Tuesday, January 19, 2010
im just so tired...
i dun even have the energy to blog anymore..
today was so draining...
the training...
the homework
i think ima go sleep
Monday, January 18, 2010
Well.. just as i expected, the weekday flew by just like that! guess good things really never last long :O haha.. but i guess, getting back to school is important as well. Monday just seems so far away from friday.. and saturday so near to monday.. oh well, that's how MOE wants us to work, so what to do? just live with it
Well, today wasn't much. was kinda slack though. has our inaugural service today, and after that it was pretty slack. geog wasnt much and neither was english.. one thing that struck me today would probably that i need to extract my wisdom tooth next march. sucks right? i had dental today, so i had to rush off after school. and the dentist said if i dun, my teeth might more get overlapped.. and bracers in the future could become a more unadated option. its not the thought of pulling out the wisdom tooth that matters to me.. its the injection. haha
oh well.. although the thought of that is still vibraent in my head.. there's just a little bit of good news.. there's no hw.. wow.. -.-
tmr's there's training! better start working hard to get at least top 4 this year. really. it would really really suck if i leave SJI with no achievement to hold to, but then again, it's what God sees as an achievement that really counts. so let's just leave this in His hands. anyway, quick update, we're facing RI, ACS(international), Cat High, Hwa Chong, St. Pats, and VS. its a pretty tough draw compared to the other group which had NUS high, prespritarian high, all schools playing for the first time in nationals.. so yeah.. we had the other end of it.. :( sad but what can you do? just when all the odds are stacked against you, it is the weakest that really come out on top. maybe we'll win this year, maybe we won't, all that is certain is that we have to give our best and see what happens.
I dun want to leave just yet..
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Well.. today i was kinda ok i guess.. nothing much just that the lessons today were pretty draining.
got back home today and really didnt have anything to do.. told myself that i would not play com this afternoon and yeah.. i didnt :D instead.. did some hw.. and went to the gym. then i had piano..
and this thing, i dun think i can afford to fail my grade 8 now.. its 350+ bucks just to take one exam.. that is, getting some british guy/gal to come all the way just to see if my playing deserved and grade 8 cert.. which is pretty scary at times, but after awhile, you kinda get used to it. actually, come to think of it, i dun really remember any of my exams very vividly. maybe its cause i choose to forgot them :P
well, this year really is gonna get tough.. its all about a balance. and maybe that's what works best for me. we'll see..
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
man.. i never knew having nothing to do was so boring..
its like.. you've done all your hw, but you dun really feel like doing anything else like studying or anything..
and you really dun feel like playing com games anymore cause it's freakin no life and the only reason why i do play it is maybe cause i have nothing else to do..
which is kinda boring since both gets kinda boring after awhile..
well.. today was kinda ok i guess... lessons were as usual, laughing at mrs tan's retarded jokes.
going back to school really makes you think though... its so busy and when you come home.. you practically have nothing else to do.. besides doing your hw of course :D but then again.. when you're at home.. it's not so bad i guess.. you get to lie on your bed and just slack off.. and in an air-conditioned room, it's freakin awesome.. and then in the morning, you have to leave the comfort of your bed, sad feeling right?
Well i guess, seeing all my other friends setting things straight with their lives.. looks like i have to too.. it's not gonna be easy, but of course i'll have to make touch decisions, like perhaps giving up com games on weekdays, which dear o ming e is already doing.. haha although technically he's still using the com but not playing. maybe that's a good way of keeping yourself in check too.. its not totally foolproof but its better than just sitting in front of the com for like 3 hours straight like how i do sometimes. feels kinda weird cause you know you shouldnt be playing so much, but yet you do!?
man.. going back to school has its advantages and disadvantages. for example.. every morning i have to drink latte so to keep myself from falling asleep in class. which is why i probably have to sleep earlier.. its not in my genes to get about with little sleep..
so i guess..i better go hit the sack.
its a touch year ahead, and im sure i better start getting used to this sorta life.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Wow.. its been really long since i've blogged.
