Hey everyone! I'm back from YLTC!! It's been a really eventful 5 days at camp. Day 1, main thing was the great walk from NJ to Sarimbum Scouts Camp. Another freaking long walk, 23.5km or something like that? Something similar to OAL back in 2006 I guess, except with a much heavier bag this time. As usual, challenging to push through. Took damn long to walk to Bukit Panjang and stuff, then there were the damn long stretches of roads and stuff. Van Tan got injured along the way, some old injury apparently, ouch. At Sarimbum when we put down our bags we realised how painful our shoulder actually were lol. Still, mission accomplished! Not forgetting of course, along the way we were getting entertained by Victoria and her extremely -.-"' jokes (no one got them except her lol) and some random singing to random songs by our group haha. Tent pitching after that. Something slightly different from the usual tents in NP, slightly higher and more space though, thankfully, 8 man tent. Tied and pegged like crazy, until my hands were damn painful lol. It kind of rained a bit but we still went to do our belay station after that. Not unfamiliar for myself since I first tried it as an OAL in Sec 3 plus Sec 4 PE lessons had belaying too. Good refresher for my belaying skills :) Not sure about the order of events, can't remember already :/ Anyway had dinner, then did the DISC profiling thing. Very useful in determining the type of person you are. I'm an S! Ok, as compared to my profiling done last year I think, my I component rose lol. I'm stable! Haha. Nothing much after that, some debrief with instructor Hadi. Our group ended up bathing first before everyone else lol. Mass debrief everyone go there already cleaned lol. Though I admit Jerrell and I didn't bathe on the first day lol :x
Day 2! Morning PT was supposed to be 100 sets of 8 jumping jacks. Then with some coordinated-with-no-timing jumps. With all the redoing and stuff, we probably all did about 180 to 200 in total in the end lol. All the high elements and stuff after that. Damn fun. Zip line was very entertaining, thanks to Bessy haha. Even before she came down, while she was being hooked up to the wire thingy she started screaming like mad already. All of us at the ladder some distance away were all laughing like crazy. HAHA! Challenge Valley, highlight was probably the "Milo pond". Remembered encountering it once in P5. This time, we basically just went down a slide and go right in. Nice! Challenge pole was cool, instead of the one in HRC whereby we jump one by one, it's a plank whereby 2 people have to balance and jump. Really good test of one's teamwork and coordination. Didn't do double dangle duo, but it was fun watching people lol. Like when we were at challenge pole then saw Van Ho doing DDD. Damn long until belayers like Zikai had to rest lol :x At least you made it to level 2 or 3 lah Van Ho. Outdoor cooking for our dinner was pretty fun. Probably contributed by dealing with the solid fuel, can't cook for nuts lol. Day ended quite early I think. Van Tan had to go home halfway during cooking, cause of her injury. Wasted man ):
Day 3. Packed up stuff plus area cleaning. Hate cleaning the damn tents, and folding them -.- Then Wei Qi and I somehow ended up at the cleaning pegs area (don't think we were supposed to be there lol). Clean with everyone until our hands had the odd metal smell haha. After breakfast, took the bus to Tanjong Piai resort in Malaysia. Think the bus trip was a good refreshing nap for everyone haha. First activities was some team building thingy. Built some structure plus some coordination activity involving strings and a ring with a ball. After that was tree climbing!! This one's damn fun. We climbed this coconut tree, grooves had been carved into them to facilitate our climbing, really cool experience. Fresh coconuts after that!! Used the parang to cut it open. Cool stuff. Had dinner then some nightwalk. Basically you had to walk alone through this straight path in the night. Objective was to allow ourselves to reflect on ourselves, partially. Other one was obviously to counter our fear of walking alone in the darkness. Ironically, couldn't think during the thing at all. Just walked and ended up saying to people walking in the opposite direction from the other groups haha. Group walk followed by some stoning in the night at some place for further reflection. Talked to Jing Han and some others.
Day 4 was probably one of the most interesting days. Morning PT again. The new style of jumping jacks was kind of like dancing lol. Team challenge was fun. Jumping fron tyre to tyre, then crawling under this net and walking through this metal dunno what thingy, all while still holding on to people next to you. Next was monkey bars and something like a low wall but it wasn't so low lol. Everyone managed to complete it! Sheerwood was also damn fun. To put it shortly, it mostly had to do with mud in this river. Crossed through it first, then next one was to walk across this bamboo tree trunk. Unsuccessful attempts, Lionel made it across successfully! Monica almost did it also. Khairul's shoe got lost in the mud once, went to help but lost my water booty in the course of it -.- Talk about suay. Thankfully I managed to find it like after 10 mins lol. Lunch then it rained. So our the first part of our Piai expedition was spent freezing at one point of a jetty lol. Jetty jump after that. As usualm fun. Touched the bottom of the shore lol. Went to some nature park after that for some obstacle course. Dinner, then campfire. Performance was epic fail lol, forgot my lines =/ Sorry people!! Still it was damn fun haha. Sharing session after that.
