what the hell...- isaac.
10:36:00 PM
o level oral was so damn difficult. the passage given was easy; only not sure of a few words but the conversation was a killer. it owned everyone. guoxiang immediately crossed his legs when he was asked the conversatio question, meaning that it is difficult and everyone finished very fast. ming tjong was an exception tho. he talked for 10mins and the teachers kept laughing but he claimed that they are laughing AT him and not FOR him hahahahahahaahahha. i was super nervous while waiting for my turn. at first, i was feeling quite alright until ming tjong's turn. i waited extra long and i was getting more and more nervous by the minute. my hands started to become sweaty and my confirmation slip was blown by the wind into a crumpled mass. when it was finially my turn, the passage looked unknown to me and i read it worse than i expected it to be at the frst paragraph. after that, i quickly sped up my reading before i made more mistakes. and the moment i heard the conversation question, i was stunned. what kind of question is that!? i have never seen a similar question before la haha. i said around 10sentences, kept errr-ing and silent. ownage. to think that o level was supposed to be easy.
i realised that i not playing any games for a long time would cause a lot of aches. yesterday, i played soccer during chinese when liu lao shi didnt come, played basketball after school before phototaking and then went for training when i did sprints. then, this morning when i woke up, my legs ached and my hamstring was tight. to make matters worse, it could get worse after my own training today. omg. i better start the 'weichong' stretch( 30mins per session) instead of my 10min stretch.
nats is starting on the 5th of july and it is exactly one week from now. so it's just tml as the last training the team is going to be together before we split and train separately depending on our events.
- isaac.
9:49:00 PM
nothing beats enjoying the last day of the holidays than relaxing the whole day. no homework done at all. i cant imagine how dead i'll be when sch reopens tml but i dun care hahhaha. it's too late to pia; i've realised. so i've resolved so called ' start anew' which is to start without any homework and go to sch with a different attitude: to balance studies, cca and computer.
yesterday was a tiring day i must say. i woke up this morn for my early morn jog like a zombie. i even ran with my mind in standby mode. neways yesterday i woke up at 8, ate breakfast and read the day's as well as some backdated newspapers. after that i chiong-ed an essay for tuition and left the house for english tuition at 11. i planned out my ss sbq answers on the mrt and then went for english tuition scheduled at 11.45. i reach there on time and waited for the rest for the class to begin. tuitin ended at 1.45 and i rushed to pasir ris interchange, packeted some noodles and chiong-ed home for another tuition at 3. i did ss again on the train again and quickly munched down on my lunch and gt ready for the next tuition. it was 2.45 then. then, after i sat down and finially could relax, the doorbell rang. ' it's only 2.45...' i thought. but my teacher was early and so, the torture continued. it ended at 4.15 and i lied on my bed for a quick rest but when i closed and opened my eyes it was already 4.45. i quickly changed and rushed out of the house. i went to katong to get a haircut and that took damn long. i reached katong at 6 btw. i left katong at 6.35 and received a call from kenneth chew, telling me to get the tickets from him. after that, since i was late, i had to call him out of the LH to get my ticket. anyway i didnt take note of what time i reached sch but it was dark alr and i saw engswee and some of the ep guys going to sch too on the way into school. ziyan came out to give me the ticket although the councillor told me that i could go in without one. when i followed ziyan to my seat, i knew it was not good. this was because we were sitting in the front row. i dunno how to appreciate music as it was since i was primary 6 that i played a musical instrument and i was deadbeat. so i sat in the front, next to kenneth chew and cchms gz has just finished their second song. i tried very hard not to yawn but i did a few times uncontrollably. the concert ended early and there were refreshments, to my delight. i hadnt had dinner and i took some beehoon and 2 fishballs. after that we chatted to weisheng for a while before i left to huishia's birthday party when jinkai called me and asked me to go. i left after finishing my food and letting ziyan and kenneth chew know that i'm leaving if not they say that i pangseh them. after that i hurried out of school and walked there. played zhong ji mi ma and i fragging lost in my first game. the forfeit was to drink some rubbish in a cup and it smelled of rotten fish. after the cake cutting we played heart attack which was super fun. i left her house at 10 but i had to walk jinkai from the 12bus-stop all the way to the bubble tea bus-stop. after that i took a bus to paya lebar and took a train home. time: 11.10. i bathed, brushed teeth and slept immediately.
school starts tml. time to get owned.
