James Ng Kok Boon


"When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
Things happen twice. Once in your mind, the other in action.
We write our own chapters in life, we are who we are."
and it goes on...


James Ng Kok Boon

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I've survived the first week of the annual O levels examination that is taking place in every secondary school in Singapore, one more week and the major papers are over! For the past 2 years, we have been preparing for this exam and now as it is coming to an end, i can't help but felt a bit lost. Will this piece of certificate really determines where we go in the future?

Teachers been drilling this in our heads ever since we entered secondary school-Die die must get a good L1R4/L1R5 for your O lvls.
Many failed to grasp the importance of this exam during secondary 1-3 but during sec 4, things start to change. People start getting emo because they couldn't get their A1's(they got an A2) and everyone starts to treat their teachers as precious assets rather then annoying liabilities.
Hypocrites? Thats human nature for you.

Been studying at home or with friends for the whole last week and finally its the weekend, so i was in a dilemma whether i should go enjoy myself or should i be kiasu and chiong my maths.
I guess you guys will know the answer if you know me well :D

I will be going to Beijing at the end of december and this is the first time i am going abroad, I am cereal! Hoping that by the end of O lvls, I would get myself a decent camera phone unlike my current one. It will be a pity if you are going on a trip without a camera.

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Chemistry was sure one tough nut to crack.. studied like siao but all those shit didn't came out at all. When the paper was over, everyone was shaking their heads as if they were high on ecstasy. So I told myself to forget about chemistry and do well for Geography but then...

For the hottest afternoon to be synchronize with the longest paper in my syllabus, i was half-dead before i went into the stuffy hall. Luckily i drank abit of water from Philbert's water bottle which contains a high concentration of bird's nest(Philbert's saliva). I went in to the hall and thank god i was sitting beside the wall fan. When the breeze is coming my way, i react as though i was high on drugs and enjoyed myself for the few, short seconds. The paper came and I started flipping through the pages-No volcanoes.

For the first time in my life, i felt that i am in love with Rambert. He told me all about the deltas a few days before the paper. After the paper ended, being the kan chiong kind, i can't help but wonder.. why is it that every freaking time it is Abdillah that the invigilators have to wait for him to tie his god damn papers. If he is holding on his own time thats fine but argh, he just like to do things to annoy us.

The paper was okay, maybe Cambridge decided to let this last batch to score well but we can't take things for granted. Can we?

Expected Grade for Chemistry before paper : B4
Expected Grade for Chemistry after paper : C5

Expected Grade for Geography before paper : A2
Expected Grade for Geography after paper : B3

OMFG! Cambridge you suck.

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The big day is tomorrow, where i start my battle of one hour and thirty minutes inside that stuffy hall with thousands of head looking down at the table. YES! Chemistry paper is tomorrow.
From the previous post you can see how "prepared" am I so i should not be worrying about anything.
In actual fact I am not worried and I just purchased a set of Bleach Trading Cards from the Internet but this is the first time i am doing online trading with others and i am asked to transfer $33 into the seller's bank account by Thursday.

"Don't do it! It might be a fraud."

Thats what my ignorant sister said to me but i can't blame her because she is more in the reality world while me-virtual.

I've spent money on virtual items before, let me repeat its VIRTUAL meaning something in a game that doesn't exist. However i am not the only idiot around, many people are still hanging on to that dead online game wheras me, quited long ago and already sold off the virtual items ;)

In the Internet, everyone is wearing a mask. Nobody will actually believe anything said by a stranger on the net(not counting those official sites lah) Sooner or later, everybody in the world will start staying at home and only stay online. No one will go out for movie as there is your friendly online video streaming websites like Youtube and Crunchyroll. No one will go out to shop as there is your beloved Ebay. No one will meet outside to discuss anything as there is MSN and other sorts of chat rooms.

I know i whine like a 70 years old man but we just have to wait and see.

Okay time to run.

