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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Hi people.... Sunday already... Quite fast huh... Friday was Teachers' Day... Firstly, I would like to express my gratitude to our teachers of CHS... I seriously think that we are pretty lucky to have such teachers... I don't know about all, but a vast majority of those who've taught me these 4 years have been great... People like Mr Thomas, Miss Fernandez (Sec 2 F.T) etc... Once again, a big thanks to our teachers! Anyway, day began with 2 supposed periods... Chemistry was slack all the way, we gave Mr T. our present... A big card and something else... Haha... Credits to everyone who helped, especially Manfred, Perret, Jun Xiang, Daren etc... Thanks to the whole class too who helped in one way or another... =) 4-10 rocks... Haha... Second period was supposedly Geog, but apparrently Mrs Goh didn't go to school or something... I had to be at the hall during the second period... Basically it was pretty much a stoning session... We had recess earlier than the rest... Then we went to the hall, stoned, then to the classroom... Briefing for the gift giving thingy was done by a councillor... Well, he did something that got a number of us pretty upset... Never mind... Missed the performances again... Zzz.... Anyway... Our school is like probably one of the few that dismiss damn late... Got called/sms-ed by Jun Hao, Justin, You Yue, Lingli, Ming Woon... Haha... We finally got dismissed at about 12+pm... Didn't manage to take the class photo that we intended to take...
Went back to ATS with Wei Shian, Leon, Andrew, Leonard and Chuan En... Met the rest, namely Justin, Jenn Hao, You Yue, Jun Hao, Peiyu, Wen Rui, Yan Rui, Chye Ping and Ming Woon... Saw Lingli as well... We were joined by Oriana after that too... Tried unsuccessfully to find some teachers... Very surprisingly, Mrs Liyu still knows who I am... Haha... Cool... The rest found Mrs Erat, but I wasn't present at that moment... Found Miss Tan as well... Talked a bit... Honestly speaking, this is the first time I've spoken to the twins since we graduated in '04... Saw them once in Sec 2 I think but didn't speak to them... So it was a pretty large gathering... Went to J8 pastamania to eat... Got suanned left, right and centre for the entire gathering... -_-''' Wei Shian was his usual eccentric self, especially with the calculator... Haha... Quite a lot of stoning sessions was well (as usual), as we were undecided on where to eat and where to go after the meal... Saw Yong Cheng at J8... Haha... After that we met roymond... The girls left... ROymond joined us... Then we went to play pool at the Bishan driving range... Kind of regretted going there cause for people like me, I'm always pretty fearful of places like that that are pretty shady and all that... I'm especially scared of those gangster-like people who come and pick on you unprovoked... Call me a coward or soemthing, but that's how I am... Also, sort of got openly insulted by the someone form the group playing beside us... One rude remark directed at me.. I daoed them... Don't think I didn't hear you guys you bloody gangsters... Though it kind of did make me think about what I fear... I kind of fear fitting in to new environments, especially during JC and NS... Bet you I'll deifnitely be made fun of/insulted because of something... If you know me you'll know what I'm referring too... Though the gathering was fun, I'll try to avoid places like that one in future... Didn't want to play soccer, so I left with Justin... Took 851 home... Friday was possibly one of the last gatherings of the 6D '04 lot... Hopefully we'll all be able to meet up again some time... It's pretty amazing that we can still kind of click even after so long... Haha... Keep in touch guys!
Oh yah, ATS seems to be building a sports hall or some sort as well... Haha...
Yesterday morning, went for tuition as usual, was late again... Zzz... Afternoon did sonme studying... Evening, stoned at home while my parents plus my brother went for some barbeque... Didn't want to go... Somehow Leon was caught in a similar situation... Haha... Today, stoned, did some work... Oh, one of my shorts sort of tore, for no apparrent reason... Luckily I was at home... Haha...
Tuition tomorrow, should be going to the library with Jonathan tomorrow as well... Bye people... Right now I'm a bit sick too, hope I can recover asap... Bye
This song seems to be a hit at the moment... Shall feature it... It's pretty nice...
Fall For You -- Secondhand Serenade
Don't really like the music video, so this is one of the better alternatives that I could find so far... Maybe next time post a better one... Haha...
Hi people... Prelim 3 has started... Tuesday was the English papers... Think I'm pretty screwed for it... Did like the question that was somewhat like an expository/reflective or whatever you want to call it... Anyway, it just wasn't what I normall write, which is usually narrative... So I'm like damn scared I wrote crap... Speech was also pretty sucky... Zzzz... After school, studied S.S at Eugene's house for a while before going for tuition... Wednesday was Social Studies... Screwed up some parts... Don't think I'll score A1, but I'll definitely improve from prelim 2 and hopefully be able to score like B3 or something... Today was Human Geog... Not sure how I did... Hopefully can get like at least a B3 or something, or perhaps my aim that I told Mrs Goh, A2... Haiz...
