I love bunnies.

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2006-11-12T20:06:00.000-08:00

I'm moving at the end of November or early December. I'm sorry for telling you guys at such short notice. My parents declined to keep me updated on the renovations.

I don't know when I can come back, since I'm going to reside in BISHAN. But I think I can take two buses back to Merawoods in about an hour. So, hopefully, I'll be able to see you guys again. Most likely on Saturday or Sunday. I'll probably stay till 10 on Saturday before going home.

Anyway, it's been great knowing everyone. I've been here for seven years and I've seen how we all grew up from little kids to who we are now. I'll miss everyone, I truly will. You've been wonderful friends =) I'm not going to list all the names because I mean everyone, even those I've had disagreements with.

Anyway, the PSL (Peer Support Leader) camp was quite fun. We were training for the Sec One orientation camp (we're supposed to show them around). It was super slack in comparison to ACE camp.

I'm too lazy to blog further.

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2006-11-06T06:04:00.000-08:00

The holidays have been pretty boring so far. Nobody's been coming down for the past two days and those who have are busy playing WWE cards. No outings have been planned either =(

Training started again. This means that I won't have much time on my hands for most of the holidays. I've already missed a 204 soccer match for an 8.4 km run today. In the three months that I didn't train during, my fitness level has hit an all-time low. I almost died last week =P

I swear I'm going to start going for Aikido again. I've been skipping for three months since my ankle swelled to the size of an egg. But it's hard to go more than once a week. The other two days Aikido sessions are on are days on which I have training. It's hard to do both on the same day, even if their times are far apart. Due to my training today, I slept from 430 to 830 o_O

As for the proposed band...well, we've only run into minor problems so far. Most of us are willing to cooperate since we've known each other for so many years. There are a few people who don't like each other, but I hope we can resolve that. It'll never work out if the members aren't willing to compromise.

Wei Zhe and I have been jamming with Kenneth, playing Canon In C. We're making a good deal of progress. Ken is a fantastic keyboardist (well, he should be) and composer, so we've got a direction in mind. He's also managed to correct some of our rhythm problems. Playing our instruments together is a first step, anyway. As for the composing part, we've got some work to do. I have no idea how to create a decent riff or chord progression.

That's about it, I guess.

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2006-10-31T20:10:00.000-08:00

I should have blogged about ACE Camp immediately after I got home. I've forgotten a lot of what happened there. My feelings about it are kinda mixed. The teachers made it sound as though it was paradise ("All the boys don't want to go back home by the fourth day"). I disagree. While there were some really fun activities, the others were tedious and boring.

We were delayed on the trip there because our bus got stuck in a ditch on an extremely narrow road. So we had to switch to another empty bus. Once we got there, the first word that came to my mind was...

Flies.

There's a joke going around Malaysia that the housefly is the country's national animal. It's more or less accurate. The camp demonstrated this.

Our tent was already pitched and I ended up with Tim Soo, Jun Teng and Gareth. There were two guys from 203 sharing it with us, too. We had lunch first. The food was great for something served in a camp, but the flies put me off. Imagine bringing a spoon to your mouth while waving your other hand about to fend off flies.

The first activity we did was called, 'Jungle Survival'. We were supposed to pretend that we were stranded on an island and had to find a way to survive. There was a bag lying around the area which had an empty water bottle and some other stuff, which was supposedly luggage salvaged from our 'crash'. My group was assigned to finding food so we went fishing with a makeshift rod. Or rather, tried. Our 'fishing rod' wasn't a very efficient one, fish were sparse and someone in our group (won't mention the name =D) couldn't throw.

That night it rained, so we missed dinner. But the most fun part of the camp was at night, in the tent.

"Open your legs lah, idiot!"

"Chin, can I put my leg on your crotch?"

"Open up, open up!"

"***, you're sick!"

"***, what are you doing?"

"Maneuvering your stick."

Someone kept standing up in the tent every night to do something to someone else =)

This went on every night. A lot of crapping went on too.

Also, someone else, while sleepwalking, touched the people sleeping next to him in ways too graphic to describe =P

On the second day, we went rafting in the morning. There was also a hornet drill in which we were supposed to throw ourselves to the ground and cover our necks, in practice for a hornet attack. During one of these, I landed on a red ant nest. Needless to say, a lot of pinching ensued. As for the rafting, it was quite challenging. Out of three rafts, ours was the only one that didn't make it. I was supposed to row on ours, so I had to step into muddy water to bring the raft in. When it started falling apart, I just stood in the water like an idiot, not knowing what to do. I was filthy after that =( We also had river crossing, which was pretty fun.

The instructors for this activity were incredibly PMS (short-tempered =P). I'm not going to say anything else.

We went canoeing later that day. It was quite fun. The canoes were extremely heavy, but we only had to carry them a short distance. My canoe lagged behind not only because my technique sucks, but because my boat had a tendency to turn right instead of going straight, so I had to keep turning to keep it on course. I did get the most painful sunburn of my life, though. I was almost as dark as Gen =P

On the third day we did orienteering, which is an activity that requires navigation skills. My group didn't do too well. The instructor was really nice though. He kept asking, "Am I boring you?" =D

At the end of the orienteering there was a water balloon fight. I was tying my laces when it started so I got hit in the face by two balloons almost immediately.

In the afternoon we went up Gunung Lambak, a 500-metre tall hill. It was quite tiring, but mostly because it was so steep. We took turns carrying the water bottle bags, which contained roughly seven bottles each. I carried one of the bags for half the distance. For a rough idea of how steep the hill was, if I turned around and jumped off I would be dead. I was sweating like crazy by the time I reached the summit. The instructor, amazingly, did not even have a single drop of sweat on him o_O

The trip down was worse. Since it was so steep, we had to be really careful. We had to pick the spots where our foots were to land with a lot of precision. I nearly fell several times. Not to mention kicking Soo in the ass several times =P Halfway down, a downpour began. We were caught in very, VERY heavy rain for half an hour without shelter. By the time we reached the bus, we were freezing. On a positive note, however, we did get a free bath.

On the final day, we did abseiling and prusikking. It was the most slack activity because we only did it once. Abseiling means coming down a vertical surface with a rope and the assistance of a knot. We only had to descend two stories, so it was quite easy. I somehow managed to screw up, though. Prusikking is almost the same, except we're supposed to ascend instead. I cut my finger during this one. Meanwhile, Mr Rohan and the instructor in charge went ballistic on us just because of one person's attitude.

One of the instructors at the camp was called 'Commando' because of his huge muscles, scars and the fact that he acted like a boot camp sergeant. We didn't get him, thankfully. Everybody was scared of him.

We were very happy to go home, though. Mr Khoo bought us ice-cream when we got back to school.

I've managed to sum up the camp in a not-too-long post.

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2006-10-26T04:53:00.000-07:00

I'm going off for a camp tomorrow. About half the Secondary Two's are going. Jarrold and Jonathan are going on Tuesday, though. I'm going to be trekking through Kluang, Malaysia while lugging a two-tonne haversack with me and...four sets of underwear. I don't expect it to be easy, but I'm going to make the best out of it. I'm leaving tomorrow morning and won't be back until Monday evening. I hope you guys miss me.

Did I mention that I'm forced to stuff my haversack with about a hundred different items? That, and a sleeping bag. I wonder how I'm going to find my stuff when I need it.

Now, all I've got to do is look forward to walking a saggy rope draped over a river where all our sewage goes.

Wish me luck.

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2006-10-25T05:05:00.000-07:00

Just came back from Imp (Yue Ming)'s house. Kenneth and I were teaching him how to play the guitar. He's not very good yet, but I'm sure he'll be scaling in no time once he starts practicing and cuts his nails. Ken showed me some scales. Man, I've got to familiarise myself with them. Here's my goals for the holidays:

-Change from barre chords to open chords faster

-Slide barre chords

-Scale

-Improve chord theory

I'm also going to learn these five songs:

-Hey Julie by Fountains Of Wayne

-A Lonely September by Plain White Ts

-You And Me by Lifehouse

-Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

-Asshole by Denis Leary

Looks like we're really serious about forming a band. We haven't thought of a name yet though. It would be cool if we called it Weezee though =D Here's the (planned) line-up.

Wei Zhe-Lead Guitar

Me-Rhythm Guitar

Kenneth-Keyboard/Bass

Jarrold-Drums

Imp-bass/violin(o_O)

No vocalist yet though. Especially not me. I sound too low =(

And Gen has refused to be our financial manager =P

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2006-10-23T22:31:00.000-07:00

Just came back from Yio Chu Kang. I was playing soccer with the other 204 guys at a soccer field there. I was supposed to turn up at 8, but I woke up late and didn't arrive in time. When I got at the bus-stop I walked around lost because I couldn't contact Leonard. I did manage to find my way there in the end. I realised that I'm not that bad at soccer, I'm just nowhere near good. So after a lot of sweating, I went home.

Yesterday night I went down to play basketball but we ended up playing hide-and-seek. I was caught last and second-last for two games respectively. But I realised that I really CANNOT outrun Kenneth on a straight stretch of road.

English TDP interview went quite well, but I asked the teacher a dumb question at the end. I'm not going to elaborate because it was truly an idiot's question.

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2006-10-21T22:58:00.000-07:00

We played hide-and-seek yesterday night and it was quite fun lah. We only managed two games though because Imp and Kenneth hid in some unlocatable spot for the second game, making it last well over an hour. I caught a couple of people but we stopped after we failed to find the last two guys. But I ran like crazy that night.

It was Wei Yong's birthday too so Jarrold, Alexis, Daryl and I pooled money to buy him a soccer ball with our names signed on it. Kenneth, Imp and I spent the whole of Friday looking for a present for him. Of course, we weren't really focused. I've yet to touch the goodie bag WY gave me.

I'm going to say this again. Merawoodians need to go somewhere during the holidays.

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2006-10-21T04:52:00.001-07:00

Today was quite fun lah.

There was a 6F class reunion at 12 so I met Fariz at 1045. Then we took 176 to West Coast Park. I think less than half the class showed up. Alvin, Cliff, Eunice, Fariz, Germaine, Ho Sung, Intan, Kang Sheng, Ming Fai, Rui Ting Wayne, Xin Ying, Yan Lam and I went. We talked at McDonald's for very long and then went to the playground to um, play. We climbed the spiderweb pyramid thingie, played with sand, spun on the structures at the playground and swung on some cable thing. We then sat at a bench for even longer. Afterwards we went into McDonald's again. Finally, we went to West Mall and the group broke up. Cliff, Fariz and I went to Comics Connection and the bookshop while the rest of the guys visited the arcade and the girls wandered off somewhere. I went home.

I wanted to play basketball but Jarrold and Gen purposely left Wan Wee and I out of the game so I watched until I grew bored and resorted to playing with a Slinky.

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2006-10-18T23:57:00.000-07:00

The exams are over.

Now, I'm not going to advertise my results on my blog because that would be bragging, although I am pretty damn proud of myself.

For those people who haven't done well, relax. What's going to follow this statement might have already been repeated to death, though. There's still a chance at O'levels. There, I've said it. Going to a class we don't want to go to is a really unpleasant experience, especially when the school channels the shittiest teachers into that class. Still, success doesn't come from the class, but from the heart. From the desire to succeed. So there's no reason to feel discouraged. If you've achieved something admirable before, you know that there are so many other things that are possible to reach. And looking further into the future, I define success as self-satisfaction. If you have that, then success is there. So, studies may not necessarily ensure success in life. If you've got a talent at something which you are able to develop and utilise to satisfy yourself, then you've reached success. That's to all the aspiring professional guitarists out there =)

To those who did well, you're still nowhere near the end of your journey. Results just show that you're good at something. I'm aware that in Singapore, exams don't test intelligence. That still doesn't mean that doing well in them is meaningless. Decent performance, no matter how it is achieved, still indicates ability. So if you're good at academic stuff, go for it.

I'm also going to work on areas that I've neglected while working hard for my results. Guitaring, for example. I'm not especially talented at it, but I do know that I'm not lacking anything (tone/rhythm-deafness or fingers =P) required for playing. Or, maybe, make more friends. I'm not sociable.

That's about it. This post might not mean much, but rather it's a reflection for me.

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2006-10-15T00:52:00.000-07:00

Yesterday my parents dragged me around for eight hours. Not the most enjoyable thing that could happen to me, but I ate to my heart's content. Anyway, when I got home at nine I played hide-and-seek with Jarrold, Kenneth, Imp and the little kids. It sounds childish, but it's fun anyway. And I probably fit in better with them. I played about three games with them before going home at 11:30.

For the first game I was caught third last because I had a stomachache and decided to hide at the tennis court steps, which happened to be a dead end. It wasn't too hard for Ken to spot the bulge of my head though. For the second one Ken and I hid in the basement but we got backstabbed by Alexis. He almost missed us though and was like, "oh shit they're not here liao!" Then he saw my slipper peeking out from behind the dustbin. For the last one...well, I surrendered for fun. The game was starting to get boring.

The Merawoodians should go out these holidays. I'm serious.

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2006-10-11T19:13:00.000-07:00

Alright, my first update in a very, VERY long time.

Exams are just over. I noticed a trend in my performance (estimated performance, that is) for the exams. I keep screwing up for the second exam of the day in general (my school packs two exams into one day).

Exams I messed up on:

-English comprehension

-history

-chemistry

Doesn't look like much, but it means a lot to me.

Now that the exams are over, I have no idea what to do. Probably going to spend as many hours on guitar as possible. Maybe go out with the other Merawoodians. Eat. Sleep.

I bought another album yesterday. Human Clay by Creed. It's really old, but they're (or rather, were) good. Highlights would probably be 'Higher' and 'With Arms Wide Open'. This is the fourth one I've bought this year. So far I've got:

-X&Y by Coldplay

-Welcome Interstate Managers by Fountains Of Wayne

-Films about Ghosts by Counting Crows

To all the people reading this who aren't done with their exams, good luck =)

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2006-09-22T20:44:00.000-07:00

I'm a super slack blogger.

I am also very angry because my skin suddenly forbids me to separate my text into paragraphs. This frustrates me because I hate blogs that are hard to read and mine is going to turn into one if I can't seem to paragraph my posts. I am going to compensate for this by making my words as franky huge as franky possible.

