Update for 1.5 weeks

Long time since i last updated. Even forgot where i stopped and everything that happened after that.. XD

Ok i shall blog according to pictures..

Last mon Vesak day. Soccer in the morning at ccab, played well. PW meeting at Bugis TCC, frozen there for about 4 hours.

As usual, PW is spend money session. Had nice Iced Tall Latte, and some burning wedges. Left for the hawker centre near the Waterloo temple for some cheap food, dinner at only $1.70. Bee Hoon plus chicken wing! As usual with other kind souls donations of bee hoon, i left the place with a full stomach. Moved to burger king to continue discussing PW and finally went home.

Tuesday, went to watch boys soccer finals at Jalan Besar. Lost 1-0. Good game though. Yong Pin hogged the limelight for a few seconds with his short commercial involving the match ball. hahaha. Supposed to be a class outing but only Vanessa, Samantha, Mann, Gabriel, Yong Pin and me went.

Wednesday, went back SJI to meet up with Ryan and passed him the surveys for PW. Played some soccer at our ex home ground - street soccer court. Had some time to execute some skills. :P Shawn and yewtong came late after taking their o level certs. Slight drama unfolded as shawn blasted the ball in from outside and it landed in between the fence and the bushes. Too bad, he had to get dirty.

Thursday, went for first ever SA double hockey finals at Delta. Both matches we lost 1-0. First time i watched a full hockey match. Anyway, the boys finals was really much more exciting. Sadly they lost. Maybe i m the jinx, 5 matches i went, all lost. (yong pin also, heh) Quite a few classmates ponned the match or couldnt make it leaving only Diana, Mann, Samantha, Vanessa, Lois, Pamela, Zheng Da, Timothy, Gabriel, Yong Pin and me.

Had a nice chat with Mr Louis Ho together with Timothy about the OCIP. Some negative and positive results.

>>> Take a bow boys, yall did well

Friday, suddenly i was in FPSP. School ended early and i made a call to the Hokkien Hui Guan for PW. The guy said he didnt wanna meet us. :( Anyway me, Wei Li, Yong Pin, Gabriel and Shawn went to the SAS fake field to kick. Sort of warm up for me for the match the following day. Result was sun burnt.

Went back SAJC for shower and met ms ye for FPSP discussion. Talked all the way till about 8 and went to Tau Huay shop to continue. This time about OCIP and class matters. More progress on OCIP since new sources of funds are tracked down.

Went home thinking am i really burning out? Academics, track, slayers, ocip, fpsp and all the minor minor things. But that they was the day when i utilised my brain the most. Felt good in a way.

Saturday, FPSP meeting at Ms ye s house. Had pizza there for lunch and left soon after for the match at Bedok. Met Ryan at MRT and made it only for the second half. From 1-0 down to 1-1, to 2-1 down to 2-2 draw. Played pretty well, mostly coz i m fresh. But was quite unfamiliar with the Left Back position. Just took over from Lucas. Took awhile to warm up to the game and in the process let the right winger run down the flanks a couple of times. After that, was pretty steady, happy with my headers, left foot clearance, throw ins and one twos with Christopher.

St Gabs coming up!

Dinner at Botak Jones after with Benny, Benjamin, Marvin, Jer, Yl, Benedict, Jet. Couldnt afford and ate Chicken noodles instead. POOR!

Sunday, off day. Went out with family to get groceries and have dinner.

Monday, went to school for the extra lessons. Bored stiff. Training after that, slacker than usual, but still good in afterall. Went to Suntec City to meet up with family for dinner and get MORE groceries at Carrefour. Yea, i m the one eating everything up. XD

>>> Who would buy this la! SPARE ribs, $0.99 for 100g and one pile of red bones.

Tue, lessons in the morning. PW in the afternoon, but it s mostly digressing. Tau Huay session and my one mountain of food for dinner were the highlights.

