Well, there seriously isn't much to talk about today. Except maybe we had mass dance during PE. And all of us year 1s were like, "oh no! We don't know ALL the moves!" So we just stood there, laughed, and did what we knew. :P
A teacher, Mr Seet, said: "Looks like this batch of year 1s need more practice."
Lol.
Monday, January 31, 2005
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Gundam SEED DESTINY PHASE 15: Return to the Battlefield review
I heard that Andrew's new suit is actually a Murasame, and it seems so from the opening video. We'll have to see as the episodes go on. Anyway, we begin the episode with a shrot recap of PHASE 14. Kira is amazed and comments on the beauty of Cagalli's wedding dress, then requests for her to "sit tight" as he disables the two incoming Murasames.
The episode starts prim and proper with Athrun's Saviour (in flight mode) flying through the skies and heading towards Orb. He requests clearance to enter Orb airspace to dock with the Minerva. However, Orb Control does not reply him, and instead, scrambles ANOTHER two Murasames to intercept his Saviour, which surprises Athrun. Saviour dodges bullets, and shoots down missiles, even as the lead pilot of the Murasame flight informs him that Orb has allied herself with the Atlantic Federation and ZAFT was no longer welcome.
Athrun tries to contact Orb again, this time using the authentication codes of Alex Dino, but it fails as well. having no choice, he transforms to Mobile Suit mode, and disables one of the Murasames which also switches to MS mode, by shooting off its beam rifle. He damages the other Murasame before making a quick retreat.
Meanwhile, under the sea, Cagalli scolds the Archangel crew for commiting a rash act, abducting her from the ceremonial site. However, Kira manages to reason with her that such an act as rational, in the interest not only of Orb, but for all the other nations, and world peace, despite the fact that everyone is actually treading on unknown ground. He returns the ring Athrun gave Cagalli, who breaks down in tears.
The camera pans over to ZAFT's Capentaria base, where the Minerva is in dry-dock undergoing repairs. Meyrin and Lunamaria shop for what seems like bottles of stuff, and we see a vain side of Meyrin (a comparison to Fllay?). Youlan and Vino discuss about leaving dry-dock soon in a bar, while Rey walks around purposefully, stops by a piano, sits down, and begins to play it. We see Shinn walking down on of the hangars, and taking a look at the new transformable MS Babi (which looks weird in design, but I think it has a plasma induction cannon, can't wait to see it in action). Shinn spots the Saviour transform from afar, and quickly rushes back to the Minerva.
Saviour meanwhile lands on the Minerva, much to the surprise of all gathered. The Hawke sisters are even more surprised when they see that the pilot is Athrun, and everyone salutes him since he's part of FAITH, and is of a higher authority. Shinn returns, slightly annoyed and surprised, and it took some nudging from Lunamaria before he passes the things in his hands to Meyrin (poor girl!) and salutes. Athrun requests to see the captain (Talia), and Meyrin volunteers. She is however cut off by her sister Lunamaria (sibling rivalry over Athrun? Hmm...) who escorts him there. As he leaves the hangar, Shinn asks rudely why Athrun returned to ZAFT.
Athrun is shocked as Lunamaria fills him in about Cagalli's wedding and abduction, as they travel in the elevator. Athrun later visits the Talia in her room, and is filled in on the current situation. Apparently the Minerva was called upon to move to ZAFT's Gibraltar base to support it in light of the flashpoints in that area. Looks like the Eurasian Federation wasn't too happy with the Atlantic Feds. and stuff. Talia has also been appointed to FAITH (Weird... why?). I did note that Arthur didn't seem too happy throughout the conversation, but he's a pretty weird guy methinks. Wonder how he ever made it to the post of Minerva's XO.
Anyway, we later have Youlan explaining about FAITH's authority to Vino and Meyrin. Camera pans back to hangar where evertbody is busy doing work. Athrun heads for the Saviour, only to have Lunamaria jump on with him. Seems to me that Lunamaria is trying to flirt... There's one scene where she leans over the control panel of the Saviour, and we are treated to a nice view of her thighs...mmm...if only her skirt hiked up more. LOL. Anyway, yes, Athrun offers her to have a seat in the cockpit of the Saviour, much to Shinn's chagrin (Shinn is SOOOO AP!!).
On the bridge, Talia tells Arthur to prepare for Minerva's launch. A Vosuglov-class submarine, the Nyiragongo would also be escorting them (why? More kills for Auel and company?). meyrin meanwhile checks out some information on Athrun, and we finally find out what FAITH stands for: Fast Acting Integrate Tactical Headquarters -> total weirdness. Minerva launches, and Athrun enters the pilot's lounge reassuring herself that Cagalli would be okay since she is with Kira (Talia told him that it was rumoured that the Freedom and the Archangel took Cagalli). Shinn, who was reading a magazine on the couch, stares at Athrun, annoyed (as usual). Incidentally, the magazine cover is actually the album cover of High and Mighty Color's latest single! That's like, free advertisment lol.
Finally, the camera pans onto the Earth Allianace flagship J.P. Jones. Stellar (finally!) is staring at the ocean like a lost puppy when two Earth Alliance crewmen hit upon her (one was actually trying to stop the other). Auel sees this, and runs over to stop the fracas (by pointing a pistol underneath the chin of that pervert :P). They draw him running so fast, it makes me feel as though Auel, Sting and Stellar are Coordinator clones or something. Auel tells Stellar that Neo has summoned them, and this seems to cheer her up and energise her. Looks like all these three pilots think of are killing, killing and killing. Hmm...
And on the bridge of J.P. Jones we see Neo, who is tracking Minerva on the radar as she sails from dry dock...
So we see that the three pilots are like, killing machines who perform better than the previous three (Clotho, Shani, and Orga). Interesting indeed. What would happen to the Minerva and Archangel? We don't know. The next episode is actually a clip show analysing the events up till PHASE 15, and its specially titled Gundam SEED DESTINY: EDITED. So PHASE 16 won't be till next Saturday. And thus ends my review, again.
The episode starts prim and proper with Athrun's Saviour (in flight mode) flying through the skies and heading towards Orb. He requests clearance to enter Orb airspace to dock with the Minerva. However, Orb Control does not reply him, and instead, scrambles ANOTHER two Murasames to intercept his Saviour, which surprises Athrun. Saviour dodges bullets, and shoots down missiles, even as the lead pilot of the Murasame flight informs him that Orb has allied herself with the Atlantic Federation and ZAFT was no longer welcome.
Athrun tries to contact Orb again, this time using the authentication codes of Alex Dino, but it fails as well. having no choice, he transforms to Mobile Suit mode, and disables one of the Murasames which also switches to MS mode, by shooting off its beam rifle. He damages the other Murasame before making a quick retreat.
Meanwhile, under the sea, Cagalli scolds the Archangel crew for commiting a rash act, abducting her from the ceremonial site. However, Kira manages to reason with her that such an act as rational, in the interest not only of Orb, but for all the other nations, and world peace, despite the fact that everyone is actually treading on unknown ground. He returns the ring Athrun gave Cagalli, who breaks down in tears.
The camera pans over to ZAFT's Capentaria base, where the Minerva is in dry-dock undergoing repairs. Meyrin and Lunamaria shop for what seems like bottles of stuff, and we see a vain side of Meyrin (a comparison to Fllay?). Youlan and Vino discuss about leaving dry-dock soon in a bar, while Rey walks around purposefully, stops by a piano, sits down, and begins to play it. We see Shinn walking down on of the hangars, and taking a look at the new transformable MS Babi (which looks weird in design, but I think it has a plasma induction cannon, can't wait to see it in action). Shinn spots the Saviour transform from afar, and quickly rushes back to the Minerva.
Saviour meanwhile lands on the Minerva, much to the surprise of all gathered. The Hawke sisters are even more surprised when they see that the pilot is Athrun, and everyone salutes him since he's part of FAITH, and is of a higher authority. Shinn returns, slightly annoyed and surprised, and it took some nudging from Lunamaria before he passes the things in his hands to Meyrin (poor girl!) and salutes. Athrun requests to see the captain (Talia), and Meyrin volunteers. She is however cut off by her sister Lunamaria (sibling rivalry over Athrun? Hmm...) who escorts him there. As he leaves the hangar, Shinn asks rudely why Athrun returned to ZAFT.
Athrun is shocked as Lunamaria fills him in about Cagalli's wedding and abduction, as they travel in the elevator. Athrun later visits the Talia in her room, and is filled in on the current situation. Apparently the Minerva was called upon to move to ZAFT's Gibraltar base to support it in light of the flashpoints in that area. Looks like the Eurasian Federation wasn't too happy with the Atlantic Feds. and stuff. Talia has also been appointed to FAITH (Weird... why?). I did note that Arthur didn't seem too happy throughout the conversation, but he's a pretty weird guy methinks. Wonder how he ever made it to the post of Minerva's XO.
Anyway, we later have Youlan explaining about FAITH's authority to Vino and Meyrin. Camera pans back to hangar where evertbody is busy doing work. Athrun heads for the Saviour, only to have Lunamaria jump on with him. Seems to me that Lunamaria is trying to flirt... There's one scene where she leans over the control panel of the Saviour, and we are treated to a nice view of her thighs...mmm...if only her skirt hiked up more. LOL. Anyway, yes, Athrun offers her to have a seat in the cockpit of the Saviour, much to Shinn's chagrin (Shinn is SOOOO AP!!).
On the bridge, Talia tells Arthur to prepare for Minerva's launch. A Vosuglov-class submarine, the Nyiragongo would also be escorting them (why? More kills for Auel and company?). meyrin meanwhile checks out some information on Athrun, and we finally find out what FAITH stands for: Fast Acting Integrate Tactical Headquarters -> total weirdness. Minerva launches, and Athrun enters the pilot's lounge reassuring herself that Cagalli would be okay since she is with Kira (Talia told him that it was rumoured that the Freedom and the Archangel took Cagalli). Shinn, who was reading a magazine on the couch, stares at Athrun, annoyed (as usual). Incidentally, the magazine cover is actually the album cover of High and Mighty Color's latest single! That's like, free advertisment lol.
Finally, the camera pans onto the Earth Allianace flagship J.P. Jones. Stellar (finally!) is staring at the ocean like a lost puppy when two Earth Alliance crewmen hit upon her (one was actually trying to stop the other). Auel sees this, and runs over to stop the fracas (by pointing a pistol underneath the chin of that pervert :P). They draw him running so fast, it makes me feel as though Auel, Sting and Stellar are Coordinator clones or something. Auel tells Stellar that Neo has summoned them, and this seems to cheer her up and energise her. Looks like all these three pilots think of are killing, killing and killing. Hmm...
And on the bridge of J.P. Jones we see Neo, who is tracking Minerva on the radar as she sails from dry dock...
So we see that the three pilots are like, killing machines who perform better than the previous three (Clotho, Shani, and Orga). Interesting indeed. What would happen to the Minerva and Archangel? We don't know. The next episode is actually a clip show analysing the events up till PHASE 15, and its specially titled Gundam SEED DESTINY: EDITED. So PHASE 16 won't be till next Saturday. And thus ends my review, again.