For the past week I've been mugging like crazy. A lot of it is done outside, though. Usually with Jarrold, WEEZEE, Sandra and Gen. For the first few days they were fairly productive, but after a while they deteriorated out of control. Yesterday afternoon, I read five pages of my physics notes. The rest of the time was spent laughing at Gen vandalising Weezee's eraser, trying to stab Jarrold with markers, going hyper, crapping, making facial expressions and offering homemade cakes to Wan Heng who claimed they gave him stomachaches. I also crapped like crazy. When I got home I accomplished more in 30 minutes than I did when I was outside.

When I went down that night the court was full of bengs so we went to the big playground. There were three six-year old Ang Moh girls there and they were hyper enough to replace all the animals in Singapore Zoo. All of a sudden, one of them ran up to Yue Ming and touched his ass. They also went for me and I ran all over the place before telling them something I regret saying. Darryl, Kenneth and Alexis tried to pick a fight with them too. One of the little girls called us, "Typical Asians". Hell, they're gonna grow up into rednecks if they can talk like that at that age. Wonder what their parents teach them about Chinese people. I think they're residents. I suddenly feel scared. They're gonna be a hazard, I tell you. "Boys, wanna kissie?"

Jarrold theorizes that they were possessed. Quite possible, with all that face paint.

After that we sat on the bench and talked/stoned for a long time. Um, yeah.

In case you wanted to know what I told that little girl to do, it was to "frank off".

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2006-09-15T23:22:00.000-07:00

I feel ashamed of myself for not helping someone pick her book up on the bus when she dropped in right in front of me. I didn't because I was debating whether to put down the three files I was carrying to help. Damn, that was selfish of me. I find that I'm not very generous in general. That's something to change. Anyway, enough of that.

I went down to play basketball yesterday night. Unfortunately, the ground was slippery and the bengs were dominating the court. So WZ, Jarrold and I went up. Sandra joined us and we sat around the vending machine to crap. We did that for about an hour. In that hour:

1)Jarrold smashed my knuckles against the table while playing 'mercy'

2)He almost pushed my elbow through a hole in the table while arm wrestling

After that I went to WZ's house to try his electric guitar. I realised that although I'm comfortable with my open chords now, I haven't really memorised any tabs yet. I mean, I just play snippets of songs. So I just played random bits of tabs I remembered. Then I went home and mugged a bit before sleeping.

I'm going to end my 'skipping Aikido' streak TODAY. My ankle's well enough.

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2006-09-11T03:18:00.000-07:00

For the first time ever, I'm doing a quiz. Here goes (found it on Gen's blog).

Put your music player on shuffle.Press forward for each question.Use the song title as the answer to the question even if they don't make sense.You'll be surprised though..NO CHEATING!

How are you feeling today?

Say Goodnight by The Click Five. LOL?

Will you get far in life?

Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes. Nope, doesn't make sense =(

How do your friends see you?

I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing by Aerosmith? Doesn't make sense either =(

Will you get married?

When I'm Gone by 3 Doors Down. Yeah, hope not.

What is your best friend's theme song?

All Kinds Of Time by Fountains of Wayne. Problem is, I don't have a best friend.

What is the story of your life?

Swing Swing by AAR. Lol, have I really been swinging all my life?

What was high school like?

So Cold by Breaking Benjamin. Nah >=(

How can you get ahead in life?

Dirty Little Secret by AAR. Huh?

What is the best thing about your friends?

Landing In London by 3 DD. I've been to London, but not with my friends =P

What is today going to be like?

Sink To The Bottom by FoW. Already have =P

What is in store for this weekend?

Radiation Vibe by FoW. The song has absolutely ZERO meaning, BTW.

What song describes you?

Big Yellow Taxi by Counting Crows. I fit the criteria except for the big and taxi parts =P I mean, MY TEETH. No, seriously.

To describe your grandparents?

The Hell Song by Sum 41. NO WAY =(

How is your life going?

I Miss You by Blink 182. I don't miss anyone =P

What song will they play at your funeral?

Blind by Lifehouse?

How does the world see you?

Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day.

Will you have a happy life?

Move Along by AAR. Hey, pretty appropriate.

What do your friends really think of you?

How You Remind Me by Nickeback.

Do people secretly lust after you?

Catch Your Wave by C5.

How can I make myself happy?

Holiday by Green Day. Yeahhh!

What should you do with your life?

What's My Age Again by Blink 182. Gee, guess I should consider that =D

Will you ever have children?

All The Small Things by Blink 182.

Um, pass this on to five people.

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2006-09-09T07:44:00.000-07:00

Just came back from basketball. Didn't really play a match. I only took shots (well, the rebounds kept getting stolen from me) and uh, fought for the ball with Darryl. He is damn cute. PENGUIN!.

I also played at about six. We played a match against Jaron (4 vs 1) and still lost 4-7. Marcus also had a small dispute with Gen and she stepped on something sharp (ouch). Her toenail went in and there was some blood. Hope she gets well soon.

Before that, I went to Tim's house to finish the project and man, am I proud of ourselves. We actually finished it. Despite the fact that we spent 90% of the time playing Red Alert 2 and Dota. And molesting/pushing around someone, of course.

I feel damn guilty for a couple of things I did yesterday. I did hurt a few people, both physically and emotionally. Not going into the details, though. I guess all the pent-up hyper energy in me that I'd been suppressing for the past month or so just bubbled out. I think I get violent when I'm hyper. Next time I feel like that, I'm going to restrain myself. Everyone has these tendencies, but most of us control them. I didn't.

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2006-08-31T01:16:00.000-07:00

I went back to Bukit Timah Primary today after school finished. I got there at 12. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to enter until 2. So I waited outside with a massive crowd of people. Later on Yong Qing, Ming Fai, Jeremy, Douglas and Leon came. We walked to 7-11 to buy stuff (it was a long way down the hill) and walked back again. By the time we got back it was only 1 though. So we waited more. Eugene and Jun Neng met us later. When we were finally allowed to go in, I visited just three teachers; Mr Helmy, Mr Ahmad Noor and Mrs Linda Chan. They recognised me. Well, sort of.

The 6F guys came too. Out of 40 students, only nine showed up. Ming Fai, Nicholas, Mel, Clive, Ho Sung, Germaine, Jolene and Yan Lam. Germaine and Jolene are freaking tall. They're even taller than Ho Sung. For an idea of how tall they are, Ho Sung was 165cm tall in P6. Scary. They must be like 170+cm tall.

Had the teacher's day celebration in the PAC too. Mr Khoo sang. I guess I overrated him. He's okay, but he chose a hard song. 'Better Man' by Robbie Williams. Leo and Aaron playing for him of course.

The sec four videos were hilarious too.

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2006-08-30T06:17:00.000-07:00

I had no school today because of the parents'-teacher meeting for poor students, which I wasn't involved in.

Despite that, I woke up at 6am. I owe this early awakening to my little sister who barged into the room, flipped on the lights and began searching furiously for something.

I went to Gerald's house to finish the history project, which we didn't manage to do. It was pretty convenient for me because it was at Bukit Timah Road. Unfortunately, the first thing Tim did when he got there was to log into Friendster. Jun Teng decided to watch him. Meanwhile, Terry and Gerald went to the room and cranked up the Xbox. So I joined them. We played Project Gotham Racing, in which I ended up last. We also played Halo, in which I fared a bit better. Against Tim and Jun Teng I managed 13 kills before motion sickness claimed me. Unfortunately I was also often killed at the same time I made those kills. Then Terry joined and we got owned. He beat Jun Teng and I 20-3. At least I managed to kill him once (stuck him with a plasma grenade) =)

I also ate about 15 coffee sweets there.

I went home at around 3:30.

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2006-08-29T03:57:00.000-07:00

Alright, I stayed back after school with Shafik yet again for the video editing project. We still didn't manage to finish it. The program was just incredibly laggy. For an idea of how slow it was, the computer hung for a minute for every centimetre I moved the timeline bar. I tried creating the video as an MPEG file, but it didn't work. So I resorted to an 800-meg AVI file. I looked for Mr Soo to explain that I wouldn't be able to hand it up, but I couldn't find him.

During science practical today I got screwed by an experiment. Note: not the other way round. I was evaporating copper sulphate solution with a bunsen burner on maximum gas and when the stuff was almost gone, it started bubbling wildly. I turned off the gas, but as I did suddenly ALL of the remaining solution splashed in my face. It was hot, to say the least. My face stung for a full 10 minutes after the accident.

My results have gotten a lot worse since last term. Here goes =(

English: 69

Maths:54

Science: 84

MT: 73

History: 84

Lit: 72

Class position was sixth I think.

No speculation. I just have 29 days to the english streaming exam. I have to improve.

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2006-08-28T02:18:00.000-07:00

Alright, I'm blogging after a ten-day hiatus.

Went to Tim's house on Saturday for the history project. It took me one and a half hours to reach there and by the time I did (at 5), Gerald had gone home. So Terry, Tim, Jun Teng and I did the project for about half an hour. The rest of the time was spent playing taiti until his mum stopped us. We also spent a LOT of time on Friendster. After that we ate dinner and I went home at 9:30.

We prank-called Gerald while I was there. This was after he'd gone home, of course. Here's how it went:

Gerald: Hello?

Me (on Terry's phone): Hello? Are you Gerald...Chan?

(We were intending to make it look as though I was a stranger who'd found Terry's phone and thought Gerald was his dad)

Gerald: No, I'm Gerald Ng.

Me: You see ar, I found this phone in the park...I call you to see if can return?

Gerald: Oh I think you found my friend Terry's phone.

Me: Then it's not your phone issit?

Gerald: Ya.

Me: Then can keep or not?

Gerald: Keep lah keep lah!

(Hangs up. Terry calls with Jun Teng's phone)

Gerald: Hello?

Terry: Eh Gerald! Did you take my phone?

Gerald: No but this weird guy called with your phone asking if it's mine.

Terry: Then did you give to him?

Gerald: Ya.

Terry: Wao lao leh...get back for me can?

Gerald: Okay sorry sorry I get back for you.

(Hangs up. He calls Terry's phone)

Me: Hello?

Gerald: Eh you know the phone you found right...can return please?

Me: But I thought you said can keep?

Gerald: Nono cannot. Return please.

Me: You see ar...I very poor one. I want to sell the phone lah. No job lah...need money.

Gerald: Nono return lah please!

Me: I going to Orchard leh...how to return?

Gerald: Just return.

Me: Ok...I meet your friend at the park can?

Gerald: Ok.

(Gerald calls Terry and tells him where to meet the 'man')

(Terry calls Gerald)

Terry: Eh Gerald you know who took my phone?

Gerald: Who?

Terry: The old man next door!

Gerald: OH MY GOD...

Not sure if I got everything, but it was quite funny lah. We just did it for fun =D We weren't trying to be nasty at all =)

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2006-08-18T18:50:00.000-07:00

Yesterday night I played HIDE-AND-SEEK with Imp, Wan Heng, Wan Hee, Alexis and Marcus. At 10:30 pm. It was fun. It all started with us running away from Wan Hee when he went home to take his phone, but we decided to adapt the game into something a little less mean.

I didn't want to sweat too much so I dropped out after the first round. My ankle isn't fully healed yet and if my Dad saw my shirt drenched, he'd know what I was up to.

I also played basketball earlier on. Just shooting a couple of hoops. Nobody wanted to play a match. I haven't lost touch, I suppose. At least I can still dribble and shoot.

I stayed back in school with Shafik to get our video editing project done. Finally, finally, we managed to CAPTURE OUR DAMN VIDEO. We'll start editing it on monday (deadline's on thursday).

I also stayed back for a track meeting, which didn't involve me in any way yet required me to be there. Nothing much happened there, except for Vinoth's 30-minute 'motivational' speech.

I find someone in my class getting more and more annoying every day. He's always been like this, but he's getting worse. He's really open about his feelings and doesn't hestitate to tell people what he thinks of them. He's also extremely 'rude'. It's hard to define rudeness as talking disrespectfully to people your age, but the way he tells some people to "shut up" when they talk to much and how he puts people down is just improper.

EDIT: I just bought this baby =D It's amazing. And the only one in the store.

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2006-08-16T01:57:00.000-07:00

Today, I celebrate my 100th post.

*waits for applause*

Alright, I had the history and maths common tests respectively both yesterday and today. I refuse to comment on them because it's really impossible for me to gauge how well I did.

Maths lesson was pretty funny. We were revising for our history when Eric stood up to discuss something with Arjuna. Mr Khoo told him to sit down but he ignored Mr Khoo as though he'd heard nothing. So Mr Khoo took his chair away and carried it to the back of the class. He still didn't notice. When he finally decided to sit down, he fell backwards, landed on his ass and knocked his table over.

I'm sure you've done this to someone or have experienced it before. Probably not from your maths teacher, but I've developed a technique for dealing with this. I call it:

The Ass Probe.

Not the thing doctors use on you, but simply the act of putting a hand where you think the chair should be before you sit. You're therefore "probing" the area. Get it? It works, really.

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2006-08-15T03:48:00.000-07:00

Listen to Fountains Of Wayne.

That is a direct order!

Well, the first thing you might have wondered when you read the first two sentences was, "What the hell is it?". They're actually the guys who wote, performed and sang Stacy's Mom, which you may have heard before and is their most popular song to date. Chances are, though, that you never bothered to check them out properly. I'm going to tell you why you should listen to their songs.

First of all, they're incredibly catchy. The melodies are creative, yet simple at the same time. When you hear one of their songs, you'll be thinking, "it sounds great, but why the hell didn't I think of that?" If you picked one of their songs-any song, you'd probably be humming away merrily within an hour. I mean, who doesn't like a song that sticks in their heads?

Next, they have a great sense of humour. Find just a couple of their songs and you'll see what I'm talking about. Forget the emo shit that's been piled on us by roughly a million different artists. It's a lot greater to laugh at a song than to pity the broken relationships in AAR songs like "Swing Swing".

Finally, unlike many songs that we hear nowadays, the lyrics actually rhyme. I've noticed that rhyming sentences stick in my head far better than those that don't. It all adds up to the appreciation experience, really.

