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The latest Swine Flu virus has the latest death toll of 176 in Mexico. Also, a 23-month-old toddler has died from Swine Flu in the United States. This is the first death from Swine Flu occuring outside Mexico. The toddler was Mexican and died in the United States while getting treatment there. The World Health Organisation has declared a Phase five health alert saying that this Virus could quickly mutate to become a rapidly spreading, and a pandemic is said to be imminent. Phase 5 is 1 step short of a Phase 6 health alert of a full scale pandemic, such like that of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS for short. However, an overkill should not be performed and a level of calmness needs to be maintained and this matter needs to be dealt with rationally.

In Europe, four cases of Swine Flu were confirmed - two in Britain and two in Spain - with Austria investigating five suspected cases. Spanish officials were probing about 25 other suspected cases, and potential infections were also being investigated in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Sweden.
Across Asia and the Pacific, New Zealand reported 10 confirmed cases of Swine Flu, and both Thailand and South Korea reported suspected cases. China was investigating several suspected cases. *statistics from google news*

Symptoms of the Swine Influenza Human Strain, influenza A virus subtype Hemagglutinin 1 N1:
Influenza-like symptoms like, chills, sore throats, muscle aches, general discomfort, weakness, headache and coughing. These symptoms are quite like those seen affecting some 14 of my class mates the last two weeks. However, such symptoms are also the likes of the rhinovirus, which is the normal, and usually non-lethal, Influenza strain affecting humans.

Rhinovirus subtypes A and B are the causes of domestic colds. Sporting microtubular Ribonucleic acid chains of the positive sense, this virus thrives best in temperatures ranging from 31 to 35 degrees Celcius, which is the temperature Singapore is generally experiencing. The dettol spray used by Jeremy in our class stops Rhinovirus and disinfects it. However, only conventional medications like Interferon-alpha, which is intranasally effective but causes side-effects like nose bleeding, and Pleconaril, which is orally bioavailable, can stop the virus once it is already in the body.

Here is a short footage of Optimus Prime extinguishing Megatron's spark, ending the 5 million megacycle war between the heroic autobots and the malignant decepticons( Transformers: The Game)

Sigh. Today everyone seems to be sick. 3e2 is very quiet and theres been an outbreak of a bug of some sort. I think its the Flu. It may be caused by the heat, or by a dirty classroom.. Im not sure of the cause. Alot of people in 3e2 did'nt come to school today and a quarter of those that did went home. Jackie didnt come.. Winston went home before recess.. The class was too quiet.. Lets just hope they get well before the examinations..
(its a good thing i dont get sick easy)

I created these yu-gi-oh card that dont exist. Saw some examples on nigel's blog.

TODAY in history:

Today, 4 years ago, my first pet died. Yes. It died. Horribly.

My first pet was a yabby. A yabby is a kind of mutated blue lobster-like thing. No wait. It is a lobster. Only its blue. And its called a yabby. No no no. ITs a SUB-SPECIES of the lobster, yeah. A real lobster would be red or black. However, there ARE BLUE lobsters, but the chances of a lobster being blue is 1 in 10 000 000. ALL yabbys are blue. That's why they're not called lobsters. I hope you get me. And btw he was 3 inches long.

I kept the little guy in a tiny container (12cm x 18cm) and i guess he got fed up of the tiny container. The morning before the day he died, he had shed his skin (call it a shell if you might).
(Lobsters and snakes shed their skins) That night i forgot to cover the container of the little guy. I went to bed. Apparently, what that guy did was that he jumped out of the container. Quite literally. And what's more, the container was on top of my TV. Its like you jumping out of a 10 storey building. AND he didnt die!
HE crawled to my bedroom, which for him is like a mile away, went under my bed, and died from the lack of water. WOW.
The next morning, i woke up for school and i wanted to look at him, like i did every morning. Then i saw he was missing. So frantically, i searched, but i couldnt find him. I went to school. Could'nt pay attention. I came back, and found my mom had found it. As expected, the little invertibrate (it means 'no backbone') had died. UNDER MY BED. It was like he wanted to kill me. I was downcast. First pet. Died. Not even 2 months since i bought him. Myself. For $2. But i got over it. My dad got me 2 authentic lobsters next. Both of them died. Arh! I hate myself for that. I'm never keeping invertebrates again..