Lookit what i got! Lookit what I got! lol.
Okay, so today wasn't exactly a blast. I've been waking up the past few days with runny nose and phlegm stuck in my throat, and today was no exception. I went for Japanese class again, and was late (it starts at 1020 hours, I reached at 1019 hours and it started?!?). Bloody hell stumbled over the practice Yonekura-sensei had with me in class, but at least I made it through. :) Damn my slow reaction time. Later, had lunch, and headed again back to Dunman High Alumni for C Math (Core Mathematics) tuition. I was struggling to stay awake as the lesson went on and I think the teacher (A certain Mr Yeo) noticed, just that he didn't want to say. There was like...only two students in class. :P
Yea, and Mother bought a digital camera! Its an Olympus (whatever, I don't care, since I'm still living in the film-camera aka analog camera age)... I fiddled with it for a while, and took two pictures of my 1/144 scale ZAKU Warrior model. Maybe when I figure out how to transfer it to my PC, and upload it here then I'll show it to you guys. :)
And that's about it for today, since I don't wanna do my homework, and study for my two tests. LOL. And there's the review of SEED DESTINY 15 ne? :) Oh, and I finally managed to add a tagboard! Thanks to Denys who provided some help along the way. :D:D
Yea, and Mother bought a digital camera! Its an Olympus (whatever, I don't care, since I'm still living in the film-camera aka analog camera age)... I fiddled with it for a while, and took two pictures of my 1/144 scale ZAKU Warrior model. Maybe when I figure out how to transfer it to my PC, and upload it here then I'll show it to you guys. :)
And that's about it for today, since I don't wanna do my homework, and study for my two tests. LOL. And there's the review of SEED DESTINY 15 ne? :) Oh, and I finally managed to add a tagboard! Thanks to Denys who provided some help along the way. :D:D
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Nyan...Hmm...
Okay. Again, I didn’t blog last night because I knocked out at around 2200 hours (and I missed Hellsing, damn it!) I’ll blog for two days in a row then.
My mother told me yesterday morning that I could go for my flick outing and my class outing. I was VERY pissed at that, since she told me otherwise the night before and I kind of had plans for that day already. So I adamantly refused to go, although under normal circumstances I would have jumped at the chance.
Why didn’t I go? Two reasons:
1. I was damned pissed at her for making this stupid last minute change
2. It did solve my problem of which outing to go for, class or flick (although I later heard that class outing ended at 1600 hours, argh!)
So I went back to Dunman High yesterday, and watched my juniors prepare for Saturday’s Scouting activity. Mingled around, and talked some rubbish with my juniors. **sigh** The good old days come flooding into my mind… After they were dismissed at 1600 hours (gee, that’s something new, I used to go home at 1700 or 1800 hours on Fridays due to Scouting), I went chatting with my volleyball friend (also my schoolmate now) until around 1830 hours, before I left for Parkway Parade to meet my Mom for dinner (my original plan was to eat out on my own). Then I returned home while Mother went to do some things which I don’t wish to mention.
After bathing, I watched Gundam SEED DESTINY PHASE-15 on PC (will post the review shortly), and went to check out my online game stuff. And I lost unconsciousness at 2200 hours, waking up at 0200, and 0800 the next day (which is today) respectively.
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Today, I had AR training. So I left home at 0930 plus, and jogged 90% of the way to VJC for training (and warm-up? J) Was one of the earliest to hit the range (although one other came at 0900 hours because she didn’t know). Finished my stretching and went for dry-firing. The coach came down today, and since she didn’t pass much comments about my stance (except my shoulders not relaxing) I guess I generally have no problem. She made some changes to the rifle settings, and I guess the rifle fit my shoulders better. Not too sure about that, I need to train more with the new settings before I can comment (although I’m not a good commenter at things. :P).
Incidentally, the coach was also a Dumanian! (from DHS). She’s about 5 years older than us I guess. Yeah, and then came the 20-shot groupings. That was one thing that made me feel depressed today. I think I kind of flopped it, missing what I think two shots out of 20. My grouping size didn’t really shrink much in my opinion, although Jonathan (my fellow rifler) told me it was better. Maybe he was trying to console me?
“Love leads to anger. Anger leads to hatred. Hatred leads to the Dark Side…”
-Yoda, Star Wars.
This is slowly happening, for I seem to be becoming more distant from my crush. Whatever. She shot better than me (many shots grouped together, one big hole on the card) and I wasn’t too happy at first. Am I competitive? Anyway, I must not let my previous shots affect me. I will try again next Thursday if I can.
Most of the AR team (seniors and juniors) later went to Parkway Parade’s KFC for lunch. Not too bad, we talked and er…socialized. Good stuff. And we all had a good laugh when four of the seniors decided to finish one box of the 8 Treasures Chest (With one burger, 2 pieces of chicken, one whipped potato, coleslaw, and 2 drinks!) all by themselves. Poor Owen. He had a hard time finishing since he was the last, and most of the seniors (and one of the juniors) were teasing him, adding ice to his drink and stuff. But he gamely finished everything, although he couldn’t stand straight after that. I hope he didn’t have indigestion.
Hit the Chinese physician’s again later, and spent two plus hours there stoning while receiving treatment. She played some of the REAL OLD Chinese music near the end (not traditional, maybe 50s-60s?) and I was like… “ooohhhh…sshhhhiiittt…” Although dinner was nice, her husband made dumplings (are those called dumplings, I don’t know…水饺 in Mandarin it is called). Which are like, uber-nice if you dip it in vinegar. :D
Then I came home, and guess what, I watched Osmosis Jones! I first saw its poster in the Air Rifle Range, and thought it weird, but after watching the last bit I think it’s a very nice movie. J Mixes animation with live action, and gives a handy Biology lesson on the inner workings of the immune system as well. Definitely a must-watch for the kids.
It’s about a guy named Frank, who lives unhealthily and stuff, then his body gets invaded by a virus and Osmosis Jones and his Drixenol sidekick save the day! J A few things are scientifically untrue, but I shan’t say too much. Go watch it, download it or something. :D
I guess I’ll sign off here then. J Take note that I blogged half of this in the afternoon and half at night, on Microsoft Word. Hehehehehehe. :D Till then!
EDIT at 2207 hours: Jesus, she has friends who give her websites with shooting tips. OMFGWTF.
My mother told me yesterday morning that I could go for my flick outing and my class outing. I was VERY pissed at that, since she told me otherwise the night before and I kind of had plans for that day already. So I adamantly refused to go, although under normal circumstances I would have jumped at the chance.
Why didn’t I go? Two reasons:
1. I was damned pissed at her for making this stupid last minute change
2. It did solve my problem of which outing to go for, class or flick (although I later heard that class outing ended at 1600 hours, argh!)
So I went back to Dunman High yesterday, and watched my juniors prepare for Saturday’s Scouting activity. Mingled around, and talked some rubbish with my juniors. **sigh** The good old days come flooding into my mind… After they were dismissed at 1600 hours (gee, that’s something new, I used to go home at 1700 or 1800 hours on Fridays due to Scouting), I went chatting with my volleyball friend (also my schoolmate now) until around 1830 hours, before I left for Parkway Parade to meet my Mom for dinner (my original plan was to eat out on my own). Then I returned home while Mother went to do some things which I don’t wish to mention.
After bathing, I watched Gundam SEED DESTINY PHASE-15 on PC (will post the review shortly), and went to check out my online game stuff. And I lost unconsciousness at 2200 hours, waking up at 0200, and 0800 the next day (which is today) respectively.
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Today, I had AR training. So I left home at 0930 plus, and jogged 90% of the way to VJC for training (and warm-up? J) Was one of the earliest to hit the range (although one other came at 0900 hours because she didn’t know). Finished my stretching and went for dry-firing. The coach came down today, and since she didn’t pass much comments about my stance (except my shoulders not relaxing) I guess I generally have no problem. She made some changes to the rifle settings, and I guess the rifle fit my shoulders better. Not too sure about that, I need to train more with the new settings before I can comment (although I’m not a good commenter at things. :P).
Incidentally, the coach was also a Dumanian! (from DHS). She’s about 5 years older than us I guess. Yeah, and then came the 20-shot groupings. That was one thing that made me feel depressed today. I think I kind of flopped it, missing what I think two shots out of 20. My grouping size didn’t really shrink much in my opinion, although Jonathan (my fellow rifler) told me it was better. Maybe he was trying to console me?
“Love leads to anger. Anger leads to hatred. Hatred leads to the Dark Side…”
-Yoda, Star Wars.
This is slowly happening, for I seem to be becoming more distant from my crush. Whatever. She shot better than me (many shots grouped together, one big hole on the card) and I wasn’t too happy at first. Am I competitive? Anyway, I must not let my previous shots affect me. I will try again next Thursday if I can.
Most of the AR team (seniors and juniors) later went to Parkway Parade’s KFC for lunch. Not too bad, we talked and er…socialized. Good stuff. And we all had a good laugh when four of the seniors decided to finish one box of the 8 Treasures Chest (With one burger, 2 pieces of chicken, one whipped potato, coleslaw, and 2 drinks!) all by themselves. Poor Owen. He had a hard time finishing since he was the last, and most of the seniors (and one of the juniors) were teasing him, adding ice to his drink and stuff. But he gamely finished everything, although he couldn’t stand straight after that. I hope he didn’t have indigestion.
Hit the Chinese physician’s again later, and spent two plus hours there stoning while receiving treatment. She played some of the REAL OLD Chinese music near the end (not traditional, maybe 50s-60s?) and I was like… “ooohhhh…sshhhhiiittt…” Although dinner was nice, her husband made dumplings (are those called dumplings, I don’t know…水饺 in Mandarin it is called). Which are like, uber-nice if you dip it in vinegar. :D
Then I came home, and guess what, I watched Osmosis Jones! I first saw its poster in the Air Rifle Range, and thought it weird, but after watching the last bit I think it’s a very nice movie. J Mixes animation with live action, and gives a handy Biology lesson on the inner workings of the immune system as well. Definitely a must-watch for the kids.
It’s about a guy named Frank, who lives unhealthily and stuff, then his body gets invaded by a virus and Osmosis Jones and his Drixenol sidekick save the day! J A few things are scientifically untrue, but I shan’t say too much. Go watch it, download it or something. :D
I guess I’ll sign off here then. J Take note that I blogged half of this in the afternoon and half at night, on Microsoft Word. Hehehehehehe. :D Till then!
EDIT at 2207 hours: Jesus, she has friends who give her websites with shooting tips. OMFGWTF.
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Oh Man!
