Week 4

ok it s my 100th post! It isnt that fascinating since i started this blog at the end of sec 3.

Last post on 6th July, and i forgot everything from then till 13th. All i know is that lessons started again and i got back my pathetic results. BUDUDE! Isnt it just brilliant?

Ok, i remember 12th is FPSP practice at Paya Lebar Singpost Macs. Fried my brain for neurotech, what an irony. After about 5 hours, we finally left the place in Ms Ye s car to Bedok Botak Jones. Had fish and chips which i think i tried before, just couldnt remember. It was pretty good.

13th, PW meeting at 2pm.



Where else but national library? Did work from 2 plus to 6. what an achievement! Just sat at the level 5 lobby, plug in the powerpoint and had a productive session with some food. It was FIFA after that even after being chased away from the area. Went to Hans to continue and ate some fries Hui hui bought. And we went back again when the battery went flat. Fifa is plain fun and addictive, because i scored with a keeper again!! woohoo. What an achievement huh!

Monday, nothing much, can only remember training. Trained core and did 10X 50m lunges. Ached for the next 3 days, if you noticed, i ve been walking in a strange manner and having problems standing and sitting down. I guess i m having a preview of old age.

Tuesday, many people absent, Ms Ye too. So, no PW consultation. Cant remember what i did after that. Memory s really failing me. : (

Wednesday, National Track and Field Finals! Went to CCK stadium to have a taste of real competition. Really exciting. Had discussion for J2 farewell with ying lun and shawn while guan ming was starving badly. He simply cant take any hardships. Had Macs at Lim bang to fill my stomach slightly and had a long trip home again from CCK.

C div girls 4 x 100m.









>>> SJI! Won B div 4 x 100m! Great job.





>>> Cedar, probably the most bonded girls school

Thursday, Chinese A level listening compre. Was quite ok, probably got 1 qn wrong. Continued discussion for the track tee followed by training. Ok, honestly i felt a strong sense of achivement to complete 21 TWENTY-ONE rounds in 45 FOURTY-FIVE minutes. it was actually 20 rounds in 41 min, coz walked the extra round to cool down. Thanks monique, if not i would have given up long ago. great run. finished up core, discussed with lois about the class outing and went home dead beat.

Friday, highlight of the week. Commendation at St. Andrew s Cathedral. Yong Pin and Wei Li officially became councillors. Flew off to Dhobby Ghaut to prepare for July kiddos birthday celeb. Ran up and down plaza sing just to buy cake, get the paper plates, spoons, lighter and avoid the suspicion of the rest of the class. Thanks cassie and lois for helping out during the mad rush. Shouldnt buy ice cream cake next time!

Celebrated at Kopitiam, 3 candles, one for Vanessa, one for Hui Hui and one for Samantha. a bit lame huh. had lunch there and changed and went off to the Cathay to gather everyone again before setting off for paradiz. Pooled for 3 hours, inclusive of some bridging. Some started leaving and in the end only a few survivors went to plaza sing to have dinner and continued some bridging. Yong Pin wanted to do some shopping and only Gabs, Lois and me remained. Didnt buy anything in the end.

Saturday, FPSP Qualifying Round. Father dropped me at RGS and i went to Orchard to meet Tim and Wei Li. Waited for Yong Pin the latecomer as always at Yakun Kaya Toast Far East. Then left for RGS to meet Ms Ye, had a briefing and started at 11.

We started out pretty well, but took too much time for the challenges and had to complete 5 steps in 1 hour. Rushed for solutions and criteria. At least i completed my part but felt bad that i couldnt help yong pin with the criteria. i wasnt sure how to complete the sudoko. damn. should have at least read and know how to do. took a big risk. nevertheless, i completed the drawings though didnt label everything. overall, pretty acceptable outcome for a timed run.

Ms Ye treated us to lunch at Kallang Leisure Park (thanks again), the 99cents a plate sushi restauarant. Met some one there, had a quick lunch and rushed off to MJ with tim. Cabbed to pasir ris to catch the rockclimbing competition cassie was taking part in.

