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Track & Field Meet
Friday, April 25, 2008 9:30 PM
This week had been a fun one, with Ah Cat(Catherine), Priscilia and Xinyi & Co, I mean. They never fail to make everyone laugh. I find myself looking forward to school for their company (even though I do dread the tutorial lessons alot because I always don't have any solutions to present to the class).

Yesterday, lunch @ Long John's with them was crazy. I think we kinda irritated this two other guys, who were mugging away, with our horribly loud laughters. Sorry! Then it was back at school in the Student Lounge, lazing around(well, that only applies to Ah Cat and me), listening to 93.3 on the player provided and humming to the songs while waiting for Econs make-up lecture to start. Wasted my 1 and a half hour in LT 2 because I kept dozing off and had no idea what the hell the lecturer was talking about. Regretted taking Econs. Should have taken Geog right from the start, and I reckon I would be doing pretty fine now instead of pulling my hairs over AVC and AFC, etc. I don't see how the Audio Visual Club has got anything to do with Econs. Lol.

And table tennis training was kind of dull because only 5 people in total turned up. Lol.

Today was Track & Field Meet. It was alright, I guess. I'm sunburnt now because I stood under the sun throughout the entire meet. Anyway, Gamma swiped all the Championships including Cheerleading except for the TA Championships which were cleaned out by Alpha. The other two house, sadly, went home quite empty-handed. Lol. I've to admit that Gamma's cheerleading was really good, so they really deserve it. But I thought maybe the 3 other houses' cheerleading squads should get medals or plaques or anything. I mean, they have trained so hard for the past months, till 10pm most of the time I heard. Even if they weren't as good as the winning squad, their hardwork should at least be recognised.

Okay, since I have the time, I'm going off to watch 命中注定我愛你, a idol drama recommended by Ah Cat. She says it's super nice and funny. So, bye!

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2 weeks in a nutshell
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:00 PM
I wouldn't be blogging if not for the wait for my files to be transferred to my new laptop. No, wait, correction: my new laptop, hand-me-down from Dad. But specifications are totally imba, it's less than a year old and comes with a bluetooth mouse(also a hand-me-down from Dad), so I have no complaints. Haha. And so here's 2 weeks in a nutshell. Alright, it's too much to be called a nutshell, but you get my point.

The season is over. Lost to both SAJC and NYJC. We didn't get into the next round. I was utterly disappointed with myself for SAJC's match. No idea what the hell I was playing. Played worse than a primary school kid. If only I had played better and won it down, we would have advanced to the next round. But ifs are suppositions that don't make life any better. Moving on does.

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ARK Ambassador event at Junction 8 on 2 weeks ago was alright. Believe it or not, it was my first time giving out fliers. I was quite apprehensive initially but I was more convinced that I was doing alright when I finished the first stack of fliers assigned to me. I wouldn't say that the event was a total success, nor was it a failure. It's somewhere in between, I guess. Lol. After the event, went to walk around almost the whole of Junction 8 with Shanmin, Eunice, and the bball seniors, Zhihao and Weixiong. It was quite awkward, really, because there were bound to be shops that guys wouldn't step into and same goes for the girls. Now to think of it, total gender equality is unattainable, I should have wrote that in my GP essay. Anyway, we chose to walk into sports shops and handphone shops in the end which were pretty much good choices because I'm scouting for a new pair of running shoes as my current pair is close to becoming a piece of trash.

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Floorball 3-on-3 Competitions at Tampines West CC. I love my team: Shengxian, Weiling, Theresa, Luowei, Pinn Xian and I! Even though we didn't get into the next round, I have to say that for beginners, we were doing good and I believe we all had gained a good experience.

I fell on-court while trying to mark an opponent and trying to get the ball away from her. Ahh, so embarrassing! My 5th time falling infront of a huge audience in TJ. Lol. Never mind, I predicted that there will be more to come for as long as I'm in TJ. Haha.

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Failed Maths test as expected, but did it better than my previous one. And Mr Ang is still looking down on A Maths B3-ers. I hate it when he does that. Grr. It's so demoralising. But there's no way I can prove him wrong, can I?

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Was supposed to study for Econs test on Thursday after school with Catherine and Priscilia at The Bus. It's more commonly and correctly known as the Students Lounge but whenever I think of the word 'lounge', I think of a carpeted room with comfy sofas and cushions. Basically, it's everything which the Students Lounge isn't, so calling it 'The Bus' works more for me. Haha.

In our 3 hours there, I only managed to finish 6 pages of Econs. How productive. Catherine and Priscilia la, kept making me laugh. I think we were being a bunch of nuisances and about to tear the bus down. Priscilia was doing her Japanese homework, and then we took her homework to see we could understand anything. So we came to this word 'Nabe' which means pan in Japanese. And then Catherine kept sprouting the vulgarity and insisting that she was saying 'pan'. Yeah, 'Nabe' is pronounced almost the same way as that certain Hokkien vulgarity. And Priscilia was telling us that the first time she received her homework marked by her Japanese teacher, she was so shocked. Because, on her homework was all red circles, no ticks. It really did look like she did everything wrongly. Turned out that the Japaneses do not use ticks, but circles instead. So on some pages, where the teacher was supposed to put a huge red tick, there was one huge red egg instead. Lol. Catherine was saying that Priscilia will get too used to the Japanese way of marking and then in TJ, when the teachers circle her homework in red, she will think that she got everything right. Haha.

