Sad

Feeling real sad now. Thanks to Maths common tests. A Maths was bad. I had the most confidence in the subject coz i practised a lot of it but in the end only got 21/40. Screwed up. Cant believe just 3 careless mistakes cost me 10 marks. It s a chain reaction. For 3 questions, i got the first part wrong because of stupid mistakes like eg. 2y-x=4 also equals to y=-0.5x+2. Just one bloody minus sign screwed the question up. I could have gotten 30 + /40 if not for these mistakes. E Maths is worse.

The first question for E Maths is about some speed question. I tried to apply what i learned from A Maths and to be careful. Ok, careful i was. Every step i wrote, i checked. But the first question, i made another mistake but managed to see it and change but had to change all the other parts as well. That question wasted about 10 or 15min of a 45 min paper. Then i looked at the clock. Oops. Shit, no time ald. I started to panic, but look at the question, easy vectors. Do do do. Until the second last part. See the question like got problem. Just right, Mr. Dominic Ang came in and say got a mistake in the question. I looked at the clock and this time, really panicked. I was feeling damn hot but my hands were freezing. Left with about 15 min. I spent half an hour on less than 2 questions!!! Did the transformation qn,drew the rectangle and saw reflection line y=x. I was trying to do as fast as possible and made a blunder. I thought x=0 and drew the line and screwed everthing up. I was panicking real bad. And continued to make stupid careless mistakes and then the 3rd part of the question, i realised my transformation was out of the graph paper!!! Omg, i realised i m screwed. It was ald 45min. I skipped that and moved to the easier next 2 questions and again again. Carelessness!!!! Angle got it wrong and then i did the final trigo qn but couldnt finish. at least i could do it without making mistakes. The invigilatot was Mr Lam and he was kind enuff to give us extra 5 min due to the mistake. At the end, i knew i was screwed and calculated minus about 15 marks and was ald prepared for the worse. Never in my life i got so pathetic results for E Maths. 18/40.

I finally know my problem but i dunno how to solve it.

Problem: When make a mistake, either waste time to correct it OR forget about it and minus marks. When time wasted, panic and make more mistakes. Damn

i thought this time, sciences might save me. I spent more time on sciences than other subjects. Physics i didnt expect to get so low, 22.5/40. Left last page blank and made quite a number of mistakes in MCQ. Damn stupid.

Phy problem: Always make mistake in MCQ and always spend the most time in this section, leaving section B less time.

Bio is next. This one is decent. The paper was pretty easy and i excelled in MCQ. 13/15. first time. seems like my problem for bio is Section B gotta mug in more detail and get the key points.

Havent know Chem and Humanities. But for Chem i think can pass. I could do almost all the questions in ease. I scared careless again. Humanities i screwed up SS. Only did 1 inference and 2nd question 1st part. Can only amass like max 6 marks/12. Thats considered good compared to some others. I did geog section first. So i vomitted everthing out and hope to hit the right key point. Shouldnt be bad. 70% chance pass. Hope i m right.

Enought of common tests. They caused so much problems. And thanks to them, i have made up my mind and WILL STICK TO IT. I have been quite lenient with myself with the rules i made at the start of the year. BUT this time i m serious. Dead serious. NO COM, NO SOCCER street and field. TV 1 hour max a day except Wed or Thur (barclay EPL highlights may tape). Maybe slot in another half hour to watch Chinese News at 10 to improve chinese. Got those subtitles there so will be helpful.

Sorry soccer peeps. I m OFFICIALLY retiring from football after the last match against Unity people in 2 weeks. And i will never visit the street soccer court unless got some NCC thingy or sth else. I may allow myself to play again maybe for a short while if there s inter unit. That s ALL. I m not gonna jeopardize my future because of something called a BALL.

wef after last Team Slayers match.

On the final note, i would like to first apologize to Team Slayers if they have a match and i m not present and also to soccer maniacs and frequent visitors of the SJI street soccer court as i would bluntly turn you down if you ask me to visit that place again.

Sorry

Sorry blog, for not updating for such a long time. Many things had happened. Common tests ended and i think i screwed up both my maths and humanities. Sciences should be ok. Went to play soccer last wednesday and friday. Really enjoyed myself when playing against sec 1s on wed as i was pretty good in goal. but didnt really enjoy on fri after CNY celebrations. Was really suck outfield. maybe lost touch or form or whatever. maybe too tired. anyway, went to nanyang pri then ccab thanks to a failed plan. ccab was damn hot. came back sun burnt. couldnt play properly. had some what of a routine arguement with yl. wasnt too happy with a challenge on ming. after that went back sji to watch rugby match but rained and ended up playing soccer on 3rd level foyer. damn fun. left school around 6.30.

the next day was CNY eve but just spent the day at home then at night went to grandma house to have steamboat. watched matches then went home played fifa 07 until 6am. it was to 'shou sui' some tradition. anyway slept until 1pm next day. then go back grandma house to eat lunch and gamble blackjack. played boggle and scrabble as well. this few days havent been much fun. but it s good that it s stressless and it gives me a break. i ll try to change the skin asap.

Inter class

hmm, a weird time to blog. suppose to blog on sun but has no time. was thinking about what ying lun said that the interclass was tyco. then i remembered my p6 inter class was just as tyco. last time it was worse, we didnt even had a proper goal post and used cones instead. my class played average and everyone were defenders and the captain told me to be the sole striker. throughout the whole tournament, i hardly had a solo run or a clear shot on target. i was more of a DM than the suppose striker. hence, we defended and defended and did not even concede a goal, but neither did we score. so all the knock out matches ended up with penalties and we got through all the way to the finals. we practised penalties before the tournament and had more confidence scoring through that. During that match, we still defended and with one of the clearance, i ran for the loose ball and went one on one with the keeper. but the opponent defenders was closing up on me and under pressure, i shot wide. what a waste. in the end the match ended up with penalties and we lost when my friend curled the ball above the cone but seemed to have gone in before curling out. Anyway, we managed to go so far just by defending. with a record of 0 F, 0 A. feel like laughing when i thought about the past. at least it is more interesting, a new tactic.

anyway back to the present, went to dempsey on sat again this time to referee matches. okay la.. so so . average. made maybe a couple controversial decisions but dun think it should have affected the matches that much. this week quite ordinary but had the chinese oral again. didnt prepare much enough but manage to pass it. teacher was a bit pissed at times when i spend more than a few seconds trying to arrange my thoughts or find the right word. other than that, had bio test and didnt do too well cuz didnt read and do qn properly. maths was not bad. got maybe 4th in class? ok blah blah... common test coming up next week. better mug then can slack for a few days during CNY!

