Sunday, April 01, 2007
Speech for enrolment service on 25 March 2007
Good morning, Rev Michael, Mrs Charles, officers, parents of bb boys and boys, I am SGT Aaron Chua. I am very honoured to share my testimony with all of you. I have a history with the Boys Brigade. Starting from the juniors section, I have joined BB from primary 3 to primary 6. And I continued my loyalty to BB in the senior section, from secondary 1 till today.
In primary 3, I decided to join BB with no knowledge of it at all. I didn’t know what to expect, what the uniform was, etc. Even my parents were concerned for me. But I am very glad that my parents let me choose. In the juniors section, then, BB only lasted for 2 hours, once per week. I learnt a lot of useful stuff such as first aid, drill, etc.
And with joining all the annual Bible Quiz National competitions in the Junior section, I have learnt a lot about the Bible. I specifically remember that in 2002, we studied about the life of Joseph and about his ill-treatment from his brothers and how his trust in God has risen him to the right-hand man of the Pharaoh. Preparing for the whole Bible Quiz was a challenge and thanks be to God, our team got the 4th position in the whole of Singapore. I also had the opportunity to go for the1st ever Juniors Adventure Quest. It was really fun. Unlike, the senior section, the junior AQ was merely a hike. My team, which was mixed with other companies, was lost. My team started from Kallang and went to Bedok instead of Changi Airport. All in all, we had a lot of fun.
In the senior section, everything was different. It was more of physical conditioning. During sec 1, I was first introduced what a push-up was. I was not used to the 4-hour parades. During RTC, I went through a lot so after a while, I planned to quit BB. I sought for a change of CCA. However, I decided to stay on as I felt that it was cowardly to quit halfway. I'm glad that I stayed on.
Last year, I was appointed Quarter Master (2), meaning being in charge of the storeroom. My family was quite disturbed about this, thinking that the QM does all the dirty jobs. But by doing the dirty jobs I gave me a sense of ownership of things that did not belonge to me and I learnt to be responsible.
Similarly, I also joined the 2 annual Bible Quiz Competitions so far and our team obtaine the 10th position in the year 2005. Trainings was always held after the parades once a week. From the Bible Quizzes I have joined in the Bible Quiz so far, I have learnt that the values that are in the Bible are still very practical in our daily context.
This year, I decided to try something new. I joined the Adventure Quest which requires a commitment of 2 days per week, each lasting for at least 2 hours. It was unusual competition for me to join considering my figure, but when I discussed this with my parents, they gave me their full support. I don’t know if they will be there next Saturday for the actual competition. From this competition training, I lost 1.5kg, from 70kg to 68.5kg. We did a lot of physical training and learnt some hard skills such as rock-climbing.But just the thought of the actual day still scares me.
To end off, I would like to say that I had a lot of fun being in this great company and I am pleased to see that the sec 1s had come back after RTC. I got to know some sec 1s from the recent 70km overnight cycling. I hope that they would continue to come for BB parades regularly and come back serve the BB someday.
Thank You.
This was the speech i did in the BB enrolment service (though not my initial speech) . Thanks for all the laughs man. I forgot to thank the officers involved in the aq for their unending encouragment.
Yesterday was the aq. i misled the team that i was in to a protected area, surrounding the singtel company, risking ourselves to snakes and wasting 1 hour and becoming last in that leg. Because of this, my company relay team could get top 3. The other 2 legs were top 5 i think. Really such a disappointment at myself. Although my dad tried to convince me that it wasnt my fault cos the leader makes the final decision. Zhi Xiang.
If and only if i had to make a speech on this, i would say that i think my team was pretty strong. Zhi Xiang was pushing me, Darius pushing Leon. I felt that Leon was actually the dark horse as if we listened to him, we wouldnt have lost this aq. ok, let me explain. we went to cp5 and then went to cp 4. the officers (mr matthew ang and mr john cheong) at cp 5 told us to go back to him after completing cp 4. but darius, zhi xiang, and me thot was impractical cos it was pretty far. leon suggested to us to go back, but didnt listen. and plus i felt that leon was kinda of the inspiration-er cos he was pushing himself so hard. he was faster than me most of the time. when going back to school, we were walking cos we were so so so demoralised. so sad.
i felt that i didnt do my best. serious. the training seems more tough than the actual competition. walking for most of it. sorry 7th coy.