I did not blog for what, 2 whole days. Now that sucks. On 25th Jan I was too busy with the rocket competition and kinda slept before I rememebered about blogging. As for yesterday, I don't know what possessed me. I came home, and collapsed on my bed at approximatelt 2100 hours, waking up at 0200 hours and falling asleep again. Of course, I didn't do any homework. :P
Lets see now... nothing really notable to blog about on Tuesday. My AR classmates went down for training and watching the seniors (and juniors train) at around 1500 while I stayed behind to help paint the class banner, hitting the range only at 1730 hours after failing to find my friend for the rocket testing. That was due to communication problems, I guess. Anyway I had to test-fire the rocket at home using makeshift equipment (think: a syringe for a pump, and bottlecaps as nozzles...). The rocket flew for about 5 metres.
In school the next day, we tested our rocket with a bicycle pump my teammate Lionel borrowed from his neighbour. It was much better, at least we covered some distance. We rush-rush away from school at 1245 hours on that day (Wednesday, 26 Jan). I thought I would miss Physics lecture but apparently, it was cancelled die to the "simulated evaucation drill". It was something about finding a "mysterious bomb-like parcel" and then going to the field, and later attending boring talks made by Police and Civil Defence officers. I guess I was lucky to miss that. :P
Sad to say, I think VJC didn't do very well at NUS RoCom '05. The rockets fielded by the Physics Society teams (all PRC -> People's Republic of China, or rather, the Chinese scholars) flew well but there were others that flew further. As for the time in air, both teams' rockets spent around 4-5 seconds in air. There were others that spent 7 seconds, but only because they had a well-designed parachute that deployed nicely. As for my team, our rocket burst again before launch. Looks like the seal had weakened, perhaps through over-testing. But this incident made me have a different outlook against people from China. The PRC team, on seeing that our rocket had been destroyed, offered us their own rockets! I couldn't believe it, and was totally shocked.
That was the true Victorian spirit in action, I guess, Victorians helping Victorians in times of trouble. We're all a team! I must once again thank those people (Jian Guang... and the others whom I don't know the names of - THANK YOU SO MUCH!). So at least our team had some results to show, and were not like...disqualified or something. 42.1 metres, 4.6 seconds in air. Not too bad, really. We cleared the minimum distance lol. And in admiration of that wonderful team spirit the PRC peeps just showed us, my teammates and I agreed to join the Physics Society. :)
After that, I rushed back to school in a taxu and reached it at 1730 hours, just as the ARC (Air Rifle Club) people finished their PT. Looks like they had a blackout, and later went running 3.2 km. I missed it, and I feel bad for not being with the team. But I couldn't help it I guess... I did follow the team to cool-down exercises though. :)
We're a team guys!
And then somehow, when I reached home at around 1930 hours, after dinner, I instantly hit the bed, and slept. Wonder why I'm so tired these days.
And today, yes, we had AR training again! Looking at my groupings, I'm not too sure whether there was an inprovement or deprovement. My grouping (of the bullets) went from and oval-shape to a more circular shape. It seems smaller in some areas now, but bigger in the others. I guess I was a little too rushed in shooting. But I can;t hold my breath for long, and it disrupts aiming. I need to be able to aim faster... and at the same spot, with my poor eyesight. Hopefully I don't get kicked out of ARC when the second-intake guys come in.
Hmm, that's all for what, 3 days. :) Signing off.
Lets see now... nothing really notable to blog about on Tuesday. My AR classmates went down for training and watching the seniors (and juniors train) at around 1500 while I stayed behind to help paint the class banner, hitting the range only at 1730 hours after failing to find my friend for the rocket testing. That was due to communication problems, I guess. Anyway I had to test-fire the rocket at home using makeshift equipment (think: a syringe for a pump, and bottlecaps as nozzles...). The rocket flew for about 5 metres.
In school the next day, we tested our rocket with a bicycle pump my teammate Lionel borrowed from his neighbour. It was much better, at least we covered some distance. We rush-rush away from school at 1245 hours on that day (Wednesday, 26 Jan). I thought I would miss Physics lecture but apparently, it was cancelled die to the "simulated evaucation drill". It was something about finding a "mysterious bomb-like parcel" and then going to the field, and later attending boring talks made by Police and Civil Defence officers. I guess I was lucky to miss that. :P
Sad to say, I think VJC didn't do very well at NUS RoCom '05. The rockets fielded by the Physics Society teams (all PRC -> People's Republic of China, or rather, the Chinese scholars) flew well but there were others that flew further. As for the time in air, both teams' rockets spent around 4-5 seconds in air. There were others that spent 7 seconds, but only because they had a well-designed parachute that deployed nicely. As for my team, our rocket burst again before launch. Looks like the seal had weakened, perhaps through over-testing. But this incident made me have a different outlook against people from China. The PRC team, on seeing that our rocket had been destroyed, offered us their own rockets! I couldn't believe it, and was totally shocked.
That was the true Victorian spirit in action, I guess, Victorians helping Victorians in times of trouble. We're all a team! I must once again thank those people (Jian Guang... and the others whom I don't know the names of - THANK YOU SO MUCH!). So at least our team had some results to show, and were not like...disqualified or something. 42.1 metres, 4.6 seconds in air. Not too bad, really. We cleared the minimum distance lol. And in admiration of that wonderful team spirit the PRC peeps just showed us, my teammates and I agreed to join the Physics Society. :)
After that, I rushed back to school in a taxu and reached it at 1730 hours, just as the ARC (Air Rifle Club) people finished their PT. Looks like they had a blackout, and later went running 3.2 km. I missed it, and I feel bad for not being with the team. But I couldn't help it I guess... I did follow the team to cool-down exercises though. :)
We're a team guys!
And then somehow, when I reached home at around 1930 hours, after dinner, I instantly hit the bed, and slept. Wonder why I'm so tired these days.
And today, yes, we had AR training again! Looking at my groupings, I'm not too sure whether there was an inprovement or deprovement. My grouping (of the bullets) went from and oval-shape to a more circular shape. It seems smaller in some areas now, but bigger in the others. I guess I was a little too rushed in shooting. But I can;t hold my breath for long, and it disrupts aiming. I need to be able to aim faster... and at the same spot, with my poor eyesight. Hopefully I don't get kicked out of ARC when the second-intake guys come in.
Hmm, that's all for what, 3 days. :) Signing off.
Monday, January 24, 2005
The going gets tough... but the tough get going. Hmm?
At first, I was thinking, this is going to be one short post. Now, at 2100 hours, I think that's kinda going to change. I pinned on the Air Rifle Club collar pin onto my uniform today and wore it to school. Didn't see any other Year 1s wearing them (at least, those in my class didn't until I kinda begged Rifle Shawn to pin it on). Maybe I wasn't looking hard enough. Maybe my friends like Mai, Rhesa and co. actually wore them. But I didn't see them anyways. :) You gotta wear your CCA (co-curricular activities) collar pin with pride, dude! I wonder where I'll put the Library one.
As the day went by, I realised one thing. I probably have to stop this crush thing. She's like, kinda cold towards me now (perhaps it is my fault?) and I guess I lost her already. I get jealous at times but hey, she's attached already! (Like I said in an earlier post, all the girls I fancy seem to already have boyfriends). I'll have to concentrate on more important matters.
Also, I'm beginning to feel like I cannot fit into my new class. This has never happened before, and I am left wondering why. I mean, I don't really interact with others, and vice versa. This sucks, and I feel bad about it. No one watches anime anyway. Only a select few I know. So there's really no one for me to talk about Gundam SEED DESTINY and other stuff, like Magic Knight Rayearth with. Saddening. How do I fit in? Anti-social me.
Then comes to PE. Today we had circuit training. For us guys, we had to run on the outer lanes of the running track. After each round, we do 20 reps of an exercise. The girls ran on lanes 5 and 6 (in the middle) and had to do 15 reps. The order was as follows: Sit-ups, Push-ups, Bench-dips and Half-squats. So that's four rounds we ran, a distance of approximate 1.6 kilometres (it has to be more since we're running on the outer lanes?) Not too bad, I didn't really feel exhausted after it. In fact, I though that I enjoyed it a little! Weird. Maybe I'm not pushing myself hard enough (I know I was like, jogging, but yeah. :P). So here goes, I guess I'll have to build up my fitness someday.
After PE, my Air Rifle (I shall refer to it as AR from now on) classmates and I went down to the range. Apparently our seniors were having a mini-competition. Up for grabs was a 400ml Nalgene bottle (whatever!) but I guess the main aim of the the competition was to sharpen their shooting skills. And for the first time, I saw the rifle shooters in their full regalia (i.e. with the hard jackets -> I don't know what they're really called but they're hard or so I heard). Learnt a few rules about the game, and who we were up against (the other JCs, mainly). We had to whisper to refrain from disturbing our seniors. [I must get my shooting stance right!] And I've finally seen the uberness of uber. We have this senior, Yong Sheng (I think he was from Dunman High Air Rifle too) who has been in this sport for 6 years. He shoots like a pro, and I saw one of his target cards. A perfect, what they call 10-10. Two shots, right through the bulls-eye. It was as though the two pellets passed through the same hole (It really was, I saw one hole only and not much enlargement which meant that two rounds pass through the same area!).
To get to his standard, one must train hard. I'm not sure of myself now...can I make it?
Back home, I felt better and less depressed after a nap. Looking at the papers, I realised that the Scouts movement was founded by Lord Baden-Powell on this day! 97 years have passed... I feel so proud and happy.
As the day went by, I realised one thing. I probably have to stop this crush thing. She's like, kinda cold towards me now (perhaps it is my fault?) and I guess I lost her already. I get jealous at times but hey, she's attached already! (Like I said in an earlier post, all the girls I fancy seem to already have boyfriends). I'll have to concentrate on more important matters.
Also, I'm beginning to feel like I cannot fit into my new class. This has never happened before, and I am left wondering why. I mean, I don't really interact with others, and vice versa. This sucks, and I feel bad about it. No one watches anime anyway. Only a select few I know. So there's really no one for me to talk about Gundam SEED DESTINY and other stuff, like Magic Knight Rayearth with. Saddening. How do I fit in? Anti-social me.
Then comes to PE. Today we had circuit training. For us guys, we had to run on the outer lanes of the running track. After each round, we do 20 reps of an exercise. The girls ran on lanes 5 and 6 (in the middle) and had to do 15 reps. The order was as follows: Sit-ups, Push-ups, Bench-dips and Half-squats. So that's four rounds we ran, a distance of approximate 1.6 kilometres (it has to be more since we're running on the outer lanes?) Not too bad, I didn't really feel exhausted after it. In fact, I though that I enjoyed it a little! Weird. Maybe I'm not pushing myself hard enough (I know I was like, jogging, but yeah. :P). So here goes, I guess I'll have to build up my fitness someday.
