Happy New Year :)

It'll be a new decade in a few hours time. Indeed, 2009's been a magnificent year, and there is perhaps no better way to remember it than with great music.

Well, 2009's been a big year in the records industry. And it has, also, be deemed as a ladies' year. We have seen many female singers rise to fame - Taylor Swift, the biggest winner of the night at MTV's America Music Awards in LA, not to mention Lady Gaga, who may very well become the next Madonna. Also including, perhaps even girls like Miley Cyrus, Ke$ha, Pixie Lott and La Roux, just to name a few. And, oh yes, Madam Lambert :D (sorry crude joke).

It's also a big year for the more established singers, like Beyoncé, named as Billboard's Top Female Artist of the Decade. And the Black Eyed Peas - 27 consecutive weeks as Billboard's #1 with I Gotta Feeling, spectacular.

Just not too long ago, Westlife and Backstreet Boys both released their latest albums. It seems that the trans-Atlantic rivalry continues, though i must say, This Is Us totally beats the crap out of Where We Are. Can't even compare. Big thumbs up for bsb!


A great year indeed. Here's a playlist of some of my favorite hits from 2009. The Really Nice and Really Really Nice sections are, to a somewhat moderate extent, influenced by the Charts. But an asterix* denotes that I feel the song is Really Really Really Nice. It reflects my opinion 100%. I call it the Triple-R rating, lolz. Yes, songs with Triple-R ratings are the BEST OF THE BEST, albeit only in my opinion. But the fact that most of the Triple-R songs are from the Really Really Nice section proves that my taste is still very mainstream...

(I also tend to group similar artistes together, so artistes with many songs in the list shall be put to the Really Nice or Really Really Nice section based on average performance. Ok this is confusing... )

BUT, being in the Really Nice section does NOT indicate that they suck. They are still very very very good. That's why its called Really Nice, and not 'sux'. lolz.

Really Really Nice

• *Empire State Of Mind, Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys
• *Russian Roulette, Rihanna
• *Pokerface, Lady Gaga
• *Bad Romance, Lady Gaga
• *Paparazzi, Lady Gaga
• *LoveGame, Lady Gaga
• *Just Dance, Lady Gaga
• *Halo, Beyoncé
• *Sweet Dreams, Beyoncé
• Single Ladies, Beyoncé
• *Broken-Hearted Girl, Beyoncé
• *My Life Would Suck Without You, Kelly Clarkson
• *Already Gone, Kelly Clarkson
• I Gotta Feeling, Black Eye Peas
• *Boom Boom Pow, Black Eyed Peas
• *Meet Me Halfway, Black Eyed Peas
• *How Do You Sleep, Jesse Maccartney
• *Body Language, Jesse Maccartney feat. T-Pain
• *Fifteen, Taylor Swift
• *White Horse, Taylor Swift
• You Belong With Me, Taylor Swift
• *Love Story, Taylor Swift
• *Battlefield, Jordin Sparks
• *S.O.S (Let The Music Play), Jordin Sparks
• New Divide, Linkin Park
• *Straight Through My Heart, Backstreet Boys
• One Less Lonely Girl, Justin Bieber
• One Time, Justin Bieber
• *Down, Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne
• *Oopsy Daisy, Chipmunk
• *Whatcha Say, Jason Derulo
• Fireflies, Owl City
• Somebody To Love, Leighton Meester
• Hoedown Throwdown, Miley Cyrus
• *Party In The U.S.A., Miley Cyrus
• *TiK ToK, Ke$ha
• LoveDrunk, Boys Like Girls
• *Two Is Better Than One, Boys Like Girls feat. Taylor Swift
• Use Somebody, Kings Of Leon
• Right Round, Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha
• Sugar, Flo Rida feat. Wynter
• *Automatic, Tokio Hotel

Really Nice

• *Doesn't Mean Anything, Alicia Keys
• *Thinking Of You, Katy Perry
• *Waking Up In Vegas, Katy Perry
• *Hot N' Cold, Katy Perry
• The Fear, Lily Allen
• Fuck You, Lily Allen
• *Who'd Have Known, Lily Allen
• Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny), A.R. Rahmen feat. Pussycat Dolls
• *Love Sex Magic, Ciara feat. Justin Timberlake
• *Falling For You, Colbie Cailat
• *No Surprise, Daughtry
• Never Say Never, The Fray
• Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't), All Time Low
• *Good Girls Go Bad, Cobra Starship feat. Leighton Meester
• *1234, Plain White T's
• *Belle Of The Boulevard, Dashboard Confessional
• *Outta Here, Esmee Denters
• Here We Go Again, Demi Lovato
• *21 Guns, Green Day
• *The Day I died, Just Jack
• Heartless, Kanye West
• *Future Love, Kristina DeBarge
• *Bulletproof, La Roux
• *Happy, Leona Lewis
• *Remedy, Little Boots
• *I Want To Know What Love Is, Mariah Carey
• *Avalanche, Marie Digby
• New Perspective, Panic At The Disco
• Evacuate The Dancefloor, Cascada
• Mama Do (uh oh, uh oh), Pixie Lott
• Boys and Girls, Pixie Lott
• *She Wolf, Shakira
• *Break Your Heart, Taio Cruz
• *Never Leave You, Tinchy Stryder feat. Amelle