Day 5, last day! Everyone kena conned. Ended up waking up at 4am, even though we kind of expected it. Final Challenge! We ran to grab our flag, ran to another place, then the task was to carry one person back to end point. Honey was damn suay and got me -.- Thanks to Mr Teo lol. Other groups got generally lighter people lol. End up we reached back last :/ But we managed to complete it!! Good job Honey!! (: After the thing my system seemed to shut down a bit zzz, think cause my neck wasnt supported throughout the entire thing. Neck muscles still hurt =/ During thr half an hour break after that I completely shut off and slept. Still felt cui during breakfast. After that was the much anticipated Paintball!!! Really damn fun. First time for me, kind of like real life Counter Strike haha. While waiting most of us spent timing splashing paint on each other with the pellets and drawing stuff on each other haha. Best was Pei Shan and Yin Lan. Their round 2 objective was to experience getting shot LOL! Gareth was zai man, one man infiltrate the other side's area. Of coursem every game has its risks, quite a number of people got injured in the process, some pretty bad, like Van Ho, Nigel, Gareth and Emily. Oh well. Prize presentation and back to Singapore!!! Macs with Jing Han and council people.
Overall, I really enjoyed YLTC. Great experience. Really did make people think and try new stuff. Personally, many of the things aren't new to me, but it's the different environment and trying to adapt to it that's always a challenge for me to overcome. After the nightwalk I started thinking about quite a bit of stuff, about life, about things around. How have I changed, as a person, as a supposed leader over these few years? Have I performed right? Up to expectations? Why do I choose to lead sometimes? Is it cause of the power? The glory? The sai kang? The experience? The camp made me realise that perhaps the answer was that I wanted to help people perhaps. I know this sounds corny and stuff, but there were times when I really wanted to do something well, one of the reasons being that so that I could help others and guide them through whatever we needed to do. Not all that glitters is gold. Maybe in the past, like in NP perhaps, I was motivated to do well cause I wanted to achieve something. Partially yes, that's still one of my reasons to do well. But I think the satisfaction of seeing your friends being able to do/complete stuff is also just as satisfying. Similar to what teachers might feel. This led me to think. I want to continue to improve, cause everyday is a learning journey. I want to become a better person, a better friend, a better captain, and perhaps something that I didn't really manage to do, a better CI. Hope it won't be too late to do things. In addition, another thing that I thought of was that, most people would probably have a sort of past self that we would be not too proud of, like you look back and think wth I was like that?! I definitely have this, for those who have known me for some time, especially my squadmates and close friends. Hated my past self in a way, shan't bother to elaborate now, maybe next time. So yeah, that's probably one of the reasons why I want to continue improving and stuff.
One queer question that had been posed to me 3 times on the same day was this. Why didn't I join council? Okay, that has been a question that I haven't fully answered myself. Can't really remember why I didn't want to go in the end (whole process was a long story). One of the reasons was probably that I wanted to go for Floorball Exco, others cant remember. Any regrets on my side? Maybe. But some time back, I finally managed to settle my heart on something. My stand was a 50-50 thing. I half regret and I half don't. Both sides have their good and bad points. But I think I'm a little queer in this sense. Like I have quite a number of friends who're in the council and stuff, but I'm not one. Jing Han's observation: Almost a year in the same Chinese class and he thought I was in council lol. Reason being I knew so many of them and 'seemed' to be around them more often than not. Now, I didn't post this part to show off or something, in case somebody gets some stupid wrong idea. Just that the question was something that kept me thinking again, furthermore, asked by different people 3 times in one day. Well, I'm not sure whether my decision was right or wrong, I'll just live with it. My heart is set at 50-50.
Anyway, to end off, would just like to thank my fellow groupmates from HONEY for their company and stuff these few days. Thanks so much guys!! I really enjoyed the camp with all of you! (:
Shall post again and upload pics later maybe, shall go for class gathering first lol. Bye people
Happy Belated Birthday Darrell!!
Follow where your heart leads you, to infinity and beyond
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
I yelled back when I heard thunder, but I'm down to one last breath
Hey all, today nothing much. Went to celebrate my brother's birthday at some restaurant. Happy Birthday dude! Packed my stuff here and there. My bag's a little heavy zzz..YLTC's tmrw till Friday. Been feeling tired the whole day. Hope I can stay energetic during the camp. Back soon!
Aaron introduced this to me yesterday. Quite nice
Song of the day: One Last Breath -- Creed
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Hey all. Okay, first things first. PW is OVER!!! Had my OP on Tuesday. In a way, luckily had our presentation first. Screwed my my part a little bit =/ Had actually prepared some cue cards the night before at 2am lol. Kena nag by zm =x In the end, after the first piece I didn't use the other 5 and just talked -.- Damn happy for Q&A cause I did it for my I&R, on expansion of our idea. Yay man. Zhou Wei's Q&A was apparently 2 giant circles lol. Rest of the day just did audience duty and stoned already. Heavy weight of our mind once the GPF was submitted. Hope everyone else will do ok too! My dear cousin went to paste my name tag sticker over my hand and peeled it off -.- Explains the hair removal post for those who saw it, blogged by her haha. Waited for Panyu and gang to finish their audience duty. Then all of us went out to eat after that. Josh Ng, Josh Tan, Hong Zhi, Nigel, Wei Jian, Panyu, Zhong Xi, Jaron, Sarah, Jian Zhong and myself (did I miss anyone?) went to Just Acia at Dhoby Ghaut there to eat. Damn funny 10 people ordered the same set meal. As usual, spammed ice cream and drinks, that's the attraction right haha. Atiqah joined us after that. Went to get movie tickets at Cathay. JP, Py, Nigel, Sarah, Atiqah, myself and ZX I think got convinced to watch Jennifer's Body, thanks to Atiqah haha. Jaron, HZ, WJ and Josh Ng went for LAN and pool.