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Kinda regretted joining to become the Track-&-Field Meet student officials. It's a good experience to become one of the finishing judges and know how they actually come up with the positions and all, but I'm missing too much of trainings, both table-tennis and floorball, because it takes precedence over PDPs and eats into my training times which isn't a good thing. I look forward to trainings, but in the end, I only get to attend about half an hour of them. =(

It will be over soon, 3 more heats and 1 actual meet to go!

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HAPPY 17th Birthday, Tracy!!!

Yay, one more person to join Zhiying and I in being seventeen! Now waiting for Shanmin, Yingiet, Hweeli, Andrea and last of all, Kristy(sad, LOL)!

Belated birthday dinner for Tracy at TM Cafe Cartel on Friday night with the girls was wonderful. But I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. Of course, I enjoyed the laughters, jokes, talks and most of all, the company. But there was something that irked me. Some of the girls might have noticed it as well. Ah, never mind. Perhaps I was tired from school and tended to be alittle more sensitive.

And yes, I've to agree with Zhiying, the Fish-n-Chips that we ordered wasn't nice at all. I still prefer Swensen's one because it is breaded. But the Bitter Chocolate Fudge Cake is love!

Photos (courtesy of Zhiying) :
Quoting from Zhiying's blog: While waiting for our beloved KPK to arrive from her Palace in Siglap. Lol.



Alright, that's all I have for now. School, for me in the past 2 weeks, had been pretty screwed up. Couldn't catch up at all because I missed a number of lectures dues to competitions and most of my tutorials are not done yet. So, I've to go back to catching up on my tutorials now! Seeya!

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Duathlon Challenge 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:45 PM
I shall summarise my week since I hardly have time to blog during weekdays and I think this had been and will continue to be the case every week.

First of all, I want to thank CG 18/08 for the birthday song. Even though it was embarrassing, but I really appreciated the thought. ^^

This whole week had been really hectic for me, I'm not saying other weeks weren't, but for the first time, I really understood what 'Too many things, too little time' meant. I had to divide my time between trainings, competition, tutorials, GP reviews, and worst of all, the killer PI! Yes, I know I probably won't refer to it as a killer soon when more components of PW begins. There were quite a few days when I reached home at 9.30pm, have dinner(I think at such time, it's more appropriately known as supper), shower and then finally start on my work at 10.30pm, only get to go to bed at 1 or 2 in the morning and then wake up 3 and a half hours or 4 hours, at most, later to get ready for school. Then the whole routine repeats itself. No doubt, I felt like dozing off sometimes during lectures(especially during boring ones!), but I tried my best not to. Keyword: tried. But apparently not having much success.

Competition on last Wednesday. Jitters! But everyone played great! Though I think I played exceptionally oooglily(uglily). The way I play has always been ugly, but it was exceptionally ugly on that day. Lol.Wasn't quite satisfied with myself. Girls, TJC vs. SRJC, 5-0. Boys, TJC vs. IJC, 4-1. Girls will be up against SAJC on Monday. Double jitters!

By the way, CG 18/08 came in 1st for English Fair Exhibition and won ourselves $100 worth of Ben & Jerry's! That's about a scoop of ice cream for everyone! Going for ice-cream as a class, I like the idea of that! I wasn't present for contact time on Wednesday and when Wenhui told me the next day, I was like 'WHAT!?!' Haha, we weren't expecting to win anything after seeing other CGs' exhibitions because some of them were really good. How the hell did we manage to win, I have no idea.

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Duathlon today was a great experience. My first time trying out for endurance sports. The 1st leg of the run was the worst. It was hell tiring. I don't know why. I wasn't even halfway through the route and my legs were already hurting like crazy. Too little warmups, probably. And I came in second-last for the 1st leg, but I think I should be considered last because the last girl was feeling unwell during the race, and she kinda dropped out of the race, and then join back in again. So technically, I was last. Lol. But we didn't come in last at the end! All thanks to Angelina! So, she was the second-last to leave the bikers' holding area because I was the second-last to finsh the 1st leg. I don't know how she did it, but she was one of the firsts to complete her 15km of biking. She must have biked damn fast la! And she claimed that she wasn't cycling very fast. And, she didn't look like she had perspired a drop when she came back, really. Conclusion: She has the speed + stamina. The 2nd leg of the run was quite alright, except that the sun had gone quite high up in the sky. I was cursing it everytime I ran out of the shade and into the sunlight. Lol. I think we got 20th or 21st position. And the goodie bags were fabulous! We got quite alot of things, Puma caps and best of all, the Duathlon Challenge 2008 tee which says 'DUATHLETE' in big bold letters on the front and depending on whether you were a runner or biker, it says 'runner' or 'biker' on the right sleeve. I love the tee alot! I feel so accomplished today! At least, I know I'm capable of 6km which I never thought was possible in the past. But 2.4km mock test next week is another thing. Haha. Anyway, I'll definitely join Duathlon next year if there's one.

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A funny quote from Ms Thangam while on the topic of feasibility during PW: That would raise a BIG question mark in my small head.

Love her lessons, nobody ever falls asleep during her lessons.

And usually, the words 'enjoy' and 'lectures' don't come together. But they did, for the first time, during the PW lecture given by Miss Ying last Wednesday. She was damn hilarious. She had loads of wacky ideas, like shoes can be used for aromatherapy!?! Lol.

I shall end this entry with part of the lyrics of a song I heard but don't know the title.

Life's a roller-coaster, so just ride it.

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