Week 4

A bit late to blog this time. But there s nothing much to blog about. The past week have been quite boring. Failed Chinese bi-weekly again. This time by 1 mark. Maybe can try to find the one mark tomorrow when get back the paper. I think i finally caught up with the class pace for maths. Had been lagging for quite a while. Rate of change and the new approximate change topic. Gonna mug geog soon. Worried that ho will test and wooried i would not know anything until the week before common test. So have to mug. Had a maths test on vectors last friday. Wasted quite a bit of time on the easy first question. I think i might still make some careless mistakes. Didnt finish last part. Got stuck. I think that should be all for studies.

CCA, got promoted officially to 1st Sergeant. Got the rank. That means gotta sew it on plus the cookie aka Army NCC badge. Then got the badge holder and stuff. Damn, havent got my marksmanship badge yet. The nicest of all. Sec 1s coming soon ald, maybe gotta plan some stuff.

To conclude, it s a boring week. But good for me, coz i dun wanna be too busy. need sleep.

Franatic week

Woohoo. It has been an eventful week that ended on a high today. Before i blog about today, as usual, i will start from the beginning which is Monday. Cant remember what happened that day. But i think it should be quite boring. But i think I played street after school hoping to train for inter class soccer. The rain stopped and started. I think we played with either sec 1s or 424 people. Cant remember. Sian la, the whole week, the bloody maths teacher keep giving so many homework, assignment 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 all in ONE week. Wth. 1,2,3 she gave last week but she said we are not ready to do any vector questions yet so dun do first. Wa lao then on Monday she say hand in. Crazy sia. Ok, enough of this crazy maths teacher. Chinese, failed the bi-weekly test by 3 marks and got screwed by the teacher because oral was too suck. Chinese was bad for me, actually the whole class. Aiya, female teachers really suck. Always got all these mood swings, one day happy next day not. Cant predict lor. In the end we suffer. That s why its called MENstruation and MENopause. ok maybe a bit lame. Chinese and Humanities teacher both like that. At least Bio is the best, Mr. Lim has never been that crazy. Tue stayed back to train the cadets for the Sec 1 UG orientation for the last time. Sian. Reached home, hardly even did any homework then fell asleep. It has been the same all week. Especially when doing maths. Read the question, then fall asleep. Wake up, try to do then fall asleep. Wa lao cant even do a thing. Wed, stayed back to do the oral thingy and got scolded. After that went to help do the last minute preparation for the orientation thing again. Then i think played soccer for a while before going home. Thur was the real thing, the sec one ug orientation. Did the IFC (individual fieldcraft) had to explain what the hell it is about. The rain spoiled everything. The tent we set up was always collecting water on the roof. Ok nvm, left it there to rot for the rest of the night. Friday was a bit boring. Even training, i had nothing to do just slack in hq, even managed to sleep. haha. Cleaned up a bit but nothing else.

Aha, now to the BIG day! Secondary 4 Inter-Class Soccer Tournament 2007. Yea, this is what the slayers in 435 have been waiting for since the previous inter class. Slept early the night before, about 10.30pm after packing bag. Reached there about 7.40am. Met up with the gang and started kicking around and warm up. Mr. Arul gave a short briefing then we kicked off the tournament. We had 423 and 431 in our group. Difficult opponents. Both teams have excellent attack and that means i will be very busy at right-back.

Match 1 [423-pitch 2] [2-3] - Shawn 2, Zi Xiang 1

I was pretty worried for this one coz there s people like William, Brandon, Sebastian and Jian Xun. 2 good dribblers and 2 trackers. The game kicked off with playing quite well and soon scored the first goal through Shawn. But then Edgar scored from edge of box thanks to a mistake by Ting Soon as keeper.Cant blame him la, the ball was slippery and he wore the gloves for the first time.It was a soft shot and a soft goal. Soon, 423 scored again. Cant really remember the goal but i think it was a strong outer foot drive by some player, quite similar to shawn's goal.At that time i was thinking whether our run will end just here? All the planning and yearning all for nothing? Just as everything seemed over, we had a corner and Shawn drove it a curling ball. Chien Ming was up there but decided not to touch it but leave it for Zi Xiang but in the end both did not touch it and the keeper was fooled totally when the ball just curled into the net. woohoo. 2-2. My mind was preparing for the final whistle but then Zi Xiang broke free of the 423 defence on the left and rammed it towards goal which the goalkeeper blocked but the rebound was smashed back in by the initial shooter. It was the last kick of the game as the game ended 2-3 when the ref blew the whistle soon after the restart. Cant belive it.

Match 2 [431-pitch 2] [1-1] Zi Xiang 1

i thought this was just as bad as we had to face trackers like Leslie and Francis. but other than that, they were no big threat. I was damn tired after running up and down during the first match. So after challenging a few times with the 2 trackers, i was subbed out. We gave Alwyn, Kevin and Jun Kai some playing time. Zi Xiang scored as usual and i thought we going to score more as the 431 defenders were all unfit scholars. But Leslie put on an outstanding display by sprinting up and down the pitch countless times and saving their blushes. He continued to trouble our defence with his speed and dribbling and resulted in a corner. Zi Xiang challenged Leslie for the ball in the box by sliding from the front and hooking the ball clear but then the crazy referee gave a penalty! Wth! I cant believe it. At that time, i was really very helpless as i wanted to go on the pitch and help Chien Ming and Reuben out. They were constantly troubled by Leslie. Ming even resorted to rough tactics by taking Leslie down countless times. Luckily the ref didnt dare to go against Ming. haha. The game ended 1-1 as leslie scored the penalty.Ming was pissed and started shouting vulgarities and kicking the dustbin. (haha, he injured his ankle because of that.) The teacher heard and scolded him. Anyway, we were all pissed and hoped for the best to get through.