Jennifer's Body was, okay gruesome. Joshua Tan and I are wimpy guys, cause we hate horror, even a bit of it. Got damn freaked out by some parts. Ok, movie was quite nice but I still got freaked out =/ Sorry lah, don't like such stuff. Joshua and I were like grabbing each other lol. Then I commented that Jennifer seemed to portray some characters from L4D. Hunter, boomer and witch. Go figure for those who play haha. After the show everyone, mainly JP, Sarah, Py and myself were damn freaked out lol. Went KFC to meet the rest then talked somemore. Atiqah started acting like Jennifer, damn funny haha. Beware people! LOL! End up when everyone was going home we all said be careful people and message each other when we reached home. Zai man lol.
Wednesday, woke up much later than usual. Went to meet Jerrell, Warren and Eugene at Queensway to buy stuff. Met Meng Long, Shi Jie and Si Hao on the bus. Bought Fbts for training plus YLTC. Warren somehow got declared as gay HAHA. Damn funny joke. Went to Ikea to eat a bit, then we went check out the cupboard for the floorball store. Home after that. Thursday morning, had pt. Mostly running exercises, recreational basketball after that. Damn fun. Left halfway to attend the hockey exco meeting about the challenge shield thingy. Went back and forgot about my watch. Lost my favourite watch AGAIN ): Hope I can find it again soon. Went to AMK Hub for lunch, then we watched My Girlfriend is a Secret Agent. Damn funny. Good movie! Met Jaron, PY, Hong Zhi and Sarah at PS after that, had dinner with the guys. Talked cock, then discussed chalet, then ended up PY and I were "flirting" with Ruiqi via sms. I swear we're retarded people haha.
Friday, went to school to submit some form to Mr Chong's letter tray, couldn't find my watch anywhere, not even at the G.O zzzz. Went army market with Jing Han, Jaron, Brandon, Ai Hua and Gabrielle I think. Bought stuff, ate, dragged 2 bags (1 was Jerrell's keeper suit) to Suntec. Helped Jaron and Ai Hua with their shopping lol.
Today, went to CHS for training. My skills are seriously damn cui. Nonetheless, today's training was one of the best trainings in the past few months probably. Learnt a lot. Thanks a lot Mr Han. Hope can join them for more trainings. We got owned in the matches. 10-1? Haha. Rammed into Su Kiat during the drills though, sorry about that. Then I kena injured zzz. Thigh quite painful. Army people really damn qiang haha. Lunch, then walk around J8. Dylan and Chieun Wei kena suan and bullied by Jerrell and gang haha. Went to PS to meet group Honey people. Shopped for our stuff. Went to eat a bit. Home-d with Jerrell.
Tuesday sort of reminded of the kind of person I've become. Did something that really made me reflect on my actions. Since when did I become so inconsiderate? Ok, the others might not think so much about it, but I'm not the type who can easily shrug off such stuff, especially when it's your own actions. Good and bad I guess. I need to reflect, am I slowly turning into a person whom I don't want to be? Don't know. Just need to be mindful about my own actions in future I guess. Oh yeah something quite true. The prospects are quite tempting sometimes, but it's the uncertainty that holds us back many a times, most of all, we don't know if it's the right decision. Sometimes it's good to hold back, sometimes it's good to just try.
Happy Belated Birthday Terence!!
Shall post an more serene song, rather than the originally intended A7X song lol.
Song of the day: Stop and Stare -- One Republic
Jennifer's Body was, okay gruesome. Joshua Tan and I are wimpy guys, cause we hate horror, even a bit of it. Got damn freaked out by some parts. Ok, movie was quite nice but I still got freaked out =/ Sorry lah, don't like such stuff. Joshua and I were like grabbing each other lol. Then I commented that Jennifer seemed to portray some characters from L4D. Hunter, boomer and witch. Go figure for those who play haha. After the show everyone, mainly JP, Sarah, Py and myself were damn freaked out lol. Went KFC to meet the rest then talked somemore. Atiqah started acting like Jennifer, damn funny haha. Beware people! LOL! End up when everyone was going home we all said be careful people and message each other when we reached home. Zai man lol.
