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!

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.