Good quote

I found this fantastic quote worth noting down while reading a book

故木秀于林，风必摧之；堆出于岸，流必湍之；行高于人，众必非之。前鉴不远，覆车继轨

 It means that don't receive too much public attention through your actions or else you will be targeted by the public.
Psychologists say that it is caused by jealousy among people. The fact that you are constantly showing off your talents which they don't posses will arouse jealousy among the green-eye people. They will perform all sorts of actions just to pull you down or to destroy the possessions that they will never have.

the 2nd one was found when I was watching a chinese music talent variety show online.

"虽然我是盲人，但我并不是残疾人，我只是走夜路的明眼人"

I found the quote full of positivity and it really shows how people in dire situations manage to pull themselves up by changing perspective.

Chemistry help

I am glad I can find a tutorial on the effects of ideal and normal gas law. Had a tough time trying to comprehend the meaning of the graph PV/RT vs Pressure. Yeah! It is so much better than listening in lectures because there are illustrations for me to understand the concepts. (I am bad at imagining things cos I always think of a different situation...)

Anyway, chemistry is not that fun without doing calculations. I find that solving chemistry problems is so much easier than answering with full long sentences. haha maybe I am fated to fail in English T_T.

haitus

yea I have returned to blog!
Currently not in the mood to write anything constructive...
Anyway, I hope I can tide through this year and next year till after A levels. JC is taking a toil of me and I have so many goals to achieve in a short span of 2 years. Getting a silver or a gold (bleh) for Napfa is one of them. Haha I will update this blog again when I have consolidated my reflections about this term. Yeah!

Last of not least, I think I need to mature a bit more... I am being too happy and innocent in my honest opinion. Haizzz I hope my first PW work can survive my teacher's tough scrutiny. PW let's go!

Ps. I have found a movie quote that is very nice. It originated from a book called 非我倾城 by 顾漫 and was used again in a movie and I shall not say the name. Here it goes, “我一生中最幸运的两件事。一件，是时间终于将我对你的爱消耗殆尽。一件，是很久很久以前有一天，我遇见你”

The meaning is so deep that people like me cannot understand it but I am pretty sure in a few decades (haha) to come, I will know the meaning of it. The quote is so nice but I can't share it on social media or else people will judge me...

Anyway, hope everybody stays happy like me :D

Bitcoins, the new currency?

I just happened to come across online articles describing the potential usage of bitcoins after the series of irrational govenment policies were passed in Cyprus to control the flow of money within its country to tide through the tough period.

Bitcoins were developed in 2009 and circulated around the computer savy people as a virtual currency for services online. It is similar to the then second life currency which burst its bubble in the early 2000s. Since the start of 2013, its exchange rate of 1 BTC (bitcoin) for 10USD has risen till 1BTC for 90USD. It is an astounding 9 times increase in value! On hindsight, I should have bought some last year when I first gained knowledge of it through online forum discussions. T_T But, I was ignorant of the workings of bitcoin and I could not blame anyone for my failure to explore more on virtual currency usage.

In fact, Bitcoin is considered a self-deflationary currency as it is designed to halt production once it reaches 21 million BTC. BTC is produced through a form of lottery (64 letters combination!) and at first it gave 50 BTC to the fortunate computer that struck upon it every 10 minutes. After 4 years, it will decrease by half to 25 BTC (the current mining rate) every 10 min to the lucky computer and so on and so fro. The projected end of production of BTC is thought to be 2140 (I would have been dead...) and by then, 21 million BTC will have been in circulation.

However, I firmly do not believe in Bitcoin as a possible takeover of real life currency as it has no backings or what-so-ever and the hype of a possible virtual currency started by media mongrels in response to the EU failing economy is a possible speculation tactic used by risk-taking firms or hedge funds to earn short-term cash.