Blog post #74

There are many pictures i want to post but don't have time for.

To add to Winston's comment on the coordinates of NAME's location being innacurate, I would like to tell him (if he does not already know) that one's IP (internet protocol) address changes EVERY time the user disengages his modem or disconnects from his broadband or any server he used to surf the net. To manually change one's IP address without compromising on any connections, one should have basic knowledge on command prompts or 'cmd' for short. He would have to know how to run the 'ipconfig/release' and 'ipconfig/renew' commands consecutively via the command prompt application. Due to this constant change, one would be unable to accurately pinpoint the location of the user. Also, even if the user's IP address was kept constant, the 25 mile or 40.2336 km radius would make it virtually impossible to locate the user, unless one has a fix on the proxy server used by the person.
Thank you.

Post #73

Good day to all. Today there is nothing much to dedicate any web logs about. So i shall end with the fact that the earth has a circumference of: 40,075.02 KM (equatorial) 40,007.86 KM (meridional) 40,041.47 KM (mean). The earth is not perfectly spehrical.

NAME:
Hostname: Ip: 220.255.7.239
ISP: SingNet Pte Ltd
Organization: SingNet Pte Ltd
Type: Cable/DSL
Proxy: Confirmed proxy server-- Transparent Proxy
Country: Singapore
State/Region: 00
City: Singapore
Latitude: 1.2931
Longitude: 103.8558
Area Code: SG

Area correct to + or - 25 miles.
25 miles = 40.2336 kilometres (highly innacurate, since Singapore Island's length is roughly 41.8 kilometres)

I love these guys.. BTW if u didnt know them the're the SRMTHFG (super robot monkey team hyper force go!)

SPRX-77 evil within.


Season 2 characters.. No different from season one, except with the new Antari( the one at the top)



SPRX-77 wiht his 'magna-bolt beam splitter"

YEp. Exporting LOADS of photographs stored in my handphone for a LONG time..

Duck tours vehicle


The Singapore Civilisation Museum.



The majestic facade of the old supreme court

I forgot to blog on thursday so i'll do it now..
On thursday, we were supposed to have a 2e3 lunch. I went to white sand and i walked around a bit. Then i saw Deon at the MRT station and went to say hi to him. Then we went to meet reg and cherie beside a large cylindrical pillar located beside the white sands ice cream shop. (there's this human child on this poster that goes "oh my!, oooohhh mmmyyyy!, ooooooooooohhhhhhhhh mmmmmmmmmyyyyyy!") u get what i mean. Waited for gerald who was, not surprisingly, late. we took an MRT to simei, and joind up with Firman and Yangwenn. Then we went inside EastPoint and found jackie, winston and tian wei at floor 3. We joined up with them as well and went to the 'eighteen chefs' restaurant. I've been told that some of the people who work there were previously convicts. That would explain their burly builds..
AFter lunch, we (Jackie,Doen,Tian wei, Gerald and me) went to watch this movie at GV tampines called "DragonBall Evolution" which is a live action remake of the DragonBall Z Japanese anime series. The movie was very short, lasting only, if my watch was correct, approximately 72 minutes.

The movie was alot of action and i liked the fighting bit. But the nice action and blasting bits from the anime were missing so i was a little disappointed. I did like the song that was played from the soundtrack of the movie called [Rule]. This is quite a catchy song.

The rest of the bunch, i believe, went to watch a movie as well. When i say 'rest of the bunch' i mean Cas, Cherie and Des because i think the others went home.

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You see, I have this little problem. I do not know if I should buy XZ a birthday gift. I want to, but she made me make her a promise not to buy her anything, or tail her, or sit next to her, or speak of our "friendship", i shall put it. So i am stuck. Figuratively. Unfortunately, i havent heard if she wanted to make void this promise. I hope she does.