Interval

We were bored when our first 2 matches were over. but anxious as the decisive match was being played. The match determined who gets in the winners pool.
We had 1 Draw, 1 Win, Scored 4, Concede 3, GD +1, 4 points.
423 had 1 Lose, Scored 2, Concede 3, GD -1, 0 points.
431 had 1 Draw, Scored 1, Concede 1, GD 0, 1 point.
423 vs 431.

If 423 win or draw, we get through. but if they lose, and 431 win by 2 goals, we are out. Of course we smart people will will cheer for 423, the team we beat. So, we were shouting and celebrating when 423 was in a good position, scored goals, or even win tackles. It was unbelievable as Leslie missed 3 clear cut chances. He should have scored all 3 for his standard. But the keeper saved one, one went out and one whacked the crossbar real hard. So 423 hung on for a victory at 3-2.
And so, we were through! Against 424.

Match 3 [424-pitch 4] 0-0, penalties 4-3

This was it. If you remembered reading further up, i mentioned about 424. We played against them in street and thrashed them. So this would be an easy one. Thats what WE thought. It was far from it. They were good. And Colin together with Jun Kai from 424 were the threats. I was exhausted chasing them. But at least i managed to hold them and the match ended 0-0. As it was the semi finals, we had to find a winner. Penlaties would settle it. And it was sudden death.

Shawn-missed 0-0
Opp.-saved 0-0
Zi Xiang-GOAL 1-0
Opp.-GOAL 1-1
Ming-saved 1-1
Opp.-missed 1-1
Ying Lun-missed 1-1
Opp.-missed 1-1
Me-GOAL 2-1
Opp.-GOAL 2-2
Reuben-GOAL 3-2
Opp.-GOAL 3-3
Shawn-missed 3-3
Opp.-GOAL [disallowed coz whistle wasnt blown yet]
Opp.-missed 3-3
Zi Xiang-GOAL 4-3
Opp.-missed 4-3 [WE ARE IN THE FINALS]

It was really nail biting. 8 penalties. Goal after goal, miss after miss. Shawn missed twice and was totally upset. We were lucky the ref didnt blow the whistle but Jun Kai scored the nice penalty and disallowed it. But so many misses shows the quality of the players, in terms of composure. Anyway, we were damn damn happy that we even hugged and taupok one another, Ting Soon took the initiative by saving the first shot, or else we would be out right from the beginning.

Match 4 [426-pitch 4] (0-1) Zi Xiang 1

This was it! What we have been waiting for as i mentioned above. This was the best match of all. We started pretty well and it all paid off with a goal. I made a couple of long balls to Ying Lun and Shawn and it seem threatening to the opponents. I was facing LM cum LB Rahim. But soon, Ying Lun sprint down the flank and put in a difficult cross but a fantastic one that Zi Xiang with all his predatory and clinical instinct of a striker, made an awesome diving header right in front of the 426 goal and there it was , 0-1!!! We were delighted and didnt expect to score that fast. But soon, we were all scrambling to clear the ball when Ying Lun was subbed out. Our game changed to defensive and we had all 7 players in our own half most of the time. Alwyn came on as a striker while the rest defended and pumped hopeful long balls. 426 were angry at themselves for being behind and wanted to get back on level terms by attacking like crazy. It almost paid off with crosses as Nicholas had a chance to score but Ting Soon did extremely well to tip it away from goal onto the crossbar and recovered to hold the loose ball. We were frantically trying to clear every ball that rolled near our box. Ming even rammed the ball into the forest, causing protests from the opponents. However, Ming did the right thing when he headed cross after cross away from our box. Whether it was a driven cross or a looping one or a low one, he cleared it. And one clearance ended as corner. With few seconds remaining, almost all the 426 players came into our box hoping for a last gasp equalizer. The ball came floated in and there was Ruddy jumping like a menacing lion at the penalty spot and headed the ball with power and accuracy to the top right of our goal. I thought we lost it when i could do nothing about it as the ball was too fast. But then, a miracle happened. Ting Soon jumped out of nowhere and dived with a full stretched body to get his fingers to it. I immediately brought the ball away from the box towards the touchline but was brought down by Rahim who was chasing me. After rolling a few times on the ground, i heard the whistle once. I thought ya, it s a foul, ref, blow it. But then, there was a second whistle, and a third long one. The game ended. We WON the tournament! Sec 4 soccer champions!

After that we were so happy and celebrated by going JJ house to bathe and eat Macs. Did maths project while the rest played maple. Then left for home at 4. What a day for me. I dun think i can ever forget the joy and happiness i experienced during the semi finals when the opponent missed the last penalty. We were hugging each other, patting each other's backs and giving everyone a high five. I remember Ting Soon crossing himself when the penalties ended. this shows how much it mean to us, yes to us 435...

New skin

Yo all, as promised, i changed my skin and am gonna blog a post longer than the previous one. Jeremy's right spend quite some time changing skin. Dun even know exactly why i chose this skin. Was quite fed up after trying to find the perfect one, so maybe too pissed ald so anyhow choose. Anyway may change again sometime la, when i find the time.

So where should i start? This week has been quite interesting. But very tiring. Stayed back almost everyday for NCC. And also kicked ball to get my feel back in time for inter-class. After all that preparations, i had a set back. When i was practising my headers at home, i accidentally rammed my right smallest toe on the edge of the bed. ouch. At first i didnt realise how bad it was coz it s not uncommon for me to knock things and get myself injured. Almost everyday i will have an injury on me, damn suay. But then when i sat down to do my hw, i realised the pain was still there after many minutes. So i looked down and saw the entire toe covered with blood. haha. Only then i started to worry. Went to wash the blood off and realised the nail was broken into 2 (again), and the broken nail cut the flesh under it. There s also some bruise. Sian, a week before interclass and i get this. Hopefully it will be better by next saturday.

