Friday, July 22, 2005

Multi-post again! AGAIN! :)

Here goes yet another multi-post. I'm either too lazy to blog nowadays or simply too tired to do so. Heh.

July 16th

Trained for the first time with jacket today. 50 shots. Using Jung Seong's suit plus Nicholas' (seniors from long time ago) pants. Jung Seong's jacket was Nicholas', and he found his shoes so I'm wearing a, how do you put it, 'complete suit' lol. Coach says my rifle is too far from my body and I twist my hips too much. Need to arrest those.

I then went down to Lido to do PW with Daryl Thanks to the National Day Preview, the bus was stuck in a traffic jam to make way for the Mobile Column. Still it's ncie to see tanks and stuff rolling past your average bus. But it took me and hour and a half just to get from VJ to Orchard. Daryl and I were caught in the same jam on our way back and I reached home at 2130 (boarded bust at 1950). Cooked one of the best instant noodle meals I ever had in my life (two packets, prawn and chicken, and the egg was simply beautiful... I must master this skill of putting egg into pot! :) ). Then I fell asleep after bathing.

July 17th

Japanese lesson. Work is piling up because I haven't been keeping up. Slacked the rset of the day when I was not supposed to, and ended up not doing my tutorials. I should start getting worried, damn it.

July 18th

Normal Monday. Got scolded by Mr Chow because (he was already in a bad mood since my class fouled up the previous week's experiment) I was the last (I'm usually one of the last few anyway) to complete teh practical, and after about 1.5 hours. I'm worried for my Physics SPA (Science Practical Assessment), and at the same time, felt a little unfair and stressed due to Mr Chow's scolding, why?

Went down to see if anyone needed coaching for Interhouse Air Weapons Shoot but apparently all the bases were covered. Just helped out with some loading, and we played with the pistols for a while later. Hehehehe. I'm getting tired again nowadays.

Also, we've got 2nd for the Temasek Seminar Tagline Competition! Hell yeah, nice work, team! Although this means that we'll have to revamp our presentation, but being 2nd rocks. Hehe. NJC (National Junior College) was the first while PJC (Pioneer Junior College) got third.

July 19th

Busied myself with a bit of Temasek Seminar stuff after school, but mostly air rifle things. Coaching, and shooting pistols. Using Shawn's pistol with the uber-grip done by Eng Keat, I shot 70 with it! Damned cool and nice, hehe. What else is there? Stoned a bit here and there at school with Zhen Iang but otherwise there was nothing. Maths teacher caught me not doing my work so I have to show her TWO tutorials tomorrow. Boy, is my head going to crack.

Oh well, found out that I got an A2 for GP. Not too bad I guess, and my classmaets tell me I'm the only person to get an A for it in my class. After the initial fanfare (theys aw my 39.50 compo, I myself think that's quite a good mark) died down, everything went back to normal. I know I musn't get cocky, and I really hope to maintain this kind of standard. Heh.

I realised that there is not time to train for the next two weeks since I'm involved with so many things. Suddely life has gotten busier. Hmm, what would happen during the Singapore Open? I feel handicapped without training, looks like I'll have to make full use of the days and times when I am free.

July 20th

Mrs Chan announced our win during morning assembly but most of the people didn't know what the competition was about. Plus, I think she distorted my name a little. But whatever, UI don't mind, hehehe.

Managed to scrape through the tutorial by cracking my head in the morning and copying the rest of those that I didn't know from my friends (Thanks!). Which reminds me, I still have one part undone. Shit. Schol was as usual, although i find myself unable to understand lectures these days. Is it because I refuse to understand them? Argh, bloody hell.

Couldn't help officiate during the Interhouse Shoot (I really want to!) thanks to Temasek Seminar. The price of glory, like I always say. Got dragged away by Physics Society for a while but after that it was full-force into the Seminar discussion. We're on our way to changing the presentation, mmm...

July 21st

Normal day again. Got back Geography papers at last, bloody hell I am half a mark away from a C grade. Miss Tham says they will ROUND DOWN which makes me all the more pissed. I didn't have the answer script with me so I couldn't bargain for marks, bah. Gotta accept this I guess. FODD is the final score, doesn't look good, does it?