After PE, my Air Rifle (I shall refer to it as AR from now on) classmates and I went down to the range. Apparently our seniors were having a mini-competition. Up for grabs was a 400ml Nalgene bottle (whatever!) but I guess the main aim of the the competition was to sharpen their shooting skills. And for the first time, I saw the rifle shooters in their full regalia (i.e. with the hard jackets -> I don't know what they're really called but they're hard or so I heard). Learnt a few rules about the game, and who we were up against (the other JCs, mainly). We had to whisper to refrain from disturbing our seniors. [I must get my shooting stance right!] And I've finally seen the uberness of uber. We have this senior, Yong Sheng (I think he was from Dunman High Air Rifle too) who has been in this sport for 6 years. He shoots like a pro, and I saw one of his target cards. A perfect, what they call 10-10. Two shots, right through the bulls-eye. It was as though the two pellets passed through the same hole (It really was, I saw one hole only and not much enlargement which meant that two rounds pass through the same area!).
To get to his standard, one must train hard. I'm not sure of myself now...can I make it?
Back home, I felt better and less depressed after a nap. Looking at the papers, I realised that the Scouts movement was founded by Lord Baden-Powell on this day! 97 years have passed... I feel so proud and happy.
"Once a Scout, always a Scout. 一日童军，一世童军！"
And then there was this guy who argued about the necessity of so-called "torture-training" in the Army, especially for the commandos. I totally agree with his points of view. These types of training builds a commando's endurance and resilience, so that he may survive in hostile territory, and also not divulge vital information to the enemy if he is captured. The reason why one of our commandos died during training, I guess, was due to the non-compliance with safety rules...
That ends my post for today I guess. I am now in a dilemna, since my class wants to play pool on Friday, while my OG wants to dance somewhere on Friday. Should I go with my class, in an effort to socialise and learn how to play pool, or my OG, whom (I feel) I know better, and enjoy the dances? Gah.
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Blogging for the sake of blogging.
Not too much happened today and yesterday, maybe except I went over to my Chinese physician's place again for treatment. She made erm... I think pork-stew is the correct term... for my Mom and I, and it rocks! Home-made stuff always tastes better. Esp. my Mom's, hehehehe. :D
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Gundam SEED DESTINY PHASE 14: Tomorrow's Journey review
New Opening Song for SEED DESTINY! It's PRIDE by High and Mighty Color. Damned nice song and nice vid. I shall not go too much into details because it will be too wordy. Anyway, new character, Haine Westenfluss appears with the GOUF Ignited. Appears that Neo might be Mwu, and Andrew Waldfeld actually gets a new suit. A silhoutte of the Destiny Gundam appears too. So that might be what Gundam SEED DESTINY is all about.
The episode starts off showing the wreckage of the Asshu's from episode 13. The kids examine the damage, while Kira, Lacus, Andrew and Murrue discuss things. Andrew feels that since ZAFT is coming after Lacus, then they should abandon the plan of heading for the PLANTs. Cagalli's servant Mana arrivse by limousine, and informs all about Cagalli's forced marriage and such. She also hands Kira a letter written by Cagalli. During the reading of the letter, we see a scene where Cagalli is being taught how to act more womanly, and that evil boy Yuuna laughing away in the background.
In the Seiran household, Cagalli reminisces about her meetings with Athrun. It makes her sad. these flashbacks take up quite a bit of time. She also reminisces about her father. Yuuna later takes her to the bridal car (which looks darned weird and circular by the way). In the car, he pours himself a glass of whisky and asks snidely if Cagalli is alright. This, of course, annoys us all.
She continues reminiscing before being later forced to smile and wave at the crowds from the car. She later steps out of the car, crying. Yuuna tells her that those tears had better be tears of joy...
In some other place, Kojiro Murdoch meets up with Arnold Neumann, who gets knocked into some other kids. How amazing. Kira discusses with Murrue about "the right thing to do" and they end up in Archangel's undersea hangar. Kojiro and Arnold appear soon after.
The marriage ceremony begins at a temple, guarded by four Jet Striker Astrays. The Archangel also prepares to launch during this period. Apparently now the Archangel is undermanned. Murrue asks Andrew to take the commander's seat, but Andrew says that the ship is undermanned and he may have to sortie as a pilot. Thus, Murrue commands the Archangel again. Andrew is porbably deferring to Murrue's experience in this area...looks like they are getting close. Hmm...
The Freedom launches, and when Archangel surfaces it is detected. Orb sends the "2nd Defence Fleet" to intercept, however, the Freedom manages to gatecrash Cagalli's wedding ceremony just before she says "I do". The Astrays get disabled, Cagalli gets pissed off, Yuuna cries (it sounds shitty though). On the way back, Freedom is intercepted by two Murasame's in aircraft mode. He disables them with his beam saber, and proceeds to land on the Archangel.
The 2nd Defence Fleet receives the message, and it is commanded by Captain Todaka, who appeared in the previous episode calling the alliance between Orb and the Atlantic Federation as being the action of ingrates. He allows to Archangel to flee "since the fleet is ordered to act cautiously", and pins his hope on peace for the Archangel crew.
Thus, this concludes the review. I must say the Freedom is looking cooler than ever, and oh gosh, everyone looks so cool in the Orb uniforms! Way better than the Alliance ones, really. Damned cool episode there is. And there is a new ending song too. It's by Arisaka Mika, titled Life Goes On. All the videos rock man!
The episode starts off showing the wreckage of the Asshu's from episode 13. The kids examine the damage, while Kira, Lacus, Andrew and Murrue discuss things. Andrew feels that since ZAFT is coming after Lacus, then they should abandon the plan of heading for the PLANTs. Cagalli's servant Mana arrivse by limousine, and informs all about Cagalli's forced marriage and such. She also hands Kira a letter written by Cagalli. During the reading of the letter, we see a scene where Cagalli is being taught how to act more womanly, and that evil boy Yuuna laughing away in the background.
In the Seiran household, Cagalli reminisces about her meetings with Athrun. It makes her sad. these flashbacks take up quite a bit of time. She also reminisces about her father. Yuuna later takes her to the bridal car (which looks darned weird and circular by the way). In the car, he pours himself a glass of whisky and asks snidely if Cagalli is alright. This, of course, annoys us all.
She continues reminiscing before being later forced to smile and wave at the crowds from the car. She later steps out of the car, crying. Yuuna tells her that those tears had better be tears of joy...
In some other place, Kojiro Murdoch meets up with Arnold Neumann, who gets knocked into some other kids. How amazing. Kira discusses with Murrue about "the right thing to do" and they end up in Archangel's undersea hangar. Kojiro and Arnold appear soon after.
The marriage ceremony begins at a temple, guarded by four Jet Striker Astrays. The Archangel also prepares to launch during this period. Apparently now the Archangel is undermanned. Murrue asks Andrew to take the commander's seat, but Andrew says that the ship is undermanned and he may have to sortie as a pilot. Thus, Murrue commands the Archangel again. Andrew is porbably deferring to Murrue's experience in this area...looks like they are getting close. Hmm...
The Freedom launches, and when Archangel surfaces it is detected. Orb sends the "2nd Defence Fleet" to intercept, however, the Freedom manages to gatecrash Cagalli's wedding ceremony just before she says "I do". The Astrays get disabled, Cagalli gets pissed off, Yuuna cries (it sounds shitty though). On the way back, Freedom is intercepted by two Murasame's in aircraft mode. He disables them with his beam saber, and proceeds to land on the Archangel.
The 2nd Defence Fleet receives the message, and it is commanded by Captain Todaka, who appeared in the previous episode calling the alliance between Orb and the Atlantic Federation as being the action of ingrates. He allows to Archangel to flee "since the fleet is ordered to act cautiously", and pins his hope on peace for the Archangel crew.
Thus, this concludes the review. I must say the Freedom is looking cooler than ever, and oh gosh, everyone looks so cool in the Orb uniforms! Way better than the Alliance ones, really. Damned cool episode there is. And there is a new ending song too. It's by Arisaka Mika, titled Life Goes On. All the videos rock man!
Friday, January 21, 2005
RoCom trials = flop
Gee, woke up darned late today at 0930 hours. I slept too much and forgot to design the rocket fins last night. And I still dilly-dallied today, until what, 1030 hours, before I actualyl got down to work. I rushed all the way to 1130 and managed to cut out 8 fins and waterproof three of them. I did the last one on the MRT on the way to NUS (National University of Singapore). I must have looked weird, with a piece of scotch-tape in my mouth and using scissors to cut and paste scotch-tape onto some strange-looking piece of cardboard.
I met my teammates at around 1300 hours, and then we took a bus (after consulting the locality map) to NUS. Found the field pretty easily, because that was where everybody was gathered. So we plopped down on a shady spot, and watched the other teams test their rockets. Some flew damn good. Really damned far and good. We had two designs, one with a parachute. That one flew crappily on the first try, and the 'chute didn't deploy. The second time it deployed, but too late since we didn't get enough altitude.
As for the second rocket we had, I am too ashamed to say anything about it. It totally sucked. And when I say "totally suck" it means it did not launch at all. The bloody rocket burst before launch, spraying water onto the NUS launchers (Sorry!). Apparently it wasn't sealed properly and the pressure was too great. I don't want to blame anybody, but I think our rocket was the first to do so. And this happening in front of all the JCs made it all the more embarrassing.
*dies*
We will build a new one and test it ourselves on Tuesday. At least that's the plan. Hehe. Wish VJC luck, all you readers of my blog! If there is ever a reader. Do leave comments...and tag when I put a tagboard lol! :P
EDIT at 0100 hours, 22 Jan 2005: My team left at 4 after abandoning our last launch (with spoilt rockets, what can you do?) Threw away the split apart one, and we headed back to Buona Vista to grab some chow. We walekd into this underpass, and I saw a busker, who was singing like "Selamat Hari Raya...la la la la...ni hao piao liang [你好漂亮] (You are very beautiful, in Chinese)" Felt liek giving him something but didn't. How evil of me. We came to this coffeshop called Elijah Coffeeshop, and ate some stuff. I bought a chicken burger, which was WAAAAAY different from the one shown in its picture. Bloody hell. The western side of Singapore just seems so dead and unfriendly. I'd rather return home to the east side. Anyway the burger sucked, and so did the fries which my friend ordered. To quote him: "The fries are basically better than just a packet of salt." I'd never buy from that stall again, 11 Western Food's the name. Avoid it guys! :D
I met my teammates at around 1300 hours, and then we took a bus (after consulting the locality map) to NUS. Found the field pretty easily, because that was where everybody was gathered. So we plopped down on a shady spot, and watched the other teams test their rockets. Some flew damn good. Really damned far and good. We had two designs, one with a parachute. That one flew crappily on the first try, and the 'chute didn't deploy. The second time it deployed, but too late since we didn't get enough altitude.
As for the second rocket we had, I am too ashamed to say anything about it. It totally sucked. And when I say "totally suck" it means it did not launch at all. The bloody rocket burst before launch, spraying water onto the NUS launchers (Sorry!). Apparently it wasn't sealed properly and the pressure was too great. I don't want to blame anybody, but I think our rocket was the first to do so. And this happening in front of all the JCs made it all the more embarrassing.