The whole week was quite franatic as i had quite a lot of work to do. Almost all subjects just started on a new topic and i had quite a hard time trying to fully understand all the concepts. At least i managed to revise the topics everyday after i reach home and read the textbook. By contributing more time to study, i still need to sacrifice sleep. Aiya, i guess i really need to speed up my actions. Dun be too slow. Had been sleeping at 2, 3 am this week, but yesterday was different. Reached home at 8 after cca, ate, lay on the floor, slept, all the way until 4.30am. Woke up realising i havent bathe! hahaha. lucky didnt sweat much that day or else i will stink myself to death and no one will find out until the morning. haha. anyway, washed up and did some hw until 6 then watch tv, had breakfast until 9 then use com. now starting to feel tired, damn, it s a long day ahead.

Yesterday at training, i had to sort of tour the potential sec 1s who wanna join NCC. So, just showed them around and showed them what the sec 2 and 3 do. Asked a lot of stupid questions and got this irritating fellow who kept making so much noise and uttered rubbish while hogging the rifle running up and down pretending to be soldier who ran amok preventing others from touching the gun. Sia la, hope he never ever appear in my sight again. Cant believe there are sec 1s like that. Dun remember myself being like that. there were 8 people who were interested and only 3 out of the 8 talked. i think i was like one of the 5 who just shut their mouths and listen. That s the way a sec 1 should be, isnt it? anyway beside the tyrant is another irritating indian. at least he wasnt as bad as the other shortie. however, the last of the 3 who actually spoke was someone i admired. I couldnt believe it myself, for admiring a sec 1. This person was about 3 heads shorter than me but he seemed very knowledgeable. I heard he's name is joel from 104. he is like so innocent and well behaved. At the same time, he might just be more mature than some of my classmates. cant describe much anymore, maybe i can add the word 'cute'? he s like an ideal younger brother and son. haha.

Dunno why i talk so much about this junior, maybe i lack the company of a younger brother and suddenly yearn for how it feels. This reminds me of what bio teacher Mr. Lim said about single son families. The boy goes for NS but will never be a commando or special task force person. Coz when accidents happen, the family's surname stops there. oops blog too long ald. should save some words for the next post. that s all folks. signing off.

First week

Sorry peeps. Didnt have enough time to blog. Really have a lot of homework and need to read the textbooks. And spent the whole of Saturday with family doing some chores and improving the house. Spent hours doing physics hw. Then went to Jack's Place to have dinner coz tml is sis's bd. Havent got any present. Maybe tml.

Feeling sad that liverpool is out of FA Cup. Anyway i m hoping Man U and Chelsea will continue to slip up and liverpool can then try for the title. That s the main goal. The rest is not the pirioty. Ok gtg, I ll try to blog longer next weekend.

2007

Hello 2007! Bye 2006! 2006 has been one of the most eventful year of all my 15 years so far. I dun wanna do what jeremy or reuben did by naming everything that happened in all the months. (anyway my memory aint too good heh) However, 2006 is one of the worst years i ever had. in terms of academic results. i must confess i left so many things to the last minute to study and revise. even to the day before the exam, i had some concepts i never had the total grasp. 2006 is the craziest year of my life when soccer or football as some calls it, invaded and took control of my mind. i went amok with just a simple object - a ball. it all started with ying lun- the person that made the biggest impact on me this year. the one word he said changed my 2006. "Newcastle"

I will forever remember the word he said. from then on, reuben and i were talking so much of the EPL, and soccer with him and soon he introduced the second person who made a significant impact on my 2006 - jeremy. he's the mastermind behind Team Slayers. something that changed me forever. A group of aspiring footballers that always seem to fail and falter in the hands of the opponents, but we picked ourselves up and brought our pride back by beating an ex-Slayer who gave up on us.

I spend hours trying to find out how to win, trying to make full use of all the players in the squad and fit into formations. Something had to pay, something had to be sacrificed if i spent so much time on soccer. and that had to be studies. Another significant thing is FIFA 06 and 07. Virtual soccer took up a lot of my time, and my energy. it made me push my homework to the night and in the end, my homework ate into my sleeptime. In the end, my sleep had to pay the price, in the end my energy was zapped. i seemed to have adapted to this weird body clock. However, i realised that i m no robot. I m HUMAN. i need sleep and rest. I spend a lot of time stoning in class. A word spoken so often when i m around with friends. in fact, i m really tired. Sometimes i cannot take it and sleep in class. Usually, the affected classes would be either the first lesson or the lessons after reccess. Usually Humanities, Chem and Chinese. I wouldnt dare sleep during Physics- Lam. my chem had to pay. it s the worse subject i had, the lowest score, the least understanding. Even if i dun sleep, i couldnt concentrate. i tried my best to compensate by revising on my own during the weekends but i failed. I always sleep until around noon and would be too sick to study. i would spend hours doing hw and in the end couldnt revise much, sometimes nothing at all if i go out.

i always did consitent work all my life until this year. I pushed all to the last minute and it turned out too late. i really wanna thank Ying Lun for offering to help me one month before the FYE, and i wanna thank Reuben for helping me with things that i dun understand i take a lot of time to understand, thank him for his patience and being a confidant. I would like to thank Shawn, for brushing up my soccer skills so much. I was really a noob. Thanking him again for his patience and allowing me so much time touching the ball, allowing me the time to practise. Finally, i would like to thank Jeremy for everything he did for the team and me. We spend hours maybe days on the phone, sometimes i even share secrets and things that i never mentioned. Thanks for being such a great friend. It s really a miracle that 2 people (i dun mean a couple in a relationship) can become so close in a matter of months. Hope we will ALL keep in touch even when miles set us apart. Tampines and Choa Chu Kang. Haha. How many miles have i travelled this year? and how many hours i spend on the road, the train trying to gather with my friends? it s worth it. i hope they think so too and appreciate my company.

Dear Friends, thank you for everything!

Now, what i intend to do this year. I would wanna learn from all my mistakes i made in 2006. having a good beginning will prove to end the year well. I plan to devote 2007 to my studies. Sorry jeremy, cant talk to you so much on the phone now... I plan to sleep well! i plan to PLAN my time well, not a timetable but a mental one. I hope to have the will power to keep me going for this 11 months. Endurance is what i need.

