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hair cut advertisement India (No Offense) /// 7:27 AM

art of manliness /// 3:48 AM

Ahoy people!
Just something interesting which i think you guys ought to see (:

ART OF MANLINESS

When most people today hear the word “virtue,” they usually don’t think “manliness.” Having virtue or being virtuous is looked at as being sissy or effeminate. In fact, we sometimes use the word in today’s vernacular to describe a woman’s sexual conduct.

However, virtue is far from being sissy or effeminate. The word “virtue” is actually rooted in “manliness.” “Virtue” comes from the Latin virtus, which in turn is derived from vir, Latin for “manliness.” Cicero, a famous Roman statesman and writer, enumerated the cardinal virtues that every man should try to live up to. They included justice, prudence, courage, and temperance. In order to have honor, a Roman man had to live each of the four virtues. When Aristotle encouraged men in the ancient world to live “the virtuous life,” it was really a call to man up.

Benjamin Franklin is an American legend. He single handily invented the idea of the “self-made man.” Despite being born into a poor family and only receiving two years of formal schooling, Franklin became a successful printer, scientist, musician, and author. Oh, and in his spare time he helped found a country, and then serve as its diplomat.

The key to Franklin’s success was his drive to constantly improve himself and accomplish his ambitions. In 1726, at the age of 20, Ben Franklin set his loftiest goal: the attainment of moral perfection.

In order to accomplish his goal, Franklin developed and committed himself to a personal improvement program that consisted of living 13 virtues. The 13 virtues were:

“TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.”
“SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.”
“ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.”
“RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”
“FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.”
“INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.”
“SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.”
“JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.”
“MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.”
“CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.”
“TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.”
“CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.”
“HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.”

adopted from this article:
http://artofmanliness.com/2008/02/24/lessons-in-manliness-benjamin-franklins-pursuit-of-the-virtuous-life/

-wen eng (:

class tee =] /// 6:40 AM

Hey guys! so sorry.. the design is changed a little bit cos the printing guy said it wasn't possible to print it nicely for the arrow to join from the front to the back so we just made the arrow end in the front of the tshirt. the MJC barcode will oso be together with the bird shit. the arrow and lines will be of white colour, the "uniquely 08s203' word will be lime green in colour, and the back printing will be in silver colour. :D
and due to budgeting problems, we are unable to print personalised name for you people. For now, the cost of the class tee wld be $20.
.. so pls do rmb to bring $20 when u come back to schl.. PLUS the $10 class fund if you haven't pay yet :D
And in order to help u guys cut down on expenditure but still maximise your level of satisfaction, we've decided to go cycling and eating on the outing day instead of a bbq.

Finalised CLASS TEE design!! /// 6:42 AM

HEY peepul! the long awaited class tee design is finally finalised!! <- click here for larger version of front design.
*note: there'll be no voting session BUT if u do have any violent objections please contact W.A personally.
oh oh! and if you haven't tell us the size and the personalised name you want, pls do so asap =] this is the front view...

...and this is the back view...

The printing colour will most probably be gold on black. you all won't mind right? don't worry it's silk screen printing so quite good quality de :D
Tommorow (tues) if you wanna join us in making the class tee, be sure to meet us at queenstown MRT control station at 2pm. (now that i mentioned queenstown, most probably nobody will go =x) hahaha.. nevertheless you are still encouraged to join us.

/// 7:43 AM

hey guys im reallyreally veryvery sorry for disrupting tmr's plans to go make class tee but i sincerely want a nice class tee that we will not regret making n can wear for many years =X I forgotten about my cousin until today when i met her then i realised she could help to design our class tee cos she is in design skl [NAFA]. I sincerely apologise for all the inconveniences I've caused =X SORRY!
-Liting

/// 7:25 AM

Hey guys.. really really sorry about the ugliness of my designs and the rashness in making the class tee..
~WJ
Liting's cousin offered to contribute some designs so we shall wait for her design which will most probably be ready by monday night. then you all will have to vote too.

class tee /// 10:09 PM

Feel free to come with us to make the t-shirt on tuesday 27th may, (time and venue not confirmed)
sizes for the shirt:
XS-36
S-38
M-40
L-42
XL-44
p.s:(the personalised words will be on the left sleeve)

another design /// 10:01 PM

Hey yichen sent in another design. quite nice the sunny thingy. can consider :D

=| /// 9:47 PM

ok.. this is wad the printing guy suggested..
but personally i feel that it's not worth it cos really darn plain and we shld hav a more unique class tee. yup. btw if u all want personalized, have to add $2 which the whole class tee will add up to $20, with THIS design. (the shirt will be black and due to overwhelming response, will most probably be dri fit)

for the back:

for the front:

/// 8:28 PM

Hello ppl,
We're gng back to the vendor to submit the design on monday arnd 12. anyone care to join? jus sms either me or wen juan if you're interested in joining us. (:

Front of Class Tee /// 9:25 AM

Hey people. How bout one of these as the front of our class tee?

funny funny /// 8:56 AM

Gawd.. i just found out there's this really hilarious website: http://engrish.com

bananas /// 7:47 AM

REMINDER! /// 7:03 AM

REMINDER!
tmr we'll be gng to make the class tee.
For those interested, pls meet tmr(24.05.08) at bedok mrt at 4.30!

econs conslutation,
please go down to MJC, mr hon's pigeon hole and write down your names in the time slots available.
Please sign up as a group of 3-6 ppl. each time slot is around 2 hours.