Wed, Hokkien Hui Guan interview. Went Raffles Place, had a hard time finding the building, sweated buckets, sat for 2.5hours, took more pictures and videos, caught in the rain, soaked to the skin, lunch at subway, zapped my $$$, lois bd celeb, more money scamming incidents, but fun in a way. Went to new second home, National Library to dig out the YOUTHink article but failed. Went home dead beat.

Thur, more national library to do research and dig whatever that has to be found. Charged phone and camera, did FPSP, more PW, ate at Mos Burger (2 cheese burgers), travelled to Raffles Place, chionged to Asian Civilisation Museum in the drizzle, had a fun time in there, came out dead beat once more.

Migrated to Orchard. Train scared the hell out of most passengers with it s sudden stops and starts and jerking. honestly, it was quite fun to me. :D Bussed down to Great World from there and met up with family and aunt and uncle for dinner at Ichiban. Mr Alfred Nathan was sitting just diagonally opposite me. Didnt know he had a mixed family. kewl.

>>>SJI peeps will know

I NEED MORE TIME!!! MORE ACTIVITIES COMING UP!

Fun Week

Yong Pin wanted to know my take on this week. Didn’t know my blog is that popular!

Ok let s see where did I stop again..Monday, fun day. Lessons ended at 12pm since Bio, PW and Econs were cancelled. Rewrote my econs case study since I realized I was missing out a lot of important points. And we had a class outing to Plaza Sing before going to Raffles City and to the Padang to watch the rugby finals. Lunch at PS Long John s and Lois suggested we play 综计密码. Brilliant idea if you are not the one who kena the dreaded number. First up was Gabriel, said hello to a girl at the next table. Then I think it was Vanessa who had to go to a clothes shop and ask for a cheeseburger. Yong Pin was next on the list and he had to go to another female clothes shop and ask for a dress of his size. Haha, the video s nice, check it out at Wei Li s blog. Lois s turn, go to a group of guys at BK and say something like eat like a king at burger king.

Took a train down to City Hall and spent some time at Raffles City’s toilet before leaving for Padang.Told Cassie that we will surely win the match since the match is played along St. Andrew’s Road and opposite St. Andrew’s cathedral. But, I must insert a BIG BUT here, everything went wrong from the start. SA were on the back foot for almost the entire match, defending and obviously, errors made in your final third will be more glaring since the opponent is so near to your touchline. Cheered and explained to my dear classmates who didn’t know the rules of the game. Had a hoarse throat after that. ACS I were disciplined and compact. The better team won, but the Saints spirit was clearly the stronger one amongst the two schools. Final score 21-8.





Even though our school lost, the rugby mood was there. So me, Yong Pin, Timothy and Wei Li had a ball of a time playing 4 men rugby. We even scrummed but obvious sucked. :D The scrum actually broke down!! Timothy and Yong Pin had their conversion kicks and I heard it caused some unhappiness among the ruggers and Yong Pin’s good friend Ke Xin. Good luck dude. Heh.Did some sai kang and cleared the place up a little before leaving for Raffles City for dinner. Couldn’t decide what to eat and we walked one round around the basement before Timothy decided to just walk into BK. Ok no more of this, next time I shall just plan everything before hand. Remembered what Jun Jie said, with a big group, some one just have to lead and everyone will follow even if we are walking in circles. I guess our class needs a clear-headed leader. Ahem tim ahem mie cough cough…



>>> Nice view

Round two of sabo time began. Vanessa tio again, this time to ask serviettes from a group of SA guys sitting in the corner. Then it was my turn. Crap, Vanessa mastered the art of reverse psychology. Number 201. Nvm, next time I shall reverse reverse psychology, you know like double reverse in UNO. So I had to feed some one a French fry dipped with Chilli sauce. Failed twice but third time lucky. Met a kind soul who gobbled up my fry. Mission accomplished. Haha saboed Wei Li next with a perfect number 100. His was a lot worse, had to propose to a girl. The video is hilarious. That s all for an eventful day!