I still don't understand why nobody has heard of them. Or listened to one of their songs other than "Stacy's Mom".

Gogogogogogogogogo.

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2006-08-12T18:46:00.000-07:00

Alright, so yesterday was pretty fun.

I met Wei Zhe, Gen and Sandra at 1:30pm. Then we went to the prata shop at Jalan Remaja. There was an incense stand halfway down the hill, so Gen got her parents to bring us to the prata shop. There, the greatest disaster that could possibly occur at this particular shop happened:

NO PRATA.

Shit. It didn't mean much to me at first, but the Tom Yam soup I ordered instead really pissed me off. Here's how it went:

Man: You just want Tom Yam soup?

Me: Yes.

Man: Anything else?

Me: No.

I thought there would be noodles in it or something. Instead, I got PLAIN TOM YAM SOUP with nothing but spicy herbs in it. And something like a few grams of beef. I ate as much of it us I could, but I gave up in the end. Then the hammer struck:

Man: That will be four dollars.

Me: ^*&^%*&^(^(*^()?

If we ever go there again and there's no prata, we can pretty much forget the idea of eating anything that resembles proper food.

Sandra went back home because she wasn't going for the concert, so Wei Zhe, Gen and I went to West Mall and took the MRT to Marina Square. We originally wanted to watch Click, but the line put us off. For an idea of what the line looked like, picture this:

We met Amanda there and decided to go bowling instead. Which meant a 30-minute wait. So we went to Burger King instead to eat. We spent about 45 minutes talking about *cough cough*

After that we met Wei Zhe's classmates at the MRT station. One of his friends (I won't mention the name) has three stages of getting to know people. Each stage lasts 5 minutes.
Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

We got to Expo and stoned for pretty damn long. We met the rest of Wei Zhe's friends and Gen's friends. After that we headed off to Hall 9 and were ushered in. Then the concert started. It was pretty good. I jumped a lot. And almost had my pants fall in the process. I also stepped on someone's toes TWICE. Their drummer was good too.

The whole thing finished at about 9:45. Unfortunately for us, it took forever to get out because of the crowd. When we did, we went to the MRT station. That's where we split. Gen went to her aunt's house, Wei Zhe and a lot of his friends went to eat at Bedok (late night dinner? Sure) and the rest of us went home.

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2006-08-11T07:55:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I'm pretty frustrated.

One week after I sprained my ankle, it's still swollen. Which means that I can't play basketball. Problem is, basketball is just about the only thing we do when we go down. So I'm bored to death downstairs. The only thing I do is play Kenneth's "game" or get harrassed by Guo Wei (okay, maybe he doesn't know he's annoying us). I can't wait for the damn thing to heal.

I was bored as hell tonight, as you might have guessed. Until my ankle heals, I might consider not going down at all.

I couldn't play yesterday either.

Tomorrow we're going to the Planet Shakers concert. I still haven't gotten my tickets yet, but tomorrow hopefully. The group we're going in is gonna be huge. Like, 30 people. We're meeting at the clubhouse at 2, then we'll go for prata. After that, we watch Click and get to Expo.

Oh, and I'm not the only one in my class who's injured. Shafik dislocated his shoulder (rugby match), Jun Teng got punched in the face (rugby again), Chua and Gabriel cut themselves, Gary fractured his shoulder and I sprained my ankle. Cool.

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2006-08-09T02:15:00.000-07:00

My cousins are in my house as I type this post. They came all the way from the States, so my Dad's entertaining them. Which means I've got to go out a lot. I originally planned to study today, but a four-hour long botanic gardens trip took the wind out of me.It was pretty fun, with all the flowers and stuff. The best place ever was the Cool Room. You know, the air-conditioned place with temperate plants in it.

Yesterday I bought my first album in two years. And the best thing is, it's less than twenty years old, unlike the others. It actually came out last year. X&Y by Coldplay. Man, I'm behind time.

Album's pretty good. Swallowed In The Sea and Speed Of Sound were the best songs. There is one contradictory problems in the album, however:

1) Coldplay has deep, meaningful and introspective lyrics.

2) I can't understand a damn word that Chris Martin's muffled falsetto produces.

That's about it.

I couldn't play basketball yesterday, so I sat and watched for a while. Then I got bored and left.

After Sunday, my verdict is that Merawoodians need to consume more prata.

Some retard thinks that I'm stupid enough to fall for his tricks. Unfortunately for him, I know how many times he's tried them before.

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2006-08-07T00:45:00.000-07:00

I didn't participate in PE today because of my swollen ankle. Also, the ankle guard I wore to school looked like a high, black sock. Of course, it didn't match my other sock.

I heard a really funny quote from Ray. We were talking about how James was invading Earth (everyone calls him a martian) and Ray suddenly shouted passionately,"HE'S INVADED MEEE!".

Yesterday I went with WZ, Kenneth, Imp, Gen, Kelly and Sandra to a prata shop near our condominium. It was fun. The food there was pretty good too. Of course, when we got back they played basketball but I, with my broken ankle, sat in a corner and watched miserably. Or, rather, stoned.

What you have just read is a half-ass attempt at writing a post.

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2006-08-04T22:07:00.000-07:00

Before you ask me the magic question, "Is your leg okay?", please consider this 100% authentic, un-photoshopped image of my ankle. No, that is not a concealed handheld fragmentation grenade, but an actual swelling that I have just revealed to my blog audience.

If I told you that I had cancer, you'd probably believe me.

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2006-08-04T04:45:00.000-07:00

I was planning to stay back after school to capture our video footage and edit it, but the lab was closed because the Multimedia Club was using it. And the other labs didn't have the equipment and programs that I needed. So I went home.

One thing I realised about my project is that I've got no support from my group members. We've been progressing far slower than we should be.

The worst part is, the deadline was today. That means we're going to get ZERO for the project. It might not be counted for our streaming, but an F on my report card will be a huge eyesore.

Fortunately, 85% of the class fails with me.

When I got home I played basketball again. I guess I performed okay, so I won't comment any further.

Shit, I've been slacking like hell in my studies. I'm performing below average for history and I know for sure that I screwed up a lit test. I guess I shouldn't stress myself over this. Maybe just reinforce the "Pay attention in class, do homework faithfully and properly, ask questions and study before exams" policy.

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2006-08-02T05:05:00.000-07:00

Just came back from playing basketball just now. WZ, Kelly and Sandra against Gen, Debbie and I. I think we lost. And did I mention that Debbie is hilarious? Anyone who saw her try to snatch the ball from WZ would have a hard time not keeling over in laughter.

Arjuna came over to my house for the English Advertisement project. The other members either couldn't make it or couldn't be bothered. We managed to finish it. Not as good as I thought it was, but decent.

Since we were advertising a mutton burger called "McMutton", we had to come up with an original burger. So I bought a McMuffin and McChicken before he came and we mixed up the pieces of bread, vegetables, patties and cheese. Then we took a photo of "McMutton" and put it in our advertisement.

I got a haircut too.

There wasn't any school today either. Reflection Day.

I played basketball yesterday too and I guess I performed alright. I also stayed back after school to capture the footage for the video editing project, but the file size was huge. I had planned to put it in my 256 meg thumb drive to bring home and edit, but two and a half minutes of video was worth 221 megs. Shit.

My posts are getting more boring every week.

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2006-07-31T05:19:00.000-07:00

I played basketball today evening with Kenneth, Imp (Yue Ming) and Gen. Kenneth and Imp spent half of the time playing my RPG game though. Sorry Gen =( Then we played a match. All of us against her. Needless to say, we lost. Something like 15-9. I did manage to score five times, however, making it a better than average day. Of course, nobody marked me.

204 is trying for a second Teacher's Day audition. Same instrument players and lead vocalist, but with MR KHOO added on vocals. His voice isn't great, but at least he sings in tune.

Shit, Shafik is a better guitarist than me now. His chord shapes aren't great (he mutes some strings), but he's incredibly fast for someone who's been playing for a week and a half. Nearly as fast as Leo, actually.

Yesterday I played basketball for three hours with Gen, her two cousins and the little kids. Her cousins aren't great, but shit man, they're tall. It was Jarrold's birthday too.

I played basketball on Saturday night too, but I screwed up. No further explanation.

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2006-07-28T02:20:00.000-07:00

After school today we had a track meeting. Which, in my opinion was pretty pointless. The coaches talked about our shitty nationals results and and running mentality. And about two-hour long study sessions in the library after school because they think we're not doing well in our studies. Here's the scoop on them:

-the coaches will be there to make sure we're doing fine.

-they're not going to help.

-they'll run off after everyone's there.

-it's not compulsory.

-it will take place during training stand-down on days we would normally have training on.

I don't like this idea. First of all, the duration is too long. Also, isn't it better to study at home? It's a more pleasant environment after all.

Not all of us are doing badly in our studies either. And for those who are doing badly, these won't help. The final decision as to whether they want to do well is up to them.

Since the coaches will only be around at the beginning of each session, it's going to get chaotic.

Thankfully, they're not compulsory.

Sandra called me this afternoon because she and Kelly are on a "visit guys school" campaign. Self-initiated, of course. They had their sights on SJI, but I was at the meeting.

Played basketball with Jarrold, Gen, Guo Wei and Imp. I played much better than any other game, but still not good enough. Not to mention that I screwed up countless times, as usual.

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2006-07-26T01:09:00.000-07:00

I'm sick again today, but it's not going to stop me from going down. Not going to elaborate.

I screwed up yet another piece of history homework. The first piece I ever did was a total failure, but the second and third pieces had almost near perfect scores. But this one (the fourth) was terrible. I don't know what the hell my mistake was. I pay attention in class, do all my homework faithfully and ask questions. What else?

My resolution: When you don't know your mistake, just find something to do. So I'm going to read half my file five times over.

Played soccer during recess, but I only touched the ball five times.

Yesterday I played soccer too, but I was involved in the game about as much as I was today. Or maybe a bit less.

Despite my lack of participation, I was still the victim of a terrible curse that befalls some people who play soccer in the hockey pitch:

The hockey ball.

The hardest blow to the ankle I've received yet.

I'd include a picture of my ankle, but blogspot.com is being an ass and won't let me upload photos. I hope I'll be able to later.

The worst thing was, they were aiming at us intentionally. Ryan Singh, the biggest dick of all, was aiming at our heads. Some hockey players need a pike stuck in their mouths. A hockey ball, when it hits a person's head, has a multitude of interesting effects. Such as cracking open the skull, rupturing various major blood vessels and scattering pieces of brain matter on the floor, among others.

We also went to the Shuang Lin temple yesterday for an excursion. It was kinda boring, but I tried to listen.

Played basketball later and Jarrold was teaching WZ and I lay-ups. I still suck, but I hope I'm heading in the right direction.

EDIT:

Evil sphere o' doom.

My darling ankle:

General attitude of hockey players:

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2006-07-24T05:02:00.000-07:00

I haven't updated in a week because I've been feeling kinda lazy, so here's a make-up post. I'll start with today.

After school I hung around class for a while before going home. On the way out of the gate, Shawn Tan (my captain) caught me and told me there was a track meeting. I should have turned around and headed back. Instead, I decided to dao him and continue on. I might be in trouble on wednesday, but I don't think Mr Irwan really cares. I mean, I don't run fast enough to be on the team. So, I'm probably safe.

Afterwards I played basketball with WZ, Gen, the Hong Kong guys , Ching Kai (is that how you spell it?) and some other people. My shooting was better than yesterday, but during the two matches I was really stone because the other players were too good.

On Sunday I played basketball too, but I was worse than today. I also went for some Aikido demonstration for the Singapore Children's Society, which was pretty fun but really hot (it was in the open).

On Saturday James, Shafik and Hsiu Yen came over to do our video editing project. We managed to get 30 minutes of footage, which was the bare minimum, but I've decided to couple my "don't give a shit" policy with the project. We did it far slower than we intented to because Jarrold and Gen came down so we played a match. All of us against the two of them. We lost, of course, but 20-11 isn't too bad. James' playing style was damn funny, but I can't blame him because he either never or rarely plays basketball. I walked up and down the hill four times in the process of sending them off one by one. According to Shafik, Gen or Jarrold (can't remember who), they were talking about me when I suddenly appeared in the door. Coincidence? Sure.

I played basketball again at night, but my finger was screwed 15 minutes into the game. So I quit and watched.

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2006-07-17T01:47:00.000-07:00

So here's what happened yesterday:

I went for Kelly's BBQ in the evening. Met Kenneth and crapped around a bit. Gen managed to persuade her mom to let her down and Yue Ming (Imp) came too. We went to Kenneth's house for a while and hung around. After that we went to the barbeque pit which is on the ninth floor of his condominium. How cool is that? Sandra and Debbie joined us somewhere along the way, but I don't remember when.

Then we ate. I actually finished three plates of food, which is a lot by my standards. And SIX MARSHMALLOWS.

We went to the basketball court after that and Amanda joined us. Then WZ came too and we played. The teams were:

Team 1: WZ, Gen.

Team 2: Everyone else.

Guess who got owned? We did, of course. Probably because nobody marked Gen, who scored ten times.

I did, however, make an effort to rid myself of the...

I tried.

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2006-07-14T22:21:00.000-07:00

Okay, yesterday we had the guitar ensemble (labor amoris) thingie. It was good. I met Soo, Kai, Leo and YJ at Toa Payoh then we went to CJC, which was two bus stops away. Then we went to their auditorium and sat there but it took a while to get started.

The performance was good, but I some people didn't think so. Soo, Sean, Kai, YJ and Becky were talking for at least half of the whole show. And Sean started comparing himself to some of the singers. He actually thought he was better than some of them. Which was not true. We also gave Aaron some cat-calling (our reason for going there in the first place).

Then everything went wrong when Aaron's feature song was cancelled. (It was 23 by Jimmy Eat World)

Went home after that.

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2006-07-08T22:19:00.000-07:00

What happened yesterday:

Yesterday we had some joint drama performance between Katong Convent and SJI called The Taming Game. It was good, to say the least. And humourous, too. The plot, however, was beyond me. Maybe it was because I wasn't wearing my glasses. A couple of funny things about it:

-fake kissing scenes.

