Of a mildly-pleasing nature
So how have we been spending our time since the last post? Well unexpectedly having forgotten much of what has taken place since the last post, we have attempted to recollect small pieces of memories of the last few months over the brief break that we undertook. In numerical chronological order:
1. A Level examinations revision
2. Easter Holidays (fourteen days)
3. A Level examinations partaking
4. Scaling one of the highest mountains in the world, Mt Kinabalu Laban Rata, along with fellow currently known bloggers, Matthew Six, Ten Rust, Kit Perry, Lee Weng Yew, and Edwin Loo, and possibly Andrei Popescu to name a few. (however unfortunately not the humble Clement Chew).
5. Being both highly positively invigorated and disappointed by Transformers: The Movie, which was both an utter waste of time and a glorious visual feast for all ages that ought not to be missed by anyone of any age.
6. Final days of school
7. Listening to Johan Abdul Rahman's Band
8. Computer game networking and the agonising wait for new laptops
9. Reading books
10. Visiting Langkawi
11. A Level results
12. Summer
13. Future
We must collectively say that we all thoroughly enjoyed our A Level examinations revision that indeed a few days ago a few of us possibly actually did partake in some further A Level revision, after our exams had been taken purely to bring back brilliant memories of our A Level learning experiences.
Indeed, such was the heightened levels of enjoyment of our A Levels revision, we recommend to any of the aspiring current A and AS Level students who read this, to start your revision early, the recommended time being before the Easter Holidays, so as to maximise revision enjoyment purposes.
A Level Examinations partaking
KINABALU
Along with a cohort of fellow year 13s who are named in alphabetical order from here on: Lee Weng Yew, Matthew Sixten Rust, Kit Perry, Woo Yi Xuan, Jean Kee, Wei Jean, Sun, Christopher Ho. Also present were former year 12s who we believe are now possiblu the current year 13s: Andrei Popescu, Dana Moult, Edwin Loo, Raymond, Julian, Ke Ni, amongst others. Late additions to the trip were a collection of respected teachers as well.
On July 1 we departed for Mt Kinabalu from the LCCT KLIA which was later to be the source of much visual glory a couple of weeks later. Upon arriving in KK and after some time had passed we proceeded with much aplomb up the mountain, Maxwell and Bradley making a late desperate surge to the Laban Rata guesthouse to arrive joint forth respectively, to await the arrival of the rest an hour later.
Visually arousing
After awakening at somewhere around 3am and after some time had passed it was reported that we had reached the summit of the possibly highest mountain in asia and then under the mysterious unproclaimed leadership of a matthew rust; maxwell, perry, lee, woo, and bradley then proceeded to proceed in a general downwards direction from the summit of the mountain.
(from R-L) A Highly Respected Member of the General Public, Thomas ‘Hat Maxwell, Woo ‘London’ Yi Xuan, Kit ‘In Front’ Perry, Ben ‘Highest Point Vertically’ Bradley, Matthew ‘Second from Left’ Rust, Lee ‘Excellent Oral Hygiene’ Weng Yew
ooner rather than later, Yew was left behind by the longer legged Maxwell and Bradley who were seemingly on a ‘blinker led’ mission to the bottom. ALTHOUGH suddenly Matthew Rust came bounding down behind us at a speed around 14% faster than ours. A race then ensued, keeping drinks and rests to a minimal 0 stops the downward descent of the mountain was completed in a GISEYE record time of 2hrs.30mins. Commendations are due to Matthew Rust, Ben Bradley and Thomas Maxwell, words must also be spared to Dana Moult, Kit Perry, Andrei Popescu and Lee Weng Yew who seeming fell down the mountain about 30 min later.
After a brief rest a multi personnel bus transported the group to KK where an amazing hotel was discovered complete with swimming pool. Food was a taste sensation (when it came, obviously the arrival of 30+ people was a shock to the kitchen who seemed to only be employing one chef), certificates handed out to those successful and those not so successful and a general sense of merriment was experienced by all in attendance.
Night quickly turned into day and we boarded the airplane, YX was continually disturbed by the window and the long legged people sitting next to him, much to his disgust.
and the journey back to the five star hotel in KK which was luxury at its finest, also narrations of the plane journeys and possibly near violent commotions at the airports that preceeded and followed such journeys. Or read Matt Rust's blog because that might have an account.
Can we also just say that The Duke of Edinburgh's Award is to be universally recognised and widely adopted as the best programme for the personal development of young people and that The Duke of Edinburgh's Award is committed to providing for young people an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding programme of personal development, which is of the highest quality and the widest reach, and The Award is widely recognised by employers and people involved in education. Some of the benefits to young people include developing self-confidence and self-reliance; gaining a sense of achievement and a sense of responsibility; discovering new skills, interests and talents and developing leadership skills and abilities. They can also discover exciting opportunities; make new friends; experience teamwork, problem-solving and decision-making; increase their motivation; enhance their self-esteem and develop their communication skills.
Transformers: the movie
Opinions on the movie are split.
YX – GG Movie, damn good la!.
Bradley – Hmm..quite shit tobehonest.
Maxwell – Agreed with YX.
A mixture or other opinions across Year 13 ranging from a cum, to a shit fest.
Final days of school
Violent common room commotion near death experiences and some Fariq other-people's-bag-relocation-services provided by the said person, one of the near dozens that were also partaking in such a calorie-burning activity to the benefit of health.
