this is dumb and stupid

Since yesterday, 2 videos have been making it's rounds around the internet. Some mega wild birthday prank by a bunch of girls in acjc that was posted on Youtube on 30th September was flamed by the online community. It started on the HardwareZone forums, where it attracted 4k views by 11pm. The next day at 12pm, it had already attracted 18k views and it comes with a 27 page long thread. UPDATE: At 7pm, 26k views.

Today, it has been posted on stomp, the ultimate kpkb website that is linked to the press. And it is taking the front page of that Singapore Seen (the website you never want yourself to be seen on, i mean seriously). Screw the stompers, because they are starting to make a mountain out of molehill. The retard stomper, who brought the matter from HWZ to stomp must be the ultimate retarded whistleblower. This person called outrage (He/She made a special account to post this shit) went on and exaggerated the matter with an article that can make a reader feel so shocked. Then in the comments part they talk all sorts of crap like call MOE, call acjc, call principal, call parents, call authorities. They jump to conclusions like what have they been teaching in acjc and they lament about singapore youths and what other bullying could have happened in the school.

The 2 videos have been taken off, but apparently, the stompers are trying to upload them for everyone's viewing. This is the horrible truth about stompers. They are a bunch of kaypoh singaporeans. I won't be surprised if it appears in the newspapers tomorrow.

I know lots of people will be thinking: poor girl, poor whatever. But it's been like 1 and a half months since the incident. All that talk is just... senseless and useless. A waste of bandwidth and people's time.

Mr Kyaw appears at the end of the 2nd video to tell the girls off. I don't know whether he may be implicated in this matter. I don't know how will it end. I only know that acjc is going to be tarnished in some way.

I do know who started it all on the HWZ forums. I've been monitoring the situation since I saw the thread just being created. This guy told me back via sms: "Holy shit!! I didn't know it would cause an uproar... Shit Shit Shit!!" That shows that he regretted creating the thread. He didn't meant for it to blow up. When the videos were first posted, the only way to access them was to type "acjc" in the Youtube search bar, and they only attracted 200 or less views (I somehow saw them before when I was searching for other videos). Now, they have been extracted out from the blue and they are gaining online attention. He thought that the thread would disappear into oblivion, like almost every thread out there. But what was done is done. The damage is done, and it is growing.

What can I do? Just let the events unfold. The media is far too powerful for the individual to control. If you go to the front page of the stomp website, it is the first thing you see. But at the moment, Singapore Seen cannot be entered, probably due to some hackers.

The links:

Working video after being taken off Youtube
HWZ thread that started it all
Stomp website article

PICTURES here

Update:

Someone said:
"just now 987 got talked about it...lol
worst of all is...it says 'a teacher came and stop the students...
but the teacher did not stop the students because of what they are doin,
but because it might dirtied the school compound and they have to clean up.'"

One retard said on someone's blog:
"ACJC is supposed to be an institution with christian values.
It is shocking and unbelievable to see the public humiliation and indignity done to a fellow human being and in this case, a young girl who may have to live forever with the emotional scars and hurts with possible depression and who knows - it might even be a suicide trigger as I have heard yearly of a significant number of suicides involving JC students.
The MOE must investigate immediately and if necessary the Police must be involved if assault is deemed to be committed.
There must be follow up satisfactory action - the MOE owe it to all parents.
The victim must come forward to report the incident and get her family lawyer to follow up to seek re-dress in the Courts if the incident will indeed be covered up as we read - blogs about it are being quickly removed.
The victim must be helped referred for counselling if necessary.
The guilty ones must be punished not only the girls who participated in the torture but also all the boys in the background who cheered the bullyings and molesting involving forced change of bottom wear with revealings of one’s modesty, and stuffing of things into the victim’s blouse.
The MOE must make its comments.
The Police must be kept informed to put a stop to such bullyings in all schools.
Finally still unhappy parents must get their sons and daughters out of ACJC - with MOE facilitating.
Without a doubt, if my daughter were in ACJC, I will help her get a transfer to find any JC.
The JC must make its statement and not pretend that the incident dis not take place.
Finally can a member of the local or international press pick this article and highlight it in the newspapers - this is a social responsibilty of all to act."

