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Nick Jayden Yeo
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01/05/1993

Maris Stella High School (Primary)
Hwa Chong Institution (High School)
Hwa Chong Institution (College)

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- A Boy's Story
- The Guy With the Cool Hair
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- I Am Proud of my Home
- Dawn's Sonata

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- I Pledge Myself
- Silence
- Ville de désespoir

!Non-fiction
- To Climb a Mountain, Use Your Wings
- Hypothesis of Life

- iInteract! (Section: 7 Rules of Thumb)
- Baba Alive!

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- 11 Months, 11 Days
- (.100)
- For One More Leap

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- Joy in the Cross



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点一零零 (Point One Zero Zero)
饮水思源 (Remembering the good done to us)
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(终于)完成 ((Finally) Finished!)
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你怎么表达希望?(How do you express hope?)Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 9:33 PM
How do you describe hope?
Most would describe hope as "A flame in the darkness, a flame which gives out light."
The recent movie titled "I Am Legend", ended with the sentence, "Light in the dark." signifying that of which hope is a point of light.
But as grandfather's coffin went along the tracks which would lead to his cremation, I pictured hope being extinguished by a big burning candle. I pictured hope extinguished by a big burning flame, where the irony of light was no longer hope.
I pictured a big flame engulfing grandfather's white-clad coffin, and that flame burned through the entire coffin.
It took it out, bit-by-bit.
Flesh turned to ash.
White turned to black.
The ashes which would come back to me would not be a grandfather I would recognize.
It would be a grandfather I do not wish to see anymore, because it was a grandfather which I could never envision would look like.
It would be a grandfather I never would understand anymore.
It was a grandfather I could not ask any more questions about.
It was a grandfather I wanted but could never regain back.
Hope is represented as a candle flame.
My hope was extinguished by a candle flame.
The scene played back time by time, mocking me, reminding me the burden of caring for a grandmother, for a family, was finally placed upon my shoulders.
This was the day reality set in.
This was the day I finally accepted sharing the burden with my father.
Both men of the family cried the loudest that day.
Both heirs to a legacy.
Both had their hope extinguished by this giant candle flame.
Both screamed, but he never was going to come back.
It was as if hope was a block of ice.
Ice melts slowly each minute, just like my grandfather was slipping through my hands and my grip and my presence each day.
Ice melts almost immediately, if not with immediate effect, when placed next to a candle flame.
This was my hope.
Hope was a block of ice.
Ice melts.
Hope gently fades away.
How do you describe hope?

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爱 (Love)Monday, February 1, 2010, 10:06 PM
"Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail. Love is eternal. there are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass." - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Today is a day of many firsts. Thank you.

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想念 (Reminisce)Sunday, January 31, 2010, 2:33 PM
I miss..

It's for you to guess.

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14 点 (Fourteen points)Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 8:46 PM
Heh. All the OM meetings are leaving me shed and tired, but still, I'm going to go on. :D

And this is going to be a quote-worthy post, as it going to orientation tomorrow!

(OG4 FTW!)

1. For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world. [From the Divine Mercy Chaplet]
2. ens et bonum convertuntur (Translation: Being and good are convertible) [Pope John Paul II, Theology of the Body Lectures]
3. Train yourself to let go of everything you learn to lose [Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back]
4. You must unlearn what you have learnt [Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back]
5. Change always comes bearing gifts [Price Pritchett]
6. 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all [Lord Alfred Tennyson]
7. I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught [Sir Winston Churchill]
8. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. [Sir Winston Churchill]
9. Life is the art of drawing without an eraser [John Gardner]
10. When giving an apology, any performance lower than an A doesn't cut it [Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture]
11. The teaching goes on. [Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie]
12. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops [Henry Adams]
13. What if you got it back? [Mitch Albom, For One More Day]
14. Why, for every hair on your head has been counted; so you need not be afraid; you are worth more than hundreds of sparrows [Matthew 10:30-31]

Okay here's my favourite extract from (.100):