After Geog, went to J8 to eat with Leon, Jonathan, Wai Yinn and Eugene... Managed to get what we wanted to get... Saw my cousin there... Bumped into Desiree as well, who couldn't remember who I was at first... Haha... After that we went to Euegen's house, sort of played for the whole afternoon... Haha...
Ok, then for now, exams are not ongoing... Have the September "study break"... Tomorrow is Teachers' Day celebrations, 2 periods before the celebrations... After that going back to ATS... Seems like quite a number of people are going back tomorrow... Hope it'll be an eventful day tomorrow!
Ok, back here again after quite an absence... Been busy... Shan't talk about what happened during this time cause I don't bother and I can't remember... Anyway, some pretty old news to catch up with... Firstly, congrats to Team Singapore Table Tennis players for their silver medal... Let's not talk about all the criticism about any of the players shall we? Though they didn't manage to win anything in the inividual events, I guess it was a job pretty well done... Kudos to them! Olympics are over, no more getting distracted anymore... Haha... Had English oral on Friday... Topic was like, sort of a repeat of a few days ago I think? Hope I managed to do well... Also, I would like to express my condolences to M.L for the demise of his mother... After oral, almost the whole class went down to the church to attend the wake... A really big thank you to all who took time off to attend the wake... Several teachers were present too... Guess it's really a difficult time for M.L... Hope you'll be able to pesevere! Also, there was the greatest joke of the year on Friday as well... Somehow, SLJB managed to leave his bag at the church and went home before going for music lesson... -.- I have no idea how in the world he managed to do that... He did the unthinkable... Amazing... He's like 4-10's champion man... Haha... Leon helped him take it back in the end...
Jonathan came over to my house on Saturday and Sunday to study... Whole weekend was basically trying to do Geography... Made some headway I guess... Don't feel prepared for the Prelims though... Haiz... Guess I won't be updating till the weekends at least I guess... Hopefully for Teacher's Day this Friday I'll be able to go visit ATS and meet up with the 6D '04 lot... Hopefully... Haha...
Yesterday was a day with pretty mixed up emotions... Start was the usual... For PE played hockey... Was fun, until some people started doing some things... Zzzz... After that went to receive our Chinese results... On the whole, it seemed that our school did well generally... There was no results slip to be given out, so we were told our respective grades... Congrats to Leon, Sim Shi Jie, Melvin, Enzon, Yong Jie and others who scored their A1.... Congrats to the other distinction holders as well... If you're getting curious, I'll tell you now, I scored a B3, with a merit for oral... Same score as KH... Some people were pretty disappointed with their results... To Eugene, don't give up on your other subjects... Do your best and work hard for them! As for me, as mentioned, my feelings were kind of mixed up... After the paper, I found that I had screwed the paper after checking answers, so I was sort of hoping to be able to scrape a B3 or something... Then when Mdm Yu Lin was announcing how we did generally, I was sort of half hoping that I could get an A2 or something... So it's kind of mixed between relief and disappointment... Then again, it could have been worse... Haiz... Whatever the case, as expected, parents were disappointed once again... Then I see myself... Chris got his A2 and continued HCL, neighbour Grace got an A1 when she was Sec 4 last year... Me? I let them down once again... I'm so sorry...
Then yesterday received my kayaking 1 start certificate (finally) and my LMSC cert... I think what Terence said was true... That cert was sort of supposed to mark the start of NCO-ship, we received ours at the end of it... Haha... Weird... Also got this damn cool plaque which apparrently from HQ for those who got awarded the Best Unit Cadet badge... It's pretty cool, though there are some imperfections in the making of the plaque... However, it still can't beat the one we got on POP... Haha... Just brought all those things home today... Went for tuition as usual... Took a bus there with Jia Yong... Got caught in the rain a bit...
Today, lessons were so so... During the assembly period was the E.Maths test... Totally screwed it cause I didn't know to solve a number of problems... After school was the Physics remedial... Mr Tan really can engage the students during a lesson, at least to me he can... Jonny didn't go to school today, so didn't go to the library... Stayed back with Ken and did some work... Although we didn't really do much... Sort of talked with Melvin and Khee Ern and Yong siang a bit... Mel and I were sort of reminiscing some of the primary school days... I miss them and my classmates... Haha... Also, it seems I had been wrong about Khee Ern's view of me for a very long time... After that came home...
Starting to feel really sian about everything... Hope I can pesevere... My laptop also has a bit of a problem now... If it needs to undergo repairs, I would most probably lose all the files in my computer... No.... That means I'll lose the National Day celebrations photos! No.....