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*scribble ...* The O's science practical exam wasn't so tough after all, well passing is reachable but getting a distinction is another thing. Alright screw science! Even if I could get full marks for practical, there is no guarantee i can secure a distinction for the main paper. I won't whine about the mistakes i made in the practical exam, it won't change anything i guess.

Just 4 days more to Chemistry paper, so what have i been doing this past few weeks?

02.00- 1.00 Sleeping
1.00-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.30 Computer
2.30-5.30 Revision
5.30-6.30 TV
6.30-7.00 Dinner
7.00-02.00 Computer/TV

Surprised? Everyone is panicky about the exams and I am here spending only 3 hours of revision per day.

Eh got lobang sure get all distinction ar?

Nope, I just can't study for long hours(school is an exception), period. I am so sick of staying at home.. just a few more weeks and i am free from all this.Perhaps i should go on a shopping spree after the O's, like getting some new clothes or accessories since i am going to move on in life, I can't possibly be wearing some clothes that is so orh biang.
Regardless of a Poly or a JC, I will meet people from different backgrounds and will be required to mingle with them.

Please do not wish me good luck for my O's because only those that do not know their stuffs need luck to pass their exams thus i don't want to be labeled as the same with them.

This phrase was stolen and completely plagiarized with no regards for copyright laws. Originality does not exist on the internet.

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What often brought about a smile across your face?
-When you found 100 bucks on the floor
-When someone gives you a surprise birthday party
-When someone do/say something funny

The first and second doesn't occur very often as you don really find 100 dollars on the floor everyday, well don't tell me you drop it yourself and your birthday only falls once every year.

Then the last point is what i am emphasizing on,humor. Do you laugh when someone tells a joke? Do you laugh when someone do something funny? If you don't then i can tell you straight that YOU do not have a sense of humor.
Humor comes in many forms- from jokes to mimicking to cartoons etc.They say that laughing can prevent you from getting heart attacks. True?

When you laugh out loud, don't you feel hot all of a sudden? That's because when you laugh,more blood are pumped around your body which promotes blood circulation.So don't hold back your laugh and be glad that you have a great sense of humor but don't laugh for nothing lah.. wait people thought you siao <--This is funny so laugh. Some people can't take jokes as well as you do so don't assume everyone will be there laughing when you say your "dirty" jokes.They might be offended and give you a tight slap in return.Personally i don't really hate racist or dirty jokes but don't group me together with those racists and perverts, uh ah. I loved comedies very much, from America or Taiwan especially shows hosted by Jacky Wu from Taiwan.He sure got a funny bone as he never fails to make me laugh out loud while watching his shows. Movies like Shrek and Mr Bean are examples of movies that focuses on making you laugh rather then following a plot like Spiderman or X-men. Regarding this, i remembered going on a movie trip with my friends and while the movie was at a part where we can assume it is not funny(as nobody laughs, normally when funny scenes appear, the whole cinema will laugh like a orchestra..) suddenly there is this man sitting behind us laugh hysterically. At some point in the show, we were actually laughing at that guy and not the show ! I know we shouldn't be doing that but that was so hilarious that we talked about it even after the show. Speaking of rudeness, please do not be a sadist and laugh at other's misfortune.You might find it funny but you won't want anyone to be laughing at you when it happen to you right? What goes around comes around.. How true. Happy Laughing

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What do you see when you turn on your Tv set? Of course you see programmes flashing on every station but what else? Advertisements. Lets talk about the advertisements we are very familiar with... hmm the funny ones-M1

Okay so there is this indian guy on the counter of a restaurant called "Mr.Indian Curry House."(Fancy name they got for a restaurant)Then we have someone calling asking for delivery services from the restaurant as they proclaimed that "We deliver EVERYWHERE!" He begin to take down the orders on a piece of paper and asked "Your address please? Sing-ga-poh? Is it in Sabah? Another Country? Eh Mumbai da, India." and hung up the phone. This is quite a catchy phrase that more often then not, the main point of the advertisement-to catch our attention.



