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2008-06-30T23:04:00.000+08:00

Don't Quit

When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low, and the debts are high;
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are;
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things go wrong that you mustn't quit.

2008-06-30T22:59:00.000+08:00

It takes a day to make a dream,
But it takes many nights for a seed to become a tree.

Life is a ladder that must be climbed.
But in every stage,

There are many rivers and battles to fight
And our hopes determines our future.

Life is a trip through the wilderness
And everyone must survive for success.

But without a determination
We can never reach our destination.

There are many roads in life,
But choice

Stands between the broad and the narrow.
The world is not only what we see

But what we hear
Life is time and time is tide.

We are making an endless journey
But no ladder is without an end

Problems may fall like rain
But every seed has its season.

2008-06-05T23:56:00.002+08:00

it has been a long, long time since i had this feeling...

a feeling of soreness, not being able to walk properly at the end of the day, a sense of achievement.

this was how i felt about a week ago and today, i felt sth similar to that but not as much..

it has been a long time since i've blogged haha and i've decided to blog since i needed to update it haha hopefully i can keep this up and post maybe every month haha

alright. back to the track stuff. being injured really sucks. cannot do this cannot do that. even the ytd i couldnt soccer with the guys whom i havent seen for an even longer time becos i had physio in the morn and needed to rest. hopefully i can make it for the next one! ^^ this back injury has cost me a lot. unable to run well, stop training for abt 2 weeks and all that made me seem like i'm drifting further from the track team.. luckily tj is such a friendly place and i when i went for training once again there wasnt much of a difference haha rock on tj track! ^^ yup.. so.. the sense of achievement at the end of training really boosted my morale quite a bit. i thought to myself that i can finally get my long lost form back and hopefully by nats beginnning on 3rd july, i'll gain back my form! top eightttttttt! to me it seems like an uphill task. an almost impossibilty but one thing keeps me going and my head high. i'll try my very best for it. it is my aim for almost a year now. although there's next yr but there's jcts and i think i will be doing a lot of studying then with the rate i am going now with my studies haha

speaking of studies... my dear sister is going overseas to study on saturday night! so fast la.. i'm definitely going to miss her. after she leaves, there'll be no one to talk to every night before i sleep. my sis would come over to my room every night and talk to me abt what has happened in the day and how she feels about things. i'm really glad that she does that and from there i can access how my life is going to be next time. i really have her to thank for who i am now ^^ when she's not around, there wont be anyone to shield me from the evil forces of my parents :x evil as in questioning tho. my sister has all along protected me by using herself as an example. 'ISAAC! WHY IS UR RESULTS LIKE THAT!' 'aiya.. dun worry la. i last time also like that one.. sec sch is like that one la.' wooo! thanks chair (jie*) hehe. aiya no momentum le lol jiejie just came and talked to me. life will definitely be different without her. thankfully i got ns. cooped up with training too haha.

till then, life has been much better for me now ^^ except my sis going overseas oh no.. have fun there sis! =)

2008-04-19T22:41:00.002+08:00

ahhhh.. long time no blog alr haha probably about another month later. anyway jc life has been quite horrible. wars are present everyday: fighting to stay awake during lectures and tutorials. it really mystifying the way i feel so sleepy during lessons but get energetic again during breaks and after school. then, i've been training everyday for 2 weeks alr. the week before was tough. trained before sports day and managed zero goals haha but my events were lost to much much much better runners la. so no problem ^^ national x-country!! botanical gardens.. hm.. new grounds.. hopefully ppl dun do as well ^^ i'll just be aiming for probably top 40 or 50. maintain same as last time can alr. my 1500m also ah.. super off. my past two races were both about 4.50, way off my pb sianxz.. hopefully tml can at least break that during all-comers if not my morale will be at a all time low. coach still say can do 4.30 under for nats.. i'll try to believe it if i run like crap tml =D and we were training alpha house 4x100m team wooo! our passing is almost ownage alr. hopefully can win gamma heh heh. crazy gay house leading by 200pts how to catch up..

yup so thats about how my jc life has been so far haha. a bit no paragraphing paiseh. long time nvr write essay liao thats why will like that :x oh ya, studying.. that's the worse part haha. only my maths is on par. my chem and physics are on par now but before this all kns lol and as for econs... from on track to off track. crazy stuff. the teacher say what i dun understand at all lol. my processing rate is super slow la. must take the last bus =D yeah, and i'm rarely online because i have to catch up with homework and sleep early so that i can concentrate in class and be king shen for training. if not both sure suffer one.. at night my stretch somemore. lao liao la.. the only time i'm online would be when i am doing my PI which got rejected twice. shld have done modernization in the first place.. why i so lame go do journeys haha. hopefully my exclusive draft 3 gets accepted ^^ tj pw percentage A 87.2% leh.. ai zai sia.. cannot be below average! must pia pia pia haha. crap la. horse year always so qiang then put pressure on the poor little goats.. cannot be wad right. he both eat grass but horses run so much faster.. unfair sia.. then in turn the year after us , which i dunno is which animal, gets affected as well ( like in cch now) because of us unable to meet the same standards. ah la pressure la pressure..

kkz blog until here liao. need to go read econs alr next week got test. must aim to better my last test! aim 7/25 ^^ or 8? aim lower better ar.. 7 it shall be! ^^ study hard everyone! no matter what age you are.

aches everywhere but still going ^^ jiayou all!

2008-03-18T22:55:00.002+08:00

havent been blogging for more than a month now haha. blogging is sooo boring.. but no choice la.. have to blog =D

i shall start what i realised over the past three months. how much jc life sucks. the people and everything else are nice la but its just the workload and pace that is horrible.i spent hours doing mathematical induction and what i did was done in one tutorial. ONE TUTORIAL. die alr la.. now i have to finish the whole tutorial by tml. i heck alr. life cannot be any tougher haha and school ends so damn late.. how i wish i took higher chinese and H1 but it's ok! i can and will survive this short one and a half years. omg coming to think of it As are really approaching at top speed. in a blink of an eye its going to be As alr! oh no.. die.. but i think i better think of a way to survive tml's maths tutorial i'll probably copy my friend's one ^^

ahhh sianxz nth to write haha very sian now that she's nt around =( laterz then..

2008-02-07T21:42:00.000+08:00

back to blogging on request by rachel haha. i realised it has been quite long since i blogged :x i guess blogging has became one of my last few piorities. instead of blogging to kill my boredom i prefer to laze around and sleep haha. right. so.. what has happened these few days hm..

i'll go into what happened recently since i'm lazy to recall. erm.. ytd was chinese new year eve as well as roadrun. roadrun was pretty fun. so many ppl cheering then damn high hahaha. i slowed down a lot near the end but still managed to get first apparently because leon was also out of energy lol. i guess i may have slowed down the race by quite a bit. 5.1 at 20mins plus.. damn slow sia. chin kai did 18plus last yr zomg. and i got first tyco-ly as well la in a way. capt chin kai and khai didnt run due to injuries, leaving 2 bballers who are super strong and the few of us. then, the best runner was sick and puked halfway. super lucky win. will try harder next yr ^^

after that, i went to meet a few friends =) and we sneaked into sweeny todd haha. the show isnt really nice. full of singing, difficult for me to catch the lyrics lol. maybe cos i slow. was struggling to read the chinese subtitles at the beginning. yeah, wont advice ppl to go and watch it. there's nth interesting abt the show other than blood and music.

i guess life much better now. lessons arent that boring and i dun dread going to school like last time. just that now i might make someone sneeze sometimes haha XD hope she gets into tj! oh yeah, if you're coming to tj look out for me! i am beta ogl woooo mass damn fun hahaha. damn.. now i like got a lot of things to say like that. see la rachel...

i'll just end here. lazy to type and i need to ice my leg. will try to blog again in future ^^.

so sadly time flies when there is fun. enjoy life now become the going gets tough!
happy chinese new year everyone! dun bother too much abt ur health or weight( unless you are health conscious or a tracker). just EAT. laterz.

2008-01-25T22:26:00.000+08:00

today was a great day wooo. went to sch until 8.40 today before going back to cch to play soccer with wenjie and his friends. sam, jerome and i went to meet them while cheesiang and the other two girls went dunno where lol. after soccer we went to play basketball for a while before it hit lunch time. the food in cch rocks so much that sam, kc and me went for seconds haha. must be tj sia. make us miss cheap and delicious canteen food.

then, i went for cch's training and there were a lot of sec1s zomg. this is nt fair sia. why last yr only accept 6 ppl then this yr so much.. but it's a good thing tho. finally got so many juniors haha. track training was just as fun as last time but now with so many ppl there, the team is more lively woooo. yeah, another highlight of training was that i accomplished what i wanted in training today. which was to run till i puked haha. in tj too deprived of that alr lol. i have to control every time i feel like puking during training damn sian. at last i can let it out! the feeling was super. must try my best to go for the next training ^^.

tears of joy and sadness were shed ytd. i hope everyone has put it behind them and move on. dun think too much of the past. it is the future that counts ^^. rock on.

2008-01-16T21:45:00.000+08:00

yeahhh. things started to get better after that emo post. really felt better over the past few days. maybe letting out what is inside me made me feel better haha. well.. before the emo post i actually had quite some stuff to post. just that too overwhlemed alr haha.

anyway, life must go on. so.. here are some photos of orientation. the five photos we took for the amazing race at the playground haha. they represent titanic, matrix, pirates of the carribean, daddy daycare and tarzan ^^. tjc orientation was really fun. even when i acted as a gay lemon tree lol. everyone's really fun wooohooo.

next was our class outing which very little went as usual. it was on last sat when i posted the previous post. we went to ecp for cycling and it was fun haha although i was sian on that day la. after cycling we went to pool and as usual got owned by marc and gx sian. after pool, we saw a childrens machine where a child sits in there and the parent puts 20cent coins and the ride goes. we were talking abt who could squeeze and mt the man did just that wooohooo. check it out:

yeah! so the past few days were quite fun and not as bad as last week. jc is starting to get better haha hopefully it stays this way ^^

2008-01-13T11:10:00.000+08:00

things havent been in place recently. especially over the past week which passed as slow as a tortise walking. school isnt as fun as last time and i never look forward to it. life in tj is just lecture play lecture play then training sometimes. lectures are super boring and i doubt i can last the next one and a half years enduring it. also, although training in tj is lively and fun, i dun look forward to it as much as in secondary school. no idea why.. just missing the old days haha. full timtable starts tml and it's freakin' screwed up. my cg apparently changed for dunno what reason. wonder if its a mistake..

anyway yesterday there was a class outing and as usual very little people went but it was still as fun haha. i didnt really enjoy it much tho. woke up a very sian person yesterday didnt feel like going out at all and my resources are depleting. it must be fate. just nice in econs we are learning about unlimited wants but limited resources. i felt just that way yesterday. there were so many things i felt like eating BUT i had no money. damn sian. but i could still survive the day as cycling and pool didnt need much cash.

however, life must go on and i have to adapt to the jc life haha. hope she can come to tj. life's really torturous now.