- isaac.
9:38:00 PM
i was super happy yesterday because i got shortlisted for the interview!! haha. it's quite something to me because i've never been selected out of so many people before. anyway today was the interview and i think i did quite alright.
the highlight of today is the checking of my event time and my competitors. i realised that there are a lot of people around my standard and i can't rule out the people whose cross-country timing is not gd. there is this guy whose cross county timing is 19plus but his 1500m is 4.35. in y heat, there are two runners who can do 4.30 under so... i guess i'll be fighting for the last slot with many others. unless i can run 4.30 then i am in a much safer position. my race will be in the afternoon tho; in contrast to last time when it was always in the morn. the date of the race is now 11 july 2007
- isaac.
11:08:00 PM
this june holiday hasnt been very fulfilling as usual. the holidays just pass so fast. i cant even remember what i did to make time fly so quickly. although now its training in the morning, sleep/movie/PS2 in the afternoon and television at night. this routine has been going on ever since kenneth and i decided to quit our diablo adventure. maybe i've spent all my non-training time on diablo. school days pass really fast. guess it because i keep looking forward to the next day instead of just enjoying the present itself. i think i'll have a lot of that over i step down. i just cant picture how free i'll be or how empty i'll feel. track is super fun and we've not lied about anything on our flyers EXCEPT the napfa full-pointers which is not a fact for the guys haha.
now to my preparation for nats. there was a swift meet on the 16th of june which i took part of course to see my standard. the race went well until the last 500m where my finishing let me down. damn. where's brian when i need him. my standard was worst than last years lol. horrible horrible horrible. anyway i was very sleepy that day and i yawned non stop from warm up to before the race all thanks to nervousness. i kept telling myself the night before how important the race was and i must perform well for it until i cannot sleep. i made new friends tho haha. they are jeremy from changkat and gary from acs(i).
while typing the above i think i may have realised why this holidays have not been so fulfilling. it's missing the essence of gambling haha. my grandmother is ill and she is staying at her home and has stopped coming over every wednesday. my grandmother comes over every wednesday to talk to us, espicially my other grandmother who is always alone at home. during holidays we play mahjong lol. the traditional game which is said to prevent the lao ren chi tai zheng. my grandmothers love the game as they say that it prevents that. i started playing mahjong when i was primary 3 or 4 i think. but i only got promoted to playing with the elders when i was promary 5. my grandmother, the on who is ill now, thought me to play because she was bored at home one day and i guess i must have asked her to teach me. after that i began observing games and watching how my parents play. my mahjong playing style is based mostly on luck. it was only during the last holidays when i decided to play carefully and try to predict what others are waiting for. everytime i cant win i adopted my grandmother's playing style: keep all the unless cards until the very end. it's super funny. there was once when my dad was going to 'man' , which means maximum, and my grandmoter threw a 'dong' hahahha. super anti climax. it's like my dad is so eager to win and suddenly.... oops HAHA.
no homework done and no revision done.
- isaac.
8:59:00 PM
the holidays are ending as quickly as it came. things just change so quickly and it took me so long to realise it. trainings used to be cheerful and noisy with everyone around. now that rachel, melvin, weile, jason and serene all not around anymore, track is no longer as lively as before. there was once in feb when everyone was present and the whole of kallang practice track was ours. all the laughter and all the joy lost. well, although this wasnt what i expected the track team to be when i'm the captain, everyone has their reasons for doing so and i hope that this can be changed. i realised my mistake was that i didnt care about people' feelings and i often misunderstood people who were right. ever since the beginning of the holidays i began to think about everyone and i realised that i owe this particular person an apology: rachel. i've realised , finially, you may think, that you have actually contributed a lot and i've blamed you unnecessarily many times although some of it i kept to myself. i kept telling myself that it was you fault for every other thing which affected the juniors and mistakes but not all of it were. i followed what people said like a blind bat and never followed my own thinking. i'm nt trying to say that i was always right or i was influenced badly by other people. it is just that i dunno who to trust. i definitely cant trust myself so i prefer to believe others. i've learnt so much the past year and now it's too late to regret my mistakes. i'm sry.