and sorry ren yuan and other regular checkers of this blog, for your unending support.
just a brief recap about my life so far, failed 3 subjects- combined humans. , chinese, english. haiz. dad was pretty mad. now im so much free-er cos no more aq training. you know, after aq, my dad and i ate at the scrumptious buffett at novena sq. think close to $100 for 2, probably. but cos we pack a small jelly and my mum ate half of that, $100 for 3 is not so bad. i pity all aq boys who had to take a bus ride home after aq. sure sleep one.
b4 i end, i want to say something. before the aq, i kept telling God to only reward us what we deserve. and i think He was very fair. during trainings, i did not give my all a lot of times. i did not watch my diet and i did not do any extra trainings on my own except once. and after aq, I want to salute all ruggers, hockers, and any other sport jocks, as i have learnt that it was really difficult and impossible for me to juggle with my studies and my twice-a-week trainings. i used to think that those who dont do their hw are like slackers, but even i am guilty of that. doing hw after trainings are really impossible. and actually im pretty glad that we lost, cos I have learnt the feeling of losing a physical competition. It is very unlike with studies. You mug with your studies, and your results were show in terms of marks and ranks. But in a sports competition, there is only 1 winner, and after all the trainings you went through, all you want to do is to win. So i know why the ruggers will always cry when they win or lose.
i just got the latest news. i only weigh 67.2kg. even after the big bowl of cereal and ter kah for breakfast and lunch.
bye. good day.
;12:43 PM
Thursday, February 01, 2007
hi everyone
1 month has passed so fast. wanted to blog yesterday but no time. today slacking throughout.
today, bio test. very simple. zuo wen got 32 over 50. super happy. found out that wilson has vonlunteered to chapel service. good boy. during chinese class, jing kai, ken, and justin and i vandalised in my diary with the other hand that is not handed. supposed to tell all afgm members to wear argm shirts tomorrow. tried. im bringing uniform tomorrow just in case. after sch, immediately went home to get ready for tuition at 4.30pm. i liked the tuition today. did a lot of things today. finally start engine. yeah, then bought char siew/roast pork rice for $3. after dinner i just saw that my form teacher sent me a sms asking me to spread to all those you can to bring food for food from the heart tomorrow. so all 3sa online ppl, you are the lucky ones! and then im here.
yesterday, wed, I PASSED MY 2.4KM. 13.15mins. but may be later because mr danapal told elohim (who had been been unable to do pe for 2 weeks in a row) to start the time only when the last person crossed the line. +5-10 seconds? still pass. super happy lah. at physics class very tired. after sch, i told allan that i cannot go aq training because i, ronald, and ryan have to buy the presents for nicholas, whose birthday is in january, except for ryan and yilei due to money constraits. ate at macs with isaac. heard from andrew and brannigan the next day who siong the training was. 4.4km, lunges, sits and push-ups. pity all of you. while you were suffering, i was shopping. lolz. b4 that, dj and ryan was doing parkour while ronald took photos of them. we walked the whole of plaza sing and decided to stick to this shop. wrapped the present and nicholas, if you reading, you are getting your present tomorrow. legs were super tired. because my father's car got "kissed" and the other "kisser" ran away, i had to take bus on wed and thur. wed left home a bit late. luckily a lucky taxi passed by. took to sch. then from ps to serangoon mrt to 317 (because i spelt in bus) to the bus interchange to the lucky taxi home. taxi to sch and home. lolz. on thurs, today, left home a bit early, got to sch by 7am. and at night, bro used my room to watch soccer with friend so i studied at com table. b4 sleeping, i felt so lousy. i could only revised, didnt do wkbk, 5 yr series or ass bk. i actually planned to do my chinese assesment b4 going tuition, but too lazy.
on tue, zhongren came back from rugby tour to thailand. at miss seah class, vp and hod came to our class. wanted to greet vp, but class didnt know her name. lol. we learnt animal experimentation/cruelty. on this topic, i want to do a report on this. then class was divided into 2 groups, got 10mins and 2 laptops with internet for research then everyone had to come up with a sentence to like continue the compo. mine was "conclusion:brief summary of main points". my group was better. then after everything ryan came up with his class fund talk. protested but who cares? class com decides.after that went to 2 classes down to chinese class to finish the zuo wen, the one which i got 32/50 and the one which my tuition teacher said not bad.