Imagine standing at the lectern, and reading out the reading at your grandfather's funeral.
Imagine placing out a big and good front in front of the rest of the congregration.
Imagine staring the audience in the face, and telling them it's going to be okay, it's going to be reassuring for the family to know that of which there is life after death.
Imagine telling them that you believe that there is a God, and telling everyone that he will save your grandfather, when you have no certainty that he will go to heaven.
Imagine looking from the lectern, reading the readings, when all you notice is the white coffin in the middle of the main aisle.
Imagine you have to make a speech to a crowd, and they listen to you attentively, but you are the only one not listening.
Imagine the one person you wish to see you make that speech, read that extract of the bible, and that person will remain silent forever, and never will praise you for whatever you have done.
Imagine the one person you made a speech for, and that person will never be able to hear it, never be moved by it.
Imagine feeling empty reading a hopeful piece of artwork.
Imagine spreading your love to someone who isn't there.
Imagine reading with vigor, but your heart remains empty, and spent.
Imagine feeling tired before you stand up at the lectern to read those readings.
Imagine just standing up there, making a speech, when all that's going through your mind is that, "I'm sorry."
Imagine wanting to stand at a podium and cry instead of delivering your speech.
Imagine wanting to stare at the crowd whose eyes are transfixed upon you, and you wanted to scream at them, you want to scream into every single face, saying, "Stop looking at me with your pitiful stares! You know nothing of how I feel!"
Imagine making a speech, just for only one audience.
Imagine reading those readings, and the meaning of it is nothingness to you, unless you could bring him back up.
Imagine happiness vanquishing away with each word uttered through the microphone stashed in front of your face.
Imagine your mind split from your soul. It does the daily things required by a person, yet you feel as if your presence is not there, it wants to be somewhere else.
Imagine accepting the reality that of which the someone in the white box is never going to sit up again, yet wanting him to do the exact same thing.
Imagine brimming with hope, yet extinguished even further with each word.
Imagine sending a different message with a speech, but only one member of the audience would understand.
Imagine taking a whole speech to mean, "I am sorry."
Imagine being really sorry.

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点一零零 (Point One Zero Zero)Friday, January 22, 2010, 10:40 AM
Well, shouldn't I not be here.

One of these days I should really come back to this blog and start posting super long posts like I used to.

Well, school has seemed to already have started and I don't think I will have time to post much, considering what I'm doing. But yeah. OM's been cool and whatever!

What was that play again? Santa goes to Arabia?

Kind of makes sense, when you have a Santa Claus rolling down the Chimney and some singing "Money Money Money" inside the script. It's super hilarious, you should go watch it. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Okay, so maybe I'm really bored here and I'm taking a break from writing my book, which was like, somehow long overdue (I started it yesterday, and I have someone to thank to give me the inspiration. Heh. Thanks FAC :D) Heh. I shall not tell that fac "I owe you big time" because I already do. So if you're seeing this, I DO SAY THANK YOU DUDE. MUAHAHAHAHAHA.

Oh, and I've finally decided on a title to call this book!

It shall be called

"(.100)"

ISN'T THAT COOL DUDES.

(Oh and by the way, it's pronounced as POINT ONE ZERO ZERO)

It's detailing the next 100 days after the book "11 Months 11 Days"

NOT BAD RIGHT. COOL RIGHT COOL RIGHT.

Currently as of this post, it's 1779 words!

NOT BAD RIGHT, CONSIDERING I JUST STARTED IT YESTERDAY :D

Say yes please :D

Cheerios then! Byee!

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饮水思源 (Remembering the good done to us)Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 10:26 PM
So I wait and I see
What is up today for me
And I look into the sky
Seeing bright colours in my eyes
Green and green, they match the scene
Many red cars, they zoom by me

A slap in the back and I wake up from my dream
I turn behind, well, Golly!
Since you walked down the stairs
And I see you go
I know you'll come back
And that is so

A sight to behold, more than a dream
Was the reality standing right next to me
I kept silent, knowing my place
I kept moving, following your pace
Three and three, we then see
A great many peoples on the seats

Thus walking up those pearly gates
Looking down, a green escape
The trench of long awaiting for me
We pause to catch our breath
And we sit down
Listening to nature's sounds

As arms then wrapped around me
Engulfing me in all their glory
I sat back and felt the show
Thinking, "God, I thank you so."
The treetops cheer and sing with me
When they know what's in store for thee

All roads end, as all roads lose
We sit down at the end of the route
As fleeting cross into the divine
I dreamt of thoughts of past times
Lights move out and see me through
Pictures flash, as on cue

I remember a past time
When even I thought it was divine
I know now what is true
What is now, as foretolds yield
What is so real, the sense ignite
Primal achievements that are fine

Wait, no, something's wrong
A cry, a sniffle, oh, so strong
Someone felt the same as me
The feelings gush out, worse than thee
A heart sank, a grief pang
Oh damnit, what the dang.