-one girl tries to fake a Hong Kong accent but it comes out terrible.

-"Of course! Of course! I understaaand."

-guitar ensemble playing their guitars without support (standing up).

-our tennis captain ties his bride with his "mother's favourite handkerchief" and wraps her in his "family carpet" before carrying her off.

-he pins her arms behind her back and tells her sweet things.

-he shows up for his "wedding" with a pink wig and pajamas.

-"Let me take my wife to the bridal chamber"

-The choir performance. "I can sing higher than you!"

-who the hell ties up their siblings?

I hung around school for a while after that, but when Luke wanted to sneak into the show I left. I'm the future Junior Josephian, remember?

When I got home I played basketball with Kenneth, Imp, Gen, Kelly and Sandra.

I went down at night and played again with them, this time with Wei Zhe, Jarrold and the basketball pros. We did put up a good fight. Gen was our top scorer =) and while I didn't play well, for the first time in my life, I actually enjoyed a basketball game. Kelly and Sandra did the usual stoning routine, but this time on the other team =P

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2006-07-07T04:37:00.000-07:00

Most people eat porridge for a week after they get braces, but I'm determined to eat what I want. So today I ate:

-a sandwich

-a chocolate bar ten times chewier than caramel candy

-a rice dish with fish, a fishcake and a crabstick

-a shroom burger from KFC and cheese fries

ableit with lots of pain.

School ended at 12:30 today, so after school we waited for Sean's briefing to end so we could jam in class. I didn't really have to do anything, but I thought it'd be fun to watch. In the end, he didn't turn up so we decided to go to Toa Payoh and eat. He joined us in the canteen.

We went there and ate at KFC. After that we did jam in the end-at a couple of benches surrounded by greenery. I forgot what the place was called and what it was for. So he sang "Bad Day" and Leo played guitar for him. I actually recorded 30 seconds of it, and it was hilarious. Two things he can improve on:

-keep in touch with tempo. Since somebody's playing a guitar for him, he has to keep up with the tempo otherwise the guitarist will have to constantly adjust his playing speed. There are two people working together, so it's necessary.

-sing with his head voice. He sings in an ultra-high whisper which is inaudible and breathy. I call this the "Hilary Duff" effect, but she's much better of course.

We went home after that.

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2006-07-06T03:45:00.000-07:00

Alright, so I got my full set of braces today. I quickly chionged downtown with my mom to see my orthodontist. I was tortured in the chair for a little while, but I managed to get everything done. I'd include a picture, but at the moment I'm too lazy.

What implications do my braces have on me? Well, I won't be able to eat anything hard for today (which means porridge) and even after this, I'm not advised to eat sticky candy or really hard food without cutting it up.

The Teacher's Day audition is coming up. 204 has two options:

1) Sean sings "Bad Day".

2) Get someone to run on the spot on stage with a Super Mario background (which is being pulled along by the rest of us)

If you've ever heard Sean sing, I'm sure you'd be inclined to pick the latter.

I'm going to go on a hiatus for a while, so updates won't be as frequent (they weren't to begin with).

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2006-07-01T22:26:00.000-07:00

Okay, so this is what happened yesterday.

My sis got mad at me because I didn't get SYF tickets for her and she wanted badly to watch it with her friend. So she threw a tantrum and my mom became angry too and dragged her out shopping. I felt quite guilty over this so I messaged Jonathan and I found out that he had two tickets but his family didn't want to go. I called my mom and informed her about this, then left the tickets on the table.

I put on sunblock (it's quite possible to to be fried as though you were hit by a laser at the SYF), then went to school. Before long, we were at the stadium and in front of fifty thousand people. We danced. And danced. There were uniformed group parades, mass performances by Nan Hua and a couple of other schools, display band performances and LEE HSIEN LOONG.

After that we waited an hour for the buses to pick us up (it was 7:30 then). We were finally picked up. Then at a red light, another bus pulled up beside us. I don't know what school that was, but there were a lot of girls. One of them sitting near the window took out her handphone. Then Kok Yee pressed Sean's phone to the window with his number typed out and she took it down. I was tempted to, but innocence took over quickly. She called him, but 203 (sharing the same bus) started shouting "despo!" which made him put down the phone. At this, I came to a stunning conclusion.

203 is gay.

Not only do they act gay, make jokes about gays but they're girl-phobic. THE ENTIRE DAMN CLASS IS. Either that, or they're incredibly childish.

After that when I got home I played basketball. Then Sandra had the bright idea of a truth or dare session, which was less productive than my broken printer.

This post is officially an attempt at highlighting every damn thing that happened today.

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2006-06-30T03:34:00.000-07:00

One big problem I've noticed about myself is that whenever I chat with people, I talk quite a bit at first (sometimes) but after a while I run out of things to say. Then I start spewing out random musings like a broken record that's been programmed to continue forever. The problem with this is, nobody gives a damn about my massive chunks of verbal diarrhea. Some keep their "what the hell, I can't listen to this crap" thoughts to themselves while others tell me straight in the face that what I'm saying is absolute bullshit. Actually, I appreciate the latter because they're what prompted me to write this.

What should I do instead then? I came up with a resolution: say what I need to, but slowly. So by the time the conversation is over, I've just finished the last of my statements. I think the main reason why I end up "spamming" a conversation is that I'm desperate to be heard. So I guess patience has something to do with this too.

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2006-06-27T05:40:00.000-07:00

Alright, after school today I hung around the canteen waiting for Sean and Soo to go home. Then when we were supposed to go, Sean and I made a detour with Chua to meet some of his SCGS friends at Lot 1.

When we got there we ran around looking for them in the library and outside the toilet (yes, we did) and when we finally found them, they were more dao than my pet rock when I try to feed it. So after following them to the library and Giordarno, we gave up. Then when Sean tried to talk to one of them he got dao'd. Sean and I left, but not before dropping by at Long John Silver to cope some of Daniel's fries. Didn't manage to get many though. I just licked his plate.

I didn't know where the que for bus 190 started so I stood where I thought was the end of the que. It turned out that I'd moved to the very front of the que. I found that out when the bus came. It was embarrassing, to say the least. I hope nobody thought much of it =P

I can't think of any way to make this post any more interesting than a business analysis so I'll stop here.

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2006-06-26T06:28:00.000-07:00

Had the SYF today. As for lessons, we only had english and maths. The teachers didn't ask for homework either. Then I chionged for PE. I was sick yesterday, so I coughed out green stuff during the run. Then I lost to Chua by a metre.

We assembled in the hall for the SYF at 10:50 then moved off to the stadium. There was a full (and fake) rehearsal there so we didn't play a huge part. More of uniformed groups assembling and marching, band parades and strange acts. So it was kinda slack. After that, we got back to school at 7:30. Jonathan and I went to KAP and waited for my mom to pick us up.

Now, something so unbelievably childish happened at the SYF. After reading this, I'm sure your six-year old brother will seem like a responsible father. I never knew that halfway through the rehearsal (and not during a break), some people would be greedy enough to swarm over some old man selling drinks.

One word: Pigs.

I'll stop here because I'm sleepy.

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2006-06-24T22:40:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I skipped Aikido because I was sick. I still went down though =P I shot a couple of hoops but when the others (Wei Zhe, Gen, her cousins and Kenneth) decided to start a match, I just sat and stoned. And watched, of course. When Kenneth got tired we sat at the side of the court and played my RPG game. Then Gen got curious as to what we were doing so she sat with us and listened.

Naturally, she laughed. I mean, two guys 14 and 16 years old respectively playing RPG games that little kids play? Unthinkable. But we were doing exactly that.

If you don't know how an RPG game works, here's how it goes.

1) I give you a scenario. For example, you're stuck in the middle ages and in this period, magic is a reality.

2) You tell me what you want to do.

3) I tell you the consequences.

4) You accumalate various items throughout the game. E.g, weapons, armour, potions, money, spells and equipment.

5) You go on adventures, quests, fight dragons and trade.

6) The person who imagines the whole thing (game master) is omnipotent.

7) The players are dependent on the game master.

You've probably thrown up by now. But no, I've got to make you vomit BLOOD. So here's how my game goes:

1) You are walking home from school via a shortcut.

2) You are always the gender you do not want to be.

3) An alien spaceship shows up and abducts you.

4) You are subjected to a number of reproductive procedures.

5) You are imprisoned but you fight your way out and past alien guards.

6) You get the ship to self-destruct.

7) You fight a boss.

Typical escape.

8) You steal a shitty alien spaceship (e.g. lifeboat) and escape.

9) You cruise around the solar system kicking extraterrestrial ass.

10) You do quests, threaten aliens, trade and enter inter-species competitions.

11) You have weapons, armour, equipment and intergalactic credits at your disposal.

As of now, Kenneth and Imp (Yue Ming) are currently attacking a reptoid 'pimp ship' to free a large number of human females.

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2006-06-23T20:00:00.000-07:00

Idiot.

One thing that bothers me is when a person (who is part of a line of people) gets something he already has, doesn't want it and passes it along to the last person in the line. The problem with this is that when a lot of people do this, the last person in line gets a crapload of stuff which he doesn't need while the others walk away scot-free. Why can't they just distribute the stuff among themselves equally instead of piling them up on some poor soul who didn't ask for all the shit dumped on him? Why do they do this? Because they're lazy. They can't even bear the slightest burden so they take advantage of the last person's position and turn him into a human donkey.

Girish went back to India at the end of term two and for almost the entire holiday did not log onto MSN. Everyone in 204 who's reading this probably participated in the massive hate directed at him in class because he was a nerd and an ass. Suddenly, I get this email from him.

"Hi there 204, I know u all hate me but I have changed my nerdiness and now I have a lot of frens. I told them that I had a teacher who told dirty jokes.If possible, please send me the jokes brother jason told us. they want to know all the jokes. Thank u.

girish - from india

P.S: Sorry for being so stupid in the past"

How touching.

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2006-06-23T00:12:00.000-07:00

Ladies and gentlemen, I am honoured to announce that I have recently presented myself with the...

Cheer or face my eternal wrath.

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2006-06-22T05:21:00.000-07:00

I'm sick again today.

Woke up early in the morning because I wasn't feeling well, but my temperature was normal. But I had a runny nose, a slight cough and a sore throat. Then at about 7pm I took my temperature and it was 37.5, which was a bit higher than normal. Damn.

I'll get you, if it's the last thing I do!

Also went to get braces at four, but I ended up with four brackets instead. Brackets are braces that haven't been wired yet. The orthodontist told me that because I wasn't flossing my teeth properly, the full set would have to wait. So I ended up with these, after being tortured in the chair for two hours. I swear my mouth was stretched wide enough to swallow a chair. I won't be able to eat hard food for a while. Guess I'll have to make do with porridge.

So don't ask me why you don't see anything. And no, I'm not that ugly. Or lopsided, for that matter.

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2006-06-21T04:42:00.000-07:00

I hate the SYF.

That's because the entire sec two and one levels are supposed to lead the opening ceremony with St. Theresa's. I don't know the exact details about this ceremony, but I do know that it involves us going to the national stadium for four hours three times a week and dancing to strange, synthesized-to-death songs from our beloved local stars and a few foreign ones. The moves are similar to those performed during a workout. Here's an example:

Duran Duran, for you people who haven't heard any music that is more than a year old and isn't by Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, Ashley Simpson and Avril Lavigne, is a 1980s boy band that's now made up entirely of middle-aged men. What you've seen above is extremely difficult to perform and should only be done by professionals (don't believe me).

We're part of a group of students called, "the synchronised kaleidoscope". Why's it called that? Because everyone's supposed to do their moves in synchrony, so it looks to the audience as though the whole performance is seen through a kaleidoscope. A kaleidoscope, however, looks like this:

The first thing I don't like about it is the fact that we're supposed to go for it. Sure, it's easier than training, but I'd rather be sleeping till 10am than fold my arms across my belly and shake my hips. I have to wake up early, spend the entire morning there and dance.

Also, we didn't get to talk to anyone from STC. I've got no friends there, but it's always good to make new ones. We should've just sweated it out in the air-conditioned hall instead.

Finally, the props. Our props consist of:

Gloves, cloak, pom-poms and hats if you don't know.

I don't like them. First of all, it's a pain to bend down and put them on. Also, they're uncomfortable. The hat makes my head feel hotter then Rachel Hunter, the pom-poms stick to my sweaty arms and stink, the gloves numb my hands and the cloak...well, it's a cloak. In addition, we have to bring them home. It's easy for those who brough decently-sized bags to the national stadium, but what about those who brought dwarf ones? Or those who didn't bring at all? I had to wrap up the hat, gloves and pom-poms in the cloak, tie and go home with the pom-poms sticking out. I had to make a detour to west mall for my haircut, which made it even more convenient.

There's more, but I'll stop here. In case you were wondering, this wasn't really a pain for me. But it annoyed me a bit. I'm blogging about it because I danced my ass off without complaining so I figured I'd vent some steam.

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2006-06-20T01:05:00.000-07:00

I haven't updated in eight days. Mainly because there's been nothing to blog about. Anyway, my birthday was two days ago, so here's how it went.

My parents took me out to some club (can't remember its name) near Fort Canning for lunch. Food was good. And expensive, too, but that's another story. They also dropped my sister off for her ballet lessons and picked her up on the way home.

I opened my presents too. A pair of new shoes from my dad, some money from my mom, a wallet from my sis, hand-grips from Wei Zhe. Afterwards I went down and got some Ferrero Rocher chocolates from Kenneth. Kelly baked me some cookies, which weren't bad for homemade ones =P And Sandra treated me to the vending machine. Lol.

Now that Wei Zhe's in Tioman, we're investing far less time in basketball than we used to.

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2006-06-12T03:28:00.000-07:00

Just came back from the gym with Wei Zhe. I'm damn weak. I'm the worst at bench presses. Can't do more than five repetitions of 40kg weights. Well don't blame me. I'm loose-jointed, in case you didn't know. Which is why my elbows can be distorted. Unfortunately, it somehow makes it harder for me to push things.