Well, lifes been pretty happening so far.
just that the thought of O lvl's next year is getting to me..
Next year = O lvl's PLUS grade 8 piano exam.
man.. its stress beyond imagination.
guess this is the only time that i can actually have real, carefree fun
cause next year i doubt there will be any time for any of that sort of thing.
which is saddening but still, it's an important year ahead!
Just a quick update:
CHIANG MAI MISSION TRIP WAS THE BOMB..
really miss the ppl there..especially talan. HAHA
AVATAR is awesome..
really, even watching it twice doesnt bore me or anything.
it really is one of the best movies i've watched so far..
I WON MY SECOND SPEX TROPHY
well, i won this time with douglas as my partner.
it was fun and a great experience.
hope i can win more in e future! :D
Well, that's about it so far..
watchnight service is coming up on thursday and i have to attend AGM the next day :(
maybe i won't sleep like last year!
just hope next year will be a fruitful one :S
Monday, September 07, 2009
well..
today i had my first singles SPEX match in let's say....
9 months?
and it was against some guy called Bong, Yuho in the first round
i didnt really know much about him.. but still
and the good thing about this tournament was that it was held at Jurong Country Club
which is super near to my house...
so.. i got there and before i knew it.. i was playing already..
i didnt really know much about him..
but i knew that i'd played him before..
in a doubles match last holidays... and douglas and i lost to him and his partner
:O
we lost pretty badly too..
but still.. i was pretty confident and excited to get back onto the hard court
was down. 1-4..
really was feeling like it wasnt my day..
but i managed to fight back to 3-4.
and after that?
i kept on making stupid mistakes..
and he was back to 3-6 .
fought back to 5-6..
and from then he won another 2 games..
and i didnt even realise that i was going to lose should i lose the next game..
so that score was.. 5-8
really.. mentally i wasnt challenged in a LONG while..
and this time.. i really thought i could win..
i was like.. 'who cares.. just whack now'
and surprisingly..
i played better..
wth.. =.=
he was serving for e match.. and didnt really serve well.
so.. i got 1 game back..
6-8.
still he had to only win 4 points to win the match..
and it was my serve..
it was 40-40..
sudden death..
really really nerve-recking..
but he hit a ball out..
so from then on.. i really thought i could win it..
so. when it was he's turn to serve.. i whacked a little harder..
and i won that game..
so?
it was 8-8..
which meant it would go to the tie breaker..
in the tie breaker...
it was 3-3 at first..
after the change-over..
he made some unforced errors..
which made it..
5-4 in my favour..
but it was my turn to serve.. and in the end?
i won the tie breaker 7-4.
Final score?
9-8 (7-4)
was really really elated..
it was a long time since i had won a singles match..
and to win it against a 16 year old.. from RI
was a real accomplishment for me.
credit to him for making it a tough fight..
and all the best to him in e future.
but this really proves that Mental Strength is really important in tennis..
you may have all the power.. but if your mind isnt strong..
your power does nothing when you're down..
today.. was really good..
felt very relieved
but tmr..
facing seeded 11th William matison..
hope i can pull off what i did today
:D
Friday, August 28, 2009
well...
it's really really been so long since ive blogged and stuff
but since OBS was such an experience..
Day 1:
'
got there.. and was put in a group called MARCO POLO
which consisted of....
Hong kiat, Jun Xuan, Leroy, Hansel, Stanley, Vipul, Karran, Mattheus, Vikram, Sean Mak, Hew, Anika, Willy, Ben, and Qiu Juan
and for the first day..
we had Kayaking..!! woooo
where we went out to paddle and to learn/revise the paddling strokes and all...
pretty fun.. and capsizing wasnt that bad for me anymore. :D
then we learned how to pitch a tent..
which was quite interesting..
the knots.. the stuff.. yeah.
and then .. we cooked dinner..
but then..
that night, it started raining.. and the tent was kinda wet...
but we endured..
'just 4 more days' we said..
