The Short Giant!

Flicker of flame, flicker of hope

2010-11-24T04:43:00.000-08:00

Birthdays. I am sure that’s the only thing we associate with candles. We see candles only on a few occasions each year, but have we ever given deeper thought to them? I am sure we don’t. After all, they are just candles, aren’t they? You are right, they are. BUT don’t you think there’s more to a candle than just flames, and birthday celebrations and melted wax?

A candle flame gives out heat and light, but with every flicker of the flame comes a flicker of hope. In the darkest of times, in the darkest of places, the candle flame burns away our fear, our insecurities little by little. Our heart is now emptied of doubts, anxieties, only to be replaced by hope and the courage to carry on with life. The candle flame doesn’t last long, but till the moment it burns out, till the moment it completely melts, it stands tall and firm, giving us that little bit of hope and courage that we all need. Have you ever seen a candle burn in the dark? The glow around it? So small yet so big, so weak yet so strong.

Isn’t life just like a candle? Life’s so short, and there’s no knowing when it will come to an end. Just like life, there are no possible ways of determining when candles completely burn out. But before we ‘burn out’, isn’t it great if we could give everyone a little hope, a little courage to just carry on with life? Even though our life may have ended, at least we helped someone muster the courage to carry on with theirs.

King Of Anything

2010-08-25T04:59:00.000-07:00

Damn can't embed the official video, but still, I really love this song hahaha, and it is a message to certain people out there.

Keep drinking coffee, stare me down across the table
While I look outside
So many things I’d say if only I were able
But I just keep quiet and count the cars that pass by

You’ve got opinions, man
We’re all entitled to ‘em, but I never asked
So let me thank you for your time, and try not to waste anymore of mine
And get out of here fast

I hate to break it to you babe, but I’m not drowning
There’s no one here to save

AND WHO CARES IF YOU DISAGREE?
YOU ARE NOT ME
WHO MADE YOU KING OF ANYTHING?
SO YOU DARE TELL ME WHO TO BE?
WHO DIED AND MADE YOU KING OF ANYTHING?

You sound so innocent, all full of good intent
Swear you know best
But you expect me to jump up on board with you
And ride off into your delusional sunset

I’m not the one who’s lost with no direction
But you’ll never see
You’re so busy making maps with my name on them in all caps
You got the talking down, just not the listening

AND WHO CARES IF YOU DISAGREE?
YOU ARE NOT ME
WHO MADE YOU KING OF ANYTHING?
SO YOU DARE TELL ME WHO TO BE?
WHO DIED AND MADE YOU KING OF ANYTHING?

All my life I’ve tried to make everybody happy
While I just hurt and hide
Waiting for someone to tell me it’s my turn to decide

AND WHO CARES IF YOU DISAGREE?
YOU ARE NOT ME
WHO MADE YOU KING OF ANYTHING?
SO YOU DARE TELL ME WHO TO BE?
WHO DIED AND MADE YOU KING OF ANYTHING?

AND WHO CARES IF YOU DISAGREE?
YOU ARE NOT ME
WHO MADE YOU KING OF ANYTHING?
SO YOU DARE TELL ME WHO TO BE?
WHO DIED AND MADE YOU KING OF ANYTHING?

Let me hold your crown, babe.

Disappointment

2010-05-30T00:55:00.000-07:00

Seriously.

Why do I even bother hoping?

It's always disappointment after disappointment.

You aren't even trying at all.

And you want me to pick up the slack.

Have you ever spared a thought about me?

I always hoped for that silver lining, no matter how narrow, how small it can be.

Well apparently, there's no lining to start with.

I don't even want to care anymore. Just get out.

2010-05-03T07:43:00.000-07:00

Wow this week's been quite crazy C:

Got 24/25 points for 5 items, quite pleased C:

And now I am in tchoukball! Hehe it's actually quite fun luh. Had a friendly on Tuesday with defending champs ACS (international). Won 2 games, and lost 2. Overall we lost by a small margin, so it's still ok C: I was crap in the first game I played, cos I didn't know how center pivot was supposed to be played. But improved quite a lot in the second game I played C: Totally thrashed them for that game C: Good job guys.

Ok quite a lot of stuff to do. GPP, PI, ILP. Let's go Kelvin C:

2010-04-25T07:51:00.000-07:00

Happy Belated Birthday to myself C: Haha thanks guys, namely Samuel, Sarah, Marcus and Audrey for the present on wednesday after school, and for the trip to sogurt on thursday C:

Ok 5 items tomorrow. Not feeling very confident, but I shall give my all C:

BEST

2010-04-20T06:20:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow's my birthday and the school has already given me a present in advance.

4x100 race and 8x200 :C

Hope I can win a medal tomorrow, then it will be a good present C:

Beezee beezee

2010-04-19T07:37:00.000-07:00

Damn beezee nowadays hai.

Had fac outing last Sat at sentosa. Was quite fun lah C: The food eating competition, stylish tearing of ice pops C: A pity Shane and I didn't win :C Otherwise it was quite a nice outing, though I would have prefered to be in air conditioned place.

Had 2.4km today. Started off well, but had chest pains/stitches at the 4th round. Managed to lap at least 3/4 of the people running, and managed to get 5th C: Could have been 4th or 3rd actually. I think my time is 9min+ C: Quite a good timing, seeing as how the only running I do is when I play frisbee C: Yay managed top 5 this year woohoo C:

Shall aim for top 3 next year C: 5 items next week let's go let's go let's go C:

Can't get me down

2010-04-02T09:40:00.000-07:00

Yknow a blog is for you to express your views openly, as long as they are not illegal or controversial. So what I want to post and how I want to post it is none of your business.

To you who just put up that vulgar tag on my tagboard, you think just that little message can get me down. It only serves to make me laugh. At your stupidity. At your lack of civility. Lack of moral. Lack of courage to confront me face-to-face if you have any issues with me. You think with that message, you can humiliate me and hopefully destroy me. But let me tell you, there are better ways of destroying a man. Anyway that method of yours failed to even tickle me, let alone scratch me.

Know your enemy well and half the battle's won. Well, looks like you know nuts about me. I am such a joker than lousy criticisms like yours just bounce off me. Pathetic. I don't deny that I am short. But I have never said that I was popular. Well since you said it, I guess you must think that I am popular. Thank you then. But if you want to say anything next time, say it clearly, in a language that humans can identify, in a pure language, with no vulgarities. COWARD. And oh please use any other name but 'Kelvs'. I wouldn't want to associate my name with scums like you.

Good day to you Mr Scum C:

April's Fool

2010-04-01T08:16:00.000-07:00

Hahaha these few days have been damn fun-packed.

Tuesday and Wednesday were council elections. So basically, like most other students, I wasn't paying much attention. Maybe stopping occasionally to listen to those people who I know. Actually the ION 1 minute speech thing was quite bleagh. And some of the videos were quite crappy. Then on wednesday during Q & A, I hear the most ridiculous answers.

Q: What leadership opportunities have you had?

A: Errrr.... Er...... Um..... I am the Econs Rep

Speechless. And scums like this actually get into council in the end. (Milton and I agreed to do 20 pullups for NAPFA if that piece of filth got it, so oh well. It's good training anyway C: )

Had a lot of fun with helium balloons on both days, especially Wednesday. Inhaling half the helium in the balloon and saying 'I LOVE ECONS' in the middle of the lesson, priceless C:

And today was April's Fool. Actually I wanted to not prank anyone for today, cos everyone will have some tricks and stuff. I prank people everyday, not just on a specific day. But in the end, I had a very nice prank to play on my teachers C: Wearing a skirt and greeting them in Spanish C: Coupled with two little frog stickers on my ears (which actually fooled quite a lot of people into believing that they were actual earrings haha) We also had fun teaching those people who like to rest their heads on the railing a 'lesson' during Econs lecture, and telling people that they didn't zip up their pants C:

Looks like I have a potential career as a professional pranker C:

2010-03-30T06:20:00.000-07:00

These 2 days have been damn sian...

Only things worth remembering were PE yesterday and council today. PE was fun haha. Jumped 265cm for standing broad jump. Actually I thought I couldn't reach 250 cos I wasn't feeling on form. So this is a good indicator, not on form, yet still jumping 265 C: The look on the PE teacher's face was classic haha. And I did 15 pull-ups C: Actually could have done more, but I sorta strained my back a bit, so I just stopped. Not bad, considering the fact that I don't train that much. C:

Council today was ok-ok lah. Some pple (shan't say who) were not just epic fail. They were totally fail to the epic max. Makes me wonder how they even got pass the interview. Anyway Milton and I have agreed to do 20 pull-ups each for napfa if a certain guy gets into council. Shows how much confidence we have that he won't get in C:

How wonderful haha

Cross Country

2010-03-25T05:04:00.000-07:00

Hi guys.

Just a quick post. Cross country yesterday C:

I was quite demoralised when I saw so many people running, like 200+? So I felt quite sian already. But Milton told me not to care too much, just concentrate on running and winning myself haha. Yeah so I just ran with Marcus, paced each other, with Samuel and Milton just in front of us.

Ran and ran and ran. I think I have never run 4.8km at this pace before. Much faster than my usual pace. Can't believe I actually overtook Milton once, but due to a painful stitch, I had to stop. And that cost me 20th position :C I think I was 21st or 22nd haha. Overtook Marcus at the very end by sprinting with this Indian Ares-ian C: And we both overtook Marcus haha. Oh well, I just want to know my timing. Hope it's below 20 min C: And on looking back, I think it's not bad that I ran 21st/22nd. Given the fact that I never train for long distance, unless you count during the 1km during training which is damn short.

And speaking of training, I actually owned Yu Ann hahaha. He's normally the fastest runner. Surprisingly, the side-effects are not so severe this time C: Just slight aches.

Must jiayou for next year. Top 20 C:

2010-03-23T05:37:00.003-07:00

Sorry guys. Haven't been posting much. Very busy and very tired rawr hahaha.

Cross country tomorrow! Hope it rains C:

2010-03-09T06:03:00.001-08:00

Luckily there is an off-day today. If not I am going to faint from fatigue bleah.

Yesterday's PE was one of the most tiring ever. I thought we went to Macritchie just to maybe run a couple of kilometres to familiarise ourselves with the terrain. And then the teacher said the boys were going to run the full 4.3km route. I was like, "SHIT YOU DIDN'T JUST TELL US TO RUN 4.3KM"

Oh well, just ran with Milton and Marcus. Surprisingly we started from the last and yet ended up in top 5 C: But I could have had a faster time if not for the stitches :C Anyway I am feeling the side-effects in my thighs. But they are not as bad now cos I have had some prior training (the 4km runs before official school C: )

Had a gathering with the S7C people and Miss Stella today. The curry she cooked was quite nice and the number guessing game was pure ownage. My dares were as usual, fantastic C: And my guessing skills too haha.

Then about 5 of the 7A people and Miss Stella went to Princess Sarah's castle after that. So freaking big, 16000 sq feet from what I heard. That's like almost 1500 sq metres wow wow wow. We just spent most of the time chilling in the mini cinema, with a mini cinema screen and a projector C: Played some card games, Taboo (where I was the champion, expected actually C:) and Truth or Truth while switching channels and watching soccer, MTV or some other random channels haha. Though it's just a few of us, it's quite fun luh. Knowing each other's secrets now heh heh C:

Oh heck heck time to sleep already. Ciao C:

Crazy

2010-03-05T08:14:00.000-08:00

Ok JC life is damn crazy. I am not getting enough sleep, but I am still damn high. I have absolutely no idea why hahaha. Classes are getting more and more fun C:

And I swear the girls in my class are crazy. To be obsessed about having nice legs is one thing. But to be obsessed over a GUY'S legs is absolutely out of this world. Yah I won't reveal the guy's identity, but yeah you guys should have a rough idea who it is C: (But that guy really has very nice legs, for a girl hahaha)

Ok damn tired now. Should prolly catch up on more sleep C:

2010-02-23T06:46:00.000-08:00

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller

Finally finished the damned lipids notes.