The first step i m going to make is to quit FIFA 07. Delete it from my com and lock the disc up. (Reuben, i finally gave up on sundayleague, remove it from my favourites)

I m gonna limit myself to only use the com during the weekends. Weekdays is a strict no-no.

i m gonna exercise regualarly, maybe 3 times a week to keep myself fit for NAPFA and from sickness (i hate falling sick)

I must always do my homework first. and revise what has been taught everyday... do more maths practise to improve my maths.

And all that adds up to blogging only once a week. Sorry guys, but it also tells you that you dun have to visit this site on weekdays.

For now, i shall play the last match of FIFA 07. It will all be derbies! Thanks for spending your precious time reading about my life and thanks for making 2006 so special for me. :D

Dead

i m not sure whether i m gonna die soon. Haha 8 essays. Let s see how many days? 4? 2 a day can finish but just cant find the mood to do. Started on 2 but all intro only. I m gonna do a bit more later before sleeping. Ok, enuff of the sad news. Went to bugis today. Went to OG first coz sis's shoe spoil, so need to buy new one. Bought ald then went to bugis street. You know, the chaotic place... noisy, smokey, squeezy. Sell pirated cheap stuff. haha. not really all pirated la but just that most of the things you dun see outside and the brands are unheard of. some may not even have brands. Anyways, went there not for the brand. it s for design. wanted to get a bag, mostly for school. Aimed an adidas sling with some funny light blue colour flap but design was not bad. wanted to buy at $55 but parents say too small. ok lor then didnt buy. so in the end didnt buy anything from bugis street.

next went to marina square to have dinner. standard. last time, before they renovated, everytime go to the foodcourt eat the sphagetti plus egg on hotplate. it s nice. but then after renovation, the shop didnt exist. so end up eating the highly rated duck stall's food. many say the duck there is outstanding but i dun see much of a diff, maybe they add something extra like sauce or pepper but the rice or noodle also quite ordinary. anyways ate duck rice then went walking from shop to shop to find suitable bag. I planned to buy 3 things....

1. Sling bag that can use for both school and outing.
2. Shoes that can use for street soccer, badminton and outing.
3. Normal plain flip-flap black wallet. (sick of being the childish kid carrying Velcro OP or Billabong wallet)

So i just kept looking but parents said most no practical, too small etc. Then in the end went to wallet shop. Finally found one suitable one. It looks like Chien Ming's bag (may be the same one) but they have many bags of the same design and cutting but diff words on it. It just a black MYUK sling bag with a phrase i dun understand on the flap shaped like crumpler.

ok, happy happy buy that one $29, on discount. Wanted to buy wallet also but see the price can die. $33. Also MYUK, dunno what it stands for or what it means. (my UK? someone who knows plz tag) wallet more ex then bag. didnt think that it was suitable to buy that but then later father told me wallets were on 50% discount! So it s only about $16.50. Damn. nvm, see how next time can go look again. Anyway nearby got one pasar malam about to start. can buy some cheapo brandless wallet there.

Finally, about the shoes. My total 90 soles about to come off ald. The side wearing off due to ramming of ball. The colour changing from greyish white to black. (but not as bad as reuben's heehee). ok anyway wanted to buy wei ian and jethro's shoes not bad. ok gtg liao. bye

Match

yay! A victory finally. 5-2. And i scored, that s the icing to the cake. We played ok, not outstanding. Just blogged on team blog. Super long report. Dunno who will read. haha. ok nvm, talk about today. Went to school for the sec 1 registration, had to sell uniform. Spent about 7 hours taking uniform. Quite slack. but no pay, no CIP hours, no attendance might as well dun go. Nvm, anyway, met Shawn in school do chem hw. I left only mole questions actually can hand in lor, but didnt coz belmond and shawn didnt. Then went to tanglin cafe to eat lunch and slack with Shawn. Took car home. Father wanted to try out route for next year coz sis go sec school ald so need need to make transport plans. Went home sleep almost immediately. Damn Damn tired. Slept total of only 5 hours in 2 days. That is 5 hours out of 48 hours. Crazy rite. If you know me well, you will know i m crazy... haha

No time!!!

Ok hi, havent been blogging too often. Too busy either doing hw, go out, people using the com or playing fifa. Anyways, went to Courts and Ikea Tampines yesterday. Damn crowded. Just happen to go there coz no other place to go. Just realized recently that I m screwed. Got about 8 esssays to do, 1 more chem paper, maths independent learning and memorise some Chinese thing. Dead man. Only left about 1 week plus to finish up hw and play my fifa until season 15. Not gonna play that next year ald. Gotta mug until the end of Os. Father dun allow to play soccer anymore. Say end of 2006 have to hang up boots ald. Damn sad, so must play to my best this coming match or matches!

Short one

This will be a short one. Went to CCAB to play soccer and sort of train for the match. Intended to play on field but the cleaner who was cleaning the toilet didnt allow us to carry the posts on the field. Dun even know why on earth is he in charge. Anyway went to basketball court to play instead as both netball courts are taken. Then the security guard this time, together with another cleaner, didnt allow us to play there. I was getting pissed. Kena chased here and there and didnt get to play. I also felt bad as i was the one who initially suggested field and caused reuben to only bring studded boots, cant play street. Anyway, we managed to play street with the ACS barker and some others. Kicked around on field then went to Lot 1 for lunch then to Shawn's house. Watched TV, and then DeathNote then went home. Took LRT to CCK. Suppose to meet father at Bukit Panjang but went to take MRT. hahaha. Forgot there s no such thing as BP MRT station. Too bad lor. Went to Bukit Gombak instead then met father. Finally went home.

Boring

Yesterday i had a shock call. Yea a phone call. Unexpected caller. Actually to be honest not unexpected. The day before, i was lying in bed thinking whether this fellow will call me. Yep, i got it right. He called. Who is it? Who else... Chem teacher lor. Didnt hand up hw by 30th Nov. Sort of expected him to chase. Anyways, i told him i will hand up today and i did. At around 4 plus. Then went out to Orchard went family.