*dies*
We will build a new one and test it ourselves on Tuesday. At least that's the plan. Hehe. Wish VJC luck, all you readers of my blog! If there is ever a reader. Do leave comments...and tag when I put a tagboard lol! :P
EDIT at 0100 hours, 22 Jan 2005: My team left at 4 after abandoning our last launch (with spoilt rockets, what can you do?) Threw away the split apart one, and we headed back to Buona Vista to grab some chow. We walekd into this underpass, and I saw a busker, who was singing like "Selamat Hari Raya...la la la la...ni hao piao liang [你好漂亮] (You are very beautiful, in Chinese)" Felt liek giving him something but didn't. How evil of me. We came to this coffeshop called Elijah Coffeeshop, and ate some stuff. I bought a chicken burger, which was WAAAAAY different from the one shown in its picture. Bloody hell. The western side of Singapore just seems so dead and unfriendly. I'd rather return home to the east side. Anyway the burger sucked, and so did the fries which my friend ordered. To quote him: "The fries are basically better than just a packet of salt." I'd never buy from that stall again, 11 Western Food's the name. Avoid it guys! :D
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Angry Eyes...nah. Just pain foot.
Today was rush-rush day. In the morning, I ran from the hall to the concourse in school, dodging people, canteen pails and the like, for about 100-150 metres, before flying to the toilet to change into my PE attire. Den the same distance back, with more people (the oncomng crowd) to dodge.
Then, later after school, I rushed to settle some business with the Library (going to be a librarian) and had to rush-rush to change and for Air Rifle training. My very first time. After understanding how to prepare the rifle for dry shoot, we went off and practiced, together with all the shooting stances and stuff. I made loads of mistakes, mainly being the inability to lock my knees (I did fine without the 4.59kg rifle!). And there was the 'slanting shoulder' problem. All these I shall have to try and correct them.
The funnest part, Iin my opinion, was the 20-round grouping shots. I did so-so, all 20 hit the card (we hit the blank side) although grouping wasn't fantastic. I had like, 3 together here, 4 together there, and 3 togetehre somewhere else. But the bullets are expensive stuff (4.5 mm, or .177 calibre lead rounds for those who want to know), so we must treasure our shots and not flop. Hmm. Oh well. My legs (especially left leg since I put too much weight on it) and my left knuckle (balanced the rifle on it basically) hurt, and I'm kinda bushed. Gee...
After Air Rifle, and washing hands, since "lead is a poisonous substance and can harm your brain and your reproductive systems", I went for my flick (OG sub-group) dinner at East Coast Lagoon (For those who don't know where that is, it's just some sort of food centre by the water).
We ate, talked, then spent loads of time taking crazy photos and doing crazy stuff.
And we saw Kim Wakerman! (We think its her but she seems a little shorter on TV...) Jesus, she's like, my wet dream. I thought she was hot on TV but she looks even hotter in real-life! Holy Cow! *drools* She is so damned HOT!. But she was with a group of guys, who mostly seemed older than her. And another girl. She seemed like the youngest among them. Weird. Their gang were looking for seats to eat and stuff... Too bad she's attached. Why do all the girls I fancy already have boyfriends? And I wonder why some people don't like her. She doesn't look bitchy...
By the time we finished taking photos, she had gone. Damn, I wanted to take another look at her... *sighs* Now I have to build the fins for my team's test rocket, in preparation for trials tomorrow. Why am I so busy on a public holiday? :'(
Yeah. Our OG and flick is fun. Ingole and Inante rocks, stones and pebbles!
Then, later after school, I rushed to settle some business with the Library (going to be a librarian) and had to rush-rush to change and for Air Rifle training. My very first time. After understanding how to prepare the rifle for dry shoot, we went off and practiced, together with all the shooting stances and stuff. I made loads of mistakes, mainly being the inability to lock my knees (I did fine without the 4.59kg rifle!). And there was the 'slanting shoulder' problem. All these I shall have to try and correct them.
The funnest part, Iin my opinion, was the 20-round grouping shots. I did so-so, all 20 hit the card (we hit the blank side) although grouping wasn't fantastic. I had like, 3 together here, 4 together there, and 3 togetehre somewhere else. But the bullets are expensive stuff (4.5 mm, or .177 calibre lead rounds for those who want to know), so we must treasure our shots and not flop. Hmm. Oh well. My legs (especially left leg since I put too much weight on it) and my left knuckle (balanced the rifle on it basically) hurt, and I'm kinda bushed. Gee...
After Air Rifle, and washing hands, since "lead is a poisonous substance and can harm your brain and your reproductive systems", I went for my flick (OG sub-group) dinner at East Coast Lagoon (For those who don't know where that is, it's just some sort of food centre by the water).
We ate, talked, then spent loads of time taking crazy photos and doing crazy stuff.
And we saw Kim Wakerman! (We think its her but she seems a little shorter on TV...) Jesus, she's like, my wet dream. I thought she was hot on TV but she looks even hotter in real-life! Holy Cow! *drools* She is so damned HOT!. But she was with a group of guys, who mostly seemed older than her. And another girl. She seemed like the youngest among them. Weird. Their gang were looking for seats to eat and stuff... Too bad she's attached. Why do all the girls I fancy already have boyfriends? And I wonder why some people don't like her. She doesn't look bitchy...
By the time we finished taking photos, she had gone. Damn, I wanted to take another look at her... *sighs* Now I have to build the fins for my team's test rocket, in preparation for trials tomorrow. Why am I so busy on a public holiday? :'(
Yeah. Our OG and flick is fun. Ingole and Inante rocks, stones and pebbles!
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Now what? I'm messed up.
I can't believe that me, a lamer and like, dumbass back in Dunman High can actually get involved (slightly, perhaps?) in BGR like two weeks into the start of JC life. I must be mad. Anyway, today ended early, but I had Air Rifle. Rushed to it after the end of the Physics Society meeting regarding a certain rocket-building competition. [I'm part of an independent team though. :) ]
Luckily I didn't miss much, just the intros. I guess I'll just get to know the people later. So basically we did nothing relaetd to shooting today, just some game where you get to splash water on each other, Dog and Bone, and Captain's Ball. I've not touched a ball in like, so long...damn. Should get my buddies around and organise a soccer outing one day. :)
After that we played some lame IQ games (there are still some I can't figure out, but I know I'll feel damn dumb when I realise the truth behind them). And basically, interacted. Then it ended and yeah, I tried Snapple for the first time. Ended up coughing. Appears that Snapple bottlecaps have some "trivia" located underneath them. Funny. Mine was what..."Almonds belong to the dunnowhat (cherry? :P) family".
Oh well, time to sign off. Bloody hell the download for SEED DESTINY 14 is going sooooo slowly.
Luckily I didn't miss much, just the intros. I guess I'll just get to know the people later. So basically we did nothing relaetd to shooting today, just some game where you get to splash water on each other, Dog and Bone, and Captain's Ball. I've not touched a ball in like, so long...damn. Should get my buddies around and organise a soccer outing one day. :)
After that we played some lame IQ games (there are still some I can't figure out, but I know I'll feel damn dumb when I realise the truth behind them). And basically, interacted. Then it ended and yeah, I tried Snapple for the first time. Ended up coughing. Appears that Snapple bottlecaps have some "trivia" located underneath them. Funny. Mine was what..."Almonds belong to the dunnowhat (cherry? :P) family".
Oh well, time to sign off. Bloody hell the download for SEED DESTINY 14 is going sooooo slowly.
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Aack.
What's happening to me. I feel anti-social. Screwed up this whole day. There's gonna be the first session of Air-Rifle tomorrow but I'm giving the first half-hour a miss due to some meeting on the Rocket Competition thingy that I joined. Damn.
Monday, January 17, 2005
Falling in love...?!?
I might be falling in love. How strange of me, a loveless guy to say that. Weird. Life is so confusing and mean at times.
On a second note, saw my Physics tutor "in action" during the teachers vs. students friendly soccer match today. He was playing defender, and came out after like...4 minutes. lol!
I want SEED DESTINY 14!!!!
On a second note, saw my Physics tutor "in action" during the teachers vs. students friendly soccer match today. He was playing defender, and came out after like...4 minutes. lol!
I want SEED DESTINY 14!!!!
Sunday, January 16, 2005
Singapore Won!
Update at 2200 hours: Singapore won the Tiger Cup after six long, hard years! My heart swelled with pride as I danced at home, and celebrated our victory along with the players, and every Singaporean, watching TV or at the stadium. It is such things that make me feel proud to be Singaporean (among other stuff, please don't misunderstand me). I feel patriotic! Our team looked so happy as the held up the Tiger Cup, and ran around the stadium.
Congratulations to all other teams who played, and those who made it to the finals, you should be commended too. :) See you all at the next Tiger Cup!
Congratulations to all other teams who played, and those who made it to the finals, you should be commended too. :) See you all at the next Tiger Cup!
I got into Air Rifle! Plus random stuffies.
This was actually supposed to be posted yesterday, but oh well, I'm gonna lump it all in with today's stuff. We had our OG barbecue on Friday, and our OG was like, the laziest since we practically ordered catered food, and only raised a fire to cook marshmallows. Lol.
I met up with this friend that I had not seen for 4 whole eyars, Mexcel, and we like, talked loads of cock and caught up and stuff. So I actually started eating late. Apparently he went to SAJC (Saint Andrew's Junior College) and crashed our barbecue to steal food. :) I couldn't care less anyway, lol! :D
Before that, our flick spent a few hours making cards for our OGLs. I didn't do anything, and was reduced to that of inefficient guard. :P basically i was hovering around, talking cock, getting ignored and feeling damned pissed and stuff. Oh well, whoever asked me to be so talentless and crappy?
So our flick (sub-group) made our way to the pits, and hit it at 1800 hours. Back to the present, our flick (including OGLs) sat down on the beach after dinner to tell ghost stories. Some of the girls got frightened by the Year 5s, or rather, our seniors who were 4 years older than us. I think they weren't really frightened, but more caught by surprise.
Yeah, and we mass-danced on the beach! Aborted once due to the faulty CD player, tried it again although the quality wasn't that good. But we sweated and had fun lol. :D And somehow, time passed on and on, I don't know how. Walked here there, everywhere, did weird stuff, climbed onto breakwater at East Coast beach, climbed off, someone fell, and we went to like, seek help with her. Later, a few of us walked with her to the carpark to wait for her dad. And we, the ex-Taonanites, belted out the Tao Nan School song along the way. I added the Dunman High School Song to it, and all of us belted out the Victoria Junior College anthem later on. We are crazy.
Yeah. The few of us who eventually stayed overdecided to go for supepr at this 24-hour Malay coffee shop called Mas-Ayu Restaurant (or soemthing like that). I had teh tarik. We talked and stuff till 0200 hours, before going to an OGL's house. :) The few of us Year Ones were ferried by a Year 5 called Kenny! He's such a nice guy. :) And then, we played lame games, devious games, games and stuff (including Twister on a number mat) the whole night. Some of the people didn't sleep. I zonked out at 5+ am after my go at Truth or Dare, and missed out a lot on the scandalous stuff. We were all too tired to do dares so we told truths. Oh well, I shall not mentioned any further because I am honor-bound not to do so. :P
The next day, Saturday, I woke up at 0700 hours, went back to sleep and woke up at 0900 hours again. We were basically talking, and somehow ended up watching Digimon Frontier on Kids Central at 0930, then eating breakfast at 1000.