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I also have this tiny problem. Have you noticed the song on your right? The "NO AIR" one?When i first put this song on my blog, it was playing fine. however around a week or two ago, this song started playing for only 18 second, from the middle to somewhere near the third quater of the song. Would someone be a kind sould and tell me how to place an ENTIRE song here permenantly?

I feel extremely disappointed with my marks, seriously and personally. I dont noe about how you guys picture my marks for CA1 but for me they were horrendous. It seems that getting perfect grades is an elusive goal. Its finally the hols, and i'm gonna slack real hard... no studying one bit except finish homewrk. And btw has anyone received the BIO ONLINE TEST and CHEM online tests? i cannot seem to find them.
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Also, i lost my coupons for the Hai Carnival Yesterday and I had to make a police report today to let the authorities know that i lost the coupons. The upside is that I do not have to pay the $20 dollars that all of you payed, in addition to attaining the experience of making a police report. The downside: I had to face the police man who sat in a swivel chair whose name was apparently Terry Ng Yee Siang, and tell him i lost the coupons. I stuttered quite a bit as I was nervous and he asked me to clam down. And so I did. And i went muttering about all that had happened yesterday. I noticed that his fingers were racing along the shiny keys of the policeman computer that he had beside him. he gave me a piece of paper and said it was the 'report'. I nodded and spitted a 'thanks'.

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I have a lot of pictures i want to download but feel to lazy to do so. I took the pictures with both my digital camera and my electrostatic liquid lens camera of my handphone. Let me explain. In an electrostatic liquid lens, a drop of clear transparent fluid is surrounded by an electric forcefield. This forcefield can be altered to increase or decrease the size of the drop of liquid. Since we know that liquids have a fixed volume, we can say that by increasing the length of the drop, we are decreasing its thickness, or its breadth. When this happens a photograph taken through this drop of liquid would be zoomed. That's how they work, I learned on the Discovery Science Channel which is Channel 71 on a typical StarHub cable television modem, which my family exchanged for the old SCV or Singapore Cable Vision, which has a black in colour modem, a long time ago.
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Today I learned alot of Math. I love math. Math is fun and it is engaging. It challenges my mind to solve problems in a very fun way. That is why I like Math. 2 weeks ago, i hated Math. That is why i scored a B4 grade for my math. But right now, while i am typing this, I love math. I practise my math everyday when i get home from school. I bathe, then i sit down and do about 10 questions before going to eat my dinner, which usually my mother cooks. My mother is a good cook. When i come home from school everyday, i make a beeline for the kitchen to see what my mother has prepared. I usually like what my mother cooks. When i eat dinner, i eat in small amounts. This is because i read in a Tamil book that you should, i qoute," eat like a king for breakfast, like a prince for lunch, and like a beggar for dinner". that is why i eat little because know that beggar's eat little since they are poor, which is why they beg, so they are called 'beggars'. However, i sometimes skip my breakfast which my mother says is unhealthy, to get to school on time because i am often in a rush because i wake up late. This is because sometimes, i forget to set an alarm on my handphone, which has an alarm function. This works by the user entering a specific time into the display and the handphone would make a strange noise when the time occurs.
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Time is a very strange thing. When i was little, i read a book called "The time machine" by H.G Wells. I think this man is a great author. He also wrote "the invisible man" which i also read. I also like stories by Jules Verne. This person wrote the books "around the world in 80 days" and "20 000 leagues under the sea" both of which i had read. These books are very entertaining. I also like reading Encyclopedias and Dictionaries as they are very useful. I like to learn about organic chemistry, astrology and astronomy. Organic chemistry s the study of chemical reactions that take place in the body and their causes, effects and purposes. Astrology is the study of planets and other heavenly bodies. Astronomy is the study of stars and their patterns and what they mean for exaple Aquila, Orion, Ursa (major and minor) and Bootes.