Total nonsense I think, the above.

ACJC replies:

ACJC says it has counselled the students who tied up one of their peers to a chin-up bar in their birthday celebration and says it has advised them to celebrate in other ways.

This response comes in the wake of a STOMP posting where STOMPer outraged expressed disgust at the way the birthday girl was treated as she was filmed tied up and roughed up in her birthday celebrations.

In her response to STOMP, the principal, Mrs Kelvyna Chan of ACJC says:

"The College is aware of the incident which was a birthday celebration of a student who was popular with her peers.

"We understand that the student was prepared for the celebration, and that there was no malice nor bullying involved.

"When a teacher saw the celebration, he immediately stopped it and counselled the students.

"The birthday girl also assured the teacher that she was not hurt physically nor emotionally.

"Some weeks after the event, a teacher again enquired about the girl's wellbeing, and she assured the teacher and the College that the celebrations were all done in good fun and she was well.

"Although the activity was done in good humour, the college has counselled the students involved on the possible hazards of such activities and that there are more appropriate ways to show friendship among their peers."

That person who started the thread seriously made the matter so big that the school must answer. Very foolish of him to go and reveal this kind of things on the forum.

wtf i dunno what is this but read it

The Straits Times 30 September 1999
JUNIOR COLLEGE COLLAPSES AFTER 23 YEARS

The Anglo-Chinese Junior College, located at Dover Close East, lay in a pile of rubble yesterday, after the grand structure of 23 years came crashing down during morning assembly amidst the singing of the National Athem. A total of 122 casualties were reported, most of whom were students who were crushed when the toilets on the second level collapsed, leaving the largest lecture theatre on the third level to crumble in a large cloud of dust accumulated in the past decades.

Civil Defence officers arrived promptly at the scene, along with officials from the Ministry of Education and various government departments which were involved in the construction of the College more than two decades ago.

Mr Lenn, the vice-principal of the college and long serving teacher said, "We didn't expect it to cave in on us today. It was really a down-to-earth experience, and a tragic loss for all of us. We lost a good deal worth of government equipment." He declined to comment on how there were 122 students located in the level two toilets during morning assembly, at which every student is expected to attend. He also declined to answer exactly how much equipment belonging the college itself was lost, only saying that, "We've developed a strong emotional attachment to the facilities and building itself in the many years that the college has served us."

Mrs Lim Han Soon, who has been principal of the school for the past two years, attempted to explain the cause of the collapse, "I donch know what these students do sometimes. By having 122 students in the toilets the ground is sure to collapse."

The student leading the school in the anthem, requesting to remain anonymous except for saying that he was a year one student studying at the currently-levelled college, offered the most logical explanation. He said, "The college has been undergoing ground works at the car park recently, which may have caused a shift in the foundation, leading to the collapse of the school.

"In addition to that, the heavy downpour yesterday morning flooded most of the classrooms. With the kind of structural integrity ACJC has, I wont be surprised if officials say that water seeping into the crevices of the chipped concrete actually might have further eroded the walls or concrete flooring." When asked if his singing could also have played a part in the tragedy, he could only raise his hands in frustration, "With the kind of audio system we have, any singer could bring the school down."

Structural integrity was the key-phrase at the press conference held at the ACJC Sports Complex later in the morning, as a panel of investigators and architects explained to a large group of journalists the main reason behind the fall of the college. "Apparently the gaping holes in the walls were not reported to the ministry earlier, and thus we were unable to gauge that the structural integrity of the main block of ACJC was far from sound. With the extra cabling involving the installation of fibre optic cables and a host of other inclusions such as ten-thousand dollar projectors, we never knew that the building could not take the massive drilling underground and around the building." said Mr Con Structor, who is the chief investigator at the site.