In the end it started late, and it poured, so we wasted our money cabbing. Waited about 3 hours before cassie climbed. Entertained myself with hp games, cards and a soccer match. I m amused by the way they played, despite the soaked pitched, they played passing calmly and had superb movement. There was always someone available to pass to. They never had to clear desperately. We must really learn to play like that.

>>> MJ s artifiicial pitch

After waiting for so long, the chairwoman finally climbed. (left)



Phone blacked out for no reason for the first climb, managed to only take a pic.

Videoed the second climb. (right)

It was a pretty good climb even though i know nothing much about rockclimbing. xD Yep anyway she got through to the last 16. Congratualations! Bowen slipped and couldnt get through. Nevermind, there s still a chance to be a sport in SA. Took a 39 to Tampines which was about an hour ride for 1 mrt stop. Amazing. The rest went to eat while i went home sweet home.

Chem class test coming up, tons of work to do, and i still wanna slack!!

FUN

How about something new, by starting with a retarded picture.






Grandma was hospitalised in the June hols and happen to sport this in the ward. They think old people's engrish no good lah!

Ok, i ll just bombard whatever pics there are in my phone here.





>>> Gabs mugging chem, just before the paper.





>>>While Tim was busy 'zi lian'ing. SHOT 1!






>>> How about this angle? SHOT 2!







>>>Maybe this angle is the best? SHOT 3!

4th July 2008, SAJC COLLEGE DAY!

One of the best days so far this year!

Ass nineteeners were selling SaintsWay Sandwiches, went early to help out abit, set up stall, then went on a mini campaign to help Gabriel with his SaintsIdol compt. Lois sneaked a bouquet of flowers to Ying Lun and passed to me so safeguard to avoid Gabs suspiscion. The campaign started with the bo liao guys of S19 walking around like fools with a sandwich! haha. Cassie was dressed up as a 'mascot' to advertise for Saintsway. My duty was to hold GABRIEL up right till my hand ran out of blood supply. (GABRIEL the placard) Ok cut the crap.. so we just cheered for him while Cassie ran on stage after his How to Save a Life and gave him the flowers, at the same time snatch the mic and advertise for Saintsway. FULL marks for Bravery!

The sandwiches were sold at a pretty good rate, did my job to pull as many friends as possible. Yea, eventually ran out of friends to pull. Was walking past some some muffin selling stall and suddenly heard some one call my name. Realised it s some girl from the stall but i didnt know who was she! So i asked her whether i know her and she started saying some story which i couldnt hear clearly but i figured out something like PS, KC, and buy muffins. Could it be YPS? Katong Convent? And buy their muffins? (obviously) I was so confused and was in a rush to do something so i just said ok ok, buy later. Whoa since when i have a friend from YPS in SAJC?? Better ask clearly next time!

Friends patronise my class stall, of course must return the favour rite, went around to present my consumerism skills and ran errands for busy classmates. Frequent the dunking machine a few times (they made a loss! subnormal profit) and Ying Lun called me to go play Xbox. FIFA 08!!!! Yea, played against Wei Shin, hockey guy from SJI and his friend. 2 vs 2. Didnt know how to use the controls and wasnt used to it and conceded a stupid goal in the first few minutes when Ying Lun and I clashed. After that, equalised 1-1, and led 2-1. Till 80 plus minutes, conceded another stupid goal. 2-2 extra time. Our team chemistry payed off, plus Barca vs Man u, compensated with so many one on one misses, and scored the decisive goal to win 3-2 after extra time. Really thrilling, Ying, we rock!!

Went back to stall and realised it s closing shop ald, Saints Idol over, Anthony Lee won, the one Yong Pin hates to the core. Gabs got some award, and some of us went back to play Xbox since we had some spare cash. Cassie, Yong Pin, and Gabs played Xbox Halo 3 while me, Tim, Jolena and Lois played Wii boxing. Quite fun but retarded. Xbox was more worth the money.

Played cards with Woei Xin, Gabs and Lois at the gallery after that while cassie and timo went to climb (again), yong pin and jolena had cca. Bridge wasnt good for me that day. The number cards loved me especially the DEEs, should really have played Dai Dee instead. Started out well but was on a losing streak towards the end. Went to Physio after that at SAS to settle my shin splint problem. Pain s still there but she said i can go back to run soon ald. Yay!