Wednesday, woke up much later than usual. Went to meet Jerrell, Warren and Eugene at Queensway to buy stuff. Met Meng Long, Shi Jie and Si Hao on the bus. Bought Fbts for training plus YLTC. Warren somehow got declared as gay HAHA. Damn funny joke. Went to Ikea to eat a bit, then we went check out the cupboard for the floorball store. Home after that. Thursday morning, had pt. Mostly running exercises, recreational basketball after that. Damn fun. Left halfway to attend the hockey exco meeting about the challenge shield thingy. Went back and forgot about my watch. Lost my favourite watch AGAIN ): Hope I can find it again soon. Went to AMK Hub for lunch, then we watched My Girlfriend is a Secret Agent. Damn funny. Good movie! Met Jaron, PY, Hong Zhi and Sarah at PS after that, had dinner with the guys. Talked cock, then discussed chalet, then ended up PY and I were "flirting" with Ruiqi via sms. I swear we're retarded people haha.
Friday, went to school to submit some form to Mr Chong's letter tray, couldn't find my watch anywhere, not even at the G.O zzzz. Went army market with Jing Han, Jaron, Brandon, Ai Hua and Gabrielle I think. Bought stuff, ate, dragged 2 bags (1 was Jerrell's keeper suit) to Suntec. Helped Jaron and Ai Hua with their shopping lol.
Today, went to CHS for training. My skills are seriously damn cui. Nonetheless, today's training was one of the best trainings in the past few months probably. Learnt a lot. Thanks a lot Mr Han. Hope can join them for more trainings. We got owned in the matches. 10-1? Haha. Rammed into Su Kiat during the drills though, sorry about that. Then I kena injured zzz. Thigh quite painful. Army people really damn qiang haha. Lunch, then walk around J8. Dylan and Chieun Wei kena suan and bullied by Jerrell and gang haha. Went to PS to meet group Honey people. Shopped for our stuff. Went to eat a bit. Home-d with Jerrell.
Tuesday sort of reminded of the kind of person I've become. Did something that really made me reflect on my actions. Since when did I become so inconsiderate? Ok, the others might not think so much about it, but I'm not the type who can easily shrug off such stuff, especially when it's your own actions. Good and bad I guess. I need to reflect, am I slowly turning into a person whom I don't want to be? Don't know. Just need to be mindful about my own actions in future I guess. Oh yeah something quite true. The prospects are quite tempting sometimes, but it's the uncertainty that holds us back many a times, most of all, we don't know if it's the right decision. Sometimes it's good to hold back, sometimes it's good to just try.
Happy Belated Birthday Terence!!
Shall post an more serene song, rather than the originally intended A7X song lol.
Song of the day: Stop and Stare -- One Republic
Monday, November 09, 2009
Had one more dry run with Mr Chong today. Didn't go too well for my part, my comments were the longest =/ Ok I know I haven't been exactly practising my script and stuff, compared to everyone else, the amount of effort I put in was probably negligible. Somehow, damn cranky today. I'm so sorry to those who might have been caught in my bad mood. Sorry to Sarah, Panyu, Felicia, Jaron and Hong Zhi for causing a little disturbance during your rehearsal earlier. Sorry Panyu for some screwed up response and mood at the canteen just now =/ So sorry to everyone else whom I caused trouble for today also.
This is it, the final act. I pray that everything goes smoothly. I hope that I can force myself to go into a lighter mood so that my presentation won't be so screwed up like now. Probably presented slightly better before this. Let's hope things go ok.
Happy Birthday Grace! All the best for the A's! (:
No more breath inside, essence left my heart tonight
This is it, the final act. I pray that everything goes smoothly. I hope that I can force myself to go into a lighter mood so that my presentation won't be so screwed up like now. Probably presented slightly better before this. Let's hope things go ok.
Happy Birthday Grace! All the best for the A's! (:
No more breath inside, essence left my heart tonight
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Disappointment. That's a perfect word to describe whatever's going on. Hate to start a blog post on such a subdued note, but I think that's just been the kind of mood plaguing me for the past few days. Anyway, pt on Thursday morning. Was raining so we couldn't run and stuff, ended up doing upper arm exercises. Damn funny Yong Le forgot to pass down the second relay then some people didn't know about training haha. Ended of training with some basketball. Damn fun haha. Went for pw meeting. Spent almost the whole day doing pw, stoning and stuff. Went to Island Cremery with some SH25 people. Went back to school for YLTC briefing. Group seems not bad. We're called Honey haha. The camp seems quite interesting, 2 days in Sarimbum and 3 days in some place in Malaysia. Oh well, half looking forward, half not, dunno why lol. As Darrell said, it's just another ATC again, yeah maybe lol. I feel like a cadet again haha. Met Jonny for dinner at J8. Talked for damn long. From the food court to coffee bean haha. Only left at like 11? Then I was crazy enough to accompany Jonny to Serangoon and took 70 home. Slept on the bus and got woken up by the driver lol. Came back at 12 lol. Friday, woke up late zzz. Went to school, pw meeting again. Lunch at Coro. Met Hongliang!! Long time no see man! Hope to meet you again at the Charlie gathering!
Met A4 people for dinner at Fish & Co. Went to Icekimo after that. Met Qiu'en who was working there. She actually recognised me haha. When I first saw her I was like wait, is that really her? Small world man haha. Yesterday wasn't much. Woke up later than usual, like 1pm, tired luh. Evening met Terence, Ken, Yong Jie, Yibin and Jun Wei for dinner and LAN. Damn fun. Then Yibin went to hang my phone, couldn't access my inbox for a while lol. Luckily it's ok now haha.
