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In secondary schools, joining a CCA is a must. You have to choose one, you have to represent the school in this and that and bring back some silly honors for the school. I mean you’re great at marching? What the fuck? Is it going to help you in life at all? How is this co-curriculum? Have you just stop and think who is it that you’re benefiting? Is it really yourself or just the school?

And if you think you’re indeed benefiting yourself, couldn’t you choose to do what you want to actually benefit yourself? For example, I love Japanese anime, why can’t I just start a Japanese anime appreciation club where a bunch of people just sit in a room and watch television all day?

My secondary school just had to persuade us to join some crazy uniform groups to nurture teamwork and, erm, country building. I recall my principal urging people to join uniform groups. The CCA talk he gave is absolutely bias and dedicated a whole fifty minutes to uniform groups and ten seconds to comment the existance of clubs and societies. I was so annoying by his speech that I joined a club. Seriously if you joined a uniform group in secondary school, and spend all the time doing drills, perhaps you can find something better to do - like watching anime or play tennis or even running.

Some guys would join the NCC and wear those army uniform. Seriously, you guys are just cosplaying soldiers! If you’re a guy, you have 2 years in national service to slowly cosplay being a soldier, a police or a civil defence guy. And NPCC? Haa! You’re just cosplaying being a policeman. Why don’t you go join the cosplaying club instead. You get to be air-stewardess, Haruhi, maid, bunny girls, esper, ninja, shinigami (death gods), military personel and more. You can change your costumes every week if you want.

As you can see these kids really really hate their school. I salute them for standing up for their own rights not to school!

Love to see teamwork in action. I would do the same if it snows in Singapore, it would be fun. No school for a day and it looks fun too. [Image source]

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I entered math class half an hour late but I’m so glad I did that, the math is rather simple and it’s a total bore in there. I sat beside a Malay girl whom I believe is a mute. Sitting a little further down were a bunch of guys excitedly talking about some game they played. I tried listening in and finally concluded that they are playing MapleStory.

When a bunch of people talk here and there, the volume just goes higher and higher, soon the lecture theatre resembles the ambience of Carrefour hypermart at Plaza Singapura and that is when the lecturer step in to shut us up.

(So bored I tried writing numbers upside down.)

I didn’t have a book to read. I left my house at noon and brought out The Kite Runner (by Khaled Hosseini) to read but finished it before I got into the lecture theatre. The Kite Runner is a wonderful book by the way, very moving story too. Anyway, I sat there practicing writing my numbers upside down. I used to be able to do it quite well.

The lesson finished after 3 hours - okay 2.5 hours since I am late half hour - and I left for the bus stop. It’s the longest wait I had and I never seen so many people outside SIM before. They’re all waiting to board the bus.

The whole math class is getting more and more boring. Sometimes I wonder if I would get slack and stop attending the classes. I don’t feel that I am learning something particularly useful too, it’s secondary school Additional Mathematics and it is quite simple with no assignments. When my class starts on September, I hope I’ll be more hardworking than that for sure.

The chattering, the laughter, the childish jokes - they’re all back. I sat in front of 8 ladies in a lecture theatre listening to the lecturer introducing logarithm, quadratic equations and sets. It’s all something that I have learnt before and this course is more to cater to people who have basically forgotten all their mathematics.

I sat there writing some notes on my work (not the lecture basically) and unintentionally - okay, perhaps a little intentionally - eavesdrop on what the ladies are talking about. I tell you they make the most unfunny jokes you’ll ever hear. I couldn’t laugh. It’s just so cold! I felt the temperature drop each them they tried to misinterpret what the lecturer is trying to remark.

It’s actually like back in polytechnic. After I exit from the lecture hall, I looked at the other two-hundred students, all eagar to learn how to add and subtract. I saw two of my friends too. I perhaps won’t be that lonely this coming semester but it really depends. I can sense not a lot of people are serious about studying there. Most, like me, don’t seem to know why they are in a bloody mathematics class!

Still it felt good. I mean - school felt good. I shan’t complaint too much. Welcome to university, I said to myself.

Must’ve been dreaming a little too much. A check on my schedule reveals my Mathematics night classes are starting. They say that I lack certain Mathematics knowledge so I need to go though it. I do well in Mathematics but I don’t really like the counting and all. It’s some bridging module thing. I’m a little lazy to study under a school again honestly.

I got a little shock on how fast time has passed, however, it also excite me a little. I’ll probably be studying some Japanese too. It should be interesting in the coming months.

The HTML5 draft reflects an effort, started in 2004, to study contemporary HTML implementations and deployed content. The draft:

• Defines a single language called HTML 5 which can be written in HTML (HTML5) and XML (XHTML5).
• Defines detailed processing models to foster interoperable implementations.
• Improves markup for documents.
• Introduces markup and APIs for emerging idioms, such as web applications.

I kinda blog about this HTML5 thing for my own benefit. I just thought it would be useful to take a look at it again another time. They are introducing new elements such as <dialog>, <figure>, <nav>, <header>, <footer>, <datagrid>, <progress> and more. Good news is that getElementsByClassName() is going to be added.

And it would seem like HTML5 is stepping in to help developers expand the capabilities of their web application. It appears that the internet is very serious about moving to the direction of web applications. It may be a good idea to prepare to enter this industry. I’m entering it and I’m pretty optimistic about it.

Elements such as <header>, <article> and <footer> isn’t really necessary, but if developers were to all deploy these tags, they probably isn’t a need for those feeds at all. Every website can easily become feed-enabled.

They’re dropping some elements though, such as the <u>, <frame>, <frameset> and <center>.

Unfortunately, with all these additions, HTML5 is getting more complicated. The learning curve would get steeper. There use to be a time HTML is about layout and positioning and everyone’s using <table>. But things are changing, it’s about layout and XML items. They just sort of changed direction or something. Teachers are probably going to find it hard to explain a macro picture of why those new elements are present in HTML. My web publishing teacher in school isn’t even teaching me CSS that time! In fact, she’s still teaching about font tags when it is already deprecated. CSS was a ‘read-up’ thing. Good to know, don’t need to know for examinations.

Just want to share my thoughts about HTML5, hahaa… Sorry that this post is a little disorganized, I typed in a hurry.

This document describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes that have been made to the language.

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Here are some of the school work that students submitted. I wonder how many are actually real. If you’re feeling a little naughty, you can possibly do something like that to your teacher, do to it those who can accept humor though. And of course, pray that your teacher won’t send you to the principal’s.

(Find x, here it is.)

(I would check to see if it had a vagina.)

(Sleeping with boss wife.) (more…)