Oh and Happy Birthday to Ling Li! Happy Belated Birthday to Khee Ern! Happy early Birthday to Clifton!!!
Hi people... Another week gone... Can't really remember much but I'll try my best... Monday had normal lessons I guess... Had another unseen prose test for Lit... Some comments that were made weren't very appropriate I must say... Physics, first lesson without Mr Quay as he had gone for reservist... Some relief teacher came in... After lessons something happened... What was a supposed harmless playing thingy turned into some tensed situation... Shan't elaborate... I just don't want to lose you as a friend... Tuesday, was sort of sleeping through Mrs Yap's double period... Zzz... Sorry Mrs Yap... PE played hockey again among us 4-10-ers... Dunno what happened to the 4-2 people... Think they went to play basketball or something... Physics lessons was at the LT with 4-8 under Miss Foo... I admit I wasn't really listening... After school, went for tuition, took bus there with Jia Yong... Class was in the smaller classroom... Lesson still as interesting as usual, though I have to put in more effort to absorb everything taught... Then there was this little thing that happened, it was... Ok, shan't comment further... It was a totally different feeling... Don't think it was intentional though, if only it was though... Haha... Wednesday, our last assembly... Some external performance about something to do with standing up to negative peer pressure and doing the right thing I think... And you, your sole willingness to raise your fist to strike really said something... Thursday, Carpe Diam was converted into a Physics test... After school had the maths thing again... Then it rained really heavily... Stoned for a while before I went to the bus stop with Jonny... Took 162 with Ivan...
Friday was mainly the National Day celebrations... Morning went to change into full u, the very last time I would ever wear that uniform... Met Yibin, Ken and Kah Hoe... Before the celebrations started, all the Chairmen were called out... Apparently Mr Lee wanted to talk to the Sec 4 Chairmen... However, we just went back cause he was busy... Parade was not too bad, though I think the band people screwed up a bit(?) Kind of like last year ah... Once again there was a sense of nostalgia... Thought of last year when we were taking the parade... Wish I could shout again... Haha kidding... Overall the parade went pretty well with a few screwups, though some actions could have been sharper, for everyone at least... I thought it would have looked cooler if the GOH had some arms (as in weapons) of some sort though... Whatever the case, good job to CHS's UGs... After the parade, we received our certs, for us it was from Miss Foo I think... I shall describe the experience as what the NP Commandant had said that time... It was our "5 seconds of glory"... Haha... After that, Chairmen were called up again... Mr Lee didn't turn up in the end and it did get quite frustrating... Took several pictures... After that went to change... Thanks Jonny for helping me get the ice cream... Thanks Enzon for helping us to take the photos... Oh yah, performances were pretty cool... I liked the Air's PDS.... Most of them were pretty cool...
Some pictures:
Us, with Timo...
With Ivan
With Nik and Sei Yee in the background... I look retarded, result of not being photogenic... Zzz
Ken receiving his award during speech day... Congrats =)
After the celebrations was speech day... Saw people like Troy and Rui Xian... There were speeches and prizes given out... Congrats to all those who received prizes... The Valedictorian part with Joshua Goh was pretty cool... Kind of inspires you, but for people like me, no chance for the Edward Becharas award... Haha... Forget it... Hope I can do well enough for O levels to return during speech day next year.... Hope lah... After the event, helped to stack up the chairs, went to have lunch with Kah Hoe, Ken, Kenneth and Tong Yang... Talked for quite a bit, then I accompanied Ken and Tong Yang back to school... Then stoned for a while, talking to both Jonny and Ken... Jonny was doing homework in the classroom... Haha... At about 3pm, Ken, Jun Wei and myself went to J8, we watched Jun Wei eat at Mos Burger... Haha... After that JW and Ken wanted to watch a movie, but I didn't want to cause I didn't want to go home too late... After much unsuccesful persuasion, both of them went to watch the Mummy... Oh yah, we saw 28th Batch there...
Reached home, wanted to sleep for a while, didn't hear the alarm, slept through the night... Missed the opening ceremony of the Olympics.... Argh... Fortunately my Grandpa recorded it... Yay... Saturday morning went for tuition... After that stayed at home, doing homework mostly while everyone else went to play golf... For some reason, I sort of half missed the NDP on TV, recorded it, watched a bit of it... The new comedies look interedsting...
Sunday, had lunch at Din Tai Fung at J8... Food 's still as good... Think I saw Jia Feng there after I left... Haha... Walked around for a while, then came home... Did some work, then we went to the club to play tennis... Still can't really get the hang of it... Today, went bowling with JW and Cliff, then did A.Maths at the club too... Work done... Haha...