Bitcoins are virtual and they are also kept in virtual wallets (you don't say haha). If a hacker hacks your account or you lose your data through a computer reformat, you will lose all your money without any insurance to back it. In the early days of BTC, people who used to use bitcoins would have most probably thrown away their wallets or lost them due to the infamous glitch that caused a massive inflation of BTC. In 2011, the value of BTC dropped drastically from 30USD to a few cents within minutes when a group of hackers reportedly took control of a major BTC account and disposed all of the coins into the market. Fears soon arised and people who thought the BTC bubble had burst started dumping BTC too. It was sort of a Big Depression for virtual currency.
Of course, people can say real life currency can also be destroyed through the forms of irresponsible disposable notes and coins. However, take note that the market of real life currency is too big to be affected by the hands of the minorities and BTC market is self-deflationary. The actions made in the past by people who had lost hundreds of thousands of BTC (back then 100,000 BTC was worth nothing. Now, it is valued at 9,000,000 USD) could have a great impact on the future circulation of BTC as there will be limited circulation. People will hoard large amounts of BTC in hope that it will further deflate to earn more from the rising exchange rate. This will cause the supply of BTC to be price inelastic as the proportion of supply of BTC in the market will increase less than the price. With the demand being price elastic, people will forcefully rise up the value of BTC until one day someone decides to cash out on his big fat BTC wallet causing supply to increase suddenly.


I will continue this next time...
Note: Bitcoins is like the dotcom bubble. With no regulation, it is bound to be in the hands of the rich who controls the market. The small fish will always be the one to suffer when the big fish get away with their profits.

~Thoughts~

Start of the year, JIP was supposed to be fun in my opinion but somehow the school had made it into another gap sem branch off. Some of the days after assembly and talk with deans, I had nothing to do but to stay in school to wait for my CCA to start. Of course, I went to gym to train for Napfa but it was only a mere 1 hour and  the JC campus had already been explored fully by my gang of friends when we were in year 3&4s. We found a few secret places to play cards but somehow time did not fly past and we were easily bored with cards within 1 hour. (Haha I shan't reveal the places until I graduate from this school :D)

The sight of seeing my pri sch classmates in JC brought back memories of the times in primary school and I still remembered Mr Quah. LOL He was the teacher that taught me to cover my mouth when I sneeze or cough or burp or yawn and also reminded me that all As doesn't mean I am perfect. People on the street do not judge me by the As because I can't possibly bring a huge stack of examination results along with me everywhere to show it to everybody. It is the character and the traits I display that will affect people's judgements and right now I fully agree with that. With the recent uproar of the disgraced MP for his involvement in unethical behaviour, I realised that people judge you for your moral actions and most of them do not even care about how much achievements you have obtained. If you can't even control your desire, who will dare to vote you to service us wholeheartedly even though you are a man of great achievements.

With that to say, I was disappointed with the recent election results at Punggoleast. It seemed as though a certain party liked to ride on people's complains to snatch that rightful spot away from the ruling party. I had recently finished Mr Lee Kuan Yew's book "From third world to first" and I could truly understand how difficult it was to govern a country to become a developed nation when it was constantly threatened by a certain neighbouring country. (Let's not continue this or else it will hijack my whole blogspot for today)

Anyway,in a few days' time, it will be orientation for the Year 5s and I am feeling a bit uneasy for my grouping. I will not mention why but I will continue to stay positive for the whole orientation! Also, I think the OGL that prank called me is very "CUTE". She had successfully wasted 9 min of my prepaid phone value.

HAHA, when JC starts, it will be very hectic as I have signed up for 2 ccas (one sporting cca and one club) along side with all the regular CIPs and the academic studies. It will prove to be challenge for me to juggle all these 3 balls together but if I successfully do it, I will be better prepared for any other challenges coming along my way.

BACK!

HAHA I am back.
Anyway, I found out I have sooooooo many uncompleted blogspot done last month. Will start to complete them and maybe publish it before JC starts! Whoohoo

JC life is going to be hectic and I hope I won't lose myself in pursuing my goals. I had done too much slacking in the past few years and the RD talk was truly a wake up call for me that I am not as good as I thought. .___. GP is my weakest subject and the only way I know of improving my grades is to follow my GP teacher's footsteps closely even though some seniors claim some GP teachers are not that good. *__*

Nonetheless, I wish I can make more new friends, study hard, play hard and obtain a SILVER for Napfa before JC ends.

Another thing before I go, I STOP watching anime. Anime is so boring now after watching 100 episodes of Detective Conan. I won't even recommend anybody to start watching it because it is truly a waste of time.

This is such a short post and I do not intend it make long so I will end here. Anyway, all my emotions are captured in these few paragraphs, so not much writing is needed to convey my feelings.

END

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NVM, I will just remove any thing worth removing
Anyway, I know quite a bit about JC life because my seniors told me about it. There are so many windows of opportunities for everyone in JC and I feel I will manage (Hopefully >__<) my time well between cognitive education and other holistic development.

Enjoy JC life to the fullest without regrets!