Ah, yes.
The lectureboys.
I still remember a day so very long ago when Chia Ming noted with some sort of strange fascination that I could, in fact, smile. Apparently he had previously thought it was unconceivable that I could do so.
Next, he proceeded to ask me if I wanted to be a lectureboy, and informed me of the qualifications (you must be good looking, funny, and skip lectures). To this I replied with a lengthy 'Righhhhhttttttt....' which, if you think about it, was no answer at all, seeing as it doesn't actually give any indication of whether I accept the invitation or not.
Which is how you find me here today, listed under 'Randoms'. So am I a lectureboy? I'd say more or less I'm like Wei Jin. Status: debatable.
In more recent times, LB Ming (anyone notice that LB could also stand for Ladybird?) asked me to write a post for the LB chronicles, and so here I am wondering what to say and somehow having managed to type quite a lot and yet say nothing at all.
Yes! Wonder at my awesome ability to fill pages with words that amount to nought. I am your King.
Sorry, while it's all fun and games for the LBs to pick on each other, I shall refrain from doing so myself since I am technically not one of them. And so this post will have to be quite boring.
But I will say that Chia Ming, having not DotA-ed since forever, came back and proved to be a nublet.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Friday, January 26, 2007
Methinks it is time
to find new things about each other that we can make fun off.
Cause seriously, the GI "F" grade, the dropout from medical school now flying around the world, and the usmle rejection are old old topics whose humour has been squeezed and wrung absolutely dry. Drier than tim's outlook of life.
The recurring themes are getting boring, gentlemen. Though for sure, those are the events for which we will be most remembered, the time has come to look for new materiel. LB-hn + LB-tiM seem to be the only ones we can't find recurring themes for, and for that, I praise their diversity and unquatifiable variability.
Either that or they've just been so boring that we can't think of anything remotely interesting to make fun off. <3 san has even renounced his playerhood, taking away the silent killer topic we loved to comment upon. gasp.
Whether tiM renounces HIS playerhood remains to be seen. This should be interesting.
hoho
God forbid that we become boring.
Let the new flame wars begin~
*cue inspiring music*
(press play to cue inspiring music)
Cause seriously, the GI "F" grade, the dropout from medical school now flying around the world, and the usmle rejection are old old topics whose humour has been squeezed and wrung absolutely dry. Drier than tim's outlook of life.
The recurring themes are getting boring, gentlemen. Though for sure, those are the events for which we will be most remembered, the time has come to look for new materiel. LB-hn + LB-tiM seem to be the only ones we can't find recurring themes for, and for that, I praise their diversity and unquatifiable variability.
Either that or they've just been so boring that we can't think of anything remotely interesting to make fun off. <3 san has even renounced his playerhood, taking away the silent killer topic we loved to comment upon. gasp.
Whether tiM renounces HIS playerhood remains to be seen. This should be interesting.
hoho
God forbid that we become boring.
Let the new flame wars begin~
*cue inspiring music*
(press play to cue inspiring music)
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
DOPPLEGANGER
We live in a world of 6 billion odd. Surely as unique as our DNA codes us to be, I believe that eventually, due to the power of dice-rolling, there will be somebody out there that look a lot like you and vice versa. Raymond has found his evil twin. Incidentally, he's a korean movie star. Cheers.
(don't ask why there's a romantic song together with this video. wasn't made by me damn it)
His name is Lee Dong Wook.
What ya think? Looks like our Choy Wai Mun?
LOL.
(don't ask why there's a romantic song together with this video. wasn't made by me damn it)
His name is Lee Dong Wook.
What ya think? Looks like our Choy Wai Mun?
LOL.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
The Top 5ive Lectureboy Screw-ups
Being lectureboys, our road trip on this highway known as life is very often marred by potholes. Some of them were just bad luck but a huge chunk of these very memorable moments are very much of our own making. Here, I present to you the top 5ive lectureboy screw-ups.
Coming in at number five, getting an F for the Gastrointestinal summative exam.
Exam failing is something we always huddle around talking about over a warm glass of teh-o-ais, but beneath the farce of joke making and "you're-so-gonna-pass-and-i'm-gonna-fail" conversations deep down in all of us we want to top the next lectureboy in exam results so we can smugly feel good inside. It's called the competitive drive but truth be told, we're all damn kiasu.