Dad just came back from the States. He brought a couple of singlets back (my old ones were about the size of a mouse's brain), so I'm pretty grateful. He paid a visit to my cousins there and showed me a picture of my cousin Jerry (who's one year my junior). He's as tall as my uncle. Which is about six feet (1.8m). 1.8m at thirteen. Think about it.

Then he took us out for lunch at Grand Copthorne. Food was pretty damn good, if you ask me. Well, it's expensive, so it has to be good.

Now, here's a couple of stupid phrases everybody (including me) uses.

"No offense"-This word was originally supposed to be a device that was attached to a sentence to signify that the sentence did not convey any malicious intent. Now, however, it's used extremely frequently and inappropriately. Most people who use it in a sentence usually intend to offend the person they are addressing with the sentence and place the "no offense" at the end of their sentence as a mere afterthought. So, stop using it. If you disagree with me, don't be subtle about it.

"like"-Nothing wrong with this word. When it's not used in an improper context. An example, "So I was like, what the hell?", it's completely wrong. Here's the definition of like.

Similar/Pertaining to.

"I was similar to what the hell?" Sounds wrong?

"lol"-Now this, as internet lingo, is okay. Unless you happen to use it in real speech. For example, when someone tells a joke and you say, "leowl". Doesn't it sound out of place? Why not just say, "laughs out loud"? Or even better, just laugh out loud!

That's all. Don't take my opinion seriously, this doesn't really bother me. Just thought I should express a not-so-strong opinion.

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2006-06-11T05:01:00.000-07:00

The music industry is biased.

Yes, it is. How is it that Ashley Simpson, for example, who has a merely mediocre voice, managed to get famous? She has connections, of course. First thing that comes to mind is the success of her elder sister. And her father, who incidentally happens to be her manager. So, she lip-syncs on Saturday Night Live. Surprise, surprise.

Another example is Hilary Duff. Relying on her acting abilities and popularity in shows such as Lizzy McGuire, she has made many achievements in the music industry. When she sings on Lizzy McGuire, can her audience NOT listen to her voice? No, they can't. Also, her large fanbase gathered from her film roles (mostly children who idolise her) will probably buy her albums. But how about her digitally enhanced voice and the fact that she doesn't write her own songs? She's successful because she had something to start with.

So how about the underground bands who form in the suburbs and sign onto independent record labels? They are literally unknown, have nothing to start with and no way to advertise themselves. Without advanced digital enhancement available, their music sounds raw. Yet, they write their owns songs, at least. That still doesn't help the fact that they live in one-room houses that they're forced to share. They might have more complicated chord structures, faster riffs, trippier drum patterns, but without any starting material they remain outside public view.

Like Blink-182. Did you know that their first demo tape, Flyswatter, was recorded in their former drummer Scott Raynor's bedroom? With a boom box? That's poor recording equipment for you. Yet, they managed to break out of their confines with their album Dude Ranch. That's talent. Unfortunately, this sort of thing only happens to one out of a hundred bands.

Why am I telling you this? Well, there's one damn good band out there, Fountains Of Wayne (you may know them as the ones who recorded Stacy's Mom), which is unbelievably underrated. They've got really catchy hooks. A power pop band, but if you like The Click Five you'll like them too. I don't have their album, but I sure as hell am going to get it. Now go buy.

Not that you're going to buy it. What the hell does my opinion mean to you?

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2006-06-10T05:45:00.000-07:00

The first World Cup match is starting in fifteen minutes so right after this blog post I'm going to scoot off to somebody's house to watch it. I'm not a big soccer fan, but this is a once-in-four-years event so I'm going to watch it. I don't support any country, though. Don't know enough XD

Oh, and I started playing Gunbound again. On a chick account. I don't want to use my old account because once I play a game my rank will drop. If you didn't know, when an account is inactive for three months it's removed from the total ranking. The rank icon, however, remains the same. So technically I'm supposed to be a silver battleaxe+ but my rank icon is a gold battleaxe. Of course, if I play I'll become a silver. So, add me on killabunny3 if you DO play. Somehow, I have a feeling that nobody's going to give a shit about me.

And, I did something quite embarrassing at Aikido training today. Thankfully, only two people saw me. Not going to elaborate. It's more of the way I handled the situation than something I actually did. I shouldn't have been so nervous.

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2006-06-09T01:40:00.000-07:00

Discuss.

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2006-06-08T00:32:00.000-07:00

In this topic, I explain the horrors of LAN gaming. For those computer ignoramuses out there, LAN stands for Local Area Network. LAN gaming is playing games at an internet cafe for $2 an hour. "Why can't we just play at home?" you might be wondering. Well, wouldn't it be great to look at your opponent's screen in the middle of a game and kick his ass? If you ask me, my reply would probably be...

HELL NO.

First off, LAN gaming requires you to actually go to an internet cafe. Let's say you want to go to a place like Dhoby Gaut, for example. You'd probably have to take at least one bus trip there. That's 45 cents wasted there, folks. Better spent on paper clips. Also, going there consumes time, maybe anywhere between 30 minutes and an hour. Want to know what I would do with that time? SLEEP.

Next, you've got to pay two bucks an hour. Let's say you're playing for five hours. Suddenly, you owe whoever is in charge of the LAN shop ten whole dollars. If you did that every day throughout the entire June holidays, you'd have spent, no, WASTED $300 to feed your Dota addiction. Don't your parents teach you to save money? Or use it on better things?

Finally, it's so noisy in LAN shops that a suitable enviroment for proper gaming is out of the question. When your opponent makes a mistake and yells, "shit!", you hear him loud and clear. When people start shouting insults at each other that would be better off sent via battle net, it creates sonic booms. If you want to lose your hearing ability before eighteen, play LAN.

It's undeniable that LAN sucks. I don't know why LAN gaming is such a big business. It's chaotic and expensive, among other things. And yet, people play. Here's a quote from me:

"If life could be represented by a concrete building, LAN would be the plane that crashed into it"

And somehow, I agreed to go with Kenneth and Yue Ming for LAN. What the hell was I thinking? Of course, I won't retract my word, but I'll leave as soon as there's a convenient excuse. I have absolutely no idea why they're so enthusiastic about LAN.

lansuckslansuckslansuckslansuckslansuckslansuckslansuckslansucks
Now if I were to become a bassist (can't get any more ambitious can I?) I'd be him.

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2006-05-25T02:41:00.000-07:00

Training was cancelled today because it started raining and only a few people came. So I went home with Sean (had to share his umbrella though) and I got pretty wet. And it was cold on the bus. There were a couple of RGS girls on the bus who, as soon as we got off, started gossiping about Sean. And staring at me. lol

I seriously doubt that we (sec twos) will be more mature at sec four. I mean, today a bunch of guys were kicking a ball around and it hit the door to the conference room (which was occupied) several times. Even worse, another bunch were trying to throw a chair up to the second floor. To no avail of course.

Some sec ones are just plain evil though. There were a couple of CHIJ prefects who came over and the cross-country meeting place is just outside the conference room. I was too lazy to change in the toilet and instead hid outside class 325's door. Then Yao Ee tried to drag me out with my pants off. He almost succeeded.

Speaking of that, yesterday while Ashwin was changing Eugene ran over and coped both of his pants. Then he put them all the way across the grass patch. It was hilarious. If you could be there while keeping a straight face, I'd be surprised. No, shocked.

I'm the only one in my class whose value added score was positive. Yay.

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2006-05-24T04:59:00.000-07:00

I couldn't take the strain of today's training. I don't know why. Maybe it was because I was sick on monday. Or maybe because I pushed myself too hard during PE. I dropped out after three 1000m intervals. Well, I'm going to try to make up tomorrow. If I find it too difficult I'll just slow down a lot. And push myself =P

Alex just joined cross. Not a good idea, but he's still officially in NCC so he can drop out any time he wants. He wants to quit NCC but thankfully, he was best cadet last year so he can't. Haha. But he says our training is ten times harder that NCC's. DUH.

I realised that Suman walks like a gangster. And when you tell him a joke he exhales sharply (laughter I suppose). Tell him a funny fact and he'll tilt his head back sharply, in an exaggerrated (sp?) "oh, I see" style.

I can't do my falsetto today. Why not? Well, I'm not exactly sick anymore, but the phlegm has gone down to my chest (sinus infections suck). So I'm coughing a lot and if you talk to me I'm at least an octave lower. Imagine that? My voice isn't exactly high pitched =P

Ran three rounds during PE and played hockey. Pushing too hard for those three rounds was probably what made me unable to run properly for training. And we weren't playing hockey properly. If someone got the ball, something like five defenders would rush him. And his teammates would come over to help. Real messy. To make matters worse, Xiang An kicked the hockey ball and everyone else followed. Somebody even scored with his foot. So Soo dribbled all the way across the pitch (with his feel of course).

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2006-05-23T02:22:00.000-07:00

I'm fine today. Well, not exactly. Still have a runny nose and stubborn cough, but other than that I'm okay. But this cough is a tough one. Have to open my mouth or clear my throat every five seconds.

SJI and STC (w00t) are supposed to kick-start the SYF opening ceremony. So we had training for the whole day today. Reported at school, but chartered SMRT buses brought us to the National Stadium. Wonder how much it cost =P

When we finally arrived there and organised ourselves, nearly two hours had passed since lessons were supposed to begin. Then we started dancing to various songs. Lao Shu Ai Da Mi, Reach Up For The Sunrise (Duran Duran) some of Stephanie Sun's songs among many others. Some people said it was stupid and boring, but personally I found it quite fun. Making a lot of noise that we weren't told to do, I suppose. By involving myself, time passed a lot faster.

We were VERY squeezed though. And I'm kinda unsatisfied that we didn't meet anyone from STC. I mean, just to make new friends. Not anything despo =P

Here are my results.

English: 78 (lost to Amos by one mark. Damn)

Maths: 78 (mugged the whole of the day before)

Science: 69 (could've done better)

MT: 71

Geog: 77 (well, it's supposed to be my best subject)

Lit: 73

Average? 74. L1R5? 10. MSG? 1.67. Class position? First.

These results don't say much though. The relation between me and the rest of my class can be described as (I'm going to quote H.G Wells here), "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"

Put simply: "When everyone blind if someone got one eye also say pro liao"

Here's something to think about, readers. I'll disclose the answer as soon as people start replying.

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2006-05-22T01:30:00.000-07:00

Didn't go to school today because I was still slightly sick and there wasn't anything important going on in school (well, we did have the science presentation. Which almost the whole class couldn't present.) We didn't do it either because it was damn hard. Physics involved in electrical wiring? That's pretty steep. Still, we've got to get it done by tonight. And I found out from Gareth that I got 77 for Geog. STREAMING. w00t! This'll be the first of my A1's (yeah, right). Actually, I'm trying to repeat what I managed last year.

Actually, I told a white lie about being sick. My temperature was normal by 10 am. Well, at least I don't skip school once a week. Won't mention names.

So I stayed in bed for nearly the whole day, finished up my homework and used the computer. Slack huh?

I was sicker yesterday, though. Tried to do the project, but we didn't manage to in the end. And I logged off because I had a headache.

Illness counter for this year: 6.

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2006-05-19T17:39:00.000-07:00

Haven't updated in a while though lots of things have been happening over the past few days, so I'll start with thursday.

We had the inter-house cross-country run at MacRitchie after school. I was in the competetive run (if I wasn't, it would be a huge embarrassment. The eight fastest runners for 2.4 in each class were placed in competetive). My position at the end of the race was 17th, which is a drop from the 14th place I got last year. My timing was around 22:08. Well, on the bright side, I still got a medal (the top 20 received one). Anyway, I lost to Leo and Chua (16th and 10th respectively) so I'm kinda pissed at them. And Kai lost to me by a metre even though he'd walked for the first hundred metres or so =P

Before the run I went to Toa Payoh with some others to eat lunch before the race. Of course, I didn't want to eat too much so just to be safe, I didn't. But I did eat some glucose gel thingie before the race that made me feel full despite being the size of a McDonald's chilli sauce packet. And I made a mess on my shirt. A pretty one, too.

I didn't manage my energy properly for the race. I pushed really hard for the jungle part of the route, which amounts to about 3.5 km. Then I had trouble at the rocky slope just before the T-junction. I slowed down drastically right after I came out of the jungle. I could've at least stayed around the middle of all the runners for the forest area and pushed once I got onto the sidewalk.

After that I went home with Kai and saw him talk to his friend =D Well, because I'm not a despo, I didn't make any mention of it till Chua did the next day =P

Yesterday evening was the streaming talk for secondary twos. Most of it was stuff I already knew, but there was still some new information which is important if I want to go to 331 next year =P

And yesterday, Sam tried to flush his bronze cross-country medal down the toilet but it got stuck. Well, it's not his fault that he had to shit in the bushes halfway through the run. He still got 5th anyway =P

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2006-05-16T06:27:00.000-07:00

Remember what I said about us owning yesterday? Well, scratch that. We lost both games today, though we shouldn't have. Here's what happened.

Against 206, both classes ended with a draw. It was pretty clear that most of the game took place on our turf, however. I did make a blunder when I was dummy half and decided to run. Unfortunately, I was caught in the process. I should have just passed to Kai Xun who was right next to me. I still did manage to tag a lot of people though =P There was a point when they we're right at our line, but we drove them back. Want to know how we lost? That's right, folks, coin toss.

I didn't get to play against 211 but was a sub. The game started off well, as both sides battled each other to a standstill at mid-field. We slowly drove them back to their line, but we couldn't go further from there. Despite frequent tries from Kai, Tim and Shafik, Dylan and Aaron were way too fast. And somehow, Aaron broke past the siege and ran all the way across the field to our line (GAY). Then Dylan nearly scored. Or, rather, scored, because the game was taking too long. We still got fourth position overall though =D

Ran three rounds in 5:12. Shitty timing, but I wasn't really trying hard.

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2006-05-15T05:03:00.000-07:00

We had the inter-class touch rugby competition today. 204 won all our matches (well, two) and we didn't actually win. We OWNED. 5-0 against 207 and 4-0 against 210. One word to describe them: pushovers. It was pretty clear that we were dominating the whole match against 210. I mean, as soon as their dummy half picked up the ball, he was immediately tagged and even if he did manage to pass, the guy who received the ball would be tagged by half a dozen more people. Now, we're guarenteed a top four position. Tomorrow, the first place is ours. Not an option.