2008-01-01T20:26:00.000+08:00

31st december '07 and 1st january '08 were great days. ytd marked the end of a fabulous year for me and although 2008 started off to a bit of a bad start i guess things will be better when we get to know more about each other.

last night we had sort of a party at gx's house where some of us stayed overnight and everyone went home on 1st jan which was good. never before have DL-lers went home after 10plus haha. very little people went to the class countdown ytd but it was alright. all of us were involved and occupied without anyone being left out and have to go to a corner to emo.

at about 1am this morn, gx and i had to rush to cage to meet the gab they all while the others went to lan and the girls went home. we caged till 5am which was madness and there was something very wrong with my stomach. the pain kept worsening and i puked. stupid kfc make me kena indigestion. anyway the torture didnt just end there and i continued to have diarrhoea until 9am this morn. i think i visited the toilet about 6 times. my goodness. thankfully i nt like wj, who was sick of going to the toilet after having such a torment hahaha. at least mine ended.

after cage, we met up again and then went for a movie, avp2 which.... sucks. no storyline. the worst show in 2008 so far and it's the second horrible movie u've seen this holidays. very fun....

happy new yr everyone! may this yr be a better yr than the last ^^

2007-12-26T23:08:00.000+08:00

a week late or so to post about my trip to europe. italy, switzerland and france. it was full of vomitting, fun and bore. italy was very much a bore. churches churches and more churches. a lot of history in italy and most of the houses there still have their olden day facade. not at all like singapore. where pre-war houses are a rare sight due to en-bloc and constant modernisation.

my first day in italy was double of what i felt on the first day of every trip. my air sickness was horrible and i puked out whatever is inside my stomach. felt like i was going to die. much worse than the time i felt after training. for the next two days i felt very much the same just that i didnt puke and recovered after taking medicine from a local pharmacy. after i recovered, the boredom of italy hit me and i couldnt wait to go home ask each day in italy past. although italy is rich in history and full of a lot of scenery, it wasnt attractive to me as all the house were all the olden day kind. yawnzzified. one of the places i liked about italy is pisa, where the leaning tower is. that place was great. despite still being sick, i enjoyed the climb up to the top of the leaning tower. the incline of it and the view at the top was great.

the next country was switzerland. super fun country to go to. a must go to everyone who goes to europe. switzerland has very delicious chocolate, breathtaking scenery and clean air. over there, we went up 2 mountains. jungfraujoch, top of europe and mount titlis. those places were -15 degrees plus and due to the strong wind, it was much colder. walking in that kind of temperature without feeling cold was the really cool part. all that think clothing must have helped with the exception of my shoes which allowed the freezing water to seep in and numb my toes. it was very fun in the mountains. the feeling of the wind blowing the ice at ur face is very refreshing and pain but we learn that the smoke coming out of mountains is not sulphur but the snow blown by the wind up there. after the mountains was shopping which was boring but better than italy. at least i could follow my dad to see watches or look around the place and enjoy the fresh air of switzerland.

the last 4 days were spent in paris, city of lights. paris was full of shopping and sightseeing where we visited all the places of interest except for the lourve museum which was closed on tuesdays sian. anyway we went up the eiffel tower both in the day and night. the view up there was spectacular. the third floor of the eiffel tower at night had a great view of the city. although most of the buildings were a tiny speck, the view was still great. the eiffel sparkled at night in its gold light. beautiful haha. other than the sights, paris was boring as the rest was shopping. zzz.

europe in all was fun ^^. never regretted going there.

2007-12-06T18:10:00.000+08:00

going to europe early tml morn until the 20th morn. bye marcus and bye yong geng lol. laterz.

2007-12-04T23:25:00.000+08:00

it's really wonderful how playing a single game with a friend can really make me so much happier ^^. sam and i played the jurassic park game at the arcade today during class outing and it was damn fun wooohoooo. we were shouting like mad people inside the small truck hahaha. couldnt feel any better after playing that game. thanks sam. unbelievable. so much better now. tml will be back to the norm.

well.. training on mon as usual didnt go well. vomitted and my leg was spoilt. my vomitting session was cut short as i took up coach's advice and managed to minimize it to only a short while. damn i never felt better after that. my leg needs some repair. my left knee hurts so much that it is still pain when i ran down the travelator just now. with the pain i cant burst and run properly. better do sth.

trainings rock and sam owns ^^.

2007-11-23T23:43:00.000+08:00

i was right. today was tough. first training and although i did quite well, i didnt feel good due partial illness and probably unfitness i guess. we did 200m with a 200m rest 6 times and i was on time for 4 and 1sec off for the other 2 sets. not so bad for a comeback lol. the worse part was that i chiong-ed the last set and finished in a time which is around my pb and that is madness. hence, after that i felt a pull in my stomach and i threw up. it was my worst ever feeling. worser than the one i had earlier this year. i tot i was going to die omg haha. i suffered for some time before i brought myself together and started jogging and i felt real better. the acidity of my stomach contents are still burning my throat. luckily i didnt go for soccer. if not i might die lol.

pool was damn fun hahahaha. aching body and painful throat. but it was all worth it.

2007-11-22T20:31:00.000+08:00

the torture begins tml. i'm gonna start training and i can bet that i will run like shit haha. it has been about 3 or 4 mths since i have ran competitively or pushed myself to the limit. my body might not take it. luckily can train with cch under coach sim before going to train with tj. if not sure kena own like nth. if they wan to find me i will be far far far far behind lol. its a short time to national cross-country championships next yr. hopefully i can be fit and break 17. i dun believe that my personal best will forever stay at 17.21 which was set in 2005. wth.

spent almost the whole day at home today. mapled, napped and dota-ed. no money spent but i feel damn bored. must go out more often. its good for health.

looking forward to tml. stepping onto the track once again.

2007-11-17T22:46:00.000+08:00

time flies. in such a short time its the end of secondary school life and very soon, the begining of jc life. i can still remember my first gold medal 2 yrs ago, finally beating brian fair and square, the 4x400m elites( we still are ^^), training with the cross country runners etcetc. a new chapter of track will start again next yr when i come out of hiding lol. i'm very happy to get to join tjc's track and field team. i met my primary school friend on the bus today and he told me that vj cross country runners train 12 sessions a week. which means morning and evening from mon to sat omg. no wonder they are so pro.

message to marcus: i won you today muhahahahaha. pwnage XD.

start to training delayed. next friday it shall be.

2007-11-13T20:45:00.000+08:00

Os are finally over. tired and worned out lol. played soccer after bio today and then went to play lan. the whole session ended at 7 with a headache. soccer was quite ok. just that we played till noon with the npcc ppl and got burnt. shit. i'm still going to play soccer tml afternoon with gab and the rest. gonna be cooked haha. next was lan. carp la. lost both matches. but they were fun. i realised the true power of kotl ^^. after dennis and the rest left, kenneth, sam and i played cs with ppl beside us. lol. han jing top fragger say.. then, we played against AI+ and we got owned like shit by insanes. decided to lighten the sentence and rmk-ed to normal and won lol. there's no way we could lose lol. insanes are damn gay zomg. they can deny damn well and they can backstab. i think they are better than me haha.

a week and i'm back to training. i hope.

2007-10-08T22:22:00.000+08:00

the day before the O level begins muhahahaha. have been lazy to blog recently and since the last post was on my birthday i thought it was better when it was left that way. anyway, Os aside. my prelim wasnt very well done but i must say i am pleased with it tho. although i got suaned by the two 9 pointers, i think its alright. we'll see next yr ^^ i guess Os are an inspiration for many things such as a desire to play halo3 after the exams, going for a mad run on sunday and even playing lan to 'relieve stress' yeah hooo i went for a run on sunday and i am satisfied with my time despite having no ran since 8th of august. unfortunately, my happiness was shortlived because when i woke up this morning, i was greeted by aches and my alarm clock. i got up and 'oww my back, my calf, my ad ductor..' basically every part of my body was aching. but it was worth it. never felt such pain for a long long time alr. i also found my inspiration to train next yr during the tj open house when i heard that chin kai ( national 4th) was j2 next year. wooohooo. its going to be so damn fun.

all the best to all for Os. study and play hard ^^

2007-09-27T22:17:00.000+08:00

today was a wonderful day. so many things happened and it was great!! this was the best birthday i ever had =). i received presents from friends, had 2 cakes and got something damn cool from my mum haha. i'll probably post more next week when i get my com back from my dad. good bye for now.

2007-09-18T19:18:00.000+08:00

the prelims are over. no more 24km tall towers, 520km/h waves, 3 page long essays, tricky mcqs, crazy studying... yeah!!!!! ^^

2007-09-01T16:07:00.000+08:00

yesterday was fun. class outing after teacher's day celebration followed by dinner with coach and the rest. class outing was rather normal. the usual arcading session and movie. just that before that we ordered pizza to eat in class together with miss wan and miss sharmila. meanwhile, while waiting for the pizza to arrive, we played corridor soccer. damn fun man.. except that the ball dropped downstairs once.

after that, we went to plaza singapura to watch ratatouille or sth like that. dennis and ming tjong embarked on their usual mission to own the tc4 machine with one coin while waiting for the movie. the show was nice and funny. hhahaha. i guess it deserves its stars and popularity. not a disappointment like...

the movie ended at 6 and the dinner was supposed to be at 5.30. as a result, i had to rush there but got stuck in a stupid jam in the city. my hopes to reach there at 6.30 were dampened and i reached ecp at 7.15. however, the food served was delicious. although i am a bit allergic to seafood, i pretty much enjoyed the food. never tasted such great seafood before. thanks coach! ^^

the dinner ended quite early, at around 8.20. tongyi, the 4 sec1 girls, shiying and coach went bowling while i went home. i wanted to go bowling but my mother and money restricted me. since i had to be home by 9 and it was only 8.20 something, i decided to walk home. i started off at the wakeboarding centre and slowly walked home, enjoying the night breeze. shiok sia. i took 45mins to reach home and i was late lol. but my mum didnt mind. at least it wasnt 10 or 11 was probably her thought.

2007-08-30T21:13:00.000+08:00

1 more week to main papers.. GG

2007-08-25T23:43:00.000+08:00

today was the celebration of grandma's birthday, although her actual birthday was on thursday. had a lot of fun. talking to everyone else since such a long time, played games and too photos of course.i'll probably post 'em tml. needta sleep. zzZzzZzzZ..

2007-08-24T22:24:00.000+08:00

life is getting a lil' weird for me. i got sick by just sleeping in class. wtf? it was ss tutorial and another teacher came in to teach us instead of ms gan who is overseas. apparently, i could not tahan anymore of the day and decided to take a rest. after that i felt uncomfortable and hey presto! i'm sick.

lockup was fun ^^. not at all like house arrest ( disturbia). i listened to kc's mp3 for a while and heard songs new to me, talked and revised a little on maths.

ahh whattheheck, i nid to sleep.

2007-08-18T21:40:00.000+08:00

weeks are finially passing at a slower pace but yet, it's already a week since the unforgettable 8/8/07. i really enjoyed that day. i dunno why but i just feel that way.

anyway, the week has been good and i have enjoyed it very much. last friday kc, gx and me went to watch rush hour3 and then secret. well, rush hour3 rocked although it was a little too short. it was hilarious. secret, however, was boring. many people, everyon else, rather, found it a nice show. probably because i didnt get it.

after that was english O level oral. it was fun; espicially with mr sim as the teacher in charge of our team. he was super funny and jerome kept pestering him to tell us the picture. he didn t buldge but kept saying that we were heartless and wanted to get him sacked. lol. then we were talking while waiting for our turn and told jokes. the exam wasnt that bad and i went better than chinese of course. they asked about what food do i enjoy. i didnt have any favourities. i eat almost anything. my replys were general and had no examples. i hope i am wrong.

then on the following day, marcus and i went for the titration practice. mrs kee was there and she kept finding fault with me haha. she complained about the way i held the pipette when sucking up the liquid, the meniscus... then when i told her that the pipette filler was spoilt, she insisted that it was my lack of skill hahhahaah. i had to show her that it wasnt fault and the pipette slipped out from the pipette filler when i was carrying it to the basin to dispose of the excess alkali sucked in. too bad she only knew the both of us; cant play with the chemicals zzZ. but it was fun. long time no see mrs kee hahahahaa.

prelim practicals are next week and O levels are drawing near. everyone is complaining that i am slack. even my grandmother. haha studies.. i think i got control of it. no problem . i thought of owning but i guess it'll be in my next life when i can even dream of it again. i just dun have the brains and the patience.

i've also found a new way of sleeping fast and that is to read bio. everytime i start reading bio, i start yawning and my eyes begin to close. i cannot concentrate and i spend extra time struggling to understand the concepts. perfect. now everytime i want to sleep, all i nid to do is to read bio. nevertheless, i nid to score in bio. it is currently my best science subject.

