Now that I am happily settled in my school, there are quite a few choices to make.

There are quite a lot of research programmes being offered in JC, and I am interested to take up at least one of them. Here are the following which I am interested in.

1. DSTA scholarship
This is a scholarship by Singapore's Defence Science and Technology Agency. You get to learn the science and technology behind the defence industry. Thought it will be kinda interesting to learn abt an industry which I hardly come across. Who knows I might become interested and give up medicine for defence instead? There is no bond in this scholarship.

2. Science Research Programme (SRP)
This is a rather prestigious programme launched by NUS and there is only less than 100 places nationwide. You have to think of a science project to do and the lecturers there will help u in the necessary. But it will be really hard to get in. You need to go for an interview and do a selection test in order to get in. Well, I dun have the confidence that I can enter this programme.

3. Nanyang Research Programme (NRP)
This programme is launched by NTU and it is rather similar to SRP except that the topics are already decided for you and the selection criteria are not so stringent, so I guess it will be easier to enter. But I will have to commit 100 hours (both research and report) within a year.

Please give me your advice to this. I really need to hear everyone's opinion to make a decisive choice on this. So please tag and tell me your views or experiences. I need to decide by this week.

And pray for me to make the choice which God wants me to. Thanks!

This is surely a week of changes.

So, I am now officially an NJCian. Was a little sad when I got my posting results at first as many of my friends went to HC or VJ. And also, I nvr really like NJ in the first place (and that is mainly cos of their school uniform).

I nvr knew that my feeling can change so fast overnight. Now I think NJ is really cool and you should come look at our mass dance, it is like WOW WOW WOW!!!! (Even though my liking for the uniform is still dangerously low:-(

NJC IS FUN OK, PEOPLE! In fact, it is as fun as in VJ which has a solid reputation for vibrance and liveliness. My VJ friends are telling me everyday how FUN VJ is, but well, even though I like VJ a lot too, but distance is really a problem for me... so... no thanks!

I know God will have His plan for me wherever I go. And I will thank God that I can still go to a top-notch JC in this competitive Sp!

JC issue aside! Time to share with you some awesome videos of Lu Chen's Japanese performance on Youtube.



I really love his Japan performances, they are just so brillant and unique.

Firstly, I must apologise to those I have offended unintentionally. Apparently, I've been a little unreasonably snappy these few days.

Thanks Lord for speaking and listening to me. The Lord my God is great and He understands me better than I do so myself. He knows what is the best for me.

I've been watching Crayon Shin these past few days. So cute, makes me want to be a little child again.

Watch this, this is super duper kawaii~~~

Sometimes, I just hate being a "high-flyer".

True, you get to enter a so-called top school, a top class with classmates with whooping intelligence level. You receive many pats on your back telling you, "How I wish to be like you" or " I wish I have one tenth of your brain" or...I guess this is the dream of many students, and of course, the parents, for your child to have good grades in every examination and a bright future ahead.

Everyone around us says that my parents are really lucky, you know, to have me and my brother as their children. In fact, my parents never have to worry about our school results, or to tear their hairs apart trying to improve our grades.

However, I doubt many can fathom how it is like for us, the "smart geeks", "high flyers". Being strained in a top class for years, and overwhelmed by the dozens and dozens of students who are probably a hundred times more capable than you are can make you go MAD.

You start to make goals for yourself, start to set high expections and work yourself crazy trying to fulfill them. You just don't want to lose out to your friends around you. Your goals become your obsessions. Soon, the competitive streak in you rises and you just could not accept any failure. Many say that students from the top stream are less likely to embrace failures in their lives. I guess this is true because I am one of those classic examples, I know how it feels.

As many of my classmates are groaning "why are there so many 2-pointers around?" and "Is it even possible for a 3-pointer to get into RJ or HC?", I guess few will come to embrace that this is the world we are living in, a world where competition just gets tenser and tenser and demands higher and higher.

Sometimes, I am thinking what if I am unable to enter HC or RJ as I wish to. Will I settle happily and contentedly in NJ? Or will I resolve there with a huge dissatisfaction in my heart? Even if I were to enter these schools, will I be happy being trapped in this astract complexity of rivalries? Will I be much happier than I am now, if I were an average scorer? Well, I really don't know.

On a happier note, my room is going to be renovated next week. Finally, I can say goodbyes to my battered cupboard, my crampy bed which squeaks whenever I turn and toss in it, and my wardrobe which is threatening to explode any minute.

1st choice Hwa Chong JC
2nd choice Raffles JC
3rd choice National JC

I hope I'll get into the first two

The unknown is a terrifying power that has suppressed Mankind since the beginning of life.
The unknown is the mystery of life and death, the maze to our enigmatic future lying ahead of us.
Over the past few days, I have felt deep horror and uncertainty over this terrifying power, the unknown.
For you will never know what to expect, or the outcome at the end of the long menacing battle.

Yet. I thank God for His blessings and everything he gave me.
When I was embattled with fear. He empowered me.
When I cringed in the evil force of dejection, He comforted me.
When I weeped under the unbearing glares of pressure, He shed my tears for me.
He is my strength when I am weak
He is the treasure that I seek.

And I thank Him for the results He gave,
For I know only be with His almighty, can I do as such.
And I will behold it with satisfaction,
For He has indeed blessed me.

And to my family and friends, a big thank you to you.
For you have accompanied me through these tough times

PS: Congratulations to Kairou. Top scholar of Singapore, 11 A1s!!!! I keep telling people that the top scholar in Singapore is my classmate. LOL!!!!!!!!