5/6/12
Astrochallenge was ok...
I spelled Rigel wrongly. How awesome is that?!
DRQ was retarded. Didn't know the principle of stellar luminosity, so I ended up assuming Rigel was 10 times brighter than Betelgeuse. And then we still had a lot of time left after (not exactly) completing the paper, so we started talking about random stuff.

I wonder how I'm going to see the transit of Venus. Everyone else is probably camping on the NUS field right now, in their tents. The transit starts tomorrow, so if you people have nothing to do, please come down to the field at NUS, because if you miss it, it will only happen again in 2117, and you would probably be dead. Unless someone invents immortality, of course.

The food at the NUS canteen is way better than the food at our canteen. And it's cheaper. And they have Coke and whatnot. Why can't they do the same with our canteen?! Are they scared of a bunch of people getting hyper off all the caffeine and running around?! (Ok, for some people that might be a legitimate concern, but most people don't even think about it)

Yue Xin says that if she drinks a lot of coffee she gets all hyper and starts screaming and running around. Maybe I should force-feed her coffee. Nyehehehehehehehe.

Now for the serious bit.

As I said before, our level is full of annoying, silly, retarded and stupid people. Yes, I know some of those adjectives are the same, but whatever. It's never nice to say bad things about other people, or even hear other people say them. Because then you would realise what is actually going on behind their backs. And you'd rather them not know the truth, because it will hurt them, and hurt you. But does it hurt more to keep it in, to be an unwilling accomplice in the spreading of lies, or does it hurt more to tell them the truth, that everything is not so rosy, that behind smiles are daggers?

And what about the people spreading those lies? What if, on her Facebook page, she's all cutesey phrases, but in real life, she's just a mean lady, talking to other people like her? How would you know?

Most people would choose to keep it in. Most "right" people would tell them. But there is no right or wrong answer.