2007-08-14T21:08:00.000+08:00

some of the ownage pics taken on cross-counry day wooohooo.

2007-08-08T22:06:00.000+08:00

cross-country '07. the last ever race in chung cheng. wooohooo, pwnage. although i dislike running at east coast, the atmosphere just takes the hatred away. today was great. the whole cohort was rarely this participative and fun. what's more, diligence rocked. everyone was rarely this enthu and we even had time to play whacko before our run. super fun la. we've suddenly came alive.

the run itself was, in a way, enjoyable. although i did not meet my target of catching up with the top 10 girls, i am contented with top 15 haha. thian yong was our saviour for the day and dennis, ming tjong and marcus ran to their very best. everyone did well. jia wei got into top10 (6th) and johnathan got 12. imba. n1 guys =).

after the event, we went on to stay at ECP for te rest of the day. we ate, cycled and bowled. tiring walking here and there but fun owns it all.

we might have won the award but we have became more united and participative. beats anything. i just cant wait for another outing. FOUR Diligence rawks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

2007-08-01T21:09:00.000+08:00

national stadium,a great place. the place where i won my first gold medals during sports day. it is big, cooling and refreshing. the last time i went there was 2 years ago and the feeling there is different but special. now it's gone forever. goodbye national stadium.

2007-07-30T20:51:00.000+08:00

bird sighting at 6pm 30/7/07 on the shore of chung cheng lake.

from afar.

closer...and it flew away. bird watching is tough.

2007-07-29T20:28:00.000+08:00

in memory of races '06 '07 number of pins used

2007-07-26T21:02:00.000+08:00

i've dsa-ed into tjc; took me so long just to decide. things can be changed and my confidence is not there, making the offer almost impossible to reject. i wanted to and still want to go to vjc but scoring 6pts is a feat too incredible for me to achieve. i'll rather attempt it without stress. so, that's it. i will pledge my loyalty to tjc and hope for the best.

here are some unusual scenes recently.
4DL sitting down and doing timed practice QUIETLY without a teacher!!
suspected eutrophication in the lake but apparently the most logical reasonwas insecticide to prevent dengue.
view from innosphere.
another from innosphere.

the great benefit of the tea class. we get to leave through the back stairs and take some pictures from a different place. the soccer court one owns. the grass never looked greener and smoother and the soccer court never looked so... empty.

2007-07-22T00:11:00.000+08:00

i felt that i was doing my job on wed and thurs. wed was the track and field finals, my last time as a b-boy. on that day, we, the competitors, had no tickets and cannot watch the finals. so i had to call shiying to get tickets and call here and there, trying to get tickets for ourselves. it was all wasted after mr khoo and mr ahmad came with extra tickets. i was a bit angry at first but what the hell, i had an event that day. why do i care? i felt exhausted after the phone calls as i could have spent the time resting and after i've settled for a while, it was time for warm up. i dun know how to describle it further but i screwed up my race and that's all i care about. when i finished the race, i felt like doing what i did during the heats. but i decided against it, helping saifuddin instead. he had a good race, just slowing down at the last round. i didnt run my own race, i wasnt talking to myself. it was all wrong. i wasnt in control of myself.

thursday was fine. not too bad, rather. school ended at 1.15 and i played soccer in class with guoxiang, jiayi, kennethyee and marcus. after that, everyone left and i stayed in class to study chem while waiting for brian's and melvin's geog to finish. track dinner at marina square was fun. chester and zhihao came back and many unexpected people turned up like jason and theron for example. i finially ate a proper seoul garden meal and had a bad stomach until today. it was all worth it, after all the torture i had gone through. i reached home late, but i couldnt be happier. cos i studied chem alr.

it has been a couple of weeks when i received a confirmed dsa offer from tjc and i have just gave it some thought recently. at first i thought i would go for it until i heard something from people when i decided to think a little more about it and became negative about dsa, wanting to decline it. until now, i still harbour some thought about decling it but i have also thought of accepting it. i asked mr khoo, my dad came and talk to me and i thought about it myself. i'm just thinking about it alot. my results havent been good since sec1. i always relied on maths to pull, to a large extent, my results up. for example, not to boast, my average flew from 56 to 60 during midyr after i got my emaths result. although some people get higher than me and experience this too, i think their other subjects are better than mine. if the school makes a hall of fame for Cs i think i will be on it. 5Cs omg. it's going to take a lot of hard work and maybe magic to turn them into As. i wont be declining the offer so soon. i will think it over and over again till the 27th. sorry to those whom i have told that i was going to decline the offer.

2007-07-13T23:13:00.000+08:00

the movie screenig of harry potter was no as good as POTC3. this time only gx, kc, ian and i went. the others were busy mainly because of POP for dennis, ming tjong and marcus and sam's olvl music. but it didnt matter much tho. the show wasnt as good as i expected it to me. the story was in bits the special effects only lasted for a while but the show was funny at times. at the last part harry said ' we have something he( voldermot) doesnt have.' and kenneth chew said 'HAIR' hahahahaha and when dumbledore escaped by the phoenix, the guy said ' dumbledore might be old, but you have to admit, he has some style!!' woohoo. ownage la.

after that i left suntec for pasir ris to meet sam and marcus for dinner and arcade. i met sam for dinner and marcus came later with dennis and ming tjong. there, we witnessed the power of mingtjong. he was owning tc4 like crazy until he was too greedy and got killed haha. imagine if dennis played. i spent 6 dollars and 2hours there. unbelievable. we played a variety of games and i found out that HOD3 is quite fun. although its quite old.

it's 11.30 and i still got 2 essays to do for tuition and i have back to back tuition tml. gg for now.

2007-07-11T22:26:00.000+08:00

11/7/07 - a day to remember.

it made my heartbeat faster than anything else. when i was standing before the starting line i felt my heart beating. the whole place was silent. all i heard was the fast beating of my heart. it also made my heart pound as i saw the other competitors cross the finishing line with the timing just a second slower than my timing.

my race was horrible. i was super nervous before the race and i tried to relieve the pressure i have on myself by trying to talk to myself about what mr khoo told me. when i as in the call room i felt calmer and relaxed. but everything got back when it was my heat's turn to start. well, i had a bad start and i think i was last to leave the starting line. next, i was boxed in after 300m and finially i got boxed out on the way to the last lap. it's horrible. i've never been boxed so many times before.the second was the worst. i just went into my pace when this idiot blocked my way. this guy was running on the second lane with two people beside him. for normal people, they would cut in on a curve and i wanted to overtake. hence, i moved up to him and he maintained his pace on lane 2. which person, in the right state of mind, would run on lane 2 on a curve when he can overtake!? so, i was stuck on the inner lane and i waited for that guy to overtake. when he didnt move, i had to slow down, cut out and accelerate again. he totally spoilt my rhythm.

redemption. the only thing i seek from myself. ending my four years in cchm track with an individual achievement.

thanks to everyone who cheered for me. you 'guys' were super loud hahaha. could hear your voices distinctively from opposite the track.

2007-07-06T23:05:00.000+08:00

5 more days till my nats heats. this year the school is doing real well. so far dillian got 3rd and tongyi got 7th. dillian's 3rd is already enough to beat out best points tally ever i guess. the most points i've seen for cchm is like 3? haha. now dillian has 7 and tongyi, 2. i'm glad that peiyi is going on the same day as me haha. she's running 1500 and 4x400. never seen her run since sec2. it's really great to have a cousin competing in nats. i have another cousin, harold, who joined track but he later quitted because he had knee problems.

next week will be a mad week. there is the dsa briefing, english prelim oral, A and E maths tests, physics test, egeog test, 1500 heats, harry potter and the order of the phoneix and all my homework. i thought i could relax before nats but it is not to be. better chiong this weekend before i get fried next week.

2007-07-02T20:44:00.000+08:00

went to watch Transformers with the ziyan, yixiang, mingtjong, dennis, marcus, wongyi, kennethyee and guoxiang today at ps. before the show was the usual arcading session and everyone witnessed dennis complete time crisis 4 with one tap. super imba. we unknowingly stayed there until 12 before going to buy the tickets and caught the 12.35 show. the show rocks!! it was action packed and every second of it is not worth missing.

i spent almost the whole day thinking of the reason why i cant wait for tml. i kept thinking of reasons to hate tml. examples are: timed practice after school, more boring lessons, still no homework done, no rest etcetc. but still, i can think of a good reason. the it struck me. there's no training tml!! finially a weekday off to do whatever shit i want and i dun nid to bring shoes to school. i am also able to sleep late tonight without fearing that i will die the next day during training. so i'll look forward to tml and i shall fulfill my mission to get photos of everyone in class.

2007-06-28T22:36:00.000+08:00

what the hell...

2007-06-28T21:49:00.000+08:00

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.

2007-06-24T21:38:00.000+08:00

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.

2007-06-22T23:08:00.000+08:00

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

2007-06-19T20:59:00.001+08:00

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.

2007-06-12T22:05:00.000+08:00

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.

2007-06-10T20:59:00.000+08:00

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.

2007-06-04T22:18:00.000+08:00

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 ^^.

2007-06-02T23:02:00.000+08:00

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.

2007-05-29T23:29:00.000+08:00

the movie screening of pirates of the caribbean 3 today was great; although the movie wasnt as god as i expected it to be. i guess it deserved it's 2.5 star rating. before the movie was worrying and rushing. wj, wy and i went to kenneth chew's house before were headed to suntec. i went there mainly to view his so called 'imba' diablo 1 character. we chiong-ed lunch, met jw and then walked to suntec. we reached there on time and i was glad to see everyone was still outside. after the show we went to the arcade and i completed stage 1 of HOD4 with kenneth chew for the first time. yeah!! extension week is so far so good for me. i seem to be able to pay attention in bio. now it's time to concentrate on chem lessons. i didnt do my english compo as promised. just too damn lazy to do anything other than to use the com.

2007-05-28T20:54:00.000+08:00

I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY SAVE 45CENTS TODAY. what an achievement i dare say. you might think it's only 45cents, but i went through a lot just to save that 45cents. i think i walked about 6km or so just to save it. lol yeah, i walked home FROM SCHOOL. it must be either the o level stress or marcus. marcus went to CAUSEWAY point today and he lives in PASIR RIS. i thought he was mad but i was madder haha. the idea of walking home came to me when i didnt ask for a plastic bag to put my bubble tea in (doing my job to save the earth ^^). so, i started my long journey home while slowing sipping down the cooling mango ice blended. however, the drink finished by the time i reached katong and i made a stop there, to settle some long awaited things. after that i left the place and continued my long long journey. i followed the 12 route, going along east coast road and then turning past tjc. yeah man, it took me 1.5hrs for me to reach my home. anyway i thought of it as a long delayed plan. i wanted to do that ever since was sec2 but never had the chance because we went lan and played soccer. today, however, i was alone and yup, decided to try out this crazy idea.

oh well, my results were quite cool. i think i have an affinity with Cs lol. in my report the order is this: C B A A C C C C. hahahahahahahhahaha. it's a damn cool trend and my chinese is my 3rd best subject omg. i hope this doesnt repeat itself or else i'll be roasted the very next day i get my results. i dun noe what's my problem now but i think i'll be able to solve it.