after that met phang and wei yong, we went to mrs yeo class and asked about maths olymipiad, only to find out that it only starts next month because sir got reservist. went to canteen to check anyone waiting for maths olymipiad and found melvin. went to mrt station together. took bus with phang. i "forced" phang to take my mp3 headphones and let him choose the songs. bought lunch (vege rice) at the bus stop where i change buses. ate lunch at there, while waiting for bus, looking at cars passing by and with my mp3 on, im in my own world. reached home at 3+pm, lunch still halfway eaten. after bathing, i found out that my dad finished the food for me. haiz... slept to about 7.30 woke up study to 4am till mum come in and ask me to sleep. amos distracted me with tv and he did another piece.
you never believe what happened just now. i was attacked by virus where when you open you will send to all msn contacts. scary. everyone asking me so many questions. finally was able to locate it and delete now scanning. too trammauntised to continue blogging. remember DONT OPEN A FILE WITH rofl@ AT THE START. everyone going to hate me tomorrow.
gd nite and dont let the virus bite
;8:56 PM
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
hi everyone.
sorry v long never blog. quite busy nowadays. i still have to find time to do taiwan report. haiz...
anyway, on the previous post, i forgot to add that on sat, i did QT before i went to AQ training. it was really refreshing, with no distractions, just a pity i just cant do that everytime. and on sun, my bro asked me to help them(the band) to sing while they were jamming. although my bro told me only for this time, i was so happy. i was smiling all the way while i was singing 'one way' and while my chorus went off-pitch. whee... i dont mind joining the band, just that i will have a lot fo music to catch up on. and plus, i dont know how to play any instruments except for piano (not v gd) and drums (cant be compared with bro).
about sec 3 camp. i dont understand why ppl at first dont want to go. they want to stay at home to slack, but dont they see the need for this camp. i see. for me i feel that 3sa need this camp for us as a class to bond together, which was exactly what happened during the camp. the camp was really fun. most memorable was the nature rumble where you had to walk and lie down on the mud. cold... but according to my senior bb friends, they had to walk with their elbows in the mud. super cool lah! but different campsite too lah. had to walk/swim with water at waist at times. ben toh's left shoe came out, so his left feet was bare-footed. i cannot imagine my feet bare-footed stepping on the 'unknowns'. lol. there was also the rock-climbing which i cheering everyone else on but didnt go up. didnt want to because i will definitely embarrass myself, but can blame on the time constrain. about half didnt go due to time too. sheng ren was amazing, climbing so high. again there was some who didnt want because they want to 'slack'. and there was the obstacle course. im going to hate going to army. with the low wall which i cant get over but sheng ren can, with the arm walk which i cant get through but managed to slide through. these are higher than those found in the neighbourhood parks, if you come down halfway, you may hurt your armpits if you dont do it the right way, which is to clap your hands above your head. and the window, chicken feet lah. a bit different from our school, but about the same lah. the food was pretty good, i have to say, better than what i expected in a sec 3 camp, but not worth it for 80++ dollars.
and whats with the cheer with my name in it? because our team was called group A at first, but then changed to A team instead of 'A!' (said in singlish slang) as ryan suggested. then it was
Instructor: A Team Oi!
A Team: Oi!
(2 times)
Instructor: A Team Oi!
A Team: AARON!
Aaron (standing up while rest r squating and in the cutest voice ever): 'A' Oh!
lol!
then we also did the classic "Oh A Team, you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind...."
and the clap which we took quite long to master:
Sheng Ren: Everyone 1 Time!
A Team: 1 hit on thigh and 1 clap and another hit on thigh
Sheng Ren: Everyone 2 Time!
A Team: 2 hits on thigh and 1 clap and another hit on thigh
Sheng Ren:Let's break it down!