Somehow, I seem to be going pretty crazy... At times, in school, I go really a bit out of control... Some of the things I say also start to become very kp... Uncontrollable is the word I guess... Stuff happens... In our haste and all that, things like what happened on Monday occur... After that, when we regret, it's too late, the damage is done... I really need to keep my hyperactivity in check for a bit... Really sorry to all those who've been on the receiving end of my craziness... And also... In my opinion, I feel that though they don't say it out... I think they know it inside them, I'm not going to do well again... I just can't live up to their expectations, and I never will... Then again, I'm just assuming aren't I? I hope... I just don't want to keep disappointing them... Guess I'll never be as good as my brother as well... Zzz... I'm just so insignificant, inadequate... Argh... Why am I like that? I can't even be a good friend... Aren't I just a waste of everyone's time? Zzzz... Ok, another bit of ranting and pessimism here... Oh, and somehow, everytime I watch those movies or shows with like a love theme in it or something, kind of makes you wonder how it'll feel like to experience love in such a manner from someone non-related right? Haha... Ok, pretty random stuff... I'll try not to disappoint anyone anyway...
Oh, and usually I look forward a little to Tuesdays for some unphantomable reason... However, tomorrow sounds like a very lousy Tuesday... Chinese O level results will be released tomorrow... I'm so going to disappoint people again, as well as myself... Then again, can't really say I worked extremely hard for Chinese like some people... So, I'm like getting my just desserts... Zzz... All the best to everyone else... Also, all the best to everyone for the upcoming English Oral exams!
Ok, I'm here blogging at a pretty unearthly hour, where most people would probably be asleep in their beds by now... Ah well... Can't really remember much... Monday we had this unseen prose test for Lit, though we had sort of gone through the passage beforehand... After English remedial went to Eugene's house for a while... Tuesday played hockey for PE... Those that didn't pass their Napfa test had to do some PT thingy, half of them were dying after the session, especially with the blazing sun at that time... Didn't really feel well for the rest of the day either... For Wednesday, I guess the most eventful thing was the assembly programme, which was some motivational talk thing... Pretty meaningful... Then the lot of us were scolded by 2 teachers, namely Mr Heng and Miss Krishnan... Somehow, the more the say their stuff, like trying to motivate us, pressure, us the more I feel sian and how difficult this journey is... I think so others will share the same sentiments... After that was contact time, luckily Mr T. didn't give us a further lecture... There was a little tension before Physics remedial, with some tempers rising.. Ah well... Went to the library with Jonny and Eugene after that... Thursday morning CJC came to give a talk... The after-school maths test was horrible, couldn't do many questions this time... Went to the library again with Jonny... Friday also nothing unusual... Geog LDQ workshop after school... Then library again... Yesterday morning went for tuition... Then there was this girl from TKGS I think, Sec 4 also, she seemed to be muggin really hard... Scary... After that met Terence, YJ and JW at school before we went to J8 to meet Louis and Clifton... We watched Money Not Enough 2... We paid for the 12:30pm show and entered the cinema at 12:40 or so... Haha... Movie was good, very meaningful, very relevant issues of Singapore were the main themes of the movie... Touching is also another word, how the grandmother had sacrificed herself to allow her granddaughter to live... Well, I did shed some tears I admit... Haha... I believe the movie does tug at one's heartstrings too... I guess we can take away several lessons from the movie too... Overall, another good movie from Jack Neo... Kudos to him... Personal rating: 4.5/5 After the movie, headed down to AMK Mcdonalds with Louis and Terence to study... Did maths... After that came home and went to jog for a while... Today, other than the usual trip to my grandparents' for lunch, I stayed at home... Watched The Day After Tomorrow... Well, both you and I know the meaning the of the show, so I shan't elaborate... Anyway, my neighbour's grandmother passed away on Thursday I think... Would like to express my belated condolences, though the wake and cremation are over...
Also, learnt that Lingli and Enzon have successfully DSA-ed into RJC and VJC respectively... Congrats... Though I think this is kind of considered as old news already... Ah well... So much for being caught up with the times...
Yeah, then according to Yu Lin Lao Shi, chinese results are coming out on the 12th.... According to the CJC principal, we'll most probably be getting our O level results next year before Chinese New Year... Oh wow... Ok, typed out a whole bunch of things just now but it somehow got deleted and I can't retrieve it... Zzz... I just hope, I won't disappoint them anymore... 2004 was enough, I don't want to go through it again, especially with the results being released before CNY... Zzz... I'll try my best I guess...
Featured Song:
Hero -- Mariah Carey
Recalled something that we sort of learned in Primary school during the post PSLE period... Rephrased it though....
Ken receiving his award during speech day... Congrats =)