O level chinese! 28/5/07, what a date to rmb. it's my first o level exam ever! the experience was great. there wasnt a need to write my awesome*, beautiful*, great*, lovely*, ownage*, amazing* name ( *=bullshit. i just love my name, that's all =P). the paper was quite okay i guess.. i better nt say too much; or else my results would end up like mid year.

i've got around 8 or 9 more weeks left as a cch tracker and also as a captain. well, every other sec4 has retired alr and melvin did so reluctantly. well, i guess there are both good and bad memories which i will think of once i've stepped down. i wont say 'retired' because i think i'm gonna join track again in jc. nonetheless, it's as if my contract has just ended and i'm looking for a more challenging job. i shall not be too emo abt my last weeks because it makes me look as if its the end of the world haha.

enjoy life; it's fun

2007-05-21T22:04:00.000+08:00

i was on the bus today going towards paya lebar mrt when i overheard a conversation among 3 tkss guys one of them had a L1R5 of 22. they were probably from one of the top classes in their school because the boy who had 22points was given 'silent treatment' from his parents and he aimed for 7points for prelim. the other two were saying that 22points was damn LOW. one other guy said that he got 15pts and was already considered lousy in his class. wthell sia.. when i heard that i was pretty angry. i've got 22pts and how dare they say that 22pts is LOW. i have to admit that 22pts isnt a desirable L1R5 but i've tried my best. maybe it's guilty conscience for nt studying well enough. well anyway i got 2As, 1B and 5Cs. how abt that! lol.

oh yes, digressing a lil'. today, when i was at tampines, i saw fahmi, the ngeeann guy i won during the 4 schools' meet. well yeah, something crossed my mind when i saw him. we are friends but during a competition, we become enemies and he is my worst enemy. i felt bad abt it. it's difficult to put aside friendship just for 5mins of your life and in that time anything can happen. sometimes i wonder how soccer players can handle this feeling. they play together as a team in their club but once they play in the world-cup, they become enemies. werid, this feeling. why didnt i feel it when i was training with brian... lol.

hahaha. to lighten up abit, today was damn funny. sam was at his usual self; nt daring to walk when someone was there. funny thing lol. he was damn scared, so scared that he said he wont disturb me anymore if we walked the other way. i had to listen, of course. sam might result to dirty techniques just to get what he wants haha.

2007-05-20T02:27:00.000+08:00

time: 2.38am.
this is the latest i've stayed up ever since february i think. chinese 'O' levels is in a week's time and i've got lots of tuition to do. too much stress relieving over the past week liao. i had no mood to sit down and study chinese at all and now i'm staying up late just to finish my hw and my tuition is at 8. i hope i can get a gd result and i can put it aside until next year. hmmm. it's just 1yr and 1 week more of chinese and we wont be studying for it anymore! ( with the exception of the higher chinese ppl) woohooo.

oh yeah, i finially went to friendster and updated my profile. it's much emptier now but there's a change =). anyway, i realised that my last comment was 28/4 which i didnt take notice of lol. so i decided to go round typing comments for people and i had a lot of people in mind but the problem was that i had nth to talk abt lol. damnit. GIMME STH TO WRITE ABT!!!

2007-05-17T21:11:00.000+08:00

the last day of debrief ended on a imba note. lol. it's imba because it was a mix of happy and sad moments. since it has ups and downs, it is therefore imba ^^. well, this mid yr sucked and i guess everyone feels the same way because most of their msn nicks are on how they feel abt mid yr and it's negative. today was gd cos of a maths and other things but bad becos of physics. lol. the bear on the loose has caused serious damage to our already dying hopes of getting A for physics. i dun understand it. i keep failing paper 2 and my paper 1 keeps saving me( except for chem) for my sciences. the whole /120 thing is like a physcological barrier. one must get 90 for an A1 and normally if one gets 90 the person is rated 'imba'. it's kinda impossible but i think it will soon become a walk in a park during prelims.

my results arent that bad tho. just a rather minor deprovement of about 3marks in my average and +3 in L1R5. my sciences were all off. i felt confident after the paper but it didnt help one bit lol. the only subject i can compare with people is emaths and my score isnt the 'WAH OWNAGE' kind but more towards the ' wah....ownage la' kind. i've got an array of grades tho. all ranging from 1 to 7 lol.

chinese O levels are in less than 2 weeks time oh no. it's like nearing to the end of my life. i havent made any efforts to try and improve my chinese. better start preparing..

2007-05-14T21:28:00.000+08:00

today was a horrible start to a four-day debrief torture. my results sucked so much that it vaccums. my english deproved by a great deal and i failed chemistry. at least a small consolation was that i improved in paper 1 & 2 for chinese ^^. chem was imba. when i sat down and looked closer at my marks, i felt a rush of warmth flowing in my blood lol. what the hell was that? i dun care and my chem got 48. i couldnt believe it at first, but when i opened up the paper and flipped through, i realised that i deserved to fail. careless mistakes caused me about 6 or 7 marks due to mixing up of molecular and empirical formulas and dividng kg over g instead of converting it. the others.. i'm nt too sure. i just knew that i did badly because i didnt study everything. i studied selectively and also did nt pay a single attention to chem class after the annual sports meet. i only have myself to blame. haha. the funny part was that no one believed that i failed because i didnt look like it lol. why? try self-denial, it works. i managed to physco myself nt to think about it and besides, i could use it as a springboard to propel me further. with tis mark, it will be engraved in my mind deeply and i wont forget it. in future, during tests, i will do my best and show that i can do well for chem ^^. my mum was pissed too haha. completely understandable. she thought that my chem is fine and i can improve on last year's mark. i didnt let my dad know. if he knows of it, he would insist that i go for tuition which, to me, is a waste of time and money. all i need is just more time with chem.

i hope the next 3 days would be so bad and i better nt expect too high grades for this exam alr. my new target fr mye '07: 1 A1. a really realistic target. i have never gotten more than 1 A1 in my entire secondary life and i believe this streak is gonna continue for now.

2007-05-12T00:16:00.000+08:00

muhahaha. the exams are finially over yesterday. this mid-yr was great i think. there were very little questions that left me stumped. i hope i can do well if nt i will have to kena loads of tuitions.

Chemistry- nt too bad. nth much to say. it was like last yr except that i feel more confident.
Social Studies-pwnage!! nothing i studied came out for seq but i managed to bullshit two pages wahooo.
Amaths- the worst ever paper. damnit. no confidence at all and only pia egeog. my amaths cant seem to find its form during major exams.
Egeog- another pwnage paper. i never enjoyed so much from studying selectively before. what i studied for manufacturing came out and the EM qn was quite easy to bullshit abt.
Emaths P1- i think this time i wont get shitty marks alr; spent about 7 hrs preparing for it ^^
Biology- yeahhhh super funny paper. i managed to finish the syllabus except mircoorganisms, causing me around 7 marks. it's much better as compared to last year's 30marks. so, i managed to know how to do most of the questions. the funniest part of the paper was vincent hahaha. i was doing the paper halfway when i noticed that he was sleeping. then suddenly, he got up and started writing like mad. at that moment i was stunned and thought he damn imba after sleeping. but after the exam it turned out that he dunno wad to write for bio and wrote his chinese literature stuff instead. LOL.
Physics- this paper was quite bad too. i studied the sec4 work like mad and then nt much of it came out. furthermore, the questions all werid werid one, difficult to answer.
Emaths P2- the most irritating paper, affected my listening compre. i wasnt able to do a vector qn and the qn came out alot of times before summore; just that i thought it wont come out -.-'' nvm, at least i have mistakes to learn from. i was damn dulan after that and did want to do listening compre alr.

that's about all for the past few days of exams. on the other hand, i've found a new place to study for the exams: pasir ris. there is super imba. there are no distractions and my companions, sam and dingjie were busy studying and i was forced to do so too. it's nt like home whr i can walk around, make some noise or even use the computer. besides, white sands has just been renovated and there is a new food court where i can try out some new food. however, this exam there is no trend. i realised that every year i would play the day before the exam and pia at night. for sec2 we played lan, sec 3 soccer and now, pasir ris lol. but i went to lan and marcus's house too. i went to lan when there are relaxed papers the next day. marcus's house was an out of this world decision when sam, marcus and i were eating after one paper, we thought of going to marcus's house to play NBA live as we had a lot of time after emaths paper1. apparently after that we were hooked and kept going there to play until sam borrowed the NBA live from marcus which was actually borrowed from suan kai lol. after that was already emaths paper2 and i went lan again. now the exams are over and i'm glad that the last exam in the hall until prelim was, in a way, memorable for me.

now for some post exam stuff. after listening, the usual soccer peeps went to cage to play or two hrs. after that, we splitted and some went off earlier and the remaining of us went to slack at the coffee shop next to the place where gabriel, yongsheng and eeruey ate. i skipped lunch at mac because i still had my sore throat and had an ice-cream instead. mmmm.

on marking day was the 3rd suisen outing and we celebrated marianne's birthday too. although only 6 of us turned up, as vincent said, ' we happy can alr'. we met early and bought marianne's cake while we was still doing her bio paper in sch. after that we walked like mad to kill time and i went to find a suitable shop which sells flowers for mothers' day. after that we went to sakae instead of seoul garden to eat. this is the fun part. in order to kill time while waiting for our orders to come, we played a game and the loser had to eat a wasabi filled sushi. hahaha. at first kanglong, vincent and sean all tio and theni got aimed and kena one super imba sushi. the wasabi went from my nose to my ear to my eyes lol. the taste was crazy. all i tasted was just pure wasabi and nothing else. after lunch, we rushed to shaw to watch spiderman3. the show was damn funny. kanglong and vincent laughed like mad during the show. there was this part when harry and peter met after mary jane rejected peter on the bridge and peter complained that there was another guy in the way. then, harry said ' she didnt tell you?( that she got fired) she told me.................. that guy is me.' OUUCCHH. i know it's nt funny but harry was damn straightforward and imagine the pain peter felt as his heart broke into a million pieces. there was also another funny part when peter met mary jane on the bridge. peter went with a bouquet of flowers and said ' penis?' hawhawhawhawhaw. when it was that scene, kanglong and vincent burst in laughter. overall i think its a gd show. it's all rounded in the sense that it has a gd plot as well as being action packed. harry osborn is like a cat. he escaped death twice in the show and the sandman also damn imba. i thought harry and peter could be partners and the sandman would vanish into thin air after parker has fulfilled his dream. after the movie we went to douby ghaut to play arcade a while before 'going home'. i was pulled from the train to eat tau huey near jomel's house zzz. oh yes, i bought my mother as well as my grandmother flowers as a form as mothers' day gift. i hope they'll like it as it is my first ever mothers' day gift. i think it's quite fun thinking of what to buy for them and also the feeling of getting something for someone is great. maybe i shld get some birthday presents for others. haha. but i dunno what to buy for ppl around my age. there's nth specific to buy and i cant think of anything that one would like.

2007-04-30T19:30:00.000+08:00

never run 2.4km with broken school shoes. i did that and it 'spoiled' both my legs. lol. both my knees hurt badly. what's more, my calf was damn tight and now my ad ductor is also tight. maybe that's what happens if i drop from thrice a week training to only once a week training. everywhere ache. owww.

i've got a sore throat for almost a week alr. wonder why is it taking so long to heal. normally it would only last for a day or two. i wont say that it caused my 2.4 to suck but my sickness did. i re-runned my 2.4 today for fun and i felt the strain. i'm nt gonna qualify for nats if this carries on. i muuusssttt qualify! nats is gonna be hard; so many pro sec3s. there are alr 3 sec3 sports sch boys who can win me zomg. but nevertheless, i shall train and win them heh heh ^^.

well, retook my broad jump today and jumped 229. lol. that's a B for me and left me shocked. sam jumped later and he was also imba. bu according to him, he is that imba so.. i am also imba muhahahah. this means...... a fourth gold!!! btw, i only learnt that gold was spelled like that and nt goal when i won my 1500m. werid aye.. deprived of golds. pe was great like it has always been.