Thinking about calls. I got this phobia. About unexpected phone calls. i think its spooky. I remembered sometime in Febuary this year, around 5am, there was this call. my mother answered it and started crying. you never know what's going on outside if you are looking at only the receiver's expression. it can be something you never even thought about it before. The call that morning was from my aunt who told my mother that her father my grandfather is going to pass away, holding on for the last few minutes. My mother then rushed to the hospital. Hiya, today i had a taste of that feeling again. Not that something bad happened, just that an unexpected call out of the blue start ringing will always make me try to anticipate and get ready for the worst. I have many ageing relatives. My grandmother is 90 + years old, even i cant remember the exact age. It s scary dun you think? Anything can happen, anywhere, anytime. My eldest aunt reaching 70 seems weak and sick. Everytime my mother answer a call and keep silent for a while, remind me of the Febuary morning. I only feel relieve after she start to talk about some other topic.

Ok back today. Went to Orchard walk here and there waste time, exercise legs thats about it. There s little you can do in Orchard other than walk and waste time, at least that s my opinion...

Summary

Ok, it s time for a summary for the entire week. it has been a busy week really.

Monday- went to play soccer at CCAB in the morning. I felt my touch is back. I really had the feel of the ball and suddenly had the ability to dribble and evade challenges. I always knew my weakness is my dribbling and ball control. The other attributes for soccer is fairly good. Eg. shooting, crossing, passing etc. Now i can cross the ball without ramming at the person's head. My shooting had been improving lately, power and accuracy all returning. I need to work on my heading and dribbling, otherwise, i think i shld be fine.

Went home, accompanied grandmother the whole day then went home sleep.

Tuesday- Went out with cousin together with family. Went to eat Botak Jones at Clementi. It was good for me (not for jer). i thought it was cheap and good. Value for money. It s western and was started by a botak american. He has other branches at tuas and amk. I ate rib eye steak which was unique, not the kind you can find anywhere. So, i recommend you to go try. The portion is quite a lot and worth it esp at this price. Can go search Botak Jones to find their website to find out more about them.

After lunch, went to taka to return library book. then went to take the DHL balloon near Bugis. Cousin had this card which have 50% off for 3 people so ok lor quite cheap. Went up to see the evening view of singapore. quite nice actually but not impressive. got bored after a while.

Yea just see the pics. got more but too lazy to upload. :P

Then walked all the way to esplanadem just to sit the boat. The wooden boat for tourists to sit then go clarke quay etc. Half price also so just sit lor. It was beautiful actually, the scene, the feel, the lights and the breeze.

The photo may suck because not i take one. I was using my phone which has so much more artistic views of the city but again, too lazy to upload.

Later just went for dinner at marina square then went home to sleep. yea end of tue.

Wednesday- Another day out as a tourist. This time to sentosa. ya the So Expensive, Nothing TO See Actually SENTOSA. Went there see see look look. Waste time. Started with going to harbourfront to eat lunch then took cable car to the island.

The first thing significant at sentosa is the bloody gift shop. Purposely put some souvenior shop there and must walk through somemore, damn money face and despo leh. If people wanna buy will auto go there one what, why must put it in such a way that everyone must see the souvenior? Pathetic. Anyway, straight away saw the carlsberg tower. yea, took it and this is what i saw.

Nothing much la. just waste time up there. serve as an experience only. you see mostly greenery and roof of buildings. And if you are a first timer there, you realise Merlion is balding! Jk la. Some people like hair lice on its head walking up and down on the flat patch on the creature's head.

yea, then went to the Luge. I think this is the only fun thing in sentosa. Haha but too lousy ald. I was at full speed from start to end. Oh wait, havent explain what is it first. It is just some 'go kart' then sit on it down the slope and slide down like racing lor. Quite chicken la. but fun enuff to get the thrill. The downslope was quite fast esp as i let the thing move at full speed. Of course at the turns need to slow down a bit la, unless do a 'drift' as jeremy suggested. Ok, then took the skyride back. it s just some levitating bench floating in mid air up and down the slope. Took that thing back up the slope.

Next went to underwater world. Sian, no need to describe la, always the same, never change.

Ok then went to cinemania. Not bad la. But to be honest, australia is way better. Just some 'cinema' where you have to sit in some 'roller coaster' then it will start moving up down left right. A simulator la. So you watch a 'movie' and the simulator moves to make the movie realistic. Two movies is about roller coaster ride, one about dinosaurs. I still prefer real rides. the thrill cannot be substituted.

i think that s about it at sentosa. So went to Vivo city. Nearby ma. Then just walk up and down see see look look. Got some barca store there in the spainish corner.

Mother took this 'artistic pic'. Guess what s special about it.

Ate dinner ate sakae sushi. Then went home. Sleep. Again.

Thursday- Woke up early hoping to complete all the chem hw but cant la. Got chalet in afternoon. Yl suddenly called me to say he is at tampines mall and need to put the frozen food in a fridge coz the chalet cannot check in yet. So he decided to come to my house as temporary shelter. Wasted about 2 hours playing 07, esp with team slayers against some noob league 2 team. Thaddeus, JJ was also with yl. In the end they took wrong bus and ended up taking taxi which i had to sponsor. Play Play play then go chalet, again in a taxi.

Went chalet, wasnt impressed. Expected it to be quite a boring one coz so few people (abt 20) nothing to do some more. Played soccer at pasir ris town park. At least long passing improved. Blah blah, went back bbqed, eat, people play with fire, esp with deo and fire, newspaper whatever they can find to play with the orange flame. Waste time watching mr. bean then chi drama. Actually wanted to go Tampines Mall watch movie but too late all closed so some people like shawn and yl and cm went to cine to watch. Crazy. of course they didnt sleep la. show at 11.30pm. i watched and played 06 then went home sleep. Again.

Friday- That s today! Ok whatever. Was woken up by a call from shawn. Wanted to do chem hw. Suppose to meet some where to do. Suggested library but he dont want, and wanted to come my house so ok lor anything. Then he brought along a gang that consist of chien ming, ting soon and wei jin. Maplers la. Ting soon not really. So they came and kope my com and played maple. Wei Jin's laptop was for 06. I did as much chem as possible and managed to finsh section A. then all wanted to go home, cm go for drums. So they go downstairs, cm and ts go bus stop to wait for a bus that took forever to come while shawn and wei jin kicked bola at void deck. Taxi came and all went. Left me alone to train on my skills. Did some weaker foot training. Like left foot clearance, left foot ram. Of course did some free kick training. This time right foot. Yea, stand at playground there and practised kicking into the hole. not bad la, got once it went in curling with power. that was the best i did.