Went out with family to have dinner at Ngee Ann Alumni Club, pretty good food! Cheap and good, like some country club, but it s just a part of a polytechnic. Went to Sunset Way for Cold Storage and also some ice cream, (forgot the name ald). Suppose to be good, but i find it just average. Cookie Dough still da BEST!

5 July 2008, ANNUAL PARADE!

Met up for FPSP at Paya Lebar Sing Post with Ms Ye and gang. Had some brain exercises for 3 hours plus and left for SJI AP with Yong Pin and Tim.



>>> Brilliant sun set similar to every year. Some F16s flew by as well, of course for NDP rehearsal and not for us.


MARCH PAST!!!




Standard dropped from last year, but still the normal parts did well, only the new and unfamiliar ones were not good.




>>> Flag lowering and bye bye current CSMs

Went to Parade Square for the traditional crazy post AP session. Yup and my camera got lousier and lousier as the sun disappears.














>>> Matthew being taupoked and raped by Part As 07! And while i was laughing at him, taking this pic, it s my turn...

And they piled, piled, piled and PILED. Almost died! Couldnt breathe and the weight was killing me, rib cage gonna crash, chicken wings gonna come out from every where possible. TAUPOKs are dangerous!






>>> Matthew the gay and me. Post taupok.



>>> Tim s band had some ritual thing. in short, it s YAM SENG!

Left SJI at 8 plus and went to Paradiz for pool with Ying Lun, Zi Xiang, Jasper, Sebby and Heng
Khit.



>>> Playing against slut the pro.




>>> Ying Lun in his glorious moments.

This is what happens when you leave your phone unattended to bored friends.



It isnt that bad after all, as long as they take appropriate pics.

And videos...

>>> Ying in his not so glorious moments, stealing my hobby of stoning.



Left soon after about 10 plus and had a long journey home. Splendid day! and now, back to homework which i havent touched for a month.

Mood to Blog

Suddenly had the mood to blog. Maybe coz like what Tim blogged, today s really just leisure. But it started out not too well. Had a NIGHTMARE, bad dream.

Ok the scene was the CC, and Ms Wong was releasing the Econs results, and then there was this funny way of releasing the results, she ll read out those failures' names and they had to stay back right after to take a RETEST!!! lol. So, everyone was so tensed up causing a commotion and then she said there s only 20 plus failures in the whole cohort. So she read the names out one by one and they had to sit a side to be prepared for a retest immediately.

What can i say about this? It s just surreal, and SO REAL. Everything was like 3D and there was even echos, haha! So she read out the names one by one until the last one, there was a pause, and obviously you should be able to guess, it s ME, (if not i blog for what). Yea, and i was so stunned and shocked, but reluctantly walked to join the other 20 plus people and get ready for the retest. I was thinking omg, 3 Us, i m so screwed. Luckily i woke up and my misery ended. Really relieved.

But it was back to reality, and had to read up on Neurotech for FPSP. Stared at the screen at 5plus am isnt easy, stoned there for a few times, reading the same line over and over again. Went to sch, bio lect, and we all went to the kitchen, to cook pasta and also help out for jolena s group and college day. Yep, it was fun and relaxing. Was suppose to have FPSP but i think Ms Ye just threw it aside and decided to do some class bonding.

Ok, what did i do ...? Wash dishes, outline the big board, the poster, help out with the EV club flowers, cut cut cut, tie tie tie, pricked pricked pricked by thorns. haha left a drop of blood stain on a ribbon on a bouquet, you ll be so blessed to buy that one! helped out slightly with the sandwich costume as well, it s gonna be cool. Lectures were boring, GP just trying to copy whatever is there as fast as possible. PW was just stoning. College day tml! Gabs gonna sing, we gonna sell, it s gonna be fun!

Post common test

Finally brought myself to blogger.com

The past weeks were quite a disaster actually. Supposedly intense mugging but i was quite easily distracted with the TV on and the com just within reach. Honestly all i managed to do during the hols was to do some Chinese, read some chapters of bio textbook, revised Chem and Math.