Our small gang of 10+ people left the OGL's house at 1100+ . According to Stephanie, our kind host, the OGL, "died" after we went home. :) lol. I went reached home around 1130, watched Gundam SEED, bathed before dying on my bed as well, waking up to eat lunch, then go to see my Chinese physician, and conking out during treatment too. :D
My dad came to fetch me late, and being the kind hosts that they were, my Chinese physician cooked dinner, and gave me some stuff to eat. Or rather, "forced" it upon me. I didn't eat much for dinner after that.
So I reached home again at 2100 hours, and did stuff, bathed. And thanks to Jia Ying, who was like, trying to call me the whole day to tell me that I got into Air Rifle. Apologies since I couldn't answer the handphone during the times she called. lol. The 'official' call came at 2115, before I bathed.
Then after that, I conked out again till 0930 this morning. Went for my first Japanese class at JCS (Japanese Cultural Society). Despite that fact that I took beginner lessons just one month ago, I realised that I had forgotten a lot of things. Yonekura-sensei was a nice woman. Young and pretty. And she dances! (*winks* at randomstephie :P)
And she says that my Chinese name translated is Kaku Kau... oh my...*dies*
Oh well, its 1600 hours now, and I don't feel like doing homework again. I'll end this post...
I met up with this friend that I had not seen for 4 whole eyars, Mexcel, and we like, talked loads of cock and caught up and stuff. So I actually started eating late. Apparently he went to SAJC (Saint Andrew's Junior College) and crashed our barbecue to steal food. :) I couldn't care less anyway, lol! :D
Before that, our flick spent a few hours making cards for our OGLs. I didn't do anything, and was reduced to that of inefficient guard. :P basically i was hovering around, talking cock, getting ignored and feeling damned pissed and stuff. Oh well, whoever asked me to be so talentless and crappy?
So our flick (sub-group) made our way to the pits, and hit it at 1800 hours. Back to the present, our flick (including OGLs) sat down on the beach after dinner to tell ghost stories. Some of the girls got frightened by the Year 5s, or rather, our seniors who were 4 years older than us. I think they weren't really frightened, but more caught by surprise.
Yeah, and we mass-danced on the beach! Aborted once due to the faulty CD player, tried it again although the quality wasn't that good. But we sweated and had fun lol. :D And somehow, time passed on and on, I don't know how. Walked here there, everywhere, did weird stuff, climbed onto breakwater at East Coast beach, climbed off, someone fell, and we went to like, seek help with her. Later, a few of us walked with her to the carpark to wait for her dad. And we, the ex-Taonanites, belted out the Tao Nan School song along the way. I added the Dunman High School Song to it, and all of us belted out the Victoria Junior College anthem later on. We are crazy.
Yeah. The few of us who eventually stayed overdecided to go for supepr at this 24-hour Malay coffee shop called Mas-Ayu Restaurant (or soemthing like that). I had teh tarik. We talked and stuff till 0200 hours, before going to an OGL's house. :) The few of us Year Ones were ferried by a Year 5 called Kenny! He's such a nice guy. :) And then, we played lame games, devious games, games and stuff (including Twister on a number mat) the whole night. Some of the people didn't sleep. I zonked out at 5+ am after my go at Truth or Dare, and missed out a lot on the scandalous stuff. We were all too tired to do dares so we told truths. Oh well, I shall not mentioned any further because I am honor-bound not to do so. :P
The next day, Saturday, I woke up at 0700 hours, went back to sleep and woke up at 0900 hours again. We were basically talking, and somehow ended up watching Digimon Frontier on Kids Central at 0930, then eating breakfast at 1000.
Our small gang of 10+ people left the OGL's house at 1100+ . According to Stephanie, our kind host, the OGL, "died" after we went home. :) lol. I went reached home around 1130, watched Gundam SEED, bathed before dying on my bed as well, waking up to eat lunch, then go to see my Chinese physician, and conking out during treatment too. :D
My dad came to fetch me late, and being the kind hosts that they were, my Chinese physician cooked dinner, and gave me some stuff to eat. Or rather, "forced" it upon me. I didn't eat much for dinner after that.
So I reached home again at 2100 hours, and did stuff, bathed. And thanks to Jia Ying, who was like, trying to call me the whole day to tell me that I got into Air Rifle. Apologies since I couldn't answer the handphone during the times she called. lol. The 'official' call came at 2115, before I bathed.
Then after that, I conked out again till 0930 this morning. Went for my first Japanese class at JCS (Japanese Cultural Society). Despite that fact that I took beginner lessons just one month ago, I realised that I had forgotten a lot of things. Yonekura-sensei was a nice woman. Young and pretty. And she dances! (*winks* at randomstephie :P)
And she says that my Chinese name translated is Kaku Kau... oh my...*dies*
Oh well, its 1600 hours now, and I don't feel like doing homework again. I'll end this post...
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Random Title [RT]: Impulse
Well, there isn't much to blog about today. But I'll make the entry just for making it's sake. :P Looks like my sense of insecurity is increasing, rapidly, to say the least. And somehow I feel bad about SMSing during Geography tutorial while in front of the tutor. But then again, it was an introductory lecture, and there wasn't anything being covered...
I somehow need to fix my problems with Trillian and MSN Messenger. It's soooo troublesome! Must find something that can hold more than 150 contacts... This sucks, really. And it looks like we have to play this game called Angel and Mortal which I've never played before. It involves money, and a whole load of secret messages. Oh my freakin' God.
My arms are still screwed up from PE, hopefully my legs don't go too just because I had a 2.6 km jog today. Bleargh.
I somehow need to fix my problems with Trillian and MSN Messenger. It's soooo troublesome! Must find something that can hold more than 150 contacts... This sucks, really. And it looks like we have to play this game called Angel and Mortal which I've never played before. It involves money, and a whole load of secret messages. Oh my freakin' God.
My arms are still screwed up from PE, hopefully my legs don't go too just because I had a 2.6 km jog today. Bleargh.
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
School life sets in...
Lol. There's nothing much to blog about these days except for school life. I'll probably be blogging about what I did each day and the like anyways. Well, looks like my mom found out my secret of waking up at 3+, 4+ am each morning to do homework, or play on the computer. Now that sucks, I can't help it sometimes since I fall asleep with my PC on. :) I'll have to lay low for a while now... *evil grin*
Bloody hell though, I started the day off badly. I woke up from a dream, dreaming that I was being convitced for murder! Now that's scary, and I was groggiy trying to reassure myself as I struggled through breakfast. It was so vivid, I thought it was real! The death penalty... *shivers*
As for school, Wednesday has got to be the shortest day in my entire life! Lesson, break, then lesson, then break again. Some of my friends even ended their lessons at around 1130 hours! Jesus jumpin' H'Christ! (No offense to Christians). There is a price to this, still. Wednesday's CCA day. And if I enter Air Rifle, I have to be prepared to put in loooong hours doing this. So far the compulsory training days are Wednesday and Thursday, 1500 to 1830 hours, and Saturday 0900 t 1200 hours.
And then I signed up for Library too. Be a librarian. Although the timeslots for their "task groups" (A one-hour weekly affair where you do things) didn't fit into my timetable at all, so I was liek this "problem guy". Hopefully everything works out, and hopefully I can stay in VJC. Again I must stress that I dread the day when we receive our GCE 'O' Level results... (For those who don't know, it is the General Certificate of Education "Ordinary" Level, a big exam which is the rite of passage for some Singaporean students).
My class wants to set up a class blog too. I'll probably link it when it is set up. As for now, I guess there's nothing else more to blog about. Just perhaps that my inferiority complex is at an all time high.
Bloody hell though, I started the day off badly. I woke up from a dream, dreaming that I was being convitced for murder! Now that's scary, and I was groggiy trying to reassure myself as I struggled through breakfast. It was so vivid, I thought it was real! The death penalty... *shivers*
As for school, Wednesday has got to be the shortest day in my entire life! Lesson, break, then lesson, then break again. Some of my friends even ended their lessons at around 1130 hours! Jesus jumpin' H'Christ! (No offense to Christians). There is a price to this, still. Wednesday's CCA day. And if I enter Air Rifle, I have to be prepared to put in loooong hours doing this. So far the compulsory training days are Wednesday and Thursday, 1500 to 1830 hours, and Saturday 0900 t 1200 hours.
And then I signed up for Library too. Be a librarian. Although the timeslots for their "task groups" (A one-hour weekly affair where you do things) didn't fit into my timetable at all, so I was liek this "problem guy". Hopefully everything works out, and hopefully I can stay in VJC. Again I must stress that I dread the day when we receive our GCE 'O' Level results... (For those who don't know, it is the General Certificate of Education "Ordinary" Level, a big exam which is the rite of passage for some Singaporean students).
My class wants to set up a class blog too. I'll probably link it when it is set up. As for now, I guess there's nothing else more to blog about. Just perhaps that my inferiority complex is at an all time high.
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Baptism Of Fire
Ok. Day Two ended without much incident, although I was walking around with achign arms and pectorals since I got screwed up by PE yesterday. I think my classmates would begin to see me as a complainer now, heh. Whatever lol. Not much stuff actually happened in school today, although our Physics tutor Mr Chow asked us a question which no one could answer...yet.
"How can we tell that a stopwatch is running too fast or too slowly?" Or, in other words, how do we know whether a stopwatch has any errors or not.
Well, one guy offered that if the stopwatch doesn't stop at zero, then it has errors. So everyone laughed, but I think I get what he was trying to say. Unfortunately that was wrongly. Somehow I blurted out "compare it with an atomic clock" and then Mr Chow told me to go and time exactly one minute on the stopwatch with the atomic clock. Lol. So much for my answer. And so, nobody knew how to answer that question...
Lessons ended at 1500 hours without Project Work (PW). Went to eat, and waited for Air Rifle trial shoot. I tried for both pistol and rifle, and somehow my results for the rifle were better. I think it's gotta do with the sight thingy. The pistol was light, but aiming was weird and I did everything by intuition. All of my 10 shots hit, but over a pretty wide area I guess.
The rifle was freakin' heavy, plus my arms were screwed up. All my 10 shots hit, and were pretty close! Had only 3 stray shots. What a miracle. So I basically screwed up my arms even more, and they hurt like shit now. My fingers too, because I slept on them after bathing.
I really hope to get into Air Rifle, otherwise...I'm in for a slight problem regarding Co-Curricular Activities (CCAs). Oh, God bless...
EDIT at 0022 hrs: Just concluded a real crazy and random chat with members from my OG, and our OGLs (Orientation Group Leaders) Gosh...that was madness.