2007-04-27T20:31:00.000+08:00

damn. today's EV sucked. i only said 1 sentence or so. lol. i wasnt really prepared to answer any questions and i wasnt planning to too. i was sick ytd and didnt go for the briefing. hence, i decided to not go until i thought that it's my responsibility to ask about the venue and all the details.

the rest of the day was very much normal except one lesson which was quite interesting =P. the highlight, however, was the heavy downpour ^^. well, deprived or what i dont care but it has been a long long time since i ran or walked in the rain. i walked i the rain for a few seconds and stepped into every puddle i could find lol. there are many opportunities to come i'm sure ^^.

2007-04-26T21:39:00.000+08:00

sick and stranded at home. slept at 9.45 last night and woke up at 10.30. watched tv and read outdated sports news on outdated newspapers. after lunch, i slept again for another 2hrs. after that, i woke up to study and slept for another 2hrs in the evening. lol. it was damn relaxing. no stress and i never had so much sleep in my entire life before.

my sickness started yesterday in school during physics lesson. my whole body felt very weak and i got a feeling of a sore throat. i decided to go and see a doctor to so that i wont stay sick for so long. i still have to train for nats in july ^^. when i went to the clinic, it was closed until 6 =(. so i went to packet some food and went home for a nap. i then went to the clinic at 6 and wan the bronze medalist. dammnit. i was in silver position when this man and his daughter walked i front of me. anyway i doesnt matter; i'll still get to see the doctor eventually.

now i feel much better and i hope i can run in a few days time! if not at least by monday or else my pe will be wasted.

2007-04-24T19:25:00.000+08:00

1 month: 5 competitive races and 1 fitness test. physical torture has ceased for a while. now its all about mental torture. out of the 6 runs, only 1 impressed. damnit. what the hell did i do?

i guess it's a gd thing. every bad run has it learning points. although every gd run also has its learning points, there are not as many as a bad run. i think now i know my event inside out.

anyway, today was my 2.4km make-up run. it didnt suck and it didnt rock. i ran 8.45, my sec 2 timing. i was damn sian at that time and mr khoo suan-ed me lol. he told me that i have not beaten his best time of 8.37. well, i could have beaten that anytime but dunno why i am unabe to do so. i played basketball last year and this year? hm. no warm up? too tired? excuses. i feel that one should not find fault with everything under the sun. i prefer to blame myself. this way i will know that i have disappointed myself once and i wont do it again. it's a gd thing for me to do badly tho. i have hit the ground alr. the time to get up will be soon enough.

i cut my hair today and i look super funny ( but its straight ^^ ). i think i need a cap.

summary of the past two mid yr papers:

english was quite easy. i thought i did my compo quite well and i put in a little more effort in situational writing than during class practices. the compre was a little tougher. i didnt understand much of the passage and just roughly roughly.

chinese was a much different story. i struggled a bit on paper 1. i sent quite sometime doing the yin yong wen. the compo was quite difficult to write about. i hope my bs is acceptable. sam was damn funny. he laughed and said tat i checked the dictionary a lot of times. well, at least he knows the real reason now ^^.

2007-04-21T20:35:00.000+08:00

today was the 1500m finals for the national junior championships. i guess it wasnt too bad although coach said that i did not run the proper way. i totally agree with him and that happened to me many times alr. that's the problem with running with a blank mind. i think next time i run i must make sure it stays in my head.

despite my timing being off my pb, i'm quite happy because i wont be over-confident or have no confidence in my next race. if i did well today, my ego might kill me during nationals and i dont want that to happen. complacency has caused me golds during the combined athletes' meet.

if i did badly, i would feel depressed and i wont be too adventurous although i will be wanting to redeem myself. at least now i know my mark and know where to aim with confidence.

mid yr is just round the corner and i have not studied anything yet. i think i'll have to change my targets to something lower. i'll try my best nt to go on the com because once the com is on, i will be at it for hours before i go off. good luck to all for mid yr.

2007-04-19T22:00:00.000+08:00

today was napfa test for half the sec4s. it was quite a fun session and our last in cch.

my class's first station was shuttle run. i ran rather slow and wasnt serious. but who cares? i still got an A, dun nid retry. hahahahaa. that was my thought then.

after that was pull ups and sit and reach. i got B and A for those repectively. i was happy with myself at doing 6 pull ups, although not impressive. in fact, i felt that i had no more stress alr and the gold is in my hands ^^.

next was the huge blow. i was over confident and aimed too high for standing board jump. i thought i could get an A and anyhow-ed both jumps. shit. now my gold's gone with the wind. noooooooo. i have to resort to backdoor means to achieve it and that sucks. what had happened was imba. my ego inflated until it was as big as a hot air balloon and it burst instantly at its peak, bringing me back to earth with a loud THUD! owww. but right now all i can do is to look back and correct my past errors. it's no point dwelling on it as it will never change.

the gold is important to me because i need to continue my streak. anyway, it's gd for me to jump less to reduce impact injury on my knees. besides, i think it is a marvellous achievement to get a B for pull-ups ^^. i still got 2.4 tho. i hope i dun get D again. if nt i think i'm better off dead.

on the bright side, mid yr's round the corner! i cant believe it. just 2-3 weeks and i'll be training again. there are just so many things i can do after mid yr. i can relax in my comfortable dunno how many yr old chair and dream about my o level cert and my cca achievements. even then i can sit on my chair all day and watch different movies, play miniclip games -.- and anything but the 5 letter S word. ' slack ' is just a few letters a away from ' success ' it wont take long to change.

back down to earth now. starting from now will be about 2 plus weeks of mental torture. the books are so damn thick and we have to study all that is thought in 1.5 yrs. how the hell am i gonna do that in 24hrs?

' when there's a will, there's a way ' the imba-ness of this inspirational words shall fill my mind and give me the extra boost needed to go all the way and achieve what i want. roooaaarrr! lol. study until cry.

2007-04-15T22:56:00.000+08:00

i went for national juniors today and got owned. in fact, it sucked so much it vaccumed. anyway, i was way off my timing and cant even overtake some peopl i have won before. disappointing again. i just dun understnd why i cant be consistent in my runs. my 1500m timing has been over a very large range of about 10secs or so and that is a lot. 10secs is all an olympic champion needs to complete 100m although 10secs isnt 100m for 16yr olds.

thankfully, i qualified. i was the second last to be called. well, i guess it's good to go into a race as the underdog ^^. i plan to own tho haha. gonna do what i did for combined; except to let someone attempt to overtake me at the last 40m. i am given a second chance and i will definitely try my best not foil it.

2007-04-14T00:11:00.000+08:00

yesterday was the 27th annual combined atheletics meet. the day didnt went that badly although it was known to be black friday. everything went smoothly until my pledge haha. i fumbled a bit, mixing up two short lines. it wasnt that embarrassing then because i had a race to concentrate on and i memorised the pledge instead of reading it from a piece of paper. but after further thought about it, it was really rather embarrassing for me to do such a thing in front of 4 schools. anyway, at least i did not stutter or say the pledge too fast like i always did. so, i guess that i ought to be happy about my performance.

now to the races. our 4x400 b boys got 2nd and i think its my fault. i didnt push hard enough and didnt overtake the ngee ann guy. if i did so, brian would have a lead and the others have to play his game. this made me feel very disturbed or maybe just sad. melvin did very well, doing his best despite being behind and zhanhong pushed despite being totally drained. brian also caught up with the first guy but lost. what did i do? lol. i think its because i havent been running 400m for too long and i seem like i have lost my determination to continue to run. for my 1500m, i didnt give up when i saw the nas runner cutting me and i charged to the end. for my 800m and 4x400m i slowed down and gave up when i saw the person in front of me. i'll just have to hope that things would change for my national junior championships tml. somehow i felt like i have let everyone down. everyone who wished me good luck and everyone who supported us. they wished me good luck and yet i didnt go at my fastest. that's just depressing for me.

on the other hand, the most memorable race ytd was the 20x100 relay. that race showed a lot of determination. every runner did not give up hope and kept chasing the first runners. the best was when the third runner fell down but got up on her feet again almost immediately and continued the race. that is the true spirit of detemination. joel was the hero for the day when he caught up with the duman runner and gave cch the vital lead which was enough for us to win. great stuff from everyone, on overcoming a large lead.

last night was the track dinner. nothing much happened; other than making a mixture of food to eat and going to play pool. it was just a regular track and field get together and to celebrate the end of a tiring three weeks.

congrats to all prize winners on winning.

2007-04-12T21:49:00.000+08:00

tml's the 27th annual combined atheletics meet. so much things to do, so much things to be afraid of. this is the first time i am worried the day before a race but not worried about the race. i have to memorize the pledge and is super short lol. however, the problem is that i will get nevous in front of so many people. hope everything will turn out fine tml.

zomg. i am so scared abt tml that i forgot about today's prelim oral lol. well, today's oral didnt seem like a prelim oral. all of us were super slack; talking to each other while waiting for our turn. my turn finially came at 5plus tho, almost 3hours since we stepped into the grand audi. anyway it went quite well, the reading aloud was easy except for a few words. i think i only said less than 10 sentences before the teacher cut me short and told me that i could go. when she told me that, i was a bit shocked. that was my fastest oral exam! i think she must have felt very tired and wanted to go home faster. i didnt rly think much of it. no matter the result, it's 'o' levels which counts. this is just a test to see how bad my chinese is and i hope it isnt bad to a large extent.

good luck to everyone tml. thanks for all the good lucks too. i'll need it ^^.

2007-04-09T22:17:00.000+08:00

today was a fun day. i woke up at 5 am and reached school at 6.30. it was damn fun; the whole estate was in darkness, except for the street lamps. i decided to scare myself my telling myself that an old lady walking towards me was a ghost. luckily she wasnt; if not i wont be in school today.

we played table tennis for pe and basketball during lunch. table tennis was fun; owned sam 4-1 4-1 haha. so fun and funny. when it was lunch, i was left with the burden of booking a court. instead of buying a meal to happily chow on, i was given a basketball to book a court. anyway i felt full because of recess and didnt mind. after playing for quite sometime, three people wearing basketball jerseys came running to the basketball court and ran a riot. although it was chaotic, it added spice to the game ^^.

when i was walking home at around 7plus, my sis called me from the clinic and told me that she will be late for dinner. when i told my grandmother that, she started to get worried and asked me to go and fetch her. since i was free and walking in the dark was fun, i went with her idea and went to find my is after dinner. it turned out that she had a muscle sprain and wanted to use it as an excuse -.- . when i reached home, my parents were back from hong kong and they bought a huge bag of different kinds of chips. gonna bring some to sch tml and eat during timed practice lol.

2007-04-06T22:10:00.000+08:00

today was 4DL's second 'class outing'. it's 'class outing' because only 11ppl turned up. probably becos midyr is near or other commitments. anyway the day went rather fast. we spent close to 2hrs at the arcade before going to ps to purchase tickets to ' meet the robinsons'. after that we went to eat and went to the arcade again. the two girls must have been super bored; hope they have enjoyed it. anyway after the movie, the group of us separated as some of us went home and some went for dinner. i had to go home becos my parents were overseas. as my parents are overseas, i needed to take dinner at home because if i stayed out late, my grandmother would tell my parents and i am dead. i am not allowed to go out anymore ever since the last suisen outing. sadded lol.

into greater detail, i think i am much better off now. i can aim properly alr and i can own like mad now hahahahahaha. sadly, i lost to a small boy in outrun2 lol. when he won he was super happy, looking at me with a ' you just got owned by a small boy, noob' look. well, i was trying manual so i have nothing to say. on the other hand, ziyan and johnathan started playing the basketball game and all of us got addicted too. we kept aiming for level 3 but to no avail and also 2 ladies beside us had scored 300plus baskets. zomg.

meet the robinsons was just an average show. it lasted only 90mins and there was 25mins of advertisement before the show started. the show was only funny at some parts but the storyline is better than mr bean's.