Tuesday, nothing much happened as far as I can remember. PW lecture after school, and I went to collect my O level cert. It doesn’t look good! THREEs are ugly. Couldn’t put a ruler along the grades and cover all the digits as what Lim Meng Chye used to say.

Wednesday, security seminar. Couldn’t keep my eyes open. Didn’t know what was going on. Went to watch Girls Soccer Finals at Jalan Besar Stadium. Great atmosphere. The stadium was rocking. Went with Wei Li, Ryan from A01, Mei Wei, Jing Yan, Lois and Yong Pin. Obviously we were late, by the time we got there, it was already about 60 plus minutes. And we didn’t we lost since we were not familiar with the playing time for girls soccer. 40 minutes a half. It was 1-1 at the end of 80 minutes and still 1-1 after 20 minutes of extra time. So it was down to penalties. 5-5 sudden death. And the Indian girl who is so often the star player missed the crucial penalty, sending it straight to the keeper in the middle. In the end, VJ went on to win 6-5. It was really a game closely competed, and I think the best way to decide is penalties. You either win or lose, that s sports, that s life. Anyhows, good job SA team and to our class star player Jolena. The cameo performance was pretty good.

Yong Pin, Lois and me went to Bugis for PW meeting while the rest went home. Had a hard time deciding what to eat at the basement, in the end went to the Food Junction and was tempted by Pepper Lunch. Hui Hui joined soon after. As usual, we spent more time on eating than doing productive things. Finally left for national library and searched for what we needed. Couldn’t do much in less than an hour and we moved to the Hans Café outside the library. More or less done with our GPP and planned for the coming days and what need to be done. Left at 11 plus and reached home around 12.30. Had fun though, discussing and digressing. Haha.

Thursday, PE soccer. Played average. At least I kept my promise and didn’t score a goal. Didn’t want to scare the girls with my shots! Especially with Diana and Woei Xin as keepers and the whole group of girls camping around the goal. A murder case could be reported in the following day s newspaper. Nicholas almost appeared in the obituaries when Yong Pin sent one straight ‘there’ from close range. Dun worry, that s common. Anyway, didn’t want to be a showboat so played simple and played last man. Linked pretty well with Timothy. I m sort of partnering him to organise the OCIP trip to Cambodia recently. He s really efficient. I just asked him about it on Monday and we had constructive discussions online and in school. Progressing pretty well. Even if the school doesn’t want to fund us, we should be able to go by ourselves since my estimated cost isn’t high.Chem sucks. PW round 2 at national library after school. This time we found our new heaven. Will be going there on tomorrow for research and more time together. Hans Café is the back up plan. Treated my members cakes and pies even though I was going broke. Just felt like doing it, really, it matches the ambience. Lol.



>>> Our lives may depend on this book..

Friday, PE mixed feelings. The 4 bench thing is kinda stupid. Played badly as the defender. I just couldn’t block some shots that seemed easy. They were all so high all looping, and didn’t want to injure the captain who is always vulnerable standing on the not-so-steady chair. It s always a wiser choice to concede than to injure.Anyway still had a clash with someone, and was molested by this S11 indian girl..eww.. she was touching me all over. Sick. Didn’t know how to react, was just stunned and I thought I should forget that and focus on helping my class to protect our lead. Yep, in the end we won narrowly. We did great, but could be better. With our abundant sharp shooters and smart players, we could have thrashed them! Must think of a way to utilise our talents. Yong Pin saboed me by using my name to vote Jolena as best player on redsports.com. anyway i dun really mind since it s supporting a classmate!

Chem sucked again. Thank god, thank you, thank me she s leaving.

Gym training after school. Went late since I had econs make up tutorial. Couldn’t finish the sets, but felt those muscles working. Had my own soccer training after that while waiting for the Chinese play to start. I must really work harder on my strength. I feel my legs are a lot weaker after the splint injury. Field matches coming up in June! Bring on the St. Gabs people!!