"How can we tell that a stopwatch is running too fast or too slowly?" Or, in other words, how do we know whether a stopwatch has any errors or not.
Well, one guy offered that if the stopwatch doesn't stop at zero, then it has errors. So everyone laughed, but I think I get what he was trying to say. Unfortunately that was wrongly. Somehow I blurted out "compare it with an atomic clock" and then Mr Chow told me to go and time exactly one minute on the stopwatch with the atomic clock. Lol. So much for my answer. And so, nobody knew how to answer that question...
Lessons ended at 1500 hours without Project Work (PW). Went to eat, and waited for Air Rifle trial shoot. I tried for both pistol and rifle, and somehow my results for the rifle were better. I think it's gotta do with the sight thingy. The pistol was light, but aiming was weird and I did everything by intuition. All of my 10 shots hit, but over a pretty wide area I guess.
The rifle was freakin' heavy, plus my arms were screwed up. All my 10 shots hit, and were pretty close! Had only 3 stray shots. What a miracle. So I basically screwed up my arms even more, and they hurt like shit now. My fingers too, because I slept on them after bathing.
I really hope to get into Air Rifle, otherwise...I'm in for a slight problem regarding Co-Curricular Activities (CCAs). Oh, God bless...
EDIT at 0022 hrs: Just concluded a real crazy and random chat with members from my OG, and our OGLs (Orientation Group Leaders) Gosh...that was madness.
Gundam SEED DESTINY PHASE 13: Revived Wings review
So here we have, the 13th episode of the latest Gundam series, Gundam SEED DESTINY. For those who don't know the story, I suggest you watch Gundam SEED first, then conatct me somehow or another. I can fill you in on what you've missed for DESTINY :P
Anyway, this episode starts off with the crew of the Minerva being awed by Shinn's combat prowess. Apparently he single-handedly destroyed 2 carriers, and 4 other ships or something. Talia is obviously impressed, and even Arthur claims that the "legendary Freedom of Jachin Duue cannot do better". Everyone is surprised, really, and Lunamaria asks Shinn what actually happened. Shinn doesn't understand it as well, he just said that "something snapped".
Rey appears to show support for Shinn, but I think there's something more. Meanwhile, Cagalli visits her father's grave, and thinks of him. Yuuna appears, and basically makes some threats, plus fix the date for the wedding. Looks like he hates Coordinators too, from what he says.
Andrew Waldfeld makes more coffee, and gets Murrue to taste it this time round. I must say this is the cutest moment I have ever seen Murrue in. They plan to leave, given the volatile situation now. Then...in the middle of the night...frogmen appear from the water around Lacus/Kira/Murrue/Malchio/Andrew/the kids' living compound! The spread out, and move in for the kill.
AND...HARO DETECTS THE EVIL FROGMEN! It bounces around, and was screaming alerts, waking up Murrue and Andrew who wake up Kira and Lacus and everyone else. So a big gunfight occurs in the house, with spectacular bullet-time effects, and...everyone lives. Gee, Murrue is more well-trained than the evil frogmen assassins! How sad...for the assassins. And Andrew's left (?) arm actually is fake, and has been replaced by a shotgun implant! Cool lol.
So anyway, the gang beats off the evil frogmen, and go off to hide in the shelter. Evil Frogmen bring out Mobile Suits, the UMF/SSO-3 Asshu. Looks like they're from ZAFT. So the suits start blowing up the shelter, and everyone runs deeper in. Looks like they had no choice but to reactivate Freedom. And the key is actually hidden inside Haro. How useful.
Yeah, Freedom blasts out of the shelter, Kira goes into SEED mode, and disables all the Asshus, just like he always used to do. Leader of the baddie ZAFT is surprised, and as his Asshu gets blown up hand after leg, he chooses to self destruct. And so do his other teammates. End of episode 13.
Thoughts:
An interesting episode indeed. Freedom is reactivated. But why are ZAFT assassins after Lacus? The only person who has authority over this would be Dulliandal. Does that mean that he is a baddie too? It was mentioned also in this episode that he was an expert in DNA analysis. Based on what I've gathered, I believe he has something to do with Rey, perhaps even Shinn and Neo Lorrnoke. Now, more questions are being raised. As for episode 14, it's gonna rock! The Orb uniforms look so cool on the Archangel crew, and looks like Kira is gonna gatecrash Cagalli's wedding. :) Oh yeah.
Anyway, this episode starts off with the crew of the Minerva being awed by Shinn's combat prowess. Apparently he single-handedly destroyed 2 carriers, and 4 other ships or something. Talia is obviously impressed, and even Arthur claims that the "legendary Freedom of Jachin Duue cannot do better". Everyone is surprised, really, and Lunamaria asks Shinn what actually happened. Shinn doesn't understand it as well, he just said that "something snapped".
Rey appears to show support for Shinn, but I think there's something more. Meanwhile, Cagalli visits her father's grave, and thinks of him. Yuuna appears, and basically makes some threats, plus fix the date for the wedding. Looks like he hates Coordinators too, from what he says.
Andrew Waldfeld makes more coffee, and gets Murrue to taste it this time round. I must say this is the cutest moment I have ever seen Murrue in. They plan to leave, given the volatile situation now. Then...in the middle of the night...frogmen appear from the water around Lacus/Kira/Murrue/Malchio/Andrew/the kids' living compound! The spread out, and move in for the kill.
AND...HARO DETECTS THE EVIL FROGMEN! It bounces around, and was screaming alerts, waking up Murrue and Andrew who wake up Kira and Lacus and everyone else. So a big gunfight occurs in the house, with spectacular bullet-time effects, and...everyone lives. Gee, Murrue is more well-trained than the evil frogmen assassins! How sad...for the assassins. And Andrew's left (?) arm actually is fake, and has been replaced by a shotgun implant! Cool lol.
So anyway, the gang beats off the evil frogmen, and go off to hide in the shelter. Evil Frogmen bring out Mobile Suits, the UMF/SSO-3 Asshu. Looks like they're from ZAFT. So the suits start blowing up the shelter, and everyone runs deeper in. Looks like they had no choice but to reactivate Freedom. And the key is actually hidden inside Haro. How useful.
Yeah, Freedom blasts out of the shelter, Kira goes into SEED mode, and disables all the Asshus, just like he always used to do. Leader of the baddie ZAFT is surprised, and as his Asshu gets blown up hand after leg, he chooses to self destruct. And so do his other teammates. End of episode 13.
Thoughts:
An interesting episode indeed. Freedom is reactivated. But why are ZAFT assassins after Lacus? The only person who has authority over this would be Dulliandal. Does that mean that he is a baddie too? It was mentioned also in this episode that he was an expert in DNA analysis. Based on what I've gathered, I believe he has something to do with Rey, perhaps even Shinn and Neo Lorrnoke. Now, more questions are being raised. As for episode 14, it's gonna rock! The Orb uniforms look so cool on the Archangel crew, and looks like Kira is gonna gatecrash Cagalli's wedding. :) Oh yeah.
Monday, January 10, 2005
First Day Horrors
Draco. Aquila. Lynx. Pegasus. Ursa. Phoenix. (In no order of preference or anything). These are the six "Houses", or perhaps "factions" (Is it easier to understand if I put it that way?) in VJC (Victoria Junior College). My class belongs to Draco, although our CT (Civics Tutor aka form teacher) is the housemaster of Ursa. So once in a while, both students and teacher jab at each others' Houses just for fun.
Enough of crap. Today marks the beginning of hell. The first, REAL day of school. I went to school hoping not much would happen, although deep inside I knew that was false. And apparently, everything just seems to be becoming more fucked up and screwed up than ever. First period of the day was Maths lecture. It was introductory, and we were told of our teachers' expectations, rules, bla bla bla. AND then there was the notes. I looked at it, and nearly fainted, because I totally suck at Math (Basic ones okay. :) ) and well, everything was so darned cheem and confusing. There was then a short lull in our lessons before we headed for our double-period Physics lecture. I found that my resistance to sleeping during lessons has decreased. I once again struggled to stay awake, fallign asleep a few times during the Physics lecture. Kudos to my friend, Samuel, who woke me up each time I nodded off. I hope this doesn't continue, since I am already a little fuzzled by the first Physics lecture. Needa examine that a little.
Then came Chinese, where we had to report to the classroom, and do some admin stuff. Those who got C6 and above for their Higher Chinese prelims didn't had to do Chinese for the first three months...and I escaped that since I got C5. I feel bad about it though, when everyone else is like, getting A1s, A2s...and the like.
GP came next. The worse of all. For all who don't know, GP = General Paper. It appears to me that GP involves writing a freaking huge argumentative essay about anything and everything under the sun, moon, stars and whatshit. I suck at argumentatives, I write stories like this better! Gahh. And we were given our bloody first task... to plan for an essay. Shit.
We had a Chemistry Tutorial after that. The teacher was nice, a certain Mrs Ting. I think she's the mother of my ex-classmate cum schoolmate now (She was my schoolmate ever since like, Primary 2 too! :D ). Anyway, we bloody hell had a task to do to, and I realised that i forgot every single freaking thing taught in Sec 3 and 4. Now I'll have to dig through my old notes to do the homework.
Looks like I have a habit of sleeping during lectures. When they crap, I'm wide awake but when they teacher, I fall asleep. It happened again during Chemistry Lecture. Fuck. And after the lecture we rushed for Physics practical, where the majority of the time was spent introducing the people that sat beside you. I introduced this Malay guy who shares the same first name with Malaysia's ex-PM, Mahatir. I think I'll rememeber his name easily. Hmm, my Physics tutor is the same guy as my CT too, so, well, yeah.
Maths Tutorial came up, and that was where the fear that I may fail Maths once again surfaced. Maths tutor went through some light stuff, I was still able to catch it, thank God. And when she passed the namelist around so that we could fill in our grades and stuff, I took the chance to scan at it. For Elementary Mathematics (E-Maths): Basically everybody had A1s...nothing to complain about.
As for Advanced Mathematics (A-Maths): I saw A1s, A2s, B3s, B4s, everything under the sun. Then came the time I had to fill in my grade. F9. yes, I know, I flunked my A-Math prelims totally. I guess I can blame nobody but myself. Oh well, I hate Maths and stuff I guess. Too bad it is a necessary thing you need to be equipped with in life.
The final straw came at 1610 hours. Physical Education, or PE. We had a mass PE session with loads of other classes, and a damned joker-type PE teacher who made us do funny stuff. I guess they know its good for us, but oh well, what the heck. I've always looked forward to PE lessons in secondary school but I think I'm going to dread it now. After two months of not exercising at all, this PE session fucked me up badly. My hands feel like jelly now after doing 40 push-ups only. And I cheated! :P Even one of the supervising PE teachers said, "Your body...keep flat! It's bent...! When you go to the gym next time, do more bench presses.