Can't Hold On - Melee

Someone cries and it washes the street with tears
But when they are mine, they collect in my head for years
Rain or shine, still I'm standing on all I said
'Cause it's in my soul, carry on when the feeling's dead

[Chorus]
But if you can't hold on
Let it go and come back in your heart
And if you can't hold on
Maybe it's not time for you
And if you can't hold on
On your very last try
I'll be there in the morning to pull you through

Someone dies late at night and I never know
And even if I did, so afraid of the face I'd show
I feel trapped and enslaved to this dark contrast
Need a feeling now, give me something that's going to last

[Chorus]

I want to be free
I want to be free
I want to be free
Yes, I want to be free
I want to be free
Yes, I want to be free
Oh, I want to be free
Yes, I want to be free

You say you want to be free
But you can't fool me
You say you want to be free
Oh, but you can't fool me
You say you want to be free
But you can't fool me
You say you want to be free
Oh, but you can't fool me

Oh, and if you can't hold on
You can't hold on (Can't hold on)
You can't hold on (Can't hold on)
I'll be there, I'll be there

Oh, and if you can't hold on
Let it go and come back in your heart
And if you can't hold on
Maybe it's not time for you
And if you can't hold on
On your very last try
I'll be there so you know that you're not alone

(Sorry I can't find the official video, so settle for a live video please C: Anyway it's the lyrics that matters)

3-1 :C

2010-02-20T06:47:00.000-08:00

Face it Man Utd, you were totally outplayed and totally outclassed. How are you going to win the league when you are going to rely on centre-backs like Evans and Wes Brown? Supposed wingers like Park when he doesn't even whip in a single cross all match?

Oh well, I can only count on Wolves now to hunt down Chelsea, but it's a tall order isn't it? :C

2010-02-19T19:50:00.000-08:00

Hey guys

Official lessons have started already, and it's quite tiring. To have 3 hours of lessons straight, then have a 30 min break followed by another 3 hours of lessons :C
But I can't complain much, I end at 2 on most days with the exception of Friday, where everyone ends at 4 C:

Have a lot on my mind to say now, but can't really convert my thoughts into words. (Been feeling a bit depressed, emo, but I have no idea why). So I will just put a song here to sorta reflect my feelings. It's quite old, but its lyrics are very meaningful (and possibly a bit emo too). C:

Love of mine some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark

No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
"Son fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
'cause we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

Long break ahead C:

2010-02-12T04:32:00.000-08:00

Wow these few days have been really tiring, with 4km runs, fac dance practises and rehearsals C:

Can't believe that I can actually run 4km non-stop, given that I have never done it before. Ran 18 min on Tuesday and 22 min on Thursday. Quite decent, said Si Heng C:

And fac dance practices are damn fun man, once you know how to do the whole dance. It seems easy once you know everything, which is damn ironic considering that we thought it was super hard to learn initially.

And today was the real CNY celebration and POP. Considering that we have been rehearsing for a long time, today's performance could be counted as a failure. I slipped and dropped my spear :C Still can't believe it. I have never dropped my spear during the rehearsals once and yet it had to happen today. What the hell man. Oh well, at least ARES WON THE FAC DANCE! C: Actually it was rather expected lah, if we could get the timings and movements right.

Then after POP there was OG outing. Went to my dad's shop for porridge C: And then went to catch True Legend. The movie was rather decent I would say. The fighting choreography was damn nice, but the plot was rather weak. Some parts of the story didn't really connect as well as I would have liked it to be. But the fighting scenes which were plentiful, more than made up for it. I would give it 3.5/5 C:

Ok CNY eve tomorrow, can't believe CNY is coming so soon :/

Busy days

2010-02-04T04:41:00.000-08:00

Hey guys.

Haven't been posting these few days cos they have been really really busy.

Last day of orientation with OG13 on Tuesday :C Not bad, we won 3 out of 5 games that day. And looks like we are really wet games specialists C: Out of 6 games we won 4 haha. And then had dinner at night, which was damn fun. How I wish orientation with OG could be longer :C

Got into 10S7A! C: BCME woohoo! And in Ares too C: I was really scared that I would get into any other fac besides Ares. I don't know why but I really wanted Ares (maybe cos I am a Man Utd fan and both are RAD! C: ) But well, it was the right choice actually. Cos Ares really rocks the socks off the other facs.

The war games was epic fun, with the face paint and stuff. Tackling pple so that the girls can gang them or smashing water bombs right in their faces just before they pull the trigger and shoot. Total madness, with the other 3 facs all ganging up on us and firing non-stop. The girls from all the facs were totally crazy. Look at all the scratches on the guys tsk tsk. But somehow, ARES WON! Oh yeah man. Even though we were ganged upon like crap, we still won. I still can't believe it now. But maybe it's because

ARES IS THE GOD OF WAR! C:

p.s. I found out that I can actually jump more than 2.6m for standing broad jump today! C: I could only do 2.3+ m last year and my PB was 2.36, in Sec 3. Thanks to Shane's promises of treating me to drinks, I managed to go 2.7+ C:

Mega tired but happy C:

2010-02-01T06:37:00.000-08:00

Yay, can't believe after our wretched luck last Friday during games, we managed to win 3, lose 1 and draw 1 today! C: Seems like the group functions better in wet games than dry ones haha C: Very proud of the group, cheering each other on even though we appear to be losing.

But training on the other hand was crap. I never really planned to go training today, so when I realised that all CNY performers had to go, I just ponned dance and attended it. Without my long pants and shoes. Had to train in PE shorts and a pair of lousy slippery shoes from the room. Jumps was disastrous, kept slipping and falling thanks to the shoes. And I just seemed very lethargic today, can't get my energy up. Must be due to the games and the fact that I had not had any food since 10.30 Oh well, hope tomorrow will be better and that we can win all remaining games! Go OG 13! C:

Day 2

2010-01-29T23:07:00.000-08:00

Wow, a super tiring day. And I think the OG is more or less rather bonded already haha.

As much as I want to complain, the games were fun. Very very fun C: Especially the one about the cap snatching. I screamed at the enemy and while we snatched the cap off the girl they were lifting, they dropped the girl. *Ouch* Haha the other games were great fun, though we lost 4 out of 5. The only one we won was quidditch. No thanks to my 2 assists that led to 2 goals by Lester C: Which turned out to make the difference after all.

On the other hand, dance was rather fail. The councillors were teaching far too fast for us to digest. Songs were as usual, hard to sing, regardless of how meaningful they were. The pitch is too high for us already. And I have never been a good singer anyway (unless you count the time when I was sec 1 and 2)

Dinner was at KAP. Surprisingly we were the only OG there. I am guessing the other OGs thought that it would be full of people and thus avoided the place. Amazing way our group thinks haha. Some of us had to run in the (heavy) rain. It was fun though C: Then after dinner, we played quite a number of games, and the dares (mostly my ideas) were super hilarious haha.

Monday! Results of subject combi announced I think. Nervous... BCME please

Orientation Day 1

2010-01-28T06:12:00.000-08:00

Actually today wasn't that packed with activity, it was rather boring in fact.

The audi was packed with like 1K+ people and it is only meant to sit 800+ -.- The teachers talking to us have like some innate ability to make people sleep. Even though I had no chair, I just sat on the step above Shane's and Twex's chair and squeezed my hand in between to rest my head. Had a good nap C:

Orientation was like zzz. I sat on the floor so long that my butt was cramping. Had a great time complaining about my butt with Guo Xin C:

Hope tomorrow will be a better day C:

O (rientation + G13)

2010-01-27T05:37:00.000-08:00

Orientation starts tomorrow. Which is like damn soon T_T

Oh well, I am in OG13 C: Everything in my life is somehow linked to 2 or 13. I stay on the 13th floor. 13: 3-1 = 2 and yah, you get what I mean.

Damn tired now from training. Training has been alright, rehearsals for CNY. And I guess I am still tired from the long hours of soccer on Monday plus the swimming yesterday(which was supposed to aid my recovery). Gah, gonna take a bath soon(training's got me all sticky) and then sleep.

Have to wake up by 5.30am tomorrow again. :C

No more drums! C:

2010-01-23T04:39:00.001-08:00

Yep. You guessed it. No more drums tomorrow for me! Due to security issues (the pm will be there I think), the names of the performers were submitted last week. As the reserves were still not confirmed, no names were submitted.

Anyway, there's nothing much to see at mediacorp anyway. And I think sleep's more important. Returning home at 1am is not fun at all.

Looking forward to training on Monday. (Training, not PT) C:

1am (Y)

2010-01-22T21:23:00.000-08:00

Went to MediaCorp yesterday. It was really an eye-opener. Can't say too much (though I am not banned from doing so) But I know how all this live TV shows are produced and stuff now. Got to see quite a lot of celebs up close, but I am not going gaga whatsoever. Celebs only, what's the big deal? So what if Elvin Ng, Felicia Chin, Dasmond Koh and Yvonne Lim smiles at you? You aren't going to be famous overnight.

I seriously can't stand those fans who go crazy all over their idols. I mean what's the use of doing all those damn nice posters and spending all those money on their concert tickets? When the chance of them noticing you is as big as Portsmouth winning the EPL this season? It's seriously a waste of money to do all these mindless stuff, not to mention booking hotel rooms at the hotel where they are staying. It's serious madness I think. I mean the furthest you can and you should go is to buy their albums. But paying 100+ bucks for tickets? Hello, that's your parents' hard-earned money, NOT yours. You want to go for their concerts, you work for your own money. Stop asking your parents for their money.

Stop being idiots.

Sad day

2010-01-21T05:06:00.000-08:00

Well nothing much happened today actually.

But I was really looking forward to the trip to MediaCorp, well not for the drums, but just to see how it looks like. And when Miss Tan was driving us there, she received a call that informed her of the team being on their way back to school. And alas, no more MediaCorp trip.

Didn't get a chance to practise/rehearse at all. But at least there's still tomorrow. And I think I have gotten the hang of the routine from watching the video on Miss Tan's tablet. I saw Elvin Ng, Felicia Chin, Belinda Lee and a few other celebs in the vid too. A pity that we have to perform with Quan Yi Feng, Kym Ng and Dasmond Koh :C Really sadded. Oh well, tomorrow's the full dress rehearsal. Hope that nothing goes wrong.

BUT I will be returning to school at 11. Hope there are still buses in service...

Tired

2010-01-20T05:19:00.000-08:00

Nothing much eventful happened today, except for training.

Somehow I managed to run the 2km at the start of training. Without stopping, though I had stitches on both sides of my body and I was rather out of breath. Surprising given that my legs have been aching all day. I don't understand how people get satisfaction from running. It's like they are masochistic or what. The ONLY pleasure/satisfaction I get from running is when I complete it. No more running after I finish it. That's what keeps me going -.-

Then it was rehearsal for CNY, which is quite ok so far. And I am starting to gain back my form before I stopped training for 2 months. Ok I am damn damn damn tired now, I bet when I wake up tomorrow, I am going to ache worse than today. But I guess it's all worth it.

Tomorrow, I am going to MediaCorp to rehearse for the Ren Ci show on Sunday. Not that I am keen on going. The teacher wants a few J1s to follow along. I just want to see how the MediaCorp studio looks like and stuff, and maybe take a few photos with the celebs if possible. Not everyone gets to go into MediaCorp yo. I won't be appearing on TV on Sunday anyway, unless somebody falls sick at the last minute or something like that. Not that I want to, I picture myself performing wushu on TV, not drums. That is as good as bringing disgrace to my family. So please please please, nobody fall sick before Sunday.

PLEASE

Free Day C:

2010-01-19T19:08:00.000-08:00

Yeah, today's a wednesday, and a free day C: No school C: Though I have to go to training later in the afternoon for CNY rehearsal.