I didnt know what to do for GP, how to prepare for it, or what homework is there. Missed the email that was sent. Only realised it the day before the paper. The paper was ok.. but i m not confident about it at all. Essay, wrote about whether youths today are more fortunate than youths in the past. The points were pretty easy and hardly used any 'bombastic' words. Just a simple essay. Paper 2 was quite confusing, wasted a lot of time on the first passage, trying to understand everything, and also wasted A LOT of time trying to think of alternative words to use, coz they say USE YOUR OWN WORDS. hate those 4 words.

Chinese, all i did was teng ye xian sheng the practices, still have a mountain of homework to complete. Overall chinese was quite ok for me, it s one of the only hopes for me.

Econs, mugged hard for Demand Supply Price, Elasticity. COP and PC read through and understood everything once but couldnt revise one last time before the exam. But luckily nothing came out for PC and COP only 1 6m qn. Managed to scribble some stuff, the rest were pretty good, but elasticity couldnt finish the essay, only managed to talk about PED, spent too much time on the definitions and stuff.

Chem, just a torture. I read through everything and mugged for topics from the start till chem bonding and then energetics and kinetics. It seems like i understood everything and memorised all the formulae and points one week before but i forgot EVERYTHING before the exam. I had to last minute pia the topics from scratch and try to remember the day before but nothing really went in, especially chem bonding. It was really a torture just to sit through the paper. I had hardly anything to write about in the structured questions segment. Coz all the info i had was in bits and pieces. As for the MCQs, i just have to blame myself for not practising chem much. No time to complete.

Math, was almost late for the paper. Honestly, i did not prepare much for math. All i did was to go through the lecture notes, memorise relavant stuff. And the best thing happened, i just went to sleep and slept for 12 hours till 10 am that morning and i realised i forgot everything AGAIN. All the formula and stuff, had to scramble to try remember and when i look through again, i found some questions i forgot how to do and attempted till no time and didnt finish looking through again, like modulus and graphs. dang. Anyway, i deserve to fail coz i didnt practise at all. Let Mr Tan down.

Bio, 8.30pm to 4.30am straight mugging. Miraculously i managed to cover everything except enzymes. And managed to REMEMBER. oh my. i really pushed my self for that. hopefully it ll yield some good results to compensate chem and math.

After the bio paper, went to kick ball at Potong Pasir Street soccer court. yong pin, wei li, zheng da, timothy, nicholas, jolena, samantha, while hui hui and pamela watched. Didnt play too well, expected, just finished exams, quite rusty. Then went to PS to eat BK, sat there chat, napped then left for training. Hardly did a thing, felt injury coming back.

Went home, Tim came, had dinner, did OCIP transcribing the interview. He stayed over, watched Euro 08 spain vs russia. 3-0. Went back to sleep for a few hours, had breakfast, left for AMK hub. Took cab coz will be too late if take train. Met the rest there and we went to some HDB flats to collect dictionaries, old textbooks and children s storybooks. Was sort of inspired by Cassie s enthusiasm considering that i was the zombie of the day, Tim was quite bad too! and went to every door, knocked, asked politely, and inject some energy into my speech despite having little for myself to last the day. So we collected and sorted out, while i stoned or went to La La land, waiting for the lorry to come. Loaded the stuff and off to Marymount Good Shepard. Lorry ride was fun. Reminds me of rollercoasters.

Unloaded the stuff, and left with Vanessa, Jocelyn and Jing yan since they had to go SMSS while i had to go to Borders to get a book for sis. Miss Orchard! The place i visited almost everyday after school for 4 years, now hardly. Argg.. feel like watching movie..

Saturday, met up with hui hui and yong pin supposedly to do hw but obviously failed. Jing yan suddenly showed up at Nat lib just when we were talking about her. Left the place to make it home for LOTR on TV. One of my movie favs. Gonna catch the last one this coming sat, ooops, recorded this time..

Sunday, cant remember what i did, but it s just slacking till Euro 08 final. Caught the 2nd half. Good match, Torres a gem. As usual zombie the next day, lecture time table, managed to stay awake though. Chionged OCIP stuff till 2am.