I ran 2.4 again today (bleah) and I ran faster than I did before the exams and before I got sick. 10:34. Not great timing, but I'm working towards 9 minutes. Give me a month.

oh and after the rugby thingie we went to tanglin cc to celebrate. ever seen people make card pyramids? well, here's one. done with empty cans instead.

can tower!

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2006-05-14T05:30:00.000-07:00

Today was kinda boring. I had tuition from 11 to 1pm and did my homework after that. Then went down with Kenneth and Imp (Yue Ming). We walked around a bit waiting for the soccer guys to leave the basketball court, which of course they never did. Then Sandra, Gen and Kelly came down and we just sat around and talked.

Wei Zhe is going to Gunung Tahan for a camp. The whole climb is going to take five days, according to him. He also claims there are plenty of leeches there. And tigers, too, if he gets lost. Hope he makes it home in one piece.

Yup, that's boredom all right.

I'm really sorry if this post is boring. I just have nothing to talk about. I mean usually on days like this I don't blog at all.

And since it's so boring let's have a song. What's My Age Again by Blink 182. It's kinda humourous in a somewhat dirty way, but Blink has produced toilet humour far worse than this. So here's how it goes.

I took her out,

it was a Friday night

I wore cologne

to get the feeling right

We started makin' out

and she took off my pants

But then, I turned on the TV

And that's about the time she walked away from me

Nobody likes you when you're 23

And are still more amused by TV shows

What the hell is ADD,

my friends say I should act my age

What's my age again?

What's my age again?

Then later on, on the drive home

I called her mom from a pay phone

I said I was the cops and your husband's in jail

This state looks down on sodomy

And that's about the time that bitch hung up on me

Nobody likes you when you're 23

And are still more amused by prank phone calls

What the hell is call ID,

my friends say I should act my age

What's my age again?

What's my age again?

And that's about the time she walked away from me

Nobody likes you when you're 23

And you still act like you're in freshman year

What the hell is wrong with me,

my friends say I should act my age

What's my age again?

That's about the time that she broke up with me (what's my age again?)

No one should take themselves so seriously

With many years ahead to fall in line

Why would you wish that on me,

I'll never wanna act my age

What's my age again?

What's my age again?

What's my age again...

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2006-05-13T03:30:00.000-07:00

Well, yesterday after I came back from the outing I was too tired to blog. So I just dropped off to sleep. Well, I'm posting now.

Left the house at 11 am and called Sandra. Asked her where she was and suddenly she and Gen appeared around the corner. lol. I should have tried looking around the area first and not wasted my battery.

Amanda's mom came down with her and offered to give us a lift. We agreed but she told us they'd take a while. So while waiting I called Kenneth. Then we all hung around, stoned and crapped. Finally, they reappeared and we set off to meet Wei Zhe and Eehui.

We ate lunch at KFC and I helped finish Eehui's drumsticks, pinched two granola bars from Wei Zhe and finished the chicken popcorn lying around. Wei Zhe said he had a stomach ache and I really believed him even though he'd told me about the plan to get Gen's birthday cake the day before. Cake was kinda messy to get but we managed. We also gave the little boy sitting next to us a slice. So cuuuuute (STOP THINKING PEDOPHILE O SICK ONE). Then we went to the arcade and watched Eehui get his ass soundly kicked by Sandra and Amanda in a racing game. Hung around there for a while, but I declined to play due to lack of funds.

We went for a movie after that (Mission Impossible 3) and the tickets were a tad pricey. If you call $9.50 a "tad" expensive, well yeah. A TAD pricey. This was where Imp (Yue Ming) joined us. But I have to admit, the movie was good. Confusing plot, but incredible stunts, special effects and suspense is very well articulated. Tom Cruise's acting is credible as were the acting abilities of the others. Overall a good movie.

We then went to CDANS to bowl. I'm going to run through this quickly because I'm not good at bowling. To sum it up, I did badly. Period.

After that we slowly walked home but I, desperate for exercise, ran home. Wasn't as far as I expected, maybe three kilometers at most. But I got back twenty minutes before the others.

After walking up the hill, we left. End of story.

BTW, we forgot to take pictures.

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2006-05-10T03:05:00.000-07:00

Exams are finally over! I won't talk about them because I don't know how I did. Why not? Because sometimes when I think I do well I end up doing badly but on the other hand, when I think I did badly I end up doing well. Did that make sense? lol

I'm slightly sick today. I have a temperature a tad higher than usual and a mild sore throat. Either this is the sickest I will get, or I'm getting sick slowly and by Friday I won't be able to go out. Worst-case scenario though. Let's hope this doesn't happen =P I'm not the only one either. Like the five or more sick people in our class (yes Zhao, YOU. Sit next to me for what when you're sick >=( )Did I mention that more than half the cross-country team is sick?

During PE Shafik ran 9:51 for 2.4 (3 seconds short of Chua's record). Damn. And Leo 10:07, my timing exactly. I'm going to chiong running as soon as I get well =P

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2006-05-07T03:21:00.000-07:00

Geog test tomorrow. Why then, you ask, am I still blogging? Well, I didn't mug four hours just now for nothing. This was my schedule:

8:30-The monster awakens.

9:30-he's done with breakfast.

9:30-11:00-homework.

11:00 to 1:30-tuition

1:30 to 5:30-mugging (for geog of course)

There is a certain breed of individual who makes me fume from the ears. You know, the kind who gets angry at people for not doing things that benefit them. The kind who thinks he's the most important cock in the world whom everyone depends on. The kind who thinks he's being taken for granted when nobody wants him. The kind who makes sweeping statements about violence when he can't even do a single pullup. The kind who thinks what he's doing is the job everybody is too scared or lazy to do. The kind who can't stand the notion of people being better than him. The kind who can't spell properly. The kind who thinks he's not getting treated well enough for what he deserves, which amounts to nothing. Seem familiar?

Of course not, because that leaves so many possibilities.

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2006-05-05T01:19:00.000-07:00

Decided not to run today. Why? Mainly because I've got slight muscle cramps in my calves that haven't gone away for a while because of constant running. Also, I was feeling quite lazy today. Other reasons were that Shafik didn't want to run, it was raining and I'm getting tired of experiencing pain after school every day.

Quite a number of people didn't come to school today. Those that I can remember are Aaron (not unusual), Amos and Gerald. Leonard wasn't feeling well halfway and left. I'm scared. People have been disappearing from school randomly over the past few weeks. And Zi Hao, who's still got rashes and sore eyes, decided to sit next to me. Please don't let me be infected =(

Got into a small scuffle with Kartik today. I was singing in my falsetto (DON'T HEAR IT. I do it to piss people off) when he told me to shut up. Of course, I don't listen to assholes who act funny and have high voices. So he assaulted me. He tried to restrain me and I admit that he IS surprisingly strong. So rather than fight fire with fire, I headbutted him in his flat chest and he backed off. I don't like him much, other than the fact that he cracks the most absurd jokes in class which somehow make me laugh like hell.

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2006-05-04T01:21:00.000-07:00

I'm going to sorta turn this blog into an archive for my 2.4 timings. Today's was 10:48, which was damn crappy. I do have excuses, however. One was that I'd hardly eaten anything today. The other two were that I had cramps before I ran, didn't stretch and Shafik wasn't there for me to pace. Deprovement, though. Can't afford that.

And I've managed to set my maths on the right path. I haven't really FORGOTTEN anything, it's just that it's buried in the back of my mind. All I need is a random trigger and I can do everything.

Com studies was fun. Put together a simple "video" with random pictures. Then there was an exhibition of our work. There was kind of a crowd at my comp. Wasn't good at all though, with crappy animation, timing and video filters. But of course, you childish asses can't resist a reference to masturbation can you (talking to any 04 guys reading this)?

And I was the highest in class for the English vocab test. Full marks out of just 10, but who cares? w00000t! And I'm sure Aaron copied me =P j/k

Okay, those who really know me are quite aware of the fact that I've heard more old songs than Green Day, The Click Five or Simple Plan EVER recorded. So here's one. It's called Another Day In Paradise by Phil Collins. It may be older than any of you, but it is meaningful =P Was no.1 on Billboard for 6 weeks in 1989 =D

BTW if you are the kind of person who loses fertility upon hearing anything non rock/punk/emo don't bother looking for it.

She calls out to the man on the street

"Sir, can you help me?

It's cold and I've nowhere to sleep,

Is there somewhere you can tell me?"

He walks on, doesn't look back

He pretends he can't hear her

Starts to whistle as he crosses the street

Seems embarrassed to be there

Oh

Think twice

'Cause it's another day for you and me in paradise

Oh

Think twice

'Cause it's another day for you

You and me in paradise(Think about it)

She calls out to the man on the street

He can see she's been crying

She's got blisters on the soles of her feet

She can't walk but she's trying

Oh

Think twice

'Cause it's another day for you and me in paradise

Oh

Think twice

It's just another day for you

You and me in paradise (Another day in paradise, ooh)

Just think about it

Oh lord!

Is there nothing more anybody can do?

Oh-oh whoa lord!

There must be something you can say

You can tell from the lines on her face

You can see that she's been there

Probably been moved on from every place

But she didn't fit in there

Oh

Think twice

'Cause it's another day for you and me in paradise

Oh

Think twice

It's just another day for you

You and me in paradise (Another day in paradise, ooh)

Just think about it

Hmm-mmm

Think about it

It's just another day

For you and me

In paradise

It's just another day

For you and me

In paradise(Para, paradise)(Paradise)

It's just another day

For you and me (Ooh-ooh)(Just think about it)

In paradise(Paradise)

It's just another day

For you and me (Just think about it)

In paradise(Para, paradise)(Ooh-ooh, in paradise)

It's just another day

For you and me(Hmm-mmm, paradise)

In paradise

It's just another day (Paradise)

For you and me (Just another day)(In paradise)

In paradise(Para, paradise)

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2006-05-03T01:01:00.000-07:00

Stayed back after school to run again with Shafik and Luke. 10:38 this time. I wasn't going all out, but close enough. Deprovement from my 9:48, but I'm going to work back towards it. Maybe I deproved because of the sun, something I ate or prolonged sitting in the classroom. Anyway, I'm going to run again tomorrow.

I realised my maths is damn screwed. Mr Khoo gave out a congruency test which isn't counted today, but I didn't finish 6 marks worth of questions (out of 40) because I spent to much time on others. And I'm not sure if the questions I did are correct. Brought home all the worksheets in my file and I'm going to redo them before starting on my homework.

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2006-04-30T22:48:00.000-07:00

Just came back from the gym. Went with Wei Zhe and Kenneth there but I lack the raw discipline to do more than five 50kg bench presses. So I hopped on my favourite machine (the humping one) for a long time. Also tried the treadmill, but it got boring.

After that I ran four 600m rounds around the condominium in 9:48 minutes. Impossible? Maybe, maybe not. From a negative perspective, I don't know the exact distance (my friend's dad gave me the figure a long time ago). I still do know, however, that 9:48 is quite possible for me. And I was feeling very tired after the run. And my timing per round was my timing for 400m at the same effort multiplied by one point five. So I'll persuade myself that I did 9:48.

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2006-04-30T04:50:00.000-07:00

Woke up early today, at around 7:30 am. Must've been because I was anticipating having to bring Shafik and Girish over for the IPW project. Had tuition from 10 to 12, then went to Bukit Batok Interchange to wait for them. When they arrived, I took them to my house via 173 and the long walk up the hill.

We started off pretty well, getting the survey tabulation, some extra survey results, a menu and a piece of extra work done. Even did twelve powerpoint slides. Unfortunately, we got carried away and started playing games. Still managed to finish a good deal of work though =D

After that I took them outside to play basketball. All of a sudden, Girish felt like going home. Want to know why? He's scared of girls. tsk tsk. So I walked him down the hill and went back up. Shafik and I then played basketball. To be honest with myself, he's quite a good deal better than me. Wei Zhe and Gen still owned us though >=(

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2006-04-28T21:26:00.000-07:00

I've made it a rule of thumb not to blog until most of the day is over, but because Gen is pressuring me to post in the afternoon I'll break a tradition >:(

Dad took the whole family to the Botanic Gardens for breakfast. Mom and Emma spent fifteen minutes in the souvenir shop before we left. I was bubbling with impatience =(

After that I was dropped off at Tanglin CC to wait for Hsiu Yen and Shafik to come for the video editing project. I managed to contact Shafik, but forgot to tell him to come. And Hsiu Yen never picked up the bloody phone. So I went home.

Okay so after my Aikido class I met Girish at Bukit Batok East CC because we wanted to interview the manager of the McDonald's branch there. Turned out she was busy though. She was still busy half an hour later =P I don't think she was keen on helping us though.

Went down at night to play basketball but the guards were not supposed to turn the basketball court lights on. But we still went anyway and they got mad at us when they found us playing. With nothing else to do, we crapped around at the playground. Later on Imp brought his toy guns down and we took random videos.

Here's a pic of Imp dangling from the monkey bars pretending to snipe. I'm the bodiless leg next to him.

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2006-04-28T04:50:00.000-07:00

I don't usually talk about training, but since we went to Bedok Reservoir I'll say something short. To sum it all up, the scenery was breathtaking. And on the shuttle bus, I was treated to Sean's incredible singing (/sarcasm).

Ran 2.4 with Shafik during recess. Did a crappy timing again. 10:50. At least it's a three-second improvement from yesterday's, but forty-three seconds slower than my NAPFA. And Shafik did 9:16. I have to find out what steroids he's on =P I'm going to run again tomorrow and on Sunday. This time I'll whack the first two rounds, relax for the next three and push for the last.

We were laughing for the last five minutes of the Mother Tongue period. Zach and Damien were fooling around in class as usual when a butterfly flew in. Damien suddenly screamed and Zach fell off his chair. Imagine two huge Indian guys frightened by a butterfly. You simply had to be there to see it.