Yesterday was probably the slackest school day we can get this year, discounting all those free days. Bio was fun, with the code cracking game, and Shane and I were prolly the fastest pair in the group to finish our station, though we had a bit of luck too. Then we were released at 11, and went to play soccer. Ok actually I was the only one from the class playing soccer. Played from 11+ to 2+. Was severely sunburnt and my muscles are still aching now. How, there's training later. I am so going to die man.

Then went to West Mall to find my parents, and to change my phone. C: Actually I was using my father's plan upgrade to get a new phone, since he doesn't want a new phone, he thinks they are too complicated. I got a black Nokia E63 C: Though its qwerty keypad takes some time to adapt to, it really cuts down on sms-ing time, by a lot, though I reckon I will still be as fast with my old phone C:

Ok gonna get some more rest now, let's hope my muscles stop aching as much as they can.

1st day

2010-01-18T06:13:00.000-08:00

Oh my what a horrendous first day of school.

English test (PART 1 leh wth) and math lessons. Plus training, I don't remember having been so busy on the first day of school. Training was blah, even though I haven't been training for 2 months :p I still managed to finish the run but I had a super painful stitch at the last 30m, could barely walk. At least still among first 10 to finish.

Tired tired tired, going to sleep now, so that I can almost 8 hours of sleep. Waking up at 6.15 tomorrow cos no flag raising C:C:C:

School...

2010-01-17T05:20:00.000-08:00

In less than 9 hours, I will be out of my bed, preparing to go to school (the time now is 9.25)

I seriously want to strangle the people who planned the timetable for this week. What a great way to start off the school year, with an ENGLISH DIAGNOSTIC TEST. I sure hope it isn't any compre or compo test. Not that they are able to, cos we only have less than 1.5 hours for the test. I would rather it be some test on vocab and grammar -.- And not to mention math online tests as well -.-

But I have training tomorrow C: Will prolly be very tired after it, but it's worth.

Not to mention that I have a brutally short haircut now, after some miscommunication between me and the hair-'mower' yesterday. Now I have a barely-existent fringe. I look so ._. Oh somebody just shoot me

Jam-packed

2010-01-14T23:06:00.000-08:00

Hey guys.

These few days have been jam-packed.

Monday:

Actually I was supposed to go to school to play soccer with the E1 guys at 9am. But I decided that sleep was more important (seeing that I am going to sleep very little during the chalet) and so I woke up at 10+ and went to school. Played for a couple of hours and then went to take a break before collecting O level results. To be honest, I was very nervous about my results, because this year's paper wasn't exactly a piece of cake. Ok if it has to be a cake, it's a rock cake, a tough one to crack. And the level didn't exactly do very well this year. Ok, we did like crap, according to our standards. The average MSG was 2.81 which is like the worst ever. After hearing the VP say that, my heart literally dropped into my stomach. Well, at least I got an A2 which is decent enough.

Then went home, packed up and went to chalet. It was torturous carrying a duffel bag packed with a Wii and tons of clothes, while trying to hold four huge bottles and a laptop. Somehow I survived the trip to Pasir Ris. Met SJ there and checked in and stuff. Ambushed Jon, Shane and Oswald when they came. Great fun! Seeing how they got owned by us totally with all the blankets and pillows. And Matt cracked Oswald's specs too haha. And somehow half of us lost our voices due to screaming in an aircon room. Thank God for the Strepsils.

Tuesday:

More fun and more fun. Playing cards in the chalet with Alvin, SJ, Shane while the rest were off Lan-ing. Fifa-ing with the rest and screaming as if it were a real match (with bets, but no money of course) Then time for BBQ C: Had a great time bbq-ing all the food, and feeding the cats there leftovers. Oh and we managed to kill quite a few houseflies, which are supposedly very good at evading such stuff C:

Wednesday:

Checked out and had lunch at JustAcia, the place which gave me food poisoning the first time I ate there. Luckily there was no poisoning this time.

Thursday:

602 gathering no 2! Haha. Met up at Sky Garden at Vivo to have a mini picnic, followed by a water war (thanks to a great excess of plastic cups and an empty gigantic bottle). Dried ourselves up while playing Murderer and then went home C:

School starts in a couple of days :C

02-01-2010

2010-01-01T22:57:00.001-08:00

Hey guys.

It's quite a bore to see everyone posting on the very first day of the year. So here I am, posting on the SECOND day of the year haha C:

These few days have been pretty boring, besides a church event, Watchnight and class chairman outing. A trip to the Flyer, with 10 buck tickets, instead of the usual 29.50 C: But up till now, I still can't figure out why people will want to pay 29.50, which is enough to buy 5-6 EVMs at Macs, to catch glimpses of Singapore, when the view of Singapore from the Flyer can be viewed on the Internet, be it by searching Google or by using Google Street View. Oh well, it was a good chance to bond with the other chairmans.

Oh well, been downloading E-books these days to ease my boredom. Ok preferably, the whole Harry Potter series haha. Always been obsessed with the books, can't seem to get enough of reading them repeatedly. But I am still keeping an eye out for books with interesting titles so I can download them.

Nothing much to say now, ciao

10/10

2009-12-31T07:32:00.000-08:00

Faith makes all things possible.

Hope makes all things work.

Love makes all things beautiful.

Here's wishing you all three in this new year to come, a start of a new decade! Here's wishing you a purrfect start to the beginning of the new decade!

Say goodbye to this darned 2009 full of disasters and crisis! Welcome a brand new year, a brand new decade, a brand new 2010! Forget about everything bad that has happened to you and think of the good things ahead!

May all BEAUTIFUL things that may POSSIBL(E)Y happen WORK out to PERFECTION in this start of a new decade! Treasure and cherish everything you have in 2010!

Here's wishing you a new year ahead that ranks 10/10 everyone!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! HAPPY 2010!!!!!

Gratitude

2009-12-23T21:16:00.001-08:00

If you still remember the times when you were young, can you remember how easily you can be appeased/satisfied when you were in a bad mood, with just a candybar? Fast forward 16 years, and now even with the latest models of candybars (handphones), you still are not satisfied. It's very disheartening how teenagers nowadays are so materialistic and not satisfied by what they have. They won't even utter a word of thanks to their parents. Instead, they demand more, and more.

We complain to our parents that our clothes aren't nice-looking, our shoes are old and tattered. We tell them we want new clothes and shoes. But have we thought of the people in the third world countries? The kids often go bare-footed, and the most they can afford are a pair of slippers, which already is a luxury to them. They are often photographed wearing almost nothing.

We complain about our education, about the outrageous amount of homework we have. The poor kids count it a blessing just to have someone teach them. They don't bother about the fact that they have no decent classroom, no chairs, no tables. They are happy just to be able to learn something.

We find it troublesome to go to school everyday. We complain about how far our school is from our homes, about the long time spent on the bus/mrt/cars just to reach our school. Those poor kids don't mind walking kilometres for hours everyday to and fro just to attend school. They walk there everyday, rain or shine, sometimes barefooted. Yet, they never utter a word of displeasure. They are happy just to be able to walk, to attend school.

We are fussy over the food we eat. We don't want to eat veggies, we don't want this, we don't want that. Compare what we have on our dining table to those in the third world countries. In third world countries, some people are so poor that their meal consists of tree roots, leaves and tree bark. Having a meal with some rice or leftovers scavenged from the bins by the road is like heaven to these people.

We want the latest technology. The latest handphone models, MP3s, laptops. We complain about how slow our laptops, computers are, how outdated our mobile phones are. Think about the people in the third world countries. Most people there have never seen even a television their entire lives, let alone handphones and MP3s. Yet, they still manage to have a happy childhood, without all these gadgets.

We complain about our living environment. The house is too small, our friends are staying in private properties while we are staying in HDB flats. People in the third world countries are glad just to have a roof over their heads. Their living quarters consist of mainly the floor, and nothing else. Their house is as good as none. There are no fireproof doors, and no bricks used in the construction of the walls. Just flimsy metal and cardboard is used. All the house needs is a fire or a storm to be completely destroyed.

We often throw tantrums when our parents get naggy at us. We dislike them for interfering with our lives, even though we are old enough. People in third world countries lose their relatives at a young age, be it by illness, natural disaster, a stray bullet, or a bomb. They count it a blessing just to have a family.

We even want to complain about the weather. When the weather's too hot, we complain about the heat, even with fans and aircons cooling us. And when it's raining, we complain too, despite having sweaters and blankets to keep us warm. Think about the third world countries. The people there are almost naked, and yet they brave the elements everyday, without a word of complaint.

So what more do we have to complain about? Be glad that you have clothes, shoes, a proper education, food, a family, a roof over your head and technology. Learn a thing or two from these poor people. They treasure what they have and seldom have a word of complaint. If you have never spared a thought about them, now is the time to do so.

How can you be thinking of having the latest technology, when all they are thinking of is a way to fill their stomachs? How can you be complaining about the food you have, when there is high chance that they will never be able to enjoy the same food that you are having? How can you be complaining about this and that, when there are so many underprivileged people in this world?

Even Prince William, who lives a life of royalty and riches, sleeps in the alley so that he can highlight the plight of homeless teenagers in Britain. "I cannot, after one night, even begin to imagine what it must be like to sleep rough on London's streets night after night. Poverty, mental illness, drug and alcohol dependency and family breakdown cause people to become and then stay homeless. I hope that by deepening my understanding of the issue, I can help do my bit to help the most vulnerable on our streets."

See how fortunate you are, as compared to these people. This is the festive season, and it's all about giving. Show some love, if you see people asking for donations, donate generously, and with a willing heart. What could be just 2 dollars to you could feed a family in these third world countries a couple of meals and probably save them from starvation.

Be grateful for what you have, and don't complain about what you don't.

Merry Christmas Everyone C:

Roses

2009-12-21T07:37:00.000-08:00

Roses are/were widely regarded as a symbol of love by the ancient Greek and Romans, and I believe, people today as well. With various hues, pink, red, white, blue (though it looks more like purple), people still give roses to the people they love in this day and age.

But has anyone ever paused and thought about what the rose might also symbolise? Besides love? Ever wondered what those thorns on the roses are for? Why they are there in the first place? Besides being there for us to remove?

Don't you think the thorns add a touch of resilience, a touch of strength and toughness to the rose? Think carefully, would anyone just dare to stick their hands into a bunch of roses and pluck them? Yes, the thorns may be irritating at times. But think again, isn't it special that the rose is one of the rare plants with thorns on them?

Some people shun roses with thorns, and welcome 'de-thorned' ones. Don't they think that the thorny roses are just as beautiful, though in a different way? As hardy as the thorny roses can appear, can't they accept the 'natural' version of the rose as it is? The thorns just give the rose a different form of beauty. A beauty so natural, yet tough. A form of beauty that may not be appealing, but still pleasant to the eyes.

So the next time you are going to remove the thorns, think carefully, and then think again. Are you going to remove the thorns that make each and every rose unique, just so that it can look normal? Sometimes, a little bit of abnormality is the simplest and purest form of normality.

Sick...

2009-12-18T20:31:00.000-08:00

Argh this sucks. I am sick like again.

I seriously don't know what's wrong with me. I do sports often, I drink lots of water, and I make sure I get enough rest. Ok, maybe I eat a lot of junk, BUT I take proper meals too. Damn something's seriously wrong with me. Could it be that mononucleosis thingy that Roger Federer had the other time?

Ok, this is taken from Wiki

"Especially in adolescents and young adults, the disease (mononucleosis) is characterized by fever, sore throat and fatigue, along with several other possible signs and symptoms"

I have sore throat, which often accompanies cough, and I do feel tired quite easily. Wow, please please please let it not be this stupid illness. I still remember in primary school when I seldom fell sick, and even when I did, it was for a while. I think my record was like not taking MC from pri 3 all the way to p6. And look at me now...

ARGH

On a side note, I currently like this song by Leighton Meester and Robin Thicke, Somebody To Love. The song is quite pleasant to listen to, but the music video is well, obscene. So so so, just listen to the song.

