Books

Recently I have been obsssesed with reding books, frequently reading a whole book (of about 450 pages in 1 day). These are the books read in the past 3 weeks:

Autobiographies
Slave - Mende Nazer: true story of a girl's lost childhood nd her fight for survival
Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin

Fiction
Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Deception Point - Dan Brown
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
Act of War - Dale Brown
Lambing Flats - Forgot Author
Skellig - David Almond (Saw it on alpha22's blog)

I am obssesed with non-caucasian autobiographies now... but there are so few of them!

Maximin Tournament

Got picked up by Maurine Gill at 8 30, tourney started 9 30

Game 1 - Sonia
Neck to neck game until i played REUNITE for 72, and VEXT for 45 points. She never recovered.
W 361-328

Game 2 - Cori
She opens with unit, I take the DLS spot with QI for 44 points. She changes, I put WEM for 31 points. She puts something for 9 points, and I put VEXERS for 55 points. She puts something for 10 points, I bully her with HASTIER for 78 points. I pity her :D
W 476-325

Game 3 - Doreen
Another strightforward game. Put ASTERIA and then its anagram ATRESIA for 67 and 87.
W 428-272

At this stage I am the only person with 3 wins

Game 4 - Dave
Tile gods hate me. I got the SATIR of the SATIRE hook but coundlt find any bingoes. Changed tactics and won eventually
W 358-313

Lunch - By this stage everyone thinks I am going to win...

Game 5 - Maureen
First game I tracked, first game I lost. Says something bout tracking eh? Endgame blunder (Wheres the help from tracking?) and lost:
L 280-266

Game 6 Alora
She went overtime by 4 minutes! nothing special,
W 312-241

At this stage I am still leading with one other person at 5-1... My spread is at the 500s while hers is at the 200s. THis is none other than my first game opponent, Sonia

Game 7 Janet
I geram her. She is partially blind, so she gets her husband to record her scores. SHe also uses super extra big worded tiles. Managed to put PaSSAGES for 86, but she got all the other JQXZK, blanks, and esses.
L 395-357

Came second overall, after Sonia won her game. Will wait for the ratings now...

That Really Hurts!

2nd in SmARTS? And 2nd dosen't get any prizes? To top it of, a team from OUR school got first? THat REALLY HURTS!!!

:'( However, the presentation was good... The audiences laughed at my 'jokes' that werent really jokes... Anyway, will post my speech next post :D

SmARTS Presentation Evening

SmARTS presentation evening in 2 hours; wish me luck... Will update when the results are out and the deed done.

Shou Qian Shou

Simply breathtaking.

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Look at the side, under the banner: Talk To Me, and look at the consol beneath it.

If it says I am online, can talk to me arr... Come lets talk talk...

Singing off,
Victor Ching

Goals

Goals for remaining 2006

1. Get 6As (straight As) for all my subjects.

2. Get the University Exhibition for Indonesian (Best student in state)

3. Get the Indonesian and English Prize

4. Practise badminton and hope to make firsts next year

5. Complete Chopin's Etude 25 No 11 and 9 (Winterwind and Butterfly) for the Will Upson Award

6. Finish mugging and rerevising SATIRE and other common combinations

7. Prepare for LMUSA (Liscenciate - Degree) in Performing for the Piano - This is to: 1. Show the school and those who doubted me that I am THE best pianist in the school and I am in no way INFERIOR to Adrian Khoo (who left last year, and for some reason, I remain in his shadow)
2. Show my parents that not only Aunty's son can have a Diploma at a age of 14:-"Wah you see Auntie's son so geng, pass grade 8 Violin and Piano and preparing for his Diploma in Performing for piano bla bla bla bla" (My calculations show that if I pass Liscenciate, I would be above all those 'competitors' - as I am 16 years old now)
3. Give my parents something to brag about: - "Wah you see people son like to brag so much, first thing get music scholarship call me... I suppose this is something to be about lorr...You leh?...." and then me at the telephone will roll my eyes...

You see children now so busy leh... Although we get more niceties than all the uncles and aunties last time, but we got much more pressure.

Singing off,
Victor Ching

Photos Photos Photo Mania!!!

I love photo blogging... even it is some times a bit wu liao... OK....

Post satu (number 1) - PIANO!!!
Who can resist taking pictures of this sexy Shigeru Kawai...
The curves... wah lau... When I saw this in Zeniths Music, I almost fainted. Where they get this limited edition of Kawai???


HOWEVER.... when I saw the PRICE TAG... I also almost fainted...

Topic 2 - SCRABBLE!!! (and food)
Was playing solitare scrabble again (that says a lot about my social life ) when I decided to take a picture of the jelly that I made with the scrabble board:


How about my yummy coffee... No need starbucks... this is VICTOR'S SUPER DELISH COFFE :D




Topic 3 - Workplace.

Ever wondered where I blog from? There you go - Victor Ching's desk.


Signing off,
Victor

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IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!
So you better, fast fast, la la lum, come and wish me happy birthday worr...
Blogging in the morning before school, so have to keep this brief. Today I go to breakfast horr, in the boarding house, no one wish me yet worr... Sad :'(.... See how many will remember... then I list you here... :)


Victor

Tribute to Jon Gan

Photos by Benjamin Ong from his blog

Jonathon Gan, a friend of mine in VI, passed away last week after a couragoeous fight with brain cancer. Although I did not know him that well, I still feel sad for him. A scout from the First KL Scout Group, he shared an intense rivality with my former scout group, the 2nd KL Scout Group (or fondly known as the VSG).

Perhaps who I am sad for isn't him. He has moved on. He is in another divine land, probably enjoying himself. For who I feel sad for, perhaps, are his parents. His mother stayed so optimistic throughout her ordeal, clinging on what little hope she had. She said that Jon would be doing Science Stream subjects, and even insisted that he sat for his PMR exams last year. His mum selected his subjects, trying to be as optimistic as possible.


Again, I commend Ben on 'his best photo yet' from his blog

Rest in peae Jon. We will always remember you.

Victor Ching,
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Relocation

Decided to relocate myself from my previous address because I was getting spam and unwanted comments all over the place. Promise this will be active... if I have time... gah... Its too hard trying to update a blog and study at the same time :)

Signing off,
Victor Ching