Chinese play, wasn’t that bad, but I was dozing off since I was very tired. Waited for the two council people, Yong Pin and Wei Li before going in the LT for the play. Realised Timothy and Nicholas were there as well. So we left for Tau Huay at PP and had some short chit chat. Took a long bus ride home and over shot my stop for the first time. Dang.

Saturday, rest day. Compensate all my sleeping debts. Went to Serangoon Gardens for dinner at Country Manna. Had some wonderful memories at this particular restaurant chain. Standard there not really good, food lack taste should add more spice! Went to AMK hub after that for groceries since the fridge is empty. Finally I feel alive after interacting with the Singaporean kiasu crowd!Should be another fun day tml!

Oh my, I think I exceeded a GP essay word limit for this post.

Sorry for apparently daoing your precious tags, but I m responding to them here:

Cassie: hahaha sure we ll have future chances! Anyway I can safely say the class is becoming more and more bonded even without standing outside the class together. Oops, I just remembered you were netballer, that explains the ‘monstrous’ acts.

Ying: No problem, I hope you enjoyed it thoroughly! And dun worry about my class, it s getting better and better by the day!

Lois: More romantic PW nights together huh!

Jocelyn: Haha, next time I catch a cold I ll definitely experiment it! If anything bad happens to me you shall pay for the extra doctor fees!!!

Mann: Yo yo yo! :D

Reubby: Aiya expected, tongs is sick as his name suggests! xD

Sam: Yep, monstrously pro. Heard that you were from basketball??!

Meiwei: eh not again! Anyway wrong spelling la, missing a ‘h’! updated a nong nong one.

Jeremy: Sorry la, my phone cam really suck BIG time at night.

Huihui: Next time!:D

Memory test

Ok it s back to the memory test again. Rewinding back to 2 May...

2 May, Friday. Handed in the GP essay that i chionged till 3am and was glad i did so, coz those who didnt hand in had a heavy penalty. Next was PE. Captain's Ball. Had a busy time doing the same action over and over again. That is, jumping up and down like a monkey. I m my team's only defender. And with Timothy as the opposing captain, i had a really hard time. It was almost impossible to block the shots, coz he is so tall and sometimes even jumped on the chair to catch the ball. At least Gabriel gave me an easier time. :P Next time when we play captain s ball again, remind me to either join Cassandra, Samantha and Mann or at least break them up. These 3 are monstrous! Looping balls are their forte. injured my 'marriage finger' and my right elbow - but that s normal for an injury prone person.

Saturday. Basically mugged maths and did some homework all day. Went to airport for dinner. As usual had a hard time deciding what to eat but finally decided to eat at some funny restaurant that sells funny things.



>>> "Funny's restaurant" 's menu

Pardon my poor camera skills. But the word that starts with a B is Boiled Coke with Ginger! How about that for a thirst quencher! Haha, maybe i should try and boil coke one day and hope no explosion occurs.

Sunday. 4th May is Ying Lun's birthday! Had badminton in the morning with family, went home to do some homework before leaving for town to meet up with the usual gang. Caught the 6.30pm Iron Man show at Plaza Sing. Found it really refreshing. Maybe it s because i havent watched a movie for months. Lemme think... my last movie was ... 10 000 BC with the class. About 2 months ago, arg.. feel so deprived of 'leisure'.

Anyway time with Ming, JJ, Reuben, Jeremy, Ying Lun was great. Not to forget Tongs, who always gets bullied. Shawn missed the celebration, had some thing on. Went to Fish and Co. Glass house again for dinner. And the funny thing was, i sat at the exact same place i sat for class outing last time. What a coincidence.