A furious parent of a deceased student accused the Ministry of Education of overcrowding the junior college with many more students than logically possible in ACJC, saying, "Twenty years ago there only 600 students in the college, and in recent years this number has grown to more than 1800. With the kind of sub-standard facilities that my child has been studying in, how could anyone expect the building to stand any longer?" Mr Lenn was to point out that this was not the case, as the ACJC Sports Complex was still standing and was also considered 'part of the college'. Massive salvage operations have been carried out in the past 12 hours, with excavators from a nearby construction site situated at Buona Vista MRT Station being brought in to remove the massive amounts of rubble. Emergency operations were also carried out to remove the initial 5m layer of dust covering the building, using high powered vacuum cleaners. Salvaged so far was a Neoprint machine, a tub of Cremo ice-cream, an ACJC umbrella, and a pair of ACJC bears.

Upon being questioned that a bomb might have been set off in the toilets instead, the investigative panel quoted that this could have been the case, except that the only way in which this could have happened was if there was a massive buildup of methane in the toilet at the second level, and that a spontaneous combustion could have triggered an explosion leading to the collapse.

As a result of the collapse, the Anglo-Chinese Junior College would be temporarily relocated to Raffles Junior College, which is equipped with similar facilities but lacking in an Olympic-size swimming pool and a fully-fledged Sports Complex. In return, ACJC would loan it's Sports Complex to RJC till it shifts to Bishan, leaving ACJC to take full control of all its facilities in Ghim Moh.

Upon listening to the announcement that ACJC would share its premises with RJC and would eventually take over its campus there, a prominent Student Councillor from ACJC whispered, "Looks like we can shelve the upgrading plans after all, or perhaps we could help upgrade the campus in Ghim Moh instead..."

In the meantime, riots were reported to have broken out in RJC, when an ACJC student was involved in a scuffle with an RJC student. He had tried to put up the ACJC flag in place of the RJC flag at the flagpoles in RJC. This angered the Students' Council of RJC, and the situation was further aggravated when a roving band of ACJC students repainted the front gates of their college red, blue and gold. The students from Raffles retaliated, and attacked the band with grenades made in the chemistry labs.

A mass protest is expected tomorrow, when RJC students are expected to wear ACJC uniforms to school.

COPYRIGHT (C) SEPTEMBER 1999 ALL CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY ARE FICTIONAL, AND EVERY ATTEMPT HAS BEEN MADE TO ENSURE THAT THIS INCIDENT IS INDEED JUST A FIGMENT OF THE AUTHOR'S IMAGINATION. ANY RESEMBLANCE TO LIVING PERSONS OR STANDING BUILDINGS * AND ORGANIZATIONS IS MERELY A FAULT OF THE MIND, AND IS NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.

Japanese police run in fear

the last before A levels

This is the last ever post before the A levels. 23 days left. A levels lasts 16 days. So 39 more days to freedom - and the next post after this. After x number of days of freedom, it's time to enlist into PES C1L2 version of BMT, whatever is that.

A level preparations are going fine. No worries at all. Just that GP I need to memorise 1 megaton of examples before this monday which is the mock paper. Econs I'm like mugging content now.

Friday's chemistry mock was kind of difficult. On the 1st question, I calculated my initial rate using the gradient of the 2 reaction graphs but the gradients I got went haywire. I just simply put 1st order with respect to [H+] even though the results wern't that obvious that it was. The second question I bombed myself by not answering a 1 mark question that was simply a matter of writing a single word - "postive". The 4th question elucidation I was stumped. The LiAlH4 can't possibly give 2 products with an ester because that reaction isn't in the syllabus. It was the case, my teacher said, the ester got cleaved. On the net, I found that that makes 2 alcohols. Whatever lah, my elucidation gg one. Must go work on it.

Enough of matters that are too academic. After baccalaureate service, my class went to 4.6 cos the class rep got this surprise he claimed to take 8 hours to do it. Yup, it is a video! Not released on Youtube yet (later get screwed by the teachers who want privacy). Darren also invited all our teachers along, but the most important one, Mr Lim, got a meeting. So he never watched it with the rest of us.

Good job Darren. I didn't know beforehand that he actually interviewed all our teachers. Wow.
So yeah, the whole class got fired up after the video. And we actually could take a bus to vivocity together. Well, after lunch at Carl's Junior, every clique went off their separate ways. -.-

So did anyone notice something strange on baccalaureate day? Ok, apart from an excess of camwhoring by many people, what else? Did anyone look to see anything on the field?