I failed in my duty, not sure why things are turning out like that, but I hope things will turn out for the better soon. Then, for another thing, once again I find myself in a similar situation. This time, luck's just not on our side, not on mine, the situation sucks, and now I'm being seen as nothing, once again. Wts seriously. Giving up is damn tempting, cause no point fighting another losing battle and giving yourself unnecessary burdens to think about right? I just don't know.
Was talking with my Dad in the car on the way to school one of the mornings. Once again I was asked what kind of University course I wanted to go for. Well, up till now I still haven't thought of what I really wanted to do. Well, secretly my dream course is to do Law, since it seems interesting. One friend in passing mentioned that she wanted to go for law as well. Hence it brought me back to this topic. Then again, when I heard of the criteria to get in I was like wts. 4As with GP A or something like that to even get considered for the interview and stuff. The criteria simply put me off from that little dream. In that case, what should I go for? Still undecided on what to do..
Speaking about dreams, when we were young, it was okay to dream, to have the wildest fantasies to what we wanted to do, what we wanted to achieve in life. Some dreams that we set, we followed them. But that was when we were young. Now, as we become more mature, more understanding about the world, more exposed to everything around us, we slowly see these dreams dwindle and even disappear. For me, all the wild thoughts about having agood job, being successful and stuff, slowly but surely, everything seemed to dissolve and disappear, because sometimes, even if we don't show it, we know in our hearts that it would be almost impossible to achieve some things. Somehow, such a thing has been implanted in my mind over perhaps this year or something. Has my ability to dream been vanquished? To better put it, have I given up on dreaming perhaps? I don't know. Everything I ever wanted to do and wanted to achieve seems like such childish and naive thoughts that I started giving up on them. So the question is, which dreams are those that are childish, and which are those that will help? Points to ponder for self.
Ok, bunch of ranting back there. All in all, hope that stupid subdued sian mood will ebb away soon. Feeling totally sucks. Maybe I'm just too affected by some minor incidents that I end up forgetting all the little things in life that make it meaningful, maybe these little things are the cause too, I don't know. For some reason, I think the weeks before promos might have been one of the better moments I enjoyed. Bah, whatever. Going crazy. Feel like sleeping already -.-
Happy Belated Birthday Rena!!
For those who don't know, Avenged Sevenfold is one of my favourite bands at the moment. The tune of their songs really attracted my attention. Here's featuring one of them. Might describe the mood, I don't know. Nice piano tune still lol.
Song of the day: I Won't See You Tonight Part 1 -- Avenged Sevenfold
Cry alone, I've gone away
No more nights, no more pain
I've gone alone, took all my strength
I've made the change,
I won't see you tonight
Sorrow, sank deep inside my blood
All the ones around me
I cared for and loved
Building up inside of me
A place so dark, so cold, I had to set me free
Don't mourn for me,
You're not the one to place the blame
As bottles call my name
I won't see you tonight
Sorrow sank deep inside my blood
All the ones around me
I cared for and most of all I loved
But I can't see myself that way
Please don't forget me or cry while I'm away
Cry alone, I've gone away
No more nights, no more pain
I've gone alone, took all my strength
But I've made the change,
I won't see you tonight
So far away, I'm gone.
Please don't follow me tonight
And while I'm gone everything will be alright
No more breath inside
Essence left my heart tonight
No more breath inside
Essence left my heart tonight
Met A4 people for dinner at Fish & Co. Went to Icekimo after that. Met Qiu'en who was working there. She actually recognised me haha. When I first saw her I was like wait, is that really her? Small world man haha. Yesterday wasn't much. Woke up later than usual, like 1pm, tired luh. Evening met Terence, Ken, Yong Jie, Yibin and Jun Wei for dinner and LAN. Damn fun. Then Yibin went to hang my phone, couldn't access my inbox for a while lol. Luckily it's ok now haha.
I failed in my duty, not sure why things are turning out like that, but I hope things will turn out for the better soon. Then, for another thing, once again I find myself in a similar situation. This time, luck's just not on our side, not on mine, the situation sucks, and now I'm being seen as nothing, once again. Wts seriously. Giving up is damn tempting, cause no point fighting another losing battle and giving yourself unnecessary burdens to think about right? I just don't know.
Was talking with my Dad in the car on the way to school one of the mornings. Once again I was asked what kind of University course I wanted to go for. Well, up till now I still haven't thought of what I really wanted to do. Well, secretly my dream course is to do Law, since it seems interesting. One friend in passing mentioned that she wanted to go for law as well. Hence it brought me back to this topic. Then again, when I heard of the criteria to get in I was like wts. 4As with GP A or something like that to even get considered for the interview and stuff. The criteria simply put me off from that little dream. In that case, what should I go for? Still undecided on what to do..