LB-Ming will forever be remembered as reaching a peak so unattainable and a bottom so unreachable that from that point onwards, no matter how well he did, his friend would look at him and say, "AT least I didn't get an F in the GI exam." to which he cannot reply and then will hang himself under the ceiling fan.
+WeiJiN comes in at number four when he failed an exam he didn't even sit for. As avid readers of lectureboys, I'm sure most of you would have heard of the now familiar story which depicts how USMLE (the US' exam board for medical undergraduates) owned him.
Granted, and to be fair to the people that fail it, it isn't a very easy paper. However, he wasn't even ACCEPTED to sit for the exam. A privilege which is granted to EVERYONE else and ANYONE who would apply for it. Our hearts go out to him. Being rejected is his greatest fear so it's really sad how things turned out for him.
LB-Keat's departure from med school comes in at number 3. However, because personally for him he's currently in a much better position than he was, this wouldn't be categorically a screw-up. That is if you believe in long runs and bright sides and all that jazz. But due to the nature of how he got there, which is to record-breakingly not study at all for the finals of semester 3 then yes, this is every bit deserved so don't argue.
And I say record-breaking because trust me, no one else in the history of the university would ever so fearlessly do it the way he did. He's the one person I've met where his laziness is > his fear. Cheers.
Our bit of history so far sounds like we've been mostly shaped by our academic achievements, or lack thereof. Which is awful. No one should ever be gauged wholly by their ability to pick the correct answer in MCQs. Which is why I want to prove to you that we do screw up in a lot of other non-academic situations.
LB-Nien comes in at number two when he missed his flight to Queensland. I don't know what the reason is or whether it was anyone else's fault. Nor do I intend to find out so that I can unjudgementally tell a story. All you should know is that Mr.Nien, whom was supposed to leave Msia on a date that was set since he graduated a year ago, didn't.
And because I don't know exactly why, let me just embellish it to say that he forgot to apply for his visa.
His mum, whom my heart breaks for when I send Han Nien late home every night, marked it down as the most stressful event in her life when everything was ready to be flown to Australia. Except her son's travel status.
So given the extra few days to loiter around in Malaysia, instead of rushing his application, he decided to go to the cyber cafe and play computer games.
Well, I suppose he's in Australia now so it's all good. Cheers.
Coming in at number five, getting an F for the Gastrointestinal summative exam.
Exam failing is something we always huddle around talking about over a warm glass of teh-o-ais, but beneath the farce of joke making and "you're-so-gonna-pass-and-i'm-gonna-fail" conversations deep down in all of us we want to top the next lectureboy in exam results so we can smugly feel good inside. It's called the competitive drive but truth be told, we're all damn kiasu.
LB-Ming will forever be remembered as reaching a peak so unattainable and a bottom so unreachable that from that point onwards, no matter how well he did, his friend would look at him and say, "AT least I didn't get an F in the GI exam." to which he cannot reply and then will hang himself under the ceiling fan.
+WeiJiN comes in at number four when he failed an exam he didn't even sit for. As avid readers of lectureboys, I'm sure most of you would have heard of the now familiar story which depicts how USMLE (the US' exam board for medical undergraduates) owned him.
Granted, and to be fair to the people that fail it, it isn't a very easy paper. However, he wasn't even ACCEPTED to sit for the exam. A privilege which is granted to EVERYONE else and ANYONE who would apply for it. Our hearts go out to him. Being rejected is his greatest fear so it's really sad how things turned out for him.
LB-Keat's departure from med school comes in at number 3. However, because personally for him he's currently in a much better position than he was, this wouldn't be categorically a screw-up. That is if you believe in long runs and bright sides and all that jazz. But due to the nature of how he got there, which is to record-breakingly not study at all for the finals of semester 3 then yes, this is every bit deserved so don't argue.
And I say record-breaking because trust me, no one else in the history of the university would ever so fearlessly do it the way he did. He's the one person I've met where his laziness is > his fear. Cheers.
Our bit of history so far sounds like we've been mostly shaped by our academic achievements, or lack thereof. Which is awful. No one should ever be gauged wholly by their ability to pick the correct answer in MCQs. Which is why I want to prove to you that we do screw up in a lot of other non-academic situations.
LB-Nien comes in at number two when he missed his flight to Queensland. I don't know what the reason is or whether it was anyone else's fault. Nor do I intend to find out so that I can unjudgementally tell a story. All you should know is that Mr.Nien, whom was supposed to leave Msia on a date that was set since he graduated a year ago, didn't.
