Sabbatical is coming close...

Next week on my calendar, I will be going through the sabbatical week, or in the case of us Sec 2s, the Civil Defence Course and IDS week. IDS is Inter-Disciplinary Studies, which is pretty like the project work that our school has initiated (which, personally I think is unfair), except that it is counted for only 5 pts for the whole year.

Tomorrow on my calendar, it will be the last day of submission of ACE, thus I am stuck in my room writing this post rather than sleeping on my comfortable bed right now. Hopefully, I would get my ACE and not go to the O-lvl class next year. Ah, the great plans the school has initiated!

Best Nation in the World

Today, while reading my weekly copy of the Newsweek magazine, the title stared at me and took me in instantly. It shows the Best Countries in the World.

Singapore, being a micro-nation, has a high rating of the 20th in the world. Of course, if small takes the best, Luxembourg, being 5th in the world, should take the honours.

Malaysia, my home, is rated 37th in the whole world. That's higher than developed nations such as United Arab Emirates and China. I am very impressed. However, the list might be inaccurate, however, I am still proud of my fine nation

Malaysia Boleh!

Perfectionist-ic Blog Post- Nothing

I'm back from the void of not posting blog posts, and back from the terrible truth known as blogging for grades. Since this is a perfectionist-ic blog post, i would try not to make mistakes, or what we call 'screw up' this blog post.

So what am I going to talk about in this post? Nothing. Yes, that's right, I'm going to talk about nothing. What is defined as nothingness? From dictionary.com: nothingness is the state of being nothing; something that is nonexistent. First, I will bring in a fallacy that is more of a joke than a real statement.

We consider the two statements. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. / A burger is better than nothing. Thus, we conclude that a burger is better than eternal happiness. Yes, that was taken from Wikipedia. In this case, the first nothing has the definition of an absence, an impossibility of a thing, while the second is meant by having no item. Thus, the nothings are not equal, and thus this fallacy is illogical. But this was meant as a laugh. Here comes the real topic.

In mathematics, zero is an important number, but that was when real maths came in. Before that, it was just a placeholder. For instance, if you were a shepherd and wanted to count your sheep, counting zero sheep would be useless as you would end up to have nothing. However, now zero is important is many mathematical problems. For instance, a quadratic equation, which is a²x + bx + c = 0 is a way of creating and getting solutions for everyday answers.

In science, a state of 'nothing' is impossible to generate, as a space, even as a vacuum, would have gravity and electromagnetic fields. Also, a vacuum would take up some space as it needs to be stored in a sort of universal container. Thus, usage from literature and science about the concept 'nothing' has significant differences.

To that, I end my post on nothing. If you, my dear reader, do not understand my blog post above, well, you don't understand nothing. =D

Cheers,

The Author.

Citius, Altius, Fortius

Hey there, today i'm going to blog about my holidays, and I chose my title as the Olympic motto. Why, you might think, I used this to be a title for my post. For those who don't know, it means, in English, faster, higher, stronger. These are the three attributes that I have completed in the holidays.

Faster: I went ice-skating in the shopping complex on Wednesday. It wasn't much, as it was my first attempt on it, I fell 13 times (talk about unlucky) and crashed 6 times (whoops). It was murderous, my feet burnt, my clothing was drenched, and I was suffering from frostbite. Not to mention my wealth had depleted by 30 bucks. Ouch! Nonetheless, this was my first try, and I would like to get faster after every attempt.

Higher: I got much higher scores at home using my broadband connection. However, my computer broke down, causing me to have a breakdown, as I have to use my old 2.5kg desktop (pardon) and the internet speed, I hope, will get faster and faster.

Stronger: I have went exercising to get stronger and (hopefully) pass my physical test this year. This included running to the park (it wasn't nearby), doing push-ups (I can't anyway) and playing football. Burning calories is way better than hellish training.

Peace Out,
Wong Yik Hin