The truth is I feel like giving every song a Triple-R... Yes, 2009 will always be remembered for its great music. Everything rox.

Time for our letter of the year lolz, reminds me if sesame street. The letter of the year for 2009 is, J! All the great voices and big names in 2009 - J for Jay-Z, Jay Sean, Justin Bieber, Jason Derulo, Jesse Maccartney, Jordin Sparks, Just Jack, and Jackson, and, well, you get the drift (:

But now ,2009 is, well, Already Gone. Lolz.
Welcome to the new decade.
Cheers folks, Happy New Year.

don't u think the title is always the hardes to think of?

Whoots exams finally over, only left CID on moday. CID should be easy ba. Anw, this entire week has been torture. Everyday sleep at 1am kills. But I'd say it's quite fun too. 12nm at night, with the Muttons to accompany you lolz, blast the rado and go crazy :D Remedy by Little Boots! Or talking on the phone with hk and swearing loudly about the exams past midnight, going #%$$@!!. super cool, this is the life! I've screwed up a few papers, but overall i think it's ok. I'm exceptionally confident bout physics, ha, dunno y.

I've changed all the songs in the music player here. Almost all the songs are very recent, from these few weeks. A few have been at the top of the charts. Bulletproof by La Roux is new, was last week's 987fm featured artist. Fireflies by Owl City is very nice as well, so is Remedy by Little Boots and Never Leave You by Tinchy Stryder. They keep playing Jump by FloRida on radio these days. Those that made it to the top of the charts b4 are Paparazzi (if i rmb correctly), LoveGame by Lady Gaga, and last 2 week's top was Love Drunk by Boys Like Girls. I Gotta Feeling by Black Eye Peas topped S'pore charts for 3 weeks, America charts for over 20 weeks omg.
Marie Digby's Avalanche is a must listen. If You're Not The One is an old song but it ROX.
Taylor Swift's Fifteen (yes' the name of the song is fifteen) is a nice song. Empire State of Mind was sung during the VMAs at new york, so it a song bout new york lolz. Straight Through My Heart is a new single by Backstreet Boys. Backstreet's back yea!!!
I seem crazy bout songs lolz.

Went with 3C for class outing ytd, marina barrage. Still quite fun ba lolz, just slack around nvr do much. Our kite PWNS! Left at almost 5 with hk, went jurong point eat dinner, and played ZoneX lolz. Nvr went into arcade for years i think, skills deteriorated greatly, aim damn off. waste money de.

Failure is always an option

Gah study geog until die. totally sux. done the last 3 chapters today, river landforms, flooding and coasts. the river landforms is the worst. Bloody meanders and floodplains and stuff. You learn one and forget the previous one. The coasts and flooding was a big mess too. damn. And all the other chapters I learned them last monday. Now forget everything le. Haiz...
Next week is gonna be a bad week too. All the other subjects I learned only a little on each, physics is half done, chemistry i've barely started, bio is half done, maths paper 2's progress is still 0. Damn. This EOY is gonna be damn screwed. I've already badly screw SCS and Chinese paper 1. chinese is really really screwed through the roof! But Lang Arts is beautifully done :D
Anyway, I've adopted a new slogan :
"FAILURE IS ALWAYS AN OPTION"
This is really nice. Good for stress relief during the exams. But then again, let's face it, who wants to fail?

Ok let's not mention exams anymore. My com just broke down on friday. CPU fan spins like mad but it just won't boot up, not even a BIOS error message or anything. Sux huh? Have yet to diagnose the problem, but i've ruled out broken RAM. Probably a failed motherboard or a broken CPU. Maybe the hard disk's toast. Using laptop now, sux.