An aerial view from the roof.
Can you see what the letters make out to be?
You can probably see "exams". Then on the left? ♥. Yup, ♥. So ♥ exams, apparently so.

So what? Nothing unusual, could just be a bunch of crazy acjc councillors making stuff and leaving it on the field. NOT!

It is a hack, like the MIT hack. Looks like an epic fail here.

Well, some MIT student wannabes wanted to emulate a MIT hack. The plan was to hang "I ♥ exams" across the field by tying a raffia string from the flag pole on the roof of the viewing gallery to the giant lighting pole on the other side. So they stayed late in school on the day before baccalaureate day. At about 11pm, they tied some string to the flag pole on the roof above the viewing gallery. Then, the security guard came over downstairs and they had to stop work. Nah, that's not the end. The security guard went away and they continued on. They pulled the string all the way to the end of the field. Then they realised they got not enough string. They pulled the string and it snapped. Game over. The result: What you see on the field.

That was not all. They wanted to do something with the the plasma screen in the hall. To display something the next day perhaps. They already got the high-tech equipment ready to do just that. But it was already so late, so they decided to call it a day.

Don't ask me why they chose "I ♥ exams". Those people are just a bunch of ultra-smart geeks. If you count the number of them in the J2 level, you probably know there just a few of them and you probably will know who did it. Yeah, of course I know who did it, but I won't tell anyone.

more words

My blog is very wordy. I don't know why and I don't intend to change the words.

Oh, the ultra-portable in the previous post hasn't been fixed. I can't be bothered with it anymore. Maybe I will use the warranty soon to get it fixed. It will be such waste of time to fix it now.

Anyway, in an hour's time, the F1 cars will starting rolling on the Marina Bay Track. I am going to watch it this weekend - on my TV. No point buying anything like a ticket or booking a room. TV rocks my (clean) socks. Who's going to win? eh. After Schumacher left 3 seasons ago, I had no one else to support. -.- Perhaps Lewis "Catch Him" Hamilton. Perhaps Massa. Just perhaps. Yeah, I admit I am one of those who follow the crowd. But I don't care.

I know this is wols but for prelims, I got 4 H2 As and an E for General Paper. E for GP is means you are a noob. NOOB. Which I am. My powderful Engrish is my downfall. Well, actually I don't know. It's just a damn problematic essay + a lousy compre. This result is called an anolamy. OK?! (Oh, A was a mere 62 marks, which is like only 10 marks away.) So how my Maths from a D became an A? I'm not sure. But I do have a theory: moderation based on past results. My friend has another theory: Moderation based on selected questions. Since there's no way to find out which one is true, I guess it's up to speculation. In any case, I'm glad I have another A. So I should be happy with my results? Yeah right. Hell no. My GP is noob ok. Forget the rest. If the GP is noob, there's no need to consider the rest.

I guess this is it. More words.

You want picture is it? Fine.

sucky vista bug

Darn it. My Kohjinsha SR series ultra-portable laptop is in a complete mess right now. Yesterday when I restarted it after installing loads of programs, the wireless internet connection gg-fied. All the damn thing is saying is that the dependency service or group failed to start. I mean like wth. This kind of problem omg. Only 2 weeks old and the internet connection became so bugged all of a sudden. I can forgive that it runs very slow on Vista and has a crappy 1GB RAM (Vista on 1GB memory is omg already). But the wireless gone... that is horrible.

So I spent the evening trying to fix the damn problem by searching on the forums. I tried all kinds of crap solutions and I don't even know the side effects yet. All I know is that I can't solve it! Ahhhhhhhhhh...................!1!!11one!! Stupid wireless. Ultra-portables are meant to be wireless and without it, it's a goner. omg omg omg. HELP.

To Zanarkand // Final Fantasy X // VOCALOID2

Sounds creepy haha.

prelim results

Everybody dreads the prelim results. Many people's fears came true. Umbrellas and Sunshine seem to be the words to describe many miserable souls. It was expected, wasn't it? No?