So we got a comedian-in-making at Mumbai da? On to the next one.
Another advertisement that leave an imprint on our memories is the Visa Platinum Commercial. First the setting is again in India..(maybe its cheaper there lol) We have this little girl running through the crowd and knocking into a Caucasian,and he goes "woah". Before that was his guide telling him that he should see the birds, more birds more luck. Then the little girl wanted to buy some birds for his brother is going away on a journey.(is that a tradition? to send someone off with birds?) but the hard-hearted man told her that she could only buy one bird.

Reluctantly, she agreed and took the bird away.Then the Caucasian smiled to his guide and showed a Visa Platinum card to the bird-seller. In my opinion, i thought he will go " Huh? Why smile to someone and show me a card for?" but instead he accepted the card and smiled back.
What next was when the girl was releasing her one pathetic bird.. flocks of bird appeared behind her and she was like "Holy shit, who the heck did that ? That guy must be dirty rich." She scanned around and spotted the Caucasian but being a modest guy he looked away, pretending to be amaze as well.








You guys can just find this reminiscing clips in youtube and there are many more funny commercials out there but i ain't have the time to review them one by one. Have a nice day peeps.


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Joel: sian sian sian.
Joel: NOW SIAN, AFTER O LEVELS SIAN, LIFE SO SIAN.
Me: Eh got so many things to do, you no life ar?
Me: You know those "nerds" from RI or RGS study like hell during weekdays but weekends got life one leh
Me: Ivan is confirm no life one.
Joel: LOL
Me: I wonder if he ever go out anot..
Joel: YEA ! DAMN FUNNY! You know that time the dance gathering, he wear that type of pasar malam shirt.
Me: mickey mouse shirt ar?
Joel: Something like that la.
Me: I also seldom go shop for clothes one, no money.
Joel: You guess who wore the same as Ivan on that day?
Me: Girl or Boy?
Joel: Boy la
Me:You say girl i straight away say Yan Shan LOL
Me: Boy ar... Yong han? or Edmond?
Joel:BOTH! HAHAHA!
Me: Damn, i am good.



Above is a conversation i had with Joel over the topic whether life sucks a not and we happen to trample on a interesting topic, who is labeled as a no life person. What exactly is no life?

Scenario 1
Sh*oHe*g: My maplestory hermit lvl 120 liao now i can go *insert maplestory place* to kill *insert maplestory monster* liao. Experience not bad but i need *insert maplestory weapon* so i can deal more damage.

Scenario 2
Nerd: 333 days and counting.. I am gonna break the guiness world record by staying at home straight for a year...

Scenario 3
Me: Want go aljunied anot? There got sell *insert object* quite cheap.
Joel: SIAO! so far...
Me: Got MRT you scare what?
Joel: Still very far leh...
Me: Have you ever left Tampines before?



I think i better stop if not alot of people will come and sue me for slander lol. I won't deny that i am also a no life person, I sleep at 2+ am, i watch animes for hours straight, i play dota at night, i don shop for the latest clothes or gadgets(cos i am poor). There is nothing wrong staying at home the whole day but even birds like to be free in the wild, nobody would like to be caged up. Some say "no money lah, cannot go out" Bullshit. Who set this rule that you have to spend money when you go out? Just have some money-concept and just buy whats necessary and you won't ever have to stay at home because you have no money.

Don't be sad if you the one of those that are similar to my descriptions... There is still hope, firstly you are going to ask yourself what interests do you have? If you have a flair in music, go ahead and sign up for some music courses. This way you will be exposed to people and you will know the importance of dressing up and not wear mickey mouse shirts to gatherings =x
Next, find friends of common interests and hang out with them, of course not with ah bengs and ah lians lah.. decent friends of course.