Anyways, thinking of buying a telephoto lens after the exams. I'm damn frustrated with the EF-S 18-55mm. Does not have the reach i need! I've been having a dilemma between EF 70-300mm F/4-5.6 IS USM or the EF 70-200mm F/4L USM. This are the 2 decent ones with my budget range. The 70-200mm is really great, fixed aperture, excellent build quality and image quality, metal body, it's a L lens!!! The 70-300mm on the other hand, has slightly lower image quality, a variable aperture, but with a 2-mode IS and additional range. Range is very important to me, but is the compromise on image quality worth it? and it also offers Image Stabilization, very important for shooting telephoto without tripods. It's also $100 more expensive than the 70-200mm. Yes, the L lens is cheaper! So the decision is indeed very difficult to make. I've tried out an EF-S 18-200mm the other day and realized that 200mm is not as telephoto as I have hoped. So 70-300mm's focal range is really appealing. But lets not forget the 70-200mm is an EXCELLENT L lens. The decision is indeed hard to make.

RV school value: 精通双语 effective bilingualism

好我还将用华语写。hmmm 可是相机有一些比较技术性的词用华语不好写。。。 用一下英语抱歉。

DPreview.com's review for the Sony Alpha a380 is out. Very interesting camera, weird design. Looks like some kinda Super Zoom instead of a proper SLR. Once look you can tell it'll be quite pathetic. Well it's aimed at 1st time SLR users, so it looks and feels like a compact. I've tried it at the Sony Style showroom, 100% compact-style handling. For a start, you push the left button to pop out the flash, just like on compacts. No dedicated flash button. It's got a very small and light body. This is big compromise, many crucial control buttons are gone, and the Exposure Compensation button is place at a real hard-to-reach spot.
The hand grip is also tiny, any smaller, you won't be able to even tell it's an SLR. It provides very poor grip, though I think the rubber material feels quite good lolz. Altogether, this adds up to very poor handling.
Next, the on/off switch is located around the shutter release, just like the zoom dial around your Canon IXUS or Nikon and Panasonic compacts etc. Real stupid compacts users will probably think that's the zoom dial. "Hey let's zoom in! Oh why did the camera off!!!??? *#^@#!!!". lolz. Yet Sony claims it's meant for 1st time SLR users switching from compacts -_-||| Bit of an irony.
It's got a revolutionary Live-View system, design to provide Live-View shooting just like on compacts. The a380's eye cup is also 'blended' into the design. This adds on the the more 'streamlined' overall look, making it really like a cheap point-and-shoot. I'm not saying it's ugly, it's quite beautiful in fact. But because it's design revolves too much around being compact-like, it greatly lacks the power and feel of a true SLR, so I'll be labeling it as 'TOY SLR'. Yes. lolz. EOS 500D so much better :D wanna post a picture but Blogger seriously screwed zzz.

好的不说相机了。现在是周末，一会儿打算出去逛一逛，骑车去IMM 买点东西，研究一下耳机。现在好忙啊，要处理的事情太多了，尤其是破 cip，还快考试了。。。不过我该乐观一点。星期一学只上到 10点多。放学后可以跟朋友出去逛一逛，得去Jurong Point 买样东西 :D。我也跟 HK 约好一起去健身房。那个人是练到走火入魔了，一个礼拜去三四次。我也可以去 Ken 的家，把可恶的 CID 模型给完成。等他从 npcc 露营回来再跟他约吧。他家有可乐喝 哈哈。 再过一个礼拜也放假了，到时候至少有可盼望的事情。

喝水塞牙缝

哎呀这个礼拜是倒霉透顶，好像干什么事都不顺。首先，上个星期天出去吃饭，车停在从NUS上AYE的路口的红灯，结果后头司机有眼无珠，开者一辆破丰田 Corolla Altis，直接给我 Vios 的屁股来一个亲密接吻。不过撞得不厉害，只是后头的保险杠稍微翘了起来。
好，倒霉的事就从这里开始了。星期二，我爸打算把我送去学校，然后把车送去维修，结果，我迟到了。原因简单 - 又被撞了。这次是在AYE 上 Alexandra Road 的出口，停在红灯，又来了一个没张眼的司机，给我来一个热烈拥抱。这回是辆　现代 Avante。　这次可厉害了，差一点儿没把保险杠给撞下来！因此，我爸和那个缺德司机谈判，我只好坐辆 61 上学，迟到了10 分钟左右。3天之内被撞两次！太背了！
还记得上数学课时做练习，蓝笔没墨了，换个黑笔，没写两个字，也没水了。再换一只笔，结果墨水太多，流了我一手。
今天考物理，我前一天本来要早睡，可就当我1１．３０要睡时突然肚子疼，闹得我１点钟才睡着，早上５点又是因为肚子疼而醒。早上考物理也是肚子不舒服，还困得不得了，肯定没考好...
我这几天出去吃饭，也老碰到莫名其妙的人，见到我就跟我打招呼。一次是星期四，在Queensway 麦当劳，一个某某中学的疯婆，见到我就 halow halow。爷们儿不认识你！！
完了星期五在Vivo也来个疯子，见了我就 HEY! 真是见鬼了，我那么吸引人吗？ O.o?