A Team: 1 hit on thigh, 1 clap, right hand to hit right thigh twice, 1 clap, left hand to hit left thigh once, 1 clap, right hand to hit right thigh twice, 1 clap, left hand to hit left thigh once, 1 clap,right hand to hit right thigh twice, both hands hit both thighs, then hands cross and hit, and uncross then shout OI!
for the dance item we did algorithm dance. i thought about the "Boom Tara Tara" dance, but then forget it. something really amazing happened. for some reason, i remembered that the instructor said something, then i kinda prayed to God that it will rain. very soon, it rained. drizzled first, wanted to practice the dance, but andrew gave wrong info to class, but i dont blame him. but zhongren acted kinda surprising. zhongren actually told andrew whos your leader and be realistic and not to depend on him anymore and blah blah blah. i think zhongren just wanted the best for the class, but i was like shocked. when he was blaming andrew, johnathan phang actually stood up to defend andrew. i have to applaud him for that, i dont know i would do that if i was faced with such as situation. so because it was my fault, i immediately took responsbility for it. after half an hour, i got our class to meet at canteen and then go to the main office outside to practice our dance. i got ian to help too because he was there to witness the zhongren freak out and then he was freaking out too, but i was able to cool him down. while i was bathing, i was feeling big-headed that i was able to keep everything under control, but i was also worried that the dance as every class have to have an item for the "campfire". but when outside the main office to practice, immediately zhongren, melvin, and nigel wong went to help and do everything, so ian and i could slack. ryan tried to help too, but didnt. ian and i just got the class there and get them in rows. but really glad that zhongren, melvin and nigel wong took over. thanks! then i prayed for the rain to stop, it stopped. wow! but didnt have the campfire, i go into that later.
we slept in tents, which was really interesting. we had to get the floorboards, one for one person. and in the middle there was a pathway. interesting! shoes outside, and luckily, i think i prayed again, the rain came on the second night, so shiok and cold. choon kit and i got the brightest torchlights in the tent. i tripped over pegs a lot of times. we had to wash our plates, forks, spoons, and cups. milo was always so dilute. my socks were in the mud and really stunk.
now with the campfire. i suspect it was the rain wet wood tt was supposed to be used for the campfire. so we went to the hut that was able to fit everyone. we had to do a cheer and an item. our cheer was the longest, and when i said the "A"Oh! nobody understood until after the camp, i think. our performance wasnt really the best. 3s1 was the best, with dj(poor farmer) and jeremy(rich guy) liking over a "boy"girl(Dex). there was a normal class which performed a skit to show that UNDERAGE smoking is bad. shouldnt it be SMOKING is bad? everyone boo-ed them after their skit. 3s1 won the best performance and 3n1 won the best cheer, with the help of the drums. instructor bobby and the other guy was really good in entertaining us. and there was a dance competition, yi lei represented our class and had to follow some instructors' dance moves, so when the music stops, they had to be the same as the instructor. yi lei was pretty good...at cheating. he moved when noone was looking at him. instructor bobby raised everything to another level. i think he learnt how to breakdance before. he was reallly really good at dancing.
i think instructor bobby was the best instructor around. he was the most jovious among the rest. he showed a lot of brain teasers. the other instructors that followed us were wan yi, and ken g (both spelled according to their pronounication). they were good too, but bobby talked the most and was the sickest among all the instructors. i dont want to say anything what he said or else i would be sick too. but after the campfire, when we sat down and talked things out, saying that maybe one day we may see each other on the street and then recognise each other and it was so touching, so sad. for the last time we did our cheer and it was just so sad.
after that he showed us some brain teasers and i got a few. let me blog this:
coffee and tea - after he said everything, if he closes his lips, its coffee. if his lips are opened, its tea
numbers-after all the funny actions, the last number would be the number of fingers he showed before the last one.
how many sheeps jump over the wall? - the number of sheeps is the number of words in the sentence he said before that question. like: one more time. how many..? ans:3
criss-cross - according to arvindh, if he touches his finger twice which criss-crossing, it would be the opposite of the last one. meaning, at the end if he said its crossed and he touched his fingers twice, it would be uncrossed.
thanks all about the camp. on fri, after the camp, i went to BB. i left my BB bag in the storerm before i went for the camp. i left all my valuables there also. except for my keys lah or else how i lock my storerm on wed. brought musketry, but changed to PT Kit. after praise and worship, i went to help the sec 1s. the sec 4s who went taught them a little about drill. i was the "COS" on that day. so simple lah, because no rollcall and so small group. sec 1 had to go over the low wall. sec 2 went for first aid stage 2. sir gab bought me soya bean and bubble tea for the seniors, and we were drinking happily in the upper court. then suddenly gab said sec 2s, then he quickly wanted to hide. i thought he was mocking me and wanted to run away so i stayed in my seat. then gab told me the sec 2s were coming then we hid behind the art rooms. then gab pretended to scold me then i just sat on the floor and laughed. lol. then gab successfully threw away his and my drink after finishing it and "gave" senior joel the bubble tea in front of the sec2s to cover up everything. i was about to laugh, about to crack but didnt. then thats all lah. then we played captain's ball and i was asked to lead cool down and i was actually playing with gabriel. while doing the crotch stretch, sir pushed mine all teh way down. and then we did 3 sets of that. then gab made us do o-n-e-t-w-o-t-h-r-e-e-f-o-u-r-f-i-v-e push-ups after dismissal. one letter one push-ups. and after everything he told us tt we only did "five" push-ups only.lol. i rested in teh storerm until my aunt came to pick me.