Temasek Seminar again, this has been coming out of my mouth for quite a few days. I have good people on my team, really, good and talented. Work is in progress, and I hope we can dazzle the other JCs as well as the Minister of Defence on the big day. Other than that I think there's nothing else.

This should be it, ciao!

Friday, July 15, 2005

*brushes teeth like crazy*

Ok, so for the first time in four weeks, I get to train. Was fatigued very quickly and did badly for the last 15 shots, all over the damned place. And I'm supposed to coach people tomorrow or perhaps in the future. Damn. VJC ARC is now in a resource-conservation mode, since the important event (the Nationals) has concluded. We have temporarily suspended the services of our coach which means we'll be going coachless for a while. We'll see how we can do. :)

Other than that it's your average Wednesday. Chewed on a very potent slice of garlic during dinner, maybe Mom didn't cook it properly? *shrugs* It was a little spicy and well, weird and acidly (I don't know how to describe it!), and after eating an apple I had that garlicky aftertaste in my mouth, something which has not bothered me for a long time. I hate that aftertaste, it simply stinks! :) Hmm...

Maybe I should brush my teeth for the third time tonight again.

Ah well, goodbye, and goodnight for now. :)

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

I am getting too lazy to blog daily.

Hmm. I guess from now on, until I can get back into the groove of blogging once a day, I shall blog multiple days all at one go. Hehehe. Here's what happened:

9th July

Let's see, what did I do? Day Two of IP Open House. Reached school at 0830 but everything actually started at 1000+ I moped around and wasted my time, then... I saw that the school was not as filled as I thought. There were indeed MUCH fewer people on Saturday than Friday, thanks to the other educational institutions holding similar test and open houses on Saturday. Although the New Zealand students who were here on an exchange programme came down, otherwise it was just... well like normal. Heh. Hmm. Mrs Chan made a good choice in extending things by one day.

Mass-dancing with the IP students and others was fun. Inearly forgot the dance steps so it's good to "revise". That got me into a "high"... damn I felt good. The gang of us (Caryn, Rhesa, Min Ning, myself, Benjamin and Mavis) headed to KFC, where we had lunch and... ooo... played Uno! :) Here comes a game which I finally know, and can have fun with and laugh about. :) I actually enjoy these good times, really. Compared to the humdrum and shit back elsewhere...

10th July

Japanese lesson. Loads of work piling up. Dying. Gundam SEED DESTINY is getting nice, the plot heats up with a great battle. Hmm, I think I slacked all day though. As usual.

11th July

Mr Chow gave back the Physics papers today. I DIDN'T FAIL! WOOOHOOO!!! Although 54% isn't that good of a pass... It's a "D" grade. I'm 10% below class average prompting Mr Chow to comment that I was "below average". I guess he's concerned over students' grades, and yeah he shit-canned me a little for doing poorly in my exams :(. F,O,O,D is now one more step closer to reality, when I meant it only as a joke. Damn. Somehow felt bored so I didn't train, entering my fourth week of not training already. Gee, I actually feel stressed.

12th July

Normal day. Only thing is Project Work. We are now pretty screwed thanks to the points Mr Chow raised. Deep shit, my group is in. This is not good. Hmm... didn't train today too.

13th July

Today. Short day. I got canned by Mr Chow again. He's also telling me to drop subjects. I don't want too. So I have to work hard. But lazy me can't bring myself to it. Damnit... Hmm. Couldn't finish watchign Equilibrium today though, we have to do it on Friday. But it's a nice movie so its worth the wait. Hehehe. There's always Wikipedia. There was also Physics Society farewell party today. Basically junk food, packet drinks, pizza, and Coca-Cola outside the S&T (Science and Technology) Centre, the place which I call (affectionately) our "base of operations". Not too much interaction though, between the juniors and seniors. Heh. And our cute 2004 vice-chair is leaving, won't catch her around again except in school. LOL.

Ah well. Came too late to train, but got briefed on the VJC Inter-House Air Weapons Shooting Competition (I believe it's politically correct to call it as such). Everybody, join this! *official pluggage* Although, hmm, training will be disrupted, and it's not too long till the Singapore Open...

