with guy. You know sometimes when we wear jeans or pants, sometimes at “that area” had a “small hill”. And kid who are very pure in mind will though that their toys, cards, or whatever will hide inside!

Cockroach haven’t got molested, cockroach very good at "protecting". So…moral of the story is…is what? Eh…next don’t act so clever and think that you can wear those jeans that are tight and you can fit into it! Choose the right size…really…

Crazy Cockroach Ideas

2005-12-06T16:42:00.000+08:00

“Teacher, I forgot to do my homework.”

I bet this is what teachers normally hear right? Few months ago when Sam, June, Ah May, and Kim sit down together to talk about their work life and their student, Cockroach sitting with them to ~~be busybody~~ know more about their job and serve them drinks and etc. So they start to think for ideas on how to ~~punish those students for not doing their homework~~ stop people forgets about their homework. Yea right, teachers got pay for listen to the students excuse for not doing their homework; make the teachers angry and etc, etc.

How to stop student for not doing their homework? Sometimes, we, the students, really forget to do the homework or sometimes maybe, in the worst case, we leave our homework in class. Yea, it also part of the excuses that teachers hear right? But, sometimes it is true! But the problem is teachers don’t believe us.

We can have homework call alert, you know, when there is homework, there will a call, SMS or whatever to remind you of your homework. But how will it works, I don’t know. Maybe must ask telecom expert. Image…

When boyboy wanted to sleep…
*beep beep, beep beep* SMS alert
The message says:
---Start message---
Your homework today for student ID 1900:
Math Workbook page 1 to 20.
English workbook page 56 to 60
History homework, source base worksheet
Social Studies homework, 5 essay question.
---End of message---
Boyboy: Oh shit! I forgot to do Social Studies homework. Better do now. 5 essay question, need a lot of time to finish. Better don’t sleep now. Luckily have this SMS alert, if not tomorrow will get scolded. Thanks to SMS homework alert.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Yea, all thanks to SMS alert, but this will only work for student who really cares about their homework and their studies. For those who only think about playing games, don’t waste so much money sending SMS alert to them.

But what happen if we forgot to bring our homework home? Got SMS alert also no use, never bring homework home, how to do? So, cockroach here, proudly introducing one of his crazy ideas…

Homework Pack!
(Click to enlarge the photo of Homework Pack.)

Teacher can simply put all their worksheet and etc inside this homework pack and student just got to remember to being the homework pack home. You know, sometimes when we got so many homework we might leave it one of them. With this homework pack, either you forgot to bring the whole homework pack or you just forgot to put the worksheet inside. Your can also try to have all subject in one homework pack or maybe one subject per homework pack. But remember, sometimes when student don’t like a particular subject, they won’t bring the homework home.

On that next day, teacher can just collect the homework pack for marking. And return the homework pack to them next time. So maybe student will get 2 to 3 homework pack and it rotates. The homework pack is recyclable. Please, save the Mother Earth.

The “homework pack system” has many ways of using it. It has to depend on the teacher on how to use the homework pack so that student will not easily forgot to do their homework or bring back their homework. It must also depend on the class that which method will work the best for the class.

Above are just my crazy ideas. PLEASE DO NOT USE IT. If you use it, please be prepared to be listed on student most hated teachers list. (Sam, got it?)

But I think…no one is using this stupid idea right? Ha! Ha! Ha!

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Because cockroach scares get into trouble because of this post. So, I came out with this:

Note: I used the school name and the core values because I think the core values suit the homework pack idea. If the school found this entry and not happy about it because I used the school name, school logo and core values, the school have the right to ask the blog entry to be taken down.

P.S to JYSS students: The school isn’t using the idea. The Homework pack is photoshoped. Please do not send the homework pack picture to others and say something that is not true. You don’t want to get into trouble so do I. Please think before you do or say anything.

Finally

2005-12-05T04:10:00.000+08:00

Finally, the day has come. It’s the day that I longed since I addicted to blogging. Now, I officially announcing that I am no longer addicted to blogging anymore.

Maybe because of my life had changed recently to more challenging, busy life. I hardly have the time to blog. I am now experiencing stress, and also reflect myself, am I a teenager. Since holiday started, I didn’t really rest yet. And maybe by now, some of the classmate had already when overseas for holiday, went to our Singapore shopping heaven to relax themselves by shopping.

Cockroach here didn’t say I never relax yet. Pigirl introduced some game for me to play and I did play those games. Try to figure how to play the games and etc. Cockroach never really plays online games and never wrote game guild before. That period of time when Pigril asked me to play games and try to solve the game, it is really have so much fun.