Today, settled some new PW stuff and going through phase 1 of ocip. advancing pretty well. PE was quite a failure, but still had some fun with the guys and woei xin the bb pro and the up and coming star pam. I know i suck at BB, but at least there s some improvement. Econs lect was just survey doing and hang man solving. Cassandra was too bored. and i stinked up the CC, all da way till chem. papers returned, screwed up big time. maths was worse but still, Ultramen are my friends for now. Soon they ll take off, soon.. i hope. oh and i hope they take away my burnt skin too. UV rays are cruel! ouch.

17th Birthday

Ok here goes ANOTHER even longer one. :D

Mon, training, 400m, 300m 300m. Almost died. Thanks to trackers who wished me Happy Birthday. And to Dan who made me a wonderful card. Really appreciated. Went to Parkway after that and bought a couple of clothes since it s GSS.

Tue, went to Jolena s house to 'mug'. Had an interview with Mrs Grace Hahn about OCIP then had the first birthday celebration for me. Thanks Hui hui, Lois, Wei Li, Jolena, Timothy and Yong Pin for celebrating with me. I ended up spending the next couple of hours copying Jolena s lecture notes which i always miss out. And it was some Rubik s cube time, tried to do what i can for the 5 by 5. Next up was soccer at a nearby street soccer court. Played horribly, the pain was killing me totally. Should really take a long break. Shin splints are killler, about the same as the ankle injuries i sustained last year.

Went to J8 after that with Lois, Hui Hui and Tim for dinner at Food Junction (the $$$ scamming food court) And a long train ride home with Tim.

>>> Raining cats and dogs (ok, there arent any animals in the photo.)

Alighted at Tampines MRT and took a stroll to a coffeeshop just because i was craving for Roti Prata. Yep, was trapped there (above pic) and finally decided to get wet after getting fed up of waiting and wishing for the rain to stop.

Wed, 11th June 08!

Lim Pei's birthday. (lim pei = ME) heh

Suppose to have CCAB in the morn but i was horribly injured and couldnt play and they cancelled it coz it was still raining. Sorry Ming and Wei Jin and the whole gang who was there but couldnt play. EFFORT!

Anyway, met up with the usual gang at Cineleisure foodcourt. Suppose to watch Kung Fu Panda but Ying Lun wanted to play LAN or pool so we ended up walking to Meridien and played with some white dog outside a pool shop since there wasnt any tables. hahaha. a dog strolling about a shopping mall, cool.

Left the place and decided to watch Panda at the Cathay. Played Bridge while waiting for 4.30pm. Panda was pretty good, but after hearing reviews from everywhere before watching, i felt like i knew what was gonna happen so there wasnt much surprises.

After that was stoning session since we couldnt decide where to go and Ying Lun started taking pictures with my phone (again).

>>> Zi Xiang the slut. Thinks his paws are gigantic.

>>> Ting Soon the ping pong man. Our dear keeper.

>>> Reuben the 'laugher'. HAHA! My happy BRO!

>>> Jeremy the construction worker. The background is perfect! (flirtatious captain)

>>> Shawn the SEVEN. Speed demon. Beware of traffic police la.

>>> THE Noob

>>> Aha, and it s the CAMERAMAN. Ying Lun.

Went to Parklane or better known as Paradiz to play asshole dai dee. Left after a few games since i gotta meet family for dinner at Traders Hotel. (COMPLIMENTARY VOUCHERS)

>>> Really good food. Worth the money spent.

And then i was the moving backdrop of the day. Photography object.

>>> With sis and dad

>>> Aunt and Mum

>>> Mum and sis

So the expected conclusion of a hotel buffet is = happily ever after! nah. it s a bloated stomach. went home even more rituals to follow, cut another cake, open present by aunt, and of course ang pao by parents. heh.

Today, suppose to go to Yong Pin's house but i was feeling darn sick and tired. Slight fever probably due to the popcorn i ate and all the good food. But was feeling a lot better after the long sleep. Cleared my room, then went online to discuss PW with the rest since they still met up.