Enjoy! ( The song, not the video)

Ok please please please let me recover soon. Christmas is only 5 days away. I want to stuff myself with the goodies C:

602 Gathering

2009-12-16T19:53:00.000-08:00

Hi peeps.

Should have done this post probably yesterday or on Tuesday, but for reasons unknown, I procrastinated till today haha.

The gathering was a lot of fun, and quite a success too I will say. I planned it just one day before, and more people turned up than expected. 13 people! C: We went to Minds cafe, a boardgames cafe. The games were quite fun, big Taboo, with charades, pictionary and what not all in one. And some Uno-Stacko like game, but with Truth or Dare in it C: Still, we settled for the simplest of games in the end. No, not playing poker cards. Using the Tabasco bottle to play truth or dare haha.

Looking around, it's hard to believe that we have been apart for 4 years. The laughter, the fun, it just doesn't seem like we have been apart for so long. It just seems like we have been friends all our lives. 602, you rock C:

2009-12-13T07:52:00.000-08:00

If I could see the future and how it plays out

I bet it's better than where we are now

But after going through this, it's easier to see the reason why

There's nothing here in this heart left to borrow

There's nothing here in this soul left to say

-No Surprise (Daughtry)

The False Truth

2009-12-09T06:39:00.000-08:00

After 16 years of life, I am sure all of us have encountered a 'fake' person at one point or another.

Those kind whom act in another way in front of other people, for reasons that will never be known. I mean what's the point of acting fake and stuff, when friends and people you know all want to meet the real you?

If you are the joker and fun kind, and you act all serious and no-nonsense in front of other people, what are you trying to achieve? To impress them? I wonder how impressed they will be, when they realise the person they are interacting with, is actually not what they see. I guess there will be two kinds of reaction. The first will be surprise that you are actually a fun person to be with. And the second will be anger at you, for 'deceiving' them all this while.

It beats me at times why people want to be like a completely new person in front of others. Isn't it a torture to hide behind one mask when your real face ( a much nicer one) is there for people to see? Why bother becoming no-nonsense when you are a real funny person? Why bother being all gentlemanly and stuff why you aren't the kind who really care about girls? WHY?

Just be the real you. Though your real face may not be well-received by others, at least you are showing them the real you. It beats being a hypocrite, it beats being despised by others when they find out the real you, isn't it?

Spider

2009-12-02T06:14:00.000-08:00

You know, life is never a bed of roses. In fact, it is more like a game of Spider, you know, the one in most Windows computers.

You start out with all sorts of cards. You sort them out accordingly. Ok you get K, Q, J, 10, 9. You need an 8 and it's nowhere there. You click on the little button at the bottom of the screen. *Poof!* You end up in a worse situation than before. You get a 6 at the end of your row of cards. And oh, 8 is just there, but now, 6 is the obstacle. You sigh deeply and try again. After a while, you seem to have gotten everything sorted out. But again you are lacking a card to complete the row.

AGAIN

You try again, and again, and again. Just when everything seems to be sorted out, it gets messed up again. Isn't life just like a game of spider? Trouble comes one after another. And just when you seem to have solved a problem, another pops up. This time, the first problem is made even more complicated than before. And you have another one to contend with. And you end up in deeper shit the more you try to solve your problems.

However, you know that however deeply you are stuck in your problems, everything will straighten out in the end. Despite everything looking so bleak initially, somehow the cards (or in the case of life, the solutions) appear just when you want to give up and fight no more.

As long as we all have a fighting chance, we sure as hell should not give up.

*Nobody asked for life to deal us

With these bullshit hands we're dealt

We gotta take these cards ourselves

And flip 'em don't expect no help*

- Beautiful (Sung by Eminem)

1 Year On....

2009-12-01T06:34:00.001-08:00

On this date, 1st December one year ago, I was like 70+ others, waiting nervously at Changi Airport Terminal 1 for a flight to Beijing. It was to be my first time flying off to such a faraway place, all on my own, for 6 weeks, without any adults by my side (besides the teachers)

I was placed in Victors, with a bunch of great people, well mostly, but still. We had fun nevertheless, and I think that we were one of the most bonded in the whole BSC. Despite a whole lot of drama and stuff, I am glad everyone came out stronger. Just like coffee powder in hot water. I am sure all the 'crises' and stuff brought out the best in everyone. I am pretty sure all the problems we faced, not only made us stronger, but also bonded us more.

Happy 1st Anniversary Victors! Love you guys C: Keep in contact always!

7 hours

2009-11-28T06:19:00.000-08:00

7 hours of shopping today. Man I am damn tired. But it was all fun.

Forgot what happened in the morning, just remembered doing shopping.

But the pasar malam trip was nothing but shiok-ness C: Though the stall owners there are rather lousy in serving. Ok they are plain tactless about what they are selling. People are asking for the name of the food, but they just keep telling you to taste it. Stop shoving the food in the customers' faces. It probably means the food sucks or has a problem. And then everything seems to be from Korea, don't ask me why.

And I still can't get why the CD stalls are all playing Nobody when it is like so outdated, and the song is just plain crap. Bleah.

But the food was fantastic. The salt-baked medicine chicken was just plain fantastic, and the grilled sting ray was awesome. It was really spicy too C: And to think I took the stall owner's words with a pinch of salt initially. Oh well, last day tomorrow :C

Mmmmmmm-alaysia!

2009-11-27T04:40:00.000-08:00

Hey peeps.

At my cousin's house in M'sia now. Super tired now from all the shopping. Bought this humongous cotton candy for just 2 ringgit. Cheap or what C: Bought a new wallet and a Man Utd shirt C: But it's a pity that I couldn't get the backpack I wanted. It was 89.90 ringgit, freaking ex. I was expecting 70 or below. Too bad it's not Beijing, or else I would haggle all the way to 45 C:

Food-wise, the food's here cheap BUT super nice. And I mean very super nice. Though my 3 ulcers are still bothering me, I had claypot curry chicken for dinner C: And my cousin's wife (How do I address her?!) made her native Vietnamese food. Though it wasn't to my liking, but I think it looked quite appetizing. C:

And my lil niece can be quite a handful. The first half of this trip was being spent whacked by her :C But after that she just pulls me along everywhere and keeps stuffing food into my mouth. So cute C:

A pity I had to 'abandon' the Victor's chalet for this trip. With truth or dare in the middle of the night at goodness knows, watching movies in our room on our phones, Eng Chuan telling us tons of stories, it was fun x 10000 C:

Ok going off now. If you need me to buy anything, nono don't sms me, unless you want a sky-high phone bill. Drop me a message on FB or my tagboard (if you still read my blog). I will gladly buy it, but provided I can smuggle it out of M'sia first. C:

p.s. TO SOMEONE, PAISEH FOR THE UBER SMALL FONT. THIS IS JUST A TEMPORARY SKIN. HOPE THIS IS NOT TOO SMALL FOR YOU YEAH C:

4 more

2009-11-24T07:37:00.000-08:00

Wow 296 posts already. Just 4 short of 300. Quite pathetic though, just 300 posts haha.

It's been quite a busy week. With the claiming of shirts, watching 2012 (fantastic movie btw), buying of BBQ stuff for class chalet (nearly got lost), class chalet ( =D ) and commencement dinner.

Managed to pull off an all-nighter at last for a chalet. Played cards, Halo and comp throughout the night. Slept, I mean napped from 7 to 10 C:

Commencement dinner was a blast, well except for the food and the events. I think it was quite heartwarming to see the whole batch (well, almost) standing side by side, singing songs and doing cheers. Though it isn't the best and most spectacular finale, but nevertheless I would say it's a suitable one to 'end' our high school life. Considering we started our high school life doing cheers and singing lots of songs. C: Will post the photos when I have the time, and when I get the remaining few from Jia Ming, who's nowhere to be seen online nowadays lol

Stretched ttthhiiinnn

2009-11-15T06:47:00.001-08:00

Wow it's been almost a month since I last posted. Forgot how it feels to be updating my blog haha.

This couple of weeks have been rather packed, Create 2010 voting matters. Class Tee too, updating the design every few days to try to get the 'perfect' and cheap shirt for the class. Like it really can exist, but nevertheless, I am quite pleased with my virgin attempt at designing the class tee. Sorry I took so long to do it guys. Now that it's end of year, I can put all my mind into it. Now I have the collection of the class tee, the buying of BBQ stuff for the 4E1 chalet, as well as the admin matters and organising of the 4E1 and 602 gathering (The ideal date, time and venue - beach vs indoors etc). All at the same time.

I never knew one could be stretched so thin. It's a good thing Yin Hong is helping me with the 4E1 gathering. If not I am going to be stretched as thin as a piece of paper haha. 3 more days to the release of Create 2010 results. Nailbiting...

7-2

2009-10-24T07:17:00.000-07:00

7-2, that's the scoreline of the soccer match during PE. Of course my team won C: Saved 2 one-on-ones and a piledriver from Jason. But the second shot by Jason was unsavable. Yang Cheng tried a brave diving header block the shot but it deflected slightly off his head and deflected again off my fingers. Then I was too slow to stop YQ's one-on-one, the ball deflected off my shoe. If only I was one second faster for those 2 goals...

Oh well, training was crap. The weather was just too hot and humid and we were nowhere near our best. Face it man. 2 months without training, completely CMI. Better buck up. At least soccer after training was fun, saved quite a number of shots, including a near own goal, and scored 2. But I think I pulled my thigh a bit.

10th Nov coming soon... Sian.

We Wii Whee

2009-10-17T01:58:00.000-07:00

Had a hell lot of fun at Shane's house yesterday playing Wii. Anyway the reason me, Yu Ann and YQ were there was because Jiaming's house had too many people already C:

Played baseball, tennis, golf, boxing, bowling and Fifa on the Wii from 1 to 4. Sweating like dogs after we ended. No thanks to the boxing too, make my arms so tired. Quite amazing that I picked up the games so quickly. Played 3 soccer matches and won 1, lost 1 and drew 1. Hit the post twice :C Or else could have won the tie-breaker and won the match 2-0. Oh well. Fun fun fun C:

Teacher's Day

2009-08-31T07:58:00.000-07:00

Today's performance was not too bad, given that we have very few rehearsals. Good job everyone C:

I am glad I returned to my primary school today, the first time in 4 years. The school has changed quite a bit, more vibrant, though too vibrant for my liking. Makes the school look more like a art gallery than a school haha. Went to find my teachers who had taught me in the past. Well, I did manage to find my pri 2 chinese teacher, Miss Tan (I still call her that though she's married). As expected, she could not recognise me, '哇，你现在那么高，那么黑。都认不出你了!' Talking to her really brought back a sense of nostalgia, about my days in pri 2 and she said that our p2 class was the cutest haha. She still remembers that my handwriting is very neat. Seeing the smile on her face really brought back memories of how she nice she was to us in p2. Seriously, I miss my days in primary school.

Then managed to find some of my p6 classmates and we went to find our form teacher, Mdm Sithika. Turns out she stayed at GESPS all 4 years, and to think I thought she went overseas for further studies. She was expecting me to visit her all these years haha. I didn't bother to return because 1) I thought she wasn't teaching there 2) Lazy haha. I think she couldn't really recognise me as well, just like the rest of the 602 people. Though she still remembered my style of writing essays haha. Turns out we were the last batch of P6s she taught, and according to her, the best batch. I really really want to be back in primary school again.

Those days, so carefree, with no worries (besides PSLE)

2-1

2009-08-30T07:16:00.000-07:00

YAY Man Utd 2-1 Arsenal.

Actually Man Utd was lucky but who cares, a win is a win. And I betted with Arnold. If Man Utd lost, I would keep quiet for the whole of wednesday. If Arsenal lost, he would shut up for the whole day. Well well, it would be fun to see Arnold not talk for the whole of wednesday. Great success!

On a side note, just a reminder to myself and Shane: Shane, you owe me $4.10 you ass

2009-08-29T08:22:00.000-07:00

I am torn between whether to ever go swimming again.