Fine. I'm not one of them. Let's keep it quick. I have 3 As out of the 5 subjects I take (4 H2s). Physics, Chemistry, and most shockingly, Economics. I expected to deliver the goods with physics, but not at such a good score that I was ahead of the main pack by about 5 marks (only the great Han was higher by about 2). Chemistry was simply amazing. I told everyone I got 23/40 for Paper 1 MCQ and still managed to get an A. Chem tuition does work wonders (if you know how to deliver the goods) :D. I still wonder whether I'm going to get split into a different tutorial/lecture class because AC sorts Chem students via the Paper 1 score. Economics left me stupefied. The class pestered the King to reveal our Econ scores during the tutorial. She said the first is as usual, Han, then second, Me, third, a long list.... (ok, good news, did she mention me?) Then she said that this class has 2As, 10Bs... Did she say only 2As? Omg, I got an A. I was stymied by how I got an A. That was impossible. The CA mark on the visualiser said S, a low B for Term Exams, and of all things, A for prelims. It was there, in black and white, as clear as day. S to A, in extreme circumstances of an exam in which I had hardly any prior practice. For the 2nd time today, I was 2nd in class for a subject.

The rest of the subjects were darn horrible relative to the 3 As. Maths was a D. It was really bad. GP was like a freak accident. I got an E, which I seemed to realise as lower than the class average (ok, at least higher than half the level). I was expecting C or more, even though no one else in the cohort had an A (am I right?).

Everyone thinks I must be ownage to get 3As based on raw score. Actually, I'm damn sad about the performance with my GP (not with Maths, I'm ok with that kind of grade because I never practised it at all after the Swss trip). The subject I usually can't perform well in exams came back to haunt me. In class, I'm much better, and I don't know why I can't do the same in the exam hall. I'm sad because I did badly in the most important subject of all and I know I can do a lot better.

Overall, SA1 had its worst-ever performance. We probably lost our dominance in Maths and the Sciences. I'm the only one (other than Han) to get 3 H2 As based on raw scores, which shows how poorly we did as a class.

Maybe we should all go on a 1 week trip to Switzerland /Austria before the A levels and see if that works.

prelims

Prelims aren't over yet. However, all there's left is the multiple choice papers for Chem and Physics. Which means all I need is a four-sided dice and a pencil. Hmm, I could probably make do with a calculator and a rubber (not condom).

As everyone seems to suggest, my standards are pretty high. Ok, yes. But when I say fail, I don't mean a B because I would be failing almost all of my subjects. I mean not a proper pass. Therefore, S and U means fail! Get a life, everyone, I'm not that good. I'm simply an average in 2SA1, which is just another top class. (ok, i'm getting ironic -.-)

In any after-prelim thoughts before the results, predictions (without final moderation) are sure to be important. Here are mine:

General Paper was ok. In the sense that at least a B is possible.

Economics is what I would call a variable subject. Anything can happen. Paper 2 was a miracle because I had never ever done 3 essays in a row for Econs with 5 sides each and yet I managed to complete them on time. Given my new found confidence in the subject, my grade could probably range anywhere from A - C.

Maths was simply I don't know what to say. Paper 1 was simply terrible at first sight. I totally screwed up the paper to the point that at least 40 marks was lost without doing. To prove to myself that my pure maths wasn't so screwed up, I went home and did the paper and to my surprise, I managed to savage 19 marks in the first page of the paper. I got lazy to do the rest because I had to study my other subjects. Paper 2 wasn't too bad. The MI question seemed impossible so left it blank. A host of small mistakes I discovered after going through the paper in my mind probably sapped off a few marks. The statistics section was mainly challenging but all solvable. My mind actually could work. A good prediction for paper 2 is anything between 80 - 89 marks. En route to B... yes. A seems a distance away (unless I'm so lucky to get 55 and 85 to make 140). Perhaps after moderation?

Physics Papers 2 and 3 were like easy peasy. A is confirmed given that my dice works properly for the MCQ.

Chemistry Papers 2 and 3 were easy. A is also confirmed (if dice too works properly).

The bottom line is the predicted grades for the A levels. If I obtain all at least Bs after moderation, definitely, my predicted grades is straight As. I get a feeling that even if anyone in my class obtains a C for any subject, they could probably push the predicted grades to A. So, there's nothing to worry about. YAY!