Blog?

by Jonathan in Uncategorized on Saturday May 27, 2006 at 2321hours

I’ve got a lot I want to blog about, which is exactly why I don’t feel like blogging and am not going to blog.

But there’s always time, inbetween the magnitude of assignments thrown our way in poly, to sneak in the little gems.

1. The head prefect election script was wonderful. Lagged a little on the VS LAN and if only that one vote discrepency was not there, it would have been perfect. Congrats to Firdaus BMA and his Exco. That was one hell of an election.

2. Our favourite 15-year old teacher from VS is married! Congratulations to Mr Oh!

3. This might be the last post in quite a while. Assignments are being a Ass. Now we know how the word ASSignments originated.

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Elections

by Jonathan in Jonaize,Victoria School on Monday May 22, 2006 at 2347hours

VS HPE 06 tomorrow.

Last year saw MOE’s proxy blocking my domain at the worst possible moment.

This year i’ve got a failsafe system on the VS server.

Let’s see what tomorrow brings.

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Pushball

by Jonathan in SP on Saturday May 13, 2006 at 1518hours

Went down to TP in the morning to participate in a Pushball ‘Competition’ among the IHLs (Institutes of Higher Learning) (Think IVP.)

Drew lots and ended up with SP vs. NUS. But surprisingly, the ball spent practically all its time in our opponents half (in case you’re wondering, thats a good thing). Lost in the final ‘sudden death’ round, but it was all in all fun, tiring, tiring and tiring. Oh, did I mention tiring?

Heh. Who would have ever guessed that the game could be so damn physically draining. After the first half (consisting of 10 mins), I was ready to lie down and go peacefully. Seriously. Now, my body’s aching in places I never knew could even ache.

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Above the influence

by Jonathan in Uncategorized on Wednesday May 10, 2006 at 1802hours

Was browsing through the winners of the Webby Awards and I came across this site. I don’t normally post a lot of sites I come across but for some reason I felt this one was worth sharing.

http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/

Go Visit.

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Elections

by Jonathan in Life on Monday May 1, 2006 at 1552hours

I’ve been following the political scene quite a bit lately, more so then I would have ever imagined getting myself into. The fact that one (possibly) might have to vote at the next GE does wonders for one’s involvement in politics.

It’s interesting really. Political parties battling it out in the elusive pursuit of votes. Mansoor’s got a very interesting (and also very true IMHO) view of things in his latest blog post. Other sites more or less echo his sentiments.

After watching the Party Political Broadcast, this much is certain. The purpose of an opposition is not to tear down the institutions / organisations that already exist in society. And if I may be so bold as to say that such institutions / organisations that are in place seem to be working fine in SG. Then again, I’m not employed and I’m under 21 and thus don’t vote so what weight can my words possibly carry aye?

But all things aside, it’s truly fun to watch the elections and all the issues and incidences that it’s web spins.

In other, but by no means less important, news, the VS Head Prefect Elections is around the corner with a new election system and cool publicity. So watch out for it.

I’m rather worried though. More features and security precautions pave the way for more problems. Like for one, I’ve no idea if the school’s computers have the .NET framework 1.1 installed and if the firewall there is going to block outgoing connections to my database and web server. Then there’s the whole issue of MOE’s proxy servers blocking access to my domain like what happened last year. Oh well, briefing’s on Friday. We’ll see.

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