2007-04-05T21:39:00.000+08:00

ahhhhhhh. i lost. nooooooo. i feel sad, depressed, sian, unhappy, disatisfied but i somehow feel that the winner deserved his win, his gold. i won him by a hair in 1500m, he won me by 1-2secs in 800m. fair and square haha. i only have myself to blame tho. i did two hard workouts on monday. firstly, i pia-ed the two rounds around school despite feeling weakened. secondly, i also did a time trial on that day in the evening. apparently, the amount of time needed to recover was 7 days and monday is 2 days away from thursday. soooo, MY FAULT. nooo. nvvvmm. there is still nationals heh heh. mus pia then. oh yes. he deserved his win because he trained hard and i thought that he fought very hard for it. the way he sticked so close to me and his final burst. imba.

grats to jin kai tho. he did the 'jin kai special'. charging 400m and totally destroying the hopes of other ppl. fabulous. it was the first time we, everyone there supporting, saw him chiong to the very end.

i have decided to abandon the five grateful things because i received a complain that it was irritating. lol. fine. i'll just do it mentally.

2007-04-04T23:15:00.000+08:00

five things that i am grateful for today.

1. i am grateful that tongyi and jinkai came for training.
2. i am grateful that i didnt have to go up to the stage.
3. i am grateful that lab lessons werent too murderous.
4. i am grateful that i managed to solve a maths qn with the help of marcus.
5. i am grateful that the bus came shortly despite me missing the one before.

2007-04-03T22:12:00.000+08:00

five things i am grateful for today ^^:

1. i am grateful that physics test was easy
2. i am grateful that i spent time on chinese
3. i am grateful that i gt enough sleep
4. i am grateful that i got enough money to pay back my debts
5. i am grateful that my chem tests didnt fail like the last time.

today mr chua(gary) was damn funny. a few of us didnt take the physics test last week had waited forhm outside the physics lab today after school. after waiting for him for a long time, he finially arrived but said that he forgot to bring the test papers and needed to check the if there were any extras in the physics preparation room. after a short while, he came out and told us that there were none. he asked if we could take it tml and everyone protested, giving all sorts of excuses. he finially decided to go home and take while we waited for him. when we were about to go for lunch, he suddenly came out of the preparation room with two test papers. lol.

2007-04-02T22:43:00.000+08:00

it has been 11 days since i started the five things thingy. it is supposed to last for a month i think. seems like i am on track. just 19 more days ^^.

five things i am grateful for today:

1. i am grateful that i finially get to run during pe.
2. i am grateful that i wasnt selected for the interview.
3. i am grateful that my internet connection did not die.
4. i am grateful that i understood a bit of bio.
5. i am grateful for the light behind the curtains, giving us some entertainment duing boring assembly lol.

2007-04-01T21:32:00.000+08:00

five thing i am grateful for today:

1. i am grateful that the torturous weekend is over
2. i am grateful that april fools was fun
3. i am grateful that i managed to complete all my tuition hw on time
4. i am grateful that i gt enough slp today ^^
5. i am grateful that nothing bad happened today

i got fooled by serene today. lol. but i managed to expose sam and dj's ploys ^^. i must say, i really fell for it; it seemed too true. i think we must be thankful that april fools this yr is on a sunday. if its a school day, i think every few moments someone will get jacked pretty bad.

2007-03-31T23:08:00.000+08:00

ahhaha. these we taken on the 29th of march. it was raining and everyone stayed back. some, like me, stayed back to wait the rain to stop. some waited for friend in other classes ending later and some stayed back fo class deco. our class's notice board is crap and we needed to make it presentable. i had to leave early, nid to catch some slp. when ming tjong said that we might be adopting guo xang's idea of putting up everyone's photo, i decided to take handsome photos of everyone ^^.

kenneth yee, ian, kenneth chew, weisheng, ziyan, mingtjong( sent to the slaughter), jiawei and johnathan and dennis 'fighting'. dennis was rubbing his nose and johnathan was turning around.

2007-03-31T23:01:00.000+08:00

five things i am gateful for today:

1. i am grateful that the rain stopped in time.
2. i am grateful that i had 9hrs of slp.
3. i am grateful that i managed to do some ailen questions.
4. i am grateful that the track wasnt so wet.
5. i am grateful that the grass smelled fresh after the rain.

2007-03-30T23:39:00.000+08:00

five things that i am grateful for today.

1. i am grateful that everyone cheered for me
2. i am grateful that brian's past trickery has came in handy for me
3. i am grateful that i skipped vectors test
4. i am grateful that i was not over confident
5. i am grateful that the bus we took was comfortable

2007-03-30T22:20:00.000+08:00

today was the first day of the four schools combined sports meet. our school is currently second with 6 golds. muahahaha. today was rather cloudy and it rained a little bit. i think this is the best weather to run. my event was the1500m B boys. it was rather a rush; possibly due to the weather. the events after the interval started quickly and the duration between each event was about 7 mins instead of the supposed 15mins. hence, i only reported after the C boys started, which was only abt 7 mins before my event. i had to ask coach for advice and also to get my spikes from dillian. after that, i saw my main opponent. luckily because of the rush i had no time to think of his pro-ness. after putting down my stuff, i went to the back to stretch. soon after, it was our turn. i used my strategy for the starting and i guess it worked. i had a great start. however, i almost lost due to complacency. i thought that i had a good lead and did not push to the finishing line. my main opponent charged passed me at the last forty metres. i quickly chiong and thankfully, won by a whisker. phew.

here are some pics taken by my coach haha. i look werid when i run lol.

first round.

second round. final round.

MELVIN!!! why you so demoralised.. you dun suck la. wasnt ur hip pain? surely when it recovers you will definitely do much better. dun think too much abt training so much and yet losing. you still got 800m and you mus redeem urself then! jiayou ok?

2007-03-29T23:06:00.000+08:00

five things i am grateful for today( 29/3/07):

1. i am grateful that it rained.
2. i am grateful that the bus reached the bus-stop as soon as i did.
3. i am grateful that i dun have to study for physics test tml.
4. i am grateful that i managed to stay awake during lessons.
5. i am grateful that i did nt get caught.

2007-03-28T22:25:00.000+08:00

five things i am grateful for today, 28/3/07:

1. i am REALLY grateful that sam didnt sabo me
2. i am grateful that i survived the whole day without dozing off
3. i am grateful that the rain stopped in time
4. i am grateful that i can feel my pace properly
5. i am grateful that i still have money to last me till fri

2007-03-28T00:09:00.000+08:00

woah siao liao! too late! this post is supposed to be posted on the 27th but now its 12.14, i think -.-''.

today was a fun day. our supposed suisen outing became an outing of 6 lol. nevertheless, we had loads of fun. the day started off brightly, literally. the sun was up very early and the short walk from 4DL to parade square made me perspire until my shirt was almost completely drenched. after that, lessons resumed as any other day. i realised that lessons have became very slack. it doesnt matter if i listen or not and i still get what i plan to yield from it. take egeog today for example. i planned to nt learn anything and was prepared to slack. HOWEVER, my egeog teacher is mrs ho. i can neither sleep nor talk. wth, it's like being forced to listen. it was quite interesting tho, the pyramid of primary, secondary and tertiary developement. hmm, mayb that wasnt a good example. i'll use e maths then. i planned to just copy answers for emaths today and i did, paying little attention to ms sharmila's wise mathematical words lol. for chem, most of my tests failed and i could test for nothing. i added NaOH to a solution and nothing happened. sam did an experiment and there were 4 layers of different colours in the test tube. imba. it looked like those kind of rainbow or traffic light ice cream i used to eat.

after school ended at 1.15, some of us went to play basketball to relax before timed practice. luckily we were nt scolded when we went late; must be sam's aura. the timed practice was rather easy to me. i cant believe that ms kaur told us that the paper was a bit difficult. i think she is gonna mark very strictly and fail me after i suan her so many times haha. speaking of that, i think i should control myself. sometimes lessons are so boring or that i have nothing to do but to say stupid things that might attack the teacher or other ppl personally. i think it's selfish of me to do such a thing as i am just contributing noise to the class and it might also affect everyone else as it wastes time. mayb i shld try to be a gd boy now in class ^^( dun laugh).

anyway, after the timed practice, i had a bit of time and went to play basketball for a while. after abt 5 to 10 mins or so, zijian called me and asked me if i was going for the nike+ipod trials thingy. so we met up and went to the canteen. once there, we saw the sec2 boys and together, we tried the new technology out. the special feature that they are trying to promote is that the ipod is able to tell the runner the amt of calories burnt, time taken, pace, how much distance left etcetc. there is a receiver plugged into the usb port of the ipod and the reader or something like that is placed in a special compartment in the insole of the shoe. cool eh? after that, we went for a short run to test it. nt bad tho, burnt 23 calories. what's more, the programme can record all your previous runs and plot a graph. you can also set personal targets of wad distance in how long. one can even challenge another to see who clocks the best time or covers the most distance.

after lunch( at 4.15), i went back to class to check if i was missing anything because my bag was super light. i met jomel and marianne on the way there. after contacting everyone of where we are going for the suisen outing, we left school for tampines. oh yeah, it was jomel's birthday and she was walking around with a big balloon haha. on they way to the bus stop, we decided to go zion to find greg and vincent and let jomel go to a lan shop for the first time in her life i think. jomel kept emphasizing on the fact that she didnt want to get caught and came up with a few funny reasons if she and marianne were caught. we saw greg and vincent there and they said that they would take a cab there once they are done. we reached tampines at 6.30 and kanglong reached at 6.45. we could still catch the 6.40 movie BUT vincent and greg were late. so we decided to go and have dinner first and watch the 8.50 show. we were laughing like mad very often. then, when it was time, we went into the cinema and watched the show. lol. we watched mr bean, btw. although it was hilarious, the storyline was very boring. i guess it deserved its rating. after the movie, vincent lost his phone and we started looking high and low for it. we searched until the end of the credits but to no avail. luckily, kanglong said that it might be stuck between seats because it was a thin phone. true enough, it was found. somewhat like a mr bean kind of thing, with the exception of running around chasing a chicken just to get a bus ticket.

overall, its super fun today. i never stayed out so late on a day before a schoolday before. muhahahahahaha.

five things i am grateful for today:

1. i am grateful that i didnt get scolded for reaching home overtime.
2. i am grateful that timed practice was easy.
3. i am grateful that no one pang seh-ed today.
4. i am grateful that we didnt eat fast food for dinner.
5. i am grateful that there is no homework today!!!!

2007-03-26T22:35:00.000+08:00

five things i am grateful for today:

1. i am grateful that sam did not sabo me
2. i am grateful that there is no homework today
3. i am grateful that the rain poured after i have reached school
4. i am grateful that every lesson was slack today
5. i am grateful that my dad allowed me to stay out tml

damn, it's getting more and more difficult to find things that i am grateful for. today was another day with 2hrs of assembly, split by a lunch break. the first hr was cheering practice for the sports meet. hardly anyone bothered to cheer and when asked to cheer class by class, madman wong yi put up his hand. omg, if this happens during the sports meet, it will really suck. why cant everyone just do their part in supporting the school?

i shall not say anymore negative stuff alr. negative things are so easy to remember as compared to good things.

2007-03-25T23:20:00.000+08:00

five things i am grateful for today:

1. i am grateful that it didnt rain today
2. i am grateful that i did not get scolded for nt doing tuition homework
3. i am grateful that i managed to do a bit of school homework
4. i am grateful that the tortuous weekend is over
5. i am grateful that i got enough sleep today

it was super hot today. the sky was clear and there were totally no clouds in the sky. even at 6, it was very hot. my sis complained that it was 'hot like hell' today when she walked home from the bus stop. at first i didnt believe that it could be hot to such an extent after it had rained in the previous few evenings and also last night. i realised that she was right when i stepped out of the house at around 4. the heat was equal to that of an afternoon sun. nevertheless tho, i managed to take a nap without the fan or aircon switched on.

its back to school tml and 5 more days to combine. jiayous in advance to all who are taking part.

