第十天 － 大雨天

Jim bought some chocolates and gave half of it to Ken. Ken bought some sweets and gave half of it to Jim. Jim ate 12 sweets and Ken ate 18 chocolates. The ratio of Jim’s sweets to chocolates became 1:7 and the ratio of Ken’s sweets to chocolates became 1:4. How many sweets did Ken buy?

Can you solve this PSLE question using only model approach, just like how the kids are taught?

第六天 － 雨天

Me, Neo and Jason met something weird yesterday (or rather, this morning at 4.30am)

We were just walking back to our vehicles when we were stopped by this taxi uncle, who asked us for help. Apparently there was this foreigner who did not want to pay her cab fare, and insisted that she speaks to the taxi driver's boss due to poor service.

We could see how flabbergasted the taxi driver was, and how he wanted to settle this entire saga in a cool manner. But after speaking to the lady (Jason did), it was apparent that she would not budge. The only solution that we 3 could think of was to drive her to the nearest police station, because the taxi driver did not do anything wrong at all. We were quite sure that the lady was actually just trying to do something funny, or that she was drunk. Even after the taxi driver told her to get off the cab and that he would not want her to pay the fare anymore, she still refused.

There was nothing we could do but walk away. The taxi driver apparently didn't want to drive to the police station, because it would mean more trouble and more time wasted. We then stood at our vehicles and watched from afar for about 5 minutes. Finally, the lady came out of the taxi, but somewhat unwillingly. What happened next, we do not understand. The lady seemed to be using her phone to dial someone, and the taxi driver was trying to stop her from doing so, and at the same time not being able to touch her at all for fear that she would use that against him.

But who could she be calling? The police? If she's a foreigner or a tourist, how would she know what number to dial? And moreover, was she really that confident that she would win the case? Everyone's definition of poor service is different, and I do not know what is the definition in the government's view, but I guess it's just totally ridiculous.

Why must she do such a thing to the poor old driver, who is just out to make ends meet? We could really see the face of the taxi driver and pity him that such a thing is happening. Hope that everything is fine for him now.

我觉得我还是用英文比较好 :)

第五天 － 晴天

昨天大伙们给了Ah Ben一个surprise生日派对，大家都玩得不亦乐乎。认识了一些新朋友，更深一呈地认识一些不是很熟的朋友，以及见到了一些老朋友。玩到早上六点才舍得回家。

其实我觉得一个生日派对不需要搞太多花招，只要简简单单地约全部朋友出来聊聊天，吃吃饭，对我来说已经是非常棒的一件事了。可能我很简单，但我宁可人到但没礼物，也不要礼物到但人没到。

今天去了我的姨丈的葬礼，突然觉得生命真的很脆弱。明明非常健康的他，为了赶去医院探望他的岳母，就突然倒下，离开人世间了。我现在开始珍惜每一天，希望到我走的那一天时，我不会带着任何的遗憾。

明天要去social house咯！

第一天 － 阴天

很久没回到我的部落格了。

我的生活里最近发生了很多事，很难一一的把每件事给说出来。但是如果要summarise的话，只有一句话能够形容：似有似无。

有时候觉得自己的生活很充实，很美满。有几个非常要好的朋友，有一份工钱不是很高但是非常喜欢的工作，有一个我非常爱的女生。

但有时候又觉得生活很乏闷。最近和朋友之间有了些误会和纠纷，我爱的女生对我越来越冷淡，钱也越来越少。

人家说不管怎样，做人最重要是要活得开心。但是，我开心吗？我不知道。

昨天晚上梦到了一些不开心的事，所以今天上课时心情有些不好。我可怜那位被我骂了10分钟的小五学生。

希望明天会更好吧。

我祝她生日快乐，希望从今天起她的每一天是开心的。如果是的话，我就开心了。

Dazed

Almost died while driving earlier.

On The Road To Recovery

Today's supposedly my first day of work, and yet I'm on MC for the entire week due to my chicken pox! Haha what a start isn't it? Well, I can only hope that my employers are not angry with me, or that they have a bad impression of me right at the start, otherwise it's gonna be hell for me for the next 2 1/2 years.

I think I can count myself lucky. Why? Because my pox never itched before. I don't know if it's the calamine lotion that I apply, or the medicine that I eat, or that the chicken pox is not fully developed, or I'm just plain lucky. I've come across a few of my friends who complain about the itch and the pain every single day when they have it, and as such I was very worried in the beginning. But even till today, when I can visibly see the pox drying up and slowly disappearing, I've never once felt that they itched. They looked more like huge pimples that suddenly appear all over my face and body.

The only thing that worries me right now is the scars on my face. I've got 4 of them, and I don't know if they'll slowly disappear, or I'll have to buy some scar removal cream. Whatever it is, I MUST NOT BE DISFIGURED! Hahaha!

It's the 8th day now, and I'm very amazed that I'm still surviving this ordeal of being stuck at home, and not being able to step out of the house in case I spread the virus to someone else. Seeing how the German who got the H1N1 virus and yet still went out to Clarke Quay for "recreational" purposes and to a concert the next day before seeking treatment, and how he got flamed after that for being so irresponsible, I've decided against going out while I'm still "infectious" and "spreading the virus". Gotta be a responsible citizen :D

Another 6 more days!!!

Chicken Pox

As some of you might have already found out, I'm down with chicken pox. At the age of 25 :(

It's so ironic because I told my new employer that I would need one week to settle my things and be ready for work, and yet I'm down with chicken pox at the very start of the week, thus ending any of my plans.

A bad start to my working career. 5 days of medical leave gone. Unclaimable during probation period.

But well, at least I finally got hold of my new laptop. A 15" MacBook Pro. So happy! I still need a portable HDD to transfer all my files from my previous laptop though. But I can't step out of my house yet!

Talking about the chicken pox, many people have told me not to scratch, otherwise I wouldn't look good anymore. But sadly, all the four scars that I have currently, all happen to be on my face. One right at my right eye brow, one at my chin, one on the right cheek, and the last one just below the third one on the cheek. The first two are scarily huge, they look more like infections to me. They look like 2 huge holes, bled so much that the blood all dried up, and now I don't even dare to look at the mirror. I guess that's it, no more pretty boy. Face's gonna be disfigured forever. The funny thing is I didn't scratch them at all. These 2 holes appeared even before the rest of the chicken pox broke out. So how did these 2 holes appear, I do not know.

Besides those scars, I can consider myself lucky because there isn't really a lot of it all over my body, and they don't itch. Not at the moment at least. Only occasional two or three of them itch, but only for awhile. But my friends told me that it itches really bad when it starts to recover, so I'm mentally prepared for that. Good thing I've got a high threshold for itch.

Today is Day 4 of my chicken pox, and I'm already dying of boredom at home. I really need to find something to do. I've cleaned my room, swept my room, packed my table. I guess the next thing that I can do is to pack my wardrobe, which I'll take my own sweet time to do it tomorrow, otherwise I'll end up doing nothing but staring at my computer screen blankly again.

Many of my friends have fallen ill these few days, whether is it a small illness or a major one. So please my friends, please take care of yourselves. Make sure you drink a lot of water. Do not underestimate the power of having lots of water. It performs magic :)

Alright, another 5 minutes of my time wasted. Time to go plan for what to do for the next 23 hours and 55 minutes.