Sneaked out with Jeremy to buy 7 slices of halved price cakes from Cafe Cartel and entered through the side door to pass it to the Fish and Co staff. Ying Lun was suspicious by then ald, but hey, i tried my best to act, i dun think i gave away much anyway. Was broke by then and even had to borrow money from Reuben to pay for my New York Fish and Chips. After all the hard work to organise something fun, at least the Fish and Co staff didnt let down. They rapped their trademark song and made Ying Lun look like a brithday fool! hahahaha. Watch the video on reuben's blog, even though it s totally dark. The cake was pretty good and i even had to finish reubby's portion.



My camera really sucks at night.



>>> Distance separates us, but that s no obstacle, we are friends forever!

After all the fun, it s back to real life - school life. Monday was just another boring day. Training seems fun but i couldnt continue after the pain in my shin was disturbing. Ms Tan asked me to rest and slow jog while the rest continued the 300m runs. Missed so much. Iced the injury part and was planning to visit the physio as advised.

Had Maths test on Tue and was practically mugging whenever i could. It was actually pretty good ald, but if i had done faster, i could have gotten a hell lot more marks. Coz i knew how to do it, just that too slow. Spent too much time figuring out how to do the inverse question. Had PW discussion after that at Macs from 6 to 10. Waited for the bus for ages and had a long journey home.

Wednesday. ME was some Jenga lesson. Had my chance, didnt blow it. Queued for physio at SAS and received some treatment and tips for the injury. Flew down to East point for dental and finally reached home and chionged PW.

Thursday. Not the best of days. PE was touch rugby but very few people knew how to play and it turned out to be a screw up. Had PW discussion again after school and some welfare talk with Hui Hui at the gallery since i could nt attend training. They did fart legs! Finally decided on something and decided to implement it.

Friday. Assembly was House Council election. Pam and Lois did ok, hope they make it. Gave out the welfare survey to the class and was glad that it was a positive response. Hui Hui's tabulating the results and hopefully there s a common trend to make things easier. Pe, floor ball. played crap, conceded 4, dun like Gabs. (MUST man mark him next time!) Chem SPA, pretty much a failure. The one decimal place made such a big difference. Got the pretty accurate titration reading but couldnt get the value for x. Went home and tried the calculations and got a 7.1. damn. Gym training, pretty efficient since i was working out mostly alone. Didnt waste much time. Planned for a Monday unofficial class outing to watch the rugby match. Went quite well.

Saturday. One of the best days of recent times. Went to J8 at 8am and waited for Shawn, Ying Lun and Jun Jia for breakfast at Macs. Had breakfast at around 9 and walked to Bishan Stadium for the Adidas Sundown Marathon volunteers briefing. It was quite a waste of time, sitting there for about 1 hour and listening to something not extraordinary. Just the usual stuff. Went back to J8 and was leaving Bishan. Just as i left Bishan, i realised i was suppose to meet Lois and Yong Pin in Bishan for PW! Went back and to the library to catch up on some sleep.

Lois came and we moved to the cafe down stairs. Yong Pin came and we moved to J8 food junction. had only 7 bucks by then. had some jap food that wasnt very ex considering the other food prices at other stalls. And we sat there and chatted for more than an hour before moving back to the library again. Migrated to the kids section till about 5 and saw Mabel. Lol! ok shallnt elaborate. Was forced to move upstairs since Lois' s laptop ran out of battery and there wasnt a powerpoint in the children's section. Found a powerpoint after long searching and passing by track vice captain countless times. (she s been mugging there for 6 hours straight) did some discussion and research again and Mabel came again! hahaha. We all laughed like mad.

Called ms ye but she didnt pick up or call back. Wanted to ask about the task allocation and also regarding the rugby finals on mon. Finally did completed the task allocation and left the library after a video call from Hui Hui. Bread talk tasted better than ever. Warm, sweet, life saving, simply delicious. And we stood at the entrance of the MRT station to eat and bread talk talk talk talk. And just by standing there, Mei Wei strolled by with her friend and shouted Yong Pin so loud, Keenan Tay waved to me even though i think he doesnt know my name, and we saw Mabel's daughter! hahaha.

ok had a really fantastic time just talking to these 2 people. Never ending topics to talk about. and we were moving gradually from the entrance of the MRT to J8 unconciously. That was 1 and half hours of basic fun interaction. Finally parted and took a straight bus home from the interchange.



