Holidays

Hi schooling readers, the holidays is coming to an end, and i hope you are enjoying it. Anyway if you are enjoying I am not. Infact my March holidays this year was not even considered a holiday to me.

Before I continue, let me ask you a simple question.

What is holiday to you? Is it a time to relax after the exams? Is it a time to do what you can't do during the term? Is it a time for you to distress?

Well my holiday is nothing different from school days. I still have to go to school everyday.

Maths Question

There are 2009 lighted light bulbs in a role. Every day, Mr Do will turn off all the odd numbered lighted light bulbs.
a) If Mr Do started this proccess on a Monday, on which day would he stop this proccess?
b) How many bulbs from the left is the last bulb to be switched off?

Slow Clock Fixed

Thanks to Lowawa, I finally manage to change my blog's clock to the correct one. Although the clock is fixed, you can still comment on the "Slow Clock" and this post. Just write what you want.

The Maths "Genius"

Hope you enjoy.

Please leave your comments.

Maths Question

What is the last 2 digits of the product of 69 to the power of 12345678910?

Maths Question

I have a padlock with 12 buttons, and the code can be a 1-12 digit number. How many types of combinations must you try out before hacking the code?

Palindrome

A racecar is a racecar while a racecar is a racecar, and a racecar is also a racecar because a racecar is a racecar when a racecar is spelt backwards, so a racecar is a racecar and a racecar.
Hi readers did you realise something about words like racecar, mom, dad? Well, those words are palindrones. I am sure you are able too raftly figure out what a palindrome is from reading the above, and finding a similarity between the words racecar, mom and dad.
Do you know anymore of such interesting words? Please share.

Slow Clock

My blog's timing is about 13 hours slow! Did you notice that? Anyway does anyone have any suggestions as to how to change the timing to a correct one?
Please feedback.

Math Question 2

Here is the next question. It is rather simple too.

How many 4 letters word can you form with the word TERENCE? ( It may not nessarily be a real word.)

Please leave your answers as a comment.

1st Maths Question

Today, our maths teacher suggested to us the idea of posting maths questions on our blogs. My first question would be a simple one. Here it is.

What is the fomula for a+(a+1)+(a+2)+...+(n-2)+(n-1)+n?

Language Arts Assignment 2

Article from: The Straits Times Friday, Febuary 27 2009 pg. A12

Article Title: Scaling One Peak After Another

Being a victim of cerebral palsy, Ms Oh has done quite a commendable job of climbing one of the tallest mountains in South- east Asia, Mt Kinabalu, and writing a book that inspired others. Ms Oh, who walks with an awkward gait and speaks with great difficulty was often an easy target for taunts, cruel jokes and discrimination. Although a high fever rendered one of her four siblings mentally impaired, cancer robbed her of her doting father and her best friend, her late mother was bedridden and suffered from chronic skin disease which led to the amputation of her mother's right leg, and her brother was a compulsive gambler who lost her poor parents' savings, Ms Oh did not give up in self pity, but to chase and live her dreams. Evidently, we can learn lots of values from Ms Oh, things like resilience and positive thinking.

On Saturday, Singapore's icon, The Merlion was struck by lightning. Part of its mane fell off, crashing to the floor. The Merlion stop spouting water many hours after. Today, in the news papers, on the front page of The Straights Times shows a picture of the Merlion being caged up. Contractors were engaged to repair the Merlion, and the public is still not allowed to access the 36 year old icon at the mouth of the Singapore River. What exactly has the Merlion done wrong to deserve to be struck by lightning, caged up, and isolated.

Today was a pretty tiring day. I had to wake up at 6am early in the morning to rush to east coast park outward bound singapore. You may be wondering what was I doing at such a place on an early Saturday morning, well I participated in a CIP activity, where we hold games for the disabled. I had to run here and there, carring tables and other stuff for the event. By the time the whole thing ended I was tired to the bone. Actually the plan was for me to walk a very far distance to the nearest bus stop, and take a bus home but lucky for me, my mother was able to rush down to pick me. By the time I reached home, it was already 3pm. More than half of my Saturday is gone. When I reached home, I had to work on a huge pile of homework, set by my teachers, all together 9 of them as I have 9 examinable subjects. I had only about 1 and a half hours to work on them, as I have to rush of for my CCA at 4.30pm.

Language Arts Assignment- News Paper Article

Article from: The Straits Times Monday 23 Febuary 2009 Pg. B5

Article Title: Nuisance callers dial up a 999 logjam.

The article focused on a main idea that calling 999, for non- urgent situations is incorrect. The article further illastrates this by following a workday of a police staff. The Straits Times journalist found out that pranksters swamp police hotlines, while others treat it as a phone directory or a complaint bureau. Among the 273 calls the followed police staff took, 8 in 10 calls were nuisance and dropped calls. The nuisance callers can sometimes hamper the speed at which information is passed on, and can potantially delay police response in situations where every seconds matters.
I was surprised to get to know of such an incident, as since young, we were taught that the number 999 is only for emergencies, and that we were not suppose to make nuisance calls. I didn't know that people, especially adults dialled 999 for enquiry, and non- emergency matters. This pranksters should know that their numbers can be traced easily by the police, and they may be dealt with easily.
From the article, we can see the ugly side of singaporeans.
I think the pranksters should be seriously dealt with. Maybe give them a heavy fine, or give them detention. Hopefully, this will deter people from calling 999 as and when they like. Better prevent than to punish, I suggest that the public be better educated in this area, and we can also do our part by spreading this massage to those aruond us.
Last but not least I also suggest a number for people to call for non- emregency matters.

It has been more than a month pass since I posted my last post. That was due to my pack schedule, reaching home at 6pm+ or later on all the 5 working days.
Here I am again, burning midnight oil to complete my language arts assignment.
My assignment will be on my next blog entry.