Gaming isn't as bad as you guys think of, it actually creates a community where people can know each other thru online games. Like Ragnarok Online or World of Warcraft where teamwork is important thus the leader of a Guild(some sort of organization in games) actually mingle with his subordinates/members so that they can share their knowledge of the game among each other.

P.S. Its the weekend today!

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Konichiwa mina-san, which is "Hello everybody" in japanese. Whats up with the Japanese craze you say? I should say lots of people are fans of Japanese Animes or cartoons ranging from Pokemon to Digimon and even Doreamon. So whats the difference between American Cartoons and Japanese Cartoons? The Americans aka the "Ang Mohs" cartoons are B-O-R-I-N-G. Even though they claim that they are very open-minded but in actual fact, they censored everything so that the minds of the youngsters won't be corrupted but thats bullshit.
Heres some trivia for you guys..


These 2 are the same cards but one of them is in Japanese and the other is in English(We can see that dude.)The name of the card in Japanese which got the word Bloo-D on it and most of the cards they reprint in English, it will follow the Japanese name but however Blood to their context is not suitable for children as Yu-Gi-Oh is quite popular with children thus they renamed it to Plasma which scientifically is something found in blood.



Observe carefully my fellow readers... The Japanese version got a cleavage and there is this hexagon thingy( like some sort of cult thingy) on her clothes wheras the English version got a flat chest and the hexagon is replaced by a ruby.

Anonymous: Pokemon is from Amelica lah! Who say from Japan one..

Yes when Pokemon was introduced in Singapore, what we saw was English versions as the "Ang mohs" got tons of money so they bought over the rights of the so-called cartoon call Pokemon thus they can reproduce it in their language. Similarly, Card games like Yu-Gi-Oh,Pokemon,Duel Masters and Naruto Trading Card Games are originally from Japan.

American Cartoons
-Simpsons
-Batman
-Spiderman
-Superman
-Smurfs
-Looney Toons

Japanese Cartoons
-DragonBall
-Sailormoon
-Digimon
-Pokemon
-Rockman

Okay, some of these are old cartoons but who cares, kids central are showing them everyday, trying to tell us that they do not have enough money to purchase new cartoons to air.
Now lets talk about my interest in Japanese Animes.Recently, i watched quite a few animes at crunchyroll/youtube of course.. don't wanna be caught by that company Odex of dling illegally from bittorrents. There is something special in those animes that will make you think about it all day long, from the jutsus(Skills, techniques) they use, the plot and the fighting scenes. So being the easily-manipulated type of person, i was hooked on to this anime called Naruto.
This cartoon is situated in a ninja type of world where children as young as 12 years old have already killed someone. The ninjas in the cartoon uses wide range of skills and strategies which make the fighting very interesting. I somehow influenced Joel and Philbert into this anime too thus we somehow had a common topic other then gaming eh.

The shirts the characters in the cartoon wear are of one-of-a-kind type thus we have what we call cosplays. Cosplayers are people who dressed up like the characters in the animes but a set of the costumes cost about 150 bucks! So i just bought SOME of the items from the cartoon like...

Naruto Headband which allows you to pledge alliance to a village and a pouch.

A pair of ninja boots which allows you to fly from buildings to buildings while wearing them.

Naruto's Deckboxes to keep Trading Cards. Imported from America.

Naruto Collectible cards.

Eh if you don understand what the hell am i talking about, what naruto whatsoever you can just go to wikipedia and find out. Don't say i didn't warn you, you will fall in love with animes after watching some of them.

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Funny pictures by Edwin from yesterday graduation day at school, i can't guarantee you will laugh but i did when i received them.





LOL! Fyi, Mrs Sng is our principal xD Look how happy he is.


Free advertising for M1.



Candid shot!




He must be trying hard to cover it with the small bouquet of flowers he is holding.