2007-03-24T23:29:00.000+08:00

today was the kayaking expedition. it was damn fun. ivan and i went around banging into other ppl's kayaks for fun. the trip was rather short tho. it was only a few kilometres from pasir ris beach and we took 50mins to reach there. as compared to the 17plus km and 7 hours of kayaking in obs, those few kilometres were no kick ^^. a few of us also tried kayaking with our hands and it was quite fast, except for turning.

anyway, here are the five things i am grateful for today.

1. i am grateful that it did not rain during kayaking today
2. i am grateful that i didnt capsize during kayaking today
3. i am grateful that i had a sumptous dinner at century square
4. i am grateful that it wasnt muddy at the beach
5. i am grateful that i didnt lose my specs in sea

2007-03-23T21:22:00.000+08:00

5 things i'm grateful for today:

1. i'm grateful that the rain stopped after 20mins during training.
2. i'm grateful that brian, gab, melv, zy and js came to train today.
3. i'm grateful that i managed to catch some sleep in class.
4. i'm grateful that everything during training went smoothly.
5. i'm grateful that liu lao shi did not come today so we could do our yin yong wen muo xie differently.

2007-03-22T21:57:00.000+08:00

five things i'm grateful for today:

1. i am grateful that it didnt rain until i got home today
2. i am grateful that i have completed egeog homework during english
3. i am grateful that i did not fall asleep during tuition
4. i am grateful that the bus came the moment i reached the bus-stop
5. i am grateful that i had a sumptous and filling lunch today cooked by my grandmother

yesterday during charisma, ms khairani told us to write 5 things we are grateful for. i think the result of this is quite positive if one does it everyday. anyway, i wanna try it. it'll be cool. i think its quite true that people tend to remember the bad things that happen to them instead of the good things that happen to them. things might be a blessing in disguise. even if it is not, one can twist it to make it a good thing. some people call that self-denial lol.

today is thurs and tml is the last day of the first week of school. it seemed as if yesterday was monday. i realised that monday and tuesday are very slow and after wednesday, everything seems to go very fast. i cant wait for pe, can finally run =). running is fun.

10 good things about running:
1. runnnig keeps one trim and fit
2. running keeps one healthy
3. running enables one to sweat it out
4. running aids in blood circulation
5. running is the basic requirement of every exercise.
6. running can help to relieve stress
7. running can help one to explore places faster on foot
8. running can being one closer to nature and learn the beauties of life
9. running can make one feel energetic afterwards.
10. running will make you able to catch people who disturb you can try to run away

aint running fun??

2007-03-21T23:36:00.000+08:00

i've just gotten my progress report. how timely ^^. i think i have mastered the art of studying. now i just need mid yr to re-confirm my studying method. for my past 11 years of education, i have been studying the wrong way. reading the textbook and notes over and over again only works in primary becos there are ony 4 subjects to mug. now, i have an amazing 8. that is twice the number of subjects( 8/4=2). i think i did well this time =) ; with the exception of chinese and bio. ahh shit. i wont say that bio sucks; cos i dont think it sucks. in fact, it is quite interesting to think about all the facts in the book. however, once i open the book, these words come into my mind '' forget it, some other day, maybe tomorrow, perhaps next week, maybe i should do another subject etcetc. '' mid yr is in five weeks time and mr bean the hoilday opens tml.

2007-03-19T00:24:00.000+08:00

the holidays have ended about twenty plus minutes ago. a rather memorable week for me. first was class outing then swift race and then yesterday's match.

class outing was great! i must say this class outing gave our class a whole new way of communicating with each other. it also made me realise that there is something wrong with me. my aiming sucks. no, it is not because i suck or the machine is spoilt. this is what i came to just recently after i ran tests on myself by going to the arcade more often: despite changing my aiming eye from left to right, my left eye is still my dorminant eye. this means that i got two choices. i either hold the gun with my left hand or shoot with my left eye closed. damnit, no more great ns days i am looking forward to. nevertheless, there is still time. my solution is that i should go to the arcade more often to practice ^^.

now about the swift race. it sucked. i started off brightly and was within the top 10. i thought i could finish within the top 15. i was terribly wrong. although there were around mayb a little over a hundred students my age running, i overestimated myself. i just cannot find a proper reason to why i didnt do a gd timing. was it wed's workout? the route at turf city?my lack of confidence?my overconfidence?my start?my warm up?or do i just purely suck? that race rly affected me. i could nt concentrate on my next training. but who cares? it has already passed and i've learnt from it. i think it's time to own again.

finally, our soccer match against kenneth's church friends. the pitch was awful; it was uneven and it has a small hill at one end. at least it was close to the size of a full length soccer field. i realised that one required a great deal of stamina and endurance just to sustain on the pitch for 90mins. the heat, the pressure and all the running will drain a player out easily. despite this, we won with the score of 6-0. this match was when i realised that it is nt easy to play any position on the field. as a left back, i was always out of position and i hesitate too often. it was quite fun tho, although my attemps to overlap ended up in failure, i managed to snuff out a few attacks. overall, everyone played well. great game guys!

school begins later today. back to the monotonous lessons where the teachers just blabber non-stop. however, there are still other things to look forward to. for example, street soccer, friends and of course, the eoy holidays.

2007-03-13T21:41:00.000+08:00

here are photos which we took on our first night out as a class. check it out..
what were you guys thinking!?!

outside marina bay mrt. guys photo
everyone who went. a great location for a photo: the bus stop

2007-03-13T00:09:00.000+08:00

12 march 2007. the first time DL went on a class outing. altough the whole class wasnt present, it was quite meaningful because we finially went out as a class. we went to watch a movie in the afternoon and then went to marina bay for bbq dinner. the movie didnt start till 4.30 and we were there at abt 3 plus. so, we, the guys, went to the arcade while the girls went somewhere else. the show we watched was supposed to be very nice and sad. in contrast, it was rather funny and boring.

i just realised that my daytona sucks. i cant drift for shit and i hit the wall every lap except for a few rounds where i either use bang other cars to turn or when luck is on my side. my shooting also sucks. my time crisis score is half of marcus' and i cant aim at all. i spent about maybe $10 plus on games but its worth it. long time no play.

after that was dinner. i kept in mind the condition of my stomach and decided to eat steamboat only. i poured sausages and crab meat into the steamboat and cooked it together with noodles. although it was little, i ate a few slices of bbq-ed meat which was already enough to make my stomach churn and feel uneasy. after that, i took some cooked food so that i can last the night and went off to practice my daytona skills at the arcade nearby. the place there sucks. i played to games. one machine did nt have gear 4. nvm. the other machine did nt have gear 3. du lan. damn waste of money.

overall, it was quite fun, being our first outing organized by ming tjong. pwnage. i also realised that i must go to the arcade more often to brush up my shooting.

2007-03-08T21:15:00.000+08:00

common test is finially over. only chinese was difficult; the rest was not too bad. i realised that there is only abt 2 weeks to combine. that's abt 6 training sessions. unbelieveable. i've nt trained for 3days and my confidence is slipping. but i dont care =) i'l take it as a well deserved rest after so much training. anyway, i think my form is still there after today. when i was walking out to take bus 12, i saw the bus moving towards the cross junction i was standing at. so i decided to make a dash to the other bus stop. when i reach the bus stop, a man standing on bus 196 told me to hop in. guess he thought i was rushing for that bus. to my horror, 12 stopped at the traffic light -.-''.

after school the class had to watch a movie about conflict at LT2 with bn, cr and ep. the others were at LT1 i think. the show was rather confusing, flashing back continously. the movie was about how high the tension was between the south and north koreans. neither of the two were allowed to step into each other's territories. two south korean border guards made friends with the other two north korean border guards. they hang out every night to play games, chat etc. then, on the 28 of october, one north korean fella came and saw the four men. he quickly drew his gun and pointed at the south koreans, wanting to capture them. then, there were lots of shooting and two north koreans were shot dead. after investigation after investigation, a swiss major, who intervened the case, solved it but decided to send a different report, letting the guilty north korean go scot-free. however, the guy was so full of guilt that he killed himself.

lesson learnt: koreans like to taste metal before they die. from the movie, one soldier attempted suicide by putting the gun into his mouth. the guilty guy also killed himself by putting the gun into his mouth. why must they put the gun into their mouth? why not at the temple?

2007-02-28T21:41:00.000+08:00

heres the photo of the once ' graveyard' it's a bit quiet and its a three storey condo. not a four storey townhouse.

2007-02-27T21:17:00.000+08:00

lessons are getting funnier and funnier. everywhere around me are people who bring laughter. got guo xiang, wen jie, samuel etcetc. pwnage. anyway, miss sharmila told us a ghost story on monday during interaction period. what made it super interesting was that the location of the story was near my house! ah haha. supposedly, the condo she wanted to buy was built on an excecution site. its like the place where the japanese killed innocent people. i wonder if the security guard sees anything haha. i'l post pictures of the place another day. my SD card got stuck in the laptop lol.

2007-02-18T22:15:00.000+08:00

life's a torture but i'm luv'in it. and i aint a sadist or something like that.

on the 16th of february, the eve of the eve of chinese new year, there was an outing called sui sen outing. it was quite fun la, i must say, although nothing much happened other than lighting up $14 worth of sparklers and illuminating the place like a flashbang. the highlight was, of course, indigestion. heh heh. must be all that uncooked food, mixture of drinks, snacks and an already bad stomach which contributed to that. my stomach felt very uncomfortable on the way home and the food felt like it was going the wrong way out. it felt like disaster waiting to happen.

the eve of chinese new year was rather plain. just sleep and sleep and more sleep followed by renuion dinner.

ah hah! 18th february. the day where you earn money by just saying a few words $_$. it also a day of eating. ahh well, life rocks. and my stomach still feels werid.

2007-02-10T23:45:00.000+08:00

i went for a race at sp today together with melvin and damn was sp big. although we took a short time to find our way to the track, the place was very big by just looking around. after our race, we went to explore the campus and it took us almost 30mins to walk arund half of it. the race was fine. i realised that people are basically very friendly as long as you have the courage to talk to them despite them looking cold. during the race, a caucasian boy replied to me despite struggling like mad. i urged him on when i passed him and he replied ' and to you '. at first i didnt understand it but after a while, i realised what he was saying that. quite a great day; except that i got spiked. owwwwwww so ticklish muhahahaha.

2007-02-06T23:01:00.000+08:00

trust. that is one thing that i am always wrong about. its almost everytime that my judgement of people is wrong. maybe i'm paranoid or something. yawn.. thinking of negative thoughts is really boring. looking at the bright side of life owns. whenever i'm feeling demotivated or low, i always think of something memorable or funny. that's why sometimes i start laughing for no reason. its nt because i'm mad or that i never take my medicine. being optimistic is great. positiveness is a very good element. i've learnt it from samuel, a great friend of mine. he is always positive and looks on the better side of things. he might state his problem as if its a very big issue but after that, he suddenly says something that he can earn from it and makes everyone laugh.

2007-02-05T20:37:00.000+08:00

i am starting to feel that my running is starting to suck. i feel very demoralised lately after several unfinished workouts. the errors in my running style is very difficult to change. i sometimes wonder if it i am very stubborn for refusing the fact that i have passed my peak and i cant go any further. 'hard work and more hard work will nt beat hard work and talent'. that is the thing that is preventing me from going further. i need to get myself up again and i can tell that it is nt an easy task. hard work is important. without hard work, one can never improve. i am going to change the 'will nt' to a 'might'. last yr i managed to get myself up for nats. i hope and will try my best to get my form.

PPL READING THIS:
ALWAYS REMEMBER NT TO GIVE UP!! IT IS THE UPS AND DOWNS IN LIFE WHICH MAKES LIFE FUN AND EXCITING. GIVING UP IS LIKE THROWING A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY AWAY.