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2006-04-27T01:46:00.000-07:00

Ran 2.4 after school today. I was rewarded with a big DEprovement from yesterday. Forty-six seconds, to be exact. 10:53. And I think Shafik's running ability is incredible. He did 9:26 during recess and 9:40 after school. Now THAT is what I call superhuman. I'm still going to run every day, but I'm going to relax on days when I've got cramps. My target? Below 10 minutes by next week. I'll follow the same routine: whack first round, relax for next four, and all-out for the last.

As most of you in 204 know, we stay in the class after school to brawl, change or fool around. This was the first time we were caught. When Mrs Rosie Goh walked into class to check on us, she saw paper balls flying, brooms and dustpans waved about, large-scale brawls and finally, Ray humping me.

Let me explain. A good number of us got into a brawl and Wei Quan knocked Ray's spectacles off. At the same time I put a box over his head. Before I knew it I was on the floor and Ray was shaking me up and down by the neck. Then he put my head between his knees and performed numerous pelvic thrusts. All the while I was screaming "AHH LEGGOOOOOOO!"

To sum things up, we were brought before Mr Khoo. Surprisingly, we didn't get much punishment. I won't go into detail because it will reveal my school's unorthodox disciplinary methods.

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2006-04-26T01:30:00.000-07:00

Alright. The 2.4 km run. There's some good news, but there's some bad as well. I'll start with the good.

The good news is that I did my 2.4 in 10:07 minutes. The bad news is that Chua still beat me. 9:48 mins.

I'm not too disappointed though. Half the class, including Kai, Leo and Shafik hasn't run yet but I'm satisfied that I beat my personal best. This showed me that I can still improve. From tomorrow onwards, I'm going to run 2.4 every day if there's no training. Focus on being able to run at a fast pace for a longer distance before getting lactic pains.

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2006-04-25T06:28:00.000-07:00

I'm ready to sleep now (yes, I'm early) so I'll keep this post short.

Had the New South Wales science test after school, which I found pretty hard. Maybe the last two questions and a couple others influenced my take on this. I hope I get a distinction (yeah, right) but a credit would be more probable.

Found a shitload of ants in my bag today. They were all over the bag. Some even decided to enter my water bottle. Were they trying to make my bag into a nest? Was there something sweet in the bag? We'll never know, because I killed every single one over the entire Mother Tongue period. I placed my ant-infested water bottle on the table and Damien wanted to drink it on sight. When I told him there were ants in it, he stuck his thumb up and said. "Protein". He drank. (Since most of the ants were in the cap, I overturned the water bottle to drown them. The filter stopped them from floating to the top. Needless to say, they perished.

Tomorrow's the REAL 2.4. What am I going to do? Well, get lots of sleep tonight. Eat a heavy breakfast, a light recess, drink half a water bottle by recess and bring my shoes. Take the warm-up and stretches seriously. During the run, use my standard small-but-fast step method but relax my shoulders. When some bastard tries to overtake me, run till my nuts fall off.

Maybe that wasn't so short after all.

boring saturday.

2006-04-22T05:25:00.000-07:00

Just came back from dinner. Some Penang buffet at Boon Lay. Ate a good amount of food, but not enough to feel bloated. Char Kway Teow was bloody delicious, so it was.

Didn't get knocked around too much at Aikido either. Came early and talked to Arthur for a while. Noticed that his breath smells even more of smoke.

Ran around the road surrounding my condominium four times earlier today. According to several people, each round is 600m, so I assumed 4 would make 2.4 km. Finished it in around 10: 30 at 90% effort, so the figure is probably more or less accurate. Real 2.4's on Monday, so I'll run again tomorrow. Have to beat the bloody canoeists.

Played basketball yesterday and didn't get too stressed. I multitasked, playing and crapping at the same time. Talking cock is a good way to control my anger. Not too healthy fo my playing, but it's better than spewing "CCB!" out incessantly.

Gen showed us how to play Indian poker. Ended up having to forfeit. I had to grab the emergency buoy near the swimming pool, put it over my head and run around. Apparently, the buoy has some intense physical appeal to me, because I got REALLY excited when I nestled myself in it. Couldn't run with it for long though, because running with it was like hauling bricks around. I swear it's for display.

still sick.

2006-04-18T05:58:00.000-07:00

I'm still sick today. Fever's lower, but I feel more queasy. Wonder why. At least my sore throat is much better, but I appear to be losing my voice. And I have an English oral presentation tomorrow. Damn. Going to sleep early again tonight.

damn, i'm sick again.

2006-04-17T05:01:00.001-07:00

I'm sick. As if this is a rare occurance. It has to be like the fourth time this year. Temperature isn't too high, maybe 37.5 degrees celsius. My throat is slightly sore, but other than that I'm more or less capable of standing. I'm going to sleep early tonight (9:15? lol) and eat some fruit before bed.

Our squash match against ACS(I) was a pushover. For them. We lost nearly every single match (5 per player). We only won three times in total (Terry twice). ACS had at least 10 times the number of wins (Without exaggeration). But we did come up with interesting cheers like "Don't bite, don't bite" and clapping. Screamed my head off cheering. And Terry did better than anyone else. 204 SHOULD BE PROUD OF HIM! He nearly beat the ACS guy.

Mr Lam asked me a question during science lesson and when I replied, he tried to mimic my voice. He's a decent teacher, but his humor is aggressive and stale. It's not my bloody fault that I sound like a bass guitar is it? He can't even reach anywhere near the depth of my voice.

Benedict and Zi Hao are the worse people to have in a group. The slackers did absolutely nothing for the project. In the end, I did the dirty work for them even though I'm sick and should be in bed. How will they know how to present tomorrow? I'm contemplating sabotaging them, but not only is it childish, but I'm supposed to be a nice guy. So I won't.

Here's a convo between Girish, Arjuna and I.

ARJUNA says:
I AM PRINTING FOR EVERYONE

ARJUNA says:
EXCEPT GIRISH

..The Undead Zombie... says:
and write down my basic points

..The Undead Zombie... says:
u are so evil

ARJUNA says:
SINCE HE HAS OFFERED TO WRITE HIS OWN NOTES

..The Undead Zombie... says:
inimael naam virodigal

<> cut myself on a pillow. says:
inimael naam virodigal

ARJUNA says:
DO NOT BLABBER

ARJUNA says:
WHAT?

..The Undead Zombie... says:
ok...but that will be the truth

<> cut myself on a pillow. says:
what's that mean?

..The Undead Zombie... says:
From now on, we are enemies

ARJUNA says:
NO

ARJUNA says:
IT MEANS

..The Undead Zombie... says:
Arjuna..u cannot be so evil

..The Undead Zombie... says:
what does it mean then??

ARJUNA says:
THAT FROM NOW ON HE IS NOT GOING TO SLEEP WITH ME EVERYNIGHT

ARJUNA says:
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

..The Undead Zombie... says:
OMG>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

ARJUNA says:
ARJUNA says:
ARJUNA says:
ARJUNA says:

<> cut myself on a pillow. says:
omg gay
..The Undead Zombie... says:
ARJUNA

ARJUNA says:

..The Undead Zombie... says:
u are lame

..The Undead Zombie... says:
dun be so bad

ARJUNA says:
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

ARJUNA says:
I KNOW

..The Undead Zombie... says:
naam nanbarkal alla

ARJUNA says:
I AM FORCED

ARJUNA says:
I AM A SLAVE

ARJUNA says:
TRAPPED

ARJUNA says:
I NEED TO BE FREE

ARJUNA says:
BEN SAVE ME

..The Undead Zombie... says:
aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh....

pretty much a normal day.

2006-04-13T06:07:00.000-07:00

I had to go for detention. Mr Tan got pissed at half the class for not doing a project so we were held up after school. Sean and I had to go for yeoman service, however (trackers/crossers/throwers not running for the heats had to go) and in the end, everyone went. Our work involved mainly adjusting the hurdles for the Sec 2s, clearing them off the track for the 800m race and bringing them back into the shed.

And I screwed up for my science practical. Two periods (over two weeks) were devoted to it, but I only took three out of six readings. I'm going to fail for sure. Hope it isn't TOO important (it's still graded though).

We need some footage for the com studies video editing thing, but since my group's storyboad required a basketball and a lot of space, we couldn't shoot anything since it was raining. Ended up taking random footage in the com lab (Wei Quan attacking the James, the cameraman and Gabriel waving a middle finger about). I guess that counts as something.

I noticed that the Click Five are becoming more popular by the day. I think they're pretty decent, in terms of music and lyrical content. Eric Dill does seem to have small lungs though. I can hear him gasping for air when he sings a lot of their songs =P But as a whole, they're good nonetheless.

national cross-country competition

2006-04-12T05:31:00.000-07:00

The cross-country nationals were today. Sean and I came separately as we were too slow to run. Sean got his jersey from Mr Chua, but I decided against doing the same because I'm more aware of the fact that I am very slow. Last out of five for 1500m and fourth for 3000m are clear indications of this. Anyway, we put our bags together with the rest and ran. Sean wore his jersey even though he wasn't even a reserve. POSER. The race didn't go too well for us. Suman came in thirteenth for the C Division finals (a drop from 5th at Wings, but still a superhuman Sec 1) and Madi eighteenth despite his groin problems. And for B Division...Vinoth's position was well over a hundred (he had a stitch) and Bryan fifty-ninth. No idea how SJI came in fifth for the team score. Also ate myself to death at McDonald's. Came home pretty late.

Eight days of non-stop running has caught up to me. We were told to run six rounds during PE and I did the first at a fast pace, but slowed down considerably for the remaining run until Benedict could pace me for a few rounds because of a few factors:

1) Hsiu Yen, who thinks he can run, tried pacing me. So I sprinted a hundred metres as did he. Managed to keep ahead of him, but lost a lot of energy.

2) I ate a heavy recess.

3) Been running for the past eight days non-stop, as mentioned earlier. Muscles are stiff and I get tired more easily. Lactic acid floods out faster.

How I'm going to resolve this? I'll just refrain from running for the next two days. Give myself some rest and time for muscles to rebuild themselves. I should be fitter after this. Then I'll start running harder than before.

If you bothered to read this, I do hope I haven't wasted your time =P

fourth for 3000m

2006-04-11T03:42:00.000-07:00

The 3000m inter-house events took place. Determined to compensate for my screwed-up 1500m and last year's 3000m, I prepared myself as well as possible. Drained my water bottle, took a light snack and emptied my bowel two hours before the race started. I was already planning it. Push hard for the first round, do a steady, fast but relaxed pace for the next five and a half. Sprint the last round. If I needed to, I'd crap in my pants and if I got a stitch, I'd use every trick in the book to get rid of it. I followed my plan and went all-out, but ended up fourth out of six. And I lost to Yan Bo . Everyone is going to dao me like crazy tomorrow. And I'm not going to fabricate some dumbass excuse for my terrible run. Anyway, I've got a resolution to ensure this does not repeat itself:

1) Push even harder. Next time, I'm going to run till my heart stops. Literally. Practise this during time trials.

2) When someone overtakes me, sprint like crazy to regain the lead. Not stick to the "Oh well never mind, I'll catch up with him later" mentality. I can try this during training.

3) Stop telling myself that I suck. It's just going to make things worse for me. It burns the will to run.

4) Bring my watch to time myself and stay on course to my target.

kinda boring day.

2006-04-10T05:57:00.000-07:00

Nothing much happened today, except for CCA photo taking. Other than eating into our recess time, it didn't pose any problems. Sean and I asked Mr Low when we'd get our competition attire (in layman's terms, jerseys) and he said tomorrow. Even if I do get mine, however, I'm not going to wear it until I can run faster than the three canoeists in my class. They must think Sean and I (two of the slowest) represent the entire team's ability. No way. My next 2.4km target is nine minutes. My 3000m race is tomorrow, BTW. Wish me luck.

Here's a picture I took of a cat a couple of months ago. I also took a video of it in which the first 10 seconds were of the cat's rear passage. For an idea of what it looked like, I'll quote Gen: "It's pink!" Unfortunately, I have no inkling of how to upload videos.

yesterday's stuff again.

2006-04-08T22:25:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I went for the CGS funfair. Unfortunately, due to poor planning, I didn't spend much time there. I had a race going on at five and I had to be there by four. The trip there was supposed to take just an hour, but Kenneth wanted to wait for his friend at the MRT which took a while. Then we went the wrong direction and ended up having to walk back. And missed bus 132.

We made it there in the end. Too many stalls though. It would've been fun if I hadn't had the race in the back of my mind. Kelly and Sandra tried to get us to do stuff, but I wasn't in the mood. So I ran out of time and gave away my remaining $ 2.50 coupons.

The race. I arrived at Gombak kind of late so quickly did my warm-up and stretches. Wasn't able to borrow spikes and just wore my dumbass shoes. I reported late and got yelled at (the ass who we're supposed to report to has some prejudice against SJI, really). It was raining and I had no spikes. So I just ran as hard as I could on the slippery track and came away with 67 seconds for 400 metres. I think some C division girls beat me. But I was WITHOUT SPIKES, DAMMIT.

I've got another race today. 800. To my few readers out there, WISH ME LUCK.

Update: Did my 800 in 2 mins 36 seconds. Fastest ever, but I was third last.
Another pic of me. I'm Cyclops. You know, the retard from X-men with pink-gold glasses.

things that happened yesterday

2006-04-07T17:37:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was pretty fun but because I had no time to write an entry on the events that happened I'm going to write them now.

Founder's Day sucked. Came to school early but ended up crapping around in the library while waiting for assembly and for the band to prepare itself. Even worse was the celebration. Imagine sitting cross-legged for two hours and singing. And watching two-hundred people receiving prizes one-by-one. At least St. Joseph's Call sound's nice =P

Founder's Day relay came up and Fintan won. With a four-member team entirely composed of my class. I did pretty well this time and didn't lose my lead over Ying Zhang (he beat me by a hundred meters on Thursday). And Kai's muscles are scary when viewed from the side.

Went with Sean, Samuel and Suman to Orchard for lunch after the relays. I bought and upsized McSpicy meal with a promotional BEEF FAN-TASTIC. I didn't know how to eat it and just made a big mess. Needless to say, I stuffed myself.