I just witness the sickest shit in a swimming pool ever. There was this ang moh man and a woman whom I am certain is his maid fondling around like nobody's watching. I am not trying to encourage extra-marital affairs, but why pay $1.30 to tell everyone that you are some horny bastard with hormones literally flowing out of you. Go hotel lah what the heck. Make people almost drown while swimming. Idiots.

Shirty

2009-08-27T07:12:00.001-07:00

Finally designed the shirts today! Damn nice I swear, at least to me they are.

Could not sit down while printing the shirts, and I had to stay back to help after everyone was done. Did not sit for more than about 4 hours. My feet were seriously damn sore. On a side note,

the sec 1s in this sabbat are seriously damn retarded. Who will print "I <3>

Anyway, just some photos of the printing.

This was just test printing done on the cloth.

First layer
Second layer
Third layer

This one is the actual printing done on the shirt
C: C: C: C: C:

2009-08-26T04:36:00.000-07:00

Wow these 2 days have been good

First, found out halfway during the sabbat that we got into GRAND FINALS!!! C: I have waited for this day for 4 years... At last. After what the judges said last week about our presentation being beautiful, I knew there was a chance. Good job guys. We've made it this far, good job...

And today, got back Chinese test. Part 2, I got 47/50 C: But actually I coulda gotten full marks. Then Part 1 of the paper... I was really scared when I did the test, cos the questions were quite hard. But I still did well enough to get 39/50. This is the first time I did so well this year for Chinese, given that the standard for this test is the standard of our common test.

On the other hand, training yesterday was tough. With the hell PT which included running up and down the stairs, round the basketball court while hopping up the stairs as well. AND 30 pull ups followed by 300 pushups. Ok actually I only did 20 pullups and 60 pushups, cos of a challenge given by coach. Do 10 straight and you are excused from 150 pushups. Given that I have never done 10 in a row before, I was pleasantly surprised I could do 2 sets. NICE C:

Ok got to go now. Ciao

*So I say

Help me help you

I am down on my knees

If you need me so much then why did you leave

You needed a reason, you needed too much

You can lean on me

But don't lean on me like I'm your crutch

2-2

2009-08-10T07:35:00.000-07:00

What a sad match, but one with interesting things to note

For both teams, Portugese players scored first followed by English players

Man Utd: Nani, Rooney

Chelsea: Carvalho, Lampard

And in the penalty shoot out, both players that screwed up for Man Utd were left-footed and both shots were weak and towards the centre of the goal.

But all in all, Man Utd were not at their usual best. However, let's take note of the fact that Chelsea never wins the EPL whenever they win the Community Shield C:

Free like a bird

2009-08-07T07:56:00.000-07:00

I can't believe I just survived a 4-test week, of which 3 subjects need lots of memorizing. I would be happy if I can get at least 2 A1s (hopefully for both sciences). It's damn funny when you look around after the test, everyone look so sian already, don't want do work.

Went to Changi Naval Base today, and had to surrender our phones, for security issues. So imagine our faces when they told us to put our phones to silent mode before the presentation. Epic fail. But otherwise, I think the Navy is damn cool. The ships look quite metallic and boring on the outside but the inside is damn nice. The officers have their own lounge and stuff. But I think it's quite hard for them to leave their families behind for like 4 months while they go overseas for all the drills and stuff. Tough stuff on the inside of these navy people. And then the lunch was the love man. Lucky our class was the first there, so it was total shiok-ness. Black pepper fish, prawns, chicken.... Damn nice, and there was a goody bag somemore, with a pencil case(?), towel, cap, pen and stuff. The navy people are seriously very nice.

On a side note, today at 12hr 34min 56sec, did you realise that the time and date was 12:34:56pm, 07/08/09? So now it becomes 123456789. Damn cool C:

Double-edged sword

2009-07-27T07:37:00.000-07:00

Ok today's weather was rather cool, which was very nice.(Nice to sleep at night C: ) A respite from the blistering hot weather nowadays.

But it is just damn not conducive for training. After we warm up, our muscles become tense after a little while because of the cold. Then we can't do our routines properly. Everyone doesn't seem to be at their best. I screwed up my spear, big time. Can't believe it man. How could I screw up 穿梭枪? I have never screwed up before. Must be the cold, I wasn't at my best dammit. Not like on a normal hot day where I am like 'fired up' and with adrenaline pumping through the veins, whoooo. Damn disappointing performance today.

Hope for a better one on Friday.

p.s. BIO SPA TOMORROW!

Worried

2009-07-24T21:07:00.000-07:00

It's quite worrying how everyday I hear people I know falling sick. It's like one day someone is fine and the next he is running a temperature of 38. Damn this H1N1.

Swimming yesterday was very slack, just 3 laps. And despite the rain in the morning, the water wasn't cold at all. Amazing. Ok lah, maybe because I bathe in cold water every morning, so now I am more or less immune to cold. But I am quite tired now. Maybe I should take another nap

Good days and bad days

2009-07-22T06:48:00.000-07:00

Kaiser Chiefs - There's good days and bad days

Today was a rather good day. Stepped into class to know that my group got in to finals for pday. Nice C: Talk about a good start to the day.

Then physics, 24/35 which is 69%. The first time I have gotten B3 in my whole life for physics C: Though I lost 4 marks to careless mistakes/never read question properly. Then it would have been a record-breaking A1. BUT because of the home-learning assignment thingy, 90% of the test score + 9% = 71%!

A2! Never in my wildest dreams. The paper was not very easy to begin with, especially MCQ where I screwed up big time. And the questions were phrased rather weirdly, so I am satisfied to get this result.

Then after lunch went to play a bit of soccer with 4E1 guys and some other Ortus people. A fun match though we got thrashed up down left right inside out. When Shane was the keeper, we were down 4-0 in 10 minutes. Epic fail. After I became the keeper, the score became 5-3, which is not bad. Made quite a number of nice saves. C:

On a side note, it's been quite an experience these few days bathing in the morning without the light. Cos the lamp's spoilt and help comes only on saturday, so I bathe in near total darkness, except for a torchlight shining so that I can see where I am going and don't slip and fall to my death haha.

Ok go do other work already. Ciao.

2009-07-20T07:45:00.000-07:00

Training was tiring and yet there's still so much stuff to do.

Dying

2009-07-15T08:15:00.000-07:00

Shiz I am seriously going to collapse any moment. I just finished my part for the semis. I did SWOT, competitor analysis, and some more extra-.- Q&A answers. Sucks man, why am I like doing all those stuff that needs a lot of research and a lot of typing? I mean everyone has to do research, but so far the only people I see working are me and Han Shen. Not that I am doubting the contributions of the other members, but what we want to see here is work people. Oh well.

Got back geog yesterday. I think it's a miracle that I got B3, despite like getting F9 in term 1 and C6 last term. But I lost 1.5 marks thanks to not labelling the answers. And there goes my A2 :C So these few days have not been really nice to me. Let's hope tomorrow will be a nice day and that we will go through to finals C:

Worrying

2009-07-13T07:38:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow is maths test plus the getting back of Geog. Damn.

I hope maths is of no prob, I need 76% to get A1 overall on average, but of course, aim high. Then after school getting back geog exam. I am quite worried, cos term 1 I got F9, and last term I got C6. I cannot screw up this time, if not my EOY results will be quite bad. Somemore, when I did some of the questions, I wasn't very confident about them. So I am rather worried. Oh well.

~Give me strength to pull through

Sad sad Saturday

2009-07-12T06:59:00.000-07:00

You know you had a sad bad saturday when:

1) The MRT doors nearly flatten you into a pancake/roti prata when you are HELPING AN OLD LADY UP THE CARRIAGE. Suddenly 好心没好报 comes to mind.

2) When going down the escalator, some random person pushes you and your arm gets barbecued by the black railing. The worst thing: You can only stand there and endure the pain. DAMN

3) When sliding a metal drawer aside, you don't realise it's faulty and it ZHOOMs all the way and you get a chunk of skin sliced off from your finger.

4) You help around the stall and don't realise your wound's bleeding so much that blood's oozing out of the plaster.

5) You go around searching Shop n Save, Prime Market and 7-Eleven, only to find out they are out of CHILI PRETZ. Can only settle for Ham and Cheese (which is rather good C:)

And that was how I spent my saturday thank you berry much! C:

p.s. ok I found my Chili pretz in the end, the only pack left in Shop n Save.

p.p.s To someone : 5 more days! C:

Tired

2009-07-10T07:50:00.000-07:00

Ok guys I have been very very tired these few days. I don't really know why as well. So this will be short.

Height and weight today! Ok I grew actually haha. But my weight was quite off, I guess the machine is either inaccurate or I really lost that much weight from food poisoning. Then I got A1 for maths! 85%, but then as it is retest, it has now become 63% :C Oh well actually nothing much. Project day semis next week ,jiayou everyone.

Ok I am seriously going to just fall asleep any moment. Ciao

Second chance

2009-07-08T07:31:00.000-07:00

Surprisingly I passed Maths surprise test! But only 21/40. So I still had to take the retest, labelled 'Second Chance' by Mr Png. I think I should be able to score an A1 for this one, but then in the end, it will either be A2 or B3. Hai... At least I still have the 85% from last term as a support.

And my stomach is almost 100% recovered! Yay means I can start eating all sorts of crap already. But this week I must be careful first, maybe try not to eat so much spicy stuff. Don't wanna risk irritating my stomach again. The feeling's terrible.

Oh well, tired big time. Ciao.

GOOD START

2009-07-07T01:36:00.000-07:00

There's probably nothing better than having a surprise Maths test on a topic you barely learnt on the first day of the term! And then during recess, due to your recent food poisoning, you can't eat foods that are

SPICY

OILY/FRIED

CONTAINING DAIRY PRODUCTS

In short, a vegetarian diet. And to top it off, you are so hungry(look at the above points) that during bio lesson when pictures of a t****s cut into half is shown, you say out loud,' Looks like 肉丸 leh!" Add that to lots of stuff to collect from the class, and to give out as well, and the playing of the national anthem plus the leading of the pledge.

And you have a fun, memorable first day of term 3.

CHEERS! C:

Food poisoning BLEAH

2009-07-05T07:42:00.000-07:00

Class rep outing yesterday, the turnout was quite disappointing, only 5 class reps out of 17. Plus Mr Sng and Miss Lin. K-Boxed and had so much fun laughing at Alex's dancing and his antics. Then after that bowling, which was even more fun, with Darren like guttering the ball 5 times in a row. But the trip had to be spoiled by the fact that I got food poisoning after eating the dory fish w/ ginger sauce at Just Acia. Went to the toilet like 5 times in the middle of the night and vomitted twice. Now my stomach seriously hurts and I must crouch when I walk. Barely slept last night so I am quite grateful that I was able to catch up on my sleep today, slept from 9 to 6, waking up in between to take my med and have some food. I seriously hope the pain goes away, even when I am getting up from bed, it hurts too... :C

Anyway, photos!

Group photos at the bowling place
Failed emo shot where we were supposed to dao the cam
Light at the end of the tunnel, quite failed as well
I was recounting how I used to push the bowling ball down the alley when I was a child.

Colourful C:
C:

Supposed to be sleepy

I was almost falling asleep while these few photos were taken

Alex stealing my food while I wasn't looking. It is this very dish (I suspect) that made me get food poisoning. Oh well, supposed to enjoy tomorrow, free day. Now cannot rest at home :C

No more

2009-07-03T07:06:00.000-07:00

At last, the last day of home-learning. Never have I been so happy at the fact that I am going back to school. Today was rather mind-blasting. Essay to write, in 1.5 hours. NICE, I LIKE. But at least we had Paris & Milan to relax. Seriously coolporridge aka Mr Goh LIANG ZHOU lessons are damn cool, like next week assignment. Shane and I were doing just now, on translation of chinese terms to english and vice versa. Then S.R. Nathan is 塞拉潘·纳丹 in chinese. Bet you didn't know that C:

Oh yea, class rep outing tomorrow woo woo C:

OK before I go, enjoy these 2 videos of one of my favourite strikers. Huntelaar aka Hunter(not the one in Left 4 Dead)

This one below is damn cool, so many ways of scoring. But actually, I'd rather the video be called Huntelaar - Master 'Klass', a pun of his full name Klass-Jan Huntelaar

Then this one below, didn't know one could score so many bicycle kicks in like 3.5 seasons for Ajax. I think this takes up quite a lot of the 76 goals in 92 games played(super good scoring rate)

1 MORE DAY

2009-07-02T06:39:00.000-07:00

1 more day of e-learning, 1 more day of all these stupid nonsense. YES! At last...