Time to comfort, time to scream
I will be there, as so it seems
Fret not, fear not
For fear is there, without God
Time shall pass, as you may see
Whatever I say, one day it'll make you free

So we climb up the hill
To some place called silent hill
Where no one is here to sit with us
Except the ants, who want their lunch
The sun shines high and so we must
And we will walk away from thus

Bought a drink
And sat to drink
We wait along the seats
To sing
A surprise I thought I'd never get
You gave it to me, yet in that

Along Fable's road we seem to play
A road we walk uphill again
Seeing the pant and the short breaths till
We walk down again as a hill
And we realise, it's wrong for real

And walk back up and we see a trail
We follow it down, worrying no frail
It's not lighted
Yet it's not night
We should be safe
When the sun is in the sky

And a meal for us
With cheese to bring
Kids and unkids
Their bodies' bids
Monster time
Monster rhyme

Decide not where to go
We climb back up to darkness moor
Upon a log we sat on three
We fought so much for pages three
One gave in on a promise
Not to read in front of monster's senses

Then we moved to planes afar
Jettisoned souls, to Hong Kong depart
We sit and watch
Listening to sounds
And doing what friends
Could never have done

Time for home
And anxiety reigns
And calms the night
Which roars a pain
Fear and trembles
Inside you reign

Calm a story
And it must be told
For the sake
We must behold
Hope it's fine
Through the night

Magical daylights light up my night.

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让我们来崇拜他 (Oh, Come Let Us Adore Him)Saturday, December 26, 2009, 10:53 PM
Venite Adoremus;
Venite Adoremus;
Venite Adoremus;
Christ the Lord.

Kinda had a good Christmas this year.

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(终于)完成 ((Finally) Finished!)Saturday, December 5, 2009, 12:21 AM
This MV is so damn good.

Brick By Boring Brick. (Paramore FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)



Paramore FTW!

(Okay I know I'm pretty much late in posting this.)

AND MY FIRST BOOK IS COMPLETED! Just sent the novel to the publishers to publish it, and guess what? It's going to take EIGHT fricking weeks before it can be published (or even before the confirmation letter is being sent to me!)

Who wants to bet that I can finish a novella/novel (depending on whether you base a novel by a word count or not) in this period! I believe I can finish it earlier than them! (And I'm going to reward myself with Ice-cream if I'm going to beat this target) - Perhaps I can. I just finished 1/12 of the book in uh, 3 hours? (Okay I know that is damn slow, but still, I KNOW I CAN DO IT! :D)

Heck la, I'm just aiming for about 24 000 words, can send in as a novella already. :D SENDING IN ANOTHER NOVELLA BEFORE THEY CAN EVEN CONFIRM MY NOVEL. I'LL BEAT YOU TO THAT PUBLSISHER, GIVE YOU ANOTHER BOOK TO CONSIDER.

Current Working Title: One Final Leap

STAY TUNED :D

(Oh and mental note: To remind myself to send the confirmation contact list to Denise for the Cat. Class Chalet, and to start planning for 15th SLC YCB Outing (Which should be around second - next or third week in December

Okay, I know holiday's been boring. Just Higher Chinese, and after which, training, training and more training (and for the first time in ages (or perhaps forever) when Lester and me go to training, we go on time together!) Let's all chiong for next year's Nationals!

Now to leave with a verse which I cannot get out of my mind (though all you Latin-haters out there will hate this phrase:

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Today's Quote:

"Ens et bonum convertuntur" - Pope John Paul II, Theology of the Body Lectures
(Being and good are convertible)
- I used this in my novel as well ;D

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停止 (Stop)Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 3:05 PM
I'm sorry guys, haven't been updating my blog in ages.

First was HCL.
Then was slacking period.
Now THIMUN, but I'm sick, so I didn't go.

Anyway. I won't be posting much (for the moment) because of two reasons.

1. I'm pretty much lazy.
2. I want to finish my goddamned (ok I shouldn't have typed that) story by the end of this month. It's about to finish :D

So when I'm finished, you will see this blog liven up again! :D

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二是二 (Twenty-two)Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 10:15 PM
Anyone who can guess the place mentioned in the poem will get a free lunch from me! :D

I'm a person you see everyday.
But you don't notice me when I come your way
Come meet me in Assisi where I profess my love
Where twenty-two angels stand with Christ
As I see you in my eyes

Come meet me, in Assisi
Where there is no logical fallacy
You, and I, we hold each other's arms
Meet me tonight, under the real cross
Where I will take you to flight, upon my horse.



爱 (L.O.V.E. Letters of Love)Friday, October 30, 2009, 9:20 PM
Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue
Sugar is Sweet
And so are you

Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue
Dear Sender
Who are you?

I'm a person you see everyday
But you don't notice me when I come your way
I saved you from slipping on the banana peel
And I wrote this to tell you how I feel

When I saw you in your white, pretty dress
In my mind I wondered, how could I ever be able to impress?
A girl like you, so beautiful and fine
Wouldn't it be nice, if you were mine?

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In the beginning, you and I
Were both two world apart
But look where fate brought us
And now you have my heart

Things were tough to start with
And love was such a chore
You were so close yet so far
It left my heart so sore

But as destiny would have it
Love would find her way
For now I hold you in my arms
And I am here to stay

Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue
Sugar is Sweet
And I love you

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‘华中子弟‘ (Son of Hwa Chong)Sunday, October 4, 2009, 8:23 PM
This guy: Edward Low (3H303) really is retarded.