on sat, got aq training. after 2.4 with johnathan tee pacing me, and arriving 1 min later than the previous week, we had relay, meaning sprinting 200m and passing the rolled-up magazine to the next person. for 4 times. argH! the fit were feeling tired, what abt me? and plus, the group which came in last had to do push-ups. i was really apologetic to the group. it was because of my fault that i sabo-ed my group to do 50 push-ups, not all at one go lah. andrew vomitted, and other ppl was feeling dizzy. for everything, robin ang came and encouraged me saying that i had mental strength, saying that the fact that i know that aq trainings would be tough and you still come shows that i have mental strength and by aq, i would be called skinny. lets hope that would happen. then robin gathered everyone and gave us inspirational talk about aq. after that we went to bra brasah complex popular to buy assesssment books for myself. usually i would like get a basket full of books and then choose from there. this time, there was 2 baskets full of books that i had to choose. took about 2 hours. after everything super tired lah. from 2 baskets to 12 books only, then waited so long for pris's popular card, something was spoilt lah so had to wait very long. while my aunt waiting i was playing with priscilla . i carried priscilla then she would tell me where she want me to go. sometimes i overshot then she would "say" into my ear stop! very funny lah. then priscilla wento to buy some stickers while i wanted to buy whiteboard duster. there was one which looked exactly like our schools. lol. then went to cell group, made my new year's resolution which i will talk about the next post and then went for dinner. as it was raining, and maybe for other reasons like LAN, my cell group went to AMK central to eat, but because elohim went and he wanted to eat at the church coffeeshop, had to phang sang my cell group adn follow him. no choice wad, he still quite new to our cell group. i ate chicken rice and char kway teow. first time i ate so much. chicken rice is not filling now. and because i scared 2.50 too much for me, i ordered char kway teow 2 dollar one. elohim ate chicken rice add rice, ban main and ice milo. haiz...
when my aunt fetch me back, for some reason she bought KFC. i was actually quite full, but because she was kinda eating alone, i accompanied her. my mum ate too.
on sun i went to church 5612, 3rd service then went to thomson plaza. josh, ngaim, desmond and me left early while issac waited for amos and samchew. josh went to cut his hair. all my church things fell onto the escleraltor, resulting in some black stuff all over. ngaim was addicted with debating over me telling desmond's sister that ngaim hit desmond and debating over whos right. he dont call that debating, he calls that "fighting for his right". the right has been fought and its his, and he still wants to fight. then went to burger king to eat but actually i wanted to eat at the dim sum stall. then brought josh to eat at the $1.20 ice-cream but he looked at the flavors and didnt want, while i was enjoying my chocolate ice-cream with oreo on top (total $1.50) with my church stuff, amos church stuff and his drum pedal. do you think ppl will think that i gela carrying drum pedal around. then my aunt picked me and went home. then had difficulty doing zuo ye. so amos told no need to study and went gym with him. he changed my treadmill to 30mins 6km/h. actually i liked that, i felt less tired so go home can still study, will consider it about being permanent. then went sushi teh to eat. there was almost an argument between the manager and the waiter for taking so long to give us water. i thought i ordered cold noodles, but at the end, it was something like ramen. wasted! ate the most sushis between papa, bro and me.
on mon, i had to wake up early to have "meeting" with class committee. then the most shocking thing was i had been chosen as AFGM's vice-president and mascot. ppl protested that only 1 person 1 post. then mr goh said i too gd. over-whelming. everything's else the same. after sch there was physics make-up lesson. and miss seah gave the class 10min break, so class arrived to mr goh's lab late. then i extra asked mr goh whether he needed to go to the old school building because i was going there to do AQ equipment check-list. because now the NCC rm can only be opened from inside the building so mr goh and elo and sahul and ian and me carrried 2 tables and chairs up to his lab. elo and i ran with the table while ian was struggling to run too. lol. then went back, but equipment list almost done. come to let me see only. then allan and zx "scolded" me wheres my committment and blah blah blah. crap!