These 2 days have been torture, we get more work here than we get in school. Yesterday, I did 5 mind maps in 2hours. Never have I hated mind maps so much. Then chinese we must design a comprehension along with the answers. Actually that's ok. The thing we all hate most is like we have to hand in so much work in such a short time. Sucks man. Like all the 30 minute breaks are being used to do our work. Oh well, 1 more day C:

Class rep outing on Saturday! Woo woo. Can't wait. C:

Home-learning my foot

2009-06-29T08:07:00.000-07:00

Stupid home-learning. I would rather be back in school having proper lessons dammit. I want to see the excuses that people come up with for not doing their work.

The SMB is so slow and no clear instructions seem to be given for each subject. Breakdown in communications I guess. 4 subjects a day is not very productive actually. Somemore 30-minute break in between. Quite a time waster. Oh well. But the worst of all, no training! Gonna rot already for sure.

Very tired now. Can't think of anything to write. Ciao.

Dinner + Supper?

2009-06-26T08:01:00.000-07:00

What an eventful day today has been.

First training was fun and tiring. Those doing spear were suffering I swear. Then after that was soccer. Which was uber FUN. Still remember the goal where I qie Jia He with my outside foot and then volley in from a weird angle, and ole-ing Ming Kang from the midcourt line. But I am rather sunburnt now, and suffering from heat exhaustion too, thank you very much. Though training was tough, it wasn't to the extent that we were going to get cramps.

When we were playing Twister in Sichen's house, my right side of the body just cramped up, even in parts which I didn't know could suffer from cramps. Pure torture, and cramps are a symptom of heat exhaustion. I have never had such severe cramps before, the pain was still there like 10 minutes after the cramp attack. And when I was changing, my thigh just cramped up at 3 spots somemore. But all in all, the Victor's gathering was great fun. Thanks Sichen for inviting us to your house again. And Twister is damn fun, when you are not having cramps, and when you see people like Ng Peng saying that their legs are like jelly after just a game.

Oh ya, Michael Jackson died. Oh hohoho. But it's quite unexpected. Anyway, now that he's gone(probably moonwalking in hell), kids around the world can breathe a sigh of relief and so do his plastic surgeons.

And just something to think about. I was on my way home on the MRT, and I heard this man mention to his other friend.

A: Since breakfast and lunch is brunch, what is dinner and supper?

I think dinner + supper will either be DUPPER or SINNER! Cool right, SINNER. But anyway, since supper is supposedly fattening, I guess it would be alright to describe supper + dinner as sinful. Will upload pics of the gathering soon.(Think most of them are blur pics of us playing twister)

Under-rated

2009-06-24T07:30:00.000-07:00

Went with the guys to watch Transformers 2 today.

I must say queuing up for the tickets for at least half an hour was worth it. The queue at West Mall, which supposedly was an ulu place was freaking long, went straight out of the cinema. Scary. But the movie was seriously VERY NICE. The storyline was not too bad, the CGI was fantastic and the action scenes were good.

I don't know why and how the Straits Times managed to give only half a star for the rating. It's seriously under-rated, the movie is worth at least 4 stars damn it. It's like the best movie I have seen this year, and I am very picky about my movies. Isabel Lucas had to sacrifice showing what was under her dress, and the actors, no matter lead or supporting, had to fling themselves around, come on. The movie deserves better. We all know it.

Zombie-like

2009-06-23T07:19:00.000-07:00

After 1 week without training, I can (un)safely conclude that I have rotted. Can't believe my explosive force is very much gone. I am gonna need a few more trainings to regain it. But running was quite fun, I was supposed to be the pace-setter, and sort of motivate them to run faster or else punishment. But they all complained I was too fast, until practically nobody could catch up with me, even though I was running very slowly, I swear. They need to run faster, much faster. Haha oh well. Feeling quite tired now, from training, soccer, and the accumulated effects of lack of sleep, not to mention body aches. I need more sleep...

Step Right Up

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Please aim slow
I know, it's not like you
To take the fall
For anyone but yourself
Let me show you a world
That you've never seen
Let me help you unveil
What you meant to say
There is no time to waste
When you find love you can't hesitate

Step right up
Shoot an arrow at the target
My heart is an easy thing for you to hit
Don't worry
If you miss I'll let you shoot again
My heart is an easy thing for you to win

Whoa you know you did it again
And everytime I hear your voice
Well you know, I had no choice but to let you in
Life's short
Don't pretend

Let me show you a world
That you've never seen
Let me help you unveil
What you meant to say
There is no time to waste
When you find love you can't hesitate

Step right up
Shoot an arrow at the target
My heart is an easy thing for you to hit
Don't worry
If you miss I'll let you shoot again
My heart is an easy thing for you to win

Step right up
Shoot an arrow at the target
My heart is an easy thing for you to hit
Don't worry
If you miss I'll let you shoot again
My heart is an easy thing for you to win

Please aim slow
Please aim slow
(Please aim slow)

Oo what could I say to you
To let you know every day
I am grateful
I wish I could turn back time
Or maybe rewind
I would find you when we were younger
So we could spend our time on earth together longer

Step right up
Shoot an arrow at the target
My heart is an easy thing for you to hit
Don't worry
If you miss I'll let you shoot again
My heart is an easy thing for you to win

Whoa, step right up again
When you find love you can't hesitate
Whoa, step right up again
My heart is aching I can barely wait
Whoa, step right up again
When you find love you can't hesitate
Whoa, step right up again
My heart is aching I can barely wait

Training!

2009-06-21T07:45:00.000-07:00

Training at last tomorrow! Gosh, 1 week without training and I am starting to feel flabby. Yes, FLABBY.

F - L - A - B - B - Y

Yes, this coming from someone who probably gains weight at the slowest rate in the whole world. Oh well, though we played games during Church Camp, they weren't that stimulating, maybe with the exception the beach soccer, frisbee ('Wah Kelvin jump very high leh C:') and the water polo. Not good enough training. Anyway, training tomorrow C: Seriously I hope my right leg won't suddenly screw up again or my shoulders for that matter. Must try to learn as much of 剑 as possible. Time's running out.

Really had so much fun today, playing at Uncle Khee Loon's place and then going to send off Pastor Kory. Seriously I hope he will come back next year. Ok going to sleep now. The effects of 3 days with little sleep are catching up with me, even after more than 30 hours of sleep. I am DEAD MEAT. Hope I will feel rested enough for training tomorrow.

2009-06-18T18:47:00.000-07:00

Can't believe 4 days passed by so quickly. It's quite amazing, it just seemed like yesterday when we reached Desaru. On the whole, it was a rather fun camp, if we discount the fact that there aren't much fun facilities around and everyone is staying rather far from each other. But according to Elliot, the previous camp was so much more fun.

Oh well, gonna miss sleeping at super '(un)ear(th)ly' hours and all those games of 99 points and Truth or Dare. The 'amazing' confessions and even more amazing dares. Please upload the pics soon Dawn.

Can't believe the things you find at the beautiful beach there. Not rubbish, but the millions of shells and tons of hermit crabs that just pop out of the sand in the morning during low tide. Caught like 10+ but Ryan made me keep only 1, the biggest I found. It fell out of its shell (nobody knows how), and when the shell was placed near it, it squeezed inside in less than 3 seconds, quite amazing. But it died the next morning, guess it died after it couldn't find a new shell. Either that, or because of the few minutes it was exposed to the water mixed with sugar and creamer, thanks to stupid Ryan.

My 'naked' hermit crab after it crawled out of its shell

The damn nice beach, taken on the first day there.

Woke up after 14 hours of sleep C: A new record for me. Guess it sort of replaced all the sleep lost there. If only the camp were longer, but I guess we would all start fainting from the lack of sleep. Come to think of it, it's quite amazing how we lasted on such little sleep.

Ciaooo

2009-06-14T06:47:00.000-07:00

Going to Desaru for Church Camp from Monday to Thursday.

Don't miss me! C:

ACHING

2009-06-12T23:25:00.000-07:00

Aching all over, especially triceps, and my left shoulder that doesn't seem to be recovering. Pumped 100 yesterday in total. I seriously think the first 60 wasn't even our fault. It was supposed to be for those who were late, and then it's our fault as well? That's total bullshit. I understand 杀鸡儆猴, but then this time it's like 杀猴儆鸡. Then somemore Yu Ann kept giving the counts so quickly. If the sec 3s and 4s can barely keep up the pace after 40 push ups, time to slow down, Yu Ann.

Then the other 30(at first) was for those who forgot to bring fuzhuang. First thing first, Yue Quan didn't even make himself clear, we thought it was only the drums fuzhuang not comps fuzhuang. Then just look at how many people who forgot to bring, nearly all the competitors. Obviously something is very wrong. But then again, we should have returned long ago, so it's our fault too. And what's wrong with you Yu Ann. We were rather coordinated thank you. At least more coordinated than when you were leading. Who says we didn't count as a whole, it was sooo much better than the mess when you led. You just seriously don't know the right time for the right moods. SUPER CHAIRMAN.

Ok enough about that. Bout time you left Man Utd, Ronaldo. Maybe Old Trafford might be rid of the smell of hair gel. We could do without diving, and we could use the money from your sale to buy 2 world class players, or maybe even more C: And if Real Madrid doesn't win anything next season, they can seriously go eat shit and quit from soccer. Bought Kaka, and now Ronaldo, Villa next. If they can't win anything, shows how shit they are. Galacticos? We shall see. Just don't show us the Retardico side in you.

Some meeting

2009-06-11T07:49:00.000-07:00

Some meeting we had today

Only half the group turned up. Han Shen had fever, so he's forgiven. Arnold claimed he had training, but who the hell has training from 10 to 2? Especially in this kind of weather. And what about lunch. Total bullshit. Endured some stupid kid blabbering at the back of the bus on the way to school. Seriously wanted to smash his head into the bus window and punch out all his teeth. Damn noisy, couldn't sleep.

Oh, I took some Facebook Advanced Level IQ Quiz and guess what, my IQ is 151. And I thought I would like fail the quiz epicly and get 1.51 for my IQ instead, the questions are damn hard. Oswald said he only got 1 question right, and his IQ was 137, so I am doubting the reliability of the quiz. I got 7/15 questions right. Oh well, training tomorrow C:

Ciao.

Sad Life

2009-06-10T08:29:00.000-07:00

I seriously think I have a sad life.

You see, tomorrow I have a Pday meeting in school with the guys. Actually there's nothing wrong, though it's at 2pm(quite hot). But then, over these 2 weeks, out of 10 school days, including tomorrow, I will be in school for

9/10

days!!! That's damn sad seriously. Today's the only day that I do not have to go to school. Sucks man. I think if I exclude sleep time, I am going to spend more time in school than at home. I might as well go stay in school. Argh. Shoulders hurting like crap, and I don't even know why. I use my legs in training more than my shoulders and I don't even feel my legs hurting.

Seriously, I am going to cry now over my sad life.

2009-06-09T08:01:00.000-07:00

TIRED, that's all I can say. Seriously, I just calculated today and realised that I spent more time outside home last Friday than at home.

7am to 10pm outside: 14h

Means I only spent 10h at home that day, and like all of it for sleep haha. Quite shocking now that I calculated it. Oh well.