We'll see how things go then. Otherwise it's pretty well... normal today I guess.

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Lots of "I guesses" and "Hmms", I have used. I think there is something more that I want to blog about but I can't remember what. There were certain events over the past few days worth mentioning but I forgot about them so I can't blog :P And, well, I'm a little too lazy and unwilling to comment on newspaper articles so I won't do those.

To the Americans, Canadians, Spaniards, Japanese, Chileans, Colombian, Dutch and even the occasional Uruguayan who come across my blog, thank you very much for visiting! :) You guys have fun too okay? :D Same goes for all my foreign friends. :D

Saturday, July 09, 2005

My world has come crashing down around me.

It has been 6 days since I last blogged. School has started, although at a slow pace since there are still competitions going on, and also the dreaded return of the papers. Let's break it down day-by-day.

4th July

It was the Youth Day holiday (strangely, as my cousin complained, the polytechnic students dont' get this) and there was no school. Met up with Angel and Daryl at Orchard Road MRT to begin collecting data for our Project Work stuff. Had to go to Lido to check things out too. I'll have to do the surveys later. Got lost for about 20 minutes before finding Cathay Cineleisure, where I arranged to meet my cousins to watch War Of The Worlds. None of us had the sense to buy tickets early so we ended up watching it at 1645.

Spent 1430 to 1645 eating lunch, and tackling Crisis Zone at the arcade. Between me and Chong Yang, 8 tokens for 2.5 stages (total 3) which shows how sucky we are... Other people can play Time Crisis 2 with just one token. Arcades must have earned money through newbies like us. Alvin dao-ed (ignored) me when I waved hi, maybe he didn't see. Oh well. Anyway War Of The Worlds is a pretty nice movie. It keeps faithfully (as far as I know) to HG Wells' novel written in 1898 (correct me if wrong!) although now set in a modern, post 9/11 context (Spongebob cartoons, anyone?) . Several parallels are drawn with terrorism, and the final story is more about the parent-child bond and of survival. Steven Spielberg, you rock! :)

Didn't do much after that, reached home at around 2000. Slacked as usual.

5th July
School starts, the official first blow was dealt with the return of the Math papers. I got a nice F, 21/100. Was expecting that but hoping to get 30, an O grade though. Heh. It al boils down to practice. I slacked so much that I did nothing. Nothing much went on that day though. I struggled with trying to Math tutorials at home but couldn't work it out. I'm screwed.

Oh, and for GP we watched this damned cool movie, Equilibrium. It appears to be an indie-film (independent) and wasn't released in Singapore. It stars Christian Bale (Batman Begins) way before he became well-known. The film describes mankind, whom, after suffering World War III, decides to go to the extreme and take the right to feel out of Man's hands. There is no emotion, but peace. People who deviate from this are arrested for "sense offence" and are handled by law enforcement teams.

When they fail, Libria (the new world order, seems focused on America though) has it's elite weapons: The Grammaton Clerics. Unfeeling, and cold, and with a mastery of the arts known as gun katas which allow them maximum efficiency in aking down multiple groups of enemy, these people are used to keep the population in check. People administer themselves daily with doses of a drug called Prozium (Trivia: Prozac and Valium, both antidepressants) to supres their emotions.

When our leading actor, Cleric John Preston, fails to take his dose one day... he is awakened to a new world. And he rises up against the restraints of the old. Although we've only watched half the movie, it' is super-cool (I love science fiction :D) and stuff. There's the link to dystopia which we'll be covering in GP, so I guess we watched it. We haven't finished doing so though.

6th July

Nothing much today, just loads and loads of breaks and the occasional lecture in between. Temasek Seminar went well, our presentation being rated as "having a high chance" to make it to the top 5. Yay! If it does, I'd be so damned happy. Well done, team! And the participating students were split up afterwards in a roleplay of sorts, in a mock press conference between the MINDEF (Ministry of Defence) and MFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and the press and public. The focus of this year's Seminar was about the tsunami relief efforts.