我这次用华文来写，也是有原因的。昨天发华文理解问答的成绩，我才考了20/40！！！ 太丢人了。得把华文好好练练。。。
倒霉的事情还多的是！就连我为什么肚子疼，也是一个很倒霉的故事,跟家里的锅有关。我就不多说了
真是连喝开水都得塞牙缝！

hi again

wow, again I hav not posted for a very long time. I'm crushed with homework right now, not supposed to be here so i shall keep this short. School sux. And i'm trying to sort out some other matters too zzz

arrgghhh

Holidays ending le. Tmr's the last day... School's gonna suck!!! Hate being Yr 3, yr2 so fun lolz. Just shoot me now zzz... And again I haven't been posting here.

Ok bout the holidays. 1 word. Boring. Busy doing Physics project and some bloody chinese presentation thingy. Just finished the latter haha. But thn there were a few nice days. Went out to do test runs for the new 500D, all sorts of conditions. Night Safari for high ISO performance, Sentosa for daylight, airport for fast moving subjects lol. Ok i think there's a design problem with the AI Servo AF mode. The AF points do not light up, and it make you wonder if the camera is focusing at the right place, that why One Shot AF is better, and i prefer to set it to the centre point. This is an awesome camera anyways, but thn it somewhat likes to overexpose sometimes, thn i hav to tune down the exposure compensation zzz. Still good though, beats the crap out of compacts wowza.

And i went to the gym on Thursday, with HK, Wong, Ken, and his 'soul mate' hehe. That was a fun day too. Bout the picture down here, i took it in sentosa. It's a bit off-focus, and there's a bit of a subject blur cuz of the wind blowing the flower around. But i think it's great, love the shallow depth of field!

Holidays...

ps i very long nvr post le, was very lazy, sorry lolz.
Anyways, exams over, and guess wad? I did the seemingly impossible, GPA 3.8 whoots! And my bio percentile 99, language arts percentile 96, and 95 for chemistry :D did I mention I topped level for my language arts in year 1 lolz. sorry. bragging again. Hopefully can get my EOS 500D...

Anyways holidays now. The first week has been quite eventful. Monday i went to changi beach with WKS for aircraft spotting. It's a very good sport. Logged down my first S'pore Air A330s, and 2 British Airways planes, a 777-236ER (G-YMMH) and a 747-436 (G-CIVR).

Then on wednesday I got on Super Star Virgo for the fifth time, on a trip to Pulau Redang, M'sia. The ship was still as awesome as it was, but the redang place was like bleh! Very sian , nothing much to do, not even jet skis man!!! But it's really a very beautiful place. Went on a snorkeling trip, the gear they provided was good, but the site was not as good as Phuket. And the food, they claim it's 'international', but it tastes malay zzz. I'm not against malay food, but eating it for 3 meals straight for 2 days, it's gotta turn bad. And these pictures are quite nice i think. Tripod stands are real irritating, and too bad no SLR

reality substitution

Was flying FSX the other day. Didn't fly for quite a long time, so my skills are bit rusty. So i decided to do some leisure flying. Picked myself a nice 747-400, set the location to a random gate in Changi, and started all the normal procedures. Took a long time before I was actually cleared for take-off. Then there was the pre-flight check, not to mention the 'no-smoking' and 'seatbelt' signs. lolz.

Finally, clearance. I just planned to do some practice flying, so I maintained runway heading (i took off from 02R, so heading's 23 degrees), at just 5 thousand ft. Flew till I was about 45miles out, then I consulted the charts, looked for a place to land this thing. I saw Tengah Airbase, that was cool! So i contacted Singapore Approach, requsted airspace transition, then contacted Tengah Tower, requst landing. Adjusted heading and made my way back South to Singapore.

I'm not very familiar with the area, despite tower directions I couldn't see Tengah. I was already only 20miles in, without visual i had to abandon the approach. Then, I saw Changi. time for some extreme flying! I was near the western side of Singapore, I swung the nose around, 30 degrees bank, speed 180, flaps full, gear down. Tried to line up for runway 20R, without ATC clearance lolz.
I thought all i needed was 140KIAS, but when I slowed to 150 i was already sinking like hell, and way below the glide slope, and off-course. I blasted the throttles, banked to the right, and whoots! Perfect touchdown! the ATC went like "World Travel 1420 Heavy, u r not cleared to land. Get off of the runway!" lolz

OrcaShadowX owns!!!

Hahaz a few recent screenshots from Wolfteam. Click on them to see how pro I really am lolz. My skills aren't that consistent, it's unpredictable, for example I wasn't very good tonight, at my best was 10/5, not King...