Gee, I have NEVER stepped into a gym in my entire life and don't have the faintest idea what a bench press is! Bah. I am displeased with my fitness level but again, its all my own fault. I hope I still can do chin-ups, otherwise I'll die
So freakin' bushed now. I know I'll probably ache like mad tomorrow, God bless me, hope that I can get past my Air Rifle trial shoot. I really want to get into that CCA, since I think there isn't any other route for me.
It really looks like its a downward spiral into hell, even if its the first year of JC. I hate that, but I guess its a period all of us kids have to live through. And they say there's more ahead. しまった！Damn it!
And my mom extinguished the candle I was playing with. What's with that
Now, dinner and homework calls. I'm getting Gundam SEED DESTINY Episode 13 finally too! Yay for me. :D
Enough of crap. Today marks the beginning of hell. The first, REAL day of school. I went to school hoping not much would happen, although deep inside I knew that was false. And apparently, everything just seems to be becoming more fucked up and screwed up than ever. First period of the day was Maths lecture. It was introductory, and we were told of our teachers' expectations, rules, bla bla bla. AND then there was the notes. I looked at it, and nearly fainted, because I totally suck at Math (Basic ones okay. :) ) and well, everything was so darned cheem and confusing. There was then a short lull in our lessons before we headed for our double-period Physics lecture. I found that my resistance to sleeping during lessons has decreased. I once again struggled to stay awake, fallign asleep a few times during the Physics lecture. Kudos to my friend, Samuel, who woke me up each time I nodded off. I hope this doesn't continue, since I am already a little fuzzled by the first Physics lecture. Needa examine that a little.
Then came Chinese, where we had to report to the classroom, and do some admin stuff. Those who got C6 and above for their Higher Chinese prelims didn't had to do Chinese for the first three months...and I escaped that since I got C5. I feel bad about it though, when everyone else is like, getting A1s, A2s...and the like.
GP came next. The worse of all. For all who don't know, GP = General Paper. It appears to me that GP involves writing a freaking huge argumentative essay about anything and everything under the sun, moon, stars and whatshit. I suck at argumentatives, I write stories like this better! Gahh. And we were given our bloody first task... to plan for an essay. Shit.
We had a Chemistry Tutorial after that. The teacher was nice, a certain Mrs Ting. I think she's the mother of my ex-classmate cum schoolmate now (She was my schoolmate ever since like, Primary 2 too! :D ). Anyway, we bloody hell had a task to do to, and I realised that i forgot every single freaking thing taught in Sec 3 and 4. Now I'll have to dig through my old notes to do the homework.
Looks like I have a habit of sleeping during lectures. When they crap, I'm wide awake but when they teacher, I fall asleep. It happened again during Chemistry Lecture. Fuck. And after the lecture we rushed for Physics practical, where the majority of the time was spent introducing the people that sat beside you. I introduced this Malay guy who shares the same first name with Malaysia's ex-PM, Mahatir. I think I'll rememeber his name easily. Hmm, my Physics tutor is the same guy as my CT too, so, well, yeah.
Maths Tutorial came up, and that was where the fear that I may fail Maths once again surfaced. Maths tutor went through some light stuff, I was still able to catch it, thank God. And when she passed the namelist around so that we could fill in our grades and stuff, I took the chance to scan at it. For Elementary Mathematics (E-Maths): Basically everybody had A1s...nothing to complain about.
As for Advanced Mathematics (A-Maths): I saw A1s, A2s, B3s, B4s, everything under the sun. Then came the time I had to fill in my grade. F9. yes, I know, I flunked my A-Math prelims totally. I guess I can blame nobody but myself. Oh well, I hate Maths and stuff I guess. Too bad it is a necessary thing you need to be equipped with in life.
The final straw came at 1610 hours. Physical Education, or PE. We had a mass PE session with loads of other classes, and a damned joker-type PE teacher who made us do funny stuff. I guess they know its good for us, but oh well, what the heck. I've always looked forward to PE lessons in secondary school but I think I'm going to dread it now. After two months of not exercising at all, this PE session fucked me up badly. My hands feel like jelly now after doing 40 push-ups only. And I cheated! :P Even one of the supervising PE teachers said, "Your body...keep flat! It's bent...! When you go to the gym next time, do more bench presses.
Gee, I have NEVER stepped into a gym in my entire life and don't have the faintest idea what a bench press is! Bah. I am displeased with my fitness level but again, its all my own fault. I hope I still can do chin-ups, otherwise I'll die
So freakin' bushed now. I know I'll probably ache like mad tomorrow, God bless me, hope that I can get past my Air Rifle trial shoot. I really want to get into that CCA, since I think there isn't any other route for me.
It really looks like its a downward spiral into hell, even if its the first year of JC. I hate that, but I guess its a period all of us kids have to live through. And they say there's more ahead. しまった！Damn it!
And my mom extinguished the candle I was playing with. What's with that
Now, dinner and homework calls. I'm getting Gundam SEED DESTINY Episode 13 finally too! Yay for me. :D
Sunday, January 09, 2005
Contemplation and Dread
Okay. So according to ABC News or something, bloggers are the People of the Year (2004) I jumped on the bandwagon like, yesterday. Whatever. So, today's the last day of our "holidays". No more slacking and shit, since school starts like, tomorrow. Bloody freaking hell. I don't want it to start. Higher level now, Junior College (JC), and like, everything's different.
Back tracking a little to our orientation, I guess I never mentioned my OG (Orientation Group) It's...Ingole! The sub-group, or flick is called Inante! At least for mine. We are red, but I think during the whole damned thing we were like, last. Still, everything's over now, just keep the happy memories lol. Our OGLs were great and nice and cool people (did I mention it already?).
And during those last few days, I realised another thing. That I am hopelessly outclassed. My inferiority complex has been hitting me hard, and I don't like it. Fuck. FUCK!!! Looks like everyone seems to be better than me or something. Am I competitive? Or just paranoid? I don't fucking know. Ahh well...life goes on.
As for today, it was a boring day, but I'd rather slack at home than do stuff anyway. :) Basically I was facing my PC for the whole day, and making myself nauseous by playing the Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast demo just a few times. Watched this really weird movie starring Andy Lau in the evening. It was titled "Armageddon", or 《天地雄心》 in Mandarin. It was about some godly stuff, including this guy who had bullet wounds that could heal. I was confused by it. But I believe, somehow, that our destiny is in our hands. We cause the end of our world, not some divine power or something.
And now I'm typing this. What more could I say? I don't know. I plan a lot to put in my blog but somehow not everything comes out. What the hell. Nevertheless, this is me, Jamal, Jala, the otaku, or whatever, signing off. Till the next time!
EDIT at 2306 hrs: I just heard the news on radio. The memory returns to me. I forgot to observe the minute of silence at 1800 hours this afternoon for the tsunami victims! I feel so guilty. Don't know why, but I am guilty. I thought the SCDF (Singapore Civil Defence Force) would sound the siren, but instead I heard a bell. Clueless me didn't know what was happening. I did say a short prayer at 1820 hours, but perhaps the effort was half-hearted.
Now I feel real guilty. But I hope that the souls of those who lost their lives in that tragedy find peace in the afterlife. We, the living, will continue and rebuild. God bless us all, the dead and the living.
P.S. I hope I did not offend anybody with this last bit. If I do, I apologise in advance.
Back tracking a little to our orientation, I guess I never mentioned my OG (Orientation Group) It's...Ingole! The sub-group, or flick is called Inante! At least for mine. We are red, but I think during the whole damned thing we were like, last. Still, everything's over now, just keep the happy memories lol. Our OGLs were great and nice and cool people (did I mention it already?).
And during those last few days, I realised another thing. That I am hopelessly outclassed. My inferiority complex has been hitting me hard, and I don't like it. Fuck. FUCK!!! Looks like everyone seems to be better than me or something. Am I competitive? Or just paranoid? I don't fucking know. Ahh well...life goes on.
As for today, it was a boring day, but I'd rather slack at home than do stuff anyway. :) Basically I was facing my PC for the whole day, and making myself nauseous by playing the Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast demo just a few times. Watched this really weird movie starring Andy Lau in the evening. It was titled "Armageddon", or 《天地雄心》 in Mandarin. It was about some godly stuff, including this guy who had bullet wounds that could heal. I was confused by it. But I believe, somehow, that our destiny is in our hands. We cause the end of our world, not some divine power or something.
And now I'm typing this. What more could I say? I don't know. I plan a lot to put in my blog but somehow not everything comes out. What the hell. Nevertheless, this is me, Jamal, Jala, the otaku, or whatever, signing off. Till the next time!
EDIT at 2306 hrs: I just heard the news on radio. The memory returns to me. I forgot to observe the minute of silence at 1800 hours this afternoon for the tsunami victims! I feel so guilty. Don't know why, but I am guilty. I thought the SCDF (Singapore Civil Defence Force) would sound the siren, but instead I heard a bell. Clueless me didn't know what was happening. I did say a short prayer at 1820 hours, but perhaps the effort was half-hearted.
Now I feel real guilty. But I hope that the souls of those who lost their lives in that tragedy find peace in the afterlife. We, the living, will continue and rebuild. God bless us all, the dead and the living.
P.S. I hope I did not offend anybody with this last bit. If I do, I apologise in advance.
Saturday, January 08, 2005
My first post!
Gee, so many things I want to say. Yet i don't have the patience to sit through and type it all out. So, today's a Saturday, and by impulse, I decided to get a blog. I couldn;t figure out how to use diaryland so I settled on blogspot. Will porbably add a tagboard someday (I always procrastinate :P)
Lets see. I got into VJC, or Victoria Junior College, and I guess I was simply lucky. Orientation finished on Friday, and I don't feel like blogging ALL of it in one single day. :P Lazy ol' me. My senior says there are no cute girls but I beg to differ, although no names will be given. To each his own lah!
I nearly got fooled by fake CCAs too but luckily my Dunman High (my secondary school) Scout senior saved me.
(*Starts going random*)
Hmm, what else...
Oh, the spirit in VJ is totally different from that in DHS. Very very freakin' different. Also apart from the fact that I met loads of new people, nice ones, and perhaps a minority who ignore me. Well, I'm still as lame and as crappy as ever, but what gives man? I don't give no shit.
That should be all for now. I'll blog more when I really wanna do it. Fuck me, I'm an asshole.
Lets see. I got into VJC, or Victoria Junior College, and I guess I was simply lucky. Orientation finished on Friday, and I don't feel like blogging ALL of it in one single day. :P Lazy ol' me. My senior says there are no cute girls but I beg to differ, although no names will be given. To each his own lah!
I nearly got fooled by fake CCAs too but luckily my Dunman High (my secondary school) Scout senior saved me.
(*Starts going random*)
Hmm, what else...
Oh, the spirit in VJ is totally different from that in DHS. Very very freakin' different. Also apart from the fact that I met loads of new people, nice ones, and perhaps a minority who ignore me. Well, I'm still as lame and as crappy as ever, but what gives man? I don't give no shit.
That should be all for now. I'll blog more when I really wanna do it. Fuck me, I'm an asshole.
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