It was fun trying to crap out answers. I was "chosen" to lead the MINDEF/MFA team so I guess this puts me as the Chief of Defense Force. Hehehe. But it was fun. Really! From this Seminar, I indeed did learn one more aspect of the SAF: It's human side, and how the armed forces give Singapore her political space amongst all the other countries. We won't be sidelined, and will remain plugged into the world system, and have decision-making and ngotiating rights because the SAF gives us our sovereignty. Mmm... that's the exciting thing of today. I really hope to work in the armed forces in the future.

To quote Alan, my deputy leader for the tagline competition presentation team, from his blog:

"Had these SAF people come down for this pre-seminar workshop. Mostly VJ alumni...but they were super friendly and cheerful. Kinda makes you think the type of SAF propaganda is changing. Ok, fine... it's not nice being so critical about them. But it was good as a whole. Had this press conference thing simulating the one held on Dec 27 after the tsunami. Hot, exciting and we got skewed up, down, centre. Bah...but we took it with grace...and it was a helluva fun."

7th July

Nothign much. Second blow dealt with O for Chemistry. I didn't study much and practice, it's my fault... But I don't want to drop a subject, need to take S-papers or my scholarship and career is gone I guess. *sighs* I'm super-screwed.

8th July

Slack day today. VJC IP Open House Day One was fun. Manned the ARC booth and got people down to shoot, where we tried to spot potential shooting talents. I do hope they can make it back so we can see them. Saw Claudia too, managed to get her friend and herself down to shoot (she shot pretty well! Because she was using my dear 308579. hehehehe :P). Too bad she quit Japanese class, we all miss her... Forgot to take her contact details though. Maybe I should hunt for her in TKGS. :P I guess I don't mind that she lied that she was in Secondary 3 when she was actually inS econdary 2...

Mr Chow dealt the third blow by telling me that I failed Physics. But I studied for it and practiced! Albeit not a lot... but what the hell.. He said it as though he was joking, I don't know what to believe. I'm super-super-screwed. *sighs* Less games? Missed Inuyasha and most of Shaman King today since I napped from 2100 to 2345. Bah. I'm just making myself go down the drain. Didn't go to class barbecue because I was sure my Mom wouldn't allow it, and damned right I was. *sighs* :(

See you for now, I guess. Heh.

Monday, July 04, 2005

Stupid shit.

I've been enjoying myself, yes, during this long weekend. Thanks to the fact that my Dad isn't around. Games galore... hehehe. Had Japanese lessons today (damn, it's tough! I'm getting lost) and lunch with cousins and Grandma (maternal) I've always felt closer to my maternal-side relatives. Mmm... things like these are always so wonderful...

Hmph. It's no wonder why Asian Dads get a low rating overall when it comes to being graded by their children. He, the freaking-oh-i'm-so-great-i'm-the-lord-of-the-house-and-you-have-to-listen-to-me-because-i-control-you-until-the-age-of-21, lord just came back from Phuket on a golf trip. Hmpf. All because I sleep late and play too much on my computer. I know it sucks, hey, I know i'm addicted, but still I know my limits. I don't go overboard yet. Who cares whether the daughters of your damned friends sleep at 11? I don't fucking care.

I may sound immature and shit now, I don't know. No one understands my own private world I guess, is it my fault? Mom has also become less lenient nowadays thanks to Dad. I have to learn how to wake up myself. Sure, that's a great skill but... Argh.

Fine, my fault. I don't recognise the good things they do to me, only the bad. Ahh, shoot me then. *rants*

Saturday, July 02, 2005

After so long...

Posting back here again. I decided to start studying after all but I guess my mid-years won''t be good. Maths and Chemistry are confirmed failures, meaning I'll have to go back to Math tuition after trying so hard to get away from it. I hope I don't fail Geography or Physics, although I lost quite a bit of marks here and there due to blanks and incomplete answers...

Ah anyway there's a 4 day weekend for us, due to Friday (I don't take Chinese) and Youth Day. Stresses for Temasek Seminar, less day to do things. Went to the Zheng He exhibition today with Mom (Friday). Didn't see much though, it wasn't very interesting.

Although I did learn some Swahili: Hakuna matata = no problem, simba = lion, rafiki = friend, jambo = hi! Lol. I still am a little lazy to blog, after a long hiatus and I can't think of other stuff. Am gonna stay awake for a while more... anwyay, ciao guys! :)