Day 2:
didnt get alot of sleep during almost all of the nights..
and this time.. bearly slept for like.. 5 hours? 4?
woke up really early for morning PT..
which was hell..
my arms hurt at places i never knew existed...
and after that..
we had ROCK CLIMBINGG...
haha.. it was really really fun..
i climbed the slightly tilted wall.. and then tried the vertical, harder wall. :P
haha.. it was hard lor..
i tried 7 times to just get 1 metre up the wall.
but on the 7th. i managed to get all the way to the top..
haha.. and hk got to the top but in 8 triess :PP hehe
after that..
we trekked to our new camp site.. which was about 1.4 km away..
the bag was really heavy..
but it was manageable...
we slept that night.. and boy.. the sandflies.. mosquitoes... and stuff were really bad..
i got bitten like all over..
but that night.. was probably the best night in the whole camp.
Day 3:
THIS IS BY FAR THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE.. (i think)
why?
well..
hk and i packed out stuff into a bagpack provided by them..
and i brought the bag down to the dock where it was suppose to be loaded outa a boat that would bring it to our next campsite..
that bag... contained all of the personal stuff like slippers.. shoes... clothes.. toiletries.. etc..
then..
we had our SEA expedition..
where we kayaked around Palua Ubin in tri-kayaks..
i was with HK and JX.. haha..
it was really really fun. and by far was the most fun activity of the whole entire camp.
i was the stern rudder person.. and steering was really enjoyable..
kayaking in open water was superrr funnn :P haha
the mud.. wasnt though..
low tide.. and we had to carry our boats up muddy hills and stuff.
twice. =.="
but it was ok..
and after we got to our campsite..
a thunderstorm poured..
wth..
=.="
and we were all soaking wet..
and then.. the boat that had all of our camp personal stuff arrived..
and guess what? hk's and my bag wasnt there..
meaning..
my and his bag wasnt on the boat..
which meant?
i had to sleep in wet clothes.. and short.. and shoes.. and socks..
=.="
which really really sucked..
but fotunately..
our trainerrr FAISAL..
brought us to the main campsite to get a new set of clothes...
and then..
i got back to the campsite really late..
and so.. dinner was really late..
and then..
sleeping?
was really bad..
causing we were camping at the beach..
and the sandflies were freakin horrible..
they will bite you..
and fly into your ear.. and stuff. and sleepin was really bad... coupled with leroy's snoring..
it was really bad..
and furthermore?
it started raining really really heavily..
and the tent collapsed...
which meant the tent had water inside... wetting my only set of clothes i had with me..
sucks man..
and moreover?
i was thinking about the bag and stuff..
about all the stuff that i've lost and what my parents would say about the stuff that i had lost..
and about all the money and time i would need to spend to replace those items..
my mind really wasnt with the camp ... and i really.. emo.. i suppose :'(
and during the thunderstorm...
we had to sit up... and hold the tent in place for almost 1 hour...
and that was like for 1 hour..
and really..
i felt really bad and wanted to fake falling sick and go home..
so silently... i said a little prayer to ask Him to help me find my baggg...
Day 4:
Didnt get much sleep cause of the downpour... and today
we had to trek 20 km...
with a bag on our shoulders wieghing about 10-15kg..
and really..
its damn heavy.. cause the stuff inside were wet and weighed so much more..
that really really sucked..
so..
we trekked for almost 7/8 hours...
walking across more than half of the island... to certain checkpoints where we had to do certain tasks....
and then.. once we had finished or failed to complete all of our tasks..
we had to trek all the way back across to the other side of the island..
which was 8km in length..
:(
sucksssss....
and plus?
i was in my wet shoes..
with wet socks that really made walking really sucky..
but good thing was that we made it there on time..
but i was still harping on the though of the lost bag..
and kept thinking about the stuff inside the bag..
all the stuff that i would miss
and then night...
that final night...
it rained again..
=.="
and we had to move into a sheltered area..
BUT, it was so freakin cold..
that i couldnt sleep
sucked...