Cockroach thinks that, maybe he is not a really teenager yet even though his age “15 year old” is under teenager age. If you ask cockroach “Have you went out with your friend before?” Cockroach will say with proud “No, except class gathering.” And in class, I don’t have much friend, only Dzul, Seri are treating me as friends. In the whole school, beside Ben, Yan Ting and the gang who always with me during recess time and have our breakfast together during our recess, we don’t have other time to be together anymore. And cockroach can’t go out with people after school because I need to go straight home.

Maybe you start asking another question “Cockroach, you so good boy? Go straight after school?” Actually, both my parent is working. And since I was age 8, I was trained to buy my food by myself by cycling for 10 minutes to nearby coffee shop, by age of 10; cockroach was taught how to take care of babies and my younger siblings. I watched them grow, day by day, year by year. Now, they are aged 5 and 7 this year. It is my duty as part of this family to take care of them as my parent is not around. I had to fetch them from school, make sure they done their homework, and this make me goes home straight after school. And because beside school, I stay at home, Internet had become my best buddy. And blog is something that I come across 3 years ago, and started to write my feeling to the blog.

In fact, in Cockroach Internet Explore, you can only see tons of blogs address, and yahoo website and nothing else. Blogging had made me grow up, and my blogs and you, the blog reader watches me grow up. Even though your might thinking “Cockroach’s blog no one come and visit.” But tell you something that maybe you thinks you are the only one doing it. Most people give their comment through E-Mail and MSN. Most of them don’t tag or leave comment in the blog. Maybe, because they think by E-Mail and MSN, I would reply faster.

Thank you Lizard, giving suggestion, testing this and that, and not forgetting to thank you for coming out the idea of Bilingual Fingers and also my nick “Cockroach” and also asking me to go for your Blogger meet that is coming soon. Thanks to AJ, for posting comments in my blog for the past 2 years, thank you. Thanks to JC, to be the first teacher to read my blog. Really, had to thanks JC, because she had changed a lot of my life to make me a better person.

Thank you everyone for supporting yongkian.blogspot.com, skyblueyk.blogspot.com, ykworkplace.blogspot.com and not forgetting bilingualfingers.blogspot.com. Bilingual Finger is something that I’m proud of in my life because from here, I got many readers from many countries.

Here, I wanted to say that I am not quitting blogging. I repeat again, I am not quitting blogging. I will still blog, is just that, I am not addicted anymore. I hope to try more blogging style to see which style suit this blog’s readers the best. ; )

Don't know what to said.

2005-12-03T03:28:00.000+08:00

Nguyen hanged today; I think Singapore government is cold blooded. I know a lot of blog had expressed their thoughts, feeling and etc in their blog.

The person is already dead; at first I don’t have much feeling towards this case until I read the news as follows:

Singapore has hanged a 25-year-old Australian drug smuggler after rejecting a high-level diplomatic campaign to commute his death sentence.

Nguyen Tuong Van, who pleaded that he was trying to earn money to help pay his twin brother's debts, died at dawn on Friday behind closed doors at Changi Prison in the city-state, which leads the world in executions compared to its population.

He was arrested in Changi airport, just minutes away from the prison, three years ago and will return there in a coffin Saturday for his last flight home to Melbourne, where church bells tolled as he was being hanged in Singapore.

In a Roman Catholic funeral mass for Nguyen, fellow ethnic Vietnamese priest Father Gregoire Van Giang, who became a close family friend and witnessed the execution, said the condemned man was "very brave" up to the last minute.

Tears flowed during the 150-minute service in a packed convent chapel where Nguyen's remains were brought in a dark wood coffin after being delivered to undertakers wrapped in a white shroud and carried on an orange stretcher.

The Nguyen case generated public outrage in Australia, where capital
punishment has long been outlawed.

Nguyen was executed for trying to smuggle 400 grams (14 ounces) of
heroin from Cambodia to Australia via Changi airport in 2002. Possession of more than 15 grams is punishable by death here.

Singapore turned down repeated pleas for clemency, including from
Australian Prime Minister John Howard, and there have been calls for a retaliatory boycott of Singaporean companies.

"I have told the prime minister of Singapore that I believe it will
have an effect on the relationship on a people-to-people, population-to-population basis," Howard told Australian radio Friday, but he said a boycott would achieve nothing.

His counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, was unmoved by the furore, calling the death penalty "necessary" and a part of the criminal justice system.

The Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission said "the death penalty is the ultimate violation of human rights -- the right to life" and against current global trends on capital punishment.

"The Singapore government must acknowledge these trends and move to abolish its barbaric use of the death penalty without delay."

Executions in Singapore are usually conducted with the prisoner
shackled and hooded before a noose is put in place and a hangman pulls a lever to release a trap-door, snapping the neck. Relatives are not allowed to witness executions.

Nguyen, who had no previous criminal record, said he was smuggling the drugs to Australia to help pay off debts owed by his twin brother Khoa.

After the execution, Nguyen's lawyer and Khoa, wearing yellow ribbons, emerged stony-faced from the prison.

In Nguyen's home city Melbourne, hundreds of his supporters bowed their heads in silence at a church as a bell tolled 25 times to mark his execution, once for every year of his life.

A silent vigil for Nguyen also drew hundreds of people to a plaza in central Sydney for the moment corresponding with dawn in Singapore.

While Singapore stood firm in the face of repeated calls to spare
Nguyen's life, it did bow to pleas to let him touch his mother Kim one final time Thursday, although they were unable to hug.

"They were able to hold each other's hand and Kim was able at least for some time to touch (Nguyen) on the face," lawyer Julian McMahon said. "That was a great comfort to her."

Howard, however, lamented Singapore's refusal to let Kim embrace her son."The clinical response of the Singaporean authorities to the final request of the man's mother to embrace her son -- I was particularly disappointed with that response, very disappointed," he said.

Amnesty International called the hanging a "brutal and cruel
punishment". It says Singapore has the world's highest execution rate relative to its population of just 4.2 million, including resident foreigners.

Around 420 prisoners were sent to the gallows between 1991 and 2004, Amnesty said. Singapore's home affairs ministry said 66 Singaporeans and 22 foreigners were executed between 2001 and September 2005.

Cockroach doesn’t care about the state of how many people got executed, and also not talking about should he get this punishment or not. But cockroach is touched by :

“In Nguyen's home city Melbourne, hundreds of his supporters bowed their heads in silence at a church as a bell tolled 25 times to mark his execution, once for every year of his life.”

“While Singapore stood firm in the face of repeated calls to spare Nguyen's life, it did bow to pleas to let him touch his mother Kim one final time Thursday, although they were unable to hug."

The bell tolled 25 times, once for every year of his life. His body carries his parent blood and his mother pregnant for 9 months, and after 25 years he got capital punishment.

Because he wanted to get some extra money to pay his brother debits, he ended up losing his life. Because of one mistake, he never can turn back again. And he never, ever got the change to hug his mother again.

I though Singapore is a heartland? Why? Why have to take away a life just like that?!?! We are all born by our mothers! Can’t we feel how the mother is feeling? How sad will it be when she loses his child because his child wants to earn some cash because of his brother! Why? Someone tell me why? I think we should talk and see human touch first before talking about law. (In case you don’t know what the last sentence means, I am trying to said “讲人情先再讲法律。”

Okay, I a bit too agitated, I just think that it is not worth it, not worth it at all.

P.S: if when I die, there is church bell toll once of every year of my life (or something like that, I am not Christian), hundreds and thousand of people bowed their heads in silence; I die also die very happy. I know cockroach very bad, someone got handed and I talk about this. But, will this happen one day?

Library

2005-12-02T03:35:00.000+08:00

“I don’t have the time to bring my kids to library.”
“Where got time, need to do housework.”
“I have to work all day in the office, and rest during weekends. How can I bring my kids to the library?”

Blah, Blah, Blah, it is the 101 excuses given by parents when they are asked to bring their child to the library to read and borrow books.

“E….. Library not nice, I rather stay at home and play games.”
“I got a lot of things to do, no time to go library” (their “things” is playing games)
“Singapore library all the book is the same, nothing new, not nice.”

That is the 101 excuses given by kids when they are told to go to the library to read book.

As we can see, 2 parties don’t want to go library. Is library that scary? Why they find so many excuses not to go to library?

Before I talk crap, let your listen a song sang by a cute purple dinosaur, Barney, and his friends:

Play Song!
If the song doesn’t load, please try again an hour or so because bandwidth exceed. Sorry for bad quality of the song. I recorded it from VCD.

Is the song nice? I hope you like it. If you listen to the song carefully, you might hear of “You will be proud when you took a book home from the library.”

Cockroach here thinks that we must cultivate the habit of reading in our kids. I think reading is the most basic things that can improve our languages and of course, using books to explore the world! Eh… Not even the world, Space even.