-wen eng (:

/// 7:29 AM

Hey there citizens of 08s203. Guess what? I have finally found a "company" that is willing to sponsor for our class t-shirt. However, they request that we put the logo of their "company" on the front of our class t-shirt. So our class t-shirt will most probably turn out looking like this. Hope you people like it.

- your random maths rep, Nash =)

class teeee design /// 11:10 AM

Hey guys! I've attempted to come out with designs for our class tee so u all can jus view it (click it for the larger version).. those are supposed to be for the back of the shirt.
umm i think it's abit too colourful but that can be edited. oops and i forgot to add in 'MJC' in the 2nd design..
Anyways, those who are willing and able to, please contribute some designs too so that we can have a wider variety of choices. yup and we will vote.. most probably during the elearning days :D

duno why this resolution is so sucky

~WeN JuAn

LIST OF THINGS TO DO AND BE INFORMED /// 7:28 AM

Firstly i'd like to post in some fotos that would hv rotten if i didnt post them up.

look closely at the words HAHA!
egg drop team A
egg drop team B
catapult
council voting! 08s203 rox! (artist- wen juan (: )

Next, about the class tee we hv one possible design by our maths rep- Mr Random

ian's fren's design if u've forgotten how it looked like..

hmm wad do u guys think of it? any designs in mind? feel free to post it up on the class blog! (best to be by this sat:24th may)

Thirdly, abt the class outing
Is it possible for you guys to make it on 16th june 2008 for the class outing? pls inform me if you cant make it.
oh ya and pls give me any suggests on any activities we could do during class outing. (:

Forthly, the consultations. Pls book your consultations if you feel tt you nid them. I'll most likely be booking the consultation for econs on behalf of the class. But i'll be doing the booking maybe soon

Also, remember to go ISIS to do your travel declarations thingy!

AND most importantly, pls Study for your mid-years!! We're aiming for dr. Vaz's pizza! All the best in your studies!
-wen eng (:

/// 4:34 AM

this is soo cute haha!!

choose ur class tee /// 6:33 AM

yozz everybody!
vote for which type of class tee you all would like to have!
got ... ~cotton roundneck, dri-fit roundneck, dri-fit polo, dri-fit roundneck+polo, dri-fit collar neck, dri-fit round neck, dri-fit v neck, Mandarin Collar Dri Fit... etc.
personally i think the mandarin collar dri fit is quite nice (but costs arnd $20??)
view this webby to see how it looks like: http://www.wahmee.com.sg/class-t-shirt/samples.html
http://www.wahmee.com.sg/class-t-shirt/products.html
we needa choose the t-shirt colour too..
And pls help come up with a nice design for 08s203 class tee if u hav time :D all kind efforts will be deeply appreciated.

Not our fault /// 5:12 AM

It's not the fault of the student if he/she fails because the year ONLY has 365 days...
typical academic year for a student:
1. Sundays - 52 Sundays in a year, you know Sundays are for rest.
Days left 313.
2. Summer holidays - 50 where weather is very hot and difficult to study.
Days left 263.
3. 8 hours daily sleep - 130 days GONE.
Days left 141.
4. 1 hour for daily playing- (good for health) means 15 days.
Days left 126.
5. 2 hours daily for food & other delicacies (chewing properly & swallowing) - means 30 days.
Days left 96.
6. 1 hour for talking (man is a social animal) - means 15 days.
Days left 81.
7. Exam days - per year at least 35 days.
Days left 46.
8. Quarterly, half yearly and festival (holidays) - 40 days.
Days left 6.
9. For sickness - at least 3 days.
Days left 3.
10. Movies and functions- at least 2 days.
1 day left.
11. That 1 day is your birthday.
How can you study on that day ?!?!?!?!?!
Balance = 0
' How can a student pass ?????'

BUT then again, i believe all of us will have the time to study if we sacrifice some things.
..so moral of the story, don't be like that person who wasted his/her whole year.
start mugging for MYE now!! work towards the pizza dr vaz promised us if we all passed :D

XD /// 8:29 AM

No offence to anyone. if you find the following video offensive please make a request to have it removed :D but seriously i can't help laughing everytime i watch this.

A little something. /// 7:24 AM

Heyheyhey,
in response to wen juan's demand for another person to post something on the class blog, i've decided to blog on our class blog.

Hmm, let's start with something that's lame.

Dunno if you guys have seen this
Japanese commercial

I noe it's lame larh haha

This is another one of my fav videos on youtube

they're cute. LOL.

Anyway, these are the upcoming events:
#1 SPA!(for both physics and chem i think)
#2. Econs test [pls study for this test ppl, if not you'll find yourself having tea with mr hon..]
#3. GP test(i think..)
#4.Maths test

I think that's all for nxt week (week 8)
All the best for the coming week and have a happy may month. =D
-WenEng

time to change the blogskin /// 7:17 AM

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euro-english :D /// 8:48 PM

Hi

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.