Did work, then surprise surprise. Guess who was at the door? my dearest PW mates who flew all the way from Sembawang to celebrate my birthday again. hahaha. THANKS A LOT PEEPS! yall are da best, wont switch for anyone else. :D

And so we had dinner together at my house and had another cut cake ceromony.

Talked a bit about PW and tata they went all the way back to the west. Thanks a million peeps, this is the most special birthday ever.

And my birthday present from the dearest people!

>>> My life revolves around a ball

That s about it! 17 years! One more year to M18 Movies, heh!

Finally managed to upload the videos.

Lois Bd! ( switch off my blog music first!)

And the Service Learning with the Marymount Kids.

The performance by them. Stopped when memory ran out.

My PW members say:

"Daryl loves pw!! :D"

Yea, sort of, coz it isnt just work, we play too. :P

THANKS CASSIE AS WELL!

A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs & replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated themselves.

B) Tag 8 people to do this quiz & those who are tagged cannot refuse. These people must state who they were tagged by & cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by.

Continue this game by sending it to other people.

If your lover betrayed you, what would your reaction be?

i ll grab the nearest knife and you know the rest of the story.

The truth is: my lover wont betray me, coz she will be a true lover handpicked by me! (i m fussy) :D

If you can have a dream to come true, what would it be?

A thousand wishes

What will your dream wedding to be like?

Grand, posh, elegant, class

Are you confused of what lies ahead of you?

Nope, i m sure The End of the World will surely approach.

What's your ideal bus ride like?

Comfortable, cosy, beautiful scenery, away from the urban

Do you have a person that you wish you will be with now?

Of course, i dun wish to be a loner.

Which is more blessed, loving someone or being loved by someone?

A relative question, NEXT!

How long do you intend to wait for someone you really love?

A lifetime.

If the person you secretly liked is already attached, what would you do?

What can i do? I should ask you that la.

Is there anything that makes you unhappy these days?

Hmm.. not really. Nothing is perfect, just accept whatever is in place.

How do you see yourself in ten years?

Watching my bank account increase continously.

Who are currently most important people to you?

Family, ass nineteeners, slayers, trackers, the bus uncle who drives bus number 8 in the afternoon and evening, the drink stall uncle who makes the best banana milk and ms ye who s gonna mark my PW.

What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?

Lovely, more energetic than chemical energetics, responsible, workaholic who knows when to play, outgoing.

Would you rather to be single and rich or married but poor?

Depends on the extent. If i m married and poor to the extent i that i cannot afford to eat and drink, i ll add the 3rd option - die. But since it s in Singapore, i rather be married but poor coz i know the cheng fu will take good care of us. Right, PAP?

What's the first thing you do when you switch on the computer?

MSN MESSENGER.

Would you give all in a relationship?

You bet i will.

If you fall in love with two person simultaneously, who would you pick?

Heads or tails. DUH. Get them to scissors paper stone is quite innovative too.

The truth: i dont know. XD

What type of friends do you have?

The type that i can say 'Friends Forever and Ever' to.

If you were given the chance to turn back time, will you?

Yep, provided the time that i turn back to doesnt have the same brain and thoughts as before

What is the last thing you would do before you die?

Thank everyone who spent time with me for the wonderful memories they gave me and not to forget, do up my obituary page.

Last words to the person who tagged you (which you have never said before).

Last words sounds like i m gonna die soon, eh cannot, havent planned my obituary page yet.

8 people to be tagged:

(who reads my blog la, difficult to come up with 8 names)

Reuben

Jeremy

Ying Lun

Eileen

Lois

Jocelyn

Samantha

Mei Wei

Sorry peeps i cant think of anyone else ald!

Track camp and Service learning

Ok here goes a long one!

Last Sat, mother's birthday, celebrated at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. (If you were wondering, i m in a loaded family, then i ll just have to say - complimentary vouchers)

Lunched at the Cafe, nice international buffet.

Checked in to one room (again, complimentary vouchers) had a nice bath, went to take a nap to get ready for adidas Sundown Marathon, held from evening to the next morning.

>>> They are quite good huh, even put the name of the guest on the TV screen

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Of course i started scanning the channels to see if there was any matches going on at that time. Hotels usually suscribe to the sports group.