Parents should start bring their kids to the library since they are young to cultivate their habit of reading. Don’t say you don’t have any time; is your child important or money important? You don’t want one day your child point at you and said “It’s your fault for not cultivate the habit of reading since young!” If you really can’t bring the kids to the library, make arrangement with your kids tutor to bring them to library. Some tutors are very willing to do that!

I am a bookcockroach (bookworm, but my nick is cockroach so it is bookcockroach) love library so much! Library makes me learn a lot of things. The books from the library make me know what is life, make me know what happen at the other side of the world, and make me know, how fortunate I am.

Cockroach is an emotional guy, he can even cry in his room while read books borrowed from the library. (Thank goodness that the library didn’t sue me because the book is wet.) Books can let our imagination runs wild; the library is heaven of book. That’s why cockroach love library so much, library is like my 4th home.

Last time when cockroach is still a kid, he doesn’t get the chance to go to library even though he wants to. Cherish what you have now; the books in the library can let you learn lots of things.

Remember, “You will be proud when you took a book home from the library.” But of course, you will going to read the book you borrowed.

Game Guide: Escape the scary Circus Troup 游戏密方：逃离恐怖马戏团

2005-11-30T14:37:00.000+08:00

Few days ago, pigirl introduce a game to me and I find it very fun. Click here for the game and click here for pigirl post. Below is the game guide for the game. You can click those pictures to enlarge them. Have fun!

前几天，猪女介绍一个游戏给我玩玩而我觉得那个游戏好好玩哦。要玩那个游戏请点击这里，点击这里看猪女的blog小玩意的blog post。以下是游戏密方。您可以点击那些图片把图片放大。祝你会玩得开心！

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RULES OF THE GAME
In the fair with the Mysteries, you must carry out a survey and solve enigmas. With this intention, you must explore each place that you visit. Courses of the screen of play with your cursor, and the audio indices and/or visuals will guide you towards the next stage. Click to move your character in the selected direction.

TO COLLECT OBJECTS
You must find the objects which will help you to solve the enigmas. Your character will seize some and will add them to your inventory located on the left side of the screen of play. You could then use the items for the need.

游戏规则
神秘游乐场, 您必须动动脑和解决谜底。以这个意图, 您必须探索和参观各个地方。点击和移动您的人物在各方向。

收集物品
您必须找到物件來完成任務。當你要物件時候，物件在你的画面左手边。

Cockroach says:
The whole game is in French, so you might not know what the hack the person is talking about and what to do. This guild wills guild you through the game.
蟑螂说：
这个游戏是法文，所以大家可能听不懂那些人在讲什么还有不知道要做什么。不过，这个游戏秘方会指导您完成这个游戏。

Start of the game:

Click it! 点击“JOUER”

You will then go into introduction; you won’t able to understand, so click the words in the left hand corner.
您然后将进入介绍; 您不可能会理解那些人在讲什么, 所以点击右下角的字。

You will enter to the main ground of the game; and here we will start our game!
你将会进入游戏的主目的地；大家可以開始玩游戏了！

First, click on the things that are circle red in the picture below. Click the egg in the “mailbox” for No.2
首先，点击圖中那些我作了红色圈的記號。在No.2点击邮箱拿走雞蛋。

Next, go to the house as shown below.
接下来，依照下面的图去那间屋子。

Follow the steps and you should able to find 3 items.
Step 1: Click No.1 and click the bones. Next, click and drag the bones to form a skeleton. It should look something like picture 2.

After completing, the skeleton should give you a tooth.

Step 2: Click No.2 and click the fan. You should able to find a yo-yo.
Step 3: Click No.3 and click the mirror pieces. And there, you picked up a piece of mirror. That will be your third item found in the house.

跟着下一步骤，你可以在里面找到三样东西。
步骤一：点击No. 1 点击那些骨头。然后，把骨头放到旁边的杆，形成一个骨骼。骨骼应该是像图二。

形成骨骼后，骨骼会给你一根牙子。

步骤二：点击No.2再点击风扇。你可以找到一个遥遥。
步骤三：点击No.3再点击镜子片。你就会拿一片镜子。那片镜子是你的第三样东西。

Picture 1 图一

Picture 2 图二

Next, go to the house that is upside down. It is circle in blue in the picture below.
现在，去那间颠倒屋子。在一下图，那间颠倒屋子是有蓝圈的。