Tried to restore discipline in the team yesterday and today. Pumped quite a lot, I guess they are starting to be afraid already. But only just. Pumped them for all the disciplinary issues. And Yu Ann was right, they made mistakes and instead the ExCo, who are innocent, get scolded and blasted at. Quite unfair. Training's been quite tiring, with all the tan tiaos, though we love it. But yea, it's quite energy-sapping. On the other hand, running has been fun, lapping so many people, like nearly half of everyone after just 1,2 rounds. Still can't win Yu Ann, damn. Oh well, at least I am getting closer and closer.

No training next week, can't believe it. For the whole week somemore, cos so many people are going overseas(me too). Oh well, I shall at least just keep myself fit while I am over in Malaysia. Gonna miss training with the guys.

My niece visited last week!!! C: I swear she's getting cuter and cuter,

Oh ya, this is going out to -

You see, this is proof that even though you cut -, your hair won't become butt-ugly. So chill man, your hair is fine lah haha. See my niece, so cuteeee. Cannot stand it. But she keeps trying to avoid the camera. Haha sneaky girl.

Ok tired. Sleep now. Ciao.

2009-06-07T07:53:00.001-07:00

Training tomorrow...

Time to restore discipline in the team

Mixed feelings

2009-06-05T20:41:00.000-07:00

Now that both performances are over, I can finally breathe easy again. BUT, there's a lot more to be improved on.

Firstly, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE TOLD YOU TO CHECK,CHECK, CHECK, AND CHECK TO MAKE SURE YOU BRING YOUR STUFF?! First, during Grand Finals, then now again. Yknow this kind of things can be avoided. Don't ever let complacency set in. Then you trouble everyone, and the ExCo gets scolded, gets blasted at instead of you. And in public somemore. It's not like Yu Ann and I didn't remind you guys ok. When will you ever learn. Then right after the scolding, somebody forgets to bring the fuzhuang. AGAIN. Luckily we saw it lying there, or else we will be damn screwed. While having the break, there you guys are, playing PSP. I bet you all have already forgotten about the scoldings. Play somemore, then forget to bring your stuff again. We should seriously ban PSP and Nintendo DS from wushu so that nobody will forget their stuff. EVER. AGAIN. And you are supposed to be in the next batch of ExCo. How do you expect the current batch to hand over our duties to you when you guys are like addicted to your PSP? You guys just set a record, getting blasted by Miss Tan twice in a week, and Miss Tan is a person who doesn't lose her temper that easily. Well done. The next time I see a PSP, I swear I am going to fling it up the roof of EP3 shed. Mark my words.

Performance wise, it was ok. Though we were rather tired after training in the morning. Could have been louder. Then after our performance when the hockey teams were taking group photos, many of them flocked to the drums to play around with them. Seriously I have never seen anyone so captivated by the drums. Maybe what Miss Tan said is true, this is something new to them. They maybe just 19,20 not much older than us, but the way they played with the drums and the joy in their face... Seems like they are little kids all over again. Then when we were packing up, there was this South African player who walked up to me, said,"Well Done guys!' and gave me a high-five. I was seriously stunned. Nobody has ever given a high-five before. Haha. Oh well.

2009-06-04T07:13:00.000-07:00

Ok rehearsal today, yet again. But I would say the Seng Kang stadium is quite nice, just that it is located in quite a ulu place. And there's only Macs and 7-Eleven there :C

The pitch was quite nice but was too far in, had to travel such a long distance to get the drums there. I think the people organising the hockey championships are quite fail, Russia appeared twice, when one was supposed to be Netherlands. Dinner was crap, MACS. I have not eaten Macs like since before Beijing, so it's at least 6 months already :C Oh well, it was either that or starve. Never mind, it shall be my one and only time eating Macs this year.

Then tomorrow, sad life. Wake up at 7, then go school for training, from 9 to 12. Then must return to school by 2.50 to go Seng Kang to perform. Returning home at only 8+, 9. Somebody tell, me what's the link between hockey and chinese drums?

Responsibility

2009-06-03T08:07:00.000-07:00

Performance was alright, but there were people late, almost all the fuzhuangs were freaking crumpled.

Come on guys, where's your sense of responsibility? Though the fuzhuang is not yours, it doesn't mean you don't keep it neat and straight. As what Miss Tan said, "没演员的道德" Since you are performing, you give your all, and yes, it's also reflected in the state of your attire. I don't think super crumpled attires give the impression that we are very professional. Yes, it's not yours, but do you spare a thought for the QM, for the next person who's going to wear it, for MISS TAN? You know she brought back the remaining fuzhuangs JUST SO SHE COULD IRON IT. I DON'T THINK MISS TAN'S JOB COVERS IRONING FUZHUANGS. She is so busy, with so many events, not just wushu and drums and she still has to take out some time to iron the fuzhuangs, when she could be resting! It all boils down to responsibility, people and discipline as well. You were supposed to reach EP3 shed by 8, and we still have people coming in at 8.10. We are on a tight schedule, we can't afford to waste any more time.

And when Yu Ann was lecturing us, you all could still whisper, snigger and best, ask, "WHAT'S HE KAOPEI-ING ABOUT?" when it jolly well is your bloody damn fault that you skipped rehearsal and troubled so many people. Miss Tan, me, Yu Ann, and the SLC people. All thanks to you, Shun Xiang and Ming Kang had to come down so early, change into the fuzhuang and then change back to their uniforms because we were scared that you would not turn up again. 'What's he kaopei-ing about?' You have the cheek to ask this question when we haven't even scolded you for skipping rehearsal. You dare to ask this question when you have been skipping training all this while so frequently. Then when pumping, you guys could still smile, laugh, and chat. So disappointing, so frustrating.

I guess it all boils down to the lack of irresponsibility and most importantly, the lack of discipline. No matter how hard it is going to be trying to restore discipline, I guess the ExCo will keep going at it, till it is instilled in all of you. Seriously, go reflect on yourselves.

2009-06-02T06:46:00.000-07:00

Second and final day of drums CIP, ok lah. But I wish they would pay more attention, instead of running around when we are teaching. Then when we ask, 'I KNOW!!! I KNOW!!!' and they can't beat the drum for nuts. Talked until my mouth was seriously dry.

Then went back to school, trained a while then had to go rehearse for drums. It's like 3 hours of drums today argh. Then out of 14 performers, only 10 turned up, and we had to call Xin De down. HE WAS AT HOME. Turned out he didn't read smb. Then Miss Tan blasted us, I have never seen her so angry in my 4 years at HCI, not even when she scolded the ExCo the other time. I mean, it's not our fault that these irresponsible assholes don't turn up. I mean we all don't really like drums, everyone is aware of that, but since you are a member of wushu, you MUST turn up for these rehearsals, and now these people have affected those in SLC. They might have to perform tomorrow, which is like so unfair. 不要把自己的快乐建立在别人的痛苦上。 It's damn irresponsible and damn unfair to the others. Plus it speaks a damn lot about your character. Future leaders of Singapore indeed...

Then somemore the rehearsal was quite screwed up, will you all please follow my pace. I mean it's not too fast right. So stop rushing towards the end, it is damn damn messy and we have to keep rehearsing until we get it right. What was supposed to be a one-hour long rehearsal became a 2 hour one -.- Will you guys please be more serious, it's just a one-minute performance. We have been there, done that countless times. You all know the tempo very damn well, there's no reason for you to rush like there's no tomorrow. What's so difficult about following my beat? It's even harder for me, since I do it very fast most of the time, and I have to slow down so much suddenly. Damn disappointing. It's already the last stretch, just get it over and done with. GIVE YOUR ALL.

If you guys can't even do a simple thing like drums properly, it speaks a lot about your daily life. GO reflect on yourself.

2009-06-01T07:41:00.000-07:00

Ok so the drum coaching started today. The place where we were teaching was not too bad actually. In some Chinese Orchestra room, where it looks more like a dance studio and is air-conditioned. But then the drums are a tad too small as compared to the ones we use, the metallic ones are like much lighter than our big wooden ones. Seriously we were stunned, and somemore the drums stand was not very strong and it was quite low. So we had to do a 马步 to be able to use the drum comfortably, not that doing a 马步 is comfortable in the first place.

So the kids were not very cooperative lah, when we teach they don't pay attention. Then after that they don't know how to beat the drums. Quite frustrating, then the teacher was like if they don't listen, scold them. Later if we scold them, I am scared they will just burst out in tears. Little kids what. Argh. Coaching again tomorrow. Screw it. Why did I agree in the first place.

2009-05-29T05:31:00.000-07:00

Ok after I broke that mirror yesterday, I think my 7 years of bad luck has really started today.

First, the horrendous amount of homework given to us by our beloved teachers. Bio, IHC, Eng, Chinese, Maths, Chem, Physics... Well done. I am so not going to make it past the first week of hols, and not to mention going down to school everyday next week for training and the 2 performances in 3 days. NICE. At least I am leading for the SLC performance. C: At least better than Yu Ann.

Secondly, soccer during PE, did a fingertip save against a power shot by Yin Hong, palmed out a corner, then during one-on-one with Yin Hong, clashed into him while trying to save, and now there's this SUPER gigantic bruise on my calf, and whenever my I flex my calf, OUCH. Then let in another one during one-on-one with Arnold. I seriously hate one-on-ones when i am the keeper. Scored a rather zai goal, cross cum shot that curled into goal with a deflection off Arnold.C: Missed the golden chance to equalise, open goal somemore :C My team lost 2-1.

Played street soccer after that, my team won 5-0 C: Keeper again C: Only made 2 saves, but they were decent ok. The rest of the time, I was beating the people from the other team to the ball. Realised I have an over-reliance to save with my right foot, whenever a shot comes in. Must use my left foot more. And my hands as well.

Then the results. Seriously, why can't the school like just take the average of both maths tests. Just because of the people who went to Beijing in April, just because they have only taken one test, doesn't mean you freaking take only the marks of our first maths test, which unfortunately, most of the class screwed up. Now our class Msg is like 2.93, I bet without this stupid rule, it would be like less than 2.70. It's not like the BSC people screwed up their first test. They all did rather well, it's damn unfair to us. Just make do with what they have lah. Bloody hell, my MSG would have been like 3.22, now it's 3.89. If it was 3.22, it would have been an improvement of 1.11 from last term dammit. Never mind, that's part and parcel of life, at least for next term, I have an 85% for 1 out of the 3 maths marks. I am going to come back even stronger. Even stronger. Just you watch.

Seriously, I can't understand why some people are so bloody kaypoh. I know your nose is damn long, but there's no need to poke it into other people's businesses right. SO WHAT if we are meeting at Woodlands MRT at 9.15 tomorrow morning. The church is just 4 damn freaking stops away from the interchange. We are just going to take like 10 minutes to reach there. Worst case scenario we reach the MRT at 9.25, we would still reach the church at 9.35, 10 minutes early. It's not like you are getting married right. So the conclusion is : GO GET A LIFE.

2009-05-25T21:27:00.000-07:00

MY EYES HURT FROM STARING AT THE COMPUTER SCREEN FOR 4 CONSECUTIVE HOURS.

2009-05-25T07:21:00.000-07:00

Ok now that all tests are over(AT LAST), I only have one thing to say.

SCREW OFF YOU BLOODY FREAKING HOT WEATHER. It's like during the geog exam today, I write halfway, then I start flapping my shirt and then I will forget what I want to write next. -.-

Lucky tomorrow is home learning day, I can at least rest, and hopefully recover from this stupid cough. It's weird how I seldom fell sick in primary school, like an annual event, and now that I am in sec school, I am sick like once every 2,3 months. That's some unhealthy stress I am experiencing.

Feels good to blog again. Just went out to try to find a shirt to wear this Sat to Galv's wedding. But couldn't find anything, but I think it's sort of a waste if I am buying just this once to wear for the wedding and then I am going to wear it like once a year in the future. I mean in this stupid Singapore weather, you would have to be an even bigger idiot to wear this kind of shirts.

Ok got to go now. Need to sleep. Stupid cough, stupid hot weather.