on tue, which is today, everything was same except that miss seah gave us a 120-word spelling test. first time in my life. and it will be counted in the CA. i laughed at how i spelled some words i dont know about. oh ya, and there was a A maths test. simple simple lah. can score one. then after that i extra, went to mr. goh's lab to help out in teacher's day celebration from 2-3pm. then at 3pm i was supposed to go for maths olymipiad but couldnt find the classrm, or was there no maths olymipiad because no one went. haiz...went home, went to see where my new tuition would be and on my way home, i saw this notice at the bus stop saying there was a garage sale near the ntuc. so after i bathed i took my scooter and went to see. nothing leh. haiz...went home loh.
and just now tonite, i learnt that zx got tombstoned by one of his friends outside mr lim's lab. lol.
i took 1hr and 40 mins to write this post.
gd nite everyone
;11:20 PM
Sunday, January 14, 2007
hi everyone
on fri was BB day. on thru mr lim called me asking me to read the BB message but i refused and "recommended" Teddy. on fri it was raining. we prepared for a normal morning assembly on BB day, the BB pole, the 2 bicycles and thats all. it was raining so no assembly. we went to form teacher class. ted and phang went to hall for message. a bit extra lah, but not as bad as last year, only BB in class, but proud of it lah. yi lei and the rest kept taking my cap. at recess we went to change to mufti with boots.
then later on CCA day, it was still raining, so had to transport everything to the hall. we tried our very best to waterproof it with umbrellas, ground sheets and ponchos. if only marcus was there, it would a really nice pic.
then we had to go storerm, bring everyone bags to mr lim's rm to change then fall in in hall behind. awllan kept making me in charge of everyone (2s and 3s). able was slacking, only taking care of sec 4s. fall in behind hall (by allan), let everyone sit at hall steps (by mr .lim). see, what to do?
on the actual CCA day, everything was so slack. i think that most people joined the band and rugby. band just showed a whole new meaning to "surround sound" (by andrew). lol. we were all so slack, especially me. i was not on my best mood. i was just walking around, i didnt even got the chance to see maths society or SFC. mr goh gave me an intro abt NCC. towards the end of day, we at first got 3, then went to 7. so sad. luckily, mr lim gave a long talk to 7 boys and convinced them to consider. have to hand it to him. really. he really didnt give up to the end. oh ya, i forgot, when NCC sang their cheer, we "followed" them and sang our 7th coy song, obviously compared to number of boys, NCC was louder.
on sat, went for aq training. im registered in relay topo. did 2.4km, last of the company. standard lah. then went out with ruby, pris and maid to rtc. pris got addicted to the motorcycle game. i ate a hamburger. ok only lah. watched barney, i slept, super tired, then after playing 2 games of motorcycle, then went home. only then i know that when i was sleeping, the show actualy ended on 1/2 hour but ruby called and asked why so early ended. lol. and when i was pplaying, ruby and pris went to play while the maid waited for the next show and while i was sleeping. after the show, there was this short clip on oswald, when it was about to end, a family came in and waited for the next oswald. sad.. after that then went to fusion at suntec. supposed to meet at starbucks but saw noone so went to other starbucks to check check. then went back to the enterance starbucks then saw jit. that day saw job and eugene. worship was really good, except for the few songs i didnt know about. after went to mac to eat dinner at late 10 plus. actually it went after schdule. everyone kept asking for oncore. cool.
then on sun, went to 5612, kinda bored of ben chan talkin, gabriel and i went to other classrooms to see see. then late for 3rd service and after that ate lunch at thomspon plaza. it was light raining, everyone was under umbrella except me because im a man, i will a future founders man. lol. after that went to popular to see sec 3 books, but very few, so forget it. going to the biggest popular soon, i hope. then later went to eat buffett and did all my hw and then im here. overate. serious overeating.
tired. tired. tired.
gd nite, everyone
;11:31 PM
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
im so tired now...and hungry.
this weekend was my busiest weekend so far for 2007. lol.