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Bath, nap, took shuttle bus to Somerset MRT and trained all the way down to Tanah Merah to meet up with the rest of the volunteers. Waited for about 2 hours, collected the 'goody bag' that comprised of only one container of bun, oreo, mentos, small sponge cake, a packet of milo, whistle, and a bottle of water. FINITO! Brilliant package for sai kang workers.

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The volunteer shirt that everyone was looking forward to was plain, just red with adidas and a Sundown marathon logo. Ok not that bad, but really damn plain.

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Took the chartered bus down to Kembangan via a long long long way. Took almost an hour to reach Kembangan from Tanah Merah which is just 2 MRT stops away. Nevertheless, had a long chat with Shawn on the bus about the scheduled upcoming match against St. Gabs.

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Reached Kembangan station, changed, stocked up on food, bought a carton of milk, had some Old Chang Kee for dinner and we were dispatched to our stations. I ended up stationed at Changi Road, just at the traffic light and Ying Lun was on the other side of the road. But he ended up coming over very often after being bombarded with questions from curious bystanders.

>>> And here s a pic taken by the restless Ying Lun. (using my phone again)

The route was long, 42km and 84km, and it took about 2hours plus for the first runner of the Ultra Marathon to pass me. It was some Caucasian who was like sprinting a 400m.

>>> I was somewhere near the 25km mark, around 24.

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about 12am and a steam of runners start chionging in. It wasnt that bad coz there was only 310 participants for the Ultra Marathon. And at 1 plus, 2 Nigerians galloped past to lead for the 42km run. They were striding like at almost 4m/s. Nuts. Made friends with the Cisco guards who were in charge of controlling the traffic on Changi Road. They were pretty nice people, just that they whine too much on their job.

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I wasnt really sure of what my job was, but i just did as my instinct told me, to warn the officers that runners are coming, and to encourage the runners as they go past, more importantly direct them across the road. As the 42km runners came by, i was cheering non-stop for the runners, ditto for ying lun and shawn on the other side. Throat hoarse, ran out of water, ran out of milk, ran out of food, ran out of entertainment, i had to resort to playing with the stray cat. haha.

>>> The result of boredom.

Didnt know i could be as tired as the runners, sat there, almost fell asleep around 5 plus am but managed to stay awake to see an occassional runner come by. There s this satisfaction when you cheer for them and they reply with a smile of at least a nod. Some even said thanks.

>>> A runner coming in almost at 6am.

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And there came the drizzle, and rain at 6 plus, almost 7. Had to rush to get my poncho and go back there. Fatigue and hunger stacked in. Endured till 7 plus and we were finally called to leave the stations and meet at Kembangan MRT. Trained down to Orchard and grabbed a hotcakes breakfast meal at Great World Macs before going back to the hotel for a deserved 3 hour plus sleep. Got up, checked out, ate something, went back slept all da way till 7 plus. Went back to sleep soon after dinner.

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Mon, track camp. Reached school early to organise the FPSP stuff and my locker and met the rest at the gallery at 8. Briefing, broke into groups, warmup, games, bunked in, more games, soccer lunch, soccer till burnt, but the highlight was PLANKS that was pure sadistic, caused abrasion to most people s arms. Record for forward planks - 10min 48 seconds. Salute!

Training, 1 800m, 2 600m, 3 400m. Did pretty well, earned the praise of Ms Tan. (even beat Nelson once, woohoo) Dinner, and a fun treasure hunt before the day finally ended.

Set up base(bed) with all the camping in classrooms experience i had, and went off to La la land. Woke up at 7 plus next morning to a string of complains about not being able to sleep properly, too much snoring, floor too hard etc. Heh, the anti-snoring device (mp3) was good afterall, first time trying it out though!