Speaking about dreams, when we were young, it was okay to dream, to have the wildest fantasies to what we wanted to do, what we wanted to achieve in life. Some dreams that we set, we followed them. But that was when we were young. Now, as we become more mature, more understanding about the world, more exposed to everything around us, we slowly see these dreams dwindle and even disappear. For me, all the wild thoughts about having agood job, being successful and stuff, slowly but surely, everything seemed to dissolve and disappear, because sometimes, even if we don't show it, we know in our hearts that it would be almost impossible to achieve some things. Somehow, such a thing has been implanted in my mind over perhaps this year or something. Has my ability to dream been vanquished? To better put it, have I given up on dreaming perhaps? I don't know. Everything I ever wanted to do and wanted to achieve seems like such childish and naive thoughts that I started giving up on them. So the question is, which dreams are those that are childish, and which are those that will help? Points to ponder for self.
Ok, bunch of ranting back there. All in all, hope that stupid subdued sian mood will ebb away soon. Feeling totally sucks. Maybe I'm just too affected by some minor incidents that I end up forgetting all the little things in life that make it meaningful, maybe these little things are the cause too, I don't know. For some reason, I think the weeks before promos might have been one of the better moments I enjoyed. Bah, whatever. Going crazy. Feel like sleeping already -.-
Happy Belated Birthday Rena!!
For those who don't know, Avenged Sevenfold is one of my favourite bands at the moment. The tune of their songs really attracted my attention. Here's featuring one of them. Might describe the mood, I don't know. Nice piano tune still lol.
Song of the day: I Won't See You Tonight Part 1 -- Avenged Sevenfold
Cry alone, I've gone away
No more nights, no more pain
I've gone alone, took all my strength
I've made the change,
I won't see you tonight
Sorrow, sank deep inside my blood
All the ones around me
I cared for and loved
Building up inside of me
A place so dark, so cold, I had to set me free
Don't mourn for me,
You're not the one to place the blame
As bottles call my name
I won't see you tonight
Sorrow sank deep inside my blood
All the ones around me
I cared for and most of all I loved
But I can't see myself that way
Please don't forget me or cry while I'm away
Cry alone, I've gone away
No more nights, no more pain
I've gone alone, took all my strength
But I've made the change,
I won't see you tonight
So far away, I'm gone.
Please don't follow me tonight
And while I'm gone everything will be alright
No more breath inside
Essence left my heart tonight
No more breath inside
Essence left my heart tonight
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Hey all, today was the principal's contact thing. Wanted to go to school at the normal time, but couldn't wake up this morning =/ Slept at like 3 plus last night cause I was talking to Hilary aka my sis on msn lol. Reached school then went to CA4, attempted to try Dota on my com, but ended up failing miserably. Can ask Khai and Nigel haha. Principal's contact, talked about results and stuff. Really need to buck up.. Haiz... Still, once again thankful in some senses. Heard about the meeting with the Dean. Seems like some of my friends are being forced to drop their H2 subjects to a H1 level. Can agree with Wei Shian in a sense, it is kind of harsh, like just whack. Sickening to see it ): Not really sure what I can say to help my friends feel better. Feel damn sian. Hope that ultimately, everyone will be able to gain something in the end, hopefully it would be good A Level results at the end of the day.
Chionged my I&R in CA4 before going for lunch with You'en, Joshua Tan, Joshua Ng, Jian Zhong, Jaron and Zhong Xi at Coro. Rushed back for floorball meeting. Finally managed to settle stuff. Took the bus back with Jun Xiang. Anyway, hope you liked the card and the voodoo mini Wei Shian (:
Feel a bit lost on some things. Not sure what to do, not sure if there is anything I should or can do for some things. Complicated man some things. A possible picture was being painted before it got destroyed, ripped and burned by surrounding fire. Then, mixture of disappointment plus anger just now when I heard some stuff. True, it is my job to try to get everyone interested and involved. But at least some of us are making effort to do something right? What are you doing? If you're sian already, what about us? Don't just blatantly commit such irresponsible acts. It does not only affect you mind you. Think, just seriously think. Why have some of us continue to fight? Cause our dreams are what's keeping us going, don't just put it out with your plain acts. Then again, I only heard stuff. Whether it really happens, we'll see tomorrow.
The things that happened, did anything have any impact, did it leave anything left to saviour, left to think about? Or was everything just a noise inside my head?
I miss Cat High's morning prayers for some reason, I miss the soothing effect it gives us, especially before every paper.
Song of the day: Flipside -- Click Five
Chionged my I&R in CA4 before going for lunch with You'en, Joshua Tan, Joshua Ng, Jian Zhong, Jaron and Zhong Xi at Coro. Rushed back for floorball meeting. Finally managed to settle stuff. Took the bus back with Jun Xiang. Anyway, hope you liked the card and the voodoo mini Wei Shian (:
Feel a bit lost on some things. Not sure what to do, not sure if there is anything I should or can do for some things. Complicated man some things. A possible picture was being painted before it got destroyed, ripped and burned by surrounding fire. Then, mixture of disappointment plus anger just now when I heard some stuff. True, it is my job to try to get everyone interested and involved. But at least some of us are making effort to do something right? What are you doing? If you're sian already, what about us? Don't just blatantly commit such irresponsible acts. It does not only affect you mind you. Think, just seriously think. Why have some of us continue to fight? Cause our dreams are what's keeping us going, don't just put it out with your plain acts. Then again, I only heard stuff. Whether it really happens, we'll see tomorrow.