Day 5:
Well.. it was the last day.. and i hadnt found my bag yet..
so.. i really gave up hope on finding the bag..
and all of my stuff that went with it..
but then.
we had jetty jump..
at 6 am in the morning..
do you know how freakin cold it is at that point in time?!?!?
but still.. it wasnt so bad..
and after that..
we had to clean everything..
and bathe..
and still.. im wearing my soggy wet shoes.. that i had been wearing for 3 days..
and my underwear that i had been wearing for 2 days..
and i really was feeling crappy..
and then..
we packed and was ready to go back home..
and then when i was about to step onto the boat to bring us back to Singapore main island..
Le yong came and so happened to have Hk's sleeping bag (which was in the packing bag we'd lost)
and then.. so.. we went to check where he found it..
and it was in the Lost and Found corner from the stuff that groups could not claim..
and almost all of my stuff i managed to find..
which included..
my sandals.. shoes.. sleeping bag.. 3 sets of PE, towel, my spare specs, medication.. etc
but i didnt manage to find my toiletries..
but it really didnt matter at that moment..
i was really really really relieved and happy..
but then.. it so happened again that the trainer over heard that i had lost my toiletries bag..
and he actaully had it in his bag...
and he gave it to me..
and i had ALL of my stuff back..
which was of course the most important..
and i really think.. it couldnt have been just conincidence..
because i'd spent so much time finding it..
but to no avail..
and only at the last moment where i could have left that island for good..
i managed to find everthing..
how did this happen?
i really strongly believe He did.. :D
so.. really thank God.
overall..
OBS..
the mud, the dirt, the sand.. the flies... the tiring activities..and the limited food supply..
really taught me how to persever... to treasure the things i have..
to not be complacent... and of course.. to Help Others before Self
it really was a great experience where i got to bond with ppl that i nvr thought i could..
like Hansel..
who is freakin funny..
and Stanley..
and vipul.. etc..
and the activites really taught me the importance of physical fitness and how to be mentally strong too..
Overall?
it was a GREAT camp
even though the 3rd day was really crappy..
it turned out really fine..
'It is not the destination of the journey that matters, but the journey itself' :PPP
gotta go sleep l8r on my comfy bed..
wooo
Monday, August 10, 2009
well..
it all started on friday...
had Cross-country
when we had to run about 4.5km
well..
started off really well
and i guess finished it off really well as well
i really didnt expect to run the way i did...
been really unfit lately without training and all..
but still..
i did it in around 20mins? (or so?)
it was really fun..
ran with ian.. andrew... and some others..
really prefer running there cause the view and sights are so much better than turf city
:PP
well..
after that..
we went to go for some CLASS SOCCERRR
WOOO
at the east coast cage!! :P
alot of ppl went man!
like 15 ppl went
WAYY MORE than any 202 outing..
HAHA...
well..
it was really fun..
althought the walk there..
was... so... freakin.. LONG
!!!!
and came there like 15 mins late..
but the games and soccer there were really fun..
and i suddenly realised that... i may be playing keeper for inter-class next year :'(
well.
after that..
i wanted to go home..
but stayed at east coast beach for awhile..
while some of them played captains' ball with some random CHIJ girls..
haha..
then..
WRESTLING!!
HAHAHAHAHA
FREAKIN FUN!
i learned the figure 4 leg lock! hahaha
really really fun..
and i took alotta photos with hk's cam..
photo-taking skillzz mannnn =P
oh well..
then i took a long MRT ride back..
:(
but managed to catch the shuttle bus! :P
then.. the next day..
i slept for 14 hours..
and my arms and legs hurt like really bad...
and yesterday..
i still had to go for some family batminton thing...
which made it worst.. :(
and then.. some family bonding thing while watching the NDP parade..
and after so many years of not watching..
it was actually.. pretty ok this year.. haha
:PPP
well..
today...
is another tired day..
haha..
good thing its a holiday..
im stressed.
why?
cause i have exams in 1 week
and piano exams in 2 weeks
and if i dun do well in both...
well.. lets just say the ending aint really good...
so. yeah...
hope i do well :S