NOTHING BETTER TO DO BEFORE EXAMS IS IT.

(It was a response to Dr. Hon's SMB Message on "Whether we should ban Mousehunt?" as too many students are clicking the mousehunt horn once every 15min on their phones in class.)

Quote:

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I strongly agree that the school should ban MouseHunt, as it is a potentially heavy distraction during and after school hours, that would distract us from our studies. Following which, I strongly feel that the school should be thorough in its policy of taking care of students and their results, and thus I would like to propose a ban on girlfriends. Young Hwa Chong gentlemen should practice abstinence, not only in sex, but also in relationships. Not only are they heavily time consuming, they are also very emotionally draining and may cause Hwa Chong gentlemen to SMS during class. My God, we certainly don't want that do we? Furthermore if we take into all those useless dates and Instant Messaging that must certainly transpire between the Young Hwa Chong Gentleman and the girlfriend, we must admit it is not only a lot more time consuming, but a lot more dangerous than clicking a button every 15 minutes. It may even lead to underage sex, and dear God we don't want that do we? HCJC has the highest pregnancy rate in Singapore, thus I feel we should nip that problem right in the bud here in High School. Dear everyone who has a girlfriend: Get a life! There's more to a student's life than developing meaningful relationships and doing random things. You ought to be ashamed of yourself for not studying at least 12 hours a day and watching the Grand National Parade of China at least 46 times on what will soon be left of the internet.

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He stupidly went to edit it.

Quote:

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EDIT: this post is not directed at Dr Hon but at students who dare suggest that a specific game should be banned and not the others. Who are you to pass judgement on games in the name of altruism? I believe Dr Hon is genuinely concerned about our results, but I can hardly believe you are concerned about mine. So to prevent any more Facebook stupidity; What I typed previously was to highlight what it seems like to pass judgement on something with a purely pragmatic viewpoint. If you don't enjoy it, think a little bit before you slam a game as having "no life" or that it should be "banned".

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Here's my reply.

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@ Edward Low (3H303) Kind sir, I suggest that you retain in Sec. 3 for
a year to relearn how to give a rational comment from your teachers
before you post it. If you are really concerned about your studies,
you should not be writing an irrational comment on the SMB that will
be bound to arouse the anger of the entire population. You should be
studying, like the entire HC population is doing right now, rather
than watching the National Parade of China 46 times.

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Abit too free.

EDWARD LOW GO AND MUG YOUR HEAD OFF LA.

AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU.

/he is really Ris Low's evil twin.

I feel embarrassed to be from Hwa Chong right now.

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三个人,共同庆祝生日 (Three people, celebrating their birthdays together)Thursday, October 1, 2009, 8:28 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MAK!
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO AARON KOH.
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BLOG.
WHEE.

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发烧 (Fever)Thursday, September 3, 2009, 9:12 PM
This shall be the same as my facebook.

It sucks when you told your mum this morning that you felt feverish and then she didn't believe you and made you go to school. Then you keep feeling cold and feverish. After flag raising you took your temperature and found out you had a fever. Then you called home to tell your mum that you're going back because you had a fever. Time to say, "I told you so." =.=

Kind of explains everything.

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饮水思源 (Remembering one's past)Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 11:23 AM
Kyrie eleison. Lord Have Mercy.
Kyrie eleison. Lord Have Mercy.

Christe eleison. Christ Have Mercy
Christe eleison. Christ Have Mercy

Kurie eleison. Lord Have Mercy.
Kyrie eleison. Lord Have Mercy.

This song keeps getting stuck in my head. =.=

HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY DUDES!

(Ok well, I shouldn't be calling them dudes, but whatever.)

Morning was BLK-ing again. As usual.

Look! I finally went back to MSHS after like, 1 year! (Eh well, it really is one year.) And then met Ms. Ng but didn't meet 周老师, because she was somewhere far far inside the hall, and I had to leave for Pasir Ris before the school's dismissal time of 1-plus p.m. But nevermind. I'll be back next year during CNY! So keep a BBQ spot for me next year Ms. Ng!

Followed Grace to her Primary school (Coral). :O

Anyway, Coral Primary was really nice! (Yes yes Grace I know I'm saying this.) But yes, it's really colourful and looks more like a Primary school than MSHS. It's just too far away from my house for the likes of my parents to let me study there. But nevermind. Next year hope you'll be able to see your teachers! (:

On a different note, I hope those people will stop arguing. Politics, urgh.

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Today's Quote:

"It cannot be seconded." - Joseph Ratzinger

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