Inside the house, drag your mirror piece to the moonlight from the window. And also click on the mixing machine. You need it in your game latter on.
在屋子里面，把你的镜子放在窗口位置﹐然後會射进来的月光。也不要忘记点击搅拌机。等一下你再游戏里需要搅拌机。

Now, go to the house that is circle in brown.
现在，去那间被圈褐色的屋子。

Inside the house, follow the following step carefully and you will change some of your items into something else and get another 2 items. Beware; the following step is a bit complicated.
在屋子里，仔细跟着以下步骤，你可以换你现在的一些东西成另一个东西。你在这也可以拿到两样东西。不过请注意，一下步骤有一点复杂。

Step 1: Click No.1 as shown in Picture 3. Drag the mixing machine to the table as shown in picture 4 and then click the plug as shown in Picture 5.
Step 2: Click the button as shown in Picture 6. There will be a screen popping out and it will look like Picture 6. It shows the items you had collected. If your screen has any missing item shown in Picture 6, check this guild again see have you miss out anything.
Step 3: Here goes the complicated part. In Picture 6, I had circled 3 items. Click one of the items; I will use Item 1 in Picture 6 as an example.
Step 4: Click the button again in Step 2.
Step 5: Drag the item to the mixing machine as shown in Picture 7.
Step 6: Do the same thing to another 2 item in Step 3.Drag those item to the mixing machine.
Step 7: After finish putting 3 items in Picture 6 into the mixing machine (from step 3 to step 6), press the mixing machine button as shown in Picture 8.
Step 8: Click No.2 as shown in Picture 3.
Step 9: Click No. 3 as shown in Picture 3.
Step 10: And now, you can leave this house forever!

步骤一：在图三里按图中点击No.1。在图四里按图中把搅拌机拖到桌子上然后按图五点击插头。
步骤二：在图六里按图中点击按钮。然后有一个弹出视窗在银幕上就像图六。弹出视窗显示你收集到的东西。如果你的银幕有任何东西不跟图六一样的话，请再读回以上游戏密方。看看你有没有漏掉什么。
步骤三: 来到复杂的阶段了。在图六，我圈了三样东西。点击其中一样；按图六我用东西1来示范给大家看。看要做什么。
步骤四：再点击步骤二的那立按钮。
步骤五：按图七，把东西拖到搅拌机。
步骤六：重複步骤五，把步骤三里的三样东西都拖到搅拌机里。
步骤七：把步骤三里的三样东西都拖到搅拌机里后，按图八，点击搅拌机的按钮。
步骤八：在图三里按图中点击No.2。
步骤九：在图三里按图中点击No.3。
步骤十：现在你可以永远离开这个屋子了！

Picture 3 图三

Picture 4 图四

Picture 5 图五

Picture 6 图六

Picture 7 图七

Picture 8 图八

Now, go to the house as shown below.
现在，依照下面的图去那间屋子。

And then drag the photo you just found to the mirror. The door will open and you will enter into a maze.
然后把你刚找到的照片放到镜子。门将会打开而你会进入迷宫。

Below is the Maze solution.
一下使迷宫的解答。

You will see a new car appear in the game. Click on it, quick, quick, quick, you are about to finish the game!
你将会看到一辆车出现游戏里。点击那辆车，快快快，你要完成整个游戏了！

Next, click the button to get the item list you had collected and click the pole you found at the beginning of the game. And click the button again to close the pop up screen.
接下来，点击弹出视窗显示你收集到的东西的按钮然后点击你在游戏开始找到的棒子。再点击击弹出视窗显示你收集到的东西的按钮把弹出视窗关掉。

Drag the pole to the car.
把棒子放到那辆车。

Now you are at the top of the car. Click the button to get the item list you had collected again and click the yo-yo you found in the first house and click the button again to close it.
在车顶上。点击弹出视窗显示你收集到的东西的按钮然后点击你在第一间屋子里找到的遥遥。再点击击弹出视窗显示你收集到的东西的按钮把弹出视窗关掉。

And now you drag the yo-yo to the hole.
现在，把你的遥遥放到那小洞口。

Now, you can come down, you got nothing to do at the top anymore. Click the pole.现在你可以下来了。你没有东西可以在上面做了。点击棒子。

Now, click the button to get the items you collected again. Click the cards you got just now not long ago and then click the button again to close it.
现在，点击弹出视窗显示你收集到的东西的按钮然后点击你不久前找到的卡片。再点击击弹出视窗显示你收集到的东西的按钮把弹出视窗关掉。