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Morning, games, water bomb war, captains ball with all kinds of balls like rugby, medicine ball, tennis ball, net ball etc. Lunch, stick man making (track tradition) and a long afternoon of bridge with Leon, Wei Xuan, Ying Lun and MA Liang. haha. Crazy training up next. Warmed up 2 rounds in 4 min, 100 push ups, 250 crunches, up and down the 100m track 5 times, 50 pull ups, up and down the 100m track 6 times, 5 min static chair, 100 jumping jacks, another 2 rounds in 5 min, 50 crunches, 50 push ups, another 2 rounds, piggy back to and fro the 100m track and finally cool down 1 round. Totally crazy. Arms ache, legs ache, cramps, after the whole thing.

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But it was slack after that, phototaking and dinner out. Most went for zhi char, while the SJI peeps went to Macs. Took a long detour back and it was debrief, R and R. About 10 went to play BB at night while the walking dead (me) slacked around the class, took a bath and oinked.

Next day packed up, clean up, breakfast, go home, sleep.

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Thursday, Service learning at Marymount Convent area. Met up with Timothy, Gabriel and Diana at the centre. Then took the bus down to some home at Geylang where the kids are suppose to perform and do some area cleaning there.

>>> The performance

Blogger and Youtube sucks. cant upload the video.

After that, we went to Bedok Interchange for lunch. The kids are only given like $10 bucks for 6 people to spend on food. I was kind enough to contribute $1.50 of Chwee Kueh 6 pieces of treasure to their table, and they ended up abandoning me, leaving my bag there all alone and walk away when i was having my lunch at another table. HMMMPPPHHFF. The p5s and 6s are so boring! Next up we went to a block of flats in Bedok to give out free bread door to door.

>>> It stinks by the way.

Fun was coming at Bedok Reservior. They started out playing some lame Sea Urchin game and the fun came in only when the running began. The new game was some thing like the bio concept, peptidyl thing. 3 people in one group, then there s one runner and catcher. the catcher have to catch the runner but the runner can join a group and the person on the other side of the group have to dispatch and be the runner instead. The kids really wanted to run and that was the fun.

After that game, it was free and easy and some went to the playground while some stayed at the original ground to play catching. The finale was damn scary coz the whole group starting chasing after me. It s like a small group of people chasing a thief and when more people see, more join. In the end there was almost 15 of them chasing me. At least i hung on for quite long, didnt tarnish SA Track's reputation. :p

Took the bus back to the centre after that, and with some commendation, i left the place for training back at SA.

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Was late for half hour, warmed up, 120 m strides 10 sets, 50m lunges 4 sets. pretty slack, but after the camp, it wasnt really quite slack.

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Had a self-initiated timed 400m run and set a personal best so far with 61 seconds. It s gonna get better, i know it. Next target: 59 sec.

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After training, all went on a high and started sprinting 100m. Yep and i had another personal best fo 12.72s. Shawn s spikes rocks.

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After everything, left SA for Dhobby Ghaut with Shawn and Ying Lun to have dinner at Carl s Junior and movie at The Cathay. 10.10 Narnia show. Pretty good, nice fighting scenes. Ended about 12.30 and cabbed home, heart pain struck, $20 lost to the taxi driver.

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Fri, slept till 1 plus, had lunch cleared up, got scolded by parents for going out so often and left for National Library to meet up with Lois for PW. Did some work before Yong Pin joined us and filled our ears with his 4 day camp stories.

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Left the library for City Hall, Esplanade to film some scenes for our video.

>>> On the roof top of Esplanade

>>> Esplanade Library dance studio

Nice place to be in. Ambience check, temperature check, accessibility check. Saw CJ facil having a date there as well. Didnt wanna disturb them, or rather hum ji.

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Left for Marina Square for dinner at food court. Took a long time to decide what to eat. Had a plate of duck rice and a bowl of Ban Mian in the end. Rawrr.. I'm hungry!!

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Went home with parents after that, wonderful week spent, horrible mugging week coming up.

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****Special thanks to Lois and Hui Hui for covering my duties for PW while i'm busy doing other crazy stuff*********

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Tags replies

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Ying, Reuben - Yea i dunno. Honestly

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Lois - Yep wedges was good. PW is indeed eating time. Holidays = Sleep

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Hui Hui - Ya, must really save $$$ ald, spending too much. Next time onniee food court.

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Ds - HARLOW HA!

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Jeremy - I want that A!