After that, went back did some exercise then went for a run. Speed training. Didnt run far but fast. I m really trying to gear up for the match to have the best result so far.

Just another day

Went to the adidas sale at expo today. It was dumb, had to queue just to get in. And the queue is just to get the dumb plastic bag. Anyways, mother was there so everything above 20 bucks was expensive and in the end didnt buy a single thing. So went to the next hall for popular sale. Didnt buy anything as well. Elder sister had to go to KK hospital for some talk about nutrition i think. So dropped her off then went to visit some secondary schools. Younger sis wanna see look so no choice had to follow. Went to see Cedar, TKGS, Chung Cheng etc. Waste of time. Anyway went to parkway next to shop. Tml is aunt's bd, wanted to find bd present but didnt buy either.

Oh ya finally found the ankle tape. Damn difficult to find. Went to some sports shop, same level as Giant then found the tape. About 5 bucks. Bought it and went around to adidas, nike and royal sporting house to look at bags, or away kit for slayers. Nothing much interesting. Then met up with family and went to eat at food court. Damn suay, kena burn by boiling soup. Some guy bump into me then the soup splashed on my left arm. Wa lao, every week kena injury. Hip, elbow, knee, arm, calf, thigh, foot, head etc. Damn damn suay. Head injury was kayaking. Some idiot whacked the paddle vertically on my head when raftup. Anyways, now mostly recovered except for knee. Shld be ready for the match coming on Sat.

Busy

Sorry blog... havent blogged for ages. Damn busy this few days. had camps, courses, trainings, etc. Just returned from specs retreat, which is planning what to do for next year. Quite slack, just use brain to think and contribute ideas. But also had a few chances to play soccer. We had some free time so we played soccer at hockey pitch. Played horribly. Dunno why play with NCC people always screwed up. Scarly they dun choose me for inter unit.

Damn suay, everytime my team always got those cmi in soccer one. Everybody wanna attack, but cant attack. If i defend, they will never score goals. If i attack, no one defend counters. Sian man. Aiya who cares, as long as i play well with slayers good enuff.

Had this kayaking course for 2 days. Went to lower seletar reservoir to kayak. Of course tired la. now become chao ta ald. Damn boring lor, all the strokes and stuff all learn before ald. Too basic. Finally back in the comfort of home. Got injured at the course, some scratch or abrasion or cut or whatever you wanna call it. It s at the left knee (damn weird, always injured left knee only.) Now, have to hope for speedy recovery in time for the cashew match. or else i have to sit out at least for first half (which is ald planned).

Wa my fitness now is so screwed. Too lazy and too busy to run. Maybe i might go running tml. Gotta do chem hw, gotta return library book, got match and aunt's bd on sunday, wa i m still so busy and have so many things to remember and do. Better start soon.

Mount Ophir

Just realised i havent blogged for more than a week. Have been really busy for the past week. Visited Mount Ophir in Malaysia together with NCC. I think i should just briefly state what happened.

Wednesday

Went to NCC HQ in Yio Chu Kang. Stayed there overnight with all the things required for camping. Damn dumb, went there at around 8 just for a briefing, take attendance, bag check etc. Total waste of time.

Thursday

Set off for Malaysia. Took a bus all the way to Gunung Ledang Resort. Ok la, not too bad, afterall it s a resort. Suppose to stay there for a night in the room. Not bad, got TV, air con, proper beds. But standard not high. Good enuff since I m gonna suffer much worse fate later the next few days. Lots of briefing, collected food items etc. Meals were great. Held in an indoor banquet room with food pretty decent.

Did some dumb 'warm up' practices for the climb. Rock wall, team building games, flying fox, obstacle course. Waste time la. At the end of the day, sorted out everything what i m suppose to bring up the mountain and what can be left behind. Then went to oink.

Friday

Woke up freezing thanks to the air con set full blast at around 15 degrees Celsius. Nightfall made it worse. Got ready for the climb after breakfast. Did warmups and some silent prayer (a tradition) then walked up the mountain with a bag weighing about 8kg. I m super kiasu, brought two 1.5 litre bottles plus two 500ml bottles. They gave us another 2 litres of water. In the end i brought up 4.5 litres!!! Haha, i m nuts. Others brought around 2 litres but i brought more than twice of it. Reason being, i scared of contaminated water, dun wanna waste my time squating beside a tree to sh*t. Dun wanna fall sick.

Yep, the water made life difficult for me. It was so damn heavy. but i still managed to carry it up 621 metres above ground to checkpoint 4 where we would stay overnight in tents. Had meals there simply by adding hot water to cup noodles. Took water from the stream and made it 'pure' by adding 2 tablets of puri tab or sth. Cant trust the 2 tablets rite. Anyway just ate and bathe in the stream (it was freezing) and went to sleep in the bloody hot tent. only managed 4 hours or sth. So damn uncomfortable.

Saturday

Woke up and got ready to continue climbing to the summit. Checkpoint 4 was only halfway up. Brought only food and water up there. It was more challenging but more fun. The first part was all walking, so sian, but later part had ropes, ladders, bridges. more adventure. Reached the summit at around noon then ate lunch there. After some prize presentation, gave out the badges, then we left the summit and trekked back to CP 4. Damn dumb, it took a longer time to go down. Thanks to some people some scared to walk down 'stairs'. In the end reached CP4 then cooked noodles again and then went to bathe in the the stream. Got back up, ate another round of noodles then it started to rain. So ran into the tent for cover and slacked for 3 hours or more waiting for the rain to stop. Slept at around 11 after another briefing. The place was still raining and the tent started to flood. Lucky i was wise to layout the garbage bags in the tent to sleep on or else it would have been a water bed.

Sunday

Woke up after another bad night, couldnt sleep well, floor so cold, place so damp, no space. Anyway, packed up and went down to the resort again. So much easier this time. Then had a bag check, made sure did not leave rubbish up there or else have to pay 20 ringget as fine. Aiya it s just a scare. Washed up, packed, ate lunch, received cert then went on to the bus and headed home. Slept all the way until customs. Reached Yio Chi Kang Mrt around 4.40. Waited for family, went out to eat. Went to Junction 8, Cafe Cartel. First time there, a bit noob. Ate some maccaroni thingy and found out about the match going on.