The things that happened, did anything have any impact, did it leave anything left to saviour, left to think about? Or was everything just a noise inside my head?
I miss Cat High's morning prayers for some reason, I miss the soothing effect it gives us, especially before every paper.
Song of the day: Flipside -- Click Five
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Hey everyone. Ok, as Wei Shian has been telling me, I have not been updating this place for like ages again.. My bad =/ Anyway, past 3 weeks or so have had quite a fair bit of stuff happening. Week of end of promos had Games Fest. Quite fun with a bunch of injuries here and there haha. Can't remember much. Normal lessons for about 2 weeks, with Chinese and PW workshops and stuff. Not sure what else happened =/ OCS visit on 21st Oct, definitely more interesting in a way than the visit in Sec 4, which was much more brief. Still haven't posted the pics yet, crap.. Results were out on 28th October. Disappoint for many. Personally, my results were so so. Physics: D, Chem: E (after moderation), Econs: E, Maths: B, GP: D. Won't exactly say I'm satisfied, but I should be grateful that I managed to scrape through everything, promoting with 4H2s at least. Need to work harder next year, have been much too slack this year =/
Wednesday, went back to CHS to help the NCOs a bit, end up forgot to cover a lot of stuff, another screw up on my part =/ Friday was Muster parade, no comments. Congrats to those who got promoted, to those who didn't, work harder bah, jia you people! At night, went to surprise Zikai at his house with Ron, Ron's idea haha. Loved the scam I used to get him out of the house haha :P Saturday morning went for Games Day duty. Did floorball umpiring with Kelvin. Lunch after that with some of the instructors. Terence and I ended up half asleep by like 3 plus haha. Went home, then went to meet the rest for Zikai's birthday barbeque. Kena owned man, all of us got caught in the rain, and I stupidly wore shoes again -.- Anyway, had a lot of fun during the party. Aaron was seriously being VERY entertaining hahaha. Oh, first time I tried cheese tofu also, quite nice lol. While leaving that time, we decided to skip throwing zk into the pool, but he asked for it lah, so we obliged haha. Crazy person lol. Bus trip home, Aaron was acting drunk, never seen him so high before hahaha. Anyway, hope you enjoyed your birthday Zikai (: On Sunday that joker came to my house to play L4D haha. End up only much later did he do his work while I tried to study for chinese lol.
Yesterday was the A Level Chinese paper. 11 years of Chinese education boiled down to those 3 hours lol. Paper seemed ok, hopefully I can reach my aim for a C. Guess I do have similar thoughts to Wei Shian, it'll odd to be without Chinese lessons after this for some time, and if our results are satisfactory, the whole of next year and possibly forever lol. Ah well, at least this barrier is over, on to other stuff. After the paper was basketball with friends. Went out to Plaza Sing after that with Edmund, Rayson, You'en, Joshua Tan, Nigel, Gabriel, Wei Shian and Lionel. Ate at Carl's junior, we treated Wei Shian since the meal was to celebrate his birthday in a way haha. After that, considered watching a movie, but decided against it in the end. Met Wei Jian and Zhe Wen there haha. Apparently Pan saw me also. Played LAN in the end. L4D plus some random ships game lol. On the way back to PS we saw a very interesting scene haha. Took the train with Wei Shian, attempted to go down to Toa Payoh to make payment for our courts but failed cause it was closed -.-
Went to school today, was damn late :/ Did some stuff, played a bit of basketball, then came home. Ran around the estate for like 45 mins or so, then when attempting to do some pull ups somewhere, my thigh ended up cramping up -.- Like that also can wth...
Time for reflections and stuff... 4 months later, finally managed to have a proper conversation for once... Zzz Ah whatever, I don't know what to do already. Shian did kind of pen down how I am/was kind of feeling. Oh well, what to do. See how I guess. Saw stuff also, don't know what to say actually. I'll do what I can.. Some stupid things happened also, initially it was kind of my fault for some stuff, but in the end it seemed like it was some idiot(s) who were instigating things. Heard different versions of stuff here and there also, not sure who to believe, but as both of us agreed, we shall ignore all these idiots already. Only creating trouble wtc -.- Regrettably I had to do some things, despite it being against my style... Curses seriously... Then anyway, I'm a little unsure of what to do for some things too, don't wish for things to repeat itself. Kind of stuck again. Freak. Somehow, I'm starting to feel real sick of some things, think I'm going to condemn some things pretty soon =/ Arghhh... I really really hate gossipy people, extreme ones, the ones who misinterpret stuff AND spread wrong info around, especially so if others get dragged in to who know's what crap they create -.- 2 words to these people: Screw you! Never have I felt so strongly andposting such stuff on my blog before. Shows my frustration lol.
Anyway, Charlton called me just now, sounds like I need to start organising the class gathering real soon haha. Miss a lot of people, especially Jon and gang. Miss Eugene too. Can't wait for him to be back lol.
Shall blog soon again I guess. Really need to keep this place going. Almost 3 years now and I don't even have 365 posts -.- Anyway, shall advertise a little bit. Wei Shian has a blog!!! Go visit it under my links haha.