Johan Abdul Rahman's band featuring Clement Chew
*For letting us watch him, and the other members of his band project, perform to great personal satisfaction for certain members of the population of Malaysia, recently.
Held in the dark, damp, groaning posh restaurants of Heritage Row, of which the name escapes us temporarily, to be confirmed in our next post for the factually-in-need.
Three spotlights on Clement Chew, with an attractive wall piece behind him to further complement his skills of a musical nature
(from L-R) A Highly Respected Individual, Johan Abdul Rahman, Jeremy Goh Esquire., Guitarist 1, Guitarist 2, Guitarist 3, Lead Singer, Clement Chew, A Highly Respected Individual
Laptops – Yi Xuan turns to violence.
It was decided that a Laptop would be needed for general university activities so Woo, Maxwell and Bradley decided to opt for a Dell Inspiron 1720, 1720 and 1520 respectively (differences are screen sizes 15 and 17 inch). Consequently all laptops were ordered within a few days of each other, thus giving the impression that all should arrive at similar times. This was not to be.
First to arrive was Ben’s 1520, after slightly less than a week his brand spanking new laptop arrived much to his excitement.
Second was Maxwell with his 1720, after several delays and hold-ups with parts shortages. It arrived almost 15 days after ordering thanks to persistent emailing and complaints about service. General success as everything was in working order.
Third – Yi Xuan Woo, after 3 weeks he was becoming increasingly agitated with sending daily emails and receiving the same reply “Im sorry there is a severe screen shortage”. He contemplated many solutions including:
- Changing his order
- Cancelling his order
- Increase number of complaints to 3 a day
- Demand compensation
- Do nothing
Options 3 and 4 were chosen and it turned out that a free 2GB thumb drive was to be given free of charge, much to his happiness. After a slightly longer than expected wait he received his items.
Although that was not the end. He decided to ignore the warnings and software provided by Vista, and proceeded to partition his hard-drive using a downloaded programme. During mid-partition a failure occurred causing the drive to become unrecognisable and well, broken. A complete reformat was needed an after many days, he could finally use his laptop.
Many LAN-Parties have been enjoyed since.
THIS NEWS JUST IN – A CHRIS HO HAS ALSO ORDERED AND RECEIVED A DELL INSPIRON 1520 LAPTOP ALTHOUGH IT MUST BE SAID THAT IT IS SLIGHTLY BETTER IN SPECS THAN THE THREE PEOPLE MENTIONED EARLIER
Langkawi
*****
13 people happened to coincidently meet up at KL LCCT one fine day.
This cleverly encapsulates 7/13ths of the total
Reading books
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows nearly spoilt.
Accolades must go to all of the year 13 geography class generation of 2006/7 which was probably the best sixth form geography class we've ever been in.
Alang Aris, Maevis and Brian* Tan, Clement Chew, Ben Bradley, Thomas Maxwell, Suzen Low*.
*Unfortunately due to possible illnesses these two students did not manage to finish A Level Geography
Also infinite thanks to the intellectually geographically-inclined Giants that are Mr Dan Moore and Mr Sean McAdam. Can we also say that we’d like to speak to anyone currently doing sixth form geography..
THIS NEWS JUST IN LATE LAST LAST MONTH - Reported sighting of the Geographical Legend that is Mr Mark Tighe in Kiaramas Home Providing Condominiums Mont Kiara.
A Level results
Research has shown that this year's A Level results were approximately a possible 96.2% better than last year's results, which we must commend everyone involved on.
We must first take this opportune opportunity to congratulate everyone involved who partook in A Level examinations this year and on their results, and hopefully everyone got into the universities of their choice, and if you didn't then it was greatly unfortunate but it all ought to turn out for the better in the end anyway, as nothing is as bad as it seems possibly, all the best.
Mention must go to the extravagantly humble Lee Weng Yew who was the only member of this generation of year 13s who managed to get into the University of Cambridge, which we believe is a highly respected and historic university deeply steeped in academic history, where several prominent Malaysians have been to, such as various politicians and members of the public on high wages, either on tourism related visits or to study at for the general benefit of all involved.
In other news, the DT students received their results later than everyone else because of the EDEXCEL examinations board which offers the opportunity to check one's results online.
So what is to become of the previous and rest of this summer for your humble richly marginal editors?
Clement 'Chinese' Chew, who will be starting at the University of Manchester soon, is currently operating in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, after having hosted many pool_days gahaha both virtually and physically for the enjoyment of those involved and those not possibly. Also, we have heard reports recently that he is now currently operating in the United Kingdom, along with the greatly modest yet celebrated Chun Wai.
Thomas ‘Agri-business’ Maxwell, will be starting at the University of East Anglia soon, he is currently enjoying life in Norwich. Furthermore
Ben ‘£29.99 football boots’ Bradley, will be starting at the University of Durham soon, now in England, also.
THIS JUST IN
Clement Chew is now at the University of Manchester, Thomas Maxwell is at the University of East Anglia, and Ben Bradley is at the University of Durham.
We sincerely apologise to all involved both internally and externally for the possible time-based discrepancies in the above text, as parts of it were written more than a month ago, and others, today. And on that note, we’d like to try and end with the compliments* to a certain Johan Abdul Rahman Esq. Who we believe is currently involved in a project of some sorts, more information on this as it comes in, or you could just read Matt Rust’s blog..