2009-05-17T07:58:00.000-07:00

MAN UTD CHAMPS YET AGAINNNNN!!! C:

Haha, though we were dominated by Arsenal, all we need was a draw to get the title and we were more than happy to soak up the pressure. Good job Man Utd! C: Come on Ferguson, you have already gotten onto the perch along with Liverpool, now bloody knock them off, as you mentioned before C:

Class performance video up SOON. C:

2009-05-11T05:09:00.000-07:00

YEAH the Beijing people are back!

25/25 for attendance at last! Woohoo! C:

Total Pandemonium once again C:

2009-05-08T07:35:00.000-07:00

Wah this week's DAMN TIRING.

Tests, 12 x 200m, moving of classroom. Can't remember the rest already.

Stupid lah, Shannon break his toes then we have to move class to upstairs. IT SUCKS, not just because we are moving but also because of the shitty state of the classroom. The backdoor's latch isn't working, no turning lock, there's no computer, classroom smells worse than the toilet, and the CUPBOARD's locked, how to put stuff for the BJ people? Told Mr Sng about it, but I doubt he can do anything. But I mean if they want to move our class upstairs, at least tell us like 2 days in advance right? Then now so sudden the teachers also don't know, like Mrs Har, bio go wrong class.

Ok then this afternoon we took part in 12 x 200m. I swear it's like an epic comeback. We had only 1 tracker taking part and the other classes got like 1/3 are from track. So I was the first runner, and then I saw the other 4 first runners all from track and I was like &$%**%. But I hecked it and just ran, but bloody hell, I run like no strength like that. Dunno whether is the shoes or because I am damn tired. But I managed to finish third, among 4 trackers C: Ok so Yue Quan got it, he sprinted and he became second but then he FELL wtf. So we were like what the *^&^ Die liao. LAST LEH. But we just ran lah, and after that Wendell covered a lot of ground and overtook someone. Dell said he screamed F--- at that fellow after he overtook him haha pwnage. Then after that everyone just chiong-ed until Jon Tan, last runner. I swear he's on steroids or what, he covered a gap of 20+ m wtf. We ended up third, you should have seen how happy we were, but now we are not sure whether we will get disqualified because YQ dropped the baton. I hope we get through. But this kind of things happen all the time, so don't be too say Yue Quan if we don't get through eventually. But it was a good showing, last to third C:

IT WAS A GOOD RACE GUYS. WE SHOWED THE OTHER CLASSES WE DON'T NEED A LOT OF TRACKERS IN OUR TEAM TO WIN. C:

On a side note, Maths 34/40. C: Pulled up my average from a shitty 55 to 70 C:

2009-05-02T00:51:00.000-07:00

It's been damn long since I last posted, and this post has to start with the fact that I nearly died of nose bleeding this morning -.-

Bloody hell(no pun), the blood just kept on flowing like a waterfall, I thought I was seriously going to die. Took 15 minutes to stem the flow. I already have anaemia, please nose, don't screw me up. Felt giddy after the nose bleed.

Ok, so these 2 weeks were just tests tests tests. SIAN. I want TRAINING.

Further trigo next week, ihc and physics too.

KELVIN > Trigo

*a Random note: Mentos Yoghurt is the <3

16 AT LAST

2009-04-22T07:42:00.000-07:00

16 AT LAST!!! NC16 movies... C:

OK ok, so the celebrations last saturday were quite sucky, but what really made my day was the sheer volume of people wishing me Happy Birthday yesterday. C:

35++ people dammit. I feel like listing out all of them.

1) Shao Jie (sms-ed me at 12.01 and facebook-ed me too)

2) Shun Xiang (even better, sms-ed me at 1:01)

Those who facebook-ed me:

1) Han Quan

2) Ai Leng

3) Bradley

4) Yao Nian

5) Bryan

6) Norris

7) Shannon

8) Zoe

9) Kar Ee

10) Kevin Lee

11 Henry

12) Alvin

13) Jon Seng

14) Jia Quan

15) Yi Jing

16) Kwang Yu

17) Walter

18) Kenji

19) Darren

20) Mr Toy

21) Kevin Mak

Those by SMS:

1) Dawn

2)Wen Yi

3) Dun Yang

4)Shu Shien

5)Zhi Wei

6)Si Chen

7) GUO CHEN OMG

8)Eileen

9)Li Ye

10)Chen Ting

11) Timothy Tay

Woo I didn't know so many people knew my birthday, but as Bryan said,"The wonders of facebook" And then still got people likeNg Peng, Jian Yang, Nick Kee who specially came to find me to wish me and my classmates like YC, Oswald, Horny, Wendell, Laibro, Heng Rui, Dennis, Si Heng who wished me too C: And also those people who wished me on MSN like Clarence.

And it was a pleasant surprise when at the wushu dinner just now, they celebrated the birthdays of me(21-04), Hui Fang(21-04) and Dun Yang(27-04) Didn't really expect them to do it. But when the Sakura played the birthday song, it was rather freaky. And though I didn't get any present(they didn't know it was my birthday too), I had quite a good laugh, seeing Song Kang's present for Dun Yang, RED RANGER UNDERWEAR ftw! Haha C:

I initially expected this day of the year to be quite sucky, but it turned out to be quite a nice feeling when so many people wishes you happy birthday over the day. It's either your phone vibrating or a message popping up on facebook every few minutes. THANKS GUYS!!! <3>

2009-04-20T06:34:00.000-07:00

WOOOOO!!!!

I am 15 years 364 days, 21 hours and 35 minutes old. C:

2 hours more, to 16!

2009-04-19T07:38:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAOJIE!!!

2 more days to mine C:

It's quite cool lah, most people I know have their birthdays in April

April1: Yong Le

April 16: My cousin(if I am correct)

April 17: SiChen's bro, my uncle, Jasher(Uncle Jason's and Auntie Jocelyn's newborn)

April18: Li Ye

April 19: Shao Jie, my 3rd uncle

April 21: MINE!!! Queen Elizabeth II, Hui Fang

April 22: Adwin or Lishanth

April 23: Adwin or Lishanth

On a side note: got my slipcase yesterday, just a simple present to myself C:

And Shun Xiang, I would love to have a training on my birthday but chances are that I will get bonded, So sorry, I will have to reject your offer.

SWEET SIXTEEN, NOT

2009-04-18T07:23:00.000-07:00

Whoever coined the term 'sweet sixteen', let me tell him/her something.

SWEET SIXTEEN MY ASS.

Bloody hell, so few people were around to celebrate my birthday this year, it plain sucks. I think it is the worst celebration ever. How I wish my friends were around. So this is what it feels like to have a sweet sixteen. And that's not the worst thing.

The worst thing is that I still have to do homework lah wtf. Finished bio, then did maths and was pwned by the R-formula. Did 3 straight hours of maths, including Factor formula(which I have not learnt cos I was taking the makeup test). MENTAL BURNOUT NOW SOMEBODY HELP ME

2009-04-17T08:10:00.000-07:00

Woo, just finished my chinese essay, summary and newspaper article review. So time for a quick post.

Tchoukball today was rather fun, I scored 1 point and saved 2 C: Didn't have NAPFA retest because there wasn't one on the schedule.

Then after school went for ExCo meeting until 1.50 then left for CCK stadium. Discussed about Open House and performance details before I left. Went to CCK stadium to watch Si Heng compete. He appeared very tired and was like struggling during the last lap. He got 5th, which is not bad already. Good job Si Heng. And kudos to Sean too, for breaking his own U-17 record(if I am correct) and getting on today's sports news in HOME today. C:

Next monday is 'Wear-Medal-Day'. Haha we are going to announce the wushu results. C: HCI WUSHU ROCKS!!! PRIDE! C:

Ok anyway, I have 2 damn painful ulcers on the same side of my mouth, one on the upper lip and the other on the lower lip. Wah, eat anything also damn pain. Sucks man. It is no different from being sick luh, can't eat anything. Damn sian. Looks like I ain't gonna eat anything tomorrow during my bday celebration. Stinks man. But on a side note, I may be popping by Challenger tomorrow to get my slipcase C:

Ok got to go now. SLEEP.

DILEMMA

2009-04-16T04:35:00.000-07:00

NAPFA retest (for my full marks) vs Tchoukball tomorrow

WHICH ONE TO CHOOSE???

CHAMPS C:

2009-04-15T07:47:00.000-07:00

WOOOOO!!!

It is like the first time in dunno how long, 'B' and 'A' div are champs!!! It's damn unbelievable wth. We totally thrashed Hougang Sec on points. And 'A' div was separated from VJC by 1 point so you can imagine that explosion of joy we had when we heard that VJC got second. HCJC 71: 70 VJC (on points, not in basketball)

And our jiti today was total ownage, 'B' div got gold for jitiquan and silver for jitidao. They managed to set a high of 8.41 for jitiquan and no other school surpassed that score for any jiti routine for the rest of the day. Closest was Ping Yi with 8.40 C: Though jitidao wasn't the best we could do, we still managed to get second C: After everything, cheer cheer cheer, hug hug hug, kiss trophy, kiss trophy, kiss trophy. Seems so unreal all of a sudden. Mr Tok was so happy that we totally thrashed the other schools. He was like '太棒了'! All the other teachers were damn happy too. And on the challenge trophy, it was like

2005 - Chung Cheng High School (Main)

2006 - Chung Cheng High School (Main)

2007 - Chung Cheng High School (Main)

2008 - Chung Cheng High School (Main)

So next year it will be

2009 - Hwa Chong Institution C: We broke their monopoly haha C: Same for 'A' div who broke the monopoly of MJC and VJC.

Photos(though they are quite blur):

Jia He, Me and Yu Ann(who was extra-ing). I realise we all look quite spazz, too happy already.
Celebratory pose with medal C:
YEAH Me and Jia He <3 C: haha
The trophy though it's damn blur, will post a clearer shot next week.
Challenge trophy, hope 'B' div next year can get it back again. C:

MEDAL!!! C: <3

There was this shot of Jia He and me kissing the trophy together haha C: Will post it when Ivan sends it to me. Oh and just to announce, JIA HE AND I ARE OFFICIALLY MARRIED C: Wtf sounds damn gay haha. OK got to go now, damn tired. Ciao C: My birthday's in 6 dayssss....

2009-04-14T05:57:00.000-07:00

7 more days, 1 more week to my birthday.

AND 1 LAST DAY BEFORE COMPS TOMORROW. JIAYOU GUYS. C:

I am glad that I have to attend this cos my birthday falls on a Tuesday and there's no training next tuesday. So the wushu guys are going to BOND me after training on Friday. Thanks Si Heng for saving my ass(and my shoes for that matter). You should have seen my reaction in class today after reading this message.

And my birthday's coming up soon. C: Like you all don't know. I admit I am not a simple person, cos I want this:

(in order of merit)

1) A new bag, preferrably Timbuktu

2) New shoes, Asics Onitsuka Tiger [Tai Chi]

http://www.asicsamerica.com/onitsukatiger/#/en-us/collection/HL301-0190/

3) iPod Touch/ PSP

Yea so that's all basically. Haha, oh and I realise I need to get a laptop slipcase sometime soon. Nearly died carrying the laptop bag to school today. Bleah. Oh well, need to sleep soon. Be in prime form tomorrow C:

Gold medalllllll

p.s. Here's the message that probably saved my life

Dear 4E1 students, On this Friday, your classmate, Si Heng, will compete in the  National Track and Field finals amongst other pre-completed events. Permission has been granted to excuse you from EP3 to cheer and  support our Hwa Chong athletes. We will arrange for one-way transport at 1.45pm at open air carpark.  The competitions will end at 5pm that day.   If you are unable to join us (i.e. due to SYF training and other  competitions), please specify in the response box.  I'm sure your support will make a difference to the athletes.  Mr Fong

8 more days, 2 more days

2009-04-13T07:32:00.000-07:00

Ok, 8 more days to 21st April C:

2 more days to 15th April.

Jiayou everyone we CAN DO IT.