And because I don't know exactly why, let me just embellish it to say that he forgot to apply for his visa.
His mum, whom my heart breaks for when I send Han Nien late home every night, marked it down as the most stressful event in her life when everything was ready to be flown to Australia. Except her son's travel status.
So given the extra few days to loiter around in Malaysia, instead of rushing his application, he decided to go to the cyber cafe and play computer games.
Well, I suppose he's in Australia now so it's all good. Cheers.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
while we're on the topic of swords
reproduced from www.sevenskulls.com
Tim? our collectives thoughts are with you and your mother's emotional state. Eh ask her to pray for me also.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
exam stress.
2 months to study for a supplementary exam, and here i am. alone in my house, 20 notes in front of me, 12 hours from my exam. last minute cramming, the only way to prepare for exams. incidentally, it was chia ming's birthday yesterday. so i bid thee many happy returns.
i'm bored and eating kfc in front of my com. so i thought i'd go through an in depth study of the lectureboys' philosophy in approaching failure. hopefully, we will all gain some insight.
a wise man once said, "if at first you don't succeed, try try again. if you don't succeed the 2nd time, try try summore. if you fail again, there's always resit." after many many tries, that man is now studying to be a pilot.
another wise man said "at least tim failed respi before i failed GI", nevermind that he got an F. in his defence, he did own the shit out of me in respi. he is also the wise man that said procrastination is like masturbation, which got us into this predicament in the first place.
our 3rd wise man breezes through exams, occasionally coming up with abstract thoughts like "such is love" and "<3san". he is, quite possibly, the only lectureboy that does not know the meaning of procrastinating. it is not implying that he has a limited vocabulary, but that he has yet to truly exhibit the action of procrastinating.
where would any mention of voltron be without a shoutout to the sword! wei jin, of course - "if you're not prepared for an exam, why take it at all!" 365 days later, he's still preparing for the USMLE that he was supposed to take last year.
my philosophy? cram everything before exams and hope my mom prayed enough for a miracle.
i'm bored and eating kfc in front of my com. so i thought i'd go through an in depth study of the lectureboys' philosophy in approaching failure. hopefully, we will all gain some insight.
a wise man once said, "if at first you don't succeed, try try again. if you don't succeed the 2nd time, try try summore. if you fail again, there's always resit." after many many tries, that man is now studying to be a pilot.
another wise man said "at least tim failed respi before i failed GI", nevermind that he got an F. in his defence, he did own the shit out of me in respi. he is also the wise man that said procrastination is like masturbation, which got us into this predicament in the first place.
our 3rd wise man breezes through exams, occasionally coming up with abstract thoughts like "such is love" and "<3san". he is, quite possibly, the only lectureboy that does not know the meaning of procrastinating. it is not implying that he has a limited vocabulary, but that he has yet to truly exhibit the action of procrastinating.
where would any mention of voltron be without a shoutout to the sword! wei jin, of course - "if you're not prepared for an exam, why take it at all!" 365 days later, he's still preparing for the USMLE that he was supposed to take last year.
my philosophy? cram everything before exams and hope my mom prayed enough for a miracle.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
we didn't forget weijin
just in case u were wondering where weijin was while the rest of us were forming Voltron... he's the sword!
Thursday, January 04, 2007
happy new year.
when the lectureboys get together, they do two things.
1. form voltron, like so:
and,
2. take group photos, like so:
apparently, there's a new voltron formed with vehicles, sort of like power rangers.
in any case, it was good to see everyone again, and although i didn't go into an emo fit like chia ming and had a hugfest, it still tugs at the heartstrings when you know you're not gonna see your friends for another year. everyone seems to grow up so fast i feel like i'm left behind. wow, that sounded so gay.
last but not least, the quote of the year (and possibly years to come):
"do fish have ears? no la, they have gills." - lavinia, bimbo extraordinaire
1. form voltron, like so:
and,
2. take group photos, like so:
apparently, there's a new voltron formed with vehicles, sort of like power rangers.
in any case, it was good to see everyone again, and although i didn't go into an emo fit like chia ming and had a hugfest, it still tugs at the heartstrings when you know you're not gonna see your friends for another year. everyone seems to grow up so fast i feel like i'm left behind. wow, that sounded so gay.
last but not least, the quote of the year (and possibly years to come):
"do fish have ears? no la, they have gills." - lavinia, bimbo extraordinaire
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