Now, drag the card to your character.
现在，拖卡片到你的人物上。

Keep clicking the cards until you got “red heart R” and click out.
一直点击卡片直到你拿到“红心R” 然后点击出去。

You will get red heart R card. Drag the card to the card slot. And there, the first gate will open.
你将会拿到红心R卡。托那张卡到刷卡机。你的第一道闸门会打开。

Next click the numbers as shown below.
接下来点击那些号码。

Keep clicking the number blocks to form “421”.
一直点击号码块直到号码是“421”。

The door will open, and now you can enter.
门将会打开，你可以进去了。

Click the button to get the items you collected for the very last time. Click the mixing machine you mixed not long ago and then click the button again to close it.
最后一次点击弹出视窗显示你收集到的东西的按钮然后点击你不久前搅拌好的搅拌机。再点击击弹出视窗显示你收集到的东西的按钮把弹出视窗关掉。

For your very last step, drag the mixing machine to the tube, and you will able to save the girl.
你的最后步骤，把搅拌机托到管子。你就可以就那位小女孩了。

That’s it! You had completed the game! Hope you like it.
就是这样！你已经完成了游戏！希望你会喜欢。

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Cockroach is back!

2005-11-30T10:40:00.000+08:00

Hello! Cockroach is back with much awake now. Ha! Ha! Ha! Image people keep asking you to drink so many wines and their excuse is “We are driving and you aren’t driving.” But I am under age, how to drink, and later police found out knock my door while sleeping how?

Oh, by the way, there is a lot of interesting stuff happen on Sunday open ceremony and the open ceremony dinner. I was dieing to draw them out, but my drawing isn’t good. I will still try, see will it get published or not.

For the last few days, I had been quite busy, busy helping to write 2 books (even though cockroach English isn’t good) and also continue reading the storybook (It’s a kid story book but I do find it meaningful even though I had read it several times.) and yup, I finished it. Also, help pigirl to write a game guild and will publish soon. So I think I am almost done with my report on what I am ding for the pass few days. Keep checking the site please, and enjoy your stay.

Drunk now...

2005-11-28T00:58:00.000+08:00

I will blog tomorrow. I am drunk now. But thank goodness is not drunk until I can’t even walk to the taxi stand. Drink too much today, all uncles fault! Okay, seriously I need to rest. Em… Sorry if there is any typing error, and see you tomorrow.

Now feeling like taking off clothes and jump onto the bed. Em…for…because I am now too hot, so…I want to…I want to…I want to SLEEP! What are your thinking about? Ha! Ha!

See, Cockroach so power. Drunk also can make joke. *Unless your don't find it funny* Joke idea from here.

Guess! Guess! Guess! 我猜！我猜！我猜猜猜！[Nov. (2)]

2005-11-27T00:55:00.000+08:00

Guess is back! This time round I won’t be so stupid ask you to guess who is the person in the photo, but we will guess something that maybe girls would be interested. As your know, my mom says there is SGD$5 per tie, so on the next day, Dad went and find and brought 2 tie for me. And here is your question:

《我猜！我猜！我猜猜猜！》回来了！这次我没有像上次那么笨。我不会问你们照片里的人是谁，而是问一些女人有兴趣的东西。大家都知道，我的老妈说新加坡的默默角落有领带卖新币5 夬钱的。第二天，老爸就自己去找，结果买了两条领带给我。哈哈！问题来了：

Q: Guess how much does each tie cost.
Q：猜一猜那条领带一条多少钱。

Because I don’t want your start scratching your head, here are the hints:
1．Mom said SGD$10 very expensive, would dad go and buy more than SGD$10?
2．Dad didn’t mange to find tie that sold SGD$5.
3．Here are photo of the tie, the photo isn’t very good. But let me tell you something, the tie design is excellent with the material used.

因为蟑螂不要大家开始抓头，这是你们的暗示：
1．老妈说新币10夬钱很贵，你说老爸会买比新币10夬钱还要贵的吗？
2．老爸没有找到新币5 夬钱的领带。
3．这是领带的照片，照片不是说拍得很好。不过，我告诉你啊，领带的设计很好看，也用了很好的布料。

Don’t say too much, start guessing now! Please provide E-Mail so I can send your gift if you guess correctly. Of course won’t be like the first one, give your cockroach photo. Ha!
废话不多说，开始猜吧！请提供您的电子邮件这样我才能把您的礼物送给您。当然如果您猜测正确啦。礼物不是象上次那样，送您们蟑螂照片。哈哈哈。