on sat, got bb from 8.30 to 12.30. came at 7am and so many ppl waiting outside the storerm for me to open. left bb only at 1.30 at all the awards and drill stage 2 retest. thinking for joining AQ. see how lah. after that got maths project meeting. met at mac at 2pm with ronald, jk, bryan. reached there at 1.35 maybe, saw none of them there, so went to eat chicken rice. macs not very gd for your body. surprisely met ted on the way, he was waiting for parents, then accompanied me to eat chicken rice. he stole some too, not surprising. lol. then saw fiona xie, adam chen, xiyao (from 9pm show) and other mediacorp artistes eating there. no paper so couldnt get autograph. anyway, i think they didnt want to be disturbed too. fiona xie looks so small in body size.
after finishing maths project and begging them to let me go at 4.30pm, i left for church. i think we didnt did much, the only significant thing was ron's discovery. i cultivated the craze for rattlesnake magnets in jk. i bought for me and jk each. at first i was leaving alone. then bryan called said to come back to mac and wait for them cos they leaving too. cos i took the big round, i couldnt find them in the mac so saw them in shortcut. jk littered on the road, bad boy. and after taking the big round to church (142 to Toa Payoh then mrt to amk then bus to church), i reached church 20mins late. luckily they just started briefing on the ice-breakers. ice-breakers was drawing something from your childhood (gd or bad experience doesnt matter), something that happened recently and something that you wanted to do after you retire. i remember in my childhood days, my family was about to go out shopping, so i enthu and went to press the lift first, when the lift opened, i went, tried to reach for the open door button but couldnt so pressed 1st floor. so i waited for them at 1st floor alone. the recently part i was talking abt how weird it is to see my frens wearing long pants, and my collar looked like a neck cast. and after i retire, i want to take drawing lessons, because my drawing was pathetic. the leader jumbled up all our entries and gave them out randomly. you had to guess what the person was drawing and who that person was. i got one abstract drawing of desmond's, it's just on my table now. really abstract. after everything, went to eat dinner, then went to watch soccer. then bryan called me that i had to be online at 8.30pm to discuss on the maths project. it was 8.25. i so wanted to watch soccer that night. but because of the maths project that i was dragged in, my first cell group meeting was kinda "ruined". but the gd thing that came out of this was i got to know ben chan a lot better, that he is a workaholic at such a young stage.
on sun, after church, couldnt eat with frens because go tmaths project again. church was really fun, ben chan put us in such as strategic spot (seating arrangement) that we blocked the younger ones behind us and we were sitting on the worship team reserved seats. smart.... during prayer and praise, we sec 3s prayed among oursleves. the ministry 5612 is actually opened to p5, p6 , sec1 and 2. coming back at sec 3 would mean you are helping 5612. oh well. i always didnt get to finish my prayers. bryant chan, caleb, and me would take turns to pray so my turn either got "taken" away due to time or "never get to finish". at the last section, i told them that i would pray first. lol.
after finding out the shortcut to school, we went to ron's house. oh ya, b4 i forget, i wore my new shoes which i bought in taiwan for only $10. i bought vegetable rice, with tau huay with rice balls to eat at ron's house. shiok! expected super big house but ended up with a terrace. you know what they say, less is more. bryan and jk were saboing ron by going to his msn and send hatred or love messages to everyone. ron said that bryan, jk were banned from his house for using his msn and i was banned cos i was wearing spongebob shirt. i want to spread some joy to the ppl around me. again not so productive. completed on word but i volunteered to do on pp, since i think its so much better and no one else want to do it.
when i reached home, i really tried to do my maths project. but after doing the 1st slide, i had to sleep. the next day, which is today, i took the blame for not producign the final product on time. did in comm lab till 4.30. got really shot by mrs yeo and mrs lim (not literally of course). and i just finished the content of the pp, background havent put yet.
i still got physics, maths hw and chinese compo to do.
today i got elected as welfare rep for the class by democratic means. chee yang got class chairman. pity him. i think i should start this motto as the newly elected welfare rep: Dont Worry Be Happy. Many times we worry about the most mundane things, or even it is the most impt things, dont worry, be happy. Read Matthew 6:25-45. especially v27,33 and 34. Each day has enough trouble on its own.