Damn sian, missed a match, a screwed up match haha. Nvm, too tired now, gtg to sleep ald cant tahan anymore. Blog another time.

FIFA 07

Hiya another day gone. Feel bored at home. But its only the first day after the last day of the official school day that I’m at home for the whole day. Sounds a bit confusing? Anyways just real bored and played 07 the whole day. So sian. Almost finish the second season in manager mode ald. This week is gonna be a busy week, of course besides today. Actually today supposed to go watch movie with Jeremy and co. but in the end postponed to another day. Erm… what are the reasons? Forgot ald. I think is not enough people going. Oh ya, kovan say he got friend going to his house for dunno what reason, so cant go. Then a few other people also cant go so postponed to Friday. It s also good as I need a break, need more sleep.

Tomorrow, have some NCC meeting in school in the morning. Dunno why cant just discuss after Friday’s training. Purposely must put tomorrow. Tomorrow afternoon most likely going out with family. Need to build some bonds la. Covalent, ionic whatever bond all break so easily. Hope the session tomorrow can strengthen the ties.

Friday have training in morning and going for movie later in the afternoon as mentioned above. And finally, Saturday, the day. Waited for it for ages. Yep, the match. Just love attending matches. Hopefully we can get our first win and boost some morale for people going overseas etc. Make it a happy holiday! Shiaks, thinking of overseas, mount ophir comes to my mind. Going to climb the damn mountain in Malaysia next week, 9 Nov to 12 Nov. I m too lazy to get out of the house and they still want me to climb mountain.

November seems like a scary month to me. So many dates to remember. Must go and mark out later. There’s even home work deadlines in November. Chemistry especially, damn suay kena 4 pieces. Must go and study first then do the papers or else in the end I learn nothing. Oh chem. Oh chem.. Why must I fail chem… of all subjects. And there s also the English homework. Some stupid commonwealth essay again. Every year we enter but never win. What s the use. This time, tracy goh still want it submitted way way way before the official deadline. Whatever.

I think this post’s English is one of the worse I ever published. I just cant seem to make out proper sentences now. Maybe because father just scolded me for playing FIFA again. Always kena scolding, pull my morale even further down. Nvm, tml will be a new day and hopefully it will be a better one.

Pissed

I m pissed. No commitment. No passion. Not sacrificial.

If you are in the team you should know what i m talking. I dun think i shld name people, but just a reminder to those who are not commited. We are all trying to get our first win. To gel together. To have the chemistry. To get used to the people we are playing with. To know what the person next to you next move will be. So that you can anticipate and do wonders. For that to happen, you cant just wait for matchday and say i have the chemistry. We MUST train together and spend time together.

I admit if i havent been playing soccer regularly, my standard will be far worse than what i am now. And i must admit i m far from good. Training is required! Play more. That s a solution. Sacrificing your com games or whatever you are busy with to go for training so that time is made for training is essential. In a squad of 16, only half i can safely say is commited. The other i dunno. If you wanna break into first team, there is no place to bootlick or do some skills to pull it off. Sometimes it s really easy to just pick a team and decide the starting 11 because base on commitment and the number of players going for matches, I can ald close one eye and choose.

i think i m not gonna talk abt it here. It s quite useless. Just venting my frustrations for nothing.

Boring

It s a boring day for me today. Woke up late and had hardly anything to do. No FIFA 07, no soccer, no outings. So just stayed at home to use the com. After doing the basic things like checking e mail, reading soccer news, browsed through my favourites and found Youtube. But then i realised that there was no match INTERESTING enough to watch on youtube. (liverpool lost to man u so no match nice la.) I was so bored that i just typed Steven Gerrard. Saw almost all his goals. Mostly wonder strikes and long range ones. After scrolling down, I saw the FA Cup Final 06 highlights. Just clicked and rewatch the goals. That video really justified Steven Gerrard as my favourite player. He's the best in the world. He can carry the whole team on his shoulders and lead to victory. There were 6 goals in total during normal time.

Just to refresh your memory or if you didnt know. The first was an own goal by Carragher, he tried to back heel a low cross but it was too fast and went in off the left foot. 0-1.

The second was a goal line scramble and Aston managed to squeeze in the goal. 0-2.

I remembered when it was 0-2 when i heard it live on BBC, i tot it was all over. But then Gerrard made a pin point cross from deep for an on rushing Cisse to meet and the French made a first time volley pass Hislop. 1-2.

Then a cross by Alonso into the box forced West Ham to clear but only to Gerrard who was in mid penalty area. He drove it in high in the net with so much force Hislop had no chance. 2-2.

Hope was coming back for Liverpool until Konchesky anyhow whack a cross cum shot into the box. Lucky for West Ham, it looped between Reina and the crossbar and went in. 2-3.

Even Konchesky thought he scored the winner. But then when the announcer anounced there was 4 minutes of extra time at the 90 minute mark, a loose ball bouncing outside the West Ham box was too tempting for Gerrard. A few strides, a swing of the valuable right leg and the driving force from the foot, it drove the ball low into the left bottom corner of Hislop's goal. 3-3.

It was like a fairytale story so perfect. The comeback by Liverpool was unbelievable.

The draw made the game to a stale extra time except for some close chance for West Ham but Reina saved it. In the end it all went down to penalties. Hamann took the first one and it went in. 1-0. Etherington took the second one but Reina saved. 1-0. Hyypia took the thrid one but Hislop saved. 1-0. Sheringham stepped up and scored for West Ham. 1-1. Back to square one, Gerrard rammed it to make it 2-1. Konchesky took the next one but Reina saved! 2-1. Riise drove the next one in. 3-1. Ferdinand took the decisive penalty. If it went in, there was still chance for the London club. But it was a poor penalty and Reina, the best penalty stopper in Spain saved it! Liverpool win the FA Cup!

Gerrard was the man of the match but give credit to Cisse who scored the first goal for Liverpool. The skipper, assisted one and scored two himself. That showed how good he is and deservingly be the best player to me.