After that we left and contemplated going for a movie. Unfortunately, we wouldn't finish in time before training. So we played some racing game on an Xbox outside COMICS CONNECTION. It looked stupid. Then we went to a music instrument store where I got a pick. We also fooled around with the instruments (namely, guitars) on display.

Finally, we took an MRT to Toa Payoh and from there arrived at Turf City via shuttlebus.

At night a couple of us were planning to play basketball but some asses beat us to it. So we crapped around the clubhouse and walked around the road among other things. And Kelly DISAPPEARED. I still don't know whether she got home.

Oh and here's a picture of myself. It's slightly blurry though.

1500m run.

2006-04-06T03:41:00.000-07:00

Had the 1500 heats today. I was last out of five runners. Damn. At least I pushed hard, though I'm not sure whether it was my best. At least I didn't get a stitch or something. Anyway, Leo got third so I guess his win=my win. I promise myself I'm going to push even harder for tomorrow's Founder's Day relays. I have to make up for this. Still have the 3000m heats though =P

lots of things going on

2006-04-05T04:49:00.000-07:00

Well, a couple of things happened today. First was the NAPFA test. It seemed to be going perfectly at first with me getting five points for shuttle run, sit-ups and inclined pull-ups. Suddenly, my score drops when it comes to standing broad jump. Barely made three points. And I got ONE point for sit-and-reach. Might as well embrace the bronze I'm going to get. Needless to say, I'll get five points for 2.4 but that won't help.

Mr Irwan yelled at Sean, Yan Bo and I for training. He was doing some "visualisation" with the guys going for competition. I was lying on rough concrete at Turf City and fidgeted a lot. Accidentally kicked Bryan in the HEAD. So he sent us off. I shouldn't have done that and should have at least attempted to move somewhere less distracting, but I'm not feeling guilty or anything. But I am going to make a mental note to stay still when something (not necessarily important) is going on.

update on guitar progress

2006-04-03T06:03:00.000-07:00

Well, I borrowed Wei Zhe's guitar a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, I have little or no time to play it due to school, training and homework. When I can secure roughly an hour of free time, I play. That isn't nearly enough to get good. Anyway, I managed to play a bit today and here's some of my progress. Feel free to laugh at my shittiness.

Chords. I can play about seven chords in total, which are as follows:

-Em: This is easy. Two fingers on the second frets of the fourth and fifth strings. Even I, noobness in it's purest form, can manage.

-E: Not much of an increase in difficulty. Just and extra finger on fret one of the third string.

-Am: Just shift the fingers down. As easy as E.

-A: Fat fingers might be a problem, but since mine are more like spider legs I can manage.

-C: This is where it gets hard. My fingers are inflexible and it's tiring to stretch them in this position. My left palm keeps muting the first string and the middle finger blocks the third string, making it "clunk". I can't get a proper C.

-D: A four-string chord which sometimes gives me problems, but I'm improving.

-Bm: Quite similar to D.

Changing chords is where I screw up. It takes me at least four seconds to change chords and my strumming isn't something to be proud of either. I need far more practice on this.

What songs can I play? This'll make you laugh. The old Beatle's song Eleanor Rigby, which is a simple two-chord song (Em and C) and the opening riff to Dammit by blink 182. Also, the riff of Final Fantasy's opening song. Unfortunately, I pluck strings so slowly that it takes between one to four seconds to locate a different string, position my fingers on the the fret properly and relocate my hand to pluck the string.

I'm lucky that Wei Zhe isn't going to need his guitar back for a while, which allows a good deal of time to practice.

i hate basketball.

2006-04-01T22:28:00.000-08:00

Basketball gives me more stress than any other game in the world. Mostly because I suck at it. Not that I don't suck at other ball games, but I try to get involved at the very least. But for basketball, I will give three pieces of evidence to prove that I am a total jackass when it comes to that game. Don't know why I even bother playing.

Dribbling. I am an absolute retard when it comes to dribbling. Everytime I get the ball, I will run and dribble to clear it but in the process drawing all eyes in the court to me. When I try to get close to the net, Wei Zhe suddenly fills up my entire vision. I shoot, and he catches it. Height does matter.

Shooting. I couldn't hit the Empire State Building at ten metres with a basketball. Whenever I get the ball, Kenneth blocks me and I shoot straight up. When this occurs, one of these two will happen next.

1) I airball.

2) Kenneth gets the ball.

If I shoot normally, I do not take into account the arm that's blocking and no.2 takes place.

Teamwork. This for some reason doesn't seem to stick in my head. When I get the ball, I run around the court like a bunny rapist and every eye in the court locks onto me. Someone blocks, I shoot. Refer to the third paragraph again for details as to what happens next. What I should do is pass. I've been doing that lately and it seems to help.

This, my friends, is the reason why whenever I play basketball, I get violent, angry and start spitting out Hokkien, Cantonese and English vulgarities. I assure you I'm going to refrain from doing that again and I'm going to be less tense when I play. Please take my word for it. Thank you.

okay, i'm bored.

2006-03-31T21:09:00.000-08:00

Half the day has progressed and I've nothing to do. Probably won't have much to do later. Anyway, I just figured out how to upload photos from my phone with Bluetooth. And since Gen asked for my bunny photos a while ago, here they are.

I've got more but since he's almost part of the family I don't want to violate his rights =P

single-sex or co-ed? IT DOESN'T MATTER.

2006-03-31T03:35:00.000-08:00

Day after day, I hear whining from people around me about how much their single-sex schools suck. In my honest opinion, however, I think that all this is absolute bullshit. For you immature grasshoppers out there who misintepret me, I'm not putting down mixed schools but I'm merely stating why there is no reason for complaints about single-gender schools. I'm sorry if I'm going to piss you off, but I WILL be voicing my opinion without restraint. You have been warned.

My first point is that at out age (13-16 years old), there is no need to go around looking for girlfriends/boyfriends. If you do have one, however, that's great! I wouldn't mind being you. But since a majority of us are not mature enough mentally to satisfy our steads, refrain from pissing them off and suppressing breakups, I say this: If you can't, don't. How do you even know that your character isn't too bitchy to deter potential steads?

Some might argue that it's good to learn how to talk to people of another gender. That's one of the most important skills ever. But we don't really need to know them now. Just stay friendly with your opposite-sex friends and you're ok. You'll learn how to socialise in due course. Sounds stupid coming from a cock who doesn't flirt like me, yes? But there is logic in this. Read it again. And again.

Others think that being in a mixed school increases chances of getting steads. It is true. But is it important? Refer to paragraph two. It isn't as if every student in a co-ed school has a stead. Ever heard of studies? Or CCAs? I hope so. Some people have these higher on their priorities list. Stereotyping is the least accurate method of assuming. Needless to say, my advise is to AVOID it.

Now that's over, I hope you understand me a little more. For you childish kids who don't know nothing about love, who don't bother trying to intepret my opinion and who feel like snapping my spine, just laugh at me deep inside, show this "retarded" post to your friends and dao me on sight. I'm not forcing my opinion.

And I found this a good way to make up for boring days =D

the most important update since i was shot into the world.

2006-03-30T01:47:00.000-08:00

I changed my blogskin (waits for cheers). It's main theme is Coldplay since I like the band though I obtained their songs illegally =P I haven't redone my profile, but other than that everything is alright. It looks pretty good to me and I hope you guys like it =D Well since I took the trouble to post this counts as an update =P =P =P

I'M NOT MALAY, YOU COCKS

2006-03-28T02:29:00.000-08:00

If there's one thing that pisses me off more than getting sick every week, it's the utter misconception of racial ignoramuses who have the screwed up impression that I'm Malay. Their close-mindedness just makes my blood boil. I will not disclose the identities of these mentally-impaired individuals for privacy reasons and for the fact that they have no idea what they are spewing out when they gossip over me. Mind you, I have nothing against the easy-going folks who live in my home country, but I am just astounded at the immaturity of the people who make assumptions based on my mother tongue.

"Eh Ben why you eat char siew? Muslim can eat pork meh?"

I'm not Muslim.

"Nevermind lah Ben, you can cut que because you Muslim"

My school has a reasonable policy in which Muslim students can cut que because they can only eat from two stalls. Unfortunately for my misunderstanding friends, this does not extend to me.

"Speak malay leh, speak malay for me leh"

I can barely speak it, though I can write well. I use English all of the time.

When I accidentally slip a malay-based singlish term into my speech: "What does that mean ar? You malay so you know right?"

Do I look like a walking dick-

tionary?

The grand truth about my mysterious identity is I'm chinese, but I hail from Malaysia and have no Singaporean permanent residence. I could have taken chinese, yes, but my mom saw me struggling with my work when I was very young and decided to switch me. I swear that once I stop running I'll make a serious attempt to learn the language in a way other than asking my friends what various words mean.

no training.

2006-03-21T02:27:00.000-08:00

Halleluia! There was a rugby match in the pitch today so CCA was suspended. Just as well since in the second day of school I'm slipping in my work. I find my attention span shorter and I can't seem to remember things I've just learnt. I also can't seem to bring myself to do homework till the last minute. Guess I'm slipping back into slacker mode.

first day of school sucks.

2006-03-20T02:57:00.000-08:00

Nine days of holiday and I'm used to sleeping late already. Had a LOT of trouble waking up this morning and when I did I felt like a zombie. Hardly ate anything for breakfast. Nothing much else happened today. I hope I'll post something more interesting tomorrow =P

bought coupons to the crescent funfair =P

2006-03-19T05:07:00.000-08:00

$10 worth of them from Sandra. Had a tough time fitting them into my wallet (more like PURSE) so I had to fold them. Played basketball too, but it was kind of discouraging watching Kenneth's ultra gay full-court shots score. I need to know whatever evil magic he practices >:( And I sweated like a seawater fountain. As usual.

Finally decided to distribute the info project surveys. What pisses me off is that Mr Tan told my group to have thirty questions per survey. And we need four pages to fit all those queries in. If we are going to pass around the 50 required surveys, we will use A LOT (to be exact, 200 pages) of paper. That's enough to wipe my ass daily for half a year.

sometimes i wonder why i never get fat.

2006-03-18T05:43:00.000-08:00

Dad's leaving for a business trip on Sunday, so he took us out for dinner at East Coast. I didn't exactly want to come, but I figured it was only proper to accompany him before he left. The seafood was great, though I cut my finger ON A CRAB. It bled. And since I was eating CHILLI crab, you can imagine what it feels like to have hot chilli sauce seeping into a wound. Wonder if it got into my bloodstream (it might be dissolving my brain now for all I know).

With reference to the title, I feel like a bloated sac of shit now. Either I shit all my food out, or I am eating shit. Okay, not exactly that, but maybe what I'm eating is just as good as shit. I assume my running is helping me to keep the blubber away, but once I stop I hope I don't swell to obesity. Don't want to spend the rest of my life falling through the floor or blocking people from using urinals beside me.

Borrowed Wei Zhe's guitar yesterday and sniffed out any guitar-related articles on the internet like a puppy which just lost its virginity. I realised that the reason why my playing yesterday sounded like rapid-fire farts was because my fingernails were longer than the East-West MRT line. Now I can play the Final Fantasy opening song properly and the A, A minor, E and E minor chords properly (waits for applause).

the wings competition is discouraging.

2006-03-17T04:00:00.001-08:00

Just remembered I haven't posted in a week. Anyway, I went to Turf City for the Wings Competition and ran my huge ass off. 4.5 km in 22 minutes. The feeling of knowing you did your best and still obtained a pathetic timing is, quite literally, shitty. On the bright side, though, I still have two-and-a-half years left to improve. What an insight.

running while sick feels like shit.

2006-03-10T02:10:00.000-08:00

Okay, the Aquathlon was on today. And I was sick. Almost didn't want to run the 3.8 km required, but Dad forced me out of bed despite my fever >:(

ACS Barker's Sports Complex is huuuge. I have never seen anything comparable in size before. That's where the run started from =P

I screwed up for the run, but what could I expect from my sick body? I stopped for a very short period of time, then pushed myself for the rest of the way. I felt like exploding at the end. Anyway, my swimmer Yi Shu was slack, so that just made two of us =(

Shafik's back!

2006-03-07T02:09:00.000-08:00

Okay, I don't know if I got his name right. There are at least a dozen proper ways to spell a name that sounds something along that line. He just came back from his one-year hiatus in England. Hope he didn't miss the chicks he left behind =D

And I realise I am the shittiest goalkeeper on the planet. I let in three goals during recess, one of them a low-power shot. It kinda rolled over my foot. No more goalkeeping for me. Guess I'll just practice hard and (hopefully) become a decent defender.

And I'm the first in class for the second time in a row. Actually, I feel somewhat guilty because I missed the maths test and it wasn't counted towards my average. Made it easier for me to get a high percentage. I scored 44/50 for the retake (which wasn't counted) however, so I still would've done more or less the same had I taken the test.

forgot to bring my belt to aikido.

2006-03-04T02:05:00.000-08:00

So Sensei gave me a white belt to wear. Anyway, it suited me fine because I'm not confident that I deserve my blue belt. I'm always stiff when I do my moves, I sometimes forget how to do some parts of moves and half of the time I do them incorrectly.

Didn't do much before that, mostly screwing around with the computer, stuffing myself with snacks and napping. Shortest post EVAR!

Turf City was HOT.

2006-03-03T03:12:00.000-08:00

Hot, as in both the weather and the eye-candy quotient, which I won't elaborate on =P After the 9km run I felt like exploding and my face was warmer than two passionate love-makers combined. I hardly walked, though, so I guess I'm getting back into shape. I also saw a horse trotting around too (Turf City was a former horse-racing track if I'm not wrong). This was the first time Sean finished so close behind me, too (OMG!).

House cheering rehearsal sucked like hell. The weather was merciless and we were assembled behind the St. Joseph's statue. Even worse, I had to stand next to Girish because Zi Hao was afraid of having his thigh stroked again.

Played soccer during recess and I realised how much I suck. When I get the ball, I don't stop it and without thinking, kick it with my toes, making it fly out. I also CANNOT tackle Najib =( (I can't really correct this, but I hope I can practice).

Brother Jason was making us laugh again in class and went through criteria that "old fuddy duddy" markers at Cambridge expected for O'Level students. He made me laugh so many times I can't forget what he said =(