at the beginning of this year i told myself that this year would be a super fast year and i thought i was wrong until 30th march. i was doing quite well before that but now i'm a far cry from it. i guess it's time to start studying a bit instead of relaxng the whole day and thinking of doing the one thing that i am hardly capable of.
it rained today and i stayed in school to study and sleep while waiting for the rain to stop. i am proud to say that i studied longer than i slept. anyway i went to 4DL to study. there's no place in school better than 4DL classroom. the tables and chairs were arranged like during a school day and the floor was much cleaner. wooohoo it makes me want school to start as soon as possible.
- isaac.
10:05:00 PM
check it out! it's two kens in a photo ^^ ( taken on 29th may)
them again.
this is the school from outside 4DL at 6.15 in the morn.
this is a view outside my window. cool eh..so many things happened over the past few days that i even recall everything. there's nth much to talk abt. if nt it would be too long. so i've decided to let some pictures do the talking for once.
- isaac.
8:59:00 PM
today i started doing my holiday homework and as promised, i did the emaths paper 1. while i was at it, my sis came into my room to share with me her views on the second series of campus superstar and when she saw me doing my homework, she went ' WOAH!! DOING HOMEWORK AR? SO GOOD?' haha. well, there must be a beginning and i'm nt sure if i might continue to do my work tml.
also, i just realised that coach is also coaching the netball girls because of some reasons lol. quite interesting lar. how can coach coach netball? i thought he was from volleyball. mayb there's a link between the two sports. anyway i think they make our track team LOOK a WHOLE LOT bigger haha but the boys are still outnumbered =( i'm nt sure when it began. i just heard from juniors that it's like this.
after training i went to kenneth chew's house again to ensure that his computer can play LOD. then after that we went to the arcade as usual. i spent about 7 dollars today. 5 at bugis and 2 at tampines. the bugis arcade is damn big. it has 4 big screen outrun2 machines, all the lastest games but no old games like HOD2. at least i got another 3weeks of playing ^^.
- isaac.
10:18:00 PM
these days are getting werider and werider day by day. it's the holidays and not everyone is online. either that or everyone is busy. what's happening! samuel logs off during a conv, kenneth's LOD is scratched and i have to wait an extra day to play again, miniclip games require some shockwave programme to be install i got no administration or dunno wat. it's as if everyone is too busy to talk. i think its better to study. it's the only stable thing one can do without any materials. even if i didnt bring anything home, there's holiday homework. speaking of holiday hw, maybe i'll do the emaths hw soon. hahaha it's gonna be fun. i guess i wont be free after this weekend. my parents would be back from their overseas 'business' trip' and i'm going all out to achieve my target. i aint doing that now because i'm slacking. it's because my muscles are aching so bad that i cant walk properly.
o levels.. i find that Os are more stressful than PSLE for me. if i am p6 now, my ego would be skyhigh until prelims. i can still remember that time. hahahaha. i was doing very well then, scoring like mad, being the top few in class and gabriel (chong) and i we super close both in terms of friends and results. hahaaha, those days.. it was great. nt to mention fighting to be the top in level of maths. now, what is there to fight for? yeah i was second in level for maths in sec2 but now? i'm nth but just some tyco fella who anyhow anyhow tyco-ly get 90plus. i dont even threaten the pros la. i dun really care actually. i fell hard many times over and over again; i'm nt sure if i had learnt my lesson. that's why i dun care. i dun wan to be over confident like last time but now i use self-denial to give myself confidence. of course, that's of no use. nevertheless, i shall do my best for prelims so that i'll go into the final stretch with confidence.
wooohoo super emo haha.
- isaac.
11:02:00 PM
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