gd nite:)
;1:16 AM
Saturday, January 06, 2007
im really tired now. after going thru my drill stage 2 twice, im so tired. today i was super close to being late for school. after the sch pladge, i and other bad boys went from the upper court to join the classes. kor also almost late. im v tired. talk tomorrow. went gym today. the 2 days before yesterday i was on diet. sleeping from 5pm to 10pm or mid, i would miss dinner and wake up and wait for the next day breakfast. super tired now. stone already. QM 1 on the way. talked abt with mervyn about njc, pretty interesting. during maths class very scary. have to write down the names of your group in 3 seconds. see, i was the top 10 in class for maths so i had to choose. i dcided to connect with the 2Bs, so i chose all the 2Bs in my group, except nigel wong.
;1:41 AM
Friday, January 05, 2007
hi everyone
today is the 2nd day. mr koh scares me. mr goh admitted that we are guniea pigs. mrs yew asked me to see for the psl books (last year). i was a gd boy to find her again. we learnt abt SPA. chapel i felt pretty uneasy. like i want to worship but because in sch i didnt sing really loud. especially igt does not help with yi lei sitting beside me sayign that who cares abt chapel. dotz...pastor ben talked the imptance of setting goals. i sharing lockers with john. hope he asked his parents already. school was pretty interesting.
today i have been a bad boy. i didnt bring my file. lucky only 2nd day and only consent forms inside. then issac said i had been 'yew-ified'. lol. jasper y had been saying i am taking up a lot of volume. with my chi teacher talking abt how difficult chi upper sec is goin be, i was so scared. i got a low b3 or a high b4. she said that the first chi test you would have the shock of your life. i cant have that shock. i cant afford to lose any more marks. but i dont i want to sit infront in chi class already, like v extra. in mr koh class, he was "sincerely" asking if anyone is suffocating by the insecticide smell outside his class because he turned off the aircon and opened the windows and there was insecticide smell so he used his iron rod to hit the table and asked if anyone is going to faint soon. then everyone giggled. then he said that he was asking a sincere question. erm...
but after sch it was really interesting. all christians who are brave enough to declare themselves as christians in school gathered in the hall after sch. my first time i raised my hand in sch. the music is too soft. the loudest was the voice in the mic. mr lim played drums and mr how played guitar and ted played guitar and abram played keyboard. its really fun to see teachers joining us. especially mr lim. i didnt know he could play drums. out of timing for a bit, but was really impressed. then mrs charles talked abt our identity in christ and others. then pastor talked a bit more. then im sure there were ppl who accepted christ. then sang the last song. whoa! cou;d hear like an echo, so cool! during worship, everyone singing and with brannigan singing loudly behind me really encouraged me to sing louder. ernest was like moving to one side because of my voice? lol. during prayer i could the sec 1s like agreeing to what was being prayer, saying 'yes Jesus'. really touched me. i should take down the stereotype i have of them. earlier mrs charles wanted us to know 5 ppl who are wearing the same type of pants (long pants or shorts) so my 5 ppl were brann, marcus, daniel, zac (who bluffed me tt he was the 2nd brann. lol) and sherman. this is the first in SA and im glad tt SA is going to have this the first wed of every term. hope more and more ppl who come. we are in a spiritual war.
after that waited for mr lim to collect our workpieces. (johnathan's and mine) my dad sent him to serangoon circus then we went home. just went toliet to change and ate ter kar. shiok! so so so much meat! i was watching the 9pm show and i misheard that he wanted me to delete instead of keeping them for him. then after deleting the 9pm show, i acidentially deleted one of his shows after i watched 30mins of project runway (thats all i recorded). i almost wanted to say that i sacrifice my show for him. lucky didnt say. after deleting my father's show, my dad told me to go and study. so went to bathed and studied for a while then slept.
if im not wrong, i slept around at 6.30pm to 7pm. and i woke up at midnite. lol. wanted to go gym but couldnt. argh! then just finished a few stuff and im here.
i was just thinking earlier today: if we are runnign after God, is God running away from us? i know God is not running away from us, so is the term 'running after God' wrongly used?
yesterday i forgot to talked abt AFGM. woke up at 6.30, reached sch at 7.15. met in upper court and after we left, i realised that those there were those who werent assigned any class and all those assigned to classes are already at the pri sch gym. ran there then met elo at the stairs and went up together. lol.
yup thats all! gd nite
;1:20 AM
