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.

Sports Day

Every day is like a soccer match to me. As the days go by, it seems to get more and more physical draining. My body seems uncomfortable to this but i m loving it. Time management is the key to enjoy my JC life!!!

Thursday's training was tiring. 12 laps of fartlegs. hahah not sure whether the spelling s like that. 100m sprint, 100m jog, 100m sprint 100m jog, all the way for 12 rounds.

Friday was gym as usual, had a good workout.

Saturday was suppose to be my rest day last week. But instead, i went back to SJI for the interunit games.



>>> NCC land vs Scouts

The standard dropped dramatically. Those were the days when NCC land reigned supreme. NPCC was pathetic. I wanted to go there and at least help them but they got kicked out even before shawn made it to sji. The water puddles didnt help though.



>>> DRAMA

And there was a joke. Jonathan from Land had a cramp half way through the match and the game was halted for about 10 minutes. Crazy. In the end he was stretchered off by the paranoid SJAB. IT WAS JUST A CRAMP!!!

Anyway that was when Land started losing without their star player. Subsequently, they lost the 3rd and 4th placing with an own goal by Bryan David. Sad, he killed his overall performance with that kick of the ball. The quality of play was so bad that even i didnt wanna watch and joined the kiddos at the hockey pitch for some friendly game together with shawn and jun jia.

Went for some striding around the track after that to sort of to warm up for sports day. Was more comfortable with shawn's spikes. It s more stable. Anw, went home after that to chiong some hw.

Monday's training was really a test for endurance and power. 1000m at your fastest pace. and it s 2 sets. Dun think i did well since we practised the relay as a class after school. Sprinted 400m as samantha and darren could make it.

Tuesday was fun. Whole class stayed back after chem test, which i presume it s hard to pass for me, to help the council elects with their campaign. Did posters and stuff and some left home instead of joining for dinner. Gabriel was bored and asked me to kick ball with him. Nicholas joined in and we all got scolded by Mr Chua for playing in uniform. I wasnt really sure about the rule anyway so didnt feel very guilty. But Gabriel was quite affected by it since he has always been a guai kia. Went back to the group after the scolding and stoned there till almost 7 before leaving for chomp chomp.

Changed bus at some bus stop and finally reached at almost 8. Bought food and actually wanted to go to Woei Xin's house to eat but decided to just eat at the open space near the bus stop. So there we had Hokkien mee, chicken wings, satays, stingray, sambal fish, carrot cake, sprite, green tea, pizza all over the floor for 16 people to share. It was quite a sight. An old man was chased away in the process. As usual, had class photo and evacuated the place around 9 plus. Took a bus with Timothy to Toa Payoh and changed to bus 8 from there. He alighted at SA while i had a nice nap home.



>>> He who hails from the Almighty Environmental Club. Ang Zheng Da clearing up the mess!!!
Good job dude!

Wednesday is THE day. SAJC Sports Day 2008. Even though i lost the 400m finals pathetically. (is there such a word?) the mood is still there. I just wanna run!!

Was almost late for that day and had an early morning warm up with a dash across the bridge to make it in time to the gallery. There, the whole class of 08S19 was there, and when the emcee announced for participants of heat 5 to report, one by one they walked below the grandstand. Ahh... exaggerating again. To cut the story short, the whole original team comprising of

Diana
Woei Xin
Samantha
Cassandra
Jolena
Yong Pin
Gabriel
Darren
Nicholas
Timothy

reported to Mr Dan Ho and got ready for the race. And just when i was walking to the canteen past Gabriel, he asked me to run the first heats, subbing Darren out. And that was when all the adrenaline starting pumping again. Whoo, just thinking of it makes me excited. yep, so i subbed Darren and we qualified for the A Finals with the best 8th timing. Arg but we are in lane 1 again. The curse of the lane 1. Primary school sports day both my individual 200m and 4 X 100m team relay was in lane 1 and both i got last. And most recently, the 400m finals, lane 1 and last again. This time, the curse continues...

After all the musical chairs and teachers relays, it s to the finals. B finals was up first with the next best 8 timings but only the top 3 in that race qualified for a medal. Surprisingly the top 3 in the B finals had a better timing than us. So we were lucky in a way, since a medal is comfirmed, just that whether it s 8th or 7th or 6th. That s the usual pessimistic me.