TO EVERY PROBLEM, THERE IS A SOLUTION AS LONG AS ONE KEEPS ON SEEKING IT.

YOU CAN DO IT! JIA WHITES!

2007-01-24T20:19:00.000+08:00

nothing has been happening must these days; just that school is damn boring. late nights have been bothering me quite a bit, draining much of my energy for lessons as well as training. it seems inevitable for me as once i am on the computer, it would be 2 to 3 hrs non stop and i have to stay up later to finish my homework. i got this damn cut just abv my lip and it hurts everytime i make an expression.

time really flies. it seems like it was just yesterday that i had pe and tml i will be having pe again. pe sucks and rocks at the same time. it sucks because i have to wear white shoes which have little cushion to run and it rocks because its always the best period together with recess, lunch break and free periods.

2007-01-14T22:40:00.000+08:00

yes, it rained today. all my vomit has been washed away by the continous rain since this morning. nothing of significance happened today; just that i took 2hrs to type 100 chinese characters. all that chatting distracted me from doing my work properly. besides, the topic is rly hard to bullshit abt. in addition, it was my first time typing in chinese. very awkward to type in english after that.

2007-01-14T00:35:00.000+08:00

yesterday was a rather hectic day. after lunch, i had tutiton till 4 and rushed to training which was at 4.15. after that i went to james' birthday dinner.

tution wasnt very much interesting. the usual teaching. however, the highlight of the day was training. vomitted abt 4 to 5 times and maybe more( ^_^V). recording breaking! all my lunch came out. i have to say, vomit tastes nice but once you drink water it is bitter. i did about 2 all out runs. the first already gave me the feeling that something was coming out through the wrong end. however, i did not want to just stop there and decided to go for the second. while i was walking to the start line, the feeling subsided and i felt better. apparently i puked after the second; over strain. wooohooo. i must say i enjoyed it while it lasted although it might be digusting or what, it gives me a sense of accomplishment; as if i had pushed myself to the limit.

after all my lunch was out, i went home, bathe, changed and went out. i went to marina square instead of marina bay . -.-'' quite cool. anyway there were still people later than me and i learnt a few jokes heh heh. by the time we finished eating, it was already 10.45 and i wanted to play the arcade. however, my dad was on the way to fetch me. sucks haha. it did not turn out to be a bad thing as i saw someone drift on the way out. there were these 3 cars which sped past my dad's car and turned the curve swiftly. i believe that the last of the trio wanted to overtake 2 cars on each lane with a short distance between them at one time on the curve. he drifted between the two and passed them. the 3 cars were moving at imba speed. one car even overshot the exit and had to u-turn.

2007-01-05T23:45:00.000+08:00

today was cca recuitment day, had alot of things to do. i actually planned to start preparations at a later time but once class was over, i became overwhelmed with things to do. firstly, i went to collect the banner and saw the sec3 trackers who are changing their cca as they are overaged and cant compete anymore.
it took a few of us to hang up a banner as most us cant tie the string except yajun, mr khoo and coach. after the banner was up, i went with chester to the gym to put my bag and we decided to go for lunch. it turned out to be a bad idea as the canteen was swarming with people and the queue was super long. hence, we decided to bring a table to a field so as not to return empty handed. once we have returned, i went with rachel to put up the remaining posters.
luckily, we have a great coach and he helped the us set up our stations. that saved a lot of time and trouble.
next was to soften the sand of the long jump pit and it sure is tough. i 'mixed' the sand. in the hot sun, it was tiring and backaching. after quite some hard work, brian came and said that he could jump further!! at least he offered to help instead of just sitting around and laughing.
once the sec1s started coming, it was busy. thankfully everyone was up to it and handled everything smoothly.
thanks everyone.

2007-01-01T00:37:00.000+08:00

i went to spotlight at ps last morning. however, since i had quite a lot of time to spare and the arcade was tempting, i went to the arcade. woah, it blew a bleedy big hole in my pocket. spent almost 10plus dollars there; my budget was 2. what made it tempting was that they had time crisis 4 and there was no one at all. totally 0s wait and no one could see how bad i am. ownage. at least i spent my last day out meaningfully. doubt i would go out again.

2006-12-27T22:16:00.000+08:00

this night was a busy one. had many things to do suddenly. the pain of last minute work is back. it has failed me this year many times, hope it doesnt now.

i realised that cca orientation day was just slightly more than a week later and i still have not planned anything at all.hence, i started running through all the things i need and made calls to reconfirm them. the sribbled points i made all over a piece of paper were made worse by my bad handwirting. at least i'm relieved that it has overwritten my sadness about the x-country team.

the cross team was deserted because of one main reason: CMI. why? due to our low fitness level. i had this knee injury for weeks and i didnt realise the importance of it till a week ago. this time trial woke me up and made me do something about it instead of just stoning and thinking that it would be fine the next day. unfortunately, it wasnt enough. i just cant believe the fact that i was depressed in running thrice this year. the first one was when ben and js stopped training for x-country early this year. next was f***ing up my 1500m in combined schools and now, the team is gone. well, on the brighter side, at least everyone can train individually instead of pushing themselves so hard and yet just to help others.

we live again to fight another day; and may tomorrow be that day.

2006-12-20T22:27:00.000+08:00

heres some pictures. there is a aircon spoilt by my sis, barb wires to prevent sucide of people, the steep stairs, the tree growing on the temple, the ang kor wat, the moat of ang kor wat, the barren lands of the outskirts, and the place where the victims of genocide were buried.

2006-12-19T09:16:00.000+08:00

back from cambodia and damn was it fun. was back on the 16th but time wasnt on my side.

day 1-arrival at siem reap

it was just a 1h50min ride from singapore to siem reap. hence, i just listened to my mp3 for the whole ride while i tried to catch some sleep. once we touched down, we were greeted with sweltering heat. the cool thing was that we had to alight from the plane and walk to the airport, just like budget airlines. after so, we went to find our guide and we were on our way to the silk factory. there, we saw them any processes involved in producing and manufacturing silk. the workers there used only very simple machines. after lunch, we went for a boat ride out the the lake in the middle of cambodia. on the way, we saw people living on floating houses and very young children rowing boats from place to place on their own. amazing. heres a picture of the floating houses.

after the boat ride, we went to the national museum. we saw some performances before i forced my parents to go walk the judgment trial. it was pretty scary as there were onli 2 grps of people inside the tunnel. we walked along the tunnel and looked around at the same time. the ambience was dark and scary. once we crossed the bridge to the other part of the tunnel, a man came wearing a ghost suit and a mask. my father and i saw him first; we started taunting him to come over and disturbing him. i ran up to my mother and sis to tell them that theres someone behind. my tone must have been so scary that they started running once they saw him 'float' over the bridge. i ran along too, leaving my father alone behind. he realised it and also ran to catch up with us in case we lose each other. it was so much fun!! running away as if we were in a movie. once outside, we took some photos

day2- visiting old temples and angkorwat

we woke up very early that day as my mother wanted to be earlier than the large tour groups so that we can more space to move around and take photos. we visited old temples where the king used to go to pray. after that, we went to the temple which trees grew on. very large trees grew over the temple and its roots went through the gaps of the structure. that place was rather fun for me. jumped from rock to rock instead of walking on the path. next was the angkorwat. it was a super big temple. it has two walkways. one to the first gate and another to the main temple. the scenery there was beautiful. the angkorwat has 3 levels, the lowest to the highest. the highest was really high. the steps leading to the top were very small and the incline was steep. hence, instead of walking up, everyone climbed up. up there, the scenery was great and the place was cooler. there was a contant wind and we felt cool despite the heat.

day3- arrival at phnom penn

we took a flight in the morning at around 10 but it was delayed as the airport had only one runway and another plane was landing. the flight was 20mins or so i guess. the plane took off and after a while, '' cabin crew, get to your landing stations please, thank you.'' rang over the speaker. i was dumbfounded. we waited for about 15 plus minutes for my bag. ''the piority tag must have dropped off.'' my dad joked. i think it was too small and the baggage people could nt see it. some people were on transit and going to singapore. hence, they might have missed my bag when they were picking the ones to be dropped off. after lunch, we went to visit the palace. we saw the place where the king was crowned and also there is a flag which is raised whenever the king is in. fortunately, we wasnt in when we were there. if he was in, we would have nothing to visit the whole afternoon. after that was the silver pagoda. the whole floor was made of real silver and the buddha had 20plus diamond i think. it has a 28 carat one on its forehead. so shiny *.* after that was boring for me. all shopping, went to the central market. follow mum and sis- clothes and shoes. follow dad- changing money. yawn.

day4- killing fields

this day was horrible, you may choose not to read this. we visit an elementary school which was turned into a jail where they kept prisoners during the civil war. the prisoners were given only about 1 by 1 metre square of space. hence, there are about 10plus people in one classroom. brick walls were used to separate each 'cell'. those people had their ankles shackled so that they cannot escape. they even put barbed wires to prevent the prisoners from killing themselves. the guards there were young boys of around my age, the tour guide said. they were brain washed before becoming guards. the victims were so weak that they had a chair to prevent they from falling over when they take photos of them. the mastermind took photos of everyone there. the guards and prisoners alike. there were even photos of dead men. their eyes and mouth were wide open, their bodies were very thin. next, we went to the killing fields where all the dead people were buried. even those who were on the verge of dying were left aside to die or are buried alive. over there, there is a place whr they showed the skulls of 2000plus victims. they were put over 17 levels. there are still many bones and bones i the soil but the government just wanted to dig out some to show the world and they can rest in peace. even as we walk along the path to see the 5metre deep pits which could contain hundreds of people, we could see bones all over the floor. it was all done silently. the excutors used chemicals to prevented a stench which might allow the villiagers to know that there were killings there. the chemicals were also to kill those buried alive in the soil. after that we had lunch and went back to the hotel to rest. after that we went to the russian market. it was like the central market but smaller and hotter. a few minutes after stepping in, we were sweating profusely and we kept fanning ourselves.

day5- shopping day and return to singapore.

it was ur free day as the tour ended the day before. we took our time for breakfast and we took a tut-tut to the central market first for some shopping. over there i saw fried crikets, cockroaches, spiders and silkworms. a tourist was eating it when we arrived and said that it was delicious. it didnt look that way at all to us. bought some shirts as they were cheap. after that we carried on to the syora shopping centre. i doubt its a shopping centre as we could still bargain there. my sis and i bought some shoes. i bought white shoes for next yr. my sis complained about the shoe being frictionless and that it is very thin. she bought it anyway as it was cheap and she needed it. we went to the russian market again and we did the usual, raiding the market for clothes. in the end we went back with so much more bags than before. soon, it was time for us to check out. however, since we had about 2hrs before we leave for the airport, my dad rented a pool table for me and my sis while my parents went to the casino. my dad stopped once he won enough to pay for the rental. he came and owned us in pool. after that we went to the airport, waved goodbye to the tour guide and flew back to singapore.

the people there are very poor. some of them only need USD$1 to survive a day. the roads in cambodia have no lanes and a lane as wide as two cars can be a two way road. also, there are many motorcycles on the roads and the sound of horns is very common. there are also very little traffic lights. the things there are very cheap too.

signing offf,

2006-12-11T23:23:00.000+08:00

going to cambodia tml morn.
my tuition teacher told me that it will be a good experience to see another side of asia. the less better off countries i guess. somehow i feel as if i'm going for obs again. i feel excited and am thinking of high elements, kayaking and all that stuff. it's really hard to shake off that experience but if i do, fear strikes me. the many cases of food poisoning which i have heard from some friends and relatives made my sis and i dread going there. despite my mum trying to ease our minds by saying that we are eating at restaurants, it was contradicting as my sister's friend got food poisoning from a restaurant.
however, i still look forward to going there as i can take time off training, homework and tuition. but there is still parents' nagging! argh! the truth has struck so deeply into me; it can't escape. lol.