All of the above pictures are edited by Edwin and if there is any discontentment, i am not responsible for it.Anyway just take it as a way to reduce stress eh? A few laughs a day, keeps those white hair away.
Speaking of white hair, lots of them appeared on the back my head.The worst part is they chose to gather at the back and not the front so how the hell will i know i have white hair unless when i go to the barber and they will go "Hey! So many white hair, stress ar? Studies or BGR ar?heh."
"No lah..." Typical response from me, trying to avoid the conversation.

Studied Social Studies today as there is a mock exam tomorrow but no one told me whether it is Source-based Questions(SBQ)+Structure-Essay Questions(SEQ) or only SBQ or just SEQ so i just studied all loh then Joel asked me during Dota , SEQ or SBQ. So i just tell him my view lah, should be SBQ+SEQ mah because no reason ms liu keep drill us in SBQ then neglect SEQ. But then Joel told me he asked Edwin and is only SBQ, oh well should be prepared then.

I AM ADDICTED TO THE ANIME BLEACH! OF ALL TIMES BUT NOW!! HOW TO CONCENTRATE FOR O LEVELS! The plot is slowly unraveling .. Read the spoilers la bodoh! Even if i read the spoilers, i still can't picture the fight, the scenes etc. Must tahan.. sigh.

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Phew, finally finished the blog layout which was a bit tough since it's been ages since i last touched on Html stuffs. Why the sudden urge to blog you might ask, maybe i can find the excuse that i am bored(even though o levels are approaching omg!) but i don't think you guys will believe lah so just don ask why :D
I now understand the pain of my classmate, Abdillah. He got a short neck thus when he look around, his shoulder move along with his head and many people tease him because of that.(i don't do that often, ok sometimes i do ) Now the right side of my neck hurts and if i am going to look behind from my right, i have to move my shoulders along but it will get better! ( i hope....)

Today is graduation day and i have to wake up early to go to school for the so-called graduation ceremony.Went to school and saw lots of lower secondary students coming out of school, how i envy them as their exams are nearly over :( . I seriously can't stand this school because we are asked to gather at 9.30 SHARP or else we can't sit together with our class but bloody hell, I went there at 9.30 SHARP and have to wait for god-knows-how-long before we can enter the hall.I mean just let us sit in the hall first lah, you know we are so excited(can see from the noise we make outside the hall) Then the mcs, mr tan and the other new PE teacher(sorry i do not know your name)The first thing i do was to turn to Philbert and say "Eh the mcs height abit not appropriate ar.."and the standard thing Philbert will do is to laugh-weirdly.








Thats the difference.


























Opps, thats Rambert :x




































And then we proceed to see the videos of the graduating classes, nothing much to say. Then the teachers also has a video for us and this is where i started laughing. It starts off with Mr.Teo and Mr.Khan talking about 4E1 and 4E2,then it's Ms Liu and Ms Sakinah turn. Now, when ms liu is talking, ms sakinah kept staring at ,which we can see from the video, ms liu's upper body.(Now that sounds nice but you guys should know what i talking about lah.. ahem) Well maybe she isn't staring at that "part" but something else lah. Then mdm too talks so softly that she wasted about 10 mins of our time cos she speak damn long sia, longer then the previous teachers.

Then the ceremony ended off with us(all of the people in the school hall) singing "Graduation" by Vitamin C. That song damn sad .. which idiot suggest us to sing one >=( . Then we are off to have our free time with our teachers and then i notice everyone bringing out their weapons, the soul-capturing device call a camera which will capture your soul in a piece of film.(I hope you know i am just joking ) Then the wildest thing happenned, teachers are being thrown into the air,I can't imagine someone throwing Mr.Jailani up.Took some photos and then poof went for lunch.Waaa, like that call graduation day arh? Abit sian right, so spread the words around! Don't let those primary six kids to choose east spring as their seconday school if not sure regret one LOL!

So late already.. the night is too old liao, time to sleep if not will become stupid because the news said that if people do not have enough sleep, they will become stupid and their performance on bed also reduce ar so boys and girls, sleep early like as early as 9 p.m hor.

Ok bye bye.

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