But when the A finals kicked off, i had the feeling we still have a chance of getting a top 3. Diana started average but against stronger opponents like the top female sprinter in track, Cheryl, it s considered very good. We were some what 5th or 6th when Woei Xin took over. And when the baton was passed to Samantha, we were 3rd! Amazingly. But from Jolena to Cassie to Yong Pin and Gabriel, we stayed at 4th. I was disappointed with myself to only be able to catch up a 3rd for the team. I knew i could have done slightly better and bring the distance between us and the 2nd team a lot nearer if i took even bigger strides.

Darren took over and lost the 3rd place. Ok, a 4th isnt that bad i thought. And so i waited at the finishing, looking out for Timothy with the baton. But i waited and waited. One by one, the first runner came in, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. crap. not again... then timothy came in.

I was really disappointed, but seeing everyone else still smiling and feeling so happy, i thought maybe it isnt all about winning. Seeing how close the class has become is really a joy. Even just by getting 8th and last for the finals, it s an anchievement for a group of people who only practised a couple of times for it. We beat a whole load of J2 classes and let our class spirit shine so strongly that others sitting at the gallery were overlooking in jealousy.

THAT S IT! 08S19, we are it. Good job class! Even those not running cheered so loudly for us and served us Milo after the race. These little things do wonders. This bonding is better than any ionic or covalent bond.

However, i feel guilty that i took Nicholas's place in the final. He said he had first aid duties but i found out it wasnt compulsory. He could have ran and took the medal, but he said it was ok and i deserved the medal. Gabriel added that i ran both races and if i didnt, the class would not even make it to the finals, that really made me feel a lot better and i accepted the medal but i m dedicating this to Nicholas.



>>> First SA medal

Dun worry, 08S19 will be back next year, with a big bang! and nicholas will get his medal.

After the event, we made a stupid mistake and played soccer at the D and the class broke up again. Hui hui, lois, woei xin, jocelyn, mann and weili went to PS while the rockclimbing gang of cassie, timothy and nicholas went to yishun instead since they had training at yishun safra. After we stopped soccer, Zheng da and Darren decided to go home while Yong Pin, Gabriel and me left for yishun to try and catch up with the rock climbing gang since we didnt know where the other gang went. Diana met up with us but parted at the bus stop since she was going CCAB to watch the cross country finals.

Anyway the time together with Yong Pin and Gabriel was fun. We talked a lot, from serious to unserious issues. The bus ride to yishun seemed so much shorter. By the time we reached the interchange, the rockclimbing gang left for safra and we had to eat alone at BK. Slacked there for quite a long time. And it wasnt enough.

We walked from the interchange all the way to SAFRA, admired the place and decided to go say hi to the rock climbers. Instead, the guy thought we were late for training and asked us to dropped our bags and change shoes. So we walked away after thinking of skinny dipping in the pool when the weather was a killer. Found a nice place near the reception to slack and talk more rubbish. Nice ambience with comfy sofa chairs, together with Yong Pin's neverending funny stories, really a good time.

Wanted to shower but realised the shower was within the pool facilities and have to pay to use so we abandoned the idea and walked all the way back to the interchange and parted ways there. Took 39 straight home that cost $1.80 since the driver didnt believe i was a student. Didnt bring my student pass. Anw, another nice nap on the bus straight home from Yishun.

Thursday's training was really tiring. 25 times up the gallery steps. 4 sets. Entire leg felt like dropping off after that.

Fri had math test which shld be able to pass probably by 1 or 2 marks. didnt know how to do the next step of MI. Chem mock SPA was bad. Filter funnel not working and choked the whole thing up, causing the KMnO4 to overflow and spill all over the bench. Uniform screwed, bench screwed, script screwed. Damn sad. Really like some wartime bloodshed. Spent time cleaning up redoing the whole crap and couldnt complete. Argg... i m gonna try make some FeSO4(is it the reactant?) as my stain remover next time. Gym training after that pretty fun and slack. Yong Pin became my partner since the usual sprinters had pool training.

Whoa i think this is the longest post this year. Anw gtg and mug bio. Dun wanna fail anymore.