Happy Belated Birthday to Jeanie, Ron, QC, Ruimin, Wei Rong, Jedidah, Zarifah, Jingying, Joshua Tan, Sean, Kah Hoe, Van Tan, Wen Xuan, Song Ko, Wei Jian, Sui Peng, Lennon, Carmen, Wen Rui, Yan Rui, ZIKAI, Tong Yang, Kian Ann and Andrew!!
Happy Birthday to Jerold, Yiting and Victor!!
Not forgetting, HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEI SHIIIIIAAAANNNNN!!!! My dearest 11 year friend (:
Wednesday, went back to CHS to help the NCOs a bit, end up forgot to cover a lot of stuff, another screw up on my part =/ Friday was Muster parade, no comments. Congrats to those who got promoted, to those who didn't, work harder bah, jia you people! At night, went to surprise Zikai at his house with Ron, Ron's idea haha. Loved the scam I used to get him out of the house haha :P Saturday morning went for Games Day duty. Did floorball umpiring with Kelvin. Lunch after that with some of the instructors. Terence and I ended up half asleep by like 3 plus haha. Went home, then went to meet the rest for Zikai's birthday barbeque. Kena owned man, all of us got caught in the rain, and I stupidly wore shoes again -.- Anyway, had a lot of fun during the party. Aaron was seriously being VERY entertaining hahaha. Oh, first time I tried cheese tofu also, quite nice lol. While leaving that time, we decided to skip throwing zk into the pool, but he asked for it lah, so we obliged haha. Crazy person lol. Bus trip home, Aaron was acting drunk, never seen him so high before hahaha. Anyway, hope you enjoyed your birthday Zikai (: On Sunday that joker came to my house to play L4D haha. End up only much later did he do his work while I tried to study for chinese lol.
Yesterday was the A Level Chinese paper. 11 years of Chinese education boiled down to those 3 hours lol. Paper seemed ok, hopefully I can reach my aim for a C. Guess I do have similar thoughts to Wei Shian, it'll odd to be without Chinese lessons after this for some time, and if our results are satisfactory, the whole of next year and possibly forever lol. Ah well, at least this barrier is over, on to other stuff. After the paper was basketball with friends. Went out to Plaza Sing after that with Edmund, Rayson, You'en, Joshua Tan, Nigel, Gabriel, Wei Shian and Lionel. Ate at Carl's junior, we treated Wei Shian since the meal was to celebrate his birthday in a way haha. After that, considered watching a movie, but decided against it in the end. Met Wei Jian and Zhe Wen there haha. Apparently Pan saw me also. Played LAN in the end. L4D plus some random ships game lol. On the way back to PS we saw a very interesting scene haha. Took the train with Wei Shian, attempted to go down to Toa Payoh to make payment for our courts but failed cause it was closed -.-
Went to school today, was damn late :/ Did some stuff, played a bit of basketball, then came home. Ran around the estate for like 45 mins or so, then when attempting to do some pull ups somewhere, my thigh ended up cramping up -.- Like that also can wth...
Time for reflections and stuff... 4 months later, finally managed to have a proper conversation for once... Zzz Ah whatever, I don't know what to do already. Shian did kind of pen down how I am/was kind of feeling. Oh well, what to do. See how I guess. Saw stuff also, don't know what to say actually. I'll do what I can.. Some stupid things happened also, initially it was kind of my fault for some stuff, but in the end it seemed like it was some idiot(s) who were instigating things. Heard different versions of stuff here and there also, not sure who to believe, but as both of us agreed, we shall ignore all these idiots already. Only creating trouble wtc -.- Regrettably I had to do some things, despite it being against my style... Curses seriously... Then anyway, I'm a little unsure of what to do for some things too, don't wish for things to repeat itself. Kind of stuck again. Freak. Somehow, I'm starting to feel real sick of some things, think I'm going to condemn some things pretty soon =/ Arghhh... I really really hate gossipy people, extreme ones, the ones who misinterpret stuff AND spread wrong info around, especially so if others get dragged in to who know's what crap they create -.- 2 words to these people: Screw you! Never have I felt so strongly andposting such stuff on my blog before. Shows my frustration lol.
Anyway, Charlton called me just now, sounds like I need to start organising the class gathering real soon haha. Miss a lot of people, especially Jon and gang. Miss Eugene too. Can't wait for him to be back lol.
Shall blog soon again I guess. Really need to keep this place going. Almost 3 years now and I don't even have 365 posts -.- Anyway, shall advertise a little bit. Wei Shian has a blog!!! Go visit it under my links haha.
Happy Belated Birthday to Jeanie, Ron, QC, Ruimin, Wei Rong, Jedidah, Zarifah, Jingying, Joshua Tan, Sean, Kah Hoe, Van Tan, Wen Xuan, Song Ko, Wei Jian, Sui Peng, Lennon, Carmen, Wen Rui, Yan Rui, ZIKAI, Tong Yang, Kian Ann and Andrew!!
Happy Birthday to Jerold, Yiting and Victor!!
Not forgetting, HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEI SHIIIIIAAAANNNNN!!!! My dearest 11 year friend (:
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