I think I had one of the best birthdays I have ever had in my 15 years of being on this planet. Today, Firman sent me a Birthday message.. THANK YOU FIRMAN!!! and then at school hao wen's behaviour made me suspicious of something.. So i waited for lunch. At lunch I had a great big surprise! they sang me a b'dae song and gave me 3 pieces of cake along with a C.D of something AND a brand new YU-GI-OH! deck! yu-gi-oh is a trading card game. i play it to past my time and it is quite fun, though i learnt it only 2 weeks ago. THANK YOU BRIAN, JACKIE, DEON, WINSTON, JOEL(i think) AND GELER!!! THE gift was GREAT but the thought is what i appreciated the best, the fact that you guys actually came up with money and bought me the deck THANK YOU! I DUNT NOE HOW TO REPAY U GUYS!! Thank you also Adam, yun yu, yangwenn, joel, jackie, clarissa, brian, haoyang, geler, casandra and cherie and (i forgot liao) who wrote the nice blue b'dae card for me and Thank you cherie for that extra small little green b'dae card.. I am overwhemled and all of you have my undying gratitude, i am in your debt... i forgot to mention that geler squished cake on my face and it dirtied my clothes and i had to scrub off the stains but it was very very fun. This is because everybody laughed at me and i like that becoz that means everybody finds me funny, so i noe that no one thinks of me as a threat becoz of my so called "good" grades.. haha!

Just finished common tests. I am, well, satisfied with my results but they could have been a whole lot better.
Let me tell it to you.. (just dunt burst out laughing in contempt)
E.math : 33/40 common test, 32/42, class test (miserable) A2
A.math: 25/40 common test, 36/42 class test (extremely beyond miserable) A2
Chem: 25/25 common test, 25/25 class test [overall %:100%](aceptable) A1
Geog: 23/25 common test 16.5/20 class test [overall %: 90.7%](miserable) A1
Social studies: 20/22 common test, 11/12 class tests (acceptable) A1
AS I SAID, they could have been WAY better than this...

ALSO: BIO TESTS : COMMON TEST 23/25, CLASS TEST 23/25 A1

This is only the beginning. This pales in comparison to what is coming next. Brace yourselves it is going to be anything but easy. *hisses*

WHAT lies beyond the inanimate vastness of space? Space is the universe; ever expanding; non traversible... IF we had a bird's eye view of the universe, and the universe were to be the size of a peanut, what would be surrounding it? more "UNIVERSE"? no rite? i already said that all the universe was to be represented by a peanut...so what would be surrounding it? this is a mystery no living human has made sense out of, let alone solve. Theoretical physicists talk about the BIG BANG.. an explsion of superheated elements that created a shock wave so powerful, it blew shards of rock and space dust.. forming planets and eventually, life itself.

LOOK AT LIFE.. life is a miracle, we are a miracle.. Elements dont simply put themselves together SO NEATLY as to create a self functioning, cerebrally active being.. U think that's chance? think again..

WE might have been created by a Omnipotent being we call GOD.. who molded us out of dirt.. or.
WE might have been created by a sudden explosion of space matter.. This made planets. Individual life forms like single cell amoebas might have come about..

ALL LIVING THINGS COME FROM THE SEA... said CHARLES DARWIN.. who came up with the DARWIN'S theory succinctly expressed, a theory that states all life was evolved from a common ancestor.. the microbes; our true forefathers..

EVOLUTION is a controversial subject.. many people believe it, others obviate it.. Scientists are recalcitrant when it comes to rethinking the theory of evolution..

We will one day know if we are trully created by a GOD or by evolution.. until that day comes.. INVESTIGATE, and STAY OPEN TO new IDEAs...

This article is entirely composed by GABRIEL DARREN LEWIS
thnx for reading my blog
HAVe a nice DAY..

Our common test week is close to over... We are feeling free now.. except for the fact that there's a mid year paper coming up in not a very long time. Personally i did not think that I would do well... I still think im gonna fail... Let's hope we all pass..(with flying colours of course) Winston and I have been coming up with some strategies to defeat the smarties in our class..study groups and stuff i find better not disclosed... here are some photos


My old samsung camera.. i now use RICOH..



A rainbow formed outside my block..



The river's relatively filled to the brim..



Jackie playing TAITI or taitee or teh tea i dunno lah..



Fun at the carom room..



An accident occured outside Hai Sing..

Well, that's all... *sigh* sheesh..