>>> The bus looks faster than it actually was. Another long trip home to the East.

Rugby outing on mon! Arranged with ms ye to end early. hope it ll be successful!

Tired

Really thankful for LABOUR DAY! A much needed break..

Monday was a day when i was worried sick for the bio test. Mugged whenever i could but was never fully prepared. Skipped training partly to have more time to study and also coz i wasnt feeling well. Should be due to the lack of sleep, burning out. So, i went home and mugged from evening to morning but still couldnt cover all the topics.

Tuesday, test. More than half of it is on enzymes even though there s so much that could be tested for DNA. Predictions all wrong.. Expected a lot to come out for DNA and just read through for enzymes, moreover, shouldnt be that bad for all that i answered. Didnt finish the paper and lost about 10marks already. Which probably means a fail. Really disappointed and sad.. but..

It was Free Cone Day!

Went to The Cathay after the test together with Yong Pin, Timothy, Lois, Hui Hui and Samantha to queue up for the free B & J ice cream. Hui Hui left with her friend but Weili and Cassandra joined soon after our 1st round of queuing. Chose COOKIE DOUGH the first time being my favourite and had a hard time deciding what to have for the second round. Yep, same dilemma as Lois. In the end had Chocolate Therapy and it wasnt great. Swopped half way with Yong Pin for his New York one, tasted Weili's Banana Monkey thing and realised Cookie Dough's still the best! Left after the second round of queuing with Cassie and Samantha while the rest went to PS to get a farewell gift for Ms Tsang.

Wednesday was Ms Tsang's last day at SA and we presented her the gift and took a picture. What a loss we incurred. Saying farewell to a good chem teacher is depressing. I thought i could enjoy 2 years of H2 chem but now ... exothermic ... sigh



Went for some kick about after school at the D with Yong Pin and Gabriel and Shawn, Marvin and Yew Tong came soon after to join. Was totally off form. Just realised i have pretty high expectations of myself. I aim to do everything well but it rarely happens, and i end up saying, ' Disappointing.' Sighhhhh..... disappointing.

Left with Ying Lun, Shawn and Yew Tong for PS to meet up with Reuben for late lunch. Had Cafe Cartel, shared ribs with Ying and had a nice fuzzy talk with the lame guys. Yea, the good story tellers, should go find a job in Media Corp to be top scriptwriters.

Then left PS about 5 plus for Great World to have an almost immediate dinner with aunt, uncle and sis at some Jap restaurant. Great food and fantastic ambience. Aww how i wish i could just stay there. Was walking around after dinner and happen to see DP there. Almost died of shock. Ok that s exaggerating. But i forgot her name at the moment, you know we always say 'DP, DP.' So i just thought k nvm anyway i was busy playing my game on the phone and was rushing for the exit. But teachers are everywhere, quite dangerous huh. When the cats are away, the mice comes out to play! How true.

Went home, was a bit enthu and spent some time going around tagging on people s blogs then went to sleep till 2.30 and woke up to watch the Chelsea vs Pool match. Pool did what they could and still couldnt make it through, a round of applause for them. Never regretted supporting this club, You'll Never Walk Alone.

replying tags here:

To Reuben - Yea same here, but we all have to move on and look to the future! And the future is the June Holidays! :D

To Hui Hui - Plz i dun wanna be Timothy's uncle! Anw i just wanna do my 'welfare' job well, so dun mention it. Next year s Sports Day will be even better.

To Weili - Nah nothing nothing. Bored people s talk.

To Pamela - Hahaha still talking about the soothing voice. Yea keep visualizing then. :)

To Sam - That s what i tell others, but not to myself. hahaha!

To Jem - Yea of course not bad la, i m the 'true' friend.